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Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't want 'larger people' shopping in its stores

Abercrombie & Fitch, which doesn't make its womenswear above large, or pants... more

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Models Are Not Like Us: Modern Lady

New York Fashion Week is over, but ladies in the media still have their bloomers in a... more

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Brittany Murphy TOO Skinny, Weight Issues, Anorexic? (PHOTOS)

Actress Brittany Murphy was rumored to have serious weight issues and was possibly... more

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True Mighty Wallet Fans / Stories

This Mighty Wallet story comes from Abel of Switzerland who purchased his Mighty... more

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WIRED Mighty Wallet

Last Friday (Nov 20st) WIRED magazine had an opening party for their holiday shop in... more

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Every mighty wallet has its own story as to how it came to be created. Each one has its own particular history regarding the design and where the inspiration come from. "My old wallet" is a wallet design that came from the first wallet I was ever given. My grandpa Bob gave me this wallet when I was just a little boy. I can't remember how old I was then but I grew up with my grandparents and was living with Bob and my grandma Mary at the time.

Somehow I managed to keep this wallet over 30 years and found it when I was looking through some old boxes of personal stuff I had stored away. The idea was instantaneous - I looked at the leather wallet and thought - this would be a great design all by itself. I took the wallet into my photo studio and shot it under the bright lights. The photos were used directly on the mighty wallet and the proportions fit perfectly.

The wallet itself was in good shape partly due to the fact that it was never really used it. When my grandpa gave me the wallet I was so small and it was so big I couldn't fit it into my pocket so it spent most of its time in a drawer of my desk until I was big enough to use it. The only thing that wore off was the stitching (surprise) and some writing where he originally wrote my name and our phone number in the middle.

Some people have asked me if he made the design himself. No, he didn't. But at first I thought he might have because my grandpa Bob was an industrious guy. He was a tool and die worker who was always working on some home project and he also did do some metal stamping. In fact the stamping in the wallet looked a lot like some metal stamping that my great-grandfather did to our towel racks. However it wasn't either of their design but they were both hard workers and now I can see the lineage of that in my family coming to rest with me.

I'm very proud that I have the opportunity to make a Mighty Wallet from the leather wallet my grandfather gave me. Its strange but just the other night I was thinking of my grandpa, and I was wondering about his father (my great-grandpa) and his struggle to succeed. My great-grandpa, John Kelleman, was the first in our family to immigrate to the US. Two years ago I visited Ellis Island and saw his name engraved on a monument there.

It seems like things have come full circle now with me moving to New York and continuing the dream of a better life for my young family. Now as a father myself I realize that I didn't get here on my own. The work and struggle that my grandparents and great-grandparents made is why any of this at all possible for me. Now its my turn to try to provide a better life for my wife and our two daughters.

My grandpa Bob isn't alive any more and he never got to see the Mighty Wallet version of the wallet he gave to me. But I know that he would be very proud of the success of Dynomighty and he would have loved to see all the crazy product designs I come up with. I would love to hear what he would have say about these wacky products. He was always equipped with a zinger when he needed one and he didn't hold back when he wanted to speak his mind.

I think he would be very proud and he'd brag about me and our family to all his friends. He would have used a Mighty Wallet himself so he could show it off to anyone he came across at the gas station, mall or track. But I don't know if he'd actually use the "My old wallet" though. He'd probably say "Jeez Terry, If you're gonna sell someone a paper wallet, the least you could do is clean it up and make it straight!" He is missed.Every mighty wallet has its own story as to how it came to be created. Each one has... more

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Color Bar Mighty Wallet

http://su.pr/1gJK35 Utilizing the classic Color Bar printer's marks used in... more

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Beauty Review: O.P.I. Original Nail Envy (”Nail” The Problem & Make Them Green With “Envy”)

We all love beauty products. But how do we know what to buy? Our blogger, a... more

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Photos of cake can keep you slim, say psychologists

Picture a thick wedge of rich, velvety Black Forest gateau. Hungry? Unlikely as it sounds, showing weight-conscious women pictures of sweet treats actually strengthens their resolve to eat healthily, rather than encouraging them to cheat.

Advertisers clearly believe images of tasty morsels persuade people to buy but psychologist Floor Kroese of Utrecht University in the Netherlands speculated that temptation might in fact heighten self-control.

To test out this theory, Kroese and her colleagues asked 54 female students to look at a picture of either a slice of chocolate cake or a flower under the guise of a memory test. The researchers then questioned the students about any plans to eat more healthily and offered them a choice between a chocolate or oatmeal cookie.

Women shown the cake picture gave a higher priority to their healthy eating intentions than their counterparts shown the flower. They were also significantly more likely to pick the oatmeal cookie – which earlier tests showed was generally perceived as the healthier option.

Let them look at cake
"Food temptations do not always trigger indulgence," says Kroese. "It seems that seeing a food temptation reminded people of their goal to watch their weight, and helped them act accordingly."

Previous studies suggested that smelling palatable, unhealthy foods makes people rate healthy eating as highly important, but this is the first research to look at how unhealthy food affects snacking behaviour.

Ayelet Fishbach of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago agrees with Kroese's conclusion. "In moderation, this positive impact of food temptations will overcome the negative impact – the urge to indulge," she says.

Kroese suggests that sticking pictures of tempting foods on the fridge door may help to bring weight-watching goals to mind. But she cautions that the results can only be applied to women wanting to lose weight: it is unclear whether they would hold in the general population.

Her team is now looking into varying the strength of a temptation. Early findings suggest that while very tempting images seem to remind people of their weight-loss goals, weakly attractive images do not prompt the same mechanism to kick in. "Interestingly, this might mean that weak temptations could then be more dangerous," she says.Picture a thick wedge of rich, velvety Black Forest gateau. Hungry? Unlikely as it... more

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The Smaller the Dress Size, The Bigger the Apartment: Weight and Riches

The New York Times runs a charming article about why manhattanites are so skinny (and... more

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Lindsay Lohan battles girlfriend Samantha Ronson for Universal Twiggy Award

If Lindsay Lohan keeps “working” so diligently, she’ll soon be even... more

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Little Titties .....equal rights!!

Vietnam's Health Ministry suspended a widely ridiculed plan to ban short, thin... more

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Is This Model Too Thin?

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Fashion industry made me too thin, says Kate Moss

As summer fashion trends go, it is certainly an unexpected one. In the next issue of the American magazine Interview, Kate Moss joins the growing number of high-profile models who are admitting that they are too thin.

Moss, who rarely gives interviews, talks with candour about her life and career. As well as describing the time Frank Sinatra "lunged" at her and why she branched out into designing clothes for Topshop ("when I was modelling, I got bored"), she responds to suggestions that, at times in her career, she has been too skinny.

Moss lays the blame firmly at the doorstep of the fashion industry: "I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it. You go to a show and there's no food at all ... I remember standing up in the bath one day and ... I was so thin! I was never anorexic ... I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny."

Other models have echoed Moss's comments. In Vogue this month Karen Elson, who has said that in the past she was "not eating, bulimic and taking laxatives", accuses the fashion industry of encouraging models to be unhealthily thin. "I remember I came back from a job in Paris and the stylist said to me, 'have you been eating too many croissants, Karen?'" Elson told the Guardian: "Fashion is obsessed with finding young, beautiful and vulnerable girls, bringing them into the fashion world, praising them, worshipping them but suddenly dropping them like a stone when they hit puberty and grow boobs and hips. It's so dangerous and can potentially harm the girls mentally and physically."

The fashion industry has tried to clean up its act. In the UK, a committee, the Model Health Inquiry, was formed last year to help improve the wellbeing of models during London fashion week. Representatives on it include Sarah Doukas, Moss's agent, and the model Erin O'Connor, who has, like Moss, spoken out about the lack of food at shows and has since set up the Model Sanctuary, which gives models nutritional advice.

But not everything has gone to plan. Last week the industry heard that plans for a model health certificate, which models would produce to show a doctor had certified them "fit to work", had been rejected by New York, Milan and Paris.

Hilary Riva, chief executive of the British Fashion Council, said: "The modelling industry has united against the certificates. We therefore call on model agents ... to find a workable solution, or an alternative, and set best practice for the modelling industry."
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Largest Kashmir protest in 10 years kills 34

Muslims are demanding an end to Indian rule in Kashmir. Two months of un-rest have... more

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United Kingdom Talk Thursday 21st August 2008

Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on... more

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Inside scoop: the fatty - Omega 3 - skinny habit

My family just ordered a whole box of fish oil supplements, because we don’t get... more

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Do you know how fat you are? Apparently not

We are getting fatter but we think we are thinner, and the trend could have serious... more

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Macbook AIr is iThin

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday unveiled an ultra-slim MacBook Air laptop... more

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A 6-Week Journey to the Land of Thin

Most women aren't naturally slim. But that doesn't stop many of them from... more

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