...broad-leaved tree European larch (Larix decidua), a coniferous tree Lepidodendron, an extinct lycophyte tree In botany, a tree is a plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting leaves or branches. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants, only plants that are usable as lumber, only plants above a specified height or only perennial species. At its broadest, trees include the taller palms, the tree ferns, bananas and bamboo. A tree typically has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground by the trunk. This trunk typically contains woody tissue for strength, and vascular tissue to carry materials from one part of the tree to another. For most trees it is surrounded by a layer of bark which serves as a protective barrier. Below the ground, the roots branch and spread out widely; they serve to anchor the tree and extract moisture and nutrients from the soil. Above ground, the branches divide into smaller branches and shoots. The shoots typically bear leaves, which capture light energy and convert it into chemical energy by photosynthesis, providing the food needed by the tree for its growth and development. Flowers and fruit may also be present, but some trees such as conifers instead have pollen cones and seed cones, and others such as tree ferns produce spores instead. Trees tend to be long-lived,[1] some reaching several thousand years old. The tallest known specimen on Earth is 115.6 m (379 ft) and they have a theoretical...
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...azing upward, I see daylight glinting through the clears out. The trees of Oirase stand like respected, insightful persons. Looking upward from the streambed where I stand, I see dark green leaves of August, loaded with life, stretching out from treetops and branches toward little fixes of blue sky. Nothing is more meriting commendation than a tree that has persevered. Excellence drawing closer godlikeness. Not a thing is absent. Flawlessness. Its trunk, gigantic. Its bark, thick. In Japanese it is called mizunara- - water oak. Its name gets from the expansive measure of water it stores. These trees develop to 100 feet in tallness; I am informed that their normal age is around 300 years. As I look upward, the consistent mumble of the mountain stream purifies my ears, punctuated every now and then with the peeping of fowls. Could there be a winged animal that does not sing? Could there be a tree that does not reach toward the sky? The tree stakes its exceptionally presence on only one thing. It needs just to completely show the force it has covered up inside. "I will carry on with my life! I will completely develop and idealize my life!" Without perplexity or faltering, glad, superb, the tree lives as it may be, consistent with itself. What's more, in the place where there is Oirase, such respectable trees line the streambeds in "green forests." And the name Aomori, the prefecture in which Oirase is found, signifies "green forests." It was...
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...for you Как еще недавно я без тебя жила Like how I had still been living without you lately Я сама не знаю, но в моей судьбе I myself I don’t know, but in my destiny То к чему стремилась, я нашла в тебе I found in you what I was striving for Ты меня не придумал такой You didn’t think me up the way I am Я тебя не придумала тоже I didn’t think you up either Просто мы, просто мы, просто мы повстречались с тобой It's just that we, we, we met one another Просто мы, просто мы, просто мы друг без друга не можем It's just that we, we, we can’t go on without each other Стали дни красивыми, словно в детстве сны The days became beautiful, like in childhood dreams Как рассвет над ивами у речной волны Like the daybreak over the willow trees by the rivers waves Я могу часами на тебя смотреть I can look at you for hours И глазам не верить и душой светлеть And not believe my own eyes and shine a light in your soul главное - the most important thing Как еще недавно я без тебя жила - how I HAD been living.. нашла в тебе - I found IN you Ты меня не придумал такой - you didn't think of me (meaning "invent") the way I am Просто мы - just WE (us would be нас in Russian) просто мы друг без друга не можем - it's just that we can't [live] without each other словно в детстве сны - like dreams in childhood Я могу часами на тебя смотреть - I can look at you for hours И глазам не верить и душой светлеть - and not believe in what I see and brighten in my soul. …If you...
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...Tina Grenon Professor Schmitt English 1101/48 10 September 2012 My Dream Home My dream home that I design will be all that I imagine and more. It will be a three bedroom, Ranch-styled, brick home with a three car garage and a massive double front door. Some of the interior features will include a chef’s kitchen and spa-like on-suites. Outdoors will consist of meandering pathways through colorful shade gardens that lead up to a flagstone terrace that overlooks the in-ground swimming pool. The ultimate chef’s kitchen in my home will have cool black granite countertops lining the walls, breakfast bar, and island. A double-oven and pasta sink is a must for an Italian inspired kitchen. An oversized copper sink with the apron showing would be housed around the breakfast bar for easy access. The warm glow from the pendant lighting surrounding the kitchen with rich copper undertones sets the perfect mood lighting as I cook delicious creations with sinful aromas. Afterwards, I can wash my cares away by visiting one of the spa-like on-suites just off of any one of the bedrooms. Each one includes a walk-in shower with stunning rainfall showerheads and travertine tiles. If I prefer a soak, I can slide into a warm bubble bath in one of the copper claw-foot tubs situated by a picture window overlooking the many gardens. Once my senses have been renewed, I can wander outdoors...
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...Corked It’s a gas. Not exactly but close to eighty nine point seven percent of the cork is compressed from the same gas that makes air. This is one of the many reasons that makes wine the aesthetical treat to enjoy with just about any cuisine. Historically the name cork was given to the bark of the cork oak tree grown throughout Western Mediterranean Basin plantations known to the Spanish as, “Montados.” Generally the oak trees won’t be ripe until they have reached a there third harvest. Due to deforestation only one percent of the trees in this region will be used. Thanks to the abundance of the oak cork tree in this region that one percent produces seventy percent of the worlds manufactured cork. By the time the third harvest comes around for the cork oak tree it would have reached its fortieth birthday. Averaging out the cork oak tree’s life span, it’s been known to reach ages of one hundred and seventy five too two hundred years of age. That’s a long life of nurture and growth. All for what? So we can enjoy a bottle of wine for one, maybe two hours at most? For what we find to be complete and utter bliss, but then it hits you once you fined that special bottle of chateau , sharing it with the one’s you love that completely catches you into the wines true beauty and the process that it goes through to be what it’s become today. The cork was originated in the year three thousand B.C. where it was used as a fishing apparatus. Through the ages it became a tool...
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...Personal Life of Author and Focus of Book John Ortberg the author of The Life You’ve Always Wanted, If You Want To Walk On Water You’ve Got To Get Out The Boat and Love Beyond Reason was previously the teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois and is now on staff at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California. The following book review is concerning his work presented in The Life You’ve Always Wanted. There’s a point in every Christian’s life where you begin to ask questions like; am I doing all that I was created to do? Am I as intimate with God as I ought to be? Is this life I’m living pleasing to God? The list of questions could go on and on. John Ortberg’s book The Life You’ve Always Wanted gives very clear and precise ways for accurate analysis of our lives through a ministerial, biblical and cultural lens. Ortber’s perspectives, life examples and raw truths are vast and practical for pondering and application. This book voices a line of reasoning in the areas of Hope of Transformation, Spiritual Disciplines, a Well-Ordered Heart, and Living a Life of Endurance. Hope of Transformation Ortberg begins this book with the everlasting ache of disappointment many Christians have experienced as they continue in their personal relationships with God. He places great emphasis on the feeling of disappointment. He states “…the feeling of disappointment is not the problem, but a reflection of a deeper problem – my failure to be...
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...Ronnie Estes Rocky Mountain Flora March 31, 2015 Peachleaf Willow Family The peachleaf willow, Salix amygdaloides, is in the Willow Family Salicaceae. Peachleaf willows are small to medium sized willow trees that have single or branched stems reaching a height of about 12 meters tall (40 feet). The branches are flexible, shiny, and glabrous, with a green or yellow color. The leaves have finely serrate margins, are glabrous, lanceolate, green above, and pale to white glaucous below. The flowers are catkins, with deciduous bracts that are pale yellow, and villous on the inside. The fruits are glabrous, ovoid capsules (3-5 mm long) that release many small seeds with silky hairs (Stevens, 2003) (Fryer, 2012). Range The peachleaf willow is an...
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...it does for their particular needs. Aspirin is a white crystalline substance made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. It is used in the treatment of rheumatic fever, headaches, neuralgia, colds, and arthritis; reduce temperature and pain. The formula for aspirin is C9H8O4. Aspirin's scientific name is acetylsalicylic acid. The main ingredient in ASA is salicylic acid. Aspirin is derived from a chemical extracted from willow bark: Salicylate Acid. Salicylate Acid has a long history of uses. During Medieval times herbalists used it for its palliative properties. This ingredient grows in small roots, leaves, flowers and fruits on plants. The willow leaf was used as herbal medicine by the ancient Greeks during childbirth to ease labor pains. There is also documentation of the first proper scientific study of the herbal remedy in year 1763. Dried willow bark was used by Reverend Edward Stone of Chipping Norton near Oxford on 50 parishioners suffering from rheumatic fever. He then recorded the benefits it had. It wasn't until year 1823 that salicin was extracted from willow and formally named. A German chemist named Felix Hoffmann set out to find a drug that would ease his father's arthritis without causing severe stomach irritation. His father’s stomach irritation came from sodium salicylate. Salicylate was the standard anti-arthritis treatment of the time. Hoffmann figured that the acidity of the salicylate made it hard on the stomach's lining. He then began looking for a less acidic...
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...relieving properties and for it antipyretic properties, to name a few. Most people don’t know what Aspirin is, but only what it does for their particular needs. I will attempt to describe some different aspects of Aspirin and Aspirin overdose. I will give a brief description of what Aspirin is, chemically speaking and where aspirin originates from. The use of Aspirin for attempted suicide is common as a primary drug or as a co-drug. I will explain the possible signs and symptoms an overdose patient will experience, and the assessment, and the prehospital treatment for the patient. Aspirin is derived from a chemical extracted from willow bark: Salicylate Acid. Salicylate Acid has a long history of uses. During Medieval times herbalists used it for its palliative properties. In the mid 1900’s, chemists isolated the active ingredient of willow bark, salicylic acid, and Aspirin was developed. It quickly became the drug of choice as a pain reliever, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory. The first company to develop Aspirin for commercial use was the Bayer Company. Today Aspirin is used daily by millions of Americans to help reduce the risk a heart attack. Until the late 1900’s, with the development of Aspirin alternatives such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen, Aspirin was the most widely used drug around, and a common drug of choice for the overdose patient. Aspirin has many affects on the body when taken in excess amounts. One common affect is hyperventilation, which causes...
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...Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades. Beavers eat tree bark and the soft tissue, that lies beneath the bark. Trees they seem especially fond of are willows, maples, poplars, beeches, birches, alders, and aspens. Mr. Kaiser’s beaver log was hallowed out like a cylinder with pointed ends. This log was accidently placed on the bomb fire and burned which caused physical and chemical reactions and changes. Let’s talk about some of the physical and chemical properties. Physical properties can be observed or measured without changing the composition of the matter. The beaver’s log had the following physical properties. It was shaped like a cylinder with pointed ends, brown and rough. The beaver ate the bark and the soft tissue in order to receive nourishment. Chemical properties of matter describe its “potential” to undergo some chemical change or reaction by virtue of its composition. As the beaver log burns, it goes through three phases. The first phase is the evaporation of water. As the wood is heated moisture evaporates quickly consuming heat energy in the process. The second phase is the emission of smoke. As the wood heats up, it starts to smoke. The smoke is the visible result of the destruction of the solid wood as it vaporizes into a cloud of combustible gases. The smoke will burn if the temperature is high enough and oxygen is present. The third and final phase is the charcoal phase. As the fire grows and most...
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...your intake of potassium, eat good amount of bananas, potatoes, soya flour, bran wheat, ready-to-eat apricots, tomato puree and such. 5. Celery seeds have anti-inflammatory properties. It can reduce arthritic pain and relieve cramps. 6. Cramp bark (Viburnum opulus) can be used to treat cramps. 7. Hot and moist herbal packs are very useful in increasing blood circulation. It can treat painful areas by consuming tea or juices to soothe muscles and nerves. 8. Stretch your leg straight out, bend the toes back towards the head. Hold this position for 30 seconds, relax and continue till the cramp is gone. This stretches your calf muscle. 9. Keep yourself hydrated as you tend to lose valuable electrolytes, which is required to prevent cramps. Before exercising you can take calcium, magnesium and potassium supplements daily. 10. Chamomile tea helps in relieving cramps. Glycine, an amino acid present in the tea, help relax the muscles. 11. Soak your feet in a large tub of hot water, steeped with homemade tea bag of black or brown mustard seeds, for 15- 20 minutes. 12. You can use an herbal oil massage by using 1 cup extra-virgin oil or almond oil, add herbs in tincture form like 1 ounce cramp bark, 1/2...
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...Home Remedies for Joint Pain/Arthritis Meta: Suffering from joint pain? You’re surely not the only one. You can easily get relief by using home remedies with the help of things very conveniently found in your kitchen cabinet. At any given time, Joint pain or Arthritis may affect one or more of your joints. Swelling, Soreness, redness or irritation around the affected area can be the main symptoms of Joint Pain. Luckily there are many Natural Ways to tackle joint pain efficiently. In this article we will discuss Home Remedies so you can terminate joint pain as soon as it arises. 1. TURMERIC Turmeric is an anti-inflammatory agent who helps to decrease swelling, pain and stiffness of Joints. It contains a strong antioxidant compound called curcumin which reduces inflammation. Usage of turmeric in any form is beneficial. Use turmeric while making rice, vegetables, meats, and lentils. Turmeric is good for the relief of Pain and in the treatment of all kinds of infections. Turmeric depresses the levels of two main enzymes which are responsible for triggering inflammation and Joint Pain. Turmeric can be taken in capsule form too. 2. GINGER Ginger helps in the relief of joint and Muscle pain as it is anti-inflammatory. Use of 01 teaspoon of ginger daily helps in diminishing joint pain. Use it in cooking meats, sprinkle on salads and eat it along with honey, it will benefit you in easing arthritis. Eating Raw Ginger is also good for health but in limited quantities...
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...century was being considered a complicated matter. The twentieth century showed great concern amongst the American people for substance abuse and trends of usage and abuse changed as quickly as the decades past by. The drug usage and abuse now is very regulated and campaigned against misuse of licit drugs and the abuse of illicit drugs. Early times, sometimes going back hundreds or even thousands of years, was a time of curiosity and discovery. People found medicinal value in plants by eating them and by discovering the effects on animals after eating certain plants. The curiosities often made people sick or even die as they were learning the effects of these medicinal plants. Plants such as the willow bark were used to cure headaches; aspirin is now made from willow bark. The senna plant was discovered for its laxative properties. Morning glories, different types of mushrooms, and poppy plants were used for the hallucinogenic properties. Coca leaves were used for pain and is now known for the production of cocaine and marijuana was also widely used (Levinthal, 2012). These discoveries lead to the knowledge for shamans to use and become leaders of their communities. Shamans would use trances and hallucinogenic medicines to heal people. After the rise of the Egyptian and Babylonian empires, the use of shamanism declined. The use of hallucinogenic medicines is thought to be more of a psychological rather than physiological effect on the users like a placebo effect....
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...Destiny is defined as a predetermined course of events. In James Bennett’s novel, Dakota Dream, Floyd Rayfield believes that it is his destiny to become Dakotan. He wants to legally change his name to Charley Black Crow and move to Pine Ridge. Floyd goes from being in a mental institute to arriving at the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota and going on a vision quest to discover who he truly is. Floyd is greatly misguided in his interpretation of what and who the Dakotans are. He truly believes in the fact that he is supposed to be Dakotan. Floyd misinterprets what it truly means to be Dakotan. “Sometimes the way to your destiny is through your previous lives” (10). Floyd has a dream that one-hundred years ago, in his past life, that...
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...have been used throughout history for pain relief and maintenance. Common examples of herbs that have been utilized for medication throughout the centuries include seeds, leaves, stems, bark, roots, blossoms, and concentrates. As science started to examine herbal cures, their uses became more refined and have been broken down into three different medicating classifications: tissue pain, nerve pain, and pain caused by inflammation. In continuation, I will explain the definitions for each classification detailing their relative herbal medications for relief and maintenance. Nociceptive pain also known as “tissue pain” is understood to be created by the progressing actuation of pain receptors in either the surface or profound tissues of the body. There are two sorts: "somatic" pain and “visceral" pain. Somatic pain is brought about by harm to the skin, muscles, bone, joint, and connective tissues. Visceral pain is explained as pain that starts from ongoing harm to the internal organs or the tissues that help them. Examples of pain from both categories include back pain, fibromyalgia, neck pain, sciatic pain, sports injuries, sprains, tendonitis, and tension headaches. There are several herbal medicines that assist with control and relief of tissue pain. White willow bark extract is a commonly used herbal medicine as it...
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