Mark Brownstein, an American living in Hong Kong, has an unusual job: For best chefs in the world he looks for unfamiliar foods or ingredients, mostly in Asia...
In Hangzhou, the "Venice of the East", Food-hunter MB discovers an ancient Chinese ingredient: osmanthus blossoms... (ARTE / Documentation)
What is the difference between lemon and "Buddha's Finger" and what are osmanthus blossoms? ... (d.48)
Osmanthus fragrans (Sweet Osmanthus; Chinese: guìhuā; Japanese: kinmokusei; also known as Sweet Olive, Tea Olive and Fragrant Olive) is a species of Osmanthus native to Asia, from the Himalaya east through southern China (Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan) and to Taiwan and to southern Japan. Sweet osmanthus is also the 'city flower' of Hangzhou, China...
It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in gardens in Asia, Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, for its deliciously fragrant flowers which carry the scent of ripe peaches or apricots. A number of cultivars have been selected for garden use, with varying flower colour...
In Chinese, the plant is called xī (or guìhuā), and its flowers, called guì huā (literally "cinnamon flower" or "cassia flower") are used, infused with green or black tea leaves, to create a scented tea called guì huā chá...
In Chinese cuisine, the flowers are also used to produce osmanthus-scented jam (called guì huā jiàng), sweet cakes (called guì huā gāo, dumplings, soups, and even liquor (called guì huā jiǔ or guì huā chén jiǔ). Osmanthus jam is used as an ingredient in a type of gruel called chátāng, which is made from sorghum or millet flour and sugar mixed with boiling water. This dish is typical of the northern city of Tianjin, although it may also be found in Beijing...
In some regions of North India, especially in the state of Uttarakhand, the flowers of Sweet Osmanthus (locally known as silang) are used to protect clothes from insects. It is also used as a fragrant garden flower...
In traditional Chinese medicine, the flower herb tea has been used for the treatment of menopathies (irregular menstruation, menorrhagia, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea)...
The extract of dried flowers showed neuro-protective, free radical scavenging, anti-oxidative effects in in vitro assays... (Wikipedia)
Japanese: kinmokusei; also known as Sweet Olive, Tea Olive and Fragrant Olive - see dali48 and swimming in the sea near Oita in 1978
26.01.2014 - Drinking water and water resources & resilience 2024 etc. by dali48
dali48 and writing and cycling and photographing a fountain in the park of Wickrath since 6/2010 etc.
27.06.2012 - Interpretation of dali48
"The statistics about the amount of trash are appalling. There's an island bigger than Texas floating around in the Pacific," Black said... (By Staff reports, The Concord Journal)
No federal regulations on hydro-fracking, immunity from liability should drinking water become polluted and cash-strapped state governments willing to gamble irreplaceable... (by Jim Gennaro, Queens Chronicle)
We may face serious water problems (see drinking-water, etc. - d.48), if we will not use our water supply well... (UNDP, Gen Howitzer)
The years of 1930 - 1938 were a time of drought throughout the United States (see deserts, etc. - d.48). This time of drought caused one of the largest population shifts in U.S. History... (by newcapo)
Interpretation of dali48
Drinking water or potable water is water safe enough to be consumed by humans or used with low risk of immediate or long term harm. In most developed countries, the water supplied to households, commerce and industry...
Over large parts of the world, humans have inadequate access to potable water and use sources contaminated with disease vectors, pathogens or unacceptable levels of toxins...
Water has always been an important and life-sustaining drink to humans and is essential to the survival of all known organisms. Excluding fat, water composes approximately 70% of the human body...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency in risk assessment calculations assumes that the average American adult ingests 2.0 litres per day...
Over 2 billion more people used improved drinking water sources in 2010 than did in 1990. However, the job is far from finished. 780 million people are still without...
In the U.S, the typical nonconserving single family home uses 262 L of water per capita per day. In some parts of the country there are water supplies that are dangerously low due to...
Solar water disinfection is a low-cost method of purifying water that can often be implemented with locally available materials...
One organisation working to improve the availability of safe drinking water in some the world's poorest countries is Water Aid International...
60 million people are estimated to have been poisoned by well water contaminated by excessive fluoride...
Natural arsenic poisoning is a global threat, 140 million people affected in 70 countries on all continents...
Over 90% of deaths from diarrheal diseases in the developing world today occur in children under 5 years old...
Improved water supply reduces diarrhea morbidity by 25% and improvements in drinking water through proper storage in the home and chlorination reduces diarrhea episodes by 39%...
Microbial pathogenic parameters are typically of greatest concern because of their immediate health risk...
In 2006, waterborne diseases were estimated to cause 1.8 million deaths each year while about 1.1 billion people lacked proper drinking water...
There is increasing concern over the health effects of engineered nano-particles (ENPs) released into the natural environment...
Access to safe drinking water is indicated by proper sanitary sources...
In emergency situations when conventional treatment systems have been compromised, water borne pathogens may be killed or inactivated by boiling...
Other techniques, such as filtration, chemical disinfection, and exposure to ultraviolet radiation (including solar UV) have been demonstrated in an array of randomized control trials to significantly reduce... (Wikipedia)
Amount of water needed for production (Water Ratio):
1 car = 380 000 liters (see drinking water - why not using "second hand" water for production of cars etc. - that is, for me: the car is... with respect to the water balance, etc. - d.48), 1 kg of paper = 400 - 1000 liters, 1 kg of steel = 25 - 200 liters, 1 kg oil = 180 liters, 1 can of beer = 40 liters, 1 liter of beer = 20 liters... Compost toilets: 33% less water consumption, 40% less household waste... (W. Pieper)
Golden Snow
“Amazing to me that those around me do not notice the difference in our water supply ... each summer I see water trucks filling and delivering water to homes and farms because their wells are dry ... summers with less rain ... normally my rain barrows were always overflowing , last summer they could not stand up to the need , the brook that runs by my home runs dry in med summer ... where once we could drink from a brook , now not safe ... when I was little my Mother said , someday water will be sold in stores ... someday your water will be very expensive Golden do not waste ... I do not and caution my children to do the same” ...
29.05.2024 — The 2024 EU Green Week is part of a wider communication campaign dedicated to the topic of water resilience. The objective is to stimulate an EU ...
27.01.2014 - Sargasso Sea and Eels and Regulation 2024 etc. by dali48
dali48 and teaching & writing diary3 and photographing a gold fish in lake Morper in Erkrath till 5/2010
01/07/2011 - Interpretation of dali48
With sexual maturity after 10-20 years, the eel is planting away exclusively in the Saragossa Sea south of Bermuda...
He swims about 5.000 kilometers far back from the European inland rivers and dies after spawning. Eel cannot reproduce in captivity...
Each farmed eel is taken from free-living eels in the sea and the game population is missing the followers...
The population of the eel has already decreased by 95% (i.e. a remainder of 5% to extinction, etc. - d.48). Every eel on the plate endangers the survival of the whole species... (Rhine Post, 12/03/2009)
Interpretation of dali48
The Sargasso Sea is a region in the gyre in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Gulf Stream; on the north, by the North Atlantic Current; on the east, by the Canary Current; and on the south, by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current...
Christopher Columbus and his men also noted the Saragossa Sea, and brought reports of the masses of seaweed on the surface...
The Sargasso Sea also plays a major role in the migration of the European eel and the American eel. The larvae of both species hatch there and go to Europe or the East Coast of North America...
Owing to surface currents, the Sargasso accumulates a high concentration of non-biodegradable plastic waste...
The European Eel is a critically endangered species. Since the 1970s, the numbers of eels reaching Europe is thought to have declined by around 90% (possibly even 98%)...
Contributing factors include overfishing, parasites such as Anguillicola crassus, barriers to migration such as hydroelectric plants, and natural changes in the North Atlantic oscillation, Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic drift...
Recent work suggests that PCB pollution may be a factor in the decline...
Eels have been important sources of food both as adults (including the famous jellied eels of East London) and as glass eels...
Glass eel fishing using basket traps has been of significant economic value in many river estuaries on the western seaboard of Europe...
In captivity European eels can become very old...
In 2010, Greenpeace International has added the European eel to its seafood red list...
"The Greenpeace International seafood red list is a list of fish that are commonly sold in supermarkets around the world, and which have a very high risk of being sourced from unsustainable fisheries... (Wikipedia)
Adult eels spawn in the Sargasso Sea in the ... Eel Regulation 1100/2007 · Council Regulation (EU) 2024/257 fixing for 2024 ... Council Regulation (EU) 2024/259 ...
dali48 and writing and cycling and photographing in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc.
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dali48 and menaced private teaching (since 1989) and writing books & cycling & photographing in Erkrath till 5/2010.
dali48 and playing chess and stopping smoking as a sports student in Tübingen in the 70s etc.
Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48)
"Stay in your inner world (original) - the outside world is the false version, see e.g. hunger, biodiversity, climate, inflation, war etc"... (dali48)
31.03.2024 - I saw the first bumble bee on a white nettle blossom in the park of Wickrath this year ... (dali48)
21.06.2023 - I didn't see a butterfly yet in Wickrath this year ... (dali48)
I'm neither right nor left, see Salvador Dali in this context - I'm only dali48
Psychology says, Trust your intuition. It never lies.
see dali48 & FGYO / SIT, language teacher, 1975/76 in Tübingen and Lenzkirch (Black Forest), and wandering in the morning, and in Erkrath (8/1983-5/2010) cooking houseman and teaching in the afternoon, on Saturdays & compact courses during holidays etc.
"Home is not there or there. Home is within you, or nowhere." (Hermann Hesse)
see dali48 and walking and cycling etc. - and without own car in Erkrath since 2004 - and without driving in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc.
"It takes few words to express the essential" - Paul Éluard
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." ... (H. Miller)
"The past is pain, the future uncertainty. The present is all we have" ... (Tao Wong)
„Wer immer die Wahrheit sagt, kann sich ein schlechtes Gedächtnis leisten.“ (F. Sulzer
)
"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way." (F. Kafka)
see dali48 and bees and CCD and neonics since ca. 2000 etc.
In "love" are the beginning and the climax - the most beautiful periods etc... (dali48)
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." (S. Freud)
Why not use bio-methane, hydrogen, bio heating oil, e-heating oil - instead of banning oil and gas heating etc. (dali48)
"Only the present moment counts, even when the subject is the past." (R. D. Brinkmann)
"Non-sexual intimacy is therapeutic. Deep conversations, healthy silence, a unique joke from an old memory, similar interests; beautiful stuff." (@ML_Philosophy
)
see dali48 and “If the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only have little left to live healthy,” see e.g. Amazonas forest, Indonesia etc, see e.g. @CGShanghaiAir Shanghai - 2023-03-06 4PM - PM2.5 - 103 AQI - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups ... etc.
see dali48 and trees & photo synthesis and fresh air and health and cooling and biodiversity etc.
Why not recreate lost Wetlands by desalinated sea water? ... (dali48)
"Half of the money for arms should go as reparation to "flora & fauna" & UBI ,,, (dali48)e money for arms
"Getting older is realizing putting yourself first isn’t selfish, it’s necessary" (@meauhlback
)
"Some people go through our lives to teach us not to be like them." ( Lev Tolstoy)
"is it ethical to hoard bread when families are starving?" (@existentialcoms
)"The goal isn’t money, the goal is to spend your days as you wish." (@ML_Philosophy
)“Give a child a good birth (if at all possible, no drugs to the mother)=1 and a good first three years, especially a good first three months, and a major part of the job of child rearing is done.” ― Arthur Janov, The Biology of Love"Be teachable. You’re not always right." (@ML_Philosophy)
"The tombstone of capitalism will later say: too much was not enough." (Volker Pispers)
see dali48 and environmental disasters & @sara_s_2020 & #Tiredearth & Manila Slum (Philippines) & Creek etc.
»Auf dem Grabstein (der Erde; d. Red.) könnte stehen: Jeder wollte das Beste – für sich.« (Siegfried Lenz)
"Smiling mobilizes 15 muscles, but sulking requires 40. Rest: smile!" (Christophe André)
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift that"s why they call it the present." - (@TheWordicle)
"When you realize how precious and fragile life is, it changes your whole perspective." (Ryan O’Donnell)
"A kind word can warm up to three months of winter" - Japanese proverb
"It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." (@wise_chimp)
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (@PsychologyDose_)
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth." - Lao Tzu
"... We get old too soon, and wise too late." (@_AhmadHijazi)
"Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love" - Albert Camus
I am allowed to say NO to others and YES to myself." (@Lenka49044040)
"You can only live forwards, understand life only backwards." (Søren Kierkegaard)
"Write your life - Or they'll wait till you're dead to write the lie" ... (@spectraspeaks)
see "Remove the idea that anybody else is responsible for your misery and suffering; that somebody can give meaning to your life. Accept that you are alone, born alone (premature birth, 7 months etc. - d.48), and you will die alone" ... (Osho)
"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" ... (Osho)
"Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there" ... (Osho)
"Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan)
see
see dali48 and nervous breakdown & psychotherapy (1 year) in Tübingen in 1974 and the ontogenetic & phyloggenetic unconscious etc.
see dali48 and dreaming & visions, see e.g. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunami etc, see Golden G. Snow "I journey I know it's true. I've seen the future too. In my "journey", things are not good. So much of the earth will be ... soon. I have no more to say."), and NDE and reincarnation and reading & writing ...
see scott_hurst retweeted by dali48 "If all the atheists left the USA, it would lose 93% of the National Academy of Sciences but less than 1% of the prison population" …
Spelt helps: fatigue, loss of energy, heart problems etc. (St Hilda)
@dali48
I found this dairy of great interest and enjoyed the journey ... it is filled with well written information that covers all age groups, from history to health both in body and mind ... the why's and where's are answered in complete ... thanks dali48 for sharing ...
Thank you for sharing. Your braveness to fight illness has inspired me to face life in a different way dali48. I love the concept of living in the moment and breathing into it. This has improved my health both in body and mind.
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dali48 and writing books and cycling and photographing etc...
see dali48 and warning of neo-fascism since 1989 in Erkrath etc. - instead of Ecology & Health etc. - Uncontrolled capitalism (without UBI & wealth tax) produces evil as bees produce honey, see Instead of €100 billion for armaments - €50 billion for #ClimateEmergency 2022 & UBI etc.
see @nur_Dagmar / ntv: "Global #militaryspending exceeds for the first time 2 TRILLION dollars" (2022) - instead of 1 trillion for #ClimateEmergency 2022 and basic income etc. (dali48)
see dali48 & "The already uninhabitable Earth. Today (3.7.23), Zabol in Iran recorded the highest temperature on Earth at 49.6C" (@PGDynes), see e.g. https://aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/30/out-of-time-temperature-records-topple-around-the-world, & #ClimateEmergency 2022 instead of clean air (see e.g. Shanghai Air etc.) & enough drinking water (see desalination of sea water since ca. 2000), enough trees & fish, #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy since the 70s & UBI since 2008 ("Banking Crisis") & biodiversity & health & no inflation, wars etc.
see dali48 & Heatwaves in #Europe, see #IPCC #ClimateReport, see #ClimateEmergency 2022 (https://insideclimatenews.org/.../cold-weather-polar.../ via , cold spells, #heatwave #Pakistan & #India 62°C/143°F, #Copernicus #Sentinel3 LST, dryness, #Wildfires in US & Canada, 'gigafires' & air pollution (Australia, Amazonas (#amazon #brasilien #luigicani #bäume #natur #pflanzen #säen), California, South Europe, South America, etc), floods, hurricanes, cyclones etc. since ca. 2000, loss of home in Africa, Southeast Asia & Pacific etc. - despite Club of Rome in the 70s, Copenhagen 2009, Paris 2015, Coronavirus 2020, #EarthOvershootDay 2021, #COP26, mass extinction, ecocide (https://www.stopecocide.earth/.../ecocide-due-to-biomass...), "ethnic cleansing", factory farming & zoonoses, racing in the wrong direction, see Instead of €100 billion for armaments - €50 billion for #ClimateEmergency and basic income etc. (dali48), see https://www.boell.de/.../20/wettrennen-die-falsche-richtung, see #SaveTibetSaveThePlanet, see Indigenous Climate Action etc. - instead of clean air & drinking water, enough trees & fish, #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy & Basic Income (see https://eusignday.eu) & biodiversity & health & cures instead of inflation and war etc. War crimes, see e.g. Ukraine etc. - and environmental crimes, see e.g. Kuwait, 50 million tires burn etc. - should be documented & punished by the UNO etc... (dali48)
see History & Genocide of Minorities & Scapegoats - instead of @UNHumanRights and Protection of #environmentdefenders & reparation for natives etc... (dali48)
Don't see swallows here in Wickrath (2018) as before at Lake Unterbach where they were deeply flying before the rain, and were nearly touching my head till 2010... (dali48)
see dali48 and Concerning Chernobyl 1986, see sohub.io/uo63, see sohub.io/st6t, and Fukushima 2011 - see http://www.mdr.de/.../video-2362_zc-b45e8c8c_zs-6da2f47c... - see Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidentshttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Comparison_of_the_C... The following table compares the nuclear accidents at the Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima Daiichi (2011) nuclear power plants, the only INES level 7 nuclear ... Survivors of nuclear testing should get reparation by the UN etc. (dali48)