tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36248810880697885132024-02-18T23:41:43.304-08:00School of Fools!Lighter Side Of The News!Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.comBlogger37544125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-674604820952243342016-04-15T10:47:00.001-07:002016-04-15T10:47:15.334-07:00Porn Star Does Her Taxes, Seeks Deductions On Seductions<div class="embed-asset embed" data-type="embed-asset" data-provider="Embed" data-title=""><br />
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<p>As the tax filing deadline approaches, porn star <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ObXe9moVZY" target="_blank">Jayden Jaymes meets with accountant Brendan Jones</a> to discuss deductions unique to her profession.</p>
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<p>While some of her questions are scripted, video maker Elite Daily tells us, Jones' advice is real.</p>
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<p>It might be awkward for a tax man to deal with queries such as "Can I write off lubricant?" But given that Jones' Twitter account says he is <a href="https://twitter.com/joneseycomedy" target="_blank">also a comedian</a>, he can probably handle it.</p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-65477477496126818792016-04-15T09:47:00.003-07:002016-04-15T09:47:32.137-07:00Judge Rules Katy Perry Can Buy Historic Former Los Angeles Convent<div class="embed-asset embed" data-type="embed-asset" data-provider="Embed" data-title=""><br />
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<p>Pop star Katy Perry will get her chance to live in a former Roman Catholic convent after a judge on Wednesday invalidated the property's sale by five nuns to a restaurateur.</p>
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<p>The case had pitted Perry, daughter of Protestant pastors and one of the top-selling pop stars in the world, and the archdiocese against the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.</p>
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<p>The nuns, all aged between late 70s and late 80s, once lived in the convent and two of them wanted to sell it to Los Angeles restaurateur Dana Hollister.</p>
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<p>The archdiocese filed a lawsuit last June, arguing that the two nuns did not have the authority to sell the property to Hollister.</p>
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<p>Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Bowick approved the archdiocese's motion to block the sale to Hollister, voiding the purchase documents and deed. She said the nuns did not have the authority to sell the property and that even if they had, they did not properly validate the transaction.</p>
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<p>Representatives for Hollister did not reply to requests for comment.</p>
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<p>The archdiocese said it was "gratified" by Bowick's ruling in a statement, and added that it was still under contract to sell the convent to Perry.</p>
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<p>"The Archdiocese was forced to take legal action to protect all the five sisters from being taken advantage of by the Dana Hollister transaction," it said, adding that it will continue to provide care for the nuns.</p>
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<p>Perry, who rose to fame with the hit song "I Kissed a Girl," offered to buy the 8-acre (3-hectare) Roman Villa-style property for $14.5 million.</p>
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<p>The nuns had rebuffed the 31-year-old performer, accepting a competing $15.5 million bid from Hollister, who wanted to convert the former convent into a hotel.</p>
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<p>Attorney John Scholnick, who represents two of the five nuns, told Reuters he was "disappointed," but emphasized that the ruling only invalidated the sale to Hollister and did not authorize the sale to Perry. He said there could be an option for an appeal.</p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-17237675937448279382016-04-15T09:47:00.001-07:002016-04-15T09:47:30.739-07:00Joe Alterman Packs Birdland's Weird and Wonderful Early Bird Special<a href="http://ift.tt/1SfsCA4"><img alt="2016-04-14-1460678162-7088555-FranKaufmanPhoto2.jpg" src="http://ift.tt/1RYX7vc" width="452" height="570" /></a><br />
Manhattan's Birdland, the Mother of All Jazz Clubs, has a new way of getting paying customers' asses into seats at 6 pm a few evenings a week. Just don't expect Ron Carter, Sonny Rollin, Herbie Hancock or Diane Krall to be performing. Instead, the Birdland Early Bird (Music) Specials allow gifted young musicians to add a gig at the world's landmark jazz club to their résumés. And if the fans of the partially knowns only partially fill the tables, it keeps the cash registers clinking more lucratively then if the room were filled with the sounds of silence, either melodic and monetary.<br />
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Last Thursday evening at 5:45 pm. Birdland was packed to the nines for 27-year-old Joe Alterman's Birdland debut, a significant event for him. Ten years ago when Joe was a senior in high school, his dad and he flew to Manhattan from Atlanta to catch what turned out to be the legendary Oscar Peterson's final New York appearance. Joe has never forgotten Peterson's powerful presence and dreamed about performing at Birdland ever since. Now, two CD's and several jazz festival appearances later, that dream was coming true and his father (and mother) sat facing him, pleased as punch at their son's success.<br />
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Alterman is hardly a keyboard Joey-come-lately. He's been tickling the ivories since he was five -- following his brothers to bluegrass festivals until his father plied him with bluesy jazz records that were a better fit. I first heard him at Dizzy's Club three years ago when he was enrolled in NYU's graduate music program and I've been an Alterman groupie ever since. My fellow fans include jazz authority Nat Hentoff who believes Joe "represents the past, present and future of jazz," and that "he'd be able to hold his own even with greats like Parker, Gillespie, Monk and Davis." Moreover, an actual Beatle was impressed enough with Joe's playing at a Friar's Club brunch to walk over to Joe's upright and ask Joe where he'd learned the tunes he was playing because they reminded Paul McCartney of his father.<br />
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Joe is handsome guy, with enough dark hair to pass as a Kennedy. He appeals to the square, the chic and the trendy. In a nicely fitting dark suit, white shirt and greenish-blue silk tie, he looks like a hip, happy accountant, or would if such a beast existed. Joe's an exuberant performer, beating the rhythm of the song he's playing with the foot not pressing the piano pedals, shaking his shoulders while boogying up and down the piano bench. He's polite too, and listens respectfully as bass player Nathaniel Schroeder and drummer Doug Hirlinger's play solo.<br />
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Alterman's attracted significant musical mentors including Les McCann, with whom he co-wrote "The Theme," a lush, sensuous, romantic melody, and sassy, senior saxophone bluesman, Houston Person, who plays that tune so seductively that it makes you want to snuggle forever, but only with someone you love. Alterman's set opened with "Give Me the Simple Life," followed by "I Heard it on the Grapevine" and "Time After Time." He pays homage to Les McCann with "The Theme," to Oscar Peterson with "Kelly's Blues," moves forward in time with Carole King's, "Take Good Care of My Baby," and shifts backwards with an angular arrangement of "Blue Moon." His strong but gentle fingers dance over the keys and his heart and brain speak to the strings in the piano harp. The Amazing Kreskin, seated beside me, found Joe's artistry truly amazing.<br />
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Other impressive talents I've heard at Birdland at 6 pm include Pianist Matt Baker, Blues Singer Carole J. Bufford, Vocalist Marissa Mulder and the bluesy Rob Silverman Quartet. The cover charge sounds steep at 25 bucks, but if you Google "complementary and discounted Broadway and Off Broadway tickets," several organizations that offer members the same performance for considerably less cash will pop up right before your very eyes. Furthermore, Birdland's food and drink minimum is a bargain $10 and their food is fresh, filling and tasty. The early show at Birdland is well worth paying to see.<br />
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-78125708177186878502016-04-15T09:17:00.001-07:002016-04-15T09:17:07.474-07:00The Web Is Freaking Out Over This No-Kill Spider Catcher<div class="embed-asset embed" data-type="embed-asset" data-provider="Embed" data-title=""><br />
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<p>Some people use bug spray, others use a boot but there's a more humane way to catch spiders.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1oy1gKG" target="_blank">My Critter Catcher</a> has been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC45p9Vni8nnAnx4AD9SRq0w" target="_blank">making videos about its product</a> since 2012, but since Insider picked up on it and posted a video of the amazing arachnid eliminator on its <a href="http://ift.tt/1T9o3Yf" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> on April 12, it has gone viral, receiving over 61 million views and over 800,000 shares.</p>
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<p>So what gives this device a leg (or eight) up? It’s the insect-friendly invention’s brilliantly benevolent nature. Instead of killing a spider (or wasp, grasshopper, roach, scorpion or any of the other pests <a href="http://ift.tt/1VuDE8H" target="_blank">the gadget’s site</a> claims to be able to nab) this product allows one to catch and release. The no-kill device is also appealing to people who have a fear of creepy crawlers, being that it’s on a 25.5-inch-long stick, which offers plenty of distance between human and bug.</p>
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<p>My Critter Catcher, which resembles one of those grabbers used by the elderly, consists of a handle, and the stick, which has a circular brush on the end of it. To get rid of a tiny unwanted house guest, you squeeze the nozzle, opening the brush, place it over the insect and then let go, like so:</p>
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<p>Once the creature is trapped in the brush’s bristles, you can take it outside, squeeze the handle again and release it back into the wilds of your backyard:</p>
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<p>“Many people regard the presence of insects such as spiders inside a building as a nuisance. However, many such people do not wish to kill the insect and would prefer to have a convenient and simple way of disposing of the insect without killing it,” Tony Allen, My Critter Catcher’s inventor, <a href="http://ift.tt/1T9o4LR" target="_blank">wrote in the patent</a>.</p>
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<p>According to an article written by Linda S. Rayor, assistant professor of Entomology at Cornell University in <a href="Dr.%20Linda%20S.%20Rayor,%20Assistant%20Professor%20of%20Entomology,%20Cornell%20University" target="_blank">How Stuff Works</a>, killing spiders is bad news. The fierce hunters help keep the ecosystem in check by eating insects -- despite their creepy appearance which freaks some people out..</p>
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<p>In fact, Allen, was inspired to make his product because his son was afraid of spiders, according to <a href="http://ift.tt/1qpwEwm" target="_blank">Business Insider</a>.</p>
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<p>Who knew a phobia could be flipped into an Internet phenomenon?</p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-55734233497640603312016-04-15T08:47:00.003-07:002016-04-15T08:47:18.963-07:00Same-Sex Penguin Couple Gets The Chance To Build A Life Together<br />
<p>Two male penguins who only have eyes for each other are in a new home where they can be true to themselves.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1SCWdAt" target="_blank">King penguins Stan and Olli</a> were previously part of a breeding program at the Berlin Zoo, The Local reports. But they weren’t into it.</p>
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<p>“We don’t know if they are ‘gay,’” Berlin Zoo spokeswoman Christiane Reiss told The Huffington Post. But she added that they showed interest “only to each other,” never to females.</p>
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<p>Since they weren’t particularly useful at breeding, zoo officials decided to move the penguins to Tierpark Hagenbeck, a zoo in Hamburg, where they’ve been living since April 2.</p>
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<p>That zoo has experience with same-sex mates. <a href="http://ift.tt/22zC6sL" target="_blank">Juan and Carlos</a>, who are <a href="http://ift.tt/1Nd7DyH" target="_blank">Humboldt penguins</a>, also live there, the German Press Agency reports. Juan and Carlos even <a href="http://ift.tt/22zC9og" target="_blank">incubated an artificial egg together</a>, according to the Hamburger Morgenpost. (Though if there was ever an occasion for the penguins to hatch a real egg, anecdotal evidence suggests <a href="http://ift.tt/KzpDMI" target="_blank">same-sex penguin pairs make excellent parents.</a>)</p>
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<p>Reiss noted that the Berlin Zoo has since acquired new male penguins from zoos in the Netherlands. They hope these penguins are a little more interested in breeding with what she described as the zoo's "lonely females."</p>
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<p>While we’re happy these same-sex penguin pairs can stay together, it would be even better if the German government were as progressive as the zookeepers. Same-sex marriage <a href="http://ift.tt/22zC9oi" target="_blank">is not legal</a> in Germany, and same-sex couples <a href="http://ift.tt/1Nd7BXI" target="_blank">cannot jointly adopt a child.</a></p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-40332877233303886822016-04-15T08:47:00.001-07:002016-04-15T08:47:17.584-07:00A Century Of Bodybuilding Photos Show A Marked Shift In Our Perception Of Body Image<br />
<p>Over the years, bodybuilding has literally grown.</p>
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<p>Bodybuilders are getting bigger, bulkier and more orange as time advances, and while it's a part of our culture that many of us don't really understand, bodybuilding -- especially the Mr. America contests -- reflects "a desired image of modern manhood," John D. Fair writes in the introduction to <em><a href="http://ift.tt/22zBIKA" target="_blank">Mr. America: The Tragic History Of A Bodybuilding Icon</a></em>.</p>
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<p>If guys want to beef up to meet some modern standard of desirability, why do they look like a medical illustration of a person without skin, or that they've somehow turned themselves inside-out?</p>
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<p>"As societal views toward the male body and physical culture evolved," Fair writes, "bodybuilders had to redefine themselves in light of the clash between revered traditions and concessions to current tastes. The Mr. America Contest, which once epitomized the aspirations of tens of thousands of weight trainees, was premised on adherence to time-honored values of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, while Americans -- and especially bodybuilders -- became obsessed with appearances and engaged in training practices and lifestyles that often subverted those ideals. By the end of the century, physique competitors and promoters seemed perplexed about what constituted a perfect specimen of manhood. Reckoning with these cultural questions became the foremost concern in modern bodybuilding not only in the United States but worldwide, since the Mr. America title, at least from the 1940s to the 1970s, was, like other aspects of American culture, a global icon."</p>
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<p>It's interesting to see just how much these perceptions of pure fitness have changed over the past 100 years, thanks to advances in supplements, workout equipment and our understanding of how the human body works.</p>
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<p>It seems people push these limits harder and farther every year, and when you look at the following pictures of guys at peak physical fitness over history (from a guy who looks like Vladimir Putin sucking in his gut in 1900 to the sinewy muscles on show in 2015, you'll see just how much things have changed.</p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-11098513005333096792016-04-15T08:17:00.001-07:002016-04-15T08:17:24.154-07:00Hero Bus Driver Saves 6-Year-Old Boy From Choking On Coin<p class="p1">Oklahoma school bus driver Ginger Maxville leapt into action when a 6-year-old boy started choking on a coin.</p>
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<p class="p1">She got out from behind the wheel, lifted little Cameron into the aisle and <a href="http://ift.tt/1qKfD0i" target="_blank">performed the Heimlich maneuver</a>. As<span class="s1"> the boy's face turned red, the Mannford Public Schools employee repeatedly pressed into his abdomen.</span></p>
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<p class="p1">After a few moments, she eventually got him to cough up the coin, and it rolled onto the floor.</p>
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<p class="p5">"He was just red and gasping for air." <span class="s1">It's the first time Maxville has used the life-saving technique in her 17-year career.</span></p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-11970931771732598272016-04-15T07:47:00.001-07:002016-04-15T07:47:12.908-07:00KFC Deletes Incredibly Dumb NSFW Twitter Fail<p class="google_elide">What were you thinking, KFC?</p>
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<p class="google_elide">The <a href="http://ift.tt/1SeP5gP" target="_blank">fast-food giant went below the belt</a> in a stupidly saucy tweet Friday, then got chicken and took it down an hour later, Adweek reported.</p>
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<p class="google_elide">Double entendres and obvious sexual imagery are usually a bad recipe for a family-friendly chain. But that didn't stop KFC in Australia from serving up this gem (as shared by a Twitter user): A guy looks suggestively at his crotch while a woman reaches over. The caption reads: "Something hot and spicy is coming soon."</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">KFC, if you are experiencing "hot and spicy" sensations in your genitals, I recommend you speak to a doctor <a href="https://t.co/iGaYDdXTI0">http://pic.twitter.com/iGaYDdXTI0</a></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are very sorry for our earlier tweet on H&S - we didn’t mean to offend and removed it when we realised we’d made an error in judgment.</p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-2697086478424964902016-04-15T06:47:00.003-07:002016-04-15T06:47:23.900-07:00People Can't Get Over This Photo Of Michael Bublé Incorrectly Eating Corn<p>Singer <a href="http://ift.tt/1YxnoRZ" target="_blank">Michael Bublé</a> is one of the smoothest guys around, onstage and in the studio. But when it comes to eating, not so much. </p>
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<p>The Canadian crooner was caught e\ating corn with a very interesting vertical technique at Disneyland in California on April 13. His food fiasco <a href="http://ift.tt/1TT6oGy" target="_blank">quickly</a> <a href="http://ift.tt/1YxnqsX" target="_blank">went</a> <a href="http://ift.tt/1WumM0G" target="_blank">viral</a>: </p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Morning! Not only is it Friday but here's a picture of <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelbuble">@michaelbuble</a> eating a corn on the cob like a banana! <a href="https://t.co/lSrzRaYNR0">http://pic.twitter.com/lSrzRaYNR0</a></p>
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<p>According to a series of photos snapped at the scene, Bublé took a few (vertical) bites and then threw the snack away in the trash. </p>
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<p>Everyone knows there's only ONE way to eat corn on the cob correctly, which is horizontally. Luckily, fellow celebrity Bruce Willis has the technique down and could, maybe, one day teach the singer his moves: </p>
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<p>Until then, we're going to keep staring at these incredible Photoshop renditions of Bublé and corn: </p>
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<p>Like the idea of raising backyard chickens but you’re not sure if the responsibility will ruffle your feathers?</p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1MxHbQs" target="_blank">Twin Cedar Farm</a> in Acushnet, Massachusetts, will allow you to renting chickens, and if you don’t like it, you can quit cold turkey. It’s seriously duck soup.</p>
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<p>“People like to find out where their food is coming from more and more these days. So it kind of gives people an opening,” Ella Magnuson, who owns and operates the farm with her husband, Alexander, told <a href="http://ift.tt/1NsrqVP" target="_blank">CBS</a>. “The eggs taste fantastic. Nothing like [what] you get in the grocery store.”</p>
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<p>According to <a href="http://ift.tt/1MxHbQu" target="_blank">the farm’s site</a>, a six-month rental for $450 will get you a quality coop, 100 pounds of all-natural feed, two gallons of water, a feeder and two chickens.</p>
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<p>"They're very social animals," Ella told <a href="http://ift.tt/1YjlDrq" target="_blank">South Coast Today</a>. "You can't have just one."</p>
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<p>“Many areas with legalized hen-keeping are experiencing more and more of these birds coming in when they’re no longer wanted,” Paul Shapiro, spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States, told NBC. “You get some chicks and they’re very cute, but it’s not as though you can throw them out in the yard and not care for them.”</p>
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<p>Last year they rented out 20 birds, two of which were to Shannon Smith, who enjoyed the experience so much, she kept her hens, telling CBS: “They [are] part of the family.”</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Need to talk to this toddler's grandmother? </span></p>
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<p class="p1">Then you'll have to get past him, and his large metal bar, first.</p>
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<p class="p2">Video posted online (above) that has gone viral shows <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hNe29Z4s2w" target="_blank">the warrior infant defending his elderly relative</a> from urban management officers in China.</p>
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<p class="p2">"Don't touch my grandma! Go away, don't touch my grandma!” he screams out, while wielding the makeshift weapon.</p>
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<p class="p4">EJI Insight reports that the unidentified toddler's extreme reaction was provoked by city employees, who were <a href="http://ift.tt/1SbkpL1" target="_blank">trying to remove his grandma's street stall</a>. </p>
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<p class="p2"><a href="http://ift.tt/RqTXOO" target="_blank">Net-A-Porter.com</a> challenged the “<a href="http://ift.tt/VXvDu9">Game of Thrones</a>” star to mimic how Kit Harington's character would read the lyrics of an Adele song.</p>
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<p class="p2">She reads out the first few lines of Adele's smash hit "Hello" in the hilarious video which was posted to YouTube on Thursday and is going viral.</p>
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<p class="p2">For good measure, she even alters some of the words so they're more like something Snow would say.</p>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s2">Turner later impersonates the </span><a href="http://ift.tt/1QbKxTV">X-Men</a>’s<span class="s2"> fictional </span><span class="s3">Professor Charles Xavier, which doesn't go quite as well, before lip-syncing to Justin Bieber's hit "Love Me."</span></p>
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<p class="p2"><em>"Game of Thrones" Season 6 premieres Sunday, April 24, on HBO.</em></p>
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<p>A Texas county jail inmate who escaped custody while receiving treatment in a hospital was found in the dishwasher of his girlfriend's apartment in boxer shorts and wearing handcuffs with the chain severed, a sheriff's department said on Thursday.</p>
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<p>"He took out the racks and made himself a nice cubby hole," said Chief Deputy Glenn Blank of the Jasper County Sheriff's office in East Texas.</p>
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<p>The inmate, Wesley Evans, 20, was captured on Wednesday morning and was taken back into custody after an escape that lasted about 24 hours.</p>
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<p>He is expected to face charges for the escape attempt.</p>
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<p>Evans has been in jail since March 8 on charges of aggravated robbery, auto theft and arson. He was taken to the hospital for treatment of a swollen hand.</p>
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<p>(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Leslie Adler)</p>
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<p>It's true: You can literally blow up an apartment full of roaches, and the insects will be just fine. </p>
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<p>Three people, including a toddler, were taken to a hospital after an overzealous attempt to spray roaches caused an explosion in their first floor apartment, according to the Asbury Park Press. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured. </p>
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<p>Someone in the apartment was spraying so intently that the pilot light of the stove ignited the bug killer, <a href="http://ift.tt/1RY5kja" target="_blank">leading to a blast that blew the windows right off the apartment</a>, the paper reported. </p>
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<p>"<a href="http://ift.tt/1Ns15Hg" target="_blank">You had the right mixture of three elements</a>: The chemical, the oxygen and the ignition source," Asbury Park fire department spokesman Garrett Giberson Jr. told Patch. "They sprayed a tremendous amount of Raid. There was so much chemical in the air that the introduction of oxygen just caused an explosion right away."</p>
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<p>"Even afterwards, there were a lot of roaches still crawling around throughout the apartment," Giberson was quoted as saying. "There was definitely an infestation."</p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-15191507294025148222016-04-15T01:32:00.001-07:002016-04-15T01:32:07.333-07:00Astronaut Tim Peake Is Ready To Run The London Marathon From Space -- And You Can Join Him<p>Come April 24, British astronaut Tim Peake, along with <a href="http://ift.tt/1Sj7z2O" target="_blank">approximately 38,000</a> other runners, will be attempting the 26.2-mile London Marathon.</p>
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<p>Aiming to be the first man to run a marathon in space, Peake has been preparing for the big day for months. In an Associated Press interview published this week, the 44-year-old astronaut, who has been living on the International Space Station since December, said <a href="http://ift.tt/263Ir4f" target="_blank">he’s now ready for race day</a>. </p>
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<p>“It's a great challenge that I set myself, and I'm quite glad this is happening later on in the mission,” he told AP.</p>
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<p>Peake is no stranger to long distance running; in 1999, he completed the London Marathon in 3 hours 18 minutes 50 seconds. </p>
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<p>Attempting the same distance in zero gravity, however, comes with a whole new set of difficulties.</p>
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<p>“<a href="http://ift.tt/1TFXgCD" target="_blank">One of the biggest challenges I’ll be facing is the harness system</a>,” he told The Guardian in December. “It has a waistbelt and shoulder straps. That has to provide quite a bit of downforce to get my body on to the treadmill, so after about 40 minutes, that gets very uncomfortable.”</p>
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<p>Though Peake will be the first man to run a marathon in space, he’s not the first human to do so.</p>
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<p>That accolade belongs to NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who <a href="http://ift.tt/1y69asX" target="_blank">completed the 2007 Boston Marathon while on the ISS</a>. She ran the race in just under four and a half hours.</p>
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<p>However, as The Guardian points out, Peake’s marathon experience will be quite different from that of Williams: He’ll actually get to run virtually on the streets of London, and will have the opportunity to interact with his fellow competitors on Earth.</p>
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<p>As he runs, he'll be able to see an avatar of himself running at a corresponding speed along the London course. He’ll also see the avatars of other runners who are also using the app. </p>
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<p>If you want to run with Peake, you can join him for a training run using the RunSocial app (<a href="http://ift.tt/1RgQSlj" target="_blank">free</a>, but currently only available for iPhones and iPads). You can also run the entire London Marathon with the spaceman on April 24. <a href="http://ift.tt/1SegFuo" target="_blank">Find out how here.</a></p>
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<p>He's decked out head to toe in a European Space Agency flight suit: </p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Keep fit! Sunday Join Tim <a href="https://twitter.com/astro_timpeake">@astro_timpeake</a>'s last <a href="https://twitter.com/runsocial">@runsocial</a> run Digital London Marathon Mile <a href="https://t.co/qzAgZCCEb1">https://t.co/qzAgZCCEb1</a> <a href="https://t.co/XGddXczNeA">http://pic.twitter.com/XGddXczNeA</a></p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-37674587122773524202016-04-15T01:02:00.001-07:002016-04-15T01:02:04.861-07:00Med School Dean Becomes BFFs With... A Pelican<p class="p1"><span class="s1">When a medical school dean <a href="http://ift.tt/1T8Ctrr" target="_blank">finally came face to face</a> with his college's adopted pelican, it was as if they'd known each for years.</span></p>
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<p class="p2">Photographs posted online showed Vladimír Komárek, the dean of the <a href="http://ift.tt/1VtI1Rw" target="_blank">Second Faculty of Medicine at Charles University</a> in Prague, Czech Republic, cradling the enormous bird in his arms.</p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-83244254070085059292016-04-14T21:32:00.001-07:002016-04-14T21:32:27.352-07:00Seagull Gets Into The Weirdest Argument Ever<div class="embed-asset embed" data-type="embed-asset" data-provider="Embed" data-title=""><br />
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<p>YouTuber David Gammon <a href="http://ift.tt/1S9vpJ1" target="_blank">caught the bird-brained battle in Conwy, Wales</a>, according to The Daily Post. He even named the bird Victor. </p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-19283152605285193502016-04-14T15:02:00.005-07:002016-04-14T15:02:07.681-07:00James Cameron Over Trilogies, Announces A Fourth 'Avatar' Sequel<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">"Dances with Wolves"</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">"Pocahontas"</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">"FernGully"</span> "Avatar" is set to receive four sequels, according to creator James Cameron. </p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-52426411088341614642016-04-14T15:02:00.003-07:002016-04-14T15:02:06.945-07:00Inside The Siberian Cafe Dedicated To Vladimir Putin<br />
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<p>Welcome to President Cafe, an eatery dedicated to honoring the glory of Putin and Russia. The cafe, which is located in the eastern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, opened last month.</p>
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<p>Dozens of photos of Putin, from his youth all the way up to his prime ministership, line the cafe's walls. The menu, a photo of which was published in Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, features a sketch of Putin <a href="http://ift.tt/1PTgdgw" target="_blank">riding a bear shirtless</a>. There is even a life-size cutout of the president with which people can take photos.</p>
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<p>If and when the restaurant receives its liquor license, it plans to serve a cocktail with vodka, grenadine and blue curaçao, which will resemble the colors of the Russian flag, cafe co-owner Svetlana Lautman told the publication. It will cost just 120 rubles, or under $2.</p>
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<p>"I myself am a patriot, but I can see that <a href="http://ift.tt/1PW90wg" target="_blank">not everyone is satisfied</a> with their lives in the country," Zhadnov told Siberian online journal Sib.fm. "So we decided to provide people with a place where they can eat well and inexpensively, but also recall Russian achievements in a pleasant, patriotic atmosphere."</p>
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<p>The door to a bathroom is labeled "NATO," the consortium of Western countries that was the Soviet Union's Cold War adversary. While Russia and NATO established <a href="http://ift.tt/1Ad10jF" target="_blank">diplomatic relations</a> in 1991, their alliance remains tense. NATO countries are currently building their largest <a href="http://ift.tt/1LkxkXZ" target="_blank">military</a> presence in eastern Europe since the Cold War in an effort to counter an increasingly aggressive Russia.</p>
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<p>But all of these gimmicks are "just business," and "nothing personal" toward the politicians, Zhdanov told Reuters. "I am neutral toward Western politicians," he added.</p>
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<p>Everything in the restaurant seems to have a political tinge to it -- even the food.</p>
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<p>"Someone asked us for chicken Kiev," a popular dish named after the Ukrainian capital, Lautman told Komsomolskaya Pravda. "At the President Cafe! We can make it, but we'll have to call it something different."</p>
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<p>Russia and Ukraine currently have a strained relationship: <a href="http://ift.tt/1ORs9Pt" target="_blank">Russian troops stormed</a> into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea two years ago, and <a href="http://ift.tt/1nKq6FG" target="_blank">annexed the area</a> shortly thereafter. Subsequently, pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian troops began fighting, which the United Nations says has killed over <a href="http://ift.tt/1poT7t4" target="_blank">9,100 people</a>. </p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1WCtLCS" target="_blank">Seventy-three percent</a> of Russians trust Putin, according to recent opinion polls. While this figure is 10 percent lower than it was last year, it remains "stratospheric by Western standards," according to Reuters. Just <a href="http://ift.tt/10zdRyW" target="_blank">51 percent</a> of Americans approve of Obama, according to Gallup's most recent weekly poll average. His highest weekly average was 67 percent in 2009, shortly after his inauguration.</p>
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<p><em>Take a look at more of these photos, taken by Reuters photographer Ilya Naymushin last week, below.</em></p>
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<h4>Read more:</h4>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1WuyXe0">Vladimir Putin Goes Shirtless Again For New 2016 Calendar</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1SZDNjg">What Russia’s Failing Economy Means For Putin’s Legacy And Military Ambitions</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1WuyUyY">It’s Putin’s Birthday So Here Are 17 Photos Of Him With Cupcakes</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1EXrCtP">How Shirtless Putin Became A Rock Star President In Russia</a></p>
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<p>A middle school teacher in East Bank, West Virginia, has been temporarily removed from the class after a video was posted showing him verbally berating a student.</p>
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<p>The reason for the outburst: The 13-year-old student claims he saw <a href="http://ift.tt/1S9J2Ia" target="_blank">the teacher watching porn alone in the classroom.</a></p>
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<p>However, no evidence of porn has been found on the teacher's computers, according to the school's principal.</p>
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<p>Jeffrey Province said when he entered his 6th grade math class on Tuesday, he observed teacher Thomas Yohn staring at his computer screen, WOWK-TV reports.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1S9J2Ia" target="_blank">Province's mother, Carmelene Short, decided to go public</a> with this incident and joined her son in a televised segment. </p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"I saw something no 13-year-old should ever see in a school," Province told the station.</span></p>
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<p>Province reported Yohn to the principal, who apparently discussed the accusation with the teacher.</p>
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<p>A short time later, Yohn burst into Province's English class, and confronted him in front of other students.</p>
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<p>One of them secretly filmed the encounter and posted it online.</p>
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<p>In the video, Yohn can be heard saying the following:</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Next time you open your big, stinking mouth, pal, I will write you up and send you to the office for coming into my room without permission. Is that clear?</span></p>
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<p>Yohn also accused Province of threatening him.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"He tried to blackmail me," Yohn said in the video. "[Province] said, 'Oh, Mr. Yohn,' he said, 'I'm going to get an A this quarter or I'm going to tell that you're watching inappropriate things on TV and I saw it.'"</span></p>
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<p>School principal Mike Wilkinson told The Huffington Post that Yohn's behavior on the video is "unacceptable," but wouldn't say if the teacher had been suspended.</p>
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<p>"I can tell you he is not in the building," he said.</p>
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<p>The porn accusation is being investigated, but so far, there's no proof it happened, Wilkinson said.</p>
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<p>"Yohn's computers were seized and no porn was found on any of them," Wilkinson said.</p>
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Bud Wiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166425002952997853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3624881088069788513.post-49067444767412949452016-04-14T14:32:00.001-07:002016-04-14T14:32:04.008-07:00Darth Vader Has Nothing On Donald Trump, And That's Truly Disturbing<p>One man wields incredible power to crush his enemies across the known galaxy and build a seemingly unshakeable empire on the backs of lower class citizens. The other is Darth Vader.</p>
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<p>Donald Trump is a force to be reckoned this election season. He appears invulnerable. And the more you attack, the stronger he becomes.</p>
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<p>Vader was eventually defeated, but will Trump experience the same fate? Only time will tell. Until then, the farce is with us.</p>
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<p>Who knew watching a fish decompose could be so compelling?</p>
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<p>In a new time-lapse video (above), released Wednesday by BBC Earth Unplugged, a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTaywkpSegw" target="_blank">John Dory and gurnard lie there like dead fish</a> cause, well, they're dead. Their carcasses trigger a post-mortem feast attended by creepy crawlies -- and be warned that the maggot feeding-frenzy might not be on your menu of must-see YouTube.</p>
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<p>Dermestid beetles are later joined by flies to dine on the John Dory, which is picked clean in three weeks. As for the deceased gurnard, the video explains that just the beetles partake, removing the flesh in about five weeks.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1Y0SaBj" target="_blank">Flesh-eating beetles</a> are often used by museums to clean skeletons for their collections. The beetles do a heck of a job on the fish bones in the new video.</p>
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<p>Bon appetit, you little scavengers.</p>
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<p>A chimpanzee named Chacha danced around authorities on Thursday during a two-hour escape from a zoo in Japan.</p>
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<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1Wu4Xih" target="_blank">The male chimp broke out of</a> the Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai, the Associated Press reports.</p>
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<p>Chacha eluded capture by climbing an electrical pole and swinging from the wires, leading to a dramatic and frightening scene.</p>
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<p>To say the photos are intense would be an understatement:</p>
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<p>Authorities resorted to shooting Chacha with a sedative tranquilizer while he was still perched on the electrical pole. The chimp eventually plummeted toward the ground, where his fall was broken by several people holding a large blanket. </p>
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<p>The chimp was unhurt by the whole ordeal, <a href="http://ift.tt/1T7r8Ih" target="_blank">according to the Agence France-Presse.</a></p>
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<p>Smells like a fortune.</p>
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<p>A British couple is looking to cash in on their discovery of a large piece of whale vomit possibly worth more than $70,000.</p>
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<p>The vomit, better known as <a href="http://ift.tt/20ChSgQ" target="_blank">ambergris</a>, is a valuable resource used by perfume makers to help a scent last longer.</p>
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<p>Gary Williams and his wife, Angela, found the pricey puke while walking along the beach near Morecambe Bay in Lancashire.</p>
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<p>Sounds delightful!</p>
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<p>Scientists believe that ambergris forms <a href="http://ift.tt/18SxaWu" target="_blank">when a whale swallows a foreign object</a>, like a squid beak, according to National Geographic. The whale will grease up the object to ease its exit from the body. </p>
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<p>“It feels like a rock hard rubber ball," Gary, 48, added. "Its texture is like wax, like a candle. When you touch it you get wax sticking to your fingers.”</p>
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<p>Despite being known as whale vomit, it is now commonly held that the ambergris is discharged from the rear end, National Geographic explains.</p>
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<p>Gary and Angela, 49, wisely wrapped up the lump in a scarf and confirmed that they had struck <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">gold</span> whale vomit.</p>
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