31.01.2014 - Food hunter and Elephant apple & Jam and Saffron etc.
26.01.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
In the desert of Rajasthan he seeks the Ker-Busch, which thrives on the edge of the sand dunes. In Udaipur, he meets up with the "elephant apple"...
While in Hong Kong chef Harlan prepares a sorbet out of the desert apple, the Food hunter is already on a new track...
Kashmir saffron is legendary, but doesn't come out of the Kashmir valley since 15 years because of...
Incidentally, he finds a dried mustard spice mix called "Ver" and a deep violet edible flower...
(Phoenix TV, 26.01.2010)
Interpretation of dali48
Elephant apple is a species of Dillenia native (Limonia acidissima) to southeastern Asia, from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to...
The fruit pulp is used in Indian Cuisine in curries, jam, and jellies...
The fruit is eaten plain, blended into an assortment of drinks and sweets, or well-preserved as jam. The scooped out pulp from its fruits is eaten uncooked with or without (see dali48 and Fruit & Health etc. – d.48)... (Wikipedia)
Golden Snow
“Elephant apple , first time I ever heard of this apple was from you dali48 , so interesting to find such a great fruit with so many uses and we do not hear more of it , I love to find out new things ... Scooped out ... so I would believe that the outer covering is not eaten ... sounds good” …
31.01.2014 - Dylan Thomas and Swansea and his only true love etc.
31.01.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) is the world-famous best-known poet. He was and is a role model for many musicians like John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan and...
His excessive life and work in South Wales, London and New York, describes the filmmaker Tom Krausz in his...
Elke Heidenreich tells the story of the little man with the big words, who only too often lost...
(ARTE / Biography, 31.01.2010)
Interpretation of dali48
Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 – 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often...
His childhood was spent largely in Swansea, with regular summer trips to visit his maternal aunts' Carmarthenshire farms. These rural sojourns and the contrast with the town life of Swansea provided inspiration for...
In October 1925, Thomas attended the single-sex Swansea Grammar School, in the Mount Pleasant district of the city, where his...
In February 1941, Swansea was bombed by the German Luftwaffe in a "three nights' blitz". Castle Street was just one of the many streets in Swansea that...
On 11 July 1937, Thomas married Caitlin MacNamara in a register office in Penzance, Cornwall. In 1938, the couple rented a cottage in the village of...
The publication of Deaths and Entrances in 1946 was a major turning point for Thomas. Poet and critic W. J. Turner commented in The Spectator...
John Malcolm Brinnin invited Thomas to New York and in
1950 embarked on a lucrative three month tour of arts centers and...
He died in New York on 5 November 1953 before the BBC could record the play. Richard Burton starred in the first broadcast in 1954 and was joined by...
Thomas's last collection Collected Poems, 1934–1952, published when he was 38, won the Foyle poetry prize. He wrote "Do not go gentle...
A turning point came on 2 November. Air pollution in New York had risen significantly and exacerbated chest illnesses, such as...
Caitlin in Laugharne was sent a telegram on 5 November, notifying her that Dylan was in hospital. She flew to America the following day and was taken...
Following his death, his body was brought back to Wales for his burial in the village churchyard at Laugharne...
"But ours was a drink story, not a love story, just like millions of others. Our one and only true love was drink"...
Thomas derived his closely woven, sometimes self-contradictory images from the Bible, Welsh folklore and preaching, and Freud...
A statue of Thomas is in the city's maritime quarter. The Dylan Thomas Theatre Swansea Little Theatre and the Dylan Thomas Centre... (Wikipedia)
Golden Snow
“Wonderful life interest on Dylan Thomas and Swansea I always enjoy your posts they leave me well informed in so much of the history of people and places ... I never realized the influence Thomas had on such great musician in our time ... thank you” ~~~
31.01.2014 - Myopia and Intelligence quotient and Insulin and Fresh air etc.
12.02.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
Scientists puzzle over the reasons why myopia (nearsightedness) is nowadays a problem for more people than before. One thesis: For people prefering to stay at home certain growth processes of the eyeball are not regulated by light. Too much sugar also harms the eye...
In Germany, about every 3rd person is affected, in the major cities of Asia already 90% are affected...
While the Australians spent on average 2 hours per day outdoors, the students from Singapore came only to 30 minutes of fresh air daily...
"There is a brake for myopia," said the biologist (I. Morgan), "if you can go outside as often as possible"...
It is clear now that inheritance plays a large role. Twin studies show that if one twin is myopic the probability for the other is at 90%...
Eye expert F. Schäffeler from the University of Tübingen:
"With 2 myopic parents the chance of being short-sighted oneself doubles or triples." In contrast, L. Cordain of Colorado State University provides that the cause of the rampant myopia lies in the sugared Nutrition (see hidden and camouflaged sugar substitutes in food, etc. - d.48) of our time...
In fact, the consumption of soft drinks, sweets and sugared breakfast Ceralien has similar risen as the rate of shortsightedness in recent years. And in chickens there arose a severe myopia, after they had injected them insulin...
There is no preventative treatment till now. Glasses, contact lenses and corneal surgeries with the laser only change the refraction of light fix, but not the problem of the eyeball... (Rhine Post, 12.02.2010)
Interpretation of dali48
Myopia "nearsightedness" (AmE), "shortsightedness" (BrE) is a condition of the eye where the light that comes in does not directly focus on the retina but in front of it. This causes the image that one sees when looking at a distant object to be out of focus but in focus when looking at a close object...
Eye care professionals most commonly correct myopia through the use of corrective lenses, such as glasses or contact lenses. It may also be corrected by refractive surgery, though there are cases of associated side effects. The corrective lenses have a negative optical power (i.e. are concave) which compensates for the excessive positive diopters of the myopic eye...
The National Institutes of Health says there is no known way of preventing myopia, and the use of glasses or contact lenses does not affect its progression. There is no universally accepted method of preventing myopia; proposed procedures have not been studied for effectiveness...
A number of alternative therapies exist including eye exercises and relaxation techniques, such as the Bates method. However, the efficacy of these practices is disputed by scientists and eye care practitioners. A 2005 review of scientific papers on the subject concluded that there was "no clear scientific evidence" that eye exercises were effective in treating myopia...
The global prevalence of refractive errors has been estimated from 800 million to 2.3 billion. The incidence of myopia within sampled population often varies with age, country, sex, race, ethnicity, occupation, environment, and other factors. Variability in testing and data collection methods makes comparisons of prevalence and progression difficult...
A number of studies have shown the incidence of myopia increases with level of education, and many studies have shown a correlation between myopia and a higher intelligence quotient (IQ)...
Heredity appears as an important factor associated with juvenile myopia, with smaller contributions from more near work, higher school achievement and less time in sports activity...
Many instances of myopic individuals have emerged in popular culture, though not always accurately. One such instance is in William Golding's Nobel Prize-winning novel Lord of the Flies, which features a character named Piggy who is very nearsighted, and as a result, wears thick glasses... (Wikipedia)
Golden Snow
“great information dali48 ... as I read I began to think of how we take each function of our bodies for granted, our eyes allowing us to see and put into our minds the beautiful color and beauty the world provides for us ... how blessed we are to have our bodies most wonderful invention in our world, each function a mystery ... I marvel at our bodies ... God is great” …
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Coolmon2009
Good information dali48, thanks for sharing...
