Just to think that not that many years ago ‘The Rock’ was smashing wrestlers heads into turnbuckles. He does seem like a genuinely nice guy.
Jackie Chan makes all kinds of money making movies in China. Still very popular in the Orient.
Adam Sandler is on the list because he produces his own movies. He sets his own salary.
A few Bollywood stars on the list. Movies are major entertainment in India.
A Japanese dog spa has taken pet pampering to a whole new level by offering “exorcisms” for their furry guests.
The D+Kirishima spa not only offers the latest in formal kaiseki doggy-owner dinners and spa baths together (yes, together in the same bath), but also a package called the “Pet Dog Exorcism Plan.”
A senior Shinto priest will come to the spa to conduct a ceremonial blessing to rid your pup of bad spirits and pray for its future health.
The ceremony is especially suggested for dogs in their “unlucky health years.”
“Seven-year-old, 10-year-old, and 13-year-old dogs need to be careful of their health, as it’s easier in those years for them to gets diseases of aging,” according to the spa’s pitch for the package.
“The exorcism for your dog is celebrated along with its owner at the Shingariyu shrine within the hotel.”
It only takes 30 minutes, according to the site. And it costs $430 — room and pet-owner dinner included.
This demon dog is levitating.
Definitely possessed
Always the cows getting abducted by the Space Aliens. What do those sneaky Aliens want with the bovine? They sometimes seem to release the cows, sometimes not.
Some entrepreneur has come up with a really cool idea. An abduction lamp.
Why always dairy cows? This could be more about milk than beef.
Pic below: they beamed up the farmer along with the cow.
Falling Down is a 1993 thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Ebbe Roe Smith. The film stars Michael Douglas in the lead role of William Foster, a divorced and unemployed former defense engineer. The film centers on Foster as he treks on foot across the city of Los Angeles, trying to reach the house of his estranged ex-wife in time for his daughter’s birthday party. Along the way, a series of encounters, both trivial and provocative, cause him to react with increasing violence and make sardonic observations on life, poverty, the economy, and commercialism.
The Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum in Graz, Austria, is a gigantic blob-shaped building with a dozen or so tube like nozzles, acting as windows, that stick out from its curved roof, giving the structure an undeniable alien creature like look. Indeed, its designers, London architect Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, have themselves named the building the “Friendly Alien”. Inside the beast’s belly are two huge floors for modern art exhibitions.
Located on the west bank of the River Mur in the historic center, the Graz Art Museum was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003, and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz.
The building’s roof is made from thousands of acrylic glass panels that generates energy with built-in photovoltaic panels. The outer skin is embedded with some nine-hundred fluorescent rings that can be individually programmed, creating a work of art on the structure itself.
Meanwhile back in the southwest…
The Red River was teeming with activity the other day. Tongue in cheek.
An art piece made up of mirrors at The Forks.
Very cool rock fountain.
Fork in the road. Luckily they converged a little bit ahead.
The name Daniel Boone comes to mind.
As if the world needs more killing machines.
The TIKAD drone, which won an award for security innovation from the US Department of Defense, has been hailed as an important new tool in the war against terror.
Capable of being fitted with either a gun or a grenade launcher, the drone can be remotely controlled from a safe distance so that it can enter dangerous combat scenarios without risk to its operators.
But just how safe is a drone like this and what would happen if it fell in to the wrong hands ?
“Big military drones traditionally have to fly thousands of feet overhead to get to targets, but these smaller drones could easily fly down the street to apply violent force,” said Professor Noel Sharkey, a robotics expert from the University of Sheffield.
“This is my biggest worry since there have been many legal cases of human-rights violations using the large fixed-wing drones, and these could potentially result in many more.”
There are also fears that ISIS could copy this technology and create their own killer drones.
“We already know that Islamic State is using drones laden with explosives to kill people,” said Prof Sharkey. “What’s to stop them from getting their hands on this ?”
It’s a lot harder to “take the money and run” when the cash you want is trapped inside an ATM. But some daring thieves in Arkansas recently used a forklift in their effort to do just that.
The thieves crashed an enormous CAT forklift into the drive-thru portion of a bank on Wednesday, August 16th, and made away with an ATM. And police now believe that these criminals might have some ties to the construction industry. I wonder what gave them that idea.
The thieves hit the First Service Bank in Conway, Arkansas around 3:30am local time on Wednesday morning. The Conway Police Department posted the video to Facebook, captured from the bank’s CCTV cameras, and are asking the public for help in identifying the perpetrators. You can’t clearly see any people in the video, so they’re asking people to help identify the forklift.
Even if you make off with an ATM, it can be incredibly hard to crack them open. But given the brute force already demonstrated by these criminals, something tells me they’re going to try and find a way with something big and menacing.
But a warning for anyone who thinks this might be a good idea for them: More and more ATMs have GPS tracking. So even if you make away with the machine, you might have the police on your tail a lot sooner than you’d like.
If you have any information about the theft, the Conway Police are asking the public to call 501-450-6130.
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