NUDE YOGA INSTRUCTOR SHOWS OFF AMAZING POSES (NSFW)

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Photographer Peter Hegre did the whole world a favour when he decided to upload a set of photos of his wife in 2012. A talented yoga instructor, Hegre got her to pose in some of her favourite positions in a tasteful display of talent. Not a single bit ostentatious, the photos are a beautiful tribute to the art of yoga and also a testament to the benefits it can bring. Have a look for yourself.

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The 13 Best Maps of the States in 2013

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You Are Here: The 13 Best Maps of 2013SEXPAND

Maps: Where would we be without them? This was banner year for beautiful, information-dense cartography, which provided a moment of self-reflection like a giant, geographic mirror. Here are our favorite maps from 2013 that helped us find our place in the world.


A Map of Who’s Got the Best (And Worst) Internet Connections in America

You Are Here: The 13 Best Maps of 2013SEXPAND

Why’s your internet so slow? We mapped relative download speeds by congressional district across the contiguous U.S. in 5,600 cities and towns. Sadly, most of the country is far below the country’s average of 18.2 megabits per second.


A Map of the Closest Pizza Place to Anywhere in the United States

You Are Here: The 13 Best Maps of 2013SEXPAND

I love maps that tackle the great unanswered questions in our lives. Like what is the closest pizza chain within a 10-mile radius?


You Can Compare 16 Cities 35 Different Ways With This One Mapping Tool

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One of the coolest mapping tools we saw this year was Richard Saul Wurman’s Urban Observatory, a site that lets you compare maps of cities using various datasets.


Mapping the Rise of Craft Beer

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The New Yorker (who we’ve never really thought of as Budweiser people anyway) provide interactive proof that independent craft beers are marching across the country.

8 Photos You Didn’t See From Obama’s Trip to South Africa

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8 Photos From Obama’s Trip To South Africa You Didn’t See

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On Tuesday, conservative news outlets in the United States decided that the best way to commemorate the life of Nelson Mandela, and to report on the memorial services in his honor, was to manufacture a controversy about an AFP photo of President Barack Obama shooting a selfie with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. According to Fox News, the “international incident” was so bad that, “The tsk-tisk-ing could be heard across continents.”Liberal news outlets countered with a photograph from former President George W. Bush’s Instagram feed, taken at the same memorial, in which he’s seen posing with pop star Bono.

Two things were lost amid the nonsensical partisan wrangling. First, the furor shamefully overshadowed the memorial service itself, and the heartfelt messages that were delivered by Mandela’s family and colleagues. Second, such outcries overlook the close quarters in which our Democratic and Republican politicians actually live and work.

Candid images from White House photographer Pete Souza tell another story.

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Looking at the individual AFP and Instagram shots, you would have no idea that Obama and Bush traveled to South Africa together on Air Force One.

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You would miss the fact that they and their wives dined together on the plane …

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… or that Bush dazzled Michelle Obama and a smiling Hillary Clinton with photos of his recent paintings.

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You wouldn’t see that Obama managed to sneak in his own photo op with Bono …

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… or that the Bushes and Clintons spent the day together at FNB Stadium.

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It’s almost as if photographers go out of their way to present isolated images of political figures …

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… when in reality, politicians spend their days surrounded by people …

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… and by political adversaries and allies alike.

Perhaps, instead of giving in to the frantic us-or-them discourse proffered by the media (Funeral selfies! Handshakes! Ted Cruz!), it’s time that we acknowledge that conservative and liberal politicians spend more time together, and have more in common with one another, than we’d like to believe.

SEE ALSO:
– Obama boycott: Major US news outlets refuse to use White House photos
– AP editors: Obama relies on staged propaganda photos
– Top 20 Obama scandals
– Obama: ‘I’m really good at killing people’
– Mainstream media fail to break even one of four Obama scandals

Source: http://www.policymic.com/articles/76375/8-photos-you-didn-t-see-from-obama-s-trip-to-south-africa

The Mothball Fleet: Aboard the Dying Ghost Ships of Suisun Bay

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Suisun Bay National Defense Reserve Fleet

Suisun Bay National Defense Reserve Fleet (Photo credit: kqedquest)

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Suisun Bay National Defense Reserve Fleet

Suisun Bay National Defense Reserve Fleet (Photo credit: kqedquest)

Suisun Bay National Defense Reserve Fleet

Suisun Bay National Defense Reserve Fleet (Photo credit: kqedquest)

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English: USS Vancouver (LPD-2) as she appears today, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet (mothball fleet). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ghost fleet awaits removal from Suisun Bay.

Ghost fleet awaits removal from Suisun Bay. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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English: Some of the ships of the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet (mothball) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Suisun Bay is famous for hosting the anchorage of the ghost or mothball fleet, a collection of U.S. Navy and merchant reserve ships, created in the period following World War II. Many of these ships were removed for sale as scrap metal during the 1990s, but over 80 ships still remain at anchor in the bay including the WWII battleship USS Iowa (BB-61). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Mothball Fleet: Aboard the Dying Ghost Ships of Suisun Bay

Unforgettable Photos From The Pearl Harbor Attack, 72 Years Ago Today

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Pearl Harbor 1941 — Map of Japanese air attack routes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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The sunken U.S. Navy battleships USS West Virginia (BB-48, left) and USS Arizona (BB-39) aflame, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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View of a mock-up of U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), constructed in Japan in 1941 to help plan the attack on the installation. This image was brought from Japan to the USA at the end of World War II by U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John Shafroth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Aerial view from Japanese plane taken during the early moments of the Pearl Harbor attack, circa 07:55 hrs on 7 December 1941. The view is south across the Middle Loch. Torpedoes explode against the U.S. Navy battleships USS Oklahoma (BB-37, right) and USS West Virginia (BB-48). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Ships and NAS Ford Island during the Pearl Harbor attack. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Photo #: . Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941. Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier (reportedly Shokaku) to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941. Plane in the foreground is a “Zero” Fighter. This is probably the launch of the second attack wave. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Aerial view of the U.S. Naval Operating Base, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii (USA), looking southwest on 30 October 1941. Ford Island Naval Air Station is in the center, with the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard just beyond it, across the channel. The airfield in the upper left-center is the U.S. Army’s Hickam Field. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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English: A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded. (80-G-16871) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Unforgettable Photos From The Pearl Harbor Attack, 72 Years Ago Today

KAMELIA ANGELOVAROBERT JOHNSON AND AMANDA MACIAS DEC. 7, 2013, 12:02 AM6,084 6
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December 7, 1941 began as a perfect Sunday morning for the troops serving the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor.

Under a early morning South Pacific sun, softball teams were lining up on the beach. Pitchers warmed up their arms, while batting rosters were finalized and the wives and kids came over from seaside church services.

They did not know that for hours the Japanese naval fleet and air forces had been speeding across the ocean toward America’s Pacific base. There, like a string of pearls draped across the docks and waterfront, was the majority of America’s naval might.

The devastating Japanese onslaught began at 7:48 a.m., eventually killing 2,402 Americans and wounding many others, sinking four battleships and damaging many more.

The Pearl Harbor attack spurred America into World War II, leading ultimately to Allied victory over the Japanese in the East and Nazis and other Axis powers in the West. And the country promised never to forget this day of infamy.

Here are photographs from the attack and its immediate aftermath:

On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, an attack planned by Admiral Isoroku Yamamotoa was carried out to demobilize the US Navy. This picture shows one of more than 180 planes used in the attack.

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At 7:00 a.m., an Army radar alert operator spotted the first wave of the Japanese attack force. The officers to whom those reports were relayed did not consider them significant enough to take action. This photo shows an aerial view of Battleship Row in the opening moments of the raid.

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The Japanese aircrews were able to hit most of the American ships on Oahu shortly before 8:00 a.m. Here a Japanese plane flies over Pearl Harbor while black smoke rises from the area.

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The Japanese also took the opportunity to attack military airfields while bombing the fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The purpose of these simultaneous attacks was to destroy American planes before they could defensively respond.

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There were more than 90 ships anchored in the area that morning. The primary targets were the 8 battleships sitting at the Battleship Row port in Pearl Harbor. Here is a picture of Battleship Row during the attack.

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The USS West Virginia (left) pictured here next to the USS Tennessee, was one of the first battleships to sink during the attack. The Japanese successfully damaged all 8 battleships.

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At about 8:10 a.m., the USS Arizona explodes as the ship’s forward ammunition magazine is ignited by a bomb. About half of the total number of Americans killed that day were on this ship. Here is a picture of the USS Arizona battleship.

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The USS Shaw destroyer explodes during the 3-hour Japanese attack.

There was a short lull in the attack at about 8:30 a.m. The damaged USS Nevada tried to escape down the channel toward the open sea but became a target during a second wave of 170 Japanese planes, hoping to sink her in the channel and block the narrow entrance to Pearl Harbor. The ship was grounded with 60 killed on board.

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A Japanese plane dives into flames after it was hit by American naval antiaircraft fire. Fewer than 30 Japanese planes were lost in the attack.

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About 188 American planes were destroyed and another 159 were damaged. Here is a picture of some planes left on Hickman Field near Pearl Harbor.

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Sailors at the Naval Air Station in Kaneohe, Hawaii, attempt to salvage a burning PBY Catalina in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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People in Times Square, New York buy newspapers with headlines saying, “Japs Attack US.” American entered the Second World War after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Salvage work begins on destroyers USS Casin and the USS Downes. The Japanese failed to damage any American aircraft carriers, which were surprisingly absent from the harbor.

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A Japanese torpedo plane is hoisted from the bottom of the sea. About 10 percent of Japanese planes were lost on December 7th.

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The USS Oklahoma, seen in this photo with one of its propellers peeking out of the water, was considered too old to be worth repairing.

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A Marine holds a piece of shrapnel removed from his arm following the attack.

 

This photo shows sailors participating in a memorial service for the more than 2,400 killed in the attack.