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Nadezhda Ivanovna, 79 sounds optimistic and hardly ever complains to the Red Cross workers: “Food is not good - but I do not need it better. Meat? I do not need it at all. It is much worse that I cannot pay for the medicines without which I can hardly breathe. I cannot say my pension is sufficient, but I do have a reasonable way of life, nothing superfluous.” Then she adds after a pause; “I can keep my room clean, all right, but there is nobody to clean my carpets…” The Red Cross nurse, who brought a food parcel from the Moldova Red Cross, promises Nadezhda that she will come with volunteers and help her later that week. he town of Bendery, 40 km from Chisinau, capital of Moldova.
In Soviet times the local Red Cross branches all over the country were capable to provide home care for the elderly in Bendery, 40 km away from the capital Chisinau. Today the Moldova Red Cross is struggling to retain its place in the society and sustain the competition with other NGO’s. The Norwegian, Swiss and Swedish Red Cross societies and the International Federation support the Moldova Red Cross work with various programmes. The International Federation emergency food support operation aims to help lonely elderly, single headed families and families with many children through the lean months of spring before the new harvest. 6,700 people will be able to improve their food ratio in the poorest European country.
Photo: Margarita Plotnikova / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,
SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.
The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.
For more Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-judy-millar
Walking out of Stortorget along Södergatan, the "Optimistic Orchestra" is one of Malmö's many public works of art. The 'orchestra' was created in 1985 by Yngve Lundell as a tribute to 'two positively disobedient people', Lech Walesa and Martin Luther King.
Libby, she is so cute, I really love her outfit it's so adorable, I love her hair colour too the light and dark pink it looks like a strawberry ice cream with sauce.
The Optimistic Orchestra [Optimistorkestern] is a group of bronze statues created in 1985 by Yngve Lundell (Malmö, Sweden)
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WINNIPEG, Canada – Dr. Sean Ceaser, a prominent naturopathic doctor based in Winnipeg, Canada, is optimistic about the use of PEMF treatment for many conditions including pain and cancer, including the treatment of breast cancer.
Traditional cancer treatment has improved dramatically in recent years, but still, there is no definitive breakthrough and the use of very invasive forms of treatment for the patient are commonplace and these treatments are riddled with side-effects. Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF) is a non-invasive and drug-free therapy that complements other standard therapies and, together with a comprehensive alternative and complementary cancer treatment plan, can aid the process of helping to stop the progression of cancer.
In a recent study, women with locally spread breast cancer, stage III (stage T3, N1 – N3) and no metastases (M0) all had standard therapy in sequence, including (a) preoperative radiation of the breast and adjacent areas, combined with chemotherapy, (b) radical resection the breast, and (c) postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. In the time before the first phase of treatment, that is, before radiation, one group had multiple exposures of medium strength PEMF therapy added, and one group did not. Follow-up was done looking for x-ray changes in the primary tumour and regional lymph nodes, and then later, biopsy changes in the primary tumour tissue. The PEMF-treated women did not have any side effects. X-ray response in the PEMF group was seen in 87% and 82% in those without PEMF. There was less regional cancer spread in the PEMF group than those without, 97% improved versus only 52% without PEMF. In the PEMF group, 42% had total regression of the tumour, and 46% had partial tumour regression. Regression or reduction of regional metastasis was seen in 90%. Even the biopsies after surgery found more tumour destruction in 56% with versus 48% without PEMF therapy. So, the use of PEMFs in stage III breast cancer patients, along with radiation and chemotherapy preoperatively, produced considerably better results.
“Pulsed electromagnetic therapy (PEMF) has great potential in many conditions including musculoskeletal injuries and cancer, including the treatment of breast cancer, a disease that can be of concern for women diagnosed with it or have a strong family history of the disease,” said Dr. Sean Ceaser. “Although traditional treatments, including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and other estrogen-blocking therapies have helped many women in their battle with cancer, there is much more that can be done to improve outcomes. Chemotherapy, in particular can be very harming and a study in 2018 by Stanford University showed that chemotherapy is completely ineffective for a large portion of women suffering from breast cancer. Is there a better, less harmful way for women who are suffering from intermediate to low risk breast cancer? I believe there is and PEMF treatments along with naturopathic IV therapies, hyperthermia and a complete treatment plan that takes into account the person we are treating and not just the disease can allow for effective non-harmful management and treatment of breast cancer.”
Dr. Sean Ceaser is a licenced naturopathic doctor in the provinces of Manitoba and British Columbia. He has been practicing naturopathic medicine since 1999 and currently helps patients at the Centre for Natural Pain Solutions in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has a particular focus on alternative cancer treatments/therapies and chronic pain. Dr. Ceaser has also worked at the Natural Health Sciences Research Clinic in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where he researched natural medicines. He served as Instructor and Director of Curriculum at the Manitoba College of Homeopathic Medicine and is the first Naturopathic Physician to represent Complementary Therapy at the Health Sciences Centre, Mature Women’s Health Program. For more information about Dr. Ceaser and the services he provides, visit his website at drceaser.com.
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So I entered this contest on facebook to win a nikon camera. this is my entry, obviously.
My parents arn't the kind who buy me everysingle thing i desire. they're tough.. there for , i've never gotten the Nikon i've always dreamed of.
It would mean to world to me win this, or even just get a few votes. i've never one like, anything in my life so i'll just keep my fingers crossed.
please help and vote here(:
2014: Beakerhead Presents … An Optimistic Evening
Mark Stevenson is telling about an Optimistic Future.
Photo by: Denis Semenov Photography
Here is a poor man's HDR. Since I'm too stupid to figure out the whole HDR thing, I do it my way. I mask off areas that are too bright or dark (bright in this case) in quick mask, then invert the selection and use curves to make it look correct. Then, thanks Stan, I use the history brush on any areas that don't mesh well.
The dash part I didn't even adjust. However I did work on the area above the steering wheel a good deal with curves to pull the middle of the curve to the lower right. I used selective colours to tweek the red of the hood, it looked a little washed out. The curve was too extreme for the two lights on the crossing bar, so I used the sponge to remove some colour.
Can you tell the car needs a bath?
The title btw, is derived from the speedo. The Mustang is a 200 cid 5 cylinder...5 cylinder you ask? Yes, the number 5 cylinder does not work, either a broken ring or a burnt valve...still get 20mpg however. However, even if all 6 cylinders were to work, that thing would never do 140mph, even if dropped from space.
Optimistic sign for Lincoln Mall in front of the lower level of the demolished JCPenney. Matteson Illinois
Back in my favourite cafe loo ... more words of wisdom from Moonbean. Good coffee, good company and nice little phrases to share.
Always nice to see you all here and your comments. Thank you!
It's the Little Things #326
Nessie's Canadian cousin (and actually an older legend!), the Ogopogo lives in a lake in British Columbia. This one somehow manages to happily fit in a bathtub. I suspect that most cryptids, including our friend here, are pan-dimensional.
(Yes, yes, we're way behind. This one is last-last Thursday's.)