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2013-05-23 05:45:04 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Downtown, Lady Antebellum 2013 #music  
Well, all the parties on the streets are talking, store front mannequins sleeping in lights.
We used to smoke while we were jaywalking like it was your birthday every other saturday night.
Knew The bands so we never payed our cover.
Wrote our names on the bathroom tiles.
We never dressed to impress all the others,
They would let us in on our laid back kind of style.
But boy you know it's been a while.

I don't know why you don't take me down town like you got anywhere better to be.
Talk it up and give me the go round, round like a good time tease.
I'm only counting on your cancellation,
When I should be counting on you at my door.
Did you forget about how we went around,
I don't know why you don't take me downtown anymore.
Ohhhhhhhh anymore.

I got... more »

2013-05-23 05:41:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Masevaux Tourist #masevaux  

2013-05-23 05:32:32 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

DIY Pens #productdesign  
Designer Fraser Ross is giving tinkerers the opportunity to make an operable pen from a flat kit of parts. The 22 structural pieces can be punched out of the plywood and assembled into a DIY writing instrument. Fraser’s vision is to create playful projects that open our imaginations and encourage human interaction. It took more than 100 prototypes before his design studio in Glasgow, Scotland, came up with a way to fit all the components of a pen onto a single sheet of plywood the size of a postcard.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10735224.htm

2013-05-23 05:27:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Bang & Olufsen BeoLab #productdesign  
With the new BeoLab 14 system, Bang & Olufsen is redefining the home surround sound system experience. The inspiration was that it should be easy to fit into the home but at the same time should give a surprisingly big sound experience. That's how they came up with the idea of having the small compact satellites combined with the tower of power, which is the sub woofer, which would then impress for a sound perspective.
http://hangout.altsounds.com/gear/159075-bang-olufsen-magic-design.html

2013-05-23 05:23:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Whole-cow handbags #productdesign  
A designer has created a range of handbags using cow by-products, including Highland cow leather, tripe and flattened ox horn. The four statement bags are all hand stitched. The collection ranges from a formal clutch to a dainty handbag, with tripe either used as a lining or outer material. The fastenings are also made using the animal’s horns and bull-ring.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/edinburgh-design-student-creates-offal-handbag-line.1369225082

2013-05-22 05:46:53 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

King For A Day, Pierce the Veil 2012 #music  
Dare me to jump off of this Jersey bridge
I bet you never had a Friday night like this
Keep it up, keep it up, let's raise our hands
I take a look up at the sky and I see red
Red for the cancer, red for the wealthy
Red for the drink that's mixed with suicide
Everything red

Please, won't you push me for the last time
Let's scream until there's nothing left
So sick of playing, I don't want this anymore
The thought of you's no fucking fun
You want a martyr, I'll be one
Because enough's enough, we're done

You told me think about it, well I did
Now I don't wanna feel a thing anymore
I'm tired of begging for the things that I want
I'm over sleeping like a dog on the floor

The thing I think I lovemore »

2013-05-22 05:42:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Masevaux Église St Martin #masevaux  

2013-05-22 05:31:08 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Designing for wastelessness #productdesign
A design competition required the members to address wastelessness and how they would envision the potential production of pieces to enable the least amount of material waste. In a few cases, there was some disagreement between the judges as to the complexity and labor involved to produce a few of the objects.
http://www.core77.com/blog/ny_design_week/parsons_the_new_school_for_design_x_poltrona_frau_-_designing_for_wastelessness_part_3_24892.asp

2013-05-22 05:27:07 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Design, innovation and the connected kitchen #productdesign  
Philips remains one of the largest electronics firms in the world, and the company attributes much of its success to its focus on product design. Their chief design officer's  role includes integrating design into business thinking.
http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/RBP9JFeMoZb0K5qKip0JwO/Design-innovation-and-the-connected-kitchen.html

2013-05-22 05:23:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

11 Rules for great UX design #productdesign  
A brand’s communication and engagement strategy is no longer a separate and distinct practice from the design of a product or service. The product is the marketing, and the marketing is the product. So what does advertising mean in the digital age?
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672597/11-rules-for-great-ux-design-adapted-from-an-original-mad-man

2013-05-21 17:11:40 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Did Google's London sales staff close deals? #tax  
All Google's UK sales are booked through Ireland, handing the UK only about £10m in corporation tax over the period 2006-11. Google is able to record the revenues in Ireland because the UK company allegedly does no selling, with sales staff in Dublin supposedly executing all deals.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/21/google-faces-new-tax-pressure

2013-05-21 05:55:56 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

A Little Respect, Erasure 1988 #music  
I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
Why you're making me work so hard

That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no

Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please give a little respect to me

And if I should falter
Would you open your arms out to me
We can make love not war
And live at peace in our hearts
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
What religion or reason
Could drive a man to forsake his lover

Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no

Soul, I hear you... more »

2013-05-21 05:54:08 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 32 +1s)

Masevaux Hostellerie Alsacienne #masevaux  

2013-05-21 05:44:11 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Four Students Win Groovystuff by Design Contest #productdesign  
Students from their respective schools were charged with designing an environmentally friendly product that reflects the Dick Idol Legends brand and can be produced using sustainable furniture manufacturing practices. Students produced miniature models and product display boards for market attendees to vote on during the High Point Market. The four student designs were voted “Most marketable” and “Most likely to show a profit” by retailers, interior designers and trade professionals attending market.
http://www.furninfo.com/Furniture%20Industry%20News/1794

2013-05-21 05:41:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Redesigning wasteful products #productdesign  
A new online platform aimed at harnessing the ‘collective intelligence’ of communities to design out waste, the People’s Design Lab, was launched in London on 25 April. Run by members of environmental services provider Cwm Harry and partners, the lab was first set up as ‘The Museum of Bad Design’ in Presteigne and Norton (home to a Welsh Government-funded zero waste project), after residents voiced their frustration at throwing away the same materials repeatedly.
http://www.resource.uk.com/article/Retailers/Redesigning_wasteful_products-3087#.UZpe_7WLDHQ

2013-05-21 05:36:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

When design leads function #productdesign  
Entrepreneurs Jason Lucash and Mike Szymczak folding cardboard speakers made Time magazine’s 2009 list of best inventions. BMW Group, General Motors Co., Walt Disney Co., Facebook Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Pixar Animation and Tesla Motors Inc. all visited the company.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/business/digital-life/13715-when-design-leads-function

2013-05-20 08:52:13 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

G+ active users up to 190 million from 135 million #socialmediamarketing  
Vic Gundotra announced Wednesday that Google Plus now has 190 million users who interact on the service each month, up from 135 million in late December.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/fighting-facebook-google-sprucing-up-photo-features-on-google-plus-1.1282871

2013-05-20 07:04:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

The Stars (Are Out Tonight), David Bowie 2013 #music
Stars are never sleeping
Dead ones and the living

We live closer to the earth
Never to the heavens
The stars are never far away
Stars are out tonight

They watch us from behind their shades
Brigitte, Jack and Kate and Brad
From behind their tinted window stretch
Gleaming like blackened sunshine

Stars are never sleeping
Dead ones and the living

Waiting for the first move
Satyrs and their child wives
Waiting for the last move
Soaking up our primitive world

Stars are never sleeping
Dead ones and the living

Their jealousy's spilling down
The stars must stick together
We will never be rid of these stars
But I hope they live forever

And they know just what we do
That we toss and turn at... more »

2013-05-20 07:01:02 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Masevaux Gnomes     #masevaux  

2013-05-20 06:50:42 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

German minister opposes EU move on China solar #energy  
German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said the European Commission made a "grave mistake" by agreeing to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China and urged the Commission to work to prevent the eruption of a trade conflict. Germany's BDI industry association warned at the weekend about negative consequences for Germany's export-oriented industry of the Commission's move to impose average import duties of 47 percent on solar panels from China.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/19/us-eu-china-solar-germany-idUSBRE94I06720130519

2013-05-20 06:44:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Cambodian factory collapse kills workers   #reshoring  
A ceiling collapsed at a shoe factory south of Phnom Penn in Cambodia, raising fresh concerns about industrial safely following last month’s disaster in a garment plant in Bangladesh in which up to 1,200 people lost their lives. The factory was operated by Wing Star Shoes, a Taiwanese-owned factory that has employed up to 6,000 workers. It was making sports shoes Asics, a Japanese sportswear label. The shoes made at the factory were exported to the US and Europe.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/new-fears-over-safety-standards-as-two-workers-die-in-cambodian-factory-collapse-8619663.html?origin=internalSearch

2013-05-20 06:39:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Dutch Groningen gas earthquake zone           #energy  
Earthquakes are becoming more intense and more frequent in the north of the Netherlands and there is mounting pressure on the government to reduce the amount of gas being extracted there. In 2012 the Dutch government made about 14bn euros (£12bn; $18bn) from the Groningen gas fields. Without these revenues, the Netherlands' deficit would be similar to that of crisis-struck Cyprus (6.3%).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22542982

2013-05-19 18:58:56 (15 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

Google+ struggles to attract brands, some neglect to update   #socialmediamarketing  
Google is struggling to win over the brands and businesses that have been its most loyal customers in the Internet search market. For Google+ to thrive, it is vital to draw in household names, not just to lay the groundwork for potential future business, but also because users of the site have come to expect being able to follow, comment on or even vent about their favorite brands.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/12/net-us-google-social-idUSBRE94B04W20130512

2013-05-19 17:35:57 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

G+ use is merely 2% of Facebook use (Nielsen Media)
#socialmediamarketing  
G+ is up 112% from 3.3 minutes per user per month in 2012 to 6.75 minutes per user per month in 2013 but Facebook is 6 hours 44 minutes in 2013.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/12/google-plus-social-media-analysis-idINDEE94B05T20130512

2013-05-19 07:08:59 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Is Yahoo's Marissa Mayer buying Google's G+? #socialmediamarketing  
Yahoo invited press today to a product event in New York saying only that it will “share something special” soon after reports that the company is going to buy another blog platform. It seems Yahoo has been very product-focused in the months since Marissa Mayer both took the chief executive corner office and demanded that critical employees not work from home. It has done a lot on the mobile front, releasing apps for the weather as well as Yahoo mail.
http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/yahoo-ny-event/

2013-05-19 06:57:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

L'Enfer et Moi, Amandine Bourgeois 2013           #music  
This was my favourite Eurovision entry, last night  ...
Tu m’as mise K.O. d’entrée
Il faut croire que j’ai bien aimé
Liens de cuir et mains de soie
Qui blesses-tu et dans quel port?
Jusqu’à faire rougir l’aurore
Tu m’as jeté comme un sort

Je vais te faire l’enfer
De là où tu te perds
Regarde bien derrière
Et ce sera moi

Tu m’as fait pleurer à vif
Mon cou porte encore ta griffe
J’aimais échanger de peau

No limits, c’est un classique
J’aimais nos amours toxiques
Celles qui font que tout est beau

Je vais te faire l’enfer
De là où tu te perds
Regarde bien derrière

Je vais te faire l’enfer
De là où tu te perds
Regarde bien derrière
Et ce sera moi
J’vais te faire l’enfer
Tu vas man... more »

2013-05-19 06:54:22 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 29 +1s)

Masevaux Riverside               #masevaux  

2013-05-19 06:52:21 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Washington State leads in renewable energy           #energy  
Washington, where hydroelectric dams provide over 60 percent of the state’s energy, was the US’s biggest user of renewable power in 2011. Hydro continued to be the overwhelmingly dominant source of renewable power consumed in the US, accounting for 67 percent of the total, followed by wind with 25 percent, geothermal with 4.5 percent, and solar with 3.5 percent.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2013/05/renewable_energy_map_wind_solar_hydroelectric_power_use_by_state.html

2013-05-19 07:02:58 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

US shale oil shifts global power balance           #energy  
US shale oil reserves are about to change the global balance of power between new and existing oil producers. The US will account for a third of new oil supplies in the next five years. The US will change from the world's leading importer of oil to a net exporter. Demand for oil from Middle-East oil producers is set to slow as a result.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22524597

2013-05-19 07:01:20 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Scottish Islands renewable jobs boost           #energy  
The renewable energy industry could create more than 10,000 jobs on Scotland's islands by 2030. Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles would benefit from wind, wave and tidal schemes. By 2020, 392 full-time jobs could be created on the Western Isles, 463 in Shetland, 416 in Orkney and 3,000 across the rest of the UK. By 2030 the job numbers on the islands could increase to more than 3,500 on the Western Isles, almost 2,900 in Shetland, and more than 4,500 on Orkney.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22538297

2013-05-18 07:08:00 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Google's Schmidt to meet Cameron as tax row rages     #tax  
Google Inc's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is due to meet Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Reuters investigations showed Google employed staff in sales roles in London.
http://www.4-traders.com/GOOGLE-INC-9469/news/Google-Inc-Google-s-Schmidt-to-meet-Cameron-as-tax-row-rages-16869451/

2013-05-18 06:37:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

My songs know what you did in the dark, Fall Out Boy 2013 #music  
Oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa.
Oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, whoa.

B-B-B-Be careful making wishes in the dark, dark
Can't be sure when they've hit their mark, mark
And besides in the mean, mean time
I'm just dreaming of tearing you apart

I'm in the de-details with the devil
So now the world can never get me on my level
I just gotta get you out of the cage
I'm a young lover's rage
Gonna need a spark to ignite

My songs know what you did in the dark

So light 'em up, up, up
Light 'em up, up, up
Light 'em up, up, up
I'm on fire

So light 'em up, up, up
Light 'em up, up, up
Light 'em up, up, up
I'm on fire

Oh,... more »

2013-05-18 06:44:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Masevaux Renovation                                                        #masevaux   

2013-05-18 05:38:56 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

UK Coal's re-nationalisation                                   #energy  
UK government ministers are discussing returning parts of UK Coal to public ownership in attempts to save the retirement savings for 6,000 members of Britain's largest coal mining business.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/12/uk-coal-nationalised-ministers-fire-pensions?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

2013-05-18 05:34:31 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

EDF's 10-year nuclear plant build duration           #energy
Not only have nuclear plant costs increased, also the schedule has lengthened very considerably. Instead of taking four to five years to build, EDF now want nine to 10 years to build a power plant.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/17/coalition-optimistic-nuclear-power-edf-china

2013-05-18 05:28:03 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

U.S. approves natural gas export                      #energy  
The U.S. government has approved a $10 billion natural gas export facility in Texas, a milestone in the U.S. transition into a major supplier of energy for world markets.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324767004578489130300876450.html

2013-05-17 21:45:07 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

The Social Media Guru            #socialmediamarketing  
There is no actual social media guru, he's an amalgam of a hundred different half-assed guru-wannabes I've encountered online and in real life. For every quality operator who knows his/her stuff, there seems to be ten cowboys peddling social media snake oil.

2013-05-17 06:01:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Crack forces shutdown of nuclear reactor at Shearon Harris
#energy  
A quarter-inch crack in a reactor sensor at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in southwest Wake County has forced Duke Energy to take the plant offline. A secondary review of those tests this week revealed the "primary water stress corrosion cracking" on a temperature sensor near where cooling rods attach to the reactor head.
http://www.wral.com/crack-in-nuclear-reactor-forces-shearon-harris-to-shut-down/12453472/

2013-05-17 04:48:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Keep Your Eyes Peeled, Queens of the Stone Age 2013
#music  
Don’t look, just keep your eyes peeled
Thoughtless, traipsing my minds field
Shotgun, never behind the wheel anymore
Danger, monsters of smoke & mirror
Slowly, can one so lost be found?

& I know. You will never believe
I play this as though I’m alright
If life is but a dream, then
Wake me up.

Fallen leaves realize they are no friend of autumn
The view from Hell is blue sky
So ominously blue.
I daydream until all the blue is gone

& I know. You will never believe
I play this as though I’m alright
If life is but a dream, then
Wake me.

Underwater is another life
Disregarding every myth we write
Eagerly alive
Rag doll churning
Over & over, gasping in horror
So breathless yousurfac... more »

2013-05-17 04:46:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Masevaux Building Site
#masevaux  

2013-05-17 04:39:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Make your manufacturing business startup easier
#manufacturing  
There are three vital ingredients to a successful startup business. First step: access to finance. Whether using your own money, inherited finance or cash sought through begging and borrowing, it really doesn't matter. You need some to get going, and probably more to keep going.

Access to market is also significant. If you can't find a market for your product, then there isn't really a business there.

Finally, you'll need access to the right skills: management skills to make sure investors want to invest in your business and delivery skills to get the product in the hands of your customers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/small-business-network/2013/may/16/howdy-partner-business-startup-easier?INTCMP=SRCH

2013-05-17 04:36:31 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

The Brocial Network (Social Network Parody/Spoof)
#socialmediamarketing  

2013-05-16 19:09:40 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Google branded “devious, calculating and unethical” #tax  
“You are a company that says you do no evil,” said Margaret Hodge the committee’s chair. “I think that you do do evil. You use smoke and mirrors to avoid paying tax.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hmrc-are-being-bamboozled-by-google-mps-confront-search-giant-over-devious-attempt-to-avoid-paying-uk-tax-8618695.html

2013-05-16 06:29:06 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

And We Danced, Macklemore X Ryan Lewis 2011
#music  
oo lay hey hey
oo lay hey hey
oo lay hey hey

and we danced
and we cried
and we laughed
and had a really really really good time
take my hand
lets have a blast
and remember this moment
for the rest of our lives (our lives)
our lives (our lives)
our lives
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
tonight (tonight)
tonight (tonight)
tonight
cause tonights the night
am I right?
DANCE

feels like a night for a party
my nature so naughty
theres a knock on the door
It's the neighbors
quit cock blocking
we're having a ho-down
you hoe's down?
don't make me pull my hose out
Cause it's big, long, pink, strong
and been known to dance like all night long
grab my hand
play... more »

2013-05-16 06:23:24 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Masevaux Rooftops
#masevaux  

2013-05-16 06:17:29 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Tata Steel wipes £1bn from value of Europe operations
#manufacturing  
Fresh fears over the future of UK steel jobs were raised today after India's Tata Steel wiped £1 billion from the value of its European operations. The group, which has UK operations at sites including Port Talbot, Rotherham and Scunthorpe, blamed the tough economy in Europe where steel demand has slumped by about a third since the start of the financial crisis. Unions said the huge writedown will worry its 18,500 staff in the UK who are still reeling from 900 job cuts last year.

2013-05-16 06:13:00 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

'Like' Me, Maybe? ("Call Me, Maybe?" social media parody)
#socialmediamarketing  

2013-05-15 16:55:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Living in a Box, Living in a Box 1987
#music  
Woke up this morning, closed in on all sides, nothing doing
I feel resistance as I open my eyes, someone's fooling
I've found a way to break through this cellophane line
'Cause I know what's going on in my own mind

Am I living in a box, am I living in a cardboard box
Am I living in a box, am I living in a cardboard box
Am I living in a box

Life goes in circles, around and around, circulating
I sometimes wonder what's moving underground, I'm escaping
I've found a way to break through this cellophane line
'Cause I know what's going on in my own mind

Am I living in a box (living), am I living in a cardboard box
Am I living in a box (living), am I living in a cardboard box
Am I living in a box, woh oh

(Living)
I... more »

2013-05-15 15:21:02 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 26 +1s)

Masevaux Firewood
#masevaux  

2013-05-15 14:38:54 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Eurozone recession continues as GDP falls by 0.2%
#economy  
The eurozone has slumped into its longest recession ever, after economic activity across the region fell for the sixth quarter in a row. Economic output across the single currency area fell by 0.2% in the first three months of 2013, statistics body Eurostat reported today. France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands all saw their economies shrink as the economic crisis in the eurozone continued to hit its largest economies. Eurostat’s figures showed that the eurozone economy has now contracted by 1% over the last year, putting further pressure on leaders as unemployment climbs to new record highs.