Androids Gone Wild - The Dion Robot Story
China is known for four great inventions - compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing. Additional scientific accomplishments throughout the centuries include seismological detectors, matches and astronomy. Quite a smart nation, I might say. Smart, and a little odd - strippers at funerals, rhubarb and dandelion wines, designer replicas?
So what do you get when you cross technology with the unconventional?
The most sexiest female android ever created - The Dion Robot. She's Blonde. She's Beautiful. And She's Got Nipples. So far, she can only sing your favourite karaoke tunes. She moves her lips in sync with the song like a hollywood starlet who just had too much botox.
The Dion Robot is part of the "Lover Robot" collection being developed by Beijing Yuanda Superman Robot Science. "The lover robots like the real beautiful woman .... are primarily for family collection and appreciation .... comparing with these (Japanese) unmovable puppets, the lover robots are more realistic, charming, intimate, lovely, sexy and attractive."
I think they lost me somewhere in between family and intimate.
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Sushi Served With Cocktails
A new generation of American food enthusiasts emerged willing to take the plunge towards the sushi trend. Celebrities like Madonna and Justin Timberlake created opportunities for restaurateurs to open posh and exclusive restaurants, where sushi is served with cocktails and rubbing elbows with someone famous is part of the enchantment.
Today, a sushi connoisseur can expect dinner for one at Masa to cost $450. Add to it a carafe of Kubota Manju Sake at $86.00 and the automatic 20% tip; your bill totals $645. Bring a date, and for the cost of your dinner, you could have purchased plane tickets to Las Vegas, a Romance Package at the Bellagio and watched Cirque du Soleil.
Masa once again tops Forbes list of The Most Expensive Restaurants for the second year. The restaurant is a zen-like temple with 26 seats in the dining room and 10 seats at the sushi bar. The décor of oya stone, japanase cypress and hinoki wood are custom designed and brought in from Japan. Located at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, Celebrity Chef Masa serves his prix-fixe menu “Omakase” style. Omakase means trust – Chef Masa will serve you whatever he likes. He can serve you fresh ahi tuna flown in from Japan daily, foie gras shabu-shabu, Kobe Beef, and white truffles - about 25 courses over the span of 3 hours.
Chef Masa’s culinary masterpieces cater to a specific clientele. Anyone with money can pay for the experience – celebrities and food enthusiasts alike. If you are lucky to get a seat at the sushi bar, you might even get the privilege of having the Chef himself serve you.
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Behind The Underwear -The Sexiest Celebrity Vaginas
On October 29th, E! will be airing the long awaited episode - 101 Sexiest Celebrity Vaginas - as reported by Dateline Hollywood. Which of our favourite celebrity actresses made the 101 Sexiest Celebrity Vagina list? E! has confirmed Pamela Anderson, Angelina Jolie, Anne Heche, Venus and Serena Williams are in the Top 20. My guess is that Heather Locklear, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears will also make the cut.
“We have already told America which stars have the hottest bodies, feet, and clavicles,” stated E! president Ted Harbert. “Now, due to popular demand, we’re starting our first series of celebrity rankings that go, as our new network slogan says, ‘behind the underwear.’”
Dateline Hollywood reports that expert judges include Ryan Seacrest and Charlie Sheen. "Judges relied primarily on reputation, secondary sources and in the case of Sheen, personal experience."
You be the judge. Who do you think will make the 101 Sexiest Celebrity Vagina list?
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Future Highways: Three Possible Futures of the Human Race
There are three primary highways our future can take and an infinite number of detours possible along each path. The greatest number of these possibilities are just a repetition of our past, with enumerable rises and falls along the way (the higher the rise the harder the fall), spanning into the distant future. In this grouping of possibilities the present level of our civilization would be nothing more than a blip in history, receding in importance with the passage of time, probably acquiring the status of legend and myth, as did the Roman Empire throughout the subsequent dark ages.
Then there is the much smaller set of possibilities in which homo sapiens become extinct. As much as this scenario is predicted and discussed among doomsdayers, the fact is we are a hard lot to kill. All it takes is a small pool of humans to survive and repopulate the gene pool. It is probable that in past ice ages our numbers dwindled dangerously low at times, but each time the ice receded and the archaeological evidence becomes rich with human expansion and development. It is important to emphasize, however, that when greater and greater lengths of time are considered, this remote possibility increases, until it reaches a point in the distant future when it becomes an absolute certainty. The only way to escape the certainty of our racial mortality is to move into the third highway of possible futures, transcendence.
Transcendence is a low-probability set of scenarios in which we acquire a form of civilization which can outlive our planet and any set of catastrophes which would eventually destroy us. This highly desirable future can take many forms, but all have several characteristics in common. All must be highly stable, but cannot be static or without ability to adapt and evolve. All must eventually take us away from a solar system which has a long but finite future. And any possible future in this category must allow us to develope a much higher state of mind and intelligence.
Following is an outline of all the possible futures I can envision and a few of their subsets.
Highway 1: Extinction (Highly unlikely, but becoming more probable over great lengths of time unless we find our way to Highway 3).
A. Extinction by Natural Event
(1) Climate Change Has to be catastrophically extreme to achieve total extinction.
(2) Impact by asteroid or comet
(3) Change in Solar Output, resulting in an uninhabitable Earth.
(4) Disease or Catastrophic Pandemic
B. Extinction Through Man-Made Event
(1) Human-Induced Climate Change Once again this would have to be extreme.
(2) Nuclear Holocaust
(3) Man-Made Illness
(4) Unforeseeable Catastrophic technology
Highway 2: Status Quo (This will inevitably deadend at Highway 1 given enough time, unless
a path to Highway 3 is found).
A. Repetitious Rises and Falls
B. Stable civilization held together by some unforeseen social science or social philosophy,
but falling short of the third highway.
Highway 3: Transcendence (Highly desirable)
A. Interstellar Travel, maintaining our present physical form or biologically similar.
B. Transfer of ourselves to an artificial form, capable of surviving independent of our planet and sun.
C. Evolution, either natural or artificial, into a higher biological form able to devise new
and unforeseeable methods of survival.
Possibility 1 , Extinction by Natural Event. As I stated before, the possibility of extinction is extremely remote in the short term but dead certain in the long term without Transcendence. Of the two methods of extinction- man-made or natural- a natural event is much more likely to be the causative event. Excepting the biological or disease possibility, the amount of energy release required to wipe out 100% of the population is so enormous that until recently the human race could not have come close to matching it. Climate change by the natural cycles that shape our planet have long been thought to occur over long periods of time. Scientists are just now beginning to speculate that abrupt climate change, on an order that can reshape the world and in the span of fifty or a hundred years, is the norm and not the exception. To this author, this makes sense. I tend to side with the theories that massive climate change occurs when critical factors, such as ocean temperature and CO2 levels reach a certain point. I believe that when levels are reached in certain critical systems, chaotic effects rapidly escalate until a new equilibrium is reached: new average temperatures, new average rainfall, and different weather patterns. Is this enough to cause an extinction event? The fact is, many climate shifts have occurred since anatomically modern humans came into existence some 200,000 years ago. Enough survived to continue an adequate gene pool, and any shift we experience in the short-term we would likely survive again. Catastrophic climate changes, such as the one which is supposed to have occurred some 250 million years ago (it made the dinosaur event look like a picnic) are much rarer and their occurrence much more mysterious. It is much more likely that in the short-term (10,000 years or so) we would see our descendants reduced to the hunter-gatherer clans of 15,000 years ago than not see them at all due to climate change.
Mass extinctions by impact from asteroid or comet are exceedingly rare, and have probably occurred only a few times in the past 500 million years or so. Depending on the extraterrestrial body's density and content, it would require an object some ten miles in diameter to achieve this level of destructive force. Once again, however, we are talking averages and probabilities, and given a span of time long enough this will almost certainly occur again.
As for a change in solar output large enough to make the planet uninhabitable current astrophysical models hold that this will not occur for between 1.1 billion and 3.5 billion years as its energy output slowly increases through natural stellar evolution. That is more than enough time either to achieve transcendence or die from some other means.
Large pandemics can cause huge misery, create enormous social upheaval, and bring down civilizations, but natural diseases are not known to cause extinction in higher mammals. This is a very improbable scenario, long or short-term.
Which brings us to man-made extinction events. This can be summed up nicely by stating that any such event would most probably bring society down to small enough numbers in isolated pockets that any such destructive event would rapidly lose potency to finish the job. This is not to say this could not occur but it is not a likely scenario.
In summary, an event catastrophic enough to bring our species to extinction is VERY unlikely in the short-term. The probability would remain high that pockets large enough to maintain the gene pool would survive most events. However, in the long-term the possibility becomes an absolute certainty that something, probably some large-scale natural extinction event, will end our occupancy of this planet. By then we will probably have evolved to one degree or another, we can only hope that we have found a road to the third highway mentioned here.
Possibility 2, Status Quo.
This is statistically the most probable path our future will take for the foreseeable future. Looked at in a historical light, it is highly unlikely that our present level of civilization will continue beyond a few hundred years or so. History is rich with examples of rises and collapses. The pattern has always been in our ten thousand years or so of recorded history that it is inherent in our present nature that the societies we build are unstable in the long-term. The good news is that when a people or nation eventually do rebuild a new civilization they build upon the knowledge and experience gleaned from a previous one. "From the ashes rose...". Our present status as the greatest civilization ever built in our geologically short history is already showing signs of the same instabilities and cracks which began to show in another of history's greatest societies, the Roman Empire. To the people of the time, it must have seemed an indestructible part of the world they lived in. However, within a two century span of time, the Romans pulled back from every part of the world they occupied and in the struggle to find equilibrium within their own borders, slowly lost every manifestation of the great nation they had been. What followed were the centuries of barbarity, feudal kingdoms, and intellectual morass known as the dark ages. This period of history was earmarked by the Crusades, the Black Death, and an overall population decline from the richer period preceding it.
There are two possible branches in the Status Quo scenario. One is a continuum of the repetitious cycles which have dominated the human race for thousands of years. A global, or near global, civilization followed by collapse as its flaws encompass and devour it. Then centuries of a drastically reduced population fully occupied by day to day subsistence. Some centuries later another light of civilization, repeating the cycle again and again down the ages until chance or nature brings us to extinction- ten thousand years from now or 100,000 years from now.
The other branch is a stable civilization held together by a philosophy or religion. This can be envisioned by remembering the great eastern societies of ancient China and Japan. The disciplined philosophies they lived by brought a great deal of stability to those societies and enabled them to survive virtually unchanged for thousands of years. Even so, this is a stagnant state of existence, and in the end leads nowhere.
Possibility 3, Transcendence
This one is left entirely to our imagination.
Science fiction is the richest source of ideas on where our road may possibly lead. The only limitation on our future, aside from our destructive tendencies, is the intelligence required to get there.
In the end, unbridled Mind and intellect are the only things that will let us bypass the eventual fate of every species ever to exist on this planet. Natural evolution has brought us to a point in time where we are almost capable of dramatically altering our own future and world for the better. It seems that just enough flaws and short-comings have been left with us to always fall short of our loftiest goals. At this point we can no longer be dependent on nature to guide us the rest of the way to the finish line. We will have to take control of our own destiny now, with whatever that entails. The technologies we have created can both destroy us and lift us higher than we could dream. It is up to us to determine which it will be, and we will live or die by the results of our decisions.
Or we will continue indefinitely into the future, repeating the same mistakes and rebuilding what we eventually always destroy, until the next asteroid or catastrophic climate change ends the existence of the only self-aware species in the solar system's five billion year history.
About the Author
Michael D Watson is a free-lance writer, and editor and webmaster of http://www.future-seek.com, a futurist website featuring science forums, a science fiction bookstore, and other science resources.
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Absinthe - Discover the Green Fairy
The legacy of absinthe as a mysterious, addictive, and mind-altering drink continues to this day.
THE TRADITIONAL FRENCH RITUAL
Absinthe is traditionally served with 1 - 3 sugar cubes. Put the sugar cubes on a flat, slotted spoon over the glass of absinthe. Slowly dribble water on the cube to melt it. This allows sugar syrup to drip through the holes in the spoon into the absinthe.
THE BOHEMIAN ABSINTHE RITUAL
It has become a tradition to burn sugar over czech absinthe. Place the sugar cubes on the spoon and pour absinthe over them so they might soak it up. Some choose to dip the cubes in the absinth and then place them on the spoon. Set the sugar cubes on fire. The sugar will caramelize and melt allowing melted crops to fall into the absinth. The remaining sugar is then stirred into the drink and cold water is added. Absinthe usually contains more than 60% alcohol you should be careful with the bohemian ritual. The absinthe in the glass shouldn't begin to burn. Often times the drips of sugar are burning and immediately set the absinthe on fire. Most glassware is not designed to contain a fire and will break. BE CAREFUL!
MORE ABSINTHE COCKTAILS!
Green Fairy
1 shot Absinthe
1 shot Water
1 shot fresh lemon juice
2 or 3 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons egg white
Dash Angostura Bitters
Method: Shake thoroughly and strain into a cocktail glass.
Green Demon
6 tips of mint
1 shot Absinthe
1 shot vodka
Juice of 1/2 a lime
Dash syrup de gomme (sugar syrup)
Orange bitters
Method: Shake the mint tips with ice, strain into a martini glass and add other ingredients.
If this doesnt have you seeing green fairies (or demons), nothing will.
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Do Average Looking Guys Really Get The Hottest Looking Girls?
Numerous Studies Have Shown That A Woman Is Not Attracted to A Man's Looks, But To Other Qualities She Deems "More Important". If this is so, you might be asking yourself how you can harness and develop these qualities to attract and date the most stunning women on the planet? Women speak a different language. You can't talk to them like you talk to your buddies. A separate part of the book is about how women think, what motivates their actions and how you can use this to your advantage!
Advice on the most common errors men make - just by avoiding these critical mistakes which repel most women, you can improve your success rate dramatically and put yourself ahead of every guy out there.
The Manly way of complimenting a lady. Many guys cut the tree below themselves by not knowing how to compliment - I teach you to do it right
Important tips on dressing and taking care of yourself - you don't have to look like an average guy! This book will teach you how to give a little lift here and there and improve your looks by 2 points on a scale from 1 to 10!
How Much Is Happiness With Women Worth To You?
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Cheating Spouse: 7 Legitimate Motives For Spying
Should you spy on your cheating husband or wife? You believe you see signs of a cheating spouse. The need to know whether your spouse is cheating and EXACTLY what kind of cheating is taking place is often strong. There are a number of reasons why the drive to spy is powerful. Here are seven: 1. Trust is a big reason, not of your partner, but yourself. Probably for some time you have sensed something is different or questioned the change of behavior in your partner. Perhaps you confronted your cheating husband or cheating wife and it was met with denial. This created a huge dilemma for you because a part of you was screaming, Hey, this doesn't fit! I don't believe it! To deny this part of you, which KNOWS the truth, creates a tremendous internal turmoil. If the truth as you suspect it is confirmed, you can take a deep breath and at least know that you can trust yourself. You are NOT CRAZY! Spying is a way to confirm your suspicions and trust more fully your gut feelings.
2. Spying on cheating husbands or cheating wives often helps the person feel connected to the partner who seems to be steadily moving away. It is a way of maintaining contact and having some sort of connection to this stranger who once was well known. Isn’t it like the game of hide-and-seek we used to play as children? Sometimes there, sometimes gone. At least it is a game, and a game is at least some contact, some involvement. You miss the connection and try to find someway to maintain the ties.
3. Spying on a cheating spouse may be an honest attempt to bring resolution to the relationship. You want to know the truth. You sense something does not fit. You suspect there is a breach of something. You want to know what you are up against. You are not willing to stand pat and wait. You are a person of action. You want some sort of movement. You want to get on with the relationship. You want to get on with your life. You know that it is difficult maintaining your sanity when there might be this huge elephant that no one is talking about. You want to know the truth, face the truth, deal with the truth and be free.
4. Cheating husbands or cheating wives often, unfortunately, lead to the demise of marital relationships. If you strongly suspect this to be true for your situation you will want to protect yourself legally. If there is betrayal, lying and deception regarding a third party, other forms of deception may exist financially or in other areas of the relationship. Having “evidence” does have some impact in some court systems. Whether you need to protect yourself legally depends on the kind of affair facing you and the character of your spouse. Please read through my “7 Reasons For an Affair” to determine the situation that faces you. If your spouse is someone who can’t say no, doesn’t want to say no or is acting out rage, please make sure to take protective steps.
5. You may want to protect yourself medically if you suspect you have a cheating husband or wife. You might be concerned about sexually transmitted diseases. Your health may be at stake. And, of course, you need to know. Shame, guilt or self-absorption may be so powerful in your partner that it gets in the way of responsibly informing you of the medical dangers when another partner is sexually brought into your relationship.
6. Seeing signs of a cheating spouse often mean secrets. Secrets are work! There is not much written about the impact of a secret in a relationship, but believe me, in over two decades of working with strained relationships day in and day out, keeping a secret has a powerful impact. It is the proverbial elephant sitting in the room that no one dare talk about. People take extraordinary measures to tip toe around it, but it IS there. Emotionally, you can’t miss it. Secrets are a drain. If the secret persists, its impact is felt in subtle but insidious ways. People become physically ill, sometimes seriously so. People become depressed. People start doing crazy things. Children start acting out, stop achieving, become listless or exhibit a host of other symptoms. Children, or the next generation, often carry the emotional load. You want to spy because you don’t want to live with a secret. You want to discover the truth. You want to feel the freeing power of the exposed secret and the opportunity it offers for healing, resolution, a rich relationship and a productive life.
7. Some of us like drama. Soap opera scenarios and adrenaline based lives are a hallmark of our society. We get juiced or pumped up entering into emotional relational triangles that offer intrigue. Without adrenaline, life seems boring or mundane. Perhaps an unspoken reason for an affair may be to fan the fire? Or, you may spy on your cheating spouse to keep the sense of being alive a part of your life.
About the Author:
Dr. Robert Huizenga, The Infidelity Coach, has helped hundreds of couples over the past two decades heal from the agony of extramarital affairs and survive infidelity. Visit his website at: http://www.break-free-from-the-affair.com/cmd.php?ad=139627
Read more articles by: Dr. Robert Huizenga
Article Source: www.iSnare.com
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