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It’s time for practice: a two-mile run, a couple hours of batting, bowling and catching drills, and lots of giggles. The girls, including his own daughter, all refer to him as “veera,” meaning elder brother in Punjabi. Mr. Shergill’s wife, Kamaldeep Kaur, helps coordinate with the 20-odd families through the team’s WhatsApp group. For the girls, the daily routine is an escape from the boredom of village life. After each practice, they lie in a circle, their backs to the grass, their faces to the sky’s fading light.

☆ I left teaching and now make $450,000 in revenue a year covering up scars and stretch marks with tattoos. Here's how I built my lucrative business from scratch.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Natalie Rahhal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Laura Lara, a paramedical tattoo artist, who lives in El Paso, Texas. In 2022, I made $457,000 in revenue working full-time for myself in the paramedical tattoo industry. There's also pigment camouflage, which is done when the stretch marks are flat, white, and over a year old. Some people think paramedical tattooing is just for women, but stretch marks don't discriminate. Paramedical tattooists are changing people's lives and that's the best part of itThe paramedical tattoo industry is growing and evolving.

☆ How a Missed Tummy Tuck in Mexico Led to a Deadly Kidnapping
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Jacey Fortin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Within minutes of riding into Mexico in a rented white minivan last month, Latavia McGee knew that she was lost. She and three of her closest friends — close enough that she called them brothers — had driven from South Carolina to Matamoros in the state of Tamaulipas so that she could get a tummy tuck procedure. But this time, she was running late, had no phone service and had veered off course, Ms. McGee recalled in a recent interview. Also in the wayward van were Zindell Brown, Shaeed Woodard and Eric Williams, old companions with whom she had grown up in South Carolina. That morning in Mexico, they had been enjoying one another’s company, Ms. McGee said, as Mr. Brown, the best Spanish speaker of the four, asked strangers for directions.

☆ 12 Best Gifts for a First-Time Dad
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +7 min

Here are 12 of the best first Father’s Day gift ideas. For the stylish dadFew things are more adorable than teeny baby shoes—especially when they’re paired up with a practically identical pair of kicks for Dad to wear as well. For the sentimental dadGo ahead, pull on the heartstrings—a sentimental gift makes perfect sense, especially for an occasion like Father’s Day. The cap comes in 14 color combinations and can even be personalized with a different word or phrase of your choice. “It’ll make a great prop or photo opp, and you can’t have too many cute new parent pictures!” she says.

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☆ A man detained multiple times said North Korean prisons have improved over the years because the last time he was jailed he no longer had to walk on all fours
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One expert told CNN that many released prisoners are unaware that they lived through torture. His testimony was one of many used in a report released Friday from the NGO Korea Future, which detailed torture and abuse faced by detained North Koreans. "In the past, we had to crawl with both hands and knees when we were moving, but in 2017, we could stand up and walk," the man told CNN. So they just simply thought that they were bad people and for that reason, they were being punished," Kim told CNN. In February, the UN HRC released a report on human rights that backs up many of Korea Future's findings.

☆ Another friend traveled all the way to Texas with the 4 Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico but didn't cross the border with them because she didn't have her ID
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A friend of the four kidnapped Americans in Mexico traveled all the way to Texas with the group. But the woman stayed behind at a hotel in Texas because she didn't have her ID, the AP reported. That's all, and this happened to them," Orange told the AP. Zalandria Brown, Zindell Brown's sister, previously told the AP that her brother was worried about crossing the border. Meanwhile, Williams' wife, Michelle Williams, told WBTW that she had no clue her husband was headed to Mexico.

☆ Wife of American man kidnapped in Mexico didn't know he was crossing the border. He just said he needed to help out a couple of friends.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The wife of one of the Americans kidnapped in Mexico didn't know he was headed there. Michelle Williams, the wife of Eric Williams, told WBTW in an interview that she only knew her husband was helping out two friends. I just knew he was going somewhere to help two friends," the wife told the news outlet. Meanwhile, Brown's sister, Zalandria Brown, told the Associated Press that her brother was worried about crossing the border. "This is like a bad dream you wish you could wake up from," Zalandria Brown told the AP.

☆ The 4 Americans who were attacked after crossing the Mexican border were traveling to get a tummy tuck procedure, relatives say
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Chris Panella | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Two of the four Americans kidnapped in Mexican are dead, while the other two were found alive. Relatives told CNN and ABC News the group traveled for one of them to get a tummy tuck procedure. Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal said the other two Americans were found alive in Tamaulipas, according to Latinus journalist Claudio Ochoa Huerta. Obrador confirmed at a press conference Monday that the group was abducted on March 3 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, near the Rio Grande and southern US border with Brownsville, Texas. It was originally reported by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the group traveled to buy medication.

☆ Health Startups Offer Diabetes Drugs Like Ozempic for Weight Loss With Little Oversight
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Rolfe Winkler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In an Instagram ad for online weight-loss service NextMed, a young woman holds the skin on her stomach and complains about her “little tummy pouch.” In an ad for a similar service—launched by Instacart’s former chief executive—a model wears a yellow bikini and weighs 102 pounds, according to a modeling-agency profile. Digital health startups are racing to cash in on booming demand for diabetes drugs that are effective for weight loss, but some of the companies are advertising and prescribing the drugs to people who aren’t overweight.

☆ I've made $630,000 in 2 years as a 55-year-old OnlyFans model. It means I can give my son a better life and save for his college fund.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elaina St James is a 55-year-old OnlyFans model. St James says she's happier since ditching her day job and can give her son a better life. (Elaina St James is a stage name she uses. OnlyFans subscribers to Elaina St James pay $9.99 a month. "I don't have the perfect body," Elaina St James told Insider.

☆ 10 best prepared meal delivery services in 2023, according to experts
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Mili Godio | Mili Godio Is An Associate Reporter For Select On Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +14 min

Best prepared meal delivery services to considerWe talked to experts about their favorite prepared meal delivery services, including options for certain dietary restrictions like gluten-free and vegetarian, and highlighted their recommendations below across budgets and diets. All the meal delivery services below offer single-serve ready-to-eat meals, with some offering additional meal kit options, too. Cost : Starting at $11 per meal with free shipping: Starting at $11 per meal with free shipping Number of meals: Four to 18 meals per weekFactor provides a weekly rotating menu of over 27 pre-prepared meals designed by dieticians, according to the brand. You can choose your preferred meal plan, including a Breakfast plan that includes five smoothies, a Lunch option that features five soups and grain bowls or a combination of the two. Cost : Starting at $14 per meal with free shipping: Starting at $14 per meal with free shipping Number of meal: 12 meals per weekPlantable offers vegan, plant-based meals that are made from scratch in the company’s kitchen in Brooklyn, New York, according to the brand.

☆ ‘The Last Taboo’ in Fashion: Showing Off Your Belly Button
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Rory Satran | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Has fashion reached Peak Belly Button? Recently, we’ve witnessed the rise of crop tops for men, children, dolls, puppies and pregnant women, as well as super low-rise jeans and miniskirts from designers such as Miu Miu. Swimsuits and dresses now feature so many tummy and side cutouts they can resemble Swiss cheese. As midriff exposure has become almost humdrum, a new style is emerging: the belly-button-focused diamond-cutout dress. “Showing the belly button is the last taboo,” says New York designer Michael Kors, who created a black diamond cutout gown for entrepreneur and model Lori Harvey to wear to the 2022 Met Ball.

☆ 8 best gluten-free meal delivery services in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Mili Godio | Mili Godio Is An Associate Reporter For Select On Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +13 min

Fortunately, many meal kits and pre-made meal delivery services offer several gluten-free menu items for any type of meal that can be tasty, creative and easy to prepare when you’re in a rush. To determine the best meal delivery services with gluten-free options or entirely gluten-free menus, we spoke to nutritionists and dieticians about the best services to try out and highlighted each individual service’s pricing, delivery frequency and meal options. 8 best gluten-free meal delivery services to tryWe spoke to experts about their favorite meal delivery services that either provide gluten-free options or have an entirely gluten-free menu. One of Sunbasket’s 10 available meal plans is the Gluten-Free plan, which features five to eight gluten-free options each week. BistroMD offers a specialized gluten-free program that lets you choose from over 100 gluten-free meals each week, according to the service.

☆ The F-14 Tomcat first flew 52 years ago. Here's why the US destroyed them rather than let anyone else buy them.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Blake Stilwell | We Are The Mighty | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The US Navy's famed F-14 Tomcat fighter jet first flew on December 21, 1970. There was only one foreign customer for the advanced F-14 Tomcat fighter during its heyday: Iran. Rob Tabor/USAFThe Iranian air force was so skilled in the Iran-Iraq War that a lone Tomcat could clear the skies of enemy aircraft without firing a shot. The idea of selling Iran rare F-14 parts so it didn't have to cannibalize its own F-14 inventory was preposterous. It was this concern that led the Pentagon to shred every leftover F-14 Tomcat.

☆ I'm a wellness-app founder who developed insomnia in lockdown. Here's the routine I used to get my sleep back on track.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Lola Christina Alao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She told Insider she began sleeping terribly while working up to 14 hours in lockdown. My morning — and evening — routines used to be very different when I had insomnia in 2020. I like to say affirmations when I'm in a depressed mood — but when I'm feeling tired, breathing exercises help a lot. I start with more high-level strategic things, like reviewing the product roadmap — things that actually require a lot of brainpower. After three hours of this deep-focus time, I go out and walk my dog to make sure I'm getting enough exposure to light.

☆ FDA advises parents not to use infant head shaping pillows
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Parents should not use infant head shaping pillows to change a baby’s head shape or symmetry, the Food and Drug Administration advised on Thursday. Head shaping pillows typically look like a small mat that slopes downward in the middle to an indent or hole designed to cradle the back of an infant’s head. Not all such pillows are labeled as "head shaping" — some are called baby head support pillows, head cushions, flat head pillows, or anti-flat head pillows. According to the FDA, marketing claims for head shaping pillows commonly suggest that they can improve an infant’s head shape and symmetry or prevent or treat flat head syndrome. The FDA also urged health care providers to discourage the use of infant head shaping pillows and to educate parents on the risks associated with them.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ video edited to remove ‘fat’ reference after criticisms
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Taylor Swift’s music video for “Midnights” lead single “Anti-Hero” has been edited to remove a scene that shows her stepping on a bathroom scale that read “fat.”The music video on Apple Music appears to no longer shows the scale, instead, Swift’s anti-hero clone just looks at her with a face of disappointment. The music video on YouTube still features the scale displaying the word “fat.”Contacted by Variety, reps for Swift and Apple Music did not immediately have a comment. “But the way that Lana (Wilson, the film’s director) tells the story, it really makes sense. I’m not as articulate as I should be about this topic because there are so many people who could talk about it in a better way. If I was given a punishment, I registered that as bad.”

☆ Trombone Champ is the internet's new favorite video game. The developer never expected the toots to go viral.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Kahlan-Rosenblatt.Jpg | Kalhan Rosenblatt | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Trombone Champ is the newest video game players can't put down — even if those around them wished they would. Developed by Holy Wow Studios, the rhythm-based video game is similar to Guitar Hero — but swaps the guitar for trombone. The game, which was released Sept. 15, went viral this week after people online — ranging from video game reviewers to actual trombone players — began posting recordings of themselves playing it. He came up with the idea for Trombone Champ four years ago, inspired by traditional arcade cabinets. Dan Vecchitto, trombone Champ developerDeveloping the game was a relatively smooth process, according to Vecchitto, who worked on it on nights and weekends.

☆ I make 6 figures a month in revenue from baking. I started in my apartment 2 years ago — here's how a billboard helped me scale it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-08 | by ( Amber Sunner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I was the chief dating expert at Match.com when I started selling homemade, gut-friendly cookie bars out of my kitchen in June 2020. My gut issues materialized almost overnight in 2016 after an instance of food poisoning that never resolved itself. In 2020, I also began entering Facebook groups for people with gut issues. While driving around LA, I thought billboards would be a great way to normalize the conversation around gut issues. There was also a trend going around TikTok at the time about gorgeous girls having gut issues.

☆ 'If it blows up, it's cool': The far-out philosophy that explains why Elon Musk won't let a few baby sea turtles stop SpaceX's quest to get to Mars
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

In the case of Elon Musk v. Charismatic Megafauna, the agency intends to publish its final report in late April. Musk went on: "Either explicitly or implicitly some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth's surface. Musk is talking about existential risk, the idea that something — an asteroid, a rogue artificial intelligence — might kill every human on Earth. And if you assume that future human minds will "mainly be implemented in computational hardware instead of biological neuronal wetware," as Bostrom does, you end up with a mind-boggling 1054 human lives. Musk has made the defense of "future life" his mission.

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