Legends
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2016-12-27
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2016-12-11
After more than an hour of searching, Mom and I finally found all the broken lights! (Or at least, all the broken lights that were breaking any circuits.) With that done, it was time for the final step before hanging our lights outside: Checking all the lights for noms!
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2016-11-27
It’s weird how much a song can define the reality..
Source: Spotify
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2016-10-01
This woman became Instagram-famous overnight, but she doesn’t exist. And here’s the sad reason why
Louise Delage is an Instagram sensation.
She appeared on the scene on Aug. 1, posting sun-soaked images of her outfits, meals and wanderlust-inducing travels. Within the span of two short months, the 25-year-old Parisian’s picture-perfect lifestyle has gained her an impressive 19,000 followers.
If you use Instagram, you’ve probably seen or even followed bloggers and Instgrammers just like Delage. Bloggers whose profiles are filled with perfectly-composed brunch shots and an enviable French girl chic wardrobe. They’re constantly busy travelling the world, partying on yachts and simply “living their best life.”
Delage’s profile is no different, but unlike these bloggers Delage has one very distinct difference that sets her apart — she doesn’t exist.
Her entire feed was carefully curated for one specific (and sad) purpose. Can you spot what it is?
Delage almost always has a drink in her hand.
That tiny fact went mostly unnoticed by followers until Paris-based ad agency BETC revealed the truth in “Delage’s” latest post on Sep. 22.
The entire Instagram persona was part of a campaign called “Like My Addiction” for Addict Aide which seeks to raise awareness of alcoholism among young people.
While it’s an interesting concept, it’s also a sobering reflection of how social media can become an outlet that glamorizes drinking, especially among youth.
According to organization, one out of every five deaths among young people annually is due to addiction. This becomes all the more difficult to see and prevent when seen through the lens of social media as something cool, desirable or simply the norm.
Through the lenses of Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, an alcohol addiction can simply look like fun nights of drinking and dancing in Ibiza, weekends in with the girls and rosé and a few beers with the colleagues after work.
To raise awareness, BETC released a video revealing truth behind Louise Delage, accompanied with the message “it’s easy to miss the addiction of someone close” and urges people to think of what you’re really liking before double tapping on such images.
For more information visit addictaide.fr and let us know what you think of the “Like My Addiction” campaign by tweeting us @YahooStyleCA.
People should be educated, not just schooled.
(via yahoostyle-ca)
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David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (featuring Benedict Cumberbatch)
The magic of Floyd…😊😇
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2016-08-12
This. Is. So. Important. In modern society, if you don’t make “good” grades or a “high” score on a standardized test, you don’t get seen as intelligent. And in a lot of cases, you get the added label of being unmotivated or just plain lazy because “you would do better if you just worked harder at it”.
But the type of intelligence tested at school isn’t the only type of intelligence. In the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence, there are three: analytical (what is tested at school), creative, and practical. You can be low in one intelligence but be extraordinarily high in another type of intelligence. This means, that you can make “bad” grades in school but be the next Mozart in music composing. You can get a “low” score on the ACT but you know how to fix every single thing in your house.
So it’s okay if you can’t wrap your head around geometry or a 3000 word essay–you are still smart. All that’s happening is that you think differently than how the school system says you should think.
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Source: facebook.com
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life:
Glamorous actress Hedy Lamarr was not just another pretty face - she was also a trailblazing inventor. Fascinated by science and eager to find a way to help the Allies during World War II, she devised a way to make radio signals “jump” between frequencies – a technique known as “frequency-hopping” – in order to prevent the signals from being jammed. With her partner, George Antheil, they received a patent for this technology on this day in 1942. Today, variants of Hedy Lamarr’s breakthrough invention are used in communication technologies like Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi. She is pictured here in 1938. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #OTD #TBT
