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A rather strange shaped grasshopper taken at Jonkershoek Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa on the 8th December 2012.
Thanks to Steve Covey for help on the ID front...
There are 17 Known species of Pneumoridae, all pretty much endemic to South Africa! but which one this is? I don't know!
I wonder how many dogs stick their tongue out when they pee?!
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Connected (in the Connect group): dog doing the deed!
Some catch up photos from my walks around the Clearview Eco Park.I have taken so many photos there over spring, summer & fall that I haven't published that I thought I should get to work on them.
Bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus) growing on rocks in Whitesand Bay in the far west of Cornwall.
Photographed on 12th October 2007 at OS grid reference SW3627.
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Blue Bladder Polyp in the Valley of Mo'ara at Pandora - World of Avatar in Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida.
I do not know if this is an alien fungus or not. Hoping someone might now the exact Pandora name. The green plant behind it is terrestrial and called Arrow Head.
I share other colorful photos from the Beauty of Pandora on my All Ears blog.
A genetic mutation that triggers bladder cancer in dogs is identical to a mutation that is implicated in multiple human cancers. Dogs could serve as in vivo models for developing therapies for many human cancers, including aggressive skin cancer and cancer of the colon, rectum, ovary and thyroid. Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI.
Kelp are large seaweed belonging to the brown algae in the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genera. In most kelp, the thallus (or body) consists of flat or leaf-like structures known as blades.
Blades originate from elongated stem-like structures, the stipes. The holdfast, a root-like structure, anchors the kelp to the substrate of the ocean. Gas-filled bladders (like this one) form at the base of blades of American species to hold the kelp blades close to the surface.
Bladder cancer is estimated to result in more than 15,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2014. Muscle-invasive bladder cancer is the deadliest type of the disease.
Credit: Jonathan Bailey, NHGRI.
Physalis alkekengi L. (Solanaceae)
L' alkékenge (Solonacée)
Common names: bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese lantern, strawberry ground cherry and winter cherry.
Noms communs: L’Alkékenge, Coqueret alkékenge ou Lanterne (Physalis alkekengi), Amour-en-cage, Cerise d'hiver, Cerise de juif.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA E-500, In seven days and six nights The Annual International Balloon Fiesta will BE ! What started out to be, a study of Olympus handling early light, not a reject but study of the requirements needed to capture and preserve the moment of Balloon Fiesta, as always before consideration for rejection, the student views EXIF meta data, other wise it may be doing things incorrectly, fortunately I have a bench mark tool called Photoshop, first step auto correct. still too dark, background too light, and of course I have a collection of clouds to recover the background, working with content, 8 MP camera, no over exposure, the Wacom tablet as well imagination, now not only a survivor, but a refreshing sight, for October Fest , the student learns, and now works in Raw & JPG mode / Imagination. Enjoy ! Camera Camp 2014 begins at present.
I thought y'all might like a little laugh this Hump Day, but I suppose it all depends. ;~)
Have a good one, gang!
Gift of the Whale
Northern Alaska & Western Alaska Whaling
Top L: Water Bottle Carried in Kayak, a Bladder with Ivory Mouthpiece, Kuskokwim, Kusquqvagmiut, Yup'ik.
Top R: Ammunition Boxes
Collection of Lt. George T. Emmons.
Middle R: Bullet Mold
Wood, Soapstone & Leather Piece Nailed on.
Collection of Lt. George T. Emmons.
Middle R: Powder Bag
Made of Intestine or Bladder, Sinew, & Ivory.
Collection of Lt. George T. Emmons.
MIddle Row Two on Right: Shaft Straighteners
King Island, Ugiuvangmiut, Iñupiaq
Bottom Row: Wrist Guards
Carved, Shishmaref, Iñupiaq, Tapqaamiut.
Carved Ivory, Cape Prince of Whales,
Kingikmuit, Iñupiaq
Carved Ivory, King Island, Ugiuvangmiut, Iñupiaq
Bottom Right Last Piece: Thumb Guard
Ivory with Inset Baby Blue Glass, Diomede,
Kiknikmuit, Iñupiaq
I liked the texture of the barn board and the white flowers against the dark wood but boy was this a challenge to get exposed correctly. I'm not sure I beat the learning curve on this yet. Have to keep practicing.
Here you see the bladder (blue) of a laboratory mouse that was re-infected 24 hours earlier with the bacterium Escherichia coli (pink), a common cause of UTIs. White blood cells (yellow) reach out with what appear to be stringy extracellular traps to immobilize and kill the bacteria.
Valerie O’Brien, a graduate student in Scott Hultgren’s lab at Washington University, St. Louis, snapped this battle of microbes and white blood cells using a scanning electron microscope and then colorized it to draw out the striking details. It was one of the winners in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology’s 2016 BioArt competition.
More information: directorsblog.nih.gov/2017/05/25/snapshots-of-life-fighti...
Credit: Valerie O’Brien, Matthew Joens, Scott J. Hultgren, James A.J. Fitzpatrick, Washington University, St. Louis
This image is not owned by the NIH. It is shared with the public under license. If you have a question about using or reproducing this image, please contact the creator listed in the credits. All rights to the work remain with the original creator.
NIH support from: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; and Office of Research on Women’s Health; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Female lesser bladder cicada (Cystosoma schmeltzi) from Coonabarabran (18th Jan 2015). Only about a third of the size of the larger relative! Photo by Nathan Emery
Bladder Campion, not a very pleasing name for a wildflower, but this non-native weed does have it's attractive points. It's calyx is pink, veined and exaggrated in size, and is topped with the white, deeply-cleft petals.
Seen in the prairie at Stony Creek Metropark, Michigan, USA
My mum cut theses bladder cherries in our garden. I saw them and bam! this picture was in my head! Just because...
And I don't want to brag but I think this is my best photo so far^^ I really like it a lot and I can not find any mistake haha
hope you like it too!
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Cystopteris fragilis is the most frequently encountered fern in Utah and is found most often in midmontane (but sometimes lower) to alpine environments in shaded, protected rock crevices or in vegetated shady steep slopes, that most often are north-facing. This plant was growing in an igneous rock crevice that was east-facing. Some of the plants here were desiccated. Plants are typically scattered and not dense.
Known also as Fragile Fern. "Bladder Fern" is sometimes hyphenated or treated as a single word.
Sept. 27, 2017, Brighton, Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake County, Utah, elev. 8,750 ft. (2,670 m).
I captured this lovely wildflower along the "almost completed" walkway extension along the St Mary's River. It was a beautiful weekend and I enjoyed every minute of it!
Physalis alkekengi L. (Solanaceae)
L' alkékenge (Solonacée)
Common names: bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese lantern, strawberry ground cherry and winter cherry.
Noms communs: L’Alkékenge, Coqueret alkékenge ou Lanterne (Physalis alkekengi), Amour-en-cage, Cerise d'hiver, Cerise de juif.
Also known as 'The Bull and Bladder', this fantastic pub is the brewery tap of the Batham's Brewery. A fine old traditional pub with several attractive old bars serving good beer & great value bar snacks.
Batham’s, produces its traditional Black Country mild and bitter in the adjoining brewery. It moved here in 1877: this was originally a slaughterhouse, hence the pub’s local nickname, the Bull & Bladder. They did a good job of converting it and, thankfully, have had the good sense to leave it be. Inside there's a wealth of Victorian pub features: green tiled front corridor, coloured and engraved glass partitions, mirrors, ornate carvings, a massive mahogany fitting behind the bar counter, shining with bottles and mirrors.
I appreciate each and every visit, comment and fave here on my little corner of the world as seen through my lens.
The subject of public lavatories was touched upon in a discussion beneath one of my photographs the other day. There was a time when these amenities were abundant in city centres and, even in the suburbs could be located just inside the park gates or somewhere behind the shops. You were never hard-up for a place to pee. Today it is often extremely difficult to find facilities anywhere. It wouldn't be the first time I've had to sit down to an entirely unwanted Americano and carrot cake in order to use the toilet in Caffè Nero. Where provided at all these days, public lavatories are usually of the new automatically flushing variety, their 20p-in-the-slot admission charge representing inflation since the time when one "spent a penny". One does not resent paying a small charge for amenities provided, but more often than not there are none. For we who approach the age of enlarged prostates and "waterworks" trouble this is an important consideration, which must be planned for if we intend to go out for an hour or two. Not too much coffee at breakfast, nothing containing tomatoes for 24 hours beforehand and a pocketful of 20p pieces.
The other day I made use of the resources available within this attractive little building in Norwich. There were a wet floor, a couple of hunched figures with downcast eyes, the gurgle of cisterns and the sussuration of empiped water. As the ear might catch distant music, my nose caught the tune of old urine, the counter-melody of Jeyes Fluid and rumbling faecal organ-notes. It was all so familiar ...and rather dear. It came as no surprise to find a notice at the door announcing that the establishment was to close on April 2nd. My questions are: if public conveniences are to be closed wholesale what, exactly, do the authorities want us to do? If one has no choice in the matter of whether or not to "go", do the authorities, in closing so many public conveniences, commission the offence of indecent exposure?
"There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color." Peng LiyuanPraise for Windows of the Soul Every once in a while a book comes along that makes you stop and think―and then think some more―like Ken Gire’s wonderful book Windows of the Soul. ―John Trent in Christian Parenting Today Ken Gire has created a book that gently pours forth, like water out of a garden bucket, cleansing our thoughts and opening the petals of our spirits, providing us with a new sense of clarity in our search for God. ―Manhattan (KS) Mercury Each word, each phrase, is painstakingly wrought, loaded with thoughts and prayer, and filled with new glimpses of God’s love, grace, and strength. ―The Christian Advocate Windows of the Soul will surprise you with the many and varied windows God uses to speak to us. With the heart of an artist, Ken Gire paints word pictures in prose and poetry that will thrill your heart. ―Mature Living Windows of the Soul is a rare book, resounding with the cry for communion that is both ours and God’s.
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The Windows of the Soul:To understand that the eye is the window to the soul, there are 2 techniques you can use, alone or with others.Alone: Stand in front of a mirror in the dark. Shine a flashlight below your face pointing upward. Now stare at the eyes in the mirror and you shall see your image change into many people, some may not be human, all of whom are aspects of your soul experiencing in other grids.Two People: Sit across from the person in a dimly lit, or dark room. Place the flashlight below your face again. This will enable the other person to see you in other lives and tell you what they see as they look through the windows of your soul. They may also see themselves in that lifetime with you. Next repeat this by looking into the other person's eyes.It is important not to move while doing this form of scrying. To truly be skilled at this, you will take the other person, or yourself, to their 'soul spark' of light. It is the flicker of light, white, blue, purple, that you sometimes see in the periphery of your field of vision, for only a second. The vesica piscis is a shape that is the intersection of two disks with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each disk lies on the perimeter of the other. The name literally means the "bladder of a fish" in Latin after the conjoined dual air bladders ("swim bladder") found in the bodies of most fishes. The shape is also called mandorla ("almond" in Italian).The vesica piscis in Euclid's ElementsThis figure appears in the first proposition of Euclid's Elements, where it forms the first step in constructing an equilateral triangle using a compass and straightedge. The triangle has as its vertices the two disk centers and one of the two sharp corners of the vesica piscis.The two circles of the vesica piscis, or three circles forming in pairs three vesicae, are commonly used in Venn diagrams. Arcs of the same three circles can also be used to form the triquetra symbol, and the Reuleaux triangle.In Christian art, some aureolas are in the shape of a vertically oriented vesica piscis, and the seals of ecclesiastical organizations can be enclosed within a vertically oriented vesica piscis (instead of the more usual circular enclosure). Also, the icthys symbol incorporates the vesica piscis shape.The cover of the Chalice Well in Glastonbury (Somerset, United Kingdom) depicts a stylized version of the vesica piscis design (see picture).The vesica piscis has been used as a symbol within Alchemyy, most notably in the shapes of the collars worn by officiants of the Alchemicic rituals. It was also considered the proper shape for the enclosure of the seals of Alchemic labs.The vesica piscis is also used as proportioning system in architecture, in particular Gothic architecture. The system was illustrated in Cesare Cesariano's Vitruvius (1521), which he called "the rule of the German architects".
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The Vesica Piscis is a symbol made from two circles of the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each circle lies on the circumference of the other. The name literally means the bladder of the fish in Latin. In the Christian tradition, it is a reference to Christ, as in ichthys. It is called a mandorla ("almond") in India and known in the early Mesopotamian, African, and Asian civilizations.Geometry -- The symbol is formed from the almond-shaped area in the overlap between the circles, as shown in black in the diagram - for certain purposes also including the upper arcs as far as the edges of a rectangle whose sides coincide with the widest points of the almond (as shown in light blue in the diagram). The resulting figure looks like a stylized fish, or in the extended version like a flattened Greek letter alpha.
Mystical and Religious Significance - It has been the subject of mystical speculation at several periods of history, perhaps first among the Pythagoreans, who considered it a holy figure. The mathematical ratio of its width (measured to the endpoints of the "body", not including the "tail") to its height was reportedly believed by them to be 265:153. This ratio, equal to 1.73203, was thought of as a holy number, called the measure of the fish.The geometric ratio of these dimensions is actually the square root of 3, or 1.73205... (since if you draw straight lines connecting the centers of the two circles with each other, and with the two points where the circles intersect, then you get two equilateral triangles joined along an edge, as shown in light red in the diagram).The ratio 265:153 is an approximation to the square root of 3, with the property that no better approximation can be obtained with smaller whole numbers. The number 153 appears in the Gospel of John (21:11) as the exact number of fish Jesus caused to be caught in a miraculous catch of fish, which is thought by some to be a coded reference to Pythagorean beliefs. Ichthys a symbol used by early Christians, more popularly known as the fish symbol is created by the almond shape and the light blue extension as seen in the Construction Diagram of the Vesica Pisces above.Uses of the shape -- Other uses of the shape include that by some early peoples of the almond-shaped central area as a representation of the female genitals, and the use of a similar (horizontally-oriented) fish symbol called the Ichthys by early Christians. In Christian art, some aureolas are in the shape of a vertically oriented vesica piscis, and the seals of ecclesiastical organizations can be enclosed within a vertically oriented vesica piscis (instead of the more usual circular enclosure). The most common modern object based on the vesica piscis is the American football, which resembles the interior almond-shaped area of the vesica piscis swept about its long "axis" to produce a 3D object with rotational symmetry.In Alchemic literature, the vesica is first stressed by George Oliver. Oliver argues that the vesica is “a universal exponent of architecture or Alchemy, and the original source or fountain from which its signs and symbols are derived— it constituted the great and enduring secret of our ancient brethren.” In his Prestonian Lecture for 1931, noted Masonic historian W.W. Covey-Crump calls this statement“quite right,” and expresses that “the Vesica Piscis had even from the time of the Primitive Christians possessed a sacred symbolical significance, though the purport of that significance was variously interpreted owing to the secrecy of its transmission.”
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The vesica piscis, or “bladder of the fish,” is a simple geometric shape formed by the intersection of two circles. It has a long traditional history, both in operative and speculative Alchemy.As a symbol, it was frequently employed as a church decoration by the architects of the Middle Ages. The seals of all colleges, abbeys, and other religious communities, as well as of ecclesiastical persons, were invariably made of this shape. Hence, in reference to the religious character of the Institution, it has been suggested that the seals of alchemists should also have that form, instead of the circular one now used. The vesica piscis was a major symbol within the ancient tradition of sacred geometry. It was also an ubiquitous feature of the Gothic architecture that was based upon those ideas,not mentioned explicitly in extant lectures, it is present in the visual arts, regalia and ceremonial forms of the Craft from an early period.
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The word "Eye" has many meanings from an organ that detects light to the symbolic eye with its many metaphors that link to conscious awareness. Reality is a consciousness hologram virtually experienced through the eye of time. The physical eye has a pupil symbolizing we are pupils/students in a university or universe.The Eye represents the center of the Milky Way Galaxy or the center of a Black Hole,everything spiraling into physical consciousness (existence)
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Over fifteen years ago, entrepreneur and Miami native Craig Robins recognized the potential of the Miami Design District, and started acquiring and redefining properties in the area. Through careful stewardship. the Design District began to juxtapose design brands with internationally important art collections, phenomenal temporary and permanent art and design installations, and great restaurants. L Real Estate and the LVMH brands recognized the unique importance of the community, centrally located in Miami and culturally at the vanguard of global creative industry, and joined Dacra to bring in the unique retail development vision and luxury retail experiences that discerning consumers crave – all north of downtown and less than 10 minutes away from South Beach in a pedestrian-friendly environment.As new buildings were erected and historic structures were transformed, design showrooms flocked to the area, led by Holly Hunt, Knoll, Poliform, Luminaire Contract, Waterworks, bulthaup, Ann Sacks, Campaniello/Cassina, British Khaki, Kartell, and Poltrona Frau. Art galleries and exhibition spaces followed including Art Fusion, Artformz, Diaspora Vibe, Etra Fine Art, Galeria AQUA, Solange Rabello Art Gallery, and The Moore Space. And because creative talents gravitate to neighborhoods defined by art and design it was logical that architects Alison Spear, Chad Oppenheim, HOK, Matthew McDonald, NuHouse, and photographer Iran Issa-Khan opened studios in the Design District. Restaurants naturally followed, creating even greater connective tissue.Innovative retailers soon started to open unique spaces within which to present their collections. Today, Christian Louboutin, Marni, Maison Martin Margiela, En Avance, Cartier, Celine, Louis Vuitton, Agnona, Dior Homme and Prada are open and preparing to welcome new neighbors who will join them in 2014, including Hermes, Berluti and many more.Like all authentic neighborhoods, the Miami Design District continues to evolve: public art installations including the Buckminster Fuller Fly¹s Eye Dome, more amazing shops, restaurants and galleries, and a boutique hotel and residences are all planned. A renaissance of the streetscape and landscape of the District designed by Island Planning Corp is underway. New buildings have been commissioned from architects Aranda\Lasch, K|R, Sou Fujimoto, Moorhead and Moorhead, Iwatmoto Scott, Studio Gang, Leong and Leong, SB Architects and OAB (Office of Architecture Barcelona). Recently, the neighborhood became the first LEED ND Gold Certified project in Miami Dade County and only the 33rd in the entire United States.
The flowers of the bladder campion are quite small, measuring approximately 2.5 cm in width. Each radially symmetrical bloom has a deep pink or white, inflated calyx that is surrounded by five, white, double-lobed, ragged petals. There is distinct navel-like depression at the point where this calyx joins with the flower stalk. Each flower has three styles and ten stamens. Flowers are arranged in small clusters (generally 5-30 flowers) atop the terminal shoot.