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<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Dendam Ini Harus Berakhir ( Kultwit Kekejaman Anak Bangsa Seputar PKI ) by @PartaiSocmed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Bangsa ini tak akan pernah Move On jika kita tidak berani jujur berbicara tentang sejarahnya sendiri. Kali ini kami akan mencoba mengulas kembali tentang berbagai peristiwa tidak mengenakkan yg pernah terjadi pada bangsa ini. Banyak tulisan bermunculan akhir2 ini yg mengulas tentang kekejaman seputar PKI. Baik yg dilakukan oleh PKI maupun lawan2nya. Namun sangat sedikit yg mencoba menulis secara jujur dan berimbang tentang apa yg sudah terjadi. Masing2 punya versinya sendiri. Akibatnya bukannya rekonsiliasi yg kita dapatkan, justru sebaliknya saling menyalahkan bahkan cenderung menjadi pengaburan sejarah.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Menurut kami baik PKI maupun lawan2nya memiliki kesalahannya sendiri. Ini bukanlah pertarungan antara si hitam vs si putih. Ini adalah kultwit panjang tentang kekejaman anak bangsa terhadap sesama anak bangsa. Mari kita putar kembali waktu ke masa lalu.Kita akan mulai dari kekejaman PKI terlebih dahulu lalu disambung dg kekejaman lawan2 politiknya. Selamat mengikuti!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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“Dan tidak jadi soal bila ¾ penduduk dunia habis, asal yang tinggal ¼ itu Komunis” – Lenin</blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Jika kita sering membaca tulisan yg mengatakan PKI adalah korban. Marilah kita lihat beberapa peristiwa berikut ini:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Peristiwa Madiun September 1948. Para pengikut PKI melakukan penangkapan terhadap Bupati Magetan Sakidi dan dibawa ke Soco. Para pengikut PKI itu meletakkan sebuah tangga melintang diatas sebuah sumur lantas membaringkan dan mengikat Sakidi diatas tangga tsb. Tanpa belas kasihan lalu tubuhnya digergaji secara per-lahan2. Lolongan kesakitan sang Bupati justru makin memacu semangat mereka. Tubuhnya hanya mampu berkelejotan menahan sakit tak terperi lalu pingsan. Aksi menggergaji dilanjutkan hingga tubuh itu terputus. Mayat Sakidi yg telah terbelah menjadi dua itu langsung dijatuhkan ke dalam sumur yg menganga di bawahnya. Istri Sakidi yg mengetahui suaminya dieksekusi di Soco datang dg menggendong dua anaknya yg masih berumur 1 dan 3 tahun. Istri Sakidi berkeras ingin membawa mayat suaminya. Merasa terganggu akhirnya merekapun membunuh istri Sakidi didepan kedua anaknya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sementara itu di Pati, seorang wanita dibunuh oleh pengikut PKI dg cara ditusuk duburnya dg sebuah bambu runcing. Dalam kondisi tsb lalu ditancapkan di tengah sawah layaknya orang2an pengusir burung. Suasana teror pun tercipta di tengah2 warga. Di Wirosari kejadian serupa terjadi pada seorang wanita, kali ini vaginanya yg ditusuk bambu runcing lalu ditancapkan di tengah sawah. Di Gorang-gareng PKI mengadakan acara pesta gambyong yg meriah utk mengumpulkan masyarakat. Namun di tengah acara tiba2 mereka menciduk warga yg tidak seideologi. Caranya yaitu dg menanyakan sandi tertentu. Jika tidak bisa menjawab dg benar maka warga tsb akan langsung ditahan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mereka dikumpulkan mjd satu di gudang pabrik gula Redjosari. Salah satu diantara mereka itu adalah Kiai Soehoed, pengasuh Pondok Pesantren Sabilil Muttaqin, Takeran, Magetan. Warga yg ketakutan itu lantas diberondong melalui jendela gudang. Maka takbir dan jeritan pun berkumandang di tengah malam itu. Para korban baik yg sudah mati maupun yg masih hidup kemudian dibawa ke sebuah sumur tua di Soco. Tanpa memilah antara yg hidup dan mati mereka semua dicemplungkan ke dalam sumur. Yg masih bernafas pun dikubur hidup2. Masih di peristiwa Madiun, KH Soelaiman Zuhdi Affandi juga digelandang PKI dan dikubur hidup2 saat mengambil air wudhu. Di Wonogiri PKI menculik dan menyekap sedikitnya 212 lawan2 politiknya. Mereka terdiri dr polisi, TNI, pejabat pemerintah, wedana, dll. Mereka disekap di sebuah bekas gudang dinamit. Seluruh tawanan itu akhirnya dieksekusi pada tgl 4 Oktober 1948. Setelah Madiun dikuasai kembali oleh TNI, PKI melarikan diri ke Desa Kresek, kabupaten Dungus. Dalam keadaan terdesak mereka membantai semua tawanan yg ada. Para korban ditemukan dengan kepala terpenggal dan luka tembak.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Setelah pemberontakan Madiun berhasil dikalahkan tampaknya Soekarno memaafkan begitu saja peristiwa tersebut. Memang benar tokoh2nya spt Amir Syarifudin dan Muso dieksekusi langsung dlm operasi penumpasan pemberontakan tsb. Namun tidak ada pengadilan terhadap para tokoh lain dan mereka yg melakukan pembunuhan secara keji. Sehingga dg berbagai pemutar balikan fakta akhirnya PKI bisa bangkit kembali. Kali ini mereka mempersiapkan diri utk pemilu 1955. PKI melakukan agitasi dan propaganda dlm berpolitik sehingga suasana politik tidak hanya panas tapi juga penuh ketegangan dan konflik. PKI sangat ofensif membuat jargon2 dan melakukan stempelisasi ‘mematikan’ terhadap lawan2 politiknya. Salah satunya dg istilah "Tujuh Setan Desa".</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dan para kyai dianggap sebagai salah satu dari setan desa yang harus dibabat. Kondisi ini tentu mengakibatkan perasaan terancam bagi para kyai dan santrinya sehingga mereka selalu berjaga dari serangan PKI. Meski dg cara2 yg demikian ofensif dan menimbulkan permusuhan, nyatanya PKI sangat berhasil pd pemilu 1955. PKI meraih posisi 4 besar di bawah PNI, Masyumi dan NU. Sekaligus menjadikan PKI sebagai Partai Komunis terbesar ketiga didunia. Pasca Dekrit Presiden 5 Juli 59 PKI sadar untuk mencapai tujuannya mereka harus memanfaatkan figur Soekarno. Itu sebabnya PKI tampil sebagai pendukung utama Soekarno, meskipun mereka sudah berhasil menjadi Partai Komunis terbesar ketiga didunia.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Namun di pihak lain mereka menelikung ajaran2 Soekarno untuk menghantam lawan2 politiknya. Khususnya dari kalangan Islam. Makin lama sikap mereka semakin ofensif. Fitnah, penghinaan hingga pembunuhan dilakukan PKI di berbagai tempat. Usaha memobilisasi massa dilakukan untuk tindakan kekerasan yg dikenal dg ‘aksi sepihak’. Alasan aksi sepihak ini adalah utk ‘land refom’, memberikan hak tanah kepada kaum miskin. Tentu saja didukung oleh para petani miskin. Masalahnya proses membagi2 tanah ini dilakukan secara sepihak oleh PKI. Main kapling begitu saja. Lebih parah lagi tanah yg di-kapling2 itu ada tanah wakaf dan tanah pribadi orang diambil alih dan ditanami begitu saja.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sebagian tanah tersebut milik orang2 PNI dan para kyai NU. Tentu saja hal ini mengakibatkan terjadinya konflik horizontal. Merasa diatas angin, PKI semakin agresif. Tanah bengkok milik desa pun dirampas, bahkan ada sekolah negeri yg diklaim milik PKI. Tidak cukup sampai disitu, PKI pun mulai melakukan pnyerangan dan pengrusakan terhadap tempat2 ibadah dan pesantren. Beberapa aksi sepihak PKI dan underbouwnya BTI antara lain: peristiwa Kendeng Lembu, Genteng, Banyuwangi (13 Juli 1961), peristiwa Dampar, Mojang, Jember (15 Juli 1961), peristiwa Rajap, Kalibaru, dan Dampit (15 Juli 1961), peristiwa Jengkol, Kediri (3 November 1961), peristiwa GAS di kampung Peneleh, Surabaya (8 November 1962). Kondisi inilah yg memicu para kyai membidani lahirnya Banser. Banser memang dibentuk dlm rangka menghadapi aksi sepihak PKI. Kelak Banser menjadi aktor utama dalam ‘aksi balas dendam’ yang sangat berdarah dalam perjalanan sejarah republik ini.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Hasil kongkret dari pembentukan Banser adalah perlawanan terhdp aksi sepihak PKI makin kuat. Bentrok fisik Banser vs PKI pun terjadi. 13 Januari 65 terjadi Peristiwa Kanigoro. Ribuan Pemuda Rakyat (PR) dan BTI melakukan penyerbuan ke ponpes di kanigoro, Kediri. Saat itu di Kanigoro memang sedang diselenggarakan Mental Training Pemuda Pelajar Indonesia (PII). Oleh PKI kegiatan tersebut dianggap sebagai kegiatan Masyumi yg saat itu memang sudah dinyatakan sbg partai terlarang oleh Soekarno. Mereka menyerbu masuk ke dalam pesantren dg bersenjatakan kelewang, golok, pedang dan arit. Sambil berteriak-teriak kasar “ganyang serban!”, “ganyang santri!”, “ganyang kapitalis!”, “ganyang Masyumi!”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mrk juga menyerang rumah Kiai Jauhari, pengasuh Pondok Pesantren Al-Jauhar dan adik ipar pengasuh.. Pondok Pesantren Lirboyo, Kiai Makhrus Aly. Ayah Gus Maksum itu diseret dan ditendang ke luar rumah. Aksi sepihak lain juga dilakukan oleh BTI, PR dan Gerwani pd tgl 14 Mei 1965 yang dikenal dg Tragedi Bandar Betsy, Pematang Siantar. Mereka secara tidak sah menguasai tanah milik negara dg melakukan penanaman secara liar di areal lahan milik PPN Karet IX Bandar Betsi. Pelda Sudjono yang sedang ditugaskan di perkebunan tsb mencoba memberi peringatan agar aksi dihentikan.. Bukannya pergi, mereka justru berbalik menyerang dan menyiksa Sudjono. Akibatnya Sudjono tewas dengan kondisi yang amat menyedihkan</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Anak salah seorang pembunuh Sudjono itu bernama Muchtar Pakpahan. Kelak dia menjadi aktifis di organisasi buruh SBSI. Sekarang kita bisa memahami mengapa aksi-aksi buruh saat ini banyak kemiripan dengan aksi2 sepihak PKI di masa lalu. Demikian sedikit gambaran mengenai kekejaman PKI beserta ormas2 underbouwnya. Ribuan korban nyawa melayang akibat ulah mereka</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dari poin2 diatas kita bisa mengetahui bahwa terjadi penumpukan dendam sosial dan politik terhadap PKI. PKI telah menunjukkan diri kepada rakyat Indonesia sebagai satu partai yang menggunakan kekerasan dan fitnah dalam mencapai tujuannya. Serangan2 politik, agitasi dan fitnahnya berhasil mencipta ketakutan mental yang meluas dan dalam. Dan... Peristiwa G30S menjadi titik balik bagi PKI. Dia yg tadinya ofensif hantam kiri kanan kini menjadi pihak yg diburu. Kami tdk ingin masuk pada polemik siapa yg bertanggung jawab terhadap G30S. Butuh kultwit tersendiri tentang itu. Kita langsung saja bahas akibat dari G30S terhadap para anggota dan simpatisan PKI serta orang2 yg dituduh PKI. Berbeda dg aksi2 sepihak PKI yg dilakukan secara sporadis, penumpasan PKI terjadi dlm tempo yg relatif singkat.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Namun dilakukan secara serempak, terkoordinir dg rapi dan sangat efisien. Tidak heran korbannya pun jauh lebih besar. Laporan komisi pencari fakta yg dipimpin Oei Tjoe Tat merilis jumlah korban 78.000 jiwa saja. Namun bila mengikuti angka yang pernah disebut Jenderal Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, mungkin saja peristiwa itu menelan korban 3 juta orang. Angka tersebut masuk akal mengingat PKI pernah mengklaim memiliki anggota aktif sebanyak 3,5 juta orang. Belum termasuk underbouwnya. Jika sebelumnya kita bahas aksi2 PKI yg kejam, maka yang dilakukan oleh lawan2nya tidak kalah kejam dan mengerikannya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sungguh menyedihkan, dalam konflik politik yg berdarah-darah ini banyak orang2 tak berdosa yg menjadi korbannya. Mereka inilah korban sesungguhnya! Mereka tiba2 harus mengalami neraka dunia hanya karena terfitnah atau pernah berteman dg orang PKI. Strategi yg digunakan dalam pemusnahan anggota PKI ini adalah ‘Nabok Nyilih Tangan’. Militer gunakan warga sipil utk membantai. Dalam hal ini Banser mendapat dukungan penuh dari militer dalam menjalankan misi ‘sucinya’. Kelak strategi serupa digunakan oleh Wiranto utk menghadapi mahasiswa tahun 1998-1999 dg Pam Swakarsanya. Berikut adalah sedikit dari berbagai aksi2 kekejaman yg dilakukan untuk menghancurkan PKI hingga ke akar2nya :</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Di Lawang, Kab Malang. Para anggota dan simpatisan PKI yg ditangkap diikat tanggannya oleh sekelompok pemuda Ansor dg disertai & dilindungi satu unit tentara membawa mrk ke tempat pembantaian, yaitu di desa Sentong dan Kebun Raya di Purwodadi. Disana mrk dipukuli dg pentungan dan besi dan benda-benda keras lainnya. Setelah para korban tewas, kepala mereka dipenggal". Seorang remaja lelaki anggota IPI anak Tjokrodiharjo, yg merupakan anggota komite PKI di Kecamatan Singosari, ditangkap oleh Ansor. Kemudian tubuhnya diikat ke sebuah jip dan diseret di belakanggnya. Awalnya si anak berlari, namun jip makin lama makin kencang.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Si anak remaja ini akhirnya tersungkur dan terseret di jalanan yg penuh kerikil tajam hingga tewas. Wajahnya hancur tak bisa dikenali. Oerip Kalsum, lurah wanita desa Dongkol di Singosari, seorang anggota PKI. Sebelum dibunuh, dia disuruh membuka semua pakaiannya. Tubuh dan kemaluannya dibakar. Lalu dia diikat, dibawa ke desa Sentong di Lawang, di mana lehernya diikat dan dia disiksa sampai tewas.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Di Ngeglok. Japik, seorang tokoh terkemuka di Gerwani cabang setempat dibunuh bersama suaminya. Sebelum dibunuh dia diperkosa ber-kali2 dan kemudian tubuhnya dibelah mulai dari payudara hingga kemaluannya. Nursam, seorang anggota PGRI Non Vaksentral di-potong2 tubuhnya dan potongan2 tubuhnya itu digantung di rumah-rumah kawan2nya. Sutjipto, bekas lurah Nglegok seorang anggota PKI berhasil ditangkap. Sebelum dibunuh dia dikebiri terlebih dahulu kemudian dibunuh. Ny. Djajus, seorang perempuan yg menjadi lurah desa Tawangsari di Garum sedang hamil pada saat ditangkap.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Tubuhnya dibelah sebelum dibunuh. Pak Djajus, suaminya, dicacah wajahnya dengan belati hingga tewas. Di Pare. Di tengah perjalan pulang, Suranto dan istrinya yg sedang hamil dicegat dan ditangkap. Kepala Suranto dipenggal. Sungguh malang istrinya yg hamil pun ikut dibunuh. Perut istrinya dibelah, janinnya dikeluarkan dan dicincang. Di Gurah. Kasman, seorang guru di desa Ngasem ditangkap oleh sekelompok pemuda dan disiksa. Ketika akhirnya dia ambruk, mereka memenggal kepalanya, menusuknya pada sebilah bambu runcing dan meletakkannya di sebuah pos jaga. Selain mereka langsung dieksekusi setelah ditangkap. Ada juga yg ditahan tanpa mengalami proses pengadilan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Banyak diantara mereka berakhir hidupnya di ujung laras eksekutor. Ada yg cepat ada pula yg lama baru dieksekusi. Salah satu peristiwa menarik terjadi di LP Wonosobo 26 Februari 1966. 21 orang napi dibawa ke hutan Situkup pd hari itu. Di hutan itu ke 21 orang itu disuruh duduk berhadap2an dan diwajibkan menyanyi lagu Genjer-Genjer. Kemudian mrk dinasehati agar insyaf. Setelah diminta berjanji utk tidak kembali PKI, selanjutnya senapan ditembakkan ke mereka.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Ada peristiwa aneh saat itu. Seorang wanita tdk mempan ditembus berondongan peluru, maka klewang disabetkan ke tubuhnya. Tapi sabetan klewangpun tak mampu melukai tubuhnya bahkan hingga empat klewang patah dibuatnya. Akhirnya perempuan itu diikat tambang dan dijebloskan ke lubang dan dikubur hidup2. Sempat dia berucap pada petugas yg disuruh menimbun lubang itu dg tanah “Mas, jangan keras-keras, sakit...”.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Salah satu dari 21 orang yg dieksekusi pd hari itu adalah Ibnu Santoro, seorang dosen UGM yang baru saja pulang dari Amerika. Baru beberapa hari kembali ke Jogja, Ibnu Sintoro ditawari menjadi anggota barisan cendikia PKI, selembar formulir diberikan padanya. Dan formulir itu masih dlm keadaan kosong saat malam serombongan tentara dalam truk menyantroni rumahnya dan menciduk dia. Saat itu Ibnu Sintoro meninggalkan seorang sitri dan puteri lucu yg masih berusia 3 tahun bernama Gadis. Kelak Gadis menjelma menjadi wanita yg cerdas.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dan dia mendapatkan beasiswa belajar di Amerika satu almamater dg ayahnya. Entah suatu kebetulan atau mukjizat. Gadis pernah terpilih menjadi anggota Paskribraka di Istana pada era Pak Harto. Begitu banyak kekejaman diluar batas kemanusian yang dilakukan baik oleh PKI maupun lawan2nya. Tak ada gunanya pula saling mengklaim paling menjadi korban atau merasa paling benar. Ini bukan tentang salah PKI atau Ansor/Banser! Yang paling perlu dilakukan adalah keikhlasan utk mengakui sama2 bersalah. Kita semua seperti lupa sbg manusia saat itu. Hal yg cukup mencengangkan adalah kemampuan kita menjadi demikian biadab! Seolah2 membunuh dan menyiksa adalah kebanggaan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Potensi kekejaman masyarakat kita terbukti kembali terulang pada chaos era 1998-an. Mendadak kita berubah menjadi spt binatang. Begitu mudahnya masyarakat kita termotivasi untuk melakukan hal2 yg bertentangan akal sehat dan nurani tersebut. Peristiwa chaos dan pembantaian serupa tidak tertutup kemungkinan akan terulang lagi pada bangsa ini. Maka yg perlu dilakukan adalah mensosialisasikan politik yg beradab. Bukan politik yg menghalalkan segala cara. Kiranya generasi muda bisa belajar dari pengalaman pahit bangsa ini. Tragedi pernah terulang dan terulang lagi. Tugas kitalah untuk menghentikannya cukup sampai disini! Mari bersatu demi Indonesia tercinta. Sekali lagi. Tak perlu ada tuntutan permintaan maaf dari salah satu pihak! Yg diperlukan adalah saling memaafkan. Generasi keturunan pembantai dan keturunan korban pembantaian lebih baik saling berpelukan dan ikhlas memaafkan. Sekian kultwit kami. Semoga mencerahkan dan menambah wawasan. Terimakasih. Support #99Movement !!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586809436534221326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955710474002074698.post-76875965356300057092018-03-19T04:39:00.001-07:002018-03-19T04:39:19.452-07:00Pengangkatan Jaksa Agung HM. Prasetyo - Ilusi Politik Non Transaksionil<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mungkin kami satu2nya akun pendukung Jokowi yg bahkan sejak masa kampanye sudah mengatakan bhw politik non transaksional itu tidak mungkin. Dulu banyak yg membantah pendapat kami dan menyarankan untuk percaya pada janji "non transaksional" itu. Namun sekarang, setelah kabinet diumumkan dan setelah Jaksa Agung baru dilantik. Masih adakah yg menyarankan hal serupa? Kami memang mendukung Jokowi-JK. Tapi kami mendukung secara obyektif, sesuai amanat bio akun kami. Bagi kami, tak ada gunanya mendukung secara taqlid buta. Jokowi itu manusia biasa yg ada kelebihan dan kekurangannya juga. Kami dukung Jokowi semata2 krn rekam jejaknya. Dan sampai saat ini kami percaya beliau jauh lebih baik dibanding yg lain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Jadi marilah kita dukung Jokowi secara obyektif. Gunakan nalar, jangan jadi bodoh krn urusan dukung mendukung! Mengenai pengangkatan HM Prasetyo sebagai Jaksa Agung yg baru. Kita harus akui memang penuh kontroversial. Selain usianya yg sudah terlalu tua, HM Prasetyo juga tidak memiliki prestasi yg luar biasa.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Bicara tentang prestasi utk jadi Jaksa Agung. Mungkin satu2nya HM Prasetyo adalah posisi beliau sebagai kader kesayangan Surya Paloh. Tidak mengherankan sebab banyak pemikirannya yg tertuang dalam buku putih Nasdem tentang restorasi penegakan hukum. Begitu pentingnya HM Prasetyo bagi SP sampai2 saat kampanye pileg kemarin dia dikawal orang terpercaya SP; Lestari (Ririe) Moerdijat. Ririe Moerdijat ini kemudian ditempatkan SP menjadi anggota tim pemenangan Jokowi-JK sebagai bendahara. HM Prasetyo memang Jaksa Agung "titipan" Partai Nasdem. Percuma membantah fakta ini..</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dan Surya Paloh "memastikan" titipannya diterima dgn datang langsung ke Istana kemarin. Setelah itu nama Jaksa Agung baru sudah final. Bicara tentang Surya Paloh maka bisa dikatakan dia adalah orang paling berpengaruh di Indonesia saat ini. Pengaruh Surya Paloh bahkan bisa dikatakan melebihi Megawati, sang ketum PDIP dimana Jokowi adalah kadernya. Pengaruh besar yg dimiliki Surya Paloh saat ini adalah hasil investasi panjangnya dlm mendukung Jokowi jauh sebelum dicapreskan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Media2 milik SP sejak awal secara konsisten mendukung gebrakan2 pemerintahan Jokowi-Ahok di DKI. Popularitas Jokowi-Ahok tidak lepas dari tangan dingin SP ini. Dialah King Maker yg sesungguhnya.. Proses awal pencapresan Jokowi juga tak lepas dari lobi intensif Surya Paloh terhadap Megawati dan petinggi2 PDIP lainnya. Sebagai jebolan kampus politik terhebat di Indonesia, Golkar. Surya Paloh sudah kenyang asam dan garamnya berpolitik. Bagi Surya Paloh dan Nasdemnya, Mega dan PDIP tak lebih dari anak kecil yg perlu dielus-elus egonya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dan sejauh ini Surya Paloh sangat berhasil. PDIP dan lain2nya menari dgn genderang yg ditabuhnya. Termasuk proses pengumuman JK sebagai cawapres Jokowi adalah bagian dari kemenangan Surya Paloh. Surya Paloh adalah orangnya JK di Golkar. Dia sangat berpengaruh di Golkar saat JK masih menjabat Ketum Golkar. Seiring kekalahan Surya Paloh dari Aburizal Bakrie dalam perebutan Ketum Golkar, maka dia lalu mendirikan Nasdem. Namun persahabatan Surya Paloh dan JK berjalan terus. Dan puncaknya terjadi saat penentuan siapa cawapres Jokowi.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Konon Surya Paloh siap menggunakan kartu As-nya jika nama JK tidak lolos. Yaitu keluar dari koalisi pendukung Jokowi. Ini berarti pukulan telak bagi kubu Jokowi sebab di detik2 terakhir akan dipaksa batal pencapresannya gara2 mundurnya Nasdem. Spt diketahui bahwa koalisi Jokowi adalah koalisi ramping. Artinya jk Nasdem keluar maka syarat Presidential Treshold 20% tdk terpenuhi. Jadi terbukti disini apa yg dulu pernah kami kultwitkan. Koalisi ramping ini justru membuat Jokowi tertawan oleh partai2 pendukungnya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Namun begitu harus diakui secara adil bahwa selama masa kampanye mesin partai Nasdem lebih bergerak dibanding PDIP sendiri. Dalam mengelola relawan Nasdem jauh lebih lincah dibanding PDIP. Totalitas dalam mendukung Jokowi juga demikian. Jadi jasa Surya Paloh, Nasdem dan media2nya ini memang besar dalam kesuksesan Jokowi. Tak ada bantahan tentang ini. Semua kombinasi tsb membuat Surya Paloh menjadi orang yg sangat berpengaruh saat ini. Wajar mengingat posisi dan peran beliau.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sebagai ilustrasi, pejabat sekalipun rela antri utk ketemu Tommy Winata. Tapi sekarang TW yg rela antri demi ketemu Surya Paloh. Politik selalu tentang transaksi kekuasaan. Dgn cara yg halus atau kasar selalu berkenaan dgn transaksi. Dan jika bicara tentang politik non transaksional, sejak sebelum masa kampanye kami sudah membantahnya. Kembali ke HM Prasetyo, posisi kami tidak mendukung atau menentang. Tapi dia adalah orang partai adalah fakta. Kita tahu sebagian kasus korupsi di negeri ini melibatkan orang2 partai. Disinilah tugas berat HM Prasetyo menepis sikap apriori masyarakat.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Ini tugas berat bagi HM Prasetyo, manakala ada kader Nasdem yg bermasalah hukum maka seobyektif apapun dia akan tetap disikapi secara sinis. Disitulah sesungguhnya masalah utama dari Jaksa Agung yg dipilih dari parpol. Bukan prestasi atau integritasnya. Jaksa Agung yg berasal dari parpol sedikit banyak akan mengurangi kepercayaan publik pada penegakan hukum.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Jaksa Agung yg berasal dari parpol sedikit banyak akan mengurangi kepercayaan publik pada penegakan hukum. Namun begitu semua akan bergantung bagaimana HM Prasetyo mampu menepis pandangan miring tsb dalam masa jabatannya nanti. Namun begitu semua akan bergantung bagaimana HM Prasetyo mampu menepis pandangan miring tsb dalam masa jabatannya nanti. Jika dia mampu benar2 profesional dan tak pandang bulu maka dgn sendirinya pandangan miring tsb akan sirna.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Maka cara terbaiknya adalah kita kawal secara kritis kinerja Jaksa Agung baru ini. Biarkan dia membuktikan diri dulu. Jokowi sendiri sudah mengatakan akan mengganti Jaksa Agung jika performanya tak sesuai harapan. Sekian kultwit kami. Terimakasih.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">by </span><complete id="goog_467695871" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">@PartaiSocmed</complete>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586809436534221326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955710474002074698.post-37644460968602840332018-03-19T04:38:00.002-07:002018-03-19T04:38:53.485-07:00Tahukah Anda Tarif Listrik Industri Lebih Murah dari Listrik Rumah by @PartaiSocmed<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Kultwit ini kami buat karena terinspirasi kebodohan akun bernama @dulatips yg menuduh Jokowi menaikkan tarif listrik industri. Ini tweetnya. Semoga setelah pencerahan ini dia tidak hapus tweetnya sendiri karena malu.</span><br />
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Dan setelah baca tweet ini pasti banyak yg berbondong2 pindah ke listrik industri karena memang lebih murah dari listrik rumah tangga. Sebenarnya wacana tarif listrik industri lebih murah drpd listrik rumah tangga sudah ada sejak era SBY. Sumber berita :<br />
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Di negara lain, listrik industri lebih murah dari rumah tangga</b><br />
Guru Besar Tenaga Listrik Fakultas Teknik Universitas Indonesia (UI), Rinaldy Dalimi angkat bicara mengenai keputusan pemerintah yang akan menaikkan tarif listrik industri mulai Mei 2014 mendatang. Menurut Rinaldy, keputusan pemerintah tersebut sudah sangat tepat jika melihat kondisi kelistrikan Indonesia yang masih jauh dari cukup.<br />
"Industri di subsidi saya rasa tidak tepat. Rasio elektrifikasi kita masih rendah dan belum mencapai 100 persen," ucap Rinaldy ketika dihubungi merdeka di Jakarta, Minggu (23/3).<br />
Namun demikian, Rinaldy menyebut di negara maju seperti Jepang dan Amerika tarif listrik industri mereka memang jauh lebih murah dari listrik keluarga. Hal ini bisa terjadi karena rasio elektrifikasi mereka sudah mencapai 100 persen.<br />
"Amerika dan Jepang harga listrik industri mereka lebih rendah daripada harga listrik rumah tangga. Ini bukan berarti lebih rendah dari Indonesia. Karena memang mereka ingin industri bisa lebih kompetitif. tetapi itu masalahnya beda dengan Indonesia," tambahnya.<br />
Selain itu, harga listrik di negara maju tersebut juga sudah tidak disubsidi lagi. Listrik tidak hanya menjadi kebutuhan tetapi sudah menjadi ajang bisnis. Semakin banyak membeli listrik maka akan mendapat harga lebih murah.<br />
"Harga listrik disana sudah harga ke ekonomian lebih tinggi dari kita. Tetapi harga rumah tangga lebih tinggi lagi. Jadi listrik itu sudah jadi bisnis yang menguntungkan. Listrik industri lebih murah dari rumah tangga karena rumah tangga tidak produktif, rumah tangga hanya konsumsi dan menikmati saja. Industri meningkatkan perekonomian dan mereka membeli kapasitas besar. Dia memberikan tarif listrik lebih murah," tambahnya.<br />
Kondisi ini menurut Rinaldy belum bisa diterapkan di Indonesia. Komoditi listrik Indonesia belum bisa dijadikan ajang bisnis karena kebutuhan listrik saja belum terpenuhi. Rinaldy menyebut, Indonesia masih butuh waktu lama agar listrik ini bisa jadi ajang bisnis dan lebih kompetitif.<br />
"Kita saja masih ada yang belum dapat listrik. Kita masih panjang kita tidak bisa membandingkan Amerika dan Jepang. Tapi dulu mereka juga sama seperti kita. Listrik industri lebih mahal dari listrik keluarga. Kita tidak berkecil hati karena mereka duluan saja menemukan sistem yang tepat."<br />
Untuk mengejar ini semua, Guru Besar UI ini memberikan pesan sederhana yaitu agar pemerintah bertanggung jawab dan bekerja dengan benar dan jujur. "Itu dulu, kalau itu tidak ada bagaimanapun konsepnya duit itu di gerototi," tutupnya.<br />
Sebelumnya, Menteri Perindustrian, MS Hidayat menyebut rencana kenaikan tarif listrik industri ini mayoritas disetujui oleh industri. Namun demikian industri meminta masa angsuran diperpanjang.<br />
"Ratusan industri meminta diperpanjang masa angsurannya supaya beban bulanan bisa ditanggung cash flow mereka. Kalau dipadatkan Mei sampai Desember itu 36-48 persen tekanannya. Akibatnya iklim kompetitif terganggu," ucap Hidayat ketika ditemui di kantornya, Rabu (19/3).<br />
Tidak itu saja, pengusaha meminta implementasinya diundur. Dari pengakuan kepada Hidayat, jika kenaikan tarif listrik tetap dilakukan sesuai waktu yang ditentukan, maka ratusan industri bersiap memecat karyawan mereka sebagai bentuk efisiensi biaya.<br />
"Mereka bilang kondisi ini bisa mengecilkan karyawannya, ini agar mereka bisa bertahan. Ini ada sekian ratus perusahaan besar," tegasnya.</blockquote>
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Kenapa listrik industri sebaiknya lebih murah dibanding listrik rumah tangga. Sebab untuk kepentingan produktif dan menyerap tenaga kerja. Wacana di era SBY tersebut kemudian mulai dipikirkan secara benar2 serius untuk diterapkan di era pemerintahan Jokowi. Ini beritanya :<br />
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JAKARTA – Pemerintah sedang mengkaji rencana pemberlakuan tarif listrik yang lebih rendah untuk sektor industri dibanding tarif listrik rumah tangga. Kebijakan ini bertujuan memacu kinerja industri manufaktur nasional yang banyak menyerap tenaga kerja dan memberikan nilai tambah tinggi terhadap perekonomian nasional.<br />
“Arahnya ke sana. Nanti tarif industri lebih rendah agar tidak membebani ongkos produksi,” tutur Sekretaris Direktorat Jenderal Ketenagalistrikan Kementerian Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral (ESDM) Sujatmiko di Jakarta, Kamis (13/8).<br />
Meski demikian, menurut Sujatmiko, Kementerian ESDM belum bisa memastikan kapan formula baru tarif listrik itu bakal diterapkan. Dia menambahkan, tarif listrik industri saat ini termasuk dalam golongan nonsubsidi. “Bila tiga faktor penentu tarif listrik turun, tarif nonsubsidi juga bisa turun,” tandas dia.<br />
Penetapan tarif dasar listrik (TDL) mengacu pada tiga indikator, yakni nilai tukar rupiah, harga rata-rata minyak mentah nasional (Indonesia crude price/ICP), dan data inflasi yang masing-masing dikeluarkan Bank Indonesia (BI), Ditjen Migas, dan Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS).<br />
Secara terpisah, Kepala Divisi Niaga PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) Benny Marbun mengakui, pemerintah berencana mengubah besaran TDL produktif untuk industri dan konsumtif untuk rumah tangga. Nantinya, TDL produktif ditekan dan TDL rumah tangga dinaikkan. Namun, Benny belum dapat memastikan kapan rencana itu dieksekusi.<br />
Dia menjelaskan, di luar rencana tersebut, jika rupiah menguat ke level Rp 9.000 per dolar AS dan ICP sekitar US$ 50 per barel, TDL bisa lebih murah.<br />
Benny mengungkapkan, tarif listrik industri dan pertanian di sejumlah negara lebih murah dibanding pelanggan rumah tangga. Namun, hal ini tidak terjadi di Indonesia. “Alasan utamanya, pemerintah tidak ingin membebani masyarakat kecil yang daya belinya rendah,” tutur dia. (ID/gor)</blockquote>
Dan kebijakan tarif listrik industri lebih murah drpd rumah tangga tersebut akhirnya benar2 berhasil diterapkan di era pemerintahan Jokowi. Dan sekarang ini sudah terjadi tarif listrik industri bisa lebih murah drpd tarif listrik rumah tangga.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586809436534221326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955710474002074698.post-5550531908599154172018-03-19T04:37:00.005-07:002018-03-19T04:37:56.594-07:00Rekam Jejak Jonru Ginting "Saya Tidak Takut" si Tukang Fitnah<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Jauh sebelum @jonruginting (rename akun @jonru) seterkenal sekarang sebagai ahlul fitnah kami sudah berkali2 bongkar kelakuan fitnahnya. Dulu @jonruginting ini sangat bangga mencantumkan sebagai juara tahunan @internetsehat di bionya.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Selama ini mungkin kita hanya kenal tulisan-tulisan Kartini melalui surat-surat yang dikirimkan kepada sahabatnya. Surat-surat yang kemudian diterbitkan menjadi sebuah buku berjudul "Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang".<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Namun kiprah Kartini sebagai penulis sebenarnya melampaui itu. Kartini juga menuliskan gagasannya di berbagai media seperti koran dan majalah, mencatatkan namanya hingga negeri seberang.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kartini sedari kecil memang sudah akrab dengan berbagai buku bacaan. Apapun ia baca, mulai koran, majalah, serta buku dalam bahasa Belanda. Semenjak dipingit pada usia 12,5 tahun, otomatis tak banyak hal yang bisa ia lakukan. Satu-satunya penghiburannya adalah membaca.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sang ayah, Raden Mas Adipati Ario Sosroningrat, ternyata tidak menutup aksesnya untuk membaca, malah memberikan berbagai macam bacaan yang isinya masih cukup sulit untuk dicerna anak seusia Kartini. Begitu juga dengan kakak kesayangan Kartini , R.M Kartono, yang hanya terpaut dua tahun usianya juga turut memberi beragam bacaan.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Seperti dituliskan dalam buku " Kartini : Sebuah Biografi" karangan Sitisoemandari Soeroto Kartini menyukai buku-buku tentang budi luhur, pandangan hidup yang mulia, tentang jiwa yang jiwa besar. Namun semua buku bacaan ini memang tidak bisa langsung ia pahami.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kartini akan mengulang bacaan itu berkali-kali hingga paham. Kata-kata yang tak diketahuinya akan dicatat dan ditanyakan kepada kakaknya, R.M Kartono saat pulang ke rumah. Saat itu Kartono sekolah di Hogere Burger School Semarang sehingga hanya pulang saat libur.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Tak hanya sekadar membaca, ternyata Kartini juga menganalisis isi bacaan kemudian ia tuangkan kembali dalam sebuah tulisan. Hal ini awalnya hanya diketahui sang kakak saja, baru belakangan adik-adiknya Roekmini dan Kardinah juga tahu soal kemampuan Kartini.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Tulisan pertama yang ia tulis dengan mendalam adalah soal upacara perkawinan di suku Koja (Het Huwelijk bij de Kodjas) pada tahun 1895. Saat itu ia baru berusia 16 tahun. Tulisan itu lantas ia perlihatkan kepada Marie Ovink –Soer, istri asisten residen Jepara. Ovink dengan segera meminta Kartini untuk belajar menulis lagi karena tahu ia memiliki bakat.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Tapi karangan itu justru terlupakan terselip di dalam lemarinya. Barulah ketika Kartini membersihkan lemarinya ia kembali menemukan karangan itu dan memperlihatkan kepada ayahnya.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sang ayah kebetulan mendapat permintaan dari Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal, Land en volkenkunde Voor Ned Indie untuk mengirimkan tulisan. Saat melihat tulisan Kartini, Raden Mas Adipati Ario Sosroningrat menganggap tulisan Kartini cukup berbobot sehingga justru tulisan itulah yang dikirimkan.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Ternyata pada tahun 1898 tulisan kartini diterbitkan di Bijdragen tot de Taal, Land en Volkenkunde yang merupakan bacaan kalangan kaum intelektual. Namanya pun menjadi terkenal setelah penerbitan itu.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Tulisan lain juga dimuat dalam majalah De Echo yang ia tulis dengan nama samaran Tiga Soedara. Surat kabar terbesar saat itu de Locomotief sampai memberikan pujian kepada Kartini sebagai wartawati pertama.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Pada tahun yang sama Kartini bersama kedua adikknya, Roekmini dan Kardinah mengirimkan bantuan mereka untuk keperluan Nationale Tentoonstelling voor Vrouwenarbeid (Pameran Nasional Karya Wanita di Denhaag). Ada beberapa barang yang dikirim tapi yang paling menarik adalah alat-alat pembatikan yang digunakan untuk memeragakan proses membatik dari awal hingga akhir dilengkapi dengan panduan yang menjelaskan seluruh pekerjaan pembatikan.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Tulisan ini disusun dalam bahasa Belanda. Mengingat ditulis sendiri oleh seorang pribumi yang menguasi batik, tulisan itu mampu mengisi kekurangan naskah pejabat-pejabat Belanda.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Tulisan Kartini mengenai batik ini kemudian menjadi bagian penting dalam buku Standard de Batikkunst in Ned Indie en Haar Geschiedenis (Kesenian Batik di Hindia Belanda dan Sejarahnya) yang ditulis oleh G.P Rouffaer dan Dr. H.H Juynboll dan dikenal sebagai Handscrift Jepara (Manuskrip Jepara).<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Secara khusus G.P. Rouffaer dan Dr. H.H.Juynboll dalam bukunya memberikan pujian dan mengomentari bagaimana kemampuan serta bakat menulis puteri Jawa ini dan menyayangkan kepergiannnya yang begitu cepat.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Buku itu kemudian diterbitkan dua kali, cetakan pertama pada tahun 1900 diterbitkan oleh H.Kleinman & CO, sedangkan cetakan kedua pada tahun 1914 diterbitkan oleg A. Oosthoek, Utrecht.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sebelum kepergiannya, Kartini sempat menulis beberapa tulisan yang dipublikasikan, diantaranya adalah Een Gouverneur Generaaldag yang dimuat dalam Koran de echo (1903), Van Een Vergeten Uithoekje yang terbit di Eigen Haard (1903), tulisan ini menyinggung soal jepara, keresidenan yang terlupakan tapi kaya akan karya seni yang tinggi hasil dari penduduknya.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Saat Kartini hidup, akses perempuan pada pengetahuan masih terbatas. Kini, peluang terbuka jauh lebih lebar. Apapun profesinya, perempuan perlu membaca menggali pengetahuan dan menuangkannya dalam tulisan.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kartini, Keturunan Bangsawan yang Tak Sudi Disebut Bangsawan</span></b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div class="separator" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Raden Ajeng Kartini tidak pernah punya keinginan untuk tumbuh di tengah keluarga bangsawan yang dipandang tinggi masyarakat umum.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Ayah Kartini, Raden Mas Adipati Ario Sosroningrat, merupakan Bupati Jepara di masanya. Ibu tirinya, Raden Ayu Muryam, merupakan keturunan keluarga raja di Madura.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kepada sahabat penanya, Estella Helena Zeehandelaar, Kartini mengungkapkan kekesalannya dipandang tinggi sebagai keluarga bangsawan.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Apakah saya seorang anak raja? Bukan. Seperti kamu juga bukan," tulis Kartini dalam suratnya kepada Stella, sebagaimana tertulis dalam buku Surat-surat Kartini. Renungan tentang dan untuk Bangsanya (1979).<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Raja terakhir dalam keluarga kami, yang langsung menurunkan kami menurut garis keturunan laki-laki, saya kira sudah berlalu 25 keturunan jauhnya," lanjutnya.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kartini tidak peduli dengan gelar apa pun yang dimiliki moyangnya terdahulu. Menurut dia, hanya ada dua macam bangsawan, yakni bangsawan jiwa dan bangsawan budi.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Dalam suratnya, Kartini pun menyindir orang-orang yang begitu bangga memamerkan gelar kebangsawanannya.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Di manakah gerangan letak jasa orang bergelar graaf atau baron (gelar untuk bangsawan)? Pikiran saya yang picik tidak sampai untuk memikirkan hal itu," kata Kartini.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kepada Stella, Kartini bercerita betapa marah dia dan saudarinya saat dipanggil "putri-putri Jawa" oleh sejumlah perempuan asal Den Haag. Saat itu, Kartini dan keluarganya tengah menghadiri Pameran Karya Wanita.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Orang Eropa, lanjut dia, lebih sering memanggil mereka "freule" (putri) alih-alih "Raden Ajeng". Betapa kesalnya Kartini karena setelah dijelaskan beberapa kali pun, orang-orang tetap memanggil mereka "freule".<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Suatu waktu, tulis Kartini, seorang berkebangsaan Belanda datang untuk berkenalan dengan dirinya dan dua saudarinya. Melihat penampilan tiga anak Bupati Jepara itu, orang Belanda tersebut berbisik ke ayah Kartini.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Bupati, saya membayangkan pakaian putri-putri begitu gemerlapan, keindahan ketimuran yang luar biasa. Tapi anak-anak Tuan sederhana sekali," ujar orang Belanda tersebut, sebagaimana dituliskan Kartini dalam suratnya tertanggal 18 Agustus 1899 itu.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kartini menyenangi perbincangannya dengan Stella karena gelar bangsawan jarang terselip di setiap balasan suratnya. Kartini senang mengetahui bahwa Stella menganggapnya sebagai perempuan biasa, yang sama-sama lantang dan keras menyerukan kebebasan.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Harapan saya selalu, agar kamu senantiasa memanggil nama saya dan tetap berengkau-kamu kepada saya. Lihat sajalah, betapa baiknya saya mengikuti contohmu," kata Kartini, yang ketika itu berusia 20 tahun.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586809436534221326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955710474002074698.post-20333389516463947902018-03-19T04:36:00.002-07:002018-03-19T04:36:12.228-07:009 Weirdest Naked Events<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">More Weird Naked Events</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. At least there'll be somewhere to park their bikes! Thousands of cyclists dare to bare for the World Naked Bike Ride</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Thousands of cyclists in cities across the country have shed their clothes all to take part in the World Naked Bike Ride.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The dress code for the event is 'bare as you dare' and full or partial nudity is encouraged.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The annual event takes place in more than 70 cities across the world, and hopes to draw attention to the vulnerability of cyclists on the road, while protesting against the dangers of the car-obsessed culture in cities.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The event took place in Manchester on Friday evening with cyclists in London taking part on Saturday afternoon. Tomorrow will be Brighton's turn.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Participants travelling across the world from have been invited to turn up with a bike and encouraged to paint their bodies with pro-cycling messages.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The routes see peddlers ride past famous landmarks including Picadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and Covent Garden in London and St Peter's Square and Town Hall in Manchester.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In Manchester one rider had the message 'fragile' painted on his back, another wore a giant inflatable globe and others painted themselves with black and yellow stripes to resemble bees, or with the worker bee symbol, to celebrate the city of Manchester and to pay tribute to those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing last month.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Becca Warren, from Stretford, proudly took part in the ride with her friend and housemate.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She said: 'I've done this event almost every year. This year we wanted to go with a Manchester bee theme to pay tribute and to celebrate Manchester. And bees are important to our existence.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Joe Smith from Withington, who had his back painted with bee symbols, added: 'We want to pay tribute to this great city.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Participants joyfully sounded their bicycle bells as supportive bystanders took photos and cheered them on.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Organisers of the World Naked Bike Ride have explained why cyclists get away with baring all, stating that nudity is not illegal in England, as was established in the Sexual Offences Act 2003. But using nudity to intentionally cause harassment, alarm or distress may be illegal.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are You Know?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://www.teroes.com/2017/01/10-unique-mausoleums.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="10 Unique Mausoleums">10 Unique Mausoleums</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://www.teroes.com/2017/01/10-most-terrific-twitter-war.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="10 Most Terrific Twitter War">10 Unbelievable Twitter Wars</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://www.teroes.com/2017/01/10-decorate-nipple-to-spirit-of.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="10 Decorate The Nipple To The Spirit Of Christmas">10 Festive Nipple Pasties To Brighten Your Christmas Spirit</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Dancing cheek to cheek! Dance group performs world-first all-naked event... in front of a NUDE audience</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Sydney Dance Company has performed an all naked event in front of a nude audience.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">As part of the Sydney Festival, the world-first event saw the dance company perform choreography inspired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales' summer show Nude: Art from the Tate Collection.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">With ticket sales selling slowly, extra 'nude-only' shows were added to the bill and seats sold out within a day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The show, choreographed by Rafael Bonachela, catered to nudists, or audience members brave enough to bare all. The only rules- no clothes and you had to be over 18.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'When I created this work I was not going to be shy about it,' Bonachela told The Guardian.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'Like, I am bending forward and this is my bumhole. This is how between my legs looks. I didn't choreograph like, "Let's hide this."'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">At the 7.30pm shows on January 14, 23 and 24 the audience were naked.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'Clothed audience members will not be admitted. Bookings for this show are open for people aged 18+,' the AGNSW website reads.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The gallery described the event as a 'journey into an intimate world of art and dance.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'Witness six dancers moving and breathing, their bodies and souls bared as they explore and respond to one of art's greatest subjects, the unclothed human body.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'Dancers respond to paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper by renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud, Henri Matisse and Louise Bourgeois.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Speaking of his sold-out shows, Bonachela said they were a 'career highlight.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'So who knows, I may bring more nudity to the stage. It may have another life,' he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Tokyo bathhouse opens 'naked school' for lecture series</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The "Hinodeyu" public bathhouse in Tokyo's Taito Ward holds an unusual event once a month -- "Hadaka no Gakko (naked school)" -- which is gathering quite favorable reviews.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">For the event, the bathhouse invites its regulars and locals as lecturers to teach classes to visitors as they soak -- naked -- in the hot water of the pools. The idea for the event came from the fourth-generation owner of the bath Yuichi Tamura, 36, as an effort to preserve the culture of the public bathhouse, called "sento" in Japanese, for the next generation. He aims to make the event live up to its name and become a hot community program.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">On May 27, class began before opening hours just past noon at Hinodeyu, only a short distance from Inaricho Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line. The theme for the lesson was the Japanese board game Go. The instructor is the president of IGO Holdings Corp. Kenta Igeta, whose company holds Go workshops and other activities to promote the game. In the men's bath, both Igeta and the guests are enthusiastic about the "naked" lecture. A 30-year-old American participant, Arnold Donald, commented with a laugh, "Because we're all naked, it was a really open and comfortable atmosphere."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In the women's bath, the class on the basics of Go are taught by Igeta to clothed students enjoying the foot bath. The women commented that while the game is difficult, they are eager to learn more, and relaxed chatter filled the bath. "The classes have a nostalgic feeling to them," commented Mitsuko Tanaka, a 46-year-old certified care worker from Katsushika Ward. "When I was a child, adults in the bathhouse would scold me or teach me common sense. I think public bathhouses were originally that kind of educational space."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">However, Tokyo's public bathhouses are facing a difficult situation. Almost every private house has a bath, and both the sento facilities and the people who operate them are aging, resulting in a dwindling number of locations. According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's website, while there were 1,025 public baths at the end of 2005, there were only 602 sento facilities at the end of 2016.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Tamura took over the family business as the head of Hinodeyu after graduating from university. He heard a wide variety of stories from customers while at the facility's reception desk, such as guests who used to fish on tuna boats or make tatami mats. "I thought that if we could share these interesting stories with other customers, the bathhouse would become even more enjoyable," Tamura explained. Thus, the "naked school" was born.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"Being naked closes the distance between teacher and student and makes it easier to ask questions," Tamura said. He hopes that the school will become an impetus for people to think "let's go to the sento."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The "school" opened in March of this year. The plan is to continue to have a teacher make the rounds teaching classes in the men's and women's baths once a month outside of Hinodeyu's normal hours of operation. In the case of the teacher being of the opposite sex, the teacher and participants will hold class clothed at the foot bath.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">So far, Hidenoyu has held lectures by the proprietor of a kitchen tool shop from the nearby Kappabashi wholesale district and by a performer of the traditional Japanese verbal comedy rakugo. Tuition for the classes is included in the price of using the bath -- only 460 yen, and class registration can be carried out on the school's Facebook page "Hadaka no Gakko" (in Japanese).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Nudists celebrate the Summer of Love in Castro</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Nudist revelers celebrated the Summer of Love with a naked parade in the Castro on Saturday afternoon. Wacky hats graced the heads of many participants, but that was about the only item of clothing to be seen, with the exception of the fully clothed passersby and citizen photographers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The permitted parade was organized by nude activist Gypsy Taub, one of the figures on the forefront of the opposition to San Francisco's nudity ban, which was enacted in 2012 by Supervisor Scott Weiner. Taub gave a speech to the small crowd, officially dedicating the festivities to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the "spiritual awakening of unprecedented proportions" it ushered into San Francisco.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"The Summer of Love began in the 60s but it never ended," reads a transcript of the speech on Taub's NSFW website, My Naked Truth.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Marchers joined at Jane Warner Plaza at 11 a.m. before winding their way through the Castro and Haight-Ashbury. Although touted as a parade, protest signs peppered the parade, many scribbled with phrases such as "Say no to body shame" and "Stop the SF nudity ban."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Calgary guys read feminist literature – naked</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">For men or women, however, it does take a certain amount of guts to get on stage and read while naked. Reader James Demers is doing it specifically because it doesn’t feel comfortable. As a trans man, he sees the event as an opportunity for personal growth.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I transitioned almost nine years ago, so the opportunity to take my shirt off is the ultimate goal, because I did put a lot of work into it, to get to a point where I was comfortable with my chest and my body,” he explained.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Demers is expecting the big reveal to be the scariest part, but after that, it’ll just be reading from a good book.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The book in question is Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Her writing is brilliant, she’s really open about her struggles with mental illness and what it means to be famous and being part of the fandom she sort of fell into,” he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The show takes place June 9 at the CommunityWise Resource Centre. For more information, look up Naked Girls Reading Calgary on Facebook.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Eat dinner off of naked people at this dungeon party in Bushwick</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Though it seems that my dreams of wearing my skimpy new Japanese bathing suit keep getting dashed by this grim weather (are we in England?), it looks like the really hot stuff is going down indoors. On Friday, June 16, the wicked-hot dinner party LUST returns to Brooklyn, offering guests the chance to eat meals entirely off of nude models, strip down in "sensual lounge areas," drip wax on human candelabras and party with a crew of "lascivious ladies and sexy man slaves."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The summer edition of the party offers dinner from 7–9:30pm, at which you'll have to use your hands to try delicacies off of nude models. From 9:30pm–3am, the main event goes down, at which you'll witness some of the kinkiest stage acts you've ever seen, wander into designated cuddle puddles and private dungeons and get real close with the scantily-dressed cast of performers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Lush Cosmetics "Get Naked" Day (U.S.)</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In May 2017, Lush Cosmetics asked its employees to show up naked to make a point about the environment. Around 100 people nationwide participated, wearing only their sneakers and black work aprons, emblazoned with “Get Naked.” On an Instagram post showing several nearly nude workers, Lush said its “brave lushies across North America (voluntarily) stripped down to shed light on the detrimental impact of over-packaging.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The company has been asking its employees to show up in the buff one day a year for the past decade. The event is “completely voluntary" for employees to participate or not.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Aussies get naked in Sydney for an ocean dip as thousands take on annual nude swim for charity</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A THOUSAND naked swimmers bared all as they joined the fifth annual Sydney Skinny ocean swim and leapt in the sea with abandon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The event saw 1,335 swimmers strip off at Cobbler's Beach today for the "spectator free" session in the water.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">It is held at a secluded beach in the Sydney Harbour National Park.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">World Champion surfer Layne Beachley and author and founder Nigel Marsh joined the record number of swimmers who came from all over the country to join in the fun for charity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Although the ocean swim has a 300 or 900 metre course, it is not about racing or being naked, organisers say.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. ‘Body Notes’ painting project at Times Square attracts more than 100 naked models</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">More than 100 men and women were in the buff in Times Square on Friday afternoon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Body Notes” — a free event created by artists Andy Golub and Matthew Chavez — features nude participants covered in body paint, which helps spread the artists’ message of acceptance and body positivity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Everyone feels that being naked is such a big thing but in reality that’s just who we are,” said Golub, 44. “When you experience this, it quickly becomes no big deal.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Chavez, 28, from Gilroy, Calif., is also the street artist behind the sticky notes project in the 14th St. subway station tunnel last November.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Body Notes” is a combined effort from the artists that precedes next month’s fourth annual New York City Bodypainting Day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Men and women, young and old, painted each other in yellow, orange and blue paint on Friday. Then, artists painted written messages on their chests.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Brooklynite Amanda Cerami, a 20-year-old student from Williamsburg, wore the words “exist in this reality.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I never really ever felt this alive before,” said Cerami. “It is an adrenaline rush to be in front of all these people and not care what they think of me.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Hundreds of people stopped to photograph nude models of all shapes and sizes. Nicole DuBow, a 44-year-old office administrator from Rockland County, said Golub’s events are for everybody.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I am here to promote body positivity,” she said. “Everybody is perfect.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Some people in the crowd planned to attend the event. Others were simply passing by.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Tasha Levell, of West Hempstead, L.I., was in shock — but not surprised at the army of naked bodies.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“This is what makes New York New York,” she said.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586809436534221326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955710474002074698.post-32440359174650393892018-03-19T04:35:00.003-07:002018-03-19T04:35:37.498-07:0010 Strange Men's Fashion Trends<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Bizarre Men’s Fashion Trends</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A bright patterned suit with a matching patterned tie. Who in the world would wear that?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Lots of people, as it turns out, including celebrities like Jimmy Kimmel, Tom Hanks in an SNL Halloween skit, and too many sports teams to list.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Half joke and half wry sartorial comment — but always worn with the tongue placed firmly in the cheek — Opposuits' garments have become a kind of revolution for men who don't take their wardrobe choices too seriously.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"We created something that is somewhere in between fashion and novelty. It's much cooler than a costume and it isn't fashion either," Opposuits cofounder Jelle van der Zwet told Business Insider.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Let's be clear here: Opposuits' offerings are not for nine-to-five weekday warriors. And van der Zwet makes no bones about it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"People are not wearing our stuff to work," he clarifies, adding that it's for those "who don't take themselves too seriously" yet "want to maintain a sense of style when they go to a party."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But the business behind it is no laughing matter. The Dutch company behind it says it sells hundreds of thousands of suits a year, with growth doubling year over year. Each ensemble, which includes the jacket, pants, and tie all in the same pattern, retails for $99.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">It all started in 2010, when three friends from the Netherlands backpacking through Vietnam got the idea to create bright orange suits for the Dutch holiday King's Day. It took until 2012 for the idea to fully manifest. They created 2,000 of the orange suits before the 2012 UEFA European Championship football (soccer) competition. The suits sold out in two weeks.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Looking to the UK and the 2012 Olympics in London, Opposuits went international for the first time. With different styles, like one with a Union Jack flag print, the suits made a similar splash.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A year and a half later, Opposuits expanded to America, which has since become its largest market in terms of revenue and product sold. The company now sells virtually worldwide, with distribution centers in the Netherlands, UK, Canada, US, and Australia.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"We knew that we had a very universal and international type of potential with the product that we were [selling]," van der Zwet said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">This appeal has enabled the suits to go viral. It seems that every time a celebrity, group of friends at prom, wedding party, or sports team dons the suits, it becomes a viral news story.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"Organically the message and brand spreads itself very quickly because once someone has seen at a certain event or festival it's such a conversation starter that people would know about it right away," van der Zwet said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">He said that wearers of the suits get so much attention, they stick business cards advertising the company in the pockets of the suits before shipping them to customers, amping up the word-of-mouth effect.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Opposuits' offerings are both seasonal and evergreen, and it sells "ugly Christmas suits" in department stores during the holiday season — and at Halloween-themed costume stores in the fall.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">It has expanded its offerings with the licensing of brands like "Star Wars" and, soon, Marvel superhero characters, which marks an important distinction between Opposuits and the companies that have sprung up to imitate it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Off the back of the success of the men's line, Opposuits also launched a women's line last year. A line of suits designed to fit children is forthcoming this year, which van der Zwet said he sees as another "wow moment" for the company.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are You Know?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://www.teroes.com/2017/01/10-holiday-recipe-fails-that.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="10 Holiday Recipe Fails That Unbelievable">10 Unbelievable Holiday Recipe Fails</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://www.teroes.com/2017/01/8-touching-letters-for-santa.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="8 Touching Letters For Santa">8 Touching Letters To Santa</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://www.teroes.com/2017/01/10-hilarious-end-of-2016-memes.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="10 Hilarious End Of 2016 Memes">10 Hilarious End Of 2016 Memes</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">RompHim, a line of rompers for men, was launched on Kickstarter by ACED Design in spring 2017 and exceeded its $10,000 goal on the first day. (ACED currently has $355,324 pledged!)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The guys behind the line collaborated with one of Chicago's "top fashion design consultancies" to bring men a piece of clothing that's "stylish and fun without also sacrificing comfort, fit, and versatility."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The "brompers" will retail for $119, though early adopters can get them for a little cheaper.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Lace Separates</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Hot on the tail of the RompHim, a streetwear brand has introduced a line of pastel, see-through lace shorts and button-downs just for men for about $100 a set. The outfit, created by the Hoza Rodriguez under the Hologram City brand, comes in pistachio, pink, baby blue, violet, and yellow. The collar and white belt are the least see-through part of the ensemble, with tightie-whities peeking through the lace.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Square Toe Shoes</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Men’s fashion bible GQ has launched a campaign to banish an item of men's footwear forever: the square-toe shoe.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The editors of the US edition of GQ published the call to arms on Wednesday, urging people to persuade their friends and family to stop wearing the “f***ing ugly” footwear.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But, the magazine’s revulsion against the style only starts there. Beyond a brutal article, they’ve actually launched a full-on movement involving social media - #NoSquareToes – and a campaign ad that cautions mislead men about the dangers of STS or Square-toe Shoe Syndrome.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Men’s fashion bible GQ has launched a campaign to banish an item of men's footwear forever: the square-toe shoe.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The editors of the US edition of GQ published the call to arms on Wednesday, urging people to persuade their friends and family to stop wearing the “f***ing ugly” footwear.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But, the magazine’s revulsion against the style only starts there. Beyond a brutal article, they’ve actually launched a full-on movement involving social media - #NoSquareToes – and a campaign ad that cautions mislead men about the dangers of STS or Square-toe Shoe Syndrome.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Balenciaga, Maison Margiela, and Gucci all showed the style in their spring/summer 2017 collections, which we’re sure the recent obsession with retro garb has something to do with.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">But, let it be known – they didn’t work in the 90s and they certainly don’t work now.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Back in 2013, the menswear bible surely saw this coming and attempted to solidify its stance on the shape of men’s shoes.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. We Warned You: Chokers For Men Are Here, Thanks To ASOS</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">So, men's chokers have, in fact, trickled down to fast fashion. You can now buy one (or a few) at ASOS. We don't want to say we told you so, but yes, the nostalgic necklace is fully coed now. Click through to see the trend that's sending Twitter into a tizzy (or to cop one of your own).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">This story was originally published on July 17th, 2016.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Those of you watching Men's Fashion Month may have noticed something familiar on the runways. You know that necklace trend that celebrities (and their moms) are overexerting at the moment? The one from the '90s? Right, so chokers are the accessory of the moment, and it looks like very expensive neck-stranglers are happening in menswear for spring 2017.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Between Paris, London, New York, and Milan, chokers found their way to the necks of pretty boys in pretty clothes. And what you'll see in the slideshow ahead is evidence that they invaded the pages of lookbooks, too. They came in all shapes, sizes, and colors: collars, bandanas (a lot of them), chains, and more. Of course, trends have no gender these days, which is what makes them so versatile and, in turn, extends their shelf life in your closet. But man, this '90s thing is really wearing itself out.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. HIPPIES ARE THE NEW HIPSTERS</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">You’ve probably seen her on your Instagram feed: a woman awash in natural light, wearing a cocoon-shaped dress in a shade of golden turmeric or faded paprika. She wears flat leather sandals, has unkempt-but-pretty hair, and is likely in the company of a handmade ceramic, a succulent plant, or a piece of avocado toast. She is LA’s Silver Lake shaman, and she’s coming soon to a city near you.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">THE SILVER LAKE SHAMAN</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Silver Lake shaman is the heir apparent to the Brooklyn lumberjack—a lifestyle concept popularized by the young dwellers of New York City’s hippest borough. As Brooklyn became an international brand, selvage denim, artisanal whiskey, and Edison bulbs have proliferated in the “Brooklyns” of Paris, Chicago, and Tokyo. Although the reign of the Brooklyn lumberjack has felt eternal, it seems now that his final winter has waned (he flourishes in cooler months), and the springtime of a new aesthetic is upon us. Close your eyes and breathe in the Palo Santo.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In recent years, the cultural lens (and Instagram feed) has shifted its focus to Los Angeles, and to a very a specific idea of it at that. This is not the LA of spray-tanning, silicone, and Malibu mansions, any more than the Brooklyn lumberjack was related to the power suits of Wall Street in their Manhattan skyscrapers. No, the shaman’s natural habitat is more desert canyon than beach; more Duplass Brothers than Michael Bay; more feminine mystique than masculine posturing. It lies to the east of Hollywood, in the hills of Silver Lake, Los Feliz, and Echo Park—the epicenter of this easygoing wave, which is on the verge of becoming a global tsunami.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">If the Brooklyn lumberjack was nostalgic for the 1870s, the Silver Lake shaman yearns for an imaginary era that melds the flowing gauze dresses and high-waisted dungarees of the 1970s with the minimalism of the 1990s. The SLS seems to long for a simpler life, where dyeing fabric with wildflowers or brewing coconut oil-based skin salves take precedence over dialing in to conference calls. (Same!)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">While the tech bros of New York and San Francisco—and even the west side of LA, where Snapchat, Facebook, and YouTube reside—embrace uniform dressing via Uniqlo, Bonobos, and this J.Crew gingham shirt, the east side shamans’ clothing is distinctly anti-tech, with natural textures, sun-bleached colors, and finishings that suggest a human touch.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Silver Lake shaman is no more an actual shaman than the Brooklyn lumberjack felled trees for a living, but the lifestyle does include supplies a person might find in a healer’s tipi: crystals, smudge sticks, and essential oils among them. (And she might well sip “a copper cup of silver needle and calendula tea” for breakfast.)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. How ‘alt-beauty’ became the hottest trend in men’s fashion</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">kranian model Danyl K thinks he looks like “a pig”. Maksym, another model from Kiev, describes himself as “alien-like”, while, the day before, his almost namesake Maksym P was scouted in a crowd, having just shaved off his hair. And yet these models are three of the biggest emerging faces on the catwalk and a sign that unconventional “alt-beauty” is the latest trend in men’s fashion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">For these models, symmetry is not a requisite. A slightly sallow pallor is ideal, wonky oversized features are also fine; the bigger the nose, the ears and the lips – the better. Modelling trends, like fashion, vacillate wildly – and the physical nuances often reflect the mood of the industry. In the 90s, the industry big guns (Armani, Versace) reigned, as did the Supers – instantly recognisable, conventionally beautiful models such as Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss were muses, and as famous as the clothes they modelled. There was the male equivalent, too, with Swede beefcakes such as Alex Lundqvist and Marcus Schenkenberg dominating. Dishearteningly, bar Tyson Beckford, almost all of the big names in male modelling have been white, a trend that continued into the 00s. They have also tended towards the pretty and slight, or hyper-conventional, like David Gandy. Aided by social media, this It generation, paved the way for a new era of Insta-models this decade, with names such as Gigi Hadid and Lucky Blue Smith cultivating as large a presence online as on the catwalk. But while their rise through unconventional channels has possibly helped enable a more diverse aesthetic, few would have predicted the alt-model to be this season’s look. Or that they would overwhelmingly come from former Soviet states.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The trend was arguably propelled by Eva Gödel, who runs the German agency Tomorrow Is Another Day. She has described the boys she scouts as “guys who may not consider themselves good-looking enough to apply”. She prefers to focus on “the way people move, how they dress and do their hair, how emotion crosses their faces”. Gödel discovered Paul Hameline, now Vetements muse, standing at an ATM in Le Marais, Paris. Like most alt-models, he was reluctant (most are baffled at being scouted, although this was the fourth time Hameline had been approached), but he has since walked for labels including Kenzo and Hood By Air. Another model signed to Gödel’s agency is Berliner Steve Morell, who recently walked the Balenciaga show. “I have a characteristic face, cheekbones, big eyes,” he says. “It’s like an elegant, bizarre, 80s character.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Avdotja Alexandrova founded the Russian agency Lumpen in 2014; it follows a similar aesthetic. “I think that the time of faceless models is over,” she says, adding that the defining characteristic of those on her books is that they are unglamorous. Meanwhile, Kiev-based agency Cat-b – home to Danyl and the two Maksyms – is run by Marija Pogrebniak, who says there is no look to describe her models – they are all “blossoms in one vase”. She recently scouted someone because they looked like a squirrel; another because of the way they smelled.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The shift towards an alternative look isn’t new. Casting real people in catwalk shows became so close to the norm that the term “nodels” was coined by the industry in 2015. Designers such as Nasir Mazhar, Kanye West and Eckhaus Latta have all used models that were not cast from the western beauty mould, often found on Instagram or, more commonly, “the street”. If the look is esoteric, then it’s supposed to be. Most of these models have second jobs, often artistic ones, as it’s thought to add an edge.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">What is new, however, is the dominance of former Soviet countries, as designers look to cast their models from the same region, so as to reflect the same aesthetic. The last few years has seen a generation of “eastern bloc” designers, most famously Demna Gvsalia of Vetements and now Balenciaga. Gosha Rubchinskiy, a Russian designer and one of the first to cast almost exclusively non-models (most were skater friends from Russia) has spoken of how “models can be part of the look, the styling”. His clothes fall under a category now known as gopnik, a Russian word meaning roughly “yob” – which unfortunately tends towards all-white casting, and for which Gvsalia has been criticised.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Of course, pairing a particular look to a region is problematic. This fetishisation of post-Soviet style has been growing in the west – since joining Balenciaga last year, Gvsalia has instilled his unique, oversized, 90s-infused look into the once trad, historic French fashion house to steady critical rapture. For the models themselves, this lumping together of countries that have little in common bar a traumatic past is troubling. “This so-called eastern bloc is just a new space for western people,” says Maksym P, who feels the shift resembles a modern-day orientalism.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">What’s more, diversity is not without its limitations. These models may not be conventionally handsome, but they conform to the usual sizing, are predominantly white, and are uniformly odd-looking.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Still, it does mark a shift in some standards in the industry. And while 2017 may not be a banner year for relations between Russia and the west, it is, in striking contrast, a good year for fashion – and its models.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Pagan knights in shining armor. Layers on layers as a defense mechanism. Something knitty and cozy—the epitome of British craft.” Jonathan Anderson was in succinct mode when explaining the makings of his Fall menswear collection. His models—more fresh-faced squires than battle-hardened knights, really—were certainly a touch medieval, what with their elongated tabard-shaped tops and the heraldic symbols and patches depicting stained glass windows sewn to their sweaters and jeans. Still, there was a sense of cool, lanky elegance about them as they strode around in their fluid flares, trailing their super long sleeves and long cable-knit scarves. Well, elegance that can exist in the same sentence as the homespun crochet blanket, that is.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Where do these strands originate?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">An instinctive reflex in these apocalyptic times is to picture our days as a descent into the Dark Ages—surely a prime reason for the brutal resonance of Game of Thrones. Part of Anderson's brain has drifted in that direction recently. He's reportedly a voracious accumulator of arcane historical research, trawler of antique markets, and bric-a-brac hound. His last womenswear collection had jackets based on Henry VIII's doublets. Perhaps he bumped into the crochet blankets on a church stall back home in Northern Ireland? Crochet squares aren't something you'd think you could finesse, though—they are what they are, even if adapted as over-shoe coverings. On the other hand, Anderson and his stylist, Benjamin Bruno, stared at them long enough in the studio for something else to occur to them. “Ben and I thought, actually they look like iPhone apps!”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Be that as it may, as ever, Anderson's knack comes down to his crystal clear commercial clarity about simple, wearable items. In this case, there's no doubt about the standouts. One: the immediate desirability of this season's deep side-pocketed sailor flares, which he'd do well to continue in his womenswear. And two: the camel granddad cardigan with two patch pockets in grandma crochet, a souvenir of this collection, rendered down to its essence.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. GQ Trend: Haircuts with Bangs for Men in 2017</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">GQ is also coming out against bangs, which are making a comeback, thanks to celebs like Jared Leto and Justin Bieber. At best, they call to mind E.R.-era George Clooney's mid-90s often-copied Caesar cut. At worst, they look more than a little sleazy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Men’s Fall 2017</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">As America watched Donald Trump prepare to be sworn in as America's 45th president, Kawakubo provided a spectacle all her own.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Rei Kawakubo was ready to play, with a collection called “Boyhood” that sparkled — in parts — like Dorothy’s ruby slippers while models wore party wigs — in pink, lime or screaming yellow — and carried rubbery kids’ toys like jelly molds on their asymmetrical tailcoats, oversize T-shirts and high-top sneakers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">As America watched Donald Trump prepare to be sworn in as America’s 45th president, Kawakubo provided a spectacle all her own, one that was filled with contrasts: dark and bright; long and short; matte and sparkly; innocent and sinister.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She put her individual stamp on so many of the trends that are emerging this week — protective layering for turbulent times, deconstruction, ath-leisure-inspired ease — and lots of playfulness.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Kawakubo’s boys, their heads adorned with mop-top wigs, sported patchwork tailcoats paved with ruby sparkles, or dusted with bright blue ones. Shiny quilted flowers — or matte flocked ones — blossomed across the fronts of some jackets while embroidered white horned skulls or spiders and colored, rubbery molds in the shape of animals and toy trains popped on the backs and fronts of others.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Some tailcoats had only one tail — the other side was lopped off — while other jackets were so wrinkled they looked as if they’d been slept in for at least a week. They were layered over long and fluttery cotton tunic shirts or tight crop tops, fur vests and dark frilly ones, too. When she wasn’t working her palette of black, Kawakubo was dabbling with print — specifically an abstract camouflage one — in primary brights that mirrored the colors of the rubbery toys.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Those toys were by Scott Hove while the Nike Air Force 1s were customized by the house. The prints were by Candida Alvarez.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Trousers came in exaggerated shapes and sizes, including ballooning Charlie Chaplin ones that tapered around the ankle and wide and floppy shorts that hit just past the knee.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Did her show rival the one unfolding on the steps of the U.S. Capitol? Probably not, but it was an attention-grabber nonetheless and proof that Kawakubo remains a fashion superpower.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586809436534221326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955710474002074698.post-38527451886802720292018-03-19T04:35:00.000-07:002018-03-19T04:35:05.502-07:0010 Strangest Head-Tuning Heels<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Craziest Head-Tuning Heels</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Keiko Otsuhata Created Pigeon Heels to Befriend the Pigeons of Ueno Park</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Many great ideas in Japan are often inspired by a simple pun. Such was the case for designer Keiko Otsuhata, who was thinking about pigeons one day when the word “hato-heel” jumped into her head. Hato is Japanese for pigeon, and, while acknowledging that it’s rather weak as a pun, she began imagining what hato-heels might look like, and whether or not she could camouflage her feet as pigeons.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">So she did what any creative designer would do: she ordered a pair of cheap heels online and went to work. She documents her creative process in an article she wrote but the results are quite fantastic. Using primarily felt and some paint and glue she created an adorable pair of hato-heels.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She then wore them to Tokyo’s Ueno Park, which is known for their abundant and sometimes overly-friendly pigeons. At first the pigeons are a bit standoffish but they soon accept Otsuhata’s hato-heels as one of their own.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Otsuhata has no plans on selling her hato-heels, but she does sell plenty of other whimsical creations in her shop such as water-puking lion broaches and fish cases.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are You Know?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://www.teroes.com/2017/10/ten-awesome-and-mesmerizing-fidget.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ten Awesome and Mesmerizing Fidget Spinner Videos">10 Most Awesome and Mesmerizing Fidget Spinner Videos</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://www.teroes.com/2017/09/12-coolest-chicken-coop-ever.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="12 Coolest Chicken Coop Ever">12 Coolest Chicken Coops</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://www.teroes.com/2017/09/10-coolest-sleeping-bag-ever.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="10 Coolest Sleeping Bag Ever">10 Coolest Sleeping Bag Ever</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Oscar Tiye’s Minnie Mouse–Inspired Heels Are the Chicest Way to Wear Your Love of Disney</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Minnie Mouse stiletto heels are here and they might be the chicest way possible to wear your love of Disney. Refinery29 reports Italian accessory and shoe designer Oscar Tiye is responsible for the creation, which boasts a sleek one-strap sandal design, complete with a pair of round Minnie Mouse ears at the back of the ankle. Though that detail only appears at closer inspection, as from afar, they can easily be mistaken for a bow-like accent.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Aptly named the “Minnie,” you can pick up these Disney-inspired heels for a cool $450 to $700, depending on the style. The heel varies, in terms of chunkiness, as does the fabric — some are made of satin, glitter, or, even, a denim weave. They all have the same whimsical draw, though: those Minnie Mouse ears.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">This isn’t the first-time Disney characters have been at the hands of a designer makeover. Magic Kingdom fans might recall Comme des Garçons’s avant take on the mouse ears back in 2011 and, again, in 2014. (The Disney demand is real.) Not to mention, Gucci’s creative head Alessandro Michele put Daffy Duck at the forefront of his men’s collection last summer.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Dolce & Gabbana Siciliano Heels</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Dolce and Gabbana live and breathe Italian spirit - reflected within their collection of sleek ready-to-wear and accessories that redefine Sicilian seductiveness. These multicoloured cotton and leather Carretto Siciliano print pumps feature an almond toe, a brand embossed insole, an ankle strap with a side buckle fastening, rhinestone embellishments, a platform sole, a sculpted Sicilian lady high heel and a signature Carretto Siciliano (Sicilian cart) print.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Changeable Heels</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Many women know the burden of wearing heels all day, so this shoe might be a solution for those who don't want to change their outfit, but wants to slow down (or speed up) by the end of the day. Mime et moi created shoes that can have low heels for the morning and high heels for the evening. They vary not only in height, but in shape, and color as well. The sandals can be adjusted to any situation and style in an instant. They are an optimal combination of luxury and comfort, and perfect for daily use.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Creative High Heel Designs by Kobi Levi</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Israeli footwear designer Kobi Levi uses his wild imagination to create some of the most unusual high heels you’ll ever see. While his wearable sculptures are absolutely cool to look at, I doubt that I’d have the courage to wear some of them in public.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“In my artistic footwear design the shoe is my canvas. The trigger to create a new piece comes when an idea, a concept and/or an image comes to mind. The combination of the image and footwear creates a new hybrid and the design/concept comes to life. The piece is a wearable sculpture. It is “alive” with/out the foot/body. Most of the inspirations are out of the “shoe-world”, and give the footwear an extreme transformation. The result is usually humoristic with a unique point of view about footwear.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. The Wonderfully Nerdy Shoes of Orion's Originals</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">These sweet Star Wars shoes might not match, but they go together perfectly. That's because they were designed and assembled by one-of-a-kind Etsy shoe seller Orion's Originals.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Their shoes aren't all inspired by Star Wars -nor are they all heels. These light-up Ghostbusters sneakers look like they've been covered in ectoplasma. In other words, they've been slimed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">And these mermaid shoes have a wedge perfectly shaped like a curvy tail that is sure to make the wearer happy to have legs to put them on.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Bird-Witched | Cock-inspired Stilettos by Masaya Kushino</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Japanese shoe designer Masaya Kushino, known for his extravagant creations that walk a thin line between footwear and sculpture, has created a new line of shoes inspired by the chicken. “Bird-Witched” actually takes its cue from Jakuchu Ito, “a legendary painter who flourished during the Edo period in the 18th century,” says Kushino. “He depicted real life animals such as birds, tigers, and elephants in a really ingenious way, tinged with a bit of insanity.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">For his latest collection, Kushino decided to depict the process of a bird turning into a pair of luxurious, feather-clad shoes. But Kushino reassures us that the shoes aren’t only to look at. They are fundamentally wearable footwear which, in Kushino’s mind, clearly separates them from standalone art objects.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Bird-Witched is currently on display at the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art. But Kushino’s heels will be traveling to the US for an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum later this year.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Beautifully Detailed Wooden Heels Carved Using Ancient Vietnamese Pagoda Techniques</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">For many women, there’s no such thing as too many shoes. But no matter how many pairs you have in your wardrobe, chances are that you don’t own a pair like this. Not yet anyway.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">They’re part of a range called Saigon Socialite and they’re made by a Vietnamese company called Fashion4Freedom. Each pair has a leather top and a wooden base that’s carved using techniques taken from Vietnam’s ancient pagoda wood art. The style is both a homage to the country’s tradition as well as a contemporary re-imagining of it, and given that each pair takes up to three weeks to make, they’re as much works of art as they are fashionable footwear.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Orphanages receive free shoe samples and Fashion4Freedom donates unused materials to schools. The company also teaches local villagers manufacturing techniques in order to help them boost their income. So when you buy a pair, not only do you get an awesome addition to your footwear collection – you also get the piece of mind that your money has been well spent. You can buy them on Etsy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Tentacle High Heels And Other Crazy Shoes By Filipino Designer Kermit Tesoro</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“Difficult” shoes like this squid-design have won Filipino fashion and shoe designer Kermit Tesoro celebrity patronage. The 27-year-old drew the attention of Lady Gaga with his famous skull-heel shoes, which resulted in Tesoro’s heel-less design being featured in Gaga’s Gilt collection.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“I want to translate people’s deviations into my own creations,” Tesoro told StyleBible. “It’s like a fashion interpretation of the biological or psychological deviation of a person. I’ve always been driven to create clothing articles based on inner conflicts or the inability to control one’s inner impulses or failure to structure one’s behavior in an orderly way.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Kermit Tesoro studied at UP Diliman College of Fine Arts. He enjoys going to hardware stores, collects books, and is a Nina Simone fan. Tesoro’s advice for aspiring designers: “Study, research, learn, identify the craft and avoid subverting or revolting without a cause.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Rolling BB-8 Shoes</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">If you wear high heeled shoes often, then you know how hard it can be to traverse difficult terrain, such as the deserts of Jakku. That's why you need this modification by Instructables member Mike Warren. His BB-8 heels make good use of the droid's spherical locomotion to keep you on the move.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Warren first removed the heels and replaced them with long bolts. Then he shaped wood spheres into our newest favorite droid, making sure that they rotate freely. Warren also decorated the rest of the shoes in BB-8's colors and graphic patterns.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586809436534221326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955710474002074698.post-49813374237662086802018-03-19T04:34:00.002-07:002018-03-19T04:34:28.166-07:007 Unbelievable Ironic Preacher Tragedies<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Unbelievably Ironic Preacher Deaths</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Snake Salvation pastor dies from snake bite</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A snake-handling pastor who appeared on US TV show Snake Salvation has died after being bitten by a rattlesnake.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Jamie Coots was holding the snake at his church in Middlesboro, Kentucky, when he was bitten on the hand, according to fellow preacher Cody Winn.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Middlesboro Police Department said Coots refused to have medical treatment for the bite.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Coots said last year that he needed the snakes for religious reasons, citing a Bible passage in Mark's gospel.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The handlers' religious conviction is based on a passage in Mark's gospel which reads: "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">National Geographic said in a statement that it was struck by Coots' "devout religious convictions despite the health and legal peril he often faced".</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A police statement said that when an ambulance arrived at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name church on Saturday evening, staff were told Coots had gone home.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Coots was contacted at his house but refused to have any treatment. Emergency workers returned later in the evening, by which time Coots had died.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Mr Winn said that after the bite in church, Coots dropped the snake but then picked it up again.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"He had one of the rattlers in his hand," he told a local news station. "It just turned its head and bit him in the back of the hand... within a second."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Coots' son, also named Cody, said his father had been bitten eight times before but had never had such a severe reaction. He said the family thought he would recover as he had on previous occasions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"We're going to go home, he's going to lay on the couch. He's going to hurt. He's going to pray for a while and he's going to get better," Cody Coots said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"That's what happened every other time, except this time was just so quick and it was crazy."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Last year Jamie Coots was caught transporting three rattlesnakes and two copperheads through Knoxville, Tennessee. The snakes were confiscated.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Coots subsequently pleaded guilty to illegal wildlife possession and was given one year of unsupervised probation.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">In 1995 28-year-old Melinda Brown, of Parrottsville, Tennessee, died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake at Coots' church.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A church pastor in Zimbabwe was reportedly killed earlier this year after being attacked by crocodiles while attempting to recreate the biblical story of Jesus walking on water.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Pastor Jonathan Mthethwa of the Saint of the Last Days Church was 'eaten' by the animals, according to a report from user-generated news site Zimbabwe Today dated March 24.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The story has since been published around the world after it was picked up over the weekend by the Daily Post of Zimbabwe, which cited the Herald Zimbabwe as source.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">According to reports, Mr Mthethwa had walked into the water at the aptly named Crocodile River, and was around 30 meters from the bank when the animals attacked.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Eyewitness Deacon Nkosi, a member of the church, was quoted as saying: “The pastor taught us about faith on Sunday last week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“He promised he would demonstrate his faith to us today, but he unfortunately ended up drowning and getting eaten by three large crocodiles in front of us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">“We still don’t understand how this happened because he fasted and prayed the whole week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"They finished him in a couple of minutes. All that was left of him when they finished eating him is a pair of sandals and his underwear floating above the water.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">According to reports, emergency services arrived within half an hour of the attack taking place, but they were unable to help the unfortunate pastor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Pastor Drops Dead During His Infidelity Confession At Pulpit</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">When Bishop Bobby Davis (pictured) stood behind his Miracle Faith World Outreach Church in Bridgeport, Ct. pulpit last Sunday to allegedly confess his infidelity to his congregation, he suddenly keeled over and died during the overwhelming chants of forgiveness from sympathetic church members, according to Christian Post.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Davis, who had been pastor of the popular Bridgeport church since 1967, was rushed to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead; the cause is still unknown and an autopsy is pending.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The pastor, who was also a certified marriage and family therapist with a doctorate degree in ministry and a Master’s degree in theological studies, celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary with his wife, Christine, last June. Together, they founded their present church.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Reportedly, the bishop did not decide to come clean to his congregants of his own fruition; instead, his wife insisted he confess his shortcomings to his faithful followers, after he broke the news to her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">According to congregant Judy Stovall, who spoke to the Christian Post after the church service, Davis and his family asked the congregants to remain because he needed to confess something in his life that had taken place a while ago. “He wanted to come clean with all of us. He wanted to ask our forgiveness,” Stovall told the news outlet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">During Davis’ alleged infidelity confession, his own children, who apparently did not know about their dad’s transgression, reportedly reacted violently toward him. According to an unnamed source who spoke to the Christian Post, “Apparently, it was his family members who reacted out in anger, from what I understand. It was not the congregation,” the source noted. “It got physical. One of the sons attacked him. I was told one of the daughters poured water on him. It was like something out of — not even like the Old Testament — but a bad reality TV show,” said the source. “My heart is so devastated because it could have been handled in a private manner.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Meanwhile the congregants, on the other hand, were shouting sympathetic phrases of forgiveness to the pastor who appeared overwhelmed by the outpouring of love from his church-goers, according to Stovall. “We were shouting, `We forgive you; we love you,’ but the stress of all of it — he had a heart attack,” Stovall told the newspaper. After Davis unexpectedly passed out, Stovall said,”I held his head as he lay on the floor…. Our congregation is hurting now.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Police were summoned to investigate the Davis case and have interviewed scores of witnesses. Investigators have also confiscated a video that was taken of the pastor’s stirring confession.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Pastor dies after 30 days of fasting to beat Jesus record</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A South African pastor, Alfred Ndlovu has died of malnutrition after going without food for 30 days when he tried to emulate Jesus Christ and fast for 40 days and 40 nights.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Buzz South Africa reports that the 44-year-old pastor left home on June 17 for a nearby bush to have prayers, just like Jesus did. Attempting to equal or break Jesus Christ record of fasting for 40 days, Mr Alfred Ndlovu died just a month despite having no history of illness. He was alone in the wilderness and his body was found by a stranger who then called on the police. He was known by his family and community at large as a very spiritual person whose faith could move mountains and his death surprised everyone, even church members.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Pastor Dies While Performing Baptism</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">WACO, Tx. (AP)- A pastor performing a baptism Sunday, Oct. 30 was electrocuted inside his church after grabbing a microphone while partially submerged, a church employee said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was standing in water in a baptismal at University Baptist Church when he was electrocuted Sunday morning, said Jamie Dudley, a church business administrator and wife of another pastor there. The water in a baptismal usually reaches above the waist, said Byron Weathersbee, interim university chaplain at Baylor University.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Lake was stepping into the baptismal when he reached out to adjust a nearby microphone, which produced an electric shock, said Ben Dudley, the church's community pastor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Doctors in the congregation rushed to help Lake, who had collapsed, Ben Dudley said. Lake was taken by ambulance to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, where nursing supervisor Pat Mahl said he was pronounced dead.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The woman Lake was baptizing apparently had not stepped into the water, Ben Dudley said. She was taken to the hospital as a precaution, but was not seriously injured, he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Pastors at University Baptist Church routinely use a microphone during baptisms, Jamie Dudley said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear," she said. "It's the only way you can be loud enough."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">About 800 people attended the morning service, which was larger than normal because it was homecoming weekend at nearby Baylor University, she said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"At first, there was definitely confusion just because everyone was trying to figure out what was going on," Ben Dudley said in a story in Monday's Waco Tribune-Herald. "Everyone just immediately started praying."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Lake, who had a wife and three children, had been at the church for nine years, the last seven as pastor, she said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">At a remembrance attended by about 1,000 people Sunday night at First Baptist Church, Ben Dudley told the UBC congregation that they would move forward as a church.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"I don't know how, when, why, where or what's going to happen, but we will continue as a church in the community because that is what Kyle would have wanted," he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. New Orleans Pastor Drops Dead After Telling Congregation, 'If The Lord Called Me Now I'm Ready'</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A New Orleans pastor collapsed suddenly and died in the middle of preaching a sermon at Greater Saint Mary Baptist Church in the Algiers community on Sunday after declaring to his congregation: "If the Lord called me now, I'm ready."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Pastor Kenneth Green, 56, was preaching on theBook of Psalms in a sermon titled "Down But Not Out" and made an ironic declaration shortly before collapsing, according to church member Joan Martin.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"And then he had mentioned that if the Lord called me now 'I'm ready to go,'" Martin told local news outlet WDSU.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The sudden death shocked the congregation and Martin burst out in tears when she saw her pastor tumble to the ground.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"He took a swallow of water, before he took water he wiped his face, and then he looked up and it looked like his eyes were rolled back, like there was no life in his eyes, and he tumbled over. Everybody was in a state of shock people were crying," she said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Paramedics arrived shortly after he collapsed but were unable to revive him, according to Martin.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She said Green was a kind man who was there for anyone needing prayer and served others by taking sick people to the hospital and helping the homeless.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Green buried both of Martin's sons and was there to comfort her during her time of grieving. For that, she wants people to remember him as a man of God who died living out his purpose.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">"Remember his love for God and the work he did for God, and how he tried to be everything for everybody," she said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Green leaves behind a wife and three children. The family is currently awaiting autopsy results.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Martin said Green did not have a known health condition and described him as "very healthy."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Green pastored Greater St. Mary Baptist Church for 8 years. The church is part of the United Church of Algiers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Christian Post contacted both Greater St. Mary Baptist Church and the United Church of Algiers. Both churches had no comment at the time of publication.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">A Presbyterian minister collapsed and died at the pulpit after saying “And when I go to heaven...,” his colleague said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Stampede!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">C'mon — what's not to like?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Hoof it over to Facebook to join the weird news herd.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Rev. Jack Arnold, 69, was nearing the end of his sermon Sunday at Covenant Presbyterian Church when he grabbed the podium before falling to the floor, said the Rev. Michael S. Beats, the church’s associate pastor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Before collapsing, Arnold quoted the 18th-century Bible scholar John Wesley, who said, “Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus,” Beats said in a telephone interview.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Several parishioners with medical backgrounds tried to revive Arnold and paramedics were called, but he appeared to die instantly, Beats said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Arnold had been the senior minister at the church in this Orlando suburb until the late 1990s when he began traveling to Africa and the Middle East to teach pastors.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The cause of death was believed to be cardiac arrest. He had bypass surgery five years earlier.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586809436534221326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955710474002074698.post-22539971053201366772018-03-19T04:33:00.002-07:002018-03-19T04:33:40.737-07:0010 Unbelievable Trends Of Instagram in Summer 2017<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Unbelievable Instagram Trends For Summer 2017</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. 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Feeling rainbow hair fatigue? We have the perfect antidote. The latest hair color trend blowing up Instagram will ease your unicorn-trampled heart and speak to your inner dark goddess. Colorists on Instagram have been dying their clients’s hair a deep gray shade, calling it charcoal hair. The result is everything pastel hair is not. It’s smoky, sultry and isn’t inspired by a Starbucks drink.</div>
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Celebrities have been embracing the gray hair trend for years now. Earlier this week, Blac Chyna even slipped on a lilac gray wig and totally slayed us. However, this is the first time we’ve spotted this ashy shade. It’s not quite black, and it’s not quite silver, but it also has a hint of blue. Maryland-based colorist Maayan Birnstein tells Allure, “The balance between blue and grey is really key.” And to make the color look its best, “The hair needs to have no orange remaining in it,” she adds. To make sure this happens, Birnstein recommends asking your colorist for a bleach and tone.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Coffee caviar is the first two of these things, though looks a lot like the latter. The latest food trend to sweep Instagram, it’s essentially little blobs of coffee added to desserts and savoury dishes. While it’s often used in fine dining, Instagrammers are also adding it to homemade puddings and whatnot. And whether you think it looks tasty or not, it sure looks weird.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">‘Using a syringe, small drops of the coffee and alginate mixture is added to the diluted calcium chloride. ‘The result is lots of little balls which create a myriad of tiny explosions on the palate.’</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Divorce Selfies Are Now Actually a Real Thing</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">There are an increasing number of ways to celebrate divorces. There are divorce cakes, divorce parties, and "divorce-moons" happening. Yes, people are finding all kinds of ways to celebrate their official split.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">So "the latest trend in divorce" is actually a #divorceselfie. Yep, it's all about snapping a selfie with your ex after your divorce is finalized at the courthouse.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Most couples who have posted the photos say that they're the photo to celebrate the time they did have together, and they say that it serves a reminder to move forward in life.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">By the way, they're more common than you think. A search on Instagram using the hashtag #divorceselfie resulted in well over 500 photos of couples celebrating their divorce.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Cloud Eggs?</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">We're all looking for an escape these days, and these dreamy, fluffy cloud eggs are just what we need. They're popping up on Instagram feeds these days like little rays of sunshine: sunny yolks surrounded by the puffy, baked whites. A little beacon of hope sitting on your plate at breakfast to start the day off right.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">It's easy to make these cloud eggs: just separate the eggs, then whip the whites into stiff peaks and bake in mounds in the oven until set (like a meringue). Drop the yolk into the center and bake another minute or two before serving, and your cloud egg is ready to go. Serve on top of toast to sop up that runny yolk, and of course a little bacon on the side doesn't hurt, either.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Sweat It Out in Style by Picking Up Your Dog and Joining the #SquatYourDog Trend</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Scrolling through Instagram, something caught our eye.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Across the social network, people are posing with their dogs. Not unusual mind you, but this new pose is something different. Instead of cradling their dogs like babies or getting close for a selfie, pup owners are picking up their pooches and using them to enhance their squats.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Hence, #SquatYourDog is now a sensation spreading across Instagram with hundreds of animal lovers carefully grabbing their dogs and sweating it out. It’s really a win-win situation. You get to burn some calories and your pup gets a break from being on four paws.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">And it’s not only bodybuilders that are adding some woofing weight to their workouts; all kinds of dog owners with all different kinds of dogs are getting in on the trend.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Goth food is the antidote to the unicorn trend</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">One-up the latest Instagram trend with this traditional Chinese dessert that gets its darkness from toasted black sesame.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Certain foods are “Instagram foods” — the esthetic takes priority over taste and practicality. Created to go viral, they push the envelope of good taste, both literally and figuratively.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Earlier this week there was the cloud egg: egg whites separated from the yolk, whipped to form stiff peaks and then reunited and baked to achieve a cumulus appearance. And of course there’s the Unicorn Frappuccino at Starbucks — a multicoloured sweet and sour concoction that contained as much coffee as actual unicorn.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">This week, in response to the colourful rainbow unicorn toasts, milkshakes, cupcakes and lattes, Instagram went goth with food that’s entirely black and L.A.-based ice cream shop Little Damage’s goth ice cream cone went viral. The almond-flavoured black soft serve ice cream served in a black waffle cone is coloured with activated charcoal. This hot new trend includes charcoal lattes popping up in cafés in New York, Jakarta and Edinburgh so far.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Body-positive Instagram trend sees women of all shapes and sizes proudly putting their 'visible belly outlines' on show to prove that having a tummy is nothing to be ashamed of</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Women are taking to Instagram to show off their bellies in the latest body positive trend to take the web by storm.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Ladies of all shapes and sizes boast round bellies that stick out a bit under fitted clothing, and while beauty standards may suggest that these are meant to be whittled away through diet and exercise or hidden under baggy clothes, many women are taking to displaying them with pride.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">One body-positive blogger, @_selfloveclub_, is showing other ladies just how it's done with a powerful post in which she shows off her curvy form from the front and from the side in a tight skirt showing the outline of her belly.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'Cheers to a summer of rocking clothing that give you a visible tummy outline,' she wrote.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">'Cheers to not giving a s**t what people think about your body or the way you dress. Cheers to embracing what we've been told not to wear because it doesn't "flatter our body type." Cheers to living free of judgement, reservations, and inhibitions.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">She added: 'Life is short, enjoy it. Don't let others affect your happiness and self worth. Bellies are cute and worth showing off.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The post has received overwhelming praise from women who have felt self-conscious about their own bellies.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. The Latest Instagram Trend: Applying Temporary Tattoos to Your Eyes and Lips</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Just because you're a fully-grown adult who pays bills and does your own taxes doesn't mean you have to give up temporary tattoos. In fact, makeup artists on Instagram are making a pretty convincing argument for bringing back the childhood birthday party staple. They've been incorporating temporary tattoos into their makeup and topping them with high-shine clear gloss to elevate the look. Not only is the result is stunning, temporary tattoos are the perfect lip art or bold eye makeup hack.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">If you aren't particularly coordinated with your liquid liner, temporary tattoos are actually the perfect shortcut for adding graphic details to your look. You don't have to worry about drawing out your best flower or geometric shapes only to smudge it the second you're finished — these teensy temporary tattoos deliver sharp designs every single time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The mini lip tattoos from Violent Lips, which are specifically made for placing on your pout, are most used on Instagram. For $10, you get 100 teeny tiny tatts in fun shapes like emojis and cupcakes. However, Giselle Ali, a professional makeup artist based in London, recently used a sheet of random roses she found on Amazon for a couple dollars. "But if you want to push the boat out, Tattify.com has some really unique designs," she tells Allure. We also love Tattly's selection, as it combines pretty fragrances and super ornate imagery.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">After you pick out your temporary tattoo, you have to decide where to put it: on your lid or your lips. (Ali also has placed them over blocked-out brows.) If you opt for your lips, Ali recommends swiping on some matte liquid lipstick as a base. "It's important to use a lipstick that will dry matte as the transfer will need an oil-free surface to stick to," she says. If you're going for a bare lip look, you can use the M.A.C. Retro Matte Liquid Lipcolour in Lady Be Good like Ali did, which was the perfect MLBB shade.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Rainbow Village: Indonesian Government Invests $22,467 To Paint 232 Slum Houses, And Result Is Amazing</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Why go somewhere over the rainbow when you can just hang out inside of it? Kampung Pelangi, a small village in Indonesia, has transformed itself into a stunning display of bright colours and whimsical designs, a huge departure from its former state of squalor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">The Central Java community, located in a southern district of Semarang, spent over $22k on the magnificent makeover in a bid to shake off its status as a degraded slum. Initiated by 54-year-old junior high principal Slamet Widodo, the project was inspired by at least 3 other towns in the country that adopted similar paint jobs, and has turned at least 232 homes in Kampung Pelangi into works of art. Creative murals adorning the walls of narrow passageways burst with life, giving a veritable pulse to the whole village.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Tourists have definitely taken early notice of Indonesia’s growing rainbow village trend, and have flocked to them accordingly, including Kampung Pelangi. The investments made in revamping the former slum are sure to pay off, as local businesses are already seeing a rise in souvenir and food sales, according to the Indonesian Builders Association. It goes without saying that the lively, bohemian atmosphere of this newfound hot spot is also gold for Instagram shots!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Eyebrow Wigs Take Over Instagram</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">Eyebrows have been all over our social media feeds lately, from mind-boggling shapes (dragons, feathers, barbed wire) to permanent transformations (also known as microblading). It seems that everyone is looking for new ways to give their arches a makeover, and Instagram just stumbled upon the best option yet. Enter eyebrow wigs, which are pretty much exactly what they sound like.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; text-align: justify;">While these faux brows may sound like an out-there beauty trend few will actually wear IRL, many companies actually invented them to fulfill a specific need. For people who have undergone chemotherapy treatments — and subsequently had all of their hair fall out — options like these provide a way to recreate their brows without committing to the much more permanent option of microblading. Applied with lash glue (the adhesive provides a much more comfortable wear than double-sided tape), they really do mimic the exact look of your own groomed and shaped eyebrows.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586809436534221326noreply@blogger.com0