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A Dutch Nursing Home Has A Genius Plan To Help The Elderly By Giving Students Free Housing

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Humanitas is one of the Netherlands’ main social services organizations and is a nonprofit association which seeks to provide support to people who are temporarily unable to manage on their own, and one of their major areas of focus is elder care. Social isolation and loneliness is a chronic problem for the elderly, but a Humanitas nursing home in Deventer, Netherlands is now taking a unique approach to solve that.

The home is offering free housing to local students, and in exchange the students agree to spend a minimum of 30 hours per month interacting with the 160 seniors living there. This can be anything from helping with meal prep, shopping trips, teaching them to use computers, playing games and much more.

Students get to live in a basic apartment for free in exchange for spending time with the elders at the retirement home They agree to spend at least 30 hours a month with the seniors, doing anything from shopping or teaching them about computers to simply sitting and talking.

“It’s important not to isolate the elderly from the outside world,” says Humanitas Deventer CEO Gea Sijpkes.

With some residents in their 90s, there’s not much Humanitas can do about the aches and pains of aging…



But they can at least create an environment that helps the seniors to forget about those pains, if only momentarily.

The idea really is brilliant. It can be near impossible to find a decent place to live on a student budget, so it is a great solution for young people as well as a great way to help the seniors still feel relevant and social. Working with the elderly also teaches young people valuable lessons on compassion and the value of caring. This idea is already gaining popularity throughout Europe, so hopefully it comes to the U.S. soon.

 

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A Damn Fine Collection Of Fascinating Photos And Videos

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This is Anthony Borges, 15. He used his body to hold a classroom door shut, protecting 20 other students inside as the gunman fired through the door, hitting him five times

 

17 Victims – Chris Hixon, Nicholas Dworet, Aaron Feis, Gina Montalto, Scott Beigel, Alyssa Alhadeff, Joaquin Oliver, Jaime Guttenberg, Martin Duque, Meadow Pollack, Alex Schachter, Peter Wang, Helena Ramsay, Alaina Petty, Carmen Schentrup, Cara Loughran, Luke Hoyer

 

Some of the 19 LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs who are currently in Parkland, Florida to provide support to the community

 

A team of scientists worked together to reconstruct the face of a teenager using a 9,000-year-old skull found in Greece…Woof! (article)

Meet Dawn, a teenager from the Mesolithic period, which was around 7,000 B.C. Her face was reconstructed by scientists using a skull that was found in 1993.

Based on bone and teeth analysis, Dawn is between 15 and 18 years old. Her face is scowled and her jaw protrudes out. Researchers guess the reason for this is because she would regularly chew on animal skin to make soft leather. This wasn’t because it was a unique hobby; this was a common practice at the time.

 

When Putin offers some tea

 

Port From Above 

 

Russian Ice Skater Evgenia Medvedeva skating to Sailer Moon 

Evgenia Medvedeva as “Sailor Moon” – Tokyo World Trophy 2017

 

N.Korea cheerleaders’ reaction to Kim Jong Un impersonator

 

Brenna Huckaby, Sports Illustrated’s first amputee model

 

MIT Wearable Computing Project members in the 1990s

 

Tunisian Protester holding A Sign That Says Grow The Brain Before The Beard

 

Shanghai Natural History Museum 

 

Actual photograph of Abraham Lincoln in his casket 

 

This is what happened to the Lincoln conspirators, 1865

 

F-16 pilot view

 

When you lose your thumb in an accident and replace it with your big toe

 

Eagle vs Python

 

Woman climbs into an X-ray machine during train station security check to make sure her handbag isn’t stolen

 

Guide to 2018 astronomy 

 

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The Dumping Grounds

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“Fergie sang that Anthem so bad, Kaepernick stood up and told her not to disrespect the Anthem like that”

 

How firefighters dismantle a steel door

 

Circus monkey cries seeing a friend after a year of separation

 

F-16 dodging 6 Iraqi SAM launches on Jan 19, 1991

 

World’s Most Infamous Donkey Kong Player Caught Cheating!

 

Latest from Boston Dynamics..aka Skynet

 

Disappointed Father Walks Into Sons Room Who’s Dressed As A Maid!

 

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Linkgae

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Mental Models: How to Train Your Brain to Think in New Ways – The Mission

How to Stop the War in Your Head and Find Peace – Tiny Buddha

52 Questions To Bring You Closer Together – Lemonade

This coffee has DOUBLE the caffiene of regular cofffee – Death Wish

CopyCat: How Facebook Tried To Squash Snapchat – Wired

Child Marriage Is Still Legal In Half of The United States, And This Underaged Bride Is Tragic Proof – Weird History

If You Drive Less Than 35 Miles a Day, You Need To Check This Out – Comparisons

Loud Mouth Idiot Gets What He Deserves – Leenks

Here’s why you don’t like new music any more – AV Club

What I’ve Learned About Love From Bartending – Mel Magazine

Japan’s Aspark Owl Electric Hypercar Just Did 0-60 In 1.9 Seconds – Jalopnik

Hot Instagram Pictures Of Tianna Gregory – Lurk And Perv

The Best Photography Of The Week – Digg

Lais Ribeiro is damn smoking hot! – Drunken Stepfather

Teaching kids about money: How to raise money-smart kids – Get Rich Slowly

How to test your emotional intelligence, and use it to improve your life – Big Think

Life Advice: Go Deeper, Not Wider – Raptitude

Keep Conversations Flowing With the FORD Method – Daily Curiousity

The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s ‘lost generation’ – The Guardian

The Faces of Olympic Synchronised Swimming – Sad And Useless

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Hot Instagram Girl Of The Day: Erica

A Few Glorious Clips For Your Consideration

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Angry girlfriend 

 

A few hours from the summit of Mt. Everest

 

Seth Rogen is a scholar in the art of getting high

 

Trying to impress a girl 

 

Cat Gives Zero F**ks

 

Taking apart a Jeep in under 60 seconds

 

There are three types of people

 

Police dog training to keep the dog out of the way and protected during movement

 

This dude is 67 years old!

 

Car stuck to truck

 

 

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The Daily Man-Up

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A man’s attractiveness is inversely proportional to how needy he is. The less needy he is, the more attractive he will be to women on average. The needier he is, the less attractive he will be to women on average.

Neediness is when a man places a higher priority on others’ perceptions of him than his perception of himself. A needy man’s actions and words will therefore be primarily motivated by impressing and winning approval from others. Non-neediness is when a man places a higher priority on his own perception of himself than the perceptions of others. A non-needy man’s actions and words will therefore be primarily motivated by embodying his own values and desires.

Neediness, therefore, infiltrates all behaviors because it is what inspires and instigates all behaviors. A lack of neediness also infiltrates all behaviors for the same reason. Because it underlies all of your actions and words, to be non-needy is to be more attractive, in every way. It defines and resonates in everything you say and do, the way you stand, the way you smile, the jokes you tell, the people you associate with, the car you drive, the wine you drink, the jacket you wear.

When people say vague things like, “I like the way he carries himself,” or “you just need to believe in yourself,” or, “he just has ‘it’, whatever ‘it’ is,” they are referring to a man’s lack of neediness. It exudes from him in everything he does. Paradoxically, a man’s lack of need for attention and admiration is itself a magnet for attention and admiration. A man’s comfort and acceptance of the possibility that some people will not like him makes people like him even more. A man’s respect for differing opinions makes those around him want to agree with him more.

A needy man is constantly investing in the perceptions others have in him. He is being extra nice and friendly when he doesn’t want to be because he believes he must do this to be liked and loved. He is buying a fancy watch and season tickets to the local sports team so that he will be admired and loved. He is coming up with fake compliments or pretending to be a bad ass because he thinks it will get him attention and love.

A non-needy man may still do these behaviors — he may still buy the season tickets or make the jokes. But his intentions are different. Whereas a needy man says and does these things for approval, the non-needy man does them simply for the pleasure of doing. The needy man tries to control what others think and feel more than what he thinks and feels himself. The non-needy man is more concerned with controlling his own thoughts and feelings rather than the thoughts and feelings of others. A needy man will be more invested in the woman he is with than in himself – he will be more concerned about her opinion, about him, about the weather, about everything other than what he actually thinks and feels. A non-needy man will be more invested in himself than the woman he’s with.

By investment, I mean the degree to which you sacrifice/alter your own thoughts, feelings, and motivations for someone else. By less I mean that as a man, you should not be willing to sacrifice your thoughts, feelings, and motivations for someone else more than they sacrifice theirs for you.

Models: Attract Women Through Honesty ― Mark Manson

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The Gombe Chimpanzee War of 1974-78 Shattered Jane Goodall’s Illusions About Their Benevolence And Thinking They Were ‘Nicer’ Than Humans

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Between 1974 and 1978, a tribal war raged in Tanzania. After the death of a local leader, two rival factions were formed which engaged in classic guerrilla warfare. In the end, the northern group systematically eliminated the southern group, killing nearly all of them–even the children–and kidnapping the survivors.

But the unique factor in this war was that all of the participants were Chimpanzees.

Until the 1960’s, there had been little effort to study the great apes in the wild. That changed when Dr Louis Leakey, a prominent paleontologist in Africa, decided that one way to learn more about the possible social structures of early humans ancestors was to study our closest living relatives. So he assigned three students to the task: one was sent to Borneo to study Orang-utans, another was sent to Rwanda to study Gorillas, and a third, Jane Goodall, was sent to Gombe Forest in Tanzania to study Chimpanzees.

It became one of the most remarkable longterm scientific studies ever undertaken. Over the next five decades, Jane Goodall uncovered much about Chimpanzees that had not been known before. The Chimps, our closest genetic relatives, were uncannily like humans: they formed tightly-knit social groups and complex political structures that were based on alliances and partnerships. They had a thorough knowledge of their natural surroundings and were able to utilize them intelligently–they were even able to select plants with medicinal properties when they needed them. The chimps were able to make and use tools (an area formerly thought to be exclusively human), including stone hammers for nut-cracking, stripped twigs for “termite fishing”, and sharpened wooden spears for hunting bushbabies–and these formed local “cultures”, with each troop passing its own knowledge base from generation to generation. Once thought to be strictly vegetarian, the Chimps were discovered to form organized hunting parties that would carefully stalk and kill Colobus Monkeys as food, sharing the highly-prized meat among the members of the hunting party. Much of what we know today about Chimpanzees in the wild comes from Jane Goodall and her work.

But Goodall also faced some criticism. She (and others) came to view the Chimps as hairy little people, a sort of hippie band that lived peacefully in harmony with Mother Nature–in contrast to the destructive and warlike humans. There were accusations that she was allowing anthropomorphism and emotional involvement with her study subjects to cloud and influence her scientific judgement.

The disillusionment came in 1974.

Three years earlier, the alpha male leader of one of the troops at Gombe, who Goodall had named Leakey, died. Although she did not recognize it at the time, her detailed field notes would later show that this produced a split in the Chimp band that would later be fatal for many of them. Chimpanzee troops are based on a hierarchical political structure. At the top is the alpha male. He not only gets to mate with all the females in the troop, but he functions as the “tribal leader”–he makes all the decisions about where the troop will move, when it is time to feed or sleep, and how to react to neighboring troops. But the alpha male cannot rule alone: his position depends on a complex web of alliances and partnerships with other males of the group. The result is a Byzantine-like political landscape in which factions are formed (and broken), the strongest alliance gets to rule, and the other alliances make their schemes and bide their time until they get a chance to seize power for themselves.

As the alpha leader, Leakey had been strong, well-supported by an alliance of lieutenants, and had been able to keep order in the troop, which consisted of about 15 males and 15 females. But upon his death in 1971, the leadership fell to Humphrey, a large adult male. Humphrey did not have the extensive network of support that Leakey had, and within a short time his leadership was challenged by a pair of younger brothers named Charlie and Hugh. Over a period of years, the rest of the band chose up sides. The Charlie/Hugh “insurgent” faction began spending less and less time with the others–they tended to groom each other and ignore the Humphrey faction, and vice versa. Eventually the split became physical as well as social: the Charlie/Hugh faction moved into a patch of territory to the south and became known as the Kahama troop, while the Humphrey faction remained in the north and was labelled the Kasakela troop. Goodall presumed that the split would result in two permanent new troops, the Kahama group with 7 adult males and 3 females, and the larger Kasakela group with 8 males and 12 females.

Instead, what happened next was extraordinary.

As Goodall and her field observers watched and recorded detailed notes, the Kasakela troop began what could only be described as a systematic campaign of violence against the Kahamas. Groups of males from the Kasakela began stealthily making their way into the Kahama territory, apparently searching for something. In January 1974 it became apparent what they were looking for: a band of six Kasakela males surrounded a young Kahama male named Godi, who was eating fruits in a tree, alone. The Kasakelas pulled him from the tree and dragged him to the ground, and, while several of the males held Godi to the ground by the arms and legs, the others beat and bit him, pummeling him several times with a large rock. Godi crawled away and was never seen again–presumably he died from the beating.

The Kasakelas seemed to be using a deliberate tactic which took advantage of Chimpanzee ecology. Although Chimps are highly social animals, one thing they do not normally do is share food. When it comes to foraging, each adult is on his or her own. And since a large group of Chimps would quickly denude any given area of its edible resources, the usual pattern is that each individual Chimp will disperse from the others in the morning to forage in the surrounding forest, returning to the group later in the afternoon. The Kasakela males seemed to be intentionally entering Kahama territory in force and looking for lone individuals separated from their troop during feeding time, which were vulnerable to attack. It was classic guerrilla warfare.

Using these tactics, the Kasakelas, over the next four years, systematically sought out and ambushed the Kahama males, one at a time. In a ghoulish sideline, one of the Kahama females, named Passion, began to kidnap, kill and eat the infants in her own troop, perhaps because of the unending stress. In 1977, the Kahama males Charlie and Sniff were killed: they were the last males left. Once the troop’s males were all gone, the Kasakela raiders turned to the females. Three of these were forcibly dragged back to Kasakela territory, another was observed being beaten and bitten to death, and the rest disappeared and were presumably also killed. All of their infants were also destroyed. By 1978, the Kahama troop no longer existed. It had been totally and systematically wiped out.

For Goodall, the disillusionment was devastating. She later wrote: “For several years I struggled to come to terms with this new knowledge. Often when I woke in the night, horrific pictures sprang unbidden to my mind.” One image that particularly affected her was that of a young male named, ironically, Satan, cupping his hands to catch the blood flowing from a dying Kahama male’s face, so he could drink it.

The Kasakela troop, victorious in its four-year war, now moved into the empty Kahama territory. But their victory was short-lived. Border disputes soon broke out between the Kasakelas and their new neighbors, the much-larger Kalande troop. The Kasakelas did not have the numbers to win that dispute, and they retreated back to their former territory to avoid conflict.

The Gombe Chimpanzee War both electrified and divided the scientific community. For some, it was observed proof that inter-tribal violence and warfare in primates is genetic, an unalterable part of our early ancestors and our closest relatives, as well as ourselves. For others, the Gombe War was just an aberration: some argued that it was provoked by the presence of Goodall herself (in her initial studies, she had been providing food to some of the troops to entice them into view so the researchers could watch them), others argued that it was caused by a temporary overcrowding and lack of resources.

The issue prompted further study: researchers found other instances of inter-troop Chimpanzee violence, both in troops that had experienced provisioning and in those who had not, and in some cases the troops were being observed by non-intrusive methods. It was found that over half of the Chimpanzees known to have been killed by other Chimps came from just two conflicts, including the Gombe War, and in both of these a lack of resources may have been a motivating factor. In addition, “warfare” was also found in other primate species, most notably in Spider Monkeys in Mexico in 2002–this conflict seems to have been motivated by the lack of available adult females in one of the troops.

And where did the Bonobos fit into all this…? The Bonobo is a separate species of Chimpanzee that split away from the common Chimp about a million years ago (long after human ancestors did). Studies seem to show that they are much closer to Goodall’s vision of the peaceful nature child than the Chimpanzee is: Bonobo troops are run by dominant females, not males, and they take “make love, not war” to an art form. Sex (with both males and females) is used not only as a social glue to bond the members of the troop together, but also as a way of easing tensions with neighboring troops and avoiding conflicts. Because the Bonobo habitat is ecologically richer than that of the Chimpanzees, it may be that their benevolent lifestyle is made possible by this abundance of local resources–when there is plenty for all, there is no need to fight over who gets what.

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A Childhood Friend’s Small Act Turns a Man’s Life Around

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kenyan woman rescues drug addicted friend

Wanja Mwaura, a nurse from lower Kabete, Kenya, was leaving the market when a tall man with bulging eyes, an emaciated frame, dirtied black overalls and an equally stained thick woollen hat “called her by her name.”

She did not recognize him. But when Patrick “Hinga” Wanjiru, 34, introduced himself, Wanja says she found herself in shock. Standing before her was a friend she had known since she was seven years old.

The last time Wanja had seen Hinga, he was a shining student and “one of the brightest boys in class,” she recalled.

But sadly, his life was full of struggle. Hinga was estranged from his parents and lived with his grandmother in a squat. When she couldn’t afford to pay his school fees, he was forced to skip classes. Eventually they were evicted even from the squat. But against all the odds, Hinga did well in his exams, until his grandmother died – then he dropped out of school and his life began to take a downward trajectory.

Hinga started abusing drugs, first marijuana and then heroin. He spent hours sifting through garbage to find things he could sell on the streets.

Wanja knew that she had to do what she could to help her old friend.

kenyan woman rescues drug addicted friend

After catching up with him, Wanja helped convince Hinga to go to rehab.

He also shared with her that he had aspirations of going back to school one day. Wanja was determined to help him realize that goal.

As a nurse, Wanja knew that Hinga needed a strong support system to avoid a relapse. So she did what she thought was the best way to really help: she turned to social media to reconnect with other primary school friends and give Hinga the support system he needed.

She also gave Hinga her phone number with the assurance that he could call her anytime he needed her.

kenyan woman rescues drug addicted friend

Over the course of the next month, Wanja continued to look after and care for her old friend. And Hinga’s transformation over that time speaks for itself.

kenyan woman rescues drug addicted friend

kenyan woman rescues drug addicted friend

“A week ago Hinga and I couldn’t hold a normal conversation without me trying to hold his head up with my hand in order for him to concentrate. Today we can have a normal conversation with him confidently looking at me,” she wrote.

“Wanja is an angel sent from God. I owe her my life. She has stuck with me more closely than a brother or a sister,” Hinga tells the BBC.

“People say I changed Hinga’s life, but he changed mine too.” says Wanja. “I realize now that a small act can change a person’s life.”

kenyan woman rescues drug addicted friend

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The Dumping Grounds

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Pedophile Matthew Felder Finally Gets Arrested After 4 Year Pursuit. Put this guy in general population and let the wolves have their way

 

Vocal coach breaks down Fergie’s anthem peformance.

 

Damn dog!

 

Kobe Bryant Gives A Free Lesson

 

The most inspirational podcast I have ever listened to

 

Bankrupt By Beanies – A short documentary about a family’s sordid past with Beanie Babies

 

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Linkage

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13 Men Describe What Their Girlfriend’s Vagina Tastes Like – Thought Catalog

The Fake Strongmen of Instagram – Mel Magazine

How Can I Find Out If Someone’s Stealing My Wi-Fi? – Life Hacker

The 5 Best Haircuts For Guys With Thinning Hair – Maxim

I started taking BCAA’s before working out or training Jiu Jitsu and recovery is awesome. No muscle soreness or fatigue – Amazon

18 Facts Most People Don’t Know About How The Old Hollywood Studio System Worked – Weird History

Petition seeks full honors military funeral for hero Florida JROTC student – Fox News

People Are Stunned By This Simple Snoring Solution – Stop Snoring

Make Your 2018 Honda Accord A Civic Type R Killer For Just $695 – Jalopnik

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Sues Big Pharma, Drops All Marijuana Possession Charges – Philly Mag

Jeff Ross Roasts Female Prisoners – Leenks

A homophobic video urging Russians to re-elect President Vladimir Putin has gone viral less than a month before the country’s election. The video tells voters that if Putin’s rivals win they will take Russia into a “nightmare” future in which they are forced to co-habitate with gay men – France24

The Five Most Expensive Beanie Babies of All Time – Money Inc Hot Instagram Pictures Of Arianny Celeste – Lurk And Perv

Warren Buffet just won his ten-year bet about index funds outperforming hedge funds – Medium

Cow escapes on way to slaughterhouse, smashes through metal fence, breaks arm of man trying to catch her then swims to safety on island in lake – Independent

Drunk on genocide: how the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews – Aeon

Sophie Turner, Kristen Bell and Other Random Women – G-Celeb

Russian curler fails doping test days after bronze win – NY Post

The Daily Picdump – Radass

How to increase semen volume: the Ultimate Guide to bigger loads – Manliest

Ana De Armas fully newd scene (nsfw) – Celeb J

Teen On Brink Of Experiencing Incredible Journey Of Motherhood Instead Asks Boyfriend To Use Condom – The Onion

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Hot Instagram Girl Of The Day: Malee

Welcome To Caveman’s Fight Club!

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Mikey Garcia (145lbs) spars A Hater (220lbs)

 

Bodybuilder vs MMA Fighter

 

Michael Chandler’s brutal one-punch KO of Patricky Pitbull (turn the sound up)

 

Matt Brown confronting Jeremy May about putting lime juice in his dip – gets SWEET REVENGE

 

Cowboy Cerrone kicks John Makdessi so hard in the head he calls timeout.

 

Lyoto Machida’s brother lands a monster uppercut on his opponent!

 

Daniel Cormier vs Bigfoot Silva

 

Donald Cerrone’s amazing description of what it’s like to step in a cage

 

Lifters vs. Fighters

 

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The Daily Man-Up

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Everybody knows the benefits of lifting weights but it isn’t the only game in town that can build your body and mind. Learning how to fight also has a place as one of the key things all men (and women) should do to get the most out of their life experience. Sound like an exaggeration? It’s really not, especially when you consider learning how to fight has been a rite of passage since the beginning of time in many dominant cultures. It is only in recent times that the practice of channelled aggression has been given a bad rap.

The practice of fighting, or learning a martial art, is especially valuable for men, for whom the acting out of aggression, the desire to dominate, the ability to look after ones’ family or tribe, as well as having the camaraderie of like-minded males, is a huge factor in wellbeing and something that modern society constantly deprives them of.

The ability to challenge others, to endure pain, and the knowledge that you can look after yourself physically, are very underrated factors that contribute to high levels of functioning in other areas of life. Learning how to fight doesn’t mean you have to go around bashing heads in but, knowing you could if you had to, can make all the difference between a timid boy and a dominant man.

If you are still not sure how learning how to fight can benefit you, the 12 reasons below should clear up any confusion.

1) Learning how to fight builds unbreakable confidence

Have you ever seen a fighter who looks timid and scared of the world? Didn’t think so. The knowledge of knowing you can take anyone on and, in all probability, defeat them in a physical contest can do wonders for self-confidence. You may think this is crude or uncivilised. Nevertheless, we are fighting animals that have survived because of our ability to think and defeat enemies. Most of the giant ancient civilisations that we know were masters of violence and war, and this is still true today. Being able to fight gives us the assurance we can take care of ourselves and the people who are dear to us. It also ensures that our confidence is not based on anything external, like possessions or material goods. Our confidence, therefore, cannot be taken away and is literally unbreakable.

Check out the rest of the article here

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A Man’s Body Was Photoshopped To Show Different Beauty Standards Around The World

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male beauty standards from around the world

What does the ideal male body look like across the world? 

UK-based Internet medical service Superdrug Online Doctor commissioned graphic designers from 19 countries around the world to Photoshop a man to “make him more attractive” to people in their country. The project was inspired by Esther Honig’s 2014 Photoshop series, in which graphic designers retouched a woman’s body based on their country’s beauty standards.

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

male beauty standards from around the world

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90-Year-Old Forgoes Cancer Treatment To Travel The Country In An RV

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While many people’s first instinct after hearing a cancer diagnosis is to fight, others choose to forgo the treatments and make the most of their time rather than spending their last months in a stuffy hospital being poked and prodded by doctors and nurses.

Just two days after her husband of 67 years, Leo, passed away in July, this 90-year-old woman from Michigan named Norma was dealing with her own health crisis. Doctors found a large cancerous mass on her uterus, which would require surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Instead of resigning herself to months of brutal treatments, which her five-foot, 101-pound frame would likely not survive, she boldly announced to the doctor that she would be ‘hitting the road’ instead. “We explained to the well-meaning doctor and his student that we live in an RV and that we will be taking her wherever she wants to go,” Norma’s son Tim wrote in a post to Facebook. “He didn’t hesitate to say, “RIGHT ON!” We asked if he thought us irresponsible for this approach. His reply was telling.”

Instead of resigning herself to months of brutal treatments, which her five-foot, 101-pound frame would likely not survive, she boldly announced to the doctor that she would be ‘hitting the road’ instead.

“We explained to the well-meaning doctor and his student that we live in an RV and that we will be taking her wherever she wants to go,” Norma’s son Tim wrote in a post to Facebook. “He didn’t hesitate to say, “RIGHT ON!” We asked if he thought us irresponsible for this approach. His reply was telling.”

“As doctors,” he said, “we see what cancer treatment looks like every day. ICU, nursing homes, awful side effects and honestly, there is no guarantee she will survive the initial surgery to remove the mass. You are doing exactly what I would want to do in this situation. Have a fantastic trip!”

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15 Germans, Japanese And Italians Reveal What They Learned About WWII In School

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1. German here, we learn as much as possible about it. The general atmosphere in Europe that led to the nazis rise to power, how they were able to take control of the government, the major battles and figures who are associated with the war and of course the holocaust.

Most schools include visits to at least one concentration camp during field excursions (I have been to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt) and there is a very interesting art project called Stolperstein , which indicates where jews were persecuted in Germany.

In a nutshell, you know how Americans always say ‘Never forget’ when it comes to 9/11? Most Germans are like that with World War 2 and the holocaust.

 

2. Japanese high schooler here. Spent most of my elementary life and some of my middle school life in the US, went to middle school in Japan. I had to say that it wasn’t very great. We learned what caused it to happen including the sino-Japanese war and the Russo-Japanese war. However most of the actual war was turned stragetic. (Ex. Japan did (something) in (year) to (reason).) We did talk about how awful it was for the Japanese, the highlights being Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. It was said that we used Koreans and Chinese for slave labor, but it was skimmed a lot. Most people kind of know what we did to the Koreans and Chinese but never to the full extent and we don’t really talk about it. (Ex. The rape of Nanking) This is out of class, but every fucking summer the tv networks play the same it was miserable, we need peace, we hate war cliche. But they too don’t talk about what we did to the Koreans and Chinese to the full extent.

 

3. German here. We spend about a year in school talking about it, writing it all down is going to take pretty long lol. One important thing to point out, we spend a lot of time explaining why everything happened, what was going on in Germany and everyone else that actually ended up causing WWII. Not as an excuse, but more as an attempt of making us understand how everything got so fucked up

 

4. I am from Bulgaria which was also one of the losing countries. We blew through WW2 very quickly but I had a very big interest in the war so I learned most of what I know by myself. I might get myself mixed up sometimes in what exactly we were taught but I can tell you what we werent taught.

For background, Bulgaria joined the Axis in 1941. Before that we lost 2 major wars- The second Balkan war which we started and ended up fighting against all our neighbors over Macedonia(Which then had a massive Bulgarian population) and WW1 where we joined the Germans because they promised us Macedonia. It was in The second Balkan war that we lost Southern Dobrudja to Romania. In 1940, though, the Axis organised the Craiova treaty which returned the territory to us, obviously the Axis became very liked in Bulgaria after that. The treaty of Craiova plus the promise of guess what Macedonia made us join the Axis in 1941.

The war went on. In school we were taught how we should be proud of how we saved our jews not mentioning the horrid things our forces did in Serbia and Greece to their jews and populace. Bulgaria even had our own concentration camp. At the end of the war when the Soviets advanced towards us we capitulated and declared war on Nazi Germany and asked the Soviets for peace. They refused and at that point Bulgaria was the only country at war with both the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Soviets conquered us, created a coup, and Bulgaria became a communist and later on socialist republic until 1989. Due to that most of our modern values and understandings of our country were created during the Socialist Regime. The Soviets werent violent occupiers who overthrew the government, they were the liberators, in our capital Sofia, we still have monuments (ugly ones as well) that litter our center creating black holes where nobody goes because of their depressing Soviet-era style of architecture.

Our views on the war were created during the socialist years and some aspects of our history are still not updated from that time, creating big discrepancies in how we view the 20th century(and most of our history altogether actually) compared to everybody else. Our History and Literature classes are still influenced by propaganda and I do not know when we will look back at our history with a clear and open mind.

 

5. Japanese here. I remember in junior high we learned general details about it and spent a lot of time learning the A-bomb. We actually went to the A-bomb dome in Hiroshima on our school excursion. The teachers were telling us how important peace is. So basically in junior high WW2 stuff was introduced us as a material to learn and think about the importance of peace. In high school, however, I learned WW2 in World History classes from the teacher who was very conservative and nationalistic. I didn’t think he was biased or extraordinary at that time. I totally believed what he taught us. (like justification for, you know, the touchy stuff) Luckily, I had a chance to study Japanese history including WW2 at a university abroad and it wasn’t until then I realised what I had believed might be wrong. I don’t mean to say every Japanese history teacher is like him but it is true some are inculcating their twisted ideas in students.

 

6. Grew up in Italy and I’m Italian in everything minus the passport.

Italians have almost taken a victim role in WW2, dissociating themselves from the crimes of the Nazis. Mussolini was actually quite well liked in the early days because while being absolutely insane, he did a lot of good for the country which had lagged behind the rest of Europe. He was super nationalistic but anti-semitism wasn’t part of the early agenda, with many Italian jews being part of the government and the fascist party. In fact it wasn’t until the Manifesto of Race that all the anti semitic stuff began, showing at that point the influence Hitler began to have.

There were no extermination camps in Italy *, and Italy was dragged along for the ride in the war, and was actually quite inneffective against the allies, which meant the Germans had to come in and save them in both Africa and the peninsula. Add to this the fact that it was the Italians themselves, not the Allies, who overthrew and lynched him and Italians don’t feel any guilt whatsoever for WW2. The blame is put solely on mussolini and the people feel as being on the winning side, and thus don’t experience any of the remorse the Germans feel.

The funny thing is I never considered Italy being part of the bad guys until this question, which made me think how curious it is that as a people they/we don’t feel any remorse or guilt. Not because we think we were right in joining the Germans, but because we don’t associate with their crimes and by the end, the Italian people were on the right side of history, even though we forget we sent a lot of jews and political prisoners to Germany and Poland…

 

7. Swede here. We were neutral during the war and helped the Nazis with transportation and war material (mainly ore, I think).
Our relationship with the Germans had always been friendly, and there were certainly plans to occupy Sweden if we hadn’t helped them, but it’s still a sore spot. Especially considering what we gained.
After the war, due to not being bombed like the rest of European nations and not needing to cope with the great costs of war, we became one of the richest countries in the world. What we did during the war is of course not the whole reason that the Swedish economy boomed, but it’s considered a big factor.

The main things we learn in school are that of the Holocaust, and Sweden’s neutrality. It’s not what you asked, but think it’s interesting that every country has their lesson to learn after such a major event in human history.

 

8. German here. Having spent time in history classrooms at German and International schools let me say the following.

The German view of events may be permissive at times and depending on the teacher may omit this massacre or that one, but the collective guilt of Germany and the undeniable slaughter that happened is adressed. A large part of 7th grade history was focused on how Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power on how easily people were swayed by populist rhethoric. Further the concepts of Lebensraum and the utilisation of symbolism for subversive means. EDIT: Especially in light of how different the sentiment was before and after the First World War, the study of how the rise to power and instrumentation of polemic nationalistic rhethoric led to the second world war is what is keeping many many Germans my age from celebrating the German national team and waving flags.

Having spent time at a British and an American International school i must say i was appalled at the unreflected nature on how the Allies were portrayed. Russia’s role was in my experience almost outright dismissed at both schools. All the suffering of the London Blitz but no mention of the Bengal starvation. Pearl Harbor but no Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Having had that comparison my impression of the difference between the german history lessons and the american or british ones is that the former burdened by the collective guilt is reflective by default. The latter are for lack of a better word “verklärt”.

 

9. Am German

When you grow up here and you are still rather young, you get the sense that you (as in Germans) fucked up in the past and its a lingering feeling but you are too young to understand or make sense of it.

As in you might wave to someone with your right arm and hold it up to long and somone scolds you for it or a parent quickly tells you to lower your arm and they try to tell you why.

In short Every german Student has atleast 5+ years of history that is either directly or indirectly about WW2 and it’s effects on the world we live in today.

I can only speak of my personal experience which to make this easier to understand was 4 years in the Grundschule, followed by 6 years on the Realschule and topped of by 2 years on the FOS. (curently studing but there is no real impact)

Of these 12 Years i had History lessons starting at 6th grade officially. Something you quickly learn is that the education system atleast where i was, had a very heavy focus on WW2 and the DDR (google Berlin Wall if in doubt).

We had 2 years in which we had the whole history from the Stoneage? to the Great War (WW1). the next years we intensly learned everything from the stability of germany after WW1, the Nazis rise to power and WW2 itself.

When i mean intensly I mean we started in the 1920’s and worked ourself towards the war staying at specific events for long periods of times, such as the “Hitlerputsch” and later the “Kristallnacht”.

The war itself was explained from one front to the next and we jumped alot, but the largest fokus was on the “German Perspective”. We learned about Partisanen, Yugoslavia, the Pacfic War, etc. later.

We had debates and where shown dokuments or videos about each topic.

Looking back what struck me as weird, was we coverd WW2 in large parts and there where hints here and there about the warcrimes, but they waited till 9th Grade and then unloaded a shitton of information on us stretched over months. (maybe they thought we where to young before)

I felt ill more than once after the X video was shown to us in which massgraves or Detention Camps where shown.

I visited the Concentrationcamp Dachau (and another smaller camp) with my school and there was a heavy focus on us knowing what exactly happend there, starting with numerous videos on people entering the camp and the piles of bodies.

I know it wasn’t meant as such by the Teachers, but you feel like a piece of shit, walking through a place in which countles lives have been ruined by your ancestors and you feel that weight, or it comes back. I still feel shitty whenever someone calls me a Nazi or acccuses the Germans of being racist warcriminals.

All in all i feel it was important that we had such a big focus on it, since i honestly believe in the statement, that those who don’t learn about history will repeat it.

Without WW2 Germany wouldn’t be as liberal or openminded as it is today (starting to regret that statement thanks to the rise of the AfD & NPD in the Refugeecrisis)

 

10. Swiss here (not the answer you are looking for, but we are right to the south of Germany and by no means innocent in this whole mess)

In Swiss education, what you learn about WWII depends a lot on your teacher and the school you are going to. Sure, we learn the stuff about Hitler’s rise to power, the major battles, the aftermath of the war, but there’s little to nothing about the role of Switzerland in the war, at least in the official curriculum.

For instance:

  • Switzerland gave Germany access to legal currency after the German currency was banned from international markets

  • Switzerland shut down its borders in a “the boat is full” policy (which is still making me shudder when I hear it today…), effectively being guilty for the capture of thousands upon thousands of Jews who were trying to flee certain death.

  • Switzerland allowed Italy and Germany to use its railway system for trade.

  • Switzerland was involved in the decision to print a “J” in the passports of Jewish people so they could be recognized at the borders. Some historians go as far as calling it a Swiss invention.

  • Switzerland financially supported Germany

  • Private Swiss companies sold war material to Germany

  • Nazi gold…

These are just a few instances where Switzerland was definitely directly supporting Nazi Germany.

Sure, the official response to the rise of Nazi Germany was to be “defiantly Swiss”, counter the racial ideology (“The Swiss have German blood”) with Swiss nationalism, but secretly many many people in Switzerland were supportive of the Nazis. Nowadays, our conservatives try to paint a picture of an innocent Switzerland that had nothing to do with the Holocaust or WWII in general (which might also be the reason why we didn’t investigate our own role in the war until the 1990s!), and even when we found out in the 90s that our national bank has basically stolen gold from Jewish families, we are very hesitant to teach our role in the war – we weren’t that bad after all, Hitler was evil and we are innocent!

 

11. I’m a Canadian living in Korea now and it’s a big deal here what the Japanese do and don’t learn about their history, considering that a LOT of Japanese history involves doing horrible things to Koreans (ie: forced labor, sex slavery, etc…) during the time they occupied Korea. I will say that from what I’ve read (albiet not from Japanese sources because I don’t speak Japanese), the Japanese narrative about their actions in Asia (both before and during the war… many Asian countries have a beef with Japan due to some of the horrific things they did) is that they weren’t conquering countries just for the sake of it, but they did it in order to “protect Asia from Western imperialism”. Of course, even if this is the case, they did it without asking China, or Korea, or the Philippines whether or not they wanted this sort of protection so, you know…

 

12. I had a Japanese neighbor growing up named Koichi. He was a very nice neighbor, let us occasionally use his pool. His father was an important business man and he was working for some Japanese company’s American division. This guy was in his 30’s during the mid 90’s. Only once was the subject of WWII every brought up with him, and I think it was a circumstance where something was on TV and it sparked a discussion. I was not involved in the discussion, but I remember talking about it with my parents. His response to the rape of Nanking was that it never happened. He said that Nanking and other so-called atrocities were made up by the Chinese to make the Japanese look bad. He said that every Japanese school child knew this. My cousin who has visited Japan a few times and speaks Japanese confirmed this. The Japanese do not acknowledge their war crimes, and most of WWII education is spent on the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is basically treated as if the Japanese were incapable of defeat except that the cowardly west dropped atomic bombs.

 

13. I’m Japanese. I went to collage in US but I was born and raised in Japan.

We covered ww2 in history class on our 9th grade IIRC after we covered a long history of Japan for a few years. I do remember my history teacher telling us a bit about Pearl Harbor and he did mention Rape of Nanking. But it was because those events were printed in our textbooks.

The way they educate kids here is very…boring and they don’t get into much details since most teachers plan their classes in a way that is best for students to pass the exam. So as a student, you just have to remember major events, dates, and the cause.

I think in Okinawa it’s a bit different but jr.high school (public school) I went to was like this.

My history teacher would write down the important stuff from the textbook on the blackboard at first before the class starts and once the bell rings, we sit down and copy everything exactly the way he wrote in our notebooks. He would leave a bit of blanks here and there for later quiz.

Then he would pick a few students from the class to read the textbook out loud and after they cover everything we need to learn that day it’s the exciting quiz time. We would go over the same information for at least a few times so we can memorize it and used it for future exams.

I learned most of the horror and cruelty Japanese military caused after I moved to US at age 18. I was never a kid who felt the need to do great in school and pass all the exams but I did okay in most classes and felt so ashamed and embarrassed for not knowing the actual truth of what happened during the war until then.

 

14. Not German but Austrian. Funnily not in this Question either because we’re so small or because we successfully blamed everything on the germans and put on the victim role.

That said we learn a lot about WW2, a lot about the holocaust and there is quite some shame in it since we also learn that we werent a victim but an eager helper. That said, we cover this stuff for a year but focus mostly on this part. Sure we learn about atomic bombs anda bit of Everything but Japan is only mentioned rather briefly iirc.

But there is no silencing it, quite some shame and “lets not let that happen again” which makes me think a lot of Austrian voters left school before that got covered

 

15. I’m from Finland, a country that was allied with Nazi Germany.

Here, we focus on our fights against the Soviet Union and why we allied ourselves with the Germans. The way Mannerheim saw it, WWII was mostly between Russia and Germany. Stalin wanted to invade us like he did to the Baltics so the Soviets shelled their own town and blamed it on Finland to get an excuse to invade. Germany had no interest in conquering us and we both had to fight the Soviets, so it was a no-brainer for us to have an alliance with a non-threatening superpower on the very opposite side of the Baltic Sea than to give in to another superpower that was right next door and was actively trying to crush us. It was a good deal for the Germans, too, because they got quick and easy access to Russia and St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) through Norway and northern Finland so they could attack them from another direction as well. In the end, when the Germans realized it wasn’t going so well, we made peace with the Soviets by giving them a large part of our country and our second largest city, along with other war reparations that were carried out during the Cold War. They also requested us to kick out the Germans so the Germans used a scorched earth tactic while we chased them back into Norway. To this day, my dad has a tradition to burn all the matches in hotel rooms whenever we travel in Germany, as revenge for burning down all of Lapland.

I don’t know how the other schools here teach it but we were essentially told that there was no black-and-white, no evil and good. Only very dark gray and even darker gray. Hitler was evil and killed 8 million people, and Stalin was evil, too, with the blood of 22 million on his hands. We really got to think about why we did what we did and how differently things would have turned out if had done something differently.

Also, another thing I learned later on, not in school, was that, even though we were allied with the Nazis, no Finnish Jews were ever exterminated, and a lot of them even fought in the Finnish army alongside the Germans since they saw the Soviets as the bigger threat.

 

16. German here that has had the opportunity to get the American and the German education on WW2 (year abroad in high school).

The whole WW2 thing in Germany was, at least for me, very repetetive. It honestly seemed like that we would talk about a different aspect of WW2 every year starting grade 10. That being sad: The German education system places a lot of focues on how circumstances eventually lead to WW2 happening.

Starting from there the entire war is taken apart year by year by year. We’ve read speeches by Hitler, analyzing the rethoric behind it, we were taught what anti-semitism was all about and how that came to be. We discussed propaganda and the relevant lessons that could be learned from it until this very day etc etc.

Additionally we of course coverd the general timeline of the war, the involved forces (although we never really talked about the Pacific war that much).

Getting taught WW2 in the U.S. was an, let’s say, interesting experience for me. I still remember that the first day of lessions our teacher asked the class to invite WW2 veterans to speak for the class. Some did and we had the opportunity to listen to first hand accounts of the war.

Now, don’t get me wrong, this is a great idea and really brings out a new perspective on what happened in WW2 but for me as a German it was so bizzare watching this veteran proudly telling stories of how he faught in the war, what is was like shooting at Germans etc. I wasn’t really put off by the “shooting and killing Germans” stuff cuz, I mean it’s war and that’s the be expected but the whole demeanor of this veteran was unlike anything I had ever witnessed in Germany.

You see, the general attitude towards the war, which, in my opinion, is still taught , is that we, as Germans, should feel terrible for what happened. So the contrast in cultures between the American “war heroes” and the German “please feel appropriate shame here” really stood out. Interesting experience.

 

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