With summer here, chances are that youve probably spared a bit of thought for getting that sun-kissed, tanned look often associated with youth and vitality. The sad irony, of course, is that while we might associate suntanned skin with good health, prolonged sun exposure can lead to accelerated skin aging, as well asassociated risks like skin cancer. A new research project published in the journal Cell Reports suggests that things dont have to remain that way, though. What scientists have discovered is a small molecule that may be able to stimulate the darkening of human skin, without exposing it to potentially harmful UV radiation. This involves inhibiting an enzyme called Salt Inducible Kinase (SIK), which naturally suppresses pigmentation. By inhibiting it, pigment synthesis is instead stimulated. Based upon human epidemiology which shows that darkly pigmented people are at significantly lower risk of developing skin cancer, as well as other indications of UV damage to skin, we suspect that the ability to stimulate pigment production [minus] use of damaging UV-rays, may provide the benefits without the damage from UV, Dr. David Fisher of Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the researchers on the project, told Digital Trends. In laboratory animals, it has been shown that UV-independent pigment darkening of redhaired mice does provide strong skin protection from UV. However, this has not yet been tested in humans. The current discovery will hopefully make it possible to test this [in people]. Before this can be rolled out as a summer staple alongside beer coolers and barbecues, however, Fisher explains that it is important to first determine the safety or toxicity of the agent, in order to know how best to apply it to people. If the compounds are found to be safe, the researchers then hope to identify the population of people for whom such darkening would be most helpful, before carrying out initial clinical testing. More From Digital TrendsSource: http://allofbeer.com/scientists-may-have-found-a-way-to-tan-skin-without-exposing-it-to-uv-rays/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/scientists-may-have-found-a-way-to-tan-skin-without-exposing-it-to-uv-rays/
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Rhrl Brewery in Straubing, Bavaria, apologies over withdrawn border fence beer but says it has no far-right sympathies A Bavarian brewer has caused outrage in Germany by producing a batch of border fence beer that appears to use Nazi symbols to criticise the large number of refugees arriving in the country. Rhrl Brewery removed the variety from sale this week and apologised for hurt feelings, but denied having any sympathy with the far right. Frank Sillner, the chief executive of the brewery in Straubing, said he had intended the special issue of 2,000 crates to be a commentary on the migration crisis and a reminder of Bavarian values. The brown label on the 500ml bottles uses Gothic letters for the name grenzzaun halbe or border fence half, which appears to echo demands from local conservative politicians to seal Germanys frontiers. It also says the homeland needs beer, while the back of the label features the words protect, defend and preserve alongside virtues such as diligence, loyalty and discipline. University groups urged people to boycott the brewery, while social media users described the variety as a Nazi beer. They pointed to the retail price per bottle of 0.88 a number used in neo-Nazi circles for the illegal Heil Hitler greeting, because the letter H is the eighth in the alphabet. The company has insisted that this and the batchs use-by date of 9 November, the day that marks the 1938 anti-Jewish attack known as Kristallnacht, are a coincidence. Sillner told national news agency DPA that the idea for the beer came during talks about Germanys refugee policy a few months ago. Bavaria was the main gateway for the more than 1 million refugees who came to the country last year. We have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with rightwing extremism, Sillner was quoted as telling DPA. He said the beers price changes once sales tax is added and that the expiry date is calculated by a computer. When the refugee influx surged, we wanted to point to all of Bavarias good and positive traditions, to urge that we please do not forget, despite all willingness to help, what makes our Bavaria beautiful and good, he told public broadcaster BR. Source: http://allofbeer.com/german-brewer-accused-of-making-nazi-beer-critical-of-refugee-policy/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/german-brewer-accused-of-making-nazi-beer-critical-of-refugee-policy/ Canada is often pictured as a uniformly cold, multicultural, socialist paradise full of beer-swilling ice hockey fans. But a close look at the evidence reveals some very different truths good and bad about the Great White North Its pretty easy to conjure an idea of a Canadian. As one young paramour looking to marry an American told a dating website: She must be willing to become a hockey fan and eat maple syrup and Beaver Tails in my igloo. Theres more to the stereotype, of course. Canadas universal health care and gun-control legislation are frequently namechecked by American politicians (often disapprovingly), while the countrys adventurers have a long-standing tradition of stitching tiny Canadian flags into their backpacks. But while some of these cliches are true Tim Hortons really does sell more of its hot brown drink (they call it coffee) than any other restaurant chain a deep dive into the actual statistics suggest that much of the countrys image is just that. Some of the most common misconceptions about Canada include: Source: http://allofbeer.com/hockey-weed-and-taxes-11-canadian-stereotypes-debunked/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/hockey-weed-and-taxes-11-canadian-stereotypes-debunked/ Warning: This post contains nudity, erotic fiction and other forms of adult content.
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“I had a crush on him from the moment I first saw him on television,” the anonymous Foodie1 writes in her short work of erotic fiction “Eat With … Me.” “I just couldn’t get enough of his arms, steadily chopping or softly kneading. I was jealous of the way he held a knife. I wanted to become the bread dough under his hands.” Now imagine: A camera zooms in on a dimly lit dining room somewhere in Barcelona, where a woman in a red dress sits at an elaborately set table illuminated by candlelight. The chef, a bearded man in an apron, greets her in Spanish and proceeds to serve up a bounty of gourmet dishes roasted chicken, oysters and decadent puffs of an unidentified cream. She eats, slowly and luxuriously, using her hands when a fork won’t do. The chef assists, feeding her eagerly, letting his hand linger in her mouth. And then, to make a short story shorter, they have sex hungrily and playfully, like how you might make love to a gifted cook who had just tenderly prepared you a delectable, multi-course meal. Foodie1’s fantasy was brought to life thanks to XConfessions, a crowdsourced erotic project founded by the Barcelona-based feminist adult filmmaker known as Erika Lust. Foodie1 was one of many internet users from around the world to submit a sexual fantasy scenario to the website. All of the submissions are published on XConfessions’ website, and every month, Lust selects two written confessions from the bunch to make into cinematic shorts. The resulting films are more “adult cinema” than “adult entertainment,” skimping neither on artistic integrity nor sex appeal.
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Lust is determined to overhaul the landscape of adult film. She created XConfessions, she told The Huffington Post, to build a space for “real films with real sex” that offer viewers porn that’s original, artistic and hot without trite and tacky tropes like cheesy music, bad sofas and laughable moans. Since starting the project in 2013, Lust has ushered the most private of pipe dreams onto the most public of platforms the internet. She oversees the entire selection and film production process, with the help of a 90-percent-female staff. Born in 1977 as Erika Hallqvist, Lust grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, a city fabled to be what she described as a “feminist utopia.” Though sex wasn’t a topic discussed at home, Lust had an overwhelmingly productive sex education program at school where, separated by gender, students’ unbridled curiosity was met with openness and maturity. “I learned everything at school,” she recalled. “Age-appropriate sex education at school tackled everything from petting to consent, respect and emotions. I was taught that sex can be more than physical; it can involve emotions and connection.” To this day, that sex-positive sentiment inspires much of Lust’s vision the idea that sex is also a visceral exploration of bodily sensations.
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Lust has a hazy memory of buying her first dirty mag at a supermarket as a teenager seeking beer. Her first significant encounter with erotic content was seeing Jean-Jacques Annaud’s coming-of-age film “L’amant,” an adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ autobiography. “It was really a revelation,” Lust recalled. “The protagonist becomes an adult through sex and an unconventional love story, and this is completely shown from her point of view. This girl is intelligent and adventurous, and she is not ashamed of her blossoming sexuality.” It wasn’t just the complexity of the protagonist that intrigued Lust, but also the way cinematic artistry enhanced the sense of passion. This realization would go on to influence her own films, both those created through XConfessions and those not. Whether the parties include vampires, vikings, cheerleaders or aliens from alternate dimensions, Lust depicts their lovemaking with a careful eye for aesthetics.
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One XConfessions short called “Parallel Dimensions” takes place in a pristine, otherworldly habitat, accentuated by candy-colored shapes to resemble some sort of erotic jungle gym in a sci-fi universe. In the short, two women eat Play-Doh sushi rolls off the body of a naked man who rests rigid as furniture. His crotch is covered by a frilly vagina-like overlay reminiscent of a Judy Chicago sculpture. The women proceed, together, to have sex with the human table, who clearly derives his pleasure from theirs. It’s inspired by fan fiction from an XConfessions user who goes by lovertoy. “Lately I’ve been having this recurring fantasy, imagining that I was a piece of furniture … Something about the idea of being an object, used by my sexy owner, turns me on a lot … Secretly, she knows I can feel her, but she doesn’t care about my satisfaction. For her I am just there to serve, to please, in whichever way she desires … In a parallel universe, I would exist only as her table.” Visually, the short is innovative and intoxicating. The sugary palette and fantastical environment are as sensually stimulating as the nude bodies on view, all of which comes together for a hedonistic experience that hits hard at the senses.
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Adult cinema can and should employ cinematic values just as much as any other film; that is one of the foundational beliefs of Lust’s work. The sentiment mirrors something filmmaker Anna Biller, director of “The Love Witch,” expressed in a recent interview with HuffPost. Discussing the importance of lush aesthetics to a pleasurable cinematic viewing experience pleasurable, of course, being the operative word Biller said that “film itself is kind of a sexual fantasy.” “Cinema is a spell that is being cast over the audience. You want to keep them in a trance,” she continued. She argued that, especially for women, visual stimulation isn’t just sparked by breasts and butts, but by soft fabrics, sexy lingerie, a tasty snack and, sure, a good ass. Another one of Lust’s missions is to prioritize female pleasure in front of the camera. But her attention to artistic detail ensures maximal gratification for the female viewer, as well a viewer who would likely not be compelled to climax on a busted couch in an otherwise empty room. Biller goes on to describe “the female gaze” as a narcissistic gaze involving, in her words, “looking at other women in films and wanting to emulate those women.” But while that notion intrigues her, Lust’s preferred definition of the female gaze is more in line with that of “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway. As Lust reiterated: “’What is the male gaze? It’s pretty much everything. Everything you have ever seen. It’s most TV shows; it’s all movies…’ On the contrary, then, the female gaze is simply everything you never saw before!”
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What haven’t we seen before? Or, at least, what haven’t we seen enough? The answer is a diverse range of bodies represented on-screen diverse in ethnicity, body type, age and gender. Sex that looks, well, like sex, with all the awkward fumbling, meandering foreplay and accidental body noises. Also, naturally, imagination and eccentricity the qualities that remind us why our sexual aspirations are called “fantasies,” after all. In other words, mainstream porn needs more multiplicity. It’s this privileging of more-ness, of weirdness, of difference, that pries porn from its phallocentric rut. This was more or less the idea communicated by film theorist Linda Williams in her book Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible,” one of the texts that first inspired Lust to pursue adult film. “Hardcore pornography is not phallic because it shows penises,” Williams writes. ‘It is phallic because in its exhibition of penises it presumes to know, to possess an adequate expression of the truth of ‘sex’ as if sex were as unitary as the phallus presumes itself to be. While the physiology of sex is not likely to change, its gendered meanings can. In attacking the penis rather than the phallus, anti-pornography feminism evades the real sources of masculine power.” However, porn isn’t, and has never been, just one thing. To imagine it is would be to treat the field of pornography as monolithically or phallocentrically as a bad porno. As porn professor Constance Penley previously told HuffPost: “I never talk about ‘Pornography,’ capital P. It’s always lowercase ‘pornographies.’ What I’ve come to understand as even ‘mainstream pornography’ is so complex and contradictory and rich and varied.”
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For Lust, the quality of pornography took a turn for the worse with the advent of VHS tapes in the 1980s. Suddenly anyone with a camcorder could produce their very own porno. However, like with many manufactured goods, when pornography was industrialized and commercialized, quality suffered as a result. “Thousands of men began shooting porn at the lowest price, seeing it as a business,” Lust said. Fast forward a little to the advent of the internet, which disrupted the ways we made, dispersed and digested porn. While the VHS, Lust argues, resulted in a largely retrograde shift in cinematic quality, the internet had the reverse effect. The digital sphere provided less-seen couples, bodies and fantasies a place to call home. “A big part of the porn industry is still making billions out of sexist, degrading and racist representations of ‘sex,’” Lust said. “However, there are new creators that are showing another discourse in new platforms. They don’t seek money exclusively, but aim to create adult cinema that has the power to liberate.” Lust is doing her part to push the trajectory of porn toward this more radically experimental direction. What better way to amplify the pornographic topography by taking advantage of the internet’s expansiveness and crowdsourcing erotic fantasies, ensuring no two are alike?
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Aside from her work on XConfessions, Lust recently released a callout for women filmmakers interested in stepping into erotic territory. She is offering a total budget of approximately $260,000 to produce 10 short films from the eyes and minds of women, preferably those with experience in film, though not in porn. She’d like to see more women in leading roles. “My goal is [to support] more women in leading roles as directors, producers and scriptwriters in adult cinema,” Lust said. “I really think true control over pleasure in porn comes from getting to make active decisions about how it’s produced and presented. We need to make explicit films that are sex-positive, so young people and the coming generations can see sex in a light that is realistic and pleasurable and aren’t only exposed to one version of the story.” Through her work on XConfessions and beyond, Lust is doing her part to bid a fond farewell to dull, tired and phallocentric porn. “It is imperative that women tell their own story and show their perspective and views on sex and sexuality,” she said. “We are half of the world’s population. The female gaze is necessary for an equal society for the benefit of all genders and sexualities.”
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Source: http://allofbeer.com/filmmaker-believes-porn-by-women-is-necessary-for-an-equal-society/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/filmmaker-believes-porn-by-women-is-necessary-for-an-equal-society/ 24 People Share The Grossest Most Unsettling Thing They Ever Experienced While Hooking Up12/29/2017 2. Bless You 3. Love Conquers All 4.Legit Upsetting 5.Butt Stuff Isn’t For The Timid 6. Definitely Karma At Work 7.Busted 8.Banjo String 9. “Deaf Girl Down” 10. Cheesy 11. Drank A Drugged Drink Intended For A Girl 12. The Most Horrible Of Horror Stories 13. What A Trooper 14. Cats Hate You 15. The Mystery Throat Infection 16. She Needed Help… 17. Roommate Walked In And Immediately Regretted It 18. The Most Polite Lady Ever 19. This Is A Girl That Fears Nothing 20.Seems An Overreation 21. Like Drinking From A Latex Cup 22. Class Act All The Way 23. With Friends Like These… 24. Man Endures The Unendurable…Gets Blamed For It
from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/24-people-share-the-grossest-most-unsettling-thing-they-ever-experienced-while-hooking-up/ 1. Not being afraid to go to sleep at night because you know there is no hangover waiting to destroy youwhen you wake up. 2. And coming out of your room in the morning to seethat the only mess waiting for you is one unfolded blanket that you used while watching tv the night before. 3. Going to brunch with your friends and not feeling like you’re going to puke into the mimosa carafe. 4. Knowing what a mimosa carafe is and being at peace with your own pretentiousness. 5. Being physically capable of answering the phone if your mom calls you before noon. 6.Feeling no sense of shame when you stay in on a Friday night to do laundry. 7.Being able to afford your drinks when you do go out, because you have a job now. 8.Not looking like you’ve been inflated with an air pump, because you’ve stopped drinking so much beer. 9. Having more fun the more productive you are signing up for a Costco membership, cleaning out your closet, cooking all your meals for the week. The more things you get done, the happier you feel. 10. Being proud of yourself when you get into bed before eleven o’clock at night. 11. Always saving time in your schedule to do “adulty” things, like buying fresh flowers or getting all your groceries before the Sunday evening hell rush. 12. Watching the emails pile up in your inbox and refusing to respond to them. 13. Or, spending a Saturday afternoon sorting through all of them so you can achieve #InboxZero and feel how weirdly satisfying it is. 14. When scrolling through Netflix becomes the new bar-hopping. 15. Knowing that no one can ever force you to get out of bed ever again. 16. But that you’ll probably just do it yourself because you can’t sleep in past ten anyways, no matter how hard you try. 17.Feeling comforted during your Sunday night wave of depression and anxiety by the fact that everyone else is just as miserable as you are about going back to work in the morning. 18. And waking up Monday morning with an infinite number of gifs in your newsfeed about how much Monday sucks and knowing you’re never alone. Source: http://allofbeer.com/18-of-the-most-beautiful-parts-of-weekends-in-adulthood/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/18-of-the-most-beautiful-parts-of-weekends-in-adulthood/ A Pennsylvania man accused of murdering a Temple University student used Lyft to transport her body to his grandmother’s home, local media reported. Joshua Hupperterz, 29, transported 22-year-old Jenna Burleigh’s body more than 100 miles in a storage bin using the ride-share service Lyft after he allegedly beat and strangled her to death, NBC10 reported. Hupperterz, a former Temple student with a criminal background, was arrested in Pennsylvania Sunday on murder charges after Burleigh was reported missing by her family Thursday night. The Wayne’s County Coroner’s Office determined over the weekend Burleigh’s death was a homicide, caused by a combination of blunt trauma and strangulation. SUSPECT IN TEMPLE UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT’S MURDER HAS CRIMINAL PAST Burleigh was last spotted in surveillance footage leaving a bar near Temple’s campus with Hupperterz at about 2 a.m. Thursday, according to police. Officials said she was killed in Hupperterz’s apartment and stuffed into a storage bin, which Huppertz used to transport her body first to his mother’s house in Jenkintown and then – via Lyft – to his grandmother’s home in Paupack Township, NBC10 reported. Police found Burleigh’s body in the storage bin at his grandmother’s house Saturday. Hupperterz was questioned by Temple University police Friday by telephone, officials said. He said he was so drunk leaving the bar he couldn’t remember who he was with, police said in a statement. Philadelphia detectives then obtained a search warrant for his apartment, and state police went to his grandmother’s house where they took him into custody. 2 EX-TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OFFICERS ACCUSED OF KILLING WOMEN In a statement to Fox News, Lyft called the allegations “devastating” and said, “We stand ready to work with the authorities in their investigation.” Hupperterz was charged Sunday with murder, possession of an instrument of crime, evidence-tampering and abuse of a corpse, in addition to separate drug-related charges. In 2013, Hupperterz was charged with burglary and other offenses after breaking into a home near Scranton, Pa., and stealing electronics, laundry detergent and a keg of beer, according to police. Court records show Hupperterz’s preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 20. The Associated Press contributed to this report. from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/man-charged-in-temple-university-students-death-used-lyft-to-move-body-reports-say/ With two weeks until the next installment in one of its best-selling, blockbuster series, Bethesda Softworks has released a preorder for a Fallout-themed alcoholic beverage. The company has partnered with Danish company Carlsberg Breweries United Kingdom branch to produce Fallout Beer, with the drinks bottling themed around the popular game. A 12-pack of the beer is now available to order on Amazon, but it is only slated for release in the U.K. effective Nov. 5. This is something of a world first. Adult participation in video gaming is a truly social activity, on a par with cinema and music, Carlsberg U.K. staff member Bruce Ray told Metro. Were proud to work with Bethesda to produce a beer Fallout fans can enjoy. On Nov. 10 the company will be releasing Fallout 4the fifth title in its action role-playing serieson Windows, Xbox One, and Playstation 4. The games first trailer and website launched on June 2, with an E3 reveal shortly after on June 14. Since its announcement, preorder numbers are through the roofwith more than 391,000 preorders for the game across the three platforms as of Aug. 15, according to VGCharts.com. H/TMetro|Photos via Amazon and Bethesda Softworks | Remix by Jacob Wolf Source: http://allofbeer.com/fallout-4-is-so-hotly-anticipated-the-game-is-getting-its-own-beer/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/fallout-4-is-so-hotly-anticipated-the-game-is-getting-its-own-beer/ The world champion boxer, whose latest hate-filled tirade sparked outrage, is in a dilemma of his own making and does not appreciate that everyone is entitled to be offended by what he thinks and says On just about any given day over the past year or so, it has been easy to scream at the idiocy of Tyson Furys indiscretions and say: Right, mush, youve gone too far this time. But his latest contribution to the cause of world peace and understanding has alienated him to the point where even his most loyal defenders must be wondering how much lower he can go. This, a lowlight clip from a set-piece, one-hour interview, conducted, by the sound of it, by his uncle and trainer, Peter Fury, on a boxing site called Sportsview London is as disturbing as any of his previous outrages. The world has gone mad, Fury says. There is no morals, there is no loyalty, there is no nothing. Everyone just do what you can, listen to the government, follow everybody like sheep, be brainwashed by all the Zionist Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers, all the TV stations … Be brainwashed by them all. With the scatter-gun discretion of Donald Trump, the world heavyweight champion has offended anyone and everyone come in Jews, join the missus, homosexuals and the heathens over there without care for the consequences, or perhaps in full knowledge of what the consequences might be. Yet even the frequency of these nihilist, hate-filled interviews do not dilute their impact. The suspicion that they are publicity stunts fades when you listen to the content, repeated in the name of the Lord, delivered from on high. They are anachronistic snapshots of old prejudices, reheated for … what? Shock value? Fury wonders why people are on his case and he has the answer: Its because Im a believer in the Lord. People hate that, so they all club together and talk bullshit. You can almost hear the Messiah saying that as he wandered about Judea … hang on, the Lord was Jewish? Fury is happy to live in some mythical past, because its values are at odds with everything he despises in the present. Draconian? Yeah, we live in ancient times where we dont like women to be whores, opening their legs for every Tom, Dick and Harry. We dont shag men. We dont shag kids. If thats draconian then, yeah, I suppose I like being a draconian. A draconian. Fury, not an unintelligent man, but wilfully counter-intuitive and calculatingly offensive, thinks there is a Dracula connection. They should call me Tyson Dracula Fury, shouldnt they, he says, smiling. Im still living in those times. But Draco, an Athenian legislator who advocated hanging for the most minor crime, was a cruel man well ahead of his time seventh century BC, in fact. Fury speaks from somewhere else, somewhere in a vague past, beyond society almost, in a bubble of his own making. He is defensive (and offensive) because it gives him strength. As a proud member of the Travelling community, he feels marginalised anyway, and this is his response: win the world heavyweight title that matters so much to everyone, use it, trash it and throw it back at them. The title belt is Furys hammer of justice. He beats his perceived enemies with it, and there are, he thinks, many of them. He has the Lord, though. Or he thinks he has. Fury is a holy anarchist. He mixes old-time righteousness with freewheeling prejudice. He is in a perennial state of anger, like some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The fear is he will turn what looks like stage-managed, stream-of-consciousness rage into something more dangerous, that he might lose control of this theatrical resentment, this railing against enemies at every turn. The paradox is he seems to have a good heart. But it is a wounded one. And, whatever demons he is housing there keep pecking at him, prodding him into ever more absurd statements of faith, urging him to use his new platform to hit back at all the injustice he and his people have felt for the course of his life and for centuries way beyond Dracula, back to Draco maybe. What towering irony that he should turn on other minorities that have similarly been persecuted. His religious fervour clouds his judgment. There is no turn the other cheek for Fury. There is no do unto others as you would have them do unto you. There is, though, any eye for an eye revenge, furious, hurtful counterpunching revenge. Yet his boxing life goes on. He is, after all, getting ready for his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko. He needs to shift a few stone of beer-gotten flab and hone the skills that won him the title on a wonderful and unexpected night in Germany last November. Fury has released a short training update: Whey, Saturday morning. Just finished another brutal session. Hard work in the gym, as usual. Nothing changes, day in day out … Weights going good, everybody. Stabilising. Maintaining. Building muscle. Enjoying the training. Enjoying the weather. Enjoying life. Its great when youre at the top. Its great when youre heavyweight champion of the world. Its great when youre the No1 fighter on the planet. This is the type of thing I have to live with every day. This is the weight I carry on my shoulders. But these shoulders are broad enough to carry that weight. Dont worry about that. Tyson Fury, Gypsy king. Peace out. The counterpoint is scary. At the start of his earlier interview, Fury says: Everyones entitled to think what they want or say what they want. Hes right. He says what he thinks on an almost daily basis now, having been denied that right all his life. What he doesnt get is that everyone is entitled to be offended by what he thinks and says. Like a tired and cornered fighter, he is in a dilemma of his own making. It will be tough for him to find a way out. Klitschko is the least of his worries. from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/tyson-furys-demons-keep-prodding-him-into-the-theatre-of-the-absurd-kevin-mitchell/ Brent Luyster allegedly executed three friends and nearly blew the face off a fourth on Friday night after becoming enraged that the feds were getting involved in another case against him.”> A neo-Nazi angry over an FBI probe executed one of his best friends and two other people at a rural Washington home Friday, cops say. On Monday, the creepy suspect sneered for TV cameras covering his court appearance. The Vancouver-area bloodbath led cops on a manhunt for Brent Ward Luyster, a tattoo artist and swastika-inked skinhead, who has been charged in the triple homicide and held without bail, the Columbian reported. One alleged victim, a 31-year-old mother, survived his wrath. Breanne Leigh was discovered at a Woodland minimart around 10:30 p.m. Friday, a few miles from the crime scene. Her face was nearly blown off. Unable to speak, Leigh answered a deputys questions by writing on scraps of paper and on a tissue box, according to court papers reviewed by The Daily Beast. When asked who shot her, Leigh scribbled, pretty sure Brent Luyster. Hes in big trouble. Fed, a probable cause affidavit says. Leigh pointed Clark County deputies to a rural Woodland residence, where the father of her children, Zachary David Thompson, was killed. The deputy asked Leigh how she escaped. She wrote passed out and indicated she army crawled away to flag down a vehicle for help. She was able to hitch a ride to the convenience store two miles away, the affidavit says. Then she wrote her own question to the deputy: Had her boyfriend been shot too? A SWAT team descended on the home just before 11 p.m. and found Thompson, 36, and Joseph Mark Lamar, 38, lying dead in the driveway. The victims had gunshot wounds to their heads at close range, the affidavit states. The body of a third victim, 43-year-old Janell Renee Knight, was discovered inside the residence, where she lived with Lamar, prosecutors say. Now Luyster, 35, is charged with three counts of murder in the first degree, attempted murder, and unlawful possession of a firearm, court records show. On Monday, he was escorted into Clark County court under heightened security, handcuffed and wearing a suicide smock, the Columbian reported. As he walked to the courtroom, he flashed a smile for KOIN 6 TV cameras. It was the day Luyster was supposed to face trial for a different violent crime: allegedly pistol-whipping his ex-girlfriend at a Longview home. In that case, he faces charges of assault, harassment, and illegal firearm possession. Court papers in Luysters murder case reveal more about his violent past. His ex-girlfriend told cops he had beaten her and had shot at her in May 2016, and that she has a no contact order against him, the affidavit states.
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The woman said she has a 5-year-old son with Luyster, who was reportedly trying to find her and snatch the boy, the affidavit states. Luyster allegedly directed his brother, Michael, and mother, Susan Dvorak, to track her down. Michael Luysterwho has his own criminal record and white pride affiliationand his friends appeared at homes of the womans relatives, asking for the location of her and her son, the affidavit says. [The woman] believed that Brent was facing his third strike and that he would not go back to prison, the affidavit states. She believed that Brent was going to find her and hurt or kill her, and take [their son]. Meanwhile, an FBI agent told Clark County authorities that Luyster is facing federal chargesfor unlawful possession of a firearmstemming from the May 2016 incident, the affidavit shows. The ex-girlfriend has four children, two of which are in hiding from Brent Luyster, the G-man added. The agent said Dvorak allegedly contacted the womans mother and warned something would happen to her daughter if [she] did not give Brent his son, according to court papers. Detectives also interviewed the alleged killers brother, Michael Luyster, who lives with their mother. He told police Brent Luyster and his girlfriend, Andrea Sibley, moved in with them weeks before the shooting, the affidavit says. Michael Luyster claims Dvorak called him Friday night and demanded he come home immediately. When he arrived, Brent Luyster and his gal pal were acting tense. Dvorak ordered Michael Luyster to take Brent Luysters 12-year-old son away from the house, court papers state. The brother told cops Brent Luyster was driving Sibleys gold Ford Explorer. (Luyster was in the vehicle Saturday afternoon when Cowlitz County deputies and state troopers arrested him without incident on Ocean Beach Highway, KGW reported.) Dvorak provided police with more details on her sons mental state. She said Luyster was upset that the Feds were getting involved in the case from Longview and at not having seen his son in two months. The day of the slayings, Luyster and Sibley had been home most of the day. Sibley left at one point to buy Luyster a six-pack of beer at Walmart, she said. Dvorak admitted she told Michael Luyster to come home, telling cops Brent Luyster wanted to speak to him. After the brothers talked, Brent Luyster and Sibley left the house and didnt return, the affidavit says. She ordered Michael Luyster to take his nephew away because she wanted things to be peaceful in the house, she told cops, according to the affidavit. Still, she denied threatening Brent Luysters ex-girlfriend or her mother. Before Luyster was caught, the Clark County Sheriffs Office released full-body photographs of their 6-foot-tall, 200-pound suspect. His tattooed torso includes at least four swastikas and the label skinhead across his abdomen. Scrawled across his back is a bloodthirsty call for RaHoWa, or the abbreviation for racial holy war used by white supremacists. Indeed, the hate appears to run in Luysters family. Luyster and his brother Robert Arlen Luyster were on the Anti-Defamation Leagues radar in 2013, when they allegedly attacked a black man at a Vancouver bar. The attack was allegedly sparked when Brent Luyster spotted an interracial couple cuddling. Look at this white girl over here with a stupid [racial slur]; thats gross, Luyster allegedly said, according to the Columbian. Moments later, Robert Luyster ran to the third suspects car, grabbed a pistol and loaded it with a round of ammo, prosecutors said. Then he handed the gun to Brent Luyster, who singled out a black man and threatened to shoot him, the Columbian reported. The skinhead brothers were involved in another racially-motivated attack in 2001, when they allegedly punched, kicked, and beat a 45-year-old black man with boards. They also smashed the windows of the victims truck, according to the Columbian. Four years later, Brent Luyster was involved in another attack on a black man. An accomplice, Jeremiah Prueitt, allegedly shot the victim in the leg, the Columbian reported. Its unclear whether Luyster was convicted for the earlier hate crimes. Online records show he has a rap sheet as detailed as his Hitler tattoos, with felony convictions in 2005 and 2010, including for possession of stolen property. Friends and fellow white supremacists took to Facebook to discuss their grief over Luysters latest criminal case. But they were tight-lipped when messaged by reporters. He is a great father and the best tattoo artist there is, one friend told The Daily Beast. Of Luyster and his victim, Zachary Thompson, another friend said, No offense, but before this they were both amazing friends and great fathers. Thats it. Some friends posted a photo of Thompson, who has a shaved head, and Leigh with the words In Loving Memory. In Facebook comments, one longtime friend wrote, I know he [Luyster] had to be under a lot of stress facing trumped up charges. My heart beats with sadness this day will never change the way I feel for Brent. Another friend called the slayings unspeakable. I cant think of any reason that would cause him [Luyster] to turn on one of his best friends, he wrote on Facebook. Losing two of my closest brothers in one day, to such a fucked up way. I have to know. The friend later added, Theyve been my brothers for about 14 years now, since before Zach skinned up, and this will haunt me forever. I cant imagine what went through their mind. Source: http://allofbeer.com/skinhead-executed-his-best-friend-after-fbi-probe/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/skinhead-executed-his-best-friend-after-fbi-probe/ |
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