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Man constructs ‘Transformers’ art in backyard - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A fan of the Transformers movie series, 43 year-old Liang Nai-yuan (梁乃元) has unwittingly created a park in Nantou County’s Puli Township (埔里) that not only draws fans of the movies and practitioners of metal sculpting and allows them to interact with each other, but is also a shining example of what can be achieved by recycling. Liang, who works as a landscape artist and a designer, said the park was started five years ago based on a promise he made to his son to give him a special birthday gift. He used parts from old cars to make a 4m tall sculpture of the transformer Optimus Prime in his backyard." - JustDuckie - -

"Liang also made a replica of the Iron Man suit that he had always wanted to make after seeing the character in Marvel Comics in his childhood, adding that over the past five years he has made more than 100 sculptures of robots." - JustDuckie - -

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Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade. (http://www.slate.com/arti... )

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"This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. The dots—which represent individual slave ships—also correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade. The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. (We excluded voyages for which there is incomplete or vague information in the database.) The graph at the bottom accumulates statistics based on the raw data used in the interactive and, again, only represents a portion of the actual slave trade—about one-half of the number of enslaved Africans who actually were transported away from the continent." - JustDuckie - -

"By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans. At least 2 million, historians estimate, didn’t survive the journey." - JustDuckie - - [ 1 ]

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City543 » Fresh Out Of The Oven: Square Watermelon Toast From Yilan’s Jimmy Bakery (http://city543.com/taipei... http://static.city543.com... )

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"Adding to the summer fun, a bakery in Yilan has combined a Taiwanese summer staple with a dietary staple to create… square watermelon toast. The loaf has an appearance similar to Japan’s square-shaped watermelons, with a green crust that can be sliced to reveal—much to everyone’s delight—a red or yellow interior that looks just like the red- and yellow-fleshed watermelon varieties, down to the black pips. Created by Jimmy Bakery in Yilan County’s Jiaoxi Township, the toast crust is made with matcha powder and the black pips with powdered bamboo charcoal. The red and yellow color is achieved through the use of natural reddish-purple food coloring and strawberries and yellow food coloring respectively on bread dough. The owner of Jimmy’s Bakery first invented the toast in order to add some seasonal summer colors to his shop." - JustDuckie - -

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Florida shooting range owner wants to serve alcohol - NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.co... http://assets.nydailynews... )

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"A Florida gun store owner who wants to mix shots and shotguns at a shooting range says he has a bulletproof plan to do so. Volusia Top Gun owner Ron Perkinson wants to combine his Daytona Beach firearms shop with an indoor shooting range and a restaurant that serves alcohol, mirroring a model that's been successful in at least one other gun range in the country. “I’m doing something that’s already been done. It’s a tried-and-true safe system that actually works,” Perkinson told the Daily News. “It’s actually a little safer than it would be not to have it all under the same roof.” The business owner is bracing for his booze-and-bullets plan to be "highly scrutinized," but he said establishing protocols and building reinforcements around his building are key to easing concerns. Guns will not be allowed in the café area, whether a customer is drinking or not, he said." - JustDuckie - -

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Is this the worst summer job ever? - The Local (http://www.thelocal.no/20... http://www.thelocal.no/us... )

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"A nineteen-year-old in Norway has been hired by a sexual health charity to play a giant penis who surprises passers-by by spraying them with golden confetti. “I thought it was hilarious. If I can do a good thing for others, just by being a dick, there is nothing better,” Philip van Eck, the man inside the penis costume, told Norway’s Tønsberg Blad newspaper. Philip got the job fronting a campaign for the sex education charity, RFSU, beating the several hundred other applicants primarily because of his height; he is 1.93m tall, and because he fits the costume perfectly. " - JustDuckie - -

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I had to dress as a condom once. I think chlamydia and syphilis wins, hands down. - laura x - [ 7 ] -

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No One In Medieval Europe Knew What A Deer Looked Like (http://the-toast.net/2015... http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9... )

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"how many antlers do deer have, should I bother looking out the window to check mmmmmmmm better just fill in the head until there’s no room left because of the GLOBE OF SPIKES I feel pretty certain most deer are sporting" - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Nah, it's just the usual city-versus-rural stuff. They didn't have deer in the city, so who's going to know you're wrong? :-) - bentley - [ 3 ] -

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Women going gaga over 'Taiwan's hottest bean curd seller': Shanghaiist (http://shanghaiist.com/20... http://shanghaiist.com/at... http://shanghaiist.com/at... )

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"A bean curd shop in Taiwan has soared in popularity thanks to one of its workers, dubbed "Taiwan's hottest bean curd seller", who's become a celebrity of sorts online. The shop, called Chuan Tong Zhi Zui Dou Hua Tang, is located in the Beitou district of Taipei. It's a relatively small store, but has recently attracted long queues of customers, mostly female, eager to get a glimpse of the worker." - JustDuckie - -

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Considering she pretty much only went to Japan to see an apparently hot udon maker, that was nothing for her. - faboomama - [ 1 ] -

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What Made Clippy, the Microsoft Office Assistant, So Detestable? - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.co... https://cdn.theatlantic.c... )

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"Clippy is famous for being one of the worst user interfaces ever deployed to the mass public. He stopped users to ask them if they needed help with basic tasks, like writing a letter or making a spreadsheet. As the Microsoft employee Chris Pratley has written, Clippy was “optimized for first use”: amusing the first time you encountered him, and frustrating after that. He was a puppet who only knew one script and kept repeating it, at you, throughout the workday. He was also the product, I learned this week, of a male-dominated design process. In the new documentary Code: Debugging the Gender Gap, Roz Ho, a vice president at Ericsson, describes the meetings that birthed Clippy. Before working at Ericsson, Ho was an executive at Microsoft. (In the mid-2000s, she led the company’s Mac Business Unit there, and she is one of the few women to speak at an Apple keynote.)" - JustDuckie - -

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The first year I was in Taiwan, I found out their version of MS Office had the Monkey King instead of Clippy. I think I would have much preferred that. - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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Home On the Range: The NRA Was Here—Until It Wasn’t. (http://www.mcsweeneys.net... )

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"Let’s say there could be a national organization committed to gun safety and common sense. Such an organization could fight hard for intensive safety training for gun buyers, educate the gun-owning populace about the dangers of open carry, participate in a feasibility study about arming drunken frat boys, and help establish a timeline for gently disarming octogenarians suffering from Alzheimer’s. The organization could be led by people with a formidable collective expertise about firearms, making it a trusted and respected go-to source on the subject. It could have a PR department skilled in reaching out to both sides of the trigger, but not afraid to take a clear stand on a particular side when the common welfare of everyone called for it. It could take these stands because it would be a gun owners’ association, an advocate for the sport and the hobby, and a responsible organizational citizen. As such, it would never dream of acting as a lobbyist for the manufacturers. If anything, it would lobby the manufacturers to become members and adopt the organization’s platforms on safety, integrity, social responsibility, and civic sanity. Such potential the NRA has pissed away." - JustDuckie - -

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Amazon to pay Kindle authors only for pages read - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.u... http://i.telegraph.co.uk/... )

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"If you are an author whose book fails to grip in the opening chapter, it could prove costly. Amazon is to begin paying royalties to writers based on the number of pages read by Kindle users, rather than the number of books downloaded. If a reader abandons the book a quarter of the way in, the author will get only a quarter of the money they would have earned if the reader stuck it out to the end. The move has dismayed some authors, who believe it sets a dangerous precedent and could spread across the industry. It has also raised concerns about the amount of data Amazon is able to mine from its customers. " - JustDuckie - -

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Andrew - I wonder if they do. You can only have so many books checked out at once, so most readers would likely check them back in at some point, and have to check them out again to read them. If that's a separate checkout and read, I'd hope that would count. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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The Most Metal Deaths in Middle-earth, Ranked - The Toast (http://the-toast.net/2015... http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9... )

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"Elendil and Gil-galad died while taking out Sauron. Biting it in the middle of defeating a Dark Lord is very metal, but they rank low because: (1) There were two of them, (2) Sauron came back eventually, and (3) In the prologue of Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring movie, Sauron easily kills Elendil and it’s his son Isildur who defeats the Dark Lord. Peter Jackson gave fucking Kili a more metal death in the last Hobbit movie. That’s not really Elendil and Gil-galad’s fault, but if you want to rank higher on this list, your death needs to be so metal no filmmaker could possibly resist depicting it, let alone give a better death scene to a sexy dwarf." - JustDuckie - -

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My favorite: 3.) Gandalf the Grey Gandalf the Grey, like Glorfindel, wrestled a Balrog into an abyss. What makes Gandalf even more metal than Glorfindel is that Gandalf did not stop there. After grappling the demon down a seemingly bottomless pit, Gandalf fought the demon in a subterranean lake, through a lightless labyrinth populated by unspeakable monsters, up the tallest staircase ever, and finally on a mountain peak. Gandalf died after he, “Threw down my enemy… and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin,” which is the most metal line in the entire trilogy, and possibly all of English literature. Gandalf’s death was so metal he came back to life a different fucking color. - Xabaras - [ 2 ] -

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Crews demolish the wrong house in Pontiac; One homeowner accused of changing address numbers - WXYZ.com (http://www.wxyz.com/news/... http://media2.wxyz.com//p... )

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"One man's ingenious plan to save his house from the wrecking ball caused crews to take down the wrong home in Pontiac on Thursday. The man who owned the house that was slated for demolition is accused of changing the address numbers with the house next door. Mike--the man who owns the house that wasn't supposed to be torn down-- tells 7 Action News he was planning on renting it out on October 1 and he's wondering if the city of Pontiac owes him a new house. But many in the neighborhood are happy the wrong house was torn down. They say it was an eyesore with broken windows. They also said squatters were living in the home. "When I heard they tore down the house on accident I wanted to give them a twelve pack of beer," said neighbor Fred Sargent. "I was that happy."" - JustDuckie - -

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The Misty-rious Case of the Vanishing Ballerinas of Color: Where have all the Others Gone? | My Body My Image (http://www.mybodymyimage.... http://www.mybodymyimage.... http://www.mybodymyimage.... http://www.mybodymyimage.... )

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"The mythologization of Misty was not born of mendacity. Quite the opposite. By all accounts, its nascent root is somewhat altruistic. What could be the problem with giving little brown girls who want to be ballerinas someone to look up too? Nothing at all, although it is the “oneness” that has become problematic, except that as awareness of Copeland grew (as did her endorsements), others in the field, both present and past, were muffled and then muted, until their existence was being slowly smudged away. It’s true (the grain of truth) that for a long period of time, the presence of the black ballerina has been all but nonexistent. It is important to note that in 2007, when Kourlas wrote the article Where are all the Black Ballerinas?, it had already been 3 years since The Dance Theatre of Harlem had disbanded. Subsequently, the nest that had begotten a great number of ballerinas of color had been effectively swatted from the tree. Those dancers that were left all scattered. Now, due to the inherent racism in the ballet world (I said it, we know it, it’s real, we are big enough to call it for what it is), few of them found ballet companies willing to hire them. Alas, some went to Broadway or to contemporary companies. Many landed at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, where you can still see them performing today. Some ventured to Europe. The point is, there were black ballerinas." - JustDuckie - -

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"In honor of those sepia-colored pioneers in pointe shoes, I would like us to restore the record, actually present the record, so that all of the little brown girls who dream of being sylphs or swans can know that it is more than possible, not just because one did it but because many have. Where the one can be explained away, chalked up to an anomaly, one hundred is a legacy, rich and multi-hued, with a diversity of economic backgrounds, body shapes, sizes, divergent levels of facility and possibilities. In our history they can find someone who looks like you! I wrote this so little brown girls with fuzzy edges, afro puffs, and braided buns can know that they too have a history, and it is long and strong and cannot, will not, be denied. Your ancestors have done what others have when all was against them, when others thought they could not. They proved them wrong, and went beyond. Your lineage danced on the great stages of the world, for kings, queens, dignitaries, heads of state and global icons. They are YOUR royals." - JustDuckie - -

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James Horner Dead: ‘Titanic’ Composer Was 61 | Variety (http://variety.com/2015/f... https://pmcvariety.files.... )

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"Horner began his career with AFI shorts and low-budget Roger Corman films including “The Lady in Red” and “Battle Beyond the Stars,” quickly graduating to major studio films including “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.” His 1980s output demonstrated his versatility, including scores for “48 Hrs.,” “Cocoon,” “Willow” and “Field of Dreams.” In the 1990s he added “The Rocketeer,” “Sneakers,” “Patriot Games,” “Legends of the Fall” and “Ransom” to his resume before hitting the jackpot, both financially and awards-wise, with “Titanic.” In addition to his two Oscars, he won song and score Golden Globes for the James Cameron film. He received eight other Oscar nominations, including seven for the scores of “Aliens,” “Field of Dreams,” “Apollo 13,” “Braveheart,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “House of Sand and Fog” and “Avatar.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Wolves are better hunters when monkeys are around: An unexpected co-existence in the Ethiopian highlands -- ScienceDaily (http://www.sciencedaily.c... http://images.sciencedail... )

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"Through extensive data collection from all-day follows on the Guassa Plateau in north central Ethiopia from 2006 to 2011, researchers studied a band of approximately 200 gelada monkeys, who regularly associate with the wolves living in the area. According to the study's findings, gelada monkeys would not typically move upon encountering Ethiopian wolves, even when they were in the middle of the herd -- 68 percent of encounters resulted in no movement and only 11 percent resulted in a movement of greater than 10 meters. In stark contrast, the geladas always fled great distances to the cliffs for safety whenever they encountered aggressive domestic dogs." - JustDuckie - -

"The Ethiopian wolves experienced a foraging advantage on subterranean rodents when among the gelada monkeys -- Ethiopian wolves foraged successfully in 66.7 percent of attempts among the gelada monkeys v. a success rate of only 25 percent when wolves foraged by themselves. The success rate may be attributed to the rodents being flushed out by the monkey herd, which disturb the vegetation as they graze or to what may be a diminished ability for the rodents to detect predators due to a visual or auditory interference posed by the grazing monkeys." - JustDuckie - -

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An Interview With @AfAmHistFail - The Toast (http://the-toast.net/2015... http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9... )

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"One of my favourite Twitter accounts is the frustrating and important @AfAmHistFail, run by an anonymous (for obvious reasons) docent who gives slavery presentations at a historical plantation. She shares the ups and downs of her job, the struggles to keep composure in the face of racist questions and monologues, and the difficulty of puncturing the romanticization of the antebellum South. She was kind enough to answer some questions for us." - JustDuckie - -

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Some of the comments from tourists are O.O - JustDuckie - -

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Paralysis hits man who drank sugary drinks too quickly - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A Kaohsiung man was temporarily paralyzed following the rapid consumption of sugary drinks, which led to a spike in his insulin levels and a subsequent drop in potassium levels that caused severe muscle weakness, according to a report in the Chinese-language Apple Daily on Sunday. The man, in his 30s and physically fit without a history of chronic disease, drank several cans of cola then ate some sweet snacks on an empty stomach following a workout. He took a nap, and was unable to move when he woke up three hours later, so he was immediately rushed to hospital, Yuan General Hospital nephrologist Chi Wen-che (紀文哲) was quoted as saying." - JustDuckie - -

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Watch: Taxi drives down stairs at Chinese college - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://cdnph.upi.com/ph/s... )

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"A taxi driver who apparently got confused on a Chengdu, China, college campus became a viral star when he decided to drive his cab down three flights of stairs. The cabbie, dubbed "wayward taxi driver" by admirers on Chinese social media, was recorded driving his green cab down three flights of concrete stairs on the Sichuan Vocational College campus after apparently becoming lost at the school. Students at the college pleaded with him to wait for a tow truck driver to come help him, but the man continued to drive down the stairs until he reached the bottom, where he sped off with a few new dents and a dragging bumper. The taxi's license plate fell off on the stairs and the driver declined to go back for it." - JustDuckie - -

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Exhibition details women’s side of White Terror era - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"An exhibition that opened on Wednesday in New Taipei City is focusing on the lesser-known stories of women during the White Terror era, a period of political persecution in Taiwan that lasted from 1949 to 1987. Titled “A Jail Beyond the Prison Walls,” the exhibition features displays such as letters written by political prisoners to their families, and video interviews with White Terror victims, their wives, daughters and sisters. Also on display are photographs, artworks, personal notes and court verdicts, all pertaining to political prisoners during the White Terror era. “For many years, the discussion on the White Terror era was focused on the political victims themselves — how and why they were imprisoned and their lives after prison — but we cannot exclude the stories of their families if we wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of the collective pain and suffering of our society,” National Human Rights Museum Preparatory Office director Wang Yi-chun (王逸群) said." - JustDuckie - -

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Misty Copeland: meet the ballerina who rewrote the rules of colour, class and curves - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.u... http://i.telegraph.co.uk/... https://igcdn-photos-g-a.... )

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" Misty Copeland can pinpoint the precise moment when she realised her success in ballet held a broader significance. “It was the night I danced The Firebird at the Metropolitan Opera House in June 2012. I had never seen an audience that was 50 per cent African-American. It was overwhelming to know that so many of them were there to support what I stood for.” As only the third black soloist (one rung down from a principal dancer, or prima ballerina) in the history of New York’s prestigious American Ballet Theatre (ABT) – and the first in two decades – Copeland, 32, is elegantly dismantling the barriers of race and class that have long surrounded the art form. “When I talk to [black] families, they tell me, 'We never went to the ballet before. Why would we bring our children when they can’t see themselves reflected on the stage?’ ” she says. " - JustDuckie - -

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Heinz Is Very Sorry for Ketchup Bottle's QR Code That Led to a Porn Site | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"As proof that time makes fools of us all, an out-of-date Heinz ketchup QR code sent unsuspecting German man David Korell to a hardcore pornography site. The code was part of a Heinz contest which let consumers design their own labels. That ended last year, and when Heinz let the website expire, porn company Fundorado stepped in and bought it. Yes, they already made an EZ Squirt joke. No, I'm not going to repeat it." - JustDuckie - -

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LOL @ "pornado" - Jennifer D. - [ 2 ] -

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New 50 Shades book: a chapter by chapter review of Grey by EL James - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.u... http://i.telegraph.co.uk/... )

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"Ana - I am not on friendly terms with this woman, but it is driving me nuts having to type out that name each time - has an overreaction on a nuclear scale. They have met barely three times! I don't care if she smells of orchards and has a fabulous ass, Christian, she's clearly a nutbar. Oh thank God, it's the end of the chapter and Anastasia has disappeared in a cloud of grammatically improbable metaphor." - JustDuckie - -

"Most of Christian's staff fancy him, probably because he insists on hiring "tall willowy girls with a pretty face" who really fancy him, but walk around looking sad about it. This is fairly boring. Christian has not been anywhere near his Red Room of Pain, not even to change the batteries." - JustDuckie - -

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Georgia woman accused of swiping 131 Wal-Mart undergarments - NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.co... http://assets.nydailynews... )

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"A Georgia woman’s epic panty raid landed her in jail. Julia Jones, 22, stole 131 undergarments from a Wal-Mart in Cobb County, authorities said. The Jasper woman jammed the ill-gotten underwear into her purse, handbag and grocery bags, WFSB reported. The June 7 take from a Kennesaw store totaled about $750, cops said. She was charged with felony shoplifting and posted $5,000 bond." - JustDuckie - -

" Jones apparently would like her friends not mention her penchant for the unmentionables. “If people could stop tagging me in what I do NOT want posted on Facebook for the world to see. That would be great,” she posted on Facebook." - JustDuckie - -

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Much More Than 2 Cents About a Woman on the $10 Bill - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"The favorites for portraiture on the first day since Mr. Lew’s announcement seemed to be Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady, feminist and United Nations ambassador; Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon; and Harriet Tubman, the slave-turned-abolitionist who was the top choice of an online petition earlier this year. Many Americans want to give a second chance to the social activist Susan B. Anthony or Sacagawea, the Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition, who in recent years were honored on two $1 coins that proved so unpopular that their minting ended. And many people, apparently unaware that, under law, those pictured on American bills must be deceased, expressed their preferences for the likes of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Beyoncé and “Notorious RBG,” otherwise known as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court." - JustDuckie - -

"But at least as common as nominees were complaints. The Treasury’s decision to use the $10 bill instead of the much more numerous $20 note disappointed many, including those behind “Women on 20s,” the grassroots group that sponsored the online poll this year and petitioned the White House and Treasury. “Women asked for the $20 ... will get the $10,” one man posted to Twitter. “Even on currency women make half as much as a man.”" - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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‘Gua sha’ causes flesh-eating disease - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"Gua sha involves repeatedly scraping lubricated skin with smooth-edged tools to produce light bruising. The practice is believed to stimulate blood flow and treat heatstroke. “A 40-year-old man from Taichung’s Fongyuan District (豐原) was recently rushed to an emergency department after developing bacterial infections on his inner thighs following a self-applied gua sha session,” Feng Yuan Hospital Department of Surgery director Wu Chien-ting (吳建廷) said yesterday. When the man arrived at the hospital, Wu said red and swollen ulcers were found on both of his inner thighs. He also had a fever of 39°C. Wu said the complications could have arisen because the patient used an unsterilized tool to carry out the therapy and also caused minor skin injuries in the process. The man later developed necrotizing fasciitis — a serious bacterial skin infection that spreads quickly and can cause tissue death — and was required to undergo emergency debridement and irrigation, and was put on antibiotics. “He regained his health and was discharged from hospital after two weeks of treatment,” Wu said." - JustDuckie - -

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I'm assuming it is a bit more vigorous if it is meant to leave mild bruising. - Jennifer D. - -

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