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Oops! Guy sends naked selfies to HR department while applying for job | Clark Howard (http://www.clarkhoward.co... http://szcafj.cloudimage.... )

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"The man apparently made a good impression during an interview with the unnamed business last month. "There was a conditional offer of employment made to this particular applicant," Elmhurst Police Chief Michael Ruth told the Chicago Tribune. Shortly after, he “texted the HR director and sent a nude photo of himself." Another revealing picture showed up a day later with no explanation. The company alerted cops who, “contacted the offender who admitted to sending the photographs.” Police reports confirm the man explained the photos were “meant for another individual and were sent to the victim in error."" - JustDuckie - -

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Polar bears lay siege to researchers in the Arctic Sea - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2015/0... http://i2.cdn.turner.com/... )

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"Five hungry polar bears have surrounded a team of unarmed researchers at a remote outpost in northern Russia. The bears have settled in the fields outside a weather station on the island of Vaygach in the Arctic Sea, preventing researchers from leaving the building to conduct their work, the World Wide Fund for Nature in Russia said in a statement. The team, which consists of two meteorologists and an engineer, tried to scare them off with flares, but the bears were undeterred -- and the Russian WWF says the team has no other weapons at its disposal." - JustDuckie - -

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Ashley Madison Avenue Makes Hook-Ups Easy for the Creatively Unfulfilled | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Is your relationship tired or unfulfilling? Do you feel ignored, taken for granted, misunderstood? Maybe it's time for a creative fling. If you're a creative type looking to stray outside a stale and loveless partnership, Ashley Madison Avenue is here to help. The parody site, which launched Wednesday, mimics its infamous data-breached namesake in design, if not intent. See that bearded hipster on the homepage? He's no unfaithful spouse. He's an art director seeking a copywriter on the side. Below are the results you'll find if you're a copywriter looking for some hot AD action of your own" - JustDuckie - -

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Female Spies and Gender-Bending Soldiers Changed the Course of the Civil War | Collectors Weekly (http://www.collectorsweek... http://cf.collectorsweekl... http://cf.collectorsweekl... )

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"What’s been largely lost to history is how remarkably influential women were to the course of the Civil War—from its beginning to its end. Without Rose O’Neal Greenhow’s masterfully run spy ring, the Union might have ended the months-old war with a swift victory over the Confederates in July 1861. Instead, the widow leaked Union plans to Confederate generals, allowing them to prepare and deliver a devastating Union loss at the First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, which caused the war to drag out for four more years. Elizabeth Van Lew, another woman running a brilliant spy ring who also happened to be a feminist and a “spinster,” was instrumental to the fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, on April 1, 1865, leading to Lee’s surrender eight days later. “Elizabeth Van Lew was probably the most valuable spy of the Civil War—male or female, North or South,” says author and historian Karen Abbott. “She basically won the war for Ulysses S. Grant, and it’s astounding that she’s not a household name.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Chinese Comedian Suing Baidu Over Biographical Entry - The New York Times (http://sinosphere.blogs.n... http://graphics8.nytimes.... )

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"The Chinese comedian Xu Deliang knows what it means to be on the wrong end of a joke. For five years Mr. Xu has worked to keep assertions that he never graduated from college and did not write his own material out of an entry about him on a popular Wikipedia-like site run by Baidu, the Chinese Internet company. Mostly, he has failed to correct the entry, which he says was changed by people who wish him ill. Now, a Beijing court has agreed to hear his case in what lawyers say could be a new marker for how China’s courts work to help individuals combat false and malicious online content written about them." - JustDuckie - -

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Southern Comfort Uses Taiwanese Animators to Burn the Word 'ShottaSoCo' Into Your Brain | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Southern Comfort has become known in the past few years for its quirky, faux-epic TV commercials from Wieden + Kennedy. But the agency and brand launched a new campaign Wednesday that goes in a totally new direction—featuring digital shorts, created in Taiwanese animation, that are designed to worm their way into your newsfeed and teach you a brand-new word to say at the bar. That word is "ShottaSoCo," which the liquor brand hopes will become a commonly used, roll-off-the-tongue way of saying "shot of Southern Comfort." W+K partnered with Next Media, the Taiwanese animation company known for its quick turnaround on videos about current events, on the new ads, which feature strange and surreal plots clearly meant will amuse millennials. (W+K turned the scripts over to animators and let them interpret the scenes in their own way.)" - JustDuckie - -

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911 call: Unicorn chasing screaming man through cemetery (http://www.thespec.com/ne... http://media.zuza.com/e/7... )

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"Police say officers responding to the emergency call found a man wearing a unicorn mask waving a large black hunting knife as an apparently terrified victim tried to get away. They say the second man attempted to get into his vehicle when officers approached cautiously and issued commands for the masked man to drop his weapon. Police soon learned the supposed attacker and his buddy were making what was meant to be a funny video. The two men in their 30s apologized for the unintended impact of their actions." - JustDuckie - -

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Archie McPhee strikes again. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Isaac Hernández: the hottest ballet boy to hit London since Carlos Acosta | Theatre | Going Out | London Evening Standard (http://www.standard.co.uk... http://static.standard.co... http://tinyurl.com/pg49jb... )

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"He couldn’t leap through the air himself because there wasn’t space in the small yard. Instead he had to stick to the static barre exercises, which are usually just the beginning of each class. It’s the equivalent of practising writing the alphabet for two years but never forming a sentence. However, when you do start to form words, that handwriting is bound to be beautiful. And so it proved, when some of Hector’s former students clubbed together to help build a studio for Isaac and his unconventional training paid off. “I think the first time I tried pirouettes I did at least four,” he remembers. And from there he’s never looked back." - JustDuckie - -

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The Co-Creator of Arrow Is Making A "Hot Gothic" Show About The Brides of Dracula (http://io9.com/the-co-cre... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"Are you ready for another sexy vampire soap opera? Just a couple years after its Dracula show crashed and burned, NBC is ready to try again. Greg Berlanti, producer of The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl will make a pilot called Brides, which follows three female vampires as they live in modern New York City. These aren’t just any vampires though. They’re the Brides of Dracula, still alive after not being killed by Van Helsing. Deadline describes the show as “a sexy reimagining of Dracula as a family drama with a trio of strong, diverse female leads, a show about empowered women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy — and their non-traditional family.”" - JustDuckie - -

Hmm. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Affidavit: Man set grandmother's house on fire because he 'had to clean it' - Chambersburg Public Opinion (http://www.publicopiniono... http://extras.mnginteract... )

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"Christopher Rhone's stepmother was at the house when June Rhone came to get help, Trace wrote. After he walked into his stepmother's house, she asked him why he set the fire. "I'm sorry, I had to clean it," Christopher Rhone told his stepmother, according to court documents. "Grandma's house was dirty. I had to clean it."" - JustDuckie - -

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Raising A Ballerina Will Cost You $100,000 | FiveThirtyEight (http://fivethirtyeight.co... https://espnfivethirtyeig... https://espnfivethirtyeig... )

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"Unlike most other forms of dance, ballet requires specific studios, shoes, apparel and technical skills that are difficult to come by without paying for formal and frequent training. Although most schools offer a limited number of scholarships, these rarely cover all the costs associated with training and don’t always take into account a student’s financial need. Those in the profession say the high costs associated with ballet can be an obstacle for many students, especially for dancers of color." - JustDuckie - -

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"Tuition for regular ballet classes is the greatest overall expense. At the top tier of ballet schools — where students who hope to become professional dancers typically seek to train — those core 15 years of training cost a median of about $53,000. (The top tier of ballet schools is made up of those associated with professional companies that have budgets of more than $10 million.3) The cost of less prestigious schools is typically lower, but smaller local schools still have a median price tag of about $30,000. " - JustDuckie - -

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Valrico woman says she robbed banks to pay for daughter's graduation party | Tampa Bay Times (http://www.tampabay.com/n... http://www.tampabay.com/r... )

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"A woman explained in court records this week why she robbed three Brandon banks within 30 minutes in May, netting more than $6,000. She wanted to throw her daughter a graduation party. That, and the rent was late." - JustDuckie - -

Florida! - JustDuckie - -

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FEATURE: ‘Rainbow Grandpa’ saves his Taichung village with his art - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"Huang Yung-fu (黃永阜) greets visitors to his village in central Taiwan with paint-stained hands and shoes spattered with flecks of color, a sign of the daily artistic labor that has seen him single-handedly stave off the developers’ bulldozers. At 93 years old, the former soldier still gets up at 3am every day to spend four hours daubing the walls of the small settlement with colorful figures, from birds and animals to celebrity singers and sportsmen. Known as “Rainbow Grandpa,” Huang’s artwork has kept the village safe as the surrounding area has been flattened." - JustDuckie - -

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New Taipei City holds Taoist service for animal spirits - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"While people nationwide yesterday made offerings to wandering spirits for the Ghost Festival, the New Taipei City Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office and nine animal shelters in the city held a Taoist service for wandering animal spirits. An office spokesman said that by holding the service, it was hoped that deceased animals might have better next lives and cease their wandering, while animals at the shelters would be blessed with good health." - JustDuckie - -

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Florida Woman Tries to Hire Hit Man to Kill Homeless Guy Who Gave Her Grandkids Lice | Miami New Times (http://www.miaminewtimes.... http://images1.miaminewti... )

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"Pamela Vanorsdale, 50, of New Smyrna Beach, recently learned that her daughter is dating a 22-year-old homeless man named Dylan Loveless, and she didn't like the way the man was treating her daughter's kids. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, giving the children lice was the final straw after he teased the kids, choked one of them, and chased another, nonrelated child with dogs while making sexual comments in front of one of the grandchildren. So Vanorsdale went to her ex-son-in-law and the children's father, Daniel Dionne (all of these names really do sound like they could be in a film noir, by the way), and tried to order a hit on Loveless. Vanorsdale told Dionne she could set him up with a handgun and two rounds of ammunition and suggested he could dump the body in South Carolina. Dionne, however, decided to tip off the police. Vanorsdale told investigators she was merely joking, but the details Dionne supplied sounded quite in-depth. Vanorsdale's husband also handed over the gun she planned to give to Dionne. She's now being held on $25,000 bond. " - JustDuckie - -

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I wonder if by reporting her, the father ends up bringing more notice to the kids' situation than would happen if just the (alleged) behavior of the boyfriend were reported by itself. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Look: Fake sprouts growing out of your head is now a thing in Beijing: Shanghaiist (http://shanghaiist.com/20... http://shanghaiist.com/at... )

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"A new statement piece of sorts has hit the streets of Beijing in the form of a small plastic sprout that appears to be growing from the top of wearers' heads." - JustDuckie - -

Daisy-Head Mayzie? - bentley - [ 1 ] -

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Steve’s extra brains | Manfeels Park (http://www.manfeels-park.... http://www.manfeels-park.... )

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Braaaaiiiinnnnnssss! - JustDuckie - -

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How a Taiwanese Megastar Brought Tourists to a Sheep Ranch in Rural Australia | VICE | United States (http://www.vice.com/read/... https://vice-images.vice.... *:*&output-quality= https://vice-images.vice.... )

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"Joy and Len Newton took over the Mt Ive sheep station in 2002. The desert property sprawls several kilometers of South Australia's Gawler Ranges, right next to Lake Gairdner. The nearest gas station is a three-hour drive away. It's remote, but Joy wouldn't have it any other way. When I speak with her over the phone, she says repeatedly that the place is beautiful, which is why they run a hostel there for tourists. Not that they got many when they first started. Early on it was mostly film crews looking to shoot commercials and drivers trying to break land-speed records at the salt flats. For a hostel, that's not exactly a reliable business model. Then one day, out of the clear blue sky, everything changed. Suddenly young Asian tourists were turning up in droves and heading out to Lake Gairdner. "We're off the beaten track and we weren't very well known," Joy says. "But one day they just started coming. Without them we'd hardly be surviving, really. Hardly anyone knows about us. It keeps two people employed."" - JustDuckie - -

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Romanian city offers free rides to people reading on the bus - Europe - World - The Independent (http://www.independent.co... http://www.independent.co... )

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"Those who can’t resist reading a good book on public transport have been rewarded by a city in Romania, which offered a free bus ride to anyone who read a book during their journey. The initiative, which ran for a week in June, was proposed by Victor Miron, a book-lover and resident of Cluj-Napoca in north-western Romania. Victor Miron proposed the initiative Miron said that he wanted to “encourage more people to read on public transportation”. He proposed his idea to the city’s mayor, Emil Boc, who then posted it to his followers on Facebook. The idea received such an overwhelmingly warm response that a year later it was put into action. " - JustDuckie - -

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Selfie with rattlesnake turns out exactly like you think it would | News - Home (http://www.clickorlando.c... )

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"Alex Gomez, 36, was picking up trash with his nephew at his family's ranch in Lake Elsinore, California, when he picked up a rattlesnake, put it around his neck and took a selfie. He was rushed to the hospital and treated with anti-venom, but the swelling may cause doctors to amputate his hand." - JustDuckie - -

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O.O So, this exists. - JustDuckie - -

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The Back-Flipping Black Figure Skater Who Changed the Sport Forever | The New Republic (http://www.newrepublic.co... http://www.newrepublic.co... )

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"In the 1980s and '90s, competitive figure skating enthralled me. The sport’s balletic arm movements and glittery-glam unitards, along with its powerful leaps and dizzying triple axels, guaranteed that I’d be seated in front of a TV during every Winter Olympics of my childhood. But not even in my most far-fetched girlhood fantasies did I ever imagine myself on the ice. Early awareness of my athletic limitations aside, figure skating just never seemed like a sport that was welcoming to black women and girls. If it were, I reasoned, more of us would’ve taken it up. Instead, I only recall seeing three black women figure skating on an Olympic level in my two decades of fandom: Tai Babilonia (who is of black and Filipino heritage), Debi Thomas, and the French Surya Bonaly—and none of them seemed to have an easy go of it. Babilonia battled substance abuse, after withdrawing from the 1980 Olympics due to her partner’s injury. Thomas was saddled with a late-career reputation for being “unsportsmanlike,” following the 1988 Olympics. And Bonaly—the brownest, strongest, and most convention-flouting of the three—was penalized for her daring." - JustDuckie - -

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McDonald's Wouldn't Create the McWhopper, So I Did, and It's an Abomination | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"As a wise Jeff Goldblum once put it, we were so busy wondering if we could, we didn't ask if we should. Well I'm here to tell you: No. No we should not." - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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French Police Dismantle Roma Camp on Paris Outskirts - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/ap... )

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"Police cleared out one of France's biggest and oldest Roma camps, a sprawling network of makeshift shelters next to a Paris region highway, an official and an activist said. The evacuation of around 200 people began Thursday at 1100 GMT and lasted two-and-a-half hours, said Hugues Besancenot, the secretary general of the Seine-Saint-Denis region northeast of Paris. Around 60 women, children and disabled camp residents were given urgent housing, while the rest received hotel vouchers, Besancenot said. Besancenot said residents had six months to prepare for the evacuation, ever since a court ordered it shut last February. A final warning that the evacuation was planned was made by police on Tuesday, Besancenot said. Thousands of Roma, also known as Gypsies, are estimated to live in France, and face routine discrimination and evacuations. Their camps often lack water and electricity, and authorities often cite sanitary reasons for dismantling them." - JustDuckie - -

"In Thursday's action, police initially came through to tell residents to leave, and bulldozers arrived in mid-afternoon, according to Manon Fillonneau of the European Roma Rights Group, speaking from the site. She described families quickly grabbing what belongings they could and gathering along a roadside under a steady rainfall. Local authorities reserved 12 rooms for residents in extreme need, such as those who are very sick, she said, calling it not nearly enough compared to the approximately 300 people being evacuated. The mayor of La Courneuve wouldn't immediately comment on the evacuation. Loic Gandais, whose association works with Roma elsewhere in the Paris region, said it's one of the largest and longest-lasting camps in France, housing 200-300 people for at least three years, mostly Roma from eastern Europe who cycle through." - JustDuckie - -

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Pilot schemes to give all children automatic library membership - BBC News (http://www.bbc.com/news/u... http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk... )

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"Children will be given library cards either at birth, age three or four - or in P1. The scheme will also see libraries working with schools and communities to promote the services they offer to families. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined P1 members at Glasgow's Mitchell Library to promote the initiative. The children are part of Glasgow Life's pilot which will target 2,000 pupils in six areas with issues of lower literacy. From 7 September, every baby registered in the Glasgow area will be given a library card by the registrar. Ms Sturgeon said: "Our libraries are often the hub of a local community - providing vital access to information and resources that people would otherwise not have. "Now, thanks to £80,000 Scottish government funding, every local authority in Scotland will trial methods to give children automatic membership to their local library."" - JustDuckie - -

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