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DNA Analysis Reveals a Genus of Plants Hiding in Plain Sight
September 4, 2018
Gene-sequence data is changing the way that botanists think about their classification schemes. A recent name-change for a common houseplant resulted from the discovery that it belonged in an overlooked genus.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-analysis-reveals-a-genus-of-plants-hiding-in-plain-sight-20180904/
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Being, from Miami, I am very familiar with this tree climbing plant. I would have them here, but I’m sure Mississippi is too cold in the winter.
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I had a Window-pane Philodendron (Monstera deliciosa) in our dining room in Scotland. It was magnificent! When we had to leave the UK, we gave it to a friend of mine. She came to pick it up, and it had grown so large, it had air-roots growing behind the wallpaper! It took 3 of us to get it to her car. I think it was probably one of the most beautiful specimens I’ve ever grown.
I can’t grown anything in the house I now live in, not enough sunlight!
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Thought I’d post this here first, but my mind’s been arollin’ around over a Geraldo Rivera-like thought.
I’m seeing more reports on the unusual level of blood clots associated with the COVID. That drew me back to a report I saw some years back on how person with lower levels of ACE2 in their blood had a higher propensity for blood clots. Tonite there was a research doctor from a local university hospital saying that they were finding blood clots in the African Americans (AA) who’d died of the COVID (10) they’s autopsied and a high number of patients and deaths are being seen with such, so many that a number of doctors are treating patients on vent with prophylactic blood thinners to prevent clots.
Another study I saw a few months back mentioned that the SARS-1 virus is inactivated by the nitric oxide (NO) the body naturally makes and people with higher levels of NO have a lesser effect from the virus. It appears that the COVID and the SARS both being coronaviruses may be alike in their susceptibility to NO, and there was a report in a journal about a person with COVID (might have read the same earlier article I did) who self-administered NO and had a remission. Some docs are strongly looking at NO as a COVID treatment.
Digging back I found a couple of reports that showed a number of AAs tend to have lower levels of NO in their bodies which would put them at a sharp disadvantage when it comes to their bodies fighting the virus. There’s also the issue of ACE inhibitor medications increasing ACE2 activity, pouring gasoline on an already volatile ACE2/COVID relationship…and how many AAs are on ACE inhibitors for high blood pressure, kidney issues and diabetes…all red flags already mentioned as contributing factors?
There’s an even more of a tabloid conspiracy theory aspect but I ain’t going there yet. I am taking my 81-grain aspirin, I’m taking my zinc, vitamins C and A and am thinking of buying a bag of poppers…I’ll let you know when I start covering the windows with tin foil.
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I take Xeralto, so maybe I’m safe?
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That’s what the doc’s are using. I won’t say 100% but it makes you safer if we’re to believe the docs.
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Czarina had mentioned that she believed you’d posted you had PVD? If so, have you tried Metanx?
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Peripheral Neuropathy, Lyrica. I don’t think anybody is yet sure of what’s wrong. They suspect MS, but won’t do the necessary lumbar puncture to know for sure. I’m just getting tired of it all.
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🙏🏼❤️Praying for you JTR, the weariness of physical pain, limitations added to the waiting for answers is just draining.
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That’s what I had when the doc prescribed the Metanx, diabetic peripheral neuropathy. It wasn’t too advanced, just sort of starting.
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Interesting. I have Von willebrand so today that is in the plus column of my life 🙂 !
What are poppers?
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Long story lovely, and a strange one, but maybe I have von Willebrand too. I stopped short on the diagnosis when they kept losing my blood tests. At any rate, if I do have it it’s very mild, no transfusions, or big problems.
But if you are across the room and breathe in my direction I will have a bruise.
You are only the third person I know who knows what it is.
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But if you are across the room and breathe in my direction I will have a bruise.
Same here.
I had major complications with 2 surgeries.
As to testing it is generally done by a bunch of yahoos, the blood test counts your factors if sent to a competent white coat in a competent lab. The bleed time is just nonsense since I have only ever had one tech who knew what she was doing.
One tech kept pulling the paper tissue away from the cut rather than snapping it up. He announced that I didn’t have it. I told him he didn’t do the test right (I didn’t waste my breath telling him that the bleed test doesn’t determine whether or not one has the disorder it is simply a clot time test) 🙄.
After the third time he did it wrong I told him I was leaving which is when he announced again that I was Von Willebrand free.
Hallelujah.
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So Minneapolis really is on fire? I saw a headline but I was busy and didn’t have time to stop and read it.
If it is, let me just say, Not this again…
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Ferguson all over again.
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That’s what I thought when I saw it 😒
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Rhea,
Yes, this again, more than like again as in the 1960s. This is just what the Democrats wanted.
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Yes it is this again. The thug community using the questionable death of a black criminal at the hands of white cops to destroy and steal.
I haven’t weighed in on the Floyd case but it didn’t appear from the video that the officer had pressure on the part of Floyd’s neck which would cause asphyxiation. Turns out that is true preliminary autopsy says he did not die of asphyxiation and Floyd had underlying health issues, heart and something else which I can’t remember right now.
If Floyd was choked or suffocated he would not have been able to be yelling until he went silent. I don’t know what happened in the missing video but I do question how Floyd lost his shirt and ended up with 3 or 4 officers restraining him. Not a pretty video but not damning either. I won’t watch it again, there is enough ugly in the world that is already in my mind I don’t need to watch a man die.
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Thanks for the info, lovely. I wasn’t sure what had happened but I was very sure that the response to loot and burn was way out of proportion.
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Heartwrenching: Black Small Business Owner Filmed Crying After Rioters Loot and Destroy His Business (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Published May 29, 2020 at 11:34am
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/heartwrenching-black-small-business-owner-filmed-crying-rioters-loot-destroy-business-video/
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Just saw that on Twitter.
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Yeah, I always understand how tearing down your neighbor’s place helps your cause… BTW, the Go Fund Me account has raised $245,000 for him; pretty sure none from the people who wrecked his place.
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I sure hope he opens up his new business in a civil area.
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It’s a community problem propagated by the Left. I haven’t watched it I hope he isn’t blaming anyone other than the thugs who burnt his building down. Hopefully he’ll regroup in a more civil community.
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From my personal experience if you’re black or Latinx and you go out and rob and burn your community you’re expressing your outrage. If you’re white and you do it you’re a flat out criminal.
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That’s about it.
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And not one Democrats has the cajones to call this what it is, they’re flipping over backwards trying to put lipstick on this pig. Yeah, folks, give up your guns and rights to self defense and embrace the new suck.
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White privilege = pay for your crime
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Morning, all y’all! Before I sign off for the night I had to come leave you a link to an excellent article I just read. Best and clearest explanation I’ve found yet on Obamagate.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/27/what_the_obamagate_scandals_mean_and_why_they_matter.html
Gonna go drop it next door too. Nighty night!
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“Rosemary Collyer, chief judge of the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court” More than likely The judge was involved because FISA warrants had already been issued by the time she would have written the ‘scathing’ memo.
Thanks, Tundra, great find.
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Mornin’ everyone. Can’t stay. Gotta finish packing. It’s a big job since we have to take food for a week. Have a good day.
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Have fun!
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Mornin’ y’all!
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/1266277717198008324
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Oh, yeah, been there tried that. Tried every way possible, even with three sets of hands and towels, sumo wresting holds, special tools to push it down the throat, everything but a hammer.
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Afternoon Z’s!
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Good day to you, WeeWeed! Totally true! When the vet prescribed some eye drops, I told him administering the med would be an impossibility without someone to assist. He said something along the line that it was easy and demonstrated on Ms. Bee. Of course, he did it masterfully as one would expect a vet to do.
So I paid for the meds and kitty would NOT allow me to do anything but dribble the liquid all over her face, never in the eye. So I told her that she’d just have to get better on her own. Miracle of miracles, she did allow me to take a tissue and wipe her eye discharge and eventually the whole thing became somewhat manageable without using the medication.
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Seems that explaining something reasonably to a cat doesn’t make it act any better.
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And valiant fair knight shall learn about medicating a cat from scratch.
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If he liveth……. ’tis but a scratch……
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As for thy pills, none shall pass.
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Swallows!! Swallows, dammit!!
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He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
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A contender for tweet of the day …
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And only a white geek, when faced with a free pass to loot, would steal Legos. Coming soon to a store near you, the Lego’s Minneapolis Black Rage Builder’s Set. Comes with lighter fluid and matches.
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Stella, got my new iPad and I am delighted with it. Only one small aggravation so far. I got the bigger one and holding it in both hands and tying as you do, without thinking about it, on a tablet makes it harder to reach the center of the keyboard letters. I have it in landscape mode, may change to portrait, see if that helps.
I don’t think I’m going to have as many WordPress problems.
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Good news! I’m sure you will be no time before you are used to it.
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Congratulations,
I am due as well, but, not yet.
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REVOLT! CNN Whipps Leftists into a Frenzy — Now Frenzied Leftists are Outside CNN Headquarters in Atlanta, Vandalizing Property! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft – Published May 29, 2020 at 7:01pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/revolt-cnn-whipped-leftists-frenzy-now-frenzied-leftists-outside-cnn-headquarters-atlanta-vandalizing-property-video/
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The monster always saves its largest fury for its master.
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This was so simple. You can’t talk, let alone scream if you are being choked or your airway is being closed. Idiots.
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