A serotonin deficiency can have you feeling pessimistic, sad, distrustful, or ready to have a panic attack.
What is serotonin? It's is a powerful brain chemical that profoundly affects your mood, so knowing whether you're deficient is a key first step to overcoming troubling mood and impulse control problems. Having one or more of the eight serotonin deficiency symptoms discussed here will be a strong clue that you may indeed have a serotonin imbalance.
And what does serotonin do? Serotonin is one of the so-called inhibitory neurotransmitters that serve to balance any excessive excitatory (stimulating) neurotransmitter (like dopamine) firing in the brain.
With adequate serotonin levels in the brain and its proper functioning, you will be positive, happy, confident, flexible, and easygoing.
What does serotonin do for the body? Julia Ross, author of The Mood Cure, has an excellent mood type self-exam that can help you determine whether you have a serotonin or a dopamine (norepinephrine) deficiency. You may want to take the exam, or another serotonin levels test, but we'll cover below some of the primary ways you can determine whether you have low serotonin symptoms.
1. Is your depression negative in nature? That is, are your thoughts frequently pessimistic, gloomy, distrustful, and cynical? With low levels of serotonin, depression feelings can be dark and gloomy.
2. Are you a woman? Women have depression more often than men and when they do, serotonin deficiency is more often a factor than in men. On the other hand, when men become depressed, they seem to more often have dopamine deficiencies where their depression is expressed as apathy or lack of interest or lack of the ability to focus.
This doesn't mean that men can't have too little serotonin and women can't have dopamine deficiency—they can—but the general tendency is the other way around. A study published in September 2007 in the journal Biological Psychiatry showed that men and women react to serotonin deficiency in different ways. The men became impulsive but not necessarily depressed. Women, on the other hand, experienced a marked drop in mood and became much more cautious, an emotional response commonly associated with depression.
The researchers conclude this may be why more women than men experience anxiety and mood disorders, while more men experience alcoholism, ADHD, and impulse control disorders. The message here is that women should especially be alert to the possibility of serotonin deficiency if they have clinical depression.
3. Do you crave sweets and starches—foods like breads and potato chips and any sugar-laden choices? These foods temporarily raise serotonin levels and make you feel better, so your body craves them. In the long run, though, they actually deplete serotonin levels and cause significant weight gain. Our blog post This is Your Brain on French Fries describes this harmful effect of processed carbs on the brain, but serotonin depletion is one of the main biochemical reasons behind the effect.
4. Do you have significant insomnia issues?
Serotonin deficiency symptoms include waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep and having to sleep in many different positions in order to feel comfortable.
5. Do you have feelings of low self-esteem? That is, you've lost your confidence and sense of self worth, and you easily become critical of yourself or feel guilty about something you're doing or not doing.
6. Do you often feel worried or apprehensive or have panic attacks? False fear is a telltale sign of a lack of serotonin and can manifest itself as phobia, worry, or even excessive shyness. There is a connection between low serotonin and anxiety.
7. Do you sometimes exhibit aggressive or violent behavior, even thoughts of suicide? Studies show that serotonin deficiency in the brain is associated with an increased susceptibility to impulsive behavior, aggression, overeating, alcohol abuse, and violent suicide.
8. Have you had any of the following disorders: Fibromyalgia (unexplained muscle pain), TMJ (pain, tension, and grinding associated with your jaw), migraine headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, or asthma? Each of these conditions has low serotonin levels implicated as an associated cause, and studies have shown that raising serotonin levels improves the condition's severity.
Do these serotonin deficiency symptoms sound like you? If so, it is likely your body has become depleted of adequate levels of this important neurotransmitter—serotonin. Restoring serotonin levels in the brain and making sure it is working properly are critical but doable steps in recovering from any of these conditions. Fortunately, the body's store of serotonin can be restored back to healthy levels through a natural health protocol involving the use of a specific amino acid supplement.
Originally published in 2011, this post is regularly updated.
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Thank you so much for this information. Addressing my seratonin deficiency has made an enormous difference in my life.
I have all of these symptoms. I especially have problems with impulsivity, feelings of agression andaggitation. I am constantly nervous and have panic attacks. I also have been diagnosed with type one bipolar disorder.
Would taking an SSRI like Prozac make the deficiency symptoms better or worse ?
I have all these symptoms and have had depression for 32 yrs. after menopause I crave sweets and feel better once I have a mouthful, but it only lasts an hour or so. I have panic attacks that are so bad that I black out. I'm always tired and fall asleep at anytime. I really sick of being fat and overweight.
I recently had test done and Serotonin came back low. After reading about it I have all of this, it explains my insomnia, depression, and self-harming tendencies that we have never been able to fix. I am very hopeful that treating this will help, I had no idea it was even linked to TMJ!
Another way to naturally build your serotonin levels without having to buy amino acid supplements is through the nutritional program designed by Dr Kathleen DesMaisons (www.radiantrecovery.com). I have had immense success by following the steps of her program and changing my diet and raising my serotonin levels. It's changed my life!
I cannot get to sleep..only thing that helps, some is lorezepam .
My daughter has all of the above. She has recently been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and panic disorder. Her psychiatrist tells us that she has low serotonin levels and she is now on SSRI drugs. Can you tel me more about the body's store of serotonin being restored back to healthy levels through a natural health protocol involving the use of a specific amino acid supplement.(as mentioned in your article) ?
Take L tryptophan with B6 1000mg to 2000mg per day. DO a 90 course your daughter will be different in a postive way. Also iodine and heavey metals play and imortant role in this and lastly your gut. Do research and if you need more info email me.
Where can I find a doctor to help me with my anxiety and asthma.
Recently I've been living in a house that we came to discover had a severe mold issue after multiple hospital visits with pneumonia. We've had testing done to see about mold and other toxins and things in our body, one of the things that showed up for me was that my brain chemicals specifically Gaba and serotonin are very low. Apparently the brain chemical norepinephrine is higher now and me trying to balance things out I suppose. I don't know what doctor to turn to my internal medicine guy doesn't know what to do and neither do I I would appreciate any ideas you might have thank you in advance.
You could add to the list of symptoms increased religiosity, spirituality or magical thinking. Those are also associated with lowered serotonin levels.
I have had insomnia,anxiety,cravings,low self esteem. I finally got will power to eat right, so losing inches,yet still not happy,very tired during day, I'm in bed ,9:30, up 5 mabey. But no motivation, no focus on anything. not much happiness yet.
I've been an absolute MESS for close to 30 years..Doctor after doctor.HORRIBLE cronic constipation,grinding my teeth,Tinitis,[One of the symptoms..] headaches,insomnia,stomach pain,dry mouth,difficulty breathing,obesity,terrible joint pain,the list goes on..I JUST started taking L-Tryptophan SEVEN HOURS ago,I feel better already..I made one bad mistake,I was so bad for so long,I took 4 capsules instead of 2,WORST stomach cramps I've ever had.. TRY THIS..May have saved my life..
The popular serotonin-as-the-happiness-molecule theory was launched and marketed by corporate medicine.
The "serotonin-happiness" mantra, just like the mechanistic simplistic "chemical imbalance" idea, are almost entirely all-too convenient inventions of the medical-pharma business, which allowed them to sell their highly profitable antidepressant drugs, such as SSRIs, while causing massive human destruction. And for agents of the natural medicine industry to sell tryptophan and 5HTP supplements.
Sierra-Sil cured my Fibromyalgia/ Muscle pain!! At health food stores!!
I have been having all of these symptoms! The past few months I've been clean, I used to do Molly A lot. (Please don't think I'm some crazy drug addict, I'm not i did it for a month and it completely ruined my life)I started to realize i wasn't myself anymore, I can't sleep anymore I constantly think people are judging me I'm so shy when i NEVER used to be like this. I'm constantly grinding my teeth. I'm ALWAYS sweating, i feel like I have weird breathing habits. I have trouble sleeping, i either don't eat for days or I eat non stop! Me and my boyfriend used to be so close, the best of friends and now all we do is fight and half the time it's just me overly stressed and overwhelmed about everything that i take it out on him. I just want to be normal again 🙁 I'm so sick of feeling so down and overthink about everything and constantly stuck in my thoughts I'm not interested in any of the hobbies that i had i don't hang out with my friends anymore i barely talk to my family anymore. I want to get help but i don't even know where to start or who to talk to, I'm only 20 years old and i just need some guidance.
more of that – take d3 supplement (6000 units daily max), practice sunbathing and outdoor activity when the sun is clearly visible, perform forced relaxations – lay down for an hour during day to rest after and before work and do nothing try to forget about everything for an hour and even try to sleep if you need to, if you can't – meditate then.
This has been a most informative site. Just reading about the possibility of increased happiness has given me a boost. Thank you so much !!
How lab test can check low serotonin?
Where is New York city make lab serotonin test?
What can increase level of serotonin?
Thank you Gregory for your comment. Please check with your doctor where can you do serotonin test.
Thank you Gregory for your comment. There are a lot of ways to increase level of serotonin for example B vitamins supplements or exercise.
hey there, i know i am kind of late but still i wanted to share. i was planning doing research related to serotonin. i've read that peppermint essential oil helps to boost memory and mood;helpful to overcome depression. doing exercise also helpful especially a heavy one. do expose yourself to sunlight. and drink some milk. hope you all will be recovering. remember,do more physical activity instead of taking lots of drugs. thankyou.
I have never smoked, nor had an ash tray in my home, if someone wanted to smoke I would tell them to do it outside. I was shocked when diagnosed as COPD. I know the place I last lived in allowed smoking I know I can go to find a lawyer too. I was very upset because the Pulmonary Dr.
Yes to all those symptoms!


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Flaga Bretanii - (bretoński: Gwenn ha Du lub Gwenn-ha-Du co oznacza « biały i czarny »; gallo: Blanc e Neirr) flaga regionu historycznego Francji, Bretanii, którą utworzył w 1923, wykorzystując historyczne motywy regionu, Morvan Marchal, architekt i działacz bretoński.

Symbolika
Jedenaście heraldycznych gronostajów symbolizuje Bretanię książęcą. Dziewięć równych pasów poziomych reprezentuje dziewięć regionów historycznych Bretanii, przy czym cztery białe symbolizują regiony Dolnej Bretanii: Cornouaille, Léon, Trégor i Vannetais, natomiast pięć czarnych odpowiada regionom Górnej Bretanii: Pays Nantais, Pays Rennais, Pays de Saint-Brieuc, Pays de Saint-Malo, Pays de Dol. Często utożsamia się regiony historyczne Bretanii z biskupstwami, ich granice nie pokrywają się jednak całkowicie z granicami regionów.

Inspiracje
W zamierzeniu jej twórcy, Morvana Marchala, flaga Bretanii miała być syntezą elementów heraldycznych od wieków używanych w Bretanii oraz symbolizować różnorodność regionów Bretanii. Prawdopodobnie Marchal inspirował się:
 bretońskimi kolorami i motywami historycznymi - biały i czarny, symbole gronostajów,
 flagą USA i flagą Grecji, które ówcześnie uważane były za nowoczesne symbole krajów demokratycznych,
 herbem miasta Rennes,
 herbem irlandzkiej rodziny Marshal.

Historia użycia Gwenn ha Du
W 1925 flaga została przedstawiona na wystawie sztuk dekoracyjnych w Paryżu. W 1927 bretońskie ruchy polityczne (w tym autonomiści) ogłosili Gwenn ha Du flagą narodową Bretanii. Następnie upowszechnia się jako flaga wykorzystywana przez liczne stowarzyszenia celtyckie. W 1937 flaga została użyta na wystawie "Sztuka i technika w życiu współczesnym" w Paryżu. Przez wiele lat władze francuskie nie tolerowały podkreślania identyfikacji z Bretanią, dopiero w połowie lat sześćdziesiątych zezwolono na użycie Gwenn ha Du bez przeszkód. Jednocześnie zachodziła coraz większa identyfikacja Bretończyków z Gwenn ha Du, czego wyrazem było m.in. zawieszenie go na szczycie wieży katedry Notre-Dame w Paryżu 3 października 1972. Obecnie flaga Bretanii jest w powszechnym użyciu w Bretanii. Patrick Maréschal, przewodniczący Rady Generalnej departamentu Loire-Atlantique umieścił ją przez siedzibą Rady w Nantes, aby podkreślić przynależność tego departamentu do Bretanii, mimo że formalnie nie należy on do regionu administracyjnego Bretania.

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Eye examinations are a vital part of preventative care that can detect vision problems while they are still in their earliest stages. By scheduling regular eye exams with a certified eye care specialist, you give yourself the best chance of avoiding eye problems and costly treatments in the future. During these exams, your eyecare specialist can also give you helpful tips on how to care for your eyes and reduce unnecessary strain.
The eye examination itself is a painless series of tests that are designed to make sure your eyes are functioning normally and free from diseases. Although the instruments and optometric technology used during these tests may be intimidating at first glance, the process itself is quick and pain-free.
Your optometrist or ophthalmologist, may begin the examination by asking you a series of questions related to your medical history and any vision issues you are currently experiencing. Once the necessary background information has been considered, tests are administered to evaluate things like eye muscle control, visual acuity, overall eye health, and more.
One of the common aspects of eye examinations is the eye muscle test. This test is performed to identify any extraocular muscle weaknesses which may result in uncontrolled eye movements. The test itself involves moving your eyes in six different directions, often following an object such as your doctor's pen, while the movements of these muscles are observed.
The visual acuity test is the aspect of eye examinations that people are usually most familiar with. The point of the test is to determine how well you can see from a distance, and involves simply reading various size letters off of an eye chart positioned 20 feet away. Your eye care specialist will have you read these letters with one eye closed or covered to determine the strength of vision in each eye.
A refraction assessment test will only be administered if you require corrective lenses. If you fall into this category, your doctor will use this test to see how your cornea and lens bend light waves as they enter your eye. These measurements will allow the doctor to find the best prescription for your corrective lenses.
Refraction assessments may be measured with a digital refractor, or your doctor may use a technique known as retinoscopy. Once the initial measurements are obtained, they are fine-tuned by a machine called a Phoroptor. Your doctor will have you look into this machine and pick the lens that gives you the clearest, sharpest vision.
In order to evaluate the strength and acuity of your peripheral vision, your doctor may include simple visual field tests into your examination. By measuring when you can observe certain objects moving into or out of your field of vision, the doctor creates a visual field map that can help diagnose any potential problems.
To get a better view of the structures of your eye, your specialist may administer a slit-lamp examination. This test uses a bright line of light to illuminate the front of your eye, allowing your doctor to exam your cornea, iris, lens, and anterior chamber for cuts, scrapes, or infections. Your doctor may use a special dye called fluorescein during this process, which temporarily turns the tears a light yellow color to allow for a sharper contrast and easier examination. Your eyes' natural tears will wash the dye away after the slit-lamp test is finished.
Glaucoma is an eye disease that can cause the pressure inside your eyes elevate. In order to test for this potentially blinding disease, your certified eye care specialist may use tonometry to measure the intraocular pressure of your eyes. There are a few different ways to perform this test: applanation tonometry measures the amount of force needed to depress your cornea; non-contact tonometry sends a small puff of air into your open eyes to test their pressure; pachymetry uses ultrasound waves to measure the thickness of your cornea.
More specialized tests may be required depending on your age, medical history, and hereditary predispositions.
This part of the exam is performed to observe your retina, optic disc, and choroid. In order to examine these structures, which are located in the back of your eye, your doctor may give you special eyedrops which force your pupils to dilate. Once your pupils widen, your doctor can look into your eyes using special lenses and lights. Although the test itself won't take any longer than 10 minutes, the effects of the eyedrops won't wear off for a few hours. This means you may have trouble focusing your eyes, and blurry vision might make it difficult for you to drive or go to work. Make sure you have a ride home from the doctor if a dilation is planned.
These tests make up the core of most eye examinations. The important thing is to simply educate yourself and know how to prepare for your eye examinations to ensure they go as smoothly, quickly, and painlessly as possible. You'll thank yourself for taking this valuable preventative measure, which can identify eye problems and get you on the path to effective treatment before conditions worsen.


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Guidelines in England for Assisted Suicide
LONDON — Assisted suicide has been illegal in England for nearly 50 years. But, ordered by the courts to clarify the law, the country's top prosecutor on Wednesday set out a list of conditions under which his office would be unlikely to prosecute people who helped friends or relatives kill themselves.
The new guidelines are likely to make it easier for the terminally ill and those with degenerative diseases to receive help in committing suicide. But the prosecutor, Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, appears to have waded into a legal and emotional thicket.
While there is little legislative appetite to make assisted suicide legal here, prosecutors have tended to interpret the existing law flexibly, quietly and case by case. The new guidelines are an attempt to codify their decision-making, but they have raised other issues, including questions about the role of doctors in assisted suicide, experts say.
In a statement, Mr. Starmer said that the law — under which "aiding, abetting, procuring or counseling" suicide is punishable by up to 14 years in prison — had not changed and that there were "no guarantees against prosecution."
But he listed 13 factors that could influence the authorities not to prosecute. These include the person aiding a suicide being motivated by compassion; the deceased clearly wanting to die; and the deceased being terminally ill, being severely physically disabled or suffering from an incurable degenerative disease.
By the same token, Mr. Starmer listed 16 factors that could influence his office to prosecute. These include the deceased being under 18, mentally handicapped or not sure about his or her wishes, or not being seriously disabled, being terminally ill or suffering from a degenerative disease. They also include the person aiding the suicide pressing someone into it or being motivated by personal gain.
Mr. Starmer said that the guidelines were an interim measure that would remain in place while his office sponsored a period of public consultation from now until Dec. 16. Final guidelines will be published in the spring, he said.
Mr. Starmer issued the interim guidelines after a legal victory by Debbie Purdy, a woman who suffers from multiple sclerosis and who sued for clarification on whether her husband might be arrested if she decided to kill herself.
After losing in a succession of lower courts, she won when the Law Lords, Britain's highest court, ruled in July that while it was up to Parliament to make the law, it was incumbent on Mr. Starmer's office to make it clear what factors it considered when enforcing it.
In a statement announcing the guidelines, Mr. Starmer said, "It is my job to ensure that the most vulnerable people are protected while at the same time giving enough information to those people, like Ms. Purdy, who want to be able to make informed decisions about what actions they may choose to take."
In her own statement on Wednesday, Ms. Purdy said: "I am relieved that common sense has won the day. I, and many others like me, want to be able to make informed decisions about the time and manner of our death, should our suffering become unbearable. We want to know whether someone we love will be prosecuted for helping us to die, even if that assistance is simply being with us at the end."
Simon Gillespie, chief executive of the Multiple Sclerosis Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, criticized the guidelines for allowing people to "explore assisted suicide without the support of medical professionals," so that "their only likely resource is Google."
He added, "Whether society is ready to accept assisted suicide is too big a question for the director of public prosecutions, or the courts, or for people with a long-term condition to decide."
Indeed, said Penney Lewis, a professor of law at the center for medical law and ethics at King's College London, the guidelines "close down any kind of movement toward physician-assisted suicide" and ensure "that it doesn't become a professional activity conducted by doctors or would-be suicide advisers," as it is in Switzerland.
Because assisted suicide is illegal here, more than 100 terminally ill or severely disabled Britons have traveled to Switzerland — where it is legal — in recent years and killed themselves under the auspices of the Dignitas clinic in Zurich. None of the people who assisted them have been prosecuted, although the authorities conducted investigations and considered bringing charges in eight of those cases, they said.
Within Britain, prosecutors have brought charges against people in connection with 16 cases of suspected assisted suicide since 2005.
The new guidelines apply to people who travel abroad to commit suicide, as well as to those who do it in England and Wales. (Scotland has a separate legal system.) Euthanasia and so-called mercy killing — taking someone's life, instead of helping him or her do it — are still considered murder or manslaughter.


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Opinion: A 'resilient' food system built on systemic vulnerabilities
06/24/20 1:52 PM By Hope Michelson
KEYWORDS Chicago Council on Global Affairs COVID covid-19 food system Hope Michelson University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Images of COVID-related shocks to the American food system have stunned many of us: long lines of cars waiting at foodbanks; farmers dumping milk and burying onions and cabbages to compost back into the soil; empty shelves at grocery stores. The ironies are blunt: too much supply in some places, but too little on the shelves in others.
The food system has weathered these shocks impressively well, but the past months have also revealed structural vulnerabilities that we must attend to. Returning to "normal" is not good enough.
For many American consumers, food production and distribution tends to function seamlessly, providing stable quantities at consistent prices; most of us pay scant attention to how it works. We have taken for granted its production, its logistics, its labor force, its 24/7 coordination across time and space.
Our seamless domestic food system is not the global norm; food systems do not function smoothly and are not expected to in many countries, especially in low income countries characterized by lots of small-scale farming. The certainty of our own country's low food prices and stable food supply is something of a marvel for what it accomplishes on a daily basis, especially in this crisis. It is efficient at its objectives; and its over-arching objectives are low cost and omni-present food. Yet our food system is also characterized by acute global and regional inequities in the production and distribution of food, the co-existence of hunger and plenty.
Since the middle of March, however, food systems have had to respond to rapid changes. American consumers have been paying more attention.
The pandemic has altered how Americans eat. Households living under stay-at-home orders have shifted their food consumption away from restaurants, bars, dining halls, and school cafeterias. Moreover, there have been significant changes in the timing of consumer demand. Households that can afford to do so now stock up: buying more but less often; for millions of others, however, sudden unemployment has meant less money to spend at the supermarket and a need to visit food pantries or enroll in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for assistance, often for the first time. Even with these supports, some are falling through the cracks--in April, more than 17 percent of mothers with children under the age of 12 reported that their families not have enough to eat because they could not afford sufficient food.
COVID has also shocked the food supply: as meat processing plants have closed down or reduced their output in response to virus outbreaks among their workers, the consequences have made headlines. Workers have become sick on farms in the United States, and small farmers around the world have struggled amid lockdowns to access the labor and markets.
What are we to learn from watching the functioning and response of the global food system in recent months?
First, the crisis reveals what in normal times we all have a tendency to overlook: the resilience of the food system is built on a labor supply working in precarious conditions – both in the United States but also globally. Many are working because otherwise they would not themselves have resources for food, or may not be able to apply for unemployment assistance. These workers have accepted and shown up for positions that are risky and difficult so they can survive. The poor in low income countries are similarly essential and unprotected: for small farmers around the world, there is no unemployment to cover agricultural input costs for the next season, and labor can be restricted to immediate family in the pandemic.
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These workers need protection; both because it is intrinsically the right thing to do and because a food system built on vulnerable labor is itself vulnerable at its core. Moments of acute vulnerability that we have witnessed in our food supply chains in recent months – processing plant closures, empty shelves, supply shortages – have been attributable to workers coming to work sick out of sheer need themselves. The food system will seize up dramatically and with broad effects if too many workers become sick or die. Many individual farmers and businesses have stepped up to protect their own workers, but more systematic and coordinated action from the local to the international is required to have a food system strong enough to weather the shocks likely to come.
Efficiency in an economic sense means that all factors of production are being employed according to their most valuable use. Yet the inadequate protection and compensation for farmers and workers in these vital operations and the supply problems to which these shortfalls are conjoined lead to serious questions about the imperatives and tradeoffs of efficiency and specialization that we should not turn away from.
The United States food system has proven enormously robust in recent months. The shelves are generally well-stocked again. Consumer prices, while increasing slightly for some goods including eggs and meat, remain relatively low. Farmers have continued to plant, to harvest, and to supply and have demonstrated creativity reaching consumers as food service buyers have dried up. The farm-level production losses we see documented in news articles and photographs are mostly due to the fact that the costs of moving food from supply chains intended for large-scale, institutional buyers to retail consumers have in some cases proved prohibitively high.
In the same news cycle, however, we may read of thousands of Americans queued up at food banks in San Antonio Texas, Burlington Vermont, New York, and many other locations nationwide, of farmers on the brink of bankruptcy, and of workers in the food industries taking genuine daily risks to keep things going. Around the world, national lockdowns have prevented farmers from bringing their crops to market, and the World Food Program has predicted that the number of people going hungry worldwide will double this year.
A second and related lesson about our food system, then, that the crisis has made clear is an enduring structural problem: the basic inequities in food access. As before the crisis, we have enough food. The problem is that people cannot always afford it and that poverty limits access, both in the United States as well as in many low and middle-income countries. Many households (more every day) struggle to access the food available in our functioning supply chains due to the persistent economic crisis and the lack of a sufficient social safety net. Poverty and hunger are intertwined; with unemployment rates soaring, we must step in to support the most vulnerable with expanded social protection programs. Not only is this the right thing to do, it will also support our farmers, our markets, and our supply chains.
The current moment makes the often invisible visible, laying bare the co-existence of excess and want as well as our fundamental reliance on the people who farm our food, pick the crops, pack the boxes, drive the trucks, stock the shelves, and work the checkout counters but in many cases still lack essential protections. Our lack of a social safety net is part of what keeps them showing up and that lack of protection also endangers the system. Our lack of a social safety net is also the reason for the cars lining the highways, waiting for food. These are the lessons we should take to heart as we return to a new normal. We have the opportunity and the responsibility to build back stronger, safer, and more equitable.
Hope Michelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Non-Resident Fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Global Food and Agriculture Program.
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Suicide Squad Official Photos With Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, The Enchantress & More
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(Photo: Empire Magazine) We've shared a lot of Suicide Squad images from the latest issue of ...
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We've shared a lot of Suicide Squad images from the latest issue of Empire magazine this week. We've already seen stunning covers featuring Harley Queen, Deadshot,The Joker, and The Enchantress. Now, more official photos have released.
The photos include shots of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jared Leto as the Joker, Cara Delevingne as the Enchantress, and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller.
"She's relentless in her villainy," Davis told Empire. "When you look at her, there's nothing that seems dangerous. Her only power is her intelligence and her complete lack of guilt." Davis read the book Confessions of a Sociopath in preparation for the role.
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In Form Northumbria Win Away
Posted 29th April 2018 17:02	 by Dan Simmonite
A man of the match performance from the prolific Ben Dibb-Fuller secured an away win at relegation scrappers Jarrow Roofing with Team Northumbria manager Colin Stromsoy hoping last year's top marksman can replicate his goal scoring prowess next season.
"Ben is adjusting to Division One football like we all are," explained Stromsoy.
"He knows he can play at this level, which is really important as that gives him confidence."
TN went a goal behind just before half time following a defensive mistake from Harry Simpson which allowed John Campbell to slot home.
However, after changing the game following his late substitution against Dunston UTS, Andrei Ardelean made the first XI against The Roofers and levelled the score just four minutes from the end.
Ardelean's equaliser was the catalyst for TN to go on and snatch the win as Dibb-Fuller fired a dead ball into the top corner to score his second free kick in successive games and bring his tally to 14 for the season.
"Dibbsy scored one of the best free kicks I have seen from a player in a TN shirt - he gave the keeper no chance," added Stromsoy.
"He had a brilliant game and without him we couldn't have got back in it."
Another win for TN means Stromsoy's side are now six games unbeaten going into the final match of the season against the already relegated Billingham Synthonia.
"If we beat Billingham Synthonia like we know we should it will put us at the top of the form table at the end of the season," added Stromsoy.
"This year has been a learning curve for me and the players.
"And we have definitely become more resilient as the season has gone on. There's been a realisation that in this division you can't make mistakes because you will get punished.
"At the same time if you're not scoring the goals then you're going to struggle because you don't get many chances."
TN's final game of the season will be played at Norton Sports Complex on Wednesday (7:30pm K.O).
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Thelma J. Womack
December 29, 1940 ~ December 8, 2019 (age 78)
Thelma Judy Garland, 78, of Toms River, NJ passed away in Community Medical Center, Toms River on December 8, 2019. Judy was born in Kenbridge, VA on December 29, 1940.
She was the fourth child of Fred and Eva (Crowder) Garland. Judy's early childhood was spent in Kenbridge, VA. She attended Kenbridge Elementary School and Lunenburg High School in Virginia. While Judy was in the eighth grade, she played point guard on the Lunenburg High School girls' varsity basketball team. Upon moving to New Jersey, Judy attended Toms River High School. While at Toms River High School she played Field Hockey and participated in archery.
Judy lived in South Toms River, NJ for a while, then she moved to Newark, NJ with her mother. In Newark, Judy worked at St. Barnabas Hospital. While working at the hospital Judy also attended a business school on Broad & Market Streets in downtown Newark. In April of 1962 Judy married George Womack, Jr.
Sometime later Judy returned to live in South Toms River, NJ. There she and her sister, Agnes G. Willis, were employed by the First National Bank of Toms River as data processors. She was also employed by O.C.E.A.N., Inc. with the maintenance department.
Judy joined Wells Chapel A.M.E. Church. She later moved her membership to St. Thomas AME church, where her nephew was the pastor. Judy is also a member of the local chapter of the NAACP.
Judy was always a very active fan of her children and grandchildren. You could always hear her in the stands cheering them on. She was affectionately known as "Judy Babe" by the children. Judy also was a caretaker of many of the neighborhood children. Her apartment was always open to them.
She was predeceased by her parents, two sisters and two brothers. She is survived by her two sisters, Eva Strickland, and Margaretta Gerrell (Gene), three children, Gregory, Danita (Hopeton), and Michael (Stacey); four grandchildren, Erick (Faith), Duey, Malik, Bilal; one great grandchild, Amyah; and a host of nephews and nieces.
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Vince Staples is getting ready to embark on an ambitious North American tour inspired by Wes Anderson's 2004 comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and now it looks like he'll have some new material to perform on the road. The Long Beach rapper has released a new single, "BagBak", which finds him riding the same strong flow we heard on last year's Prima Donna EP. Check it out below via Apple Music.
Staples will kick off The Life Aquatic tour with Brooklyn singer Kilo Kish later this month in California, and chances are good that we'll be seeing the proper follow-up to Summertime '06 at some point in 2017.


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Wits hosts volleyball Champions Cup
by Naeemah Dudan | Apr 30, 2018
Wits Volleyball hosted the Volleyball Champions Cup for the first time.
Wits volleyball hosted 37 teams as part of the Volleyball Champions Cup at the Old Mutual Sports Hall on west campus from April 26 to 30.
The Wits teams did not fare as well they expected with the ladies knocked out in the group stages while the men's were eliminated in the last 16.
Wits volleyball chairperson and member of the women's team, Stacey Nheera, who was visibly emotional about the performance of both teams, said "We are making history this year. Volleyball is considered a recreational sport but this tournament will prove that we can be competitive," Nheera said.
The Wits men's side played the Lotus Lions in their first game coming away with a 3-1 victory. Their next two games were played against Maidstone and Quantum which they lost 0-3 both times. The team can be commended though for maintaining a strong defense in all their games.
Men's team captain, Comfort Munya told Wits Vuvuzela that despite the losses he was proud of his team's effort and how well they had played.
The Wits women's side were determined to prove themselves as a team as they had only been training for three months. The ladies lost two of their three games.
Their best showing was against Quantum where they lost by one point after a strong performance and an almost near perfect defense.
Zweli Ngwenya, coach of the women's team, said that he had only been training the new team for three months but was surprised at how quickly they came together as a team. "As a development and a build-up it's a very good start for us. I didn't expect them to come together."
HIGH BALL: The Wits men's volleyball team in action at their game against the Lotus Lions. Photo: Naeemah Dudan.
Men's team player, Thabo Morudu, said that the performance of the Wits volleyball this year was good.
"The volleyball executive team, together with the sports admin worked tirelessly the past year to build a very competitive team which never existed three years ago. The next step is to host the USSA games in June/July," he said.
Wits Volleyball is part of the Johannesburg Volleyball Union league, where the current standings place the men's team first and the women's team third.
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MPAC's Campaigning for Labour Reported to Electoral Commission
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee's (MPAC) campaigning for Labour has been reported to the Electoral Commission and they have been put on legal notice to answer concerns over its possible breaches of election, election finance and data protection laws.
MPAC will also be reported to the police and Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if it does not give a satisfactory response to a seven-page legal letter sent on behalf of the new Campaign for Ballot Integrity, chaired by former Labour MP John Woodcock.
The legal action comes after questions were raised about MPAC's apparently irregular and potentially illegal activities in the General Election, including: why the group has not registered with the Electoral Commission as a non-party campaigner, despite publicly attempting to raise at least £20,000 and indicating it intends to campaign in 14 constituencies;
Whether it is authorised to incur targeted spending by the Labour Party;
Whether it has complied with electoral law on spending limits, particularly in relation to constituency spending;
Whether it has been authorised by election agents to incur expenses on behalf of any candidate in the constituencies in which it is campaigning;
Whether it is using paid canvassers, illegally;
What personal data it is processing, on behalf of whom and whether it has consent to do so;
Why its privacy policy does not accord with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("the GDPR").
MPAC's pro-Labour and constituency-focused campaign activity is on the public record. MPAC's website explicitly states it is targeting and seeking to unseat Conservative candidates in at least 14 constituencies, part of its 'Operation Muslim Vote 2019'. It admits to activities in Bolton West; Chingford & Woodford Green; Chipping Barnet; Harrow East; Hastings & Rye; Milton Keynes, North; Milton Keynes South; Pendle; Pudsey; Reading West; Southampton Itchen; Stoke-on-Trent South; Uxbridge & Ruislip South and Wycombe.
MPAC's support for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party is overt:
"The Tories have ignored and actively side-lined all Muslim organisations that have criticised them. They have zero interest in addressing Muslim concerns. We need to kick them out. And we can, but only if we are organised. This General Election is our time to get them out of power and replace them with a Corbyn-led government."
Chairman of the Campaign for Ballot Integrity, the former Labour MP, John Woodcock says:
"MPAC's activities at this election give cause for serious concern over its compliance with registration, campaign finance and data laws. We rightly have strong electoral law so that we have a fair playing field at our elections. Given public concern that the electoral process is increasingly subject to improper interference, swift action must be taken to ensure the integrity of this general election. The public will be concerned to hear about the allegations of antisemitism which have also been made against this group. The new Campaign for Ballot Integrity, which I am proud to Chair, will be taking robust and immediate action to call out, question and challenge any illegal or improper activity which has become apparent through the course of the general election campaign, including but not limited to taking legal action in the courts. Today's action against MPAC is the beginning of the fightback against electoral wrongdoing that has gone unchallenged for too long."
The Campaign for Ballot Integrity is a non-partisan initiative that opposes electoral malpractice and campaigns for the integrity of elections. Woodcock is encouraging anyone with evidence of electoral malpractice to contact the relevant authorities and inform them by emailing: submissions@ballotintegrity.net
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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cinnamon Icing - Hell Yeah It's Vegan!
Very slightly adapted from a recipe in the ever-popular Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, these cupcakes are something like a cross between a pumpkin muffin and a cinnamon bun, making them a perfect breakfast treat after a long night of watching Misfits cover bands.
Generally, the smaller and fresher the pumpkin, the better, as its flavor will be sweeter and stronger. Sugar pumpkins are best for eating, but you can use traditional pumpkins if that's what you've got (as long as they're not huge); you may need to adjust the spices and sweetener accordingly.
Slice each pumpkin in half and place on a baking pan.
Bake at 425° for 20 minutes, or until you can easily pierce the flesh with a fork and the skin starts turning black and is easily peeled back from the flesh. If your pumpkins are older, add ~½ cup water to the pan 10 minutes in to help steam them while they cook.
Peel away the skin and let cool a bit.
Transfer to a colander lined with paper towels, cheesecloth, unbleached coffee filters, or thin, clean cloth and let sit overnight. You want to drain out as much liquid as possible; this will result in a firmer and more flavorful product, closer to the texture you find in cans of store-bought pumpkin.
That's it! Use your puree in any recipe that calls for canned pumpkin. If you're not cooking with it immediately, you can freeze it. I like to process a bunch of pumpkins at once each fall so I have enough to last into the spring.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together pumpkin, sugar, oil, soy milk, and vanilla.
In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, soda, and spices.
Add dry ingredients to wet; mix until just moistened.
Pour into muffin pan and bake for 20-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, beat together powdered sugar, cinnamon, melted margarine, non-dairy milk, and vanilla until smooth.
Drizzle cupcakes with icing and refrigerate to set.
These look gorgeous as usual. I just made a round of the pumpkin cupcakes from VCTOTW, tis' the season!
Funny story: you can't really steal pumpkins off porches in NJ because the squirrels start to eat right through them within a day or so of putting them out. If they are carved, they'll eat out the whole design until it is just a ring of bite marks. They're smart!
Haha! Well, at least someone is having fun/getting sustenance from them, right?
We don't have any fresh pumpkin but have some canned and cannot wait to make these, they look really yummy! Of course, since the oven will be on, vegan pumpkin dog treats too!
Oh my goodness… I need to stop flipping through here. I'm hella hungry and stuck on an Amtrak which doesn't happen to be very vegan friendly. I was looking for some roadtrip friendly vegan noms… What's your favorite?
I was looking for a pumpkin cupcake and I found this recipe. I tried it with whole wheat flour and its Amazingly good. I love it, my daughter loves it and the rest of family too.
Just made these now, oh my gosh, they are delicious, the frosting is especially amazing! I'm sure my boyfriend will gobble these right up!I have a feeling I will be making these many more times!
I made these and they were so amazing! I used almond milk instead of soy milk though. I also made one batch with pumpkin and one with bananas and they both tasted so good!
I have made this for years now. One friend said it was the best cupcake he ever ate in his life! I always get rave reviews. Super moist, fluffy and never fails.


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From the main square in Biasca, an old crossroad for the alpine pass, walking along the Casa cavalier Pellanda, there is the start of a monumental track of particular interest. The trail arrives to the church S. Carlo, reaching the roman monument of S. Pietro and finally arriving at the amazing Santa petronilla waterfall, with the oratory. The entire trail is an antique sacred track coasted by several chapels.
The area of Biasca at the foot of the mountain boasts several interesting sights such as the church of Saints Peter and Paul, the Via Crucis, the chestnut groves, the ancient aqueduct, the chapel of Santa Petronilla and the waterfall, all of which can be reached on foot in about thirty minutes. The source of the stream is situated at the Alpe di Lago below the peak called Cima di Biasca.
Flowing down from the high peaks, the stream has gradually carved a passage between the rocks over the centuries giving rise to the Santa Petronilla waterfall, whose foamy waters burst forth from between the rocks above Biasca before disappearing again, as if by magic, behind the railway station.
The waterfall can be reached on foot in about thirty minutes, following the path which starts from the Piazza Centrale in Biasca, ancient crossroads of the alpine passes, and flanks Casa Cavalier Pellanda before climbing towards the church of Sts. Peter and Paul. Walking along the path of the Via Crucis with its 14 shrines you then reach the Romanesque bridge, an ideal spot from which to admire the waterfall. Crossing the bridge the path then leads to the chapel of Santa Petronilla where there is a fine panorama over Biasca and the entrances to the Blenio, Leventina and Riviera valleys.


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Winter School Venue and Location – 22nd February 2017
Aula H, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, via Marzolo 1- Padova, Italy
POSTER SESSION: Aula Studio (ground floor), Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, via Marzolo 1- Padova, Italy
Scientific Meeting Venue and Location – 23rd February 2017
Aula Nievo, Palazzo Del Bo, via 8 Febbraio 2, Padova, Italy
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Cantor Ben
As the Cantor at Mosaic Law Congregation in Sacramento, Cantor Ben Rosner (known as Cantor Ben) brings a dynamic approach to Jewish music and synagogue life.
Cantor Ben utilizes multiple styles of voice and many instruments including his main instrument, the classical guitar, as well as mandolin, banjo, ukulele, harmonica and recorder to introduce new melodies, as well as traditional melodies, to the synagogue service on Friday nights. Saturdays at Mosaic Law Congregation, he leads Shabbat services without instruments. In addition, he teaches and empowers people of all ages to joyfully learn and participate in all services.
Cantor Ben writes music for the synagogue. Some of his compositions are "Hashkiveinu for choir, which premiered at a community-wide Yom Hashoah commemoration, " Oseh Shalom" for guitar at voice and "Shavuot Piyyut" for choir, both of which premiered at the Shalshelet Jewish Composers Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and "Shviti".
Cantor Ben has produced many concerts and services with guests and cantors. He also has a special interest in the Jews from many cultures and produced and participated in Yemenite, Persian, Ethiopian, and Hebrew services. He is now planning a concert with the director of Indian Music School which will include songs of devotion and love in Indian and Jewish traditions. The Jewish element will include many songs set to Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs).
Cantor Ben strongly believes in including people of all ages in Jewish life. He has reintroducted Tot Shabbat for the youngest children to Mosaic Law, engages young families with monthly Friday night services, , and has facilitated the development of MLC2030, a synagogue group that engages and empowers Jews in their 20s and 30s, an age group which is typically unaffiliated. Many people have been attracted to services at Mosaic Law Congregation as a result of the Friday Night Live/Shabbat Under the Stars, services that have also attracted many musicians.
Cantor Ben holds degrees from the H.L. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, where his thesis was "The Birth and Rebirth of Guitar in the Synagogue and A Theory and Practical Application of Jewish Liturgical Music." He has been interviewed as an expert and did editorial work on an upcoming article for Acoustic Guitar Magazine on the guitar in places of worship, and he has also collaborated with the editor of Journal of Synagogue Music on an upcoming article that includes his recording and arrangement of the traditional prayer "Shiviti" for classical guitar and voice. Cantor Ben also published an article on "Selective Use of the Guitar as Accompanying Instrument" in the Journal of Synagogue Music.
Cantor Ben has given many lectures and solo concerts, which include " "The Practice of Torah Cantillation and its Jewish Law and Grammar"," Sephardic History and Music"," Persian Instruments Used in the Movie "Ballad of the weeping Spring", and "History, Halacha and the Art of Hebrew Calligraphy" as well as others.He has also been Scholar in Residence and Guest Cantor at other congregations.
Cantor Ben grew up attending service at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park, Chicago, where he was exposed to the music of Max Janowski, the synagogue's famed music director. He began playing classical guitar at age 13, earning a scholarship to the University of Miami's conservatory program just a few years later. While at UM, he started leading music Shabbat services at Hillel, an experience that inspired him to dedicate his life to Jewish learning and teaching.
Cantor Ben Rosner can be contacted at cantorben@gmail.com or 916-488-1122 ext: 112.
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Fern Mania in Downtown Auckland
Jennifer Wilkins
You'll find a pair of glasshouses in Auckland Domain's Wintergarden: one is temperate, filled with an ever-changing display of colourful, cottage flowers; the other is hot and humid, harbouring a permanent display of alien exotica. Between them is an open-air courtyard with a sunken pool, a place to sit, face raised to the sun, and listen to the meditative mutterings of gentle fountains. Inside/outside, lush/spare, temperate/tropical, the array of contrasts ignites the senses like degustation. It is clear that the ploy of juxtaposition has been used by the designers – and to very good effect. But so far they've just been teasing.
At the rear of the courtyard, in the centre of an apsidal-curved wall, underplayed and coy, is the entrance to the fourth garden in the complex, the fernery, and it is here at this touching point that two very different worlds collide, where solid, constant light meets dappled, moving light, warmth meets cool, and rigour meets looseness.
Being in the fernery is a multi-sensory experience, as the best gardens always are. The clean, earthy odour of leaf mould subtly pervades the space and sylvan whispers fill the air as arching fronds dance in the breeze, choreographing shadows.
The granular light accentuates the texture and scale of a crowd of characters: rough, hairy giants mingling with delicate micro plants. Closer inspection reveals a kaleidoscope of greens varying impossibly from red to blue. The hothouses and courtyard, remarkable as they are, seem penultimate. A native wood pigeon beats a noisy flight path overhead reminding me that I am not in James Cameron's Pandora.
A solid pergola spans nearly the entire space, providing support for vines, creepers and epiphytes. It is partly covered in netting in which wind-whisked leaves from surrounding parkland trees collect in suspended clusters. A white crushed-seashell path illuminates the way around two terraces and meets with spiralling bluestone steps descending to a small pond set amongst towering tree ferns. Looking up from down there, the frond-razored sky is so altitudinous it seems irrelevant, as if you are at the bottom of a deep gully in a great, ferny forest. This is another superb design achievement, for you are actually only 5m below the courtyard level in an enclosed space, roughly 30m by 36m, surrounded by mown parkland and urban residential streets.
The fernery, which cannot be reached without passing through the courtyard, is inextricable from its greater context, and it is a context that succeeds in shuffling our awareness of time. Naturally, there is that precious feeling of escapism, of being lost in thoughts, ignoring the minutes. In a different sense of time, that of age, the Wintergarden Complex is decidedly anachronistic, but the cues to its vintage are not easy to decipher.
Fern collections and glasshouses, especially as civic amenities, hark back to Victorian ideas of knowledge gathering and public education, as well as that era's prowess in engineering and design, and its new-found command of iron and glass as construction materials. But by comparison to the ornate style of Victorian glasshouses, such as Crystal Palace and Kew Gardens, Auckland Domain's brick-buttressed, barrel-vaulted Wintergarden buildings are relatively simple in layout, functional in design and restrained in ornamentation (though not devoid of it). They were designed in 1916 by New Zealand architect William Henry Gummer, who had worked in Britain for Sir Edwin Lutyens and in the US for Daniel Burnham, one of the founders of the Chicago School of Architecture. Gummer was influenced by Arts and Crafts, Neoclassical and other architectural styles, and his particular forte was his ability to combine such influences seamlessly, resulting in designs that were both incremental and fresh.
Inviting scenes with light and shadow hard at work!
The courtyard of Auckland Domain's Wintergarden, where the entrance to the fernery is tucked away behind an obelisk.
A juvenile Mokimoki, or fragrant fern (Microsorum scandent) ascending a silver fern.
A towering silver fern (Cyathea dealbata).
Wheki ponga (Dicksonia fibrosa), king fern (Ptisana salicina) and kiokio or crown fern (Blechnum discolor).
Rasp fern (Blechnum parrisiae) and common maidenhair fern (Adiantum aethiopicum).
This lush expanse is the lowest point in the fernery.
The undersides of king fern (Ptisana salicina).
The complex was built in two phases spanning the 1920s. It was a formative decade as New Zealand was recovering from the toll of WW1, and was gaining a new, post-colonial sense of itself. The Wintergardens were a civic gesture, conceived as an expression of New Zealand's emergent nationhood, and Gummer's design had a modernity that suited the country's new mood. The fernery was constructed in 1929. The Depression had begun and the city council couldn't afford the bill, so it was part-crowdfunded by twenty local businessmen and was built as an unemployment relief project by one hundred men in five weeks.
Given this genesis, it is surprising that the Wintergardens play so much with the concept of place, hiding behind walls, turning their backs to the parkland, and to their magnificent neighbour, the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Foreign places, too, are conjured through architecture that is essentially English, through controlled environments enabling the maintenance of exotic plants, and through a Lutyens-inspired Italianate courtyard that is decorated with classical Roman statuary representing the four seasons and an Egyptian-style obelisk topped with a statue of a domestic cat pawing at the sky.
The fernery, the deepest, darkest garden, farthest from the outside, is the most physically introspective of them all; yet, it is the only part of the complex that is truly vernacular, filled with native ferns and nestled into a quintessential and historic Auckland site – it sits in a quarry burrowed into the side of a volcanic cone, Pukekaroro, where the first Maori King, Potatau Te Wherowhero, kept a cottage in the 1840s during the earliest years of the city's development.
Ferns are intrinsic to New Zealand – there are about 200 native species and about 40% are endemic – and the fernery was dedicated to natives from the start.
It was stocked initially with seventy-four ferns donated from a prize-winning collection of native plants. Other plants came over time from those enamoured with the project, including Auckland's most learned botanists and a local Maori Association keen to improve Pakeha understanding of Maori traditions and lore. (Maori peoples used ferns for construction and for food.) After only two years of collecting, the fernery had more than eighty native species from tiny maidenhairs to giant tree ferns, representing many regions of New Zealand, from its southerly sea cliffs to its sub-tropical gullies. Native orchids and climbers, such as rata and clematis, also flourished in the dell.
The porosity of the volcanic rock in the fernery's quarry base meant that dry-season irrigation and annual replacement of a number of ferns was necessary, but due to labour shortages and a lack of funds during WW2 this was impossible to keep up and many rare specimens died from dehydration. As the fernery succumbed to war-time neglect, ferns were lost to theft, plant labels were mixed up by errant schoolboys from the sports fields next-door, vandals wrecked fences, and night-time drinkers lounged among the plants not realising how ferns really hate to be disturbed. Meanwhile, common local ferns thrived and exotic weeds sprung up from seeds dropped by birds. A survey in 1955 listed fifty-five native ferns, one in 1987 listed twenty-five, and another in 1992 listed just fourteen.
It would be 1994 before the fernery was properly restored. A sensitive restoration of the glasshouses followed in 2005 bringing the whole complex back to resplendent glory. Today the fernery is well stocked, its white shell paths are swept clean of fallen leaves, the pergola is in good repair, and there is no sign of weeds. Among the ferns are other native species including nikau palm, cabbage tree, kawakawa, nettle (hosting the endemic Red Admiral butterfly), rengarenga, lancewood, bamboo orchid, tank asteliad, and turepo, the pretty orange-flowering gloxinia. There is also a collection of bronze sculptures of native birds by New Zealand artist Greer Twiss, commissioned to mark the millennium.
The Wintergarden is an extraordinary piece of New Zealand's heritage – an architecturally-significant, botanically-enriched civic space, symbolic of the emergence of New Zealand's post-colonial identity; and yet, no part of it speaks more eloquently of national identity than its humble fernery, carved into the landscape and filled with native plants. The fernery manages simultaneously to be vernacular, other-worldly, underworldly and of another era. It is magical. As a garden should be.
For more, check out the New Zealand Gardens Trust website here.
King ferns crowding the length of pathways through the fernery.
The Wintergreen courtyard and temperate glasshouse, which neighbours the fernery.
Jennifer Wilkins cares for a rambunctious garden in urban Auckland and neglects three children and a husband. When it rains heavily and/or gets dark, she comes indoors and reads and writes about gardens and nature.
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A Minor in Art
Although it violates the concerns of post-representative abstractification, not everyone has enjoyed the privilege of an extensive education in the visual arts, so I have decided to provide something of an explanation for the work below:
This piece was created with an intentional eye to reproducing the illusion of the innocence of youth. In it, the artist [my son] played with the gap between expectation and desire, brilliantly exploring a multi-dimensional concept within the confines of two-dimensional space - in essence arguing for the primacy of emotional response to events perceived.
The emotional vista of the human psyche and soul are, obviously, a domain of irreducible complexity, not suffering well the transfer to the more linear, temporal paroxysms of symbolic language. Nonetheless, for the sake of brevity I will merely conjecture that this particular piece is intended to explore the parameters of the emotion roughly categorized as "fear," and to enliven the debate over the paradoxical and sometimes symbiotic relationship of this emotion to the conceptual boundaries of "pleasure."
Although the artist's own interpretation is, of course, irrelevant, I find it sometimes illuminating to record said interpretation for the purposes of understanding process and the socio-cultural context of the the art-making endeavor. Ergo, in his own words (paraphrased):
"It's a Halloween house. There's a dog who's biting the trick-or-treat candy [lower left], and those are ghosts [upper left]. That's Lulua [cousin] on the roof, fixing the chim-minny, and that's Roman and Hiccup [step-brother, and character in "How to Train your Dragon", upper right].
thisbrit December 2, 2011 at 1:54 PM
It's a blooming 'ouse on fire, innit??
JOSH BARKEY December 2, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Philistine.