Thursday, September 09, 2010

How to increase my body weight

Even though I can appreciate your desire to put on weight, I am unable to recommend the use of development hormone products for this purpose.
Growth hormone is produced by the pituitary gland at the front of the brain, just over the back of the nose.
It is one of a number of tropic hormones which control the growth and activity of the body as a entire or of other hormone secreting glands.
Growth hormone is indicated for the long-term treatment of children who have growth failure due to a lack of growth hormone.It is also used in short height children with Turner's condition confirmed by chromosome analysis and for the treatment of growth retardation in prepubertal children with chronic renal insufficiency.
In adults, growth hormone is indicated for stand-in therapy for pronounced growth hormone deficiency, which has been confirmed by two different special tests.
At six feet tall, you are clearly not short of natural growth hormone circulating about your own body.
One's height and anatomical skin tone however, depend upon other inherited factors from your parents.
Boosting energy, reducing fat and increasing muscle power are best achieved through a healthy balance of good diet and planned, graduated exercise, working on different muscle groups according to precise needs.
As for wrinkles and hair growth these factors become more difficult to manage with the way of time as most of us would testify.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Germany Plans:

Germany Plans Limits on Facebook Use in Hiring

As part of the breeze of a law governing workplace privacy, the German government on Wednesday proposed placing limitations on employers who want to use Facebook profiles when recruiting.

The bill would allow managers to search for publicly accessible information about potential employees on the Web and to view their pages on job networking sites, like LinkedIn or Xing. But it would draw the line at purely social networking sites like Facebook, said Philipp Spauschus, a spokesman for the center Minister, Thomas de Maizière.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet on Wednesday gave its backing to the proposed law. The bill will now go to Parliament for discussion, and could be passed as early as this year, Mr. Spauschus said.



The law also would forbid companies from secretly videotape employees, though they could still videotape in certain areas as long as they disclosed the fact. It would also allow employers to hold secret investigations when they suspected a crime had been committed.

Germany’s Nazi-era history has made the country extremely cautious on matters of individual privacy. Concerns have been heightened in recent years by scandals involving companies’ secret videotaping of employees, as well as intercepting their e-mail and bank data. The blast of Web-based information tools has added to the restlessness.

The German authorities are investigating Google for having collected private Internet information while doing research for its Street View mapping service, and they have asked Apple to explain its data-collection policies for the iPhone.

Facebook, which says it has more than 500 million users worldwide, with about 10 million in Germany, has come under fire for what some consider privacy shortcomings, as when the site changed its default settings to reveal more of individuals’ personal data. The German proposal, however, is aimed squarely at employers.

Peter Schaar, the German commissioner for data protection and freedom of information, told The Associated Press that the proposal was “a extensive improvement on the status quo in dealing with employees’ data.”

There are currently no rules governing how companies use Facebook data, Mr. Spauschus said. The suggestion is meant to create guidelines for the judges in handling the cases that will unavoidably arise as social networking penetrates further into everyday life, he said, and companies would also benefit from clear rules.

Sarah Roy, a spokeswoman in Paris for Facebook, said the company generally did not comment on legislation as a matter of policy. But she said that the Web site’s privacy settings allowed users to share information as broadly or as narrowly as they liked, either with entire networks or with a limited number of participants.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Diamond Mine Field Trip on Despite Strike


We woke up Wednesday morning to find out that all unionized government workers, including public school teachers, were on strike. All schools were shuttered and we worried that no one would show up for our workshop.

But we arrived at class to find all of our teachers present. They told us this was a once in a life span chance and they didn’t want to miss a moment.

For the day’s activities we traveled to the Cullinan diamond mine, where one of the world’s largest diamond—the Star of Africa—was discovered. With help from a Cullinan tour guide, Ed and I discussed how diamonds form deep in the Earth. The mine is still active today and we watched as rock was elated to the surface to be crushed and washed for diamond separation. This sparked a discussion about the types of careers that are available in the mining industry – everything from geologists to engineers to miners to doctors.


After the trip, we talked about other potential field trips and how to plan a teaching curriculum around them. One major reason I went into geology was to be out in the field exploring. Field trips are a great way to teach students to observe the world around them and gain a deeper understanding of the subject material.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

More assistance for fire and flood victims

Gold Coast City Council today decided to extend its assistance package for victims of the Victorian bushfires and the North Queensland floods by an additional $210,000.

Mayor Ron Clarke said Council had investigated a wide range of suggestions from the Gold Coast community and the extra funding would bring Council’s total contribution to approximately $500,000.

“Today’s resolution focused on establishing the necessary arrangements to offer subsidised Gold Coast holidays for affected people and providing whatever support is appropriate - including staff and equipment - to an identified Victorian local government area.

“Of the additional money allocated today, $100,000 will subsidise holiday accommodation for families, individuals and emergency response staff.”

Cr Clarke said that Gold Coast Tourism would be asked to compile a database of tourism operators who are prepared to provide appropriate holiday packages for this purpose.

“Council will itself look to allocate 700 self-contained cabin nights’ accommodation at Gold Coast Tourist Parks for the rest of 2009. Available powered caravan sites would also be offered.”

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Shipping

Shipping is basic method of transporting goods and cargo. Virtually every product ever made, bought, or sold has been exaggerated by shipping. Despite the lots of variables in shipped products and locations, there are only three basic types of shipments, land, air, and sea.

Land or ground shipping can be either by train or by automobile. Trucking is easily the most accepted form of shipping. Even in Air and Sea shipments, ground transportation is still required to take the product from its origin to the airport or seaport and then to its purpose. Ground transportation is typically more affordable than air shipments, but more costly than shipping by sea. Trucks are also much quicker than ships and rail but slower than planes.

Ground shipping can be cheaper and less limiting to size, quantity, weight, and type of freight than by air transport. Air transport is usually held in reserve for products which must be sent within a shorter time frame. Shipping can more generally refer to the transport of freight, self-determining of the mode of transport.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Mental health

Mental health is a concept that refers to a human individual's emotional and psychological well-being. Merriam-Webster defines mental health as "A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life.

According to the World Health Organization, there is no one "official" definition of mental health. Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how "mental health" is defined. In general, most experts agree that "mental health" and "mental illness" are not opposites. In other words, the absence of a recognized mental disorder is not necessarily an indicator of mental health.

One way to think about mental health is by looking at how effectively and successfully a person functions. Feeling capable and competent; being able to handle normal levels of stress, maintain satisfying relationships, and lead an independent life; and being able to "bounce back, or recover from difficult situations, are all signs of mental health.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

River

A river is a natural waterway that transits water through a setting from higher to lower elevations. A river may have its basis in a spring, lake, from damp, boggy landscapes where the soil is waterlogged, from glacial melt, or from surface runoff of precipitation. Almost each and every one river is joined by other rivers and streams termed tributaries the highest of which are known as headwaters. Water may also begin from groundwater sources. Throughout the course of the river, the total volume transported downstream will often be a combination of the free water flow together with a important contribution flowing through sub-surface rocks and gravels that underlie the river and its floodplain. For many rivers in large valleys, this unseen component of flow may greatly go above the visible flow.

From their source, all rivers flow downhill, typically terminating in the sea or in a lake, through a confluence. In arid areas rivers sometimes end by losing water to desertion. River water may also infiltrate into the soil or pervious rock, where it becomes groundwater. Excessive abstraction of water for use in commerce, irrigation, etc., can also cause a river to dry before success its natural terminus.