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A Few Clips Guaranteed To Make You Feel Better About Life

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Dog welcomes home soldier from Afghanistan

 

 Asking strangers to tie your tie

 

Paralyzed Dad Jumps Off Diving Board For 40th Birthday While Adorable Daughter Cheers Him On

 

Family dogs Lucy and Nemo died within three weeks of each other, leaving James Xuereb in mourning. James’ daughter Jaleen decided to bring back some happiness to her father’s life by bringing a new dog home: Lumo!

 

Be this little girl in life

 

Two People Handling a Potentially Deadly Near Miss in the Most Civilized Way

 

Cameras roll during a social experiment where actors bully a little girl. How will bystanders react?

 

Cat wanted her food "to go". Rescuers decided to see where she went with it

 

Some people can change a dog’s life in 30 minutes (update on dog)

 

Mama dog loves her foster mom so much she places her puppies on her lap

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The Dumping Grounds

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109-Year-Old Veteran and His Secrets to Life Will Make You Smile

Meet Richard Overton, America’s oldest veteran. In this lively short film by Matt Cooper and Rocky Conly, hear the whiskey-drinking, cigar-smoking supercentenarian reveal his secrets to a long life.

 

Band Of Brothers – All The Interviews With The Soilders Of Easy Company

 

Your First 2 Hours Of Marine Boot Camp

 

Fire chief gives an interesting tour of their new fire truck

 

Tour inside of a police cruiser

 

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Linkage

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Star Wars is getting an all-new trilogy from Rian Johnson – The Verge

Your To-Do List Isn’t Working. Here’s How to Fix It in 1 Step – INC

Here’s What Motorcyclists Wish Drivers Did Better – Jalopnik

32 Things You Didn’t Know About Wolverine – Total Nerd

Photos of the Week – The Atlantic

40 Ways To Live A Full Life (And Leave Nothing On The Table) By Age 30 – Thrive

Ariel Winter’s Cleavage is a sight to behold! – Drunken Stepfather 

10 Disturbing Things Your Nails Reveal About Your Health – Legit Feed

How The ‘Montreal Screwjob’ Changed The Wrestling Industry Forever – VICE

President Trump might be challenging the Church of Scientology’s coveted status soon – Rare

Report: O.J. Simpson’s latest incident caused a Las Vegas bar to “permanently ban” him – Fan Buzz

Hot Instagram Pictures Of Sara Calixto – Lurk And Perv

Supporters defend Roy Moore: “Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter” – Time

Louis C.K. breaks silence on sexual assault allegations: ‘These stories are true’ – MSN

Secret Service agent stole 1,600 Bitcoins from Silk Road walletPolitics – Justice

A Damn Fine Collection Of Bewbs, Awesomeness And Everything In Between – Leenks

Emma Roberts’ Scrawny Sexiness In A Tiny Bikini – Popoholic

Three Months After Adopting A Little Girl, This Mom Receives Photos That She Swears Are A Different Person – OMG

Man falsely imprisoned for 10 years, uses prison library to study law and have his conviction overturned. Becomes a lawyer and is now helping overturn other false convictions – NBC News

Warren Buffett’s best investing advice for beginners – Business Insider

Curvy Girls Rock The World! (40 Photos) – Radass

Behind the scenes with David Lynch on ‘Eraserhead’ – Dangerous Minds

Only Once A Year At 11:11 AM The Sun Aligns Perfectly To Uncover This Memorial’s Hidden Beauty – Bored Panda

This Website Will Help You Figure Out If You Can Make Money as an Instagram Influencer – Life Hacker

7 Ridiculous Mistakes that Are Destroying Intimacy and Ruining Your Relationships – Knowledge For Men

The 5 Worst Things About Being a Genius – Grumpy Sloth

Aly Raisman Says She Was Abused By USA Gymnastics Doctor – NPR

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The Dumping Grounds

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Eminem performs the “supersonic speed” solo from Rap God for the first time

 

Dog Reunites With Owner After 3 Years, Realizes Who He Is and loses Its Mind

 

57 Years Apart – A Boy And a Man Talk About Life

 

The Extraordinary Origins of Ordinary Things

 

Gains: 21 Year Old Russian Grows Foot Wide Biceps After Synthol Injections

 

What’s Inside a Detectives Car?

 

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Linkage

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How Conjoined Twins Are Making Scientists Question the Concept of Self – The Walrus

If you ever visit Japan, you need to take the Mario Kart Tour of Tokyo! – Thrillist

15,000 scientists From 184 Countries give catastrophic warning about the fate of the world in new ‘letter to humanity’ – Motherboard

The Most Punishing Video Games of All Time – Ranker

This Incredible Video Shows CRISPR Slicing A Strand Of DNA In Two – Digg

What Consumers Are Quickly Learning About Paying Off Their Debt:- Weekly Financials

How To Get Rich Playing Video Games Online – New Yorker

Amazon is turning The Lord of the Rings into a TV show – The Verge

Hot Instagram Pictures Of Anastasia Kvitko – Lurk And Perv

Right and left always excuse the worst behavior in politicians so long as he’s “their guy” – Rare

Former WWE World Champion officially making the transition from wrestling to MMA – Fan Buzz

Demi Lovato showing off some nice braless cleavage – Drunken Stepfather

More magnificent sidebewbs – Leenks

This mouth-watering Instagram is dedicated to real-life re-creations of food from Miyazaki movies – Dangerous Minds

These $8 Panasaonic earbuds are shockingly good! – Amazon

The First 911 Restored By Singer With A 500 HP Williams Engine Looks Phenomenal – Jalopnik

The New Firefox Is Out: 2x Faster and 30% Less Memory – Mozilla

Every successful relationship is successful for the same exact reasons – Quartz

Top 10 Terrifying Civilizations – Listverse

Emma Watson at her finest – Popoholic

How to Sign Documents on Whatever Device You’ve Got – Life Hacker

Hot Girls with Tattoos – All The Girls Mama Warned You About (46 Photos) – Radass

John Travolta: Sexual battery case involving 21-year-old male masseur surfaces – Mercury

Ashley Tisdale, Taylor Swift and Other Random Hotties – G-Celeb

Leave the Past in the Past: What Matters Most Is Who You Are Now – Tiny Buddha

7 examples of what elite athletes eat in a day – Grumpy Sloth

Russia tried to use computer game footage to prove that the U.S. is helping ISIS – Newsweek

Alexis Ren Is The Biggest Tease – Hollywood Tuna

First Black Friday shopper claims his spot in line – KGNS

The Daily Struggles of Living With a Cat – Sad And Useless

Absurdly bad relationship advice from Cosmo mag – Runt Of The Web

12 More Fraternity Brothers Charged in Penn State Hazing Death After FBI Recovers Deleted Footage From Their Supposedly "Inoperable" Security Camera – Time

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Hot Instagram Girl Of The Day: Keisha Grey

Welcome To Caveman’s Fight Club!

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Matt Brown obiterates Diego Sanchez with an elbow from hell!

 

2 years ago today, Holm absolutely dominated the previously invincible Rousey in the main event of UFC 193 before finishing her with a brutal head kick knockout at the 59-second mark of the second round to claim the UFC bantamweight title

 

 Conor McGregor puts on arguably the finest performance of his career, knocking out Eddie Alvarez. Here’s the 2nd round

 

Shinya Aoki submits Eddie Alvarez

 

Werdum opens with a perfect flying head kick against Travis Browne

 

Kid Yamamoto incites a riot after knocking out Tetsuo Katsuya

 

Noon Basketball turns into MMA Fight!

 

Dude breaks up fight between two teenage boys in local neighborhood and lays down some truth

 

Why can’t your body handle a punch to the liver?

 

Don King Unauthorized – Expose on the most famous criminal in boxing history. Ripped off every fighter he ever had. Destroyed Mike Tyson in and out of the ring.

 

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The Daily Man-Up

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“Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it. You are marvelous. The gods wait to delight in you.”

Charles Bukowski

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What Is The Psychology Behind All These Addictive Mobile Games And Their Microtransactions?

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Coming from the mobile video game industry, a lot of effort has gone into the study of what causes addiction without having to affect the addiction with foreign chemicals.

Findings typically go down the path of differences in how much people value short term benefit versus long term consequences. Since individuals are all different, the key is to find mechanisms that help monetize the ones who overvalue the short term. Creating ways to remove pressure/pinch points blocking someone from short-term fun is as effective as providing mechanisms to dose incremental amounts of fun/reward.

The Stanford marshmallow study is a good example of this… kids were offered one marshmallow now or wait and get two marshmallows. Some kids saw the long term benefit of patience and valued long term benefit. Others valued immediate gratification (and perhaps the minimal marginal benefit of the long term) and wanted their marshmallow now.

Addicts tend to be the ones who want one marshmallow now. Addicts are also susceptible to negative reinforcement created when designers place a barrier (known as a pinch) between the player and their reward. Those that are very impatient will spend money to avoid waiting or losing since these people value the positive feelings more than free players.

Games typically slowly dial up the amount of pain/pinching the longer the customer is engaged… this washes out the casual gamers over time and allows only highly dedicated (or highly spending) ones to remain. Naturally the marginal benefit of spending also degrades over time as the “highs” of the game diminish, so game designers also have to keep finding ways to keep the game fun and fresh.

If the monetization loop is too aggressive then even the addict will flame out or realize something is wrong. Just like in slot machines, the slow-drip cycle of a long bleed-out is critical to ensure addiction to the benefit of paying money without making the game feel like it’s detrimental to the addict.

I don’t work in video games any more. I think something became off-the-rails bad, and the digital interactive entertainment industry just went horribly off base when some developers realized mobile gaming was the perfect medium to legally apply strategies previously executed only by drug dealers, extortion rackets, and casino operators.

The immediate gratification and manipulation of addictive/short-term personalities into profit, especially by using negative reinforcement, is very powerful. If someone could be a sociopath and view customers as piles of cash to access in a monetized compulsion loop, that sociopath stood to make a fortune.

I actually like video games and interactive entertainment… so I got out of the business since it was so ugly.

I saw game studio pitch decks that contained more content talking about BF Skinner’s work on behavioral psychology and less content about what was actually going into the game. Developers were bragging about how they weren’t making games anymore, they were farming whales.

Here’s an article about Zynga’s creative director Roger Dickey (credited for Mafia Wars). He gleefully talks about how he can make a game about anything, since the winning $$$ formula comes by applying pain and letting customers pay to remove the pain.

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/09/354649902/this-is-your-brain-on-candy-crush

“I wanted to see if game designers could create an addictive game out of anything. So I asked a bunch of people how to make a great game about the most boring thing I could think of: making toast.”

“But how can a company make money off a game about toasting bread?” … that part is pretty easy: Just wait until a player is in a groove — overcoming challenges — and then put a big fat barrier in front of him. Run out of time, run out of lives, run out of delicious strawberry jam. Then, make the player pay to get a little boost to get over that barrier.”

“In the business, this barrier is called ‘fun pain.'”

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Life Isn’t All Sunshine And Rainbows

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I know poverty, because poverty was there before I was born and it has become a part of life.

Poverty is not going empty for a single day and getting something to eat the next day. Poverty is going empty with no hope for the future. Poverty is getting nobody to feel your pain and poverty is when your dreams go in vain because nobody is there to help you. Poverty is watching your mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters die in pain and sorrow just because they couldn’t get something to eat. Poverty is hearing your grandmothers and grandfathers cry out to death to come and take them because they are tired of this world. Poverty is watching your own children and grandchildren die in your arms but there is nothing you can do. Poverty is watching your children and grandchildren share tears in their deepest sleep. Poverty is suffering from HIV/AIDS and dying a shameful death but nobody seems to care. Poverty is when you hide your face and wish nobody could see you just because you feel less than a human being. Poverty is when you dream of bread and fish you never see in the daylight. Poverty is when people accuse you and prosecute you for no fault of yours, but who is there to speak up for you? Poverty is when the hopes of your fathers and grandfathers just vanish in the blink of an eye. I know poverty and I know poverty just like I know my own name. Poverty never sleeps. Poverty works all day and night. Poverty never takes a holiday

 

This photo was taken by a Filipino politician, of his family, and, unbeknownst to him, his own assassin

 

This picture of 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters was taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who toured the country in an 18-wheeler equipped with a torture chamber in the back. This photo was taken in an abandoned Illinois barn, where Rhoades killed Walters after cutting off her hair and making her wear a black dress and heels.

 

Last Words By Airplane Pilots

 

Driver sitting near the body of 8 year old boy who he accidentally hit and killed 

 

The town’s police K-9 died this morning. This is his caretaker/partner saying goodbye one last time

 

How Cancer Ruined My Life, an unfinished note by a child with terminal brain cancer 

 

Italian soldier after 72 hours of combat. He demonstrates what is called the ‘Thousand Yard Stare’, which is known to occur during an acute stress reaction, and describes the unfocussed gaze of a warrior

 

Post-It found hanging up at the desk of co-worker who recently lost his long battle with cancer

 

The smile of a Syrian girl who survived a horrible suicide bombing

 

Clothes of attendees of the Vegas Festival where 59 people lost their lives

 

Lyndon B. Johnson takes the oath of office aboard Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas following the assassination of JFK. Jackie is angled in a way so that blood stains on her pink Chanel suit would not be visible.

 

James Holmes’ parents walking to the courtroom where their son faces 24 counts of 1st degree murder

fascinating photos

 

Photo of the surviving members of the Uruguayan Rugby Team who crashed in the Andes. They were forced to eat the bodies of their deceased companions in order to survive (more info

fascinating photos

 

Came across this genocide memorial in Rwanda

 

Found at a group home

 

Mass Shootings Are Now So Frequent That President Trump Just Copies-And-Pastes His Condolences 

 

17 year old dog enjoying her very special last meal before her forever nap

 

Columbine High School class of 1999. Check the top left.

 

Who killed the most people?

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Badass Of The Week: Roy Benavidez

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He was wounded 37 times by bullets, shrapnel, a bayonet, and a rifle butt but his only thoughts were on those others who were hit on that day in May 1968. His actions saved eight other men’s lives in Vietnam on that day. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery but it wouldn’t be for 13 more years. Because nothing ever came easy for Roy Benavidez.

Benavidez was born in 1935 outside of Cuero, Texas to a Mexican sharecropper father and a Yaqui Indian mother. Both of them would be dead of tuberculosis before Roy was eight years old. He was moved to his grandparents with his younger brother and he grew up with eight other cousins in the household.

He struggled in school before dropping out in the seventh grade. He worked odd jobs to help support his family; in a tire shop, on farms in the area, even shining shoes in the bus station.

Everything began to change for him in 1952 when he joined the National Guard. Three years later he enlisted in the Regular Army. He married his wife and joined the 82nd Airborne Division in 1959. Like many other men, he moved down the street and joined Special Forces.

On his first tour of duty in Vietnam in 1965, he stepped on a landmine and was airlifted out to the states where he was told that he’d never walk again. Determined to prove the doctors wrong, he’d sneak out of his bed and began a furious nightly regimen where he’s crawl to a wall and slowly force himself up to a standing position. He recalled in a speech the agony he’d go thru to walk again.

“The doctors were initiating my medical discharge papers, but at night I would slip out of bed and crawl to a wall using my elbows and my chin. My back would just be killing me and I’d be crying, but I get to the wall and I set myself against the wall and I’d back myself up against the wall and I’d stand there — like Kaw-Liga, the Indian. I’d stand and move my toes, right and left…every single chance I got — I got. And I wanted to walk — I wanted to go back to Vietnam because of what the news media was saying about us: that our presence was not needed there; they’re burning the flag.”

A year later in July 1966, he walked out of the hospital accompanied by his wife, determined to resume his Special Forces career.

Benavidez returned to Vietnam in January 1968. He was assigned to Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group at Loc Ninh, an SF base along the Cambodian border.

On May 2, 1968, Benavidez, a devout Catholic was attending a prayer service when he heard that a 12-man patrol had inserted into a hornets’ nest of NVA, numbering between 1000-1500. The patrol of three Americans and nine Nung tribesmen was shot up and calling for immediate extraction. The ensuing battle would last for over six hours.

Three attempts to extricate the team by helicopters were driven off by intense ground and anti-aircraft fire. Grabbing a medical aid bag and armed with only a knife, Benavidez leaped on a rescue chopper and off they went.

The helicopter got to within 75 yards of the trapped men and Benavidez jumped from the hovering Huey and raced to the trapped team coming under withering fire. He was hit in the leg and knocked down. But he continued to the team and blasted by a grenade blast suffering shrapnel wounds to his face, arm, and back.

Reaching the trapped team, four men were already dead and the rest were wounded. Benavidez treated the wounded, grabbed an AK from one of the dead men and passed around ammunition. Then he directed air strikes around the perimeter to keep the NVA at bay.

Calling in a Huey to evacuate part of the dead and wounded, he was shot again in the leg. Ignoring his own wounds, he dragged the dead and wounded to the chopper, he provided covering fire. The chopper moved to the second group of men for extract with Benavidez under it, firing at the enemy.

NVA fire increased and smashed into the Huey, killing the pilot and sending the Huey crashing into the ground. Benavidez had made it to the dead team leader and removed the classified documents from around the man’s neck. He was then shot in the stomach by an NVA soldier and another grenade tore into his back and shoulders.

Despite this, and now coughing up blood, he crawled to the downed helicopter. There they formed a small perimeter and passed out the remaining ammunition. He continued to direct air strikes from F-4 Phantom jets and helicopter gunships to push the NVA back. Several of the strikes were danger close.

The North Vietnamese fire increased and mortar rounds were falling everywhere. All of the wounded including Benavidez were hit again. The American helicopter pilots were ready to attempt another rescue attempt.

Grabbing a seriously wounded American SF team member, he hoisted him over his shoulder and lurched toward the waiting helicopter. An NVA soldier believed dead, leaped up and clubbed Benavidez with the butt of his Ak-47, breaking his jaw and knocking him to the ground. As the NVA soldier lunged at Benavidez with his bayonet, Roy grabbed it with his right hand and used his Bowie knife in his left. Pulling the enemy soldier forward he stabbed him but not before suffering a slash to his right hand and his left arm being run thru with the bayonet.

Again, he attempted to drag his American comrade to the helicopter and then noticed two more NVA run from the jungle in the blind spot of the American door gunners. Benavidez grabbed an AK-47 and somehow managed to drop both of the enemy soldiers.

He then made another trip into the perimeter and brought out the team’s interpreter before finally being pushed into the helicopter and lifting off. Holding his intestines in with one hand, he held his dying teammate’s hand with the other.

Having almost bled out on the helicopter, Benavidez slipped into near unconsciousness. A doctor felt for a heartbeat and not registering one, indicated that he should be placed in a body bag with the dead. Benavidez, unable to speak because of the broken jaw, spit in the doctor’s face to let him know he was still alive.

He was then taken into the hospital where the doctors began to treat his myriad of injuries. He had seven gunshot wounds, one of them went thru his back, destroying his right lung and exited just beneath his heart. He had 28 shrapnel wounds in his back, neck, head, legs, feet, and buttocks. Both arms were pierced by a bayonet as well as his hand. His jaw was broken and the back of his head smashed by the enemy’s rifle butt. None of the doctors expected Benavidez to survive. They were wrong.

His wounds were to take a year to heal and he went back to Brooke Army Medical Center. His commander wanted to put Roy in for the Medal of Honor but instead opted for the Distinguished Service Cross believing that he’d at least receive that before his wounds would kill him. Benavidez was awarded the DSC by Gen. William Westmoreland the Chief of Staff of the Army.

Years later after the war, his commander tried to get the Army to reconsider and upgrade Benavidez’s award to the Medal of Honor. But was told that no other American had survived and could confirm his deeds.

Far away in the Fiji Islands, an American, Brian O’Connor who had been the radio man who called for that first frantic call for extraction, read about the development in the newspapers. He wrote a detailed description of the fateful event on that day in May 1968 and that Benavidez was responsible for saving the lives of eight men.

The Pentagon reconsidered and in 1981, President Ronald Reagan presented Benavidez the Medal of Honor.  Reagan turned to the press and said, “If the story of his heroism were a movie script, you would not believe it”.

The official citation for Benavidez’s Medal of Honor can be read here

 

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The Dumping Grounds

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Terry Crews: Speaks Out On Being Victim Of Sexual Harassment

 

Idiocracy: The Great Dumbing Down

 

Girl Leaves Voicemail For Ex Boyfriend Crying Like A Whale

 

How to live in a a 90-square-foot microstudio in Manhattan and its $700/month!

 

Video Game Classic: The History Of Street Fighter II

 

Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

 

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Linkage

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These People Claimed To Have Actually Visited Hell, And What They Saw Was Horrifying – Ranker

North Korea ‘sentences Trump to death’ for insulting Kim Jong-un – Business Insider

The 50 Best Superhero Movies Of All Time – The Ringer

The Making of an American Nazi…How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist – The Atlantic

How to Remember What You Read – Farnam Street Blog

Job Searching? Skip The Job Boards And Take These Five Steps Instead – Fast Co

Lebron tried to slide into this girls DMs – Drunken Stepfather

Intense Moment After Cheating Girlfriend Gets Caught – Leenks

Stop Spending So Much Time In Your Head – Darius Foroux

A Firestick with Kodi installed gives you everything your heart desires – Amazon

Man killed in Chicago’s 600th homicide on Tuesday – Rare

UCLA players respond to President Donald Trump’s tweet following their arrest in China – Fan Buzz

Everything you wanted to know about bitcoin but were afraid to ask – The Guardian

Reading Books Will Help You Build These 7 Habits – Medium

Hot Instagram Pictures Of Diana Melison – Lurk And Perv

25 Signs That Your Girlfriend Is Cheating On You – BuzzFuse

Is The ‘Justice League’ Movie Any Good? Here’s What The Reviews Are Saying – Digg

9 Changes Warner Bros Wishes It Could Make To Its DC Universe – What Culture

Madison Beer is in a sexy swimsuit! – Popoholic

Abraham Lincoln Letter About Slavery Could Fetch $700,000 at Auction – Mental Floss

A Texas car garage uses volunteer mechanics to fix and overhaul cars for single moms, widows and wives of deployed – NBC News

If you like butts, check this gallery out – Radass

Founder of Florida’s Biggest Megachurch Accused of Molesting a 4-Year-Old – Miami New Times

Zimbabwe’s Military, in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of Presdient Mugabe – NY Times

The 10 Most Impressive Physical Transformations In Cinematic History – Grumpy Sloth

Grim vintage crime scene photos from the LAPD archive – Dangerous Minds

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Hot Instagram Girl Of The Day: Cecilie Nordahl


The Daily Man-Up

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72-year-old dad graduated college with honors last weekend (A.S. Environmental Horticulture and Design) He is a vietnam era veteran and a first generation college graduate.

“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”

― C.S. Lewis 

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There Are Some Things You Just Can’t Argue With

Meet the Transgender Woman Who Now Identifies as a Transracial Filipina

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A man who was born white says he considers himself a Filipino.

Ja Du, whose birth name is Adam, identifies as ‘transracial’, meaning he feels he is a different ethnicity than the one assigned to him. He told news station WTSP that he feels most comfortable when surrounded by Filipino culture, which he grew up enjoying.

“Whenever I’m around the music, around the food, I feel like I’m in my own skin,” he says. “I’d watch the History Channel, sometimes for hours… nothing else intrigued me more, but things about Filipino culture.”

The resident of Tampa, Florida, drives a Tuk Tuk – a vehicle used for public transit in the Philippines and other parts of Asia. Ja Du hasn’t yet told his family about his ethnic identity, because he fears they’ll laugh at him.

The term ‘transracial’ entered public discourse after the notorious case of Rachel Dolezal. The president of a chapter of the NAACP, Ms Dolezal was a highly respected civil rights activist, who was ‘outed’ as white during a now-infamous TV interview.

She has since claimed to identify as ‘trans-black’ and has published a memoir titled In Full Colour.

Ja Du, who is also transgender and contemplating a physical transition, told WTSP that he doesn’t wish to offend anyone with his racial identity.

“I don’t want that,” he says. “I think that we all have the freedoms to pursue happiness in our own ways.”

 

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Feed Your Brain With These Fascinating Facts

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12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect

Here’s a rescued one getting out of his cage for the first time:

“The vet team has been working hard to rehabilitate him after years of having his bile extracted. In fact his gall bladder was so damaged it had to be removed. Examinations had found numerous gallstones, meaning he’d lived in pain for years. That wasn’t the only surgery Tuffy faced. He also had painful, dry, cracked paws. Animals Asia Bear Manager Louise Ellis said: “The cracked paws are common to bile farm bears as they only walk on bars, not grass. Dehydration is likely to have contributed to this too. So for his carers to see him take to the pool so quickly after he first became ready to face the outdoors was an amazing moment.” In fact Tuffy loved being outdoors so much he decided not to return to his den in the evening – choosing instead to sleep under the stars.”

 

Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with “two gunshot wounds to the head.” His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide

When asked by local reporters about the possibility of two gunshots being a suicide, Lyons replied: “It’s unusual in a suicide case to have two shots, but it has been done in the past, and it is in fact a distinct possibility.”

Gary Webb on C.I.A. Trafficking of Cocaine

 

A man who committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge had left a suicide note that read “I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I won’t jump.” (article)

 

 

In 1903 after camping with John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt established Yosemite as a national park to preserve its “majestic beauty all unmarred.” As President, TR signed into existence four other national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 national bird & wildlife refuges, and 150 national forests

both Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir were actually prescribed the outdoors by their doctors by a condition that is no longer diagnosed called neurasthenia. This was basically a “disease of the modern person,” thought to be caused by all the technological advances of the time. The common saying for how to treat neurasthenia was “For the men, go west; for women, go rest.”

Ken Burns: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | Netflix

 

In 1980, Nauru the island nation was considered the wealthiest nation on the planet; in 2017, BusinessTech listed it as one of the five poorest countries in the world. (article)

Selling fossilized bird excrement was lucrative business. In the late 60s and 70s, people on Nauru were living large: In 1975, the country earned the equivalent of $2.5 billion — more than enough to satisfy its then population of 7,000 people.

With its newfound wealth, people in Nauru bought cars and houses; the country built a hotel, a golf course and founded an airline so it could import Western food. But as the 80s became the 90s, Nauru’s phosphate resources became depleted — and its pile of unpaid bills grew higher.

It was around this time that Nauru’s financial strategy took a turn for the weird. Duke Minks, one of the country’s financial advisors, convinced Nauru’s president to invest in a new piece of musical theater. Before embarking on his finance career, Minks served as a roadie for an obscure British pop band called Unit 4 +2. Together with the band’s lead singer, Minks co-wrote and co-produced a show loosely based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci.

This American Life did a great story about Nauru

 

There is a company that secretly takes continuous, rapid, high-resolution aerial photos of crime-plagued cities to help police “rewind” time to view a crime as it happens and then to “fast-forward” the movement of suspects to their present locations. (article)

In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the sky had been there all along, they could scroll back in time and see – literally see – who planted it. After the war, Ross McNutt retired from the airforce, and brought this technology back home with him. Manoush Zomorodi and Alex Goldmark from the podcast “Note to Self” give us the low-down on Ross’s unique brand of persistent surveillance, from Juarez, Mexico to Dayton, Ohio. Then, once we realize what we can do, we wonder whether we should.

Radiolab Podcast:

 

 

A “devil’s advocate” was a person sanctioned by the Vatican to argue against the canonization of a potential new saint by pointing out their flaws and critically evaluating their miracles. Christopher Hitchens served as a devil’s advocate for Mother Theresa.

“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono.”

 

In Delhi, India, there’s a vigilante group of guys called the “Love Commandos” that protects young couples who are from different castes or religious backgrounds, but have fallen in love and want to marry. 

In India, falling in love with the wrong person can be deadly. Every day, sons and daughters are beaten – some even killed – by their own families for rejecting the caste system and falling in love across strict social boundaries.

But in Delhi, a group of men calling themselves the Love Commandos are risking their own lives to save young people from vicious honour killings and forced marriages.

 

An American man was arrested near the border of Afghanistan while hunting down Osama bin Laden with a sword. (article)

An American carrying a sword and pistol who told police he was on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden has been arrested in a remote mountain forest in northern Pakistan.

Police said they detained Gary Brooks Faulkner, a construction worker from California, as he attempted to cross the border with Afghanistan in Chitral district.

“He told the investigating officer he was going to Afghanistan to get Osama. At first we thought he was mentally deranged,” said Muhammad Jaffar Khan, the Chitral police chief.

But when police realised he was carrying a loaded pistol, a 40in sword and night-vision goggles, Khan said, “we realised he was serious”.

He posted on 4chan before doing it, asking for advice:

 

 

People leave pennies on John Wilkes Booth’s grave to give Lincoln the last word

Why John Wilkes Booth Shot Abe Lincoln:

 

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U.S. Military Rifles since 1776

 

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