July 10, 2019

Perfect timing: Deutsche Bank bosses fitted for $1250 suits as thousands of employees are laid off

Some managing directors at Deutsche Bank’s office in the City of London on Monday were being fitted for suits costing more than £1,000 ($1,250). The same morning, the bank began massive layoffs across the world.

Tearful workers were told to pack up their belongings at the bank’s London headquarters just hours after the it revealed that 18,000 people would be sacked worldwide by 2022. According to some estimates, around 3,200 people could lose their jobs at the London office. Some 100 people were made redundant from a single floor.

Two tailors from Fielding & Nicholson Tailoring were among those pictured leaving the Deutsche London office, holding several suit bags. They were wrongly identified as the bank’s laid-off staff, with their image widely used on Twitter and by the media.

One of them, Ian Fielding-Calcutt, who owns the firm, told the Financial News: “Our timing was not great… I think a lot of the people getting laid off were traders of some sort, who don’t wear suits, and so we just went ahead as normal with our clients who obviously weren’t affected by the cuts.”

Perfect timing: Deutsche Bank bosses fitted for £1,500 suits as thousands of employees are laid off

https://twitter.com/bespokentailor/status/1148228722685882369/photo/1

https://www.rt.com/business/463847-deutsche-bank-bosses-suits/

July 9, 2019

Hatemonger vandalizes Megan Rapinoe posters in subway station

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More than a half-dozen posters of US Women’s Soccer sensation Megan Rapinoe were defaced inside the Bryant Park subway station in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime, authorities said.

The bigoted vandal scribbled marker over Rapinoe’s face and forehead Monday morning on more than six posters displayed throughout the mezzanine level of the station near Sixth Avenue and West 42nd Street, cops said Tuesday.

The hateful messages included “shemale” and “screw this ho,” police sources said.

Rapinoe, a team co-captain who scored a penalty kick during Sunday’s Women’s World Cup final against the Netherlands, is an outspoken gender equality and LGBTQ activist.

The team will be honored by the city Wednesday during a ticker-tape parade in lower Manhattan.

An MTA spokesperson said the agency is working with the NYPD to investigate the graffiti, which was subsequently cleaned up.

https://nypost.com/2019/07/09/hatemonger-vandalizes-megan-rapinoe-posters-in-subway-station/

July 9, 2019

An artist shamed Google with his doodle. Then Google called about a job.

Davian Chester went to Google’s homepage the morning of June 19 expecting to see a Google doodle honoring Juneteenth, the most widely recognized celebration of the end of slavery in the United States.

Instead, he saw Google’s regular colorful logo.

So Chester, a graphic artist who often draws social commentary, grabbed his pencil. “I thought I could come up with something real quick,” he said.

He dashed off his own Google doodle depicting the day: handcuffed wrists of a black person breaking out of chains — with the chains being the word Google. It took him about an hour.
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Chester, 26, had no idea it was about to go viral — or that he would soon end up on a celebratory billboard and get a call from Google about a job.



A representative from Google confirmed Monday that the company has reached out to Chester about a job.

Chester said he’s still in the interview process with Google, but, meanwhile, he has gotten flooded with requests from local companies and people ordering his logos, portraits and other graphic art work. He even won a quick job from Proctor and Gamble, he said, which should be released as early as this week.

But the reaction to his doodle that he’s most in awe of is that the arts community in Columbus got together and raised $1,200 to put up a billboard featuring his now-famous doodle, coupled with a drawing of Chester and these words:

“Juneteenth. Recognize it. Celebrate it. Google it.” And also: “Congrats on your doodle, Davian!”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/07/09/an-artist-shamed-google-with-his-doodle-then-google-called-about-job/?utm_term=.b3a44a85fd2d

July 9, 2019

Trump said. "I feel very badly actually for Secretary Acosta."

“I can tell you that for two and a half years he’s been just an excellent secretary of labor. He’s done a fantastic job,” Trump said. “I feel very badly actually for Secretary Acosta.”



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-acosta-jeffrey-epstein_n_5d24c191e4b0583e48281502

July 9, 2019

"forest management", invented by Trump, no one heard of it before the genius Trump.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1148357429991825408

July 8, 2019

mass deportation plan was to be kept secret but Trump blurted it out on Twitter

White House aides and Homeland Security officials were frustrated that the president put ICE’s plans on Twitter, prompting concerns that the operation’s blown cover diminished its chances for success and jeopardized the safety of federal agents. Administration officials said it was the uproar that followed — not a potential deal with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — that led to the operation’s delay.

Justice Department and Homeland Security officials began working on the “family operation” in late 2018 to deport some of the Central American parents and children who have been arriving in record numbers during the past year, viewing the arrests as a deterrent to future migration.

The Justice Department fast-tracked the cases of thousands of families, many of whom claimed fear of harm if sent back. Homeland Security officials say 90 percent of those ordered deported did not show up for their court hearing

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Trump’s June 22 tweet crediting Pelosi with the delay was a “face-saving” move, said one senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to contradict the president’s public statement.

Since then, acting Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s office has been working with Homeland Security officials to figure out if the family operation can proceed in a more targeted way, instead of the “shock and awe” approach favored by Miller and others.

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The plan is to carry out the arrests in a more piecemeal fashion, without announcing dates or times in advance, the senior official said, cautioning there is “always a chance POTUS blurts them out.”

The president has been briefed on the broad strokes of the plan, but not the precise details, the official said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/fear-of-immigration-raids-loom-as-plans-for-ice-family-operation-move-forward/2019/07/05/76788e2a-9f41-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html?utm_term=.69408059a887

July 8, 2019

shopping while black

https://twitter.com/helenkaren94/status/1147997693706301440

This Black family was racially profiled by a white manager at Nike store in Santa Monica, CA. She accused the kid of stealing a basketball, harassed & followed them for two blocks, then called the police on them.

July 8, 2019

"we just have no quit in us"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7222267/Megan-Rapinoe-hails-United-States-claiming-World-Cups-victory-Holland.html


https://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pw/usa-soccer/aowZ9zk
nike is charging $90 for shirts.

July 8, 2019

Vintage Cadillac finally towed from Brooklyn neighborhood was a local eyesore for years

Vintage Cadillac finally towed from Brooklyn neighborhood was a local eyesore for years, according to neighbors

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-cadillac-parking-space-20190707-ufm4lbm6wzexhmefstrmw3zlru-story.html






Brooklyn’s long-idled mystery Cadillac finally took its last ride.

The decades-old classic car, parked in the same spot for years as its tires went flat and paint peeled from its roof, was towed away last Tuesday by the NYPD after a Windsor Park resident complained to the Daily News.

The vintage 1971 Caddy was a local landmark — though one with plenty of detractors as it morphed from luxury car into four-wheeled eyesore. By one longtime neighborhood resident’s estimate, the vehicle first appeared on the block in 1994, some 25 years ago.

The man wasn’t sure when the car was last moved. But most of his neighbors appeared happy that it’s gone.

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Neither rain, nor sleet, nor alternate side of the street parking rules could make the Caddy relocate. Even a recent city filming permit that required all residents to move their cars changed nothing.

“Everybody had to move except — you guessed it!" complained another neighbor. “This Cadillac is even above films. No ticket and no tow.”

The rusty luxury ride doubled as rolling recycling center, stuffed from floor to ceiling with yellowing newspapers, stained take-out coffee cups and empty water bottles. Stray coat hangers bearing the message “We (heart) our customers” were visible through a driver’s side window.

The owner, an elderly man reportedly suffering with mental illness, was unable to take care of the vehicle, according to local residents and police sources. Yet the Caddy had a current New York inspection sticker.

Shortly after The News inquired about the ancient auto, it was ticketed by a street cleaner. Then the city towed the car to the NYPD’s Erie Basin Auto Pound, police said.

July 8, 2019

Morgan Freeman Converted His 124-Acre Ranch Into A Giant Honeybee Sanctuary To Save The Bees

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/03/20/morgan-freeman-converted-his-124-acre-ranch-into-a-giant-honeybee-sanctuary-to-save-the-bees/

Morgan Freeman Converted His 124-Acre Ranch Into A Giant Honeybee Sanctuary To Save The Bees

Morgan Freeman, the actor, film director and philanthropist has added a new title to his name: Beekeeper. The 81-year-old celebrity decided to convert his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a bee sanctuary.

Freeman's foray into beekeeping began in 2014, where he discussed his new hobby with Jimmy Fallon during The Tonight Show. Freeman had taken up beekeeping just a couple of weeks before appearing on the show and talked about his experience keeping bees and the need to preserve and save wild bees for healthy environments.

As part of his interview, Freeman talked a bit about the motivation as to why he began beekeeping. "There is a concerted effort for bringing bees back onto the planet…We do not realize that they are the foundation, I think, of the growth of the planet, the vegetation..."


Freeman imported 26 bee hives from Arkansas to his ranch in Mississippi. There, Freeman works to feed the bees sugar and water and has help planting bee-friendly magnolia trees, lavender, clover, etc.

Freeman added that he never wears a bee suit or a bee hat and they haven't stung him yet. He only feeds them and has no intention of harvesting honey or disrupting the beehives.