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THESE KINDA FRESH!!! PUMA dug deep into their archive for the Stepper Classic Luxe from 1984. Reintroduced in a rich “Saturn” colorway, the mid-cut version of the Clyde is outfitted this season in premium leather with a contrasting camouflage insole. A rich suede collar gives the sneaker a distinct ankle line and an overall interesting silhouette slightly different [...] -
I had a great dinner last night in NewYork @manonrestaurant,they made some special vegan dishes,thank you
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The prolific music and TV producer has inked a two-year first-look deal with the premium cable network, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Under the pact, Simmons will create and develop projects for HBO. The deal reunites him with the cabler that was home to Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam . That series, which ran from 1992-97 and 2006-08, is credited [...] -
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WTF does @TNT_CraigSager have on Haaaaaaaaaaaa
I just text somebody the same shit lol!! A disaster
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McDonald’s CEO Responds to 9-Year-Old Girl Who Claims Kids Are Being Tricked
Don Thompson, CEO of McDonald’s Corp., found himself on the grill after a 9-year-old girl accused the fast food giant of trying to ”trick kids into eating food that isn’t good for them.”
Hannah Robertson, 9, flew in with her mom from Kelowna, British Columbia, to attend McDonald’s annual shareholder meeting Thursday in Oak Brook, Ill., the company’s headquarters.
”Something that I don’t think is fair is when big companies try to trick kids into eating food that isn’t good for them by using toys and cartoon characters,” Robertson read during the question and answer part of the meeting. ”If parents haven’t taught their kids about healthy eating then the kids probably believe that junk food is good for them because it might taste good.”
Her mother, Kia, attended the meeting as a member of advocacy group Corporate Accountability International, headquartered in Boston and with offices around the world. Kia Robertson, 36, started ”Today I Ate a Rainbow” in 2009, described as an ”interactive nutritional game,” and is a nutrition blogger.
”It would be nice if you stopped trying to trick kids into wanting to eat your food all the time,” Robertson, who is in the fourth grade, went on to say. ”I make cooking videos with my mom that show kids that eating healthy can be fun and yummy. We teach them that eating a rainbow of fruits and veggies makes kids healthier, smarter and happier because that is the truth.”
Thompson thanked her for her question but also refuted Hannah’s accusations after her closing question, ”Mr. Thompson, don’t you want kids to be healthy so they can live a long and happy life?”
”First off, we don’t sell junk food, Hannah,” Thompson said. ”My kids also eat McDonald’s. When they were about your size, to my son who is with us today, who was a little bit bigger, he was a football player, and also they cook with me at home. I love to cook. We cook a lot of fruits and veggies at home.”
Thompson pointed out that McDonald’s serves fruits and vegetables, including apples in its Happy Meals and salads for $1, and is hoping to ”sell even more”.
A spokeswoman for McDonald’s declined to elaborate to ABC News on Thompson’s response to the girl.
Juliana Shulman, senior organizer at Corporate Accountability International, which started about 35 years ago, said Kia Robertson started working with the organization earlier this month for its campaign, ”Moms Are Not Lovin’ It” just before Mothers’ Day. The campaign aimed to stop what it called McDonald’s ”predatory marketing to kids.”
”They were really excited to partner with us and come with us to the shareholders’ meeting yesterday,” Shulman said of the Robertsons, adding that they returned home to Canada early on Friday.
Hannah’s mom broached the issue of childhood obesity in her question to Thompson.
”As a corporation you might not ”have to” think about the effects of your marketing…but as parents and grandparents there must be a part of you that knows it’s just not right,” Kia Robertson said to Thompson at the meeting. ”You are a leader in your industry, so you know very well that the fast food industry is changing – in order to keep up maybe it’s time for some genuine change at McDonald’s.
”CEO Thompson, don’t you think a good place to start would be to leave our children alone and let us parents decide what’s best for them?” she asked.
Shulman said her organization has 100,000 members and works with tens of thousands of health professionals as part of its campaign to help families eat healthier. The organization also brought mothers representing communities of color to the shareholder meeting, hoping to stop McDonald’s from targeting them.
”Yesterday was a unique chance to bring together these key constituencies who have concerns,” Shulman said.
Shulman said Corporate Accountability International is not a shareholder of McDonald’s. Some members of the organization own one share of the company and lent out their proxies.
”Our main goal is to protect people from irresponsible and dangerous actions around the world,” Shulman said, advocating for actions against Nestle, General Electric, and Philip Morris.
Shulman said the organization’s longest-running campaign is challenging big tobacco.
By SUSANNA KIM
McDonald’s CEO Responds to 9-Year-Old Girl Who Claims Kids Are Being Tricked http://global14.com/members/global14/activity/4746493
The menu isn’t the issue. The price of what’s healthy compared to what’s not is. The cheap shit is the least healthy. The most expensive thing on the menu is. If snack wraps were on the dollar menu they wouldn’t have any issues with health freaks. But the mcdouble is disgusting but affordable so everybody buys it.
^^^^^^^^ what he said
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I-5 bridge collapse survivor: ’You hold on’
Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a ”big puff of dust.”
”I hit the brakes and we went off,” Sligh told reporters from a hospital, adding he ”saw the water approaching … you hold on as tight as you can.”
Sligh, his wife and another man in a different vehicle were dumped into the chilly waters of the Skagit River when the span collapsed Thursday evening. They were injured, but miraculously, authorities said it appeared nobody was killed in the bridge failure that raised the question about the safety of aging spans and cut off the main route between Seattle and Canada.
”We don’t think anyone else went into the water,” said Marcus Deyerin, a spokesman for the Northwest Washington Incident Management Team. ”At this point we’re optimistic.”
Sligh and his wife were taken to Skagit Valley Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The other man was reported in stable condition at United General Hospital in Sedro-Woolley, hospital CEO Greg Reed said.
Authorities are trying to determine what caused the bridge to collapse about 60 miles north of Seattle in Skagit County.
State Patrol detectives and the patrol’s commercial vehicle enforcement bureau troopers spoke to a commercial truck driver whose rig struck the structure.
”We do have the truck driver who remained at the scene. We’ve had initial conversations with him to get an indication as to what occurred,” said State Patrol Chief John Batiste.
Sligh said his shoulder was dislocated in the drop into the water, and he found himself ”belly deep in water in the truck.” He said he popped his shoulder back in and called out to his wife, who he described as being in shock initially as they waited for rescuers to arrive in boats.
Traffic along the heavily travelled route could be affected for some time.
”The I-5 corridor is totally disrupted,” said Gov. Jay Inslee, who went to the scene Thursday night.
He said work has already started to design detours, but state Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson asked people to avoid I-5 in the area for the next several days.
The National Transportation Safety Board was sending an investigative team.
Trooper Francis said a portion of the four-lane bridge over the Skagit River collapsed about 7 p.m.
Jeremiah Thomas, a volunteer firefighter, said he was driving nearby when he glimpsed something out of the corner of his eye and turned to look.
”The bridge just went down, it crashed through the water,” he said. ”It was really surreal.”
The bridge was about 50 feet above the water. Deyerin said it appeared that two vehicles – a car and the pickup with the travel trailer attached – fell into the river. He said the water depth was about 15 feet, and the vehicles half-visible in the water likely were resting on portions of the collapsed bridge.
Crowds of people lined the river to watch the scene unfold.
”It’s not something you see every day,” said Jimmy O’Connor, the owner of two local pizza restaurants who was driving on another bridge parallel to the one that collapsed. ”People were starting to crawl out of their cars.”
He said he and his girlfriend were about 400 yards away on the Burlington Bridge when they heard ”just a loud bang.”
”Then we looked over and saw the bridge was down in the water,” he said.
He pulled over and saw three vehicles in the water, including the camping trailer that landed upside-down, he said.
The bridge was not classified as structurally deficient, but a Federal Highway Administration database listed it as being ”functionally obsolete” — a category meaning that the design is outdated, such as having narrow shoulders and low clearance underneath.
The bridge was built in 1955 and has a sufficiency rating of 57.4 out of 100, according to federal records. That is well below the statewide average rating of 80, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data, but 759 bridges in the state have a lower sufficiency score.
According to a 2012 Skagit County Public Works Department report, 42 of the county’s 108 bridges are 50 years or older. The document says eight of the bridges are more than 70 years old and two are over 80.
Washington state was given a C in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2013 infrastructure report card and a C- when it came to the state’s bridges. The group said more than a quarter of Washington’s 7,840 bridges are considered structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
Democratic Rep. Judy Clibborn, who leads the transportation committee in the state House, said the bridge wasn’t one that has been a focus for lawmakers.
”It is shocking that I-5 would have something happen like this,” she said.
Clibborn said the collapse will call attention to the issues facing bridges — especially the old bridge over the Columbia River that connects Vancouver and Portland, Ore.
Sligh said his wife was ”doing OK” and that he had ”lots of cuts.”
”You’re kind of pinching yourself and realize you’re lucky to be alive.”
By MANUEL VALDES and MIKE BAKER
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BMW celebrates 90 years of BMW Motorrad with one hell of a bike, the Concept 90. The Concept 90 pays tribute to the classic BMW R 90 S motorcycle, a classic bike that celebrates its 40th birthday this year. The Concept 90 takes the best elements of the R 90 S, Daytona Orange paint and [...] -
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yo did yall have a convo about this ….cause I swear ive seen this idea before #inmyscaraticvoice
Everyone starting to have their own social network….
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By// Quassan Castro Keke decides to pass on the tour that popped up out of nowhere, using all of the R&B Divas’ likenesses without permission (from an agent associated with diva Syleena). Syleena is all about the dead presidents associated with said tour so she didn’t think it would be a problem. Wrong. Rocky Bivens made appeared on [...]
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OMG!!!!!! Revealed in New York City’s Time Square, the Star Wars X-Wing Fighter is the world’s largest LEGO model coming in at 42x the size of the #9493 Star Wars set currently available. The model was constructed in LEGO’s model shop in Kladno, Czech Republic and measures 11 x 43 feet with a wingspan of 44 feet. The [...] -
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Fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport, two arrests
British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.
Passengers were leaving the plane and no one was hurt in the incident, a spokesman for the airport said.
Flight PK709 from Lahore in Pakistan had been due to land at Manchester in northern England with 297 passengers on board, but was diverted shortly before arrival.
Britain is on high alert after a soldier was hacked to death on a London street on Wednesday in what the government are treating as a terrorist incident.
A security source said early indications were that the plane was not the target of a terrorist attack.
A passenger who had just got off the plane told the BBC the pilot had informed passengers after landing that he had diverted to Stansted because of threats. The passenger, named by the BBC as Mr Munsif, said two men had been handcuffed on board and removed.
”We landed safely and then he announced that they had some kind of threat from someone and that’s why he landed the plane,” the passenger said, speaking by telephone.
”Essex Police have boarded a passenger plane diverted to Stansted Airport and two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft. They have been removed from the plane,” the police said in a statement. The force is responsible for the area where Stansted is located.
”The two men arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft are aged 30 and 41. They are being taken to a police station for interview by detectives,” the police added.
Stansted is one of London’s less busy airports, preferred as a location for handling airplane security incidents. A spokesman for the airport said the plane was being held in an isolated area and that the rest of the airport was operating as normal.
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service said 10 fire engines had been sent to the airport.
The Pakistani plane was a Boeing 777, according to the flight tracking website http://www.flightradar.com.
According to two tracking websites, the aircraft broke off from its descent about 60 miles east of Manchester.
It turned and followed a wide arc over northeast England and out to the North Sea before heading towards London.
Britain launches military planes to intercept unidentified aircraft when they cannot be identified by other means, for example when the aircraft is not talking to air traffic controllers.
By Rhys Jones and Peter Griffiths
Fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport, two arrests http://global14.com/members/global14/activity/4746291
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“Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.”
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GOOD TIMES IN GREENHOUSE LAST NIGHT,
THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST SPOTS TO DJ
