Blog Posts by Elise Solé, Shine Staff

Well, this is awkward. A man was having a spat with his girlfriend at an Olive Garden in Charlotte, NC on Sunday night when he decided to resolve the matter in the utmost mature manner: defiantly building a fort of menus to shield his face from his girlfriend.

Fellow diner Adam Howell caught the incident on his camera phone, tweeting it out to his 650 followers, and the photo soon went viral. "A grown ass man is mad at his girlfriend at Olive Garden & has made a menu fort," he wrote, later updating his Twitter audience that the waitress eventually gave the man a time out by dismantling the his fort and taking his menu away. His date, on her cell phone, apparently was unfazed.

Building a menu fort is an obvious sign of relationship strife but what are some other clues you are that miserable couple at table five?

You physically turn your body 180 degrees from your guy who smirks behind your back.

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Yes, cinnamon can be dangerous (Photo by ThinkStock)The infamous “Cinnamon Challenge”, a YouTube fad in which teens compete to swallow one tablespoon of cinnamon in under 60 seconds without drinking water, is under fire for its serious health risks, according to the results of a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.



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Study author Steven E. Lipshultz, M.D., Director of the Batchelor Children’s Research Institute at the University of Miami, and his team found that the stunt has led to an increase in calls to the American Association of Poison Control Centers. According to the university press release, in the first half of 2012, the center received 178 challenge-related calls—that’s more than triple the 51 calls it received the entire previous year. Of those 178 calls, 122 (69 percent) were classified as intentional misuse or abuse consistent with the “Cinnamon Challenge” and about 30 (17 percent) required medical attention.
 
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These people will never sit next to each other again. (Photo by Getty Images)Here is the most insignificant news you will read all day: Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries have reached a divorce settlement.  

On Friday, the same day as a terrorist manhunt has parts of the country on lockdown, Kardashian continues to conquer headlines with her personal relationships. Some things never change.  

Humphries and his now ex-wife settled their divorce, only about a million years after the pair wed for reality TV cameras. The agreement was signed by both parties and handed into L.A. court, according to E! News. Humphries was not present, choosing to remain in New Jersey.

Before he granted the divorce, Judge Hank Goldberg asked Kardashian, "Is there any way your marriage could be saved?"

"No your Honor," she responded, also confirming that she had entered into the agreement freely.

An eyewitness told E! News that Kardashian appeared to be “in a good mood” as she was escorted through the court.

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On Friday the city of Boston and its surrounding suburbs, schools, and transit systems remained in eerie lockdown while SWAT teams descended on Watertown, a city eight miles west of Boston where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is suspected to be hiding. No vehicle traffic is allowed, shops are closed, and a no-fly zone is in place over the town. Inside homes, families are prohibited from answering the door unless instructed by a police officer and are waiting out the manhunt, tweeting photos of the scene from their windows via the account #watertown.

Shawna_England: “View from my house…crazy.”

@roncorning: "Eerie Instagram from #watertown resident trapped inside their home."

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@Knicolegillette: This picture is unbelievably terrifying. Imagine seeing this in your hometown.

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@tomuky: Imagine looking out your window and seeing this.

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@SophieFlack: View from my parent's front porch.

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Nina Sanchez/Oxnard Police Department/FacebookWe could all use some uplifting news and this police officer's good deed is the perfect fix.

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On Monday, an Oxnard, California police officer named Michael Kohr responded to a report filed by Nina Sanchez whose daughter Bella’s bike was stolen. But instead of just visiting the family to fill out a police report, he brought the little girl a brand new bike.



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Nina Sanchez posted a photo of Bella and Officer Kohr on her Facebook page and wrote: "Yesterday morning on my way to take my daughter Bella on a bike ride, to our dismay we realized her cherished Minnie Mouse bike that Santa brought her had been stolen, along with our jogging stroller. To say we were heartbroken is an understatement. Through many tears and reassuring hugs I managed to call in a police report. This afternoon, I received a call from Officer Kohr that he was on his way with a brand new Read More »from Cop buys broken-hearted little girl a new bike. Feel good news of the day.

No more nipple shame (Photo by ThinkStock)Because women don't have enough body woes to obsess over, The Telegraph reports that a bizarre new trend is sweeping England: nipple tattoos.

Yup, women who aren't satisfied with their ordinary, run-of-the-mill nipples can now sport new and improved nipples by inking them so they're darker and more defined (that's good news for women with pesky undefined nipples). The treatment is touted to create a more symmetrical look for nipples that are mismatched, or colorless.

Here's how it works. The procedure takes two hours and can cost close to $2,000 (that's for both boobs). The patient's nipples are numbed and ink that most closely matches the skin tone is applied. The effects last for about 12-18 months, and then touch-ups are recommended as, just like with any other tattoo, the ink fades over time.

Gail Proudman, a UK-based independent clinician says she sees over three clients per week. "A lot of people want their nipples made darker. It’s the fashion," she told The Telegraph. "Some

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Dove's latest "real beauty" campaign just got grittier. No more real women laughing in their underwear or crying with happiness at the site of their image posted on a billboard in Times Square. For their latest efforts in self-actualizing beauty, the company hired an FBI sketch artist to hammer the point home: You’re beautiful.

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In a two-part experiment, Dove and its agency Ogilvy hired Gil Zamora, an FBI sketch artist to draw seven women as they described themselves. The artist wasn't allowed to view the women who sat on the other side of a curtain, he could only ask them questions about what they looked like. Using the information the subjects gave him about their physical traits, he drew their portraits. The women gave descriptions such as, "I kind of have a fat, rounder face," and "I'd say I have a pretty big forehead."

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The subjects had

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Getty ImagesOn Thursday, Time Magazine released its tenth "100 Most Influential People in the World" list, an annual compilation of inspiring and relevant luminaries in politics, entertainment, and fashion profiled by their industry peers. This year, among notable figures such as First Lady Michelle Obama, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, and congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, is pop star Christina Aguilera profiled by Celine Dion.

Christina Aguilera. No doubt her voice is timeless but her influence? That's debatable. 

For starters, Aguilera's relevancy in the music world has diminished. Her 2010 album "Bionic" was hyped to death but ultimately flopped as one of her most poorly rated albums. That was followed by the box office failure "Burlesque." In 2012, she released her seventh album, Lotus—what MTV News called her supposed "return to prominence." However, the The New York Times panned it as "unadventurous" with "bland self-help lyrics." Yet a star's influence is more about performance

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