waiting for partner. Swapbot: HMPC (group) Unconventional Valentine swap.

Bus builder: Hino Motors Philippines Corporation

Chassis No.: FG8JP7A

Engine No.: J08E-WF

Emission standard: Euro 4

Anybody agree if HMPC should make Hino Blue Ribbon buses like this?

Closed this month for social distancing....

The designs are from The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook, with some resizing and rotation. Stitched with Prism brand variegated threads. 7x7 panel (6x6 for design area).

Swapbot: May Stitchery of the Month, Doodled Stitchery group.

Rejected gelli print for background. Packing tape transfers of cartoons from a rescued Canadian Air Force exercise book. Postage stamp heads. And yes, I intentionally swapped male and female heads - part of leading a balanced life...

Sent to Mail Me Some Art Stamp Head postcard swaps.

Bus builder: Hino Motors Philippines Corporation

Chassis No.: FG8JP7A

Engine No.: J08E-WF

Emission standard: Euro 4

Anybody agree if HMPC should make Hino Blue Ribbon buses like this?

Bus builder: Hino Motors Philippines Corporation

Chassis No.: FG8JP7A

Engine No.: J08E-WF

Emission standard: Euro 4

Anybody agree if HMPC should make Hino Blue Ribbon buses like this?

HMPC || Grandecho-II

Chassis: RK1J-ST

Engine: J08C-TK

Bus builder: Hino Motors Philippines Corporation

Chassis No.: FG8JP7A

Engine No.: J08E-WF

Emission standard: Euro 4

Anybody agree if HMPC should make Hino Blue Ribbon buses like this?

Swap-Bot Group HMPC: Put a "Mermaid" on it Postcard swap.

Bus builder: Hino Motors Philippines Corporation

Chassis No.: FG8JP7A

Engine No.: J08E-WF

Emission standard: Euro 4

Anybody agree if HMPC should make Hino Blue Ribbon buses like this?

image of a man

And sent for the HMPC "put a napkin on it" swap

Postcard had to include a clock. In addition to the easily recognizable clock carried by the extinct bird, mine also had a sundial and a diagram depicting the "carbon clock". Various book clippings on rescued posterboard.

Swapbot: Put a "Clock" on it (Handmade Postcard Club group)

Echinacea /ˌɛkɪˈneɪʃiə/ is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family. It has ten species, which are commonly called coneflowers. They are found only in eastern and central North America, where they grow in moist to dry prairies and open wooded areas. They have large, showy heads of composite flowers, blooming in summer. The generic name is derived from the Greek word ἐχῖνος (ekhinos), meaning "sea urchin", due to the spiny central disk. These flowering plants and their parts have different uses. Some species are cultivated in gardens for their showy flowers. Two of the species, E. tennesseensis and E. laevigata, are listed in the United States as endangered species.

Echinacea purpurea is used in traditional medicine.Although commonly sold as a dietary supplement, there is insufficient scientific evidence that Echinacea products are effective or safe for improving health or treating any disease.

DESCRIPTION

Echinacea species are herbaceous, drought-tolerant perennial plants growing up to 140 cm in height. They grow from taproots, except E. purpurea, which grows from a short caudex with fibrous roots. They have erect stems that in most species are unbranched. Both the basal and cauline (stem) leaves are arranged alternately. The leaves are normally hairy with a rough texture, having uniseriate trichomes (1–4 rings of cells) but sometimes they lack hairs. The basal leaves and the lower stem leaves have petioles, and as the leaves progress up the stem the petioles often decrease in length. The leaf blades in different species may have one, three or five nerves. Some species have linear to lanceolate leaves, and others have elliptic- to ovate-shaped leaves; often the leaves decrease in size as they progress up the stems. Leaf bases gradually increase in width away from the petioles or the bases are rounded to heart shaped. Most species have leaf margins that are entire, but sometimes they are dentate or serrate.

The flowers are collected together into single rounded heads at the ends of long peduncles. The inflorescences have crateriform to hemispheric shaped involucres which are 12–40 mm wide. The phyllaries, or bracts below the flower head, are persistent and number 15–50. The phyllaries are produced in a 2–4 series. The receptacles are hemispheric to conic. The paleae (chaffs on the receptacles of many Asteraceae) have orange to reddish purple ends, and are longer than the disc corollas. The paleae bases partially surrounding the cypselae, and are keeled with the apices abruptly constricted to awn-like tips. The ray florets number 8–21 and the corollas are dark purple to pale pink, white, or yellow. The tubes of the corolla are hairless or sparsely hairy, and the laminae are spreading, reflexed, or drooping in habit and linear to elliptic or obovate in shape. The abaxial faces of the laminae are glabrous or moderately hairy. The flower heads have typically 200–300 fertile, bisexual disc florets but some have more. The corollas are pinkish, greenish, reddish-purple or yellow and have tubes shorter than the throats. The pollen is normally yellow in most species, but usually white in E. pallida. The three or four-angled fruits (cypselae), are tan or bicolored with a dark brown band distally. The pappi are persistent and variously crown-shaped with 0 to 4 or more prominent teeth. x = 11.

Like all members of the sunflower family, the flowering structure is a composite inflorescence, with rose-colored (rarely yellow or white) florets arranged in a prominent, somewhat cone-shaped head – "cone-shaped" because the petals of the outer ray florets tend to point downward (are reflexed) once the flower head opens, thus forming a cone. Plants are generally long lived, with distinctive flowers. The common name "cone flower" comes from the characteristic center "cone" at the center of the flower head. The generic name Echinacea is rooted in the Greek word ἐχῖνος (echinos), meaning hedgehog, in reference to the spiky appearance and feel of the flower heads.

TAXONOMY

The genus Echinacea was first formally described by Linnaeus in 1753, but as one of five species of Rudbeckia, Rudbeckia purpurea. Conrad Moench subsequently reclassified it in 1794 as the separate but related genus, Echinacea, with the single species Echinacea purpurea, so that the botanical authority is given as (L.) Moench. Historically, there has been much confusion over the taxonomic treatment of the genus, largely due to the ease with which the taxa hybridize with introgression.

DNA analysis has been applied to determine the number of Echinacea species, allowing clear distinctions among species based on chemical differences in root metabolites. The research concluded that of the 40 genetically diverse populations of Echinacea studied, there were nine to ten distinct species. A common taxonomic treatment includes nine species, of which two, E. angustifolia DC and E. paradoxa (Norton) Britton, are further divided into two varietals. Treatments that include ten species, differ by the addition of E. serotina (Nutt.) DC. An alternative classification with four species and eight subspecies has been proposed.

SPECIES

World Flora Online gives ten accepted species:

Echinacea angustifolia – Narrow-leaf coneflower

Echinacea atrorubens – Topeka purple coneflower

Echinacea laevigata – Smooth coneflower, smooth purple coneflower

Echinacea pallida – Pale purple coneflower

Echinacea paradoxa – Yellow coneflower, Bush's purple coneflower

Echinacea purpurea – Purple coneflower, eastern purple coneflower

Echinacea sanguinea – Sanguine purple coneflower

Echinacea serotina – Narrow-leaved purple coneflower

Echinacea simulata – Wavyleaf purple coneflower

Echinacea tennesseensis – Tennessee coneflower

RESEARCH

Echinacea products vary widely in composition. They contain different species (E. purpurea, E. angustifolia, E. pallida), different plant segments (roots, flowers, extracts), different preparations (extracts and expressed juice), and different chemical compositions which complicate understanding of a potential effect.

Well-controlled clinical trials are limited and low in quality, with little scientific evidence that Echinacea supplement products are useful for treating any disease. Although there are multiple scientific reviews and meta-analyses published on the supposed immunological effects of Echinacea, there is significant variability of products used among studies, leading to low-quality or no evidence for efficacy and safety. Consequently, regulatory authorities, such as the United States Food and Drug Administration, have not approved Echinacea products as safe and effective for any health or therapeutic purpose.

COMMON COLD

While one 2014 systematic review found that Echinacea products are not effective to treat or prevent the common cold, a 2016 meta-analysis found tentative evidence that use of Echinacea extracts reduced the risk of repeated respiratory infections. A 2015 monograph by the European Medicines Agency stated that oral consumption of "expressed juice" or dried expressed juice of Echinacea could prevent or reduce symptoms of a common cold at its onset. As of 2020, the benefit, if any, appears to be small and thus of little utility.

CANCER

According to Cancer Research UK, "There is no scientific evidence to show that echinacea can help treat, prevent or cure cancer in any way. Some therapists have claimed that echinacea can help relieve side effects from cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but this has not been proven either."

SIDE EFFECTS

When taken by mouth, Echinacea does not usually cause side effects, but may have undesirable interactions with various drugs prescribed for diseases, such as heart disease, bleeding, and autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, or psoriasis. Although there are no specific case reports of drug interactions with Echinacea, safety about taking Echinacea supplements is not well-understood, with possibilities that it may cause side effects, such as nausea, stomach upset or diarrhea, and that it may have adverse reactions with other medications. One of the most extensive and systematic studies to review the safety of Echinacea products concluded that overall, "adverse events are rare, mild and reversible," with the most common symptoms being "gastrointestinal and skin-related." Such side effects include nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, itch, and rash. Echinacea has also been linked to allergic reactions, including asthma, shortness of breath, and one case of anaphylaxis. Muscle and joint pain has been associated with Echinacea, but it may have been caused by cold or flu symptoms for which the Echinacea products were administered. There are isolated case reports of rare and idiosyncratic reactions including thrombocytopenic purpura, leucopenia, hepatitis, kidney failure, and atrial fibrillation, although it is not clear that these were due to Echinacea itself. Up to 58 drugs or supplements may interact with Echinacea.

As a matter of manufacturing safety, one investigation by an independent-consumer testing laboratory found that five of eleven selected retail Echinacea products failed quality testing. Four of the failing products contained levels of phenols below the potency level stated on the labels. One failing product was contaminated with lead.

CHILDREN UNDER 12 YEARS OLD

The European Herbal Medicinal Products Committee (HMPC) and the UK Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee (HMAC) recommended against the use of Echinacea-containing products in children under the age of 12. Manufacturers re-labelled all oral Echinacea products that had product licenses for children with a warning that they should not be given to children under 12 as a precautionary measure.

PREGNANCY

Although research has not found increased risk of birth defects associated with use of Echinacea during the first trimester, it is recommended that pregnant women should avoid Echinacea products until stronger safety supporting evidence becomes available.

LACTATION

It is recommended that women breastfeeding should use caution with Echinacea products due to insufficient safety information available.

GENERAL PRECAUTION

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends precaution about using dietary supplements because some products may not be risk free under certain circumstances or may interact with prescription and over-the-counter medicines.

As with any herbal preparation, individual doses of Echinacea may vary significantly in chemical composition. Inconsistent process control in manufactured echinacea products may involve poor inter- and intra-batch homogeneity, species or plant part differences, variable extraction methods, and contamination or adulteration with other products, leading to potential for substantial product variability.

OTHER USES

Some species of Echinacea, notably E. purpurea, E. angustifolia, and E. pallida, are grown as ornamental plants in gardens. Many cultivars exist, and many of them are asexually propagated to keep them true to type.

Echinacea extracts inhibited growth of three species of trypanosomatids: Leishmania donovani, Leishmania major, and Trypanosoma brucei.

HISTORY

Echinacea angustifolia was widely used by the North American indigenous peoples as folk medicine. According to Wallace Sampson, its modern use for the common cold began when a Swiss herbal supplement maker was told that Echinacea was used for cold prevention by Native American tribes who lived in the area of South Dakota. Some Plains tribes did use echinacea for cold symptoms. The Kiowa used it for coughs and sore throats, the Cheyenne for sore throats, the Pawnee for headaches, and many tribes including the Lakota used it as a pain medication.

WIKIPEDIA

I decided to put a lot of maps, in the form of stamps, roughly where they would appear on the globe. Didn't leave space for an Antarctica stamp, though!

Used postage and gouache on boxboard.

Swapbot: Put a "Map" on it (Handmade Postcard Club)

Background from Architectural Drawing textbook (c 1968). I wasn't sure if the flying fish conveyed enough purple, so i added watercolor to the architectural drawing. "The remaining dimensions are left for the reader to complete."

Swapbot: CC: Bit of Purple March 2018 (Creative Collage group)

Bus builder: Hino Motors Philippines Corporation

Chassis No.: FG8JP7A

Engine No.: J08E-WF

Emission standard: Euro 4

Anybody agree if HMPC should make Hino Blue Ribbon buses like this?

Own work; give credit if used.

Give credit if used.

Swap-Bot Group HMPC: Put a "Napkin" on it swap.

Background is monotype of ferns. Various scraps from my work table collaged on top of it. The bird and the green scrap are from the library's die cutter.

Swapbot: Sender's Choice PC - DECEMBER 2016 (Creative Collage group)

Postcard had to include a map, a cat, sunglasses, letter R and number 5. This map is the outer edges from what was used on "tessellating dogs over Ro(u)mania." It's a 1921 atlas showing redrawn European borders redrawn after WW1. The dark pink is territory added to Ro(u)mania after the war. The cats are from a rescued school music textbook; the sunglass-wearing critters are from an old Sandra Boynton calendar.

Swapbot: Collage Scavenger Hunt - USA (Creative Collage group)

Touchdown to the endpoint of Route 11 Westbound! This is my ride from Ortigas Ave. Ext., Rosario, Pasig City to Gilmore

De Guia Enterprises, Inc./G Liner | 5031 | Hino FG8J Grandmetro II fleet by Hino Motor Philippines, Inc.

Rationalized Route Assigned in Route 11: Gilmore - Taytay (under Mega Manila Consortium Corporation)

🕙 Date Taken on December 5, 2020 - 2:45 PM

📍 Photo Shot Location @Gilmore Ave. cor 1st St., New Manila, Quezon City

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Bus builder: Hino Motors Philippines Corporation

Chassis No.: FG8JP7A

Engine No.: J08E-WF

Emission standard: Euro 4

Anybody agree if HMPC should make Hino Blue Ribbon buses like this?

Swap-Bot Group HMPC: Tag! Let's Play!! sent to @user6937.

Bus builder: Hino Motors Philippines Corporation

Chassis No.: FG8JP7A

Engine No.: J08E-WF

Emission standard: Euro 4

Anybody agree if HMPC should make Hino Blue Ribbon buses like this?

Tabaco Only One Cosmic with Unique Headlights! 🌌

Antonina Line | 2088 | Hyundai Universe Space Luxury Premium (Slightly Modified Fascia & Headlights was done by in-house) fleet by Hyundai Motor Company (Korea)

🚏 Original / Authorized Franchise Route: Tabaco, Albay - Cubao, Quezon City

🚏 Modified Route Currently Served in PITX - Tabaco, Albay

Featuring San Dionisio TSC in HMPC Hino MPUV Class II

🕚 Date Taken on July 2022

📍 Photo Shot Location @ Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX), Parañaque City

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Own work; give credit if used.

Started with a neon green base cut from a rescued garage sale poster, toned down with a layer of gesso. Collage elements include map snippets from rescued China maps book, cow from rescued encyclopedia, and all other clippings from I-forget-what-source (some book i rescued from library free shelf, probably)... ETA: The Golden Book Encyclopedia. Book 8: Hudson to Korea. (c) 1959.

Swapbot: Transportation PC (Crafty Recyclers group)

My contribution was to turn some of the mushrooms into amanita (painted the caps red & white) and add the musical gnomes.

Swapbot: Collaboration PC #31 (Amazing mail ART group)

The bird was originally carved as a french hen (for 12 days of christmas). Ferns. Corner of a texture stamp.

Swapbot: Repeated image stamped postcard (Hand carved Stamps and Images group)

Own work; give credit if used.

Started with a deep red painted paper (scrap leftover from mixed media surrealist class, album here: www.flickr.com/photos/cazatoma/albums/72157644864311729 ). Next layer was a piece of microfiche (gift from someone in that same class) - an October issue, btw! Skulls - neanderthal, cro-magnon, modern human. The "hats" are some ancient vertebrate (i forget which) - including one cross-section that shows the gill structure. White gel pen highlights.

Swapbot: Dark, Eerie Hallowe'en Postcard (Creative Collage group)

Postcard had to include at least 3 of various techniques in the collage. I used found paper, stamping with a lid, tracing inside a circle template, and stickers. The background owl is off some mailing from Rice U.

Swapbot: Gimme a Circle! (Creative Collage group)

Birthday greetings for GinaVisione's dad's 88th birthday. Musicians from a rescued Childcraft book. Plant cell diagram frame from a rescued science book.

HMPC: sent

Rizaleños Green Bus Free Ride Days!

De Guia Enterprises, Inc. / G Liner | 4091 | Hino FG8J | Grand-Metro fleet by Hino Motors Philippines Corp. (HMPC)

🚏 Original / Authorized Franchise Route: Cainta - Quiapo

🚏 Rationalized Route Assigned in Route 7: Quezon Ave. - Montalban (under Mega Manila Consortium Corporation - MMCC)

🕚 Date Taken on June 2022

📍 Photo Shot Location @ EDSA-Kamuning, Diliman, Quezon City

#MacBusEnthusiast #BehindTheBusSpottingPhotography @macbusenthusiastph

#BusesInThePhilippines #BusPhotography #ProudlyPinoyMade #LoveLocals #JapaneseTechnology #JapaneseStandards #Hino #HinoBus #HinoFG #FG8J #HinoGrandMetro #GrandMetro #HinoMotorsPhilippinesCorp #HMPC

#DeGuiaEnterprisesInc #GLiner

Santos FG Deza Litex Bound

Severino Santos Transit (SST) | 162045 | Hino FG8J | Grandeza fleet by Hino Motors Philippines Corp. (HMPC)

🚏 Original / Authorized Franchise Route: Norzagaray - Baclaran via Commonwealth

🚏 Rationalized Route Assigned in Route 6: Sapang Palay - PITX via Quezon Ave.

🕚 Date Taken on August 2022

📍 Photo Shot Location @ NIA Rd. cor BIR Rd., Diliman, Quezon City

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Gouache scraped onto cardboard. Xylene transfer of a baboon scanned-and-printed from Time/Life book, with white gel pen highlights added. Reproduction and actual postage, monkeys from an old encyclopedia (the 'animals' entry), foil from candy wrappers, mask-guy from an African folk tale children's book. Gum wrapper for the circles. Scrap of Chinese New Year 'lucky money' (?).

Swapbot: Year of the Monkey postcard 2016 (Creative Collage group)

Challenge was to make a postcard using only neutral colors. The tan background was old packaging. Mathematical diagram from a (Hungarian? Croatian? I forget now!) photocopied math dissertation also on the free shelf. Little Miss Grumbletone was from some old children's story book I recently found on the library free shelf. She had to stand in the corner, wearing an ornate dunce cap, because she couldn't figure out how to properly launch the shells and coins.

Swapbot: Nifty Neutrals Re-Boot - Color Series 2.0 (Creative Collage group)

Processed with VSCO with p5 preset

Pose from a range

Hand-drawn & hand-painted pass & paste postcard. I drew the iris in the center.

Top: blue flowers on pink background by Lisa C (swapbot USER8179).

Bottom: Florida orange blossom by Ravenlily

Right: fall mums by Jody C (swapbot CarterJ)

Left: yellow flower by Angela D (swapbot wolfeagle).

Swapbot: HD/HP Pass and Paste series (Amazing Mail ART group)

Swap-Bot Group HMPC: Sender's Choice Postcard swap.

Swap-Bot Group HMPC: Put an Insect on it PC.