Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Bottle-Feeding Koi

Entertainment for tourist's throughout China and Japan  — bottle feeding koi/carp.

Bottle holding a mixture of fish food and water ready for tourist's to feed the fish - LINK

Feeding the Koi in China - LINK

Carp feeding in Wuxi, China - LINK

Qingdao Polar Ocean World in China - LINK

Dadonghai beach business in China —  Attaching a baby bottle, with a mixture of fish food and water, to a stick and feeding the koi. - LINK

Underwater World in Pattaya, Thailand - LINK

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Qingdao Polar Ocean World in China - LINK

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School children feeding koi at the Dinghai Yongdong farmhouse in China - LINK

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Hangzhou Underwater World in China - LINK

Tourist bottle-feeding carp at Wat Rong Khun Temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand - LINK

Koi feeding on Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street in China - LINK

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Autopsia Cadaverum

My newest drawing. 
"Autopsia Cadaverum" ~ 11x14 —Pencil crayons


Snake Bites II

 Thirty-year-old patient with swelling extending beyond the affected limb (to trunk), many hemorrhagic blisters, necrosis, coagulopathy and gingival bleeding 24 h after Bothrops asper bite.- LINK
Two-year-old patient bitten three times on the leg 12 h before by Bothrops asper - LINK
 Bleeding from the gums and into the floor of the mouth following a bite by a saw-scaled viper (Echis ocellatus) in Nigeria. (Copyright of Dr David A Warrell). - LINK
Penetrating eye injury following a snake attack. Photograph showing teeth marks. Those from the upper jaw cross the medial canthus onto the globe. - LINK
(Mangrove snake(Boiga dendrophila) bite - LINK
Malayan Pit Viper(Calloselasma rhodostoma) bite causing overt bleeding - LINK
Four days after the bite of a black-necked spitting cobra - LINK
Cobra breeder bitten by his pets - LINK
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Stiletto Snake bite - LINK
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Bushmaster Bite (Lachesis muta muta) - LINK
Envenomation of a Bothrops asper - LINK
Necrosis from the bite of a West African Carpet Viper - LINK
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Finger necrosis after bite from a Malayan Pit Viper - LINK
Gingival haemorrhage in a patient bitten by a saw-scaled or carpet viper(Echis ocellatus) - LINK
12-year-old patient who sought medical attention 36 h after severe B. asper bite on a hand, and treated initially by traditional healers -  LINK 


Other Bites

Black Widow spider bite - LINK
Piranha bite - LINK




Snake Bites Part I


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Monday, May 28, 2012

Heroin — from Burma to China

China has seen a rapid rise in drug addiction, particularly heroin, in its southern Yunnan province where opium from Burma’s volatile Shan state is pouring into across the border. China shares a 2000 km border with Burma, the world’s second largest source of opium, after Afghanistan. China's status in drug trafficking changed since the 1980s, when the country for the first time opened its borders to trade and tourism after 40 years of isolation. As trade with Southeast Asian countries and elsewhere increased, so did the flow of illicit drugs into, and through China. There are over 900,000 registered drug addicts in China, but the Government recognizes that the actual number of users is far higher. Some unofficial estimates range as high as 12 million drug addicts. Of the registered drug addicts, 83.7 percent are male and 73.9 percent are under the age of 35. In 2001, intravenous heroin users accounted for 70.9 percent of the confirmed 22,000 HIV and AIDS cases.
 










Heroin Users on the streets of Ruili, Yunnan Province




All photos with the exception of the last by photographer Lu Guang © / HFP / ZUMA from here

 The last photo is from here
 


Info from here and here

Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Tower of Silence

A “Tower of Silence” or Dahkma is the place where Zoroastrians laid their dead to rest in the life-giving power of the sun. Zoroastrian tradition considers a dead body—to be nasu, unclean. Specifically, a corpse demon was believed to rush into the body and contaminate everything it came into contact with, hence the Venidad(an ecclesiastical code "given against the demons") has rules for disposing of the dead in a safe manner. Zoroastrians expose their corpses to the sun as they believe it has the ability to destroy pollutants and disintegrate flesh. The exposure procedure is called ‘Khurshed nigerishn’ which in Pahlavi means ‘beholding by the sun’. To preclude the pollution of earth or fire, the bodies of the dead are placed atop a tower—a tower of silence—and exposed to the sun and to birds of prey. In ancient times bodies were fastened to the ground so that they could not be dragged toward any life form, vegetation, water body or human settlements and defile them.

The towers, which are fairly uniform in their construction, have an almost flat roof, with the perimeter being slightly higher than the center. The roof is divided into three concentric rings: The bodies of men are arranged around the outer ring, women in the second circle, and children in the innermost ring. Once the bones have been bleached by the sun and wind, which can take as long as a year, they are collected in an ossuary pit at the center of the tower, where—assisted by lime—they gradually disintegrate and the remaining material—with run-off rainwater—runs through multiple coal and sand filters before being eventually washed out to sea.

 Zoroastrians have stopped this ancient practice. Today, they bury their dead and use a layer of concrete to secure the ground from contamination. “Towers of Silence” still stand in many parts of Iran, especially in the provinces of Yazd, Kerman and Tehran. 


An aerial view of an ancient tower on the outskirts of Yazd, Iran - LINK

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Dkhma near the city of Yazd -   LINK

Tower of silence in a remote area near the city of Yazd, Iran - LINK

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Zoroastrian tower of silence near Yzad, Iran. Photo credit: Robert Harding



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