The Amazing Cucumber!! This information was in The New York Times several weeks ago as part of their "Spotlight on the Home" series that highlighted creative and fanciful ways to solve common problems.
1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains. Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.
2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber.
Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.
3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower?
Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.
4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds?
Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long.
The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.
5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool?
Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!
6.. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache?
Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free.
Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!
7.. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge?
Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.
8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes?
Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.
9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge?
Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!
10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa?
Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.
11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints?
Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.
12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel?
Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.
13. Using a pen and made a mistake?
Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate walls.
It all really so cool.. what more with the 'out of mind' Pandora's views and ambience, really made me feel like I'm lost in the world of Pandora, and it's a journey throughout that makes my imagination running wild! Who would thought a person like James Cameron and his team would be able to create such a phenomenal place that looks so real and alive! Here's how Pandora is described.. Cool!
Pandora is a moon of the gas giant Polyphemus, which orbits Alpha Centauri A. 
Discovered by the first interstellar expedition twenty-five years ago in 2129, Pandora has been the single most interesting thing to happen to the human race in hundreds of years. The news services love to run clips of the wild scenery on Pandora, and its bizarre flora and fauna. 
To the cultures of Earth, which has lost all contact with the natural world, Pandora is mysterious, primal and terrifying. Pandora's atmosphere is a poisonous (to humans) brew of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Xenon, Ammonia, Methane and Hydrogen Cyanide. You can just tell, even from orbit, that this is a world filled with life. Just as plants on Earth are green with chlorophyll, the plants of Pandora, based on a different biochemistry, are mostly purple. The tones range from purple-blue, through violet to magenta. Jake catches glimpses of the rain forest through the clouds as they skim over the endless purple carpet. 
Other than the color, the trees resemble those of Earth. They have trunks and branches and leaves... though some of the shapes are strange, and the proportions are different due to the lower gravity. The trees have a special secret that is revealed during the war against the RDA, where they act as neurons creating a planet wide "brain" that has achieved sentience. 
There are waterfalls feeding highland rivers, and Jake sees more flocks of some bird-like creatures. They pass a few small patches of open grassland. The magenta grass ripples in the wind like wheat. 
Pandora, despite being almost the same size as Earth, is a moon of the gas giant Polyphemus, which has thirteen other moons, some closer in, some farther out. Its gravity is lower than the earth's. Depending on where they are in their orbits, Pandora can have two or even three moons in its sky at once. Pandora and the other moons cast large black shadows on the parent planet, like beauty marks. 
Pandora appears like a lush paradise by Earth standards during the day, though at night virtually all life on the world bio-luminescences in various shades of blue (explaining the Na'vi's blue skin color, which is better camouflage at night on Pandora). 
Really wish that Planet earth has all those.. still undiscovered.. and soon waiting to be unfold.. hahahah.. You wish!!!
