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Yes, I havn't legs, but I have beautiful intestines 😂 from HOTDOG : Gutted
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His intestines cancer is slowing him down, but he still goes for walks and is being funny to get treats :)
This unique Barrier Canyon Style pictograph panel is near Moab, Utah. Very detailed and, seemingly, shamanistic.
[ Explored No. 139 on 1 July 2017. Thank you all so much ! ]
In Medieval dwellings, floors were carpeted with rushes, reeds or straw, for insulation and to provide bedding for members of the lower household. These floor coverings were only cleaned out and replaced once or twice a year, so to counteract the accumulated odours, fragrant herbs were scattered (strewn) on top of them, releasing their scents when they were walked upon. Some of these herbs also acted as insect and pest repellants.
With regards to Meadowsweet, John Gerard said that Queen Elizabeth 1st “did more desire it than any other herb to strew her chambers withal.”
Meadowsweet has continued to be used for medicinal purposes - for headaches (it contains aspirin), rheumatism, acid reflux, and poor digestion (as it sooths the mucous membranes in the intestines).
There ! And you thought it was just a weed growing in the countryside meadows, didn't you !
This is from a wild area in our local park and now stands looking lovely and smelling delicious in the kitchen. Taken with a 4x magnifying filter on my lens - I'm quite pleased with it for a first attempt :o) The flowers are tiny - about 1 millimetre across. Hope you like it too !
Thanks, as always, for your support and for just looking and reading ... you are all so appreciated. Please don't eat meadowsweet without checking out whether it's safe for you ... I don't know the dosage or how to prepare it !
Meckel's Diverticulum is a birth defect that is a bulge or a branch off of the intestine. This condition, combined with a couple of other physical anomalies plus my avoidance of seeking medical attention resulted in a near-death experience.
I began to experience an intermittent and incredibly sharp pain in my lower abdominal area that over a five day period increased to become unyielding and by far the most pain I had ever experienced, even briefly. The pain was so intense that I was unable to stand upright.
Finally I went to the Emergency Room of Jefferson Hospital. After five hours I was admitted but placed on a gurney in the hallway to wait for surgery. It was assumed that my gall bladder was the cause of the pain. I spent several hours in the hallway waiting for a surgeon to become available. During the wait, the police brought in a man who they had shot during a gun-battle that ensued after the two men resisted arrest. They had earlier robbed an acquaintance of mine at gunpoint near my apartment. The man's pants were entirely red from being drenched with his own blood. Meanwhile, I'm watching this scene laying on my side waiting for a room to open up before my surgery. The villains had shot two of the police, who returned fire and killed the first perpetrator in the street. The second man, the one in Jefferson Hospital with me, died from loss of blood.
They began cutting me right under my sternum since they thought my gall bladder was the cause of the pain. Although I had passed a gall stone the size of a marble, it wasn't the location or the cause of the pain. They cut me following the path of destruction that the gall stone created and finally stopped 2" below my navel. The reason for my pain at this instance was that the gall stone had lodged in the Meckel's Diverticulum. To complicate matters, my appendix, due to the oddity of another birth defect, was in the wrong location and directly adjacent to the Meckel. As the Meckel became infected it caused necrosis of the appendix as well.
It was necessary to remove my entire intestines and put them on a tray to perform the surgery.
When I came out of anesthesia after the surgery, I saw four heads floating in a black space. I thought that I was on the verge of getting in a fight at a roughneck bar we used to frequent on South Street. As I regained more consciousness I realized that the heads were not hooligans but the surgical staff, but not before I spent a couple of minutes warning them not to come any closer and threatening them that I would knock them out.
The likelihood of having two separate birth defects contributing to a situation that bordering on death had such astronomical odds that a symposium was called at Jefferson Hospital about the case. Presented with only the preliminary information that they had available before they cut me open, every surgeon in Jefferson Hospital mis-diagnosed the malady including the Head Of Surgery at the hospital.
I was in the hospital for 14 days. I used to get dressed and with my daughter's help, detach the intravenous tubes and reattach them after I put my shirt on. I would then wheel the I. V. tower down to the street for cigarettes breaks. Of course this was entirely against hospital policy but I figured that I was pissed off and inconvenienced enough already without going through withdrawal symptoms.
Particularly during the first few days, my daughter Maura would hit the button on the Morphine drip for me while I slept. Because she knew I was in excruciating pain, she figured that since I hadn't already killed myself with drugs in the 70's that Morphine wasn't going to kill me now. I will never be able to thank Maura enough for the care and love she graced me with during that hospital stay. She also was my advocate with the hospital staff and doctors, which was an invaluable help since I was in too much pain and too whacked out to do it myself.
It was three years before I could sit up from a laying position in bed. I rolled out of bed. I could only sleep in one position, laying on my left side, for two years.
The abdominal scar is 13" long and it altered the topology of my mid-section permanently. My navel is a reconstruction and not even in the same place as my real one. It is a total fabrication.
To this day I have a very difficult time looking at the scar and I avoid it at all costs. Frankenstein would wince at the sight of this wound.
Laura, who I went to school with a zillion years ago, was exhbiting her newest creations. I got home late, so I'm posting yesterdays' pic from the opening reception today.
and before anyone even says it, yes - it looks like intestines.
...because it IS intestines. Sheep intestines.
I'm going to buy this one I think..or there's 2 smaller ones I quite like too. Decisions, decisions.
The Ballarò street market in Palermo is an amazing, chaotic and frenetic place. There are packed crowds, shouting, people singing, Vespas driving wildly between the rows of stalls. Every imaginable colour, smell, ingredient and probably some that I hadn't imagined too. Wonderful craziness everywhere.
The stallholder here is a prime example. He's one part chef, one part salesman and three parts street entertainer. And those aren't sausages on his grill but a Palermo delicacy called stigghiole: lamb intestines.
I have since discovered that Davide (that's his name) is something of a local legend. He has featured in a BBC travel documentary and I also found this blog article about him:
culinarybackstreets.com/cities-category/palermo/2023/el-b...
Part 4 | Scene from a large embalming workshop in Egypt, Dynasty 21, about 1085 BC.
The liver, lungs, stomach and intestines are washed and packed in mounds of natron which will dry them out. The heart is not taken out of the body because it is the centre of intelligence and feeling and the man will need it in the afterlife. These organs were given separate treatment; embalmed, wrapped and placed in the four so–called ‘Canopic Jars’.
Natron is a naturally occurring combination of baking soda and other salts absorbing water and is mildly antiseptic. The drying of the body and organs took about 40 days. Fluids from the body were absorbed, or dripped off the slanted tables.
The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois.
The Complete Egyptian Mummification Process:
2. Incision & Removal
3. Internal Organs Removed
4. Packed in Natron
5. Scavengers
6. Bandaging
7. Scavengers
I have seen Swainson's Hawks feed feathers to their young and was excited to see this behavior in the Eared Grebe also.
"The purpose(s) of feather eating is unproven but evidence suggests that the behavior has these benefits for the birds.
1. Some of the ingested feathers form a plug in the pylorus, between the stomach and small intestine, which acts as a strainer to keep fish bones in the stomach long enough to be completely digested.
2. Most swallowed feathers end up in the stomach lumen, mixed with food. They eventually (along with any indigestible matter) form pellets that are ejected through the mouth. The continuous passage of these pellets through the upper digestive system minimizes the buildup of a variety of parasites that are very common there and plague grebes."
www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2010/10/29/why-grebes-e...
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Just finished the shirt designs for Mutiny on the bounty after a longgg time. Here are the two they have chosen.
Zoom in. You'll see why it's called what it's called.
This panel and TV Sheep are located about 100 feet apart.
The color in this shot is pretty accurate for the time of day I was there. I've seen many photos of this panel that looks "better", but those images were heavily processed.
See image below for a close up.
Emulate's Intestine-Chip allows scientists to grow human intestine cells in a laboratory setting that's still small and lightweight, making it easy to send to space. Studying how microgravity and the effects of space travel affect our intestines will help us keep astronauts healthy on long-term missions to the Moon and Mars.
The Intestine-Chip is one of several scientific experiments set to launch to the International Space Station on March 2, as part of SpaceX's 20th commercial resupply mission.
Credits: Emulate
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New and old people around. I'm proud to show again some of my works: this as a sticker for my new project. It will be ready to go next month. Keep in touch, you'll see a lot of stuff again!
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Fascinating Al Jabal al Akhdar
BEGINNING from Bid Bid, the road to the historic city of Nizwa looks more and more like an intestine coursing its way within the bowels of a range of mountains flanking both sides of the highway.
And just a few kilometres before the heart of Nizwa, one of those mountains rises to a dizzying height. At about ten thousand feet above sea level, Al Jabal al Akhdar (The Green Mountain) is undoubtedly one of the highest points in the Sultanate, making it a hotspot for the adventurous.
But Al Jabal al Akhdar is not just another geological curiosity or challenge waiting to be unraveled or surmounted by the curious and the adventurous.
One of the protected areas in the Sultanate of Oman, it is inhabited by as much as 54 nuclear communities sprinkled over different levels on the mountain.
At about ten thousand feet above sea level, Al Jabal Al Akhdar is undoubtedly a hotspot for the adventurous
As in other communities, the inhabitants of Al Jabal al Akhdar are entitled to essential municipal services by the Ministry of Regional Municipalities, Environment and Water Resources (MRME&WR).
Accordingly, the ministry’s presence is registered by a municipal building whose staff patrol the area, help the inhabitants to become more environmentally aware, and report their needs to the appropriate authorities, among other tasks.
In our bid to highlight the people and resources in the municipalities great and small, conspicuous and obscure, we set out to the communities of Al Jabal al Akhdar.
Cool as cucumber
As it was a typically hot and humid day in summer, we took all the accessories that we believed would help us assail the sweltering weather.
But the very moment we arrived at the military check-point at the foot of the mountain, we were pleasantly surprised by the temperate and breezy atmosphere that greeted us.
There was a spontaneous feeling of being in an entirely different world, a difference that became even more pronounced as we made our winding way up to crest of the mountain.
Scenic mountaintop hamlets
on Al Jabal al Akhdar
The coolness was so pervasive the offices and houses we happened to have gone into, during the trip, were so comfortable without fans or air conditioners! According to Salem Amir Awlad Thani, one of our guides, the hottest summer does not exceed 30 degrees Centigrade on the Jabal, while in winter the temperature can plunge below 5 degrees Centigrade. But in most of the summer season, the temperature is pleasantly average as we experienced.
Going for the green
At the heels of the mountain, you could be excused for wondering why it was called the Green Mountain, for the surroundings are typically semi-arid features, largely rocky terrain and dusty soil.
But once again, a pleasant surprise awaits you at the higher planes of the mountain. Scattered over the area are vegetations comprising fruit trees, flowers and shrubs.
According to our sources, Al Jabal al Akhdar receives an average of 303mm of rainfall in a year. Coupled with its cool climate, it is therefore a friendly turf for these plants.
Communities such as Wadi Bani Habib, Saiq, Al Manakher, Al Ain, Kotom al Hail and Al Shuraijah have clusters of farms growing pomegranates, apricots, peaches, cherries and walnuts.
Terraced gardens overlooking the mighty Wadi al Mayali gorge in the jabals
Apart from serving the immediate food needs of the locals, most of the fruits are sold in the markets in Nizwa and nearby municipalities, thereby constituting a considerable proportion of the income of the residents.
Another item of ecological importance as well as source of income for the inhabitants of the communities on the mountain top is the desert rose (Adenium obesum) whose sweetly scented flowers are used in the making of rose water.
For more than half a century, Mohammed al Sakri, one of the residents of Al Shuraijah community, has been tapping the fragrance and other properties of the rose flower in his distillery locally known as al dhujan. As he explains, the product is widely used in a variety of ways.
Primarily, its fragrance is used to keep houses freshly scented, especially during festivities such as weddings and Eid celebrations. The fragrance is also said to add pep to the aroma of the Omani coffee and halwa.
Additionally, rose water is believed to have medicinal properties. Locally, it is dabbed on the forehead to relieve headache or drunk to alleviate stomachache.
Gardens enhance the natural
beauty of Al Jabal al Akhdar
In line with the rising demand for the product, therefore, several traditional perfumers can be seen at work especially in Al Aqr community, where there is a dense rose vegetation.
Open woodlands
A great part of the Jabal consists of woodland, with junipers, (Juniperus excelsa) constituting the dominant species. Their fruit are edible, but the leaves are of more ecological significance.
According to our sources, these leaves, soaked in locally made massaging oils, are very effective for the treatment of muscular pain and headache.
Another commonly occurring tree contributing to the woodland section of the Jabal is the thorn bush (Acacia tortilis) whose leaves and pods provide livestock with regular fodder.
There are also Monotheca buxifiolia trees locally known as butt, and whose fruit is also a staple within the area. The woodland areas, especially in Al Hail, offer very cozy premises for the many campers who visit the Jabal.
Springs and Aflaj
One of the alluring sights on the Jabal is the glistening water cascading down the rocky mountain against a sunny backdrop. In one area alone, Ain Wadi Kotom, there are more than 10 major springs.
These springs are the main source of water supply for the communities, especially those at the higher planes on the mountain. The entire breadth of the area is linked with a network of Aflaj which hold the water and deliver it, as it were, to the doorsteps of the residents.
Another highly prominent feature of the mountain connected with water is the wadi. Al Jabal al Akhdar has not less than 300 wadis and streams most of which extend further down into the wadis of Nizwa and neighbouring areas like Izki and Al Awabi.
Wildlife
Our guides say that the Jabal is home to a number of wild animals and birds. Of these, gazelles are said to be the most predominant. However, due to on-going construction work and the increasing human traffic on the mountain, most of the animals have been driven into the most obscure parts of the mountain.
However, by the joint collaboration of the MRME&WR and the Diwan of the Royal Court, there is a strong surveillance in the area to ensure that whatever population of wild animals and plants that are of importance to biodiversity in the Sultanate are protected.
An MRME&WR decree, for example, forbids the felling of Al Alan and other trees with sturdy wood which were previously used for ceiling and beams in traditional architecture.
Tourism and Recreation
The thrilling views from the Jabal, as well as its balmy climate, are among the qualities that distinguish it as one of the top tourism spots in the Sultanate. In appreciation of this fact, MRME&WR is playing a major role in the development of the area by providing the basic municipal facilities.
A sitting park at Wadi Bani Habib, where visitors can enjoy the breathtaking views below
These include the construction of access roads to the Jabal in addition to surfacing already existing ones. There are also plans to establish a market and a sewage treatment plant in the area.
In Wadi Bani Habib, which offers one of the best viewing points in the area, the MRME&WR has built a portable sitting park from where visitors can enjoy the breathtaking views below.
Stairs have also been built to let people down into the nearby wadis and farms. Furthermore, under the joint partnership of government and private entrepreneurs, a hotel has since been built on the Jabal. The Jabal Akhdar Hotel is centrally located at about 7,000 ft on the main road leading to the top of the Jabal.
There is so much to say about the fascinating features of the Green Mountain, but nothing can bring the message home more than a personal experience. If, during the heat of this summer, anyone ever challenges your belief in the maxim — the higher you go, the cooler it becomes — take them to Al Jabal al Akhdar.
Source :http://www.nizwa.net/oman/explorer/places/jabaltourism/jabaltourism.html