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psycho and casaba melon
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:06/12/2025
Posted By:utopia online

When it comes to movies that sum up the thriller genre, it would be difficult to find anything that could beat Psycho for the way in which it can play on your mind. Of course, there are so many different scenes that stand out, but perhaps the key one has to be the infamous shower scene. Anybody that has watched the movie will be able to remember it along with the terrifying sound effects, but if you knew how the sound effects were made, it could make things slightly less scary for you. Keep in mind that the movie was made in 1960, so it was hardly a case of special effects being out of this world or sounds being added in digitally after it was shot. Nope, they had to go for something that was far more basic in its approach, and yet it was still something that worked. In the shower scene, the sound effects were able to be created by repeatedly stabbing a casaba melon. Yep, it was achieved via a melon, and that is hardly something that you would expect to have been used. Bonus  About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.  Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That is more than sharks.  The original name for butterfly was flutterby.  When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.  Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.


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Joseph Pulitzer
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:06/11/2025
Posted By:utopia online

A journalist, investigative reporter, publisher, and advocate for freedom of the press, Joseph Pulitzer also started the first school of Journalism - at Columbia University - and created the famous Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and literature.If Joseph Pulitzer had been born with better eyesight, or hadn’t known how to play chess, our newspapers would not be the same today. When he was a teenager in Hungary in the 1860s, Joseph decided to become a soldier, but his eyesight was so bad that no army would take him. Finally, a recruiter from the United States signed him up to fight in the American Civil War. After a year as a soldier, and having managed to survive the Civil War, Pulitzer stayed in America, working odd jobs and learning English. Then, a chance meeting changed his life and changed the world of journalism forever. As he was studying at the library in St. Louis, he saw two men playing chess. He suggested a good move to one of them, and the three started up a conversation. The two men were publishers of a newspaper, and they offered Pulitzer a job. Joseph Pulitzer turned out to be a brilliant and hard-working reporter. After a few years, he became publisher of the newspaper. Then, after making one smart deal after another, he wound up owning the largest newspaper in the city - the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That’s when Pulitzer’s real genius came out. He made his newspaper the voice of the common people, investigating gambling rackets, political corruption, and rich tax dodgers. People loved this new, crusading style of journalism, and circulation soared. Joseph Pulitzer kept working hard even after he had become very ill and his eyesight was nearly gone. He believed that it was important for newspapers to serve a social purpose and help protect people from dishonesty and corruption. After a few years, he was able to buy another newspaper, this time in New York, and bring his populist approach to an even larger audience. In 1909, his New York paper broke the story of one of the biggest political scandals in American history - $40 million in illegal payments in the Panama Canal deal. The U.S. government tried to sue him, but Pulitzer stood firm and won an important victory for freedom of the press. Joseph Pulitzer willed part of his fortune to establish the world’s first school of journalism at New York’s Columbia University. He also set aside money for annual prizes for journalists and writers; today, winning one of the famous Pulitzer Prizes makes you a superstar among writers. Although he fell into journalism by accident, Joseph Pulitzer set standards that newspapers still strive to attain today.


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Liverpool agree fee for Wirtz - Wednesday's gossip
Catagory:News
Author:BBC
Posted Date:06/11/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Florian Wirtz set for Liverpool medical, Martin Zubimendi's Arsenal delay explained, Manchester United might use Joshua Zirkzee in Victor Osimhen offer. Florian Wirtz is set for a Liverpool medical after they agreed a deal in principle with Bayer Leverkusen for the 22-year-old Germany midfielder, worth £127m including add-ons. (Fabrizio Romano), external Arsenal have agreed a fee of about £59m with Real Sociedad for Spain midfielder Martin Zubimendi, 26, with the move to be completed after 1 July to help with meeting Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. (AS - in Spanish), external Manchester United are evaluating an offer for Napoli's Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen, 26, using Netherlands forward Joshua Zirkzee, 24, as part of the deal. (Gazzetta dello Sport - in Italian), external RB Leipzig's 22-year-old Slovenia striker Benjamin Sesko - a reported target for Arsenal - rejected a move to Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal before Tuesday's transfer deadline. (Star)


Type:News
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Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK
Catagory:News
Author:BBC
Posted Date:06/11/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Uber will trial robotaxis - autonomous cars with no human safety driver at the wheel - in London next spring. The ride-hailing app will work with the UK artificial intelligence (AI) firm Wayve, which has been testing out the technology on the city's streets with human oversight, in line with current legislation. The announcement comes after the UK government changed its rules about the driverless cars once again. It was originally aiming for the tech to come to British roads in 2026, then the date was changed to the second half of 2027. But it now says it is introducing an accelerated framework for small autonomous "bus and taxi like" commercial services to get them underway earlier.


Type:Technology
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THE QUICK HACKS TO SUCCESS
Catagory:Education
Author:Dean Graziosi (Millionaire Success Habits)
Posted Date:06/10/2025
Posted By:utopia online

This chapter is going to be like a lightening round on Success Hacks that you can adjust to fit into your life in a moment’s notice.Of course, there are thousands of habits, daily routines, or “hacks”, which can help you along your journey to success. These are some of my favorites, and you can incorporate them into your life easily, quickly, and with a far greater impact than you might think. We often get into ruts or routines and we live the same schedule day after day. Sometimes we feel like we’re on a hamster wheel or that we’re just running in place on a treadmill. When this happens, your creativity, your new ideas, your dreams, your visions, your inventions, don’t get a chance to flourish. Set aside ten to thirty minutes each day, and just think creatively. Don’t respond to e-mail, don’t read over your to-do list, don’t text, or look at social media. Just think. I do this after I work out in the morning and before my kids wake up. I focus on what’s next for my life. What should I say in my books, what new idea can I share with people today that will have the most power to transform lives, what’s my next TV show going to be? As you allow yourself to exercise your creativity, you’ll get the juices flowing. I don’t care if you think you’re not creative; you are. If you’re like most people, you don’t give yourself credit for all your innovations. You’ve invented a new relationship, a business, a career, a game you play with your kids, a more efficient way of doing your yard work, a character that makes your spouse laugh. Nothing in life comes to us unless we think of it first. Look around you. That lamp, that chair, that painting. Somebody thought about them first by being creative, and then they became reality. If you forget to take creative time every day, you’re not feeding part of your soul, and you don’t want it to wither. Sometimes I’ll do a whole day of just being creative, where I spend time finding those things that spark my mind and fire me up and keep me looking forward to that next level of life. All of us have our own definition of creative time. It can be painting, writing, sculpting, inventing, digital design, or 1000 other things that get your creative juices flowing. Whatever it is, schedule the time and do it daily.


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Jacques Cousteau
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:06/09/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Famous for his award-winning underwater films, television shows, and books that gave the world a view of life under the ocean, ecologist Jacques Cousteau was also a talented inventor and dedicated environmental activist.Naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author, researcher . . . you could go on for pages about all of the things Jacques Cousteau did with his remarkable life! Many people outside France don’t know that Costeau was a war hero; he led daring commando operations inside occupied France during World War II. And many may not know that he helped invent the modern aqualung - the SCUBA system that’s used around the world. Most people remember Jacques Cousteau for his amazing films, television shows, and books about the ocean. On board his ship Calypso, Cousteau and his crew traveled the world to film their documentaries about the life that teems beneath the surface of the water. In the 1950s and 60s, Cousteau’s films marked the first time the majority of people had ever seen footage of undersea life in its natural state. And it was the first time that the general public heard about the dangers of pollution, overfishing, habitat destruction, and other threats to the natural world. Jacques Cousteau is credited with being one of the first popular ecologists, inspiring a whole generation of young people to be more aware of their environment. His long career (Cousteau lived to age eighty-seven) contained many other amazing achievements: - The first underwater archaeology operation using autonomous diving; - Discovering how porpoises use natural sonar to guide themselves; - Winning the top prize at the world-famous Cannes Film Festival for his documentary The Silent World; Organizing a successful campaign to stop the dumping of nuclear waste in the oceans; and Winning a long list of awards and medals from grateful nations and organizations around the world. Through more than 120 television documentaries and fifty books, Cousteau helped make science and nature popular topics for everyday people, and he left a legacy that carries on his work. The Cousteau Society he founded to protect the environment now has 300,000 members. As rich and famous as he became, Jacques Cousteau always said he was just a man trying to do his bit to help the world. “It takes generosity to discover the whole through others,” he said. “If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”


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barbie and weight loss advice for women
Catagory:Education
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:06/05/2025
Posted By:utopia online

It is believed that there have been over 1 billion Barbie dolls sold since they made their appearance back in 1959. Since then, she has become more than a cult icon, and the brand has expanded into more formats with Barbie herself appearing in various styles. However, one style and doll that appeared in the 1960s was certainly different, and it included some advice that we would just be completely shocked at if it was aired today. The doll in question was Slumber Party Barbie, and if you were a lucky enough girl to receive this version, then you would have also been given a surprise book that titled ‘How to Lose Weight.’ Now, that in itself is shocking enough when you consider the age range of the market that it was being aimed at, but one of the tips in particular goes beyond shocking. So, what is the tip? Surprisingly enough, they gave the tip to the girls who wanted to lose weight and read the book, that they should simply not eat. Plain and simple. If you want to lose weight, then avoid food. To be honest, should you be taking weight loss advice from a plastic doll? Bonus  The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!  Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie.  The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.  A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.  A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.  It is estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.


Type:other
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break a habit
Catagory:Reading
Author:Chandler, Steve
Posted Date:06/05/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Super motivation is much more difficult to achieve when we are held back mentally by bad habits. Trying to move toward the life we want while dragging along our bad habits was described in the Scottish rock group Del Amitri's song lyrics, "It's like driving with the brakes on, it's like swimming with your boots on..." But here's the catch: Bad habits simply cannot be broken. Nor can they be gotten rid of. Ask the millions who continue to try. They always end up, in the words of Richard Brautigan, "trying to shovel mercury with a pitchfork," because our bad habits exist for good reasons. They're there to do something for us, even if that something ends up being self-destructive. Down deep, even a bad habit is trying to make us operate better. People who smoke are trying, even through their addiction, to do something beneficial perhaps to breathe deeply and relax. Such breathing is needed to balance stress, so their smoking is a way in which they are trying to make themselves better. Bad habits are like that they are based on a perceived benefit. That's why they're so hard to just "get rid of." That's why habits must be respected and understood before they can be transformed. What created the habit must be built upon, not killed. We must go to the beneficial impulse that drives the habit, and then expand on that to make the habit grow from something bad into something good. Let's take drinking as an example. I've known people who used to be drunk all the time who are now sober all the time. How did they do it? Couldn't we just say that they just got rid of their drinking habit? Not really. Because, without exception, the recovered people I know replaced their drinking with something else. Taking all of one's courage, relaxation, and spirituality from a bottle of alcohol is a very damaging habit. But to simply eliminate it leads to even worse problems: shakes, DTs, fear, dread, paranoia. A total void. People who join Alcoholics Anonymous, however, replace their "false courage" once found in a bottle of alcohol with real courage found in the meeting rooms of AA. The completely artificial sense of spirituality formerly found in a tumbler of spirits is replaced by the true and deeply personal spirituality found in working the 12-step program of enlightenment. The superficial but highly emotional relationships the alcoholic had made in his favorite bars are replaced by real friendships. Replacement is powerful because it works, and where bad habits are concerned it's the only thing that works. I've known people who quit smoking without intending to. They took up running, or some form of regular aerobic exercise, and soon the breathing and relaxation they were getting from the exercise made the smoking feel bad to their bodies. They quit smoking because they had introduced a replacement. People who diet have the same experience. It isn't staying away from fattening food that works—it's introducing a regular diet of delicious, healthy food that works. It's replacement. Subconsciously you don't think your bad habits are bad! And that's because they're filling a perceived need. So the way to strengthen yourself is to identify the need and honor it. Honor the need by replacing the current habit with one that is healthier and more effective. Replace one habit, and soon you'll be motivated to replace another.


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