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The Chinese YoYo is an ancient toy developed in China. The earliest examples of the toy were found to be from the Ming Dynasty. It is comprised of two identical discs attached together by an axle at the centre. Two sticks with a piece of string attached to the ends of the sticks are also required to use the toy. The yoyo is used by holding a stick in each hand while spinning the yoyo on the string attached to the sticks. The Chinese yoyo, also known as a diabolo, is used in a number of ethnic Chinese dances. It is also used by many jugglers as a tool to further enhance their performances. There are many tricks that can be accomplished using the toy. It can be thrown around the user's back or flung up into the air and catching it on the string as it falls back down. Similar to a regular yoyo, this toy works by using the principle of gyroscopic rotation to maintain a stable spin.
A Chinese yoyo is traditionally made using bamboo. The problem with bamboo is that it tends to break easily so it cannot withstand repeated tricks over time. The modern versions of the toy are usually made with durable plastics that can survive repeated use over the years. The sticks used for the yoyo, however, are still commonly made of wood.
There are many tricks that can be accomplished using this toy and the simplest of them is making the yoyo accelerate. This can be done by using a technique called the open string drive where the yoyo is accelerated by moving the tow sticks up and down. A more difficult method of accelerating a yoyo is by using what is called a closed string drive. Here, users will have to wrap the string around the yoyo then moving the sticks. This can accelerate the yoyo even faster than by using an open string drive. Other tricks include the toss and catch, the elevator, the stick grind, the waterfall, the wrap and escape and the swing. There are also advanced level tricks like the Cicada, the suicide and around the world. These tricks take a while to learn and lots of practice is required to perfect them.
There are also variations of the toy that have appeared over the years. One such variation is called the single bell. This version only has one bell which makes the toy unstable. This version is also more difficult to use.
See really neat Chinese yoyo tricks! View a large assortment of diabolos that have different size, shapes, and colors. Visit the most fun place on earth, the ChineseYoYoShop.com!
Some Thai Food Has Six Legs
Many people enjoy Thai food worldwide: spicy soups and salads, flavorful rice dishes are abundant. But in Thailand, fried or roasted insects and scorpions are also popular, readily available, and inexpensive.
Insects have traditionally been a rich source of protein, calories, vitamins, and minerals in the Northern Thailand diet. They are also prized as delicacies. In fact, it is unusual to find an insect which is not eaten in one form or another by local people. Among the most popular are:
• cicadas, locusts, mantises, crickets, and grasshoppers which are all deep fried and are rather crunchy;
• bamboo worms, which are also deep fried;
• giant water bugs, which are steamed; they are also ground into a paste with chili and eaten with sticky rice;
• weaver ants (red ants with a painful bite) and their eggs; sticky rice is dipped into a mixture of ants, eggs, and chili;
• dung beetles; which add a wholesome flavor to curries; however, many people will not eat them because they live in and on excrement.
In addition, Thai people will eat
• the pupae of silk moths and other moths and butterflies; you must first remove the pupae from their cocoons, then boil them until soft with a pinch of salt, finally sautée them lightly;
• the larvae of wasps and bees; these are deep-fried;
and arachnids:
• poisonous scorpions, which are grilled;
• giant tarantulas, which are also grilled.
I have not seen other spiders eaten, but I suspect if it moves, it is considered food somewhere.
Also, termites (large white ants) are grilled and their eggs are a delicacy used to make a flavorful soup.
Where I lived in Bangkok, Sukhumvit Soi 4, every night starting around 5:00 PM, there was a street vendor with half a dozen kinds of fried and grilled insects and scorpions; her customers were mainly the bar girls in the area. Every night she was quite busy as the girls consider these insects a tasty snack, and munch on them as frequently as Western people munch on potato chips.
The lady vendor does not speak any English, but will pose with her wares for a photograph if you give her a 20 baht (about 60 cents) tip. And if you're brave, you could always buy a bag of deep fried bamboo worms.
About the Author
Doug Anderson is a retired Canadian programmer. He first visited Thailand in 1988 and has been back many times since. More information about Thailand at Thai Culture Publishing [http://www.thai-culture-publishing.com].
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cockroaches or Cicada?
Ok so this seems ridiculous to even be asking, but I am a very paranoid person. I bought a few plants today for my screened in porch. I got bamboo plants, a ficus, and and aloe vera plant. Later tonight i was sitting outside and saw about 6 medium sized bugs crawling on the screen outside. I have never seen this before and am guessing its because of the plants. Do you think they are cockroaches or immature cicadas??? which one would be more interested in the plants????
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I live in florida
The lights were on on the porch
I fertalized the plants (could the fertalizer be attracting them?)
They kind of looked like very large ticks
I took a closer look this morning. They are the color of a cockroach but are more of a beetle shape? Could they be beetles????
roaches will be flat...cicadas will be roundish, like a Volkswagen beetle car neither would be interested in the plants, the roach would nest in any mulch or loose topping over the top soil
A bug is born
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Yes, that is an 8-foot-tall cicada clinging to a tree in a Manheim Township yard. The shiny, caramel-colored insect is perched outside the Buch Avenue home of Chris and Deb Herr. In recent days, the papier-mache sculpture has attracted the slack-jawed attenti...
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