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Colorado recall stifles gun effort in CongressBy ALAN FRAM
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Democratic state Sen. Angela Giron waves to supporters as she gives her concession speech after losing in a recall vote last week. Giron is one of two Colorado state lawmakers, who helped enact stricter firearms laws in the aftermath of the mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut, to have been been ousted in NRA-backed recall elections.WASHINGTON Gun control advocates say the National Rifle Association-aided recall of two Colorado legislators who backed new gun restrictions will make it harder to revive stalled efforts in Congress to tighten firearm laws.
Federal legislation expanding background check requirements for gun buyers fell five votes short in the Senate in April, despite political momentum from last Decembers massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
Gun control backers say they have yet to win a single new Senate supporter, and many worry that the muscle shown by pro-gun groups and voters last week in Colorado will make it even harder to find converts.
The NRA does its job better than our side does our job, said Jim Kessler, a co-founder of Third Way, which advocates for centrist Democratic policies. They know how to influence and intimidate elected people.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. added: The results of the recall were not good news. As a House member last year, Murphy represented Newtown, where 20 first-graders and six school staffers were gunned down.
Minutes after the Senate rejected the new background checks on April 17, President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pledged to continue the fight. Democrats and gun control lobbyists, however, dont expect Reid to bring the bill up again until next year at best, not until he has found enough additional votes to have a strong chance of prevailing.
That means the Dec. 14 anniversary of the school shootings probably will pass without a fresh Senate vote. Some gun curb advocates have hoped to use the widespread public attention that anniversary will receive to schedule a new vote by then.
My advice to Reid is, if theres any indication of change or movement in a positive direction, we should consider it. But so far Ive not seen that, said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., his partys chief Senate vote-counter.
Colorado voters last week removed two Democratic state lawmakers from office Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron and replaced them with Republicans who are gun-rights supporters.
The two Democrats had supported expanded background checks and limits on ammunition magazines. Colorado enacted those measures following Newtown and a July 2012 rampage in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater that left 12 dead and 70 wounded.
The recall drew national attention and became a proxy fight between gun control and gun rights forces. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an advocate for stricter gun laws with his group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, contributed around $350,000 to the two Democrats. The NRA spent roughly the same amount opposing them.
Overall, reported contributions to Morse and Giron totaled around $3 million, giving them a 5-1 advantage over recall supporters. Yet foes of the two state senators found enough angry voters to prevail.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam played down his groups role. He noted the overall spending disparity and saying his organization participated only after being asked to by local gun-rights advocates.
It sends a strong message that grassroots still matters, and voters trump Bloomberg and his money, he said of the vote, echoing a theme the NRA has used before against the wealthy New Yorker.
Mark Glaze, executive director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, said the NRA cherry-picked two vulnerable legislators to target. He said his groups spending in those races underscored its commitment.
Legislators who take risks to keep the public safe are going to have every resource theyd ask for to defend themselves, he said.
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, said his states recall votes meant little for U.S. senators pondering their stance on guns. He said the recall movement tapped into public unease with a broad Democratic agenda that may have drifted too far to the left, including enactment of civil unions for gay and lesbian couples and in-state tuition for college students in the U.S. illegally.
Murphy and other gun control supporters such as Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, say that with polls showing wide approval of background checks and groups like Bloombergs spending large sums, the NRAs potency has been weakened.
Even so, Senate talks have proceeded intermittently as supporters of the background check language written by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., seek five more votes.
Background checks, aimed at weeding out criminals and the mentally unstable, are required for buyers obtaining firearms through licensed gun dealers. The defeated legislation would have expanded that to sales at commercial venues like gun shows and the Internet.
Participants say they have explored ways to keep the NRA neutral, including exempting gun show sales or letting buyers conduct their own background checks online. Gun control advocates objected that such concessions go too far. Participants spoke on condition of anonymity after agreeing their names wouldnt be attached to discussions of private conversations.
Asked if such changes would keep the NRA on the sidelines, Arulanandam said, The NRA remains opposed to expanding a broken system on background checks, period.
Four Democrats opposed broadening background checks: Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Begich of Alaska, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Others opponents wooded by advocates include GOP Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Arizonas Jeff Flake.
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Why pick the lesser of two evils when there are more options out there? Why pick either Republican or Democrat? There are more than two options out there.
I battled with myself whether or not to talk about my political views via social media. In my opinion, who you vote for is a personal matter. It falls within what is polite conversation in a social environment. I believe there are three things that fall in the impolite catagory; religion, relationship matters (sex, sexual orientation, drama, etc.), and politics. Each of the three topics spur many arguments that, on a one-on-one basis is great but socially, not so much. And social media is, well social.
I'm not going to use this as my personal agenda to support who I am voting for. If you want to know my personal beliefs then I will tell you, personally. This is more in response to the general idea circling the internet of choosing "the lesser of two evils". That voting for one of the two major parties is the way to go because it's not the other guy. Why not vote for the person you like than the person that's not the other guy?
There are other options. And while mainstream media isn't doing the other "third party" candidates any justice, they are out there. I am even going to make it easy for you. I am going to include links to the four third party candidates websites as well as the YouTube video of the third party debate that was last night. Watch it and hear what the other people have to say. Visit their websites and read about their political platform. And after you do that then make your decision.
We are a nation looking for change, hope, and to take a stand. But how do we do these things if we continue doing the same things we have been doing? And if you think voting for a third party candidate is throwing away your vote; then at least you are throwing it away to a person you believe in, and not someone who ISN'T the other guy.
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Utah Attorney General, Utah Leaders Denounce Immigrant Blacklist
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Washington, D.C./Salt Lake City UT – Today a bipartisan coalition of the Utah's Republican Attorney General, the Bishop of Salt Lake City, a Democratic State Senator from Salt Lake City, and other prominent Utah and national leaders gathered on a national telephonic press conference to denounce the immigrant blacklist circulated by the so-called "Concerned Citizens of the United States" and to announce that the Attorney General's office would begin its investigation next week.
"We will begin an immediate aggressive investigation. Beyond the legal nature of this, we condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the generation and dissemination of this list and the spirit behind it," said Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. "It calls upon a large group of Utahns to observe, watch, and report men, women, pregnant women and children. I want to make it clear that's not the way we do things in Utah. This is not a blacklist, this is a hit list. We call upon the federal government to take the lead on comprehensive immigration reform."
During the press conference, Attorney General Shurtleff discussed the legal ramifications of the list, the potential next steps with the Governors office and the involvement of U.S. Attorneys. The Attorney General indicated that the Governors office would hand over the investigation to the Attorney Generals office on Monday.
Other Utah and national leaders condemned the law and the serious breaches of privacy. "This list has been very shocking and sends a very negative message about the safety of the privacy of every individual in the state of Utah," said State Senator Luz Robles. "This was a very violent and aggressive way to send a message. I think most people not only in Utah but around the country are looking to comprehensive immigration reform from the federal government."
"It seems to me that as a citizen of Utah, if I can feel vulnerable because of this type of action, I can only imagine what some of Utah's immigrants must be feeling and it must be a very difficult time for them," said Bishop John Wester of the Salt Lake Diocese. "This just underscores the need for our federal government to act on comprehensive immigration reform. We can solve this problem."
"This is about us as a people, about who we are as Utahns. We are a welcoming people here in Utah," said Paul Mero, President of the Sutherland Institute, a Utah-based conservative think tank. "This list in Utah is reprehensible. It makes me sick to my stomach, and I know that the good people of Utah won't have anything to do with it. We're for comprehensive reform, not enforcement only. We think comprehensive reform is the true conservative position."
"What happened in Utah is not an immigrant problem or a Latino problem. When private information is compromised every citizen should be concerned. After all, who is next?" said Clarissa Martinez, Director of Immigration and National Campaigns at the National Council of La Raza. "But the failure of our federal government to fix our broken immigration system will continue to unleash misguided actions that terrorize whole communities—we hope this experience compels Utah Senators to deliver the solution our country needs."


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Muse has hinted that they may be lending their talents to the soundtrack for the upcoming zombie horror flick, World War Z . On Tuesday, the group posted a six-second video on their YouTube channel that features the "S" in the band's name changing to a red "Z," along with the phrase, "There will be no warning." That phrase has been used to promote the film.
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For Catonsville residents, "Life is Great in 21228" is more than a slogan on a bumper sticker.
It's the walkability from their homes to restaurants on Frederick Road, the Catonsville Library and area parks. It's the weekly free concerts in the summertime, the annual Fourth of July Parade, the Santa House and not one, but two weekly farmers markets.
Catonsville's collegial atmosphere combined with a proximity to Baltimore City and schools that have consistently earned high marks have madearea real estate, especially in recent months, a hot commodity.
Though there is no conclusive data to back the notions that Catonsville is an increasingly desirable place to put down roots, data from Realestate Business Intelligence reports that home sales are on the rise.
"What I see occurring in Catonsville is a transformation of younger people wanting to move into Catonsville, or return to Catonsville and live after they've been away," said George Moniodis, a real estate agent at Coldwell Banker in Catonsville. "It's a magnet."
"We wanted to stay in 21228," said longtime Catonsville resident Maureen Sweeney Smith.
The 58-year-old and her husband Rick Smith, 50, decided about three years ago that they had outgrown their single family home on Smithwood Avenue, but they weren't ready to leave Catonsville.
"Basically, we wanted something smaller," she said. "We didn't need to be heating and cooling five bedrooms."
Their home sold just two days after it went on the market.
It was bought by a young couple with a growing family, much like Maureen and Rick had been when they first settled on Smithwood as one of the youngest couples on the block.
When they decided to leave the neighborhood and move to a condominium on Kenwood Avenue, they were one of the oldest couples on the block, Sweeney Smith said.
"Behind us, there's been a lot of new kids that have come into the neighborhood," she said. "You see houses kind of wearing down with the older people in them and when the new people come in they get a fresh coat of paint. It really re-energizes the neighborhood."
Sue Poandl, 35, and her husband, Dave Perez, 39, moved from California to Catonsville nine years ago.
"I grew up in a small town that's very similar to Catonsville," Poandl said. "(Catonsville is) just a small town with lots of people who know each other.
"We just loved the area," she said. "It was more about the area for me than the house."
After moving from their first Maryland residence at Montrose Manor Apartments in Catonsville to a row house on Circle Drive in Arbutus, the couple decided to move back to Catonsville to settle down and raise their three children.
"We had the little boys by then and we were looking for a bigger house," Poandl said of sons, Owen, 8, and 6-year-old twins Ryan and Noah Perez. "We ended up coming back to Catonsville."
The decision to return came after months of house hunting as far away as Pennsylvania. The close-knit feel of Catonsville won out.
"When we moved to Arbutus, at the time we weren't sure if we were going to stay in Maryland," Poandl said. "We really hunted all over and never found a place we liked better than Catonsville."
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ANNISTON, ALA.—Anniston was as much an Army town as Hampton Roads is a Navy port.
For decades, the Army trained soldiers on a sprawling base on the outskirts of town.
"It probably hurt our feelings more than it hurt our business," said Kathy Bates, co-owner of Bonnie Ray's Bake Shoppe.
Her small bakery is in a modest shopping center, the first place that comes to mind when locals talk about the fallout from Fort McClellan's closing.
It was the closest shopping center to the base. According to other store owners, a restaurant, an arcade and a dry cleaners shut down. Among the stores still operating are two other dry cleaners that used to cater to soldiers.
Like many people interviewed in Anniston recently, Bates said Fort McClellan is the reason she lives in Anniston. Her father was assigned there when she was young, and their family ended up calling the small city home.
Former Mayor Gene Stedham, who met his wife while he was stationed at McClellan, still mourns the death of Anniston as an Army town. Sales at his family-owned jewelry store have dropped -- he doesn't say how much -- since the soldiers left town, and he's seen how the closing hurt the city's self-image and the local government's ability to provide important services.
"It's been a drag on our community," said Stedham, who was mayor when the base closed in 1999.
The city's sales tax revenue dropped about 6 percent, or $1 million, the first year the base was closed, to $15.5 million. It took four years for sales tax revenue to return to what it was when the base closed.
Nestled in the Choccolocco foothills at the southern tip of the Appalachian Mountains, midway between Atlanta and Birmingham, Anniston is perhaps more blue-collar than the Peninsula.
The largest employers left in the area are Anniston Army Depot -- an almost exclusively civilian-run plant that local officials fear could be targeted in this round of base closing -- a Honda plant where the Odyssey minivan is built, and a regional hospital.
Perhaps the best-known attraction is the Talladega Superspeedway, about 15 miles outside of town, which has NASCAR races twice a year.
Signs of poverty dominate the landscape. Junk-filled yards and dilapidated homes, many of which are still occupied, line streets throughout sections of the city.
The city's population has been declining for years, entering a free fall after the base closed.
From 1990 to 2000, about 8,000 people moved out of the city limits, dropping the population to about 22,000. Local officials say many of those people moved to surrounding Calhoun County, but even there the population dropped slightly last decade.
After the base closed, there was essentially no increase in personal income in Anniston and its surrounding communities for two years. In the second year post-McClellan, 2000, personal income in the Anniston area crept up by three-tenths of a percent, while the rest of the nation grew 8 percent.
Anniston has also had to confront a pair of toxic public-relations disasters in 2003.
A chemical maker, Monsanto, settled a pair of lawsuits brought by the residents of West Anniston for $600 million after lawyers uncovered documents showing that the company continued polluting ground outside the plant even though it knew it was spreading cancer-causing pollutants.


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Too often, those unfamiliar with the South assume, based on stigma and prejudice, that there are few, if any, thoughtful, progressive activists in states like Mississippi. In fact, some national comments from people outside of Mississippi and in response to initiatives like Proposition 26 express sentiments similar to those expressed after Hurricane Katrina. They suggested that the solution was for people to leave the state. Similar comments written in response to stories about Proposition 26 say such things as "Women should move out of Mississippi" and "Move to a state that supports individual rights." But Mississippians are staying and fighting back. As both a Southerner and a sometime-Mississippian I am actually not at all surprised by the activism that has emerged in response to Proposition 26. I saw a similar emergence after Hurricane Katrina, when individuals and communities across the Gulf Coast stood in solidarity with one another in a commitment to rebuild and renew. No matter what happens on November 8, it is important to recognize the growing grassroots movement in opposition to Proposition 26. These Southern, home-grown leaders and activists will still be in Mississippi beyond election day, and we must not only recognize them but also encourage and support them if we ever hope to win the long-term struggle for reproductive justice.
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Victoria is a postdoc at MIT in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship group at MIT's Sloan school and she was previously a fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. Her current research includes understanding how new technologies affect scientific research, particularly the openness of code and data. She obtained a Master's in Legal Studies in 2007 from Stanford Law School where she worked with Larry Lessig to create a new license for computational research. Victoria completed her PhD in statistics at Stanford University in 2006 with advisor David Donoho, specializing in regression techniques for research settings when there are many more variables than observations. She also has Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Economics from the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa respectively. She has taught quantitative methods at Stanford Law School, as well as statistics at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and San Jose State University. She also worked as a summer extern at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit with Chief Judge Kozinski and served as Managing Editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review. She has been a summer intern at PARC.com (formerly Xerox PARC) and IBM's T. J. Watson Research Labs.


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Life Without George was a sit-come aired in the late 1980s. In it, an aerobic teacher called Jenny was involved in complicated relationship with an Estate Agent called Larry. I loved the episode where they play Trivial Pursuit and almost kill each other!
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this poped up on my feed this morning. the owner goes around thinking he is the be-all-and-final word of everything, but it seems, getting a decent piercing is beyond his grasp.
what happened? went to a shitty piercer who knows jack all. (but problably fits within this guys ideals) and bad karma
how it back be fixed. go to a decent piercer
this poped up on my feed this morning. the owner goes around thinking he is the be-all-and-final word of everything, but it seems, getting a decent piercing is beyond his grasp.
SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: I found this little gem on reddit.
"Gotta fix the hand!"
Lol the picture explains itself.
WHAT'S AWFUL: Curved barbells in hip piercings. Also it may just be the angle but they look pretty uneven to me.
HOW IT CAN BE FIXED: Remove them, let them heal, and get pierced with the correct jewelry.
SOURCE: My boyfriends body.
SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: So, all of my boyfriends tattoos were done in a home. With "unsanitary" equipment, by a "scratcher".
Those are in quotations because I think you guys need new things to say.
I agree, most of the tattoos submitted here aren't terrific, but there have been a few that are above par, yet their shoved in the ground because someone did them out of their home.
I am a licensed body modification artist. & let me tell you something: unless someones home is filthy, then a tattoo shop is no better. People are constantly walking in & out, touching things, leaning on counters, checking out material, going places theyre not allowed (it happens more regularly then you think) etc.
I worked at a tattoo parlor for two years before I quit & began doing them out of my home. I make more money doing it this way & my name gets out more (nothing bad either). Ive never once had a complaint about my work.
I also have a few licensed friends who work out of their homes as well.
I see nothing wrong with home tattooing if you are working in a clean environment , because half the time when you say the place is 'unsanitary', the tattooer is wearing gloves/face mask, has a clean machine, new needles, & has their ink in clean caps.
Wow. Erm. I didn't even notice until just now that this wasn't a normal bad tattoo submission. The picture really threw me off.
I'm not sure what kind of tattoo shop you worked in, but the one where I work is nothing like that. We clean the place from top to bottom every single day. We use medical disinfectant (bactericidal/fungicidal/tuberculocidal/virucidal) on all surfaces, constantly. We follow all of the laws and standards to make sure everything is clean and done with aseptic technique. And no customer EVER goes where they aren't supposed to be or touches anything they aren't supposed to touch. Period.
Just because the tattoo artist is using new materials doesn't negate the fact that it's done in an environment that isn't clean. It also perpetuates the idea to non-professionals that getting tattooed in a house is okay. Just because you make more money tattooing out of your home (only because you don't have to pay shop overhead, duh) doesn't mean it's acceptable. You're taking away from professionals that are actually willing to pay to provide a safe, clean environment for their clients to get tattooed in, and that's disgusting. You obviously care so much about the people you're tattooing.
Where I live, and where many others live, it is illegal to tattoo out of any home, "licensed" or not. Just because you sat through a class to get your piece of paper doesn't mean you evolved into a magically perfect, all-knowing, sterile-fingered being.
But yeah, you sure showed us. You're a badass tattoo artist with your TWO YEARS of professional experience, forgoing the cost of maintaining a professional, sanitary environment (rent, electricity, insurance, health department fees, autoclave servicing, inspection fees, supplies, etc.) so you can make some extra bucks off people who don't know any better.
- Hayley
Wow. Damn, Hayley. I've been leaving this sitting in our queue to deal with later and forgot about it. You left probably a more articulate response than I could ever come up with and I thank you for that.
If anyone wants to check out what a joke a lot of tattoo licences are, you should go check out the artists certified by the APT. Last time I looked through there, some of the artists in my area had the shittiest portfolios and were tattooing in what looked like, at most, a poorly lit room without even anything looking vaguely clean.
Frankly, what shows a good tattoo artist is someone currently licensed in at least bloodbourne pathogens, aseptic technique, and general first aid. AT LEAST THAT. And also a shop that does everything Hayley just described. An artist who won't cut corners health wise just to make a few extra bucks. And also has an amazing portfolio.
SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: I stumbled upon this as I am following multiple piercing blogs. Forgive me If the source is incorrect, i'm still getting used to my macbook.
WHAT'S AWFUL: Everything in this image looks wrong. The hip piercings have incorrect jewelry (straight barbells) and are clearly rejecting, both navel piercings are extremely shallow, the tattoo surrounding the navel is off centered with wonky lines, and the bottom tattoo has wonky lines, is crooked, and has awful writing as well.
HOW IT CAN BE FIXED: HELP! There are too many thing's wrong to accurately say how it can be fixed.
Submiters Comment: Well this is a tattoo done by a licensed tattoo artist who has the ability to tattoo in shops in 5 states. This tattoo was done at his house in a freshly cleaned kitchen on me.
What's Awful?: The tattoo was done at home.
How it can be fixed: Help
Source: This is my tattoo
SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: Well, this is my first tattoo. I was too impatient to wait for my brother to take me to a shop and ended up going to a scratcher.
WHAT'S AWFUL: They're just bad. They're uneven, at different angles, and different sizes. The shading is all stripe-y, too. It used to look even worse.
I was only a few months away from being legal to get a tattoo. I don't know why but I was stupid and decided to go with my upstairs neighbor to a "friend" of hers. She said he was a "professional." I trusted the wrong person. When we got there I wanted to back out but didn't feel like I could. He didn't wear gloves. He and the two other people there were smoking pot and cigarettes the whole time. He used an ink pen and deodorant to put the "stencil" on. I laid on a Bowflex in the back room of his parents' house.
Surprise! I got MRSA. I caught it really early so I didn't get too sick. I had a blister right in between the two wings. It was just a little bubble, maybe half a centimeter across, but was raised up and really painful. At first I thought maybe it was an ingrown hair or something, but then it started to feel like I had a bladder infection. It hurt to pee and my stomach ached. I actually had a teacher I showed it too who used to be a nurse and she convinced me to go to a doctor. I went to the ER and they wanted to lance it but it popped on it's own before they could get to it. I got some antibiotics and had to keep it covered for a little while. I'm allergic to bandaids too, so yay, raw skin from a tattoo, MRSA blister, and welts from bandaid adhesive, all right there. I had a scar for up until maybe a year ago that looked like a square with a little dot in the middle from it.
Then about a year later, I had it sort of covered by a guy in a shop that my friends had been tattooed by. They're tattoos came out fine. I'm not sure if he was out of his depth or what, but the way it looks in the pic is after he "fixed" it.
HOW IT CAN BE FIXED: When I have the money, I'll go to a reputable artist and have it covered up. Until I know what I want it covered with and I have the money, I'll just have to settle for having a crappy tattoo for a little while.
SUBMITTER COMMENT: This is a picture from a video that came up on my Facebook news feed. Some people were having a party and someone had a piercing gun.
What's Awful: They are using a piercing gun, which should be the worst of it but the guy is piercing his own NIPPLE with the gun. The gun was being passed around, a girl pierced her ear and another guy pierced his HAND! At least those are the 3 that I know about.
Obviously it wouldn't have been sterile, I don't need to explain the dangers of doing this to these body parts. I can only imagine the irritation and scarification that will be caused to the hand and nipple. They could easily have spread blood borne viruses to each other.
How it can be fixed: Remove the jewelry straight away and get tested for blood borne viruses.
SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: I'm not really very educated on alot of piercing things, but i've recently found this blog, and i'm trying to educate myself before I get ANY piercings or tattoo pieces done. Anyway, My friend knows this 16 yo girl that thinks she's a professional at all body modifications, and she pierces people under the pretense that she worked as a piercer for 2 years when she actually did not. She pierced my friends septum after saying that she's done it a million times (Yes my friend knows it was still stupid to let her do this, and highly regrets it), but after it was done the girl said she had actually never done it before. Luckily everything turned out alright. Anyway, this picture is of someone's navel she pierced, and said person is also 16.
WHAT'S AWFUL: The blood, the area is obviously not sterile, it was obviously done at home with no care what so ever, and the jewelry is totally not the type to use on a fresh piercing.
HOW IT CAN BE FIXED: She can wait until she's of age to do anything related to this, gain an apprenticeship at a shop, and she can certainly stop lying to people about previous experience, especially people who're also underaged.
SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: My boyfriend's sister-in-law and bought some tattoo equipment online like 2 years ago and was tattooing people, I guess for fun? She was doing it in their kitchen. She has an autoclave and she always uses gloves, but still… She gave my boyfriend like 3 tattoos and all of them are really wonky. He told me she'd give me one for free if I wanted, but I was just like, "no, I'm good…"
WHAT'S AWFUL: Really wonky lines, horrible shading, done in a KITCHEN, no experience or apprenticeship or anything.
HOW IT CAN BE FIXED: If those people get them touched up by professionals, and if she gets rid of her stuff and gets an apprenticeship with a professional.


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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Burmese drug lord and five gang members pleaded guilty in China to murdering 13 innocent Chinese sailors on the Mekong River, and loading nearly one million illegal amphetamine pills onto their two cargo ships during a murky smuggling scam.
The Chinese sailors had been blindfolded, tied up and shot onboard their vessels on Oct. 5, 2011, sparking demands by China for a full investigation and better security.
In response, Thailand, Burma and Laos are now for the first time allowing Chinese "border police" gunboats to lead their four-nation patrols on that narrow stretch of the Mekong River -- beyond China's territory -- in the heart of Southeast Asia.
Smiling and placing his hands together as if respectfully praying, notorious drug lord Nor Kham (also known as Naw Kham) begged the court and the 13 victims' families for leniency on Friday (Sept. 21) while facing a possible death sentence.
He then pled guilty to murder, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and hijacking two ships.
Hours earlier, all five of his gang members also pled guilty to the same charges.
Nor Kham is a minority ethnic Shan citizen of Burma, a country also known as Myanmar.
He and his five gang members were arrested in April across the Mekong River in Laos and extradited in May to stand trial in southern China's Yunnan province, northeast from where the killings took place.
When the trial opened on Thursday (Sept. 20) in the Intermediate People's Court of Kunming city, "principal suspect" Nor Kham had claimed he was innocent.
Wearing headphones for translations during the Mandarin Chinese-language trial, he suddenly changed his plea to guilty after all five co-defendants testified that he was their leader and had orchestrated the deadly attack.
The five other men were "foreigners" and also asked for leniency, China's government-controlled Xinhua news agency said.
It was unclear from Xinhua's report if they were all also ethnic Shan from Burma, or included men from Laos.
Thailand's media has not reported any of its nationals on trial in China.
"Thirteen witnesses from Laos and Thailand testified in the trial, on the basis of bilateral judicial assistance treaties between China and the two counties respectively," Xinhua said.
"They were protected by the court, according to China's law and international practice."
Prosecutors also provided DNA test results and autopsy reports.
The court will sentence all six men "following a review of the case by a collegiate bench," Xinhua said.
For several years, Nor Kham allegedly extorted protection money from Chinese ships on the Mekong, killing crews who refused to pay, and then hijacking their vessels to smuggle drugs.
Shortly after the slayings last October, nine Thai army officers said they heard about an assault, boarded two ships, and announced they discovered 920,000 hidden amphetamine pills and one dead Chinese man.
Twelve more corpses were found floating on the Mekong nearby, about 12 miles north from the Thai riverside border town of Chiang Saen.
"The murders happened overseas. All the investigations, arrests and evidence collection were carried out outside China, and all the suspects were foreigners. That is unprecedented in the history of the Chinese police," Liu Yuejin, director the Narcotics Control Department in China's Public Security Ministry said, according to China Daily.
"The prosecution's case is that Nor Kham's criminal gang colluded with renegade Thai soldiers in premeditated attacks on Chinese ships," said Xian Yanming, deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Bureau.
"Naw Kham's group would hijack Chinese cargo ships, conceal drugs on board to frame the crew and then send them into Thai waters to make it appear that the authorities had uncovered a major drug-related case and killed the 'drug traffickers'.
"Meanwhile, Naw Kham's drug-trafficking ships would have unimpeded passage through Thai waters," Mr. Xian told China Daily on Sept. 18.
Those allegations against the Thais are currently being investigated.
The nine soldiers are from the Pa Muang Task Force based in Thailand's northwest near the scene.
The nine were arrested in Thailand three weeks after the assault and are in detention, but they denied murdering the 13 Chinese and tampering with evidence.
Bangkok's government and military expressed dismay over allegations that Thai troops helped Nor Kham.
"He [Nor Kham] cannot just accuse Thai soldiers, he has to come up with evidence," said Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, Gen. Yutthasak Sasiprap on Friday (Sept. 21).
"We have worked closely with Chinese authorities in this case, and provided all evidence to the Chinese side," said another Thai deputy prime minister, Chalerm Yubamrung, who has demanded executions for drug smugglers and offered a $64,000 reward for Nor Kham's capture.
"I believe he [Nor Kham] will definitely be found guilty, and be given the death sentence," Mr. Chalerm said just before Nor Kham pled guilty.
Richard S. Ehrlich is a Bangkok-based journalist from San Francisco, California, reporting news from Asia since 1978, and recipient of Columbia University's Foreign Correspondent's Award. He is a co-author of three non-fiction books about Thailand, including "Hello My Big Big Honey!" Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews; 60 Stories of Royal Lineage; and Chronicle of Thailand: Headline News Since 1946. Mr. Ehrlich also contributed to the final chapter, Ceremonies and Regalia, in a new book titled King Bhumibol Adulyadej, A Life's Work: Thailand's Monarchy in Perspective.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Burmese drug lord and five gang members pleaded guilty in China to murdering 13 innocent Chinese sailors on the Mekong River, and loading nearly one million illegal amphetamine pills onto their two cargo ships during a murky smuggling scam.


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Leadership: Embedding the capacity for greatness in the people and practices of an organization, and decoupling it from the personality of the leader.
This is a really great abridged talk on leadership and greatness by David Marquet during the 2013 Fortune Leadership Summit.
My favorite part of the video is at 7:14 when David outlines the key to greatness in an organization. Move the authority to where the information is. Instead of having a single all-powerful commander making exclusive decisions for an organization, responsibility should be delegated to the people best equipped to make a decision.
This leads to better decisions from better information, faster decisions from less red-tape, and a greater feeling of importance from the increased responsibility assigned to the decision maker.
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Sean Bean has one hell of a resume including such well known projects as "The Lord of the Rings," "Goldeneye," "Ronin," "Patriot Games," "The Island," "Silent Hill," "Percy Jackson," "Troy," "Don't Say a Word," "Equilibrium," "Black Death," "Game of Thrones" and of course the "Sharpe" telemovies.
If there's one thing he has become known for onscreen, besides giving great performances, is that his characters tend to die a lot. Considering that he's been steadily employed since the mid-80's, it's not that hard for him to have built up an impressive showreel of onscreen deaths despite his characters only meeting their demise in about one-third of the film and TV projects he's appeared in.
He's had some regular style deaths - shot numerous times, hung, bayoneted, drowned, stabbed, beheaded, impaled, shot with arrows, buried alive and had his throat slit. Then there's the more unique ones - impaled on an anchor and exploded, torn limb from limb by horses, fallen from a great height and then crushed by a satellite dish, and - rather uniquely - been thrown off a cliff by stampeding cows.
Now, someone has put together a clip showcasing the various deaths of the actor. Naturally the very nature of this clip means there's SPOILERS for a good portion of his entire filmography - so be warned.


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By: Kayla Bremer
Fallbrook Town Center in north Lincoln was crowded with people and full of activities all centered around the dogs.
It's for one of the Capital Humane Society's biggest fundraisers of the year.
Tucker and Riley cooled off in the water in a doggie pool at the Tails and Trails event. Their owner, Brent Connelly, from Omaha has brought them to Lincoln for the Capital Humane Society's fundraiser every year.
"My wife and I...our children are our dogs so we enjoy taking them out to events like this," Connelly said.
The festival is celebrating its 22nd year. The Humane Society hosts the event to raise money for all the animals who are in need of a home.
"The Humane Society takes care of animals that have been lost, that are no longer wanted by people and the only way and the best way we can provide for them is to have the help of the community," Donna Bode of the Capital Humane Society said.
Zack Clark brought his 15 week old English bulldog out and he was the center of attention. Like many others, Zack and his family donated money to help the shelter reach this year's goal of $60,000.
"If we donate money then we can get more people to get dogs off the street and help them," Clark said.
All the proceeds from the pet walk go to vaccinations, food and healthcare for pets at the shelter.
Volunteer Lori Gokie says it's a good reminder to people to adopt pets and give them a good home.
"You just get the greatest dog," Gokie said. "Every dog wants a second chance and they just love it."
Event organizers say this is one of the biggest turnouts they've ever had. The Humane Society is opening its new adoption center on June 5th.
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PECO should show them the money
In practice, it's often the sloppy science of smothering crap with kitty litter and calling it a raw diamond.
Don't get me wrong: PR is a tough job. Convincing people that global warming (a.k.a. global climate change) is a myth, for instance, must be particularly grueling, especially when you have to smile politely while reporters strafe you with questions.
But that's a portrait of high-profile PR. The day-to-day response to simple inquiries is what concerns me here.
Reporters know better than to expect a direct answer from a PR rep, even when the question is something as innocuous as "What happened yesterday?" Sometimes the answer is truly mind-boggling. Sometimes it's so distorted that I find myself wondering if the person on the other end of the phone truly believes the nonsense (s)he is spewing.
Last week, PECO communications manager Cathy Engel gave our intern, Olivia Biagi, a baffling account of a power outage that left much of the 8500 block of Germantown Avenue in the dark on Friday.
Engel initially told Olivia that only five PECO "customers" were affected by the outage, which was caused by … well Engel wasn't really sure what caused it, apparently.
"It's a piece of equipment," she told Olivia, as if that answered the question.
When Olivia told Engel that she had seen at least nine businesses closed, Engel revised her account. She said that 20 customers had originally experienced problems (or was it 27? she said that once, too), and qualified her original account by saying the shift manager had told her that only five customers were seriously affected.
Maybe it was an honest mistake on Engel's part. Maybe she was caught off-guard and didn't know what to say. But she still managed to make a significant problem seem insignificant.
It took PECO nearly 24 hours to put in a new electrical transformer — a trifling "piece of equipment"—and restore power to the 8500 block of Germantown Avenue. This was on a Friday, mind you, when many Avenue stores are usually buzzing with business.
It's hard to quantify exactly how much money was lost by businesses that had to close or slow down during the power outage, but I'm willing to wager that it was a substantial sum.
At the very least, PECO owes those businessowners a public apology. (You may have a few days to rehearse, Ms. Engel.)
But I don't think an apology will suffice from a government-authorized monopoly. Since PECO is "an award-winning organization for its corporate philanthropy," I was thinking Ms. Engel could pass around a collection plate in order to — hmm, what's a good euphemism? — remunerate all of the business owners who had to deal with power outages last week.
I promise it will be a good opportunity to polish the company's reputation.
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Notes from the CHCA
The fiscal year ending in March showed the Chestnut Hill Community Association (as a consolidated entity comprised of the CHCA, the Chestnut Hill Local and the CHCA Program and Community Service Division) with a net income of $15,800 (which may be changed after audit).
On a total budget of $1.2 million, that's a bit more than a 1 percent profit. This was a slight improvement over the previous year in which the same figure showed a loss of $2,200.
You might say that the mere fact of getting into the black during a year in which many corporations were going in the opposite direction is a reason to feel a bit positive about our finances. A bit positive, yes. Comfortable, no.
The basic financial question in front of the CHCA today is essentially the same as it was a year ago, namely, "Is the CHCA a going concern?"
This is the question that our auditors, last December (and the year before) informally asked the CHCA board to consider. Translated into English, the question is: Will the CHCA realize its expected income and meet its obligations over the current year?
Before I go into how the board has begun to address this question, allow me to provide a little more information behind those numbers.
First, how are the two divisions doing? Last year, the Program and Community Service Division made a net income of $25,600 (and made $24,900 in the prior year). In the same two years, the Local improved from a loss of $27,900 to a loss of $10,000. I think these numbers show that the days of the Local being a "cash cow" (if it ever was) are gone.
In fact, last December, the Local (a $1 million operation) had to borrow a few thousand dollars from the Program and Community Service Division to meet the Local payroll.
Even so, the Local has done better than many other regional and local newspapers.
Due in part to the fact that, unlike many newspapers, it does not get significant revenue from automobile and job advertisements, the paper did not suffer a large decline in advertising revenues in the most recent fiscal year. And of course most newspapers are expected to generate a lot more profit than is targeted by the CHCA.
But the current year is different. The last three months for which we have numbers (April through June) show that the Local is not immune to trends in the newspaper business or in the economy. We finally had a significant drop (10 percent) in advertising income, which is the Local's primary revenue source.
In the past, it would be difficult to respond adeptly to sudden changes in our financial status (even when predictable), primarily because the Local was either managed by a committee, or sometimes was left with no integrated management at all.
But we now, for the first time, have in place an associate publisher who can find revenue opportunities and rationalize our costs far better than a committee. The addition of the AP was probably the most important act of the board to confirm that the CHCA is indeed a "going concern."
The Program and Community Service Division has a different challenge. Although it had a nice income over the last two years, its second largest revenue source (after membership) is an extremely generous $40,000 annual gift currently in the fourth year of a five-year lifespan.
This Division has historically generated income from membership, the Holiday House Tour, other events (like the Black and White Gala), and gifts (contributions to the CHCA are not tax-deductible, whereas contributions to the Chestnut Hill Community Fund, of course, are).
The board is now engaged in finding other revenue sources (e.g., grants, other events) to address our dependency on a single generous individual.
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We'd power-walk around the neighborhood, taking different routes each time, discussing the various landscaping, architecture and which house we'd buy if we won the lottery.
On Friday mornings we'd find ourselves dodging trash barrels on the sidewalks, occasionally spotting a useful object or two on top of or beside the cans. "Wow!" one of us would say, "I need one of those!" We would admire the item, place it carefully around the sleeping baby and triumphantly return home with our treasure.
It wasn't long before the facade of exercise was replaced with a well-timed, well-planned course that took into account the garbage truck's route, and the single stroller was replaced with a double to accommodate our acquisitions. The thrill of the hunt had begun.
We couldn't stand to see perfectly good "stuff" thrown away, even if we couldn't use it ourselves. We'd carry home ladders, headboards, chairs, filing cabinets, lampshades, Christmas decorations, rakes, axes, bikes. We would "stash" what we couldn't carry, coming back later with the car. Once, our stash was even "stolen," We were more careful after that!
It was a magical time. If we waited long enough, everything we needed would eventually make its way into someone's rejectamenta and then into our stroller. I was convinced that we'd never have to purchase anything again. The world was ours for the gleaning.
There were good weeks and bad weeks, weather determining our booty much of the time. But then we started to notice that we were not alone in our quest to find the perfect I-don't-know-'til-I-see-it thing. Roving pickup trucks trolled the areas that we did. We called one the "Metal Guy" who picked up anything metal and the other was the "Furniture Guy."
They were smart. They had a giant stroller with an engine, able to cover 10 times the area twice as fast as we could. At one point we were coming down opposite ends of a street, converging on a large assortment of detritus. They saw us and we saw them, the race was on. We ran, they stepped on the gas. They won. The broken dining chairs were theirs.
After months of this, we both came to the realization that we just couldn't take any more stuff; our homes and husbands were close to the bursting point. We donated much of it, sold some of it, but, as you know, there is only so much room on your porch, in your basement and behind your couch.
I also realized that there should be some kind of "trash etiquette" so that more useful items could be rescued from the landfill. So here are some ideas that I thought could help both the gleaner and the conferrer.
When throwing out working or non-working appliances, electronics, etc., label them as to their problems or defects. People will take them if they think they can fix them. Place reusable items on the curb and in plain sight the night before trash day to give gleaners extra time to come across them.
I also place ads on the web at phillyfreecycle, found under Yahoo Groups, and philadelphia.craigslist.org under for sale/curb alert to increase the chances of finding my belongings a new home. If it's raining, I wait until the next week to put out items easily damaged by water. Many times I have put boxes out on my steps, away from the trashcans, with a free sign and left it there for a couple of days. This works well for books, videos and knickknacks. The "free" sign works wonders. Flies to honey, moths to a flame, you get the idea. Whatever is left I take to the mission or thrift store on my way to do other errands.
It pains me to see useful items in the trash and I still have to stop myself from picking things up constantly. It's part of the pack-rat gene that I inherited from my father. One mustn't throw anything away because it may be useful at some time in the future if, and only if, you're either very lucky or extremely organized and can find it when you want it.
Since I now know that everything I need will come to me as I need it, I am less likely to keep every little thing I find, stowed away in the hidden recesses of my home. My goal is to keep something if it serves me or get rid of it so it may serve someone else. What comes around goes around.
Pareto's Principle, called the 80-20 rule, or "the vital few and trivial many," can be applied to all of the items currently residing in our homes. It basically means that we use 20 percent of what we own 80 percent of the time, which conversely means that 80 percent of our stuff is only being utilized 20 percent of the time. All that stuff, so little time.
Reusing and repurposing is the current, chic thing to do, as artists, builders, architects, crafters and many others are finding new uses for old stuff and are trolling trash for free treasures.
Trash picking also gives you great stories to tell. The best one I've ever heard, told to me by my son's preschool teacher, was about her aunt and mother who found a sofa on the side of the road. They couldn't fit it in the Cadillac, so they stuffed one end into the trunk and her aunt ran behind the car holding up the other end while her mom drove home. Classic!
If you Google dumpster diving or trash picking, you will find more than enough information about the art of routing through someone else's garbage for fun and profit. Ehow.com has tips for the best times to peruse the refuse and make-stuff.com/recycling has project ideas for many items you would usually toss away such as Breyer's ice cream containers and old CD jewel cases. Please contact me at email@example.com or greeninchestnuthill.blogspot.com. Happy pickin'!


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A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that the NFL players' union might challenge former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue as the appeals officer in the Saints' bounties case. Tagliabue is scheduled to hear the appeals of Jonathan Vilma, Will Smith, Scott Fujita and Anthony Hargrove on Oct. 30. He was appointed by his successor, Roger Goodell. The person familiar with the matter said Sunday the players association has concerns about ''ethical and legal issues.'' The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the union has not made any public statements, Tagliabue works for the law firm that is defending the league in U.S. District Court in Louisiana in the bounties case. The NFLPA believes that's a conflict of interest. The union also may contend that such bounty programs existed when Tagliabue was commissioner, with his knowledge.
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Fee structure, seat sharing will be discussed, says Minister Sharan Prakash Patil
Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil has said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has convened a meeting of the Association of the Private Medical Colleges in the State in Bangalore on Wednesday to finalise the modalities for admissions to postgraduate courses in medical colleges as per Supreme Court directions.
Talking to presspersons here during his maiden visit to his native district on Tuesday after being inducted as Minister, Dr. Patil said that the meeting would discuss and decide the fee structure and seat sharing formula between the government and the private managements.
"We do not have much time. The Supreme Court, in its order on May 13, said that the last date for admissions will be May 31," he said.
Dr. Patil said that the government would discuss the modalities for admissions to undergraduate courses in medical colleges and take a decision on the fee structure and seat sharing formula between the government and private managements pending a final decision on admissions to undergraduate courses by the Supreme Court on June 2.
Every year, the government and the private managements have to renew their bi-partite agreement on seat sharing and fee structure.
To a question, Dr. Patil said that it would be difficult to extend reservation benefits under Article 371 (J) of the Constitution in admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate courses in medical colleges for students of Hyderabad Karnataka region in this academic year as rules fixing the quantum of reservation for people of the region has not been finalised.
However, reservation in admission to professional colleges as per Article 371 (J) would be ensured next year.
Dr. Patil said that he had discussed the need for hastening the process of framing rules to implement Article 371 (J) providing special status to Hyderabad Karnataka region.
To another question, Dr. Patil said that the State government was, in principle, in favour of establishing government medical colleges in all the district headquarters. His priority would be to fulfil the long-pending demand for establishing a government medical college in Gulbarga and another at Yadgir immediately using the existing infrastructure.
The hospital building with teaching facility was readily available in Gulbarga. In Yadgir, all avenues would be explored to start a medical college at the earliest.
Dr. Patil said that establishing medical colleges at district headquarters would not only mean that more number of meritorious poor students would get an opportunity to study medicine at affordable cost but also medical treatment would be assured for people in hospitals attached to medical colleges. There would not be any shortage of doctors in the district government hospitals.
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Dr. Patil said that the government would extend all help to revive the peripheral cancer centre under the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology and the Rajiv Gandhi OPEC Super Speciality Hospital in Raichur. He had a preliminary discussion with director of the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology M. Vijayakumar on Monday and a decision on reviving the cancer centre would be taken soon.


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It's hard to believe that 2013 is almost over! As we begin to reminisce about how wonderful the year was, our first stop down memory lane is your monthly unboxing videos, which we love to watch each and every month. Our theme for December 2013 was Sparkle & Shine but it is very clear that you, our subscribers, bring your own sparkle and shine every. single. month. Here's to a great year!
Darah Patterson couldn't wait to see what her December box held for her. She was most excited about her Honest Company healing balm because she knows it'll come in handy this winter.
The ladies of MomentReviews both loved their boxes this month—from the inside out! It was so cute to see not only what they were excited about in their own boxes, but to see what they were eying in each other's. Sharing is caring, girls!
In December, aYetiAteMySandwich received her favorite box yet: She could smell her Greenleaf Starlight Candle as soon as she got her box and couldn't wait to start filling her room with the gorgeous scent.
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While we use hair and makeup products to enhance our natural beauty, we've all had those embarrassing moments when we've actually made things worse. Thankfully, Youtube is always there to save the day. Here are some of the most reliable quick tips and beauty secrets to rescue you from any beauty emergency.
Getting your bangs trimmed too short—or, gasp, the DIY snip—can be scarier than the new Carrie remake. Howcast's styling tips for short bangs can save you from those awkward hair days.
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Yesterday, Team Content was busy shooting another set of fun beauty and style tutorials. For a preview of what's to come in March, here are a few pics: Birchbox Staffer Caitlin modeling a gorgeous deep purple eye look that she scored using Lancôme's Eye Shadow Palette (in the Birchbox Shop for a limited time!); a look at next month's sneak peek video; and our version of racing stripes, from a brand that we're extra excited about. Stay tuned for these videos and more next month!
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We're shooting our February videos today, and one of the highlights of our lineup was a cameo from the famed stylist Serge Normant. Fresh off the plane from L.A. (where he styled Julia Roberts' hair for the Golden Globes over the weekend), Normant sat down with our co-founder Katia for a step-by-step tutorial.
Even if you've already received your March box (or you're still excitedly waiting by the mailbox), it's not too late to look back and remember all the goodies from February! Last week, we asked you to respond to our February favorites video on YouTube with your own February hauls. We were thrilled to receive so many awesome submissions, and we've picked three of our favorite videos to share here.
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There's a new disturbing trend that's popped up on YouTube, and I can't stop thinking about it. News outlets like The Daily Mail and The Huffington Post are reporting that a growing number of adolescents (between the ages of 11 to 14) are posting videos asking, "am I ugly?" and urging commenters to leave thoughts about their looks.
Voiceover magic! Ben Spell and our improvised soundbooth
You may have noticed that our videos are of a much (much) higher quality than the average scrappy startup. The reason? Katia's husband Greg and his company, Red Productions, have been bending over backward to help us. They're the rock stars behind our snappy Master Highlighter video and sexy animation.
Yesterday, we had an all-day shoot with Greg, Eric Ryan Anderson, and Ben Spell at our friend Jeff Chastain's gorgeous Union Square salon. In addition to Jeff, we enlisted makeup artist Nam Vo to star in our short videos - they're both naturals! The day started at 8am with Birdbath cookies and we went nearly nonstop from there. There were a few improvisations along the way: we jerry-rigged a sound booth with a closet, a yoga mat, and a strategically placed mike; and when we needed an extra model we snagged one of Jeff's stylists. But by the time we wrapped, with beers at Rye House, we had shot not one, not two, but seven videos. Can't wait to see the final product.


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By Steve Schwarz, Fantasy Sports Editor
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Playing on a line with the best forward in the game, makes it very easy to accumulate points. That's just what right winger Alexander Semin did last season as he scored 34 goals and 45 assists for 79 points.
But in 2009-10, Semin spent most of his time on a line without Alexander Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom and still scored 84 points (40 G, 44 A). Throw in a great plus/minus rating (Capitals players held the top-five plus/minus ratings in the league) and the second most shots from a right winger and you have the 2009-10 TSN Fantasy Right Winger Award winner.
After scoring just 44 points last year, Patrick Sharp was overlooked on Draft Day. His ADP of 208 showed that fantasy owners passed him by on more than one occasion to pick other right wingers. That was their mistake. Sharp helped lead the Blackhawks to a 52-22-8 record by scoring 25 times and adding 41 assists on 266 shots on goal. A stellar +24 plus/minus rating makes him the 2009-10 TSN Best Bargain Award winner for right wingers.
Marian Hossa was a third-round selection back on Draft Day who didn't live up to expectations. He was down in all seven fantasy categories, in part because of a injuries - shoulder, concussion. Still, for fantasy owners, it doesn't matter why, only that he played just 57 games and didn't reach predictions. For that Hossa receives the "Most Disappointing Award." Fortunately for him, as this is being written his team is up 2-0 in the Stanley Cup finals, so he could get the last laugh. Hossa, of course, lost the Stanley Cup as a member of Pittsburgh to the Red Wings in 2008, before then losing it to the Penguins in 2009 as a member of Detroit so perhaps the third time is the charm.
1)...Alexander Semin...WAS...40...44...+36...66...27...278...15
2)...Marian Gaborik....NYR...42...44...+15...37...26...272...17
3)...Patrick Kane......CHI...30...58...+16...20...29...261...19
4)...Corey Perry.......ANA...27...49.....0..111...23...270....5
5)...Bobby Ryan........ANA...35...29....+9...81...21...258...69
6)...Martin St. Louis...TB...29...65....-8...12...37...242...24
7)...Patrick Sharp.....CHI...25...41...+24...28...16...266..208
8)...Jarome Iginla.....CAL...32...37....-2...58...21...257....9
9)...Jason Pominville..BUF...24...38...+13...22...20...252...88
10)..Daniel Alfredsson.OTT...20...51....+8...22...31...168...64
11)..Steve Downie.......TB...22...24...+14..208...11...116..212
13)..Chris Stewart.....COL...28...36....+4...73...13...221..215
13)..Rene Bourque......Cal...27...31....+7...88...13...215..213
14)..Patric Hornqvist..NAS...30...21...+18...40...12...275..222
15)..J. Langenbrunner...NJ...19...42....+6...44...19...228...75
16)..Mikael Samuelsson.VAN...30...23...+10...64...14...219..161
17)..Nik Antropov......ATL...24...43...+13...44...21...126..117
18)..Mike Knuble.......WAS...29...24...+23...59...13...151...93
19)..Phil Kessel.......TOR...30...25....-8...21...16...297...77
20)..Loui Eriksson.....DAL...29...42....-4...26...12...214..106


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SPOKANE-- A woman who saw her boyfriend shot and killed this past weekend by Spokane police spoke to KREM 2 News Tuesday afternoon.
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Private exporters reported to USDA export sales of 165,000 metric tons (MT) of soybeans to China during the 2012-13 marketing year. The marketing year for soybeans began Sept. 1.
USDA issues both daily and weekly export sales reports to the public. Exporters are required to report to USDA any export sales activity of 100,000 MT or more of one commodity, except 20,000 tons for soybean oil, made in one day to one destination, by 3 p.m. Eastern time on the next business day following the sale. Export sales of less than these quantities must be reported to USDA on a weekly basis.
Juli says: Soybean futures are called to open higher based on this morning's USDA report, in which USDA trimmed 2012-13 carryover. Given strong demand for the upcoming marketing year, new-crop contracts should find additional support from this morning's demand news.
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Pottery Barn Apologizes For Sale Of Sushi Chef Halloween Costumes
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29 (UPI) — Pottery Barn's parent company in San Francisco apologized for marketing a Halloween costume an Asian-American group said was culturally offensive.
Retailer Williams-Sonoma's sale of a sushi chef costume, with a kimono and a headband depicting a Japanese "rising sun" motif, brought a demand for its "immediate removal" from Asian civil-rights activists, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
Williams-Sonoma confirmed Monday it removed the costume from its website. In a statement, Leigh Oshirak, vice president of public relations and marketing, said the company "did not intend to offend anyone with our Halloween costumes, and we apologize."
"Our problem is not with the attire itself. It is with the fact that Pottery Barn is marketing these outfits as costumes," said Ling Woo Liu of Asian Americans Advancing Justice. She cited a college campaign of several years ago that used the slogan, "We're a culture, not a costume."


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Police are asking for the public's help to find and identify a suspect involved in a carjacking and kidnapping case.
Back on January 29 around 6:10 p.m., police say an unknown suspect committed armed robbery and kidnapping in the Fry's Marketplace parking lot near Baseline Road and McClintock Drive.
Authorities say the suspect asked the victim for a ride, then threatened to shoot him if he didn't give him cash.
While the victim was able to escape, the suspect stole his vehicle and fled the area.
Police say just prior to the attack on the male, the same suspect attempted to kidnap a woman in a Walgreens parking lot near McClintock Drive and Guadalupe Road. She was able to defend herself and the suspect fled the area on foot.
The suspect is described as a white or Hispanic male in his mid-20s to mid-30s, 5' 8" to 5' 10" tall with a medium build and thin beard. He was seen wearing a white baseball hat, white long sleeve shirt under a dark colored t-shirt and dark Nike jacket with a white "swoosh" on the back.
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