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Institute for Traditional Medicine | ITM | Portland, OR The Meanings of Plant Names - Medicinal Plant Name Services Blog By: Jason Irving - 05/11/2013 In the first in a series of posts about plant nomenclature, Jason Irving explains the meanings of some Latin plant names and what they can tell us. Can you tell what the difference will be between Lamium album and Lamium purpureum from the names alone? At MPNS we are keen to emphasise the importance of using the correct Latin scientific names for plants, but these names can seem confusing and alien to the uninitiated. The reluctance to use the scientific names for plants is understandable - to be blunt, Latin is an arcane and arguably a ‘dead’ language, so it isn’t surprising that many people prefer to stick with the common names and find scientific names hard, or even boring, to learn. This is not helped by the fact that botanical Latin has a whole series of grammatical rules which can seem quite daunting to learn if you have no experience of classical Latin (and even if you do it has its own peculiarities). Lamium album L. - Jason -
Doug's Sword Blade Making Page This page gets its start from an answer to an email message, like several other pages here. Here's the original message: My name is Scott From Australia. My questions are, if I make a sword from spring steel would it have to be tempered and heat treated for re-enactment purposes. just checking anyway.) forging, what would you recommend be the best tools to use. Thanks Scott. And the answer follows: If the spring steel is already heat treated into being a spring, and if you don't damage the heat treating by overheating the steel while grinding it, then you wouldn't have to re-temper. If it does get overheated, which is over 400 or 500 degrees, then it has to be hardened before tempering. If the steel is not already heat treated, and if it's difficult to get it done, try it without heat treating. To put a fuller in the blade without forging, I would use the edge of the wheel of an angle grinder. Automotive leaf springs are very good steel for swords, but normally seem a bit too thick. Hi Doug
Contrasting Values Attitudes and Behaviors Talking for the sake of talking is discouraged. In days past in their own society, Indians found it unnecessary to say hello, good-bye, how are you, and so on. Even today, many Indians find this type of small talk unimportant. In social interactions, Indians emphasize the feeling or emotional component rather than the verbal. Ideas and feelings are conveyed through behavior rather than speech. Educational Considerations The difference in the degree of verbosity may create a situation in which the Indian does not have a chance to talk at all.
The Reiki Page The Best of Theforge - Vol. 3 of 3 The Best of Theforge Volume 3 of 3 Compiled and edited by: Ron Reil Jump To Volume 1 Jump To Volume 2 Note: Multiple articles within a topic are separated by " ******** " between each article. Index of Topics 113. 114. 115. 117. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. 138. *** See also Volumes 1&2 for more resource information FIREPLACE SCREEN AND GLASS: (See Also Vol. 1 & 2) Jim Hi Just saw your email to roger. back.Check and see if your glass supplier can get you a product called pryoceram It is far superior to tempered glass. well worth it.I used 3/16" clear. Jim B. Return to Index TOOL SOURCES, INFORMATION, AND PLANS: (See Alos Vol. 1&2) I just noticed a mail list that may be of interest of those here, it's called "steel-talk". also other steel related matters. Send to get info about "steel-talk", To: Majordomo@igc.org Message: INFO steel-talk. The list administrator is a contributing editor for "Iron Age/New Steel" magazine. David mailto:dwwilson@flash.net
uot Keeping of the Soul Back Keeping of the Soul - Nagi Gluhapi This is the first one of the seven sacred rites of the Lakota Sioux people and lasts about one year. The physical body of a deceased Sioux was placed in trees or on wooden (scaffold) platforms high enough to protect the body from animals and wrapped in hides and allowed to decay until nothing of the body was left. Well known leaders were buried in secret places, unknown places, if the family or friends were able to do that for the individual. Today, they are buried in cemeteries as is done in other cultures. Grieving is a natural process with those who lose a loved one, whether it be a family member or friend or someone known or admired. Some tribes practices for mourning included those close to the deceased painting their faces black, cutting their long hair short, and cutting of their arms and legs to show their grief. This sacred rite helps the transition of mourning the loss to it becoming less painful and takes much time to do. Sources: Back
Capsicum varieties The chile pepper species list ...In 1680, there were 33 species of chile pepper in the first list that appeared in the published study 'Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis', by Robert Morrison. The uncultivated "wild" species, that are still being classified at present include the following: Capsicum anomalum Omitted from Capsicum species list in 1983 by Eshbaugh. A wild variety of pepper from Japan. This isn't a true Capsicum, rather it is a member of the Turbocapsicum genus. Turbocapsicum anomalum is a perennial, glabrescent, to 1.5 m tall. Capsicum breviflorum Omitted from Capsicum species list in 1983 by Eshbaugh. C. cardenasii flower © Fatalii's Chiles Capsicum chacoense Believed to be found only in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Capsicum chacoense var. exile Capsicum chacoense var. tomentosum From A.T.Hunziker. Capsicum chinense Jacquin Believed to be found only in Latin and South America. C. ciliatum flower © Fatalii's Chiles Capsicum chlorocladium From De Candolle.
The Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation he caravan was ready to move out. The wagons were lined up. The mood was somber. One who was there reported that "there was a silence and stillness of the voice that betrayed the sadness of the heart." Behind them the makeshift camp where some had spent three months of a Tennessee summer was already ablaze. A white-haired old man, Chief Going Snake, led the way on his pony, followed by a group of young men on horseback. This is the story of the removal of the Cherokee Nation from its ancestral homeland in parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama to land set aside for American Indians in what is now the state of Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. ¹ W.
Tetrahedron The tetrahedron is the three-dimensional case of the more general concept of a Euclidean simplex. For any tetrahedron the vertices lie on a sphere (called the circumsphere) while another sphere (the insphere) just touches the tetrahedron's faces. Regular tetrahedron[edit] A regular tetrahedron is one in which all four faces are equilateral triangles. It has been known since antiquity and is one of the five regular Platonic solids. In a regular tetrahedron, not only are all its faces the same size and shape (congruent) but so are all its vertices and edges. Together with the regular octahedron, these two solids can be packed alternately to fill space, however regular tetrahedra alone cannot fill space. Five tetrahedra are laid flat on a plane, with the highest 3-dimensional points marked as 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The regular tetrahedron is self-dual, which means that its dual is another regular tetrahedron. Formulas for a regular tetrahedron[edit] . Tetrahedron ABCD and its circumscribed sphere or
10 Yoga Poses to Fight Depression and Anxiety The mind, body and spirit are all connected and when a person suffers from mild depression or anxiety, the body is out of balance. Yoga is a series of stretches that helps bring balance to the body; not just focusing on the body’s health, but also on the mind and spirit. Always consult a physician or counsellor if you are having ongoing feelings of depression or anxiety and before trying any new exercise program. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. & 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Slowly wake up the body, wiggling the toes and fingers. Focusing on breathing and practicing yoga poses can calm momentary anxiety and depression by giving the mind a peaceful focus and re-energizing the body. Fractal -- From MathWorld A fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales. The object need not exhibit exactly the same structure at all scales, but the same "type" of structures must appear on all scales. A plot of the quantity on a log-log graph versus scale then gives a straight line, whose slope is said to be the fractal dimension. The prototypical example for a fractal is the length of a coastline measured with different length rulers.