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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

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An Uber driver has been found guilty of raping a drunk & unconcious female passenger. He also charged her $150 for vomiting in his car.
#Diversityisourstrength

Uber driver, 27, is found guilty of raping an intoxicated passenger and then CHARGING her $150 for vomiting in his car

• Ahmed Elgaafary, 27, picked the woman up at a casino near Philadelphia before raping her in his car
• Elgaafary charged the woman $150 for vomiting and an additional journey fee
• His lawyers argued the woman seduced and he lied because of his pregnant wife

An Uber driver raped an intoxicated female passenger in Philadelphia and later charged her for vomiting in his car.
Ahmed Elgaafary, 27, was convicted on Thursday of raping an unconscious person, sexual assault and indecent assault.
Elgaafary, from Lansdale will be sentenced at a later date and then likely deported to Egypt, where he is a citizen, said Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan.

The driver picked up the woman at Valley Forge Casino Resort near Philadelphia in February.

Assistant District Attorney Vincent Robert Cocco told the jury that the driver stretched the 15-minute ride to the woman's home into a 53-minute one to assault her in the backseat.
He charged her for the longer ride and for vomiting in his car, adding an extra $150, Cocco said.

'She should have been safe,' he said. 'He knew she was vulnerable. He knew she was alone. He knew she was too drunk.'
Elgaafary's lawyer, Melissa Berlot McCafferty, argued the sex was consensual. She told the jury the woman seduced Elgaafary and he initially lied rather than admitting he'd cheated on his pregnant wife.
'He cheated on his wife,' McCafferty said. 'He's not a rapist. He's not a criminal.'
While he was on the witness stand, Elgaafary acknowledged that the woman was drunk .
The victim said she remembered nothing after leaving the casino around 2am but woke up the next day with bruises on her thighs and a feeling that something bad had happened. She went to a hospital for a rape kit.
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said in a statement: 'Defendant Ahmed Elgaafary, an Uber driver, was convicted today after a week-long trial of raping an unconscious woman, who he was supposed to be driving home as part of his job.
'In the investigation, he first claimed no sex took place, then switched to a consent defense when the DNA from the rape kit came back to him.'
After the verdict, Uber officials condemned the driver's conduct and said he had been 'permanently removed' as a
worker.

Pennsylvania Uber driver is convicted of raping intoxicated passenger

Ahmed Elgaafary (pictured) raped a drunk passenger after picking her up at a casino near Philadelphia. He charged her an extra $150 for vomiting in her car and the extra journey fee.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong About the Vikings
Erika Harlitz-Kern / Published 08.17.19 5:12AM ET

After the horrific mass shooting in El Paso on Aug. 3, it can no longer be denied that white supremacy is a deadly force in American society. The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in August 2017 wasn’t a culmination of events but the starting point of a series of acts of racist and extremist violence, which historian Kathleen Belew warns are not isolated incidents but calls for more similar acts.

Belew points out that what unites many of these extreme acts of violence is the publishing of a manifesto before the crime is committed. In these manifestos, the perpetrators explain the reasons for their actions based in a worldview created out of what historian Michael Livingston calls a weaponization of history. Livingston mentions one book in particular that is referenced over and over—namely Might Is Right or the Survival of the Fittest published by the pseudonymous Ragnar Redbeard in 1896.

In his book, Redbeard—thought to be a Briton called Arthur Desmond—claims that white Europeans are superior to all other races, women and children are the property of men, and violence is the key to establishing domination. The Scandinavian-sounding pseudonym is not a coincidence: the fetishizing of Vikings is central to the ideology of white supremacy.

But the white supremacists’ view of the Vikings is another example of their weaponization of history. In many ways, the Vikings were the antithesis of what the alt-right stands for.

First of all, “viking” is not something you are; it’s something you do. It’s a job description. The people who are lumped together under the umbrella term “Vikings” were the Danes, the Norse, and the Swedes of late Iron Age Scandinavia who made their living from farming and fishing. A select few of the men went “a-viking,” but we don’t know the exact reasons for why they went. What we do know is that these men could leave the family farm for extended periods of time without jeopardizing the survival of the family. In other words, the men who went a-viking were expendable.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-alt-right-is-taking-over-renaissance-fairs
Viking Age society was patriarchal just like ours, but in contrast to what the alt-right claims, men and women both had status. We know this because people traced their lineage either through their mother or their father, depending on which one had the higher social position. An example of this is the man Alrik who raised a runestone commemorating his father Spjut, who went raiding in the west. On the stone, Alrik introduces himself as the son of Sigrid, his mother. Another example is the runestone commemorating farmer Gulle’s five sons, who all died in different parts of the world. The runestone was commissioned by their niece, Torgärd. Runestones were expensive, so for Torgärd to commission a stone she needed to have the agency to act on her own behalf, as well as control over her own personal wealth.

In Viking Age Scandinavian society, certain tasks were strictly gender-coded. To simplify, we say that men did the work outdoors, and women the work indoors. These lines were rarely, if ever, crossed. A Viking Age farm couldn’t function without a man-woman couple to run it. This couple could be husband and wife, two siblings, or a parent and a grown child. Which leads to another misconception about the Vikings—that there were only men onboard the longships. The Scandinavian settlements, such as the ones in Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, and the British Isles, would never have come into existence without women’s participation.

The strict labor division between men and women co-existed with what seems to have been a gender that incorporated both the male and the female. Viking Age burials with female human remains buried with male-coded grave goods point in this direction, as do the myths about shield-maidens.

Evidence of fluid gender boundaries can also be found in Norse mythology. Magic and prophecy were gender-coded female, and the wise woman, or völva, was an important member of the community. But it is Odin who is the god of wisdom, magic, and prophecy. Meanwhile, Loki, the trickster, shape-shifted into a mare and gave birth to Odin’s eight-legged horse, Sleipnir.

“Viking Age Scandinavia was part of a trade network that reached from the English Channel to the Persian Gulf and which brought goods, people, and impulses to the region from as far away as India.”

The resurgence of Norse mythology in the form of Asatrú has attracted followers from the alt-right who follow a racist and misogynist version of it. In the information about Norse religious practices that have survived to our time, there is no support for this sort of interpretation. What’s more, the definitive text on Norse mythology is Snorri’s Edda written and compiled by 13th-century Icelandic historian and lawspeaker Snorri Sturluson. Snorri viewed Norse mythology through the lens of his Christian faith and his knowledge of The Iliad and The Odyssey. According to Snorri’s Edda, Odin brought his people out of Asia in search for a new place to live, and this is how the gods—the Æsir—and their home, Asgard, got their names.

Another issue with Asatrú is that it gives the impression that all Viking Age Scandinavians were pagans. When it comes to religion, the Viking Age was a transition period where people were pagans, Christians, or both. Thor hammers made towards the end of the Viking Age could be used as both a hammer and a cross.

In contrast to how the alt-right uses the Vikings for their purposes, Viking Age Scandinavians were raiders turned immigrants who became completely assimilated into their new societies. If it weren’t for the introduction of certain Scandinavian dietary practices, place names, and political customs, there is hardly any evidence left of their presence.

Also, they had close contacts with the Muslim world. Viking Age Scandinavia was part of a trade network that reached from the English Channel to the Persian Gulf and which brought goods, people, and impulses to the region from as far away as India. Tens of thousands of Arabic silver coins, minted in today’s Iraq, have been found in Sweden alone.

This exchange and interaction brings us to the final point. Viking Age Scandinavians were not tall, blonde, and blue-eyed. The idea of the Viking warrior as the finest specimen of manhood took hold in the late 19th century when racism and Nordicism developed into ideologies declaring Scandinavians to be the superior race. Analyses of human remains from the Viking Age have revealed a wide spectrum of hair color, eye color, and height. Once again, there are echoes in Norse mythology. There, Thor does not look like Chris Hemsworth, but is described as a short and stocky redhead with a full beard and covered in body hair.

Of course, Viking Age Scandinavians were what we today would call white, and they were fierce fighters. But their skin color comes from the fact that they lived in and around the Arctic. And their fighting abilities developed because they lived in a violent society defined by vendettas and power struggles. These things don’t make the Vikings superior to anyone else. It makes them typical for the time and place where they lived.

Also from the same author, Erika Harlitz-Kern:
Give Notre Dame a Modern Roof the Alt-Right Will Hate

https://archive.is/S1oLY

"Analyses of human remains from the Viking Age have revealed a wide spectrum of hair color, eye color, and height."

Such lack of diversity! I'm so glad they've begun blanding nordics with browns. Also, of course she teaches history at a Miami university. Horrific!

No wonder she hates white people and absolutely gushes about Jews nonstop. Every. single. time.

 

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This will either be the "wasted generation" or the "generation that doomed humanity".


https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...cbbe4e-b92f-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html

He’s 26 years old but still sees a pediatrician: Why some young adults don’t move on

(Ery Burns for The Washington Post)

By Caren Chesler
August 18 at 10:00 AM

When Joann Alfonzo, a pediatrician in Freehold, N.J., walked into her office recently she mentally rolled her eyes when she saw her next patient: a 26-year-old car salesman in a suit and tie.

“That’s no longer a kid. That’s a man,” she recalls thinking.

Yet, Alfonzo wasn’t that surprised. In the past five years, she has seen the age of her patients rise, as more young adults remain at home and, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, on their parents’ health insurance until age 26.

“First it was 21, then 23 and now 26,” Alfonzo says. “A lot of them can’t afford to live on their own and get their own insurance, or even afford the co-pay. And if insurance is offered at work, there’s generally a cost share involved, if insurance is provided at all.”

The idea of young adults continuing to see their longtime pediatricians has been around for quite some time — it was a laugh line on “Friends” in its last TV season in 2004. Rachel takes her child to a pediatrician, she sees the child’s father, Ross, in the waiting room and realizes he’s still a patient.

But these days that’s pretty realistic, Alfonzo says. “We have people who have had children, and they still see us, so we’re seeing the parents and their children, concurrently,” she says.

So when is it time to leave your pediatrician? Talon Manfredini, 22, says he only left his pediatrician, who is a woman, this year because he moved from his family home in New Jersey to begin a new job in Miami.

But he didn’t think twice about continuing to see her, even though he’d finished college. “She just felt like a regular doctor,” he says. “It didn’t feel odd at all or different or weird or anything like that.”

Debbie Weinberger DeFrancesco, 41, a regional sales manager for Tyson from Marlboro, N.J., says she continued to see her pediatrician until she was about 27.

“The thing I remember very clearly, especially towards the end of my time there, was how the moms were the same age as me — and not thinking that I was too old for the doctor but that they were too young be having babies,” she says.

She finally decided it was time to get an “adult” doctor when she got married. “I thought it was a good idea for my husband and me to share the same doctor and have our files under one roof,” she says.

Aside from some potentially awkward moments in the waiting room, is there anything wrong with pediatricians continuing to treat their patients once they become adults?

A little, Alfonzo says.

“We’re now treating people for adult diseases, things we weren’t trained to treat,” she says, such as adult hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, pregnancy, even depression and anxiety. If she encounters something she can’t handle, Alfonzo says she will refer the patient to a specialist.

“Actually, I think it impacts them more in a positive manner, because I think pediatricians are very thorough in their assessment,” she says.

It’s certainly more thorough than an urgent care center, which is where many 20- and 30-somethings wind up when they don’t have insurance and are no longer seeing their pediatrician, Alfonzo says.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) attempted to address the issue of transition from pediatric care into adult care in a policy statement in 2017 and concluded “the age of transition” should be based not on a number but on the patient’s individual needs.

The decision “should be made solely by the patient (and family, when appropriate) and the physician and must take into account the physical and psychosocial needs of the patient and the abilities of the pediatric provider to meet those needs,” the policy statement said. In addition, it said that ‘the establishment of arbitrary age limits on pediatric care by health care providers should be discouraged. Health care insurers and other payers should not place limits that affect the patient’s choice of care provider based solely on age.”

The statement was written and published because more pediatricians were seeing older and older patients, and because insurers and health-care providers had begun to draw arbitrary lines as to the age at which a patient should no longer be seen by a pediatrician, said Jesse Hackell, the AAP’s vice president and a co-author of the statement.

“There are no official, legal rules,” Hackell says. “Sometimes the insurance companies will try and make rules. Sometimes the hospitals will make rules. But there’s nothing to say we couldn’t keep seeing them. We’re licensed as physicians, not pediatricians.”

Hackell, a pediatrician in Pomona, N.Y., says he has patients who definitely don’t want to leave, and most of their problems are ones he is equipped to deal with. Often, he’ll keep the patients through their college years. Why should they have to find a new physician if they get sick while they’re home on break? he asks.

“I won’t take on a new patient after about the age of 18 or 20, but I will certainly see my patients who I’ve seen since they were kids,” he says.

Once they graduate, though, he generally tells them it’s time to start looking for a general practitioner who treats adults, he says.

“We have to gently nudge them out,” he says.

Living at home and remaining on parents’ insurance policies aren’t the only reasons 20-somethings stay with pediatricians. Medical advancements over the past decade are extending the life expectancy of those with chronic childhood illnesses, such as congenital heart issues, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and diabetes, and the pediatricians who cared for children with these conditions sometimes remain with them as they get old, says Michelle Hofmann, medical director in pediatric services at NeuroRestorative in Riverton, Utah.

Hofmann says when she was training in a pediatric intensive care unit, she had to resuscitate a 50-year-old man who was in her children’s hospital because he’d had congenital heart disease since he was a child. When it was time to do heart surgery, he wanted to have it there.

“One of the things that I think they do really well in pediatrics is establish those lifelong relationships, because your visits are so frequent when you’re growing up. If you don’t move around a lot, you do tend to stay with the same doctor,” Hofmann says.

The care can also be different. Her patients with cerebral palsy, for instance, have neurological issues from birth that may require supportive technologies such as feeding tubes or ventilators, technologies that when used on adults are often not to prolong life but rather in the face of a traumatic accident or a life-ending illness. And who would a patient with cerebral palsy, caused by brain damage that occurred before birth or during a child’s first three to five years, see? Hofmann asks.

For those without major issues, though — a college student or graduate about to embark on working life — the transition can be abrupt, sometimes precipitated by a “Sorry, you’ve aged out” response when they call to make an appointment or by a sign in the waiting room.

Debra Blau Reicher, a school psychologist, says she continued to consult her childhood pediatrician about her health issues well after she began taking her daughter to see him. If her daughter had strep, the pediatrician would do a throat culture on Reicher as well.

“He would see me in his waiting room so he wouldn’t have to charge me,” she said. “But then one day he had a sign up,” she recalls, saying “I can no longer see parents.”

She was 30 when the sign was posted.

There are better ways than posting a sign for transitioning patients who need to move on, says Jonathan Trager, a pediatrician in Great Neck, N.Y., whose practice includes adolescent medicine.

“Throughout the teen years into the college years, you let your patients know that you are happy to see them as long as they are comfortable,” says Trager, who sees patients until age 30. When a patient is ready to switch to an internist, or is dealing with issues that may require an internist, Trager and the patient will make that transition decision together, he says. It should be a change that they gear up for over the years, he adds.

A pediatrician, Trager says, is the ideal person to guide the young patient through that transition into adult medical care.

“They know the patient,” he says. “They know the family, and they’re well equipped to handle issues of someone they have been seeing for a long time. Young adults are often extended adolescents. They still could benefit from seeing the pediatrician who knows them well.”

For older pediatric patients, it’s not the doctor so much as the waiting room, usually geared toward toddlers and young patients, that starts to feel awkward. “While the doctor may be equipped to see them medically and know them well, the patient may feel out of place and doesn’t want to come,” Trager says.

Jake Ambrosio, 21, is one of those patients. He has been seeing his pediatrician since he was born but has outgrown the office.

“There’s a lot of babies in the waiting room, and also all of the rooms have a theme. I’ll be getting a checkup and there’ll be like, the Candy Land room, this light pink room with these little candies all around, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, I think I’m ready to be in just a normal doctor’s office.’ ”

So why has he stayed with his pediatrician this long?

“I like her. And it’s a lot of work finding a real doctor. It’s just easier to stay,” he says. “But I know I have to stop going to the pediatrician eventually. I just feel like since I’m 21, it’s time for me to find an adult doctor. Even though I do really like my pediatrician. It’s part of growing up, I guess.”

 

[AnOminous]

After the verdict, Uber officials condemned the driver's conduct and said he had been 'permanently removed' as a
worker.

Who could possibly have predicted that hiring completely unknown people with no background check who are going to encounter drunk and helpless people might attract predators?

Maybe there's actually a reason taxi driving was actually a regulated profession before lawless "disruptors" like the criminal cunts at Uber came along and decided to just do whatever.

 

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Who could possibly have predicted that hiring completely unknown people with no background check who are going to encounter drunk and helpless people might attract predators?

Maybe there's actually a reason taxi driving was actually a regulated profession before lawless "disruptors" like the criminal cunts at Uber came along and decided to just do whatever.

I still have no idea how Uber, AirBNB, etc, get away with basically ignoring regulations. It seems to me that local governments would fight back against that. Or did Uber just say "lol whatever" and ignore them?

 

[AnOminous]

I still have no idea how Uber, AirBNB, etc, get away with basically ignoring regulations. It seems to me that local governments would fight back against that. Or did Uber just say "lol whatever" and ignore them?

Pretty much the latter. A few locations have thrown them out for it. Hungary banned them for instance. Apparently it was also banned at some point (maybe still) in Oregon, except for Portland (of course).

I'm actually surprised places like NYC where the taxi operations are mobbed up as all hell didn't just start killing Uber drivers but I guess the mob has lost its edge these days.

 

[Ahriman]

U.S. mother loses custody battle over her daughter in Saudi Arabia

Bethany Vierra, 32, lost custody of her daughter - four-year-old Zaina - in July after the court determined that the mother was too 'new to Islam.'

www.dailymail.co.uk

Good.

 

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https://archive.is/hhLJ8

Black Panther’s Wakanda Is Real — and It’s in Chicago

Wakanda may be a fictional country, but the black utopian space was just brought to life in Chicago.

It started when, after several trips to the movie theater to watch the record-breaking superhero film “Black Panther,” Chicago native David Barthwell and his two siblings enlisted the help of their friends to create their own Afrofuturist utopia.

Barthwell wanted to create a space like Wakanda centered around people of color. “We found Wakanda to be a place of radical inclusivity, a place of feminism, a space where there is economic independence and a strong focus on community; a space of education and a focus on technology,” the self-described nerd told VICE News.

This summer, the group organized a weekend of black empowerment and creativity for the second time, dubbing it “WakandaCon” in homage to the fictional uncolonized African kingdom. The Wakandan ideals of self-sufficiency and innovation are central to the convention’s programming, which included a code-a-thon and marketplace featuring black businesses and creatives.

The “Black Panther” film’s influence at the convention is pretty clear from the cosplay and fight choreography workshops. But the real draw for the fancon’s mostly black attendees was the aspirational concept of Wakanda.

“There aren't many spaces where we can be ourselves without being policed by other people,” said Me’Lisa Lashon, dressed in an original costume as“Miss Wakanda 2019” inspired by her days in Texan beauty pageants.

WakandaCon is among a handful of conventions like Blerdfest and BlerdCon that formed over the past several years as a more diverse alternative to mainstream cons.

 

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Black Panther’s Wakanda Is Real — and It’s in Chicago

Forgive me for being uninformed, but is Chicago also into "woke" shit like Cali and Florida?

 

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Forgive me for being uninformed, but is Chicago also into "woke" shit like Cali and Florida?

Nah, it's just black geeks trying to pretend that Chicago isn't a hellsite. Funniest part of that linked article:

Targeting areas where police expected gang members to retaliate for previous shootings, Johnson said officers seized 92 illegal firearms, nearly twice as many as the department seizes in a typical warm-weather weekend. In the coming weeks, Chicago police said more patrol officers will be stationed in popular areas for tourists and residents.

Some disagree with the approach, as the department has received criticism for its use of force against black and Latino communities...

...Chicago’s violence also disproportionately affects several swaths of low-income blackand Latino neighborhoods on the West and South sides.

Gee, why oh why would they target blacks and latinos. It is a mystery, obviously you should target the people unaffected by crime.

 

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U.S. mother loses custody battle over her daughter in Saudi Arabia

Bethany Vierra, 32, lost custody of her daughter - four-year-old Zaina - in July after the court determined that the mother was too 'new to Islam.'

www.dailymail.co.uk

Good.

Toll: Paid

 

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Theme park in Germany shuts new ride over claims it looks like "flying swastikas"

A theme park in Germany has shut one of its rides after people claimed it looked like "flying swastikas."
Visitors spotted the resemblance to the hugely controversial symbol in the Eagle Fly ride not long after it opened at Tatzmania theme park in Löffingen.

Scores of people were appalled it had ever been allowed to be built after seeing footage of the ride in action on Reddit.
One person wrote: "You really do not have the words. Something like that would have to be banned."
The ride, which opened at the end of July, features one long arm with two spinning carriages at each end attached to four shorter arms.

Attached to each of those arms are spinning seats.

The park's Managing Director Rüdiger Braun said he had not seen the resemblance until the footage was brought to his attention.
He told German publication SWR : "I'd like to stress how sorry we are to anyone who has felt at all insulted by this design.
"I want to apologise to all the people who are disturbed by the design or feel offended."

Mr Braun has ordered for the ride to be rebuilt with only three - instead of four - arms.
He said half of the cost - which he refused to discuss - would be shared with the manufacturer of the ride.
"We are aware of the special responsibility of German history and we do not want to offend anyone," he added.

Dr. Michael Wehner, 57, from the State Agency for Political Education in Freiburg told BILD : "The fact that the operator reacted so quickly is wise because showing prohibited symbols is punishable and possibly someone would eventually have filed a complaint."

The swastika became the most hated symbol of the 20th Century after it was used as the emblem of the German Nazi party and became synonymous with fascism.
The symbol, along with other images affiliated with Nazi propaganda, are now illegal under the German Criminal Code section 86a.
It states that the "use of symbols of unconstitutional organisations" is banned, with punishments up to three years.

Theme park in Germany shuts ride over claims it looks like "flying swastikas"

Visitors spotted the resemblance to the hugely controversial symbol in the Eagle Fly ride at Tatzmania park

www.mirror.co.uk

Oy vey. Shut it down.

 

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Mr Braun has ordered for the ride to be rebuilt with only three - instead of four - arms.

So it will look like the symbol for the 27th SS Division instead.

 

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Theme park in Germany shuts new ride over claims it looks like "flying swastikas"

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A theme park in Germany has shut one of its rides after people claimed it looked like "flying swastikas."
Visitors spotted the resemblance to the hugely controversial symbol in the Eagle Fly ride not long after it opened at Tatzmania theme park in Löffingen.

Scores of people were appalled it had ever been allowed to be built after seeing footage of the ride in action on Reddit.
One person wrote: "You really do not have the words. Something like that would have to be banned."
The ride, which opened at the end of July, features one long arm with two spinning carriages at each end attached to four shorter arms.

Attached to each of those arms are spinning seats.

The park's Managing Director Rüdiger Braun said he had not seen the resemblance until the footage was brought to his attention.
He told German publication SWR : "I'd like to stress how sorry we are to anyone who has felt at all insulted by this design.
"I want to apologise to all the people who are disturbed by the design or feel offended."

Mr Braun has ordered for the ride to be rebuilt with only three - instead of four - arms.
He said half of the cost - which he refused to discuss - would be shared with the manufacturer of the ride.
"We are aware of the special responsibility of German history and we do not want to offend anyone," he added.

Dr. Michael Wehner, 57, from the State Agency for Political Education in Freiburg told BILD : "The fact that the operator reacted so quickly is wise because showing prohibited symbols is punishable and possibly someone would eventually have filed a complaint."

The swastika became the most hated symbol of the 20th Century after it was used as the emblem of the German Nazi party and became synonymous with fascism.
The symbol, along with other images affiliated with Nazi propaganda, are now illegal under the German Criminal Code section 86a.
It states that the "use of symbols of unconstitutional organisations" is banned, with punishments up to three years.




Oy vey. Shut it down.

Someone is tilting at windmills.

 

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Julien Gauthier: Grizzly bear kills soundgathering musician


A Franco-Canadian man died after being attacked by a grizzly bear in a remote area of Canada last week, police announced on Monday.

Julien Gauthier, a 44-year-old musician, was surprised by the animal in his sleep.

He was travelling along the Mackenzie River to record sounds of nature for a musical project.

Unprovoked grizzly bear attacks are usually very rare, conservation officers say.

Spoiler

On 15 August, at approximately 07:45 local time (13:45 GMT), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was alerted by the launch of a distress beacon in the Tulita area on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories, a largely isolated area accessible only by sea or air.

Camille Toscani, a biologist who had been travelling with Mr Gauthier and raised the alert, said he had been dragged away by a grizzly bear in the middle of the night.

The RCMP sent a helicopter to the area because of bad weather conditions to look for Mr Gauthier and evacuate the travellers. His body was eventually found the next day, reports say.

The victim, who was a composer and soundman, had planned to canoe down the Mackenzie River from Fort Providence to Inuvik (about 1,500 km, or 930 miles), he said on a crowdfunding platform to explain his project.

He was born and grew up in Canada with his two French parents, but moved to France - where he lived - at the age of 19, reports say.

The Brittany Symphony Orchestra, where Mr Gauthier had been a composer in residence since 2017, paid tribute to him, saying he was "a sensitive, generous and talented man" who had "a sense of adventure, wonder and rare intelligence".
"It was his dream to go there, to go to the North," said Ms Toscani.

"He had asked me to take part in this adventure, we had been thinking about it for three years. We were so happy to get to do it. He was a unique artist, inspired by open spaces and nature," she told Le Parisien newspaper (in French).

Last year, he spent five months recording sounds in the Kerguelen Islands in Antarctica, and the result of that trip was a piece called Symphonie australe (Southern Symphony), which was broadcast on French radio.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49412385

I've read another news-site version, where they say the bear dragged him out of his tent by his neck, leaving his girlfriend in it unharmed. Guess some people are luckier than others... Never mess with bears.

 

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Julien Gauthier: Grizzly bear kills soundgathering musician


A Franco-Canadian man died after being attacked by a grizzly bear in a remote area of Canada last week, police announced on Monday.

Julien Gauthier, a 44-year-old musician, was surprised by the animal in his sleep.

He was travelling along the Mackenzie River to record sounds of nature for a musical project.

Unprovoked grizzly bear attacks are usually very rare, conservation officers say.

Spoiler

On 15 August, at approximately 07:45 local time (13:45 GMT), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was alerted by the launch of a distress beacon in the Tulita area on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories, a largely isolated area accessible only by sea or air.

Camille Toscani, a biologist who had been travelling with Mr Gauthier and raised the alert, said he had been dragged away by a grizzly bear in the middle of the night.

The RCMP sent a helicopter to the area because of bad weather conditions to look for Mr Gauthier and evacuate the travellers. His body was eventually found the next day, reports say.

The victim, who was a composer and soundman, had planned to canoe down the Mackenzie River from Fort Providence to Inuvik (about 1,500 km, or 930 miles), he said on a crowdfunding platform to explain his project.

He was born and grew up in Canada with his two French parents, but moved to France - where he lived - at the age of 19, reports say.

The Brittany Symphony Orchestra, where Mr Gauthier had been a composer in residence since 2017, paid tribute to him, saying he was "a sensitive, generous and talented man" who had "a sense of adventure, wonder and rare intelligence".
"It was his dream to go there, to go to the North," said Ms Toscani.

"He had asked me to take part in this adventure, we had been thinking about it for three years. We were so happy to get to do it. He was a unique artist, inspired by open spaces and nature," she told Le Parisien newspaper (in French).

Last year, he spent five months recording sounds in the Kerguelen Islands in Antarctica, and the result of that trip was a piece called Symphonie australe (Southern Symphony), which was broadcast on French radio.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49412385

I've read another news-site version, where they say the bear dragged him out of his tent by his neck, leaving his girlfriend in it unharmed. Guess some people are luckier than others... Never mess with bears.

Wouldn't be surprised if he was a hippie and basically Timothy Treadwell 2, because this is just like fucking Timothy Treadwell.

 

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Wouldn't be surprised if he was a hippie and basically Timothy Treadwell 2, because this is just like fucking Timothy Treadwell.

I'd bet he messed with the bear somehow. As much as those guys can kill you any time they feel like it if they're up close, they just don't very often.

 

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QT potato cheerleader to stand trial over ALLEGED bludgeoning and burning of newborn infant

Idaho high school cheerleader Brooke Skylar Richardson, who looks pretty good 40 weeks pregnant, is standing trial over a bunch of charges regarding the birth of a child that her family claims noone but her knew about and was stillborn, but which prosecutors allege was born alive, dismembered and burnt. The incident came to light after she foolishly told her OB-GYN about it and then doubled down by cooperating with the police.

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The Ohio cheerleader who is facing charges including aggravated murder and involuntary manslaughter for allegedly killing her newborn daughter and then burying the body in her family's backyard just days after her prom will face a jury next month.​

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Brooke Skylar Richardson, now 20, will head to court on September 3 in Warren County as jury selection gets underway in her trial, a little over two years after the death of baby Annabelle...​

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The defense also argued that the trial should be moved out of Warren County claiming it would be impossible to assemble jury that was not prejudiced against their client in light of all the media coverage around the case.​

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Motions filed last week by the defense seeking to ban Richardson's diary and lighter fluid found in her family home from being presented as evidence were also dismissed by the judge...​

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Richardson was put on modified house arrest a little over a year ago, with the judge ruling she would have a curfew of 9pm through 7am and be supervised via GPS monitoring and random home visits.​

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(Seems fairly safe, as long as she sticks to aborting any future babies before they pop out)

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Two Facebook pages have been dedicated to the case and critics of the family have shot and posted video and photos of the family and their home, often with sharp commentary.​

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Her defense attorneys have blasted prosecutors for 'a false narrative' that sensationalized the case.​

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They say she didn't kill the baby, and that an expert witness concluded there was no sign of burning or of trauma that would have caused the baby's death.​

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'What started as an 18-year-old high school girl who was frightened and saddened because of giving birth to a stillborn baby whom she named Annabelle and then telling her doctor of the stillborn and burial in the backyard turned into something sinister and grotesque,' they said in a motion to move the trial.​

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QT potato cheerleader to stand trial over ALLEGED bludgeoning and burning of newborn infant
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Idaho high school cheerleader Brooke Skylar Richardson, who looks pretty good 40 weeks pregnant, is standing trial over a bunch of charges regarding the birth of a child that her family claims noone but her knew about and was stillborn, but which prosecutors allege was born alive, dismembered and burnt. The incident came to light after she foolishly told her OB-GYN about it and then doubled down by cooperating with the police.

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The Ohio cheerleader who is facing charges including aggravated murder and involuntary manslaughter for allegedly killing her newborn daughter and then burying the body in her family's backyard just days after her prom will face a jury next month.​

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Brooke Skylar Richardson, now 20, will head to court on September 3 in Warren County as jury selection gets underway in her trial, a little over two years after the death of baby Annabelle...​

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The defense also argued that the trial should be moved out of Warren County claiming it would be impossible to assemble jury that was not prejudiced against their client in light of all the media coverage around the case.​

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Motions filed last week by the defense seeking to ban Richardson's diary and lighter fluid found in her family home from being presented as evidence were also dismissed by the judge...​

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Richardson was put on modified house arrest a little over a year ago, with the judge ruling she would have a curfew of 9pm through 7am and be supervised via GPS monitoring and random home visits.​

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(Seems fairly safe, as long as she sticks to aborting any future babies before they pop out)

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Two Facebook pages have been dedicated to the case and critics of the family have shot and posted video and photos of the family and their home, often with sharp commentary.​

​

Her defense attorneys have blasted prosecutors for 'a false narrative' that sensationalized the case.​

​

They say she didn't kill the baby, and that an expert witness concluded there was no sign of burning or of trauma that would have caused the baby's death.​

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'What started as an 18-year-old high school girl who was frightened and saddened because of giving birth to a stillborn baby whom she named Annabelle and then telling her doctor of the stillborn and burial in the backyard turned into something sinister and grotesque,' they said in a motion to move the trial.​

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>idaho
>ohio
Fucking pick one

 

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Florida man, 74, CASTRATED another man he met on an online fetish site for eunuchs using 'skills' he learned while working on a farm in his youth - before the victim was found inside the man's home with his testicles in a jar by the side of the bed

• Gary Van Ryswyk, 74, was arrested on Monday for a botched castration on a man
• Van Ryswyk told police he met the victim on castration fetish site eunuch.com
• Police responded to Van Ryswyk's home Sunday night and found the 53-year-old
• He was bleeding heavily and holding a towel over his groin, according to police
• Near the bed, deputy found a pink container that was holding the man's testicles
• Victim was taken to hospital and flown to another center; he's in stable condition
• Van Ryswyk was charged with practicing medicine without a license resulting in bodily injury; his bond was set at $250,000

A 74-year-old Florida man has been arrested for castrating another man he met on an online fetish site for eunuchs, according to police.
Gary Van Ryswyk, who doesn't have a license to practice medicine, allegedly performed the botched procedure Sunday around 10pm, a week after he met the 53-year-old man on eunuch.com, a website for people who have a castration fetish.
Deputies from the Highlands County Sheriff's Office said they responded to a home in Sebring after dispatch received a 911 hang-up.
An officer was sent to the home just before midnight and Van Ryswyk told him he had 'just performed a castration on a man'.

Van Ryswyk then escorted the officer to a room where the victim, who is from Tampa, was bleeding heavily with a towel over his groin.
Near the bed, the deputy found a pink container that was holding the man's testicles.

Gary Van Ryswyk (pictured), 74, has been arrested for castrating another man he met on an online fetish site for eunuchs, cops say

Authorities said the victim was rushed to a hospital and later flown to a regional medical center for 'life-saving measures'.
He is currently listed in stable condition.
According to a police report, the room where the man was found was set up like a surgical center with medical equipment and painkillers.
'There was also a camera set up to record the procedure,' the deputy said.

Van Ryswyk told deputies that they had conversations about the procedure on eunuch.com.
He allegedly told the victim that he had experience on bulls and other animals while living on a farm during his childhood.
Police said Van Ryswyk had even removed one of his own testicles in 2012.
Van Ryswyk also told authorities that he had tried to perform the procedure on the victim a week earlier.

According to BuzzFeed News, Van Ryswyk told investigators that the procedure was delayed after the man became aroused and ejaculated while Van Ryswyk tried to sanitize his penis.
Authorities said Van Ryswyk confessed to performing a similar procedure on a man in a local motel a few years ago.
That particularly operation turned out just as bad as Van Ryswyk's recent alleged activities. Van Ryswyk told police he couldn't remember the man's name. That victim went to the hospital, but law enforcement was never notified.
Van Ryswyk was arrested Monday and charged with practicing medicine without a license resulting in bodily injury, a second-degree felony.
His bond was set at $250,000.