"Blackberry fruit production is abundant with annual volumes of 20,000 pounds (9,100 kg) per 1 acre (0.40 ha) possible, making this plant commercially attractive."
"What distinguishes the blackberry from its raspberry relatives is whether or not the torus (receptacle or stem) "picks with" (i.e., stays with) the fruit.
When picking a blackberry fruit, the torus stays with the fruit.
With a raspberry, the torus remains on the plant, leaving a hollow core in the raspberry fruit"
"The usually black fruit is not a berry in the botanical sense, as it is termed botanically as an aggregate fruit, composed of small drupelets.
It is a widespread and well-known group of over 375 species, many of which are closely related apomictic microspecies native throughout Europe, northwestern Africa, temperate western and central Asia and North and South America."
"Vatican confirms ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons "
"VATICAN CITY, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership of up to six million.
"Active membership in Freemasonry by a member of the faithful is prohibited, because of the irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry," the Vatican's doctrinal office said in a letter published by Vatican media"
'The same office said last week that transgender people can be baptized, serve as godparents and act as witnesses at Catholic weddings."
"The letter on Freemasons cited a 1983 declaration, signed by the late Pope Benedict XVI, at the time the Vatican's doctrine chief, stating that Catholics "in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion".
"The apomicts actually have discovered the effectiveness of mass production long before Mr. Henry Ford applied it to the production of the automobile. ... Facultative apomixis ... does not prevent variation; rather, it multiplies certain varietal products."
"Masonic lodges are normally male-only societies, associated with arcane symbols and rituals. "
" It lists the late Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, late actor Peter Sellers, former England soccer manager Alf Ramsey and authors Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle as famous Freemasons from the past.". (quite recent past)
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 individuals have served as president of the United States. Of these, 15, including Lyndon Johnson who took only the First Degree, are known to have been Freemasons, beginning with the nation's first president, George Washington, and most recently the 38th president, Gerald R. Ford.
(1/3. 33.3%%)
Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, FD Roosevelt, Truman, LB Johnson, Ford
"addition to the individuals listed above, Ronald Reagan was made an honorary Freemason, and as a youth, Bill Clinton was a member of the Masonic youth group Order of DeMolay "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_were_Freemasons
'DeMolay International is an international fraternal organization for young men ages 12 to 21. There is in select areas a "Squire" program for those younger than 12.
It was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1919 and named for Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar. "
"In contrast to parthenocarpy, which involves seedless fruit formation without fertilization, apomictic fruits have viable seeds containing a proper embryo, with asexual origin."
"DeMolay was incorporated in the 1990s and is classified by the young women are not permitted to join DeMolay, chapters are permitted to elect chapter "sweethearts" and "princesses."
DeMolay is part of the "family" of Masons and associated organizations. DeMolay is the youth group for young men. (Rainbow Girls and Job's Daughters are similar Masonic-related organizations for young women.)
"make noise; I am foolish and wanton" or "I play with noise".
Although Random House Dictionary states that it comes from one of the Algonquian languages and means "to make oneself known",
To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life
To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships
To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards
To develop, by precept and example a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship
To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill toward the global elimination of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the leading preventable cause of mental retardation, and dedicated to wiping out maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), which kills more than 50,000 babies and a significant number of women each year. "
"Neonatal tetanus (trismus nascentium) is a form of generalised tetanus that occurs in newborns. Infants who have not acquired passive immunity from an immunized mother are at risk.
It usually occurs through infection of the unhealed umbilical stump, particularly when the stump is cut with a non-sterile instrument. "
"Folklore in the United Kingdom and Ireland tells that blackberries should not be picked after Old Michaelmas Day (11 October)
as the devil (or a Púca) has made them unfit to eat by stepping, spitting or fouling on them.
There is some value in this legend as autumn's wetter and cooler weather often allows the fruit to become infected by various molds such as Botryotinia which give the fruit an unpleasant look and may be toxic.
According to some traditions, a blackberry's deep purple color represents Jesus' blood and the crown of thorns was made of brambles, although other thorny plants, such as Crataegus (hawthorn) and Euphorbia milii (crown of thorns plant), have been proposed as the material for the crown."
"come from the Rosaceae, including various edible fruits, such as apples, pears, quinces, apricots, plums, cherries, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, loquats, strawberries, rose hips, hawthorns, and almonds. The family also includes popular ornamental trees and shrubs, such as roses, meadowsweets, rowans, firethorns, and photinias."
"They can be follicles, capsules, nuts, achenes, drupes (Prunus), and accessory fruits, like the pome of an apple, the hip of a rose, or the receptacle-derived aggregate accessory fruit of a strawberry. Many fruits of the family are edible, but their seeds often contain amygdalin, which can release cyanide during digestion if the seed is damaged."
Pits are relatively thinner portions of the cell wall that adjacent cells can communicate or exchange fluid through. Pits are characteristic of cell walls with secondary layers. Generally each pit has a complementary pit opposite of it in the neighboring cell. These complementary pits are called "pit pairs".
"The torus and margo are characteristic features of bordered pit-pairs in gymnosperms, such as Coniferales, Ginkgo, and Gnetales. In other vascular plants, the torus is rare.
The pit membrane is separated into two parts: a thick impermeable torus at the center of the pit membrane, and the permeable margo surrounding it.
The torus regulates the functions of the bordered pit, and the margo is a cell wall-derived porous membrane that supports the torus. The margo is composed of bundles of microfibrils that radiate from the torus "
"The margo is flexible and can move towards either side of the pit while under stress. This allows the thick, impermeable torus to block the pit aperture. When the torus is displaced so that it blocks the pit aperture, the pit is said to be aspirated."
"The surrealist movement was explicitly predicated on Freud’s discoveries,” said Solms. “Some of them, like Dalí and de Chirico, depicted directly the inner world of the mind as it is revealed in dreams, with
uncanny juxtapositions and the like, while others, like Breton, were influenced by deeper aspects of his work, and employed
automatic writing and automatic drawing on the model of Freud’s free-association method "
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/27/freud-was-misunderstood-and-wasnt-so-obsessed-with-sex-new-analysis-of-work-suggests
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