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The part I hate about this is the "If they hate it here so badly then by all means please return to their own country." mentality. As if because someone is Muslim they aren't American? WTF white people?!?
Rumor: Actor Kevin Bacon is changing his surname to appease Muslim groups
As the story goes, the original owner of this unwieldy building located in Willow, Alaska built his house shortly after a forest fire with a clear view of Mount McKinley and Denali National Park. As the surrounding trees recovered, the pristine view was obscured and the owner decided to add few more stories, eventually spending a decade adding floors until it reached the 12-ish story tower you see today. Not surprisingly, locals refer to the building as the “Dr. Seuss House” as the design so closely mimics structures you might see in Theodor Geisel’s illustrated storybooks.
While the tower sat abandoned for a while, the Dr. Seuss house apparently has a new owner who is currently working on renovations. Photographer Jovell Rennie and Alaska Aerial Footage recently stopped by to capture some of the images and video you see here. (via Jeroen Apers, Unusual Places)
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The decision to hire Pascal Tessier, an 18-year-old Eagle Scout from Maryland, is a direct challenge to the Boy Scouts’ existing ban on openly gay adult participants,
Board member Richard G. Mason praised Tessier, who has been an outspoken advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues, as an “exemplary candidate” for the counselor role, and said members “did not want our policy of non-discrimination to be affected by the national policy”.
"New York City and New York State law clearly prohibit employers from excluding qualified men and women from employment based on sexual
orientation," he noted, and said he and other board members welcomed
Tessier and "look forward to his participation in our camp program."
i truly hope that this does lead to a change for BSA at the national level and a reversal on a discriminatory, ignorant, and hurtful ban.
and bravo to pascal tessier for his courage and general awesomeness.
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Fiber artist Mana Morimoto spares no medium with her vibrantly stitched embroidery that spans sculptures, installations, weavings, and 2D materials like concert tickets and advertisements. Among my favorite of her works are these embroidered monochromatic photographs and paintings. An etching of Isaac Newton is overlaid with rainbows of light and Morimoto even goes meta by embroidering on images depicting other fiber artists, going so far as mimicking the progress of a weaving on an old photograph. You can explore more of her work in Tumblr, Cargo Collective, and some of her works are available as prints on Society6.
It’s the end of the road for the company behind Rolleiflex cameras. Just two months after Fujifilm put up one of its major film factories at auction, DHW Fototechnik is doing a liquidation auction of its own, selling off the massive amounts of equipment used in manufacturing twin-lens reflex cameras.
The auction gives us an unprecedented glimpse into the tools and spaces that were once used to great cameras with the iconic Rollei brand.
It consists of 1,100 lots of equipment for mechanical and optical manufacturing, CNC milling, metalworking gear, drills, measurement instruments, testing machines, workshop equipment, lenses, cameras, and more.
Here are some of the 1,000+ photographs found on the auction listing page. It’s a look into how Rolleiflex cameras were once made:
(Okay, we have no idea what this next photo shows.)
This end comes rather abruptly. DHW Fototechnik had still been showing off new film camera wares at trade shows such as Photokina in recent years.
The Rolleiflex brand itself could survive long after this factory is gone. Just like with Polaroid, the trademark could change hands and soon find itself on new cameras, both officially produced or licensed out to third party manufacturers. If you have deep pockets, maybe you can purchase this entire factory later this year and reboot the camera line yourself.
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This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a list of the best technology to buy. Read the full article below at TheWirecutter.com
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How will cows survive on the Moon? 
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