De blog van Jin Wah (261)

There’s a flat-faced dog crisis

The French bulldog business is booming for Jaymar Del Rosario, a breeder whose puppies can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. When he leaves the house to meet a buyer, his checklist includes veterinary paperwork, a bag of puppy kibble and his Glock 26 pistol.

“If I don’t know the area, if I don’t know the people, I always carry my handgun,” Del Rosario said on a recent afternoon as he displayed Cashew, a 6-month-old French bulldog of a new “fluffy” variety that can fetch $30,000…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 3 Juli 2022 op 19.56 — Geen reacties

ANF set a goal to revamp its brand culture

America is slowly forgetting Abercrombie & Fitch, UBS survey shows

As Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF) attempts to distance itself from a tumultuous period in the brand's history, the retailer is facing another challenge: obscurity.

According to a recent report by UBS Evidence Lab, which surveyed 1,000 consumers in the U.S. and 6,500 consumers elsewhere, awareness of the brand lagged behind other specialty retailers.

Although the Swiss bank found that that consumer…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 2 Juli 2022 op 19.32 — Geen reacties

Mayfield said he's tried not to let the slow-moving

With Deshaun Watson's disciplinary hearing beginning this week, even as new details are emerging in the case, the Cleveland Browns are bracing for whatever length suspension their new quarterback might face.

In light of that, some Browns fans have wondered: What direction will they go when Watson's punishment is eventually handed down?

And to take it a step further: Could their ex officio QB Baker Mayfield somehow factor into the Browns' equation this season? He does, after…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 29 Juni 2022 op 9.03 — Geen reacties

the guy who usually comes up with the obscure MCU

Oscar Isaac as Moon Knight; Chris Evans as Captain America

Moon Knight is a unique entry into the MCU for a lot of reasons, but one is that it functions almost entirely on its own. The other Disney+ shows are inextricably tied to the bigger Marvel picture one way or the other. Yet Moon Knight barely even references the rest of the MCU–though not for lack of trying.

“There were definitely different times in the writing process where we talked about cameos because cameos are one…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 28 Juni 2022 op 19.52 — Geen reacties

My daughter got her own

What may have been Colin Kaepernick’s last shot at a National Football League job didn’t go very well, according to Hall of Famer Warren Sapp.

Speaking to urban news site VladTV, Sapp didn’t hold back when Kaepernick’s May workout with the Las Vegas Raiders came up in conversation. The VladTV host mentioned that there were rumors the workout didn’t go very well.

Sapp jumped in, saying, “I heard it was a disaster. I heard it was one of the worst workouts ever. I’m wondering how…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 27 Juni 2022 op 5.57 — Geen reacties

Forcing the audience to see the exploitation

So you're prepping to start another season of Westworld? You'll need a slick new wardrobe, a former military man to befriend and some bodies you can stick copies of your mind into. But if time doesn't allow for all of that, this recap of the third season should suffice.

The first episode of Westworld season 4 premieres Sunday, so it's time to take a look back at where things on HBO's complex and fascinating sci-fi series left off. Season 3 took place largely outside of the eponymous…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 26 Juni 2022 op 21.30 — Geen reacties

The partnership between the NRL and the Western Australian Government

The National Rugby League (NRL) announced today that Ampol State of Origin Two in Perth had officially sold out.

Following Queensland’s win in Game One of the series in Sydney, State of Origin’s first trip back to Optus Stadium since 2019 will be played in front of a full house.

With only single tickets remaining for Game Three in Brisbane, NRL CEO Andrew Abdo said supporters had responded in an extraordinary way to ensure capacity crowds across the series.

“We are…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 26 Juni 2022 op 10.45 — Geen reacties

Tsitsipas demonstrated great footwork to dictate on his aggressive forehand

Stefanos Tsitsipas advanced to his first tour-level final on grass Friday when he defeated Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi 6-4, 6-4 at the Mallorca Championships. The No. 2 seed, who is making his debut at the ATP 250 tournament in Santa Ponsa, Calvia, saved all three break point he faced and converted two of his own five break-point chances to prevail after one hour and 33 minutes.

“It was a good match. I am very happy today,” Tsitsipas said in his on-court interview. “I have played a final…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 25 Juni 2022 op 14.12 — Geen reacties

New Zealand and Mate Ma’a Tonga will finally do battle

New Zealand v Tonga double-header: All you need to know - NZ kickoff time, teams, odds, how to watch, live streaming

Mt Smart hosts as the Kiwi Ferns and NZ New Zealand v Tonga , seeing the return of one of the biggest rivalries in international rugby league. After over two years without Test match rugby league, New Zealand Rugby League (NZRL) is proud to announce, the international game is finally returning home.

Saturday 25 June will see Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s Mt…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 25 Juni 2022 op 7.06 — Geen reacties

tensions between Turkey and the United States are increasing

Why Turkey's Erdogan is blocking NATO membership for Finland and Sweden

It was supposed to be a fait accompli. Three months after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his forces into Ukraine, the governments of Finland and Sweden formally applied for NATO membership on May 18 as a hedge against future Russian military aggression.

President Biden immediately signaled his approval, saying that enlarging the alliance would “make NATO stronger,” and a month earlier Turkish…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 23 Juni 2022 op 7.15 — Geen reacties

Barry obviously doesn’t trust this Thawne

Back in December, at the close of the “Armageddon” event’s fourth episode, viewers saw Tom Cavanagh’s hoodwinked Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash slip into the S.T.A.R. Labs time vault and ominously declare, “No one uses time against me!”

Cavanagh in turn told TVLine at the time that his villainous alter ego likes to pace himself, when unfurling fiendish plots.

Well, the sinister speedster’s time bomb went boom in The Flash‘s penultimate Season 8 episode, when a series of incredible…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 23 Juni 2022 op 6.03 — Geen reacties

Love and Thunder will follow the titular thunder god

Don't expect the Dark Knight to be well-versed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Christian Bale claims he had no idea what the MCU was before he joined Thor: Love and Thunder. The Batman Begins star, set to make his Marvel debut as the villainous, goth-adjacent Gorr the God Butcher in the fourth installment of the Thor franchise, shared as much in an interview with Total Film Magazine published…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 22 Juni 2022 op 6.30 — Geen reacties

Karan, of Stanford, said he had lingering symptoms from a January bout with COVID-19

For two years, the coronavirus killed Americans on a brutal, predictable schedule: A few weeks after infections climbed so did deaths, cutting an unforgiving path across the country.

But that pattern appears to have changed. Nearly three months since an ultra-contagious set of new omicron variants launched a springtime resurgence of cases, people are nonetheless dying from COVID-19 at a rate close to the lowest of the pandemic.

The spread of the virus and the number of deaths…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 21 Juni 2022 op 7.33 — Geen reacties

Netflix action-thriller with a sci-fi twist finds Miles Teller

Lightyear | In Theaters on Friday, June 17

The origin story of Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear and his adventures to infinity and beyond.

Our Take: The Toy Story universe is taking a step back in time with the spin-off Lightyear, an interstellar adventure which explores the origin story of the iconic space ranger. Chris Evans lends his voice as the "human" Buzz Lightyear, alongside a stellar voice cast which includes Taika Waititi, Keke Palmer, James Brolin, and Uzo Aduba.…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 20 Juni 2022 op 18.32 — Geen reacties

EPA and other federal agencies that set rules and regulations

Within days, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision that could severely limit the federal government’s authority to reduce carbon dioxide from power plants — pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.

But it is only a start.

The case, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general, conservative legal activists and their funders, several with…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 20 Juni 2022 op 6.45 — Geen reacties

toy voiced by Tim Allen

Disney/Pixar's latest film Lightyear just hit theaters, and it looks like they're about to take us on a nostalgic flight. With Chris Evans taking on the role of Buzz Lightyear, long-time Toy Story fans finally get a glimpse into the backstory of the superhero and how he became so well loved.

Even though movie-goers are quite excited to see Chris' take on the titular role (it's not like he doesn't have any experience playing a superhero), many fans have been asking the same question we…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 20 Juni 2022 op 5.42 — Geen reacties

Blues coach Leon MacDonald said the team were thrilled that a 43,000 full-house

Blues Crusaders live score starts on 18 Jun 2022 at 07:05 UTC time at Eden Park stadium, Auckland city, New Zealand in Super Rugby



On Saturday afternoon, around 45,000 rugby fans will stream into a sold-out Eden Park to witness the Blues take on the Crusaders in the final of the Super Rugby Pacific tournament.

It marks the climax of the great rivalry between Auckland and Christchurch, but it's also the first major step we're taking towards living with…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 18 Juni 2022 op 9.49 — Geen reacties

Gennings added that what he really likes about animation

With Disney’s Pixar animated film Lightyear being banned in 14 countries in Asia and the Middle East, starring Chris Evans voicing Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear, a Canadian animator who worked on the character Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba), at the centre of the ban for her same-sex marriage in the movie, is highlighting the joy of bringing that character to the screen.

"I know that for me, growing up and watching a lot of action movies back when I was a kid, there were a few…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 17 Juni 2022 op 16.31 — Geen reacties

Belly is coming of age

As a coming-of-age story, Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty is a cut above. Tenderly written and endearingly acted, it’s sensitive to the subtle but irreversible shifts in self-perception that come with late adolescence — and at the same time clear-eyed enough to understand that teenagers, up to and including its own blushing heroine, sure can act like clueless jerks while they’re figuring out how to wield their newfound powers.

It’s a bit of a bummer, then, that it’s wrapped up in…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 17 Juni 2022 op 11.15 — Geen reacties

It came to a head when a gunman crept up behind Mother's Milk

The first three episodes of The Boys Season 3 gave fans a lot to unpack, including a reference to the cast of Riverdale. Homelander's Birthday Spectacular was the focal point of Season 3, Episode 2, "The Only Man in the Sky," and was packed with celebrity guests from Judi Dench to Starlight. Included on the guest list was none other than the cast of The CW's Riverdale.

The cast of Riverdale weren't the only special guests invited to Homelander's highly anticipated Birthday…

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Toegevoegd door Jin Wah op 17 Juni 2022 op 6.05 — Geen reacties

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