#barbershop equipment

[certifiedclippers]

How to Upgrade Your Barber Kit with the Right Accessories?

Are you looking to upgrade your barber equipment but don’t know how? This guide guides every professional barber looking for accessories and tools to upgrade their game. We’ve got your kit tools for every budget taken care of for you!

Before you invest in your kit:

Take the time to create a list that will enhance and complement your skills.

Don’t forget to upgrade your barbering techniques, skills, and knowledge.

Equip yourself with the right experience; it will help catapult your work as a barber.

Arm yourself with everything a barber needs!

Disinfectants:

A germ-free barbering job is a practice no one can ignore. Tools need regular sanitation before servicing any of your customers. Choose the best hand sanitizer or soap with warm water in inaccessible areas. Clippers and trimmers should be disinfected after every use. To kill viruses, germs, and fungi that easily accumulate in barber shops, use an EPA-registered disinfectant that cleans without creating a mess. These work brilliantly for all your combs and tools.

Clippers and Trimmers:

No barber kit is complete without the right clipper and trimmers. These are essential tools that should be on your list and budget. Keep aside a decent budget to invest in the right hair clippers and trimmers. Before buying any of these, look out for the following:

a) Blade type, as they are available with adjustable and detachable.

b) Cordless or corded clippers are choices you will have to make. A cordless offers a lot more mobility. The corded ones offer you long hours of unhindered work.

c) Trimmers and clippers come with a range of accessories, e.g., blade guards, charging docks, settings, lubricating oil and brush for cleaning, and lots more.

Shears:

Among any professional barber accessories, hair shears are a must. Choose high-quality shears and thinning shears depending on the nuances of your barbering skills. These tools are what will separate you from the rest. You are guaranteed satisfied clients, so choose your shears and thinning shears with precision.

Tip: Like your clippers and trimmers, keep them clean after every use.

Combs:

A professional barber kit for students often includes an all-purpose comb that helps manage different hairstyling needs for your clients. Also, clippers include a comb as an accessory. However, these are great for basic use. An upgrade is upping your barbering game! Choose from a range of combs used for different purposes, e.g.

a) Wide-tooth comb for detangling hair without damaging them.

b) Styling combs to creating stunning styles.

c) Hair clips to hold down hair and make styling easy.

Blow Dryers and Spray Bottles:

A blow dryer with adjustable settings, airflow, and temperature is a must for your kit. Do not miss adding a mist spray bottle for all those essential barbering needs.

The right equipment for a barber shop cannot be overlooked. This gives your client the first impression of your skills and professional expertise. Stations and Chairs:

A storage place for all your supplies and barbering tools, the barber station is a sacred space. When creating or upgrading a barber station, follow the following checklist: Keep a good budget for interiors and research designs before making up your mind:

a) Create ample storage for all your products and tools that are easily accessible.

b) Create workstations that help you work with ease and efficiency. Keep enough space for seamless movability.

c) Aesthetically styled chair and interiors should reflect your passion and style.

Choosing to upgrade your barber kit or barbershop equipment can be a daunting process. As a one-stop shop, Certified Clippers makes it easy for every professional barber. With a variety of tools and equipment, every customer is spoilt for choice.

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[brins-rogers]

BULLY: Future Job Headcannons

Argue w/ ur mama not me

If I’m missing any pls lmk in the comments I was too lazy to look them all up

Nerds:

Earnest - Definitely a scientist.

Fatty - Apple Genius at Apple

Algie - Co-owns a comic book store

Beatrice - Botanist!!

Bucky - teaches science and chemistry at a university!

Cornelius - WRITER!! Writes romance novels.

Donald - hmm … don’t know him that well so BAM owns a small business

Thad - owns the company his brother is a janitor at hehe

Melvin - magic the gathering but make it professional. Professional gamer.

Bullies:

Wade - Takes over his dad’s restaurant for sure. Hates it, but it’s money.

Davis - just works at a retail store tbh

Tom - Wade is his bestie he works for Wade supplying fish

Trent - MOVIE STAR. Not like super famous but does commercials. OR possibly a theater teacher.

Russell - I actually think he would work at Yum Yum Market as a butcher!

Jocks:

Casey Harris - Army. He even says it in his voice lines “the Army’ll take you if you can’t read!” dumb blonde <\3

Ted - He’d be the sorry ass football coach of a mediocre high school.

Luis - Y’know what Navy Seal. Attitude as one.

Juri - Oil rig in the ocean to be far, far away from women.

Mandy - Definitely either an RN or works at a boutique. Mean girl jobs.

Bo- Announcer for MLB!

Dan - works at Thad’s business making minimum wage 💔

Kirby - Nothing fancy, works at a sports equipment store.

Damon - ONLY guy to go pro. Carries the team. NFL linebacker.

Townies:

Edgar Munsen - Line Cook. Think about it. ANGRY, yelling, fighting? Yuh, he’d be a lead line cook. I’d like to think he would be in a pretty swanky restaurant.

Omar - King of robbing gas stations! Doesn’t work but definitely scams.

Clint - He’s too clinically insane to work an actual job. Gets disability.

Gurney - Def a dock worker/ex-dock worker

Zoe - GIRLBOSS DOES WELDING.

Duncan - works at the comic book store Algie co-owns

Jerry - also works at a comic book store as a clerk.

Greasers:

Johnny - Dare I say … racer? Dirt bike racer, or NASCAR if he got the opportunity!

Ricky - New owner of Shiny Bikes. I like to think he worked there during school too.

Norton - Construction, y’all see how that mf swings around a sledgehammer easily?!?!

Lola - COSMETOLOGISTTTT

Peanut - HVAC. I see all greasers having blue collar jobs actually since they’re all handy.

Vance - Works with Lola in a barbershop! Barber.

Lefty - Mechanic at Ricky’s bike store.

Hal - Food critic. Pry this from my cold head hands.

Lucky - Actually made something decent of himself since he has drive, maybe a carpenter or an electrician.

Preps:

WE KNOW THEY ALL TAKE OVER THEIR PARENTS BUSINESSES BUT ILL TRY TO SAY WHAT IS WHAT

Derby - OIL. Harrington Oil

Bif - I have to say shipping. You can’t tell me he doesn’t own Blue Skies

Chad - Hard one … I’d like to say computer company!

Tad - Me thinks Tad daddy owns something new, hence the new money fake accent. Like something similar to Amazon, something that JUST came up.

Parker - Definitely supermarkets, something big similar to like Trader Joe’s (shoutout Trader Joe’s)

Gord - TEXTILES TELL ME IM WRONG

Pinky - French-ish last name … thinking international … thinkingggggg airlines!

Justin - HATE THIS MF. But he absolutely makes me think with Vandervale that it’s something like bonds or stock. Maybe owns a line of banks?

Bryce - After working odd jobs, he’d own the casino his dad gambled their money away.

[our-queer-experience]

I went to a barbershop for the first time today because i needed a touch-up, and i was tired of going to hair salons and trying to avoid pixie cuts. There was an older guy and a younger guy. I came up to the older guy to ask about prices, and he was confused when i told him the haircut was for me (i dont pass for shit lol). He told me, "Oh, the ladies' section is downstairs," and i decided i was gonna stand my ground for once, so i just hit him with "i know 🙂" and then just stared at him.

After about 5 seconds of utter silence, he decided he was not equipped to deal with me and went to get the younger guy lmao. I got a neat fucking haircut today.

thanks for sharing!! i’m glad you stood your ground and got your haircut. good for you!! :]

[gazetto-no-ki]

2024.12.23 Twitter

Ruki: (Poll) "A question for everyone from today's conversation 👨‍🌾 What do you call it?

(Beauty Parlor) 34.7% (Beauty Salon) 58.2% (Hair Salon) 4.6% (Barbershop) 2.5%"

Ruki: "RT: (Cut Shop) !? That’s a new one 👨‍🌾"

Ruki: "RT: I’m a hairstylist, but a little boy once called my shop a 'Hair Shop' when he walked by 😂 I saw a few people mention this, and honestly, it’s so cute that I’m fine with calling it that now 👨‍🌾"

Aoi: "I had a bit of free time, so I was messing around playing guitar and singing, but now my throat hurts so much. I hate how fragile my throat is—like a newborn pony’s."

2024.12.24

Ruki: See? I was right🤷‍♂️@ official_aoi

Ruki: Thanks for your responses. I call it beauty salon, but since the members disagreed, I thought I’d ask for your opinions 🙆‍♂️

Ruki: This year, my Christmas doesn’t have anything special going on. It’s just another regular weekday, so I kind of forgot about it, but… Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄 It’s cold, so stay warm and have a nice day.

2024.12.25

Kai: Merry Xmas 🦌🎄 Hope you have a wonderful day.

Uruha: Merry Christmas 🎄 I’m wishing everyone an amazing day 🙏✨

Aoi: Hey. The equipment and other orders I placed won’t ship until after the New Year, so it really feels like the end of the year.

[apocalypticavolition]

1,000 Greatest Films: Le voyage dans la lune

Every January, They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? puts out a list of the 1,000 greatest films of all time as voted upon by film critics everywhere, or at least lots of places someone in the Anglosphere has access to. 1,000 is a lot of films, but what if someone watched all of a year's list? And what if instead of doing it in ascending or descending order (that is, from 1 to 1,000 or the other way around), they did it chronologically? There's a 0.0001% chance we'll find out and that chance grows with every post I make, so here's post #1!

Le voyage dans la lune, or "A Trip to the Moon" (did the translators not know that the English word for "voyage" is, y'know, "voyage"?), is the earliest movie in the 2025 TSPDT list. Released back in 1902, it's a fanciful account of how humanity might reach the moon and what they might find there, directed by legendary French director George Méliès, whose name I will be copy-pasting because as an English speaker, accent marks scare me.

Méliès, born in the 1860s, of course predates film by some years and came to it through his love of stage magic. Having purchased the Théâtre Robert-Houdin, a rather dated site, Méliès was constantly trying to innovate in his field to draw new crowds. At the end of 1895, he was able to attend a private demonstration of a cinematograph and clearly fell in love. Unable to purchase the device exhibited, he performed the most desperate act a Frenchman could and went to London to find the supplies he needed and then modified his equipment to create his own film camera.

Where others saw the camera as a way to create non-fiction accounts of the world, Méliès was the inventor of the popcorn flick. His many films were initially focused on the magic tricks he pioneered, using the camera to create fantastic illusions of size and distance. He also made films that greatly enhanced magic tricks, like a variant on the vanishing act (via a trap door), enhanced by using the camera's ability to cut and splice to add a skeleton to the scene until the vanishing lady reappeared. Then like any mad genius, he built a film studio and promptly dedicated himself to every genre of film he could think of. He was so successful that he pissed off known hack Thomas Edison, which of course in my book is all you need to be a suitable candidate for sainthood.

I'd like to say that Méliès invented the idea of making a film of a book, but even with the amount of research I have done into this subject (zero), I'm pretty sure that's not true. Nonetheless, in 1902 when he made La voyage dans la lune, turning books into film was a pretty new idea! Plus, Méliès took the time to turn multiple books into a single fifteen minute film, which is an idea that Disney's Marvel Studios won't be having until the 2040s, so he's way ahead of the curve.

The primary source of his inspiration is Jules Verne, the first Frenchman to write sci fi (probably; again, research is not what I'm interested in doing here), but possibly in honor of his journey across the Channel for film equipment, this film takes something from Englishman H. G. Wells as well (maybe the first English MAN to write sci fi but not the first English person). Both had written about the possibility of going to the moon, but hoo boy if this film is anything of an accurate adaptation neither one had the least clue how that was going to happen.

As the film is only fifteen minutes long, I'll summarize it scene-by-scene, which I certainly won't be doing going forward because fuck that. A bunch of old sage types with three pretty lady secretaries are having an astronomy meeting and one of them proposes going to the moon. All these characters apparently have names and crap but none of that was in the movie so I'm not going to go into that, especially since their names are very dumb. I want to say they're Barbershop, Nostalgia, Frisbee, Alpha, Microscope, and Paraphernalia?

So Barbershop (played by Méliès himself) takes over the chalkboard and says, "What if we built a cannon that's bigger than Greenland and shot a gigantic cannonball at the moon, wouldn't that be cool?" and everyone's like "Sure it's cool but is it in the budget?" and ultimately they decide that they can make it work as long as they don't spend any money on leggings for any women involved in the project so they take off their robes and wizard hats and put on badass longcoats and get to work...

...a phrase which here means have a bunch of other dudes build a gigantic capsule for them. Did I mention this film is in color? Méliès had it painted because color film obviously didn't exist in 1902 and let me tell you it's garish as hell. The capsule is red and everyone's in yellow or green depending on where they're standing and it keeps changing because of course handpainting frame-by-frame means no color is consistent from millisecond to millisecond.

So yeah we see there's this huge pit with smoke rising out of it and a thousand industrial buildings surrounding it and I think that's the launch site but when we get there everything's nicely horizontal and there's dozens of sexy babes who wait patiently for our "heroes" to load into the giant bullet and then they push it into the cannon. Everything is framed very much like it's still onstage; the cannon firing is technically a different scene that's clearly meant to be the same place just rotated 90 degrees and it would never work in theater but it does work for this medium. So they're fired out of a cannon and we see that the moon has a face and they crash into one of its eyes. If you've forgotten what that looks like...

Wait, this is from something that came out a hundred years later, but close enough. This one little bit is iconic and everyone rips it off, and honestly they're right to do so. I know that the man in the moon is a metaphor and I still find the image of us shooting his eye out to be hella iconic.

Our "heroes" get out of their bullet and are tired from the journey so they make camp, which is not to imply they set up tents because they don't. This might have made sense because of course the moon has no air and thus no weather, but they piss off some Greek Gods or something and get woken up by snow and have to hide in a mushroom cave, a position made somewhat untenable by the fact that their gear turns into more mushrooms.

And then an alien attacks! And you know, yeah it's a dude in a suit and it's all very silly. It's even more silly when it turns out that the smallest bit of blunt force causes the alien to explode in a puff of smoke. But I actually dig this bit! Hollywood is filled with silly costumes for dudes to wear and pretend their aliens and frankly they are all pale imitations of whatever the hell this Selenite was up to. He was alien despite having clearly human anatomy and I was digging his wild animal ways. Apparently he was played by an acrobat, so my advice to anyone wanting sci fi aliens is to get acrobats. Very sad he was smacked out of existence, frankly I was rooting for the other aliens that captured Barbershop and his buddies.

In the most realistic sequence of the movie, our white Frenchmen find themselves in the throne room of the non-white alien people and promptly enact a genocide against them, then flee. They then return to the capsule, and just as you're about to ask "Wait how can they get back, there's no giant cannon on the moon", it falls from a cliff into the Earth's ocean, so that's a giant cop-out. Well okay, I guess predicting an ocean return is pretty neat but still. The film ends in tragedy, with the French astronomers given a parade to celebrate their crimes while a single solitary alien is kept as a slave for the rest of his life.

No, seriously! This film is making fun of imperialism and I'm not just reinterpreting it with a cynical 21st century eye. I'm as surprised as you are. Barbershop and co. are consistently portrayed as vainglorious idiots who have no appreciation for the wonders of the world around them. Méliès worked for a leftist publication La Griffe before he got into film and the statue the "heroes" get at the end, with the alien turned into a bug-eyed monster, is right out of his earlier cartoons.

But does a message that resonates with me, a viewer entirely out of time, plus the invention and refinement of a variety of special effects techniques really make this movie worth of being one of the greats of all time? Well, Edison pirated it immediately, the goddamn bastard who had better be burning in hell, and so did half a dozen others. And the fact that it predates...

...sigh...

Birth of a Nation

...ugh...

...means that it's doing its own thing with its film techniques. Like I said, it feels like an attempt to directly turn theater into film, with just enough going on that it doesn't feel shackled to this. Sadly, Méliès himself didn't see this as his best film, and even more sadly the film he liked best is probably lost or at least only accessible in a storage closet in some BBC outpost in sub-Saharan Africa, but luckily for the picky watchers like me that film was a "serious historical drama" so that might be for the best.

After all, La voyage dans la lune is a spectacle. It's not meant to be an edifying experience or a serious exploration of the human condition, you're meant to appreciate the effects! And sure, the effects of 1902 are childlike gibberish compared to the magic of 2025 but dammit, if you aren't a spoiled brat you can appreciate what the magic was. Yeah, half the scenes have painted backdrops, but they try so hard to use props to make it all flow together so you don't notice (you do, but if you were a hundred years younger maybe you wouldn't). And bits like the astronomers standing atop the "buildings" as they get ready for the launch are fun!

In the early 1900s, film was hella new. Barely a decade before, an audience had been convinced that they were about to be killed by a movie about a train! Méliès produced a movie that is child-like, but it makes sense because no one knew how to make films yet. La voyage dans la lune is eclipsed (I'm not sorry) by many films that come after it, but so few of them would have been able to work at all if Méliès hadn't put in the work beforehand. So, in the grand scheme of things, I agree with the critics: this is absolutely one of the greats. It might even deserve a ranking higher than 458, which is where it ended up this year.

So, that's movie 1/1000. 999 to go, and I'll be honest up front and say that there's actually at least 1,000 to go even now because I will be damned if I skip movie 2 in a particular trilogy where movies 1 and 3 are on the list. If any other closely knit series like... well I won't tell you, but maybe you can guess... have intermediate films cut out, I'll put them in too, just to keep up.

But that's some ways off. Next time, we jump from 1902 to the next decade. Specifically, 1915. At least I'm getting it over with quickly! My next post in this series will be for Kavid Kark Kriffith's disgusting but tragically influential film Birth of a Nation.

Ugh.

[waywardxrhea]

Part Eight - Just Keep Driving

[slow burn romance between you, a SHIELD investigative journalist, and Steve Rogers]

Warnings: 18+, contains humor, fluff, mental health, family trauma, romance, angst, language, violence, friends to lovers trope, smut later on.

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You documents a STRIKE team mission and then are questioned by Fury about suspicions you both have following the mission.

After making it to HQ and getting your equipment, you sprinted onto the ship right as they were shutting the loading ramp. When you boarded, Romanoff and Steve were already being briefed on the mission while other agents listened in and got geared up. While this was going on, you stayed on the edges of the crowd, making yourself scarce besides when you needed to set a camera up on an agent's vest. Between securing cameras, you activated the earpiece that would loop you into all the action going on when the mission was happening so you could report everything back to HQ.

After setting up for a few minutes, you walked up to Steve to place the small camera on his new suit that came courtesy of joining STRIKE. "Hey," he said offhandedly while still listening to the briefing as you attached the camera to his suit. You smiled in greeting and patted his shoulder when you were done, not wanting to interrupt his concentration.

As you walked away right as the briefing was wrapped up, you heard Romanoff ask Steve, "Do you have anything fun planned for Saturday night?" Your heart skipped a beat upon hearing the question, a thought in the back of your mind hoping he didn't. Maybe you could ask him to do something together...

"Well all the guys from my barbershop quartet are dead, so, no not really," you heard him reply, a small smile slipping onto your lips at the response.

As this exchange was happening, a voice came over the speakers informing Cap that the drop-zone was coming up. He started preparing himself for the jump while Romanoff looked at him and said, "You know, if you asked Kristen from statistics, she'd probably say yes."

A spark of jealousy flickered in your heart that was doused when Steve told her, "That's why I don't ask."

"Too shy or too scared?"

"Too busy!" he shouted before jumping out of the jet.

"Was he wearing a chute?" you asked, your eyebrows furrowed, as you wandered back over to Romanoff with a camera for the mission. You held it up in an offer but Romanoff just shook her head before slipping on her parachute and jumping out of the jet.

You sighed and went to her spot where your laptop lay open ready to have video from the drone and the team's cameras fed to it. When you sat down, you picked up the tablet that controls the drone, activated the camouflage mode, and sent it down to film the mission. You kept a safe distance from the ship while capturing Cap flawlessly taking out the occupants of the ship by himself. "Damn..." you whispered as you watched the action.

Anxiety started to creep up your spine as you watched a man pull a gun on Steve and you subconsciously scooted forward toward the edge of the seat you were in in anticipation for what happened next - obviously hoping for the best. At that moment though, the parachuting agents landed on the deck with Agent Rumlow shooting the gunman down before he could get a shot at Steve. Relief flooded your body and you slouched back into your chair as you let out a deep breath you hadn't realized you'd been holding, grateful to Rumlow for saving his life.

From the coms feed, you could hear Romanoff continue her pestering of Steve with, "What about that nurse who lives across the hall from you?"

Your eyes turned down to your lap once more, the spark of jealousy reigniting inside of your chest as you remembered your encounter with the woman in question that morning. She was perfect. She was a nurse, blonde, nice... You shook your head to get the thoughts of the woman out of your head, needing to focus on documenting the mission, not your completely unwarranted jealousy.

You startled as someone approached you from behind and asked, "How close can you get that thing?"

"Pretty, but nothing too up close and personal, this thing isn't the best at maneuvering tight spaces. That's why we've got the body cams." You showed them what you meant by switching the feed you were viewing from the wide drone shot to the more focused body cameras attached to the agents' vests.

"Well get as close as possible with the drone. Fury wants all we can get on this one considering the high-profile faces we're rescuing here."

You nodded and looked at a schematic before deciding to approach the ship from an inconspicuous vantage point where you saw the main man in charge, Batroc, giving orders in a room far away from the hostages. "Wow, big man, not even doing your own dirty work..." you mumbled to yourself as you rolled your eyes.

From there, you panned out to capture the STRIKE agents scaling down the side of the ship for breach. Over the earpieces, you could hear Romanoff in a conflict but didn't have any footage of it because once again, she didn't let you set up a camera on her. This wasn't even remotely the first time this had happened either. Before missions, Romanoff always told you, "I prefer for no one to have access to my fighting style, thanks," which always irked you, but you tried to be rational and understanding to her point of view. She was after all one of the best spies in the world, she probably had reason for not wanting anyone to know her fighting style.

The struggle on Romanoff's side stopped and she informed Steve that the engine room was secured. In response, Steve ordered the team to take action, so you placed your drone to where you could capture as much of the ensuing breach as you could. As you filmed the team's taking of the hostage room, you began writing a headline for the article, coming up with something that would easily capture everyone's attention.

Since starting the assignment with STRIKE, your writing only got seen by a limited number of people, mostly just agents, but you tried to keep them informed on the happenings of the team. You always wanted to make sure the agents knew that they were working for an agency that was doing great things for this world, one criminal capture or hostage breakout at a time.

After capturing the breach, you heard Steve getting into a fight and flew the drone to capture it. The drone arrived right on time to watch him going toe to toe with Batroc. During the fight, couple of wandering techs gathered around the laptop to watch the action with you after hearing the commotion on the coms themselves.

When Steve put his shield on his back and took off his helmet before squaring up to the man again, one of the techs tensed up and asked, "Is he trying to get himself hurt?"

You shook your head in slight disbelief as you continued filming, saying, "He should be fine. Hopefully." You all watched as Steve tackled Batroc into a room and you laughed quietly, telling them, "See?"

After a few seconds, there was an explosion coming from that same room, and the tech lightly punched you in the shoulder, laughing as he tells you, "See?"

The next few moments were anxiety ridden as you waited for either the smoke to clear or for there to be movement from Steve's body cam, and your wish for his safety was granted quickly. Steve got up from his position on the ground and ensured his and Romanoff's safety before beginning to gather agents and hostages to head back to the rescue ship. You once more let out a major sigh of relief knowing that Steve was okay before you started preparing to gather all of the cameras and ear pieces as agents got back.

The whole ride back to HQ for the debrief, you were processing, editing, and stitching together your footage as well as starting on your article for the agency paper, so you didn't get time to congratulate Steve or anyone on a successful mission. As the jet landed, you were about to head off to talk to Steve when you were requested to immediately head to your superior in the newsroom to give her the files you captured that day.

After going over everything from the mission, you sent a text to Steve that said, You did great on the mission, Cap. I captured some really good stuff, it'll make you look great ;) You hit send with a slight tremble in your hands and headed back to your apartment to rest and regroup.

When you were showered and relaxed once more, you took a quick power nap before deciding Sam a call. The other line picked up and Sam answered with a charismatic, "I knew you wouldn't be able to stay away for long!"

You laughed and said, "I was just wondering if you would want to meet up? Maybe get a couple of drinks? It has been a helluva day. Lots of paperwork, lots of running around."

"Well I usually would never turn down drinks, but I am just about to hold a meeting at the VA, so I can't right now. How about later? My place?"

"I'll hold you to that Wilson," you said before saying your goodbyes and ending the call. You received a text a minute later with an address and a message saying, "You bring the booze, I'll grill."

Right after you read the text, there was a knock at the door. You cocked an eyebrow in confusion, not knowing who would be visiting. Steve usually texted first and Maria didn't knock. Cautiously, you approached the door and looked through the peephole to see Director Fury standing in the hallway.

You opened the door and Fury immediately started speaking. "Nice to see you, Agent, as usual. I don't have time for pleasantries right now, so if we could walk and talk that would be great."

"O-okay, Director. Just let me get some shoes on and I'll be right back."

Fury nodded as you quickly slipped on some shoes before following him out to the SUV that was awaiting the two of you. You both got in and Fury did some voice activations in the SUV before asking, "You captured the footage of the mission retaking those hostages yes?"

"Yes sir, as ordered," you replied quickly and respectfully.

"Did you notice anything...out of the ordinary?"

"Well, Agent Romanoff was running a different mission than Captain Rogers and not everyone seemed to be in the loop. But I know she said those orders came from you, sir. Other than that, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Why do you ask?"

"That's correct, agent those orders to Romanoff were from me," he confirmed with a nod. He paused for a moment before adding, "You can just call me Fury, you know that right?"

"Yes sir, Fury, sir..." you trailed off awkwardly with a slight laugh to try and ease the tension.

Fury chuckled, telling you, "It's okay Agent, you can relax around me. I know based on your past and the field we work in, it can be hard to trust others, but know you can put yours in me. Hill does."

You smiled a bit and nodded, saying, "Thank you. It means a lot."

Fury made a quick call to Maria and while he did, you recalled one more thing that was bothering you about the mission. Once he hang up, you said, "Hey, Fury, I do remember one thing that was off. It's something that's always happened, so it isn't necessarily out of the ordinary, but I just think it's weird..."

"Well...?" he asked.

"Well every mission, I'm the one who's supposed to hand out cameras and earpieces to all the agents since I'm capturing video and sound, correct?"

"Correct."

"Well then why is it that a handful of the STRIKE agents always already have an earpiece by the time I get to them and there were none missing from the box?"

"Well a lot of us already have sets from our everyday comings and goings within the agency," Fury rationalized.

"But for STRIKE missions, isn't everyone supposed to have those specific ones?" You paused and then quickly said, "I dunno, maybe I'm just overthinking all of this."

"In this line of work, it's good to overthink, Agent," he told you, consideration in his voice but not answering the question fully. He paused and veered the conversation in a new direction, saying, "So I spoke with Rogers before I came to get you. How is it going with him? He still seems a bit...tense."

"He's getting there. He still has a lot to get used to, and I'm still slowly getting him accustomed to the modern world. He missed quite a bit in the last 70 years."

"No kidding," Fury scoffed, pushing the brakes to stop at a red light.

"Some days I can tell he is still hooked on the past, but what more can you expect from a man out of his own time?" You were quiet for a second before telling him, "He did recently get into contact with Peggy Carter though and they talk a lot. He's probably there right now, that's where he usually goes after missions..."

"Being stuck in the past is a tricky matter, Agent. I hope it isn't like that for you," he said offhandedly as a cop car pulled up beside him at the light, earning a look and snide remark from the Director.

He began to pull forward from the light when suddenly the SUV was being jerked around as a car t-boned it. "Shit!" you shouted, bracing yourself with one arm and protecting your head with the other. After regaining your bearings and blinking hard a few times, you looked around at the scene as a vehicle rammed your side of the car now and saw that the assailants are all in cop cruisers. You ignored the sudden and growing ache in your body as you asked, "What the hell are those cops doing?"

In response to the question, the AI in the SUV informed the two of you, "DC Metro shows no police in the area."

Looking around at their surroundings, you noticed men armed with guns surrounding the vehicle and panic started to set in. Fury gave you a look as he shot himself with meds to kill the pain from his newly fractured arm. "We'll be okay, Agent," he told you. He looked at the men surrounding the vehicle and shouted at the AI, "Get us out of here!" As he said this, the gunmen opened fire, causing you to let out a scream and you ducked down and covered your head before realizing that the car was of course bulletproof.

"The propulsion system is down," the AI told Fury.

"Then reboot damnit!" Fury shouted as he assessed the scene.

You watched on in horror as the armor integrity of the car went down, but you tried to maintain a brave face around the Director. He sent a glance in your direction and pointed out, "You know, I won't judge you if you panic right now," attempting to lighten the mood while the car rebooted.

You forced out a laugh as you attempted to focus on anything but what was going on around you as the men brought out a battering ram to begin to smashing the window, "Do you mind my asking of what the hell is going on?"

"If I knew," Fury grunted as the men hit the window which began to break, "I would tell you." He was quiet for a moment before telling you, "I'll be honest, I brought you with me because I thought maybe you had seen something suspicious on the mission. I guess my own suspicions were right..."

Looking at the intact back windows in the SUV, Fury told you, "Get in the back, it's safer there."

"I'm sorry I didn't know more, Director," you apologized as you crawled into the backseat while the battering ram hit the window again.

"Don't you act like this is the end, Agent!" Fury shouted from his spot now in the passenger seat.

"Window integrity compromised. Deploying countermeasures," the AI called.

"Hold that order," Fury sternly said to the car.

"Window integrity 19 percent," the AI announced. You shot Fury a look with your eyebrows raised and eyes wide as the car suggested, "Offensive measures advised."

"Wait!" Fury ordered.

"Window integrity 1 percent."

"Now!" Fury shouted, "Agent, get down!" You swiftly followed your orders and ducked into the floorboard while Fury deployed a machine gun that he used to get rid of the immediate threats.

The car's systems came back online at that moment and Fury ordered it to drive while he continued shooting at the attackers. You braced yourself on the floor as the car sped off and away from the men. After a few seconds, Fury jumped back into the driver's seat and took control again.

When you determined that the immediate threat was dealt with, you sat up and asked, "Do you need my help with anything, sir?"

"Yes, get back up here and use the gun in the glove compartment when we need it."

"On your orders," you replied as you fumbled back into the front seat with unsteady limbs. When you were settled back in, you grabbed the gun, checking to see if it had ammo inside.

Fury tried to get communication with Maria through the car, but that system was down too. "Well, what system isn't down?" Fury snapped at the car's AI system.

"The air conditioning system is fully operational," the AI responded.

You couldn't help the incredulous laugh that escaped your mouth but covered it quickly, saying, "Sorry."

Just to test it out though, you turned the AC vent to your face and you started to feel a semblance of calm wash over you in response to the sensation. Fury turned to look at you but didn't deliver his snide remark when he saw you visibly relax so he let the action slide.

"Agent, can you try calling Hill?" Fury asked after a few moments as he furiously drove through the streets.

Opening your eyes back up, you fished your phone out of your bag and dialed Maria but got the other end of a busy line. "Busy. Whoever's orchestrating this attack probably has her on the phone to keep her away from you. I can try her other phone though."

"Do that!" Fury shouted as he attempted to get the fake cops off of his tail. "Bet you're happy I got you out of that retail shop now aren't you?" Fury asked sarcastically as he rammed into another vehicle.

"You know, I'll take getting chased by criminals over being verbally abused by customers any day, sir," you replied with a laugh but meaning it seriously. The SUV came to a stop due to dense traffic and the "cops" got out of their cars to start shooting at the vehicle once again. In response, you aimed the pistol out the half rolled down window at one of the men and downed him in one shot, remorse filling your brain fighting with the fact that it may have just saved your lives.

After you took the shot, Fury looked at you curiously and asked, "Remind me why you aren't a field agent?"

You took a shot at another, hitting his shooting arm and causing him to drop his weapon before saying, "With all due respect, now isn't the best time to discuss my position in the agency, sir."

"Fair enough," Fury said while figuring out his way through the crashed cars. After a minute of navigating, he finally got the SUV out and was on the move again.

In one of the cars chasing the SUV, the man in the passenger seat leaned out with a gun and started shooting. Fury shouted your name in warning and you aimed the gun at him and were faced with a searing pain in your arm as you pulled the trigger, your bullet missing its target. Your hand immediately went to the sight of the pain and you saw that a bullet had grazed deeply through your upper part of your dominant arm. You became slightly woozy at the sight of blood steadily soaking through your shirt, but grit your teeth and continued to try and deter the gunman, your shooting becoming a lot less accurate with the loss of total use of your shooting arm.

The pain was worsened as another one of the cruisers rammed into your side of the SUV, jostling you in the seat and causing you to curse as you screwed your eyes shut. When you opened them again, you saw the driver of the car aiming a gun right at the window you were sitting by. With a loud shattering noise, your half-rolled-down window finally broke, sending glass flying onto your body, causing blood to begin to trickle down your cheek and forehead. The men of the cruiser on your side take aim, and you immediately began shooting at them before they could get a shot off.

"Warning, approaching an intersection," the car's AI warned, causing Fury to slam on the brakes. The police cars on either side of you continued onward though, getting hit by an oncoming semi-truck.

"Get us off the grid!" Fury shouted at the AI which then started finding a route to a secure location.

Before the car could take off though, ahead of them in the road, a masked man was walking towards the SUV. "Uh, Fury?" you asked with wide eyes when the man continued to walk towards the speeding SUV with no hesitation in his stride.

The masked man held up a weapon, shooting out a disc that flew at the SUV and attached to the underside. "Shit!" Fury shouted, throwing his good arm over you. Fury's arm and you holding onto the seat for dear life were the only things that stopped you from flying through the windshield as the car flipped from the explosion. Black started to engulf your vision and all you heard was ringing before you felt yourself being dragged into more darkness by Fury.

a/n: here is some more music to go with the chapter! Once again I am just placing it at the end so I don’t ruin the flow of reading the story.

[yatescountyhistorycenter]

Remembering Black Wednesday in Penn Yan

By Jonathan Monfiletto

The best thing – indeed, probably the only good thing – to come out of the fire at the Penn Yan fire station on Wednesday, December 20, 1967 was there was only one major injury, that to a firefighter who suffered a dislocated shoulder from flying debris caused by an explosion after the fire started. Otherwise, that day – called Black Wednesday in local lore – well earned its moniker and reputation as a tragic moment for Penn Yan and Yates County.

Firefighters are heroes, period. The firefighters of Penn Yan, Yates County, and surrounding communities display their courage and bravery every time they respond to an emergency scene, especially those who are volunteers and must leave their homes and jobs to answer the call. And the firefighters of Penn Yan and beyond certainly showed their fortitude on Black Wednesday.

Ten years later, Harry Monnin – a firefighter and the janitor at the firehouse, then located on Main Street in Penn Yan, in the present-day location of the Penn Yan Elks Lodge – told a Geneva newspaper he was the last person in the building on the morning of the fire. It felt unusually hot inside the building, he said; after walking through the building but finding nothing, he turned down the thermostat thinking someone had left it up too high. According to the chief’s log book, the fire started at 8:06 a.m. that day and later was determined to have been caused by an overheated furnace boiler.

John Banach, the fire chief at the time, operated a barbershop around the corner on Elm Street and – with a handful of other firefighters who worked in the downtown vicinity – was one of the first firefighters on the scene. Having heard one blast of the fire horn warning system before the fire consumed it and seeing the building engulfed in flames when he went around the corner, Banach knew what it meant and rushed to the scene. He called the Yates County Sheriff and ordered every other Yates County fire department – Bellona, Benton, Branchport, Dresden, Dundee, Kashong, and Keuka Park – to provide mutual aid. He also called fire departments in Geneva, Ontario County, and Wayne, Steuben County, for help, and other area departments provided support at the fire stations of the departments that responded.

Meanwhile, at the scene, firefighters opened the front doors of the blazing building; Jim Shamp reached inside to give one more pull of the fire horn to alert the community, and Bernard Linehan managed to grab five lengths of hose so the firefighters could begin battling the blaze at their own firehouse. Those hoses ended up being the only firefighting equipment saved from the fire. At one point, a burning pumper truck rolled on its own through the open front doors and into the street; bystanders with the presence of mind to toss a garbage can in front of the truck stopped it from crashing into the Beaumont and Stork Insurance Agency building across the street. Another firefighter with quick thinking rescued some equipment from the truck.

Despite the odds stacked against them, with hopelessness and futility, Penn Yan firefighters valiantly fought the fire for 20 minutes while awaiting the arrival of other fire departments. Two firefighters manning a hose at the rear of the building were hit by flying debris when there was a second explosion inside the firehouse; Levi Titus suffered a dislocated shoulder in the incident. Three other firefighters suffered minor cuts and bruises, and other responders were treated for smoke inhalation.

Dresden firefighters arrived on the scene first and Geneva firefighters made it in record time, dispatching an aerial truck with a 75-foot extension ladder and an emergency truck. Also serving at the scene were two aerial trucks from Harvard Tree Surgeons, of Canandaigua, which happened to be working in the village at the time, and from the village Department of Public Works. A total of 150 firefighters assisted that day, according to one report.

At the time, the Penn Yan firehouse was wedged on the east side of Main Street between the A&P Supermarket on its north side and the Thompson Furniture Store on its south side. Like the firehouse, the grocery store was destroyed, while the furniture store sustained smoke and water damage. Ironically, all three buildings were scheduled for demolition under the village’s urban renewal projects of the period and plans for a new firehouse were underway. The firehouse and the grocery store buildings were each about 110 years old, while the furniture store building was around 75 years old. Village residents had recently approved a bond issue for the construction of a new firehouse, and the village board voted two days before the fire to seek bids for the project.

The north wall of the grocery store was in danger of collapsing onto the Lincoln Rochester Bank, so the bank stayed closed that day. Nevertheless, the alley in between the buildings helped contain the blaze, and a vacant store stood on the other side of the furniture store. While the fire blazed out of control for three hours, firefighters manned the scene until at least 8 p.m. Banach himself stood on duty for 14 hours and still fielded phone calls and returned messages when he got home that night. Though one newspaper report indicated a temperature of 29 degrees that day, another item expressed thanks for no snowfall, high winds, or sub-freezing temperatures during the wintertime fire.

A tow truck hauled a second pumper truck out of the burning fire station, while a third pumper and a ladder truck remained inside the firehouse. An emergency truck and a tanker truck stored at a subsidiary station on North Avenue were the only vehicles the fire department had after the fire, though offers to loan trucks and equipment poured in from firefighting companies and fire departments around the area. The fire departments that responded to the scene left behind some of their firefighting equipment for use by the Penn Yan firefighters. Along with the North Avenue station, temporary housing for the donated vehicles and equipment was made at Penn Yan Express, the Mobil Service Station, the Comstock Cannery, and the Dairymen’s League plant.

The Chamber of Commerce took up a collection from the community to meet any of the volunteer firefighters’ personal needs after the fire. Tones Garage, which removed the destroyed firetrucks from the scene, salvaged the wrecked vehicles and gave the money back to the fire department. Village officials and local residents also contributed to the fire department and firefighters in various other ways. The insurance companies worked cooperatively with the fire department as well, Banach said.

The fire knocked out the alarm system in place at the time to alert first responders of emergencies in the village. It was announced that fire calls would have to be phoned through the Yates County Sheriff’s Office to the fire department; phones would ring simultaneously in the homes of some firefighters, and their wives would alert other firefighters of the call. In an emergency meeting shortly after the fire, the village board authorized purchases of a new alarm system that could be installed a little more than a week after the fire and of any immediately needed equipment.

According to several newspaper reports, estimates of the losses in the fire range from $250,000 to $1 million. One-and-a-half-million gallons of water were used to conquer the blaze. Fortunately, though, there were no fatalities and only relatively minor injuries, and the Yates County community rallied around the Penn Yan fire department in the wake of the tragedy.

Yes, Black Wednesday was a dark day, but it was also a bright day in some regards. John Tusch, the mayor of Penn Yan at the time, summed it up this way 10 years later: “Some people referred to December 20 as Black Wednesday. In the early and mid-morning, it did appear to be just that. But out of the black smoke of disaster, there blossomed a bright radiance of warmth and kindness from human hearts which will surely be remembered as long or longer than the black smoke.”

[middleland]

West Salem, OH (2) by Robby Virus

Via Flickr:

(1) Sign in West Salem, Ohio for McCullough's Barber Shop, along with Hunting and Fishing Equipment. The barbershop was owned by the brothers Jack and Dick McCullough. Jack passed away in 2018 and the barbershop is now closed. (2) Sign in a window in West Salem, Ohio that says "We have nite crawlers and wax worms." Yum!     

[spicykaraage]

Tenipuri Complete Character Profile - Shuuichirou Oishi

[PROFILE]

Birthday: April 30th (Taurus)

Blood Type: O

Relatives: Father, mother, younger sister

Father’s Occupation: Accountant

Elementary School: Seiharudai Second Elementary School

Middle School: Seishun Academy Junior High School

Grade & Class: Third Year | Class 3-2 | Seat 3

Club: Tennis Club (vice captain)

Committee: Health Committee

Strong Subjects: English

Weak Subjects: Math

Most Visited Spot at School: Tennis club room

World Cup Team: U-17 World Cup Japanese Representatives ➜ Medical Team

Favorite Motto: “It’s the thought that counts.”

Daily Routines: Caring for his fish, stargazing

Hobbies: Tending to his aquarium, swimming, watching morning dramas [23.5]

Favorite Color: White

Favorite Music: Ambient music

Favorite Movie: Romance films

Favorite Book: Romance novels

Favorite Food: Kushikatsu (quail eggs [23.5]), clear clam soup, Japanese pears

Favorite Anniversary: May 22nd

Preferred Type: A girl who looks good in glasses ➜ A girl who looks good in a turtleneck [23.5]

Ideal Date Spot: Aquarium ➜ Watching sea angels at an aquarium [23.5]

His Gift for a Special Person: A miniature aquarium with carefully nurtured (betta) fish

Where He Wants to Travel: Lisbon Oceanarium

What He Wants Most Right Now: A telescope for stargazing ➜ A Go set for beginners [23.5]

Dislikes: Thunder, pollen, getting flicked [23.5]

Skills Outside of Tennis: Determining the gender of chicks ➜ Bowling, can tell when meat is cooked to perfection [23.5]

Spends Allowance On: Barbershop fees

Routine During the World Cup: Checking the positions of sattelites

[DATA]

Height: 175cm | 5’8”

Weight: 55kg | 121 lbs ➜ 58kg | 127 lbs [23.5]

Shoe Size: 26.5cm

Dominant Arm: Right

Vision: 0.9 Left | 1.0 Right

Play Style: Counter Puncher

Signature Moves: Moon Volley, Oishi Territory

Number of Tardies/Absences: 0

Equipment Brands:

Racket: WIMBLEDON (Tour Merit)

Shoes: NIKE (Nike Ready Air Zoom Sterling)

Fitness Test Results:

Sidesteps: 60

Shuttle Run: 111

Back Strength: 128kg

Grip Strength: 51.2kg

Backbend: 61.2cm

Seated Forward Bend: 46.8cm

50m Run: 6.84 seconds

Standing Long Jump: 230cm

Handball Throw: 33.4m

Endurance Run (1500m): 4:51

Overall Rating: Speed: 2 / Power: 2 / Stamina: 4 / Mental: 3 / Technique: 4 / Total: 15

Kurobe Memo: “He’s the true vice captain type who cares about his fellow players more than himself. If only he could just focus on improving, he can make such great strides…” <Official Description>

[POSSESSIONS]

What’s in His Bedroom [10.5]:

Aquarium: A large fish tank, maintaining it is one of his hobbies. He is particular over the placement of the decorations

Miniature aquarium: A smaller tank where he keeps aquatic plants. Food and medicine for the fish are placed around it and he never misses a day of caring for them

Key to the club room: He has it placed on his bed so he doesn’t forget it. He has never been late to opening the club room

A slightly large wall clock: He is particular about being punctual

Two alarm clocks: Placed on his bed. One rings ten minutes after the other

A poster of a painting: A copy of a painting by Christian Riese Lassen, who’s famous for his paintings of water and aquatic life. He loves the cool painting style

What’s in His Bag [10.5]:

Maps: Used when visiting venues for the first time. The club members rarely get lost thanks to them

Planner: Includes the schedules of the club’s practice matches, official matches and his practice regimen

Earplugs: Used for when he goes swimming. Also used to improve concentration during practice matches

Key to the club room: It’s never been lost since he started holding onto it

Name stamp: He always carries it with him in case of emergencies. Better to be more safe than sorry, right?

Small hand mirror, compact mirror, and comb: To maintain his unique hairstyle. He has two mirrors to check from all angles

Supplements: Used for playing sports

First-aid kit: A kit kept in case a club member gets injured. There have been occasions where players from other schools have used it

Stomach medicine: A necessity for how stressed he gets being vice captain. He sometimes takes it before matches to help calm himself down

What’s in His Travel Bag [23.5]:

Ten different travel guides: He was teaching the other middle schoolers about safe transportation methods and areas they should avoid

[TRIVIA]

The Prince of Tennis 10.5 Fanbook | Publication Date: 11/02/2001

He tends to be extremely self-conscious

He likes having an aquarium not only to look at fish, but to design it as well

His hair was styled after Masatake Kusatsu, a pro wrestling fighter also known as “Great Kusatsu”

He is the club member that wakes up the earliest and always wakes up on time without fail

He was put in charge of opening and locking the club room as well as keeping the key since no one else wanted to do it

Oishi originally was not supposed to have bangs, Konomi states his hand itched while coloring his hair and he accidentally drew them on and decided to keep it

He is the representative for his class

Oishi and Kikumaru are doubles partners due to Oishi being the only member that is able to support Kikumaru’s erratic play style from behind

He does not recall why he chose his unique haircut

He had trouble playing doubles with Kikumaru at first due to their differing play styles and personalities. They began to understand each other better once they started having review meetings after matches

He states that he does not mind looking after the other club members and wants to keep harmony within the team

He thinks the club members tend to be reckless and only think in the moment, but proceeds to say that’s why he likes the club

Although he mostly plays in doubles matches, he does like singles as well

He is described as someone with a big heart who struggles to act independently

Konomi describes him as “the only one with common sense,” and that he’s one of few that are able to assist Tezuka and the only character with good judgement

The Prince of Tennis 20.5 Fanbook | Publication Date: 12/04/2003

He is described to be firm and obstinate, but have a strong sense of responsibility and justice

He is well-liked by his superiors, such as supervisors and upperclassmen

He is known to never lie

He was taught how to bowl by his uncle Akitaka, who had wanted to become a professional bowler but ended up becoming a doctor instead

His secondary sport would be swimming

The Prince of Tennis 40.5 Fanbook | Publication Date: 12/04/2007

He has a talent for observing people’s actions and gestures, then discerning their habits and intentions from them

He is described to be very patient and tenacious, as well as be the type of person who cannot say no when others ask him to do something and will tolerate almost anything

He is very meticulous when it comes to money and hates wasting it above all else. He has a tight wallet and a large savings account, but will occasionally buy something that bewilders others

He is very healthy, some of his schoolmates claim that he “never gets sick”

He was more of a mischief-maker when he was in elementary school

The Prince of Tennis II Official Character Guide: PairPuri Vol. 2 | Publication Date: 12/04/2009

He had went to the mountains by the training camp with Fuji and Shiraishi to view the night sky until morning

The Prince of Tennis II Official Character Guide: PairPuri Vol. 4 | Publication Date: 02/04/2010

He had seen Yuushi lending Yanagi a romance novel and plans on asking him for recommendations as well

The Prince of Tennis II Official Character Guide: PairPuri Vol. 5 | Publication Date: 03/04/2010

He and Yagyuu help Krauser with learning Japanese

The Prince of Tennis II Official Character Guide: PairPuri Vol. 6 | Publication Date: 06/03/2011

He had brought a kokeshi that resembles him to the training camp

The Prince of Tennis II 10.5 Fanbook | Publication Date: 09/04/2013

He currently wants a new aquarium and has been browsing fish magazines

The Prince of Tennis II 23.5 Fanbook | Publication Date: 05/02/2018

He was dissatisfied with the meat he’d been served in Australia and had caused a commotion over it

He had only sustained short-term injuries after his match against Greece

Konomi states he and Shiraishi could compete with Tristan’s looks

The Prince of Tennis 20th Anniversary Book: Tenipuri Party | Publication Date: 08/02/2019

Since he wakes up the earliest, no one has seen how he looks before styling his hair

[flareythecat]

the quartet end up in the heart of shrimpcity where they find themselves wandering through labyrinthian tv studios, trapped by vanity mirror walls and skyscrapers of endless broken production equipment... they don't know where the hell they really are, but they know they're going to be famous soon. the four shrimps. barbershop quartet extrordinaires. the new heroic faces of a forlorn and desperate city of shrimps . oh yeah, the vision is clear now. *cinematic shot of the four shrimps where they stare into space with quivering enlarged pupils wow beautiful dashing glorious!

[shirtlessai]

Grok and the lung screening

On a bright spring morning, Dr Marcus Reed, Dr Samuel Ortiz, and Dr Leonard Hayes gathered in the sprawling green expanse of Riverside Park, a beloved spot in their bustling city. The trio, all experienced pulmonologists, had organized a unique lung screening event exclusively for men, aiming to raise awareness about lung health and encourage early detection of potential issues. The event, dubbed "Breathe Easy Day," was timed to coincide with National Public Health Week, and the park’s open fields and shady trees provided the perfect setting.

The doctors, all men in their 30s, 40s, and 60s respectively, set up a series of portable medical tents near the park’s central fountain. They advertised the event widely, targeting local gyms, barbershops, and community centres, emphasising that the screening was free, quick, and confidential. Their innovative approach? A temporary, safe dye that would make the outline of a person’s lungs visible on their chest for several hours after the scan, serving as a striking visual reminder of the importance of lung health.

As the sun climbed higher, men of all ages began to arrive—joggers in tank tops, office workers in polos, retirees in casual shorts. Some came out of curiosity, others driven by a family history of lung issues or concerns about smoking-related risks. Dr Reed, with his neatly trimmed beard and athletic build, greeted each participant with a warm smile, explaining the process. “We’ll use a non-invasive imaging technique combined with a special dye,” he said. “It’s completely harmless, and the lung outline will fade by evening, but it’ll give you a powerful visual to think about your health.”

Dr Ortiz, bald and jovial, handled the technical side, operating a lightweight, handheld scanner that mapped the lungs in minutes. The device emitted a gentle hum as it passed over each man’s chest, followed by a quick application of the dye—a cool, tingling spray that reacted with the skin to create a vivid, red, leaf-like image of the lungs. Dr Hayes, the elder statesman with his white beard and wise eyes, offered counselling, discussing smoking cessation, air quality, and the benefits of regular checkups.

By midday, the park buzzed with activity. Men walked away from the tents with glowing lung outlines on their chests, laughing and pointing at each other’s temporary markings. Some posed for photos under the oak trees, while others sat on benches, deep in thought, contemplating the health message now literally etched on their skin. The dye, designed to last several hours, caught the attention of passersby—families on picnics, kids playing frisbee, and even a local news crew that stopped by to film the unusual sight.

One participant, Jake, a 35-year-old construction worker with a history of smoking, felt a mix of embarrassment and inspiration as his lung outline glowed red against his tanned skin. “I’ve been meaning to quit for years,” he told Dr Hayes. “Seeing this—it’s like a wake-up call. I’m calling my doctor tomorrow.”

By late afternoon, over 200 men had been screened, and the doctors packed up their equipment, exhausted but elated. The lung outlines began to fade as the sun set, but the impact lingered. Social media lit up with selfies and testimonials, spreading the message of lung health far beyond Riverside Park. The event not only detected a handful of early-stage issues that needed follow-up care but also sparked conversations about wellness in barbershops, workplaces, and homes across the city.

As the stars appeared overhead, Dr Reed, Dr Ortiz, and Dr Hayes shared a quiet moment by the fountain, reflecting on their day. “We made a difference,” Dr Hayes said, his voice steady. “One breath at a time.” And with that, they headed home, knowing their innovative approach had left an indelible mark—both on skin and in hearts

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Yes, barbershop equipment, like combs, scissors, and razors, can be a source of staph infection if not properly cleaned and disinfected between clients, as Staphylococcus aureus (staph bacteria) can easily transfer from one person to another through contaminated tools, potentially causing skin infections like folliculitis or "barber's rash" when a small cut or abrasion is present on the scalp or face. 

Key points about staph infections in barbershops:

Transmission:

Staph bacteria can be readily transferred through contact with unhygienic tools, towels, or even the barber's hands if proper hand hygiene is not practiced. 

Symptoms:

A staph infection from a barbershop might manifest as red, pus-filled bumps, irritation, or inflammation at the site of a cut or nick. 

Prevention:

Proper disinfection: Thoroughly cleaning and disinfecting all equipment between clients using a hospital-grade disinfectant. 

Single-use items: Using disposable razors or blades when necessary. 

Hand hygiene: Barbers should frequently wash their hands with soap and water. 

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Bacterial pathogensThe results showed that even in one of the examined barbershops methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria were found. In addition, higher bacterial burdens were detected if the hairdryers were used for 20 if compared to 10 seconds [28].Nov 22, 2024



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Jun 5, 2021 — The only disease some people thought they could contract from a barber's is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus through an infected clipper.

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EVERETT – An Everett man who took advantage of a new widow earlier this year was sentenced to six months in the county jail for impersonating an Everett firefighter.

Jerame James Lee, 22, showed up on the woman’s doorstep the day after her husband died in February – after firefighters and paramedics had come to her house to try and save her husband.

Lee told her he was a fire inspector and needed to take photos because a firefighter had been hurt in the house the previous day. He was not associated with the department.

Lee made several more trips to the widow’s home to take more photos and to check her husband’s medications, including a visit on the day of her husband’s funeral. On one visit, he tried to sell her a fire alarm system, prosecutors said.

The woman told police that over time she noticed someone had stolen about $160 and a narcotic pain medication she was taking for cancer.

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Debris from an Airlift Northwest medical helicopter that crashed off Edmonds Sept. 29 has begun washing up on the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island.

The crash killed pilot Steve Smith of Whidbey Island and two Seattle nurses.

Earlier this week, an equipment bag washed up on a beach near Port Townsend, and on Wednesday small pieces of the helicopter washed up on Whidbey Island, Edmonds police reported.

Citizens who believe they have found pieces of the aircraft can leave them in place and report the finding, or turn the items over to their local police or sheriff’s office, Edmonds police said.

If anyone believes they have found human remains, they should immediately contact their local law enforcement agency.

Monroe: Man, 97, drives into barbershop

A 97-year-old man drove his car through the front window of a Monroe barbershop Thursday afternoon, Monroe police officials said.

Police aren’t sure whether the man, a Monroe resident, was trying to park or leave the shop in the 100 block of E. Main Street at 2:40 p.m. But the front corner of the man’s 1996 Buick Park Avenue crashed through the shop’s large window.

A Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy was there when the accident happened. Neither the man nor shop employees were injured.

Marysville: Meeting set to discuss sex offender

The Marysville Police Department will hold a public notification meeting to release information regarding a level 2 sex offender.

David P. Schneider will be residing in the 5800 block of 74th Street NE.

Schneider, 36, is white, 5 feet 11 inches tall and 180 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes.

The public meeting will be at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Marysville Public Safety Building, 1635 Grove St.

Schneider was convicted in 1992 on one count of second-degree child rape. The victim was a 13-year-old girl he did not know prior to giving her a ride home and convincing her to sneak out later that evening. Schneider took the victim to his place of employment, where the sexual assault took place.

Additionally, Schneider was convicted in 1993 of second-degree assault, during which he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl he had met a week earlier. He is not currently wanted by the police.

Snohomish: Police, firefighters team up

Snohomish police and firefighters are teaming up to teach people how to prepare themselves for emergencies.

The two departments will hold one-hour classes at 7 p.m. Oct. 25, Nov. 2 and Nov. 14. All classes will be in the Snohomish Fire Department’s Eldon Harvey Auditorium at 1525 Ave. D.

For more information, contact Fire Chief Mark Collins at 360-568-2141 or Deputy Police Chief Chuck Macklin at 360-568-0888.

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