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☆ I'm a single mom of 3 living in Anguilla. My kids are safer than in the US and there's a bigger sense of community.
  + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Lauren Crosmedlicott | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Before moving to Anguilla when I was 13, I lived with my single mom in Oregon, Florida, and California. My dad is from Anguilla, so my mom always had a connection to the island. As a single mother, I'm not afraid someone will come into my house to steal or hurt my family. My kids don't experience bullyingI'm always reading about how bad bullying is in the US. AdvertisementWe don't spend money on things we don't needThere aren't a lot of stores in Anguilla.
Persons: —, Vanessa Croft, I'm Organizations: Service, Business, University of the West Locations: Anguilla, Oregon , Florida, California, We've, States, America
☆ Why young men are 'starvemaxxing' to look like their chiseled, masculine idols
  + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Rachel Hosie | Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
But the 32-year-old, who has 2.1 million Instagram followers, had no idea he’d come to be idolized by a subset of teenage boys and young men known as looksmaxxers . Advertisement“Hardmaxxing,” meanwhile, includes “more extreme ways of going about the way you look,” Shami said, such as getting fillers, botox, and plastic surgery, which he denies having. Young men are becoming more body-consciousIt’s unclear why looksmaxxing has suddenly become popular. The rise of looksmaxxing and starvemaxxing could reflect how such concerns are on the rise among young men, too. All the while, lost young men are left to work out what’s real and what’s trolling.
Persons: chiseled jawline, Francisco Lachowski, Jordan Barrett, Brad Pitt, ” Lachowski, TikTok influencers, Looksmaxxing, Kareem Shami, looksmaxxing, —, “, ”, ” Shami, TikTok, Shami, Starvemaxxing, Starvemaxxing isn't, ” Kareem Shami, Clare Thornton, Wood, Elizabeth Daniels, Johan Drumev, Drumev, ” Johan Drumev, Johan Drumev Lachowski, it’s, Young, Daniels, gaunt, ” Thornton, Lachowski Organizations: Business, BI, TikTok, British Nutrition Foundation, Pediatric, University of the, University College London Locations: looksmaxxing, Brazil, Brazilian, San Diego, England, Dubai
☆ Mystery of ‘Stick Man’ on Led Zeppelin album cover finally solved
  + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
London CNN —After more than half a century, the identity of the elderly, stick-carrying man featured on the “Led Zeppelin IV” album cover has finally been revealed. The “Stick Man” who featured on the cover of English rock band Led Zeppelin’s 1971 fourth studio album was a thatcher from the late-Victorian era, the Wiltshire Museum in southwestern England said in a statement Wednesday. Led Zeppelin members (left - right) John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant pose in front of their private airliner The Starship in 1973. This colored version was the only feature on the “Led Zeppelin IV” album cover, which, unusually, had no words on it, not even the band’s name. “It is fascinating to see how this theme of rural and urban contrasts was developed by Led Zeppelin and became the focus for this iconic album cover 70 years later,” the museum’s director, David Dawson, said in the statement.
Persons: thatcher, Wiltshire thatcher, Longyear –, Brian Edwards, UWE Bristol, Wiltshire Thatcher, Edwards, Ernest, Zeppelin, Robert, Jimmy, John Paul, ” Edwards, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Ernest Howard Farmer, Jimmy Page’s, David Dawson Organizations: London CNN, Wiltshire Museum, University of the, England, Regional, BBC Radio Wiltshire, Zeppelin, Hulton Locations: England, Wiltshire, Mere , Wiltshire, Shaftesbury, Whitsuntide, ”, Berkshire
☆ Lucky Find at Auction Identifies Man on Cover of ‘Led Zeppelin IV’
  + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Claire Moses | More About Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
On Nov. 8, 1971, Led Zeppelin released its iconic fourth studio album, which was untitled but is widely known as “Led Zeppelin IV.” It features the band’s major hit “Stairway to Heaven,” and the wordless cover shows the image of a bearded, older man with a large bundle of sticks on his back against the backdrop of a decaying wall. Now, 52 years later to the day, a minor mystery about that cover has been solved. Sometimes thought to be a painting, the image, it turns out, was a Victorian-era photograph of a man who made thatched roofs for cottages in Wiltshire, a rural county in southwestern England. His name was Lot Long and he was 69 at the time, according to Brian Edwards, a researcher who found the photo. As he was looking through a Victorian photo album full of landscapes and houses, Mr. Edwards noticed a photo he had seemingly seen before.
Persons: Lot Long, Brian Edwards, Edwards Organizations: Zeppelin, University of the Locations: Victorian, Wiltshire, England
☆ Last known speaker fights to preserve South African indigenous language
  + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
UPINGTON, South Africa, May 11 (Reuters) - When she was a girl in South Africa's Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an "ugly language". Now at age 90, she is the last known speaker of N|uu, one of a group of indigenous languages in South Africa that have been all but stamped out by the impacts of colonialism and apartheid. "We became ashamed when we were young girls, and we stopped speaking the language," Esau told Reuters. Instead she spoke Afrikaans, the language promoted by South Africa's white minority rulers. [1/5] Ouma Katrina Esau, the last known fluent mother-tongue speaker of the indigenous N|uu language is seen during the ceremony where she was honoured with an honorary Doctor of Literature degree by the University of Cape Town, in Cape Town, South Africa, March 29, 2023.
☆ Jamaica cool on Charles' coronation as it eyes break with monarchy
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Kate Chappell | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
The process to sever ties with the British monarchy is underway, following in the footsteps of another former Caribbean possession, Barbados. Maziki Thame, a political scientist at the University of the West Indies, agreed the coronation was of little significance. It gained independence in 1962 but retained the British monarch as head of state and stayed in the Commonwealth. Breaking ties with the monarchy is essential for Jamaica, said Steven Golding, president of the UNIIA-ACL, a Black nationalist organization founded in Jamaica by activist Marcus Garvey. "I'd like to hear what Charles has to say about the subjects in the Isle of Jamaica," she said.
☆ Why MLM Sales 'Huns' Get so Much Hate on Reddit, TikTok
  + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Aimee Pearcy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +15 min
Over the past few years, MLM companies have been under increased scrutiny. MLM companies largely appeal to those who are disconnected and looking for a way to get on solid financial footingAt first, Stimson felt optimistic. And a 2018 AARP survey found that just 25% of MLM participants made a profit. US direct-sales companies, which include MLM companies, earned $42.7 billion in retail sales in 2021, according to the Direct Selling Association — a 21% increase from 2019. And two-thirds of MLM participants said that "knowing what they know now, they would not join the same MLM company again."
☆ Fact Check-Image of Jacob Rees-Mogg at centre of scuffle is from 2018, not alleged House of Commons incident in October 2022
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Social media users are sharing a photo of UK Parliamentarian Jacob Rees-Mogg at the centre of a fracas and claiming it shows an alleged scuffle inside the House of Commons on Oct. 19, 2022. However, the picture was taken at an event at the University of the West of England (UWE) on Feb. 2, 2018. One Facebook page (here), uploaded an article (here) which uses a thumbnail image of the British MP in the centre of a group of tussling men. Similar social media posts can be seen on Facebook (here and here) and Twitter (here and here), where the tweets have amassed more than 1,500 shares combined. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.
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