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I'm pleased to introduce a new site feature that is designed to help our members share images and videos. The new Gallery section of the site allows members to upload or link to existing pictures and videos to share them with other members. There are two categories within the new Gallery: Public Images Pornography (Members Only) Images within the public category are accessible to the world. These are subject to the same rules and restrictions that have applied in the traditional legacy gallery. For users that want to get a little more "fun" or "creative", we have a new category that is available only to logged in members of the site that allows for the sharing of more explicit images/videos. This new gallery has several new features/functions that I would like to take a moment to highlight: Categories (Public Images and Pornography are similar to forums. They are a high level container that hold albums. Albums are similar to topics. These are similar to threads you would find in the legacy gallery. Images are stored inside of an Album. If an album does not exist for the topic you are interested in, you are welcome to create a new one. (When you create an album, you can make it so that only you can add new ones or that ANYONE can add images to your album.) Each image within an album can have ratings and/or reactions associated with them. You are able to comment on each individual image. (In the past, if you wanted to comment on an image from 10 pages prior, it might be hard to maintain continuity. Now the comments are associated to each individual image!) You can choose how images are displayed within an album. There are three views: Thumbnails, Large Previews, and List. To change how images are displayed, click on the appropriate option below the "Add Images" button. To save time when you add an image... if you open the album itself, it will assume you want to add new images inside of said album! Otherwise the system will prompt you through which album you want to add an image to. There will be no more broken images/links within the Gallery! If you've ever seen the blue "Tumblr Violation" image, or a broken image in the legacy gallery, you might sometimes wonder what happened and what that image actually was. With the new gallery, images are copied so that they are delivered from our site. There will be no more broken images/links. Even if a user links to an image, we'll copy it to our site to prevent it from being lost. You can upload multiple images at one time! If you have several images you want to add to an album, this is fully supported. You can upload several images at one time into a single gallery. Images can have their own title and description. Be creative when you add an image! Images from the Gallery will be featured in areas across the site. This includes on our homepage, in search results, and the Recent Activity section of the site. If you don't want to have access to explicit content in any way or for it to potentially show up for you while logged in, please create an "Ask the Moderator" post. I can place you into a special member group that will suppress these areas for you. There is likely a lot more that I'm forgetting to highlight, but I'll be sure to call them out as we move forward. I feel it's important to call out that the legacy gallery will remain on the site. I understand that some people may not be comfortable with it, especially right away. There are no plans to remove the legacy gallery from the site. We won't force you to move to the new gallery. It will remain as-is (including all rules that apply to it. With that being said... if you wish to share more explicit images, you MUST use the new gallery in the appropriate area. My goal within the next several days/weeks is to record several short videos showcasing various features of the gallery and how to contribute. If you have any questions in the mean time, please don't hesitate to ask! Finally... I want to take a moment and say THANK YOU to all of our prolific image sharers who have provided feedback to me during the development of this new feature. This includes (in no particular order) @whipped guy @WilliamM @marylander1940 @Whitman @jjkrkwood and @easygoingpal. All of their feedback was invaluable and I sincerely appreciate all of their comments while working through the development process. Without each of your assistance, this would not have been possible.
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Sorry for the late reply. I lost track of this thread. I don’t think that night ended up with anything… but I always have fun. I stopped by there this weekend again on my next visit and had fun. There is one dancer (Sasha) that I click really well with. We always have a blast.
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Dolly Parton has been nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The 76-year-old country legend has received the nod alongside fellow stars Eminem, Lionel Richie and Duran Duran and are all first-time nominees for potential induction into the Ohio museum. John Sykes, Chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation said in a statement: “This year’s ballot recognizes a diverse group of incredible artists, each who has had a profound impact on the sound of youth culture. Their music not only moved generations, but also influenced the sound of countless artists that followed.” For ‘Slim Shady’ hitmaker Eminem, the nomination comes in his first year of eligibility, whereby an individual artist or band must have released its first commercial recording at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. Completing the list of first-time nominees for the 2022 inductions are Beck, Carly Simon and A Tribe Called Quest. Other nominees – who have been considered for induction before – include ‘Babooshka’ songstress Kate Bush and 1960s singer Dionne Warwick, as well as synth pop duo Eurythmics, heavy metal band Judas Priest, late instrumentalist Fela Kuti, and ‘Killing in the Name’ rockers Rage Against the Machine. The chosen inductees will be announced in May and honoured at a ceremony set to take place later in 2022 and fans can cast their vote on the Rock Hall’s official website. Since its inception in 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame foundation has chosen a total of 351 music legends to be inducted into the Rock Hall, including Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, ABBA and The Beatles. View the full article
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As most of you know, the moderators had a chance to meet up in person last weekend in Ft Lauderdale for some working sessions around areas to improve the site. Part of the conversations included our community guidelines and an effort to help modernize them given a lot has changed over the last year. I wanted to share some key changes that have been made: The rule prohibiting reviews in the forums have been removed. We're going to push people to use the new Review database as it's launched, but given that we're no longer trying to separate the forums from the review site this guideline no longer makes sense. With that being said, within the Spa… existing guidelines for posting remain: Please be careful so as not to compromise provider licenses when discussing the services provided by masseurs. The rule prohibiting explicit content has been updated. More explicit content WILL be permitted in areas of the site that are not accessible to guests. (This includes the new Pornography category in our new Image Gallery and the new pornography discussion forum.) You will know if an area is "Members Only" that title will be included in the area's name. In the members only area, the following rules will apply: No Pedophilia, Necrophilia, Bestiality, Xylophilia -- This is about half of our normal rules. It should let you have a pretty open ability of what can be posted in the non-public areas. There have been updates to rules that apply specifically to the Political Issues forum. We're not going to use the same points-based warning system use on the rest of the site. In the PI forum, we're going to follow a "three strikes" rule. If a post violates a rule, it will be removed and the user will receive a strike. If a user receives three strikes, they will lose access to the Political Issues forum. We have added a new section added regarding signatures. Specifically political content (such as political affiliation) or listing members you are ignoring is not going to be allowed. In addition signatures will be limited to no more than 7 lines.
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Published by DPA A man fishes on the banks of the Limoeiro River. Around 360 square kilometres of rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon were lost to deforestation in January alone. Dieh Sacramento/dpa Around 360 square kilometres of rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon were lost to deforestation in January alone. This is the highest amount recorded for January since 2015, the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) said Wednesday, citing provisional figures. Inpe uses satellite imagery for its analysis, using a rapid survey to examine the changes to the forest in real time. The Inpe figures are therefore able to indicate how the official deforestation rate might develop in relation to a given year. The annual rate is for the period from August to July. At the COP26 UN climate conference, the Brazilian government announced it would end illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest by 2028. Experts fear the latest data could indicate an increased risk of another devastating year for the Amazon. Between August 2020 and July 2021, some 13,235 square kilometres were deforested in the region, according to Inpe. This marks a 22 per cent increase on the previous year, and the largest area of deforestation since 2008. 2019 was the first year in office for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The right-wing leader was criticized over the devastating fires in the Amazon. Environmentalists accuse him of accepting the fires as a way to open up new land for agriculture. Brazil has also weakened its environmental and monitoring authorities. View the full article
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Sarah Jessica Parker and Mario Cantone returned to the ‘And Just Like That…’ set the day after Willie Garson passed away. The actor – who played Sarah Jessica’s character Carrie Bradshaw’s best friend Stanford Blatch in ‘Sex and the City’ – died from pancreatic cancer in September, at the age of 57, and only filmed three episodes of the revival series. Mario, 62, who played his lover Anthony, has revealed it was “the hardest day” filming a comedy scene while grieving for their beloved co-star, but heaped praise on Sarah Jessica, 56, for taking care of him “like a mother”. Speaking to ‘Entertainment Tonight’, he said: “I came in the day after he passed away, and that was real hard. That was the day we did the plastic surgery scene with Jonathan Groff [Dr. Paul David], who was magnificent and he is just wonderful. I just adore him. So that was a hard day. “That was the hardest day, and Sarah really took care of me like a mother. She just took me out of the room because it was hard.” Mario was referring to the episode after Anthony was dumped by Stanford – who abruptly left for Tokyo to manage a TikTok star – and needed someone to come with him for their “his and his” plastic surgery consultation. He continued: “But yeah, she’s the No1, and she just kind of takes care of you. “We just kind of all huddled together and loved each other and moved on, and we had to keep going and do this thing.” Mario says if Willie were still alive, the pair’s on-screen relationship would have gotten “very turbulent”. He said: “I think you were going to see a relationship that was very turbulent. “It’s turbulent arguments, but I think it was supposed to be – I don’t really know exactly – but it was supposed to be me dealing with his craziness, and having to calm him, and talk him out of things, and mend things. “But it’s a very turbulent relationship, very argumentative. “But yet, we can’t live without each other. That was what that was supposed to be.” Showrunner Michael Patrick King previously revealed a “midlife crisis” was on the cards for Stanford before he passed. Mario hailed his late co-star as “hilarious” and admitted he will be sorely missed. He added: “He’s just truly a raconteur, his storytelling is brilliant, he’s hilarious. “But I’m usually the one that’s like, you know, doing my thing, being crazy on set. And I can sit back and just watch him go off. He’s hilarious and he lived in LA, we didn’t see each other a lot, but we would do Zoom readings and we would always be texting each other and talking c**p about things and situations. So yeah, but he’s really missed.” View the full article
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Robin Thicke and Ken Jeong reportedly walked off stage in protest when Rudy Giuliani was unmasked on ‘The Masked Singer’. The two judges were unimpressed when Donald Trump’s lawyer was revealed as one of the disguised singers on the upcoming Season 7 of the Fox series, and made no hesitation in letting their feelings known. According to Deadline – who didn’t reveal what costume the 77-year-old former Mayor of New York wore or what he sang – Ken and Robin immediately left the stage when Rudy was unmasked, but fellow judges Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger stayed and chatted with the ousted contestant. The pair eventually returned to resume filming, though it is unclear how long they were off stage. A spokesperson for the show – which is due to return to TV next month – had no comment. Giuliani has been involved in a number of controversies in recent years, and in 2021, federal agents raided his home and office during an investigation into his work in Ukraine. His lawyer said afterwards: “Mr. Giuliani respects the law, and he can demonstrate that his conduct as a lawyer and a citizen was absolutely legal and ethical.” He was suspended from practicing law in New York last June after an appellate court said he made “demonstrably false and misleading statements” about Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden. Rudy also made an infamous appearance in Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ but later denied any inappropriate behaviour and insisted a clip in which he appeared to put his hand down his pants while leaning back onto a bed near Maria Bakalova was a “complete fabrication”. View the full article
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Crosby, Stills and Nash have backed Neil Young and demanded their music is removed from Spotify. The disbanded group – known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with the ‘Heart of Gold’ hitmaker was in the lineup – have backed their former bandmate in protest over Joe Rogan’s podcast allegedly spreading coronavirus and vaccine misinformation. In a joint statement on David Crosby’s social media, the trio – including Stephen Stills and Graham Nash – said: “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast. “While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences. “Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music – or the music we made together – to be on the same platform.” They have joined waves of artists threatening to boycott the streaming service over the controversy. The broadcaster has responded to the backlash in a video as he insisted he “most certainly didn’t want” artists to boycott Spotify because of him. He said: “Now, because of this controversy … Neil Young has removed his music from the platform of Spotify and Joni Mitchell and apparently some other people want to as well. “I’m very sorry that they feel that way. I most certainly don’t want that. I’m a Neil Young fan, I’ve always been a Neil Young fan.” Following the criticism, Spotify updated platform rules, including adding a content advisory to podcast episodes discussing the virus, and Joe backed their move, as well as offering his own pledge to offer more “balanced” opinions. He promised: “My pledge to you is that I will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people’s perspectives, so that we can maybe find a better point of view. “I don’t want to just show the contrary opinion to what the narrative is. I want to show all kinds of opinions so that we can all figure what’s going on… “I do all the scheduling myself, and I don’t always get it right. These podcasts are very strange because they’re just conversations, and oftentimes I have no idea what I’m going to talk about until I sit down to talk to people, and that’s why some of my ideas are not that prepared or fleshed out because I’m literally having them in real time. But I do my best.” But the broadcaster took issue with the accusations of “misinformation” Defending his “highly credentialed, very intelligent, very accomplished” guests, he said: “They have an opinion that is different from the mainstream narrative. I wanted to hear what their opinion is.” View the full article
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Victoria’s Secret has cast Emira D’Spain as their first Black transgender model. The iconic lingerie brand has hired the 25-year-old TikTok star to showcase its Valentine’s Day lingerie collection. Emira reminisced about how she had “dreamed” of working with the company on snap of her wearing items from the collection on her Instagram on which she posts under the name Xoxoemira. She wrote: “Honored to be the first black trans girl working with @victoriassecret “As a kid I only DREAMED of being a part of Victoria’s Secret.” Emira thanked fellow transgender model Valentina Sampaio who “paved the way” after becoming the brand’s first transgender model after she posed for their Victoria’s Secret PINK line and Emira called it an “honour” to land her VS contract during Black History Month. She continued: “It’s such an honour to continue that legacy on the first day of Black History Month. Go watch my TikTok to see and stay tuned for more to come.” Emria also shared her dream of “empowering” the transgender community and how “grateful’ she was to work with the brand. She said in a statement: “I want to empower young trans women and men around the world to show them that the beauty and fashion industries are changing, especially if you are a POC. I am so grateful to work with Victoria’s Secret and hope this paves the way for those after me.” The global retailer recently came under fire after facing a number of serious allegations – including design plagiarism, company executives fostering a culture of sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation – prompting them to focus on reshaping their image. This remake included establishing the VS Collective – a movement that incorporated Megan Rapinoe, Eileen Gu, Paloma Elsesser and Priyanka Chopra Jonas – scrapping their annual fashion show and the brand’s use of ‘Angels’, such as Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio and Elsa Hosk, and many others. View the full article
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Brian Cox was blown away by how “stunningly beautiful” his ‘Troy’ co-star Brad Pitt was. The 75-year-old actor portrayed invading king Agamemnon opposite the Hollywood hunk as the titular hero in the 2004 movie and he admitted he was “agog” at the visual spectacle of his co-star in his his skimpy armour. Speaking in a video interview with Vanity Fair, Brian said: “Brad walked on and my jaw was down because he was so stunningly beautiful. I mean I’m straight, you know, but I just thought, ‘Wow! My God, this guy is stunning. What chance does one have on the screen with this beautiful, beautiful man?’ “ “You know I remember one point you know, just kind of being agog at, you know, at Brad, because you know, he’d never been in costumes like that.” The ‘Succession’ actor – who has Alan, 51, and Margaret, 44, with first wife Caroline Burt and Orson, 19, and Torin, 17, with spouse Nicole Ansari – joked some of the other cast members were more accustomed to the costumes. He quipped: “If we’d done the classical theatre, we’re always without pants, you know?” The veteran star admitted Agamemnon was “the only part [he had] ever pursued” and continued to do so even when he was aware the role had already been offered to Sir Ben Kingsley. He added: “I’ve never pursued anything. I’ve always allowed it to fall out the way it fell out. But I knew the part was available and I knew that I was dead right for the role of Agamemnon. “I volunteered to fly myself to London to meet [director] Wolfgang Petersen. I think it’d been offered, the part had been offered to Ben Kingsley. And I had this meeting and it went incredibly well. I got the role.'” View the full article
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Neil Patrick Harris doubts whether he would be able to reprise the role of Barney Stinson in ‘How I Met Your Father’. The 48-year-old actor played the character in the comedy ‘How I Met Your Mother’ between 2005 and 2014 but thinks that the return of his alter ego in the spin-off would be difficult because of his brash, womanising personality. Speaking to ‘How I Met Your Father’ star Hilary Duff in the latest edition of his newsletter ‘Wondercade’, Neil said: “As for coming on your show (insert joke here), I worry. “Barney’s antics, his overt delusions of grandeur, would likely get everyone in trouble. So, unless he’s changed his ways or joined a nunnery (insert an insert joke here), not sure if it’s in anyone’s best interest.” Hilary agreed with Neil’s sentiments about Barney and joked that he would likely be in prison in 2022 – although she did suggest that Francia Raisa’s character in ‘How I Met Your Father’ was inspired by the character. The 34-year-old star said: “I’m not sure how you feel about this, but I’m pretty sure Barney would… be in jail in 2022. “Since we’re living in the world of females coming into power, I’m assuming that’s why they made (Barney-esque character Valentina) a woman!” Meanwhile, Hilary recently confessed that she was reluctant to take on the role of Sophie in the comedy spin-off. She explained: “I got a call from my manager saying that there was this project they wanted me to chat about. Then I heard the title and I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? What?!’ “The original show is so, so beloved and was just so spot-on perfect, that I’m like, ‘Ohh, I don’t wanna do reboot.’ I was a little bit nervous about the sitcom of it all because I’ve never done multi-cam, but I read the script and it was just everything you want a comedy to be.” View the full article
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Published by Reuters By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s Afrigen Biologics has used the publicly available sequence of Moderna Inc’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to make its own version of the shot, which could be tested in humans before the end of this year, Afrigen’s top executive said on Thursday. The vaccine candidate would be the first to be made based on a widely used vaccine without the assistance and approval of the developer. It is also the first mRNA vaccine designed, developed and produced at lab scale on the African continent. The World Health Organization (WHO) last year picked a consortium including Afrigen for a pilot project to give poor and middle-income countries the know-how to make COVID vaccines, after market leaders of the mRNA COVID vaccine, Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna, declined a WHO request to share their technology and expertise. The WHO and consortium partners hope their technology transfer hub will help overcome inequalities between rich nations and poorer countries in getting access to vaccines. Some 99% of Africa’s vaccines against all diseases are imported and the negligible remainder manufactured locally. During the pandemic, wealthy countries have hoovered up most of the world’s supplies of vaccines. Biovac, a partly state-owned South African vaccine producer, will be the first recipient of the technology from the hub. Afrigen has also agreed to help train companies in Argentina and Brazil. In September, the WHO’s hub in Cape Town decided to go it alone after failing to bring on board Pfizer and Moderna, both of which have argued they need to oversee any technology transfer due to the complexity of the manufacturing process. Moderna had no immediate comment on Afrigen’s announcement on Thursday. Moderna’s vaccine was chosen by the WHO due to an abundance of public information and the company’s pledge not to enforce patents during the pandemic. It’s not clear what will happen after the pandemic ends and whether the company will try to enforce them again. ‘CUTTING-EDGE PRODUCTS’ “If this project shows that Africa can take cutting edge technology and produce cutting-edge products, this will banish this idea that Africa can’t do it and change the global mindset … this can be a game-changer,” Charles Gore, executive director at MPP, told Reuters at Afrigen’s facility, a converted warehouse. Under pressure to make drugs in lower-income countries, Moderna and BioNTech have announced plans to build mRNA vaccine factories in Africa, but production is still a long way off. “We haven’t copied Moderna, we’ve developed our own processes because Moderna didn’t give us any technology,” Petro Terblanche, managing director at Afrigen, told Reuters. “We started with the Moderna sequence because that gives, in our view, the best starting material. But this is not Moderna’s vaccine, it is the Afrigen mRNA hub vaccine,” Terblanche said. She later took a delegation of EU diplomats on a tour of the state-of-the-art facility where scientists were seen making mRNA in sterile white-walled rooms. She said it had managed to make, in collaboration with Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand, its first micro-litre laboratory scale batches of COVID mRNA vaccines at the Cape Town facility. EASIER STORAGE Terblanche said Afrigen was also working on a next generation mRNA vaccine that didn’t need freezing temperatures for storage, required for the Pfizer and Moderna doses, and which would be better suited to Africa, which is often dealing with high temperatures and poor health facilities and infrastructure. “We will only make our clinical trial batch probably in six months from now, (meaning) … fit for humans. And the target is November 2022,” Terblanche added. Online training for other companies to make the shot started with manufacturers in Brazil and Argentina last year. Afrigen expects to get more on board within the next month. (Additional reporting by Francesco Guarascio; Editing by Tim Cocks, Josephine Mason, Mark Potter and Frances Kerry) View the full article
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Duncan James felt “petrified” about coming out. The 43-year-old singer shot to fame in the boy band Blue and he’s recalled being “frightened to come out” at the time. Duncan – who came out as bisexual in 2009, before confirming he was gay in 2017 – said: “I think being in such a public boy band, with majority of fans being female, it was really hard for me to actually have the courage to come out because I was scared on so many different levels on so many different things. And to be honest, I didn’t quite understand too much about my own sexuality at that time, I was just really confused. “So I was kind of just like all over the place and what with the height of the fame and everything, it was just one of those things where I kind of buried it inside me and I didn’t want to accept it and want to think about it.” Duncan was in a “secret relationship with a guy” when he turned 30. And at that moment, he thought it was a “matter of time” before his sexuality was revealed to the public. The ‘All Rise’ hitmaker eventually decided to “take the bull by the horns” and reveal the news himself. He told the ‘Ry-Union’ podcast: “I didn’t know what was going to happen. And I was petrified. But to be fair, it was the best thing I ever did. “And I think when you’re living with one of those secrets inside you, and you’re frightened to come out, I think everything is magnified on a great big level. And I was really, really, really scared that everything was gonna … my world was gonna come crashing down. “But actually, in hindsight, it was never as bad as I thought it was going to be. And it wasn’t a big deal. And when I came out, it was obviously like, a huge weight had been lifted.” Listen to ‘Ry-Union’, brought to you by Sky Bingo, on all podcast platforms. View the full article
