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The specification describes a method for removing pathogenic germs and dissolved organic substances from liquids. Kefir milk acid bacteria in the form of a centrifugate, obtained from washing-out Kefir mold cultures are added to the liquid after suitable electrochemical precleaning. The liquid mixed with the bacteria is passed over a cylindrical column, whose filling bodies consist of cylindrically shaped fabric of antimagnetic stainless steel with a large surface. On this the microorganisms of the Kefir group become deposited, from a biological lawn and in the case of the supply of atmospheric oxygen and multiple passage of the liquid through the column the organic liquid contaminating materials finally take up the pathogenic germs as nutrient material so that owing to the microbiological processes of the Kefir bacteria the liquids are freed from these materials.
1. A method for removal of contaminating impurities from sewage and waste water liquid, which comprises the steps of subjecting said liquids to an electrochemical electrocoagulation pretreatment to free the liquids of solids and colloidal-suspended matter;
adding to said pretreated liquid a seed from a Kefir milk acid bacterial microorganism culture in the form of a centrifugate of a Kefir milk bacteria culture;
passing said seeded liquid over a column consisting of an anti-magnetic stainless steel fabric in a cylindrical shape, and having a large surface area on which said Kefir seed of microorganisms deposits and forms a biological lawn;
supplying atmospheric oxygen to said column while passing said contaminated liquid thereover; said lawn of Kefir microorganisms utilizing the bacterial contaminants of said liquid as nutrient material, whereby, owing to the biological processes of said Kefir bacteria, said liquids are freed from said contaminants; and
then collecting the purified effluent from said column.
2. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said sewage and waste water liquids are subjected to biochemical aerobic treatment before the addition of the Kefir milk acid bacteria.
3. The method in accordance with claim 1 in which the biological lawn formed by the addition of said Kefir bacteria is enriched with conventional aerobic microorganisms and in which said Kefir bacteria are continuously added to said liquid and thus become numerically superior with respect to bacteria in said liquid.
4. The method in accordance with claim 1 in which said Kefir milk acid bacteria are cultured with skimmed milk powder mixed with drinking water as a nutrient solution.
5. The method in accordance with claim 1 in which after the treatment of said liquid with Kefir milk acid bacteria, the effluent from the column is subjected to an electrochemical coagulation to remove any remaining bacteria and colloidal suspension.
6. The method, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pretreatment comprising the steps of
coagulating and flocculating said solids and colloidal suspended matter impurities in said liquid by passing an electric current through said liquid; and subsequently separating the coagulated flocculate so formed, from the liquid.
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 597,977, filed July 22, 1975, now abandoned.
In the removal of organic materials from liquids use is made most frequently of biochemical methods whose efficacy depends upon the presence of organisms, present in the water in nature, such as Rotifera, Vorticella sp., Parameceae, Flagellum sp., Forticalle camparum, Protozoon sp. and upon the presence of oxygen.
Generally, contaminating materials from the macro to the micro range, that is to say from 200 to 10 microns, are removed by sedimentation from the liquid before it is brought into contact with an equivalent quantity of the above-mentioned microorganisms and minute forms of life either in a dropping method or in an activated sludge method with the simultaneous supply of atmospheric oxygen.
Colloidal contaminating materials, colloidal suspensions and materials in the same order of size as ions are first enzymatically converted in such biochemical stages and then partly oxidized by metabolism of the organisms and are partly adsorbed by becoming attached to the organisms.
A necessary condition for obtaining a high efficiency is the presence of conditions which are favourable for the organisms, that is to say the right temperature, a pH-value near neutral, the absence of poisons, such as bactericides, insecticides, heavy metals starting at a certain concentration and the presence of phosphates and nitrogen compounds.
Activated sludge installations with optimum degrees of efficiency are generally operated with a proportion of activated sludge of 4 gram per liter.
The time the material remains in the reaction spaces depends upon the composition of the contaminating materials in the liquid and amounts to between 1 hour to, in some cases, 48 hours in the case of particularly resistant sewage.
In the case of purely domestic sewage the dissolved organic substances consist of carbohydrates, proteins and sugars. They make a rapid chemical degradation possible. However, in the case of such cleaning processes after half an hour, on average 250 ml of sludge can be deposited, as measured in an Imhoff funnel, per liter of sewage sludge mixture and such sludge can only be dewatered with difficulty, even if owing to danger to hygiene, the sludge is placed in so-called decomposing towers before dewatering.
Highly concentrated sewage, as for example from slaughterhouses, dairies, jam factories and premises for disposing of animal bodies, can in accordance with experience to date only be sufficiently purified in so-called prolonged activation installations, in the case of which the chargingg rate per unit volume must partly be reduced to 0.3 kg BSB5 or BOD per square meter of activated space per day.
In the case of sewage from paper and pulp industries similar difficulties occur; in this respect more especially glucosides, lignins, tannins and xylose resulting from the break-down of wood make biochemical degradation more difficult. Very often in the case of such sewage BSB5 or BOD discharges values are obtained after the biochemical cleaning which are very satisfactory; however the values for potassium permanganate consumption and chemical oxygen requirement, in accordance with the dichromate method are often unacceptably higher than is the case with the measured biochemical oxygen requirement. The differences show in many cases in that with the biochemical processes only partial degradation occurs and in the case of the BOD measurement the actual residual load is not covered.
The cause for the differences in the last-mentioned example are to be found substantially in the insufficient enzymatic break-down of the contaminating materials in the liquid before the actual biochemical oxidation and adsorption.
Agricultural sewage involves difficulties similar to those occuring with known biochemical degradation processes. In the case of sewage from mass pig farming it is known that approximately 30% of the protein materials fed, leave the animals without digestion and it is only after complicated splitting processes that they are in a condition fit for oxidation by organisms in biological installations.
In normal domestic sewage, numerous pathogenic microbes are present which cannot be biochemically degraded and, if at all, can only be removed by adsorption on biological sludge from the sewage. It may be assumed with certainty that in every sample of normal domestic sewage at least 1,000,000 microbes are present per ml which for the most part are Escherichia coli, though the proportion of facultatively pathogenic microbes is very high, so that sewage is to be considered highly infectious.
Efficient biochemical cleaning installations remove 98% of the microbes by adsorption. On the basis of the above-mentioned example, as a result, the discharge from a well operated biological cleaning installation, 10,000 microbes in all still remain per ml. In the case of public waters which are permitted for human bathing and for drinking by animals, not more than 10 microbes per ml should be present.
Owing to the increasing quantities even of purified sewage in comparison with the quantity of water on the surface of the Earth, which always remains the same, the danger of infection by sewage is therefore increasing steadily.
The method in accordance with the invention avoids the above-mentioned disadvantages by the use as a preliminary stage of an electrochemical process, the electro-M-method, by means of which all colloidal materials and substantially all colloidal suspensions are removed from liquids. The electro-M-method is assumed to be known.
The liquids comprise after the process substantially only parts of colloidal suspensions and the dissolved organic substances in addition to inorganic contaminating substances.
Since the electrochemical process brings about a substantial removal of all microbes from the liquids, the discharged liquid is inocculated with lactic acid bacteria of the Caucasian Kefir group.
In this respect it is a question of microbic organisms, which even in acidic condition and up to pH-values of 10 reproduce themselves by cell division very rapidly in the presence of atmospheric oxygen and after suitable conditioning to conditions oxidize, more especially sugar, glucose, proteins and fats.
It has been found in tests, that owing to the capability of Kefir organisms to degrade proteins, a certain cannibalism results which has a favorable effect on the pathogenic microbes which also exist as is known on a protein basis in the liquids.
The consequence of the procedure in which firstly by means of electrochemical processes or chemical processes, which are also possible, but owing to the large amounts of sludge involved and of other consequences which are disadvantageous for protecting water, such as salting out, increasing the sulfate load etc., the sewage or other liquids is substantially freed of all contaminating materials with the exception of colloidal suspensions and dissolved materials and is then exposed to the action of Kefir microorganisms, is that as compared with prior art biochemical processes a decidedly lower quantity of sludge is obtained as excess sludge.
It has been found in several cases that it is only after the additional floculation with organic precipitating materials that small quantities of sludge can be removed from the purified water.
The Kefir microorganisms used in the method of the invention are cultured from Kefir mould with the addition of substantially defatted milk at room temperature, the milk serving as a nutrient material for the organisms. As a result the nutrient solution is decomposed and a spherical coherent culture remains. The culture is sieved out and washed with drinking water.
After the first washing operation preferably a part of the culture remaining is added to ten times as much water, then dispersed and the suspension is then centrifuged. The centrifugate is used as a material for inocculating the liquid to be cleaned, to which it is added.
It is also possible to add the culture after the first washing operation directly to the liquid to be cleaned.
It has been found in accordance with experience that in the case of the use of the centrifugate as inocculating material the inocculated water should be supplied to a drip body-like column, in which, however, departing from drip body filling material, filling bodies with a cylindrical form are used consisting of stainless antimagnetic steel fabric with a mesh width of less than 300 microns. This leads to a substantial increase in the surface in the column as compared with normal drip body material and per gram of the filling body material for the lawn of microorganisms a surface of 2 square meters is made available.
The liquid inocculated with the microorganisms is pumped several times through the column. As is the case with a drip body the entering water is passed by a rotary sprinkle onto the column.
Examples for the reduction of the chemical oxygen requirement in accordance with the dichromate method:
(1) Precleaned sewage from a toilet paper factory after electrochemical treatment with the electro-M-method, COD 40 mg/l,
1.1 after addition of 2 ml of microorganism centrifugate per liter and 2 hours of treatment time in the drip column, COD 10 mg/l.
(2) Precleaned domestic sewage after electrochemical treatment with the electro-M-method, COD 184 mg/l,
2.1 after addition of 5 ml of microorganism centrifugate per liter and 4 hours of treatment time in the drip column, COD 28 mg/l.
(3) Precleaned textile sewage water from dispersion dying vats after electrochemical treatment with the electro-M-method, COD 296 mg/l,
3.1 after addition of 10 ml of microorganism centrifugate per liter and 2 hours of treatment time in the drip column, COD 194 mg/l,
3.2 after a further 2 hours, COD 82 mg/l,
3.3 after a further 2 hours, COD 41 mg/l.
(4) The water in accordance with 3.2 within 2 hours 50% of precleaned communal water was added, entry, COD 225 mg/l,
4.1 after 2 hours of treatment time in the drip column, COD 62 mg/l,
4.2 after a further 2 hours, COD 34 mg/l.
(5) The water in accordance with 4.2 within 1 hour 50% precleaned textile sewage was added, entry COD 330 mg/l,
5.1 after 2 hours of treatmet time in the drip column,
COD 194 mg/l,
after 4 hours
COD 152 mg/l,
after 8 hours
COD 48 mg/l.
The BOD of this sample was 20 l mg/l.
(6) Precleaned sewage from a skin glue factory after electrochemical treatment with the electro-M-method, COD 883 mg/l,
6.1 after addition of 20 ml of microorganism centrifugate per liter and 2 hours of treatment time in the prepared driping column, COD 182 mg/l, after 6 hours of treatment time in the drip column, COD 52 mg/l.
Furthermore, the inocculation of classical biochemical activated sludge installations with the centrifugate of the Kefir microorganisms or the washed-out mould cultures show substantial improvements in the efficiency on the basis of the treatment time of the water in the biological stage.
However no substantial change in the excess sludge quantities could be detected, something which could be clearly found in the case of addition of the inocculating composition in a pure form.
Visible residual turbidity was decreased by the addition of Kefir microorganisms to the water and the odor in contrast to the discharge from known biological stages is no longer mouldy or earth-like and instead is fresh or neutral.
The microorganisms can be considered to be extraordinarily stable, as a few test examples will show:
The culture taken from the milk nutrient solution was stored in a Petri dish for 8 days in a sterile cupboard and then washed out and centrifuged. In the centrifugate numerous Kefir microorganisms were comprised which after the addition of nutrient solutions reproduced very rapidly.
The centrifugate obtained in example 1 was stored for 26 days in a bottle with a ground glass stopper with 50% ullage at a temperature of +6� C. in a refrigerator and then the centrifugate was used again for inocculating sewage. In the centrifugate the microorganisms were present in great numbers. Dead cells could not be detected.
A drip column inocculated with the centrifugate in accordance with example 2 had after 8 weeks of test procedure such an extensive culture that further inocculation was no longer necessary even in the case of cleaning tests with the most various different forms of sewage.
The aerobic microorganisms passing with the sewage into the column, which are used in the case of normal biochemical cleaning, were not impaired by the Kefir microorganisms.
However, it could be found in this case as well that the excess sludge quantity was substantially reduced so that it can be supposed that the main cleaning effect can be attributed to the Kefir microorganisms.
In the case of the use of the drip column it was preferred to work with a body whose height is 20 times its diameter. The overall volume was reduced by 50% by the metal filling bodies.
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Fiji Day is the end of a week long festival in Fiji that marks the islands' liberation from English rule. Why am I mentioning this at all here on The Chocolate Cult? Your Chocolate Priestess found out that one of their official symbols is the the cocoa pod.
The Fiji islands have a a tropical South Sea maritime climate which makes it perfect for growing cacao. As you may recall from other posts on this site, cacao is very picky about weather so there are limited areas of the world where a serious crop can be grown.
Here is the official description of Fiji's coat of arms from their government website: "Fiji's National Coat of arms consists of the images of two Fijian warriors on either side of a shield and the motto "Rerevaka na Kalou ka Doka na Tui" below the shield. These words mean "Fear God and honour the Queen." The shield from the coat of arms has the image of a heraldic lion holding a cocoa pod across the top. Sugarcane, a coconut palm and bunch of bananas are represented in three of the shields sections. The fourth contains the reproduction of a dove of peace, the main feature, of the Cakobau Government's flag before cession."
We here on The Chocolate Cult would love to try some Fiji chocolate so if anyone out there knows of a chocolatier or company who uses their cacao, please leave us a comment and let us know.
To learn more about Fiji, visit their official government website. Then leave a comment letting us know if you marked today with a special chocolate salute to their nation.
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Celebrate Fiji Day with Chocolate
Posted by TammyJo Eckhart at 8:00 AM
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2 comments:
- Conor @ Hold the Beef said...
I've been to Fiji, and had a wonderful time, but had no idea about the chocolate connection and can't remember eating any while I was there! Missed opportunity!
- October 11, 2010 at 10:28 AM
- TheChocolatePriestess said...
I've never been there at all, Conor. I bet though that they grow and then sell the cacao or cocoa. It would be more difficult to make the chocolate there and ship that. I notice it is less common for the nations who can grow the bean to make the chocolate.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
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We've never seen an Eagle fly like this NFL Blitz-like launch which happened during Madden NFL 15.
It seems the company has heard our laments, as they've reportedly overhauling the trade-in system throughout the company, promising to give more money for trade-ins.
2K is starting to unveil the next WWE game piece by piece, today announcing the collector's edition of the game on the official website.
2K Games revealed the cover art for NBA 2K15 today with a special announcement hidden inside.
As Lebron James jokes get carried away across the Internet, another controversial athlete has been unveiled as the frontman for the next entry of the Madden NFL series.
Jay Leno may have lied when he said that Conan O'Brien would take the reins of the Tonight Show, but at least Coco got to be the first person in the world to review Watch Dogs.
It's going to be that time of year again. Electronic Arts has just announced the release date for Madden NFL 15.
In a move that sent positive shockwaves through the fanbase, WWE announced WWE Network this week. The new streaming service will offer every single pay-per-view as well as countless hours of classic matches to subscribers for the (amazingly) sensible price of $9.99 a month.
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Justice: Mexico has bagged crime cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a major takedown. Problem is, Mexico has no death penalty, and its lax prisons are a joke. So why not try El Chapo in the U.S.?
For Mexico, the capture of Guzman, kingpin of kingpins who ran Mexico's biggest and most powerful drug cartel, was the equivalent of the U.S. takedown of Osama bin Laden.
His diabolical war over the last decade has left tens of thousands dead as he amassed a $3 billion fortune.
At the least, the arrest deals a blow as strong as Colombia's nabbing of Medellin Cartel drug lord Pablo Escobar in 1993 or FARC narcoterrorist Raul Reyes in 2008.
But there's a problem: Escobar and Reyes were more or less executed. Guzman is alive. If found guilty of his heinous crimes, he'd deserve execution too, if for no other reason than to protect Mexico from more killing.
Yet he can't be put to death under Mexican law — even though Guzman stands charged with conducting a crime war that has left 86,000 Mexicans dead, bribing elements of the Mexican and U.S. governments, intimidating and murdering journalists, and terrorizing and robbing Mexico's struggling oil industry.
His criminal activities don't stop at the border.
El Chapo's smugglers allegedly have shipped millions of illegal immigrants into the U.S. His American mayhem allegedly stretches to beheadings in Arizona, shootings in Chicago, killings in El Paso, Texas, money laundering in Los Angeles, illegal immigrants dying of thirst in the Arizona desert, and a cut of no less than 25% of all imported drugs trafficked through the U.S.
So long as he remains alive, he remains a threat to Mexico — and to us — by the fact that he can continue to run his crime cartel out of Mexican prison through bribes and intimidation of officials there. Mexican prisons are not like U.S. prisons, where the guards control the prisoners — no, they are nearly cities unto themselves, with open lines of communication to the outside as well as considerable inside control by the inmates.
To see him in prison only opens the door for Mexico to endure more of his same nightmarish drug war.
We understand Mexico's intense desire to deal with Guzman through its own system, given his crimes and Mexico's suffering. But Guzman represents a global security threat — not just to Mexico but to the U.S., Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Canada, Spain and other countries where his bloody fingerprints have been found. Courts in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Texas have sought to extradite him, with strong cases that can shut him away forever in a far-more-secure U.S. "Supermax" prison.
Drug lords dread these prisons more than death itself.
Escobar waged a full-blown war against Colombia, bombing commercial airliners out of the sky and targeting children of Colombia's political elites in 1990 in an attempt to stop extradition. He basically chose death over a U.S. prison cell.
One of his top lieutenants, Carlos Lehder, remains in a Supermax alongside al-Qaida terrorists, serial killers and traitors. If found guilty, Guzman belongs there too.
The U.S. should press for his extradition to protect the entire hemisphere from a monster.
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My usage would be weddings plus typical insect and floral macro shots.
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There are a few blogs that are must-reads for me and A New Name is one of them. Reading Emma Scrivener's blog, where she writes about following Jesus when life is hard, has been a safe place to visit while I've struggled over the last year or so.
So it's a serious honour to have been able to write a guest post for Emma about my experience of writing a book while depressed and doubting. Here's a glimpse into how things have been, and how faith has felt for me when things have been difficult.
Christian writers are people with unshakeable faith in God, right? Well, my first book has just come out and it's all about Jesus – but there were times writing it when I wasn't sure I wanted to follow him. Here's my story of how writing about Jesus brought me back to him.
I sat in the car and begged God to help me. I cried and asked him to please, please just show me he was real and that he loved me.
I waited.
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Kirsten Gillibrand took a "moral high ground" position which she knew was not going to affect the outcome of the vote in order to show her independence.
Tonight, she'll go home and bake a cake for Schumer as thanks for letting her off the leash for a day
Maybe her point of view will lead to a main stream Republican taking the seat in 2012.
i know dog and pony, but i will never vote for Schumer again. it's that simple
How can a senator from New York harp about this bill. A lot of her "middle class constituents" with two spouses working would easily fall into her party's definition of rich. Meanwhile they are struggling to make ends meet due to obscene property taxes (which are AMT items), state income tax over 7%, 8% plus sales taxes, and SS/ medicare taxes of 9% (the benefits of which she probably wants to mean's test??? – come on!!!). How much is too much for these people? Hopefully, the Republican party gets it's act together to get a decent candidate in 2 years – she is clueless and has got to go!!!
I agree with what Gillibrand said. And so do Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and many others. Schumer was going to raise the higher-tax level to 1 million but the Republicans' irresponsibility prevailed.
So, if you are married with a family and live in NYC, Long Island or Westchester counites $250,000 is rich.
She's a light weight. Republicans need to knock her off in 2012!
Schumler, although too liberal for my taste, at least recognizes that $250,000 doesn't make one rich in high cost areas of the country. His proposal to raise the ceiling to $1 million made a lot of sense. Gillibrand would do well to follow his lead in the future.
"Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand voted against a massive tax-cut package hammered out between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans, saying keeping low taxes for the wealthy will add too much to the national debt."
Senator Gillibrand couldn't vote against "a massive tax-cut package" because there hasn't been such a package on which to vote. The proposed legislation is to retain, not cut, current tax rates, and RAISE estate tax rates (from zero to 35%). The only "tax cut" is the proposed 2% reduction in the employee's SS tax, which will accomplish nothing but increase the national debt.
Keeping "low taxes" for "the wealthy" will NOT increase the national debt one iota, but allowing the tax cuts to expire and thus raising tax rates significantly for any class of taxpayer will reduce investment, decrease employment, and lower government revenues. THAT is what the nation cannot afford.
Senator Gillibrand apparently prefers to worsen the recession than to bypass an opportunity to punish the successful.
Of course, this is all a sham, anyway. The Democrats don't want to soak the rich, since so many of them and their supporters are in fact "mega-rich". They want to raise tax rates on the (upper) middle-class and small business and farmers, while they and their rich cronies find ways to evade taxes, and destroy the competition.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Liberal!
$250k family gross income in the NYC metro area is called "getting by". Half of that money or more goes for taxes and bloated public payrolls. And yes the AMT, the scourge of NY and California tax payers, never gets a mention.
Why is it that in all of the journalism on this issue, including the WSJ, is this labeled a "tax cut" when all it does is retain the current tax rates and structures? How can our senators talk about the "cost" when revenues should remain as they currently are. The language of the tax debate has for years been skewed in favor of more taxes for the government.
To all of you who thing 250K a year in Westchester county is "barely getting by".
How greedy are you?
How many luxuries do you think one person needs?
Living in Westchester, yes, everything is crazy expensive.. and property taxes top the list.
With two working parents, earning under $200K we are far from 'Rich'. But we could certainly manage to kick in an extra 4% and still pay the mortgage and have food to pack lunches… . 4% more from those who still have good jobs, to help with the deficit makes good sense for our country.
You'd have to be selfish not to be willing to do that with so many good people unemployed now.
Good for Senator Gillibrand .
Raising taxes slightly on income of people who sit on great wealth isn't going to discourage investment! Investors, banks and large companies are sitting on trillions now. With consumer demand so low, they just can't see their way to investing what they have.
Where exactly is the compromise? They've compromised my health care by cutting Medicare, and next they'll further erode my ability to keep a roof over my head by cutting Social Security more.
Thank you, Mister President!
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Minimalist event manager that can keep track of birthdays, anniversaries, and other types of events
Upon launch, Birthdaybook displays a list of upcoming events which can include user setup entries, or events included in the "Famous Names" calendars that integrate with the application by default. However, you can also access the entire database by pressing the "List" button.
You have the possibility to import new events via the Contacts or Calendar application, but you can also create new entires manually: decide if it is a birthday, an anniversary, or other type of event, type a name and a date, and then press the add button.
Effortlessly schedule reminders by applying predefined notification patterns
Via the Birthdaybook Preferences window you have the possibility to adjust the date format, customize the reminder appearance, and personalize the calendars that will be integrated by default with your Apple Calendar app.
The same area allows you to setup a notification template by selecting one of the predefined patterns, or by creating your own. At the same time, you get to decide when you want to see the Birthdaybook alert: at startup, after sleep, or once a day at a specific time. You may also enable the "snooze" functionality to be sure you will register all the notifications.
Uncomplicated events manager that integrates with your Calendar.app and can display successive alerts
Birthdaybook can help you create a comprehensive database of friends and family birthdays, anniversaries, or other type of events. The app allows you to import data from various sources, but also enables you to make manual entries. The best part is that you can create your own notifications pattern to make sure you will not overlook important events.
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Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai
Directed by Takashi Miike
Seppuku —the suicide ritual whereby a man slices his own stomach open from left to right, enduring the pain until he either bleeds to death or is mercifully decapitated by a pre-selected partner —is no cultish leftover. Bound up in disgrace and ceremony, it can be a supra-legal means of conceding defeat, a last-minute purification, or an indictment of systemic hypocrisies; the final tack was taken in 1962 by writer-director Masaki Kobayashi with his furious Harakiri, a movie just as much about boilerplate samurai power struggles as the "masterless" human flotsam of postwar Japan. (Philosopher Nitobe Inazo wrote, "the syllogism of seppuku is easy to construct: 'I will open the seat of my soul and show you how it fares with it. See for yourself whether it is polluted or clean.'")
All of this to say, the pressure facing Takashi Miike's 3D Harakiri remake is steep—fifty years of cinematic respect, or several centuries of bushido, your pick—and the film mostly rises to the challenge plus change. Little from Kobayashi's classic is kept except names and core premise: a tattered ronin named Hanshiro (the magnetic Ebizo Ichikawa) turns up at a 17th century lord's estate requesting permission to disembowel himself in the courtyard. The lord and his vassals are skeptical, and recount an earlier incident whereby another, younger wanderer named Motome (Eita) made the same request, and it turned out he was bluffing—a common means of getting alms at the time. The retainers vengefully forced the baby-faced samurai to go through with it anyway, despite the fact that his sword was actually made from bamboo.
"Every man has his own honor. Without the heart to preserve that, we're nothing." The scene is excruciating; Motome's seppuku arrives after forty minutes of deliberations, the language of the players faithfully pitched just between stern lecturing and explosive rage. The film's ad campaign unwisely-but-probably-necessarily paints Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai as a symphony of clanging katanas, but it's really not. Clarifying the relationship between Hanshiro and Motome, the director opts for full-bore period tragedy played out in two crosscutting narratives, using the (mostly useless) 3D less for cartoony angles than for lush texturing: blood on bamboo, footprints on gravel, a trio of severed topknots on snow.
Is Miike showing his age? As with 13 Assassins, there's scarce mystery to the film, and nothing that would've been out of place in a classic 50s Tohoscope feature (beyond a few spurts of genuinely startling violence). This is mostly slow-burn genre filmmaking rendered in classic style. (Fanboys who, as with Cronenberg, grouse that they want the old Miike back might find solace in his announcement that "Next, if I have the chance, I want to have things that shouldn't come out of our bodies be hurled at the audience.") It's borderline uncomfortable to consider that an auteur who cheerfully rollerblades off the most remote cliffs of human sanity has a better grasp of 3D's potential for humanism than, say, Scorsese, but he hits more than a few notes insidiously irony-free—like a vista of a newborn baby's face.
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Okay, I know it's off-topic and not terribly exciting, but it still is useful. File under Learning Something New Every Day.
Did you know that dust build-up in the sockets of light bulbs makes them overheat and blow out faster? I sure didn't. I probably vacuum out the light bulb sockets in the chandeliers and ceiling lights....once a year? Maybe? I did realize that dust and the occasional moth probably wasn't a good thing, but frankly, vacuuming light bulb sockets isn't high on my to-do list.
And, apparently, the older the wiring, the more important this is. I suppose that overheating sockets could lead to a fire, too, although I don't know this for sure.
HIPPIECHICK says that there's mercury in the new fluorescent bulbs, so I can't recommend one way or the other on them, but given the new info on blue light emissions (my previous blog on insomnia), I"m sticking to regular incandescent tungsten light bulbs next to me and in the bedroom. I'll still use the fluorescent ones that last for five years (so they say...) in the fixtures that require ladders to change bulbs.
Who knows - maybe I"ll even vacuum the fixtures more often.
Any of you who read my blogs or irritated "status" updates know I don't sleep well. Ive always been one of those, "I'll sleep when I"m dead" people, but in the last year or two it's become ridiculous. Now maybe I know why.
Seems computers and smart phones (and tvs, but they aren't right next to our heads) emit a wavelength of light that is normally only found in daylight, and scientists suggest that this may be screwing with the circadian rhythms of some susceptible humans. They think that perhaps until technology can sort this out (and they're working on it as we speak) the best thing to do is not to play around with computers and phones right before - or in - bed.
I don't know about you, but if I can't sleep, the first thing I do after I finish reading my bedside book is haul out the computer and see what other night owls are up to. Or else I text my children, and if they're sleeping, I'll play some teensy game on the phone.
I may have to change that and just keep a bigger pile of books and magazines by the bed. Only I may have to change light bulbs, too - seems many of the fluorescent bulbs also emit this blue light.
Here's the link to the article in the Chicago Tribune, by staff writer Monica Eng:
I chose to take the dog on a nice long ramble this morning. The hay was cut and taken out last week, so the farm is like a 100 acre lawn, albeit a brown and stubby one (we could use some rain here, please.) We went into all the corners and she had a lovely sniff, I just looked around happily, then we started for home and our respective water bowls and glasses. The I noticed...
...the Brush Hog was gone.
A Brush (or Bush, depending upon brand, I think) Hog isn't a small thing. It's like a 4'x4' single blade lawnmower that hooks to a tractor, made of metal and probably weighs...I'm guessing here...400 pounds, with sharp edges. In other words, you don't just drop it in the truck of your car and leave. I rooted around in the underbrush and tall weeds, but sure enough, no Brush Hog.
I usually don't think of this as being the sort of place where things get stolen - most folks don't even lock their doors (being a city kid, I have to - it'd drive me nuts otherwise.) But it was looking like someone had, in fact, stolen the Brush Hog.
So I got in the car, mentally loaded for bear, and went off in search. I'm pretty liberal about lending tools and machinery, but the borrowers always at least have the courtesy to mention it to me. I checked the farms of the guys who cut the hay - no dice. (And no Brush Hog.) I checked the grounds of one of our local known thieves - no Brush Hog. Asked a neighbor. No Brush Hog.
Finally it occurred to me to call the other neighbor - a good friend and generally a really good guy. I didn't see why he'd take my Brush Hog, but I was running out of options. Sure enough, he had it. Not only that, he apparently told me he had planned to take it. He'd borrowed it and not only used it, but oiled it and straightened it and whatever else one does with that sort of thing. Apparently I *cough* forgot.
So, having spent the better part of the day running all over hell and gone looking for something that I should have known was across the street, I've decided to start my new life tomorrow instead of today. I shall take a lovely, soaky bath, have a cocktail, a BLT (*with* mayonnaise, although not too much) and go to bed early. Apparently I need a little extra rest.
And when I start my day tomorrow, #1 on my list will be something about not jumping to conclusions.
I don't know about you all, but I tend to lose weight in fits and starts. I lose five or six pounds, then slack up on my efforts. I don't think it's because I falsely feel like, "I've got this" - more like something else comes along that captures my attention. Since I've gotten some good habits in place, I don't gain back the weight, but I totally stop losing, and I just cruise along like that for a while...sometimes a really long while. Mayo on the sandwich here, extra beer there, too hot to exercise the next day....and on it goes.
I'm about half way through my weight loss journey (although when I get to the end, I may decide to do another ten pounds...it's sort of a "see how things are when I get there" deal), but like the project of the upstairs bathroom, which has been half done for over a year now, I'm tired of the project and I want it finished.
I've not only been "dieting" (let's just call it that, okay?) for years, I've been widowed now for a year and a half, been stuck with house projects for that long or longer, just generally stuck.
I think it's time to pull up my big girl britches and finish a few of these projects. Finish the !@#$ bookcases, paint the upstairs bathroom, and lose the remaining thirty-odd pounds. I'm ready for the next chapter in my life, whatever it may be, and I don't want to be carrying around the "house that grief built" - I want to head into it healthy and happy, and to do that, I need to shed a few more pounds. Not because I'm not okay the way I am, but because I know I can be better.
So instead of resting on my, um...laurels...I'm going to reboot my efforts. I'm mostly living on what the CSA feeds me each week (did I mention how shockingly good raw kohlrabi is? Sliced thinly with a sprinkle of salt - YUM) so that part is easy. The hot spell is supposed to end tonight or tomorrow, so there goes that excuse - I've been walking and lifting sporadically, but I think I'll make a plan and stick to it, what the hell, even track it here in SP.
I've learned so much from the challenges in my life - not just weight and grief, but basically the whole buffet table of setbacks and craziness - and I want to share that with others. To do that, I need to dress that part, and to do *that*, I need to shop in a smaller size.
I suck at self-discipline, so I figure the only way I can achieve these goals is to show up here and use the tools SP offers. You guys are my community, if only virtually. I've come to believe that if we can lean on one another occasionally, we can beat this weight beast.
So let's go. * knuckle bumps several Spark Friends, with shouts of WooHoo in the background*
(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)
I actually like beets, even the canned ones. One of my favorite salads is sliced beets with oranges. Heck, I'll even eat the dreaded Harvard beets, although it's not my favorite.
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By Tad Wanveer, LMT, CST-D; guest author for John Upledger, DO, OMM
Editor's note: Tad Wanveer, author of this month's CranioSacrally Speaking column, has been the guest author for several previous CranioSacrally Speaking columns.
The Veterans Administration currently reports almost 50,000 cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurring in Afghanistan and Iraq veterans. Another stunning statistic, PTSD affects about 7.7 million Americans. Craniosacral therapy has effectively helped those afflicted with PTSD regain levels of normalcy within themselves and in relationship to their family, community and work.
PTSD is caused by a traumatic event. PTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by a terrifying event that involved physical harm or the threat of physical harm. The person who develops PTSD may be the one harmed or someone who has witnessed a traumatic event happen to another person. It can be caused by a variety of incidents such as war, rape, mugging, torture, child abuse, car accident, plane crash or natural disasters. These events may cause intense fear, helplessness or horror that can become imbedded in a person's body tissue.
An inner feeling of trauma may persist long after the traumatic event has passed. When a portion of the body, perhaps even a single cell, maintains a pattern of trauma, it can create an inner feeling of the traumatic event. Highly stressful cellular patterns may cause chronic, abnormal and intense biomechanical and biochemical strain, even long after the actual trauma has ended. This, in turn, can evoke perpetual stimulation of the stress response, causing non-stop chaos and alarm within the autonomic nervous system.
Traumatic cellular patterns can continually send debilitating signals. Traumatic stress is felt and remembered, consciously and unconsciously, through sensory processing. It is through our senses that we continuously experience our inner self, as well as the environment outside of ourselves. The inner-sensed experience of traumatic cellular patterns can feel life-threatening and evoke life-saving measures. In essence, one is living moment to moment in a state of never-ending threat and horror as an unremitting condition of fight, flight or freeze that governs physical and emotional processes. These traumatic arousal patterns can encode deeper and deeper into the circuitry of the nervous system and the body as a whole, causing a cascade of overwhelming and terrifying feelings.
Traumatic cell vibration can entrain the whole person. The tissue of the body is created by a vast diversity of cells oscillating at varied frequencies. This forms an interrelated matrix in which each part of the body - each cell - has an effect upon the whole. Generally, any local event within the body has some type of full-body effect. So cells that have formed into a state of trauma can cause adverse consequences within the whole person. These cells are like metronomes ticking and vibrating non-stop oscillations of fear, terror or dread that can surge through the whole person.
Craniosacral therapy can help by facilitating optimal cell shape. Craniosacral therapy can help the body change cell shape through gentle techniques that improve inherent pathways of self-correction. As cells change and correct their shapes, the trauma imbedded within the cells can be processed with greater efficiency. It's as though the traumatic energy trapped within cells can move, respond and synchronize with body systems that oscillate in frequencies of correction, integration and balance rather than trauma. As this occurs, the challenging effects of PTSD can decrease, thus leading to greater ease within oneself and one's surroundings.
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Tad Wanveer, LMT, CST-D, is a certified instructor for The Upledger Institute, where he was a staff clinician for more than five years. He earned his diploma in massage therapy in 1987 from the Swedish Institute of Massage and Allied Health Sciences in New York City. He currently runs a private practice in North Carolina�s Raleigh-Durham area specializing in CranioSacral Therapy.
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