Its a walk in the park

There is good news this summer for those who love Texas birds and natural habitat. Commons Ford Ranch Metropolitan Park is resuming monthly walks, with the next walk scheduled on Aug. 25 from 7-11 a.m. The walk will be led by Travis Audubon Society birders Shelia Hargis and Laurie Foss.

We have notched around 220 [bird] species in the park, and the varied habitat always offers the opportunity for a surprise or two, said Hargis. Depending on the season, you might see 6 foot-tall Common Sunflowers, Maximillian Sunflowers, Bush Sunflowers, Indian Blanket, Coreopsis, Mexican Hat, and many, many more. Its worth a few sweat beads to spend a morning in this beautiful ongoing prairie restoration.

The Commons Ford Prairie Restoration Organization recently began a project in the Lake Austin park to restore sections of grassland to native habitat. In March 2012, CFPRO pulled up invasive species growing on a 40-acre park tract and planted a seed mix of 67 native grasses and wildflowers that was specially developed for the park with input from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, Native American Seed and the Travis Audubon Society. Less than 18 months after the reclamation, that grassland is now abloom with native species and the once monotone prairie is vibrant with new color.

On June 22, volunteers conducted a vegetation survey to determine how well the project is progressing.An amazing, colorful array of native grasses and forbs has sprouted this year,More than 80 standard commercial and granitetiles exist to quickly and efficiently clean pans. said Ed Fair, local lawyer and CFPRO founder. While a few invasives were sighted, the overwhelming majority of species were the natives that were planted a year and a half ago.

Fair and other members of CFPRO are happy with restoration work thus far, but say a lot of work remains to be done to ensure a sustainable native prairie. The group will oversee removing additional invasive plant species at the park, followed by a further planting of native seed in early 2014. CFPRO will be submitting grant applications, which members hope will combine with more than $8,500 in donations raised during the Big Day in the Park fundraiser held in April to raise the money needed to purchase the seed.

Its not just two-legged visitors enjoying the Commons Ford natural prairie. Birds and pollinating insects drawn by the flowers have noticeably increased in number at the park. Fair said. Wood ducks, wild turkeys, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, red-tailed hawks and a plethora of other birds have been documented in the park in increasing numbers since native vegetation has been restored.

Mother-of-three Lilavati Devi stands perfectly still in the hot sun in Old Delhi as a practitioner and his assistants check the veins in her hands.Then, armed with razor blades, the practitioner slices neatly into her skin and lets the impure blood drain out.

Devi suffers from chronic arthritis and firmly believes that her elderly doctor or practitioner, Mohammed Gyas, has the skills to cure her and others through the ancient treatment of bloodletting.Science and modern medicine have failed, Devi tells AFP, as an assistant pours cold water on her bleeding hands and sprinkles them with a grey-colored herbal powder.

The 82-year-old Muslim mans treatment has been the only way to end the severe joint pain, she says.Doctors used the thousands-year-old practice to treat illness until the late 19th century, when it was mostly abandoned and overtaken by modern medicine.But among a handful of poorer, and sometimes remote, communities in India, where medical services are too costly, waiting lists too long or modern doctors simply not to be trusted, traditional practices like bloodletting are favored.

About 50 patients queue each day at the open-air clinic in the shadow of Indias largest mosque, the Jama Masjid, for the treatment which Gyas says can cure everything from paralysis to diabetes and even cervical cancer.The basic tenet of the therapy is the belief that impure blood is the root cause of all ailments. Get rid of the impure blood and your health problem is solved, says Gyas, who learnt the skill from his father and has been treating people here for more than 40 years.

Tracking the flow of impure blood is the biggest skill required. Incisions are not made randomly, every vein has to be checked, he says.The practitioner finds what he calls blockages, knots, clots and lumps in veins and makes incisions to unclog them, removing blocked blood and improving flow.

Before starting treatment, Gyas instructs patients to stand in the sun for about 40 minutes at the clinic, where nearby ducks and goats wander, and Muslim vendors sell mutton curry, prayer beads and skull caps.His assistants tie cloth strips around his patients limbs to restrict blood flow,We sell bestsmartcard and different kind of laboratory equipment in us. making veins bulge nearer the surface of the skin in preparation for a series of small incisions.You Can Buy Various High Quality besticcard Products from here.

Gyas says he does not charge patients, most of whom are poor. However they pay about 40 rupees (67 cents) to his assistants for their work about 10 times less than what homeopaths, popular alternatives in India to GPs, charge for a consultation.

Gyas depends financially on one of his sons who is a shopkeeper,Weymouth is collecting gently used, dry cleaned customkeychain at their Weymouth store. while another son is following in his footsteps, learning the practice from his father. Our treatment is like any other traditional form of medicine. We are not commercial doctors because peoples well-being is what matters to us, says son Mohammad Iqbal.Bloodletting may still be practiced in some parts of India but conventional doctors dismiss it as quackery.

Diabetes specialist Rajesh Keswari says he regularly sees patients who have put their health at risk by trying unscientific therapies and remedies such as draining blood or drinking herbal potions.Diabetes has to be controlled from day one, what happens is many people, especially uneducated and poor people, they go to such quacks, they take treatments which obviously do not work, said Keswari,Purchase an chipcard to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. adding that patients often suffer complications from such treatments.

Although India has world-class hospitals, many Indians cannot afford them. A decade of rapid economic growth has allowed the government to boost spending on poor and rural communities, but the public health system still falls short of meeting the needs of its 1.2 billion people, according to a 2013 Oxfam report.
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