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VIDEO: Are Airbrush-Free Ad Campaigns Here to Stay?

Lingerie and apparel brand Aerie is saying goodbye to photoshop in its latest ad campaign,…

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Why I don’t Hate Men

  January 3, 2014

 My brother once asked grandfather why he had fought for Stalin. 

“Oh no” he…

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"I hope that we, as a party, would welcome gay and lesbian supporters. I also think there needs to be, in the gay community, robust and bipartisan support [for] marriage rights."

Republican LGBT political advocate Ken Mehlman

US gun magazine producer to leave Colo. over gun laws

Fox News January 3, 2014

Magpul is a company well known for utilizing user-configurable modules in…

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UPDATE: The earlier rumors have been confirmed: People’s Bank of China told more than 10 third-party payment service providers yesterday not to give clearing services to online Bitcoin exchanges, China Business News reports, citing a central bank meeting with the companies. This news is pressuring Bitcoin to $678 (on Mt.Gox) but more notably, BTC China rates imply a $588 equivalent price - down 57% from its highs. From a $100-plus premium, BTC China now trades $130 cheap to Mt.Gox as the ‘arb’ flips.

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VIDEO: Tupac Musical Heading To Broadway

The late rapper’s lyrics will be featured in “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” a nonbiographical Broadway…

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The comedy of errors that are IMF forecasts is well known: it was covered most recently in “Hilarious Charts Of The Day: IMF’s “Growth Forecasts” Over Time.” Moments ago we got the IMF’s first forecast update for 2014 which also included the Fund’s first 2015 forecasts for growth around the world. Not surprisingly, they were largely higher across the board except for China which has seen its 2014 projected GDP growth collapse from 8.5% a year ago to 7.5% now, and is expected to drop modestly to 7.3% in 2015. The charts showing the progression of said hilarious forecasts are shown in their entirety below, about which one thing can be said with certainty: whatever the GDP growth rate in the world is in 2014 and 2015 it will be anything but what the IMF predicts it to be.

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