Cristo Redentor by Anthony A. Ferrara, proximity gallery

Cristo Redentor by Anthony A. Ferrara, proximity gallery

Proximity Gallery - Fishtown

Proximity Gallery is delighted to present Anthony A. Ferrara and his recent exhibition "Cristo Redentor".

Anthony A. Ferrara, a Philadelphia native, was born in South Philadelphia in 1930. He earned his MFA at Temple University's Tyler School of Art in 1963. Ferrara worked as the Creative/ Production Director at Rohm & Haas Corporation from 1960-1992 and currently works as a Fine Art & Design Consultant. He has been showing his work since 1963 and is one of Philadelphia's great cityscape artists.

Since the 1960's, Ferrara's efforts have centered on painting Philadelphia "en plein air". You may have even witnessed him capturing one of Philly's street scenes while walking around town.

Growing up in the city, Ferrara made frequent pilgrimages to the various areas that surrounded him. He marveled at the cultural differences and architectural qualities of each neighborhood. He found the variations of the basic Philadelphia rowhome to be endless. As an adult artist, he has returned to the city streets for subject matter and inspiration -often a few years ahead of gentrification. Ferrara has the ability to capture the sociology of a neighborhood once proud and healthy, perhaps now grim and depressing, and possibly about to be reborn.
Ferrara uses a palette and brushwork that recreates a unique and intelligible impression of his subject matter. His vision of dilapidated row homes and seedy city corners are captured by vivid hues and strong composition.This collection of cityscapes shows like a montage set to the melancholy sounds of a bluesy melody. If you make it to the Opening Reception, as always there will be drinks and refreshments and Anthony A. Ferrara Jr., a virtuoso, will be playing jazz guitar.

Also, Friday April 3rd from 6pm-9pm..... A few blocks away at Memphis Flats (Gallery Space)-1714 Memphis Street, Proximity will be representing Marie DesMarais and her newest exhibition "You Are Not Here". This exhibition will consist of older and newer works. It will include maps as seen in her previous exhibition "Circling Cartography" showcased at Proximity in February. In DesMarais's very distinctive style, she combines found materials including paper, fabric, wood and glass to create landscapes that mimic both aerial views and microscopic images. A focus on texture and depth gives her work a complexity that blends seamlessly into its thoughtful composition. In this exhibition, DesMarais is ambitious, working in a larger scale, using more mylar and layering with plexi-glass. If you are a lover of cartography and all things Industrial, than this show should not be missed!

Emotional Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Anger Problems, Marriage Problems: Work and Compassion

Emotional Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Anger Problems, Marriage Problems: Work and Compassion

You Are Not the Cause of Your Partner’s Anger or Abuse

Anger and abuse in relationships are about blame: "I feel bad, and it's your fault." Even when resentful, angry, or emotionally abusive people recognize their behavior, they are likely to blame it on their partners: "You push my buttons," or, "I might have overreacted, but I'm human, and look what you did!"

Angry and abusive partners tend to be anxious by temperament. From the time they were young children, they've had a consistent sense of dread that things will go badly and they will fail to cope. They try to control their environment to avoid terrible feelings of failure and inadequacy.

The strategy of trying to control others fails even if they are powerful, for the simple reason that the primary cause of their anxiety is within them, not in their environment. It springs from one of two sources: a heavy dread of failure or fear of harm, isolation, and deprivation.

The Silent Abuser
Not all emotional abuse involves shouting or criticism. More common forms are “disengaging” – the distracted or preoccupied spouse - or "stonewalling" – the spouse who refuses to accept anyone else’s perspective.

While verbal abuse and other forms of emotional abuse can be roughly equal between men and women, stonewallers are almost exclusively male. Biology and social conditioning make it is easier for men to turn off emotions. The corpus callosum – the part of the brain that connects its two hemispheres is smaller in men, making it easier for them to shut out information from the emotionally-oriented right hemisphere. On top of that slight biological difference, social conditioning promotes the analytical, unemotional male on the one hand or the strong silent type on the other.

The partner who stonewalls may not overtly put you down. Nevertheless, he punishes you for disagreeing with him by refusing even to think about your perspective. If he listens at all, he does so dismissively or impatiently.

The disengaging husband says, "Do whatever you want, just leave me alone." He is often a workaholic, couch potato, womanizer, or obsessive about sports or some other activity. He tries to deal with his inadequacy about relationships by simply by not trying – no attempt means no failure.

Both stonewalling and disengaging tactics can make you feel:

• Unseen and unheard
• Unattractive
• Like you don't count
• Like a single parent

What All Forms of Abuse Have in Common
Whether overt or silent, all forms of abuse result from failures of compassion; he/she stops caring about how you feel. Compassion is the lifeblood of marriage; failure of compassion is its heart disease.

It would be less hurtful if your partner never cared about how you felt. But when you were falling in love, he/she cared a great deal. So now it feels like betrayal when he or she doesn't care or try to understand. That’s not the person you married. Failure of compassion can feel like abuse.

Harmful Adaptations to Anger and Abuse: Walking on Eggshells
The most insidious aspect of abuse is not the obvious nervous reactions to shouting, name-calling, criticism or other demeaning behavior. It's the adaptations you make to try to prevent those painful episodes. You walk on eggshells to keep the peace or a semblance of connection.

Women are especially vulnerable to the negative effects of walking on eggshells due to their greater vulnerability to anxiety. Many brave women engage in constant self-editing and self-criticism to keep from "pushing his buttons." Emotionally abused women can second guess themselves so much that they feel as though they have lost themselves in a deep hole.

Recovery from walking on eggshells requires removing focus from repair of your relationship and your partner and placing it squarely on your personal healing. The good news is that the most powerful form of healing comes from within you. You can draw on your great inner resources by reintegrating your deepest values into your everyday sense of self. This will make you feel more valuable, confident, and powerful, regardless of what your partner does.

No One Escapes the Effects of Abuse

Families do not communicate primarily by language. That might surprise you, until you consider that humans bonded in families for millennia before we even had language. Even today, the most sensitive communications that have the most far-reaching consequences to our lives occur between parents and infants through tone of voice, facial expressions, touch, smell, and body posture, not language.

Though less obvious than interactions with young children, most of your communications with your older children and with your husband also occur through an unconscious process of emotional attunement. You psychologically and even physically tune in your emotions to the people you love. That’s how you can come home in one mood, find your husband or children in a different mood and, bam! – all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you’re in their mood. Quite unconsciously, you automatically react to one another.

Emotional attunement, not verbal skills, determines how we communicate, from our choice of words to our tone of voice. If attuned to a positive mood, you are likely to communicate pleasantly. If you’re in a negative mood, your words will be less than pleasant.

Now here’s the really bad news. Due to this unconscious, automatic process of emotional attunement, your children are painfully reactive to the walking-on-eggshells atmosphere between your husband and you, even if they never hear you say a harsh word to one another.

Everyone in a walking-on-eggshells family loses some degree of dignity and autonomy. You become unable to decide your own thoughts, feelings, and behavior, because you are living in a defensive-reactive pattern that runs largely on automatic pilot. No fewer than half the members of these unfortunate families, including the children, suffer from clinical anxiety and/or depression. (“Clinical” doesn’t mean feeling down or blue or worried, it means that the symptoms interfere with normal functioning. You can’t sleep, can’t concentrate, can’t work as efficiently, and can’t enjoy yourself without drinking.) Most of the adults lack genuine self-esteem (based on realistic self-appraisals), and the children rarely feel as good as other kids.

When it comes to the more severe forms of destructiveness, purely emotional abuse is usually more psychologically harmful than physical abuse. There are a couple of reasons for this. Even in the most violent families, the incidents tend to be cyclical. Early in the abuse cycle, a violent outburst is followed by a honeymoon period of remorse, attention, affection, and generosity, but not genuine compassion. (The honeymoon stage eventually ends, as the victim begins to say, “Never mind the damn flowers, just stop hitting me!”) Emotional abuse, on the other hand, tends to happen every day. So the effects are more harmful because they’re so frequent.

The other factor that makes emotional abuse so devastating is the greater likelihood that victims will blame themselves. If someone hits you, it’s easier to see that he or she is the problem, but if the abuse is subtle – saying or implying that you’re ugly, a bad parent, stupid, incompetent, not worth attention, or that no one could love you – you are more likely to think it’s your problem.

Important questions to ask of yourself:

• Do I like myself?
• Am I able to realize my potential?
• Does everyone I care about feel safe?
• Do my children like themselves?
• Are they able to realize their fullest potential?
• Do they feel safe?

Burdock Health Benefits 

Popular names: greater burdock, edible burdock, or Lappa burdock.

Traditionally: it was used to dye cloths black, mixed with milkwort, nut shells, water buffalo, etc.

It was one of the most important traditional cures. The leaves were placed on wounds, infections, swellings, adenophaty, etc.

It was also placed on the head against twinges. When the skin was fire-hot, the green leaf was placed on the skin. People suffering from typhoid fever placed leaves on their head to "suck away the evil disease".

In some regions, mothers would anoint their children with buttered burdock leaves, after taking them out of the bath tub.

Children were sometimes covered with leaves if they had cramps. The leaves wet with vinegar were a cure for lower back pain, buttered with butter or fat, for chest pain, but only slightly burnt in fire, for twinges and heart aches. 

The decoct was used to wash one's head to stimulate hair growth.

In some villages, for indigestion, bandages around the bellybutton were prepared using 3 burdock roots and 3 horseradish roots, mashed and boiled in borsch, thickened with bran.

The root soaked in brandy was consumed against internal conditions. In some parts, it was mashed, mixed with mashed roots of bryony, blackwort, danewort, etc. and vinegar, borsch bran or rye wheat, preparing a turtle cake to apply on the stomach.

The root decoct was drank against social diseases and skin eruptions; the eczema was to be washed thoroughly. The finely ground seed was placed in yeast brandy or fresh water and the mixture was drunk several times against hernia.

For difficult births, the burdock was boiled, the broth was filtered, sugar was added and then it was offered to the child wife, then she would drink chamomile tea for 3 days, to cleanse her body.

Chemical composition of Burdock

Potassium nitrate, ethereal oil, mucilage, inulin, palmitic acid, caffeic acid, sigmasterol, sitosterol, bitter substances, vitamins B, mineral salts including potassium ones, etc.

Pharmaceutical action

Aromatic, calms down intestinal tormina, absorbs gases, galactagog, reduces nausea, intestinal antiseptic, stimulates digestion, diuretic, renal anti-inflammatory effect, calms down head aches, expectorant, pulmonary antiseptic, gastric anti-inflammatory effect, effects against tumors, effective against light diarrhea. The most toxic part of the plant is the root and it can cause digestive disorder, heavy sweat, nephritis, polyuria or anuria, but with a good recovery time because all symptoms stop when the plant is no longer consumed.

One should also add that is stops infections from appearing and it very effective against germs multiplying. It has an anti-thermal action. It is an excellent astringent and it help the detoxify process in the organism. It moderates and even adjust the secretions in the organism. It helps in the healing process. Due to the diuresis it produces, it is used in a series of liver conditions, gout, diabetes, for those who want to reduce their cholesterol. In dermatological conditions it is very useful from the most frequent and diverse conditions to the most serious ones: cancer. It helps the healing process in all cases.

Cosmetic issues: its actions is diverse, from hair growth to seborrhea or other conditions and it can be successfully used in many cosmetic conditions. We can also notice that it can destroy the staphylococcus due to its active principles. The burdock seeds are recommended for the aging process and even during birth, easing the labor pains.

The fresh leaves are used both in the detoxify process of the organism as well for different wounds having a healing or disinfectant part.

It can be used for the following medical conditions: acne, abscess, oral diseases, urinary tract conditions, liver conditions, lung disease, stomach conditions, allergy, hair loss, anorexia, intestinal bloating, acute or chronic bronchitis, biliary lithiasis, cancer, cellulite, high level of cholesterol, intestinal cramps, fermentation colitis, constipation, cosmetic issues, diabetes, diarrhea, dermatitis, headaches, microbial eczema, dry eczema, eliminate toxins from the organism, epilepsy, polymorphic erythema, skin infections, pharyngitis, fever, furunculosis, flu, gout, hemorrhoids, herpes, high blood pressure, urinary infections, acute and chronic sores, respiratory failure, insect stings, leucorrhea, itchiness, dandruff, mycosis, nephritis, obesity, pemphigus, colds, rheumatics, wounds, seborrheic complexions, tumors, gastric ulcer, skin ulcerations, rash and in many other conditions.

Preparation

Place one teaspoon of ground plant in 250 ml boiling water. Keep covered for 10 minutes then drink it after meals. 3 cups of such tea can be consumed daily. In fermentation colitis it must be consumed unsweetened or sweetened with saccharin.

Tincture

If it is possible, it should be prepared from fresh root. Place 50 g washed and finely chopped root in 250 ml alimentary alcohol 70C. Cover for 15 days keeping it at room temperature. Shake several times a day. Filter and then place in a cold environment, in a smaller bottle. Close it hermetically. Take 1 teaspoon diluted in 100 ml water 2-3 times a day. It can be used like this in all conditions mentioned above. It can be consumed for longer periods of time.

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Little Brothers Volunteer Opportunities

Visiting/Friendship

Help our old friends be less isolated all year-round by becoming a visitor. Share stories and experiences and see if a friendship doesn’t develop.   "friendship is a sheltering tree"

Telephone Visitation

Visit weekly with an old friend via the telephone. Great at-home volunteer opportunity!

Birthdays

Celebrate an old friend’s birthday! Make visits or telephone calls; what you do will make their day SPECIAL! Some can even be done from your home!

Office Support

Lend a helping hand to our office. We need people to do data entry, filing, letter writing, mailings, gift wrapping, and much more!

Social Events

Let’s have a party! Be a part of our parties and celebrations for our old friends. Help get isolated elderly out of their homes and have fun!

Merchant Solicitation

Solicit gifts, flowers, food – all that’s needed for our parties, fund-raisers and programs. Make contacts, coordinate and cultivate donors. Good at-home opportunity!

Holidays

Celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas and/or Easter with an old friend. Make a visit on the holiday or help at a party by hosting or providing transportation.

“On-call” Services

Can’t commit to weekly or monthly volunteering? Be an on-call volunteer and only volunteer on an “as needed” basis. Escort our old friends to parties, the grocery store, or the doctor’s office; help around the house or run errands. Coordinate your schedule with an old friend’s needs.  

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Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) is a national network of nonprofit volunteer-based organizations devoted to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly. We offer to people of good will the opportunity to join the elderly in friendship and celebration of life.

Little Brothers strongly believes that people need special pleasures in life in addition to the basic necessities. We feel that love and dignity and beauty in life are as basic as physical needs. Our motto – flowers before bread – is reflected in the activities at all of our locations, which include holiday meals and birthday visits.

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On this site you will find a list of slang terms, acronyms and abbreviations as used in websites, ICQ chat rooms, blogs, SMS, and Internet forums - a complete dictionary of slang.

There are many such internet slang words in use, some are more widely understood than others, and new ones are evolving all the time. This list is large but inevitably incomplete; however it contains the more commonly used slang words and slang terms. 6205 acronyms are listed at present - if you know of another that should be here then please add an acronym.

Note that a few of the internet abbreviations stand for phrases containing words that may be offensive to some people. In those cases we have substituted asterisks, or similar, for the internet slang words in question.

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Red worms are better than regular earthworms for composting as they live near the surface and eat fresh organic matter, like a banana peel, while common nightcrawlers live much deeper in the ground and eat stuff that's already turned into soil.