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Asia Ford of Louisville, Kentucky has always struggled with her weight. At her heaviest, she weighed 474 pounds. When her then-husband lost a limb to diabetes, she knew that she had take action to avoid a similar fate. So she began exercising vigorously and losing weight. To motivate herself, Ford set a goal: she would complete the Rodes City Run, a 10-kilometer race that was held yesterday.

Even though she had lost an impressive 217 pounds, the race was a great struggle for her. Thankfully, her son Terrance and a police officer that Ford describes as her "angel" intervened to encourage her. Wave 3 News reports:

"He was like my angel," said Ford. "He came at the moment I really needed him."

Ford said Lt. Gregory shared stories of his mother and her struggle with diabetes. Step after step, Ford realized Lt. Gregory had kept her mind off the pain - and on the goal. Hand in hand, Asia, Lt. Gregory and Asia's son Terrance crossed the finish line.

"Watching her cross the finish line," said Lt. Gregory, "I felt it all over. it was great moment and I'm glad she let me be a part of it."

Asia's son Terrance calls her a hero.

"Looking at her and how she used to be, it's inspirational and makes me push harder to do the things I want to do in life," said Terrance.

Hand in hand, the three crossed the finish line together.

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Sybille Paulsen, an artist in Berlin, calls her project Tangible Truths. Cancer patients often lose their hair as a result of chemotherapy. Rather than surrendering their hair through gradual loss, Paulsen gives them a different way to wear their hair. Locks of hair become woven pieces of jewelry that patients can wear even after recovery. Pictured above is Mary Beth, her first client in the project and now a friend, wearing her hair as a necklace.

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C-SPAN, the American cable television network that broadcasts government events and holds political discussions, hosts the show Washington Journal. This show invites viewers to call in and share their opinions. One recurring caller, known only as "Jack Strickland," uses the opportunity to play pranks. On Tuesday, Strickland called in and, in a serious tone, read from the lyrics of the opening song to the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

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Chocolate Easter Bunnies are traditionally hollow. This is to teach children at an early age how to be disappointed with life. But Amy of the food blog Oh, Bite It! discovered another purpose: a decapitated chocolate bunny can serve as a cup!

In a step-by-step tutorial, Amy shows you how to saw off the heads of chocolate bunnies, then convert them into completely edible jello shots. She used strawberry Jell-o, vodka, sprinkles, and whipped cream. Once assembled, re-attach the top of the rabbit's skull and serve.

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These mesmerizing beauties are called Big Poppa Tart donuts. They're the latest creation of Santiago Campa, the owner of the Donut Bar, a small donut shop chain in southern California. Each of the Big Poppa Tart donuts has a whole Pop-Tart stuffed inside. It's 2 inches tall and weighs about 1 pound. ABC7 describes how Campa developed it:

Campa says his son helped him come up with the idea of using Pop Tarts.

"I laughed for about ten seconds and then I said, 'Well, actually you might be on to something,'" Campa said.

That was six months ago. Since then, the "Poppa Tart Donut" has become popular through social media. What was supposed to be a one week special is now permanently on the menu.

"It tastes like heaven," says Orange County resident Andrew Biggins after trying the doughnut for the first time. "It's like a Pop Tart on steroids."

The store also sells a second flavor that uses S'mores Pop Tarts. It has a huge toasted homemade marshmallow on top and is dipped in fudge chocolate.

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This clever lamp shade design makes good use of old x-ray radiographs. The craftsmanship looks precise. It would be ideal for macabre settings, such as a preschool classroom or a wedding chapel.

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The mysterious artist Sleevebucks doodles on coffee cup sleeves that he gets from Starbucks. The iconic Siren becomes the Bride of Frankenstein, Heisenberg, Maleficent, Snape, and other characters from popular culture.

I really like this one of Princess Leia that fits so well with the pre-existing shapes in the logo. It's appropriately called Café au Leia.

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In a recent Twitter exchange with a fan, William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek, hinted that he's a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

.@CalfCorset I could be a brony

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) March 20, 2015

He even has a favorite pony:

@Iouisaimh @CalfCorset Rainbow Dash

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) March 20, 2015

Shatner pushed back against a bronyphobe who showed up:

.@leohoratio What are you talking about? Friendship is Magic!

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) March 20, 2015

Welcome to The Herd, Captain.

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Greg Benson of Mediocre Films pulls off a decidedly non-mediocre prank by acting like a classic weatherman giving his cheery report, all while inside a small elevator. He even has a weather map!

And he's just getting started. No morning news broadcast is complete with just the weather. Other reporters have to share their segments, too.

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In the movie 127 Hours, a mountain climber amputates his own arm after getting it stuck in a boulder. That's cool, but not really applicable to most people's lives. So the marketing manager wants it punched up a bit. He wants clicks--lots of them. There are common word formulas for web ads to get precisely that.

For a Photoshop contest, Cracked readers retitled 37 famous stories, including novels and movies in order to boost web traffic. They include Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Roger Soderberg faced off against Anders Lundstrom at a competition in Turku, Finland. Sordberg knocked an impossible shot that left everyone stunned--especially his opponent, who conceded with admiration for the feat.

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Mother wants fresh meat. Nay, she craves fresh meat. Will you feed her?

Mother is an ad agency in New York. "Fresh meat" is its in-house term for "interns." To encourage meat units to apply to its internship program, Mother produced this video expressing how much the agency hungers for interns. Do you qualify? The dark hooded narrator describes the qualifications:

It doesn't matter where you've been before.
We want you raw because we're hungry
Even if you've been on the floor. [...] 

No want no day old meat.
No want no stinky feet.
No want to take no heat.
Just give us our fresh meat. 

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What does it mean to be a handsome man? The answer will vary over time and from culture to culture. To satisfy your scholarly interest in the wholly academic study of body aesthetics, BuzzFeed conducted a sociological survey of current dominant male beauty standards in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Turkey, Italy, the UK, India, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia. It also speculated on future trends in male beauty preferences worldwide.

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Readers with an interest in the social sciences may wish to conduct further research on their own. A literature review is the starting point of all serious scholarly study.

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Hugo Santos is a graduate student in communication design in Porto, Portugal. He wanted to get into a prestigious design fair, but his ideas were rejected, one after another. He felt saddened by this problem, which is what inspired him to develop a project which did get him into the design fair: Don't You Weep! It's a tissue box that opens to reveal messages which (hopefully) motivate the user to keep trying to overcome obstacles. Santos produced 15 of them, all of which sold at the fair.

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It's called The Beer Engine. The Hogs Back Brewery in Tongham, Surrey, UK commissioned this custom motorcycle. As you can see, the sidecar is a beer keg, spigot and all. The gear shift lever is a beer engine pull. The owners use the motorcycle to draw the attention of crowds at festivals and other public events.

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