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Ear Clears I dont know if i have a swimmers ear becuz i woke up one morning and my ear were clogged?
i put an ear drop which clears trapped water but im not sure becuz when i used it i felt a little kind of irratation im not sure if i have a rupture eardrum.My ears felt clogged when i woke up and when i pull down my earlobe it opens than closed back.SUGGESTIONS plz ty.
See an ear doctor for your problem he will be able to help . Good luck
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Ear Coning with Linda Ferrero
my right ear is blocked. How do i stop it?
I had my ears syringed 3 weeks ago, and for the last 5 days my right ear has been blocked. It feels like a thick liquid is in my ear. And it is painfull. how can i get my ear clear?
hi,
Try to clean with 1/10 diluted Hydrogen peroxide solution
after that take steam with plain water
you should inhale steam from mouth and exhale through ear and nose
do it at least 25 times daily morning and evening
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U.s. Company Banished From Ukrainian Oil and Gas Field
The Ukrainian government has revoked the license to develop Black Sea oil and gas fields which was issued to Vanco Prykerchenska, a subsidiary of the US company Vanco Energy. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that the agreements which were concluded with Vanco in 2007 were not transparent, and she accused President Viktor Yushchenko of lobbying for Vanco’s interests. Yushchenko flatly denied the accusation and called on Tymoshenko to review her decision on Vanco. Meanwhile, Vanco has threatened to sue the Ukrainian government.
Vanco Energy, which is based in Houston, Texas, used to extract hydrocarbons in the United States and the North Sea. In the mid-1990s, it moved to West Africa. In 2005 Vanco won a tender against such strong rivals as Shell and Exxon Mobil to prospect for oil and gas in the Black Sea’s Prykerchenska area, where the deposits are estimated to contain hydrocarbons worth some $200 billion. A product-sharing agreement (PSA) was signed with the Ukrainian government in October 2007. The government of the then Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych issued a license to Vanco Prykerchenska, rather than Vanco Energy, which won the 2005 tender.
The government used this circumstance as a formal reason to revoke the license. Environment Minister Heorhy Filipchuk told Zerkalo Nedeli that the tender conditions did not allow Vanco to pass its right to develop the deposits to Vanco Prykerchenska, which did not exist in 2005 when Vanco won the tender.
Tymoshenko told a press conference in Kyiv on May 12 that the ownership structure of Vanco Prykerchenska was not transparent. It was registered in the British Virgin Islands and legally belonged to four young Ukrainian students, according to Tymoshenko. She also said that Vanco Prykerchenska was in talks to sell its rights to develop the Black Sea field, and that Russia’s Gazprom could be the buyer. This, according to Tymoshenko, was a threat to Ukraine’s energy security.
Tymoshenko is also unhappy about the conditions of the PSA with Vanco, according to which Ukraine is entitled to 35 percent of the hydrocarbons extracted in the Black Sea at the first stage of the project. Tymoshenko demands 65 percent. If Vanco did not agree, the best fields in the Black Sea should be taken from it and passed to the Naftohaz Ukrainy national oil and gas company, she said.
Tymoshenko also accused Yushchenko of lobbying in Vanco’s favor. “Everything that happened was on the president’s orders and against Ukrainian national interests,” she said. “A corrupt scheme was launched with Viktor Yushchenko’s permission,” she added. Yushchenko flatly denied this, saying that the legal assessment of commercial deals was the prerogative of the law-enforcement agencies, rather than of the prime minister. On May 14 he called on the cabinet to review its decision on Vanco. Yushchenko’s aide Andry Honcharuk said that Tymoshenko should launch talks with Vanco in order to restore international trust in Ukraine’s investment climate.
Vanco Energy Senior Vice President Jeffrey Mitchell said that an international arbitration procedure would be launched against the Ukrainian government at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, if no agreement with Tymoshenko was reached within 60 days. Speaking in Kyiv on May 15, he revealed that Vanco Energy had three partners in Vanco Prykerchenska: the Donetsk Fuel and Energy Company (DTEK); Shadowlight Investments Ltd, linked to Russian businessman Yevgeny Novitsky; and Integrum Technologies (Austria), whose owners he did not name. Mitchell said that JNR Eastern Investment, which represented the interests of the Rothschild family and was initially Vanco’s partner in the Prykerchenska project, had withdrawn from it before the PSA was concluded.
Many Ukrainian observers have suggested that it was the participation of DTEK in Vanco Prykerchenska that prompted Tymoshenko to revoke the license. DTEK CEO Maksym Tymchenko said that DTEK was invited to join the project in 2006. DTEK is linked to the System Capital Management company of billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, who is one of the leaders of the opposition Party of Regions. Akhmetov opposed the Orange Revolution, which brought Yushchenko and Tymoshenko to power in 2005. Tymoshenko has accused him of involvement in several non-transparent privatization deals before and after 2005. Akhmetov denied the accusations, and implied that Tymoshenko was biased against him.
Tymoshenko complained that Yushchenko’s team put pressure on her at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on May 16, demanding that she return the license to Vanco Prykerchenska. She said she would not obey the Council. Commentator Volodymyr Fesenko of the Kyiv-based Penta think-tank opined in a conversation with Kommersant Ukraine that Tymoshenko would not restore Vanco’s license because this was an issue between her and Yushchenko (Ukrainska Pravda, ITAR-TASS, May 12; Channel 5, May 14; Zerkalo Nedeli, May 17; Kommersant Ukraine, May 16, 19).
About the Author
He has a background as civil engineer and geoscientist. He has worked mainly within the oil and gas industry from the mid 1980s. He has written a few fictional novels as well as being the author of some professional litterature within oil and gas sector, he is now an editor of some web sites.
1. Water is very unusual in that its solid form, ice, has a smaller density than its liquid form. Liquid water has a density of 1.0 g/cc, and ice has a density of 0.9 g/cc. Explain why the
Northern polar ice cap floats on top of the Arctic Ocean.
2. Carbon, as graphite, can be made into diamonds by putting the graphite under extreme pressure. Which of the two materials do you think has the greater density, graphite or diamond? Why?
3. The continental crusts are less dense than the oceanic crust plates. Explain why, when a continental crustal plate runs into a oceanic crustal plate, the oceanic plate is forced down and
the continental plate is forced upward.
4. Modern ships are made mostly of steel, yet they still float. A piece of steel when dropped into water sinks. Why does a steel ship float?
I'm just guessing, so don't come after me if you get them wrong.
1. I'm not sure.
2. Diamond has greater density, because it's harder to pull the diamond molecules apart.
3. It's called a wedge, and the continental force is greater.
4. A steel ship floats because it's weight is balanced and has a motor to give it acceleration.
Like I said, I'm not too positive, I just quickly jotted down some logical answers. If this is your homework, I would research a little more, if you don't trust my answers
Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it`s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean.Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders have come up with a plan to roll back global warming. Thousands of tiny mirrors floating in the air can create a giant sunshade, capable of redirecting heat and cooling the earth`s surface. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself—but in doing so, they have created a superweapon the likes of which the world has never seen.Anika Duncan is an airship pilot for the underfunded United Nations Polar Guard. She’s intent on capturing a smuggled nuclear weapon that has made it into the Polar Circle and bringing the smugglers to justice.Anika finds herself caught up in a plot by a cabal of military agencies and corporations who want Gaia Corporation stopped. But when Gaia Corp loses control of their superweapon, it will be Anika who has to decide the future of the world. The nuclear weapon she has risked her life to find is the only thing that can stop the floating sunshade after it falls into the wrong hands.
THERE are many mistaken ideas in circulation, like bogus money passed off as the real thing. Few people are badly hurt by a phony penny; but a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill is another matter. In the same way some fallacies are comparatively harmless, while others can be definitely dangerous. For the sake of clear, straight thinking, though, it is to our benefit to dismiss all such mistaken ideas from mind.
You have heard it said, no doubt, that the color red will provoke a bull to rage; that it is proper to lift a rabbit by its ears; that a seashell, held to the ear, echoes the ocean’s roar. Can these popular notions stand up under investigation?
Unless you expect to cross a meadow where there is a bull on the loose, you may not be too concerned about that animal’s reaction to color. But experiments have shown that he is color-blind. If you do not believe it, you could try waving a cloth of another color. It can produce the same results, since it is the movement that attracts the bull’s attention and results in his charge.
If you believe it is cruel to lift pussycat by the tail, perhaps you should think twice before picking up bunny rabbit by his ears. Naturalists report that rabbits’ ears are quite sensitive and claim that it is cruel to use them as handles.
And that roar you hear in the seashell—does it not sound like the sea breaking upon the shore? Well, it is the peculiar form of the shell that picks up and blends the echoes of many nearby sounds into a muffled complex that can fool the uninformed. It might be worth while to experiment with the shell in some completely quiet place where there are no echoes to be picked up.
Fallacies of the Past
Many a popular belief of past generations has now been entirely rejected. Progress of knowledge exposes the fallacies and casts them aside as old wives’ tales. Who, for instance, would now subscribe to the idea that the earth is flat or that the sun moves around a motionless earth?
For centuries there were efforts to discover the recipe for a potion that would give everlasting life to the one drinking it. In Europe and America credence was given to the existence somewhere of a “Fountain of Youth,” supposedly having healing powers and the ability to make old persons young. Explorer Ponce de Leon even sought this fountain in Florida.
Others soberly searched for a supposed philosophers’ stone that was said to have the power to turn all metals into gold. Also, there were many expeditions sent out to locate an imagined El Dorado in the northern part of South America—a place where, it was said, gold was so common as to be used in walls and roofs.
It was also commonly believed in times past that life generates spontaneously from decaying matter. Did persons not have the proof—maggots that eventually appeared on rotting flesh or other foodstuffs? It did not occur to them that flies had laid their eggs there. Interesting, too, that this discredited idea is not so different from the evolutionary teaching that life generated spontaneously in the slime and ooze of a bygone age!
Common Fallacies Today
Even today there are fallacies commonly held. Some of these have little effect on people one way or the other. For example, there is the belief that the stomach is the chief organ of digestion. But the fact is that food begins to digest when mixed with saliva in the mouth. And it is now generally known that the small intestine does most of the digesting, after the food has left the stomach.
Another common belief is that hair can turn gray suddenly by emotional shock. But this is not true. Hair becomes gray gradually. It cannot turn gray suddenly, since pigment is deposited in hair before it grows out of the skin. Dermatologists say on the subject of ‘turning gray suddenly’: “Only people with a certain rare disease go partially bald suddenly, losing their dark pigmented hair overnight, retaining just their grey hair.”
It is true that fallacious notions such as this have not resulted in peril to anyone. And were this true of every fallacy, the subject would hardly be worth considering.
Dangerous Misconceptions
But some erroneous ideas can be dangerous, even fatal. For example, there is the widely held notion that frostbite should be rubbed with snow. The fact is that this course might well complicate the problem. Stefansson, the famed Arctic explorer, declared that “few things could be more absurd” than the snow cure for frostbite. What you should do, he said, “is to take your warm hand out of your mitten and press it on the frozen spot for a moment until the whiteness and stiffness is gone.”
Do you believe, as do some, that lightning never strikes twice at the same spot? Do not count on this. This, too, is a dangerous misconception. It could prove fatal to you. Photographic evidence reveals that lightning frequently strikes in the same place, even during the same storm.
There is also the common belief that quicksand itself will suck one under. This is not true. As Scientific American of June 1953 observes: “Contrary to popular notion, quicksand does not suck objects down.” Entertaining this popular notion could cost a person his life.
Actually quicksand supports the body much better than does water. It stands to reason, then, that if one can float in water, he can float in quicksand. It is the frantic struggles of the one caught in quicksand that tend to bury him deeper and deeper.
What, then, should a person caught in quicksand do? He should remain as calm as possible. He should act with purpose. In water he would float and swim. In quicksand he should immediately lie on his back with his arms outstretched. In this position he will not sink. If help does not arrive, he may, with great effort, slowly extricate his feet, one at a time. Then he can roll to firm ground, “floating” on his back frequently to rest.
