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This is SOOOO apt, because the past week has been all about inflating boobs!
Observe:
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Twenty-four thousand women gathered in Long Beach, CA over the past two days at the second annual Women's Conference. Under the leadership of California First Lady Maria Shriver, the conference gathered together luminaries from Madeleine Albright and Arianna Huffington to Annie Leibovitz and Richard Branson with the goal of empowering women as the future's "Architects of Change."
Here's what we heard...
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This month, I met Leonard Lin as he was on the move, something that seems to go hand in hand with his personality.Amidst the boxes and the chaos, this multi-hyphenated entrepreneur mentioned there were a lot of barriers to making government really efficient and accessible, despite the hallowed web 2.0 ticker parade that met Obama's election (Lin was a part of the team behind the social media software for Obama's campaign). He almost said the idea of "Government 2.0" was a pipe dream -- almost.
His newest venture, the newly minted Code for America, hopes to make it a reality. Versed in launching other social magnets like the ubiquitous event-sharing site, Upcoming.org, Lin hopes to make government as appealing as Facebook. "What if you could have an iPhone app to track potholes?" he asked.
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Recently learned that the city of Oakland is trying to make it a lot harder for people to open nail salons and laundromats, via an emergency ordinance. What is that, you ask? The gist of it is that if you want to operate a new nail salon or laundromat, you'd have to apply for a major conditional use permit, which costs around $3,000, which means that many mom and pop owners will think twice about opening a nail shop in Oakland.
Photo by *cedro*'s flickr account (feet for thoughts) under Creative Commons.
What do we know about nail salons? A lot, and also not a lot. In the latest issue of Hyphen, I wrote about the trend of green nail salons. For years now we've known and suspected that the chemicals used in nail salons are not good for the workers, or for consumers. We also know that upwards of 80 percent of nail shops in California are owned and run by Asian immigrants, mostly Vietnamese. It is a popular field for new refugees/immigrants because you don't need good English skills and there is whole existing community to help new people get into the field (cosmetology tests in Vietnamese, Vietnamese cosmetology schools, Asian-owned shops, etc.).
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The Nichi Bei Times, which has been covering the Northern California Japanese American community for 63 years, will cease publication after its Sept. 10 issue.Continue reading "Nichi Bei Times to Fold, May Come Back as a Nonprofit"
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Uh ... was anyone actually suggesting that Obama invade Iran? I mean, other than crazy mans on da streets?
Because (m)O('bettah)bama is the very opposite of a brutal regime dictator tyrant evil axis thingie. (m)O('bettah)bama is good. It is Ahmadinejad who is brutal 'n' evil. And Kim Il thingie. And, like, Angela Merkel, and Johnson & Johnson. And Metallica.
Actually, if you look around, the Brutal Regimes are everywhere. Everywhere. Wow. It's frightening.
Continue reading "Hyphen Lynks: Brutal Regime (Watch Out!) Edition"
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Sometimes, living on a student's shoestring budget can reap big benefits, by teaching you how to think big by using less.I had my Hyphen Takeout editor's cap firmly on while trolling New York's swank International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) last week for a good story. Specifically, I was looking for the kind of creative work we like to show off in our magazine -- the innovative, socially-conscious and often collaborative projects that can spark a conversation and add more value to a room than just sheer aesthetic wow.
I found it.
Continue reading "Students Rise to the Top of 2009 International Contemporary Furniture Fair"
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And with the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen, I now live in Koreatown.
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Ahhh, for the good old days, when we didn't know our house was built on sand. (You know, there's nothing inherently wrong with building on sand, as long as there are no earthquakes or floods or landslides or nothin'. So, you know ... don't build in California. Or Louisiana. Or ... anywhere you'd actually want to build. Then it's a sound policy.)Anyway, to bludgeon an already dead metaphor, our government built our house on a sand landfill in the San Andreas Fault, installing our gas and water mains across the crack. So it's no wonder that the faucets keep exploding and little jets of methane-fueled flame keep erupting from every mousehole. The only real question is if the whole thing's gonna blow.
And, of course, wherever there's a moneymaking scheme gone awry, there's an Asian American slinking around. Right? Am I right?
Continue reading "Hyphen Lynks: Bad Stereotype! Edition"
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Take a close look at this photograph. Look at the woman's necklace. What's it doing? Why's it floating in the air like that?
Yep, that's right, she's in zero G.
Continue reading "Women's History Month Profile: Anousheh Ansari"
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Continue reading "TARP Forcing Talented Foreigners Back Home"
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Continue reading "Wired Magazine Attempts to Explain Financial Crisis"
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Hungry? Takeout quells the rumbling in your tummy with some food wisdom from a community-inspired farm in Oakland, CA called People's Grocery that's been shaking up the ranks of who can actually afford to eat locally. Their answer? Everyone.
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