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Rowallane today
a sculpture that was formerly an oaktree now slowly and gracefully succumbing to fungal digestion.
Teenage Head - Infected
Day 4 of Transportation Week.
The Mackiniac Bridge, completed in 1957 boasted the longest suspension span in the world from 1957 until 1998 (3800 ft / 1158 meters). It crosses the 5 miles between Michigan's lower and upper peninsulas. It is 5 miles long. It is the last bridge designed and built by David Barnard Steinman who was a prolific bridge builder in the early 20th century.
The boat is a Shepler's ferry which transports people to/from Mackinac Island. This island does not allow passenger vehicles and works hard to cultivate an 1890's atmosphere. It smells like horse poo and fudge.
There is a fort on the island and an exhibit showcasing the work of Dr. William Beaumont who is considered the father of gastric physiology. Alexis St. Martin was accidently shot in the American Fur Trade store on the island. The way he healed offered Beaumont an opportunity to study how digestion occurs. In 1833, he published a book documenting the results of over 250 experiments on how different foods were digested by St. Martin. Dr. Beaumont is recognized as the first American to significantly contribute to medical research.
So there you have it. The longest span in the world for 40 years, an island with no cars, and a doctor who figured out how we digest food.
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Another feature alligators possess, is the ability to regulate body temperature by lying with its mouth open. On sunny days, alligators can be seen basking in the sun which on its own is a method of regulating body temperature, but they also open their mouths in a behavior called “gaping”. Both of these actions help allow the animal to keep a stable 77° F internal body temperature. It has also been speculated that these animals keep their mouths open to reduce the risk of a fungal infection by allowing the mouth to dry out. Basking also aids in digestion for alligators as it helps increase the metabolic rate as opposed to when the animal is in colder conditions the metabolic rate is slowed
Blick durch die Faultürme des Klärwerks Hagen auf den Harkortturm in Wetter / View through digestion towers of treatment plant in Hagen (Germany) to Harkort Tower in Wetter (Germany)
Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I love and collect 1:12 size miniatures which I photograph in realistic scenes. The artifice of recreating in minute detail items in 1:12 scale always amazes me, and it’s amazing how the eye can be fooled. Part of that artifice requires making sure that everything is in place as if the inhabitants of a room have just stepped out and will return at any moment, and I often spend far more time setting things up and adjusting the position of items, sometime by millimetres, to make it just right.
As well as photographing the miniature room as a whole, I sometimes photograph individual items within the tableau. On occasion it is so I know what is set where in a room if I decide to recreate it later, but more often than not it’s because I think the miniature artisan item deserves its own focus, be it a hand made hat, a hand painted teapot or a realistic biscuit tin containing biscuits.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 20th of November is “collage”, and whilst I have toyed and made a few different collages, I decided to use this one, to show some of the finer details that go into making a scene realistic. I hope that you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
The details I have displayed around the main photograph are from top left to top right in an anti-clockwise direction:
A black dyed straw hat with purple roses and black feathers, which was made by an unknown artisan. 1:12 size miniature hats made to such exacting standards of quality and realism are often far more expensive than real hats are. When you think that it would sit comfortably on the tip of your index finger, yet it could cost in excess of $150.00 or £100.00, it is an extravagance. American artists seem to have the monopoly on this skill and some of the hats that I have seen or acquired over the years are remarkable. This hat is part of a larger collection I bought from an American miniature collector Marilyn Bickel.
The shelves of the Welsh dresser in the background are cluttered with different patterned crockery which have come from different miniature stockists both in Australia and the United Kingdom. There are also some rather worn and beaten looking enamelled cannisters and a bread tin in the typical domestic Art Deco design and kitchen colours of the 1920s, cream and green. Aged on purpose, these artisan pieces I recently acquired from The Dolls’ House Shop in the United Kingdom. There are also tins of various foods which would have been household staples in the 1920s (when this scene is set) when canning and preservation revolutinised domestic cookery. Amongst other foods on the dresser are a jar of Marmite and some Oxo stock cubes. All these items are 1:12 size artisan miniatures made by Little Things Dollhouse Miniatures in Lancashire, with great attention to detail paid to their labels and the shapes of their jars and cans. Marmite is a food spread made from yeast extract which although considered remarkably English, was in fact invented by German scientist Justus von Liebig although it was originally made in the United Kingdom. It is a by-product of beer brewing and is currently produced by British company Unilever. The product is notable as a vegan source of B vitamins, including supplemental vitamin B. Marmite is a sticky, dark brown paste with a distinctive, salty, powerful flavour. This distinctive taste is represented in the marketing slogan: "Love it or hate it." Such is its prominence in British popular culture that the product's name is often used as a metaphor for something that is an acquired taste or tends to polarise opinion. Oxo is a brand of food products, including stock cubes, herbs and spices, dried gravy, and yeast extract. The original product was the beef stock cube, and the company now also markets chicken and other flavour cubes, including versions with Chinese and Indian spices. The cubes are broken up and used as flavouring in meals or gravy or dissolved into boiling water to produce a bouillon. Oxo produced their first cubes in 1910 and further increased Oxo's popularity.
Sitting on the table in the foreground of the main photo is a McVitie and Price’s Small Petite Beurre Biscuits tin, containing a selection of different biscuits. The biscuits were made by hand of polymer clay by former chef turned miniature artisan, Frances Knight. Her work is incredibly detailed and realistic, and she says that she draws her inspiration from her years as a chef and her imagination. McVitie's (Originally McVitie and Price) is a British snack food brand owned by United Biscuits. The name derives from the original Scottish biscuit maker, McVitie and Price, Ltd., established in 1830 on Rose Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company moved to various sites in the city before completing the St. Andrews Biscuit Works factory on Robertson Avenue in the Gorgie district in 1888. The company also established one in Glasgow and two large manufacturing plants south of the border, in Heaton Chapel, Stockport, and Harlesden, London (where Edith’s father works). McVitie and Price's first major biscuit was the McVitie's Digestive, created in 1892 by a new young employee at the company named Alexander Grant, who later became the managing director of the company. The biscuit was given its name because it was thought that its high baking soda content served as an aid to food digestion. The McVitie's Chocolate Homewheat Digestive was created in 1925. Although not their core operation, McVitie's were commissioned in 1893 to create a wedding cake for the royal wedding between the Duke of York and Princess Mary, who subsequently became King George V and Queen Mary. This cake was over two metres high and cost one hundred and forty guineas. It was viewed by 14,000 and was a wonderful publicity for the company. They received many commissions for royal wedding cakes and christening cakes, including the wedding cake for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip and Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Under United Biscuits McVitie's holds a Royal Warrant from Queen Elizabeth II.
In the foreground on the table there are several packets of Edwardian cleaning and laundry brands that were in common use in the early Twentieth Century in every household, rich or poor. These are Sunlight Soap, Robin’s Starch, Jumbo Blue and Imp Washer Soap. All these packets were made by Little Things Dollhouse Miniatures in Lancashire. Sunlight Soap was first introduced in 1884 by William Hesketh Lever (1st Viscount Leverhulme) and introduced to the market in 1904. It was produced at Port Sunlight in Wirrel, Merseyside, a model village built by Lever Brothers for the workers of their factories which produced the popular soap brands Lux, Lifebuoy and Sunlight. Before the invention of aerosol spray starch, the product of choice in many homes of all classes was Robin starch. Robin Starch was a stiff white powder like cornflour to which water had to be added. When you made up the solution, it was gloopy, sticky with powdery lumps, just like wallpaper paste or grout. The garment was immersed evenly in that mixture and then it had to be smoothed out. All the stubborn starchy lumps had to be dissolved until they were eliminated – a metal spoon was good for bashing at the lumps to break them down. Robins Starch was produced by Reckitt and Sons who were a leading British manufacturer of household products, notably starch, black lead, laundry blue, and household polish. They also produced Jumbo Blue, which was a whitener added to a wash to help delay the yellowing effect of older cotton. Rekitt and Sons were based in Kingston upon Hull. Isaac Reckitt began business in Hull in 1840, and his business became a private company Isaac Reckitt and Sons in 1879, and a public company in 1888. The company expanded through the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. It merged with a major competitor in the starch market J. and J. Colman in 1938 to form Reckitt and Colman.
Sitting atop a stack of neatly folded 1:12 size linens sits a wicker sewing basket. Sitting open it has needles stuck into the padded lid, whilst inside it are a tape measure, knitting needles, balls of wool, reels of cotton and a pair of shears. All the items and the basket, except for the shears, are hand made by Mrs. Denton of Muffin Lodge in the United Kingdom. The taupe knitting on the two long pins that serve as knitting needles is properly knitted and cast on. The shears with black handles in the basket open and close. Made of metal, they came from Doreen Jeffries’ Small Wonders Miniature Shop in the United Kingdom. The blue cotton reel and silver sewing scissors come from an E-Bay stockist of miniatures based in the United Kingdom.
In the foreground on the table there is a packet of Edwardian soap that was in common use in the early Twentieth Century in every household, rich or poor. This is Imp Washer Soap. The packet was made by Little Things Dollhouse Miniatures in Lancashire. Imp Washer Soap was manufactured by T. H. Harris and Sons Limited, a soap manufacturers, tallow melters and bone boiler. Introduced after the Great War, Imp Washer Soap was a cheaper alternative to the more popular brands like Sunlight, Hudsons and Lifebuoy soaps. Imp Washer Soap was advertised as a free lathering and economical cleaner. T. H. Harris and Sons Limited also sold Mazo soap energiser which purported to improve the quality of cleaning power of existing soaps.
Sitting on the large kitchen range in the background is a 1:12 miniature replica of a copper kettle and a steel iron. The kettle’s lid may be removed.
Sitting on the table is a cottage ware teapot. Made by French ceramicist and miniature artisan Valerie Casson, it has been decorated authentically and matches in perfect detail its life-size Price Washington ‘Ye Olde Cottage Teapot’ counterparts. The top part of the thatched roof and central chimney form the lid, just like the real thing. Valerie Casson is renown for her meticulously crafted and painted miniature ceramics.
Young Bald Eagle was posing for the crowd at Crescent Beach and then decided to regurgitate remains of his last meal. He also pooped and then happily flew away :)
Didn't eat the pizza. Disappeared and ate 1.5 KG of dry kitten food instead. Herring and Orange Peel. Puked 5 times. At 1 acre of grass afterwards. 1 gallon of water.
That dog's constant digestion atrocities have aged me.
The walk around Lake Braies afforded some beautiful images, that September morning... a spirit of harmony pervades that place!
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Date fruits (Phoenix dactylifera) or Chhuhare are rich in essential vitamins, minerals, and powerful antioxidants. The fruits help in improving digestion, boosting cardiovascular health and energy, and may combat anemia. Dried dates make your skin bright.
Si estás buscando alternativas a la leche de vaca, la de almendras puede ser una buena y nutritiva opción, tanto para niños como para adultos (e incluso ancianos).
Si las proteínas de origen animal puede ser dañinas por contener un exceso de purinas que puede llevar a ocasionar toxinas innecesarias en el organismo, las de origen vegetal son una opción en general más saludable.
De más fácil digestión, la leche de almendras se presenta además como una alternativa acorde para las personas que sufren de alergias alimentarias. Rica en potasio, buena fuente de calcio y fósforo, aporta buena cantidad de fibras (tanto solubles como insolubles)y de aceite linoleico (beneficioso contra el colesterol malo). Dentro de las vitaminas, destaca su proporción de A, E, B1 y B2.
La preparación casera de la leche de almendras es sencilla: sólo deben pelarse y licuar con agua. Aunque dependerá del gusto de cada uno, por lo general, con unas 15 almendras por vaso será suficiente.
Para pelarlas, se pueden sumergir en agua hirviendo durante un par de minutos. Luego, se deberán licuar las almendras peladas con el vaso de agua. Podrás consumirla al natural, azucarada o con edulcorante, según tus preferencias personales.
Finalmente, destaquemos algunos de las propiedades de la leche de almendras: a nivel cardiovascular, es de ayuda para las personas que sufren de colesterol o triglicéridos elevados; y es adecuada para los sujetos que hayan sufrido cuadros de diarreas o vómitos gracias a su alto contenido de potasio y bajo en sodio.
Otras ventajas incluyen que es de alivio para los casos de gastritis, y que gracias a su buena relación calcio / fósforo es ideal para todas las etapas de la vida; además, protege las paredes intestinales gracias a su alto porcentaje de fibra y ayuda a mejorar el tránsito intestinal.
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El nombre de diente de león con el que popularmente se conoce en casi todos los idiomas se debe a la forma de sus hojas recortadas, de forma parecida a dientes agudos y curvos. Sin embargo, otros nombres con los que también se conoce hacen referencia a sus propiedades.En el pasado, el uso del diente de león era para estimular la producción de bilis y de orina. En el siglo XVI se consolida su utilización y se describen sus propiedades diuréticas resultantes de aumentar la producción de orina, y su doble acción sobre el hígado: por un lado estimula la producción de bilis (efecto colerético) y, por el otro, su vaciado desde la vesícula biliar hacia el duodeno, facilitando la digestión de las grasas. Este doble efecto a nivel hepático y renal y su acción suavemente laxante hacen que el diente de león se considere una buena planta depurativa y digestiva.
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It's game over for this white-vented myna. Though the hawk doesn't mind finishing everything from meat, feathers to bone which require for proper digestion, sometimes too much feathers may spoil the taste as this juve has learned.
At night, the four digesters of the Bottrop wastewater treatment plant, which are over 50 meters high, are illuminated in blue.
I've always loved these cute heads, beautiful colours in all the green.
Sweetest to eat if you harvest them when they are starting to flower in summertime.
Both the leaves and the flowers of red clover can be eaten, and they are nice to have in salads.
This flower has long historical traditions like a blood-cleansing herb that also dilutes the blood, promotes digestion and stimulates detoxification of the body through the function of liver and gallbladder.
There is always something to know about flowers.
Always check out how to deal with them yourself if you intend to use them :D
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This individual had seemingly swallowed a young Spotted Deer, in any case something large enough to keep it inactive, in this position, one afternoon. I understood that this constrictor needed to wrap itself around a tree, to break down the bones of its prey, to aid with the digestion, but this individual seemed like it had swallowed more than it could crush. However, no sign of the snake the next morning, and hoping it is in a better position to help with its digestion!
Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, Aug 2021
CARE GUIDE FOR CORGI PUPPY
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1. FEEDING & FRESH WATER:
Please make sure you have plenty of water and food supply around for your puppy. To refill the food simple touch the bowl for a
menu and select "REFILL WATER" or "REFILL KIBBLE".
You can also call out to all pets and make them eat by selecting "CALL TO EAT" and "CALL TO DRINK".
Q: DO I NEED TO BUY FOOD?
A: No you do not have to. Simple refill the bowl.
2. INTERACTING WITH PUPPY:
You can touch your pet for a menu that pops up or you can play tag with your whistle!
Wear your pet and travel around with it and it will play walking and standing animations. Wearing your pet DOES not affect its health.
Also if you're roaming in a rezzable land, you can make ur pet follow you around by selecing "follow" from the menu, Select it again
to turn it off or you can tell your pet to stay.
3. GIVING TREATS:
LIVERNUGGETS: Only for training use! Drop a liver treat into you pet's main prim after it has successfully done a trick! This will
increase your pet's training level faster than just commanding it to do things.
DENTAL CHEW: It's good to clean your puppy's teeth once in a while! Give after selecting "GIVE BONE" in your pet's Menu!
OTHERS: It's dangerous to give other things to your pet as this will mess up their digestion system. Your pet may get either sick
or stops functioning all together! So please make sure to give the right things to your pet!
4. NEEDS:
Besides Hunger and thirst, your pet has needs to go to the toilet! First it will look for newspaper.. When your newspaper is full, they
will start pooping and peeing around. Having poo and pee around will damage your pet's health. So make sure your pet's surrounding
is kept clean and tidy!
Q.HOW DO I REMOVE THE POO AND PEE?
A: Touch the poo and pee to delete them.
5. WHAT TO DO WHEN PUPPY IS SICK:
When your pet is hungry or thirsty for long periods of time, it will start to afect their health too! When they get sick, they will not
teleport or move to you. Instead they will reply you with "I'm sick". You can locate your sick pets by pressing on their name that pops up
in local chat.This will give you the exact location of your puppy.
You can get medicine from our mainstore that you place near your pet. touch your pet to bring up a menu, choose "MEDICATE" and touch
your heal potion. THis should revive ur pet to 100% health.;
Q: CAN MY PET DIE?
A: Yes it can. WHen left sick for prolonged periods of time. It will eventually pass on leaving a sad stone tomb as memory.
6. TRAINING:
Your puppy can do all sorts of tricks! Depending on its training level you can make them perform tricks like "sit", "stand" etc..
If your puppy's training is successful, drop him a liver treat to boost his train level even faster!. Train points are not given for
failed tricks.
7. WHISTLE :
Your pet comes with 2 whistle. One to be worn on the mouth and one on the HUD.
MOUTH WHISTLE: Type "COME" on local chat to activate your whistle.
HUD WHISTLE: You can either choose "COME" or "TELEPORT" with the HUD whistle. Teleport will cause your pet to come to you
in an instant, whereas "COME" , your pet will slowly walk towards you.
CAUTION:: Pets will respond to all whistles even if they're not owned by you. They take some time to respond when they
are performing other task. PETS WILL NOT RESPOND WHEN SLEEPING.
8. DOs AND DON'Ts:
^ DO keep your pet in an enclosed space so that it doesnt roam too far away. Also remember to "SETHOME" when you move it elsewhere.
^ DO NOT leave your pet out for too long without care. They will either starve or get surrounded with too much poop and pee that
it WILL make them sick. If you're intending to be gone for a long time. Please put your pet in your inventory.
^ DO NOT keep too many puppies at one time as it will LAG the place!!!
^ DO NOT Rez your pet on a mesh item. Rez it on a prim or ground to prevent inventory loss.
9. PET GENDER: Your puppy's gender is determined randomly when it is born. You can't change it.
10: BREEDING: THIS IS NOT A BREEDABLE!
11. GROWTH: Your puppies will grow! Depending on it's age!
11.UPDATES: If you see an "UPDATE" option its for future use when we have updates for your puppy. For now it simply puts ur pet to sleep for a few minutes... You will get free updates as long as your pet is alive.
12. RESET SCRIPTS: If you find that your pet is acting Wierdly. Select "reset scripts" from your settings menu to fix this. For position fix simply click teleport on your whistle it should fix rotation.
------------NEW BUG FIX------------------(V1.1: 19 JAN 2004)
* No more running through walls if walls or OUT of walls. Does not work if it's hollowed prim box. It has to be SOLID prim.
*Does not drag avatar into midair when worn. Stops moving when attached.
*New set range option (2,5,20,30)M away from home position.
*Auto fixes itself when falling over.
*Training feature does not give error and deletes correct items.
*Updater scripts has correct perms and does not affect inventory.
*Registration works data stored in database successfully at birth.
*Perms are now no mod no copy, TRANSER OK.
*Water and food bowl updates itself when refilled. Food decreases at slower rate.
*Removed detach feature since it causes puppy to get lost in inventory.
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Another early morning alarm at half four, as Thursday is supposed to be even hotter than yesterday.
We have some water, but its really too early for anything else, and I'm not going to pay for a small cup of Nescafe!
We climb into the vehicles at half five, and move off to the Park offices to clear our paperwork and collect our guide.
Then a twenty minute drive to the gate to Magdhi Gate where our checked paperwork and passports are double-checked.
Fifteen minutes behind schedule, we drive in, and up a lumpy bumpy track to the grassy plains beyond. Here we hoped to see elephants, but didn't. Quite how 30 vehicles all failed to find a single elephant is a mystery.
We drove for a hour before the shout went up, that a tiger had been seen. We cruised over to find the tiger walking through some woods on its way to a watering hole.
But already the craziness was taking hold, as the drivers failed to leave enough room for the tiger to cross the road, this was put right with some shouting, and he wandered off into the bush.
He was later re-seen having caught and killed a cow, eating it just on the edge of visibility, dragging the carcass round to get to the best bits.
Then he was hungry, and the race came to guess where he would cross the road and to jockey for position.
This was nothing compared to what happened next.
The tiger approached, again to find the road full of jeeps, and again a space was cleared so he reached the road at the far end of the group. The tiger ambled off, and that should have been that, but once one driver broke ranks to get as close as possible, all drivers did, so there was the scene of about twenty jeeps, four abreast, tooting horns, revving engines trying to chase the tiger, having already twice that morning disrupted the tiger's behaviour.
We left the scene and went to breakfast.
After which, the jeeps congregated at the watering hole, all was fine until the tiger showed, and you could hear the revving engines of jeeps just arrived, trying to get through where there was no gap.
Which is when there was an accident.
There was an almighty crash and then came the shouting. Meanwhile the tiger reached the watering hole and had a soak.
Not much else to report of the trip, so we returned to the park gates, dropping the guide off at the offices, then back to camp for an hour or so relaxation until dinner at one.
And big news!: there was chips to choose from. My digestion wept with joy.
Jools and I then had an hour's snooze, but upon waking at three, she didn't feel like going, so I went for the afternoon safari on my own.
We went to the area we all visited yesterday, and right away found a cub basking in one of the watering holes.
Only problem is that there is only viewing for two jeeps there, and a long wait can be had to get your turn, even if that is possible
We joined the queue, and Americans in front of us with huge telephotos and asses to match, would not let the driver move, hogging one of the view points.
We managed to get past them, then when we got to the front, the cub got up and walked into the grass, us getting shots all the time.
We left, but then new came that the mother and two more cubs arrived, we wanted to go back, but the line was worse and we would be at the back. So, the driver reversed us up to the "exit", and from there we were able to see all four tigers interacting. But it also meant when the first jeep left, we had to move to let it out.
We moved on.
We went to the spot we had seen the single tiger yesterday, and stayed half an hour. There were some alarm calls but they stopped, and when I said I didn't want to back to the first place, it was agreed we wouldn't.
News then came of a second family group, a fifteen minute drive away. So off we went down a little used track, bumpy, lumpy and going up to a ridge.
And when we got there, a mother and four cubs were lazing around, mostly just out of sight. But on almost adult cub, decided to go hunting. Hunting for peacock.
Just play really, but suddenly the tiger broke into a sprint, we all tried to keep up with it as it ran along the track, in and out of view.
Peacocks and monkeys scattered, and the tiger caught nothing
Although it was only about 16 C, I still managed to turn up this hunting Chinese habu (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus), curled on a wall in Daganshan. All through February it has been a similar tale, with few snakes around and most of them being vipers. It makes me think that this may reflect the fact that other snakes find it difficult to digest food in such low temperatures, but the cytotoxic venom of vipers helps them begin the digestion before they have even swallowed their meal. Scientists believe that this is why both the most northerly and southerly-living snakes are both species of viper.
Rocky mountain mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus)
Touchet River, Wainsburg, Washington
This species is identified as a ‘Priority Species’ by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and require protective measures for their survival.
Mule deer are the largest deer in Washington with adult buck (males) weigh up to 113 kg (250 lbs); adult doe (females) weigh 54 to 77 kg (120 to 170 lbs).
They are known for their uniquely large ears resembling those of a mule, earning them the species name hemionus meaning ‘half-mule’.
Deer eat rapidly and, being ruminants, initially chew their food only enough to swallow it. This food is stored in a stomach called the “rumen.” From there it is regurgitated, then re-chewed before being swallowed again, entering a second stomach where digestion begins. From there it is passed into a third and then a fourth stomach, finally entering the intestine.
Sadly few deer live longer than ten years, and most live for no more than five.
Grebes eat their own feathers to slow down digestion.. The eat small fish, brine shrimp and aquatic insects, which have rigid exoskeletons, making them both tough to digest and potentially damaging to the intestines.
The feathers enter a three-part stomach — first a storage chamber, then a gizzard, and lastly a pouch - and form dense balls in both the gizzard and final pouch. This appears to slow the passage of food long enough that the food can be safely liquified. The tough bits are then regurgitated within a ball of feathers, much the way owls spit up pellets of bones from their prey.
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Thor was on the stall having some digestion issues from the Taco Bell extra spicy tacos. Suddenly, he had explosive diarrhea and zapped the poor city below.
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Previously I had only ever seen these flying or tucked away, high up in the tree canopy, so it was great to be able to have a good look at this Red-faced Mousebird as it climbed about in the top half of a small tree in our hotel grounds. These are fascinating birds, named because they resemble mice as they scurry through the leaves and branches in search of food. The order of Mousebirds is confined entirely to Africa. Bacteria aid digestion of the fruit, leaves, flowers and nectar that makes up their diet, and they are known to sun their bellies after feeding to speed up fermentation.
zenaida caribeña o tórtola zenaida / zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita)
La zenaida caribeña o tórtola zenaida (Zenaida aurita) es un ave columbiformes de la familia Columbidae. Es el ave nacional de Anguila. Suele poner dos huevos.
La tórtola zenaida suele medir entre 28-30 cm y poner dos huevos. Generalmente ser objeto de caza deportiva.
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The zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita) is a member of the bird family Columbidae, which includes doves and pigeons. It is the national bird of Anguilla, where it is commonly (but erroneously) referred to as a turtle dove. It lays two white eggs on a flimsy platform built on a tree or shrub. It also nests in rock crevices and on grassy vegetation if no predators are present. It has been recorded that some birds have up to 4 broods per year. Eggs take approximately two weeks to hatch, and the young chicks typically fledge after only two weeks in the nest. Parents feed the young pigeon's milk, a nutrient rich substance regurgitated from its crop.
These birds forage on the ground, mainly eating grains and seeds, sometimes also on insects. Zenaida doves frequently feed close to water. They often swallow fine gravel to assist with digestion, and will also ingest salt from mineral rich soils or livestock salt licks. It is thought the salt aids in egg formation and/or production of pigeon milk.
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Lugar de Observacion / Taken: Lago Enriquillo (Enriquillo Lake), Republica Dominicana / Dominican Republic
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Columbiformes
Family:Columbidae
Genus:Zenaida
Species:Z. aurita
Binomial name
Zenaida aurita
Que maravilla a quién lo visita
¡ ese pequeño rincón astur ,
pesquero de tradición . . . . . . .
. . . . . siempre lleno de turistas,
lo contemplan con admiración .
¡ Cudillero marinero ! . . . . . . . .
¡ cocineros de restauración ,
trabajando con mucha pasión
gastronomía de buena digestión
¡ Volver , volver con ilusión !
La Risa como Sanación
12/06/2013
Riendo y RiendoTodos sabemos que la risa y el buen humor nos hace sentir bien, nos relaja y ayuda a reducir la gravedad de los acontecimientos, pero ¿sanarnos?
Numerosos estudios han demostrado los efectos benéficos de la risa a nivel físico, emocional y mental; actuando como una maravillosa medicina.
La Risoterapia ha llevado la risa a nivel terapeútico aprovechando estos efectos, y las actuaciones de payasos en hospitales ya es algo cotidiano.
En 1979, Norman Cousins publicó “Anatomía de una Enfermedad“, donde cuenta cómo la risa le ayudó a sanar de una enfermedad terminal.
Anatomia de una EnfermedadSe considera que Cousins fue el primero que expuso públicamente la relación entre el humor y la salud. Se le diagnosticó de una enfermedad del tejido conectivo, espondilitis anquilosante, que le producía grandes dolores; era un caso severo y le pronosticaron sólo unos meses de vida.
Cousins sabía del efecto terapéutico del estado de ánimo, así que comenzó su “propia terapia”: ver películas de los hermanos Marx y de Charles Chaplin. Decidió abandonar el hospital y toda la medicación, se instaló en la habitación de un hotel donde un amigo médico le suministraba de forma intravenosa grandes dosis de Hermanos Marx Cartelvitamina C y se dedicó a ver estas comedias, hasta que recuperó su salud a carcajada limpia.
“Diez minutos de verdadera risa, de esa que le hace doler a uno la barriga, tenía un efecto anestésico y me procuraba dos horas de sueño sin dolo … Hay que reirse con ganas, con la boca, con los ojos, con el cuerpo y el alma.”
El artículo “La Risa y el Cine – Norman Cousins y como la Risa le cambió la Vida“, destaca los beneficios físicos de ver una comedia, y menciona el siguiente estudio:
“En el Unitika Central Hospital (Japon) sometieron a 26 individuos con dermatitis alérgica a los ácaros del polvo a distintos alérgenos, y posteriormente les pasaron la película Tiempos modernos, de Charles Chaplin. Unos días después realizaron el mismo experimento pero con una película no cómica. Los resultados mostraron que la reacción alérgica de los pacientes era mucho menor en el caso de la película de Charlot.”
El Dr. Lee Berk, profesor de patología en la Universidad de Loma Linda en California, es uno de los principales investigadores en el mundo sobre la salud y el buen humor. En 1989 publicó en el American Journal of Medical Science el estudio “Neuroendocrine and Stress Changes during Mirthful Laughter” (Cambios Neuroendocrinos y en el estrés durante una buena Risa).
El Dr. Berk examinó las muestras de sangre de sujetos antes y después de ver vídeos cómicos y las comparó con el grupo que no vió los vídeos; y resultó que en el primer grupo las hormonas relacionadas con el estrés habían disminuido de forma considerable .
Interesante ver el vídeo “Dr. Lee Berk proves Laughter can actually be the best Medicine” (El Dr. Lee Berk demuestra que la Risa puede de hecho ser la mejor Medicina). Comenta que pacientes cardiacos libro_psicoterapiaque han seguido media hora de risas diariamente han disminuido su medicación.
El libro “El Humor y el Bienestar en las Intervenciones Clínicas“, ofrece una serie de artículos sobre el humor y la psicoterapia, y dice que,
“El humor cambia a la persona…. Nos rasguea como si fuésemos una enorme guitarra.”
La Risoterapia es la terapia destinada a mejorar el estado físico y psicológico a través de la risa, enseña a reir con todo el cuerpo. A través de la danza, la música, juegos; se llega hasta la risa, real o forzada. Ambas ofrecen los mismos beneficios fisiológicos y psicológicos.
La Alegria es GratisDe ahí la importancia de las actuaciones de payasos en los hospitales, sobre todo con niños. Los niños están mucho más dispuestos a reírse que los adultos, ríen un promedio de 300 veces al día, mientras que un adulto lo hace entre 15 y 100 veces.
Un estudio llevado a cabo en el País Vasco, “El efecto terapéutico del buen humor en los cuidados paliativos: a propósito de Patch Adams (1998) y Planta 4ª (2003)“, revisa estas dos películas donde se muestra cómo el sentido del humor mejora la calidad de vida de los enfermos.
Patch Adam“El cuidado holístico que la OMS pide para los enfermos en fase terminal incorpora, cuando sea posible y esté indicado, la utilización del sentido del humor de un modo cortés y espontáneo porque el final de la vida es también un periodo útil para compartir momentos de risa e ingenio como otra forma de influir en la mejora de la calidad de vida del paciente y de sus familiares…. El humor y la risa pueden estimular una actitud positiva y de esperanza y da una nueva perspectiva a nuestros problemas”
Resumiendo, la Risa nos ofrece los siguientes beneficios:
Efectos de la RisaEleva el umbral de tolerancia al dolor, efecto analgésico.
Disminuye los indicadores hormonales relacionados con el estrés, aumenta las hormonas del “bienestar”.
Activa y mejora nuestro sistema inmunológico.
Activa casi 400 músculos de nuestro cuerpo.
Se acelera el ritmo cardiaco y aumenta la circulación, fortaleciendo el corazón y dilatando los vasos sanguíneos.
La capacidad pulmonar aumenta, lo que supone una mejor ventilación. Se ha calculado que 20 segundos de risa tiene el mismo efecto que 3 minutos de ejercicio físico constante.
Provoca un “masaje” a los órganos internos, favoreciendo los procesos de digestión y de eliminación.
Mejora nuestro humor, aporta vitalidad, energía, incrementa la actividad cerebral.
Es un estímulo eficaz contra el estrés, la depresión, la tristeza.
Cuando uno se ríe no piensa en otra cosa, ayuda a parar la mente.
Ponga unas buenas carcajadas en su vida hasta tener agujetas en la barriga, su salud se lo agradecerá.
Cheetah with tum full of springbok. We missed the chase (not sorry) but saw the aftermath. A pair had gorged themselves and were waiting for the digestion thing to happen before going back for seconds.
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Shot in my back garden. This spider had two wasps neatly wound in silk and he is seen here with one fang at least pumping enzymes into the wasp to break down the tissue to a soup like consistency which it then sucks back into its own stomach.
Agosto. 1985. 15:00 h
-!Abuela me voy con la bici!
-¿Dónde vas a estas horas con el calor que hace?
-Me voy a dar una vuelta!
-Te va a dar una insolación! , no has hecho la digestión. No quieres ir más tarde?
-Voy ahora... porfi... (Imaginaros a una niña de 10 años, pelo corto alborotado rizado y poniendo ojitos. Evidentemente ninguna abuela se puede resistir)
En cuanto daban las vacaciones en el cole mi hermana y yo solíamos ir al pueblo , una pequeña aldea cerca de Astorga (León).
Recuerdo perfectamente el día en que me compraron mi bici roja. La llené de pegatinas que me salían en los bollicaos. Se podría decir que estaba obsesionada con estar todo el día tirada en la calle con ella.
En el pueblo se pueden hacer cosas que no podía hacer en la ciudad. !Ir por la carretera!
El paisaje era espigas de trigo a ambos lados creciendo junto con otras flores silvestres. Rodeada de naturaleza inspiraba ese aire sintiéndome la reina del asfalto.
Recuerdo mi itinerario a la perfección. Cuando venía una curva, un desnivel, cuando había más cuesta y tenía que esforzarme un poco más, pero sobre todo cuando venía lo más flipante que era la bajada ¡Para ni siquiera tener que pedalear!
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Audio: Bycicle (Queen)
“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London
“Take time each day to sit still and listen to things. Pay attention to the melody of life that vibrates within you.” Buddha
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One of the faces of Rett Syndrome.
Rett syndrome is a unique developmental disorder that is first recognized in infancy and seen almost always in girls, but can be rarely seen in boys.
Rett syndrome has been most often misdiagnosed as autism, cerebral palsy, or non-specific developmental delay
Rett syndrome is caused by mutations on the X chromosome on a gene called MECP2. There are more than 200 different mutations found on the MECP2 gene. Most of these mutations are found in eight different “hot spots.”
Rett syndrome strikes all racial and ethnic groups, and occurs worldwide in 1 of every 10,000 to 23,000 female births.
Rett syndrome is a developmental disorder. It is not a degenerative disorder.
Rett syndrome causes problems in brain function that are responsible for cognitive, sensory, emotional, motor and autonomic function. These can include learning, speech, sensory sensations, mood, movement, breathing, cardiac function, and even chewing, swallowing, and digestion.
See www.rettsyndrome.com for more information.
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
Jack London … Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world. There is only so much water, so much earth, so much air; but the life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents. Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.
Jack London
Se acercó al borde de la piscina. Los reflejos del sol le atraían, el calor en su espalda le animaba a una buena zambullida, y cada segundo que pasaba deseaba sumergirse y nadar. Y ese azul profundo y voluptuoso que le atraía y atraía y atraía.
Pero era una chica obediente y jamás hacía algo que no estuviera permitido…y no estaba permitido bañarse después de comer, mientras todos dormían la siesta…¡¡dos horas de digestión!! ¡Dos horas de diversión robadas a la vida!!. Y cuando se tienen catorce años, como Marina, solo quiere una divertirse y explorar.
Cuando se tienen catorce años, como Marina, solo apetece soñar mientras los demás duermen la siesta, sentirse distinta, nueva, valiente, decidida, independiente y mayor. No sabe qué quiere hacer, ni dónde, ni cuándo, ni de qué manera, ni con quién, ni para qué…pero quiere hacer muchas cosas, todas sin definir, que la inquietan como le inquieta ese azul profundo y voluptuoso que le atrae y atrae y atrae.
Acercó el pié al borde y jugó a emborracharse con los reflejos que iban y venían, generando una sensación de vértigo muy placentera. Todo flota, y brilla, y se refleja y tanto brillo ciega profundamente a Marina, que empieza a ver luces de colores.
De repente, percibió una sombra en el fondo de la piscina. Parecía una mujer desnuda , de pie o tumbada, no se distinguía bien, pero hacía unos segundos no estaba allí, ni la había visto llegar nadando o buceando. Esa mujer flota en el agua observando a Marina, no deja de mirarla, inquietante y persistente, hasta que, aquel azul profundo y voluptuoso que le atraía y atraía y atraía se apoderó de ella, la secuestró casi con violencia, la atrapó, revolvió todo el agua, sus brillos y reflejos como en un gran oleaje, y la envolvió hasta sumergirla en lo más profundo del lago, porque la piscina se había transformado en un lago donde Marina flotó y nadó, sintiéndose una sirena solitaria y secuestrada. Solitaria y perdida, solitaria y asustada.
Cada vez más asustada, sentía que se iba hundiendo y fundiendo con la imagen de la mujer que persistentemente la miraba y la había secuestrado, empezando a sentir que formaba parte de aquella, en un único cuerpo indisoluble, una sirena, sí, pero libre.
Libre flotó bajo las aguas del lago, hasta que notó una mano en su hombro.
"Marina, hija no tomes el sol después de comer sin protección, te vas a quemar"...
Marina no entiende nada, guiña los ojos, balbucea, pregunta, no obtiene respuestas...
Por la noche, al acostarse, mientras su madre le embadurna de crema porque efectivamente, se ha quemado, le dice..."Te siento extraña, Marina"... "tus ojos ... tu gesto...tu postura...algo ha cambiado en tí"..."¿estás bien?"
Y Marina sonríe... porque sabe que empieza a estar bien. Ahora sabe que la mujer del lago ha entrado en ella y nunca más le abandonará.