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Amazingly simple home remedies!

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clipped from www.dysan.net 1. IF YOU'RE CHOKING ON AN ICE CUBE, SIMPLY POUR A CUP OF BOILING WATER DOWN YOUR THROAT. PRESTO! THE BLOCKAGE WILL INSTANTLY REMOVE ITSELF. 2. AVOID CUTTING YOURSELF WHEN SLICING VEGETABLES BY GETTING SOMEONE ELSE TO HOLD THE VEGETABLES WHILE YOU CHOP. 3. AVOID ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE TOILET SEAT - USE THE SINK. 4. FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE SUFFERERS ~ SIMPLY CUT YOURSELF AND BLEED FOR A FEW MINUTES, THUS REDUCING THE PRESSURE ON YOUR VEINS. REMEMBER TO USE A TIMER. 5. A MOUSE TRAP PLACED ON TOP OF YOUR ALARM CLOCK WILL PREVENT YOU FROM ROLLING OVER AND GOING BACK TO SLEEP AFTER YOU HIT THE SNOOZE BUTTON. 6. IF YOU HAVE A BAD COUGH, TAKE A LARGE DOSE OF LAXATIVES. THEN YOU'LL BE AFRAID TO COUGH. 7. YOU ONLY NEED TWO TOOLS IN LIFE - WD-40 AND DUCT TAPE. IF IT DOESN'T MOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE WD-40. IF IT SHOULDN'T MOVE AND DOES, USE THE DUCT TAPE. 8. REMEMBER - EVERYONE SEEMS NORMAL UNTIL YOU GET TO KNOW THEM. 9. IF YOU CAN'T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER, YOU'VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM.

Telectroscope Connects New York & London

Telectroscope Connects New York & London

In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope: an 11.2-meter-(37 feet) long by 3.3-meter-(11 feet) tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th-century Webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)

"The Telectroscope started off as a totally unintentional hoax in the 1870s," explains St George, who is the leading expert on this forgotten backwater of Victorian technology. "It came about through an error. A French editor misread a report about the invention of a thing called the Electroscope - which is all to do with static electricity - and called it a Telectroscope. He also misinterpreted its purpose. "The fascinating thing is that his misunderstanding of what it did - to communicate face to face over a vast distance - really caught fire.

Needless to say there is no such massive tunnel. The end portals were just made to look like they're heading through the earth. In actuality, they're connected via "fiber optic cabling, and an HD camera and projector on either end provide live streaming video. But who really cares, you can still look in one end of this device in New York and see out the other in London. You'll find one end next to the Brooklyn Bridge, and the other across the pond, next to Tower Bridge."

The Telectroscope captured St. George's imagination five years ago, when he began pondering how to do a project on the childhood fantasy of digging a hole to the opposite side of the Earth. And because the artist also happens to have an expertise in Victorian chronophotography -- a precursor to cinematography -- he had a slight idea of where to look for the proper equipment.

"We all have that idea in our head if we could make a tunnel to the other side of the Earth," St. George said."But we are not all crazy enough to actually try and do it."

St. George was crazy enough to actually try and do it, but he realized he could not do the digging alone. So about two years ago, he pitched the idea to Artichoke, the British arts group responsible for taking the Sultan's Elephant -- a 42-ton mechanical creature -- for a stroll through central London in 2006. The company was immediately taken by St. George's idea.

"The whole thing is about seeing what is real and what isn't real and how the world is," said Nicki Webb, a co-founder of Artichoke. "Is it nighttime when we are in daytime, and does it look familiar to us or not?"

When the sun illuminated the lens of the Telectroscope next to the Thames, it was, of course, still nighttime in New York. So the screen inside the scope broadcast back only an empty sidewalk silently framed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline.

But then something miraculous occurred.

Interesting places to visit in Yogyakarta

Interesting places to visit in Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta has numerous tourism objects, mostly are great heritage of old palaces and natural tourism objects, such as Sultan Palace and Borobudur Temple, the one of world's miracle. Other than that, there are so many interesting places to be visited in Yogyakarta. 1. Affandi Museum In this city of artist and painters, no art museum is more famous than the Affandi Museum, located between the airport and the city centre on ji. Laksda Adisucipto al.Solo). Until his death in 1990. Affandi was one of the Indonesia maestros, best known painter internationally. 2. Banyu Nibo Temple This Buddhist temple is quite small, but the view of its exotic scenery makes this temple offer great vista. 3. Baron Beach Baron Beach is found some 55 kilometers south east Of yogya and it is connected by a fairly good road paved with limestone rocks. 4. Beringharjo Traditional Market Yogya's central market has been established in the same location north of the Kraton since its founding in the 18th century. 5. Borobudur Temple Borobudur is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site with 7 levels and 1460 carved stone reliefs telling the story of Bhudda and representing the steps from the earthly realm to Nirvana. Located 42 kms from Yogyakarta, Borobudur is best seen in the early morning or at twilight. 6. Cerme Cave It is famous as the meeting place used by Wall Songo' (Islamic preachers) to spread and teach the lslam religion in Java in previous centuries. 7. Gembiraloka Zoo Many kinds of animals from all over places in Indonesia and overseas can be found in this zoo including veranus Komodoensis(the giant Komodo dragon lizard from Komodo island), the tapir and the scaly ant-eater 8. Imogiri Royal Cemetery This cemetery was built in 1645 and perched on a beautiful hill about 12 km from Yogyakarta. 9. Kalasan Temple It is the oldest Buddhist temple in Yogya and Central Java, and dates from 778 AD. 10. Kasongan It has became famous for its many pottery workshops. Dozens of pottery workshops produce a wide range of pots as well as animal figurines. 11. Kids Fun Park It is the Recreation Park with international standard, provides recreational service both for the kids and adults. 12. Kota Gede Its' street are lined with busy silver workshops where visitors are welcome to wander around and watch the silversmiths at work. 13. Krakal Beach It is a flat area without cliffs but the rocky bottom and coral bed is alive with swift moving fish of every hue and multicolored marine growth. 14. Malioboro It is the main shopping street. 15. Mount Merapi lt is Java's most active volcano, and a careful watch is kept on Mt Merapi by government monitoring stations to ensure nearby villages are warned in case of eruption. 16. Ngasem Bird Market Here you can watch bargaining over prized songbirds and racing pigeons. 17. Pakualaman Palace It is a site to host official state guests visiting Yogya 18. Parangtritis Beach Currents and undertow are very strong here and tradition says it is the realm of the Queen of the Southern Ocean, Kanjeng Ratu Kidul, who has a mystical relationship with the reigning Sultan in Yogya. Beware of wearing the colour green if you go near the beach as it is believed this attracts the Queen to bring the wearer down to her watery domain. 19. Prambanan Temple UNESCO officially lists it along with Borobudur as World Heritage Site. 20. Ratu Boko Temple Ratu Boko, the "Palace of the Enternal Lord" , is the remains of a huge Hindu palace complex covering many hectares and dating from the 9th century. 21. Salak Pondoh Salak pondoh Agriculture Attraction, is well worth a visit for anyone interested in how "snake fruit" (salak) is cultivated and used in Java. 22. Sambisari Temple The interesting Hindu temple was built by king of the Sanjaya Dynasty in the 10th century. 23. Sari Temple It is a Buddhist vihara built in the 8th century. 24. Sonobudoyo Temple It is considered to house one of the best collections of Javanese arts in Indonesia. 25. Taman Sari Taman Sari literally means fragrant garden. 26. Taman Sari Water Castle This was once a most secret part of Kraton as it formed a pleasure park of pools and waterways planted with hundreds of floweringtrees. 27. The Yogya Keraton It is still a royal residence and remains the focal point for traditional Javanese art and culture where visitors can see gamelan orchestras as well as palace dancers rehearsing every Sunday. 28. Ullen Sentalu Museum This beautifully-designed museum is dedicated to fostering the public's appreciation of Javanese historical artifacts and artistic mastery along with experiencing the natural beauty found in the heights around Kaliurang. 29. Vredeburg Port The architecture is worth a visit. 30. Wayang Museum It is devoted to puppets from the different traditions of the famous Javanese shadow plays.

Rarely Seen Cloud Formations - FunOnTheNet

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Rarely Seen Cloud Formations

There seems to be no end to strange cloud formations! From Punch hole clouds to cloud vortices, enjoy these rarely seen cloud formations!

Punch Hole Clouds may appear as a circular or oval holes in a layer of supercooled clouds; sometimes they assume a form of a perfect circle and persist for quite a long time, drifting together with the cloud layer. One explanation seems to blame the air traffic (the jet contrail intersections) combined with a thermal inversion (a circular motion of a rising warm air). Here is one, observed over the Gunnison Valley in Colorado:


(image credit: Cuerling)

Another strange hole in the cloud, reported from Mobile, Alabama USA, Dec. 2003 (and covered by BBC News):


(images credit: Joel Knain and Weatherlings)

Photo taken in Melbourne, Australia in 2003:


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It seems both rising and sinking air currents can create the same effect. Sometimes a very stable, uniform layer of high-altitude clouds can get "punched though" by a pocket of cold air, which sinks toward the ground - creating the circular hole formation.


(image credit: Neil Johnson(The Tampa Tribune) and Gwen Swinburne)

These "cloud holes" can look like the footprints of some celestial being (UFO enthusiasts rejoice!) or can be amazingly round, like this pair observed in Gallatin, Tennessee by Wayne Carter:


(image credit: Wayne Carter)

NASA takes satellite images of this phenomenon

NASA Terra satellite equipped with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) has captured these images over Acadiana area in southern Louisiana - a splattering of round holes actually stretched over several states: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Some were elongated, some appeared to have smaller clouds inside them.

Cloud Vortices: another "holey" sky phenomena

Theodore von Karman's "Cloud Vortices" are something else, again: they form when the wind encounters a barrier - such as the Aleutian islands, in this case - and the flowing eddies of cloud create a weird pattern. The image you see below was photographed from the International Space Station, and the animation shows the double row of vortices, which rotate opposite from each other.


(image credit: NASA)


(image credit: Cesareo de la Rosa Siqueira, via)


More Incredible and Fascinating Clouds

...that make our sky worthy to look at from time to time (those who only look at the computer monitor, take note). Here is an extremely strong thunderstorm cloud that brewed over northwest Calgary:



(images credit: D'Arcy Norman)

Another supercell cloud in Alberta skies, this time over Edmonton:


(image credit: Greg)

'shrooms:


(image credit: Cloud Appreciation Society)

Another cloud "wave", similar to the one over South Dakota Badlands (see here):


(image credit: Barry Slade)

Roll clouds... get into a small plane and start "surfing" them! -


(image credit: Russell White)


(image credit: Dan Bush)

A Cloud Angel -


(sent in by Dave)

Two light-sabers get crossed in the sky:


(image credit: Olga Olgert)

A fire-breathing rabbit-dragon, and a fantastic cloud edge:


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A "genie", coming out of a bottle:


(image credit: Raoul Pop)

Spectacular lenticulars in the morning light... and a whole "pancake" stack of them, over at Mount Rainier in Washington:



(image credit: Arco Images, Alamy, National Geographic)

Stormy:


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An interesting rainbow effect:


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Nacreous clouds - good page about them, with lots of info:


(image credit: Atmospheric Optics)

Prepare to get squashed, Earthlings! -


(image credit: Sam LeBarron)