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MND files complaint over cosplayers at McDonald’s - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"The Ministry of National Defense on Saturday filed a complaint against a McDonald’s restaurant in Tainan’s Sinying District (新營) for dressing its employees in military uniforms on New Year’s Eve. Numerous McDonald’s branches around the nation dressed their cashiers in various costumes, such as nurses, as the Taoist God of Wealth or as the Jade Emperor, but the ministry said that the Sinying McDonald’s “went too far” having its cashiers wear army colonel uniforms. The restaurant’s use of military uniforms without ministry approval violated Article 7-3 of the Armed Forces Uniform Act (陸海空軍服制條例), and Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of China (中華民國刑法), which forbid wearing “the uniform or badge or make use of the official title of a public official” in public without authorization, the ministry said in a news release. The McDonald’s branch could face NT$15,000 (US$453) in accumulated fines under the Criminal Code’s Article 159, because violators are punishable by up to NT$500, the ministry said, adding that Tainan’s military police had “collected evidence” for legal action to be pursued by its legal affairs department." - JustDuckie - -

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Flood of felines in Houtong worries municipal officials - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"New Taipei City authorities have stepped up efforts to curb the problem of people abandoning their cats in the Houtong area (猴硐) of Ruifang District (瑞芳). While the area has become popular with cat-loving visitors eager to take photographs of, and with, the felines, residents and officials are concerned about the ever-increasing number of cats. New Taipei City Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office staff have been working with Hutong residents and volunteers to implant microchips in the cats, and to take a census of their population. Neuter and spay services and health checks are also being provided for the felines. People who are found to have abandoned their pets can be fined between NT$30,000 and NT$150,000, the office said." - JustDuckie - -

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History of figure skating in instructional diagrams from the 1920s. (http://www.slate.com/blog... http://www.slate.com/cont... )

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"In 1921, Bror Meyer, a Swedish figure skater who won a bronze medal in the World Championships in 1906, published a manual called Skating With Bror Meyer. Meyer illustrated his book with numbered diagrams, hoping that readers would follow the sequence of actions skaters performed while executing particular maneuvers. The diagrams, Meyer wrote, were made with the help of a Cinematograph—a movie camera. Though he isn't more specific about the origin of the camera, the name "Cinematograph" was copyrighted by the French filmmakers the Lumière Brothers in 1895. The Lumières' camera was portable enough to be carried outdoors. " - JustDuckie - -

I kind of have a fondness for the old days, when School Figures were part of skating competition. - vicster - [ 1 ] -

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Plan to grant WWII comfort woman’s wish postponed - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"Preparations to present a commemorative graduation certificate to 93-year-old Hsiao Tao A-ma (小桃阿嬤), who was used by Japanese forces as a “comfort woman” during World War II, have been postponed after she fell ill and was taken to a hospital, a National Tainan Girls’ Senior High School spokesman said. The school was planning to present the certificate on Thursday, he said. “To avoid disturbing her, the school has postponed conducting the conferral until A-ma [“grandmother” in Hoklo, commonly known as Taiwanese] is feeling better,” the spokesman said." - JustDuckie - -

"Hsiao Tao A-ma, whose real name is Cheng Chen Tao (鄭陳桃), had said she passed the Tainan Girls’ Senior High School entrance examination at the age of 19. At the time, Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule and the school was called the Second Girls’ Senior Middle School of Tainan County. However, she never got to graduate from the school, because she was abducted by Japanese policemen on her way to school and taken overseas against her will to serve as a comfort woman, providing sexual services to Japanese military personnel during the war, A-ma said. Throughout her life, she wished to receive an apology from Japan and to complete her studies at the school, A-ma said." - JustDuckie - -

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American privilege in Taiwan: I lied to my Taiwanese students and told them I didn’t speak Chinese. Here’s how it backfired - Salon.com (http://www.salon.com/2015... http://media.salon.com/20... )

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"As a Taiwanese-American, American privilege is a strange thing in Taiwan. After all these years of traveling to Taiwan, I realize that I’m treated differently, not out of spite, but out of cautious admiration for the perceived privileges that come with being an American. I have access to a quality English education. I live in a country free of censorship. I will probably never know what it’s like to have a war in my country."....They have those in Taiwan, too. Am I misreading this? - JustDuckie - -

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I'm guessing that she's reading a lot into things. I mean, if you're all, I'M AMERICAN UNCLE SAM WOO! *PEW PEW PEW* then yes, I'm assuming locals are probably going to edit what they tell you (or at the least, might assume you wouldn't be interested.) - Jennifer D. - [ 2 ] -

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Bringing Poetry to Rikers Island, Where ‘They Can’t Cage Your Mind’ - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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Mr. Hodges, 25, is a spoken-word performer and a somewhat unusual ambassador of the New York Public Library, where he was hired this year to help create programs to attract members of the millennial generation. For the past couple of months, he has been developing a spoken-word program at Rikers, where the library has for years offered a variety of services, including a book-lending system. “I really wanted to include this other section of New York City that often doesn’t get discussed as part of the city,” Mr. Hodges said in an interview. “You’ll hear me say a lot: They can lock your body up, but they can’t cage your mind.” - JustDuckie - -

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This Raccoon Who Stole A Doughnut In Toronto Is Your Inspiration For 2016 (http://www.buzzfeed.com/l... http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com... )

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"“It looked around for a little bit and then it grabbed something. Like, it was choosy.”" - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Poetry used as 'a perfect weapon' for recruiting violent jihadis, study finds | Books | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... http://i.guim.co.uk/img/m... )

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"Kendall’s research is based partly on data collected in conversation with 2,000 people in the sparsely populated but geographically huge Mahra region. Interviewees were asked about the significance of poetry in their lives, as part of a wider socio-economic survey conducted by the Mahra Youth Unity Organisation, an independent non-governmental body. “The survey was conducted in December 2012 by local fieldworkers, men and women, face to face, to capture illiterate respondents of both genders. A startling 74% of respondents believed that poetry was either ‘important’ or ‘very important’ in their culture today,” she writes. “Poetry was found to be very slightly more important among the desert tribes than along the more sedentary coast, among those in the poorest economic group and among those who carry a gun (a result that was not explained simply by any greater prevalence of guns in desert locations). Surprisingly perhaps, the presence of a television and level of education made no discernible impact, and the importance of poetry was only very weakly correlated to increased age. Finally, poetry was found to be more important among men (82%) than women (69%). This is not surprising, since it is the men who mainly recite at formal gatherings.”" - JustDuckie - -

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For a Shakespeare Anniversary, an Online Re-Creation of a 1796 Show - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"The coming year promises to bring global Shakespeare mania, as the 400th anniversary of his death prompts a cavalcade of performances and exhibitions around the world. In advance of that deluge, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are offering a more unusual view of the playwright’s early celebrity: a meticulous online re-creation of the long-vanished, and wildly popular, first museum dedicated to Shakespeare. The three-room Shakespeare Gallery, opened by the publisher John Boydell in 1789 on the fashionable Pall Mall in London, closed in 1805. In its day, it was a sensation, attracting emotional crowds who came to gawk at enormous canvases depicting scenes from Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies and history plays, commissioned from Britain’s leading painters and hung cheek by jowl on the pale blue walls. “It was the Georgian equivalent of binge-watching Shakespeare,” said Janine Barchas, an English professor who led the project." - JustDuckie - -

"The project, which went live on Wednesday, grew out of an earlier digital project of Ms. Barchas’s, “What Jane Saw,” which reproduced an 1813 London exhibition of portraits by Joshua Reynolds as it had appeared on the day when Jane Austen visited, looking for a likeness of “Mrs. D.” — Mrs. Darcy — as she cheekily put it in a letter. The Reynolds exhibition, the first commemorative museum show dedicated to a single artist, attracted hundreds of people a day to gawk at the Annie Leibovitz-like array of royalty, society figures and theatrical stars on the walls. But during her research, Ms. Barchas — who is also a curator of the exhibition “Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen and the Cult of Celebrity,” opening at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August — realized that the building that housed the Reynolds show had earlier been home to Boydell’s perhaps even more influential exhibition. “It was an amazing coincidence,” she said." - JustDuckie - -

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New Chrome app helps women stop saying “just” and “sorry” in emails (http://www.slate.com/blog... http://www.slate.com/cont... )

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"Tami Reiss has a New Year’s resolution, and Gmail will help her keep it. With her company’s new Chrome browser extension, Reiss has put a bullseye on the tempering words and phrases—just, I think, sorry—that clutter up her emails, undermine her authority, and dilute her leadership capacity. Before midnight on New Year’s Eve, Reiss wants to get 10,000 other women to pledge to ban these words from their emails, too. The Just Not Sorry extension, which is downloadable at the Chrome app store, underlines self-demeaning phrases like “I’m no expert” and qualifying words like “actually” in red in Gmail like they’re spelling errors. Hover your mouse over the red words, and you’ll see explanatory quotes from women like Tara Mohr (“‘Just’ demeans what you have to say. ‘Just’ shrinks your power.”) and Sylvia Ann Hewlett (“Using sorry frequently undermines your gravitas and makes you appear unfit for leadership.”). Reiss and her team also drew inspiration from business writer Lydia Dishman and a comic by artist Yao Xiao on why “thank you” is more effective than “sorry.”" - JustDuckie - -

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We need a way to get these kids to stop using 'lol' in when they post anything. Like, "I'm going to say a shitty/stupid/pointless thing but lol don't get mad." - faboomama - [ 3 ] -

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Taiwan Lantern Festival to celebrate Monkey King - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"The main lantern at next year’s Taiwan Lantern Festival is to be a 26m-tall installation in the shape of the Monkey King, or Sun Wukong, one of the main characters in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday. The Monkey King-shaped lantern is to be the tallest main lantern ever created for the annual event, which has been hosted by the bureau since 1990. Next year’s festival is to be held in the plaza in front of the Taiwan High Speed Rail’s Taoyuan Station from Feb. 22 to March 6. Sun Wukong was chosen because next year is the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese zodiac." - JustDuckie - -

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Ah, I will have to ask Dominic. There probably is, since they have puns for everything else, but I don't know what it is. - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Open Carry is the law of the land in Texas as of Jan. 1 | The Star-Telegram (http://www.star-telegram.... http://www.star-telegram.... )

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"As the new law is on the verge of taking effect, officials statewide are trying to determine how best to handle it. They say anyone who sees a person openly carrying a handgun, and feels threatened, should call their police or sheriff’s department." - JustDuckie - -

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Campus carry doesn't start until August 1st, so at least we'll have seven more months of safety until anyone is free to bring a loaded weapon into my workplace. #yay - JustDuckie - -

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Reductress » We’re Not a Cult, We’re Just Adult Coloring Book People (http://reductress.com/pos... )

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"Have you heard how good coloring is for your mental health? It stimulates the parts of the cortex involved in motor skills, while simultaneously lulling you into a deep, child-like state of trust. Oops! Forget that last part. Nothing to see here! Here’s a crayon." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Interview: Jana and Abby of Ballerinas By Night - Adult Ballerina Project (http://adultballerinaproj... http://adultballerinaproj... http://adultballerinaproj... )

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"Abby: Ballet is hard to keep as a part time thing. If you do it part time, it’s hard to get where you want to be with it. If you spend more time on it, it can start to eat into your personal life. For me personally, I’ve been a professional, but I regressed so much after being off for 3 years that I didn’t look like a professional anymore. I have gotten caught in between the worlds of being a student and being a professional because I haven’t always fit into a specific mold. I feel this constant struggle between claiming what I am and not feeling worthy of claiming it." - JustDuckie - -

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IS threat revealed to be online prank - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"The ministry’s Department of West Asian and African Affairs Director-General Chen Chun-shen (陳俊賢) told a news conference in Taipei that a preliminary investigation concluded that the account was most likely fake, since the pseudonym it adopted bore similarity to a foreign soccer player’s name. “Most importantly, the IS flag posted by the user was mirrored. As the group’s flag bears a declaration of the Islamic faith that reads: ‘There is no god but Allah. And Mohammad is his Prophet,” no member of the extremist group would ever place the flag in reverse,” Chen said." - JustDuckie - -

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Oh, Just a Gingerbread House Rendition of the Overlook Hotel from “The Shining” | Messy Nessy Chic (http://www.messynessychic... http://static.messynessyc... http://static.messynessyc... )

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"Nothing says “Happy Holidays” quite like a cult horror movie turned miniature winter wonderland in the form of everybody’s favourite Christmas cookie! Come play with us…" - JustDuckie - -

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Woman in Siberia rewarded with truck full of coal for slimming down | Weird | Ne (http://www.torontosun.com... http://storage.torontosun... )

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"Shedding the pounds in Siberia can come with a particularly welcome reward -- coal. When the long-serving -- and somewhat overweight -- governor of Russia's Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev promised earlier this year to reward locals with 1.5 metric tons of coal for every 10 kilos lost, everyone thought it was a just joke. But Tuleyev made good on his promise on Wednesday when Yelena Salnikova, a nurse from a small town of Berezovskiy, got a truck full of the black stuff from authorities in the coal-rich region for losing 30 kilos (66 pounds)." - JustDuckie - -

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Quantifying the Weepy Bestseller | New Republic (https://newrepublic.com/a... https://images.newrepubli... )

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"In other words, up to a certain point, sentimentality does not help us distinguish between ostensibly high-cultural things and low-cultural things (or popular things and serious things). It neither qualifies nor disqualifies you from a variety of possible outcomes, such as being reviewed in a major newspaper, selling books, or even winning prizes. Indeed, when we looked more closely at the sales data of the novels reviewed in the New York Times we found no correlation between sentiment and sales. It doesn’t appear to be a factor in helping or hurting a book’s sales. What sentimentality does do, however, is strike you from the list of twentieth century classics (CLASSIC). While the list of the 400 most-widely held novels in libraries since 1945 do not exhibit significantly lower levels of sentimentality (indeed it appears to be the opposite), the more constrained list of the 60 or so most canonical novels published between 1945 and 2000 (an admittedly very subjective list) appear to show more restraint when it comes to using a sentimental vocabulary. These are works by authors like Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, Joan Didion, Ralph Ellison, among many others you’ve definitely heard of. (For those who are interested, Burroughs, Nabokov, and Bellow are at the top of that list while Cheever, Didion and Gordimer are at the bottom)." - JustDuckie - -

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"Our advice to writers? Based on the available evidence, if you want to write one of the fifty most important novels in the next half-century, then by all means avoid sentimental language. But if you want to get published, sell books, be reviewed, win a prize or simply make someone happy, then emote away and just write a good novel." - JustDuckie - -

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How Amazon came to dominate fiction in translation | Books | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... https://i.guim.co.uk/img/... )

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"The unwillingness of English-speaking readers to engage with fiction in translation has come in for its fair share of criticism over the years, not least from the director of the Edinburgh book festival, Nick Barley, who described the UK’s parochial reading habits as “something of an embarrassment” this summer. Help, however, might be at hand from an unexpected quarter: Amazon published three times more translated fiction in the US this year than its nearest competitor. “Three times more than the next press. Three times!” Chad Post wrote on Sunday, on the database of American translated fiction that he runs on the University of Rochester’s Three Percent blog. “[Amazon] makes up almost 14% of all the translations included on their own. That’s incredible.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Stephon Marbury Gains Museum, and Green Card, in China - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"This year is ending on an especially high note for Stephon Marbury, the former N.B.A. point guard who came to China five years ago in hopes of a new start and rocketed to fame and favor, leading the Beijing Ducks to three Chinese Basketball Association championships. He had already been honored with a statue, a musical based on his life and a series of postage stamps. Last year, the mayor of Beijing awarded him “honorary citizenship” for his contributions to the city’s home team. Then, on Monday, Mr. Marbury, 38, presided over the opening in Beijing of a museum, the House of Marbury, devoted to his career. And on Friday, Christmas Day, his agent said, he will receive a Chinese green card, becoming one of the most prominent Americans to be granted permanent residence status in China." - JustDuckie - -

"Since the permanent residence program was set up in 2004, only about 5,000 foreigners of more than 600,000 living in China have been granted a green card, according to China Daily, a state-run newspaper. Government guidelines say that permanent status applicants should have a direct investment in China, hold senior positions in companies or academic institutions, or have significant talents and skills needed in China. Mr. Marbury told China Daily that holding a green card would mean he would no longer have to apply for a visa to stay in China and that it would enable him to bring business to China and “do all little different things in Beijing.” He added, “That’s a historical moment.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Crossing The Tundra With Russia's Reindeer Herders (http://www.buzzfeed.com/j... http://s3-ak.buzzfeed.com... )

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"We sit quietly while the reindeer nibble on wet grass and look at us from the white edges of their glossy black eyes. Leaning against a mound of dirt, Kiryak waits for them to settle. He’s wearing wading boots and a paisley-printed scarf around his head. A walking stick is propped up next to him. A rifle is across his lap. Kiryak’s reindeer aren’t examples of the fictional subspecies named R.t. saintnicolas magicalus by Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game, nor will they ever appear for families to watch on ReindeerCam. Instead, they are semi-domesticated creatures tended for slaughter. They have sweet, skittish temperaments and, eventually, savory meat. Any magic around them is commonplace: the gorgeousness of their grazing grounds, their deep history, and the way they make their keepers wonder about what is coming next." - JustDuckie - -

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Hark, a vagrant: 394 (http://www.harkavagrant.c... http://www.harkavagrant.c... )

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"Just a little one, from my trusty book of manners. I don't know about Americans, but I love puttin' my feet up! I won't do it on your kitchen table though. " - JustDuckie - -

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Taiwanese team first to band near-mythical bird - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"Taiwanese research team banded a juvenile Chinese crested tern (Thalasseus bernsteini) in July, hoping to track its migration and learn more about the “mythical” bird that roosts in three groups of islands off the southeastern coast of China from May to August, a Forestry Bureau official said. It was the first-ever successful banding of a Chinese crested tern, Forestry Bureau conservation official Hsia Jung-sheng (夏榮生) said. The rare species nests in Taiwan’s Matsu (馬祖), as well as Jiushan and Wuzhishan islands off China’s Zhejiang Province from May to August and locals consider it a summer migratory bird. The population of the bird was estimated at less than 50 in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List in 2000 and it is categorized as critically endangered, Hsia said." - JustDuckie - -

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It seems like it should be a candidate for a geolocator or transmitter study. - John B. - [ 1 ] -

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Narrative Magazine Is Selling a Fiction Craft Book for $225 | Electric Literature (http://electricliterature... http://d3ba5c9iisu9nv.clo... )

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"Few things can throw me into a rage. Mostly only gun nuts, racist email forwards, and men who tell me to smile. Add to that today’s I-just-barfed-in-my-mouth announcement of Narrative co-founder Tom Jenks’ 400-page, six (6)-chapter craft book, humbly titled A Poetics of Fiction, priced at $225. No, I didn’t misplace the decimal point. Just in time for Christmas!" - JustDuckie - -

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For $225 I would expect a guaranteed publishing contract or your money back. - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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Gladys Phillips knits scarf while trapped in bathroom - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://cdnph.upi.com/sv/b... )

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"I kept banging on the door and walls, and shouting for help, but obviously no one could hear me. I realized I had to tough it out, and so I sat on the loo and began knitting. Luckily I had just been to the shops and picked up a new ball of pink wool, so I began making a scarf, which one of my lucky grandchildren will now get for Christmas. I had also popped into the sweet shop after collecting my pension, so I had a full bag of mint imperials to eat which kept my spirits up no end. The loo was very clean and cozy. I was able to sleep on my big overcoat and was lovely and warm, and if I got cold I just sat under the hand dryer for a while." - JustDuckie - -

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And the heat, too. - JustDuckie - -

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Study: Northern Rockies wolf hunting ‘not sustainable’ | Summit County Citizens Voice (http://summitcountyvoice.... https://summitvoice.files... )

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"The international research team said those politically driven policies do not always align with basic scientific data, which can undermine conservation efforts. For example, theresearchers concluded that the current harvest levels for the recently de-listed population of gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States have led to decreased survival and reproduction, smaller packs, social disruption and a reversal from population growth to decline.The research team includes scientists with decades of experience studying wolves, lions, African wild dogs, tigers, dingoes and sharks. They reported their findings in the Dec. 18 issue of the journal Science. “While regulated carnivore hunting can potentially minimize human-wildlife conflict and provide revenue for conservation, it can also drive population declines of threatened species,” said marine predator expert Neil Hammerschlag, of the UM Rosenstiel School and UM Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. “Well-regulated hunting of predators needs to be guided by strong science and consider both the costs and benefits for conservation.”" - JustDuckie - -

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