Pills and Alcohol... by dali48 on HP
Pills can easily be found. They are at the end cheaper than alcohol. There are sufficient tablets without a prescription. You can take tablets unnoticed, and everywhere take them with you...
An intellectual disability is, moreover, never combined with deficiencies by nature. Failures of character are only caused by bad experiences with the environment... An intellectual disability is, moreover, never combined with deficiencies by nature. Failures of character are only caused by bad experiences with the environment... Education of children: hardness creates aggression, sympathetic care, which is intense and yet no "monkey love" leads to a friendly being. Most difficulties are actually generated by the environment... There is an insatiable hunger for love, and there is hate - because that hunger can’t be satisfied... Many people take sleeping pills, sedatives, painkillers over years without a treatment of depression, anxiety, nervousness, psychic pain, etc... (F. Matakas)
The Pill may refer to: Pill (pharmacy), referring to anything small and round for a specific dose of medicine. The term is used colloquially in several ways... An alcoholic beverage is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol. Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and spirits... Alcohol is a psychoactive drug that has a depressant effect. A high blood alcohol content is usually considered to be legal drunkenness because it reduces attention and slows reaction speed... Beer is one of the world's oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverages, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea... The alcoholic strength of beer is usually 4% to 6% alcohol by volume (ABV), but it may be less than 2% or greater than 25%...
Wine is produced from grapes, and fruit wine is produced from fruits such as plums, cherries, or apples. Wine involves a longer fermentation process than beer and also a long aging process (months or years), resulting in an alcohol content of 9%–16%...
The legal drinking age and the legal age for buying alcoholic beverages vary from country to country in Europe, but 18 years is the most common age, with some exceptions depending on alcohol content...
For example, in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, a purchaser of beer or wine must be 16 years of age, and 18 years of age for spirits... Most countries have drunk driving laws which limit how much alcohol a person can consume before driving a car on a road. The permitted blood alcohol content threshold ranges from 0.0% to 0.08%...
Short-term effects of alcohol consumption include intoxication and dehydration. Long-term effects of alcohol include changes in the metabolism of the liver and brain and alcoholism (addiction to alcohol)...
Alcohol intoxication affects the brain, causing slurred speech, clumsiness, and delayed reflexes. Alcohol stimulates insulin production, which speeds up glucose metabolism and can result in low blood sugar... Alcohol consumption has been linked with seven types of cancer: mouth cancer, pharyngeal cancer, oesophageal cancer, laryngeal cancer, breast cancer, bowel cancer and liver cancer... (Wikipedia)
Tübingen - [get directions]
dali48 and photographing as a student in Tübingen in the 70s etc.
28.01.2014 - Deer1 and bird populations etc.
dali48 and photographing a gold fish in Lake Morper in Erkrath, 8/1983 – 5/2010
Deer and bird populations etc. by dali48 on HP
12.02.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
Many deer starve to death because of ice and snow. The long winter will cost the life of plenty of wildlife in the northeast of Germany. Deer are especially affected because they get no longer feed in the crusted snow and die, so the...
Also game such as hares, rabbits, pheasants and partridges have to suffer of food shortage in the lowlands... Seriously affected since several weeks are the water birds (see e.g. seagulls etc. - d.48)... (Rhine Post, 12.02.2010)
Interpretation of dali48
Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements. Birds are social; they communicate using visual signals and through calls and songs, and participate in social behaviors, including... Many species are of economic importance, mostly as sources of food acquired through hunting or farming. Some species, particularly songbirds and parrots, are popular as pets... Birds figure prominently in all aspects of human culture from religion to poetry to popular music... About 120–130 species have become extinct as a result of human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then. Currently about 1,200 species of birds are threatened with extinction by human activities... Human activities can also be detrimental, and have threatened numerous bird species with extinction (hunting, avian lead poisoning, pesticides, roadkill, and predation by pet cats and dogs are common sources of death for birds)... Domesticated birds raised for meat and eggs, called poultry, are the largest source of animal protein eaten by humans; in 2003, 76 million tons of poultry and 61 million tons of eggs were produced worldwide... Birds play prominent and diverse roles in folklore, religion, and popular culture. In religion, birds may serve as either messengers or priests and leaders for a deity...
In several civilizations of ancient Italy, particularly Etruscan and Roman religion, priests were involved in augury, or interpreting the words of birds while the "auspex" (from which the word "auspicious" is derived) watched their activities to foretell events...
They may also serve as religious symbols, as when Jonah (Hebrew: dove) embodied the fright, passivity, mourning, and beauty traditionally associated with doves (see Osho's symbol, etc. - d.48)...
Many bird populations are declining worldwide, with 1,227 species listed as threatened by Birdlife International and the IUCN in 2009... The most commonly cited human threat to birds is habitat loss. Other threats include overhunting, accidental mortality due to structural collisions or long-line fishing bycatch, pollution (see oil spills, see Golf of Mexico 2010, see pesticide use etc. - d.48), competition and predation from nonnative invasive species, and climate change... (Wikipedia)
29.01.2014 - Water crisis1 and desalination of sea water etc.
Desalination of sea water... by dali48 on HP
18.06.2012 - Interpretation of dali48
After researching the topic, I believe it is worth it to invest in wastewater to drinking water technologies. The ecological and environmental risk of not doing so is great - the byproducts of the non-treated wastewater & solid waste threatens ecosystems and endangered species... (by Direxmd)
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 e.g. deserts, etc. - d.48). This time of drought caused one of the largest population shifts in U.S. History... (by newcapo)
Future crisis: 1 Shortage of Air, 2 Water, 3 Room, 4 Raw materials, etc.
Youth protest against the world of fathers because of: lack of perspective, threat, frustration and sense of loss... (C. Thompson)
Individual growth and technological advances (see e.g. weapons technology etc. - d.48) now create more harm than good... Environmental destruction (see e.g. deforestation, dying bees etc. - d.48), the threat of ecological collapse (see e.g. biodiversity etc. - d.48), armament (see €100 billion for armaments in Germany - instead of €50 billion for #ClimateEmergency 2022 & UBI etc. - d.48), and nuclear disaster... (W. Hollstein)
Greed is in Buddhism, one of the worst evils of which a person can be infected. In fact, possessiveness is of one of the main reasons for misery in the world, and how much bitter enmity exists between... (T. Suzuki)
It is estimated that more people die of the consequences of lack of water than in wars or of HIV/Aids. Solutions of water problems are being discussed every 3 years at the World Water Conference... (DW-World, 15.03.2009)
The side event Committing to advance transboundary water cooperation worldwide for sustainable development, climate action, stability and peace organized by ...
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Debby Bruck Level 7 Commenter
Forward thinking. Next to our air quality, water sustains life. We must clean it up and keep it clean. It does make financial, ecological and total sense...
dali48 Hub Author
Thank you for your Comment, D.B. - the second part of this Hub you can find on http://www.dali48.blogspot.com
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Water crisis is a general term used to describe a situation where the available water within a region is less than the region's demand. The term has been used to describe the availability of potable water in a variety of regions by the United Nations and other world organizations... Lawrence Smith, the president of the population institute, asserts that although an overwhelming majority of the planet is composed of water, 97% of this water is constituted of saltwater; the fresh water used to sustain humans is only 3% of the total amount of water on Earth. (Why isn't there more desalination of seawater since ca. the year 2000 etc. - d.48)...
27.09.2023 — A new solar desalination system takes in saltwater and heats it with natural sunlight. The system flushes out accumulated salt, ...
Waterborne diseases and the absence of sanitary domestic water are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. For children under age five, waterborne diseases are the leading cause of death...
According to the World Bank, 88 percent of all waterborne diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene... A 2006 United Nations report focuses on issues of governance as the core of the water crisis, saying "There is enough water for everyone" and "Water insufficiency is often due to mismanagement, corruption...
On Madagascar’s highland plateau, a massive transformation occurred that eliminated virtually all the heavily forested vegetation in the period 1970 to 2000... Water deficits, which are already spurring heavy grain imports in numerous smaller countries, may soon do the same in larger countries, such as China and India...
According to a UN climate report, the Himalayan glaciers that are the sources of Asia's biggest rivers - Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Yangtze, Mekong, Salween and Yellow River could disappear - by...
The west coast of North America, which gets much of its water from glaciers in mountain ranges such as the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada, also would be affected...
Construction of wastewater treatment plants and reduction of groundwater over-drafting appear to be obvious solutions to the worldwide problem... Wind and solar power such as this installation in a village in northwest Madagascar can make a difference in safe water supply...
As new technological innovations continue to reduce the capital cost of desalination, more countries are building desalination plants as a small element in addressing their water crises...
A novel approach to desalination is the Seawater Greenhouse which takes seawater and uses solar energy to desalinate it in conjunction with growing food crops in a specially adapted greenhouse... (Wikipedia)
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