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Woman Paints Entire Car With Nail Polish

Mon, 12/22/2008 - 10:00am by bellasugar What would you do with approximately 250 bottles of nail polish? Why, painstakingly paint a giant colorful quilt on your car, of course. According to The Maryland Gazette that's just what Urbana resident Jill Bell did. After finding a dent in her car's hood, she cleverly painted a Band-Aid over the unsightly bump. Chuckle. She liked the idea so much, she decided to paint her entire car with nail polish! I'm guessing (and hoping) she didn't use one of those $30-a-pop lacquers from Chanel's Moscow Collection. Nope. What she did use? The help of others. "Lots of ladies in my church donated nail polish, and lots of ladies at Weight Watchers, too," she told the newspaper. Bell estimates that 100-250 bottles of nail polish were used to accomplish this feat — a feat that took 13 months to finish. Whoa.

The most-suspended athletes

Dec 22, 3:41 pm EST As a kid, Donald Brashear wanted to be a boxer. He didn’t get his wish exactly, but he came pretty close. Brashear is now a 36-year-old professional hockey player for the Washington Capitals. Officially, he’s a left winger, but he’s just as likely to be called an enforcer. He checks hard and punches harder. Brashear’s stats reflect his pugnacious playing style. Through Dec. 19, Brashear had earned 2,487 penalty minutes in 957 career NHL games. He’s also on our list of the most suspended athletes in major U.S. team sports over the past dozen years. According to Stats Inc., the winger ranks seventh with six suspensions. At the top of the list: NBA forward Ron Artest, with 12 suspensions. His most infamous came in the wake of a 2004 rumble between the Indiana Pacers (Artest’s team at the time) and the Detroit Pistons. During the brawl, Artest rushed a fan in the stands and punched another one on the court. The NBA kept Artest off the court for the remaining 73 games of

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Obama says he won't be smoking in White House

Reuters Sun Dec 7, 2008, 2:50 pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Barack Obama failed to give a straight answer when asked on a U.S. talkshow on Sunday whether he had managed to quit smoking. In a country where cigarettes are responsible for one in five deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health care, Obama has been under pressure to set an example by giving up his reported two-decade-old habit. Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, interviewer Tom Brokaw told Obama he had ducked answering the question during an interview last month with ABC's Barbara Walters. Noting that the White House was a no-smoking zone, Brokaw asked Obama, "Have you stopped smoking?" "I have," Obama replied, smiling broadly. "What I said was that there are times where I have fallen off the wagon." "Wait a minute," Brokaw interjected, "that means you haven't stopped." "Fair enough," Obama sai

Fast Workouts That Really Work!

By Lucy Danziger, SELF Editor-in-Chief Posted Wed, Nov 26, 2008, 1:47 pm PST I love my long training runs, but most days carving out more than an hour to work out just isn't in the cards. And when my schedule is really crammed, shoehorning a sweat session seems next to impossible. Luckily, the fantastic fitness team at SELF let me in on a little secret: You can get an hour's worth of fitness and calorie burning in 20 short minutes. Yes, I was skeptical at first, but this fat-blasting routine is as ultraeffective as it is speedy, and the secret lies in high-intensity spurts of energy. Here's how to do it: • Pick any cardio you like (running, swimming, the elliptical trainer). Warm up for 2 minutes at a moderate pace, then sprint for 30 seconds at the highest intensity you can muster. Slow down and do 90 seconds at a catch-your-breath recovery pace. Repeat eight times. You'll torch more calories in less time, while you burn fat faster. Follow this cardio session with a fe

Top 2008 Trends "Olympians"

By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports writer The Olympic Games motto of "Citius, Altius, Fortius" means "swifter, higher, stronger"—and the 2008 edition was also bigger, in every way. For 18 magical days in August, China threw its arms open to the world and put on an unforgettably lavish sporting and cultural extravaganza. 1. Michael Phelps 2. Leryn Franco 3. Serena Williams 4. Kobe Bryant 5. Shawn Johnson 6. Jennie Finch 7. Misty May Treanor 8. Ronaldinho 9. Alicia Sacramone 10. Nastia Liukin Iconic venues such as the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube were marvels of modern architecture and, intertwined with Beijing's ancient sites, provided a fascinating backdrop for the most expensive Games ever staged. A worldwide audience couldn't get enough of it, hungrily hunting down every detail on the characters playing out sport's most marvelously unscripted drama. The Olympics was a nightly epic soap opera, in which Michael Phelps played the ideal leading man. The

Expect Oscar De La Hoya to go for a KO of Manny Pacquiao in Saturday's big bout.

By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports Dec 4, 10:41 pm EST LAS VEGAS – Oscar De La Hoya knows the media won’t be satisfied if he jabs his way to a clear-cut, but ho-hum, decision over Manny Pacquiao when they meet in the year’s biggest fight on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden. The public, De La Hoya understands, won’t be enthralled by a workmanlike victory over the reigning pound-for-pound kingpin. But most importantly, De La Hoya himself won’t be satisfied by anything other than a clear, decisive victory. He’s fighting a guy who has spent exactly three-quarters of his career boxing at super bantamweight or lighter. Logic would dictate that a good big man – in this case De La Hoya – should be able to defeat the good smaller man. But to the Golden Boy, who is fighting the universally recognized pound-for-pound champion for the second time in his last three fights (the last one being his loss to Floyd Mayweather in May, 2007), anything other than a knockout is not good enough. “I will be extremel

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Acting like the president two months early?

http://news.yahoo.com Mon Nov 24, 3:00 pm ET As Barack Obama said at his first press conference after winning the election, there can only be one president at a time. But, with two months to go before he's sworn in, Barack Obama sure has done a lot of "presidenting," to use the "Saturday Night Live" vernacular, in the past few days. Sure, his presidential flexing has been in terms of the economy and not Iran, what his original comment referred to, but still. It's exciting to watch the puzzle pieces fall into place, with new information coming daily. It started on Friday when NBC reported that Obama's Treasury secretary nominee would be NY Fed President Tim Geithner -- a report that sent stocks skyrocketing, with the Dow closing almost 500 points up on the day. Speculation began mounting shortly thereafter that Geithner's name had been leaked on purpose in an effort to boost the volatile stock market. Monday's full announcement of Obama's ec

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5 Foods That Improve Hair

Posted Wed, Nov 19, 2008, 5:49 pm PST The dry winter winds may carry tidings of holidays to come, but I'm just being honest when I admit that those winds are seriously messing with my hair. Being a foodie, I found myself wondering if I could eat something to help my struggling strands. To get the answer I spoke to Val Weaver from RealAge, a group of food experts and researchers focused on bringing the health benefits of youth to all ages. Val says, "Docs are now saying, the same superfoods that are especially good for the rest of you will also be good for your hair. If you eat them regurlarly, they can help make your locks look more like they did at 20." Here are her tips that give hope to our hair. RealAge's 8 tips to shinier, healthier hair: * Eat more salmon. Or more nuts "Omega-3 rich foods like salmon and sardines help seal in shine," say RealAge experts Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, MDs. Capsules of distilled fish oil or DHA supplements will work,

Will 'X-Men' Fans Accept a 'Gossip Girl' Script?

by Matt McDaniel, November 20, 2008 Professor X and Magneto. Wolverine and Sabretooh. Serena and Blair? It was announced on Wednesday that Josh Schwartz, the creator of the TV teen dramas "The O.C." and "Gossip Girl," will be writing "X-Men: First Class," another installment of the superhero franchise. Variety reports that the new film will focus on the students at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, rather than the adults like Wolverine and Storm. On paper the deal seems to make sense: Schwartz is a writer with a proven track record for soapy high school angst; the comic book was originally envisioned by Stan Lee to be focused on mutant teenagers and their issues; and assembling the actors from the first three films has likely become too complicated and expensive to do again. But will the younger-skewing take alienate the true fans? The previous movie, 2006's "X-Men: The Last Stand," was the most financially successful of the series, b

10 Misspelled Tattoos

Published on 11/17/2008 under Signs | www.oddee.com Nothing says forever like a misspelled tattoo And he'll juge your spelling Possibly the most famous misspelled tattoo. Instead of Chi-Town as the man requested, he got "Chi-Tonw". He later sued the tattoo artist. Does he means the spelling system? You're ambelievable! Tomarrow never knows how to spell tomorrow right Can you spot the three misspellings? ANSWER: freinds, straind, surley CNN reported that Joseph Beahm paid $100 for this tattoo, which was supposed to read “Why Not, Everyone Else Does”. Instead it came out as, "Why Not, Everyone Elese Does." He sued the tattoo parlor to pay for his laser surgery. Don't know if this is Comedy or... Tradgey To bad you don't own a dictionary Your alive? No, sir, that's my alive. Give it back!

Banks Boost Customer Fees to Record Highs

by Jane J. Kim Thursday, November 13, 2008provided by: theworldstreetjournal.com Bounced Checks, Overdrafts and ATM Use All Cost More; Penalizing Repeat Offenders Banks are responding to the troubled economy by jacking up fees on their checking accounts to record amounts. Last week, Citigroup Inc.'s Citibank started charging some customers a new $10 "overdraft protection transfer fee" to transfer money from a savings account or line of credit to cover a checking-account shortfall. Citibank had already raised foreign-exchange transaction fees on its debit cards and added minimum opening deposit requirements for its checking accounts. Over the past year, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s Chase, Bank of America Corp., and Wells Fargo & Co. have boosted the fees they charge noncustomers who use their automated teller machines to as much as $3 per transaction. With all these changes, the average costs of checking-account fees, including ATM surcharges, bounced-check fees a

Five Gadgets That Were Killed by the Cellphone

November 17, 2008 | 10:08:02 AM Calling a cellphone a mere phone seems a little silly these days. The little pocket wonders now do so much they are really handheld computers. With extras. The process of mashing one or more gadgets together in the same box used to be called convergence, but that approach quietly died as the mobile phone ate up any and every rival device. So successful has this been that whole product categories have had the life choked out of their twitching bodies by the phone. The following list is an obituary to five of them, plus a look at the cellphone's next victim. The PDA Remember the PDA? Right back to the Psion Organizer in 1984 (above), the PDA has essentially been an electronic calendar, address book and notepad. And right back to the Psion, with its squishy, non-QWERTY keyboard, they've been harder to use than their paper equivalents. Still, despite this, it took the cellphone to finally kill them off. The fatal shortcoming? The address book. Who on

Perfect Exercise for Your Busy Schedule

By Colette Bouchez WebMD Weight Loss Clinic-Feature Doing the Perfect Push-up Could the push-up be the "perfect exercise"? Here's what it can do for you, and how to get it right. While fitness fads may come and go as fast as their late-night infomercials, some types of exercise transcend trends. Among them is the push-up, which uses your own body weight along with gravity to tone and condition muscles. Some fitness experts have called the push-up the closest thing there is to a perfect exercise. And with good reason. "One of the reasons the push-up has endured so long is it's cheap, it's easy, it doesn't require any equipment, it can work multiple parts of the body at the same time -- and pretty much everyone, from beginners to athletes, can derive benefits," says personal trainer Jonathan Ross, a spokesman for the American Council on Exercise (ACE). What kind of benefits? If you're thinking the push-up is the best upper body exercise, many fitne

Secrets to a Happy Marriage

By Sean Elder, WebMD Feature Reviewed by Amal Chakraburtty, MD, MD Once it was simple. You got married, had kids, worked the land, and stayed married whether you could stand each other or not. The concept of "a happy marriage" was no more relevant than the idea of "a pretty tractor." "That has changed over time as marriage has become more independent," says Steven Nock, a professor of sociology who studies marriage at the University of Virginia and author of Marriage in Men's Lives. "Couples don't need each other for quite as many things as they once did. If you're running a farm with someone, it doesn't matter if you're pissed at her or not. You need her labor as much as she needs yours. The couple is more or less equally dependent on each other." Chances are, though, if you are reading this, you are not running a farm with your mate. And if you are, you are probably doing it out of choice, not necessity. As a recent Washingt

Obama's grandmother dies a day before election

By HERBERT A. SAMPLE, Associated Press Writer Herbert A. Sample, Associated Press Writer, 11/3/08 2:44 PM HONOLULU – Barack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, one day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86. Obama announced the news from the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C. The joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng said Dunham died peacefully late Sunday night after a battle with cancer. They said: "She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances." Obama learned of her death Monday morning while he was campaigning in Jacksonville, Fla. He planned to go ahead with campaign appearances. The family said a private ceremony would be held later. Republican John McCain issued condolences to his opponent. "Our thoughts

McKinney Dickens: The best place to experience the spirit of Christmas!

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