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I am the middle ground, talking between the tide and mainland, evenly tied to both. I didn't get into art to have an opinion – I don't think that most folks do. I'd been looking for a way to medicate myself, scratch that hard-to-reach itch I'd only had hints of reaching from what I saw other artists doing. I was consumed with feeling, absolute emotion, the only truly primal reason to create (in my mind). It seems like a very different world from when I started my daily journal in 2007. The internet was a younger and more innocent place, fewer folks consumed with having a say on every current issue. I was so disconnected from the news in those days, that when Obama was elected – it was the first time I even heard his name.
I'm not making an argument for ignorance. I'm all for knowing what's happening, how things are faring in your country or the next. But not everything is fodder for content, especially if your audience is after an escape. There are songwriters I love who deeply inspired me in the early days, but as age slowed their output and dampened their drive – it hasn't stolen their desire to speak. Some pour their frustrations into ongoing events, rather than working it out in lyrics. They haven't recorded new work in years, but the internet knows exactly what angers them regularly. They've forgotten the truth that great art is eternal, but most opinions turn abstract in a decade. Most time capsule denouncements from your favourite childhood artists have aged awkwardly.
The alienation is very real, drawing lines of Conservative art for Conservatives, or Liberal art for Liberals. As someone who grew up immersed in the reclusive world of Christian art for Christians, I feel disquieted by this practice. All art in this form becomes oriented for a cause, all your fans with differing views get driven away, and the echo chamber left seems almost like amplification – at first. The walls close in almost imperceptibly, as your listeners get sick of listening to you whine. Even the ones technically on your side. I've seen struggling artists martyr themselves this way, trade universality for pats on the back, then slowly grow bitter over failed careers. They say the system is to blame – as it always is in part, of course – but no personal blame is accepted by the artist themselves.
I know that my audience is split between the major political parties, evenly bent toward religious belief or unbelief. There are a wealth of incompatible philosophies among them. But if we agree, they don't need me in the club. If we disagree, they don't need me to save them. My followers run the full gamut of age groups and personality types. I've got fans who die of old age regularly, and others still in high school. Most are wonderful folks; a few are real jerks – but the latter have no idea that's true. I could be real-life friends with some, and am. Others couldn't justify a conversation between us. So what holds us all together? Holding my tongue. Finding the exact amount of (hopeful) truth to tell without getting in a fight. It's a hard lesson to get when you've got ears hanging on your words. No one wants to get shut up, but I've learned to speak a little less by choice.
December 14, 2022
Hillsburn, Nova Scotia
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KODIMARAM is the pride symbol of every temple… flag hosted KODIMARAMS shows the sign of festivals …
Making of KODIMARAM is a long process which takes many years….the first thing is to select one tall teak tree…and cut it down with out touching the floor , after that it will dipped in medicated oil for few months……then it covered with golden sheet finally posted in front of the temple with big ritual ceremony ,
Boris is a rarely-medicated, paranoid schizophrenic who spends his days in Madison Square Park. On one of his bad days, he is easily the scariest homeless person I have ever seen, complete with his facial tics (from too many psychotrophic drugs) and endless tirades against so many unseen demons. He is someone I walk very quietly by. I will often leave a sandwich a few park benches away and then make some noise to get his attention and point out the food and then walk quickly away. I seldom photograph him as I like to get a person's permission first and he is rarely coherent (at least when I am around) I am also scared of his potential reaction. I don't usually fear people, but Boris was frightening and erratic.
The picture on the left is Boris on an "okay" day.
The other day, I was walking by him with my knapsack when he abruptly cleared his throat and pointed at me. I turned to him slowly and he beckoned me over with a shaky finger. I can't tell you how anxious I was feeling at that moment.
He then spoke to me for the very first time (and with a surprising amount of clarity):
"You're the camera man I see here a lot. You're always taking pictures. Do you have your camera?"
(It blew me away that he noticed)
"Yes."
"Could you take a picture of me?
It's for my grandaughter. I want her to know I'm mostly alright."
So we took pictures. Many, many pictures. And talked. About why I take pictures all the time. About him. The shelter where he stays. How people steal his medicine thinking it'll get them stoned. But mostly about his grandaughter, Emily who he hasn't seen in 6 years.
I walked away with tears in my eyes. Feeling honored and graced.
I went back the next day hoping Boris would be there (and fearful that even if he was, that he would be back in his usual "bad place." But he wasn't. I brought him a few of my picks printed out but had the entire set on my laptop. I sat with him and my laptop and let him choose the pictures he liked and wanted to send to his granddaughter. We did some retouching together which made him laugh; hoarsely and painfully, as if it had been a very long time between laughs.)
He said his hands shook too much to write and would I help him type a letter.
I then told him I would print everything out and take him to a post office but he said no. That he didn't know where he'd be later and could we e-mail it to his niece who has custody of his granddaughter. He pulled a tattered notebook filled with scraps of paper from his enormous suitcase that was his "mobile home"
I went to shake his hand when Boris opened his arms wide. Of course I hugged him as the morning crowds walked through the park wondering what was going on. And then I hugged him again (my tears came by surprise...to him and to me)
I told him as I tell you all, that this was a magnificent and incredibly special thing he let me do. And that I would remember this experience forever.
Don't spare change. Make change.
Note: For anyone who cares, all photos of Boris and any other of the "people in transition" I meet are model released with every penny going directly to the Coalition for the Homeless
HIS FATHER IS IN A MEDICATED COMA AND IS NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE MUCH LONGER. JACK TOOK THE BUS LATE LAST NIGHT TO BE BY HIS DAD'S BED SIDE, ALTHOUGH THE TWO HAVE BEEN VIRTUALLY NON TALKING SINCE JACK HAS BECOME HOMELESS.
WHEN I SPOKE TO JACK A LITTLE WHILE AGO, HE HAD BEEN THERE ALL NIGHT AND ALL TODAY, READING THE NEWSPAPER TO HIS FATHER, AND TRYING TO THINK OF THINGS TO TALK TO THIS MAN HE REALLY HAD A LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH.
I KNOW I AM BEING FOR FORWARD WITH JACKS STORY, BUT HE SAID IT WAS ALRIGHT WITH HIM, HE IS JUST THAT KINDA GUY, VERY OPEN AND VERY REAL.
I DON'T NORMALLY POST THIS TIME OF THE DAY, BUT I KNOW THAT THERE ARE YOU WHO HAVE KNOWN JACK AND HIS STORY FROM THE BEGINNING UP UNTIL "WE" WON OUR BLUE RIBBON! AND CARE ABOUT JACK.
SO I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT JOIN ME IN PRAYER FOR A COMING TOGETHER OF SON AND FATHER THAT, THERE MIGHT COME A TIME OF NOT GOING BACK AND HAVING TO GO FORWARD WITH REGRET. THAT HAPPENS SO MANY TIMES, WHEN WE DO NOT MAKE OUR AMENDS WITH THOSE WE REALLY HAVE LOVED, EVEN THO THAT LOVE HAS DIED FOR WHATEVER REASON.
THAT IS SUCH A SAD WAY TO HAVE TO LIVE THE REST OF OUR LIVES.
PRAY FOR JACK AND ANYONE ELSE WHO NEEDS TO SAY I AM SORRY AND I LOVE YOU EVEN THO,
AND THEN YOU ARE FINALLY FREE. TRULY TRULY FREE.
PLEASE SEE THE SET ON JACK IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HIS STORY
Tunage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwijYShLDJM
This one was really fun to do. This is the result of being heavily medicated and listening to a really unique band on repeat. Zee really got to be the alien I've always wanted them to be and I am in love with the result!
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~What I'm Wearing~
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Panties: glutz teeny bikini. bottoms. kupra
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Hat: Madame Noir Modern Witch Hat
Nose Bridge: [CONTRATION] Spiked Nose Bridge Piercing
Mask: /-VALKYR-/ Veneficus Mask
Stabby Knives: :::ChicChica:::Bloody Knives
Non earth-friendly fluoride chemicals are added to over 65% of U.S. water supplies and, therefore, virtually all of its food supply, as a drug to treat people for tooth decay. Studies show, fluoridation is ineffective, health-robbing, and wastes tax dollars.
This is how fluoridation started in The United States:
Early settlers of Colorado Springs, Colorado, had the strangest looking teeth. Some were yellow, light brown or an ugly dark brown others ragged with holes in the enamel. The mildest discoloration were chalky and paper white. Called “Colorado Brown Stain” or mottled enamel in the early 1900’s until the villainous offender, drinking water laced with calcium fluoride, renamed the condition dental fluorosis.
Those ugly teeth usually had less cavities. So researchers assumed that, since fluoride discolored teeth, and those discolored teeth resisted decay, then fluoride reduces decay, also. Unsophisticated researchers overlooked, or didn’t know that the waters were also calcium and magnesium rich, which we now know is essential for strong bones and teeth.
So the human experiments began. Sodium fluoride was added to a water supply for the first time to decrease dental decay on January 25, 1945, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Nearby Muskegon acted as the non-fluoridated control. This study was planned to last 15 years. But, after six years, Muskegon demanded the same fluoride *benefits* as Grand Rapids.
Meanwhile, Dr. David Ast, New York State’ Dental Director started a ten-year fluoridation experiment of his own. On May 2, 1945, he fluoridated upstate Newburgh’s water supply to 1 part per million leaving Kingston non-fluoridated so he could compare results.
Ast wanted no part of universal fluoridation, yet. Grand Rapids and Newburgh were to be large-scale experimental laboratories. Ast preferred other cities wait for their experimental results.
Despite their caution, by 1947, officials in several other cities started water fluoridation on a study basis - among them Brantford, Ontario; Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Marshal, Texas; Evanston, Illionois: Midland, Michigan; and Lewiston, Idaho.
Impatient Wisconsin dentists wanted to get on the fluoridation bandwagon. By 1949, 85% of Wisconsin’s urban population was fluoridated.
The tempo of the struggle quickened as the “Wisconsin Idea” of immediate fluoridation ran head on against the conservative “go slow” policy of the American Dental Association (ADA) and other scientific organizations. Because of political pressure, in 1950, the United States Public Health Service finally endorsed fluoridation. The ADA soon followed while the Grand Rapids/Muskegon and Newburgh/Kingston fluoridation trials were still in progress.
Only five years into the experiment, fluoridation was declared a success in Newburgh and before permanent teeth of children born into the experiment had erupted yet. Researchers found that children had no ill effects from drinking fluoridated water. However, any child who was sick two weeks before the physical check-up was excluded from the examination thereby excluding the very children who many have been having side effects to fluoride. Adults who drank the experimental potion were never even studied.
In 1955, the State University of New York reported that children in fluoridated Newburgh had more cortical bone defects and hemoglob anemia than the control city of Kingston.
And recent research shows children in fluoridated Newburgh have more tooth decay and more dental fluorosis than never fluoridated Kingston.
With 65% of the US fluoridated and nearly 300 million worldwide living in fluoridated communities, the dentists made a huge mistake.
New research shows fluoride’s beneficial effects are merely topical so there’s no good reason to swallow fluoride. Unfortunately, dental fluorosis is caused by drinking fluoride. So dentists have actually created the problem they sought to remedy in the American population.
So it's no surprise that the U.S. Surgeon General declared tooth decay at epidemic proportions in the US population while dental fluorosis is reportedly becoming a new public health problem.
Tooth decay has risen in US children along with their fluoride overdose symptoms. Ironically, 10% fluoridated United Kingdom has a tooth decay rate that has been steadily declining.
fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/history-of-water-flu...
ANOTHER MORE SINISTER REASON
Concerning the 'practice' of putting sodium fluoride into drinking water, where did this insanity begin and WHO tried it first? From personal research, the very first occurrence of purposefully putting sodium fluoride into drinking water was in the German ghettos and in Nazi Germany's infamous prison camps. The Gestapo you see had little concern about sodium fluoride's 'supposed' effect on children's teeth; instead, their reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to STERILIZE HUMANS and force the people in their concentration camps into calm, bovine, submission. (See for reference: "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" written by Joseph Borkin.) Kind of shocking isn't it folks!! Ah, but it gets even better.
The following letter was received by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee Wisconsin, on 2 October 1954, from a research chemist by the name of Charles Perkins. He writes:
"I have your letter of September 29 asking for further documentation regarding a statement made in my book, "The Truth about Water Fluoridation", to the effect that the idea of water fluoridation was brought to England from Russia by the Russian Communist Kreminoff. In the 1930's Hitler and the German Nazis envisioned a world to be dominated and controlled by a Nazi philosophy of pan-Germanism. The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass-control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population in whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce sterility in women, and so on. In this scheme of mass-control, sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place.
"Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual's power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him. [A convenient and cost-effective light lobotomy? --- Ott].
"The real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children's teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could be done that are much easier, cheaper, and far more effective. The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty."
"When the Nazis under Hitler decided to go to Poland, both the German General Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific and military ideas, plans, and personnel, and the scheme of mass control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian Communists because it fitted ideally into their plans to communize the world."
"I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great I.G. Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years' research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine --- any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically."
Signed: CHARLES E. PERKINS, Chemist, 2 October, 1954.
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Fluoridated water extent world
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fluoridated-water-extent-world...
Fluoride in our water:
are we brushing with danger?
Well, I'm going to the dog beach on Wednesday. I can't wait, I now need to find a bag that is big enough for my 70-200 lens. :))
I didn't put the watermark on this, partially because my software is going crazy on me, I'll get it working tomorrow for sure! This is from the archives [yikes, I hate doing that!] it rained today, but it's going to be sunny all tomorrow and Wednesday. Heck, the entire week! :)
Chuppy has been having flaky skin again too ): He needs a bath with his medicated shampoo now, and he hates the smell of it. Will do it after the beach though, his bath!
I have been touched by the things people have said about my letter to Lael. I wrote it more for myself, I think. I have been obsessed with trying to figure out what made him tick. I am a person who needs to understand every aspect of something that is important to me. And Lael is absolutely in that category.
He's a marvelous little boy and the point I was trying to make is that he is more a gift to me than I am to him...that there's a very real beauty in the simplicity with which he sees his world. It is a simplicity I find far too complex to handle, I think.
In this image, the last I will file of him, he was with us at Fort Edmonton -- a local historical park featuring, oddly enough, a Fort and two "era themed" streets. We took a train back to the station at the end of a long and exhausting day and he was sitting there across from me, looking out the window with such intensity that I was taken aback. Usually, his attentions flit from subject to subject, like a bee chasing pollen.
It took me a long moment of careful study, until I realized he was looking at his own reflection in the glass. He was looking at the window, without seeing OUT of the window, if that makes any sense to you.
What he saw in the face that looked back at him is beyond anything I can grasp. I simply state with absolute conviction that he saw SOMETHING.
My heart is uncommonly full when I think of Lael, because for so long I have not understood where he was coming from. Don't misunderstand: I have WANTED to understand him...I have certainly loved him...I simply haven't been able to connect with him. It's been an ongoing source of guilt and frustration to me.
His parents left him and his four siblings with us for several days while they went to a wedding. I really wanted to use the time to break through the wall between Lael and me without really understanding HOW that would happen. I approached it with the intention of bulling through all opposition.
It was only when I realized that Lael speaks in silence...in sounds expressing pure emotion...in unbridled yet completely misunderstood delight...that I started to understand.
I needed to stop trying to stuff HIM into MY world context...and to step into his. Admittedly, my steps faltered and were more than a trifle uncertain. But I felt my heart magically grow and instantly, a place popped into existence with the clearly labeled name "LAEL" on it.
It is a grand relief.
So I am not posting this image in an effort to wring emotionalism out of the subject. On the contrary: I am posting it to celebrate a little boy -- a traveler through our world even though he is not precisely OF this world. I am posting it because of his decision (conscious or not) to celebrate his life in ways I can never understand...and not become some listless and tragic over medicated self-outcast.
The posting doesn't have anything to do with feedback...or comments...or Explore.
I am posting it because I am proud of Lael.
So meet my grandson. His name is Lael. He's autistic. Anyone who is uncomfortable with that will simply have to get over it...or find a place where their world will not be upset by the notion it contains people who see things in a radically different manner than they do.
He's not handicapped. He's just Lael. He is precisely who he has been made to be. And Lael fricking rocks.
And, in the words of that great philosopher Forrest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that."
The Mount Isa Underground Hospital, constructed during March/April 1942 in the grounds of the Mount Isa District Hospital, was built by off duty miners from Mount Isa Mines. The structure was designed by Dr Edward Joseph Ryan, Superintendent of the Mount Isa District Hospital. Construction work was supervised by Wally Onton, Underground Foreman at Mount Isa Mines.
The war in the Pacific reached the shores of Australia on the 19th February 1942. Darwin was bombed by aircraft operating from four aircraft carriers in the Timor Sea. Within days Timor fell to the Japanese, the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth sank during the Battle of the Java Sea, while Broome, Derby and Wyndham in Western Australia, and Port Moresby in New Guinea were all bombed by Japanese aircraft.
The threat to Mount Isa seemed very real because there appeared to be little military opposition left in the north of Australia after the devastation of Darwin and the West Australian towns. The Mount Isa Copper Mine was seen as a strategic resource of great value to the Japanese, being recognised as one of the world's major deposits of copper, lead, zinc and silver. It was believed that like the Japanese controlled tin fields and rubber plantations of Malaya, and the oil fields of Borneo, the Mount Isa Mine was probably a target for invasion forces and air attacks.
Reacting to the perceived threat, Dr Edward Ryan decided to take precautions to protect Mount Isa District Hospital from air raids. Dr Edward Ryan contacted Vic Mann, MIM Mine Superintendent, who offered the co-operation of the company and the services of Underground Foreman Wally Onton to supervise the project. The company supplied all the equipment for the work, which was done by Mount Isa miners who volunteered their time.
The drilling, blasting and mucking out was mostly done over a two-week period, with the fitting-out taking a few more weeks. The work was done during March/April 1942, during which approximately 100m of tunnel were excavated. Three parallel adits were driven into the hill face and then connected to a crosscut level to form a large underground shelter with an 'E' shaped plan. A vertical rise to the hillside above helped ventilation and was also equipped with a ladder to serve as an emergency exit. The excavation was timbered using the contemporary mining methods of the day, then equipped with furnishings and fittings to perform all the functions of a hospital. There were male, female, and maternity/children's wards, a surgical theatre and a delivery room.
The finished underground hospital was about 100m from the rear of the nearest hospital building, with access along a gravelled pathway. The three entrances were secured by locked timber gates. Inside the hospital was framed either with sets of round native timber or sawn Oregon timber, the ceiling was sawn hardwood planks and some of the walls were lined with gidyea logs. The floor was bare earth. The hospital was equipped with electric lights and a telephone. Furthermore, buckets of water and sand, stirrup pumps and shovels were present in case of an air raid.
Dr Ryan kept the shelter fully equipped and ready for use with linen, medical equipment, dressings and pharmaceutical stocks. Once a week there was an air raid drill, and nurses and orderlies wheeled less-seriously ill patients up the steep gravel path to the underground hospital.
Mount Isa never experienced air raids, and it soon became apparent that the attacks on Darwin and other northern towns were harassing raids rather than the prelude to an invasion. History shows that Japanese resources were extended to their limit and, after the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, their naval power was destroyed. The threat of invasion disappeared as the Japanese forces were driven from New Guinea and into retreat from the Pacific.
Although air raid drills ceased, the underground hospital remained in use for less urgent purposes. The shelter was used as a dormitory by the nurses on hot nights, then like most unused spaces, it gradually became a store room of hospital equipment and files. After the war, lax security allowed young children to play in the tunnels, which still contained medical equipment and pharmaceutical supplies.
The shelter was finally closed sometime during the 1960s when rubble, excavated during the construction of the new four-storey hospital wing, was used to close the three entrances. The ventilation rise was also filled in. For approximately ten years the underground hospital remained closed until the fill at the north collapsed in 1977, and at the main entrance in 1988. Each time an entrance opened there was debate in the community regarding the future of the site. In 1992 the main entrance again collapsed and there was considerable debate about the site because of the Australia-wide interest in WWII sites during celebrations which commemorated the Battle of the Coral Sea and the 1942 threat of invasion.
The entrance was again closed, but reopened in 1994. While the entrance was again open and its future was being discussed in the media, a fire broke out in the southern tunnel at 0130AM on the 27th of August 1994. Queensland Fire Services found water was ineffective and, not knowing the layout of the interior, or the source of the fire, they waited until daylight and filled the tunnel with high expansion foam to extinguish the fire. The Mines Rescue Unit and volunteers later removed most of the burnt timber and stacked it at the main entrance.
In response to the fire, the hospital administration installed a locked trapdoor of heavy steel mesh over the collapsed entrance, and the entrance has remained open but secure against entry for the past three years. A public meeting in late 1995 showed that community support has swung strongly in favour of conserving and developing the underground hospital rather than again burying the entrance.
In 1996 a Steering Committee, representing the owners, heritage conservation organisations and corporate and community representatives, was formed to manage the future of the underground hospital. A conservation strategy, funded under the Queensland Heritage Grants Program and the Queensland National Trust, was prepared at the request of the Steering Committee. Vandals lighted a second fire on Sunday the 26th of October 1997 causing further damage to the interior.
Plans are in place for the interior of the hospital to be cleared by Green Corps (Young People for the Environment) and volunteer labour. The work will be carried out in consultation with the Cultural Heritage Branch of the Environmental Protection Agency. All artefacts will be documented, tagged and stored at the North West Queensland Museum in Mount Isa. Re-timbering of the interior will be carried out under the supervision of Mount Isa Mines engineers who will also provide some of the equipment required for the project.
Seating for educational tours and fresh timber framing was added in 2021 to support the structural integrity of the underground hospital.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Taken in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on a snowy late Winter's day - Thursday February 27th, 2020. I did notice the squirrel between Social Work and Martha Cook who seem to have Conjunctivitis or similar eye malady. I gave her a medicated pecan recently - hopefully it will help.
Plants of Tamilnadu (India)(111)
ஆகாயத் தாமரை
Botanical name – Eichhornia crassipes
Tamil name - AKAYATH THAMARAI (ஆகாயத் தாமரை) ‘sky lotus’
Common name – Water hyacinth
Importance - Flowers are used for medicating the skin of horses !
Author – Dr.S.Soundarapandian
ssoundarapandian.blogspot.in
Place of plant : Chennai - 42 (Tamilnadu, India)
Date : 10 - January – 2016
"Effie we all got pain..."
-- Dreamgirls
*WARNING: DREAMGIRLS SPOILER*
At a pivotal moment in Dreamgirls, as Effie White (played exceptionally by Jennifer Hudson in the movie version) is being pushed out of group she founded, she pleads with her fellow group members, the girl who's replacing her, her manager, and even her brother by singing, "I'm not feeling well; i've got pain."
Their response? You got it: "Effie, we all got pain."
It's one of my favorite moments from both the stageplay and the movie. In the Dreamgirls story, Effie tries to excuse her contentious behavior by playing up the psychological pain of being pushed out of the spotlight, the emotional pain of betrayal by her friends and family, and the very real physical pain she's experiencing at that point.
Sometimes i have to remember that everyone has to deal with their own kind of pain. That neither medicating nor wallowing in that pain is the answer. We all got pain. Sometimes we just gotta push our way through it until we figure out how to heal.
Tomorrow's going to be better.
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Highest position in Explore: 136 on Friday, January 5, 2007
General body massage using medicated or herbal oils, one of the best rejuvenative
regimens of Ayurveda.
Spring is her, and so are Arty's allergies. The Vet has him on a regement which includes weekly baths with a medicated shampoo. Needless to say, he isn't thrilled. :-)
DDC-1610. 3/28 "Water"
"Tea that helps our head and heart.
Tea medicates most every part.
Tea rejuvenates the very old.
Tea warms the hands of those who're cold."
J. Jonker, Amsterdam, circa 1670
© Copyright Natalie Panga - All rights reserved.
* Best seen in larger size on black (click image above)
The red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. It is usually classified as a subspecies of the willow ptarmigan but is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Lagopus scoticus. It is also known as the moorcock, moorfowl or moorbird. Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lagos (λαγος), meaning "hare", + pous (πους), "foot", in reference to the feathered feet and toes typical of this cold-adapted genus, and scoticus is "of Scotland".
The red grouse is the logo of The Famous Grouse whisky and an animated bird is a character in a series of its adverts. The red grouse is also the emblem of the journal British Birds.
Description
The red grouse is differentiated from the willow ptarmigan and rock ptarmigan by its plumage being reddish brown, and not having a white winter plumage. The tail is black and the legs are white. There are white stripes on the underwing and red combs over the eye. Females are less reddish than the males and have less conspicuous combs. Young birds are duller and lack the red combs.
Birds in Ireland are sometimes thought to belong to a separate subspecies L. l. hibernica. They are slightly paler than those in Britain and the females have yellower plumage with more finely barred underparts. This may be an adaptation to camouflage them in moorland with higher grass and sedge content and less heather.
It is identified by its 'chut!chut!chut!chut!chut!chuttt....' call, or the 'Goback, goback, goback' vocalisation. The wings make a whirring sound when the bird is disturbed from a resting place.
Grouse populations display periodic cycling, where the population builds up to very high densities only to crash a few years later, and then recover. The main driver of this cyclic pattern is thought to be the parasitic nematode worm Trichostrongylus tenuis.
However, in his book, V. C. Wynne-Edwards suggests that the primary reason for mortality in grouse population is homeostasis depending largely on food availability and that the 'Grouse disease', due to the parasitic worm Trichostrongylus tenuis is a mistaken diagnosis of the after effects of social exclusion.
Distribution and habitat
The red grouse is endemic to the British Isles; it has developed in isolation from other subspecies of the willow ptarmigan which are widespread in northern parts of Eurasia and North America.
It is found across most parts of Scotland, including Orkney, Shetland and most of the Outer Hebrides. They are only absent from urban areas, such as in the Central Belt.
In Wales there are strong populations in places but their range has retracted. They are now largely absent from the far south, their main strongholds being Snowdonia, the Brecon Beacons and the Cambrian Mountains.
In England it is mainly found in the north – places such as the Lake District, Northumberland, County Durham, much of Yorkshire, the Pennines and the Peak District, as far south as the Staffordshire Moorlands. There is an isolated introduced population on Dartmoor, and overspill Welsh birds visit the Shropshire Hills such as Long Mynd, where they breed. The Exmoor population would now appear to be extinct, with the last birds sighted as recently as 2005. An introduced population in Suffolk died out by the early 20th century, though a population on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire lasted longer.
In Ireland it is found locally in most parts of the country: it is commonest in County Mayo, where the population is increasing, and on the County Antrim plateau, with other healthy populations in the Slieve Bloom Mountains and the Knockmealdown Mountains; There is still a small population in south County Dublin.
The small population in the Isle of Man is mostly concentrated in the southern hills but conservation work is ongoing throughout the uplands to ensure the species' continued viability.
Its typical habitat is upland heather moors away from trees. It can also be found in some low-lying bogs and birds may visit farmland during hard weather.
The British population is estimated at about 250,000 pairs with around 1–5,000 pairs in Ireland. Numbers have declined in recent years and birds are now absent in areas where they were once common. Reasons for the decline include loss of heather due to overgrazing, creation of new conifer plantations and a decline in the number of upland gamekeepers. Some predators such as the hen harrier feed on grouse and there is ongoing controversy as to what effect these have on grouse numbers.
Red grouse have been introduced to the Hautes Fagnes region of Belgium but the population there died out in the early 1970s.
Behaviour
The red grouse is herbivorous and feeds mainly on the shoots, seeds and flowers of heather. It will also feed on berries, cereal crops and sometimes insects.
Breeding
The birds begin to form pairs during the autumn and males become increasingly territorial as winter progresses. The nest is a shallow scrape up to 20 cm (7.9 in) across which is lined with vegetation. About six to nine eggs are laid, mainly during April and May. They are oval, glossy and pale yellow with dark brown blotches. The eggs are incubated for 19 to 25 days, the chicks can fly after 12 to 13 days after hatching and are fully grown after 30 to 35 days.
Conservation
Member States of the European Union are obliged by virtue of Council Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds (popularly called the Birds Directive) to take the requisite measures for the protection of the red grouse; but as it is a species to which Annex II of the Directive applies, Article 7 permits hunting under national law, provided population levels are not threatened as a result. In 2002, Ireland was found by the European Court of Justice to be in breach of its obligations under an earlier Birds Directive to protect the red grouse, in that it had allowed a crucial breeding ground to become degraded through overgrazing by sheep. Conservation measures taken on foot of the judgment have seen the population in the area double from c.400 to 800.
As a game bird
Controlled burning of heather, on a Derbyshire grouse moor
The red grouse is considered a game bird and is shot in large numbers during the shooting season which traditionally starts on August 12, known as the Glorious Twelfth. There is a keen competition among some London restaurants to serve freshly killed grouse on August 12, with the birds being flown from the moors and cooked within hours.
Grouse grit
Shooting can take the form of 'walked up' (where shooters walk across the moor to flush grouse and take a shot) or 'driven' (where grouse are driven, often in large numbers, by 'beaters' towards the guns who are hiding behind a line of 'butts'). Many moors are managed to increase the density of grouse. Areas of heather are subjected to controlled burning; this allows fresh young shoots to regenerate, which are favoured by the grouse. Extensive predator control is a feature of grouse moor management: foxes, stoats and crows are usually heavily controlled on grouse moors. The extent to which it occurs on grouse moors is hotly contested between conservation groups and shooting interests, and the subject generates a lot of media attention in relation to grouse moors and shooting.
In recent decades the practice of using medicated grit and direct dosing of birds against an endoparasite, the strongyle worm or threadworm (Trichostrongylus tenuis), has become part of the management regime on many moors.
As food
The flavour of grouse, like most game birds, develops if the bird is hung for a few days after shooting and before eating. Roasting is the most common way to cook a grouse.
The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie (1909) has 11 recipes for using grouse. The recipe "To cook old birds" runs as follows:
Old grouse are not fit for cooking till the feathers pull very loosely from the "apron". When "high", put a piece of bread inside them while roasting; take out the bread before dishing, and throw it away. A good gravy should be served with them in a boat, none in the dish, but put the birds on a toast when bread is plentiful.
Scientific study
Because of their economic and social importance and some interesting aspects of their biology, red grouse have been widely studied. They were the subject of some of the earliest studies of population biology in birds, as detailed in The Grouse in Health and in Disease by Lord Lovat in 1911. Since the mid-20th century they have been subject to ongoing study by many organisations and individuals. Much work has been conducted by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in the eastern Cairngorms, and by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in the Central Highlands. There are a wide range of research activities still going on today and a wealth of published literature exists on all aspects of grouse biology.
Parasites and viruses
The red grouse may be infected by parasites and viruses which severely affect populations. Strongylosis or 'grouse disease' is caused by the strongyle worm, which induces damage and internal bleeding after burrowing into the cecum. This endoparasite is often eaten with the tops of young heather shoots and can lead to mortality and poor condition, including a decrease in the bird's ability to control the scent it emits.
First diagnosed in the UK in 2010, respiratory cryptosporidiosis, caused by Cryptosporidium baileyi, is present in approximately half the grouse moors in northern England, where it reduces natural survival and productivity of red grouse.
Louping ill virus is a flavivirus (RNA virus), also known as sheep encephalomyelitis virus. Flaviviruses are transmitted by arthropods, and louping ill virus is transmitted by ticks. In red grouse, this virus can cause mortality as high as 78%. The main tick vector is the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus. Although traditionally tick-borne diseases are thought to be caused when the parasite bites its host, it has been shown that red grouse chicks can be affected when they eat ticks with which they come into contact. This virus may be a significant factor in red grouse populations.
Fox squirrels getting ready for a cold winter in Michigan - taken on Monday December 19th, 2022. I was able to hook up Epaulette (who lives by the bur oak tree that did not move at Ross) with her second dose of medicated pecans (with Ivermectin) to treat manage. I went for a walk around 2:30 and ran into Clem (or Clementine) over by the Clements Library. I had not seen Clem before and she looked pretty bad - with a good amount of fur loss. I gave her a first treatment and will try to find her for a second one over break. It is going to be very cold in the coming days - having a full coat would be ideal. Hopefully we will get these two on their way to healthy living soon. Also saw a red squirrel who lives in a nest under the spout on the 3rd floor of Tappan Hall. Wishing you joy, health and peace wherever you are.
Israel was in mayor part founded on a terrorist campaign, of which the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, killing 91 (mostly civilians), was only the most notorious example. The bombing was instrumental in the British decision to quit its mandate over Palestine by 1948, leading to the War of Independence and the foundation of the Israeli state. Menachem Begin, later Prime Minister of Israel, ordered the attack. This indicates how at bottom Israel feels about the use of terrorism - it's justified in advancing Zionist interests.
Modern Israel's collective punishment tactics are in morally indistinguishable from terrorism and indeed from Nazi practices of collective punishment.
So this hypocritical bleating about Arab terrorism is really stomach-churning.
Israel has become the new South Africa - a pariah state with only one or two friends. Such a state cannot survive in the long term, nor does it deserve to do so.
Obviously, the only just solution to the Palestinian 'problem' is a single, secular democracy in 'greater Israel' where Jews and Arabs live as equals. However, as the Jews have decided that they cannot outbreed the Palestinians, and therefore could not dominate them in such a state, it seems a two-state solution is the only politically acceptable outcome to the Zionists.
Besides a more realitic approach:
A successful Holocaust (sold as war on terror) on the indigenous population of Palestine, similar what Hitler envisioned but did obviosly not achieve, or the former military tught aligned Bothas rassitsic South Africa has medicated on his native "Nigger problem".
So be it.
What is NOT acceptable to the whole world is that Israel continues to treat the Palestinians and their neighbors like 'dogs' (to quote Golda Meir, another Israeli Prime Minister) until Kingdom Come. In the meantime, excuse us if we shed very few tears for the poor Israeli 'civilians' caught up in the conflict. After all, Israeli brutality tactics are helping to export terrorism throughout the world.
Why should non-Israelis pay for the sins of Israel?~ª
What is it about cats and sleeping places? This little hairy ball of trouble was found diseased, starving and filthy, behind our apartment. Erica, who cleans for us, brought him in, my daughter took to him and we're stuck with him. He's great at breaking things, plopping down on your pillow, tripping you, scratching you when he plays, etc. Weighing about a half a pound maximum, he ate over one pound of food the first week we had him. Medicating him twice and three times a day, for two weeks was a battle unimaginable.
transplant my heart
into yours
and we'll go through hell and highwater
transplant my heart
gives me the kicks
but we're pumping
like machinery
all this change
clean incision to the brain
baby, cut me open, re-arrange
healing hands have me
medicated, gesticulated
cut me open
steal this pain
it's life
it's life
saving surgery
-scott matthew
Good news I think. I just came back from my Vet. The medicine I so desperately need is available in a form that I can use. It has been a hard row to hoe because I refuse all attempts at liquid meds and pilling so far. Now I find that the med can be applied with a gel pen ( Prednisolone) and that will go a very long ways toward my becoming stable. Of course I will give mom a hard time as I will be having my thyroid meds in one ear and now this, in the other ear flap. However, mom will prevail and she WILL win this round.
xoxox
This abandoned place was built at the end of World War II by a religious order and used to house hundreds of children to enjoy their summertime and enjoy the activities and healthy, mountainous environment. This was closed down in the 1970s.
The man down Italian toll tour. Taking in some Italian delights on a 4 day explore.
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Next to a trailer turned dumpster, poor souls often shoot up. Lots of fencing is set up in this area to drive them off. The encampment is gone, but folks still self-medicate and socialize in this area.
Keith - aka - known as MICKMAC37 flat on his back on the floor. Shooting some shots of his infamous, tiny tin toy called "Smashie" ... AND at the same time, tripping up tons of terrified tourists at Liverpool's Pier Head.
doctor's orders.
and by "doctor", i mean "i like to self medicate"
"with food"
"especially chocolate"
;)
This past summer was our very first celebration of a Porto/Gaia Tradition- kinda like , well nothing else in The States really.
There’s Fireworks; launched from Bridges and from floating launch sites, anchored to the bed of The Douro River.
There’s flaming Flame-Driven-Balloons, by the 100’s if not thousands filling the skies, landing often on Trees, Rooftops and “wher-ever”.
Then, there’s the Plastic-Squeaky-Hammer-Hitting.
Oh- and drinking. Lots of drinking. But, if you are a dog owner, it’s a night to medicate them with some Doggy Xanax, or CBD, because it frightens the hell outta the little fella.
Oil on board (2008). 152 x 48 cm. This painting explores my views concerning our national obsession with medicating citizens in an effort to subdue and dampen personalities. I believe this obsession carries a steep cost in lost creative potential.
Chùm ruột, còn gọi là tầm ruột (Phyllanthus acidus, Phyllanthus distichus, Cicca disticha, Cicca acida hay Averrhoa acida) là loài cây duy nhất có quả ăn được trong họ Phyllanthaceae. Cây chùm ruột vừa được trồng làm cây kiểng vừa lấy quả.
Chùm ruột phân bố chủ yếu ở miền nhiệt đới Á Châu từ Madagascar đến Ấn Độ sang tận Đông Nam Á. Ở Việt Nam, chùm ruột trồng phổ biến ở miền Nam.
Miêu tả
Chùm ruột là loại cây thân mộc, cỡ nhỏ, gần giống cây bụi, gỗ chùm ruột rất giòn nên dễ gãy . Cây đạt chiều cao từ 2 đến 9 m. Tán cây rậm rạp, thân cây có nhiều cành chính cứng và dày. Nhánh cây sần sùi vì vết sẹo của những cuống lá cũ. Ở cuối mỗi cành chính có nhiều cành nhỏ màu xanh, dài từ 15 đến 30 cm, mọc thành chùm dày đặc.
Lá chùm ruột mọc so le, hình trứng dài với kích thước khoảng 4-5 cm, rộng khoảng 1,5-2 cm.
Hoa chùm ruột sắc hồng, nở từng chùm. Trái hình tròn, chia thành 6 múi, sắc xanh lục ngả vàng với đường kính khoảng 1,5-2 cm. Trái chùm ruột giòn và có vị rất chua, do đó thường được tiêu thụ dưới dạng mứt tại Việt Nam. Mỗi quả chỉ có 1 hột.
Lá non chùm ruột có khi được ăn như một loại rau sống.
vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B9m_ru%E1%BB%99t
Mứt chùm ruột
Vật Liệu
- 1kg chùm ruột trái to vàng.
- 700g đường.
- 2 muỗng súp muối bọt.
- 1/2 muỗng cà phê thạch cao phi. Cách làm như sau:
- Chùm ruột bỏ cuống, bỏ trái hư, dập. Ngâm nước muối độ 2 giờ. Đặt từng nắm chùm ruột (khoảng 10-15 trái) vào giữa hai mặt thớt, xoay nhẹ mặt thớt trên cho chùm ruột ra bớt nước chua, xả lại nước lạnh, để ráo (giữ lại nước chùm ruột).
- Bắc nồi nước sôi cho chùm ruột vào trụng sơ rồi đổ ra thau, ngâm độ 10 phút, vớt ra rửa lại bằng nước lạnh thật sạch, để ráo.
- Cân lượng đường bằng lượng chùm ruột. Trộn đều rồi đem phơi nắng 1 giờ cho đường tan.
Phyllanthus acidus, known as the Otaheite gooseberry, Malay gooseberry, Tahitian gooseberry, country gooseberry, star gooseberry, West India gooseberry, simply gooseberry tree, is one of the trees with edible small yellow berries fruit in the Phyllanthaceae family. Despite its name, the plant does not resemble the gooseberry, except for the acidity of its fruits. It is mostly cultivated for ornamentation.
Description
The plant is a an intermediary between shrubs and tree, reaching 2 to 9 m (6½ to 30 ft) high.[2] The tree's dense and bushy crown is composed of thickish, tough main branches, at the end of which are clusters of deciduous, greenish, 15-to-30-cm long branchlets. The branchlets bear alternate leaves that are ovate or lanceolate in form, with short petioles and pointed ends. The leaves are 2-7.5 cm long and thin, they are green and smooth on the upperside and blue-green on the underside. In general, the Otaheite gooseberry tree very much looks like the bilimbi tree.
The flowers can be male, female or hermaphrodite.[2] They are small and pinkish and appear in clusters in 5-to-12.5-cm long panicles. Flowers are formed at leafless parts of the main branches, at the upper part of the tree. The fruits are numerous, oblate, with 6 to 8 ribs, and densely clustered. They are pale yellow or white, waxy, crisp and juicy, and very sour. 4 to 6 seeds are contained in a stone at the center of each fruit.[2][3]
Origin and distribution
This tropical or subtropical species is found throughout Asia and also has a home in the Caribbean region, Central and South America.[4]
While its origin is uncertain, the species may have initially sprouted in Madagascar.[2][3][4] It was found in other parts of South Asia early; according to Eduardo Quisumbing, it was brought to the Philippines in prehistoric times.[2] It spread across the Indian Ocean to Réunion and Mauritius and crossed the Pacific to Hawaii.[2][3] It expanded to the Caribbean in 1793, when William Bligh carried the plant from Timor to Jamaica.[3]
The tree is common in Guam, Indonesia (where it is called ceremai or cerama), South Vietnam (called chùm ruột), Laos, northern Malaya (called cerme and chermai), and India (called chalmeri and harpharoi).[2][4] It is still found in the Philippines (called iba in Tagalog and karmay in Ilokano), if not widely, and in Cambodia (called kantuet) and Thailand (called mayom). In the United States, it is found in Hawaii and occasionally the southern parts of Florida.[2] It is seen in Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Surinam, Peru and Brazil.
Cultivation and human use
The Otaheite gooseberry prefers moist soil.[2] It can be cultivated in a variety of ways—budding, cutting and air-layering—in addition to the usual seed growth. The tree is cultivated for its ornamental value,[5] but also for food and medicinal purposes. While it produces some fruit throughout the year, it is mainly harvested in January except in South India, where it bears crops in April-May and again in August-September.[2] As the fruit does not soften when ripe, it is harvested when the fruit begins to drop.[6]
Various parts of the plant are used for food. In India and Indonesia, the cooked leaves are eaten.[3] While the fruit is eaten fresh, and is sometimes used as flavoring for other dishes in Indonesia, it is generally regarded as too tart to eat by itself in its natural form and is processed further.[3][4] It is candied in sugar or pickled in salt, used in chutney, relish or preserves. It is used to make vinegar in the Philippines and syrup in Malaysia. Liberally sugared, it is also used to make fruit juice. In Thailand it is used as an ingredient to make Som tam.
The plant is also used medicinally. The peppered leaves are used to make a poultice to treat sciatica, lumbago and rheumatism, while the seeds are used as a cathartic and the root as a purgative.[4][7] The syrup is used to medicate the stomach, and in India the fruit is eaten as a blood-enhancer for the liver.[4]
While the wood is strong and durable if properly treated, the tree is rarely harvested for wood.[4] In India, the root bark is sometimes used for tanning.
we can't legislate peace in our hearts.
we can't educate sin from our souls it's been there from the start.
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Though it's been months, I haven't been able to get this picture out of my head and have been wanting to do one similar to it for quite some time.
I thought I would contribute to me "thrice" series since it has been quite some time now.
After 13 years, his tiny liver is failing. If you have any prayers, positive thoughts, good karma, anything at all, please send them to him. I have about 3 days of forced-feeding and forced-medicating ahead of me to get him into healing mode. Please help him any way you can, he's my baby.
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