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- How Circus Elephants are Trained
- The Evolution of SEO [infographic]
- David Blaine: How I Held My Breath for 17 Min
- Miss Angola Leila Lopes is Miss Universe 2011
| How Circus Elephants are Trained Posted: 20 Sep 2011 11:11 AM PDT It starts when they take a baby elephant, and tie a rope around its hind leg, and attach it to a stake in the ground. The baby fights and fights, trying to pull the rope free, but it does not have the strength to do so. It continues to try, sometimes for days, expending all its energy, until one day, it stops trying – It has finally learnt that it is unable to pull free.  The pictures show them being dragged to the ground by ropes, chained side by side, pinned down by a hook in the back of the neck and checked by cattleprods.  Peta - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - say the elephants are also separated from their mothers by force.  The photographs are being used to spearhead a campaign to tighten up laws on the use of wild beasts in circuses.  The Government here is considering legislation to impose stricter conditions on their care, training and performance, particularly where young are concerned.  The pictures were taken in the U.S. by handler Sammy Haddock, who worked for the Ringling Bros' Barnum and Bailey Circus until 2005.  They were taken more than seven years ago - but Peta says such methods are widespread, and 'effectively amount to the torture of defenceless animals'.  Haddock died last month and asked Peta to use his pictures to ease his conscience about the kind of treatment he administered during eight years at the Ringling centre in Florida.  Peta director Poorva Joshipura said: 'All the evidence suggests that the methods described by Sam Haddock are standard operating procedures.'  Ringling's dismisses Peta's claims as 'from the last century' and denies cruelty. It says it separates calves from adults only when they are old enough to demonstrate natural independence.                 
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| The Evolution of SEO [infographic] Posted: 20 Sep 2011 11:02 AM PDT Since the early caveman days of web directories and search, webmasters have been figuring out how to outrank competitors while the search engines continually refined and fiddled with ranking criteria. It's the 'chicken or the egg' scenario: Did SEOs make search more sophisticated? Or did the search engines just make SEOs smarter? Take a look below at where both began (factoid: 1997 was the first documented use of the term "search engine optimization"). The factors that help win the page 1 crown have certainly changed over the years in the ongoing battle to improve quality and relevance in organic search. Click on Image to Enlarge.  Source: searchenginejournal 
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| David Blaine: How I Held My Breath for 17 Min Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:59 PM PDT  In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home. 
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| Miss Angola Leila Lopes is Miss Universe 2011 Posted: 19 Sep 2011 04:36 PM PDT Miss Angola Leila Lopes was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in a star-studded ceremony in Brazil's Sao Paolo. The 25-year-old Lopes is Angola's first winner. She beat out 88 other competitors to win the title during the 60th anniversary of the world's biggest beauty pageant. She replaces last year's winner, Ximena Navarrete of Mexico. The first runner-up was 23-year-old Olesia Stefanko of Ukraine and the second runner-up was Priscila Machado of Brazil. The third was Miss Philippines and the fourth Miss China.  Miss Angola 2011, Leila Lopes  Miss Albania 2011, Xhesika Berberi  Miss Argentina 2011, Natalia Rodriguez  Miss Aruba 2011, Gillain Berry  Miss Australia 2011, Scherri-Lee Biggs  Miss Bahamas 2011, Anastagia Pierre  Miss Belgium 2011, Justine De Jonckheere  Miss Bolivia 2011, Olivia Pinheiro  Miss Botswana 2011, Larona Motlatsi Kgabo  Miss Brazil 2011, Priscila Machado  Miss British Virgin Islands 2011, Sheroma Hodgea  Miss Canada 2011, Chelsae Durocher  Miss Cayman Islands 2011, Cristin Alexander  Miss Chile 2011, Vanessa Ceruti  Miss China 2011, ZiLin Luo  Miss Colombia 2011, Catalina Robayo  Miss Costa Rica 2011, Johanna Solano  Miss Croatia 2011, Natalija Prica  Miss Curacao 2011, Eva Van Putten  Miss Cyprus 2011, Andriani Karantoni  Miss Czech Republic 2011, Jitka Novackova  Miss Denmark 2011, Sandra Amer  Miss Dominican Republic 2011, Dalia Caritina Fernandez  Miss Ecuador 2011, Claudia Schiess  Miss Egypt 2011, Sara El Khoul  Miss El Salvador 2011, Mayra Aldana  Miss Estonia 2011, Madli Vilsar  Miss Finland 2011, Pia Pakarinen  Miss France 2011, Laury Thilleman  Miss Georgia 2011, Eka Gurtskaia  Miss Germany 2011, Valeria Bystritskaia  Miss Ghana 2011, Yayra Nego  Miss Great Britain 2011, Chloe-Beth Morgan  Miss Greece 2011, Iliana Papageorgiou  Miss Guam 2011, Shayna Jo Afaisen  Miss Guatemala 2011, Alejandra Barillas Solis  Miss Guyana 2011, Kara Lord  Miss Haiti 2011, Anedie Azael  Miss Honduras 2011, Keilyn Gomez  Miss Hungary 2011, Betta Lipcsei  Miss India 2011, Vasuki Sunkavalli  Miss Indonesia 2011, Nadine Alexandra  Miss Ireland 2011, Aoife Hannon  Miss Israel 2011, Kim Edri  Miss Italy 2011, Elisa Torrini  Miss Jamaica 2011, Shakira Martin  Miss Japan 2011, Maria Kamiyama  Miss Kazakhstan 2011, Valeriya Aleinikova  Miss Korea 2011, Sora Chong  Miss Kosovo 2011, Aferdita Dreshaj  Miss Lebanon 2011, Yara El Khoury-Mikhael  Miss Malaysia 2011, Deborah Henry  Miss Mauritius 2011, Laetitia Darche  Miss Mexico 2011, Karin Ontiveros  Miss Montenegro 2011, Nikolina Loncar  Miss Netherlands 2011, Kelly Weekers  Miss New Zealand 2011, Priyani Puketapu  Miss Nicaragua 2011, Adriana Dom  Miss Nigeria 2011, Sophie Gemal  Miss Panama 2011, Sheldry Saez  Miss Paraguay 2011, Alba Riquelme  Miss Peru 2011, Natalie Vertiz  Miss Philippines 2011, Shamcey Supsup  Miss Poland 2011, Rozalia Mancewicz  Miss Portugal 2011, Laura Goncalves  Miss Puerto Rico 2011, Viviana Ortiz  Miss Romania 2011, Larisa Popa  Miss Russia 2011, Natalia Gantimurova  Miss Serbia 2011, Anja Saranovic  Miss Singapore 2011, Valerie Lim Shu Xian  Miss Slovak Republic 2011, Dagmar Kolesarova  Miss Slovenia 2011, Ema Jagodic  Miss South Africa 2011, Bokang Montjane  Miss Spain 2011, Paula Guillo  Miss Sri Lanka 2011, Stephanie Siriwardhana  Miss St. Lucia 2011, Joy-Ann Biscette  Miss Sweden 2011, Ronnia Fornstedt  Miss Switzerland 2011, Kerstin Cook  Miss Tanzania 2011, Nelly Kamwelu  Miss Thailand 2011, Chanyasorn Sakorchan  Miss Trinidad & Tobago 2011, Gabrielle Walcott  Miss Turkey 2011, Melisa Asli Pamuk  Miss Turks & Caicos 2011, Easher Parker  Miss U.S. Virgin Islands 2011, Alexandrya Evans  Miss Ukraine 2011, Olesia Stefanko  Miss Uruguay 2011, Fernanda Semino  Miss USA 2011, Alyssa Campanella  Miss Venezuela 2011, Vanessa Goncalves  Miss Vietnam 2011, Hoang My Vu  
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