One of the great things about removing paint from glass is that you probably already have everything you need at home. You don’t need to use any chemical-based products—just white vinegar and dish soap should do the trick! You could also use a clean sponge for this step, too. If the paint does come away completely from using the white vinegar, simply spray the window with glass cleaner and wipe it down to clean it off....
If you find yourself in this position, you can help treat your loved one’s loss of appetite by stimulating their desire to eat and helping them consume the calories and nutrients they need to stay healthy. It helps to know the right ways to approach this. Be Supportive, Not Pushy You can help your loved one most by reminding yourself that cachexia (unintended weight loss) is a common symptom of many illnesses and one that can be difficult to reverse....
Conneaut Lake Park didn’t specify exactly why the Blue Streak roller coaster was taken down, but officials had said the ride didn’t open at all last year because of the need for a structural evaluation. It is also only one of many rides that have been taken down or sold off since Philadelphia businessman Todd Joseph purchased the park at an auction, the Erie Times-News reported. Blue Streak was built in 1937 and has been opened and closed several times throughout the more than eight decades since....
HPV can be transmitted through skin-to-skin sexual contact so the transmission does not require sexual intercourse. There are more than 150 different strains of HPV. Ninety percent of the time, it goes away on its own in a couple of years. When it doesn’t, low-risk strains can cause genital warts, and high-risk strains can cause genital cancers. These cases can be treated but not cured. This article reviews nine must-know facts about HPV infections, symptoms, risks, strains, prevention, testing, screening, and treatment....
Socially inept people may overthink how they act in social settings and dwell on perceived mistakes. However, they may also understand social situations, and fail to engage with others by not reading the room properly or by paying more attention to themselves than to others. Many socially inept people also struggle with anxiety. Social anxiety is not the same as social ineptitude, though social ineptitude may contribute to social anxiety. Social ineptitude refers to general difficulty navigating social situations, while social anxiety refers to fear or insecurity in social situations....
The skin around your eye is really thin so it’s sensitive. Don’t scrub or pull the skin while you’re getting it ready for makeup. There’s no need to shell out for expensive primer. Most makeup aisles have a few cheap options that will do the trick. Use matte eyeshadow—you don’t want shimmers or sparkles on your black eye! You may be able to buy a small cream eyeshadow palette that has colors for a bruised eye....
Newsweek reported on the outage Monday night. States immediately effected by the 911 service provider outage were Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada, Indiana, Delaware and Arizona, though the effects of the outage had the potential to expand nationwide. The Minneapolis Police Department was first to acknowledge the outage via Twitter. Americans were urged not to test their local services to leave available lines open for those with genuine emergencies. While a national outage of emergency services was certainly frightening, it didn’t last for long....
Though opposition support was able to successfully pass the measure and enact it Wednesday, the defiance may signal future troubles for Johnson’s COVID-19 response and hold on his own political party. The Omicron variant of the virus has been spreading quickly across Britain, and the strain is now dominant in London, according to Kevin Fenton, London’s public health chief. The nation recorded 78,610 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, its highest daily pandemic total yet, and officials said that infections are doubling roughly every two days....
The exhibition won’t open until March 17, but the catalog was published in December. It shows works from the exhibition such as Polish artist Zbigniew Libera’s LEGO kit for building a concentration camp, a set of “designer” poison-gas canisters by American Tom Sachs and a cutesy, toylike Hitler cat by Frenchman Alain Sechas. Things got rolling when a Wall Street Journal reporter showed the catalog to Holocaust survivors and scholars, who were predictably outraged by art that they felt trivializes the horrors of the Nazi era....
The fault is the border section between two massive tectonic plates under the surface of the Earth. It stretches for more than 800 miles through California, past San Francisco and nearly as far south as San Diego. These plates are relatively static, meaning they can see large pressures build up over time. And when they move, they can produce big earthquakes. The fault continues to cause concern as multiple segments appears to be significantly stressed....
Little did they know they would help start a craze that might soon dot London with honeycomblike cubbyholes. Piercy and Conner unveiled their unique design in a trade magazine last fall, prompting a media frenzy, inquiries from financial backers and eventually more than 20,000 e-mails and phone calls from interested buyers. Now it seems everybody is talking about their Microflats and a rival firm’s Mini Suites. Both firms are in negotiations for building sites and hope to start construction by December....
Last week Lee seemed on the verge of gaining partial freedom. With key elements of the U.S. Justice Department’s case seeming to dissolve in open court, U.S. Judge James A. Parker ordered Lee’s release from jail–with a $1 million bail–pending trial. Government lawyers scrambled to appeal, and on Friday won a brief reprieve when an appellate court temporarily blocked Parker’s order from taking effect. But the prosecutors still face setbacks on other fronts....
Amendments to the Voting Rights Act require that districts be drawn in a way that does not dilute racial or ethnic “communities of interest.” Republicans are interpreting this mandate with a zeal that former Reagan White House aide Linda Chavez finds “unconscionable.” The proposed reapportionment for Houston looks like the Great Lakes, says Chavez. “They literally have to stick on tendrils to scoop up every Hispanic voter.” Hypocrisy is certainly not new in polities....
Then Tuesday???s financial downgrading of California???s two utilities and the loss of hydroelectric resources Wednesday morning pushed us over the edge. Out of 14 million Pacific Gas and Electric customers in hundreds of cities, my power block, with its 200,000 customers, was the first to go dark. It???s not as if we weren???t warned. But after so many ???Stage Three Alerts,??? which conjured images of Batman pounding his gloved fist in Commissioner Gordon?...
Ever since Afghanistan became embroiled in a vicious civil war in the late 1980s, the battle-scarred country has been the world’s largest opium producer. Except in late 2000, when the Taliban banned production on the grounds that it was forbidden by Islam, the country has produced bumper harvest after bumper harvest of the colorful poppies. Production picked up last year after the Taliban were ousted: Afghan farmers produced some 3,400 metric tons of opium in 2002....
Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? In the 26 months since the body of the 6-year-old child-pageant contestant was found in the basement of her parents’ sprawling Boulder, Colo., home, there have been no arrests. To the police–and to much of the public–the girl’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, are key suspects, but the Ramseys steadfastly maintain their innocence. The celebrated case–with its bizarre three-page ransom note, war between cops and prosecutors and endless tabloid speculation–is the subject of Lawrence Schiller’s 621-page book ““Perfect Murder–Perfect Town,’’ which is being published this week....
NEWSWEEK: Sen. Larry Craig said he isn’t gay and has never had a gay relationship. But some activists have argued for some time that Craig is a closet homosexual, and the Idaho Statesman reported this week that Craig once engaged in homosexual activity in a Washington, D.C., restroom. How should this latest arrest affect the media’s coverage? And what is the public’s right to know? Michelangelo Signorile: Hopefully this story will give news organizations the confidence to pursue similar stories about other public figures when relevant....
Two weeks ago the dog’s owner was walking RuPaul and Louie, her rescue Shih Tzu, in the Champion Road cemetery in Williamstown, a suburb of Melbourne. At about 8:30pm she was approached from behind by an unknown assailant. The man pushed the woman, who has chosen to remain anonymous, to the ground and began trying to pull her pants down. At that point she started screaming and says her dogs “viciously” attacked the man—biting and growling—until he sashayed away....
