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BBC – Inside the Human Body (2011)

Michael Mosley embarks on an astonishing voyage through the world’s most complex organism–you. Inside the Human Body takes us deep under our skin where we are dwarfed by even the smallest cell, where blood vessels become vast cathedrals and the tiniest cluster of cilia becomes an expansive forest. Our body’s almost infinite ability to adapt and surprise is illustrated by the stories of remarkable characters whose bodies allow them to do amazing things, live in incredible places and push their physiology to the limits. Spectacular photography shows human behaviour in super slow motion, revealing elements of ourselves that we are completely unaware of.

Part 1: Creation
Series exploring the wonders of the human body. Using spectacular graphics based on real images and the latest scientific research, Michael Mosley takes viewers on a voyage through the workings of the inner human universe. Travelling through the body, tiny clusters of hairs loom as large as a forest and hidden chambers of the heart rise up like a vast cathedral. To illustrate the surprising ways bodies work, the series also tells the stories of remarkable people from around the world who have pushed theirs to the absolute limit. From the moment of creation to our last breath, the series reveals the human body’s ability to amaze and delight. Mosley tells the story of human biological creation. He brings to life surprising medical research, revealing the improbable sequence of events that lead to birth. State-of-the-art graphics follow millions of sperm on their dangerous race towards the egg, revealing the ingenious ways that a woman’s body selects the best; illustrate a body begining to self-assemble; and, in a television first, show a human face coming together. The programme follows the progress of a couple who are expecting triplets, from the 4D scan when they first come face-to-face with their babies to the dramatic finale of birth. Plus, meet a woman expecting her 16th baby and the oldest conjoined twins in the world.

Part 2: First to Last
In this episode, Michael Mosley shows how existence is a struggle and how, minute by minute, from your first breath to your last, your body performs countless small miracles to keep you alive. It starts with a dramatic water birth, shot in slow motion, before a stunning graphics sequence takes us on a breathtaking journey into the heart. We see how that first, crucial breath leads to a dramatic re-plumbing of your entire circulatory system. Michael meets remarkable people who demonstrate how well the human body adapts to extreme environments: Herbert, a world-champion free-diver, who can hold his breath in the depths of the ocean for up to nine minutes; Wim, the Ice Man, who can swim in glacial lakes so cold they would kill a normal person; and Debbie, who has lived for 10 years on a diet of crisps. And finally we see what happens when your body finally fails; we share the last moments of Gerald, an 84-year-old, as he passes away at home with his family gathered around him.

Part 3: Building Your Brain
In this episode, Michael Mosley traces our development from birth to adulthood, and reveals that the human brain is so sophisticated it takes more than twenty years to mature. We see how new-born Phoebe makes sense of the world, and how one-year-old Angelina copes with just half a functioning brain. We discover how Moken sea Gypsy children train themselves to see clearly underwater, and meet a Vietnamese girl who speaks 11 different languages. Michael shows his own teenagers remarkable scans which reveal just how many brain connections we lose between the ages of 11 and 20. This remodelling is an essential part of growing up, and helps explain teen behaviour and their tendency to take risks – as illustrated by Stephanie, the world’s youngest stock car racer at the age of 13.

Part 4: Hostile World
In the final episode of Inside The Human Body, Michael Mosley reveals the ingenious ways in which your body defends itself against a hostile world – where sunlight shatters your DNA and every breath contains microbes that can kill. We meet Cristian, a bull jumper whose muscles give him the strength to avoid a violent death, three-year-old Rowan whose internal army fights off the flu virus, and Johnny who gets injured almost every week to earn his living, relying upon his body’s remarkable ability to heal And when injuries are too severe to be repaired, we see how surgeons use medical expertise to exploit the body’s natural powers of healing. Richard Edwards is filmed having his damaged hands cut off and replaced with someone else’s – the first time something this radical has ever been attempted.

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BBC – Richard Hammond’s Engineering Connections – Super Skyscraper Taipei 101(2010) [1 HDTV 720p (MKV)] | Size 1.74 GB
Richard Hammond travels to Taipei and discovers the secrets of the Taipei 101 skyscraper.
This modern marvel of engineering stands at a jaw-dropping 1671 feet. Built on top of a seismic fault line and in a typhoon hotspot, its height is all the more impressive given its location. Richard discovers just what it is in the Taipei 101′s DNA that allows it be so tall and cope with these extreme natural events, and what all this cutting-edge engineering has in common with a bird cage, bamboo, boat masts and seat belts.

Richard embarks on a fantastic journey of discovery that will take him from the mines of 17th-century England via the early skyscrapers of Chicago to the top of one of the most advanced buildings in the world.

Duration: 50 mins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hy9kk

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Pushwagner 2011 DOCU BDRip XviD-SPRiNTER
Size : 722 MB

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Fools on the Hill – 2011 | Size 774.47 MB
Couldn’t find it around, so I bought it. It’s original download file (.mp4).
About how politicians don’t even read the bills/laws they pass anymore in Washington D.C. It’s informative.
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In this modern day David vs. Goliath, filmmaker Jed Rigney follows
Jerrol LeBaron as he sets out on a journey to make our politicians do the jobs
they were hired to do.

Faced with out-of-touch politicians and a broken political process, can one
man really make a difference?

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English and Spanish | AVI | 3 h 27 m | XviD | 720 x 416 | 25 fps | AC3 192 kbps | 48000 Hz

Treatment of emotional and mental disharmonies with acupuncture and Chinese Herbs.

The Psyche in Chinese Medicine seminar comprehensively discusses the treatment of mental-emotional disorders with both acupuncture and herbal medicine. Suitable for practitioners and students of Chinese medicine it discusses first the aetiology, pathology and diagnosis of mental disorders. It explores the nature of the Mind (Shen), Ethereal Soul (Hun), Corporeal Soul (Po), Intellect (Yi) and Will-Power (Zhi) and then presents the diagnosis and treatment of the most common psychological disorders with both acupuncture and Chinese herbs in detail. Specific examples and guidelines focus on the treatment of common conditions including depression, anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, bipolar disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Giovanni Maciocia is one of the most highly respected practitioners of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in Europe. Originally from a medical family in Italy, he trained in England at the International College of Oriental medicine graduating in acupuncture in 1974 after a three-year course. He has been in practice since then.

Duration: 3 h 27 m

Spanish translation by Jason Smith

http://www.giovanni-maciocia.com/

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Documentaries totaling almost 9 hrs of information.
1. Food Inc. (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/
The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business – with an emphasis on the business – has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences..

2. The Future of Food (2004)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427276/
THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed about the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply. Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, The Future of Food examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world’s food system.

3. Fresh (2009) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637620/
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy.

4. The World According to Monsanto (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189345/
The World According to Monsanto is a good documentary about a great subject. Monsanto has received many condemnations in its quest for profits but this documentary provides a slightly more scathing review of the company.

The movie gives the obligatory history of Monsanto and it’s damage to the world. And just when it looks like it is going to continue in mediocrity the movie changes gears and really attacks the subject at hand. Monsanto, and other multi-nationals, have for years now tried to effect people that make decisions and oversee “the public good”. This movie, in the latter half, attacks Monsanto as a company which strives to blacklist dissenters and keep the truth from seeing the light of day. The movie uses various primary witnesses and at a couple great interviews. I would go into more detail but I prefer brevity.

The movie in my mind has three faults, interviews, a bleeding heart and the internet. The interviews were at times well done but at some points the interviewer spoke too much or the interviewee was lackluster (Dr. Michael Hansen was a horrendous interviewee). Occasionally the movie goes too far and essentially tells you FEEL BAD when all that needs to be said is this is what’s happening (town of Anniston the old guy in the wheelchair). Finally, the documentarian uses the internet, even wikipedia, as a way to show the audience her search for the facts. I felt that it diminished credibility and wasn’t an effective visually.

5. The Flouride Deception (sry no imdb listing)

6. The Disappearing Male (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1339589/

7. House of Numbers (2010) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1311710/
What is HIV? What is AIDS? What is being done to cure it? These questions sent Canadian filmmaker Brent Leung on a worldwide journey, from the highest echelons of the medical research establishment to the slums of South Africa, where death and disease are the order of the day. In this up-to-the-minute documentary, he observes that although AIDS has been front-page news for over 28 years, it is barely understood. Despite the great effort, time, and money spent, no cure is in sight. Born in 1980 (on the cusp of the epidemic), Leung reveals a research establishment in disarray, and health policy gone tragically off course. Gaining access to a remarkable array of the most prominent and influential figures in the field — among them the co-discoverers of HIV, presidential advisors, Nobel laureates, and the Executive Director of UNAIDS, as well as survivors and activists — his restrained approach yields surprising revelations and stunning contradictions…

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The History Channel Bible Battles 2007 | Size : 801.77 MB
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 23 seconds
Dimensions: 680×496

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Using the Old Testament as a guide, see how Israelites warriors created an empire. Revisit the time of Abraham to David from a military standpoint.
Unlock ancient soldiers’ secrets using the Bible.
See the tactics, weapons, and objectives of Old Testament battles.
Expert insight on military strategies outlined in scriptures.

In addition to being sacred text, the Old Testament is a historical account of ancient warfare. From Abraham to David, the Bible chronicles the Israelites’ creation of an empire.

BIBLE BATTLES collects expert insight to understand the strategies and tactics used during biblical times. Not only are weapons and battles examined, but Old Testament characters, not normally considered warriors, are re-examined from a military perspective. Hear from military historians on the effectiveness and strength of the Israelite army.

Review the time of Abraham to David and understand the warfare and fighting that occurred to seat David on the throne. Discover who the Israelites fought, why, where the battles occurred, and how they continued to win and endure.

In one of the most hostile lands on the planet, an ancient people called the Israelites forged an army and carved out an empire. Their ancient military exploits are described in one of history’s most famous religious texts–the Old Testament of the Bible. But by reading between the religious lines, military historians unlock the soldiers’ secrets of the Bible by examining the weapons, strategies, and the commanders, some of whom are not always thought of as warriors, like Abraham, Moses, and Deborah. In this feature-length special, we explore the biblical world from a military perspective from the time of Abraham until David’s ascension to the throne. Blood often flows more freely than holy water in the days of the Old Testament, and the military secrets of the Bible have yet to be revealed…until now!

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Battleground Vietnam 2007 EP3 DOCU DVDRip XviD-GALT
Size : 354 MB
Release Name: Battleground.Vietnam.2007.EP3.DOCU.DVDRip.XviD-GALT
Show Name: Battleground Vietnam
Release Group: GALT
Genre: Celebrities, Travel
Size: 354.23MB

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American Experience The Amish 2012 DVDRIP XViD-deimos | Size : 1.38 GB
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On October 2, 2006, a 32-year-old milk truck driver named Charles Roberts entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines in Lancaster County,

Pennsylvania, and shot 10 young girls, killing five, before committing suicide as police officers stormed the school. Just hours after the shooting, Amish community members visited the gunman’s family to offer forgiveness. The tragedy at Nickel Mines horrified the nation for its senseless brutality and left many questioning and haunted by the victims’ startling response. Lyrical and meditative, The Amish answers many questions Americans have about this insistently insular religious community, whose intense faith and adherence to 500-year-old traditions have by turns captivated and repelled, awed and irritated, inspired and confused for more than a century. With unprecedented access to the Amish built on patience and hard-won trust, this American Experience film is the first to deeply penetrate and explore this profoundly attention-averse group, painting an extraordinarily intimate portrait of contemporary Amish faith and life. What does America’s attraction to the Amish say about deep American values? What does the future hold for a community whose existence is so rooted in the past?

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Annie Leibovitz

Designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress, renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz reveals her creative passion and drive for perfection while shooting the world’s biggest celebrities and creating a groundbreaking photo collection.

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