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Nivea Created a Doll That Gets Sunburned to Teach Kids About the Importance of Sunscreen | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Nivea and FCB Brazil, last year's Gravity winners in Adweek's Project Isaac awards competition, have come up with one solution for educating kids about the sun in a language they're sure to understand: toys. The Nivea Doll is made with UV-sensitive material and quickly turns lobster-red when exposed to harsh rays without sunscreen, just like your own skin eventually would if left unprotected. If the child uses sunscreen on the doll, it will be protected from sunburn. If the doll's already red, putting a dollop of Nivea on it will turn the skin back to its normal shade (not a perfect comparison to a real sunburn, which is far harder to undo, but it's an effective illustration for kids). "Protecting and caring is something we learn from an early age. This emotional bond is what this Nivea action offers," Joanna Monteiro, creative vp at FCB Brazil, said in a statement. "Through the magic of technology, children can see the sun's effect on the skin of the doll."" - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Wind apparently propels turkey through law firm window (http://www.abajournal.com... http://www.abajournal.com... )

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"Kansas City, Missouri, lawyer Jeffrey Tonkin found an involuntary intruder in his law office on Monday. Legal secretary Monica Hastings was the first to spot the intruder -- a turkey that may have been propelled through Tonkin's window by strong winds, KCTV reports. "I opened up the door to Tonkin's office," Hastings told the broadcast station, "and I saw a little turkey tail go past his desk." The bird left a hole in Tonkin's window, and droppings and feathers in his office. The lawyer was working with plastic gloves to avoid the mess." - JustDuckie - -

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Claw machine master grabs over 3,000 dolls in six months, arcade owners beg him to stop: Shanghaiist (http://shanghaiist.com/20... http://shanghaiist.com/at... )

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"Safe to say, in Xiamen, most claw machine owners are familiar with Chen and often invite him to dinner and ask him not to play their machines." - JustDuckie - -

cercando Xiamen per un viaggio, è uscito questo post. Altre cose da sapere? - Francesco Pelagi - -

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Bookstore-Themed Tokyo Hotel Has 1,700 Books And Sleeping Shelves Next To Them | Bored Panda (http://www.boredpanda.com... http://static.boredpanda.... )

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"Some people love books, while other get put to sleep by them. Book and Bed Tokyo, a bookstore-themed hotel located on the seventh floor of a high-rise in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro neighborhood that opens its doors on November 5th, is perfect for both. Designed by Makoto Tanijiri and Ai Yoshida of Suppose Design Office, it promises to be the best place to curl up with a good book and fall asleep. The ‘Compact’ compartment measures 205 x 85 centimeters (80.7 x 33.5 inches), and the ‘Standard’ is 205 x 129 centimeters (80.7 x 50.8 inches); the price per evening can be 3,800 to 6,000 yen (US$32 to $50), depending on the size of accommodations. On opening day, there will be 1,700 English and Japanese language books available, but the hotel plans to eventually expand its library to 3,000." - JustDuckie - -

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"Some people love books, while other get put to sleep by them. Book and Bed Tokyo, a bookstore-themed hotel located on the seventh floor of a high-rise in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro neighborhood that opens its doors on November 5th, is perfect for both. Designed by Makoto Tanijiri and Ai Yoshida of Suppose Design Office, it promises to be the best place to curl up with a good book and fall asleep. The ‘Compact’ compartment measures 205 x 85 centimeters (80.7 x 33.5 inches), and the ‘Standard’ is 205 x 129 centimeters (80.7 x 50.8 inches); the price per evening can be 3,800 to 6,000 yen (US$32 to $50), depending on the size of accommodations. On opening day, there will be 1,700 English and Japanese language books available, but the hotel plans to eventually expand its library to 3,000." - JustDuckie - -

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Light Government Touch Lets China’s Hui Practice Islam in the Open - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"Asked about the Chinese government’s light touch here, Liu Jun, 37, the chief imam at the Banqiao Daotang Islamic School, offered a knowing smile. “Muslims from other parts of China who come here, especially from Xinjiang, can’t believe how free we are, and they don’t want to leave,” he said, referring to the far-west borderlands that are home to China’s beleaguered Uighur ethnic minority. “Life for the Hui is very good.”" - JustDuckie - -

"Descendants of Persian and Arab traders who settled along the Silk Road and took Chinese wives, the nation’s 10 million Hui are a minority primarily defined by their faith and, in some cases, solely their culinary habits. Compared with the Uighurs, they have also demonstrated a remarkable ability to coexist with the Communist Party, an organization hard-wired to distrust those whose first loyalty belongs to a higher power. Unlike the Uighurs, who speak a Turkic dialect and whose Eurasian features set them apart from the country’s Han Chinese majority, the Hui speak Chinese and are often indistinguishable from their non-Muslim neighbors. In much of China, the white caps worn by men and the head scarves worn by women are all that give them away. In many places, the Hui have so thoroughly assimilated that their only connection to Islam is a vestigial aversion to pork. Most subscribe to a moderate brand of Islam, though tradition frowns upon intermarriage — Hui men who break convention by marrying outside the faith often demand that their wives convert to Islam." - JustDuckie - -

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Our Incorruptible Dead Girls - The Awl (http://www.theawl.com/201... http://cdn2.theawl.com/wp... )

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"[W]hen the Paris morgue was moved and rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century, it was designed to make looking at bodies easy, almost pleasurable. Bodies were displayed behind large glass windows, lined up one by one, displayed like an object to be consumed. Parisians could visit the dead girls, worship seven days a week, anytime from sunrise to sundown. Behind the glass windows the of Paris morgue, the dead girls were displayed like the incorruptible bodies of saints. Enshrined, objects that could identify them were hung next to their bodies; clothes and jewelry laid next to the bodies like relics. Prints from the era show a familiar scene: Long hair falling over breasts, violent wounds hidden, faces peaceful enough that they could be sleeping. And like the dead girls of procedural dramas, their bodies never fester—removed before the rot of death set in. At the Paris morgue, the romance of spectacle was preserved. " - JustDuckie - -

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"If the stilted language and look of science cloaks longing, then the dead girl’s inability to speak is a fantasy in and of itself. The dead girl’s body is the only fundamental source of truth. It carries on it clues about her murder, so her entire body must be gleaned. Flakes, dirt from under her nails, microscopic evidence is all gathered placed into envelopes and jars. Labelled and preserved, these objects of veneration tell us something that victim is herself unable to mutter." - JustDuckie - -

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The dynamic of a wolf pack. - Imgur (http://imgur.com/gallery/... http://i.imgur.com/JAF12o... )

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"A wolf pack: the first 3 are the old or sick, they give the pace to the entire pack. If it was the other way round, they would be left behind, losing contact with the pack. In case of an ambush they would be sacrificed. Then come 5 strong ones, the front line. In the center are the rest of the pack members, then the 5 strongest following. Last is alone, the alpha. He controls everything from the rear. In that position he can see everything, decide the direction. He sees all of the pack. The pack moves according to the elders pace and help each other, watch each other." - JustDuckie - -

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Sometimes it seems like the people doing social media for organizations aren't well-informed on the subject or don't turn a skeptical enough eye to viral content (which are often misleading even when they're not outright hoaxes). - John B. - [ 6 ] -

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Astolat Dollhouse Castle: the $8.5 million property with a wizard tower - in pictures | Business News | News | The Independent (http://www.independent.co... http://static.independent... )

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"Like most Manhattan apartments, the Astolat Dollhouse has seven levels, stairways, hallways, a basement, a wine cellar a kitchen and an armoury. There are formal rooms, a library, a music room, a grand ballroom and a bar (with real tiny bottles of liquor), and that’s before you get to the Wizard’s tower on the top level. Astolat's inventory of items numbers about 30,000, but less than a third are displayed at any one time within the structure. The rest remains in storage until the owners - who wish to remain anonymous - decide to "redecorate." These collectors’ items include a silver flatware set, said to be worth $5,000, a drop-leaf secretary bookshelf valued at up to $2,500 or a miniature Hebrew Torah worth up to $2,500 among many others." - JustDuckie - -

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‘Blades of Glory’ routine at U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships (video) – OlympicTalk (http://olympics.nbcsports... https://nbcolympictalk.fi... )

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"Former U.S. ice dancers Tim McKernan and Dean Copely dressed up as Jon Heder and Will Ferrell‘s characters from “Blades of Glory” for an exhibition routine at the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships on Thursday. McKernan played Heder’s character from the 2007 film, Jimmy MacElroy, and Copely dressed as Ferrell’s character, Chazz Michael Michaels. Their performance even included music used in the film." - JustDuckie - -

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Algebra II has to go. (http://www.slate.com/arti... )

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"For low-income students, math is often an impenetrable barrier to academic success. Algebra II, which includes polynomials and logarithms, and is required by the new Common Core curriculum standards used by 47 states and territories, drives dropouts at both the high school and college levels. The situation is most dire at public colleges, which are the most likely to require abstract algebra as a precondition for a degree in every field, including art and theater. “We are really destroying a tremendous amount of talent—people who could be talented in sports writing or being an emergency medical technician, but can’t even get a community college degree,” Hacker told me in an interview. “I regard this math requirement as highly irrational.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Watch: Turkey enamored with own reflection in car - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://cdnph.upi.com/sv/b... )

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"A New Jersey woman said a "love struck turkey" has taken a liking to her son's brand new Honda Civic and won't let anyone else near the vehicle. Betty Ann DiGiacomo said she discovered a wild turkey wandering outside her Mount Laurel home about 7:30 a.m. Friday and she soon discovered the bird seemed enamored with her son's brand new Honda Civic, which he bought two months ago. "I was laughing because it looked like he was looking over it to see if it was a good car, like he was shopping for a car," DiGiacomo told WPVI-TV. "I named him Patrick -- Patrick the love struck turkey."" - JustDuckie - -

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Reductress » How to Be as Chill as Mike, While Still Doing All of Mike’s Work (http://reductress.com/pos... )

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"The first few years of your career can be a minefield, so it’s important to find good role models. It may be tempting to reach out to that badass female exec or that super helpful coworker in your search for a mentor, but don’t! If you’re looking for somebody to model yourself after, look no further than Mike, who asks you for Excel help every goddamn day, before spending the afternoon analyzing his fantasy sports team lineup. Follow this simple advice and we promise that you too will be saying, “Yeah, man, I’m about done here so I can get a drink with you guys, no problem,” in no time, even though you still have to pick up all of Mike’s slack." - JustDuckie - -

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Man With Barcode Tattoo Successfully Returned for Store Credit (http://thehardtimes.net/2... http://i2.wp.com/thehardt... )

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"Realizing her relationship was not working out, local woman Kaitlyn Jeffers decided to utilize her boyfriend’s generic barcode tattoo to cash him in for store credit. “I was going to break up with him in a normal way,” said Jeffers of Justin Lang, her boyfriend of nearly six months. “But whenever I want to get rid of something that still has a tag on it, I try to at least get something back for it.”" - JustDuckie - -

"Jeffers’ final stop at Nordstrom ultimately proved successful, as their notoriously lax policy on returns allowed for the borderline human trafficking she was looking for." - JustDuckie - [ 3 ] -

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The Battle for the Cheerleading-Uniform Industry Is Surprisingly Cutthroat and Appropriately Glittery (http://www.slate.com/blog... http://www.slate.com/cont... )

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"Having established a name in All-Star, Rebel is now making a run at Varsity's traditional sideline business, where schools present a very different customer universe. Here, too, Varsity dominates thanks to longstanding relationships with school coaches. "They grew up in the Varsity system," says Noseff Aldridge. "All they know is to buy Varsity." It's another chance for Rebel to play the "challenger brand": an upstart using unexpected tactics to tackle an entrenched player. Mark Barden, a partner in the consulting firm Eatbigfish, which coined the term, says Rebel is among the purest examples of a challenger brand he has seen. Noseff Aldridge "is incensed by the way Varsity works and wants to fix it," he says. "You need that sense of righteous indignation to fuel a small group of people up against formidable odds to go back and back and back again to try and win."" - JustDuckie - -

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A New Face for Team USA: Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad (http://time.com/fencer/ https://timedotcom.files.... )

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"Less than a week after Obama’s shout-out, Muhammad sits unnoticed at a Manhattan Starbucks, talking about something that scares her far more than a sword darting toward her face. “If Donald Trump had his way, America would be white,” Muhammad says between sips of a skinny hazelnut latte. “And there wouldn’t be any color. And there wouldn’t be any diversity here.” This is charged turf for an Olympian. These athletes, the bulk of whom attract attention only once every four years, tend to shy away from politics. Even a whiff of controversy has the potential to turn off potential fans and alienate the corporate sponsors that help subsidize their dreams. But Trump’s rise to the front of the Republican presidential pack, along with his call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S., is more than Muhammad can abide. “When you incite hateful speech and rhetoric like that, the people who say it never think about the repercussions and how that affects Muslims,” says Muhammad. “Specifically Muslim women who wear their religion every single day. So then you start to think, Am I going to be safe?”" - JustDuckie - -

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Voters can pick 'none of the above' thanks to this Whitby-Oshawa byelection candidate - Toronto - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/ca... )

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"Ever wish you could choose "None of the Above" in an election? Voters in the provincial riding of Whitby-Oshawa will soon see that option at the bottom of their ballot in the upcoming byelection. A 46-year-old man from Thornhill, Ont., formerly known as Sheldon Bergson, spent $137 to legally change his name to Above Znoneofthe, got 25 voters to sign his nomination papers and registered with Elections Ontario to run in the Feb. 11 byelection. Since the candidate names appear on the ballot in alphabetical order, his will be 10th of the 10 candidates. But there's one small hitch in his plan. On provincial election ballots, candidates' names are printed with first name then last name. So instead of appearing as "Znoneofthe Above" his will read "Above Znoneofthe." " - JustDuckie - -

^ Great job, Znoneofthe. Really smart. - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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Sci-Hub: Russian neuroscientist running 'Pirate Bay for scientists' with 48 million free academic papers (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/... https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/e... )

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"Sci-Hub, a website dubbed the "Pirate Bay for scientists" by offering peer-reviewed academic papers to download for free, is thumbing its nose at copyright holders following an infringement lawsuit battle in the US. Sci-Hub is the brainchild of Alexandra Elbakyan, a neuroscientist from Kazakhstan who is now based in Russia. When she was writing her thesis in 2009, Elbakyan found it difficult to access the research she needed to complete her work, as she needed to download many papers, and each paper retailed for up to $30 (£21) each. To get through her thesis, Elbakyan was forced to download pirated versions of the academic papers for free, and eventually, after being introduced to a website that enabled researchers to share and trade the academic papers they needed with people who had paid for them, she decided to take the idea further and create her own website around 2011 or 2012." - JustDuckie - -

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Child's tale about growing 'special' plants ends in pot bust - Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/far... )

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"The Times-Argus reports (http://bit.ly/1T91eH1 ) Windsor Detective Jennifer Frank said in an affidavit that the 8-year-old told school officials and police that he got to help his mother's boyfriend grow "special medicine that can cure anything at all." Frank says the boy told her that people came to the Windsor house frequently." - JustDuckie - -

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Park adjusts ‘228’ discount after backlash - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"The 228 Incident refers to an uprising that began on Feb. 27, 1947, against the then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) authoritarian regime and the resulting brutal crackdown that left tens of thousands dead and led to nearly four decades of martial law. In 1997, Feb. 28 was designated a national holiday. To mark the holiday this year, the theme park announced that it was offering a discount from today to Monday: People with two 2’s and one 8 in their national identification number, or whose Chinese zodiac sign is the Monkey, would be able to buy tickets for the price of NT$228." - JustDuckie - -

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Record number of rare birds spotted - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"The nation saw a record number of black-faced spoonbills wintering across major wetlands this year, suggesting successful conservation efforts and a potential for repopulation of the endangered species. Bird lovers spotted a total of 2,060 black-faced spoonbills last month, a slight increase from the 2,034 recorded in the same month last year, the Forestry Bureau said yesterday. It was also the second year in a row that more than 2,000 of the rare species spent their winter here, the bureau said. A survey in November last year counted 2,300 black-faced spoonbills, but the number could be an overestimation due to double counting, as the birds were still migrating, it said. “The number of black-faced spoonbills in the world dropped below 300 in 1990, and the bird was placed on the [International Union for Conservation of Nature’s] red list of critically endangered species. That was when Taiwan began its conservation efforts, and those efforts have paid off. We are glad to see our ‘star species’ repopulate,” bureau Deputy Director-General Yang Hung-chih (楊宏志) said." - JustDuckie - -

That's some good news. - John B. - [ 1 ] -

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Stop dismissing small talk as shallow or boring. It’s a crucial social lubricant! (http://www.slate.com/arti... http://www.slate.com/cont... )

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"Small talk is fun precisely for the reasons Boomer thinks it’s boring: It requires playing within the lines. Using sports, weather, family, and other unremarkable raw material, the skilled conversationalist spins it into gold—or at least cotton candy. In a way, making small talk is like writing a sonnet. It’s the restrictions of the form that make the best examples of it beautiful. Perhaps the reason so many people find it tedious is simply that they’re bad at it. Chatting about work and education, not to mention trivialities like bus routes and rain, can tell us quite a lot about “who the person really is,” as Boomer puts it. Not because it’s a snobby shorthand for sorting a person by her pedigree, but because it lets you evaluate how she talks about her experiences, how she tells the story of herself, and how she approaches trifles like bad weather. Is she whiny? Wry? Cheery? It’s all informative, and none of it requires badgering anyone to reveal the moment of their most soul-shattering humiliation over cocktails. Ice-breakers like “Tell me about your weightiest belief” ask that your interlocutor dredge the depths of her soul on demand; small talk lets self-revelation unspool with a more civilized subtlety." - JustDuckie - -

I've always hated small talk, mainly because I'm not very good at it. - John B. - [ 2 ] -

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McDonald's Billboard Gives Ridiculously Lengthy Directions to a Burger King Drive-Thru | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Here is 2016's most obnoxious (but fun) billboard so far. McDonald's has more than 1,000 drive-thru locations in France. Burger King has fewer than 20. So, McDonald's is using this fact to flame-broil its rival in the most absurd fashion—by putting up a huge temporary billboard that gives driving directions to the nearest—very far away—BK drive-thru." - JustDuckie - -

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Reductress » Channel Your Anxiety Into Full-On Depression (http://reductress.com/pos... )

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"Do Yoga Once: Yoga is a great tool for relieving stress when practiced regularly. But done poorly on one occasion, it can really make you feel terrible about your anxiety-filled existence. Channel your anxiety into frantically googling “Beginner Yoga Videos” and choose a female instructor with an intimidating body. When you follow the steps wrong and don’t have an in-the-flesh teacher there to help you figure it out, you’ll end up really sad about the future of your health. These internalized thoughts of failure will help you on your journey from generalized anxiety to clinical depression." - JustDuckie - -

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Oh Lord, Won’t you buy me a Gypsy Caravan… | Messy Nessy Chic (http://www.messynessychic... http://static.messynessyc... http://static.messynessyc... )

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"The wagons take approximately 5 months to build, made from quality seasoned pine surrounded by insulation, a waterproof membrane and treated cotton canvas which is tightly tensioned around a poplar tunnel. They’re built on 15ft trailers and because the caravans are comparatively light, they are stable and well balance on a single axle trailer. The built in double bunk bed at the end sleeps two on top and two below. They can be used as a spare bedroom, office, studio or even a home." - JustDuckie - -

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Deer opens door, browses in Virginia liquor store - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://cdnph.upi.com/sv/b... )

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" A Virginia deer paid a visit to a local liquor store after managing to push open the front door. Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage shared security camera photos of the deer that show the animal walking through the front door of one of the state's oldest stores in Clifton Forge and making its way to the back of the store. "The doe reportedly pushed open the store door and headed straight for the bourbon aisle before being shown out the back," they wrote on Facebook." - JustDuckie - -

"What does a girl have to do to get a drink around here?" she said, as they escorted her out the back. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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To Black Girls Everywhere | The Offing (http://theoffingmag.com/d... http://theoffingmag.com/w... )

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"You will see some of us on the covers of those same glossy magazines that the white girls always read. You’re going to face a lot of trickery. Words like magic suggest lightness and power and a centuries-old truth-myth about us: that we can withstand anything. That we can do it all. And you will, my dear. You will do it all. And you will do it brilliantly, fantastically. Routinely. It will hurt. But the only thing worse than a black girl in pain is a black girl who says that she’s a black girl in pain. So you say nothing and they will call you strong. Some days you’ll even believe it. " - JustDuckie - -

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