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Syngenta Crop Protection Chinese Customs for 2016 Year of the Monkey | Master Simon Wong (Yellow Dragon) Here are some Chinese customs to bring you luck in the Year of the Monkey. This is an excerpt from my forthcoming 2016 Feng Shui and Chinese Astrology Guide. Changing the Year God: 2nd February 2016 Thanking the Kitchen God: 2nd February 2016 Clean and decorate the house: 7th February 2016 Chinese New Year’s Day: 8th February 2016 Inviting the Money God into your home: 8th February 2016 Many western people will not believe in these Chinese Customs. However I can tell you that they are based on Chinese Astrology, and therefore they do work, by using the different types of radiation emitted by each planet in the solar system. In previous years many of my western students have tried the Chinese custom of inviting the Money God into the home to see if it would help. It is important to realise the difference between science and psychology. Changing the Year God - 2nd February 2016 The suitable times for this are: 3am – 5am, 7am – 9am, 5pm – 9pm To do this you need the Year God talisman. 1.
10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web Not everything on the web will show up in a list of search results on Google or Bing; there are lots of places that their web crawlers cannot access. To explore the invisible web, you need to use specialist search engines. Here are our top 12 services to perform a deep internet search. What Is the Invisible Web? Before we begin, let's establish what does the term "invisible web" refer to? Simply, it's a catch-all term for online content that will not appear in search results or web directories. There are no official data available, but most experts agree that the invisible web is several times larger than the visible web. The content on the invisible web can be roughly divided into the deep web and the dark web. The Deep Web The deep web made up of content that typically needs some form of accreditation to access. If you have the correct details, you can access the content through a regular web browser. The Dark Web The dark web is a sub-section of the deep web. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Acupuncture: ancient tradition meets modern science - Special Collection Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the world. It has been practiced in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years. According to the philosophy of traditional acupuncture, energy circulates in ’meridians’ located throughout the body. When something occurs to cause this meridian energy circulation to be blocked, pain or ill health will result. The way to restore energy circulation, health, and balance, is to stimulate the appropriate combination of the estimated 400 traditional meridian acupuncture points in the body, generally by using fine stainless steel needles. In some cases a small electrical impulse is added to the needles. Research suggests that acupuncture may work by stimulating the nervous system to release neurotransmitters involved in pain-suppressing mechanisms or by suppressing the nervous system pathways involved in the sensory and affective components of pain. Asthma Acupuncture for chronic asthma Eyes & vision Acupuncture for glaucoma Headache
Light skin mutation stems from one ancestor All instances of a gene mutation that contributes to light skin color in Europeans came from the same chromosome of one person who most likely lived at least 10,000 years ago, according to researchers. While the genetics of skin color is largely unclear, past research using zebrafish by Penn State’s Keith Cheng identified a key gene that contributes to lighter skin color in Europeans and differs from West Africans. In 2005, Cheng reported that one amino acid difference in the gene SLC24A5 is a key contributor to the skin color difference between Europeans and West Africans. “The mutation in SLC24A5 changes just one building block in the protein, and contributes about a third of the visually striking differences in skin tone between peoples of African and European ancestry,” says Cheng, professor of pathology. Lighter skin color may have provided an advantage for the better creation of vitamin D in the lesser sunlight characteristic of northern latitudes. Source: Penn State
» Top Tools & Directory C4LPT EmailShare 0EmailShare Learning Technologies Magazine, October 2010 This is a two-part article that looks at the emerging trends in learning tools and the implications for Learning & Development. In this part, Jane Hart, a Social Business Consultant from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, looks at the trends emerging from her annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list. For the last 4 years I have been compiling a list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning generated from the Top 10 Tools contributions of learning professionals worldwide - both from education (teachers, academics, etc) as well as those involved in workplace learning (learning managers, instructional designers, trainers, consultants, analysts, etc). Although it is often pointed out to me that this is a self-selecting bunch of contributors – ones who are perhaps more web savvy than a large number of workplace learning professionals – it generates a huge amount of interest each year. 3- Social tools predominate
CAM Websites: Integrative Medicine: University of Maryland School of Medicine The Internet links below provide access to sites with content pertaining to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). These sites are not affiliated with the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and as such inclusion in this listing does not imply an endorsement of these organizations or the content of these sites. A.D.A.M. Culpeper | The Recipes Project Whilst perusing some seventeenth century recipes for medicines I stumbled across a few curious ingredients. Granted, many of the ingredients found in Johanna St. John’s recipe book – aside from now common herbs and spices like cinnamon or saffron – might look odd to the modern eye. Some of the ingredients that struck me were spermaceti (sperm whale fat); the sole of an old but clean shoe, burnt to ashes; a crab’s eyes, and the black tips of its claws. As I read I couldn’t help but assume that the addition of spices, or the use of wine, sugar, and brandy might have best served to make some of the recipes more palatable. In the mid-seventeenth century Nicholas Culpeper’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (1652) heavily criticized the Royal College of Physician’s required inventory for Culpeper and his fellow apothecaries. And he just loved manure, as you may have guessed by now. *Boyle’s manuscript reads: “Take Paracelsus’s Zebethum Occidentale (viz. Works Cited: Ball, Philip. Boyle, Robert.
Magical Properties of Herbs Acacia (Acacia Nilotica) Also called gum arabic. Gender: Masculine, Planet: Sun, Element: Air, Deities: Osiris, Astarte, Diana, Ra Protection, Psychic Powers. Burn with sandalwood to open psychic centers. Parts used: dried gum, leaves, wood Aconite (Aconitum Napellus) Also called wolfsbane, monkshood, blue rocket *POISON* Don't ingest. Protection, Invisibility. African Violet (Saintpaulia ionantha) Gender: Feminine, Planet: Venus, Element: Water Spirituality, Protection. Agaric (Amanita muscaria) aka magic mushroom, redcap, death angel, death cap Gender: Masculine, Planet: Mercury, Element: Air, Deity: Dionysus Fertility. Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria) Also called Church steeples, cocklebur, stickwort, sticklewort Gender: Masculine, Planet: Jupiter, Element: Air Protection, Sleep. Alfalfa (Medicavo Sativa) Gender: Feminine, Planet: Venus, Element: Earth Prosperity, Anti-hunger, Money. Allspice (Pimenta officinalis or P. dioica) Masculine, Mars, Fire Money, Luck, Healing. Protection, Luck.
About - Cochrane CAM Field: Integrative Medicine: University of Maryland School of Medicine The Cochrane CAM Field is an international group of individuals dedicated to facilitating the production of systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials in areas such as acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy and mind-body therapy. It is a member entity of the Cochrane Collaboration, a worldwide organization that prepares systematic reviews of all kinds of healthcare therapies, and publishes these reviews in The Cochrane Library . Founded in 1996 and coordinated by the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine, the Cochrane CAM Field has worked steadily to meet the growing demand for information about CAM therapies among both practitioners and the general public by identifying published clinical trials of alternative therapies, preparing systematic reviews, training systematic reviewers, disseminating systematic reviews to the general public and healthcare providers, and conducting research to improve systematic review methodology.