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Stephan Brusche: The Banana Artist….!!!
One can forgive Stephan Brusche for playing with his food. This surprising artist has managed to transform one of my favorite items of grocery into works of art I would never part from. He doesn’t just draw or cut up the bananas, but uses both to create scenes and sculptures both whimsical and inventive. I think he’s top notch, and I’ve enjoyed being surprised again and again by his creativity.
See some more of his terrific works on his Website, Facebook page orInstagram.
Diapers Help Your Plants Grow … !!!
Why Do Gardeners Buy Adult Diapers?
When you hear about “adult diapers”, your first thoughts usually have nothing to do with gardening. While this is understandable, after watching this video, you will very likely change the way you think of them.
In this video you’ll see how to use new, or “gently used”, diapers to;
– Make a “super gel” for better gardening
– Cut your watering schedule in half
– Help fresh cut flowers last longer and look awesome
– Start growing seeds the lazy way
– Protect your plants from overwatering and under watering
WARNING: The results, depictions and claims portrayed in this video are based on the limited experiences I had to test the claims prior to production. All information is believed to be true and correct at time of publication, and no information or results have been found to indicate otherwise. Individual results may vary depending on location and application. Use of video content is at own risk.
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Special thanks to my friends Scott & Brendo for letting me use their song (“Photographs” – Instrumental). If you like their music, you can download it here: http://bit.ly/ScottBrendoiTunes
Project inspired by: Kipkay (Crazy Diaper Gag!): http://youtu.be/Sk8r8Vo4U_M
and Steve Spangler (The Baby Diaper Secret – Sick Science! #018): http://youtu.be/VTU3JNAlOG8
I love the idea that simple resources can be utilized to help meet our basic survival needs, or help optimize systems with just a shift in thinking, and repurposing our trash. Water and time are both very important resources, and when both can be conserved with very little effort, it’s a major win.
The next time you have a damaged or defected diaper that you’re just going to throw away, why not rip it apart and try some of these experiments for yourself? Just make sure it hasn’t been used for it’s original intended purpose first!
SOURCE:::: http://www.ba-bamail.com and You Tube
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Just For Laugh … Begin Your Day with a Smile …
A wife asks her husband, “Could you please go shopping for me and buy a carton of milk and if they have avocados, get 6.
A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.The wife asks him, “Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?”
He replied, “They had avocados.”
(YES, YES, GO AHEAD – READ IT AGAIN)
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Water in the carburetor
WIFE: “There is trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor.”
HUSBAND: “Water in the carburetor? That’s ridiculous ”
WIFE: “I tell you the car has water in the carburetor.”
HUSBAND: “You don’t even know what a carburetor is. I’ll check it out. Where’s the car?
WIFE: “In the river”.
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This is a frightening statistic !
25% of the women in this country are on medication for mental illness.
That’s scary. It means 75% are running around untreated.
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A young man wanted to get his beautiful blonde wife something nice for their first wedding anniversary. So he decided to buy her a mobile phone. He showed her the phone and explained to her all of its features.
Meg was excited to receive the gift and simply adored her new phone.
The next day Meg went shopping. Her phone rang and, to her astonishment, it was her husband on the other end.
“Hi Meg,” he said, “how do you like your new phone?”
Meg replied, “I just love it! It’s so small and your voice is clear as a bell, but there’s one thing I don’t understand though…”
“What’s that sweetie?” asked her husband.
“How did you know I was at Walmart?
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He must pay !
Husband and wife had a tiff. Wife called up her Mom and said, “He fought with me again, I am coming to live with you.”
Mom said, “No darling, he must pay for his mistake. I am coming to live with you.
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Today’s Short Reading From the Bible…
From Genesis: “And God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the earth.”
Then He made the earth round…and He laughed and laughed and laughed!
SOURCE:::: http://www.funstuffpeoplesendme.wordpress.com
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History of ICC Cricket World Cup…
The stage is set for the 11th ICC World Cup, which will be staged Down Under from February 14 to March 29.
India will be looking to add to their triumphs of 1983 and 2011, while Australia, co-hosts with New Zealand, are gunning for a fifth title in the 50-overs-a-side quadrennial tournament, having won it in 1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007.
For a recap of the previous World Cups click on the images below.
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All you need to know about World Cup 2015…
Factbox on the 11th edition of the cricket World Cup, which will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand from Feb. 14-March 29.
KEY FACTS
The coveted trophy.* The first men’s cricket World Cup was held in England in 1975, four years after the first recognised one-day international had been played in 1971, on the fifth day of a washed out test between Australia and England in Melbourne.
* West Indies won the first two tournaments, beating Australia in 1975 and England in 1979 and then lost the 1983 final to India, but have not reached another final since.
* Allan Border’s Australia won the first of their four titles in 1987, sparking a period of dominance by the side in both one-day and test cricket for the next 20 years.
* India also won the 2011 tournament. Pakistan (1992) and Sri Lanka (1996) are the only other winners.
* New Zealand and Australia will host 21 pool matches each, amongst 14 venues, seven in each country. It is the second time the two countries have co-hosted the tournament, having previously done so in 1992.
* Afghanistan will make their World Cup debut, having played three World Twenty20 tournaments.
* There are two groups of seven teams playing a round robin format, with the top four in each pool making the quarter-finals, which will be straight knockouts.
* New Zealand will host one quarter-final in Wellington and one semi-final in Auckland.
* They can possibly reach the final in Melbourne without having played any of their games in Australia. The two co-hosts are in the same pool and play that match on Feb. 28 in Auckland.
* The final will be at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, only the second venue after Lord’s in London, to host more than one final.
RECORDS
* India’s Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run scorer with 2,278 runs in 45 matches and has scored the most centuries (six). He also holds the record for most runs in one tournament, 673 from 11 matches in 2003.
* Australia’s Glenn McGrath has the most wickets, 71 in 39 matches. McGrath also has the best bowling figures of 7-15 against Namibia in 2003.
* South Africa’s Gary Kirsten has the highest score in a World Cup match, making 188 not out against UAE in 1996.
* The highest score in a World Cup match is 413-5 by India against Bermuda in 2007, while the lowest is 36 by Canada against Sri Lanka in 2003.
* Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist has the most dismissals, 52 from 31 matches (45 catches, seven stumpings), though he could be overtaken by Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (46) in this tournament.
* Australia’s Ricky Ponting has taken 28 catches, the most by a non-wicketkeeper.
(Compiled by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by Sudipto Ganguly)
SOURCE:::: www. cricket.yahoo.com
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Dare Devil Duo is the First to Scale the Niagara Falls… !!!
Last week, two daredevil Canadian climbers, Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken, attempted the impossible: scaling Niagara’s 51m-high, frozen falls. And it only took them just under an hour to do it.
Niagara Falls, the collective term for the three waterfalls that dominate the border between New York state and Ontario, Canada, flows at a rate of up to two million litres per second. Because of that immense volume, the falls almost never stop moving. In fact, other than a 30-hour dry spell on 29 March 1848, when an ice jam in the upper river blocked the regular flow of water, it was nearly unheard of until early 2014, when the falls came to a near standstill twice during the extreme North American cold wave. (And while some would argue that the falls froze in the early 1900s, the credibility of that commonly shared photograph has beenproven questionable.)
It’s important to note that even in these three rare instances, the falls never completely froze over, making attempts to climb up the falls extremely dangerous. The water, albeit in smaller volumes, continues to flow, forming unstable layers of snow, slush and ice (see 2:08 when Gadd sinks his hooks into a piece of snow that simply crumbles away). It’s a feat we wouldn’t suggest trying at home. Still, for Gadd and Hueniken, being the first climbers to travel up Niagara Falls is a good way to go down in history. “There’s only one Mount Everest, there’s only one Niagara Falls and I feel really lucky because that ended a lot of hard work by a lot of people and I got to climb something to me that was really amazing and really beautiful and a whole lot of fun,” Gadd said in an interview with ABC.
In the winter, videos like the above are one of the only ways to get a sense of the falls’ majesty up close. Visitors have been banned from walking on the bridges formed by the ice since 1912; it’s illegal to climb the falls on either side of the border; and the boat tour on the New York side of the Falls, the Maid of the Mist, shuts down after October because of icy conditions, usually reopening in April or May.
SOURCE:::: http://www.bbc.com
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Picture of the Day… ” Cloud Streets in the Sea…” !!!
Ice, wind, cold temperatures and ocean waters combined to created dramatic cloud formations over the Bering Sea in late January, 2015. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the region and captured this true-color image on Jan. 23.
The frozen tundra of Russia lies in the northwest of the image, and snow-covered Alaska lies in the northeast. Sea ice extends from the land well into the Bering Sea. Over the dark water bright white clouds line in up close, parallel rows. These formations are known as “cloud streets”.
Air blowing over the cold, snowy land and then over ice becomes both cold and dry. When the air then moves over relatively warmer and much moister water and lead to the development of parallel cylinders of spinning air. On the upper edge of these cylinders of air, where the air is rising, small clouds form. Where air is descending, the skies are clear. This clear/cloudy pattern, formed in parallel rows, gives the impression of streets.
The clouds begin over the sea ice, but they primarily hang over open ocean. The streets are neat and in tight rows closest to land, while further over the Bering Sea the pattern widens and begins to become more random. The rows of clouds are also not perfectly straight, but tend to curve. The strength and direction of the wind helps create these features: where the wind is strongest, nearest to shore, the clouds line up most neatly. The clouds align with the wind direction, so the direction of the streets gives strong clues to prevailing wind direction.
Image Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
SOURCE:::: http://www.nasa.gov
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Image of the Day… View From Space…India by Night and By Day …
The night image of the Indian peninsula was taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on January 15, 2015. It shows with clarity and surprising detail the human geography of cities of different sizes, such as Kochi and Coimbatore, and the highways that connect cities. The almost unpopulated hilly escarpment, known as the southern Ghats, is a dark zone parallel to the coast. A patch of clouds are illuminated by a nearly-full moon.
The daylight photo was taken by the crew of the Gemini 11 spacecraft back in September 1966. You can see coastlines and land surface color, but no details of human geography. This classic view was taken on an early space flight at a similar altitude to that of the ISS. Patterns of bright white cloud cover much of the land surfaces of India and Sri Lanka.
Bottom line: Two astronaut photos, one from 2015 and one from 1966, show the southern peninsula of India by night and by day.
SOURCE::::: http://www.earthskynews.org
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