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this gif is a fairly good representation of my stomach after having beers and pizza. 

Yep, Ben Whishaw is the new voice for Paddington. He's replacing Colin Firth, whose voice was deemed "too mature." Well, of course. Because the voice is the thing that's wrong with Paddington, and not the fact that he's now a full-sized, realistic-looking bear wearing just a coat and a hat.

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Cut the shit, Ernie.

chaotic-genius:

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nomud:

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This is one of those relatively rare moments on tumblr when I have no idea what the fuck is going on

Allow me to shed some light on the subject.

It’s not gay if it’s on thr moon

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Oh holy hell—Emily Carroll's horror comic collection Through The Woods is so freaking spooky. We absolutely inhaled this book when we got it in our hands. Each little horror comic is so creepy and absolutely gorgeous. It's Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark kinds of fun. And we have an exclusive scary story excerpt here just for you.

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According to an NBC source upset at his treatment, the executives claimed the decision was motivated by “security concerns” as Israel prepares a ground invasion, a claim repeated to me by an NBC executive. But late yesterday, NBC sent another correspondent, Richard Engel, along with an American producer who has never been to Gaza and speaks no Arabic, into Gaza to cover the ongoing Israeli assault.

#BREAKING: President of the Intl AIDS society, Joep Lange has been confirmed dead. #MH17 More LIVE Ch 601

Ukrainian rebel forces have reportedly found the black box of the downed Malaysia Airlines plane amid the scattered debris. Moscow-based wire agency Interfax has reported that Ukrainian rebel forces have the black box and have agreed to hand it over to the Russian-run regional air safety authority. It is important to know who has the black box because that organization will control the release of the data recordings and information from on board before the plane hit the ground.

Greek asks: "Any weapons there?" and Demon says: "None at all. Civilian things, medical stuff, towels, toilet paper." "Any documents?" asks Greek, and Demon, perhaps realising what has just happened, replies: "Yes, an Indonesian student from [a US] university."

“Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?” the Orange Is the New Black actor, 36, tweeted, quickly following it up with, “In all seriousness, tho- HOW DO YOU MISTAKENLY SHOOT DOWN A COMMERCIAL PLANE?! Ugh. It's saddest for the victims and their families, obviously. But Malaysia Airlines is apparently a GREAT airline. Gonna be tough to recover.”

Scientists simulate time travel using light particles:

jenvanmeter:

"… study used individual photons to replicate a quantum particle traveling through a space-time loop (like the one you see above) to arrive where and when it began."

Mayor Charlie Hales has issued a second statement this afternoon defending a settlement he signed wiping away discipline for a police captain who'd been punished in 2010 for putting up a shrine to Nazi-era German soldiers several years before and then again this year for retaliating against a former subordinate who'd accused him of harassment.

Hales argues he was told that the city would have lost a court fight against Kruger, who filed a tort claim in January over the harassment complaints and a senior police bureau official's mockery of Kruger's reputation as the city's "Nazi cop." Separately, the Oregonian this afternoon has reported that Hales told his colleagues on the city council that he wasn't aware of all the details of the settlement when he signed it and that he was looking for a way to back out.

Not only has the police bureau agreed to wipe away Kruger's discipline, with a two-week suspension paid back as vacation time, but Police Chief Mike Reese also agreed to write a complimentary letter about Kruger that would be inserted into his file instead.

Hales is promising, from now on, that major discipline decisions will be aired more widely among the city council before they move forward.

"Mayors often must make distasteful decisions for the good of the city. This is one of those times," Hales wrote. "My signature does not mean I condone, in any way, the actions of Capt. Kruger in 1999."

His full, and very long, statement is on the jump.

On Wednesday, the community learned the details of a settlement between Capt. Mark Kruger and the City of Portland.

Community reaction has been outrage. I hear that outrage and agree with much of the substance of it. The issues involved bring up very personal, long-standing feelings of hurt and anger. These issues awaken our values as a community, especially where it comes to the behavior we expect from our public servants.

I do not minimize these feelings. The community has every right to feel this way.

The Portland City Council shares these values, as well as frustrations with this situation.

As mayor, I signed the settlement agreement. I am not happy with this settlement. I wish it had turned out differently. But it did not, and I take full responsibility for signing the document, making it a binding legal agreement. Mayors often must make distasteful decisions for the good of the city. This is one of those times.

My signature does not mean I condone, in any way, the actions of Capt. Kruger in 1999. Instead, this complex settlement marks the end of multiple legal battles that have engulfed the city for more than a decade and involved four mayoral administrations. The constitutional issues present in the situation meant that past mayors were advised by counsel that the city might well have lost a court fight. I have been advised the same.

I’m not happy with the settlement. But I signed it. The final decision was mine.

Regarding the Portland Police and relationships with the community, we have implemented significant structural changes, including:

● The hiring of a more diverse workforce.
● Creation of a new discipline guide.
● Implementation of new rules of conduct regarding use of force.
● Implementation of officer performance evaluations.

We also have pushed forward with the implementation of reforms negotiated after a Department of Justice investigation, even though a judge has not yet ruled on the issue. We did not wait for the judge, but are working with the DOJ, the Police Bureau, and others in Portland to improve the relationship between the Police Bureau and the community.

Here’s what we have not done, but will do: Create a better process by which the details of major, important disciplinary issues – regardless of which bureau – are flagged for the attention of the full City Council. Currently, this process involves the City Attorney, Human Resources, the city’s Risk Management, the bureau and a single commissioner, but does not always include a full discussion with the full City Council. That will change.

I and other members of the Portland City Council intend to address that process immediately.
But in regards to the legal issue between the city and Capt. Kruger: The outrage felt by the community is right and just.

This case needs to be resolved. I take responsibility for ending the legal dispute about past performance, and for setting clear expectations for future performance in service to Portlanders.

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Just days after shooting and killing a man, the owner of a 24-hour Elvis Presley tourist attraction in Holly Springs, Miss., was found dead on his front porch, officials said.

A motorist called police Thursday morning after seeing Paul McLeod, 70, slumped in a chair outside the shrine known as Graceland Too, said Marshall County Coroner James Richard Anderson. He said there was no blood or trauma to McLeod's body.

"It appears to be natural causes but it is pending until we get the autopsy," said Anderson.

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German Studies, University of Vienna

"Die Männerfreundschaft zwischen Hartmann von Aues Iwein und Gawein"

MH17 "was shot down" and there "may have been American citizens on board", US vice-president Joe Biden said in a speech at the Netroots Nation conference in Detroit.

There are unconfirmed reports that a number of the passengers on the plane were high-profile AIDS researchers and scientists on the way to Melbourne, Australia for the 2014 international conference.

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The Israeli ground invasion has started on Gaza Strip, here the borders of Gaza. #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/ny7sEjhar0
— Jehad Saftawi (@Jehadsaftawi) July 17, 2014

Disgracefully, award-winning correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin will not be on the ground to cover it. When Israel invaded Gaza in 2008, Al Jazeera's Mohedin and Sherine Tadros were the only English-language correspondents on the ground.
Mohedin later moved to NBC News. Yesterday, he was playing soccer with some kids on a beach near his hotel in Gaza, when out of nowhere, the Israeli military shelled the area, killing four of them.

NBC executive David Verdi, according to The Intercept, ordered "Mohyeldin to leave Gaza immediately" for "security reasons"—a laughable notion given his experience reporting from warzones for years—angering a number of NBC journalists inside the newsroom. Moheyldin has been replaced by reporter Richard Engel, who is based in Tel Aviv. You can see Mohyeldin briefly in Engel's heart-wrenching report from last night:

Meanwhile, the New York Times apparently changed its headline about the deaths of the children from something that conveys the news, "Four Young Boys Killed Playing on Gaza Beach," to the vague and unclear "Boys Drawn to Gaza Beach, and Into Center of Mideast Strife."

Here's the paper of record's latest update on the invasion of Gaza.

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Goodell: Levi's might fit Raiders KTRK-TV Roger Goodell added a twist to the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Levi's Stadium on Thursday by addressing the looming stadium issue just up the road in Oakland, where the Raiders have long been searching for a replacement to the outdated O.co Coliseum. and more »

jacklives:

"This homework is optional but you should do it for practice"

nishabee:

“Most difficult moment for a father:
split his children in all corners of the house
or all in one corner
and die together?”

I’m walking and a man says, “If the Palestinians would just love their children more than they hate their enemy, the violence would be over.”

Yes.
If only.
If only they would love their children.
If only they had chosen the four corners
(so they would die)
or kept them in the middle
(so they would die).
If only they would have brought four-day old Noura back to life.
If only they would kiss their children’s dead mouths and breathe life into them.
If only they would raise their arms to the sun to block the bombs with the palms of their hands.
If only they would dry the rivers of blood in the streets and pour them back into the hearts of their daughters and sons.
Why don’t they?
Why can’t they just pull out their own lungs and stick them into their slaughtered children’s chests?
Why can’t they just sing, 24 hours a day, louder than thunder, to prevent their ears from hearing the sound of bombs?
If only they would love their children, and carry their bodies up into the air, above the siege, past the blockade, into freedom.
If the Al-Batsh boys’ parents had really loved them,
they wouldn’t have let their insides be wrenched apart by the bomb that fell.
They would use their hands to hold their limbs together so that they could stay in one piece.
If only they would stop the vibrations which create sound,
the sound which crashes and bleeds through their children’s ears.
If only they would stop all light from traveling, so that their children wouldn’t have to see their sisters, cousins, fathers, brothers.
Dead on the floor.
Their house turning to rubble.
Their family turning to dust.
Their family turning to nothing.
Their world disappearing.
And why doesn’t their love sustain their children more than food?
Heal the wounds from the weapons?
They had seconds to leave before the bombing began.
They should have thrown their children out the window,
knowing they would take flight
with the wings their love had created.

If only they loved Mohammed, Ahed, Zakaria and Mohammed
enough
to rise above their soccer game and change
the magnetic forces of the Earth,
to pull away the bomb,
headed for the beach.