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Head on over to Polerstuff.com to see our latest adventure from Kipp Hinkley.
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Neon luggage tag! Lets go weekender. cc:@chaptersindigo
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we’re learning how to design book ads today but i think my job here is done
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Best New Apps: Google Hangouts
I’ve tried WhatsApp, GroupMe, Kik, Google Voice, LINE, Trillian, and basically every other messaging app you can...
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Gurl, Check out my nails.
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Arrested Development Returns! EXCLUSIVE Sneak Preview
The Bluths are back! Watch this exclusive scene from the return of Arrested Development.
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Wale’s third album, The Gifted, features Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa and more. Check out this track by track preview of the...
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This is not photoshopped. This is the actual title of ‘The Hangover’ series in France.
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The Heat Official Red Band Movie Trailer #2 (2013)
An FBI agent teams up with a Boston police officer to take down a Russian mobster.
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*It’s interesting when actions so familiar to certain parts of the world spill into our own
British Soldier Beheaded in London, Muslim w/ Bloody Hands, Machete, Knife, Speaks After - 5/22/13
Literally takes a minute. I sincerely hope these charges get dropped. Outrageous.
*This actually happens a lot in the US.
It’s an issue that affects many individuals who have “committed” similar crimes. I’ll post the article I have once I find it, but it goes into the details of how easily it is to become a “sex offender” and how the sometime lifelong consequences of that sentence can drastically impact someones life.
Discussing this case specifically though, I do understand that as inane as the details of this prosecution may seem, it is extremely difficult to change these laws because of the precedents that may be set as a result.
Trenton hostage situation passes 24 hours
(Photo: Eduardo Munoz / Reuters)
A hostage situation in the New Jersey capital of Trenton passed its 24th hour on Saturday as police worked to coax out an unidentified armed man who has taken “multiple” hostages amid reports of fatalities.
The Trenton police have confirmed that at least one person inside the house is dead, amid unconfirmed reports of another fatality. They declined to disclose any names or ages of the people still inside.
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Photograph by Damir Sagolj—Reuters
May 9, 2013. A man falls from a high floor of a burning building in central Lahore, Pakistan.
From the safe return of three kidnap victims in Ohio and the rescue of a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a garment factory in Bangladesh to Israeli air strikes in Syria and a teddy bear hospital in Germany, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Final Embrace
Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too. — Taslima Akhter.
Image: Two victims of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh by Taslima Akhter via Time Lightbox. Select to embiggen.
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The fire blackened about 28,000 acres of rugged brush land since starting on Thursday. There is no forecast for containment and the fire was not expected to be under control until May 13, Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Tom Kruschke said.
More pictures from the Springs Fire.
Photo: REUTERS/Glen Blevins
*Great shot.
747 crash caught on dashcam,unbelievable video footage!
Bagram airfield crash 29 apr 2013
A civilian cargo plane crash at Bagram Air Field
north of Kabul in Afghanistan has killed seven
people.
*A truly horrifying event
More here
“The death toll from the collapse Wednesday of the Rana Plaza, an eight-story building housing garment factories, rose to around 300, making it the nation’s deadliest industrial accident.”
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Zach Buerkle, a Wentworth Institute of Technology student, drapes himself with an American flag while looking down Boylston St. on Monday, April 15, 2013, after an explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed at least three people and injured more than 100. Buerkle was a block away cheering on a friend’s mother when the blast happened. (Jacob Belcher/UPI/Newscom)
*I can’t believe their “deadliest” day was only (almost) month ago.
“Officials said bombings hit 12 different areas of Iraq, leaving 46 people dead and making Monday the country’s deadliest day since March 19, AFP reported.”
Iraq bombing wave kills dozens days before vote
Insurgents in Iraq deployed a series of car bombs as part of highly co-ordinated attacks that cut across a wide swath of the country today, killing at least 55 on the deadliest day in nearly a month.
Read more: http://bit.ly/11g65Zf
“My daughter wasn’t bullied to death, she was disappointed to death. Disappointed in people she thought she could trust, her school, and the police. She was my daughter, but she was your daughter too. For the love of God do something.”
Glen Canning, father of Rehtaeh Parsons • In a new op-ed/statement published by the Huffington Post on Thursday. Parsons died on Sunday night, following a suicide attempt which is believed to have been the result of extensive post-rape bullying. Be warned, while we definitely think more people should see the grieving father’s words, you won’t find an easy read behind the source link. source (via shortformblog)
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