06/20/11 | Amazing & Funny

ARTIFICIAL RAIN ! in Dubai

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CAN YOU BELIEVE ?
IT WAS AN ARTIFICIAL RAIN !!

DONE BY THE METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT AT THE NATIONAL CENTRE OF METEOROLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY (NCMS) TO REMOVE THE AIR POLLUTION ON DUBAI'S ATMOSPHERE..

IT IS CALLED 'CLOUD SEEDING' A LATEST TECHNOLOGY TO CUSTOMISE WEATHER..CLOUD SEEDING, A FORM OF WEATHER MODIFICATION, IS THE ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE AMOUNT OR TYPE OF PRECIPITATION THAT FALLS FROM CLOUDS, BY DISPERSING SUBSTANCES INTO THE AIR THAT SERVE AS CLOUD CONDENSATION OR ICE NUCLEI. THE USUAL INTENT IS TO INCREASE PRECIPITATION, BUT HAIL SUPPRESSION IS ALSO WIDELY PRACTICED. SILVER IODIDE AND DRY ICE ARE THE MOST COMMONLY USED SUBSTANCES IN CLOUD SEEDING .

TECHNOLOGY

AN AIRCRAFT IS PUTTING DRY ICE ON CLOUDS WHICH MAKES ARTIFICIAL RAIN

MORE RAINS ARE EXPECTED ON THESE SUMMER DAYS...
HAPPY CHILLING OUT DUBAI'IANS !

birds' nests in unusual places

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A mother thrush laid five eggs in the engine of a hired minibus at Claro Barracks, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire. The Army had been renting the vehicle for 30 pounds a day and have to wait for the birds to fly the nest before they can return it; it has cost them about $1,616.81 so far.

A dove has been nicknamed Roxanne after the famous Police song after she built her nest in a red traffic light on a busy junction in Basildon, Essex

A pair of great tits and their new family have nested in a traffic cone in the grounds of Holt Hall, Norfolk...

...Chris Blake, head gardener at the field studies centre, said: "I went to move the cone before cutting the grass and when I lifted it up there were nine eggs in a nest. I went back a couple of weeks later and all of the eggs had hatched." The birds have now flown the nest.

A Little Owl sits in its nesting area in some silage bales on a farm in Winford near Bristol

Blue tits nest in an ashtray outside a cafe at Kylemore Abbey in County Galway, Ireland. The nest - complete with four little chicks - was spotted by cleaning staff. The cafe has now imposed a strict no smoking policy in the area surrounding the nest.

A family of blue tits have made their home in an ashtray at a pub. called The Cottage in Thorpe St Andrew, near Norwich. Landlord Ian Perry has now put up a notice telling customers not to stub out their cigarettes in the box.

Cigarette bins must seem very attractive to blue tits looking for somewhere to settle down. Staff at the RSPB's Vane Farm Nature Reserve by Loch Leven in Fife had set up specially-made nest boxes, but this female blue tit clearly preferred the ashtray.

A pair of great tits have made their nest in Adrian Rix's postbox on the gate of his timber yard at Tilney St Lawrence, near King's Lynn, Norfolk

Last year, a thrush set up its nest in a traffic light at a busy roundabout in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Motorist Mark Severn captured the nest on camera after spotting it as he drove past the A6 junction to Warwick

A blue tit perches on an ashtray located at Oceana Business Park in Wallsend, North Tyneside. A family of blue tits as set up their nest in the ashtray in 2010.

An Incredible Love Story

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An incredible love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world. It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half a century.

The 70-year-old Chinese man who hand-carved over 6,000 stairs up a mountain for his 80-year-old wife has passed away in the cave which has been the couple's home for the last 50 years.
Over 50 years ago, Liu Guojiang a 19 year-old boy, fell in love with a 29 year-old widowed mother named Xu Chaoqin..

In a twist worthy of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, friends and relatives criticized the relationship because of the age difference and the fact that Xu already had

At that time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an older woman.. To avoid the market gossip and the scorn of their communities, the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQing Municipality

In the beginning, life was harsh as hey had nothing, no electricity or even food. They had to eat grass and roots they found in the mountain, and Liu made a kerosene lamp that they used to light up their lives.

Xu felt that she had tied Liu down and repeatedly asked him, 'Are you regretful? Liu always replied, 'As long as we are industrious, life will improve.'
In the second year of living in the mountain, Liu began and continued for over 50 years, to hand-carve the steps so that his wife could get down the mountain easily.
Half a century later in 2001, a group of adventurers were exploring the forest and were surprised to find the elderly couple and the over 6,000 hand-carved steps. Liu MingSheng, one of their seven children said, 'My parents loved each other so much, they have lived in seclusion for over 50 years and never been apart a single day. He hand carved more than 6,000 steps over the years for my mother's convenience, although she doesn't go down the mountain that much.'

The couple had lived in peace for over 50 years until last week. Liu, now 72 years, returned from his daily farm work and collapsed. Xu sat and prayed with her husband as he passed away in her arms. So in love with Xu, was Liu, that no one was able to release the grip he had on his wife's hand even after he had passed away.

'You promised me you'll take care of me, you'll always be with me until the day I died, now you left before me, how am I going to live without you?' Xu spent days softly repeating this sentence and touching her husband's black coffin with tears rolling down her cheeks. In 2006, their story became one of the top 10 love stories from China , collected by the Chinese Women Weekly. The local government has decided to preserve the love ladder and the place they lived as a museum, so this love story can live forever.