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Reductress » 5 Turtles Who Inspire Us to Pursue Our Dreams At a Sensible Pace (http://reductress.com/pos... http://reductress.com/wp-... )

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"Wild animals can be our spirit guides as we navigate the peaks and valleys of life. But while many thrill at the sight of a soaring red-tailed hawk or a powerful stallion racing across the plains, the humbler creatures you see inching across a four-lane highway can also teach valuable lessons. These plodding members of the order Testudines know that the things you want may not fall into your lap this second, this year, this decade, or even this half-century. But take heart: Slow and steady is a valid life pace! Here are some turtles and tortoises that will inspire you, hard." - JustDuckie - -

"Aww! Just like you, this baby turtle bubbles with dreams and aspirations that are bigger than her shell. Her fantasy of not being eaten by a stray cat may feel as far off as your dream of being on Broadway, or at least as far as that birch tree over there. However, she knows she needs time to develop a thick enough cartilaginous covering to withstand the feline haters she’ll meet along the way. Until then, she embraces discipline and toil, accepting that she might be over 150 years old before you even get up the courage to sign up for singing lessons. Keep chipping away at your 10,000 hours, turty girl!" - JustDuckie - -

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Austinites turn out in droves for anti-gun 'mass farting' protest - Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/abou... http://ww3.hdnux.com/phot... )

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"The group of around 100 counter protesters shouted "Texas farts!" and "We fart in your general direction" as they marched down Guadalupe Street in Austin to meet members of Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com who were staging the mock shooting across the street from the All Saints' Episcopal Church." - JustDuckie - -

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Wayward pelican visits spoonbill habitat - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"“In the past few days there have been multiple sightings of a single pelican from the north to the south. To the best of our knowledge, it is the same bird,” Wild Bird Society member Chen Shang-ching (陳尚欽) said. “Dalmatian pelicans are mainly found around the marshes and wetlands of southeast Europe and China and any that are seen in Taiwan are considered a vagrant bird,” he added. A vagrant in ornithology refers to a migratory bird that appears outside of its normal habitat range and could be considered lost." - JustDuckie - -

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I'm guessing they'll leave it alone then. Taiwan doesn't like returning things to China. ;-P - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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A Love Letter to College Libraries (http://bookriot.com/2015/... https://2982-presscdn-29-... )

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"The first thing I love about the college libraries is their collection of books and how WEIRD it truly is. It is sprawling and eccentric, because while some of it is just general fiction and nonfiction that’s good to keep on hand, quite a lot of the contents are books teachers have ordered for class curriculums. Depending on the school and the range of their course catalog, this can lead to some weird and very, very specific books on topics you didn’t know they wrote books about. I own a book on the rise and development of modern astronomy in China, because I took a class that was about specifically, only, that." - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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"I think that college libraries perhaps get a greater license to be truly weird than do public libraries, because a public is (amazingly, heroically) trying to serve the needs of the public as best it can, through book collection and other services. A college library exists to supply the weird books professors want, give students places to study and do that thing that young students do in secluded spots (take naps). It doesn’t have to be as open and serving, which helps keep the weird in. When my parents and us would take trips as kids, their hobby was to visit beautiful cathedrals and churches. Along those similar lines, I like to visit libraries when traveling…and if I can, I try to visit the libraries of any university I can find, as well. That sort of affable weirdness should be reveled in." - JustDuckie - [ 3 ] -

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Lantern festival to celebrate museum opening in Chiayi - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A 66-day-long lantern festival is scheduled to begin on Saturday next week in Chiayi County to celebrate the trial opening of the National Palace Museum’s Southern Branch on Dec. 28. The festival is to take place in front of the Chiayi County Government building and along the nearby Taizi Boulevard, which leads to the new museum. The festival is to showcase lanterns with themes such as agriculture, religion, the environment and creativity, the county government said." - JustDuckie - -

"The museum’s most popular item — the Jadeite Cabbage With Insects (翠玉白菜) — is to be exhibited at the branch from Dec. 28 until Oct. 2 next year. The Meat-shaped Stone (肉形石) is also to be displayed at the branch from Oct. 4 next year." - JustDuckie - -

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Baby It's Cold Outside Tap Dance ft. Laura Osnes - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/w... )

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"Tony Award Nominee Laura Osnes and Broadway's Christopher Rice get #Tappy in this new dance video inspired by classic, MGM musical numbers. This video is sponsored by BROADWAY STYLE GUIDE." - JustDuckie - -

I love it, but the floor is so dark it's a little hard to see the footwork. - JustDuckie - -

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A Wordless Elegy for China’s War Dead - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"When the composer Wang Xilin’s haunting requiem for the souls of China’s millions of World War II dead rings out in Beijing on Sunday, half a century will have passed since he first conceived of it. Yet the work, Symphony No. 9: “Requiem for the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World’s Anti-Fascist War,” will take to the stage just once. Performed by the China National Symphony Orchestra and its choir, and the choir of Capital Normal University, at the National Center for the Performing Arts, soloists will include the baritone Sun Yu and the German soprano Brigitte Wohlfarth. Asked why it was getting just one performance after so many years, Mr. Wang — a forthright 78-year-old with thick, graying hair and a shrewd gaze who has been described as “one of the most significant composers in China, distinct for his expressive and dramatic musical language and his subversive politics” — shrugged. “You ask them,” he said, referring to the cultural bureaucrats who decide what can be performed." - JustDuckie - -

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"So “Requiem” is the story not just of China during the war, but also of the partial histories of that war, and of one man’s grand ambition, frequently thwarted, to speak from, and to, the soul of his country. Without using a single word. Officials first approached Mr. Wang, who has written eight other symphonies, in the 1980s, eager to commission a piece about the war. They wanted him to use words to tell the narrative. He refused. The project was dropped several times. “It kills the music,” he said. “No words can describe these events. I use crying voices. There are all kinds of crying. Cries are all different.”" - JustDuckie - -

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"Pocket Princesses 174: Night Owls" - JustDuckie - -

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The 2015 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog (http://adequateman.deadsp... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"I have terrible news for you, America. I know that you’ve already endured a harsh autumn of partisan politics and mass tragedies and inconsistent NFL officiating. I know you can’t handle one more goddamn piece of bad news right now. It’s too much. It may break your spirit entirely. But I have to do it. If I don’t tell you now, you may learn this from an enemy, or from Twitter, or from your rich asshole brother-in-law: There are no chicken coops for sale in this year’s Williams-Sonoma Christmas catalog." - JustDuckie - -

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"Drew Says: How am I supposed to drink my hot cocoa when there’s a fucking house in the way? Like, if the point is to present the mug WITH the cookie house hanging off of it, and then you take it off to drink it, why put the cookie house there to begin with? I could go get a pound of Murray Ginger Snaps for two bucks if I want. Three of these idiot houses are $20! There’s not even a fourth one for Daddy. My mug is NAKED without it." - JustDuckie - -

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Gun Rights Groups to Hold Fake Mass Shooting at UT This Weekend (http://gawker.com/gun-rig... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"Multiple gun rights groups will be joining together this weekend for a mock mass shooting on the University of Texas campus, an event complete with cardboard guns, crisis actors, and fake blood. Now, what could this possibly accomplish?, a reasonable person might be wondering. But as one of the protestors told Statesman.com: “We love freedom, and we’re trying to make more freedom.”" - JustDuckie - -

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#StayMadAbby Celebrates Black Students Who Graduated From Schools Scalia Said Were Too Hard (http://www.huffingtonpost... )

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"Black students and college grads are rallying against Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Twitter after he made some troubling comments about their supposed inability to graduate from universities he said were "too fast." Scalia's comments came during oral arguments on Wednesday for the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas. The suit, filed by onetime prospective student Abigail Fisher, alleges that she was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin because she was white, and that other, lesser qualified candidates were admitted due to their race. The hashtag #StayMadAbby has taken off on Twitter, with hundreds of black graduates tweeting photos of themselves clad in caps and gowns, as well as statistics pointedly noting that black students only account for a small share of the UT Austin student body." - JustDuckie - -

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First Puppies Born by in vitro fertilization -- ScienceDaily (http://www.sciencedaily.c... http://images.sciencedail... )

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"The findings have wide implications for wildlife conservation because, Travis said, "We can freeze and bank sperm, and use it for artificial insemination. We can also freeze oocytes, but in the absence of in vitro fertilization, we couldn't use them. Now we can use this technique to conserve the genetics of endangered species." In vitro fertilization allows conservationists to store semen and eggs and bring their genes back into the gene pool in captive populations. In addition to endangered species, this can also be used to preserve rare breeds of show and working dogs." - JustDuckie - -

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Man Disappointed After Successfully "Finding Himself" - The Hard Times (http://thehardtimes.net/2... http://i0.wp.com/thehardt... )

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"After taking what was supposed to be a life-changing trip to India to “find himself,” local man Derrick Johnson returned home thoroughly disappointed in the man he found. “Well, I guess this is it,” Johnson dejectedly sighed, staring into his bathroom mirror. “Damn…”" - JustDuckie - -

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Amazon Goes for Prime Cuteness in This New Commercial With a Super Tiny Horse | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Amazon cutes its way into our hearts with this new spot, in which a tiny horse has trouble making friends. The story here is similar enough to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that it qualifies as a stealth holiday ad, too. Also, that closeup of Tiny Horse's downcast eyes isn't even fair. The spot was made by London agency Joint (which surely wasn't infuenced by Wieden + Kennedy London's megapopular dancing Shetland pony for Three back in 2013.) The new ad is a pitch for Amazon's crazy-fast delivery service (through Amazon Prime), and the tiny horse's loneliness is cured with a simple rush order. View the video below, spoiler-free: " - JustDuckie - -

I didn't really buy into Parks & Rec's Little Sebastian, but this one is pretty adorable. - Andrew C - -

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Reductress » People Who Sleep Late Are Actually More Creative at Inconveniencing Others (http://reductress.com/pos... )

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"That’s right: A habit that many consider to be an indication of poor work ethic may actually be a sign of inventiveness when it comes to being rude and inconsiderate to people who care about you. But why? The answer is simple. Studies show that while most people inconvenience others through more obvious means, like cutting in line or stealing wallets, late sleepers are able to inconvenience others in a more creative (though just as upsetting!) way. Have you ever told someone at the last minute that you couldn’t meet until 1:00 PM, when really that was just because you wanted to sleep in until at least noon? That probably threw off their entire day, in a creative way. They had to arrange their schedule around your annoying sleep habits, while you continued to appear completely innocent. How very creative of you! It’s possible you’re what the scientists call “right-brained”. Cool!" - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

I feel the same way about people who go to bed ridiculously early. - Jennifer D. - [ 2 ] -

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Newly Single? ManServants Is the Perfect (and Real) Antidote to Heartbreak and Netflix | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"The hunky men at ManServants are trained to pamper, flatter and cater to the woman or man who orders them. For the Princess Bride fans out there, "As you wish" is one of their most-repeated phrases: He's the handsome alternative to your ugly cry, say the company's founders, former advertising copywriters Dalal Khajah and Josephine Wai Lin. ManServants debuted in fall 2014 as a PG-rated alternative to male strippers. It offers butler-bodyguard-cabana boy mashup services for special events like bachelorette and dinner parties, among other occasions. Because lots of romances end in the last few months of the year, ManServants launched a "holiday collection" aimed at taking the sting out of being newly single. Options in this special collection include Arm Candy ManServant, who'll brighten your dreary obligatory gatherings; and Domestic ManServant, who'll tidy up while telling you how fabulous you look before the big soirée. But you can't keep them; they're rentals. In fact, they're best when gifted from one friend to another ... because your best pal can't stand to see you under the covers, eating carbs and bingeing on Netflix any longer. " - JustDuckie - -

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A New Frontier for the American West, in the Far East - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"Over the past decade, more than a thousand families have settled into timber-frame houses with generous backyards, on streets with names like Aspen, Moose and Route 66. On Sundays, some worship at a clapboard church that anchors the genteel town square, outfitted with bronze cowboys and a giant Victrola that sprays water. “America represents wilderness and freedom, and also a big house,” said Qin You, 42, who works in private equity and owns a six-bedroom home that features a koi pond, a year-round Christmas tree and what he proudly described as “American-style” electric baseboard heating. “The United States is cool.”" - JustDuckie - -

"Welcome to “Hometown America,” as Jackson Hole is called in Chinese, a mammoth real-estate venture that is an exacting pastiche of an American frontier town, albeit one with a wine-tasting pavilion, a New Age spa and security guards dressed as park rangers, who salute every passing car. Modest entry-level homes sell for $625,000. Larger abodes — described by Jackson Hole’s developers as castles — have an attached vineyard and fetch nearly $8 million. The developer, Ju Yi International, says that more than 90 percent of the 1,500 homes have already been sold. Occupying more than a square mile of arid land in northeast Hebei Province, Jackson Hole has plenty of room to expand. After weekend services at the nondenominational church, many residents gather at the nearby clubhouse, adorned with Navajo art and wagon-wheel chandeliers, for the all-you-can-eat buffet featuring “American pork chops,” smoked salmon and, in a nod to local tastes, tree ear fungus. On a recent Sunday afternoon, the attire could be best described as American casual: flannel shirts, sweatpants and sneakers. The tables were packed with extended families, nearly all of whom were drinking imported red wine." - JustDuckie - -

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There is a Christmas tree dispensing free beer in London for one day only | Irish Examiner (http://www.irishexaminer.... http://snappa.static.pres... )

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"‘Tis the season to be generous and all that, so Carlsberg are treating everyone to a pint on them. They’ve set up a clever beer-dispensing tree on London’s Southbank, which is dishing out free drinks until 7pm this evening." - JustDuckie - -

O Beermas Tree, O Beermas Tree, thy pints are ever flowing... - Jennifer D. - [ 3 ] -

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TIL: There is a towing company here called Dallas Towboys and yes, they use the Cowboys' typeface and color scheme.

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"Re-Entry Is Not a Right," Says Trump About VFW Show - The Hard Times (http://thehardtimes.net/2... http://i0.wp.com/thehardt... )

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"“Listen, these losers want to go outside, they want to smoke their mechanical cigarettes, and then they want to come back into the show without paying again? I don’t think so. I don’t think so,” said Trump in the doorway of a local VFW hall. “What if someone out there tried recreating the hand stamp with a Sharpie? We have no idea who these people are and until we figure out the problem, we can’t let these people back inside. We have no choice — we have to do it.”" - JustDuckie - -

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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Woman Facts. (http://www.mcsweeneys.net... )

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"A woman is born with all the exclamation points she will use in her lifetime. - - When cornered by a predator, a woman can swell to three times her normal size, but won’t because it is unladylike. - - In pre-modern times, sightings of women by sailors gave rise to myths about mermaids. In fact, the woman is not even a fish." - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

"You can sometimes find tiny, luminous women growing under rotting logs. In the South, these are called “Huckabee wives.”" - JustDuckie - [ 3 ] -

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Penguin blames likely job losses on rise of ebooks | Books | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... https://i.guim.co.uk/img/... )

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"Readers’ preference for ebooks has been blamed for 225 potential job losses after publisher Penguin Random House announced cuts that leave staff facing an anxious Christmas. The publisher of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and EL James latest 50 Shades novel, Grey, wants to cut jobs at its warehouse in Rugby, Warwickshire. It put its decision down to a fall-off in demand for physical books, which are distributed from the warehouse, and consolidation among publishers. “The revolution in reading habits, with ebooks becoming more popular, has put these 225 jobs at risk,” said Unite regional officer Peter Coulson. “It is a worrying time for employees and their families, especially in the run-up to Christmas, and is a real blow to the local economy.”" - JustDuckie - -

"Ebooks now make up 25% of the market, just eight years after the launch of the Kindle in 2007. Figures released this year by NielsenBookScan showed physical sales of adult fiction had declined by more than £150m in just five years. But some bookshops have reported a surprise reversal in the trend, with Waterstones boss James Daunt ending Kindle sales after saying ebook revenues had “disappeared to all intents and purposes”." - JustDuckie - -

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Hark, a vagrant: 393 (http://www.harkavagrant.c... http://www.harkavagrant.c... )

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The Dark Ages one has me just laughing. - Jennifer D. - [ 2 ] -

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California releases draft wolf management plan | Summit County Citizens Voice (http://summitcountyvoice.... https://summitvoice.files... )

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"Specifically Weiss said the group is concerned that the state could seek to remove protections and allow killing of wolves after the population reaches the low threshold of just 50 to 75 animals — a number that might not be biologically sustainable in the long run. The plan proposes a phased adaptive management approach, where after establishment of five wolf packs the state will consider more aggressive management to respond to conflicts. After establishment of nine packs, consisting of just 50 to 75 wolves, the state will seek to remove endangered species protections. The plan fails to explain why such a small, fragile population should have protections removed, simply citing other states that adopted similar approaches." - JustDuckie - -

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(Florida) Car turns driver in for hit-and-run | Local News - WPBF Home (http://www.wpbf.com/news/... )

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"Police responded to a hit-and-run in the 500 block of Northwest Prima Vista Boulevard on Monday afternoon. The victim, Anna Preston, said she was struck from behind by a black vehicle that took off. Preston was taken to the hospital with back injuries. Around the same time, police dispatch got an automated call from a vehicle emergency system stating the owner of a Ford vehicle was involved in a crash and to press zero to speak with the occupants of the vehicle." - JustDuckie - -

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City543 » Dig Into The Archaeology-Themed Fossil Jurassic Chocolate Box This Winter (http://city543.com/taipei... https://d1a5r6c009tu0u.cl... )

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"Upon opening the box, you’ll be greeted with a solid slab of bitter chocolate. But hold your dinosaurs; don’t bite into the chocolate just yet. First put on your archaeologist hat and crack the bitter chocolate surface with a small hammer. Then brush and sweep away the sweet, fine chocolate dust to reveal the fossil of a terrifying (but delicious) tyrannosaurus rex beneath, made from white chocolate. And in case you were wondering, everything in the box is edible." - JustDuckie - -

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"Each branch will sell only five boxes of Fossil Jurassic Chocolate each day starting at 3pm, with customers limited to purchasing one box a day." - Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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