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Leonorus cardica
Famiglia: Laminaceae
La Leonurus Cardiaca L. venne importata dall'Asia verso il VII secolo per poi diffondersi in quasi tutta Europa, escluse le regioni mediterranee. Nel XV secolo era coltivata nei giardini dei monasteri e cento anni più tardi il medico francese Ambroise Paré menzionò e parlò delle proprietà curative della Cardiaca, come pianta efficace per i disturbi cardiaci di carattere nervoso come il cardiopalmo, ovvero le palpitazioni.
Si utilizza la tintura madre ricavata dalla pianta intera, con il taglio tisana o l'estratto fluido , per trattare stati ansiosi, insonnia, ipertensione, vampate di calore nella menopausa, tachicardia, tonificante del cuore e regolatore del battito cardiaco, facilitare il ciclo mestruale e aiuta ad abbassare la febbre. Facilita anche la digestione dei cibi.
Leonorus Cardica
Family: Laminaceae
The Leonurus Cardiac L. was imported from Asia to the seventh century and then spread throughout most of Europe, except the Mediterranean regions. In the fifteenth century it was cultivated in monastery gardens and a hundred years later the French physician Ambroise Paré mentioned and spoke of the healing properties of the Heart as plant effective for heart disorders of nervous disposition as palpitations, or palpitations.
You use the tincture made from the whole plant, with the cut tea or fluid extract, to treat anxiety, insomnia, hypertension, hot flashes in menopause, tachycardia, heart tonic and regulator of the heart beat, ease menstrual cycle and it helps to lower the fever. It also facilitates the digestion of foods.
Leonorus Cardica
Familia: Laminaceae
El Leonurus cardiaca L. fue importado desde Asia hasta el siglo VII y luego se extendió a lo largo de la mayor parte de Europa, con excepción de las regiones mediterráneas. En el siglo XV se cultiva en jardines del monasterio y cien años más tarde, el médico francés Ambroise Paré mencionado y habló de las propiedades curativas del corazón tan eficaz para los trastornos del corazón de disposición nerviosa como palpitaciones o palpitaciones planta.
Utiliza la tintura hecha de toda la planta, con el té corte o extracto fluido, para tratar la ansiedad, el insomnio, la hipertensión, los sofocos en la menopausia, taquicardia, tónico cardíaco y regulador de los latidos del corazón, la facilidad ciclo menstrual y ayuda a bajar la fiebre. También facilita la digestión de los alimentos.
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but it's getting there.
Feeling the full effects lately of my age, both physically and emotionally.
Need to change my attitude.
Don't want to give into it.
I didn't do with 40 everything I had hoped.
I'll be 41 at the end of this month.
Already.
I've become a fucking slave to my hormones lately. Is this pre-menopause?
I'm reading up on diet changes and herbal supplements to try to ease it, because it truly is awful.
I feel out of control half the time.
I cry at everything whether it is happy or sad.
I rage.
All my normal human emotions are out of whack, basically.
Then there is the overwhelming fear of time running out, of questioning what the hell do I think I'm doing (and not doing) and who I think I am.
Floundering.
Seeing my daughter turn into an adult before my very eyes (so it seems).
She enters high school this fall.
Struggling in my relationships to find balance; struggling to find my truth in each situation; to see and think clearly.
Trying to reign in my reactionary emotions.
Trying to do what's right and if I'm not sure what that is, to do nothing.
Trying to do the things I know I should do...even the things that will just make me feel better.
Baby steps, always baby steps.
Sometimes it feels like my whole life is baby steps while everyone else races by.
Sometimes I need to just remember to breathe and surround myself with light.
It's not dark yet.
Midwife means with woman
A midwife is a professional in midwifery. In addition to providing care to women during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period, midwives also provide primary care related to reproductive health, including annual gynecological exams, family planning, and menopausal care.
British postcard in the Picturegoer series. Photo: Dorothy Wilding.
Anna May Wong (1905-1961) was the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Frustrated by the stereotypical supporting roles she reluctantly played in Hollywood, Wong left for Europe, where she starred in such classics as Piccadilly (1929).
Anna May Wong (Chinese: 黃柳霜; pinyin: Huáng Liǔshuāng) was born Wong Liu Tsong (Frosted Yellow Willows) near the Chinatown neighbourhood of Los Angeles in 1905. She was the second of seven children born to Wong Sam Sing, owner of the Sam Kee Laundry in Los Angeles, and his second wife Lee Gon Toy. Wong had a passion for the movies. By the age of 11, she had come up with her stage name of Anna May Wong, formed by joining both her English and family names. Wong was working at Hollywood's Ville de Paris department store when Metro Pictures needed 300 girl extras to appear in The Red Lantern (Albert Capellani, 1919) starring Nazimova as a Eurasian woman who falls in love with an American missionary. The film included scenes shot in Chinatown. Without her father's knowledge, a friend of his with movie connections helped Anna May land an uncredited role as an extra carrying a lantern. In 1921 she dropped out of Los Angeles High School to pursue a full-time acting career. Wong received her first screen credit for Bits of Life (Marshall Neilan, 1921), the first anthology film, in which she played the abused wife of of Lon Chaney, playing a Chinaman. At 17, she played her first leading part, Lotus Flower, in The Toll of the Sea (Chester M. Franklin, 1922), the first Technicolor production. The story by Hollywood's most famous scenarist at the time, Frances Marion, was loosely based on the opera Madame Butterfly but moved the action from Japan to China. Wong also played a concubine in Drifting (Tod Browning, 1923) and a scheming but eye-catching Mongol slave girl running around with Douglas Fairbanks Jr in the super-production The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924). Richard Corliss in Time: “Wong is a luminous presence, fanning her arms in right-angle gestures that seem both Oriental and flapperish. Her best scenes are with Fairbanks, as they connive against each other and radiate contrasting and combined sexiness — a vibrant, erotic star quality.” Wong began cultivating a flapper image and became a fashion icon. in Peter Pan (Herbert Brenon, 1924), shot by her cousin cinematographer James Wong Howe, she played Princess Tiger Lily who shares a long kiss with Betty Bronson as Peter. Peter Pan was the hit of the Christmas season. She appeared again with Lon Chaney in Mr. Wu (William Nigh, 1927) at MGM and with Warner Oland and Dolores Costello in Old San Francisco (Alan Crosland, 1927) at Warner Brothers. Wong starred in The Silk Bouquet/The Dragon Horse (Harry Revier, 1927), one of the first US films to be produced with Chinese backing, provided by San Francisco's Chinese Six Companies. The story was set in China during the Ming Dynasty, and featured Asian actors playing the Asian roles. Hollywood studios didn't know what to do with Wong. Her ethnicity prevented US filmmakers from seeing her as a leading lady. Frustrated by the stereotypical supporting roles as the naïve and self-sacrificing ‘Butterfly’ and the evil ‘Dragon Lady’, Wong left for Europe in 1928.”
In Europe, Anna May Wong became a sensation in the German film Schmutziges Geld/Show Life (Richard Eichberg, 1928) with Heinrich George. The New York Times reported that Wong was "acclaimed not only as an actress of transcendent talent but as a great beauty (...) Berlin critics, who were unanimous in praise of both the star and the production, neglect to mention that Anna May is of American birth. They mention only her Chinese origins." Other film parts were a circus artist on the run from a murder charge in Großstadtschmetterling/City Butterfly (Richard Eichberg, 1929), and a dancer in pre-Revolutionary Russia in Hai-Tang (Richard Eichberg, Jean Kemm, 1930). In Vienna, she played the title role in the stage operetta Tschun Tschi in fluent German. Wong became an inseparable friend of the director Leni Riefenstahl. According to Wikipedia, her close friendships with several women throughout her life, including Marlene Dietrich, led to rumors of lesbianism which damaged her public reputation. London producer Basil Dean bought the play A Circle of Chalk for Wong to appear in with the young Laurence Olivier, her first stage performance in the UK. Her final silent film, Piccadilly (Ewald André Dupont, 1929), caused a sensation in the UK.]Gilda Gray was the top-billed actress, but Variety commented that Wong "outshines the star", and that "from the moment Miss Wong dances in the kitchen's rear, she steals 'Piccadilly' from Miss Gray." It would be the first of five English films in which she had a starring role, including her first sound film The Flame of Love (Richard Eichberg, Walter Summers, 1930). American studios were looking for fresh European talent. Ironically, Wong caught their eye and she was offered a contract with Paramount Studios in 1930. She was featured in such films as Daughter of the Dragon (Lloyd Corrigan, 1931) as the vengeful daughter of Fu Manchu (Warner Oland), and with Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932). Wong spent the first half of the 1930s travelling between the United States and Europe for film and stage work. She repeatedly turned to the stage and cabaret for a creative outlet. On Broadway, she starred in the drama On the Spot, that ran for 167 performances and which she would later film as Dangerous to Know (Robert Florey. 1938).
Anna May Wong became more outspoken in her advocacy for Chinese American causes and for better film roles. Because of the Hays Code's anti-miscegenation rules, she was passed over for the leading female role in The Son-Daughter (Clarence Brown, 1932) in favour of Helen Hayes. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer deemed her ‘too Chinese to play a Chinese’ in the film, and the Hays Office would not have allowed her to perform romantic scenes since the film's male lead, Ramón Novarro, was not Asian. Wong was scheduled to play the role of a mistress to a corrupt Chinese general in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra, 1933), but the role went instead to Toshia Mori. Her British film Java Head (Thorold Dickinson, J. Walter Ruben, 1934), was the only film in which Wong kissed the lead male character, her white husband in the film. In 1935 she was dealt the most severe disappointment of her career, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer refused to consider her for the leading role of the Chinese character O-Lan in the film version of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth (Sidney Franklin, 1937). Paul Muni, an actor of European descent, was to play O-lan's husband, Wang Lung, and MGM chose German actress Luise Rainer for the leading role. Rainer won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance. Wong spent the next year touring China, visiting her father and her younger brothers and sister in her family's ancestral village Taishan and studying Chinese culture. To complete her contract with Paramount Pictures, she starred in several B movies, including Daughter of Shanghai (Robert Florey, 1937), Dangerous to Know (Robert Florey, 1938), and King of Chinatown (Nick Grinde, 1939) with Akim Tamiroff. These smaller-budgeted films could be bolder than the higher-profile releases, and Wong used this to her advantage to portray successful, professional, Chinese-American characters. Wong's cabaret act, which included songs in Cantonese, French, English, German, Danish, Swedish, and other languages, took her from the U.S. to Europe and Australia through the 1930s and 1940s. She paid less attention to her film career during World War II, but devoted her time and money to helping the Chinese cause against Japan. Wong starred in Lady from Chungking (William Nigh, 1942) and Bombs over Burma (Joseph H. Lewis, 1943), both anti-Japanese propaganda made by the poverty row studio Producers Releasing Corporation. She donated her salary for both films to United China Relief. She invested in real estate and owned a number of properties in Hollywood.
Anna May Wong returned to the public eye in the 1950s in several television appearances as well as her own detective series The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong (1951-1952), the first US television show starring an Asian-American series lead. After the completion of the series, Wong's health began to deteriorate. In late 1953 she suffered an internal hemorrhage, which her brother attributed to the onset of menopause, her continued heavy drinking, and financial worries. In the following years, she did guest spots on television series. In 1960, she returned to film playing housekeeper to Lana Turner in the thriller Portrait in Black (Michael Gordon, 1960). She was scheduled to play the role of Madame Liang in the film production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (Henry Koster, 1961), when she died of a heart attack at home in Santa Monica in 1961. Anna May Wong was 56. For decades after her death, Wong was remembered principally for the stereotypical sly ‘Dragon Lady’ and demure ‘Butterfly’ roles that she was often given. Matthew Sweet in The Guardian: “And this is the trouble with Anna May Wong. We disapprove of the stereotypes she fleshed out - the treacherous, tragic daughters of the dragon - but her performances still seduce, for the same reason they did in the 1920s and 30s.” Her life and career were re-evaluated by three new biographies, a meticulous filmography, and a British documentary about her life, called Frosted Yellow Willows. Wikipedia: “Through her films, public appearances and prominent magazine features, she helped to ‘humanize’ Asian Americans to white audiences during a period of overt racism and discrimination. Asian Americans, especially the Chinese, had been viewed as perpetually foreign in U.S. society but Wong's films and public image established her as an Asian-American citizen at a time when laws discriminated against Asian immigration and citizenship.” Anna May Wong never married, but over the years, she was the rumored mistress of several prominent film men: Marshall Neilan (14 years older, supposedly Wong's lover when she was 15), director Tod Browning (23 years older, when she was 16) and Charles Rosher (Mary Pickford's favorite cinematographer, who was nearly 20 years older, when Wong was 20). But no biographer can say for sure that any of the affairs occurred.
Sources: Richard Corliss (Time), Matthew Sweet (The Guardian), Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
Pop Up Concert in the Park on Thursday, September 9th 2021
A free will donation will be collected as our thanks to St. Sophia's Church for allowing us to use their facility for rehearsals throughout the year.
Bring your lawn chairs and long sleeves, and settle in to hear our new tunes along with a few of your old favorites
Poster photographed in the entryway of the Pepin Hotel
Pepin Wisconsin
Friday September 17th 2021
Today’s Translation: The Voice Bible | Weekly Video: The Patriarchs (Hebrews 11:8-22)
“By faith Abraham’s wife Sarah became fertile long after menopause because she believed God would be faithful to His promise. So from this man, who was almost at death’s door, God brought forth desce...
Yep, that's right. Girl. This lioness confused zoo visitors who thought she was the new young lion recently acquired, but a zoo guide told us that this lioness is simply going through menopause and is therefore growing a mane. I had never even known that was possible.
You don't want to mess with a lioness ever, but you *really* don't want to mess with a lioness going through menopause. :)
*Edited to add: further research tells me that females don't always grow this pseudo-mane, only sometimes.
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Beauty, grace, class and an effervescent personality, is it any wonder why Cheryl Ladd remains one of Hollywood’s favorites. Cheryl has come a long way from her days as one of Charlie’s Angels. From television to movies, Broadway and now author for Cheryl Ladd, the best is yet to come.
Ladd is known as one of Hollywood's most talented stars and beauty queens, born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota. Cheryl's parents were of German descent, the second daughter of Dolores, a waitress, and Marion Stoppelmoor (1929–2001), a railroad engineer. She married fellow actor David Ladd, with whom she had a daughter, Jordan. She took his surname as her own, which she kept after their divorce. She has been married to music producer Bryan Russell since 1981, and has a stepdaughter, Lindsay Russell.
Ladd initially came to Hollywood in 1970 to begin a career in music (she was known as Cherie Moor when she was the singing voice of Melody on Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats animated series). She soon began to land non-singing roles in commercials and episodic television - including guest appearances on shows such as The Rookies, The Partridge Family and Happy Days. The Charlie's Angels series made her an overnight star, and Ladd took the opportunity of her sudden popularity to further pursue her musical interests, guest-starring in musical-comedy variety series and her own TV specials, performing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl XIV in January 1980, and releasing three albums, enjoying a Top 40 Hot 100 single and a Gold record. In September 2000, Ladd starred on Broadway, taking over the title role from Bernadette Peters in a revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun. She played the role until January 2001, when Reba McEntire took over.
Following Charlie's Angels, Ladd remained a familiar face on television and has starred in more than 30 made for television films, including a coveted role as Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia heiress who became a Hollywood glamour girl and then a European princess, in a biopic that was begun shortly before Kelly's death. She also starred in some of TV's top rated movie's and was voted time and time again as one of Hollywood's most beloved stars with such movies as: Kentucky Woman, Deadly Care, A Death In California, Romance On The Orient Express, Jekyll and Hyde (A Love Story), Crossings, Bluegrass, Changes, Locked Up: A Mother's Rage, The Fulfillment of Mary Gray, Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back, Dancing With Danger, Every Mother's Worst Fear, plus feature films such as Now and Forever, Purple Hearts, Millennium, Poison Ivy (featuring Drew Barrymore, who later starred in the film adaptations of Charlie's Angels) and Permanent Midnight. Ladd had the lead role in the television series One West Waikiki (1994–96), and made guest appearances in other TV shows such as Charmed, Hope and Faith and CSI: Miami. From 2003 until the show's cancellation in 2008, Ladd played Jillian Deline, the wife of the lead character Ed Deline (James Caan), in 28 episodes of the television drama Las Vegas.
While still on the series Charlie's Angels, Ladd developed and starred in the ABC telefilm, When She Was Bad (also starring Robert Urich), which dealt with the harsh realities of child abuse. At that time, no one was saying anything about this horrific epidemic going on in our country, says Ladd, an ambassador for Childhelp USA - one of the largest national, non-profit organization dedicated to research, prevention and treatment of child abuse. I wanted to bring this issue to the forefront of people's minds. During her spare moments between projects, Ladd is a tireless humanitarian. In addition to being awarded the Woman of the World Award from Childhelp USA in 1987, Ladd also had the honor of becoming the first woman to receive the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award by the Washington D.C. Touchdown Club for her continuing philanthropic endeavors. She also speaks out on her being a Born-Again Christian and her Faith in Jesus Christ whenever she can.
In 1996, Ladd published a children's book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship. In 2005, she published Token Chick: A Woman’s Guide to Golfing With the Boys, an autobiographical book which focused on her love of golf. For several years, Ladd hosted a golf tournament sponsored by Buick.
On April 17, 2010, Ladd, along with her co-angel, Jaclyn Smith, accepted the 2010 TV Land Pop Culture Award; for Charlie's Angels.
In 2010, Ladd filmed a TV movie titled Love's Everlasting Courage for the Hallmark Channel, which aired on October 1, 2011. That same month, she guest starred on NCIS in the show's ninth season episode Thirst as the love interest of medical examiner Dr. Donald Ducky Mallard. In December 2011, she guest starred in an episode of Chuck, playing Sarah Walker's mother, in the shows 8th episode of season five.
Currently Ladd is appearing in national 30-second spots for an educational campaign for women about the importance of seeing a doctor at the on set of menopause. Over the last thee years, research suggests a nearly 30% drop in the number of women who have visited their doctors due to Menopausal issues. Launched by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Ladd is the figurehead of this awareness initiative, hoping to drive women to a new online resource, www.talkingtoyourdoctor.com .
An avid golfer, Ladd plays whenever time allows sporting a respectable index of 14. When she's not on the golf course, Ladd keeps herself busy developing new projects and has also written a children’s book with her husband of over twenty years, Brian Russell. The book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship, teaches the value of good citizenship, and championship.
Ladd's focus, however, remains on her acting. I think it would be great fun to do a sitcom, she says, I'm one of those actors who is always looking to the next challenge.
Today I received unfortunate news -- someone I greatly admire has terminal cancer.
His name is Chris Heward, and he is one of the best human being on the planet. He is by far the most rigorous scientist I have ever met, and is filled with compassion for all of humanity. As the president of Kronos Laboraties (http://www.kronoslaboratory.com/) he has tirelessly worked on diseases relating to aging, and has contributed meaningfully to many areas such as Alzheimer's disease, prion related diseases, menopause, and oxidative stress. In addition to considering him a friend, I feel a duty to help him in any way I can because of how much he has done for the world.
His chances of survival are small (less thane 1%), but there is something you can do to help. He is going to receive an experimental granulocyte transplant therapy, and donors are needed. The donation process is not harmful, and in addition to possibly helping Chris you may also be helping cure cancer.
Below I have included an e mail from John Schloendorn of the Methuselah Foundation detailing how to donate granulocytes.
Dear all,
My friend Chris Heward was diagnosed with Stage IV terminal esophageal cancer. His chances of surviving a year are less than 1%, even with the best available care. For those of you who don't know Chris, he is the president of the Kronos Science Laboratories, a Phoenix-based anti-aging hub www.kronoslaboratory.com
Those of you who do know Chris will understand that he is not going down without a fight. Chris has very much the power of Kronos behind him, and we all hope that the experimental effort being launched there will not just benefit Chris, but many other sufferers of terminal cancers.
Plan A is based on the granulocyte therapy developed by Zheng Cui. Many of you know Zheng as well, and will remember that he made headlines throughout the anti-aging communities last year by achieving a complete cure for all types of cancer tested in the mouse.
A brief recap:
Zheng by accident discovered that one of his mice was immune to any transplanted mouse or human cancers. This remarkable animal resisted a million times the dose of cancer cells that is 100% lethal to other mice. The trait turned out to be heritable in a single-gene mendelian fashion, but the responsible gene has so far resisted discovery. The cancer resistance was mediated by leukocytes, probably mostly of the granulocyte type. Granulocytes from the cancer-resistant mice chase cancer cells in a petri dish and destroy them. Granulocytes from other mice do not do that. Transplantation of granulocytes from cancer-resistant mice into other mice can transfer the cancer immunity, as well as cure existing cancers of all types tested (which were many types!).
When Zheng looked in people, he found: Granulocytes form cancer patients never chase cancer cells. Granulocytes from healthy people sometimes chase cancer cells. Granulocytes from people in cancer-free families often chase cancer cells. In September 2008, at the Methuselah Foundation sponsored "Aging 08" conference at UCLA, Zheng announced the launch of a clinical trial investigating the therapeutic effect of transplanting granulocytes from cancer-free donors (apt at chasing cancer cells in petri dishes) into cancer patients. A video of Zheng's Aging 08 talk discussing all this in more detail is available here www.vimeo.com/1650186
Shortly after Aging 08, Zheng's trial was put on hold by the FDA for certain bioethical concerns they had, and has been on hold since. Unfortunately, it is quite normal for this agency to charge ahead with the speed of a glacier. Chris does not have that kind of time. Our friends at Kronos are now scrambling to revive Zheng's technology and apply it to Chris in the few months he has left. However, even for Kronos, this is not possible without your help. Here are a couple of ways:
(1) Donate granulocytes
The most critical resource for this project are granulocyte donors. The granulocyte donation process itself is harmless and simple for the donor. Granulocyte transplantation is in routine clinical use to treat a variety of infections. However, for Zheng's therapy, many donors are needed to treat one patient, and the donors have to be selected for limited blood type and immune system compatibility. Thus, a fairly large number of individuals must be screened. If you get selected, the benefits will include adequate payment, possibly a free trip to Zheng's facility at Wake Forest, Florida, and - in my opinion best of all - knowing whether your granulocytes possess the cancer-chasing ability. Oh yes, and who knows, maybe help discover the cure for cancer. Please complete the attached form to participate in the first round of screening. Send it to Wendy at Kronos: Wendy.Bezotte@kronoslaboratory.com Her email address and (shared!) fax number are also given on the form. I sent mine today.
(2) Forward this message
To reach a large enough number of donors, please forward this information to as many people as you can. Chris values his life a lot more than his privacy, and is explicitely asking us to launch this as a chain email. If you have a blog, blog away. If you're a rockstar, announce it on stage. Don't forget to attach the form. Or pour sacks of them into the audience.
(3) Wish Chris well
Chris has set up a Facebook page where he tells his story in a more personal way, and posts updates. Search "Chris Heward" and you will find him -- he's the smiling bald guy. If you would like to help in other ways, email Wendy directly, Wendy.Bezotte@kronoslaboratory.com
That's all folks. Let's see what we can do.
JS
HRT or ERT may relieve menopause-related symptoms, such as hot flashes, and reduce bone loss; however, HRT has risks. Taking HRT increases, rather than reduces, the risk for heart disease and stroke. It also increases the risk of breast cancer and blood clots, but it appears to decrease the risk of colon cancer. Buy Menopause Treatments
Menopausal Gentleman is Peggy Shaw’s bluesy, pseudo-stream-of-consciousness lounge act about a butch lesbian going through “the change.” Shaw riffs on the hormonal effects of menopause complete with hot flashes, cold sweats, humor and tears.
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A HAPPY ASH WEDNESDAY TO YOU AND YOURS
FROM ROLLER
A RATHER COCKEYED DISCLAIMER (OF SORTS)
CIRCA 1943-44...AS A VERY YOUNG CHILD, MY OLDER BROTHER WAS AN IMAGINATIVE, EGOTISTICAL ARIES MANIAC WHO WOULD WARN ME (SAGITTARIUS) SHOULD I LEAVE MY CLOSET DOOR OPEN AT NIGHT, JESUS WOULD APPEAR (GLOWING INSIDE)...HE ALSO RELISHED INFORMING ME (UNSOLICITED) CONCERNING THE MEANINGS GIVING RISE TO VARIOUS HOLIDAYS AND OTHER SOCIOLOGICALLY REPETITIVE OBSERVANCES. EXAMPLE? WE LIVED IN TEXAS. THERE WAS NO SNOW ON THE ROOF TO ACCOMMODATE A CHRISTMAS EVE LANDING BY SANTA...SO, SANTA WOULD FLY OVER THE HOUSE AND DELIVER MY GIFTS TO THE FRONT PORCH VIA PARACHUTE. I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS MY BROTHER WHO TIED STRINGS TO THE BED SHEET...THEN TO THE BUNDLE CONTAINING ALL MY GIFTS...STOMPED AROUND REAL GOOD AND LOUD ON THE FRONT PORCH ROOF...SHOVED THE WHOLE SHEBANG OVER THE EDGE OF THE ROOF...ALWAYS MADE SURE ONE OF THE GIFTS WAS BROKEN TO INSURE BELIEF. WENT FROM THERE...YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW THE EXPLANATION OF ASH WEDNESDAY, EASTER, PASSOVER, ET ALL WAS "HANDLED"...
ASH WEDNESDAY APPARENTLY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH AN IMPOSITION OF ASHES SOMETIME FORTY DAYS PRIOR TO EASTER, AND REPRESENTED A LITURGICAL PERIOD OF ABSTINENCE. IT FOLLOWED SHROVE TUESDAY (WHICH WAS PRETTY SCARY IN ITSELF)...
THE FOLLOWING PAINTING IS "FINISHED" (NO SMOKE ON GLADYS' BUTT, YET) BUT SHOWN UNFRAMED, AND MINUS THE TWO NARRATIVES, (PENCIL ON PAPER UNDER GLASS) ALSO FRAMED, WHICH WILL FLANK THE PAINTING ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT SIDES...A TRIPTYCH.
THE NARRATIVES ARE NOT YET COMPLETE...BUT THEY COMPRISE A PRETTY HAIRY ACCOUNTING OF A TOTALLY SKEWED MISINTERPRETATION OF ASH WEDNESDAY...YOU CAN BET ON IT...ONE IN WHICH MEG (LEFT) WOULD GET EM READY, TOM (RIGHT) WOULD STACK EM, AND JUDY (CENTER -BUT SEEN AS HER OTHER, CRANKY MENOPAUSAL SELF, GLADYS, THE SMOKING PUSSY) WOULD TRY TO HOLD STILL AND/OR ABSTAIN. IT'S PRETTY CERTAIN THE INTERPRETATION EVOLVED A CONFUSED CONGLOMERATE COMPRISED OF JACOB'S LADDER, THE LEANING TOWER OF PIZZA, THE BURNING BUSH, AND NO TELLING WHAT ELSE.
ONCE ALL IS FINISHED, TITLED, AND PHOTOGRAPHED, I WILL SEND OUT INFORMATION. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW I AM BREATHING, AND TO SEND A GREETING (AND A LICK AND A PROMISE)...(AND A LOVELY BUNCH OF COCONUTS)...MORE LATER, ROLLER
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Bisnis Syariah – Teh Asmurat terbuat dari dua komposisi herbal yang secara tradisional dipercaya dapat mengatasi berbagai penyakit asam urat.
Songgolangit merupakan tanaman gulma yang memiliki banyak khasiat. Menurut penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Dr. Hamzah di Fakultas Kedokteran Unair ( Universitas Airlangga) bagian Farmakologi.
Daun songgolangit yang dijadikan serbuk minuman seperti teh berkhasiat sebagai anti inflamasi (anti radang) dan analgesik dengan menggunakan daun songgolangit yang sudah dikeringkan sekitar 40% atau setara dengan 2,2 gr cukup untuk 1 kali seduh atau dibuat dengan kantong the.
Daun meniran menjadikannya sebagai salah satu tanaman obat unggulan yang banyak khasiat yang paling populer di masyarakat adalah keampuhannya dalam mengatasi asam urat.
Oleh karena itu, hampir setiap produk-produk herbal anti asam urat menggunakan Meniran sebagai salah satu bahan baku pembuatannya, seperti Teh Songgolangit yang terbuat dari ramuan Songgolangit, yang dikombinasikan dengan meniran, yang berkhasiat untuk mengurangi kadar asam urat, mengurangi bengkak dan rasa nyeri.
Manfaat Asmurat :
Membantu mengobati osteoartritis atau keausan pada sendi
Membantu mengobati penyakit rematik atau persendian
Membantu mengobati penyakit Artritis Gout, atau asam urat
Membantu memperbaiki fungsi ginjal
Mengatasi penyakit encok, pegel linu kesemutan, flu tulang
Sekilas Tentang Apa Itu Asam Urat..?
Asam urat adalah asam yang berbentuk kristal-kristal yang merupakan hasil akhir dari metabolisme purin (bentuk turunan nukleoprotein), yaitu salah satu komponen asam nukleat yang terdapat pada inti sel-sel tubuh.
Jadi asam urat merupakan hasil metabolisme di dalam tubuh, yang kadarnya tidak boleh berlebih. Setiap orang memiliki asam urat di dalam tubuh, karena pada setiap metabolisme normal dihasilkan asam urat.
Sedangkan pemicunya adalah makanan dan senyawa lain yang banyak mengandung purin. Sebetulnya, tubuh menyediakan 85 persen senyawa purin untuk kebutuhan setiap hari. Ini berarti bahwa kebutuhan purin dari makanan hanya sekitar 15 persen.
Berikut Gejala Asam Urat yang Bisa Anda Kenali:
Otot terasa nyeri mulai dari kaki, lutut, pinggang, dan juga tangan.
Bagian tubuh yang terkena asam urat akan membengkak, berwarna kemerahan, dan terasa panas.
Badan terasa capek dan pegal sehingga membuat kita malas beraktifitas.
Frekuensi buang air kecil meningkat
Dalam waktu lama akan menyebabkan terbentuknya batu ginjal
Penyebab Asam Urat
Gaya hidup tidak sehat, seperti sering mengonsumsi minuman dengan kadar fruktosa yang tinggi dan/atau beralkohol.
Menderita penyakit tertentu, seperti tekanan darah tinggi (hipertensi), diabetes, gangguan ginjal dan penyempitan pembuluh darah.
Obesitas.
Sering mengonsumsi jenis obat golongan tertentu seperti obat diuretik (obat yang berfungsi untuk mengeluarkan air dan garam dari tubuh) atau obat aspirin.
Genetik. Riwayat keluarga yang memiliki riwayat penyakit penumpukan asam urat akan meningkatkan risiko Anda untuk mengalaminya juga.
Jenis kelamin. Pria cenderung lebih sering mengalami peradangan akibat penyakit asam urat.
Usia. Ketika memasuki usia menopause, wanita memiliki risiko dalam tingkat yang sama dengan pria untuk menderita radang akibat penyakit asam urat.
"Some of the health benefits attributed to red clover tea:
Appears to reduce bad cholesterol levels.
May limit the development of benign prostate hyperplasia.
May help reduce the build-up of plaque that contributes to heart disease.
May help in the flow of blood to the arteries and to the veins.
May help delay bone loss due to osteoporosis.
May help relieve symptoms of pre-menstrual syndrome in pre-menopausal women.
May help in the overall efforts to treat tuberculosis and some sexually-transmitted diseases like syphilis.
May help in treating inflammation and infection."
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the open space on the checkout counter gives me a slight chub in my pants.
Jim.#
Unposed, except where noted blah blah blah.
125 / 5.6
08\317 4:40 PM Tompkins Square Park: Lower East Side, New York. Today, as often happens, Lt. Corcoran told a drinker to get out of the park. And, Carl, ever the gentleman, complied with humor and a genteel wit.
Who is Carl? Carl was born in a different world, the New York of 1946 - the last days of the waterfront of Anna Christie, the world of bargies and a community who lived in sight of the city but a world away.
As Carl tells it, his mother had a hard menopause, and in order to survive, his father retreated to a job on a Trap Rock Scow, a barge towed from up the Hudson River to an anchorage off Staten Island. Carl was then the sole recipient of his mother's temper, so in an act of kindness his father took him, just before puberty, to live in the aft cabin of a scow, a community of a few thousand deck hands living in a floating village anchored off the narrows. One can still see barges moored at Robin's reef, in the lee of Kitty's light, just before the ferryboat reaches Staten Island.
"My father took some two by fours and made a bunk for me, above his. I had a porthole, it was a beautiful view. I became quite a seaman, I might not have been able to splice a hawser, but I was a good sailor." He and his father, worked as did as the other deck hands of the scows, breaking ice off the lines and bending stiff lines, salting the decks, and sweating in the summers. "I lived the life before the mast, so to speak... we had no mast."
He suffered through puberty, gazing at the city from the island of scows which bumped against each other at the anchorage, separated by truck tire fenders. On occasion he and his father went ashore in a rubber dingy. In the winter they had a Franklin coal stove, but often it gave too much heat, so they cooked over two hand pumped gas primus stoves. "The company even gave us an ice box, but it was no good to us, they did not give us ice!" Rain, fog, sleet and storm, fair weather or foul, they worked the scow, living on the end of a tug boat's tow line, or anchored in the upper river or lower harbor around the stake boat, permanently chained to the anchorage -- the center of the scow sailor's community.
Then one day, that world died. The tug boat companies tore the cabins off the scows and had their own crews take over. A world ended, and tug boat men had to board scows in rough weather, sometimes paying for the new deal with their lives. And so, the 1950s turned into the 1960s, and there was no place for the scow sailors of New York.
Tonight, this gentleman, who still dreams of life with his father in the cozy cabin of the Trap Rock Scow, sat in the park confronted by the police car. Lt. Corcran commented on his long hair. "Yes, you are right, I do need a hair cut. Thank you for the concern... I will get a hair cut... Yes, I will not lie to you, I AM drunk. I hope you only give me a ticket, as I don't have my ID with me today. I have to leave the park as well? Well, I suppose I do if I need to get a hair cut... So, I will leave ... and rape a barber." This brought laughter to the two officers out side the car, I could not see Lt. Corcoran response ... and Carl rose and walked slowly out of the park. Few in our neighborhood know where his journey started.
"...AND InciDENTLY Charlie--A Happy Outcome Here--Jason Now Joins Those Who Simply "ARE"...As He Blogged Recently: "OFF The PILL...!" --Bill Wates (On Charlie Gose)
UPDATE: ALIEN ANONYMOUS--[SEASON ONE]
"FIRST-CONTACT AUDIENCE"--Since the above broadcast two weeks ago, international middle-age-male movie ticket sales have risen x 450% & climbing...in (thus-far) no further AA ScreenHacks, [aka, as-yet unsourced "Overrides"] --hope no less springs eternal among an increasing global movie-going audience to "Be There Then"--If And When ANOTHER "Contact" occurs...
And this BREAKING NEWS will likely take it through the roof: there appears to be a "substantial percentage" of first-contact audience males reporting .5 to 1.5 inch increase in 'erect penis length'.
It remains to be seen if this effect is permanent or stable, or if in fact a further enlargement is 'in-progress'...as well, reports are surfacing of some hair re-growth in balding men, and dramatic mitigation or cessation of menopausal symptoms, dementia, and infertility among both men & women...
(Photo w/ Text Uploaded May 20, 2013)
_______________________
EVOLUTION: The Advent Of The FCFD [First Contact Full Duration] Audience--The "FCFD-er" --Claims Bragging Rights
A 'subset' of humanity emerges in the months that follow the above interview: (on-screen text in language of location) the FCFD audience is international, but the bell-curve's bulge is PST U.S. West Coast) those who, for whatever reason, remained attentively seated for the full 12 minutes of the universally unexplained insertion [SCREEN-HACK or "OVERRIDE"] of the Cave Painter scene (none guessing it was the signature of "First Contact w/ ETelligence..)
MOST ultimately repaired to multiplex lobbies to complain about "AN UNRELATED TRAILER OR SOMETHIN" interrupting the film they paid to see...
mobile devices, etc, are inexplicably "offline", so all communication is temporarily reduced to direct voice-to-ear...(i.e., BAFFLED theater management is informed by collectively clamorous in-person complaint and has NO CLUE, technical explanation or "in-time" solution...
THE FCFD's conceive children with unusual precocity and sundry "gifts"--their DNA has longer telemeres, and is otherwise subtly, inexplicably "mutated"...this effect is dramatized as time passes, and word gets out--such that singles looking for partners lie about being an FCFD-er, etc...
this effect unfolds into what some will come to see as the next stage of human evolution--Alien Anonymous, however, offers no response or comment (their only communication with humanity--until the Academy chooses a Director, is via "one-way" silent text on movie-screen and rare tweets that, as with theater screens, "override" the entire platform...)
________________________
SERIES-WITHIN-SERIES: ALIEN ANONYMOUS~
FIRE w/FYRE: LAZARUS UNBOUND
[SPOILER ALERT DISABLED]
PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENTS. . .
FULL DISCLOSURE: IN "REALITY"--
This "Acorn" In The Metadataphoric "Oak Forest" Plotline
Of The Series About The Movie ALIEN ANONYMOUS:
THE POEM-BASED FILM THAT BECAME A PBO
[Pandora's Box Office] MINISERIES--
FIRE WITH FYRE: LAZARUS UNBOUND
"A Luminously Edgy Take
On Christianity's Troubled Infancy"--ScreenWright Now
[What Bill Wates Is Referring To
On Charlie Gose]
LOVE, DEATH & ADULTERY--SCENE: Cold-Sweat Pillow-Talk:
Lazarus Recounts To Pilate's Wife His Nightmare of Pivoting To Re-Hear "Come FORTH!" From Shifting Distance & Direction In The Dark ~MUSIC~(Masley: SINGING GONG bit.ly/nLwd6O )
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Pilot Poem on Pontius Pilate
Episode One: HAUNTED BIRTHDAZE
...Multiple flashbacks--Lazarus, resisting the nascent cult offering itself to his unwelcome charisma, is sought by Pilate's wife--
under each other's spell they finally fall, a whirlwind,
reaped and again, sown...
--A cuckolded Pontius Pilate (unknowingly) then
receives the "unusual" son of Lazarus...as his own..
"Have thou nothing to do with that just man:
for I have suffered many things this day
in a dream because of him"...--Pilate's Wife (Matthew 27:19)
~~~~~~~~
Conscious Pilate wet his hands.
His face went up in ripples
frowning over the basin scowling over the sink rubbing
palms till fragrance rose
in pink foam
about each wrist: well what did she think!?
that Rome could Tower on a foundation of silk & mercy?!
Let her turn from his touch then, gnawing the name
of that imagined flower in her sleep
"Azaris, come forth! O look Azaris everywhere!"
all: over this soft-spined fable of a would-be Jewish King who
stands here without a sound or a mindful look
...who stood there not saying a thing...
Cool, distant these past months
she would be cold indeed tonight, their anniversary...
Attendants towelled his hands and Pilate further
scowled.
Empires press hard by definition--crush ahead
whether Babylon or Egypt or Rome...
pressure greets progress from the grave up--a measure of bloodshed
greases the underbelly--allowing history's grander scale,
like it or not.
And since when was Power for the Squeamish?
Order is its own reward, a delicate issue
assured on a compost of fatal suffering--the imperial flower
holds its bloom in a telling soil of examples!
ALL need to see and know: seditious hallucinations
are drastically "discouraged"...the more mnemonic the agony
the better then. Vivid spectacles of conviction, slow death~
crucifixions & so forth...stem the rabble and stay the course.
When such nerve fails, the end is near.
Mortal Fear. The House Stands for it, by it, of it:
preserved with all due force, Order prevails
Order is Good, the House Stands.
Consumed in thorns, true to form,
Rome was a Black Rose.
Pilate grimaced & turned as the lashes fell
and fell, like blinks at something in the eye
of a Storm.
The sky itself bruising now. Rain soon, or heat lightning.
A few hours would tell.
But this hardly seemed a reason to recall the odd thing Herod said
about the baptist, the mad hermit, "John" the Baptist
yes--"a look grim with awe, as if his head fell away of seeing God"
And he knew and cursed his knowing so well
too much of how it was
that his wife tonight would suffer
neither the passion of his explanation
nor bear the patience of his tenderest touch.
She would carry an impossible child from that day
conceiving a visage of stillbirth
building under a caul
the eleven-fingered mystery of a son
whose father
was Lazarus...
--Artist General
FINAL EPISODE:
Truth Proves The Heresy Of The Dogma
And Providence Loves Irony...
With the Extra Finger
his son will become a lyre prodigy;
he will never know his father alive,
and life will flash 'inside-out'
when death comes for Lazarus by water...
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FUN FACT: PITCH & ROLL--ALIEN ANONYMOUS--A SEMI-GRAPHIC NOVELLA Produced In A Reality That Includes {WAIT-For-it} ..."ETERNITY!"
--Random-Sequence Episode 'Flashcards' In The Downscroll
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The smaller fin behind the big orca is a calf - not newborn, but not that old, I think. I am not an expert. I did submit photos and observation to the California Killer Whale Project, the actual experts, and they were able to identify #180, a quite old female, and #163, better known as Liner, a big male we have seen over the years several times. The grouping today was maybe new - #180 used to hang out with two other post-menopausal dames. Now she’s swimming with a mom and kid. Nice to see them and know so much about their lives due to years of research by many dedicated biologists, naturalists and citizen scientists.
I have been on my own for a few months now and although I enjoy my own company, I struggle to feel content to be alone. Probably is a matter of needing a sex-life and not having one exception given for masturbation. My ex was not perfect, as I am not perfect, but we had something good and I wasn't keen to let go of it.... looking back now I do realize that it was something good, but not good enough to stick to. Still, the specimens I am talking to or meeting right now are kind of embarassing. I mean i do feel embarassed for them to be them. And I do feel embarassed about me talking to them. Its that low. So I am trying to gather material for a book I'll never write, cause to write a book you need to be a good writer or, at least, a productive one and I am neither. So I talk about me writing a book the same way I talk about me leaving Italy and me quitting my job. its talk. no action. you know what? I deserve to be talking to these embarassing specimens. and the photo? I guess it may be menopause starting to hit me like a giant octupus left free to wave its tentacles on my face. yes. definitely
Baba Yaga, over my shoulder...
From the Wikipedia: Andreas Johns identifies Baba Yaga as "one of the most memorable and distinctive figures in eastern European folklore", and observes that she is "enigmatic" and often exhibits "striking ambiguity".[1] Johns summarizes Baba Yaga as a "a many-faceted figure, capable of inspiring researchers to see her as a Cloud, Moon, Death, Winter, Snake, Bird, Pelican or Earth Goddess, totemic matriarchal ancestress, female initiator, phallic mother, or archetypical image".
14/365: Mother. Wife. Daughter. Girlfriend. Squishy. Queer. Fat. Polyamorous. Pansexual. Genderfuct. Geek. Diabetic. Menopausal. Coffee lover. Doughnut slinger. Manager. Anxiety filled. Baker. Lazy. Messy. Unicorn. Mermaid. Chronically sick. Hair dye junkie.
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The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Beauty, grace, class and an effervescent personality, is it any wonder why Cheryl Ladd remains one of Hollywood’s favorites. Cheryl has come a long way from her days as one of Charlie’s Angels. From television to movies, Broadway and now author for Cheryl Ladd, the best is yet to come.
Ladd is known as one of Hollywood's most talented stars and beauty queens, born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota. Cheryl's parents were of German descent, the second daughter of Dolores, a waitress, and Marion Stoppelmoor (1929–2001), a railroad engineer. She married fellow actor David Ladd, with whom she had a daughter, Jordan. She took his surname as her own, which she kept after their divorce. She has been married to music producer Bryan Russell since 1981, and has a stepdaughter, Lindsay Russell.
Ladd initially came to Hollywood in 1970 to begin a career in music (she was known as Cherie Moor when she was the singing voice of Melody on Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats animated series). She soon began to land non-singing roles in commercials and episodic television - including guest appearances on shows such as The Rookies, The Partridge Family and Happy Days. The Charlie's Angels series made her an overnight star, and Ladd took the opportunity of her sudden popularity to further pursue her musical interests, guest-starring in musical-comedy variety series and her own TV specials, performing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl XIV in January 1980, and releasing three albums, enjoying a Top 40 Hot 100 single and a Gold record. In September 2000, Ladd starred on Broadway, taking over the title role from Bernadette Peters in a revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun. She played the role until January 2001, when Reba McEntire took over.
Following Charlie's Angels, Ladd remained a familiar face on television and has starred in more than 30 made for television films, including a coveted role as Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia heiress who became a Hollywood glamour girl and then a European princess, in a biopic that was begun shortly before Kelly's death. She also starred in some of TV's top rated movie's and was voted time and time again as one of Hollywood's most beloved stars with such movies as: Kentucky Woman, Deadly Care, A Death In California, Romance On The Orient Express, Jekyll and Hyde (A Love Story), Crossings, Bluegrass, Changes, Locked Up: A Mother's Rage, The Fulfillment of Mary Gray, Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back, Dancing With Danger, Every Mother's Worst Fear, plus feature films such as Now and Forever, Purple Hearts, Millennium, Poison Ivy (featuring Drew Barrymore, who later starred in the film adaptations of Charlie's Angels) and Permanent Midnight. Ladd had the lead role in the television series One West Waikiki (1994–96), and made guest appearances in other TV shows such as Charmed, Hope and Faith and CSI: Miami. From 2003 until the show's cancellation in 2008, Ladd played Jillian Deline, the wife of the lead character Ed Deline (James Caan), in 28 episodes of the television drama Las Vegas.
While still on the series Charlie's Angels, Ladd developed and starred in the ABC telefilm, When She Was Bad (also starring Robert Urich), which dealt with the harsh realities of child abuse. At that time, no one was saying anything about this horrific epidemic going on in our country, says Ladd, an ambassador for Childhelp USA - one of the largest national, non-profit organization dedicated to research, prevention and treatment of child abuse. I wanted to bring this issue to the forefront of people's minds. During her spare moments between projects, Ladd is a tireless humanitarian. In addition to being awarded the Woman of the World Award from Childhelp USA in 1987, Ladd also had the honor of becoming the first woman to receive the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award by the Washington D.C. Touchdown Club for her continuing philanthropic endeavors. She also speaks out on her being a Born-Again Christian and her Faith in Jesus Christ whenever she can.
In 1996, Ladd published a children's book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship. In 2005, she published Token Chick: A Woman’s Guide to Golfing With the Boys, an autobiographical book which focused on her love of golf. For several years, Ladd hosted a golf tournament sponsored by Buick.
On April 17, 2010, Ladd, along with her co-angel, Jaclyn Smith, accepted the 2010 TV Land Pop Culture Award; for Charlie's Angels.
In 2010, Ladd filmed a TV movie titled Love's Everlasting Courage for the Hallmark Channel, which aired on October 1, 2011. That same month, she guest starred on NCIS in the show's ninth season episode Thirst as the love interest of medical examiner Dr. Donald Ducky Mallard. In December 2011, she guest starred in an episode of Chuck, playing Sarah Walker's mother, in the shows 8th episode of season five.
Currently Ladd is appearing in national 30-second spots for an educational campaign for women about the importance of seeing a doctor at the on set of menopause. Over the last thee years, research suggests a nearly 30% drop in the number of women who have visited their doctors due to Menopausal issues. Launched by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Ladd is the figurehead of this awareness initiative, hoping to drive women to a new online resource, www.talkingtoyourdoctor.com .
An avid golfer, Ladd plays whenever time allows sporting a respectable index of 14. When she's not on the golf course, Ladd keeps herself busy developing new projects and has also written a children’s book with her husband of over twenty years, Brian Russell. The book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship, teaches the value of good citizenship, and championship.
Ladd's focus, however, remains on her acting. I think it would be great fun to do a sitcom, she says, I'm one of those actors who is always looking to the next challenge.
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Beauty, grace, class and an effervescent personality, is it any wonder why Cheryl Ladd remains one of Hollywood’s favorites. Cheryl has come a long way from her days as one of Charlie’s Angels. From television to movies, Broadway and now author for Cheryl Ladd, the best is yet to come.
Ladd is known as one of Hollywood's most talented stars and beauty queens, born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota. Cheryl's parents were of German descent, the second daughter of Dolores, a waitress, and Marion Stoppelmoor (1929–2001), a railroad engineer. She married fellow actor David Ladd, with whom she had a daughter, Jordan. She took his surname as her own, which she kept after their divorce. She has been married to music producer Bryan Russell since 1981, and has a stepdaughter, Lindsay Russell.
Ladd initially came to Hollywood in 1970 to begin a career in music (she was known as Cherie Moor when she was the singing voice of Melody on Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats animated series). She soon began to land non-singing roles in commercials and episodic television - including guest appearances on shows such as The Rookies, The Partridge Family and Happy Days. The Charlie's Angels series made her an overnight star, and Ladd took the opportunity of her sudden popularity to further pursue her musical interests, guest-starring in musical-comedy variety series and her own TV specials, performing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl XIV in January 1980, and releasing three albums, enjoying a Top 40 Hot 100 single and a Gold record. In September 2000, Ladd starred on Broadway, taking over the title role from Bernadette Peters in a revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun. She played the role until January 2001, when Reba McEntire took over.
Following Charlie's Angels, Ladd remained a familiar face on television and has starred in more than 30 made for television films, including a coveted role as Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia heiress who became a Hollywood glamour girl and then a European princess, in a biopic that was begun shortly before Kelly's death. She also starred in some of TV's top rated movie's and was voted time and time again as one of Hollywood's most beloved stars with such movies as: Kentucky Woman, Deadly Care, A Death In California, Romance On The Orient Express, Jekyll and Hyde (A Love Story), Crossings, Bluegrass, Changes, Locked Up: A Mother's Rage, The Fulfillment of Mary Gray, Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back, Dancing With Danger, Every Mother's Worst Fear, plus feature films such as Now and Forever, Purple Hearts, Millennium, Poison Ivy (featuring Drew Barrymore, who later starred in the film adaptations of Charlie's Angels) and Permanent Midnight. Ladd had the lead role in the television series One West Waikiki (1994–96), and made guest appearances in other TV shows such as Charmed, Hope and Faith and CSI: Miami. From 2003 until the show's cancellation in 2008, Ladd played Jillian Deline, the wife of the lead character Ed Deline (James Caan), in 28 episodes of the television drama Las Vegas.
While still on the series Charlie's Angels, Ladd developed and starred in the ABC telefilm, When She Was Bad (also starring Robert Urich), which dealt with the harsh realities of child abuse. At that time, no one was saying anything about this horrific epidemic going on in our country, says Ladd, an ambassador for Childhelp USA - one of the largest national, non-profit organization dedicated to research, prevention and treatment of child abuse. I wanted to bring this issue to the forefront of people's minds. During her spare moments between projects, Ladd is a tireless humanitarian. In addition to being awarded the Woman of the World Award from Childhelp USA in 1987, Ladd also had the honor of becoming the first woman to receive the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award by the Washington D.C. Touchdown Club for her continuing philanthropic endeavors. She also speaks out on her being a Born-Again Christian and her Faith in Jesus Christ whenever she can.
In 1996, Ladd published a children's book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship. In 2005, she published Token Chick: A Woman’s Guide to Golfing With the Boys, an autobiographical book which focused on her love of golf. For several years, Ladd hosted a golf tournament sponsored by Buick.
On April 17, 2010, Ladd, along with her co-angel, Jaclyn Smith, accepted the 2010 TV Land Pop Culture Award; for Charlie's Angels.
In 2010, Ladd filmed a TV movie titled Love's Everlasting Courage for the Hallmark Channel, which aired on October 1, 2011. That same month, she guest starred on NCIS in the show's ninth season episode Thirst as the love interest of medical examiner Dr. Donald Ducky Mallard. In December 2011, she guest starred in an episode of Chuck, playing Sarah Walker's mother, in the shows 8th episode of season five.
Currently Ladd is appearing in national 30-second spots for an educational campaign for women about the importance of seeing a doctor at the on set of menopause. Over the last thee years, research suggests a nearly 30% drop in the number of women who have visited their doctors due to Menopausal issues. Launched by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Ladd is the figurehead of this awareness initiative, hoping to drive women to a new online resource, www.talkingtoyourdoctor.com .
An avid golfer, Ladd plays whenever time allows sporting a respectable index of 14. When she's not on the golf course, Ladd keeps herself busy developing new projects and has also written a children’s book with her husband of over twenty years, Brian Russell. The book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship, teaches the value of good citizenship, and championship.
Ladd's focus, however, remains on her acting. I think it would be great fun to do a sitcom, she says, I'm one of those actors who is always looking to the next challenge.
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Beauty, grace, class and an effervescent personality, is it any wonder why Cheryl Ladd remains one of Hollywood’s favorites. Cheryl has come a long way from her days as one of Charlie’s Angels. From television to movies, Broadway and now author for Cheryl Ladd, the best is yet to come.
Ladd is known as one of Hollywood's most talented stars and beauty queens, born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota. Cheryl's parents were of German descent, the second daughter of Dolores, a waitress, and Marion Stoppelmoor (1929–2001), a railroad engineer. She married fellow actor David Ladd, with whom she had a daughter, Jordan. She took his surname as her own, which she kept after their divorce. She has been married to music producer Bryan Russell since 1981, and has a stepdaughter, Lindsay Russell.
Ladd initially came to Hollywood in 1970 to begin a career in music (she was known as Cherie Moor when she was the singing voice of Melody on Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats animated series). She soon began to land non-singing roles in commercials and episodic television - including guest appearances on shows such as The Rookies, The Partridge Family and Happy Days. The Charlie's Angels series made her an overnight star, and Ladd took the opportunity of her sudden popularity to further pursue her musical interests, guest-starring in musical-comedy variety series and her own TV specials, performing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl XIV in January 1980, and releasing three albums, enjoying a Top 40 Hot 100 single and a Gold record. In September 2000, Ladd starred on Broadway, taking over the title role from Bernadette Peters in a revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun. She played the role until January 2001, when Reba McEntire took over.
Following Charlie's Angels, Ladd remained a familiar face on television and has starred in more than 30 made for television films, including a coveted role as Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia heiress who became a Hollywood glamour girl and then a European princess, in a biopic that was begun shortly before Kelly's death. She also starred in some of TV's top rated movie's and was voted time and time again as one of Hollywood's most beloved stars with such movies as: Kentucky Woman, Deadly Care, A Death In California, Romance On The Orient Express, Jekyll and Hyde (A Love Story), Crossings, Bluegrass, Changes, Locked Up: A Mother's Rage, The Fulfillment of Mary Gray, Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back, Dancing With Danger, Every Mother's Worst Fear, plus feature films such as Now and Forever, Purple Hearts, Millennium, Poison Ivy (featuring Drew Barrymore, who later starred in the film adaptations of Charlie's Angels) and Permanent Midnight. Ladd had the lead role in the television series One West Waikiki (1994–96), and made guest appearances in other TV shows such as Charmed, Hope and Faith and CSI: Miami. From 2003 until the show's cancellation in 2008, Ladd played Jillian Deline, the wife of the lead character Ed Deline (James Caan), in 28 episodes of the television drama Las Vegas.
While still on the series Charlie's Angels, Ladd developed and starred in the ABC telefilm, When She Was Bad (also starring Robert Urich), which dealt with the harsh realities of child abuse. At that time, no one was saying anything about this horrific epidemic going on in our country, says Ladd, an ambassador for Childhelp USA - one of the largest national, non-profit organization dedicated to research, prevention and treatment of child abuse. I wanted to bring this issue to the forefront of people's minds. During her spare moments between projects, Ladd is a tireless humanitarian. In addition to being awarded the Woman of the World Award from Childhelp USA in 1987, Ladd also had the honor of becoming the first woman to receive the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award by the Washington D.C. Touchdown Club for her continuing philanthropic endeavors. She also speaks out on her being a Born-Again Christian and her Faith in Jesus Christ whenever she can.
In 1996, Ladd published a children's book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship. In 2005, she published Token Chick: A Woman’s Guide to Golfing With the Boys, an autobiographical book which focused on her love of golf. For several years, Ladd hosted a golf tournament sponsored by Buick.
On April 17, 2010, Ladd, along with her co-angel, Jaclyn Smith, accepted the 2010 TV Land Pop Culture Award; for Charlie's Angels.
In 2010, Ladd filmed a TV movie titled Love's Everlasting Courage for the Hallmark Channel, which aired on October 1, 2011. That same month, she guest starred on NCIS in the show's ninth season episode Thirst as the love interest of medical examiner Dr. Donald Ducky Mallard. In December 2011, she guest starred in an episode of Chuck, playing Sarah Walker's mother, in the shows 8th episode of season five.
Currently Ladd is appearing in national 30-second spots for an educational campaign for women about the importance of seeing a doctor at the on set of menopause. Over the last thee years, research suggests a nearly 30% drop in the number of women who have visited their doctors due to Menopausal issues. Launched by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Ladd is the figurehead of this awareness initiative, hoping to drive women to a new online resource, www.talkingtoyourdoctor.com .
An avid golfer, Ladd plays whenever time allows sporting a respectable index of 14. When she's not on the golf course, Ladd keeps herself busy developing new projects and has also written a children’s book with her husband of over twenty years, Brian Russell. The book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship, teaches the value of good citizenship, and championship.
Ladd's focus, however, remains on her acting. I think it would be great fun to do a sitcom, she says, I'm one of those actors who is always looking to the next challenge.
The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now a mixed-use development known as The Ridges, was a Kirkbride Plan mental hospital operated in Athens, Ohio, from 1874 until 1993. During its operation, the hospital provided services to a variety of patients including Civil War veterans, children, and those declared mentally unwell. After a period of disuse the property was redeveloped by the state of Ohio. Today, The Ridges are a part of Ohio University and house the Kennedy Museum of Art as well as an auditorium and many offices, classrooms, and storage facilities.
The former hospital is perhaps best known as a site of the infamous lobotomy procedure, as well as various supposed paranormal sightings. After the hospital's original structure closed, the state of Ohio acquired the property and renamed the complex and its surrounding grounds The Ridges. According to The Guide of Repository Holdings,[2] the term "The Ridges" was derived from a naming contest in 1984 to re-describe the area and its purpose.
History
Design and architectural features
The architect for the original building was Levi T. Scofield of Cleveland. The hospital grounds were designed by Herman Haerlin of Cincinnati. Some of Haerlin's other landscape designs are seen in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery and the Oval on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus.
The design of the buildings and grounds were influenced by Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, a 19th-century physician who authored an influential treatise on hospital design called On the Construction, Organization and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane. Kirkbride Plan asylums are most recognizably characterized by the staggered "bat-wing" floor plan of their wards, High Victorian Gothic architecture, and their sprawling grounds.
In accordance with the Kirkbride Plan, the main building was to include a central administration building with a wing for men on one side and a wing for women on the other, each with their own separate dining halls. There was room to house 572 patients in the main building, almost double Kirkbride's recommendation. The main building itself was 853 feet long and 60 feet in width.
Construction
The land where the hospital was built originally belonged to the Arthur Coates and Eliakim H. Moore farms. Ground was broken on November 5, 1868. The first iteration of the asylum consisted of only 141 acres (57 ha) and over the years, grew to occupy over 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land and 78 buildings.
Operating years (1874-1993)
Athens Lunatic Asylum began operation on January 9, 1874. Within two years of its opening, the hospital was renamed The Athens Hospital for the Insane. Later, the hospital would be called the Athens Asylum for the Insane, the Athens State Hospital, the Southeastern Ohio Mental Health Center, the Athens Mental Health Center, the Athens Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center, the Athens Mental Health and Developmental Center, and then (again) the Athens Mental Health Center.
The original hospital was in operation from 1874 to 1993. Although not a wholly self-sustaining facility, many Kirkbride Plan asylums functioned as cloistered communities, and for decades the hospital had livestock, farm fields and gardens, an orchard, greenhouses, a dairy, a physical plant to generate steam heat, and even a carriage shop. A large percentage of the work it took to maintain the facility was originally carried out by patients. Labor, especially skilled labor, was seen by the Kirkbride Plan as a form of therapy and was economically advantageous for the state.
The asylum expanded to include specialized and ancillary buildings such as the Dairy Barn (now an arts center), Beacon School, Athens Receiving Hospital, Center Hospital and the Tubercular Ward ("Cottage B"). Also built onto the main building were a laundry room and a boiler house. Seven cottages, including Cottage B, were constructed to house even more patients. While they had a smaller capacity than the main wards, they allowed for constructive grouping of patients in dormitory-like rooms.
By the 1950s the hospital was the town's largest employer, with 1,800 patients on a 1,019-acre, 78-building campus. At its peak the Athens Lunatic Asylum served Adams, Athens, Gallia, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton and Washington counties.
Decline and closure
The mental healthcare industry in the United States underwent a sea change in the 1950s. Research began to show that the mentally ill did not pose an inherent danger to their communities. The public became increasingly aware of procedures like electroshock therapy and the lobotomy, which would come to be seen as cruel, unnecessary, and inhumane. The availability of psychoactive drugs for the treatment of mental illnesses, as well as the increasing prevalence of psychological therapy, allowed for most patients to be treated without the need for internment in a prison-like institution. The asylum, among many others, declined throughout the latter half of the 20th century and eventually closed in 1993. However, the state hospital continued to function in Athens, with some patients and staff relocating to a newly constructed facility which, at the time of the transition in 1993, was called the Southeast Psychiatric Hospital. The psychiatric hospital in Athens - visible from the asylum - is now named Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare.
Modern history and present day
1990s
By the early 1990s, many of the original buildings had fallen into disrepair, following a similar pattern of decline and neglect among Kirkbride Plan asylums. As the mental healthcare industry transitioned away from large, centralized institutions, the will to support sprawling hospital complexes diminished. Large asylums were slowly phased out, with most operations shifting to small outpatient centers scattered throughout the community. Because the asylums were typically located on a hill outside of the nearest municipal center, their degradation was able to occur out of sight and out of mind. Under private ownership, abandoned Kirkbrides often languished unmaintained and unsecured, slowly being reclaimed by nature, as with Hudson River State Hospital in New York. Since abandoned structures represent a serious insurance liability, there is incentive for the property owner to secure them, and abandoned property owned by colleges and universities may be especially easy targets for urban exploration, squatting, or vandalism by members of the student body or the general public.
In 1993 the Athens Lunatic Asylum's property was deeded over to Ohio University in a land swap with the state's Department of Mental Health. Under the ownership of Ohio University, the property was kept in relatively good shape and was maintained for reuse.
2000s and 2010s
With urban exploration and modern ruins occupying a growing niche of public consciousness through entertainment and media, Kirkbride Plan asylums have enjoyed renewed public attention in the 2000s and 2010s. Two historically significant Kirkbrides, Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts and the aforementioned Hudson River State Hospital in New York, fell into dangerous disrepair in the 1990s and 2000s and eventually underwent partial demolition to make way for new development.
At Athens, the ownership of a stable funding authority (Ohio University) has ensured restoration of much of the original grounds, as envisioned by the original planners, in a mixed-use university development called The Ridges.
Most buildings have been renovated and turned into classrooms and office buildings. The administration building is now the home of Kennedy Museum of Art , showcasing paintings and artwork of all different types of artists. The Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, a nonprofit arts organization, is located in the old hospital's remodeled dairy barn; it is privately owned and operated. The Dairy Barn operates a calendar for sculpting and exhibits. The George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs is also located at The Ridges, in a set of three separate buildings across the area.
The old tubercular ward, "Cottage B", which sat on a hill separated from the other buildings, was demolished by Ohio University in 2013 due to the large number of college students exploring the dangerous structure. Cottage B was designed to early 1900s fireproofing standards and incorporated copious asbestos lining inside the walls, making it difficult to remediate.
Members of the Athens, Ohio, chapter of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, have worked to restore the three graveyards located on the grounds of The Ridges. School organizations provide tours of the facility around Halloween time each year. The preserve is also regularly used by the school's Army ROTC battalion.
Treatment and quality of care
The first patient of the Asylum was a 14-year-old girl with epilepsy, thought to be possessed by a demon. Epilepsy was considered a major cause of "insanity" and reason for admission to the hospital in the early years. The first annual report lists thirty-one men and nineteen women as having their insanity caused by epilepsy. General "ill health" accounted for the admission of thirty-nine men and forty-four women in the first three years of the hospital's operation.
Ailments such as menopause, alcohol addiction, and tuberculosis were cause for enrollment in the hospital. For the female patients hospitalized during these first three years of the asylum's operation, the three leading causes of insanity are recorded as "puerperal condition" (51 women), "change of life" (32 women), and "menstrual derangements" (29 women). Women with postpartum depression or "hysteria" were labeled insane and sent to recover in the institution. Women were often institutionalized for unnecessary or outright fallacious reasons.
The second-most common cause of insanity, as recorded in the first annual report, was "intemperance and dissipation". In the hospital's first three years of operation, according to the annual report of 1876, eighty-one men and one woman were diagnosed as having their insanity caused by masturbation. Fifty-six men and one woman were diagnosed as having their insanity caused by "intemperance and dissipation" during this same period of time.
Records from the asylum document some of the now-discredited theories of the causes of mental illness, as well as the practice of harmful treatments, such as lobotomy. The Ohio University archives collection information regarding employees' background training, which ranged from full training and qualification to a complete lack thereof. Most disturbing is the documentation of hydrotherapy, electroshock, lobotomy, and early psychotropic drugs, many of which have been discredited today as extremely inhumane ways of treating a patient.
Cemeteries
Myths and mystery surround a well-known site in southern Ohio, The Athens Lunatic Asylum. The mystery is fueled, perhaps, because the public cannot access a majority of the information about patients who were treated and lived at the asylum. With special permission and filling out paperwork that is required by the state of Ohio, some of the information can be accessed, however, those interested in finding out about the patients that walked through the doors of the Asylum can satisfy their curiosity by looking to the cemeteries.
"There are 1,930 people buried at the three cemeteries located at the Ridges. Of those, 700 women and 959 men lay under the headstones marked only with a number." There were some patients who had died that were reunited with their families and buried in cemeteries around their homes. By 1943, the State of Ohio began putting names, births, and deaths, on the markers of the patients who died. (Friends of Asylum, McCabe)It is unknown as to why the state switched from using only numbers to using names in order to verify who the deceased were, but this practice remained constant through the remainder of time that patients were buried up at the asylum. Although the newer stones had names, births, and deaths, the older stones that remained had not been replaced until recently.
By the 1980s the state no longer took care of the cemeteries which made it easy for outsiders to vandalize them. Natural occurrences also caused damage. The stones marking where patients were buried were in desperate need of repair. They were left to the elements and "hundreds of stones were left uprooted and broken." Beginning in 2000, the Athens, Ohio, chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) started the reclamation for the cemeteries, taking on the work that was once the responsibility of the Ohio Department of Mental Health." NAMI, Athens worked to help restore the cemeteries at the Asylum to its original state. The organization got "involved with other groups and organizations in a major effort to restore, beautify and demystify the three mental health grave yards located on the grounds of the old psychiatric hospital complex on The Ridges." "Since nearly the time of the opening of the cemeteries the State of Ohio has allowed families to erect private markers at the graves of their loved ones, There are very few graves marked in such a way, most likely because descendants are unaware of the opportunity."
Since the take over, more information has been found out about the patients that are buried in the three cemeteries. A large portion of the information that has been recovered is about the veterans that had spent the remaining days of their lives at the Asylum. Many of these veterans did not receive honors and only 19 have had any recognition. There are 80 veterans that are buried at the Ridges. Of these veterans two fought in the Mexican War, sixty-eight fought in the Civil War, one was a member in the Confederate Army and another two veterans served with the United States Colored infantry. There are three veterans who served in the Spanish–American War, and seven fought in World War I. Some of the other veterans that are buried here were active duty in the late 19th century and the early 20th century.
NAMI has also done other things to honor those who have served our country as well as the other patients who are buried in the cemeteries at the Ridges. Besides helping replace grave stones and keeping the grounds in proper condition, in 2005, the Ridges Cemeteries Committee has been organizing Memorial Day Ceremonies for the many veterans buried at the asylum. "Prior to 2005, the veterans had never received such honors. Indeed, neither they nor the others in those cemeteries had received more than a very austere burial - no personalized service whatsoever." NAMI started the Memorial Day Ceremonies to help restore dignity to the patients on the Ridges and to help recognize the sacrifice of the veterans, many who had probably suffered through post traumatic stress disorder as well as other post war symptoms.
"To find these "lost" veterans, they were found "through a special search within a broader research project to find background information on the over 1,900 patients buried in the Asylum's three cemeteries. With the Help of the Athens County Veterans Service Office and a special appropriation from the Athens county Commissioners flag stands and flags have been placed at the graves of all the veterans in the three cemeteries. [attribution needed]
In culture
Kirkbride Plan asylums occupy a unique niche in the culture. As more than 70 were built across the nation (with 25 surviving as of 2019) they are a uniquely accessible and idyllic representation of the allures of urban exploration. Kirkbride Plan asylums have appeared in films and television, been the subjects of notable photographers, and inspired fictional locations such as Arkham Asylum in Batman and Parsons State Insane Asylum in Fallout 4.
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Temple Festival at Wat Muang Khon, Tambon Pa Phai, Amphoe San Sai, Chang Wat Chiang Mai 50210, Thailand
"Women are seen as having their own forms of magical power, and these can be regarded as antithetical to those of monks. This is partly related to menstruation, which implies the post-menopausal women are less of a threat than pre-menopausal ones. This may be part of the reason that the activity of providing food for monks on special occasions at the temple tend to be in the hands of older women thought the experience and authority of such women in household kitchens and management in general is probably involved." (Source: Popular Relion in Southeast Asia by Robert L. Winzeler
The Mangs (Thai slang for mother, matron or the queen) of the temple have been preparing the enormous amounts of food to feed the visiting monks and the hundreds of lay members and guests from the surrounding Muang (District) attending the Temple Fair.
Northern Thailand is a culinary crossroads with blends of flavors and influences from the Shan in Myanmar, Northern Thai, Chinese and Lao cultures.
The women form a continuous line and bring the food from a staging area and gather up the 'tapas' style small plates. They carry large trays with 5 different dishes of vegetarian based cuisine, soupy coconut milk curries, nam prik pao - a red chile paste and spicy salsas made from grilled garlic, shallots and chiles with warm sticky rice servings collected in plastic bags. The women will eat after everyone else has been served.
Everyone in the community is invited and everyone comes to make 'merit' and enjoy a holiday with food, rides for the children, music and drumming contests in the evening from traditional Thai goblet drums.