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Yes, that's Gatewood presenting his newly completed 'perf' signage for client and sponsor, Refunds-to-Go of Baltimore, MD. Gatewood created the design and performed the installation, along with Maxwell of WM Graphics.

 

Two Toronto pastors have been arrested for allegedly stealing $8.6 million from investors in a Ponzi scheme. One of the victims … was a stay-at-home mother with two blind children, who said she and her husband lost $60,000 that they had received from her mother-in-law’s estate.

 

Excertps from Harold Meyrson Article, Opinion Writer for Washington Post

 

The death toll in the April 24 collapse of Rana Plaza has topped 1,100 and continues to rise. But Rana Plaza is merely the most deadly of an unbroken string of preventable disasters that have plagued garment manufacturing in Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest exporter of clothing, behind only China.

 

The problem here isn’t Bangladesh. Garment work has historically led to mass death for young women, when marketers and manufacturers have been able to elude safety standards in pursuit of higher profits. Wal-Mart, though, has taken this problem to a new level. By depressing wages at its retail outlets and at every point along its supply chain, it has helped create an underpaid buying public compelled to shop for discount clothing. Everyday low wages create a demand for everyday low prices — a downward spiral that hits bottom in the deathtraps of Bangladesh.

Police in China have arrested 904 people for "meat-related offences" over the past three months, China's public security bureau announced on Thursday. Some of the scams revealed were as ingenious as they were terrifying: one Shanghai-area gang made more than £1m by passing off fox, mink and rat meat as mutton.