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sâmbătă, 6 august 2011

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Living With Lions
25 Very Strange Cookbooks
Railway Therapy Practiced in Indonesia
The Falkirk Wheel

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 01:02 AM PDT

Zoo owner and artist Aleksandr Pylyshenko lies next to female African lion Katya inside a cage at a private zoo situated in his yard in the city of Vasilyevka, southeastern Ukraine August 3. Pylyshenko decided to spend five weeks in a cage with a pair of African lions, Katya and Samson, to get money for improving the lions' living conditions, according to local media. He is broadcasting it on internet to attract the public's attention to plight of wild animals in private Ukrainian zoos, which do not get enough funding.

Image Credit: Gleb Garanich / Reuters

25 Very Strange Cookbooks

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 12:25 AM PDT

If weird food is your thing, check out these strange foods from around the globe. Everything from cooking with poo to a Star Trek cookbook.

Railway Therapy Practiced in Indonesia

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 12:06 AM PDT

While it might look like they are protesting against something or staging a gruesome mass suicide, the people of Rawa Buaya are actually looking to cure their illnesses by laying on the train tracks.

In the Indonesian town of Rawa Buaya, people believe that electrical energy carried by the railroad tracks can cure disease.

From young children to old folk, they all lie on train tracks passing through their settlement, hoping the electric energy from them will cure their various sicknesses. Not even the potentially lethal trains passing on opposite tracks don't seem to be scaring these Indonesians away.

The Falkirk Wheel

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 11:29 PM PDT

The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift located in Scotland, UK, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, opened in 2002. It is named after the nearby town of Falkirk which is in central Scotland. The two canals were previously connected by a series of 11 locks, but by the 1930s these had fallen into disuse, were filled in and the land built upon. (Wikipedia)

Weekly Address: Getting the Economy Growing Faster

Your Daily Snapshot for
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Weekly Address: Getting the Economy Growing Faster

President Obama outlines a number of steps that can be taken right away to create jobs and help grow the economy.

Watch the video

Seth's Blog : Set the alarm clock the night before

Set the alarm clock the night before

Situational goal adjustment is a real problem.

Don't set the clock when you're tired, set it when you are planning your day. Don't whittle away at your sales goals right after a serious rejection, set them when you're on a roll.

The discipline is in obeying the rule you set when you were in a different mood than you are now. That's what makes it a rule as opposed to a guideline.