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Eighteen People You're Scared Of on Facebook

Source: GQ - If you spend anytime at all on Facebook, chances are that some of these profiles may seem extremely familiar to you - See the entire sideshow here!

Kentucky Couple Win $128M Powerball Prize

Source: Yahoo – A central Kentucky autoworker is lucky he held on to the $128 million Powerball ticket he bought on Christmas Eve during some last-minute shopping — after all, it was printed by mistake.

Lottery officials said Rob Anderson and his wife, Tuesday, were winners of the largest jackpot in the state's history.

On Wednesday the couple was introduced at the state lottery headquarters in Louisville. The Andersons said they didn't initially believe they had won the $128.6 million jackpot after buying lottery tickets together for 12 years.

"We didn't hit it, that's not us," Rob Anderson said he told his wife after showing her the winning ticket the morning after the Dec. 26 drawing. "Something's not right!"

Rob Anderson, 39, said the winning ticket was a misprint that he decided to keep while buying stocking stuffers at a Georgetown, Ky., gas station. He wanted to buy $1 lottery tickets for three people, but the clerk goofed.

"The clerk ran the $3 Quick Pick but he put it all on one ticket, and I was like, doggone it, I needed three separate tickets," Anderson said.

The clerk asked him if he wanted to keep the ticket, which had three sets of random numbers.

"Yeah, I got a couple extra dollars," Anderson said, and he bought three more tickets to give as gifts.

When he arrived at home, he tossed the ticket on his dresser and didn't think about it until the Sunday morning after the drawing. When he remembered it, he checked the Powerball numbers and they matched one of the sets of numbers on the botched ticket: 32-36-37-41-53 and Powerball 30.

The couple, who work at a plant building seats for Toyotas, said they were hesitant to go public about the winnings. They declined to say if they had children.

"We're really grounded people," Rob Anderson said. "My wife taught me well, so to speak, to hang on to that dollar and see how far it gets you. We'll still clip coupons and still look for the clearance rack."

He said they would like to go back to school. His proposed major? Finance.

Tuesday Anderson said they have a dream of visiting Hawaii and she wants a new car.

The couple said they haven't decided if they'll return to work and whether they'll take a lump sum payment, which would be worth about $63 million.

Prior to this jackpot, the largest ever won in Kentucky was $89.3 million in 1996.

LA Stylist Learns Modern Meaning of 'Pay Phone'

LOS ANGELES (AP) - "When a Los Angeles hairstylist accepted a collect call from a customer, she had no idea it would run more than $45. And no idea that's just what collect calls from pay phones cost in the mobile age.

Barbara James gladly accepted the call from 84-year-old client Pat Devine, who said she was running late and called from a pay phone because her cell phone had died.

James' bill from Network Communications International showed about $37 for the quick call, about $5 in regulatory fees and taxes, and about $3 for a "billing cost recovery fee." NCIC president Bill Pope says the tiny number of collect calls makes such prices inevitable.

Federal Communications Commission spokeswoman Rosemary Kimball says collect calls are largely unregulated since most major companies left the business.

Babies Are Found to Cry in Their Mother Tongue

Yahoo - "They may not be old enough to talk, but babies less than a week old know how to cry in their native language.

Researchers have known that infants have the ability to mimic speech starting around 12 weeks of age. Babies also show a preference for spoken language that mirrors the rhythm, melody and intensity patterns of their mother tongue.

But when they're too young to control their vocal cords or the muscles that shape the mouth to make specific sounds, how can babies demonstrate that they're tuned in to the chatter around them? Through their cries, suggests a team of European scientists.

The researchers recorded the cries uttered by 30 French and 30 German newborns when they were hungry, having their diapers changed or generally out of sorts. Though the babies were only 2 to 5 days old, they cried in distinct patterns.

The wails of the French babies started out low and rose to a higher pitch, while those of their German counterparts started out high and fell to a lower pitch. The German babies also cried with more intensity than the French babies, the researchers found. These patterns matched the intonation patterns of spoken French (in which the pitch tends to rise over the course of several words) and German (in which the opposite occurs).

The scientists said that fetuses start to pick up on the melody of ambient language during their third trimester in the womb. They can't hear all of the phonetic details of their mothers' speech, but they can perceive the overall patterns or phrases and sentences. Imitating those patterns probably helps newborns endear themselves to their mothers, the researchers theorized.

The findings, by scientists at the University of Wurzburg and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany and the Ecole Normale Superieure/National Center for Scientific Research in France, were published online in the journal Current Biology.

Monster Mash

Monster Mash is a 1962 novelty song and the best-known song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton's Garpax Records label in October 1962 along with a full-length LP called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes. The "Monster Mash" single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20 of that year, just in time for Halloween. It has been a perennial holiday favorite ever since.

Growing Up Is a Choice

Getting older is guaranteed, but growing up is a choice. Many people shy away from admitting their age out of disbelief in how fast life has zipped by as if life were a river rushing by them as they stand off to the side on dry land. On the other hand, I've been fortunate to meet people, including many elderly, who have passionately expressed that for them, regardless of all new and difficult challenges, life truly gets better and better each and every day. Why is that? What's their secret?

Going back to the river analogy, these people choose to be in their river of life, flowing downstream, always in the present and more often than not, excited and/or determined to be in the flow, even amidst the upcoming turbulent rapids. Every single moment/situation offers new growth opportunities, but you must be willing to let yourself flow down the river in order to see them as you move through them. Once you choose to allow yourself to flow down the river, you will soon begin to recognize that your view is always advancing, hence the growth.

Hey, some stretches along the river are more challenging and usually accompanied by faster, greater growth while others seem to be more calm and accompanied by more time and space for contemplation and realization. That's how it is! In either case, by properly positioning yourself, not to mention by picking up useful tools along the way, you'll begin cruising your river the way big wave surfer Laird Hamilton rides the ocean. Respect the river, allow yourself to be vulnerable, expect that wiping out from time to time is part of the process and most importantly embrace it; there has never been and never will be another river exactly like yours.

Just remember, we were neither born to climb out of the river (where it may seem safe) nor to attempt to rush down the river nor to be anywhere else along the river than exactly where we are right this exact moment.

It always feels so go to laugh

Laughter is ultimately the best therapy around!!! 

If you're feeling down or in a state of low energy, watch this clip, it will cheer you up. This is just another bit of proof on how the power of positive energy is so darn contagious!!!