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THE ART OF SELF DEFENSE | Official Trailer

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Once you discover THE ART OF SELF DEFENSE, you won’t be the same. Watch the official trailer for “the black comedy that 2019 deserves.” In theaters this July. _ Official Site: https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/thear ... -- A dark comedy set in the world of karate. The film centers on Casey (Jesse Eisenberg), who is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei (Alessandro Nivola), in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman (Imogen Poots) fighting for her place in it. Casey undertakes a journey, both frightening and darkly funny, that will place him squarely in the sights of his enigmatic new mentor.

Why 99% of Agile Transformations fail? - Michael Sahota

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" In this episode, I take a journey through the philosophy of Agile luminary Michael Sahota. We talk: - The source and remedy for the high failure rate of Agile implementations - Toyota's "kaizen" vs "kaikaku" and why the idea of transformation is flawed - Why all culture change starts with the individual - The moment that Michael first got 'in front of the mirror' - His 4 A's Leadership Model and the prospect of radically fast mindset shifts Enjoy! Links: http://agilitrix.com/  " - Being Human Podcast

This robot may one day write you a traffic ticket

Total Body Resistance Bands Workout You Can Do Anywhere

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If you're looking for a resistance bands workout that you can literally do anywhere - at home, at the office, on vacation...or even a paddle board - then make sure to bookmark this total body workout, with exercises for every major muscle group, using only resistance bands. Get Your Resistance Bands & Complete Training Program: https://www.undersunfitness.com/produ... Video work done by Inline Photography. Instagram: @inline_photography Website: inline-photography.com Inline Photography YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJso... To complete this workout you will do two sets of 10 reps for every exercise. Make sure to use enough resistance to challenge yourself. The tension created by bands can build muscle like free weights, or machines, as long as you apply the same amount of intensity to your workouts. 0:17 Breakdown of Total Body Workout Using Resistance Bands 1:03 Resistance Bands Leg workout 1:55 Resistance Bands Back workout 3:13 Resistance Bands C

Two Legged Robot Delivers Packages To Your Door

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Two-legged robot delivers packages to your door Digit's arms and legs fold up tight to the torso for storage in the back of an autonomous ride. The idea is that when a self-driving pod or taxi finds itself without passengers, it can serve as a delivery vehicle.

Keanu Reeves steals the spotlight in the final ‘Toy Story 4’ trailer

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How Culture Makes Us Feel Lost - Dr. Gabor Maté

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Dr Gabor Maté gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different categories of self-alienation and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true nature as we move forward through the challenging times of modern culture.

The Game Of Thrones Theme Song | Custom Shop | Fender

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Watch as Game Of Thrones creator Dan Weiss, Tom Morello of Audioslave/Rage Against The Machine, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme, Brad Paisley, and Game Of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi shred on the all-new Sigil Collection Guitars from The Fender Custom Shop. Learn more about the Game Of Thrones Sigil Collection here: http://bit.ly/2H9eIQV Production: Kasm Creative #Fender #GameOfThrones #GOT

Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers

Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers A national backlash is building against employers' noncompete agreements, which increasingly have crept into contracts for lower-wage workers.

A Decade of Remote Work

A Decade of Remote Work While still in college (go Broncos!), I teamed up with Alex (@slevenbits) to create a startup. We were young, inexperienced and naive. Our first project was called YippieMail and it was an email aggregator. Simply put, YippieMail could display all your webmail accounts (i.e.

New Orleans BJJ Gym Owner Offers Free Training to All Area Women

New Orleans BJJ Gym Owner Offers Free Training to All Area Women In case you're reading from outside of the United States, it's been a...um...let's say challenging week in the USA as laws which have long protected the body autonomy of American females were challenged in multiple conservative states, including Alabama, Missouri, Georgia, and Louisiana. Laws surrounding body autonomy and choice always bring issues including rape and ...

Can "Indie" Social Media Save Us?

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Can "Indie" Social Media Save Us? In the summer of 2016, I gave a talk at a small TEDx conference in northern Virginia. I began by admitting that I've never had a social-media account; I then outlined arguments for why other people should consider eliminating social media from their lives.

SQUARE WAVE | the 5 Dimensional Mesmerizing Kinetic Spinner

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Kickstarter Campaign Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/... Square wave is a unique sculpture inspired by the Fibonacci sequence, the basic structure that makes up every living thing. Just spin it to get suriprised by a series of mind-bending optical illusions. Square wave is made up of 21 metal bends which curve and mutate unexpectedly with the introduction of energy. The repetition of identical elements is fundamental for the creation of complex fluid structures. Designed in the UK and made in Italy, combining iconic natural forms with mathematical formulae. Each bend, curl, and material is precisely calibrated to create a seamlessly integrated mechanism. Square Wave was designed by the award winning artist Ivan Black. His work reflects a fascination and kinship with the mathematical patterns found everywhere in nature e.g. waves, leaves, shells, the human form etc. Tending towards the minimalist in design, his works reveal how order silently governs our seemingly dis

Chicago becomes first city to collect "Netflix tax"

Chicago becomes first city to collect "Netflix tax" Chicago has collected $2 million in tax from Sony, Eventbrite and Fandango, becoming the first large city to successfully tax digital streaming and service providers, Bloomberg reports. The four-year-old levy, dubbed the "Netflix tax," still faces a lawsuit from a group representing Netflix, Amazon Prime and Spotify customers.

Game of Thrones and Creams & Lotions

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The most disruptive office distractions, ranked

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The most disruptive office distractions, ranked Of all the distractions that come with working in an office, the biggest is not the room temperature or the traffic sounds from outside. It's ourselves.

How I Hacked My iPhone's "Do Not Disturb While Driving" Function and Significantly Improved My Life

How I Hacked My iPhone's "Do Not Disturb While Driving" Function and Significantly Improved My Life Today's technology is incredible. Considering everything we can do from our phones, let's admit it, we're basically gods. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Americans spend upwards of 10 hours a day on our devices.

The rise of the sober bar

The rise of the sober bar When you walk into Getaway, a stylish bar off a main avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, you could be in any number of Instagram-friendly cocktail spots in New York.

Hackers can fake radio signals to hijack aircraft landing systems, warn researchers

Hackers can fake radio signals to hijack aircraft landing systems, warn researchers | Computing Hackers could hijack the systems used to guide planes by compromising and spoofing the radio signals that are used during landing. That's according to a team of researchers at Northeastern University in Boston, who have detailed their research in a recently published white paper.

Another collection of fantastic coding experiments from around the web to ignite your creative fire

Awesome Demos Roundup #4 | Codrops Another collection of fantastic coding experiments from around the web to ignite your creative fire. From our monthly sponsor: Ship customer-facing metrics fast with Keen.io. Collect, store, query, & display stunning analytics. These past weeks have been filled with interesting experiments: code goodies from space, a distorted font generator and fantastic WebGL works are some of the highlights.

Always Be My Maybe - Ali Wong, Keanu Reeves | Trailer | Netflix

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Everyone assumed Sasha and Marcus would wind up together except for Sasha and Marcus. Reconnecting after 15 years, the two start to wonder... maybe? Watch Always Be My Maybe on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80202874

Selective hearing: AI-powered listening device picks a voice out of a crowd

Selective hearing: AI-powered listening device picks a voice out of a crowd Hearing aids can have trouble separating a voice a listener wants to hear from all the background noise. Through a new form of artificial intelligence scientists believe they have come up with a solution that could be of huge benefit to those with hearing impairments.

Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms' content moderation, and what to do about them

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Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms' content moderation, and what to do about them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATmQj787Jcc Alex Stamos (previously) is the former Chief Security Officer of Yahoo and Facebook. I've jokingly called him a "human warrant canary" because it seems that whenever he leaves a job, we later learn that his departure was precipitated by some terrible compromise the company was making -- he says that he prefers to be...

Rivet' Turns Your Kid's Favorite YouTube Videos Into Books

'Rivet' Turns Your Kid's Favorite YouTube Videos Into Books Android/iOS: My six-year-old has started reading YouTube videos, and I'm cool with it. She's using a free children's reading app called Rivet, which was just released. Rivet has a digital library of more than 2,000 books, ranging from a mythical tale about Pegasus to a guide to clouds.

Robot-farmed greens are heading to grocery stores

Robot-farmed greens are heading to grocery stores - Video Robotic farming company Iron Ox has started selling its produce in California.

Honda is working on a solution for old, end-of-life EV batteries

Honda is working on a solution for old, end-of-life EV batteries - Roadshow As battery electric vehicles become increasingly common on our roads, the problem of what to do with their complicated, resource-intensive batteries becomes a much more significant concern. Some have proposed turning old EV batteries into domestic backup batteries, or municipal ones, or chargers for other EVs.

Twitter engineers were caught on tape talking about shadow banning

James O'Keefe on Twitter Twitter engineers were caught on tape talking about shadow banning, banning "a way of talking," targeting conservatives, classifying users who tweet about "guns" and "God" as Russian bots. #Stopthebias https://t.co/6TwruvFikb

Biomarker study detects onset of Alzheimer's up to 30 years before symptoms appear

Biomarker study detects onset of Alzheimer's up to 30 years before symptoms appear New research from Johns Hopkins University has identified a variety of biomarkers that can be used to predict the onset of Alzheimer's years before symptoms appear. The study presents nine measures that can signal the onset of the disease up to 30 years before cognitive decline becomes apparent.

The curse of genius

The curse of genius Tom remembers the day he decided he wanted to be a theoretical astrophysicist. He was deep into research about black holes, and had amassed a box of papers on his theories. In one he speculated about the relationship between black holes and white holes, hypothetical celestial objects that emit colossal amounts of energy.

Rhysonic Wheel used Live

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"Thanks to Sofar Sounds for inviting me to perform :) This is the first show I have done with the new Rhysonic Wheel which I have been building in my garage for the last year or so." - Rhysonic

Leadership expert Simon Sinek on putting others first

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Author of "Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't" Simon Sinek joins the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts to discuss what makes a good leader and the future of American business.

Shrimp are testing positive for cocaine and scientists don't know why

Shrimp are testing positive for cocaine and scientists don't know why Scientists investigating the contamination of wildlife with drugs have found cocaine in every shrimp they studied, as well as other chemicals such as banned pesticides. To carry out their study published in the journal Environment International, scientists collected shrimp samples in July 2018 from 15 sites across five river catchments in the non-metropolitan county of Suffolk on the east coast of England, U.K..

Balancing Mat Time and Conditioning as You Get Older

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" Balancing time on the mat and time in the gym can be a difficult one to achieve. There are only so many hours in the day after all. Here are my thoughts on how to balance the two, and how your priorities should change as you get older and have spent more time training." -Stephan Kesting

Who are the biggest bullshitters?

Who are the biggest bullshitters? E VERYBODY TELLS the occasional fib. But whereas liars consciously conceal the truth, reckons Harry Frankfurt, a philosopher, bullshitters are shameless: they say what they want to, without even considering the truth. Bluffers seem to be everywhere: the share of Americans who believe that most people can be trusted has fallen from 48% in 1984 to just 31% today.

Impact of multitasking in the company (quantified)

Impact of multitasking in the company (quantified) I prepared this chart for a client two years ago. The economic loss from doing high multitasking in a SAP department, and the impact on the rest of the organization. For every dollar they invested, they lost approximately 0.58 cents due to very high multitasking. I used here several calculations and techniques.

2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Reveals He & His Son Do Jiu-Jitsu

2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Reveals He & His Son Do Jiu-Jitsu Gone are the days when potential rulers would fight each other for a throne, but depending on how the 2020 presidential election turns out, we may end up with a leader who knows how to choke people. You see, presidential hopeful Andrew Yang of the Democratic party has revealed that he and his son do ...

MGM Resorts to Replace Bartenders With Machines (No, Really)

MGM Resorts to Replace Bartenders With Machines (No, Really) Can we write a sensational headline, or what? Thing is, we're not kidding. Several sources inside MGM Resorts have confirmed the company will soon roll out automated cocktail dispensing machines in its service bars (also called "well bars") in Las Vegas and across the country. That's right.

Parenting Tip, Play Karaoke Videos for Your Kid Who Loves Music but Hates Reading

Play Karaoke Videos for Your Kid Who Loves Music but Hates Reading Some kids are natural bookworms, happy to spend hours of their day curled up in a comfy chair with a stack of chapter books. And some kids are, well, not. But reading is still an important life skill and if they're fighting you on reading more than the school's required 15 minutes per day, you might have to find creative ways to trick them into reading a little something extra.

The newest hot coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour, because it is a parking spot

The newest hot coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour, because it is a parking spot On Monday, April 29, San Francisco workers from various industries-tech, investing, design, activism-gathered near Civic Center to work for the day. This is not unusual: Of any city in the U.S., San Francisco has the highest proportion of coworking spaces relative to its population, and it's pretty common for freelancers and remote employees to find themselves working in close proximity to each other, but not exactly together.