A three-year-old little boy from Baltimore, Maryland, recently suffered the heartbreak of losing his favorite stuffed animal. But in the process he learned a little something about the kindness of strangers. Because sometimes people are truly amazing.

Eoin Ekedahl was out with his family at the Golden West Cafe for lunch on a busy errand day, and when he left the restaurant, his best friend Baa Baa (a stuffed little lamb, natch) was accidentally left behind. Panic ensued, because Baa Baa was a crucial member of the family. Eoin’s mom, Ann Parker, told the Today Show, “Baa Baa was just his favorite animal — so if he went to the doctor’s office, Baa Baa went with him…he just kind of went everywhere, from his first haircut to every kind of milestone, Baa Baa was there.”

Because of course he was. That’s what best friends do, and clearly Baa Baa was a solid bestie. 

But when Eoin’s mom called the Golden West Cafe to check on Baa Baa’s whereabouts, the news was not good. Not good at all.

As Kimberly Dorn, the marketing director at Golden West told Today, “There was another kid who was seen playing with the sheep after Eoin and his family left. They asked if they could buy it from us, and we told them they couldn’t, as it belonged to someone else. Unfortunately, when the family left, the sheep was gone as well. I’d like to think they didn’t take it on purpose, but you never know.”

Omg, you guys. It sounds an awful lot like Baa Baa was kidnapped (lambnapped?) which just about breaks our hearts. But wait…there’s a happy ending up ahead, because apparently the folks at Golden West Cafe are stellar human beings.

First, they took to social media in an effort to locate Baa Baa.

Weeks went by without word from Baa Baa (or his lambnappers). So the good people at the restaurant went one step further. Dorn says, “Everyone who knew what happened really wanted to see this story have a happy ending. We found this stuffed lamb online. Even if it wasn’t exactly the same, it looked soft, plushy and happy, so we knew it was the right one to get.”

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I was recently in the southern end of Costa Rica in the Osa Peninsula where at night the shoreline glows an otherworldly blue-green light with every wave, the handiwork of microscopic bioluminescent phytoplankton known as dinoflagellates. This luminescence is brief, lasting only a fraction of a second, but is very visible and repeates over and over again as the tide crashes in. A company has bottled these same microorganisms and their unusual effect into a dinosaur-shaped luminescent aquarium of sorts…

The Dino Pet by BioPop could be considered this generation’s Sea Monkeys (aka brine shrimp), each sealed clear ABS plastic micro-aquarium filled with thousands of the sea creatures than are capable of photosynthesizing sunlight to convert into a brief nighttime show when the water within is agitated. Our Dino Pet sample flashed vibrant blue light with a shake right out of the box surprisingly (though only once before requiring a sunlight recharge), the flash visible for a split second, but undeniably bright.

The microscopic creatures do best in temperate temperatures with brief moments of indirect sunlight to feed their photosynthetic hunger (sadly, the recent Los Angeles heat wave might have cooked our sample into permanent darkness) and only glow at night with a shake/movement mimicking the Circadian rhythms of the tide. Those worrying about the ethics of keeping marine plankton should note though alive, the microorganisms are cited as existing somewhere between plants and animals, without brains, nerves, or pain receptors.

Each colony lives on average between 1 to 3 months, but the community could conceivably live indefinitely if supplemented with an additional food mix once a week, care about temperature and light, and the occasional exposure to fresh air, making the Dino Pet a cool science project and aquarium in one.

The UFC is headed to Melbourne, so the two women's UFC champions tried their hand at figuring out what a few Australian slang terms meant.

ESPN gave Ronda Rousey the keys to the car on Wednesday, letting the UFC bantamweight champion guest host ESPN's SportsCenter, as well as giving her guest appearances on several other ESPN shows. But, Ronda wasn't the only UFC champ on the network that day, as she was joined by strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. Both women will be on the card for UFC 193 in Melbourne, Australia. Rousey in the main event, fighting Holly Holm in defense of her bantamweight title, and Jedrzejczyk in the co-main defending her belt against Valerie Letourneau.

As such, ESPN took it upon themselves to try and accustom the two champions to some of the Australian slang words they might hear during their time down under. Ronda got the better of those terms that are most similar to American slang, like "dunny" and "brekkie," but more notably the segment gave Jedrzejczyk another chance to put her violent streak on display. I mean, who wouldn't think brekkie means, "I break you"?

UFC 193 takes place on November 15th at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. Here's a look at the card as it stands:

Flashback Friday.

The image above is a photograph of a snowflake taken in the late 1800s by Wilson Bentley. Bentley, a 19-year-old farmer in Vermont, was the first person to ever photograph snowflakes. From the Guardian:

Bentley’s obsession with snow crystals began when he received a microscope for his 15th birthday. He became spellbound by their beauty, complexity and endless variety.

“Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind,” he said.

Bentley started trying to draw the flakes but the snow melted before he could finish. His parents eventually bought him a camera and he spent two years trying to capture images of the tiny, fleeting crystals.

He caught falling snowflakes by standing in the doorway with a wooden tray as snowstorms passed over. The tray was painted black so he could see the crystals and transfer them delicately onto a glass slide.

To study the snow crystals, Bentley rigged his bellows camera up to the microscope but found he could not reach the controls to bring them into focus. He overcame the problem through the imaginative use of wheels and cord.

Bentley took his first successful photomicrograph of a snow crystal at the age of 19 and went on to capture more than 5,000 more images.

What struck me about this story, other than the pretty pictures and neat historical trivia, was the fact that nearly every schoolchild in the Western world knows what a snowflake looks like under a microscope, even as their experience of snowflakes  is mostly of them as cold, fuzzy, frozen blobs, if they have any regular experience with snow at all.  They know because we teach them.

The idea of the meme is one way to discuss our ability to transfer elusive knowledge like this. A meme is a unit of knowledge or a type of behavior that’s passed on from generation to generation culturally. The gene is its evolutionary cousin, passing along knowledge and behavior genetically.  In the US, this particular knowledge meme is found in books or scientific discussions, but it has also become a common arts and craft project: many of us learn about snowflakes when we are shown how to make them from construction paper:

It’s quite amazing to consider how every human generation since Bentley understands the snowflake just a little bit differently than anyone before him.  Because of the advantage that human culture gives each new generation, nearly every child learns to appreciates their beauty.

See a slide show of his photographs at The Telegraph. This post originally appeared in 2010.

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Here’s what Disney Princesses look like if we gave them tattoos on their face of themselves

or if they were in Taylor Swift’s squad

or if they got their period in the middle of a long American Literature lecture where a lot of the things said would be in the final exam

or if they started eating other Disney princesses alive

Here’s what Disney Princesses look like if they were intersectional feminists (hint: Mulan would look the same)

or if they McDonald’s Breakfast is now served all day!!!

or if they were suddenly aware of Bernie Sanders’ definition of Democratic Socialism

or right after they watched seventeen hours of Law and Order: SVU on the couch

Here’s what Disney Princesses look like if we made them read every stupid article about themselves

or if they read the Hans Christian Andersen version of their stories, yikes Ariel

or if they started to “eat the trend” by making mug cakes

or if they heard that flare jeans come back, yikes!

or if they suddenly realized the brownie they just ate had nuts in it

or if 

or ifffff

After Jay Z's attempt to delay his extremely convoluted "Big Pimpin'" trial was turned down, the rap mogul took the stand Wednesday for the first time. The Hollywood Reporter reports that he testified to having zero knowledge that the song even had a sample in the first place. (It does: The hook is a snippet from a song by Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi. Thanks to the some complicated rights issues, Jay and Timbaland are now being sued by Osama Fahmy, Hamdi's nephew.) "I didn’t think there was a sample in it. Timbaland presented me with a track. I didn’t even think about there being a sample," he told Fahmy's attorney. When asked how he couldn't have known, he explained, "That’s not what I do. I make music." What else does Jay Z do, exactly? That's a question his own lawyer had him explain for the court in what resulted in just one of the day's many accidentally funny exchanges:

Jay Z: "I make music, I'm a rapper, I’ve got a clothing line, I run a label, a media label called Roc Nation, with a sports agency, music publishing and management. Restaurants and nightclubs ... I think that about covers it."

His lawyer: "I’m not so sure. You have a music streaming service [Tidal], don’t you?"

Jay Z: "Yeah, yeah. Forgot about that."

That's right, even Shawn "I'm a Business, Man" Carter forgets about Tidal sometimes, adding to the list of depressing things about the company its now 1 million users have had to shrug off since the launch. Hov apparently scored even more laughs when he humble-bragged about just a few of the artists he's Svengali'd in his heyday, including Kanye West: "Some people may have heard of him," his lawyer joked, to which Jay Z responded, "One or two. He's running for president."

Already, the long-delayed trial has begun to resemble the hilarity of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" trial. In order to show how little the sample mattered to the overall production, Timbaland attempted to construct a beat live for the courtroom. Unfortunately, his keyboard wouldn't work, so he improvised and just beatboxed instead, treating jurors to a free concert. And now you know where Empire got its next story line from.

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The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat Beverly Hills 90210 podcast is joined this week by screenwriter, SB Nation writer and host of Scientific Podcast Goes Boink, Bill Hanstock! And, we all watched Lifetime’s Unauthorized Beverly Hills 90210 Story, and have lots to say!

For more information about Tonya Harding: The Musical, check the UCB Theater schedule, as it is performed monthly. Alexandra Martell’s article for Cosmopolitan is Dear Former Teen Soap Stars: Stop Bashing Your Old Show.

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One LA pastry chef is slightly obsessed.

Love Star Wars? Well now’s the perfect time to eat your feelings, as Downtown Los Angeles restaurant Faith & Flower unveils a limited-time off-menu dessert tray based on the massive movie franchise.

A mignardise plate, of course, comprises a series of small one-bite dessert options, usually involving chocolate, cookies, and other simple stuff. Not so at Faith & Flower, where pastry chef Josh Graves is taking the opportunity to meticulously handcraft everything from a dark (read: evil) chocolate Death Star bon-bon to a frozen block of chocolate ‘carbonite’ carrying the encased outline of Han Solo himself.

The coup de grace may well be the gray Millennium Falcon, which is predictably also made from chocolate, but has more detail than you ever thought possible. Thin, perfectly scaled, and astonishingly intricate, the bite-sized bit of dessert is only for the hardcore fans — or, y’know, anyone with a sweet tooth.

Rumor has it this is a limited-time only sort of thing available off menu until December, thanks no doubt to the skill and time it takes to create. But the next time you’re in the mood for an absinthe-candied lightsaber or caramel-filled Darth Vader head, at least you’ll know where to guide your X-wing.

Our chocolate Millenium Falcon: It's the bonbon that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

A photo posted by Faith & Flower (@faithandflower) on Sep 30, 2015 at 11:49am PDT

Nicholas Brendon, who is best known for playing Xander on Buffy The Vampire Slayer actor was arrested in Saratoga Springs, New York when he apparently choked his girlfriend after a fight, according to officials.

Police said they received a call from a hotel around midnight. When they got to the room they found a 33-year-old female there by herself, and she reported that she had been in a domestic incident with Nick, and he had subsequently left before the police got there. She did not have any physical injuries.

The woman told police she had gone to the hotel to give Brendon some personal belongings. When she attempted to leave, he allegedly took her car keys and smashed her cell phone in an attempt to get her to stay. Officers found Brendon a few blocks away from the hotel.

They charged him with two counts of criminal mischief and one count of obstruction of breathing, which are misdemeanors. He was also charged with robbery in the third degree, which is a felony.

Hot for fall: English artist William Hogarth, 1697 - 1764, famous for his moralistic engravings and paintings. You can now purchase Doc Martens with perhaps his most famous work, the series The Rake’s Progress, slathered all over ‘em. Bewildered, but not mad at it—maybe even delighted?

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A little more than six years ago, Maris Kreizman started a Tumblr in which she paired literary quotes with photos from television shows called Slaughterhouse 90210. Over the years, she combined Designing Women with Tolstoy, The Sopranos with Woolf, and, well, you get the picture. Unsurprisingly, the Tumblr took off, and Kreizman eventually got an offer to take it from blog to book.

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Twenty-five years ago, George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. It was a landmark piece of civil rights legislation for the disabled community, mandating equal treatment and providing for a wide range of protections. But it contained one big loophole: the internet.

Much of the physical realm is more accommodating today than it was in 1990. There are fewer inaccessible stairs or swimming pools. More television shows are required to be captioned. The bBlind are offered alternative ways to fill out ballots. But the disabled community continues to struggle online.

Just take the experience of deaf actress Marlee Matlin, who was surprised to find in 2008 that most networks were posting their videos online without closed captioning — even when it was mandated for broadcast. She began pushing for it online, too — but it took six years for the FCC to begin cracking down and requiring networks to provide quality captioned content. Even now, violations of the rules still are only investigated after viewer complaints.

And Matlin's is perhaps only the most obvious example of the web's failing. Visually impaired and blind users, for instance, struggle with issues like untagged images and low contrast. Other users experience seizures and migraines in response to certain types of content, which often loads and plays automatically and without warning on the web, including on major websites. And those with limited fine motor skills have difficulty navigating sites with small buttons or content packed tightly together.

This is a huge problem, not just because the disabled community deserves the same accessibility as everyone else, but because they otherwise have so much to gain by the web's lack of physical barriers. Take for, instance, distance education, an especially valuable tool for disabled people who have difficulty attending classes in person. Or the power to build online networks, which makes it easier for communities to develop among people who have trouble getting out or who have limitations in their ability to communicate.

And that's what so galling about the inaccessibility of the internet: the wasted promise.

Disabled people need to be active participants on the web now more than ever. Cuts to social services, disability benefits, and other government supports have hit disabled communities especially hard, and the internet could be a powerful tool for self-advocacy.

Nor are the excuses particularly relevant. The commercial internet really didn't start to thrive until after the ADA passed, which could have created a golden opportunity for developing an accessible web from the ground up. Instead, the internet was almost immediately inaccessible, except on government websites, which are required to meet mandates spelled out in Section 508 standards.

These same standards provide a rule of thumb that could be used by any Web developer, yet they're rarely consulted — and few rely on the services of organizations that offer tools and consulting to help people build accessible websites. The Web Accessibility Initiative, for example, provides comprehensive guidelines to help people build visually appealing, functional, accessible websites at costs comparable to those of inaccessible sites.

As the internet ogles listicles of "inspirational" disabled people, members of the very community they're discussing can't participate in those conversations. It didn't have to be this way.

The internet represents one of our greatest post-ADA social failings, as a communications medium that had the potential to build accessibility into its very backbone, but didn't. As the web becomes even more of a way of life in the next 25 years, the disability community will likely have to continue to fight for basic online accommodations, a telling testimony to their status in society.

“I have since learned never to be amazed at what men will resort to when cornered by a woman’s intelligence.”

–Iris Owens, After Claude

Ever send an email and realize that your tone came across completely differently than you meant it to? Or complete a memo and hit send only to notice you spelled your supervisor’s name wrong (yikes!)? OR, send an e-mail with some super important information that you don’t want hanging out in the cloud? Well, Gmail has your back! The latest and greatest from Google is an app that allows you to send emails that self destruct . . . if you want them to. You thought the un-send button was some good news, but it just keeps getting better and better. Google cleverly named their new extension Dmail and we’ve broken down the sweet, sweet pros for you as well as the cons of this new techno-development. Here’s the breakdown and because I like positivity — let’s start with the pros.

Pros

The app allows you to encrypt and decrypt your own emails with the touch of a button. This button is called revoke email and once an email is revoked no one can read it anymore. Not even you! Goodbye embarrassment. Right?

You can set a timer to destroy an email. If you need to send really sensitive materials (account numbers etc.) then you can set a timer on your email so that it is destroyed in a certain amount of time.

Unlike the unsend feature, you don’t have the same time constraint with this extension. You can revoke an email long after it’s been sent — maybe you think better of your angry message over the weekend and decide on Sunday night that your boss really shouldn’t read it. Well now you can take it back super easily (as long as they didn’t already read it) and although the person will know you sent it, you’ll be saved from whatever ills could have come from them reading it. 

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Whether you’re in a car or on foot, when you’re cruising down the street it’s hard to keep track of every little thing. But there’s a lot going on that we all need to keep an eye out for, like the wildlife that could call the places around the road home. In Lithuania, marketing and communications company Clinic 212 has created a petite project to remind the residents of Vilnius that they’re sharing the road with more than just cars.

“Tiny Road Sign” is exactly what it sounds like. Clinic 212 has put miniature street signs, complete with colored edging and silhouette shapes, to show where hedgehogs cross and cats hang out. Ducks and pigeons also get signs, to alert local drivers and pedestrians to be on the lookout.

And, naturally, the signs are totally adorable. What could be cuter than a hedgehog crossing the street? A hedgehog crossing the street while following proper traffic safety etiquette by using his own mini-crosswalk.

The post The tiny road signs of Lithuania have stolen our hearts appeared first on HelloGiggles.

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Fuck wraps. They taste bad, and Big Carb continues to lie to good, honest people by associating wraps with “light eating.” You think eating a wrap for lunch is healthy? You are wrong, chump, and I’d love you to fight me about it.

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Oh hello. It’s me, Common, actor, musician, probable BF of Serena Williams, and owner of an ethically made, we swear! t-shirt that reads “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like.”

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Palm trees burning near Lake Shore Avenue and Montana Street as rain falls | Video by Jonathan Anguiano

ECHO PARK — Lightning strikes from this morning’s powerful thunderstorms ignited at least two small fires in Echo Park, according to firefighters.

The lighting strikes near Lake Shore Avenue and Montana Street and Baxter and Lemoyne Streets set trees on fire, according to officials at L.A. Fire Station No. 20 in Echo Park (the fire at Lake Shore and Montana had been previously reported as being near Alvarado Street).  In one case, a downpour helped extinguish a burning palm tree, one firefighter said.

Electrical service was knocked out on Lake Shore Avenue following the storm and fires, according to some residents.

Numerous lightning strikes were reported across Los Angeles, including Eagle Rock and near the L.A. River, this morning as tropical storm Dolores moved across Southern California.

Massive lightning storm in #EchoPark caused this fire out our window. Is this end of days?? @LinzHicks pic.twitter.com/EBrLCaalIF

— Laura Zak (@la_wa) July 18, 2015

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The timeless, fantastic Bradbury Building at Broadway and Third Street is a much-beloved Downtown Los Angeles landmark, most widely known for its significant appearances in movies including Blade Runner, (500) Days of Summer, and Marlowe, starring the late James Garner. But before it was a popular film set, it was the idea of a gold-mining magnate who really wanted to put his name on a building. His vision led him to turn down a prominent architect and mysteriously commission a totally untrained one instead, and that not-quite-architect, George H. Wyman, turned to ghosts and literature to pull it off. Avery Trufelman, producer of the design and architecture podcast 99 Percent Invisible, talked to Esotouric operators Kim Cooper and Richard Schave about the eerie history of what 99 PI calls "arguably the biggest architectural movie star of Los Angeles."

As the story goes, Lewis Bradbury, a gold-mining millionaire, decided he wanted to build and put his name on a building, so in 1892 he commissioned prominent architect Sumner P. Hunt, who alone and with partners would design the Southwest Museum, the Ebell Club, the Automobile Club in University Park, and loads of private homes for wealthy clients throughout the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. Hunt prepared some plans for the proposed building, but when Bradbury visited the office to check them out, he wasn't taken with any of them. Here's where things get weird.

As Bradbury was leaving the office, he noticed Hunt's draftsman, a young man named George H. Wyman. Wyman had zero training or experience as an architect at this point, but Bradbury still, for reasons not really known to anyone, walked up to Wyman and offered him the chance to design a big, fancy, half-million-dollar office building.

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Wyman was initially and justifiably "weirded out." He was totally unqualified for the job, and in taking the commission, he would essentially be stealing a client from his boss. Unsure of how to proceed, Wyman decided to consult someone wiser: his dead brother. Wyman employed a planchette, which looks exactly like the thing that everyone puts their hands on to navigate a Ouija board—the planchette has a pencil attached, and so instead of indicating letters one by one, it writes out whole words and sentences. (At the time, spiritualism was very much in fashion and, says Cooper, planchettes "would typically be consulted when someone had an issue that they wanted some guidance on." )

In Wyman's case, he and his wife sat down together, put their hands on the planchette, and asked Wyman's dead brother whether or not to take the job. The mystical device wrote out—"in a very childish, script hand," Cooper explains—the phrase "take Bradbury … you will be … ." After that, there was a word that at first appeared to be gibberish, but when read upside-down, it supposedly said "successful." Take Bradbury and you will be successful? Ok! Dead brother came through, and the job was a go.

And Wyman was successful. The Bradbury was such an invigorating project that he eventually went to school and became an actual architect. As for Wyman's first big commission, the Bradbury has a kind of timeless versatility that's led it to play a diverse set of locations—a Burmese hotel, a seedy office building, a futuristic ruin.

Image via Shabdro Photo

It's said that Wyman's inspiration for the building's design was directly inspired by a novel, Looking Backwards by Edward Bellamy, a popular science fiction novel about a utopian society that was published in 1888. A passage from that book describes this incredible building in the future (which, in those days, was 2000): "a vast hall full of light received not alone from the windows on all sides, but from the dome."
· Episode 172: On Location [99PI]
· Bradbury Building [Curbed LA]

because I haven’t seen it

1) naked lady in front of a very depressed, morose man

2) is this man smoking a cigarette? Maybe not at that moment, but later

3) Colin Farrell is so puzzled about a dead body he puts his hand on his mouth to touch his stache

4) Vince Vaughn acts serious, like he did in that movie where maybe Jennifer Lopez gets into his mind, because he is a serious serial killer

5) A woman makes dinner for her husband in yellow lighting, and the yellow lighting means that it’s a grim situation to be married to a woman

6) There is definitely a sex scene, probably preceding a bar scene where somebody drinks whiskey very fast, and nobody is truly enjoying the sex, except the woman because she’s not very smart

7) serious ass shot in the shower to grim country music

8) the person you are watching this makes a joke about who the true detectives should have been, and it’s an extremely overplayed joke

9) somebody puts a gun in a drawer. For some reason this happens in every show about detectives, if it hasn’t yet just you wait

10) somebody looks at a bunch of photos and evidence on a wall at a police station, and I have to tell you, it doesn’t add up

11) but it might add up enough to talk to this lunatic who definitely didn’t commit the murders, even though he’s like, a weird pervert

12) somebody’s very invested in this dead body, so invested dare I say it’s infesting their personal life and relationships. But it’s always been this way. It’s always been this way because they are a detective, that’s all they are. The last of the true detectives.

13) somebody else says “should we keep watching this?” and then the last five minutes are exciting, just like every damn HBO show in the world, and then it ends with a song

“My first indication that something was off was an email from a colleague: ‘Congratulations on your cool science result getting some press. Also congrats on the apparently successful gender reassignment surgery.’” An astronomer writes about the entire media assuming she was a man after her research went viral.

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Who says Rambo, the volatile veteran of the Vietnam War with a chip on his massive shoulder, isn't relevant?

Sylvester Stallone on Monday announced at Comic-Con in San Diego that the latest installation in the Rambo franchise, Last Blood, will see John Rambo take on the Islamic State.

"We have teams scouting Iraq and parts of Syria where ISIS have their greatest strongholds," Stallone said, according to The Independent. "We're working with the locals there to help deliver the most intense and realistic Rambo movie experience ever."

That hardly means the plot of Last Blood is set in stone. Stallone previously said the movie would be set in Mexico, a Rambo-ized version of No Country for Old Men.

Update: Looks like Stallone didn't actually say this. The Independent and others based their reports on a hoax site.

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Rescue crews were mobilized this morning after a car was found in the L.A. River under the 2 Freeway near Elysian Valley. But rescuers found no passengers inside or persons nearby. The only thing to do was to wait until the vehicle was towed out of the water by a heavy-duty L.A. Fire Department truck and then dragged up the concrete embankment.  Anthea Raymond took shots of the scene.

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