Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Canon Digital Cameras

Canon cameras began its journey in the year 1933, when its predecessor, Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, was founded in Tokyo. This was followed by a series of remarkable inventions and in 1947 the company became Canon Camera Co., Inc.
The earliest Canon cameras derived much from the design of the Leica thread mount rangefinder cameras. However, concerns about patents, as well as ignorance of the precise specification of the Leica thread mount, kept these earliest Canon cameras distinctive.
Starting with the vision to make the best camera for the world, today Canon is ranked 154th on Fortune 500. Canon India Pvt. Ltd. was set up in 1997, as a subsidiary of Canon Singapore Pvt Ltd; with an array of imaging products that include digital cameras, camcorders and many more. The series of Canon cameras and Canon camcorders available across world are:
Canon DC Series
Canon EOS Series
Canon FS Series
Canon HF Series
Canon HV Series
Canon IXUS Series
Canon MD Series
Canon MV Series and
Canon PowerShot Series

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Mesothelioma Symptoms

A patient with mesothelioma often demonstrates symptoms 15 to 50 years after initial exposure to asbestos. The cancer may take decades to develop in the body and symptoms do not arise until after the cancer is present. Many patients are unaware of the severity of their condition since mesothelioma symptoms typically resemble symptoms of less serious illnesses.
If you have a history of asbestos exposure, the leading cause of mesothelioma, it is best to seek immediate medical advice. Informing your doctor of previous asbestos exposure can alert them to the possibility of an asbestos-related disease such as mesothelioma.
Early Symptoms of Mesothelioma
Unfortunately, there are practically no early symptoms of mesothelioma, which is why the disease is commonly diagnosed at a late stage of development. In the interest of early detection, those who were exposed to asbestos but have not yet exhibited symptoms should undergo regular chest X-rays or pulmonary function tests to monitor any adverse affects of asbestos inhalation.
When a doctor informs a patient of a mesothelioma diagnosis, patients and their loved ones are often very confused since the cancer is relatively unknown. Asbestos.com provides a complimentary packet with comprehensive information about mesothelioma symptoms and next-step guidance following a diagnosis.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Pierre Simon Laplace

Pierre Simon Laplace lived between 1749-1827. He was also a French Scientist and politician. The son of a farm laborer, Laplace attracted attention as a small child by his mathematical genius. At the time, French thinkers were fascinated by the question “are human beings naturally intelligent, or can we learn intelligence?” to find out more, they worked with so-called “savage” children, who had been brought up in backward areas where there was little or no education. Their idea was to see how much the children knew by instinct as what they could be thought. Laplace was one of those children- and he progressed so quickly that at 22 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the highest military academy in France.
Laplace had a wide-ranging career. He is best remembered as an outstanding mathematician, but he also worked with Lavoisier on the combustion of gases, correcting some Newton’s Science journal reports that a parasite-within-parasite relationship enables the termite to digest wood. Symbiotic microorganisms in its gut enable it to digest wood, results which had stood unchallenged for 100 years. And as an astronomer, he spent 26 years predicting and analyzing star-moments throughout the solar system. He believed that as well as the stars we can see, Newton’s gravitational theory must mean that there are also stars so small and dense that no light can escape from them- an idea mocked at the time, but which later led to the theory of ‘Black holes’ of Stephen Hawking, an English Scientist.