Angel Messages August 30 2016 — Annette Rochelle Aben

Your Daily Message from Angels… CHOOSE to LOVE YOURSELF HEALTHY! We love you Yes, Angels! Appreciating your support!!

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Protests over South African High School’s policy allegedly against natural hair — Natural Fantastic

While on Twitter I noticed a trending hashtag #StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh. I clicked on it and saw images of protests, and tweets of support for girls protesting the school’s hair policy. On Saturday the 27th of August, Pretoria High School for Girls held its annual Spring Fair, this year the event was met with protests by some black students.…

via Protests over South African High School’s policy allegedly against natural hair — Natural Fantastic

AM BUZZ: Swizz Beatz Stands Up For Alicia Keys; Tia Mowry Talks Reality Of Raising Black Son & More… — HelloBeautiful

Swizz Beatz Stands Up For Alicia Keys Source: Getty Ever since singer Alicia’s Keys’ Lenny Letter hit the ‘nets proclaiming she was makeup free, people have had a lot to say. The 35-year-old recently appeared at the VMA’s white carpet continuing her mission to be au naturale. So of course, a parade of hate and praise came…

via AM BUZZ: Swizz Beatz Stands Up For Alicia Keys; Tia Mowry Talks Reality Of Raising Black Son & More… — HelloBeautiful

American Airlines Asks Passengers To Make Flying Experience Better (Because It Won’t) — Consumerist

American Airlines wants you to be happy in the air. Or at least, they want you not to cause an incident that will result in an emergency landing and major disruption. So instead of adding features, creating legroom, or improving their end of things, American’s asking you: have you considered being more zen and less…

via American Airlines Asks Passengers To Make Flying Experience Better (Because It Won’t) — Consumerist

A Short Analysis of Philip Larkin’s ‘Afternoons’ — Interesting Literature

A summary of a great Larkin poem ‘Afternoons’, like a number of Philip Larkin’s other poems, treats the theme of the passing of youth and the setting-in of middle age. But rather than focusing on his own middle age (Larkin was in his mid-thirties when he wrote the poem, in 1959), Larkin examines the lives […]

via A Short Analysis of Philip Larkin’s ‘Afternoons’ — Interesting Literature

Amazon Testing A 30-Hour Work Week For Some Employees — Consumerist

The dream of the four-day workweek is alive at Amazon, where the company is testing out a plan that has certain teams of workers on a part-time schedule. The teams consist of information-technology specialists in Amazon’s human resources department, who will work Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., using the 16 remaining…

via Amazon Testing A 30-Hour Work Week For Some Employees — Consumerist

Super simple salad… — foodbod

When life gives you fresh ripe tasty tomatoes….make this!!! This simple tasty salad is based on fattoush and is a current favourite of mine…the best bit is the twist at the end… Chop/slice as many tomatoes as you like, and as many red onions as you like, and mix with some handfuls of chopped flat […]

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Airbnb Hosts Having Difficulty Refinancing Homes — Consumerist

Until recently, home loans generally covered two types of properties: primary residences or investments. That was before services like Airbnb allowed anyone with an extra room to make a bit of extra money by renting it out for short periods of time. This blurred line between “my house” and “my investment” is causing trouble for…

via Airbnb Hosts Having Difficulty Refinancing Homes — Consumerist

Video Claims To Show Price Discrepancies Of Up To 78% At L.A. Zara Store — Consumerist

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Last week, a Zara customer filed a lawsuit against the company accusing it of misleading customers by posting some prices in euros and others in U.S. dollars, and of making up its own exchange rates to charge more for those items with price tags in dollars. The plaintiff’s lawyers now say they have even more…

via Video Claims To Show Price Discrepancies Of Up To 78% At L.A. Zara Store — Consumerist

#Poetry | The Door

The Old Blue Door

The door

Doesn’t everything begin a long time ago?

Someone somewhere opened a door.

Someone somewhere locked it.

Someone somewhere knocked loudly,

then softly,

and then no more.

-db