#Recumbent Female

[dazzlinglybitter]

It's Disability Pride Month!! Let's talk about POTS!

Hello beautiful people. Since it's Disability Pride Month, I wanted to talk about my disability. I have a condition called POTS. It stands for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Sydrome, which is a very long name, and you can see why we just say POTS. Essentially, it means that when I change position or stand up, my heart rate gets too high. It is normal for your heart rate to go up when you change positions. But what makes POTS different is it changes too suddenly and much higher than average. The National Institutes of Health defines that a person with POTS has "an increase in heart rate of 30 beats/min or more when moving from a recumbent to a standing position that lasts more than 30 seconds". Which on its own doesn't sound all that bad. I would be a much happier human if that's all it was. However, POTS comes with its own host of symptoms. That swing in heart rate can cause dizziness, lightheadedness, blurred vision, and sometimes fainting. Other symptoms of POTS include:

Exercise intolerance

Headaches

Nausea

Fatigue

Anxiety

Dry mouth

Excess thirst

Leg pain

Blood pooling

Brain Fog

Swollen Extremities

Sleeping problems

Bladder problems

Digestion issues

Tremors

Shortness of breath or chest tightening

Memory issues

Poor temperature regulation

Chronic dehydration

Neuropathic pains

Increased sweating to the extremities

Loss of appetite

Light sensitivity

Dry eyes

Heart palpitations

Chest pain

Cold extremities due to poor blood flow

Heat intolerance

Hypovolemia (low blood volume)

And probably more that I've missed! Doesn't sound all that fun, and trust me, it isn't! POTS is a condition under the larger umbrella of Dysautonomia. There are several different types of dysautonomic conditions, POTS is only one of them. Here are some fun facts about POTS:

POTS effects around 0.2% of the world's population

It is most common in females, 75 to 80% of all patients are female

Though it can be diagnosed at any age, it is most commonly diagnosed between the ages of 15 and 25 (I was 19 when I got diagnosed!)

There is no cure for POTS and it's a chronic illness

Some teenagers will outgrow the condition in their 20s

The average time to diagnosis is 5 years and 11 months (took me almost a year, luckily)

According to Dysautonomia International, 25% of POTS patients are so disabled they cannot work or attend school

There is no singular cause for POTS, and many patients will likely not know what caused their condition

Research on POTS is incredibly sparse, making advocacy, treatment, and diagnosis even harder

The usual recommended treatment is increased fluid intake, increasing salt intake, wearing compression stockings, raising the head of the bed to conserve blood volume, reclined exercises like rowing, recumbent bicycle, or swimming, and a healthy diet

While there is no FDA approved medication for POTS, some medications such as beta blockers can be used to aid the condition

Though the heart is directly involved, POTS is not technically a heart condition. It is technically a nervous system disorder stemming from the autonomic nervous system

There's lots to be said about POTS! I don't think I could fit it all in one post if I tried. But if you made it this far into the post, thank you for taking the time to learn about it! Awareness is key, and the more people that know about the condition, the better we are. Happy Disability Pride Month!!

#potsawareness #dysautonomia #disability pride month #chronic illness

[artifacts-archive]

Lioness Game Piece

Egyptian, ca. 2850 BCE (Early Dynastic Period, late 1st-2nd dynasty)

Ivory was used, from predynastic times forward, to create luxurious practical objects such as combs, hair pins, amulets, spoons, and knife handles (Drenkhahn 1986). Around 3000-2900 BCE, a distinctive class of ivory objects--gaming pieces in the form of animals--emerged. These small statuettes represent recumbent lions (both male and female) and hounds. The broad collar and absence of a mane indicate that the subject of the piece illustrated here is a female lion; the rectangular pectoral on the figure's breast is the result of modern recarving, and the high polish was not original to the figure. Such a figurine was probably used in the game of "Mehen" ("coiled one"), played on a round board in the form of a coiled serpent with a trapeziodal projection. The game was popular until the end of the Old Kingdom.

#artifact #Egypt #Early Dynastic Period #game piece

[pwlanier]

A silver brooch with enamelled depiction of a recumbent female figure on a canapé (original title: “Brosche”),

model number 3984, Georg Stöger, for the Wiener Werkstätte, as of 1922

Dorotheum

[mote-historie]

Maja Maldita by Federico Beltrán Masses, 1918, oil on canvas, 161.5 x 202 cm.

For contemporary critics and collectors, La Maja Maldita was perhaps the most famous of Beltran Masses' œuvre. The fact that it is also a portrait of an extraordinary figure from the world of dance has been subsumed by the painting's drama and title.

The sitter, Carmen Tortóla Valencia (1882-1955), was a dancer who invented her own unique style based on a study of Arab, Indian and African dance, combining the African-Carribbean music with that of her Spanish heritage. Like her near contemporary Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) she eschewed the strictures of conventional technique, instead embracing a freedom of movement that set both apart from the traditions of classical dance. Her innovative approach and extravagant performances brought her extraordinary fame and sold out performances across Europe and South and Central America, while she also took the lead roles in two Spanish silent films – Pasionaria and Pacto de lágrimas (both in 1917).

Her unrestrained private life cast her in some eyes as the Accursed Maja of the title of this painting – the liberated seductress who had abandoned the corset as an an unwieldy restraint on female movement, whose male lovers were chosen for their intellect but with little regard to permanence, while her long-term companion was a woman, Ángeles Magret Vilá. She rejected the Catholic faith of her ancestors and instead embraced Buddhism, vegetarianism and morphine, but managed nonetheless to make a considerable fortune which enabled her to retire from the stage in 1930.

Her dancing and striking looks inspired poems by the Basque poet Pio Baroja,[i] the dramatist and later anarchist Ramón del Valle Inclan[ii] and the Nicaraguan born writer Ruben Dario. [iii] This portrait of her as the Maja Maldita is perhaps the truest to her character of all the many images of her in dance poses, sometimes wearing even more revealing costumes. Unlike these photographs, however, Beltran's painting portrays her recumbent, a mysterious seductress; there is no hint of movement or of the source of her fame. She stares into the distance, her vermillion lips emphasising her pale features, her unclothed right arm just touching the guitar that is a feature of so many of Beltran's paintings. Through the darkened window, framed by long translucent fabric, we glimpse a mysterious building placed against a deep blue starlit sky. (x)

#1918 #painting #portrait #federico beltrán masses #maja maldita #Carmen Tortóla Valencia #the Accursed Maja #spanish heritage #dancer

[oldsardens]

Aleen Elizabeth Aked - Recumbent Female Nude Partially Draped

#Aleen Elizabeth Aked

[pa1998]

Baclofen Toxicity in Dogs

Introduction: Baclofen is a centrally-acting skeletal muscle relaxant used to control spasticity and pain in humans. In an overdose situation, the onset of clinical signs, such as vocalization, vomiting, ataxia, disorientation, salivation, coma, weakness, recumbency, seizures is usually noticed. Case report: Case 1- A two-month-old female Spitz pup weighing 5 kg was brought to the Small Animal Medicine unit of Veterinary Clinical. Complex (VCC), Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Veterinary Education and Research (RIVER), Puducherry, India, with a history of vomiting, vocalization, and restlessness for the past hour. After recording the history, it was revealed that the dog had accidentally consumed four Baclofen tablets (10 mg each). The animal was immediately treated with fluids, activated charcoal, and Kaolin mixed with water (orally). Gradual reduction in clinical signs was noticed by the lower of 12 hours, and a dramatic improvement was noticed the day after, and the pup recovered completely. Case 2- A six-month-old male Labrador dog weighing 20 kg was brought to the Small Animal Medicine unit of VCC, RIVER, Puducherry, India, with a history of vocalization, restlessness, and salivation for the past two hours. After considering the history, it was revealed that the dog had accidentally ingested eight Baclofen tablets of 10 mg. The animal was immediately treated with fluids (Injection) Atropine sulfate and activated charcoal mixed with water (orally). The gradual reduction of clinical signs was noticed in less than 12 hours, dramatic improvement was noticed the next day, and the dog recovered completely. Conclusion: Timely diagnosis and proper management of the toxicity with drugs can eliminate the clinical signs, and fluid therapy can help the animal’s recovery. 

Small Animal Advances Journal, Rovedar Publication

[artmialma]

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) American

“Wake Up, America!”      1941

In a ravaged landscape surrounded by flames stands an Amazon-like figure, which represents the Spirit of War. Armed with a rifle, she is the center of the composition. She is shown ready for battle, and encourages a lethargic citizen, America itself, to join her on the battlefield. In a 1994 letter to a one time owner of the painting, Kent's widow, Sally Kent Gorton, summarized the composition best when she wrote:

“That the recumbent male is indifferent to what is going on in the world, specifically the ever growing menace of Hitlerism: the bombing of London; the invasion of Czechoslovakia; etc. etc. etc. Norway. The USSR. To these invasions the armed female is responding with the cry: WAKE UP AMERICA! And, as you know, the United States entered the war in 1941. Roosevelt having finally capitulated on his determination that we should not participate.”

[rabbitcruiser]

Rua Augusta Arch, Lisbon (No. 2)

Because of the top cornice's great height (over 100 feet/30 m), the figures above it had to be made colossal. The female allegory of Glory, which is dressed in peplos and measures 23 feet (7.0 m), stands on a three-step throne and holds two crowns. Valor is personified by an amazon, partially covered with chlamys and wearing a high-crested helmet with dragon patterns, which were the symbols of the House of Braganza. her left hand holds the parazonium, with a trophy of flags behind. The Genius encompasses a statue of Jupiter behind his left arm. At his left side are the attributes of writing and arts.

The four statues over the columns, made by Victor Bastos, represent Nuno Alvares Pereira and Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal on the right, and Vasco da Gama and Viriatus on the left. The two recumbent figures represent the rivers Tagus and Douro.

It appeared as the arch through which the Lilliputians wheeled Lemuel Gulliver in the 1996 miniseries Gulliver's Travels.

Source: Wikipedia

#Victor Bastos #Rua Augusta Arch #Arco da Rua August #Praça do Comércio #Célestin Anatole Calmels #architecture #public art #sculpture #vacation #travel #summer 2021 #original photography #tourist attraction #landmark #Lisboa #Lisbon #Portugal #Southern Europe #detail #street scene #Rua Augusta #Statue of King José I by Machado de Castro

[homosexualprude]

Another ContraPoints Critique...

Hoo, boy... Where do I start? Video:  Men | ContraPoints

“Basically, Farrell says that second-wave feminists rightly fought against the traditional gender role that confined women to domestic servitude. But, he argues that the feminist idea that men have all the power in society is actually an illusion, because the traditional gender role for men is just as oppressive. He introduces the idea of male disposability, basically the idea that society values female lives more than male lives, which are seen as expendable in the service of protecting and providing for women and children. And he points to statistics showing that men make up the majority of military casualties, workplace fatalities, murder victims, suicides, and so on.”

Power isn’t an inherently positive thing. Power, in fact, is why men are struggling. They’re doing it to themselves. Men make up the majority of the U.S. military. Men are more likely to have physically-daunting work. More men own weapons. More men use highly-fatal methods of attempting suicide. They have access to violent weaponry and use it because they’re taught that violence is a rite of passage. 

“So we're supposed to conclude that even though at first it looks like men have more power than women, in fact the “queens” have a certain kind of privilege in being protected and provided for by the expendable male worker bees. And I guess that kind of makes sense, I feel like I can at least empathize with the point of view.” 

But it doesn’t. Men as a group took up the task themselves. They never checked in with each other and asked themselves if it was a bad idea. They have more influence than women on age-old systems. They live by honor codes that were indeed to give their own lives structure and protect material resources over human life.

“But some initial objections come to mind. Like, haven't men been almost all of the kings, presidents, and CEOs for millennia? Didn't men make up all these rules in the first place? I don't know boys. Still seems kinda patriarchal to me. But maybe you'll say that it's only at the top of society that men have more power than women. Maybe the average man is also oppressed by this system that feminists call patriarchy. If that's what you're saying, I think I basically agree with that.” 

This is like saying rich people are oppressed by capitalism or that white people are oppressed by the concept of racial hierarchy. These systems of oppression serve to protect ideas and materials over humanity, and thus lionize the ruling class because they represent the protected ideas and materials. Shit goes down when the ruling class can’t live up to their own expectations. Disadvantage isn’t the same as oppression.

“What I was saying is, there are ways that people treat me better now that I'm presenting as a woman. You know people smile at me more. I feel more taken care of. Men do things for me! Now a lot of women don't like men doing things for them. You know holding doors, helping with luggage, because they feel that it's infantilizing or condescending. But not me. I love it. Both because I love attention, and because I am a recumbent queen who's too much of a delicate flower to lift a finger. I do this thing on airplanes where when it's time for me to put my carry-on luggage in the overhead bin, I pretend that my bag is too heavy for me to lift, and then some man will usually get up and do it for me, even though I'm taller than most men. It makes me happy!” 

Attention from men isn’t materially beneficial or even inherently emotionally beneficial to women. You’ve lived as a man for decades and equated this new experience to the ‘typical female experience,’ despite women having discussed their experiences with men at length for centuries. You purposely seek attention from men in public and think it’s because you’re viewed as a woman that they help you. Chivalry makes men feel like more honorable people in their heads. I’m not against politeness, but you deliberately stepped into a submissive role and pandered to the male ego.

“But there's different kinds of catcalling, and I have different feelings about them. If I'm walking with another woman, and a man says: "Ladies, you look beautiful tonight." I don't know, I like that. I think that's nice. It makes me feel seen, it makes me feel admired. It boosts my confidence. Whereas, if I'm walking alone and a drunk starts following me down the street singing: "Have you seen Polythene Pam? She's so good looking but she looks like a man!" That, I am less enthusiastic about. I mean not that that's ever happened. I'm completely fucking unclockable heyhowareyou...” 

Do you know what catcalling IS? Here’s a dictionary definition: “the act of shouting harassing and often sexually suggestive, threatening, or derisive comments at someone publicly” (Catcalling Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster) All I’m gonna say about that. 

I think a lot of feminists have failed to imagine the ways that being treated as invisible or dangerous can also kind of suck. In my video on “Incels” I talked about male invisibility on dating apps, and how getting no attention at all can actually be emotionally worse than getting a lot of shitty attention.

 First, your whiteness is showing. Plenty of feminists of color talk about being treated as both invisible and dangerous. Black women, even in white feminist spaces, feel like this. This is why the word “womanism” exists. You know, because racism and patriarchy help each other out to marginalize any woman who isn’t white. Second, “emotionally worse” when the shitty attention is often sexual harassment? 

“And when it comes to being treated as dangerous; when I was living as a man, sometimes if I was walking at night, a woman on the same block as me would change sides of the street. And I totally get why. Men do scary shit sometimes, and it's better to be safe. But it still stung a little bit to be treated as dangerous by default. I think it can actually be harmful, which becomes clearer if we add race into the equation. There's ways that white women's fear can actually be dangerous, in particular to Black men.”

You’re centering your own feelings while trying to co-opt anti-racist ideas. The integration is so shoddy because, like I’ve said, Black women are also unfairly viewed as dangerous. White women’s fear harms Black women in several social contexts. And Black women are viewed as being able to “handle” or “cause” Black men’s aggression. 

I guess my super fucking Libra opinion is that there's upsides and downsides to male and female experience. I don't actually think there's a single definite answer to the vague and useless question "which gender has it worse?" I consider myself a feminist because I support reproductive rights, and I oppose workplace misogyny, and I generally agree with a lot of the activism that happens under the heading of feminism. 

I don’t know how vague this question is, actually, considering that all of your above talking points were an amalgamation of both material and emotional experiences people have when they navigate society. If we’re talking about material conditions, women. If we’re talking about emotional well-being, men. But it’s more about the suffering’s root cause. We’re here to talk about oppression. Patriarchy was created to serve men and is doing a shitty job at it because it produces abusers. However, this is different from the oppression women face under patriarchy. It was built to shut women out. All of the possible privileges rely on women being validated by men. Men get to validate themselves. 

I don’t know what this was trying to be. I’m not sure if Natalie intended to provide perspective, sympathize with men, or pontificate endlessly. I’m not sure how much research was done on the video, but I believe so many claims lack the nuance to address the actual topic at hand. 

#woke racism? #radfems please touch #radfems welcome

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Monday 16 September 1833

7 ¾

11 ¾

fine morning F63° at 9 at which hour breakfast - no! had my valet de place up for 20 minutes and then breakfast in 25 minutes - out at 10 20 - to the cathedral founded by Henry the Lion with the collar and cross-between the horns that he took when he shot the beautiful deer that Charles the great (Charlemagne?) adorned with such costly decorations on account of its great beauty and then turned loose ordering no one to shoot it – two finely carved dormitories (the little side chapels turned into private mausolea) by Quellinus who did the altar at St. Mary  - handsome carving about the chaire and a grille of very curious iron-work looking exactly like tar-band tied up in boughs, and given in 155, by some iron-company – In the chancel beautiful brass recumbent whole length figure of Henry Bockholt evêque de Lübeck, ob. 1530 – Napoleon wished to take this to Paris but not solid and would not bear moving – bullet-hole in it that the French made to try its solidity – the precious stone in each eye, and the large one in the left hand gone long since – the clock I noticed the other day, but did not observe that the female figures strikes the quarters, and Death with a club in his right hand (2 time-glasses in the left) the hours – the globe at the top shews the phases and ages of the moon – In the chapel de Greverode so called because given by him, is the famous picture finished in 1471 of the passion and death of J. Xst, by Jean Hemling, a disciple of Albert Durer – the tears on the virgins face very good – the worst part of the picture is the body of notre saviour when taken from the X – is too flexible – too little like death – then to St. Marys’ church (one of the handsomest I ever saw) to see the famous Danse macare or Danse des morts par Holbein, in the sacristy – singular picture – very good – each Death in a different attitude and one between each pair of people – In one of the side chapels, a descent from the cross and on the inside of the door that shuts before it? a St. Olaff [Olaf] (the 1st Xtian king of the north) between 2 other figures both by Perugino – (not by Holbein or Lucas de Leide as Reichard says in the book I bought at Hamburg) – very good – the altar very fine by Quellinus of Antwerp and given by Friedhagen the burgomaster in 1709 whose bust in white marble is on the right of the altar a little back – the last supper in white marble (taken from Leonard da Vinci) is beautifully sculptured – and the 4 large – as life figures Religion Hope etc, are good – on the right, too, of the altar stands a tall Gothic crocketed fonte (brass) of 1472, very beautiful – weighing 6000 lbs. – the French wished to have taken it to Paris – In the chapel behind the altar and and opposite the astronomical clock is a very good picture (the entrance of our saviour into Jerusalem) in the Rafael style given lately by Overbeck an artist of Lubeck and now living in Rome – the sycamore tree into which -------- climbed is represented as a palm – the head and neck of the ass admirable; but the feet (white!) are those of a horse – the clock struck at 12 and 7 apostles instead of 12 came out at one door and went in at another having turned and bowed ridiculously to the virgin and child in passing – the other 5 apostles lost or out of order -  then went up to the great bell (cloche) of St. Marys’ (265 steps) for the view – amply repaid – nothing gives one such a good idea of a place – It is the Wackenitz [Wakenitz] whence runs to Ratzeburg and the Steckenitz, a canal, which falls into the Elbe at Lanenburg [Laufenburg] and into the Trave 2 lieues from the Baltic a little south of Lübeck – good town – 3?main streets and the streets striking down from them and thro’ them to the river – the old brick porte de Holstein very handsome reminds me much of the porte noire à Trêves – the front towards the town in quite in that style and has 2 towers, too, but with pointed flêches springing from them – the porte de Travemünd[e] is an old brick square tower with 5 or 6 tiers of Gothic windows such as in the porte de Holstein – Looking down on the roof of the church saw it partly green – it is Swedish copper at 22 schellings a lb. – the plates about seem about 2ft. English by 1ft. and cost 3 ½ marks each, but are less heavy and costly and last better than lead – the green is verdigrease – caused by the moisture of the air – the guide (Ritter) assured me the cathedral was

vid. p. 214 line 18.

also roofed with copper – no wood outside – my eyes deceived me much (vid. Saturday 214 line 18) – then to Friedhagens’ house near St. Marys’ church (vid. last p. line 21) – a wine merchant now lives there – went thro’ the great entrance room to the room so beautifully carved in oak – Napoleon ordered an artist to take a model of it – or too difficult to move it – impossible – moving would destroy it – 10 good pictures round the top – for these and all the ciselure en bois an Englishman said my valet de place offered £10,000! a small poor box fixed to the door, for strangers to put something into – Off from there at 12 55 for Israeldorf [Israelsdorf] village and forest of, the Bois de Boulogne of the good people of Lübeck – pass thro’ the porte de Travemünde turn left to the rampart, now grassy pleasure ground where are buried the 20,000 French and Prussians that fell before the town in 1806 – Blucher commanded 40,000 Prussians so broken down by their retreat from Jena could hardly stand – the cavalry not able to make a charge – the people of Lubeck hate Blucher for entering their free town, and thus causing all the carnage and ruin – no rich person here ever since – the battle lasted 3 or 4 days – Blicher was sitting at table in the very house in the Breitenstrasse where I bought the Danse of death this morning when the French entered by the Travemünde gate – just went down to the ferry across the Trave, and then returned to the Travemund [Travemünde] road a fine avenue of good limes all the way and gardens or forest almost all the way to Israeldorf [Israelsdorf]a little distance to the left of the T- road – the Russian consul has a country house and garden there, for which gave 10,000 marks – from this house to porte de T- in Lübeck walked sharply in 42 minutes .:. think the distance about 2 ½ English miles – a farm house near the forest where people get their coffee warmed and then take it in the wood – seats and tables there – a round peristyle white painted wood temple just looking over the river and in another a straw-thatched shed for shelter – long allies (no carriages roads) and nice walks in the wood and all the people come out here in fine weather – my guide had the cholera last June or July – twice – 1st time 3 days – 3nd 6 – was seized at midnight with violent cramps in his legs (calves) and arms and in ½ hour could not stand straight – oppression at the chest – could scarce breathe – perpetual thirst – just about the tops of his nails blue but nowhere else – got out of bed – took hot thé de Tilleul directly – and, after the 3rd drink, a little rhum and sugar in it – at last this [?] him into a perspiration and did him good – the smell of the perspiration intolerable – like the worst putridity – in the morning put on dry linen, and got out of bed – thinks this saved him, this and not being afraid – but for 4 months after the pains returned every night at midnight when he was in bed – afraid to lie down – not so bad when up – but the pains were gradually less and less – when once recovered, felt lighter and better than he was before – did not eat anything for some time – and when he did begin to eat felt unwell after it at first – [?] with something soft (flannel) is the best thing – does not believe it infectious – it is the air – yet it was a stranger that was the 1st victim here – died in an hour – he seems to believe there are some cases of it in the town now – 1600 died of it here – all buried in the cemetery we passed a little way out of the town – cholera patients to be buried in 24 hours but to have a hand cut off 1st to see if dead – some of the dead blue, some not – knows nothing of the marble coldness of the tongue – but the corpse instead of being stiff as in common cases is quite mou (soft) – the eyes sunk (lost) in the head in the course of an hour – the smell of the clothes

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during the perspiration quite horrible – ditto the smell of the excrements but the moment after death the perspiration being stopt, the perspiration ceases – fright is generally fatal – went to a very good bookseller shop (near the top of the Breitenstrasse) – a poste map (large) of Europe published at Berlin, 23 marks, mounted on calico had not Reichard’s Itineraries complete - had nothing knew of nothing on Denmark or Norway - bought Willmans’ livre de poste de l’Europe - went about the steam packet chez M.D.G. Witte - very civil - gave me the 2 quittances for myself and Miss F- and to pay him and  send the passports this evening or in the morning - a Russian from Reval not far from St Petersburg - said I might go quite well by Stockholm and Lapland to St Petersburg, on traineau, in 9br. 10br. January or February - to go to St P- myself and maid and valet de Place for £20 - said I should like to go merely to Lapland - might do it in 6 weeks - should take a person who knew well the language and country the Laplanders sauvages but bons sauvages - said I had better arrange my plans at Stockholm where everybody would know what was best to be done - the Leipzig Paques fair would be in April I might come over for it - could not go to Norway till June – he could send anything for me to England - or do anything for me here – home at 6 – dinner at 6 ¼ in 35 minutes then till 10 10 wrote the whole of today – very fine day – F66° now at 1 10 pm on my writing desk close to the candle – but it was warm this afternoon

Before Napoleon came, Lubeck divided into 2 governments noble and bourgeois. the cathedral belonged to the former St. Marys’ was cathedral to the latter – there was sanctuary in the noble part for offenders in the bourgeois part of the town – Napoleon put an end to this – would not have 2 governments

[eggs-under-easy]

Some more daily theme for Art Deco. Various attempts to get a Great Gatsby style. I got some nice wall art instead.

Prompt: Goddess, Painted Lady. Beveled Glass Sconces light a Symmetrical Extravagant Hallway. Aztec-Futurist patterns in Ivory, Jade, and Gold. Center sits a Stylized Dianic female in a recumbent poses. Dancers are depicted in moments of contemplation. Art Deco Jazz

Prompt: Center sits a Stylized Dianic female in a recumbent poses. Dancers are depicted in moments of contemplation. Aztec-Futurist patterns in Ivory, Jade, and Gold. Art Deco, Extravagance, Derek McLane

Prompt: Art Deco jazz club, realistic, sultry woman with martini standing, Black and polished gold wall patterns

#midjourney #ai art #art deco #wall art

[rainyfestivalsweets]

Motivating myself to workout

By watching Mission Impossible 2.

The female lead is so amazingly sexy. Is it Zoe Saldana? I have to look it up. Nope! Thandiwe Newton.

How did I not see this before?

Beauty, grace, and collarbones- whoa.

4.7 miles elliptical

10 miles on the recumbent bike

2 circuits kettlebells

Had a meal prepped dinner 🍽 of roast and veggies.

Kicking back with a strawberry lime margarita.

Edit: adding a protein blonde brownie and some "light" whipped cream. I cut it into 4 pieces to make it last longer but it didn't last long tbh.

I am within my calories tho, per my calculations so no problem there. I read that having dessert regularly can help people reach their goals.

I have been treating myself (purchases) to lots of veggies and lots of single serving snacks. My goal is to have a snack if I want/need one. But the key is one pack! If I need more I have the option to add volume via jelly or sf gelatin, veggies, and protein. So instead of having 3 servings of chips, I have 1 serv chips, 1 serv celery, and a meat stick. Trying to work on that anyway.

#indoor exercise #healthy lifestyle #exercise motivation #getting healthy #losing weight #fitblr #healthy habits #operation lose this gut #weight loss #operationlosethisgut #weight loss journey

[sorcadh]

Absent bodies

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled,” 1991

"much of Gonzales-Torres' art questions what we mean when we describe things as 'private' or as 'public'. Are we referring to private lives, for example, or private thoughts? To private property or private spaces? Are we responding to how these meanings conflict, intersect, and draw significance from their apparent opposite, what is 'public' - public personas, public opinions, public art, public space?"

The bed was displayed on billboards in 24 different locations across New York.

"Absence shadows Gonzales-Torres' work in every way. Rumpled bedsheets and dented pillows are presented both as evidence of and as a sign for two absent human bodies. Ghostly contours are all that is left of beings who are no longer there. Pasted to and inseparable from both gallery wall and billboard surface, the image hugs its supports rather than taking up space".

"Surrounded by there predominantly vertical structures of New York City, Gonzalez-Torres' bed is resolutely recumbent. An empty bed invites us all to 'climb in', no matter who we are - gay, straight, male or female, black or white. Thus, the artist establishes a common ground. At the same time, one of the artists merits of art like this is that it reminds us that no one work of art, no single image, means the same thing to everyone. Unmade beds with tousled sheets may provoke sexual fantasies for some, and evoke painful memories for others. Nearly all of us were born in beds, and many of us know people who have died in them. Between these moments of life and death, beds are a place where we can rest. And in this city with its huge homeless population, the image of a bed reminds us of something lost".

#Felix gonzales-Torres #absent bodies #bed

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In Baltimore City, MD: 1 y/o, 13lb skeletal dog found in a parking lot, unable to move and cold to the touch - BARCS, Baltimore MD

8-Track- 1 year, unaltered female, 13lbs

Update 8/14: 8-Track is doing so much better than we ever thought possible. She is still on a strict refeeding schedule and is ready to be discharged from the hospital, but cannot return to the shelter, so needs rescue placement still!

8-Track and her sister were found in the parking lot of a gym, left behind and forgotten about. A Good Samaritan called Animal Control, and when officers arrived on location, they discovered the dogs (thought to be puppies due to their small sizes). Both 8-Track and her sister were laterally recumbent, unable to sit, walk, or stand, and were cold to the touch.

Scarily, the two resembled skeletons.

Upon examination at the shelter, our vets noted that 8-Track had a body condition score of only a 1/9. She was recumbent, dehydrated, and hypothermic, so was immediately transferred to a partnering hospital to start IV fluids, a strict refeeding plan, and close monitoring.

Unfortunately, 8-Track's sister declined quickly and did not make it.

8-Track is not out of the woods yet, but she is showing progress, and she is proving that she is a fighter. She is not yet ready to leave the hospital, and is definitely not in shape to return to the shelter. Due to this, we are seeking immediate rescue placement for her, so that she can get the continued TLC she needs.

Please let us know if your organization can help!

Thank you,

The BARCS Rescue Team

Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter (BARCS)

​New Address! 2490 Giles Rd, Baltimore, MD 21225

[email protected]| [phone]

Rescue pick-up hours:

Monday-Friday: 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m

Adoption hours:

Monday-Friday: 2 p.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter, Inc. (BARCS) | 2490 Giles Rd, Baltimore, MD 21225

#dog rescue maryland #emaciated dog rescue #Dogs medical

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VENUS recumbent female wax statue, 1782

#wax models #anatomy #science and arts