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In 2009 I got extremely sick.  Like. Didn’t leave my dorm room except for food every other day for close to a month.  I had a triple-digit fever the whole time and peaked at 104 for three days.  Thereafter, What had been moderate issues with ADHD and Memory Loss turned into Depression, Anxiety, severe ADHD and memory loss to the degree where I didn’t recognize my own mother at the airport when I went home.  After that, traumas that I thought I’d dealt with came roaring back.

At 19 I was dealing with severe weight loss, disordered eating, nightly panic attacks, wandering the city in dissociative states, dangerously poor impulse control, hallucinations, and inexplicable rage.  I couldn’t drive, hold a credit card, barely left my room, failed out of college, and seriously compromised my health through negligence.  I wasn’t precisely suicidal but I was so full of a sense of doom I was certain I wasn’t going to live to see 2010

It’s been 10 years.

I’ve got distractability, mood swings, poor short-term memory and Time Isn’t real.  Those are annoying as SHIT and I sometimes end up in tears over how much time my brain issues eat but wow.  These problems are NOTHING compared to what I used to deal with.

I’ve even got a Husband, a house, can take road trips to see friends, have something nearly resembling a staedy job, and a Master’s degree. Also a dog that loves me and a cat that regards me as a good bed.

So yeah, it’s annoying, it’s hard work, and it feels like it’s never done but YES, it does get better and the problems eventually go from massive boulders to annoying shoe gravel.

Sara Shakeel Turns Stretch Marks Into Glittery Works Of Art

“accidental” collage artist Sara Shakeel reveres stretch marks by filling them with glitter. They are, after all, symbols of a women’s experience and growth—so why shy them? 

fucking look at this shit though

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Firstly, it sits at 11,200 feet on a mountain pass. I have camped up here before and the thunderstorms shake your soul. I also suspect there is a decent amount of the year that you…ah…can’t leave. Because snow.

Tiny lake!

Look at this disaster of windows and other nonsense! I love it! Bones! Questionable signage! Mismatched chairs!

Other house? From what I can tell I think there’s three cabins on this property, plus some barn/shed things.

MAP CEILING. MAP CEILING. MAP CEILING. Also note the blown up front page of a newspaper that is titled “Ode to the Egg.” I think it is taped on the front of an…oven? Dishwasher? Whatever it is I’m pretty sure it is not an appliance meant to be ON TOP of the counter.

Look at those cute little shutters! And home-made tables!

…Kiln? Excessive pizza oven?

Suspect mining ruins, which probably means random and likely unmapped minehshafts.

More suspect mining ruins. Given the area, my guess is gold mine.

Random towers? Pretty sure these are gonna wake up and wage war if anything happens to the lake they’re watching over.

Also worthy of note is the fact that it gets power from a power plant designed by Nikola Tesla. And it is near one of only two Colorado mining towns to have NEVER burned down, even once, despite being made of 100% wood and drunk people. I’m sure there was no witchcraft involved in protecting the town at all. They just named their most scenic spot the Devil’s Gate for funsies.

In the early 1990s, Brazilian photo-journalist Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was stationed in Rwanda to cover the horrific accounts of Rwanda genocide. The on-ground experience left him traumatised. In 1994, he was returning to his home in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a heavy heart, hoping to find solace in the lap of a lush green forest, where he had grown up.

But, instead, he found dusty, barren land for miles and miles, in place of the forest. In only a few years, his beautiful hometown underwent rampant deforestation, leaving it fallow and devoid of all the wildlife. For him, everything was destroyed. “The land was as sick as I was. Only about 0.5% of the land was covered in trees,’ he shared in an interview with The Guardian. Salgado was shattered.

Saldago’s Wife Wanted to Recreate The Forest

It was at this time that Salgado’s wife Lélia made a near-impossible proposal. She expressed her wish to replant the entire forest. Salgado supported her idea, and together the couple set out on a heroic mission. Brazil Photographer Forest

Salgado bought an abandoned cattle ranch from his parents and started building a network of enthusiastic volunteers and partners who would fund and sustain their mammoth project. In 1998, the couple founded Instituto Terra – the organisation which tirelessly worked to bring a forest back to life.

PNHR Bulcão Farm | by Weverson Rocio – 2012

Salgado sowed the first seed in December 1999. The couple hired around 24 workers in the beginning and was later joined by numerous volunteers over the years. They worked day and night – from uprooting the invasive weeds to planting new seedlings. Soon, their hard work bore fruit as tropical trees native to the region started flourishing in the area. They received a donation of over one lakh saplings which gave rise to a dense forest. The handcrafted forest comprises mostly of local arboreal and shrub varieties. Latest satellite imagery revealed how a soothing green forest cover has enveloped the area which once was a devastating arid eyesore.Since 1998, they have planted more than 2 million saplings of 293 species of trees and rejuvenated 1,502 acres of tropical forest. The biodiversity-rich zone has recently been declared as a Private Natural Heritage Reserve (PNHR).

The Impact of Salgado’s Forest

The afforestation project, which is undoubtedly one of the greatest environmental initiatives in the world, has also helped to control soil erosion and revived the natural springs in the area. Eight water springs which once dried up, flow at around 20 litres per minute at present, relieving the drought-prone region of its woes. Salgado’s forest also happens to solve the much-debated notion about climate change, proving that the trend can be reversed if tried. His forest has resulted in causing more rainfall to the area and cooler weather, bringing a drastic and desirable change in the climate.

Instituto Terra’s Fauna | by Leonardo Merçon – 2012

The most important positive aspect of the forest till now has to be the return of the lost fauna. More than 172 species of birds, 33 species of mammals, 15 species of amphibians and reptiles have been spotted in the forest interiors, something which was beyond imagination two decades ago. Many of the plant and animal species in his forest actually feature on the endangered list.

Efforts For Good

Climate change is a harsh reality. Mankind is bearing the brunt of the relentless destruction they inflicted on the planet. Yet, people like Salgado and Lélia fill us with hope, proving that patience and persistence can be our keys to heal the wounds of nature. If two people can create a 1502-acre forest in just 20 years, then imagine how much can be done if everyone comes together to protect the environment. It must be reminded that for every tree we plant, we are adding 118 kgs of oxygen to the air every year, and reducing the carbon footprint by 22 kgs.

Efforts For Good urges all the readers to actively engage in planting trees and gradually turn this into a fixed habit.

Sources: http://www.scienceinsanity.com/2019/03/brazilian-couple-created-1502-acre.html