The road signs have been present in our life. It’s almost the only thing that I’m required or forced to follow. The disregard of following signs may constitute a violation of the law. The first road signs were the milestone, used by the Romans. They erected stone columns throughout their empire, which is giving them the distance to Rome. That’s why we used to say, “Every road leads to Rome”. Today the road signs is used to instruct us on what we must or should do under a given set of circumstances. What happens when a road sign makes you think, if there is something wrong.

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I discovered today a new kind of ducks that I didn’t know before, the mandarin duck. If we compare to our North American Wood Duck. The mandarin duck is way more colorful, his breast is purple with two vertical white bars, and the flanks ruddy, with two orange “sails” at the back. In China, the mandarin duck is associated as a Chinese weddings symbol, because it symbolize wedded bliss and fidelity. But in reality, though, the ducks find new partners each year. A Chinese proverb for loving couples uses the Mandarin Duck as a metaphor: “Two mandarin ducks playing in water”.

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A newly emerged “fish spa” is becoming fashionable in many hot spring resorts, and has attracted even more customers, all curious about this peculiar treatment. In Japan, fish are being used in spa treatments. I’m not pulling your leg, although these fishes might. The customer soaks in water stocked with fishes that nibble on their skin, removing dead cells and reportedly clearing up skin conditions.

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On August 8, 41 year-old Albania artist Saimir Strati works on a portrait of the steed at the International Centre of Culture in Tirana. It is reported that Saimir Strati is attempting to use 1 million toothpicks to mount a steed chart together on 8 square meters board. He is known for working on a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci using industrial nails at the International Centre of Culture in Tirana.

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It seems like everything is working against this well-cast adaptation of Valerio Manfredi’s novel: the fact that the historial epic genre is all but dead, thanks to Kingdom of Heaven and Tristan + Isolde; an initial release set for January of this year, only to be released in August, a.k.a. the other month during which studios dump their supposed flops. Now that the title has been changed from The Enchanted Sword, here are suggestions for this adaptation of Valerio Manfredi’s novel: (1) endless close-ups of Aishwarya Rai; (2) brutally hot legionaries.

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