#Newtown AUS

[sonic-gonzo]

Last Thursday at the Enmore Theater Sydney Australia - TEXAS (010224).

[newtownelc]

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[silverjae]

Explaining my ducktales au part1 - Magica's family tree

Magica obviously has a brother, Poe as in canon however Poe in my au has 2 daughters, Minima De Spell and Streghella De Spell. The mother of these children is a peahen (peacock) who Poe was arranged to marry by his parents, they got divorced shortly after Minimas birth. Magica and Poe have 3 cousins 2 of which they were in contact with before Poe was cursed. The cousins names are Adelia, Matilda (from there father's side) and Abrazella(mothers side). They were in contact with Abrazella and Adelia whilst Matilda cut contact with everyone and left for the fairy realm.

After Poe had been cursed into a crow and was declared missing his daughters stayed with Magica, Streghella being 19 and Minima being 17, as they all looked for Poe. They left however when Magica's priorities changed to revenge causing Magica to be even more secluded. Minima, age 37, is currently a librarian in duckburg living with Rita Gearloose and her son Newtown Gearloose (Gyros family, Rita's a oc). Streghella, age 39, is currently living in mervana after using her magic to make her one of them.

Lena is different from the rest for obvious reasons. She was created in Magica's shadow and was named a De Spell gifting her powers of her own as any other, she was adopted by the Saber wing family and is now officially one of them. She recently found out about Poe from Louie in my au and is currently finding a way to find him and turn him back which causes her to find out about his daughters and her supposed sisters/cousins.

[collapsedsquid]

When Walder St. Louis entered the Miami pawnshop in October 2021, his shopping list contained just a few items: Two AK-47s and an AR-15. Germine Joly, then head of the Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, had placed the order from a Port-au-Prince prison. St. Louis would soon send two barrels of firearms back to the Haitian capital. Heavily armed gangs control 80 percent of Port-au-Prince, the United Nations has estimated, where they rape, kidnap and kill with impunity. Haiti doesn’t manufacture firearms, and the U.N. prohibits importing them, but that’s no problem for the criminals. When they go shopping, the United States is their gun store. The semiautomatic rifles that have wrought human carnage from an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., to a Walmart in El Paso are also being used to menace the Haitian government and terrorize the population. U.S. authorities seized some of the guns in the 400 Mawozo plot before they could be smuggled, and Joly, St. Louis and two others pleaded guilty to federal gunrunning conspiracy charges. The gang would soon gain notoriety for kidnapping 17 American and Canadian missionaries. Other firearms, purchased in part with ransom money, slipped into Haiti undetected. That’s the most common outcome, analysts say, owing to access in the United States, corruption in Haiti and insufficient screening in both countries. William O’Neill, the U.N.’s independent expert on human rights in Haiti, called conditions here “cataclysmic.” The presidency is vacant; the prime minister has announced his intention to resign; the National Assembly has gone home. Security forces are outgunned by criminals, who have grown in power since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. O’Neill said last week it was “incredible” that “weapons and bullets are still going to the gangs, mostly from the United States.”

Sometimes see claims "This isn't colonization/imperialism because there's no attempt to control the territory" and yeah a need for suspicion there.

[speedbird1987]

A couple of New OCs for my AU of the Fireman Sam Series. They are First Responders and top Government agents who work closely with the Pontypandy Emergency Services. Here are the names of each one and what they do. We have DC Maya Lee who is a Detective with Newtown Police/Heddlu Drenewydd, Michelle Jones and Lewis Harrelson who are Special Agents with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), PC Leah Richards who is a Police Officer with South Wales Police/Heddlu De Cymru, Firefighter Jade Myers who is with the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service/Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub De Cymru, Firefighter Kyle Higgins who is a Firefighter with the London Fire Brigade, Station Officer Kenneth Lane who is a Station Officer with the London Fire Brigade, Commander John Rimmer who is a Police Officer with the Metropolitan Police Service, Anastasia Orlóva (Анастасия Орлова) who was a Police Officer in the Russian Police (Полиция России), Juliana Diaz who is a School Safety Agent with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), and Stacy Mendez who is an officer with ths U.S. Customs and Border Protection under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

[greenlikethesea]

I’ll be original and send number 30 back to you 😄

fic asks!

30. Tell us an idea for a longfic you want to write in the future.

i have an epic longfic kicking around in my mind, modern au, where steve is quasi adopted by and gets a job from joyce and hopper, who run an ice cream shop down the jersey shore. he's an out of towner who recently graduated from a private, expensive liberal arts college in the state. robin's from the area, temporarily living with her parents before starting a brand new job in the big city in the fall. very liberal, very accepting parents. they take steve in, but sort of hint at the fact that he needs to find a place of his own. joyce and hop have a mother in law suite that they do not use in their home that they rent to steve for cheap.

eddie, a lifelong, year-round local, is the manager of the shop and thinks that steve is really spoiled and bratty and basically is a jerk to him, and also is obsessed with him and wants him really bad. because steve comes from this prominent midwestern right wing political family whose whole shtick is family values, but steve recently got quietly disowned by his parents. no big stink about it, brushed under the rug to avoid scandal, but steve's refusal to back down from coming out (he's gay in this fic) destroys their relationship.

big misunderstanding, robin breaks down what's going on with steve after eddie's repeated barbs and snarky remarks during a rush make him walk out and leave eddie and robin scrambling, and fuck, eddie feels like the worst person alive. he knows what that's like, moved from newtown to the shore to live with uncle wayne when he was 13 and his dad caught him kissing a boy.

they become friends, they fall in love, steve decides to stay.

the upside down is a dnd campaign that eddie makes up for the kids who are all working their first summer jobs in this little beach town -- even erica, who's working off the books at a pizza place.

[cochonneries]

Hartsyard

Je délaisse un peu la junk food pour un post plus fancy ! Après une journée (à ne rien faire) au boulot, je me fais inviter chez Hartsyard car “il faut goûter les desserts. Je ne suis pas déçu de l’expérience, bien au contraire ! Les desserts sont de la dynamite, aussi bien au niveau du goût que le nombre de calories qu’il doit y avoir… Mention “fat with no regrets” pour le Peanut butter and banana sundae. Le reste de la carte est aussi bon ;)

Hartsyard Définitivement fermé 33 Enmore Road Newtown NSW 2042  

[newstfionline]

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Shhh, I’m on vacation. Travelers are on a quest for the quiet (AP) At home in the New York City suburbs, Oscar Sandoval has lots of friends and an active social life. But when it’s time for vacation, he prefers to keep it quiet. Like, literally. He’d stroll, sit, do some gardening and generally contemplate life for a week. More recently, he’s done solo backpacking trips across Spain. “The utter peace and stillness is impossible to put into words.” From serene nature retreats to silent walking, the quest for quietude has become one of modern travel’s latest trends. Conde Nast Traveler said last month it was “the travel trend we’re most obsessed with this year.” For many, quiet travel goes beyond escaping the cacophony of everyday life while on vacation. It can be a shift toward introspection; a deeper connection with where we are both literally and figuratively. “Transformative travel’s a trend we’re tracking for growth,” says Alex Hawkins, editor at the trend forecaster and consultancy The Future Laboratory. “It taps into consumers’ desire for self-reflective tourism experiences.”

Mexico breaks relations with Ecuador after embassy raid (Washington Post) Ecuadorian police forced their way into Mexico’s embassy in Quito late Friday and pulled out a former vice president who had sought asylum there, sparking a diplomatic crisis in a region becoming increasingly polarized between left and right. The raid was a brazen move by Ecuador’s government, which sent a convoy of black vehicles with sirens blaring to break down the front gate of the embassy. When the Mexican consul tried to stop one of the vehicles as it exited, police grabbed him and wrestled him to the ground. “This is totally unacceptable,” the consul, Roberto Canseco, told journalists, his voice breaking. “At risk of my life, I defended the honor and sovereignty of my country. This can’t be!”

When Haiti’s gangs shop for guns, the United States is their store (Washington Post) When Walder St. Louis entered the Miami pawnshop in October 2021, his shopping list contained just a few items: Two AK-47s and an AR-15. Germine Joly, then head of the Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, had placed the order from a Port-au-Prince prison. St. Louis would soon send two barrels of firearms back to the Haitian capital. Heavily armed gangs control 80 percent of Port-au-Prince, the United Nations has estimated, where they rape, kidnap and kill with impunity. Haiti doesn’t manufacture firearms, and the U.N. prohibits importing them, but that’s no problem for the criminals. When they go shopping, the United States is their gun store. The semiautomatic rifles that have wrought human carnage from an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., to a Walmart in El Paso are also being used to menace the Haitian government and terrorize the population. U.S. authorities seized some of the guns in the 400 Mawozo plot before they could be smuggled, and Joly, St. Louis and two others pleaded guilty to federal gunrunning conspiracy charges. The gang would soon gain notoriety for kidnapping 17 American and Canadian missionaries. Other firearms, purchased in part with ransom money, slipped into Haiti undetected.

French pupil dies after being beaten near school (BBC) There are renewed concerns over levels of violence in French schools after two young teenagers were the victims of attacks, one of them fatal. A 15-year-old boy named as Shamseddin died in hospital on Friday. The news came a day after he was beaten by a group of youths near his school in Viry-Chatillon, in the southern Paris suburbs. “This extreme violence is becoming commonplace,” said the town mayor, Jean-Marie Vilain. On Tuesday, in another incident in the southern city of Montpellier, a 14-year-old girl named as Samara was placed in an artificial coma after she was beaten by a group shortly after leaving school. The attacks have further heightened concerns about violence in schools, against a background of gangs, cyber-bullying and pressure to conform to Islamic rules.

Germans finally warm to digital payments (Spiegel) The island of Rügen is considered a stronghold for paper money in Germany, which is already widely known as a cash-obsessed nation. Tourists are often amazed by how attached the islanders are to coins and bills. “If you’re going to Rügen, take cash and lots of bread with you!” the Berliner Zeitung in Berlin once wrote. But cards are also slowly finding their way to Rügen, albeit slowly. Stickers can now be found on the windows and doors of many stores in the tourist town of Binz: “We accept debit card payments.” Still, 69 percent of Germans said that cash is either important or very important to them, especially older people and people with low incomes and education levels. In Europe, only Austrians appear to have a greater affinity for cash than the Germans. But that love is being put to the test. Millions of customers suddenly went cashless during the pandemic—and stuck with it. Many young people prefer to pay even small amounts by debit card or mobile phone. The EU is pushing for limits on cash payments, local authorities are issuing debit cards to asylum-seekers and the European Central Bank (ECB) is already working to create a “digital euro.” Cash, it seems, is coming under pressure from many different sides.

With no way out of a worsening war, Zelensky’s options look bad or worse (Washington Post) As Russia steps up airstrikes and once again advances on the battlefield in Ukraine more than two years into its bloody invasion, there is no end to the fighting in sight. And President Volodymyr Zelensky’s options for what to do next—much less how to win the war—range from bad to worse. Zelensky has said Ukraine will accept nothing less than the return of all its territory, including land that Russia has controlled since 2014. But with the battle lines changing little in the last year, militarily retaking the swaths of east and south Ukraine that Russia now occupies—about 20 percent of the country—appears increasingly unlikely. Negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war—something Zelensky has rejected as long as Russian troops remain on Ukrainian land—is politically toxic. The Ukrainian public is hugely opposed to surrendering territory, and Putin shown no willingness to accept anything short of Ukraine’s capitulation to his demands. The status quo is awful. With the fight now a grinding stalemate, Ukrainians are dying on the battlefield daily. But a cease-fire is also a nonstarter, Ukrainians say, because it would just give the Russians time to replenish their forces. Ukrainian and Western officials view Zelensky as largely stuck.

US, Japan, Australia and the Philippines to stage military drills in disputed South China Sea (AP) The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, in a show of force Sunday in the South China Sea where Beijing’s aggressive actions to assert its territorial claims have caused alarm. The four treaty allies and security partners are holding the exercises to safeguard “the rule of law that is the foundation for a peaceful and stable Indo-Pacific region” and uphold freedom of navigation and overflight, they said in a joint statement issued by their defense chiefs Saturday. Aside from China and the Philippines, the long-simmering disputes in the South China Sea, a key global trade route, also involve Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. But skirmishes between Beijing and Manila have particularly flared since last year.

Chinese Overcapacity Is About To Slam Into Europe’s Economy (Die Welt) In late March, the BYD Explorer No. 1, a 200 meter-long bright white vehicles carrier, made its maiden voyage to Bremerhaven, a port city on Germany’s North Sea coast, to deliver 3,000 China-made electric cars. Technically equal to most German models, these cars are often significantly cheaper. And they are the first of many waves that will strike at the heart of a key German industry. In the next few years, the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD alone is planning to launch seven more cargo ships to transport cars from Asia to Europe. And the electric cars are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to industrial products that are expected to pour into Germany from China over the next few years. Many of these will likely be less expensive than their German counterparts, forcing companies and politicians to look for new ways to respond to this challenge.

China carefully scrutinizes U.S. envoy’s ... chopstick skills? (Washington Post) U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen landed in China this week with a raft of thorny issues to tackle. But it wasn’t her trade policy or stance on the poor state of U.S.-China relations that caught the attention of the Chinese public. “Watching Yellen use chopsticks, it’s clear she’s a chopsticks master. She definitely eats Chinese food on a regular basis,” one user wrote on the microblog Weibo after news outlets posted a seven-second video clip of Yellen wielding said utensils at a Cantonese restaurant in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Thursday night. Chinese social media platforms on Friday were awash with details of Yellen’s first meal in China during a week-long visit aimed at improving U.S.-China ties and addressing what Washington sees as unfair Chinese trade practices. Hashtags related to Yellen’s dining choices drew almost 10 million views on Weibo. The breathless state media coverage of her dining choices or dexterity with chopsticks reflects an effort by Beijing to cast Yellen’s visit in a positive light, especially to an increasingly anti-American Chinese public. It underlines how Beijing sees Yellen as perhaps its best hope for improving trade ties with Washington and helping its own ailing economy.

U.S. Seeks ‘Results’ After Israel Promises More Gaza Aid Routes (NYT) World leaders and humanitarian groups said on Friday that Israel must show concrete results after it reacted to growing pressure from the United States by announcing it would open more aid routes into the Gaza Strip, where the United Nations has warned that a famine is looming. At a news conference in Brussels on Friday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken welcomed the new aid routes, calling them “positive developments,” but said that the United States was watching to see if Israel would make it a priority to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. One measure of Israel’s commitment, he said, will be “the number of trucks that are actually getting in on a sustained basis.” “The real test is results, and that’s what we’re looking to see in the coming days and the coming weeks,” he said, adding, “Really, the proof is in the results.”

After 6 Months of War, Some Israelis Ask: Is Netanyahu Dragging It Out? (NYT) Nearly six months since it began, Israel’s war in Gaza is dragging on. So, too, is the tenure of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In Israel, some are now asking: Are the two linked? To his allies, Mr. Netanyahu’s refusal to agree to a cease-fire in Gaza is a necessary one, made in the national interest and backed by many Israelis. The thinking goes that Israel must cripple Hamas to weaken its hand at cease-fire negotiations. To his critics, the prime minister is dragging out the war to prevent the collapse of his fragile right-wing coalition and extend his time in office. By this analysis, he has made a domestic calculus that ignores both the growing global anger about the bloodshed—including from Israel’s most powerful ally, President Biden, which erupted into full view on Thursday—and the rising anger from the families of Israeli hostages who seek their relatives’ immediate release.

13.56 (WSJ) That’s the initial value of Zimbabwe’s new currency against the U.S. dollar. The government, notorious for printing 100-trillion-dollar notes, is launching Zimbabwe Gold, or ZiG, to replace the current Zimbabwe dollar, which most recently traded at more than 30,674 to the U.S. dollar. A previous dollar was abolished in 2009 after a hyperinflation rate of 500 billion percent, according to some estimates. Then the country used foreign currencies for nearly a decade. When the central bank couldn’t pay out savings in cash dollars, it reintroduced the Zimbabwe dollar in 2019. The currency has lost around 75 percent of its value this year.

[concretersgeelongvic]

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[equixen]

Equixen’s Master List

All my stuff grouped by fandom. Most links go to the related Tumblr post but a few of my older videos aren’t on Tumblr so those links go straight to YouTube.

The Chronicles of Narnia - Caspian/Peter

Fan video: Remembering You

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Meme: They’re the same picture

Manip: Kisses in the dark

Fan fiction: What Stays and What Fades Away

Manip: Before You Go armour scene

Manip: Kiss in an 1890′s AU

Ocean/Sun Headcanons

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Fan fiction: Safe In Your Hands

Manip: Not needed here anymore

Fan edit: Goodbye/Hello

Fan fiction: Our Hands Are Tied

Fan video: The Great War

Fan video: Run To You - Original Post / Retrospective

Fan fiction: Before You Go

Fan fiction: Live With Me Forever Now

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Video edit: The Reunion

Fan video: Immortals

Fan video: Before You Go - Original Post / Retrospective

Fan video: What Hurts the Most

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The Chronicles of Narnia - Gen

Fan video: Keep Us Connected - Susan Pevensie (The Last Battle)

My own merch: 2024 Narnia calendar

Fan video: Goodbye - Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter

My own merch: Narnia Poster

Doctor Who

Fan video: Hold My Hand – 13th Doctor/Yaz

Fan video: My Once In A Lifetime – Doctor/Rose

Fan video: It’s Out of My Hands – 9th Doctor and Clara (AU)

Fan video: Beside You - Amy/Rory

Fan video: Hurricane – The Doctor

Fan video: You’re Everything – 11th Doctor/River Song

Fan video: Silence Is All You Know - 11th Doctor/River Song

Fan video: Here With Me – 10th Doctor/Rose

Fan video: I Do (Cherish You) – Doctor/Rose

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Fan video: Unconditionally – Natasha/Bruce

Fan video: Almost Love – Steve/Bucky

Fan video: Stay – Steve/Bucky

Class

Fan video: Never Gonna Be Alone – Charlie/ Matteusz

Fan video: Sine From Above – Charlie and Miss Quill

Poster: The Cast

Xena: Warrior Princess – Xena/Gabrielle

Fan video: Space Between

Fan video: Who Knew

Fan video: End of The World

BBC Sherlock – Sherlock/John

Fan video: All of Me

Fan video: The Truth In Your Eyes

Adam Lambert

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Queer As Folk

Desktop wallpaper – Ben/Michael

Desktop wallpaper – Brian/Justin

Fan video: Say When – Ted

Fan video: It’s Complicated – Brian/Justin

Fan video: Pride – Brian/Justin

Fan video: All That I’m Asking For – Brian/Justin

Fan video: Permanent – Brian/Justin

Fan video: I’d Come For You – Brian/Justin

Other:

Fan video: Lose You Now – How I Met Your Mother - Barney/Robin

Poster: Team Free Will - Supernatural

Fan video: Somebody To Die For – Good Omens - Crowley/Aziraphale

Fan video: Better Than I Know Myself – The Witcher - Geralt/Jaskier

Fan video: Always Remember Us This Away – Outlander - Jamie/Claire

Fan video: So Cold – The Book Thief

Fan video: All About Us – The Newtown Girls - Alex/Scarlet

[musikblog]

DMA's – How Many Dreams? „How Many Dreams?“ – so der Titel des neuen, vierten Albums der australischen Indie-Rock-Band DMA’s. Und falls die Frage dahinter lautet, wie viele Träume es dauert, bis sich das Trio aus Newtown von möglichen Erwartungen an den musikalischen Output befreit und – völlige Narrenfreiheit genießend – ein Album veröffentlicht, das sämtliche Genregrenzen sprengt, dann lautet […] https://www.musikblog.de/2023/03/dmas-how-many-dreams/ #DMAS #Album #BritPop #IndieRock

[leontiucmarius]

Colesterolul ar putea fi una dintre cauzele demenței

Cercetătorii australieni de la Heart Research Institute din Newtown au identificat o legătură directă între colesterolul ridicat și riscul de demență. Cercetătorii au analizat date de la peste 1 milion de pacienți din întreaga lume […] Articolul Colesterolul ar putea fi una dintre cauzele demenței apare prima dată în Descopera. Această știre a fost preluată de pe portalul amintit Această…

[speedbird1987]

My AU of Fireman Sam

Fireman Sam - Welsh/British. Born in Pontypandy, Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Elvis Cridlington - Welsh/British. Born in Pontypandy, Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Penny Morris - Welsh/British. Born in Newtown, Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Arnold McKinley - Irish/British. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Norris Steele - Welsh/British. Born in Pontypandy, Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Horatio Boyce - British. Born in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Malcolm Williams - Jamaican/British. Born in Kingston, Jamaica.

Rose Ravani - British. Born in London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Tom Thomas - Australian. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Krystyna Kaminski - Polish. Born in Warsaw, Poland.

Ben Hooper - British. Born in Manchester, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Jodie Phillips - British. Born in London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Moose Roberts - Canadian. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Ellie Phillips - British. Born in London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

[actu24hp]

Une mère abandonne son petit garçon d'un an devant une maison privée à Limbe - Mimi Mefo Info

Un petit garçon d’un mois a été retrouvé devant une maison privée à Newtown, Limbe, région du sud-ouest du Cameroun. Malika, qui a trouvé le bébé avec son voisin, a déclaré à MMI au téléphone que le bébé non identifié avait été déposé devant sa porte à 23h00 mardi soir – alors qu’elle se préparait à aller se coucher. « J’ai été surprise quand j’ai entendu les cris du bébé à l’extérieur. Je suis…