Coal tornado in McDowell county wv

yikes!   The air dust ratio can be come explosive!

Tír na nÓg

The Gaelic name for Ireland that translates into English as the Land of the Eternal Youth or the Land of the Ever-Young.


Irish eyes are smiling.

some facts about sleep

British Ministry of Defence researchers have been able to reset soldiers' body clocks so they can go without sleep for up to 36 hrs. Tiny optical fibres embedded in special spectacles project a ring of bright white light (with a spectrum identical to a sunrise) around the edge of soldiers' retinas, fooling them into thinking they have just woken up. The system was first used on US pilots during the bombing of Kosovo.

The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, the Challenger space shuttle disaster and the Chernobyl nuclear accident have all been attributed to human errors in which sleep-deprivation played a role.

To drop off we must cool off; body temperature and the brain's sleep-wake cycle are closely linked. That's why hot summer nights can cause a restless sleep. The blood flow mechanism that transfers core body heat to the skin works best between 18 and 30 degrees. But later in life, the comfort zone shrinks to between 23 and 25 degrees - one reason why older people have more sleep disorders.

Thought for the day

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Benjamin Franklin

A warm notion

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."


Mother Teresa

Irish Pessimism

"There’s nothing so bad that it couldn’t be worse."

Tornado facts

In the USA, April has the most tornados with over a thousand events. July is the month in the year with the least and averages only 70 plus events