This story really makes me wonder.. I’m still young and don’t use thing how old is my body ,  beside that there is person who has energy in his 94 age. First of all, 94 age, JUST AMAZING !! Every person who beats 94 age deserves huge respect. But this woman is special one. Helen Lee,  She is 94 years old, and she still wants to feel young.

Helen Lee, 94, works her arms on a standing weight machine at the Cross Lanes Nautilus.

Lee exercises on a rowing machine with her son, Samuel Lee. The two started working out together after Samuel had open-heart surgery. They usually work out five days a week

Lee walks on a treadmill. She joined the Nautilus Fitness Center in Cross Lanes nearly 12 years ago. Lee said fellow exercisers comment on her strength.

Helen Lee, 94, works her arms on a standing weight machine at the Cross Lanes Nautilus. While Lee uses a variety of weight machines, she said her favorite is the rowing machine.

credits: http://dailymail.com/media/201008150389 (on this page you can see the video about this amazing woman)

We’ll present three amazing stories about people who had real luck. Even It’s fair to say They deserved it. Those People won lotteries. Maybe It sounds weird, most of us who play lottery dream about one jackpot, some of us don’t believe that we won’t win EVEN one jackpot.

Missouri man wins $2M lottery jackpot – 3 months after winning $1M

Ernest Pullen said his wife will win the next big prize in the family.

A Bonne Terre, Missouri, man has become the first Missouri Lottery player to win $1 million or more on a scratch-off ticket more than once.

Ernest Pullen, 57, won $1 million on a 100 Million Dollar Blockbuster scratchers ticket in June. He doubled that prize with his most recent win — $2 million on a Mega Monopoly scratchers ticket he purchased on Sept. 17.

Pullen relocated from Pevely to Bonne Terre after his first big win. That left him with a new favorite store where he bought the lucky ticket; Miller’s Quick Shop, 1601 St. Francois Road, in Bonne Terre. Pullen said he has now “fulfilled his dream.”

“About six years ago, I had a dream that I won a lot of money,” recalled Pullen.

Even though he won $1 million earlier this year, Pullen didn’t feel like he had completed the dream yet. He does now.

“All the numbers I dreamed about, and all my lucky numbers, were on the card,” he explained. “I might buy a Powerball and a Mega Millions, but that’s about it.”

Pullen opted to take the cash payment, instead of the annuity, for both of his wins. He will receive a payment of $1.3 million before taxes. Plans for the money include fixing up his new house.

“It needs a new seawall on the lake,” he said.

Pullen said he considers himself a “lucky guy,” and his string of wins validates that assessment. Although he only plays games that offer big prizes, winning two top prizes on a Scratchers game is rare. He doesn’t expect it to happen again.

“My wife said she’s winning the next time!” exclaimed Pullen.

Mega Monopoly is a $10 game that officially began August 29, 2009. The game features six top prizes of $2 million, of which three remain.

Double lottery winners beat odds of 1 in 24,000,000,000,000 / Belmont couple spends $124,000 — $20 a day for 17 years — then hits jackpot twice in one day

Angelo and Maria Gallina show the gadget they use to pick lottery numbers. Chronicle photo by Jerry Telfer

2002-12-12 04:00:00 PST Belmont — It had to happen sooner or later for Angelo and Maria Gallina, who figure they have spent $124,000 over the years on lottery tickets.

What happened was that they won the jackpot — not once, but twice, on the same day. An hour after winning $126,000 in the Fantasy Five game, they won $17 million in SuperLotto Plus.

That’s never been done before, lottery officials said Wednesday, maybe because the odds of its happening are 1 in 24 trillion — which is a 24 followed by 12 zeros.

And maybe because there have never been lottery players like the Gallinas.

Angelo Gallina, a 78-year-old retired railroad machinist from Belmont, cheerfully admitted he has bought $20 worth of lottery tickets every day since the lottery started in 1985.

AND THE LAST ONE, AND MAYBE THE STRANGEST…

Multiple lotto winner’s 5th jackpot disputed

Kiosk owner’s brother-in-law lays claim to $17M

Seguro Ndabene, who has won at least four lottery jackpots since 2004, says he has no strategy when playing the lottery.

A Calgary-area man who has collected more than $2 million from four lotto wins in five years has been implicated in a convoluted court claim disputing his latest jackpot.

Seguro Ndabene told CBC News that he hit the jackpot a fifth time on Jan. 16, winning $17 million in the Super 7 draw. But he has not been able to collect that money because of a lottery probe, followed by an ongoing court proceeding.

The Western Canada Lottery Corp. routinely investigates any lotto wins of more than $10,000, which automatically includes winners of multiple major prizes, said Andrea Marantz, a WCLC spokeswoman.

Ndabene has won four jackpots:

• $1 million in the Western 6/49 in 2004.
• $100,000 in the Super 7 Extra in Calgary in 2006.
• $1 million and $50,000 in the Western 6/49 in Airdrie, Alta., in 2008.

Ndabene would not disclose how much he spends on the lottery, but said he buys hundreds of tickets every month from different places.

“I’ve got no system. I just play in every game. Take a few dollars and go and play or whatever money I take and go and play,” he said Monday.

While Ndabene said he buys his own lotto tickets, he’s also part of a group that purchases tickets together every week from a kiosk in Airdrie, just north of Calgary.

Lise Blanchette, who owns the kiosk and organizes the group purchases, said she was excited for Ndabene when she heard about his major win in January, even though the group wasn’t part of it.

But the WCLC’s review of Ngabene’s win was further complicated when someone else also claimed the $17 million prize.

Lise Blanchette speaks to CBC reporter Peter Akman at the Airdrie lotto kiosk she runs. (CBC)

Antonin Koprnicky — Blanchette’s brother-in-law — came forward to challenge Ndabene’s sole claim to the jackpot, alleging the winning ticket was part of the group’s purchases.

The case was so complex, the WCLC closed its investigation and passed the dispute and the money over to the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench.

“The extent of each review is particular to that prize claim and its individual circumstances. Because this prize claim is currently before the court, I can’t discuss its particular circumstances,” said Marantz.

Ndabene said it’s easy to prove the winning ticket belongs solely to him because he played the same numbers that were randomly generated on the quick-pick ticket he won with in 2006.

The tickets purchased by Blanchette’s group are meticulously documented with a stamp on the back of the document; no stamp appears on Ndabene’s ticket.

Blanchette also requires that people taking part in the group purchase sign a group-buying agreement that lists each participant’s name, phone number and contribution.

Among the court documents obtained by CBC News, the lottery group agreement for the Jan. 16 Super 7 does not include Koprnicky’s name.

At least three people listed in the agreement have hired lawyers pending the outcome of the court case.

“Each prize claim has its own story and we rarely see identical circumstances. We would agree that this is unusual,” said Marantz.

Seguro Ndabene says he played the same winning numbers from 2006 in the January Super 7. (CBC)

You think a bottle of beer for $765 is weird?  Wait till you see how it is packaged!!

According to Scottish firm BrewDog, “The End of History” is the “strongest (55% alcohol), most expensive and most shocking beer in the world.”

Just 12 bottles were made and the company has already sold out. They will be shipped out to buyers in the United States, Canada, Italy, Denmark, Scotland and England next week.

The dead animals which were used to create the beers’ unusual appearance were four squirrels, seven weasels and a hare. All were roadkill, James Watt, co-founder of BrewDog, said defensively.

credits : http://allweirdnews.com

The therapy involved cleaning out the finger and removing scar tissue — a process called debridement — and then dipping her finger into MatriStem wound powder. After seven weeks of treatment, her fingertip grew back (as shown in the before and after photos)

(CNN) — After running inside from a rainstorm one Friday evening last January, Deepa Kulkarni leaned against the doorway with her right hand to take off her boots. Then, in an effort to make sure the dog didn’t get out, someone slammed the door hard, and it landed right on her pinky.

Kulkarni thought the door had only bruised her finger, but then she looked down and saw the tip of her pinky lying on the floor.

“I swooped down and picked it up before the dog got it,” she remembers. “At first I was fine, but then I saw the blood — there was so much blood — and I felt woozy.”

Her husband, Ajit, called an ambulance, and as soon as his parents arrived to take care of their two young children, Kulkarni retrieved her pinky tip from the freezer — it had broken off just above the base of her fingernail — and they headed from their home in Davis, California, to the emergency room.

That trip to the hospital was the beginning of a five-week odyssey — one that involved defying doctors, e-mailing specialists around the country and — in her words — being pushy and demanding in order to make her pinky whole again.

’100 percent chance of failure’

“The doctor who was on call at the emergency room told me there was no way he could reattach my pinky,” she says. “I didn’t like that, so I asked to see a specialist.”

An orthopedic surgeon concurred with the ER doctor, and made an additional recommendation: He’d have to amputate even more of the finger so it would heal properly.

“I was like, no way, with so much technology out there, there must be some other way to do this,” she said. “But he said he wouldn’t even attempt to reattach it. He said was there was a 100 percent chance of failure,” she remembers.

Disappointed but defiant, Kulkarni declined the surgeon’s treatment, and the doctors sent her home with a bandaged finger and painkillers.

‘I am writing to you out of desperation.’

Arriving home at midnight, Kulkarni fell asleep, and the next morning immediately got on her computer. With her nine functioning fingers she searched for hope — any hope — that her pinky could be repaired.

Kulkarni, a former human resources manager who is now in law school full time, was accustomed to doing research, but after searching for hours, she still couldn’t find any new ideas for reattachment.

She did, however, find something else: stories on “60 Minutes” and “Oprah” about a relatively new procedure called tissue regeneration, which had made amputated finger parts grow back for other patients.

She went to the website for Dr. Stephen Badylak, the University of Pittsburgh physician who helped pioneer the procedure. A little more searching revealed his e-mail address.

“Dear Dr. Badylak,” she began. “I am writing to you out of desperation…I ran across your article on the internet and decided to write to you. Can you tell me if [tissue regeneration] works and what my options are to get the treatment?”

She heard back the next day, a Sunday, from one of Dr. Badylak’s colleagues. He gave her more details about the procedure, and some bad news: He didn’t know of any doctors near her using regenerative medicine.

She e-mailed him photos of her damaged pinky, and he said the team of doctors in Pittsburgh would review them and decide whether they could help her. In the meantime, Kulkarni sent out an all-call in search of a physician near them who used tissue regeneration.

“I e-mailed people at UCLA and Berkeley, and my husband and I called everyone we knew who was a doctor or might know a doctor,” she says.

Still, no one had any ideas for her. One friend introduced her to Dr. Malathi Srinivasan, an internist at the University of California-Davis Medical Center, who called Kulkarni from her cell phone while driving home from a skiing trip at Lake Tahoe.

Srinivasan didn’t know any doctors with experience in tissue regeneration, but she did give her something Kulkarni badly needed at this point: hope.

“I encouraged her to keep looking, and I did some PubMed searches myself,” Srinivasan says, referring to the National Library of Medicine’s online collection of research materials.

Seven weeks later, a new pinky

Eventually, Kulkarni made an appointment with Dr. Michael Peterson, an orthopedic surgeon in Davis. At first, Kulkarni says he was hesitant to try tissue regeneration since he hadn’t done it before, but she gave him some research materials, and she says eventually he agreed to try it.

The therapy involved cleaning out the finger and removing scar tissue — a process called debridement — and then dipping her finger into MatriStem wound powder. After seven weeks of treatment, her fingertip grew back (as shown in the before and after photos above).

“Even now it’s not perfect. It’s shorter than the other pinky, but just by looking at it you can’t tell it was an amputated finger,” she says. “I’m able to do everything I could do before. I wash dishes. I cook,” she says, adding that she’s had physical therapy to decrease tingling in her finger caused by severed nerves.

Kulkarni still keeps her severed pinky tip in the freezer. She thawed it out so CNN could take a photograph of the pinky tip alongside her regenerated finger.

You have heard of many fights, wars in which various weapons and arms are used but following are some unusual and unique fights in which no weapons or arms are used however the battles are fought with FOOD STUFF!!!

1. Oranges Battle

This battle is also known as Battaglia delle Arance and held yearly in Italian city of Ivrea. This battle is actually held to celebrate victory of Ivrea and has started since 12^th century.

2. Candy Fight

Candy battle as this name is so yummy that all kids will rush to take part in this battle. Candy fight is also called as Batalla de Caramelos. This fight involves not only candies but also quadragesimal meal with cod fish plus red pepper sauce and salad that can badly overload people.

3. Tomato Fight

This fight is also named as La tomatina and this event takes place every year in Valencian town of Buñol. Many people take part in it as last year it has attracted 40,000 participants. When people finish this fight all look like animals drooped in red tomatoes.

4. Grape Throwing festival

This battle is also called as La Raima Grape Throwing Festival and held yearly in Pobla del Duc town, Spain. More than 40 to 90 tons of grapes are used for this festival.

5. Custard Pie Championship

This festival takes place in UK. The participants can throw pie and who ever will catch it can eat it as well. This fight is really exciting and funny.

6. Food fight aficionados

This exotic fight is played every year in Spain. Rotten tomatoes, flour, oranges, and some other food stuff are used in this event.

7. Wine Throwing Fight

This fight is also called as Batalla del Vino and this event is held annually in Spain. Since 13^th century this event is taking place and one who loves wine can enjoy this event to the fullest.

credits: www.horizontalimage.com

It’s been 20 years since “Hook” was released, and what better way to impress your friends than by unleashing these fun movie nuggets on them. Movie made big impact and it still presents  very important happening in culture.  But some things obviously has changed and now really seems strange and kinda funny…

credits : www.buzzfeed.com

A family holding an Idaho Lottery ticket worth $8 million wasn’t taking any chances while traveling from their home in Brigham City, Utah,to claim their lottery winnings in Boise.  But as fate would have it, things didn’t go quite as planned.

Sisters Cindy Flintt and Carol Olven, along with their mother Donna Flintt, made the nearly 300-mile trip to Idaho with their ticket locked in a fireproof safe.  But when they got to the lottery office they realized the safe had fallen through the back floor of their rusty old 1982 Datsun.

Cindy Flintt says, “We were pretty broke, none of us have worked in more than 2 years”.  “We took our last $74 and bought a fire proof safe from the local WalMart and loaded it into the back seat with the lottery ticket locked inside.”

When they got to the lottery office on Monday they were shocked to see the safe gone and a huge gaping hole in the rear floor of the car!  Mom Donna Flintt said, “We just hugged each other and cried for almost an hour.”

Lottery spokesman David Workman says other winners have taken precautions, but the Flint family may be the first to have lost out on their multi-million dollar prize because of over-protecting it. “Apparently there was a car mat covering the substantial hole and they had no idea.”  “I feel terrible for them, but there is nothing we can do about it.”

The women bought their ticket at a store in Franklin, Idaho, near the state border with Utah.  But apparently the ticket is unsigned so whomever finds this treasure (and gets the safe open) will have full claim to the $8 million dollar grand prize.

This news was published January 16th, 2011.

For the JFK-assassination conspiracy junkie who has everything: L ee Harvey Oswald’s coffin. Body not included.

A Los Angeles auction house said on Tuesday it would sell the simple pine coffin in which the suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy was buried for almost 20 years.

Bidding will start at $1,000, but the item is expected to fetch strong interest from museums and collectors of presidential memorabilia when it goes on the block on December 16.

“There’s just a lot of interest in Kennedy and anything to do with his assassination,” said Laura Yntema, auction manager at Santa Monica, California-based Nate D. Sanders.

The coffin was unearthed in October 1981 after a legal dispute between Oswald’s widow, Marina, and his brother, Robert. Marina successfully sought an exhumation to test a conspiracy theory that a lookalike Russian agent had been buried in her husband’s place, according to the auction house…

A medical exam showed the badly decomposed body was indeed Oswald’s, and he was returned to Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas, in a new casket.

The original coffin, which had suffered extensive water damage, is being sold by Baumgardner Funeral Home, the local undertaker which handled the re-internment.

One day later……

Arriving in Coober Pedy, in the South Australian outback, is like landing on another planet. Not just because the place has stood in for Mars in many a movie and almost outclassed Tina Turner in Mad Max III. Not just because of the crazy pits and slagheaps which dot the barren red landscape.

This place… Well, it’s all kinds of crazy, really. Not just the art. Though that’s pretty crazy.

On the fringes of the desert in the second most arid continent on earth, where the mercury can hit 50 in high summer, hundreds of miles from, well, anywhere you’d want to go and even plenty of places you wouldn’t, more than three thousand people choose to live, year-round. Mostly underground.

Coober Pedy is riddled with opal mines and dugout houses, furnished in styles that run from chintzy to billiards to, well, just plain unnerving.

It’s full of scrap metal, junk art, film props, Heath Robinson machines, and, well, scrap metal.

It’s only the fans and chimneys protruding from the dusty red slagheaps which enables you to tell the homes from the mines. And the sights…

The people? Well, Coober Pedy’s population is surprisingly cosmopolitan. There’s a mix of 45 different ethnic backgrounds with tendencies running from hippie to evangelical to, well, bored farm boy racers who like to blow stuff up with dynamite. Y’know.

Or perhaps you don’t. The kind of guys who hang out back of the Italo-Australian Miners Club filming each other doing burnies on dirtbikes and chatting about the availability of nitrous. It’s actually the closest this planet comes, not to Mars, but to Star Wars’ Tatooine.

People just, sort of land here. And get stuck. It starts with a little dynamiting for opal. Then, before you know it, you’re 30 feet down, excavating under your own shack, building little rooms in your warren, tunnelling away from the heat, while the bricks you built above you, when you were new here, fracture in a fashion that would give the average surveyor a heart attack.

Now, I’ve seen cave houses before. At Guadix in Spain, Santorini in Greece, the Dogon in Mali, Matatma in Tunisia. As an escape from desert heat, they make, well, a great deal of sense.

But these ones? They wind. Scraped out with mining machines, their walls textured rock, mining galleries transformed into corridors, kitchens, bathrooms… Dig out a little bit more, as the folk behind the Old Timers mine museum did, and you might well hit an abandoned mine.

This is what they dig with.

It started, I guess, with a rush. The opal rush of 1915, because the rich, red sandstone here holds ancient shells and marine creatures opalised by ancient forces into strands of glittering jewels.

Guys started digging. They carried on. And, when the diggers came back from WWI, bruised by trench life but habilitated to underground, they dug in further.

It made more sense to live underground in dugouts, with a temperature constant at around 22C and decent ventilation than brave the flies, the midges and the dust up above. Someone brought his wife out. A post office began.

And, almost a century on, though the town now makes more money from tourists than opals, it’s still bloody here. There’s a college campus. An ambulance station. A wildlife hospital, rehabilitating baby roos orphaned by Aboriginal hunters. Some seriously shocking public art. Several bars. A handful of restaurants. And, six churches.

Yes. Six churches. Most of them underground.

The one at our motel is called the Revival Fellowship. And it’s built, as these things tend to be, on a miracle. Debbie and Dean, who started the motel, asked God to send the guy who dug it out back from the Pacific to dig the church out. And, miraculously he cames.

It’s a strange old place, Coober Pedy. Populated by large men with big beards. Friendly families. The kinds of lone male that scared off Guy Pearce in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

And wandering Indigenous from the surrounding communities, decanting 5l wineboxes into mineral water bottles every Friday night and drinking them in the dubious shade of the acacias until the cops come round and move them on.

It’s my personal candidate, in fact, for the single craziest town on the planet. What’s yours?

Beside his creativity and genious mind, Picasso was known as a very strange and controversial man. Many people think that made him so famous…

1. Picasso’s Full Name Has 23 Words

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. He was named after various saints and relatives. The “Picasso” is actually from his mother, Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father is named Jose Ruiz Blasco.

2. When He Was Born, The Midwife Thought He Was Stillborn

Picasso had such a difficult birth and was such a weak baby that when he was born, the midwife thought that he was stillborn so she left him on a table to attend his mother. It was his uncle, a doctor named Don Salvador, that saved him:

‘Doctors at that time,’ he told Antonina Vallentin, ‘used to smoke big cigars, and my uncle was no exception. When he saw me lying there he blew smoke into my face. To this I immediately reacted with a grimace and a bellow of fury’”

3. Picasso’s First Word: Pencil

It’s like Picasso was born an artist: his first word was “piz,” short of lápiz the Spanish word for ‘pencil.’ His father Ruiz, an artist and art professor, gave him a formal education in art starting from the age of 7. By 13, Ruiz vowed to give up painting as he felt that Pablo had surpassed him. (Photo of Picasso as a 4-year-old-boy

4. Pablo’s First Drawing

Le Picador by Pablo Picasso (1890)

At the tender young age of 9, Picasso completed his first painting: Le picador, a man riding a horse in a bullfight.

La première communion (First Communion) by Pablo Picasso (1896)

His first major painting, an “academic” work is First Communion, featuring a portrait of his father, mother, and younger sister kneeling before an altar. Picasso was 15 when he finished it.

5. Picasso was a Terrible Student

No doubt about it, Picasso was brilliant: artistically, he was years ahead of his classmates who were all five to six years older than him. But Picasso chafed at being told what to do and he was often thrown into “detention”: “For being a bad student I was banished to the ‘calaboose’ – a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly … I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping”

6. Picasso’s First Job

Picasso signed his first contract in Paris with art dealer Pere Menach, who agreed to pay him 150 francs per month (about US$750 today)

7. Did Picaso Steal The Mona Lisa?

Actually no, but in 1911, when the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, the police took in Picasso’s friend, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire fingered Picasso as a suspect, so the police hauled him in for questioning. Both were later released.

8. Cubism: Full of Little Cubes

In 1909, Picasso and French artist Georges Braque co-founded an art movement known as cubism. Actually, it was a French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who first called it “bizarre cubiques” or cubism, after noting that Picasso and Braque’s paintings are “full of little cubes.”

9. Picasso was a Playboy

Being a famous artist certainly helped Picasso get the girl. Girls, in fact – many, many girls. Here’s a short list of known wives and lovers of Picasso:

- Fernande Olivier (Picasso’s first love, she was 18?; he was 23)

- Marcelle Humbert AKA Eva Gouel (she was 27, Picasso was 31)

- Gaby Lespinasse (he was 34, I don’t know how old Gaby was, but she was young, that’s for sure!)

- Olga Khokhlova (Picasso’s first wife; she was 26 and he was 36 when they met)

- Marie-Thérèse Walter (she was 17, he was 46)

- Dora Maar (she was 29, Picasso was 55)

- Françoise Gilot (she was 21 when she met Picasso, who was 61)

- Geneviève Laporte (one of Picasso’s last lovers. She was in her mid-twenties and a French model of Picasso, who was in his seventies when the affair started)

- Jacqueline Roque (who became Picasso’s second wife. She was 27 and he was 79)

Le Rêve (The Dream) by Pablo Picasso (1932)

Marie-Thérèse Walter was Picasso’s model for Le Rêve. In 2006, casino magnate Steve Wynn agreed to sell the painting for $139 million, but accidentally put his elbow through the canvas the day before the sale was to be completed!

10. Picasso’s Car

Okay, It’s not exactly his car, but I couldn’t resist. Last year, 44-year-old mechanic Andy Saunders of Dorset, England, spent six months converting his old Citroen 2CV into a cubist work inspired by Pablo Picasso!

Guernica by Pablo Picasso (1937) - turned into 3D art by Lena Gieseke in 2008