Meet Ivan Stoiljkovic, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary talent. The 6-year-old from Koprivnica in Northern Croatia appears to be able to stick metal objects to his body. ”I have no problem to hold metal objects, but eventually I get tired,” said Ivan. Six-year-old Ivan Stoiljkovic can hang up to 25kg of metal from his chest, including cutlery, coins and even a non-stick frying pan.
Video of Ivan’s amazing abilities has become an Internet sensation with thousands of people tuning in to watch him stick cutlery, phones and even a frying pan to his bare chest and arms.
In many respects, Ivan Stoiljkovic is much like any other six-year-old boy in his city. He enjoys kicking a ball around in the garden of the home he shares with his family and is learning to play the accordion as a hobby.
His abilities echo the character Magneto, as featured in the X-Men comics and films, a mutant who has the ability to manipulate metals.
Magneto was played by Sir Ian McKellen in the X-men trilogy of films, and will be played by Michael Fassbender in the upcoming prequel “X-Men: First Class.“
Ivan also stands out from the crowd due to his ‘super strength’. He is much stronger than other children his age and is able to easily carry bags of cement as heavy as 50lbs.
And that isn’t the end to Ivan’s unusual talents, his family say Ivan has also used his ‘healing’ hands to alleviate his grandfather’s stomach pains and take away the pain of a neighbour who hurt his leg in a tractor accident.
Ivan’s grandfather swears by the youngster’s unusual talent. “When something hurts us, we ask Ivan to put his hands on the sore and the pain disappears in a flash”, he told The Daily Mail (UK).
Critics of Ivan’s amazing super power might point to the fact that many of the objects sticking to Ivan’s chest and arms appear to simply be resting on his skin, and not actually sticking to him.
The Heart Attack Grill® is a hospital themed restaurant with locations in Chandler Arizona and Dallas Texas. It has become internationally famous for embracing and promoting an unhealthy diet of incredibly large hamburgers. Customers are referred to as "patients," orders as "prescriptions," and the waitresses as "nurses."
The menu includes the Single Bypass Burger®, Double Bypass Burger®, Triple Bypass Burger®, and the Quadruple Bypass Burger®, ranging from half a pound to two pounds of beef. Also on the menu are Flatliner Fries® (cooked in pure lard), Lucky Strike® no filter cigarettes, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer®, Butterfat Milkshakes®, full sugar Coca-Cola®, and candy cigarettes for the kids!
The menu names imply coronary artery bypass surgery, and refer to the danger of developing atherosclerosis from the food's high proportion of saturated fat and excessive caloric content. The Quadruple Bypass Burger® has been quoted by the media at around 8,000 calories!
One of the restaurants most celebrated (and widely publicized) gimmicks is the free wheelchair service provided to those "patients" who successfully finish the Quadruple Bypass Burger®. Amidst a flurry of photography from tourist bystanders the "patients" are pushed in a wheelchair out to their cars.
Founded in December of 2005 by Dr. Jon, a non AMA recognized physician. He has been glorified as the freedom fighting arch enemy of political correctness by some, and demonized as a charlatan "nutritional pornographer" by others, Dr. Jon can be found each day, at the griddle, actually flipping hamburgers in his white doctor's lab coat and stethoscope.
The restaurant has found itself in a continual state of self defense against various activist groups and branches of state government. Most notable was a very public threat closure from the Arizona Attorney General's in late 2006.
The controversy hit a crescendo when Dr. Jon was arrested after having threatened to open a live fire hose on a group of picketing nurses. Rush Limbaugh, Geraldo Rivera, and major networks from over sixty countries went live with the story, in a non-stop media frenzy that lasted for months on end.
To make light of the situation Dr. Jon put a disclaimer on his website stating, "The use of the word 'nurse' above is only intended as a parody. None of the women pictured on our website actually have any medical training, nor do they attempt to provide any real medical services. It should be made clear that the Heart Attack Grill® and all its employees do not offer any therapeutic treatments".
Despite the obvious animosity between the Heart Attack Grill®, and various Nursing Associations, Dr. Jon has always taken time in each and every television interview to point out that we are absolutely in the midst of a severe global nurse shortage. "It's a real crisis!" says Dr. Jon, "Each one of us has a duty to help. I view my part is to draw attention to the problem by playing the role of the villain". Dr. Jon's most recent fitness book is entitled; Heart Attack Grill Diet, which teaches readers how to "Eat, Drink, and Smoke their way to Better Health".
A documentary film about the death of Princess Diana won't be shown in Great Britain because a photo in the movie shows the princess just moments before she died in the wreckage of a Paris car crash.
The grim pictures have angered many Brits, still aglow over the royal wedding of her oldest son Prince William, and the movie's director claims that British lawyers have insisted those pictures be cut out before it can be shown in the country.
The film, "Unlawful Killing," will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this week. The 90 minute film was financed in part by Mohamed al Fayed, father of Diana's lover, Dodi Fayed, who also died in the 1997 crash.
Keith Allen, the film's director, called the film an "inquest of the inquest" into the death of Diana in an interview with the Guardian.
The film's trailer begins with a 1993 letter written by Diana describing her fears that someone was conspiring to kill her.
"My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car. Brake failure or serious head injury," the note reads.
The film then explores the investigation into Diana's death, showing graphic photos taken by the papparazzi when Diana is near death in the Paris tunnel where the crash occurred. The crash was ruled a drunk driving accident.
The End of the World has been foretold time and time again, but this time it’s for real. Well, according to Brian Haubert and a small group of true believers, anyway. They claimed that hidden in the Bible are some clues that the world will end May 21, 2011.
NPR’s Weekend Edition takes a peek inside the Judgment Day movement (and the radio show behind the latest J-date):
"I’ve crunched the numbers, and it’s going to happen," he says.Brian Haubert grabs some pamphlets and marches toward the flea market in Palmyra, N.J. Armed with a poster that trumpets Judgment Day on May 21, 2011, he braces for rejection. Announcing God's wrath is not always a popular message.
Haubert says the Bible contains coded "proofs" that reveal the timing. For example, he says, from the time of Noah’s flood to May 21, 2011, is exactly 7,000 years. Revelations like this have changed his life.
"I no longer think about 401(k)s and retirement," he says. "I’m not stressed about losing my job, which a lot of other people are in this economy. I’m just a lot less stressed, and in a way I’m more carefree."
He’s tried to warn his friends and family. They think he’s crazy. And that saddens him.
"Oh, it’s very hard," he says. "I worry about friends and family and loved ones. But I guess more recently, I’m just really looking forward to it."
Haubert is 33 and single. Brown is married with several young children, and none of them shares his beliefs. It’s caused a rift with his wife — but he says that, too, was predicted in the Bible.
"God says, ‘Do you love husband or wife over me? Do you love son or daughter over me?’ There is a test. There is a trial here that the believers are going through. It’s a fiery trial."
As May 21 nears, Brown says he feels as if he’s on a "roller coaster." What if he is raptured but his family is left behind?
"I’m crying over my loved ones one minute; I’m elated the next minute," he says. "It’s all over the place."
"I've been called a heretic," says Haubert, a 33-year-old actuary. "I've been told I read the wrong Bible. And then there's the occasional person who seems to be genuinely interested," he says.
His friend and fellow believer, Kevin Brown, uses a gentler approach, not confronting people or engaging in conversation, just politely handing out Judgment Day pamphlets.
Brown, who owns his own nutrition and wellness business, is soft-spoken and polished, not someone you'd imagine giving away doomsday tracts. But he says the clock is ticking.
"People need to know," Brown says, "and God commands us to share the Gospel about the end of the world. He says if we do not share the Gospel then their blood will be on our hands, whether they believe or not. God's been moving me to do this."
Spreading The Word
Haubert and Brown are two of a small — or not so small, who knows? — army of Christians sounding the alarm. They drive caravans and put up billboards, hand out tracts and try to convince friends and family that Judgment Day is upon us. Brown says this message is laced throughout the Bible, but only some can decode it. It will happen this way:
On May 21, "starting in the Pacific Rim at around the 6 p.m. local time hour, in each time zone, there will be a great earthquake, such as has never been in the history of the Earth," he says. The true Christian believers — he hopes he's one of them — will be "raptured": They'll fly upward to heaven. And for the rest?
"It's just the horror of horror stories," he says, "and on top of all that, there's no more salvation at that point. And then the Bible says it will be 153 days later that the entire universe and planet Earth will be destroyed forever."
Most Bible scholars note that even Jesus said he had no idea when Judgment Day would come. But May 21 believers like Haubert are unfazed. "I've crunched the numbers, and it's going to happen," he says.
Haubert says the Bible contains coded "proofs" that reveal the timing. For example, he says, from the time of Noah's flood to May 21, 2011, is exactly 7,000 years. Revelations like this have changed his life.
"I no longer think about 401(k)s and retirement," he says. "I'm not stressed about losing my job, which a lot of other people are in this economy. I'm just a lot less stressed, and in a way I'm more carefree."
He's tried to warn his friends and family — they think he's crazy. And that saddens him.
"Oh, it's very hard," he says. "I worry about friends and family and loved ones. But I guess more recently, I'm just really looking forward to it."
Haubert is 33 and single. Brown is married with several young children, and none of them shares his beliefs. It's caused a rift with his wife — but he says that, too, was predicted in the Bible.
"God says, 'Do you love husband or wife over me? Do you love son or daughter over me?' There is a test. There is a trial here that the believers are going through. It's a fiery trial."
As May 21 nears, Brown says he feels as if he's on a "roller coaster." What if he is raptured but his family is left behind?
"I'm crying over my loved ones one minute; I'm elated the next minute," he says. "It's all over the place."
Family Radio
No one knows how many people believe Judgment Day is right around the corner. But it appears that many became believers in 2009 after turning on Family Radio, a Christian network worth more than $100 million.
"We just happen to be in that time in history," he said in an interview. "And whether we like it or not, we're here."
Camping's predictions have inspired other groups to rally behind the May 21 date. People have quit their jobs and left their families to get the message out. "Knowing the date of the end of the world changes all your future plans," says 27-year-old Adrienne Martinez.
She thought she'd go to medical school, until she began tuning in to Family Radio. She and her husband, Joel, lived and worked in New York City. But a year ago, they decided they wanted to spend their remaining time on Earth with their infant daughter.
"My mentality was, why are we going to work for more money? It just seemed kind of greedy to me. And unnecessary," she says.
And so, her husband adds, "God just made it possible — he opened doors. He allowed us to quit our jobs, and we just moved, and here we are."
Now they are in Orlando, in a rented house, passing out tracts and reading the Bible. Their daughter is 2 years old, and their second child is due in June. Joel says they're spending the last of their savings. They don't see a need for one more dollar.
"You know, you think about retirement and stuff like that," he says. "What's the point of having some money just sitting there?"
"We budgeted everything so that, on May 21, we won't have anything left," Adrienne adds.
Nothing, except for the fervent hope that all of them will be raptured.
'There Is No Plan B'
Camping is not the first person to fix a date for the end of the world. There have been dozens of such prophets, and so far, they've all been wrong.
Camping himself has had to do some recalculation. He first predicted the end would come Sept. 6, 1994. He now explains that he had not completed his biblical research. "For example, I at that time had not gone through the Book of Jeremiah," he explains, "which is a big book in the Bible that has a whole lot to say about the end of the world."
So he's not planning for May 22?
"Absolutely not," Camping says. "It is going to happen. There is no Plan B."
I've asked a dozen of Camping's followers the same question. Everyone said even entertaining the possibility that May 21 would come and go without event is an offense to God. They all hope they'll be raptured. Some worry about being left behind.
"If I'm here on May 22, and I wake up, I'm going to be in hell," says Brown. "And that's where I don't want to be. So there is going to be a May 22, and we don't want to be here."
On the other hand, he will presumably have lots of company.
Martha Graham is a dancer, so her Google Doodle must dance too, right?
Search engine giant Google is currently celebrating the 117th birthday of American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham using the company’s iconic Google Doodle.
The doodle shows an animation of a dancer performing routines that spells all the letters of Google starting from letter E. The dancer stops after performing the letter G. I recorded the moving Google Doodles for future reference.
According to Martha Graham’s Wikipedia entry, she is considered as the “Picasso” and/or “Frank Lloyd Wright” of dancing. The entry also added that Graham invented “a new language of movement, and used it to reveal the passion, the rage and the ecstasy common to human experience.”
Last Sunday, Google celebrated the birthday of English author and illustrator Roger Hargreaves by presenting 16 illustrations that are changing every page reload.
At long last, the worst-kept secret in the music industry has been confirmed: Google has launched its music service.
On Tuesday at Google I/O, the company took the wraps off Google Music Beta. Currently, that site is invite-only, but users will be added to the platform soon. The product is “free for a limited time.”
The service will be available starting on Android devices and via the web.
Rumors of Google Music first fell on our eager ears in June 2010, at which time we learned Google was building a music service with an Android twist. And while building such software is clearly not a problem for Google’s high-functioning genius engineers, the company was still settling the terms of the deals with labels inSeptember 2010 … and in November 2010 … and in December 2010 … and in April 2011. A less optimistic crew of journalists would have begun to doubt whether Google Music would, in fact, ever see the light of day.
However, we were seeing enough proof vis-a-vis Android screenshots that the product itself was launch-ready, even if labels were not. Google Music was spotted on a Gingerbread device earlier this year, when gadget geeks saw a “music sync” option on an Android device. Music streaming options appeared on another device not too long afterward.
Currently, here’s what we are being told about Google Music, which looks and feels exactly like an iTunes in the cloud:
It will run on all Android devices, including tablets and mobiles
You’ll be able to create custom playlists
You’ll be able to edit track info, get play counts, etc.
Music will be available when you’re offline, too
Users can upload and store songs to a cloud-based directory
Users can wirelessly and automatically sync playlists from the web to connected devices and vice versa
Comparative store sales soar at Burlington Coat
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation announced that net sales for the first quarter ended April 30, 2011 were $929.1 million compared with $894.7 million for the comparative period ended May 01, 2010, a 3.8% increase. Comparative store sales increased 0.5% for the quarter.
Tom Kingsbury, Chief Executive Officer, stated, “I am pleased that we were able to produce a positive comparative store increase in the first quarter on top of our 3.3% increase in the prior year. We are pleased with the currency of our inventories as we enter the second quarter and continue to believe we are well positioned for the remainder of 2011.”
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation
Samoa is angling to move its economy into the future - by a full 24 hours.
The island nation will switch to the west side of the International Dateline in order to boost business relations with Australia and New Zealand, Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi announced Sunday.
Currently the country of 180,000 people is 21 hours behind Sydney.
"In doing business with New Zealand and Australia, we're losing out on two working days a week," Malielgaoi said in a statement.
"While it's Friday here, it's Saturday in New Zealand, and when we're at church on Sunday, they're already conducting business [Monday] in Sydney and Brisbane."
Samoa and its neighbor, American Samoa, were on the western side of the International Dateline until an American businessman convinced both to move to the eastern side in 1892 to facilitate trading with Hawaii.
But Malielgaoi says times have changed and Australia has eclipsed the U.S. in importance to the country's economy.
Samoa and American Samoa share a common language and culture, but are separated by 80 miles of Pacific Ocean and the latter's status as a U.S. territory, will now be 24 hours apart.
Many Samoans, however, want to remain firmly rooted in the past.
"The fact that Samoa is the last place on Earth to see the sun of every day is a great marketing point," tour guide Andrew Tiatia told the New Zealand Herald, "and one which I take great pride in telling our visitors. Once that's gone, we're just like the rest of the world."
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