Nepal stages annual elephant beauty pageant

Kathmandu - Nepal staged its annual elephant beauty pageant Wednesday, with the creatures parading along a catwalk before a panel of judges in the south-west of the country.The beauty pageant for the pachyderms was held in Chitwan district's Sauraha, as a part of a local festival for tourists.Keepers spent nearly three hours bathing the elephants, oiling their bodies and painting their toenails and backs in colourful patterns. They were then covered with colourful silk cloths.&nb...

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Love story | One the best and a real Love story

During my second week of poking around, and submitting some older pieces of art a comment was left on a piece (now hidden for it's shoddy composition) titled Echo. He had just submitted a piece of writing titled E'kos (pronounced echoes), so the title caught his eye. I wandered over to his profile page, and found him just adorable, then I scrolled down and saw that not only was he 3 years younger than I, he was also 750+ miles away. I left a comment and went on my way. Never to have anything but the last word, he came back and left another. Just as bad as he is, I went back, upped the ante, and left a private message saying that I hope he hadn't minded, but I had added him to my messenger. I didn't know anyone on dA, and a friend would be great. At the time I was trying to keep it friendly,...

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Top Ten Movies | Bridesmaids

1. Bridesmaids. Take away the wedding climax and the set pieces involving food poisoning and slapstick sex, and what you have here is a drama as complex and closely observed as any Mike Leigh film, with Kristen Wiig (coming into her own as an actor and writer after years of being an underused player in comedy movies) unquietly seething as a hard-luck case watching her peers make more money and have better relationships. The fact that Paul Feig’s comedy also happened to be the funniest movie of 2011 just makes it all the more powerful and moving as a testament to how complicated your relationship with your longtime best friend can beco...

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