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Bladder campion....a very common wildflower locally.... Sometimes it is redder in colour....
Internet info
"Bladder campion. A. Plant. B. Flower.
Stems & Roots: Root system a coarse, whitish taproot with numerous, deeply penetrating and widely spreading wiry branches, very persistent (tolerant of cultivation); stems 30 - 60 cm (1 - 2 ft) high, erect or spreading, smooth, light green to whitish with a waxy bloom (fine powdery coating), usually swollen at the nodes; leaves opposite (2 per node), narrowly oval, tapered, deep green or whitish with a waxy bloom, the margins without teeth but occasionally wavy or curled and appearing toothed.
Flowers & Fruit: Flowers in branching clusters; sepals united and forming a bladder-like calyx, light green or pinkish with darker green or purplish veins and 5 very short teeth at the end; petals 5, deeply lobed, white to pinkish, about 1.5 cm (¾ in.) across when open, soon curling up and shriveling after pollination; seedpods nearly spherical, about 6 mm (¼ in.) long, enclosed by the loose, papery, bladder-like calyx; seeds grayish, kidney-shaped, 1.5 mm (1/16 in.) across, rough with tiny warty bumps. Flowers from mid-June to September.
Habitat: Bladder campion occurs throughout Ontario in medium to coarse soils in well-drained locations. It is common in pastures, waste places, roadsides, open woods, gardens, lawns and hedges, but is rather uncommon in regularly cultivated fields."
Highdown Gardens near Worthing, West Sussex.
From Wikipedia -
Silene vulgaris, Silene cucubalus or Bladder Campion is a plant species of the genus Silene of the Pink Family (Caryophyllaceae). It is native to Europe, where in some parts it is eaten, but is widespread in North America where it is considered a weed.
However in Spain, the young shoots and the leaves are used as food. The tender leaves may be eaten raw in salads. The older leaves are usually eaten boiled or fried, sauteed with garlic as well as in omelettes.
Formerly in La Mancha region of Spain, where Silene vulgaris leaves are valued as a green vegetable, there were people known as "collejeros" who picked these plants and sold them. Leaves are small and narrow, so it takes many plants to obtain a sizeable amount.
In La Mancha the Silene vulgaris leaves, locally known as "collejas", were mainly used to prepare a dish called gazpacho viudo (widower gazpacho). The ingredients were flatbread known as tortas de gazpacho and a stew prepared with Silene vulgaris leaves. The reference to a widower originated in the fact that this dish was only eaten when meat was scarce and the leaves were emergency or lean-times food, a substitute for an essential ingredient. Other dishes prepared with these leaves in Spain include "potaje de garbanzos y collejas", "huevos revueltos con collejas" and "arroz con collejas".
In Crete it is called Agriopapoula (Αγριοπάπουλα) and the locals eat its leaves and tender shoots browned in olive oil.
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej cancelled a public appearance to mark his 87th birthday, on medical advice. This did not prevent many Thai Nationals based in Ireland from celebrating his official birthday at the teachers club on Parnell Square in Dublin.
King Bhumibol, the world's longest-reigning monarch, was last seen in public in November. He has spent the past few months in hospital and recently underwent an operation to remove his gall bladder. Crowds of supporters dressed in yellow, the colour of the monarchy, massed outside the hospital in Bangkok on Friday to wish him well.
There is deep affection for the king in Thailand and within the Thai community here in Dublin.
I very much appreciated the invitation to attend the celebration today ... thanks!
08/30/2012 140118 -- San Antonio, TX..Surgery using Da Vinci surgical system at University Hospital. Live tweet of da Vinci robot-assisted bladder removal or cystectomy with total-intracorporeal urinary diversion..Dr. Robert Svatek.67 year old male patient. - Consented
Bladder Snail - Physa spp. [more of this species]
Bladder snails look a little like pond snails but the main different is the sinistral shell (left handed). If you have the pointy part of the shell up, the aperture would be on the left. Also, they have long antennae, and not triangular.
Date: January 31, 2010
Location: Hampstead [more at this location]
Country: United Kingdom
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Aisha Jusuf Ali, 70, walks to fill her bottle from a water bladder at camp for internally displaced people in Uusgure village, Puntland, Somalia.The Internally Displaced People put their funds together and managed to buy two water bladders for the camp. The IDP's in Uusgure village are pastorals who moved there after they lost their livelihood due to the current drought. They lost almost all their livestock, camels and goats, on which they depend on to survive.
Read more about FAO and the drought in Somalia.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Karel Prinsloo. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO
Bladder Cicada (Cystosoma saundersii) near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Photographed on 11 January 2005
I am not sure if it holds clean water or the other stuff. This might be the water supply for the shower tent next to the latrine. I guess I didn't investigate closely enough.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladder_campion
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Day 4, and time to say farewell to lovely Krk. Hazel and I took an early morning stroll back to the Titanic Bar spit for some photos from the water front. Total tranquility. Breakfast and then off in the minibus back to Krčki most (Krk bridge) and the mainland. The drive down the Jadranska magistrala coast road was fabulous, and after stocking up with supplies in Senj, we turned inland and zig zagged up into the Velebit mountains.
At the entrance to Northern Velebit National Park we said farewell to the minibus (which took our bags on up to Zavižan), donned boots and day packs and headed off into the Park's forests and high mountain meadows. A lovely walk - lots of flowers - brought us to Zavižan (1597m). From the mountain hut there are fabulous views out over the mountains and forests of Velebit and back out over the coast to the islands and the Adriatic.
After lunch, and a taste of the warden's rakia, Edo led The Ladies down to the Botanical Gardens - a bowl-shaped depression (technically a sink hole or - given the karst terrain - a doline) where examples of Velebit flora have been gathered together, with many also labelled. I had a field day. Part way round the Gardens, we turned left and climbed through the woods and on up through the scrub pines to the peak of Veliki Zavižan (Great Zavižan) at 1676m. A steep climb, and worth it for the views. Edo got his "this is why I love my job" photo; and in honour of *that* Mammia Mia evening, Hazel, Cat and I did our interpretation of Abba's Waterloo.
Back at the mountain hut, we sampled a bottle of two of the Velebit range of beers before mucking in to make salad, chop cheese and generally prepare for dinner. In between starters (Tomato-cucumber-pepper salad, bread, Krk goats cheese) and mains (bean stew and sausage), we took ourselves up the small hill opposite and watched the sunset over the islands - beautiful. Back for beans, then bed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krk_%28town%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krk_Bridge
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadranska_magistrala
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_Sjeverni_Velebit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_garden
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_%28ABBA_song%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamma_Mia!_%28film%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velebitsko_pivo
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Some village elders sit behind a water bladder at camp for internally displaced people in Uusgure village, Puntland, Somalia.The Internally Displaced People put their funds together and managed to buy two water bladders for the camp. The IDP's in Uusgure village are pastorals who moved there after they lost their livelihood due to the current drought. They lost almost all their livestock, camels and goats, on which they depend on to survive.
Read more about FAO and the drought in Somalia.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Karel Prinsloo. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO
Silene vulgaris, the bladder campion or maidenstears is a plant species of the genus Silene of the pink family (Caryophyllaceae). It is native to Europe, where in some parts it is eaten, but is widespread in North America where it is considered a weed.
this is where they pulled out my gall bladder..24 hours later... all those years of growing hair,just to have it all shaven off
Physalis alkekengi
Bladder Cherry
Slo.: navadno volčje jabolko
Dat.: Jan.28. 2008
Lat.: 46.27909 Long.: 13.57146
Code: Bot_237/2009-4942
Habitat: Mixed woods, southwest oriented, humid place, shaded, precipitations 2.600 mm/year, average temperature 9-121 deg C, elevation 365 m (1.200 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.
Place: Left bank of river Soča, Morizna slopes, between villages Trnovo and Magozd, East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC
Physalis alkekengi (Bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese lantern, or Winter cherry; Japanese: hōzuki), is a relative of P. peruviana (Cape Gooseberry), easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble paper lanterns. It is native from southern Europe east across southern Asia to Japan. It is an herbaceous perennial plant growing to 40–60 cm tall, with spirally arranged leaves 6–12 cm long and 4–9 cm broad. The flowers are white, with a five-lobed corolla 10–15 mm across, with an inflated basal calyx which matures into the papery orange fruit covering, 4–5 cm long and broad. [read on]
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Die Lampionblume (Physalis alkekengi) ist ein zuweilen als Zierpflanze kultivierter Vertreter der Gattung der Blasenkirschen (Physalis) in der Familie der Nachtschattengewächse (Solanaceae). Der Name leitet sich von dem lampionartigen Blütenkelch ab, der die Frucht umgibt und der zur Reifezeit intensiv gefärbt ist. [weiterlesen]
Haleakala Crater hike on Haleakala Crater Hike on 7/9/2019
I caught the first Hawaiian Airlines flight to Maui from Oahu which left at 5:05 am, arrival at 5:44 am.
I took a carry-on duffel bag and a photo backpack ( no checked bags )
Picked up my rental car from Alamo and first stopped at 7-Eleven for water, food and snacks.
Maui Airport has changed. All the car rental companies moved to one central location reachable by tram. Additionally a specific Airport Access road was constructed and in use by this trip.
7:40 am left 7-Eleven for Haleakala.
7:30 am arrived at park entrance. $25 entrance fee by credit card only.
8:00 am arrived at Halemau'u trail head parking lot. Filled my CamelBak bladder with 3L of water, redistributed my equipment and used the bathroom to add a thermal underwear layer for the cold.
8:40 am left the parking lot and went to the Hitchhiking spot to wait for a ride. I was picked up by the 3rd car to come along. A single young male on vacation by himself. As I was grabbing my things to get into his car a mother and young son came up and asked to share the ride. I only waited maybe 5 minutes to catch a ride.
9:00 am arrived at the Summit Visitor Center parking lot. The driver had never been up to Haleakala even after visiting Maui a couple of times before, and he was considering doing a short hike while up there. I would be passed by him and the other hitch hiker about a mile down the trail later.
9:15 am after a short look around at the lookout and tightening up my boot laces, I started on Keonehe'ehe'e ( Sliding Sands Trail )
11:51 am I would get to the bottom of the crater and the trail for Holua cabins or Kapaloa, Paliku cabins. Ate lunch of one Spam musube.
12:06 pm I would start on the trial to Holua Cabin
12:59 pm top of the ascent to "Ka Moa o Pele"
1:24 pm trail juncture on the left of "Halali'i"
2:14 pm Silver Sword loop begin ( did not take the loop )
2:22 pm Silver Sword loop end
3:05 pm Holua Cabin - rested
3:32 pm left Holua Cabin and headed out on Halemau'u trail and the crater rim.
4:13 pm arrived at base of crater rim and the start of the switchbacks up the crater wall. rested and stretched.
4:27 pm started up the crater rim switch backs.
6:56 pm I would reach the flat narrow spot I consider the end of the switchbacks.
7:00 pm the temperature would be 56 degrees and dropping down to 52 degrees ( not including windchill )
7:10 pm Sunset, and I was hiking in dark shadow. Too dark to take meaningful pictures or pics of my watch.
8:00 pm I would reach the Halemau'u parking lot and my car.
8:30 pm I would finish unloading and repacking bags for going to my hotel and possibly doing some astro-photography.
8:45 pm arrive at Kalahaku overlook to check out the possibility of astro-photography. The 50% moon washed out the Milky way too much, stars were visible and I was starting to yawn. So I didn't, and I left at 9:05 pm for Kahului and a shower.
I used up all my water, when I got to my hotel and check, the hydration bladder was flat. Possibly one or two sips left in the tube. This was the 2nd time hiking this trail. Both times I brought a collapsible water bag w/filter to refill water at Holua and did not. If I do this again I really, REALLY need to refill water at Holua cabin.
The weather reports for the previous week were about the possibility of hurricane Barbara hitting the islands the day before my trip. Fortunately Barbara down graded and by the time of my trip and predictions for the summit were somewhat cloudy with occasional showers. While hiking I only encountered a few light drizzle/drops from the clouds that didn't require me to break out any of the rain gear I brought or to stow my cameras from rain.
The weather at the summit was cloudy and approximately 65 degrees with windchill. Along the hike until the ascent up the crater rim at the end, the temperature would not seem as cold as I expected or remember from my previous hike a couple of years ago. Possibly due to my wearing thermal underwear, hiking pants, a medium thick long sleeve athletic shirt beneath a button long sleeve hiking shirt and my broad brimmed hat of course. While moving I felt cool and relatively comfortable temperature wise, while raising a slight glistening sweat. At least it wasn't dripping into my eyes.
Keeping to my expected and normal average hiking pace of around 1 mph or less going down hill and across the flats, I would take pictures about every 1-2 hundred feet of the trail. Boring, but I like to document the trail condition. In addition to any interesting views, scenery or recording the weather.
I kept one of my watches attached to my sleeve so it would not be in skin contact and would mostly dangle in my body shade. This would give me a way of tracking my elevation and mostly the temperature.
There were many more day hikers actually crossing the crater along the same route I was going. Most notable was the mother and son that caught a ride with me. They met up with her husband and other son who caught another ride a bit later.
Probably all the hikers that were crossing the crater caught up to me and passed me, and they all started later than I did. The only people who caught up but didn't pass me were 3 female park rangers on their way to Holua Cabin and pretty much started doing their park ranger stuff in the area where they caught up to me and didn't catch up again.
I was constantly annoyed by the hikers I would see taking short cuts along the trail. I had to remind myself to not get pissy with them. I'm tempted to think the only other hikers on the trail that did not take short cuts were the park rangers I met.
Personally, I started the hike with a kinda sharp lower back pain, which had been ongoing since the previous week. But since this hike was already book and paid for I wasn't going to cancel. All thru the hike my back would be in constant pain and I would continually think I might have to give up hiking if my back doesn't get better. It was most painful going down hill, while the flats and going up weren't as bad.
I was hoping the strain and constant back movement would loosen up my lower back and aleviate my pain. Surprisingly, while getting on my stomach with all my gear still on me, when I got up my lower back was better. The pain would come and go, but could now be aleviated for short periods of time by taking off all my gear and bending over to stretch my back. When I would get home, my lower back pain issues would return to "normal"
Evidently, the dry cold air and constant breeze caused my face and lips to chap, which showed up a day after I got home.
Once again I brought chapstic but didn't use it.
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CamelBak Octane 16X Hydration Pack (3L Hydration bladder)
3 liters of water = 6.6 pounds
1x Nikon D700 w/battery grip - Nikon 28-300mm
1x Nikon D700 w/out grip - Rokinon 12mm f2.8 fisheye
Tokina 16-28mm f2.8
Camera & lens weight = 12 pounds
I brought both cameras to reduce the amount of time spent changing lenses and the possibility of getting grit on the camera sensors. Turns out I never changed to the 16-28 so never removed any lens. Yay, no spots in my pictures, Bo, lugged another heavy lens around for nothing. At least I left the 100mm macro in the car already.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladder_campion
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Day 4, and time to say farewell to lovely Krk. Hazel and I took an early morning stroll back to the Titanic Bar spit for some photos from the water front. Total tranquility. Breakfast and then off in the minibus back to Krčki most (Krk bridge) and the mainland. The drive down the Jadranska magistrala coast road was fabulous, and after stocking up with supplies in Senj, we turned inland and zig zagged up into the Velebit mountains.
At the entrance to Northern Velebit National Park we said farewell to the minibus (which took our bags on up to Zavižan), donned boots and day packs and headed off into the Park's forests and high mountain meadows. A lovely walk - lots of flowers - brought us to Zavižan (1597m). From the mountain hut there are fabulous views out over the mountains and forests of Velebit and back out over the coast to the islands and the Adriatic.
After lunch, and a taste of the warden's rakia, Edo led The Ladies down to the Botanical Gardens - a bowl-shaped depression (technically a sink hole or - given the karst terrain - a doline) where examples of Velebit flora have been gathered together, with many also labelled. I had a field day. Part way round the Gardens, we turned left and climbed through the woods and on up through the scrub pines to the peak of Veliki Zavižan (Great Zavižan) at 1676m. A steep climb, and worth it for the views. Edo got his "this is why I love my job" photo; and in honour of *that* Mammia Mia evening, Hazel, Cat and I did our interpretation of Abba's Waterloo.
Back at the mountain hut, we sampled a bottle of two of the Velebit range of beers before mucking in to make salad, chop cheese and generally prepare for dinner. In between starters (Tomato-cucumber-pepper salad, bread, Krk goats cheese) and mains (bean stew and sausage), we took ourselves up the small hill opposite and watched the sunset over the islands - beautiful. Back for beans, then bed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krk_%28town%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krk_Bridge
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadranska_magistrala
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_Sjeverni_Velebit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_garden
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_%28ABBA_song%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamma_Mia!_%28film%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velebitsko_pivo
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This is the view from the ground floor entrance of the "Pump Room" of the Thailand Election Commission three story office building with six bathrooms on Highway 218 Jira Road in Buriram, Thailand. Ruangsangthai sold and installed all of the equipment in this photo, including the two Grundfos Booster Water Pumps | Hydroline Bladder Diaphragm Tank | ANA Water Pipe Vales | PVC Pipe | Water Pump Control Equipment in the Water Pump Control Box. The Buriram Construction staff have made a bit of visual mess of the equipment when painting inside this room, after the Ruangsangthai staff completed their part of the installation and water pump testing.
Why bladder infections are common during pregnancy? Get reasons at www.justthefactsbaby.com/pregnancy/article/what-happens-d...
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Title: Panhysterocolpectomy : complete excision of the vagina for prolapse of the bladder, etc.
Creator: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publisher: [New York : Surgery Publishing Co.]
Sponsor: Jisc and Wellcome Library
Contributor: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Date: 1911
Language: eng
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Common names are bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese lantern, strawberry ground cherry and winter cherry.
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Title: Panhysterocolpectomy : complete excision of the vagina for prolapse of the bladder, etc.
Creator: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publisher: [New York : Surgery Publishing Co.]
Sponsor: Jisc and Wellcome Library
Contributor: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Date: 1911
Language: eng
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
If you have questions concerning reproductions, please contact the Contributing Library.
Note: The colors, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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