I look ridiculous in it.
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18 Photos Of A Cat Island That Will Remind You How To Dream
If you’re ever feeling down, just remember that some day, you may finally visit this remote Japanese island overrun with cats.
Hey there, what's wrong? Don't you know there's an island in Japan where cats outnumber humans six to one?
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It's Aoshima Island, in southern Japan's Ehime prefecture.
Just one of the many beautiful Japanese islands run by cats.
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Did you have a bad day? Then remember that Aoshima Island is a place that exists that you may someday travel to.
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You may have had a rough morning, but nothing can take this new dream away from you.
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Murder Rap: Meet The Man Facing Life In Prison For His Lyrics
Prosecutors are increasingly using rap lyrics as evidence of criminal wrong doing. BuzzFeed News talked to one San Diego rapper, Tiny Doo, whose case could set a new precedent.
Courtesy Brandon Duncan
When Brandon Duncan heard voices outside his front door at 4:30 a.m., he never imagined they belonged to a squad of heavily armed police officers getting ready to burst into his apartment.
It was June 19, 2014, and Duncan, along with girlfriend Myra Arauz, had fallen asleep on the couch in their San Diego apartment. The sun wasn't up yet when Duncan opened the door and found the cops waiting outside.
"They weren't ready," Duncan told BuzzFeed News.
Police quickly raised their rifles and stormed through the front door. They ordered Duncan and Arauz onto the ground, then led them both outside, handcuffed. Neither knew what was happening.
Over the next few hours, police grilled Duncan — who has no criminal record — in a foam-lined interrogation room. And he was shocked by what he discovered: He was facing nine felony conspiracy charges, each of which carried a potential sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
The possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars now hangs over Duncan's head as he and his lawyers mount their latest effort to get the case dismissed during a hearing Monday in San Diego.
The hearing is just the latest development in Duncan's long, Kafkaesque nightmare that grew out of an unlikely source: His self-produced rap mixtape, "No Safety," which he released under the name Tiny Doo.
The charges against Duncan — and 15 co-defendants — stemmed from a series of gang shootings in the San Diego area in 2012 and 2013. But Duncan's case is unique because prosecutors don't believe he actually pulled the trigger, planned the shootings, or even knew about them.
Instead, prosecutors are, for the first time, using an obscure California law that makes it illegal to willfully promote or significantly benefit from gang crime.
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Duncan said he didn't make any money from "No Safety" — he had 100 copies professionally pressed on CD, but as is often the case for local musicians, the pressing costs were greater than what he made in sales. And in some cases, Duncan said he simply gave the record away to friends.
Duncan spent seven months behind bars because he couldn't afford his $500,000 bail.
Duncan's case represents a growing trend among prosecutors to use the work of aspiring rappers against them in court. It's also a trend steeped in race, and which has far-reaching impacts on how prosecutors can treat artistic expression.
25 Quotes About Animals That Will Make You A Better Human
“For the animal shall not be measured by man.”
1. "If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."―James Herriot
2. "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ― Anatole France
3. "You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us." ― Robert Louis Stevenson
4. "We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." ― Henry Beston
5. "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." ― Alice Walker
6. "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ― Mahatma Gandhi
7. "An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." ― Martin Buber
8. "I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth." ― Walt Whitman
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