Confessions of a Starr

50 Cent Caught Wearing an Illuminati Hat (Pic)

2010-11-06T15:00:00.003-05:00

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75% OFF from Avow Body Art Tattoos & Piercings in Atlanta [Fall Special Expires Dec. 31st, 2010]

2010-10-19T16:30:00.002-05:00

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Join Starr Gang and Become a Street Team Member

2010-10-17T14:49:00.004-05:00

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Starr Gang is compiled of fans who want to go above and beyond in spreading the word about Infinite Starr's upcoming shows, album releases, and any big news regarding her music. With over 350 worldwide members and counting, we rely on the Starr Gang's word-of-mouth prowess, promotional zeal, and collective campaigning to continually build Infinite Starr's fanbase - and help keep her music career moving to the top.

Starr Gang & Street Team FAQ:

How do I sign up?

How will I know when Infinite Starr’s playing in my city?

As a Starr Gang member, what’s expected of me?

What are the tools for?

What are missions?

I really dig Infinite Starr’s music but… what’s in it for me?

Are there other ways to promote Infinite Starr besides Starr Gang?

How do I sign up?

First, sign up for the general mailing list. You’ll get a newsletter about once a month packed full of exciting news and opportunities. When you fill out the form for that click the “street team” box. If you’re already on the mailing list but want to take your involvement to the next level just e-mail and let us know! Please include your name, address, and any social media sites you’d like us to know about.

How will I know when Infinite Starr’s playing in my city?

You can always check out Infinite Starr on Eventful for the latest tour dates, but we make sure to e-mail each of the street teamers personally 1 – 2 months before Infinite Starr’s scheduled to perform in your town and ask if you’re available to promote and attend her performance.

As a Street Team member, what’s expected of me?

There are many ways you can help, and no obligation whatsoever. There are several levels of participation you can choose from based on your availability.

Street Promotion:

Posting flyers around town prior to Infinite Starr’s upcoming shows to promote the show as well as the current album release.

Online Promotion:

Posting events and ecards on facebook/twitter/social network of choice
Review or interview Infinite Starr for your blog
Comment on blog posts featuring Infinite Starr
Write a review of an album on sales outlets such as itunes, emusic, rhapsody, and amazon.com

If you end up just too swamped with life at the time Infinite Starr reaches your city, don’t sweat it. We understand. At least you’ll know when she’ll be playing so you can mark your calendar and escape the madness for a night!

What are the tools for?

The tools are what you can use to help promote Infinite Starr.

The ecards are great for posting on your facebook wall, and if you have a blog put a banner up there to share one of your favorite artists with your readers! You can either link to the banners online or print them out to post around town… or in your bedroom. ;)

What are missions?

Missions are special requests we ask of Starr Gang.

Example: When a record is released we take it to radio and ask fans and Starr Gang to call in to their favorite radio stations and request their favorite songs.

What’s in it for me?

Oh… a lot! In return for your good deeds we’ll send you a complimentary Infinite Starr t-shirt, autographed album, and other fun gear such as stickers, pens, pins, etc. Also, if you do street promotion for an upcoming show take pictures of the places you post around town and send them to -- we’ll immediately put you on the top of the VIP list for the show!

Are there other ways to promote Infinite Starr other than Starr Gang?

Absolutely. Short answer: Tell a friend! You can also…

Host a house concert! A house concert is basically a concert you produce in your home. This is a great way to introduce Infinite Starr's music to new listeners; these shows are always so meaningful and fun, because her fans are intimately involved in presenting them! For more info on how to host a house concert and what it's all about, read wikipedia. If you’re really into it concertsinyourhome.com is also a great site! Once you feel you've learned enough to really get involved, contact Infinite Starr's with your vision for the event – as well as an estimated number of attendees – and we'll do our best to make it happen!
Check to make sure Infinite Starr's CDs are stocked at your local record store! This is a great way to help — and since we're a small label, there's no way we can collect this information as expertly as you can. Plus, if her albums are not in stock, you can always ask them to order at least one of them at the counter. This shows the store that Infinite Starr not only has fans in the area, but that they are supporting her at retail, which adds to the local buzz and keeps our CD distributor very happy!
Request Infinite Starr on the radio! One of the very best ways to support Infinite Starr is to request her music on your local radio station! For a comprehensive list of stations that have received her new CD "World on Fire" as well as her current single, email .

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Infinite Starr - "Shut the City Down" FREE Ringtone for a Limited Time ONLY [Audio + Mobile Download]

2010-10-07T14:40:00.002-05:00

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"Shut the City Down"
FREE Ringtone by Infinite Starr for a Limited Time ONLY :

Text "INFINITESTARR 11" to 69937

Compatible with most handsets and carriers including AT&T, Cellular One, Sprint, and TMobile. Privacy policy: myxer.com/privacy. Text STOP to 69937 to opt out, or text HELP for help. Share This on your favorite social network, if you enjoyed this ringtone!

Lil Boosie - Last Dayz Episode [All 9 Videos and Episodes]

2010-09-26T09:24:00.004-05:00

On September 22, 2009, Torrence Lil Boosie Hatch plead guilty to a third-offense marijuana charge. While awaiting trial, Boosie was placed on a probationary house arrest while he awaited his date to turn himself in.

In his last days before November 9th, his life was documented. In this 9-part candid series, we will offer a visual documentation of his last days of freedom.

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How to Keep Your Man From Cheating [Video]

2010-08-31T04:15:00.001-05:00

This has nothing to new with music but then again if your man is a rapper, you WILL need these tips to keep your many from straying away while he's on the road. Touché

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Cars Made of Cannabis | Video + Pictures

2010-08-25T17:00:00.001-05:00

As we're faced with an increasingly large world population and ever-dwindling resources the race is on to produce cars that not only produce zero tailpipe emissions, but ones that are green to manufacture too.

But what is the ultimate material for cars? Steel is strong, but hardly light enough to make ultra-efficient vehicles. Many plastics are based on oil, and composite materials like carbon fibre are difficult and costly to manufacture and repair.

Enter the Kestrel. Designed and engineered by Motive Industries, a Canadian firm based in Alberta, the fully electric car features a body shell made of hemp--which may be better known as Cannabis Sativa L.

The hemp for the Kestrel's body is grown by Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) under license from the Canadian government.

Unlike the cannabis Californians may find available at their local medical marijuana dispensaries, hemp grown by AITF ends up on a production line, where it is turned into a composite material that has the impact resistance of fiberglass.

But unlike fiberglass, the hemp bio-composite is cheaper to produce and has fewer health risks connected with its manufacture. It is also significantly lighter than glass-based composites traditionally used in racing cars.

There are few details about the electric drivetrain in Motive Industries' Kestrel, but the car's designer Darren McKeage explained that the four-seat compact vehicle was designed around some core ideals:

"Electric Cars need to be efficient, therefore the Kestrel design had to be simple (minimized part count) and light weight, while still being unique and eye catching."

Hemp-Bodied Electric Car

Using composite materials to produce a car isn't a new idea. In the resource-poor East Germany of the 1950s, enterprising engineers designed a car whose body panels were made entirely from Duroplast, a composite material containing plastic, cotton and wool.

While the Berlin Wall may have fallen years ago, thousands of Duroplast-bodied Trabants have survived all over the former east block. Duroplast proved so hard-wearing that scientists later had to engineer Duroplast-eating bacteria to dispose of the cotton-based panels.

While hemp-based body panels may not form the basis for next year's electric cars, they do offer an interesting peek into the future of electric car building. More and more composite non-metallic materials will be used, to save every ounce of weight to improve range and efficiency.

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Top 10 Marijuana Studies the Government Wished it Had Never Funded

2010-08-25T16:34:00.003-05:00

Top 10 Cannabis Studies the Government Wished it Had Never Funded

10) MARIJUANA USE HAS NO EFFECT ON MORTALITY:
A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death. Sidney, S et al. Marijuana Use and Mortality. American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 87 No. 4, April 1997. p. 585-590. Sept. 2002.

9) HEAVY MARIJUANA USE AS A YOUNG ADULT WON’T RUIN YOUR LIFE:
Veterans Affairs scientists looked at whether heavy marijuana use as a young adult caused long-term problems later, studying identical twins in which one twin had been a heavy marijuana user for a year or longer but had stopped at least one month before the study, while the second twin had used marijuana no more than five times ever. Marijuana use had no significant impact on physical or mental health care utilization, health-related quality of life, or current socio-demographic characteristics. Eisen SE et al. Does Marijuana Use Have Residual Adverse Effects on Self-Reported Health Measures, Socio-Demographics or Quality of Life? A Monozygotic Co-Twin Control Study in Men. Addiction. Vol. 97 No. 9. p.1083-1086. Sept.
1997

8) THE “GATEWAY EFFECT” MAY BE A MIRAGE:
Marijuana is often called a “gateway drug” by supporters of prohibition, who point to statistical “associations” indicating that persons who use marijuana are more likely to eventually try hard drugs than those who never use marijuana – implying that marijuana use somehow causes hard drug use. But a model developed by RAND Corp. researcher Andrew Morral demonstrates that these associations can be explained “without requiring a gateway effect.” More likely, this federally funded study suggests, some people simply have an underlying propensity to try drugs, and start with what’s most readily available. Morral AR, McCaffrey D and Paddock S. Reassessing the Marijuana Gateway Effect. Addiction. December 2002. p. 1493-1504.

7) PROHIBITION DOESN’T WORK (PART I):
The White House had the National Research Council examine the data being gathered about drug use and the effects of U.S. drug policies. NRC concluded, “the nation possesses little information about the effectiveness of current drug policy, especially of drug law enforcement.” And what data exist show “little apparent relationship between severity of sanctions prescribed for drug use and prevalence or frequency of use.” In other words, there is no proof that prohibition – the cornerstone of U.S. drug policy for a century – reduces drug use. National Research Council. Informing America’s Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don’t Know Keeps Hurting Us. National Academy Press, 2001. p. 193.

6) PROHIBITION DOESN’T WORK (PART II):
DOES PROHIBITION CAUSE THE “GATEWAY EFFECT”?): U.S. and Dutch researchers, supported in part by NIDA, compared marijuana users in San Francisco, where non-medical use remains illegal, to Amsterdam, where adults may possess and purchase small amounts of marijuana from regulated businesses. Looking at such parameters as frequency and quantity of use and age at onset of use, they found no differences except one: Lifetime use of hard drugs was significantly lower in Amsterdam, with its “tolerant” marijuana policies. For example, lifetime crack cocaine use was 4.5 times higher in San Francisco than Amsterdam. Reinarman, C, Cohen, PDA, and Kaal, HL. The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy: Cannabis in Amsterdam and San Francisco. American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 94, No. 5. May 2004. p. 836-842.

5) OOPS, MARIJUANA MAY PREVENT CANCER (PART I):
Federal researchers implanted several types of cancer, including leukemia and lung cancers, in mice, then treated them with cannabinoids (unique, active components found in marijuana). THC and other cannabinoids shrank tumors and increased the mice’s lifespans. Munson, AE et al. Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Sept. 1975. p. 597-602.

4) OOPS, MARIJUANA MAY PREVENT CANCER, (PART II):
In a 1994 study the government tried to suppress, federal researchers gave mice and rats massive doses of THC, looking for cancers or other signs of toxicity. The rodents given THC lived longer and had fewer cancers, “in a dose-dependent manner” (i.e. the more THC they got, the fewer tumors). NTP Technical Report On The Toxicology And Carcinogenesis Studies Of 1-Trans- Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, CAS No. 1972-08-3, In F344/N Rats And B6C3F Mice, Gavage Studies. See also, “Medical Marijuana: Unpublished Federal Study Found THC-Treated Rats Lived Longer, Had Less Cancer,” AIDS Treatment News no. 263, Jan. 17, 1997.

3) OOPS, MARIJUANA MAY PREVENT CANCER (PART III):
Researchers at the Kaiser-Permanente HMO, funded by NIDA, followed 65,000 patients for nearly a decade, comparing cancer rates among non-smokers, tobacco smokers, and marijuana smokers. Tobacco smokers had massively higher rates of lung cancer and other cancers. Marijuana smokers who didn’t also use tobacco had no increase in risk of tobacco-related cancers or of cancer risk overall. In fact their rates of lung and most other cancers were slightly lower than non-smokers, though the difference did not reach statistical significance. Sidney, S. et al. Marijuana Use and Cancer Incidence (California, United States). Cancer Causes and Control. Vol. 8. Sept. 1997, p. 722-728.

2) OOPS, MARIJUANA MAY PREVENT CANCER (PART IV):
Donald Tashkin, a UCLA researcher whose work is funded by NIDA, did a case-control study comparing 1,200 patients with lung, head and neck cancers to a matched group with no cancer. Even the heaviest marijuana smokers had no increased risk of cancer, and had somewhat lower cancer risk than non-smokers (tobacco smokers had a 20-fold increased lung cancer risk). Tashkin D. Marijuana Use and Lung Cancer: Results of a Case-Control Study. American Thoracic Society International Conference. May 23, 2006.

1) MARIJUANA DOES HAVE MEDICAL VALUE:
In response to passage of California’s medical marijuana law, the White House had the Institute of Medicine (IOM) review the data on marijuana’s medical benefits and risks. The IOM concluded, “Nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana.” While noting potential risks of smoking, the report added, “we acknowledge that there is no clear alternative for people suffering from chronic conditions that might be relieved by smoking marijuana, such as pain or AIDS wasting.” The government’s refusal to acknowledge this finding caused co-author John A. Benson to tell the New York Times that the government “loves to ignore our report … they would rather it never happened.” Joy, JE, Watson, SJ, and Benson, JA. Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base. National Academy Press. 1999. p. 159. See also, Harris, G. FDA Dismisses Medical Benefit From Marijuana. New York Times. Apr.
21, 2006

Ten Rules for Being Human

2010-08-23T19:28:00.003-05:00

Ten Rules for Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott

1.	You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2.	You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3.	There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4.	Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5.	Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6.	"There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7.	Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8.	What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9.	Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10.	You will forget all this.

Best Tattoo Shop in Atlanta - Avow Body Art Tattoos & Piercings

2010-08-22T15:24:00.003-05:00

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How To Know When A Women Is Mad! [Must See - Pics]

2010-03-24T10:03:00.008-05:00

How To Know When A Women Is Mad! [Must See - Pics]

Lesson of the day: HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED!

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Sega fans "It's Back!" Sonic The HedgeHog 4 [Project Needlemouse] Trailer

2010-02-06T18:08:00.016-06:00

Sonic The HedgeHog 4 [Project Needlemouse]

Last year, Sega announced that it was working on Project Needlemouse, its code name for a reinvention of the popular Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. After a long wait, Sega has finally unveiled that Project Needlemouse is in fact, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1. (See video below.)

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The Secret to The Black Eyed Peas’ Success

2010-02-06T17:09:00.002-06:00

The Secret to The Black Eyed Peas’ Success

With years of hard work and dedication, the secret to the success of the Black Eyed Peas has been exposed by Matt Stopera. The bottom line: Be consistent and repetitious, literally.

Women are Like Apples on Trees. The Best Ones are at the Top [Poem]

2010-02-06T15:58:00.004-06:00

Women are Like Apples on Trees. [Poem]

Women are like
apples on trees. The best
ones are at the top of the tree.
The men don't want to reach for
the good ones because they are afraid
of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they
just get the rotten apples from the ground
that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples
at the top think something is wrong with
them, when in reality, they're amazing.
They just have to wait for the right
one to come along, the one
who's brave enough
to climb
all the way
to the top
of the tree.

-Pete Wentz

Incredible Hand Art

2010-02-05T19:40:00.005-06:00

10 Ways To Tick People Off

2010-02-05T19:20:00.005-06:00

10 Ways To Tick People Off

1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.

2. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors."

3. Specify that your drive-through order is "TO-GO."

4. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

5. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.

6. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."

7. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what you think."

8. Practice making fax and modem noises.

9. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc" them to your boss.

10. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.

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Lil Kim Makeup Tutorial! [Hilarious Video]

2010-01-27T11:24:00.003-06:00

Lil Kim Makeup Tutorial! [Hilarious Video]

United Airlines Suck

2009-07-08T17:19:00.009-05:00

A Halifax band is using the power of the Internet in its fight against corporate giant United Airlines over a broken guitar.

Dave Carroll of the band Sons of Maxwell is still battling the airline over an incident in the spring of 2008, when he alleges that his guitar was broken on the way from Halifax to Omaha.

He says luggage handlers heaved his guitar and his band mate's bass during a stop in Chicago, and when he got off the plane, he discovered the guitar was badly damaged.

After getting nowhere with customer service, the band turned to the Internet and posted a catchy song on YouTube called United Breaks Guitars (video below).

The song has gone viral and has been viewed about 150,000 times since being posted on Monday.

Mr. Carroll says his goal is to get one million hits and the band has two more anti-United songs in the works.

“I've been done ‘being angry' for quite some time and, if anything, I should thank United. They've given me a creative outlet that has brought people together from around the world,” Mr. Carroll says on the band's website.

“We had a pile of laughs making the recording and the video while the images are spinning on how to make United: Song 2 even better than the first. So, thanks United”