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Franklin

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I'm a fan of the Naked Chef (Jaimie Oliver) but this.:confused:

Dressing with your salad? London has a naked restaurant and 40,000 people want to eat there

If you've ever thought "this meal would taste better naked," then London's newest pop-up restaurant will certainly interest you. But sign up fast, as there are already over 40,000 people on the waiting list.

Bunyadi – opening Saturday at a 'secret' location in south London for the better part of three months, calls itself "London's first naked food experience," and operates a clothing-optional policy. For obvious reasons, diners are banned from bringing in mobile phones or cameras, and are promised discreet candle lighting instead of electric lights. The restaurant will host 46 diners at a time.

"We believe people should get the chance to enjoy and experience a night out without any impurities: no chemicals, no artificial colors, no electricity, no gas, no phone and even no clothes if they wish to. The idea is to experience true liberation," said founder Seb Lyall, in a press release on the restaurant's website.

Although the restaurant will keep a non-naked section, gowns and lockers will be provided with a 'path to purity' that leads to the naked section, where patrons can remove their gowns.

The different sections will be divided by bamboo partitions.

"We have worked very hard to design a space where everything patrons interact with is bare and naked," said Lyall.

Waiters will also be in the nude apart from having some body parts covered, according to Time Out magazine.

Tasting menu options range from vegan to non-vegan and start at £69 ($100), including wine - which may perhaps give some diners the extra courage to remove that robe.

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AssassinsMace

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"Waiter, there's a hair in my soup!"

That's pretty much sums up how that's pretty gross. It's like people's preconceived notions about nude beaches where people automatically believe it's full of beautiful young people. Yeah when they clean the table after each customer, do they also Lysol the seats? It's a recipe for nasty. But then those that would go probably don't care.
 

ahojunk

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This guy is one incredibly lucky dude to survive this!

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2016-06-17 13:58:03 Xinhua Web Editor: Guan Chao

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A CT scan shows a man pierced by a steelbar in east China's Shandong Province, on June 16, 2016. [Photo: qlwb.com.cn]

A man has miraculously escaped death after a 1.5-meter steel bar pierced his body from groin to skull in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday.

The 46-year-old construction worker, surnamed Zhang, woke up Thursday, weak but conscious, according to doctors at Shandong University's Qilu Hospital in Jinan, the provincial capital.

Zhang was working at a construction site when he fell from a height of five meters on to the steel bar.

Firefighters were able to cut the bar and accompany the man to hospital. An xray showed that the steel bar had only just missed his skull, trachea, heart, carotid artery and liver.

"This is a very rare accident," said Sang Xiguang, head of the emergency surgery department.

Surgeons from nine departments worked with firefighters to remove the bar from the man's body. The emergency operation took more than seven hours.

By 1:00 a.m. Wednesday, the man was wheeled out of the operating room and transferred to intensive care unit.

"Luckily the bar barely touched his vital organs," said Zhang Yuan, attending doctor of the neurosurgery department, "The wound was so large, he might not have made it if he was in poor health."

"One wrong move, and the operation would have failed," he said.

"Everyone was exhausted by the end of the seven hours," Sang said.

The man is now stable, doctors said, but he will remain under close observation for two weeks as the risk of infection is high.

"We will try our best to help him recover," said Sang.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Impaling is not an instant death, That's why Vlad the Impaler became so notorious It's a slow arduous Painful death, Same for Crucifixion. These means of Execution were intended to make an example of the victim by forcing a death over a extended period. As such surviving an accidental Impaling is possible however the victim will require extensive surgical care.
 
very tough article considering the source which is NYT
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Historians, Police and Others Argue What Makes Orlando Massacre ‘Worst’
June 17, 2016

Is the massacre in Orlando the worst mass shooting in United States history? News organizations and government officials have said so since Sunday, when a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 others at a gay nightclub there.

The question has reverberated online and in news broadcasts, with some protesting that characterizing Orlando as the worst ignores an ugly history of attacks that claimed more lives, most often involving white aggressors and black or Indian victims.

Experts who study violence caution that terms like “mass shooting,” “mass killing” or even “active shooter” can be murky, and that different people use them differently. But by the definitions generally used in their field, they say, the carnage in Orlando does make it the worst mass shooting.

There have been worse acts of violence that did not involve guns, of course, like the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. And in the more distant past, there were outbursts that were deadlier than the Orlando shooting, whether in the category of terrorism, race riot, pogrom, ethnic cleansing, genocide or military action.

In Colfax, La., in 1873; in East St. Louis, Ill., in 1917; and in Tulsa, Okla., in 1921; mobs of white people attacked and killed large numbers of black people. In 1857, a Mormon militia attacked settlers in a wagon train at Mountain Meadows in the Territory of Utah. In 1890, a cavalry regiment gunned down Lakota men, women and children on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In each case, there is disagreement over how many people died, and no certainty about how many were shot, but by most estimates, the death toll was higher than in the Orlando attack.

As a result, some have objected to calling the Orlando mass shooting the worst. The National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, for example, issued a joint statement asking reporters to stop using the superlative, “which negates several other incidents in U.S. history, many involving minority victims.”

“You can probably point to some incidents where more people were shot than in Orlando,” said J. Pete Blair, the executive director of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University, and an author of
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of active-shooter attacks. “But for our purposes, they’re in a different category. We would consider this to be the worst mass shooting in the United States.”

Disputes over how to define mass shootings are serious enough that experts disagree about whether they are on the rise. Some researchers exclude domestic attacks, but not others. Some say that only the acts of lone gunmen can qualify; others say that a small group of people can carry out a mass shooting if they prepare and act together.

“That’s quite different from having a militia or a mob,” said James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University and the author of multiple books on killers. “Mob violence, in particular, is often spontaneous, reactive, and all the people who are shooting aren’t coordinating their actions.”

Dr. Fox said that to him, hallmarks of mass killings included planning and “the specific intent to cause a blood bath.”

Deborah Azrael, an author of a Harvard School of Public Health
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, said that making such distinctions was often a judgment call, but necessary.

“If you want to get at why these things happen, you want to compare apples to apples as much as you possibly can, so you try to disaggregate, to distinguish between different kinds of incidents,” said Dr. Azrael, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.

But detailed, caveat-laden definitions do not roll off the tongue as readily as “mass shooting.”

By the definitions used by people in his field, Dr. Fox said, the mass shooting in Orlando was the worst in United States history, but he added, “I don’t think there’s any value in saying so.”

“Whether it’s a record or not really shouldn’t matter; it doesn’t make it any more tragic,” he said. “And if we talk constantly about records, someone out there is going to want to break the record.”
 

AssassinsMace

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Sugar plantation owners in Hawaii in the early 1900s treated their workers like slaves. Horrible working conditions and little pay. When the workers, who were mostly native Hawaiians at first, would get fed up and start complaining and there were threats of strike, the plantation owners shipped in another group of workers usually another ethnicity and gave that group slightly better treatment which angered the other workers and most of it was focused on the new group. Then when the new group had enough and complained, the plantation owners would bring in another new group and the cycle would start over again. That's how the plantation owners keep the anger off of them by having the workers at each other's throats instead of all of them focusing on the one responsible.

Same thing going on with this superficial argument of who's more a victim. Whoever is officially a victim gets better treatment and privileges than other victims. That's how absurd it has become where being a victim has its rewards and privileges and people vie to claim that status. And what the workers in Hawaii and people who think they're victims arguing who's more a victim fail to see is most have the same victimizer that gets to decide who is a victim and more importantly who is not a victim. There's a false sense prioritization that all humanitarian efforts must be concentrated on the worst afflicted when it's just simply an excuse to ignore the rest. That's how twisted it is.
 

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This guy is one incredibly lucky dude to survive this!

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2016-06-17 13:58:03 Xinhua Web Editor: Guan Chao

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A CT scan shows a man pierced by a steelbar in east China's Shandong Province, on June 16, 2016. [Photo: qlwb.com.cn]

A man has miraculously escaped death after a 1.5-meter steel bar pierced his body from groin to skull in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday.

The 46-year-old construction worker, surnamed Zhang, woke up Thursday, weak but conscious, according to doctors at Shandong University's Qilu Hospital in Jinan, the provincial capital.

Zhang was working at a construction site when he fell from a height of five meters on to the steel bar.

Firefighters were able to cut the bar and accompany the man to hospital. An xray showed that the steel bar had only just missed his skull, trachea, heart, carotid artery and liver.

"This is a very rare accident," said Sang Xiguang, head of the emergency surgery department.

Surgeons from nine departments worked with firefighters to remove the bar from the man's body. The emergency operation took more than seven hours.

By 1:00 a.m. Wednesday, the man was wheeled out of the operating room and transferred to intensive care unit.

"Luckily the bar barely touched his vital organs," said Zhang Yuan, attending doctor of the neurosurgery department, "The wound was so large, he might not have made it if he was in poor health."

"One wrong move, and the operation would have failed," he said.

"Everyone was exhausted by the end of the seven hours," Sang said.

The man is now stable, doctors said, but he will remain under close observation for two weeks as the risk of infection is high.

"We will try our best to help him recover," said Sang.

Reminds me of this guy.

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