Giant Hogweed: A Horticulture Horror
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 19th, 2011
Good morning!
After reading what Health Info posted yesterday, I thought it was important to post something on the Giant Hogweed so that my readers could familiarize themselves with how the plant looks, and how to handle removal of this toxic and dangerous exotic.
Readers: As General Info suggests, as well as the video above, I too suggest if you find this plant in your yard that you don’t remove it yourself. Get a professional. It is not worth the risk to yourself by doing it yourself. And certainly don’t just leave it alone – whether it is in your own yard or someone else’s – tell someone.
Rebecca: I wish I had the answer to your question. But I too HOPE that Obama gets reelected. In my mind he is our only HOPE too. I try to expose as much as I can about corporations so that people will wake up and do what is right for everyone. Like Robert and Sarah, keep the posts coming that enlighten my readers of just how much president Obama is doing for us. We’ve got many conservatives reading here now. Perhaps we can flip a few.
ZL: Sometimes I think my sense of humor needs a lift. I took the girl seriously.
Maggie: O’Donnell is a joke and unfortunately there are those that will take her seriously. I am glad that you are not one of them. I too want more women in politic but I am not going to vote for just any skirt. The republicans are HOPEing that there are enough stupid women who will – and unfortunately there are. Women need to think smart and don’t let men convince them or tell them what to do or how to think. I think you need to have a little chat with your brother’s wife. Or turn her onto my blog – theres some bitches here that talk a good talk and walk the walk. (Alycedale is a recent girl that comes to mind :) Many women have flipped from reading what has been said here. Your brother’s wife could be the next. Good luck.
Sarah: Thanks for posting another issue that the past 43 haven’t addressed that Obama has. I want to keep this going, so keep ‘em coming! People need to know just how hard our president is working for us everyday and just how much gets accomplished.
Glenda: It is criminal, and we now know how bad smoking is for us, and how difficult it is to quit for many. Now we need to address all of the other issues, many hidden issues that we aren’t even aware of that are bad for our health because corporations simply don’t care.
Anonymous: Would love to read more.
Peace out.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
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michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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August 19th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Hi Mischief, wow and i thought stinging nettle was bad…
Greg, your wife may just be perfectly happy loving you and the family yet turn a blind eye, her intuition would alert her atsome point believe me, her choice to stay is hers. My issue with your deal is why wouldnt you turn a blind eye once or twice if she stepped out but didn’t change thefamily tempo. That’s not very fair minded at all on your part, all hormonal urges aside. She may be as crafty as you and just flies way under the radar and in that case and yours, discretion is key.
Kicking her to the curb for behaving like you do is just sexist bs and i think you know that.
Luv, Zen Lill
August 19th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Mischief!? Hahaha I love predictive text. : ) – ZL
August 20th, 2011 at 1:47 am
Hi, I’m looking for some help. Does anyone know how a cell phone can be hacked to download a picture. Into my current set of pictures? There is a picture of someone inserted right in between 2 recent pictures. The person claims they don’t know and that might be true ( or not) … Short of hiring a private investigator, is there a way to find out when and where the pic was taken and how it got into MY phone? I’m paranoid, just had my texts/ emails hacked for 6 weeks, now this….please fill me in…ZL
August 20th, 2011 at 8:02 am
Michelle, how come Zen Lill can get in when no one else can? You playing favorites?
Or do you just like her comments?
August 20th, 2011 at 8:04 am
Michelle;
What an incredibly selfish asshole that guy was. That is one of the reasons the world is so fucked up.
August 20th, 2011 at 8:08 am
Do You Overeat? Here’s an Easy Way to Finally Stop
Mark A. Stengler, NMD
Stengler Center for Integrative Medicine
We all eat too much at one time or another… having seconds because the meal tastes so good… eating when we are no longer hungry… or believing that we are hungry when we really are just nervous or bored.
You probably already have heard about the benefits of mindful eating, which involves putting aside all other tasks while you eat and fully concentrating on the sensation of eating.
I have good news—by approaching the way you think about eating in a new way, you can finally stop overeating.
To learn more, our editors called Jean Kristeller, PhD, professor of psychology at Indiana State University and the creator of Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), which promotes easy-to-use tools for self-awareness that help people make healthful changes to their eating habits.
Taking charge of overeating involves paying attention to your hunger and your emotions… and remaining curious about what’s behind your eating patterns.
If you are in the habit of overeating, you may be surprised to find that increasing self-awareness can help you curb that habit.
Ask yourself these questions…
1. What does full feel like?
Many people are on automatic pilot when they eat. They have forgotten how to pay attention to the cues our bodies give us about how much we eat.
What to do: To regain a grip on fullness, assign a numerical value from one to 10 to your level of fullness as you eat your next meal—
with 10 being a meal in which you have overeaten to the point of discomfort… and one being not full at all.
At a typical meal, it is most healthful to eat to a four, five or six, which means that you are satisfied and not overly full.
When you think of your hunger/fullness in terms of numbers, it is easier to consume the amount of food that leaves you feeling totally comfortable—that is your goal.
There is no exact amount of food that matches a given level. Instead, each person has his/her own levels of comfort or fullness.
When you become familiar with your own level of comfort, you can plan how full you want to be before eating.
If you are planning to exercise after lunch, it makes sense to have a lighter meal—for example, eating to a level of two or three.
If you’re dining at a great restaurant with friends, you might allow yourself to eat to a seven or eight.
2. Where did the flavor go?
We all are subject to the phenomenon known as sensory- or taste-specific satiety. It means that the flavor sensation of any food actually starts to wear off after the first few bites.
As we continue to eat, we try, unsuccessfully, to recapture the pleasurable experience of those first bites. To change that response, visualize a taste meter that goes up with the initial burst of flavor.
After those first bites, the taste meter may go down. When you recognize that the taste appeal is vanishing, it’s easier to stop eating.
3. Am I hungry or bored/stressed?
Are you eating because you’re really hungry, or is the impulse coming from boredom, loneliness or stress? Before you head to the kitchen, ask yourself these questions—did I eat enough at the last meal?
What am I doing right now that makes me feel hungry? Is it time for a meal? If you are in the middle of a stressful or boring project and you are reaching for a snack, you might not be really hungry.
You might be trying to avoid working. For some people, becoming aware of the circumstance surrounding their eating patterns helps them to make changes.
Other people are helped by replacement behaviors, such as taking a walk… lighting a scented candle… or having a cup of tea when they realize that they are headed for the kitchen, even though they aren’t hungry.
Observe your own patterns, and try to determine which alternatives to eating work best for you.
Natural Healing interviewed Mark A. Stengler, NMD, a naturopathic medical doctor and leading authority on the practice of alternative and integrated medicine.
Dr. Stengler is author of the Bottom Line Natural Healing newsletter, author of The Natural Physician’s Healing Therapies (Bottom Line Books), founder and medical director of the Stengler Center for Integrative Medicine in Encinitas, California, and adjunct associate clinical professor at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. http://www.DrStengler.com
August 20th, 2011 at 8:37 am
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No. 232 of 365
Pick a fight with a liberal on:
ELITISM.
Liberals believe in egalitarianism. They don’t often get called on it, though, because no one bothers to defend elitism—but you should.
Ask a liberal, “So you really disapprove of competition and hierarchy and achievement and want everything to be equal do you?
Well, answer me this, if you were president and you needed a handful of troops to do a delicate, dangerous job, who would you turn to—a unit of racially and sexually and disability diverse troops or the elite: Special Forces, Navy Seals, Delta Force?
When you watch football, assuming you’re willing to watch something so violent and competitive, do you want to watch the elite, the best of the best, the professionals who made it to the NFL on the basis of their talent and training, or a United Nations coordinated rainbow coalition of teams drawn from men and women from around the world to make it a truly global unisex game?
Or suppose you needed serious surgery, would you prefer the operation to be done by a surgeon with years of practice behind him, drawn from the elite of the medical profession, or by a deserving recent immigrant, selected for the task as a result of the new Obamafair™ social justice program designed to boost the self-esteem of low-skill workers while simultaneously combating society’s sexist, racist, elitist hegemony?”
==========REBUTTAL===========
Who but a racist wannabe better than somebody else because of the color of his skin would be against equality?
To disguise the real debate with this silly analogy is the kind of hypocrisy that allows the second one third of whites who look the other way when the racist one-third of their race acts on their racial psychosis.
How idiotic is it to compare treating someone different because of the color of their skin with picking a military or sports team?
From this analogy is the listener supposed to go away thinking that white men were picked to hold all the government jobs and have white only everything because they were the elite of the races?
No, but they get to feel good saying to your face yes, I think I’m better than you because of my race with this bullshit.
My advice is when one of those gutless wonders brings up the military stop him before he continues and ask him if he or one of his immediate family has served, if he says no, then tell him you don’t want to hear him tell you about his policies forcing someone else to give up their life and limbs for them.
When he brings up a sports analogy stop him before he continues. Then ask him what sport he played.
If he says none or it is the sport that he is using, tell to tell someone who has played that sport to call you because you want the person best qualified to give you the analogy. Not an egalitarian.
Smile to his face and be as facetious as he is being.
When he brings up the medical example stop him. Then ask when was the last time he operated on someone.
When he says he isn’t a doctor, then say well have one call me with that analogy. I want the best qualified not some bullshit from someone who thinks he is equal to a doctor, an egalitarian.
Two can play the hypocrisy game. Being facetious is not the exclusive right of republicians.
Robert
August 20th, 2011 at 8:40 am
Michelle, that is a horrible story. I tried to get in yesterday to say that my cousin was exposed to that sap 2 years ago and she still has to cover that part of her skin when she goes our to passes the sun’s rays coming into her home.
Why anyone would continue to cultivate a dangerous plant like that is untenable.
Carol
September 4th, 2011 at 11:12 pm
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