If your bath is too hot, you're at risk of parching your skin in the long run.
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I thought of all my books, waiting for me in piles back in my parching Phoenix apartment, collecting dust.
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From 0003 until just recently, a dry spell ravaged the West Coast, parching Sugarloaf's creek and killing thousands of animals.
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He says the authorities may soon be caught out by La Niña, a sodden period which often follows El Niño's parching.
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But she added that the winter and spring had been unusually dry and warm, parching the forests that surround the city.
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That parching, years-long drought came after another rainy period, in 2010, when just 8 percent of the U.S. experienced drought conditions.
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Monrovia Journal MONROVIA, Liberia — Under the parching Liberian sun, men with jerrycans jockeyed for a prime position in front of a single faucet.
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Climate change is parching more areas of the U.S., opening the way for more frequent wildfires, starting earlier in the year than usual and continuing later.
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Australia is included on this list, though the Aussies and several areas of Southeast Asia were saved last year from El Niño's typical parching by an increase in MJO activity.
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El Nino disrupted production across a swathe of commodity producers from late last year, parching countries across the north west of the Pacific rim such as Papua New Guinea and Philippines and bringing heavy rains to others like Chile and Peru.
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Yet just as the potent role of climate change can't be ignored in parching the land and helping to produce record dryness, either can the role of long-suppressed wildfires in the U.S. Wildfires will always come to town, but they can arrive in less mighty forms.
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The world is not cutting emissions fast enough to prevent global temperatures from spiking into dangerous territory, slashing crop yields and decimating food production in many parts of the world, as well as flooding coastal cities while parching large swaths of the globe, killing perhaps millions of mostly poor people from heat stress alone.
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I tried to figure out how to make it work — a Melissa McCarthy article should probably not be depressing, I agreed — and my editor gave me some suggestions, but I couldn't hear him above the TVs in our newsroom, which all blared detailed accounts of sexual assault and miscarriages of justice and a climate-change story that said we would all be desiccated human Slim Jim husks of ourselves, withered by the parching sun in 20 years and outrage outrage outrage until we are limp and exhausted and miserable.
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The Parching Winds of Somalia (1984) is a documentary film produced by Charles Geshekter.
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The Parching Winds of Somalia features extensive location footage in Somalia, historical photographs, interviews, and contemporary Somali music.
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The two Bharbhunja groupings are, in fact, distinct, each with its own origin myth and traditions, and speaking their own language. What unites the two communities is their traditional occupation, which was grain parching. They get their name from the Sanskrit word bhrij, which means to fry.
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In the Isle of Purbeck a long-settled Iron Age site at Worth Matravers was reorganised late in the Roman period to grow grain for the legion, with a grain-parching granary floor heated with a hypocaust. By the 4th century the hilltops had been abandoned.
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Asham is a corn-based Caribbean dessert. It is thought to have originated in Africa, with the name asham derived from the Akan word o-sĭám meaning "parched and ground corn". Other names include Brown George (Jamaica), kasham (Grenada), and sansam (Trinidad). It is made by shelling dry corn, parching it, and then grinding it finely.
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Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365–388 p.384 Twigs are also attached to prayer plumes and sacrificed to the cottontail rabbit to ensure good hunting.Stevenson, p.88 The Native American Hopi Indians preferred the ashes of four-wing saltbush for the nixtamalization of maize (the first step in the process of creating tortillas and pinole, by which the pericarp of Indian corn is removed before parching and grinding).
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Dionysus, Plato, or Poseidon sculpture excavated at the Villa of the Papyri. Map of Villa of the Papyri. Due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, bundles of scrolls were carbonized by the intense heat of the pyroclastic flows. This intense parching took place over an extremely short period of time, in a room deprived of oxygen, resulting in the scrolls' carbonisation into compact and highly fragile blocks.
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Tribes and Castes of North Western Provinces and Oudh Volume II by William Crook The Bharbhunja are still involved with grain parching, although many are now petty businessmen. They are strictly endogamous, and marriages tend to occur within the biradari. They live in multi caste and multi religious settlements, but occupy their own distinct quarters. Each settlement has a caste council, known as a panchayat, which acts as an instrument of social control.
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In the 1970s and early 1980s, popular musicals referred to as riwaayado were the main driving force behind the Somali film industry. The revolutionary Dervish State was a popular subject in Somali films during the 1980s. In 1983, the feature-length film A Somali Dervish was released. Centering on the revolutionary Dervish State and its influential leader, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (the "Mad Mullah"), In 1984, the Somali studies scholar Charles Geshekter produced The Parching Winds of Somalia.
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Yet the Sun remains unmoving in the sky, parching and burning all the ground beneath. Finally the gods realize that they, too, must allow themselves to be sacrificed so that human beings may live. They present themselves to the god Ehecatl, who offers them up one by one. Then, with the powerful wind that arises as a result of their sacrifice, Ehecatl makes the Sun move through the sky, nourishing the earth rather than scorching it.
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Parching is a now-defunct term for long slow boiling. The peas are field peas, left to dry on the plant, as distinct from garden peas, picked green for consumption fresh. The Carlin pea, a different variety prepared in similar ways and also eaten in the north of England, dates back to the 12th century. It is said that Martin Frobisher buried caches of these peas on Baffin Island in the 1570s to sustain his expedition while seeking the Northwest Passage.
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In the season one episode "Electric Avenue", Killian almost dies when the ghost of Elyse gets him electrocuted, but he is saved by Dash. Killian dates Dash's co-worker Amy Matthews (Tiya Sircar), but she breaks up with him when she realizes he has feelings for Freya. In the season one episode "A Parching Imbued", Killian reveals he is leaving town for good. He confesses his love for Freya and asks her to run away with him, but she chooses to stay with Dash.
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When the air passes over the mountains, adiabatic cooling causes most water in the air to rain on the mountains. When the air returns to sea level on the other side of the mountains, it recompresses, warms and dries, parching the deserts. When the wind blows from inland, the resulting hot dry katabatic winds are called the Santa Ana Winds. The Mojave Desert is bounded by the peninsular Tehachapi Mountains on the Northwest, together with the San Gabriel and the San Bernardino Mountains on the Southwest.
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The Brickfielder is a hot and dry wind in the desert of Southern Australia that occurs in the summer season. It blows in the coastal regions of the south from the outback, where the sandy wastes, bare of vegetation in summer, are intensely heated by the sun. This hot wind blows strongly, often for several days at a time, defying all attempts to keep the dust down, and parching all vegetation. It is in one sense a healthy wind, as, being exceedingly dry and hot, it destroys many injurious germs.
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Zhuge Liang aimed to take the fortress directly; he carried out an escalade tactic through the use of siege ladders, but Hao Zhao countered with fire arrows, burning the platforms and parching the men upon them. While the ladders were still aflame, Zhuge Liang's battering rams designed to breach the city gate had arrived, and Hao Zhao hurriedly chained some boulders and rolled them down, smashing the rams. The quick response and leadership of Hao Zhao shocked Zhuge Liang, as the latter never expected such a determined resistance. Zhuge Liang then ordered a withdrawal and reconsidered his tactics.
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There have been schemes to raise the water levels in Johor's Linggiu Reservoir to meet the needs of both countries. There is an ongoing joint hydrometric modelling study of the Johor River. This has been prompted by the parching of the Reservoir, with its water level dropping to a historic low of 20 per cent after a long spell of rainless days in October 2016. The study aims to help find out why water levels in the Reservoir fell recently, and can also analyse what happens when it rains in Johor, and how this translates into inflows to Linggiu and outflows to the Johor River.
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When the sun is low to the horizon, shadows cast by the taller crops can also become visible. By their nature crop marks are visible only seasonally and may not be visible at all except in exceptionally wet or dry years. Droughts can be especially useful to cropmark hunters, as the differential growth can become apparent in normally hardy species such as grass. The drought of 2010 produced particularly good conditions for observing crop marks in the UK.BBC news, reporting English Heritage Pre-parching stress in crops and grass, and others factors that may affect plant health, can be captured in near infra-red photography.
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He can travel on a stagecoach, which is the cheapest path, and the only path that is always available to Jerrod, no matter how long he spends in Brooklyn. This path brings Jerrod into contact with Native Americans, unruly oxen, parching deserts, and the likelihood of a winter storm in the Sierra Nevada. He can travel on a ship to Panama, cross through treacherous swamps and jungles on foot, and catch another ship to Sacramento. This route is more expensive than the others and also requires Jerrod to prepare carefully for many hazards of the tropical climate of Panama, from malaria to jungle ants to crocodiles.
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" Walden (1854), by Henry David Thoreau, references a simoom; he uses it to describe his urge to escape something most unwanted. "There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine, carrion. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears and eyes with dust till you are suffocated, for fear that I should get some of his good done to me – some of its virus mingled with my blood.
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Said also worked as assistant director on numerous film productions, including A Somali Dervish (1983); The Parching Winds of Somalia (1984); Riviera Somalia (1984), a program for the Italian public service broadcaster Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI); and A Man of Race (1987), produced by the LuceSaimon Film Institute.Xodo, p.31 While he has worked on many films in the past, Said is probably best known for his short films Geedka nolosha, which won the Prize of the City of Torino in the Best Film - International Short Film Competition category at the Torino International Festival of Young Cinema in 1988, and La Conchiglia from 1992. In these two standout films, he artistically casts humans as the primary agents responsible for the destruction and depletion of the environment and its resources.
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Josephus writes > On the second day of unleavened bread, that is to say the sixteenth, our > people partake of the crops which they have reaped and which have not been > touched till then, and esteeming it right first to do homage to God, to whom > they owe the abundance of these gifts, they offer to him the first-fruits of > the barley in the following way. After parching and crushing the little > sheaf of ears and purifying the barley for grinding, they bring to the altar > an assaron for God, and, having flung a handful thereof on the altar, they > leave the rest for the use of the priests. Thereafter all are permitted, > publicly or individually, to begin harvest.Josephus, Antiquities 3.250-251, > in Josephus IV Jewish Antiquities Books I-IV, Loeb Classical Library, > Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1930, pp. 437-439.
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In general, two lines of inquiry have focused on archaeological wild rice: 1) The radiocarbon dating of charred wild rice seeds or the associated charcoal left behind during the parching stage of rice production, and 2) Examination of preserved wild rice seeds associated with specific prehistoric pottery styles found in excavations of processing sites. Different pottery styles in northern Minnesota are linked to certain times in the Initial and Terminal Woodland periods stretching from around 500 BC to the time of contact between indigenous peoples and Europeans. To place this in context, "Although ceramics may have appeared as early as 2,000 BC in the southeastern United States, it is about 1,500 years later that they became evident in the Midwest" (Anfinson 1979). After European contact, indigenous wild rice processors generally abandoned ceramic vessels in favor of metal kettles (Hilger 1951/1992: 148).
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Josephus writes: > On the second day of unleavened bread, that is to say the sixteenth, our > people partake of the crops which they have reaped and which have not been > touched till then, and esteeming it right first to do homage to God, to whom > they owe the abundance of these gifts, they offer to him the first-fruits of > the barley in the following way. After parching and crushing the little > sheaf of ears and purifying the barley for grinding, they bring to the altar > an assaron for God, and, having flung a handful thereof on the altar, they > leave the rest for the use of the priests. Thereafter all are permitted, > publicly or individually, to begin harvest.Josephus, Antiquities 3.250–251, > in Josephus IV Jewish Antiquities Books I–IV, Loeb Classical Library, > Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1930, pp. 437–439.
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When his thoughts turn to Glasgow, in "Ciudad caledonia", he describes his hatred of the place, its monotony, vulgarity and ugliness and his dislike of the utilitarian, puritanical people. It was like a prison, useless in his life apart from work, parching and consuming what youthfulness he had left.Taylor: Into the Heart of European Poetry p 17 One prose poem, "Escrito en el agua" (Written in the water), was excluded from the second edition of Ocnos by the censors in Franco's Spain - presumably because it contains blasphemous ideas - "God does not exist." He had the reputation of holding Communist views, of being anti-Franco, of living a lifestyle and holding views repugnant to the regime - a homosexual who was anti-religion and anti-family values,Taravillo: Cernuda Años de exilio p 218 so his writings were always likely to come under close scrutiny from the censors.
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Argonautica, 4.1393ff > Then, like raging hounds, they [i.e. Argonauts] rushed to search for a > spring; for besides their suffering and anguish, a parching thirst lay upon > them, and not in vain did they wander; but they came to the sacred plain > where Ladon, the serpent of the land, till yesterday kept watch over the > golden apples in the garden of Atlas; and all around the nymphs, the > Hesperides, were busied, chanting their lovely song. But at that time, > stricken by Heracles, he lay fallen by the trunk of the apple-tree; only the > tip of his tail was still writhing; but from his head down his dark spine he > lay lifeless; and where the arrows had left in his blood the bitter gall of > the Lernaean hydra, flies withered and died over the festering wounds. And > close at hand the Hesperides, their white arms flung over their golden > heads, lamented shrilly; and the heroes drew near suddenly; but the maidens, > at their quick approach, at once became dust and earth where they stood.
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A variety of parched grains have been used historically as a camp ration, both for military troops on maneuvers and civilian travelers on extended overland journeys. Because parching both cooked the grains and removed most of the water content, it was useful as a way to have pre-cooked meals which could be stored or carried for extended periods, and weighed the same or slightly less than the uncooked grains. It also had the advantage that it could be eaten without re-heating it, either dry or by soaking in water, and so would both reduce cooking time in the field and allow troops to travel without any campfires at all if needed. In particular, parched rice was widely used in South and East Asia for troops well into the 20th century, including by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese Wars and World War II. It was a primary staple of the People's Liberation Army of China during the Long March as well, being one of the few items they were able to carry a significant supply of while on the move.
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