Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Remember this? Where did I Come From?

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Whats On Your Face?

    Meet The Mites That Live On Your Face

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    It might give you the creepy-crawlies, but you almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores of your face right now.
    They're known as Demodex or eyelash mites, and just about every adult human alive has a population living on them.
    The mostly transparent critters are too small to see with the naked eye. At about 0.3 millimeters long, it would would take about five face adult mites laid end to end to stretch across the head of a pin.
    "They look like kind of like stubby little worms," says Michelle Trautwein, an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
    Demodex face mites got their name from the Greek words for "fat" and "boring worm," but they're not really worms at all. They're actually arachnids — related to ticks and, more distantly, to spiders.
    Michelle Trautwein, an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, tested more than 2,000 people and found DNA evidence of face mites on every single one of them.
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    Trautwein studies our relationship with these microscopic stowaways by looking at their DNA. Her findings suggest that people in different parts of the world have different face mites. "They tell a story of your own ancestry and also a story of more ancient human history and migration," she says.
    But before she could tell that story, she needed to find the mites.
    "We use a little spoon and scrape it across the kind of greasier parts of someone's face, which isn't as bad as it sounds," Trautwein says.
    Once the samples have been collected, she takes them back to the lab to look at the genetics.
    Trautwein has tested more than 2,000 people, including tourists from all around the world that make their way to the California Academy of Sciences. And she's found DNA evidence of face mites on every single one of them.
    "No one is thrilled at the initial notion that they have arachnids on their face," Trautwein says. "But people are often curious — even in their revulsion."
    But how could these creatures live on so many people and still go unnoticed?
    Our skin is mostly covered by a thin layer of peach-fuzz called vellus hairs, with a few notable exceptions such as like the palms of our hands and feet. The shaft of each one of those tiny hairs grows out of its own follicle.
    Face mites — Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis — spend their days face down inside your hair follicles, nestled up against the hair shaft, where you can't see them.
    face mite
    They eat sebum, the greasy oil your skin makes to protect itself and keep it from drying out. The sebum is produced in sebaceous glands, which empty into the hair follicles and coat both the hair shaft and face mite.
    That's why the greasiest parts of your body, such as around the eyes, nose and mouth, likely harbor a higher concentration of mites than other areas.
    The mites live about two weeks. They spend most of their time tucked inside the pores, but while people sleep, they crawl out onto the skin's surface to mate and then head back to lay their eggs.
    Since they live inside your pores, you can't scrub them off by washing. It's basically impossible to get rid of all of your face mites.
    So how does Trautwein find and study a particular mite? With glue.
    "I actually put glue on a glass microscope slide and stick it onto a person's forehead," she says. "Then I slowly peel it off. I look under a microscope for mites that are stuck in the follicles that stick up from the thin layer of skin that got peeled off."
    "It can be pretty addictive and exciting," she adds. "It's sort of a meditative process of looking through this microforest of follicles and hairs and looking for just the right potential movement or shape."
    It seems our immune system is able to keep their numbers in check, but some people can experience problems with the mites.
    "When you tell patients that they have face mites, first of all, they freak out," says Kanade Shinkai, a dermatologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
    Since face mites live inside your pores, you can't wash them off. But for a majority of people, they're harmless.
    Josh Cassidy/KQED
    Shinkai occasionally treats patients who have an overload of face mites, which results in a condition called demodicosis.
    "There is a very particular look to people suffering from demodicosis. We call it the Demodex frost," she says. "It's sort of a white sheen on the skin. And if you look really closely, you can see [it] coming out of every pore. If you scrape those pores, you can see it frothing with little Demodex face mites."
    The condition is relatively rare and is often connected to a decline in the immune system, such as receiving immunosuppressive drugs after transplant surgery, chemotherapy or immunodeficiency diseases such as AIDS.
    Demodicosis can also be triggered by local suppression of the immune system, like using itch-relieving hydrocortisone cream on the face.
    It usually comes on fast. "Patients almost universally describe this explosive development of like pustules like whiteheads on their face. It's really dramatic," Shinkai says. "And what's really dramatic about it is that they're often fine the day before, and then they develop it overnight."
    For the vast majority of people, though, face mites are nothing to worry about. While some studies have found loose connections between Demodex and diseases like rosacea, the evidence hasn't shown a strong link.
    "What's really confusing is that if you go into your office and scrape everyone's face, you would find Demodex probably on everybody," Shinkai says. "And people who have low burden of Demodex may have no or very severe disease and vice versa."
    Trautwein also sees face mites more as a source of interest than of fear.
    "They're not dangerous in a broad sense because we all have them and most of us seem to be cohabiting quite well with them," Trautwein says. "We mostly share them within family units, and it seems like you are probably initially colonized soon after birth, most likely by your mother, traditionally speaking in human history."
    Looking at your mites, researchers such as Trautwein can usually tell something about your geographical ancestry — what part of the world your ancestors came from.
    "Face mites are definitely the species of animal that we have the closest connection with as humans, even though most of us don't know about them or ever see one in our lifetime," she says. "We still have this very ancient and intimate relationship, and it seems clear that we've had these face mite species with us for all of our history. So they are as old as our species, as old as Homo sapiens."

Chey Surprise!

Super Adult!

JAFFE: Well, there's a term that I found - wouldn't you know - on Twitter. Recently, someone I follow tweeted that she was buying tickets to a show in London, and instead of senior discount, they used the term super adult.
SIMON: What - 'cause if - if you get to the age of 65, you've probably done something that qualifies.
JAFFE: Absolutely. You've got it exactly, Scott. But I just want to warn you against Googling super adult because you will come up with a lot of entries for incontinence products and porn.
SIMON: (Laughter) What do you mean warn me? NPR's Ina Jaffe, thanks so much.
JAFFE: You're welcome.

Redwood Forest!

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Love the Redwoods!


Face Book Addiction?

Yes my son Isaiah says I am? So, I really like the people I meet there, is that a crime? Only problem is some of us have the same birth names? All the same SS #'s too ? Or birth dates too? Yikes! That would be too much! ALL OF YOU CARRYING MY NAMES BE GOOD!

The Main owner offered my son a job with Face Book years ago because my son knows coding and had design some gaming games. Now that was what my son was addicted to at that time. Now it is You Tube to learn how to.:) He says I even took games from him? I do not recall doing that but he was glued to the screen:) that I the mom took away his games, to try and stop the over load?


So now that I am getting into my senior years it is pay back time? But Face Book? Is that senior abuse? Aha! Opps here I am on Blogger! Is that next? Ohhhh and I am on Weebly, also! Groan and Wix! Oh heaven forbid! lol Silly? I think not! Being an adult of sound mind, I do not think of it as being silly!

Ahhhh my Face Book was over loaded with spam big time! How did they let them get in? Darn !

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Monday, May 20, 2019

(Official Trailer) THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take? 3,081,841 views


(Official Trailer) THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take?

3,081,841 views

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About Care Of Gardens and Your Own Land!

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CLAIRE MEETS FUTURE CLAIRE

Hummm What would happen if We All Had a Toothy Grin?

My health Aid Gets more Waves from Cars driving by, but then she does have a beautiful toothy smile!



Ah off to The Eye Doctors!

Return in an year for  eye surgery!My son is scared of that asked what I thought about it! Said I heard of ones losing their sight completely after the surgery! Better being  so so and having sight in both eyes.


Eye Surgery In One Year

Yes my right eye is doing most of the teams work even with those floaters sailing by once in awhile So that is what I see! Hummm floaters?

But my left eye is in a serious condition with growth covering.  Can even get a white ring in eyes from what we eat! Crazy stuff  happens! Be Careful Out there Folks!

Love,
Annie


My Yard And Flowers

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Here I Am Once Again!

I seem to keep disappearing for some reason or the other?
Which is tornado's or just a rain storm wipes out our internet and phones every time!
 On line, tricks of the eye?
No the rain does it every time!
But I have found me!
 At last! lol

Love you my friends!

Do I have any friends left after all this darkness of being lost?

Annie / Judy Ann Gilman Ensing/ Ann Little Running Deer

Too many of us on line have the very same at Birth names. Too many!
Is it is only our birth dates that ID us?
 Poor IRS keeping us straight but only by SS #'s


Annie / Judy Ann Gilman Ensing/ Ann Little Running Deer

The same Annie with the Carlos team
 at Carols L. at her  NativeVue of years past 2012

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Hummmm who is here by map globe?


4 million, 880,340 on earth globe over at
http://ann-surprise.blogspot.com/
Carlos said they lowered the number from 11 million? That it use to be for some reason?
Whoa! that is still a lot of visitors!





Billings MO.

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Billings MO! ,

Miss Judy

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Singing on a dare!

But I am a Story Teller so what is all this about being Quite?lol
Let me tell about the time my son dared me to sing a song at this near by bar. So we picked 'My Heart Will Go On" okay you are on I bravely said
The pool hall was busy with players...... a crowd was there. Gads LOL
Okay with a quiet voice so they won't even hear me? I dove in but then every one stopped playing pool everyone stopped talking!......... I got quieter softer and there I met my sons dare that evening!
He said "WOW! did it ever get quiet fast in that place."
Yeah, so I noticed:( Said I......

Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On Lyrics

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

North Africa

North Africa

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North Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in the west, to Egypt's Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east. Others[Like whom?] have limited it to the countries of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, a region that was known by the French during colonial times as "Afrique du Nord" and is known by Arabs as the Maghreb ("West", The western part of Arab World). The most commonly accepted definition includes Algeria, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, the 6 countries that shape the top North of the African continent. Meanwhile, "North Africa", particularly when used in the term North Africa and the Middle East, often refers only to the countries of the Maghreb and Libya. Egypt, being also part of the Middle East, is often considered separately, due to being both North African and Middle Eastern at the same time.
North Africa includes a number of Spanish and Portuguese possessions, Plazas de soberanía, Ceuta and Melilla and the Canary Islands and Madeira.[3] The countries of North Africa share a common ethnic, cultural and linguistic identity that is unique to this region. Northwest Africa has been inhabited by Berbers since the beginning of recorded history, while the eastern part of North Africa has been home to the Egyptians[4]. Between the A.D. 600s and 1000s, Arabs from the Middle East swept across the region in a wave of Muslim conquest. These peoples, physically quite similar, formed a single population in many areas, as Berbers and Egyptians merged into Arabic and Muslim culture. This process of Arabization and Islamization has defined the cultural landscape of North Africa ever since.
The distinction between North Africa, the Sahel and the rest of the continent is as follows:
Nineteenth century European explorers, attracted by the accounts of Ancient geographers or Arab geographers of the classical period, followed the routes by the nomadic people of the vast "empty" space. They documented the names of the stopping places they discovered or rediscovered, described landscapes, took a few climate measurements and gathered rock samples. Gradually, a map began to fill in the white blotch.
The Sahara and the Sahel entered the geographic corpus by way of naturalist explorers because aridity is the feature that circumscribes the boundaries of the ecumene.  The map details included topographical relief and location of watering holes crucial to long crossings. The Arabic word "Sahel" (shore) and "Sahara" (desert) made its entry into the vocabulary of geography.
Latitudinally, the "slopes" of the arid desert, devoid of continuous human habitation, descend in step-like fashion toward the northern and southern edges of the Mediterranean that opens to Europe and the Sahel that opens to "Trab al Sudan." Longitudinally, a uniform grid divides the central desert then shrinks back toward the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea. Gradually, the Sahara-Sahel is further divided into a total of twenty sub-areas: central, northern, southern, western, eastern, etc.
In this way, "standard" geography has determined aridity to be the boundary of the ecumene. It identifies settlements based on visible activity without regard for social or political organizations of space in vast, purportedly “empty” areas. It gives only cursory acknowledgement to what makes Saharan geography, and for that matter, world geography unique: mobility and the routes by which it flows.
— An atlas of the Sahara-Sahel : geography, economics and security[5]
The Sahel or "African Transition Zone" has been affected by many formative epochs in North African history ranging from Ottoman occupation to the Arab-Berber control of the Andalus.[6][7] As a result, many modern African nation-states that are included in the Sahel evidence cultural similarities and historical overlap with their North African neighbours.[8] In the present day, North Africa is associated with West Asia in the realm of geopolitics to form a Middle East-North Africa region.[9] The Islamic influence in the area is also significant and North Africa is a major part of the Muslim world.
Some researchers have postulated that North Africa rather than East Africa served as the exit point for the modern humans who first trekked out of the continent in the Out of Africa migration.[10][11][12]

Geography

North Africa has three main geographic features: the Sahara desert in the south, the Atlas Mountains in the west, and the Nile River and delta in the east. The Atlas Mountains extend across much of northern Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. These mountains are part of the fold mountain system that also runs through much of Southern Europe. They recede to the south and east, becoming a steppe landscape before meeting the Sahara desert, which covers more than 75 percent of the region. The tallest peaks are in the High Atlas range in south-central Morocco, which has many snow-capped peaks.
South of the Atlas Mountains is the dry and barren expanse of the Sahara desert, which is the largest sand desert in the world.[13] In places the desert is cut by irregular watercourses called wadis—streams that flow only after rainfalls but are usually dry. The Sahara’s major landforms include ergs, large seas of sand that sometimes form into huge dunes; the hammada, a level rocky plateau without soil or sand; and the reg, a level plain of gravel or small stones. The Sahara covers the southern part of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, and most of Libya. Only two regions of Libya are outside the desert: Tripolitania in the northwest and Cyrenaica in the northeast. Most of Egypt is also desert, with the exception of the Nile River and the irrigated land along its banks. The Nile Valley forms a narrow fertile thread that runs along the length of the country.
Sheltered valleys in the Atlas Mountains, the Nile Valley and Delta, and the Mediterranean coast are the main sources of fertile farming land. A wide variety of valuable crops including cereals, rice and cotton, and woods such as cedar and cork, are grown. Typical Mediterranean crops, such as olives, figs, dates and citrus fruits, also thrive in these areas. The Nile Valley is particularly fertile, and most of the population in Egypt live close to the river. Elsewhere, irrigation is essential to improve crop yields on the desert margins.

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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Ann Surprise: Wyze Works with Alexa

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Wyze Works with Alexa!




We're excited to announce

Wyze Cam v2 & Wyze Cam Pan

now work with Alexa

Since
launching Wyze Cam we've been amazed and inspired by the creative ways
our community has been using our cameras. And humbled by stories of ways
our cameras have made life better or easier.



We've also heard many ideas for how we can make our cameras even
better. One of the top feature requests we receive is for Wyze to work
with Alexa. We heard you loud and clear and are excited to announce it's here!



We hope this makes our cameras an even more fun and useful tool. We invite you to continue to
share the ways you use your cameras and give us your feedback or ideas.



I also want to say thank you - we couldn't
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What is Alexa?



Alexa is the voice-controlled service that seamlessly communicates with Wyze Cam v2 and Wyze Cam Pan through any Alexa-enabled device connected to a screen.



Alexa lets you use your voice to control Wyze Cam v2 and Wyze Cam Pan by speaking commands to Alexa.



Add voice control to any certified “Works with Amazon Alexa” product by
linking accounts to Alexa-enabled devices. Then, just ask Alexa to show
you the front door, baby's room, or anything else your camera is
viewing.

How Do I Get Started?

  1. Set up your Wyze camera in the Wyze app
  2. Update your camera's firmware to the latest version (via the Wyze app)
  3. Enable the Wyze skill in your Alexa account using the Alexa app, asking Alexa to "enable Wyze skill," or through alexa.amazon.com. You will be prompted to enter your Wyze username & password to authorize Alexa to connect to your camera(s)
  4. Go to your Alexa-enabled device and say "Alexa, discover my devices"
  5. Say any of the following to view your Wyze camera's stream:
    • "Alexa, show me [Camera Name]"
    • "Alexa, show my [Camera Name]"
    • "Alexa, show me the [Camera Name]"
    • "Alexa, show [Camera Name]"
  6. Say either of the following to stop viewing your Wyze camera's stream:
    • "Alexa, stop"
    • "Alexa, go home"
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Questions You Might Have



Q: Which Alexa-enabled devices work with Wyze? 

A: All Alexa-enabled devices connected to a screen will work with the Wyze skill. For example:



  • Echo Show
  • Echo Spot
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Q: How does Alexa work?

A: Alexa is the cloud-based voice service from Amazon.
Alexa is the brain behind Amazon Echo and other Alexa-enabled devices.
Using Alexa is as simple as asking a question—just ask, and Alexa will
respond instantly.



Q: What is an Alexa Skill?

A: Skills add new capabilities that allow you to create
a more personalized experience with your Amazon Echo, Amazon Fire TV,
and other Alexa-enabled devices. Skills let you receive flash briefings,
order food, request a ride, track your fitness, and more.



Q: What Wyze devices work with Alexa?

A: Wyze Cam v2 and Wyze Cam Pan work with Alexa. Wyze Cam v1 does not work with Alexa.
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