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"A whisky from Taiwan has beaten others from Scotland and around the globe to be named best single malt in the World Whiskies Awards. Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique took the title at last night’s ceremony which also saw awards go to whiskies from Scotland, Japan, Ireland, France, Sweden, South Africa, Australia and the US. Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique, at 57.5% ABV, is produced by the King Car distillery in Taiwan by maturing the malt whisky in American oak barrels that previously held white and red wines." - rønin

Wow! Now I want to try it! - Jenny H.

ditto - t-ra: sentimental gorgon

Hilarious, although I suppose it makes sense, that they wash him w/Woolite. "“A lot of people think he’s a goat,” says Cher, originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia. “Two people have even asked if he’s a kangaroo. New Yorkers aren’t familiar with animals.” As if on cue, a woman walks by them. “Oh my God,” she exclaims to a friend beside her. “Did you see that llama?”" - rønin

"A British Airways flight was forced to turn around and land over the weekend because somebody did a shit so bad the plane was essentially rendered useless. Imagine living your life in the knowledge that you once turded so appallingly that a 747-400 had to turn around and land. Your liquid shit bought a £360-million ($533-million) airplane juddering out of the sky. Imagine looking your loved ones in the face after that. Imagine hugging your mom. You couldn't. Your asshole is essentially a terrorist." - rønin

Someone needs to eat more fiber. - imabonehead

IBS sucks, people. - Michael W. May

"A proposed new law in the US state of Minnesota aims to make masturbating into someone's hot drink a crime. It turns out people could get away with the disgusting act after a man who allegedly put semen into his co-worker's coffee saw his case dismissed. He was reportedly caught standing at a female colleague's desk with his hands in front of him near his genitals. He admitted ejaculating onto her desk on four occasions – and twice into her coffee – in a six month period. The man, from Blaine, Minnesota, was initially charged with two gross misdemeanour counts – fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct and attempted fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct. But the charges were dropped by a judge, who said the crime required nonconsensual touching of the victim's intimate parts." - rønin

o_O - John (bird whisperer)

"Getting ink all over your hand when you are writing, “Left-handedness is a sin and I am the one who has sinned” over and over again in detention after school. Argh!" - rønin

:( "Lying on the banks of the Mekong River, the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone is a large resort city catering especially to Chinese tourists and run by the Hong Kong-based Kings Romans Group. The luxury casino provides the main draw, as gambling is illegal in China; but the resort also includes a shooting range, more than 70 shops and restaurants, gardens, spas, and a bustling trade in endangered species’ parts, at least according to a new report by the Environment Investigation Agency (EIA) titled Sin City. The report calls the zone a “lawless playground” with “not even a pretence of enforcement”. Indeed, even in a region of the world where wildlife trafficking is rampant and consumption of endangered species common, the report’s findings are shocking." - rønin

>.< - Jenny H.

:( - Heather

Not surprised places like this exist, I've also heard there are restaurants that serve human flesh! ;( On another point, a friend told me about restaurants with holes in tables and that if I ever saw one it's becuase they serve live monkey brains, is that true or is he just trying to freak me out? - Halil

"The former A-Team star has signed on to host a home renovation series called I Pity the Tool for DIY Network, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The show — which landed a straight-to-series order at the network — will see Mr. T and his famed Mohawk destroying outdated spaces to give families beautifully remodeled rooms. " - rønin

My typing fingers have a mind of their own. ;-P - Spidra Webster

Then I passed a second sign that I read more closely. "New York Red Bulls Training Facility" followed by a big field w/people running around. "Ohhh...." Not a soccer fan obviously. - rønin

In your defense, it is dumb to have their name be a tied to a commercial product name. - Jennifer Dittrich

"A newly discovered crocodilian ancestor may have filled one of North America's top predator roles before dinosaurs arrived on the continent. Carnufex carolinensis, or the "Carolina Butcher," was a 9-foot long, land-dwelling crocodylomorph that walked on its hind legs and likely preyed upon smaller inhabitants of North Carolina ecosystems such as armored reptiles and early mammal relatives." - rønin

Random image find of the day. Do they really use A-10 Warthogs for this? =p - rønin

Ha, although it seems like one had been retrofitted for use as a "storm penetrator." http://news.sciencemag.org/2011... - rønin

Ugh, I can't even... "Some students were angered and responded with catcalls. District Superintendent Joan Carbone tells the Times Herald-Record of Middletown that she received complaints from residents who lost relatives in Afghanistan and from Jewish parents. The pledge was being recited in different languages for National Foreign Language Week. The principal apologized to students offended by the Arabic reading. The school posted the apology on its website. The district says the pledge will be read in English only from now on." - rønin

Sooooooo dumb. It would be best to abolish it anyway. - Anika

Good grief. - Jennifer Dittrich

Two selfies. "So what's the first thing you'd do if you got shot? If you're Isaac Martinez, you take a picture of yourself and post it on social media. Martinez, 20, works at Bistro 13, a restaurant operated by the East Valley Institute of Technology. He found himself in the middle of Mesa's shooting spree Wednesday morning, after suspect Ryan E. Giroux allegedly approached him and demanded that he turn over the keys to his car. When Martinez said no, Giroux allegedly shot him. Martinez immediately posted a photo of himself, blood staining and dripping from the shoulder area of his white uniform, on the social app Snapchat." - rønin

"They did an experiment where acoustic scientists sneaked in low frequency sounds at a live concert. Since scientists love nothing more than inducing feelings of fear and terror in unsuspecting citizens, most of the concert goers had no idea what was going on. As a result one minute they were enjoying some sweet tunes while the next a feeling of dread invaded their hearts, crushing all hope and happiness. At the end of the experiment approximately 22 percent of the people involved in the experiment reported feelings of unexplainable dread, chills and depression when infrasound was blasted into the crowd." - rønin

"Also, could somebody with an infrasound generator use this against you? You bet. They even experimented with this during Vietnam, blasting sounds of various frequencies from helicopters, trying to induce panic or at least severe annoyance in the Viet Cong below. Instead of driving away the enemy, infrasound only made them scared and trigger happy. While this was not ideal during a war situation infrasound was later used by the British as a successful method of crowd control." - rønin

How did I miss this song from late last year? Such an amusing 80s feel to the MV. - rønin

*fist bump* *passes box of tissues* - Corinne L

"Even Dean Potter, an openly spiritual man who describes free-soloing as part of a personal art form that includes base jumping, finds Honnold difficult to understand. “Alex is like Spock,” Potter told me. “I freak out at the top of solos and scream — like, super emotional. Then I’m wasted emotionally for months. Alex just does it and walks away and does another.” Honnold doesn’t like this kind of talk; he insists that he worked hard to develop his self-control, and he grows prickly at any suggestion that he is unlike other people. “Before Dean solos something, he has to, like, slaughter a goat and fly with the ravens,” Honnold joked, as if Potter drew on magical aid to see him through danger. “I don’t want to slaughter a goat and fly with the ravens. I just want to climb.”" - rønin

"Who needs an atlas when you have an algorithm? Data tinkerer Randy Olson, who is now known across the internet for developing the optimum search path for Where’s Waldo books, has used this same algorithm to compute the optimal American road trip. At the urging of Tracy Staedter from Discovery News, Olson set out to find the quickest driving route that would stop at a national natural landmark, national historic site, national park or national monument in all of the lower 48 states. He also included Washington, D.C. and added another stop in California to get to a total of 50 stops." - rønin

Uh... how long forgotten? - Jim #teamFFrank

http://www.standunited.org/petitio... ply sign to save - || بهاره ||

"Feig talked in particular about the “vicious” remarks he saw on Twitter, saying “The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood.’ It’s going to be on my tombstone when I die. It’s so dramatic. Honestly, the only way I could ruin your childhood is if I got into a time machine and went back and made you an orphan.”" - rønin

All my issues with it have zero to do with the cast outside them not being the original or a continuation. - Johnny

I have no issues with it. I look forward to it. - Brent Schaus

Had to bring it back to the store earlier today to get it adjusted cause playing F/F# on the first string was super twangy. But otherwise I like that it's smaller than a regular acoustic and the slightly wider neck helps when laying down multiple fingers at a time. - rønin

Also less owie on the fingers w/the nylon. - rønin

And he's a biologist? WTF. "A German biologist who offered €100,000 (£71,350; $106,300) to anyone who could prove that measles is a virus has been ordered by a court to pay up. Stefan Lanka, who believes the illness is psychosomatic, made the pledge four years ago on his website. The reward was later claimed by German doctor David Barden, who gathered evidence from various medical studies. Mr Lanka dismissed the findings. But the court in the town of Ravensburg ruled that the proof was sufficient." - rønin

"In the time of the Aegirocassis benmoulae, during the the Ordovician period, plankton ecosystems were changing and many new species of plankton were popping up. This likely spurred the emergence of this large plankton-eating anomalocaridid. And going from predation to plankton-filtering is part of a larger evolutionary theme, Van Roy says. "Exactly the same thing happened much, much later in sharks and whales," he says. "They started out as predators, and because of a major plankton diversification suddenly you get extremely big filter-feeding animals, like whale sharks and blue whales." Researchers also think Crocodiles went through a similar period in which a large plankton-eating species of crocs emerged. "They reached massive sizes," he says. "And our animal is the oldest example of this."" - rønin

Not getting one since it doesn't fit my needs but looking at this gives me the same feels as whenever I open up the old Mac Pro. Just so wonderfully clean and devoid of cabling. - rønin

"News hit that Ichiran, a ramen empire that's been slinging noodles in Japan for five decades, is gearing up for their New York debut. And with that opening excitement came some confusion: Why are the bowls served in single-seat booths divided by walls? Why is there such little human interaction? In fact, these customs aren't so strange after all. In Japan, eating ramen is by nature a solo experience: Either you order and eat briefly at the counter and get on your way, or you're slurping and savoring the soup in a solitary booth. It's not as much of a social experience as family-style meals. To make this distinction clear, Ichiran created a "System Guide" that outlines its serving process. The final step: "concentrate on the flavor."" - rønin

Ugh. UGH. Long read, but a good, in-depth piece of journalism. "Rep. Justin Harris blames DHS for the fallout related to his adoption of three young girls, but sources familiar with the situation contradict his story and paint a troubling picture of the adoption process and the girls' time in the Harris household." - rønin

it's looking for your wallet. - Big Joe Silenced

Cause of course, Japan. "And yes, it's called the Candy Rocket. Japanese sweets maker UHA Mikakuto brought together experts from various labs and universities to make a rocket that uses candy as its fuel. Powered by twenty Puccho soft candies, the rocket successfully launched last week and reached an altitude of 248 meters (813 feet)." - rønin

Are you fuckin' kidding me. "A group of bright-eyed, c lean cut high school students are learning a hard lesson about politics in Kentucky's state legislature. The students wrote a bill that would let school officials appoint high school students to superintendent screening committees. The widely supported bill was moving easily through the state legislature until a Republican state senator added an amendment to force transgender students to use separate bathrooms in public schools." - rønin

Gah. - Stephen Mack

They need to form a PAC and buy a legislator. - Brian Johns

And what it taught students is that our representative republic is corrupt and it's more effective to burn down the GOP senator's mansion with the senator in it. - Spidra Webster

"The police chief in Ferguson, Missouri resigned Wednesday after a scathing US Justice Department report into the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by one of his officers, US media reported." - rønin

He had no idea up until he read the report. - Back to just Joe

no idea he might be publicly held accountable? - Big Joe Silenced

"A women's tournament went on as planned at the Myakka Pines Golf Club in Englewood, on Florida's west coast, as the gator, estimated at 12 to 13 feet (3.6 to 4 meters) long, reposed in full view of about 100 participants, said Mickie Zada, the club's general manager. "If we stopped playing because of alligators, we'd never have golfers," Zada said." - rønin

#Florida - Brian Johns