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THE BIG SECRET: A Survival Guide for the New Millennium is the latest work by five-time Emmy Award-winning producer and director, Alex Voss with the assistance of multi award winning film maker and integrative physician, Susan Downs. This groundbreaking documentary film explores the truth behind some of today’s most widely-accepted medical practices, and seeks to expose how the focus on corporate profits influences traditional medical treatment in the United States.
In THE BIG SECRET: A Survival Guide for the New Millennium, Voss and Downs explores the history of modern medical practice and the role that Big Pharma plays in manipulating medical treatment to increase corporate profits at the expense of individual care. He also sheds light on modern farming techniques that deplete the food we eat of its nutritional content. The United States is the wealthiest country in the world and spends more on healthcare than any other country, yet millions of unsuspecting people are dying of preventable diseases each year.
Voss presents expert testimonials from traditional and alternative health providers on a variety of subjects that will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand and take control of their own health care. From start to finish, Voss’ desire is to start a conversation that will ultimately lead to life-saving changes to our personal health, and reform in our healthcare system. THE BIG SECRET: A Survival Guide for the New Millennium is this year’s must-see film. Your life may depend on it.
The film features musical compositions by Jon Dahlander.
THE BIG SECRET: A Survival Guide for the New Millennium is the latest work by five-time Emmy Award-winning producer and director, Alex Voss with the assistance of multi award winning film maker and integrative physician, Susan Downs. This groundbreaking documentary film explores the truth behind some of today’s most widely-accepted medical practices, and seeks to expose how the focus on corporate profits influences traditional medical treatment in the United States.
In THE BIG SECRET: A Survival Guide for the New Millennium, Voss and Downs explores the history of modern medical practice and the role that Big Pharma plays in manipulating medical treatment to increase corporate profits at the expense of individual care. He also sheds light on modern farming techniques that deplete the food we eat of its nutritional content. The United States is the wealthiest country in the world and spends more on healthcare than any other country, yet millions of unsuspecting people are dying of preventable diseases each year.
Voss presents expert testimonials from traditional and alternative health providers on a variety of subjects that will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand and take control of their own health care. From start to finish, Voss’ desire is to start a conversation that will ultimately lead to life-saving changes to our personal health, and reform in our healthcare system. THE BIG SECRET: A Survival Guide for the New Millennium is this year’s must-see film. Your life may depend on it.
The film features musical compositions by Jon Dahlander.

![Edison cylinder phonograph model C
Phonograph cylinders are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. Commonly known simply as records in their era of greatest popularity (c. 1896–1915), these hollow cylindrical objects have an audio recording engraved on the outside surface, which can be reproduced when they are played on a mechanical cylinder phonograph. In the 1910s, the competing disc record system triumphed in the marketplace to become the dominant commercial audio medium. The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison and his team on July 18, 1877. His first successful recording and reproduction of intelligible sounds, achieved early in the following December, used a thin sheet of tin foil wrapped around a hand-cranked grooved metal cylinder.[1] Tin foil was not a practical recording medium for either commercial or artistic purposes and the crude hand-cranked phonograph was only marketed as a novelty, to little or no profit. Edison moved on to developing a practical incandescent electric light and the next improvements to sound recording technology were made by others.
Following seven years of research and experimentation at their Volta Laboratory, Charles Sumner Tainter, Alexander Graham Bell and Chichester Bell introduced wax as the recording medium and engraving, rather than indenting, as the recording method. In 1887, their Graphophone system, which recorded dictation on disposable cardboard tubes with a thin wax coating, was being put to the test of practical use by official reporters of the US Congress, with commercial units later being produced by the Dictaphone Corporation. After this system was demonstrated to Edisons representatives, Edison quickly resumed work on the phonograph. He settled on a thicker all-wax cylinder, the surface of which could be repeatedly shaved down for reuse. Both the Graphophone and Edisons Perfected Phonograph were commercialized in 1888. Eventually, a patent-sharing agreement was signed and the wax-coated cardboard tubes were abandoned in favor of Edisons all-wax cylinders as an interchangeable standard format. Wikipedia Edison cylinder phonograph model C](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vCZQ7n-6TTo/mqdefault.jpg)








