Lala Bear and Friends!

Meet and greet Lala Bear and her funny and cuddly friends.

Lala Bear is a sweet and friendly bear. She wanted to stroll along with her friends, and loves to eat and open to try new things too. As very reliable and optimistic as she is on the group, her home is always open for her friends. She sings all the time too and she dance anywhere even without a tune. Lala Bear wont skip a day without visiting her social network account.

Get to know them more in this link: http://melanchonic-me.blogspot.com/

Kiss Me. Make it hard…harder!

It’s so real, a great and intimate kiss makes the world falls apart, makes our eyes roll, and makes us woozy and steamy with more desire.

I bet most people find kissing as an intuition and when your lips touch your partner’s lips. It’s not just like that. Kiss is like a language, a way of communicating one’s love, one’s passion, one’s desire, one’s affection and then saying I LOVE YOU.

For many years of receiving spam about the benefits of kissing; here’s my compilation on some of the peculiar but healthy things about kissing.

Health Benefits of Kissing

1.        Kissing is also good for the heart. A sort of desire causes your heart to pump more blood around your body. Regular kissing has scientifically been proven to stabilize cardiovascular activity, lowers blood pressure and decreases cholesterol.

2.       It dissolves stress. Passionate kissing relieves tension, lessens negative vibrations and lowering your Cortisol hormone (stress hormone). It triggers a whole spectrum of physiological processes and spruces you up to keep attractive onto it. Thus, kiss makes you feel younger.

3.       Needs more self-esteem and confidence? All you need is a kiss. You will light, being in the zone and you feel you are valued.

4.      Couples who kisses their partners each day has longer companionship and gets higher compensation or income.

5.       A great tongue-twisting French kiss burns calories, 2-3 calories a minute and can double your metabolic rate. No more diet, kissing is more recommended.  

6.      Kissing uses 30-34 facial muscles and it helps keep the facial muscles tight, preventing baggy cheeks, and the effort in the muscles caused by a kiss helps smooth the skin.

7.       During a kiss, our saliva contains a type of anesthetic that helps relieve pain.

8.      Kissing increases the levels of Oxytocin, an extremely calming hormone that produces a feeling of peace.

9.      The endorphins produced by kissing are 200 times more powerful than morphine. It releases the same neurotransmitters in our brains such as parachuting, bungee jumping, and running.

For me, while kissing it is like you are having a sugar-rush and it makes you happy. It is sweet and very tempting to ask for more but they do not recommend kissing after meals. Happy Smooching everyone!

By Marvin Kent

11/11/10

The Great Migrations: NATGEO Special

Great Migration was also the term used on the movement of almost 2 million African Americans from 1910-1930’s. They moved out from southern US region to Midwest, and some partition were directed to Northeast and West parts. And during those times, survival is not a game, the world is without sympathy and survival was indeed uncertain.

National Geographic Society is definitely commendable for not stopping in educating the world to care for our Earth and to understand each living creature in our planet. This year, the National Geographic Channel will be launching its one of the biggest projects, a global television event almost three years in a making. The NAT GEO’s “Great Migrations” premiers on November 7 8P ET/PT.

National Geographic Channel’s “GREAT MIGRATIONS” is a 7-part documentary and global television experience that brings the viewers in different continents on the movement or journeys of animal species, herd, pack, to fight for its survival. This presentation captures the high-definition images and videos on the actions and behaviors of millions of animals during their migration, and be narrated by Alec Baldwin.

The 7-part “Great Migrations” includes:

Born to Move- which will be telecast on November 7

                Introduce the epic animal migrations on all seven continents. The premiere episodes tells about the  wildebeest on a 300 mile journey, then the Christmas Island red crabs, which travel from forests to mate on the beaches and deliver their young.

Need to Breed- which will be telecast on November 7

                Elaborate mating rituals of different species are observed

Science of Migration- which will be telecast on November 9

Scientists track elusive elephant seals using an innovative tagging system and a radio transmitter is placed on a butterfly

Feast or Famine- which will be telecast on November 14

                Mali elephants embark on a 300-mile migration in West Africa; great white sharks travel from Hawaii to northern Mexico; golden jellyfish of Palau follow the sun in their daily migration.

Race to Survive- which will be telecast on November 14

                Wildlife filmmakers document an annual zebra migration in Botswana.

Great Migrations: Behind-the-Scenes- which will be telecast on November 14

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the NGC’s “Great Migration” miniseries.

Rhythm of Life- which will be telecast on November 20

                The miniseries concludes with amazing footage of animal migrations set to original music from five leading artists.

Imagine these, listening to the whispers of the wilderness, relying on the direction of the sun, follow the rains, avoiding traps and sharp objects on the trails, and abundance of resources. perhaps these are some considerable things for human migrations like on the 1930’s. Great Migrations, tells the unbelievable and outwitting stories of many of the Earth’s remarkable species, about their movement from one habitat to another, and from discovering their own ways of exploring the world, to fight for survival and seeing on how successful of a migration they can track.

 

By Marvin Kent

Disclaimer: Photos were from National Geographic website.

Anthrax: A Biological Agent

The term Anthrax was widely known and terrified the recent generation after the September 11 terrorist attack. For the past 2 months, this concern has emerged in the buzz stream after some of the countries were receiving reports for a possible and alleged terrorist attack.

What is Anthrax?

With the unique trait, which normally develops a black skin infection by the victims, the term Anthrax as a disease was derived from it.  In Greek, Anthrax means “black coal”. It’s the bacteria that causes the skin lesion or may lead to death. The biologist named the bacteria as Bacillus Anthracis, a member of Genus Bacillus bacteria family.

Transmission and Prevention

These bacteria can be latent in a spores form or seedlike form. It is lethal to both humans and animals when it will be digested, inhaled, in contact with an affected person or even inoculation. The catchy things with anthrax, it doesn’t spread directly from one victim to another. These spores can transmitted through clothing, envelopes, capsules, wallet, socks, and shoes until it will be inhaled or digested. Anthrax generally infects herbivorous and wild mammals by digesting the spores or bacteria by simply grazing.  Carnivores get infected and also humans by consuming affected animals through digestion or contact. And the dead body of the victim can also be a source of the bacillus anthracis spores.

An infected human will normally be quarantined. And we can be infected through inhalations, ingestion, skin contact and same clinically symptoms depending on the site of entry. If infection is not quickly treated then it may be fatal. Anthrax vaccines licensed by US FDA, the Bio Thrax can aid in maintaining the immunity of the strain. And effective decontamination of its spores is washing antimicrobial soap and water. Waste water should be treated with bleached and the contamionated clothes or any materials containing the anthrax spores should be burned in the furnace. Burial does not kill the anthrax germs.  it may spread and contaminate the soil.

Biological Warfare

The 2001 Anthrax attack in several cities worldwide scares everyone for its impact and the danger it may bring. However, on the biological world, this is not young in that sense. The Vollum Strain of Anthrax produced on World War II was one of the most dangerous as they considered, but it was not used as a biological weapon. It was documented that anthrax was also tested to the prisoners of war, as a biological agent on 1930s. Many had been infected and died since 1930’s until the latest record incident last 2009 in New Hampshire.

It significant now, that Anthrax spores can and has been used as a biological weapon. And it was used as a bioterrorism attack in 2001, delivering the mailing postal letters containing the anthrax spores.  And the company where I worked by that time was also one of the recipients of the said letters.

A switch to Acrylic Paints

Artwork by MarvinKent

Acrylic painting is one of the youngest mediums used in the world of visual arts. Acrylic paints were introduced in the market around 1950’s. Since then, it has been the favorite of many visual artists, and art enthusiast.

Acrylic paint is a water-based medium, its solid vibrant color, its texture and consistency is closely similar to Oil paints. But the advantage of the Acrylic paints is its viscosity property. These Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, while in Oil paints it is not possible. Also, since it is less dense, these Acrylic paints have the ability to dry faster than any other mediums. Since it has a resemblance of Oil and Watercolor, thus, the Acrylic painting medium provides new and professional artist a very wide range, flexible ways of painting, and adaptation with other art supplies. Experienced artists added some substances such as sands, plaster of Paris, glue, and paste, on the Acrylic paints to create a wide variety of texture.

Not more than a decade ago, many artists also discovered that Acrylic paints can offer a better emulsion when added with additives, and impasto or paste effect in any artwork or surfaces. Since it can be diluted with water, its usage was made possible for airbrushes, face painting and even textile printing. However, most artists used the old watercolor style to change the thickness depending on the desired output and quality. 

My experience in using Acrylic paints is like switching from an old shampoo to a newly introduced and developed brand of shampoo. Acrylic is more fun and creates more movements in my artwork. It is applicable in any texture and any surfaces. When you had mistake along the way, I really find it so easy to cover it just brushing or coating a new layer on it.

Well, aside from the quality it offers and unique characteristics, Acrylic paints are much more affordable than Oil paints.

by Marvin Kent