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1/2 cup white wine
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 tablespoon lemon or calamansi juice
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
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- Combine first 5 ingredients in a wide, heavy frying pan, and bring to a low simmer. Arrange fish fillets in a single layer in a pan. Cover pan. Cook fish for 6 minutes, then with slotted spoon, transfer fish to serving dish.
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Then there's the third reason not to sit out: Why would you ever want to sit out a Survivor challenge? This is the adventure of a lifetime. You only get to do this once — unless you are Rupert or Boston Rob, in which case you can do it as many times as you damn please until you finally win. And then can do it a few more times if you really want. (Basically, as long as you wear your Red Sox hat or tie-dye t-shirt, you are permanently persona grata!) Ciera's assertion later at Tribal Council later that "I'd rather not play and eat, than lose and not eat" was positively INFURIATING! No, Ciera! Play! Soak it all up! Test yourself and your limits! And maybe — just maybe — do something that you can be proud of. Something that you can take home with you even if you don't make it all the way to the end. I'd rather not play and eat, than lose and not eat? There are thousands of people who would give anything to play. I understand that food is nice, but I also understand from Aras that there is tons of food available on the island this season. He said there was no comparison at all between this season and the last time he played, when they actually had a food shortage. (You can see Gervase offer his explanation for why he sat out the challenge in our exclusive deleted scene in the video player below!)
Enormous props to Monica for wanting to embrace as much of this experience as possible and actually playing, saying that she wanted to "show the kids that more than one badass lives in our house" Well, consider them shown. While these past two challenges have been totally geared towards her body type, the fact remains that Monica has now kicked everyone's collective ass in three of the past four challenges. I hereby rescind the last name honor of Culpepper prematurely bestowed upon husband Brad and recommission it for wife Monica, who has now completely usurped badass status from her NFL hubby.
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So because Tyson opted for the food, he later had to waste his hidden immunity idol — after he got it out of his bag, that is — once he thought there was a chance it could be him getting voted out. While there was some scuttlebutt that the men might rejoin together to get rid of Ciera, it was Caleb who was voted out and sent to Redemption Island, where he opined that it was "definitely a successful blindside on their part." Although I'm not sure how he can think it was a blindside considering he and Hayden had already sensed they might be in trouble. (Note to future contestants: Getting voted out does not mean you were blindsided. Being blindsided is considering yourself absolutely 100% safe, and then getting voted out. The proliferation of the term blindside needs to stop and needs to stop now.)
Although tonight's result was pretty clear pretty early on, I still dug this episode. I dug watching Laura's new wrinkle in getting rid of Vytas. I dug watching Monica dig deep. I dug watching Tyson and Gervase romantically share a sausage together, which is not quite as gross as it sounds. And I even dug looking at Hayden's gnarly blisters — because I expect all reality show contestants to suffer for my enjoyment. So I give thanks for all things Survivor, especially for the fact that they did not stick us with a clip show this Thanksgiving (although the clip shows have gotten so much better in recent years — for which I also give thanks). And I give thanks to you for bothering to read this nonsense on a holiday in which you no doubt have much better things to do with your time. (Not that I do, but you probably do.)
And to thank you even further, we have presented an array of goodies for you. Because of the holiday, I've posted my weekly Q&A with Jeff Probst earlier than usual. You can read that sucker right now! We also have an exclusive deleted scene from tonight's episode as well as my pre-game interviews with Vytas/Aras and Caleb/Colton in the video player below. My exit interview with Vytas will be delayed until next week because of the Turkey Day festivities, so check back then for that. (Although you can enjoy our Aras interview here.) And for Survivor scoop sent right to you, follow me on Twitter @DaltonRoss.
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Although I can't exactly prove that tweezer sales were down in 2013—the year of the famous Cara Delevingne statement eyebrow—I wouldn't be surprised if they were. The bushy, au naturel brow has officially taken over as a beauty trend that has staying power for 2014. Unlike other trends that come and go, this is one I can truly get on board with—let's just say that after an eyebrow-plucking hack job I did to myself in 2003, I've barely touched my brows since.
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Andrew & Williamson focuses on heirlooms
San Diego-based Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce is focusing on its heirloom tomato varieties and its snacking tomatoes this summer.
The heirloom program, developed in response to customers' desire for a better-tasting tomato, is really a resurgence of tomato flavors like the brandywine red, black prince and Cherokee purple varieties, said John King, vice president of sales.
The snacking tomato program features red grape tomatoes, golden grape tomatoes and red cherry tomatoes.
Tasti-Lee tomato brings success for Deardorff
The Tasti-Lee brand tomato from Deardorff Family Farms, Oxnard, Calif., is doing well in its second year, said David Cook, sales manager. The Tasti-Lee is a round tomato that is "solid, hard and firm with exceptional shelf life and a really good slicing tomato," he said.
The product is packaged in an overwrapped tray with several counts available, all weighing 1 pound.
"The important thing is for us to arrange a year-round supply of those," he said.
Company president Tom Deardorff said the company started working with partners in Mexico last year and were successful filling orders during most of the off-season months.
"We think this year we will be able to bridge the gap even better so that we can continue with a year-round supply," he said.
An organic version will be available this year, but only through the fall.
Fresh Pac launches organic program
Fresh Pac International, Oceanside, Calif., plans to launch a full-line organic tomato program this season, said Brian Bernauer, director of sales and marketing. The company expects to start the shade house program in Baja California in September and continue through November, Bernauer said. The first year the program is expected to include limited volume of round, roma and grape tomatoes.
The company also has begun an heirloom tomato program in Oceanside. Fresh Pac used to grow tomatoes locally but abandoned the program when land, labor, water and other expenses became prohibitive and began sourcing from Baja California. Test plots of the heirloom tomatoes will produce through early October.
The project will start with conventional product but also likely will include organic tomatoes, Bernauer said. At first, the tomatoes will be available for local customers, but eventually the program may be expanded outside of California.
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At $94 a square foot and "virtually indestructible," some school districts in Utah are opting to build concrete dome schools in lieu of traditional structures.
Many U.S. cities are seeing an increase in bicycle commuters, according to new a U.S. Census Bureau report. While bicyclists still account for just 0.6% of all commuters, some of the nation's largest cities have more than doubled their rates since 2000.
Ito and other Japanese architects cite excessive costs, massive size, and the project's potentially negative impact on surrounding public spaces as reasons for nixing Hadid's plan.
The Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program will offer 14 grants to developers of affordable housing in North America who are committed to building sustainable communities through the LEED for Neighborhood Development program.
Driven by changing work styles, mobile technology, and the growing presence of Millennials, today's workplaces are changing, mostly for the better. We examine the top office design trends.
A judge has ordered the left-wing political party Esquerra Unida to pay €30,000 to Santiago Calatrava because of "insulting and degrading" website.
Called "The Legal Office of the Future," the pop-up demonstration project made its debut this week at the annual conference for the Association of Legal Administrators in Toronto.
The March ABI score was 49.6, up slightly from a mark of 48.8 in March, but still below the growth threshold of 50.
The new East Coast office for the Internet radio provider is housed on two interconnected floors of the classic 125 Park Avenue building, and features multiple spaces for music performances, large gatherings, and "all hands" meetings.
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After last week's excursion to The Hub, in which Skye learned all about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s many clearance rules, it's finally time for the episode comic-lovers have been waiting for: The Thor crossover!
This week's episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. places our favorite agents in the direct aftermath of Thor: The Dark World. What ensues is a mix of Asgardian mind tricks, a discovery or two, and an internal battle for the straight-faced Agent Ward. We caught up with Chloe Bennet to talk about Asgardian relics, Skye's past, and all things Skyward:
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CHLOE BENNET: Well, the episode that airs on Tuesday is the aftermath of Thor 2, so our team goes to [an] undisclosed location to try and clean up the mess that these Asgardian gods came down and made. And then when we're cleaning up this mess, we happen to find certain Asgardian relics and that leads us to another story line. Basically, there's this relic, and if you touch it, it makes you have this unbelievable amount of rage and that causes a lot of drama and a very good episode.


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Template:Infobox Muslim scholars Template:About
Template:Transl (Template:PerB; c. 980 in Bukhara,[4][5] Khorasan – 1037 in Hamedan[6]), also known as Ibn Seena[7] and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek Aβιτζιανός),[8] was a Persian[9] Muslim polymath and the foremost physician and Islamic philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, Hafiz, logician, mathematician, poet, psychologist, physicist, scientist, Sheikh, soldier, statesman and theologian.[10]
Ibn Sīnā wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine.[11][12] His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine,[1] which was a standard medical text at many Islamic and European universities up until the early 19th century.[13] Ibn Sīnā developed a medical system that combined his own personal experience with that of Islamic medicine, the medical system of the Greek physician Galen,[14] Aristotelian metaphysics, and ancient Persian, Mesopotamian and Indian medicine. He was also the founder of Avicennian logic and the philosophical school of Avicennism, which were influential among both Muslim and Scholastic thinkers.
Ibn Sīnā is regarded as a father of early modern medicine,[15][16] particularly for his introduction of systematic experimentation and quantification into the study of physiology,[17] his discovery of the contagious nature of infectious diseases,[18] the introduction of quarantine to limit the spread of contagious diseases, the introduction of experimental medicine, evidence-based medicine, clinical trials,[19] randomized controlled trials,[20][21] efficacy tests,[22][23] clinical pharmacology,[24] neuropsychiatry,[25] risk factor analysis, and the idea of a syndrome,[26] and the importance of dietetics and the influence of climate and environment on health.[27] He is also considered the father of the fundamental concept of momentum in physics,[28] and regarded as a pioneer of aromatherapy.[29]
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Avicenna flourished in special writing circumstances which was the culmination of scholar activities in Islamic golden age. The translation and interpretation of classical thoughts has been done. The period witnessed the introduction and assimilation of Hellenistic, Persian, and Hindu mathematics, astronomy, algebra, trigonometry, and medicine into Muslim culture. The 10th and 11th were centuries of interpretation, criticism, and further adaptation.[30] Samanid dynasty in Greater Khorasan and central Asia as well as Buwayhid on in western part of Persia and Iraq could provide good atmosphere for scholar and cultural works. Under the Samanids, Bukhara rivaled Baghdad as a cultural capital of Islam.[31]
Study of Quran and Hadith as well as Fiqh and theology were completely developed. al-Razi and Al-Farabi had provided methodology and knowledge in medicine and philosophy. Avicenna could use the great libraries of Balkh, Khwarezm, Gorgan, Rey, Isfahan and Hamedan. He also could meet and speak the greatest scholars of the time. As Aruzi Samarqandi describes in his four articles before Avicenna left Khwarezm he had met al-Biruni(great scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Iraqi(great mathematician), Abu Sahl Masihi(great philosopher) and Abu al-Khayr Khammar(great physician).
Early life
Ibn Sīnā's life is known to us from authoritative sources. A biography, which is widely considered by foremost Arabicists to have been composed by a disciple and later redacted, covers his first thirty years, and the rest are documented by his disciple al-Juzjani, who was also his secretary and his friend.
He was born in Persia around 980 (370 AH) in Afshana, in Bukhara province, his mother's home, a small city now part of Uzbekistan. His father, a respected Ismaili[32] or Sunni[33] scholar of Balkh, an important town of the Persian state of Khorasan, now part of Afghanistan, was at the time of his son's birth the governor in one of the Samanid Nuh ibn Mansur's estates. He had his son very carefully educated at Bukhara. Ibn Sina himself may have been either a Hanafi Sunni[33][34] or Twelver Shia.[35] Ibn Sina's independent thought was served by an extraordinary intelligence and memory, which allowed him to overtake his teachers at the age of fourteen. As he said in his autobiography there wasn't anything which he hadn't learned when he reached eighteen.
Ibn Sīnā was put under the charge of a tutor, and his precocity soon made him the marvel of his neighbours; he displayed exceptional intellectual behaviour and was a child prodigy who had memorized the Qur'an by the age of 7 and a great deal of Persian poetry as well. He learned Indian arithmetic from an Indian greengrocer, and he began to learn more from a wandering scholar who gained a livelihood by curing the sick and teaching the young. He also studied Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) under the Hanafi scholar Ismail al-Zahid.[33][34]
He was greatly troubled by the Metaphysics of Aristotle, which he could not understand until he read al-Farabi's commentary on the work.[36] For the next year and a half, he studied philosophy, in which he encountered greater obstacles. In such moments of baffled inquiry, he would leave his books, perform the requisite ablutions (wudu), then go to the mosque, and continue in prayer (salah) till light broke on his difficulties. Deep into the night he would continue his studies, and even in his dreams problems would pursue him and work out their solution. Forty times, it is said, he read through the Metaphysics of Aristotle, till the words were imprinted on his memory; but their meaning was hopelessly obscure, until one day they found illumination, from the little commentary by Farabi, which he bought at a bookstall for the small sum of three dirhams. So great was his joy at the discovery, thus made by help of a work from which he had expected only mystery, that he hastened to return thanks to God, and bestowed alms upon the poor.
He turned to medicine at 16, and not only learned medical theory, but also by gratuitous attendance on the sick had, according to his own account, discovered new methods of treatment. The teenager achieved full status as a physician at age 18 and found that "Medicine is no hard and thorny science, like mathematics and metaphysics, so I soon made great progress; I became an excellent doctor and began to treat patients, using approved remedies." The youthful physician's fame spread quickly, and he treated many patients without asking for payment.
His first appointment was that of physician to the emir, who owed him his recovery from a dangerous illness (997). Ibn Sina's chief reward for this service was access to the royal library of the Samanids, well-known patrons of scholarship and scholars. When the library was destroyed by fire not long after, the enemies of Ibn Sina accused him of burning it, in order for ever to conceal the sources of his knowledge. Meanwhile, he assisted his father in his financial labours, but still found time to write some of his earliest works.
When Ibn Sina was 22 years old, he lost his father. The Samanid dynasty came to its end in December 1004. Ibn Sina seems to have declined the offers of Mahmud of Ghazni, and proceeded westwards to Urgench in the modern Uzbekistan, where the vizier, regarded as a friend of scholars, gave him a small monthly stipend. The pay was small, however, so Ibn Sina wandered from place to place through the districts of Nishapur and Merv to the borders of Khorasan, seeking an opening for his talents. Shams al-Ma'äli Kavuus, the generous ruler of Dailam and central Persia, himself a poet and a scholar, with whom Ibn Sina had expected to find an asylum, was about that date (1052) starved to death by his troops who had revolted. Ibn Sina himself was at this season stricken down by a severe illness. Finally, at Gorgan, near the Caspian Sea, Ibn Sina met with a friend, who bought a dwelling near his own house in which Ibn Sina lectured on logic and astronomy. Several of Ibn Sina's treatises were written for this patron; and the commencement of his Canon of Medicine also dates from his stay in Hyrcania.
Ibn Sina subsequently settled at Rai, in the vicinity of modern Tehran, (present day capital of Iran), the home town of Rhazes; where Majd Addaula, a son of the last Buwayhid emir, was nominal ruler under the regency of his mother (Seyyedeh Khatun). About thirty of Ibn Sina's shorter works are said to have been composed in Rai. Constant feuds which raged between the regent and her second son, Shams al-Daula, however, compelled the scholar to quit the place. After a brief sojourn at Qazvin he passed southwards to Hamadãn where Shams al-Daula, another Buwayhid emir, had established himself. At first, Ibn Sina entered into the service of a high-born lady; but the emir, hearing of his arrival, called him in as medical attendant, and sent him back with presents to his dwelling. Ibn Sina was even raised to the office of vizier. The emir consented that he should be banished from the country. Ibn Sina, however, remained hidden for forty days in a sheikh's house, till a fresh attack of illness induced the emir to restore him to his post. Even during this perturbed time, Ibn Sina persevered with his studies and teaching. Every evening, extracts from his great works, the Canon and the Sanatio, were dictated and explained to his pupils. On the death of the emir, Ibn Sina ceased to be vizier and hid himself in the house of an apothecary, where, with intense assiduity, he continued the composition of his works.
Meanwhile, he had written to Abu Ya'far, the prefect of the dynamic city of Isfahan, offering his services. The new emir of Hamadan, hearing of this correspondence and discovering where Ibn Sina was hidden, incarcerated him in a fortress. War meanwhile continued between the rulers of Isfahan and Hamadãn; in 1024 the former captured Hamadan and its towns, expelling the Tajik mercenaries. When the storm had passed, Ibn Sina returned with the emir to Hamadan, and carried on his literary labours. Later, however, accompanied by his brother, a favourite pupil, and two slaves, Ibn Sina escaped out of the city in the dress of a Sufi ascetic. After a perilous journey, they reached Isfahan, receiving an honourable welcome from the prince.
Later life
The remaining ten or twelve years of Ibn Sīnā's life were spent in the service of Abu Ja'far 'Ala Addaula, whom he accompanied as physician and general literary and scientific adviser, even in his numerous campaigns.
During these years he began to study literary matters and philology, instigated, it is asserted, by criticisms on his style. He contrasts with the nobler and more intellectual character of Averroes. A severe colic, which seized him on the march of the army against Hamadãn, was checked by remedies so violent that Ibn Sina could scarcely stand. On a similar occasion the disease returned; with difficulty he reached Hamadãn, where, finding the disease gaining ground, he refused to keep up the regimen imposed, and resigned himself to his fate.
His friends advised him to slow down and take life moderately. He refused, however, stating that: "I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one with length". On his deathbed remorse seized him; he bestowed his goods on the poor, restored unjust gains, freed his slaves, and every third day till his death listened to the reading of the Qur'an. He died in June 1037, in his fifty-eighth year, and was buried in Hamedan, Iran.
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About 100 treatises were ascribed to Ibn Sina. Some of them are tracts of a few pages, others are works extending through several volumes. The best-known amongst them, and that to which Ibn Sina owed his European reputation, is his 14-volume The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text in Europe and the Islamic world up until the 18th century.[37] The book is known for its introduction of systematic experimentation and quantification into the study of physiology,[17] the discovery of contagious diseases and sexually transmitted diseases,[18] the introduction of quarantine to limit the spread of infectious diseases, the introduction of experimental medicine, clinical trials,[19] neuropsychiatry,[25] risk factor analysis, and the idea of a syndrome in the diagnosis of specific diseases,[26] and hypothesized the existence of microrganisms.[27] It classifies and describes diseases, and outlines their assumed causes. Hygiene, simple and complex medicines, and functions of parts of the body are also covered. In this, Ibn Sīnā is credited as being the first to correctly document the anatomy of the human eye, along with descriptions of eye afflictions such as cataracts. It asserts that tuberculosis was contagious, which was later disputed by Europeans, but turned out to be true. It also describes the symptoms and complications of diabetes. Both forms of facial paralysis were described in-depth. In addition, the workings of the heart as a valve are described. Template:Fact
The Canon of Medicine was the first book dealing with experimental medicine, evidence-based medicine, randomized controlled trials,[20][21] and efficacy tests,[22][23] and it laid out the following rules and principles for testing the effectiveness of new drugs and medications, which still form the basis of clinical pharmacology[24] and modern clinical trials:[19]
- "The drug must be free from any extraneous accidental quality."
- "It must be used on a simple, not a composite, disease."
- "The drug must be tested with two contrary types of diseases, because sometimes a drug cures one disease by Its essential qualities and another by its accidental ones."
- "The quality of the drug must correspond to the strength of the disease. For example, there are some drugs whose heat is less than the coldness of certain diseases, so that they would have no effect on them."
- "The time of action must be observed, so that essence and accident are not confused."
- "The effect of the drug must be seen to occur constantly or in many cases, for if this did not happen, it was an accidental effect."
- "The experimentation must be done with the human body, for testing a drug on a lion or a horse might not prove anything about its effect on man."
An Arabic edition of the Canon appeared at Rome in 1593, and a Hebrew version at Naples in 1491. Of the Latin version there were about thirty editions, founded on the original translation by Gerard de Sablonetta. In the 15th century a commentary on the text of the Canon was composed. Other medical works translated into Latin are the Medicamenta Cordialia, Canticum de Medicina, and the Tractatus de Syrupo Acetoso.
It was mainly accident which determined that from the 12th to the 18th century, Ibn Sīnā should be the guide of medical study in European universities, and eclipse the names of Rhazes, Ali ibn al-Abbas and Averroes. His work is not essentially different from that of his predecessor Rhazes, because he presented the doctrine of Galen, and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of Aristotle, as well as the Indian doctrines of Sushruta and Charaka.[38] But the Canon of Ibn Sīnā is distinguished from the Al-Hawi (Continens) or Summary of Rhazes by its greater method, due perhaps to the logical studies of the former.
The work has been variously appreciated in subsequent ages, some regarding it as a treasury of wisdom, and others, like Averroes, holding it useful only as waste paper. In modern times it has been seen of mainly historic interest as most of its tenets have been disproved or expanded upon by scientific medicine. The vice of the book is excessive classification of bodily faculties, and over-subtlety in the discrimination of diseases. It includes five books; of which the first and second discuss physiology, pathology and hygiene, the third and fourth deal with the methods of treating disease, and the fifth describes the composition and preparation of remedies. This last part contains some personal observations.
He is, like all his countrymen, ample in the enumeration of symptoms, and is said to be inferior to Ali in practical medicine and surgery. He introduced into medical theory the four causes of the Peripatetic system. Of natural history and botany he pretended to no special knowledge. Up to the year 1650, or thereabouts, the Canon was still used as a textbook in the universities of Leuven and Montpellier.
In the museum at Bukhara, there are displays showing many of his writings, surgical instruments from the period and paintings of patients undergoing treatment. Ibn Sīnā was interested in the effect of the mind on the body, and wrote a great deal on psychology, likely influencing Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Bajjah. He also introduced medical herbs.
Avicennian psychology
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In Muslim psychology and the neurosciences, Avicenna was a pioneer of neuropsychiatry. He first described numerous neuropsychiatric conditions, including hallucination, insomnia, mania, nightmare, melancholia, dementia, epilepsy, paralysis, stroke, vertigo and tremor.[25]
Avicenna was also a pioneer in psychophysiology and psychosomatic medicine. He recognized 'physiological psychology' in the treatment of illnesses involving emotions, and developed a system for associating changes in the pulse rate with inner feelings, which is seen as an anticipation of the word association test attributed to Carl Jung. Avicenna is reported to have treated a very ill patient by "feeling the patient's pulse and reciting aloud to him the names of provinces, districts, towns, streets, and people." He noticed how the patient's pulse increased when certain names were mentioned, from which Avicenna deduced that the patient was in love with a girl whose home Avicenna was "able to locate by the digital examination." Avicenna advised the patient to marry the girl he is in love with, and the patient soon recovered from his illness after his marriage.[39]
Astronomy and astrology
In 1070, Abu Ubayd al-Juzjani, a pupil of Ibn Sīnā, claimed that his teacher Ibn Sīnā had solved the equant problem in Ptolemy's planetary model.[40]
The study of astrology was refuted by Avicenna. His reasons were both due to the methods used by astrologers being conjectural rather than empirical and also due to the views of astrologers conflicting with orthodox Islam. He also cited passages from the Qur'an in order to justify his refutation of astrology on both scientific and religious grounds.[41]
Chemistry and aromatherapy
In chemistry, steam distillation was invented by Ibn Sīnā in the early 11th century, which he used to produce alcohol,wine, and industrial alcoholessential oils. As a result, he is regarded as a pioneer of aromatherapy.[29]
As a chemist, Avicenna was one of the first to write refutations on alchemy, after al-Kindi. Four of his works on the refutation of alchemy were translated into Latin as:[42]
- Liber Aboali Abincine de Anima in arte Alchemiae
- Declaratio Lapis physici Avicennae filio sui Aboali
- Avicennae de congelatione et conglutinatione lapifum
- Avicennae ad Hasan Regem epistola de Re recta
In one of these works, Ibn Sīnā discredited the theory of the transmutation of substances commonly believed by alchemists:
Among his works refuting alchemy, Liber Aboali Abincine de Anima in arte Alchemiae was the most influential, having influenced later medieval chemists and alchemists such as Vincent of Beauvais.[42]
Earth sciences
Ibn Sīnā wrote on the earth sciences in The Book of Healing, in which he hypothesized on two geological causes of mountains:
In physics, Ibn Sīnā was the first to employ an air thermometer to measure air temperature in his scientific experiments.[45]
In mechanics, Ibn Sīnā developed an elaborate theory of motion, in which he made a distinction between the inclination and force of a projectile, and concluded that motion was a result of an inclination (mayl) transferred to the projectile by the thrower, and that projectile motion in a vacuum would not cease.[46] He viewed inclination as a permanent force whose effect is dissipated by external forces such as air resistance.[47] His theory of motion was thus consistent with the concept of inertia in Newton's first law of motion.[46] Ibn Sīnā also referred to mayl to as being proportional to weight times velocity, a precursor to the concept of momentum in Newton's second law of motion.[48] Ibn Sīnā's theory of mayl was further developed by Jean Buridan in his theory of impetus.
In optics, Ibn Sina discovered that the speed of light is finite, as he "observed that if the perception of light is due to the emission of some sort of particles by a luminous source, the speed of light must be finite."[49] He also provided a sophisticated explanation for the rainbow phenomenon. Carl Benjamin Boyer described Ibn Sīnā's theory on the rainbow as follows: Template:Quote
Avicennian philosophy
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Ibn Sīnā wrote extensively on early Islamic philosophy, especially the subjects logic, ethics, and metaphysics, including treatises named Logic and Metaphysics. Most of his works were written in Arabic - which was the de facto scientific language of that time, and some were written in the Persian language. Of linguistic significance even to this day are a few books that he wrote in nearly pure Persian language (particularly the Danishnamah-yi 'Ala', Philosophy for Ala' ad-Dawla'). Ibn Sīnā's commentaries on Aristotle often corrected the philosopher, encouraging a lively debate in the spirit of ijtihad.
In the medieval Islamic world, due to Avicenna's successful reconciliation between Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism along with Kalam, Avicennism eventually became the leading school of Islamic philosophy by the 12th century, with Avicenna becoming a central authority on philosophy.[51]
Avicennism was also influential in medieval Europe, particular his doctrines on the nature of the soul and his existence-essence distinction, along with the debates and censure that they raised in scholastic Europe. This was particularly the case in Paris, where Avicennism was later proscribed in 1210. Nevertheless, his psychology and theory of knowledge influenced William of Auvergne and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of Thomas Aquinas.[52]
Metaphysical doctrine
Early Islamic philosophy, imbued as it is with Islamic theology, distinguishes more clearly than Aristotelianism the difference between essence and existence. Whereas existence is the domain of the contingent and the accidental, essence endures within a being beyond the accidental. The philosophy of Ibn Sīnā, particularly that part relating to metaphysics, owes much to to al-Farabi. The search for a truly definitive Islamic philosophy can be seen in what is left to us of his work.
Following al-Farabi's lead, Avicenna initiated a full-fledged inquiry into the question of being, in which he distinguished between essence (Mahiat) and existence (Wujud). He argued that the fact of existence can not be inferred from or accounted for by the essence of existing things and that form and matter by themselves cannot interact and originate the movement of the universe or the progressive actualization of existing things. Existence must, therefore, be due to an agent-cause that necessitates, imparts, gives, or adds existence to an essence. To do so, the cause must be an existing thing and coexist with its effect. [53]
Avicennian logic
Avicenna discussed the topic of logic in Islamic philosophy extensively in his works, and developed his own system of logic known as "Avicennian logic" as an alternative to Aristotelian logic. By the 12th century, Avicennian logic had replaced Aristotelian logic as the dominant system of logic in the Islamic world.[54] After the Latin translations of the 12th century, Avicennian logic was also influential in Europe.
Ibn Sina developed an early theory on hypothetical syllogism, which formed the basis of his early risk factor analysis.[26] He also developed an early theory on propositional calculus, which was an area of logic not covered in the Aristotelian tradition.[55] The first criticisms of Aristotelian logic were also written by Ibn Sina, who developed an original theory on temporal modal syllogism.[56] Ibn Sina also contributed inventively to the development of inductive logic, being the first to describe the methods of agreement, difference and concomitant variation which are critical to inductive logic and the scientific method.[26]
Natural philosophy
Ibn Sina and Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī engaged in a written debate, with al-Biruni mostly criticizing Aristotelian natural philosophy and the Peripatetic school, while Avicenna and his student Ahmad ibn 'Ali al-Ma'sumi respond to al-Biruni's criticisms in writing. Al-Biruni began by asking Avicenna eighteen questions, ten of which were criticisms of Aristotle's On the Heavens.[57]
Philosophy of science
In the Al-Burhan (On Demonstration) section of The Book of Healing, Avicenna discussed the philosophy of science and described an early scientific method of inquiry. He discusses Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several points. Avicenna discussed the issue of a proper methodology for scientific inquiry and the question of "How does one acquire the first principles of a science?" He asked how a scientist would arrive at "the initial axioms or hypotheses of a deductive science without inferring them from some more basic premises?" He explains that the ideal situation is when one grasps that a "relation holds between the terms, which would allow for absolute, universal certainty." Avicenna then adds two further methods for arriving at the first principles: the ancient Aristotelian method of induction (istiqra), and the method of examination and experimentation (tajriba). Avicenna criticized Aristotelian induction, arguing that "it does not lead to the absolute, universal, and certain premises that it purports to provide." In its place, he develops a "method of experimentation as a means for scientific inquiry."[58]
Ibn Sīnā was a devout Muslim and sought to reconcile rational philosophy with Islamic theology. His aim was to prove the existence of God and his creation of the world scientifically and through reason and logic.[59] Avicenna wrote a number of treatises dealing with Islamic theology. These included treatises on the Islamic prophets, who he viewed as "inspired philosophers", and on various scientific and philosophical interpretations of the Qur'an, such as how Quranic cosmology corresponds to his own philosophical system.[60]
Ibn Sīnā memorized the Qur'an by the age of seven, and as an adult, he wrote five treatises commenting on suras from the Qur'an. One of these texts included the Proof of Prophecies, in which he comments on several Quranic verses and holds the Qur'an in high esteem. Avicenna argued that the Islamic prophets should be considered higher than philosophers.[61]
Thought experiments
While he was imprisoned in the castle of Fardajan near Hamadhan, Avicenna wrote his famous "Floating Man" thought experiment to demonstrate human self-awareness and the substantiality of the soul. He referred to the living human intelligence, particularly the active intellect, which he believed to be the hypostasis by which God communicates truth to the human mind and imparts order and intelligibility to nature. His "Floating Man" thought experiment tells its readers to imagine themselves suspended in the air, isolated from all sensations, which includes no sensory contact with even their own bodies. He argues that, in this scenario, one would still have self-consciousness. He thus concludes that the idea of the self is not logically dependent on any physical thing, and that the soul should not be seen in relative terms, but as a primary given, a substance.[62]
Other contributions
In the chapters on mechanics and engineering in his encyclopedia Mi'yar al-'aql (The Measure of the Mind), Avicenna writes an analysis on the ilm al-hiyal (science of ingenious devices) and makes the first successful attempt to classify simple machines and their combinations. He first describes and illustrates the five constituent simple machines: the lever, pulley, screw, wedge, and windlass. He then analyzes all the combinations of these simple machines, such as the windlass-screw, windlass-pulley and windlass-lever for example. He is also the first to describe a mechanism which is essentially a combination of all of these simple machines (except for the wedge).[63]
Almost half of Ibn Sīnā's works are versified.[64] His poems appear in both Arabic and Persian. As an example, Edward Granville Browne claims that the following verses are incorrectly attributed to Omar Khayyám, and were originally written by Ibn Sīnā:[65]
از قعر گل سیاه تا اوج زحل,
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate
کردم همه مشکلات گیتی را حل,
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
بیرون جستم زقید هر مکر و حیل,
And many Knots unravel'd by the Road;
هر بند گشاده شد مگر بند اجل.
But not the Master-Knot of Human Fate.
When some of his opponents blame him for blasphemy, he says [66]
کفر چو منی گزاف و آسان نبود
The blasphemy of somebody like me is not easy and exorbitant
محکمتر از ایمان من ایمان نبود
There isn't any stronger faith than my faith
در دهر چو من یکی و آن هم کافر
There is just one person like me in the world and that one is blasphemer
پس در همه دهر یک مسلمان نبود
Then there isn't one Muslim in the whole world.
George Sarton, the father of the history of science, described Ibn Sīnā as "one of the greatest thinkers and medical scholars in history"[18] and called him "the most famous scientist of Islam and one of the most famous of all races, places, and times." He was one of the Islamic world's leading writers in the field of medicine. He was influenced by the approach of Hippocrates and Galen, as well as Sushruta and Charaka. Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, Ibn al-Nafis, and al-Ibadi, Ibn Sīnā is considered an important compiler of early Muslim medicine. He is remembered in Western history of medicine as a major historical figure who made important contributions to medicine and the European Renaissance. Ibn Sīnā is also considered the father of the fundamental concept of momentum in physics.[28]
In Iran, he is considered a national icon, and is often regarded as one of the greatest Persians to have ever lived. Many portraits and statues remain in Iran today. An impressive monument to the life and works of the man who is known as the 'doctor of doctors' still stands outside the Bukhara museum and his portrait hangs in the Hall of the Avicenna Faculty of Medicine in the University of Paris. There is also a crater on the moon named the Avicenna crater. Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamedan (Iran), the ibn Sīnā Tajik State Medical University in Dushanbe (The capital of the Republic of Tajikistan), Avicenna School in Karachi, Pakistan and Ibne Sina Balkh Medical School in his native province of Balkh in Afghanistan are all named in his honor.
In 1980, the former Soviet Union, which then ruled his birthplace Bukhara, celebrated the thousandth anniversary of Avicenna's birth by circulating various commemorative stamps with artistic illustrations, and by erecting a bust of Avicenna based on anthropological research by Soviet scholars.[67]
Scarcely any member of the Muslim circle of the sciences, including theology, philology, mathematics, astronomy, physics, and music, was left untouched by the treatises of Ibn Sīnā. This vast quantity of works - be they full-blown treatises or opuscula - vary so much in style and content (if one were to compare between the 'ahd made with his disciple Bahmanyar to uphold philosophical integrity with the Provenance and Direction, for example) that Yahya (formerly Jean) Michot has accused him of "neurological bipolarity".
Ibn Sīnā's works numbered almost 450 volumes on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 volumes of his surviving works concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine.[68] His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine,[1]
Ibn Sīnā wrote at least one treatise on alchemy, but several others have been falsely attributed to him. His book on animals was translated by Michael Scot. His Logic, Metaphysics, Physics, and De Caelo, are treatises giving a synoptic view of Aristotelian doctrine, though the Metaphysics demonstrates a significant departure from the brand of Neoplatonism known as Aristotelianism in Ibn Sīnā's world; Arabic philosophers have hinted at the idea that Ibn Sīnā was attempting to "re-Aristotelianise" Muslim philosophy in its entirety, unlike his predecessors, who accepted the conflation of Platonic, Aristotelian, Neo- and Middle-Platonic works transmitted into the Muslim world.
The Logic and Metaphysics have been printed more than once, the latter, e.g., at Venice in 1493, 1495, and 1546. Some of his shorter essays on medicine, logic, etc., take a poetical form (the poem on logic was published by Schmoelders in 1836). Two encyclopaedic treatises, dealing with philosophy, are often mentioned. The larger, Al-Shifa' (Sanatio), exists nearly complete in manuscript in the Bodleian Library and elsewhere; part of it on the De Anima appeared at Pavia (1490) as the Liber Sextus Naturalium, and the long account of Ibn Sina's philosophy given by Muhammad al-Shahrastani seems to be mainly an analysis, and in many places a reproduction, of the Al-Shifa'. A shorter form of the work is known as the An-najat (Liberatio). The Latin editions of part of these works have been modified by the corrections which the monastic editors confess that they applied. There is also a حكمت مشرقيه (hikmat-al-mashriqqiyya, in Latin Philosophia Orientalis), mentioned by Roger Bacon, the majority of which is lost in antiquity, which according to Averroes was pantheistic in tone.
List of Works
This is the list of some of Avicenna's well-known works:[69]
- Sirat al-shaykh al-ra'is (The Life of Ibn Sina), ed. and trans. WE. Gohlman, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1974. (The only critical edition of Ibn Sina's autobiography, supplemented with material from a biography by his student Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani. A more recent translation of the Autobiography appears in D. Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works, Leiden: Brill, 1988.)[69]
- Al-Isharat wa-'l-tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions), ed. S. Dunya, Cairo, 1960; parts translated by S.C. Inati, Remarks and Admonitions, Part One: Logic, Toronto, Ont.: Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, 1984, and Ibn Sina and Mysticism, Remarks and Admonitions: Part 4, London: Kegan Paul International, 1996. [69]
- Al-Qanun fi'l-tibb (The Canon of Medicine), ed. I. a-Qashsh, Cairo, 1987. (Encyclopedia of medicine.)[69]
- Risalah fi sirr al-qadar (Essay on the Secret of Destiny), trans. G. Hourani in Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. [69]
- Danishnama-i 'ala'i (The Book of Scientific Knowledge), ed. and trans. P Morewedge, The Metaphysics of Avicenna, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. [69]
- Kitab al-Shifa' (The Book of Healing). (Ibn Sina's major work on philosophy. He probably began to compose al-Shifa' in 1014, and completed it in 1020.) Critical editions of the Arabic text have been published in Cairo, 1952-83, originally under the supervision of I. Madkour[69]
- Hayy ibn Yaqdhan a Persian myth. A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail (Abubacer) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively. In the 13th century, Ibn al-Nafis wrote his own novel Fadil ibn Natiq, known as Theologus Autodidactus in the West, as a critical response to Hayy ibn Yaqdhan.[70]
See also
- The Book of Healing
- The Canon of Medicine
- Abu al-Qasim
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Islamic science
- Science and technology in Iran
- Eastern philosophy
- Iranian philosophy
- Islamic philosophy
- Scholasticism
- History of medicine
- Islamic scholars
- Al-Qumri
- Avicenna Peak
- Avicennia, a genus of mangrove named after Ibn Sīnā
- Books
- Encyclopedia
Further reading
- A good introduction to his life and philosophical thought is Avicenna by Lenn E. Goodman (Cornell University Press: 1992, updated edition 2006)
- For Ibn Sina's life, see Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, translated by de Slane (1842); F. Wüstenfeld's Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher (Gottingen, 1840).
- Shahrastani, German translation, vol. ii. 213-332
- For a list of extant works, C. Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (Weimar, 1898), vol. i. pp. 452-458. (XV. W.; G. W. T.)
- For an overview of his career see Shams Inati, "Ibn Sina" in History of Islamic Philosophy, ed. Hossein Seyyed Nasr and Oliver Leaman, New York: Routledge (1996).
- For a new understanding of his early career, based on a newly discovered text, see also: Michot, Yahya, Ibn Sînâ: Lettre au vizir Abû Sa'd. Editio princeps d'après le manuscrit de Bursa, traduction de l'arabe, introduction, notes et lexique (Beirut-Paris: Albouraq, 2000) ISBN 2-84161-150-7.
- Template:MacTutor Biography
- For his medicine, see:
- Sprengel, Histoire de la Medicine
- Edward G. Browne, Islamic Medicine, 2002, Goodword Pub., ISBN 81-87570-19-9
- For his philosophy, see:
- Michot, Jean R., La destinée de l'homme selon Avicenne (Leuven: Peeters, 1986) ISBN 90-6381-071-2.
- Dimitri Gutas, "Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works" (Leiden: Brill 1988)
- Reisman, David C. (ed.), "Before and After Avicenna: Proceedings of the First Conference of the Avicenna Study Group" (Leiden: Brill 2003)
- The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, edited by P. Adamson and R. Taylor, (Cambridge: Cambridge: University Press 2005)
- Amos Bertolacci, The reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitab al-Sifa'. A milestone of Western metaphysical thought (Leiden: Brill 2006)
- Avicenne: Réfutation de l'astrologie. Edition et traduction du texte arabe, introduction, notes et lexique par Yahya Michot. Préface d'Elizabeth Teissier (Beirut-Paris: Albouraq, 2006) ISBN 2-84161-304-6.
- Shoja MM, Tubbs RS. The disorder of love in the Canon of Avicenna (A.D. 980-1037). Am J Psychiatry 2007; 164:228–229.
External links
- Avicenna an article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Philosophy Bites podcast interview with Peter Adamson on Avicenna.
- Avicenna An article by encyclopedia Iranica
- Biography & Works from Routledge
- Ibn Sina (Islamic Philosophy Online)
- Ibn Sina from the Encyclopedia of Islam
- Avicenna/Ibn Sina at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Physician's Day in Iran: A Reference Article on Pur Sina (Avicenna) by Manouchehr Saadat Noury
- Biography of Avicenna (in English)
- Biography of Avicenna
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Avicenna
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I served these pork taquitos with black beans and a fresh garden salad with gorgeous red tomatoes. I used canned black beans, just heating them on low with 2 T salsa, a dash of cumin and a dash of chili powder. Then I used my taco salad dressing, or you could use the lime-cilantro dressing/dip below.
- 1/3 C (3 oz) cream cheese
- 1/4 C green salsa
- 1T fresh lime juice
- 1/2 t cumin
- 1 t chili powder
- 1/2 t onion powder
- 1/4 t granulated garlic
- 3 T chopped cilantro
- 2 T sliced green onions
- 2 C shredded cooked pork (or chicken)
- 1 C grated pepperjack cheese
- flour tortillas
- kosher salt
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- Heat oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil and lightly coat with cooking spray.
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Decided to take a couple of pictures of the foyer. Sorry, no b/4 photos. The carpet was installed by a life long friend who is a Master Carpet installer. I did all the trim, but did have to borrow a compound saw, since my sliding compound miter would not cut the returns for the handrails. |
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- Posted by shades_of_idaho (My Page) on Fri, Dec 14, 12 at 19:45
Wow you created a lovely space. Kitchen lay out looks really good. We have the same 11 foot run of sink stove counter as your before. Except we have cabs around the other side so lots of counter to work on. IF I would get the mannequin I have been doing mosaic on OFF the peninsula. LOL She has been lounging there since October. Almost done with her. Love your soft gray wall color and all the added light. Your house looks warm and inviting. Loving all the pictures. |
I think it looks great. I am really impressed that you did so much yourselves and in a relatively short time. |
- Posted by desertsteph (My Page) on Sat, Dec 15, 12 at 2:19
what a great update you did! It makes so much difference. the cabinets are beautiful - as is the granite, the floors etcc. So much more space too. Great move in opening up to the DR area. Ya just gotta love working in it now - even just walking into it! |
Thank you for the kind comments. Was a struggle and lots of elbow grease to complete. Our goal was to be done by the end of Sept. Looking back, I guess I'm surprised we got done this year at all! The job I work, we're allowed to build "comp" time to take off. I took off 6 weeks of comp, 3 weeks of vacation to help put the biggest dent in it. Looking forward to next year, when we can take a real vacation. Don't think I'd attempt to tackle such a project again. It did help since I spent 10+ years working for a remodeler in my earlier days. |
- Posted by EATREALFOOD (My Page) on Sat, Dec 15, 12 at 12:22
You did a really nice job. The cabinet color is very pretty. Opening up the rooms really expanded your working space and is great for entertaining. Don't you love having a nice big sink now? I love the wall paint color, it looks very similar to the Benjamin Moore November Rain that I have. |
- Posted by cearbhaill (My Page) on Sat, Dec 15, 12 at 13:44
I hope your wife knows how lucky she is- everything that gets done around here is because I learn how to do it myself. You have done a beautiful, meticulous job and deserve a turkey dinner every night until the end of the year! With pie! |
Thank you everyone. Eatrealfood... The color is a BM grey, believe it's called Collingwood. It carries into the living room behind the curio, then I painted it a BM green, believe it's called Windchime. At times, depending on the lighting, it looks all the same color. |
- Posted by moccasinlanding (My Page) on Sat, Dec 15, 12 at 18:05
GREAT job! You've refreshed the whole house with the work on the entry, the kitchen and the dining. First impressions have a big impact. Doing it yourself gives you big bragging rights. I bet your neighbors are cringing if they have any similar projects waiting for inspiration. If there was previous damage from the leaking fireplace, you removed all signs of it. Those pot lights give a nice well lighted look to the space. Very professional too. Congratulations. And welcome to the forum. Hope to see more of you. |
- Posted by nancy_in_mich (My Page) on Sun, Dec 16, 12 at 0:44
You did a beautiful job with all of your choices and with executing your vision, too. You are a talented craftsman! |
- Posted by EATREALFOOD (My Page) on Sun, Dec 16, 12 at 8:53
Ha no wonder I liked that paint :) I used Wind Chime(Aura465) in a bed room and Aura Urban Nature in another bedroom. Benjamin Moore Aura has some really nice greens. |
- Posted by marymarymaryk (My Page) on Sun, Dec 16, 12 at 14:50
What a transformation! I love the kitchen cabinets. It is amazing how much larger the kitchen looks. |
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Although they are NOT starving at this time of year, the deer are munching away at our marigolds, particularly the kind with the larger flowers. Only one poor plant (with small flowers) is blooming. The rest are all sheared. Of course, the deer *might* not be the culprits. I suppose it could be the bunnies...or the groundhog...
Sigh... Anyway, maybe we'll try something else next year... |
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- Posted by chinacat_sunflower (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 05 at 9:52
you have the new mexican deer? you know, the ones who like spicy food? hmm... I am baffled. not many things will eat marigolds! |
- Posted by Belgianpup Wa/Zone 8 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 13, 05 at 0:28
Usually, when someone mentions nematodes and deer not liking marigolds, they mean the smaller, simpler French marigolds, not the large showy ones. The large ones are third choice though... roses and pansies are first and second! Get some wire fencing, like welded 2x4 fencing, and lay it down around the area you want kept free of deer. It only has to be 3 ft wide or so. When the deer step on it, they sense a foot trap and won't continue. Laid flat, they don't know where it ends, so they don't jump it. This is the same priciple as those cattle guards in roads, foot traps. Ruminants can't see their feet, so they can't really investigate what it is. I surrounded my vegetable garden like this. The deer admired and drooled over my lettuce, peas and corn, but never got any of it. Funny to watch. Sue |
We must be in the same neighborhood. Our deer have eaten ALL BUT ONE of my marigolds, and I planted almost a hundred of them this year. In past years they would only pull up one or two by the roots, and spit the whole plant out to lay there dying. Freakin' deer eat EVERYTHING. And what they don't eat today, they trample on and break. BlueBars |
- Posted by chinacat_sunflower (My Page) on Thu, Jul 21, 05 at 11:24
bluebars... I've found that not only is venison a health-conscious alternative to expensive, hormone-laden beef... but the smell of one of their numbers being barbequed really makes them lose their appetite. we were kind of lucky- nothing grows but mayapples and moss at my folk's house, so the deer stay to the back of the property- but they had a herd who figured out that hunters aren't welcome on our property, so they were starting to get kind of pushy- like raiding the bird feeder kind of bold. a friend came by, dropped ONE buck at the base of the hill (sitting in my dad's chaise lounger on our back patio) and three generations later, they STILL stay on 'their' side of the hill. now, we have the 'reintroduced' wild turkeys raiding the birdfeeder- but that's a whole nother story |
- Posted by chickenmama1 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Jul 21, 05 at 17:43
I moved to the desert area around Boise, Idaho 13 years ago and finally quit planting marigolds because of ants and (probably) some other creatures eating them almost as quickly as I was able to plant them. I had never had trouble with marigolds until then. My daughter said to use Preen. Still there was something eating them. I gave up. Any ideas? |
I'm not sure what your slug population is in Boise, but they LOVE marigolds...and can even leave the plants looking sheared of new growth and flowers if not controlled. Preen is a seed germination inhibitor used to reduce weed populations, not an insect/pest deterrent. |
We never had a problem with marigolds and used them to keep some critters out of our gardens. However, this year I discovered snails were eating my marigolds like they were fried chicken. Nothing left but some strands of stalk. I think we imported them in bags of soil I bought at Home Depot this year. They Are new in town. I think this because I used it to fill some pots in my garage work room which is free from outside contamination, and That was when I discovered snails for the first time on the plants in there. I also found out the best way to get rid of them,plus easiest was to spray ammonia mixed with water on them at night when they are active. They dropped like flies from the plants and eventually disappeared. If it ain't one thing it's another. Now I'm watching five bucks that are working their way closer to my apple trees each night. Isn't nature fun! |
Rose chafers IME really enjoy marigolds. |
I have found a sure fire cure for the little guys who like to eat as well as transplant my garden. RED PEPPER, I buy it by the carton and sprinkle around and sometimes lightly on my plants. Boy nothing likes this and they seem to remember it. I have a squirrel who will run 20 around my area. The squirrel is still fat just not nearly so pesky. |
- Posted by passiflorakae MA (My Page) on Wed, May 3, 06 at 10:56
I have an urban garden and one year I planted a border of marigolds, and every single one was munched down to the dirt by something. Nothing else was touched, which suprised me given the smorgasbord on offer. We did have a skunk in the neighborhood, and while I never determined if it was he that was the culprit, I always thought that there had to be a correllation between the stinky flowers in and the skunky odor out. ha ha I've just planted some marigold seeds for my neighbor's toddler to abuse (I figure they're hearty enough that a toddler can pick them and even step on them and they'll be more or less ok- and they will distract from my other flowers that are less hearty) so I'll let you know what happens. |
Though I would not suggest you get a dog just to keep deer out of the garden, a dog and a fence work. Since I got my Rottweiler Shepherd mix the deer just bother the neighbors yards. We have a doggie door so she can come in and out in the early hours when the deer are foraging and she loves chasing deer, bunnies etc. Of course she also loves digging ...but no method is fool proof! |
- Posted by bghosie(firstname.lastname@example.com) onTue, May 24, 11 at 16:31
Transplanted a dozen marigolds into the front garden yesterday and this morning the plant closest to the house has been eaten! Three stems and one lone flower left. I couldn't believe it either. I hope I'm not going to lose one per night. Does anyone have information about what/who the culprit is or how to protect the plants? |
- Posted by Sheila(email@example.com) onFri, Jul 1, 11 at 22:58
My Marigolds have been eaten, too, and they are planted right next to the garlic and onion bed! I didn't think anything would go for all that stinky stuff! What can I do? Now that the Marigolds are eaten, something is going after my chard and beet tops. HELP!!!! |
I know hunters who swear by rosemary & marigolds. |
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Michael Redd was the last member of the Bucks to be named an all-star...and that was in 2004. Four players from this year's roster are on this year's ballot. Guards Monta Ellis and Brandon Jennings, along with frontcourt players Samuel Dalembert and Ersan Ilyasova.
The ballot was unveiled yesterday at a tip-off event in Houston, site of the 62nd annual midseason classic. Below is a portion of the press release issued yesterday by the Bucks:
For the first time ever, fans can vote via social media networks, including Facebook and Twitter. Twitter voting will allow fans to tweet a vote for one player each day throughout the All-Star balloting period. The tweet must include a player's first and last name, along with hash tag #NBABALLOT. Facebook voting will allow fans to fill out one full ballot (three frontcourt and two guards from each conference) per day, through a custom application on Facebook.
To facilitate fan voting and create grassroots support for Milwaukee's candidates on the ballot, the Bucks have created a campaign headquarters to serve as campaign headquarters for Bucks fans. The site features information on the team's All-Star platform and each candidate on the Milwaukee ticket, and will be updated throughout the campaign. In addition, fans can be on the lookout for yard signs, buttons, T-shirts and other traditional campaign paraphernalia as balloting continues in the coming weeks.
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The recent deluge of rain may have kept lawns and vegetation thriving far better than it should this far into summer, but it's also brought out scores of creatures many people in Naperville can't stand: snakes.
The often camouflaged, skinny, slithering reptiles that most of us never see have been appearing more often throughout the area in backyards, forest preserves and even along Naperville's Riverwalk area. Experts say there is no reason to panic.
"Because of the rains we've had, these reptiles are being washed out of their homes and dens, and rather than drown, they are coming up looking for dry land," said Christine Maybach, animal control officer for the city of Naperville. "Really, the influx of calls we've had this year is next to nothing. Last year we had nine complaints, and so far this year, there have only been two."
Mayback said the most common species found in the area are the brown water, garter, and fox snake species and that none of them pose any threat to people.
"These snakes aren't poisonous, but they will bite if you try to pick them up," she said. "Another reason not to handle them is if they defecate on you, it's as bad or worse than being sprayed by a skunk. Despite the public feeling like this is something strange, the snakes are doing what they are supposed to be doing. It's completely normal."
Jack MacRae, a naturalist at the DuPage Forest Preserve District's Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn, likewise confirms that the recent snake sightings pose no real threat.
"Despite recent reports, there's almost zero chance to encounter a venomous snake in DuPage County," MacRae said. "To set the record straight, the eastern massasauga is the only such species native to DuPage County, and there have been no confirmed sightings in the wild here in more than 30 years."
Dan Peifer, a service manager who works for AMPEST, a Chicagoland wildlife and pest control company, said the number of calls this year regarding "snake problems" is definitely up, and that snake anxiety has been raised "as a result of the long, cold winter, and the amount of rain we've had."
"These snakes are hungry as well and will feed on fish, frogs, rodents, and even birds, and some people are getting freaked out if they see just one in their backyard," Peifer said. "A lot of them have been flushed out from their normal habitat, and we've been getting calls pretty much from throughout the entire area, not just Naperville."
Peifer said Illinois is home to 39 species of snakes and only four of them are venomous. None of the poisonous variety has been reported in the area.
"The best thing to do is just leave them alone," he said. "In no time, they'll move on in most cases. If they persist, people can always calls us and we'll come out and identity them and remove them if we have to."
MacRae believes DuPage residents should take the opportunity to experience something in nature that doesn't occur very often.
"We have only about a dozen species native to DuPage County, most of which people will never encounter," he said. "They are fascinating creatures, and everyone should be able to appreciate their place in the environment. Snakes can be a frightening sight for many people, but no one has been harmed by just walking past one. Conflicts only arise when people try to handle or harass the animals."
For those walking trails or visiting forest preserves, MacRae said that snakes are likely to be moving across paths looking for food. As fall approaches, the reptiles spend more time on rocks hoping to stay warm in the sun. He also cautions that the midland brown snake is easy to miss, as it often resembles a stick on the ground and trail users may easily step or run over them.
Maybach stresses that despite the videos that have been shot and other reports that have surfaced, some may be overreacting to a perfectly normal cycle in nature.
"We've gone down to the Riverwalk after getting reports of people seeing snakes there and have not seen a single one," she said. "People don't have to worry – this isn't 'snakemageddon' we're seeing."
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So, our next Disney trip is coming up and this time we'll be eating at the Plaza at the Magic Kingdom. Any thoughts or recommendations on what to try there? :mickeykid
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Hey Everyone!
So, our next Disney trip is coming up and this time we'll be eating at the Plaza at the Magic Kingdom. Any thoughts or recommendations on what to try there? :mickeykid
We always enjoy the Plaza. I've had the burger, reuben and steak sandwiches. It's always a tough decision to pick one. The burger is one of the best in the parks and the reuben is always a nice change from the counter service sandwiches. Not the best value if you are on the dining plan because it takes a dinner credit and the meals are only around twelve bucs.
Listen to the live review on show #253
The plaza always has good food. There hasn't really been anything I haven't liked there!
I've never had it, but I've heard nothing but rave reviews about their reuben. Another popular podcaster I won't mention by name claims it's the best reuben he's ever had. And he lives in NYC where they know a thing or two about reubens.
The review podcast was great guys. Thanks! Keep the recommendations coming!
We usually eat there. The place is nice. Food is good and maybe it's my imagination but it seems to be more reasonably priced compared to other places.
Its funny that you say that! Looking at the menu and hearing the review I thought the same thing about the pricing! I think Disney can really mess with our minds though! I've found that ever since I started going to Disney regularly I find that I think things are a lot less expensive and and its made me kind of lose sight of what normal prices!
Well, it depends. I think.
CS prices are absolutely outrageous. But, many (if not most) of the TS restaurants are much more reasonably priced when compared with comparable restaurants in any major city.
The chicken sandwich and for desert the banana split! You will be rolling out and not walking out.
I just got back from our trip! I had the grilled reuben and the Cheesecake. I was happy with both, but will probably try something else next time. My wife had the cheese steak and loved it!
Glad you guys enjoyed The Plaza! My family and I have only eaten there twice, but we enjoyed it each time :-)
I ate at the Plaza for the first time last summer. I enjoyed the location immensely, and I'd looked in the windows on our way to Tomorrowland too many times to count, so it was good to finally eat here. I remember loving the food itself but feeling disappointed with the service we received during our meal. Granted, it was summer and it was lunchtime, and the restaurant was very busy! But I remember my grandmother needing a refill for about 10 minutes before the waiter returned to bring her a new drink. It was overall a great experience, and I think you'll enjoy it a lot! For me, it was like crossing something off the Disney Bucket List!
One of our new favourites! I always go for the Steak sandwich and then brownies and ice cream for dessert! It's HUGE and worth every last mouthful!