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Meet Michael Campbell, before and after. The Colorado man has a long rap sheet and prison history, though you probably could have guessed that based on the below mug shots. In the “before” photos, Campbell is seen following a 2003 theft arrest in Jefferson County, Colorado. The “after” photos were snapped about six weeks ago, when Campbell was again popped and jailed at the Jefferson County lockup. Though he has been in and out of custody between 2003 and 2008, Campbell, 33, apparently used his infrequent time on the street to aggressively supplement his facial and neck art. It is unclear, however, why his ears, to date, have been left untouched. But that polka-dotted bow tie (at least we think it’s a bow tie) was a wonderful addition. (1 page).
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December 5th, 2008
In the early 1990’s, I started seeing a lot more brands of bacon than I used to in my local supermarket. There were several national brands, a few smaller ones, and a seemingly ever-changing variety of brands that came and went as fast as the stores could sell them out.
For a time, I considered collecting examples of the different labels and somehow displaying them. Unfortunately, the nature of bacon labels (greasy, foul-smelling after awhile, and so forth) was rather discouraging. I thought of just photographing the various labels and collecting them, but somehow never got around to it until digital photography got more popular and less expensive.
And so I invite you to tour the gallery. I expect the display to grow as time goes on, because I rarely am without a camera. Although I’ve personally tasted most of the bacon brands displayed here, there are a few which I’ve simply photographed in the store.
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December 5th, 2008
A few details on the house:
Built in 1959, the home sits on 1.13 acres, has four bedrooms, 4 ½ baths, a wet bar, a fireplace and 8,501 square feet of living space, including 896 square feet of servant quarters.
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And if you drag the map a little bit south, you run into Tom Hicks’ estate. For you non-DFW folks, he’s the inept owner of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars.
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December 5th, 2008
December 5th, 2008
BUNA, Texas — A class ring lost for decades in an East Texas lake is back with its owner after turning up in a fish caught the day after Thanksgiving.
Joe Richardson of Buna told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he wishes he knew “how many fish it’s been in.”
Richardson was fishing at Lake Sam Rayburn about two weeks after his 1987 graduation from Universal Technical Institute in Houston when he lost the ring.
The 41-year-old mechanic says on Nov. 28 he received a call from a fisherman who had reeled in a more than 8-pound bass. The ring that had been in the fish had “Joe Richardson” etched in the band.
Richardson says the fisherman did an Internet search and made several calls before reaching him and returning the ring.
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December 5th, 2008
THE Ulysse Nardin wristwatch in an ad in the most recent Sunday edition of The New York Times is unlike 22 of the 24 watches featured in that issue’s ads, but chances are that didn’t register with most readers. For horologists, however, whose scrutiny of watches tends toward the Talmudic, it’s a lapel grabber: all the other watches — from brands like Rolex, TAG Heuer and Gucci — are set at 10:10, but Ulysse Nardin’s watch is set at 8:19. (The only other exception is an Oris wristwatch, one of four featured in an ad by the retailer Tourneau, which is set at 8:03.)
In a recent check of the 100 top-selling men’s dress watches on Amazon.com, which included models from 20 brands, all but three watches were set to 10:10. To be watch-shopping online and first notice that every model arrayed on the screen is set to an identical time can feel like crossing over into the Twilight Zone.
But the explanation turns out to be a simple matter of aesthetics.
Because brand names generally are centered on the upper half of a watch, hands positioned at 10 and 2 “frame the brand and logo,†said Andrew Block, executive vice president at Tourneau, the watch retailer, which has 51 stores worldwide. “It’s almost like an unwritten rule that everyone understands to photograph a watch a 10:10.â€
In previous eras, the more popular time in ads was 8:20, which shared the attributes of being symmetrical and not overshadowing logos, but hands pointing down struck some as, well, a downer.
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December 5th, 2008
There has never been a site dedicated to the great phenomenon known as the ‘negative sideburn.’Â This site aims at reaching that audience that appreciates the dedication to keeping the sideburn from descending down the side of the face.
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December 5th, 2008
BOSTON — A Massachusetts-based oil executive is boldy predicting that pump prices might fall to $1 a gallon in early 2009.
“The oil market is a manic-depressive market. It tends to over shoot,” said Joe Petrowski, CEO of Gulf Oil.
Petrowski, who has been studying the oil business since the 1970s when he wrote his Harvard thesis on oil, said that the price of oil could sink to $20 per barrel.
“The market overshot last summer on the high side. Oil should never should have gone to $147, but it did and it can,” he said.
Petrowski is betting that the slide in oil prices will continue to fall dramatically.
“There is a better than 25 percent probability that we’ll see oil go as low as $1 a gallon sometime after the first of the year,” he said.
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December 5th, 2008