What You Need to Know Before Getting a Tattoo

It’s important to have your core idea fleshed out before setting up a consultation — unless you’re coming in for lettering, which often only requires you to decide on a font. During the consultation, your artist can work out the finer details. You can show them any images you’ve saved as inspiration and figure out placement and pricing.

Depending on the time they have available, the artist may create a mock-up of your tattoo on the spot or a few days later, but ultimately, the final results will depend on several factors:

how much of your body you want to dedicate to the art
how feasible the tattoo placement is
how well the colors you want will show up on your skin tone
how much time you want to spend with the artist
Here’s more on what you should consider when designing your next tattoo:

Depression : Those January Blues Are Real. Here’s How to Avoid Them.

If you feel depressed in January, it’s not just in your head.

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and post-holiday blues can hit hard after the parties and tinsel fade away.

The disorder, in fact, affects at least 10 million people in the United States.

Experts say that these January blues can be caused by a number of reasons.

However, there are also many life-changing ways to avoid these seasonal downswings.

“You can shift your thought patterns, so you won’t be subjected to them,” Dr. Don Mordecai, Kaiser Permanente’s national leader for mental and behavioral health, told Healthline.

Man walks into a TV news station and confessed to his involvement in the murder of a 19-year-old man nearly 25 years ago

According to Reeding Police, 44-year old Brian Hawkins and two other people were arrested this week in connection with Frank McAlister's 1993 death.
Hawkins walked into the headquarters of KRCR TV station to confess and said that he was involved in the murder. "I'm going to turn myself in next door at the sheriff's department for a crime I was involved in years ago. ... It was murder," Hawkins told KRCR reporter Courtney Kreider.

US Nurse, 58, dubbed the 'Canterbury Cannibal' who was jailed in the UK for plotting to BEHEAD and EAT a 14-year-old girl has moved back home to America

An American nurse who fantasised about killing and eating a teenage girl and was in 2014 sentenced for nine years in Britain for sexual grooming has returned to America, U.S. media reports say.
Dale Bolinger, dubbed the 'Canterbury Cannibal' plotted to meet the girl with the intention of raping, killing and eventually eating her.
He bought an axe the day before he planned to meet the 14-year-old, called 'Eva', on the Dark Fetish Network website.
He also chatted online about beheading and eating girls. The judge at his trial said his behaviour was 'abhorrent, shocking and dangerous'.
Now people living in a Blair neighborhood of Nebraska are on high alert, with parents keeping a close eye on their children, following reports that Bolinger is living in the city.

Woman killed in front of terrified shoppers inside travel agents after domestic incident

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman who was attacked at a travel agents died.

Cassie Hayes, 28, was targeted on Saturday at the Tui branch in Southport, Merseyside, where she worked.

Police were called to the scene in Chapel Street at 1.25pm and Ms Hayes was taken to hospital, where she later died from her injuries.
A 30-year-old man, from the St Helens area, was detained over the incident, which is believed to be domestic related.

Russian serial killer werewolf accused of killing 82 women

A Russian serial killer dubbed the "werewolf" may have killed as many as 82 women in a historic reign of terror, authorities say.

Mikhail Popkov was first arrested in 2012 and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 22 women. He later confessed to 20 more slayings, and the newest charges against him include 60 counts of murder.

Popkov, from the eastern Siberian city of Angarsk, might be Russia's biggest serial killer in the last 100 years. Cops have for years been investigating murders in the Irkutsk region where dozens of women were raped and killed.

The Psychology of Inequality ( Researchers find that much of the damage done by being poor comes from feeling poor )

n 2016, the highest-paid employee of the State of California was Jim Mora, the head coach of U.C.L.A.’s football team. (He has since been fired.) That year, Mora pulled in $3.58 million. Coming in second, with a salary of $2.93 million, was Cuonzo Martin, at the time the head coach of the men’s basketball team at the University of California, Berkeley.

Victor Khalil, the chief dentist at the Department of State Hospitals, made six hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars; Anne Neville, the director of the California Research Bureau, earned a hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars; and John Smith, a seasonal clerk at the Franchise Tax Board, earned twelve thousand nine hundred dollars.

I learned all this from a database maintained by the Sacramento Bee. The database, which is open to the public, is searchable by name and by department, and contains precise salary information for the more than three hundred thousand people who work for California. Today, most state employees probably know about the database. But that wasn’t the case when it was first created, in 2008. This made possible an experiment.

Malaysia signs $50 million deal with US company to scour the ocean for the remains of MH370

Malaysia signed a deal with a US seabed exploration firm for up to $50 million to find the missing MH370 aircraft.
The plane mysteriously dissappeared with hardly a trace in 2014.
Experts have searched thousands of square miles and are still debating about where it could be.
Malaysia signed a deal on Wednesday to pay a U.S. seabed exploration firm up to $50 million if it finds the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft MH370 in a new search area in the Southern Indian ocean.

The disappearance of the aircraft en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people aboard ranks among the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

Japanese astronaut apologizes for spreading 'fake news' after claiming to have grown 3.5 inches while in space

Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, on a mission to the International Space Station, apologized on Wednesday for saying he had grown 9 cm (3.5 inches) while in space and expressing concern about whether he'd be safe on his return to Earth.

Most astronauts "grow" during protracted space missions because their spines extend in the absence of gravity, but the gains are usually limited to a couple of centimeters (inches) maximum and disappear once they are back on the ground.

The 41-year-old Kanai, who went to space last month for a nearly six-month mission, posted on Twitter on Monday that he had "a big announcement."

"My height's been measured here in space and somehow, somehow, I've grown 9 cm! In only three weeks I've really shot up, something I haven't seen since high school," he tweeted.

South African singer Lungelo's pregnant partner dumps him, says he abuses her emotionally

Wonders shall never end goes a particular saying. This is apparent in the relationship of top South African musician Lungelo. A woman who claims to be his girlfriend took to Twitter to detail how Lungelo allegedly abused her physically and emotionally.

Foster dad accused of more than 900 rapes and violent acts against girls in his care

A gold-toothed Russian foster father has been accused of being the worst paedophile in the country after more than 900 counts of rape and violent sexual acts, mostly against girls in his care.

Viktor Lishavsky, 37, allegedly abused five schoolgirls who he acted as their legal guardian. He reportedly treated them as his 'personal harem' and 'sexual slaves'.

Lishavsky who ran a shoe repair shop was detained in June last year in Komsomolsk-on-Amur after one foster girl complained to a teacher who alerted police.

At least 13 killed in Southern California mudslides

At least thirteen people have been killed in mudslides in Southern California according to Santa Barbara County Sheriff, with numbers of fatalities expected to rise.

Homes were torn from their foundations Tuesday as downpours sent mud and boulders roaring down hills stripped of vegetation by a gigantic wildfire that raged in in the region last month.

Rescue crews used helicopters to pluck people from rooftops as debris blocked roads, and firefighters pulled a mud-caked 14-year-old girl from a collapsed Montecito home where she had been trapped for hours.

Scores feared dead and up to 100 missing after boat sinks off Libya's coast

Survivors from a boat that foundered off Libya’s coast on Tuesday said about 50 people who had embarked with them were feared dead, while the coastguard said the number of missing might be as high as 100.

Libyan coastguard vessels picked up nearly 300 migrants from three boats off the coast of the North African country on Tuesday, but one rubber boat was punctured and the coastguard only found 16 survivors clinging to its wreckage.

“We found the migrant boat at about 10 o’clock this morning. It had sunk and we found 16 migrants. The rest were all missing and, unfortunately, we didn’t find any bodies or [other] survivors,” said Nasr al-Qamoudi, a coastguard commander.

Hundreds of 'Boiled' Bats Fall from Sky in Australian Heat Wave

As temperatures rose to 111.5 degrees Fahrenheit (44.2 degrees Celsius) in Campbelltown in the Australian state of New South Wales, a colony of flying fox bats that lives near the town's train station felt the effects. Volunteers struggled to rescue the heat-stricken bats, according to the Campbelltown-Macarthur Advertiser, but at least 204 individual animals, mostly babies, died.

"They basically boil," Kate Ryan, the colony manager for the Campbelltown bats, told the newspaper. "It affects their brain — their brain just fries and they become incoherent." [Watch for Falling Iguanas! Bomb Cyclone Drops Frozen Lizards]

BAFTA 2018 nominations: 'Retired' Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Grant and Margot Robbie all up for gongs

 

The BAFTA Awards 2018 nominations have been announced this morning - and it's The Shape Of Water leading the way for a whopping 12 nominations.

Actresses Letitia Wright and Natalie Dormer announced the potential winners this morning in a live streamed press conference and revealed who could be in the running for a gong when the BAFTAs take place on February 18 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

The other big surprise was the newly appointed host of the BAFTAs, Joanna Lumley, who takes over from Stephen Fry after ten years of him presenting the ceremony.

Here's who could be walking away next month with a weighty gong...