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A German woman in Dusseldorf blocked the entrance to an underground station when she mistook it for a subterranean car park, police said on Wednesday.
The 52-year-old drove her Volkswagen Beetle across the pavement and into the entrance, where it came to a halt five steps down.

Police estimated the damage to the station at around 1,500 euros (£1,000).

The VW Beetle-Cabrio remained balanced on the fifth step and the woman was able to get out unaided and unharmed.

A local newspaper said the woman was more shocked and embarrassed than hurt.

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It’s all done with the use of his thumb.

Mike Phillips is a gamer and freelance technology writer born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In this 3.5 minute video, he explores the frontiers of accessibility, playing games such as World of Warcraft and Unreal Tournament 2004 with just his thumb, a proximity switch, Origin Instrument’s Swiftyâ„¢ switch interface and AssistiveWare’s SwitchXS® software. Mike not only uses his Mac to play games, he also writes game reviews for Inside Mac Games, presents at conferences, wrote chapters for several books, works on a novel and is active as a photographer and digital artist. Mike Phillips lives in Tampa, FL, United States of America.

Watch the amazing video here.

In the most conspicuous sign yet of India’s unprecedented prosperity, the country’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is building a new home in the financial hub of Mumbai: a 60-storey palace with helipad, health club and six floors of car parking. The building, named Antilla after a mythical island, will have a total floor area greater than Versailles and be home for Mr Ambani, his mother, wife, three children and 600 full-time staff.

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Betty Nguyen

She is currently a CNN anchor, but she use to be an anchor in Dallas-Fort Worth.  I always thought she was half-Asian, but wasn’t for sure until I checked out this section of CNN.com about The Asian American Journey.  It’s a great place to check out if you my kind of roots.

In this interview she mentions she’s a ‘hapa‘ – which is a slang term for half-Asian, something I was not aware of.  She goes on to tell how for the longest time half-Asians felt frustration filling out a form that asked for your race, since we kinda felt we are force to pick one parent over the other regarding this.  Finally the Census Bureau got things straight and we now have a check mark box on those forms – we finally count!

The one thing that did upset me was that she showcases a book that has nothing but pictures of half-Asians.  I wonder why a picture of the world’s best half-Asian blogger isn’t included?!?!