11 Ways to Keep Your PC Cool

 

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Hubble Celebrates 24th Anniversary with Infrared Image of Nearby Star Factory

In celebration of the 24th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured infrared-light images of a churning region of star birth 6,400 light-years away. This colorful Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula unveils a collection of carved knots of gas and dust silhouetted against glowing gas. The cloud is sculpted by ultraviolet light eating into the cool hydrogen gas. > Read more Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Treatment of back pains

 

By Anne Asher

Treatment options for the different types of back pain and neck pain range from doing nothing to taking medication and undergoing procedures, like surgery. Throw in alternative treatment for back pain, and you can see there is a dizzying array of treatment options from which you and your doctor may choose. But which back pain treatment is right for you? This section will help you decide.

Types of Back and Neck Treatments

Treatment for back and neck pain ranges from "conservative care," (easy things like ice packs and exercises) to very invasive measures -- such as back surgery. Most of the time, your doctor will start your treatment as conservatively as possible, and, based on your back or neck's response, will determine your need for more invasive measures. This section presents the spectrum of treatment disciplines.

Conservative Care for Back Pain

Conservative care consists of physical therapy, medications, home exercise programs and manual therapy (thin massage). With conservative, non-invasive treatments, nothing is inserted into your spine, and you are not opened up on the operating table. In short, the risk is low, but in some cases, the effectiveness rate may be lower, too.

Back Doctors

Most of the time back pain goes away by itself. However, there are a few signs that may indicate the need for an appointment with a spine doctor or, in some cases, a trip to the emergency room. When in doubt, it is important to call your doctor. This section gives information for the times when it is appropriate to seek medical attention for your back or neck pain.

Medications and Drugs

This section contains drug profiles along with definitions of terms you should know if you take mediciation for back or neck pain. Be an educated consumer!

Back Surgery

No one wants to be cut up. It can be painful, inconvenient and risky. But if you've gotten little to no relief with conservative, non-invasive treatments, your doctor may suggest surgery. Here's the run down on back and neck surgery.

Pain and Pain Management

If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of having exhausted all your treatment options with unsatisfactory results, you may need pain management. Pain management is a branch of medicine that treats your pain as the disease. By nature, it is a multidisciplinary approach to the management of out-of-control pain.

Preventing Neck and Back Pain

What could be bettern than never getting back or neck pain in the first place? Here are some tips.

First Aid for Back and Neck Injury

No one wants to think the unthinkable, but most people are glad when someone on the scene of an injury has first aid certification and skill. This is especially true when it comes to injuries involving the neck. Getting the appropriate treatment for a neck or back injury as soon as it happens is extremely important to the outcome of that injury. This section contains information and procedures for emergency care for back and neck injuries.

Alt Medicine and Bodywork

According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, back pain is the number one reason why people seek alternative or complementary medicine. Neck pain is number 3. While there are many types of alternative treatments available, the research on them has yet to catch up with those of standard medicine. So it is a buyer beware marketplace. This section will help you stay informed on the developments in this burgeoning field.

 

Symptoms of Back Pain

 

Communicating Your Back Pain Symptoms to Your Doctor

By Anne Asher

Updated March 21, 2014

Back and neck pain are subjective -- there are few, if any, definitive tests that can measure and diagnose the experience. Therefore, it falls on you to communicate your back pain symptoms to your doctor. By accurately noting your symptoms, and giving your doctor a clear picture of them, you are taking an important step toward getting a diagnosis. Here are some things to note:

Pain Intensity

How bad does it hurt? Intensity is a measure of how strong the signals of felt pain are. As a back pain sufferer, this is probably the most important part of the ordeal for you. Intensity levels fluctuate, so it is impossible to get a useful, accurate measurement of them from objective testing. Instead, doctors and other health care providers use visual assessment tools and questionnaires to help you communicate your level of pain.

Download a Pain Chart and Keep Track of Your Daily Pain

Type of Pain

The types of painful feelings you have in your back or neck are an indication of what is going on in your spine. For example, if you experience burning, stabbing or electrical sensations down one leg or arm, it may indicate an irritated nerve. If your back muscles feel stiff or tight you may have pain due to an injury, or posture problems, or both.

More Information on Types of Pain

Location of Pain

The location of your pain may or may not be related to damage or an injury in your spine. If a nerve is affected, the pain may radiate down an arm or leg, as is the case in sciatica. If you have trigger points or other myofascial pain, you might experience referred pain -- pain located in an area that is seemingly unrelated to the actual site of the problem. Pain is often located in more than one area of the body.

A body diagram can be used to map and track the location of the pain as it changes (or doesn't) over time. The body diagram is also a tool to help you communicate your symptoms of back pain clearly and accurately to your doctor.

In an effort to identify the cause of your back pain, your doctor might use the information you provide about the location of your pain to probe for more details.

 

Earthrise

 

Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts-Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders-held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the Earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft. Said Lovell, "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth." They ended the broadcast with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis.
Image Credit: NASA

 

Theoretical physicist David Kaplan discusses Particle Fever and the Higgs Boson

 

Theoretical physicist David Kaplan discusses Particle Fever and the Higgs Boson Particle Fever, a documentary film about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Higgs boson, has caught the attention of scientists and non-scientists alike. This interview with David Kaplan, a Johns Hopkins University physics professor and the film's producer, provides a little behind-the-scenes look at life as a physicist and some decision making involved in making Particle Fever.

            

almond milk cacao avocado banana smoothie

 

 

Craving something sweet? Try this cacao, banana and avocado smoothie. It’s the ultimate sweet fix. The combination of banana, cacao, dates, avocado, almond milk and almond butter is too incredible as each glass is just so deliciously smooth, rich, creamy and chocolatey. Yet still so wonderfully light and, even better, so speedy to make – literally three minutes from cupboard to cup. It’s like a new and improved take on chocolate milk, just a million times healthier! The over-ripe banana, dates and drop of agave really make this so unbelievably sweet, it’s almost hard to believe that it is natural. Trust me, everyone will love this. It was such a hit in the flat last night that we ended up licking the blender clean! It’s just that good. So sweet, so natural, so easy. Recipes like this really make not eating processed sugar, chocolate and candy too easy. I never would have thought I’d say it, but Haribo, Ben & Jerrys or Cadburys, could never taste more delicious than this.

Avocado may seem like a weird addition to the ingredient list here, but it is the magic ingredient as it makes the smoothie so irresistibly creamy. It really works to replace yoghurt, which would normally be used in smoothies. Not only does the avocado make the texture a trillion times better, but it also really vamps up the health properties of this drink as it is such a super food. One of the most awesome things a bout avocados is that they’ve been shown to really increase the absorption of all the vitamins and minerals of the foods eaten with them, meaning you’ll get even more goodness from all the other ingredients. They’re also great sources of vitamins E, K and B, all of which help to keep your body strong by regulating your metabolism, keeping your bones strong and keeping your skin glowing. As well as having serious anti-inflammatory properties, promoting blood sugar regulation and containing a great portion of fibre. So much goodness in one vegetable!

Makes 1 large glass:

- 1/2 a cup of almond milk

- 1 really ripe banana

- 1/2 an avocado

- 4 medjool dates

- 2 teaspoons of cacao

- 1 teaspoon of manuka honey

- 1 teaspoon of almond butter

- a few ice cubes

Peel the banana and avocado, discarding their skins and pit the dates.

Then, simply place all of the ingredients into the blender, blend for 2 minutes until smooth.

Pour, sip and love.

 

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10 sites para se conseguir imagens bacanas

 

A dica de hoje foi dada por Adriana Fonseca no blog Papo de Empreendedor.

Sabe quando você precisa caprichar naquela apresentação de slides ou em um material promocional da sua empresa e não tem imagens bacanas para usar? Seus problemas acabaram.

Segue uma lista de 10 sites com imagens bacanas:

Veer é um site que oferece fotos gratuitas e pagas. Toda semana eles selecionam algumas imagens e colocam na galeria “de graça”.

Public-Domain-Photos oferece mais de 5 mil fotos gratuitas e mais de 8 mil ilustrações. Todas são de domínio público e você pode usá-las com qualquer propósito, inclusive comercial. Fique atento, no entanto, às imagens que contêm logotipos e produtos.

Pixel Perfect Digital oferece fotos tiradas por fotógrafos amadores ou semi-profissionais com looks naturais – nada de modelos posando para fotos.

Image After tem fotos gratuitas separadas por temas – arquitetura, indústria, natureza, etc. Mas seja cuidadoso, pois há um monte de anúncios no site incentivando o usuário a pagar por sites de fotos.

Design Packs oferece pacotes de fotos gratuitos prontos para download, como o de flores e o de dinheiro.

Free Range Stock é uma comunidade de fotógrafos sustentada por anúncios – os fotógrafos são pagos quando os internautas clicam nos anúncios que aparecem na tela.

Cepolina é um site com mais de 16 mil imagens de viagens e natureza. Além de organizadas por categorias, as fotos também são selecionadas por cores, o que ajuda a encontrar algo que combine com o fundo do seu site, por exemplo

Stock.XCHNG foi comprado pela Getty Images, mas por enquanto ainda é de graça. São mais de 350 mil imagens de qualidade de mais de 30 mil fotógrafos diferentes.

Morguefile oferece imagens de graça para uso pessoal e comercial. O site também abre espaço para que novos fotógrafos disponibilizem suas fotos ali.

Toasto é um site simples de fotos gratuitas tiradas por um único fotógrafo. Você pode escolher as imagens por categorias, entre elas paisagens, flores e conceitos e ideias.

Para melhorar ainda mais suas apresentações, recomendo o post: Características de uma boa apresentação no Power Point.

 

Nuclear Security Summit Goes Dutch

Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 4:36 PM on Mar 21, 2014

The Netherlands is making every effort to secure the Nuclear Security Summit it is hosting in The Hague on 24-25 March, deploying surface-to-air missiles, helicopters and bomb-sniffing dogs.

The Dutch Ground-based Air Defense Command has deployed four NASAM launcher units and an air defense radar. The radar has been installed on an elevated platform to avoid ground clutter and its radar picture is combined with that of two NATO airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft and the De Zeven Pronvinciën LCF air defense frigate just off the coast.

Two Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16s will patrol Dutch airspace during the summit and additional fighters are on standby at Volkel and Leeuwaarden, supported by two KDC-10 tankers at Eindhoven air base. The Holland and Friesland ocean patrol vessels, each with an NH90 maritime helicopter on board, are patrolling further out to sea.

A total of 19 military and police helicopters are also on standby, including five Apaches, four Cougars and two Chinooks deployed to the former naval air base of Valkenburg.
While the Nuclear Security Summit may be secure, the crisis in Ukraine is casting a shadow on it, with Western diplomats reportedly fearing that Russia will stop cooperating on nuclear issues in retaliation for U.S. and European sanctions.

Dutch Ministry of Defense photos

Top 10 Ways to Turn Your Retired Gadgetry into the Technology of the Future

 

 

With the rapid progression of technology each year, it's easy to accumulate a pile of obsolete gadgets that you just can't bear to get rid of. So don't! Here are our top 10 ways you can take the retired gadgets you've already got and turn them into something that has a solid place in the future.

10. Turn an Old Mobile Device into a Dedicated VOIP Handset

 

We've seen how easy it is to turn an iPod touch into an iPhone using a few tricks and some sort of VOIP service, and it's just as easy with an old phone—so long as you have a constant Wi-Fi connection. It can be nice to have a home phone or two you can use to answer calls when your cellphone isn't handy, you don't have great reception, and you don't want to leave the VOIP app unattended. So grab a mobile copy of Skype, Fring, Line2, or whatever, and leave it open and ready on your old mobile device. It'll wait for someone to call it, or you can just pick it up and, say, order a pizza without the fear of yet another dropped call.

9. Create a Wireless Internet Radio from an Old Router

Radios and routers aren't exactly technology of the future—more of the past and present, really—but when you combine them with the internet you've suddenly got a pretty awesome device for streaming music. The process isn't even that complicated. All you really need is a particular wireless router (the Asus WL-520GU is recommended in this case) and a USB sound card. Pretty neat.

8. Create a Home Security System with a Webcam

When you buy a new laptop, or even a monitor monitor, these days you're almost guaranteed a built-in webcam. That's great, but what do you do with your old bulky, USB-cabled micro-camera? You use it as a security monitor for your home. You can even make it motion-sensing. Better to have it catching criminals than collecting dust, right?

 

7. Use an Old PC Fan to Create a Battery-Charging Wind Turbine

 

Maybe wind power is the future and maybe it's not, but we're headed towards something sustainable so you might as well get started now. If you'd like a means of recharging your batteries without relying on an outlet, create this wind turbine out of an old PC fan. This project involves a little hacking and tinkering, but it's worth it just to have power anywhere the wind blows.

6. Turn an Old Projector into a Book Scanner

Most kids born in the last decade don't know whiteout from Britney Spears, so someday you're going to hear the question "did you really used to read books on paper?" Perhaps it's time to accept the inevitable and realize that the medium we know as print is a bit more ephemeral than we may like. But losing our books isn't an option, so the only thing we can really do is take an old projector and turn it into a book scanner, of course! If you've got the time, patience, or lower-level employee you can torture, this little project will finally help you evolve those dead tree tomes into their next state of being.

5. Make a Touchscreen Tablet Out of an Old Netbook

 

Netbooks had their moment, but their sales are dwindling thanks to the popularity of the tablet. If you wish your netbook actually was a tablet, you're not really out of luck. Just turn it into one. (That linked post even includes software we made to provide it with a heads up display to make it feel even more touch-friendly.) It's not going to be as magical as an iPad, but it's a fun upgrade for a computer you may not use so much anymore. Alternatively, you can do the same with an old MacBook if you've got one of those lying around instead.

  4. Build a Cellphone-Powered Robot

Even your old cellphone, smart or not, has enough power to create a personal robot. The video to the left is proof of how an old mobile can create a "cardboard truckbot." The additional parts you'll need will only cost you $30, and Cellbots provides instructions on how to put it all together. You've likely got an old feature phone you've been planning to recycle for the past five years. Rather than wait for that day to never come, provide that gadget of the past with new life as talking, robotic truck.

3. Turn an Old Computer into an XBMC Home Theater PC

 

XBMC is our favorite media center software. It's free and it's better than it's paid alternatives thanks to a slick, customizable interface that plays all sorts of media from the majority of networked and local destinations. It can pull content from the web, tell you the weather, double as a retro video game console, and much more. What's really great is that it can run on a super cheap, underpowered nettop. That may also mean your old computer is entirely adequate for the job. Either way, you'll be up and running a home theater system that's ahead of its time before you know it.

2. Automate Your Home with an Old Router

The homes of the future will be automated, but you can have that now with the help of an old router. Said router needs to be OpenWRT compatible and this project will require a few other things, but if you're up to the challenge you'll be controlling your home from your smartphone on the cheap.

1. Turn an Old Computer Into an Internet PVR, Downloader, and NAS

 

The future of home entertainment ought to be as elegant and wonderful as the systems we can put together ourselves today. Old computers are perfect machines for creating a fully-featured content downloader. You can simply set up automated BitTorrent and Usenet downloads, or go so far as to turn that old machine into a NAS and install Usenet tools like SABnzbd and Sickbeard as well. This will make an old machine, seemingly destined for obsolescence, into an incredibly powerful server that will provide you with virtually any entertainment you want. It's unfortunate there isn't a comparable product and service available for purchase right now, but that's part of what makes doing it yourself seem so amazing when you're through.