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BiteTheDust
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One lucky boy.
https://now.msn.com/now/0611-oldest-female%20bodybuilder
[h=1]Oldest female bodybuilder makes us feel lazy[/h]
[h=1]Oldest female bodybuilder makes us feel lazy[/h]
75-year-old Ernestine Shepherd, aka Miss Ernie, says her elixir is "health, happiness and prosperity. That's the formula." Shepherd holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest female bodybuilder and is getting massive
attention on the BBC today. One glance will explain why she has no trouble convincing others to get healthy. She only started bodybuilding at 71 and holds classes at her church inspiring other oldsters to exercise and eat right. Shepherd truly glows as she chants her mantra, "Age is nothing but a number." She practices what she preaches, waking before dawn to run 10 miles a day with other health nuts. "If ever there were an anti-aging pill," she says, "I would call it exercise."
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Divers discover 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that is so well preserved even the FOOD is intact
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...taly-preserved-FOOD-intact.html#ixzz23B3SHetJ
- Fish, wine, oil and grain found inside pots, giving new insight into Roman lifestyle
- Divers believe over 200 pots are left intact on the Roman commercial ship
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...taly-preserved-FOOD-intact.html#ixzz23B3SHetJ
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Divers discover 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that is so well preserved even the FOOD is intact
- Fish, wine, oil and grain found inside pots, giving new insight into Roman lifestyle
- Divers believe over 200 pots are left intact on the Roman commercial ship
Read more...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...taly-preserved-FOOD-intact.html#ixzz23B3SHetJ
WOW! That's totally cool! :good:
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Jeremy Foley and his co-driver go off at Devils Playground at exactly the same spot Bobby Regester did last year. They weren't quite as lucky. Both were taken to the hospital but all I heard was that one of them had serious but not life-threatening injuries. I certainly hope it wasn't too serious.
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https://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/05/car-swallowed-by-sinkhole-in-ottawa
OTTAWA — An Ottawa man is shaken and sore, but "happy to be alive" after his car was swallowed by a sinkhole Tuesday.
Juan Pedro Unger was on his way home from work just after 5 p.m. on a day just like any other, when suddenly, a sinkhole opened beneath his car on the Jeanne d'Arc off-ramp, just off east-bound Hwy. 174.
Unger, 48, said he wasn't going fast, maybe 40 km/h, when he noticed a dark patch in the road.
At first, he thought it was fresh asphalt, or maybe even a rug someone had left on the road.
"I quickly thought, 'Do I swerve to avoid it?' But I had cars on both sides and behind me, and I though I had better just slow down," he said.
"And when I was literally four metres away, that's when I could see that it wasn't flat and continuous, that there was actually a gap. And I tried to come to a complete stop."
But Unger was unable to stop in time, and within seconds his 2009 Hyudai Accdent was swallowed whole.
"My immediate thought was I hope I don't get killed or crushed or horribly injured. And the car went vertical, I was hanging from the seat belt, it was holding me in place," he said.
"My immediate next fear was I hope no car or bus comes and piles on top of me."
When he heard voices calling down to see if he was OK, he knew the pathway was clear. He climbed out of his car, saw water flowing underneath him, then reached up to be pulled from the hole by people who stopped to help.
"I'm very grateful to those passersby that stopped and rushed to help, knowing what the danger of the situation was. It's amazing, and they helped save me," he said.
Unger suffered only minor cuts and scrapes to his legs and abdomen.
The crash created gridlock in rush-hour traffic and the highway was shut down eastbound.
By Tuesday evening, Unger had time to process what had happened.
"I'm still shaken. It was an incredibly frightening experience. I'm glad that I'm in one piece and here, sitting at home and alive. I'm still in a bit of disbelief," he said.
Unger said his biggest concern is now for the safety of the roads in the city.
"This should be a red flag," he said.
"Roads should be checked all around the city, because this was a seemingly perfectly fine piece of road, and thousands of people travel on it every day."
A failed storm sewer cause the sinkhole, the city's transportation committee learned Wednesday.
The large, 3.6-metre diameter pipe had been slated for replacement, but staff told committee members they had no reason to believe the pipe was ready to crumble as it did Tuesday.
Staff said the pipe had been inspected last summer. Contractors had been cleaning out the pipe earlier in the day Tuesday.
Since the accident on Tuesday, the sinkhole has collapsed further and is now about three times the size it was when it swallowed Unger's car.
"I'm quite OK. It's amazing. It could have been much worse, I feel quite lucky to be in one piece and at home and not in a hospital bed," Unger said.
OTTAWA — An Ottawa man is shaken and sore, but "happy to be alive" after his car was swallowed by a sinkhole Tuesday.
Juan Pedro Unger was on his way home from work just after 5 p.m. on a day just like any other, when suddenly, a sinkhole opened beneath his car on the Jeanne d'Arc off-ramp, just off east-bound Hwy. 174.
Unger, 48, said he wasn't going fast, maybe 40 km/h, when he noticed a dark patch in the road.
At first, he thought it was fresh asphalt, or maybe even a rug someone had left on the road.
"I quickly thought, 'Do I swerve to avoid it?' But I had cars on both sides and behind me, and I though I had better just slow down," he said.
"And when I was literally four metres away, that's when I could see that it wasn't flat and continuous, that there was actually a gap. And I tried to come to a complete stop."
But Unger was unable to stop in time, and within seconds his 2009 Hyudai Accdent was swallowed whole.
"My immediate thought was I hope I don't get killed or crushed or horribly injured. And the car went vertical, I was hanging from the seat belt, it was holding me in place," he said.
"My immediate next fear was I hope no car or bus comes and piles on top of me."
When he heard voices calling down to see if he was OK, he knew the pathway was clear. He climbed out of his car, saw water flowing underneath him, then reached up to be pulled from the hole by people who stopped to help.
"I'm very grateful to those passersby that stopped and rushed to help, knowing what the danger of the situation was. It's amazing, and they helped save me," he said.
Unger suffered only minor cuts and scrapes to his legs and abdomen.
The crash created gridlock in rush-hour traffic and the highway was shut down eastbound.
By Tuesday evening, Unger had time to process what had happened.
"I'm still shaken. It was an incredibly frightening experience. I'm glad that I'm in one piece and here, sitting at home and alive. I'm still in a bit of disbelief," he said.
Unger said his biggest concern is now for the safety of the roads in the city.
"This should be a red flag," he said.
"Roads should be checked all around the city, because this was a seemingly perfectly fine piece of road, and thousands of people travel on it every day."
A failed storm sewer cause the sinkhole, the city's transportation committee learned Wednesday.
The large, 3.6-metre diameter pipe had been slated for replacement, but staff told committee members they had no reason to believe the pipe was ready to crumble as it did Tuesday.
Staff said the pipe had been inspected last summer. Contractors had been cleaning out the pipe earlier in the day Tuesday.
Since the accident on Tuesday, the sinkhole has collapsed further and is now about three times the size it was when it swallowed Unger's car.
"I'm quite OK. It's amazing. It could have been much worse, I feel quite lucky to be in one piece and at home and not in a hospital bed," Unger said.
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