The federal government accused a 6-year-old of plagiarism and stripped her of her victory in this year’s national Junior Duck Stamp contest, leaving the youngest-ever winner in tears and igniting a fierce debate in the wildlife art community over artistic techniques, precocious youngsters and catty parents.
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Fun fact: Portland has more nudie bars per capita than any other place the United States of America. Now the Casa Diabla combines healthy vegan food with somebody’s naked daughter dancing for you.
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Bitcoins and gold are plummeting, baby powder is going up! Blamed for empty shop shelves from Europe to Australia, networks of baby formula traffickers are shipping milk powder to Chinese parents fearful of local products, and working ever harder to meet demand.
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The action for a calendar is aimed at raising some 43,000 euros after regional authorities in Montserrat, near Valencia, decided to restrict local pick-ups as part of a cost-cutting exercise.
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The men arenât allowed to speak out for themselves, being bound by the “devoir de reserve (duty of silence)” rule that forbids them from “using their job functions as an instrument of propaganda”.
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This is a big deal. Most of the oil Iran isn’t able to sell is stored on oil tankers. China recently delivered the first of 12 new oil tankers to Iran. Uninsured they are floating time bombs waiting to blow up.
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Constrained from a substantial military incursion into Syria by US President Barack Obama’s veto and Saudi and Qatari refusals to help pay for it, Turkey’s government and military decided to make do with carving out a buffer strip 10 kilometers deep into Syria by continuous artillery barrages.
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All 50 states across the nation offer parents the ability to exempt their child(ren) from vaccination requirements. This week, however, New Jersey legislators advanced a bill that would make such exemptions harder for parents to acquire in an attempt to crackdown on “easy exemption policies”.
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According to one high profile member of Team GB, the Olympic Village was a hotbed (quite literally) of sexual activity, with athletes from every discipline and every nationality making the most of their time together.
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There was a lot of medai attention for this event, so I think they may might just have found another source of income.
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