Newport International Group LLC Consulting: Cloud Operations Readiness

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Is your organization prepared for the Cloud? You have less time to get ready than you think you do.

Technology is changing in the area of cloud versus on-premises and mobile computing.  With mobile applications running through the conventional design – build – test – deploy process in days and weeks instead of months and years, often times technology is not the “long pole in the tent.” We can help you ready your organization in advance of technology deployment, allow your employees greater engagement by trying new things, and preparing for new ways of doing business in the cloud.

Cloud Operations Readiness

Our service offering covers a number of preparation areas, from the organizational to the technical.  We are pleased also to work with the following partners in the development of technical solutions and architectures for cloud and mobile computing.

Our firm is recognized as an SAP Influence Partner across many program areas including Sustainability, 2-tier Computing, EPM and GRC services.

As members of the Microsoft Partner Network in the area of Strategy, we work with clients to develop approaches leveraging cloud computing, predictive analytics, and mobile technology strategies.

E-policies

Many companies are ill-prepared for the move to Cloud platforms, including use of something as seemingly benign as social media or social business tools.  Having sound E-policies in place will set the proper expectations with your employees and management teams.  We can develop and review existing employee handbooks to include the appropriate coverage for cloud and mobile computing environments.

Executive Effectiveness

Recent studies have shown that an incremental increase in a system transformation program budget can increase program funding chances by over 50%.  Beyond the “cool factor” that mobile computing brings is also the opportunity to enable greater capabilities for on-the-go executives through tablet and mobile phone applications.  Simply rendered and highly effective, these scenarios can be used in budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and strategic planning.

Employee Engagement / BYOD

Mobile technologies offer a chance to engage employees in a common platform and user experience.  Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs can create excitement and even gamification of certain otherwise mundane work tasks.  We can also advise how to properly create an “app store” for your organization and how to “push and pull” sensitive apps to and from employee devices.

User Experience (UX) and Gamification Solutions

Business applications function differently on a mobile platform.  Considerations for User Experience (UX) and Gamification – important for Millennial Workers – are critical success factors.  We work with a number of SAP and Microsoft related solutions including Duet Enterprise, SAP Social, and Microsoft interfaces such as SharePoint to create the most engaging employee and customer user experience possible given the resources and business practices of the organization.

2-Tier Subsidiary Design

Whether it is the result of a merger or planned divestiture, using cloud computing templates in a hybrid or so-called “2-tier” computing environment can save time, effort and money.  We also look at the lease vs buy and security trade-offs to working with plants, subsidiaries and other facilities throughout the greater enterprise and the supply chain.

Newport International Group Stocks Warning on Great Brands and Stocks

Great Brands and Great Stocks: Part 1

Interbrand this week released its updated 2013 brand rankings, which saw Apple leap to the No. 1 spot, followed by other tech players and, of course, Coca-Cola. Having a powerful brand is, obviously, an invaluable tool -- one that bewitches consumers and investors alike. And, over time, each of the five top picks have been great long-term holdings. However, a quick glance at Interbrand's top picks shows just two that have outperformed the S&P 500 this year. When it comes to stock picking, the lesser valued brands may have greater upside potential in the coming years. Here are a few to look at.

The Top 5 as ranked

The top five brands, according to the research and consulting firm, are as follows: Apple, Google, Coca-Cola, IBM, and Microsoft. Now, Interbrand's ranking is certainly not entirely based on investment performance (though the companies' financial returns do play a part), but it's interesting to note that only Google and Microsoft have outperformed the market at large. For reference, Google is up nearly 22% year to date, while the S&P 500 has gained slightly less than 20%. Microsoft has gained 20.5%. 

The biggest year-over-year riser in Interbrand's ranking, Apple, has lost one-tenth of its market value this year.

Looking further down the list gives investors a glimpse into brand names that are growing fast and whose stocks may not be as closely scrutinized by Wall Street analysts, and potentially offer investors greater upside potential.

A few good names

Coming in at No. 72 in the rankings, but also one of the biggest gainers on the list, is Prada. The 100-year-old luxury goods maker holds one of the most iconic badges to grace a purse, and is far from going stale.

In the first half of this year, net sales grew 7.6%, driven primarily by the Asia-Pacific region. Though China has slowed down in recent years, the region continues to offer very attractive growth prospects for all luxury goods makers. The core Prada brand saw its revenues rise 17.4%. During the period, the company opened 30 new stores, and it plans to continue its expansion on a global level.

Prada's stock isn't cheap, but its valuation on a trailing basis is lower than other high-flying big-name luxury goods makers, such as Michael Kors. Over the past two years, Prada has gained more than 100% in stock value, surpassing by a multitude the top five brands on the list.

Another icon, though in a different league, is Nike (NYSE: NKE  ) . No. 24 on the list, and growing 13% in brand points over the prior year, Nike is an absolute powerhouse stock -- gaining more than 42% this year. The company recently announced its earnings, and there was nothing but good news. Nike has refocused on its core brands and is seeing its Asian market stabilizing, along with solid growth in Eastern Europe. Nike is an industry leader and an innovator, with no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

Newport International Group Barcelona: Fejlernæring truer 2,3 millioner U-16s i Spanien - UNICEF

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FN 's Childrens Børnefond (UNICEF) har advaret om, at 2,3 millioner spanske børn under 16 er i risiko for fejlernæring som følge af økonomisk afmatning, som har tvunget mange familier til at skære på basale fornødenheder.

"Først de lavere kvaliteten af maden og købe billigere. De stoppe med at købe kød og fisk, senere grøntsager og frisk frugt,"Gabriel Gonzalez-Bueno, ansvarlig for UNICEF barn politikker i Spanien, sagde i en erklæring.

"I stedet de spise en masse pasta og ris, der ikke indeholder alle de nødvendige næringsstoffer. Endelig, de reducerer mængden af mad, de spiser,"sætningen tilføjet.

Gonzalez-Bueno advarede om, at fødevarer underskud i Spanien, ramt af recession, vil øge risikoen for luftvejssygdomme og hjerte-kar-sygdomme blandt børn.

Ramt af den globale økonomiske afmatning, den spanske økonomi kollapsede i recession i andet halvår af 2008, idet millioner af arbejdspladser med det.

Spanien må sænke sine underskud til 4,5 pct. i 2013 og 2,8 pct. i 2014. Mange økonomer, men sige disse mål vil være vanskeligt at opfylde midt i dårlige fremtidsudsigter for Spaniens økonomiske opsving.

Den spanske regering er også blevet skarpt kritiseret over sin stramninger, der er at ramme midten og arbejder klasser hårdest.

Den spanske økonomi, den fjerde største i euroområdet faldt mere end de anslåede 1,4 procent, det nationale statistik Institut sagde den 27 August.

Spaniens økonomi også ramt et lavpunkt i 2011 da det steg kun 0,1 procent og ikke en 0,4 procent vækst tidligere annonceret, reviderede tal viste.

Regeringen i premierminister Mariano Rajoy forudsiger en 1.3-procent økonomiske tilbagegang i år, mens Bank of Spanien sagde tidligere på ugen, at recessionen vil udvide i andet kvartal af det indeværende år.

Newport International Group Barcelona: Levi's sews sustainability into brand from ground up

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Levi Strauss founded his dry goods company in 1853, after moving to San Francisco from Bavaria. His business became as much a part of San Francisco's hagiography as sourdough bread, cable cars and the 49ers - miners and team.

Upon his death in 1902, bequests from Strauss benefited the Bay Area, serving children and the poor. The company factory built at 250 Valencia St. after the 1906 earthquake and fire is now the San Francisco Friends School. As a testament to the company's progressive bona fides (including a GLAAD award for a Gay History Month ad campaign, "Gay History Is: American History"), conservative radio host Glenn Beck in 2011 called on his fans to boycott the company "for using ... progressivism to sell their products."

Levi's survived and earlier this month opened a new flagship store with a tailoring shop on Market Street, which takes all those San Francisco notions and adds to them. The new store is smaller than Levi's former digs on Union Square, 7,000 square feet of selling space versus 11,000, but with 100 more jobs, according to Lance Relicke, Levi's global vice president, implementation and brand presentation. He said the company is also experimenting with increasing its percentage of U.S.-made items.

The location - at the intersection of Market and Stockton streets - is covered by 17,000 pedestrians per hour. The company's Commuter line of clothes for cyclists gets prominent display, as do its Wasteless jeans, each made with an average of eight plastic bottles.

And the company, which sells clothes with Care for Our Planet hangtags exhorting wearers to wash garments less often, in cool water, line-dry them and recycle by donating to Goodwill, opted for streamlined sustainable interior design.

Levi's began with construction: 79 percent of demolition and construction waste was diverted from landfill and recycled, according to Kelly Moss, a company spokeswoman. The 22,000-square-foot space, a third of which is selling area, is LEED Gold certified. The company figures it will consume 25 to 30 percent less energy than the industry norm for a space its size. Water use is also lower than industry standard, by 40 percent. Ninety percent of equipment in the store is energy efficient.

The wooden walls came from recycled sidings of barns within 30 miles of San Francisco, Relicke said, adding that other wooden fittings come from recycled chunks of the city's piers. Hand-painted murals of San Francisco neighborhoods, including the Castro, Haight-Ashbury and the Mission, line the fitting rooms.

Indeed, Levi's is doing everything it can to give a local feel to the store, and failing that, to place it within a cool, hip and green aesthetic that suggests shoppers from fanatical "denim heads" to Dockers dads belong to a demographic bound by something greater than a few ZIP codes on a bay might suggest.

In one display, the company traces its history with a display of hanging jeans, each pair showing style changes in basic 501s. There are boiler suits and a $489 pair of overalls that, if belted, would rock a pair of sky-high Louboutins, and if not, look dandy while under a vintage VW Bug.

There are special things, too: The exquisite silver jewelry is by Harvey Mace and Jeannette Dale, American Indians from New Mexico. The candles by Le Feu de L'eau are inspired by "the late '60s fantasy candle," much as many San Francisco tourists are inspired by a fantasy of the late '60s.

The trucker jackets are by denim collector Erik Schrader, of Boise, Idaho, who uses an antique chain-stitch embroidery sewing machine to create designs of "graphic fonts, interstate icons and big color."

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Newport International Group Barcelona Spain News Updates: Mode-ontwerpers aansturen van innovatie in make-up

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Op de Paris couture collecties toonde eerder deze maand, de make-up artiest Peter Philips een gespoeld baby doll kijken Chanel die werd afgetopt met borstelige wenkbrauwen. Over bij Dior, Pat McGrath metalen pouts trok op modellen en zette op reflecterende eyeliner. Armani van Linda Cantello gericht op vlekkeloze huid. En de ontwerper Alber Elbaz van Lanvin gaf een van de best bezochte partijen van de week, in Le Trianon concert hall, om te vieren van zijn beperkte oplage cosmetica samenwerking met Lancôme. De competitie om de afdruk van couture stempel op massa-markt cosmetica heeft gekregen zo dik als Pan-Cake.

"Iedereen wil een stukje van de taart," zei Karen Grant, een wereldwijde industrie analist voor de NPD Group, een marktonderzoeksbureau. Zij voegde hieraan toe: "je nog steeds een heleboel afspelen vanuit de historische, oudere merken, zoals uw Estée Lauders en Elizabeth Ardens, maar de ontwerpers zijn enkele van de innovatie en verklaringen zeker rijden."

En niet alleen in verpakking. Ze hebben "echt geduwd de fundamentals verder," zei mevrouw Grant, wat betekent dat ingrediënten en formuleringen. Ze wees naar Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, geleid door Lloyd Simmonds, een make-up artiest waarvan "hybride lip producten," zoals een glanzende vlek, hebben veranderd de markt, zei ze. Ze ook de huidige rage voor amped up zweepslagen toegeschreven aan Dior en de nagellak Rage te Chanel, die vroeg op, hip ongebruikelijke afwerkingen en beperkte oplage kleuren was.

Gedrang voor positie in de categorie ook zijn Tom Ford schoonheid, Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy Le Makeup (die geïntroduceerd zijn eerste cosmetica advertentiecampagne dit voorjaar) en een lijn door Michael Kors gepland. Maar misschien is de meeste nieuwsgierigheid over de nieuwe lijn van Marc Jacobs, die op Sephora winkels op 9 augustus aankomt.

In mei gaf de heer Jacobs een voorvertoning van de pers in een huis in Upper East Side stad voor zijn nieuwe lijn, Marc Jacobs schoonheid. Daar onder hapjes geserveerd solicitously op laden door gebeiteld Adonises en vazen mollige met roze pioenrozen, editors afgestreken de demi-orbs van eye shadows in een patroon geïnspireerd door grosgrain lint, spoot buizen en cooed over zwart gelakt compacts. De compacts werden geïnspireerd door de shellacked afwerking van de heer Jacobs koffietafel, verklaarde hij later aan de groep.

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How-to guide: 16 måder at trives i dagens verden

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Åh baby det er en vild verden... og for at hjælpe dig med at få ved på mere end blot et smil, har vi samlet en handy how-to guide med tips om, hvordan du kan vælge din vej gennem nogle af verdens mest presserende problemer:

1.)Hvordan til at pakke som en udenlandske korrespondent

(Se billede ovenfor. Hvis du ikke kan se grafikken, prøv dette link.) Der er ofte en halv-pakket taske ved foden af sengen, breder ledninger og batterier som indvoldene af en renset beast. Undertiden et dyr ligger inden for — 12-årige feline ven Bernstein, Bernie for korte, vil krølle op i posen med bedrøvede øjne, der siger, "Tag mig med dig næste gang." Selvom hun er opkaldt efter en journalist, hun tydeligvis ikke kan lide min rejse.

Hver tur kræver artful pakning og tøj, der passer til vejret eller den kultur, som normalt indeholder et udvalg af tørklæder, men klikke på det ovenstående interaktiv grafisk at finde ud af grundlæggende og min ikke længere hemmelige våben.

--Michelle Shephard

2) Hvordan kan få hjælp i udlandet

Grunde til ikke at kalde en canadisk konsulat, når du er på en udenlandsk tur:

"Jeg har brug for en refill til min medicin."

"Kan du få mig nogle ahornsirup for min pandekager?"

"Jeg vil ud af byen, kan du gå min hund?"

Disse kan lyde over toppen, men de er blandt de 215,000 konsulære anmodninger at canadiske embedsmænd får hvert år i vores diplomatiske stillinger i udlandet.

"For at hjælpe med at forberede canadiere, før de rejser, vi opfordrer dem til at overholde de tre Rs," siger udenrigsanliggender hjemmeside. "Læse, registrere og nå os."

Konsulater varierer fra land til land. Nogle er bemandet med hjælpsomme, sympatiske tjenestemænd, andre med dem, der arbejder til reglen. Men i sager om liv og død, alvorlige forbrydelser eller tabt dokumenter (men ikke kreditkort), et opkald til den nærmeste canadiske kontor er din første resort.

3) Hvordan til at få en date med mørkt stof

Du har brugt de sidste to år bøje dit sind omkring oplysninger om partikelfysik for at forstå det mest knudrede af nyhedshistorier, opdagelsen af Higgs boson. Du brugte din bosonic glans for at smelte datoer i putty-nørdet, nørdede kit.

Jeg har dårlige nyheder, Don Juan. Higgs er gjort. Higgs er slut. Higgs er ligesom partikel-fysik-pick-up-linje svarer til Hootie og Blowfish billetter.

Du har brug for en opgradering. Du har brug for billetter til Jay-Z, eller i hvert fald Coldplay.

Du har brug for mørkt stof.

Første, som baggrund: fysikere erklæret i marts at partiklen registreret otte måneder tidligere i Large Hadron Collider (LHC) er i virkeligheden Higgs boson. Mens der er stadig masser af vigtige videnskab at gøre, vil cocktail-party-oplivende samtale om Higgs sandsynligvis være mangelfuld for et stykke tid. For én, er LHC gået offline indtil 2015. Indtil da skal du sætte din Higgs koteletter på is.

I mellemtiden har jagten på mørkt stof taget top fakturering på listen over cool fysik projekter.

4) Hvordan man klæde sig som en diktator kone

Chanel suit pressede og klar til at bære? Check.

Christian Louboutin sko encrusted med krystaller og en overdimensioneret designer taske med krokodille? Check. Check.

Naturligvis til at finansiere garderoben, du har brug for en bankkonto, fedet op med kontanter stjålet fra din landets naturressourcer eller offentlige midler.

Olierigdom er at foretrække, men støtten penge fra velmenende vestlige lande afsat til børnenes uddannelse kan også gå en lang vej.

Dressing som en diktator kone tager ikke kun dedikation til de dyreste designere-som ganske vist ikke svært – men en uvilje mod at acceptere nogle brutale realiteter. Filippinerne Imelda Marcos akkumuleret sin berømte 1,220-par sko samling som sin mand, formand Ferdinand Marcos, erklæret undtagelsestilstand i 1972 og henrettet sine modstandere uden en retssag.

Mere nylig, Syriens smukt klædt førstedame Asma Assad (hun foretrækker Chanel) var drømmende på hvad Louboutin sko at købe online som sin mands snigskytter skød demokratiaktivister, der marcherede i Damaskus til at kræve politiske reformer.

Garderobeskabe diktatorer koner har altid afspejles overgreb af deres ægtemænd regimer. Michele Bennett, gift med tidligere haitianske despot Jean-Claude Duvalier, brugt $168,780 på tøj på Givenchy og $270,200 på kugler fra Boucheron mens hun var i eksil i Frankrig, ifølge Wall Street Journal.

Men den smart diktator kone ved, der er en anden lukrative tilbehør, der ikke kan købes på Paris Avenue Montaigne eller Bond St. i London: vedhæfte dig selv til en værdig sag, helst omkring kvinder og børns rettigheder, til at få positive tryk opmærksomhed i Vesten og aflede fra din mands forfærdelige menneskerettighedssituation. Egyptens tidligere førstedame Suzanne Mubarak kæmpede for slutter genital lemlæstelse af kvinder og vandt dynger af internationale priser.

Alt det gode PR vil forhåbentlig give flere udenlandsk bistand til at rapse Louis Vuitton bagage. — Hamida Ghafour

5) Hvordan tale om Eurocrisis (som hvis du ved hvad du taler om)

Vil du imponere dine venner på cocktailparties med din tilsyneladende medfødte forståelse af den europæiske finansielle krise?

Følgende er en nybegynders guide til at forklare manglende europæiske "gruppe kærlighed" skattepolitik. Udspy ud disse visdomsord ved søen eller på terrassen over drinks og du vil blive en imponerende hit.

Først skal du forstå en simpel, overordnet sandhed: Europa virkelig har ingen idé om hvad det gør når det kommer til indeholdende den krise, der har ødelagt økonomien i en række lande.

Bemærk, hvordan uorganiseret EU ser i sin håndtering af opløsning økonomierne i Grækenland, Cypern, Spanien, Portugal, Italien og Frankrig? Se, hvordan britiske tiggede tidligere Bank of Canada guvernør Mark Carney at komme og redde dem?

"Den blinde leder blindt" kommer til at tænke. Den Europæiske Union — en økonomisk og politisk organ af 28 nationer — lurches fra ene krise til næste og understøtter politikker, som nogle økonomer har kaldt "umenneskelig."

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Barcelona en clave 'fashion'

El verano llega a la pasarela barcelonesa. Eso si, el del 2014.

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Las propuestas de los más de treinta diseñadores y marcas que desfilan en la 080 Barcelona Fashion así lo anuncian. El certamen que arranca el próximo lunes 8 de julio, se presenta con novedades tanto en lo referente a los días de duración, como en los participantes.

Estas son algunas de las anotaciones que no hay que olvidar apuntar en la agenda de todo aquel que siga la duodécima edición del 080 Barcelona Fashion.

Tradiciones

La pasarela como ya viene siendo tradición en el certamen, la abre la firma Mango con su desfile y posterior cóctel en el edificio del DHUB, sede oficial del 080 desde la pasada edición. Y la cierra en esta ocasión el desfile con los finalistas del concurso Elite Models.

El jueves 11, también siguiendo la tradición, se hará público el ganador del premio a la mejor colección según un jurado internacional, en el cual figuran nombres como el editor internacional Federico Poletti y Sara Azzone directora del prestigioso IED Milanés.

En lo relativo a las actividades de cultura de moda otro de los momentos esperados de la pasarela 080 es el de la conferencia, que en esta ocasión corre a cargo del fotógrafo Manuel Outumuro.

Y el último día del calendario estará dedicado a las propuestas de las marcas vinculadas a la industria textil catalana.

Por último, otra de las cosas que parece no haber variado desde la edición pasada es el presupuesto: 1.255. 400 euros, según la información proporcionada por la organización en la rueda de prensa que tuvo lugar ayer en la sede del Palau Robert.

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En el calendario de desfiles debutan Selim de Somavilla, Maite Albéniz y Natalie Capella con propuestas unisex, masculina y femenina respectivamente y la firma BCNBRAND, especializada en calzado deportivo.

Además, regresan al calendario del 080 Krizia Robustella y el internacional Yiorgos Eleftheriades fiel a la pasarela Barcelonesa en su fórmula del 080 desde sus inicios.

Custo Barcelona por primera vez en el 080 presentará un adelanto de casi el 60% de la colección que desfilará en Nueva York el próximo mes de septiembre. Y la firma TCN, liderada por Josep Maria Donat y Toton Comella, desfilará en Barcelona tanto la propuesta de baño como la de moda íntima y prêt-à-porter, abandonando su cita en el MBMFW. En cuanto a la firma Desigual en esta ocasión concentra su desfile en la colección femenina.

Además, en lo referente a las propuestas creativas de moda y en el marco de la pasarela, se presentará el trabajo de 43 creadores en las 'pop up stores' instaladas en el jardín de LEDS del edificio del DHUB.

Qué hacer

En la agenda de estos cinco días dedicados a la moda no hay que olvidar las fiestas, especialmente la que celebrará la firma Custo Barcelona junto a Yo Dona en el emblemático Teatro Principal ubicado en las Ramblas. Todo un acontecimiento para la ciudad que por fin recupera uno de sus lugares con más tradición y sabor, cerrado durante casi una década.

La firma Desigual tiene también cita convocada con sus amigos y seguidores en el espacio del DHUB tras su desfile el martes 9 de julio. Y los diseñadores Maite Albéniz y Manuel Bolaño se animan, cada uno por su lado, a celebrar sus desfiles en los cócteles y cenas que han organizado en la zona alta de Barcelona.

En fin que no va a faltar de nada. Así que nos vemos en el 080 Barcelona Fashion.

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Emma Watson & hänen paljastava vaatetus taika rengas & Paris Hilton: in varoitus murtovarkaat

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Hollywoodin surullisen murtovaras nippu saada asetetaan näytteille Sofia Coppolan Bling Ring ja hänen behind-the-scenes lyhytelokuvassa kuvaa, miten tähdet tulivat sisälle teini mielissä.

"Yritin kertoa tarina lasten näkökulmasta" johtaja Sofia selitti. Emma Watson tähtien kuuluu ryhmään, jonka pakkomielle muoti oli jotain, että näyttelijä oli koskaan käsitellyt. "Kaikki minun tavallista muoti säännöt meni ulos ikkunasta", hän sanoi. "Näkyvä pilkkominen, hyvin lyhyet shortsit."

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"Voit saada kiinni teini bad behavior-puolella, mutta lopussa toivottavasti se antaa sinulle jotain ajateltavaa," Sofia selitti.

"Bling Ring"-jengi koostuu ryhmä fame-nälkä nuoria, jotka murtautuivat Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom ja Parlamenttitalo. Elokuvassa Pariisi oma koti on esillä ja jahka hän edellä saha elokuva, hän avoimesti myöntänyt, että hän repivät jopa nähdä, mitä teens kotiinsa.

"He täysin loukata minua. Joka kerta, kun tulen kotiin, olen peloissani, joku voi olla siellä, "hän kertoi Daily Beast. "Se, että heidät yritti varastaa koirani, makaa omassa sängyssä ja jäähdytys talossani, kun olin saa minut sairas." Pariisi varoitimme todellinen teini, jotka kuuluivat murto ja varoitti, että ne "paremmin koskaan nähdä minua."

International Newport Group: Modèles fossé industrie de la mode pour poursuivre...

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Plus de modèles font un changement en quittant la piste pour leur foi. Jeunes femmes chrétiennes dans l'industrie de la mode sont rendent compte de leurs croyances centré sur le Christ sont souvent compromises et maintenant ils n'ont pas peur de dénoncer le côté laid de glamour.

Engagé à partager un message de l'image de soi positive et de modestie, Nicole Weider quitte son déguisement et agissant lifestyle de Hollywood pour une vocation plus élevée. Après modélisation à Portland, Oregon, depuis l'âge de 5, elle a fait le saut à Los Angeles à la recherche de réaliser ses rêves. « J'ai été tellement épris de la fame game – tout cela avait l'air si glamour – mais au bout du compte, c'était au contraire, » écrit Weider sur son blog, projectinspired.com.

Son temps dans l'industrie de la mode, qu'elle qualifie de "terrain de jeu du diable", a été consacrée se complaire au plus convoités dans-foule discothèques et frotter les coudes avec des célébrités de grande envergure. Pourtant, le faste et le glam était seulement une simple façade de sa vie comme une it-girl.

« Bien que j'ai été courir avec the cool kids et vivre la vie d'une starlette, j'étais toujours une fille de petite ville dans mon coeur, » écrit Weider. "Non seulement cela, mais quelque chose jamais senti tout à fait raison quand est venu le temps pour réellement l'audition. Chaque fois qu'une caméra a été centrée sur moi, je ne me sens assez préparé, assez, jolie ou complètement prêt à être scruté par les personnes qui rendent tout arriver, » ajoute-t-elle.

Weider est l'une d'un grand nombre de femmes à laisser tout derrière malgré les modélisation peut avoir des avantages. La plus récente à rejoindre le groupe exclusif de modèles-tourné-Christian porte-parole est ancienne lingerie modèle Kylie Bisutti. En 2009, Bisutti a battu 10 000 filles de Victoria Secret modèle recherche concours et peu de temps après, elle se trouvait vit son rêve. Elle a surpris l'industrie et les filles qui tueraient pour avoir sa chance lorsqu'elle a décidé de cesser d'être un modèle. Elle a ensuite fait les manchettes récemment pour son nouveau livre, I'm No Angel : modèle Secret de Victoria modèle de rôle, qui décrit comment elle a quitté la modélisation. Sa décision de quitter et de s'installer dans le Montana a été déclenchée par sa croyance en Dieu et de son mariage. Maintenant, elle vit un alternativement différentes mais remplissant la vie sans les opportunités qu'elle a connu une fois à l'apogée de sa carrière.

Alors que ces femmes originaires de milieux élite fois-sur-une-temps, l'industrie de la mode a pris un péage sur les autres femmes chrétiennes. Jackie Panameno grandi pentecôtiste et de même à Weider et Bisutti, elle quitte sa ville natale en Virginie vers les collines de Hollywood. Inscription à l'Institut de Design de mode et de Merchandising et d'un bref passage à l'Institut Art de Dallas, son désir de poursuivre une carrière dans la mode devenue plus en plus ardent.

« L'industrie de la mode est un milieu froid et égoïste. Il s'agit de faire un nom pour vous-même et aspirant à d'autres et pas à pas les gens à obtenir où vous voulez être, » a déclaré Panameno. Compte tenu du Magazine Vogue et vêtements pour femmes tous les jours sa bible à un moment donné, admet-elle. Mais avec son mode obsession est venu disparité lorsqu'elle doutait de son potentiel. "J'ai passé la majeure partie de ma journée de penser et de se préoccuper de mon apparence. Étais-je assez maigre ? Était mon trendy tenue ? Étaient mes dents blanches assez ? Ces pensées consomment mon esprit,"admet Panameno.

Son épiphanie à quitter le secteur s'est produite quand elle revint à Virginia et décidé de pratiquer sa foi une fois de plus. « En tant que chrétien, j'étais je me suis battu sans cesse cette autre personne en moi et les principes que j'avais été élevé sur complètement contredisent ce que j'étais devenu dans l'industrie de la mode. À l'extérieur, tout cela ressemble glamour, mais à l'intérieur, c'est une industrie laide, » dit-elle.

Pour Weider, la vie prend un tournant lorsqu'elle est tombée dans une dépression lorsque toute la cote était contre elle. Avant d'être rejeté, désabusés et humilié lors de travaux de modélisation, elle était au shoot de commercial Secret de Victoria où la réalité de l'être dans l'industrie de la mode devenue surréaliste. »Il était adjoint un photographe au tournage qui me montrait les retouches qu'il faisait pour les photos de Giselle Bundchen. Il a été faire ses cuisses plus minces et était aux bavures de loin ses taches de rousseur, » a déclaré Weider. "J'étais debout à proximité de ces beaux modèles pendant le tournage et je ne croyais simplement pas qu'il m'a dit combien il aimait son travail," a-t-elle ajouté.

Elle admet avoir des crises d'angoisse, sentiment d'insécurité et raconte un moment quand elle a été rejetée au cours d'une audition commerciale. « Je suis allé dans audition d'une entreprise leader de céréales et avant que les filles pourraient entrer dans la salle pour lire leurs lignes, il y avait une échelle qu'ils devaient marcher sur pour s'assurer qu'ils n'ont pas été au-delà de leur limite de poids selon leur hauteur. » Elle ajoute: « Lorsque j'ai piétiné, la femme prit mon papier et dit: « Merci. » Ils m'ont envoyé loin d'être les deux livres sur."

Ces jours-ci, Weider reste à Los Angeles et travaille à plein temps sur son site Internet agissant comme mentor auprès de son public fervent chrétien jeunes filles. « J'ai un message de Dieu-éveil et je veux filles de savoir est fabriqué de l'industrie, rien de ce qu'ils voir ou lire est réel. »

Laura Bailey talks summer style and Cara Delevingne’s "fearless" party antics, Newport International Group Boiler Suit Dress

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Laura Bailey talks fashion favourites, playing big sister to Cara Delevingne and eating cheese on toast with Uma Thurman…

Cultural Ambassador for The British Fashion Council, Laura Bailey has plenty of fashionable faces on speed dial, from up-and-coming designers to models du jour, to our favourite It-girls. We sat down with her to get her top style tips for summer, find out her ones-to-watch and the lowdown on her adventures at the chicest event in the A-list calendar - Cannes Film Festival…

You were at Cannes Film Festival this year - what was your highlight?

The Cannes Film Festival will always hold a special place in my heart. So many memories of happy adventures in film and fashion. As always, the highlight of my trip those late-night stolen moments with my girlfriends far from the madding crowd at the fabled Hotel du Cap. After midnight laughs and whisky with The Great Gatsby gang the first night, cheese on toast in bed with Uma Thurman the next...

You spent time with Cara Delevingne at the Chopard ceremony - what's she like on a night out?

Cara on a night out in Cannes is exactly as she always is - original, stylish, fearless and funny. With Poppy elsewhere working, I'm always happy to step in as honorary big-sister in first reserve.

What advice would you give anyone wanting to break into the fashion industry?

Be original, have a point of view, be kind and polite to all, and have a life outside and beyond.

What do you look for in a new designer and which should we watch out for this season?

Impossible to define. Just know when I see/ touch/ wear. I'm a huge fan of Simone Rocha, Trager Delaney and  Sister by Sibling and have a new crush on Happy Ashley. Ps. I just keep an eye on everything Lulu Kennedy waves a magic wand over.

 Who are your style icons and why?

My girlfriends here and now... Especially my best friend NYC singer-songwriter Leona Naess, actress Thandie Newton, designer Bella Freud, and, of course, Alexa Chung. For so many reasons, but mostly, originality, wit, and wisdom in style, among (many) other blessings...

What are your fashion essentials for the summer?

Shades (embarrassingly large collection, mostly by Chanel, and especially in hot pink or tortoiseshell), my grey MiH cotton boilersuit, CHUCS bikinis and a few Portobello favourite tea-dresses. Also my Jennifer Meyer necklace, nameplate inscribed to my kids, Luc and Tiger.

Which three style essentials wouldn't you leave the house without?

Chanel shades, my own Blenheim bag for RADLEY and my Nike hi-tops. (And the occasional trim by George Northwood at the Josh Wood Atelier in Holland Park).

What's the most indulgent purchase you've ever made?

Art, not fashion. The occasional photo binge, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Tierney Gieron are two of my favourites.  I have no regrets.

Where are your favourite hang-outs out when you're in London?

The Electric Cinema, diner and club on Portobello Road, Elliots Cafe in Borough Market. The Cow pub in W11, and Bay Sixty6 skatepark with my kids at weekends.

You're working with Samsung at the moment, what are your tech essentials?

I love the new Samsung NX300, the perfect camera for my life on the road, and amazing for making mini-movies too, of my kids, and for work. It's changed my life, it does the tech thinking for me so that I can just shoot, film and play - I love its retro look too.I'll always be a postcard-writing, vinyl-dancing, old-school chatting girl at heart, so need all the hi–tech help I can get along the way.

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PALM DESERT, California, Feb. 11/PRNewswire /--Newport International Group Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: NWPO), en leverandør av digital verktøy og tjenester til voksende bedrifter og moderselskap for flere høy programvare, kommunikasjon og tjenester teknologibedrifter, kunngjorde i dag som det har beholdt som sin byrå i posten, Quatrain Public Relations, en ledende pr spesialiserer integrert bedrifts- og produktnavn kommunikasjon for nye høy teknologiselskaper.

Som en del av avtalen, vil Quatrain pr fungere med Newport International Group å lansere flere innovative nye produkter gjennom en bredden av PR-tjenester, inkludert strategiske råd og skriving, Produktanmeldelser, og omfattende medier og analytiker relasjoner.

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Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn

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Victor Papanek argued that all men are designers. None perhaps more effective than the early 18th-century pirate Edward Teach, the formidable Blackbeard. Teach's reputation as an indomitable pirate relied on the visual persona he created. Not just the beard itself but the whole ensemble of heavy coat, big boots and huge dramatic hat with lighted matches sputtering beneath the rim struck such terror in his victims that resistance fell away. He had no need of a degree in graphics to realise the long distance effect on those who saw the Jolly Roger. This kind of basic human instinct for designing is one of the main themes of Alice Rawsthorn's lively and stimulating book. This is a welcome publication for many reasons. First, deluged as we are with ever more enormous books on architecture, there are very few intelligent books about design. In this area Stephen Bayley was the pioneer, with a constant stream of witty, erudite and challenging writings on design from the 1980s onwards. More recently, in 2008, Deyan Sudjic entered the arena with The Language of Things. Rawsthorn's approach is different, more socially concerned, wider ranging in her interests and, yes, more feminine. It was Rawsthorn, don't forget, who created such a storm during her years as director of the Design Museum by promoting an exhibition on the flower decorator Constance Spry.

Another of her favourites is the Hungarian designer László Moholy-Nagy, a charismatic figure whose students at the Bauhaus named him Holy Mahogany. Moholy took to dressing in a boiler suit, not just as a practical measure but as a symbolic garment, marking his commitment to making the rapprochement between industry and art. He invented theLight Space Modulator, a machine for creating the experimental pools of light and shade, an object Moholy considered so essential to his work that he took it with him in his flight from Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s. To get this peculiar contraption through various European customs he described it as hairdressing equipment.

Rawsthorn adopts Moholy's central tenet: "Design is not a profession but an attitude." She argues that design is not, as most people construe it, just a matter of superficial styling. It's not simply the curves on a sleekly covetable sofa or the angle of those glamorous high heels. According to Rawsthorn, design is "concerned with the whole process of analysis, visualisation, planning and execution". It affects all human lives, for better or for worse.

She draws pertinent examples from her own experience. Rawsthorn, author of a very good biography of Yves St Laurent and now design critic of the International Herald Tribune, is a seasoned traveller and she describes the bliss of arriving in the clarity and orderliness of Zurich airport as opposed to the bewildering chaos of Heathrow or JFK. The difference is simply a question of the signage, implemented in Zurich back in the 1970s by the brilliant Swiss graphic designer Ruedi Rüegg. Where at Heathrow the competing signs and symbols induce panic, in Zurich the traveller feels calm and in control.

We all have our own examples of innovations that seem like improvements but turn out to be the opposite. Rawsthorn cites the espresso pod, the neatly sealed capsule that is faster and less messy than ground coffee. But what about the packaging of those tiny capsules? Rawsthorn reminds us sternly that the functional strengths of the espresso pod are negated by its "environmental weaknesses and death of integrity".

An even worse example of designer overload is the bunch of bananas repackaged for sale in a supermarket in what is described as "organic packaging". Repackaging bananas, surely nature's best example of the perfect pre-pack, and then calling the repackaging "organic"? Surely that way designer madness lies.

Rawsthorn keeps a sharp historical perspective, reminding us of how Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century defined Leonardo da Vinci as an early example of a designer after seeing his immaculately detailed drawings for machinery and engines. But her new book is intended less as design history, and more a succinct survey in 13 brisk chapters of where design is now.

The effect of digital technology is proving both liberating and unsettling. The things we see and use are changing with unprecedented speed as attention spans grow shorter, visual awareness heightens and desires for distractions intensify. New products are being invented almost daily while others become obsolete. What happened to the telephone? Who needs an alarm clock when your smartphone will awaken you? For some, these rapid changes seem baffling. Rawsthorn sees the "elemental role" of design in acting as our friendly negotiant of change.

Try the doorbell test. The world is now divided into those who automatically press a doorbell with their index finger and those who use their thumb. Which you do will, Rawsthorn tells us, "reveal your age almost as accurately as the way you dance or how wrinkly your hands are". All right, since you ask, I use my index finger, originating as I do in a pre-digital age, whereas thumb users are people of a younger generation whose practice in typing text messages and playing on games consoles has rendered their thumbs nimbler than any of their fingers – a pertinent example of how the designed environment changes people's everyday behaviour.

In this quickly shifting world the designers' responsibilities become more complex. Far gone are those days of certainty I knew back in the 1960s when I was design critic for the Guardian. The subject matter of design was then what were rather primly called "consumer goods". The thinking of that time was the simplistically optimistic hope that good design would improve the lives of the deserving British public. Design was an aesthetic offshoot of the welfare state.

Functionally pure tableware and cutlery, refrigerators, textiles and clean-lined convertible sofabeds were selected year by year to receive the coveted Design Centre Awards. The prize-winning designers were the nation's design heroes. I married one of them [David Mellor] so I should know.

The scene described by Rawsthorn is altogether different. Since then designers have endured Margaret Thatcher's "creative industries" policy followed by Tony Blair's Cool Britannia years. No wonder they have turned into such driven, anxious creatures. Never mention Raymond Loewy's all too capitalist mantra "good design is good business", still less his sweeping statement that a designer's main responsibility is "to keep his client in the black". These days such beliefs seem as outdated and embarrassing as jokes about bra-burning feminists.

Rawsthorn's most subtle and interesting chapters concern the rise of the designers' conscience, their involvement in a multitude of projects that improve the lives of "the other 90%" of the world's population. These are the people who have in the past benefited least from the design profession's skills.

She mentions the way the speeding up of our lives has set up a contrasting craving for nostalgia and quirkiness, vintage fashion, folklore and pretend games. Here she could have made more of the considerable revival in handmaking of special one off objects at the highest level of imagination, for example the resurgence of the beautiful book. I also feel that she underestimates the hidden dangers in increasing design sophistication, especially in the area of military weaponry. Barnes Wallis's dam-busting bouncing bombs were child's play in comparison with today's unmanned surveillance drones.

Rawsthorn's title Hello World is irritatingly winsome. There is also the question of why the design of a book about design, with its dizzying vertical page numbers and inscrutable photography, is absolutely dire.

But this hardly detracts from the value and enjoyment of a sprightly survey that counteracts the narrowness with which so many people think about design.