петък, 10 септември 2010 г.

СFeen in Dichtung und Literatur

Feen in Dichtung und Literatur
Feen in Dichtung und Literatur Gemälde „Tanzende Feen“ (1866), von August Malmström.Noch jetzt erinnern in den ehemaligen und heutigen Wohnsitzen der Kelten zahlreiche Sagen und Benennungen von Lokalitäten an die Feen. Nachdem die Kreuzzüge das Abendland mit den im Orient bei Persern und Arabern herrschenden Ideen von Peris und Dschinnen bekannt gemacht hatten, entwickelte sich dann, vorzugsweise in Verbindung mit den keltischen Vorstellungen, eine literarisch-dichterische Auffassung vom Feenreich, welche im Lauf der Zeit bis ins einzelnste ausgebildet ward.

сряда, 8 септември 2010 г.

Fee

Fee
Wie diese Schicksalsgöttinnen treten die Feen zunächst meist in der Dreizahl, vereinzelt in der Sieben- und Zwölfzahl auf. Sie haben die Gabe, sich unsichtbar zu machen, wohnen in Felsschluchten, wo sie hinabsteigende Kinder mit ihren Gaben beglücken und erscheinen bei Neugeborenen, deren Schicksal sie bestimmen. Man bittet sie auch zu Paten, bereitet ihnen den Ehrensitz bei Tisch, etc. Die enge Verwobenheit mit dem Schicksal ist dadurch erklärlich, dass das französische Wort Fee ursprünglich aus dem Lateinischen abgeleitet wurde, von fatua (Wahrsagerin) und fatum (Schicksal). Doch das aus dem Romanischen stammende Wort Fei könnte ebenfalls Anteil an der Namensgebung gehabt haben, erkennbar an Bezeichnungen wie Merfei und Waldfei. Von Fei ist übrigens auch das Wort gefeit abgeleitet, was sich auf Unverletzlichkeit oder Unverwundbarkeit gegenüber der feeischen Zauberei bezog.

Sie werden überwiegend als heiter, besonders schön und niemals alternd beschrieben und darüber hinaus auch noch als glückbringend. All das spiegelt wider, dass die Feen von ihrem Wesen her das gute Prinzip versinnbildlichen.
Anderseits erscheinen die Feen (namentlich in der keltischen Volkssage) auch als weibliche Elementargeister, die in Wäldern, in Felsengrotten, an Quellen und Gewässern leben, mit Vorliebe den Tanz pflegen, dessen Spur die so genannten Feenringe (cercles des fées) verraten, und nicht selten von den Sterblichen, ihr Linnen waschend, gesehen werden. Es ist ziemlich sicher, dass die Vorstellung der Parzen und der Matrones, der Muttergottheiten, sich mit denen von den Feldgeistern, den Campestres oder Agrestes Feminae verband. Als Feldgeister wurden vorher alle Nymphen, Dryaden und ähnliches zusammengefasst. Außerdem ist gesichert, dass die Bezeichnungen der lateinischen Schriftsteller des Mittelalters für die Feen, Bezeichnungen wie felices dominae, bonae mulieres oder dominae nocturnae, auch auf andere Gestalten aus Überlieferungen angewandt wurden, wie die Wilden Frauen zum Beispiel.Andere Fabelwesen haben fröhlichen Elfen und Trolle worden:

четвъртък, 1 юли 2010 г.

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понеделник, 7 юни 2010 г.

Аератор за вино

Вкуса на винота е тайнство и загадка трудно осъществима и крита като начин на постигане. След като бъде отворена бутилка вино (bottle of wine) , то трябва да диша за да разкрие истинския си букет от аромати .

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Обикновенно при отлежалите червени вина тази процедура се прави с декантер и изисква време . При съвремените технологии и забързан начин на живот на помощ идва приспособлението Vinturi - Вино Аератор. Това е умно малко устройство, което смесва нужното количество въздух с виното , докато то се налива в чашата . Виното незабавно обогатява своя аромат и вкус. Той е бърз, ефективен и лесен за употреба и ще изкара на показ най хубавите и характерни черти на употребяваното от Вас вино. -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Високата чистота е задължителна за да уловите нюансите на всяко вино. Видовете и формите на аератора са много и отговарят на всякакви вкусове. Предложения на снимката аератов е и спомен към старите графи в които се отливаше виното зца да се радваме на аромата му.

събота, 10 април 2010 г.

Pleasure to drink wine


Pleasure to drink wine
Wine is an art form. But in a bottle of wine lies much more than you realize. Wine is a living organism in the literally and figuratively. It processes running while ferment until matures in barrel and bottle. Processes continue after opening the wine bottle (wine). The more aged, the more time he needs to “breathe”. Give it time to reveal to you their true taste. Always try the wine, first, “rotate” in the cup (cup) in order to absorb more oxygen and release their aroma. Then taste it by holding a long sip maximum in touch with the language, especially in the rear, then you will open a new world of taste flavors really come to a quality wine. Bitterness must be very dispensed, some will appeal to others – not, but should never be sour. And last but not least is the flavor. This is all science. In a wine can be felt thousands of shades of any fruit (fruit) and flowers to smell of smoke and leather. The richness of the aromas of grapes depends on the variety of soil, which has grown from caring for him, the technology, which is processed in fermentation technology on the skills of its preferences. Frantsuzite for hours can comment on a good wine to “feel” on all sides. To consume wine with the same pleasure and love! Do not drink wine artificially. Although prohibited by law, this can still be found – from the water, alcohol, artificial colors and flavors (artificial flavor) It’s just alcohol. Wine is not just alcohol, it should brings enjoyment and relaxation. Finding the perfect wine is just like to find your mate in life.

понеделник, 8 март 2010 г.

Frying pans









Copper frying pans were used in ancient Mesopotamia. Frying pans were also known in ancient Greece (where they were called téganon) and Rome (where they were called patella or sartaginem).

The frying pan remained little changed for many years. Whether made of tinned copper or cast iron the frying pan had a broad, shallow body and a long handle to keep the cook’s hand out of the fire.

[edit] Etymology
Pan derives from the Old English panna.[1] The feature that distinguished pans from other utensils were their flat bottoms. (This is why sauce pans and sauté pans, while very different in shape, are nonetheless called "pans").

The first recorded usage of the term frying pan in English was in 1382 by John Wyclif in a translation of the Vulgate Bible, 1 Chronicles 23:29: "The prestis..to the fryinge panne." The term fry pan rarely occurs before the 1950s, when electric fry pans rose in popularity. When it does, it is often as the double fry or omelette pan. Frying pans with legs, once common in open hearth cookery, were generally called spiders both in England and in America.

Skillets were originally deep, much like modern sauce pans, but the term is now used interchangeably with "frying pan."

The Roman term, sartaginem has survived in modern Spanish as sartén, and in modern Portuguese as sertã। The Roman patella survived in modern Italian as padella, in modern Spanish as paella, and in modern French as poêle. Frying pans were probably also used to prepare grain dishes, the antecedents of paella made with rice.

Frying pan relatives
A versatile pan that combines the best of both the sauté pan and the frying pan has higher, sloping sides that are often slightly curved. This pan is called a sauteuse (literally a sauté pan in the female gender), an evasée (denoting a pan with sloping sides), or a fait-tout (literally "does everything"). Most professional kitchens have several of these utensils in varying sizes.

Another close relative is the chafing dish, which by the late nineteenth century was a pot or pan that sat in a lower pan of hot water. Both chafing dishes and frying pans were supported by a stand over a flame below. The heat maintained the water at a simmer, which allowed for the slow cooking of foods like soups and fondues.

събота, 27 февруари 2010 г.

Farmers and pastoralists have manipulated the genetic


Farmers and pastoralists have manipulated the genetic make-up of plants and animals since agriculture began more than 10 000 years ago. Farmers managed the process of domestication over millennia, through many cycles of selection of the best adapted individuals. This exploitation of the natural variation in biological organisms has given us the crops, plantation trees, farm animals and farmed fish of today, which often differ radically from their early ancestors (see Table 1).

The aim of modern breeders is the same as that of early farmers - to produce superior crops or animals. Conventional breeding, relying on the application of classic genetic principles based on the phenotype or physical characteristics of the organism concerned, has been very successful in introducing desirable traits into crop cultivars or livestock breeds from domesticated or wild relatives or mutants (Box 3). In a conventional cross, whereby each parent donates half the genetic make-up of the progeny, undesirable traits may be passed on along with the desirable ones, and these undesirable traits may then have to be eliminated through successive generations of breeding. With each generation, the progeny must be tested for its growth characteristics as well as its nutritional and processing traits. Many generations may be required before the desired combination of traits is found, and time lags may be very long, especially for perennial crops such as trees and some species of livestock. Such phenotype-based selection is thus a slow, demanding process and is expensive in terms of both time and money. Biotechnology can make the application of conventional breeding methods more efficient.

Technology Era Genetic interventions
Source: Adapted from van der Walt (2000) and FAO (2002a)
Traditional About 10 000 years BC Civilizations harvested from natural biological diversity, domesticated crops and animals, began to select plant materials for propagation and animals for breeding
About 3 000 years BC Beer brewing, che0ese making and wine fermentation
Conventional Late nineteenth century Identification of principles of inheritance by Gregor Mendel in 1865, laying the foundation for classical breeding methods
1930s Development of commercial hybrid crops
1940s to 1960s Use of mutagenesis, tissue culture, plant regeneration. Discovery of transformation and transduction. Discovery by Watson and Crick of the structure of DNA in 1953. Identification of genes that detach and move (transposons)
Modern 1970s Advent of gene transfer through recombinant DNA techniques. Use of embryo rescue and protoplast fusion in plant breeding and artificial insemination in animal reproduction
1980s Insulin as first commercial product from gene transfer. Tissue culture for mass propagation in plants and embryo transfer in animal production
1990 Extensive genetic fingerprinting of a wide range of organisms. First field trials of genetically engineered plant varieties in 1990 followed by the first commercial release in 1992. Genetically engineered vaccines and hormones and cloning of animals
2000s Bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics

сряда, 24 февруари 2010 г.

How is agricultural biotechnology defined 2


How is agricultural biotechnology defined?

Broadly speaking, biotechnology is any technique that uses living organisms or substances from these organisms to make or modify a product for a practical purpose (Box 2). Biotechnology can be applied to all classes of organism - from viruses and bacteria to plants and animals - and it is becoming a major feature of modern medicine, agriculture and industry. Modern agricultural biotechnology includes a range of tools that scientists employ to understand and manipulate the genetic make-up of organisms for use in the production or processing of agricultural products.

Some applications of biotechnology, such as fermentation and brewing, have been used for millennia. Other applications are newer but also well established. For example, micro-organisms have been used for decades as living factories for the production of life-saving antibiotics including penicillin, from the fungus Penicillium, and streptomycin from the bacterium Streptomyces. Modern detergents rely on enzymes produced via biotechnology, hard cheese production largely relies on rennet produced by biotech yeast and human insulin for diabetics is now produced using biotechnology.

Biotechnology is being used to address problems in all areas of agricultural production and processing. This includes plant breeding to raise and stabilize yields; to improve resistance to pests, diseases and abiotic stresses such as drought and cold; and to enhance the nutritional content of foods. Biotechnology is being used to develop low-cost disease-free planting materials for crops such as cassava, banana and potato and is creating new tools for the diagnosis and treatment of plant and animal diseases and for the measurement and conservation of genetic resources. Biotechnology is being used to speed up breeding programmes for plants, livestock and fish and to extend the range of traits that can be addressed. Animal feeds and feeding practices are being changed by biotechnology to improve animal nutrition and to reduce environmental waste. Biotechnology is used in disease diagnostics and for the production of vaccines against animal diseases.

Clearly, biotechnology is more than genetic engineering. Indeed, some of the least controversial aspects of agricultural biotechnology are potentially the most powerful and the most beneficial for the poor. Genomics, for example, is revolutionizing our understanding of the ways genes, cells, organisms and ecosystems function and is opening new horizons for marker-assisted breeding and genetic resource management. At the same time, genetic engineering is a very powerful tool whose role should be carefully evaluated. It is important to understand how biotechnology - particularly genetic engineering - complements and extends other approaches if sensible decisions are to be made about its use.

This chapter provides a brief description of current and emerging uses of biotechnology in crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry with a view to understanding the technologies themselves and the ways they complement and extend other approaches. It should be emphasized that the tools of biotechnology are just that: tools, not ends in themselves. As with any tool, they must be assessed within the context in which they are being used.

How is agricultural biotechnology defined

How is agricultural biotechnology defined?

The use of yeast to make bread is an example of traditional biotechnology Source: GreenFacts Biotechnology can be described as any technology that uses living organisms to make or modify a product for a practical purpose. Some traditional techniques have been used for thousands of years. Natural yeasts, for instance, have been used to make bread, beer, and wine through a process called fermentation.

In the last century, more sophisticated techniques have used other micro-organisms to make antibiotics, amino acids, vitamins, and other useful products. Modern biotechnology, developed during the past 30 years, usually makes changes to the hereditary material of a living organism by a technique called genetic engineering or genetic modification.

Modern biotechnology is currently used industrially to make useful products such as vaccines, antibiotics, enzymes, and hormones such as insulin.

In crop plant breeding, biotechnologies are used to develop plants resistant to pests, diseases, drought, heat, or cold, as well as to improve the nutritional content of plant food.

сряда, 6 януари 2010 г.

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The EasyBloom Plant Sensor helps you grow a perfect garden without all of the guesswork. If you’ve ever wondered, “Is this corner too hot, too dark, or too dry?”, EasyBloom is for you. You will begin to garden with confidence. Instead of wondering which plants will thrive where, you will know for sure with EasyBloom. This ingenious in-ground sensor reads and analyzes growing conditions in specific spots inside your home or in your yard. It measures sunlight, temperature, humidity, soil moisture and drainage. It even uses the same technology used on NASA's Mars Phoenix mission to measure the soil.

After a minimum of 24 hours, you just plug it into your computer USB port and watch as it turns readings into recommendations, listing plants sure to flourish in your exact environment. Narrow your search more by specifying desired bloom color or season, plant height, drought tolerant, deer resistant, and other features.

EasyBloom puts expert plant help in the palm of your hand:
• Access the EasyBloom database of 5,000+ plants (developed with the largest growers of plants and flowers)
• Find plants to thrive in every area of your home and garden, based on algorithms developed by leading plant horticulturalists and botanists
• End the discouraging cycle of trial-and-error planting
• Diagnose ailing plants and bring them back to health
• Keep inventory of your own plants for one-click plant care
• EasyBloom data is specifically calculated for the United States and is not recommended for use outside of the U.S.

How It Works

Plug the EasyBloom Plant Sensor into a USB port--you will be brought to your My EasyBloom Dashboard page. Put the sensor into Recommend or Monitor mode.

Place the sensor in a spot where you would like to grow a plant, or adjacent to the plant that needs monitoring. Let the EasyBloom Plant Sensor gather a ‘plant's eye’ view of that location.

After 24 hours, plug the sensor into your USB port. Sensor data is uploaded to the EasyBloom website where algorithms are run that will either recommend a plant or diagnose what is wrong with an ailing plant.

When in Recommend mode, the EasyBloom website will present a set of plants that will thrive in that location. In Monitor mode, you will be told what is going wrong with a plant with visual cues on how to fix it.

Sit back and enjoy flourishing plants.

The ultimate "why didn't someone think of that sooner" invention, EasyBloom is like having your own personal team of botanists on-call around the clock. The result? You spend a lot less time working in your garden, and a lot more time enjoying it. EasyBloom is a perfect gift for novices to experienced gardeners. The Plant Sensor is completely reusable and works with your PC or Mac.