Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GearFactor/~3/llF0oSlkRHY/
Olympic Games Dana Vollmer Ryan Dempster Phelps NBC Olympics Live Olympic medal count Medal Count 2012
Friday, April 5, 2013
All the Words Facebook Made Up Today
Yahoo Mail - Outlook 2007 - Iphone
This is a discussion on Yahoo Mail - Outlook 2007 - Iphone within the Sky Email and Portal Log-in forums, part of the Sky Broadband help and support category; Just wondering if I have this set up right ? I very rarely log into my mail using the Sky/Yahoo ...
Source: http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-email-portal-log/52465-yahoo-mail-outlook-2007-iphone.html
north korea missile launch modesto st louis weather guinea bissau google stock google stock china gdp
The Inspiring Tenacity Of Roger Ebert's Last Words
Only a day before legendary film critic, Roger Ebert, passed away, he tweeted a final farewell at the Chicago-Sun Times, promising to pioneer new digital projects, in addition to a hefty schedule of movie reviews. At the ripe age of 70 and the cheery survivor of salivary cancer that left him him without a jaw or voice, Ebert proved that neither age nor disease could stand in the way of a pioneering mind. After cancer stole Ebert’s powers of speech, he turned to Twitter, becoming an instant sensation. “But there’s something seductive about it: The stream, the flow, the chatter, the sudden bursts of news, the snark, the gossip, time itself tweet-tweet-tweeting away,” he wrote for the Times. As of less than a month ago, his movie whit was still sharp as ever. He even braved the stage at TED, giving a speech entirely read by Apple’s monotone voice app, and the help of his close confidants. “People who need a voice should know that most computers already come with built-in speaking systems,” he said, ” I’ve got to say, in first grade, they said I talked too much, and now I still can.” His optimism for technology is worth quoting, at length: All of this has happened in the blink of an eye. It is unimaginable what will happen next. It makes me incredibly fortunate to live at this moment in history. Indeed, I am lucky to live in history at all, because without intelligence and memory there is no history. For billions of years, the universe evolved completely without notice. Now we live in the age of the Internet, which seems to be creating a form of global consciousness. And because of it, I can communicate as well as I ever could. We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others. For me, the Internet began as a useful tool and now has become something I rely on for my actual daily existence. I cannot speak; I can only type so fast. Computer voices are sometimes not very sophisticated, but with my computer, I can communicate more widelythan ever before. I feel as if my blog, my email, Twitter and Facebook have given me a substitute for everyday conversation. They aren’t an improvement, but they’re the best I can do. TheySource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/c9xG2RnDXMc/
google augmented reality glasses wonderlic test texas tornado fantasy baseball jared sullinger jaleel white levi johnston
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Celebrity Scandals
Celebrity Scandals Stupid Celebrities Gossip Stupid Celebrities Gossip News
Source: http://stupidcelebrities.net/2013/04/celebrity-scandals-4/
vince young vince young evan longoria john edwards conocophillips capitals ryan braun
Paperless Post defies digital strategy with Crane
In this Friday, March 29, 2013 photo Alexa Hirschfeld, right, and James Hirschfeld smile as they pose for a photo at their office in New York. Paperless Post has defied its original digital business model successfully once. Now the online invitation and greeting card startup is taking that defiance a step further. The New York company launched PAPER by Paperless Post in October after customers requested a way to get its electronic greeting cards and invitations in a more old-fashioned way: On actual paper. Now Paperless Post is teaming up with stationery (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In this Friday, March 29, 2013 photo Alexa Hirschfeld, right, and James Hirschfeld smile as they pose for a photo at their office in New York. Paperless Post has defied its original digital business model successfully once. Now the online invitation and greeting card startup is taking that defiance a step further. The New York company launched PAPER by Paperless Post in October after customers requested a way to get its electronic greeting cards and invitations in a more old-fashioned way: On actual paper. Now Paperless Post is teaming up with stationery (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In this Friday, March 29, 2013 photo the "Meet me in the Menagerie" card part of the Crane for Paperless collection is on display in New York. Paperless Post has defied its original digital business model successfully once. Now the online invitation and greeting card startup is taking that defiance a step further. The New York company launched PAPER by Paperless Post in October after customers requested a way to get its electronic greeting cards and invitations in a more old-fashioned way: On actual paper. Now Paperless Post is teaming up with stationery (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In this Friday, March 29, 2013 photo the "Love is Grand" card part of the Crane for Paperless collection is on display in New York. Paperless Post has defied its original digital business model successfully once. Now the online invitation and greeting card startup is taking that defiance a step further. The New Yaork company launched PAPER by Paperless Post in October after customers requested a way to get its electronic greeting cards and invitations in a more old-fashioned way: On actual paper. Now Paperless Post is teaming up with stationery. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Paperless Post has defied its original digital business model successfully once. Now the online invitation and greeting card startup is taking that defiance a step further.
The New York company launched Paper by Paperless Post in October after customers requested a way to get its electronic greeting cards and invitations in a more old-fashioned way: On actual paper. Starting Wednesday, Paperless Post is teaming up with stationery and card maker Crane & Co. to print wedding invitations. Users will be able to choose from 35 wedding invitation designs that they can customize and then print on Crane paper.
It sounds like an unlikely match: Crane has been printing cards and stationery on paper made of 100 percent cotton since 1801 in Dalton, Mass., while Paperless Post was launched in 2009 by 20-something siblings with no plans to ever print cards.
But it turns out people still want to walk to the mailbox and send the real thing, even though it's much easier and less expensive to send invites and greetings through a tweet, Facebook message or email.
"People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified," says Alexa Hirschfeld, who co-founded Paperless Post with her brother James Hirschfeld. "The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to."
The way Paperless Post presents its cards may have helped drum up demand for something more traditional. Its digital cards look like the real thing. When a card is sent, the receiver first sees a closed envelope. When it opens, a digital card slides out.
"One of our biggest help requests was 'how can I print this card?'" says James Hirschfeld. About 30 percent of the nearly 11,000 cards on Paperless Post are able to be printed.
Some Paperless Post users say they are willing to send online wedding invitations, says Alexa Hirschfeld, but their mothers won't allow it. "We've heard that so often," she says.
Paperless Post proposed the pairing to Crane in the fall. The company wanted to work with Crane because of its reputation for high quality paper. The Hirschfelds' mother and grandmother told Alexa as a child that really nice thank you notes must be sent on Crane stationery. "I never forgot that," Alexa Hirschfeld says. "I think a lot of people have that memory."
Other digital companies have gone physical, too. Online retailers such as men's clothing seller Bonobos and handmade-product marketplace Etsy have opened actual stores or showrooms. Amazon.com has placed lockers in stores where customers can pick up their packages.
Even before working with Crane, the company's printed cards were a hit. Revenue jumped 49 percent in the first 30 days after the October launch. Part of the reason for the increase is the higher price. Customers pay an average of $1.75 for each paper card, while the digital ones cost about 25 cents each. The lowest priced Crane wedding invitations will cost $2.60 each, without a reply card, and $3.70, with a reply card, for an order of 500. The price increases with smaller orders. Save the date cards and thank you cards in matching designs are sold separately.
The main difference between the Crane invitations and the other paper offerings on the website is that they can be engraved or include letterpress printing, so that the printed messages have texture. When an invitation is engraved, the text pops from the paper. Letterpress means the text is indented into the paper. Engraved cards are more commonly used for formal weddings, while letterpress is used for more casual events, says James Hirschfeld. A third printing option is thermography, which creates a result that is similar to engraving, but costs less.
When customers buy a Crane invitation through Paperless Post, they can also get a digital copy to send to people online. Senders can then keep track of who they sent invites to and who responds through the Paperless Post website.
The siblings started Paperless Post when they were in their early twenties. James Hirschfeld, now 27, came up with the idea after planning his 21st birthday party. He didn't have the time or money to send paper invitations, but he says he felt the digital ones available at the time were lacking. "It didn't reflect how much I cared," he says.
That's when he came up with the idea of selling stylish digital cards. "If I have this problem and I'm a 21-year-old man," says James Hirschfeld, "there must be a lot of other people in America thinking that."
His sister, Alexa Hirschfeld, 29, liked the idea. She left her job in television news and they began working on the startup together. The company has raised $12.3 million from venture capitalists. It expects to be profitable this year and predicts revenue will nearly double. It has about 2 million active users, and about 40 million people have either received a card, have a Paperless Post account or downloaded the iPhone app, they said.
The siblings never expected to print paper cards, hence the name. So now that Paperless Post is no longer paperless, will they change the name? When asked, the Hirschfelds both laugh nervously. James Hirschfeld says, "Awkward!"
"We like the name Paperless Post," says Alexa Hirschfeld.
"So we're going to have to make it work," says James Hirschfeld, finishing her sentence. "The name is here to stay."
___
ONLINE:
?Crane & Co. on Paperless Post: http://www.paperlesspost.com/crane
?Paperless Post: http://www.paperlesspost.com/
? Crane & Co.: http://www.crane.com/
___
Follow Joseph Pisani at http://twitter.com/josephpisani
Associated PressPsalm 91 Super Bowl 2013 Commercials Evasi0n NFL.com Superdome Iron Man 3 Trailer Super Bowl 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Marriage can threaten health: Study finds satisfied newlyweds more likely to gain weight
Apr. 3, 2013 ? On average, young newlyweds who are satisfied with their marriage gain weight in the early years after they exchange vows, putting them at increased risk for various health problems related to being overweight.
That is the finding of a new study on marital satisfaction and weight gain, according to psychologist Andrea L. Meltzer, lead researcher and an assistant professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
"On average, spouses who were more satisfied with their marriage were less likely to consider leaving their marriage, and they gained more weight over time," Meltzer said. "In contrast, couples who were less satisfied in their relationship tended to gain less weight over time."
The study's researchers said the findings challenge the long-held notion that quality relationships are always beneficial to one's health. Instead, they said, the findings suggest that spouses who are satisfied in the marriage are less motivated to attract an alternative mate. As a result, satisfied spouses relax efforts to maintain their weight.
The article, "Marital satisfaction predicts weight gain in early marriage," is published online in the scientific journal Health Psychology.
The study was based on data from 169 first-married newlywed couples whose marital satisfaction and weight were tracked over the course of four years.
Marriage associated with weight gain; divorce associated with weight loss
Previous psychological research has established that marriage is associated with weight gain and that divorce is associated with weight loss. But the role of marital satisfaction in those changes in weight is less clear, Meltzer said.
Previous research also has demonstrated that marital satisfaction is associated with health maintenance behaviors, she said.
"For example, studies have found that satisfied couples are more likely to take medications on time and schedule annual physicals," Meltzer said. "Yet the role of marital satisfaction and actual health is less clear."
Meltzer set out to examine the association between marital satisfaction and changes in weight over time.
For four years, the newlyweds reported twice a year on their marital satisfaction and steps toward divorce. They also reported their height and weight, which was used to calculate their body mass indices.
Focus on maintaining weight is more about appearance than health?
Spouses who were less happy in their marriage were more likely to consider leaving their partner, Meltzer said, and on average gained less weight over time.
"So these findings suggest that people perhaps are thinking about their weight in terms of appearance rather than health," she said.
The study suggests young couples should be educated and encouraged to think about their weight as a factor of maintaining their health.
"We know that weight gain can be associated with a variety of negative health consequences, for example diabetes and cardiovascular disease," Meltzer said. "By focusing more on weight in terms of health implications as opposed to appearance implications, satisfied couples may be able to avoid potentially unhealthy weight gain over time in their marriages."
Besides Meltzer, co-authors are James K. McNulty, Florida State University; Sara A. Novak, Hofstra University; Emily A. Butler, University of Arizona; and Benjamin R. Karney, University of California, Los Angeles.
The research was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health; the Fetzer Institute; and the National Institute of Child Health and Development.
Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:
Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:
Story Source:
The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Southern Methodist University.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Journal Reference:
- Meltzer AL, Novak SA, McNulty JK, Butler EA, Karney BR. Marital Satisfaction Predicts Weight Gain in Early Marriage. Health Psychology, 2013; [link]
Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/I5oriPH_iAA/130403200416.htm
London 2012 China muhammad ali Opening ceremony London 2012 Google Fiber Olympics Schedule 2012 Olympic Medal Count 2012 Olympics 2012
Arizona tribe seeks artifacts up for auction
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) ? An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe's religious practices and return them to their original homes in the American Southwest.
Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou describes the collection on its website as katsina masks of the Hopi Indians of Arizona. They are scheduled to be auctioned April 12, with some expected to garner tens of thousands of dollars each.
To the Hopis, they are living beings called katsina friends that emerge from the earth and sky to connect people to the spiritual world and their ancestors. Every member of the Hopi Tribe gets initiated into the Katsina society as a rite of passage.
Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, director of the tribe's cultural preservation office, said the religious items have no commercial value and should be in the hands of the American Indian tribes from which they were taken, including the pueblos of Jemez, Acoma and Zuni in New Mexico. The sale of such items isn't extraordinary, but the size of the collection to be auctioned in Paris and the age of the items is, he said.
The majority of the 70 katsina friends are labeled as Hopi and date back to the late 19th century and early 20th century. Kuwanwisiwma said they likely were collected from the Hopi in the 1930s and 1940s when there was documented evidence of a French citizen on the northern Arizona reservation.
"A lot of these objects were collected under suspicious conditions," he said. "You had such a huge competition by museums to collect artifacts from tribal reservations, and Hopi was no exception."
Acoma Pueblo said Wednesday that it would look into whether a piece labeled as originating from Acoma is authentic and would support any efforts to repatriate American Indian artifacts.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act gives federally recognized American Indian tribes a way to reclaim funerary objects and ceremonial items from federal agencies and museums in the United States. Sherry Hutt, the program manager for the national NAGPRA office under the U.S. Department of the Interior said the law doesn't always apply to items held internationally.
"Did it leave at the time by gift or was it removed without permission? What were the rules at the time?" she said. "Once you know that, you may or may not have an application of NAGPRA, you may or may not have statues that apply to cultural resources or other remedies, generally."
An email sent to Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou on Tuesday was not returned, and the auction house declined immediate comment when contacted by a reporter on Wednesday. The press release announcing the auction said the items were collected by a "connoisseur with peerless taste," who had lived in the United States for more than 30 years and had attended katsina dances at the Hopi villages but doesn't say how.
Jose Viarreal, editor of the website artdaily.org, published the news release and said he received calls afterward from Hopis furious about the sale. He said he contacted the auction house and was told the items were obtained legally.
"I think this is going to go through as planned," he said.
Kuwanwisiwma said no Hopi has authority to sell or transfer such items because they are considered cultural patrimony, and no one other than a Hopi tribal member should possess them. Things haven't always worked out that way.
The Heard Museum in Phoenix is backing the Hopi Tribe's effort to recover the items and said it was hopeful the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People could be used as leverage. France was among the first to sign the declaration that says indigenous people have the right to repatriation of their human remains, ceremonial objects and cultural patrimony.
The auction house cited a book written by the founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona in its description of the katsinas, which Hopi artists commonly depict in carved, wooden figures and sell. The museum's director, Robert Breunig, appealed to the sense of decency and humanity in asking that the auction be called off.
"To be displayed disembodied in your catalog and on the Internet is sacrilegious and offensive," he wrote in a letter to the auction house. "If one claims to value these katsina friends as 'works of art,' one must also respect the people who made them and the native traditions that govern their use."
If returned, Kuwanwisiwma said the items will be placed in the care of the head katsina priest. The tribe would not bid on the objects otherwise, he said.
"Culturally we made it clear that there's no price tag on our ceremonial and religious objects," he said. "That's pretty much out of the question."
___
Associated Press Writer Lori Hinnant in Paris contributed to this report.
Associated Pressmiami dolphins buffalo bills pittsburgh steelers seattle seahawks ryan tannehill cispa space shuttle new york
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)