Often surrounded by mist, the tower-like peaks of Tianzi Mountain abruptly rise up from the tree-covered ground below to create a landscape like no other. These 21 square miles of mountain landscape located inside the Wulinyuan Scenic Area amid Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in the Hunan Province of China truly represent one of the most unique formations on Earth.

It’s all too fitting that when James Cameron needed inspiration for the alien landscape of “Pandora” depicted in Avatar, he turned to Tianzi Mountain. Discover more about how it formed and why it’s so unique below.Tianzi Mountain is the product of millions of years of sedimentary rock erosion. Its ancient sandstone peaks, as old as 300 million years (sources vary), have been slowly carved out by water and wind. What’s left behind are the weathered, slender towers (some as tall as about 4,100 feet) that resemble skyscrapers more than a city landscape.

Furthermore, the erosion has created distinct, stratified layers that have developed different coloring and shape over the years of exposure to the elements. Meanwhile, younger and less eroded mountains also dot the rest of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, further contributing to the unique variety of mountain formations found here.

The Tianzi Mountains were formed from quartz sandstone of 400 million years ago through the intermittent rising of the crust for 2 million years. The geological formation belongs to the “New Cathaysian” tectonic system. About three billion ago, the place was a large patch of ocean.

Many people with lots of money have unhappy and radically imbalanced lives.

Real “success” is about continuously improving who you are, how you live, how you serve, and how you relate.

So why won’t most people be successful?

Why don’t most people evolve?

Evolution requires you to become more focused on those things that matter most. Yet, as Jim Rohn has said, “A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.”

To be successful, you can’t surround yourself with low-frequency people for long periods of time. You can’t keep eating crappy food just because your spouse or colleague is making those choices.

Your days must consistently be spent on high-quality activities.

Success requires balancing the essential (spiritual, relational, financial, physical) things in your life and removing everything else.

As your vision for yourself expands, you realize you have to make certain adjustments. You need to cut back your spending on crap and entertainment. You have to save more, and invest more in your education and future.

This isn’t about perfection. It’s definitely not about being busy all the time. Actually, true success involves what Tim Ferriss calls “mini-retirements,” or regular sabbaticals.

Every area of your life affects every other area. Hence the saying, “How you do anything is how you do everything.”This is very high-level thinking. It makes sense only for people who have removed distractions from their lives. To actually live this principle, your daily life can only be filled with those things you value deeply.

When your days are filled with only those essentials that mean the world to you – and you’re succeeding in those areas – you dominate in all areas of your life. You are living intentionally and congruently. You have momentum and balance. You’re being who you truly want to be, every day.

To do this not only takes time, but practice.

Saying “No” to great but irrelevant opportunities is hard.

Giving up bad habits is hard.

Changing your belief system and expanding your vision takes courage. It’s so easy to revert back to small and mediocre thinking.

However, as you come closer to living your ideals, amazing things start to happen. You feel happier and more present with those you love. You make better use of your time. You pursue bigger dreams and ambitions, and become more resilient during challenges.

As Jim Rohn alluded to, most people get caught in the thick of thin things. This makes it hard for them to evolve, and that means they don’t reach success.

But you will. You know it, and you can feel it. You’ve already begun. And every day, you’re taking one step closer.

Soon enough, you’ll fully commit to being who you know you can be. Once you pass that point of no return, nothing will stop you.

Do you know there’s a beach in Mudhdhoo Island (also known as Vaadhoo Island) of Maldives that glows at night? Yes, you read that right! This glow-in-dark is basically a natural phenomenon called ‘Bioluminescence’ wherein light is emitted or created by a living organism.

Moreover, the sea is vast, mysterious and full of unknown creatures; it is believed that there are several marine animals which are capable of performing light producing action. And, therefore, the light produced at Mudhdhoo Beach (Vaadhoo Beach) is because of these organisms, which lights up the sea’s shorelines in the most magical manner.

It’s altogether an otherworldly occurrence for which people travel from near and far.

I have just found a TED video ,” The history of the world in 18 minutes ” ,which is very interest to watch, I would like to share my views on it.

Big History is an emerging academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present.
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution.
The speaker is the first person who teaches courses on “Big History”.

The law of entropy says that the universe generally follows a path from structure and complexity to disordered, random “mush.” Consider how an egg becomes a runny, gooey mess amid whisking. Yet seemingly defying this law, the modern world is packed with complexity. That’s because pockets of ideal “Goldilocks conditions” can generate complexity that builds on itself. The universe passed eight “thresholds of complexity” and endured increasing challenge and fragility to become what it is today:“THE BIG BANG” – From dark emptiness, the universe originated with a bang 13.7 billion years ago. It was tinier than an atom but held everything that exists today, and it expanded rapidly. 

“THE STARS LIGHT UP” – Some 380,000 years later, the first stable atoms formed after hydrogen and helium nuclei acquired electrons. For a time, the universe was little more than vast, structureless clouds of these atoms. But slight variances in their density enabled the crossing of a second threshold, about 200 million years after the Big Bang. Gravity compacted the denser clouds, heating up their centers. When their temperatures reached 10 million degrees, protons began fusing, leading to bursts of energy that became billions of stars.

“NEW CHEMICAL ELEMENTS” – When bigger stars die, the explosions’ high temperatures make protons fuse in new ways. Thus emerged the various elements of the periodic table.

“EARTH AND SOLAR SYSTEM” – The energy of fledgling suns and stars mixed and whirled chemical elements, forming “particles, snowflakes, little dust motes, rocks, asteroids” and finally “planets and moons.” Hence, our solar system was born, 4.5 billion years ago. 

“LIFE ON EARTH” – Chemistry, working amid precisely the right amount of energy, a wide variety of chemical elements and a liquid state, gave rise to new molecules, and the DNA molecule allowed life to “stabilize the template” for replicating itself. DNA scattered, disseminating information. DNA is imperfect; every so often, an “error” appears, which allows DNA to learn. Single-celled organisms appeared, and, much later, multicellular organisms followed. Eventually, a natural disaster eradicated the dinosaurs, allowing humanity’s ancestors to thrive and evolve.

“THE APPEARANCE OF OUR SPECIES” – About 200,000 years ago, humans emerged. The human brain allowed them to learn and accumulate information faster than DNA could, and language enabled them to pass on and preserve their knowledge from generation to generation. This “collective learning” makes humans uniquely powerful and innovative.

“AGRICULTURE” – About 10,000 years ago, after the last ice age ended, humans began farming amid a shifting climate. The resulting “energy bonanza” enabled populations to grow and large societies to form.

“THE MODERN REVOLUTION” – Discovering fossil fuels some 200 years ago led to a second energy bonanza that feeds modern complexity. However, humanity’s collective learning carries risks. For instance, humans may not be in control of it. Their nuclear weapons, fossil fuel consumption, and other innovations pose a threat to the planet.

Dendrocnide moroides, also known as the stinging brush, mulberry-leaved stinger, gympie gympie, gympie, gympie stinger, stinger, the suicide plant, or moonlighter, is a plant common to rainforest areas in the north east of Australia. It is best known for stinging hairs that cover the whole plant and deliver a potent neurotoxin when touched. It is the most toxic of the Australian species of stinging trees. The fruit is edible to humans if the stinging hairs that cover it are removed.

D. moroides usually grows as a single-stemmed plant reaching 1–3 m (3–10 ft) in height. It has large, heart-shaped leaves about 12–22 cm (5–9 in) long and 11–18 cm (4–7 in) wide, with finely toothed margins.

It has a sting so agonising that it’s said to have made a man kill himself after being stung. The treatment for a dendrocnide moroides sting involves removal of the plant’s stinging hairs with a wax strip and treating the affected skin with diluted hydrochloric acid.

Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The hairs cause an extremely painful stinging sensation that could last from several hours to 1–2 days, recurring to a lessening degree for several months or more whenever the area is touched, exposed to water, or subjected to temperature change. The injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen welt. The hairs are also believed to be released to the air when the plant is cut or cleared in large areas. Workers without respiratory protection have reported sneezing, runny noses, mild nasal bleeding and throat irritation while cutting or clearing.

As per today , the strike has catch up it’s 15th day.The strike was going on with clam and peace , without tweak anyone as well as the RTC JAC confessed that the strike was fortuitously followed by halt of buses at depos. Two employees of the TSRTC have committed suicide following the tough stand taken by the state government to dismiss over 48,000 striking employees is most unfortunate.However ,the demands of the employees are somewhat not reasonable either.The fact that they chose to go on the strike from October 5th that coincides with the festival season made their intentions abundantly clear- to cause maximum inconvenience to the public and arm twist the government into acceding to their demands .

The state road transport corporations were formed as government companies to operate on commercial principles and to make profit.When TSRTC has incurred a huge loss of Rs 928 crore for the year ending 2019,the demands of the employees for a pay hike ,filling up of vacant posts and converting the corporation into a government department so that the recurrent losses of the corporation would be borne by the exchequer , are all preposterous .The contention that “their demands should be favourably considered as they had wholeheartedly participated in the agitation to form a Telangana state ” is devoid of merit ,as no government can take far-reaching economic decisions on the basis of quid pro quo.

One hopes the advice of the high court has a sobering effect and both parties hold talks to arrive at an early settlement . This will end the agony of the employees ,as well as that of the public use TSRTC buses everyday.

We as humans have always known water to be transparent by  nature. But, what if we tell you there is a river in Cusco,Peru,which has surprisingly red waters? Sounds unbelievable, but, it is a reality.

What is Red River in Cusco like?

Noting creepy and bloody here, but a work of art  by Mother Nature, the Red River is made due to the mineral deposits present in the different layers of clay formed due to soil erosion. The river is red specifically die to the presence of iron oxide coming off the red region of the mountains. Since the final outcome is due to rainwater runoff, the so-called red river can be seen only during the monsoon months. During rest of the year, the flow of waters remains slow and the colour of the ‘river’ also remains kind of muddy brown.

The Red River of Palcoyo makes its way through the emerald green hills in a dynamic fashion. The cherry or brick red river looks so otherworldly that it gives the impression as if one has landed on another planet in the universe.

Where is the Red River in Cusco?

The Red River lies about 3 hours south-east of the city of Cusco. It originates from Palcoyo Rainbow  mountain  valley. This mountain valley along with the renowned Vinicunca Rainbow Mountain makes a portion of the Cordillera Vilcanota mountain range which itself is a part of the magnanimous Andes mountain range appearing to be the spine of South America.

Tips for watching the Red River

Ideally, tourists take a pit stop en route the nearby Palcoyo Rainbow Mountain, to see the Red River. Usually, tourists from Cusco make a day tour to this part of the countryside, and if they wish to travel further, they can do so to check the Q’eswachaka Inca rope bridge, the Vinicunca Rainbow Mountain and the ruins of Waqrapukara.

Best Time to Visit

The Red River of Cusco is a seasonal water body; hence, it is best to visit this site during the monsoon starting from May to November. It is appropriate to plan the trip around the time when the water level is still high but there is no hindrance in carrying out the journey due to logistical issues.

Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen volcano spews out blue lava thanks to its incredibly high levels of sulfur. But the beautiful phenomenon also reveals a dark secret.

The active Kawah ijen volcano art of a complex of volcanoes in Banywang Regency, Java. This popular complex is situated within Ijen crater with stratovolcano Gunung Merapi as the highest point. It is one of the world’s mounusual volcanoes because instead of producing the usual red lava and black smoke, its underground activities result in bright blue flames rising into the air. Some people even call it electric blue fire. Since it was mentioned on TV (National Geographic to be precise) the number of tourists who travel to East Java and Indonesia has significantly increased. 

The phenomenon is caused when the volcano’s sulfuric gases come into contact with air temperature above 360 degree Celsius.

The Ijen volcano complex has some of the highest levels of sulfur in the world. This dense collection of the gas, when exposed to oxygen and lit by the molten hot lava burns blue. Unlike regular volcanoes whose bright red lava is visible in the day, Kawah Ijen’s blue burning flames can only be seen at night. “The vision of these flames at night is strange and extraordinary,” Photographer Olivier Grunewald says, “After several nights in the crater, we felt really living on another planet.”

Here you can also find the largest acid lake in the world which is conveniently situated within the crater. While the turquoise water of this crater lake is quite spectacular, it can also threaten your life. 

World Mental Health Day is observed across the world on October 10, 2019. The day aims to raise awareness regarding mental health issues and mobilize efforts to support mental health. World mental health day theme for 2019 is suicide prevention.

The main objective behind making suicide prevention the key focus this year is to attract the government’s attention to the issue so that it is given priority in public agendas across the world.

The World mental health day 2019 gives an opportunity to all those who work in the field of mental health issues to talk about their work and raise awareness regarding what more can be done to make mental health care a reality for people across the globe.

World Mental Health Day is organized by the World Federation for Mental Health.This year’s Day is supported by WHO, the International association for suicide prevention , and United for Global Mental Health.

According to WHO, almost every 40 seconds, someone loses their life. Hence, WHO has launched an awareness campaign called “40 seconds of action” to raise awareness of the large scale of suicide around the world and the role that each of us can play to help prevent it.

Suicide is a global health problem and one of the main causes of death among youngsters, especially those aged between 15-29 years. Since years, WHO has been treating suicide as a priority issue. The topic has also attracted interest from a lot of other fields including philosophy, religion, medicine, sociology, bioethics, law and psychology.

Article 370 of the Indian constitution gave special status to the region of Jammu and Kashmir. The Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, after its establishment, was empowered to recommend the articles of the Indian constitution that should be applied to the state or to abrogate the Article 370 altogether.
The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954 was issued by President Rajendra Prasad under Article 370, with the advice of the Union Government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru.

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