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Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood - Who Are the Most Famous Female Serial Killers? Machete Girl Magazine and Cyberpunk Project. Cat-Inspired Marshmallows! Doraemon, cat cafes, Hello Kitty, nekomimi (cat ears)... A list of all of Japan’s cat-inspired content could go on for days. Now, marshmallow shop Yawahada, a gourmet sweets online boutique from Japan, has created their own cat-inspired marshmallows. The adorably packaged “Cafe Cat" for 840 yen makes a perfect gift for yourself or for sharing with a friend. The box comes complete with a total of four marshmallows including two cats and two cat paw prints in chocolate and vanilla flavors. They are delicious when used in hot soy milk or milk tea, but can also be used in coffee or the hot beverage of one’s choice.

Additional cat-inspired marshmallows are available for order, including green tea paw prints and bulk mini packs that make excellent party favors. Right now, cat lovers in Japan can enjoy purchasing these marshmallows via Yawahada's online shop. ©Marshmallow Shop Yawahada This is a Tokyo Otaku Mode original article. Cybernetic Jewellery from Cyberdog UK Ltd. [ The Devil's Dictionary Dot Com ] Wall of Films! | Over 350 Documentaries on 1 Page. Just imagine what could become possible if an entire city had seen just one of the documentaries above.

Just imagine what would be possible if everyone in the country was aware of how unhealthy the mainstream media was for our future and started turning to independent sources in droves. Creating a better world really does start with an informed citizenry, and there's lots of subject matter to cover. From all the documentaries above, it's evident that our society needs a new story to belong to. The old story of empire and dominion over the earth has to be looked at in the full light of day - all of our ambient cultural stories and values that we take for granted and which remain invisible must become visible. But most of all, we need to see the promise of the alternatives - we need to be able to imagine new exciting ways that people could live, better than anything that the old paradigm could ever dream of providing.

So take this library of films and use it. The Japanese Arts - Karate, Akeido, Kendo and Judo. Fast technique: only the blocking leg is moved and the body weight should not be shifted. It isuseful either to parry an attack to the groin or to move a leg out of range of a stamping kick. 12. The 'Katas' There are something like fifty different katas or formal exercises in karate, but all arebased on elements contained within the five basic 'heian' katas and three 'tekki' katas.In the early days of karate, when sparring with partners was considered dangerous becauseno one had thought of focusing attacks short of contact, katas afforded the most realistic trainingpossible.

Perfection. Every detail mustbe attended to. 13. Basic sparring (kihon kumite) was first introduced into karate in the 1920s by GichinFunakoshi. Kihon-kumite (basic sparring). In this kind of sparring, the attack and the target are bothpredetermined, the participants facing each other from a fixed distance and taking turns to attack and defend. Five-step sparring, One-step sparring. Periodic Table of Typefaces.

Quantum Levitation–where science videos don’t get any cooler! | PsiVid. This video demonstrating the power of superconductivity has been making the rounds this week and is an example of how video is really the best way to capture and share with thousands of viewers the amazing power of science! You will notice that the video is a demonstration without the science explained live. It was a missed opportunity in my opinion. Thankfully, Tel-Aviv University, who is responsible for the demonstration, has posted an explanation of the Meissner Effect as demonstrated by a liquid nitrogen cooled disc composed of a sapphire wafer coated thinly with yttrium barium copper oxide.

Supercondutivity and magnetism are usually in opposition to each other. In this case, where the disc is extremely thin, it’s possible for the magnetic field to penetrate the disc via tiny flux tubes which somehow (biologist hand-waving here) are what’s responsible for the levitation we see over the track. Jump below the video to read their explanation and catch a Quicktime video of the physics. Jean Francois Rauzier Hyperphoto. Old Time Radio Fan :: Free Old Time Radio Shows.

Hawa Abdi. Hawa Abdi There are few things in the world more depressing than the knowledge that a 65 year-old Somali gynecologist has bigger balls than you could ever hope to achieve even if you gave yourself steroid collagen injections to the scrotum every night and set up an induction port that allowed you to inflate them with an air pump like a basketball or those high-top sneakers from the early 90s. Meet Hawa Abdi. A woman who has never raised her fist in anger against another human being, but also one who could perform three C-sections on dirt-poor women, wash her hands, then go straight outside, stare down an army of gun-toting hardcore fanatical Somali militiamen, and with four words send them running for their lives on a light-speed rainbow of shame and self-loathing without even fucking blinking.

A woman once appropriately described once as "one part Mother Teresa, one part Rambo. " A typical grocery store parking lot in Mogadishu. Mama Hawa was born in Mogadishu in 1947. Dr. She got it. Main. STOP THE TRAFFIK. Andvinyly. Jane Austen's Fight Club. Ten Unusual Shapes For Mobile Phones. Ten Unusual Shapes For Mobile Phones The form factor of your cellphone is quite a defining factor on whether you approve of it or not. The grip, the interface and accessibility, all depend on this. At Yanko, we have covered some really unique and unusual forms and here is a re-cap of the Ten Most Unusual Shapes For Mobile Phones. 10) Nokia 888 Mobile Phone by Tamer Nakisci A wiggly worm or a bracelet, you choose its form! 9) Tarati – Touchless Cellphone by Nonobject No keys on this phone, just poke your stubby fingers through the holes to dial the numbers, fat fingers…watchout! 8 ) The Brix by Seokwon Hong Long before someone thought of the tablets, designer Seokwon Hong gave us a taste of prime screen space with this concept. 7) Soft Mobile Phone Concept by Roman Kriheli Reminds me of a puffer fish more than anything else!

6) Dial Phone by Jung Dae Hoon Jewelry, retro , projector mish-mash! 5) Mobile Script Phone by Aleksandr Mukomelov 4) “_______” by Marc Schömann 3) Soft Phone by Qian Jiang. Foolproof Mohawk. The first thing you need is masking tape. DO NOT use duct/duck tape, or gaffer tape, as it will stick to your hair and possibly shed its adhesive. Electric clippers are much more effective at removing hair than scissors, especially when you can't see what you are doing. If you want to shave all the way down to your scalp, you will need an electric razor. The trimmer should be a sturdy slide-out design, and NOT a flip-out trimmer that is too flimsy or too awkward to use when you can't see what you are doing.

You will want to do this in front of a mirror! An additional hand mirror will allow you to check your work in the back, but you won't be able to hang onto it while you are trimming. Lastly, you need hair. TEDGlobal 2012 -- The Crowdsourced Haircut. Supertree Grove. These unique trees of up to 16 storeys in height can be found all around the Gardens - twelve at the Supertree Grove, while the remaining six are placed in clusters of threes at the Golden and Silver Gardens. Providing scale and dimension to the Gardens while marrying the form and function of mature trees, the Supertrees also create height to balance the tall developments in the Marina Bay area. Take a stroll along the OCBC Skyway, a 128-metre long walkway with a height of 22-metres that connects two Supertrees at the Supertree Grove, and take in a different view of the Gardens.

Chill out at the 50-metre Supertree-top bistro and be captivated by the panoramic views of the Gardens as well as the surrounding Marina Bay area. Click here for 360 view of the Supertree Grove by Roy Chuang. Did you know? 11 Supertrees are embedded with environmentally sustainable functions like photovoltaic cells to harvest solar energy. Plants covering the Supertrees OCBC Garden Rhapsody Construction Plants. Zombie Apocalypse and Preparation. Travelling.

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Ufo/conspiracy/paranormal/mysteries. Network Forensics Evasion: How to Exit the Matrix. Abstract Privacy and anonymity have been eroded to the point of non-existence in recent years. Our personal, private information is stockpiled and sold to the highest bidder like so much inventory at a warehouse. National Security Letters are written to make countless requests for records from our search engines, libraries, and book stores with no court oversight.

Email and especially searchable data is practically unprotected from anyone who might ask to have it. All our electronic communications are tapped. Massive governmental data mining schemes are being built to record everything we publish on the web. In many workplaces, employers spy on and control their employees' Internet access, and this practice is widely considered to be acceptable. These are dark times. How we got to a legal state where this all this activity is the accepted norm, I'm not quite sure. I believe this view is wrong.

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Stamp: You Ignorant Shits (A rant about people who think incest is wrong) Priming (psychology) Priming can occur following perceptual, semantic, or conceptual stimulus repetition. For example, if a person reads a list of words including the word table, and is later asked to complete a word starting with tab, the probability that he or she will answer table is greater than if they are not primed. Another example is if people see an incomplete sketch they are unable to identify and they are shown more of the sketch until they recognize the picture, later they will identify the sketch at an earlier stage than was possible for them the first time.[4] The terms positive and negative priming refer to when priming affects the speed of processing.

Negative priming is more difficult to explain. The difference between perceptual and conceptual primes is whether items with a similar form or items with a similar meaning are primed. Perceptual priming is based on the form of the stimulus and is enhanced by the match between the early and later stimuli. Betteridge's Law of Headlines. An adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

" Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. " It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.[2] Like similar "laws" (e.g., Murphy's law), it is intended to be humorous rather than the literal truth. The adage fails to make sense with questions that are more open-ended than strict yes–no questions. The maxim has been cited by other names since 1991, when a published compilation of Murphy's Law variants called it "Davis's law", a name that also crops up online without any explanation of who Davis was.[5][6] It has also been referred to as the "journalistic principle" and in 2007 was referred to in commentary as "an old truism among journalists".[9][10] History[edit] If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'.

Right Livelihood Award. The Right Livelihood Award , also referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize" , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] is a prestigious [ 1 ] international award to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today". The prize was established in 1980 by German -Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull , and is presented annually in early December. [ 6 ] An international jury, invited by the five regular Right Livelihood Award board members, decides the awards in such fields as environmental protection , human rights , sustainable development , health , education , and peace . [ 7 ] The prize money is shared among the winners, usually numbering four, and is EUR 200,000. [ 8 ] Very often one of the four Laureates receives an Honorary Award, which means that the other three share the Prize money. [ 7 ] It is not a Nobel prize (i.e., a prize created by Alfred Nobel ).

Ceremony [ edit ] Nature of the award [ edit ] History [ edit ] Per aspera ad astra. List of books banned by governments. Background[edit] "Almost every country places some restrictions on what may be published, although the emphasis and the degree of control differ from country to country and at different periods. "[1] There are a variety of reasons for which books may be banned. Materials are often suppressed due to the perceived notion of obscenity. This obscenity can apply to materials that are about sexuality, race, drugs, or social standing.[2] The censorship of literature on the charge of obscenity appears to have begun in the early 19th century.[3] The rise of the middle class, who had evangelical backgrounds, brought about this concern with obscenity.[4] Governments have also sought to ban certain books which they perceive to contain material that could threaten, embarrass, or criticize them.[5] But even religious materials have been subject to censorship.

Book burning[edit] Book burning is the practice of destroying, often ceremonially, books or other written material. Banned books[edit] List of serial killers by country. 10 Strange Things About The Universe. Space The universe can be a very strange place. While groundbreaking ideas such as quantum theory, relativity and even the Earth going around the Sun might be commonly accepted now, science still continues to show that the universe contains things you might find it difficult to believe, and even more difficult to get your head around.

Theoretically, the lowest temperature that can be achieved is absolute zero, exactly ? 273.15°C, where the motion of all particles stops completely. However, you can never actually cool something to this temperature because, in quantum mechanics, every particle has a minimum energy, called “zero-point energy,” which you cannot get below. Remarkably, this minimum energy doesn’t just apply to particles, but to any vacuum, whose energy is called “vacuum energy.” One prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity is that when a large object moves, it drags the space-time around it, causing nearby objects to be pulled along as well.