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Birth of a Natural Pearl
The birth of a pearl is truly a miraculous event. Unlike gemstones or precious metals that must be mined from the earth, pearls are grown by live oysters far below the surface of the sea. Gemstones must be cut and polished to bring out their beauty. But pearls need no such treatment to reveal their loveliness. They are born from oysters complete -- with a shimmering iridescence, lustre and soft inner glow unlike any other gem on earth.
A natural pearl begins its life as a foreign object, such as a parasite or piece of shell that accidentally lodges itself in an oyster's soft inner body where it cannot be expelled. To ease this irritant, the oyster's body takes defensive action. The oyster begins to secrete a smooth, hard crystalline substance around the irritant in order to protect itself. This substance is called "nacre." As long as the irritant remains within its body, the oyster will continue to secrete nacre around it, layer upon layer. Over time, the irritant will be completely encased by the silky crystalline coatings. And the result, ultimately, is the lovely and lustrous gem called a pearl.
How something so wondrous emerges from an oyster's way of protecting itself is one of nature's loveliest surprises. For the nacre is not just a soothing substance. It is composed of microscopic crystals of calcium carbonate, aligned perfectly with one another, so that light passing along the axis of one crystal is reflected and refracted by another to produce a rainbow of light and color.
Cultured pearls share the same properties as natural pearls. Oysters form cultured pearls in an almost identical fashion. The only difference is a person carefully implants the irritant in the oyster, rather than leaving it to chance. We then step aside and let nature create its miracle.
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A natural pearl begins its life as a foreign object, such as a parasite or piece of shell that accidentally lodges itself in an oyster's soft inner body where it cannot be expelled. To ease this irritant, the oyster's body takes defensive action. The oyster begins to secrete a smooth, hard crystalline substance around the irritant in order to protect itself. This substance is called "nacre." As long as the irritant remains within its body, the oyster will continue to secrete nacre around it, layer upon layer. Over time, the irritant will be completely encased by the silky crystalline coatings. And the result, ultimately, is the lovely and lustrous gem called a pearl.
How something so wondrous emerges from an oyster's way of protecting itself is one of nature's loveliest surprises. For the nacre is not just a soothing substance. It is composed of microscopic crystals of calcium carbonate, aligned perfectly with one another, so that light passing along the axis of one crystal is reflected and refracted by another to produce a rainbow of light and color.
Cultured pearls share the same properties as natural pearls. Oysters form cultured pearls in an almost identical fashion. The only difference is a person carefully implants the irritant in the oyster, rather than leaving it to chance. We then step aside and let nature create its miracle.
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Animated Bike Wheel LED Lights
There are plenty of interesting ways to deck out your bicycle, but MonkeyLectric may have come up with the ultimate way to make it stand out on the road. The company's new Monkey Light Pro is a set of LED bars that attach to a bicycle wheel and can be programmed to play colorful animations.
This isn't the first light-up bicycle wheel system we've seen, and MonkeyLectric itself has produced other models in the past, but none have been as elaborate as this. Over the last two years, the company has been hand-making prototypes of the newer system for special events and projects. During that time, the developers practiced their manufacturing processes with smaller products until they felt ready to launch a more complex system.
The Monkey Light Pro features four bars sporting a total of 256 full-color LEDs, which fit together inside the spokes and display bright images over the entire wheel when it's in motion. Riders can upload still graphics or short animations via Bluetooth and watch them light up on both sides when the bike reaches 10 to 40 mph (15 to 65 km/h). The setup also includes a two-axis accelerometer and four magnetic sensors to track a wheel's speed and rotation, ensuring the images remain stable when speeding up, slowing down, and even riding backwards.
It's designed to fit any 26 in (66 cm) or larger bicycle wheel, and includes a stainless steel anti-theft strap to keep it secure. The system is constructed from a durable clear urethane, keeping it protected from water, vibrations, and general day-to-day use. A built-in lithium battery charges through USB, offering 3 - 8 hours of runtime at full brightness and up to 48 hours at a reduced level.
With a web-based program, users can create their own playlists of images for display, using their own files or a collection of pre-loaded animations from various artists. The software and API are also freely available to any programmers who want to experiment with other creations using the light system. Unfortunately, there's no app to control the display with a smartphone just yet, but the developers are hoping to secure funding to make that possible in the future.
MonkeyLectric is currently running a Kickstarter to finalize the design and bring it to production. At the moment, anyone who backs the project for US$695 or more will be among the first to receive the finished Monkey Light Pro, which is expected to ship in December of this year.
In the meantime, the video below shows some of the colorful and creative animations the Monkey Light Pro can display.
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Never Use Black Henna (Mehandi) - WARNING!
“BLACK HENNA” Warning
Natural Henna (Mehndi/Mehandi) is NEVER black!!!!!!!!!!
If you use Black Henna... Your skin will infect like this.. :(
Many people these days, are inquiring about the death paste "Black Henna"; not knowing the dangers behind it!
First of all, Henna is -never- black. Natural henna is plant based, and only turns out in shades of orange, red, or a deep cherry maroon. Natural henna -never- stains black!
So what is "Black Henna"?
Black henna, is full of chemicals. Mainly a chemical called PPD (para-phenylenediamine), which is found in hair dye, rubber chemicals, polyurathane and Benzene (an ingredient found in gasoline).
This is what gives you the 'black' colour on your skin.
Imagine having all those chemicals run into your bloodstream when you let the deathpaste sit on your skin for hours and hours!
Also, the cones you find it stores, could also include all these chemicals. You can smell it right away! That's why it stains you right away, and it peels off right away! This, I've heard from many clients who use to those 'emergency' cones from their local stores. And that is why they're SO cheap to buy! Because they're made in bulk with all these harmful chemicals!
Natural henna will not have the darkest stain right away. It takes 24-48 hours for it to deepen to the darkest stain (about a deep cherry maroon/red). And it does not peel away so soon. It will be rich in colour for atleast 5-7 days until it slowly starts to fade away. And for it to be completely gone, it may take several weeks and sometimes even a month!
What can black henna do to you?
In worst cases, it can cause damage to your liver, kidney, and possibly cancer! It can also scar/burn you. Sometimes it's temporary but sometimes it can be permanent. Why risk that? When you can get absolutely gorgeous results from Natural henna!
If you're getting henna done at a local festival, fair, or even internationally while on vacation; you have all the rights to ask what is in the paste.
Mixing henna is no big secret. Any good, professional henna artist will tell you what is in their paste.
NJ's Unique Henna Art does NOT use or support the use of 'black henna'.
Our paste is 100% natural and fresh.
We all have computers, laptops, ipads, phones which we can use the internet on. Please take a few minutes to just search on google "Dangers of black henna" and you'll be horrified by all the results!
And FYI, the use of black henna is illegal in Canada.
So, PLEASE stay away from 'Black Henna' and just stick with Natural henna!
Hope this helped and changed your view on black henna!
Be informed and Be safe!
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On this Diwali... Be safe and stay away from Black Henna.....
Happy Henna!
This is What Snake Venom Does to Blood!
This is What Snake Venom Does to Blood!
What happens to blood if a snake bites....!
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What happens to blood if a snake bites....!
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Drunken Guy - Funny Accident!
Drunken Guy continuously hitting vehicles and falling in a well - Funny Accident!
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Angry Birds + Mario (Funny Creation)
Angry Birds + Mario (Funny Creation)
Mixed Video Game.. An imagination.
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Mixed Video Game.. An imagination.
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How Cesarean (C-Section) Is Performed! - Husbands must watch!
How Cesarean (C-Section) Is Performed! - Husbands must watch!
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Chinese surgeon builds new nose on man's forehead
Beijing: A surgeon in China says he has constructed an extra nose out of a man's rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind.
Surgeon Guo Zhihui at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital in China's southeastern province of Fujian spent nine months cultivating the graft for a 22-year-old man whose nose was damaged.
The striking images of the implant - with the nostril section facing diagonally upward on the left side of the man's forehead - drew widespread publicity after they began to circulate in Chinese media this week. Guo plans to cut the nose from the forehead while leaving a section of skin still connected, and then rotate and graft it into position in a later operation.
"We were just interested in helping the man and did not expect it would stir up this much attention," Guo said in an interview on Friday with The Associated Press.
Surgeons previously have used cartilage to help rebuild noses in their proper position and are experimenting with growing new ones from stem cells on other parts of the body, such as a forearm. But this was the first known case of building a nose on a forehead.
Alexander Seifalian, a professor of nanotechnology and regenerative medicine at University College London who has worked on transplants using stem cells, said implanting the nose graft in the forehead makes sense because the skin there has the same "structure and texture" as that of a nose.
However, he said it was unclear why the Chinese team built the nose on the forehead rather than in its proper position. A nose graft grown from stem cells would be prepared on another body part first, but this operation is using existing cartilage, Seifalian said.
"They could have made the nose and just put it on the nose, not in the forehead," Seifalian said. "I don't know why they put it there."
However, Seifalian noted that he had not seen any scientific information on the Chinese operation and was just going by media reports.
The patient lost part of his nose in an accident in August 2012 and did not immediately have any reconstruction surgery because he couldn't afford it, Guo said. An infection later ate away much of his nose cartilage, he said.
Guo said his team examined what remained of the nose and concluded there would be little chance of viably grafting cartilage there, instead building the nose on the forehead.
When the new nose is rotated into position and grafted, it will at first have its own blood supply from links to the forehead, before developing new blood vessels. Later surgery will smooth out all of the skin.
The team first expanded skin on the man's forehead for more than three months before using rib cartilage to build the nose bridge. Lastly, Guo's team built the nostrils.
"We sculpted the nose three-dimensionally, like carpenters," he said.
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/chinese-surgeon-builds-new-nose-on-mans-forehead/425196-2.html
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Surgeon Guo Zhihui at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital in China's southeastern province of Fujian spent nine months cultivating the graft for a 22-year-old man whose nose was damaged.
The striking images of the implant - with the nostril section facing diagonally upward on the left side of the man's forehead - drew widespread publicity after they began to circulate in Chinese media this week. Guo plans to cut the nose from the forehead while leaving a section of skin still connected, and then rotate and graft it into position in a later operation.
"We were just interested in helping the man and did not expect it would stir up this much attention," Guo said in an interview on Friday with The Associated Press.
Surgeons previously have used cartilage to help rebuild noses in their proper position and are experimenting with growing new ones from stem cells on other parts of the body, such as a forearm. But this was the first known case of building a nose on a forehead.
Alexander Seifalian, a professor of nanotechnology and regenerative medicine at University College London who has worked on transplants using stem cells, said implanting the nose graft in the forehead makes sense because the skin there has the same "structure and texture" as that of a nose.
However, he said it was unclear why the Chinese team built the nose on the forehead rather than in its proper position. A nose graft grown from stem cells would be prepared on another body part first, but this operation is using existing cartilage, Seifalian said.
"They could have made the nose and just put it on the nose, not in the forehead," Seifalian said. "I don't know why they put it there."
However, Seifalian noted that he had not seen any scientific information on the Chinese operation and was just going by media reports.
The patient lost part of his nose in an accident in August 2012 and did not immediately have any reconstruction surgery because he couldn't afford it, Guo said. An infection later ate away much of his nose cartilage, he said.
Guo said his team examined what remained of the nose and concluded there would be little chance of viably grafting cartilage there, instead building the nose on the forehead.
When the new nose is rotated into position and grafted, it will at first have its own blood supply from links to the forehead, before developing new blood vessels. Later surgery will smooth out all of the skin.
The team first expanded skin on the man's forehead for more than three months before using rib cartilage to build the nose bridge. Lastly, Guo's team built the nostrils.
"We sculpted the nose three-dimensionally, like carpenters," he said.
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/chinese-surgeon-builds-new-nose-on-mans-forehead/425196-2.html
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Herbal Cure for Pimples:
Herbal Cure for Pimples: A combination of lemon juice and rose water when applied on the pimples and left for half an hour is a good remedy for pimples. This should be continued for three to four weeks as a natural home remedy.
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Back Pain: Yoga Poses for Backache
How To Yoga Stretches for Low Back Pain & Sciatica Relief
Natural Methods to cure Backache Problems - Baba Ramdev
All asana’s should be repeated for a minimum of three times, and a maximum of five times each. Do not suspend or retain your breath if you have blood pressure, cardiac problem or are pregnant. Breathe normally in that position.
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Did you ever wonder why people eat popcorn in the cinema?
Did you ever wonder why people eat popcorn in the cinema?
With the arrival of talking movies and the Great Depression, popcorn suddenly exploded, so to speak. Anybody could afford it with prices as low as five cents a bag, and vendors could get a space inside or outside a theater to give moviegoers a snack on their way into the theater.
Soon popcorn became a major cash cow for theater owners, who could spend $10 for a hundred pounds of kernels and sell over a thousand bags. Most popcorn was generated by hand at first, but during the labor shortage of World War II (which also saw sugar rationing that cut out popcorn's main competitor, candy bars), mechanical harvesting made popcorn faster and easier to make.
The study, in the current issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, has important implications for understanding overeating and the conditions that may cause people to eat even when they are not hungry or do not like the food.
Lead author David Neal said: 'When we’ve repeatedly eaten a particular food in a particular environment, our brain comes to associate the food with that environment and makes us keep eating as long as those environmental cues are present.'
The researchers also gave popcorn to a control group watching movie clips in a meeting room, rather than in a cinema.
In the meeting room, a space not usually associated with popcorn, it mattered a lot if the popcorn tasted good. Outside of the cinema context, even habitual movie popcorn eaters ate much less stale popcorn than fresh popcorn, demonstrating the extent to which environmental cues can trigger automatic eating behaviour.
Sources: daily mail, oscars
With the arrival of talking movies and the Great Depression, popcorn suddenly exploded, so to speak. Anybody could afford it with prices as low as five cents a bag, and vendors could get a space inside or outside a theater to give moviegoers a snack on their way into the theater.
Soon popcorn became a major cash cow for theater owners, who could spend $10 for a hundred pounds of kernels and sell over a thousand bags. Most popcorn was generated by hand at first, but during the labor shortage of World War II (which also saw sugar rationing that cut out popcorn's main competitor, candy bars), mechanical harvesting made popcorn faster and easier to make.
The study, in the current issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, has important implications for understanding overeating and the conditions that may cause people to eat even when they are not hungry or do not like the food.
Lead author David Neal said: 'When we’ve repeatedly eaten a particular food in a particular environment, our brain comes to associate the food with that environment and makes us keep eating as long as those environmental cues are present.'
The researchers also gave popcorn to a control group watching movie clips in a meeting room, rather than in a cinema.
In the meeting room, a space not usually associated with popcorn, it mattered a lot if the popcorn tasted good. Outside of the cinema context, even habitual movie popcorn eaters ate much less stale popcorn than fresh popcorn, demonstrating the extent to which environmental cues can trigger automatic eating behaviour.
Sources: daily mail, oscars
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How Hackers Hack Facebook Account - Be carefull
People are hijacking online sessions on Facebook using the Firefox extension "Firesheep" and many other sites such as Myspace, Youtube, etc.
The way they're gaining access is through your public wifi connection. To prevent YOUR account from being stolen, do NOT log onto public wifi in your area that you can not trust.
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The way they're gaining access is through your public wifi connection. To prevent YOUR account from being stolen, do NOT log onto public wifi in your area that you can not trust.
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Plugged in, not charging - Windows 7 solution
I recently had the popular problem of Windows 7 battery manager malfunctioning and not charging my battery when plugged in. The battery was fine, the power supply was fine, and the motherboard was fine (I have enough laptops with the same specs in the Headspring office, and I was able to swap out parts to isolate the problem).
I also searched for this problem online, and many folks are having this problem with all makes of laptop computers. I found the steps that solved my problem here on the TechNet forums.
There are multiple solutions proposed, and here are the steps that fixed it for me:
- Disconnect AC
- Shutdown
- Remove battery
- Connect AC
- Startup
- Start--> type "device" --> Device Manager --> Batteries or WinKey+R --> type devmgmt.msc and hit enter to get the Device Manager.
- Under the Batteries category, right-click all of the Microsoft ACPI Compliant Control Method Battery listings, and select Uninstall (it’s ok if you only have 1).
8. Shutdown
9. Disconnect AC
10. Insert Battery
11. Connect AC
12. Start-up.
FIXED !
Please comment if this fixes your problem so that others can solve their problem sooner. I was surprised at how many people were having this problem with Windows 7.
How does the "Reserve Petrol Tank" Work In Bikes?
In Most of the Bikes,we have a provision for RESERVE TANK to
help the rider to go to nearest fuel station when the main tank runs
out of fuel. Some might misunderstand that reserve tank is a separate
tank.
But actually, your main Petrol tank and your reserve petrol tank are the same tank. The only thing that differentiates 'main' from 'reserve' is which standpipe is being used to collect fuel. When your petcock is toggled over to 'Main,' a taller standpipe is being used, and so when the petrol gets below the level of this taller standpipe, the bike putters out and dies. Then when you switch over to 'Reserve,' a shorter standpipe is used to draw fuel from the tank. Thus, the bike will start up and run for a while longer.
Here's a crude little picture I made to show how this works: But actually, your main Petrol tank and your reserve petrol tank are the same tank. The only thing that differentiates 'main' from 'reserve' is which standpipe is being used to collect fuel. When your petcock is toggled over to 'Main,' a taller standpipe is being used, and so when the petrol gets below the level of this taller standpipe, the bike putters out and dies. Then when you switch over to 'Reserve,' a shorter standpipe is used to draw fuel from the tank. Thus, the bike will start up and run for a while longer.
This provision is used in bikes which do not have fuel gauges to show fuel levels.The reserve capacity of a fuel tank may vary from 10-20% depending on the manufacturer.
We can calculate mileage of a bike by measuring the reserve to reserve distance traveled and fuel consumed.Mileage depends on various parameters of which the road traveled is one.
What Exactly Is a Petcock?
The petcock is a 3-position valve that changes the fuel source. The 3 positions are Off (switch is pointed towards the back of the bike), On (switch is pointed straight down), and Reserve (switch is pointed toward the front of the bike). The fuel petcock is located on the left side of the bike, about where your left knee would be while riding, above the frame, hanging off of the petrol tank. The lever is shown in each of the 3 positions below:
Petcock In On Position
Petcock In Off Position
Petcock In Reserve Position
The petcock also contains a secondary valve that is vacuum activated. Fuel can only flow when there is a vacuum from the left carb. applied to the nipple on the bottom of the petcock. Fuel exits from the nipple on the back of the petcock.
- blue line traces fuel flow from reserve
- red line traces fuel flow in normal position
- fuel exits back of petcock while vacuum line connects to bottom of petcock
What is the "Off" Position Used For?
Any time your bike is going to be parked for more than an hour, you should switch the petcock to 'Off,' according to our beloved FOG. The petcock is somewhat failure prone. If the petcock is left 'On,' and it is leaky, then it may leak fuel into the carburetors, and then, imperfect float valves in the carburetors will leak fuel into the engine, through the intake valves, and into the crankcase. Which is bad. Turning the Petcock 'Off' when you're not riding is a safety measure which may prevent this from happening if your petcock develops a leak.
This video shows how to disassemble the petcock for a rebuild:
Out Of Petrol: Two Final Notes
Two final notes on running out of petrol:
First of all, here's a scenario that has happened to most of us. You're out riding, minding your own business, on 'Main,' when all of a sudden your bike putters out and dies. No big deal, right? Switch over to reserve, and crank it to be on your way. But the bike won't start.... 2 minutes later, all of a sudden it starts up properly and you're off. Why the delay?
When you run completely out of petrol while on 'Main,' the carburetors are sucked dry of fuel. It takes a little bit of time (or a little bit of cranking the bike) to get fuel sucked back through the carburetors. So next time you run completely out of petrol, just sit for a few minutes before you get worried, and then once you've given the fuel a few minutes to get through all the petrol lines, through the carburetors, and to your engine, you'll be good to go.
And, lastly, another scenario that has hit an unfortunate few of us. You're riding. Hit reserve, switch over, keep riding, no big deal. But there are no petrol pump (bunk) in sight. Finally you burn up all the fuel in 'Reserve' and you're still not to a petrol pump (bunk). Well, don't panic just yet. Often there is a little bit of leftover petrol which is not accessible to your Reserve standpipe, because it is on the other side of a hump in the petrol tank. Lean your bike as far over to the left as you can without dropping it (that should be, really really far), and then go back vertical again. If you're lucky, you'll now be able to make it a few more miles, and if you're really lucky, you might even make it to a petrol pump (bunk). The below image depicts this 'leftover petrol.'
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Health Benefits of Drinking Green Tea
Cancer Prevention : Green Tea loaded with antioxidants which helps to fight off many forms of cancers like breast, colon, colorectal, skin, lung, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, liver, ovarian, prostate and oral cancers. It promotes the growth of new blood cells and damage the cancer causing cells.
Lose Weight : According to studies,consumption of Green Tea helps to increase the rate of calorie burning by the body. It reduces the bad cholesterol,blood fat and detoxifies the body. So the best way to lose weight is having a Green Tea Daily along with regular exercises.
Healthy Heart: Green Tea has the ability to reduce the blood cholesterol and burns the harmful fat of the body. According to japanese research, drinking 4 cups of green tea daily reduces the risk of heart diseases in the men.The flavonoids present in the green tea protect the heart by relaxing the blood vessels so blood can flow more easily and lowers the risk of heart attack.
Anti-Aging : The antioxidant present in the green tea named "Oligomeric proanthocyandins' helps to fight free radicals and promoting longevity.
Boosts Immunity : Green Tea contains Polyphenols and Flavonoids which helps to boost the immune system and makes the human body stronger to fight from various infections. Green tea also helps to relieve from cold and flu as it contains vitamin C.
Diabetes Prevention : Green Tea stabilizes the blood sugar levels. According to studies, Green Tea can be used as a aid for diabetes and can prevent the development of type 1 diabetes.
Neurological Diseases : Green Tea contains polyphenols which helps to boosts the learning and memory power. It also helps in prevention from neurological diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
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