I hear them.

That weak voice that we all have but I seem to have on steroids mumbles a reason to quit. It offers a reason to go slower, to rest, to explain why I’m not going at a pace that I could be going at.

It sounds logical. It sounds like it’s thinking about my welfare and happiness.

But it isn’t.

It’s a voice that leads men down dark paths of dependence. It’s a voice that prevents us from being happy and being valuable to our fellow man. It’s a voice that the vast majority of people on this planet listen to, and it’s one that makes happiness impossible.

It’s this same voice that makes it sound reasonable to sleep in. The very same voice convinces you that it’s a good idea to cheat on your lady. It whispers in your ear that you don’t need to stand by her when she gets pregnant. It shows you an easier path in life, a path that it claims will lead you to happiness, ease.

This voice also holds you back when you want to attack a goal, aim just a bit higher, or do something you’re afraid to do. It justifies not working out. It gives you a reason not to help your fellow man.

This voice is cancer.

It grabs on to the host and degrades its strength without relent.

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Shell shocked soldier (bottom left) in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive. 1916

Shell shocked soldier in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive in September 1916. His eyes express the madness of the war. The soldier looks like he has gone insane from what he has seen. In that moment in time everything he’s been raised to work within, the social constructs which make up every part of his life just exploded and shattered to nothing, and he’s lying there, slumped in a trench, afraid for his life, hearing and seeing death around him, his entire psyche broken. Even more haunting when you think that people didn’t smile for the pictures back then.

The circumstances of the First World War pushed hundreds of thousands of men beyond the limits of human endurance. They faced weapons that denied any chance for heroism or courage or even military skill because the artillery weapons that caused 60 percent of all casualties were miles away from the battlefield.

The term “shell shock” was coined by the soldiers themselves. Symptoms included fatigue, tremor, confusion, nightmares and impaired sight and hearing, an inability to reason, hysterical paralysis, a dazed thousand-yard stare is also typical. It was often diagnosed when a soldier was unable to function and no obvious cause could be identified. “Simply put, after even the most obedient soldier had enough shells rain down on him, without any means of fighting back, he often lost all self-control”.

While the term shell shock is no longer used in either medical or military discourse, it has entered into popular imagination and memory, and is often identified as the signature injury of the war. Shell shock would later be called “war neurosis”. It’s similar to but not the same thing as PTSD. Like in the case of PTSD, mental stress leads to dramatic physical difficulties.

Some men suffering from shell shock were put on trial, and even executed, for military crimes including desertion and cowardice. While it was recognized that the stresses of war could cause men to break down, a lasting episode was likely to be seen as symptomatic of an underlying lack of character. For instance, in his testimony to the post-war Royal Commission examining shell-shock, Lord Gort said that shell-shock was a weakness and was not found in “good” units.

After spending five days with five men cutting down a single sequoia, Walter Fry counted the growth rings on the fallen giant. The answer shocked him into changing careers. In just a few days they had ended 3266 years of growth. Fry later became a Park Ranger and, in 1912, Sequoia National Parks’ Superintendent. 

An American soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy and shelters him from the rain in the cockpit of an airplane during the Battle of Saipan while waiting to transport the youngster to a field hospital. July, 1944

Photo by Peter Stackpole

On Saipan I witnessed suicides during the very last of the fighting at the south end of the island. Japanese propaganda had told the native population that they ought to take their own lives because the Americans were going to torture anyone they captured. That wasn’t the case at all, but I saw girls, all holding hands, jump off the reef in the ocean, trying to drown themselves. In a truckload of civilians that the Marines had rounded up, I saw a little Japanese kid with his arm badly mangled and some makeshift bandages on it. The kid was about to be in a state of shock, and just then one of those observation planes landed on the road. I took the boy over to the plane and said to the pilot, “Is there any way you can take this kid . . . where he can get medical treatment?” He didn’t want to at first. Then he looked at the kid and said, “Sure.” The kid sat on his lap, I took one picture, and the plane took off.

Belgium coal miners crammed into a coal mine elevator, coming up after a day of work, circa 1900.

Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast in the early 1930’s

The U.S. Army destroys the Nazi Swastika over the Nuremberg parade grounds, 1945

Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange 1936

The image of a worn, weather-beaten woman, a look of desperation on her face, two children leaning on her shoulders, an infant in her lap; has become a photographic icon of the Great Depression in America. The photo was taken in March 1936 at a camp for seasonal agricultural workers 175 miles north of Los Angeles

"I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.

The pea crop at Nipomo had frozen and there was no work for anybody. But I did not approach the tents and shelters of other stranded pea-pickers. It was not necessary; I knew I had recorded the essence of my assignment.”"

General William T. Sherman during the Atlanta Campaign, 1864

After capturing Atlanta, General Sherman decided to march to Savannah, Georgia, a city on the Atlantic coast.

Before leaving, his men set fire to Atlanta. Almost the entire city was destroyed.

Sherman’s army continued to burn towns all the way to Savannah, 350 kilometers away. The army cut a path of destruction more than 100 kilometers wide.

This campaign became known as Sherman’s March to the Sea.

African girl in human zoo at the 1958 Expo in Brussels had a ‘Congo Village’ (Congo was a Belgian colony) where Congolese people were ‘displayed’. Belgium 1958

A sailor gets a tattoo on his arm in Norfolk, Virginia. 1938

A soldier poses with a Hythe Mk III Gun Camera during training activities at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas in April of 1918.

The Mk III, built to match the size, handling, and weight of a Lewis Gun, was used to train aerial gunners, recording a photograph when the trigger was pulled, for later review, when an instructor could coach trainees on better aiming strategies.

Chinese Americans labeling themselves to avoid being confused with the hated Japanese Americans, 1941

Helen Chan pins Sun Lum with lapel badge identifying him as “Chinese,” to avoid being rounded up with Japanese Americans who were being interred following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

Residents of West Berlin showing their children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, May 9th, 1961

Prostitutes on display in Yoshiwara during the Meiji period, 1882

Nazi Physician Fritz Klein forced to bury Holocaust victims at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. 1945

When asked how he reconciled his actions with his ethical obligations as a physician, Klein famously stated:

“My Hippocratic oath tells me to cut a gangrenous appendixout of the human body. The Jews are the gangrenous appendix of mankind. That’s why I cut them out.”

Laika, the first dog in space. No provisions were made for her return, and she died there 1957

One of the sceintist had regrets about sending Laika into space. Oleg Gazenko:

“Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I’m sorry about it. We shouldn’t have done it. We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog.”

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Think of every aspect of your being as a collection of muscles. The more you use them, the stronger they become.

Even when we’re doing nothing, we’re doing something. Even when you’re not working out, you’re working out.

If I do nothing all day, over time, I’ll get really good at doing nothing every day. If I eat 3 square meals a day, by the following month you’d expect me to be pretty decent at it. If I answer that call from my mum which I always ignore because it makes me feel anxious, and practice taking the plunge and just click ‘accept’ automatically whenever she calls, by next year I’d expect to be more able to handle difficult calls of any kind.

Whatever you do, but more importantly, whatever you’re NOT doing, becomes a muscle, which over time gets stronger. Be aware of what you’re getting good at, especially when it feels as though you’re not actually doing anything.

Let someone know you’re picking up the tab for a meal AFTER they’ve ordered. This allows a considerate friend to order what s/he wants freely and also prevents a colleague/acquaintance from taking advantage of your generosity.

 If your printer is out of black ink, and you need urgent printout please change the color of the font #010101, which is 99% grey, it will help you quite a lot.

If you are examining nursing homes to place a loved one, look at the fingernails of the residents living there at the moment. Long fingernails (especially on men) would likely indicate that the home is either understaffed or does not care enough to do such a small task.

Also stick around for awhile. Ask for an activity calendar and peek in on some activities. I’m an activity director and healthcare says very little about the quality of life offered. Of course being comfortable physically is very important, but if residents sit in their room all day, their risk of depression skyrockets, simply because they have no engagement. No matter cognitive or physical level, a decent activity program should offer engagement to each and every resident- social, sensory, intellectual, physical, and religious.

If your company offers 401k matching, do it. That’s an instant 100% return on investment. That’s better than any stock, bond, mutual fund, etc in existence.

What is a 401k?

The US government wants to encourage you to save for retirement. So they created the 401k as a special kind of savings account:

1. You can deposit up to $18K/year. This is $18K in pre-tax dollars, so in a way you can consider it the same as if you put roughly $22K into a normal saving account.
2. Lots of employers match up to a portion of salary. As a typical example, say you make $100K and your employer offers 100% match up to 3% of your salary. That’s an additional $3K you get, for free.
3. You can keep the money in your 401k account in cash, or choose among several mutual and bond funds that your employer’s 401k brokerage offers. Very popular (and decent) right now are target year funds. These will have names like Fidelity 2040. The 2040 represents the year you hope to retire. They are considered safe, no-brainer funds because they are automatically balanced as you get older (less risk as you approach retirement). You can literally set and forget for the next 20 years.
4. Your money grows in the 401k tax free.
5. When you retire, you are taxed on whatever you withdraw each year. The thinking is that you will be in a much lower tax bracket at retirement, so 401ks provide a significant tax advantage (reduce your taxes in step 1, and money grows tax free in step 4).
6. Even though you contribute through your employer, 401ks belong to you. So if you leave a job, the 401k stays with you. You could have a situation where you 10 jobs over your career with 10 different 401ks. Although most people just roll 401ks into their current job for ease of management (there’s a tax-free way of doing this).
7. I don’t recommend this, but you can borrow from your 401k for special cases: first time home purchase or expensive illness. You can also borrow for other reasons, but you get hit with a decent penalty. I don’t recommend this because it’s easy to borrow, very hard to put back. And this is your retirement we’re talking about – it should be the ultimate “emergency fund”.
8. In short, 401ks are the easiest, most surefire way that an average person can retire as a millionaire.

When you have no cell service (multiple bars of service but nothing works) at a crowded event, turn off LTE in cellular settings. Phone will revert to a slower, but less crowded, 3G signal.

Carriers use multiple completely different frequencies for different generations of cellular technology. Since the vast majority of people have phones that support LTE (the fastest available now) this network will get clogged first, but the legacy network on different spectrum is indifferent to congestion on the LTE network.

Even if you’re pretty sure a friend can’t go to an event, invite them anyway.

Your friend will greatly appreciate you thinking of them, and may also be able to clear their schedule to allow them to go.

This also prevents said friend from feeling left out, and they can’t be angry for not being invited, should someone post things on social media or them just find out in general.

Don’t buy a house near a school until you’ve visited the property at both 8am and 3pm on weekday

I live across the street from a elementary school. Literally where the bus line starts lining up 30 minutes before kids get out. Its a nightmare. The other side of the school is for parent pickup and by the time kids get out there are 50 cars running down the whole road that have been lined up for just as long blocking traffic. And this is on small side street city roads. You can’t get in or out. And it’s not just buses & parking. There are hours of screaming children at lunches and recess. Imagine groups of 50 in shifts running wide open and venting like a tea pot. It’s not a place to buy if you work a 3rd shift job or want retire in quiet. And I would extend that time to 5pm. After school care & sports programs.

If you find someone’s identification card you can simply place it in your mail box and the post office will make sure it is returned. Free of charge no envelope just put it in mailbox! (I know this is the case for the U.S. not sure about elsewhere.)

This is in regard to MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSES or STATE/GOV ISSUED I.D. THAT HAS YOUR ADRESS WRITTEN ON IT!

A single flower given unexpectedly, goes a lot further than expensive arrangements on expected holidays.

 If you are buying headphones/speakers, test them with Bohemian Rhapsody. It has the complete set of highs and lows in instruments and vocals.

When meeting someone for the first time, try and use their name as early as possible; eg, ‘Nice to meet you, [Name]’. You’ll have a greater chance at recalling their name and will feel more confident in addressing them, thereby earning their respect.

 The only thing worse than saying ‘I’m sorry, what was your name again?’ is having someone say it to you. People like hearing their own name, especially from someone they’ve just met. Make a habit of saying their name in subsequent sentences and you won’t go wrong.

With Liquid Damaged Electronics, DON’T Use Rice, Instead Use A Fan

I’ve spent nearly 20 years repairing liquid/water damaged electronics. More specifically, cell phones. In the old days, we’d open the phones up, clean the corrosion, resolder, etc. Recently, they’ve (the manufacturers) moved away from local repairs and moved more towards warranty replacements, swap outs (FRU = factory replacement units) & insurance. Now if you want your electronics repaired locally, you have to visit 3rd party independent people since you can no longer have it done in a corporate-ran store.

I know rice is the go-to recommendation for water damaged phones and other electronics, and it works, to an extent. It will passively absorb moisture. Unfortunately, you don’t want to passively absorb the moisture, you want to actively remove the moisture as quickly as possible. The longer the moisture is sitting on those circuit boards, the higher the risk of corrosion. And corrosion on electrical components can happen within just a few short hours. If the damage isn’t severe, we’d take contact cleaner (essentially 92% or better rubbing alcohol, the higher the percentage, the quicker it will evaporate) and scrub the white or green powder (the corrosion that formed) with a toothbrush to remove it. If that corrosion crosses contacts, it can cause the electronics to act up, fail or short out. The liquid itself almost never is directly responsible for failed consumer electronics, it’s the corrosion that takes place after the fact (or the liquid damaging the battery, a new battery fixes this issue obviously).

Every time I see someone recommend rice I kinda twinge a little inside because while it does dry a phone out slightly better than just sitting on a counter, it really doesn’t do much to prevent the corrosion that’s going to be taking place due to the length of time the liquid has had to fester inside the phone or whatever.

What you want to do is set the item in front of a fan with constant airflow. Take the device apart as much as you can without ruining it (remove the battery, etc) so that the insides can get as much airflow as possible. Even if it’s not in direct contact with the air, the steady air blowing over the device will create a mini vacuum effect and pull air from inside. It’s just a small amount but it’s significantly better than just allowing the rice to passively absorb the evaporated moisture. True, rice can act as a desiccant, but a fan blowing over whatever is orders of magnitude faster.

I personally will take apart a piece of electronics completely, and put those items in front of a fan, and if you have the relevant knowledge, I highly recommend doing so as well. But if you don’t, it’s not that big of an issue. What you want to avoid at all costs, however, is heat. Do not put your phone inside an oven or hot blow dryer, heat can damage electronics just as bad as liquid, sometimes more so. Heat, extreme cold and liquid are bad for electronics & cell phones. A fan (lots of airflow) is 99 out of 100 times better at removing moisture quickly than rice. I would say 100 out of 100 but I’m sure there’s going to be some crazy situation or exception I haven’t thought of that someone will come in and point out. I’d like to remind people that exceptions are just that, they don’t invalidate the rule.

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A Super Satisfying Guide To Cleaning Your Car’s Engine Bay

Conor McGregor roasting Floyd Mayweather

Peyton Manning ESPYS Kevin Durant joke

Two guys edit Toy Story 3’s ending and gift it as a prank

Net Neutrality explained and why it matters

Mazzy Star “Fade Into You” | Live. National Television Debut On Conan O’Brien In 1994

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These Just-Released Pics Prove the 1,130-HP Aston Martin Valkyrie Is Utterly Insane Both Inside and Out – Maxim

Airbnb host who canceled reservation using racist comment must pay $5,000 – The Verge

The Eeriest Coincidences Throughout History – Ranker

Comcast Subscribers Are Paying Up To $1.9 Billion a Year for Over-the-Air Channels They Can Get Free – Bill Geeks

This Navy SEAL shows no mercy to a “Stolen Valor Turd” who was pretending to have served – Rare

Jaclyn Swedberg Is One Pretty Piece – Yes Bitch

A damn fine collection of bewbs, awesomeness and everything in between – Leenks

There Is No Overnight Success – Life Hacker

12 Must-Read Books (Released This Year) Every Ambitious Person Should Read – Thrive

The Legend Of Phil Ivey, Poker’s Mystery Man – The Ringer

Tourist Ignores Danger Signs And Gets Blown To Death By Jet Engine – Jalopnik

Demi Rose In A Cut-Out Bikini Is Something You Obviously Need To Check Out – Mandatory

James Woods Targets Parents of Gender Nonconforming Boy – Newser

Taking the ‘Smart Drug’ Modafinil Made Me Love Work but Hate People – VICE

The brain likes a challenge – and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity – The Economist

Hot girls who are generous with the cleavage – Radass

Joanna Krupa In Naughty Lingerie – Hollywood Tuna

Homeless woman makes naughty video with underage boys in public bathroom – Trending Views

12 Ways Successful People Handle Toxic People – Success

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Too many in our society don’t know what weakness is. They don’t know what it is because it’s the norm. It’s what everyone around them does, it’s how they think, it’s who they are and what they expect from themselves.

Realize this:

If you live the life of a pussy, you’re going to live the life of a dependent. You’re going to live a life where others are in control of your present and your future. You’re going to be envious and cynical. You’re never going to realize the talents you possess or the opportunities that have passed you by.

Laziness has never won anyone anything, and neither has weakness.

As a society we need stronger, grittier men, clearly. But on an individual level, if there’s any ounce of you that wants to improve, to become better than the man you currently are, you, like I, are going to have to toughen up.

You’re going to have to forgo many of the habits that you’ve incurred over the years and replace them with new ones.

That is where this article comes in. We’re going to draw the battle lines and give you the weapons to fight.

A pussy is simply a wuss, a weaker version of the warrior within. Don’t get all politically correct and note that it’s also a slang term for a female body part. That’s clearly not what we’re talking about here so bugger off.

When you know what your enemy looks like, where it resides, and how it fights, you can then defeat it with persistence and diligence.

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This dog was given a peep hole by the neighbours into their garden and he loves it

Bystanders rescuing older people involved in a car accident

Confident dancing dad

Ferret makes her human pet her babies

Poor pup is in over his head at his new job 

Two year-old solves famous ethics conundrum

Mother with Alzheimer’s recognizes her daughter 

Captain America at Disneyland signing with a deaf guest 

Man surprises his dad with a new puppy 

Little kid sharing water with a stray dog in Turkey during a heatwave

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South Korea Has the Most Ingenious Method For Unclogging a Toilet 

This Deep Fried Tempura Restaurant has a Michelin Star

The 7 minutes that shocked the world happened exactly 3 years ago

Game Of Thrones recap (seasons 1-6)

Amy Winehouse ‘Valerie’ Live

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Our Universe Was Born in a Black Hole, Theory Says – Space

This Six-Months Pregnant Model Is Getting Roasted Online for Showing Off Her Insanely Flat Stomach – Maxim

Model Shantal Monique Certainly Enjoys Going Topless On Instagram – Mandatory

Is The Universe Conscious? – NPR

12 Secrets of the Witness Protection Program – Mental Floss

DMX Faces 40 Years for Alleged Tax Evasion – Newser

The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Cryptocurrency Investing – Block Geeks

The Biggest Dark Web Takedown Yet Sends Black Markets Reeling – Wired

Sexy Shuffle #74 (36 Pics) – Lurk And Perv

Teen Kills Himself To Win Social Media’s Disturbing “Blue Whale Challenge" – All That Is Interesting

Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather got the bad lip treatment and this is better than the fight – Rare

Inside the Often-Sexless World of The Giantess Fetish – VICE

J-Lo, Hilary Duff and Other Random Ladies – G-Celeb

Curvy Girls Rock The World (33 Photos) – Radass

Top 10 Evil Human Experiments – Listverse

Florida State Attorney Stopped for Driving While Black – The Blemish

Izabel Goulart’s Skinny Little Booty Gets Greek – Hollywood Tuna

Guy With Huge Face Tattoo Complains He Can’t Find Work – Trending Views

50 Coolest NBA Sneakers of All-Time – Gunaxin

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A letter from a soldier to his sons from a fox hole in Iwo Jima.

My dear little boys,

I am writing you today, just a week before Christmas eve, in the hopes that you will get this little note at Christmas time. All of this coming week will be holidays, and I can just imagine the fun you will be having, especially when you know that it is just a few days before Santa Claus will be coming. If it were possible, I would like to come down the chimney myself and crawl right inot your stocking, wouldn’t that be a surprise? I would enjoy it even more than you, but since your Dad is far away and Santa Claus has the only reindeers that will fly through the air, I’m afraid we will have to let Santa Claus use them. After all he has so many place to go in such a short time.

I won’t be able to give you a Christmas present personally this year, but I do want you to know that I think of you all of the time and feel very proud of the way you have been helping your Mother while I am gone. I know that it is only natural for you, healthy and strong boys like you are to want to play and have fun all of the time but I do want you to think about helping Mummie, because it is so hard for her to do everything while I am gone. I know that you would like to give me a Xmas present too, so I will tell you what you can do, and this will be your Xmas present to me. Everyday ask Mummie if there are any errandss that you can go on for her, and when there are errands to run, say, "sure Mummie" and giver her a big smile; then during the day go up to your room and look around, if there are toys scattered all around, or you left some of your clothes on the floor, pick them up: also, when Mummie is busy trying to clean up the house, don’t leave her by herself, but ask Mummie if you can help take care of baby sister. If you will do these things for me, that will be the finest Xmas present that you could give me. Oh yes, and CC, are you eating your meals like a real man now?

Well my boys, I guess you often wonder why people fight and have wars and why lots of daddies have to be away a Xmas time fighting, when it would be so much nicer to be at home. That’s a hard question to answer. But, you see, some countries like Japan and Germany, have people living in them, just like some people you and I know. Those people want to tell everbody what they can do and what they can’t do. No one likes to be told how to live their life. I know that you certainly wouldn’t like it if one of the boys in the neighborhood tried to tell you what church you should go to, what school you should go to and particularly if that boy would always be trying to "beat up" some smaller or weaker boy. You wouldn’t like it, would you? And, unfortunately the only way to make a person like that stop these sort of things , or a country like Japan or Germany, is to fight them and beat them…and teach them that being a bully (because after all that’s what they are ) is not the way to live and that we won’t put up with it. What does all of this mean to you? Just simply this, my boys, Dad, doesn’t want you to ever be a bully. I want you to always fight against anyone who trys to be one.

I want you to always help the smaller fellow, or the little boy who may not be as strong as you. I want you to always share what you have with the other fellow; and above all, my boys have courage, to do the things that you think are right. Never be afraid to fight for what you think is right. To do these things, you need a strong body and a brave heart; never run away from someone you may be afraid of: if you do, you will feel ashamed of yourself and before long you will find it so easy to run away from the things that you should stand up and fight against, If you and lots of other boys try to do the things that Dad has been talking about in this letter, it may be that people will not have to fight wars in the years to come and then all of Daddies in this world will be home for Christmas and that is where they belong. Perhaps, some of the things that I have been talking about…..you don’t quite understand, if you don’t, Mummie will explain them to you, as she knows….

A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year…God Bless you,

Daddy

First Lieutenant Leonard Smith Isacks, Jr. Wounded in action (fragment, head) at Iwo Jima, February 20, 1945; died of said wounds February 21, 1945

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Protecting their right to protest

A neon salesman’s sample case circa 1935

This is what the internet could look like without Net Neutrality

Soldier Before, During and After Deployment 

The new President of Mongolia, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj 

Painting done by Pablo Picasso when he was 15

Deconstructing the Bull

Picasso’s The Bull, created in late 1945, reveals how a great artist turns an idea into a masterpiece. Starting the series with a realistic drawing of a bull, Picasso used the following 10 lithographs to mutate and dissect its form, stripping away details and stylizing its anatomy. In the end, Picasso turned a highly literal representation of a bull into an intertwined series of abstract elements that balance and counterbalance each other to make up a powerful and expressive work of art. The last image is a single sinuous line that is still unmistakably a bull.

Many artists have studied The Bull over the years. It is almost a master class in its own right on the artistic process. (You can read more analysis about The Bull here.)

When naval personnel spotted an elephant 8 miles from shore, it was struggling to keep just its trunk above the waves as the rest of its body was underwater. Navy divers tied ropes to the elephant and called for two additional boats to help gently pull it back to shore – a 12-hour rescue mission

Forced standing was a form of treatment for some patients in 19th century mental institutions. This is a real photo of such treatment taken in the year 1890

This is Mexico City

Sperm donation extractor 

Some hospitals in China are implementing these bizarrely gross machines to help patients who are donating semen to overcome “embarrassment” and to make their experience more enjoyable.

A picture of every extraterrestrial body that robots from mankind have landed on and photographed 

How are Containers Loaded On Cargo Ships?

What the space behind a movie theater screen looks like 

This is the pizza order one woman used to get police to her home, where she was being held hostage by her boyfriend (article)

Man Passes Out Drunk, Disgruntled Girlfriend Shoves 12 Screws Up His Urethra

Why UPS Trucks Don’t Make Left Turns

.50 cal vs 30mm

Cops Release Disturbing Photos Of Couple Who Overdosed On Heroin While Driving With A 4-Year-Old

The boy was put in child protective services, and his mother, identified as Rhonda Pasek, along with driver James Pasek, face a variety of charges.

How not to drown, explained by the US Navy SEALS

This dog is ready to jump out of a helicopter

This is a Reconstruction of what a Neanderthal might look like today, suit and all

Culture Clash 

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1. My life is likely to last ten to fifteen years. Any separation from you will be painful for me. Remember that before you acquire me.

2. Give me time to understand what you want from me.

3. Place your trust in me. Remember that before you acquire me.

4. Don’t be angry with me for long and don’t lock me up as punishment. You have your work, your friends, and your entertainment. I only have you.

5. Talk to me sometimes. Even if I don’t understand your words, I understand your voice when it is speaking to me. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget.

6. Remember before you hit me that I have teeth that can easily crush the bones in your hand, but I choose not to bite you.

7. Before you scold me for being uncooperative, obstinate, or lazy, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I don’t understand what you ask of me or perhaps I am not feeling well, not getting the right food, been out in the sun too long, or my heart is getting old and weak.

8. Take care of me when I get old, you too will grow old.

9. Go with me on difficult journeys. Never say " I can’t bear to watch," or "let it happen in my absence." Everything is easier if you are there.

10. Remember, no matter what, that I love you. Unconditionally.

The ten commandments was written by ©Stan Rawlinson (The Original Doglistener).
A professional full time Dog Behaviourist and Obedience Trainer.
You can visit his website at Dog Listener for more articles and training information.

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1.

My roommate graduated from Devry. He spent the next year working at a grocery store and now works at one of those call centers bugging people over the phone to donate money to various causes.

2.

My husband went to Full Sail for audio engineering. He didn’t end up finding a job in his field. He ended up going to a real college a few years later. His friend that went for graphic design did alright. I wouldn’t call it a total waste though. He had a lot of fun and he’s really good at hooking up the stereo and television. Sometimes I like to be like, “oh no! I can’t figure out why the DVD player isn’t registering sound! If only someone went to school for this and could fix it!” Then he gets to move some cables around and be a hero. Also he will professionally mix dumb little songs that we make up for my amusement. Is this a good use of $30k? That’s up to you to decide.

3.

I went to Medix for medical office assisting, tuition was absurd 12000 for a 9 month course (still paying it off). I now have a government job organising home health care. Im actually going back to school this fall to a regular university for nursing because I realised that the job I currently have is the best I can get in my field, there is no lateral movement and no hope of working my way up in the field. I think these types of colleges are great for people who are looking to start a second career due to layoffs and such, but as a 23 year old it wasnt the best investment.

4.

I have worked for the “Phoenix” for 6 years. I started as an online instructor (Business/Marketing classes). My fulltime job laid me off and I transitioned into a graduate advisor. Currently, I am an admissions advisor.

There are many reasons why “Phoenix” should be shut down.

At the admissions level, we take quantity over quality. I have an unofficial “quota” to fill. Each month, I need to admit a specific number of “students” or I will be written up.

When I admit the prospects, I need to make sure they have a GED/HS Diploma. I also need to make sure they qualify for financial aid. This next part is heresay, but my financial aid department can make anybody qualify for aid. I don’t know if they fudge income, dependants, or ethnicity, but I have seen some fucked up aid. Of course, the financial side of “Phoenix” is glossed over during admissions.

When I was an online instructor, there were times when I wanted to fail students for not fulfiling the assignment criteria. My mentor told me that nobody fails unless they stop posting to the forum, do not turn in an assignment, or fail an online test that has automatic grading (math classes). If someone turns in assignment, they automatically get a “C”. This is to prevent Phoenix students from losing their financial aid due to failing grades. Have you ever heard of someone “failing” out of Phoenix?

When the students graduate, Phoenix is supposed to help place students in a job in which their major can be used. However, since most majors include a mathematics course, Phoenix can say that call center/retail jobs count.

5.

Graduated from Concorde with a certificate for Medical Assisting. It was a really bad idea. I needed a job quick because I’ve spent almost 2 years looking and my unemployment was about to run out. I’ve talked to one of their recruiters and they highly suggested medical assisting.

I passed every class with an A and almost had perfect attendance (I needed to be home with my son because my wife had a job interview). I started noticing it was a bad idea when they had a hard time finding an extern site for me. When they did find one it was almost 100 miles away. I told them I couldn’t do that since I took the bus. 2 months later they found another site. It was in a workers comp office. I was only there for a week before I started noticing i would only be organizing paperwork. I wasn’t doing any actual medical assisting work. Called the school and let them know the situation. They told me it was either that or the site 100 miles away. I decided to bite the bullet and stay there.

Finished everything. Was offered a job at an urgent care for $10 an hour and never bothered attending the graduation. Tried looking for other MA jobs after a few months that paid a little more and offered more hours. Nothing. After talking with my brother, which have been an EMT for almost 6 years, told me that MA jobs are mainly for women because that’s what patients prefer. Doctors rather avoid sexual harassment lawsuits from patients and hire women instead.

Now I’m stuck with an almost $20k student loan and currently making $13.50 an hour at a much better job. Fuck for-profits and I’m glad they’re slowly disappearing.

6.

My ex co-worker graduated from Devry. She worked as an accountant/office “HR” for a small company and still does. The weird thing is that she got the job by knowing a few people so I don’t think her degree mattered.

Although the tuition was a bitch according to her. She was still paying it off the last time I saw her.

7.

My sister in law went to Everest before it shut down, for medical assisting. She got a foot in at Kaiser and seems happy/makes pretty good money, but it bothers me because she could have taken the same curriculum at a local community college for like 1/10 the price and it would have only taken a few more months. Instead she’s going to be stuck with loans for years and years.

8.

I graduate from DeVry in a month. Personally, I’m terrified about the future. The career services are complete shit, so I’m basically on my own trying to find somewhere to use my CIS degree. But more information about the college..

We pay full price, as part of our tuition, for a limited license to an ebook. We can also pay $10 for a printed copy of these books, in black and white, and when they send you half of your book instead of the whole thing, no one actually knows who to call. Oh, and the books are generally 3-5 years old. I recently learned a bunch of CSS stuff that, when I went online for additional help, was explained as outdated and unsupported.

I go online only. Online is deplorable; they hire part time professors, who oftem don’t give a fuck about helping you. You can call student services, but often they just ask you to talk to the professor, and say that they’re looking into it. I didn’t receive replies from a few of my professors, one of which I’ve got a second time.

Onsite it’s not so bad, because the people have to look at you. The disconnect isn’t there, because you can actually talk to their boss; online doesn’t disclose who their boss is. I’ve also recieved tons of help from the financial aid/student advisor people. They feel awful for what I’ve gone through, and have given me a bit of free money, masked as a DeVry scholarship, because they don’t know what else to do. Few others in the campus are useful.

Overall, DeVry is miserable. The only thing I’m okay with is going year round, which works better for me to get out faster. I just wish I’d get out with a job, or some assistance finding one. I don’t recommend ever going to DeVry, unless you have your stuff figured out.

9.

I taught at a State University in California for over 30 years (now retired). During most of that time I was involved in the hiring and evaluation of part-time faculty (about 25-30/year). Applicants with “advanced degrees” from any “for-profit” institution had zero chance of being hired.

10.

My story might be a little more rare, but I got my associate’s degree in nursing from Bryant & Stratton college in their accredited 20-month accelerated program. Passed NCLEX-RN and became a registered nurse on my first try. Got a job right away. Am working on finishing my bachelor’s of science in nursing. It’s been about one year since I graduated and I just accepted a job at one of the best hospitals in my state working on a trauma unit.

In terms of my career, I am doing quite well. HOWEVER, in terms of my debt…Bryant & Stratton was unbelievably expensive.

11.

My wife got a culinary degree from CCA a decade ago. Within a year we had over 40k in student loan debt for a job that in the best case would pay 15 bucks an hour (she didn’t make that much coming out). Basically it was an unmitigated disaster. We shoveled money into those student loans for years and finally paid them off about 4-5 years ago. I don’t even want to think about all of the money I sent to them. She is a stay at home Mom now.

The only upside to any of this is that now our home cooked meals are seriously legit. And that is for life!

12.

I went to a for profit school on the east coast called ECPI. My tuition for an accredited Bachelor in Computer Information Systems was $55k over a 2.5 year period.

I was elligible for about $30k in financial subsidies. (grants / scholarships) during my time at school. My monthly school loan payment is around $360 a month.

I was very lucky / smart to understand early on what i was getting into at that school. I did my work and graduated with a great GPA. However about half way through I took on a tremendous amount of personal study, networking and freelance work to understand the industry i was getting into.

I was very fortunate to earn the opportunities in my internship and first place of business after school. But lots of my friends weren’t. Some even 4 years later are working call center jobs with programming degrees.

Now I work for as a programmer for a company that makes video game merchandise. Its my freaking dream job. Before this place I worked at a digital ad agency. Its been unreal.

13.

Art Institute of Pittsburgh: Online Division, and not great.

Currently $60k in debt (my wife also graduated from there, she’s $100k in debt because no one helped her where I did get help). Making $17.73 an hour as a technical writer, a position I only got by complaining my way into it. I was making $12 an hour as a production operator alongside middle school dropouts, because that’s all I could find, but I managed to get a better paying job because of skills I developed outside of college.

I blame myself, of course – I did not want to go to college at all. I went to Massachusetts College of Art out of high school and I hated everything about it so I asked my mother if I could drop out and wait on going back. She said if I did that I would never go back (probably true) so told me I could leave there if I found another school. I found this nightmare of a school and enrolled ASAP.

I honestly learned some decent stuff at the school but they don’t push you. I should have been getting Cs and Ds but I got straight As. I coasted by because I could. I screwed myself in the process – if I graduated with my “Bachelor’s” in Game Art & Design but also had a decent portfolio, I could have had a better shot at landing a job. But instead I left not much better than I came in. Then again, I also have zero interest in working in the video game industry now, so even if I did do well I would probably be searching for other options.

So now I’m just doing sort of okay, in massive debt for nothing, avoiding my student loan payments because I cannot afford them. I wouldn’t recommend any of it. If I wasn’t a coward and lazy I would have gone to a real college, gotten a real education, and been in less debt with a shot at a job with a decent salary.

The schools will screw you, but it’s your own fault in the end for doing it. I used to blame a lot of things and people but now I know it’s all on me.

14.

I went to DeVry and got a Computer Information Systems degree last decade. After graduating, I couldn’t find a job related to my major and did a number of odd jobs (all <$10/hr) for a few years before getting a Help Desk job at a healthcare organization thanks to knowing someone currently working there. I spent close to 6 years on the Help Desk (2 years taking calls, 3+ years doing procurement) before applying for an applications analyst position on the Medical Informatics side. I consider my current job fairly closely related to what I went to school for, though I am struggling to recall and apply my programming knowledge (which is what I wanted to do and why I went to DeVry in the first place).

All in all, I can’t complain. I consider myself fortunate considering that I wasn’t as good of a student as I could have been and didn’t retain much of my knowledge. Some of my classmates who were better students than me immediately got decent jobs related to their field. Others were not able to find related work.

(via Reddit)

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