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Contents of the OHAI gift box, the Official Hack42 Appreciation Instrument.
In this picture:
- A few hardisk platters of different diameter
- Assorted stickers (Hack42, Radioactive, Biohazard, Explosive etc)
- "Veluwe" greeting card
- Hack42 recruitment poster
- Awesome Retro poster
- Hack42 and ZX Factory mug
- A pentainer and a couple of pens
- Disposable antistatic wrist straps
- Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
- RJ-45 loopback tester (IPv6 compatible!)
- Small chunk of radioactive uranium glass
- Red 'Panic' keyboard button
- @ mail opener
- Sun RS232 to RJ-45 converter
- Whistle key finder
This one has been delivered to HackerSpace Garrotxa in Olot, Spain.
this all started during the winter... i noticed that my teeth were hurting... then i moved up my dentist appt from 6 months to 5 months since the last one... my dentist was shocked... i had 10 cavities (the first in 35 yrs)... most of them gum line... he said he had only seen this on bulimics... now given that i hadn't even so much as puked since 1988, it wasn't bulimia... he couldn't figure it out... no gum disease... no plaque... no sign of decay 5 months ago at his last check... finally he asked if i had been gargling with acid before bed... bingo... reflux...
at least my dentist is about $4k richer... ended up with a few new crowns and it still hurts when i chew... like getting hit in the mouth with a crowbar...
so then the usual stuff... protonix... change my diet... etc... nothing seemed to help... i could now notice my throat burning... finally i go to a gastrointestinal doc... she sets up the endoscope down the throat... i had that today... she didn't find much damage... BUT she found that whopper roughly 3 some odd cm in diameter tumor on the antrum (bottom/exit) of my stomach... apparently those tumors are pretty rare... she had no idea how to remove it or even biopsy it... there are 2 docs in dallas that can do the surgery... i'll be talking to one on thursday... so that sucker is what messed up my teeth... amazing... hopefully the tumor can be easily removed and has no other issues (won't even use the word)...
i did find one academic paper on this subject... (how did i live without google all those years)
Folkloric
• In the Philippines, the bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds are used medicinally in the way it is used in other countries.
• Decoction of leaves used as an aromatic bath for fevers, puerperism, and convalescence.
• Fever: Macerate pulp or ripe fruit in water, sweeten to taste, and drink.
• Laxative: Pulp is considered a mild laxative because of the presence of potassium bitartrate. Eat pulp of ripe fruit liberally and follow with plenty of water.
• Asthma: Bark; chop and boil a foot-long piece of bark in 3 glasses of water for 10 minutes. Adults, 1 cup after every meal and at bedtime; children, 1/2 cup 4 times daily; babies, 2 tbsps 4 times daily.
• Decoction of ash: For colic, indigestion; as gargle for sore throats, aphthous sores.
• Ash is considered astringent and tonic; used internally as a digestive. Ash preparation: Fry the bark with common salt in an earthen pot until it turns to powdered white ash; a heaping teaspoon of the ash to half-cup of boiling water; cool and drink for colic and indigestion.
• Poultice or lotion from bark applied to ulcers, boils, and rashes.
• Poultice of leaves to inflammatory swellings of ankles and joints.
• Decoction of leaves as postpartum tea; also used as a wash for indolent ulcers.
• Flowers for conjunctival inflammation. Internally, as decoction or infusion, for bleeding piles (4 glasses of tea daily).
• Pulp surrounding the seeds is considered cooling and a gentle laxative.
• Gargle of tamarind water used for healing aphthous ulcers and sore throat.
• Tamarind pulp considered preventive and curative for scurvy.
• In Mauritius, the Creoles mix salt with the pulp and use it as a liniment for rheumatism.
• Tamarind infusion considered carminative and digestive, antiscorbutic and antibilious.
• Young leaves used as fomentation for rheumatism and applied to sores and wounds.
• In Malaya decoction of leaves used for fevers.
• The leaves crushed with water and expressed, used for bilious fever and in scalding of urine.
• Poultice of leaves crushed in water used for ankle and joint inflammations to reduce swelling and pain.
• Decoction of leaves used as a wash for indolent ulcers.
• Poultice of flowers used for conjunctival inflammation. Juice expressed from flowers used internally for bleeding piles.
• Juice of leaves, warmed by dipping a red hot iron, used in dysentery.
• Powdered seeds are given in dysentery; boiled and decocted, used as a poultice for boils.
• In Cambodia, filtered hot juice of leaves used for conjunctivitis.
• In the West Indies, decoction of leaves used jaundice and for worms in children.
• Hindu physicians apply pounded leaves to erysipelas.
• In Mauritius a bark decoction is used for asthma.
• In Madagascar, bark decoction used for asthma and amenorrhea.
• In East Sudan, the bark is considered tonic and febrifuge.
source: stuart xchange
Folkloric
• In the Philippines, the bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds are used medicinally in the way it is used in other countries.
• Decoction of leaves used as an aromatic bath for fevers, puerperism, and convalescence.
• Fever: Macerate pulp or ripe fruit in water, sweeten to taste, and drink.
• Laxative: Pulp is considered a mild laxative because of the presence of potassium bitartrate. Eat pulp of ripe fruit liberally and follow with plenty of water.
• Asthma: Bark; chop and boil a foot-long piece of bark in 3 glasses of water for 10 minutes. Adults, 1 cup after every meal and at bedtime; children, 1/2 cup 4 times daily; babies, 2 tbsps 4 times daily.
• Decoction of ash: For colic, indigestion; as gargle for sore throats, aphthous sores.
• Ash is considered astringent and tonic; used internally as a digestive. Ash preparation: Fry the bark with common salt in an earthen pot until it turns to powdered white ash; a heaping teaspoon of the ash to half-cup of boiling water; cool and drink for colic and indigestion.
• Poultice or lotion from bark applied to ulcers, boils, and rashes.
• Poultice of leaves to inflammatory swellings of ankles and joints.
• Decoction of leaves as postpartum tea; also used as a wash for indolent ulcers.
• Flowers for conjunctival inflammation. Internally, as decoction or infusion, for bleeding piles (4 glasses of tea daily).
• Pulp surrounding the seeds is considered cooling and a gentle laxative.
• Gargle of tamarind water used for healing aphthous ulcers and sore throat.
• Tamarind pulp considered preventive and curative for scurvy.
• In Mauritius, the Creoles mix salt with the pulp and use it as a liniment for rheumatism.
• Tamarind infusion considered carminative and digestive, antiscorbutic and antibilious.
• Young leaves used as fomentation for rheumatism and applied to sores and wounds.
• In Malaya decoction of leaves used for fevers.
• The leaves crushed with water and expressed, used for bilious fever and in scalding of urine.
• Poultice of leaves crushed in water used for ankle and joint inflammations to reduce swelling and pain.
• Decoction of leaves used as a wash for indolent ulcers.
• Poultice of flowers used for conjunctival inflammation. Juice expressed from flowers used internally for bleeding piles.
• Juice of leaves, warmed by dipping a red hot iron, used in dysentery.
• Powdered seeds are given in dysentery; boiled and decocted, used as a poultice for boils.
• In Cambodia, filtered hot juice of leaves used for conjunctivitis.
• In the West Indies, decoction of leaves used jaundice and for worms in children.
• Hindu physicians apply pounded leaves to erysipelas.
• In Mauritius a bark decoction is used for asthma.
• In Madagascar, bark decoction used for asthma and amenorrhea.
• In East Sudan, the bark is considered tonic and febrifuge.
source: stuart xchange
File name: 10_03_001164a
Binder label: Medical
Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast (front)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 9 cm.
Subject: Horses; Horseshoes; Oils & fats; Patent medicines
Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: A. D. Stenson, dealer in furniture, carpets, window shades, feathers & bedding, Bath, Me.
Statement of responsibility: M. G. O. Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
what my days consist of right now.
meds, fever, lots of tea and some blue gargle solution that doesn't even taste all that bad after you get used to it.
Mbidi (Kikongo), mbani, mpafu (Swahili), elemier d'Afrique, African elemi
Some people eat the fruit raw, others after boiling in water and then baking between leaves in the embers. It is occasionally sold in local markets.
The seed or kernel is used in making necklaces. It contains 68 - 75% of a greenish oil with a fruity taste which is liked more than palm oil. The oil is extracted by pressing (Renier 1948). The seed is also used in place of bullets in local firearms! The rind from the fruit yields a red volatile oil. Fruit pulp is boiled with meat to soften it and give it a pleasant aroma (Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk 1962).
It is also eaten fried. Simply softening the fruit in hot water improves palatability. Pulp oil is 71% palmitic oil and 18% oleic. In Jinja, Kamuli and Iganga in Uganda the fruit is much liked. It is boiled and the outer coat eaten with a sprinkle of salt. Salted fruit is sold in markets in Tanzania (Dupriez & De Leener 1989, Katende et al. 1995, Ruffo et al. 2002).
Seed kernel is oily and edible after cooking. In northern Nigeria it is made into a vegetable butter and used instead of Shea butter. Hornbills are the main seed dispersal agents. (Burkill 1985 & Irvine 1961). Seeds are used for necklaces, games and clappers in Gabon. Red hot elimi stones dropped into a glass of water are said to make a good gargle for sore throats (Dupriez & De Leener 1989, White & Abernethy 1997).
File name: 10_03_001157a
Binder label: Medical
Title: "And he whispered in her ear something sweet for her to hear, said he, "Try Gargling Oil!" Merchant's Gargling Oil is the standard liniment of the United States (front)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 8 cm.
Subject: Adults; Patent medicines; Oils & fats
Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: E. J. Morison & Co, 52 Main Street, Belfast, ME.
Statement of responsibility: M. G. O. Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
This image was taken at St Chad's churchyard in Winsford, a place which has a great deal of significance for my family.
Whilst walking back to the car park I noticed this grave - quite distinctive against most there.
It is the Cooke family plot where a number of them have been interned over the years, and interestingly, written on the slab on the floor are the names of Major John Kemp Cooke and his brother Captain Charles Taylor Cooke, they both served in the 7th Cheshire Regiment.
John was killed in service on 25th July 1915 aged 36 years and Charles 4 days after the Suvla landing in Gallipoli on 10th August 1915.
Here is a paragraph from the web
The landing at Suvla Bay was an amphibious landing made at Suvla on the Aegean coast of Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey as part of the August Offensive, the final British attempt to break the deadlock of the Battle of Gallipoli. The landing, which commenced on the night of 6 August 1915, was intended to support a breakout from the Anzac sector, five miles (8 km) to the south.
Despite facing light opposition, the landing at Suvla was mismanaged from the outset and quickly reached the same stalemate conditions that prevailed on the Anzac and Helles fronts. On 15 August, after a week of indecision and inactivity, the British commander at Suvla, Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stopford was dismissed. His performance in command was one of the most incompetent feats of generalship of the First World War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Suvla_Bay
Their father John Henry Cooke survived both of his sons - that must have been a heavy loss. WW1 is referred to as 'The Great War' and is captured brilliantly by Wilfred Owen's poem, Dulce Et Decorum Est.
This was a piece I studied for my English 'O' Level many years ago.....very fitting I think.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Til on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie;
Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.
( "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country" )
Natural Teeth Whitening Methods You Can Use for Whitening Your Teeth
If you want to be able to get a really healthy smile and whither teeth, there are many remedies that you can get. However, some of the remedies can be very expensive in the long run. If you want to get whiter teeth without spending a fortune, you might want to check out the natural teeth whitening solutions that are available for you.
One of the most popular teeth whitening remedies that you can do is to brush with baking soda. This is a well-known cleaning agent and deodorizer. There may even be toothpastes that have baking soda. However, if you really want to save, you can mix half a teaspoonful of baking soda with regular toothpaste for the same whitening effect. If you don’t want to mix baking soda with toothpaste, you can mix it with a bit of water and use it as you would use toothpaste. Although it does not bleach your teeth white, you can get rid of the stains on your teeth this way.
Another natural remedy that you can get to use in whitening your teeth is lemon juice. The juice has natural bleaching properties that can brighten your teeth if you rub the peel across the teeth. However, lemon juice is acidic, and using it to brush your teeth or rubbing the peel with it may damage your teeth. You should consult your dentist first if it would be safe for you to use lemon juice for whitening your teeth.
One of the other natural teeth whitening remedies that you can have is apple cider vinegar. This can be mixed with a little bit of baking soda, which will form a paste. This paste can be used to brush your teeth, and it also has natural bleaching properties. You can also make a more liquid mixture, and you can use this to gargle before brushing your teeth. This way, the stains at the enamel of your teeth will be kept at bay.
Another natural remedy that is known to really work is strawberries. Although it might seem counterintuitive to use because strawberries can stain clothes, however this remedy has many surprising effects that you just have to try out for yourself. In order to use the strawberries, you would just rub the fruit over your teeth and then brush your teeth immediately afterwards. Strawberries contain an acid that brightens the teeth, but you should brush your teeth after using them to get rid of the acids which can damage your teeth.
If you want to really have great teeth, you would need to take care of it properly. This means you have to brush your teeth after every meal, and you should also use mouth washes and dental floss to really make sure that your teeth are clean.
When you want to have really great looking teeth, the best thing that you should do is to find natural teeth whiteningremedies. These remedies can help you get shiny and white teeth without costing you a bundle. If you really want to have whiter teeth, you should use natural methods of whitening your teeth.
Michaelbrook Marsh, Kelowna, BC.
What's going on here? I'm not sure.... We watched him for some time as he gargled on something. N-kun thought he was trying to rinse his mouth....
Sandhurst Town,Victoria ... Fair Dinkum Eucalyptus Oil
The oil is made from Mallee “Viredus” leaves from the Bendigo area.
Fair Dinkum Eucalyptus Oil tried and tested uses:
Sore Throats : Put 2 drops on a spoonful of sugar and swallow after holding in the mouth as long as possible.
Head colds and influenza:
20 drops in a bowl of steaming water and inhale, covering your head with a towel.
Muscular aches and pains:
Massage oil into infected area until a warm glow is felt. Repeat at intervals until pain or swelling disappears.
Insect bites:
Rub into infected areas.
Mouthwash:
2 drops on toothpaste, or few drops into a glass of water and gargle.
Cuts and abrasions:
Pour a few drops into the wound and onto the bandage, than bind in the usual way.
Baths and footbaths:
One or two teaspoons added to the water.
Hand and skin cleaner:
The oil removes grease, silicon,paint. Then rewash with soap and water.
Scalp Massage:
Rub a few drops into the scalp or add to shampoo to simulate blood flow to hair roots.
Sauna:
Add a few drops of oil to the hot rocks.
Removing sticking plaster and labels:
Dampen with the oil.
Dog wash:
A little oil in dog-wash water. Removes fleas, keeps dogs away when bitches are on heat.
Spot and stain remover:
Grease & grass stains etc. Use cloth moistened with the oil, and an absorbent cloth under the material.
Leather cleaner:
A cloth moistened with the oil may clean leather without harming the material.
Plastic and vinyl:
Removes ink, carbon etc.
Toilet:
A teaspoon of the oil in the toilet will disinfect, clean and deodorise.
Telephone:
Dampen a cloth with the oil to clean and disinfect your telephone and keyboard.
Paintbrush:
Soak brushes in the oil.
Chewing gum, paint, ballpoint ink marks from clothes, shoes and furnishing:
Use a cloth soaked in the oil.
Tar marks of car:
One part the oil:4 parts of kerosine soaked cloth.
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These School Notes were published when Wellesley where still at Loch Rannoch during World War II. They were attributed to the three joint headmasters/partners of the school at that time - Shirley Russell, John Boyce and WG Williamson, although John Boyce was very much acting as the Headmaster at the time.
Mr Boyce comments that it has been one of the coldest periods in British climatic history but that they were lucky that their supplies of coal and food were never cut off. Wood cutting was a necessity. The school relied on heating on wood procured on the spot and one of the boys' chores was to saw logs, both at Rannoch and Talladh-a-Bheith, using a Bushaman bow saw or cross-cut and earning service points by splitting the big birch logs with axe or wedge. Injuries from this activity were surprisingly few. Each room had its own fireplace which in winter was kept burning all day. It was still cold though and there was sometimes ice on the floor of Talladah-a-Bheith classrooms. One winter it was so cold that the loch froze over completely and boys were able to skate and toboggan over the Loch (in their shorts!) - even the masters including John Boyce joined in. On occasions, Barbara Boyce on her skis was the only link between the lodges. Paraffin stoves were also used; the paraffin was kept in a drum in a shed behind Rannoch Lodge, a useful source from which the boys helped ourselves generously when they wanted to light fires up in the wood behind.
Although Mr Boyce comments that they were fortunate with regards health, general welfare was monitored with equal care and concerns. Selby Martin (a pupil during the Rannoch Years) has written a memoir of these days. He recalls that "General welfare was monitored with equal care and concern. We were, on the whole, a healthy lot. At Rannoch the severe Miss Vickers, who always wore her blue nurse's overall with starched cuffs which rattled frighteningly when she shook down the thermometer, kept a close check on us." Miss Vickers was a sister of Matron. Coughs and colds were dealt with efficiently with Dettol gargling, throat swabs and doses of malt extract. More serious complaints and infections might lead to prolonged stays in the sickroom. There were no antibiotics and poultices would be applied under the supervision of Dr McLean who lived at the other end of the Loch, in the first house on the right just before the blacksmith's house where Donald kept the school bus.
Michael Strachan had come to Wellesley House in 1928. Michael Strachan also worked at the school at Loch Rannoch during the Michaelmas Term 1939 before he left to train at Weedom with the Cavalry Cadet Unit. He visited again in Michaelmas 1940. His son, Hugh Strachan was later at Wellesley House. Brigadier Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE, FRHS (born 1 September 1949 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War. He is a brigadier general and Member of Council of the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) (Source: Wikipedia)
From Alexander Sparks (AP Sparks): My father Cedric Harold Sparks b.1892 and his elder brother Algernon Charles Sparks b.1891 were both at Wellesley Housse and purportedly my father was the first old boy to send a son (me!) to the school.
Repton September ‘44 – April ‘49
I believe I was the first Welleslian to go to Repton since my father and his brother ( see above) went there at the turn of the century – my family has strong connections with Repton.
St John’s College Cambridge ‘49 – ‘53.
graduating in English Literature and Law MA (hons)
Career. 1953-1994
4 years in City – escaped to Industry for 12 years ( heavy engineering/steel/industrial gases) – then 10 years as Management Consultancy with Coopers & Lybrand, and finally back to the City for 20 years with Bowring/Marsh Maclennan.
I was Master of the Grocer’s Company 1985/6 which embraced being Chairman of the Governers of Oundle for that year and was a Governer for 20 years.
I also acted as a Jockey Club Steward at Windsor for 20 years.
Serena ( nee Fairfax) and I married in 1976 and we have 2 children Emma and Hugo.
( I still have my Wellesley House cap and braces and kilt, and a framed picture of the summer ‘44 leavers posed in front of Rannoch Lodge.)
Alexander Sparks
Here are Rowan berries we picked from the trees that ring the Castle Hill ruins in Rujiena, Latvia. You can see where they came from at these pictures :
www.flickr.com/photos/25858703@N00/549065052/in/pool-firs...
www.flickr.com/photos/25858703@N00/549065056/in/pool-firs...
www.flickr.com/photos/25858703@N00/549065068/in/pool-firs...
After some talk with Mel I have done some research into the powers of the Rowan, and it's medicinal and magical uses.
THE ROWAN TREE
In the yard there grows a Rowan.
Thou with reverent care should'st tend it.
Holy is the tree there growing.
Holy likewise are it's branches.
On it's boughs the leaves are holy.
And it's berries yet more holy.
Excerpt from The Kalevala,
a compilation of Finnish folk lore
The Rowan tree has been considered magickal for thousands of years by many different cultures. One of the earliest references to the Rowan is in the ancient Finnish creation myth about the goddess "Rauni" According to this myth, the earth was barren and devoid of all plants when she came down from heaven and took the form of a Rowan tree. After Rauni "Rowan?" ;) had intercourse with Ukko,
the God of Thunder, the result of their union was the creation of all the plants of the earth. According to this ancient creation myth, then, all plants and trees are descended from the Rowan tree as a result of it having been struck by a mighty bolt of magical lightening.
Many traditions have evolved from the belief common among many Celtic people that the Rowan tree could offer protection from evil spirits.
The word "Rowan" is derived from the Old Norse name for the tree, raun or rogn, and is probably related to the word "Rune" which means "magic, secret."
Whatever your connection to the Rowan, be sure to look out for the changes that will occur as a result of any communication with this tree. It should not be underestimated and its influence will bring about a quickening of your energy on many subtle levels. For this reason, it has always been used by the wise ones and revered as a powerful influence and should be treated with the greatest respect.
All info above from :
www.angelfire.com/ks/larrycarter/Rowan/Tree.html
Medicinal uses :
The berries from the Rowan were processed for jams, pies, and bittersweet wines. They also made a tea to treat urinary tract problems, haemorhoids and diarrhea. The fresh juice of the berries is a mild laxative, and helps to soothe inflammed mucous membranes as a gargle. Containing high concentrations of Vitamin C, the berries were also ingested to cure scurvy - a Vitamin C deficiency disease.
Even today, one of the sugars in the fruit is sometimes given intravenously to reduce pressure in an eyeball with glaucoma.
Magical uses :
Used in all protection spells particularly from fire, or lightning. In Ireland it was hung in the house to prevent fire charming, hung around the necks of hounds to increase their speed, and used to keep the dead from rising. It also had the power to protect people and animals from evil spirits. The Irish Druids held it in particular esteem, for its physical healing as well as its magical properties.
Medicinal and Magical uses info from :
www.shee-eire.com/Herbs,Trees&Fungi/Trees/Rowan/rwn.htm
The Rowan Tree- The tree of vision,healing,psychic powers,also known as, Wicken-tree,Wild Ash, Witchbane, Witchen, Witch wood and Tree of Life. Sticks,twigs and branches of the rowan tree help in aid and protection. Rowan is associated with witchcraft. Runes were carved with sticks from a rowan tree. It is associated with the colors, red and gray. It is also a tree held dear by Druids and the Celtic Goddess Brigid. Rowan is also used during rites of the 2nd moon - the vision moon for rites of
knowledge and divination. This is based on the Celtic calendar of the 13 moons and represents the Moon of astral travel and vision, healing and empowerment. Rowan bark will dye fabric grey. It can flavor liqueurs/cordials, and can be used to make ale.
Final piece from :
www.geocities.com/gardenwitchry/trees/trees2.html
Interesting. :) Looking forward to hearing anything else people can tell perhaps from local folklore knowledges?
Hands up whoever has tried to use their morning gargle as a dandruff fighter...
Source: Maclean's, July 1, 1952
File name: 10_03_001163b
Binder label: Medical
Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast (back)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 9 cm.
Subject: Women; Horseshoes; Oils & fats; Patent medicines
Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: A. D. Stenson, dealer in furniture, carpets, window shades, feathers & bedding, Bath, Me.
Statement of responsibility: M. G. O. Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
THURSDAY – PART II
Title: The Old Man
A crime drama short story
⸻
Southbury. 2:47 a.m.
Rain on pavement. Quiet estate. All streetlights still.
The Ford Mondeo sat in the shadows, engine cold.
Inside: Thomas smoking, Shelly tying her hair back into a tight knot.
She wore a fitted blue denim jacket, collar popped, and underneath: a black polo shirt, open at the neck.
Black nitrile gloves already on.
Same cheap boots.
Same silence.
No need to speak.
They both knew why they were here.
Target:
GEORGE HAVELOCK
78 years old.
Lived alone in a semi-detached off Stanmore Road.
Ex-military. War medals.
Rumour was, he never trusted banks.
And rumour was always right.
⸻
EXT. BACK GARDEN – NIGHT
Thomas boosted the back gate open with one kick.
The house loomed dark, silent — curtains drawn, back door half-rotted.
Shelly checked the door. Locked.
She slid a folded screwdriver from her back pocket, jimmied the old lock with the patience of someone who’s done it before.
Click.
The door opened.
⸻
INT. KITCHEN – NIGHT
Dim, dated.
Old teacups. Wallpaper stained brown from years of smoke.
The hallway was cramped, lined with picture frames, thick carpet. It reeked of damp and dust.
A stair creaked overhead.
He was awake.
Shelly looked at Thomas. Nodded once.
He peeled off into the living room.
She headed up.
⸻
INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT
GEORGE HAVELOCK sat upright in bed, eyes bleary, lips parted in confusion.
He wore only a thin undershirt and boxers.
His walking stick leaned against the wall.
SHELLEY stepped into the room slowly.
No mask.
Just denim, dark eyes, and something violent humming under her breath.
GEORGE:
“Who the hell…?”
SHELLY (calm):
“Don’t move. Don’t speak. You do what I say, you die slower.”
He reached instinctively for the stick.
SHELLEY:
“Touch that and I’ll snap your fucking wrist off.”
She stepped closer, blade already in hand — short, clean, gleaming.
He froze.
She knelt on the bed, one knee pressing against his thigh.
The knife hovered just under his eye.
SHELLEY (low, focused):
“There’s a safe. In the cellar.”
GEORGE:
“Wh-what?”
SHELLEY:
“Don’t be fucking stupid. You’ve got cash. I know it. I know where.
I just need the code.”
GEORGE (panicked):
“There’s nothing in there—”
SHELLEY (sharper now):
“You really wanna see what this does to your eyeball?”
GEORGE:
“Seven… eight… four-two-one… it’s under the carpet… corner of the wine rack…”
Shelly held his gaze.
SHELLEY (flat):
“Good boy.”
She stood.
George exhaled. A moment of false relief.
Then—
She turned, stepped back to the bed, and stabbed him cleanly in the side of the neck.
He gargled.
Twitched.
Slumped.
Gone.
SHELLEY (quietly):
“Talking’s over.”
⸻
INT. BASEMENT – 5 MINUTES LATER
Thomas rolled the carpet back.
There, beneath the rack: a small steel safe.
Digital keypad. Shelly keyed in: 7-8-4-2-1
Beep. Click.
Inside:
•£45,000 in cash – mostly 50s
•Two Rolex watches in green boxes
•A .38 revolver with five bullets
Thomas whistled low.
THOMAS:
“This man didn’t trust no one.”
SHELLEY:
“He was right.”
They took everything except the gun.
⸻
INT. HALLWAY – NIGHT
Back upstairs.
She wiped the knife clean in the bathroom sink.
Rinsed her gloves. Dried them on the dead man’s towel.
Thomas zipped up the bag.
It bulged heavy.
SHELLEY:
“We’re done.”
They left through the back — just as quiet as they came in.
⸻
EXT. STREET – NIGHT
They walked two blocks in silence.
Shelly lit a cigarette.
Thomas cracked his knuckles.
SHELLEY:
“He gave it up quick. Bit disappointing.”
THOMAS:
“Not everyone wants to die in their bed.”
SHELLEY:
“He still did.”
She inhaled.
Tasted the smoke.
The win.
SHELLEY:
“Jackpot tonight.”
THOMAS:
“Clean work.”
She nodded.
⸻
INT. FORD MONDEO – NIGHT
They sat in the front seats. Engine still off.
The bag of cash on Thomas’ lap.
The Rolexes resting on the dashboard.
Shelly pulled her hair loose, leaned her head back.
THOMAS:
“What now?”
SHELLEY (quiet, with a grin):
“We wait. For the next lonely house.”
He looked at her.
Didn’t say a word.
She didn’t need him to.
They both knew — Southbury still had plenty left to
[group] Herons and egrets | [order] CICONIIFORMES | [family] Ardeidae | [latin] Egretta garzetta | [UK] Little Egret | [FR] Aigrette garzette | [DE] Seidenreiher | [ES] Garceta Comun | [NL] Kleine Zilverreiger | [IRL] Éigrit bheag
Measurements
spanwidth min.: 88 cm
spanwidth max.: 106 cm
size min.: 55 cm
size max.: 65 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 21 days
incubation max.: 22 days
fledging min.: 40 days
fledging max.: 45 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 3
eggs max.: 5
Status: Resident along coasts and rivers throughout Ireland, but still scarce in the Midlands and north-west of the country. Little Egret was considered rare in Ireland until it first started breeding here in 1997. It has since expanded and now occurs in almost every coastal county, as well as at a number of inland sites.
Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population is considered to be Secure.
Identification: Medium-sized white heron, with long black legs, yellow feet, black bill and blue-grey lores, and two elongated nape-feathers in breeding plumage.
Similar Species: Unmistakable in Ireland. Great White Egret is a rare visitor from Continental Europe, but is twice the size.
Call: Rook-like hoarse 'aaah' on alighting from the ground. At colonies, hoarse hard gargling 'gulla-gulla-gulla…' often heard.
Diet: Takes a wide variety of animals including small fish, frogs, snails and insects and forages across a range of wetland habitats from lakes to flooded grassland. Often forages alone; but maybe encountered in small groups.
Breeding: Clutch: 4-5 eggs (1 brood) Incubation: 21-22 days.Fledging: 40-45 days (Altrical). Age of first breeding: not known. Breeds in lakes, marshes, flooded fields & estuaries.
Wintering: Little Egrets use a variety of wetland habitats, including shallow lakes, riverbanks, lagoons, coastal estuaries and rocky shoreline.
This is for me, one of the most moving poems ever written about the tragedy of war, appropriate for this day of remembrance. Its title refers to the phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori", a well-known slogan as the British Commonwealth was recruiting young men to fight in World War I. It means "It is sweet and fitting to die for your country". Wilfred Owen, who died as a result of this war, begs to differ.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen
Thought to have been written between 8 October 1917 and March, 1918
There are three main reasons for a sore throat; i.e. cold, strep throat and #tonsillitis. Since a sore throat can be quite painful, you need to make sure that you get it treated or at least get a relief from it at some extent. For this purpose, you have to be sure about the type of infection you have.
The difference between cold, strep throat and tonsillitis
The most common reason for sore throat is the cold. But it is the condition which doesn’t remain there for too many days. It goes away in a day or two. It can also accompany runny nose and congestion.
Another reason for the sore throat is strep throat. This condition happens due to streptococcus bacteria. The sore throat due to this infection can be severe and persisting.
The inflammation in the tonsils can result in tonsillitis which is another type of sore throat. Tonsils are the soft tissues in the back of the throat and they can hurt quite badly with this condition.
Reasons for sore throat
The sore throat can be due to both the #bacterial and #viral #infections. However, viral infection is the most common reason for sore throat. Viral sore throat can result in runny nose and congestion. Other reasons for sore throat may include pollution, smoking, irritants, dry air, and allergies.
There is no treatment of viral sore throat and you are not going to need it either. However, there are some ways you can find some relief during this #condition. Drinking warm liquids, gargling with salt water, taking an over-the-counter medicine and sucking on ice can help you find some respite from pain due to this condition.
There are medications which can help you get relief from the sore throat. However, you have to make sure that you are not going for self-medication. You should always get the medication prescribed by your doctor.
Reasons for strep throat
Strep throat is more serious problem as compared to sore throat. It is caused by streptococcus bacteria. The nasal secretion or infected saliva can make the strep of the throat to expand. This problem is more common in the children of ages between 5 and 15 but adults can also get this condition.
This disease is more serious as compared to sore throat. It can cause rheumatic fever which can further lead to harm to the heart valves. Thus, it is quite essential that you get proper treatment to get rid of this disease. If you get proper treatment, this condition can go away in 10 days.
Since the symptoms of both sore throat and strep throat are same, you need to visit the doctor and get your oral cavity fully checked. The doctor will put a cotton swab in the back of the throat and get it out quickly. He/she will send this swab to the labs for proper analysis. If the case is of strep throat, you will be given antibiotic medication.
Reasons for tonsillitis
Tonsillitis is another infection which can be quite painful. It is basically an inflammation of tonsils. It can be caused by both viruses and bacteria. The basic job of tonsils is to fight bacteria but they get infected in case of tonsillitis.
Tonsillitis can result in bad breath, fever, voice change due to swelling in the throat, and pain while swallowing.
If this case is due to bacterial infection, you can get treatment of it through antibiotics. And if it is viral infection like sore throat, you will have to let the infection run its course. However, you can make the healing process faster by getting plenty of rest and eating warm and light foods.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen, 8 October 1917 - March, 1918
In memory of my Great-Grandfather Sargeant John James of the 1st North Staffs Regiment who was gassed on the Somme. He survived the war but had terrible problems after the war.
'''.. Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forgit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate what they do to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony.
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only. ..'''
File name: 10_03_001142a
Binder label: Medical
Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast (front)
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 18 cm.
Subject: Men; Horses; Oils & fats; Patent medicines
Notes: Title from item. Item verso is blank.
Statement of responsibility: Merchant's Gargling Oil Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
5 FEB. 12
I think the year was 1998 when the decision was made for my parents and I to travel to Oklahoma City to see the memorial for the Oklahoma city bombings. Back then, pre-9-1-1, this was major. This wasn't other world terrorism, this was home grown, one of our own, an American white man. None of us had ever been to Oklahoma, so we figured the trip would be interesting, but it turned out to be THE worst vacation I've ever been on.
The trouble started as soon as we landed at the hotel. It was a bit on the sketch side, but I was excited because it was the first time I'd ever been allowed my own hotel room that I didn't have to share with my parents, my brother, another relative, a classmate, or a friend. I made sure to jump on the bed and flip through all the cable channels right away. We arrived pretty late, but decided to take a little trip around the city and see what we could see in the rental van. There really was nothing much to see. I was used to living in a big city and so I think the expectation for me was that all cities were lively and filled with things to do, but OK city was not okay at all. I got the immediate vibe that this place was run down, abandoned, forgotten. There was an attempt made by the city to create a happening area right as you come in to the city, but a mere 3 blocks out of the 3 block radius, life as we knew it died right before our eyes. No one was there. The only people in that tiny 3 blockville were tourists, not locals. The banks and businesses were run down, the streets were in disrepair, no one was out having a good time. It was a ghost town with a few lights on.
The next day we vowed to come back and give it another go despite our initial shock at the city being so empty. We started the day with a trip to a local diner. When I tell you when we walked in the music stopped...that's what happened. I don't think those diners had ever seen black people before. They stared at us..and stared hard. Our waitress had a very dismissive attitude the whole entire service. I felt very unwelcome. I wanted to go, but my mother always insisted, and she had a right to do so, that we were human beings with a right to sit and eat anywhere we wanted to, and that's just what we did.
After breakfast, my mom wanted to see "the community." She's a bit of a genealogist and so she likes to go and see where the black people live and breath in a city, and possibly track down a relative or two. She hadn't found any in her research in OK city, but she still wanted to see the neighborhood as a point of interest. We drove and drove...and then I noticed we were driving and driving... and then 2 hours had passed. We never saw "the community," we didn't even see "the block." There was no neighborhood, no hood, nothing and no black people anywhere in the city. Not one. We looked. This was turning out to be the whitest place I'd ever been to. There was a large hispanic population in what one local described as the bad side of town, but there were no blacks to be found...anywhere.
We thought, how can this be in a major American city. No black people. It now became our hilarious mission to find a black person. Look I yelled out the window...oh, wait, no, no, just a really tan guy...there, there! no, oh, no, just saw the hair, not a black person. Finally after now 3 hours of driving coming out an office building in a suit strolled one black guy. We slowed, he slowed, we did the obligatory lifting of the chin as if to say, hey, what's up. He paused for a second, lifted his chin and smiled, and then that was it. We'd found him, and he'd found us. We found the one black guy in all of OK city. We should have invited him to lunch, ha ha, but we were off to see the memorial.
The weather by this time was screamingly hot and extremely dry. We parked off by the edge of town and began to walk. We found what they claimed was a bank museum, but turned out to be a room in a basement with 3 rows of chairs and one projector screen of bank facts and a few bank trinkets splashed about on the walls. We found the city shopping mall which was a pathetic offering of Denim and school spirit shirts, and then we made it to the memorial. It was a really sobering moment to see the dozens of chairs meant to represent each adult who died and then to see the smaller chairs that represented the children. Seeing this would later become a part of the story of 9-1-1 and just imagining a regular day turned into an absolute hell for thousands of people. We spent about an hour under the sun just walking through. There was an actual family there touched by the tragedy who stood by one particular chair for a long time.
We left feeling grateful that we were all together. We began to march down the street to catch the town trolley which offered a tour of the city. By this time I was feeling really hot. I do not have a constitution for the heat at all and we'd now been under the midday sun for almost 3 hours with only the one break to see the bank museum. I was tired and my breathing was heavy so when we arrived at the corner for the trolley, I was complaining to my parents. Unfortunately, it was falling on deaf ears because they were used to me not being a happy camper in the sun. I looked over at my dad as the trolley began to descend the hill in the distance and the words coming out of my mouth became slurred. I blinked a couple of times, and I tried to get out the words which I'm sure came out like they were in another language, but I held his shoulder and I said, "Dad, I don't feel good." The next thing I knew everything went pitch black. I couldn't see, I couldn't hear, I couldn't control my body. I was passing out for the first time ever in my life. My fingers released from his shoulder and I was falling to the concrete. The next thing I remember my dad had me lifted in the air on one side, and I guess a stranger on the other, and my mom as holding open a door to a hotel. I was rushed inside and fanned and given water from the bar. Speech still gargled, I sputtered out that I needed something with sugar in it. My mom ran to the bar man, who looked utterly confused, and she demanded some juice. The bar man reluctantly gave it to her still trying to figure out what was going on. My mom told my dad in no uncertain terms to hurry and fetch the car which was now close to 10 blocks away. He immediately took off on foot. When he arrived at the hotel, I knew he had run the entire way because he was soaked through and through. I was jostled into the car with the a/c turned up to refrigerator status.
My mom really wanted to go to a hospital but I told her I just needed to rest. I felt so tired. My body felt strangely cold and numb. We got to our hotel and they put me in bed and my mom would not leave my side. She stayed with me for close to 6 hours of repeated soakings with a damp cloth, water, and force feedings of food before she figured I was okay again and then went off to her own room. It was later determined back home, that I had suffered from heat stroke. It resulted from spending long hours in that hot dry sun with little to no hydration.
I slept through the rest of the afternoon until about 3 am in the morning when I heard screaming. It got louder and louder. We heard loud noises and more yelling. I heard my parents door open next door. It turns out a couple was having a domestical in their room and then on in to the parking lot. The police were called and sirens were blaring and finally it was quiet again. The next morning, weary and bitter with no one really speaking, we got into the car and headed home. It was a silent ride. Everyone was exhausted. The trip was a total bust, and we really just all wanted our own beds. When I did finally arrive home, some two days later, I realized that I'd left my house keys in OK city. Someone had found them and mailed them back to me. One of my beloved key chains was missing.
WORST VACATION EVER!
Who can resist photographing these imaginative creatures straight out of the medieval unconscious? Used to divert rainwater away from the stonework, it is interesting to note that the English verb to gargle is related to the root of this word.
Really, it was just one drink.
I think they called it something like a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster or something.
Now girls can discover and play the role of dentist with this Barbie set. With this set, girls also get access to online content that creates a digital destination to further "try on" their dentist role! A code inside the package unlocks career-themed content online.
Barbie I Can Be a Dentist Play Set:
Features gargling and spitting sounds (press dentist's chair)
Includes Barbie dentist doll
Kelly patient doll in chair
Stool and x-ray stand
Requires 3 AG13 batteries (included)
The tulsi or holy basil is an important symbol in the Hindu religious tradition and is worshiped in the morning and evening by Hindus at large. The holy basil is also a herbal remedy for a lot of common ailments. Here're top fifteen medicinal uses of tulsi.
1. Healing Power: The tulsi plant has many medicinal properties. The leaves are a nerve tonic and also sharpen memory. They promote the removal of the catarrhal matter and phlegm from the bronchial tube. The leaves strengthen the stomach and induce copious perspiration. The seed of the plant are mucilaginous.
2. Fever & Common Cold: The leaves of basil are specific for many fevers. During the rainy season, when malaria and dengue fever are widely prevalent, tender leaves, boiled with tea, act as preventive against theses diseases. In case of acute fevers, a decoction of the leaves boiled with powdered cardamom in half a liter of water and mixed with sugar and milk brings down the temperature. The juice of tulsi leaves can be used to bring down fever. Extract of tulsi leaves in fresh water should be given every 2 to 3 hours. In between one can keep giving sips of cold water. In children, it is every effective in bringing down the temperature.
3. Coughs: Tulsi is an important constituent of many Ayurvedic cough syrups and expectorants. It helps to mobilize mucus in bronchitis and asthma. Chewing tulsi leaves relieves cold and flu.
4. Sore Throat: Water boiled with basil leaves can be taken as drink in case of sore throat. This water can also be used as a gargle.
5. Respiratory Disorder: The herb is useful in the treatment of respiratory system disorder. A decoction of the leaves, with honey and ginger is an effective remedy for bronchitis, asthma, influenza, cough and cold. A decoction of the leaves, cloves and common salt also gives immediate relief in case of influenza. They should be boiled in half a liter of water till only half the water is left and add then taken.
6. Kidney Stone: Basil has strengthening effect on the kidney. In case of renal stone the juice of basil leaves and honey, if taken regularly for 6 months it will expel them via the urinary tract.
7. Heart Disorder: Basil has a beneficial effect in cardiac disease and the weakness resulting from them. It reduces the level of blood cholesterol.
8. Children's Ailments: Common pediatric problems like cough cold, fever, diarrhea and vomiting respond favorably to the juice of basil leaves. If pustules of chicken pox delay their appearance, basil leaves taken with saffron will hasten them.
9. Stress: Basil leaves are regarded as an 'adaptogen' or anti-stress agent. Recent studies have shown that the leaves afford significant protection against stress. Even healthy persons can chew 12 leaves of basil, twice a day, to prevent stress. It purifies blood and helps prevent several common elements.
10. Mouth Infections: The leaves are quit effective for the ulcer and infections in the mouth. A few leaves chewed will cure these conditions.
11. Insect Bites: The herb is a prophylactic or preventive and curative for insect stings or bites. A teaspoonful of the juice of the leaves is taken and is repeated after a few hours. Fresh juice must also be applied to the affected parts. A paste of fresh roots is also effective in case of bites of insects and leeches.
12. Skin Disorders: Applied locally, basil juice is beneficial in the treatment of ringworm and other skin diseases. It has also been tried successfully by some naturopaths in the treatment of leucoderma.
13. Teeth Disorder: The herb is useful in teeth disorders. Its leaves, dried in the sun and powdered, can be used for brushing teeth. It can also be mixed with mustered oil to make a paste and used as toothpaste. This is very good for maintaining dental health, counteracting bad breath and for massaging the gums. It is also useful in pyorrhea and other teeth disorders.
14. Headaches: Basil makes a good medicine for headache. A decoction of the leaves can be given for this disorder. Pounded leaves mixed with sandalwood paste can also be applied on the forehead for getting relief from heat, headache, and for providing coolness in general.
15. Eye Disorders: Basil juice is an effective remedy for sore eyes and night-blindness, which is generally caused by deficiency of vitamin A. Two drops of black basil juice are put into the eyes daily at bedtime.
Mingle Media TV's Red Carpet Report team were invited to come out to help celebrate the Grammys with the Red Carpet Events LA annual Grammy Awards Style Lounge at the W Hotel Westwood.
Red Carpet Events LA's Grammy Awards Style Lounge were ready with the best in gift suite swag for the presenters, nominees, celebrities, producers, directors and writers attending this "invitation only” gift lounge showcasing an array of luxurious products and services from inclusive trips to custom shoes, skincare, handbags, and travel goods.
Additionally, McLaren was on hand as the main sponsor to give nominees the speed test of a lifetime with their 641-horsepower McLaren 650S which uses banned motorsports technology and over 50 years of racing know-how to deliver the fastest, most dynamic and most efficient supercar on the market. Zoom Zoom!
Other luxury brands on site were Clarisse with fashion, SweetNorthBabe with bags and accessories from Yvonne B from Germany, Stephanie Henry and Luxury Gifts Bermuda, Ancestry.com, Halfbreed Clothing, Apathy! the all natural appetite suppressant, Julie Rae celebrity hair and makeup artist, Java Skin Care, Artizan by Robin Barre, Joy and Mario Footwear, Victoria Duke, Teeny Wingkini swimwear, Geek Eyewear, Nuwati Herbals (which we love and use year round!), Tikkun Holistic Spa, Peter W Inc, Martinson Fine Art Photography, Little Yellow Zpot, Luxe Fair online magazine, 3Wolves Productions.
SWAG for Guests
The guests were gifted with an amazing swag bag filled with goodies from the following sponsors:
ZICO
KIND BAR
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I completed 14 treatments total and he said that is enough. He told me not to play games in my head about not doing the last two treatments that were originally planned months ago prior to my starting the treatment. He assured me that what needed to occur with the chemo happened! He told me just before my 2nd treatment when my hands already started getting numb that he would be reducing the chemo 15% and that I may not have all 16 treatments planned. I knew this and two weeks ago he said it again. If the neuropathy progressed he may decide not to continue with the last two. So Tuesday after listening to me rationalize and minimize and justify my pain of the last two weeks he looked at me and said "you are done" in a manner and tone that clearly meant this is not up for discussion. I am ok with this. the burning in my hands has not lessoned in fact in 3 days it feels a little worse. I now have sores in my mouth and today was given a "miracle wash" by the pharmacy. I can now gargle and numb my mouth enough to eat.
File name: 10_03_001163a
Binder label: Medical
Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast (front)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 9 cm.
Subject: Women; Horseshoes; Oils & fats; Patent medicines
Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: A. D. Stenson, dealer in furniture, carpets, window shades, feathers & bedding, Bath, Me.
Statement of responsibility: M. G. O. Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale by A. Richard, 84 Faubourg du Temple, Paris.
Visé Paris No. 103
The card bears the imprimatur 'Visé Paris' followed by a unique reference number. This means that the image was inspected and deemed by the military authorities in the French capital not to be a security risk.
'Visé Paris' indicates that the card was published during or soon after the Great War.
The Vulnerability of Historic Buildings in the Great War
It is an unfortunate fact that during the Great War, churches, cathedrals, abbeys, châteaux, ancient civic buildings etc. became useful observation posts, and consequently they were readily targeted by enemy artillery.
You can see in the photograph that the tower of the church (the best vantage point) has been particularly heavily shelled.
These high-profile structures were literally sitting targets - they couldn't be moved, made smaller or camouflaged, hence the appalling damage that many of these beautiful buildings suffered - they just had to remain there and take it.
Shells aimed at churches which just missed their target tended to fall in the churchyards, throwing up gravestones, coffins and corpses.
Poison Gas
The Battle of Loos was one of the first major British offensives mounted on the Western Front. It was also the first time that the British used poison gas. On the 25th. September 1915, 140 tons of chlorine, stored in 5,100 cylinders, were released.
However, in places it was blown back into the British lines, leading to some British soldiers being poisoned by their own side's gas.
Friendly Gas - a ghastly variation on the euphemism of Friendly Fire.
'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Below is part of a poem about gas used in warfare by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) which he names 'Dulce et Decorum Est'.
In it he strongly refutes the Roman poet Horace's contention that it is glorious and honourable to die for your country:
"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime ...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori".
When crossing a WW1 battlefield in the aftermath of a gas attack, it was not unusual to find soldiers who had shot themselves rather than undergo the agony and terror of a death from chemical suffocation.
Requiescant in Pace.
More on Poison Gas
First introduced on April the 22nd. 1915 by the Germans, the use of poison gas quickly became commonplace by all of the combatants. In the popular imagination, poison gas became one of the defining symbols of the Great War.
All of the European powers had signed the Hague Declaration in 1899, never to use poison gas in artillery shells or other projectiles. Again, the Hague Convention of 1907 forbade the use of poison weapons. But once Germany used gas on the battlefield, all bets were off, and other armies began to use it.
By 1917, one third of all artillery shells contained gas. Not surprisingly, then, about one-third of all casualties in the Allied Expeditionary Forces were from gas.
Poison gas evolved rapidly during the war. That first use in the second battle of Ypres employed tanks of gas half-buried in the earth. When the wind was blowing away from their own lines, Germans opened the valves and allowed the gas to billow towards the French lines. There were 1,000 deaths and 4,000 casualties.
It was used twice more during the same battle, against British and Canadian troops. By the autumn of 1915, all sides were using poison gas, including gas in artillery shells.
Chlorine Gas
Chlorine gas, when it contacts tissue, dissolves in water to form hydrochloric acid. Its primary target is the lung, and death usually results from inhalation injury. Chlorine can also cause severe damage to eyes and exposed mucous membranes.
Phosgene Gas
Phosgene was introduced in late 1915. It was used extensively, frequently combined with chlorine. The British called the combination “White Star”, after the symbol painted on artillery shells filled with it. Phosgene may not show major symptoms for up to 48 hours. It causes pulmonary failure and heart failure, although death is usually from lung failure.
Mustard Gas
Nitrogen mustard was Introduced in July 1917 by the Germans. Mustard gas became known as the 'King of Battle Gases'. It eventually caused more chemical casualties than all the rest put together.
Mustard gas is a vesicant, causing severe blistering of the skin, and attacking the respiratory tract and the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and mouth. It is especially dangerous to the eyes. While most patients recovered their vision, a significant number remained permanently blind.
'Gassed last night—gassed the night before,
Gonna get gassed again if we never get gassed any more,
When we’re gassed, we’re as sick as we can be,
'Cause phosgene and mustard gas are much too much for me.
They're warning us, they're warning us,
One respirator for the four of us.
Thank your lucky stars that three of us can run,
So one of us can use it all alone.'
-- line from soldiers' song.
Lewisite
A number of other gases were developed. The most important of these was Lewisite, which was developed only late in the war. It is also a vesicant, but with more immediate action than mustard gas. It can enter the body through the skin, and do further internal damage.
Treatment of Poison Gas Victims
Treatment was limited to supportive care. About all the medical services could do for chlorine and phosgene gas victims was to put patients on bed rest, and hope that severe symptoms didn’t emerge.
Mustard gas was another story. The casualty had to be stripped, and completely washed. The eyes had to be washed out completely to avoid damage. Although it acted more slowly, mustard also attacked the lungs, especially the lower respiratory tract, causing a refractory kind of pulmonary oedema.
Casualty Statistics
The Allied Expeditionary Force had about 1500 deaths from poison gas, out of 52,000 battlefield deaths. But the total number of gas injuries was estimated at 90,000 to 100,000, or 30% of all casualties.
Overall, there were 1.3 million gas casualties during the war, and about 90,000 deaths. About half of the deaths were among the Russian army, which was notably slow in providing protective gear to its soldiers.
Poison Gas After the Great War
After the Great War, an international agreement – the 1925 Geneva Protocol – was signed, with all nations swearing never to use poison gas. And in fact, it was not used during World War II.
It has been used in lesser subsequent conflicts, notably the Iran-Iraq war. The US, which didn’t formally sign the Protocol until 1975, has maintained stocks of poison gas, but has never used them on the battlefield since World War I.
Newer poison gases, such as the organophosphate nerve agents Sarin, Soman, Tabun, and VX, are much more potent. They cause death from pulmonary oedema and respiratory failure, and are more lethal and more rapidly-acting than the gases used in the Great War.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
Fort Knox, Kentucky was a strange place to close out the Summer of Love. "Easy Rider" played at the post movie house--for 25 cents, a bargain, but when the lights came up, you were still in your fatiques, with no chopper (at least not a Harley chopper) outside waiting for you.
Still, we did our best to put a little Haight-Ashbury into "Luullllville." (You don't say "Louis-ville" or even "Louie-ville", you sort of gargle out the first syllable, lulling your way into the word--"Luulll-ville".)
Having spent a big hunk of my youth in California, I was the de facto authority on hippy life. We might be in the Land of Fast Women and Beautiful Horses, but we still wanted to experience that Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
I had one trick that I thought might get this party started--a "poor hippies' light show" technique--you turned off all the lights in a room, hung a hanger from the ceiling, tied a knotted plastic bag dangling above a red plastic water-filled bucket. Light the thing on fire, and the dripping, sizzling plastic lit up the room, particularly when the flaming drops crashed into the fire cauldron below. Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-da-Vida" was the musical backdrop.
"Oh, wow--" said the Lieutenant, "it looks just like tracers."
Apparently the pulsating red light from the window at the officer's barracks drew attention and the MPs came by late into the drum solo. They seemed disappointed we didn't have any reefer on hand. Nothing illegal going on here, Sergeant, just good fun.
"Conduct unbecoming..." muttered the Sergeant, but nothing came of it. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
File name: 10_03_001158b
Binder label: Medical
Title: Gargling Oil Liniment for man & beast (back)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 13 cm.
Subject: Men; Donkeys; Patent medicines; Oils & fats
Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: Phelps & Tower, dealers in stoves, ranges & furnaces. No. 15 Main Street, Holyoke, Mass.
Statement of responsibility: M. G. O. Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
These ain't no Photoshop tricks, all I did was a Portra film effect and curves adjustment on the red channel, brought them down in the shadows a little...
35mm f/1.8 w/ unknown macro diopter I found in the cheapy bin at the local camera shop...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqI_O3kIFHM
Listen Good
I don't have nobody
But what I might feel all the sounds of sanity
Hoping what I hear, loops itself continuously
Then I won't be afraid
No No
Oh woah woah
Why must it feel so wrong when I try and do right, do right
Oh woah woah
Soaring through paradise when I'm closing my eyes
I'm, Mr. Solo Dolo
Oh Oh Oh
Oh Oh
Look at me
You tell me
Just what you see
Am I, someone whom, you may love, or enemy
Am I spoken for, you and yours, or someone else
I need some answers
Yeah Yeah
My world turns
Flippin the bird
To the ones who figure, me
Outkast; no not the duo
Back at Shaker Heights
When they knew
Though little brother was a strange one
Boo hoo
Cry me a river
Hater look who
Traveled out an igloo
Cold cold world wasn't fit for me at all
Look at where I stand at
Tall, Clutchin my kid cudi bizalls
Mute mutha fuckas back home
Quick pause
Gargle on my mayo
Look at me I bet I'm the one you think the fail
Floatin in my mind
No Sail
Away
Away
Listen Good
I don't need nobody
This is what you feel all the sounds of insanity
Hopin what I hear loops itself to finish me
No I won't be afraid
Hey Hey
Oh woah woah
Why must it feel so wrong when I try and do right, do right
Oh woah woah
Soaring through paradise when I'm closing my eyes
I'm, Mr. Solo Dolo
Why must it feel so right when I know that it's wrong, it's wrong
When will I ever learn from the words from in my songs
I'm, Mr. Solo Dolo.
File name: 10_03_001155b
Binder label: Medical
Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil is the oldest and best liniment now in use throughout the United States and foreign countries. It is put up in white wrapper for human, and yellow for animal flesh. (back)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : The Courier Lith. Co.
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 14 cm.
Subject: Men; Horses; Horseshoes; Patent medicines; Oils & fats
Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: Then go to D. S. Marsh & Son, shirt makers, agents for the Troy Laundry, Waltham, Mass.
Statement of responsibility: Merchant's Gargling Oil Company
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Thyroid is an endocrine gland which controls the metabolic activities of the body, they affect most thyroid ailments which are most common among women during puberty, pregnancy, menopause or physical tension.
? The following are thyroid ailments:-
1.Goitre
One or more nodules of thyroid get swollen up. This inflammation appears on the throat. Sometimes this swelling may not appear on the throat but can be felt on the skin.
? Symptoms
Concentration power weakens, depression, feels like weeping, petulancy, loss of mental balance and loss of weight. gradually obstruction is created in the internal organs which over a period of time leads to toxicity in the body.
2.Hyper Thyroidism
Thyroid gland produces more hormones.
? Symptoms
1.Loss of weight
2.Restlessness
3.Weakness
4.In ability to bear heat
5.Excessive sweating
6.Trembling of fingers
7.Palpitation of heart
8.Urination takes place number of times
9.Memory becomes weak
10.High blood pressure
11.Excessive appetite
12.Complications in mensturation
13.Falling of hair etc.
3.Hypothyroidism
Thyroid gland produce less hormones.
? Symptoms
1.Increase in weight
2.In ability to beer cold
3.Constipation
4.Dryness of hair
5.Aching in back
6.Joints get stiff
7.Pulse rate goes down
8.Swelling on the face etc.
4.Blood Test for Thyroid Disease
In both the hormones try- iodothyronine and tetra- iodothyronine are produced by thyroid gland, there quantity in the blood decides the condition of the hormones.
If excessive along with other symptoms, then thyroid is enlarged and the patient has hyperthyroidism.
If with other symptoms the quantity of hormones is less then thyroid gland is contracted and it is hypothyroidism
? Causes of thyroid diseases
It is due to deficiency of iodine in food. It is seen among those people who eat only cooked food and do not eat natural food. Natural food provides necessary iodine content which gets destroyed when cooked. Mental and emotional tension, hereditary, erroneous died and disturbed lifestyle.
? Treatment of thyroid diseases
1.For first 5 days only juices (coconut water, cabbage, carrot, beetroot, pineapple, orange, apple, grapes juices etc.) Should be taken.
2.Thereafter for 3 days fruits and sesame milk should be consumed.
3.Then adopt normal diet which should include green leafy vegetables, fruits, salad sprouts, etc. In ample quantity.
4.Atleast for a year half of the food should consist of fruits, salad and sprout foods.
5.Lotus seeds, makhana, water chestnut (singhara) are useful.
6.Sugar, roasted and fried product, tea, coffee, liquor, tinned products etc. Are very harmful and should not be consumed at all.
7.In a cup full of spinach juice one spoon of honey should be added and ¼ spoon of cumin seeds (jeera) powder be mixed and taken every night before sleeping.
8.In a glass of water soak two spoons of dry coriander and in the morning mash it and boil till the quantity is reduced to 1/4 and drink daily on an empty stomach.
9.Daily gargle with saline water.
? Physical Treatment
1.Mud pack, enema, hib bath, etc. Will detoxify the body.
2.On the throat apply wet sheet pack and mud pack.
3.Do not permit to get tired
4.Relax completely
5.Sleep as much as is necessary
6.Remain away from physical, emotional and mental tension.
7.To keep the endocrine glands healthy do yoga asanas.
8.Shavasana, Yog nidra, Suptpavanmuktasana, Matsyasana, Suptavajrasana and neck exercises must be done.
9.Pranayama are very important, do Ujjayi and bhramari Pranayama.
10.Jalandhar bandh should be practiced.
“Best Way to Cure These Disorders Is the Natural Treatment”
Disclaimer: Updates mentioned in the article are for general information purpose only. If making any changes in the fitness programme or diet then it is requested to consult your doctor or a dietician before implementing anything new.
"Waddle Giggle Gargle"
See the Aussie Backyard Bird count, Census. aussiebirdcount.org.au/
See several Youtube clips here!
Maggies in the Jindivik Garden
Many Currawongs sing..
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and at the back gate..
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At the front door!
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on the verandah here.. www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/31880955983/
Some morning images using the #SEL55210 zoom on the #Sonya6000 around the Western and Northern gardens
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying
Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you’d just be one more
Person crying
So don’t fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don’t hate nothing at all
Except hatred
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged
It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it
Advertising signs they con
You into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something they invest in
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn’t talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer’s pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
Graveyards, false gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only
File name: 10_03_001164b
Binder label: Medical
Title: Merchant's Gargling Oil, a liniment for man & beast (back)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 9 cm.
Subject: Horses; Horseshoes; Oils & fats; Patent medicines
Notes: Title from item. Unrelated advertisement printed on verso: A. D. Stenson, dealer in furniture, carpets, window shades, feathers & bedding, Bath, Me.
Statement of responsibility: M. G. O. Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.