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Huntsville activists host food push for the homeless and all those in need to have

Mark A. Carlson 2 weeks ago

One Huntsville team is rallying alongside one another to make certain persons are fed throughout the pandemic. The Underground Protest held their to start with-ever ‘Community Motion Food Drive’ Saturday.



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Dozens used the afternoon at Huge Spring Park under the gazebo assembling hot pet dogs and hygiene objects.

“We see a lot of homeless persons come up to us and inquire us about things like this,” states Underground Protest Community Outreach Guide, Treasured Briggs.

Briggs spearheaded the foodstuff push and claims she and the corporation are answering the call. In accordance to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, additional than 460 people are homeless on a offered evening in the Huntsville and North Alabama place.

Briggs claims they have noticed an boost in homelessness. “Regretably the town is expanding, but even with the city escalating I am viewing additional and extra homeless folks out

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The Electronic Divide Did not Go Absent, It Went Underground

Mark A. Carlson 2 weeks ago

In 1998, talking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies, President Invoice Clinton reported, “Today, affluent colleges are pretty much a few situations as very likely to have Internet access in the classroom white learners are far more than two times as most likely as black students to have computer systems in their homes. We can prolong prospect to all Americans or leave many

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A Grooming Qualified Shares His Tips for Styling Lengthy Hair With no Washing It

Mark A. Carlson 2 weeks ago

As any individual who may well have developed their hair out throughout quarantine can attest, acquiring for a longer period hair demands more time and exertion when it arrives to washing and styling. In a current video clip, YouTuber Greg Berzinsky explained how he only washes his hair when a 7 days, and then shown how he designs it for seven consecutive days.



a man looking at the camera: YouTuber Greg Berzinsky shared his advice for managing and styling long hair when you don't have the time to wash it, including sea salt spray and dry shampoo.

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YouTuber Greg Berzinsky shared his information for controlling and styling long hair when you you should not have the time to clean it, together with sea salt spray and dry shampoo.

Berzinsky begins out with squeaky clean hair on Day 1, obtaining washed and conditioned it, and wearing it down, it appears straighter than common thanks to a deficiency of the humidity that’s usual of his indigenous Philadelphia. “One particular of the complications with this climate is it can be

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A new Mexican restaurant Chilaquil opening Wednesday at Pearl’s Bottling Department food hall in San Antonio

Mark A. Carlson 2 weeks ago

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Chilaquil, a new Mexican food stall

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Important Areas Will take on 3rd Studio Location in Fashion Stores

Mark A. Carlson 2 weeks ago

Essential Spaces announces new reasonably priced artist areas at the Vogue Outlets Santa Fe on the City’s Southside.

Vital Spaces Takes on 3rd Studio Location in Fashion Outlets

Santa Fe, NM, Oct 07, 2020 –(PR.com)– Important Spaces now announced that they have signed a lease with the Style Stores Santa Fe on the south facet of Santa Fe. 3000 sq. ft. of now vacant place will be specified to Essential Areas to deliver very affordable studio, exhibition, and effectiveness room for Santa Fe artists. By securing this lease, Essential Spaces now offers obtain to affordable studio spaces in three unique Santa Fe neighborhoods: downtown, midtown, and the southside.

“I see the lack of very affordable area in Santa Fe as the finest danger we deal with to sustaining a varied cultural environment and extended-term vibrancy for the city,” states Vital Spaces founder Jonathan Boyd, “Vital Areas is a city vitality organization as substantially as an arts group. By transferring into

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Best offers on clothing from Nike, Asos, H&M and more

Mark A. Carlson 5 months ago

The coronavirus pandemic has meant all non-essential businesses have been closed since lockdown began on 23 March.

It’s had a detrimental impact on fashion shops across the UK. B2B magazine, Drapers reported in-store sales have dropped 84 per cent compared to 2019, and – despite online grocery sales surging – for the rest of the retail landscape things also look bleak.

Debenhams is closing five more stores across the UK, while Oasis and Warehouse have both permenantly closed after administraitors failed to find a buyer, which also includes around 2,000 jobs losses.

That said, prime minister Boris Johnson has announced all non-essential retailers will be able to reopen in England from 15 June, a move which will include clothes shops, in the latest easing of lockdown restrictions.

As an army of shops prepare to open their doors to the public for the first time in months, many

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SHEIN apologises and removes a swastika style necklace from its website following backlash online

Mark A. Carlson 3 months ago

Fashion brand SHEIN has apologised and removed a swastika style necklace from its website after receiving criticism about the product via social media.

Earlier this week customers headed to Twitter and Instagram to point out the discovery of a listing for a “metal pendant necklace” in the shape of a swastika.

“I am so disgusted by @sheinofficial’s sheer ignorance and blatant disrespect towards other cultures and religions,” activist and YouTuber Nabelor Noor wrote on Instagram.

Read more: I purchased Amazon’s viral £26 dress and it did not disappoint

Meanwhile, fashion influencer Marissa Casey Grossman, known as Fashion Ambitionist, also headed to social media to share her frustration and disappointment about the necklace.

Sharing a screenshot of the product, while it was still on sale, she called out the company’s decision to sell the necklace in the accompanying caption.

“HOLY F**K. I have zero words,” she wrote. “I will NEVER

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Save Up to 70% on Designer Dresses at the Big Style Sale from Amazon

Mark A. Carlson 4 months ago

Dress deals continue! The Amazon Summer Sale — also known as the Big Style Sale — is offering customers incredible savings on all types and styles of dresses through Sunday. Although Amazon Prime Day is postponed indefinitely, their Amazon fashion summer sale includes white hot sales and fashion deals from loads of brands that offer a discount of up to 80% off. Kate Spade New York, Rebecca Minkoff, Levi’s, Tumi luggage and Tory Burch are among the retailer brand names that are part of the Amazon Summer Sale.

Shop the Big Style Sale for top women’s clothing fashion brands like Self Portrait, For Love & Lemons, ASTR the Label, Black Halo and Theory and save anywhere from 25% to more than 70% off the regular price. If you’ve been thinking about freshening up your wardrobe with a few new summer dresses or are already planning outfits with

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The Designer Bags That We Really Love for 2020

Mark A. Carlson 3 months ago

At the beginning of the year, we already knew which designer bags were going to dominate in 2020. How did we predict correctly? Well, it’s a lot more than just guesswork. We spend time speaking to brands, buyers and looking at what’s trending in the fashion industry to see which bags are going to come out on top during the year. Of course, cult buys and new brands can emerge at any moment surprising even the most seasoned of fashion buyers and editors, but there are certain new styles that I guarantee we’ll be talking about as hero buys this December. 

That said, we didn’t know the pandemic was coming and the financial implications of that on the fashion industry and personal budgets. However, despite this, global fashion search platform Lyst revealed just yesterday in its round-up of the most popular brands of the year so far that the

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Nigeria’s Yoruba women announce their arrival in style

Mark A. Carlson 4 months ago
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Nigerian photographer Oye Diran reimagines the fashion of the Yoruba people in a stunning series of images.

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When an aunt sent Oye Diran an old family photo, he was mesmerised by the high sense of fashion and style exhibited by the Yoruba women of West Africa in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

The photo was of his mother and her sister adorned in iro and buba, the colourful two-piece outfit of wrapped skirt and top popular with Yoruba women in Nigeria.

Diran, a Yoruba himself and Nigerian photographer based in New York, noticed how the style of the iro and buba had evolved over time, but that the outfit still maintained its elegance.

Inspired, he ploughed through the internet looking for more vintage images of the outfit but was disappointed with what he saw.

“What I found were updated

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This New Size-Inclusive Swimwear Line Is Going to Be Everywhere

Mark A. Carlson 3 months ago

Confession time: For an industry that’s so creative, I’m always a little dismayed by the lack of inclusive-sizing. Sure, there are designers that are revolutionizing sizing with the industry, and more recently, 11 Honoré launched its high-end private label catered to creating clothing for women of all sizes, but when it comes to creating plus-size clothing at all price ranges, the industry still has some work to do. As if it weren’t already hard enough to find great plus-size brands to shop for regular clothing, shopping for a swimsuit can feel like an impossible feat. 

Luckily for women everywhere, the brand Good American is back at it. Launched in 2016 by Emma Grede and Khloé Kardashian, the brand became the place to shop for plus-size denim and was picked up by all our favorite retailers. This past June, the brand has decided to take it to the next level

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Soul food restaurant to open second Lehigh Valley location, dish out free children’s lunches

Mark A. Carlson 2 weeks ago

Craving candy yams, collard greens and other soul food staples?

Good news: Hot Plate Southern Kitchen, offering honey-dipped fried chicken, Cajun shrimp and other Southern fare, will hold a soft opening of its second location 2 p.m. Thursday at 163-165 Main St. in Phillipsburg.

The full-service restaurant will supplement the business’ other area location, which opened in March at 37 S. Ninth St. in downtown Allentown.

Hot Plate favorites include “soul bites” ($.75-$12) such as corn bread, deep-fried cauliflower, salmon croquettes and mac and cheese soul rolls; main dishes (starting at $13.75 and including 2 sides) such as barbecue pork ribs, honey-dipped fried chicken, smothered turkey wings and stewed oxtails; seafood selections (starting at $13.75 and including 2 sides) such as Cajun snow crab legs, barbecue salmon, fried whiting and deep-fried lobster tails with Cajun shrimp; and sides ($3-$5.75) such as Cajun hand-cut fries, fried sweet plantains, sauteed string beans

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‘This was out of a James Bond movie’: Police reveal the superior-rollers, forbidden food stuff and guns discovered at Markham’s illegal luxury on line casino

Mark A. Carlson 2 weeks ago

There are however a great deal of underground gambling places in the GTA, but excessive substantial rollers will have issues obtaining a substitute for a lately busted Markham casino the place they were being served pricey wine and forbidden delicacies like brazed shark fins by waiters in tuxedos though positioning their wagers, law enforcement say.

“This was a high-conclusion operation for substantial-end clientele,” Det. Sgt. Ahmad Salhia of the York Regional Law enforcement structured criminal offense bureau mentioned Thursday, immediately after police announced they experienced shuttered a Markham mansion that experienced been converted into an unlawful luxury on line casino.

“A whole lot of the guys were being stating, ‘This was out of a James Bond movie,’” Salhia mentioned about the July 27 raid on the procedure on Decourcy Courtroom close to Warden Avenue and Significant MacKenzie Generate.

At Thursday’s press meeting, Supt. Mike Slack of York Regional Law enforcement

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Paris Trend 7 days SS21 highlights

Mark A. Carlson 2 weeks ago

As a month-lengthy plan of equally electronic and actual physical displays throughout four major capitals will come to a shut in Paris these days, the temper in the fashion planet is challenging to gauge. On the 1 hand, a quantity of designers have shown that towards all odds splendor and creativeness can prosper even in the most challenging of contexts. On the other, the industry’s function — at least as it is now — in a planet that appears to be described by political conflict, and well being and climate-linked uncertainty — is unclear.



a person wearing a hat: Schiaparelli Spring-Summer 2021

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Schiaparelli Spring-Summer months 2021

As trend designer Daniel Roseberry told commentator Tim Blanks in a current podcast by The Company of Style, “There is something pretty irrelevant about what we carry to the desk appropriate now. Fashion shows never have to be appropriate right now. There (are so) lots of other things that

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As task reduction strips People in america of wellbeing insurance policy, diabetics convert to insulin-sharing underground

Mark A. Carlson 2 weeks ago

D.j. Mattern experienced her Variety 1 diabetic issues underneath regulate right until COVID’s economic upheaval charge her spouse his hotel upkeep work and their health and fitness protection. The 42-yr-aged Denver lady instantly faced insulin’s exorbitant record rate — anyplace from $125 to $450 for every vial — just as their home cash flow shrank.

She scrounged added insulin from buddies, and her health practitioner gave her a couple samples. But as she rationed her supplies, her blood sugar rose so superior that her glucose keep track of could not even register a quantity. In June, she was hospitalized.

“My blood was as well acidic. My technique was shutting down. My digestive tract was paralyzed,” Mattern mentioned, soon after three months in the healthcare facility. “I was pretty much in the vicinity of death.”

So she turned to a increasing underground network of folks with diabetic issues who share extra

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Amazon’s Big Style Sale ends Sunday! Here’s how to score up to 70% off

Mark A. Carlson 4 months ago

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While the summer season typically calls for barbecues and beach hangouts on major holidays, it also calls for one event shoppers like us look forward to every year: Amazon Prime Day. While the main shopping event has been postponed until further notice this year, the giant retailer is still providing major savings during its first Big Style Sale.

The Amazon fashion sale began at 12 a.m. PST on Monday and has provided several exciting deals from huge brands. The sale is set to end at 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday.

To help you navigate through the rest of Amazon’s style sale, we’ve

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Fashion Week Preview: Christopher Raeburn

Mark A. Carlson 4 months ago

The coronavirus has come for Fashion Week, but Fashion Week is unbowed. With the 2020 edition of LFWM going all-digital, the event’s key designers talk us through how they’ve adapted to showing clothes in a world where showing clothes is (almost) impossible.

What’s been the biggest challenge with producing a lockdown fashion ‘show’?

Whilst the last months have had their challenges operationally, we’ve used our obligation as creatives to look for better systems and ways of doing things. It’s been a unique situation to test, experiment and react – taking those learnings to work towards a better future. ⁠Not only have we dug deeper into our material archives, we’ve actually truly brought Craft, Creativity and Community to the fore.

What non-fashion skills have you picked up during lockdown?

Lockdown has pushed us to optimise and adopt new digital tools and processes, accelerating our move to a more efficient way of

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Five takeaways from the Fuji Super GT curtain-raiser

Mark A. Carlson 3 months ago

The new GR Supra will be very hard to beat

On Sunday, the all-new GR Supra became the fourth new Toyota GT500 model in a row to win on its SUPER GT debut, following the Lexus SC430 (2006), the RC F (2014) and the LC500 (2017). And it did so in dominant style, locking out the top five positions and leaving rival marques Honda and Nissan, also with new cars for the 2020 rules, to lick their wounds.

After topping pre-testing and then practice on Saturday evening, Honda went into qualifying as the favourite for pole with its new front-engined NSX-GT, but it was tyre choice on an unexpectedly warm day at Fuji Speedway that made all the difference in the end. Even the temperature rising between Q1 and Q2 made a difference; Nirei Fukuzumi shattered Ronnie Quintarelli’s lap record in Q1 at the wheel of the #8 ARTA Honda,

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The XFL and 17 Other Sports Leagues That Failed

Mark A. Carlson 3 months ago

Leagues like the NFL have more than a century of history and have evolved into multibillion-dollar organizations — but they all started from humble beginnings. Many ambitious startup leagues have attempted to duplicate that magic only to realize that running a sports league is no easy feat. Some failed startup leagues organized around existing sports. Others created imaginative and unfamiliar new athletic contests. All, however, have an interesting story — and maybe even lessons you can learn from their failures.

The brainchild of WWE boss Vince McMahon (back then it was the WWF), the XFL lasted for only a single season in 2001 — and then many years after that, it came back to start a season in 2020.

When the league started, McMahon used the age-old twin marketing devices of sex and violence — which he successfully employed to make wrestling a multibillion-dollar global enterprise — to sell … Read More

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