Thursday, July 8, 2010
Texas Woman Has Won Lottery 4 Times, Totaling $20.4 Million
The luckiest person in the world?
Look no farther than Joan Ginther, at least when it comes to winning the lottery.
Since 1993, the 63-year-old woman has won four windfalls on the Texas Lottery, each time winning more than $1 million for a total of $20.4 million.
The most recent win that has everyone talking: $10 million in a scratch-off game called “$140,000,000 Extreme Payout.”
Not only has each ticket been bought in Texas; two of the tickets have been bought in the same store, right in Bishop, Ginther’s town of birth where neighbors say she comes back every so often to visit her father and, apparently, try her luck.
“This is a very lucky store,” Bob Solis, the manager of Times Store, told the Corpus Christi, Tex.,-based Caller Times as news about the most recent win began to circulate Friday. The owner said the store sells an average of 1,000 tickets a day.
4 Texas Lottery wins, $20.4 million
Ginther’s first windfall came 17 years ago, when she won $5.4 million in a “Lotto Texas” game. She opted to have that sum paid out annually over 19 years.
The remaining wins came from scratch-off tickets.
In 2006 and in 2008, Ginther won two separate games that brought in a total of $5 million. She asked for both of those sums to be paid out in lump.
The most recent win, which officials estimate will hover at around $7.5 million after taxes, will also be paid out in lump sum.
The revelation of Ginther’s rather miraculous streak of luck over the last 17 years has garnered international attention – and wonder – over the past few days.
http://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blogs/luckiest-person-in-the-world
Look no farther than Joan Ginther, at least when it comes to winning the lottery.
Since 1993, the 63-year-old woman has won four windfalls on the Texas Lottery, each time winning more than $1 million for a total of $20.4 million.
The most recent win that has everyone talking: $10 million in a scratch-off game called “$140,000,000 Extreme Payout.”
Not only has each ticket been bought in Texas; two of the tickets have been bought in the same store, right in Bishop, Ginther’s town of birth where neighbors say she comes back every so often to visit her father and, apparently, try her luck.
“This is a very lucky store,” Bob Solis, the manager of Times Store, told the Corpus Christi, Tex.,-based Caller Times as news about the most recent win began to circulate Friday. The owner said the store sells an average of 1,000 tickets a day.
4 Texas Lottery wins, $20.4 million
Ginther’s first windfall came 17 years ago, when she won $5.4 million in a “Lotto Texas” game. She opted to have that sum paid out annually over 19 years.
The remaining wins came from scratch-off tickets.
In 2006 and in 2008, Ginther won two separate games that brought in a total of $5 million. She asked for both of those sums to be paid out in lump.
The most recent win, which officials estimate will hover at around $7.5 million after taxes, will also be paid out in lump sum.
The revelation of Ginther’s rather miraculous streak of luck over the last 17 years has garnered international attention – and wonder – over the past few days.
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http://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blogs/luckiest-person-in-the-world
Paul the Oracle Octopus
Paul the Oracle Octopus has correctly predicted all of Germany's results in the 2010 World Cup from his tank at the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen Germany.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Derren Brown on advertising....
Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is a British illusionist, mentalist, painter, writer, and sceptic. He is known for his appearances in television specials, stage productions, and British television series such as Trick of the Mind and Trick or Treat. Since the first broadcast of his show Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000, Brown has become increasingly well known for his "mind-reading" act. He has authored books for magicians as well as the general public. His caricature artwork has received gallery exhibition and is available in a single volume documenting his portrait collection.
Must see!
Derren on subliminal advertising:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQjr1YL0zg
And:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd54EZBH92A
Bonus:
Modern (Viral) Marketing/Advertising
The boards, which usually carry typical advertising, are programmed to identify approaching Mini drivers through a coded signal from a radio chip embedded in their key fob. The messages are personal, based on questionnaires that owners filled out: “Mary, moving at the speed of justice,” if Mary is a lawyer, or “Mike, the special of the day is speed,” if Mike is a chef.
Bonus: This piece of hardware was probably too precious to use for simple advertising and is most likely being used to have terrorists surrender or turn simple people into murderers by now...
A&E Paranormal State wallscape billboard created with the "Audio Spotlight" technology.
Loudspeakers focuses ultrasonic beams which turn into audio near the target.
Sounds in your head rather then from a speaker...
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Found near the Texan and Mexican border.
The raid was conducted on May 11, 2010 by elements of the Mexican Army after the discovery of an organized crime drug smuggling camp 56 KM (34.8 Miles) south of the city of Monterey, Nuevo Leon in Mexico. Monterey is a large industrial city approximately 140 miles South of Laredo, Texas, the closest U.S. border town. That is about 840 miles east of Arizona.
According to a May 11, 2010 article by the Mexican new agency, Acencia Reforma, a firefight broke out with the drug smugglers as the Mexican Army raided their camp about 550 yards from a highway. Twenty-five drug runners escaped into the forest abandoning everything. The raid resulted in the killing of one drug runner and military sources estimated that they found more than 130 rifles, grenade launchers, machine guns, a rocket launcher, a box of grenades and hundreds of cartridges, as well as several vehicles.
Dolphin 'superpod' seen by wildlife spotters off Skye
A group of wildlife spotters have encountered a massive pod of dolphins on a boat trip off the north coast of Skye.
The boat's owner Nick Davies, who operates out of Gairloch on the mainland, estimated there were about 1,000 short-beaked common dolphin.
He said he had only seen such a sight once before in 15 years of operating.
Last June, a "superpod" of more than 400 short-beaked common dolphin was recorded in the Moray Firth.
Mr Davies said the Skye pod included adults, juveniles and calves.
He said: "They were everywhere you looked for as far as you could see.
"There was five square miles where they just filled the sea."
It is thought the massive pod was created when smaller ones grouped together to chase a huge shoal of fish.
The pod spotted last June was thought to be a "massive migration" into the North Sea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/10488165.stm
The boat's owner Nick Davies, who operates out of Gairloch on the mainland, estimated there were about 1,000 short-beaked common dolphin.
He said he had only seen such a sight once before in 15 years of operating.
Last June, a "superpod" of more than 400 short-beaked common dolphin was recorded in the Moray Firth.
Mr Davies said the Skye pod included adults, juveniles and calves.
He said: "They were everywhere you looked for as far as you could see.
"There was five square miles where they just filled the sea."
It is thought the massive pod was created when smaller ones grouped together to chase a huge shoal of fish.
The pod spotted last June was thought to be a "massive migration" into the North Sea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/10488165.stm
Solar Panel Stickers
Japanese researchers developed a ultra-thin solar cell that can be easily shaped, colored and applied to fabrics.
Researchers at Gifu University and Gunze Ltd. developed a prototype solar blouse with red stars (0.4mm thick solar cells) that can power a mobile phone.
http://www.i4u.com/article3109.html
Researchers at Gifu University and Gunze Ltd. developed a prototype solar blouse with red stars (0.4mm thick solar cells) that can power a mobile phone.
http://www.i4u.com/article3109.html
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