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Honoring nurses, medical corpsmen, pharmacists’ mates and doctors; courageous souls who bring the healing arts to places rife with injury and death. “God love them, they save lives."
The Living Memorial Sculpture Garden, founded by vets in 1988 is situated on 136 acres of land provided by the USDA Forest Service, which were replanted with tens of thousands of trees by countless volunteers. The trees are living tribute to those who have sacrificed their lives in war. The sculpture garden is a place for reflection & remembrance, healing & reconciliation.The LMSG pays homage to all honorable veterans, in conflict and in peace.
It took a couple minutes to get in the line ,and it was very funny to see it ! The champagne bottles all got emptied
The pharmacist T. W. Wilkinson purchased this allotment from the SA Mining Association in 1882 and this house named Rockville was erected in the same year. It is one of a group of large houses erected in Burra once freehold title became available after 1869.
Across the Meuse River the late-Autumn sun set in a splash of magnificent orange and red while the rest of the sky was full of rainy clouds. Watching this Display with a glass in hand from the house of the Pharmacist from V. - known by some on flickr from a photo of mine of a marvellous Johannesteijsmannia magnifica taken in the Rimba Ilmu near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - I was reminded of my visit to the Taman Junghuhn in the hills above Bandung, Java. Here is buried Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864), one of the four botanists in Dutch service whose work on Cinchona (quinine) was crucial in the nineteenth-century struggle against that debilitating disease malaria.The other three are Johannes Elias Teijsmann (1808-1882), Johan Eliza de Vrij (1813-1898) and Justus Karl Hasskarl (1811-1894). Of these men and their interactions with each other, their adventures, and their work to benefit humanity a wonderful historical novel could be written full of the dark and light of psyches and society...
Not far from the handsome marker on Junghuhn's ashes here in Lembang is the unmarked slab over those of De Vrij. This bright Asclepias curassavica (= from Curacao, one of the [Dutch] Antilles in the Carribean) crowds out the Cinchona plants here. Both medicinal plants originate from South America. Cinchona was introduced here from there in the mid-nineteenth century. I don't know when Asclepias was naturalised on Java. But it has some medicinal uses relating to purgatives and also to abortion. And that last power brings to mind the French name for what goes by two popular monikers: Cancerillo and Scarlet Milkweed. A name for our Asclepias in French is "Herbe à Madame Boivin". Marie Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin (1773-1841) was one of the most versatile and influential European practitioners of medicine and especially of midwifery and obstetrics in the first half of the nineteenth century. Educated in a nunnery, she was 'secularised' by the French Revolution. But as a woman Marie Boivin could not enter university. Regardless, she avidly studied medicine and anatomy outside of academia. Practising first as a midwife, she soon moved to direct a succession of hospitals, and she was a medical author as well. Whether she used this plant in her practice or whether it was named for her vernacularly by an admirer, I don't know. I do know, though, that I will always remember her as I think of Junghuhn and De Vrij.
POV Ray wasn't playing nice, and Bluerender works on OSX, so I went with the one that worked! The final model of the Purple Pharmacist. Unfortunately, it can't get built for a while because there is no variation of a 1x4 slope in medium lilac, and that's instrumental for the gable, which is a key feature of the façade.
Outside of that, the MOC is complete! It draws a lot of inspiration from the Green Grocer and Cafe Corner, especially since it only has a full interior on the first floor. But that has a fully stocked pharmacy, with a fancy counter design and plenty of supplies on the shelves.
The end piece count is 2553!
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19th Century drug store bottle, embossed with "Orson K. Tuttle, Pharmacist, Wyanet, Ill.". The 1880 census lists Orson K. Tuttle as a druggist, in Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois. He was 26 years old, born in New York. His wife, Nettie, was 25, born in Massachusetts. Tuttle was one of five druggists competing for business in this rural community in 1880.
The clouds wept lightly on this beautiful Brunfelsia in the marvellous park and gardens on the edge of which stand those imposing Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A little sad because the Pharmacist from V. - whom I mention sometimes in my descriptions - had to leave for Cold Europe, I thought it fitting to look a bit into the history of Otto Brunfels (1488-1534). After all, Charles Plumier (1646-1704) and after him the great Linnaeus (1753), named this plant for him.
Otto Brunfels had been a Carthusian monk and was also an avid theologian and pedagogue. Soon after Martin Luther's break with the Church (1517-1521), Brunfels also became a Protestant and he continued his theological and didactical writings, but now in a new vein. Our convert also developed a passion for botany and pharmacy. This passion earned for him Linnaeus's honorific: "a Father of Botany" of the modern sort.
Interestingly, Brunfels described his botanical and apothecary work in terms also used in the religious practice of his times. Just as the religious Reformation sought to return to the earliest texts of purest Christianity and direct, personal experience, thus too, pharmacy and botany should be based upon the most trustworthy ancient texts and direct, scientific observation. Tellingly, a posthumous work of his is entitled 'The Reformation of Pharmacies' (1536).
In the park, it continued to calmly drizzle...
I took this photo as we were leaving the pharmacy where we received our covid vaccine booster shots.
RAYMOND WILDLIFE-HERITAGE SCULPTURE CORRIDOR
Enchanting steel sculptures of wildlife and people enliven the Raymond scenery along Highway 101, State Route 6, and throughout downtown Raymond. The Heritage Sculpture Project was initiated by the Raymond Waterfront Redevelopment Committee in 1993. By 1996, more than 200 sculptures had been incorporated into the Raymond landscape.
The sculptures were designed by local artists to reflect the heritage of the area. Loggers, Native Americans, elk, deer, bear, and a variety of bird species are just some of the many subjects portrayed in the steel sculptures for visitors and residents to discover.
In 1992, the Raymond Waterfront Redevelopment Committee was formed. With the help of volunteers and government agencies, an effort to revitalize the community was initiated. One aspect of the Committee’s effort was the creation of a Raymond Wildlife-Heritage Sculpture Corridor. The project entailed landscaping three miles of roadside along the Highway 101 Corridor as it passes through the City of Raymond and erecting steel sculptures to represent the “essence” of Raymond.
In 1993 the City of Raymond received a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Coastal Corridor Program to support visual enhancements on State Highway 101. The City Commission and staff worked with the Waterfront Redevelopment Committee, landscape architect, cultural tourism consultant, three separate artists, an engineering firm, a steel fabricator, and multiple volunteers for over three years developing and installing approximately 200 metal sculptures along the three mile segment.
The artists were all from Pacific County and chosen by a local board of Raymond residents. A committee of volunteers worked together to determine the essence of what defines Raymond as a community; the artists developed images to portray that essence. The Willapa Bay, with its nearby hills and the native flora and fauna, were held very important, as were elements of the community’s history.
In 1994 the City contracted with Joanne Salley Jambor and Renee O’Connor for the creation of drawings of artwork for the Highway 101 Corridor enhancement Project. This artwork was then provided to Tacoma Steel Supply, Inc., for production. The metal sculptures were securely set on concrete platforms created by the City’s Public Works crew.
There are 36 animal species depicted in the silhouette drawings fashioned by Joanne Salley Jambor, with 103 total images. They range from large animals, such as deer and elk, to small birds, fish, and insects. Joanne was a freelance artist-draftsman from South Bend and a member of The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and GNSI Northwest. She held a B.A. in art and anthropology from Brown University and studied marine biology at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston, Oregon. Joanne had extensive knowledge of the Willapa estuary and had worked with the Washington State Extension Service of Willapa Watershed Advisors in South Bend.
There were 41 silhouette drawings selected portraying people, man-made objects, and working animals that were created by Renee Bishop O’Connor. Renee was from Ocean Park and was the owner/artist of Willapa Bay Tile and Design which produced several lines of art tiles. Renee specialized in line drawings, interpretive displays, and functional ceramics. She had a B.A. in Art and Elementary Teaching from San Francisco State University. Renee spent many hours in the Pacific County and Ilwaco Heritage Museums and talking to members of the Chinook tribe in Pacific County to make sure that people and activities in Raymond’s history were correctly represented.
The three dimensional sculptures in the grassy areas near the center of town are by Hans Curtis Nelson. Hans was an artist and farmer from North River, Washington and educated at Columbia Basin College, Purdue University, and Eastern Washington University. He had been a commercial sign painter for ten years prior to returning to this area to teach high school. It took Hans about one month to create each one of the three-dimensional sculptures utilizing the scrap steel remnants from Joanne and Renee’s drawings that had been cut into life size silhouettes by Tacoma Steel. Hans completed 30 of these three-dimensional metal sculptures. None of the sculptures depict any specific person, but each piece represents an element of the essence of life in Raymond and some aspect of Raymond’s rich history.
The project also included creating and installing nine life-sized sculptures of people and animals to be placed in three purposeful locations: a team of Oxen pulling lumber logs is located on the Northeasterly intersection of Highway 101 with Franklin Street near the Weyerhaeuser scale yard, a family and their dog is out for a stroll on the Westerly side of highway 101 between Duryea and Commercial Street to portray the importance of family and community, and a lady holding an umbrella is out shopping on the Southwesterly corner of the intersection at Third and Commercial Streets depicting the vitality of a robust retail core.
The project also included creating and installing light pole banner holders along Third Street and Highway 101. The project concept and direction were by Bridget Beattie McCarthy from Portland, Oregon. She was a cultural tourism consultant and project developer specializing in regionalism, marketing, facilities development, the arts, natural areas promotion, tourism, and grass-roots community development as they relate to supporting the concept of “community” and regional integrity. Bridget was convinced that the celebration and promotion of regionalism with integrity and style is economically, socially, and aesthetically sound and that in the long term quality pays.
The landscape architect was Gerald Mertl from rural Grays Harbor County. He was a graduate of Washington State University with a degree in landscape architecture, graduate work in urban planning at Michigan State University, and twenty six years of experience in commercial, institutional, and residential landscape design. Gerald used primarily native plant stock and simple planting plans in designing the background for the sculptures created for the project.
The citizens of Raymond hope that visitors enjoy the wildlife-heritage sculpture corridor and stop in Raymond to explore its history. The artwork is copyrighted to the artists, but the City of Raymond has exclusive right to reproduce the images. Replicas are currently unavailable.
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I took these two Photographs of a Sedan Delivery Truck during our tour of the World of the Coca Cola Museum. It had the name "Reginald Lee S.A" and "BUENOS AIRES" on the Driver's Door. This 1939 Chevrolet Panel Van (aka: Truck) was specially ordered by the Reginald Lee Family for to use for Deliveries in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On top of the roof, there is another sign in Spanish "BIEN HELADA" which in English means "WELL FROZEN".
Pharmacist John Stith Pemberton invented Coca Cola in 1886. The Coca Cola Museum fronts on a small park near the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel where we stayed during our visit to Atlanta. The World of Coca Cola Museum is located at 121 Baker Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30313.
In June 2018, my wife & I attended a Family Wedding at the Hilton Garden Inn, 275 Baker Street in Atlanta, Georgia. One end the hallway on the on the 13 Floor (they call it Floor PH) gave me a Great View of the CSX Tracks, while the other end of the hallway gave me a great view of the Skyview Ferris Wheel across the street from Centennial Olympic Park.
Since we were in Atlanta for several days, I had some time to visit the Coca Cola Museum, which was a short 2 blocks away from our Hotel.
Nostradamus was born in Saint Rémy de Provence, southern France, on December 14th of 1503, and he was a famous French physician, cabalist, and pharmacist, best known for his book Les Prophéties, its first edition published in 1555. Feel free to publish a summary of this article (in English or translated into another language) along with a link to the full piece www.yearly-horoscope.org/nostradamus-2021-predictions. Nostradamus’ prophecies are expressed in verses, called quatrains. Many of his predictions, such as the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, and the Second World War, turned out to be accurate. Feel free to publish a summary of this article (in English or translated into another language) along with a link to the full piece www.yearly-horoscope.org/nostradamus-2021-predictions
Nostradamus had written 6338 prophecies, many of them fulfilled. His prophecies cover a period reaching the year 3797. The secret of his predictions is not known. Nostradamus’ quatrains continue to fascinate the world, although they were written almost five centuries ago. Feel free to publish a summary of this article (in English or translated into another language) along with a link to the full piece www.yearly-horoscope.org/nostradamus-2021-predictions..
Here are some of Nostradamus’ predictions for 2021: 1. Zombie Apocalypse A Russian scientist will create a biological weapon and produce a virus that can turn humankind into zombies, and we will all be extinct in the near future. “Few young people: half−dead to give a start. Dead through spite, he will cause the others to shine, And in an exalted place some great evils to occur: Sad concepts will come to harm each one, Temporal dignified, the Mass to succeed. Fathers and mothers dead of infinite sorrows, Women in mourning, the pestilent she−monster: The Great One to be no more, all the world to end.” 2. A Famine of Biblical Proportions Nostradamus predicted that the first signs of the end of the world would be famine, earthquakes, different illnesses, and epidemics, which are already happening more frequently. The Coronavirus pandemic from 2020 represents the beginning of a series of unfavorable events, which will affect the world’s population. The famine that lurks is one the world had never faced before. A catastrophe of huge proportions will throw us back in history, and a great part of the world population will not be able to overcome this curse. “After great trouble for humanity, a greater one is prepared, The Great Mover renews the ages: Rain, blood, milk, famine, steel, and plague, Is the heavens fire seen, a long spark running.” Starting from 2020, after 248 years, Saturn in Capricorn united its forces with Pluto, which is also in Capricorn, in the remarkable conjunction that will change the fate of the world. Saturn in Capricorn is responsible for social hierarchies, state power, authority, functions, and status, and this is what the conjunction with Pluto, the planet of death, destruction, and reconstruction triggered. 3. Solar Storms 2021 will be quite a significant year in terms of major global events. Great solar storms will take place, which could cause some major damages to the earth. Nostradamus supposedly warned: „We shall see the water rising and the earth falling under it”. The harmful effects of the climatic changes will then lead to many wars and conflicts, as the world will fight over resources, and mass migration will follow. 4. A Comet will hit the Earth or it will come very close to Terra This event will cause earthquakes and other natural disasters, which can be concluded from the quatrain: “In the sky, one sees fire and a long trail of sparks”. Other interpretations of this quatrain assert that it refers to a great asteroid that will hit the Earth. Once it enters the Earth’s atmosphere, the asteroid will heat up, appearing in the sky like a great fire. NASA announced that a huge asteroid is likely to hit the Earth in the next years after the American agency emits alerts daily, only this time, it is something more serious. An asteroid called 2009 KF1 has chances to hit the Earth on May 6th of 2021, the NASA coming to this conclusion, following analyzes regarding its trajectory. NASA claims that this asteroid has the power to hit the Earth with the equivalent of 230 kilotons of TNT explosive force, which means 15 times more than the nuclear bomb detonated by Americans over Hiroshima in 1945. 5. A Devastating Earthquake Will Destroy California According to the interpretation of a quatrain written by Nostradamus, an extremely powerful seism will destroy California in 2021. Nostradamus predicts that a great earthquake will hit the New World (“the western lands”), and California is the logical place where it might happen. According to the astrologers, “Mercury in Sagittarius, Saturn fading”, the following date when the planets Mars and Saturn will be in this position on the sky will be on November 25th of 2021. Nostradamus’ quatrain: “The sloping park, great calamity, Through the Lands of the West and Lombardy The fire in the ship, plague, and captivity; Mercury in Sagittarius, Saturn fading.” 6. The American Soldiers Will Have Brain Chip Implants The American soldiers will be turned into a kind of cyborgs, at least at the brain level, to save the human race. This chip should offer us the necessary digital intelligence to progress beyond the limits of biological intelligence. This could mean that we will incorporate artificial intelligence into our bodies and brains. The newly made one will lead the army, Almost cut off up to near the bank: Help from the Milanais elite straining, The Duke deprived of his eyes in Milan in an iron cage.
Conclusions: “A prophet is properly speaking one, who sees distant things through a natural knowledge of all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine.” (Nostradamus in a letter to his son, Cesar) Nostradamus’ quatrains include many disturbing predictions. Based both on the knowledge of Nostradamus as a human being, and the dangerous era he lived, the eight prophecies of 2021 reveal fragments of what the alchemist predicted for our world.
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By watching aspects such as climate changes, technological evolution, or inadequate governmental decisions, we might think that everything is against us, and humankind is on the verge of extinction. Here are just a few of Nostradamus’ predictions, outlining the idea of a terrifying future, far from what we would have imagined.
Feel free to publish a summary of this article (in English or translated into another language) along with a link to the full piece wisehoroscope.org/nostradamus-2021/.ficial Intelligence – The Robots will rule the world From 2021, artificial intelligence will be equal or will even surpass human intelligence, which could lead to an apocalyptic scenario like those we see in movies. “The Moon in the full of night over the high mountain, The new sage with a lone brain sees it: By his disciples invited to be immortal, Eyes to the south. Hands in bosoms, bodies in the fire.” Mechanization Most previsions indicate that until 2023, the labor market will crash. The automated machines will replace the people in the work process, since they don’t demand higher salaries, and they don’t need breaks or other benefits. When employers choose robots instead of humans, the whole social model will crush. Unemployment, social disorders, and misery are just a few of the consequences of mechanization. A War between Two Allied Countries Two allied countries will get into a classic and open military conflict, with naval fleet fully engaged against each other. Unfortunately, this will only be the beginning because this conflict between these two seemingly “friendly” countries will degenerate into a global war, which will involve the most powerful countries in the world. “In the city of God there will be a great thunder Two brothers torn apart by Chaos while the fortress endures The great leader will succumb The third big war will begin when the big city is burning”. The Economic Collapse of 2021 Hundreds of closed hedge funds will go bankrupt, and the international exchange market will need to close in a short time – maybe even for a week, to stop the panic of selling shares, that will slowly envelop the stock markets. Nostradamus also predicted the 2008 crisis, and in 2021, things are not great: the exchange markets are in free fall and have reached panic levels the end of the crisis is still out of sight the United States is facing an economic stagnation for several years the economic fundamentals are no longer applying today. Space Flight will be Accessible to Common People In 2021, it will start a new era of space tourism. Common people will fly into space, being able to admire spectacular views of the Earth. Sea Level Rise There is no doubt: the climate is constantly changing. Out of all the apocalyptic scenarios which might come true, the sea level rise is the most dramatic. Presently, 50% of the world population lives in coastal areas. A prediction of a possible disaster can be seen by following the example of Newton City from Alaska, which, in less than five years, will be swallowed up by rising waters. The small community of 400 people will not be the only one affected. The current estimations suggest that Venice will be uninhabitable by 2100, and Los Angeles and Amsterdam will be abandoned five years later. “Peace and plenty for a long time the place will praise: Throughout his realm the fleur-de-lis deserted: Bodies dead by water, land one will bring there, Vainly awaiting the good fortune to be buried there.” Solar Eruptions The solar activity has been and still is a subject of interest for experts and not only. Because the sun will reach, in 2021, the peak of an 11-years cycle, known as the maximum solar, different theoreticians rushed to speculate in this regard. It is a fact that when a maximum solar occurs, much more intense solar explosions take place than the previous ones, but this does not translate into total chaos or natural catastrophe. Solar eruptions don’t just happen from yesterday but occur at regular intervals, and the event taking place in 2021 could mostly announce satellite communication interruptions. “Condom and Auch and around Mirande, I see fire from the sky which encompasses them. Sun and Mars conjoined in Leo, then at Marmande, lightning, great hail, a wall falls into the Garonne.” How many predictions did Nostradamus get right? A part of Nostradamus’s prophecies, the famous French doctor and alchemist from the 16th century, have come true. Nostradamus predicted the beginning of the Second World War, Hitler’s ascension, the fall of communism, President J. F. Kennedy’s assassination, India’s independence and the occurrence of Israel State on the world map, events confirmed by the passing of time, but also occurrences that go further in time. Read also: Horoscope 2021 for every zodiac sign. Things You Might Not Know About Nostradamus Nostradamus is certainly one of the most illustrious personalities in history. This notoriety is due to his famous prophecies and predictions. Beyond astrology, Nostradamus was a talented doctor, but also a controversial character, specialized in occultism. Everyone has heard of Nostradamus. He was a medieval character, renowned for his capacity to predict, through scientific methods, the events that will happen in the distant future. Nostradamus predictions, written around 500 years ago, are still going around the world today, and the French man is one of the most important figures of occult art. Besides astrology and his predictions regarding the future, Nostradamus had an adventurous love life, marked by long journeys, extrasensory experiences, the run from Inquisition, but also by an exceptional, yet unjustly less-mentioned medical career. Nostradamus aroused admiration, but also envy. Moreover, he was a controversial character. Nostradamus confessed that his predictions have a scientific fundament. He claimed that he managed to predict the future by calculating the position of the stars and planets towards the earth and other astral bodies. How Nostradamus died Nostradamus even predicted his death: ‘Next to the bench and bed, I will be found dead’. After he announced, one evening, that he will not survive the night, he died of a gout episode and was found dead the following morning, next to his worktable
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This is the third and last in a series of images taken at unknowns location up-country in Brunei in September/October 1968.
It shows AMDB-106, one of the two Sikorsky (Westland) WS-58 Wessex HAS Mk. 54s delivered in January 1967 to the Royal Brunei Malay Regiment's Air Wing (later Helicopter Platoon), the forerunner of today's Royal Brunei Air Force.
It was a modified version of the British RAF's standard HC.2 troop carrier helicopter, which in turn was a modification of the original Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw. The Brunei Wessex helicopters were flown and maintained by seconded RAF personnel.
The man in the door of the helicopter was a pharmacist and was handing out medications to the people in the queue...
I'm not sure whether the helicopter's rear is truly very close to the water beyond or whether it is just the perspective giving that impression. However, I do know that many of the sites were basic and very limited in terms of space in which the helicopter could safely land.
As the location visited above is not noted in the material I have available, the map placing is entirely abritary. Scanned from a slide.
Instructions are now available for my second custom modular building! I incorporated a lot of the lessons I learned in the first one here, so if anyone else built the first one, this one should be a much more pleasant building experience!
Pharmacist's Mate 2nd class Doris Sather, USNR, Takes a blood pressure reading from Navy Nurse Ensign Laura J. Rogers, at Thirteenth Naval District Headquarters, Seattle, Washington, 23 November 1943. Looking on is Navy Nurse Ensign Olive Seaworth.
At last
patients no longer have to
grow illegally.
Dr. Christiane Neubaur, pharmacist
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When The Saenger opened on January 19, 1927, it was the sixty-first Saenger theatre of a chain founded by the Saenger brothers, Julian and Abel of New Orleans. The Saengers were pharmacists when they purchased their first theater in Shreveport in 1911. They eventually owned 320 theaters located throughout the South, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico.
The Saenger Theatre in Mobile took a year to construct at a cost of about 500,000 dollars. Designed by renowned architect, Emile Weil, the Saenger featured the following: three-color auditorium lighting, a two-manual, ten-rank Robert Morton theater organ, full stage facilities to accommodate large road shows including stage and wardrobe traps, four floors of dressing rooms, musicians' and chorus rooms and 2,615 seats
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Architectural style:20th Century Revival
Part of:Lower Dauphin Street Historic District #79000392 NRHP
What a lucky guy I am! Hurtling through bright white Autumnal morning light, the train took me to Utrecht, in the middle of The Netherlands. Before meeting the Pharmacist from V., well known from these photo pages, I went to visit a favorite haunt, the pretty Oude Hortus. Instituted in 1639, the botanical garden of the university here was moved to its present location in 1723. Today the 'official' botanical garden has been transferred out of town for more space. But the old garden remains intact, and it is well worth spending a few hours there.
After comtemplating beautifully purple Autumn Asters, many kinds of ripening berries, the yellow and brown hues of the season, I ventured to the green house and the tank - constructed around 1905 with a heating device to keep the waters warm.
Good Fortune was with me, for here I saw this Absolutely Pure White flower of the enormous Victoria amazonica. Astounding beauty. It had just opened and closed, and tomorrow will be pink and already decomposing. I don't know whether she - for that is what the flower is in this white form - had with her sweet pineapple aroma been able to lure Cylocephata castaneal (a scarab beetle) caarying with it pollen from another flower. If so, she would have closed her white petals around it and been pollinated. Then she'll turn pink and become male with anthers brushing fresh pollen on Scarab. Opening his Pink petals, he will allow Scarab, with that new pollen, to follow its way to the next Pure Whiteness and her virgin pistil.
The Amazonian natives knew this plant as 'Water Corn' (Mays de l'Agua). They ground its seeds into a highly desirable flour for - I suppose - Water Cornbread...
Victoria amazonica has a history of a variety of European Latin names, and it was seen by several explorers at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The first full description was by Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1718-1868), a Pussian-born explorer and naturalist. But he was mistaken in calling it a Euryale (1832), and it was John Lindley (1799-1865) - eminent British botanist - who understood Victoria to be a new genus (1837).
Looking on this beauty this morning, I could well imagine that Thadäus Xavierius Peregrinus Haenke (1761-1816), intrepid naturalist, explorer, traveller, upon seeing our flower foating on the waters in Bolivia, fell to his knees in admiration and wonderment.. Our White is shielded by the enormous floating leaves of Amazonica. The bristled standing edge - translucently brilliant now - serves for protection from fish and other animals. The leaves are so strong that they can hold a baby or child.
Glasgow author Rachelle Atalla with her debut novel The Pharmacist, which has just been published. Rachelle, with an old chum and former colleague who now works at her publisher, paid us a visit a couple of months ago with advance proofs of the book (a gripping, tense, post-apocalypse tale in which the epnonymous pharmacist works in an underground survival shelter), and I highly recommend it. It was nice to have a return visit now her book is out in the wild.
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In January I was contacted by Rogers Media to drive out to small town Hawksbury Ontario to photograph a young pharmacist who also happens to oversee one of the largest Wal Mart dispensaries in the country. Taj is one of many of a new generation of pharmacists adding much needed new blood to an aging profession. The Feature title "The Kids are Alright" is aided by the addition of a small crayon for her chart.
Strobist info: Elinchrom BXRI 500 overhead pointing straight down on axis and in front of the subject, an Elinchrom Ranger Quadra at camera right through a gridded beauty dish for a bit of contrast, and a second Elinchrom Ranger Quadra through a small dish behind pointing at the background for separation. We used a large Westcott Scrim Jim with silver on the ground with a Lumopro LP180 for upward fill. Triggered with skyports.
Very toxic, even a 'biologically dead' river: the Pasig of Manila, the Philippines. Although its denizens - as I experienced a few days ago - are helpful and friendly though desperately poor (see my earlier posting). No knives like those after which the defender of Manila against the Spanish in the middle of the sixteenth century, Alquizar or Lim Ah Hong, tantang ("the Knife"), was named.
The Pharmacist from V., who's arrived here to join me to Boracay, had no desire at all to repeat my little adventure. But we went to one of the Bulwarks of majestic Fort Santiago of Intramuros, Manila, to look down upon the River and my just-Dantian infernal 'iter' of the other day.
The Pasig is terribly polluted, irrevocably dead. It exudes a stink beyond your imagination if the wind is wrong (your way). It wasn't this morning...
In fact, there's then - all things considered - even a kind of aesthetic beauty to the molten silver of its waters, to this boatsman salvaging something to eke out a living. And even to the three or four various water plants that still survive (Eichhorna crassipes, Certatophyllum demersum, Ipomoea aquatica, Pistia stratoides).
But to swim here, or anywhere near... Nope, I'll wait for Boracay!
I am lucky and don't take any pharmaceuticals at this point in my life, vitamins and supplements are my daily routine.
I took these 10 Photographs of the Machinery used in Bottling Coca Cola at the World of Coca Museum, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Pharmacist John Stith Pemberton invented Coca Cola in 1886. The Coca Cola Museum fronts on a small park near the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel where we stayed during our visit to Atlanta. The World of Coca Cola Museum is located at 121 Baker Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30313.
In June 2018, my wife & I attended a Family Wedding at the Hilton Garden Inn, 275 Baker Street in Atlanta, Georgia. One end the hallway on the on the 13 Floor (they call it Floor PH) gave me a Great View of the CSX Tracks, while the other end of the hallway gave me a great view of the Skyview Ferris Wheel across the street from Centennial Olympic Park.
Since we were in Atlanta for several days, I had some time to visit the Coca Cola Museum, which was a short 2 blocks away from our Hotel.