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Bahrain police jailed for killing opposition member
DUBAI - Two Bahraini policemen were sentenced to jail for seven years each on Sunday for beating to death a Shi'ite opposition activist in custody during last year's crackdown on protesters.The sentences, reported by state news agency BNA, were criticized as too lenient by critics and may do little to blunt international criticism of human rights abuses since Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers quelled a Shi'ite-led uprising last year.In April 2011, Kareem Fakhrawi - a businessman and member of Wefaq, the leading opposition group in Bahrain - died in custody, a week after failing to return home from a police station where he had tried to complain about his house being demolished by police, opposition members said."We didn't expect it would be just seven years," said Wefaq member Sayed Hadi al-Mousawi, criticizing the sentences."The prosecutor changed the charges from 'torture leading to death' to 'beating leading to death'. They don't want to admit that there was torture," he told Reuters.
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Sara Terry’s documentary about mobile home parks and the wealth gap, A Decent Home, has been chosen as the opening night film at the Big Sky Film Festival.
Six-and-a-half years in the making, the film is the only feature-length documentary ever made about mobile home parks. A Decent Home asks, “When housing that’s on the lowest rung of the American Dream is being devoured by the wealthiest of the wealthy, whose dream are we serving?”
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Morgan Wallen Offers a Lot of Partying, but Not Much Introspection, on ‘One Thing at a Time’
Morgan Wallen has become one of country music’s biggest stars of the past few years, riding his Everyman persona and brooding, whiskey-soaked country-rock songs to success not just on country radio, but in the pop sphere. But he’s caused controversy along the way, too. He was dropped from Saturday Night Live in late 2020 after being caught flouting pandemic guidelines. In February of the following year, a video emerged of the singer using a racial slur, which caused the Nashville machine to briefly withdraw its support of his music.
That scandal caused widespread (and necessary) discussions about country music’s relationship with race; his regular-guy image and heart-on-rolled-up-sleeve romanticism kept his fanbase streaming his music despite it all. Dangerous: The Double Album, released a month before the slur video was released by TMZ, clocked in at 30 tracks — a streaming-age bonanza that helped his already-lofty chart positions. One Thing at a Time bests that track quotient, with 36 songs and no double-album disclaimer.
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This megadose of Wallen doesn’t only ensure that One Thing at a Time will be lodged at the top of the charts for a while — alongside Dangerous, which is currently at Number Five on the Billboard 200 — it also reveals his preferred musical and lyrical tropes, as well as his fondness for simple, slippery vocal melodies that easily stick in listeners’ brains. His frizzled wail sounds most comfortable on midtempo cuts, which fuse the more downtempo efforts of hard-rock bands like Staind and Puddle of Mudd with Nashville touches like starlit slide guitars, while other tracks offer the occasional nod to wider musical trends, like the insistent trap snares of “Sunrise” or the Rich Gang interpolation that makes up the chorus of the “red-dirt wild child” chronicle “180 (Lifestyle).” The title track, meanwhile, combines country twang with snappy pop rock, its peppy guitars recalling the New Wave-leaning efforts of early-Eighties AOR acts.
Wallen’s lyrics mostly focus on bars and beers and whiskey, and women who are often unavailable, whether because of recent breakups or other attachments; the songs he’s co-written and selected for One Thing frequently take the Sia-tested route of using a central metaphor as a fulcrum for more precise observations. The chugging “’98 Braves” compares a relationship gone sour to the titular Atlanta baseball team, which went on a tear during the regular season only to get bounced during the league championship series; “Wine Into Water,” a country-fried take on the brooding acoustic-guitar-led ballads of the Sunset Strip era, flips Jesus’ wedding miracle into a hope for reconciliation with an ex; “You Proof,” which peaked at Number Five on the Hot 100 last year, compares a lover’s intoxicating qualities to those of a high-grade whiskey.
One Thing at a Time avoids any direct mention of Wallen’s lightning-rod status, although “Don’t Think Jesus,” a jukebox-ready parable about a young man growing up in a judgment-filled world, circles the idea of the fallout from screwups. “World likes to rear back and throw a few stones/So boy wants to throw a few stones of his own,” he muses, seemingly getting ready to warm up his pitching arm. But then he changes course: “But Lord knows I ain’t perfect, and it ain’t my place/And I don’t think Jesus done it that way,” he asserts. Wallen originally released the track on Good Friday 2022, timing that made it feel like a half-hearted apology. In the context of the lengthy One Thing at a Time, it’s a brief moment of near-introspection that’s quickly taken over by more songs about, as he sings on the swirling “Good Girl Gone Missin’,” “good whiskey, bad decisions, [and] heartaches from some hard livin’.” Baby steps, maybe, or maybe not.
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The concluding episode of Lynn Ferguson 's comedy set on an island on the west coast of Scotland. The Verdict. A letter arrives kicking up the biggest stink the island has ever seen -the Cumbrae Bar is to be closed down. As everyone pulls together Irene finds herself caught between a rock and a hard place. The question is will she stay and fight, orwill she take the last ferry of the day over to the mainland to the new life she has always dreamed of? Producer Lucy Bacon
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Denmark is heading for early elections just as the country grapples with escalating security and energy crises caused by the war in Ukraine. However, it isn’t soaring power bills that threaten to topple the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, but the fallout from a decision she made almost two years ago. Her order to cull 17 million mink at the height of the coronavirus pandemic was condemned by political rivals and later found to be unlawful. Frederiksen’s minority government has tried unsuccessfully to shake off the scandal ever since.
Frederiksen, 44, made the controversial cull order in November 2020 after coronavirus was detected at some mink farms and experts warned it could potentially mutate into a deadlier strain and make future vaccines less effective. Denmark had the world’s largest population of the small animals, whose soft fur is used in clothing and furnishings. There was no legal basis for the cull when it began and, as it progressed, public outrage grew and the country’s food and veterinary affairs minister quit. Parliament eventually passed a bill giving legal cover to the cull but, by then, millions of healthy animals had been slaughtered. It later emerged that the decomposing bodies of buried mink were threatening to contaminate local water supplies, forcing the government to exhume them. Frederiksen avoided an impeachment trial, but a party that had backed the government in parliament withdrew its support and new elections were set for Nov. 1 -- seven months before the usual deadline.


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Ever noticed how basically every motherfucker you know has been or is going to Iceland?
Your college friend: “Oh yeah, I’m going to Iceland in June. You wouldn’t believe how cheap the airfare is!”
Your co-worker: “This is a little weird, but we actually went to Iceland for our honeymoon.”
Your other co-worker: “Are you thinking of going to Europe? Well, you know what you should do? You should stop in Iceland and spend a night or two there. You can get a great package deal!”
Your roommate: “Iceland is great because it feels like a you’re on a glamorous European vacation, but it doesn’t cost nearly as much. And there’s a volcano!”
Someone you just started dating [while perfectly pronouncing “Reykjavík”]: “Reykjavík is so, so pretty in the spring.”
Your waiter: “You have to know how to drive stick, because all the rental cars are manual transmission, and most of the roads in the highlands are unpaved, but if you don’t drive the Ring Road you might as well not even be in Iceland.”
Your mom: “You won’t believe this, but your father and I are thinking of going to Iceland this year. The tickets are practically free!”
What does Iceland even have? Well, according to literally every person I’ve ever met in my whole damn life, Iceland has: volcanoes, waterfalls, one (1) good city, subpar cuisine, some type of aurora borealis deal, hot springs, and some animals.
Do you know what other place has most of those things? Wyoming. Do you know anyone going to Wyoming? I thought not.
I’m forced to ask: Are we so basic as to allow our vacation plans to be determined by one airline’s targeted ad campaign? Apparently! Either way, I think it’s safe to say that we are all aware of the fact that Iceland is a fun and affordable travel destination replete with “quaint” and “charming” experiences. We as a society know this. Please keep all future comments about cheap airfare and volcanoes to yourself.

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It all went together really well. Overall I'm very pleased.
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Hit the jump for lots of pictures...
|The tentacles turned out awesome; every test print was worth it.|
|Panels removed. The main body panel is held on with magnets.|
|The entire back wall was a last-minute addition but totally worth it. It allowed me to install lights, run wiring and add some nice details.|
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|Rear hatch and ladder. The wheel and rungs are the beefier reprints which were glued on.|
|Underside. You can see part of the tentacle mount and the stand mount. This was the only place where I tried modeling actual screw threads and it worked out great.|
I reprinted some Octopod parts for Maker Faire way back in September and forgot about posting pix.
The cockpit lid had a few problems. Due to the nature of the material I printed with, it wasn't holding it's shape properly and the curvature of the top was acting like a spring which caused it to fit poorly.
I added a beam on the underside which helped to keeps the shape. I also beefed up the ladder rungs so they wouldn't snap off like the first print. On the first lid I printed the hatch wheels too small and they broke. I ended up reprinting beefier ones that I drilled a hole for. This worked so well that I did the same thing for this version. The bonus to this method is the wheel actually turns when installed.
I also added magnet mounts on the underside to keep the lid in place better.
Another problem area on the original print were the propellers. They were supposed to rotate, but I messed up the tolerances and they fused in place. They also got in the way when trying to clean support material out of the engines and I snapped some blades off.
For the reprints I increased the tolerances and added a hole in the front so support material could be cleaned out. The original props were snapped off, the stumps cleaned up and the replacements glued in place.
|Old prop snapped off.|
|New prop designed to fit over stump.|
And I finally figured out how to rebuild the control panels and dedication plaque so the white and black had proper separation. It's hard to believe but these tiny little parts turned out to be some of the hardest to build for printing.
|The progression of the plaque.|
|This is a good example of how some 3D printing materials are not meant for real production. I used an acrylic-like material for the Octopod and over the last few months it has started to droop in places. The front face of the cockpit has sagged and there are now gaps all around the cockpit and at the bottom of the housing. I gave him a bit of a facelift with some rubberbands but it's not perfect. A redesign would help but the material is not necessarily suitable for long-term use. |


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We’ve seen customers with 10 or even 20 greenhouses that use light deprivation to stagger the growth cycles of plants by greenhouse. Rather than having their entire crop ready to harvest at the same time, strategic use of light deprivation allows them to harvest a single greenhouse every week, so they can maintain a year-round growing cycle and a year-round income. This is a common strategy in the cannabis industry, but it can also be applied to a wide range of crops.
Why Use External Light Deprivation?
External light deprivation provides all the benefits of light deprivation in general, without the climate interference posed by interior systems.
Interior light deprivation systems, because they are affixed to the interior walls of a greenhouse, create a hot microclimate in the space between the exterior wall (where sunlight is still penetrating) and interior wall. This excess heat can cause additional moisture to build up in the greenhouse, which in turn can lead to issues with mold and rot. To combat the extra moisture, interior light deprivation systems often necessitate the use of extra fans and ventilation solutions, which can potentially cut into overall growing space inside the structure.
Exterior light deprivation systems must be fastened securely to the outside of the greenhouse, but they do not have the same direct impact on the climate inside the greenhouse, so there’s less to worry about in terms of maintenance, and you don’t lose any interior space.
Whether your greenhouse is a custom Slip Tube structure or a third-party design, if you’re in need of a light deprivation solution, don’t hesitate to contact us.


The Urban Development Institute, a non-profit association representing the development industry and related professions, argues that while a great many factors contribute to rising prices, lack of supply, both in type of house and location, is a major problem .
Last month’s Multiple Listing Service (MLS) sales data, analyzed by research firm Snapstats, reveals by the end of the month sales of downtown Vancouver condos and town homes just under $600,000 were dramatically outpacing new listings .
The same was true for attached properties at the $700,000 mark on Vancouver’s east side. In other words, the pool of available homes is draining faster than it’s being replenished .
Interestingly, data shows of the approximately 4,500 new homes completed last year, about 1,300 were single family. But since there is no new land, most of those were simply replacing existing older homes. In other words ,they didn’t add additional stock. To make matters worse, in 2015 only 80 family-friendly townhouses were built in the city of Vancouver .
The government is now limiting buying to those who pay income tax .
When looking for people to blame, B.C.’s hot housing market often points to foreign investors as the ones to blame; however, numbers were never put to paper to justify such a claim.
National Bank financial analyst Peter Routledge has calculated that Chinese home buyers may have bought as much as 33% of the total housing volume in the city of Vancouver last year .
Is it now time for further government intervention?


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Awakening of Edna Pontiller
It can be said that the main character of “The Awakening” Edna Pontellier, “awakens” in several ways through the course of the book. But in the grander, broader sense, they are all sub-instances, mere symbolism to one major occurrence – her mental, emotional and physical severing of and escape from the cultural shackles that which suppress her soul, and cripple her fulfillment, sense of self-worth, and burning desire to live and be respected as an individual. Edna awakens from the monotonous drear that is the expectations of her husband and of her peers -- the expectations she has subjected herself to by marrying into the creole culture. She awakens from her cultural “cage”, spreading her proverbial “wings”, to experience her “ocean” of freedom.
The story is rife with symbolism, as I just made use of, hinting heavily from the very start at the caged bird / free bird analogy, establishing the ocean as imagery of freedom, and relating it all to the plight of Mrs. Pontiller. Upon initial introspection of her relationship with Mr. Pontillier, it is swiftly evident that she is not in a terribly desirable or happy situation. She is living in an existence of which she does not feel “alive”. The superficial preoccupations of her businessman husband set the tone of this conflict.
“She’s not one of us; She is not like us” (p. 24), foreshadows Madame Ratignolle, when scolding the young Robert Lebrun to be careful with his flirtations towards the naïve Edna, who “[…]might make the unfortunate blunder of taking [him] seriously.”(p 24) It is this young fellow who – above all else – serves as the main catalyst to Edna’s emotional shift from submissive object to vibrant individual. Though much of her transformation occurs even in the absence of his presence, it is the lasting effect of her encounters with Robert, her incessant longing for him, and her subsequent pain and heartbreak, which fuels the significance of her personal revolution. It

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The Brewer, The Baker and The Cheesemaker
Limerick City and County has some fantastic small scale food and drink producers. On Thursday October 19th The Lounge 102 is bringing together three of the best and most passionate in one place!!
Sample locally made beer, taste local bread made with beer grains and get the great flavour of beer washed local cheese.
Date: Thursday October 19, 8pm
Venue: Mother Macs Public House, High St, Limerick
Tickets: €10 available behind the bar
Beautifully hand crafted beers, created using the finest all natural ingredients for your drinking pleasure. We are great beer. No additives, No preservatives, just fantastic quality beers. We make beer that YOU love to drink.
Micro bakery specialising in Handcrafted sourdough bread & viennoiserie, based in Limerick City. Organically driven using seasonal and local produce.
The searing relationship between a farmer and his herd defines the Irish experience. As a boy Jim O'Brien watched his father shuffle across incandescent light and low cloud to gather cows for gentle pre-dawn milking. Some 40 years later Jim still delights in the rhythm of twilight milking. This simple dedication has made O'Brien's cheese some of the best in the country.

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The tractor sees arguably Japan’s most popular mascot, the bear from Kumamoto Prefecture, driving a tractor while he goes about farming his region’s favorite offerings — water melons and tomatoes.
Stickers of Kumamon’s fruit crops decorate the chassis. The tractor also has two sizes of wheels so with some skill you can make Kumamon do wheelies. That’s something you don’t see every day.
We’ve seen some novel Japanese RC toys over the years, from cockroaches to cleaning mops and more, but Kumamon on a large tractor is certainly a new advance for the medium.
The R/C Tractor Kumamon is available in the full assembled and painted version with the controller on pre-order from JapanTrendShop.
Our previous favorite Kumamon toy had been the Soccer Robot Kumamon.
As the name suggests, it is a mini robot that can play football using an infrared controller. The robot is surprisingly agile and can move in eight different way.
Shiseido Hanatsubaki, Geppo and Graph magazine archives document rich history of Japanese cosmetic advertising and graphic designWritten by: William on November 25, 2014 at 11:04 am | In CULTURE | No Comments
Shiseido’s Hanatsubaki digital archive is a fascinating glimpse back into Japan’s cosmetics advertising past.
Drawing on the graphic design and ads featured over the years in Hanatsubaki, Shiseido’s consumer magazine founded in 1937, and its previous publications Shiseido Geppo (started in 1924) and Shiseido Graph (1933), the archive is a veritable treasure trove.
Shiseido has just added some new Shiseido Geppo (Shiseido Monthly) images from the December 1930 issue, giving us an excuse to indulge in selections from its previous archives. The changing style of the design obviously reflects the progress of both the social and publishing scene.
Shiseido Geppo, 1924
Shiseido Geppo, July 1930
Shiseido Geppo, December 1930
Shiseido Graph, June 1935
Shiseido Graph, 1936 Issue 31
Shiseido Graph, 1937 Issue 45
Shiseido Graph, 1937 Issue 49
Shiseido Hanatsubaki, January 1940
Shiseido Hanatsubaki, March 1952
Shiseido Hanatsubaki, July 1953
Shiseido Hanatsubaki, April 1960
Shiseido Hanatsubaki, June 1962
Hanatsubaki, Shiseido’s “corporate culture magazine”, still continues today. Its name is derived from the Japanese camellia flower and which of course Shiseido has also created a whole line of Tsubaki hair products.
See more images at the Shiseido Hanatsubaki digital archive.
First we had the Kabuki Face Pack, a skincare tool based on genuine Kabuki make-up. This was a hit and was followed by the Animal Face Pack (a charity model based on a real tiger and panda in Ueno Zoo) and Cats Face Pack (based on characters from the musical Cats), and then the Fashion Face Pack (inspired by the fashion of by Kansai Yamamoto).
Now the inevitable has happened.
We have the Hello Kitty Narikiri Face Pack.
This is exactly what it sounds like — a face pack that looks like the Sanrio character. (It’s not made by the same people as the Kabuki, Animal, Cats or Fashion Face Pack, though.)
Japan’s most popular and enduring ambassador of cute is now helping you look better by transforming you (narikiri) into the famous cat. One pack features two face masks, each one a genuine face pack that can improve your skin quality. There are three versions with different ribbon colors (red, pink, purple). The colors also have varying scents: red is rose, pink is cherry blossom, and purple is lavender.
Currently the Hello Kitty Narikiri Face Pack has limited availability at certain stores like the Sanrio souvenir shop at Tokyo Tower. Also look out for them on pre-order from Japan Trend Shop. A second set of Hello Kitty Face Packs is planned for early next year, though, which should have a wider release if these first ones are a hit.
Of course, there is already a host of other Hello Kitty merchandise out there, from vacuum cleaners to toasters, clothes, memory cards, cameras, and more.
The first posters for the upcoming live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) have been released, showing the cast in costume as their respective characters.
Regardless of your taste in manga or anime, the posters are pretty awesome just in terms of graphic design.
It also gives fans of the Hajime Isayama series a chance to see how the cast of the upcoming big screen version measure up to the characters as depicted in their previous animated or comic-book incarnations. Oh, and the weaponry and hardware also get a very strong emphasis.
The all-star cast includes Hiroki Hasegawa, Haruma Miura, model Kiko Mizuhara, idols Nanami Sakuraba and Ayame Misaki, Jun Kunimura, and Satomi Ishihara.
Kotaku did a nice comparison of the anime, manga and film versions of each main character.
Attack on Titan has become a commerical phenomenon in recent years and this majoro film adaptation is the icing on the cake. Filming on location at Gunkanjima, it will be released in Japan in summer 2015.
If you can’t wait, you can always stage your own mini Attack on Titan battle scenes on your desk with the Tsumikore EVO! Attack on Titan Mania.
Nanoblock, Japan’s homegrown answer to Lego, never stops evolving.
Just when you thought the micro building blocks had been used to transform every famous monument or building around the world, along comes a completely new direction for the Kawada series to explore.
Nanoblock has now started making railway sets and of course, you can customize the railways and scenery around the tracks with other Nanoblocks.
The Nanoblock nanoGauge Shinkansen Series E5 Hayabusa Electric Train is the first in this new nanoGauge series for Kawada and we shouldn’t be surprised that the makers opted for Japan’s most famous train to start things off.
Now you can build your own bullet train and tracks with the set, and then watch it zip around the loop.
It goes without saying that the best thing here is how you can also build up a Nanoblock city around the tracks. After all, landscaping is so important when it comes to railway modeling cultre. You could add all kinds of incongruous fantasy elements — like Tokyo Tower, Himeji Castle, a WW2 battleship, or something completely original.
Here is a video of someone making the Nanoblock bullet train model set.
What would a melody from a dying star sound like?
ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is a state-of-the-art radio telescope developed and operated by 20 countries and territories across Asia, Europa and America.
Connecting 66 parabola antennas deployed in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, ALMA works as a giant radio telescope with a diameter comparable to the size of the JR Yamanote Line. It detects faint radio waves emanated by distant celestial objects to study the origin and evolution of galaxies, stars, and planets. Obtaining a clue to the origin of life is another goal of ALMA.
In 2011, ALMA observed radio waves from a dying star R Sculptoris. Made in collaboration with the Tokyo and New York-based agency PARTY, the resulting ALMA Music Box utilized this data, translating the 70 different radio images onto 70 musical discs, one for each frequency. In other words, the music for this music box is supplied by a red giant star 1,5000 light years away, a melody from a soon-to-be supernova.
As the makers told Wired:
As the disc spins around the player, little teeth pluck the holes and emit a twinkling sound. It sounds sweet, like a lullaby coming from the mobile above a baby’s crib. But there’s a sadness to it, too, perhaps because we know the star is in the process of dying out forever. As Masashi Kawamura, co-founder of PARTY, puts it: “It’s made to sound like a requiem for the star in a way.”
ALMA Music Box is a new kind of visualization project to try to find a way to make the uses of the ALMA telecope more accessible to non-astrophysicists. It is now on display at 21 21 Design Sight’s “The Fab Mind” exhibition until February 1st.
Impenetrable science projects in Japan often come up with very sophisticated ways to “advertise” their achievements to the public. NIMS (National Institute for Material Science), for example, has made a great series of videos called “The Power of Materials”.
Another day, another themed cafe in Tokyo.
The Tower Records Shibuya second-floor cafe has been transformed from November 17th into the Snoopy Tower Records Cafe. Open until December 31st, the cafe will be serving special Snoopy dishes, selling merchandise, and even has created Snoopy background music. There is a second themed space at Tower Records Dining, the retailer’s eatery in Ebisu, this time with Woodstock the star, running in parallel with the Shibuya cafe’s Snoopy event.
Peanuts is popular in Japan, like so many other franchises with cute characters. Earlier this year we saw a Snoopy Chaya macha green tea cafe open in Kyushu.
The menu varies between the Tower Records Cafe and Woodstock Rock’n'Roll Party (what they are calling the event at the Ebisu Tower Records Dining), though both offer snacks and full meals with all sorts of Peanuts and Snoopy flourishes, everything from cakes, cookies, drinks, chicken wraps. The interiors and exteriors of the two spaces are also decked out in Peanuts themes.
It has been one of the biggest trends of recent years and then just like that, it has faded away.
So-called “tattoo tights” exploded into the popular and digital consciousness in 2011, even garnering overseas attention. The streets of areas like Harajuku and Shibuya were filled with the pins of young girls wearing fake body art-style leggings. The sheer variety of the “tattoo” designs was impressive: from Hello Kitty aplenty to cats, rabbits, onions, and more.
Avantgarde is the main brand behind the street fashion trend and as such opened a tattoo tights store in Harajuku in October 2011. It seems the legs of the fashionista have moved on, since Avantgarde will be closing the brand’s basement-level boutique on November 24th in the face of declining demand for their stockings.
Tattoo tights were a victim of their own success, with numerous replica and cheap imitations flooding the market. Yes, fake-fake tattoo tights!
Launched in 2009 by Kazuhiro Watanabe, MAM Avantgarde was constantly thinking up new bold designs as well as wide-ranging collaborations, including Hello Kitty and Disney. In 2012 Tokyo Fashion.com called Avantgarde Harajuku “the most influential legwear boutique in the Tokyo street fashion scene today”. Sadly, it was not enough to ride the notoriously capricious waves of street fashion for long.
Avantgarde has not announced any new plans for other stores but will continue to sell online. There are still lots of tattoo tights around so perhaps we shouldn’t write off the trend quite yet.
It’s sold 40 million comic books and counting. The live-action film adaptation is coming to a big screen near you soon. And now you can design your own Attack on Titan character and have it eat people. The “Titan Montage” app lets you mutate a face to create an original titan, and then places it into scenes from the anime so you can see your monster run amok trying to devour victims.
The app has been launched as a promo for an Attack on Titan exhibition about to kick off in Ueno in Tokyo. You can go to the special website and design a portrait in the distinctive Attack on Titan style, customizing all the parts of the face from the teeth to the hair, eyebrows, nose, mouth and facial structure.
Your titan character is then inserted into the world of the manga. Your creation is first placed into an Attack on Titan pose against a randomly selected background image from the comic and anime series. Needless to say the titan is not looking to make friends with the smaller humans. There is also an option to have the site generate an anime scene with your titan racing around the landscape looking for people to gobble up.
This is then dispatched into the digital nether of Facebook and Twitter, populating Japanese social media with caricature crowd-sourced titans!

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A top-notch former executive has blasted Google over its handling of human rights at its offices, alleging that he was sidelined when raised questions over the tech giant’s search engine project called “Dragonfly” for the China market.
Ross LaJeunesse, now a Democratic candidate for US Senate in Maine who worked as Google’s Head of International Relations, wrote on Medium that no longer can massive tech companies like Google be permitted to operate relatively free from government oversight.
“The company’s motto used to be aDon’t be evil.’ Dragonfly was only one of several developments that concerned those of us who still believed in the mantra of ‘Don’t be evil’. I was also concerned that Cloud executives were actively pursuing deals with the Saudi government, given its horrible record of human rights abuses,” LaJeunesse said in the post on Thursday.
In December 2017, Google announced the establishment of the Google Center for Artificial Intelligence in Beijing.
“A colleague was suddenly re-assigned to lead the policy team discussions for Dragonfly. As someone who consistently advocated for a human rights-based approach, I was being sidelined from the on-going conversations on whether to launch Dragonfly,” the Google executive added.
“Just when Google needed to double down on a commitment to human rights, it decided to instead chase bigger profits and an even higher stock price”.
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai (Now the Alphabet CEO) told US regulators last year that Google had ano plans’ to launch the censored search engine project “right now”. The company which is blocked in China abandoned the project.
However, some Google employees reportedly believe they found evidence that Google’s plans to launch Dragonfly in China are still ongoing.
LaJeunesse also slammed Google for its handling of human rights – an issue that has led to internal advocacy within the company.
“It was no different in the workplace culture. Senior colleagues bullied and screamed at young women, causing them to cry at their desks. At an all-hands meeting, my boss said, ‘now you Asians come to the microphone too. I know you don’t like to ask questions’,” wrote LaJeunesse.
He said: “I think the important question is what does it mean when one of America’s marque’ companies changes so dramatically. Is it the inevitable outcome of a corporate culture that rewards growth and profits over social impact and responsibility?”
The US government has launched a probe into Google over its labour practices following a complaint from employees who have been fired by the tech giant.
The tech giant has been accused of “union busting” and retaliatory behaviour after it sacked the employees for allegedly violating the company’s data security policies. (IANS)
Hackers have stolen crypto tokens worth $120 million from Blockchain-based decentralised finance (DeFi) platform BadgerDAO. Several crypto wallets were drained before the platform could stop the cyber attack. In a tweet, Badger said it has received reports of unauthorised withdrawals of user funds. "As Badger engineers investigate this, all smart contracts have been paused to prevent further withdrawals. Our investigation is ongoing and we will release further information as soon as possible," the company said late on Thursday.
According to the blockchain security and data analytics Peckshield, the various tokens stolen in the attack are worth about $120 million, reports The Verge. According to reports, someone inserted a malicious script in the user interface (UI) of their website. Badger has retained data forensics experts Chainalysis to explore the full scale of the incident and authorities in both the US and Canada have been informed. "Badger is cooperating fully with external investigations as well as proceeding with its own," it said. DeFi is a collective term for financial products and services that are open, decentralised and accessible to anyone. DeFi products open up financial services to anyone with an internet connection and they are largely owned and maintained by their users. While the attack didn't reveal specific flaws within Blockchain tech itself, it managed to exploit the older "web 2.0" technology that most users need to use to perform transactions, according to reports. (IANS/ MBI)
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A total of 120 top Bollywood and other celebrities are expected to attend the wedding of film stars Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal which is scheduled on December 9 in Rajasthan, said Rajendra Kishan, the District Collector (DC) of Sawai Madhopur district of the state on Friday. The District Collector told mediapersons: "These 120 guests shall follow all COVID-19 protocols and fully vaccinated guests will get entry in the much-hyped celebrity wedding."
Kishan said that the organisers have been asked to strictly follow all Covid-19 protocols. Also, those who are not vaccinated, will not be allowed without the negative RT-PCR test report, he added. "We have been informed by organisers that a total of 120 guests are invited to the wedding and the events will take place between December 7 to December 10," he added.
Earlier at 10.30 a.m., Kishan called a meeting which was attended by administrative, police and forest department officials, hotel and event managers to ensure adequate arrangements for crowd control, smooth regulation of traffic, and law and order situation amid the VIP movement. The wedding venue Fort Barwara, that has been converted into a heritage hotel, is situated in the panchayat samiti Chauth Ka Barwara. The venue is around 22 km away from Sawai Madhopur and is around 174 km from Jaipur. Sawai Madhopur district is famous for the Ranthambore National Tiger Reserve and as per reports, the guests are likely to be taken for a tiger safari. (IANS/ MBI)
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The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), which confirmed the first two cases of the Omicron variant in Bengaluru on Thursday, is continuously monitoring the situation in four cities - Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New Delhi, and Pune. The NCBS is a part of a consortium of national laboratories performing genomic surveillance across four city clusters. The consortium was established four months ago with support from The Rockefeller Foundation's Pandemic Prevention Institute, and is led by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad.
Dr Rakesh Mishra at the CCMB said on Friday that the consortium is continuously monitoring the situation in all the four cities and has upscaled its efforts to sequence as many samples as possible Apart from the CCMB and the NCBS, the consortium includes CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology - IGIB in New Delhi and the Pune Knowledge Cluster, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, and CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune.
The first case of the Omicron variant was detected in South Africa and reported to the World Health Organization on November 24. | Unsplash
The consortium is focused on upscaling genomic surveillance as part of national efforts led by the INSACOG - Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium - to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. The consortium intensified its sequencing efforts after the World Health Organisation announced Omicron as a Variant of Concern. Such an intensified effort enabled the Bengaluru team at the NCBS, a member laboratory of INSACOG, in collaboration with Strand Life Sciences and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), to detect, rapidly sequence and verify the existence of the omicron variant in samples from two Covid-19 infected individuals.
They hope this will aid in a rapid response to contain the spread of variants of concern. Prof Satyajit Mayor from the NCBS conveyed the information to local and national authorities, and the Indian government released a statement on December 2, all within four days of receiving the samples. Both SARS-CoV-2 genomes have also been uploaded to the global repository for SARS-CoV-2 sequences, GISAID, so that they can be publicly available to the scientific community, the NCBS said. (IANS/ MBI)
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During the Covid shutdown, many people found new hobbies to pass the time in isolation.
There were those who hunkered down and binge-watched television series, those who perfected their bread making — leading to the 2020 yeast shortages — and the people who started raising chickens.
In Shadyside, Kellee Maize and Joey Rahimi went all in on chickens, keeping them inside for four months, and then bringing them out to their brand-new coop. But Maize and Rahimi’s coop is in their front yard on South Aiken Avenue and close to the sidewalk, which is a violation of city zoning.
Now it is up to the members of the Zoning Board of Adjustment to say if the chickens are going to have to fly the coop and take that coop, which is considered a structure too close to the lot line, with them.
While most appeals to the Zoning Board of Adjustment are presented by real estate attorneys who have architects in tow, complete with professional renderings and plot plans, Maize appeared before the board alone on Oct. 5, armed with nothing but a hand-drawn plot plan of her property in Shadyside and pictures of the chickens.
Even without paying an attorney and an architect, Rahimi explained in an interview after the hearing that the two eggs the family gets a day from the two chickens — during just the warmer months — work out to be tremendously expensive.
The family got yoked into chickens in April 2020, the second month of the pandemic.
They don’t have a backyard because that is where they built a half-court indoor basketball court, and they used their side yard for an indoor pool that connects the two houses they bought on the street.
That just left the front yard. One side of the front yard has a fenced-in area for their two dogs; on the other side is the chicken coop, which is also behind a fence.
The family, which in addition to the chickens and dogs, includes three children, started with six chicks. Rahimi explained that one of the six died as a chick.
Another turned out to be a rooster — they named him Henry — who had to be relocated because he was waking up the neighbors every morning at 5 a.m.
One got into the dog pen and was killed instantly by the family’s Samoyed. Another chicken was also bitten by the Samoyed, but emergency surgery saved her life. Rahimi said the bill for that was about $800, hence the high cost of the eggs. Although that chicken, Dixie, survived her injuries, she still died young.
That leaves the two remaining chickens, Big Bertha and I Love You.
In their youth, the chickens used to fly the coop all the time.
“We’d find all six chickens on top of my truck in front of the house on Aiken,” Rahimi said.
They never did seem to cross South Aiken Avenue, so you can’t ask them why.
During the hearing for the variance, Maize said the woman who sold them the chicks explained that they had to be kept indoors for the first four or five months, which would give the family plenty of time to obtain permits, but the city’s permit counter was closed during the pandemic.
She checked with the contractor who was working on her house who said there shouldn’t be a problem housing the chickens.
“We’ve had many city inspectors here because we are doing some construction and nobody ever brought up anything,” Maize said.
However, before getting the final inspection on the home’s construction, a city inspector told her the city did not allow a chicken coop in the front yard.
The zoning code calls for the structure to be set back 30 feet. The chicken coop, which is 6 feet high, 4 feet wide and 7 feet long, is just a few feet back from Aiken. Maize said the structure is mostly obscured from the road by vegetation.
During the hearing, Zoning Board member Alice Mitinger asked if Maize could show the zoning board members photos, and she did … of Big Bertha and I Love You.
“Everybody loves them,” she said.
“I understand how you got here, but do you intend to always have two chickens?” Mitinger asked.
“No, we intend to have six; that’s the total number you’re allowed to have,” Maize replied.
“Except, I would say,” Mitinger said, “you are allowed to have them if you comply with the requirements, which is not a coop in the front yard.”
Maize said that when she looked into the requirements for chickens on the city’s website, there was no mention that they could not be in the front yard.
“Our intention is to keep them; they are like our babies,” she said.
The family wants to add four more chickens because with two they don’t have enough eggs for a family of five. “I am just hoping an exception can be made,” Maize said.
As additional photos of the two hens came up, Mitinger made it clear she did not give a cluck.
“We’re more interested in the site than the chickens at this point,” Mitinger said.
The chickens have become neighborhood mascots to some, Rahimi said. There are neighbors who pick weeds on their walk to feed the chickens. Another painted their portraits. Then there was the jogger, who stopped to inquire what happened to Dixie, and cried when he found out she had died.
The couple has three children, an 8-year-old boy, a 3-year-old girl and a 9-month-old girl.
“The chickens allow the kids to pick them up and hold them,” Rahimi said, adding they don’t let adults handle them.
Rahimi said the family considered placing the coop on a deck behind the house, but there is no dirt for them to scratch and if they fell off it would be dangerous for the chickens.
“They aren’t going to enjoy life out on a deck,” he said.
If they lose their request for a variance, Rahimi said they would try to find a new home for Big Bertha and I Love You.
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Discussion in 'Radicons Customs' started by Rod, Jul 17, 2007.
damn dude. Lookin good. What did you use for that trailer?
Its a "Heavy Haulers" 1:32 scale trailer from TRU. I came with a big rig and it was $15. I still have to add the Autobot logo, and touch up the other side tho.
Oooo Nice!...love the display stand.....the Con symbol looks perfect!
Nice work on both of them.
that base is cool, if I had a MP-05, I would want one.
Yes... but does it feature partial movie phrases from a second string See'n Say voice actor.
"The Decepticon goes: Such heroic nonsen... "
nice! base looks awesome.
that trailer is perfect. quick question. How long is it, and how tall is it from the ground to the bottom of the main box? I'm looking at that trailer and seeing it work perfectly for leader movie prime.
WWwwwwwow. The Prime trailer looks absolutely fantastic - that polished aluminum look is mighty nice.
The Megatron stand is great, too - very well painted and the Decepticon symbol on the front looks fantastic. I don't use many stands, so I can't render much of a judgment there - but hey, it's crisp, clean and looks mighty Decepticonish!
Was the trailer Prime-ready? Or did you have to make a peg and the stickers?
That's some solid work there, man. Gotta get me that trailer and do the same!
I still have to maek a connector out of some styrene tubing, but that shouldnt be that difficult. its got a nub on the end that prevents it from sliding all the way into the connector on prime, but i suppose it can be snipped off.
those arent stickers actually, its Krylon Satin White and Testors Gloss Blue Spraypaints.
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Op-Ed: Former HHS Official: Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Right Thing for SC Residents
Earlier this summer, it appeared as if we were so close to victory in our seemingly never ending battle with COVID-19. Vaccination rates were climbing, cases were declining, and life appeared to be returning to normal.
Despite promising signals of a return to normal, according to data from the CDC, COVID-19 cases are once again climbing, hospitals are reaching their maximum capacities, and the COVID-19 Delta variant is surging.
Amidst the surge, the CDC recently reported that individuals between 18 and 49 make up the largest demographic of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Amongst their peers, people in the same age group, particularly those under 30, also represent a population with one of the lowest vaccination rates.
I, too, a 29-year-old male, admit that I was hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Despite having served at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and having worked alongside our nation’s top doctors and scientists at the FDA, CDC, and NIH, I still opted not to get the vaccine right away because I was concerned about possible side effects.
Moreover, having worked for the federal government, I couldn’t help but recall just how long it takes for the government to get anything done. It worried me that the vaccine was developed and approved for distribution in such a short amount of time.
Nonetheless, it wasn’t the conspiracy theories or the media that influenced my hesitancy. I wasn’t anti-vax or anti-science like some assumed. In all actuality, I have immense respect for healthcare workers – especially my mom, who’s a nurse.
Instead, it boiled down to nerves and making an informed decision for myself.
Ultimately, after consulting with my doctor and doing my own research via trusted sources such as the CDC and FDA, I made the decision to get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for these three reasons:
First, I determined that the risks of being unvaccinated far outweighed the potential risks of side effects from the vaccine. Quite frankly, every vaccine comes with some sort of associated risks, and oftentimes, mild side effects like headaches and fatigue.
The efficacy of these vaccines is high. Clinical trials found the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines to be between 94% and 95% effective, and the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was found to be about 66% effective. In other words, if vaccinated, odds are you won’t get COVID-19.
The second reason? People my age play an important role in axing this pandemic.
As football and fall festivities begin, we’re far more likely to spend time in social settings. If we’re not getting vaccinated, but continue to socialize with one another, we’re only going to continue spreading it amongst ourselves. This will only continue to exacerbate the problem.
Lastly, it seemed hypocritical not to get the vaccine. From Instagram stories to Tik Toks, we’re immersed in a vomitorium of influencer ads for protein shakes and supplements – all products that are not regulated by the FDA but widely consumed by people my age.
If we’re all so gung-ho on trying these products, why are we so hesitant to get a vaccine that’s received full FDA approval? This makes zero sense to me, and I decided to side with science.
These reasons aside, getting vaccinated also just seems like the right thing to do.
Ignore the conspiracy theories. The COVID-19 Delta variant is on the rise, and getting the vaccine is the safest way to protect yourself, your family and your community.
This op-ed was originally posted in The State. You may find the original post here.
Gavin J. Smith is a Lexington, SC resident and a former deputy communications director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Trump administration.


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The lithopedion was found floating in white, odorless pus, which made it semi-mobile and would explain Mathieu's claim that she could still feel the baby moving inside her.The lithopedion was extensively described and pictured in a published memoir by François Boyle, one of the doctors present.
Chatri became pregnant for the first time at 40, but never gave birth after breaking her water and going through labor pains.
She was bedridden for the next three years, during which she could notice a hard tumor on her lower abdomen, and complained of tiredness and abdominal pains for the rest of her life.
The patient largely recovered her health, but she continued to suppurate through the wound.
The patient had a failed pregnancy followed by a successful one, after which she fell sick and rapidly lost weight.
In 1880, German physician Friedrich Küchenmeister reviewed 47 cases of lithopedia from the medical literature and distinguished three subgroups: Lithokelyphos ("Stone Sheath"), where calcification occurs on the placental membrane and not the fetus; Lithotecnon ("Stone Child") or "true" lithopedion, where the fetus itself is calcified after entering the abdominal cavity, following the rupture of the placental and ovarian membranes; and Lithokelyphopedion ("Stone Sheath [and] Child"), where both fetus and sac are calcified.
Lithopedia can originate both as tubal and ovarian pregnancies, although tubal pregnancy cases are more common. The patient was pregnant in two separate occasions but never gave birth.
Christopher Bain, a travelling surgeon, practiced an incision and extracted "the skeleton of a male child".
She recovered fully and went on to have four more children.
At 37, she became pregnant, carried to full term and broke her water for the eleventh time, but she never gave birth despite the efforts of a physician.
She suffered from acute abdominal pain for two months and vaginal bleeding for five, and felt discomfort for the rest of her life.
Lithopedia may occur from 14 weeks gestation to full term. The lithopedia was carried for an average of twenty-two years, and in several cases, the women became pregnant a second time and gave birth to children without incident.


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Kubb Swedish Outdoor Game
Kubb is a popular Swedish outside game for the whole family or a group of friends. Start by defining the "field" then take turns trying to knock down your competitors Kubb block with the provided sticks. But don't hit the King, placed in the center! As you succeed, advance closer to your opponent! Great fun for a large group or family. Made of pine. For ages 8 and up. WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3yrs.

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Exploring the question of who has the right to be an American citizen, the Office of Diversity and Inclusivity hosted a screening of “14: Dred Scott, Wong Kim Ark, and Vanessa Lopez” followed by a panel discussion Tuesday in the Campus Center Ballroom.
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The Trump Administration announced in February that it would no longer support the advances Barack Obama made for transgender equality in the previous presidency, which allowed transgender students to use the restroom of the gender they identify with. President Donald Trump has made a grave mistake in rescinding protection for these students, who now must […]
Claremont McKenna College professor Ralph A. Rossum spoke about how Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is committed to pursuing an “original general meaning” approach to interpret the constitution on Tuesday in the Campus Center Ballroom.
The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law to enforce a photo identification mandate beginning with the Nov. 4 election.
A provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires employers to provide birth control as part of worker health plans has reached the Supreme Court, marking the second time the High Court has scrutinized the new health care law.
On March 26 the United State Supreme Court heard an appeal to California’s Proposition 8, and the following day listened to oral arguments over the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The issue of same-sex marriage rights is all over the media and the LGBT community is listening.
The Supreme Court announced on Feb. 21 that it would hear an appeal from a white student who claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas based on racial discrimination.
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and professor of law at the UC Irvine College of Law, discussed “Formalism Without Foundation: Stern v. Marshall” on Feb. 2 at the University of La Verne College of Law.
Last Wednesday was a sad day for the rights of women. In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court voted to uphold the “partial birth abortion” ban act, and as a result, American women have lost some of their freedom.
In a hysterical exercise of freedom of speech rights, student Joseph Frederick held a sign reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” during the Juneau, Alaska, Olympic torch relay in 2002.

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Generous colleagues across Royal Mail Group have now raised £50 million for charity through the company’s payroll giving scheme, which began 25 years ago.
The significant milestone has been met thanks to benevolent employees across Royal Mail and Parcelforce Worldwide donating regularly via their salary to over 900 charities. Retired employees also contribute to the scheme.
The charities supported include a mix of national organisations as well a number of locally-based groups which are helping providing vital services at the heart of communities.
There are around 38,000 members of the scheme, who on average donate £5 a month to their chosen charity or good cause.
Moya Greene, Royal Mail’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “We’re thrilled our people’s payroll giving has reached this significant milestone and has supported so many charities. We’re proud to run such a popular scheme that gives our employees, both past and present, the opportunity to support the cause of their choice. This is making a difference both nationwide and in the heart of local communities everywhere.”
Peter Lewis, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Fundraising, added: “Royal Mail’s achievement in championing Payroll Giving is a fantastic example to all large employers. The £50 million that Royal Mail’s employees have donated to many charities shows real commitment from both the staff who give the money and the organisation for showing long-term support and leadership.
“Congratulations to all at Royal Mail for their work to promote Payroll Giving - we hope it can inspire many more organisations and employees to support good causes.”
Royal Mail Group’s scheme was awarded a Guinness World Record in 2012 for having the most registered charities supported by a payroll giving scheme. It still retains this record.
The company also provides matched giving to those employees who donate a proportion of their salary to the Group’s Charity of the Year partner, Prostate Cancer UK. Royal Mail Group and its employees have together raised £1.8m million for the charity over the last 18 months (including matched giving), enough to fund at least 30 specialist prostate cancer nurses.
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Thiruvananthapuram: IG Tomin J Thachankary has been promoted as Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP).
According to reports, the State Cabinet meeting today decided to promote him as ADGP despite the Home department’s opposition against the move.
Responding to reporters queries on the matter, Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala, however, said he was not aware of it.
Earlier, the State government had turned down the request of police officer Thachankary for promotion as additional director-general of police.
Thachankary's application for promotion was denied on the basis of a report from the chief secretary who took note of an adverse report against the officer from state police chief K S Balasubrahmanian.
Thachankary had been caught up in a controversy over his alleged foreign trip. He was also facing charges of having amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.


KGW-TV in Portland (the one in the upper left portion of the map) has the story of an area man who was baffled when a message from Comcast ended up in his e-mail inbox.
“I got one from Xfinity that said we owed $25 or they were going to send the police after us if we didn’t pay it,” the customer, who says he was not even behind on his bill, tells KGW.
First things first, the age of debtors’ prisons is long gone, so not only will you not be arrested for owing your cable company a few bucks, it’s against federal law for a company to even claim you could be put in jail for owing a debt.
So either the nation’s largest cable and Internet company has decided to break the law in an effort to collect a few bucks, or it’s a phishing attempt trying to get the customer’s financial information.
“The tip-off of the common phishing scam is that at some point they’re going to ask you for your password and for your bank account information number and/or instant cash,” a rep for the Dept. of Justice explains to KGW, while also saying that the e-mail received by the Portland man was “fairly convincing-looking.”
Comcast confirms that it did not send the e-mail in question and that the company never asks for customer passwords or billing information via e-mail.
The customer says he didn’t fall for the scam, but even so, these sorts of notices can be an annoying disruption.
“We’ll have to make these phone calls, you know, do we really owe this? Do we? Do we?” he says.
He’s asking for Comcast to send out a warning letter to customers about being on the lookout for scam notices like this, because not everybody will be savvy enough to see through the phishing attempt.
“We live in an environment of corporate bullying anyway and to be stalked like this,” he explains. “I thought, boy, there’s a lot of people out there that are vulnerable.”


Perry rose to fame in 2008 with her second album, One of the Boys, a pop rock record containing the singles "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold". The former track also sparked controversy for its themes of lesbianism. Her third album, Teenage Dream (2010), ventured into disco, and was her first record to top the U. S. Billboard 200. It peaked at number one on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 with the singles "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E. T. ", and "Last Friday Night (T. G. I. F. )", while "The One That Got Away" reached number three on the chart. The album became the first by a female artist to produce five number one songs in the U. S. , and the second overall after Michael Jackson's Bad. In 2012, Perry re-issued the album as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, which produced the songs "Part of Me" and "Wide Awake". Her next record was Prism (2013), which became her second to top the U. S. charts. It is influenced by pop and dance, and she became the first artist with multiple videos to reach one billion views on Vevo with the videos for its songs "Roar" and "Dark Horse". She followed this with 2017's Witness, which delved into electropop and became her third album to chart at number one in the U. S. "Chained to the Rhythm" was the album's most successful single, breaking Spotify's record at the time for most first-day streams for a song by a female artist. Her sixth album will be released on August 14, 2020.


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Sean Baker’s new comedy ‘Tangerine’ is about transgender sex workers in LA. ‘We had no idea it was going to be a trend movement,’ he tells Tara Brady
Not too far into the new movie Tangerine, there comes a moment when Alexandra (Kiki Rodriguez) accidentally tells her best friend Sin-dee (Mya Taylor), that Sin-dee’s boyfriend and sometime pimp, Chester ( The Wire’s James Ransone), has been cheating on her with a cisgendered woman: a “fish”.
The transgendered Sin-dee immediately storms out of the donut shop where they’ve been sitting. The trap music of DJ Lightup kicks in on the score; it’s Christmas Eve in Santa Monica and she’s going fish-hunting.
It’s a stunning sequence: one that compares favourably with Scorsese’s ground-breaking use of handheld tracking in Mean Streets. There may be better films in 2015 – although they’ll have to be very good indeed – but no movie will match Tangerine for sheer energy.
Director Sean Baker’s muchbuzzed-about fifth feature has made headlines as the first feature to be shot on an iPhone in proper cinematic aspect ratio. But it also manages to be the most colour-saturated feature since Douglas Sirk’s heyday.
“I didn’t know it would look that way at first,” says Baker. “I’m really influenced by British social realism, by the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. I love Ulrich Seidl: I think he’s one of the last of the great masters of cinema. The work I love tends to be very desaturated. And that’s what I originally thought I was going to do. But when I first shot some test footage, it seemed so wrong. It didn’t look like the world I was trying to represent.”
The iPhone allowed Baker to make the film for $100,000 dollars – much of it handed over by mumblecore graduates the Duplass Brothers – but there are many more innovations to cheer about.
Social media played a huge role in the production: the film benefits from cameos from Instagram star Francis Lola, Vine star Chelcie Lynn and a soundtrack sourced on Soundcloud. Baker unearthed the movie’s most-chattered about trap music track through Viner and YouTuber wolftyla, who is duly thanked in the credits.
“It’s not the kind of music I normally listen to,” laughs the director. “I like Britpop and shoegaze. I still listen to Suede. When we started post-production, I didn’t know what the sound design would be. To tell you the truth I told my producers that they didn’t have to budget for music. I was more sur-
“Life is hard when your identity isn’t recognised by many people.” Below: Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor
prised than anyone when we ended up with 35 tracks. Soundcloud allowed us to reach out to the artists directly. I was just as surprised that we ended up using trap music. But I was using Vine and it sounded like the world I had just been immersed in.”
Immersed is the word. The director and his co-writer, Chris Bergoch, spent almost a year researching transgender sex workers around the LGBTQ centre in West Hollywood. Enter Kiki Rodriguez, Tangerine’s leading lady, who collaborated closely with the director at every stage of production.
“When I first saw Mya, she was at the LGBTQ Centre about a block away from Santa Monica and Hyland,” recalls Baker. “And she had such a dynamic quality. Everything about her: “I’dlovetoworkthiswayagain. But I’mdefinitelylookingtoincreasemy budgets.Workinginthisrealm, it’s almostahobbyandnota career, becauseyoucan’tpaypeople or yourselfproperly. That’sanissue. Also, IfellinlovewithcelluloidandI’d liketoshooton thatwhileit’sstill possible.But makingTangerinedid makemerealisethe benefitsof havingan intimatesmallercrew. Andnobodybothersyouwhenyou’re shootingamovieonthree iPhones. Theyjustassumedweweretaking selfies.” her physical presence, the way that she commanded the conversation with her friends. So I introduced myself. And she introduced me to many of the girls working the area.
“But it wasn’t until I met Kiki that I knew we had a dynamic that was very cool. And that we had to develop around these two women.”
The film marks the screen debut of trans actors Taylor and Rodriguez, who together make for bitchy banter that puts one in mind of a X-rated episode of Ru Paul’s Drag Race. It shouldn’t be ground-breaking to cast trans actors in trans roles, but it is.
“We had no idea that it was going to be a trend movement,” says Baker. “We went down this road almost two-and-a-half years ago. And there’s suddenly been some much needed progress: Obama being the first US president to use the word transgender; Laverne Cox on TV; Caitlyn Jenner. All of these things make our film feel like part of the zeitgeist. But it wasn’t deliberate.”
Tangerine marks yet another fascinating departure in terms of cinema tropes: the film’s sex workers are neither happy hookers nor ruined women. True, their lives aren’t easy, but they beat on, making consistently hilarious remarks, nonetheless.
“When I was doing my research on the streets I noticed the humour,” says Baker. “Obviously the women are in the sex trade because of discrimination and oppression and poverty. Obviously it’s an underground economy. But they’re coping. And just as the rest of us use humour as a coping mechanism, they have to use humour to an even greater degree because of the hardships they face. Life is hard when your identity isn’t recognised by many people. And I wanted to infuse the film with that humour I encountered, the humour they use to get by, and make it not only a part of the dialogue and the plot but also the style of the film.”
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Ria Mae takes listeners on a hypnotic journey from heartbreak to healing on her infectious EP My Love. “My Love is about people I love,” says Ria. “Past love, present love, and self-love.”
The EP’s first single “Bend” became an instant hit, skyrocketing to the top of the CBC Radio 2 charts for four weeks. My Love features several notable collaborators including Tegan Quin (Tegan & Sara), Joel Stouffer, Serena Ryder, and Dylan Guthro (Port Cities). My Love serves as the follow up to Ria’s critically acclaimed self-titled album that launched the platinum-selling “Clothes Off,” the gold-certified “Ooh Love,” and garnered over 39 million combined worldwide streams.
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Ninth Letter recently launched “Only Silence Will Never Betray You,” a mini-anthology of contemporary Bulgarian writers. Editor-at-Large Philip Graham introduces the five writers: Ivayla Alexandrova, Bistra Andreeva, Nikolai Grozni, Georgi Gospodinov, and Marin Bodakov. From our archives: our 2013 interview with Grozni.
It is a truth universally acknowledged (and recently addressed in Barclay Bram Shoekmaker‘s Millions review of Mo Yan‘s Frog) that literary translation is an imperfect art, and this list of mistranslated “literary moments” only offers more evidence for the claim. But for every serious blunder there’s also a truly ridiculous one (or more). For example, the French translated the title of Animal Farm as Animals Everywhere!, which sounds a lot like a charming children’s book and not at all like Orwell.
If you read one piece on early computer scientist Alan Turing that’s come out in celebration of his 100th birthday last Saturday (if you were wondering about Friday’s Google Doodle) you might do very well to make it this one in the Atlantic on how his reading of Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution influenced his work and continues to shape the way we work with computers. It’s also about the limits of artificial intelligence.
The By the Book series at the Times has produced some pretty great entries, but we have a feeling that Colson Whitehead may go down as its best interviewee. Why do we say this? Well, it might have something to do with his weeping fit in a Chelsea Dallas BBQ, prompted by an early scene in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.


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Jeff Wayne - Matador FLAC album
Genre: Rock / Pop music / Stage and Screen
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Jeffry "Jeff" Wayne (born 1 July 1943) is an American-born naturalized British composer, musician and lyricist. In 1978 he released Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical adaptation of H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds. Wayne wrote approximately 3,000 advertising jingles in the 1970s which appeared on television in the United Kingdom, notably a Gordon's Gin commercial which was covered by The Human League.
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Performer: Jeff Wayne Genre: Rock, Pop, Stage & Screen Album: Matador Released: 1982 Style: Theme, Pop Rock. 1982 CBS Records Produced for JWM (Productions) Ltd. "The ITV Theme.
All the singles and albums of JEFF WAYNE, peak chart positions, career stats, week-by-week chart runs and latest news.
- Producer, Arranged By, Conductor, Written By – Jeff Wayne
Notes℗ 1982 CBS Records
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"The ITV Theme.World Cup '82"
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