Inflatable street art comes alive from subway exhaust system

Using only tape and garbage bags, Joshua Allen Harris creates giant inflatable animals that become animated when fastened to a sidewalk grate.  Steven Psyllos caught up with Harris recently to discuss his older works (including a bear and a giraffe) and unveil a new beast that looks not unlike the Cloverfield monster.

Woman’s own stem cells produce new body part

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A young mother has become the first in the world to get a new part of her body made from her own stem cells.  The woman in Spain received a new windpipe — grown in a lab.  British doctors who were involved in the revolutionary transplant say it heralds a new era in medicine…Health Correspondent Thomas Moore explains.

 

 

 

 

 

NYPD testing “rumble” sirens

“Police forces in the US are piloting a new kind of police car. Not only does it make a sound and flash its lights when speeding to an emergency it also rumbles, shaking the ground up to 200 feet away giving pedestrians and other drivers advance notice to MOVE!!! The technology is currently being tested in New York.”

Vacation under the sea in this 5-star underwater seafloor resort

The Poseidon Resort in Fiji (opening in early 2010) has underwater suites and island villas.

To get information on their beach bungalows, the underwater library, the wedding chapel, the restaurants, and more visit: Poseidon Resort

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[video] “Great Depression” cooking with Clara Cannucciari

What a lovable, charismatic woman!  Here’s her first video.

91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression.

Clara Cannucciari is a 94 year-old internet sensation. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Claras Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up Americas spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a pull yourself up by your bootstraps philosophy of living. In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives readers practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons she learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Claras Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyones favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows whats really important in life.

Website:

http://www.GreatDepressionCooking.com

African pastor, dead in mortuary for three days, returns to tell his experience

The videos of the account of Pastor Daniel Ekechukwu’s resurrection are hard to understand in places.  For more information, see the link at the bottom of this post.

Nigerian pastor Daniel Ekechukwu physically died in the late evening of Friday, November 30th, 2001, was dead for at least 42 hours, visited heaven and hell during the time of his physical death, and was raised from the dead between 3:50 P.M. and 5:15 P.M. on Sunday, December 2nd, 2001 in the basement of the Grace of God Mission, located in Onitsha, Nigeria.

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Part 1 – Introduction of the events preceding his death.

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Part 2 – Angelic encounter in the ambulance where they take him to heaven and explain the differences between the gathering of the angels vs the gathering of the saints.

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Part 3 – Description of the heavenly mansions and singing flowers.  Then an angel takes Daniel to hell where he describes the experience…the angel explains the reason why the pastor encounters a soul who practiced witchcraft (Rev 21:8).

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Part 4 –  The angel explains to Daniel why if the book of life was closed, hell would be Daniel’s portion.  Powerful message about reaping the harvest of unforgiveness and Daniel’s insatiable desire for revenge…

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Part 5 – Daniel’s experience about coming back to his body, which was lying in the mortuary for three days.

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Much more information about this story can be found here.

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A Point to Ponder:

1) I was thinking about the number of views this video received so far: Views: 22,271.  Compare that to Susan Boyle: Views: 78,717,532.  Just thought I’d throw that in.

2) Regarding salvation–if everyone is going to heaven, why did Jesus have to die?

[video] YouTube advertisement has surprising end

What a powerful visual hook!  I’d like to add more but it would spoil the ending…I’ll bet you can’t tell what this captivating commercial is for.

If that’s not enough, look at the jpg ad on their website.

Well?  What are your thoughts about the video and image?  Were you surprised?

Shark performs caesarean section

Visitors to a New Zealand oceanarium watched in astonishment when one shark tore a chunk out of another’s stomach.  But they were even more astonished when four baby sharks tumbled out of the gaping wound.

Staff at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World, in Auckland, had no idea the shark was pregnant until visitors came running to tell them about the impromptu caesarean section.  Initially skeptical, they found the mother with a large cut and four little sharks swimming around.

The oceanarium’s aquarist, Fiona Davies, said it was not uncommon for sharks to chomp on each other, even in the wild.  But she had never heard of an incident like this.

The relationship of the other shark to the mother was unknown, but Davies praised its actions, saying the unusual deliver had probably saved the babies’ lives.

Four more babies were found inside the female when mother and young were removed to a nursery tank.  The eight young sharks are now on show and will eventually be released into the wild.

The Independent

 

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[video] People and trains get trapped in tornados

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Watch this incredible video of a freight train as it travels through a tornado and then derails at the 1:14 mark!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=82d_1246651100

Watch the tornado pass right over the storm chaser’s car at the 1:40 mark.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a64_1255282624

The June 17, 2009 tornado intensified right on top of the TornadoVideos.net SRV Dominator, and the window was blown out as an intense mini suction vortex passed over the vehicle.  A 138.8 mph wind gust was measured by the roof anemometer as the window blows out.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=060_1248225261

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[audio/video] Strange calls and other 911-related tidbits

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Audio of people calling 911 regarding:

• a woman wants to know a quiet place to sit
• a woman wants to know if its safe to put a turkey at 200 degrees
• a man needs someone to get ice off his windshield
• a funny police chase
• a woman is watching a movie of a guy beating someone with a bat
• a ‘rude’ woman won’t get a dollar refund for her taco

George Clooney’s motorcycle accident 911 call.

911 caller arrested for wanting to know the names of police officers because they were cute.

Emergency calls from a hospital about Edith Rodriguez, the woman who died from being overlooked in emergency room (I remember seeing this on the news but never heard the 911 tapes).

• from an onlooker
• from the woman’s husband
• from the news cast

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A Dispatcher’s Plea: “No, I Am Not 911!”

No, I am not 911!

I am a public safety dispatcher who fields emergency and non-emergency calls from the public. I dispatch law enforcement, fire or emergency medical help, and coordinate the activity of field units by radio. I also handle many other duties to assist the public and members of the public safety agencies for whom I work.

“911″ is the telephone number that you dial when you have a life-threatening emergency, and you need help quickly. The number was selected to allow quick dialing and direct routing to the nearest public safety communications center. It’s maintained by the local telephone company and consists of computers and switching gear to accept your call, route it to my communications center and, in most cases, display your address and telephone number.

I am a person. 911 is equipment. Please don’t use the term “911″ when you intend to refer to me. No one likes to be referred to as a piece of equipment. For example, don’t say, “I talked to 911 and they said….” Instead, say that you, “dialed 911 and talked to the dispatcher.” That makes me feel more like a valuable person.

And please don’t use “911″ to encompass everything that I do. Handling 911 calls is a critical part of my job, but it’s just one small portion of the many tasks that I perform.

The majority of the calls I handle are non-emergencies. People call with parking problems, barking dogs, questions about the law, and just advice on how to handle an everyday life situation. I help track all the activity performed by the officers, deputies, firefighters and EMS personnel by writing logs or entering information into computers. I make telephone calls for tow trucks, taxis and assistance from alarm companies. I coordinate responses when our jurisdiction needs help from other agencies, including the state police, county sheriff, transit and university police, the FBI or Coast Guard. At some agencies, I may also greet visitors at the police department’s front counter, or assist in booking prisoners into the jail.

As you can tell, there are literally scores of tasks that a public safety dispatcher performs. It’s not all “911.”

So, call 911 if you have an emergency. But please don’t call me “911.” I’m a public safety dispatcher.

Thank you.

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Footage of a collapsing roller coaster.

 

 

[video] Super spiderweb!

OMG — If you suffer from arachnophobia, do NOT watch this video!

This CBS YouTube video is dated November 9, 2007 and reveals the largest spiderweb in the world in Lake Tawakoni State Park in Texas.  Thousands of spiders working together to make the worlds largest spiderweb.

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Has anyone seen this web?

My first photo inclusion!

I’m feeling kind of good!  I received an email from the Schmap Niagara Falls Guide–my photo is in their online and mobile guide.  I took the picture at the Buttefly Conservatory.

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Hi 1websurfer,I am delighted to let you know that one of your photos with a Creative Commons license has been selected for inclusion in the newly released ninth edition of our Schmap Niagara Falls Guide:Butterfly Conservatory
www.schmap.com/niagarafalls/sights_stamford/p=260923/i=260923_95.jpg

If you use an iPhone or iPod touch, then this same link will take you directly to your photo in the iPhone version of our guide. On a desktop computer, you can still see exactly how your photo is displayed and credited in the iPhone version of our guide at:

Butterfly Conservatory
www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=niagarafalls&sid=sights_stamford&p=260923&i=260923_95

Finally, if you have a blog, you might also like to check out the customizable widgetized version of our Schmap Niagara Falls Guide, complete with your published photo:

www.schmap.com/guidewidgets/p=88016544N00/c=SM20791419

Please enjoy the guide!

Best regards,

Emma Williams,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides
www.schmap.me/ewilliams

 

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Awesome!

Here’s my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/1websurfer/

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[video] Train’s emergency brakes saves woman’s life

A drunk woman at a Boston train station falls in front a train and survives when others at the station manage to wave down the train and it stops just before hitting her.

[video] Sometimes we forget the important things…

 

Autistic artist draws New York from memory

Stephen Wiltshire–”The Living Camera”

This astonishing 18ft drawing of the world’s most famous skyline was created by autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire after he spent just 20 minutes in a helicopter gazing at the panorama.

The unbelievably intricate picture was drawn at Brooklyn’s prestigious Pratt Institute from Stephen’s memory, with details of every building sketched in to scale.

Landmarks including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building can be seen towering above smaller buildings after just three days in his spellbinding creation.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223790/Autistic-artist-draws-18ft-picture-New-York-skyline-memory.html#ixzz0VWxlbCeq

[video] Heart-sick young man is looking for his MsDreamy

Once upon a time, a gentleman had a nightmare.  But out of this nightmare appeared the most beautiful woman he’d ever laid eyes on.  Adam Pacitti believes she’s a real person and will not stop searching until he finds her.

Click here for more info.

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Have you ever dreamed of someone and then met them in real life?

[video] A swinging heart

I’m sure someone reading this understands the following explanation…

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A 39-year-old woman with a 1-year history of Stage IV melanoma presented with progressive shortness of breath, fatigue, and edema in the legs, which had developed over the course of the previous week. At the time of the melanoma diagnosis, a mediastinal and right supraclavicular mass had been seen without identification of a primary tumor. The patient had been treated with five cycles of biochemotherapy and then with antibodies against cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4. Subsequently, the superior vena cava syndrome and tracheal compression had developed, which had required stenting. The patient had then received radiation therapy. Integrated positron-emission tomography and computed tomography continued to show active and spreading disease. The physical examination revealed hypotension, tachycardia, jugular venous distention, pulsus paradoxus, and distant heart sounds. The blood pressure was 82/64 mm Hg, and the heart rate was 110 beats per minute. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a large pericardial effusion with swinging of the heart (see video) and collapse of the right atrium (RA) and left atrium (LA) in end diastole (Panel A, arrows) and diastolic collapse of the right ventricle (RV) (Panel B, arrows), which was consistent with pericardial tamponade. Pericardiocentesis yielded 1.6 liters of bloody fluid; the fluid was subsequently shown to be a malignant effusion. Swinging of the heart that is due to a large pericardial effusion is responsible for the beat-to-beat shift in the axis, amplitude, and morphology of the QRS interval (electrical alternans) on electrocardiography. In this patient, the condition resulted in a “pseudo” 2:1 atrioventricular-block pattern, with an absent QRS interval after every other P wave (Panel A, arrowheads), despite ventricular contraction on echocardiography. Follow-up echocardiography over the next 2 days showed no reaccumulation of effusion. Paclitaxel was administered, but the patient died within 2 months after the initiation of therapy.

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[video] Weather/cloud experts–please identify

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[video] WOW–Listen to Susan Boyle’s new single “Wild Horses”

Geez, I’m weepy this morning–beauty [in all forms] brings me to tears.

Susan sings The Stones’ ‘Wild Horses’, taken from her forthcoming debut album ‘I Dreamed a Dream’.  Susan’s new album, I Dreamed A Dream, hits the shops in the UK on the 23rd Nov and the rest of the world on the 24th Nov.

 

[video] Storytelling with sand and light–the art that brought me to tears [video]

Being a writer, I’m always interested in learning new ways to tell a story.  Well, I found one called Sand Painting.  I’ve never seen anything expressed so beautifully.  Watch this woman from a show called “Ukraine has the Talent” tell an emotional story with sand and light in 10 minutes.  Even if you can’t watch the whole thing, I guarantee you’ll be awe-struck within the first mintue…

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Just had to add these two…

“You’ve got a friend”

Sand Painter – Mark Demel

I love the last image in this video…

[video] Instructional: Indian head massage

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This video instruction of how to give an Indian head massage looks sssssoooo relaxing!

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-do-an-indian-head-massage

* You will find video tutorials for face, neck, and foot massages, too!

[news] Baby falls under Melbourne train and survives

Wow–what a story.  A baby fell on to a train track in Melbourne, Australia and survived with a scratch on its head!  The engineer is being treated for shock.

See the gut-wrenching video here as broadcast by CNN!

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“Fun theory” encourages exercise and trash reduction [video]

How cool is this?

“Piano Stairs” to encourage exercise…

“Deep Garbage Bins” to encourage trash reduction…

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Brilliant!  Brilliant!

How technology is changing the future of dressing rooms, ink, paper and more [videos]

These short videos explain the direction of new technologies and how they’ll affect the following products/industries…

The future of concierges [Microsoft Surface technology]

The future of dressing rooms [Responsive Mirrors]

The future of ink [Electronic Ink]

The future of paper [Photo-Grey technology]

The future of sticky notes [Quickies - Digital pens]

and more…

“Dirty Dancing” bloopers [video]

From Dirty Dancing…

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Patrick Swayze & his wife dancing [video]

Patrick Swayze via last.fm

What a sensual and stunning performance between Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Nieme!

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Slow-motion food fight [video]

I don’t usually find food fights funny; now, all that’s changed!

I wish someone would do slow-mo videos of The Three Stooges food fights.  Now that would be funny.

Storm over Frankfurt [YouTube]

Watch this ‘too close for comfort’ encounter with lightning…

Yikes! Unilateral epistaxis [photo/video]

The things people get lodged in their bodily cavities is astounding!  Watch a video of this thing being removed…

Unilateral Epistaxis

A 44-year-old man presented with a 7-day history of epistaxis on the left side. He reported that he had washed his face in a freshwater stream 7 days before the onset of symptoms. A suspected blood clot was seen in the left middle turbinate on anterior rhinoscopy, although endoscopic examination showed that the possible clot was a living leech. After lidocaine nasal spray was applied to the left nasal cavity, the leech was retrieved with an aspirator (video). The epistaxis subsequently resolved. Although leech infestation is not a common cause of nasal bleeding, it should be considered when an exposure that is consistent with such infestation has occurred.

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Church finds winning lottery ticket in offering basket [video]

Church, Covenant Life Worship Center, gets winning lotto ticket from a member found in collections in Haslett, Michigan.

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Amazing footage of a horse crashing into a car [video]

“Tourists in the Galilee region of Israel were left shocked when they filmed a horse trying to gallop over a car…”