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Este proyecto parte como solución a la cuarentena que estamos sufriendo, al tener Asma me veo totalmente forzado a trabajar dentro de casa. Siendo hiperactivo es una especie de condena. Siempre me gustó la idea de mezclar la fotografía con las diferentes artes. Lo que buscaba era lograr algo tridimensional en una bi-dimension y sugerir esa mirada microscópica o totalmente contraría, un escape al encierro, una cura a la cuarentena, al virus y a mí. Un escape abstracto al encierro mental…
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This proyect born as an answer to the quarantine, as an Asthmatic I'm really worried and forced to be inside home. I'm hiperactive too so been in this situation is a kind of confinement.
I always liked the idea of mix photography with diferents kind of visual arts. What I wanted was to get something tridimesional in a 2d image and sugest something microscopic or totally opossed like an abstract scape to the mental closure.
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Sometimes, you can see a face in the trees. And that's what we're talking about today in We're Here!.
I wasn't sure how I was going to do today's theme, since the heat and humidity were so high that there was one of those "hey, non-breathers, stay indoors as much as possible" warnings that I have to listen to since I'm an asthmatic. (I have the mildest form of asthma and even that can kill you. I can't even have the weak forms of something without it being a problem!).
Life Pre – Apocalypse
Rick and Shane were childhood friends, with Rick being the more subdued individual. He had few girlfriends during his years of high school, in contrast to Shane who was always the center of attraction to girls. He and Shane both went to college together for police administration and became sheriff deputies at the King County Sheriff's Department. He and Lori met at a young age and after dating for a short amount of time, married and had a son named Carl. They lived as a family in a typical suburban neighborhood.
As their son grew older, his and Lori's marriage became increasingly strained. He constantly distanced himself from her, hesitating to open up and absorbing himself in his work.
Season 1
"Days Gone Bye"
While on patrol one day, Rick tells Shane about how his relationship with Lori is going bad since the two don't communicate too much. They receive a call from another patrol car from a nearby town that are pursuing two criminals heading into King County. Rick and Shane, with the help of Leon Basset and Lambert Kendal, block the road that leads to King County.
They get into a shootout with the criminals as they crash their car before the roadblock, Rick is almost shot, but they manage to kill the two criminals. Due to miscommunication, they weren't aware that there was a third criminal inside the car, who manages to shoot Rick in the back. Shane instantly shoots the criminal dead, and then tells Leon to call an ambulance as he assists Rick. Some time later, Shane visits Rick in the hospital as he is still in a coma. He delivers flowers, but Rick's not conscious enough to be fully aware of what's going on.
"TS-19"
In the first days of the apocalypse, Shane goes to the hospital where Rick is to rescue him. He enters Rick's room and looks around for something he can use to carry Rick but an explosion occurs, prompting the lights to go out. As the devices shut off, Shane puts his head to Rick's chest and realizes he is not breathing anymore. Shane cries at the loss of his best friend, and after barricading the door, leaves the hospital without knowing that Rick is actually still alive.
Life Post Apocalypse
Rick regains consciousness in an abandoned hospital. He investigates the building and encounters his first undead group of zombies barred into a locked room, which is the hospital's cafeteria—as well as rows of bodies in body bags, in which some are on flatbed trucks. Having seen this, Rick is horrified and flees the hospital. In a nearby park, he encounters a severely deteriorated zombie with nothing left of her lower body but trailing bones and organs. Shaken, he returns to his home to look for his family. Unable to find any sign of them, he sits outside and is suddenly hit in the face with a shovel by a kid—Duane Jones—who initially mistakes him for a zombie.
Rick later wakes up tied to a bed. The kid's father, Morgan Jones, checks Rick for zombie bites or a fever, either of which could indicate that he is turning into a zombie himself. After deciding Rick is not a threat, Morgan frees him and shares what information he has regarding the zombie apocalypse. The following day, Rick tells Morgan that his family are missing and that they are most likely alive (based on family photos that had been taken from the house). Morgan and Duane tell Rick that they might have set off to Atlanta where the CDC has set up a quarantine zone. Rick takes Morgan and his son to his former Sheriff's headquarters, where the trio use the emergency generator to power up the station. They take hot showers and clean out the armory. As they depart, with Rick heading off to Atlanta while Morgan and Duane stay behind, Rick gives Morgan a rifle and a walkie-talkie and says he will broadcast every morning. Before he leaves, he encounters fellow officer Leon Basset a zombie and dispatches him. He then returns to the park where he encountered the badly decayed zombie, apologizes to it, and shoots it in the head.
While on his way to Atlanta, Rick sends out a broadcast via his radio. The transmissions are received by a camp located just outside the city, but they are unable to send a response to warn him of the situation in the city. Among the survivors are Rick's partner Shane, his wife Lori, and Carl. Rick later runs out of gasoline; he approaches an abandoned gas station, where he encounters a pre-adolescent female zombie, the zombie walks towards Rick so Rick shoots her. Unable to find any gas, he abandons his car on the highway and heads out on foot. He approaches a farmhouse, where the occupants are dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Rick finds a horse nearby and rides it to Atlanta, carrying the sack of guns from the police armory.
Rick arrives in Atlanta and finds the city in an extreme state of devastation. He then searches the streets on horseback, finding an overrun military blockade. Rick hears a helicopter pass overhead and tries to follow it, but rides straight into a horde of walkers. The undead swarm Rick's horse, toppling Rick and making him drop the sack of guns. While many of the zombies swarm around the horse, tearing it apart and eating it, Rick scrambles underneath an abandoned tank. With zombies crawling after him on both sides, Rick shoots several of them, then places the gun to his temple. Looking up, he sees an open hatch underneath the tank and crawls inside. The walkers surround the tank as Rick seals himself inside. After firing his revolver into the head of an undead tank crewman; therefore deafening him due to the confines of the M1 tank and then sealing the top hatch, Rick is safe—but trapped—in the tank. A voice comes over the radio sarcastically calling him, "dumbass."
"Guts"
The voice on the radio advises him to make a run for it while they are distracted eating Rick’s horse. Rick takes a gun and a grenade off the dead soldier in the tank then opens the hatch. He jumps from the tank and runs down an alley, shooting walkers as he goes. Quickly, he meets up with the person who radioed instructions named Glenn. Rick follows him to a ladder, which they climb to safety, and then down a staircase to an alley, which is free of all but a few walkers thanks to a bus blockade. When the two reach street-level, two other people wearing riot gear emerge and beat down the walkers. The group rushes inside a Bradbury’s department store, where Rick meets other survivors: Andrea, Jacqui, T-Dog and Morales. Outside, walkers press against the store’s front doors and the glass begins to crack
On the roof, Rick and the group find Merle Dixon — a middle-aged redneck—firing at walkers with a rifle. T-Dog chastises Merle for wasting bullets and attracting more walkers. Merle scoffs at him by saying taking orders from a “nigger” which sets off a fight between the two. Merle beats T-Dog then presses a handgun to his forehead, but Rick intervenes, hitting Merle with the butt of the rifle and handcuffing him to a pipe. “Things are different now,” Rick tells Merle. “There are no 'niggers' anymore, No dumb-as-shit white trash fools either; there's only white meat and dark meat it's US and the dead; we survive this by pulling together, not apart.” Morales tells Rick there is no refugee center, which was “a pipe dream.” They are with a small group of survivors staying outside the city, but T-Dog cannot reach them on the radio. With the streets no longer safe, Rick suggests they try to escape underground. Jacqui, who formerly worked in the city zoning office, says that the building might have access to the sewers.
Glenn and Morales head to the basement while Rick and Andrea stand guard at the front of the store. Andrea spots a necklace with a mermaid pendant. Rick encourages her to take it. As Andrea pockets the necklace, walkers break through the exterior glass doors and begin pounding on the interior doors. Morales and Glenn arrive to report that the sewer is not an option because of a walker feasting on a rat and the tunnel is barricaded by bars they can't get past.
Back on the roof, Rick spots a cube van at a nearby construction site. The ignition keys should be nearby, Rick theorizes, but they need to get past the walkers undetected. The group explains that if they hear you, see you or smell you, they eat you. Rick latches on to the scent idea. Wearing rubber gloves and rain jackets, Rick and Morales drag a dead walker in from the alley. After acknowledging the man’s lost humanity, that he used to be just like the rest of them, Rick grabs an axe and hacks apart the body. He and Glenn then smear the corpse’s guts on their jackets. Before leaving, Rick tosses T-Dog the key to Merle’s handcuffs.
Outside, Rick and Glenn shuffle through crowds of walkers unnoticed. A rainstorm then passes over them, washing the guts off their jackets. Their human smell unmasked, walkers immediately attack the two. Fighting them off, Rick and Glenn run to the construction site, hopping a fence that is blocking access. Once Glenn tracks down the key, he and Rick speed away in the van. Rick orders Glenn to radio the group to get ready for pick-up. To lure the walkers away, Glenn drives off in a red sports car, which Rick has hot wired after setting off its alarm. With the walkers lured away by Glenn, The group heads down while T-Dog debates reluctantly decides to try to free Merle but slips due to the wet roof. With nothing else he can do and Merle angry due to T-Dog dropping the key, T-Dog again reluctantly puts a heavy chain lock on the doors so the walkers won't get at him. T-Dog runs downstairs just as the walkers break through the glass doors of the department store. Rick pulls the van up and the group piles in just as walkers make their way through.Having escaped the chaos at the store,T-Dog admits to the others he dropped the key, leaving Merle trapped on the roof.
"Tell It to the Frogs"
Morales advises Rick not to dwell on Merle’s abandonment. When the van arrives at the camp, the group embraces with their families while Rick hesitantly stays in the car for a few moments. He later emerges, seeing Lori and Carl and the three of them share a tearful reunion.
Later, around a campfire, Rick describes the disorientation he felt waking up in the hospital. Lori explains she was told Rick would be transported to Atlanta, but it never happened. Rick thanks Shane for saving them. He volunteers to deliver the news to Daryl Dixon about his brother, as does T-Dog, who is wracked with guilt for dropping the key. Later on in their tent, Rick tucks Carl in and then crawls into bed with Lori. They reflect on past mistakes and the second chance they have been given. Lori returns Rick’s wedding ring, and the two make love.
The next morning, Rick tells Lori he plans to return to Atlanta for Merle. Lori is shocked, but they are interrupted by Carl’s screams. Finding Carl unscathed, Rick, Shane, Jim and Glenn run past him to a clearing where a walker is devouring a deer with crossbow bolts sticking out of it. The four men beat on the walker until Dale arrives and decapitates it. Daryl then emerges from the woods and laments that the walker ate his hunted dear. Finding the walker head still alive, Daryl fires his crossbow at it, then heads into camp looking for Merle. Shane tells Daryl that Merle did not make it back, Rick chimes in, confessing he left Merle handcuffed to the roof. Daryl pulls a knife, but Rick disarms him with the help of Shane who puts him in a sleeper-hold to restrain the violent hunter. With the door to the roof chained securely shut, Rick tells Daryl, Merle is likely alive, Lori then states that Rick is going back to Merle.
Back in his uniform, Rick prepares to leave with Daryl. Shane questions his decision to risk his life for Merle. Shane argues that they need everybody to protect the camp in case more walkers show up. What they really need, Rick contends, are more guns, which he would be able to retrieve from his dropped bag. Rick also needs to collect his walkie-talkie from the bag so he can warn Morgan away from the city. Shane gives Rick the last of his bullets for Rick’s revolver.
In Atlanta, Rick, Daryl, Glenn and T-Dog return to the department store. They cut through the chain on the stairwell door and emerge onto the roof. On the ground, a hacksaw sits beside a severed hand. Bloodied handcuffs hang from the pipe above.
"Vatos"
An enraged Daryl points his crossbow at T-Dog, but relents when Rick pulls his revolver. They then follow Merle’s trail of blood to a kitchen, where Sterno cans burn next to an iron steak weight crusted with skin—the result of Merle cauterizing his stump. Rick agrees to help Daryl search the streets for his brother. “Only if we get those guns first,” T-Dog says. Glenn outlines a plan to retrieve Rick’s bag: Daryl will watch his back from the store’s alley, while Rick and T-Dog cover a second alley two blocks away.
On the street, Glenn runs toward the tank. Back in the alley, a teenager named Miguel approaches Daryl. Daryl trains his crossbow on Miguel, who begins screaming. Glenn grabs the bag of guns—and Rick’s hat—then runs back toward Daryl. Rick and T-Dog, hearing Miguel’s screams, also head for the alley. Two men named Jorge and Felipe, who have also come for the guns, then jump Daryl. The men turn to Glenn and start beating him. Daryl then fires an arrow in Felipe’s butt. They throw Glenn in a car and drive off—leaving Miguel and the guns behind. Rick then takes Miguel and asks him about the men that he was with, Miguel refuses to speak to Rick. Daryl tries to tell Miguel that his brother's hand was a result of "the last guy who pissed him off" and throws the hand on Miguel as he starts to panic. Daryl then threatens to cut off his feet by telling he is "going to start with the feet this time". Rick fends Daryl off and asks Miguel that all he wants to do is work something out with his gang. Later on Miguel leads Rick, Daryl and T-Dog to an abandoned factory, where the leader of the group called “G” emerges. Rick proposes trading Miguel for Glenn. G demands the bag of guns, threatening to kill Glenn if they do not hand it over.
Rick then escorts Miguel into the warehouse carrying the guns on his back. Rick cuts Miguel loose and demands G hand over Glenn. Felipe and Miguel’s grandmother shuffles into the middle of the stand-off, asking Felipe for help with “Mr. Gilbert.” She notices Rick’s uniform and begs him not to take Felipe away. Rick tells Felipe’s grandmother that Felipe is helping him find a missing person. Abuela leads Rick into a nursing home auditorium, where several elderly people—and Glenn—are grouped around an asthmatic man. Felipe helps the man with an inhaler.
After giving them a few rifles, Rick, Glenn, T-Dog, and Daryl walk back to the cube van, but find it missing. Back at the RV, a walker tears into Amy’s neck. Rick, Glenn, Daryl, and T-Dog arrive and quickly shoot the remaining walkers.
"Wildfire"
Rick stares at a sunrise over Atlanta as he tries to reach Morgan on the walkie-talkie, discussing what has happened to him ever since they departed from one another. Rick, Lori, and Shane discuss how to handle Andrea as she continues to cradle Amy’s body. Rick tries to approach Andrea but she pulls a gun on him. Around the same time, Jim reveals his bite wound to the group. Rick thinks the CDC might be able to help Jim, and suggests relocating there. Shane however thinks the Army base in Fort Benning — 125 miles in the opposite direction—is a safer bet. Daryl heads toward Jim with his pickaxe and tries to take a swing. Rick points his gun at Daryl’s head and prevents him from taking action. Rick and Shane later dig graves near the campsite. A deeply frustrated Shane reminds Rick that he and the others who accompanied him to Atlanta to find Merle should've stayed so they wouldn't have lost so many people. Rick counters that without the guns he brought back, the losses might have been worse.
The survivors stage a funeral. Privately, Rick asks Lori if she blames him for not being there when the camp was attacked, and to support his decision to head for the CDC. She does not blame him exactly—not like Shane does—but she does not know if she can follow him to the CDC on blind faith. In the RV, Rick tells a feverish Jim they are going to get him help, but Jim is delirious. Outside, Shane asks Lori to convince Rick the CDC is a bad decision, cautioning her about choosing her marriage over peoples’ safety. When Rick emerges, Lori announces that they should follow Rick’s plan.
Rick, Shane and Dale depart to sweep the forest for walkers. Alone, Shane tries to convince Rick to change his mind. He's outraged when Rick appears to show a lack of compassion and gratitude for all he's done over the past few days, and for a brief few moments, aims his gun at Rick who's wandered off into the woods. Glaring, he drops the gun, and then notices Dale watching him. “Jesus,” whispers Dale. Back at camp, Shane announces that he thinks they should trust Rick’s instincts and those that agree would be leaving for the CDC in the morning. At dawn, Rick tries to reach Morgan to advise him of their plan. En route to the CDC, the RV’s radiator hose bursts. While Shane and T-Dog drive ahead to find a replacement, Rick checks on Jim, who is in agony. They say their goodbyes and leave him to die next to a tree at his request.
Rick’s caravan approaches the CDC, where hundreds of bodies lay dead on the ground. The group quietly approaches the building, which is locked and shuttered. As night time approaches the group begins to panic and Lori says that they can't be that close to the city after dark as walkers begin to rise. Rick catches sight of the security camera's movement but Dale thinks he "imagined it" and slams on the shutters, screaming for help as Shane drags him away. The shutters open at the last minute and drown everyone in light.
"TS-19"
Rick and the other survivors file into the CDC lobby as Dr. Edwin Jenner meets them at the door. Jenner agrees to allow them in—provided they all submit to a blood test. Rick agrees, and they follow Jenner to the building's basement control center. Later, the group feasts in the CDC cafeteria, jovially drinking wine and liquor, jubilant about finding a safe place. Jenner shows the group around the building, directing the children toward the rec room and imploring everyone not to waste electricity. Rick stumbles drunkenly into the control room, where Jenner is working. Rick thanks Jenner again. He admits to Jenner that he never let on to the others what he really thought, but he knew they were running out of options. Rick stumbles into bed with Lori and sees that she is been crying. He assures her she doesn't need to be afraid.
The next morning, when Jenner arrives, he leads the group to the control center, where he displays brain scans from "Test Subject 19," who was infected and allowed the process to be recorded. Jenner admits he does not know what the disease is or how to treat it, and that he's lost contact with other facilities. Rick, Shane, T-Dog and Glenn head to inspect the generators while upstairs, the building's air cuts off. In his office, Jenner stares at a photograph of a woman, asking her to understand that he did the best he could and hopes she would be proud of him. The panicked survivors confront Jenner, who explains the building is shutting itself down.
When the building runs out of power it will self-destruct—a "decontamination" protocol to keep dangerous infectious diseases from escaping. Jenner tries to convince Rick to accept his fate. Rick demands to know why Jenner stayed if he did not think there was any hope. "I made a promise," Jenner says, to his wife—Test Subject 19—to keep going as long as he could. She was one of the finest scientists in the world, if anyone could have done something about this, it was her. Jenner eventually opens the door, but maintains that they still won't be able to get past the lock-down upstairs. He shakes Rick's hand, pulls him close, and whispers into Rick's ear.
In the CDC lobby, the group finds the doors locked and pounds helplessly on the windows. Carol pulls the hand grenade that Rick found in the tank from her bag. Rick detonates the grenade, blasting out one of the glass windows. The survivors run to the cars. From inside the RV, Lori sees Dale and Andrea emerge from the building. Jenner and Jacqui hold hands and watch the others evacuate on the security monitor. The CDC erupts in a fiery explosion. Dale and Andrea rush to the RV. Shaken, Rick starts the engine, and the caravan drives away from the smoldering rubble.
Season 2
"What Lies Ahead"
Rick stands atop a roof in Atlanta, talking into his radio, addressing the static as if Morgan Jones is actually there, he tells Morgan how Atlanta isn't safe and the CDC was a dead end. The group is now heading for Fort Benning, he then signs off. The group finally leaves Atlanta, starting a new journey. As they continue South of Atlanta, they come across a large sum of parked and crashed cars, blocking their path, just as they begin navigating through, the radiator in the RV is blown. At first, everybody is concerned about being left in the middle of the nowhere, but soon they realize that they can scavenge supplies from the abandoned cars and also find a new radiator for the RV.
Rick and Dale keep watch as the group starts to find supplies. Dale spots a walker approaching from behind the cars, Rick prepares to shoot it with a sniper, but they soon realize that it's actually an herd of more than thirty walkers approaching. In danger, Rick silently orders the group to hide under the cars. After the herd pass, Sophia is attacked by two walkers and then runs into the wild forest, Rick in hurry runs after her, he tracks these walkers and finally reaches Sophia. He then tells her to hide in a tree and wait for him there, "If I don't come back, head back to the highway the same way we came, keep the sun on your left shoulder". Rick moved the walkers away from Sophia and then ended up killing them. After finding no Sophia under the tree, Rick head back to the highway, and much for his disgust, he discovers that Sophia didn't came back either, so she is lost in the woods.
Rick, Shane, Daryl and Glenn decide to investigate the area. Daryl is an expert tracker, so Rick decides to try to find Sophia with him while Shane and Glenn distract the rest of the group with simple tasks at the highway. Rick and Daryl keep tracking Sophia through the wildness, but they end up losing her trail. They came upon a walker, after killing it, Rick notices that it fed recently, so they decide to open his stomach to make sure he didn't bit Sophia. They return to the highway by the sunset, Carol curses Rick for leaving her daughter alone in the woods. By the next day, Rick and the rest of the group go tracking Sophia once again. They find a tent in the middle of the forest, but no signs of Sophia nowhere near it, a bell began to ring nearby, the group decide to follow the sound and they soon find a church. Yet again, no signs of Sophia, the sound of the bell was actually a timer.
Rick doubting his leadership and father-ship. He decides to split the group, Daryl leads a group back to the highway while Rick, Carl and Shane kept investigating the area for a little longer. Rick does something he admits he never done before, he enters the church and asks God to send him a sign that he will be able to find Sophia. Soon after Rick, Carl and Shane are in the forest once again, they find a deer and Rick tells Carl to go touch it. As Carl approaches it, they all hear a loud gun shot, and a bullet going through the deer and hitting Carl's chest.
"Bloodletting"
Rick runs with Shane and Otis through a field, he carries a shot and unconscious Carl in his arms. Otis tells Rick to keep running in this direction and he will find the Greene Family Farm, and he has to talk to a man named Hershel Greene. After reaching the farm, Hershel and his daughters put Carl on a bed and start to give him medical treatment. After explaining everything that happened, Rick decides he needs to get to Lori, to tell her what has happened, but Maggie Greene volunteers to find her and bring her to the farm instead. After removing one of the bullet fragments from Carl, Hershel informs that he needs medical supplies so he can remove the remaining fragments and close the bleeding, or Carl will soon die from blood loss. Rick volunteers to find the necessary supplies, but is replaced by Shane, who tells Rick that he needs to stay put for Carl. Otis also volunteers to go with Shane, trying to redeem himself to Rick and Carl. Later on, Rick and Hershel are having a conversation about the apocalypse, when Maggie arrives with Lori, who is shocked to see her son lying in a bed unconscious from a gunshot. Rick apologizes for letting this happen. After calming down, Rick and Lori have a conversation with Hershel about his experience to perform the surgery on Carl, but they are shocked when Hershel reveals that he is actually an veterinarian.
"Save the Last One"
By the evening, Rick and Lori meet with Glenn and T-Dog as they arrive at the farm, they give their regards to Carl. Having a discussion with Lori about their situation, Lori wonders whether Carl should even live, saying that it's better for him to leave this world instead of watching more people die, while Rick becomes deeply upset and wants a future for his son. They are happy when Carl finally awakens but soon goes into a seizure and their fear returns. Hershel gives them an ultimatum, Carl doesn't have more time left and they need to perform the surgery urgently. Shane miraculously returns with the supplies needed in time, but Otis didn't make it back. Rick is very grateful, unaware of Shane's lies about what truly happened to Otis. Hershel is able to perform the surgery and Carl is finally safe. After the moment of relief, Rick and Hershel comforts Patricia, Otis's wife, as Shane watches them from the hallway.
"Cherokee Rose"
Rick sits by Carl, and Carl wakes up, only to ask about Sophia. Rick tells him she's okay, even though she still is missing. Maggie shows Rick and Shane a map of the area, and Rick is happy that they finally can organize the search for Sophia. Hershel tells Rick that he donated too much blood for Carl and needs to rest, Shane also can't go around for too long since he is injured from his trip for the medical supplies. They decide to wait a day before going back to the search. Hershel and Rick are talking later on, and Hershel says he expects the Atlanta Survivors will leave once Carl is in fit condition and they find Sophia. Later on, Rick and Hershel are seen once again, having a discussion as to whether Hershel will reconsider. Hershel also reassures Rick that he is a commendable father after Rick confesses to having lied to Carl. Rick is at Carl's side at the end of the day again as he awakens, and they share some conversation. Rick reveals that he lied about Sophia being okay, and Carl forgives him. Carl jokes about being happy that he and Rick have been shot. Rick gives him his sheriff hat and tells him to rest some more as Lori walks in. They hug as Rick puts away his police uniform and badges.
"Chupacabra"
Rick is seen continuing the search for Sophia, laying out a map of the terrain and setting the group up in parties to go and continue looking for her. Jimmy approaches Rick and tells him that he wants to help and claimed that Hershel said it was okay for him to do so. He also allows Daryl to borrow one of Hershel's horses to help cover more ground to look for Sophia. Later, he and Shane are seen continuing searching the woods for her while discussing their old high school days and girls they liked. Shane then changes the subject and says that they are wasting time trying to look for Sophia since it's been several days since she was first originally lost and as a police officer, after 72 hours, the case gets colder (less likely to find the missing person). Rick and Shane head back to the farm where Rick asks Lori if Shane is correct in stopping the search. Lori convinces Rick otherwise comparing Sophia to if it were Carl that was missing and Rick decides to keep on searching, however, he is approached by Beth Greene, she says that Hershel wants to talk to him.
Rick talks to Hershel, who complains about Rick taking the young Jimmy out in the woods and also taking one of his horses without his permission, they agreed that Rick needs to control his people while Hershel controls his since Rick and his group won't be staying at the farm for very long anymore. Later, Andrea spots a walker approaching the farm and everyone is alerted and prepared to go kill it, when in fact they discover it was Daryl, covered in mud and blood after an accident with Hershel's horse; Andrea didn't notice it was him though, and shoots him anyway, grazing Daryl with a bullet. Rick and Shane helps Daryl back to the house and gets him medical attention from Hershel. Daryl reveals that he found Sophia's doll by the river, giving Rick even more hope of finding Sophia. After he joins everyone for a well prepared meal and has a quiet and awkward dinner with both his group and Hershel's group of people.
"Secrets"
Rick and Shane both continue to plan for the search for Sophia as he allows the training of the Atlanta survivors and Hershel's people with the usage of guns and weapons. He and Lori decide that Carl should begin to learn how to shoot now and joins everyone with practice. Lori later confronts Rick about how Hershel still wants everyone to leave the farm soon and begs him to get Hershel to change his mind. Later, Rick finds abortion pills in his tent, fearing for the worst, he goes in search of Lori and finds her by the dirt road. The two have another argument after Rick finds out that Lori is pregnant and how she tried to get it aborted. They argue and Rick tries to convince her that the baby is worth keeping and knows about her relationship with Shane, but he forgives her since at the time she thought he was dead.
"Pretty Much Dead Already"
During breakfast, Rick and the group finds out from Glenn that there are walkers locked in the barn. Rick is concerned about their safety, he wants to talk to Hershel about this, but Shane suggests that they open the barn and kill every single walker. After calming everyone down, Rick convinces the group to wait for him to negotiate with Hershel. Rick talks to Hershel about the barn and the possibility about having his group stay at the farm, during the conversation, Hershel says that he is not changing his mind about Rick leaving the farm, Rick responds that Lori is pregnant and they can't leave the farm, Hershel needs to reconsider. After leaving the house, Rick notices Shane inspecting the barn and tries to tell him that they just need more time to make a decision but Shane is insistent on either they clear out the barn to stay or let it be and leave the farm. Later, Rick and Andrea plan yet another search for Sophia when they are interrupted by Hershel when he asks for Rick's help with something.
While walking into the forest, with Hershel and Jimmy, Hershel says that if Rick and his group intend to stay, they have to handle walkers in his special way which is to trap and escort them back to the barn at the farm. Two walkers are stuck in the mud and Rick agrees and helps escort the two walkers back to the farm. As they approach the barn, Shane (who was giving the group weapons against Hershel's rules and preparing to kill the walkers in the barn) spots them, he explodes with anger and frustration and shoots the walker that Hershel is holding. Rick can't stop Shane because he is holding another walker, Shane opens the barn and release the walkers inside. The Atlanta group get in line with him to kill all the walkers as they pour out from the barn, Shane shoots the walker Rick is holding in the process.
As the Greene Family watches in horror, a last walker leaves the barn, and it's the reanimated Sophia. Everyone is shocked and saddened until Rick realizes what has to be done; he gets his gun, points it at Sophia's head and pulls the trigger.
"Nebraska"
After the barn massacre, Shane starts yelling at Hershel, blaming him about Sophia, Rick tries to stop him. Hershel tells the group to leave the farm immediately. Rick then becomes angry at Shane, because Rick had been handling the situation well before Shane ruined it, Shane calls Rick delusional and storms off. The group decides to bury Sophia, Annette Greene and Shawn Greene and burn the other walkers. Rick is disappointed since he got the group in danger looking for Sophia while she was inside the barn all the time. Everyone, except Carol, attends to the funeral of Sophia, Annette and Shawn. Later, after Beth goes into shock, the group discovers that Hershel is gone and finding his flask in his bedroom, Maggie suggests that he is at a local bar in town, Rick and Glenn decide to look for him. Rick has a conversation with Glenn about his romance with Maggie, telling him not to be afraid of telling her how much he likes her. As the night falls, they arrive at the town and find that Hershel is indeed drinking at the bar.
Rick tries to convince Hershel to go back to the farm because his daughter needs him, but he refuses, having lost all hope after the barn massacre. Hershel explains that he spent his whole life trying to raise his daughters to his beliefs only for Rick to show up and destroy everything. He says that Rick and his group are like a plague, and Rick insists that Hershel can't have lose all of his faith. After the conversation calm down, Hershel decides to go back to the farm with them. As the three are about to leave, two survivors, Dave and Tony, walk into the bar. They share a drink as Dave tells them of his journey across the country looking for a safe place, having found Fort Benning destroyed and mentions that Nebraska is a possible safe place. Dave tries to convince Rick and Hershel to let him and Tony move to the farm but they don't agree. The tensions begin to rise, Dave, after numerous failed attempts to convince Rick to let them join his group, draws his pistol. Rick quickly kills him with a shot to the head, and then turns and kills Tony.
"Triggerfinger"
After the killing Dave and Tony, Rick, Hershel, and Glenn are about to leave but instead get pinned down in the bar by three members of Dave and Tony's group: Nate, Randall, and Sean. Rick tells them that Dave and Tony pulled their guns out on them first, but the group begin to shoot. Rick tells Glenn to check the back exit. After hearing shots coming from the back, Rick asks Hershel to cover Glenn as they leave through the back door. Sean spots Glenn and starts shooting, just to get shot by Hershel in the chest, Rick and Hershel notice that Glenn is not moving, he says he thinks Glenn was hit. Rick finds out that Glenn is just frozen behind a dumpster and approaches him. Randall spots them from a roof and starts shooting at them. While they take cover, Nate appears in the street inside his car and tells Randall that the gunfire attracted walkers into the town, Randall tries to jump from the roof but fails, Nate apologizes and leaves town, leaving his friend behind. Rick decides to investigate and he discovers that Randall accidentally fell and impaled his leg on a fence spike. Rick, Hershel, and Glenn argue about saving him and how to do so. Hershel suggests to put him down from misery.
The walkers slowly begin to close in on them so they decide to try to amputate his leg, but do not have enough time. Before the walkers can devour Randall, Rick lifts Randall's leg off of the spike, tearing his calf muscle. Rick, Hershel and Glenn returns to the farm by the morning, with Randall blind folded in the backseat as a hostage. The group argues on what to do with Randall, Rick says that they will fix him up, wait for him to heal and then drop him off to defend himself. Shane thinks that he will tell his group where the farm is and this will start a war. Hershel reminds Shane that it is his farm and while he is there he needs to keep his mouth shut. Rick has his injuries tended by Anna and she expresses her sadness for the break up of his marriage with Lori, he notices that she has bruises on her face and arms from where Shane beat her up.
"18 Miles Out"
One week after the events of the previous episode, Rick and Shane drive down a country road. Rick stops the car short of their destination — 18 miles away from the farm — to confront Shane: Rick knows what happened with Otis, and he knows about Shane's affair with Lori and how they are still continuing it. Rick asks Shane if he believes Rick is unable to keep his family safe. "You can't just be the good guy and expect to live," Shane replies, "That is my lover, that is my son, that is my unborn child," Rick says. He would do anything for them. Rick opens the SUV to check on Randall, who's bound, gagged and blindfolded in the trunk.
Back on the road, Rick makes plans for the coming winter, explaining that they have to conserve ammunition and stockpile food. Shane listens passively, staring out the window at a lone walker ambling through a field. Rick drives past the 18-mile mark, looking to leave Randall somewhere he'll have a chance. He pulls up to a public works station surrounded by a fence. A walker in police uniform approaches. Shane draws his gun but Rick stops him. Rick cuts his finger and wipes blood on the fence. When the walker presses his face against it, Rick stabs it in the head. "Gun's quick, easy," Rick says, "but there are other ways to do this." A second walker in uniform approaches, and Shane follows suit.
After checking if the place is secure, Rick siphons gas as Shane examines the policeman's bodies, noticing they haven't been bitten. Rick points to scratches that likely caused their transformation. Rick and Shane drag Randall to the pavement. Rick drops a knife on the ground as he and Shane walk away, Randall begs them not to abandon him, trying to explain he's a normal guy. "I went to school with Maggie for God's sake!" he screams. Rick and Shane freeze. "He knows where the farm is," Shane speculates, drawing his gun. Rick tackles Shane as he pulls the trigger, forcing Shane to miss Randall. Rick argues he needs time to think about what to do. Shane counters that Randall could lead his people to the farm and accuses Rick of putting Lori, Anna and Carl in danger by sparing him. "I don't think you can keep them safe," Shane concludes. The two best friends begin brawling. Shane topples a motorcycle onto Rick, briefly trapping him. He goes to Randall and aims his gun, but Rick tackles Shane before he can fire. Frustrated, Shane grabs a wrench and hurls it at Rick. Rick dodges the wrench but it goes through a building window which causes dozens of walkers to begin pouring out through the broken window. Rick hides under a corpse as Shane flees the onslaught.
Rick empties his gun as walkers pile on top of him. Shane barricades himself in a school bus against the walkers. After getting the bodies off of him, Rick finds Randall trying to escape, they notice Shane trapped in the school bus, Randall complains that Rick can't save him after the beating they gave each other, Rick agrees and decides to leave Shane for the dead and he drags Randall to the SUV. From the school bus, Shane watches as his partner abandons him. Rick stops to take the weapons off the two dead policemen, but after looking at the corpses, he remembers about him and Shane being best friends before the apocalypse.
In the bus, Shane is losing ground to the walkers when the SUV bursts through a nearby gate. As Randall drives, Rick leans out the window telling Shane to run to the back of the bus as he shoots the walkers. Shane runs to the back of the bus and dives into the SUV, the three finally escape the public station. Back on the road, Rick and Shane restrain Randall and toss him in the trunk once again. Alone, Rick admits he'll likely kill Randall — but he's still going to think it over. "That is my wife, that is my son, that is my child," Rick repeats. "You wanna be with us, you gotta follow my lead." Rick returns Shane's gun to him. "It's time for you to come back," Rick says.
Four whole days since any running water, I think you can forgive me one more?! Much better on black I'd say.
I found myself a little waterfall today and when I got there, it triggered a memory from nearly twenty years ago. I suddenly remembered camping out next to these falls aged 17. I remembered the terror of my friend Eddie and I when we heard rustling and coughing outside the tent. I remember how neither of us dared to look out and sat awake, terrified for hours. I remember eventually opening the tent to discover an asthmatic sheep and feeling a bit silly.
But, I also remembered the hill behind this waterfall. I saw a steep track down from it that holds a greater significance in my memory. This was the place that made he hate goat's cheese.
Some years ago now when I could still do the uphill part, I was flying (not literally) down the track at a great speed on my bike. Clinging on for dear life, I felt the wind in my hair (that I had then) and the thrill of living on the edge. Right up until a great big dirty clod of sheep's wool blew into my mouth.
Travelling at great speed, I tried to release a hand to retrieve this foul oral invader, but to no avail. I was going so fast, and on such a steep slope that every time I tried for a second to loose my grip on the handlebar I felt the bike go out of control.
So, I tried to manoeuvre this foul wooly aberration from my mouth by spitting it out. Not good manners no, but with something revolting in your mouth, you'd do the same. The problem was the speed. With such a speed, the wind is not on your side when it comes to such a practice. Every time I half-spat out the offending article, it just blew straight back in.
The net result of all this was, I pretty much ended up chewing this nasty bit of animal hair. The taste of it filled my mouth (sorry, should have given advance warning to have a bucket on standby....) And I've never forgotten it.
Now, I know a sheep is not a goat, but I reckon if you lick one, you'd find that one tastes pretty much the same as another. And there is the dreadful memory of the taste of that 'animal essence' that is conjured up whenever I try goat cheese.
So, picture of the day and stupid tale of the day done in one fell swoop!
Este proyecto parte como solución a la cuarentena que estamos sufriendo, al tener Asma me veo totalmente forzado a trabajar dentro de casa. Siendo hiperactivo es una especie de condena. Siempre me gustó la idea de mezclar la fotografía con las diferentes artes. Lo que buscaba era lograr algo tridimensional en una bi-dimension y sugerir esa mirada microscópica o totalmente contraría, un escape al encierro, una cura a la cuarentena, al virus y a mí. Un escape abstracto al encierro mental…
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This proyect born as an answer to the quarantine, as an Asthmatic I'm really worried and forced to be inside home. I'm hiperactive too so been in this situation is a kind of confinement.
I always liked the idea of mix photography with diferents kind of visual arts. What I wanted was to get something tridimesional in a 2d image and sugest something microscopic or totally opossed like an abstract scape to the mental closure.
If you want to see more:
Sufjan Stevens @ Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Carrie & Lowell Fall Tour 2015 Setlist:
Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
Death With Dignity
Should Have Known Better
Drawn to the Blood
Stone
The Only Thing
Vesuvius
The Owl and the Tanager
Futile Devices
Fourth of July
All of Me Wants All of You
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Carrie & Lowell
Blue Bucket of Gold
Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Encore:
Abraham
The Dress Looks Nice on You
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Chicago (Acoustic Version)
Hotline Bling (Drake cover)
Sufjan Stevens and his band, the Illinoisemakers, at the Bluebird Theater in Denver on July 29, 2005.
When I was a child, I was sleepwalker. It was very challenging for my family because I had a tendency to leave home. Later as a Parisian woman, I was a night owl having a lot of fun. Then I become the mum of an adorable asthmatic little boy whose cough kept me away from a good night of sleep. So I got used to sleep a very few hours per night.
When I'm exhausted, see my yawning sleeping cats, makes me feel a bit envious.
It's decided, I will become a cat in my 'second life' !
HAPPY FURRY[ZZZzz] FRIDAY !
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Sufjan Stevens @ Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Carrie & Lowell Fall Tour 2015 Setlist:
Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
Death With Dignity
Should Have Known Better
Drawn to the Blood
Stone
The Only Thing
Vesuvius
The Owl and the Tanager
Futile Devices
Fourth of July
All of Me Wants All of You
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Carrie & Lowell
Blue Bucket of Gold
Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Encore:
Abraham
The Dress Looks Nice on You
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Chicago (Acoustic Version)
Hotline Bling (Drake cover)
When one is asthmatic, and goes for a run, do not leave your rescue inhaler at home on the window ledge. It will do you no good there.
When I was child, I spent a summer vacation with a grandfather.
and then I suffered from asthmatical bronchitis and spent such a loose summer.
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Mabou Coal Mines (Inverness County), N.S. - This place is two miles north of Mabou Inlet. An attempt was made to open a coal mine there in 1866 but owing to the lack of a good harbour little was done. A slope was sunk in 1899 and 186 tons of coal were produced in that year. In 1903 production amounted to 6,124 tons. By 1918 the Mabou Mines were closed.
- from "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada (1908)" - MABOU COAL MINES, a post and coal mining settlement in
Inverness County, N.S., on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 7 miles north of Mabou, a station on the Inverness & Richmond RR. The Mabou Coal Mining Company turns out, on an average, 150 tons of excellent steam-producing coal per day from a 15-foot seam, and employs 85 men. The village has 2 churches (R.C. and Pres.), 1 general store, grist and saw mills, and 1 lobster canning factory. The Mabou & Gulf RR. line (of 7 miles) connects the settlement with Mabou. The population in 1908 was 300.
A Postal Way Office at Mabou Coal Mines opened in 1865 it became a Post Office - 1 January 1876. Mabou Coal Mines became Mabou Mines - 1 September 1914. Mabou Mines closed - 2 September 1958.
/ MABOU • COAL • MINES / OC 10 / 03 / N.S. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (#2) is not listed in the proof book - it was most likely proofed c. 1900.
Large (R) in oval - registered marking in black ink
Paid the 7 cents registered letter rate...paying 2 cents forward letter rate + 5 cents for registration.
Mabou Coal Mines - partial red wax seal
Transit cancel - / HALIFAX & SYDNEY - R.P.O. / W / OC 12 / 03 / • / - (#MA - 129 / RF 120) - rpo cancel
Transit cancel - / ST • JOHN • N.B. / 8 / OC 13 / 03 / CANADA. / - cds cancel
Arrival cancel - / NEW YORK, N.Y. / 10 - 15 / 1903 / - REC'D. (4) REGY - / - double ring oval marking (pinkish red ink)
This registered letter was sent to - Himrod Manufacturing Co. / 14 & 16 Vesey Street / New York, N.Y. / USA
Himrod's Asthma Powder - A company by the name of Himrod Manufacturing Co., was located in Hoboken, N.J. and owned by Peter Himrod. The company made Himrod's Asthma Powder for the treatment of "Asthmatic Paroxysms" and "Paroxysms of Asthmatic Hay Fever". The medication came in a green tin with the dirctions for use that said to burn a small quantity on a plate or on tin enclosed, inhaling the fumes into the lungs... During attacks us half hourly and between attacks three times daily.
Link to - 1921 ad: Himrod's Asthma Powder - oldadsarefunny.blogspot.com/2012/08/1921-ad-himrods-asthm...
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Himrod's Asthma Powder. This remedy has been on the market for over 50 years, during which time the sale has gradually increased without the assistance of general publicity to any great extent. The conclusion must, therefore, be drawn that this remedy has sold on its own merit and by recommendation by a user to other sufferers from asthma, influenza, hay fever, nasal catarrh, etc. Himrod's Asthma Powder contains no heroine, cocaine, morphine nor any of their derivatives, nor any habit-forming drugs of any kind. Send for our pamphlet describing this old standard and containing many testimonials by users of Himrod's Asthma Powder. Himrod's Asthma Powder is sold in drug stores throughout the world. Himrod's Manufacturing Co. Jersey City, N.J. U.S.A.
The rarely photographed first batch of postwar deckers (302-311) delivered in 1948. Of these 305 was said to have been generally avoided by drivers, as a "poor puller" amongst a marque already known for an asthmatic performance! It did however receive the later unlined livery with the thick upper maroon band. Copyright thought to be Alan Cross.
Went out last night after noticing the beautiful sky again. I got a few of the harvesters working in the fields and noticed these two friends walking on the tracks west of town. There's a lot of haze in the air due to dust from the harvest as well as smoke from people burning leaves. Not so great for my camera or my slightly asthmatic lungs, but I love the effect it causes over the landscape.
Better viewed large on black
Este proyecto parte como solución a la cuarentena que estamos sufriendo, al tener Asma me veo totalmente forzado a trabajar dentro de casa. Siendo hiperactivo es una especie de condena. Siempre me gustó la idea de mezclar la fotografía con las diferentes artes. Lo que buscaba era lograr algo tridimensional en una bi-dimension y sugerir esa mirada microscópica o totalmente contraría, un escape al encierro, una cura a la cuarentena, al virus y a mí. Un escape abstracto al encierro mental…
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This proyect born as an answer to the quarantine, as an Asthmatic I'm really worried and forced to be inside home. I'm hiperactive too so been in this situation is a kind of confinement.
I always liked the idea of mix photography with diferents kind of visual arts. What I wanted was to get something tridimesional in a 2d image and sugest something microscopic or totally opossed like an abstract scape to the mental closure.
If you want to see more:
We decided not to risk the coffee at Betty’s, so we headed up Oxford Street, to the seedy, sunny side. We a found café, tucked in between a sex shop and a gay bar.
Impatient as always, he ordered at the counter, while I relocated the ashtray to another table.
The man at the next table was smoking. The man at the next table had blurry blue letters tattooed down his arm. Written vertically making it almost impossible to read, a typographical taboo. It said “Sheilas are good for”... and I couldn’t decipher the rest. I took a photo, so I could zoom in and read it later.
The coffees arrived. He had forgotten that I am drinking short blacks now, and had ordered me a cappuccino. I didn’t mind. The waiter assumed mine was the Mocha, so we swapped (like we always do) and I made the same joke I always make about him having the ‘girlie’ drink. And he didn’t laugh (like he always doesn’t).
He took a sip of his, while I played with the froth of mine, suspecting it to be too hot to drink.
“Try this.”, he said.
I looked up and saw he had a fine line of chocolate on his top lip, but I didn’t tell him.
“Why? Is it bad?” I asked.
“Just try it.” He said.
I did. It was steamy and sweet and tasted like dessert in cup. A kids drink for grown-ups. I returned to my cappuccino. It tasted like coffee, it tasted like full-cream milk and it tasted good.
The man at the next table had moved. Conscious of my scrutiny, he had moved to a table on the other side, but his smoke still managed to find me.
He wore a funny brown hat. I don't think he had any hair. He fidgeted and tapped his foot a lot. He smoked cigarettes, back to back. He looked around nervously (a lot). His skin was ravaged with acne scars. He looked like he’d had a hard life. He had a soft round pot belly that contradicted his attempt at appearing tough. There was blue plastic wrapped around his hand that made me think of a bandaged hand after a fist fight.
I wondered if he was a pimp or a drug dealer. I wondered if I’ve watched too many movies. I wondered if I was being too quick to judge. I wondered if I wonder too much.
The cigarette smoke worked its way down to the bottom of my lungs, and I started to cough. I am not an asthmatic, but I react badly to cigarette smoke, a problem that plagues me when I travel.
“You’re too sensitive.” he said.
“Its smoke.” I replied.
He read my thoughts.
“I don’t know how you are going to cope when you go back to Istanbul.”
“I’ll cope.” I lied.
I looked beyond him and saw that the tattooed smoking man had gone.
I wondered if the man’s mother had cradled him as a newborn. All pink and soft, all promise and potential. Did she look down into his bright little eyes and wonder what he would be when he grew up. Was he once someone’s little baby, someone’s little boy.
The tattoo on his arm said:
“Sheilas are good for blowjobs and screwing”
I wondered what men who had ‘what Sheilas are good for’ tattooed on their arms, are good for .
Then I gave up wondering.
The story continues here:
THE AQI ( air quality index ) in NEW DELHI at this
morment is 995.
" Extremely HAZARDOUS"
i had to leave Delhi one week earlier pay penalties to get a flight out because i was barely able to shoot 2-3 hours a day and then forced to twiddle my thumbs in safety inside a hotel the rest of the day. I am also an asthmatic!
They are warning chiildren and elderly to stay inside.
Yet more and more and more and more and more motorbikes and cars are seen every year spewing out black crap in the air.
The capital city of the worlds largest democracy
has no population control
nor pollution control and is deemed hazardous to your health.
i may not be able to visit much longer
thats the real bad news..........
New Delhi
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Folkloric
- Leaves as poultice for abscesses.
- Decoction of roots and leaves for fevers, kidney stones, and cystitis.
- Decoction of leaves used to induced diuresis for purpose of treating kidney stones.
- Sitz-bath of boiled leaves, 500 gms to a gallon of water, for rheumatic pains of waist and back.
- Used in upper and lower respiratory tract affections like sinusitis, asthmatic bronchitis, influenza.
- Applied while hot over the sinuses. Used for wounds and cuts.
Fresh juice of leaves to wounds and cuts.
- Poultice of leaves applied to the forehead for relief of headaches.
- Tea is used for colds and as an expectorant; likewise, has antispasmodic and antidiarrheal benefits.
Postpartum baths.
- In Vietnam, decoction of fresh leaves used for cough and influenza or as inhalation of vapour from boiling of leaves. Poultices of pounded leaves applied to hemorrhoids; an alcoholic maceration used as liniment for rheumatism.
- 3% ethanol solution used to soothe itching.
- In Thailand, dried leaves are chopped, made into cigarettes and smoked for treating sinusitis.
- For fever, leaves boiled and when lukewarm used as sponge bath.
- Decoction of roots used for fever.
- Decoction of leaves, 50 gms to a pint of boiling water, 4 glasses daily, for stomach pains.
- In SE Asia widely used for various women problems. Postpartum, leaves are used in hot fomentation over the uterus to induce rapid involution. Also used for menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, functional uterine bleeding and leucorrhea.
- Roots used for menorrhagia.
- Decoction of roots and leaves used for rheumatism and arthritis; also used for treatment of postpartum joint pains.
- Poultice of fresh leaves applied to affected joint.
- In Chinese and Thai medicine, leaves used for treatment of septic wounds and other infections.
- A sitz-bath of boiled leaves used in the treatment of lumbago and sciatica.
- In Chinese medicine, used as carminative, stimulant, vermifuge, expectorant, and sudorific.
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A bronze statue of William III of England stands on the south side of Kensington Palace in London, facing towards the Golden Gates. The statue was designed by Heinrich Baucke and erected in 1907. It was cast by the Gladenbeck foundry in Berlin and given as a gift by the German Emperor Wilhelm II to his uncle, King Edward VII. The statue has been a Grade II listed building since 1969.
The statue was created as one of five large statues of the Princes of Orange – the Oranierfürsten – commissioned by Wilhelm II and erected in 1907 on the balustrade of the terrace on the north side of the Berliner Schloss, beside the Lustgarten in Berlin. The statues were intended to illustrate the close relationship between the Dutch House of Orange and the German House of Hohenzollern, and they echo similar statues by François Dieussart erected by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, in the pleasure garden of the City Palace, Potsdam. Copies of each statue were also commissioned and presented as gifts: the originals were damaged in the Second World War and four were destroyed. (The statue of Maurice of Orange by Martin Wolff survived, and was displayed beside Humboldt Box.) Most of the copies have survived, including the statue in London.
The bronze statue is 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) high, with the subject depicted at larger than life size. He wears 17th-century military dress, including an ornate feathered hat, sword and cuirass, and high leather boots. The figure stands on a 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) Portland stone pedestal which was designed by Aston Webb, who would later create the Victoria Memorial in London.
The front of the pedestal bears the inscription:
William III / of Orange / King of Great Britain / and Ireland / 1689–1702 / Presented by William II / German Emperor and / King of Prussia / to King Edward VII / for the British Nation / 1907
A popular story states that the design of the character Captain Hook was inspired by the statue.
Heinrich Karl Baucke (born April 15, 1875 in Düsseldorf ; † April 12 or April 13 , 1915 in Ratingen ) was a German neo -baroque sculptor .
Life
Heinrich Baucke studied sculpture at the art academy with Karl Janssen from 1891 to 1900 . His first success was the bronze figure Victor in the Fistfight , which can now be seen in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . He settled in Düsseldorf as a freelance sculptor and became involved in the local “Association of Academic Sculptors”, which sought to represent the interests of Rhenish sculptors against competition from Berlin. In 1903 he moved to Berlin , where he carried out several commissions from Kaiser Wilhelm II , including the statue of Wilhelm III. from Oranien-Nassau on the pleasure garden terrace of the Berlin Palace . Heinrich Bauke died on April 12th or 13th, 1915 in Ratingen.
Works
1897: Bronze figure winner in the fist fight , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, replica in front of the Nationalgalerie Berlin
1900: Bust of the German Emperor Wilhelm I for the memorial in Rotthausen
1902: King Friedrich I statue, on the Neumarkt, Moers
1904: Statue of Electress Louise Henriette , wife of the Great Elector , in front of the castle , Moers
1907: Statue of Wilhelm III. from Oranien-Nassau , pleasure garden terrace of the Berlin Palace, Berlin (destroyed, a second cast is in Kensington Palace, London)
1909: Bronze statues of King Frederick I of Prussia and Queen Sophie Charlotte at the Charlottenburg Gate , Berlin
1909: Wilhelm Greef fountain as a monument to the seminar teacher and founder of the Moers men's choir, Moers Castle Park
Facade statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. at the town hall, Elberfeld (melted down)
Moltke and Bismarck busts, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , Krefeld
William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702. As King of Scotland, he is known as William II. He ruled Britain and Ireland alongside his wife, Queen Mary II, and their joint reign is known as that of William and Mary.
William was the only child of William II, Prince of Orange, and Mary, Princess Royal, the daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland. His father died a week before his birth, making William III the prince of Orange from birth. In 1677, he married his first cousin Mary, the eldest daughter of his maternal uncle James, Duke of York, the younger brother and later successor of King Charles II.
A Protestant, William participated in several wars against the powerful Catholic French ruler Louis XIV in coalition with both Protestant and Catholic powers in Europe. Many Protestants heralded William as a champion of their faith. In 1685, his Catholic uncle and father-in-law, James, became king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. James's reign was unpopular with the Protestant majority in Britain, who feared a revival of Catholicism. Supported by a group of influential British political and religious leaders, William invaded England in what became known as the Glorious Revolution. In 1688, he landed at the south-western English port of Brixham; James was deposed shortly afterward.
William's reputation as a staunch Protestant enabled him and his wife to take power. During the early years of his reign, William was occupied abroad with the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), leaving Mary to govern Britain alone. She died in 1694. In 1696 the Jacobites, a faction loyal to the deposed James, plotted unsuccessfully to assassinate William and restore the deposed James to the throne. William's lack of children and the death in 1700 of his nephew the Duke of Gloucester, the son of his sister-in-law Anne, threatened the Protestant succession. The danger was averted by placing William and Mary's cousins, the Protestant Hanoverians, in line to the throne after Anne with the Act of Settlement 1701. Upon his death in 1702, William was succeeded in Britain by Anne and as titular Prince of Orange by his cousin John William Friso.
ensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British royal family since the 17th century, and is currently the official London residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank and their two sons.
Today, the State Rooms are open to the public and managed by the independent charity Historic Royal Palaces, a nonprofit organisation that does not receive public funds. The offices and private accommodation areas of the palace remain the responsibility of the Royal Household and are maintained by the Royal Household Property Section. The palace also displays many paintings and other objects from the Royal Collection.
History
King William III and Queen Mary II
Kensington Palace was originally a two-storey Jacobean mansion built by Sir George Coppin in 1605 in the village of Kensington.
Shortly after William and Mary assumed the throne as joint monarchs in 1689, they began searching for a residence better suited for the comfort of the asthmatic William, as Whitehall Palace was too near the River Thames, with its fog and floods, for William's fragile health.
In the summer of 1689, William and Mary bought the property, then known as Nottingham House, from the Secretary of State Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea, for £20,000. They instructed Sir Christopher Wren, Surveyor of the King's Works, to begin an immediate expansion of the house. In order to save time and money, Wren kept the structure intact and added a three-storey pavilion at each of the four corners, providing more accommodation for the King and Queen and their attendants. The Queen's Apartments were in the north-west pavilion and the King's in the south-east.
Wren re-oriented the house to face west, building north and south wings to flank the approach, made into a proper cour d'honneur that was entered through an archway surmounted by a clock tower. The palace was surrounded by straight cut solitary lawns, and formal stately gardens, laid out with paths and flower beds at right angles, in the Dutch fashion. The royal court took residence in the palace shortly before Christmas 1689. For the next seventy years, Kensington Palace was the favoured residence of British monarchs, although the official seat of the Court was and remains at St. James's Palace, which has not been the actual royal residence in London since the 17th century.
Additional improvements soon after included Queen Mary's extension of her apartments, by building the Queen's Gallery. After a fire in 1691, the King's Staircase was rebuilt in marble and a Guard Chamber was constructed, facing the foot of the stairs. William had constructed the South Front, to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor, which included the Kings' Gallery where he hung many works from his picture collection. Mary II died of smallpox in the palace in 1694. In 1702, William suffered a fall from a horse at Hampton Court and was brought to Kensington Palace, where he died shortly afterwards from pneumonia.
Outside Kensington Palace stands a statue of Queen Victoria sculpted by her daughter, Princess Louise, to celebrate 50 years of her mother's reign. Victoria was born in the apartments of the Duke and Duchess of Kent (now the North Drawing room) and christened in the Cupola Room in 1819.
Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century. Today it is the official residence of Zara Phillips, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; the Duke and Duchess of Kent; and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent. It is often referred to as the Kensington House, rather than 'Palace.'
The original early 17th-century building was constructed in the village of Kensington as Nottingham House for the Earl of Nottingham. It was acquired from his heir, who was Secretary of State to William III in 1689 since the King wanted a residence near London but away from the smoky air of the capital because he was asthmatic. Kensington was at that time a village location outside London, but more accessible than Hampton Court. A private road was laid out from the Palace to Hyde Park Corner, broad enough for several carriages to travel abreast, part of which survives today as Rotten Row. The palace was extended by Sir Christopher Wren with pavilions attached to each corner. When Wren re-oriented the house to face west, he built north and south wings to flank the approach, made into a proper cour d'honneur, entered through an archway surmounted by a clock tower.
For seventy years Kensington Palace was the favored residence of British monarchs. Queen Mary died of smallpox in Kensington Palace in 1694. In 1702 William suffered a fall from a horse at Hampton Court and was brought to Kensington Palace, where he died shortly thereafter. After William III's death the palace became the residence of Queen Anne. Sir John Vanbrugh designed the Orangery for her in 1704 and a magnificent Baroque parterre 30 acre (121,000 m²) garden was laid out by Henry Wise. George I spent lavishly on new royal apartments from 1718. William Kent painted a staircase and some ceilings. In 1722 he designed the Cupola Room, the principal state room, with feigned coffering in its high coved ceiling. The last reigning monarch to use Kensington Palace was George II. For his consort, Charles Bridgeman swept away the outmoded parterres and redesigned Kensington Gardens in a form that is still recognizable today: his are The Sepentine, the Basin and the Grand Walk. After George II's death there in the palace in 1760, Kensington Palace was only used for more minor royalty, including the young daughter of the Duke of Kent who was living in the palace with her widowed mother when she was told of her accession to the throne as Queen Victoria. Queen Mary (grandmother of the Queen Elizbaeth) was born at Kensington Palace in 1867.
In 1981 apartments 8 and 9 were combined to create the London residence of the newly married Prince and Princess of Wales, Charles and Diana, and it remained the official residence of Diana after her divorce and until her death in 1997. Her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, went to local nursery and pre-preparatory schools in Notting Hill, which is a short drive away.
Este proyecto parte como solución a la cuarentena que estamos sufriendo, al tener Asma me veo totalmente forzado a trabajar dentro de casa. Siendo hiperactivo es una especie de condena. Siempre me gustó la idea de mezclar la fotografía con las diferentes artes. Lo que buscaba era lograr algo tridimensional en una bi-dimension y sugerir esa mirada microscópica o totalmente contraría, un escape al encierro, una cura a la cuarentena, al virus y a mí. Un escape abstracto al encierro mental…
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This proyect born as an answer to the quarantine, as an Asthmatic I'm really worried and forced to be inside home. I'm hiperactive too so been in this situation is a kind of confinement.
I always liked the idea of mix photography with diferents kind of visual arts. What I wanted was to get something tridimesional in a 2d image and sugest something microscopic or totally opossed like an abstract scape to the mental closure.
If you want to see more:
Este proyecto parte como solución a la cuarentena que estamos sufriendo, al tener Asma me veo totalmente forzado a trabajar dentro de casa. Siendo hiperactivo es una especie de condena. Siempre me gustó la idea de mezclar la fotografía con las diferentes artes. Lo que buscaba era lograr algo tridimensional en una bi-dimension y sugerir esa mirada microscópica o totalmente contraría, un escape al encierro, una cura a la cuarentena, al virus y a mí. Un escape abstracto al encierro mental…
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This proyect born as an answer to the quarantine, as an Asthmatic I'm really worried and forced to be inside home. I'm hiperactive too so been in this situation is a kind of confinement.
I always liked the idea of mix photography with diferents kind of visual arts. What I wanted was to get something tridimesional in a 2d image and sugest something microscopic or totally opossed like an abstract scape to the mental closure.
If you want to see more:
I came out of my soft shell, screaming
thrift store philosophy and cut-rate religion
I found my faith in the rusting of the human race
godless guns in the guise of soft schemes
drowning my downwardly mobile dreams
all the hills around here are one-way roads
I coast to the bottom on my brakeless bike
where red is the only colour of the tactless traffic lights
they tell me where I'm going, and it's nowhere fast
I learned that you can crash while standing still
I've done it so many times
going miles an hour in my own mind
when waking up is never enough
to save me from the harvest of sleeping
I wake up weeping when I should be reaping
but the room is too cold
that's my very first thought
of the naked hands my gloves forgot
to shelter away before I break in on the day
and find it already halfway stealing
shining down from the clear sky ceiling
deep lungs lunging to borrow my breath
say that life's not fair and neither is the air
ask an asthmatic, no really, do it
you'll get a whole new love for living cheaply
all you really need
is to breathe deeply
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SHATKARMA - JAL NETI
Jal Neti is a technique that was used by yogis to stay disease-free, and most importantly to use the breath well for their yogic practices without any blockages. Just how brushing the teeth is dental hygiene, the practice of Jal Neti is nasal hygiene. This technique uses water to purify and clean the nasal path, right from the nostrils to the throat.
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What do you need to do Jal Neti
-A Neti pot
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Benefits of Jal Neti:
-Daily practice helps maintain nasal hygiene by removing the dirt and bacteria trapped along with the mucus in the nostrils.
-It is beneficial in dealing with asthmatic conditions and making breathing easier.
-It reduces tinnitus and middle ear infections.
-It helps abate sinusitis or migraine attack.
-It can alleviate upper respiratory complaints like sore throats, tonsils, and dry coughs.
-It can clear the eye ducts and improve vision.
-Clearing of nasal passages helps improve the sense of smell and thereby improves digestion.
-It calms the nervous system and the mind. It also helps relieve stress and brings clarity to the mind.
-It soothes the sensitive tissues inside the nose, which can assuage about of rhinitis or allergies. mucus in the nostrils
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Jal Neti precautions:
-The nose should be dried properly after the process.
-People with high blood pressure should be careful during this part. If one feels dizzy while drying the nose, then it should be done standing upright.
-Like any other yogic practice, learn it from an expert practitioner.t might cause an infection.
-Like any other yogic practice, learn it from an expert practitioner.
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How to use essential oils?
How to use essential oils?
Essential oils, powerful concentrated vegetable energy, are true essences of well-being. They are good for the heart, by their beneficial odors, to the body, thanks to their specific virtues, and give pep to the skin. But beware, they are not used anyhow!
What are their characteristics?
Essential oils are volatile odorous substances contained in plants. They can come from flowers, leaves, fruits, bark, seeds and roots. They are extracted by steam distillation. The amount of oil obtained varies according to the plant of origin. For a liter of lavender, it takes forty kilos of flowers, and it takes one hundred kilos of rose petals for a bottle of 25 ml! This high concentration explains the power of essential oils and their price, often high.
How are they used?
Essential oils are used internally for therapeutic purposes, they act on viral diseases, destroy germs, fungi, infectious toxins and, externally for a global beauty (face, body, hair). They pass very easily through the skin, through the different layers to reach the bloodstream, in about twenty minutes, and act deep in the body. They also penetrate through the respiratory tract: inhaling their perfume provides a deep well-being. Essential oils are only used in very small quantities and always diluted, in the bath water (30 drops of essential oil in a bath of hot water) or in a essential oil, for a topical action.
Manual
Their power is such that they are not used on the skin, some of them can cause burns. They are diluted in essential oils, sweet almond, hazelnut, sesame. Rich in vitamins and unsaturated fatty acids, they moisturize and nourish the skin deeply, and allow the penetration of the beneficial assets of essential oils in the epidermis and dermis.
Caution: Test your wrist. Dilute 1 drop of the essential oil of your choice in 5 drops of essential oil, apply and put on a bandage, leave for several hours and observe the reaction. If you have any irritation, give up.
Action
Face: Essential oils, real boosters of the skin, block certain processes of cell degradation. A daily massage, before the application of the care cream, stimulates cell renewal and restores radiance and suppleness to the skin.
Body: The essential oils are massaged on certain parts of the body, to treat specific problems, to stimulate the microcirculation and to facilitate the water loss (cellulite, heavy legs), or on the whole of the silhouette to improve the elasticity and the firmness of the skin,
Hair: A good friction with essential oils, soothing, stimulating, activates microcirculation, relaxes the scalp and restores tone to the hair.
What are their virtues?
Anti-stress, antiradical, anti-cellulite, toning, relaxing, sanitizing.
Lavender, bactericidal, rebalance dry and irritated skin.
Geranium, toning, soothes sensitive skin.
The carrot, anti-oxidant, revitalizes dry and tired skin.
Cypress, venous tonic, calms congested skin.
Patchouli, healing, reduces acne.
The lemon, astringent, purifies oily skin.
Roman Chamomile, anti-inflammatory, is suitable for all skin types.
Rosemary, toning, restores radiance to dull hair.
Eucalyptus, antiseptic, cleanses the scalp.
Peppermint, stimulating, restores its vigor to the hair.
Sage, tonic, facilitates the regrowth of hair.
Oregano, anticellulite, refines the silhouette.
Juniper, draining, gum cellulite.
Orange, antispasmodic, relaxes the body.
Sandalwood stimulates and tones the body.
Convenient :
They are kept between 12 and 18 months, protected from light.
Choose them of good quality, undenatured by synthetic components or cut with oils or mineral spirits, read the label well, the mention “first cold pressed” must be mentioned. Why ? because hot pressing causes essential oils to lose their nutrients (fatty acids and vitamins). Look for the organic label and the HEBBD label (botanically and biochemically defined essential oils). Buy your essential oils in health food shops and natural products or in some pharmacies specializing in aromatherapy. There are also some websites but nothing beats the advice of the professional.
recommendations
Do not leave a bottle of essential oil within reach of children.
Strictly observe the indicated dosages.
If, by accident, you project the essential oil in the eye, do not rinse with water but with the first fat that falls on your hand.
Precautions
– Some essential oils are photosensitizing, (bergamot, lemon, cedar, lavender), it is absolutely not recommended to expose to the sun after their application, to avoid stains on the skin.
– Essential oils are not used in cases of allergies, antecedents of eczema, urticaria, allergic rhinitis (stuffy nose). To avoid absolutely in asthmatics, nothing but the smell can cause a crisis.
– Pregnant women should seek advice from their gynecologist.
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If anyone of you in Chicago are so inclined, I'll be tabling at the Chicago Zine Fest with the AMAZING Lilli Carre from 10am to 5pm TODAY!
I'm bring my minicomics, a new silkscreen print, some Asthmatic Kitty totebags, hand decorated matchbooks, cherry/walnut/prune brownies, earl grey madeleines with a yuzu glaze, and VEGAN huckleberry lime cupcakes!
10-5! Come over!
Conaway Student Center
1104 S. Wabash
Chicago, IL
HBW!
I was walking through the woods in the evening this past Sunday, and loved the way the light was filtering through the trees and the leaves. Then I saw this particular tree, and was delighted by the magical sight. I'm asthmatic and suffer from seasonal allergies, but despite that, I stood in awe as the sun lit a huge amount of falling tree pollen, lighting it and even causing colorful sparks of light off of it. You can see the illuminated and multi-colored pollen in this shot, but it really doesn't do it justice. I can only call this one faeriedust...
In January 1999 the Gospel Oak - Barking line was still being operated by clapped out first generation DMUs.
A class 117 rattles asthmatically out of Crouch Hill in a haze of exhaust.
Este proyecto parte como solución a la cuarentena que estamos sufriendo, al tener Asma me veo totalmente forzado a trabajar dentro de casa. Siendo hiperactivo es una especie de condena. Siempre me gustó la idea de mezclar la fotografía con las diferentes artes. Lo que buscaba era lograr algo tridimensional en una bi-dimension y sugerir esa mirada microscópica o totalmente contraría, un escape al encierro, una cura a la cuarentena, al virus y a mí. Un escape abstracto al encierro mental…
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This proyect born as an answer to the quarantine, as an Asthmatic I'm really worried and forced to be inside home. I'm hiperactive too so been in this situation is a kind of confinement.
I always liked the idea of mix photography with diferents kind of visual arts. What I wanted was to get something tridimesional in a 2d image and sugest something microscopic or totally opossed like an abstract scape to the mental closure.
If you want to see more:
A totally black bird with a parrot like beak and some shiny feathers on breast and tail. It is calling its own name (Ani, in origin an indian name)
They walking, jumping or running to search for grasshoppers. It also likes the ticks from the back of the cows and it seems to eat the real hot peppers
Very disturbing!!:
It is an old Surinamese belief that (disagreeable) meat of the ani is a good cure for asthmatic sufferings. The patient was not supposed to know what he was eating, otherwise the medicine would not be effective (or maybe he would not eat it).
www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/museums-galleries/blog/2...
Gianni Jetzer, the curator for What Absence Is Made Of, assembled several familiar works from the collection, including Christian Boltanski’s haunting “Monument” (1989), which memorializes the Holocaust without naming the victims in the photographs he uses. Hans Haacke’s “Condensation Cube” (1963) and Damien Hirst’s “The Asthmatic Escaped II” (1992) showcase how loss and limitation have evolved as sculptural themes over generations.
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“What Absence Is Made Of” features a wide array of artworks that deal with the interplay of physical presence and dissipation, organized loosely into “The Dematerialization of the Art Object,” “The Body in Pieces,” “Close to Nothing,” “Memento” and “The Posthuman Body.”
Highlights include Hans Haacke’s famous 1963 “Condensation Cube,” composed of a transparent acrylic cube containing water, producing random droplets of vapor.
Ohinemutu is a charming ramshackle lakeside Maori village in Rotorua, which is New Zealand’s most dynamic thermal area. You know when you’ve arrived in Rotorua as your nostrils slowly become filled with sulphur-rich, asthmatic air reminiscent of gone-off eggs.
The skies were threatening when we arrived early one morning at Ohinemutu, but for me that just added to this shot as it produced the dramatic blue/grey/black in the clouds which coupled with the rising steam from the thermal pool in front of St Faith’s Anglican Church just added to the mood.
We had to wait for the Church to be opened but when we went inside we found it intricately decorated with Maori carvings, and stained glass windows. One of which features an image of Christ wearing a Maori cloak and it is designed to appear like He is walking on the waters of Lake Rotorua. No photos were allowed in the Church so unfortunately I couldn’t capture it.
"Oenothera is a genus of about 125 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to North and South America. It is the type genus of the family Onagraceae. Common names include evening-primrose, suncups, and sundrops.
The species vary in size from small alpine plants 10 cm tall (e.g. O. acaulis from Chile), to vigorous lowland species growing to 3 m (e.g. O. stubbei from Mexico). The leaves form a basal rosette at ground level and spiral up to the flowering stems; the leaves are dentate or deeply lobed (pinnatifid). The flowers open in the evening, hence the name "evening-primrose", and are yellow in most species but white, purple, pink or red in a few. Most native California species are white. Th e fragrant evening-primrose Oenothera caespitosa, a California species, first blooms white but turns pink or light magenta.
Evening-primrose was originally assigned to the genus Onagra, which gave the family Onagraceae its name. Onagra (meaning "(food of) onager") was first used in botany in 1587, and in English in Philip Miller's 1754 Gardeners Dictionary: Abridged. Its modern name Oenothera was published by Carolus Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae. William Baird suggests that since oeno means "wine" in Greek it refers to the fact that the root of the edible Oenothera biennis was used as a wine flavor additive.
Cultivation and uses
Young roots can be eaten like a vegetable (with a peppery flavor), or the shoots can be eaten as a salad. The whole plant was used to prepare an infusion with astringent and sedative properties. It was considered to be effective in healing asthmatic coughs, gastro-intestinal disorders, whooping cough and as a sedative pain-killer. Poultices containing O. biennis were at one time used to ease bruises and speed wound healing. One of the common names for Oenothera, "Kings cureall", reflects the wide range of healing powers ascribed to this plant, although it should be noted that its efficacy for these purposes has not been demonstrated in clinical trials.
The mature seeds contain approximately 7-10% gamma-linolenic acid, a rare essential fatty acid. The oil also contains around 70% linoleic acid[9. The O. biennis seed oil is used to reduce the pains of premenstrual stress syndrome. Gamma-linolenic acid also shows promise against breast cancer.
Evening-primroses are very popular ornamental plants in gardens. For propagation, the seeds can be sown in situ from late spring to early summer. The plant will grow successfully in fertile soils if competing species are kept at bay. Evening-primrose species can be planted in any ordinary, dry, well-drained garden soil (preferably sandy loam) in an open site that is sunny to partly shady. They are fairly drought-resistant.
The first plants to arrive in Europe reached Padua from Virginia in 1614 and were descr ibed by the English botanist John Goodyer in 1621. Some species are now also naturalized in parts of Europe and Asia, and can be grown as far north as 65° N in Finland. The UK National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, based at Wisley, maintains an Oenothera collection as part of its National Collections scheme. " wikipedia.org
Este proyecto parte como solución a la cuarentena que estamos sufriendo, al tener Asma me veo totalmente forzado a trabajar dentro de casa. Siendo hiperactivo es una especie de condena. Siempre me gustó la idea de mezclar la fotografía con las diferentes artes. Lo que buscaba era lograr algo tridimensional en una bi-dimension y sugerir esa mirada microscópica o totalmente contraría, un escape al encierro, una cura a la cuarentena, al virus y a mí. Un escape abstracto al encierro mental…
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This proyect born as an answer to the quarantine, as an Asthmatic I'm really worried and forced to be inside home. I'm hiperactive too so been in this situation is a kind of confinement.
I always liked the idea of mix photography with diferents kind of visual arts. What I wanted was to get something tridimesional in a 2d image and sugest something microscopic or totally opossed like an abstract scape to the mental closure.
If you want to see more:
well ive been tagged again! sorry had to tag 15 people!! but only 13 for me! haha
now i must include 15 things you dont know about me!! :)
LukeNotJohn-tagged me! :] www.flickr.com/photos/32341004@N03/4238506476/
sorry for the totally un-creative picture!! :(
1. My favorite animal is THE NARWHAL! :] they are amazing..and NOT a mystical creature!!
2. I really wish i could play an instrument and could be as cool as people who do! :)
3. I just turned 16 today!:} woohoo
4. i take WAAY to many pictures of myself.. well u may know that! :)
5. I really like rainbows! :] the colors and stuff :}
6. my ipod is my life! :} LOVE IT <3
7. MY most played song is When im gone by eminem and .. Next to you by Mike jones.. then all the never shout never songs! and THE FAINT! HAHA
8. im super jealous of my friends..
9. im an asthmatic.. i sound like Darth Vader! and i have allergies!
10. I HATE the smell of BANANAS!
11. I can pretty much dance to any music and look like an idiot.. even though i know wat im doing! haha :]
12. If i could change my name.. it would be to like.. MUFASA.. or something cool like.. DA-RELLL or DE-DONTE OR something gangsta :]
13. I LOVE NEON THINGS! :] THEy draw my attention!
14. my most used words in my life are: OH MY LANTA! hah :] and.. HOLY MAMBA! :)
15. LAST !! umm... i DO NOT THINK that man really landed on the moon.. im sure people will think im crazy for that!! :D
Valdemossa jest małym, malowniczym miasteczkiem w górach Tramuntana na Majorce; słynny pałac królewski i kartuzjański klasztor górują nad osadą od setek lat.
W 1309 roku, król Majorki Jakub II postanowił wybudować w Valdemossie pałac, który miał mu służyć jako myśliwska rezydencja. Niedługo monarcha cieszył się postępem prac, albowiem zwolnił tron i otworzył spadek już dwa lata później... Od roku 1311 prace kontynuowane były przez jego syna i następcę, króla Sancho. Prowadzenie budowy zlecono burmistrzowi Valdemossy i równocześnie mistrzowi murarskiemu, Guillemowi Cerdà. Pałac rozbudowano znacznie w stosunku do pierwotnych zamierzeń, wyposażono go także w bieżącą wodę. Ukończona niebawem letnia rezydencja królewska stała się znana jako Pałac Sancho. Sam król, gdy tylko nie przebywał na dworze w Palmie, z radością spędzał w niej czas oddając się polowaniu i sokolnictwu - na ile pozwalały mu na to jego dolegliwości astmatyczne (które zresztą ostatecznie zmogły władcę w 1324 roku).
Po śmierci Sancha, pałac nadal służył jako rezydencja królewska ostatniemu już władcy królestwa, Jakubowi III.
W 1399 roku król Aragonii Marcin I podarował królewskie posiadłości w Valdemossie, w tym także i pałac, mnichom z zakonu kartuzjanów, którzy żyli w miasteczku przez następne 450 lat.
Valldemossa is a delightful village tucked into the Serra de Tramuntana in Mallorca, and its famous monastery and palace have stood guard over the village for hundreds of years.
In 1309, King James II ordered to build the palace in Valdemossa as his hunting residence. However, he died two years later, and the works were continued by his son and successor Sancho. The construction and expansion were commissioned to master builder Guillem Cerdà, a bricklayer and mayor of the town, who expanded the palace and installed running water.
The palace in Valdemoss became known as Sancho's Palace. When the King was not holding court he was out in the mountains enjoying hunting and hawking but from time to time his asthma limited his activities (asthmatic troubles eventually led him to death in 1324).
After Sancho died, the palace still served as a royal summer residence for the last king of Mallorca, James III, until the ultimate end of the Kingdom.
In 1399, King Martin of Aragon gave the royal possessions in Valldemossa, including the palace, to the Carthusians so they could found their own monastery on Mallorca in an atmosphere of enclosure. They lived in silence in the village for the next 450 years.
Seventy three-year-old Marthina Oyugi lives in Alego village, Nebbi district. Since she lost her husband 22 years ago, Marthina has struggled to get by – from food to clothing to educating her only son, without any reliable source of income.
In 2012, Marthina was enrolled on the UK aid social protection programme targeting older persons. Under this scheme, older persons receive a monthly grant of 25,000 Uganda shillings (about 6 GBPs), which has brought fundamental change to her life and restored her hope for the future.
“When I received the first money, I used part of it to buy cotton seed and part for hiring labour to open up my land. From the first harvest, I sold the cotton and earned Ushs 230,000 (about GBP 52). With savings from my subsequently monthly benefits, I had in total saved up Ushs 320,000 (about GBP72) with which I bought a calf.”
UK aid is currently reaching 128,000 senior citizens with social grants, many of whom rely on the cash transfer to change their poverty status and provide opportunities for a better future for children in their care. The programme is expected to reach 226,000 older persons by 2020.
As she was able to hire labour to till her land, Marthina has also improved her food production by growing cassava and sorghum – which in turn has improved her food security. She has also bought 3 goats – which have since multiplied to 5 – from her subsequent benefits. The goats serve to multiply and grow her income, but also as income security. Marthina’s life is now more predictable, secure and more productive - getting out of abject poverty is for her now in sight.
“Without this grant, my life and my son’s future would have been a down slope to poverty and hopelessness,” she says.
“I am even more grateful to this programme because it has enabled me to push my son through school. With part of this money, I made small deposits at the school so that my son stayed at school. Otherwise he would have been sent away for lack of fees.”
Marthina, an asthmatic, is also now able to stock up on her asthma drugs, a thing she struggled to do in the past.
Picture: Jesca Aguti/ESP
This figure papercraft is Patchouli Knowledge, a very smart, anemic and asthmatic magician from the Scarlet Devil Mansion, based on the Touhou Project series, the paper model is created by Nobi.
For further information and another papercraft template please click on: Touhou Project - Patchouli...
www.papercraftsquare.com/touhou-project-patchouli-knowled...
VADER: "Is this someone's idea of a joke?"
ROCKET: "Hey, I'm RIGHT HERE, you overgrown asthmatic vacuum cleaner! You wanna piece of this?!?"
GROOT: "I am Groot."
Haven't done a Flickr Friday in a while, but this week's theme gave me the excuse to bust out a few of my favorite 1/6 figures for a combo photo shoot. Vader may have the Force, but Rocket's got force of personality. Who will win?
OK, I guess that's not much of a question. But that wouldn't stop Rocket from getting in Vader's face anyway.
And, of course, the ultimate Force here is Disney, because they own both of these franchises.
Darth Vader by Sideshow Toys (2013 version)
Rocket and Groot by Hot Toys
Weapons cases by GoGoGo Toys
Sufjan Stevens @ Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Carrie & Lowell Fall Tour 2015 Setlist:
Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
Death With Dignity
Should Have Known Better
Drawn to the Blood
Stone
The Only Thing
Vesuvius
The Owl and the Tanager
Futile Devices
Fourth of July
All of Me Wants All of You
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Carrie & Lowell
Blue Bucket of Gold
Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Encore:
Abraham
The Dress Looks Nice on You
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Chicago (Acoustic Version)
Hotline Bling (Drake cover)
Sorry for not visiting you all for a while, Just taking a break to take care of my sick son. He is one of those kid with fragile lung, asthmatic, and easily affected by virus...Hopefully he will be stronger with aged.
HBW All
Salam Takziah Buat Keluarga Kamal Hussin. Yes, the third victim of the H1N1 is my friend, Joyful guy, great friend, Talented Architect, Semuga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas rohnya. Al-Fatihah.
Please, Practice the good hygiene. We will never now what we touch on our daily routine.
Take Care.
Explored. Thank you my friends, thank you.
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