Putin awarded 8th degree in Judo - Mixed Martial Arts News. Following the 60th anniversary of the International Judo Federation, celebrated last year in Paris on the occasion of the World Championships, the IJF had the honor of awarding the 8th dan to Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, who was also celebrating his 60th birthday on the 7th of October.
Being the Honorary President of the IJF, an Emeritus and recognized judoka, and having the stature of the Head of State of a preeminent country, Vladimir Putin is the perfect ambassador for Judo. "It is a great honor for our international federation, as well as for the entire judo community, to count among us a very high personality of his reputation and standing," said Marius L. Vizer, the IJF President, before adding: "President Putin represents a high expression of the Judo Values in the world. " Read entire article... 5 Weapon Myths You Probably Believe (Thanks to Movies) We all know that war is hell: It is an unrelenting barrage of horror and tragedy, and lots of people die screaming in the mud.
It's always been that way, back to the birth of man -- but hey, it sure looks cool, doesn't it? Without war, we wouldn't have clashing sword duels or high-stakes dogfights or raging action heroes mowing down wave after wave of ethnic stereotypes. Well, you might want to put on some comfy pants and get out a tub of consolation ice cream, because we're about to let you way, way down. Turns out real war looks nothing like the movies, and for the most part, it's just a bunch of quiet people concentrating really hard until it's time to push a button. #5. Photos.com The Scene: The sniper is the one military role that video games might actually adequately prepare us for. Getty"Hell, this 'Iraq' bullshit looks easy. " The Reality: 5 Real Cyber Attacks Straight Out of a Bad Hacker Movie.
Hollywood thinks that computers run on black magic and hackers are wizards.
In movies, computers can blow up houses, shut down highways, release plagues and make Matthew Lillard appealing to women. However, our collective groaning about how laughably unrealistic these movies are may have been premature, because sometimes the real world of digital mayhem comes very close to sounding like the plot description of Swordfish 2: Travoltuna. #6. A Logic Bomb Detonates Siberia Photos.com Remember how loud you shouted "bullshit" when the hackers in Live Free or Die Hard used their computer wizardry to ignite a bunch of natural gas pipelines? 5 Badass Photos of People Walking Through Insane Situations.
Things that are objectively, quantifiably badass: explosions, motorcycles, fighter jets, Steve McQueen and punching a bear with another, smaller bear -- like wearing little sun-bear boxing gloves to do battle with a grizzly.
There are many things that did not make the Badass List: mayonnaise, John Mayer, going to bed early on Sunday because you've had a long weekend antiquing with the in-laws. "Going for a nice walk" sure seems like it belongs in the second category, but there are a few rare exceptions. Like these guys, whose every step inspires no less than six bitchin' guitar solos and one training montage wherein a starry-eyed young lad learns karate. #5. Milk Ain't Gonna Deliver Itself Avax News. 5 Ridiculous Assassination Plots That Actually Worked. Before the Internet came along, one of humanity's favorite methods of letting others know we disapproved of them was by assassinating their asses.
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On screen, art crimes are portrayed as more sophisticated than brain surgery, with criminals more suave than a Dos Equis commercial. But like most everything else, Hollywood has this completely wrong. While there are plenty of skilled criminals in the world, their services just aren't needed in the art world, where boosting insanely expensive paintings can come down to something as simple as ... #4. 5 Insane Falls You Won't Believe People Survived. The laws of physics are weird.
You hear all the time about people dying because they fell off of ladders, but then you'll hear about a lady who survived a fall out of an airplane. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, especially considering that these miraculous, one-in-a-million survival stories happen surprisingly often ... #5. The 5 Most Diabolical Crimes Planned and Executed by Kids. Committing large-scale crimes should, rightfully, be a game strictly for adults.
But as we've shown time and again, kids are capable of some pretty incredible things. 6 Insanely Valuable Real Treasures (And How to Steal Them) Heist movies such as Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job like to present the world as a loose network of heavily guarded treasures, just waiting for you and your ragtag yet likeable bunch of henchmen to pocket them.
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Secret schemes that shaped the world around us are hiding in the footnotes of our history books, if you just know where to look. For instance ... #6. Big Auto Killed the Electric Streetcar The Conspiracy Theory: Ask a crazy conspiracy theorist enough questions, and you'll eventually get to a dark boardroom full of evil billionaires secretly manipulating world events ... like puppeteers, but with money. The 5 Most Insane Childbirth Stories of All-Time. The "woman goes into labor in some crazy location" bit is so cliche on TV shows that you'd think no story could shock us. We've seen babies get born in elevators and the back seats of cabs, there was that shadow baby thing on Game of Thrones ... But once again, real life kicks fiction's ass when it comes to situations that seem too absurd to be real. Here are five real women who stretched the bounds of believability by ... #5. Giving Birth in a Tree, During a Flood. 6 People Who Defied Gravity (And Then Kicked It in the Nuts)
Gravity sucks. It's always keeping us down, preventing cars from hovering and cruelly denying people the God-given right to have Inception-like fights on the ceiling of hotel hallways. And yet, despite limitations, brave people throughout history have heroically told gravity to go straight to hell. 15 Old Photographs That Prove The World Used to Be Insane. From those bullshit seat belt laws to Big Kindergarten trying to tell you which preschools you can and can't take your gun into, it seems like today's nanny nation is intent on making our lives as safe as possible at the expense of any and all excitement.
That's not how it used to be, though. Back in the good old days, when all men were mustachioed and all women preferred their men mustachioed (if they knew what was good for 'em), the people knew how to live: dangerously, recklessly, violently and awesomely. The following photographs definitively prove that somewhere along the way, we as a species have tragically misplaced our balls. They're probably in the same place we left our mustaches. Canne de Combat This is not just evidence in an assault trial -- I mean yes, it is almost certainly exactly that; that man is clearly being beaten to death on camera, and I'm sure that justice has since been served -- but there's more to the photo than that.
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6 Insane Pet Journeys That Put Disney Movies to Shame. Where would the kids' movie industry be without the "lost pets try to find their way home" genre? But, of course, the only reason the grossly unlikely plots of Homeward Bound and Finding Nemo could occur is because the animals in those movies have human intelligence, and because little kids won't buy tickets to watch movies about lost animals getting run over on the highway. The 9 Most Badass Acts of Vandalism Ever Photographed. #3. Traffic Barrel Monsters Via Herald Sun We've all been there, waiting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, already late to meet the probation officer, looking at the orange and white traffic barrels on the side of the road and wondering if they'd ever repair the damage you did months before in the incident that now requires you to visit a probation officer fortnightly.