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Volcom Names Prominent Action Sports Executive as CEO, Volcom Australia
Volcom, Inc. today announced that Dougall Walker has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer of Volcom Australia. Walker succeeds John Clapham, who will return to his native New Zealand and focus his energies on that territory. Read more on Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
Volcom Names Prominent Action Sports Executive as CEO, Volcom Australia
COSTA MESA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Volcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VLCM) today announced that Dougall Walker has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer of Volcom Australia. Walker succeeds John Clapham, who will return to his native New Zealand and focus his energies on that territory. Walker, 51, brings to Volcom more than 25 years of experience in the action sports industry. Most recently … Read more on Business Wire
Japanese student’s family safe
A Japanese teenager who is attending Montague High School this year as a Rotary exchange student has learned her family is safe after her South Pacific country was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami on Friday, March 11. Read more on The White Lake Beacon
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For some unknown reason, we coin phrases in each generation, to put people in their place. Or,is it to define subcultures of certain patterns of behaviour?
Mobileers were a community of early two way radio users. According to Wikipedia the Mobileers popularized the technology that birthed the mobilephone.
Permanent installations in vehicles soon gave way to the portable Bag Phones, equipped with a cigarette lighter plug. You wouldn’t recognize the huge clunky piece of equipment these phones were, compared to the dinky pocket size we carry today. But I am getting ahead of myself.
In the early 1960’s there was a youth movement that evolved into the Hippies. According to Wikipedia, Hippies were originally known as Beatniks. They were black by nature, not skin colour. Black clothing was their hallmark.They had only one message, “Danger is fun”.
Hippies were a group of people who moved into the Haight-Ashbury San Francisco area. Psychedelic rock, the sexual revolution, cultural diversity and drugs like cannabis and LSD, in order to explore alternative states of consciousness, became one of their hall marks. Flower Power symbolized their cry of ‘Make love not war’, as they gave out flowers to passers-by.
They were the frontier group of the ‘Wild West’ of our culture. We have inherited affects from them as far reaching as health food, musical festivals, through contemporary sexual concepts (free love) and the use of drugs. Many were eco-friendly and even the forerunners of the cyberspace revolution. Terms like ‘Big Brother’, or ‘The Man’, representing authority, were coined in this generation.
Today every school kid has a mobile phone, though I often wonder just who pays the bills. In the early days when mobile phones were relatively unheard of, there rose a group of Male Yuppies. These Young Urban Mobile Professionals represented the affluent young professionals of the day.
They had a particular stance that went with the title, as did most subgroups:
• One hand raised to the ear,
• Other hand protectively placed on their briefcase
• Head cocked to the side
• Eyes glazed over as they stared into the distance
• A noncommittal grimace on the face.
They were seen to eat at all the Yuppy restaurants and naturally drove a Yuppy car.
Most of us thought they just evolved. But me thinks they were the result of a very clever marketing guru.
Either way, the Yuppy generation took over from the Baby Boomers – suburban, couple of kids, mortgage and the backbone of the community. That is after the Baby Boomers had dried out and come off the Grass, introduced through the Hippy stage.
Lets not knock the Baby Boomers though. Many a prominent politician and Lord Mayor came from the later end of the Baby Boomers.
Strictly speaking the Baby Boomers may have been too long a period to be classically described as a ‘generation’, as the baby boom lasted over a post-war, 18 year period.
Why we have to try to put a name to every generation is totally beyond me. I could never work out just where I belonged, even though I contributed to the Baby Boomer period.
In Russia the Baby Boomers were called the Sputnick Generation, from their race in space. How the two became connected is totally beyond me.
It was the rise of the contraceptive pill that heralded in the end of the Baby Boomer period.
Next came the DEWKS – Double Employed With Kids. Welcome the era of Child Care. Have a child, six weeks later dump the kid in the Creche/Child Care and back to competing with your partner as to who brings home the most income.
The Yuppies had become Yappies – Frustrated Yuppies having to deal with a couple of screaming kids, now that spanking children (corporal punishment) was being put out of fashion, by the government.
Sadly this was followed by the predictable KOOPF – Kids Of One Parent Families.
Next came the DINKS – Double Income No Kids. It was fashionable now not to have kids. Why not if you could no longer discipline them?
No longer could you assume the person was with their husband/wife. It had become ‘partner’.
Dinks became more widely used than the usual generation terms. A midget wrestler, Claude Giroux took the stage name Dink. Then there were Gay and Lesbian Dinks. The water was becoming decidedly muddied.
The concern is, according to some experts, that if the trend of Dinks continues, intelligent professionals will become another dinosaur and extinct, due to the lack of not having kids and reproducing themselves.
However, gays and lesbians have also contributed to the downturn in population growth, right up to same sex marriages.
Supposedly the DEWKS and DINKS are the privileged ones who have Disposable Incomes. That which the economists say gauges the state of the economy.
Let me ask you this though, does anyone have income that can be ‘disposed of’, like polystyrene containers, paper tissues, disposable plastic bags etc. That of course is before bio-degradable became the ‘in’ thing.
Somewhere in the middle of all this we have the term Nerd. The original stereotpyical Nerd was ‘white males with glasses and braces’, according to Wikipedia. Imagine trying to get away with such gendre orientated terms today, in our new found non-gender consciousness.
Some believe Nerd, or Nurd, was originally known as ‘knurd’, which is drunk spelt backwards. In other words a nerd was a person who studied rather than partied.
With the maturing advent of Cyber Space the term Nerd has gained respectability. It is the Nerds of our world that drive Cyber Space.
Charles J. Sykes said. “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”
Then of course we always have the Trendys who set the pace for the next generation. The feeding grounds of the latest fashion gurus and their high paid advertising junkies.
So we keep creating new terms, putting each generation into a neat little box. But society also likes to do the ‘crab trick’ – don’t let anyone else get out of the box. Pull them back if it looks like they are escaping out of the box we are in.
If you live long enough, chances are you will be around for quite a few of the names. Or should ‘names’ be simply classed as cultural evolution?
Is it more accurately plain rebellion to the established mores – status quo?
I want to add a couple more names to the list.
The world is full of Luzas. Yet, in every generation there is a minority of Wynas, about 2%. If you have difficulty picking up what I am saying (writing) try speaking those two names out loud.
Most of us only dream of being a Wyna. What did the song say, ‘Climb every mountain, ford every stream…’?
Being a Wyna is better than being a Luza, because Wynas live ‘out of the box’. That is if the box really exists.
Wyna wants to know if you want to own a South Pacific island resort, because Wynas live ‘out of the box’. You coul help some kids who can’t help themselves, living in a cashless society.
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These days babies are called all kind of crazy things. The Baby Channel took a look at some of the most popular names and unusual names that tar being given to children. (10:24)
Friends don’t let friends pick horrendous baby names. Owen and Jodi try to live up to their obligations by preventing a truly regrettable name from coming into the world along with a new baby. This DadLabs sitcom is brought to you by BabyBjorn. Distributed by Tubemogul. (03:14)
Find out how to choose a great baby name for your baby and learn how to appease family members while at the same time getting around the pressure of needing to use a family name. (04:23)
Picking a handle for your kid certainly ranks up there in terms of parental responsibilities, so, please, don’t decide on a moniker before watching this video. Our unique naming system minimizes grade school humiliation, career damage and problems getting a date. DadLabs ep 465 brought to you by BabyBjorn. Distributed by Tubemogul. (05:29)
Tonight UFC 123 will proof a thriller rematch between Matt Hughes vs BJ Penn. Penn will footstep into the Octagon to re-establish his glory as the former champion. For Hughes, it’s the third opportunity to prove his upper-hand finished the king of the ring.
As a result of the growing awareness amongst people, environmental problems are becoming a major concern. Since numerous years, human beings have been creating some form of damage to our surroundings may it be polluting of the environment, greenhouse effect or acid rain. Right now, we have to think of measures to ensure that our future generations do not have to endure the consequences for our faults.
Law enforcement Departments promote the prublic to use stun guns and taser as self-defense resources. Chuck Z. Saysgo, a former police officer, has started a nationwide marketing campaign to make stungun authorized in every City.
Acid rain is the acid precipitation whose PH value is below 5.65. It is mainly caused by the large number of acidic substances emitted by human beings into the atmosphere. The acid rain in China is mainly due to burning too much coal with high sulfur content. In addition, the large number of tail gases emitted from a variety of motor vehicles is also an important reason for the formation of acid rain.
The struggle for same-sex marriage is being lost in a big way by those attracted to their same sex. Why? Because the homophobic opposition is clever, deceitful, cunning and conniving and will prevent change at all costs!
Many religions portray Him as Father since He seems to have some attributes of father like a strict disciplinarian who punishes men for their wrongdoings while rewarding them for their good deeds.
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Episode 6 Fragile Paradise: The South Pacific is still relatively healthy and teeming with fish, but it is a fragile paradise. International fishing fleets are taking a serious toll on the sharks, albatross and tuna, and there are other insidious threats to these bountiful seas. This episode looks at what is being done to preserve the ocean and its wildlife. Find out more at www.bbc.co.uk Video Rating: 4 / 5
July 07 has been proving to be a blockbuster in music names and entertainers. We have the oldies, rock stars, pop stars, and phenomenal art/theatre events.
The week starting July 23, the American Idol finalists are coming to Staples center. The first American Idol champ was supposed to perform in Los Angeles too but cancelled her summer tour due to low-ticket sales and some rumored management shake-up.
Then 60’s rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd will be performing at Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa then at the Greek theatre. Other big 60’s rock classic names coming this week are Bob Dylan (not to be missed if you’re a big fan!) and KISS. Talk about Classics!
If you want to reminisce about your time in the 80’s, go see Heart and the Bangles (performing together) and Tears for Fears at Costa Mesa’s Pacific Amphitheatre. The country crooner Lyle Lovett is partnering up with K.D. Lang at the Greek theatre.
Speaking of country… Martina Mcbride, Leann Rimes, Buffalo Tom are also coming.
On other event categories – Pageant of the Masters is a real experience not to miss (at least do it once!). Performers on stage reenact art works/paintings. Reviews have always been phenomenal and the event has been going on for over 50 years (started in 1935). Tickets get sold out very fast so chances are you will have to buy good seats from brokers.
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