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Con la lluvia y el tiempo más cálido las matas de Iris Japónica han desplegado su esplendor!
Las pequeñas flores de 8cm de diámetro se convierten en atractivos ramos, abundantes y perfectos.
En Japón, se utiliza de ella el almidón extraido de los rizomas . En China, como hierba medicinale, el rizoma se utiliza para tratar lesiones. ,bronquitis, reumatismo e hinchazones.
Toda la planta es venenosa si es ingerida, en cualquiera de sus partes...
Llegó a Europa, procedente de China, en el 1792 y en la actualidad hay más de 50 cultivares .
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PLEASE note the leg lesions, commonly known as "Scaly leg" or "Tassel foot" are growths on its legs and feet seen in FINCHES a virus (Fringilla coelebs papillomavirus) Whilst birds with severe lesions can become lame, most affected birds continue to behave normally.
GOOD HYGIIENE measures such as cleaning bird feeders are recommended as a routine to minimise transmission of disease at feeding stations.......
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Literally. Mack's skin lesion is over his right eye so I tried photographing him from the left. Here we are under a big pine tree while he hides from the waste disposal truck at a nearby dumpster.
Ella is well - just hanging out on her heated mat - and not looking very photogenic.
Happy Caturday: Sideview
La cárcel de Pedraza está situada en lo que en un principio fue una torre vigía en el lugar donde se encuentra la puerta de la villa. En ella vivía el carcelero y había varias salas anexas donde malvivían los presos. Para los delincuentes comunes, normalmente ladrones, existían dos celdas hechas de madera de 3x3 metros por las que apenas entraba la luz y en las que podían estar prisioneros hasta quince personas durante varios días. Para los delitos de sangre se reservaba un destino más cruel, pues los presos eran arrojados individualmente a una habitación inferior, lo que provocaba de forma frecuente lesiones o roturas en piernas y tobillos, con lo que se reducía casi a cero la posibilidad de fuga. El preso fallecía a los pocos días, y como el carcelero tenía que llamar al verdugo de Segovia y pagarle para que se llevase el cadáver, al siguiente preso que arrojaba a dicho habitáculo le daban una cesta y era él mismo el encargado de recogerlo y dárselo al carcelero, quien lo vendía como abono para las tierras. Los demás presos, eran arrojados a otra habitación por una trampilla, lo que también provocaba roturas de miembros. Aparte del castigo físico que suponía una caída desde varios metros, los criminales sufrían el tormento de habitar en una estancia especialmente diseñada para que los excrementos de los presos de los pisos superiores fueran evacuados en ella. Todo ello producía una lenta agonía en el preso hasta que moría fruto de las heridas o de infecciones. Existía otra habitación para los presos preventivos, en la que de día estaban sueltos pero que al llegar la noche y por seguridad del carcelero, que vivía allí en la cárcel, se les echaba en una tabla de madera con los pies sujetos en un cepo y la cabeza enganchada con un grillete a la pared o los colocaba de pie sobre la pared y les ponía un grillete sujetándoles la cabeza, según la crueldad del carcelero, a la altura del preso o a una altura más elevada para que el preso pasara la noche de puntillas. La cárcel fue restaurada en el siglo XX y se conserva como museo, mostrando lo que era una cárcel medieval.(Wikipedia)
Il Cristo Pantocratore nel Santuario dello Spirito Santo a Gangi.
"Vuole la leggenda che qui esistesse un'edicola intitolata allo Spirito Santo, nella quale secondo la leggenda era collocato un masso nella cui incavatura era stata dipinta l'immagine dell'Eterno Padre con una colomba sul petto. Durante la lotta iconoclasta questo dipinto venne sepolto sottoterra e per molto tempo rimase ignorato, finchè un contadino sordomuto, scavando un pozzo, rinvenne il masso. Si accorse con sorpresa della figura e notò che da una lesione al sopracciglio gocciolava sangue.
Stupito della scoperta corse verso l'abitato lasciando meravigliati i cittadini che lo sentirono parlare. Successivamente accorsero sul luogo e per consiglio del parroco e delle autorità decisero di trasportare il sacro masso dentro l'abitato servendosi di buoi, ma gli animali non riuscirono a smuoverlo. Nacque così l'idea di erigere un tempio sul posto con l'aiuto di tutto il popolo."
There are two main causes of leg lesions in British finches:
• Chaffinch papillomavirus (or Fringilla coelebs papillomavirus 1) is a virus in the Papillomaviridae family which
can cause a skin disease known as papillomatosis.
• Cnemidocoptes spp. are mites which belong to the family Sarcoptidae that can cause a skin disease known as
cnemidocoptosis. In finches, C. jamaicensis is the most common mite species, while C. mutans typically affects
poultry and C. pilae affects psittacine birds (such as pet budgerigars).
There are many colloquial names for leg lesions in finches, including “tassel foot”, “mange” and “scaly foot”.
They are not a frequent cause of death but may compromise the welfare of affected birds: there is no evidence that
they pose a conservation threat. www.gardenwildlifehealth.org
Esto es lo que encontré ayer en mi búsqueda de paisajes, esto, y una lesión en la rodilla, es lo que pasa por no ir preparada para andar entre la nieve, me hundí la pierna hasta la rodilla, hice un giro brusco y los dos jirones del menisco que me quedaban sin romper hicieron crac, así que aquí estoy llevando la patuca arrastras y ayudándome de muletas para caminar, esto de la fotografía si que es deporte de alto riesgo, a pesar de este petit accidente mereció la pena.
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This image is included in 6 galleries :- 1) "2022 02 08 Dienstag" curated by BAKAWI, 2) "Alex's Super Faves" by Alexander Haselbacher, 3) "Historic" by Ken Hansen, 4) "Fotografie di opere di rilevante interesse storico. Photographs of significant historical interest. Photographies d'intérêt historique important. Fotografien von bedeutendem historischem Interest. A cura di Appoloni Angelo." by Angelo daVerona, 5) "Really.., is this a picture?" by Robert Anyó and 6) "Just a Few Old Memories 2" by thanks 173rd Airborne.
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Black Beauty (specimen number RTMP 81.6.1) is a well preserved fossil of Tyrannosaurus rex. The nickname stems from the apparent shiny dark color of the fossil bones, which occurred during fossilisation by the presence of minerals in the surrounding rock. The specimen is housed in the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. Black Beauty is the 14th of the 20 most complete skeletons of Tyrannosaurus rex found so far, and casts are on display in museums around the world. In 2009, a paper by Jack Horner and colleagues illustrated the concept of parasitic infections in dinosaurs by analysing the lesions found on the cranial bones of Black Beauty. The specimen has been used to study comparative morphology between tyrannosaurids and Tyrannosaurus individuals, and some have suggested that Black Beauty should be classed as Dynamosaurus (=Tyrannosaurus). Black Beauty is considered to be the smallest of all known adult T. rex specimens.
Black Beauty was found in 1980 by Jeff Baker, while on a fishing trip with a friend in the region of the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. A large bone was found in the riverbank and shown to their teacher. Soon afterward, the Royall Tyrrell Museum was contacted, and excavation of the sandstone matrix surrounding the fossils began in 1982. (wikipedia)
(Explored: Feb 9, 2022 #70)
L.V.M. Enero. Mi cocina.
Un rinconcito de la cocina, el sitio perfecto para el descanso, la soledad, un libro y un buen café colombiano.
Mi hija, con su dedo lesionado.
'Leg lesions, commonly known as ‘scaly leg’ or ‘tassel foot’, are growths on the legs and feet seen in finches in Britain and mainland Europe. Leg lesions in Chaffinches are one of the most frequently observed signs of ill health in British garden birds, and have been known to occur for decades.'
Foto: Infobae.com
Los delegados de la línea E decidieron sumarse este viernes a la protesta que habían comenzado los trabajadores del ramal B, según informaron fuentes de la empresa a Infobae.com. La medida surgió luego de un incidente que protagonizó un guarda y un pasajero
Nuevamente, un decisión gremial complicó el servicio de subterráneos en la Ciudad. Ésta vez, la medida afectó a las líneas B y E, donde los trabajadores decidieron comenzar una huelga luego de un incidente que protagonizó un guarda con un pasajero.
Luciana Maldonado, vocera de Metrovías, señaló en C5N que el servicio de la línea E se vio suspendido "a las 20 horas, cuando los trabajadores decidieron sumarse a la medida de fuerza de los del B".
Según Maldonado, pese a haber tenido un problema técnico a las 16 horas en una unidad de la línea B, "el servicio está listo para operar". "Tiene el mantenimiento necesario, no como dicen los empleados", señaló.
"Los sindicalistas amenazan que van a seguir con la medida hasta la madrugada -afirmó- la línea B es la de mayor transporte de pasajeros".
Según informaron fuentes de la empresa, todo se originó cuando un pasajero enfadado discutió y golpeó a un trabajador en la estación Callao. Como consecuencia de ello, el gremio dispuso un paro inmediato de actividades en la línea B.
La empresa informó mediante un comunicado de prensa que "en estos momentos, la situación en la estación Callao es normal pero la línea se encuentra momentáneamente interrumpida por la decisión unilateral de algunos trabajadores y delegados del Subte ante la agresión que sufriera el guarda de la formación de parte de uno de los pasajero".
Pasadas las 21, la línea E de subtes decidió sumarse a la iniciativa gremial y paralizó el servicio entre las estaciones Bolívar y Plaza de los Virreyes.
Medida de fuerza
El representante gremial Ariel Rochetti habló con [b] Infobae.com [/b] justo en el momento en donde el empleado agredido estaba siendo atendido en una clínica de Capital Federal.
"El compañero fue atacado por uno de los pasajeros cuando se le comunicó que debían abandonar la formación por problemas técnicos. El hombre intentó acogotarlo y por eso tendría lesiones cervicales", señaló Rochetti.
Asimismo, el sindicalista afirmó que hasta el momento "sólo estarían sin servicio la línea B" pero no descartó que tras la asamblea que se estaba manteniendo en este momento, "paren todos los demás servicios".
Los hechos:
*A las 16:35 una formación se detuvo en la estación Callao de la Línea B del Subte por un desperfecto técnico en una de las puertas.
*Como consecuencia de este hecho, y ante el anuncio de que los pasajeros debían descender para que el tren continúe su recorrido para permitir su ingreso al taller para su reparación, se registraron incidentes entre el guarda de la formación y un pasajero.
*Los delegados de la línea B decidieron realizar una huelga.
Fuente: Infobae.com
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*pele* dice:
es un cuestionamiento válido.... de cualquier modo es una necesidad, tanto el proyecto de los subtes como los temas que tengan que ver con educación y salud. Habría que determinar cómo se gasta el dinero en el estado tb.
rraneo dice:
me parece un cuestionamiento muy válido. que se explique cuál va a ser el endeudamiento, en qué se va a usar, y controlarlo, porque endeudarse para hacer obras es razonable, mientras que hacerlo para pagar gastos corrientes es estúpido. apreciaría también que los señores diputados explicaran públicamente cómo se reparten los puestos para ñoquis y cómo se financian esos puestos. lo cortés no quita lo valiente.
Catatonia
is a syndrome of psychological and motorological disturbances. In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV) it is not recognized as a separate disorder, but is associated with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia (catatonic type), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental disorders, as well as drug abuse or overdose (or both). It may also be seen in many medical disorders including infections (such as encephalitis), autoimmune disorders, focal neurologic lesions (including strokes), metabolic disturbances and abrupt or overly rapid benzodiazepine withdrawal.
Patients with catatonia may experience an extreme loss of motor skills or even constant hyperactive motor activity. Catatonic patients will sometimes hold rigid poses for hours and will ignore any external stimuli. Patients with catatonic excitement can die of exhaustion if not treated. Patients may also show stereotyped, repetitive movements. They may show specific types of movement such as waxy flexibility, in which they maintain positions after being placed in them by someone else, or gegenhalten (lit. "counterhold"), in which they resist movement in proportion to the force applied by the examiner. They may repeat meaningless phrases or speak only to repeat what the examiner says.
Bad day. Bad bad day.
My friends went to Chicago today to go see the Lion King and eat at the Cheesecake Factory. Where am I at? Sitting on my butt in my room. Why? Because I'm too effing poor to do crap.
Then Garry calls this morning on his way home from work and tells me that he had been asked to go into work tonight. We were supposed to take tonight and tomorrow night and celebrate our anniversary. Is that going to happen now? No. Did he even bother to call me any time in the last seven hours? No.
Haven't eaten anything yet today because the spot doesn't open until 6. Thankfully that's only a half hour away...then I can finally eat something. Will probably be crap because this school could care less about those of us stuck on campus during the weekend...but it's something.
However, I do like this picture. I have high expectations for how it'll do...which sucks cause, with the way my day is going, this thing will be totally ignored by everyone. *sigh* but I still like it...so that's good at least.
The lesions on Jimmy's tongue came back and were scraped off in September He received steroids injections at that time - both directly on his tongue and a systemic one. The lesions came right back, seemingly resistant now to steroids. We are trying him on a month-long course of doxycycline, not because he has an infection but because of the anti-inflammatory component of doxy. He seems perfectly healthy and his tongue doesn't seem to bother him so let's hope the doxy helps get rid of the lumps.
Happy Caturday: Whiskers
XIV ‐ 1924 Se identifichiamo l’antico “ San Giovanni in Perareto “ con l’attuale San Giovanni in Bagno, allora la sua storia incomincia almeno dal XIV secolo, quando un san Giovanni in Perareto viene indicato come chiesa suffraganea della Pieve di Bordonchio. La parrocchia di San Giovanni Battista , detta in Bagno, fu costituita canonicamente nel 1924 ma la chiesa era già stata costruita nel 1884. 1948 ‐ 2009 Gravemente lesionata durante la seconda guerra mondiale fu restaurata fra gli anni '48 e '54 dello scorso secolo, riutilizzando anche quattro capriate provenienti dal teatro comunale. Successivamente don Ciro Macrelli, parroco dal 1964, ornò la chiesa di varie opere d'arte e, nel 1967, la dotò di uno splendido organo a canne. Nel 2009 è stato rifatto il manto di copertura della chiesa.
Fonte: www.beweb.chiesacattolica.it/edificidiculto/edificio/2463...
Some of the miners have skin lesions on their shoulders, and sometimes even spinal disfigurements from carrying heavy loads of sulphur up and down Ijen.
Recoveree?
The healed lesions on this rabbit's ear suggest recovery from myxomatosis. However, the face is free of lesions, so I am a little uncertain. Some rabbits do recover from myxo, and when they die out and an immunologically immune generation takes their place you will get another wave of myxo doing what it is supposed to do... keep down the rabbit numbers.
As an illustration of the harm rabbits do to the natural environment in Australia, I watched this fellow through my lens while it munched on a little tree shoot that has emerged since the rain.
Callum Brae, Australian Capital Territory, February, 2016.
Mi nombre es Wei Lin. Han pasado nueve años desde que empecé a creer en Dios. Cada vez que pienso en aquel momento cuando mi hijo estuvo a punto de morir. Fue la mano amorosa de Dios la que lo sostuvo y lo sacó del peligro. Mi corazón está lleno de gratitud hacia Dios y mi fe en Él es inmenso.
Eran aproximadamente las 9 en punto de la noche del 9 de noviembre de 2014 y una ligera lluvia caía sobre el suelo. El aire empezaba ya a ser frío. Después de trabajar todo el día, acababa de sentarme en la cama cuando sonó el teléfono de mi esposo y al otro lado escuché la voz desesperada de mi hermano menor: “¡Xiaohai ha tenido un accidente! Alrededor de las 6 p.m. cuando estaba en el trabajo cayó del piso 25 al 22 …” Al escuchar esto, mi corazón estremeció e inmediatamente lo interrumpí: “¿Cómo está Xiaohai ahora? ¿Se lastimó la cabeza?”. “No, pero hay ocho fracturas en su cuerpo, incluidas sus piernas, brazos y cuatro costillas, y muchas lesiones internas…”. Luego me dijo que fuera allí, su estado era sumamente grave. La noticia me dejó destrozada, como si el mundo se me viniera encima.
A las 11 p.m., mi esposo y yo tomamos un autobús interurbano en dirección a la ciudad de Taizhou, provincia de Zhejiang. En ese momento, mi angustia me dejó sin palabras y todo lo que podía hacer era rezar continuamente a Dios, “¡Dios! No sé qué hacer ahora. No sé el estado en que se encuentra mi hijo. Estoy tan preocupada. Dios, por favor ayúdame para que pueda enfrentar esto con calma. “Después de la oración, mi corazón se calmó un poco y las palabras de Dios vinieron a mi mente: “Todas las cosas en el universo están en Mis manos. Si Yo hablo, será. Si Yo lo ordeno, así se hará”. Pensé: “Sí, Dios es todopoderoso, y Dios está a cargo de todo. ¡El destino de mi hijo también está en las manos de Dios! Sin el permiso de Dios, nadie puede quitarle la vida. ¡Realmente tenía la cabeza perdida! Las palabras de Dios me dieron fuerza, de modo que tuve el coraje de enfrentar lo que siguió a continuación.
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Ver más：https:// www.jesucristo-es.org/rayo-de-luz-en-la-desesperacion.html
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Meraj Uddin with congenital extreme white skin disease . with a spot of high. Exposure to direct sunlight caused lesions on his face. he suffers physically and mentally cause of not being able to go to direct sunlight because of skin problems which also affect their eyes. even children of their age in society are very hesitant to mix with them Which makes their life difficult and mentally depressing. and their parents are now hopeless about the cure for their child.
El desfile (incesante) de trenes por la estación marsellesa toma más tono cuando salen a escena los TGV. De todos los colores, formas, longitudes y prestancias. Y como hay que dar servicio, cuando alguno se lesiona hay que tomar medidas.....
A este TGV 2N que vemos llegar, una avería le amputó una de sus cabezas. No problem, se coge una cabeza Atlantique destrenada y se une al tren descabezado. Se recupera el actor y sale a escena sin más. Algo así como nuestro famoso Euromed de Torredembarra, pero al revés. Aquél tomo una cabeza 2N en un cuerpo 1N, y aquí SNCF nos muestra el caso contrario.
Evidentemente en doble, y evidentemente lleno, (política comercial agresiva es la clave), este TGV se pasea desde París hasta Montpellier dando el rodeo por la capital marsellesa. Así, de paso, capta viajeros. Igual que en España......[TGV 290/711 + 704/708, Marseille Saint Charles, 18/8/2014]
SOOC (Straight Out of the Camera)
Medical Approach: First Aid
Those having been said, the lesion from a higad attack is basically an inflammatory response of the body to the offending caterpillar hairs. What’s recommended is to do the following:
1. Remove all jewelry/accessories from the area (if arms/legs). Gently wash the affected area with soap and water, then dry without coming into contact with the skin (e.g. use a hair dryer/fan).
2. Apply alcohol or ammonia to cool the area and temporarily relieve symptoms;
3. Apply sticky tape (duct tape, cellophane tape, etc) onto the area to pull off retained hairs. Alternative methods include the use of rubber cement, clear fingernail polish, or facial peeling solutions – all of which should be applied, allowed to dry, then peeled off.
4. If the affected area is an arm or leg, splint, elevate, then apply ice/cold compress to reduce the swelling.
If the victim accidentally inhaled the caterpillar hairs, or has a history of allergies, immediately seek consult at the nearest health facility/with the nearest available physician. In case of caterpillar hairs finding their way into the victim’s eyes, flush the eyes with copious amounts of clean and cool water.
Popular Remedies
Similar to the cure for a bad hangover, caterpillar envenomation seems to be a shared experience that transcends generations – hence the multitude of popular remedies (some effective, others outrageous) “prescribed” by your friendly neighborhood… neighbor. There’s the application of vinegar – that has some scientific basis in that acidic vinegar does dissolve the alkaline caterpillar hairs (but not the parts already in your skin); there’s the application of urine – same principle as vinegar, urine being somewhat acidic; there’s rubbing the area with rock salt followed by virgin coconut oil; and then there’s pouring hot candle wax over the area (kinky!) then stripping it off once cool – to pull out the hairs.
"El arte es una mentira que nos acerca a la verdad."
Pablo Picasso
Se que fue un tema que ya se toco, se comento y se compartio, pero esto es enserio?
La semana pasada salieron unos videos hechos por el MINISTERIO DE CULTURA donde de manera jocosa y un poco satirica ofenden sin asco el oficio del artista en Colombia.
Primero desde mi percepcion personal de ente, me parece una falta de respeto por parte de esta entidad que vea a los artistas como unos estupidos gomelos "CON TODO RESPETO GENTE FRESITA Y ACOMODADA" que necesitan de un masajista personal para no estresarse, o que su fuente de inspiración sea la plata.
A donde vamos a llegar si seguimos a juzgando a los artistas sin antes conocerlos como diria el mismiso #portavoz
" Y QUE SEPAS MI NOMBRE NO QUIERE DECIR QUE ME CONOZCAS"
A la mierda el Ministerio, las convocatorias, los impuestos, los estimulos y presupuestos para que?
PARA QUE DESPUES LANCEN PUYAS ENCONTRA DE LOS QUE SE DEDICAN DE ALMA, CUERPO Y ESPIRITU A ESTA GRAN OFICIO DE SER ARTISTA.
Saben que puede meterse esos video estimulantes y esa guia de impuestos por el ass.
SINO SABE DE QUE LE ESTOY HABLANDO MIRE Y EMPAPECE DEL TEMA o pueda que pegatina este miando fuera del tiesto.
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Passed this man on crutches in old Town Havana. He required one peso to pose for a photo. Luis was a street extra in Buena Vista Social Club (before becoming an amputee). I think diabetes is the cause of his leg being amputated. He is the former world record holder for his 300+ piercings.
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Cuban Healthcare - A Diabetes study is underway
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Granma.cu | BY LILLIAM RIERA
Number of diabetics in Cuba could double by 2010 • In the Habana municipality of Jaruco an active investigation within the population is underway, looking to the prevention and treatment of diabetes, an effort that is later to be extended to the rest of the country
CURRENTLY there are 375,095 registered cases of diabetes in Cuba, a figure that could reach 624,000 by 2010, affirmed Dr. Oscar Díaz, director of the National Institute of Endocrinology, a special center devoted to treatment of this condition that causes the death of three million people a year worldwide.
Diabetes is a disease that is on the rise. According to facts broadcast on the Cuban “Roundtable” TV program addressing the issue, 246 million people in the world are currently living with the affliction, a figure that is expected to reach 380 million by 2025.
The disease can lead to a diabetic coma, that can be fatal, and other chronic complications which can manifest themselves in the long term as heart trouble or cardiac arrest, thrombosis or brain hemorrhage, kidney disease, vision loss and others like sores on the feet that, left untreated, can lead to amputation.
In Cuba, where more than 3% of the population has diabetes, it is the eighth most frequent cause of death. As Dr. Díaz explained to the weekly Trabajadores, of the total diagnosed, only around 1,000 are children.
Cuba has Diabetic Treatment Centers in all provinces except Sancti Spíritus and the special municipality of the Isle of Youth, where patients are taught to understand and control their disease in order to live independent and useful lives.
Adults as well as children learn exercises that they should do, the type of nutrition that is best for them, the use of specific medications, checking glucose in the blood and urine to prevent complications which, if they should arise, can be given specialized treatment within the national health system.
For example, angiology services are provided which serve to prevent amputations required as a result of diabetic foot ulcers. Also to be highlighted is the unique product developed by Cuban biotechnologists, Citoprop-p, which has been used successfully to cure these lesions.
Currently, public health officials are actively working on research and inquiries into diabetes within the community.
As was reported on the “Roundtable,” the Habana municipality of Jaruco, an agricultural community of 25,574 residents, was selected as the locale for this pilot program that will later be implemented across the country.
Dr. Vladimir González, Jaruco’s municipal public health director, explained that the study involves more than 20,000 individuals over the age of 15 and includes questionnaires and analyses carried out in the family doctor offices.
This effort will allow for even more information on the incidence of diabetes within the Cuban population and at the same time support its control through prevention (the most important according to expert opinion), early detection, education of the afflicted and their families and the implementation of measures to prevent complications.
It is recognized that in order to prevent diabetes, it is necessary to understand the risk factors and to administer glucose tolerance tests.
Some of these risk factors (age and genetics) cannot be changed, but others related to patterns of behavior (obesity and sedentary life style) can be addressed.
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Cuba, Castro, Che Guevara was jailer and executioner-in-chief of Castro's dictatorship
Cuba: A Photograph as Metaphor
By Online Saturday, January 24, 2009
Fausta Wertz, faustasblog.com
Cuba celebrated fifty years of its Communist Revolution the other day. It was a subdued celebration, as befits a celebration where the locals were not invited, and where the anniversary is marked by grief.
I was doing a roundup of posts for my blog’s Monday Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean when I came across this image:
The rusted wrought-iron balconies and fading handcrafted doors look back to an older era of artisanship and pride of ownership, now gone. Paint colors from decades ago, stucco coming apart from the wall, graffiti and mold, signal decay and pain.
Hope has bypassed that wall.
The photograph is in an article about Steven Soderbergh’s latest movie, Che, but it is emblematic of today’s Cuba: the only recent paint that building has seen is the iconic figure of Che (most prominently the Korda photo), whose myth and fiction override the reality of the hundreds of people he killed:
But a glance beneath the surface glamour of Alberto Korda’s 1960 beret-and-curls photograph of Guevara is enough to expose the less-than-romantic reality. At the time he posed for Korda’s camera, Guevara was jailer and executioner-in-chief of Castro’s dictatorship. As boss of the notorious La Cabaña prison in Havana, he supervised the detention, interrogation, summary trials and executions of hundreds of “class enemies”.
We know from Ernest Hemingway – then a Cuban resident – what Che was up to. Hemingway, who had looked kindly on leftist revolutions since the Spanish civil war, invited his friend George Plimpton, editor of the Paris Review, to witness the shooting of prisoners condemned by the tribunals under Guevara’s control. They watched as the men were trucked in, unloaded, shot, and taken away. As a result, Plimpton later refused to publish Guevara’s memoir, The Motorcycle Diaries.
There have been some 16,000 such executions since the Castro brothers, Guevara and their merry men swept into Havana in January 1959. About 100,000 Cubans who have fallen foul of the regime have been jailed. Two million others have succeeded in escaping Castro’s socialist paradise, while an estimated 30,000 have died in the attempt.
The building it’s painted on, like hundreds of other buildings in Cuba, won’t be restored, or for that matter, brought back to minimum standards because it’s not a tourist destination or owned by a Communist Party big-shot. Since in Cuba only the state has the right to sell property, and the average wage is $20 a month, the only way that building got new paint was a picture of Che. Like the Revolución, even that image is showing cracks.
The woman in front of the building looks at the contents of a small shopping bag, where she may be carrying the meager rations that Fidel Castro introduced in the country in 1962, rations that compare to that which Cuban slaves received in the 1840s.
A month’s rations would fit in that bag.
Of course there’s a propaganda aspect, and the Cuban government places the blame for nearly everything on the USA and the embargo, el bloqueo, even when the US is Cuba’s #5 trading partner according to the Cuban government’s own figures:
Trade data for 2007 posted on the website of Cuba’s National Statistics Office placed the U.S. fifth at $582 million, compared with $484 million in 2006, including shipping costs.
By the way, food and medicine were never subject to the embargo.
Fausta Wertz also blogs at faustasblog.com
As they say, if you can't be a shining example, you'll have to be a terrible warning...
It started about 3-4 years ago, when I first noticed a roughly square pink blotch on the side of my head, between my right eye and ear. This is where the plastic buckle of my swimming goggles rubs, so I didn't think anything of it at the time.
By the beginning of 2022, the skin of the blotch was becoming a darker shade of pink and starting to flake; A small lump that felt like a blister had also formed just at my hairline.
By the autumn of 2022, the lump had grown to a crusty-looking lesion that would bleed easily and then scab over, without ever fully healing. A surgeon noticed this and asked me how long I'd had the lesion. When I told him, his immediate response was that it could be cancerous, and that I should get it looked at without delay. Sure enough, it turns out to be a squamous cell carcinoma, which I am hopefully going to have removed in the next few weeks.
The moral is that if you ever see anyone with a crusty skin lesion like this that repeatedly bleeds, scabs over and never seems to heal, please suggest that they get it looked at!
La lepra es una enfermedad infecciosa, de nula transmisibilidad cuando está debidamente tratada, producida por la bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, descubierta como agente causal del mal por el médico noruego Gerhard Armauer Hansen, debido a lo cual se los denomina, respectivamente, enfermedad de Hansen a una, y bacilo de Hansen a la otra. La lepra fue históricamente incurable, mutilante y vergonzante, al punto de que, entre otras medidas, se decretó en 1909, por demanda de la "Sociedad de Patologías Exóticas, «la exclusión sistemática de los leprosos» y su reagrupamiento en Leproserías como medida esencial de profilaxis.
Se sabe que la lepra afecta a la humanidad desde al menos el 600 a. C., y fue bien diagnosticada en las civilizaciones de la Antigua China, Antiguo Egipto e India.[1] En 1995, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) estimaba que entre dos y tres millones de habitantes seguían permanentemente discapacitados por lepra.[2] Aunque las forzadas cuarentenas o segregación de pacientes es infundada e innecesaria —y es considerada no ética— aún se mantienen leprosarios en países como Argentina, India, Japón, Egipto, Vietnam y República Dominicana. Actualmente se sabe fehacientemente que muchas de esas personas que fueron segregadas en esas comunidades, y presumidos de tener lepra, en realidad acusaban sífilis, que sí es altamente contagiosa. La lepra, que no es contagiosa, tiene a aproximadamente al 95% de la población con inmunidad, y luego de sólo unos días de tratamiento no se sufre más la infección.
El estigma social-religioso que se asoció con las formas avanzadas de lepra continúa en muchas regiones, y sigue siendo el mayor obstáculo a la autodenuncia y tratamientos tempranos. Esos tratamientos efectivos recién aparecen a fines de 1930 con la introducción de la sulfona dapsona y derivados. Sin embargo, aparecieron cepas del bacilo de la lepra resistentes a la dapsona, hasta la aparición de la terapia multidroga (MDT) en los 80.
Su difusión es muy vasta, pero es más frecuente en los países tropicales o templados. Presenta dos tipos principales: la lepra tuberculoide, que produce grandes manchas hiperestésicas y más tarde anestésicas, y la lepra lepromatosa, que origina grandes nódulos en la piel (lepromas). La progresión de las lesiones es causa de grandes deformaciones. Durante la Edad Media fue una enfermedad muy difundida. El tratamiento de la enfermedad, hoy en día, varía entre seis meses y dos años, según las formas, y se basa en la administración de sulfonas. La última leprosería de Europa se encuentra en Vall de Laguart, en la provincia de Alicante, es el Sanatorio de San Francisco de Borja, más conocido como el Sanatorio de Fontilles.
Edibility / Nutrition
- Common market product, a popular leafy and stew vegetable, and a good substitute for spinach.
- The green and purple cultivated varieties are preferable to the wild ones.
- Both the young shoots and stems are eaten.
- Excellent source of calcium and iron; good source of vitamins A, B, and C, with a high roughage value.
Folkloric
- Roots are employed as rubefacient.
- Poultice of leaves used to reduce local swelling.
- Sap is applied to acne eruptions to reduce inflammation.
- Decoction of leaves used for its mild laxative effects.
- Pulped leaves applied to boils and ulcers to hasten suppuration.
- Sugared juice of leaves useful for catarrhal afflictions in children.
- Leaf-juice, mixed with butter, is soothing and cooling when applied to burns and scalds.
- In India, used in hemorrhagic diseases and as tonic. Also used for burns and pruritic skin lesions. In Orissa, India, paste of root in rice water taken in the morning on an empty stomach for a month to cure irregular periods.
- In Nigeria, leaves used for hypertension. In Cameroonian folk medicine, used for malaria.
- Mucilaginous liquid obtained from the leaves and tender stalks used for habitual headaches.
- In Ayurveda, used for hemorrhages, skin diseases, sexual weakness, ulcers and as laxative in children. Leaves applied on the head for half a hour before bathing to help bring about a good refreshing sleep. Sap is applied to acne eruptions to reduce inflammation. Decoction of leaves used for a mild laxative effect. Pulped leaves applied to boils and ulcers to hasten suppuration. Leaf juice mixed with butter applied to burns and scalds for a soothing and cooling effect. Leaves and stems have been used as anticancer for melanoma, leukemia, and oral cancer.
- Roots and leaves used for the removal of after birth, stomach pains, and increase milk production.
- Used orally for anal prolapse and hernia.
- In Nigeria, use for fertility enhancement in women.
- In Nepal, leaf juice is used to treat dysentery, catarrh, and applied externally to boils.
- In Thai traditional medicine, the mucilage is used as application for bruises, ringworm, and laboring. Stem and leaves used as mild laxative, diuretic and antipyretic.
- In Cameroon herbal healers use plant extracts to enhance libido and as remedy for infertility.
- In Antilles leaves considered good maturative as cataplasm.
source: stuart xchange
Si vuestra herida es, sencillamente, una simple lesión de los tejidos penetrante o contusa, una ofensa a la piel originada por violencia exterior, más o menos extensa o lacerante, más o menos profunda...la solución es fácil: una cura con la asepsia debida, una limpia sutura realizada por un buen terapeuta, y sólo os quedará la cicatriz. O ni siquiera eso: puro olvido.
Más si la herida oculta su amenaza en hondos laberintos, y extiende la espiral de su amargura por secretas regiones, invadiendo los huecos intangibles, las calladas raíces de lo humano, lenta será la lucha, imposible su exacta curación.
Habitará en vosotros como un huésped cercano y duradero, sangre será de vuestra propia sangre,testigo implacable del latido.
Con el tiempo será la compañera de tristes aventuras:
quizá lleguéis a amarla porque os ame con su aterida voz, con la certeza de su tenaz caricia.
Y algún día despertaréis sin miedo respirando por ella, y en su imperio quedará encarcelada vuestra vida.
Aunque os ciegue su llanto, aunque os pese su carga de dolor.
Poeta Antonio Porpetta - Mi gente, mi paisaje, la memoria, el valle, el cid, la luz, el mar cercano...Elda en mi corazón, Elda en mi historia.
Elda (Alicante - Comunidad Valenciana - Pais Valencià - Spain)
SNAKE FUNGAL DISEASE
Snake fungal disease (SFD), caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, is an emerging pathogen of snakes identified in more than 15 genera of captive and free-ranging snakes in 21 states.Snake Fungal Disease, Photo by Matt Allender
SFD is not considered a risk to people.
Some infected snakes show no symptoms. Others develop facial swelling and disfigurement, skin and scale lesions and internal lesions. For some snakes, the disease is fatal.
The fungus can persist in the soil. The route of transmission is unknown, but may occur through contact with soil, other infected snakes, or from mother to offspring.
SFD in Indiana
Researchers from the University of Illinois first identified SFD in Indiana in late 2017 during a surveillance project for the disease.
The researchers swabbed the skin of 53 snakes from 10 Indiana counties. Of those, 13 tested positive for the fungus. Two of those 13 snakes had visible lesions. Species that tested positive included the northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon), racer (Coluber constrictor), milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum) and queen snake (Regina septemvittata).
The surveillance project was funded by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources State Wildlife Grant T7R22.
Field work will resume in spring 2018.
Why monitoring SFD is important
Snakes are important predators and play a critical role in maintaining a balanced ecosystem. Having healthy snake populations in Indiana is necessary to keep rodent populations in check.
Documenting the distribution of this disease will help us develop conservation and management plans.
Snake fungal disease may cause high mortality rates in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus), a federally threatened and state-endangered species in parts of northern Indiana. The potential long-term effect on populations of massasaugas and other snakes remains uncertain.
There are two areas of inflammation, one each on the inside portion of the cheek that is adjacent to the outside surface of the carnasal teeth, a.k.a fourth upper premolars. See the other side. The dental tartar that accumulates on the outside surface of these teeth irritates the tissue that it touches on the inside of the mouth. Regular professional cleanings, as well as home dental care help to prevent these lesions.
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