A woman who took issue with a range of plus-sized yoga statues being sold at Woolworths has been roasted online.
The shopper took to TikTok to share a video panning across a range of unique garden ornaments, featuring plus-sized bodies posing in different yoga positions.
The woman asked “what the f**k?” she was with the range, ending the video with a confused look.
“I need answers, I don’t get it” she titled the video.
“What are these and who would buy them?”
The $16 statues feature in the gardening section at Woolworths and show female bodies in different yoga poses.
“What the f**k is with this range at Woolworths?” she asked in the now-viral TikTok video.
“Look at that. Look at this one. What the f**k?”
The short clip has since racked up nearly 30,000 views – but the reaction was likely not what she was hoping for.
Many commented on the TikTok video asking why the woman had a “problem” with the ornaments and expressed that they actually “loved” them.
A lot of TikTok users also accused the woman of being “judgmental” about the shape of the bodies and asked if she would have an issue if the statues were smaller.
“You’re being fatphobic. Just some queens doing yoga” someone said.
“What’s the issue?”
“They are magnificent, shifting our mindset about these bodies is long overdue.”
“Body positivity. Every size and shape is beautiful,” another said
“And it’s being reflected in our day to day realities, this awesome. Love it.”
“You sound super judgmental, what’s wrong with body positivity?” asked a TikTok user.
“Love how she thought most people would agree with her lmfao.”
News.com.au understands that the items are a range of limited edition yoga statues that are on sale at selected Woolworths supermarkets, for a limited time only.
Almost every major camera manufacturer has either openly discontinued its point-and-shoot line of cameras or has not produced a new one in many years, according to a new report. In short, smartphones have all but totally replaced compact cameras.
The compact camera market, colloquially known as point-and-shoot cameras, has been experiencing a massive collapse in worldwide shipments over the last decade and a half. Since 2008, when worldwide shipments reached 110.7 million cameras, the market has significantly shrunk and failed to 3.01 million units as of 2021 — a 97% drop.
Nikkei reports that in response to the market’s contraction, Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Fujifilm, and Sony have all either dramatically scaled back productions or outright admitted that there will be no further compact cameras.
“Although we are shifting to higher-end models, we have strong support for lower-end models, and will continue to develop and produce them as long as there is demand,” Canon tells Nikkei.
Canon denies that it isn’t planning to make new compact cameras, but it hasn’t released a new one since 2019.
Sony’s response echoes Canon’s and the company says that it is not discontinuing new product development in the compact camera space, although Nikkei notes the company hasn’t made a new “Cyber-Shot” camera — its compact camera line — since 2019.
Nikkei reports that Nikon has stopped developing cameras that would fall under its “Coolpix” line, the company’s branding for compact point-and-shoot style cameras. Nikon tells Nikkei that it still sells two high-magnification models and that future production volume will be determined by the market, which as noted, isn’t growing.
Panasonic, which at one point owned the top share of Japan’s compact camera market, tells Nikkei that it has been reducing the volume of point-and-shoots that it has been producing over the last several years in response to the shrinking market. Additionally, while it plans to keep making current compact cameras for the time being, it will focus on developing high-end mirrorless cameras aimed at enthusiasts and professionals, including a camera that it plans to release next year that it is developing in conjunction with Leica .
Nikkei claims Fujifilm has ceased production on its compact camera line “FinePix” and is not actively developing new models for it, instead focusing its efforts on higher-end models like the X100V and above.
Ricoh, which owns the Pentax brand, and OM Digital aren’t mentioned in the story, but Ricoh seems unfazed by the market contraction and has notably released two point-and-shoot cameras in the last year: the WG-80 and the GR IIIx (and later along with its special edition). Ricoh seems immune to making decisions in line with market trends, as it has also stubbornly refused to make a mirrorless Pentax camera, going so far as to say that the brand “cannot go mirrorless.”
It has been a long, slow process, but the death of the point-and-shoot appears all but complete at the hands of the smartphone, whose imaging capabilities manufacturers continue to improve.
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Adelaide Football Club Chairman John Olsen and CEO Tim Silvers have penned the following letter to Members and fans:
We aspire to have everyone – players, coaches and staff – reflect on their time at the Crows in a positive manner and we are saddened that this has not been the case for everyone.
It has been confronting to hear Eddie Betts and Josh Jenkins describe their experiences during the 2018 pre-season training camp on the Gold Coast, as well as the subsequent hurt they have carried.
We apologize to Eddie, Josh and any other player, coach or staff member, who had a negative experience during this time.
Equally we are sorry to hear Bryce Gibbs express his disappointment at the way in which the camp and events surrounding it were handled and its impact on the playing group, and we acknowledge there are others who may feel the same way.
The most important thing we can do now is listen and offer our support.
We know that moving on as a Club will be difficult. Everyone will do it in their own time and in their own way, and we sincerely hope that with the passage of time the healing process can take place.
There has been a significant amount of change at our Club over the past couple of years. Most notably, the key leadership positions of Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Men’s Senior Coach and Men’s Head of Football have all changed hands.
In recent times there has also been a cultural shift and the focus is firmly on prioritizing others. This is a genuine intent that stretches beyond the football department and permeates throughout our organisation. It’s a whole club approach.
We are committed to emerging from this painful and challenging period and getting better. While we cannot rewrite history, we remain determined to learn from the past.
The family of Gabby Petito announced plans to file a $50m wrongful death lawsuit against Utah police on Monday, claiming that officers in the small desert town of Moab, who stopped Petito and boyfriend Brian Laundrie last year, failed to recognize their daughter was in a domestic violence situation.
The notice of a forthcoming claim alleges that when officers stopped the couple on 12 August 2021, they did not recognize that Petito, 22, was in danger.
Body-cam film later showed a visibly upset Petito speaking to officers on the side of the road.
Instead of intervening, the officers allowed the couple to proceed on a cross-country van trip after requiring them to spend a night apart.
The fight between the couple happened weeks before authorities say Laundrie strangled her. Petito’s body was found on 19 September near Grand Teton national park in Wyoming.
Laundrie, 23, later killed himself in a Florida swamp after being named the sole person of interest in her disappearance. His body of him was found last October. A notebook contained a confession to her murder of her.
“If the officers had been properly trained and followed the law, Gabby would still be alive today,” attorney James McConkie said in a statement. At a press conference in Salt Lake City, McConkie said that “officers fail to recognize the serious danger that she was in, and failed to investigate fully and properly.”
He referred to “clear signs that were evident that morning that Gabby was a victim and that she was in serious need of immediate help”.
Appearing by video at a news conference to announce the claim, Petito’s mother, Nicole Schmidt, described watching the body-cam video as “very painful”.
An independent investigation earlier this year found that Moab police made “several unintentional mistakes” when they intercepted Petito and Laundrie. In a report, police said it was very likely that Petito “was a long-term victim of domestic violence, whether that be physically, mentally, and/or emotionally.”
Petito’s family have already sued Laundrie’s parents claiming they knew since about 28 August last year that Petito was dead because their son had told them.
Instead of telling Petito’s family, or responding to their pleas for help, the Laundrie family issued a statement saying “it is our hope that the search for Miss Petito is successful and that Miss Petito is re-united with her family”.
A Florida judge is allowing that claim to proceed.
“When you’re in a room with 200 black suitcases and trying to find someone’s individual bag, a GPS tag won’t help but a tag with your name and contact information will,” they say.
Bird agrees, recommending that people with privacy concerns can include a phone number or social media handle in lieu of a residential address.
In May, London-bound travelers were left fuming after Qantas failed to arrive in the UK and were stranded for days without clear direction from the airline. Since then, as the northern hemisphere summer began to peak, things have worsened with international airlines Delta and Icelandair chartering luggage-only flights and deploying staff to more in-demand airports. British Airways preemptively slashed more than 1,500 flights, while Qantas recently hired more than 1,000 new staff, and Heathrow Airport introduced passenger caps to manage the crisis.
“The truth is that the difficulties we are facing now are because of COVID and flu-related sickness, as well as an extremely tight labor market,” Qantas CEO of International and Domestic Andrew David said in a recent statement.
While the goal is to have your luggage waiting at the baggage carousel when you arrive, Bird says preparing for the worst is a good idea, which means finding a travel insurance policy that covers lost luggage and delays, packing with more intention than usual, and photographing your checked luggage.
“People should take a photo of what’s inside their luggage before they check it because insurers and airlines will ask for an itemized list of what was in it and an approximate value. Once I’d been on a plane for 24 hours I would struggle to remember what was in it, so a photo can be a really easy way to jog your memory,” Bird says.
The Qantas staff member also recommends taking medication on carry-on, so that if baggage is delayed or lost your health won’t be impacted.
“Often people take just a day or two’s supply with them on carry-on and put the rest in checked luggage, but I’d advise taking the full amount you need for your holiday with you on your carry-on with either a note from your doctor to confirm they are prescribed or having the prescription with you.”
When heading to Europe earlier this month, Sydney content and communications manager Rebecca Sullivan packed her carry-on luggage with the assumption her checked luggage would be either delayed or lost. When the premonition ultimately proved true, Sullivan said the blow was more manageable because of her pre-planning of her.
“I wish more people would be 100 per cent honest about the reality of what it’s actually like to travel right now. It’s amazing and wonderful and jaw-dropping, but also incredibly frustrating and stressful,” Sullivan said.
Along with skincare, sunglasses and a change of clothes and shoes, Sullivan packed bras and swimwear, explaining, “bra shopping is stressful at the best of times and I couldn’t deal with that in the middle of holidays.”
Despite the rocky start to her holiday, Sullivan says her lost luggage has “actually been strangely liberating. It shows you really do n’t need that much at all, ”and ella is now planning to spend the entirety of her holiday traveling with just her carry-on suitcase de ella.
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Robotic or automated manufacturing helps streamline workflow and advance manufacturing processes, allowing companies to remain globally competitive. One of the key factors in these processes is quality control which often requires validating or checking the materials used in the processes.
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Now, researchers at the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems have developed a ‘smart finger’ that has the capacity to identify materials using “triboelectric” sensors that test its ability to gain or lose electrons, as well as determining other characteristics such its roughness, without the risk of causing damage. Published in the journal Science Advancesthe team describes how they developed the triboelectric smart finger.
In principle, as each material has different capabilities to gain or lose electrons, a unique triboelectric fingerprint output will be generated when the triboelectric sensor is in contact with the measured object.
Dan Luo, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems
Machine Learning and Quantifying Material Parameters
Humans rely on haptic feedback as an essential sensory function when in direct contact or communication with the surrounding environment.
Tactile perception originates from the response of subcutaneous tactile corpuscles to different stimuli in the environment and the brain’s recognition of signals afferent through nerve fibers.
Dan Luo, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems
Typically, quantifying material parameters precisely at the psychological level of tactile perception can be a challenge when it comes to identifying the texture and roughness of a material. The smart finger developed by the researchers also uses machine learning to help improve the triboelectric tactile perception in the mechanism and aid human users of such systems.
Moreover, the team has reported that they have developed a smart finger that has surpassed human tactile perception, enabling accurate identification of material type and roughness through the integration of triboelectric sensing and machine learning.
They claim the smart finger has at least 90% accuracy when sensing the material surface, which suggests that the technology has potential use in automating robotic manufacturing tasks, including materials sorting and quality control assessments.
Developing a Smart Finger
In recent years, various efforts have been made to design sensors or devices with the capacity to identify materials based on various strategies, such as computer vision, thermal conductivity, ultrasound, etc. As a result, computer systems and robots are becoming increasingly proficient at interacting with the world around them, but they will also require a sense of touch before they can reach their full potential.
When tested across a varied number of samples, such as plastic, wood, silicon and glass, the smart finger demonstrated an average accuracy of 96.8% and at least 90% accuracy for all materials.
The system integrates machine learning-based data analysis with four small square sensors, each made of a different plastic polymer that was specifically chosen for its electrically conductive properties. The sensors are housed in a case that resembles a finger, hence the name ‘smart finger’.
When the sensors come into contact with an object’s surface, electrons from each square begin to interact with the surface in a different manner, which the team was then able to measure.
Each of the sensors is connected to a processor and organic light emitting diode (OLED) screen, which highlights the material type being assessed. In effect, the researchers were able to quantify tactile psychological parameters using the triboelectric effect, which could set a new paradigm when it comes to modeling human tactile perception.
Real-World and Future Scenarios
In a real-world scenario, the processor could be directly integrated into a manufacturing control mechanism. The smart fingers could then perform quality control checks and determine whether products are up to manufacturing standards.
Beyond the industrial/manufacturing setting, smart fingers could also be used in prosthetics as robotic limbs with a sense of touch to enhance manipulation techniques and the handling of objects.
The team also aims to introduce other sensors into the system, which include pressure, temperature, and humidity sensors, to help improve the tactile simulation.
In the future, artificial intelligence chips will be integrated into smart fingers to make them “smarter” and confer the ability to process data independent of the computer.
Dan Luo, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems
References and Further Reading
Qu, X. and Liu, Z., et al., (2022) Artificial tactile perception smart finger for material identification based on triboelectric sensing. Science Advances, [online] 8(31). Available at: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq2521
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Collingwood has been hit with a significant injury blow just weeks out from its 2022 finals campaign, with star ruckman Brodie Grundy ruled out for the rest of the season.
The Magpies on Monday night confirmed Grundy had suffered a stress fracture in his ankle — an issue that emerged in the aftermath of his VFL return late last month after missing several months due to a knee issue.
Grundy, who hasn’t played an AFL game since Anzac Day due to a knee, had been nearing a return to the AFL before suffering the stress fracture in his ankle.
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“Brodie took part in the Club’s VFL game against the Southport Sharks just over a week ago and he pulled up sore from that match. He then participated in a training session early last week and was still experiencing soreness, so he was sent for scans which revealed a stress fracture in his left ankle,” Collingwood football boss Graham Wright said.
“The nature of the ankle injury is not long-term so Brodie will make a full recovery but after consulting with multiple specialists to assess all available options, it was determined arthroscopic surgery would be the best course of action.
Collingwood ruckman Brodie Grundy in his comeback from injury against Southport. Picture: David CroslingSource: News Corp Australia
“The pleasing thing for Brodie is that his knee has held up well – this is a separate injury – and unfortunately with only a couple of weeks left of the home-and-away season, he will be unable to take further part in matches in 2022.
“Brodie will be up and running at the start of pre-season training but for the time being his health remains the priority.”
In a video posted to his social media accounts, Grundy confirmed he would undergo surgery on Tuesday.
“Devastating, particularly given how the boys are going, but on the other side of things, it’s going to be amazing to sit with you all and watch the boys as they make a run for the finals,” he said.
“I’m going to do everything I can to be back bigger and stronger for you guys next year.”
Grundy’s injury comes amid ample trade speculation surrounding the dual All-Australian, despite being contracted to the Pies until the end of 2027 on a deal worth around $7 million per season.
Multiple reports have indicated Grundy’s management are preparing to be asked by Collingwood about the possibility of trading the dual All-Australian.
Collingwood coach Craig McRae declared on Fox Footy’s AFL 360 he wanted Grundy at the club next season, but remained tight-lipped on whether he was up for trade.
The Pies are in the middle of a remarkable surge in 2022, jumping from 17th last year into the top two this year with two home and away rounds left.
They also confirmed on Tuesday that star forward Jamie Elliott had turned his back on free agency and re-signed with the Pies until the end of 2025.
The family of Gabby Petito announced plans to file a $50m wrongful death lawsuit against Utah police on Monday, claiming that officers in the small desert town of Moab, who stopped Petito and boyfriend Brian Laundrie last year, failed to recognize their daughter was in a domestic violence situation.
The notice of a forthcoming claim alleges that when officers stopped the couple on 12 August 2021, they did not recognize that Petito, 22, was in danger.
Body-cam film later showed a visibly upset Petito speaking to officers on the side of the road.
Instead of intervening, the officers allowed the couple to proceed on a cross-country van trip after requiring them to spend a night apart.
The fight between the couple happened weeks before authorities say Laundrie strangled her. Petito’s body was found on 19 September near Grand Teton national park in Wyoming.
Laundrie, 23, later killed himself in a Florida swamp after being named the sole person of interest in her disappearance. His body of him was found last October. A notebook contained a confession to her murder of her.
“If the officers had been properly trained and followed the law, Gabby would still be alive today,” attorney James McConkie said in a statement. At a press conference in Salt Lake City, McConkie said that “officers fail to recognize the serious danger that she was in, and failed to investigate fully and properly.”
He referred to “clear signs that were evident that morning that Gabby was a victim and that she was in serious need of immediate help”.
Appearing by video at a news conference to announce the claim, Petito’s mother, Nicole Schmidt, described watching the body-cam video as “very painful”.
An independent investigation earlier this year found that Moab police made “several unintentional mistakes” when they intercepted Petito and Laundrie. In a report, police said it was very likely that Petito “was a long-term victim of domestic violence, whether that be physically, mentally, and/or emotionally”.
Petito’s family have already sued Laundrie’s parents claiming they knew since about 28 August last year that Petito was dead because their son had told them.
Instead of telling Petito’s family, or responding to their pleas for help, the Laundrie family issued a statement saying “it is our hope that the search for Miss Petito is successful and that Miss Petito is re-united with her family”.
A Florida judge is allowing that claim to proceed.
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Whether you’re hitting the gym, hiking a new trail or walking through the city, a good pair of wireless earbuds is a must. And, our favorite Airpods Pro alternative, the Beats Studio Buds are currently on sale for just $99.95 — a whopping $50 off from their original price of $149.95.
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The Masked Singer Australia has unmasked its first celebrity and it’s a beloved neighbors legend.
neighbors actor Ryan Moloney, who is best known as Toadie, was revealed to be the knight on Sunday’s (August 7) show after performing Ed Sheeran’s song ‘Bad Habits’ (via The Advertiser).
Clues to his identity included a description of the knight as “the closest thing Australia has to true royalty,” but judges Chrissie Swan, Mel B, Dave Hughes and Abbie Chatfield failed to guess his identity before the reveal.
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Moloney is an Australian national treasure, having played Toadfish on the soap for three decades until the show was canceled and aired its final episode last week.
El actor recently reflected on his time on the soap, revealing his sadness at the cancellation news.
“It’s incredibly sad because it’s just an amazing stormwater of the industry that has taught so many people. So, it’s sad that kind of schooling is going to go,” admitted the star.
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“There’s gratitude in there and just kind of trying to soak up every moment that you’ve got with these people. There’s definitely the vibe of: ‘Come on, let’s make this really good. Let’s finish it really well.'”
“I think a lot of people have obviously grown up with it just being part of their lives and just part of the furniture, really. And in the same breath, that’s television,” he added.
“Most shows don’t run for this long, they kind of start and they finish after a couple of seasons if they’re lucky. So, we’ve just been incredibly blessed to be still going for this amount of time. I think we’re very lucky to have been part of people’s lives for so long.”
neighbors has now come to an end, but catch-up episodes are available via My 5 (UK) and 10 Play (Australia).
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