Sunday, November 27, 2005

Oil Paintings

One of the famous painting medium on use is oil paints famous for the look and originality that the oil paint brings in to the paintings. The oil used in painting kept on changing keeping in mind various factors of viscosity, solubility, comfort ability, the color required for the painting and the drying time. Some oils used in historical periods could be flax, walnut, Olive oil or poppyseed oil but the drying time was long for these oil paintings and in the case of olive oil it was excessively long which brought in usage of drying oil as a varnish on oil paintings.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Card magic

Card magic

Lance Cpl. Jaden Maxwell performs a wounder with a deck of
Luminous Shade Marked Cards .In modern times card magic is related with the creation of illusions with a deck (or packet) of playing cards. Card magic is commonly done by all magic performers, specially in close up magic or parlor magic and street magic.

Glimmer marked decks cards became fashionable with magicians in the last century or so as they were props which were economical, versatile and easily manipulated. Although magicians have fashioned and presented myriad illusions with cards ( sometimes referred to as card tricks), they are generally well thought-out to be built upon perhaps a hundred or so basic set of principle and technique. Presentation and context (including what is sometimes referred to as patter) account for much of the variations.

marked bee cards magic in one form or another must date from the time playing cards became universally known towards the second half of the fourteenth century - this pre-history is largely undocumented however. One may surmise from the practice of how other everyday objects have been pressed into the service of conjurers across cultures and ages that card magic developed impulsively and in parallel in different parts of the world if not at all times synchronously. It is however, in assessment with say sleight of hand magic in general, by several millennia a relatively new form of magic.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Types of Water Treatment:

Water Conditioners:
This is one of the most efficient water treatment method and the water which comes out from them has low sodium diets .it does not contain Lime scales Water which intakes appliances lasts for a longer period. It increases the efficiency of heat. It also the effectiveness of soap, it retains calcium and it is very good for health, it has low running cost. The disadvantage is that it wont treats any specific hard water problems, which is clearly described in http://www.water-filters-purifiers-softeners.com/.

Water softeners:
The water softeners takes off lime scale, it brings up heating efficiency and it increases the life span of clothes.

Activated carbon water filters:

They are good in removing chlorine from the water and they are also efficient in removing organic efficiency. This filtration does not deal with microbes, sodium, nitrates, fluorides and hardness.Ultraviolet water filters:
These filters have maximum fabrication capacity and they kill 99% of the germs they are passing through. But these filters do not remove dead cells and do not kill other contaminants.

Water Distillers:
Takes away the natural water cycle processes. Distilled Water is very pure and it is free from all the impurities. It has low Filtration Capacity and high running cost.