New Jersey to consider bikini waxing ban

Friday, March 20, 2009

New Jersey is considering a state-wide ban on Brazilian waxes, the removal of hair from the bikini area.

Although genital waxing has never really been allowed in the state, the New Jersey Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling plans to propose a ban with more specific legal wording, in response to two women who reported being injured during a wax. The board will consider the proposal at their next meeting on April 14.

If the measure passes, New Jersey may become the only US state to ban the practice outright.

Although millions of Americans engage in bikini waxes, which generally cost between $50 and $60 per session, the practice comes with risks. Skin care experts say the hot wax can irritate delicate skin in the bikini area, and result in infections, ingrown hairs and rashes.

Waxing on the face, neck, abdomen, legs and arms would continue to be permitted in the state under the proposed ban. Although New Jersey statutes have always banned bikini waxing, the laws were unclear and seldom enforced.

As a result, many salons from around the state have offered bikini waxing for years. Many salon owners spoke out against the proposed ban, which they said would severely damage their business.

“I really don’t know if the state can stop it at this point,” said Valentia Chistova, owner of the Monmouth County salon Brazil. “I know a lot of women who are really hooked.”

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Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to Inverness on a shopping trip.

However on her return journey heavy snow and ice prevented her husband, John, from travelling the last 11 miles to pick her up. She was forced to wait a month in a friend’s caravan, before the weather improved and the couple could finally be reunited.

They were separated not just for Christmas and New Year, but also for Mr Ure’s 58th birthday. With no fresh supplies, he was reduced to celebrating with a tin of baked beans. He also ran out of coal, and had to feed the couple’s six springer spaniels on emergency army rations.

“It’s the first time we’ve been separated”, said Mr Ure in December. “We’ve been snowed in here for three weeks before, so we are well used to it and it’s quite nice to get a bit of peace and quiet.”

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Sirius CEO visits congress

Friday, March 2, 2007

Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin appeared before a newly formed Antitrust Task Force, a sub-committee of the House Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday last week in Washington, D.C. to defend the proposed U.S. merger between XM and Sirius satellite radio services.

The hearing, carried live on C-SPAN, was attended by representatives from various competing broadcast companies. The representatives challenged the merger deal, and some speakers were openly hostile to Karmazin and to satellite radio in general, while other speakers were more civil.

Several times during the debate, the discussion centered on the failed merger deal between the two satellite television networks DirecTV and Echostar. The comparison between this proposed radio merger and the failed television merger was settled to some extent with an understanding that nearly all television viewers now use either cable or satellite to view available programming. Televised programming content is now delivered mainly in the form of a subscription, rather than airwave transmissions.

Unlike television programming, most radio listeners use over the air receivers to listen to free programming content supported advertisers.

“We come to this hearing with an open mind, but we recognize that the companies have the obligation to convince the Congress, the regulators, and most importantly, the American People that this combination will improve the competitive playing field and benefit consumers,” said John Conyers, the sub-committee chairman. To determine the legality of this merger, Congress first needs to decide whether a combined XM and Sirius would be a monopoly, as the only satellite radio provider in the United States, or whether the new company will actually be in competition with other forms of radio-like entertainment, according to Conyers. The hearing focused on alternatives such as Internet radio, terrestrial radio, portable audio devices, and emerging services, such as cell phone services and WiMax.

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Filmmaker releases trailer for open source feature film

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

New filmmaker Solomon Rothman has released a trailer for his upcoming full length open source film called ‘Boy Who Never Slept.’ Both the movie and the trailer are offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license. The movie is set to be released at the end of May.

The film centers on the life of an insomniac writer who meets a teenage girl online, and a friendship that grows into an unlikely love story wrapped in harsh reality. The movie deals with various issues, including the romanticization of love, age-related issues in relationships, like statuatory rape (he’s 23, and she’s 16), and the idea of love in the online realm.

Rothman, a writer, amateur filmmaker and web designer, lives in the Los Angeles Area. He wrote, directed and produced the movie with Aurora Mae, his girlfriend and partner. Producing the movie for $200 while they were in college, they used friends as actors and later sold the camera on eBay to recoup the expense.

Rothman has spoken about the power of the internet as a distribution source for movies and has said “I believe it’s possible that this movie I shot with no budget and released online for free could potentially reach as many viewers as a major theatrical release.”

Rothman and Mae started out with the idea of creating a full-length movie that could be shared totally for free online. The film includes a custom soundtrack and script, both of which will be released open source as well.

The trailer is available on the official movie website[1] and can also be found on Google video, YouTube.com, Ifilm.com, AddictedClips.com, and the Internet Movie Archives.

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Water main bursts in west Edinburgh; traffic, utilities disrupted

Saturday, May 28, 2011

In Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, part of an underground water piping system has exploded, forcing local residents to be evacuated. The pipe broke around 03:30 BST (0230 UTC) today, within Allan Park Road, causing flooding in the Slateford area of the city.

A spokesperson for Scottish sewerage and water corporation Scottish Water explained: “Early this morning reports were received of flooding in Allan Park Road and Scottish Water operatives attended the scene. A large diameter water main had burst. The water was shut off and re-routed via other pipes to keep supplies flowing to households in the area. Repairs are under way and the customers affected by the flooding are being offered assistance.”

Stating that repairs to resolve this problem had commenced and would take a few hours to conclude, Lothian and Borders Police have advised that the floods may disrupt the supplies of water and other utilities, as well as transportation on roads and railways in the west of Edinburgh. Hospitals and rest homes in the region have been notified of the incident and bottled water is now anticipated to be supplied at these buildings.

According to local residents, Slateford Road (A70), a major throughway, was closed for several hours this morning. Telephony and broadband in the area is disrupted, with local residents and businesses having to rely on cellphones. Further work, such as digging up the road and using temporary traffic lights, will be required to restore these services in the area.

As of 13:15 BST (1215 UTC), Scottish Water has excavated around the burst main, but has not yet begun work on replacing the damaged section of pipe.

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What Are The Signs That My Ex Girlfriend Wants Me Back?}

Submitted by: Anthony Malibu

Girls are hard to read when you’re dating them. But when you break up? The job becomes even harder. How your ex treats you after the breakup can often determine whether or not she’s still interested in you. There are signs and signals most girls give off when they’re still in love with you, and to help accelerate the process of getting back together you need to know what they are.

After a girl dumps them, most guys do the same thing. First, they try to get their girlfriend to change her mind. When that fails, they start writing out a bullet-pointed list of why the two of them should still be together. They present their arguments logically, like a lawyer arguing a case. When that doesn’t work they resort to telling their ex how much they love and need them, start recalling the good times they had together, and maybe even drop off a Hallmark card or two. Finally, with all other avenues exhausted, the start begging and pleading… a sad, depressing sight that sends their ex girlfriend’s level of respect plummeting downward.

Getting your girlfriend back is a lot easier than most people would have you think. It involves a series of planned-out steps in which you need to be very proactive. But more importantly? It also involves NOT doing a whole bunch of really stupid things. And the more of these things you can stop yourself from doing? The easier it will be to get your ex back.

But before making a move, most guys all ask the same question: What are the signs that my ex girlfriend wants me back to begin with?

During a break up, it’s easy to feel hopeless and depressed about the situation. Positive reinforcement always helps. For this reason alone, you’ll need to know when all your efforts are finally paying off. You’ll want to visualize the signs and signals given off when your exgirlfriend wants you again, and identify the indicators that she still loves you. Many of these signs are easy to spot – but some are a lot more hidden. Finding out how your ex feels about you is actually an important part of getting her back.

Does your ex call you? If so, this is a

tremendous sign

. Anytime you break up yet your exgirlfriend makes an effort to keep contact with you, it shows that she’s not fully over dating you just yet. Maybe she wants a break, or maybe she’s just taking some time off. But in the meantime, your ex girlfriend doesn’t want you to go anywhere. She wants to keep you close by, where she can keep an eye on you, and to do this she’ll leave all the lines of communication wide open. An ex who stays in touch after breaking up with you is looking for a reason to get back together. Doing the right things, at the right times, can make her choice a lot easier.

Another sign that your ex wants you back: asking her friends about you. If your ex really wanted to walk away from your romance, she wouldn’t care anything about what you’re doing. The fact that she’s asking about you is a big giveaway when it comes to her true feelings. She may even be trying to see if you’re dating someone else, or if you had another girlfriend in mind. This is her way of keeping the door to the relationship open, in case she wants to start it back up.

Drunk dialing is also a big indication that you’re stuck on your exgirlfriend’s mind. When people get drunk they tend to drop their inhibitions before anything else; in doing so, your ex’s innermost desires are manifested in the form of her calling you up. What she says on the phone to you doesn’t matter as much as the fact that she called or text-messaged you to begin with. It shows that underneath her sober exterior, in a moment of weakness, your ex revealed what’s

really

on her mind: you.

What are the signs that my ex girlfriend wants me back? Any form of physical, face-to-face contact could easily be construed as intentional. Your ex dated you and knows your schedule. So if she happens to “bump into” you at the mall, or at school, work, or even just shows up at your house? It means she couldn’t stay away. Your ex girlfriend had the physical need to see your face, which superceded her need to call or text or email you. This is HUGE. It shows that she’s missing you even more than normal. If you want your girlfriend back, make sure you give her the green light here by not questioning why she’s suddenly at your doorstep. Instead, smile broadly and tell her it’s good to see her again. Don’t press or push things – take it slow. Let her tell you the reason she stopped by, but don’t ask for one if she happens not to.

Getting an ex to want you back is simple: let her chase you. By removing yourself from your ex’s life, she gets a good taste of not having you around anymore. When this happens, your girlfriend begins missing you. From there, meeting up with your ex is only a matter of time.

But if you’re having trouble getting your ex to come after you? There are a lot of great methods and techniques you can make use of, all designed to get her to want you again. Only by creating a step-by-step plan for success can you maximize your chances when it comes to winning her heart back.

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Earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant triggers evacuation

Friday, March 11, 2011

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Japan’s government has declared its first ever “nuclear emergency” after pressure rises in the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, combined with a minor radiation leak, caused a 10 km radius around the plant to be evacuated. An attempt to relieve the pressure inside the containment vessels of the plant has been delayed.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company’s 40-year old nuclear facility, 270 km NE of Tokyo, reported mechanical difficulties with its cooling system, although the automated shutdown systems worked correctly. With the core reaction shut down the plant is no longer actively generating heat, but the fuel rods continue to generate excess heat and radiation and need constant cooling.

The cooling system runs a constant flow of water to take the heat away from the submerged fuel rods, but the pumping system requires electricity to operate even after the plant is no longer producing electricity itself—generally from back-up diesel or natural gas generators.

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American film director John Hughes dies at age 59

Thursday, August 6, 2009

American film director John Hughes, noted for such movies as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club, died Thursday due to a heart attack.

A statement, released by his representative, said that he experienced the heart attack while on a morning stroll in Manhattan, New York. Hughes was born on February 18, 1950 in Michigan. He started his career as an advertising copywriter in Chicago. By the end of the 1970s he was a frequent contributor to the National Lampoon magazine.

In the 1990s, he made the Home Alone series, which became a box office sensation and turned Macaulay Culkin into a star.

In recent years, Hughes stepped back from the movie industry to spend more time with his family. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Nancy, two sons and four grandchildren.

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What Type Of Storage Do You Need?

byAlma Abell

Over time families tend to accumulate a great number of items, garden equipment keeps piling up as do children’s tots that have long been grown out of and hundreds of other things. Most families understand that things have to go; you simply cannot go on with keeping everything so they hold a garage sale or donate what they don’t want or need to a charity. Even with this, there can still be a lot left, too much to keep in the garage, basement or attic. When this happens you know you have to find an alternative.

There are two storage solutions, short term and long term. The right choice can only be made by you but remember one thing, everything in storage is yours and you are responsible for it so make sure your insurance covers the goods while in storage and if it doesn’t then take out a policy that does.

Self storage in Fort Meyers FL.

Self storage is the ideal choice when your storage needs are short term. If you are moving from one home to another, you may need to store some things until you get settled into your new home. These self storage units are also good for long term storage when you need frequent access to the goods. Self storage units are rented on a monthly basis and you pay a different rate based on the size of the unit. You are responsible for your goods and you own the lock and key for security. During the day there will usually be times when the units are available for access, find out before you rent the unit what the access details are, they may not suit your schedule.

You are responsible for packing your goods and delivering them to self storage in Fort Meyers, FL. Most self storage operators do have vans that can be rented if you have no other option.

Container storage:

Containers are used for long term storage or for a specific time frame. This type of storage is often the choice of people who are moving and all their possessions must be stored while the new house is being built. When this option is chosen, the container is brought to your home where it is packed and then picked up and taken to a secure storage yard. It is difficult to gain access to the container once it is in storage.

Royears. They have a variety of unit sizes to meet your storage needs in Fort Meyers, FL.