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Smoking is like giving head to dirty businessmen
Just when it looked like the war against teen smoking was turning... yellow. Here comes French firm BDDP & Fils with their new "shock" campaign to fight youth smoking. Citing 2009 stats from the Office Français de Prévention du Tabagisme, the campaign warns that, of active smokers:
5 - 8% are 14 years old, 8 - 10% are 15, 14 - 18% are 16, 20 - 22% are 17, and 24 - 25% are 18. Moreover, 40% of smokers 12 - 25 years old are already dependent.
[via Gaya Roshan]
The Adventure School
The Adventure School is an event-planning powerhouse who will take your event to the extreme.
I feel like if you hire this company, you will end up as Michael Douglas in the hit film,"The Game". Of course you will have the added plot twist of being eaten alive by a lion and having to live in its belly for two years with the cast of "Different Strokes" .
Web design for The Adventure School was created by the aforelinkedup Also Design.
The 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Semi-Finalists
The thirty semi-finalists currently under consideration have undergone a rigorous review including an interview with the individual or team behind the strategy. They were advanced from a pool of 215 entries that were submitted in Fall 2009.
Lots of promising submissions to this great challenge by the BFI.
An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like everyone else.
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Help for Haiti
100% of the proceeds from all sales of Faesthetic now until the end of the month will be donated to the American Red Cross.
Stand With Haiti | Partners In Health
PIH is an organization that has been working in Haiti for over 20 years and right now is working to provide a critical percentage of the acute medical care in the country. They are setting up portable surgery centers and saving an incredible number of lives.
You should donate at least $10 here
ShelterBox in Haiti
ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that delivers emergency shelter, warmth and dignity to people affected by disaster worldwide
This seems like a pretty incredible idea and a very well executed charity. The basic idea is that a very well designed box is filled with everything needed for basic self-sustaining survival and is then distributed to families and groups in crisis situations.
To help them out and donate to their cause click here
Note that each box costs £490 in materials, packing, storage, transport and distribution to individual recipients worldwide.
Over the past 30 years, Republicans fed the delusions that you can have low taxes and world-class public services, and Democrats acquiesced in it. It would be nice if we had an honest national conversation about revenues--and the sun-setting of many of the Bush tax cuts this year provides the perfect arena for it--but don't count on that taking place.
Surfstation