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15 Different Ways to Wear Bangs
Can we really consider blunt bangs a trend anymore? Actually, I think they're mainstream, considering that many stars are still spotted wearing straight-across fringe after all these years. Believe it or not, bangs — whether blunt, asymmetric, or wispy — can look great on just about anyone, as long as they're done right. Take a peek at my slideshow to see what I mean.
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UncurlyGirl 2 years
I love bangs, I need bangs because of my face shape, but because my hair is curly/kinky/wavy and frizzy, I could not wear them until I had keratin straightening. Now I do. I'm sure there are a few others here who've had that problem. I loved my Brazilian Blowout, but it was too expensive, which totally offended me because it was so life-changing and the product itself wasn't THAT costly. So what I did was get trained and certified to purchase professional product and then make it available to anyone who wants to do their own BB with professional grade products but for $15 or so rather than $300-400. It lasts just as long, 3-4 months, and performs exactly as well because it's the SAME formula. If you're interested in learning how, see Uncurly.com. Regards, Shelley Parker at Uncurly.com
Auriel 3 years
I have a high forehead, so I wear bangs to soften my face. I think most anyone looks good with bangs as long as it's the right style. Not everyone looks good with fringe or pixie bangs, but most do with side swept.
Penelopee 5 years
I like Keira with bangs. She has such a lovely face. StephManc, I don't think you're too old for bangs. Just make sure you don't go too short.
thilina 5 years
Gwen-G 5 years
I love Gwen's hairdo
Gwen-G 5 years
I love Gwen's hairdo
otay 5 years
Bangs are great! They look really good on most everyone, just depends on how you wear them. But I really did like Taylor Momsen's hair before she cut it, i am not diggin' the whole punk/bad girl look on her, she looked so pretty without all the dark heavy make-up and crazy hair-do.
TammyO 5 years
I have huge curly hair which I'm not about to straighten so bangs are not for me.. I actually cut myself bangs while in high school and was called Donna Summer. UGH.
SKC-Sparkle 5 years
Keira Knightley's bangs are not doing anything for her.
domjoe 5 years
I hate bangs but they do look good on some people...
DEBBIEDOODLE2 5 years
great prize
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StephManc 5 years
I just got my hair cut yesterday and have some long bangs. I've been talking for a week about this with a friend--- Should I cut bangs? I'm 40, am I too old for bangs? Some women look younger with their faces framed. Just trying to look my best.
ThePerfectScore 5 years
Keira Knightley's face is way tooo angular and square for this blunt bang... it really cuts her face off.
prencesschris 5 years
2 long 4 me
prencesschris 5 years
2 long 4 me
genesisrocks 5 years
All these girls look fab but only a few on the list look better with bangs than without
snarkypants 5 years
bangs are not for everyone. i repeat, bangs are not for everyone.
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There are rumors floating around that Carlito could be one of the bigger names to sign with Jeff Jarrett and Global Force Wrestling. The two of them were spotted together during WrestleCon in New Orleans earlier this month. Carlito is denying that the two of them talked about a contract, but the former WWE star did say that he was open to the possibility.
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A picture of Maryse Ouellet and Maria Kanellis in their sexy dresses at WrestleCon in New Orleans. Maryse is expected to be backstage at Wrestlemania 30 this weekend, while Maria is still an uncertainty.
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During Wrestlemania 30 weekend, Mickie James performed a couple of her songs on the stage at the Sugar Mill in New Orleans. The former WWE diva is in town for WrestleCon, where she signed autographs and met with fans. Elijah Burke was spotted at her concert, and he confirmed it on Twitter by stating that he got a chance to jam out with Mickie.
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Through Twitter, Honky Tonk Man posted this rather interesting message about having to buy his own ticket to New Orleans during Wrestlemania 30 weekend. He mentioned something about WWE screwing him over. The former Intercontinental Champion is in town for WrestleCon, and it does not appear that he was invited to the big event on Sunday night.
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A couple of former WWE divas will be in New Orleans this weekend, and one of them is Maria Kanellis, who has been booked by WrestleCon to meet and greet with fans. While she has attempted to make up with Nikki Bella and Brie Bella recently, it is uncertain if she will be invited backstage at Wrestlemania 30 itself.
April 5, 2014
While much of the wrestling world has converged in New Orleans for Wrestlemania 30 this week, Melina Perez is one of the more notable names missing from the events. She has not been booked for WrestleCon, even though the likes of Fifi the Maid, Tammy Sytch and Gorgeous George, the former girlfriend of Randy Savage, are making appearances.
April 5, 2014
Legendary former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk is in New Orleans this weekend. He is scheduled to meet and greet fans at WrestleCon. While Wrestlemania 30 is nearby, it is uncertain whether or not he will be backstage at the pay per view, as his relationship with Vince McMahon has always been on again and off again.
April 5, 2014
With much of the wrestling world in the state of Louisiana this weekend, Mr Anderson will be in New Orleans as well. Instead of working Wrestlemania 30, though, he will be making an appearance at WrestleCon, along with several dozens of other big name performers like Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page and Scott Hall.
April 4, 2014
While his potential involvement at Wrestlemania 30 has yet to be confirmed by WWE, Rob Van Dam will certainly be in New Orleans this weekend, as he is one of the slew of professional wrestlers who have been booked for the WrestleCon event taking place in the Louisiana. RVD has a signing on Saturday, but he is free on Sunday night to work a big pay per view match.
April 4, 2014
Even though he has not been officially announced by WWE as taking part in Wrestlemania 30, Bret Hart will be in New Orleans this upcoming weekend. The former world heavyweight champion has been booked by the promoters of WrestleCon to show up at their event. He will be meeting fans, taking pictures and signing autographs.
April 4, 2014
Since she is in New Orleans this weekend for WrestleCon, Maryse Ouellet is also expected to be backstage at Wrestlemania 30 to support her husband Miz. The belief is that WWE officials will gauge her interest in making a return to the company now that she is done planning her big wedding. Maryse is said to be less resistant towards coming back lately.
April 4, 2014
Since he is going to be in New Orleans this weekend for WrestleCon, there are heavy speculations that Sting could be showing up at Wrestlemania 30 as well. However, those are just rumors for now, as the legendary former world heavyweight champion had his plane tickets purchased by WrestleCon promoters as opposed to WWE.
April 2, 2014
When 2014 started, WWE fans had high hopes that this would be the year when Sting finally makes his appearance at Wrestlemania. As time has passed by, those odds decreased tremendously, and now, it looks like it is definitely off the books, as Sting has been booked to make an appearance at WrestleCon in New Orleans that weekend instead.
March 19, 2014
Seems like everyone in professional wrestling will be in New Orleans during Wrestlemania 30 weekend. It has now been announced that Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian have been signed to make appearances at WrestleCon. They will be signing autographs and taking pictures during the entire weekend.
March 6, 2014
Earlier today, Velvet Sky informed her fans through social media that she had been added to the WrestleCon event next month in New Orleans. The show coincides with Wrestlemania 30 being in town. Several non WWE stars will be in Louisiana that weekend, including Mickie James and Angelina Love, who are working a big match for an independent wrestling company.
March 4, 2014
There are speculations now that Edge could be making an appearance at Wrestlemania 30. The former WWE champion has signed on to make an appearance at WrestleCon, which is taking place in New Orleans during the same weekend. Edge has revealed in the past that he is a huge fan of the Ultimate Warrior, who is being inducted this year.
February 15, 2014
Kevin Steen has been booked for a huge match at WrestleCon, which is taking place in April in New Orleans. The former ROH Heavyweight Champion will be wrestling Masato Tanaka, a Japanese star and ECW legend who is returning to America just for the event.
January 11, 2014
During a recent interview, Maxine revealed something very interesting that took place backstage in WWE. She stated that while she was working in the developmental program, she pitched an idea to management about her character and story line. About a day later, Maxine noticed that Aksana had been given that very gimmick that she had pitched to company officials.
October 31, 2014
If you are a wrestling fan and anywhere near Sun City, you might want to pick up a copy of Red magazine soon, as Maxine poses topless on the cover of the latest edition. The former WWE diva is going by her real name of Karlee Perez.
March 8, 2014
This really hot picture of Maxine in sexy shorts and a tight fitting top that exposes her breasts has surfaced online. The former WWE diva herself highlighted the picture on her social media account.
March 3, 2014
Maxine is now involved with a web series called The Cell, which is produced by Imani Films. The former WWE diva is now working as an actress. The show is about five women who are marked for death in a government cover up, before being trained on an island by the same government to fight global injustice.
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Who would want to be buried in a cemetery with Hitler or bin Laden? Rosenbaum asks rhetorically. Theres nothing civilized about saying he deserves to be buried with people who lived more moral lives. The idea is to honor the dead, not to desecrate the dead. Bostonians are not ready to move on.
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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles-area immigration consultant and one of her employees were arrested Thursday morning after being indicted on charges they alleged filed fraudulent "green card" applications on behalf of immigrants who were married to U.S. citizens, some of whom paid more than $20,000 for their services.
Claudia Arreola, 35, of El Monte, who owns California Immigration Services (CIS), and her business associate, Leticia Gutierrez, 35, Pico Rivera, were taken into custody by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The two women were charged in a six-count indictment returned Tuesday by a federal grand jury.
"Fraud scams run by so-called notarios threaten the integrity of the immigration process and offer false hope to desperate people," said United States Attorney André Birotte Jr. "The two women in this case victimized immigrants for years by giving the false impression that they could fix immigration problems."
According to the indictment, the defendants submitted paperwork to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on behalf of six foreign nationals who were seeking to obtain "green cards" – permanent resident status – based on legitimate marriages to U.S. citizens. The applications filed by the defendants allegedly included fraudulent I-94 cards indicating that the immigrants, who originally came to the U.S. illegally, entered lawfully on visitors' visas.
The immigrant victims were originally quoted fees of approximately $7,000, but the defendants ultimately charged them as much as $24,000. To pay the debt, some of the couples borrowed against their credit cards or obtained loans from family and friends. Subsequently, investigators say when several of the foreign nationals sought refunds after they failed to receive "green cards," the defendants allegedly threatened to contact authorities and have the aliens deported.
"Tragically, as is often true in such scams, at least some of the victims in this case could have obtained green cards legally," said Claude Arnold, special agent in charge for HSI Los Angeles. "Instead, they placed their trust and, in many cases, their life savings in the hands of individuals who were focused on enriching themselves, rather than on helping hopeful immigrants realize the American dream."
Investigators say the similarity between the name and acronym for Arreola's consulting business and USCIS, the Department of Homeland Security agency that adjudicates applications for immigration benefits, was no coincidence. Evidence developed during the investigation showed that money orders and cashier's checks made out to USCIS had been deposited in bank accounts controlled by defendants.
The probe targeting Arreola's CIS began in 2011 after HSI received leads from USCIS's Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) directorate involving several suspicious benefit applications. While only six instances of fraud are charged in the case indictment, authorities believe the scheme is responsible for dozens of fraudulent benefit applications.
"Arreola victimized immigrants for personal gain by pretending to be associated with USCIS," said USCIS FDNS Western Regional Assistant Director Ken Takeda. "We are committed to upholding the integrity of our immigration system by combatting these deceptive practices. USCIS strongly encourages the public to seek legal advice or representation from attorneys or accredited representatives."
Arreola and Gutierrez are expected to be arraigned on the indictment Thursday afternoon in federal court. If convicted, both defendants face a statutory maximum penalty of 60 years in federal prison.
In 2003, the Attorney General of the State of California filed suit against Arreola and Gutierrez, among others, alleging the defendants had engaged in an illegal scheme to provide immigration services in violation of California law. Both Arreola and Gutierrez entered into settlement agreements in which they promised not to engage in illegal immigration consulting services in violation of California law, specifically agreeing not to promise certain benefits or results in immigration cases. In 2006, the defendants began operating California Immigration Services and engaging in the conduct alleged in the indictment.
This case is part of an ongoing, nationwide effort by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to target unscrupulous immigration practitioners and combat the unauthorized practice of immigration law. The initiative relies on federal, state and local resources to combat the widespread problem of unauthorized practice of immigration law. Other partners involved in the Los Angeles effort include the Federal Trade Commission, the Los Angeles County Department of Consumer Affairs, the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, and the Attorney General's Office of the State of California. For more information on the initiative, please visit http://www.uscis.gov/news/national-initiative-combat-immigration-services-scams.
HSI and USCIS believe there are additional victims in this case who have not yet been identified. The Los Angeles County Department of Consumer Affairs has a toll-free number that victims can call to get information or seek assistance: 1-800-593-8222.News Source : Los Angeles-area 'notarios' indicted in fraud scheme that cost some immigrants their life savings
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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I'm a guy in a rock band who had very long hair. It took three years to grow, and I was proud of it. Last weekend my older brother, who's losing his hair, got drunk and cut my ponytail off while I was sleeping. I woke up right after. I was livid and beat him up, for the first time. The next night I was scared to go to sleep; I stayed awake with a chair braced under the bedroom doorknob. My parents stopped giving him the car as punishment. So he told them off, and moved in with his girlfriend and her family. Now our whole family is in hell and my mom is crying all the time. I don't know how to handle it. My parents are religious and demanding we pray about this and talk and then make up and "heal the rift in the family" so my brother moves back home and "we become a family again." I feel like I would have to quit school and move out because I'm afraid for my back. My close auntie said she would take me in at her place, and she told my parents. I think there's something sick about my brother. Please help. -- Living in a Volcano, Downtown
Dear Ready: When a big problem blows up in a family and complicates everything, people often look at the last move made (in this case, your brother moved out), rather than the source of the original problem. What happened that made your brother so crazy-mad he cut your hair off? Was there a precipitating incident or argument or insult, or is your brother losing it mentally and/or drinking and taking drugs? Any way you look at it, everybody in the family needs help. No one can just walk away from this mess, as it will not get better. If you want your mom to stop crying, stop threatening to move out and install a lock on your bedroom instead. Momma can't stand to lose two sons in one month. Whole family counselling would be the best, from an outside agency (it costs considerable money, but it's private) or someone in your church that everybody agrees to (probably free, but there are other costs). If you want private help for yourself, Klinic offers 24/7 phone counselling at 204-786-8686 and free walk-in counselling five days a week at their 545 Broadway location (call 204-784-4067 for times).
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I'm desperately in love with my school principal and don't know what to do about it. I'm a teacher in his school and I have been in love with him for several years. I think he knows it, but he's not responding to me, although I know he likes me a lot. The man is single, and there are no other eligible women in the school. But it would be a big scandal if we started going out. Having said that, I still want him so badly! What can I do? I stay awake at night dreaming of him. -- Loving Him So, Manitoba
Dear Loving: Would failing to do anything about this give you regrets when you're 80? You have to make the move. If he cares, he doesn't dare hit on you or it would be sexual harassment. The best thing to do is ask him if he wants to go for coffee sometime. If he says a quick no, you have your answer. If he agrees to meet you, tell him, "It's been bothering me for a few years. I really like you, but I totally respect our professional relationship, and if you don't feel the same it's OK. I just had to ask." You will have your answer by looking at his face. If it's a clear "no go," it's time to close this door. And, try to get a job at a new school for next fall, so you can finally get him out of your life and refocus.
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There's always "Me and Charlie Talkin"!
Oh wait, you mentioned that song in the introduction. Sorry.
Hey, what about "My Tennessee Mountain Home"?!
Oh. A typically wide-ranging list, Juli. Nice work.
Well, I was gonna mention Greg Trooper's "Lightning Bug" but I see that's not the direction the comments are going today.
I enjoy hearing either of the Robison brothers sing, "Tonight."
"A kiss and a whisper in the back of my car,
Collecting young girls just like fireflies in a jar…
Lightning bus ARE mentioned in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Fishin' In The Dark!
Best Firefly song? "The Ballad of Serenity."
Is that the first Joss Whedon reference we've had on the site? Well done, sir.
Fireflies are a regional thing and references to them for folks that have never seen one are kind of meaningless. The closest I've come are the fake ones (LEDs suspended on a moving wire that flash) in the initial boat launch area of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride at Disneyland. When I think of summer time related insects its more like mosquitoes or gnats…
Where in the US are there no fireflies? (That's a serious question.)
Juli: If I haven't referenced Buffy at some point I have been slacking.
NM: I grew up in Eastern Oregon and did not see fireflies until I moved to Texas.
Stormy, that's startling. I guess it shouldn't be; I know the ecosystem's different west of the Rockies. So you never got to see cats chasing fireflies? What an impoverished childhood!
'Serenity' reference FTW.
It's from another genre, but I'm glad there's been no mention of Owl City's "Fireflies"… oops! There it was. Godawful song.
Trailer: Now that you've mentioned the song, my favorite firefly song is "Fireflies" by Owl City. I was waiting for someone to talk about it, and you were the one Trailer. It's a great song!
I will always remember the song "Fireflies" as the song that moved a 40 something year old woman to tears next to me at a Tim and Faith concert about five years ago. Beautiful song…
NM: What's really weird is that mom remembers them from her chilhood in Idaho.
Rick: "Fireflies are a regional thing and references to them for folks that have never seen one are kind of meaningless."
I don't know about you, but never having been to a rodeo, doesn't make for a wasted country song – I enjoy it all the same
Anyways, I love "Me and Charlie Talking" =) Such a cute song
Yeah, but they just went to Idaho to be off the grid.
First song that came to mind was McKenna's 'Fireflies'. Second was Sarah Buxton's 'Innocence' for the line "There was butterflies in my stomach and fireflies in the air"
Fireflies are indeed regional. Seems to me that they don't really get west of the rocky mountain range.
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Scarlett Johannson just whooped Dwayne Johnson's ass in the box office, as her movie Lucy took the number one spot on the box office chart this weekend with Johnson's Hercules in second place.
Hercules, armed with a massive marketing machine, played in 3,595 theaters this weekend but only got $29 million in box office revenue, versus the $44 million that the Luc Besson-directed Lucy received. Lucy also played in 420 less theaters.
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More than a year has passed since I have commented at any length on feminism and the issue of gender equality because frankly, the blog/YouTube wars and constant bickering between feminists, the men's rights crowd and those who are somewhere in between made my head hurt. As such, I'm a little bit behind the curve in becoming aware of this Anita Sarkeesian person, who seems to have made quite a stir in the atheist and gaming community with her long-form videos about misogyny in gaming such as this one:
I recently became aware of her because of a recent interview she conducted with Stephen Colbert. While I have not watched all of her videos, I have watched "Damsel in Distress" parts one and two, in which she claims that the majority of action and adventure video games depict women as merely pawns or objects in male-centric narratives. Men, in her view — and she provides example after example — take the lead role in most of the games, with any females taking a backseat as secondary characters or love interests that the male character must rescue from certain doom because the females are disempowered, weak and incapable of saving themselves. In the first video in this series, Sarkeesian mainly focuses on two of Nintendo's largest franchises, "Super Mario Bros." and "The Legend of Zelda." I was never as into Zelda, so I will focus on her critique of Mario Bros. As she recounts the story of the game, the princess, Peach, is captured by the villain, Bowser, and Mario must go through eight grueling levels to save her. Sarkeesian thinks that Mario, Zelda and other longstanding franchises that began decades ago could and should have been modernized to more robustly include strong women characters into the narrative.
First, as The Amazing Atheist pointed out, (and my linking to him doesn't imply that I agree with him on every point) Mario and most of the other games she talks about follow the monomyth narrative structure, in which the protagonist begins the story in his or her everyday life, something unusual or bad happens and the hero goes on an adventure to right a wrong. Or, as Joseph Campbell put it:
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.
True, a majority of the action and adventure games that follow this structure feature a male protagonist and a female character that the male must either protect or rescue from peril. Like Mario, as in more modern games that follow this structure, the male typically goes through all sorts of dangerous challenges to protect the female because he either loves her or she is an important person.
Obviously, high-profile exceptions to this pattern exist within the gaming industry, but since they go all but unnoticed by Sarkeesian, I will briefly mention some here.
In many cases, like "Assassin's Creed Black Flag" and "Red Dead Redemption," female characters guide players through certain parts of the game and are imperishable parts of the storyline. Annie Stoakes, a cattle rancher and important character to the central story of "Red Dead," competed in a gun duel tournament against male opponents. The game's Wiki page had this to say about Stoakes:
Annie's father did not adhere to the gender roles of the day: He raised his daughter to be a successful, independent rancher in a violent, male dominated society.
In "The Last Of Us," the main character, Joel, lost his daughter 20 years before the main storyline begins. Through the early part of the game, he is accompanied by a female ass kicker named Tess, who helps him escape Boston. Through most of the rest of the game, Joel partners with a quick-witted and emotionally unflappable teenage girl named Ellie, who becomes an ass kicker in her own right.
In her two videos, Sarkeesian paints the impression that there are virtually no strong female protagonists in video games, now or in the past. While there are certainly fewer males than females in leading, playable characters in video games overall, which is probably because of the demographics of people who play action and adventure games and the demographics of those who development them, Sarkeesian conveniently fails to mention some prominent females that did actually command lead roles.
Metroid, which was another of Nintendo's most popular franchises, follows the protagonist Samus Aran. In the first game in the series, players did not know until beating the game that the main character was, indeed, a female. This goes unmentioned in Sarkeesian's analysis. More modern games that have featured woman in prominent and empowered roles, including the following:
- Lara Croft, "Tomb Raider"
- Chell, "Portal"
- Aveline de Grandpre, "Assassin's Creed III: Liberation"
- FemShep, "Mass Effect"
- Joanna Dark, "Perfect Dark"
- Jill Valentine, "Resident Evil"
This doesn't mention the countless number of strong female characters in the Final Fantasy series and other role playing games over the years. For more examples of lead female roles, see here:
In two videos that cover almost 50 minutes of content, Sarkeesian concedes that there has been a "moderate increase" in the number of lead female roles in video games recently, but can only be bothered to specifically mention two titles, "Beyond Good & Evil" and "Mirror's Edge," in 30 years of development. Also included in her list of games that disempower and objectify women was "Dante's Inferno," which I thought was a head-scratcher since the game is based off Dante's "The Divine Comedy," one of the greatest works of literature of all time, and in the game, the main character literally claws through the terrors of hell to save his love, Beatrice.
Sarkeesian does not seem like a person who is interested in presenting a fair picture of the video game market or even the entertainment market. Unlike Sarkeesian's uneven presentation of the problem — and misogyny and violence against of women in video games is a problem, just as it is in real life — the video game industry has produced a number of strong, empowered female characters. I would be interested to know that if the roles were reversed and a large number of video games suddenly came out with female characters victimizing males and that somehow spoke to a larger problem in society, would Sarkeesian come to the defense of disempowered males? I should hope so, but for some reason, I'm not sure.
Of course, I wouldn't care if she didn't; I would just like to know if she's at least willing to be consistent.
Last, I couldn't help but wonder why Sarkeesian's critique was limited to video games. If the problem of disempowering and objectifying women is prevalent in video games, it is certainly prevalent in movies and television, and perhaps it's prevalent in the entertainment industry because it is, most unfortunately, prevalent everywhere. The problem, then, is not violence in video games, or even violence in movies and TV, but violence, abuse and objectification of human beings, male, female, gay, lesbian, black or white. Assholes and abusers will probably always exist, so I'm not here to offer a particularly optimistic view on stamping out all three of those anytime soon, but in this case, video games provide yet another example of art imitating life, not the other way around.
On alleged racism in the WWE
WWE has taken a beating in the wrestling community recently for at least three incidents of alleged racism or stereotyping against some of its former top stars, including Alberto Del Rio, the original Sin Cara and Ricardo Rodriguez. Sin Cara said WWE created a bad environment for Latinos to work and claimed he was subjected to numerous incidents of racism from WWE employees, noting that the company higher-ups could be "very racist:"
(There) are different cases. I have never complained about anything. … Sometimes the "gringos" are very racist, sometimes (managers) made racist jokes.
The company's Chief Operating Officer and on-air head of The Authority heel faction, Triple H, allegedly nicknamed Rodriguez "Bumblebee Man" after the character on The Simpsons, according to reports from Rodriguez.
Del Rio's case is perhaps the most serious incident that has come to public light so far. Del Rio, whose real name is José Alberto Rodríguez, reportedly overheard a racist joke against Mexicans come from a WWE employee named Cody Barbierri. According to Del Rio, he told the employee, "Say that again to my face," to which the employee smirked and did not apologize. Del Rio slapped the man and was subsequently fired after previously being told he was just going to get a three-week suspension with no pay.
Here's Del Rio's recent account about what happened:
Apparently, the employee threatened to sue the company over the incident, so Del Rio was fired. The employee in question is apparently no longer with the company.
One isolated incident is one thing, but three Latino workers having problems with the company in such a small window of time could be a bad sign, especially since WWE trips over itself to promote its Be A STAR anti-bullying campaign. STAR stands for show tolerance and respect. And Vince McMahon doesn't exactly have a glowing record of anti-bullying himself, drawing heat for mocking former announcer Jim Ross' bell's palsy in front of millions of people on RAW.
Pro wrestling fans know that WWE has pushed certain Latino stars to the top, most notably Rey Mysterio Jr. and Eddie Guerrero, but pushing Hispanic wrestlers has always been more about making money by tapping into the large Latino demographic than seeking diversity in the company. Mysterio, who has been injury prone as of late, became famous way back when WCW was around and only later transitioned to WWE. As his star was fading, WWE had hoped that Del Rio and Sin Cara were going to be the next big Latino stars. While Del Rio reached the upper midcard and had some main event matches, Sin Cara was mostly a failure.
As a side note, I thought the editing job in the Del Rio interview above was interesting. For some reason, the producers left in "fucking" but edited out what immediately followed, which if my lip-reading skills are correct, was "racist prick." Perhaps that was done at the request of Del Rio.
Boehner's all about that action, boss
House Speaker Rep. John Boehner has balls of titanium steel, I'll give him that. In the following speech, he has the gall to say that he and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have "worked" closely together for eight years. If by "worked" he means grousing around Capitol Hill, crying over spilled milk that their party is not in the White House and admitting that they would rather undermine the president at every turn rather than trying to make the most out of the situation for the betterment of the nation and his own constituents, he would be accurate:
He then kissed McConnell's ass and in Boehner's tried and true fashion, proceeded to speak for "the people," even though he and McConnell's inaction the last eight years have been all about them and their party and nothing whatsoever to do with the will of the nation, all the while pretending to be willing to compromise and work across the aisle. Funny how since Boehner and McConnell now have a majority in both houses, they're now talking about action. The obscurantism is so thick that you would think that the American public would see through the charade, but after Tuesday, clearly not.
The people who vote these sophists into office deserve the government that they get.
Via Reddit user Swampfoot:
God cemetery
That headline doesn't have quite the same ring as "Pet Cemetery." In any case, H.L. Mencken once asked, "Where is the grave-yard of dead gods?"
As it happens, a couple were started last year, one by the North Georgia Skeptics Society:
And another by Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Most recently, a group from Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi. Here is a brief post from Reddit user Agnostic Atheist:
This is our own Graveyard. It's not as big as a good one, but it still has a few dozen. Over night, some guys slightly vandalized our signs, with grammatical errors of course. It will be up all week up until Halloween this Friday. And a few of us at a time sit at the table to explain our club and promote discussions.
If you haven't read Mencken's essay, "Graveyard of the Gods," it's well worth a look.
Auto-Tuned out, random thoughts on hip-hop
So, apparently T-Pain can actually sing and is not hiding behind that abortive invention known as Auto-Tune:
Unfortunately, artists who use Auto-Tune have been stinking up their already mediocre songs since Cher first used it on "Believe" back in 1998, and hip-hop/R&B, with a few exceptions, is still producing music and videos like this that cater to every known stereotype and cliché about black culture in America:
Seriously, I can't think of a time between 1995 and 2010 where this video and this song, with their well-worn, low-hanging-fruit-type themes — money, alcohol, partying in the club, etc. — wouldn't be out of place. I don't want to cast too wide a net here, but it's almost as if the hip-hop genre — and I recognize there are important exceptions like Jay Z, Kanye West, Mos Def, etc. — hasn't moved on or found anything else interesting to contemplate in 20 years. If that is true to some degree with hip-hop, it's definitely true of R&B.
Questlove, in his essay series, "When the People Cheer: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America," was on point in his critique of hip-hop, noting in particular that when the genre became mainstream, or "ubiquitous" as he dubbed it, the genre seemed to lose part of its identity and reverted back to the same themes in which, "The winners, the top dogs, make art mostly about their own victories and the victory of their genre:"
Twenty years ago, when my father first heard about my hip-hop career, he was skeptical. He didn't know where it was all headed. In his mind, a drummer had a real job, like working as music director for Anita Baker. But if I'm going to marvel at the way that hip-hop overcame his skepticism and became synonymous with our broader black American culture, I'm going to have to be clear with myself that marvel is probably the wrong word. Black culture, which has a long tradition of struggling against (and at the same time, working in close collaboration with) the dominant white culture, has rounded the corner of the 21st century with what looks in one sense like an unequivocal victory. Young America now embraces hip-hop as the signal pop-music genre of its time. So why does that victory feel strange: not exactly hollow, but a little haunted?
I have wondered about this for years, and worried about it for just as many years. It's kept me up at night or kept me distracted during the day. And after looking far and wide, I keep coming back to the same answer, which is this: The reason is simple. The reason is plain. Once hip-hop culture is ubiquitous, it is also invisible. Once it's everywhere, it is nowhere. What once offered resistance to mainstream culture (it was part of the larger tapestry, spooky-action style, but it pulled at the fabric) is now an integral part of the sullen dominant. Not to mention the obvious backlash conspiracy paranoia: Once all of black music is associated with hip-hop, then Those Who Wish to Squelch need only squelch one genre to effectively silence an entire cultural movement.
And that's what it's become: an entire cultural movement, packed into one hyphenated adjective. These days, nearly anything fashioned or put forth by black people gets referred to as "hip-hop," even when the description is a poor or pointless fit. "Hip-hop fashion" makes a little sense, but even that is confusing: Does it refer to fashions popularized by hip-hop musicians, like my Lego heart pin, or to fashions that participate in the same vague cool that defines hip-hop music? Others make a whole lot of nonsense: "Hip-hop food"? "Hip-hop politics"? "Hip-hop intellectual"? And there's even "hip-hop architecture." What the hell is that? A house you build with a Hammer?
AT&T foretells technological future
AT&T can hardly take credit for all of these innovations, but this ad campaign from 1993-94 was amazingly prescient:
Here is a detailed look at some other early Internet ad campaigns. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first banner ad online.
President tunes out cable news
For all its tireless bluster, FOX News is, for all intent and purposes, wasting its time and energy trying to chastise the president or somehow influence policy. Why? Because President Barack Obama isn't watching cable news, and that includes CNN and MSNBC. Any president worth his wait in salt wouldn't be influenced by the media anyway, but for all of Obama's inadequacies at this point, namely his hawkish drone program and his thus far failed promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, we can at least take heart in the fact that we have a president who still consumes publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post in written form, whether in newsprint or digital, which, I might add, is more preferable by several large degrees from a vice presidential nominee in 2008 — who would have been one heart beat away from assuming the highest office in the land — not being able to name a single publication that she reads on a daily basis.
Here is former press secretary Jay Carney talking about Obama's media proclivities:
Anderson Cooper had the gall today to say CNN isn't trying to stir up fear with its almost continuous coverage of this Ebola stupidity, but instead, the station is "spreading information."
Thousands dead in West Africa. Meh. Who cares? A handful of Americans threatened: Time to put the entire CNN machine on the case!
Missing in action
Where the hell is the Iraqi army we spent eight years and $25 billion training?


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My name is Linda Silverman Shefler and I started this site.
This site encompasses the combined efforts of several cousins who have been researching their specific branch of the family, unaware of the existence of each other until several months ago. All of the cousins descend from the various children of Bailli Diefenbach and Joseph Stern, except for me. I descend from Bailli's sister, Hanche (Henriette) Diefenbach and her husband Joseph Meier Marx.
There were two additional sisters that I am aware of, but to date cannot trace their descendants. These four sisters were the daughters of Aron Diefenbach and Scheine (Schönchen) Goldschmidt (of Uttrichshausen). The records indicate that this Diefenbach family was living in Sterbfritz, Hessen as far back as the 1780s. It can be that they were living there prior to that, but I'm not yet aware of any records to prove that.
Aron had a brother, David Löw Diefenbach, who was married to Telz. Aron and David Löw were the sons of Jüttel (Jehuda) Diefenbach, who was probably born about 1730 and is our earliest documented ancestor.
Our combined efforts have yielded us a tree that includes 723 descendants from Jüttel (Jehuda). There is still a tremendous amount of unknowns for this family and it is my sincere hope that by having our family tree online, other descendants from this family will discover us.
There is another Diefenbach family from the area. They changed their name to Regensburger and lived in Zeitlofs. The earliest documented member of that family was David who was probably born about 1725 and was probably the brother of Jüttel (Jehuda). David was a Hazan (cantor).
I worked with two highly experienced researchers in Germany who both separately commented that they feel that the Diefenbach and Diefenbach>Regensburger families are one and the same. This assessment is due to the uniqueness of the name, the proximity of where they lived, the closeness of their ages and the repetition of the name David in both families. Because of that, and solely for the purpose of this site, I've decided to connect Jüttel (Jehuda) and David as brothers, again, in the hope of attracting the attention of researchers from the Regensburger family. It is not generally considered genealogically correct to connect families without documented proof, so I want to be clear that the connection is based on the assessments of a couple of researchers and not yet on fact.
As I mentioned in the opening paragraph, this work is the combined effort of several cousins. While each of us is working extensively on various branches of our individual families, the following is relevant to the Diefenbach family as a whole:
Some of the more prevalent surnames found within the site are:
HESS, KATZENSTEIN, LEVI, LEVISOHN, MARX, REGENSBURGER, SCHUSTER, STERN, TANNENBAUM and WILD.
The main towns and villages where our ancestors lived are:
Flieden, Harmuthsachsen, Hintersteinau, [possibly] Romsthal, Sterbfritz, Zeitlofs and Züntersbach.
As one who has done a tremendous amount of research on my various family lines independently, or with other researchers not necessarily connected with my specific family, I have to say that the opportunity to connect to and work together with cousins towards the common goal of creating an accurate family tree and history is a real treat!
It is my sincere hope that everyone will expand upon the tree as our knowledge increases, as well as share stories and pictures of the family. The more stories and pictures we have, the more the family will come alive for us.
It is with pleasure that I introduce you to the Diefenbach family!!
Dear Cousins,
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all Shana Tova. May the New Year bring us much needed peace, compassion and hopefully, new ways of dealing with the worldwide issues that affect us all. May it bring each of us personally only good health, happiness, love and the fulfillment of our dreams.
Wishing you a sweet and peaceful 5775.
SILVERMAN, CHARLES M., 84, of Riverside, previously of E. Providence, Bristol, E. Greenwich and Providence died September 13, 2014. He was the beloved husband of Nancy (Maningo) Silverman to whom he had been married for 10 years. He was born in Providence, a son of the late William and Mildred Silverman.
A 1948 graduate of Hope High School, he was a U.S. Air Force veteran having served during the Korean Conflict. Mr. Silverman was the manager of the former Heller & Co. of Providence, a manufacturer of gold rings. He was the owner of the former Allyn's Products Inc. of Providence, a wholesale Sports Fishing & Tackle Co. A self-employed artist specializing in light house prints; he was a serious amateur photographer, an avid striper fisherman and sailor. He was involved in Operation Clean Sweep and was a co-founder of Operation Clean Government and was a longtime lobbyist at the RI State House.
In addition to his wife, he is survived...
The German government has agreed to compensate child survivors of the Holocaust that were born after January 1st, 1928. Please share this information with everyone you know that this is relevant to.
Copy and past this link to access the article:
"The project, called "Spurensuche, Deutsch-Jüdisches Kulturerbe Weltweit" in German and "Traces, German-Jewish Heritage in the world" in English, will go live on the internet December 4th and include radio and television broadcasts in four languages".
This will be particularly interesting for those whose families left Germany during WWII.
The Nuremberg Municipal Library has about 10,000 confiscated books, today subsumed under the heading "Collection Jewish Community Nuremberg" (Sammlung Israelitische Kultusgemeinde IKG). The 10,000 volumes were part of the collection of Julius Streicher, the Nazis' chief propagandist and creator of the notorious anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer.
Most of these books were taken illegally by the Nazis from Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution -- among them, Freemasons, clergymen and activists and institutions connected with the labour movement and left-wing political parties. The collection was placed in the hands of the Nuremberg Jewish community (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde) at the end of the war, which then gave it to the Library on permanent loan.
About a third of the books carry marks of provenance (signatures, book plates, stamps etc.) of former owners from over 400 locations, mainly in Europe. The librarian Leibl Rosenberg researched the books and compiled a list of the names of the former owners found in the books.
In January 2008 a first search list of 121 previous owners, predominantly from Nuremberg and Fürth, was published by the Nuremberg Municipal Library, and on the home page of this Central Registry which worked in partnership (together with the Registry's sister organization, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe) to assist those responding and to trace others. The list can be found at the end of this message.
The response to the first search request was enormous. Two thirds of the cases were resolved and taken off the search list by 2010. In total, 150 volumes were returned to the previous owners or their heirs in the USA, Israel, Great Britain, Austria and Switzerland.
In September 2010, a further list of 306 names of owners whose heirs are being sought was published, and a press release was issued by the Library.
Further details and the list of names can be found below.
Joel (Pete) Stern passed away this morning in his sleep, a week and a half after his 92nd birthday. He was the youngest brother of David Stern's father. David honored his beloved uncle by sharing these thoughts in response to the the condolences offered by his friends. Pete sounds like a man it would have been wonderful to know and it's clear he'll be sorely missed.
"No sense in being sorry, but thanks for the thoughts. He has done everything he wanted to do in his 92 years, and is surrounded by the people who care about him. He had a great day yesterday, organizing his affairs, like a Victorian gentleman. He was making bad puns, and doing his emails. He retained his full faculties, and had a lot of joy. Sometime early this morning, he started slipping away. I miss the old coot. He was the kind of uncle that you read about. He was the "go to" guy for family dirt, an off- color story or a bad pun. We became very close over the last few years, and he took his duties of oldest surviving member of the family pretty seriously. He came to visit me here, in Italy, at 91, and made many Italian friends while he was here.He taught himself Italian, database usage and spreadsheets in his 70s, and was wired like a teenager. We joked a lot because he was a die hard liberal and I am more Libertarian, but he honestly believed that the wealthy have an ethical obligation to care for the less fortunate, and he was very generous, even when he wasn't flush with cash. He remained true to his beliefs, until the end. Even just yesterday, you could have had an in depth conversation about Syria, and he would have been 100% up to date. We got to say goodbye, with no beating around the bush or euphemisms. He knew what was going to happen, didn't fear it and made himself as prepared as possible. I don't cry for him. I cry for those left behind who will miss him".
Our condolences to Pete's children, Roger and Carla, and their spouses, as well as his extended family.
Mark Glickman shared this very interesting article with me, "Passages through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War" pertaining to an exhibit that is at the AJHS (American Jewish Historical Society) in New York, and is then moving to the Jewish Museum of Maryland.
"There has been a lot of scholarship on Southern Jews and the relationship between blacks and Jews, but on the Civil War per se, relatively little. Despite this neglect, the Civil War is kind of a crucible of American Jewish history. The Jewish population in 1840 was about 15,000, and in 1860 it was about 150,000, and there were probably about 10 or 11,000 Jews who fought in the Civil War — maybe about 7,000 on the northern side, 3,000 on the southern side. The war rapidly accelerated Americanization on both sides, and more than 50 Jews were commanders of regiments. The story we're telling here is about rapid Americanization. In some way it's a Jewish story, but it's an American story in that it illustrates how America provided a framework for Jews to exercise their talents relatively unhindered by their Jewish identities".
Here is the link to the rest of the article.
I recieved the following email yesterday from a 4th cousin, Dr. Efrem Goldberg. Efrem is from another branch of my family, but his story made my day and is a perfect example of one of the amazing benefits of family research! With his permission, I'm sharing his email to me!
Dear Linda,I want to share with you an interesting story.Last night, I was at a wedding of a friend of mine (the groom). Suddenly, in walks a Nulman cousin (Mordechai Adelman). When I greeted him and asked him what his connection to the wedding is, he said, "What do you mean? We're family with the bride!" Of course, nobody could figure out how we were related, if indeed we were at all.Then today, I suddenly remembered the website you run. Sure enough, the bride (Simone Shapiro) is my 4th cousin. Of course, I took the liberty of adding the new groom to the family tree. So, thank you for all of your hard work, which connec...


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ICT News Desk: How Bleach Kills Bacteria
Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have made strides in understanding exactly how bleach kills bacteria—and how bacteria's own defenses can protect against the cellular stress caused by bleach. The insights gained may lead to the development of new drugs to breach these microbial defenses, helping our bodies fight disease. Click to read more and see the video.
Order out of Disorder: Working Cycle of an Intrinsically Unfolded Chaperone Cell
The redox-regulated chaperone Hsp33 protects organisms against oxidative stress that leads to protein unfolding. Activation of Hsp33 is triggered by the oxidative unfolding of its own redox-sensor domain...
Clean results: U-M researchers learn how bleach kills bacteria
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