Ideas for Hurricane Vases

Many people are rather fond of decorating their homes. They try to mix and blend different styles in their homes. It is all about the look and feel of the room in the end; whether you come up with your own ideas or go by the book and use tried and tested ideas to decorate your house is immaterial. If you are one of those people, who like to embellish their houses in beautiful and creative ways, you have landed on the right page!

A hurricane vase is typically a tall glass vase that has a wide mouth, a narrow neck and a large round bottom with a large flat base. A hurricane vase is used by many home decorators and interior designers to beautify different rooms and places. Here are a few creative hurricane vase ideas that you can try to decorate your home with. They are bound to be noticed by family and friends alike!

Out-of-the-Box Hurricane Vase Ideas

Floating Candles
Floating candles in a hurricane vase look really charming. They can create a soft and romantic ambiance without you having to do much than light a candle! An important thing to take care of while making a floating candle hurricane vase is to add just the right amount of water to make the candle float. Also make sure the candle is big enough to last an entire evening, or for as much time as you plan to leave it burning. You can add a few drops of ink to the water and color it. A floating candle hurricane vase would be a great idea for a date at your place. Add some rose petals to the water as well; roses and candle just go so well together.

Fish Jar
This is an unusual idea, but one that can look indeed interesting. If you have always wanted to have an aquarium but have never had the time to really maintain and keep one, a fish bowl will be a good option for you. But why not add a special twist and host your fish in a hurricane vase instead? The best part about such a setting is that the vase is tall and hence needs little space. A hurricane vase fish jar will look good hoisted on a shelf. A small goldfish and a small neon damselfish will look absolutely pretty in a hurricane vase fish jar. Just make sure you don't knock it off accidentally!

Stained Glass Lamp Shade
This will need a bit of drilling and glass cutting, but the result is thoroughly satisfying. You can make a wall-mounted lamp shade using a hurricane vase. Use glass paint to draw an elaborate, multicolored design on the vase, and you have your own stained glass wall-mounted lamp ready. It looks really pretty, especially if you are going to use yellow light bulbs inside the lamp. However, make sure there are not too many of them in a room, or the room may not be sufficiently lit. Just one or two strategically placed lamps will do the trick.

On The Table
A hurricane vase as a centerpiece is also a nice idea. The most common way people use a hurricane vase as a centerpiece is by turning it into a flower vase. It indeed looks nice. However, it is a very common idea, don't you agree? An alternative idea would be to use a slightly short hurricane vase (or simply one that is small) and pour water in it; now add cut flowers to the vase, but not before you completely cut off the stalk of the flower. The flowers float in the vase and look beautiful. If you want, you can add many small flowers, or just a single flower (like an orchid or a Gerbera).

Stones and Pebbles
For those who like collecting stones of different colors, shapes and sizes, this idea will sound rather appealing! You can fill a hurricane vase with beautiful and colorful stones. You may add semi-precious stones if you want to. This could be a good practice with respect to crystal healing. To add a special touch, you may fill the vase with water. The stones will look bigger and brighter in water. Also they will stay clean and will not collect dust. Such a hurricane vase can also be used as a centerpiece for a table. In such a case, you may even add a flower to the vase, and then place a garland of the same flower around the vase on the table.

Water Photo Frame
The subhead may have you wondering, am I right? Well, here is how you can make a water photo frame using a hurricane vase. Fill about 1/3 of the hurricane vase with aquarium sand (preferably multicolored). Now get the picture you want to add to your water photo frame and enclose it in a plastic bag. Wrap it properly so that no water can enter inside. Alternatively, you may get the picture laminated and then trim off the extra plastic on the ends. Insert the picture into the sand so that it is held firmly. Now, gently pour water into the hurricane vase, and voila! Your water photo frame is ready!

The Grand Idea

Combine all the above ideas, and you have a hurricane vase masterpiece! Add stones and aquarium sand to the vase. Pour water into it. Insert a tall candle so that it is held firmly in the sand and stones and rises above the level of water. Add a few flower petals such that they float on the water. Now light the candle, and you have your very own unique hurricane centerpiece!

Hurricane vases can be used in more interesting ways than the ones mentioned. However, I leave those for you to discover on your own. Just experiment with the above ideas, and you may come up with even better ones, who knows?

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Smoking in the Morning Most Dangerous

YOU are accustomed to smoke a cigarette immediately after waking in the morning should be careful. Because, you may face an increased risk of lung cancer, head and neck when compared with that of smoking during the hours afterward.

Joshua Muscat of Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, and colleagues examined the risks of smoking cigarettes in the morning. "Smokers in the morning will have a high level of nicotine content and possibly other types of tobacco toxins in the body. They may be more addicted to cigarettes," Muscat said, as quoted by the Times of India, on Monday (8 / 8).

The analysis was performed with data involving 4775 cases of lung cancer, all of which are regular smokers. When compared with those who smoke 60 minutes after waking up, those who smoked 31-60 minutes after waking up 1.31 times more likely to develop lung cancer. Those who smoked within 30 minutes after waking up 1.79 times more likely to develop lung cancer.

Meanwhile, on the analysis of head and neck cancer, 1055 were included, all with a history of smoking. When compared with people who smoke 60 minutes after getting up, people who smoke

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Children Vulnerable Generations Multilayar Disease

IF you are an adult living in this hi-tech age, you are probably already familiar with multitasking activities such as receiving an SMS while watching TV.

But there is a new generation that is growing and it will feel completely comfortable with this multitasking lifestyle, who are they? Yes, children. Researchers say most children aged 10-11 years has now been exposed to multilayar ie watch TV while using the iPad, smartphones, laptops, and portable video game.

It may seem as a skill, but beware of the parents because the behavior is believed to increase risk for obesity and mental health problems in children.

In this day and age, it is possible to watch TV via the internet, play computer games on a laptop, or play games on handheld devices and mobile phones while keeping in touch with friends using text messages, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, or MSN. All that can be done at the same time!

Thus, the researchers also conducted a study of 63 children aged 10-11 years. They also found that children were enjoying the activities of these multitasking and multilayar.

As quoted by the Daily Mail, Wednesday (3 / 7), Dr Russ Jago from Bristol University, said, "Children in the study had access to at least the five tools in one and most portable gadgets. This means they can easily migrate accordance with their wishes and their privacy. "

"Seeing it all, the researchers took the initiative campaigning for parents to prevent children spend watching TV. This means, we need to work together with families to develop strategies to limit the time spent on the child to always look at the monitor on any instrument, especially inside the house.

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Health highlights: 28 July 2011

Here some of the latest health and medical news are compiled by the editors of HealthDay developments:

New Brain Scan technique shows back pain severity

Doctors help a new brain of imaging technology to determine and monitor the severity of patient's back pain, the researchers say.

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They found that the method called arterial spin labeling and they carried out during MRI images, observe changes in blood flow in certain areas of the brain as chronic back pain patients uncomfortable positions enabled, ABC News reported.

The study was conducted by scientists at Brigham and women's Hospital in Boston and is online and in the August print issue of the journal Anesthesiology.

"Usually, if you do studies with older techniques, you are not able to track the changes in human chronic pain in the course of time" study selection Dr. Ajay D. Wasan, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, said ABC News. "This provides a way to see the physiology of the brain if someone has more or less chronic pain."

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Judge has suit apart from embryonic stem cell research

The Obama administration are still the funding of research into embryonic stem cells to an action on it Wednesday was released.

The suit alleges that a federal law prohibits, the taxpayer, which was financing of embryonic stem cells injured by the US national institutes of health research, which damages an embryo. But the Obama administration argues that the Federal Republic allows research using reported directive of embryos that have been harvested long ago, through private funding, the Associated Press .

US district judge Royce Lamberth decided last year that the action was probably successfully and a stop federally funded embryonic research ordered while the case further. But the U.S. Circuit Court of appeals in Washington, D.C. decided, that the action was a probable failure and the injunction lifted.

As a result reported Lamberth a statement on behalf of the Obama administration Wednesday AP released.

Scientists hope that cures for a range of diseases, including spinal cord injuries and Parkinson's diseaseavailable is the embryonic stem cells a day.

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Little evidence of 9 / 11 cancer link: report

A report released Tuesday saying U.S. Government it is not enough evidence to determine whether dust and smoke caused cancer causing terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in rescue and recovery workers or New York City residents who lived in the vicinity at the moment.

The finding means that their disease, says people with cancer diagnostics that they attribute the 9/11 attack qualify for federal benefits to treat or compensate for the New York Times.

The report by the National Institute for occupational safety and health was a new federal law required, which offers to monitor $4.3 billion in the next five years, to treat and to compensate for people who were exposed to dust and fumes from the WTC attack.

Proven on an assessment of the available data, the report is based, but there were only 18 published studies of the WTC attack, the cancer mentioned. Only five of these studies were peer-review and she showed mixed results, according to NIOSH Director Dr. John Howard, The Times reported.

A second review of a possible link between cancer and the WTC attack in beginning until mid 2012 is led, said Howard.

According to the timessome doctors believe that a link to cancer with time will be created.

Dr. Philip j. Landrigan, Director of the programme dedicated to 9/11 treatment, surveillance and research at Mount Sinai Medical Center, said the newspaper, that the likelihood of cancer tied increases as years pass on 9 / 11. He referred to his team research in multiple myeloma, which seems at a rate higher than usual, and at an unusually young age in some responders occur.

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Low 'Health literacy' health

FRIDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- If you have low "health literacy," defined as having difficulty understanding medical information, your health may be at risk.

In a review of 96 published studies, researchers concluded that low health literacy is linked with many types of poorer health outcomes and poorer use of health services.

"There are no real surprises here," said study author Nancy Berkman, senior health policy research analyst at RTI International, a North Carolina-based organization that conducts health research.

The report is published July 19 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and was funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

About 80 million Americans have limited health literacy, the researchers report, and that puts their health at risk.

"If you don't understand what is going on, what is being written, this can have a negative impact on your use of health-care services and your health outcomes," Berkman said. "It's imperative you do what you can to understand the communication from the health-care system."

The review found that low health literacy was consistently linked with a number of poor outcomes. These include more hospitalization, a greater use of the emergency room services, less frequent mammogram screenings, less frequent flu vaccinations and a poor ability to take medicines correctly or understand labels and health messages.

Among older people, low health literacy was linked with overall worse health status and higher mortality rates.

They did not find a firm link between poor health literacy and some other health conditions and outcomes. These include access to care, some health behaviors, taking medicine on schedule, severity of asthma, diabetes or high blood pressure control, among others.

The studies also didn't provide firm evidence about one type of health literacy -- a skill called numeracy, which helps people do such things as measure blood glucose and adhere to medicine regimens and outcomes.

While a person's cognitive skills would play a role in how literate they are, the study did not examine this, Berkman said.

The findings came as no surprise to Rima Rudd, a senor lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health who is the principal investigator for Health Literacy Studies.

While the review is sound, she says, "this offers only half the picture." The problem is not just people's low health literacy, but the inability of some health-care providers to communicate information in a way their patients can understand, Rudd said.

Rudd said patients can demand that health-care provider speak "in every day words." If you don't understand what a health-care provider is telling you, in print or in words, she suggests asking something like this: "I am sorry, but I haven't had your training. Can you use everyday words?"

Ask questions if you don't understand, Berkman added, and don't be shy about asking again and again if necessary. Taking someone with you to the doctor's office can also help, she said.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Cynthia Baur, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the findings reinforce the idea that health communication materials have to be pre-tested with target audiences, among other practices, to be sure they are effective.

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Health highlights: 21 July 2011

Here some of the latest health and medical news are compiled by the editors of HealthDay developments:

Fewer Americans see smoking as risky: survey

Fewer Americans perceived a serious risk from smoking a pack of cigarettes per day in 2008-2009 than in 2007-2008, one nation-wide survey of the US substance abuse and mental health services administration found on Thursday.

The percentage of people who fell from 73.7% to 72.3% among all respondents perceived a serious smoking risk. Teens an even greater drop showed risk 2008-2009 in perceived smoking during the span from 69.3% in 2007-2008 to 67.7%, the survey showed. No State, written in an increase in that said perceived risk of smoking, an agency press release.

The national survey on drug use and health interview more than 137,000 people during 2008-2009. See the report additional findings:

• No State reported an increase in the use of illegal drugs between 2002-2003 and 2008-2009. Among people aged 12 to 17, use of illicit drugs in 17 States fell in the period.


• The ten States and the District of Columbia, the highest rates of use of illicit drugs had during the previous month under 12 and elderly led nation in marijuana use in the same period . In alphabetical order, these locales were: Alaska, Colorado, district of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Iceland and Vermont.


• Between 2007-2008 and 2008 / 2009, 11 countries showed declines of cocaine use among people 12 and older.


• The United States on the number of people age 18 and older with serious mental illnesses (7.2%) led Rhode Iceland, while Hawaii and South Dakota shared the lowest rate (3.5%).

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Heart disease tops of the most costly conditions for women

Heart disease leads list of most expensive diseases and disorders in women in the United States, with spending topping $43.6 billion, according to a report published Thursday by the US Agency for healthcare research and quality.

Published in the Agency regularly to report news and numbers , the results covered 2008, the last year for which statistics were available.

Rounded out the top 10 who were most onerous conditions among women will the list:

• Cancer Mental disorders


• Trauma disorders


• Osteoarthritis


• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma


• High blood pressure


• DiabetesBack problems


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Sales resume frogs associated with salmonella

Sales have resumed the African dwarf frogs in the context of a salmonella outbreak, more than 240 people ill, made from the US Centers for disease control and prevention officials said Wednesday.

Blue lobster farms, based in Madera County, California, voluntarily suspended sales of the frogs after the disease. Most of these were age, that Associated Press reported ill made children, some younger than 5. No one died, although some victims to the hospital was hospitalized.

The CDC said that not happy on the resumption of the sale of the frogs which have a serious health risk could be it.

The Agency warned that young children, pregnant women and people with weak immune systems should avoid contact with water frogs and their tanks.

The wire service reports that it could reach not the company for comment.

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Protein can lead to infertility lack sperm.

A protein that coats, swimming, an egg could help normally sperm to infertility if the protein is missing, said California researchers Wednesday.

Approximately 20% of men a mutation gène can you, that in the absence of key protein, University of California, Davis, leads, researchers said. 500 Chinese couples interviewed them, carrying a child, birth rates tried were 30% lower in pairs, you had the mutation gène, in which the male, the Associated Press reported.

The finding could by methods such as implanted with sperm directly into the uterus, a test that screens cause the problem, the wire service said could be resolved.

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Recipes for health: yogurt soup with spelt, cucumbers and watercress

Andrew Scrivani for the New York Times

A summer soup with a lot of texture and crunch, is this significant and refreshment.

1/2 Cup spelt, Farro, or wheat berries, soaked for an hour or more preferably and permeable (don't worry, if you have not done, even though they last longer, until the Cook)

2 Cups of water

Salt to taste

1 Liter low-fat or whole milk plain yogurt (excluding gums and stabilizers) or buttermilk, or a combination thereof

ripe 2 but firm tomatoes cut into small cubes

1 Cup of chopped finely seeded cucumber (no need, seed, if Persian or European cucumbers use)

1 small bunch of watercress, thick stems discarded, coarsely chopped

1-2 cloves of garlic (to taste), finely chopped or pureed with a little salt in a mortar and pestle

2 Tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

3/4 Cup cold water (more as needed)

1/4 Cup finely chopped dill, parsley, mint and coriander

2 Tablespoons snipped chives

Freshly ground pepper to taste

3 or 4 radishes, thinly sliced for garnish

1. Combine the Dinkel, bring water and salt to taste and cooking. Reduce the heat and simmer, about 50 minutes to an hour, until supply and some of the cores that have begun to splay. How to remove you from the heat, drain and set aside.

2. While the River Dinkel is cooking, insert give the cucumber in a bowl and sprinkle with salt. Take and place in a sieve set over the bowl. Let drain for 30 minutes. Good washing you and and drain on paper towels.

3. Combine all ingredients except the radishes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Chill for 2 hours or longer. Serve, Garnish each bowl with sliced radishes.

Output: Six is used.

Preparation ahead: You can serve this several hours the day before the make. It is stable for three or four days in the refrigerator.

Nutritional information per serving (6 servings): 166 calories; 2 g saturated fat; 0 Of grams of multiple unsaturated fat; 1 Grams of monounsaturated fats; 10 Milligrams cholesterol; 25 Grams carbohydrates; 2 Grams of dietary fiber; 126 mg sodium (contains no salt to taste); 12 Grams protein

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