Gold Coin worth $1,000,000

100Kg Gold Maple Leaf “Mega” coin

The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) unveiled the world’s largest, purest and highest denomination gold coin: the 2007 $1,000,000 (Canadian) Maple Leaf. This 220.5 pound coin contains 99.999% gold, making it the purest coin of its size in the world. Despite its $1,000,000 face value, the gold content of this mega-Maple Leaf is more than double this amount based upon current gold prices. Of course, the collectible value of this rare coin carries an even greater premium.

 

The previous record for the world’s largest coin was “Big Phil,” an Austrian coin which weighed a scant 68 pounds and a face value of only $150,000. The mega-Maple Leaf is nearly four times as large, measuring twenty-one inches long and 1.2 inches thick. Due to its size and gold purity, this coin requires a high level of hand crafting.

 

According to a spokesman with the RCM, production of the mega-Maple Leaf “will be small in numbers and for a limited period.”

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If you ever wanted to own a rare collectible, this mega-Maple Leaf coin may be the perfect acquisition for you. Contact Goldline at 1-877-376-2646 to discuss pricing and availability.

 

 

Top 10 worlds Dangerous Roads

1. The Death Road (Bolivia)

 

The North Yungas Road, also known as The Death Road, is a 61 to 69 km road leading from La Paz to Coroico (Bolivia’s capital, to the Amazon region) in the Yungas region of Bolivia. It is legendary for its extreme danger: in 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank christened it as the “world’s most dangerous road. ” One estimate is that 200-300 travelers were killed yearly along the road. The road includes crosses marking many of the spots where such vehicles have fallen.

2. Guoliang Tunnel Road (China)

 The road in Taihang mountains was built by local villagers: it took five years to finish the 1,200 metre long tunnel which is about 5 meters high and 4 meters wide. Some of the villagers died in accidents duringconstruction; undaunted, the others continued. On May 1, 1977, the tunnel was opened to traffic. It is located in the Taihang Mountains, in the Hunan Province of China.

3. Ruta 5: Arica to Iquique Road (Chile)

 The road from Arica to Iquique is renowned for being dangerous; you drive past very deep valleys and wind your way through, spotting ever so often tell-tale vehicle skeletons at the bottom. The few times you can see cars and buses passing by, they were doing so at such a speed that you may think they are either tempting fate very foolishly or perhaps they are just ghosts whizzing past. The mono-hued and isolated scenery is well capable of endowing you with the capacity to have such visions, so concentrating and avoiding the use of any form of hallucinatory substance is essential here.

4. Siberian Road to Yakutsk (Russia)

 The Russian Federal Highway connects Moscow to Yakutsk, where the coldest temperature ever recorded outside Antarctica was recorded. Yakutsk is also the largest city built on continuous permafrost. Most houses are built on concrete piles because of the frozen ground.

5. Sichuan-Tibet Highway (China)

 In China, the number of deaths caused by car accidents has nearly doubled in the past 20 years, climbing from 3.9 to 7.6 per 100,000 of the population between 1985 and 2005. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, a high-elevation road between Chengdu and Tibet where landslides and rock avalanches are common, is undoubtedly part of the problem.

The 2,412km long Sichuan-Tibet Highway starts from Chengdu of Sichuan on the east and ends at Lhasa of Tibet on the west. The road stretches into Lhasa passing Ya’an, Garze and Chamdo. Sichuan-Tibet highway traverses 14 high mountains which average 4,000-5000m, spans dozens of famous rivers (Dadu River, Jinsha River, Lantsang River, Nujiang), crosses primeval forest and numerousdangerous sections. It has spectacular views along the line, with unique ethnic customs.

6. James Dalton Highway (Alaska)

 The James Dalton Highway is a 414-mile gravel road. It heads straight north from the Livengood turnoff of the Elliott Highway, through arctic tundra to the farthest north reaches of Alaska. Alyeska built the 360-mile haul road, now known as the Dalton Highway, from the Yukon River to Prudhoe Bay, for $150 million to supply the oil facilities onthe North Slope.

The pipeline bridge across the 1,875 mile Yukon River is the only span across that river in Alaska.

7. Patiopoulo-Perdikaki Road (Greece)

 This is a narrow busy dirt track that stretches from Patiopoulo to Perdikaki in Greece. This road is a steep climb or decent, it isdangerous because it has huge pot holes and very little grip for the vehicles that travel on it. It is a narrow road with a sheer drop on either side of its slope with no guard rails or an prevention to stop a vehicle from going over. Many people die on his road every year, it is used by pedestrians, livestock and trucks, buses and cars.

A verydangerous road that has gravel for grip in most places and there are no lines to determine where the edge is, this is especially dangerous at night, most of the accidents happen at night on this road.

8. Trollstigen (Norway)

 Trollstigen (The Troll Ladder) is a mountain road in Rauma, Norway, part of Norwegian National Road 63 connecting Åndalsnes in Rauma and Valldal in Norddal. A popular tourist attraction due to its steep incline of 9% and eleven hairpin bends up a steep mountain side,the road up is narrow with many sharp bends, and although it has been widened in recent years, vehicles over 12.4 meters long are prohibited from driving the road .

 

At the top there is large parking place which allows visitors to leave their cars and walk for about ten minutes to a viewing balcony which overlooksthe road with its bends and the Stigfossen waterfall. Stigfossen is a beautiful waterfall which falls 320 meters down the mountain side.

9. The A682 Road (England)

The A682 between junction 13 of the M65 and Long Preston is the worst road in England as it has claimed almost 100 fatalities over the last ten years.

The 14 mile single lane A682 between junction 13 of the M65 near Nelson, Lancs, and Long Preston in North Yorkshire, had 22 serious accidents in the past threeyears – two of them fatal. Experts say it has an average of 0.5 deaths per 10 miles annually. It is a favorite for motorcyclists, especially early on a Sunday morning.

10. Stelvio Pass Road Trollstigen (Italy)

The highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps –and the second highest in the Alps, after the Col de l’Iseran (2770 m)–, the Stelvio Pass Road connects the Valtellina with the upper Adige valley and Merano. It is located in the Italian Alps, near Bormio and Sulden, 75 km from Bolzano, close to Swiss border.

While it might not be as risky as other deadly routes, it’s certainly breathtaking. The tour books advise that the toughest and most spectacular climbing is from the Prato side, Bormio side approach is more tame. With 48 hairpins, this road is regarded as one of the finest continuous hairpin routes in the Alps.

Junrey Balawing: The world’s shortest living man

Junrey Balawing stands next to a rooster during a photo taking session with the Guinness World Records team in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte in Philippines.

The Guinness World Records recognised Balawing as the new “Shortest Living Man” on his 18th birthday on Sunday (the day he became eligible for the title) in Sindangan. Balawing, who is from Philippines, reportedly stands at 23.6 inches, considerably shorter than the current holder of the title, Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal, who measures 26.4 inches. However, he missed out on beating the record for the shortest living man in history – a record that was set by Gul Mohammed (India, 1957–97), who was 22.5 inches tall.

A police officer holds on his lap Junrey Balawing, the “World’s Shortest Living Man” declared by the Guinness World Records in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte in Philippines.

The Guinness World Records team (L) and Sindangan’s municipal health workers measure the height of Junrey Balawing (C) in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte in Philippines. Balawing was certified by the Guinness World Records as the shortest man in the world with a standing and lying down average measurement of 23.5 inches (59.93 cm), on his 18th birthday on Sunday.

Junrey Balawing smiles as he stands beside his certificate as the “World’s Shortest Living Man” given by the Guinness World Records in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte in Philippines.

Junrey Balawing holds on to empty Coca Cola bottles during a photo taking session with the Guinness World Records team in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte in Philippines.

Junrey Balawing waves to photographers while standing on a weighing scale at a Municipal Health Centre in Sindangan, Philippines. The Guinness World Records recognised Balawing as the new “Shortest Living Man” on 12 June 2011, his 18th birthday on Sunday in Sindangan.

Junrey Balawing holds a miniature Philippine flag next to his 13-year-old younger sister Giselle as they pose for photographers in Sindangan, Philippines.

Junrey Balawing poses for photographers in Sindangan, Philippines. Balawing’s height was proved shorter than Khagendra Thapa Magar’s after the official measurement on Sunday. Balawing not only holds the record for the shortest living man, but also the shortest living man in history, a statement from the Guinness World Records said.

Junrey Balawing, the “World’s Shortest Living Man” declared by the Guinness World Records, holds a ruler in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte in Philippines.

Junrey Balawing holds on to empty Coca Cola bottles during a photo taking session with the Guinness World Records team in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte in Philippines on 12 June, 2011.

5 Things You Need to Know About the Moon Landing

It was 42 years ago today that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. How much do you know about the 1969 lunar landing? Here are five fun facts.

1. Neil Armstrong gets the glory as the first person to walk on the moon, with Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. not far behind. But don’t forget about the third crewmember. Michael Collins remained behind in the command module while his subsequently more famous counterparts kicked up moon dust. No hard feelings. “I know that I would be a liar or a fool if I said that I have the best of the three Apollo 11 seats, but I can say with truth and equanimity that I am perfectly satisfied with the one I have,” Collins once said.

2. Apollo 11 completed an eight-day, 953,054-mile journey to the moon and back. That’s equivalent to traveling around the Equator about 38 times.

3. The journey to the moon took about four days. Apollo 11 blasted off at 9:32 a.m. July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Station. It entered the lunar orbit on July 19, and July 20 was the big show. At 1:46 p.m. that day, Armstrong and Aldrin began their descent in the Eagle lunar module. They landed on the moon at 4:18 p.m. at the Sea of Tranquility, and Armstrong opened the hatch at 10:39 p.m.

4. Apollo 11’s moon landing gave us many things: bragging rights over the Russians, the catchphrase “the Eagle has landed” and decades of conspiracy theories about hoaxes and Hollywood soundstages. But most of all, it gave us that enduring line, “It’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Which makes no sense, as man and mankind are pretty much the same thing as Armstrong phrased it. Armstrong later said his microphone failed to pick up the crucial “a,” as in, “It’s one small step for a man…” Much better phrasing.

5. Moonwalkers—of the NASA variety, not Michael Jackson dancers—are a very exclusive club. Just 12 NASA astronauts have walked on the moon. The last were part of the Apollo 17 crew, who touched down on the lunar surface in December 1972. Eugene Cernan is officially the last person to walk on the moon.

POINTS ON HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE

On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.
Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has the book he wrote based on the same principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities. Sadly, Randy lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008, but his legacy will continue to inspire us all, for generations to come.
 
This is amazing, he died of pancreatic cancer in 2008, but wrote a book ‘The last lecture” before then, one of the bestsellers in 2007. What a legacy to leave behind…
In a letter to his wife Jai and his children, Dylan, Logan , and Chloe, he wrote this beautiful “guide to a better life” for his wife and children to follow.  May you be blessed by his insight.

POINTS ON HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE

Personality:
1. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
2. Don’t have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment
3. Don’t overdo; keep your limits
4. Don’t take yourself so seriously; no one else does
5. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip
6. Dream more while you are awake
7. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
8. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner of his/ her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
9. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
10. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present
11. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
12. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
13. Smile and laugh more
14. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Community:
15. Call your family often
16. Each day give something good to others
17. Forgive everyone for everything
18. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
19. Try to make at least three people smile each day
20. What other people think of you is none of your business
21. Your job will not take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:
22. Put GOD first in anything and everything that you think, say and do.
23. GOD heals everything
24. Do the right things
25. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
26. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
27. The best is yet to come
28. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful
29. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
30. If you know GOD, you will always be happy. So, be happy.

While you practice all of the above, share this knowledge with the people you love, people you school with, people you play with, people you work with and people you live with.
Not only will it enrich YOUR life, but also that of those around you

” You cannot change the past, but you can ruin the present
by worrying over the future “

Health & Fitness, Does sickness indicate health improvement?

Why one fall sick? What causes the disease? Should anyone ignore normal sickness? Can this be taken as a cure of nature and cleansing of body mechanical system?

 

DISEASE

 

Health is natural and normal, we believe. But the experienced professionals in the medical field have found (through those who have interacted with them) that sickness or disease for some is apparently more ‘normal and natural’.  The entire excerpts are from Dr. Vijay Venkat’s (The Health Awareness Centre Mumbai) Open House Lecture:

 

Though the general belief is that disease is inevitable, we contend that all disease are unnatural, abnormal and unnecessary. Further, we hold that SICKNESS WILL NOT OCCUR-UNLESS THERE IS A SUFFICIENT CAUSE.

 

So, what do we mean by Dis-ease?

 

Sickness/Disease is a crisis instituted by the body itself. It is always remedial.

The body for the purpose of cleansing, repair and restoration causes &  conducts diseases. Much like house cleaning, sickness infect PURIFIES the body, eliminating toxins and restoring normal body balance.

 

Disease has a single cause – TOXIC ACCUMULATION (Toxemia /Toxics). This happens when the body can no longer cope with toxic build up.

Toxins accumulate from

(i)                 Un-expelled body wastes.

(ii)                Wrong foods

(iii)               Unhealthy life styles.

 

Disease affects the whole body and not just a part. The fact that the symptoms are noticeable only in a particular organ does not mean that the rest of the body is unaffected.

 

In short, everything that affects any part of the body affects the WHOLE ORGANISM.

 

Body intelligence alone CREATES the sickness; redirecting its energies to cope with an abnormal situation, within the body.

Neither viruses nor bacteria cause disease. They are normal to the body, working symbiotically within the body, to get rid of harmful wastes. Viruses are infect toxic wastes – or dead decomposed cell debris.

 

It is a misconception, that we need to “FIGHT” diseases. For, it will not occur, unless it is created/caused. By maintaining the simple, basic needs of life, which build and sustain health (wholesome, natural living) the symptoms of disease itself will disappear.

 

WHAT MAKES YOU SICK ?

 

Sickness is really a call – a signal from within the cells of our body. Sickness is our body’s way of telling us, that “stop-listen-and take a break”)

 

There are two kinds of sickness.

 

ACUTE OR CONSTRUCTIVE SICKNESS

 

Such as colds, coughs, fevers, vomiting, diaoherra,  rashes, itches, poxes, measles. These illnesses are the body’s attempt to cleanse itself. To throw away the toxins in an intensive, healing manner. Normally, the body gets rid of its toxins and wastes through the eliminatory systems. But, when the toxic overload is too much, the body diverts these toxins to some other organs that can handle it. It is ironical really, that what is infect an effort at cleansing and healing – we have come to regard as illness and disease.

 

DESTRUCTIVE OR DEGENERATIVE DISEASE

 

Like cancer, asthma, diabetes, Aids and other chronic ailments. These illnesses are caused due to a long history of suppression. The suppression being due to palliative drugs and medicines. Medicines do suppress symptoms – but that’s all they do. They do not eliminate the cause of illness. An unhealthy lifestyle further perpetuates the illness.

All toxins thereby accumulate (without being expelled) at an average, for about 30-40 years (!) and later erupts as “sickness”, most often, we ignore the small signals, and then are forced to tackle the degenerative, chronic illnesses.

 

SO IN SHORT, DISEASE IS A PROCESS – NOT JUST AN EVENT.

 

HEALTH

 

ENERVATION

 

TOXEMIA

 

DISEASE     IRRITATION     HEALTH

 

INFLAMMATION

 

ULCERATION

 

INDURATION

 

CANCER

 

THROUGH NUTRITION, EACH OF THESE STAGES ARE REVERSIBLE. VIBRANT HEALTH IS A REAL POSSIBILITY.

 

IF YOU ARE NOT PREVENTING DISEASE YOU ARE PREVENTING HEALTH

How to kill your Ego? It’s just simple.

When you think, you’re great, just think of greater ones. How to kill your Ego? It’s just simple. Just follow the example, where we think earth is larger one or for that matter the Star Sun as the largest one in the solar system. But in reality, it is quite different.

Sure, Earth is bigger only when comparing to Pluto or Venus. But when you compare it with Neptune or Jupiter?

Now, shall we move further to see who is great?

Oh, in the following picture, even star Sun is smaller and Earth is invisible in the scale!

Ooops! Even Star Sun is invisible or works to 1 pixel in this scale!

Where is Earth? At this scale, even star Sun stands to show to the size of one pixel and invisible in the above picture. Now tell me, do you still have any Ego?

Bee keeper Wang Dalin attracts 26kg worth of bees

42-year-old beekeeper Wang Dalin was covered by bees during a contest against 20-year-old Lu Kongjiang, also a beekeeper, in Longhui County of Shaoyang City, central China’s Hunan Province, July 17, 2011. Wang Dalin finally won in the hour-long contest with 26 kilograms of bees covering his body. (Xinhua/Lu Jianshe)

IT’S the competition that always creates a buzz.

Two fearless bee keepers – Lu Kongjiang and Wang Dalin – went head-to-head in China’s Hunan province to find out who can attract the most bees.

Wearing just a pair of shorts and with the help of a queen bee, Mr Wang tipped the scales with 26kg worth of bees in an hour.

And the sting in the tail for Lu Kongjiang was that he managed to attract a swarm of just under 23kg.So close, yet so far away.

But both Wang Dalin and Lu Kongjiang have a way to go before they match Guinness Book of Records holder Mark Biancaniello for the “most bees worn on the body,” title.

He attracted 39.5kg of bees onto his body in 1998.

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Frozen Lake [Amazing images of a frozen Canadian lake]

Photographer Emmanuel Coupe is a participant in the 2011 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest for this photo of frozen lake in Canada. Check out the other pictures from his amazing shoot!

The Chinook winds are known to change the temperature in a short amount of time. They are seen here shaping the clouds.

Here you can see frozen bubbles trapped beneath the surface

The lake is surrounded by the Rocky Mountains.

Spotting frozen bubbles on the lake is rare. They never appear in the same place twice.

The brilliant blue color is a feature of glacial lakes.

The lake is not naturally occurring. It was formed in 1972 with the construction of a nearby dam

This section of Abraham Lake is known as Windy Point. Often the gusts here are strong enough to knock a person over.

Conditions for the photographer were harsh – temperatures were as low as – 35 degrees F / – 31 degrees C!

The subject is Abraham Lake situated in the Canadian Rockies in western Alberta, Canada.

The lake is 20 miles long with a surface area of 20.7 square miles

The photographer explained that seeing a frozen lake this spectacular is rare as they are usually covered in a thick blanket of snow. In this area, however, there is little precipitation which allows for stunning views of the frozen surface and beneath

Neist Point at dusk, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Commended in the Classic View category.

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