Asian Stocks Set to Fall as Global Rally Stalls: Markets Wrap
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I went to Japanfest this weekend in support of a friend. He does pottery based on traditional Japanese folks techniques and imports and blends teas.
I mostly didn't have time to walk around, but what little walking around I did was somewhat disappointing.
The other artists were great.
There were a lot of imported snacks (Good! I liked that!) but I didn't see much there that I couldn't find at retail in at least three shops local to the venue for a better price.
My friend had some specialty teas, including a high quality Sencha, a Genmaicha, and a Hōjicha. No one else there had teas.
There were a fair number of Anime things related to franchises that are popular in the US: T-shirts, statues, some figurines.
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Alberta health-care wait lists climb past half a million, as Alberta stops tracking deaths of those waiting for treatment
Alberta’s health-care wait lists have swelled beyond half a million patients, and the province has stopped counting how many people die while waiting for treatment creating a lack of disclosure that leaves families and analysts examining the system w…Kevin Green (CTVNews)
JUST IN: Jimmy Kimmel’s Return to TV Receives Whopping 6.3 Million Viewers
The return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to television on Tuesday received a whopping 6.3 million viewers, according to ABC's figures.Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
Jimmy Kimmel’s return scores 6.3 million viewers on ABC — and many more on social media
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Jimmy Kimmel's return scores 6.3 million viewers on ABC — and many more on social media
The late-night show host was back on the air Tuesday after being yanked for his comments about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.Stephen Battaglio (Los Angeles Times)
‘A symbol of liberation’: how the One Piece manga flag became the symbol of Asia’s gen Z protest movement -
In Indonesia, it was hung outside homes, on motorbikes, cars and trucks, in a sign of discontent with the government that boiled over into deadly protestsEUROPE SAYS
WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? - EUROPE SAYS
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A new Trump policy on Ukraine, or more of the same?
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Tesla is now buying ads on Elon Musk’s X to get people to vote for his $1 trillion compensation
Tesla is now buying advertising on Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) to get Tesla shareholders to vote for his CEO...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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$50K bribe. FBI recording. Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan. DOJ shuts it down. White House says “nothing wrong.” Democrats demand the records—because cover-ups shouldn’t be the law of the land. #Corruption #Justice #Accountability www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
NXT's Myles Borne congratulated his girlfriend, new Women's World Champion Stephanie Vaquer, on Instagram: "I'm so proud of you... Congratulations mi campeona".
In her reply, Vaquer confirmed reports of a recent illness, thanking Borne for "taking care of me during the three weeks before this match when I was very sick".
What do you think of the new champion? Let us know!
NXT Star Myles Borne Praises Girlfriend Stephanie Vaquer Following WWE Championship Victory - Wrestling News
Stephanie Vaquer and her real-life partner, NXT Superstar Myles Borne, shared a public exchange on Instagram celebrating her championship win and revealing new details about her recent struggles.Erick Chambers (WrestlingNews.co)
Estonian foreign minister talks about Russia's alleged incursion into their airspace
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JD Vance Demands People Stop Using 'Nazi' As Insult And Gets Mocked
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JD Vance Demands People Stop Using 'Nazi' As Insult And Gets Mocked
Many people on social media reminded the vice president that he referred to Donald Trump as "America's Hitler" back in 2016.David Moye (HuffPost)
Another win!
US judge blocks Trump from tying states' disaster aid to immigration enforcement
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(Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that an effort by the Trump administration to force states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in orderNewsBreak
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I see the "How One Bad Password Ended a 158-Year-Old Business" story has resurfaced (as a thinly-disguised SpecOps ad).
If a single non-MFA'd password is an existential threat to your entire enterprise ... maybe the problem isn't the intern.
And maybe the fix isn't a single vendor.
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“The head of the agency, Kash Patel, released a photo on social media that shows a bullet containing the words “ANTI-ICE” written in what appears to be marker.”
In pre-Trump times, something like this from an FBI director would have been accepted without suspicion.
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After #Cincinnati #Ohio area Tri-State priest placed on leave due to a "list" of URLs to sex sites found of his computer, police and church officials say no 'criminal activity or wrongdoing' found on computer.
The search of the computer found the configuration file of a malware program meant to block such sites on church computers which had those sites and others in it.
The Cincinnati Archdiocese have been extra vigilant of late after several incidents regarding bad, and even criminal, sexual behavior of some of its priests.
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After Tri-State priest placed on leave, officials say no 'criminal activity or wrongdoing' found on computer
We previously reported that the Archdiocese of Cincinnati placed Fr. Ed Burns Jr. on leave after a parish employee told leadership that a computer in his possession may have accessed porn websites.Taylor Weiter (WCPO 9 Cincinnati)
Districts around the US are mulling school closures as student enrollment falls
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Districts around the US are mulling school closures as student enrollment falls
It’s a financial strain to operate half-empty school buildings, but research shows kids and neighborhoods don’t always fare well after closures.gqlshare (The Mercury News)
Why Eswatini said yes to US deportees aljazeera.com/video/the-take-2…
Why Eswatini said yes to US deportees
A test case for third-country deportations: Eswatini faces legal and public pushback.Al Jazeera
SpaceX, ULA plan rocket launches Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral - UPI.com
Two rocket launches with satellites by Space X and United Launch Alliance are scheduled for Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Central Florida.Allen Cone (UPI)
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The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.
#ForestService #USFS #RockyMountains #Montana #Wyoming #Idaho #Utah #Colorado
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Rihanna Gives Birth, Welcomes Baby No. 3 With A$AP Rocky
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Rihanna Gives Birth, Welcomes Baby No. 3 With A$AP Rocky
Rihanna gave birth on Sept. 13 to a baby named Rocki, her third child with A$AP Rocky. The newborn joins siblings RZA and Riot in the growing family.E! Online
On top of everything else, this was an impressive, if slightly adrenaline-inducing, thing I had to stop and wait for on the way home from campus today. WOW.
The flagger had a hilarious comment about "The commuters aren't bad. The farmers are the worst! They won't stop for anything!"
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Kimmel Scores Over 6 Million Viewers While Being Unavailable in 23% of US
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Kimmel Scores Over 6 Million Viewers While Being Unavailable in 23% of US
Jimmy Kimmel Live had its highest rating in the 18-49 demo in 10 years.name.com (Adweek)
Google reveals its Android for PC is coming next year
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A fiesta of flavor for Hispanic Heritage Month
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A fiesta of flavor for Hispanic Heritage Month
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Rihanna Officially Welcomes Baby No. 3!
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Rihanna Officially Welcomes Baby No. 3!
In a surprise Instagram post, the “Diamonds” singer revealed the name and the first photo of her daughter, who she shares with A$AP Rocky.Rosa Sanchez (Harper's BAZAAR)
Federal judge refuses to reinstate eight former inspectors general fired by Trump administration
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Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •But that was pretty much it!
Some junk food, some mainstream anime stuff, a small amount of art.
As far as the vendors went, that was pretty much all that was present.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •I do a lot of toy shows, so my first thought was: Wow, this is a shitty selection of toys.
Not one vendor doing vintage sofubi. One vendor was selling new sofubi, but specifically like Funko Pop and the like. The most mass produced of mass produced tat.
So my first thought was to do a booth that was just vintage Japanese domestic toys, and maybe a few modern imports that aren't especially well known in the US (like Bottleman) or perhaps a selection of domestic productions from series that were popular enough to get merch there but not here (Delicious in Dungeon comes to mind.)
I have a decent collection of this kind of thing and I think it would do well.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •But it doesn't really fit the vibe of "tea, folk pottery, and imported literature."
So, back to the drawing board.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Other things I'd have liked to see:
- Japanese Pokemon (etc) cards, even just commons/uncommons.
There's a booth that does basically just this at most of the toy shows I go to, and they always clean up.
- Game consoles and games. Famicom, turbographix, gameboy lite, wonderswan, etc. Get fancy even, throw some PC98 or some MSX consoles in there.
I'm not looking for hella rare games or consoles. Common stuff. Doesn't even have to be japan exclusive games, just the Japanese editions of various games. With box is better, without box is fine.
Associated merch, posters, etc.
- other media. CDs, tapes, Minidisc, VHS, DVD and BD. Laserdiscs. Whatever. IF you've got players too, even better, but make the assumption that whoever is out here buying an untranslated japanese bluray also has a region free blueray player.
(and, again associated merch, posters, etc.)
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •I know, more or less, how I would source the above if I was to pursue this.
I have a lot of these kinds of things as one off items, but not in the quantities or at the margins it would take to stock a booth at a con.
The current tariff situation complicates sourcing some of this stuff a bit, but it complicates things as much for me as it would for anyone else.
It'd be a big time investment to stock up on these things the first time, and then it'd take a commitment to keeping them stocked after the fact. I can't imagine it'd be worthwhile if I was only selling at Japanfest, but if I was going to AWA and Momocon, I could probably make that work.
(I have no intention of doing this, it's just what I thought of after having been at the show.)
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Alright, so back to the topic at hand.
My buddy sells tea, pottery, and books. A lot of the books he sells are english translations of Japanese lit, folklore, history, etc.
Mostly these are hard-to-find used books. He does pretty well sourcing these, but it's a fairly high effort task.
One of my recommendations to him was to start picking up some new books (of course, as a bookseller I could help him do that.)
I also recommended that he try to find some vintage Japanese language manga and art books through his existing channels.
Beyond that, though, I'm trying to figure out why things would meet the tone of his existing work while attracting an audience beyond tea drinkers, you know?
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Shae Erisson • • •@shapr I'm very much thinking about it from the perspective of "could I make this work better for him" and then also "could I make this make sense for me"
And I think in both cases the answer is "yes, but there are probably other shows that make more since for me to put this energy into."
Shae Erisson
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •I like the whole cheerful multipurpose wrapping cloth idea.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Shae Erisson • • •Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Relatedly, I'm looking for copies of or scans of vintage Japanese magazines (and, frankly, pop culture magazines from all over the world!)
I'm especially interested in 1970s issues of テレビマガジン (Terebi Magazine) and たのしい幼稚園 (Tanoshii Yōchien) from 1974 - 1976 because they'd have had some Himitsu Sentai Gorenger recap strips which I'm looking for.
But any manga magazines, shonen or other shojo or whatever, would be appreciated.
I've found a fair number of later scans (like this one: archive.org/details/TV-Kun-197… ) on the internet archive.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •But yeah, if you have any of these you want to sell, or you have some you want to keep but are willing to scan, or if you have scans of them, I want 'em.
I'm also looking for old wrestling magazines from any country. I'm less interested in those scans than I am the physical magazines. "Old" in this case is pre 2000.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •ParenTessaLation
in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •nope, it's been down since yesterday.
Steam and Instagram were also down yesterday, and today I'm seeing outages for Roblox, Discord, and others, idk if related or not.
There's a serious set of outages happening, actually.
Andrew (Television Executive)
in reply to ParenTessaLation • • •@jakimfett the archive was up intermittently when I shared the link. I had just taken those screenshots and sourced those scans.
It's up and down a lot these days. Ai scrapers, I assume.