Coroner: Sage Stallone Died

Sage Stallone died of natural causes and with no drugs in
his system, according to a
report from TMZ. A source
connected with the L.A.
County Coroner told the
site there was evidence Stallone suffered from heart
disease, and that such
advanced heart problems were
“unusual” for someone his
age. He was 36 at the time of
his death. Previously, Stallone’s mother speculated
prescription drugs might
have played a role in her son’s
death, as she said he was
taking painkillers following
dental surgery. Investigators found empty
pill bottles in Stallone's
apartment. Stallone, son of Sylvester Stallone,

Neil Armstrong Dead

Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who became first to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 11, has died. He was 82 years old.
Armstrong had heart surgery several weeks ago, and a statement from his family said he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.

"Neil Armstrong was also a reluctant American hero who always believed he was just doing his job," his family said. "He served his Nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut. ... He remained an advocate of aviation and exploration throughout his life and never lost his boyhood wonder of these pursuits."
Read the full statement from Neil Armstrong's Family
On July 20, 1969, half a billion people -- a sixth of the world's population at the time -- watched a ghostly black-and-white television image as Armstrong backed down the ladder of the lunar landing ship Eagle, planted his left foot on the moon's surface, and said, "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
Twenty minutes later his crewmate, Buzz Aldrin, joined him, and the world watched as the men spent the next two hours bounding around in the moon's light gravity, taking rock samples, setting up experiments, and taking now-iconic photographs. The third member of their crew, Michael Collins, orbited overhead in the Apollo 11 command ship, Columbia.
"Neil and I trained together as technical partners but were also good friends who will always be connected through our participation in the mission of Apollo 11," said Aldrin today in a statement. "Virtually the entire world took that memorable journey with us. I know I am joined by millions of others in mourning the passing of a true American hero and the best pilot I ever knew."
Collins said, "He was the best, and I will miss him terribly."
President Obama issued a statement from the White House:
"Neil was among the greatest of American heroes -- not just of his time, but of all time," it said. Armstrong and his crewmates "set out to show the world that the American spirit can see beyond what seems unimaginable -- that with enough drive and ingenuity, anything is possible."

Manchester United History

The Early Years: 1878 - 1939

The story of Manchester United begins in 1878 when employees of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company's Carriage and Wagon Works requested permission and sponsorship from their employers to start a football team. Permission was given, and Newton Heath LYR (which stood for "Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway") was born, playing at a pitch on North Road.

Initially they played against other teams of railway workers, within their own company and against teams from other companies, but in 1885, they entered in the Manchester Cup competition and reached the final. The next year, they won the competition.

The Football Alliance

Although Newton Heath were not good enough to join the Football League, they were quickly outpacing their local competition. Newton Heath spent the first ten months of 1888 unbeaten at their home ground. However, the idea of inter-town football had caught on, and in 1889, a group of twelve clubs, Newton Heath among then, formed the Football Alliance. They finished eighth.

The next year, Newton Heath began to sever their railway ties, dropping "LYR" from their official name. However, strong connections remained intact; although they no longer were sponsored by the company, most of their players were still LYR employees.

1892 proved to be a successful season for the "Heathens", as they finished second to Nottingham Forest, after losing only three times all season. That same year, the Football League enlarged and, with the merger of the Alliance, divided into two divisions. Newton Heath and Nottingham Forest were invited to join the First Division. They finished last and needed a win against Small Heath in the test match against the Second Division champions to preserve their First Division status.

In 1893, the team moved to a new ground in Bank Street, Clayton, next to a chemical plant. It was said that when Newton Heath were losing, the plant would belch out acrid fumes in a bid to affect the visiting team. The 1893-94 campaign, however, was no better, and they once again were in the relegation playoff against Liverpool. This time Newton Heath were defeated 2-0 and gained the dubious honour ofa being the first team to be relegated to the Second Division.

 

Warner (GK), Clements (FB), Brown (FB), Perrins, Stewart, and Errantz (backs), Farman and Couper (halfbacks), Donaldson (right wing), Carson (centre), Mathieson (left wing)

Unique Amazing Hanging Restaurant

Any one interested in having a unique dining experience?

You can have breakfast, lunch, dinner or cocktail or invite your boss for a meeting while enjoying your meal.

50 meters above ground dining event arranged by a professional event arranger of Benji Fun company. It provides seating for 22 complete with Chef, server, musician and you can select your own location without limitation. Guaranteed safety with the hoisting crane which can accommodate a whole band of musicians.

This restaurant is in Belgium.

One Million Dollar Shoes at Oscar

So much for modesty. Come Sunday, Oscar-nominee Diablo Cody, will not only look like a million dollars, but she will also be stepping onto the red carpet in a million dollars pair of shoes.

The writer of the hit indie, “Juno”, will wear designer Stuart Weitzman’s million dollar shoe to the big event at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

The `Retro Rose’ shoe features two Kwiat diamond roses, fixed to 1940’s-style beige metallic T-strap high heels. More than 1,800 Kwiat diamonds weighing 100 carats were used to make the roses and 400 of them have been incorporated into the design of the shoe, which is worth over $1 million.

The shoe master also created a ballerina flat with a the same diamond design so that Diablo can slip into something more comfortable after walking the red carpet.

He says, “I think it is great and typically Diablo that she chose to be not just glamorous but also practical in her choice of shoes for this year’s Academy Awards.”

Source: Hollywood.com

Amazing Ferrari F1

Ferrari has sweetened their Formula One programme by unveiling this chocolate-made life-sized model of the F2008 racing car. Comprised of 2,000kg (4,405 lbs) of chocolate, the “project” began when confectioners melted chocolate a year ago and started making a small version based on a small-scale model of the F2008.


“The project started one year ago, just for fun,” said Luigi Liberti, president of the Scuderia Ferrari Club Napoli, “but then the Club Pasticceri Italiani started to get really enthusiastic and eventually it became a life-sized model.

They started melting the chocolate in 2007, at first copying a small-scale model of the Ferrari F2008, then getting the full scale model done using chocolate imported especially from Belgium.”

Everything on it is edible, everything including the red coating. The car had been on display in Sorrento, hear Naples as a display piece at a Ferrari owners’ party. But today it is being smashed up with hammers so guests can eat it p. For just ?12,000/ €15,900 you can have the exact same thing, a year from now!

Source: Trendaz

The Airbus A380 super-jumbo Makes First Commercial Flight

Airbus SAS's A380 superjumbo made its first commercial landing in London today, making Heathrow airport the third location to be served by the plane.

The Singapore Airlines Ltd. flight arrived in the U.K. capital at about 2:50 p.m. The A380's first customer has been flying two of the 471-seat planes between the southeast Asian city-state and Sydney since October and added the London route after taking delivery of a third.

Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, will be the biggest A380 hub, according to Toulouse, France-based Airbus, with an estimated 90 of the double-decker aircraft operating regularly there by 2020. Other Heathrow carriers with A380s on order include Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., Emirates and British Airways Plc, the biggest user of the airport.

"The A380 is an important aircraft for Heathrow," airport owner BAA Ltd. said in a statement. "Its extra capacity will allow us to make efficient use of our two busy runways. It will enable traffic growth without a corresponding increase in flights, which will benefit the airport, airlines and the environment."

BAA, a unit of Spanish builder Grupo Ferrovial SA, spent 450 million pounds ($903 million) preparing for the A380 by adding a new pier at Terminal 3 and A380-sized stands at Terminal 5, which opens to the public on March 27, together with a longer baggage-claim carousel for the extra passengers and wider taxiways for the longer wingspan.

Heathrow-Friendly Design

The A380's design itself was modified to make it compliant with Heathrow's most-stringent noise requirement, known as QC2, with the engines equipped with bigger fan blades to reduce noise upon landing and takeoff.

Singapore Airlines has 19 A380s on order, powered by Rolls- Royce Group Plc Trent engines. The carrier will be the only one flying the aircraft until summer, when Qantas and Emirates get their first planes. British Airways has ordered 12 due to be delivered from 2012.

The A380 is certified to carry 873 people, including crew, but has capacity for 525 in a standard layout -- 54 more than the Singapore Airlines planes, which include 12 "suites'' for premium passengers, with a full-length bed and sliding doors.

"Seats on both legs of the inaugural flight to London were snapped up soon after flight details were announced in late January this year,'' said Huang Cheng Eng, Singapore Airlines executive vice president for marketing and regions, in an e-mailed statement. "Forward bookings for A380 scheduled services there are strong."

Daily London Service

Singapore Airlines will fly the plane from London to Singapore daily from today. The A380 made its Heathrow debut in May 2006, when a non-commercial flight arrived to test the airport's facilities.

Airbus says the A380 burns 17 percent less fuel per seat than today's biggest jetliners and U.K. Aviation Minister Jim Fitzpatrick, at Heathrow for the landing, said by e-mail that the aircraft was ", cleaner, smarter and greener than existing commercial planes."

Still, Heathrow, located in the heavily populated suburbs of west London, has become a target of criticism from environmental campaigners, many of whom say the A380's green credentials are undermined by the extra passengers it carries.

"Cleaner aircraft are certainly needed, but they are not the solution to the rising impact of aviation emissions on our climate," said Richard Dyer, a campaigner for Friends of the Earth. "Any benefits gained by building more fuel efficient aircraft will be swamped by the rapid growth in air travel."

Source: BloomBerg

Dead man talking

Four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant, Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good."

Dunlap was pronounced dead Nov. 19 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His family approved having his organs harvested.

As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home, where he continues to work on his recovery.

On Monday, he and his family were in New York, appearing on NBC's "Today."

"I feel pretty good. but it's just hard ... just ain't got the patience," Dunlap told NBC.

Dunlap, 21, of Frederick, said he has no recollection of the crash.

"I remember a little bit that was about an hour before the accident happened. But then about six hours before that, I remember," he said.

Dunlap said one thing he does remember is hearing the doctors pronounce him dead.

"I'm glad I couldn't get up and do what I wanted to do," he said.

Asked if he would have wanted to get up and shake them and say he's alive, Dunlap responded: "Probably would have been a broken window that went out."

His father, Doug, said he saw the results of the brain scan.

"There was no activity at all, no blood flow at all."

Zach's mother, Pam, said that when she discovered he was still alive, "That was the most miraculous feeling."

"We had gone, like I said, from the lowest possible emotion that a parent could feel to the top of the mountains again," she said.

She said her son is doing "amazingly well," but still has problems with his memory as his brain heals from the traumatic injury.

"It may take a year or more ... before he completely recovers," she said. "But that's OK. It doesn't matter how long it takes. We're just all so thankful and blessed that we have him here."

Dunlap now has the pocketknife that was scraped across his foot, causing the first reaction.

"Just makes me thankful, makes me thankful that they didn't give up," he said. "Only the good die young, so I didn't go."
Source: Yahoo

Amazing world of shoes

Shoes, only worn out of a necessity until recently, have in recent decades become a major fashion sector. Footwear that appeals to different tastes and suits different occasions is part of every major fashion show.

Whether heeled or flat, sporty or classic, shoes are important for the care of your feet and are a key factor in posture and image.

Undoubtedly, it is shoes that influence the way a person looks and walks. Until a decade ago people in Turkey had on average just two pairs of shoes. Now this figure has reached a half-dozen. Shoes underwent transformation not only in terms of the numbers owned but also in terms of color and style, just as has been the case with clothes. The choices of people who for years used to wear only black and brown shoes underwent radical change with fashion's touch. Shoes designed in different ways are available in various colors every season.

When one is talking about fashion, Camel Active, Dr. Martens, Fly London, Softinos, Land Rover, ModoNovo and Ed Hardy's 2008-2009 summer collections come to mind immediately. In addition, the Dema Group, which unites Turkish consumers with shoe brands known worldwide, has accompanied its excellence in manufacturing durable and quality shoes with designs of an equally high quality. Leather accessories and coordinating bags also dazzle.

Every shoe brand has its own style. When we select our shoes, some of us want to look sporty, some of us want a classic style and some of us pay more heed to comfort. When products of a certain brand are united with individual choices, the result can be a serious addiction! Camel Active is among the brands most popular with those seeking a sporty look. With great new designs the brand's 2008 collection is categorized into three sections. In its urbanity collection the shoes own the elegance required by city life as well as the durability required by nature. Light but hard-wearing soles make up a different style with the use of leather. In female collections, there are sandals, slippers and wedge-heeled shoes. In addition to this, there is also the loafer group which will continue to be used next winter. In the outback theme, it is easy to see the dominance of beige, olive and light gray tones. In the beach group, pastel tones predominate.

What would you say if I told you that Land Rover also makes shoes? New for 2008, the Land Rover brand offers shoes, bags and leather accessories. The brand thrills one with the quality of leather used in its products as well as with their comfort and elegance. Extra-light soles were used in its shoe collections, which merge classical handwork with modern manufacturing techniques.

Those for whom the masculinity of Land Rover doesn't hit the spot may be fascinated by Fly London. With brave styling and innovative accessories, including buckles, flowers and buttons, these come in a rainbow of colors. In the female collection on can see lively colors such as red, green and yellow that make one feel the arrival of spring.

The era-defining Dr. Martens has been revised with the use of lively colors. The shoes are reminiscent of an art gallery with the use of flowers, illustrations and even skull motifs. Some of this teen-essential brand's products are still manufactured using traditional methods. Ed Hardy breathes new life into the world of the eternal classic, the sneaker. The tattoo artist's collection, a favorite with celebrities including Madonna, Jessica Alba, Heidi Klum, Eddie Murphy and Shakira, includes his own designs.

If you want to be serious in the office, comfortable on the street and fun in between, you absolutely must check out ModoNovo, which merges chic with reasonable prices. Sore feet are a problem for many business people, but the high-quality materials used, supported by Italian design, mean this brand can offer you pain-free chic. In this season's collection, ModoNovo presents classic business-style shoes and chic models. In addition to the timeless brown, black and beige, the new season's collection offers vivid colors, just as is appropriate for spring, that most lively of seasons.

Shoes speak volumes about one's personal style, and there is always a brand available that fits your style. However, if by chance you still fail to find the exact model that you just can't live without, be sure to read my future article on custom and haute couture shoe design.

Source: Todayszaman

Madonna talks about Britney, divorce rumors

Madonna on Britney: 'Let's go save her'

Madonna wants the media to leave Britney Spears alone. "They need to step off," she told the "Yo on E!" satellite radio show. "For real ... Let's go save her."

Madonna, 49, said her daughter, Lourdes, 11, feels the same way.

"She knows Britney, (but) she doesn't really watch TV or read gossip stuff," the pop star said in the interview. "I think she sort of gets the drift of what's going on, and I think she feels very protective of Britney."

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie have a son, Rocco, 7, and are raising a Malawian boy they want to adopt.

"He's the life of the party," she said of David, who she brought home from Africa in 2006. "He loves music, he's an amazing dancer. ... He's a character."

She said caring for David is no different from her raising her biological children: "I thought it was gonna be, but it feels the same to tell you the truth."

As for speculation that her marriage is on the rocks, Madonna said: "It is ridiculous. ... I don't pay much attention to it."

The singer's spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg recently dismissed media reports that the Ritchies have split up, saying they "remain happily married." Rosenberg said that Madonna and filmmaker Ritchie, 39, were "joyfully back together at home in London" after living in separate countries for work purposes.

Madonna, whose new album "Hard Candy" arrives April 29, told "Yo on E!" that she plans to spend the summer in New York, and that she might kick off a tour this fall.

Source: Yahoo

Dolphin Birth

A dolphin born in an aquarium in the Netherlands is to be named by the public.

As these amazing photos show his mother Finagain gave birth in her pool in the Harderwijk Dolfinarium on the 22nd May.

Finagain, a common bottlenose dolphin, was herself born in captivity to Notchfin and Guy in 1992.

Her pregnancy lasted twelve months, and the as-yet unnamed calf is around 3ft long at birth, already fully capable of swimming. Unlike human babies dolphin calves are born “breech”, i.e. tail first.

It will live with its mother until it is six. Male dolphins become sexually mature around age nine to thirteen.

The Dolfinarium is home to sixteen dolphins and six harbour porpoise. As well as hosting dolphin displays it acts as a rehabilitation centre, taking in beached or injured cetaceans and preparing them for life back in the wild.

It was first opened in 1965 by Frits den Herder and his brother Coen. During its chequered history the park went bankrupt after an ill-advised expansion into other European countries.

Only a state intervention by the Dutch government restored it to the not-for-profit animal rehabilitation centre it is today.

Source: telegraph.co.uk

Francis Bacon triptych breaks record at NYC auction

This undated photo released by Sotheby's shows the three panels of Francis Bacon's "Triptych, 1976" which broke a record for contemporary art auctions Wednesday May 14, 2008 , selling for $86,281,000 after three bidders vied for it. It also set an auction record for the British artist.


A three-panel masterpiece by Francis Bacon broke a record for contemporary art auctions Wednesday, selling for more than $86 million after three bidders vied for it, a spokeswoman for the auction house said.

The $86,281,000 price for "Triptych, 1976" also set an auction record for the British artist, Sotheby's spokeswoman Lauren Gioia said.

She said the sale also broke auction records for work by pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, who died Monday at 82. His 1963 painting "Overdrive" sold for some $14.6 million, Gioia said.

Both buyers were anonymous, and the prices included the auction house's commission, known as a buyer's premium.

The bidding for "Triptych, 1976" rocketed past an estimate of $70 million for the painting, which is full of symbolism and draws on ancient Greek mythology.

The price also bested the $72.8 million auction record for contemporary art, set when Mark Rothko's "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)" sold at Sotheby's in May 2007.

Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" was expected to fetch $30 million to $40 million at Wednesday's auction. But it was not sold after bidding fell short of the seller's minimum price, Gioia said. Rothko died in 1970.

Bacon, who died in 1992 at 82, is considered one of Britain's most important 20th century artists. The previous auction record for a Bacon work was $52.7 million, for his "Study for Innocent X, 1952," sold at Sotheby's last May.

The triptych that sold Wednesday has been in the same owner's collection for more than 30 years, according to Sotheby's.

It was purchased in 1977 from the Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris. The Tate Gallery in London and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris also have shown it.

Another Bacon triptych, "Studies for Self Portrait," sold for $28 million at Christie's on Tuesday night.

Source: washingtonpost.com

Mayor Bloomberg Amazing lady

Make it right, Mr. Mayor.

Take a moment this week to extend New York's best wishes to an uncommonly spirited woman left paralyzed in the crossfire between a cop and three gunmen 74 years ago, but who has yet to receive so much as a syllable of sympathy or a penny of support from her city.

The most innocent of bystanders, Leonora Tomasulo was shot on her 16th birthday. The bullet remains lodged against her spine as she comes to her 90th this week.

"It's still in me," Tomasulo reported from her wheelchair yesterday.

She seems incapable of self-pity. Bitterness only edges into her voice when she describes what the city did for her in the aftermath.

"Nothing."

Tomasulo turned 16 on that May day in 1934 and she was returning home with a strawberries and cream birthday cake she had bought with a dollar one of her sisters gave her.

She was starting onto Cherry St. when she heard gunfire. She saw Police Officer Arthur Rasmusen go down in front of her, fatally wounded, his gun blazing at a trio of thugs behind her.

"They held up a store for $25, a grocery store," Tomasulo recalled.

One stray bullet grazed the face of an off-duty detective's 10-month-old son. Another struck Tomasulo in the shoulder, tearing by her heart and lodging against her spine.

At Beekman Street Hospital, she was listed in extremely critical condition.

"They said I was going to die," Tomasulo recalled. "I told God, 'Please don't let me die.'"

She clung to life, but she was paralyzed from the waist down. She was transferred to Bellevue and was still in the intensive care as the holidays neared. She offered a full measure of her spirit when she started singing.

"Whoever heard of such a thing in the ICU unit?" her older sister Dora Pignanelli said as she sat with Tomasulo yesterday. "She's entertaining all the people there at Christmas. It gave them ..."

Pignanelli paused, searching for the right word.

"Courage," Tomasulo said. "I have a lot, thank God."

She needed all of it.

"I was in the hospital for five years," she noted.

When she was released from a rehabilitation center in Haverstraw, she was able to struggle about with a brace, crutches and pure will power, falling so often she got good at it.

"She fell a lot of times, but she fell easy," her sister said.

A good-hearted citizen gave her a wheelchair. The only thing the city ever gave her was an old hand-cranked sewing machine worth all of $1 so she could teach herself a trade and not be a burden.

Her luck took a good turn when a city worker named Louis Tomasulo chanced to see her by the entrance to her tenement. He announced that she was going to be his wife.

"Of course his mother didn't want him to marry a cripple," her sister recalled. "'He told his mother, 'If I don't marry that girl, I'm going to turn to drink.'"

They were married and if she still had a bullet lodged against her spine, she also had her Louis to help her. He died when he was not yet 60.

Her siblings continued to do all they could, as they had from the start, helping her live with the damage a single bullet can inflict.

"It's something nobody should go through," she said.

A moment of pure horror decades ago remained just a thought away.

"It always comes to me," she said.

Her great blessing continued to be her family. Fifty assorted relatives assembled for an early 90th birthday party at a Little Italy restaurant on Sunday.

She sang as she had in the ICU, as she had through all the years, good and bad. Her spirit was as young as on that day 74 years before when she turned 16. And she still loved birthday cake.

"What happened to the cake that was left over?" she asked at the end of Sunday's party. "It was so good I thought we'd take some home."

Leonora Tomasulo turns 90 on Sunday. The mayor should take a moment to say a few words that should have been said more than seven decades ago.

Source: nydailynews.com

What's in a username?

Your e-mail address 'can reveal your personality'

Think twice before you pick an email address -- it can reveal your personality.

Researchers at the University of Leipzig in Germany have carried out a study and found that an email address may speak volumes about the character of the person who created the unique online identification.

According to lead researcher Mitja Back, even the thinnest slice of communication via the world wide web - the mere e-mail address -- contains valid information about the personality of its owner.

In their study, the researchers asked a panel of 100 students to guess the personalities of 600 young adults simply by looking at their e-mail addresses.

The panel's guesses agreed mostly with a personality survey the teenagers had completed when it came to qualities like openness, conscientiousness and narcissism, and diverged most on the trait of extroversion.

Addresses that gave away personality often contained full stops, numbers or a name that was obviously not genuine, the researchers found.

Level of accuracy was explained using lens model analyses -- the students made broad use of perceivable e-mail address features in their personality judgements, features were slightly valid and the observers were sensitive to subtle differences in validity between cues.

The study has been published in the latest edition of the Journal of Research in Personality.

Source: Yahoo!

Amazing mini 3D-display cube

Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) today unveiled a nice little invention: a 3D LCD display box that fits in the palm of your hand.

The so-called gCubik makes it possible to visualize objects in three dimensions via integrated imaging technology. It is just 10 cm small.


The NICT wants to significantly improve the display quality within 3 years. A wireless version is in the works as well. The institute aims at commercializing the gCubik for use in business and science. They say their invention could be used by video game companies, too, for example.

The gCubik will be presented to the general public during an exhibition next month in Tokyo. Americans will be able to see the cube in action at the Siggraph 2008 which takes place in August.

(Source: crunchgear.com)

Babies born 8/8/08 at 8:08; 8 lbs., 8 oz

Two lucky newborns inspire hospital workers to buy lottery tickets

Xander Riniker, surrounded by sister Chloe Shumacher, 11, and father Chad Riniker, was born at 8:08 a.m. on August 8, 2008 and weighs 8 pounds, 8 ounces.

Meet Hailey Jo Hauer and Xander Jace Riniker, both born at 8:08 a.m. on 8/8/08, weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, in neighboring states.

Xander, born at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the eighth grandchild for his mother’s parents. And he’s not the only one in his family with an unusual birthday: His 2-year-old brother, Kael, was born on 4/5/06.

Lindsey Hauer thought staff at Lake Region Hospital in Minnesota were joking when they told her the time of her daughter’s birth. And then she got a call from the birthing suite noting Hailey’s weight.

Nurse Jenny Harstad joked that she tried to shrink the baby to 18 inches from her actual 19.5 inches.

Several hospital staff members in Minnesota pledged to buy lottery tickets. And Chad Riniker, Xander’s father, said that eight hadn’t been his lucky number before, but that now he was thinking about buying a lottery ticket.

“I just might,” he said. “If nothing else, with four children I should probably play the lottery.”

Source: msnbc.msn.com

WORLD'S FIRST PREGNANT MAN - Amazing

Rare Photo from history - 1922 in USA

"June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrell, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee." National Photo Co. [Originally posted June 19, 2007.]

The Longest Truck in the World - Amazing

The longest truck in the world

So, have you ever this truck? May you ever seen the truck below

Longest truck in the world - Hart hitches a ride in a 182ft Road Train

“Some drivers just won’t pass us, they are too scared”

The Worlds Longest Bike

The Worlds Longest Bike

It has been to our attention that the longest bike in the world, officialy registered by Guiness record book is from Russia.It’s creator Oleg “Leshij” Rogov was from Tver city, a small town near Moscow city. He was a big biker fan since his childhood. One day he has got an idea to build the longest bike in the world, according to his own story “probably after he got too much  beer inside”.

So after two years of planning and delaying he did it. He built the bike that was 31 feet 4 inches long (9 metres 57 cm). After the thing was ready he sent his claim to the Guiness book and got registered as longest bike in the world.

The saddest part of the story is that he got into accident and died this summer, still we have the photos of his creation, it would be some kind of tribute to him.

Largest TV sculpture in the world

"LNK Infotree" (LNK Infomedis) is currently the largest TV sculpture in the world (Guinness World Record). It's using 2,903 individual television sets, spanning 3,135 sq metres (33,744.85 sq ft) at the Open Air Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. I've been there a couple of years ago and it looked really amazing. It's currently closed for reconstruction but we can look at some older images.






A statue of Lenin lies in the middle of the labyrinth. The sculpture symbolizes the absurdity of Soviet propaganda that for over half a century had been implanted in people¢s minds with the help of senseless TV.

All Lithuania has taken part in the creation of a labyrinth of television sets. People from various Lithuanian towns donated old TV sets after an appeal from Europos Parkas was broadcast on LNK television.