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July 25, 2015 as part of a large sports festival Moscow City Games, in Luzhniki.
One Moto area were merged three sports disciplines: motofreestyle, Stantrayding and Enduro-X. Just Mototherapy.
on the photo Massimo Byankonchini from Italy.
Sunrise Tai Chi, Yishun Neighbourhood Park hilltop, Singapore. In parks and open spaces all over Singapore each morning many locals will practice this ancient Chinese discipline of meditative, gentle movements. Taken from a respectful distance and cropped later. In the background is a Women's Tai Chi group.
The road to a new normal is a race won with perseverance and prayer, not speed . The one who finds the spiritual discipline to realize that he or she cannot do this on their own is the one who will find the strength of the one who is, who was, and who will be. In letting go and trusting our Creator to be our dragonslayer we will overcome what seems unsurmountable. In plain english, when we are weak, our Creator’s strength can be made visible. Turtle on my fellow travelers! 7/25/21
At Reumannplatz in Favoriten, the 10th district of Vienna
The Tichy Parlour offers top-quality ice cream at very reasonable prices. For three large scoops you only pay €2.20.
In pre-coronavirus times, there was far less queuing discipline here. The motto was to jump the queue as in a sports competition. I miss the pushing and shoving in front of the sales counter and the entrance and the corresponding human closeness.
fungus (plural: fungi or funguses is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from the other eukaryotic kingdoms, which by one traditional classification include Plantae, Animalia, Protozoa, and Chromista.
A characteristic that places fungi in a different kingdom from plants, bacteria, and some protists is chitin in their cell walls. Fungi, like animals, are heterotrophs; they acquire their food by absorbing dissolved molecules, typically by secreting digestive enzymes into their environment. Fungi do not photosynthesize. Growth is their means of mobility, except for spores (a few of which are flagellated), which may travel through the air or water. Fungi are the principal decomposers in ecological systems. These and other differences place fungi in a single group of related organisms, named the Eumycota (true fungi or Eumycetes), that share a common ancestor (i.e. they form a monophyletic group), an interpretation that is also strongly supported by molecular phylogenetics. This fungal group is distinct from the structurally similar myxomycetes (slime molds) and oomycetes (water molds). The discipline of biology devoted to the study of fungi is known as mycology (from the Greek μύκης mykes, mushroom). In the past, mycology was regarded as a branch of botany, although it is now known fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than to plants.
Abundant worldwide, most fungi are inconspicuous because of the small size of their structures, and their cryptic lifestyles in soil or on dead matter. Fungi include symbionts of plants, animals, or other fungi and also parasites. They may become noticeable when fruiting, either as mushrooms or as molds. Fungi perform an essential role in the decomposition of organic matter and have fundamental roles in nutrient cycling and exchange in the environment. They have long been used as a direct source of human food, in the form of mushrooms and truffles; as a leavening agent for bread; and in the fermentation of various food products, such as wine, beer, and soy sauce. Since the 1940s, fungi have been used for the production of antibiotics, and, more recently, various enzymes produced by fungi are used industrially and in detergents. Fungi are also used as biological pesticides to control weeds, plant diseases and insect pests. Many species produce bioactive compounds called mycotoxins, such as alkaloids and polyketides, that are toxic to animals including humans. The fruiting structures of a few species contain psychotropic compounds and are consumed recreationally or in traditional spiritual ceremonies. Fungi can break down manufactured materials and buildings, and become significant pathogens of humans and other animals. Losses of crops due to fungal diseases (e.g., rice blast disease) or food spoilage can have a large impact on human food supplies and local economies.
The fungus kingdom encompasses an enormous diversity of taxa with varied ecologies, life cycle strategies, and morphologies ranging from unicellular aquatic chytrids to large mushrooms. However, little is known of the true biodiversity of Kingdom Fungi, which has been estimated at 2.2 million to 3.8 million species.[5] Of these, only about 148,000 have been described,[6] with over 8,000 species known to be detrimental to plants and at least 300 that can be pathogenic to humans.[7] Ever since the pioneering 18th and 19th century taxonomical works of Carl Linnaeus, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Elias Magnus Fries, fungi have been classified according to their morphology (e.g., characteristics such as spore color or microscopic features) or physiology. Advances in molecular genetics have opened the way for DNA analysis to be incorporated into taxonomy, which has sometimes challenged the historical groupings based on morphology and other traits. Phylogenetic studies published in the first decade of the 21st century have helped reshape the classification within Kingdom Fungi, which is divided into one subkingdom, seven phyla, and ten subphyla.
Memories of my Canoe Buddy
A good friend of mine passed way. It's been a little while, but I have so many fond memories. We religiously spent a week or two in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area every year and he was my tent mate and paddle and portage buddy. The BWCA is a true wilderness covering more than one million acres, with 1,100 lakes and 1,200 miles of canoe routes. No engines are allowed , your paddle is your only transportation, and anything you want to take with you – tent, sleeping bags, food, and so on must be carried on your back across miles of portages in between lakes. You might not see another person for days. Nothing but quiet and nature is a mental reset and truly relaxing. The only problem was every year it seemed we over estimated how much territory we could cover. A disciplined schedule was required.
This is a story I wrote years ago about one of our best days ever. It made me smile so allow me to share:
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Our plan was to get up, have a quick breakfast, tear down camp and get an early start on the day. Ahead of us was a difficult but scenic 13 mile, 4 portage leg of our canoe trip that we had mapped out around the campfire the night before. We woke at dawn, right on schedule. Boiling water, brewing coffee and frying up a skillet of hash brown potatoes and eggs also went off without a hitch. The plan wasn’t really threatened until we wandered down to the edge of our gorgeous lake and sat down for breakfast on a perfectly-situated rock in a warm sunbeam. Somehow that hard rock with a view just got more and more comfortable.
While we continued to discuss the difficult task ahead, and the agreed upon need to get an early start, a beaver silently swam by hauling freshly chewed branches to his home on a small island. We talked and laughed and admired the beaver’s energy and the gorgeous day long after the coffee was finished and the Grey-Jays and chipmunks had picked over the potato scraps.
We had almost used up the extra 20 minutes we had given ourselves to watch the slowly rising sun burn the fog off the glassy water, when the beaver swam back from the island empty handed. And only 20 minutes later we spotted him again pushing another load of freshly cut branches to the island by the exact same route. Fascinated, we made time in our grueling schedule to more closely study his efforts. We could practically set our watches to his energetic construction timeline. He eagerly swam back and forth and back and forth at almost exact twenty minute intervals.
We were impressed that he could keep up his clock-work like routine for an hour, and then two. By our close observation, he did not deviate even once from his disciplined, steady work schedule until well after lunch.
I miss you buddy!
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"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." - Jim Rohn
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As usual, it is a lack of discipline that prevents me from selecting only one or two shots of this repeat visitor to the rapids above Dolan Falls on the Devils River.
"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort." – Jesse Owens
"Álmai mindenkinek lehetnek, de valóra váltani csak azok képesek, akiknek rettenetesen sok elszántsága, elkötelezettsége, önfegyelme és ereje van." – Jesse Owens
Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) Botanic Garden
Construction of the greenhouse section parallel to Lower Lake Road began in late 1896, immediately following the destruction of the original greenhouse by the fire of 1896. First constructed were the greenhouse’s show house and head house. The wing to the west was built in 1898 – 1899, through the generous funding of James Talcott. After 100 years of almost continual use, the greenhouse received much-needed renovations in the 1990s.
Today the 6,000-square-foot Talcott Greenhouse serves as a valuable teaching resource, giving academic departments, programs and centers a variety of ways to collaborate and work across disciplines.
A clan of vampires renowned for stealth, brute strength, their unnerving social manner and their hideous physical disfigurements. Stealthy, strong and terrifying. Nosferatu are masters of Nightmare, the Kindred Discipline of fear and terror. They are sometimes called Haunts. (Source: whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Nosferatu_(VTR) )
Special Shotokan Karate Course to celebrate Sensei Bob Rhodes 80th birthday with Nick Heald and Matt Price at the Abbey School Faversham on the 15th of March 2026.
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I NEVER LEAVE MY APPEARANCE TO CHANCE - because the world notices the woman who chooses herself, deliberately, beautifully, unapologetically ✨
This is where I begin - slipping into the Cara Outfit by Just Because - a piece that doesn’t simply dress me, it defines me 💫
The silhouette is sculpted with intention - a one-shoulder composition that draws the eye upward before cascading into a sleek, elongated line that hugs every contour with quiet authority The cut is daring yet refined - a precision high slit that reveals just enough, balanced by the clean asymmetry of the neckline. There’s an architectural discipline to it - controlled, elegant - like a perfectly resolved design where nothing is excessive and everything belongs.
And then - the detail 🌹
A whisper of textured feathering - soft, fluid, almost alive - tracing along the body like movement captured in time. It transforms the garment from form into experience. Each step I take feels choreographed, as if the dress responds to me rather than the other way around.
This is where sophistication becomes instinct ✨
Rendered in advanced PBR - the fabric holds light the way fine silk does in the real world - absorbing, reflecting, and shifting with nuance 💎 Under ambient glow or evening shadow, the surface reveals depth - subtle sheen, rich tonal layering, and a realism that feels almost tactile.
The palette is curated - from deep noir to intoxicating wine tones 🍷 to soft romantic blush 🌸 - each one engineered to complement mood, setting, and presence.
The heels follow suit - refined, minimal, yet striking 👠 - also PBR-enhanced with matching tonal options that elongate the leg and anchor the look with quiet confidence. Even the included panties - delicate, seamless - are designed with the same attention to finish and color harmony, ensuring the ensemble remains flawless from every angle 💖
Nothing is overlooked - because true elegance never is ✨
COMPATIBLE WITH
* Maitreya Lara X
* Legacy
* Legacy Perky
* Reborn
* Reborn Waifu
I wear it because I believe in showing up as my best - not for the room, but for myself 💫 Because effort is not vanity - it’s self-respect.
You can find the Cara Outfit exclusively at the Just Because Mainstore:
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... and as Tom Ford once said -
“Dressing well is a form of good manners.”
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." - Jim Rohn
2015 05 16 101538 Cheshire Tatton Park 1HDR
This adult Coot was diving and getting food for two chicks. For whatever reason, it took after one of the chicks, grabbed its head and gave is a sharp shake. The chick was released immediately and appeared none the worse for the experience. I can only guess the adult was making a point about dining etiquette or something.
El Capitan is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith is about 3,000 feet from base to summit along its tallest face and is a world-famous location for big wall climbing, including the disciplines of aid climbing, free climbing, and more recently for free solo climbing.
The formation was named "El Capitan" by the Mariposa Battalion when they explored the valley in 1851. El Capitán ("the captain", "the chief") was taken to be a loose Spanish translation of the local Native American name for the cliff, “Tutokanula” or "Rock Chief" (the exact spelling of Tutokanula varies in different accounts as it is a phonetic transcription from the Miwok language).
The "Rock Chief" etymology is based on the written account of Mariposa Battalion doctor Lafayette Bunnell in his 1892 book.[5] Bunnell reports that Ahwahneechee Chief Tenaya explained to him, forty-one years earlier, in 1851, that the massive formation, called Tutokanula, could be translated as "Rock Chief" because the face of the cliff looks like a giant rock Chief. In Bunnell's account, however, he notes that this translation may be wrong, stating: “I am not etymologist enough to understand just how the word has been constructed… [If] I am found in error, I shall be most willing to acknowledge it, for few things appear more uncertain, or more difficult to obtain, than a complete understanding of the soul of an Indian language.”
An alternative etymology is that "Tutokanula" is Miwok for “Inchworm Rock”. Julia F. Parker, the preeminent Coast Miwok-Kashaya Pomo basket-weaver and Yosemite Museum cultural ambassador since 1960, explains that the name Tutokanula, or “Inchworm Rock”, originates in the Miwok creation story for the giant rock, a legend in which two bear cubs are improbably rescued by a humble inchworm. In the story, a mother bear and her two cubs are walking along the river. The mother forages for seeds and berries while the two cubs nap in the sun on a flat rock. While the cubs sleep, the rock grows and grows, above the trees and into the sky. The mother bear is unable to climb the rock to get to her cubs and she becomes afraid and asks for help. The fox, the mouse, the mountain lion, and every other animal tries to climb to the top of the giant rock but they each fail. Finally, the lowly little inchworm tries the climb and successfully makes it all the way to the top and rescues the cubs. All the animals are happy to see that the little inchworm has saved the two bear cubs and the rock is named in the inchworm's honor.
The “Inchworm Rock” version of the meaning of Tutokanula is also described in the story "Two Bear Cubs: A Miwok Legend from California's Yosemite Valley" by Robert D. San Souci and in the First People Miwok recounting of the El Cap legend.
The top of El Capitan can be reached by hiking out of Yosemite Valley on the trail next to Yosemite Falls, then proceeding west. For climbers, the challenge is to climb up the sheer granite face. There are many named climbing routes, all of them arduous, including Iron Hawk and Sea of Dreams.
My #FlickrFriday entry this week for the theme #Together.
My airgun and me #together are hoping to score well in the summer season league in the Field Target discipline.
24-July-24
Unveiled today at Parliament Square in Westminster, central London, the 3D display calls attention to the figure "487". This is to honour the Ukrainian athletes whose lives have been lost due to Russia’s full scale invasion, although the actual number of fatalities is believed to be even higher.
The exhibition features sports equipment symbolic of the disciplines of some of the 487 athletes killed, offering a poignant reminder of the horrors of the war.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Pruning of a plane tree (six word story)(slightly cut)
Also 90 year old plane trees (platanen) are pruned to stay within the size / fullness limits municipal works has set for them. Shot on our dike.
This is number 214 of Urban frontiers and 42 of adventures in chaos here. And of course 67 of Six word stories.
So much of life is built quietly,
far from applause.
Strength.
Grace.
Confidence.
Endurance.
Most of it is formed in private moments no one remembers seeing.
The world often celebrates arrival,
but rarely notices the lonely discipline required to get there.
She disappeared beneath the trees still skipping,
moving deeper into the shade,
carrying her rhythm with her.
020/100 - 100 Possibilities - Every area of life requires discipline, As a child we learned skills by practicing them over and over.
Wildlife photography. A world in itself almost as alien to many of us as it must be to those who think a camera is an app on their mobile phone. It seems as far removed from landscape photography as Rugby Union is from Rugby League or Road Cycling from Mountain Biking. You can see the parallels, but apart from having a bag full of shiny camera gear, only the likes of us really understand that there are a million differences. Lenses the size of rocket launchers, wildly different settings, fierce blue skies, a wardrobe full of so much khaki and camouflage that only the owner can find it, and bags of patience spring to mind. Certain cameras are designed for wildlife photography too, so I’m led to believe. And even though I’ve been retired for more than three years and have as much time as I need, sitting in a hide waiting for a lesser tailed peewit to sit on the branch that I’ve sellotaped some peanuts to over there - well I just can’t be bothered really. I love watching wildlife, and I do take a very occasional snap, but it’s not for me. I pointed the telephoto lens at an Egyptian Vulture flying over the mountains in Fuerteventura earlier this year and it came out pretty well. Won’t be appearing here though. Even at four hundred millimetres I had to crop it to animal kingdom come before I could see what I’d taken a photo of. I’m going to leave that stuff to the specialists. I need time if I’m going to get the shot I’m after. And more often than not, when that unexpected moment does arise, the wrong settings are inevitably dialled in, with an ND filter in place to slow everything down, just when the opposite is required. I’m supposed to be able to customise my camera for a rapid response, but I’ve never sat down to work out how to do so, which tells you how high on my list of priorities it is. And I'm nearly always waiting for low light before the camera comes out, which isn't exactly ideal for grabbing those tack sharp long range shots taken with the shutter speed set to one four thousandth is it?
What I do sometimes find quite engaging is what one of my Flickr friends once referred to as the “Animate Landscape.” It’s not an attempt to combine the two disciplines, and it’s not a halfway house either, but it often happens at the coast when the seabirds are gathered in numbers. Like here, just as I was leaving Crosby Beach, very much a long exposure type of landscape and seascape location, thinking about lunch and whether the rain might ease again in this lifetime. At the edge of the water, a large congregation of birds filled the space around the statues, prospecting for invertebrates hidden in the sand. As I turned to watch the sea one last time, groups of them began to fly northwards along the beach. Well at least I had the long lens on and I’d already put the filter pouch away, even if conditions weren’t entirely optimal for this kind of business. With little time to decide whether to hand hold or pop it on the tripod, and without even really thinking about the settings, I rattled off a few shots in the face of the strong winds that had made the last hour here such a challenge. But what was I focussing on? I really had no idea, and neither did the camera. Even at this range, the big focal length wasn’t going to get everything sharp. All but one of the results were a mish mash of different elements in focus at best, in some the entire image was a blur of confusion.
But there was one image which captured the mood of that wet grey afternoon as far as I was concerned, and enough of the constituent parts were passing the sharpness test for me. Across the water lay the hazy outline of New Brighton, and in between the blurred foreground birds stood those enigmatic Gormley clones, forever gazing towards the west, as a flock of feathered arrows took flight across the scene. Hardly the most technically competent photograph you’ll ever see, but one that describes the animate landscape in front of the camera.
As for the birds? Well done if you got there already because I wasn't sure. As far as I could tell they had the wrong markings for Snipe and the wrong shaped beaks for Curlews, so I invited the birders on the family WhatsApp to dispel the confusion, to be informed I'd taken a picture of a flock of Knot. You learn something every day.
I noticed a Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana) perched on a slender branch just as dawn’s light filtered through the canopy in Capurganá, Chocó, Colombia. Framing him slightly from below, I worked at 1/60 second and f/16, raising ISO 3200 to lift shadow detail without sacrificing clarity. Using an 800mm f/11 lens with a 1.4× extender, I compressed the lush greenery into a soft, creamy bokeh while capturing every delicate feather on his ash-gray body and jet-black cap. His V-shaped tail feathers stretched gracefully behind him, sharply defined against the diffused tropical light.
Working handheld beneath dense foliage demanded steady breathing and precise timing to freeze the bird’s subtle movements. Painting with light in those early hours meant balancing a moderate shutter speed and narrow aperture to preserve sharpness while revealing the fine textures of his plumage. This approach reflects my commitment to blending technical discipline with a deep respect for fragile edge habitats—inviting photographers to see how patient observation and careful exposure can reveal the hidden elegance of rainforest species.
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