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Spa News: Essie Announces Nail Art Contest, The Essie's
Hosted on YouTube and on essie.com, the essie's will award nail art superstars.
Nail brand essie recently announced its nail art contest, the essie's, taking place from January 2016 through June 2016. Hosted on YouTube and essie.com, the contest will feature a series of nail art challenges to discover the next great nail artist. Beginning on January 6, 2016, essie fans and up-and-coming nail art superstars will have the opportunity to partake in the four-phase competition for a chance to win the grand prize: a $20,000 partnership with essie, a spot at New York Fashion Week with celebrity manicurist Michelle Saunders, and much more!
The final two winners - one (1) grand prize winner and one (1) fan favorite winner - will be determined through a combination of online fan votes and essie's panel of experts, including:
- Carolyn Holba – General Manager, essie worldwide
- Jenny Fox – founder and vlogger behind Jenny Claire Fox, a top nail art and beauty YouTube channel
- Katie Rodgers – artist and creator of Paper Fashion
- Michelle Saunders – essie celebrity manicurist
- Rebecca Minkoff – essie Global Color Designer and industry fashion leader
The essie's will be broken into four phases, including:
Phase 1: Qualifying Challenge (January 6, 2016 – February 22, 2016)
- Qualifying submissions will open to all participants. Contestants will be required to upload two videos to essie.com, including an "All About You" video and a "Show Us Your Skill" video, creating any nail look using essie nail and care products. The first 1,000 entries will receive essie's gel.setterkit and the creators of the top ten videos, as selected internally by essie, will move on to phase two.
Phase 2: Spring Trend Challenge (February 22, 2016 – March 28, 2016)
- In this phase, the top ten contestants will receive essie's spring 2016 collection and be challenged to create the ultimate spring trend-inspired nail art look. Videos will be uploaded to YouTube.com, where online fan votes will determine the top six semi-finalists moving to phase three.
Phase 3: Dream Getaway Challenge (March 28, 2016 – May 2, 2016)
- Six semi-finalists will receive an essie branded polish rack filled with 90 shades, and be tasked with creating a nail art look inspired by their dream getaway. The top three finalists, as chosen by online fan votes, will move to the last phase.
Phase 4: Blank Canvas Challenge (May 2, 2016 – June 6, 2016)
- The three finalists will be flown to New York to film their last video in YouTube's studio. For this challenge, they will be given a blank canvas and challenged to get expressive. Essie's expert panel will select the top two winners who will be announced on June 1, 2016.
The Prizes:
ONE Grand Prize Winner - chosen by the judging panel
- $20,000 partnership with essie
- Featured as essie's nail art ambassador in how-to videos, a behind the-scenes experience with Michelle Saunders during New York Fashion Week, and so much more!
ONE Fan Favorite Winner – chosen by the public voters
- $1,000 prize
For complete contest rules and information, please visit essie.com/theessies.
Spa News: United States Bans Microbeads
The man-made beads, which are commonly used in skincare products, have been under scrutiny, as they do not biodegrade.
Last week, US President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that bans microbeads – small, polyethylene beads used as exfoliants in beauty and personal care products – by 2018.
The man-made beads, which are commonly used in skincare products, have been under scrutiny, as they do not biodegrade, and are able to absorb toxic chemicals, which can then work their way up the food chain, as fish often mistake the beads for food.
Companies that use the beads in products must stop manufacturing them by mid-2017, with a US ban on the sale of the products set to go into effect in July, 2018.
International beauty and spa therapy standard-setter CIDESCO recently called on its global membership to replace products that use microbeads with safer alternatives.
Steve Malkin, CEO of Planet First, a specialist in sustainable business practice, explained the issue at the time. "You cannot remove microbeads from the environment as they are too small to catch in water treatment, and they don't degrade," he said. "The danger is that they will sit in our oceans and lakes forever to be ingested by fish and mollusks, damaging our ecosystems and entering our food chain."
Global Wellness Summit Identifies Top 10 Future Shifts in Wellness
Find out the 10 major wellness trends predicted for 2016.
The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) recently took place in Mexico City from November 13-15, gathering the brightest thinkers from a diverse cross-section of industries to contemplate the best strategies for "Building A Well World."
It was the largest, most cross-disciplinary Summit in its nine-year history, attracting 470+ delegates from over 40 countries. Never have so many great minds from the medical (e.g., the Mayo and Cleveland Clinics, Harvard and Duke Universities) or workplace wellness worlds (e.g., Johnson & Johnson and Zappos) assembled at the conference.
"The Mexico City Summit was a watershed moment, because passionate leaders from economics, medicine, government, technology, spa/wellness, travel, education and the arts came together to debate how to bring preventative health into our chronic disease and healthcare cost burdened world – much like when the world first came together in Kyoto to declare solidarity against climate change," said GWS Chairman and CEO, Susie Ellis.
10 Shifts in Wellness for 2016
1. From Cracking the Genome to Cracking the Epigenome
We've had years of promises that "cracking" the human genome would eradicate all kinds of diseases, but experts like Dr. Deepak Chopra explained that the future is decoding the epigenome, that DNA which is ceaselessly modified by lifestyle choices and environment. Research is underway pinpointing the 20 or so genetic markers (out of 2,400) that are actually modifiable by healthy living. Epigenetic breakthroughs are coming.
2. From Optional to Mandatory Wellness
Global economist Thierry Malleret did the math on the skyrocketing cost of chronic diseases ($47 trillion worldwide over the next 20 years, or 30% of GDP), and a world aging like never before (800 million people now over 60), and concluded that wellness can no longer be optional. More governments will take legislative action to require or reward healthier behavior. This isn't a "maybe", it's near certainty: wellness tax incentives, and insurance companies rewarding healthy behavior (as tracked by wearable/implantable devices) will arrive by 2020. Initiatives that reward and support people will be most successful, and ultimately even appreciated, because they work.
3. From "In Your Face" to Imperceptible Wellness
Wellness has historically been something you "do." The future is more wellness baked seamlessly into the fabric of our lives: dawn-simulating lighting waking you up gently (goodbye shrieking alarm clock); bed sensors monitoring your sleep, making instant ventilation/comfort changes; and responsive materials (using haptic technologies), including fabrics that cuddle us or clothes that deliver the perfect massage. The prediction? Even futuristic "living" buildings that monitor residents' oxygen, stress and hunger levels to adapt homes in real-time – even "growing" you a new room!
4. From Workplace Wellness "Programs" to Total Cultures of Wellness at Work
New Global Wellness Institute* research forecast that workplace wellness approaches will change radically: the current "program" mentality will die a natural death because they're not working. The future is meaningful, real "cultures" of health at work, tackling everything from physical, to emotional, to financial wellness: fair pay, healthy workspaces, inclusion of families and virtual workers, and tackling fast disappearing work/life balance, like mandating vacations and that workers unplug from always-on, wired work. Companies will replace "ROI" obsessions with measuring total "return-on-value" (ROV), with mounting evidence that happy, healthy workers not only reduce healthcare costs, but also drive recruitment, retention and much higher profits.
5. From Medicine vs. Wellness to Truly Integrative Healthcare
Integrative medicine has been talked about for decades, but is finally happening. Medical leaders from the Mayo and Cleveland Clinics, Harvard and Duke agreed that now we're at the real "inflection point." Today every leading medical center either has, or is planning, a wellness/integrative center. And if doctors have always been reimbursed for treating disease, a future where they get remunerated for preventing it looks possible (as in countries like China, Norway, and Singapore). Medicine will incorporate more wellness, but the reverse will also be true. One example: the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program coming to the Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum, Turkey in Jan. 2016.
6. Medical Technology Breakthroughs: from Ingestible Health Trackers to Stem Cells
Medical technology breakthroughs presented were mind blowing. Ingestible, health-tracking nanochips that monitor 50 biological functions 24/7 will make clunky wearables seem prehistoric, and usher in a new era of precision, preventative and personalized medicine. And new directions in stem cell harvesting/freezing (no more storing cells from a baby's umbilical cord, but rather the non-invasive extraction of stem cells from teeth) have the ability to make any cell "young" again: whether bone, insulin, pancreatic, heart, liver, brain, eye, collagen or elastin, cells. Which may be the path to curing diseases like ALS, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
7. Wellness Homes: Big Growth and Big Premiums for Owners/Investors
More homes, communities and even cities are being master-planned from the ground up for human health. New examples: Mayo Clinic's ambitious 20-year project to turn its base of Rochester, MN into a "City of Health" and Delos Living's project to transform part of Tampa City, FL into a 40-acre healthy city. Wellness living is certainly good for people, and according to a panel of real estate developers, it's also good for the bottom line. Preliminary numbers indicate very healthy investment returns: between a 5-35% premium on wellness-branded, single-family homes; a 7-10% premium for wellness rentals; and a 15-30% average daily rate premium for wellness-branded hotels.
8. From Superfood and Diet Trend Hysteria to Sane Eating
Given the recent, hysterical obsessions with the next superfood or diet trend, experts are suggesting that we may be experiencing a collective, global eating disorder. Nutritionists noted that what we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. Superfoods are on a collision course with sustainability: our manic importation of chia seeds, quinoa, goji berries, etc. is disturbing global ecosystems. The future? Clean, sustainably sourced (from our own backyard), personally intuitive foods – and a welcome return to eating as pleasure. (Yes, you can skip the kale.)
9. Wellness Travel Booming: from Emerging Markets to New "Pairings" for Wellness
Omer Isvan (president, Servotel Corp) summarized: "Wellness will only become a bigger player in the destination resort space, while resorts without wellness and 'purpose' will decline." In general, experts agreed that the heart of wellness tourism is the "transformational experience": less about the destination, and more about how the experience alters a person's mind, body and soul. Jean-Claude Baumgarten (former president, World Travel & Tourism Council) noted that because "wellness" can sometimes remain a hazy concept for travelers, that we'll increasingly see it paired with every travel category imaginable: wellness and…"adventure," "culinary and wine," "cruise," "cultural," "safari"…you name it.
10. From Wellness for the Wealthy Few to the Democratization of Wellness
A powerful thread running through the Summit was the need to bring wellness to more members of society: the young and old, wealthy and poor, the healthy and ill. As Agapi Stassinopoulus stated in her wrap-up keynote: "It's time to take wellness to the masses."
- Conscious Capitalism: For companies and individuals, success will increasingly be measured not by net worth but by "net good." Going forward, the winning brands will be charitable, collaborative and creative.
- In Sickness and In Health: Forty percent of people will get some type of cancer in their lifetime, and the spa and wellness industries will finally start embracing and retraining for them - eliminating the fear of, and myths about, treating those with the "Big C."
- Meditation and Mindfulness Go Mainstream: Nothing has been talked about more in recent years than mindfulness, but people will finally start practicing it because it's about to become far more accessible and less intimidating. Even Weight Watchers International revealed that it's expanding its focus from weight loss to total wellness, hinting that their nearly one million weekly meeting-goers will be introduced to meditation.
- To Build a Well World, Focus on Children: Boutique fitness studios are rolling out myriad classes for children. Spas/wellness retreats are now increasingly creating serious wellness programming for kids: from healthy cooking classes, to yoga, to meditation. In India, meditation and yoga are now taught to millions of school children daily.
*GWI's "Future of Wellness at Work" research report, including employee surveys conducted with Everyday Health, will be released Jan. 2016
Lydia Sarfati Post-Graduate Skincare Academy Lineup for 2016
The Lydia Sarfati Post-Graduate Skin Care Academy will host a variety of spa/salon educational courses in the upcoming year.
What better way to learn about some of the best professional skincare treatments and products in the world than hands-on and directly from the source? The Lydia Sarfati Post-Graduate Skin Care Academy will host a variety of spa/salon educational courses for 2016 with in-depth looks at today's hottest topics in skincare, including the newest anti-aging treatments, customized facials and ways to enhance your skin care business. This all-new course lineup includes an assortment of 1-day, 2-day and 3-day classes throughout the year on technique, skin care science, business know-how, and Repêchage product knowledge. In addition, Lydia Sarfati, Repêchage CEO and Founder, will host her annual 3-day Master Class on July 11-13, 2016.
Located at the Repêchage Headquarters in Secaucus, NJ, classes are open to all estheticians, cosmetologists, spa and salon owners, and personnel. Each class is designed to empower attendees with superior scientific knowledge, treatment performance, and spa business information. Skin care professionals should not miss this opportunity to help bring about better business for in 2016!
For more information on the Lydia Sarfati Post-Graduate Skin Care Academy, including a list of courses, please visit http://www.repechage.com/pages/lydia-sarfati-academy.
Essie Celebrates 35th Anniversary with Re-Release of Classic Colors
The re-release includes the coveted "starry starry night" shade, along with 5 other discontinued hues.
In honor of their 35th anniversary, essie is releasing six iconic, discontinued shades from their vault in their Retro Revival 2016 collection – including the long sought-after starry starry night.
Until now, starry starry night was only available via eBay, with single bottles often fetching hundreds of dollars. birthday suit was part of essie's original twelve shades released in 1981.
The full set includes:
- starry starry night (twinkling midnight blue)
- life of the party (pinot noir pearl)
- bikini with a martini (frosted iridescent pink)
- sequin sash (a sheer glittery bronze with silver flecks)
- birthday suit (cheeky delicate nude)
- cabana boy (ultra-cool pearly white)
Each lacquer's cap is adorned with gold diamonds in honor of the iconic Stardust Casino in the city where the brand first began – Vegas. When it first debuted, showgirls and chic card dealers fell in love with the essie's dazzling colors and shimmery finishes. Today, Vegas is where essie has their flagship salon, LOOK Style Society.
After this collection first went live on the website, starry starry night sold out in less than 24 hours. But don't worry, it will be back on Dec. 22nd right here!
Green Spa Network Announces New Board Members
Four new members have joined the GSN board for 2016.
The Green Spa Network recently announced four new board members, including (pictured top to bottom, left to right) Rose Fernandez, VP Sales and Marketing, Jurlique; Tessa Kienow, Regional Sales Manager, ReadyCare Industries; Shelley Lotz, Founder, Vios Spa Group; and Peter Plishka, Director of Communications, Natural Body Spa & Shop.
Rose Fernandez oversees the North American business for Jurlique. With over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing in the skincare world, Rose has developed strong businesses by focusing on brand, relationships and profitability. This has been demonstrated across channels in spa, retail, and digital. She is also keenly passionate about assembling the right team and developing people to success.
Since October of 2012 Rose has been the lead ambassador of the Jurlique brand and passionate about connecting partners to Jurlique's purpose "to inspire people to well-being through connection with nature." She is committed to developing the Jurlique brand to be the leader in natural premium skincare and is proud of the pillars for which Jurlique embodies; purity, potency, expertise, heritage, and responsibility.
Rose holds a BS in Marketing from the University of Phoenix and has been featured in various publications on the topics of brand and strategy. Rose is also active member of ISPA, GSN, and CEW.
Tessa Kienow has long found her professional home working in the spa and wellness industry. With over 20 years of experience in hospitality and 10 + years of experience in resort spa operations and executive hotel leadership with regional oversight of multiple spas. The past couple of years she has been working in a consulting capacity for both spas and wellness brands on a variety of projects, including The Buzz Bus, A Wellness Lifestyle Tour. In her current role with ReadyCare Industries as Regional Sales Manager for the Mid-Atlantic she enjoys being able to travel and meet an even wider network work spa professionals. She is based in Atlanta, GA where she works hard to live a life filled with intention and reduce the footprint her family leaves on the planet. She has been volunteering with the Green Spa Network for a little over 3 years holding the co-chair position for the Congress Planning team for the last 2.
Shelley Lotz has over 25 years of experience in the spa/wellness/beauty industry as an esthetician, educator, and business owner. Her newest book is Green Spas and Salons: How to Make Your Business Truly Sustainable. She is a major contributing author of Milady's Standard Esthetics Fundamentals, a textbook for esthetician students. She started an institute of aesthetics and is also a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor. Shelley recently launched Vios Spa Group, a consulting, management, and education company.
In addition to traveling, writing articles and volunteering for the Green Spa Network keeps life interesting. Her purpose is to inspire, educate, and connect with others who have enthusiastic energy and a shared vision of sustainability and wellness. Shelley lives in Ashland, Oregon with her Greek husband while dreaming of tropical beaches.
Peter Plishka is the Director of Communications for Natural Body Spa and Shop, a 12-unit day spa chain based in the Southeast, operating since 1989. Natural Body is a founding seed spa of the Green Spa Network, and has kept an active involvement since the beginning. With 8 years in the spa industry, Peter works daily in defining and expressing the green culture within Natural Body's commitment to its sustainability mission. He has created and delivered numerous eco-focused programs on behalf of GSN, facilitating workshops, moderating panel discussions, and providing content on sustainability for industry trade publications. Peter is committed to assisting in defining GSN's goals for the future, and creating functioning and pragmatic tools and strategies for members.
For more information, please visit greenspanetwork.org.
PBA Announces Return of Beauty Pitch
The 2016 Beauty Pitch event will be held during PBA Beauty Week on Saturday, July 23rd.
The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) and Cosmoprof North America (CPNA) have announced the return of Beauty Pitch, to be held Saturday, July 23, 2016. Hosted by CPNA, this one-of-a-kind, beauty-centric competition will be held in Las Vegas during PBA Beauty Week. This event provides entrepreneurs from all sectors of the beauty industry a way to connect with qualified investors and the industry at large.
"The Professional Beauty Association is proud to be hosting Beauty Pitch 2016. Helping beauty businesses grow and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit is at the core of our association. This competition allows us to add a new dimension to our efforts," said Steve Sleeper, Executive Director of PBA. "We're very excited to have Mark Cuban join us again, and we're grateful for his ongoing support and expertise. Beauty Pitch is a unique event for our industry – the only event of its kind focused on connecting beauty companies with qualified investors. The competition opens February 1st, we encourage all interested beauty companies to consider applying."
Startup and Established Business Categories
The 2016 Beauty Pitch competition is open to all beauty entrepreneurs from all sectors including prestige, mass, clinical, organic/natural and the professional salon/spa market. This competition allows entrepreneurs to apply in either the Startup or Established categories, depending on the company's stage of business. The Startup category is for small business' "seeding" stage investment candidates, seeking angel or venture capital. The revenue requirement for the Startup category is $100,000 to $5M. The Established Business category is for businesses with annual revenues exceeding $5M. Businesses interested in applying for this category need to be willing to work with private equity investment groups.
Application Information
Beauty Pitch applicants will need to prepare a two-minute video, complete an online application and submit a one-page executive summary. Three finalist companies from both the Startup and Established categories will pitch their businesses to a live audience and panel of judges on Saturday, July 23, 2016. Registration opens February 1st, 2016 at a cost of $250 for CPNA Exhibitors and PBA Members and $500 for other entrants. From March 16-April 29, 2016 the cost to register is $350 for CPNA exhibitors and PBA members and $600 for other entrants. Starting February 1st, applications can be submitted at www.beautypitch.com.
A press event will be held on Sunday, January 30th, 2016 during PBA's International Salon and Spa Expo (ISSE) where more event details will be revealed.
Beauty Pitch 2015
The inaugural competition attracted a "Who's Who List" of attendees, drawing industry executives representing retailers, distributors, investors and well over 350 members of the media. In total, over 1,400 attendees attended this unprecedented event. Five beauty entrepreneurs pitched their products to high-profile judges consisting of Mark Cuban, John Paul DeJoria and editors from Martha Stewart Living and INC.com. 100% Pure, the 2015 Beauty Pitch grand prize winner, received a one-year mentorship with Mark Cuban along with a $10,000 cash infusion from TSG Consumer Partners. Additionally, 2015 Beauty Pitch finalist, 18.21 Man Made took home the Audience Choice Award, which included a complimentary booth at CPNA 2016 and a one-year PBA membership.
For more details, please visit www.beautypitch.com.
Global Mentorship Program Reveals Spa Leadership & Spa Management Best Practices and Insights
The Global Mentorship Program recently released Mentorship Reflections: Guiding and Inspiring Spa Leadership for a Well World, a 96-page handbook packed with best practices and insights, which was compiled as a result of the 2015 pilot program.
Currently the only formal mentorship program serving the worldwide spa industry, the GMP is a peer-to-peer initiative that provides spa professionals with mentor-mentee relationships. By pairing experienced spa directors, as mentors, with spa managers, as mentees, the program offers aspiring leaders valuable lessons on how others have successfully navigated the world of spa management. Spa directors, meanwhile, are given an opportunity to pass down their wisdom, while raising the collective knowledge of the industry and learning new tricks from their mentees.
The 2015 program took place over two three-month mentorship sessions; mentors and mentees connected for up to 90 minutes twice each month via phone calls, video conferencing or face to face, and discussed a variety of subject matters, such as leadership and management, strategic and business planning, priority management and human resources. Participants represented a variety of arenas, including hotel and resort spas, club spas, independent day spas, mineral springs spas, and a health club owned by a nonprofit health care organization.
According to Deborah Smith, Principal, Smith Club & Spa, Co-Chair of the GMP and Regional Supervisor for the USA & Canada, questionnaires conducted by the Global Mentorship Program revealed the following:
• 100% of mentors and mentees believe the GMP benefits the spa industry.
• 92% of mentors and mentees believe their company could benefit from the program.
• 86% of mentees felt 'absolutely' more motivated at work after being mentored.
• 79% of mentees felt 'absolutely' more productive at work after being mentored.
The document is filled with honest feedback and revelations, such as:
"What I now understand is how to talk and connect to different personalities and be aware of how to approach them individually. In the spa industry you'll find a variety of personalities, and it's important for management to give empowerment to your employees by making them feel important." (Mentee Jeannine Bourque, spa operations manager, Grand Wailea Waldorf Astoria Resort, Maui, who was mentored by Angela Cortright of Spa Gregorie's in Southern California).
"[The second topic] Paris assisted me with was how to increase retail sales in the Spa. After our mentoring session, I established 'on desk' monthly retail offers for our spa guests. When a retail offer is displayed on the desk, it is very easy to move to the 'sales process' when the guest is checking out from the Spa." (Mentee Paula Myohanen, lifestyle manager, Talise Spa at Madinat Jumeirah Resort, UAE, who was mentored by Paris Kounoudis, director of spa, Ritz-Carlton Dubai, UAE).
"[With this handbook], we can create the biggest ripple effect as possible, in order to touch (and possibly improve) the daily lives of thousands of spa managers among the 130,000 spa managers/directors in the world," said Jean-Guy de Gabriac, CEO and Founder, TIP TOUCH International, and Initiative Chair Global Career Development and Co-Chair of the Global Mentorship Program.
Following the success of the 2015 program, which included 17 mentors and 32 mentees in 22 countries, leadership is now preparing two six-month sessions for 2016, which will involve 50 mentors and 100 mentees.
Click here for the full handbook, which contains a foreword by Susie Ellis, Global Wellness Institute chairman and CEO.
Ardell Lashes Grace the Runway at the Annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
Makeup artist Dick Page glammed up the models with gorgeous lashes before they took to the runway.
Ardell Lashes recently took part in one of the most anticipated annual televised fashion events, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. On December 8, nearly 10 million home viewers tuned in to watch names like Gigi, Kendall and Lily strut down the runway at the 2015 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Before these lovely ladies stepped into the spotlight, makeup artist Dick Page was busy behind the scenes creating his signature Angel Glow finished with Ardell Lashes.
"I chose Ardell Lashes for the Victoria's Secret Show because they allow me to create everything from a simple accent lash to a full bodied flutter. Victoria's Secret is about the natural glamour of each girl and Ardell Lashes enhance that perfectly."
This year's particularly diverse cast of models inspired Page to keep the look soft, natural and glowing, accentuating the unique beauty of each woman. Page, who has created the makeup look for the annual show for the past four years, applied light foundation – just a hint to cover any imperfections and no hard contouring – with a slightly flushed cheek, shimmery cream eye shadow and Ardell Mini and Short Individual Lashes to add "heft to the lashline." The final result is a youthful, sexy, no-makeup makeup look.
While most women won't have the opportunity to wear a $2 million gemstone encrusted bra, every woman can recreate the naturally sexy, glow of an Angel using Ardell Individual Lashes for additional length and volume. Ardell's Individual lash collection now includes Knot-Free Flares, Knotted Flares, Double Individuals, Chocolate Individuals, Soft Touch Individuals and Trios.
DAYSPA Founder Deborah Carver Speaks at Repêchage's Annual Champagne Power Lunch
Industry leaders gathered to hear beauty business veterans discuss current and future spa and salon trends.
On Monday, December 7, beauty professionals from across the globe came together for Repêchage's annual networking Champagne Power Lunch at the company's headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey. Attendees were treated to bubbly and brunch while they listened to industry pros dish on trends and ways to boost businesses and think outside of the box in the coming months and years. Guests included president of Intercoiffure America/Canada, Lois Christie; Dr. Joel Gerson, author of Milady's publications; and beauty pros from as far afield as Poland, Romania and India.
The morning kicked off with DAYSPA's own Deborah Carver, CEO and founder of Creative Age Publications, whose Consumer Trends in Beauty and Spa presentation encouraged guests to think about how to cater to the millennial generation. "There are enormous changes taking place," explained Carver. "The way we're servicing people today is not the way we're going to service people tomorrow and in the future." Carver emphasized the importance of getting on the same page as the millennials by: staying current and reading trade and consumer magazines; learning celebrity trends; focusing on wellness and organic arenas, including cruelty-free products and environmentally responsible practices; and keeping up with technology and social media. "You have to talk to millennials in their language and capture them that way," she stressed. "Millennials respond to visual cues. Get out your iPads and show them what you do, set up an Instagram account, and make sure appointments and deals are tech-friendly."
Carver suggested further business-building strategies for spas and salons, including partnering with dermatologists, and yoga and Pilates studios; guiding millennials with their at-home regimens; offering quick "in-and-out" mini-treatments; and striving for decor that appeals to both men and women. Although Carver's discussion focused mainly on the millennial generation, she also encouraged audience members not to forget about the baby boomer and Gen X clientele. "The millennials are your future, but remember where your bread-and-butter is coming from right now," she says.
InSPAration Management president and CEO Dori Soukup offered up innovative and cost-effective marketing tips in her lecture, entitled Economical Marketing Strategies. "Marketing is No. 1 in my eyes," she said. "If you don't do marketing, no one is going to know you exist." Soukup spoke of the importance of segmenting a business's database by age group so that marketing can be tailored to each individual. She pointed out the power of leveraging social media such as Facebook, giving the example of contents and giveaways, which can drive traffic to spas' and salons' websites (and, if users have to input their contact information, generate marketing leads). Other tools she cited: team cross-marketing, and creating YouTube video tutorials and testimonials. "Dare to be different," she urged. "There are so many economical marketing strategies that don't have to cost a lot of money. If you implement these simple yet effective methods, you'll be able to generate leads and turn them into clients without breaking the bank."
To conclude the seminar, Repêchage founder and president Lydia Sarfati presented Beauty Trends and Creating the Ultimate Service Experience, which covered trends and fads, and how to connect with clients. She encouraged the audience to stay in the know about fads such as the so-called "vampire facial", "fermented beauty" and gluten-free skin care, and trends that are here to stay, such as masks, pore cleansing and customization.
With the latter, she touched on the importance of tailoring each service to the specific area of the body and increasing revenue by multi-tasking and offering several treatments simultaneously. She explained that beauty pros must put a tray out in front of their clients with all product recommendations and let them know the essential three they must take home based on their skin conditions. "A healthy business has to be 50% retail and 50% service," explained the industry veteran.
Sarfati finished the day by chatting about building a connection with clients, emphasizing that they should never be told "no" and that first impressions—and your staff—can make or break a business. "You must have a great team behind you—without it, it's difficult to grow," she says. "It's like dancing the cha-cha, you take 10 steps forward and 10 steps back—you're not going anywhere!"
Sarfati also spoke about the event's importance, saying, "To educate, motivate and celebrate is what the Repêchage Power Lunch is all about. Each year, we look forward to providing our distinguished guests a chance to network with fellow spa and salon industry leaders and to learn from industry experts about the most forward-thinking trends and business strategies to explore and implement in the coming year."—Molly Church


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Drug suspect faces new charge of assaultAugust 22,2013WHITE RIVER JUNCTION A Springfield man awaiting trial on heroin-dealing charges was back in court this week after police said he choked a teenage girl.
Dylan Davis, 21, pleaded innocent Tuesday in White River Junction criminal court to domestic assault and interference with access to emergency services for the incident Monday.
He also denied three more charges from an unrelated incident in June operating a car without the owners consent, gross negligent operation and violating his conditions of release. Davis was ordered by the court not to contact or harass the girl, then was held for lack of $2,500 bail.
Last fall Davis pleaded innocent to three felony counts alleging he repeatedly sold heroin to police informants. He was accused of making deliveries on his bicycle or conducting sales from his bedroom in his parents house in Springfield.
It was at that house where police said Davis became irate Monday when he could not find some of his money and accused the teenage girl of not helping him to find it, according to a police affidavit. Family members and a friend who witnessed the incident told police that Davis flipped over a table and threw the telephone against a picture frame, breaking the phone, before pushing the girl onto a couch and choking her.MORE IN This Just InSPRINGFIELD Springfield residents will be asked next month during Market Madness for their... Full StoryPHILADELPHIA Many delegates from Vermont arrived at the Democratic National Convention this... Full StoryI could feel the groan rising inside me as I read the subject line of the press release in my... Full Story
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afe Shores—The DC Children's Advocacy Center offers a variety of resources to support child and adolescent victims in crisis. Be it food from the Meal Fund, outfits from the Clothing Closet, or a new car booster seat for a toddler through the Emergency Victims Crisis Fund, the purpose of the Victim Services/Assistance Program is to ensure that the immediate basic needs of child victims and their families are met. Disbursement of emergency funds from any of our programs is at the discretion of Safe Shores. Awards are made according to need and resource availability. Our goal is not to duplicate the services that are already in place, but rather, to fill the gaps that may arise from an overwhelmed system. Only child victims already involved in the social service system who have been referred to Safe Shores by a Team Member Agency are eligible to utilize the Victim Services Program. The Victim Services Programs at Safe Shores include:
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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - West Texas A&M Lady Buffs' head coach Bob Schneider has a simple answer concerning today's Lone Star Conference postseason tournament semifinal matchup between his club and surprising Southwestern Oklahoma.
"At this point of the season, you can't be shocked at what happens," he said. "I know it's an old cliche, but this is a different season to the teams involved. You really can throw out past records and disregard what the teams did when they played earlier."
Both teams enter this 6 p.m. semifinal at Jack Dobbins Fieldhouse off strong showings Tuesday in the opening round of the tournament.
The Lady Buffs shot a season-best 58.7 percent from the field, including 65.2 percent in the second half, in a 78-64 victory against Central Oklahoma at Edmond.
The Lady Bulldogs' 70-55 victory against South Division champion Angelo State was perhaps more of a shocker. SW Oklahoma had lost to the Rambelles by 21 points earlier in the season at home, and Angelo was a solid pick to repeat at LSC tournament champion.
But Tuesday, SW Oklahoma won on the road and did so by outscoring the Rambelles 45-36 in the second half.
"That was a surprise," Schneider admitted. "I did not expect that. Angelo State has had such a good season, and they were at home."
That makes this semifinal matchup between WT and SW Oklahoma that much more intriguing.
The Lady Buffs won 81-55 when the teams met on Jan. 16 at the Event Center. It was Schneider's 500th win at WT, and the issue was never in doubt after the Lady Buffs took a 34-23 halftime lead.
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The Game: West Texas A&M (19-9) vs. SW Oklahoma (12-16), 6 tonight at Jack Dobbins Fieldhouse, Tahlequah, Okla.
At Stake: The winner will advance to the championship game of the LSC postseason tournament Saturday against the winner of the Northeastern State vs. Midwestern game.
"Regardless of what we did against them before, we can't rely on it to carry us through this time," he said. "This is a different game, and they are playing a lot better now than when we met before."
SW Oklahoma won its last three regular season games just to earn a berth in the LSC postseason tournament. The Lady Bulldogs won a three-way tiebreaker against Cameron and SE Oklahoma after the teams finished the LSC North at 5-7.
Tuesday's win at Angelo State gives SW Oklahoma a four-game win steak entering today's game.
The Lady Bulldogs have endured seven and four-game losing streaks this season. Their current win streak is the longest of the season.
The Lady Buffs' longest losing streak this season is two games, while their longest win streak is four. They are 5-5 over the last 10 games but have won three of the last four.
"We just can't get caught up in the fact we're playing SW Oklahoma instead of Angelo State," Schneider said. "Every game is a tough one at this time of the season, and you have to treat them as such.
"We need to focus on the things we do well and try to accomplish them. We shot well on Tuesday, and that has been the one area this season where we have been the most inconsistent. In games we shoot well, we have won a majority of them. When we don't shoot well, we tend to struggle."
Against Central Oklahoma, Celeste Stevenson scored 26 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for her 10th double-double of the season. She is averaging over 19 points and 8.5 rebounds to lead WT. Freshman post Keisha Monroe added 15 points and pulled down 12 rebounds Tuesday.
Combined, those two players were 15-of-18 from the field.
In today's other semifinal matchup, host Northeastern State will meet Midwestern at 8 p.m. The championship game will be at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The Lady Buffs are ninth in this week's regional rankings, and probably will have to win this tournament to earn a berth in the regional tournament next week.
Midwestern is ranked eighth in the region and has beaten the Lady Buffs twice. Northeastern State is ranked sixth in the region and appears to be secure for a regional tournament berth where the top eight teams advance.
Quite frankly, Schneider hasn't allowed himself the luxury of thinking beyond today's game.
"We're just trying to make the players aware of focusing on each game separately and not look past it," he said.
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From 05:35 onwards it's PowerPoint only. The first part is mostly Blender.
Sometimes explaining things in the simplest possible terms helps :) But I agree there's a lot more there we didn't cover. Thanks!
guillaumeo, can you elaborate on what the scenario is? Do you want to hardcode a username/password in your service or have some UI that authenticates the user to call this service?
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But if you have a web UI that authenticates the user and then calls this service I'd suggest making it into a REST/Web API simply because it will make your life so much easier. I might be able to provide more help once I learn more about what you are trying to build there.
Craig, drop me an e-mail on email@example.com and lets discuss this further. First thing I need to understand is what kind of app is this. You mentioned this is not an MVC app. I assume it's still ASP.Net so is this a Web Forms app? Visual Studio can add all authentication out of the box for you so the only code you will need to add is the calls to O365 which should be just a few lines of code still.
Craig, I just spoke with the team:
The newest tools for Visual Studio don't generate that sample snippet anymore. They felt it would be wiser to instead create a nice sample app and point people to it: https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-365-APIs-Starter-Project-for-ASPNETMVC">https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-365-APIs-Starter-Project-for-ASPNETMVC There are several samples over that site: https://github.com/OfficeDev/
There's not really a sample because everything there is generated out of Visual Studio. Once you install the O365 API tool for Visual Studio, everything should work. Let me know if that doesn't do the trick for some reason.
Hi Daniel:
1-This is really up to the application. But yes, you could go that far. There's a great book that discusses exactly that scenario in details named "Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node". I'd suggest taking a look at that.
2-ASP.Net Web API allows for that and it is not uncommon. In many cases you don't want to expose directly your database objects. You can use libraries such as AutoMapper to do that, more or less like discussed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14484692/web-api-queryable-how-to-apply-automapper
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In order to examine potential psychological changes arising from women's new social roles, 15 working and 15 nonworking mothers were asked to report dreams collected within a period of three weeks. In addition, they were administered the Jackson Research Personality Form. Two dreams from each subject were analyzed with selected scales which previous studies had shown to be sensitive to sex differences. On the personality inventory, working mothers were found to have higher social recognition and achievement motives. On the dream content measures, discriminant analyses showed that the two groups could be statistically differentiated on the basis of several scales. In accordance with the notion of continuity between waking and dreaming, working mothers experienced more unpleasant emotions, more male characters, and less residential dreams settings than homemakers. The latter group, surprisingly, had more overt hostility in its dreams. These results suggest that as the trend toward carrying the dual role of wage earner and homemaker is expanding, the gender differences typically observed in dreams content may decrease. They also suggest that the analysis of dream content may prove useful to study the strategies of women adapting to role changes.
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Very nice! The old windmill drew me to this page and found a lot more of interest. I too would enjoy wandering around those old streets.
Nesebar seems to be a nice place to relax and sightsee. That old windmill is gorgeous!
Nice to see the old Churches turned into art galleries = nice page!
Another Bulgarian city worth visitining. Thanks for visiting my Mauritius pages.
Some nice architecture here.
As if that street wasn?t narrow enough, the second floor of the houses lean out into the street over top of you. Interesting.
Cute windmill :~)
Another awesome page of yours. Keep up the good work. :-)
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Doesn't seem like there is much attention paid to football and other big sports.
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From what I've heard or already know of the school, it's great for academia.
Overall Experience:
My current class (as of July 8,2016) is a pretty manageable and benevolent computing policy class that encourages students to reach out. Its notes are tedious, but essential to our knowledge.
Campus Housing:
Based on what Carnegie Mellon University has to offer to its students, there are various perks. The catch is that the prices vary greatly depending on what you prefer.
Overall Experience:
Based on my tours of Carnegie Mellon University in addition to student feedback, the university is intense with academia, but it is engaging enough to push a student forward towards success.
Party Scene:
CMU is not a school for parties. Most everyone spends their nights studying or relaxing in dorms. Bus transportation is free but hardly anyone goes out unless it's the weekend.
Party Scene:
Most parties are off-campus and hosted by members of group organizations. These gatherings tend to be tailored to that particular group.
Drug Safety:
Not many people are into drugs at all, even for parties. There are a couple who use prescription drugs to study more but no one judges or pressures you when you want to say no.
I mean you don't come to cmu for sports
Overall Experience:
Overall my experience at CMU was pretty good. Some professors are crap but most are experts at what they do and passionate about their subject matter. There are enough activities and they make it pretty straightforward for you to start your own club if you don't see anything you like. Get involved with booth and buggy if you can. I'd definitely recommend living off campus after freshman year. Housing has gotten a LOT better since they got rid of kim abel but generally not worth the money and the hassle that comes with dealing with them.
Drug Safety:
I've never encountered an issue with drugs at CMU in any form.
Overall Experience:
CMU is an amazing place to grow as an individual academically, socially, spiritually, etc. There is no better environment that feels as trusting, passionate, and supportive.
Overall Experience:
CMU will get you a job. Every graduate that I know has multiple job offers and many are well above the average for their fields. It's not uncommon for a student to be picking from several 6 figure options.
Health & Safety:
CMU cares about its students greatly and goes to great lengths to protect students.
Campus Housing:
Housing at CMU, like any university, gives you what you give it. If you want your dorm to be your friend group, that can be done. If not, you can just keep your head down and enjoy your other friends.
Greek Life:
Greek life at CMU is the best thing about this university. Sororities and fraternities are filled with passionate, caring, amazing individuals who all do their part to better our campus, local, and global communities. Greek life is where many find not only their best friends and family, but also amazing post-grad opportunities and unmatched support throughout university and beyond.
The athletics at CMU are beyond adequate for the student population. It's a smaller school that doesn't want to focus all of its funds on nice lockers. The priorities are correct for the student population.
Overall Experience:
CMU provides its students with a world class education that is worth the tuition you pay for it. At many other schools across the nation with similar price tags you are getting amenities like excessive sports funding, crazy greek life, and other programs that give little benefit to most students post-grad. At CMU you are paying for amazing professors, research opportunities, and a great academic and extracurricular experience throughout your time at the university. CMU is arguably the most challenging school in its highest ranking fields and that is why all the students are so hirable after earning their degrees.
Drug Safety:
(Disclaimer: I think that a high drinking age like 21 is idiotic and perpetuates this "binge-drinking-is-cool" American stigma.) People drink. Many do it responsibly. Some don't. Irresponsible people ruin it for everyone else. Don't be like them. As for drugs, weed is pretty much accepted, because its reasonable, but dangerous drugs like cocaine are basically shunned. Pennsylvania, by the way, has extra-ridiculous alcohol laws, so expect to be thrown back to Prohibition when it comes to campus and city police. I'm pretty sure they believe that beer is made of demon piss. They somehow don't think that underage college students are going to get drunk on weekends. Even though it happens EVERY WEEKEND. GET OVER IT YOU IDIOTS.
Overall Experience:
The professors here don't care about the students, they just teach so that they can do research here. I've gone through too many classes here, too many sleepless nights, too many fits of rage and misery to ever think that this school cares about its students' well being. I've seen students struggle and fight through classes, only to be laughed at and stepped on. I've had teachers tell me that "a 'D' is still passing", but then expect me to somehow get a job with those grades. Professors will throw away all of your hard work just so that their curve looks better on paper. They will make sure that the "right" number of students get A's, B's, C's, and D's, instead of allowing us to all do well. It doesn't make us any better - we won't use most of this after we graduate! So just let us learn in peace. Is that so much to ask?
Overall Experience:
The only thing CMU can boast is that their students will stick together and commiserate as productively as possible, including alumni. Some degrees have an easier time with job prospects, that's for sure, but overall having a piece of paper that says Carnegie Mellon University will help open some doors. Maybe its because people know by now that if you made it out of CMU, you're tough enough for the real world. Or maybe they pity us. As long as I get a job, I don't really care. We have a couple of big job fairs every year which invite big companies, as well as a few networking events. If you're looking for opportunities, you will eventually find them. These are usually student-planned events, not university-hosted, so they are actually executed well and with students' interests in mind.
Health & Safety:
Let's start with campus police. These rent-a-cops are usually too busy trying to bother students to be helpful to anyone. I'd be better off protecting myself than depending on them. And then there's Health Services, which couldn't diagnose the flu if it walked in and introduced itself as "Influenza", not to mention their terrible wait time. I would be healthy or dead by the time I could get an appointment. We should change the name to "Health Out-of-Services". Last and truly least, there's CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services), which hasn't helped anyone I know, but they have managed to piss me off. I once tried calling their "24/7" hotline, only to get a voicemail message. While my friend was having a mental breakdown. Thanks, CAPS!
Campus Housing:
These shoeboxes they stacked in the 1600's aren't top-notch on any front. I've seen dorms at other schools with swimming pools and tennis courts, meanwhile ours boast being mouse-free for a full month! Keeping on-campus housing is simpler than renting off campus, but considering how limited and how terrible it is, some students (who have money, or rather, whose parents have money) can afford to live in houses and apartments off campus instead.
Greek Life:
(Disclaimer: In my opinion, joining a fraternity or sorority is one of the biggest wastes of time for a college student.) A large percentage of students are in Greek orgs, and they basically are the people involved in everything social - from parties to student government to other organizations. Other students get involved, but Greek students definitely stay in the public eye much more often. Our frats range from complete a**holes to idiotic, and our srats from narcissistic b****es to desperate. We really get the whole spectrum here.
We have a few good teams, but no one really goes to games. Not much school spirit at all. And there are some gyms around campus.
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The Carnegie Mellon experience can be summed up in a single sentence: It is what you make of it. No matter which program you study, the course load and subsequent work are rigorous. The weather is iffy, and the social scene is nothing compared to Penn State or other schools of similar caliber. Having said that, it is easy to form close relationships with teachers that will last long after graduation. You are also guaranteed an education that spans all of the disciplines, not simply your major(s) and minor(s). CMU has arguably one of the best orientation programs, and the friends you make during that week are likely to be with you for the long haul. Sure, it might rain a lot, but the campus isn't that big, and a CMU ID card allows you free access to all of the buses in Pittsburgh. As for the social scene? While there aren't a ton of all-out "ragers" every week of school, there is a fair amount, especially at the beginning and end of each semester.
For some, the positives just don't outweigh the academic and social challenges. Not everyone here will tell you that they love it unconditionally. However, if you are even considering CMU, it's not because you are looking for ragers every weekend and beach weather. No—students come to CMU for the academics, and on that, the opinion is unanimous. This school is a great decision for someone who is serious about learning as much as he or she can—and not simply academics, but culturally, as well. There is a reason students come here, and the not-so-bad social life is simply a pleasant surprise.
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Statement of Bruce Baizel, Earthworks' Oil & Gas Accountability Project Director, on EPA's Progress Report on its study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources.
Washington, D.C. & Durango, CO -- Earthworks welcomes today's progress report on EPA's study of hydraulic fracturing's impacts on drinking water.
It represents a step towards EPA's first real scientific inquiry into the safety of fracking -- a step nearly ten years in the making. EPA's 2004 study of the subject cannot be called science, as it was publicly revealed to be partially written by the very industry it studied.
To date, the only actual science on the subject -- including EPA's own investigations at Pavillion, WY and Duke University's groundwater studies -- suggests impacts and risks.
Most significant about the progress report is the lack of progress it reports. In its inability to find a single company willing to test water quality before and after drilling and fracking, the EPA is being thwarted in perhaps the most important part of its study of fracking's impacts.
We are not surprised, however. Oil and gas companies' unwillingness to cooperate continues a pattern of obstruction of actual science on the impacts of drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Oil and gas developers and their advocates are quick to claim that fracking is safe, but they are unwilling to put their money where their mouth is. Until they do, the industry has no credibility in the debate about the science and safety of fracking.
We look forward to EPA's continued work on a scientific assessment of fracking during the coming year.
More Information:
EPA - Study of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources, Progress Report
Earthworks - Hydraulic Fracturing 101
Chesapeake Energy Corp,the Oklahoma-based firm is the No. 1 driller in Ohio.
Rig Count Interactive Map by Baker Hughes, an energy services company.
Shale Sheet Fracking, a Youngstown Vindicator blog.
National Geographic's The Great Shale Rush.
The Ohio Environmental Council, a statewide eco-group based in Columbus.
Earthjustice, a national eco-group.
People's Oil and Gas Collaborative-Ohio, a grass-roots group in Northeast Ohio.
Concerned Citizens of Medina County, a grass-roots group.
No Frack Ohio, a Columbus-based grass-roots group.
Fracking: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat by ProPublica, an online journalism site.
Pipeline, blog from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Marcellus shale drilling.
Allegheny Front, environmental public radio for Western Pennsylvania.


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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Huntsville police are investigating the drowning of 27-year-old Christopher Barlow, whose body was found in the Tennessee River.
Police say the drowning occurred Sunday morning just east of the
University of Alabama in Huntsville Boat Docks.
Don Webster, chief operating officer for HEMSI, says Barlow was carrying identification that shows he was from Tuscaloosa.
The Madison County Rescue Squad and divers pulled the man from the river about two hours after the drowning was reported.
Police say investigators from the Major Crimes Unit of the Huntsville Police Department are investigating the circumstances.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Skip to comments.Lesbian seeking marriage license arrested in NC
Posted on 05/10/2012 5:53:35 PM PDT by tobyhill
- A lesbian who sought a North Carolina marriage license with her partner and was rejected under a state law banning same-sex marriage was arrested with another person Thursday after they refused to leave a government office where several gay and lesbian couples were turned away.
The civil disobedience followed a day after President Barack Obama publicly endorsed same-sex marriage, and two days after North Carolina voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
The protest came amid attempts by a gay rights group, Campaign for Southern Equality, to broaden public support to allow same-sex marriage and more protests are planned in coming days at other county offices in North Carolina that issue marriage licenses.
Nine gay and lesbian couples each presented completed forms and identification to a clerk at the local Register of Deeds office in Winston-Salem, but were refused because state law recognizes only heterosexual couples.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Watch for similar stunts in Asheville, Greensboro, Durham and Chapel Hill.
Sexual deviants demanding legitimacy.
Methinks the revolution is starting.
You lost by 62%. Take a hint, people.
'Woman arrested for blocking government office'
Wouldn't that be a more accurate headline?
yeah, this will be the new hate mongering activity for the occupy fruits.
>>>Wouldnt that be a more accurate headline?
It's the same headline as on the linked story. Headline adulteration is highly frowned upon here.
You lost by 62%. Take a hint, people.
don't worry they'll have some nut job judge over turn the peoples vote
I just report what it reads.
I was commenting on the MSM, not the FR poster.
In Columbus, Robeson, Yadkin and Wilkes Counties it passed with 82-86% of the vote.
My NC FB friends are still crowing. Geez, you think Tuesdays epic azz-kicking would slow them down but I don't think they are smart enough to think.
What was the percentage in Onslow and Craven counties? Big military towns, so I was wondering how the new gay-approved military voted.
That sounds almost like some DoD weapon like heat seeking missile
I keep waiting to see some Lockheed Martin fellow explain -
'It weighs approximately 195 pounds and can accelerate from 0 to moonbat in 2.3 seconds. The Lesbian seeking marriage license displaces a tremendous amount of force and spreads lethal amounts of AIDS upon impact. We are expecting to greatly ramp up production in order to meet the US military's demand.'
Mary Lee Bradford (right)
Hey, queers...New England is open for business! This is sodomite country...come on up and live your lives in peace. Really.
73% and 64%, respectively. Seems those military towns aren't as "gay-approving" as the Obama administration's military polling stated.
***Watch for similar stunts in Asheville, Greensboro, Durham and Chapel Hill.****
Time to break out the tar and feathers for these lesbo clowns.
Thanks - I found the information.
I agree, east of 95 is MUCH more conservative than the rest of the state. And I also agree, Mitt better realize that he only has grip on the GOP-e. The conservative base is not likely to allow him to drift too far towards center/center-left - before we will be more than happy to let him sink out there on that raft!
I pray that he gets a decent VP nominee, because if he gets a McCain-like dweeb, he will loose to Obama. If Mitt wants to GUARANTEE a win, all he has to do is stay right where he is on MOST issues and get a Tea Party-backed, conservative-arousing VP and he is IN LIKE FLYNN!
Nail 'em up in a crate and ship them to one of those fag-happy "gay marriage" states, which revels in that kind of deviancy.
Do these people have jobs or are they just professional protesters?
Do these people have jobs or are they just professional protesters?
And the lefty Street Theatre begins.
Another one of those, if I had a son he's look like Trayvon.......If I had a gay sister she'd look just like this lesbian bride.......unifying moments of the POTUS.
I don't know, but I'm sure it won't be a shock when "Hail to the Chief" is replaced with "It's Raining Men."
Huh? I thought state law recognized marriage only between a man and a woman and doesn't say anything about orientation. The MSM is simply clueless.
34% voted for someone other than Romney.
I am so SICK of this "movement." Being denied access on the basis of one's sexual preference is not equivalent to being denied access on the basis of one's skin color. It's not even in the same ballpark.
Someone please tell me ... When were LGBTs put in chains, sold, and beaten? When were they lynched or dragged behind pickup trucks until dead? When were they terrorized with burning crosses by @ssholes in white sheets? When were they made to use separate restrooms, water fountains, and lunch counters? When were they sent to separate public schools? When were they forced to ride at the back of the bus? When were they fed slop and paid a pittance for their hard labor? When were they denied a vote or counted as three-fifths of a person for the census? When did they have sh*t thrown at them just for walking to/from home through the "good" part of town? When were they called "boy" and struck in the face for not addressing their "betters" with enough respect? When were their community leaders assassinated? When did all of that happen to them?
Black people should be outraged at the LGBT attempt to equate the bloody Civil Rights movement with a desire for a marriage license and tax benefits!
Before you include Washington State in that appellation, know that it was the governor and legislature who slipped that through -- as in some other states -- and the actual population (especially on the east side of the state) is busy as I speak signing referendum petitions to block the homo marriage law.
Typical leftist headline. Makes it sound like the deviant was arrested for merely applying for the license rather than because she refused to leave.
Oh, for refusing to leave a government office when ordered to do so — trespassing, in other words. Fine. From the headline, it sounded like North Carolina was arresting gay people for trying to get marriage licenses.
This won't stop. Folks, this is just a couple of queers looking to be the next "Rosa Parks" for their "movement".
OK Freepers bang me with a bat..but who the heck is interested in this crap? This is nothing but distraction! This election is all about the economy and jobs!
Yes....I agree with y'all on the social issues like gay marriage...but the bone headed voter needs none of these issues to divert their attention from this disterous economy and pilaging of the Consitution with Obama regulations
Let me ask you good folks a question. Why aren't good conservatives getting locked up for civil disobedience following any number of Barack Obama's transgressions against our foundational principles, and our Constitution?
I've said in previous posts, that the Ballot Box is broken, the Soap Box is broken, and the Cartridge Box is the 'go to' box of last and final resort - but that there is still one box remaining that we patriots have yet to open. That is what I call the Tool Box, of which, civil disobedience is one of the more effective tools within.
I've been flamed a few times for even making this suggestion, but it's my feeling that we've only got two real choices at this juncture. Either keep complaining on the Soap Box (which isn't working), or take it to the next level, which is the Tool Box (see: Boston Tea Party).
Of, course, there's a third choice, which is simply succumbing to the encroaching tyranny, but I doubt that most of us are consciously choosing that option.
Over the next four years, I believe it's going to become apparent to most conservatives that these are our realistic choices. I hope we choose wisely.
Of course it's a distraction but the more it's put out there at this time, the faster people will be burned out on it and regain their focus on the economy.
When were LGBTs put in chains, sold, and beaten?...Last Saturday night (So I've been told).
We I went to bed the number was higher, but that include the number of ballots where voter did not vote for any Republican Presidential Candidate.
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The introduction of a Top Employers Global Certification programme is a logical next step in view of the global trend in harmonisation of employee conditions...
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Otema Yirenkyi has been appointed as Microsoft's first country manager for Ghana, which reportedly remains one of company's critical investment markets in Africa.
3 Dec 2013
ECOWAS (Economic Community Of West African States) Member States have been urged to establish a mechanism for monitoring and evaluating the efficacy of their National Youth Employment Plans in responding to the youth employment challenges facing the region.
14 May 2013
Dr. Judith Rodin, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, on Monday, 13 May 2013, launched a new foundation initiative that will focus on Africa's youth and employment, Digital Jobs Africa.
14 May 2013
NEW YORK, US: A survey of senior executives and talent managers shows future leadership and research & development are hardest hit.
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The Ghanaian government's efforts in addressing the unemployment challenges there have started bearing good results.
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