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. Real Sniping Is Way More Math Than Eagle Eyes 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: Getty"Sir, I'm packing up.
Sounding a lot more complicated now? #4. Getty Looks good to us. . #3. 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?
You see, the CIA under the Reagan administration found out that the KGB had been stealing technology from the West for years. Photos.com"Send a thousand large pizzas to Kamchatka. A logic bomb essentially makes a program switch to a different mode after running several million cycles (changing its "logic") . #5. Photos.com"No, I totally got invited here. . #4. 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 The world is gone.
But you have to look pretty hard to see them beyond the immaculate white coat, ivory bottles, gentle smile and shining, pristine haircut of the milkman gingerly picking his way through the fucking Blitz. See those guys? #4. LA TimesImage thanks to Strigoi PDN Online #3. 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. This, of course, isn't easy when your target is a world leader: The men and women who have changed the course of history through assassination tend to rely on meticulous planning and simple, time-tested methods. Others, however, kind of just drunkenly bumble into success.
These are the men who made history with a combination of merciless brutality and hilarious incompetence. #5. The Axe-Wielding Assassin in a Bear Costume Swiss preacher turned political powerhouse Jorg Jenatsch was pretty much the template for the kind of guy who gets assassinated: a ruthless 17th century bigwig who enjoyed fame as a traitor. Adrian MichaelYeah, that looks like a guy who could use some assassinationing. How they came for him, now ... that's entirely another matter.
The Assassination: They say death has a different face for everyone. Getty"You've got blow? #4. . #3. 5 Videos of Superhuman Reflexes That Saved Lives. Life is a terrifying goddamn ride that, at any second, can come to an abrupt, dramatic and bloody halt. On some level, we all know that, and we try to plan accordingly: We look both ways when crossing the street, we stand in doorways during earthquakes and we shamefully lock the doors when teenagers walk by our cars.
But some freak accidents are unavoidable; they come careening out of nowhere to turn all of our hopes and dreams into abstract art on the sidewalk. When that day comes, all you can do is try to die quick, and hope that your last words are something a bit more poetic than "Well, shitballs. " Or you can be like these people, who saw Death charging at them a mile away and merrily cartwheeled out of their own mortality. #5.
Commuting in China is a perpetual game of chicken, often against literal chickens, as out-of-control poultry trucks are one of the chief causes of road fatalities in Hong Kong [Source: Jackie Chan movies]. That bicyclist is, no doubt, impossibly lucky. . #4. 5 True Stories Cut from Movies for Being Too Unrealistic. As we've repeatedly pointed out, in Hollywood the words "Based on a True Story" are usually just a code for "Vaguely Resembling a True Story, but Mostly Bullshit. " Sometimes, the filmmakers feel like they have to lie and make up stuff to make the story more interesting -- but it turns out that other times, they actually have to cut stuff that really happened because it's all so awesome that no one would believe it.
Here are some mind-blowing moments from real life that Hollywood decided were too fantastic, even for their movies. #5. Public Enemies -- John Dillinger Didn't Take Three People Hostage With a Wooden Gun ... He Took 17 The Scene: About halfway through Public Enemies, a biopic of Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp), Dillinger manages to break himself out of jail by whittling a chunk of wood into a shape resembling a pistol, painting it black with shoe polish and then taking three guards hostage as he raided their weapons stores.
The Reality: #4. . #3. 4 Shockingly Simple Art Heists That Actually Worked. If Hollywood had a yearbook, art thieves would win best hair every year. 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.
Thief Randomly Steals $4 Million Painting On February 18, 1997, a young man scaled the walls of the Galleria Ricci Oddi, climbed onto the roof and dropped a fishing line down through a skylight, hoping to snag something of value. . #3. In September 2000, authorities at the National Museum of Poland noticed that their prized painting, "Beach in Pourville," by Claude Monet, had gone missing. . #2. On August 27, 2003, two men posing as tourists assaulted their tour guide with an axe. . #1. 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.
Christine McKenzie Falls Two Miles ... into Power Lines Getty WARNING: We are about to show you a close-up photo of what was left of a skydiver who plummeted more than two miles straight down with no parachute, then landed on a set of power lines. BBC"This is the number of fucks I give. " Well ... that wasn't what we were expecting. As she was whipping through the air from a height of 11,000 feet, she pulled her ripcord to open the parachute. At that point, the sight of the power lines rushing up toward her had to have seemed like part of a cruel prank intended to kill her in the most cartoonish way possible. Getty"I'll fall from three miles up next time. . #4. 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. We're not encouraging children to commit crimes, or applauding the terrible deeds committed by these kids.
We're just saying we're kind of impressed. #5. 16-Year-Old Art Thief Gets Rich Hustling the Art World When you think of the type of man who's able to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of art, your mind can't help but Hollywoodize him. GettyIronically, all of his pictures have been stolen, so here's one of Pierce Brosnan. Like some kind of supernerd, McCall enjoyed skipping school in favor of hanging out at museums, enthralled by the artwork he was able to admire for hours on end each day. Hey, say what you will about the kid's lack of originality -- he more than made up for it in balls-out not-giving-a-shit.
With his profits, McCall started living the '70s pimp life. . #4. Photos.com #3. 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.
And you know what? The real world is exactly like that, too. There's loot scattered all over the world, just begging for a charming gentleman thief and his plan that is so insane that it just ... might ... work. #6. The Great Pyramid's Secret Chambers The Great Pyramid of Giza is easy to brush off as old news when it comes to heisting. Almost. There are still some interesting discoveries to be made. New ScientistOr a sex dungeon. Researchers drilled through the block at the end of the shaft in 2002 and indeed found an honest-to-goodness secret chamber. However, the other secret chamber is a different matter. Talking PyramidsNot much of a man, but still. Those four stones in the center are carefully placed in a zigzag pattern to take the load of the stones above off them. . #5. . #4. 6 Insane Conspiracy Theories (That Actually Happened)
As we've demonstrated before, the only things crazier than the stories concocted by the paranoid are the real conspiracies history's creepiest movers and shakers have pulled off right under our noses. 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. Dan Aykroyd is the only man who can rant about conspiracies without sounding crazy.
Fortunately, modern societies reward companies that give people what they want, and we have laws designed to punish fat cats who try to gang up on the little guy. GettyThe Illuminati's sacred goal is to make sure the world's public transit always smells like urine. The Reality: WikipediaLA without smog. #5. . #4. 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 Getty You see catastrophic floods on the news and you can only imagine what it's like to be those people huddled on their rooftop, or paddling around their submerged house in a canoe. It happened in 2000, when Mozambique suffered the worst floods in 50 years. Via Believe it or Not"Yeah, I'm daring you to complain about anything at all, ever, for any reason.
" And then she went into labor. An actual photo from the scene. Via BBC"Yeah, that was cool. . #4. Getty"All that money I paid to learn breathing exercises ... " #3. 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.
And some of them even lived through it. #6. Getty We're pretty sure that Colonel William Rankin experienced something that no other member of the human species has experienced. Rankin was flying along in his fighter jet in 1959, zipping over some storm clouds at about 50,000 feet. Getty"Clouds are nature's soggy pillows. This being summer and North Carolina, Rankin wasn't exactly dressed for a blizzard. First, massive updrafts kept thrusting him back up into the storm, again and again. Fedoradudescommentary.blogspot.comWe repeat: This man almost drowned ... in the sky. Unfortunately, Rankin did die after the incident. . #5. WikiFurther proof that no sane man has that mustache. #4. 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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