The Design Disease
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“I'm not going down on my knees begging you to adore me
Can't you see it's misery and torture for me?
When I'm misunderstood, try as hard as you can
I've tried as hard as I could
To make you see
How important it is for me
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
Understand me…”
The beautiful cover by Hooverphonic: youtu.be/J3OMKTQK8-8
Welcome me back! Storm Eowyn managed to take out our Wi-Fi router last Saturday and it has taken until this morning, when the new router arrived, to get connected again. It is quite frightening that we are so dependent on such technology. So in the interim I have been getting on with the filing as both my husband and I are also recovering from the usual winter virus. He's having a bit of a boomerang return so was off to the doctor yesterday (he has chronic lung disease so is vulnerable)
Asian elephant***Elephas maximus
Tierpark Hagenbeck
Hamburg
female Anjuli, born July 2015
Mother: Yashoda Father: Gajendra
male Kanja, born January 2016
Mother: Kandy Father: Gajendra
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ANJULI gestorben heute, 13.06.2018
KANJA gestorben 08.06.2018
Beide Elefanten Kinder starben an der Viruserkrankung Elefanten Herpes Virus EEHV 1
Both elephant children died from the viral disease elephant herpes virus EEHV 1
Rest in Peace my lovely Babys :'(
2024 Alzheimer's Disease Facts & Figures
www.alz.org/media/documents/alzheimers-facts-and-figures.pdf
Wikipedia
Alzheimer's disease
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer's_disease
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
If my last Flickr photo - the owl - was the sublime, then this can only be the grotesque.
The (in)famous Northern Pulp Mill at Abercrombie, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
Two Icelandic subjects in this photo: horses and abandoned farms.
The Icelandic horse is most famous for its fifth gait or tölt (gait). This fifth gait is unique to the Icelandic horse and provides a more stable and even pace, with three of the animal's legs touching the ground at the same time. You can then drink a cup of coffee without spilling it. Horses are not allowed to be imported into Iceland to prevent diseases. And once an Icelandic horse has been outside Iceland, it is not allowed to return.
And then the abandoned farms. More and more farms are empty and falling into ruins. I always find it a sad sight. There are several reasons, but the most important is that you have to work hard for a low income and especially that there are no successors. As in many countries, young people here also move to the city because that is where the employment opportunities are. Too bad for the small villages too.
Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease
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Dutch Elm Disease. I think this is the artistic, spider-like damage caused by the larvae of the elm bark beetle.
From the Woodland Trust - This now infamous tree disease has killed millions of elm trees in the UK over the last 50 years. It’s changed parts of our landscape forever. Dutch elm disease is caused by the fungus Ophiostoma novo-ulmi which is spread by elm bark beetles. It got its name from the team of Dutch pathologists who carried out research on the disease in the 1920s.
What I like Crimean climate for is its being very dry, that is why it is so easy to endure summer heat there. Moreover, that dryness is a good cure for people with lungs diseases
Creake Abbey is just outside the village of North Creake, a few miles south of Burnham Market in Norfolk. The vast majority of our abbeys and monasteries were destroyed in the Dissolution by King Henry VIII in the mid-late 1530s. But Creake Abbey, founded by the Augustinians as a priory in the 12th century, had come to grief long before that. A fire swept through the abbey in 1483, damaging the church and several of the other buildings beyond repair.
Subsequently, although extensive rebuilding of the quire and presbytery had made good progress an outbreak of the 'sweating sickness' wiped out the monastic community in 1506, the abbot himself being the last to die. This was a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. The disease was last recorded in 1551.
The abbey site and estate was given to Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1507, and ended up in the ownership of Christ's College, Cambridge. The abbey ruins are Grade I-listed and in the care of English Heritage. They are freely accessible to the public.
Yeah, now the work force is disgusted, downs tools, walks
Innocence is injured, experience just talks
Everyone seeks damages, everyone agrees that
These are classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless, theology is worse
History boils over, there's an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean "industrial disease"
The Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) is a fascinating and unique species of duck that is native to the Hawaiian Islands. This small, colorful duck is known for its distinctive plumage, which includes a green head, brownish-gray body, and bright orange legs and feet.
This bird is also known for its remarkable conservation story, having been brought back from the brink of extinction in the 20th century through a combination of captive breeding and habitat restoration efforts. Today, the Laysan duck is considered a conservation success story, but its populations remain vulnerable to threats such as habitat loss, predation, and disease.
The Laysan duck is a social bird that typically lives in small groups or pairs. They are active during the day and feed on a variety of aquatic invertebrates, seeds, and vegetation. During the breeding season, males will perform courtship displays, including head bobbing and vocalizations, to attract females.
The female will then build a nest on the ground, usually near water, and lay a clutch of 4-6 eggs. Both parents will take turns incubating the eggs and caring for the ducklings once they hatch. They are also a strong flier and can migrate short distances between islands, but is primarily a non-migratory bird.
Taken with my Nikon D850.
House Finches are very susceptible to a certain avian respiratory disease. I've seen a lot of sick ones. But this year's crop seems strong and healthy. So glad to see it, but not aware of what may have changed.
The vet said it squawk should pass squawk and it is not uncommon squawk ..then told me to go and sit on the fence and enjoy my seed..LOL squawk.
Alright brian go and take 3 asprin and lie down HAHAHAHAHA squawk !!!!!
... and there it was, the spreader injector of TBE, the Lyme disease marauder, the undoubtedly worst forest and meadow summer enemy we humans face during the summer half year...
The tick!!!
Patiently waiting in nature's vegetation with outstretched limbs for us prey to pass so they can attack and penetrate our skin where they unleash their armies of ill-tempered bacteria and viruses into our relatively fragile body.
My God
Vaccinate yourselves!!!
I'm rather proud of the Aussie response to Covid-19. Even so, I've spent too long in isolation as this little ditty sprang into my head, to the tune of Australia's national anthem, 'Advance Australia Fair': www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQyiZNZaj00
"Australians all let us rejoice
For we are Covid free,
We've golden soil & free health for toil
Our home 'aint dirt by "C";
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of diseases we are rare,
On pandemic's stage, let every page
Advance Australia Fair,
In healthy strains then let us sing
Advance Australia Fair."
** Screamin' for me, baby
Like you wanna die
Poison on the inside
I could be your antidote tonight
I could play the doctor
I can cure your disease
If you were a sinner
I could make you believe
Lay you down like one, two, three
Eyes roll back with ecstasy
I can smell your sickness
I can cure ya **
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sih0v01Wbek
[VERSOV] WOOLOV_HALLOWEEN EDT
NOW IN THE MAINSTORE : maps.secondlife.com/second.../Paris%20City/120/182/26
Photo By: Cate Infinity
Shot in Second Life Official Viewer in Ultra. No edit.
Location: Drone Haven
Drone Haven stands as a somber monument to humanity’s fleeting reign, a forsaken city overtaken by the relentless march of nature. Towering, rusted skyscrapers—once symbols of progress—now crumble into the earth, their skeletal frames bound in a suffocating embrace of vines and moss. Faded posters and the echoes of forgotten graffiti serve as grim premonitions: “The End is Near!” On the fringes, a last-ditch survivalist camp briefly defied extinction. Dreamers, with fragile hope, planted gardens and built shelters in a futile act of defiance. But disease, depletion, and discord swiftly snatched away their fleeting defiance, leaving only silence and creeping green. At the city's heart, the butcher shop—a relic of human industry—stands decayed and broken. Its walls, softened by moss and pierced by vines, speak of a once-vibrant world now swallowed by time. The eerie message lingers: “The End is Near!” A grim echo of human ambition, now lost in nature’s quiet dominion. Among the ruins, drones—mechanical phantoms—still wander, remnants of their creators' ambition. They dutifully plant life during the Echocycle, maintaining the city as both a testament to human legacy and nature's quiet triumph. But even these tireless machines, bound by the limits of their energy, will one day cease. The paradox is clear: humanity’s imprint, though indelible, is as ephemeral as the machines it birthed. Drone Haven whispers a haunting truth: humankind, for all its perceived significance, is but a fleeting echo against the eternal backdrop of nature’s vast, unyielding cycles. In the city’s rust and bloom, it mourns the inevitable collapse, the fragility of life, and the inescapable reality that all things—natural or artificial—are bound to fade into silence.
"Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that." ~Epictetus
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." ~Diane Ackerman
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I’ve had this image sitting on the shelf for a while now. I had a theme in mind when I set up the shot but there is something about this image that has just not been working for me.
I like the colours in the sky. I like the smooth but slightly rippled finish on the water. I even like the turbines and I’ve deliberately kept in the power masts and the stacks from the refinery over the hill but I can’t get my head around that grungy mess of a pier. I’m so accustomed to trying to keep all the elements in an image balanced and appealing, like a good landscape should be, that this just doesn't seem right but you know if you change your perspective then interesting can work too. I started to think about the juxtaposition of the beautiful colour of the sky and water being put in comparison to the desolation of the broken pier. If you think about the image as an impression of industrial decay amidst the beauty of nature then I begin to see the appeal.
Please feel free to give me some feedback if you think the combination works or is just a bunch of pretentious crap. I’m thick skinned and I won’t be upset if you want to be honest. Well, hopefully not too upset…
Caught as the sun was rising this morning .The beautiful fiery greenfinch a bird only the nuthatch can move off a feeder anything else their own size doesn't seem to intimidate them.
Their numbers have really plummeted locally.
A recent decline in numbers has been linked to an outbreak of trichomonosis, a parasite-induced disease which prevents the birds from feeding properly.
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Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent reason of dementia that has inflicted an approximate 5.3 million individuals in the United States.
Read about Alzheimer's Disease
In addition to the Langevin Bridge, the Calgary Tower was also lit in the color of lime green. This too was to bring awareness to the plight of those with Lyme disease.
Many ask me, "if the city is willing to light these structures in green in recognition of the disease, how is it that many doctors in Calgary say it does not exist? After that question, you begin to understand our frustration. As well, it is now a law in Canada, bill C442 thanks to MLA, Heather May.
My poor lovely Audrey. Although the disease was first spotted in Pedigree dolls, and was named'Pedigree Doll Disease' it was soon noted that the condition could affect other makes of hard plastic doll and the name was changed to 'hard plastic disease' (HPD).
Although relatively rare, collectors of hard plastic dolls must be aware of the condition and be alert for early symptoms. There are several theories as to the reason the dolls can develop this condition - a reaction of metal to plastic, due to rusting of the metal eye pieces or joining rods, poor storage conditions - a damp loft or warm, moist conditions, high humidity or being stored in a plastic bag.
Symptoms of HPD include indication a smell of vinegar or acetone, small vertical lines around the nose, roughening around the wrists, noticeable loss of colour - especially in a limb, pink or red blotches on the head, small bumps. Eventually the doll will warp, white crusty patches appearing on the surface of the plastic and the the doll will ooze a brown liquid. The plastic is literally dissolving.
The doll must be isolated from other plastic dolls as the disease can spread.
So that is why Audrey stands in a broken mug in the corner, hidden from others by a large dolls house. She holds too many memories for me to part with her - my Dear Grandma bought her for me from a Scouts Jumble Sale in the early 60s - and I played with her for hours as I did all my dolls. Audrey was such a delight - shy but very sensible and everyone loved her. I still love her! I last posted photos of Audrey on Flickr 12 years ago - she had HPD then - so it’s taken some time for her to reach this stage. I think I’ll gently give her a wash and see how much longer she lasts. Unfortunately I am of guilty of keeping her for too long in the attic with extreme changes in temperature. Luckily the disease hasn’t passed to my other hard plastic doll, Sarah Jane.
If you say the word, "vaccine," in the United States today, many of us will turn off our thinking brain and revert to slogans we read on social media.
When you see a compound femur fracture, you recognize the harm. There's a bone fragment sticking out of this person's leg. It may be less visible but people who treat infectious diseases know the harm caused. They see patients every day who would have been better off if they had not contracted the disease. Medical treatment costs money. There's lost productivity. There are medical bankrupcies. Poor management of infectious disease is expensive. Indirectly, we all pay for these costs.
I claim, vaccine availability is part of a road that leads from developing country status to industrialized nation status. On the developing country side, where vacines cannot be had, you face higher mortality rates. Your grandchildren will die preventable deaths. We'll miss them a lot. They won't grow up to be friends and to be the great talents who solve our nation's problems. On the industrialized side, fewer grandchildren die. If you willfully go to the developing country side, it's an uphill battle to get back to 2024.
Everything I've posted up to this point was copyrighted. This is a single exception. The left half of this graphic is a Works Progress Administration poster in the public domain. The rest of what I've drawn in this one file is released into the public domain. Scoff at it or copy and enjoy as you see fit.
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