miercuri, 10 octombrie 2012

A Closer Look at Who Invented Electricity - Education

<p>As one of the most common and widely used sources of energy, electricity has a long history that goes back as far as the ancient Egypt period. It is also plays a highly significant role in modern society, which is used to give light and convenience to every home. Furthermore, it is also used in the operations of major businesses, especially to operate all kinds of machineries. For a better understanding of this wonderful energy source, it is good to know who invented electricity. </p>

<p>The Inventor of Electricity</p>

<p>Who invented electricity? According to many history books, Thales of Miletus is one of the many names that arise when people talk about the discovery of the use of electricity, who can be traced back as early as 600 B.C. As an early researcher of electricity, he used to rub fur against other things. Later on, he found that such objects were attracted to one another. He also tried to do the same thing with amber, wherein he found that friction causes the amber to become magnetic. These findings helped established the foundation of the relationship between electricity and magnetism. </p>

<p>Additional Facts and Other Interesting Details</p>

<p>Before people became aware of the existence of electricity, they already have an idea of shocks from electric fish. In ancient Egypt, this type of fish was called Thunderer of the Nile. Patients with diseases like headaches or gouts put into direct contact with this marine animal in the hope that it can serve as cure for such medical conditions. Torpedo rays and catfish were also known to deliver electric shocks.</p>

<p>In modern times, many individuals conducted extensive research on electricity, some of the most notable of which were Stephen Gray, Robert Boyle and Otto von Guericke. By the 18th century, one of the founders of the United States named Benjamin Franklin also performed extensive studies on electricity. After him came Italian physicist Luigi Galvani, who was known for his significant findings in the field of bioelectricity. He was also credited for using electricity as a medium where nerve cells transferred signals to the human muscles.</p>

<p>From 1819 to 1820, Andre-Marie Ampere and Hans Christian Orsted started to recognize electromagnetism as the union of magnetic and electric phenomena. In 1821, Michael Faraday became the very first one to invent the electric motor, which was significant in the use of electricity as an energy source. Meanwhile, George Ohm was credited for analyzing the electrical circuit mathematically in 1827. Other major contributors to the progress of electrical engineering during the late 19th century include Otto Blathy, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. It is also important to recognize the contributions of other individuals like Alexander Graham Bell, Ernst Werner von Siemens and George Westinghouse.
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marți, 9 octombrie 2012

Chiropractic Scoliosis Treatment - Health - Alternative Medicine

<p>Scoliosis consists of several abnormal curve of the spine that pushes out laterally and creates visible or non-visible defect to the affected person. This is not contagious nor a disease developed due to lack of care or certain actions that causes curvature in spine. This has been studied by experts and questions have always been raised if chiropractic scoliosis treatment is best for those who are suffering from this condition.</p>

<p>The cause of scoliosis is unknown, which is why it is considered an idiopathic disease. So this is not a disease cause by athletes who are exerts too much pressure in their back and this is not something you get from carrying heavy backpacks. </p>

<p>This can affect anyone no matter what their age is. However, it is mostly noticed during childhood to adolescent stage, when there is a surge of growth and you can easily see the curvature of the spine.</p>

<p>Scoliosis can alter a person's appearance esepcially if the lump on the back is visible or the uneven shoulder protrudes. Although there are times that it is not easily noticed because of its "double curvature" where the spine bends twice. </p>

<p>We were made to believe that there are no options or solutions that can be done for scoliosis. But there are some that are responsive to treatment and some are resistant depending on how severe the condition is. </p>

<p>Other useful methods introduced are hydrotherapy, alexander technique and pilates.</p>

<p>One is Pilates, an exercise regime that is a combination of thoughtful movement and breathing that is said to develop a more flexible and efficient body. </p>

<p>Alexander Technique is also said to help the patient use proper body posture for maximum efficiency. </p>

<p>The most common is hydrotherapy that uses ice packs or heating pads for massage and temporary pain relief. </p>

<p>There are extreme but rare cases that require surgery and uses hooks or rods to align the spine. Before you even go for braces or surgery, you need to know that there is another solution that you can look into and that is chiropractic scoliosis treatment. This is known to be significantly more effective, if not more, than the other existing medical care for scoliosis as it focuses more on both manipulative and rehabilitative treatment like spinal manipulation.</p>

<p>Some people say that there is no reliable evidence to prove the effectiveness of this technique or if it can make any difference, but chiropractic scoliosis patients who are cured can give you some insights on how the treatment helped them relieve their pain, stabilize their condition and provided them result to a long term solution.</p>

<p>This may normally fix itself for most people, so there is no need to panic once you notice it. But one should also be careful and not leave it undiagnosed. Ignoring the symptoms may worsen your condition over time if left untreated so it is wise to seek medical help early on. Chiropractic scoliosis solution is known for its non-invasive procedure and can help you improve your range of motion in no time. This is something that you should consider if you want lesser pain and better mobility, so go to your nearest chiropractor to give you the permanent pain relief that you need.
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luni, 8 octombrie 2012

Our Films, Their Films: A World of Cinema (Pt.2) - Entertainment - Movies

<p>We continue into the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, and in this second part we will look both forwards and slightly backwards. As the Abu Dhabi Film Festival highlights this year's contenders for the Palme d'Or, it might interest you to discover those films and filmmakers who left their mark during each decade here in Cannes.</p>

<p>Although the Festival was inaugurated in 1939 and stumbled through its initial years, it was not until 1949 and the third official edition that the jury in Cannes unanimously honored only one film. The Grand Prix (then the Festival's highest prize until the creation of the Palme d'Or in 1955) was awarded to The Third Man [click on the bolded titles to view trailers or excerpts]. It was remarkable in that the film was based on Graham Greene's murder mystery, set in contemporary post-war Vienna, directed by an Englishman called Carol Reed, photographed by an Australian named Robert Krasker and produced by a Hungarian known as Alexander Korda, with a pan-European cast including Alida Valli and two very notable Americans of the time, Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. The international festival was on its way up now, and it embraced a truly international film that was both timely and classic. You now have the names of the important players and the title of the film so all that re
mains is for you to discover a terrific experience called The Third Man.</p>

<p>Now we go forwards and find Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's Biutiful, which is competing for the Palme d'Or, in all its unflinching power and lyricism. It is the film to most look forward to, and as expected it was given a very warm welcome in Cannes. Irritu and his team have conceived a complex tale of corruption that lays bare our ability to use the disease of hate and the strength with which forgiveness can rescue our wounded soul. Irritu's previous picture Babel (2006) was also a hard-hitting pulse in Cannes with its story spread across several countries, languages and plots, but in Biutiful he and the actor Javier Bardem focus exclusively on one character. Bardem delivers the role of Uxbal, a devoted father and underground businessman, with such quiet perfection that it is absolutely dazzling to behold. He carries the film in each and every scene with immense talent and subtlety. The father-of-two learns he is dying and sets about trying to put everything right in his life
before he passes away. What he does for a living is to hire out illegal immigrants, but unlike the people he deals them over to, Uxbal cares about what becomes of them. In that way he tries to do a group of illegal Chinese workers some good, but instead he ends up with blood on his hands and an extremely guilty conscience. Uxbal can communicate with souls of the recently deceased in a spiritual way, and he is called upon by others to ease the transition of their loved ones to the next life. It is this understanding of death that makes him confront what is happening to his body, while still helping mourners with their own grief. The film creates an unforgettable portrait of a flawed man through incidents and moments that will leave you wanting to revisit the film again and again. It is a whole picture that delves into the human condition fearlessly. The film is a much-needed discovery.</p>

<p>Everyone is looking for a breakthrough film and that is what will make it challenging for the jury this year. Each Competition film so far has its share of admirers and has offered something wonderful for audiences. For example, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's film A Screaming Man is extraordinary (like his prior theatrical feature, Dry Season [2006]) both in that it comes from Chad and that it is such a modest picture. This drama set in a war-torn society, severely crippled by an oppressive past and violent present, is extremely worthy of an audience anywhere in the world. It complements the theme of fathers struggling with parenthood that at least two other pictures in competition (Biutiful, Chongqing Blues) are dealing with by capturing the inner conflicts of being a father with confronting rather chilling truths. In Chongqing Blues (from Sixth Generation Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, internationally most known for Beijing Bicycle [2001]) we find a sea captain who comes back
from a long journey to discover that local police shot dead his 25-year-old son after he had taken hostages in a local mall. His efforts to learn more about the case take him on a journey through and across a distant city that is as unreadable and transformed as his estranged child. Its modernity leaves him alienated, and the focus on dislocation digs deep into a parent's mental and physical condition that is burning slowly on the inside.</p>

<p>British documentary-maker Lucy Walker - whose preceding film Waste Land (2009) is just starting to make the rounds - journeyed to Cannes to present a special screening of her most recent work, Countdown to Zero, which delves into the ubiquity of nuclear weapons and the terrifying amount of unaccounted for weapons-grade material that terrorists would love to get their hands on. The film is successful in reviving the subject matter and takes you completely off guard when it shows you how simple it would be to make a nuclear bomb with the right materials available. It is fascinating in the way that it considers how real a legitimate attack by an accident could be in our present times. It delivers startling facts such as that we came closer to nuclear war in 1995, when the Soviets had gravely mistaken a Norwegian scientific research rocket for a U.S. attack, than we did during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviet generals marched into President Boris Yeltsin's office with
the strike codes and had Yeltsin followed protocol there would have been an immediate retaliatory attack. Inexplicably, he simply refused to believe the situation and the crisis passed. Walker exposes the way major cities are vulnerable to potential nuclear calamity and argues that to protect ourselves from another atomic devastation we need the world to eliminate all nuclear arsenals.</p>

<p>Among the modern masters of cinema alive and working today is Jean-Luc Godard, who comes to Cannes this year with Film Socialism, allegedly his final film. If you have not heard of Jean-Luc Godard then here is a recap: in the spring of 1959, Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge, Franois Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour are released and fire the first salvo of the French New Wave cinema. In March 1960, Godard's Breathless is a tremendous sensation. He was probably the first director in the history of cinema to have entirely done away with the plotline and created iconoclastic films from a collage of story, newsreel, reportage, quotations, allusions and direct interviews, all of which concern his characters in contemporary times. Godard is now nearly 80 years of age and still reinventing cinema as only he can. He has been synonymous with cinema for so long that when the film showed in Cannes this week the entire Debussy auditorium was jam-packed. Go
dard's film did not need to find itself an audience because they had already found the picture and were ready for this latest offering to deliver them something radical and new. The film occurs in three various sections that continue his trend of pushing the complex relations between sound and image, and it is a kind of delicious film experience that Godard enjoys partaking in with an audience. There are scenes that take place on a cruise ship juxtaposing gorgeous images of the sea with the banalities of life on the ship. There are other sections that visit places including Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Greece, Naples and Barcelona. Languages are interspersed with each other; tricks are played with competing soundtracks; clips from classic movies flash by at strange moments to perhaps illustrate a point being made; the off-screen space is used as part of a running commentary - all of these create a patchwork that remains distant throughout the film's running time. Watching it se
nds the mind on an expedition through ancient history, entertainment, industry and ideologies to simply get you re-thinking about everything as a form of exercise. Godard puts forth an array of ideas very creatively through this essay film and invites you along on a voyage through humanity. As if winking at the audience, Film Socialism closes with large block letters: NO COMMENT.
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duminică, 7 octombrie 2012

For Those Who Want to Know More About Home Plumbing - Home - Home Repair

<p>One of the things that are often taken for granted is the plumbing system which only often gets notice when something is already wrong. Many are unaware that plumbing system has a history which can be traced from centuries ago. In the course of history, plumbing has been a political issue and a common topic for many scientific researches. In most developing nations, it has been a political issue as inadequacy in plumbing system has always been questioned. </p>

<p>The origin of the term plumbing started from the Latin word plumbum which literally means lead. This is because many pipes before and today are commonly made from lead. Plumbing officially refers to a system which involves various valves and pipes which enables bringing gas and water and takes away waste. The system is attached to a sewer system, but the two are considered to be separate entities. </p>

<p>Before, people only use outhouses rather than plumbing system, and this is the reason why many people perceive that plumbing is a concept which emerged only recently. However, it must be noted that according to many historians, the first flushing toilet was invented 2800 years ago by King Minos of Crete. Moreover, since 200 B. C., it is noted that toilets are already used as they are discovered in the tombs of several Chinese royalty. </p>

<p>The Romans have developed better systems for plumbing which included the use of a sewage system. In the Middle Ages, however, people used chamber pots and the waste contained therein are carelessly thrown from the windows to the streets and even resulted into contamination and disease. During the Plague, chamber pots are assumed by many historians to have been a major cause of many recorded deaths. </p>

<p>In 1775, plumbing change because Alexander Cummings was issued the patent for the flushing toilet and in which people have realized the significance of sanitation which paved way for more advances in plumbing systems. </p>

<p>During the early 1990s, indoor plumbing has been common for many households and in 1910, the toilet that we know today has been introduced. Modifications were made to improve the system such as reduction of sound, saving the water used, and improving the over-all physical look. Today, most piping is made from plastic rather from lead which has been the traditional material. </p>

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sâmbătă, 6 octombrie 2012

Some recipes for living long - Health - Wellness

<p>Everyone knows that kinds of disease are the killers to our health and the heavy stress in modern society leads to more and more illness. We have no enough time to do excise such as insanity workout program. Suggest that exceptional longevity may be the result of an enrichment of longevity-associated variants that counter the effect of disease-associated variants and contribute to the compression of morbidity and/or disability towards the end of these very long lives</p>

<p> Life lives in movement, want to live longer you need to take care of follow important things except excise.</p>

<p>While environment and family history are factors in healthy aging, genetic variants play a critical and complex role in conferring exceptional longevity,</p>

<p>Aging is also a disease, like any other. Our cells are programmed by nature to decay and to divide only a finite number of times. This doesn't have to be a certainty - we are advanced biological machines, and this is an engineering and science problem that can and will eventually be overcome.</p>

<p>How can we live in relatively good health? In other words, what is the secret of macrobiotic?Firstly, it is very important for us to take more fruits and vegetables because they provide vitamins and they help in the process of digestion.Secondly, Eliminate your sleep debt, "On average we sleep six-and-a-half hours a night, much less than the seven to nine hours recommended," says Jessica Alexander, spokesperson at the Sleep Council, a generic body that aims to raise awareness of the importance of a good night's sleep to health and wellbeing.Then, Exercise - Exercise is one of the most important things you can do. Without exercise, you increase your risk of a wide assortment of chronic illnesses. exercise has been proven to have a beneficial effect on a person's mental and physical state. For example: For many people insanity workout program is an extremely effective stress buster.Finally, reducing debt, it's not only people who are uninsured who face mounting debt; insuran
ce is no panacea. In the Harvard study, more than 75 percent had insurance at the start of the illness that led to bankruptcy. High deductibles and co-payments as well as services not covered by one's policy-in many cases, certain medications, psychiatric care, and physical therapy-can quickly cause debt to rise.In a word, if you want to live long you must keep health, happy and relax yourself, take care of your food and nutrition, have a disposition free from stress or emotion.
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vineri, 5 octombrie 2012

Chemotherapy - LifeMel Honey - What's All The Buzz About? - Health - Diseases and Conditions

<p>Chemotherapy is a god-send for cancer victims - there's no doubt about it! But if you have gone through it or know someone who has, you know that there is a downside to it. Simply put - the cure can kill you! While chemotherapy does kill fast-growing cancer cells, it also destroys fast-growing healthy cells, including red and white blood cells. As a result, one of the most serious potential side effects of chemotherapy is a low white blood cell count (neutropenia). This may necessitate a reduction or discontinuance of the chemotherapy, possibly allowing the cancer time to develop a resistance to the chemicals. The low white blood cell count also puts the patient at risk for severe bacterial infections.</p>

<p>How Can This Low White Blood Cell Count be Treated?</p>

<p>Conventionally, the solutions have been:</p>

<p>1. Administer certain medicines to facilitate the reproduction of the white blood cells (they all have negative side effects)</p>

<p>2. Perform blood transfusions</p>

<p>3. Halt the chemotherapy treatments until the body is able to regenerate the blood cells on its own (meanwhile the cancer is left unchecked to develop resistance)</p>

<p>Can This Side Effect Be Prevented?</p>

<p>That's where the honey comes into play. Honey has been used medicinally for centuries and is believed to have potent antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-oxidant properties. Like me, you may have been given honey in your tea when you had a cold or sore throat.</p>

<p>There are also many therapeutic herbs reputed to boost the immune system and help fight infection. Herbs such as echinacea, ginseng, nettles, etc. have historically been used for this purpose. A good friend of mine took these supplements before and during her chemo treatments and was able to endure the chemotherapy with little side effects. While it is true that there are many different chemo drugs and dosages, the various herbs have been shown in many studies to at least reduce the side effects.</p>

<p>A product called LifeMel Honey combines the honey and therapeutic herbs to produce the benefits of both. LifeMel honey is a very special honey developed after 30 years of research and clinical trials. This all-natural honey has shown in clinical studies (published in Medical Oncology) to significantly reduce the incidence of neutropenia and chemo-induced anemia.</p>

<p>History of LifeMel Honey</p>

<p>The honey was originally developed by a Russian microbiologist, Dr. Alexander Goroshit. After observing that beekeeper's families in a small Russian village all remained healthy during a cholera epidemic, he began researching the effects of controlling the food that the bees consumed. He experimented feeding the bees various medicinal herbs and discovered that the honey produced could definitely be enhanced by so doing. He continued to experiment with a combination of herbs known to boost the immune system until he developed the current formula which has been proven effective for oncology patients.</p>

<p>What Is LifeMel Honey?</p>

<p>LifeMel honey is an all-natural honey produced by bees that are fed a specific blend of therapeutic herbs including echinacea, nettles, calendula, avena sativa, melilotus, ginseng, red clover, melissa, mulberry, dandelion, chickory, bilberry, elecampane, fig and beetroot. These plants are rich in vitamins, minerals, flavanoids and essential oils that work directly on the immune system. Each herb has a specific quality to offset the negative effect of the chemo drugs, eg. echinacea is popularly believed to be an immunostimulator, stimulating the body's non-specific immune system and warding off infections; ginseng is an effective adaptogen and can protect the body from the stress of drug and radiation therapy; nettle strengthens the adrenals, allowing you to tolerate more stress with less harm, and nourishes the immune system.</p>

<p>So Why Not Just Take the Herbal Supplements?</p>

<p>In addition to the added benefit of the honey itself, it is believed that the digestive process of the bees not only incorporates but magnifies the medicinal properties of the herbs.</p>

<p>Conclusion</p>

<p>This seems to be a very simple solution to a very serious problem. If you have to undergo chemotherapy, knowing that it will destroy many good blood cells, it seems imperative to do everything possible to counteract the destructive process. Taking two teaspoonfuls of all natural honey a day (the recommended dosage) will not cure the disease, but may well make the difference in sustaining the white blood cell count so that the chemotherapy treatments can be administered to kill the cancer and not totally destroy the immune system. The combination of age-old remedies and modern medical knowledge can often produce better results than either alone.</p>

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joi, 4 octombrie 2012

Chemotherapy - LifeMel Honey - What's All The Buzz About? - Health - Diseases and Conditions

<p>Chemotherapy is a god-send for cancer victims - there's no doubt about it! But if you have gone through it or know someone who has, you know that there is a downside to it. Simply put - the cure can kill you! While chemotherapy does kill fast-growing cancer cells, it also destroys fast-growing healthy cells, including red and white blood cells. As a result, one of the most serious potential side effects of chemotherapy is a low white blood cell count (neutropenia). This may necessitate a reduction or discontinuance of the chemotherapy, possibly allowing the cancer time to develop a resistance to the chemicals. The low white blood cell count also puts the patient at risk for severe bacterial infections.</p>

<p>How Can This Low White Blood Cell Count be Treated?</p>

<p>Conventionally, the solutions have been:</p>

<p>1. Administer certain medicines to facilitate the reproduction of the white blood cells (they all have negative side effects)</p>

<p>2. Perform blood transfusions</p>

<p>3. Halt the chemotherapy treatments until the body is able to regenerate the blood cells on its own (meanwhile the cancer is left unchecked to develop resistance)</p>

<p>Can This Side Effect Be Prevented?</p>

<p>That's where the honey comes into play. Honey has been used medicinally for centuries and is believed to have potent antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-oxidant properties. Like me, you may have been given honey in your tea when you had a cold or sore throat.</p>

<p>There are also many therapeutic herbs reputed to boost the immune system and help fight infection. Herbs such as echinacea, ginseng, nettles, etc. have historically been used for this purpose. A good friend of mine took these supplements before and during her chemo treatments and was able to endure the chemotherapy with little side effects. While it is true that there are many different chemo drugs and dosages, the various herbs have been shown in many studies to at least reduce the side effects.</p>

<p>A product called LifeMel Honey combines the honey and therapeutic herbs to produce the benefits of both. LifeMel honey is a very special honey developed after 30 years of research and clinical trials. This all-natural honey has shown in clinical studies (published in Medical Oncology) to significantly reduce the incidence of neutropenia and chemo-induced anemia.</p>

<p>History of LifeMel Honey</p>

<p>The honey was originally developed by a Russian microbiologist, Dr. Alexander Goroshit. After observing that beekeeper's families in a small Russian village all remained healthy during a cholera epidemic, he began researching the effects of controlling the food that the bees consumed. He experimented feeding the bees various medicinal herbs and discovered that the honey produced could definitely be enhanced by so doing. He continued to experiment with a combination of herbs known to boost the immune system until he developed the current formula which has been proven effective for oncology patients.</p>

<p>What Is LifeMel Honey?</p>

<p>LifeMel honey is an all-natural honey produced by bees that are fed a specific blend of therapeutic herbs including echinacea, nettles, calendula, avena sativa, melilotus, ginseng, red clover, melissa, mulberry, dandelion, chickory, bilberry, elecampane, fig and beetroot. These plants are rich in vitamins, minerals, flavanoids and essential oils that work directly on the immune system. Each herb has a specific quality to offset the negative effect of the chemo drugs, eg. echinacea is popularly believed to be an immunostimulator, stimulating the body's non-specific immune system and warding off infections; ginseng is an effective adaptogen and can protect the body from the stress of drug and radiation therapy; nettle strengthens the adrenals, allowing you to tolerate more stress with less harm, and nourishes the immune system.</p>

<p>So Why Not Just Take the Herbal Supplements?</p>

<p>In addition to the added benefit of the honey itself, it is believed that the digestive process of the bees not only incorporates but magnifies the medicinal properties of the herbs.</p>

<p>Conclusion</p>

<p>This seems to be a very simple solution to a very serious problem. If you have to undergo chemotherapy, knowing that it will destroy many good blood cells, it seems imperative to do everything possible to counteract the destructive process. Taking two teaspoonfuls of all natural honey a day (the recommended dosage) will not cure the disease, but may well make the difference in sustaining the white blood cell count so that the chemotherapy treatments can be administered to kill the cancer and not totally destroy the immune system. The combination of age-old remedies and modern medical knowledge can often produce better results than either alone.</p>

<p>Start today to protect your immune system with LifeMel Honey </p>

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