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Hmmm those burger look yummy!
GENUS - Project Genus Head - Classic Face W002 - Mocap
BELLEZA Freya (Full) V 5.2 Bento
DOUX - Meghan hairstyle [FATPACK]
{Le'La} Charleigh Outfit
Handbag & Coffe Cup by: Hollyhood (with poses)
On the left is my gorgeous model daughter missbitch92 AKA Rochelle. If you want more info on what she is holding for eg: bag, then why not head on over to her profile and show her some love and support. Many thanks. <3
For those of you following the intrique from my original "Triffid" posting, enJoy and I are trying to get to the bottom of what my flower is. Here are another couple of pictures that may help establish the name of this mysterious peony that appeared in my "Natural" garden!!
This picture is SOOC (apart from cropping)
These may help...........
Any further contributions or names will be appreciated!!
This bird looked so small on the water and then flew out to dry off on an overhanging branch at Lymm Dam showing off quite a wing span.
Those little black specks in the distance are bison.
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Big Basin Prairie Preserve
Wildlife Area Information
Historical Information
The Big Basin Prairie Preserve is 1,818 acres of native mixed grass prairie managed by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. This area is in the Red Hills region of Kansas. The landscape can generally be described as rolling hills with both level uplands and small canyons. The preserve also includes an intermittent stream , Keiger Creek, which flows through the northeast corner of the preserve, and two non-draining basins that make the preserve topographically and geologically unique.
Big Basin:
Big Basin is a large circular depression. It is about one mile in diameter and about 100 feet deep. The walls of the basin are nearly vertical. Scattered across the floor of Big Basin are a number of small ephemeral ponds that catch and temporarily hold the water that flows into the basin. U.S. Highway 283 bisects Big Basin, with approximately two-thirds of the basin lying east of the road and within the confines of the preserve. The remaining western third of the basin is privately owned.
Little Basin:
The Little Basin is about 280 yards in diameter and 35 feet from rim to floor. Within Little Basin is a small permanent pond known as St. Jacob’s Well. St. Jacob’s Well is a pool of water about 84 feet in diameter that has never been known to go dry. The well has been the subject of many local legends, most associated with the idea that the well was bottomless and/or connected to an underground stream that was capable of washing away anything that fell in the well. The well was also reportedly inhabited by blind fish. Research has shown the well to be roughly funnel shaped and 58 feet deep. No evidence of any underground stream or blind fish has been found.
Big Basin, Little Basin, and St. Jacob’s Well were formed in the recent geological past by a process known as solution-subsidence. This process occurs when surface water gains access and dissolves underground deposits of salt, gypsum, or limestone. The overlaying layers of rock and minerals subside to fill the volume vacated by the water soluble deposits. The process of solution - subsidence is thought to still be occurring, and small depressions have been noted forming within Little Basin.
For those whom it may concern, Loreos is now open to new members!
Here is a quick guide to help those who would like to join the fun!
Step 1.
You must register (for free) in the Classic Castle Forums on www.classic-castle.com
(Be sure to read the terms of service and frequently asked questions of the CC site before registering. )
Step 2.
While waiting for your registration to go through, build a cool fantasy-castle LEGO sigfig to act as your character throughout the game. It's also a good idea to write a nice background story of your character. (Loreos obviously)
Step 3.
Post a picture (or link to a picture) of your character and his/her story in the LCC signup thread (on the CC forums)
Be sure to specify which faction you wish to join! (Loreos obviously)
Step 4.
Once you've posted in the signup thread, you're an official member of LCC!
You may now post in your faction's official thread and join your faction's Flickr group. (Loreos obviously)
Not to mention the General LCC Flickr Group
Step 5.
Before embarking on your LCC adventure, it would be a good idea to learn about the many histories and events that have already taken place in the LCC Table of contents
Step 6.
Have fun and enjoy interacting with all the great people who participate!
Have a great day, and remember...
Prince Jarius wants YOU to join LCC Loreos!
Also be sure to check out the Latest LCC Global Challenge!
For the Glory of Loreos!!!
Transvestism is something those of us who engage with it usually keep secret in our lives. Personally I struggle with this and do live in fear of being outed. I've wanted to dress up as a female since I was a young teenager yet that deep desire terrified me and did so for decades of my life. I am genuinely terrified of people finding out I cross-dress as a woman and yet I adore it!
I absolutely love dressing up as a woman and do find it joyful and rewarding and on occasion highly erotic. I find women attractive and I also find I want to look like them as well, I envy women and cannot deny a deep desire to emulate their physical appearance and to act as if I was female.
Some people tell me this is weird and perverted and I would be lying if I said such descriptions did not cause me distress as I probably deep down am seeking some form of acceptance and tolerance to be allowed to set free this aspect of my persona. The truth is I do feel quite comfortable presenting as a a woman and can feel distraught that I'm not really one at all. The male in me is also at odds with this recurring emotion and sometimes I can be dressed as a woman and find part of me screaming inside saying 'what on earth are you doing?'. It's upsetting yet I'm frequently on a real high and often with a highly enjoyable pleasurable thrill being generated by daring to try and look female.
I know it's not popular and I'm told unwelcome but I won't deny I do at times experience sexual arousal, usually during the transformation stage as of course I don't desire any tell tale reminders of being male once I am completely transformed as Helene. I also get a buzz at the notion of being sexy and feminine and like the idea of being seductive and being found desirable by men. That aspect is nothing to do with sex and everything to do with being selfish and vain. I enjoy the art of female illusion and attracting men is probably my ego being pandered to by the thrill of fooling a male into believing I'm female. I'm a shallow creature at heart I fear.
This photo may be interpreted as a bit tragic and sad by some as I will honestly admit that I was trying to see if I could be feminine and sexy and attractive to men. I am I think, deluding myself that I could ever be such a woman but it was exciting and great fun to prepare for this picture and pose for it. It is so far removed from heterosexual male life I am in a way quite shocked I actually did it.
I loved shaving my legs, chest and arms and wearing knickers and just wearing a shirt and high heels, it felt incredible and I was definitely into doing the pose for the camera. I was loving it, totally loving it. My issue is my male self is taken aback by my willingness to try and be a woman and I have issues with accepting just how much I enjoy trying to pass myself off as a woman. I then feel reckless for taking the picture and I feel even more reckless posting it on Flickr and expressing my paradoxical thoughts on it all. Yet, no denying it, I feel an urge to still go ahead and post the image and narrative despite part of me saying stop!
Well, despite all that what I know with certainty was I really enjoyed myself in this photo, it felt fabulous to be dressed this way and acting the part and I know I can never give it up, it is just the most amazing thing to do as a man. Bur hey...I would say that, I'm a transvestite :-)
Those are simply combos to show that you could make your troopers/commaders through official parts with our stuff.
Shading almost an acre of the park and reaching upward to a height of 60 feet, this banyan tree is the largest in the US.
[Those of you who are kind enough to follow my uploads and the slices of “real life” I sometimes insert in my captions know that the year 2025 will remain as one of major upheaval in my personal life. Flickr is no social media and I don’t belong to that sort of crowd, therefore I will not pour out my heart on this page, but I thought you might like to know that the Saint-Austremoine abbey church we are visiting together will be the last one I upload photos of from Lyon, as I will be moving to a new home in Normandy, on the banks of the Seine River near the city of Rouen, on November 13.
My things will not be delivered to my new home until the 24th, therefore I will most likely not resume my Flickr activities until then. I will simply keep watching my groups with my iPad as I do when traveling.
Additional note: I now upload four photos per day instead of my usual three in order to be able to complete the visit of Saint-Austremoine before The Big Move.]
As with most persons having lived during the Late Antiquity and early Merovingian periods, however worthy of note they may have been, we do not know much about Austremoine (Stremonius in Latin). We know that he evangelized the old province of Auvergne (central France) during the 3rd century and became the first bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne’s largest city. We also know that he founded an abbey in the city of Issoire, about 40 kilometers to the southeast of Clermont.
When he passed away, this holy man was buried in his abbey, most likely in a church that would be extremely old today, and that I would have loved to behold. Alas! nothing remains of it, and the large and majestic church that replaced it (as well as any other church[es] that may have been built in-between) was erected from 1130.
This abbey church ranks among the five major Romanesque churches of Auvergne, and it is quite remarkable indeed. It possesses all of the typical features of Auvergnat Romanesque, including the so-named “barlong” bell tower and the radiating chapels around the ambulatory designed for the one-way circulation of the pilgrims that thronged the church to pray on the sacred remains of Austremoine.
As you will see, the inside has been thoroughly re-painted in the 19th century in a fashion meant to imitate the way it may have looked in the Middle Ages. Now, it is true that many churches back then were painted, inside and even sometimes outside. I myself have found many occurrences of traces of such polychromy. However, we are so accustomed now to see the bare stones that I cannot truly bring myself to approve of such re-creation... Anyway, Saint-Austremoine is full of it, so you will be able to make your own opinion!
I will not fill this caption with as much material as I usually do, because all my Zodiaque books have been packed in cardboard boxes in anticipation of my upcoming move to Normandy. Therefore, I do not have access to either tome of Normandie romane. Fortunately, this church being a major one, those of you who are interested will find ample documentation about it on the internet. Thank you and my apologies. I will try to do better around November 25 when I resume my uploading activities!
These two photos illustrate two sides of one of the famous historied capitals around the choir. Here we see the Last Supper, but the garish (and, if I may dare, cheesy) colors do not add anything in my opinion, and even detract from the true appreciation of the sculptor’s art.
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la...
Those mountains are part of what is called the Great Dividing Range. They run parallel to the East Coast of Australia, going through three states. They are 3700km long (2300 miles).
No I am not in this picture and I don’t want anyone to believe I am. I just wanted to pay tribute to two women I admire very much, especially Carmen, on the right. She has done so much to advance humanity in a good way and she has been through so much.
They look so sweet and content...ha ha ha! 2 minutes before this was shot, camille was screaming and 2 minutes after hayden was screaming. then they both fell over.
thank you anna for the darling bloomers, they're still too big!
Bacteria may mutate more rapidly in space and scientists theorize patterns of those mutations could help predict how pathogens become resistant to antibiotics. Such predictions could, in turn, be used to develop new drugs to use against those pathogens. Antibiotic resistant pathogens or bacteria is a growing world-wide health concern. The long-term use of many common antibiotics has led to some diseases becoming resistant to drug therapy, which can lead to longer and more complicated illnesses.
A proof-of-concept investigation, Nanobiosym Genes, is sending two strains of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria to the International Space Station. Investigators will compare patterns of their mutations to the same organisms grown on Earth in order to refine computational algorithms that predict mutations leading to antibiotic resistance.
BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado, Boulder integrated this investigation, which is hosted in four BioCells Habitats and BioServe’s Space Automated Bioproduct Lab (SABL).
“More than 25 years ago, I had the hypothesis that environment has an effect on how genes mutate and evolve, or express themselves,” principal investigator Anita Goel, chairman and scientific director at Nanobiosym Inc in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said. Goel holds a doctorate of philosophy in physics and a doctor of medicine degree. “This investigation allows me to study whether we can make mutations happen by changing the environment. The first step is to understand, everything else being the same, how does microgravity affect the rate and the pattern of mutations? Some data suggest that microgravity speeds up mutations, but we don’t know the mechanism of how the environment might play a role.”
Data from the investigation can define the mutational spectrum. Combining that with algorithms can improve the ability to predict mutations, including those that lead to drug resistance.
“We can model which way drug resistance will go and use that to develop better, smarter drugs,” Goel said. “A bug can mutate in the presence of a drug and become resistant. We’re trying to get ahead of that, predict those mutations, and be ready with a drug when they show up.”
While this work is starting with infectious diseases, it can potentially be used with anything that has a DNA marker, including cancer.
There are two key steps: first, a tool that analyzes DNA or RNA, and second, algorithms to determine the right therapy for the particular disease. Goel’s company, Nanobiosym, has developed a device called Gene-RADAR that conducts the first step.
“In principle, we can provide real-time diagnosis of any disease with an RNA or DNA signature or genetic fingerprint,” she said. “Ultimately, we can build tools to decentralize health care delivery on Earth, to diagnose diseases in real time in a village in Africa or your own home, just with a drop of blood or saliva. Right now those tests can take weeks to months. The device fits in your hand, so we also can put it on the space station to do analysis and research.”
That real-time analysis has important applications in space. Currently, experiments aboard the space station are brought back to Earth for gene analysis. The device could conduct some analyses in space and send only the data back to Earth. Astronauts could immediately test for DNA life forms in samples collected on Mars, for example, or diagnosis their own infections.
Mutant pathogens in space hardly stand a chance.
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Those that dwell to view this picture will be seeing an image from 1962 which has never been printed, Peter marked his printed negatives and on this strip of 3 only the pannier tank 9707 was ever printed.
I know little about the scene, I think the tube train is R stock, I know the year is 1962. I wonder if Peter was visiting the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show, two vehicles owned by Arcopal, the glassware make,r are parked on the road. In the background the pub has a large "Take Courage" advert on the front, Many visitors to the exhibitions may have taken that to heart!
I wonder if that battered Kensington O... is part of someone's collection of railway relics or if it was just thrown away.
Peter Shoesmith 1962
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And now at age 60-cough-cough, coming to see what started as such a radical, “progressive” stand has resulted in my wanting more than anything to just do my grocery shopping, be dressed in something that won’t get the cops called, and have others grasp I’m “feminine”. I thought I was going to have to re-write history. It turns out I’m more interested in comfortable shoes. And a new lipstick occasionally. Me, loitering at Whole Foods in NJ.
Not gonna get a chance to go out and do a wall for the occasion, so I got my digital paint on instead.
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is a symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world...are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life." ~ Rachel Carson
Third in a series from last year's spring trip to the Missouri Botanical Garden....only this time I added an Orton effect.....sure hope the colors are as beautiful this year :-)
Have a great Thursday....and as always, thanks for visiting!!!!
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My little guy crashed on his grandma's couch, so I grabbed my iPhone and had a little fun with depth of field.
For #FlickrFriday's #OutOfReach theme.
Don't let those old guys get away by telling you everything was perfect in 1966 - it wasn't - the Duchesses had gone (we thought for ever) but the telegraph wires hadn't and the Lake District weather was normally like this - causing decent exhaust.
For those that have followed my photostream... you may very well recognize this large mule deer buck. He has become affectionately known as "Too Tall" over the last five years of photographing him as his antlers always appear to be "too tall" for his head. I managed to find him a couple of times this past weekend which was my first serious weekend of trying to find him during the rut this year. He has added some tines to his antlers but it still seems that most of it has gone into height instead of tines.
As per usual... he seems to wait until all the other bucks have battled it out and then comes in and scoops up all the does. There were two other bucks that are getting to be his size but they were still no match for him and one ended up with bloody haunches as a result of a tangle with him. I have photos of him as well and will upload a number of photos from the mule deer rut over the next little while.
To me... he is just one of the most regal animals in Waterton National Park and it will be interesting to see how long his stronghold on his turf lasts in the next few years with some large bucks moving in... one of which I am pretty sure is one of his offspring.
I have uploaded this one a little larger than most and I think he's always worth a look Large
Those pictures were made at “Kjalvegur” in the highlands in Iceland near the glacier “Langjokull” and the water “Hvitarvatn”
a quick 20 second stop motion.
music used is fireflies by owl city.
i apologize for the quality, i really don't know how to save stuff in window's movie maker. if anyone knows, please tell :D
i felt the beginning of the music reminded me of bokeh :D
anyhoo, enjoy! *expect conceptual ones later this month*
explored! thanks<3