Amazing Little Girl Can Give Better Directions Than Any GPS

So many of us have become completely dependent on our phones and GPS systems for guidance, that we'd be hard pressed to give someone directions to the nearest corner if asked. Well, not this little genius. She's got the route to her house down pat—and it's not an easy path to travel. I wish there was a way to have her ride along in the car on trips, since she seems like a lot more fun that that stone cold British woman who lives inside the GPS.

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Chicago Man Hits the Jackpot with $4.85 Million Lotto Ticket in Cookie Jar

Dipping into the family cookie jar has never been as rewarding as it recently was for a Chicago-area man who stuck his hand in and pulled out a winning lottery ticket.

The cookie jar was actually the resting place for old lottery tickets and had grown full when Ricardo Cerezo’s wife asked him to dispose of the months’ old collection. She recommended he check them to see if there were any winners before he dumped them in the trash.

Ever the obedient husband, Ricardo carted them off to a local gas station to check the numbers for matches. Like a fairytale, it was the last ticket that changed his life. When he ran it through the lottery machine, the display read, ‘file a claim.’ He didn’t get a congratulatory message, nor did his winning ticket tell him how much he’d won. For that, he had to contact the Illinois lottery.

Imagine his surprise when he learned the ticket, which he’d purchased this past February was a $4.85 million winner!

Cerezo couldn’t have hit it big at a better time. The family was still reeling from the death of Ricardo’s 14 year old daughter Savannah, who died after a series of seizures. Add to that the fact that the family was facing foreclosure on their Geneva, Ill home and the money came in the nick of time.

It was Savannah who had purchased the cookie jar just months before her August 12 death. The family decided to keep the lottery tickets along with some sentimental keepsakes in the cookie jar. Winning had a bittersweet taste to it.

Ricardo says the good news would have been so much better had Savannah been alive to share in it. Still, he is at peace with it and believes his winning was a gift from Savannah.

The money will be used to pay off the mortgage and help pay for college. In spite of their good fortune, the Cerezo family plans to continue working.

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Intellipaper – Wireless Paper-based USB

Paper-based USB Intellipaper – Wireless, Disposable USB drives

Intellipaper is an awesome new disposable USB drive which is literslly made out of paper, and you can dispose of it after usage. Intellipaper is made out of a small silicon chip which is embedded on paper. Pretty cool, wouldn’t you agree? Find out more about this amazing Wireless Paper-based USB right here.

The team behind Intellipaper has now patented a new technology which allows them to layer electronic components within normal sheets of paper, practically allowing the user to save paper, time and trees when sending information to others.

You don’t really imagine how you can use it?

Well, Intellipaper could very easily be used when you want to send one of your loved ones a letter. Or you could also use it as a business card, cause it can hold all of your contacts digitally. You simply hand out the intelligent Intellipaper out to someone, they put it in to a conventional USB port, and voila… the information is shared.

See the many uses of Intellipaper in the video below:

How Does Intellipaper Work?

Intellipaper works like any other storage device. Once you rip it from the rest of the paper, you fold it in half and all you have to do is insert it into any of your computer’s USB ports. You may then access the files on the Intellipaper, add or remove more files just like an ordinary USB. All of these actions can be performed only as long as the papers and contacts remain intact.

The paper used is about as thick as card stock, and it’s the result of three normal pieces of paper laminated along with the silicone chip. The embedded chip is capable of holding somewhere in the range of 8-32 MB of data. Making these little intelligent pieces of paper is extremely cheap, so imagine all of its potential uses:

- sending postcards from vacations
- wedding invitations with a digital version attached
- lecture handouts with informations for students

When can we have it?

The possibilities are numerous and they’re just within our reach! For now, the team which designed it just sends Intellipaper as bulk mail, but the design group recently finished a funding campaign that was intended to raise $300,000 but they only raised: US$6,480. However, the team managed to find a U.S. distributor and in order to release USB-enabled note cards, called “DataNotes,” in mid-2013.

See more pictures of intellipaper below:

And see how you can use it as a wireless device in the video below:

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Weight-loss regimen a preferred choice for countering diabetes

After all those well-intentioned New Year’s resolutions have yielded to the force of habit, many of the nation’s 79 million obese adults will have a day of reckoning with their primary care physicians. Lose weight and get active, the doctor will order, or risk developing diabetes. Then the MD will scribble a prescription. For most patients, the prescribed treatment will not be a pill. It will be a 12-week program aimed at preventing Type 2 diabetes by getting obese adults to shed as little as 10 pounds and exercise for a little more than 20 minutes a day. That regimen — the Diabetes Prevention Program — may soon become the blockbuster prescription medicine you’ve never heard of. In 2013, it is poised to become the envy of pharmaceutical companies, a new rival to programs such as Weight Watchers, and a target of opportunity for healthcare entrepreneurs. Led by a trained coach, it is a testament to the power of a mentor and of setting modest goals in spurring healthful behavior. And it may be a crucial first test of the Affordable Care Act’s focus on preventive health. In nearly 30 clinical trials, scientists have established that the program is far more effective at helping people lose weight and prevent or delay the onset of diabetes than “usual care” — essentially, a doctor telling a patient to slim down and get active, and then sending him on his way. But the program hasn’t been packaged in a form that healthcare providers can simply and cheaply offer to patients, said Dr. Jun Ma of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, who studies diabetes prevention. The Diabetes Prevention Program is not rocket science. In 12 weekly sessions, a coach teaches obese subjects at high risk of developing diabetes to set goals for losing 5% to 7% of their body weight, limit the fat and calories they consume, track their food intake, get at least 150 minutes of exercise each week, and devise strategies to avoid gaining back lost pounds. In trials, subjects who attended the tightly scripted sessions and followed the regimen were far more likely than those who were on their own to reach their weight-loss goals in three months — and to keep that weight off for more than a year. By doing so, they drove down their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 58%, according to a landmark report published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002. The program, in short, is powerful medicine. “If you could take it as a pill, it would definitely be commercialized,” said Sean Duffy, a software designer and former Google employee who launched an online version of the program about a month ago… Read the entire article via Weight-loss regimen a preferred choice for countering diabetes – latimes.com.

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Leopard rescued after falling down well

A three-year-old leopard is hoisted from a well by forest wardens in Gugarat state, India. The animal was placed onto a wooden frame to be lifted back out from the water but a struggle meant it had to be tranquilised. More leopards in India are being found in human areas as their natural habitats dwindle in size

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Todays Funny Pictures

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Cloth in Space A Wet Wash Video

Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner, two high school students from Nova Scotia, asked Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield what would happen if he wrung out a wet wash cloth in space. A weird question—with weird results. Hadfield, who is orbiting earth right now in the International Space Station, took to a video feed to demonstrate what happens. After unwrapping his wash cloth, which was wrapped in an extremely tight packaging he called a "hockey puck," Hadfield squeezed drinking water into the unraveled cloth until it was soaking wet. All of this seemed pretty standard, until he began to twist. As he wrung out the towel, the water moved around his skin and towel like a clear, jelly-like substance, and stayed floating around the towel instead of flying off in all directions. Space is interesting, indeed.

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