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I found this picture on a disc from Vienna, I was really in to making Raw-punky DIY looking frames and paintings for a while this is some found items, pieces of murky wood, metal and some metallic string things I probably bought at the 1 Euro store around the corner where I lived at Landstrasser Hauptstrasse 123, 1030, Wien, Österreich it was a rather pretty picture so I thought I would put it here online!
Café Frequenters Episode 67
(reply to Lise-Myres letter with fudge 1999)
Hello Dearest and most Evil triplet!
Thank you for the singel piece of fudge you sent me, i hope your intention was for me to eat it, because that was what I did, even though it isn´t weekend yet!
I hope it wasn´t laced with Venom or something, but if I survive the consumption of the sweet, I´ll see you at the sisters party on Friday and I might bring a whole bag of sweets to give to me, you and the others, but only to you if you have been a really naughty girl!
Hugs!
/ Johnny fudge eater
These represent what I consider some of my best work from the Holga yet. I'll definitely shoot Ektachrome again.
Holga 120CFN
Kodak Ektachrome E100S
X-Pro
So it was foggy in the morning and i was excited but i met up with emily and by time we were done the fog was gone, :( we took these by the water cause it had rained earlier. I had spotted them, but felt totally awkward taking them in front of emily so most of them were aa tad out of focus. I wish i had gotton more. They were really pretty though, all over the place were these massive stringy webs. sorry this is so grainy.
Ears seem to be in my focus lately as I'm considering Hearing Aids . We had them for dinner last night ....They are very special pole beans ...so tender and non stringy !
Eucalyptus obliqua (Messmate stringybark)
Stringy bark at Hosmers Grove, Maui, Hawaii.
December 14, 2003
All those intact, urban pumpkins from Thanksgiving and Halloween that people like to use for decoration...usually fated to end up on the side of the street to be picked up, ultimately residing in a dump somewhere. So wasteful! Here's an idea: harvest some free pumpkins from your neighborhood. It's so much fun! And, it offers great entertainment for those neighbors as they watch, from behind the curtain, as you struggle to load them into your trunk.
What does one do with such a pumpkin, your might ask? Here are a couple of ideas.
First, they still look pretty cool (and colorful) on your front stoop even at Christmas-time. Who cares if you are the only one on your block doing this? Just keep telling yourself that you are being sustainable, and ignore the titterers. (Eventually the pumpkins will go bad...so just through them into your compost pile.)
Second idea: food. Unfortunately, you can't really use the flesh for making a pumpkin pie. Well, you can, but it won't taste like pumpkin pie. That canned stuff people buy for making a pumpkin pie is actually some sort of squash (OK, I know that pumpkins are not much different from squashes, technically), usually a "butternut" squash, plus a lot of sugar and flavors added, as well as artificial coloring. (Of course, there's no reason you COULDN'T use a street pumpkin for a pie. Hey, it might actually be good.)
(By the way, the other day a lady knocked at our door, asking if she could take home one of our pumpkins on our steps. She explained that she was hoping to give it to her pig. Well, of course: bon ap-pig-tit!)
OR...consider the seeds. Here's how. Cut open your pumpkin (carefully) with a sharp knife, and stick your hand in there and grab a big wad of the stringy stuff (which is actually placental tissue connecting each seed to the inner wall of the fruit). It will feel really weird, but is sort of fun. Put all that stuff in a colander and spend some time rinsing the stringy stuff off. Get your seeds nice and clean, and then pour them out onto a kitchen towel. Let them dry.
They go onto a cookie sheet (which can be lined with parchment paper) in a single layer. Heat up your oven to 325 F or so. Spray or pour a bit of olive oil onto the seeds, and sprinkle some salt/pepper, maybe cumin, chili powder, etc. etc., whatever you want. Toast them for about 30 minutes, turning a couple of times. Let them cool, or eat them while still warm. Eat the whole thing, the seed coat as well as its innards. YUMMY. Just think of all those tasty vitamins and things, as well as the (rather significant) amount of fiber which will soon be scraping along the sides of you intestines.
Now, there is another thing to do with those seeds: feed them to the critters. Birds and squirrels go crazy for them, at least my critters do. Don't bother with oil, salt/pepper etc. for them.
A sunny day in Normandy and the fields of flax are guaranteed to put on a show at this time of year.
It’s not grown for the flowers though - but for the linseed oil. And after harvest, the stringy stems will be picked up, and sent for processing into linen.
Normandy, France. June 2024. © David Hill
“So why were you in his car?” asked Yuffie.
“Because his cheese and onion sandwich was tiny and pathetic,” said Shadow.
“Let me have a look,” said Yuffie.
She pulled the sandwich open to reveal a stringy bit of cheese and the smallest onion she had ever seen.
“Really Driver?” sighed Yuffie.
“Yep,” said Driver, “that’s shallot.”
~
littlefears.co.uk/2017/05/17/drive-shadow-protests-inside...
The gull found this crustacean under a rock above the water. Other photos seem to show the black stringy things to be emerging from its body.
Nevertheless, the gull ate it.
Ballena Bay, Alameda, CA
Stringy saliva or the remnants of an insect...you decide. I spent a great morning with these beautiful warblers. I was looking forward to the Prairies arrving...funny how they have nothing to do with the prairies., at least in New Jersey.
Currently working through my reject pile . . . . feel free to throw tomatoes :-) ! You have a week of this xxx
Paper Pieced with bunches of 1" strings...it drove me crazy but the best looking blocks always seem to!
I’ve always loved a good dive bar, and when I say dive bar, I’m not talking about your local sports hangout or the upscale gathering spot on “Cheers.” I’m talking about a down and dirty place that smells of decades of filterless cigarettes and full-fat beer. It is a place that may have been trendy for about five minutes back when red velvet wallpaper and blue lights were, unbelievably, the rage, but nowadays, it’s one of those places that most people walking or driving by don’t even notice, and even if they did, they'd be too afraid to check out the treasure inside.
A good dive bar is not a tidy place. There is ancient graffiti on every bathroom surface that no one has ever even bothered to clean or paint over, and floors are scattered with cigarette butts (smoked all the way down to the nub) with pink lipstick on the ends. In order to hide the punch holes in the plaster from many a late-night drunken brawl, the walls are covered with either bad student art (always for sale, rarely ever bought) or those promotional beer posters with melon-chested women in red bikinis ready to bed the next available man thanks to the intoxicating effects of Miller Genuine Draft.
There might be a pool table or two, or even a dartboard if you’re lucky, but there is always, without fail, a jukebox filled with great country, rock, and blues tunes you can drink, and I mean REALLY drink, to. It will contain old favorites like “American Pie,” country I-lost-my-man/woman songs of heartache, blues tunes about never being able to get anywhere in life, and some good, rowdy, dancing-on-the-bar songs to get everyone’s spirits up. Yes, I’d say that the jukebox is the most important ingredient of a good bar … until we start talking about the bartender.
The bartender at a good dive is a haggard character out of a Hemingway novel with more lifetimes of stories to tell than you can ever imagine but, enigmatically, he or she never divulges a word of those long-ago adventures and heartbreaks. With a cigarette constantly perched precariously in his or her mouth and a drink kept somewhat secretly out of sight, your friendly, neighborhood dive bartender has a knack for keeping the conversation lively (and the drinks flowing) with a well-placed political joke here or a bit of bar gossip (always in abundance) there.
The best I ever saw do this was the appropriately named Mimi, a 40ish (but looked 60ish) dame with a perpetual dark tan (even in December), brown doe eyes framed by deep wrinkles that had no doubt been earned the hard way, and stringy, often red hair that betrayed her fiery and sometimes truly terrifying temper. She was the madame of the place and had the deep, raspy voice of a man’s due to years of smoking and way too many late nights. And oh boy, could she cut an unruly patron down to size with her biting sarcasm then the next second follow it up with a sweet wink and a smile to show that all was (maybe) just in jest. It was smart to remain on Mimi’s good side because she was quite a generous pourer and passed out at least one free beer (the best gift of all) to every regular on a given night.
As with all dive bartenders, Mimi never mixed fruity frou-frou drinks or poured a glass of wine; instead, she passed out a lot of beer and “real man,” straight-up drinks. (Anyone ordering a margarita or martini at a dive bar will incur the shunning of all regulars and get a perpetual smirk from the bartender.) In fact, drinks at a dive bar are probably the same price as they were the day the red velvet wallpaper was installed. There are no $8 beers or $12 cocktails here; take along a $20 and some change, and you’ll be drinking all night at a dive bar and may even be able to splurge on a round or two for your newfound buddies, the regulars.
The regulars – they are what gives a dive its character, makes it home. They spend as much awake time – and, yes, a lot of pass out time – there as possible; they are there when the doors open in the morning and have to be kicked out when the bartender locks up at night. In the meantime, they smoke and drink their way through the evening while arguing over just about anything – politics, sports, who among them the beer model in the promotional poster would care to bed first. They are an eclectic group: slumming professionals who escape from work every chance they get for a cold beer; artists and musicians who try to wrangle free drinks in exchange for art to display on the walls or for a “free concert” on a beat up acoustic guitar; poor college students who can’t afford to buy beer anywhere else; and semi-homeless (or even full-fledged homeless) wanderers who have no family and no place else to go.
Regulars are people like Virgil, a wiry hippie of a man in his 70s with shoulder-length gray hair, bushy whiskers, and a penchant for faded denim. When I met him, he looked like he belonged in a commune, and he lived like it, too. He wasn’t famous for being concerned about such routine matters as daily baths, so ole Virge could end up smelling pretty ripe at times; whew, could that long hair of his get oily and stenchy. But, like his ancient namesake, Virgil always had a good (and sometimes even coherent) story to tell and grew infamous for his method of obtaining free beer. He’d sidle up to some unsuspecting newcomer at the bar and regale his poor victim with one rambling story after another until, out of complete aural exhaustion, the patron would buy Virgil a cold one just to shut him up for a few seconds. He managed to drink free almost every time I saw him in action, and since he was pretty much homeless and never had much money, that was good.
Another of my favorite regulars was Willie Nelson – no, not THAT one. Our Willie Nelson was even older than Virgil and shuffled around in arthritic, slow motion steps wherever he went. Being a lifelong musician who played with the likes of Bob Wills way back when, Willie spent most of his life in smoky dive bars playing his twangy guitar, enjoying a good brawl now and then, and especially romancing women (and marrying and divorcing a few of them). Even at his advanced age, Willie was quite the ladies man and would, in his endearingly shy way, flirt with every sweet, young thing he met. Luckily, I was one of those young things, so I got to hear some wild stories of his days on the road back before the invention of interstates or big convention halls. After one such story, Willie very shyly pulled a cassette tape from the pocket of his used flannel shirt and gently placed in it my hand. On it was one of his recording sessions with Wills, and, even though it is barely audible, I still pull it out on occasion and pop it into my very old and very well used cassette player for a listen and to remember him.
Then there was Rod, an unhappily married, somewhat drab accountant by day who left his tame world behind the moment the clock struck 5:00 and he was free. He'd enter the bar, shoulders hunched over from a day of being beaten down by "the man" (and very likely his wife) and get a tall, cold one from Mimi before making a b-line for the jukebox to play anything with a steady beat. With the first notes blaring out of the long-ago blown out speakers, the heaviness of Rod and his sad world immediately lifted to be magically replaced by a friendly and light-on-his-feet disco dancing maniac. Boy, could he move and groove and even spin like a top! Once Rod claimed his corner of the bar by the jukebox, he would lure the ladies one by one to his little, three-foot-square, up-tempo oasis and dance with a heartfelt joy that seemed impossible in the moments before he put an entire roll of quarters into the machine.
And, there was the early 20s heartbreaker who looked just like a young Elvis ... and I mean JUST like him ... and who, perhaps not surprisingly, never failed to go home at the end of the night alone. There was also the always very drunk 40-something hippie woman who seemed perpetually planted on the barstool closest to the bathroom and who once gave my friend and me incredibly detailed instructions on how to "deep throat" a guy. There were the stocky English rugby players with incomprehensible, crazy lilting Northern accents who never failed to engage in some kind of brawl by the end of the evening, as well as the waitresses from the fondue place two doors down who would pop in for a lightning quick beer in mid-service then, with heavy sighs, dart back to their unsuspecting tables.
Alas, the little neighborhood hovel that we called home was located in an increasingly trendy area and ultimately got gobbled up and turned into a somewhat classy wine bistro that didn't encourage many of the regulars to visit. Mimi moved across town to work at another tavern, Young Elvis and the rugby players left for better romancing and brawling grounds. Willie, Rod, and Virgil scattered to other dives in the area, I'm sure, and I went on a dive bar hiatus when I got married and started a family.
A few years post-bistro, I found myself driving around my old stomping grounds one fall night. I stopped my car in the uncharacteristically quiet street in front of my old hangout to look in the window at all of the shimmery people gathered by Rod's jukebox, which had, amazingly, survived the bar's transformation intact. Then, out of the corner of my eye, a man came into view slowly walking toward the bistro. It was Virgil. Like me, he stopped to look in the window, and I could tell that he was tempted to go in and work his magic to get a free drink. He stood there for a good few minutes, the perpetual outsider looking in. Then, perhaps realizing that he would never fit in among the yuppie wine tasters inside, that his home was gone, he turned and slowly walked off into the dark.
They lean against the cooling car, backs pressed
Upon the dusts of a brown continent,
And watch the sun, now Westward of their West,
Fall to the ocean. Where it led they went.
Kansas to California. Day by day
They travelled emptier of the things they knew.
They improvised new habits on the way,
But lost the occasions, and then lost them too.
One night, no-one and nowhere, she had woken
To resin-smell and to the firs' slight sound,
And through their sleeping-bag had felt the broken
Tight-knotted surfaces of the naked ground.
Only his lean quiet body cupping hers
Kept her from it, the extreme chill. By degrees
She fell asleep. Around them in the firs
The wind probed, tiding through forked estuaries.
And now their skin is caked with road, the grime
Merely reflecting sunlight as it fails.
They leave their clothes among the rocks they climb,
Blunt leaves of iceplant nuzzle at their soles.
Now they stand chin-deep in the sway of ocean,
Firm West, two stringy bodies face to face,
And come, together, in the water's motion,
The full caught pause of their embrace.
Tuje (takie troszkę wyrośnięte...) w arboretum w Rogowie. Tuż obok stoi ławka i zawsze lubię sobie tam przysiąść choć na chwilę :)
Taken in the botanical garden in Rogów. I very like these big thujas there :)
Thuja is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). There are five species in the genus, two native to North America and three native to eastern Asia.
Thujas are evergreen trees growing from 10 to 60 feet (3.0 to 18 metres) tall, with stringy-textured reddish-brown bark. The shoots are flat, with side shoots only in a single plane. The leaves are scale-like 1–10 mm long, except young seedlings in their first year, which have needle-like leaves. The scale leaves are arranged in alternating decussate pairs in four rows along the twigs. The male cones are small, inconspicuous, and are located at the tips of the twigs. The female cones start out similarly inconspicuous, but grow to about 1–2 cm long at maturity when 6–8 months old; they have 6-12 overlapping, thin, leathery scales, each scale bearing 1–2 small seeds with a pair of narrow lateral wings.
Thuja species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Autumnal Moth, The Engrailed and Juniper Pug. The foliage is also readily eaten by deer, and where deer population density is high, can adversely affect the growth of young trees and the establishment of seedlings. They are widely grown as ornamental trees, and extensively used for hedges. A number of cultivars are grown and used in landscapes.[9][10] Homeowners will sometimes plant them as privacy trees. The cultivar 'Green Giant' is popular as a very vigorous hedging plant, growing up to 80 cm/year when young.
Dem Gitz keep fogettin ta greaze mah Big Shoota sos i pulled out ol Bess ere to show dem panzy's wat a real Shoota iz.
Gray stringy lace lichen (also known as 'Spanish Moss') hangs from trees that grow where the climate is cool and humid and where there is little sun. It does not harm the trees and is found on the branches that have already died from lack of sunlight. A lichen is a combination of a fungus and a green alga. Supposedly, both plants benefit by the association. Deer like to eat lichen and birds carry it off for nesting materials.
The brownish-orange substance on the trees is called 'Trentepohlia algae'. Trentepohlia is a genus of filamentous green chlorophyte algae. The strong brownish-orange color of the filaments, which mask the green of the chlorophyll, is caused by the presence of large quantities of carotenoid pigments, a pigment that also occurs in carrots. Both the algae and the lichen condense moisture from the fog and sea spray. Excess moisture drips down into the root zone of the trees and provides extra water during the dry season.
I took this photograph on a steep hillside above the Pacific Ocean at Point Lobos Natural Reserve in Carmel, California.
Stripetti Squash is a cross between a Delicata and Spaghetti Squash, this green and beige striped, watermelon-shaped squash.
12th birthday, taken in Santa Monica, CA, hair stringy from salt water. My mom had asked me where I wanted to go for my birthday, since it would be our last here. All I wanted was the ocean and the pier. Body surf. Ride the merry-go-round, oh, that beloved indoor merry-go-round. And 50 cents for the photo booth just before we left. Every time, one last time. The next day we moved, suddenly, and 5 months earlier than expected, to Philadelphia, PA, leaving my known world behind. Driving to the airport in the dark, I sat, unbelted, on that front center thing in my mom's boyfriend's VW bus, leaning as far into the windshield as I could, hoping that no one would catch my tears in the reflection. Dobie Gray was on the radio, singing "I Can See Clearly Now", just as we started into the curve on the highway that would lift us up out of the Valley, toward Mulholland Dr., the road to my school. I took it as an act of faith, that song, like a shiny found treasure in my fist. I decided to believe it was gonna be a bright, bright, sunshiny day.
Little knots made of cheese! An alternative to mozzarella balls made by knotting or braiding the stringy cheese resulting from the Pasta filata method.
A falling morning tide at Embleton Bay, with Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland. This really is one of the top UK photographic locations in my opinion...but don't tell anyone, it's so quiet! ;o)
Nikon FM2n + 24/2.8 Nikkor, Fujichrome Sensia.
Opening the plastic Fuji mount, to copy this, I managed to tear the transparency about a third-way through! Argh! Lightroom "spot-removal" did a great job repairing it, even knowing where it was, I can't see it, even pixel-peeping. However, I'll never be able to project the slide again. :-( What makes it worse, is that just last year, in my clearing out "unnecessary" doubling up, I threw out 2 almost identical to this one!
I must have opened thousands of these Fuji mounts over the years, to remount them for shows and exhibitions, and it never happened before, several with the stringy red mounting glue getting onto the picture, but never a tear. (The glue can be removed with careful use of lighter fluid on a cotton-bud)
"For the beauty of the earth, for the beauty of the skies....Father, unto You we raise, this our sacrifice of praise"
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Where there’s colour, there’s information. This particular specimen has a lot of knowledge to give due to its sublimative collapse, giving us a unique look into how snowflakes “age”. Before we explore those details, I’d love for you to check out my new snowflake coin design, minted by the Royal Canadian Mint into a pure silver hexagonal coin: www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2023/dollar20-pure-silver-hexag...
Thin film interference is the reason for the colours in snowflakes – at least, these sorts of colours. We can also find similar colours in soap film, and the thickness of the film has a direct relation to the colour that is presented. Here’s an amazing resource that describes it, and more importantly, provides a thickness chart that corresponds to the colours: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/380657/soap-film-sudd... . Do you see that colour chart expressed in this snowflake? I certainly do!
Due to sublimation, this snowflake is returning to thin air (evaporating from a solid without first becoming liquid). If it was melting, you’d see little beads of water sitting on top of the crystal. Sublimation happens in the reverse order as crystal growth – whatever sticks out the farthest, sublimates the fastest. This means the outer edges fade away faster, shrinking the footprint of the snowflake quickly. This makes shooting them difficult with the focus stacking nightmare involved, but it doesn’t stop there.
If you pay attention to the lower-left side with its large gradient of colours, it fades to white, which corresponds to roughly 100nm of thickness. 100nm = 0.0001 millimeters. If you look at the lower right area, you’ll notice the same pattern, though slightly more condensed and the stringy-like bubbles on the outer edge have completely collapsed due to external sublimation (the top layer evaporating).
Those stringy-like bubbles, resembling the map of tunnels in an ant farm, I believe are the result of internal sublimation. We have a dance of decay here, both changing the outside and the inside of the snowflake until there is nothing left to admire. How long has this snowflake been sublimating? Hard to say, but those tunnel-complex bubbles would likely take only a few minutes to form under the right conditions. They can begin to form while a snowflake is still in its growth phase, but I have evidence of their formation in this specimen with “before” and “after” shots, measuring only 30 seconds apart. Take a look at that here: donkom.ca/bts/_DKP0171-sublimation-comparison.jpg
The comparison between these two snowflake “states” reveal the constantly-changing nature of the crystal. The colour bands across the bubbles have all changed, with the most prominent gradients reverting to colours representing a much thicker structure. As I had previously suspected, these trapped bubbles shrink in diameter while becoming thicker, leaving a network of bubble tunnels behind them.
Imagine my frustration putting the final focus-stacked image together!
'the Strelitzia Reginae'
‘From a perennial stringy root
shoot forth a considerable number of leaves,
standing upright on long footstalks,
from a sheath of someone of which,
near its base,
springs the flowering stem,
arising somewhat higher than the leaves,
and terminating in an almost horizontal
long-pointed spatha,
containing about six of eight flowers,
which becoming vertical as they spring forth,
from a kind of crest,
which the glowing orange of the Corolla,
and fine azure of the Nectary,
renders truly superb’.
Chi
We ventured into this old building, divided into 2 rooms.....one was the post office and the other the school room for the community who lived and worked on the station many years ago. The original stringy bark roofing is still in place underneath the corrugated iron roof.
Behind the building, Kings Plains stretches out into the distance.
SIGNS OF UNHEALTHY DROOLING (Part -1 )
Drooling, like many behaviors dogs may perform, can be a sign of ill health. Depending on the consistency, frequency, and time that a dog drools, it could indicate different health issues. Here are some of the most common health issues to be present when a dog is drooling.
MOUTH AND THROAT ISSUES
Often, when your dog is drooling a lot, the cause can be a problem to do with their mouth or throat. A minor issue may be ulcers, leading to them trying to open their mouth in
hopes of avoiding their tongue grazing the painful area. Your dog’s salivary glands may also be infected which leads to difficulty in swallowing and drooling as a result. Although it is less common, there is a possibility that the drooling may be a result of a tumor around the neck or throat. This can be known by a lump in the area, although a lump could also indicate other less harmful consequences.
TOOTH DECAY
Tooth decay can lead to drooling often due to the pain it causes along with inflammation. As the decay progresses, so does the pain in the tooth and your dog’s mouth. Contact with the tooth increases this and therefore your dog will try to avoid letting their tongue or lip touch the area. This means they may keep their mouth open, or even pant more frequently due to the stress of the pain. The open mouth and lolled tongue allow spit to easily drain from the mouth in the form of drool. This may lead to drooling occurring frequently and therefore it may be less watery than normal drool. As it is occurring more frequently, your dog may be losing more water so the drool will be more stringy.
STOMACH ISSUES
This is another category that covers a range of topics from mild to severe. It may that your dog is stressed and their stomach is upset as a result. Nausea through stress or illness can both lead to excess drooling. Saliva is produced in excess in times of nausea due to a dog’s natural response of considering vomiting. This aids the reflex and helps vomit exit the body. If your dog has overeaten as well, the same issue may occur as dogs struggle to tell when they are full. Although it can be a sign of mild stomach issues, bloat can also lead to excess drooling, a condition that can be fatal.
Connor, Dick and Jason stood outside the doorway of a crumbly apartment in the Glades. Connor tentatively raised his fist to knock. It had been a long time since he’d been here.
“S’open” came the slurred reply. The trio shared a glance before stepping into the apartment.
It had clearly fallen into rough shape. The dilapidated apartment made the rest of the building look like a 4 star hotel. There was upturned furniture everywhere, most of the pieces having rips in them with the stuffing hanging out. The carpet was moldy and torn and needles lay strewn across it. A stench of beer reeked over the whole pace.
“Roy?” Connor called out. He got a grunt in reply. He looked back at the other two, not sure how to proceed.
They rounded a corner and finally saw Roy. He was laying curled up in a ball, his stringy black hair hanging in front of his face. His eyes were sunken from the drugs and lack of sleep. He looked up to them, standing up immediately. He reached behind him and grabbed a gun pointing at them. His wild eyes swayed between the three other men.
“Roy, it’s me, Connor,” Connor said in a soothing voice. “It’s alright.”
Roy’s eyes went wide as he shakily put the gun down. He pointed at Dick and Jason.
“Mmwho’rethesetwo”. His words were slurred-he’d obviously been drinking.
“Roy, it’s Dick Grayson and Jason Todd. Remember? Dick was Bruce’s kid and Jason went to high school with us.” Roy narrowed his eyes, obviously thinking hard. Then he nodded.
“‘Member” he muttered and sat down. Connor sighed; this would be a lot harder than he thought.
“Jason, go get some water, please,” he said. Jason looked at him incredulously.
“Me? Wh-”
“Because I said so. Now go.” Jason shrugged and went off.
“Roy,” Connor began. “We really need you to sober up, for a little bit. We’re-ah-getting the band back together, so to speak.” Roy looked at him in confusion.
“There’s a new threat in town, named Komodo. Dick, Jason and I are all teaming up to stop him but we can’t do it alone. We need you. How about you sleep off the alcohol and whatever else is in your system and we’ll talk.” By the time he was finished the sentence, Roy was already asleep.
A double crested cormorant quietly "reflecting" on Black Lake! Kissimmee Florida
Cornell Labs:
The gangly Double-crested Cormorant is a prehistoric-looking, matte-black fishing bird with yellow-orange facial skin. Though they look like a combination of a goose and a loon, they are relatives of frigatebirds and boobies and are a common sight around fresh and salt water across North America—perhaps attracting the most attention when they stand on docks, rocky islands, and channel markers, their wings spread out to dry. These solid, heavy-boned birds are experts at diving to catch small fish.
Size & Shape
Double-crested Cormorants are large waterbirds with small heads on long, kinked necks. They have thin, strongly hooked bills, roughly the length of the head. Their heavy bodies sit low in the water.
Color Pattern
Adults are brown-black with a small patch of yellow-orange skin on the face. Immatures are browner overall, palest on the neck and breast. In the breeding season, adults develop a small double crest of stringy black or white feathers.
Behavior
Double-crested Cormorants float low on the surface of water and dive to catch small fish. After fishing, they stand on docks, rocks, and tree limbs with wings spread open to dry. In flight, they often travel in V-shaped flocks that shift and reform as the birds alternate bursts of choppy flapping with short glides.
Habitat
Double-crested Cormorants are the most widespread cormorant in North America, and the one most frequently seen in freshwater. They breed on the coast as well as on large inland lakes. They form colonies of stick nests built high in trees on islands or in patches of flooded timber.
Inmaculada Cruz
Oil on canvas
22" x 28"
IdeAL PDX 5th Annual Exhibit
El Trueque 2018
Portland'5 Center for the Arts
This piece speaks to me because it depicts the mango harvest. The colonial hacienda house I lived in as a boy in Caracas, Venezuela, had several large mango trees that provided lovely shade and not-so-lovely stringy mangoes.
My mother, midwesterner that she was, turned some of them into brown, stringy mango jam. (Shudder. )
Nonetheless, I revere memories of that time and place, so I revere mangoes, though I still give them wide berth in the grocery store.
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Ometepe is an island formed by two volcanoes rising out of Lake Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua. Its name derives from the Nahuatl words ome (two) and tepetl (mountain), meaning "two mountains". It is the largest island in Lake Nicaragua.
The two volcanoes (known as Volcán Concepción and Volcán Maderas) are joined by a low isthmus to form one island in the shape of an hourglass, dumbbell or peanut. Ometepe has an area of 276 km2. It is 31 km long and 5 to 10 km wide. The island has an economy based on livestock, agriculture, and tourism. Plantains are the major crop.
My first attempt at adding a video to Flickr! It's "bonus footage" from a longer video I'm having a devil of a time editing (darn computer) and may have to re-shoot portions of (I need to rehearse more before even working with a script). But despite my hair being stringy and blowing around in the wind, and my makeup not being entirely perfect, at least I can walk in a sort-of-come-hither way.
I found this cocoon a couple of weeks ago when I was weeding the garden. (I figure I must've pulled whatever it was attached to, because it was just sitting there in the dirt.) Not knowing what kind of cocoon it was - it was bluey-green with black and gold edging, at first - I decided to attach the stringy end to a piece of wheat and keep it suspended in a tupperware container on our deck to see what happened. I later found out it was a monarch cocoon, which made me happy since we've had lots of monarch caterpillars on the milkweed we planted, so I kept an eye on it, waiting for it to start changing colour... it didn't, so I was sure it was dead. I couldn't bring myself to throw it away, though, and I'm so glad! Sunday I took a peek at it, and saw a black spot. I thought this was just further proof it was dead, but when I looked closer, this is what I saw. I was amazed! Shortly after I took these pictures, it detached from the wheat, so we had to glue the end to a twig so we could put it out in the garden to hatch safely.
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I like this old selfie of me in my room here in Schweden taken a few years ago...
Even though most of my face is obscured by shadows the illumination of the computer screen and the light source behind me makes me look like a really nutty professor, well the old protective goggle spectacles does it part too :)
Peace and Noise!
/ MushroomBrain obscured by lack of light
This doll is not creepy, thinks Dorothy.
In fact, the squiggly blue stringyness emerging from her head is just what she needs for an important upcoming magic potion
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Two different lichens growing on a tree branch at Quail Hollow Ranch County Park near Felton, CA, USA.
Google Lens IDs these as lichen growing on a tree branch, which are composite organisms formed by a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium.Lichens are epiphytes, meaning they grow on other plants without damaging them, using branches for structure rather than sourcing nutrients from the tree. The scene includes both foliose (leafy) lichen, which is flatter and attached to the bark, and fruticose (shrubby/stringy) lichen, which hangs loosely from the branch. Lichens are excellent bioindicators of air quality because they absorb nutrients directly from the atmosphere rather than through roots. While often mistaken for moss, lichens are generally harder and less spongy, though they share the same habitat.
Project Quilting season 5 Ch 1
By: Amanda Reid..South Africa
Name: 'Highly Strung!'
Size: 11"x26"
A stringy mixture! Was just in the mood to try a tree so gathered strips for a strippy landscape and tree trunk. The tree itself is lenghs of wool and bits of silver oversewn with tulle to keep all together. Strips of braid and painted voil also in the landscape as well as a painted voile string for the 'sun' thing! On the hilly bits I thought some highlighting would be nice so used oil pastel sticks!! works nicely!! Ans also did a struppy bit at the top for the fun of it!. Some metallic thread as well as cotton in the quilting.
i have been sick for a week. lost my voice, then got it back, with sore throat in the back for two days, then it swung around to the front. even my uvula hurts like a bitch. i have coughed my throat raw. i would be a little more concerned if i didn't already have a prescheduled doctor's appointment in the morning. i am self-diagnosing (and self-medicating) and have come to the conclusion i either have the Consumption or i've contracted the Bubonic Plague.
oh. and i am a booger factory.
next: sneezing with your eyes opened - can they really pop out of your head?
Indians blame us for eating cows!
. . . and if you were bitten three times by dogs like me, you would love this photo . . .
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Dog meat refers to the flesh and other edible parts derived from dogs. Historically, human consumption of dog meat has been recorded in many parts of the world, including East and Southeast Asia, West Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas.
In the 21st century, dog meat is consumed in many parts of China, Korea and Vietnam, parts of Switzerland, as well as parts of Europe, Americas, the African continent, such as Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia.
Today, a number of cultures view the consumption of dog meat to be a part of their traditional and day-to-day cuisine, while others - such as Western culture - consider consumption of dog to be a taboo, although they have been consumed in times of war and/or other hardships. It was estimated in 2014 that worldwide, 25 million dogs are eaten each year by humans.
DOG BREEDS USED FOR MEAT
NUREONGI
The Nureongi (Korean: 누렁이) is a yellowish landrace from Korea. Similar to other native Korean dog breeds, such as the Jindo, nureongi are medium-sized spitz-type dogs, but are larger with greater musculature and a distinctive coat pattern. They are quite uniform in appearance, yellow hair and melanistic masks. Nureongi are most often used as a livestock dog, raised for its meat, and not commonly kept as pets.
HAWAIIAN POI
The Hawaiian Poi Dog or ʻīlio (ʻīlio mākuʻe for brown-furred Poi dogs) is an extinct breed of pariah dog from Hawaiʻi which was used by Native Hawaiians as a spiritual protector of children and as a source of food.
XOLOITZCUINTLE (MEXICAN HAIRLESS)
The Xoloitzcuintle, or Xolo for short, is a hairless breed of dog, found in toy, miniature and standard sizes.The Xolo also comes in a coated variety and all three sizes can be born to a single litter. It is also known as Mexican hairless dog in English speaking countries, is one of several breeds of hairless dog and has been used as a historical source of food for the Aztec Empire.
BY REGION
AFRICA
CAMEROON
Among the Vame people, domestic dogs are only eaten for specific rituals.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Despite tests showing 156 dogs were infected with Ebola, the consumption of dog meat is no longer taboo.
GHANA
The Tallensi, the Akyim's, the Kokis, and the Yaakuma, one of many cultures of Ghana, consider dog meat a delicacy. While the Mamprusi generally avoid dog meat, it is eaten in a "courtship stew" provided by a king to his royal lineage. Two Tribes in Ghana, Frafra and Dagaaba are particularly known to be "tribal playmates" and consumption of dog meat is the common bond between the two tribes. Every year around September, games are organised between these two tribes and the Dog Head is the trophy at stake for the winning tribe
MOROCCO
Islamic law bans the eating of dog meat as does the government of Morocco, however the consumption of dog meat still occurs particularly in poorer regions, often being passed off as other meats as was the case in 2013 and 2009 cases
NIGERIA
Dogs are eaten by various groups in some states of Nigeria, including Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Plateau, Ondo, Kalaba, Taraba and Gombe of Nigeria. They are believed to have medicinal powers.
In late 2014, the fear of contracting the Ebola virus disease from bushmeat led at least one major Nigerian newspaper to imply that eating dog meat was a healthy alternative. That paper documented a thriving trade in dog meat and slow sales of even well smoked bushmeat.
AMERICA
CANADA
It is legal to sell and serve dog meat, providing that it must be killed and gutted in front of federal inspectors. If a dog is killed out of the view of federal inspectors, the killing might involve cruelty, which would be a violation of the Criminal Code, and those convicted may be sentenced to up to 5 years in prison.
ANCIENT MEXICO
In the time of the Aztec Empire in what is now central Mexico, Mexican Hairless Dogs were bred, among other purposes, for their meat. Hernán Cortés reported when he arrived in Tenochtitlan in 1519, "small gelded dogs which they breed for eating" were among the goods sold in the city markets. These dogs, Xoloitzcuintles, were often depicted in pre-Columbian Mexican pottery. The breed was almost extinct in the 1940s, but the British Military Attaché in Mexico City, Norman Wright, developed a thriving breed from some of the dogs he found in remote villages.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The term "dog" has been used as a synonym for sausage since 1884 and accusations that sausage makers used dog meat date to at least 1845. The belief that sausages contained dog meat was occasionally justified.
In the late 19th century, a cure for tuberculosis (then colloquially termed "consumption") using an exclusive diet of dog meat was tried. Reports of families eating dog meat out of choice, rather than necessity, were rare and newsworthy. Stories of families in Ohio and Newark, New Jersey who did so made it into editions of The New York Times in 1876 and 1885.
In the early 20th century, dog meat was consumed during times of meat shortage.
NATIVE AMERICANS
The traditional culture surrounding the consumption of dog meat varied from tribe to tribe among the original inhabitants of North America, with some tribes relishing it as a delicacy, and others (such as the Comanche) treating it as a forbidden food.
Native peoples of the Great Plains, such as the Sioux and Cheyenne, consumed it, but there was a concurrent religious taboo against the meat of wild canines.
During their 1803–1806 expedition, Meriwether Lewis and the other members of the Corps of Discovery consumed dog meat, either from their own animals or supplied by Native American tribes, including the Paiutes and Wah-clel-lah Indians, a branch of the Watlatas, the Clatsop, the Teton Sioux (Lakota), the Nez Perce Indians, and the Hidatsas. Lewis and the members of the expedition ate dog meat, except William Clark, who reportedly could not bring himself to eat dogs.
The Kickapoo people include puppy meat in many of their traditional festivals. This practice has been well documented in the Works Progress Administration "Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma".
AUSTRALIA
It is legal to eat dogs in most States and Territories, except for South Australia. However, it is illegal to sell dog meat in any Australian State or Territory.
ARTIC AND ANTARCTIC
British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition became trapped, and ultimately killed their sled dogs for food. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was known to have eaten sled dogs during his expedition to the South Pole. By eating some of the sled dogs, he required less human or dog food, thus lightening his load. When comparing sled dogs to ponies as draught animals he also notes:
"...there is the obvious advantage that dog can be fed on dog. One can reduce one's pack little by little, slaughtering the feebler ones and feeding the chosen with them. In this way they get fresh meat. Our dogs lived on dog's flesh and pemmican the whole way, and this enabled them to do splendid work. And if we ourselves wanted a piece of fresh meat we could cut off a delicate little fillet; it tasted to us as good as the best beef. The dogs do not object at all; as long as they get their share they do not mind what part of their comrade's carcass it comes from. All that was left after one of these canine meals was the teeth of the victim – and if it had been a really hard day, these also disappeared."
Douglas Mawson and Xavier Mertz were part of the Far Eastern Party, a three-man sledging team with Lieutenant B.E.S. Ninnis, to survey King George V Land, Antarctica. On 14 December 1912 Ninnis fell through a snow-covered crevasse along with most of the party's rations, and was never seen again. Mawson and Mertz turned back immediately. They had one and a half weeks' food for themselves and nothing at all for the dogs. Their meagre provisions forced them to eat their remaining sled dogs on their 507 km return journey. Their meat was tough, stringy and without a vestige of fat. Each animal yielded very little, and the major part was fed to the surviving dogs, which ate the meat, skin and bones until nothing remained. The men also ate the dog's brains and livers. Unfortunately eating the liver of sled dogs produces the condition hypervitaminosis A because canines have a much higher tolerance for vitamin A than humans do. Mertz suffered a quick deterioration. He developed stomach pains and became incapacitated and incoherent. On 7 January 1913, Mertz died. Mawson continued alone, eventually making it back to camp alive.
ASIA/PACIFIC
CHINA
Selling dog meat for consumption is legal in Mainland China and approximately 10 million dogs each year are slaughtered for consumption. The eating of dog meat in China dates back thousands of years. Dog meat (Chinese: 狗肉; pinyin: gǒu ròu) has been a source of food in some areas from around 500 BC and possibly even earlier. It has been suggested that wolves in southern China may have been domesticated as a source of meat. Mencius, the philosopher, talked about dog meat as being an edible, dietary meat. It is thought to have medicinal properties, and is especially popular in winter months in northern China, as it is believed to raise body temperature after consumption and promote warmth. Historical records have moreover shown how in times of food scarcities (as in war-time situations), dogs could also be eaten as an emergency food source.
Dog meat is sometimes called "fragrant meat" (香肉 xiāng ròu) or "mutton of the earth" (地羊 dì yáng) in Mandarin Chinese and "3–6 fragrant meat" (Chinese: 三六香肉; Cantonese Yale: sàam luhk hèung yuhk) in Cantonese (3 plus 6 is 9 and the words "nine" and "dog" have close pronunciation. In Mandarin, "nine" and "dog" are pronounced differently).
In modern times, the extent of dog consumption in China varies by region, most prevalent in Guangdong, Yunnan and Guangxi, as well as the northern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning. It is still common to find dog meat served in restaurants in Southern China, where dogs are specially raised on farms. However, there are instances of finding stolen pet meat on menus. Chinese netizens and the Chinese police intercepted trucks transporting caged dogs to be slaughtered in localities such as Chongqing and Kunming. In 2014, 11 people in the Hunan province were sentenced to prison for allegedly poisoning over 1,000 dogs and selling the poisonous meat to Yulin, Guangxi has held an annual festival of eating dog meat. This purportedly celebrates the summer solstice, however, in 2014, the municipal government published a statement that the festival is not a cultural tradition, rather, a commercial event held by restaurants and the public. Various dog meat dishes (and more recently, cats) are eaten, washed down by lychees wine. The festival in 2011 spanned 10 days, during which 15,000 dogs were consumed. Estimates of the number of dogs eaten during the festival range between 10 and 15 thousand. Festival organisers say that only dogs bred specifically for consumption are used, however, there are claims that some of the dogs purchased for slaughter and consumption are strays or stolen pets, as evidenced by their wearing collars. Some of the dogs eaten at the festival are burnt or boiled alive and there are reports that the dogs are sometimes clubbed or beaten to death in the belief that the increased adrenalin circulating in the dog's body adds to the flavour of the meat. At the 2015 festival, there were long queues outside large (300-seat) eateries which sold the dog meat for around £4 (€5.60) per kilogram. Prior to the 2014 festival, eight dogs (and their two cages) sold for 1,150 yuan ($185) and six puppies for 1,200 yuan. Prior to the 2015 festival, a protester bought 100 dogs for 7,000 yuan ($1,100; £710). The animal rights NGO Best Volunteer Centre claims the city has more than 100 slaughterhouses, processing between 30 and 100 dogs a day. However, the Yulin Centre for Animal Disease Control and Prevention claims the city has only eight dog slaughterhouses selling approximately 200 dogs, although this increases to about 2,000 dogs during the Yulin festival. There are several campaigns to stop the festival; more than 3,000,000 people have signed petitions against it on Weibo (China’s version of Twitter) and a petition to stop the festival (addressed to the Chinese Minister of Agriculture, Chen Wu) reads "Do the humane thing by saying no to this festival and save the lives of countless dogs that will fall victim to this event - an event that will butcher, skin alive, beat to death etc. thousands of innocent dogs." Prior to the 2014 festival, doctors and nurses staff were ordered not to eat dog meat there, and local restaurants serving dog meat were ordered to cover the word "dog" on their signs and notices.
The movement against the consumption of cat and dog meat was given added impetus by the formation of the Chinese Companion Animal Protection Network (CCAPN). Expanded to more than 40 member societies, CCAPN in 2006 began organizing protests against eating dogs and cat, starting in Guangzhou and following up in more than ten other cities with a positive response from the public. Before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, officials ordered dog meat to be taken off the menu at its 112 official Olympic restaurants to avoid offending visitors from various nations who might have been concerned by the offering of dog meat.
In 2010, draft legislation was proposed to prohibit the consumption of dog meat. The legislation, however, was not expected to be enforced, making the consumption of dog meat illegal if it passed. In 2010, the first draft proposal of the legislation was introduced, with the rationale to protect animals from maltreatment. The legislation includes a measure to jail people for up to 15 days for eating dog meat. However, certain cultural food festivals continue to promote the meat. For example, in 2014, 10,000 dogs were killed for the Yulin dog eating festival.
As of the early 21st century, dog meat consumption is declining or disappearing. In 2014, dog meat sales decreased by a third compared to 2013. It was reported that in 2015, one of the most popular restaurants in Guangzhou serving dog meat was closed after the local government tightened regulations; the restaurant had served dog meat dishes since 1963. Other restaurants that served dog and cat meat dishes in the Yuancun and Panyu districts also stopped serving these in 2015.
HONG KONG
In Hong Kong, the Dogs and Cats Ordinance was introduced by the British Hong Kong Government on 6 January 1950. It prohibits the slaughter of any dog or cat for use as food, whether for mankind or otherwise, on pain of fine and imprisonment. In February 1998, a Hong Konger was sentenced to one month imprisonment and a fine of two thousand HK dollars for hunting street dogs for food. Four local men were sentenced to 30 days imprisonment in December 2006 for having slaughtered two dogs.
TAIWAN
In 2001, the Taiwanese government imposed a ban on the sale of dog meat, due to both pressure from domestic animal welfare groups and a desire to improve international perceptions, although there were some protests. In 2007, another law was passed, significantly increasing the fines to sellers of dog meat. However, animal rights campaigners have accused the Taiwanese government of not prosecuting those who continue to slaughter and serve dog meat at restaurants. Although the slaughter and consumption of dog meat is illegal in Taiwan, there are reports that suggest the practice continues as of 2011. In Taiwan, dog meat is called "fragrant meat" (Chinese: 香肉; pinyin: xiāngròu). In 2007, legislators passed a law to fine sellers of dog meat NT$250,000 (US$7,730). Dog meat is believed to have health benefits, including improving circulation and raising body temperature.
INDIA
In India, dog meat is eaten by certain communities in the Northeast Indian border states of Mizoram, Nagaland, and Manipur where it is considered to be a delicacy. These states border Burma and may have been influenced by Chinese culture and traditions.
INDONESIA
Indonesia is predominantly Muslim, a faith which considers dog meat, along with pork to be "haraam" (ritually unclean) and therefore do not eat it. However, dog meat is eaten by several of Indonesia's non-Muslim minorities.
The consumption of dog meat is associated with the Minahasa culture of northern Sulawesi, Maluku culture, and the Bataks of northern Sumatra, where dog meat is considered a festive dish usually reserved for occasions such as weddings and Christmas.
Popular Indonesian dog-meat dishes are rica-rica, also called rintek wuuk or "RW", rica-rica waung, guk-guk, and "B1". On Java, there are several dishes made from dog meat, such as sengsu (tongseng asu), sate jamu, and kambing balap.
Dog consumption in Indonesia gained attention in United States where dog is a taboo food, during 2012 Presidential election when incumbent Barack Obama was pointed by his opponent to have eaten dog meat served by his Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro during his stay in the country
JAPAN
The consumption of dog meat is not a feature of modern Japanese culture because Japanese people believe that certain dogs have special powers in their religion of Shintoism and Buddhism. Dog meat was consumed in Japan until 675 AD, when Emperor Temmu decreed a prohibition on its consumption during the 4th–9th months of the year. Normally a dog accompanied the emperor for battle, so it was believed that eating a dog gave emperors bad luck.[citation needed] In Japanese shrines certain animals are worshipped, such as dogs as it is believed they will give people a good luck charm. Animals are described as good luck in scrolls and Kakemono during the Kofun period, Asuka period and Nara period. According to Meisan Shojiki Ōrai (名産諸色往来) published in 1760, the meat of wild dog was sold along with boar, deer, fox, wolf, bear, raccoon dog, otter, weasel and cat in some regions of Edo. Ōta Nampo recorded witnessing puppies being eaten in Satsuma Province in a dish called Enokoro Meshi (えのころ飯).
KOREA
Gaegogi (개고기) literally means "dog meat" in Korean. The term itself, however, is often mistaken as the term for Korean soup made from dog meat, which is actually called bosintang (보신탕; 補身湯, Body nourishing soup) (sometimes spelled "bo-shintang").
The consumption of dog meat in Korean culture can be traced through history. Dog bones[further explanation needed] were excavated in a neolithic settlement in Changnyeong, South Gyeongsang Province. A wall painting in the Goguryeo Tombs complex in South Hwangghae Province, a World Heritage site which dates from the 4th century AD, depicts a slaughtered dog in a storehouse. The Balhae people also enjoyed dog meat, and the modern-day tradition of canine cuisine seems to have come from that era.
Although their Mohe ancestors did not respect dogs, the Jurchen people began to respect dogs around the time of the Ming dynasty and passed this tradition on to the Manchu. It was prohibited in Jurchen culture to use dog skin, and forbidden for Jurchens to harm, kill, and eat dogs, as the Jurchens believed the "utmost evil" was the usage of dog skin by Koreans.
SOUTH KOREA
Dog meat is often consumed during the summer months and is either roasted or prepared in soups or stews. The most popular of these soups is bosintang and gaejang-guk, a spicy stew meant to balance the body's heat during the summer months. This is thought to ensure good health by balancing one's "Qi", the believed vital energy of the body. A 19th-century version of gaejang-guk explains the preparation of the dish by boiling dog meat with vegetables such as green onions and chili pepper powder. Variations of the dish contain chicken and bamboo shoots.
Over 100,000 tons[94] of dog meat, or 2.5 million dogs, are consumed annually in South Korea. Although a fair number of South Koreans (approximately 42% to 60%) have eaten dog meat at least once in their lifetime, only a small percentage of the population is believed to eat it on a regular basis.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety recognizes any edible product other than drugs as food. South Korean Food Sanitary Law (식품위생법) does not include dog meat as a legal food ingredient. In the capital city of Seoul, the sale of dog meat was outlawed by regulation on February 21, 1984 by classifying dog meat as 'repugnant food' (혐오식품), but the regulation was not rigorously enforced except during the 1988 Seoul Olympics. In 2001, the Mayor of Seoul announced there would be no extra enforcement efforts to control the sale of dog meat during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, which was partially hosted in Seoul. In March 2008, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced its plan to put forward a policy suggestion to the central government to legally classify slaughter dogs as livestock, reigniting debate on the issue.
The primary dog breed raised for meat, the Nureongi (누렁이), or Hwangu (황구); is a non-specific, mixed breed.
There is a large and vocal group of Koreans (consisting of a number of animal welfare groups) who are against the practice of eating dogs. Popular television shows like 'I Love Pet' have documented, in 2011 for instance, the continued illegal sale of dog meat and slaughtering of dogs in suburban areas. The program also televised illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, showing the unsanitary and horrific conditions of caged dogs, several of which were visibly sick with severe eye infections and malnutrition. However, despite this growing awareness, there remain some in Korea that do not eat or enjoy the meat, but do feel that it is the right of others to do so, along with a smaller but still vocal group of pro-dog cuisine people who want to popularize the consumption of dog in Korea and the rest of the world. A group of pro-dog meat individuals attempted to promote and publicize the consumption of dog meat worldwide during the run-up to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, which prompted retaliation from animal rights campaigners and prominent figures such as Brigitte Bardot to denounce the practice. Opponents of dog meat consumption in South Korea are critical of the eating of dog meat, as some dogs are beaten, burnt or hanged to make their meat more tender.
The restaurants that sell dog meat, often exclusively, do so at the risk of losing their restaurant licenses. A case of a dog meat wholesaler, charged with selling dog meat, arose in 1997 where an appeals court acquitted the dog meat wholesaler, ruling that dogs were socially accepted as food. According to the National Assembly of South Korea, more than 20,000 restaurants, including the 6,484 registered restaurants, served soups made from dog meat in Korea in 1998. In 1999 the BBC reported that 8,500 tons of dog meat were consumed annually, with another 93,600 tons used to produce a medicinal tonic called gaesoju (개소주).
NORTH KOREA
Daily NK reported that the North Korean government included dog meat in its new list of one hundred fixed prices, setting a fixed price of 500 won per kilogram in early 2010.
NEW ZEALAND
Dog meat is rarely eaten in New Zealand but has been said to be becoming more popular as it is not illegal as long as the dog is humanely killed.
A Tongan man living in New Zealand caused public outrage when he was caught cooking his pet dog in his backyard; this event led to calls for change in the law.
PHILIPPINES
The “Malays”, a sea-faring population that is now scattered throughout South-East Asia, introduced the practice of domesticating dogs for meat consumption to the indigenous population of the Philippines.
In the capital city of Manila, Metro Manila Commission Ordinance 82-05 specifically prohibits the killing and selling of dogs for food. Generally however, the Philippine Animal Welfare Act 1998 prohibits the killing of any animal other than cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, poultry, rabbits, carabaos, horses, deer and crocodiles, with exemptions for religious, cultural, research, public safety and/or animal health reasons. Nevertheless, the consumption of dog meat is not uncommon in the Philippines, reflected in the occasional coverage in Philippine newspapers,.
The Province of Benguet specifically allows cultural use of dog meat by indigenous people and acknowledges this might lead to limited commercial use.
Asocena is a dish primarily consisting of dog meat originating from the Philippines.
In the early 1980s, there was an international outcry about dog meat consumption in the Philippines after newspapers published photos of Margaret Thatcher, then British Prime Minister, with a dog carcass hanging beside her on a market stall. The British Government discussed withdrawing foreign aid and other countries, such as Australia, considered similar action. To avoid such action, the Filipino government banned the sale of dog meat, despite dog meat being the third most consumed meat, behind pork and goat. The ban eventually became totally disregarded, although it was reinstated by President Ramos in 1998 in the Animal Welfare Act (Republic Act 8485).
POLYNESIA
Dogs were historically eaten in Tahiti and other islands of Polynesia, including Hawaii at the time of first European contact. James Cook, when first visiting Tahiti in 1769, recorded in his journal, "few were there of us but what allow'd that a South Sea Dog was next to an English Lamb, one thing in their favour is that they live entirely upon Vegetables". Calwin Schwabe reported in 1979 that dog was widely eaten in Hawaii and considered to be of higher quality than pork or chicken. When Hawaiians first encountered early British and American explorers, they were at a loss to explain the visitors' attitudes about dog meat. The Hawaiians raised both dogs and pigs as pets and for food. They could not understand why their British and American visitors only found the pig suitable for consumption. This practice seems to have died out, along with the native Hawaiian breed of dog, the unique Hawaiian Poi Dog, which was primarily used for this purpose. The consumption of domestic dog meat is still commonplace in the Kingdom of Tonga, and has also been noted in expatriate Tongan communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.
THAILAND
Unlike other countries where dog meat consumption has been shown to have historical precedents, Thailand does not have a mainstream culture of dog eating. However, in recent years, the consumption of dog meat in certain areas of the country, especially in certain northeastern provinces like Sakon Nakhon and Nakhon Phanom, notably Sakon Nakhon province's Tha Rae sub-district, which has been identified as the main center for the country's illegal, albeit lucrative, dog meat trade, has attracted widespread attention from the Thai population and local news media. This has led large groups of Thai citizens to become increasingly vocal against the consumption of dog meat and the selling of dogs that are transported through Laos to neighbouring Mekong countries, including Vietnam and China. According to news reports, a considerable number of these dogs continue to be stolen from people's homes by illegal carriers. This was also the case following the 2011 Thailand Floods. Dubbed as the country's 'Trade of Shame', Thai netizens, in particular, have now formed several informal animal welfare and rescue groups in an attempt to stop this illegal trade, with the collective attitude being that 'Dogs are not food'. Established not-for-profit animal charity organizations like the Soi Dog Foundation have also been active in raising awareness and working in conjunction with local Thai authorities to rehabilitate and relocate dogs rescued from trucks attempting to transport live dogs across the border to nearby countries. Significantly, this issue has strengthened the nation's animal rights movement, which continues to call on the Thai government to adopt a stricter and more comprehensive animal rights law to prevent the maltreatment of pets and cruelty against all animals.
TIMOR LESTE
Dog meat is a delicacy popular in East Timor.
UZBEKISTAN
Although not commonly eaten, dog meat is sometimes used in Uzbekistan in the belief that it has medicinal properties.
VIETNAM
Dog meat is consumed more commonly in the northern part of Vietnam than in the south, and can be found in special restaurants which specifically serve dog meat. Dog meat is believed to bring good fortune in Vietnamese culture. It is seen as being comparable in consumption to chicken or pork. In urban areas, there are sections that house a lot of dog meat restaurants. For example, on Nhat Tan Street, Tây Hồ District, Hanoi, many restaurants serve dog meat. Groups of customers, usually male, seated on mats, will spend their evenings sharing plates of dog meat and drinking alcohol. The consumption of dog meat can be part of a ritual usually occurring toward the end of the lunar month for reasons of astrology and luck. Restaurants which mainly exist to serve dog meat may only open for the last half of the lunar month. Dog meat is also believed to raise the libido in men. The Associated Press reported in October 2009 that a soaring economy has led to the booming of dog restaurants in Hanoi, and that this has led to a proliferation of dognappers. Reportedly, a 20 kilograms dog can sell for more than $100 — roughly the monthly salary of an average Vietnamese worker. The Vietnamese Catholic Church is a major consumer of dog meat during the Christmas holiday. There is a large smuggling trade from Thailand to export dogs to Vietnam for human consumption.
In 2009, dog meat was found to be a main carrier of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium, which caused the summer epidemic of cholera in northern Vietnam.
Prior to 2014, more than 5 million dogs were killed for meat every year in Vietnam according to the Asia Canine Protection Alliance. However, there are indications that the desire to eat dog meat in Vietnam is waning. Part of the decline is thought to be due to an increased number of Vietnamese people keeping dogs as pets, as their incomes have risen in the past few decades. “[People] used to raise dogs to guard the house, and when they needed the meat, they ate it. Now they keep dog as pets, imported from China, Japan, and other countries. One pet dog might cost hundreds of millions of dong [100 million dong is $4,677].”
EUROPE
BRITAIN & IRELAND
Eating dog meat is considered entirely taboo, as is common with most European societies, and has been taboo for many centuries outside of times of scarcity such as sieges or famines. However, early Brittonic and Irish texts which date from the early Christian period suggest that dog meat was sometimes consumed but possibly in ritual contexts such as Druidic ritual trance. Sacrificial dog bones are often recovered from archaeological sites however they were typically treated differently, as were horses, from other food animals. One of Ireland's mythological heroes Cuchulainn, had two geasa, or vows, one of which was to avoid the meat of dogs. The breaking of his geasa led to his death in the Irish mythology.
BELGIUM
A few meat shops sold dog meat during the German occupation of Belgium in World War I, when food was extremely scarce. According to The New York Times, in the 19th century the Council of the Veterinary School of Belgium occasionally recommended dog meat for human consumption after being properly inspected.
FRANCE
Although consumption of dog meat is uncommon in France, and is now considered taboo, dog meat has been consumed in the past by the Gauls. The earliest evidence of dog consumption in France was found at Gaulish archaeological sites, where butchered dog bones were discovered. French news sources from the late 19th century carried stories reporting lines of people buying dog meat, which was described as being "beautiful and light." During the Siege of Paris (1870–1871), there were lines at butcher's shops of people waiting to purchase dog meat. Dog meat was also reported as being sold by some butchers in Paris, 1910.
GERMANY
Dog meat has been eaten in every major German crisis since, at least, the time of Frederick the Great, and is commonly referred to as "blockade mutton". In the early 20th century, high meat prices led to widespread consumption of horse and dog meat in Germany.
The consumption of dog meat continued in the 1920s. In 1937, a meat inspection law targeted against trichinella was introduced for pigs, dogs, boars, foxes, badgers, and other carnivores. Dog meat has been prohibited in Germany since 1986.
SAXONY
In the latter part of World War I, dog meat was being eaten in Saxony by the poorer classes because of famine conditions.
THE NETHERLANDS
During severe meat shortages coinciding with the German occupation from 1940 to 1945, sausages found to have been made of dog meat were confiscated by authorities in the Netherlands.
POLAND
While dog meat is not eaten, some rural areas of Poland especially Lesser Poland, dog fat can be made into lard, which by tradition is believed to have medicinal properties - being good for the lungs, for instance. Since the 16th century, fat from various animals, including dogs, was used as part of folk medicine, and since the 18th century, dog fat has had a reputation as being beneficial for the lungs. It is worth noting that the consumption of such meat is considered taboo in Polish culture, also making lard out of dogs' fat is illegal. In 2009, a scandal erupted when a farm near Częstochowa was discovered rearing dogs to be rendered down into lard. According to Grazyna Zawada, from Gazeta Wyborcza, there were farms in Czestochowa, Klobuck, and in the Radom area, and in the decade from 2000 to 2010 six people producing dog lard were found guilty of breaching animal welfare laws (found guilty of killing dogs and animal cruelty) and sentenced to jail. As of 2014 there have been new cases prosecuted.
SWITZERLAND
Dogs, as well as cats, are eaten regularly by farmers in rural areas for personal consumption. While commercial slaughter and sale of dog meat is illegal, cultural attitudes toward slaughtering of animals for meat is traditionally liberal in Switzerland. The favorite type of meat comes from a dog related to the Rottweiler and consumed as 'mostbrockli' a form of marinated meat. Animals are slaughtered by butchers and either shot or bludgeoned.
In his 1979 book Unmentionable Cuisine, Calvin Schwabe described a Swiss dog meat recipe gedörrtes Hundefleisch served as paper-thin slices, as well as smoked dog ham, Hundeschinken, which is prepared by salting and drying raw dog meat.
It is illegal in Switzerland to commercially produce food made from dog meat, or to produce such food for commercial purposes.
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