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England Win Euro 2024
England's Bukayo Saka scored a hat trick in a 7-0 rout of North Macedonia as they tightened their grip atop Group C in Euro 2024 qualifying on Monday with a fourth consecutive victory.
Captain Harry Kane, with his 57th and 58th goals for his country, Marcus Rashford and Kalvin Phillips all scored at Old Trafford in a game the hosts dominated as predicted.
"This is a feeling I can't really put into words. There's nothing I can say to describe it. I'm just so happy," Saka said after the match.
Manager Gareth Southgate revealed that Saka's tremendous performance had come despite a nagging Achilles injury.
"He's had it for a few weeks," Southgate told a news conference. "It is an injury that just needs managing. When you've had one of the best nights of your life, it's a reminder that it's worth going through these things."
England look set for next year's finals after amassing a perfect 12 points having also beaten Ukraine, who are second on six points from three matches, Italy and Malta.
Saka's scoring heroics came in a flurry straddling half-time.
His first goal in the 38th minute was an angled shot into the top corner. His second just after the break came after he chested the ball down and struck a left-foot volley.
Saka completed his treble in the 51st after running onto a through ball from Kane and then was swamped by joyous teammates. Southgate then wrapped the grinning 21-year-old in a bear hug when he was substituted minutes later.
Saka, who left the pitch after the final whistle clutching the game ball, is the first Arsenal player to score a hat trick for England, and the youngest since Theo Walcott in 2008 against Croatia.
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"When he broke into the team at Arsenal what struck us was that in a team that were having a difficult time he was performing at a really high level," Southgate said. "Then when the team were playing well he was still a key player and performing at a really high level.
"So, that says a lot about his mentality, his ability to deal with pressure. And that's the environment that we're in all the time. He's exceptional to work with."
On the heels of a brilliant season for Arsenal, Monday also marked a high after he missed the decisive penalty kick in a shootout loss to Italy in the 2020 Euro final -- held in 2021.
"It's been a really long season. I couldn't have ended it in a better way," Saka said. "Time to relax and have a break. We're really happy with the way the fans turned out and supported us."
Kane opened the scoring in the 29th minute and the Tottenham star added another with a second-half penalty kick. Rashford tapped in a cross from Jordan Henderson just before half-time, while Manchester City's Phillips scored in the 64th minute.
"Tonight was a really special display that we put out," Saka said. "Of course, with me and [Rashford] running down the wings, we were really direct and they couldn't really handle us. I enjoyed playing out there today."
Three days after their 4-0 away win over Malta, the thrashing of North Macedonia added to England's dominant run of Euro qualifying that stretches back to 2016. They have won their last 12 home qualifiers by an aggregate score of 47-4.
England next play Ukraine on Sept. 9 when fourth-placed North Macedonia, who are struggling to match their qualifying high of Euro 2020 and have three points from three matches, host Italy. The Italians are third with three points from two games.
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OK, January 4
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Cover: Ashton Kutcher haunted by his mistakes
Page 2: Contents
Page 4: Jennifer Garner ready for romance -- Jennifer has proven she’s fine on her own but she’s eager for her happy ending and has even set her sights on some of Hollywood’s most eligible hunks like Chris Evans but seems happily single; she binge-watched Outlander and was totally taken with Sam Heughan and she also finds Martin Henderson very sexy but heard he has a girlfriend
Page 6: After a tumultuous few years Hayden Panettiere’s 2021 is looking bright and she’s been working on herself since her split from toxic ex-boyfriend Brian Hickerson -- she’s taken control of her life and is making good choices -- she’s been able to rebuild her life and her relationship with her daughter Kaya who lives in Ukraine with her dad and next on her agenda is reviving her once-hot career
Page 7: Justin Bieber who’s been a devoted member of the controversial celeb-favored Hillsong Church for years is studying to become a minister -- Justin has long credited Hillsong and especially charismatic and recently fired pastor Carl Lentz for saving him from his dark period of drugs, public meltdowns and arrests -- Justin doesn’t plan to give up his music career but he feels there’s a bigger calling out there for him
* Jessica Simpson has signed deals for both a docuseries and a fictionalized series based on her life but not everyone is so pumped about her tell-all tendencies and least of all is her ex-husband Nick Lachey -- for Nick it’s just dredging up a past that’s better left alone and Nick hopes that Jessica goes easy on him in the scripted series but deep down knows there’s precious little chance of that
* Madonna is majorly inserting herself in her daughter Lourdes Leon’s love life and she’s constantly on the phone asking how things are going between Lourdes and her socialite beau of three years Jonathan Puglia and she wants to know when they’re making things official -- Madonna even pushes for double dates so she can bring her 26-year-old boyfriend Ahlamalik Williams -- Lourdes appreciates how much her mom cares but she’s finding all the micromanaging too much to handle
Page 8: Jason Aldean who boasts an $80 million fortune loves splashing his cash around especially when it comes to his children -- the singer who shares son Memphis and daughter Navy with wife Brittany and girls Kendyl and Keeley with his ex likes being seen as the moneybags and leaves tough love to the kids’ moms and he’s always pulling out $100 bills for his teens and buying his little ones new clothes, toys and high-tech gadgets even though they’re so young -- he’s definitely spoiling the kids but nobody complains about it so he just keeps on buying them stuff because nothing makes him happier
* The milestone 6-0 is still months away but George Clooney is planning to do some serious partying for his birthday and he’s sparing no expense -- he’s looking at celebrations across the States and Europe plus a boys-only getaway to Mexico
* Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are having a blast filming their first movie together so much so that tongues are wagging about the pair’s fiery chemistry on the set -- even though Leo and Jen behave like total pros when the cameras aren’t rolling there’s a running joke among the cast and crew that Jen’s marriage to Cooke Maroney could be in trouble -- of course the reality is that Jen is crazy about her husband and Leo who is dating model Camila Morrone has a strict rule never to get involved with costars but still there’s an attraction that can’t be denied
Page 10: Red Hot on the Red Carpet -- stars get glamorous in glitzy looks -- Alexa Chung, Tiffany Haddish
Page 11: Maya Hawke, Sarah Hyland
Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Yara Shahidi vs. Cindy Bruna, Becky G vs. Sofia Carson
Page 13: Celine Dion vs. Shailene Woodley
Page 14: News in Photos -- Jessie James Decker in a pink bikini in Nashville
Page 15: Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt and their son Gunner doing a Christmas card shoot in L.A., Jessica Alba spent the day handing out Honest goodies at the Baby2Baby Holiday Drive-Thru Distribution in L.A.
Page 16: Gwen Stefani rocked a cat-themed holiday jumpsuit while on the way to the recording studio in Santa Monica, Leighton Meester surfing in Malibu
Page 17: Maria Sharapova brought back the 1970s during a photoshoot in L.A., Pink kept it casual during a coffee run to Starbucks in L.A., Tia Mowry returned home with a full trunk of gifts and goodies in L.A.
Page 18: Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas exploring London
Page 20: Let’s Get Physical -- Robin Wright took her bicycle out for a spin in L.A., Chris Hemsworth shows off his ripped body while lifting a tire, Winnie Harlow in L.A.
Page 22: Deck the Halls -- newly-engaged Jonathan Bennett gushed of spending his first Christmas with fiance Jaymes Vaughan, Jonathan and Drew Scott dressed as elves
Page 23: Jon Bon Jovi and his dog, Selena Gomez with her dog Winnie in front of the Christmas tree, Brooke Burke kicked off the season by signing ornaments that will be auctioned off by Operation Smile
Page 24: Malin Akerman arranged the sheets and blankets and pillows at a Hotel Style Collection from Walmart event in NYC, Jeremy Renner filmed a scene for Hawkeye in NYC, Chrishell Stause stepped out for a morning walk with her rescue pooch Gracie in L.A.
Page 26: Inside My Home -- Marc Anthony’s elegant estate in Coral Gables, Florida
Page 28: Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart are planning to renew their vows on Valentine’s Day which is 12 years to the day after Harrison proposed to Calista on their sprawling Jackson Hole, Wyoming ranch -- Calista is incredibly touched that Harrison is organizing this and he’s thoughtfully arranging to have her favorite flowers to be flown in and has already booked a local band and a caterer and baker
Page 29: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski might be ready for baby No. 3 but friends are encouraging them to get their marriage on track first -- the two have had a tough couple of years and John can be hard to deal with and cranky when he’s working -- while the duo tend to put a super-positive spin on their marriage in public not everyone is convinced things are so rosy at home but Emily wants another child and so does John so they’re willing to take the risk
* Meghan Markle and Prince Harry plan to kick off 2021 with a much-needed tropical vacation -- after an emotionally turbulent year Meghan and Harry are ready for this break -- following a quiet Christmas at home the couple is looking forward to relaxing on a warm beach somewhere, sleeping in, soaking up nature’s beauty and reconnecting as a couple -- they’re considering a private island in Hawaii or off the coast of Fiji
Page 30: Taylor Swift who’s been collecting bridal magazines and wedding ideas since she was a teen will have to adjust to the idea of a small sequestered affair when her boyfriend Joe Alwyn officially pops the question -- the once-outgoing singer has turned into a hermit since hooking up with the British actor who insists on total privacy and loathes attention and now Tay’s inner circle is said to be worried that in Joe’s continued efforts to fly under the radar he’ll ultimately nix the lavish nuptials Taylor’s long envisioned
* Justin Timberlake and Olivia Wilde have a past -- dating briefly in 2011 and costarring in two films but they won’t have a future if Justin’s wife Jessica Biel has any say -- Justin is eager to work with newly single Olivia again but the collab between the old pals is a total no-no as far as Jess is concerned because she’s always seen Olivia as a threat and particularly now that she’s split from Jason Sudeikis
* Love Bites -- Bachelor Nation’s Emily Ferguson and hockey player William Karlsson are engaged, Christina Milian and Matt Pokora have another baby on the way, Gleb Savchenko and Cassie Scerbo dating
Page 32: Cover Story -- Ashton Kutcher haunted by his past -- the actor is wrestling with major demons and regrets -- the grisly murder of his then-girlfriend Ashley Ellerin has stayed with him -- Ashton and wife Mila Kunis have weathered some storms but they’re in a good place now
Page 36: Celebrity Dads and Their Darling Daughters -- Michael and Carys Douglas, John and Ella Bleu Travolta, Lionel and Sofia Richie
Page 37: Don and Dakota Johnson, Phil and Lily Collins
Page 38: Ryan and Ava Phillippe, Mark and Lola Consuelos, Johnny and Lily-Rose Depp
Page 39: Lenny and Zoe Kravitz, Clint and Francesca Eastwood, Alec and Ireland Baldwin, Rod and Ruby Stewart
Page 40: Interview -- Charlize Theron does it all -- the actress, mom and producer talks about taking on projects that are close to her heart
Page 42: New Year, New You -- kick-start a healthy 2021 with these celeb-approved wellness resolutions
Page 46: Style Week -- Good American cofounded by Khloe Kardashian recently launched its first-ever footwear collection
Page 54: Entertainment
Page 55: Q&A with Brian Austin Green
Page 58: Buzz -- Prince George and Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined their parents Prince William and Duchess Kate on the red carpet for the very first time and held hands on their way to London’s Palladium to watch the National Lottery’s Pantoland
Page 60: Sound Bites -- Gwyneth Paltrow on getting starstruck, Kurt Russell on wife Goldie Hawn’s penchant for sleeping in total darkness, Jimmy Fallon on which SNL costar he’d want to be stuck on a desert island with (Tina Fey), Chrissy Teigen on being embarrassed
Page 61: Megan Thee Stallion on the guidance she gets from Jay-Z and Beyonce, Frances McDormand on hooking up with husband Joel Coen, Chad Michael Murray on seeing pics from his heartthrob days, Rachel Brosnahan on what the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel fans can look forward to
Page 62: Horoscope -- Capricorn John Legend turned 42 on December 28
Page 64: By the Numbers -- Larry David
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Thursday, November 12, 2020
Canada Is Relieved at Biden’s Win
(NYT) On a snowy evening in December 2016, a month after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada held a rare farewell state dinner for the departing vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. It was like a tearful goodbye between two old friends. “We are more like family. That’s the way the vast majority of Americans feel about Canada and Canadians,” Mr. Biden said to a hall packed with politicians in Ottawa. “The friendship between us is absolutely critical to the United States.” He ended with a toast: “Vive le Canada. Because we need you very, very badly.” After four years of surprise tariffs, stinging insults and threats from President Trump, a giddy jubilation and sense of deep relief spread across Canada on Saturday, with the news that Mr. Biden had won the presidency. Many Canadians hope to return to the status of cherished sibling to the United States, and that the president-elect’s personal connection to Canada, and that of his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, will help heal the wounds.
States cite smooth election
(AP) The 2020 election unfolded smoothly across the country and without any widespread irregularities, according to state officials and election experts, a stark contrast to the baseless claims of fraud being leveled by President Donald Trump following his defeat. Election experts said the large increase in advance voting—107 million people voting early in person and by mail—helped take pressure off Election Day operations. There were also no incidents of violence at the polls or voter intimidation. “The 2020 general election was one of the smoothest and most well-run elections that we have ever seen, and that is remarkable considering all the challenges,” said Ben Hovland, a Democrat appointed by Trump to serve on the Election Assistance Commission, which works closely with officials on election administration. Following Democrat Joe Biden’s victory, Trump has sought to discredit the integrity of the election and argued without evidence that the results will be overturned. Republican lawmakers have said the president should be allowed to launch legal challenges, though many of those lawsuits have already been turned away by judges and those that remain do not include evidence of problems that would change the outcome of the race.
Future of business travel unclear as virus upends work life
(AP) For the lucrative business travel industry, Brian Contreras represents its worst fears. A partner account executive at a U.S. tech firm, Contreras was used to traveling frequently for his company. But nine months into the pandemic, he and thousands of others are working from home and dialing into video conferences instead of boarding planes. Contreras manages his North American accounts from Sacramento, California and doesn’t expect to travel for work until the middle of next year. Even then, he’s not sure how much he will need to. “Maybe it’s just the acceptance of the new normal. I have all of the resources necessary to be on the calls, all of the communicative devices to make sure I can do my job,” he said. “There’s an element of face-to-face that’s necessary, but I would be OK without it.” That trend could spell big trouble for hotels, airlines, convention centers and other industries that rely so heavily on business travelers like Contreras. Work travel represented 21% of the $8.9 trillion spent on global travel and tourism in 2019, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council. Amazon, which told it employees to stop traveling in March, says it has saved nearly $1 billion in travel expenses so far this year. The online shopping giant, with more than 1.1 million employees, is the second-largest employer in the U.S. At Southwest Airlines, CEO Gary Kelly said while overall passenger revenue is down 70%, business travel—normally more than one-third of Southwest’s traffic—is off 90%. U.S. hotels relied on business travel for around half their revenue in 2019, or closer to 60% in big cities like Washington, according to Cindy Estis Green, the CEO of hospitality data firm Kalibri Labs.
Final weeks of historic hurricane season bring new storms
(AP) Just when you thought it should be safe to go back to the water, the record-setting tropics are going crazy. Again. Tropical Storm Eta is parked off the western coast of Cuba, dumping rain. When it finally moves again, computer models and human forecasters are befuddled about where it will go and how strong it will be. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Theta—which formed overnight and broke a record as the 29th named Atlantic storm of the season—is chugging east toward Europe on the cusp of hurricane status. The last time there were two named storms churning at the same time this late in the year was in December 1887, Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach said. But wait there’s more. A tropical wave moving across the Atlantic somehow survived the mid-November winds that usually decapitate storms. The system now has a 70% chance of becoming the 30th named storm. That’s Iota on your already filled scorecard. If it forms, it is heading generally toward the same region of Central America that was hit by Eta. Never before have three named storms been twirling at the same time this late in the year, Klotzbach said. Hurricane records go back to 1851, but before the satellite era, some storms were likely missed.
Religious Persecution Is Worsening Worldwide
(CT) Dictators are the worst persecutors of believers. This perhaps uncontroversial finding was verified for the first time in the Pew Research Center’s 11th annual study surveying restrictions on freedom of religion in 198 nations. The median level of government violations reached an all-time high in 2018, as 56 nations (28%) suffer “high” or “very high” levels of official restriction. The number of nations suffering “high” or “very high” levels of social hostilities toward religion dropped slightly to 53 (27%). Considered together, 40 percent of the world faces significant hindrance in worshiping God freely. And the trend continues to be negative. Since 2007, when Pew began its groundbreaking survey, the median level of government restrictions has risen 65 percent. The level for social hostilities has doubled.
Critics, protesters call removal of Peruvian president a legislative coup
(Washington Post) The little-known head of Peru’s Congress took the helm of the South American nation Tuesday amid a public outcry over the surprise removal of the country’s popular president, Martín Vizcarra. Vizcarra’s ouster late Monday and the inauguration of interim president Manuel Merino amounted to a return of the political chaos that has long plagued Peru, where nearly every president since 1990 has resigned, been indicted or been jailed amid clouds of corruption. One former president killed himself. Yet at a time when the Andean nation is confronting one of the world’s most lethal coronavirus outbreaks, Vizcarra’s ouster, based on still-unproven bribery allegations, appeared to be fundamentally different. Critics called it a congressional coup staged by Machiavellian legislators desperate to halt his anti-corruption and political reform campaigns, which took aim at their pocketbooks and threatened to end many of their political careers. Under Vizcarra, Peru adopted laws that took on festering malfeasance within the 130-member legislature, where 68 lawmakers are now under investigation or indictment for alleged crimes ranging from money laundering to murder. Members of the current Congress have been prohibited from seeking reelection, and anyone with active charges is barred from running. Critics now fear that Merino—who previously sought to turn the military against Vizcarra and attempted an earlier removal on different grounds in September—will seek to lift those rules, allowing a compromised political class to preserve itself and setting up a new period of instability in this nation of 32 million.
Generation COVID
(Foreign Policy) A report from the British school inspection agency found that children had suffered from being outside the regular school system during lockdown, with some younger children regressing from being potty-trained back to diapers and older children showing reduced reading stamina. The chief inspector for schools found that the children experiencing the worst effects were those whose parents’ employment did not allow for flexible or at-home working.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tests positive for Covid-19
(AP) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced Monday that he has tested positive for coronavirus infection and will be working in self-isolation while being treated. “There are no lucky people in the world for whom Covid-19 does not pose a threat,” Zelenskiy said on Twitter. “However, I feel good. I promise to isolate myself and I continue to work.” Zelenskiy became president in 2019 as a political neophyte, previously known as an actor and comedian. He became popular in the country for a TV sitcom, “Servant of the People,” in which he played the role of a teacher who unexpectedly becomes president after making a rant about corruption that goes viral. He handily defeated incumbent Petro Poroshenko. Ukraine’s coronavirus infections began surging in late summer and have put the country’s underpaid doctors and underequipped hospitals under severe pressure.
Nagorno-Karabakh: Turkey wins the war?
(Foreign Policy/Eurointelligence) Russia may have secured a peace deal to end a six-week conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, but Turkey has won the war. Ankara threw its political support behind Azerbaijan and employed Turkish cutting-edge drones and military expertise to allow Azerbaijan to roll over Armenian positions in the difficult mountain area under dispute. The conflict is not new, and occasional fighting has been going on there since 1994, but this time it is a decisive victory. This victory will boost Erdogan’s image as a strongman with geopolitical weight, and helps him put a foot into the South Caucasus. Hard power impresses former Soviet countries.
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse
(AP) Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers said Wednesday that they were resigning en masse following a move by the semi-autonomous Chinese territory’s government to disqualify four of their fellow pro-democracy legislators. The 15 lawmakers announced the move in a news conference Wednesday, hours after the Hong Kong government said it was disqualifying the four legislators. The disqualifications came after China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee, which held meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday, passed a resolution stating that those who support Hong Kong’s independence or refuse to acknowledge China’s sovereignty over the city, or threaten national security or ask external forces to interfere in the city’s affairs, should be disqualified. Beijing has in recent months moved to clamp down on opposition voices in Hong Kong with the imposition of a national security law, after months of anti-government protests last year rocked the city. A mass resignation by the pro-democracy camp would leave Hong Kong’s legislature with only pro-Beijing lawmakers. The pro-Beijing camp already makes up a majority of the city’s legislature.
Iran sanctions continue
(Foreign Policy) The Trump administration doesn’t intend to give up its “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran just because it lost an election. On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions on six companies and four people accused of supplying components to Iran Communication Industries, a company run by the Iranian military that is already under U.S. and EU sanctions. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the United States would continue to take action against those that support Iran’s “militarization and proliferation efforts.”
Frantic search after medicines vanish from Lebanon shelves
(AP) She is a nurse at a Beirut hospital, and still Rita Harb can’t find her grandfather’s heart drugs. She has searched pharmacies up and down Lebanon, called friends abroad. Not even her connections with doctors could secure the drugs. Unlike many amid Lebanon’s financial crash, she can afford them—they just aren’t there. To get by, her 85-year-old grandfather is substituting his medicine with more pills of a smaller concentration to reach his dosage. That too could run out soon. Drugs for everything from diabetes and blood pressure to anti-depressants and fever pills used in COVID-19 treatment have disappeared from shelves around Lebanon. Officials and pharmacists say the shortage was exacerbated by panic buying and hoarding after the Central Bank governor said that with foreign reserves running low, the government won’t be able to keep up subsidies, including on drugs. That announcement “caused a storm, an earthquake,” said Ghassan al-Amin, head of the pharmacist syndicate. Lebanese now scour the country and beyond for crucial medications. The elderly ask around religious charities and aid groups. Family members plead on social media or travel to neighboring Syria. Expats are sending in donations. It’s the newest stage in the economic collapse of this country of 5 million, once a regional hub for banking, real estate and medical services. More than half the population has been pushed into poverty and people’s savings have lost value. Public debt is crippling, and the local currency plunged, losing nearly 80% of its value. The health sector is buckling under the financial strain and coronavirus pandemic.
‘Countdown to catastrophe’ in Yemen as U.N. warns of famine—again
(Reuters) Millions of men, women and children in war-torn Yemen are facing famine—again, top United Nations officials warned on Wednesday as they appealed for more money to prevent it—again. “We are on a countdown right now to a catastrophe,” U.N. food chief David Beasley told the U.N. Security Council. “We have been here before ... We did almost the same dog-and-pony show. We sounded the alarm then.” The United Nations describes Yemen as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 80% of the people in need of help. “If we choose to look away, there’s no doubt in my mind Yemen will be plunged into a devastating famine within a few short months,” Beasley told the 15-member council. In late 2017, U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock warned that Yemen was then facing “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims”. “We prevented famine two years ago,” Lowcock told the Security Council on Wednesday. “More money for the aid operation is the quickest and most efficient way to support famine prevention efforts right now.”
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10. FINLAND
Saara Aalto - “Monsters”
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Ugh, ugh, ugh.
Oh man, I really don’t want to be writing about Saara right now. On one hand, I feel like her greatness is pretty self-evident... yet on the other, Saara is SO underappreciated that I will have to explain it in pain-staking detail and ugh, I’m not looking forward to this. I DIDN’T BECOME A TEACHER TO TAKE MY JOB BACK HOME.
Anyway, Saara. Talk about an emotionally abusive entrant-audience relationship. During the bad old days, she was the runaway fave, but now it seems like a long-lost memory from before the Mushroom War. And then, the support she had evaporated over the course of one UMK finale and she INSTANTLY became the most underappreciated act we’ve had... in the past few years at least. Tenth is a much more representative result of what she was than fucking SECOND LAST IN THE FINALE X__X
To be fair, I wasn’t surprised that people eventually turned against Saara, because Holy Trifectia of “Sexually confident LGBT woman” + “a ‘valley girl on helium’ general affect + “uses a neigh-like laugh as punctuation”, (all of which are amazing traits) but... I did NOT expect a literal whiplash from “YASSS QUEEN SAARA!!! MONSTER IS THE BEST BOP EVER, BOW DOWN, PEONS” to “ew we actually hate this now. die Saara”, like wtf? STOP DOUSING THE PERFECT IMAGE OF OUR NOT-LUMPY SPACE PRINCESS WITH UNTRUTH URINE, YOU VINEGAR-PISSING CRETINS!!!!
But alas, the fandom went too far and, as the saying goes, there was no way back, no way back, dooming Saara to a second-to-last finish in the finale.
So was “Monsters” really that bad?
Fuck no. Saara never stopped being awesome and that’s the tea. I suspect that people had massive expectations of “Monsters” and yes, well, massive expectations only lead to massive disappointment. That is not Saara’s fucking fault though. When “Monsters” was presented in its larval form and didn’t meet The Unrealistic Expectations the fan community had bestowed upon it, they started smashing the statues and defacing the frescos. Eurofags are flaky dingbats with the attention span of a walnut, what else is new?
Whatever though, because *I* never stopped loving "Monsters”. It’s just so delightfully Saara. “Monsters” very much carries her signature: it’s a fun, uptempo song with a relatable, positive message about finding confidence in oneself with lavish, but tasteful staging. It was a spectacle and that’s what Eurovision should be about.
Aside from the above, I also really, really fucking admired Saara’s attitude throughout the entire process. She had an agonizing downfall (”agonizing” in that it wasn’t sudden, but spread out over three excruciating months), was generally met with dismisssal and indifference and had to deal with hordes of skeptic "journalists" and Ewtubers who said she was even LUCKY to advance.... and yet, in spite of all adversity, she continued to give it her all, put in loads of effort into her act and remained positively chipper. What a woman. You know, “Monsters”, may be about making peace with metaphorical demons, and Saara showed exactly the spirit needed to make this happen. A role model to us all!!!!! Why didn’t this earth angel win again? Oh right, Finland. Got it. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
RANKING SO FAR:
10. Finland (Saara Aalto - “Monsters”)
11. Bulgaria (EQUINOX - “Bones”)
12. Denmark (Rasmussen - “Higher ground”)
13. Malta (Christabelle - “Taboo”)
14. Cyprus (Eleni Foureira - “Fuego”)
15. United Kingdom (SuRie - “Storm”)
16. Serbia (Balkanika - “Nova Deca”)
17. Portugal (Cláudia Pascoal - “O jardim”)
18. The Netherlands (Waylon - “Outlaw in ‘em”)
19. Ukraine (MÉLOVIN - “Under the ladder”)
20. Macedonia (Eye Cue - “Lost and Found”)
21. San Marino (Jessika ft. Jenifer Brening - “Who We Are”)
22. Sweden (Benjamin Ingrosso - “Dance You Off”)
23. Austria (Cesár Sampson - “Nobody but you”)
24. Latvia (Laura Rizzotto - “Funny girl”)
25. Azerbaijan (AISEL - “X my heart”)
26. Israel (Netta - “Toy”)
27. Norway (Alexander Rybak - “That’s how you write a song”)
28. Montenegro (Vanja Radovanovic - “Inje”)
29. Armenia (Sevak Khanagyan - “Qami”)
30. Poland (Gromee ft. Lukas Meijer - “Light me up”)
31. Greece (Yianna Terzi - “Oniro mou”)
32. Georgia (Iriao - “For you”)
33. Belgium (Sennek - “A matter of time”)
34. Italy (Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro - “Non mi avete fatto niente”)
35. Romania (The Humans - “Goodbye”)
36. Ireland (Ryan O'Shaughnessy - “Together”)
37. Croatia (Franka - “Crazy”)
38. Belarus (ALEKSEEV - “Forever”)
39. Russia (Julia Samoylova - “I Won’t Break”)
40. Spain (Amaia & Alfred - “Tu canción”)
41. Iceland (Ari Ólafsson - “Our choice”)
42. Australia (Jessica Mauboy - “We got love”)
43. Czech Republic (Mikolas Josef - “Lie to me”)
Footnotes
1. I’m a teacher trainee, so the comment about “taking my job home with me” is highly sarcastic. Half of my job *is* working from home, after all.
2. I don’t think “Domino” would’ve been a bad choice for Finland, but it’s also significantly safer and you know what I think about picking the “safe” entry.
3. That said, “Domino” is generally echoed as the best choice and I do think it’s largely down to it being ignored before the UMK finale. If you have no expectations, you’re more likely to be impressed, after all.
4. I’m kinda at peace with Saara’s final placement. Second place clearly wasn’t going to happen, so second-to-last is the next most Saara Slot I can think of. AT LEAST SHE WASN’T BLACKBIRDED. *FiestaTrioJingle*
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How new robots will help scout the seas for mines
When it comes to clearing the ocean of explosives, the British Royal Navy is turning to robots. Announced April 12, the Ministry of Defense is awarding £32 million (about $42 million) to Dorset-based company Atlas Elektronik to give the fleet an “autonomous mine-hunting capability.” Employing robots to hunt and clear the sea of naval mines should make waterways useful for military missions and safe for commercial and civilian use afterwards.
“The threat posed by sea mines is constantly evolving,” said Simon Bollom, CEO of the UK’s Defence Equipment and Support Board, in a statement.
To meet this changing threat, the Royal Navy is acquiring a total of nine robotic vehicles, equipped with synthetic aperture sonar and advanced software. The robots, known as Medium Autonomous Underwater Vessels once in service, are based on Atlas Elektronik’s SeaCat, a modular robot with a torpedo-shaped body and a range of sensors and systems it can mount.
The SeaCat can operate in shallow waters, less than 7 feet deep, by moving along the surface, and it can reach depths of up to 1,970 feet under the surface, traveling as far as 23 miles autonomously. The base model of the SeaCat can operate for up to 10 hours under water, traveling as fast as 3.5 mph. Synthetic aperture sonar offers higher resolution images of objects underwater, making it useful for both geographic surveying and mine detection.
The threat of mines is not theoretical. In late March, Turkish military divers defused a naval mine that had drifted towards its Black Sea coast. A Russian intelligence agency accused the mine of being Ukrainian, while Ukraine’s government called the claim misinformation. The explosive was identified only as an old type of mine, which means it could be from a prior conflict, or an old weapon pressed into service in the recent war.
The SeaCat. Atlas Elektronik
A terrible thing that waits
Like landmines, sea mines are an explosive paired with a trigger, allowing the weapons to wait until a certain condition is met before detonating. In war, sea mines are placed, like landmines, to obstruct passage through a crucial area, making any attempt to escape a mined harbor or cross a mined strait an exercise in explosive hazard.
Modern sea mines date back to the 1870s, when engineers figured out how to keep a trigger intact without the sea eroding it. These mines—explosive spheres with protruding rods—would trigger when a ship collided with the rod, breaking a vial inside and setting off an electrical charge. The mines would wait until a ship collided with the trigger rod, floating on or below the surface of the water and often anchored in place to prevent drift.
Once engineers solved the problem of creating an explosive that could wait at sea, navies had to figure out how to clear those explosives from the water safely. Over 100 years ago, in “The Making of a Submarine Mine” in the January 1916 Popular Science, the magazine discussed methods of making short-duration mines, as well as defusing already-placed mines with electrical fuses.
Before mines can be defused, they must be found. This was initially the work of small motorboats, though the work is dangerous and risks the lives of human crew. Mines also become more sophisticated over time. Before World War I concluded, sea mines could trigger on sound, magnetism, or changes in water flow. Because mines from all eras can persist in the ocean, modern mine clearing has to accommodate for old and modern triggers.
Remote workers
Like with the mine in Turkey, underwater explosives are often defused by teams of human divers. This work combines the hazards of on-ground explosive disposal with the additional difficulty of being underwater, with visibility limited depending on the depth and condition of the sea. It’s a job people have outsourced to robots as much as they possibly can, trusting remotely operated machines to take on the risk at distance from human operators.
The United Kingdom, together with France, has already invested in multiple robots that can defuse mines once located. Once found and tracked, a specific mine-defusing robot can be launched to place an explosive on the surface of the mine, before retreating so the new explosive can detonate the found mine.
What the Royal Navy’s new robots will do is improve the process of finding and neutralizing mines, scanning and patrolling the sea on their own autonomous navigation. This saves the human labor for operating remote robots and managing detonations, as the new craft scan the ocean to find any explosives still in the water.
As sea mines continue to find utility in war, and even more as mines continue to persist long after wars end, navies being able to clear the oceans of explosive detritus will prevent tragedy at sea.
New post published on: https://livescience.tech/2022/04/15/how-new-robots-will-help-scout-the-seas-for-mines/
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It's nearly unheard of that a television series inspires a nationwide law that targets international corruption, money laundering and organized crime.
But that's what happened in the UK as a result of the James Norton-fronted drama McMafia, an eight-part series currently airing in the U.S. on AMC after completing its British run in mid-February.
McMafia delves into the incredibly profitable underworld of criminal activity including sex trafficking, drug dealing and money laundering and how the tempting tentacles of corruption reach into the highest levels of finance and government through the machinations of global organized crime.
Norton plays the British-raised, Ivy League-educated Alex Godman, the scion of a connected Russian family who moved to England to legitimize themselves after some shady dealings in the old country. He runs a London-based hedge fund, is engaged to his girlfriend, played by Juliet Rylance, is a model son to his parents and a loving brother to a troubled sister. In other words, the perfect hero, until he gets drawn into a series of scary scenarios that see him evolve from proverbial choirboy to criminal.
McMafia's tales of intrigue kick into high gear with the murder of Godman's uncle Boris, who, unlike the rest of the family, is still actively involved in the Russian mob.
To avenge the killing, Godman teams up with a powerful Russian-born Israeli businessman and politician, Semiyon Kleiman (David Strathairn) to battle the crime boss behind the killing, a brutal kingpin known as Vadim. Kleiman and Godman, first introduced by Uncle Boris and after overcoming their initial suspicions of each other, develop a sort of father-son relationship and conspire to take territories, including ports in India and Croatia, where Vadim has a "free pass" to ply his illegal commerce—and thus, take him down.
Some have compared the character of Alex Godman to that of The Godfather's Michael Corleone, the once-legitimate businessman who becomes the powerful head of a massive criminal enterprise.
But unlike The Godfather films, which were based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel, McMafia is inspired by investigative journalism. The series is based on the 2008 nonfiction book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny, who also serves as an executive producer.
The crime drama was created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins and is a coproduction of the BBC, AMC and Cuba Pictures. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on January 1 and created a huge amount of buzz, including the aforementioned "McMafia Law," more formally known as the Unexplained Wealth Order.
It requires that rich people who come to Great Britain from elsewhere must prove the legitimacy of their wealth. If found to be acquired from illegal activity, their assets can be seized and liquidated, with the money going to law enforcement. Great Britain's National Crime Agency estimates that £90 billion a year (about $126.5 billion) is now being laundered in the UK, twice the amount of the nation's entire defense budget.
The problem is so severe that UK security minister Ben Wallace recently wrote an op-ed in The Sunnewspaper which stated, "McMafia has brought home to millions of viewers the nature of serious and organized crime in the 21st Century. Sharp suited people swan around the nation's capital while all along they head up networks that trade on the back of the misery and suffering of others. It is time the flashy McMafia mob felt the long arm of the law."
Already, two £11 million London mansions, believed to be bought with "dirty money," were seized by court order in February.
Norton's Godman is in almost every scene of McMafia, whose story unfolds in multiple picturesque international locations including Belize, Istanbul, Belgrade, London, Prague, Zagreb, Cairo, Qatar, Russia and Israel.
"Alex Godman is not necessarily always likeable, but James brought such a sense of humanity, especially in scenes with his family, that counterbalanced the coldness of the character," says Watkins, who directed all eight episodes.
"James was very brave in committing to such a withheld character. In creating the antiheroic Alex Godman, we wanted to maintain a deliberate ambiguity as to his motivations. Is he acting out of revenge or out of survival? Or, somewhere within him, seen in occasional glimpses, is there a will to power at work, a seduction by the dark side?
"James is a very attuned actor and worked forensically at finding those little micro-details. One of the wonderful things about James's performance is the very subtle way in which he lets emotion leak through the mask, especially in the last episodes as events spiral out of control."
The 32-year-old Norton is well-known in the UK after leading roles in numerous prestige productions including War & Peace, Grantchester and Happy Valley. He also co-starred in last year's reboot of the feature film Flatliners.
Norton will appear again on the big screen toplining director Agnieszka Holland's Gareth Jones as the title character, a Welsh journalist who exposed genocide in the Stalinist Soviet Union, secured access to Hitler and Goebbels and was murdered in 1935.
We caught up with Norton by phone on location for the film in Ukraine where he said he was shivering in -15°C (5°F ) weather. The conversation was anything but chilly as we explored facets of his career and the echoes of McMafia in real life.
Tell us about the evolution of your character Alex Godman on McMafia.
It was a most exciting part to play with. During 150 days, we shot out of sequence and it was a huge challenge. Most of the conversations about Alex revolved around where we were in his arc- from clean-living man and golden boy to his fiancé Rebecca, and then how he becomes a linchpin in shady deals with Mafias.
James [Watkins] and I would try to understand his motives. We wanted to leave a lot of it open, to leave muddy his motives. You can claim to understand them but there are a myriad of reasons.
We were clear about protecting his family and then making a choice as he began moving away from fortuitous, virtuous reasons to avarice. While the creators- and audiences- are realizing Alex was being sucked in, Alex didn't realize it soon enough. Suddenly he surprised himself, and he's loving it, and it's incredibly sexy and seductive.
It was a layered role. His headspace doesn't ever stop giving you revelations about his relationship with his father and fiancé, and the associated Russians with inherent criminality. But there were a lot of commentators quick to make the connection about him running away [from organized crime] and then being seduced. It was a joy to play, right until the end of the last hour.
Many of your scenes are with David Strathairn. Let's talk about his character's magnetism, and how you are drawn into his nefarious agenda and the plot to destroy Vadim.
David's a master, and the journey Alex is on is incredibly defined by his relationship with Semiyon. He becomes almost like Alex's moral compass, kind of like Rebecca. Semiyon sort of sets it up that if he wants to protect his family, he has to take on Vadim. He became a dark, sinister individual but also becomes a paternal figure. To have a relationship with Vadim—they're so different, and corrupt, but they have their allies, children, lovers and they're not stock villains.
David played it beautifully, a real character, a likeable one if not more sinister. He's a politician we all recognize, progressive and yet he's subversive and deals in human trafficking. He brought home how close these politicians are to corruption.
Off set, David was wonderful. We went walking and swimming along the Croatian coastline. He's a lover of life and I loved hanging out with him.
That sounds fun, but what are some of the most challenging and memorable scenes that you have shot in the series?
We shot in Croatia, Serbia and London in very glamorous locations but I didn't get to Mumbai. One location was a beautifully landscaped villa with a beautiful mosaic ceiling – just unbelievably extravagant in the South of France, yet nearby was extraordinary poverty. Some of the scenes, particularly with David, felt like mini pieces of theater. James gave us time to mine those scenes.
The scenes with the parents were wonderful to play, so subtle and with the human subject so rich. With Vadim, when we crossed paths in the airport lounge, it was like punctuation marks on our respective journeys. All the other storylines were leading to this. The scene's very charged, halfway through the shoot, crackling and informed.
It was wonderful, and the reason you do this, when the story and situation take on a life on their own and memories and experiences inform it. It's like a mini explosion.
With Rebecca, the first thing we shot was the apartment stuff between them in the first week. It was incredibly emotionally charged material, when she moves out after she confronts him about travel. It was a sad day, and it was harder because we didn't have the backstory. On Alex's journey, she represents where he comes from, and you suddenly remember where he was with her. The tragedy is he does set out to protect her and it's gone way too far.
The family elements are especially resonant within McMafia - and Alex is always right in the middle of everything.
The family element allows us to explore the man, seduced by the subversive and the dark side. The family is a way of seeing that component. He ends up as a gangster, but he's ultimately a family man, a good son and brother. In one of the most tragic, heartbreaking scenes he's asked to cut loose his dad, Dmitri – it's almost self-sacrifice. I have a close relationship with my own father, and that day Alex was willing to sabotage his family was difficult.
Faye Marsay, Aleksey Serebryakov, Mariya Shukshina-- we become a real family. There was a concentrated, really fun sense of unity. All of us were so invested in the warmth and affection both and off camera, and they are all such great actors. Aleksey came in with different versions, using the Stanislavski method. We Brits were far too polite.
Aleksey would come in and say, "No, we do it like this." When Dmitri says goodbye to his brother in the morgue, he paced around and genuinely threw up in the sink. It was extraordinary.
You have had key roles in a number of series including Grantchester, Happy Valley and War & Peace. What have you learned from these experiences? Is there a throughline amongst these characters?
You learn through every role, with different headspaces, time periods and genders, you get to learn and have an emotional connection. I would hate to be typecast. If there is a throughline, the characters are very switched on and inquisitive - kind of trying to work it all out or not take life for granted. They're on some quest to understand it. Maybe I am completely confused, but they're all thinking and in existential angst.
Can you tell us a little bit about your upcoming starring role in Gareth Jones with Agnieszka Holland?
Gareth knew his place, and he's on an incredible journey but also on a mission. It's a true story about a young journalist, one of the first to interview Hitler in 1932 just at the emergence of Nazi-ism. He describes being on a plane with Goebbels, and then back home to the UK where he tells the British government about the emergence of totalitarianism. They dismiss this and of course we know what happens later.
Then he takes on a mission to Stalin's USSR. He was beginning to have doubts about Communism. He decided to check out the numbers and how they're paying for planes, etc. He was on a tour, went rogue and discovered Stalin's extortion at the expense of millions of lives. At home, they accused him of lying, "fake news" and being inflammatory.
It's terrifying in 1933 when they had so much less access to communications. In Ukraine, Stalin was able to get away it and millions died [as a result of famine]. Now we are using the same language. It's a very relevant story, what is truth and what is agenda. We feel a responsibility to respect his story. It's exciting, and I'm really enjoying it.
As McMafia unfolds, what do you hope viewers take away from it?
You want the work to be entertaining as we're in the business of entertaining people. But with the last few years of Brexit, Trump and populist right-wing governments coming to power, and corporations being so powerful, corruption is no long self-contained. It's straddling everything, and we're in unknown territory.
I know in the UK they want to know what that corruption looks like. In the days of The Sopranos and The Godfather, organized crime contained an element of romanticism but did not really affect us. For a show to provide understanding of financial corruption is important, to see how a hedge fund manager facilitates a drug deal. Aside from the human-driven drama, it is also about corruption and transparency, and will hopefully bring some clarity.
With the UK McMafia Law, suddenly we are part of a much larger conversation, more pertinent and crucial. I hope for those people in the audience who are fully engaged and hungry for clarify that this is a perfect show.
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See The First Museum Survey Of Artist Stanislava Pinchuk’s Work At Heide
See The First Museum Survey Of Artist Stanislava Pinchuk’s Work At Heide
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by Amelia Barnes
Artist Stanislava Pinchuk. Photo – Bri Hammond
‘Stanislava Pinchuk: Terra Data’ is the first career survey of the Ukrainian-Australian artist’s work. Photo – Bri Hammond
The exhibition encompasses 40 works created between 2015 to 2020, including Stanislava’s renowned pinhole drawings and sculptures plotting war and conflict zones. Photo – Bri Hammond
A selection of Stanislava’s terrazzo sculptures. Photo – Bri Hammond
The exhibition is located in the famous circa 1964 Heide II building. Photo – Bri Hammond
‘Calais ‘Jungle’ Terrazzo V’, camp remnants & ash resin (2018).
Stanislava’s art practice spans multiple mediums, but she’s perhaps best known for her paper-based pinhole works depicting geographical data, rendered using an etching burin and hand mallet. Photo – Bri Hammond
Pinchuk plots both the physical features of the land as well as the more abstract yet enduring residues of trauma. Photo – Bri Hammond
Topography : Topsoil Storage, Fukushima’. Pin-holes on paper, 75 x 101 cm (2016)
Powerful works that capture the changing topographies of war. Photos – Bri Hammond
Photo – Bri Hammond
More terrazzo sculptures originally from Stanislava’s ‘Borders’ exhibition shown at China Heights Gallery. Photo – Bri Hammond
‘Calais ‘Jungle’ Terrazzo VIII’, camp remnants & ash resin (2018).
Stanislava at her exhibition, which closes June 20. Photo – Bri Hammond
Framed is ‘The Red Carpet’ – a documentation photograph of an architectural intervention and performance work, transposing a Ukrainian Bessarabian rug onto the steps of the Sydney Opera House. Photo – Bri Hammond
A career survey is a huge milestone for any artist, so for Stanislava Pinchuk (formerly known by the nickname Miso), to achieve this at 32 years of age, is nothing short of extraordinary.
Heide Museum of Modern Art is hosting the Ukrainian-Australian artist’s first career survey to date. Titled Terra Data, the exhibition features 40 key works from the past five years.
Stanislava’s art practice spans multiple mediums, but she’s perhaps best known for her paper-based pinhole works depicting geographical data, rendered using an etching burin and hand mallet. Beginning with recording war zones in her home country, Stanislava has since made a series of works centred around the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zones, and the Calais ‘Jungle’ Migrant Camp in France.
Stanislava shared with us how this exhibition came to be, and the process involved in developing her labour-intensive artwork.
How long have you been plotting the changing topographies of war and conflict zones, and what compels you to do so?
I first began this exact work in 2015 in response to the beginning of the civil war in Ukraine. I’m from the eastern border, and it was an incredibly difficult thing to see. It was definitely not something that I expected to see in my lifetime, and at the time, it felt like a rupture in every way. I think it set something really urgent to what I wanted to make, and how I wanted to make it. So, I made the first series really quickly, and honestly, it was only later I understood what it meant, and really began to wrestle with the questions that the body of work opened up.
I was 27 then, and I’m 32 now. It’s pretty incredible to think of how much that first project has changed my life over the last five years, and see it all in the same place for the first time.
How are your works created?
Every project has been a little different with mapping. A lot of the surveying has been incredibly limited with access or time – or safety for fieldwork – or the parameters of a nuclear zone, for example.
For most of the works in the exhibition, the data surveying has been me on the ground alone, mapping height-fields, and photographing back-up references in a pretty old-school way. I’ve found that the most reliable, actually!
One body of work was mapped with Geiger counters measuring radioactivity levels in different types of ground, rather than the topography of the soil itself. Another project had airspace access for a drone!
Regardless, all collected data is mostly plotted into 3D modelling software later, and then enmeshed with textile skins.
Where are your artworks typically created?
Wherever I can! I can’t be too fussy, but a big sturdy table, good natural light, and a laptop with generous RAM are about as good as it gets. Over the past five years, my works were made across a few continents and a few studios – you just make do with the best you have at any time.
Your art practice encompasses drawing, installation, tattooing, film & sculpture. What attracts you to each of these mediums?
I love the depths of every medium, and I find their limits always push me into thinking of something else. Restrictions are actually really good like that for creativity. But more than anything, I’ve really tried to find a place in my practice that is comfortable about seeking out the right medium for the right idea, even if that’s new or scary to me.
Are you a self-taught artist?
I am, I suppose, in that I never went to art school. I do however have a degree in philosophy and art history, which I think laid a really good foundation as far as understanding histories of thought and being able to place and link ideas in a thorough way.
How does it feel to have a career survey of your work exhibited at Heide?
It feels like there’s only one answer – it feels really incredible. Not just to have my first career survey in the first place, but also in my adopted hometown, feels like a really beautiful moment in time. It is not something I could have ever imagined happening, and especially not at 32.
Like many other people in this city, I have always found so much magic in the Heide II building, and even now, after a billion meetings and site visits, it honestly never, ever loses its power. Even if you walk in tired or anxious, or annoyed, the building really lifts you up every time. And if it’s empty, it takes about 30 seconds before you start imagining that it’s your own house!
Bar six drawings, none of this work has ever been exhibited in Naarm (Melbourne) before. I’m a few months away from moving back to Sarajevo for good, so it feels like a really beautiful departure, reflection and celebration here too! To look back before a big change ahead.
What can people expect from ‘Terra Data’?
This show has been in development for some 18 months, and delayed three times due to the pandemic! It’s a career survey that spans the last five years of my practice, with topographic surveying projects from Ukraine’s eastern borders, and Kyiv, Fukushima, Chernobyl and Calais. I’ve never seen these works in the same room together before, and I can’t wait for what that might feel like.
Stanislava Pinchuk: Terra Data
Saturday March 20 – Sunday June 20 2021
Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen, Victoria
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So I, as an American citizen in poverty, live among a group of adults that parental figures basically half raised and there is a lot of very fucking important knowledge missing here because of it. Some of these things I’ve mentioned before but here are some things from the street, from life, all adults need to know
Your regular tire pressure should be at 32 psi
Donuts, temp tires, are usually higher pressure of 60 psi, it is crucial that you do not mix these numbers and underpressurize a donut
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It is absolutely pointless to do an oil change without changing the filter
When your turn signal blinks rapidly in your vehicle it means a light has went out
I absolutely implore everyone reading this to NOT EVER take your tires to a quick shop like Walmart or something similar that usually employs 18 year old happy to use a pneumatic torque drill and they almost ALWAYS strip your lug nuts -
AT ANY POINT IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU ARE OPERATING A DRILL YOU MUST START THE SCREW/NUT BY HAND otherwise the device will absolutely strip and destroy your equipment
If you need metal to stay in place for a long period of time and need to perhaps more secure, you can seek out Loctite. Blue loctite is temporary, red loctite is designed to be put on screw/bolt and never be removed again
If you are working on any kind of hydronic or pneumatic equipment, you must NEVER do metal on metal, you must seek teflon tape or pipe dope
Do NOT mix any kind of cleaning chemicals in your home, it is crucial that you watch what chemicals are being used while you clean, mixing things like Amonia (windex) and Bleach will cause Mustard Gas, we on the same page?
If at any point in your life you choose to “speedball” there is absolutely nothing safe about this, but I advice that you never mix a Benzo (Valium, klon, Zanny) with a Pain Killer - this is a combination of death. I implore if you ever choose this route to mix something like Hydros or Percs as they are not really depressants with a Upper, this is absolutely not a suggestion at all, nothing about this is safe, but the safest route is mixing those drugs
Please, if you ever choose to do Coke or Blow, do NOT drink alcohol with it - you will continue to drink unaffected until your in the hospital because of the effects of the speed
Ecstasy is Molly or Coke based, if you ever choose this route in your life, I would advice you ask who you’re receiving it from what is inside
In the legal system of the United States the only thing that matters is what’s on paper. If you ever need to take legal actions I advice everyone to remember this, when apply for fssa or HUD - legal addresses and a paper trail are the only thing that matters to these people. To get something certified so that someone cannot Deny reviving something is a process you can request from any United States postal service, they will stamp it and make the person sign that they received this paper and if this is ever needed for a fee of about five dollars
Cigarettes are literally the most tainted form of tobacco - if you ever switch from smoke two pack a day to rolling real bagged tobacco from a shop please keep in mind the tobacco in a bag is at least five percent more pure than anything in a cigarette and you will absolutely give yourself nicotine poisoning if you attempt to smoke at the same rate
If you want to consume tobacco “safely” I strongly suggest cigars or rolling tobacco of choice, these items have so many less chemicals to cause the cell malfunction that we call cancer
If you have smoked for the last fifty years, I strongly suggest not attempting to move on to VAPING materials, this will literally just add water to the mountain of chemicals already built in your lungs and weigh them down
Tornados can literally only be formed with Walll Clouds, if you just see some clouds hanging down during a storm, it is not a twister, it has to have a certain chemical combination to create this natural monster, my step dad lead and created the ball state storm chase team
Anti-inflamatories and Acetaminophen are completely different chemicals and cause completely different things. Any kind of Motrin, Ibrophen, Melixicam - all of that is a Anti-Infalmatory and is made to bring swelling and fevers down, these chemicals strongly effect the stomach, it is absolutely crucial that you eat before taking them, and if you ever attempt to take too many, they will destroy the lining of your stomach (if you attempt suicide on an anti-inflammatory or Asprin, you will generally fail, they will rush you to the ER when you can no longer vomit and then pump your stomach and you will never be able to eat certain groups of food again- bad choice ) Acetaminophen which is Tylonel, and in Hydrocodone and Percocet, is simply just a pain killer, and this drug will effect your liver if taken continuously or in large amounts, it is absolutely crucial that you drink minimally on these as they will cause you to vomit uncontrollably and as i said they will destroy your liver, it is absolutely shameful that currently in the United States healthcare system that because adults choose to abuse mediations they deny people in need of serious pain killers and force them to pop 18 tylonel a day and therefore cause them to destroy their livers in an attempt to get out of pain —- you can absolutely take Motrin and tylonel together
FBI stands for Federal Beurocrat of Investigation- that means that this branch of government exist to investigate issues inside the boarders of the United States, such as missing persons cases and police brutality
CIA stands for Centeral Intelligence Agency and therefore is the agency that brings in intelligence from outside of the nation, threats from our enemies
The fall of the USSR happened because after decades of threatening the Western World with Nuclar Fallout the United States and 23 European countries came together to forum something called NATO that combines the intelligence a military power of the United States and most of Europe - this group decided the best way to destroy the Soviet Hold was to convince the Ukraine to separate from Communist reign, we promised Ukraine absolutely anything they could possibly need to maintain independence from Soviet Russia if we could sit outside the wall and watch the Russians. I am goin to take this moment to say that the fucking piece of shit in office right now has almost undone decades of work right now by withholding funds from the Ukraine as Putins BITCH and therefore aiding the new rise of the USSR
Genetically Modified Food is literally everywhere, in fact in most cases its less safe to seek food without these, these modifications often keep the rather unfriendly parts of our food from actually effecting us
In the Midwest if someone ask you for a Square, they are asking for a Menthol Cigarette
90% of women addicted to alcohol were sexually assaulted as children, almost all male heroin addicts were also molested as children, and our justice system happily punish the addicts and not the assailants
These are all the things off the top of my head i have explained to adults my age that simply were never given the time of day
Oh
And Jeffery Epstein didnt kill himself

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Gay Music Chart - 2020 week 32
Welcome to the Gay Music Chart, the LGBTQA related music videos TOP 50 actuality and most request.
This week, we have 11 new entries and a new number 1 !
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Watch all the music videos presented in our weekly playlist :
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OUT : Scott Free - "The Last Revolution" (LW: 08 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 04)
OUT : Monét X Change - "March" (LW: 32 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 32)
OUT : LP - "Shaken" (LW: 33 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 14)
OUT : Myylo - "Kissing on Your Dad" (LW: 38 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 30)
OUT : Tom Goss - "Regretting" (LW: 40 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 31)
OUT : Holland (홀랜드) - "Loved You Better" (LW: 41 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 26)
OUT : Romy, Tanishk Bagchi & Yo Yo Honey Singh - "Pyaar Tenu Karda Gabru" (LW: 42 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 14)
OUT : Static (סטטיק) and Ben El Tavori (בן אל תבורי) & Nasrin Kadri (נסרין קדרי) - "חביב אלבי " ("Habib Albi")
(LW: 44 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 43)
OUT : Сергей Лазарев (Sergey Lazarev) - "Я не боюсь" ("Ya ne boyus") (LW: 46 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 11)
OUT : Esteman - "Hasta Que Tú Me Quieras" (LW: 47 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 28)
OUT : Ana Gabriela - "X" (LW: 48 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 48)
01 (+ 1) : Troye Sivan - "Easy"
LW: 02 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 01 (x1)
Australia - July 2020 - from the EP "In A Dream"
02 (- 1) : Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande - "Rain On Me"
LW: 01 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 01 (x1)
USA - May 2020 – from the album "Chromatica"
03 (+ 1) : Melanie C - "Who I Am"
LW: 04 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 03
UK - March 2020
04 (+ 2) : Bilal Hassani - "Fais le vide"
LW: 06 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 04
France - July 2020
05 (+ 4) : Pabllo Vittar - "Rajadão"
LW: 09 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 05
Brazil - July 2020
06 (- 3) : Ben Platt - "Rain"
LW: 03 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 02
USA - September 2019 - from the album "Sing To Me Instead" (Deluxe)
07 (+ 4) : Netta - "Cuckoo"
LW: 11 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 07
Israel - June 2020
08 (+ 9) : Javiera Mena - "Corazón Astral"
LW: 17 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 05
Chile - June 2020
09 (- 4) : Greyson Chance - "Dancing Next To Me"
LW: 05 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 05
USA - February 2020
10 (=) : Duncan Laurence - "Someone Else" (Lyric Video)
LW: 10 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 10
The Netherlands - May 2020
11 (+ 3) : VINCINT - "Save Myself "
LW: 14 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 11
USA - July 2020
12 (+ 38) : Bruno Gadiol - "Relacionamento aberto"
LW: 50 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 12
Brazil - July 2020
13 (- 1) : PJ Brennan - "Bones"
LW: 12 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 03
USA - September 2019
14 (- 1) : CRIMER - "Eyes Off Me"
LW: 13 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 10
Switzerland - July 2020
15 (+ 14) : Declan McKenna - "The Key to Life on Earth"
LW: 29 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 15
UK - April 2020 - from the album "Zeros"
16 (NEW) : Perfume Genius - "On The Floor"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 16
USA - March 2020 - from the album "Set My Heart on Fire Immediately"
17 (+ 5) : Yuma X - "Secret Lover"
LW: 22 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 01 (x3)
Australia - April 2020
18 (+ 17) : Макс Барских (Max Barskih) - "Лей, не жалей" (Ley, ne zhaley)
LW: 35 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 03
Ukraine - February 2020
19 (NEW) : Melanie C - "In and Out Of Love"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 19
UK - July 2020 - from the album "Melanie C"
20 (+ 8) : Neptune Keller - "Tropical Storm"
LW: 28 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 20
Chile - April 2019
21 (- 5) : Azis - "Who Cares"
LW: 16 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 15
Bulgaria - February 2020
22 (- 1) : Pol Granch - "Chocolatito"
LW: 21 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 11
Spain - June 2020
23 (=) : Jessie Ware - "Spotlight"
LW: 23 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 13
UK - February 2020
24 (- 9) : Guy Sebastian - "Standing With You"
LW: 15 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 15
Australia - June 2020
25 (- 7) : Will Young - "All The Songs"
LW: 18 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 12
UK - March 2019 - from the album "Lexicon"
26 (+ 5) : LP - "The One That You Love"
LW: 31 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 26
USA - July 2020 - from the album "Superheroes"
27 (- 3) : Agoney - "Más"
LW: 24 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 24
Spain - June 2020
#1 on The Gay 100 Chart (2020 week 31).
28 (- 2) : Bright Light Bright Light - "I Used To Be Cool"
LW: 26 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 19
USA - June 2020 - from the album "Fun City"
29 (+ 5) : Thomas Sanders feat. Jon Cozart - "A Gay Disney Prince"
LW: 34 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 29
USA - August 2019
Both Youtubers dreams about a gay Disney Prince, which finally be a first LGBTQ+ model for LGBTQ+ children.
30 (- 10) : Wils - "Open up Babe"
LW: 20 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 20
Singapore / USA - April 2019
31 (NEW) : Aloïse Sauvage - "Omowi"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 31
France - February 2020 - from the album "Dévorantes"
An enjoyable song about LGBT proud.
32 (- 25) : JUHA - "Lucifer in Love"
LW: 07 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 07
USA - May 2020 - from the album "The Borders of the Mind"
33 (NEW) : Bilal Hassani - "Dead Bae"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 33
France - July 2020
34 (- 15) : Kim Petras - "Malibu"
LW: 19 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 12
Germany - May 2020
35 (+ 14) : Beverly -「尊い」(tōtoi)
LW: 49 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 25
Japan - November 2019 - from the album「INFINITY」
36 (NEW) : The Lovers of Valdaro - "Rhythm and Decibel"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 36
Sweden - May 2020
37 (- 7) : 청하 (CHUNG HA) - "Stay Tonight"
LW: 30 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 30
South Korea - April 2020
38 (- 1) : Christopher Sorensen - "Way. Way. Back"
LW: 37 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 02
USA - November 2019
A sweet music video about two childhood friends at three different moments of their lives, who faced the opposition of the father of one of them when he discovered they were lovers.
39 (- 14) : Kazaky - "Fucking Beautiful"
LW: 25 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 25
Ukraine - June 2020
40 (+ 5) : Sam Smith, Demi Lovato - "I'm Ready"
LW: 45 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 40
UK / USA - April 2020
41 (NEW) : Entrópica - "Formas"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 41
Chile - May 2020 - from the album "Formas"
42 (NEW) : Christine and the Queens - "I disappear in your arms"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 42
France - April 2020 - from the EP "La vita nuova"
43 (NEW) : Mahmood, Massimo Pericolo - "Moonlight Popolare"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 43
Italy - May 2020
We can’t show you the music video because of copyright restrictions. Watch the music video in our playlist !
44 (- 1) : Agustín Malandra - "Bien Orgullosas"
LW: 43 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 43
Argentina - July 2020 - from the mini-album "GEMINI"
45 (NEW) : Danny - "Mocoso"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 45
Spain - June 2020
46 (- 7) : Vini Uehara - "4NTENA"
LW: 39 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 31
Brazil - June 2020
47 (- 20) : Armstrong feat. Sur Ellz - "Truth Machine"
LW: 27 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 21
USA - May 2020
48 (- 12) : Hoshi - "Amour censure"
LW: 36 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 11
France - December 2019 - from the album "Sommeil levant"
A song for tolerance and gay love, and a music video against "La manif pour tous", a collective against LGBT rights in France.
49 (NEW) : Elias - "Praying For Love"
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 49
Sweden - May 2020
50 (NEW) : Magnus Carlsson - "My Freedom" (Stockholm Pride 2020)
LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 50
Sweden - July 2020
ALSO NEW THIS WEEK
Darin - "Ta mig tillbaka"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Sweden - May 2015 - from the album "Fjärilar i magen"
After 16 years of a successful career, the famous Swedish singer has came out as gay this week. We present here in our opinion his most beautiful song.
Darin feat. Kat DeLuna - "Breathing Your Love"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Sweden - October 2008 - from the album "Flashback"
Yeah, it's an old guilty pleasure. It remembers us the 2000's when we were fan of Swedish Idols like Måns Zelmerlöw, Darin or Danny Saucedo.
Spencer Brown & P.O.S. (from Above & Beyond) - "ID" (live @ Dreamstate Livestream, May 8, 2020)
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - May 2020
Another artist who just came out as gay is American DJ Spencer Brown. Welcome to the LGBTQ community !
Ilan Bluestone & Maor Levi feat. EL Waves - "Will We Remain? (Spencer Brown Remix)" (Group Therapy 350 live @ O2 Arena, Prague, on 11 October 2019)
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - October 2019 - from the compilation "Anjunabeats Worldwide 08"
Yeaah... It reminds us the Golden Age of trance and progressive house in the 1990's. So much good memories. We really miss MTV’s Part Zone…
Camilo & Pablo Alborán - "El Mismo Aire"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Spain - June 2020
Another huge singer who came out as gay in June 2020 is Spanish singer "Pablo Alborán". Welcome to the LGBTQ+ community !
Martina Beltrami - "Luci Accese"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Italy - June 2020
For her first single, the 19 years old Italian singer and former contestant of Amici 19 tells her difficult first love story with a girl.
Dotan - "Letting Go"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
The Netherlands - October 2019 - from the EP "Numb"
Ruth Koleva - "Candy Coated"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Bulgaria - June 2020
Troye Sivan - "Rager teenager!"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Australia - August 2020 - from the EP "In a Dream"
Christine and the Queens feat. Caroline Polachek - "La vita nuova"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
France / USA - August 2020 - from the EP "La vita nuova"
Kylie Minogue - "Say Something"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Australia - August 2020 - from the album "DISCO"
Lostchild - "Imperfect"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
UK - August 2020 - from the EP "Imperfect"
Michael Medrano - "Hands on U" (Lyric Video)
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - July 2020
Product - "Tired of the Boys"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Australia - May 2020
Harel Skaat (הראל סקעת) & Anya Buxtein (אניה בוקשטיין) - "Kol Hayom" (כל היום)
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Israel - August 2020
Paolo Ravley - "Pôr do Sol"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Brazil - March 2020 - from the EP "Lado B"
Esteman, Daniela Spalla - "Te Alejas Más De Mí"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Colombia / Argentina - August 2020
Elnegrojoan - "danza apretá"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Chile - October 2019
Barbacius - "Rebelión"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Chile - January 2020
Kmila Manson - "Sexual"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Chile - August 2019
Zolita - "Oblivion"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - August 2020
Tayla Parx - "Dance Alone"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - July 2020
#1 on Top 40 LGBT Urban Chart (2020 week 32)
Cub Sport - "Be Your Man"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Australia - July 2020 - from the album "LIKE NIRVANA"
#1 on LGBTQ Music Chart (2020 week 32)
Dotan - "No Words"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
The Netherlands - May 2020 - from the EP "Numb"
#1 on Tad's Weekly LGBT Music Chart (2020 week 32)
Joel Corry x MNEK - "Head & Heart"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
UK - July 2020
Still #1 on Gaydio Dance Chart (2020 week 31).
Felix Jaehn feat. GASHI, FAANGS - "SICKO"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Germany / USA / Canada - April 2020
Kim Ann Foxman - "Blood Moon"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - July 2020 - from the EP "Blood Moon"
Greko, Sharon Needles, Peppermint, Debbie Harry, Amanda Lepore - "Lift Them Up 2020"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - August 2020
Kyle Motsinger feat. Melody Betts - "No Shame"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - August 2020
Yahto Kraft - "Ugly" (Lyric Video)
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
South Africa - April 2020
Cazwell feat. Barbeau - "Imagination"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - May 2020
Tom Goss - "Nerdy Bear"
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
USA - August 2020
Joan Rafart - "La Cápsula Del Tiempo" (Orgullo 2020)
LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -
Spain - June 2020
See you next week !
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People Are Posting Their Most Embarrassing Childhood Photos, And It’s Impossible Not To Laugh
People Are Posting Their Most Embarrassing Childhood Photos, And It’s Impossible Not To Laugh
All of us have one or two embarrassing childhood photos that we would go to great lengths to hide away from the world. But these people decided to brave the cruel waters of the Internet and share some of the most cringe-worthy shots from their childhoods and youth days.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of best throwback photographs for the ultimate cringe effect. From odd hairstyles and accessories to questionable fashion choices, the list contains each person’s bump (or perhaps even a trainwreck) on the road of searching for identity. So check them out and don’t forget to vote and comment on your favorites!
#1 My Parents Weren’t Surprised When I Came Out
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#2 My Legs And Feet Hit Puberty Before The Rest Of Me
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#3 Just A Girl On A Spring Communist Demonstration In Lviv, Ukraine, 1968
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#4 For My 2nd Grade Photo I Vouched For The Satan’s-Child-Lawyer Look
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#5 Glamour Shot Blunder (7 Years Old)
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#6 That Time In The Early 90s When I Was 12 Going On 54
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#7 In 5th Grade I Was Worried I Would Blink And Mess Up My Year Book Photo
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#8 I Swear It’s Not Square Anymore…
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#9 When You Look Over 40 But You’re Actually 12
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#10 My Mum Advised Me Not To Leave The House Like This, Didn’t Listen. That Hair!
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#11 Give Me The Sassy Grandma Look
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#12 My 10th Grade Year Book Picture
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#13 This Surpasses Even The Fivehead
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#14 2006 Senior Picture
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#15 A Friend Of Mine Gave Me Permission To Post This Gem. Circa Early-90s
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#16 1996, Olan Mills Calls My Roommate Offering A Free Family Sitting. His Family Lived Two States Away, So We Went In To Mess With Them. I’m The Guy On The Right
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#17 Me And All My Hair In 1988
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#18 Playing Starcraft On 56k, Strategizing With My Buddy Pre-Bluetooth/Skype
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#19 My (Conservative Christian) College Yearbook Photoshopped My Punk Rock Spikes Into A White Afro
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#20 I See Your Uncle From The 80s And Raise You My Father’s Hair From The 80s
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#21 The Blunder Brothers, Circa 1994. I’m In Purple
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#22 Look At Me! I’m A Real Fancy Boy!
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#23 Why Yes!! My Vest Was Homemade! Pm Me For Orders!!!
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#24 It Was 1996. I Was Obsessed With Vampires And Phantom Of The Opera…behold My Embarrassing Senior Picture
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#25 Homecoming 2012. Yes That’s My Real Hair. Yes I Spent An Hour On It Every Day
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#26 1996 HS Yearbook Picture
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#27 Recently, My Mother Found This Senior Photo Of Me From 1994. I Looked Like Nathan From South Park
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#28 I Was A 40 Year Old Woman At 13
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#29 My Uncle In The Early 80s
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#30 My Attire For Homecoming (Male)
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#31 Everyone Knew Me
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#32 Try To Contain Yourselves Ladies!!!
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#33 Two Questions: Have You Accepted Jesus Christ As Your Lord And Savior, And Are You Interested In The Deal Of A Lifetime On A 1987 Plymouth Mercury?
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#34 First Day Of High School, I Was Apparently Going For The 70 Year Old Man Look
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#35 The Coolest Senior Picture Ever?
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#36 They Wouldn’t Take The Photo Unless I Smiled
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#37 The Triangle Hair And Fake Mole Completes My Senior High School Photo
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#38 I Still Don’t Understand Why Girls Just Wanted To Be Friends In High School (2002)
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#39 I Had A Warhol-Esque, Pop-Art Phase In High School. Yes, I’m A Guy
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#40 ‘Ginger Hair? Freckles? Pale Skin? This Kids Going To Be Too Popular At School. Can You Level The Playing Field A Bit?’ – Parents To Hairdresser
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#41 On My Way To Steal Ya Man
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#42 A Little Known Fact That Prior To Keaton, I Was The Batman
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#43 My Kindergarten Picture Is Definitely The Most Epic Of All My School Pictures
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#44 My 18th Birthday. I’m The Goth. Still Great Friends With The Beautiful Girl Next To Me
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#45 When My High School Marching Band Was Performing At The Liberty Bowl And I Ran Into Two Guys Who Looked Vaguely Like Me (I’m In The Middle)
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#46 12 Year Old Me Thought This Was A Great Everyday Look
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#47 When Your “Hardcore Tough Guy Gangster” Picture With Your Homie Turns Out To Look Like The Start Of A Gay Porn Film, But You Post It To Facebook Anyway… Millennial Blunder Years
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#48 I Wore This Everyday In Winter In 2013 The Worse Part Is Was 27
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#49 I Was Surfing The Web Back In 2001
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#50 I Grew Up In A Small Midwest Town, My Mom Convinced Me To Take “Urban Hip-Hop” Dance Classes
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#51 6th Grade Going On 60
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#52 Guitar Guy At Party: Check. Tortured Angst: Check. Wolf T-Shirt: Check. Ignored By Girls: Check. Hole In My Crotch That I Only Noticed Now: Check. Real Life, 1995
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#53 Was Told You Guys Might Appreciate My Boy Greg’s 1992 Year Book Photos
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#54 I Went To School Like This More Than Once
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#55 Thought It Would Be Cool To Make Knex Body Armor
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#56 My All-Time Favorite Christmas Blunder (I’m Top Left)
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#57 Just Found My Glamour Shot From 1995. I Was A Sassy 45 Year Old In 7th Grade, Apparently
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#58 Nothing Says Cool Like Matching Sweat Suits And A Stuffed Whale On Your Knee
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#59 In 4th Good Grade, I Was Too Badass For Just One Wristwatch
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#60 My Very First Job. Spiderman For Kids Parties
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#61 Senior Prom 2006, Went Stag
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#62 “Promo Shot” For My First Band’s Myspace Page. I Was 16 And Wore Women’s Clothing
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#63 Parents Thought I Was Gay. Can’t Say I Blame Them…
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#64 I Logged Into Myspace After 10 Years…
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#65 50% Khaki, 25% Weird Crinkly Tube Top, 25% Platform Sneakers: 100% Confidence
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#66 Visiting My Family After Several Years And Going Through Albums. Me At About 12. I’m A Girl
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#67 Titanic, Western, Newscaster Glamour Shots: 1998 In A Nutshell
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#68 My Chemical Panic At The Disco
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#69 I Was 11 Years Old. Too Old To Be Doing Stuff Like This? The School Project Was To Make A Mask, We Weren’t Required To Wear It, Or Make The… Rest…
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#70 15-Year-Old Me Was Terrified Of Touching These Car Show Models. I Cringe Every Time I See This
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#71 The Shirt Says, “Team Edward: Because Jacob Doesn’t Sparkle”
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#72 Curly Mullet, Thrift Store Boy’s Anime Shirt, Inability To Look Normal For A Picture: 2003 Was A Cruel Year For This 11yo Girl
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#73 They Called Me Professor Snape
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#74 This Is What Happens When Dorks With Cartoon Obsessions Are Allowed To Bring Props To Their Senior Photo Session. Loved Marvin So Much I Used To Joke He Was My Real Dad, The Cringe Factor Is Astronomical
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#75 1990 And 11 Years Old. I Just Showed This To My 10 Year Old Daughter And Thought She’d Laugh. Nope. Only Fear
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#76 They’re Almost Texas Beauty Queen Bangs
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#77 I Thought Listening To Metal Made Me Cool In Middle School
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#78 I Was About 18 Years Old, And Heading Out For A Night On The Town. Please Note The Nose Ring- It Was Stuck On With Superglue
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#79 I Thought The Other Kindergarteners Were Calling Me “Becky.” It Was “Bucky.” Thank God For Braces
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#80 My Senior Pic Makes Me Cringe So Good
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#81 I Had To Bribe The School Photographer To Let Me Do This My Senior Year
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#82 The Look Of Disappointment On My Mom’s Face As I “Egyptian Dance” With My New Haircut (Because Of Lice)
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#83 Just One Of My Yearbook Photos
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#84 My Senior Yearbook Photo.. It Was 2002, Frosted Tips And N*sync Were Actually Cool…
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#85 America Was Always Great
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#86 Nothing Smoother Than Singing The Quadratic Formula
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#87 Why Why Why? Am I Boy Or Girl? Why The Balloons? I Made That Shirt. Holy Hell ??
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#88 Since We’re Digging Through Myspace
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#89 I Was 12, Misunderstood, And Forced To Go To A Nascar Race With My Family. I Wore This In The Sweltering Heat
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#90 Caught Somewhere Between The “Emo” Phase And The Boy Band Phase- Here’s Me On My Way To A Jonas Brothers Concert (2008)
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#91 Zing! (Made It Myself And Put It As My Fb Profile Pic)
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#92 This Gem Is Hanging In My Mom’s Hallway, Reminding Me Every Time I Visit Just How Cringeworthy I Was In 2005
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#93 Reel Me In, Boyz
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#94 My Huge Pants Helped Me Sail Into Y2k, I Was 16 And I Should Have Known Better
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#95 Painful To Share But I Thought I Was A Badass In Middle School
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#96 My First Driver’s License Photo
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#97 Senior Photo With Model Cars That Was Supposed To Be ‘Just For Mom’ – Ended Up In Widespread Circulation
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#98 My Nickname In School Was Spock ?
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#99 I Was 16 Years Old In 1987
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#100 The Time In Sixth Grade When I Thought It Was Cool To Wear My Naruto Headband Everywhere – Even To School
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#101 She’s A Maneater
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#102 Get In Line, Fellas
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#103 In Highschool, I Liked To Climb And Wear XXL Shirts Even Though I Weighed 120lbs
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#104 So, I Graduated In And On 92
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#105 Bowl Cut✔️ Gameboy✔️ Inflatable Furniture ✔️ 90’s Were Awesome
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#106 This Is What Happened When Ten Years Old Me Started Watching America’s Next Top Model
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#107 This Picture Of My Mom And I. This Was 2000
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#108 Summer 02 Was Hot Hot Hot!
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#109 Right Before A Brutal Transfer From Homeschool To Public School Circa 2007
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#110 That Time I Wore Moon Shoes Into Meijer
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#111 Last Time I Ever Went To Supercuts
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#112 For My 30th Birthday, Figured I’d Share My Senior Photo. Class Of 05 Represent!
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#113 I Used To Wonder Why I Was Bullied So Much
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#114 Being A Rad Dude Is Serious Business
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#115 Its A Pillow, Its A Pet, Its 8 Years Later & Im Full Of Regret
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#116 My Friend When He Was Younger. Unfortunately He’s Lost His Sense Of Style Since Then
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#117 In Fourth Grade All I Wanted Was To Marry Jtt
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#118 Had My Grandma Take This Pic Of Me In 99/00 For My “GF” I Met In An AOL Chat Room
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#119 Me (In Red) And My Much More Photogenic Older Brother. Probably Around 3rd Grade
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#120 Age 13 And My Life Goal Was To Lead A Myspace Follow Train
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#121 My Christmas Gift To This Group, My Pleather Jacket At Homecoming In 2002
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#122 My Mom Wasn’t Thrilled That She Had To Pay Lifetouch For This Documentation Of Her 8th Grader’s Pokémon Love
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#123 I Thought I Was At The Peak Of Style. Tipping Fedora, ✔️. Orange Hair, ✔️. Plaid Trench Coat With Suit Jacket And T Shirt Underneath,✔️ . I Was A Female Neckbeard In 2007
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#124 Back In 2011 When I Thought Wearing The 3d Glasses Without The Lenses Was The Cool Thing To Do
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#125 7th Grade With My Mom Glasses
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#126 Not Only Did I Take A Mop To Prom, I Wore Icp Face Paint On School Picture Day In 2002
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#127 I Took A “Photo Shoot” With All Photos Like This And Thought I Was So Cool, This Was Also My Profile Picture For Far Too Long
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#128 Sup Ladies… Circa 1997
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#129 1986 In Texas, Complete With Pinch- Rolled Jeans And Hi-Top Reeboks
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#130 I Was Bernard The Elf In 9th Grade…
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#131 As An Eighth Grader, I Was 2edgy4u
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#132 My Fiancé Got This Leather Jacket When He Was 14. So Naturally He Got His Mom To Do A Photoshoot In His Room
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#133 Double Trouble
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#134 Gloomy Goth In 2007
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#135 12 In 1
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#136 My Hillbilly Years
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#137 Myspace Was One Hell Of A Drug. 2007. Age 14
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#138 I Captioned This “My Fricken Sweet Blue Hair” On Facebook. I Was 14
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#139 Me 16 Years Ago
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#140 I Was Pretty Much The Typical Neckbeard In Middle School. Fedora, Bad Fashion Sense, Unironic Use Of “M’lady”, The “Inquisitive Mind” Pose, And Glasses With Flaming Skulls On The Frames. Yeesh
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#141 2011. I Have So Many Of These… All On My Facebook
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#142 My Wife Loved Aaron Carter [2002]
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#143 Thought It Would Look Good To Have Cornrows But It Got Too Painful About Halfway Through
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#144 Live Long And Prosper. I Was 14
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#145 I Had To Dress Up To Do A Speech
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#146 The Time I Went To Egypt With A Cleopatra Style Haircut
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Customers should be treated like kings and queens. They should be pampered, treated to large doses of good humor, and given creative quality of life upgrades that make all the difference. This is the philosophy some hotels have. And it’s obvious how much they love their guests.
Some hotels go the extra mile to make their customers’ stay that much more pleasant. From bed forts and ‘spouse disposal units’ to hilarious menus and tiny takeaway bags for tiny soap, these are the things that make you want to visit again and again. Apegeo created this awesome list of clever ideas and unique touches that hotels have introduced. These Hotels Creativity will bring a smile to your face, give you a hearty chuckle, and make you go ‘wow, how didn’t I think of that?’ So keep on scrolling, share the best with your friends, and upvote the best pictures! My personal favorite is the bed fort (I know what I’m building at home tonight) — what about yours?
#1. A Buddy Of Mine Travels A Lot For Work, Asked For A Fort…
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#2. My Hotel Wants You To Take The Nice Soap Home!
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#3. My Hotel In China Has A Card To Give To A Taxi Driver So You Can Find Your Way Back
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Courtesy of Hospitality School, here are several ‘Golden Rules’ that each and every hotelier worth their salt should follow. That is, if they want to be proud of what they do, want their business to boom, and their guests to grace their doorstep once again.
Looking like a professional goes a long way in the hospitality business. That means dressing nicely, taking care of your hygiene and smiling brightly. It’s also vital that the way you talk to your customers be sincere — they can spot it if you’re being fake in an instant. What’s more, keeping your guests’ private life private is of utmost importance, as is helping them with everything and anything they might need. Finally, never, ever ignore complaints. Not even small ones.
#4. Hotel Staff Found Fifty Shades Of Grey Book On Guest’s Side Table…
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#5. The Toiletries At My Hotel In Switzerland Included A Rubber Ducky
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#6. This Bag Of Old/Stained Face Towels Have Been Re-Used As “Rags” At This Hotel
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However, the rules of hospitality are slowly changing over time, as Marcel Thoma, the General Manager of The Upper House hotel in Hong Kong told Euronews: “Twenty years ago, there were scripts and standards. And it was the same every day. These days, we expect the wait staff to be psychiatrists. Now, some guests want to be left alone; maybe you don’t refill their coffee because they’re in a meeting and concentrating hard. We like to see ourselves as hosts, not service providers. For that, you must give your staff the freedom to be spontaneous.”
#7. This Hotel Actually Makes It Easy To Connect Your Laptop To The TV
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#8. This Hostel In Germany Is An Indoor Vintage Rv Park
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#9. More Hotels Should Do This
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Thoma also explained how staff members can help in unexpected ways. “For example, we once had a guest come downstairs and say, I want to go hiking but I’m alone and don’t know how to go hiking in Hong Kong. We had a staff who loves hiking and said, ‘Madame, I know a beautiful trail. Why don’t we go hiking together tomorrow, if you’d like me to come along with you?’ So, they went hiking together. In a traditional hotel, they would say, ‘We’re not paying you to go hiking! You’re paid to check in and check out guests.’”
#10. Hotel Maid Clearly Found My Sunglasses
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#11. Weather Station At A Hotel
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#12. Instead Of Bibles, My Hotel Has Copies Of 1984
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#13. The Hotel My Parents Are Staying At In NC To Watch The Eclipse Stocked All Of The Rooms With These
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#14. The Hostel I’m At Dispenses Soap Like Parmesan
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#15. Saw This In The Hotel Grounds Where I Was Working
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#16. The Hotel I Am Staying At Has The Fire Evacuation Plans At Ground Level So You Can See Them If Smoke Has Filled The Hallways
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#17. This Kids Menu At The Hotel I’m Staying At
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#18. Hotel I Stayed At Was Formerly A Train Station And Had An Actual Train Inside It, With Rooms Inside Each Car
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#19. My Hotel Has The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Next To The Bed Instead Of A Bible
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#20. The Design Of The Curtains In My Hotel Room To Ensure That There Is No Annoying Light Gap In The Middle
taharoto
#21. This Hotel Lets You Borrow A Plant To Take To Your Room So You Have A Friend To Talk To
McPebbster
#22. I Didn’t Think This Sort Of Thing Really Happens
I asked the hotel to hide a picture of Robert Downey Jr in my room. I forgot all about it and when I went to take a hot bath to wash off a shitty day, I caught sight of this.
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#23. In The Europa Park Hotel In Germany There Is A Tiny Children Bathroom In The Bathroom
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#24. My Hotel In Odessa (Ukraine) Tells You Which Day It Is By Changing The Elevator Carpet Every Day
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#25. This Is What Happens If You Tip Egyptian Hotel Service Generously
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#26. My Hotel In Switzerland Has Different Plug Sockets For Guests From Different Parts Of The World
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#27. This Hotel In Singapore Is Very Green
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#28. A Black Towel In My Hotel Room For Make-Up So The White Ones Don’t Get Stained
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#29. I Left My Jacket At A Hotel And They Mailed It To Me With A Complementary Pillow
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#30. This Hotel Shampoo Assumes Your Theft
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#31. The Hotel I Stayed At Uses Lemon Grass Instead Of A Plastic Straw
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#32. Honorary Manager Of Crescent Hotel In Eureka Springs Is Cat, And This Is His Door
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#33. This Hotel In Central London Keeps Beehives On Their Roof!
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#34. My Hotel Room Comes With A Complimentary Android Phone With Free Data And Calls
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#35. These Do Not Disturb Options At My Hotel
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#36. As A Guy Who Takes His Family To A Hotel Every Winter While I Work On My Writing, I Approve This Bathroom
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#37. Sometimes The Hotel Holding Your Wedding Also Has A Llama Convention Booked
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#38. Hotel Maid Left A Towel Monkey
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#39. This Hotel’s Carpet And Lighting Combo Produce A Really Trippy Effect
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#40. The Toilet In My Hotel In Filled With Seawater
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#41. The Hotel I’m Staying At Has A “Lending Locker”
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#42. The Staff At Our Hotel Made A Cool Crocodile Out Of Our Towels
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#43. Hotels Creativity Like Old Prison
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#44. Bookshelf Whose Shelves Spell “Take A Book Leave A Book”, Seen At A Hotel
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#45. When The Hotel Staff Has Your Back
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#46. My Hotel Room Had A White Noise Machine Installed In The Wall
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#47. The Shower In My Hotel Has A Little Cutout So You Can Turn It On Before Getting In
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#48. Spotted This In The Breakfast Room At My Hotel This Morning
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#49. A Hotel’s Reminder On How To Climb Stairs
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#50. This Historic Sign In My Hotel Explains How To Use Electricity In Case You Had Never Used It Before
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#51. This Hotel Has An Elevator Button In The Hallway So There Is An Elevator Waiting For You By Time You Get There
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#52. Instead Of A Bible, My Hotel Room In Philadelphia Has The Constitution And Declaration Of Independence
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#53. The Stairs In A Swedish Hotel
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#54. Hotel Reception Desk
#55. Hotel Has Zombie Apocalypse In Safety Plan
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#56. East Miami Hotel’s Elevator Wall Has Tiny Lights And A Mirror Effect To Appear As A View Of Stars In Outer Space
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#57. Austin, TX Hotel Making It Easier For Handicapped Guests To Enjoy The Pool
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#58. These Bike Seats/Handles Acting As Skulls In My Hotel
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#59. A Letter From Hotel Management About Ladybug Love
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#60. The Toiletries At This Hotel Are Shaped Like The Hotel
#61. The Hotel I Was Staying In Had A Tree In The Middle Of The Room
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#62. The Hotel I’m Staying At Gives You A Free Drink At The Hotel Bar Of You Forego A Room Cleaning
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#63. Requested A Photo Of James Earl Jones For My Hotel Room. 5 Star Customer Service
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#64. The Crab The Cleaners Left In Or Hotel Room Made From Towels
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#65. My Hotel Has An Emergency Polka Button
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#66. Floor Of My Hotel Dining Room In Lausanne Is A Working Train Model
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#67. My Hotel Room Has A Rope That Turns On/Off All The Lights In The Room
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#68. Received Chocolate From Hotel For Inconvenience Caused By Construction
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#69. This Hotel Allows Dogs And You Can Alert The Cleaners That You Left Your Dog In The Room While You Ski (Translation: Attention, I Am Sleeping Here!)
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#70. The Hotel I’m Staying At Has A Pet Menu For Room Service
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#71. My Hotel Room Has A Sauna
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#72. This Hotel In Luxembourg Had A Hot Nutella Dispenser
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#73. Flat Carpet In A Hotel In Cologne, Germany Imitating A Curvy Surface
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#74. Elevator In My Hotel Has Karaoke
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#75. This Hotel Is Held Up By A Giant Hand
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#76. Housekeeping Tucked My Laptop In When They Made The Bed
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#77. My Hotel In Tx Has A Tx Shaped Lazy River
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#78. The Hotel I Stayed At Last Weekend Has A ‘Shower Beer’ Fridge By The Shower
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#79. This Paper Cutout In My Hotel In Madrid That Changes Color If You Smoke In Your Room
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#80. In A Hotel In Prague
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#81. This Robot Delivered Water To My Room
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#82. This Hotel In Batumis Has A Tiny Ferris Wheel In It
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#83. This Portrait Of Steve Jobs Made Out Of Parts Of Apple Products In My Hotel Lobby
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#84. Requested A Pillow Fort, Hotel Delivers
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#85. My Hotel Recreated The Subject Of This Still Life In Front Of The Painting
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#86. This Hotel I’m Staying At, The “Do Not Disturb” Is A Button That Shuts Off The Card Reader From Housekeeping Getting In
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#87. Japanese Hotel Apologies For One Minute Internet Stoppage At 4am
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#88. This Hotels Mirror Tells The Weather
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#89. This Hotel That I Stayed At Has A Bank Vault In The Basement
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#90. These Chairs At My Hotel In Munich Spell Out “Hello”
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#91. Honest Instructions On This Pen From A Hotel
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#92. The Door Handle In My Hotel Bathroom Has A Hand Sanitizer Dispenser In The Handle
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#93. My Hotel In Spain Has The United Nations Universal Declaration Of Human Rights By The Bed Instead Of A Bible
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#94. My Hotel Is Doing Construction So They Put A Chocolate Hammer On The Bed
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#95. My Hostel Has Preserved The Last Mcdonalds Cheeseburger Sold In Iceland
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#96. Instead Of A Bible, My Hotel Room Has This Book Of Quotes
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#97. So This Was In The Restroom At The Hotel We Were Staying At
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#98. My Hotel Has A Check-In Area Specifically For Kids
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#99. The Lobby’s Ceiling At My Hotel
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#100. This Hotel Uses Papaya Stalks As Straws
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The family of Joanna Toole, who grew up in Exmouth, have been informed that she was on board an Ethiopia Airlines plane which crashed shortly after take off en route to Nairobi in Kenya. Ms Toole, 36, from Exmouth in Devon, was due to attend the United Nations Environment Assembly starting in Nairobi. She was, her father said, a committed environmentalist and animal lover who worked for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation. “Joanna was a very soft and loving person,” said her father Adrian Toole, speaking to DevonLive website. “She had never really wanted to do anything else but work in animal welfare since she was a child. “Somehow that work took her into the international sphere... That involves a lot of travelling around the world - although personally I never wanted her to be on a single one of those planes... Up until now she had been lucky.” Ms Toole’s partner, who lived with her in Rome, had telephoned her father to inform him she was on the flight while her employers described her as “a wonderful human being”. China 'grounds Boeing 737 Max jets' The crash raises serious questions over the design of the Boeing aircraft and in particular its anti-stall mechanism. Within the first few minutes after take-off the plane’s vertical speed, the rate of climb or descent, varied dramatically. Its ‘unstable’ vertical speed, according to data from the flight-tracking website flightradar24, went from 2,624 feet per minute to -1216, suggesting the plane rose and fell rapidly in the minutes before it plunged into scrubland. Vertical speed should remain stable - or else increase - after take off. As the aviation industry reeled from the latest tragedy, China's aviation regulator has ordered domestic airlines to suspend their Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said local carriers had until 6 pm local time to ground the 96 jets of that model that they operate. Ceremony marking 1st delivery of Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane to Air China in Zhoushan Credit: Reuters The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive in November last year, in relation to one of the flight systems on the Boeing 737-8 and 737-9 series of aircraft. That was published following the crash of the Lion Air flight 610 - another Boeing 737 Max 8 - on October 29. The FAA directive warned that an "angle of attack" censor, which is supposed to help to prevent a plane from stalling, could lead to an “excessive nose-down attitude, significant altitude loss, and possible impact with the terrain”. This “unsafe condition... is likely to exist or develop” in the Boeing 737-8 and 737-9 designs, the directive concluded. Ethiopia plane crash Photographs from the scene showed the devastation caused by the crash with harrowing images of body parts covered up by plastic bodybags scattered in the wake of the crash at 8.44am local time. Boeing announced it would send a technical assistance team to the site of the crash. It said it is postponing the “external debut” of its 777X model and related media events scheduled for this week because of the accident. There is no change to the plane’s schedule or progress, Boeing said. French-British woman among the victims Kenya’s transport secretary James Macharia told reporters there were nationals from at least 35 different countries on board, including the seven British passengers. It is thought to be the biggest loss of life of Britons in a passenger jet crash since the shooting down of MH-17 over Ukraine in 2014. A French-British polar tourism expert has been named in Norwegian media as one of those to have died in the crash. Sarah Auffret was an environmental agent for the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators. "Words cannot describe the sorrow and despair we feel. We have lost a true friend and beloved colleague," a statement from the Norwegian firm said. Among the 32 Kenyans who lost their lives was Joseph Kuria Waithaka, 55, who had lived in Hull for more than a decade working for the probation service and was travelling back to the region after visiting his wife and children, who still live in the UK. Joseph Waithaka has been identified by the WFP as a victim of the Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 His son Ben Kuria said: “My dad was a private man but he also had a pastoral heart. He really championed people... he really rooted for his children.” His daughter Zipporah Kuria tweeted that her father “was the first man I ever loved. Believed in my dreams more than I ever could. Rest in peace daddy.” There were also eight Americans and 18 Canadians among the dead. Theresa May said she was “deeply saddened to hear of the devastating loss of life following the plane crash in Ethiopia”. In a statement, the prime minister said: “At this very difficult time my thoughts are with the families and friends of the British citizens on board and all those affected by this tragic incident.” As many as 50 people onboard were thought to be heading for the same UN conference. The UN confirmed a number of its staff had died while the World Food Programme said it was "mourning" the loss of its employees. Those included the one Irish victim who was named as Michael Ryan. Among those killed were the wife and two children of the Slovakian MP Anton Hrnko while hospitality company Tamarind Group said its chief executive Jonathan Seex, a Kenyan national, also died. Lucky escape A Greek man said he would have been the 150th passenger on the plane, except he arrived two minutes late for the flight. "I was mad because nobody helped me to reach the gate on time," Antonis Mavropoulos said in a Facebook post entitled "My lucky day" in which he includes a photo of his ticket. Mavropoulos, president of the International Solid Waste Association, a non-profit organisation, was travelling to Nairobi to attend the annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme, according to Athens News Agency. Members of the search and rescue mission carry dead bodies at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu Credit: Reuters He was supposed to board the plane but he reached the departure gate just two minutes after it was closed. He booked a later flight but was then prevented from boarding by airport staff. "They led me to the police station of the airport. The officer told me not to protest but to pray to God because I was the only passenger that didn't board the ET 302 flight that was lost," Mavropoulos said in his post in which he admits being in shock. The airport authorities explained that they wanted to question him because he was the only passenger booked onto the doomed flight who wasn't on board. "They said they couldn't let me go before cross-checking my identity, the reason I hadn't boarded the plane etc." Ethiopian Airlines CEO, Tewolde Medhin, visited the scene of the crash where emergency worker Lenora Ayana told The Telegraph that officials were “having a hard time locating bodies with so much debris.” 'Everything is burnt down' The plane had taken off at 8:38am (0638 GMT) from Bole International Airport but lost contact six minutes later near Bishoftu, a town 37 miles southeast of Addis Ababa. The plane came down near the village of Tulu Fara. The pilot had sent out a distress call and was given the all clear to return. A massive crater could be seen at the crash site, with belongings and airplane parts scattered widely. An eyewitness told the BBC there was an intense fire when the plane crashed. “The blast and the fire were so strong that we couldn’t get near it,” he said. “Everything is burnt down.” At Nairobi airport, anxious relatives waited for news, many in tears and in distress. Devastated family members of the victims involved in a plane crash at Addis Ababa international airport Credit: AP “I am still hoping that all is fine, because I have been waiting for my sister since morning and we have not been told anything,” said Peter Kimani, who was waiting in the arrivals lounge for hours after the plane had been scheduled to land at 10:25am local time. His sister is a nurse who he said had been in the Congo. “We are still expecting our loved one from Addis... we have just received news that there is a plane that has crashed. We can only hope that she is not on that flight.” Ethiopian Airlines confirmed it had bought the plane in November and it had “undergone a rigorous first check maintenance in February 2018.” A statement from Boeing said the company was “deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the passengers and crew on Ethiopian Airlines flight 302”, adding: “We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families and loved ones of the passengers and crew on board and stand ready to support the Ethiopian Airlines team.” Safety experts cautioned against drawing too many comparisons between the two crashes until more is known about Sunday's disaster. Boeing 737 MAX | Who has ordered the plane? The Ethiopian Airlines CEO "stated there were no defects prior to the flight, so it is hard to see any parallels with the Lion Air crash yet," said Harro Ranter, founder of the Aviation Safety Network, which compiles information about accidents worldwide. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweeted his “deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones”. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said: “My prayers go to all the families and associates of those on board.” A spokesman for António Guterres, UN Secretary General, said: “The Secretary-General was deeply saddened at the tragic loss of lives in the airplane crash. “He conveys his heartfelt sympathies and solidarity to the victims’ families and loved ones.” The crash came on the eve of a major, annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme opening in Nairobi. Rescue teams work at the site of the crashed plane, watched by hundreds of bystanders Credit: EWELDE Source: What do we know about the airline? The last major accident involving an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane was a Boeing 737-800 that exploded after taking off from Lebanon in 2010, killing 83 passengers and seven crew. The state-owned Ethiopian Airlines, widely considered the best-managed airline in Africa, calls itself the Continent's largest carrier and has ambitions of becoming the gateway to Africa. It has been expanding assertively, recently opening a route to Moscow and in January inaugurating a new passenger terminal in Addis Ababa to triple capacity. Speaking at the inauguration, the Prime Minister Ahmed challenged the airline to build a new "Airport City" terminal in Bishoftu - where Sunday's crash occurred. Read more: The world's safest – and least safe – airlines for 2019
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A grieving father said on Sunday he had “never wanted” his “soft and loving” daughter to be on a plane that crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 passengers and crew onboard. Joanna Toole was one of seven Britons who perished when a Boeing 737 Max-8 jet, which was only months old, crashed just six minutes after take off. The US aircraft giant launched an investigation amid growing concern over the passenger jet’s design. The same model had crashed in Indonesia less than five months ago, killing all 189 people onboard. The cause of Sunday's crash is still unclear but the pilot of Ethiopia airlines flight ET302 reported difficulties shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa en route to the Kenyan capital Nairobi. It has also emerged that the US Department of State had released a security alert on March 8, advising all US government travellers “not to arrive or depart [Addis Ababa’s] Bole International Airport on March 10” although this advice was rescinded a day later. The family of Joanna Toole, who grew up in Exmouth, have been informed that she was on board an Ethiopia Airlines plane which crashed shortly after take off en route to Nairobi in Kenya. Ms Toole, 36, from Exmouth in Devon, was due to attend the United Nations Environment Assembly starting in Nairobi. She was, her father said, a committed environmentalist and animal lover who worked for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation. “Joanna was a very soft and loving person,” said her father Adrian Toole, speaking to DevonLive website. “She had never really wanted to do anything else but work in animal welfare since she was a child. “Somehow that work took her into the international sphere... That involves a lot of travelling around the world - although personally I never wanted her to be on a single one of those planes... Up until now she had been lucky.” Ms Toole’s partner, who lived with her in Rome, had telephoned her father to inform him she was on the flight while her employers described her as “a wonderful human being”. China 'grounds Boeing 737 Max jets' The crash raises serious questions over the design of the Boeing aircraft and in particular its anti-stall mechanism. Within the first few minutes after take-off the plane’s vertical speed, the rate of climb or descent, varied dramatically. Its ‘unstable’ vertical speed, according to data from the flight-tracking website flightradar24, went from 2,624 feet per minute to -1216, suggesting the plane rose and fell rapidly in the minutes before it plunged into scrubland. Vertical speed should remain stable - or else increase - after take off. As the aviation industry reeled from the latest tragedy, China's aviation regulator has ordered domestic airlines to suspend their Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said local carriers had until 6 pm local time to ground the 96 jets of that model that they operate. Ceremony marking 1st delivery of Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane to Air China in Zhoushan Credit: Reuters The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive in November last year, in relation to one of the flight systems on the Boeing 737-8 and 737-9 series of aircraft. That was published following the crash of the Lion Air flight 610 - another Boeing 737 Max 8 - on October 29. The FAA directive warned that an "angle of attack" censor, which is supposed to help to prevent a plane from stalling, could lead to an “excessive nose-down attitude, significant altitude loss, and possible impact with the terrain”. This “unsafe condition... is likely to exist or develop” in the Boeing 737-8 and 737-9 designs, the directive concluded. Ethiopia plane crash Photographs from the scene showed the devastation caused by the crash with harrowing images of body parts covered up by plastic bodybags scattered in the wake of the crash at 8.44am local time. Boeing announced it would send a technical assistance team to the site of the crash. It said it is postponing the “external debut” of its 777X model and related media events scheduled for this week because of the accident. There is no change to the plane’s schedule or progress, Boeing said. French-British woman among the victims Kenya’s transport secretary James Macharia told reporters there were nationals from at least 35 different countries on board, including the seven British passengers. It is thought to be the biggest loss of life of Britons in a passenger jet crash since the shooting down of MH-17 over Ukraine in 2014. A French-British polar tourism expert has been named in Norwegian media as one of those to have died in the crash. Sarah Auffret was an environmental agent for the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators. "Words cannot describe the sorrow and despair we feel. We have lost a true friend and beloved colleague," a statement from the Norwegian firm said. Among the 32 Kenyans who lost their lives was Joseph Kuria Waithaka, 55, who had lived in Hull for more than a decade working for the probation service and was travelling back to the region after visiting his wife and children, who still live in the UK. Joseph Waithaka has been identified by the WFP as a victim of the Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 His son Ben Kuria said: “My dad was a private man but he also had a pastoral heart. He really championed people... he really rooted for his children.” His daughter Zipporah Kuria tweeted that her father “was the first man I ever loved. Believed in my dreams more than I ever could. Rest in peace daddy.” There were also eight Americans and 18 Canadians among the dead. Theresa May said she was “deeply saddened to hear of the devastating loss of life following the plane crash in Ethiopia”. In a statement, the prime minister said: “At this very difficult time my thoughts are with the families and friends of the British citizens on board and all those affected by this tragic incident.” As many as 50 people onboard were thought to be heading for the same UN conference. The UN confirmed a number of its staff had died while the World Food Programme said it was "mourning" the loss of its employees. Those included the one Irish victim who was named as Michael Ryan. Among those killed were the wife and two children of the Slovakian MP Anton Hrnko while hospitality company Tamarind Group said its chief executive Jonathan Seex, a Kenyan national, also died. Lucky escape A Greek man said he would have been the 150th passenger on the plane, except he arrived two minutes late for the flight. "I was mad because nobody helped me to reach the gate on time," Antonis Mavropoulos said in a Facebook post entitled "My lucky day" in which he includes a photo of his ticket. Mavropoulos, president of the International Solid Waste Association, a non-profit organisation, was travelling to Nairobi to attend the annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme, according to Athens News Agency. Members of the search and rescue mission carry dead bodies at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu Credit: Reuters He was supposed to board the plane but he reached the departure gate just two minutes after it was closed. He booked a later flight but was then prevented from boarding by airport staff. "They led me to the police station of the airport. The officer told me not to protest but to pray to God because I was the only passenger that didn't board the ET 302 flight that was lost," Mavropoulos said in his post in which he admits being in shock. The airport authorities explained that they wanted to question him because he was the only passenger booked onto the doomed flight who wasn't on board. "They said they couldn't let me go before cross-checking my identity, the reason I hadn't boarded the plane etc." Ethiopian Airlines CEO, Tewolde Medhin, visited the scene of the crash where emergency worker Lenora Ayana told The Telegraph that officials were “having a hard time locating bodies with so much debris.” 'Everything is burnt down' The plane had taken off at 8:38am (0638 GMT) from Bole International Airport but lost contact six minutes later near Bishoftu, a town 37 miles southeast of Addis Ababa. The plane came down near the village of Tulu Fara. The pilot had sent out a distress call and was given the all clear to return. A massive crater could be seen at the crash site, with belongings and airplane parts scattered widely. An eyewitness told the BBC there was an intense fire when the plane crashed. “The blast and the fire were so strong that we couldn’t get near it,” he said. “Everything is burnt down.” At Nairobi airport, anxious relatives waited for news, many in tears and in distress. Devastated family members of the victims involved in a plane crash at Addis Ababa international airport Credit: AP “I am still hoping that all is fine, because I have been waiting for my sister since morning and we have not been told anything,” said Peter Kimani, who was waiting in the arrivals lounge for hours after the plane had been scheduled to land at 10:25am local time. His sister is a nurse who he said had been in the Congo. “We are still expecting our loved one from Addis... we have just received news that there is a plane that has crashed. We can only hope that she is not on that flight.” Ethiopian Airlines confirmed it had bought the plane in November and it had “undergone a rigorous first check maintenance in February 2018.” A statement from Boeing said the company was “deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the passengers and crew on Ethiopian Airlines flight 302”, adding: “We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families and loved ones of the passengers and crew on board and stand ready to support the Ethiopian Airlines team.” Safety experts cautioned against drawing too many comparisons between the two crashes until more is known about Sunday's disaster. Boeing 737 MAX | Who has ordered the plane? The Ethiopian Airlines CEO "stated there were no defects prior to the flight, so it is hard to see any parallels with the Lion Air crash yet," said Harro Ranter, founder of the Aviation Safety Network, which compiles information about accidents worldwide. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweeted his “deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones”. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said: “My prayers go to all the families and associates of those on board.” A spokesman for António Guterres, UN Secretary General, said: “The Secretary-General was deeply saddened at the tragic loss of lives in the airplane crash. “He conveys his heartfelt sympathies and solidarity to the victims’ families and loved ones.” The crash came on the eve of a major, annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme opening in Nairobi. Rescue teams work at the site of the crashed plane, watched by hundreds of bystanders Credit: EWELDE Source: What do we know about the airline? The last major accident involving an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane was a Boeing 737-800 that exploded after taking off from Lebanon in 2010, killing 83 passengers and seven crew. The state-owned Ethiopian Airlines, widely considered the best-managed airline in Africa, calls itself the Continent's largest carrier and has ambitions of becoming the gateway to Africa. It has been expanding assertively, recently opening a route to Moscow and in January inaugurating a new passenger terminal in Addis Ababa to triple capacity. Speaking at the inauguration, the Prime Minister Ahmed challenged the airline to build a new "Airport City" terminal in Bishoftu - where Sunday's crash occurred. Read more: The world's safest – and least safe – airlines for 2019
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A grieving father said on Sunday he had “never wanted” his “soft and loving” daughter to be on a plane that crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 passengers and crew onboard. Joanna Toole was one of seven Britons who perished when a Boeing 737 Max-8 jet, which was only months old, crashed just six minutes after take off. The US aircraft giant launched an investigation amid growing concern over the passenger jet’s design. The same model had crashed in Indonesia less than five months ago, killing all 189 people onboard. The cause of Sunday's crash is still unclear but the pilot of Ethiopia airlines flight ET302 reported difficulties shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa en route to the Kenyan capital Nairobi. It has also emerged that the US Department of State had released a security alert on March 8, advising all US government travellers “not to arrive or depart [Addis Ababa’s] Bole International Airport on March 10” although this advice was rescinded a day later. The family of Joanna Toole, who grew up in Exmouth, have been informed that she was on board an Ethiopia Airlines plane which crashed shortly after take off en route to Nairobi in Kenya. Ms Toole, 36, from Exmouth in Devon, was due to attend the United Nations Environment Assembly starting in Nairobi. She was, her father said, a committed environmentalist and animal lover who worked for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation. “Joanna was a very soft and loving person,” said her father Adrian Toole, speaking to DevonLive website. “She had never really wanted to do anything else but work in animal welfare since she was a child. “Somehow that work took her into the international sphere... That involves a lot of travelling around the world - although personally I never wanted her to be on a single one of those planes... Up until now she had been lucky.” Ms Toole’s partner, who lived with her in Rome, had telephoned her father to inform him she was on the flight while her employers described her as “a wonderful human being”. China 'grounds Boeing 737 Max jets' The crash raises serious questions over the design of the Boeing aircraft and in particular its anti-stall mechanism. Within the first few minutes after take-off the plane’s vertical speed, the rate of climb or descent, varied dramatically. Its ‘unstable’ vertical speed, according to data from the flight-tracking website flightradar24, went from 2,624 feet per minute to -1216, suggesting the plane rose and fell rapidly in the minutes before it plunged into scrubland. Vertical speed should remain stable - or else increase - after take off. As the aviation industry reeled from the latest tragedy, China's aviation regulator has ordered domestic airlines to suspend their Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said local carriers had until 6 pm local time to ground the 96 jets of that model that they operate. Ceremony marking 1st delivery of Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane to Air China in Zhoushan Credit: Reuters The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive in November last year, in relation to one of the flight systems on the Boeing 737-8 and 737-9 series of aircraft. That was published following the crash of the Lion Air flight 610 - another Boeing 737 Max 8 - on October 29. The FAA directive warned that an "angle of attack" censor, which is supposed to help to prevent a plane from stalling, could lead to an “excessive nose-down attitude, significant altitude loss, and possible impact with the terrain”. This “unsafe condition... is likely to exist or develop” in the Boeing 737-8 and 737-9 designs, the directive concluded. Ethiopia plane crash Photographs from the scene showed the devastation caused by the crash with harrowing images of body parts covered up by plastic bodybags scattered in the wake of the crash at 8.44am local time. Boeing announced it would send a technical assistance team to the site of the crash. It said it is postponing the “external debut” of its 777X model and related media events scheduled for this week because of the accident. There is no change to the plane’s schedule or progress, Boeing said. French-British woman among the victims Kenya’s transport secretary James Macharia told reporters there were nationals from at least 35 different countries on board, including the seven British passengers. It is thought to be the biggest loss of life of Britons in a passenger jet crash since the shooting down of MH-17 over Ukraine in 2014. A French-British polar tourism expert has been named in Norwegian media as one of those to have died in the crash. Sarah Auffret was an environmental agent for the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators. "Words cannot describe the sorrow and despair we feel. We have lost a true friend and beloved colleague," a statement from the Norwegian firm said. Among the 32 Kenyans who lost their lives was Joseph Kuria Waithaka, 55, who had lived in Hull for more than a decade working for the probation service and was travelling back to the region after visiting his wife and children, who still live in the UK. Joseph Waithaka has been identified by the WFP as a victim of the Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 His son Ben Kuria said: “My dad was a private man but he also had a pastoral heart. He really championed people... he really rooted for his children.” His daughter Zipporah Kuria tweeted that her father “was the first man I ever loved. Believed in my dreams more than I ever could. Rest in peace daddy.” There were also eight Americans and 18 Canadians among the dead. Theresa May said she was “deeply saddened to hear of the devastating loss of life following the plane crash in Ethiopia”. In a statement, the prime minister said: “At this very difficult time my thoughts are with the families and friends of the British citizens on board and all those affected by this tragic incident.” As many as 50 people onboard were thought to be heading for the same UN conference. The UN confirmed a number of its staff had died while the World Food Programme said it was "mourning" the loss of its employees. Those included the one Irish victim who was named as Michael Ryan. Among those killed were the wife and two children of the Slovakian MP Anton Hrnko while hospitality company Tamarind Group said its chief executive Jonathan Seex, a Kenyan national, also died. Lucky escape A Greek man said he would have been the 150th passenger on the plane, except he arrived two minutes late for the flight. "I was mad because nobody helped me to reach the gate on time," Antonis Mavropoulos said in a Facebook post entitled "My lucky day" in which he includes a photo of his ticket. Mavropoulos, president of the International Solid Waste Association, a non-profit organisation, was travelling to Nairobi to attend the annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme, according to Athens News Agency. Members of the search and rescue mission carry dead bodies at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu Credit: Reuters He was supposed to board the plane but he reached the departure gate just two minutes after it was closed. He booked a later flight but was then prevented from boarding by airport staff. "They led me to the police station of the airport. The officer told me not to protest but to pray to God because I was the only passenger that didn't board the ET 302 flight that was lost," Mavropoulos said in his post in which he admits being in shock. The airport authorities explained that they wanted to question him because he was the only passenger booked onto the doomed flight who wasn't on board. "They said they couldn't let me go before cross-checking my identity, the reason I hadn't boarded the plane etc." Ethiopian Airlines CEO, Tewolde Medhin, visited the scene of the crash where emergency worker Lenora Ayana told The Telegraph that officials were “having a hard time locating bodies with so much debris.” 'Everything is burnt down' The plane had taken off at 8:38am (0638 GMT) from Bole International Airport but lost contact six minutes later near Bishoftu, a town 37 miles southeast of Addis Ababa. The plane came down near the village of Tulu Fara. The pilot had sent out a distress call and was given the all clear to return. A massive crater could be seen at the crash site, with belongings and airplane parts scattered widely. An eyewitness told the BBC there was an intense fire when the plane crashed. “The blast and the fire were so strong that we couldn’t get near it,” he said. “Everything is burnt down.” At Nairobi airport, anxious relatives waited for news, many in tears and in distress. Devastated family members of the victims involved in a plane crash at Addis Ababa international airport Credit: AP “I am still hoping that all is fine, because I have been waiting for my sister since morning and we have not been told anything,” said Peter Kimani, who was waiting in the arrivals lounge for hours after the plane had been scheduled to land at 10:25am local time. His sister is a nurse who he said had been in the Congo. “We are still expecting our loved one from Addis... we have just received news that there is a plane that has crashed. We can only hope that she is not on that flight.” Ethiopian Airlines confirmed it had bought the plane in November and it had “undergone a rigorous first check maintenance in February 2018.” A statement from Boeing said the company was “deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the passengers and crew on Ethiopian Airlines flight 302”, adding: “We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families and loved ones of the passengers and crew on board and stand ready to support the Ethiopian Airlines team.” Safety experts cautioned against drawing too many comparisons between the two crashes until more is known about Sunday's disaster. Boeing 737 MAX | Who has ordered the plane? The Ethiopian Airlines CEO "stated there were no defects prior to the flight, so it is hard to see any parallels with the Lion Air crash yet," said Harro Ranter, founder of the Aviation Safety Network, which compiles information about accidents worldwide. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweeted his “deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones”. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said: “My prayers go to all the families and associates of those on board.” A spokesman for António Guterres, UN Secretary General, said: “The Secretary-General was deeply saddened at the tragic loss of lives in the airplane crash. “He conveys his heartfelt sympathies and solidarity to the victims’ families and loved ones.” The crash came on the eve of a major, annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme opening in Nairobi. Rescue teams work at the site of the crashed plane, watched by hundreds of bystanders Credit: EWELDE Source: What do we know about the airline? The last major accident involving an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane was a Boeing 737-800 that exploded after taking off from Lebanon in 2010, killing 83 passengers and seven crew. The state-owned Ethiopian Airlines, widely considered the best-managed airline in Africa, calls itself the Continent's largest carrier and has ambitions of becoming the gateway to Africa. It has been expanding assertively, recently opening a route to Moscow and in January inaugurating a new passenger terminal in Addis Ababa to triple capacity. Speaking at the inauguration, the Prime Minister Ahmed challenged the airline to build a new "Airport City" terminal in Bishoftu - where Sunday's crash occurred. Read more: The world's safest – and least safe – airlines for 2019
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