Legendary Action Park, also known as the world’s wildest and most unique waterpark, continues to live up to its reputation by bringing the World’s Longest Waterslide to the United States and building it on the slopes of Mountain Creek’s ski trails.

The bar for women has been set unrealistically high by the role models people have today. The deck has been stacked against the modern woman. It was bad enough women used to see 17-year-old fashion models wearing $25,000 haute couture gowns in women's magazines. Now, thanks to Photoshop and other photo-editing software, photos may be manipulated to make their subjects look thinner or heavier, taller or shorter, bustier or flatter chested. Wrinkles can be magically erased and prized features, such as pronounced cheekbones, can be enhanced. The touch-up technician has become an essential part of every photo project.

Watch what happens when women are forced to choose between walking through doors marked 'average' or 'beautiful'... as it is revealed that 96 PER CENT of women rate themselves as average looking

Given the choice between 'average' and 'beautiful', which description would you choose for yourself?

That is the question that has been posed to women by Dove in a new survey, and the results are shocking.

83 per cent of Australian women rate themselves as average looking, the study found.

Of the 9,397 out of 11,000 that answered 'average', 84 per cent regularly have negative thoughts about their appearance.

While the statistics speak volumes about Australian women's perceptions of themselves, they appear more confident than the global average.

Just four per cent of women around the world describe themselves as beautiful - with a staggering 96 per cent choosing 'average'

Dove highlighted the survey results with a new video, released this week, that shows women being faced with the physical choice between beautiful and average.

Shot in five cities - Shanghai, San Francisco, London, Sao Paulo and Delhi - Dove erected signs above doors to public buildings and filmed women's actions when faced with having to walk through one or the other.

The vast majority of participants chose to walk through the 'average' door, demonstrating the survey results accurately.

Many said afterwards that they regretted their decision, and that it had affected how they felt about themselves.

'It was confronting to see these signs, and to have to choose, and be self concious of how you perceive yourself and if it lines up with how the rest of the world perceives you,' said an British woman.

'It was my choice, and now I will question myself for the next few weeks, maybe months.'

An American participant added: 'Am I choosing because of what is constantly bombarded at me and what I'm being told that I should accept? Or am I choosing because that's what I really believe?'

'Beautiful, to me, is too far out of reach,' a Chinese woman said, after choosing the average door.

The video is part of Dove's #ChooseBeautiful campaign, which aims to 'encourage women worldwide to reconsider the choices they make about their beauty and how those choices make them feel.'



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African dance is polycentric, which sets it apart from most other dance traditions in the world. This means that the dancer's body is segmented into separate areas of movement, with each area being able to move to different rhythms within the music. Known as "isolations" in choreographic terms, these moves are quite complex and difficult to master.

Most African villages had a "dance master" who taught the members of the tribe from a very young age how to perform the various dances. It was very important that these dances be performed exactly as taught, with no room for improvisation or ornamentation until complete mastery of the form was achieved. While almost all of the dances are polycentric in some way, different areas of Africa have very different dances. The Maasai are known for leaping high in the air, for example, while the Kalabari emphasize hip motions. In all cases, the movements are very precise, and the same dances you see today have most likely been danced the same way for centuries. In some occasions the dance would be performed in skits as the video below illustrates:

The Importance of Music in African Dance
As dancers move in an expression of their inner feelings, their movements are generally in rhythm to the music. It is the sound of the music and the rhythms that are played that provide the heartbeat of the dance. The music and dance are considered inseparable, two parts of the same activity. Groups such as the Alokli West African Dance Ensemble, who perform historical, social, and ritualistic dance forms from all along the Ivory Coast, illustrate the wide variety of dance forms.

Clifford Owusu gives his opinion...
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She says she is “95% certain it’s not a scam”.

In an interview with TV host and author Phil McGraw on his show Dr. Phil, the woman, Sarah, said she met the man, who calls himself Chris Olsen, 18 months ago.

During that time, Sarah wired large sums of her inheritance to Olsen, who told her he was currently based in Africa. She said: “He told me early on that he was a widower and that he had two daughters, and he was on a business trip in South Africa.”

Sarah, who has been divorced twice, said she was in love with Olsen and was “95% certain it’s not a scam”.

Olsen told her he has been prevented from coming home because he keeps being arrested on false charges. “He’s from Milan, Italy, and moved to the United States about 18 years ago,” Sarah said. “He’s very poetic when he talks to me.”

But the relationship set off alarm bells for her cousin Crystal, who told Dr Phil she believes Sarah is being conned.

Crystal said: “If Sarah continues sending ‘Chris’ money, she’s going to have nothing left.”

According to McGraw’s website, he has been in contact with the embassies of the numerous countries Olsen has claimed to have lived in and has spoken with the FBI about the risk of online scams. Viewers are also trying to track down the man for an upcoming episode. Watch the video below...

‘Liquindi‘ is from the Baka Forest People in Central Africa, who live near the Cameroon and Congo border. It’s a type of Pygmy music in Africa that is also referred to as ‘Yelli‘. The Baka women perform yelli, a traditional song, only early in the morning before a hunt. They perform the pre-hunt song in the dawn hours so as to enchant the rain forest and also attract animals leading to a successful hunt.
Normally, Pygmic music in central Africa comprises of choruses and harmony accompanied sometimes by a percussion instrument. The Liquindi however derives its melody and harmony from nature. The Baka people use the river as a drum when creating these beautiful sounds. In the Western World, Liquindi is commonly known as ‘Water Drumming‘.

Water Drumming is not in any way the hydraulophonic style of making music. In the hydraulophonic style, a percussive sound is produced during direct physical contact with water. It’s different since sound is produced by the fluid in contact with the fingers of the player. In Liquindi on the other hand, sound is produced when a person standing in water hits the surface of water using their hands, in a way that air is trapped in the hands to produce a percussive effect which arises due to the sudden change in air pressure of the air trapped. The sound does not exist in water entirely since the air-water boundary is needed as a surface to be struck.

In the Liquindi piece, one voice starts, another follows, then another…Each voice has its own repeating melody. Every singer has their own rhythm and cycle but the voices culminate eventually to form one song. It’s like each sound is reacting to the others to make the intonations of the voices in sync with the rhythm. Every clap is in sync with the tone and this complex polyphonic style of music is rich and characteristic of Western African music.

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It is a hill that could give even the most confident learner driver nightmares.

The Eshima Ohashi bridge in Japan – the third largest of its kind in the world – rises sharply so ships can pass underneath.

An Iconic structure that has its place among the famous bridges in the world, a category held by the likes of the Sydney Harbor, Tower Bridge, and the Golden Gate Bridge.

The concrete road bridge spans a mile across Lake Nakaumi, linking the cities of Matsue and Sakaiminato.

The Eshima Ohashi bridge in Japan – the third largest of its kind in the world – rises sharply so ships can pass underneath

The two-lane concrete road bridge stretches 1.7km or just over 1 mile long and has a width of 11.4 metres making it the largest rigid frame bridge in Japan and the third largest in the world.

The concrete road bridge, pictured, spans a mile across Lake Nakaumi, linking the cities of Matsue and Sakaiminato

It's incredible slope, which has a gradient of 6.1 per cent on the Shimane Prefecture side and 5.1 per cent on the Tottori Prefecture side gives it a rollercoaster-like appearance.

The unusual steep bridge was recently featured in a commercial for Daihatsu Motor Co.'s Tanto minivan to test the vehicle's durability.

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Muaharrem is a young deaf man from Istanbul, and his sister, Ozlem, teamed up with a production crew recently to give him one hell of an amazing day.
The Leo Burnett ad firm and Samsung organized the huge stunt for an ad campaign. They spent a month setting up cameras around his neighborhood and teaching his neighbors sign language.

In the ad, Ozlem takes Muaharrem out and about on what he thinks is a normal day. That is, until the guy behind the counter of a local shop greets him with sign language.

Then he goes outside and ANOTHER guy signs at him

By this point he’s starting to get a little weirded out.

He bumps into a woman who signs an apology at him.

Muaharrem and Ozlem get in a cab. The driver signs “hello.”

This is the face of a very, very confused man.

The cab then drops them off in a public square where Muaharrem’s neighbors greet him.

And the production crew reveals the whole thing was part of an advertisement for Samsung Turkey’s new video call center for the hearing impaired.
And he, obviously, loses it, because advertisement or not, it is one of the sweetest things ever.
According to BuzzFeed a Samsung spokesperson confirmed that everything you see in the ad is genuine. 


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A white kid from Ohio shocked his family and sparked their beliefs in reincarnation when he told them he retuned to the world after living a past life as a black woman from Chicago.

According to Fox 8, Erika Ruehlman says her son started talking about a woman named “Pam” when he was two years old. Since the family didn’t know anyone named Pam in their family tree, the Cincinnati native asked her son more details about “Pam.” Luke told his mother that he lived a past life as the woman and died after leaping from a building fire.

“He was like, ‘Well I used to be, but I died and went to heaven and I saw God and eventually God pushed me back down. When I woke up I was a baby and you named me Luke’,” she told Fox 8.

Ruehlman was stunned. She pressed him more, and asked how she died.

“He looked right at me and said, ‘Yea it was fire.’ And at that point he made like a motion with his hand like he was jumping off a building,” Ruehlman told the station.

She claims he then detailed how Pam had lost her life in “a tall building” and had previously “traveled on the train in Chicago.”

With the details, Erika discovered there was an actually an African-American woman named Pamela Robinson. Robinson was in her 30’s when she died in 1993 at Chicago’s Paxton Hotel fire. Robinson leaped to her death during the blaze. During an appearance on the docu-series, “The Ghost Inside Me,” Luke pointed out Pam in a batch of random photos. Luke also shares the same love of Stevie Wonder songs, soul music, and the keyboard as Pam did.

While Erika says Luke hasn’t talked about the Pam since, she wants everyone to consider the “unification” her son has with Pam. She also says the family didn’t receive money for their TV appearance and doesn’t want any for their story.

Check out the story in the video below.

Yesterday, Jon Stewart and Comedy Central both officially announced that Jon will be stepping down as host of The Daily Show after nearly 17 years at the helm. Though Jon hasn’t outlined future plans or exactly when this will take place, he did mention that it will happen later this year around the time his contract lets out. Jon’s shoes are big to fill and though no successor has been named just yet, he or she better be damn good. Check out the video below of Jon Stewart making the big announcement in front of an unknowing audience yesterday.

Google-owned Boston Dynamics specializes in creating robots that move in almost impossibly life-like ways. They can climb hills, carry heavy loads, and follow humans around. The company’s latest creation is called Spot, and it has made its video debut showing just how nimble and sturdy walking robots have become. So this is how the world ends — not with a bang, but with a robot that doesn’t fall over when you kick it.

Spot is a refinement of the company’s past robots. It’s quadrupedal and electrically powered, unlike that super speedy WildCat robot with its internal combustion engine. Spot’s movements are hydraulically actuated for fine control on a variety of terrains. This robot weighs in at 160 lbs and is considerably more mobile than some of Boston Dynamic’s older models, as illustrated in the video.

Spot can literally run circles around the clunkier LS3 robot seen near the end of the video, which is designed mainly for outdoor use and hauling gear — up to 400 pounds of it, actually. Spot seems to be intended mainly to show off how advanced Boston Dynamics’ walking and self-correction technology has become. It just coasts past people in an office and no one pays it any mind.



Boston Dynamics has been less forthcoming with information since the 2013 Google acquisition. The new Spot robot is being unveiled only with a YouTube video and a few basic stats. There’s no press release or blog post that explains the finer points of building a tiny robotic horse, but at least the video is cool. You can watch the robot wander around both indoor and outdoor areas, and even withstand a few hard kicks — poor Spot.

I’m not sure what it is with Boston Dynamics engineers and kicking robots, but they seem to do it a lot. Yeah, it successfully illustrates how well these contraptions can recover from unexpected impact, but it’s really just antagonizing the robot, isn’t it? I mean, how long before they say enough is enough? The day the robots start kicking back will be a dark day for humanity.

Boston Dynamics mentions in the YouTube description that Spot has a sensor head that helps it navigate. Indeed, when you look at the “head” end of the robot, there’s a small rotating cylinder. This is probably a LIDAR system similar to the one Google’s self-driving cars use to remain aware of their surroundings. This might actually be the most important aspect of Spot if it’s gained the ability to sense its environment. Hopefully Boston Dynamics releases more details on this robot soon.

Going viral today is this interesting footage of a young Indian girl shaming a man who allegedly tried to grope her on an airplane. The description on the YouTube page reads, in part:

“This is a forward by this brave girl of what happened in the indigo flight yesterday with her ... ‘This man on the seat behind mine, put his fingers in the seat gap to touch me!!! I was very shocked for sometime to react ... Then the moment flight touched down, i got up. Saw his hand was again on the side ready to take up any opportunity to touch me!!! I created such a scene, humiliated him in front of the whole flight!’”

The description goes on to say that the man is currently in police custody, although that has yet to be confirmed. 

Video here: 

Transcript (from BuzzFeed India): 

Girl: “You’re asking for forgiveness. Why? Because I’m a girl? And you have the right to touch me any time, anywhere you want to?”
Man: “I’m asking for forgiveness.”
Girl: “What forgiveness are you asking for? Did you do it only once? Was it by mistake? Look at how old you are. Old moron. Half way into your grave and still not wise enough. Say more? Say more, come on. I’m videotaping you, mister! If you ever do this again, you’ll remember this episode. You think us girls stay silent and you can do anything, right? Look here. Why are you so bashful now? I will call security. I’ll make sure I make a complaint.”
Man: “I’m sorry about it. Please, stop it.”
Girl: “Why? Why, please? I’m sorry, please. I’m sorry that I’m a girl! Please, forgive me, for I dare to travel alone as a woman. I’m so sorry for that! I will not leave you. Don’t think [sic].”
Man: [unintelligible]
Girl: “Yes, I have purposefully done that. You thought you could do it again, right? You were touching me here again the second time. You thought I didn’t know what was going on and I would stay quiet, right? Only us girls are expected to have shame. You have a right to be shameless.”