A Day in mY Garden

I spent almost the whole day in our garden...cleaning, planting, trimming roses and getting/cutting grasses..It was a nice weather in the morning..I just stopped till I saw that the sky was getting darker..After some minutes, the rain poured down!!


Almost all my tulips are fully bloomed now..There are some that that are still in buds.. I am very happy working in our garden again!! But it make sad, as I saw that some plants were eaten by snails..I want to buy something to stop the snails' attack in my garden..

I really hate these snails esp. when I see that my Lilies, tulips and other plants are being eaten and destroyed by them..My husband told me that they sell in the garden store Schnecke corns..It is some sort of powder or tablets you put in the soil so that the snails won't go there anymore. Hopefully when I got time tomorrow, I will drive to Toombaumarkt to buy some..


I also started packing some clothes for my US trip next week!! Lastly, I am contented that I did some stuff today in the house and garden before I leave...I still have a lot of things left undone...hope I can do 99% before I leave for vacation??

here are some photos I took today in our garden!! please visit The World Wide Web Addict and Euroangel Graffiti for more photos and updates!!

hope you have a great thursday!!

Study discovers how cancer cells spread

MONTREAL (UPI) -- Canadian scientists say they've discovered cancer cells spread by releasing protein "bubbles" -- a finding that might alter our concept of how cancer works.

The discovery was made by Dr. Janusz Rak and colleagues at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center in collaboration with Dr. Ab Guha of the University of Toronto.

The researchers found cancer cells are able to communicate with their more healthy counterparts by releasing vesicles -- bubble-like structures containing cancer-causing proteins that can trigger specific mechanisms when they merge into non- or less-malignant cells.

Rak said the finding demonstrates that cancer is a multi-cell process, where the cells "talk" to one another extensively.

"This goes against the traditional view that a single 'mutated' cell will simply multiply uncontrollably to the point of forming a tumor," said Rak. "This discovery opens exciting new research avenues, but we also hope that it will lead to positive outcomes for patients."

The study appears in the online edition of the journal Nature Cell Biology.

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Some Trivia for you!!

How long have people worn shoes?

Anthropologists believe that people have been making and wearing shoes for more than 10,000 years. The Egyptians wore sandals woven from papyrus leaves.

How did the dashbord get its name?

A car's instrument panel is called a dashboard. The term dates back to horse-and-buggy days when dashing horses kicked up mud, splashing the passengers riding behind them. The dashboard was devised to protect them.

Where is the time ball?

The official time ball for the U.S. is on top of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. As early as 1845, the U.S. Navy dropped a time ball every day at noon from atop a building on a hill overlooking Washington, D.C. People from many miles away could set their watches at noon. Ships anchored in the Potomac River could check their chronometers.

How long is a nanosecond?

A nanosecond is one billionth of a second.

How high is the criminal recividism rate?

Nearly 43 percent of convicted criminals serving prison sentences in the U.S. are re-arrested within a year of being released from prison.

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Be Careful What You Ask For!

A married couple, both 60 years old, were celebrating their 35th
anniversary.

A fairy appeared to congratulate them and grant them each one
wish.

The wife wanted to travel around the world.

The fairy waved her wand and the wife had tickets in her hand
for a world cruise.

Next, the fairy asked the husband what he wanted.

He said, "I wish I had a wife 30 years younger than me."

So, the fairy picked up her wand and obliged.



The husband was immediately 90.

Wordless Wednesday

I just miss Philippines..but instead of going home I am going instead to USA next month....
Isn't this a little paradise??? hope to be here the next possible time!! won't you believe that the place where the house stands now is also water!!! great!!

Wish everyone a great Wednesday!!! God bless us all!!

What Are Spam Blogs?

I searched and found this topic in Google help page very useful and interesting..I am sharing this to fellow bloggers for your infos. I hope that you got some ideas about it..Some bloggers like me may not be aware of this..At least now, I already have some more ideas what really blogging is...Thanks to Google for this very good information...I hope I can explain to you next time why I am doing this research.

Before I forget, I am really very busy the past days!! I hope that I can visit all of you as soon as possible when time permits..I really appreciate all your visits here..Thank you very much!!! Everything is greatly appreciated!!

What Are Spam Blogs?

As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.

Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one. They can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that interest you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people's writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated system is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other, legitimate users.

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Changing jet streams may alter storm paths

STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say changes in the Earth's jet streams, possibly caused by global warming, might affect storm paths and intensity, including hurricanes.

Jet streams -- high-altitude bands of fast-moving winds -- are shifting, said Carnegie Institution researchers Ken Caldeira and Cristina Archer. They found that from 1979 to 2001, the jet streams in both hemispheres rose in altitude and shifted toward the poles. At the same time, northern hemisphere jet streams weakened.

Since jet streams are the driving factor for weather conditions, said Archer, changes in the jets have the potential to affect large populations and major climate systems.

Caldeira and Archer, from Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, Calif., said hurricanes' development tends to be inhibited by jet streams. Therefore hurricanes might become more powerful and more frequent as the jet streams move away from sub-tropical zones where hurricanes are born.

The scientists said the changes fit the predictions of several global warming models, although theirs is the first study to use observation-based datasets to examine trends in all the jet stream parameters.

The research appears in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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