http://thegreenerhouse.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Modern/Contemporary, Prefab, Green Design, Architecture en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:52:17 GMT 2009-12-29T04:52:17Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977960648&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The industrial production of the glass was started by the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. At present, the machines are completely automatic and used for the production of the . . . Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:37:05 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977960648&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-23T18:37:05Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977957339&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The glass can have roundish form, with transparent and thin walls, or to be a heavy mass which reflects the light. Between those two limits there is the range of decorative possibilities of the glass. . . . Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:48:05 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977957339&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-21T18:48:05Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977957327&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The most ancient objects of glass come from Egyptian tombs which date from about 2 000 years before J. C. The Egyptians made pearls with the melted and soft mass of the glass and they elaborated objects . . . Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:39:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977957327&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-21T18:39:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977957320&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The glass may be defined as a hard and fragile material that at a high temperature is easily flexible; besides that, the light can go through it – the glass is transparent. The art of producing . . . Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:37:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977957320&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-21T18:37:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977957308&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Glass     1. Material that lets the light to pass through     2. Inside the workshop of the glazier     3. Glass decoration     4. The industrial . . . Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:27:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977957308&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-21T18:27:06Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935548&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The current physician does not need anymore to prepare the own prescriptions, because he can trust in the prepared products by the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industries guaranty that . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:09:18 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935548&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-07T19:09:18Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935513&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace A modern hospital is not only composed of wards for patients. Nowadays, the different medical specialties demand very much advanced equipments. Therefore, inside a grand hospital, there are numerous specially . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:02:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935513&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-07T19:02:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935480&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace At present, only a minimum part of the work´s journey of the physician at the hospital is dedicated to the activity which, formerly, was the most important one: the assistance given to the patient . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:42:27 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935480&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-07T18:42:27Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935473&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The medical progress, as well as the technical and the social, turned the modern hospital in a centre of very much characteristics compared to those of very old institutions of beneficence. The medical . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:38:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935473&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-07T18:38:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935460&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Most of patients resort to the physician with certain prevention. They fear that the exam is unpleasant or it reveals symptoms of some dangerous disease that obliges the hospitalization or the need of . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:30:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935460&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-07T18:30:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935443&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The actual medicine represents the highest point of a development which started, in rudimentary level, during the Stone Age. The medicine practiced by the sorcerers of the so called primitive peoples . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:16:46 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935443&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-07T18:16:46Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935392&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Medicine     1. Since the sorcerer until the physician   2. The medical appointment   3. The hospital   4. Physician´s work journey at the hospital   . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:58:01 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935392&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-07T17:58:01Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935350&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother:   "I am sure than I can see, Mother!"   In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:35:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935350&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-07T17:35:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935325&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace (6th century before J. C.)   Greek fabulist.   His biography remains unknown.   During the classic epoch he became almost a legendary personage.   His Fables were . . . Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:13:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977935325&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-12-07T17:13:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977920220&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace   The mole is an insectivorous mammal fitted with legs digger. It has atrophied eyes and lives under the earth, crippling it with tunnels branching. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:02:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977920220&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-27T15:02:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977912806&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Sigmund Freud was the founder of the psychoanalysis and he had a strong influence in the infantile psychology. Freud accentuated the main importance that the first years of life have in the formation . . . Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:02:29 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977912806&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-22T21:02:29Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977906862&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Today I decided to put pen to paper about a climate change conference coming up in just a few weeks in Europe. In my spare time from being a realtor from Toronto , I enjoy deliberating and reading up . . . Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:37:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977906862&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Julie Kinnear 2009-11-18T17:37:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905358&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace wine culture was connected, since ancient times, to ceremonies and festivities. The Greeks and the Romans devoted cult to the god of the wine, Dionysus or Bacon, with some delighted parties and unruly . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:43:02 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905358&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T20:43:02Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905347&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace There are about 40 species belonging to the gender Vitis. The most important is the common grapevine, Vitis vinifera, which origin is believed to be the Minor Asia. The wine culture and the elaboration . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:39:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905347&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T20:39:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905324&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace   1. From the grape till the bottle     2. Wine culture     Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:31:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905324&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T20:31:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905320&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Already the ancient farmers observed the ripe grains of cereal should be grounded in order to achieve some better benefit. At start, these were grinded with a grinding stone. A small stone was pushed . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:26:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905320&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T20:26:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905316&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace   The ancient methods of cultivation were primitive and the agricultural utensils were rudimentary. The lands were ploughed with a hoe of stone or with a tree branch. The grain was thrown at the . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:23:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905316&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T20:23:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905315&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace When our ancestors, for covering their daily needs, started to cultivate rich plants in nutritive value, they were hunters and simple fruits dustpans, they became sedentary transforming into farmers. . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:21:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905315&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T20:21:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905312&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The cereals constitute the most important source of food. The matter is about the herbaceous species, from the family of the grasses, which seeds (grains) are rich in amid. These contain many carbon hydrates . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:17:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905312&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T20:17:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905275&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace   1. The grand cultures     2. Our daily bread     3. From the field ...     4. ... to the windmill and to the meadow   Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:52:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905275&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T19:52:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905237&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The funguses, spreading the own spores with the help of the air, can be found disseminated practically everywhere. Because these do not possess chlorophyll, they must live as saprophytes, parasites or . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:28:22 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905237&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T19:28:22Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905213&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Already in the ancient Rome, the mushrooms were appreciated, as a delicious food. Above all, the Cesar’s amanita, a mushroom of red orange-color was eaten, which is still one of the favorite ones . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:16:18 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905213&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T19:16:18Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905192&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace The aerial photo shows a pre-historic monument, of religious character – in Stonehenge (England) – formed by two concentric circles. However, for us, the most interesting in this zone is . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:08:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905192&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T19:08:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905189&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Nowadays, certain species of funguses constitute the basis of important industries. The microscopic fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae is employed in the production of bread and in the production of beer. . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:58:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905189&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T18:58:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905183&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Ordinarily, when we hear the word fungus, we think of mushrooms. Few know that the organisms alike the mould, the leaven and the fungi are funguses. As a matter of fact, they constitute a group of enormous . . . Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:55:06 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977905183&grpId=3659174697247364&nav=Groupspace Paula M. 2009-11-17T18:55:06Z