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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
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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Normally these little blue pills help me fall asleep. They just don't seem to work very well anymore. Maybe it's time to finally get a prescription.
Very warm day in Ann Arbor. Saw lots of fox squirrel juveniles and adults out and about in Ann Arbor, Friday June 28th 2019 at the University of Michigan. I did see a squirrel who had lost most of her fur on the Law Quad. I reached out to the Friends of Wildlife Michigan and they connected me with someone who has worked up some medicated pecans for me to feed the squirrel. I will be tracking this little one - who I am calling 'Patches.' This is short for "Patches O'Houlihan." I will track her progress - fingers crossed!
Pictures from a mild Winter's day on campus - Thursday February 25th, 2021. Got some more medicated pecans and hooked up two squirrels on the Diag. Some look a bit worse for wear, but we all do this year, right? Sending love and virtual hugs from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
My highest compliments to all concerned for excellent site."Sir, You have taken a right step to get those Swings removed from site of Harrapa" , Visitors thanked great scholar Dani when I visited his house in 2005. I had taken years to get it done by publishing many articles requesting peoples to create more facilities at cultural heritage sites. My kids and wife would had been cursing me for taking them to Harrapa quite often , My family was not craking Indus Scripts in 1989 because I had more than one computer as Manager Army Computer Club Okara but they had to crack Indus Scripts in 1995 becaue we had just one 486 computer for 3 kids and myself. What attraction kids and families had in ruins visiting 7th time.
“ What you think about round stone with stone round rod in the center and other on the top with hole in the center like grinding stone on top” , my expert visitor Egyptian asked on my 7th visit to Museum of Sasi & Punu two lovers near Twin port Karachi. Being from stone age cultural area , still using hand grinding in 1980 , acting as guide to my guest during last 6 tours , I thought it some sort of grinding though grinding stone are opposite to this , top has a wooen handle to move the stone , hole in the center has wooden piece a slot to where fulcrum from lower stone stone rest. Lower stone has a hole and tappered wooden piece is used for adjust ment of fuckrum. “ But how you would move this set for grinding , this is from tepmle used by issueless women “ , my expert visitor guided me on 7th visit.
My compliments to Thailand tourism , Ms Nani and the driver , she guided me in such an excellent fashon in 1995 that I still remember her. “ No guidence in the way , I would sit with driver , you have to be VIP not speaking a word “ , Nani gave the briefing on a cup of coffe before we started for visit of Royal Palace. She was such an excellent guide that she even gave out out cost of golden budda’s constume , golden bricks on the outer wall of golden temple. They had even kept book on Bhuddaism in my room. Bhudaism started from Taxila Pakistan but we have to make living model of previous prehistoric cultures of snake worshipers and other
Historical Perspective
1st success decryption of Indus Scripts confirmed through works of Dani, B B Lal , Mehdewan, Fair Server , Mark, Russian Professoers and many others in the century was approved by Dani in 2005. South Asia as most peaceful global trader and protector of global trading routes was known as ‘golden sparrow’.Everyone got job at his home and economy was stable. “ We must share our research work because there is no government support” Dani said . We have many secrets from Indus Script decryption that can make South Asia as most peaceful region for global trading. Global Peace Mega Project at. twitter.com/#!/nazeeraahmadch. We salute Anhazari for greatmove against anti corruption
Harappan civilization reached improbable heights and evolved amazing scripts .
Ancient inscriptions and pictorials starting from Mehrgarh Gedrosia 7000 BC till fall of civilization have always been an enigma. The glories of the ruined cities and their amazing un-deciphered script had many researchers imagining a gentle society of priests and scribes. Our decrypted secrets explain a culture that reached the heights of artistic achievement during 1900-1300 BC termed as Harappan civilization. New clues, unearthed from research on ruins and from our decrypted secrets point to new civilization of global trading termed as Matured Harappan
The settlement of Kot Diji culture mostly remained l hidden under the ruins of Mohenjodaro , Harappa and other big cities now known as Harappan Civilization 2600-1900 BC . Ethno-archaeological model is assuming much as it was when the first 50 hunting groups arrived in perhaps 8000 – 7000 BC connected with the arrival of Adam on earth. A dense forest , marshes and barren land where wild animals ruled was shared by manlike creatures . scarlet macaws, toucans, and vultures nest in towering tropical hardwoods. Scorpions , mountain , goats , fish , water buffalos lived together . These creatures and monkeys swing from branches and vines and howler monkeys bellow in the distance. It had been a land of jungle , marshes , mud, serpents and sweat, and tigers and horned tigers the lord of the jungle . The earliest arrivals of these creatures has been excavated in Samma Soan Valley of stone age where we find caves is probably had no choice—overcrowding elsewhere may have forced them into this forbidding environment. But once there, they mastered its challenges. Settling near rivers, lakes, and swamps, they learned to maximize the thin soil's productivity. They cleared the forest for maize, squash, and other crops by slashing and burning, much as today's Maya do, then re-enriched the land by alternating crops and letting fields lie fallow.
As populations grew, they adopted more intensive methods of cultivation—composting, terracing, irrigation. They filled in swamps to create fields and carried silt and muck from bottomlands to fertilize enclosed gardens. Artificial ponds yielded fish, and corrals held deer and other game flushed from the forest. The ancient Maya ultimately coaxed enough sustenance from the meager land for several million people, many times more than now live in the region.
Over the centuries, as the Maya learned to prosper in the rain forest, the settlements grew into city-states, and the culture became ever more refined. The Maya built elegant multiroom palaces with vaulted ceilings; their temples rose hundreds of feet toward the heavens. Ceramics, murals, and sculpture displayed their distinctive artistic style, intricate and colorful. Though they used neither the wheel nor metal tools, they developed a complete hieroglyphic writing system and grasped the concept of zero, adopting it for everyday calculations. They also had a 365-day year and were sophisticated enough to make leap-year-like corrections. They regularly observed the stars, predicted solar eclipses, and angled their ceremonial buildings so that they faced sunrise or sunset at particular times of year.
Mediating between the heavens and earth were the Maya kings—the kuhul ajaw, or holy lords, who derived their power from the gods. They functioned both as shamans, interpreting religion and ideology, and rulers who led their subjects in peace and war. Demarest and others have described the Maya centers as "theater states" in which the kuhul ajaw conducted elaborate public rituals to give metaphysical meaning to movements of the heavens, changes of the calendar, and the royal succession.
Behind the cloak of ritual, the Maya cities acted like states everywhere, making alliances, fighting wars, and trading for goods over territory that ultimately stretched from what is today southern Mexico through the Petén to the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Well-worn trails and stucco-paved causeways crisscrossed the forest, and canoes plied the rivers. But until Fire Is Born arrived, the Maya remained politically fragmented, the city-states charting their own courses in the jungle.
By 378 Waka was a prestigious center, boasting four main plazas, hundreds of buildings, temple mounds up to 300 feet (90 meters) tall, ceremonial palaces clad in painted stucco, and courtyards graced with carved limestone altars and monuments. A trading power, it occupied a strategic location on the San Pedro River, which flowed westward from the heart of the Petén. Its market was filled with Maya foodstuffs such as maize, beans, chilies, and avocados, along with chicle harvested from sapodilla trees to make glue, and latex from rubber trees to make balls for ceremonial games. Exotic goods found their way to Waka as well. Jade for sculpture and jewelry and quetzal feathers for costumes came from the mountains to the south, and obsidian for weapons and pyrite for mirrors from the Mexican plateau to the west, the domain of Teotihuacan.
A sprawling metropolis of 100,000 people or more—perhaps the largest city in the world at the time—Teotihuacan left no records that epigraphers have been able to decipher. But its motives in dispatching Fire Is Born to the Maya region seem clear. Waka sat on a promontory overlooking a tributary of the San Pedro with a protected harbor, excellent for berthing large canoes. "It was a perfect staging area" for military action, notes Southern Methodist University archaeologist David Freidel, co-director of excavations at Waka. Which may be precisely what Fire Is Born had in mind.
Waka appears to have been key to the envoy's mission: to bring the entire central Petén into Teotihuacan's orbit, through persuasion if possible, force if necessary. His principal target was Tikal, a kingdom 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Waka. Tikal was the most influential city-state in the central Petén. Bring Tikal into the fold, and the other cities would follow.
Fire Is Born's soldiers were probably shock troops, designed principally to display his bona fides and demonstrate good faith. He needed reinforcements, and he had come to Waka to get them. In return, he could offer the goodwill of his patron, a mysterious ruler known from inscriptions as Spear-thrower Owl, probably a highland king, perhaps even the lord of Teotihuacan.
Waka's ruler, Sun-faced Jaguar, apparently welcomed Fire Is Born. Based on hints in texts from Waka and other sources, Freidel, project co-director Héctor Escobedo, and epigrapher Stanley Guenter suggest that the two rulers cemented their alliance by building a fire shrine to house the sacred flame of Teotihuacan.
Along with moral support, Fire Is Born probably secured troops. His expeditionary force likely carried the spear-throwers and javelins typical of Teotihuacan and wore backshields covered with glittery pyrite, perhaps meant to dazzle the enemy when the soldiers spun around to hurl their weapons. Now warriors from the Petén, equipped with stone axes and short stabbing spears, swelled their ranks. As armor, many wore cotton vests stuffed with rock salt. Eleven hundred years later, the Spanish conquistadores shed their own metal armor in the sweltering rain forest in favor of these Maya "flak jackets."
The military expedition most likely set out for Tikal in war canoes, heading east, up the San Pedro River. Reaching the headwaters, the soldiers disembarked and marched either along the river or on the canyon rim overlooking it.
Garrisons probably dotted the route. News of the advancing column must have reached Tikal, and somewhere along the stretch of riverbank and roadway, perhaps at a break in the cliffs about 16 miles (26 kilometers) from the city, Tikal's army tried to stop Fire Is Born's advance. Inscribed slabs, called stelae, later erected at Tikal suggest that the defenders were routed. Fire Is Born's forces continued their march on the city. By January 16, 378—barely a week after his arrival in Waka—the conqueror was in Tikal.
The date is noted on Tikal's now famous Stela 31, which yielded early clues to Fire Is Born's importance when David Stuart of the University of Texas at Austin deciphered it in 2000. The second passage on the stela records what happened after the city fell: Tikal's king, Great Jaguar Paw, died that very day, probably at the hands of the vanquishers.
Fire Is Born appears to have dropped whatever pretense he had assumed as a goodwill ambassador. His forces destroyed most of Tikal's existing monuments—stelae put in place by 14 earlier rulers of Tikal. A new era had begun, and later monuments celebrated the victors. Stela 31, erected long after the conquest, describes Fire Is Born as Ochkin Kaloomte, or Lord of the West, probably referring to his origins in Teotihuacan. Some Maya experts have also suggested another meaning: that Fire Is Born represented a faction that had fled to the west—to Teotihuacan—after a coup d'état by Great Jaguar Paw's father years earlier and had now returned to power.
It apparently took Fire Is Born some time to pacify Tikal and its environs. But a year after his arrival, Tikal's monuments record that he presided over the ascension of a new, foreign king. Inscriptions identify him as the son of Spear-thrower Owl, Fire Is Born's patron in Teotihuacan. According to Stela 31, the new king was less than 20 years old, so Fire Is Born probably became Tikal's regent. He was certainly the city's de facto overlord.
In the years that followed the conquest, Tikal itself went on the offensive, expanding its reach across the Maya region. Fire Is Born appears to have masterminded the campaign, or at least inspired it. References to him have been identified in cities as distant as Palenque, more than 150 miles (240 kilometers) to the northwest. But the most poignant testimony to his empire-building comes from Uaxactún, just 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Tikal. There a mural shows a Maya nobleman giving homage to a warrior in Teotihuacan regalia—perhaps one of Fire Is Born's troops. A stela depicting a similar warrior guards a tomb where archaeologists found the remains of two women, one pregnant, a child, and an infant. Freidel and others have concluded that these were the remains of Uaxactún's royal family, slain by Tikal's forces. The king, presumably, was taken to Tikal and sacrificed there.
Decades after the arrival of Fire Is Born and long after he must have died, the aggressive rulers of Tikal continued to invoke Fire Is Born and his patron state, Teotihuacan. In 426, Tikal took over Copán, 170 miles (274 kilometers) to the south in present-day Honduras, and crowned its own king, Kinich Yax Kuk Mo, who became the founder of a new dynasty. A posthumous portrait shows him wearing a costume typical of central Mexico—a reference to Teotihuacan—and like Fire Is Born, he bore the title Lord of the West.
Some Mayanists believe that Tikal was acting as a vassal state for Teotihuacan, expanding its dominion throughout the Maya lowlands, with Fire Is Born acting as a kind of military governor. Others see him less as a conqueror and more as a catalyst who spurred Tikal to expand its own power and influence.
His fate is a mystery. There is no known record of his death, and no evidence that he ever ruled a Maya kingdom. But his prestige lived on. The Waka stela recording his arrival there wasn't erected until a generation later, indicating that even a long-ago visit from the great Fire Is Born was a matter of civic pride.
For more than a millennium, the Maya had entrusted their religious and temporal well-being to their god-kings. These leaders displayed their might and majesty in lavish rituals and pageants, in opulent art and architecture, and in written records of their triumphs, inscribed on stone, murals, and ceramics.
The system prospered—indeed, its excesses created the artistic achievements and learning that defined the Maya as one of the ancient world's great cultures—as long as the land could satisfy people's basic needs. This was easy at first when cities were small and resources relatively plentiful, but over time, growing populations, an expanding nobility, and rivalry between the city-states strained the limits of the environment.
Today the Petén, geographically the largest province in Guatemala, has a population of 367,000, living in isolated towns scattered through a forested wilderness. In the eighth century, by some estimates, ten million people lived in the Maya lowlands. The landscape was an almost unbroken fabric of intensely cultivated farms, gardens, and villages, linked by a web of trails and paved causeways connecting monumental city-states.
Maya farmers were well schooled in sophisticated techniques designed to get maximum production from delicate tropical soils. But beginning in the ninth century, studies of lake-bed sediments show, a series of prolonged droughts struck the Maya world, hitting especially hard in cities like Tikal, which depended on rain both for drinking water and to reinvigorate the swampland bajos where farmers grew their crops. River ports like Cancuén might have escaped water shortages, but across much of the Maya region the lake-bed sediments also show ancient layers of eroded soil, testimony to deforestation and overuse of the land.
When bad times came, there was little the kuhul ajaw could do to help their people. Monoculture farming—growing one staple food crop that could be accumulated and stored for hard times or for trade—could not be sustained in the rain forest. Instead, each city-state produced small quantities of many different food items, such as maize, beans, squash, and cacao. There was enough, at least at first, to feed the kingdom, but little left over.
Meanwhile, Maya society was growing dangerously top heavy. Over time, elite polygamy and intermarriage among royal families swelled the ruling class. The lords demanded jade, shells, feathers from the exotic quetzal bird, fancy ceramics, and other expensive ceremonial accoutrements to affirm their status in the Maya cosmos. A king who could not meet the requirements of his relatives risked alienating them.
The traditional rivalry among states only made matters worse. The kuhul ajaw strove to outdo their neighbors, building bigger temples and more elegant palaces and staging more elaborate public pageants. All of this required more labor, which required larger populations and, perhaps, more wars to exact tribute in forced labor from fallen enemies. Overtaxed, the Maya political system began to falter.
This period marked the golden age of Classic Maya civilization. The kuhul ajaw were in full flower in these two great alliances, competing in art and monuments as well as in frequent but limited wars. Calakmul defeated Tikal in a major battle in 562 but destroyed neither the city nor its population. Eventually Tikal rebounded and defeated Calakmul, subsequently building many of its most spectacular monuments.
Simon Martin, with Nikolai Grube of the University of Bonn, compares the Tikal-Calakmul rivalry to the superpower struggle of the 20th century, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed to outdo each other in fields ranging from weaponry to space travel. With neither side ever able to gain the upper hand, the Cold War arguably brought stability, and so did the standoff in the Maya world. "There was a certain degree of destruction" because of the rivalry, says Guatemalan archaeologist Héctor Escobedo. "But there was also equilibrium."
It did not last. Martin suggests the balance may have been intrinsically unstable, like the competition among the city-states of ancient Greece, or the nervous grappling between North and South in the United States prior to the Civil War. Or perhaps an overstressed environment finally caught up with the proud Maya powers, bringing a new edge of desperation to their rivalry. Either way, the unraveling began at the small garrison state of Dos Pilas, near the Pasión River downstream of Cancuén.
In 630 Tikal, trying to reassert a presence along Pasión River trade routes increasingly dominated by Calakmul, expanded an existing outpost near two large springs—pilas, in Spanish. The site had little else to recommend it. Dos Pilas grew no crops and sold nothing. Scholars call it a "predator state" that depended on tribute from the surrounding countryside. War, for Dos Pilas, was not only a ritual to glorify kings and appease gods. War was what Dos Pilas did to survive.
The kingdom's history of violence and duplicity began when Tikal installed one of its princes, Balaj Chan Kawiil, as Dos Pilas's ruler in 635. The garrison slapped together a fancy-looking capital for the young prince, using carved facades to mask loose and unstable construction fill. But in 658 Calakmul overran Dos Pilas and drove Balaj Chan Kawiil into exile.
We know the next chapter thanks to a thunderstorm that toppled a tree at Dos Pilas six years ago, exposing a carved stairway hidden beneath its roots. Inscriptions on the stairway reveal that Balaj Chan Kawiil returned two years after his exile—but as a Calakmul surrogate. Dos Pilas's turncoat king helped Calakmul cement its control over the Pasión Valley during the next two decades. Then Calakmul delivered fateful news. Its rulers ordered Balaj Chan Kawiil to fight his brother in Tikal itself.
For a time, fleeing nobles could find refuge in Cancuén, a quiet port at the headwaters of the Pasión River. Even as downriver cities sank into chaos during the eighth century, Cancuén prospered by trading luxury items and providing sumptuous lodgings for elite visitors. The architect of this golden age was King Taj Chan Ahk, who came to power in 757 at the age of 15. Cancuén had a long history as a strategic trading post, but Taj Chan Ahk transformed the city into a stunning ceremonial center. Its heart was a 270,000-square-foot (25,000 square meters), three-story royal palace with vaulted ceilings and 11 courtyards, made of solid limestone and elegantly placed on a riverside promontory. It was a perfect stage for a Maya god-king, and Taj Chan Ahk was master of the role, even as it was dying out elsewhere.
There is no evidence that Taj Chan Ahk ever fought a war or even won a battle. Instead he managed to dominate the upper Pasión Valley for nearly 40 years by coaxing advantage through patronage and alliances. An altar monument at Cancuén dated 790 shows him in action, engaged in a ceremonial ball game with an unknown noble, perhaps to celebrate a treaty or a state visit.
Taj Chan Ahk died in 795 and was succeeded by his son Kan Maax, who sought to trump his father by expanding the palace. But pomp and ritual—the old trappings of kingship—could no longer hold the Maya universe together. Within five years the spreading chaos had reached the gates of the city. In one terrible day its glory winked out, another light extinguished in the world of the Classic Maya.
Nazeer Ahmad Chaudhry
Independent Researcher from Pakistan
Author & Researcher: Decryption of Harappan Ciphers 1st successful solution in a century
President TPI Inc., President IT Genetics , Manager Asia Women Global Justice Group , Chairman Welfare Committee,
TPI has offered over 0.5 million free predicted solutions at all levels. Integrated solution based on Borderland Sciences, cryptanalysis, forecasting techniques Delphi, Scenarios and multi scenarios, war gaming and other spiritual techniques. We attach no claim with free predicted solutions. Error correction techniques and analysis may be carried out by users.
An analysis might be carried out if I can be of any use for establishing global peace by ending terrorism. I have been subjected to over 30 killing attacks, killing of over 10 members of my family and losses in millions. I have given details at petitions at Care-2, Peace pink, yahoo and other comments. Mega project research work aimed at establishing peace and security at global level by ending terrorism. I desire global board of directors sponsored by UNO to come forward for benefits of all.
I offer 1st decryption of Harappan Scripts in a century; the decrypted secrets not yet published have solution to many problems. The strategic location of Pakistan offer global trading of $ 7.5 billion per year to global community, oil and gas trading of over $ 15 trillions. I have been trained by over 250 foreign telecomm firms; I had lot of interaction with my friends from many countries as class fellows, R&D Engineer at Research Establishment, visit to Thailand, Ministry of Interior Saudi Arabia Border Guards, as operational engineer, as Zonal Manager of NGO and service in the army. I have given lot of material at Internet. My friends , colleagues , group members and others can carry out an analysis of mega project including integrated energy , renewable energy , befouls , safety and security of global trading, safe train link, herbal foods , new employments , new concepts in housing , overhauling of education systems , innovations and integration of new global technologies and many others.. We must establish an accountability system to stop official terrorists and corrupt gangs failing all the global projects.
Mega Project: Problems in offering Global Solutions
The establishment of global peace and stability by ending terrorism has been delayed due to 30 killing attacks on me, killing of 10 members of my family, loss in millions, terrorists attack on 3 sick and crippled women of 3 families, 11 of witnesses and me. Petitions have been registered. May I request global peace lovers to sign the petitions; they may not display their names.
Research Interests Nazeer ’s fundamental research is on discovering and understanding the problems and offering free solutions by forecasting/prediction through economic, social, organizational and technical interactions and techniques evolved through TPI Inc. Over 0.5 million free solutions have been offered at all level but aim of ending terrorism, corruption and prevention of fraud at any level has yet to achieve. Research Projects • Research in any field that can give protection to mankind from fraud, terrorism and human right protection. • Ethno-archaeological Model on Harappan Ciphers: Decryption of Harappan Cipher is over 30 years research project, the 1st successful cryptanalysis in the century • Axiomatic Education Strategy for 21st Century • Prevention of Fraud: Nazeer and his wife Hamida are heir to the lands & property of about 7 families hence an effort underground had been going on for killing of every member of this family. It is very interesting research work scanning the centuries how people slaughter others to become landlords by using fraud and terrorism. • Security and public policy was forced on Nazeer to accept almost all responsibilities in Home County being heir to 7 people. He suffered over 30 killing attacks, killing of 10 members of his family by the snakes brought up by them; the relatives of his step mother.
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•1 Education
o1.1 Experience
o1.2 Research Work
•2 Projects
o2.1 Publications:
[Edit] Education
B.Sc. Telecomm Engineering, B Sc Honors, Technical Graduate NUST-EME, LLB, PEC, MIE Pak, IEEEP, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE- ISST
MBA , M. Phil. Electronics Engineering , MA , Cryptology NUST-MCS , Arabic AIOU , Ph D Total Technology approved researcher Bradford
•B.Sc. (Telecomm. Engineering), Member:PEC,IEEE &Computer Society IEEE USA MIE (Pak.)
•M.B.A. Preston Univ. 1995 , M.A.( Political Science), B.Sc. (Honors War Studies), L.L.B. , Arabic Diploma AIOU Islamabad
•Doctor of Philosophy in Total Technology at University of Bradford UK approved researcher in since 1995. M Phil at MUET was accepted for credit in Ph.D. Second part M.B.A completed from Preston University USA, Courses /research/ 15 years experience/foreign firm training from 250 firms as R&D engineer in cryptographic security completed. Member PEC , TSO graduate from NUST Campus ,Advance Cryptology Course , Refresher Cryptology Course from NUST
•M. Phil. (Electronics Engineering,) Cryptology (NUST), Technical Staff Course (NUST,, Ph.D. (Electrical/Electronics Engineering) approved researcher at Uni. of Bradford U.K. Masters of Science and M Phil at MUET Jamshoro Pakistan was got transferred for PhD
•M.B.A. from Preston University USA from Islamabad Campus getting 98 % in MIS, Organizational Communication and International Marketing subjects. (98 % marks in Information Theory in Advance Cryptology NUST Campus. M.A. (Political Science) from Sindh Uni.
[edit] Experience
•1996-1997 Telecommunication Engineers at Ministry of Interior Saudi Arabia Border Guards
•1978- 1994 Telecommunication Engineer in Sindh and Baluchistan Provinces , Technical Staff Course , Research & Development Engineer at Signals Research Establishment . Telecommunication Engineer and Communication officer in Army 1972-1994
•Teaching: Teaching Assistant and teaching staff for science and technology subjects at Higher Secondary School, Signal Training Center, Computer Clubs, Divisional Battle School NUST Campus MCS, National Institute of Computer Sciences
•Administration: Zonal Manager Hamdard Laboratories Rawalpindi Zone (1998-1999). 24 years experience in Pakistan Army
•Training: Training by foreign Telecom firms from USA, UK, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Sweden and many other countries as R&D Engineer.
Computers: Student Member IEEE USA (1994-95), Manager Army Computer Clubs at Okara and Hyderabad, Teaching Staff National Institute of Computer Sciences Rawalpindi (1995)
•Engineering: Student Member IEEE USA (1994-1997), Telecommunication Member Pakistan Engineering Council, Member Institute of Electrical Engineers Pakistan
[edit] Research Work
Decryption of Indus Valley Scripts has been my research work since last 30 years .This is 1st successful decryption in a century. Dani had confirmed the decryption in 2005 though 1st script was decrypted in 1995 when Secure MIS high security high compression book draft was approved by Artech House USA and Dorrance Publishers USA approved the draft for publication both books not yet published. Rolex Award also approved the research for an award.
B.B. Lal , Russian Professors , and US Scholars Farmer , Sprout , Fair Service, Mark , Durani , F.A. Khan, Mughal and many conclusions of the decryption supported by many other scholars through their written work.
•In 2004, Steve Farmer published, The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis: The Myth of a Literate Harappan Civilization, arguing that the Indus valley figures are merely a non-structured symbol system and do not represent a full language.
•In ancient cryptography used by Egyptians or code & ciphers used by lovers, diarists and underworld people, you don't require full language. As a kid, he had just a chance by compulsion to evolve coded language and a writing system to be read by kid girls who could just read Arabic without understanding it.
•All most all the population counted as the people of Indus Valley counted. He was 1st student to qualify Matric (O level) in 1968 and taught new science syllabus to his class as volunteer teacher because his science teacher declined to teach the syllabus unless he had undergone a course.
•He had over 50 of teacher’s 1st &2nd World War soldiers and there were few who had been living in the jungle. His county of 7 treasures in oldest Stone Age culture got electricity in 1990.They used ancient agricultural tools and animal transport like camels, horses, donkeys, bulls and buffalos were used.
[edit] Projects
•Large number of Design and modification projects in Telecommunication Engineering and Cryptology
•Research in any field that can give protection to mankind from fraud, terrorism and human right protection.
•Ethno-archaeological Model on Harappan Ciphers : Decryption of Harappan Cipher is over 30 years research project the 1st successful cryptanalysis in the century
•Axiomatic Education Strategy for 21st Century
•Prevention of Fraud: 50 years Research Work
•Security and public policy was forced on Nazeer to accept almost all responsibilities in Home County being heir to 7 people.
•Codes and Ciphers: Evolution of Coded Language based on Harappan Scripts
•Codes and Ciphers: Evolution of Written Script based on Harappan Scripts
•Design & Development of Maintenance Free Exchange for Desert Working
•Design & Development of Secrecy Electronics Communication System
•Cryptology : Design of High Security High Compression System
•Design & Development of Exchange for Nuclear Warfare
•Design & Development of Battery Charging and Lighting System on Wind Energy
•Design & Development of Energy Saying System
•Decryption of Moenjodaro Scripts
•Decryption of Matured Harappan Scripts
•Herbal Medicine : Medicated Foods and Treatment of Cancer
•Herbal Medicine : New Treatment for Asthma
•Evolution of Recycling Technologies for Low Cost Housing
•Evolution of Integrated Technologies for Energy Crisis
[edit] Publications:
1.Decryption of Moenjodaro Scripts approved in 1995 based on the Thesis: Integration of TCP/IP Protocol Suites with Cryptographic Security approved Ph. D. Electrical & Electronics Engg.) In Total Technology thesis at University of Bradford U.K. Not yet published.
2.Nazeer Ahmad , Secure MIS book draft sent to Artic House Norwood
3.Nazeer Ahmad, Secure MIS in Business Communication, Research Paper in MIS.
4.Nazeer Ahmad ,Protection of Radio Tele-printing Circuits, The Qasid Magazine ,Military College of Signals , NUST Campus Rawalpindi, 1987,pp 25-29
5.Nazeer A. Chaudhry ,Protection of Speech and Data Communication Circuits , The Qasid Magazine ,Military College of Signals , NUST Campus Rawalpindi, 1988,pp 52-56
6.Nazeer Ahmad ,Neo-Communication Security Environments, The Qasid Magazine ,Military College of Signals , NUST Campus Rawalpindi, 1990,pp 25-29
7.Nazeer Ahmad Chaudhry ,Communication Systems , MS Thesis MUET Jamshoro 1990-1992,
8.N. A. Chaudhry , Protection of Electronics & Electrical Equipment, The Hilal Magazine , ISPR Publication , volume 22 , 22-29 December 1994
9.N. A. Chaudhry , Tele-computers and Security Beyond Year 2000, The Hilal Magazine , ISPR Publication , January 1995
10.N. A. Chaudhry , Tele-computers and Security Beyond Year 2000, The Qasid Magazine ,Military College of Signals , NUST Campus Rawalpindi, 1994
11.N. A. Chaudhry , Tactical Nuclear Operations : Indian Option for 21st Century, Pakistan Defense Review, Volume 6, 1994, pp 80-92
12.N. A. Chaudhry , Integrated National Defense , Pakistan Army Green Book, 1991, pp343-346
13.N. A. Chaudhry , Safety Equipment for Nuclear Operations , T.S.O. Research Paper , E.M.E. College NUST Campus Rawalpindi, 1985
14.Nazeer Ahmad. Chaudhry , Pre- Evolution History Corps of Signals 1847-1947, SRC Publishers Hyderabad, 1992
15.Nazeer Ahmad. Chaudhry, Design and Development of Secrecy Electronics Communication System, M. Phil. ( Electronics Engg. ) thesis at MUET Jamshoro, 1993-1995
16.Nazeer Ahmad. Chaudhry , Electronics Warfare Doctrine Under Hostile Environments , Pakistan Army Green Book, 1991, pp 287-290
17.Nazeer A. , Cryptographic and Computer Security , The Hilal Magazine ,19 January 1995
18.N. A. Chaudhry ,Evolution of Codes and Ciphers , The Hilal Magazine ,8 February 1995
19.N. A. Chaudhry , Cryptographic Security Systems , The Hilal Magazine , 15 December 1994
20.N. A. Chaudhry , Protection of Electronics & Electrical Equipment, The Hilal Magazine , ISPR Publication , volume 22 , 22-29 December 1994
21.N. A. Chaudhry , Axiomatic Educational Strategy for 21st Century , Research Paper presented at IEEEP Lahore ,1995 and published in local press
22.Nazeer Ahmad , Quality Education , Pakistan Observer Daily, 18 November 1998
23.Nazir Ahmad Chaudhry, Education System & National Development , The Jung Daily, 6 February 1995
24.Nazeer Ahmad, Legal Settlement of Kashmir Problem , Pakistan Army Journal , U.N. and Kashmir Issue , Pakistan Observer Daily, 15 November 1994
25.Nazeer Chaudhry , Islamic Requirements of Justice System, , Daily Markaz, 22 February1998
26.Nazeer Chaudhry , Islamic System of Saudi Arabia , Daily Markaz, 8 September 1998 Islamabad
27.Nazeer Ahmad , Face Reading : Integration of Forecasting and Prediction Technologies for Solution of Problems , Bazem –i- Alm –o-Fun Islamabad 2000
28.Nazeer Ahmad , Solution to National Problems , Daily Markaz, 21 September,1998
29.Nazeer Ahmad , Solution to National Problems , Daily Markaz, 3 April,1999,
30.Nazeer Ahmad , Solution to National Problems , Daily Markaz, April,1999
31.Nazeer Ahmad , Solution to National Problems , Daily Markaz, 11 April,1999, Islamabad
32.Nazeer Ahmad , Solution to Public Problems , The Exclusive Weekly, Islamabad, 26 September 1996
33.Nazeer Chaudhry, Budget and Unemployment , Asas Daily , 20 June 1999
34.Nazeer Ahmad , Time to Shake Hands With India , The Exclusive Weekly, Islamabad, 16 July 1991
35.Nazeer Ahmad , Face Reading : Integration of Forecasting and Prediction Technologies for Solution of Problems , Defense Digest Monthly, October 1992, pp 53-87
36.Nazeer Ahmad , We can’t Progress Without Science Education, Pakistan Observer Daily, 2 November 1994
37.Nazeer Chaudhry, South Asian Economy and Kashmir , Al Akhbar Daily, 16 October 1999
38.Nazir Ahmad Chaudhry, Peace, Security &Development, Daily Markaz, 17 Agust,1998, Islamabad
39.N. A. Chaudhry , Modern Technology Impacts of Defense , Pakistan Army Journal , 1994, pp62-74
40.N.A. Chaudhry , Tourism Development , The Parwaz Monthly Islamabad, June 1999
41.N.A. Chaudhry , Tourism Development in Pakistan , Friday News Weekly, 6 July 1999
42.N.A. Chaudhry , Tourism Development , The Parwaz Monthly Islamabad, September 1999
43.N.A. Chaudhry , Tourism Development , The Parwaz Monthly Islamabad, June 1999
44.Nazeer Ahmad , 21st Century Challenges for Our Engineers, Pakistan Observer , 11 December 1994
45.Nazeer Ahmad , New Trends in Energy Generation, Pakistan Observer Daily, 2 November 1994
46.Nazir Ahmad Chaudhry, Eastern Science of Medicine, Pakistan Observer Daily, 18 March 1995
47.N.A. Chaudhry, Kala Bagh Dam , Niwa –i- Waqat Daily, 14 July 1998
48.Nazeer Chaudhry, Pakistan –US Relations, Markaz Daily 22 July 1998, Islamabad
49.Nazeer Chaudhry, Pakistan –US Relations, Markaz Daily 28 July 1998, 1974.
50.Nazeer Chaudhry, Expected Attack on Atomic Instillations Pakistan , Osaf Daily 5June 1998,
51.Nazeer Chaudhry, Regional Cooperation and Pakistani Forces, Markaz Daily 30 June 1999,
52.Nazeer Chaudhry, Circulation of Money Al Akhbar Daily 17 February 2003, Islamabad
53.Nazeer Chaudhry, Solution of Unemployment Problem , Daily Subha, , 17 April 2004
54.Nazeer Chaudhry, Inflation, Unemployment and Terrorism, Daily Subha, , 9 August 2004,
55.Nazeer Chaudhry, Social and Economic Welfare of Society , Daily Ehsas , 6 April 1999,
56.Nazeer A. Chaudhry, Strategic Dimension of Pakistan, Submitted to Pakistan Defense Review, 2005
57.Nazeer A. Chaudhry, Solution to Kashmir Problem, Submitted to Pakistan Defense Review ,1995
58.Nazeer Chaudhry, How to End Terrorism, Daily Markaz , 8 November 1998 , Islamabad
59.Nazeer Ahmad Chaudhry , Neo Scenario for Armed Forces of Pakistan , Pakistan Army Journal ( Urdu) , Winter 2009 , pp 25-42
60.ibid, PAJ, The J curve , Rise and Fall of Nations by Ian Beemer , Book Review , pp107-108
61.Nazeer Ahmad Chaudhry , Science & Technology : New Challenges for Defense , Pakistan Army Journal ( Urdu) , Summer 2009 , pp 15-25
62.ibid, PAJ , Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Con Man Who caused a War by Bob Dorgan , Book Review , pp- 85-87
63.Nazeer Ahmad Chaudhry , Nuclear Strategy for Future , Pakistan Army Journal ( Urdu) , Winter 2008 , pp 45-55
64.ibid, PAJ, the Failure of American Foreign Policy and Next Great Crisis in Middle East by Ali M. An sari , Book Review , pp104-106
65.Nazeer Ahmad Chaudhry , Defense Strategy for Future , Pakistan Army Journal ( Urdu) , Summer 2008 , pp 42-51
66.ibid, PAJ , Winning the Right War by Phillips H Gordon, Book Review , pp 85-87
Fox squirrels out and about at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Taken on a nice Summer day in Ann Arbor, Monday August 12th, 2019. I did see Steve the Pirate from my Dodgeball trio. After consulting with my contact from Michigan Friends of Wildlife, she thought getting him another round of medication would be useful. So Steve the Pirate got his first medicated pecan today.
Gapcio passed away few days ago... (it could have been Halloween, I'm not sure).
I think it was just old age. Old age that came suddenly and developed rapidly. At some point he just started to eat less, move less, and sleep a lot. Then he stopped getting out of his Mouse House. He just slept for days, breathing slower and slower, and finally he woke up in Hamster Heaven.
I think it was all natural. I decided not to medicate him or anything, just let him peacefully go.
Gapcio was my third dwarf hamster - after Pompon and Tutku - and my first boy dwarf. He was also the friendliest one. He liked (or: didn't mind) being stroked and was a really, really good boy. He liked his tiny stationary hamster ball, his food bowl, and his "House of the Mouse". Despite being very cute, he was a terrible model - too impatient.
Gapcio was also my one of my parents' favourite hamsters.
Gapcio was the last one of my latest Pet Gang: Fruzia, Kokolinka and Florcia.
Play in Peace, sweetest Gapcio xxx
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Fox squirrels getting ready for a cold winter in Michigan - taken on Wednesday December 21st, 2022. This was the first day of Winter for 2022-2023. The very quiet campus was ready for the break as the students and most of the faculty and staff were gone. I did notice that a good number of squirrels over by Lorch Hall were showing signs of mange. The bald red marks are where they are scratching. If they share a nest, as many do, they can spread easily among the squirrels. I hooked up a number with their first dose of medicated pecans (with Ivermectin) to treat manage. Since they need to be given a week apart, I will try to make a visit between Christmas and New Years. I also heard from a friend about a squirrel with mange over by the Power Center - on the northern side of central campus. That is not normally on my walking path, but I drove there on the way home. Did not see anyone at the Power Center, but I did see little Max Power kitty corner at the Alumni building. This little one had a bad case and I hooked them up with the first dose. I will get more meds for the next walk through campus. Thanks to Friends of Wildlife! 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 near Lorch Hall - they crack me up. Wishing you joy, health and peace wherever you are.
Deep thoughts from a newly-minted 10-year-old: "I'm never getting married. I'm a lone wolf." Happy birthday to Prince Puppy Butter (aka Boaz Samuel Mindell). 10 years ago, at nine p.m., Albert Einstein's grandson pumped me full of lidocaine and perocoset and Dr. Yashari sliced you right out of me! And it's been a wild and exuberant and medicated ride ever since! Yom Huledet Sameach Boaz Shmuel!
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People joke about being addicted to caffeine, but for me it's no joke. I started drinking coffee when i was about 12 years old. After getting an ADHD diagnosis much later in life, i realized i had been self-medicating for years. If i try, i can go a day or two (maybe even a week) without, but i have trouble focusing and i get headaches. Today i tried one of my recurring tactics: drink decaffeinated to try and "trick" my brain into thinking it's getting its fix. Nuh uh. It tasted good (first time trying a Starbucks Flat White – with coconut milk, no less), but no kick. Now i'll have to break out the French press and get a dose of the real deal….
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Our Ragdoll cat Angel has a bad rash on his tummy and he won't stop licking the area. He has been to the vet and we are applying a medicated ointment on the area but he still licks at it. I cannot take him back to the vet because the clinic has been exposed to COVID and is currently closed. I just have to hope for the best. 12:43am, Friday the 15th of October, 2021.
The high tides have refilled the scrapes on the saltings and just for a change, Charlie gets to play in relatively clean water..he was in heaven, charging about in the warm shallows
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A few days after this shot was taken Charlie had a mild epileptic fit that went on for way too long and I was concerned it would put pressure on his heart so we visited the vet. He was trembling and panting violently and although still aware of his surroundings and able to walk he was really stressed. I hate seeing him like this..my poor little chum. He has had petit mals all through his life but not often or severe enough to medicate. This one went on for 48 hours and we think he was brewing up for it a few days earlier..poor little chap. The pills have doped him up so much that he is very sleepy and not interested in going out walking but at least he is getting a good rest. In all his nearly 13 years he has probably only not walked out four or five times..I don't know what to do with myself! Oh what a to-do..bless'im
:-(
one of those days when they drain the water out to clean the walls and medicate the fish.
Looks a lil better in its bigger size.
three shot HDR with no tripod. Floored the camera on on one of the most comfortable marble to walk on. (the parikarma)
Yeah, I got voices in my head again, tread carefully
And I don't medicate, it helps me temporarily
I got problems, I got issues, yeah, apparently
Trauma that I'm burying, I think I need some therapy
I battle depression, I'm back with a message
I'm asking the question that if you hate me, why you acting obsessive?
I'm past the point of no return, fuck being passive-aggressive
I'll brandish a weapon, teach all you motherfuckers a lesson
You started a battle, but bitch, I'ma finish it
You think you can stop me? Not even a little bit
Nowadays, everybody's so sensitive
Taking my words and you pick it apart
Tripping on nothing, just get in the car
Gripping and ripping, I'm sticking the mark
I'm tipping the charts
'Cause I got enemies trying to get rid of me
Evil tendencies are fucking with me mentally
I got people that don't like me in the industry
I can feel your energy, you are not a friend to me
'Cause I have been to places that you never wanna go, yeah
I got dirt on people, but they act like I don't know, yeah
I could do some damage, but I'll never rock the boat
All it takes is one post, watch 'em fall like dominoes
You'll never get rid of me, too many mini-mes ripping my imagery
You know my history, it ain't a mystery
I put every enemy outta they misery
Somebody, send me some positive energy
About to go Darth, about to go Disney
Into the darkness, into infinity and
Shut you motherfuckers up, you listening?
I felt like this all day and night yesterday...
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hehe, actually this pic is from yesterday when he was still in a bit of a mood from the eye drops. I am going to try the tea today! I think it will be more appealing for him. I had no idea . Thank you Gabby and Vera. :)) He has yet to show me is belly and bunny paws since the medicating has begun . I get the message. :P
Ok, don't everyone kill me, but now i keep thinking Moggy Magoo esq ... then i flip to Matti... Just think. If this was the the biggest issue in life , wouldn't life be so much easier. LOL!!!!
Btw , does the Esq go before or after the name?
Have a great Sunday everyone!!
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As many of you know, Youtube has a "Commenting Limit Exceeding" box where one has to type in the "word" that they see on the right after they have commented three of four times in a row so that the comment-box can be re-activated for commenting. I have gathered some of those particular "words" that were produced for me and have gone on to reproduce them as 'actual words,' in which I have also gone on to provide my own personal definitions for each of them:
Amycornis - "1. Aloofness, particularly when it comes to corn-on-the-cob; 2. A phobia of females that are named 'Amy'."
Busedise - "A discordant, mischievous child who, after being scolded, goes on to weep, and then hides in a corner while peeping at the remaining events."
Bailtylly - "1. The act of turning on a television for the sole purpose of listening to human voices. 2. A premature dropping of a coconut being recorded in slow motion."
Blerbill - "A quantification that suddenly appears above one's head, indicated in yellow, that blinks when one has a misguided assault on basic road signs/rules."
Buggrej - "One whom [a] never prefers the familiar word to the far-fetched; [b] never prefers the concrete word to the abstract; [c] never prefers the single word to the circumlocution; [d] never prefers the short word to the long; and, finally, [e] never prefers the Saxon word to the Romance."
Caliquises - "A studier of Codexes where one attempts to apply their findings to a Rebus Chart."
Chokell - "One whom chokes in Hades; particularly on brimstone-smoke."
Conabilym - "1. The scientific 'act' of gravity loosening the goosey-goosey of the icecream ball of an icecream-cone, making it fall to the ground; 2. An imposing villa with a tower that gets torn away by a force, particularly that of a force of mother nature."
Chmenuc - "A dangerous robotic assembly-line designed to facilitate the global guidelines of producing endowment chairs for students of any kind that take part in a question-and-answer session with a panel of other individuals."
Cialease - "A weak chin (while having absolutely nothing to do with foolish aristrocrats that were often sometimes mocked as 'chinless wonders')."
Damat - "An almost-invisible doormat for the human body where pathway enzymes are used as a growth substrate."
Derifie - "An undermining decision where a drama unfolds with extraordinary precautions."
Duleeriles - "A delirious individual whom wants to disappear in the same fashion as Joseph Crater."
Entw3im - "Individuals whom believe that Eustace III of Boulogne wasn't the killer of Harold II."
Fevingle - "1. A fever that lasts for only several minutes; 2. An enthusiastic Prince Charles impersonator whom gets a sudden fever."
Focaret - "A take-off on 'locaret' from Quum eas tabulus Roman portandus locaret, meaning 'when he gave out the contract for the conveyance of these paintings to Rome', but only to state the word, or quote, with ones mouth filled with either a beverage or textured food; or both."
Firepiqu - "To wound someone with fire while sneezing."
Harbrobe - "A countryful of infidels that wear bathrobes when promoting sustainable and equitable social transformation."
Huggkcqu - "A powerful hug that lasts longer than one expects, producing ill or fatal consequences."
Hypelyed - "One whom extravagantly overpromotes garlic with an immense amount of preparation."
Inggelet - "One whom is overly-fascinated with Vivienne Westwood, often claiming that they are actually her, or a relative of hers."
Jorniasl - "A noise-deficit of a few moments that is suddenly interrupted by loud sounds of disturbances that sound like dive-bombers with faint cries."
Liscizess - "1. Lockjaw that occurs when one is being lazy; 2. A lynch law that turns pretty."
Lessinf - "Another way of saying 'If only' or 'Less is more'."
Miximate - "1. To watch and/or observe air bubbles appearing on the surface of something; 2. To dodge ruins; 3. To decline an offer of something specific that can be eaten or sipped where one feels that it is unhygienic to put one's mouth where another individual's mouth has been."
Miastmetic - A condition in which one believes that, not only does the fictional island of Meropis exist (from Theopompus's Philippica), but also the idea that they are living on Meropis in their dreams, whether daydreaming and/or when their eyes are closed during r.e.m."
Nobelyp - "One whom is a poser of nobility."
Ortnest - "A Nestorian partnership with a governmental employer that deals with injured birds."
Odiumaro - "A worshipper of Ogopogo."
Prephoetsus - "The Anti-Christ's 'followers' that also believe that they are the Anti-Christ[s]."
Printediou - "A boy who doesn't understand the term 'tomboy' and goes on to call himself that, much to the shock of his guardians."
Pizerche - "1. A copper plaque that honors a particular individual's practicality and unexpected functionality of a uncooperative endeavor; 2. Another term for the 'Rock of Ages' (not to be confused with Def Leppard's song, but that of the verses of Rev. Augustus Montague Toplady in the 18th century)."
Pessnedd - "A pessimistic marriage of three individual couples at once with an identical ceremony, wardrobe, design and belief."
Pologrnne - "To play on train tracks uncaringly while a train rears its ugly head directly towards that of the individuals whom are playing."
Quilierc - "A predetermined design used to confuse certain alumni, friends, co-workers, &c. that are attempting to gain access to confidential information."
Rustodiefu - "An overly-aggressive animal that escapes from its cage and runs rampant in neighborly lawns, often napping near the sprinkler-system and/or the garden with the brightest flowers and/or the brightest greenery."
Resspepl - "An extremely versatile athlete that believes in poltergeists."
Rehesse - "To read a Herman Hesse novel three times or more."
Suvsymede - "A person who practices attempting to immolate oneself with chocolate syrup, mushrooms, strawberries and lighter fluid, but comes up empty during a funeral service."
Scitabib - "A particular stage play and/or entertaining program that unlocks the secrets and pitfalls of a variety of stories that pertain to baby bibs."
Shauxud - "Any kind of shark food: seals, sea lions, fish, human beings, &c."
Singlatio - "A phosphorylated medicated pill that is taken by depressed single individuals because they are not able to find individuals to date whom have interests in the mysteries of moving coffins."
Salkidled - "One whom has unintentionally broken someone's heart and then, not long afterwards, goes and listens to Prince's 'Purple Rain.'"
Secocytr - "An insane baby-sitter."
Tededitr - "A tedious crime that produces chronic fatigue."
Tatheaddl - "1. One whom doesn't have the courage to shave their head so that they can get a tattoo there, but has extreme urges to do so; 2. A tattletale."
Undestion - "A condition where one feels as though one has that vague sensation of abdominal discomfort, only to find that it was merely one's imagination."
Unscisi - "Non-scientific facts that are designed to be performed as a meditation on voyeurism."
Undsoterio - "The attempt to get a vampire bat to bite one's big toe by sleeping with one's foot dangling out of one's hammock."
Upoorican - "One whom is deeply involved in the psychological sciences of poverty."
Wraingess - "A solemn monologue read in a 'sepulchral tone of voice.'"
This is probably the most important photo I’ve ever taken. It was shot in 2010, on La Brea Avenue, just south of Melrose, past the closed repertory movie theater on the east side of the street, in a building that was being renovated off the sidewalk for the new Hollywood that was about to be built and now stands today, the Hollywood of Chipotle and BBQ joints, and mostly looks like every other retail district now. It’s just north of Stephen Shore’s iconic photo of the gas stations at Beverly Boulevard and La Brea, where I lived for years without having any clue of that photo, or how important it is to the history of photography, or that I walked that corner literally every day for 5 years.
I had gone into that alcove beneath the overhang that afternoon to get out of the blazing sunlight (which you can see pouring down on the stairs) to vomit because I wasn’t well in any part of my life: mind, body and spirit, a recurring theme for many years as I continued to medicate myself in every way possible, and as much as I possibly could take and still “function,” with whatever was available to quell a kind of painful hollowness inside of me that I had no idea the origin of, but couldn’t remember ever being without since I was a little kid.
I looked up and saw this yellow door, this blue wall, and the matching gas pipes. The scene seemed to glow with a kind of mystic quality. I pulled out the camera I had on me, an original iphone, and took the picture. It was so beautiful to me. Different from anything else I had ever shot. The way it stood out, graphically, like a painting, before that I had been shooting for really bad paintings I wanted to make, but this was something different, a visual event in itself. it didn’t need anything else but the way it was laid out, and the spring sunlight which had been pounding my head to a pulp out on the street, for it to all work.
Afterwards, I’d show this picture to other people and ask, “Isn’t it beautiful?” They’d look at me like I was crazy or, just nod their head to get me to put my phone away. It was at this point that for the first time I started to realize I was seeing the world visually maybe slightly different from other people, and not only that, my concept of “beauty” was completely different from most other peoples.’ That’s not an easy thing to understand or accept. Really. But it explains a lot about how you are or are not relating to the world around you, once you do understand. But at this point, even just nine years ago, I didn’t know anything, really, formally about photography. I didn’t know who anyone was. I found later, curiously that I did cut out some pictures Cartier Bresson had taken very early in his career, in Spain, the bullet riddled walls of the Spanish Civil War, all those kids so perfectly geometrically composed like figurines, Leonor Fini swimming nude, the human definition of Eros in a photo, and pasted them into a writing notebook, but I couldn’t tell you who he, or anyone else was in the world of photography. I liked Edward Weston, but more because he had escaped to Mexico with Tina Modotti and the possibilities of a movie of that story with all its romance and pain (that I would never come close to writing,) than for any of his photographs he had made. Some of Tina’s I really did love, they had a sensuality to them, a cinematic quality that only a truly dramatic, dynamic and intelligent artist could see, let alone make. But I had never taken a class or really read a book on photography’s history, and I was far more involved with film, writing and painting. When I took pictures, it was either of my friends to record a moment I would probably forget come morning, or for the paintings I was wanting to make. But I couldn’t name what I was doing or why for years other than it felt natural and right to make pictures.
This was the first photograph for photography’s sake, the first one made out of my need in a moment ... a portal/doorwayinto a different world, a different life, maybe a different path in which I could seek to live the way I was supposed to, and not as a slave to whatever mood or substance or moment was controlling me at that particular moment, until the next one came along. With this picture I caught the first glimpse of the possibility of that life that was meant to actually be lived by me. I can’t say it’s been all smooth sailing since then, but whenever I stumble upon this picture in the archive I remember that day wandering up La Brea at Melrose in the middle of Nathaniel West’s Hollywood, lost in mind, body and spirit, and I thank G-d I wandered into that alcove to vomit whatever toxic cocktail I had imbibed to get through the day, and for a moment, looked up and saw this kind of church of the new pathway, waiting, even iniviting me to walk through the yellow door to the rest of my life.
And the next day when I went back to make a “better” picture with a “better” camera, completely sober, it was gone, painted over, all grey, nothing, as if it had never been there, but for this single picture, which I’m sure is the only proof available that this door and wall in this form ever existed, and I probably am the only one who ever cared, let alone took a photo of it. And that’s the way it was supposed to be.
whirligig 1 -Finding things to see and do while self-isolating and self-medicating. Outdoor photography is a pretty good choice.
As they say it our defects that give us our character.I got a nice clean 14bit Raw file and screwed with it until I got something full of defects.But I have had to many coffees and a whole bar of chocolate.Its dark and I am wearing sunglasses.My head hurts and my cats pissing blood.
Still had a great day and my cats fine too.Been to the vet and got some medicated cat food.All good.Cheers.
What about me, mom? I want to talk about me. Mom tried to texturize this photo and has not even a faint clue what she's doing. Mom, don't mess with my perfection!
This little girl still has the hyper calcimia and she is still being medicated so as to keep her appetite up. When I get her to eat her steroid laced Greenies pillpockets, we rock along. When she doesn't..we have a few not-so-cheerful weeks or days as the case may be. But her course seems to be slow and steady. She'll need a spa day ;-) to get the mats out that I can't mange with one handed brushing. Her legs will have to be shaved where her bloomers are!
For me..I am thinking barely under three weeks and the cast comes off and rehab on the wrist will start.
Lastly, with my able nursie here looking at me in this picture so ernestly, and you Flickr friends, I have riches...you all. ♥
#275 thank you so much.
k is for knife. and blehh.. flickr made this look so grainy... ):
baghhh, my face is on fire.. medicated facial cleansers suck!! ):
wallpaper texture: here.
EXPLORED! (: