[lush]

J-Hope records, performs in 'J-Hope in the Box' documentary trailer
Feb. 10, 2023 / 1:49 PM*


"J-Hope in the Box," a new film about K-pop star and BTS member J-Hope, is coming to Disney+. File Photo by Gabriele Holtermann/UPI | License Photo

Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Disney+ is teasing the new documentary J-Hope in the Box.

The streaming service shared a trailer for the film Thursday featuring South Korean singer and rapper J-Hope.

J-Hope in the Box explores the making of J-Hope's debut solo album, Jack in the Box, a private listening party for the album, and his 2022 Lollapalooza performance.

The trailer shows J-Hope, a member of the K-pop boy band BTS, recording his solo album and performing.

"It's the first time I'm doing everything myself, starting from one to ten," the star says. "Maybe you can feel my excitement and worries through my music."

"The fire I've lit on my passion was actually arson. No one expected it to be out of control," he adds.

J-Hope released Jack in the Box and a music video for the song "Arson" in July. The singer was the first member of BTS to release a solo album.

BTS announced in September that it will take a hiatus as the members fulfill their mandatory military service in South Korea and pursue their solo careers.

J-Hope in the Box premieres Feb. 17 on Disney+ and Weverse.

Disney+ previously released the BTS concert film BTS: Permission to Dance on Stage -- LA.

[johngriffen]

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[ozswede]

Lost Texas Dog Finds Her Way to Former Shelter and Rings Rescue's Doorbell for Help

A lost dog found her way back to her family thanks to a surprisingly intelligent trick.

In January, a rescue dog named Bailey, who had recently been adopted from Texas' Animal Rescue League of El Paso, went missing from her new home.

Bailey's pet parent contacted the Animal Rescue League of El Paso to inform the shelter about the dog's disappearance. To help find the canine, the shelter posted about Bailey on social media.

"This beautiful girl — Bailey — has gotten loose in the area of Mesa and Sunland Park, on the west side. She is very friendly. If you spot her or find her, please call," the Animal Rescue League of El Paso posted on Jan. 29, along with several photos of Bailey.



Early on Jan. 31, Bailey surprised the Animal Rescue League of El Paso by coming to them. The dog showed up at the shelter and rang the doorbell looking for help.



"Bailey is now safe. To all those who searched, spotted, called, hoped - we thank you. As we know, dogs are incredible. Bailey made her own way back to ARL and rang our ring doorbell at 1:15 am, saying she wanted in. Staff rushed to the shelter and put Bailey in her run," the rescue posted with a photo of Bailey taken by the facility's doorbell camera.



Loretta Hyde, the founder of Animal Rescue League of El Paso, told KFOX14 that she was amazed that the dog found her way back to the shelter, especially considering her new home is 10 miles away.

"These dogs are smarter than people give them credit for. How did she know what direction to go?" Hyde said.

It is unclear how Bailey spent her time away from home, but she is now back to settling in with her forever family after her detour at the Animal Rescue League of El Paso.

Hyde hopes Bailey's return to the shelter is a sign of a pleased client.

"Strays want to go back to us. They love our shelter," she told KFOX14.

[Fatima99]

Woman texts date next day to thank him - then realises he's still in the house



The dating scene is pretty brutal these days, as any singleton will tell you. Even if by some miracle you find a good date, you then need to get through the evening without embarrassing yourself, something that's often easier said than done. If you make it through all of that, then you've still got to think about the follow-up text.

Do you thank your date for a nice evening? And if so, how long do you wait before replying. These are all common questions - and there's no correct answer.

But you might want to avoid the hilarious mistake one woman made at the end of her date, or more specifically the next morning.

Following a successful Tinder date, @zoechappers sent her companion a text to thank him for a lovely evening. But his reply gave her a shock - as it had been sent from the next room.

She captioned the video: "When I had a tinder date stay over & got so drunk I text him saying thanks for a good night and he replies I'm still on your sofa, I put you to bed."

In response, viewers said they were glad to hear her date helped her get to bed safely before stretching out on the sofa. But it did leave Zoe a little red in the face over her mistake. "So embarrassing going down stairs to him on the sofa," she wrote in another comment.

[goldie0608]

Senior Rescue Dog Who Never Gave Up Gets Adopted After 7 Years at North Carolina Shelter

Mitch, a treeing walker coonhound, arrived at Cashiers-Highland Humane Society in 2016 and left in 2023 at the age of 12 after waiting seven years to find a home



A North Carolina dog has finally found his forever home after spending seven years in a Jackson County shelter.

Mitch, a 12-year-old treeing walker coonhound, was adopted after his new mom Teresa Shular saw a video the Cashiers-Highland Humane Society posted to their TikTok sharing Mitch's story.

"I cried when I watched it the first time," she told her local ABC station. "I cried when I watched it the second time. I thought about it and prayed about it for a few days."

Shular and her husband ultimately decided to adopt the dog, who was the longest-term resident of the shelter at that point. "Couldn't get up there fast enough to get him," Shular said.

The assistant shelter manager, Jodi Henkel, told the station Mitch arrived as a stray; he was found "emaciated and high-strung." However, even though he mellowed out over the years thanks to the staff's attention and care, Mitch remained a hard sell due to his older age.

"For some reason, people look at hound dogs and don't see them as pets, age, breed," Henkel said. "We like to see every dog have a chance because they all deserve it."

Shular is now enjoying her time with Mitch, who loves lying on his new porch and roaming around his home's large property.

While some of Shular's friends have questioned her getting an older dog, Shular defends her choice, stating that she wants to provide Mitch with a better life in his senior years.

"I've had it said to me by several people, 'Why would you go get a dog that age just for it to die on you?' And I said, 'So he can have a home beforehand,'" Shular said. "It's not about me; it's about Mitch. He needed a home, and thankfully we can provide that for him."

Shular plans on keeping the pup as comfortable as possible and loving him just as much.

Cashiers-Highland Humane Society's director, David Stroud, said there is a life lesson to learn from Mitch's late adoption.

"I believe that if Mitch has a message for all of us, it's just that: never give up," he told the station.

Cow stuck in deep snow gets a 'boost' from Utah firefighters



Firefighters in Utah came to the rescue of a cow that wandered into a creek bed and became stuck in the deep snow.

The South Summit Fire District said in a Facebook post that crews responded to a creek on a report of a bovine in distress.

"It seems the Betsy here stayed out a little too late last night. She couldn't quite get out of the creek bed on her own," the post said.

The district shared photos of firefighters helping Betsy climb out of the deep snow, which nearly reached the cow's neck.

The firefighters were able to give Betsy "a boost up the embankment," the post said.

[PennySerenade]

'Like a fairy tale': 10-month-old Toronto baby with rare liver disease saved by anonymous donor



A 10-month-old baby underwent a life-saving liver transplant in Toronto after matching with an anonymous donor following a months-long search.

About a month ago, Aliza’s doctor at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children walked into her room, and relayed the words her parents had been desperate to hear – they found a compatible donor.



“It seemed like a fairy tale,” Aliza’s mother Preetha Haque, and father, Moniruzzaman Moni, said in a statement earlier this week.

“We told them that the donor must be an angel, and angels are not easy to find. For someone to donate their liver so selflessly to save Aliza’s life is a miraculous gift.”

At two months old, Aliza was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia, a rare liver disease that blocks the tubes that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder.

Her parents started the search for a transplant donor around last summer, after learning they were not compatible. For most of the time since then, Aliza has been living at SickKids.

The night Aliza’s doctor delivered the news, she underwent surgery, according to her social media donor campaign manager, Afsana Lallani. About 24 hours later, she was transferred from intensive care to a transplant unit.



“Aliza is no longer suffering from such a debilitating disease. Her smile is bigger and brighter than ever, she is eager to play and interact with her surroundings, and she is now more vibrant,” her parents said.

Lallani said typically, a liver transplant recovery takes six months. About a year ago, she went through the procedure herself. She said Aliza was recently discharged from the hospital and returned back home.

“To the incredible donor who saved Aliza, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts and pray you have a smooth recovery,” Haque and Moni said.

Helpless alligator spotted with jaws taped shut as woman launches bid to save it
A forlorn reptile has had its mouth taped shut for two months, with one woman trying to raise awareness and get someone to go into the pond and free the gator's mouth



An alligator stuck in a small pond with its mouth taped together has left a woman trying to save it.

According to Amber Lock, the reptile has had its mouth bound in Florida since December after someone attempted to remove it from the enclosure.

Amber believes the tortured beast was dumped there by a trapper who then couldn't get to it to remove the tape in a botched operation.

"Whoever attempted to trap him and put the tape around his mouth clearly lost him and that's what started this," Amber said.

Lock says she has contacted multiple animal charities and other local trappers in the hopes of freeing the animal but has hit a brick wall relating to not having a permit.



Speaking to Fox 13, she said: "I tried other avenues to try to expedite this and make it something that's important to everyone and there's just been no traction.

"I feel that this animal's been suffering for two months and that to me, that's just unacceptable."

Having their mouth taped shut for an extended period of time can have a severe impact on the animals health, an expert said.



"It does physically affect him. He loses body mass. He gets dehydrated," said Martha Rivera of the Everglades Outpost Sanctuary.

"You know, if this gator is in a retention pond, the trapper that went out there should definitely not have left him, especially with the tape on the mouth. Then you also have the fact, too, that that tape messes up their skin."

For safety reasons, alligators usually get their mouths taped shut when being transported, but it should not be kept on long-term.



"Someone needs to go back out there and get this alligator," Rivera added. "There's no way that you could just leave it there with its mouth taped shut. It's inhumane as well."

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world- ... d-29202132

[lush]

The Amazing UV Tattoos of Jonny Hall
February 10th, 2023*

UK-born artist Jonny Hall is famous for being one of the first tattoo artists to introduce UV-reactive ink to the style of black-and-grey realism.

UVealism, a term coined by Hall himself, basically refers to the enhancement of already-impressive black-and-grey realist tattoos with the ethereal glow of UV-reactive ink. In plain light, UV tattoos are semi-invisible, but put them under an ultraviolet black-light bulb and you get to see a whole new dimension of the design. UV-reactive ink is a bit more difficult to work with than normal tattoo ink, because it’s a lot thinner, but when used correctly, the results are awe-inspiring.


Photo: Jonny Hall/Instagram

Jonny Hall has been art-oriented for as long as he can remember. At the age of 23, he left his native UK and settled in Australia, where he started his apprenticeship as a tattoo artist in 2015. He was particularly drawn to black-and-grey realism and is considered the first artist to introduce UV-reactive ink to this particular style.

“The process is pretty much the same as a normal realism tattoo,” Hall said about UVealism. “The UV reactive nature of the tattoo makes it come to life under a black light. The healing process is exactly the same as a typical tattoo. The tattoo is wrapped for the first 24 hours, then aired out, cleaned, and moisturized daily. After a week or two, the skin will be totally settled.”

As you can imagine, it took a lot of experimentation to blend classic and UV tattoos so seamlessly, and even thous some purists see Jonny Hall’s unique style as nothing more than a gimmick, he sees it as a way to progress the craft while staying true to its roots.

Jonny Hall may not be the first artist to have used UV-reactive ink, but he is definitely one of the most popular tattoo artists to adopt the new ink.





For more incredible tattoos, check out the shape-changing artworks of Veks Van Hillik, the sticker-like masterpieces of Clayton Dias, or the gaming-inspired tattoos of Derek Turcotte.

[Misstee]

1908 Harley-Davidson sells for a record $935,000
By Ben Hooper




Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A Harley-Davidson motorcycle dating from 1908 sold for $935,000, making it the most expensive bike ever sold at an auction.

Mecum Auction in Las Vegas said the motorcycle, known as the Strap Tank due to the nickel-plated steel bands that suspend the fuel and oil tanks from its frame, sold for $935,000 after fees in a late-January auction.

Vintagent, a website that tracks auctions of vintage motorcycles, said the sale represented the highest price ever paid for a motorcycle at an auction.

"We marketed the bike well, and Harley is by far the most famous American motorcycle brand, so we had a feeling it would do well in auction, but obviously you are surprised anytime you sell the most expensive bike ever," Greg Arnold, motorcycle division manager at Mecum Auctions, told the Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel.

Arnold said surviving Strap Tank bikes are rare, and the bike sold by Mecum was an especially unique find.

"This bike has many of its original parts, which makes it that much more rare," he said.

Mecum said the bike was found intact in a Wisconsin barn by David Uihlein in 1941, and he kept it in his possession for the ensuing 66 years. The bike was most recently restored by Paul Freehill of Fort Wayne, Ind., the auction house said.

Yale professor under fire for suggesting elderly Japanese residents should kill themselves



A professor at Yale University has sparked outrage for suggesting that elderly Japanese residents should take part in a “mass suicide” by disembowelment to help the country deal with its rapidly aging population.

Yusuke Narita, 37, an assistant professor of economics at the Ivy League school, has gained hundreds of thousands of followers on social media as he touted the controversial solution in multiple interviews and publications — but he’s also drawn ire, the New York Times reported.

“I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” Narita said during a news program in late 2021.

“In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” he added, referring to the practice of disembowelment utilized by dishonored Samurai in the late 19th century.

Last year, Narita answered a boy’s question about seppuku by telling a group of students about a scene from “Midsommar,” a 2019 flick in which a Swedish cult sends one of its oldest members to jump off a cliff.

“Whether that’s a good thing or not, that’s a more difficult question to answer,” he said. “So if you think that’s good, then maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that.”

He also has discussed euthanasia, predicting that the “possibility of making it mandatory in the future” will become part of the public discourse.

The professor’s incendiary remarks touched a raw nerve in a country where kamikaze pilots were revered for dying in a blaze of glory during World War II.

Narita told the Times that his comments had been “taken out of context” — saying he was referring to efforts to push older people out of leadership positions in business and politics.

“I should have been more careful about their potential negative connotations,” he told the paper about the phrases “mass suicide” and “mass seppuku,” saying they were “an abstract metaphor.”

“After some self-reflection, I stopped using the words last year,” Narita added.

In Japan, the professor has gained a following among disaffected youths who believe their economic progress has been stymied by the elderly in power.

His Japanese Twitter bio reads: “The things you’re told you’re not allowed to say are usually true.”

Narita’s detractors pushed back at his controversial remarks.

“It’s irresponsible,” journalist Masaki Kubota said, according to the Times, adding that people “might think, ‘Oh, my grandparents are the ones who are living longer and we should just get rid of them.’”

Newsweek Japan columnist Masato Fujisaki said Narita’s supporters “believed old people should just die already and social welfare should be cut.”

Some fear that Narita’s views are gaining traction in a country where older generations have traditionally been honored.

In 2013, then-Finance Minister Taro Aso said the elderly should “hurry up and die” to spare the nation the cost of their medical care.

Last year, a dystopian movie by Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa called “Plan 75” imagined salespeople offering elderly citizens an incentive to self-euthanize and no longer be a burden to society.

Alexis Dudden, a historian at the University of Connecticut who studies modern Japan, told the Times that Narita is “not focusing on helpful strategies such as better access to day care or broader inclusion of women in the work force or broader inclusion of immigrants.”

He added: “Things that might actually invigorate Japanese society.”

Some surveys in Japan have suggested that a majority of the population supports legalizing voluntary euthanasia, according to the newspaper.

But Fumika Yamamoto, a professor of philosophy at Tokyo City University, noted that every country that has legalized it only “allows it if the person wants it themselves.”

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Narita emailed the Times that “euthanasia (either voluntary or involuntary) is a complex, nuanced issue. I am not advocating its introduction,” adding, “I predict it to be more broadly discussed.”

The Post has reached out to Yale Economics Department chairman Tony Smith and a spokesperson for the university for comment.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/yale-prof ... s-suicide/

[johngriffen]

I sometimes get REALLY DEPRESSED reviewing the news these days.
It's always about a global pandemic threatening life as we know it,
protests around the world, stupid politicians, natural disasters,
or some other really bad story.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

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A naked sunbather was seen chasing wild boar through a park after it stole his laptop bag.
Amusing photographs from Germany show the man running after the animal to try and claim the plastic bag back.
But the cheeky boar and its two piglets appear to be too quick for the sunbather, who can't keep up with their speedy little trotters.
As the incident unfolds, groups of friends and family sat on the grass watch on and laugh.
Heads are seen turning in surprise and amusement in the hilarious photographs.
The incident happened at Teufelssee Lake - a bathing spot in the Grunwell Forest in Berlin, Germany.

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[ozswede]

India tried to rebrand Valentine’s Day as ‘Cow Hug Day.’ Here’s how it backfired

For centuries, cows have been considered sacred by India’s majority Hindu population, a symbol of both the Earth and the divine.

Indeed, so revered are the animals that authorities had planned to rebrand this Valentine’s Day as “Cow Hug Day”, hoping the move would both boost citizens’ “emotional richness” and strike a blow for local heritage over what is seen as a western cultural import.

The newly declared Cow Hug Day is intended to offset the “dazzle of western civilisation”, which the government said had come at the cost of the older traditions of India.

Over the past decade, as India’s economy has opened up, Valentine’s Day – which originated as a Christian feast day – has become an increasingly popular occasion among young people, boosted by vigorous mass marketing campaigns featuring bouquets of flowers, teddy bears, heart-shaped gifts and flamboyant romantic gestures.

But the move appears to have backfired and been abandoned after it prompted a flood of internet memes, cartoons and jokes by TV hosts about the importance of consent.

The declaration of February 14 as “Cow Hug Day,” had come in a statement Monday from the Animal Welfare Board of India, which called cows the “backbone of Indian culture and rural economy.” The cow is “the giver of all, providing riches to humanity” due to its “nourishing nature,” said the agency, a statutory body that advises India’s Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

It said the push to hug cows was part of an effort to promote “Vedic” or sacred Hindu traditions, which it claimed have been eroded by Western influence.

“Vedic traditions are almost on the verge of extinction due to the progress of (western) culture over time,” the statement said. “The dazzle of western civilization has made our physical culture and heritage almost forgotten.”


Hindus worship a calf during the Gopashtami festival dedicated to Hindu deity Krishna and cows

But within a week of the announcement – after days of mockery and ridicule online – the idea appears to have been dropped.

For days, media outlets have been mocking the government’s plan, publishing satirical cartoons showing cows running away from amorous men, while internet users have delighted in posting videos of violent encounters between beast and man.

An anchor on one of India’s leading English-language news channels, NDTV, was even filmed attempting to hug several cows, which appeared to rebuke his advances.

“Consent is important,” he joked during the segment.

‘Cow science’

This is not the first time the government has caused a stir with its policies towards cows – the killing or eating of which is considered a sin by many Hindus, who account for about 80% of India’s 1.3 billion people.

The sale and slaughter of the animal is banned in much of the country and the animals are often left to roam free in the streets and roads looking emaciated, where motorists must take care to avoid hitting them.

An agency for the protection of cows, known as the Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog (RKA), was set up in 2019 by the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.


Hindu devotees offer prayers to a cow during the Gopal Ashtami festival

Two years later, the RKA was forced to indefinitely postpone a national “cow science” exam after the curriculum prompted widespread criticism over its unscientific claims about the animal.

Among several unproven claims, the 54-page exam study guide stated that large-scale abattoir activity leads to major earthquakes, suggesting that pain emitted by mass slaughter could generate enough stress to trigger a seismic reaction.

Without providing evidence, it also stated that native (Indian) cows produce the best quality of milk, compared to “exotic cows.” It also stated that Indian cows have more emotions than their foreign counterparts, that their humps contain magical powers and that their dung could prevent radiation.


Cows are holy within Hinduism, the dominant religion in India.

Cow Hug Day was the latest initiative by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) government, led by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, to make reverence of the cow a nationwide policy.

[Fatima99]

Copper’s bike nicked while he’s on training course about stolen vehicles



The unnamed PC from Warwickshire was left red-faced while on the three-day training session with a colleague in Swindon on Saturday.

His unfortunate circumstances were tweeted by his colleagues who said: ‘The irony isn’t lost on us!! One of our Rural Crime Team officers had his personal motorbike stolen…..while he was attending a “Stolen Vehicle Examiner & Identification Course”.

‘Unfortunately, three unknown offenders stole the officer’s bike at a hotel in the Swindon area during the early hours.

‘Fortunately, the officer had fitted a disc lock, steering lock, immobiliser and three separate tracking devices to the bike that immediately disabled the bike on it being moved.’

The bike was recovered a short distance away but had suffered a bit of damage.

It’s electronic safety features had prevented the thieves from getting away with the bike.

A spokesman said: ‘After securing the bike, both officers attended the final day of training

‘We’re happy to report that they both passed the course, making them accredited stolen vehicle examiners for the team and Warwickshire Police.’

They added: ‘No one is immune to criminality, but let’s make it as hard as possible for offenders to get away with our pride and joy.’

[PennySerenade]

A gibbon who lived alone in her cage had a baby. Japanese zookeepers finally know how



Japanese zookeepers believe they have solved the mystery of how a gibbon became pregnant despite living alone in her cage.

Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon, shocked her keepers at the Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden in Nagasaki in February 2021 when she gave birth despite having no male companionship.

Now two years later, following a DNA test on her baby, the zoo has worked out who the father is -- and even has a theory about how the gibbons mated.

The test showed the father to be Itō, a 34-year-old agile gibbon, who was in an adjacent enclosure to Momo around the time she became pregnant.

The zoo told CNN on Friday it believed that Momo and Itō had managed to mate through a small hole in a steel plate between their enclosures. The hole measured about 9 millimetres (0.3 inch) in diameter.



The baby ape -- who is yet to be named -- now weighs around 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) and is "growing healthily" under Momo's loving attention, the zoo said.

"It is a precious life born into the world, we will continue to take good care of him and hope that he will live a healthy long life," said Hideki Hisano, deputy director of the zoo.

Gibbons are among the smallest apes, but they have loud singing voices that have developed into an elaborate language, and can swing from branch to branch at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour.

There are dozens of gibbon species that are native to parts of Asia, ranging from northeastern India to China and all the way to the Borneo archipelago.

The population of agile gibbons in the wild has been decreasing and they have been listed as an endangered species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature, because their habitat is threatened by human activities such as deforestation, mining and road construction.