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Pears are rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin C, E1, copper and potassium. Pears are the least allergenic of all fruits. Because of this, it is sometimes used as the first juice introduced to infants. Along with lamb and soya formula, pears form part of the strictest exclusion diet for allergy sufferers.
Pears can be useful in treating inflammation of mucous membranes, colitis, chronic gallbladder disorders, arthritis, and gout.
Pears can also be beneficial in lowering high blood pressure, controlling blood cholesterol levels, and increasing urine acidity.
They are good for the lungs and the stomach.
Most of the fiber is insoluble, making pears a good laxative. The gritty fiber content may cut down on the number of cancerous colon polyps.
Most of the vitamin C, as well as the dietary fiber, are contained within the skin of the fruit.
For my "One of a kind" flower images project (NO 77)
I will be buying a plant for my garden....for sure! Blossom in summer!
Interesting facts about Liatris:
Flower Structure
Liatris flower is actually a cluster of many small flowers that appear to be one flower. They bloom in an unusual way, from the top of the stalk to the bottom.
Benefits and Uses
Some species are thought to have medicinal properties.
They were used to treat painful or delayed menstruation, sore throat, headache, arthritis, and earaches. The plant also acts as a diuretic and stimulant.
This is one of two uploads today--I wanted to include a Shadow shot along with my usual bird upload--and I just love sharing her. I've been snapping more photos of her with my cell phone as she ages. Her hips are off and on. I would say she goes through bouts of arthritis and that dysplasia isn't too much of a concern yet. These past couple of frigid days and nights have been difficult on her though.
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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
I got out yesterday to do some backyard bird shooting. My Tree Swallows are back again, though they don’t seem to trust me as much this year. They’ve been back since late April, but I’ve not had much of a chance to interact with them, and now, their eggs have hatched. Still, they were cooperative enough yesterday to allow me some photos before it’s too late. I mean, I’ve been able to walk up and communicate with them, but not as close as the last couple of years due to my tardiness . . . I’d been feeling under the weather for a few weeks. I hope to get a few more, but out of the dozen or so I did get, a couple are top-notch. I got more than just the Swallows, but they were my goal, my high point.
Last year, the Tree Swallows nested in one box and simply guarded the other. The year before, they and the Bluebirds would battle each other—sometimes to what looked like near death. This year they’ve learned to live together in boxes only about ten feet from one another, after a couple of initial fights.
I have realized that I have difficulty with low f/stops . . . much harder to focus properly. Those of you who do it consistently have my respect.
Two more work days, then my summer break starts. Seems like school just started, too. Hopefully, afterwards, I can get out more and take more. A lot of that anymore depends on my arthritis. You can definitely tell I was carrying that big Nikon 200-500 attached yesterday: My left wrist is killing me. I’ve also started writing again . . . mostly philosophical work, but some poetry as well. Perhaps I’ll include something in a later post.
Apologies for my absence. I hope to be around more and participating more very soon.
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Rocky Raccoon: Have to grab my ankle with my teeth to move it forward, then again and again...Slow going!
Then suddenly he stopped and ambled away...
Morning calisthenics?
Only the males have antlers, which start growing in the spring and are shed each winter. The largest antlers may be 1.2 m (4 ft) long and weigh 18 kg (40 lb). Antlers are made of bone which can grow at a rate of 2.5 cm (1 inch) per day. While actively growing, the antlers are covered with and protected by a soft layer of highly vascularised skin known as velvet. The velvet is shed in the summer when the antlers have fully developed.
Elk Antler Velvet is a natural remedy for Arthritis - it reduces inflammation, influences body metabolism, supports immune function, protects damaged tissues and affects blood, liver and kidney function.
View large to see this bull's antler velvet.
Bow Valley Parkway between Banff and Johnston Canyon, Alberta, Canada
he's broken out/scritchy with bald patches (booked for a checkup, hoping it was the tomato breakfasts and not the arthritis meds)
My wife, Linda, plays organ and piano beautifully, which is amazing because of the arthritis problem in her hands. This photo was taken at the funeral of a dear friend, Delia Grayum. Linda also plays at the senior center, weddings, church services, and accompanies singers at various social functions. I am incredibly proud of her.
I will be off Flickr for a week or so and will try to catch up when we return.
Maximilian Sunflowers are loved by butterflies, beetles, and long- and short tongued bees. They all feed the nectar and pollen produced by these showy flowers. Rabbits and groundhogs feed on young plants while elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer and pronghorn antelope browse and graze older plants. Fortunately we don't get deer or elk trekking through our yard.
It grows from 0.9m (2.9 feet) to 2.5m (8.2 feet) tall with stems occurring singly or in clusters It makes a beautiful display of bright sunflowers at the start of autumn.
Native Americans used parts of this plant as sources of food, oil, dye, and thread. Pioneers planted Maximilian sunflowers near their homes to repel mosquitoes and used the blossoms in bathwater to relieve arthritis pain. The sunflower seeds can be eaten as snack items and sprinkled on salads and
other foods.
Can osteoarthritis be mistaken for rheumatoid arthritis?
Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis can be mistaken for each other because both are characterized by swelling and inflammation. However, rheumatoid arthritis is different because in this condition, the body's immune system attacks the joints. This can happen suddenly and cause severe inflammation.
Does arthritis go away? No, but it can be managed. There is no cure for arthritis. However, treatment advances can help to minimize pain, improve range of motion, and prevent further damage.
Arthritis Awareness is a cause very close to my heart, as I have Rheumatoid Arthritis. For many years, I believed that arthritis mainly affected older people, and was the odd twinge in the joint. That was until my auntie had it at the age of 20- it's her hand on the right hand side. I started to understand then more about how a condition such as arthritis can have a profound impact upon your life.
Then it happened to me, aged 28 and I felt like my whole world as I knew it had ended, probably because it had. My life now is utterly different from my life before, and I have swung from being housebound, to being back at work, and now I am housebound once more and using a wheelchair.
You see, there is no cure all for arthritis, and it doesn't discriminate, young, old, tall, short, slim, fat, it's an equal opportunities destroyer. The great thing is that as we progress, we learn more about this condition and how best to treat it.
If you would like to understand more about arthritis and the effect that it can have, please read this post, it's a good starting point:
batsgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/gorilla-in-your-house.html
Arthritis can't kill you, but it can take your life.
World Arthritis Day has been celebrated 1996 by ARI (Arthritis Rheumatism International) first. It is being celebrated each year on October 12th.
Now, people with arthritis from around the world join together to make their voices heard on this day. You can join in and raise this voice also!
The aims of World Arthritis Day are:
To raise awareness of arthritis in all its forms among the medical community, people with arthritis and the general public
To influence public policy by making decision-makers aware of the burden of arthritis and the steps which can be taken to ease it
To ensure all people with arthritis and their caregivers are aware of the vast support network available to them.
More info here
ummm, guys? i'm on page 14 of the current issue of arthritis today magazine.
while we're at it, go ahead and cross #11 off of the list!
World Arthritis Day has been celebrated 1996 by ARI (Arthritis Rheumatism International) first. It is being celebrated each year on October 12th.
Now, people with arthritis from around the world join together to make their voices heard on this day. You can join in and raise this voice also!
The aims of World Arthritis Day are:
To raise awareness of arthritis in all its forms among the medical community, people with arthritis and the general public
To influence public policy by making decision-makers aware of the burden of arthritis and the steps which can be taken to ease it
To ensure all people with arthritis and their caregivers are aware of the vast support network available to them.
More info here
www.worldarthritisday.org/eular.php
Arthritis cant kill you but it can take your life..
Please look at the "spoon theory" here [http://www.flickr.com/photos/careyrussell/2747643582/]
World Arthritis Day has been celebrated 1996 by ARI (Arthritis Rheumatism International) first. It is being celebrated each year on October 12th.
Now, people with arthritis from around the world join together to make their voices heard on this day. You can join in and raise this voice also!
The aims of World Arthritis Day are:
To raise awareness of arthritis in all its forms among the medical community, people with arthritis and the general public
To influence public policy by making decision-makers aware of the burden of arthritis and the steps which can be taken to ease it
To ensure all people with arthritis and their caregivers are aware of the vast support network available to them.
More info here
www.arthritiscare.org.uk/NewsRoom/Latestnewsstories/DSRp
Arthritis cant kill you but it can take your life
I live with chronic 'invisible' illness, there is no cure, but I can manage the symptoms. Through various places I have met lots of friends who also have chronic illnesses, many have forms of arthritis (please remember, there are many different forms). I am always amazed by the strength they have, how brave they are.
Today is World Arthritis Day, I wanted my photo to represent that. Heres some more info for you:
World Arthritis Day has been celebrated 1996 by ARI (Arthritis Rheumatism International) first. It is being celebrated each year on October 12th.
Now, people with arthritis from around the world join together to make their voices heard on this day. You can join in and raise this voice also!
The aims of World Arthritis Day are:
To raise awareness of arthritis in all its forms among the medical community, people with arthritis and the general public
To influence public policy by making decision-makers aware of the burden of arthritis and the steps which can be taken to ease it
To ensure all people with arthritis and their caregivers are aware of the vast support network available to them.
More info here
www.arthritiscare.org.uk/NewsRoom/Latestnewsstories/DSRp
Arthritis cant kill you but it can take your life.
Edited to add this article, which highlights what it can be like to live with such an illness: www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/...
Cynthia is constantly beading. Making necklaces and earrings and such. She says it's good for her arthritis. Recently I found her sorting some of the necklaces. I don't think I fully realized how many she had made. And these are not even all of them.
remember the other day i said i rarely wear a skirt? well this is my usual garment of choice, although as a rule i do elect to wear a top with them ;-D
i've been looking at everyone's 'blue' pictures today for world arthritis day with a lot of interest, especially from those who are personally effected.
i spend a fair percentage of my time whinging about my flabby stomach, or my too broad shoulders, or my peculiar shaped nose...and then i read stories from carey and jaime and feel throughly ashamed of myself. and wonder what the bloody hell i'm complaining about. so this (heavily processed as i'm still a bit shy) tribute is for you :-)
Do Blue for Arthritis – In observance of World Arthritis Day, the Arthritis Foundation is encouraging everyone to "Do Blue" on Tuesday, Oct. 12 – from lighting up national landmarks in blue, like Niagara Falls, to wearing blue shoes and other apparel. On this day our voices will not only be heard, but also will be seen
Arthritis can't kill you but it can take your life....
Please join me today in celebrating World Arthritis Day, where today our voices will not only be heard but will also be seen.
The aims of World Arthritis Day are:
To raise awareness of arthritis in all its forms among the medical community, people with arthritis and the general public
To influence public policy by making decision-makers aware of the burden of arthritis and the steps which can be taken to ease it
To ensure all people with arthritis and their caregivers are aware of the vast support network available to them.
Thank you xx
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Jennifer O'Neill was the face of beauty in the 70's and 80's with her glamorous Cover-Girl ads. O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress, model, author and speaker, known for her role in the 1971 film Summer of '42 and as the face of Cover-Girl cosmetics starting in the 1970s til the mid 1990's. Jennifer was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the grand-daughter of a Brazilian bank president, and the daughter of a famous Spanish-Irish medical and dental supply import/export businessman, Oscar D' O'Neill and his English wife, Irene ("Rene") Freda, a homemaker. O'Neill and her older brother Michael were raised in New Rochelle, New York, and Wilton, Connecticut.
When she was 14, the family moved to New York City. On Easter Sunday, 1962, O'Neill attempted suicide because the move would separate her from her dog Mandy and horse Monty -- "her whole world". That same year, she was discovered by the Ford modeling agency and put under contract. By age 15, she was gracing the cover of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen and other magazines, earning $80,000 a year in 1962 working as a fashion model in New York City and also working in Paris, France, and dating older men.
An accomplished rider, O'Neill won upwards of 200 ribbons at horse show competitions in her teens. She saved up her modeling fees and bought a horse, Alezon, who balked before a wall at a horse show, breaking O'Neill's neck and back in three places, and giving her a long period of recovery. She attended New York City's Professional Children's School and the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. Later, she moved on to films and worked in a number of television movies and series.
[edit] Career
In 1968 O'Neill landed a small role in For Love of Ivy. In 1970 she played one of the lead female roles in Rio Lobo starring opposite John Wayne.
She is most remembered for her role in the 1971 film Summer of '42, where she played Dorothy Walker, the young widow of a pilot shot down and killed in World War II. Her agent allegedly had to fight to even get a reading for the part, since the role had been cast for an "older woman" to a coming of age 15 year old boy, and the director was only considering actresses over the age of thirty, Barbra Streisand being at the top of the list.
O'Neill continued acting for the next two decades. She appeared in The Carey Treatment (1972), Lady Ice (1973), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975), Caravans (1978), A Force of One (1979), Scanners (1981), and The Cover Girl Murders (1993 made-for-television film). She went to Europe in 1976 and worked with Italian director Luchino Visconti, appearing in his last film L'innocente (1976), where she played the part of the mistress, Teresa Raffo.
In 1982, O'Neill starred in the short-lived NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence. Her credits include singing in the Chrysler Corporation commercial Change in Charger that represented the end of the Dodge Charger in 1975. In 1984, she played the lead female role on the CBS television series Cover Up; the lead male actor, Jon-Erik Hexum, was accidentally killed on the studio set after placing a blank-loaded prop gun to his temple and pulling the trigger—the wadding from the blank cartridge drove a bone fragment from Hexum's skull into his brain.
O'Neill is also listed in the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History's Center for Advertising History for her long standing contract with Cover Girl cosmetics as its model and spokesperson in ads and television commercials.
O'Neill has been married nine times to eight husbands (she married, divorced, and remarried husband number six); at one point, she was married to four different men in four years. At age 44, she married husband number seven sooner than any other actress, sooner than Zsa Zsa Gabor (who was 63), Liza Minnelli (59) and Lana Turner (49), making her the youngest "most married" Hollywood celebrity. The August 23, 1993, issue of People magazine reports that a friend of O'Neill's says that the actress obtained the (Texas) annulment of marriage number seven (Neil L. Bonin - after less than five months) ... because she felt stifled.
O'Neill has three children from as many fathers, a daughter (Aimee) by her first husband whom she married at age 17, and a son (Reis Michael) from her fifth marriage and another son (Cooper Alan) from her sixth marriage.
At age 34, O'Neill suffered a gunshot wound. Police officers in the Westchester County town of Bedford, New York, who interviewed the actress, said that on October 23, 1982, she shot herself accidentally in the abdomen with a .38 caliber revolver at her Bedford mansion while she was trying to determine if it was loaded.
She describes many of her life experiences, including her marriages and career, to her move to her Tennessee farm in the late 1990s in her 1999 autobiography Surviving Myself. O'Neill says that she wrote this autobiography (her first book) … at the prompting of her children.
In 2004, O'Neill wrote and published From Fallen To Forgiven, a book of biographical notes and philosophical thoughts about life and existence. The actress, who had an abortion after the divorce from her first husband while dating a Wall Street socialite, became a pro-life activist and a born-again Christian in 1986 at age 38, counseling abstinence to teens. Concerning her abortion, she writes:
I was told a lie from the pit of hell: that my baby was just a blob of tissue. The aftermath of abortion can be equally deadly for both mother and unborn child. A woman who has an abortion is sentenced to bear that for the rest of her life.
O'Neill continues to be active as a writer, inspirational speaker, fundraiser for the benefit of crisis pregnancy centers across the United States. She has also served as the spokesperson for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, a non-denominational, non-political, non-profit organization dedicated to post-abortion healing and recovery.
O'Neill works for several other charitable causes as well, such as Retinitis Pigmentosa International and the Arthritis Foundation. As a breast cancer survivor she has also been a former spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. She has also hosted a one hour television special for World Vision shot in Africa concerning the HIV epidemic. In addition, she remains actively involved with her childhood love of animals and horses, sponsoring the Jennifer O'Neill Tennis Tournament to benefit the ASPCA, and fund-raiser for Guiding Eyes for the blind.
O'Neill purchased a horse farm in Tennessee called Hillenglade Farm where she runs a non-profit organization as a ministry and retreat for girls and young women.
World Arthritis Day has been celebrated 1996 by ARI (Arthritis Rheumatism International) first. It is being celebrated each year on October 12th.
Now, people with arthritis from around the world join together to make their voices heard on this day. You can join in and raise this voice also!
The aims of World Arthritis Day are:
To raise awareness of arthritis in all its forms among the medical community, people with arthritis and the general public
To influence public policy by making decision-makers aware of the burden of arthritis and the steps which can be taken to ease it
To ensure all people with arthritis and their caregivers are aware of the vast support network available to them.
More info here
www.arthritiscare.org.uk/NewsRoom/Latestnewsstories/DSRp
Arthritis cant kill you but it can take your life
The hands of an old woman at the monastery, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, Mexico. Black and white also on my photostream.
I've always loved my father's hands, not just for their looks but for the work they did. Now he's 87 and terribly arthritic. Still love his hands!
This woman faithfully writes letters to those she loves, despite the crippling arthritis in her hands. These hand shots were part of a slide show on the "hands of heaven on earth".
Do not fall on and eat Jelly as I did repeatedly. The universe may have been calling me to look into the supposed health benefits of Jelly Fish when consumed by us humans when I was landing in several as if destined to locate them up close for vertebrate to invertebrate inadequate communication. With every unstung ounce of me I would and do exhort you and I to only ever eat Jelly Fish when properly prepared by someone who can identify the correct ones and who knows how to prepare them. I was falling and crawling around the shoreline to Dunscaith Castle and I was frequently in contact with blue Jellyfish. Jellyfish are used as food and medicine in Asia with some noting health benefits, including helping to treat high blood pressure, arthritis, bone pain, ulcers, and digestive issues. All those symptoms need treating in me, but not in sudden unsupervised contact with the right, wrong and potentially lethal Jellyfish that were not lying on rocks waiting for me to say, “Oh hello,” “Aargh,” “Fantastic,” “Help,” “No not again,” “why me,” etc. I have no knowledge of the Jellyfish as a food and I stand back, swim away and avoid them with admiration at a distance. All this leads me to ponder are Jellyfish the spiders of the sea?
Back to my falling into Jellyfish I was soon thinking, dreaming and envisioning Blue Warriors not unlike impression of the sometimes titled Druid Scáthach whose Castle Shadow once was here, high, very high and steeply sided above the Jellyfish. I like to think of the locals in the past watching any unwelcome sails approaching and to think of either defending the natural rock bastion here, or calculating with their seasonal spread of herds and people and vacating the area leaving only their shadows in dark cold closed up hearths and that these shadows would return minus their herds to suitably greet unwelcome guests that deserved no hospitality and so were invaders requiring an answer to their marauding intrusion. The Blue Wode as noted of Picts and of others warriors and Berserkers was soon in an allergic reaction driving my imagination far beyond my physical self and yet the source of my expanding and enthralling visions remained Dun Scaith. There were Jellyfish Blue Sea People observing the harvest by land sea with wild and domestic life bringing feast and famine, love and hatred, care and concern in cycles much closer bonded to the times and seasons. Then there was where am I and I had best take care not to make further Jellyfish fuelled contact again. I hear of tremendous bad reactions and very ill and deadly contact with Jellyfish. They are to marvelled at from a safe distance and not to be danced with along the shoreline.
Earlier structures on the site of the castle are featured in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology as the stronghold and school of Scáthach the Shadow. This legendary Scottish warrior woman, sometimes referred to in recent times as a Druid and Priestess was renowned for her fighting skills and as a martial arts teacher. Scáthach trained the hero Cú Chulainn in the arts of combat giving him skills beyond all others including specialist moves and the secret of the Gáe Bulg, Gáe Bulga, Gáe Bolg, or Gáe Bolga. This is stated to be titled such meaning spear of mortal pain, or death, and also gapped, or notched spear, and further belly spear. The use of this weapon thrown from between the toes was a was believed to kill any opponent. Scáthach had the skill herself and could only pass on the technique to those of amazing skill and Cú Chulainn being the son and to some the incarnation of the God Lugh and Princess Deichtine.
The spear, or barb that Scáthach taught use of to Cú Chulainn is said to be a bone of a sea monster the Curruid. It is said that the Curruid died while fighting another sea monster the Coinchenn leading some to wonder if the spear could be made from parts of a Stingray, or be based on the Ray’s poisoned barbs. The Gáe Bulg spear is noted as being invariably fatal in use and maybe the spear was more than just a barbed weapon cast from between the toes and so launched off the feet from below to deliver a fatal injury from an unguarded angle. Scáthach prophesies about the fame and glory that await Cú Chulainn on his return to Ireland, but along with his charmed and enchanted life there will be many dangers in store from his demigod existence and his mortal life though famed is fated to be be short lived. From this moment on the bright life of Lugh that is evident in Cú Chulainn is seen as curse and charm that cannot be avoided and his triumph is set to be full of torment. The fort, or dun features as the place that the Irish Prince seeks out to improve his battle skills in the longest and most important tale in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cattle Raid of Cooley. The place name in Irish Dun Scathiag, is derived from Scáthach’s name.
The castle was the principal seat of the Clan MacDonald of Sleat, a branch of the Clan Donald, or MacDonald in the 15th century. Eventually after losing and regaining the castle the MacDonalds abandoned Dunscaith Castle in the early 17th century leaving the fortress to decline and fall into the ruins we now have today. The site is starkly beautiful with long stretched horizons around it that leave the ruin isolated bringing a sense of how vital this beacon once was in this landscape.
I cannot separate the physical place of Dun Scathiag from the site of legend spun stories that I have heard of Scáthach, her daughters and of Cú Chulainn the son and incarnation of Lugh. Somehow Dun Scathiag stands and Scáthach stays ready, yet Dunscaith Castle is also stood there and this one place is full of history and mystery all woven upon the proud rock that stands free of the cliffs and offers itself up as a place to defend and also a site to dwell on and so the tattered pages of legend lie upon the rocks and are cast off to the beach to be taken by tides, even as others are wonderfully wind embraced to carry on and on the red headed rubric into poem and in song, whilst others still are rooted in foundations and also created into walls and arches that show prosperity and hardship in the style of the stones still here and of the scope of the long gone wall tops and briefly built bold tall now much shortened fallen towers that held brilliant bright banners high into this balefully beautifully brooding stretched open sky.
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