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Girl with alopecia wins competition with gorgeous jeweled head

Authored by fox8.com

SALEM, Utah– Seven-year-old Gianessa Wride sparkles– she just won her Utah school’s “Crazy Hair Day” competition.

On January 1, Daniella Wride began brushing her 7-year-old daughter Gianessa’s hair and watched in horror as the brush pulled out a quarter-sized section of hair.

“We let her go to bed without telling her what was going on.

Gianessa has alopecia, an autoimmune disease that causes hair to fall out.

The little girl lost all of her hair and her eyebrows within 20 days.

“Like any 7-year-old, I think, she expected that it would just grow back because everybody has hair,” her mom said.

Gianessa’s intricate jeweled stickers easily won the competition.

14,000-year-old village unearthed on B.C. island by UVic student

Authored by vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca

Alisha Gauvreau, an anthropology PhD student at UVic, has been excavating a rocky spit on Triquet Island, some 500 kilometres northwest of Victoria.

Scientists say the artifacts exhumed on the remote island are painting a picture of how our civilization began.

The B.C. village is the oldest to be discovered in North America, but crews’ work isn’t over yet.

Staffer accidentally shoots, hurts self at NRA headquarters

Authored by usatoday.com

A World War I trench diorama is on display in the National Firearms Museum at the National Rifle Association headquarters in Fairfax, Va. (Photo: National Firearms Museum).

An employee of a Fairfax, Va., museum representing the nation's largest gun rights organization accidentally shot himself on Friday, police said.

The National Firearms Museum is owned and operated by the NRA and it is located within the organization's headquarters in Fairfax.

Over 90% of College Students Today Regularly Use Netflix

Authored by streamingobserver.com

New numbers show that an incredible number of today’s college students, more than 90%, have access to a Netflix account they regularly use.

In a new survey from LendEDU, only only 8% college students that responded to the survey said they don’t have a Netflix account.

That actually goes right in line with numbers from Piper Jaffray that showed almost 40% of teens watch Netflix every single day.

Solar breaks 50% of California electricity for first time – driving wholesale rates negative

Authored by electrek.co

According to the EIA, California solar power has been driving wholesale electricity rates towards – and sometimes below – $0/MWh – and on March 11th total solar power production broke 50% of demand.

The increase in utility-scale solar power , which grew 50% in the state in 2016, is quickly changing the landscape.

On March 11th, the California power grid broke 50% solar power for the first time – when considering ALL sources of solar power in the state:.