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University of Western Australia end of year student exhibition.
Invite to the UWA Architecture faculty’s end of year exhibition attached.
Date: Friday the 13th of November 2009
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Corner of Clifton St and Stirling Highway, Nedlands, Western Australia
Enthused and Infused: 19 New Directions For Teapot Design
What could be more welcoming than a pot of tea in the morning? (Coffee drinkers, you are not allowed to answer that). From its humble beginnings in ancient China, the teapot has gone from obscurity to the height of luxury and finally to worldwide ubiquity, embedding itself firmly in the English language (”as useless as [...]
Rome Hospital Starts Treatment for `Booming’ Internet-Addiction Disorder
Bloomberg News, sent from my iPhone.
Rome Hospital Starts Treating ‘Booming’ Web-Addiction Disorder
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) — Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital, whose former patients include Pope John Paul II, has opened a clinic to treat Internet Addiction Disorder, a pathology linked to the obsessive need to be online.
The center, which opened yesterday, is a unit of the psychiatric department and has received its first patients, according to a statement on the hospital’s Web site. The Gemelli is one of the Italian capital’s biggest medical centers.
“The disorder is linked to the booming use of the Internet, especially among the younger generation,” Lucio D’Alessandris, a psychologist at the center, said in an interview. “Many of the patients have interpersonal problems: They don’t talk to their neighbors and hardly go out, but are online all night to chat with someone in, say, Nepal.”
The clinic’s treatment mirrors similar help offered in Japan, China and in the U.S. recently with the opening in August of the reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program in Fall City, Washington, near the headquarters of Microsoft Corp. About 10 percent of the users of Facebook Inc., operator of the world’s most popular social-networking site, may develop a dependency, according to the Rome hospital’s release.
Internet dependency can be linked to cyber-sex addiction and cyber-relational addiction, the statement said. It could also be a net compulsion related to online shopping and gambling, information overload, computer addiction with an excessive involvement in virtual and role-playing games, according to the hospital.
A wikiHow page on the Web offers help on “How to Break a World of Warcraft Addition” linked to the online game from Vivendi SA-controlled Activision Blizzard Inc.
Disorder Symptoms
Symptoms for the disorder, first described by psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg in 1995, include the need to spend more time on the Internet, anxiety and depression when not online, being incapable of controlling the time spent on the Web and giving up social and recreational activities because of the excessive Web use.
“The pathological use of the Internet causes physical symptoms very similar to those shown by drug addicts in abstinence crisis,” Federico Tonioni, the psychiatrist who heads the unit, said in the release.
The disorder becomes evident when “the virtual world becomes more important than reality,” he said.
To contact the reporters on this story: Chiara Remondini in Milan at cremondini@bloomberg.net
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Ideas For a Moden Living Room
These “color-mad” interiors come from Circulo Muebles and were designed by Paco Alcalde and Kiko Moreno. A mixture of diverse furniture items, bold, otherwise classic colors, wooden finishes but also lacquered one, these arrangements seem to have nothing in common except for a modern touch and a high amount of style. [...]
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Decorating Ideas for A Fresh Apartment
I really loved the fresh feeling that these arrangements inspire and I hope so will you. It’s amazing what adding a small colorful object can do to a place. And this is true for any room of the house, from the kitchen (green, purple and pink plates and baskets) to the living-room (purple puffs, bathroom [...]
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House of Shades and No Windows : “Slit” from Eastern Design Office
EASTERN Design Office is a company of architects located in Kyoto, Japan. The “Slit” house is made entirely out of walls which implies this building has no windows. The light only gets in through slits which turns this project into a very original one. Still, the concrete walls don’t really make this the [...]
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House of Shades and No Windows : “Slit” from Eastern Design Office
Latis Bathroom Collection
Soon to be released (in December 2009), this bathroom furniture collection comes from Omvivo, a company from Australia. From lighting to accessories, Omvivo offers a wide range of products for bathroom interiors. We particularly enjoy these arrangements, as they inspire freshness, as well as style. The predominant colors are white and green, combined in creative [...]
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autoCAD errors.
You’ve got to love them.
Kitchen and Living-Room Combined. A Few Fun Solutions
You’ve seen a lot of interiors here on Freshome, all of them meant to inspire you and keep you up to date with the trends in design. This time we would like to give you some ideas on how to combine a living-room and a dining room. In fact we will show you how some [...]
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A Different Kind of Whale
We are not sure that once this stunning structure will start floating, the environmental issues will all be over, or that the oceans will be less polluted or less dangerous,. All we can tell for sure is that they will certainly be more observed by aspiring designers worldwide. Created by Peddle Thorpe Architects, “Fluid” can [...]
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