The amazing nature

The underwater forest of Lake Kaindy.

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Kaindy Lake is a 400 meter long lake in Kazakhstan’s portion of the Tian Shan Mountains located 129 km from the city of Almaty.

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Volcanic lightning aka “dirty thunderstorms.”

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A dirty thunderstorm is a weather phenomenon that occurs when lightning is produced in a volcanic plume.

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Frozen air bubbles in Abraham Lake.

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Abraham Lake is an artificial lake on North Saskatchewan River in western Alberta, Canada. The plants on the lake bed release methane gas and methane gets frozen once coming close enough to much colder lake surface and they keep stacking up below once the weather gets colder and colder during [the] winter season.

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Giant clouds over Beijing.

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According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, it was just a giant cumulonimbus cloud, and its unusual shape was formed due to the fact that the cloud initially developed vertically, but after meeting with warmer layers of air began to grow horizontally.

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Underground natural springs in Mexico.

Ik-Kil Cenote, Chichen Itza: A cenote is a natural deposit of spring water found underground.

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Giant crystal cave in Nacia, Mexico.

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The cave is 950 feet (290 meters) underground. The Naica mining complex, which yields lead, zinc, copper, silver, and gold, zigzags nearly half a mile underground (760 meters).

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Shimmering shores of Vaadhoo, Maldives.

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Bioluminescence causes the shoreline to glow at night. This occurs when a micro-organism in the water is disturbed by oxygen. Avatar, much?

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Reflective salt flats in Bolivia.

Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat at 4,086 sq mi. This is not water, the ground is covered in a layer of salt crust so reflective, it perfectly mirrors the sky.

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Light pillars over Moscow.

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A light pillar is a visual phenomenon created by the reflection of light from ice crystals with near horizontal parallel planar surfaces.

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Natural salt water fountain off the coast of Oregon.

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The Spouting Horn at Cook’s Chasm and the Thor’s Well are both a salt water fountain driven by the power of the ocean tide.

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Beautiful sandstone formations in Arizona.

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The Wave is a sandstone formation on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, located in northern portion of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Rainbow Eucalyptus trees in Kailua, Hawaii.

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The multi-coloured streaks on its trunk comes from patches of outer bark that are shed annually at different times, showing the bright-green inner bark.

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Spiderweb cocooned trees in Pakistan.

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An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in ghostly spiders webs.

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The Blood Falls in Antartica.

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Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of the Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney.

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Fatal Close Encounters

On Sunday night's program, George Knapp was joined by ufologist Nick Redfern , who discussed a wide range of UFO cases rife with unsettling examples of suspicious deaths - accounts of accidents that might not have been accidents, researchers and witnesses who have vanished, conveniently timed heart attacks, as well as out-of-the-blue suicides that bear the distinct hallmarks of murder. He observed that these mysterious deaths seem to happen on "limited occasions" when someone "knows too much" about the phenomenon and their knowledge is deemed a threat to maintaining UFO secrecy. To that end, he stressed that these murders are likely not the work of the government, per se, but rather a multinational "shadow group" that usurped control of UFO information long ago. 

Over the course of his appearance, Redfern detailed numerous instances of uncanny deaths befalling UFO researchers and witnesses that got too close to the truth. One particularly chilling case was of a woman named Miriam Bush, who claimed to have seen alien bodies while working under the chief medical officer at the Roswell Air Force Base at the time of the infamous UFO incident of July 1947. Although she confided this information to her family soon after the incident, it wasn't until the late 1980's that her story became known to the UFO research community. Eerily, despite her name being kept secret from the public, Bush was found dead in a hotel room within weeks of her remarkable Roswell insights being alluded to by a UFO researcher during an interview. 

Redfern also reflected on the strange demise of James Forrestal, who served as the first US Secretary of Defense in 1947. According to UFO lore, Forrestal was purportedly briefed on the phenomenon upon his appointment and subsequently suffered a psychological collapse due to the nature of what was revealed as well as his duty to keep it a secret. In 1949, Redfern said, Forrestal was committed to a hospital due to a mental breakdown. Although he seemed to make a full recovery and was poised to return home, Forrestal allegedly attempted to commit suicide and fell to his death from a hospital window despite being only hours away from his scheduled release. 

Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - HD (Official)

Streamed live on Feb 4, 2014

Is creation a viable model of origins in today's modern, scientific era? Leading creation apologist and bestselling Christian author Ken Ham is joined at the Creation Museum by Emmy Award-winning science educator and CEO of the Planetary Society Bill Nye. To see Bill Nye's arguments debunked visithttp://debatelive.org .

'Transformers' unearths $100M debut at box office

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Transformers: Age of Extinction" is ruling the box office.

The fourth installment in filmmaker Michael Bay's morphing robots series earned $100 million in North America during its opening weekend, making it the biggest debut for a movie this year, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Paramount blockbuster outperformed "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and its $95 million inauguration in April.

"Age of Extinction" also earned $201.3 million from 37 international territories, specifically making $90 million in China, where it was partially filmed and co-produced by partners like the state-owned China Film Group and the China Movie Channel.

"With almost half of the international total coming from China, it shows how important that marketplace is to the worldwide box office," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. "This film has really capitalized on all fronts."

"Age of Extinction" stars Mark Wahlberg and Nicola Peltz as a human father-daughter duo who aid the shape-shifting robots from the Hasbro toy franchise. Besides the addition of a new human crew, the sequel also introduces the popular Transformers characters based on the likenesses of dinosaurs.

"I think putting Mark Wahlberg front and center accomplished what we wanted to do, and that's re-energize the franchise," Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said. "He appeals to audiences, both critically and as an action star."

"Age of Extinction" topped the previous entry in the series, "Dark of the Moon," which took in $97.9 million during its opening weekend in 2011, but failed to eclipse the $108.9 million debut of the second film, "Revenge of the Fallen."

The first three "Transformers" films starred Shia LaBeouf as a teenager who befriends hulking alien robots Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen) and Bumblebee. The original 2007 film made $70.5 million and went on to domestically gross $319.2 million.

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"Age of Extinction" was distantly followed at the North American box office by a trio of sophomore efforts: "22 Jump Street" in second place with $15.4 million; "How To Train Your Dragon 2" in third place with $13.1 million; and "Think Like a Man Too" in fourth place with $10.4 million.

"The 'Transformers' movies are known for being released around the Fourth of July, so this really ensures the film will have a strong second weekend," said Dergarabedian. "The only movie opening ahead of next weekend in wide release is the Melissa McCarthy comedy 'Tammy' and that will be counterprogramming to 'Transformers.'"

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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.

1. "Transformers: Age Of Extinction," $100 million ($201.3 million international).

2. "22 Jump Street," $15.4 million ($9.6 million international).

3. "How To Train Your Dragon 2," $13.1 million ($17.9 million).

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4. "Think Like a Man Too," $10.4 million.

5. "Maleficent," $8.2 million ($16 million international).

6. "Jersey Boys," $7.6 million ($11 million international).

7. "Edge of Tomorrow," $5.2 million ($6.9 million international).

8. "The Fault in Our Stars," $4.8 million ($13 million international).

9. "X-Men: Days of Future Past," $3.3 million ($6.2 million international).

10. "Chef," $1.6 million.

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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada), according to Rentrak:

1. "Transformers: Age Of Extinction," $201.3 million.

2. "The Break-Up Guru," $20. 5 million.

3. "How To Train Your Dragon 2," $17.9 million.

4. "Maleficent," $16 million.

5. "The Fault in Our Stars," $13 million.

6. "22 Jump Street," $9.6 million.

7. "Mrs. Brown's Boys," $7.8 million.

8. "Edge of Tomorrow," $6.9 million.

9. "Blended," $6.4 million.

10. "X-Men: Days of Future Past," $6.2 million.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC

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Top 10 Hints to improve visiting to your webpage

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Submit your site.

After you publish, make sure search engines know you're ready for visitors.

Submitting your site puts your business in the running for a place in their search results (though not even we can guarantee if or where your site will appear).
Don't wait! Search engine indexing can take weeks, sometimes longer, so go ahead and publish and submit your site, even if you've got some polishing to do.
We've made submission easy — in fact, if you build your site with Site Solution, we'll submit you to Yahoo, Google, MSN, and Ask automatically when you publish. If you're using another site building tool, you can easily submit yourself: If your site is published, you'll see a "submit" link both at the top of this page and in the Site Traffic module of your Home tab. You can resubmit every 48 hours

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Eliminate orphan pages.

Make sure your web pages are linked together.

Search engines review your site by following links from your home page, through all of your subpages — and they may miss orphan pages, or pages that are not connected to your home page in some way.
If you use Site Solution to build your site, and haven't uploaded other pages on your own, you're all set. If you're using another tool, just make sure visitors can reach all of your pages by clicking links in your home or subpages. And don't forget to test your links — if they're broken, neither search engines nor visitors will arrive at their destinations.

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Use meaningful titles.

Help search engines — and visitors — understand the purpose of each page.

Title tags appear at the top of the browser when a web page is viewed, and in a visitor's bookmarks menu, if the page is saved to bookmarks or favorites. Search engines also use titles to index web sites, and often display them in search engine results.
Site Solution will create title tags for you automatically, based on your business name and the page title (which you can edit anytime). If you're using another site building tool, you can add title tags yourself.

No matter what your business, give some thought to choosing a concise,descriptive title for each page of your web site, making sure it includes one or two keywords from that page. See more tips on writing titles.

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Add keywords.

Keywords won't make or break your search engine ranking, but they can help your site stand out.

Your visitors won't see your keywords, but search engines sometimes use keywords to understand the relevance of your site to particular searches.
Pick keywords you expect potential customers would enter in a search engine to find you. Be specific. Your keywords should also appear in the text on your page.See tips on choosing keywords.
Site Solution will create keywords for you automatically, including simple information like your address and product names, but no matter which tool you're using, we recommend that you devise and add your own keywords (and be sure to update your keywords as your page content changes.).
Learn how to add keywords.

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Refine your keywords.

Search terms change, and so should your keywords. Once you've added keywords, review and test their effectiveness regularly.

You can see how your site ranks in search engine results for particular keywords with the Search Engine Ranking tool on the Home tab. You can also use Site Statistics to better understand keywords your visitors have used to find you.
Add variations of your successful keywords (including common misspellings), names of popular products you sell, and professional specialties. For more ideas,check your competitors' web sites — which keywords do they use? See more tips.

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Write clear page descriptions.

Your description summarizes your page content and may encourage clicks in search results.

Some search engines use your description to help categorize your page, but more important, your home page description may appear in search results. A clear and persuasive description may not boost your search engine ranking, but it can encourage prospective customers who do see your site in search results to visit your site.
Focus on writing a clear, concise summary of the page, including a couple of keywords from that page, if you can. What do you want potential visitors to know?See tips on writing descriptions.
Site Solution will automatically create page descriptions, which you can easily editto make your own. If you're using another site building tool, you can add descriptions yourself. Learn how.

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Add alt text.

Let search engines "read" your images.

Alt text is descriptive text that appears when you hold your mouse over an image in a web page (or when the image does not appear). Alt text is important for web site visitors with visual or audio impairments who might use special readers to explore your site.
Also important, search engines can't see your images, so they'll read your image alt text instead. Keywords and other relevant information in your alt text can impact the search engine's evaluation of your site for search results.
An image's alt text should be short and accurately describe the image. Try to include important keywords, when possible. If your image shows a Macintosh computer, for instance, your alt text might read "MacBook Pro."
And take care not to repeat the same alt text for every image on your page. Search engines and impaired users will read the images as if they are text. A gallery of different computers that all read "computer, computer, computer, computer" won't mean much to search engines or visitors using special readers
Both Site Solution and SiteBuilder make it easy to add alt text for your images.

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Use captions.

Make sure search engines understand the importance of your images.

Search engines love quality content, and your captions are no exception. Writing captions for your images is not only a great way to educate and engage your visitors but also an opportunity to incorporate valuable content into your site.
Your caption should describe the image and, if possible, the benefit of the image's subject, but you can also appeal to search engines by incorporating some of your page keywords into the text. Instead of just "green jacket," for example, try something both value-oriented and more specific: "Our green Gore-Tex jacket will keep you dry in any season." Try to use words your customers are likely to enter in their searches.

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Use a Sitemap.

Provide a Sitemap to help search engines read your site.

A Sitemap is a simple data file that provides information about your site to search engines. A Sitemap is invisible to your site visitors but can help search engines do a better job of reviewing your site — which in turn can improve your chances of appearing in search results.
If you're using Site Solution, we'll create and update a Sitemap for you, but with a little effort, you can create your own Sitemap using any tool you like. Learn how to create your own Sitemap.

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Link to other high-quality sites.

Well-crafted, relevant links to great sites can impress both your visitors and the search engines.

Link to other web sites? Won't linking out make me lose business?
You can improve your visitors' experience and your own credibility by adding carefully chosen links from your pages to complementary content on other high-quality web sites. The more relevant and specific your links, the more relevant and valuable your own site will seem, and the more likely your visitors will be to return.
Hint: Including pertinent keywords in the link itself can not only help your reader decide if the link is worth clicking; it may also help influence your rank for those keywords in search results.

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Sign up for a search engine optimization service.

Bring in the professionals for custom tuning.

We recommend lots of techniques that are great for every business, but nothing beats custom attention. No one can guarantee your site's placement in search results, but if search engines are a major part of your marketing plan, consider hiring a professional search engine optimization (SEO) service, which can analyze your business and web site and help you fine-tune your search engine strategy.
SEO services can help you with everything from editing your content and picking meta tags to redesigning your home page. See SEO services in the Yahoo Directory.

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Top 10 best chess engine:Updated after Season 6 - Superfinal (30.05.2014)

Updated after Season 6 - Superfinal (30.05.2014) # PLAYER : RATING POINTS PLAYED (%) 1 Stockfish : 3168 232.0 384 60.4% 2 Komodo : 3151 198.0 339 58.4% 3 Houdini : 3145 162.5 274 59.3% 4 Vitruvius : 3098 21.5 34 63.2% 5 Bouquet : 3077 39.5 72 54.9% 6 Rybka : 3072 83.5 149 56.0% 7 Fire : 3067 31.5 54 58.3% 8 Hiarcs : 3044 42.5 77 55.2% 9 Gull : 3033 75.5 147 51.4% 10 Critter : 3030 78.0 163 47.9% 11 Naum : 3001 48.0 98 49.0% 12 Chiron : 2955 24.5 50 49.0% 13 Equinox : 2954 27.5 50 55.0% 14 Hannibal : 2924 25.0 50 50.0% 15 Junior : 2921 40.5 90 45.0% 16 Texel : 2916 17.0 33 51.5% 17 Quazar : 2914 13.0 33 39.4% 18 Protector : 2914 16.0 32 50.0% 19 Shredder : 2889 38.5 99 38.9% 20 Spike : 2876 31.5 72 43.8% 21 Jonny : 2859 17.5 36 48.6% 22 Nightmare : 2808 6.0 11 54.5% 23 Cheng4 : 2779 5.0 10 50.0% 24 Tornado : 2778 14.0 36 38.9% 25 Scorpio : 2754 15.0 39 38.5% 26 Onno : 2752 12.5 35 35.7% 27 Spark : 2749 12.5 34 36.8% 28 Sjeng : 2709 3.5 7 50.0% 29 Toga II : 2699 11.5 36 31.9% 30 Gaviota : 2691 11.5 37 31.1% 31 Exchess : 2670 13.0 42 31.0% 32 Nemo : 2663 3.5 7 50.0% 33 The Baron : 2638 10.5 25 42.0% 34 Minkochess : 2613 6.5 13 50.0% 35 Dirty : 2549 2.5 7 35.7% 36 Hamsters : 2544 2.5 6 41.7% 37 Arasan : 2525 6.5 22 29.5% 38 Octochess : 2497 7.0 24 29.2% 39 Crafty : 2466 5.5 22 25.0% 40 Arminius : 2454 4.5 18 25.0% 41 Alfil : 2447 3.5 17 20.6% 42 Danasah : 2433 3.0 7 42.9% 43 Delphil : 2379 3.0 17 17.6% 44 Rodent : 2366 2.0 7 28.6% 45 Nebula : 2318 5.0 23 21.7% 46 Jazz : 2279 1.0 11 9.1% 47 Redqueen : 2263 3.5 22 15.9% 48 Prodeo : 2168 1.0 7 14.3%