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Monday, May 25, 2015

The New Annie Leibovitz Hurricane Sandy Photo Shoot Is Absolutely Insane






1. Here we have three lovely ladies, wearing a Ralph Lauren Collection dress, a Vera Wang Bride chiffon dress, and a Donna Karan New York silk dress, helping out the U.S. Coast Guard with search and rescue.



Photograph by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue / Via media.vogue.com




2. Here two models lend a hand to NYPD air-sea rescue crews, one wearing a Carolina Herrera dress and another in a Rodarte silk top with woven Jacquard skirt.



Photograph by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue / Via media.vogue.com




3. And lastly, here are two models, one in a Narciso Rodriguez camisole and pencil skirt, the other in a Diane von Furstenberg dress, helping FDNY officers clear wreckage in Far Rockaway.



Photograph by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue / Via media.vogue.com




Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/the-new-annie-leibowitz-hurricane-sandy-photoshoot




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Sunday, April 19, 2015

25 Methods for Killing With Your Bare Hands




[WARNING: This list contains graphic descriptions of techniques for killing.] Sometimes when you are threatened with physical violence, a weapon to defend yourself with is not always available. Your hands, however, are always with you, and can be as lethal as any weapon. Below are a list of attacks that will almost certainly result in death. Remember, these techniques should never be used except in a life or death situation for self-defense.


Techniques 1 – 5


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1. TEMPLE – A very susceptibile vital spot. If struck with sufficient force, may cause unconsciousness or death.


2. NASION – This is the summit of the nose. If struck with sufficient force may cause death.


3. PHILTRUM – This is the area between the upper lip and the bottom of the nose. Attack to this area may also cause unconsciousness or death.


4. HOOK TO JAW – A powerful hook punch to the front side of jaw may snap an enemy’s neck. Fatal.


5. ADAM’S APPLE – A sharp blow here may cause enemy to asphyxiate.


Techniques 6 – 10


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6. SMALL OF BACK – A very strong blow to the small of the back can cause the backbone to break.


7. TESTICLES – The strong, focused pain of a vicious low blow may cause shock, resulting in death.


8. BASE OF CEREBELLUM – A powerful blow to the nape of the neck, causing mortal damage.


9. COCCYX – A powerful blow to the tail bone. Fatal.


10. FULL NELSON – Stand behind the enemy, put your arms under his, and lock your hands behind his head. Bending the neck forward may either break neck, asphyxiate enemy, or cut of supply of spinal fluid to brain, causing brain damage or death.


Techniques 11 – 15


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11. HALF NELSON – Again, standing behind enemy, but one arm is used to pin one of enemy’s arms.


12. BRAIN BUSTER – Bend enemy over towards you, placing him in a headlock. Grab the back of his belt, and haul him into the air, vertical, upside-down. Allow yourself to fall backward, landing on your enemy’s head, which will absorb your combined weight. Most effective on concrete or gravel.



13. RUSSIAN OMELET – Cross enemy’s legs. Fold enemy by pinning his shoulders to ground upside-down and placing his legs above him. Sit on his legs, folding the bass of the spine. Fatal.


14. HEART PUNCH – A strongman’s attack, it is simply a powerful blow to the heart. (Many years ago, the wrestler Ox killed an opposing wrestler with this attack.)


15. UPPERCUT – An upward strike to the bottom of the jaw with the heel of the hand, causing the enemy’s head to snap backward. May shatter vertabrae. Fatal.


Techniques 16 – 20


Wall Fight


16. ABDOMEN – A substantial blow to this area may rupture a vital organ, causing death.


17. RIB CAGE – A vicious shattering of the rib cage may cause grave internal bleeding.


18. HEAD-TO-WALL PUNCH – A swift, hard, cold-cock punch to an enemy’s face while he is standing near a wall may drive his head into it, causing the back of the skull to shatter fatally.


19. PINNED DROP KICK – Standing behind enemy, holding his arms straight back. A drop kick to the back without releasing arms may severe spine, causing death.


20. HEAD WRENCH – Grabbing an enemy’s head by the mouth and the back of the skull, then twisting with a sudden, violent jerk to rend vertabrae, may easily cause death.


Techniques 21 – 25


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21. CHOKE HOLD – Once a favorite of law enforcement officials, has often proved deadly. The right arm goes over the enemy’s right shoulder, and grips the back of the head. The left arm comes over his left shoulder, reaches across neck, and grabs own right forearm. With enough pressure applied, causes brain damage or death.


22. HEAD YANK – Bend enemy forward, grab head, and pull back with convincing force. May seperate delicate vertebrae, causing death.


23. EARS – Coming up from behind an enemy and cupping the hands in a clapping motion over the victims ears can kill him immediately. The vibrations caused from the clapping motion will burst his eardrums, and cause internal bleeding in the brain.


24. KIDNEYS – A large nerve that branches off to the spinal cord comes very close to the skin at the kidneys. A direct blow with the knife edge of your hand can cause death.


25. EYES – Use your fingers in a V-shape and attack in gouging motion.


Final Note


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Attacking is a primary factor. A fight was never won by defensive action. Attack with all of your strength. At any point or any situation, some vulnerable point on your enemies body will be open for attack. Do this while screaming as screaming has two purposes:


1. To frighten and confuse your enemy, and


2. To allow you to take a deep breath which, in turn, will put more oxygen in your blood stream. Your balance and balance of your enemy are two important factors; since, if you succeed in making your enemy lose his balance, the chances are nine to one that you can kill him in your next move. The best over-all stance is where your feet are spread about shoulders width apart, with your right foot about a foot ahead of the left. Both arms should be bent at the elbows parallel to each other. Stand on the balls of your feet and bend your waist slightly. Similar to a boxer’s crouch. Employing a sudden movement or a scream or yell can throw your enemy off-balance.


There are many more ways to kill and injure an enemy, but these should work best for the average person. This is meant only as information and I would not recommend that you use this for a simple High School Brawl. Use these methods only, in your opinion, if your life is in danger. Any one of these methods could very easily kill or cause permanent damage to someone.


If you are forced to use these techniques, you may also find these two lists helpful:


Top 10 Tips To Commit The Perfect Crime, and
Top 10 Prison Survival Tips


Source: The Anarchist’s Cookbook


Read more: http://listverse.com/2007/11/11/25-methods-for-killing-with-your-bare-hands/




25 Methods for Killing With Your Bare Hands

Thursday, February 12, 2015

MTV Award Nominees See Spike in Sales, Social Reach




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If you’re a skeptic who thinks MTV lost its focus on the musical artists, you might want to think again. Thanks to multi-platform voting for the network’s upcoming Video Music Awards, artists are seeing noticeable spikes in both their sales and their social fan bases.


MTV opened mobile and online voting last Tuesday when the network initially announced the nominees and first performers. In an effort to leverage the network’s digital following, MTV opted to not have a television nomination special and build buzz exclusively in the digital sphere. The switch proved effective, particularly for artists nominated in a new category, Best Electronic Dance Music Video.


Among the nominees is Avicii, who gained colossal fandom for his mainstream monster hit, “Le7els.” The song has been sampled ad nauseam, and the Swedish DJ hasn’t been shy about asking fans (and fellow artists) to pick a new track. Last month, he went so far as to post this video to his YouTube channel, complete with a list of virtually every other song the artist has made.


Clearly, the fans still can’t get enough. Following the nomination of the “Le7els” video in the EDM category, Avicii gained 100,000 new Facebook fans and 15,000 new Twitter followers. Fellow nominees in the category, Duck Sauce and Skrillex both saw increases across social platforms as well.




While we all wish we could compensate artists for their work by following them on Twitter, that just isn’t exactly the case. Thankfully, social counts aren’t the only figures on the upswing; Best Electronic Dance Music Video nominee Calvin Harris saw an approximate 30% sales bump for his nominated track, “Feel So Close.”


Among the nominees for Best Rock Video, Imagine Dragons saw sales for its EP Continued Silence rocket from #80 to #58, a 12% increase on Nielsen Soundscan. At time of writing, the EP held the #16 spot on the iTunes Main Album Chart and the #6 spot among iTunes Alternative Albums.


Voting will continue through Aug. 26 for all categories except for Best New Artist, which will remain open until Sept. 6. Artists can only hope as the voting continues, the spikes in buzz and profits will continue as well.


The VMAs will air on Sept. 6 at 8/7c on MTV. Hosted by comedian Kevin Hart, the show will include performances from boy-band sensation One Direction and 14-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys, who will debut a new song at the awards show. Until then, you can continue voting online at VMA.MTV.com or on mobile web at M.MTV.com. Verizon subscribers can vote on mobile by texting VMA to 22444.


Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/08/09/mtv-vma-social-sales/




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Saturday, January 10, 2015

“Mulaney” Is Not The Next “Seinfeld”

After four years writing for Saturday Night Live, John Mulaney finds his eponymous sitcom on Fox’s fall schedule — but is he ready for primetime?

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Mulaney with Nasim Pedrad on FOX’s Mulaney. FOX


John Mulaney is not the new Jerry Seinfeld — but he is ready to face the inevitable comparisons his new Fox sitcom, Mulaney, will draw to NBC’s iconic comedy Seinfeld. Not only do both star stand-up comedians playing versions of themselves and revolve around the daily insanity spurred on by a group of oddball friends dominating his life, but each episode opens with him performing stand-up.


After the show’s first trailer was released, Twitter exploded with 140-character comparisons. “Is Mulaney supposed to be like Seinfeld?” The Hollywood Reporter’s Tim Goodman tweeted. “Mulaney is to Seinfeld as Muppet Babies is to The Muppets,” Pajiba posted. And Time.com wrote a story titled, “8 Ways The Trailer for Mulaney Resembles Seinfeld.”


Mulaney was nonplussed. “I was well aware from the beginning that people would make comparisons,” Mulaney told BuzzFeed while promoting the fall comedy — which he created and executive produces — at the ATX Television Festival. “It would be absurd to say Seinfeld wasn’t an influence on me growing up, and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a fan. But the most egregious [similarity] is that I also do stand-up on the show.”


He added, “If the audience thinks it’s too similar, that’s what they think, but I don’t think there’s any point in distancing myself; if we’re even a tenth as good as Seinfeld, we’d be lucky.”


That hopeful fraction is one reason why Mulaney had no problem with Kevin Reilly, Fox’s now-ousted chairman of entertainment, saying Mulaney was “Seinfeld for a new generation” at the network’s upfront presentation to advertisers in May. The other reason lies in the purpose of the event.


“That’s a sales presentation,” he said of the yearly gathering of advertisers, where they’re exposed to — in the span of one week — every new show the broadcast networks plan to roll out. “They’re just trying to get people to buy ads so that is a totally acceptable thing to say to sell a show. It’s like saying something is ‘the next Coca-Cola.’ If you watch Shark Tank, you know you have to use whatever you have to sell something to people. Now, when it comes to marketing the show, the billboards are not going to say, ‘We’re as good as Seinfeld.’ I was well aware from the beginning that people would make comparisons, so it’s like we did it before anyone else could do it.”


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Mulaney doing stand-up on Mulaney. Fox


Being able to anticipate critical response, both positive and negative, is an essential tool in a stand-up comedian’s arsenal — especially since, much like fronting an eponymous TV show, success or failure will be forever tied exclusively to your name.


“With stand-up, it’s always been my name, so if someone doesn’t like a show I do, it’s on me,” he said of deciding the sitcom would share his surname. “The sentence I’ve been trying to avoid my whole career is: John Mulaney isn’t funny.”


While six years of performing stand-up and four years writing on Saturday Night Live certainly put the 31-year-old on audience’s radars, Mulaney is quick to acknowledge that starring on a network sitcom boasting his name is another thing entirely, putting him in the crosshairs like never before.


“I was a little scared but I wanted to go,” he said, with a restrained giggle, about the decision to leave the Lorne Michaels-produced series after four years. “Lorne would roll his eyes at this, but, in my opinion, SNL is not going away anytime soon. That fact was lost on me until I was creating my own show, which can be taken away at any second. So, leaving a show that’s not going anywhere brings different levels of comfort and anxiety. With SNL, the show isn’t going anywhere, so my anxiety was about how I fit into the show. In L.A. [where Mulaney is produced], the show might be going somewhere so it’s less personal and more communal anxiety.”


And Mulaney knows, all too well, what it would feel like to lose his show because it’s already happened once before. Mulaney was originally created for NBC, but the network opted not to pick the show up to series in May 2013. Calling the experience “obviously disappointing,” Mulaney adds that he was most disheartened to not continue working with the cast of “incredible actors” he’d assembled: Martin Short, Elliot Gould, Nasim Pedrad, Zack Pearlman, and Seaton Smith.


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The cast of Mulaney, from left to right: Elliot Gould, Zack Pearlman, Nasim Pedrad, John Mulaney, Martin Short, and Seaton Smith. Fox


Mulaney, along with Lorne Michaels (who is an executive producer), refused to send the series to the pilot graveyard in the sky and took a slightly re-worked version to Fox, where it was picked up for six episodes in October 2013. When asked if he thought Fox responded more positively to the series because of NBC’s tweaks or simply because they “got” what he was attempting to do, Mulaney remarked that it was a combination of the two.


“There were some tweaks, but Fox was interested in a pure comedy like this,” he said, before explaining what he’s come to understand about the pilot process in general. “It’s a weird thing to take a gamble on. They’re placing such big bets — even financially — that, if I’m to step outside and look at it objectively, passing on a show called Mulaney is not that crazy. So I have respect for the chances they have to take.”


And Fox is also taking a chance with Mulaney’s timeslot, scheduling it to air on Sunday nights, after The Simpsons, critical darling Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and the still-dominant Family Guy. But Mulaney can’t focus on that potentially risky timeslot because, despite having a head start thanks to an early series order, every episode brings with it a new set of problems, turning his beloved creation into an all-consuming behemoth.


“At home we talk about it like it’s a constant hurricane,” he said with a laugh, masking an undeniable hint of understandable frustration. “It’s a lot of decisions to make. I think I learned to just make decisions and some of them are totally going to be wrong, but no one’s keeping score day to day with a gun to your head. Also, nothing will get done if I don’t just start making decisions. It’s the most high-pressure thing I’ve ever done, but I also have to be more cavalier than I’ve ever been before, so, it’s become such an all-encompassing presence in my life. But that’s the way it should be.”


Mulaney premieres this fall on Fox.


Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=40_cy4Dz2YA.

Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/mulaney-is-not-the-next-seinfeld


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