Want to pretend you're Clint Eastwood in "High Plains Drifter"?
Have we got a Craigslist ad for you.
The Northern California ghost town of Seneca is for sale by its owners due to health issues, according to the Craigslist post.
So what would you get for your investment? Let's just say it's a bit of a fixer-upper. The property includes a bar, three cabins in disrepair and nearly 10 acres.
There are no utilities and getting to the "town" may take some work, especially during bad weather.
According to a photograph of a town plaque included in the ad, gold was found in Seneca in 1851.
-------------------------------- Stockholm — When IKEA decided to sell food, it chose to do it in much the same way it sells furniture: a few standardized staples, sold in large quantities. The result: 150 million meatballs.
That is the number IKEA estimates will be dished out in store cafeterias this year.
Though the Swedish company is better known for its inexpensive, assembly-required furniture, its IKEA Food division is a behemoth, rivaling Panera Bread and Arby's, with nearly $2 billion in annual revenue.
The company estimates about 700 million people this year will eat in one of the cafeterias that are located in 300 IKEA stores world-wide.
----------------------------------- Super Luxury train Seven stars
Seven Stars in Kyushu is the latest luxury train offering and the first in Japan that will take you cruising through the island of Kyushu.
The new super-luxury train offers its guests the luxury of a lounge car with a piano and a bar, top-end dining and 14 private suites.
The train travels around the rural southern island of Kyushu, on a four-day, three-night itinerary costing up to 1.13 million yen ($11,400) per couple.
The train which goes into service in October is already fully booked until June 2014.
How a 15-year-old entrepreneur got her product into Nordstrom
She launched her business two years ago, but Houston teenager Madison Robinson has yet to face something most new entrepreneurs do: rejection.
Every store buyer she has approached has placed an order for her Fish Flops for Kids shoe brand.
Robinson came up with the idea for her sea-creature-adorned flip-flops with battery-operated lights when she was just 8, living at the beach in Galveston Island, Tex.
Her dad Dan, a former banker turned t-shirt designer, helped her turn her drawings into a product and get samples made.
More than 30 stores placed orders the first time they exhibited at a trade show, so he hired an overseas manufacturer and started shipping in May 2011.
The shoes now sell online, in various retail boutiques, and at 60 Nordstrom stores nationwide for around $20 a pair.
More than 60,000 pairs sold in 2012, making for retail sales of at least $1.2 million.
That's not all Fish Flops' income; the Robinsons sell wholesale. But Dan Robinson says it's safe to say that his daughter, who is about to complete 9th grade, has already socked away enough profits to cover her college tuition.
What’s next for the Fish Flops founder? After summer break she’s looking forward to taking a 10th grade business and finance class.
She also plans to study business in college. Eventually,she says, “I want to do something by myself.”
Meantime, however, Dad says the Fish Flops brand is
----------------------- Futuristic High-Speed Tube Travel Could Take You From New York to Los Angeles in 45 Minutes
Traveling across the country or the world via any modern mode of transportation is a time-consuming affair. It can also be really annoying with the long lines, crying babies, armrest hogs, cramped space, etc.
Would it not be the most awesome invention ever if some new type of transportation could cut that travel time significantly?
Get ready, because it may only be a few years from becoming a reality. A company called ET3 has plans in the works for the Evacuated Tube Transport, a high-speed transportation tube that uses magnetic levitation.
The ETT can travel at speeds of up to 4,000 miles per hour, and each tube seats a maximum of six people and comes with a baggage compartment.
How does it go so fast?
It's airless and frictionless and could have you from New York to Los Angeles in 45 minutes, as opposed to the nearly five hours a direct flight would take.
It could even have you depart from New York and be in Beijing in two hours.
The tubes would be set up like freeways to prevent crowding and traffic congestion problems.
Plus, ET3 claims that passengers need not worry about feeling discomfort while traveling at such high speeds.
The high velocity at which the tubes move is equal to 1G of force at top speed, which is similar to the force felt by someone traveling in a car on the freeway.
Daryl Oster, the founder and CEO of ET3, says that he got the idea for the tube transport system when he visited China back in the 1980s.
When and if the tubes make their debut in the next decade, they will initially be used to transport cargo, not people.
