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World Bodypainting Festival 2013
Steampunk Cafe in South Africa
Belgian Firefighters vs Riot Police
Differences Between Chinese and Western Cultures
‘Breaking Bad’ Storage Unit: How Much is Enough? [Infographic]

World Bodypainting Festival 2013

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 04:58 PM PDT

The world's biggest bodypainting event took place from July 5 to 7 at lake Woerthersee in Austria's southern Carinthia province.

Steampunk Cafe in South Africa

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 10:32 AM PDT

Truth Coffee's cafe in Cape Town, South Africa, has a very interesting and unusual interior design. It has steel railings, copper pipes and other steampunk elements all over the place.

Belgian Firefighters vs Riot Police

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 09:34 AM PDT

Belgian firefighters covered riot police with foam during the protest against the working conditions and the budget cuts.

Differences Between Chinese and Western Cultures

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 09:13 AM PDT

Blue -> Western, Red -> Chinese

Opinion

Way of Life

Punctuality

Contacts

Anger

Queue when Waiting

Sundays on the Road

Party

In the Restaurant

Stomach Ache

Traveling

Definition of Beauty

Handling of Problems

Three Meals a Day

Transportation

Elderly in Day to Day Life

Shower Timing

Moods and Weather

The Boss

What's Trends

The Child

Things that are New

Perception of Each Other

Via curiousjames

‘Breaking Bad’ Storage Unit: How Much is Enough? [Infographic]

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT

If you're one of the millions of fans of AMC's critically acclaimed drama "Breaking Bad," then you've undoubtedly ben riveted by every little detail that pops up in just about every episode. Here at SpareFoot, we've been fixated on that cash-filled storage unit that Skyler and Walt started using at the middle of the final season, and we soon found out that other fans were too. So we decided to take a stab at answering the 13 most obvious questions surrounding this storage unit. To find out the answer to some of the most nagging questions about this unit, check out the groundbreaking infographic presented below.

Click on Image to Enlarge.

Via sparefoot

President Obama explains the shutdown

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

President Obama Explains the Shutdown

Yesterday, eight days into the Republican government shutdown, President Obama spoke from the White House about the need for Republicans in Congress to stop threatening another recession just to sabotage Obamacare, stop demanding ransom just for doing their jobs, and just vote to reopen the government. He talked about the toll this shutdown is already taking on our country and the economy, and warned against the dire consequences of a default if Congress doesn’t act to prevent an economic shutdown.

Keeping the government running and paying the nation’s bills aren’t bargaining chips or a matter of negotiation – they’re a fundamental part of Congress’s job. Here’s how the President put it yesterday:

"If you're in negotiations around buying somebody's house, you don't get to say, 'Well, let's talk about the price I'm going to pay, and if you don't give the price then I'm going to burn down your house.' That's not how negotiations work.... In the same way, members of Congress -- and the House Republicans in particular -- don't get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their jobs. And two of their very basic jobs are passing a budget and making sure that America is paying its bills."

Watch the President’s statement here, and then pass it on to your friends:

As the President has made clear -- and the press has reported -- the government could be reopened, today, with the votes of reasonable Republicans and Democrats if Tea Party Republicans would allow a simple yes-or-no vote on a Senate-passed compromise bill to fund the United States government. It’s time for Congress to just vote and end this government shutdown now.

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