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In a week when Uber added another empty seat in its C suite, this also happened:
Ah, social media: For those “Game of Thrones” fans who need a fix before next month’s season premiere, Entertainment Weekly offers up a great YouTube video. It combines lots of clips to essentially have the past and present cast sing Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” It’s great for releasing your inner chained-up little person.
Newspaper deadlines keep getting earlier and earlier. “Please note,” the Los Angeles Times tweeted Wednesday. “We just deleted an automated tweet saying there was a 6.8 earthquake in Isla Vista. That earthquake happened in 1925.”
A French fitness blogger died after she was reportedly hit by an exploding whipped cream canister — part of a product that had been withdrawn from the market in 2013. It apparently hit 33-yearold Rebecca Burger in the chest, triggering a heart attack.
This week in “You Think Your Job Stinks”: Police in Little Rock, Ark., say a mall worker wrestled away a stripper pole from a wouldbe thief who bit the employee during the struggle. The woman apparently had been trying to return an item and got frustrated when she was refused money, so she tried to gallop with the pole.
On the other hand: A federal judge approved a $6.5 million settlement in a wage dispute involving 28,000 current or former exotic dancers at Deja Vu-affiliated clubs operating in 18 states. The class-action lawsuit accused the clubs of violating wage laws by treating nude or topless dancers as independent contractors who had to pay a fee to perform, instead of treating them as employees.