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1.Go outside to the middle of an abandoned field or a huge lawn. Bring a roll or box of Mentos (candy mints) and a 2-liter bottle of soda. Either diet or regular soda will work for this experiment, but diet soda erupts higher and is less sticky when you're cleaning it up.
2.Open the bottle of soda carefully. Position the bottle on the ground so that it will not tip over.
3.Unwrap the whole roll of Mentos. The goal is to drop all of the Mentos into the bottle of soda at the same time (which is trickier than it looks). One method for doing this is to roll a piece of paper into a tube just big enough to hold the loose Mentos. You'll want to be able to position the tube directly over the mouth of the bottle so that all of the candies drop into the bottle at the same time.
4.Warn the spectators to stand back.
5.Drop all of the Mentos into the bottle at the same time and then move out of the way as fast as you can.
6.Why does this work? While there is considerable debate over how and why this works, here's the hypothesis: Water molecules strongly attract each other, linking together to form a tight mesh around each bubble of carbon dioxide gas in the soda. In order to form a new bubble, or even to expand a bubble that has already formed, water molecules must push away from each other. It takes extra energy to break this "surface tension." When you drop the Mentos into the soda, the gelatin and gum arabic from the dissolving candy break the surface tension. Each Mentos candy has thousands of tiny pits all over the surface. These tiny pits are called nucleation sites - perfect places for carbon dioxide bubbles to form. As soon as the Mentos hit the soda, bubbles form all over the surface of the candy. Couple this with the fact that the Mentos candies are heavy and sink to the bottom of the bottle and you've got a double-whammy. When all this gas is released, it literally pushes all of the liquid up and out of the bottle in an incredible soda blast.
7.If you're having trouble getting all of the Mentos into the bottle at once, try placing an index card over the mouth of the bottle and placing your paper tube on the card. Then line up the tube over the hole and slide the card out.
Tell the Day in Any Year and Century
Recover Deleted History in Windows
1.The easy and quick way to restore file and activity History is the System Restore feature. Since much history is saved into the Windows Registry, restoring it to a previous state will restore file and program History.
-Click the Start button in XP, then choose Help Support. On the resulting blue screen find the option Undo changes to your computer with System Restore.
-Choose a date you would like the computer reverted to (see Warnings.)
2.Does the story stop here, oh no. Perhaps System Restore was disabled by a user, or it is inappropriate to use it (see Warnings). Well lets try another tactic. There are lesser known log files that Windows keeps, which are independent of both the Registry and individual Program logs. They are called "index.dat" files. Use the Windows Search Tool to find all occurrences of "index.dat" on c: drive.
-On XP, click Start, and Search, then For Files & Folders, and All Files & Folders, now enter "index.dat" in the Filename field. Before searching:
-Limit the search to C: drive using the Look In drop-down.
-Check the following options using the More Advanced Options line:
1.Search System Files
2.Search Hidden Files & Folders
3.Search Subfolders
Click Search.
Be amazed at how many "index.dat" files there are (21?).
Minimize the Search Results window.
You need a tool to read the index.dat files. They are NOT text files.
Super WinSpy is one such reader. Or search Google for "index.dat reader".
Download the software, check it for viruses (as you do for all downloads) and install it. Start the program. You can enjoy different Histories, using the button provided.
Location Codes
1.Make sure you have already mastered the Dominic System (learning a list of 100 people), found here.
2.Think of seven locations, preferably using a house you know well. Visualize this house, looking first at the garden. Concentrate on it. Notice if there are any plants, trees, a pond etc. Next, go into the house and in order go to each room.
3.Go to the rooms in a logical order. Make sure you do this because it will be difficult to recall if you start downstairs and then jump up a floor and then back down again!
4."Place" people (from the list that you previously learned) in each room. This will take up the majority of your time, so do it carefully and enjoy it. You will be creating some unique images you have never thought of before!
5.Number your locations. Your first location is the garden which is room number zero. To recall that it is room zero you can imagine a giant football crashing onto your flowers!
6.Place the following people in the garden: 00, 06, 17, 23, 28, 34, 45, 51, 56, 62, 73, 79, 84, 90. Each of these numbers represents a person and an action. You learned your 100 people from the techniques earlier.
7.Take each person and their action, and make them interact with each other, using their actions to help concrete the image. For example, Olive Oil is screaming for help and Ebenezer scrooge is playing golf with Seve Ballesteros!Before you move on to the next location make sure you know the people and location perfectly.
8.Next location: code 1. Imagine a telegraph pole in the middle of the room! The people you will need for this room are: 01, 07, 12, 18, 29, 35, 40, 46, 57, 63, 68, 74, 85, 91, 96
9.Next location: code 2. Imagine a swan, for example, picking at your dinner!: 02, 13, 19, 24, 30, 41, 47, 52, 58, 69, 75, 80, 86, 97
10.Next location: code 3. Imagine a pair of handcuffs somewhere in the room: 03, 08, 14, 25, 31, 36, 42, 53 59, 64, 70, 81, 87, 92, 98
11.Next location: code 4. Imagine a boat somewhere in your scene: 09, 15, 20, 26, 37, 43, 48, 54, 65, 71, 76, 82, 93, 99
12.Next location: code 5. Imagine a hook somewhere in your scene: 04, 10, 21, 27, 32, 38, 49, 55, 60, 66, 77, 83, 88, 94
13.Next location: code 6. Imagine an elephant’s trunk in your scene: 05, 11, 16, 22, 33, 39, 44, 50, 61, 67, 72, 78, 89, 95
14.Take your time and get these people into your locations. Once you have that done you will then need to learn the month codes. Each month has its own code to go with it. You are going to recall the code from what the month means to you.
Month Codes
1.Ok, so let’s take a look at January.
2.January code is 1. That’s easy to remember, it’s the first month and the code is one.
3.February. This makes me think of a brewery. Years ago they used to deliver kegs of beer by boat. A boat looks like a four.
So February’s code is four!
4.March has a code of four also. I imagine a group of soldiers “marching�? and as they are marching they are carrying a rowing boat. The boat again means four.
5.April has the code 0, (zero). I would imagine April showers but instead of rain footballs and golf balls are falling from the sky! I wouldn’t want to be out in that!
6.May has the code 2. May reminds me of choices, may and may not. Two. So the code is 2!
7.June has the code 5. June reminds me of my mother’s friend who has earrings that look like curtain hooks!
8.July code is 0 (zero). I know someone called Julie and I can picture her kicking a football around her house, smashing windows and ornaments!
9.August has the code 3. I can visualise a group of trees at the top of a hill. It is very windy up there and they look like they are going to blow over. I can see a giant set of handcuffs around the trees keeping them together!
10.September has the code 6. I can see an elephant in a parade. Unfortunately he can’t lift his trunk up and it is dragging on the ground. He will get lots of cuts on his trunk, and it may go septic. The septic reminds me of September, and the trunk reminds me of the code six.
11.October has the code 1. It reminds me of an octopus with his tentacles all laid out on a telegraph poll. Perhaps he is listening into people’s phone conversations?
12.November has the code 4. The four again brings me to a boat image. On the boat I imagine a novice carpenter trying to patch the boat before it and he sinks!
13.December has the code 6. Christmas season is full swing and I can see Santa in the sky. It looks like his reindeer have put on a lot of weight! It turns out he is using elephants this year!
The Year codes
Ok, so now we have the majority of the work done. From now on it is a matter of learning the YEAR codes, but don’t worry, they are easy to do.
4
2
0
6
4
2
0
6
4
2
0
Can you see a pattern here? 6, 4, 2, 0, 6, 4, 2, 0
has the year code of 0. As long as you know that you can figure out the code of the other years.
Ok, so now there is just one more thing you need to keep in mind. I know this seems so long winded but believe me when you learn the techniques it will take a second to do it in your head!
Leap years
Leap years fall every four years. How will you know if it was a leap year? Is it evenly divisible by four? If it is, that year is a leap year. For example 1942 is NOT a leap year. Forget about the 19 for a second and look at the 42. 4 goes into 42 but not evenly therefore 1942 was not a leap year.
What about 1900?
Well you could say that 4 goes into 1900. But when we are looking at the century itself, we divide it by 400. Does it go in evenly? No. therefore 1900 was not a leap year.
What about 2000? Well four does go in evenly so yes it is a leap year.
Right, so when you figure out it’s a leap year this is what you have to do:
If the date you are working out falls between 1st January and 29th February then you must take away 1 from your final calculations.
If it falls out of this date, do nothing.
Ok, so what day was it on 23rd February 2000 ?
So, take the 23. Add this to the code of February… which was?? Brewery, kegs on boat, boat four. So add the four to the 23 giving you 27.
Is 2000 a leap year? Yes and our date falls in between 1st January and 29th February so you have to make sure whether it is a leap year or not.
Tip: if the year ends in an odd number then you know it cannot be divisible by four!
Ok, so we know it’s a leap year, but what is the year code for 00 (Olive Oil)? Where was she? She was in the garden, with a code of zero!
So add it all up:
23 (Date) + 4 (February) + 0 (Olive Oil) + 6 (the century code) – 1 (because it falls between the 1st January and 29th February in a leap year) = 32
Next thing you have to do is cast out as many sevens as you can:
, 14, 21, 28… remainder 4.
The four is the day of the week.
Sunday =1
Monday = 2
Tuesday = 3
Wednesday = 4
Thursday = 5
Friday = 6
Saturday = 0
So in this example 23rd February 2000 was a Wednesday.
Let’s try another…
10th October 1943
+ 1 (Octopus on a telegraph pole) + 0 (1900 year code) + 4 (43 = DC in location number 4)
Add them all up and you get 17.
Cast out the sevens, 7, 14, leaving you with 3.
th October 1943 was a Tuesday.
Try it for yourself. It may take you a couple of days to get all the locations and codes correct but it really is worth it!
To test you are right try it out on the calendar on your mail program if you have one!
