Fly Geyser

Fly Geyser is a small geothermal geyser that is located approximately 20 miles (32 km) north of Gerlach, in Washoe County, Nevada. The Geyser is located in Hualapai Flat less than a mile from State Route 34. The Geyser is about 1/3 miles from the road and is large enough to be seen from the road.

Fly Geyser is located on the private Fly Ranch and is accessible only by a small private dirt road. The ranch is currently owned by Todd Jaksick. There is a high fence and a locked gate with several metal spokes on the top to keep trespassers out, but despite the booby traps, many people still prefer to jump the fence to get a better look. Several organizations have tried to purchase the land for conservation, and make it open to the public, but have been denied.

Fly Geyser is a very little known tourist attraction, even to Nevada residents. It is located right near the edge of Fly Reservoir and is only about 5 feet (1.5 m) high, (12 feet (3.7 m) if you count the mound on which it sits). The Geyser is not an entirely natural phenomenon, and was accidentally created in 1916 during the drilling of a well. The well functioned normally for several decades, but then in the 1960s geothermally heated water found a weak spot in the wall and began escaping to the surface. Dissolved minerals started rising and piling up, creating the mount on which the geyser sits, which is still growing to date. Today, water is constantly squirting out reaching 5 feet (1.5 m) in the air. The geyser contains several terraces discharging water into 30 to 40 pools over an area of 30 hectares (74 acres). The geyser is made up of a series of different minerals, including sulfur dioxide, which gives it its magnificent coloration.

There are two additional geysers in the area that were created in a similar way as Fly Geyser. The first geyser is approximately 3 feet high and is shaped like a miniature volcano. The second geyser is cone shaped and is of the same approximate size as Fly Geyser. Like Fly Geyser, these geysers are continually growing.

Steamed Orange Recipe for Cough

Cut off a little shelf of top

This method had been tested by many people. One of the best methods to stop cough.

Cut off the top part of the orange, put some salt into the orange, and put back the top part. Steam it 10 minutes and eat all the fresh including the juice at the bottom of the bowl. Taste not very nice but cures your prolonged cough in days.

Add ¦ teaspoon of salt

Place in a bowl and steam it 20 minute

Finish it

William Trubridge Breaks Own Freediving World Record

Freediver William Trubridge has set a after 95M new world record by diving 100m (328ft) below sea level on a single breath of air.

What makes him different to other divers who've reached 100m is that he did it using only his hands and feet to propel him down and up.

The record was set on Sunday in the Bahamas when William dived into Dean's Blue Hole on Long Island following his glow-in-the-dark descent line.

It took two attempts to secure the record (his 13th) and the 30-year-old attributes his success to using yoga techniques… and having a particularly heavy head.

Speaking of the dive Trubridge said: "It was one of the hardest dives I've done, in less than perfect conditions, but the hectometer has officially fallen.

"It has been a long road to this magical depth, and I could not have done it without the support of an incredible team."

The first person to reach 100m (also known as one hectometer) was Jacques Mayol in 1980 - but he did it with a weighted sled to descend and an inflated lift bag to get back up faster.

William Trubridge (born on May 24, 1980) is a New Zealand free-diver and a world record holder. Trubridge currently holds the world record in Constant Weight without fins discipline.

On 10 April 2009 during the Vertical Blue 2009 free-diving competition, Trubridge set the Constant Weight without fins world record with a depth of 88 m (288.71 ft) and a dive time of 3:30, breaking his previous record of 86 m (282.15 ft) set on the 10 April 2008. He broke his own record again on 3 December 2009 with a depth of 90 m (300 ft). On the 26 April 2010 he again broke his own record diving to 95 m in the Constant Weight without fins discipline. He bested this again on 14 December 2010, becoming the first person to reach 100m unassisted diving at Dean's Blue Hole on Long Island in the Bahamas, where he teaches free-diving from November to May.

He previously held the world record in Free Immersion discipline with a depth of 108 m (354.33 ft) and a dive time of 3:51. Herbert Nitsch broke this record at Vertical Blue 2009

Chinese Artist Paints on Water

Zhu Shenghi, a talented artist from Xi’an, China’s Shaanxi Province, has developed a unique way of painting on water.

While we can all take a brush and start stroking away on water, results won’t be nearly as spectacular as what Zhu Shenghi can do. Using a fine tool and naphta, he paints all kinds of detailed shapes on the surface of the water, but water isn’t actually the real canvas. After he’s finished the design, Zhu places a piece of paper that absorbs the paint from the surface of the water, thus becoming a regular painting without having been touched by any painting utensils.

UPDATE: Seeing the photos for the first time, I thought Zhu Shenghi’s art was unique, but it’s apparently been around since the 15th century, and used in East Asia and the Islamic World. It might not be as modern as other painting techniques, but it’s still pretty fascinating.

Kittiwat Unarrom : Bread Body Parts On Thai Bakery

Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom (whose family also runs a bakery) has used dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts.

Kittiwat Unarrom has a master's degree in fine arts and creates bruised and battered heads, feet and other internal organs at a bread shop in Thailand.

He started using his skills and made sculptures out of bread. This came naturally to him. The bread is made out of dough, raisins, cashews and chocolate. He just adds his own touch to the finished product.

Sold at his family's bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand, he displays the parts wrapped like food in plastic and hung from meat hooks. Apparently, the art is in fact edible and tastes like regular bread.

Tumour Girl Ball Sized Removed

A desperate African schoolgirl has been saved by kind-hearted doctors after they removed a RUGBY BALL sized tumour – which covered more than half her face, it emerged yesterday.

Grateful Regina Addae, 13, was born with a normal face but at two weeks old her parents noticed a swelling on her left cheek which ”grew and grew and grew”.

The huge tumour – which weighed 1.5lbs – hung over her left eye, causing it to weep at least 50ml of blood every day – leaving the teen dangerously anaemic.

If left untreated, Regina would have slowly died of suffocation from the tumour as it compressed her airways in her nose and mouth.

Regina was also dangerously close to death as the growth compressed her brain – and would have eroded one of the main arteries, killing her instantly.

Her parents desperately searched for treatment from when she was three years old – but were repeatedly turned down as the operation was too high risk and costly.

But this year, well-wishers finally managed to raise the £30,000 needed for the operation and found a consultant surgeon willing to undertake the delicate procedure for free.

A dedicated team of surgeons and consultants undertook the delicate 10 hour operation on November 5 at The London Hospital in Whitechapel – removing the tumour in six fist-sized lumps.

Maxillofacial Surgeon Abigail Boys, 29, of Barts and The London NHS Trust and the Willing and Abel charity said the operation had saved the life of the keen schoolgirl.

She said: ”People would stop and stare at her and treat her as if she was less than human. Some thought it was a curse from the devil.

”It would have been fatal if she hadn’t had it treated. She was losing blood every single day from her eye and that could have slowly killed her.

”The tumour was growing into her brain and it would have killed her when it eroded her internal carotid artery, which is one of the main arteries in the brain.

”It would have been very sudden.

”It has been amazing to watch her throughout this whole process, she is such a strong character who knows exactly what she wants.

”Regina will never have a perfect face but this operation has meant that she will have life, which is incredible.”

For Regina and her parents, gold miner Stephen, 43 and full-time mother-of-four Kate, 40, the operation was a moment they had been waiting for for more than ten years.

The family had been ostracised from their impoverished town of Prestea, in Western Ghana, where locals believed the tumour showed Regina was possessed by the devil.

Regina was first spotted by British nurse Kirstie Randall, who was abroad a medical ship on the coast of Ghana in 2004 and vowed to help the keen schoolgirl.

She spent six years raising funds and enlisted the help of Maxillofacial Surgeon Abigail Boys, 29, of Barts and The London NHS Trust, who contacted Professor Iain Hutchinson, 62.

The kind-hearted Consultant Surgeon – who has worked for Barts and The London NHS Trust for 21 years – agreed to undertake the £30,000 procedure for free.

He said: ”I had sleepless nights before the operation and was anxious. I wanted everything to be perfect before we started.

When Regina came to the UK I couldn’t guarantee that I would be able to do the operation. The tumour was actually six lumps which were interconnecting.

”It was going to be a very difficult operation because of the potential for blood loss and because of the closeness to the facial nerve which moves the skin and muscle.

”There was already a distortion to the facial bones and it was intimately wrapped around the optic nerve.

”The tumour totalled one-and-half pounds when it we removed it, which may not sound like a lot but is a huge weight to add to the face.

Stephen and Regina – who feature in an Oblong Films documentary aired on the BBC tonight – will return to Ghana to unveil her new face to her family on December 13.

The full results will not be seen for another six months, as the swelling and bruising decreases.

Her lips, nose and eyelids are finally in the correct position and her life is no longer threatened by the growth – which she asked to take home with her after the operation.

Professor Hutchinson, who works with charity Saving Face, added: ”I feel really delighted with the results, which is a rarity for me.

”It was a terrifying experience for her and caused her undoubted pain but her face will get better and better over the next six months.”

A spokeswoman for Barts and The London NHS Trust said she was ”delighted” surgeons had been able to give Regina the life she deserved.

She said: ”The maxillofacial surgeons at Barts and The London NHS Trust have earned an international reputation for achieving extraordinary results, rebuilding patients’ lives in so many ways.

”Regina is a lovely girl, and to give her the opportunities every 13-year-old should have was a pleasure.

We wish her and her family the very best for the future.”

Regina’s incredible story will feature on the Inside Out programme on BBC London at 7.30 tonight.