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☆ Clients like Taylor Swift and 'Euphoria' love my realistic airbrush tattoos. Here's how I built my business.
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
The way tattoos on-screen are commonly done in the entertainment industry is with a sticker. I didn't set out to airbrush tattoos, or to work in film and TV at allI started airbrushing when I was 8. Almost as soon as I started my tattoo business, I was in high demand. We started to get calls for A$AP Rocky, Zayn Malik, Chris Brown and moreI started developing my realistic airbrush tattoo business for film and television in 2009. I was credited this time, for my airbrush work on Fezco's Grandma, Kitty, on episode 1.
☆ Pell's secret memo casts shadow at cardinal's funeral
  + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Philip Pullella | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/7] Pope Francis attends a funeral of Cardinal George Pell in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, January 14, 2023. About 300 people attended Pell's funeral Mass in a secondary chapel of St. Peter's Basilica. In keeping with tradition for deceased cardinals, the Mass was said by the dean of the College of Cardinals, Italian Giovanni Battista Re. But Pell was given a standard solemn Vatican funeral for a cardinal. Father Joseph Hamilton, Pell's personal secretary, declined to comment on Magister's report and Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni said it had no comment.
☆ 5 ways to make affordable housing for all in 2023 — from construction laws to mortgage financing
  + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Houston has been able to keep its housing affordable in large part because of just this, he said. Jeff Tucker, the chief economist at Zillow, also told Insider that the biggest hurdle to affordable housing was "zoning reform." California has already done this when its citizens voted to pass Proposition 46, which provides funding specifically for affordable housing. It allocated just shy of $1 billion to the multifamily sector, according to CCIM, and is expected to see $13 billion in private funds be pushed into affordable housing. In July, Ginnie Mae, a federally-backed mortgage provider, specifically focused on affordable housing, requested that a manufactured home mortgage program be extended.
☆ Xi calls for unity as China enters 'new phase' of COVID policy
  + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
"Since the outbreak of the epidemic ... the majority of cadres and masses, especially medical personnel, grassroots workers braved hardships and courageously persevered," Xi said. Let's work harder, persistence means victory, and unity means victory." China's decision to abandon the zero-COVID policy aligned it with a world that has largely reopened to live with the virus. The step followed unprecedented public protests over the policy championed by Xi, marking the strongest show of public defiance in his decade-old presidency and coinciding with grim growth figures for China's $17 trillion economy. Reporting by Eduardo Baptista; Editing by Alison Williams and Frances KerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ North Korea's Kim kicks off key party meeting ahead of New Year
  + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Hyonhee Shin | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/6] North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the sixth enlarged meeting of the eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this undated photo released on December 26, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERSSEOUL, Dec 27 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has kicked off a key meeting of the ruling Workers' Party, state media reported on Tuesday, a venue he has often used to announce major policy decisions marking the New Year. The Sixth Enlarged Plenary Meeting of 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was convened on Monday, the official KCNA news agency said. Kim also faces mounting economic challenges amid international sanctions over its weapons programmes, the fallout from an anti-coronavirus lockdown and natural disasters. North Korean state media previously released its leader's speech on New Year Day, but in recent years, Kim has called party gatherings at the end of the year to make major policy announcements.
☆ Pope Francis thrills small Gulf Catholic community with big Mass
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Philip Pullella | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
[1/5] Pope Francis greets people as he attends a holy mass at Bahrain National Stadium during his apostolic journey, in Riffa, Bahrain, November 5, 2022. REUTERS/Hamad I MohammedAWALI, Bahrain, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said Mass for thousands of Catholics in Bahrain on Saturday, thrilling members of the small foreign Catholic community from around the Gulf and urging them to show kindness to their hosts, even if they feel sometimes badly treated. "This is a miracle," said Mary Grace Fortes, 36, a Filipino who works at the reception of a hotel in Bahrain. The prayers of the faithful during the Mass were read in languages spoken by foreign workers including Tagalog, Swahili, Malayalam, Tamil and Konkani. The Mass was attended by one of the sons of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and several government ministers.
☆ How Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Academy provides financial inclusion and breaks down barriers of inequity
  + stars: | 2022-09-07 | by ( John Lynch | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +16 min
Insider profiled Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Academy at the conclusion of its program for Marcy Houses in Brooklyn. For Marcy resident Mariela Regalado, The Bitcoin Academy represented a continuation of an altruism she had seen from Jay-Z firsthand. Lamar Wilson teaching at The Bitcoin Academy. Following the conclusion of its summer courses at Marcy Houses, The Bitcoin Academy is "looking to expand to other neighborhoods soon," the program said. The over 350 people who attended The Bitcoin Academy classes let us know that this education is important to them - and that it matters.
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