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Subscribe to RSSJohanna Quaas is an 86-year-old former sports teacher from Germany who stays in shape by practicing gymnastics every day. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
MAINZ, Germany – Trying to stay healthy in your senior years? You might want to follow the example of 86-year-old German retiree Johanna Quaas.
Almost daily, Quaas practices on the parallel bars and has already won 11 gymnastic medals in the German senior citizen championships.
During a break in the recent Cottbus Challenger Cup gymnastic competition she wowed the audience with her performance. She not only performed a full planche at the bars, in which she held her body flat on the balance bars supported only by her arms, but also showed a handstand, the cartwheel, backward rolls and a headstand.
A video of her recent performance by GymMedia.com has gone viral on YouTube and gotten more than 1.4 million clicks. She has even had to hire a media agent in Berlin because she’s been so overwhelmed with interview requests.
Quaas, a former sports teacher who comes from the eastern German city of Halle , first gained public attention when she appeared on a health program by local German television MDR in early March.
She says she now does gymnastics “just for fun” and that she has stopped participating in regular competitions. Maybe it’s because she hardly has any competition in her age group. The only other athletes in her senior category are in their mid-70s.
“I want to give the others a chance too. And to perform against 70-year-olds all the time is no fun after a while," Quass told MDR television.
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Backflips and headstands? She has a great future as a political speech writer.
Holy crap. Amazing and very inspirational.
Well @!$%# Toasty, time to get to the gym...
hats off to her--- must be a follower of jack lalane ---she'll probably get to 100----
How wonderful is this woman. Just seeing her picture you can tell she is in great shape. Must have gotten some very good genes. Keep it going gal......live long and prosper.
Great inspiration....I'm heading to the fridge now.... its quite a long stroll from the computer to the kitchen ..... another 12 oz. lifting session coming up
See what happens when you take too many medications?? Viel Spass.
That's great. My mom is 89 and as of last year she could still dive into the pool. So oldies are truely goodies!
It's all based on the foundation you lay down earlier in life and build upon. Genetics help too!
She has worms.
take her fishing then...
usually when a person that age... does those thing's... it's not intentional...
Amazing. This 86-year-old woman is the future of aging humans. Her rare and superior genes hold the secret for human evolution advancement. Her DNA needs/must be taken for science to study.
Isaiah 13:13
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of YHVH of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger
Isaiah 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: YHVH hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
Revelation 18:18
And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
Isaiah 43:2
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee
Isaiah 29:6
Thou shalt be visited of YHVH of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
Luke 21:11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Joel 2:30
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Isaiah 66:15
For, behold, YHVH will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith YHVH of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of YHVH of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Yisrayl.
Isaiah 9:18,19
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Through the wrath of YHVH of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of YHVH cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! for the day of YHVH is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Jeremiah 30:7
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jeremiah 30:10
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith YHVH; neither be dismayed, O Yisrayl: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
Jeremiah 23:8
But, YHVH liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
Jeremiah 29:14
And I will be found of you, saith YHVH: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith YHVH; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Deuteronomy 30:5
And YHVH thy Father will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
Jeremiah 30:3
For, lo, the days come, saith YHVH, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Yisrayl and Judah, saith YHVH: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Ezekiel 36:24
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Psalm 147:2
YHVH doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Yisrayl.
Ezekiel 39:27,28,29
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
Then shall they know that I am YHVH their Father, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Yisrayl, saith YHVH THE MOST HIGH
The Bible explains the name "Edom" with no mention of red rock. It refers to the Edomites as descendants of Esau, and the Book of Genesis mentions "red" a number of times in describing Esau and explaining his alternate name Edom. "The first one [Esau] came out reddish [admoni in Hebrew], as hairy as a fur coat. They named him Esau." Years later, "Jacob was once simmering a stew, when Esau came home exhausted from the field. Esau said to Jacob: "Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom". (Genesis 25:29-30, KJV)
Genesis 36:43
Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.
1 Chronicles 1:54
Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom
MAGDIEL
mag'-di-el (maghdi'el; Gen 36:43, Septuagint: Codex Alexandrinus Metoduel; 1 Ch 1:54; Codex Alexandrinus Mageduel; Codex Vaticanus Meduel): One of the "dukes" of Edom.
The Family of Esau "Edom is identified with Rome and Germany and other places in Europe. Rome was ruled by Caesars who are referred to in denigration in the Talmud because they were homosexual or bi-sexual and because they were not hereditary. The sages said that these "Dukes" (aluphim) were the local rulers of different principalities who ruled during their lifetime but did not necessarily pass their rulership onto the children.They were also associated with homosexual tendencies.,"
Classic Biblical Baby Names Judith Tropea (Author) ESAU-Forefather of the Roman Empire Thank to www.israelunite.org for info
Jewish identity in early rabbinic writings
By Sacha Stern
" Israel And The Nations Chapter 19
Whereas in the Bible,Esau is no more than the ancestor and founder of the small kingdom of Edom (Idumaea) , by the rabbinic period he is identified as the ancestor of Romans or as the founder of their city . Rome is thus referred to as "kingdom of Esau" , "son of Esau" , "Esau" , "Kingdom of Edom" and "Edom" tout court; the Romans themselves are said to identified with Esau .
GenR 83,4 identified Magdiel (one of Esau descendents in Gen 36:43) with letianus , emperor of Rome . (i.e Diocletianus , according to Theodor's conjecture ). PdRE 38 identified Magdiel with Rome itself .
Magdiel
Magdiel was an Edomite province, and possibly the name of an eponymous chieftain (Hebrew: sar), mentioned in the Bible ( Genesis 36:31-43). In various midrashim, Magdiel was associated with Rome.
Edom
Edom (Hebrew: אֱדוֹם, Modern Edom Tiberian ʾĔḏôm ; "red") is a name given to Esau in the Hebrew Bible, as well as to the nation descending from him. The nation's name in Assyrian was Udumi; in Syriac, ܐܕܘܡ; in Greek, Ἰδουμαία (Idoumaía); in Latin, Idumæa or Idumea.
Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and YHVH hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] YHVH who judgeth her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city is] like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Mystery Babylon Revealed
by George Kirkpatrick
"The United States did not become a great nation by throwing down other nations to acquire territory. We became a great nation because we annexed, purchased, and developed land. When territories wanted to become part of the United States they were annexed the same way cities annex other towns, or surrounding areas to increase the size of their cities. Examples of these annexations are Texas, Alaska, and Hawaii.
The United States also purchased vast territories. These purchases included the Louisiana Purchase, the Gladstone Purchase, and the Seward Purchase. The United States also developed land. It only took 75 years from the time the United States declared its independence from England until the `49ers began to settle California. The United States has truly become, the Great City."