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The Snake in Taylor Swift’s LWYMMD Video DOES NOT Mean what you Thought #celebs #celebrities #entertainment #taylorswift
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Once
(Alex James Photos 2017)
Hello folks ... the week is nearing its end. And that is a very good thing. Looking for a restful Saturday. Cooler weather means more time out & about exploring Mother Nature. Yay!
www.alexjamesphotos.com
#WBTPA +BTP Editors' Choice (Top Photo page) +PRO Winners +//flower colors// #flowercolors #BTPMacroPro – +BTP Macro Pro . owned by +Nancy Dempsey ,curated by +Kenny Jones #wherelumixgoes #nature #decay #blackandwhite #monochrome
(Alex James Photos 2017)
Hello folks ... the week is nearing its end. And that is a very good thing. Looking for a restful Saturday. Cooler weather means more time out & about exploring Mother Nature. Yay!
www.alexjamesphotos.com
#WBTPA +BTP Editors' Choice (Top Photo page) +PRO Winners +//flower colors// #flowercolors #BTPMacroPro – +BTP Macro Pro . owned by +Nancy Dempsey ,curated by +Kenny Jones #wherelumixgoes #nature #decay #blackandwhite #monochrome
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Like an umbrella
How I shot macro https://www.paolodalprato.com/naturalistic-macro
#macrophotography #flowers #flowerphotography #hqspmacro #hqspflowers #fotomaniaitalia #macroaddict #ilovephotography
How I shot macro https://www.paolodalprato.com/naturalistic-macro
#macrophotography #flowers #flowerphotography #hqspmacro #hqspflowers #fotomaniaitalia #macroaddict #ilovephotography
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Did you do this Alice?
Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)
Svartskog, Norway
This is the largest specimen I’ve encountered of this species so far this year, and I could see its beautiful color from afar. It stands tall and alone in the midst of three mature spruce and is an amazing view!
It looked completely undamaged at first, but a slug has left its mark even on this beauty.
It’s rare to find a fully mature mushroom almost completely undamaged by maggots or slugs, and such a treat when a huge specimen as this one is growing in a beautiful location like this.
This is where I’d expect to find Alice as this is wonderland indeed!
Image Copyright © 2017 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 20 September 2017 16:48
Altitude: 57 meters
#fungi #mushrooms #autumn #svartskog #norway
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro
#BTPMacroPro +BTP Macro Pro
#BTPMacroPro – +BTP Macro Pro , owned by +Nancy Dempsey , curated by +Kenny Jones
Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)
Svartskog, Norway
This is the largest specimen I’ve encountered of this species so far this year, and I could see its beautiful color from afar. It stands tall and alone in the midst of three mature spruce and is an amazing view!
It looked completely undamaged at first, but a slug has left its mark even on this beauty.
It’s rare to find a fully mature mushroom almost completely undamaged by maggots or slugs, and such a treat when a huge specimen as this one is growing in a beautiful location like this.
This is where I’d expect to find Alice as this is wonderland indeed!
Image Copyright © 2017 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 20 September 2017 16:48
Altitude: 57 meters
#fungi #mushrooms #autumn #svartskog #norway
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro
#BTPMacroPro +BTP Macro Pro
#BTPMacroPro – +BTP Macro Pro , owned by +Nancy Dempsey , curated by +Kenny Jones
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Traditionally, when you want to give a new phone to an enterprise user, chances are some poor admin has to deal with ensuring that the device is configured correctly and that all the right policies are in place. As the name implies, the new zero-touch enrollment feature, however, takes all of these manual steps out of the process.
The idea here is that employees can use a device out of the box, because all the management services and setting are already ready to go when the device is shipped.
This means the user only has to sign in, walk through the setup process and start working, and admins don’t have to do any additional work to authorize these devices and add them to their mobility services. They simply assign the new device to a user and the device will be automatically enrolled with their existing enterprise mobility management solution like VMware’s AirWatch when it’s powered on.
The idea here is that employees can use a device out of the box, because all the management services and setting are already ready to go when the device is shipped.
This means the user only has to sign in, walk through the setup process and start working, and admins don’t have to do any additional work to authorize these devices and add them to their mobility services. They simply assign the new device to a user and the device will be automatically enrolled with their existing enterprise mobility management solution like VMware’s AirWatch when it’s powered on.
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Two Stars, Three Dimensions, and Oodles of Energy
For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from the double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light years from Earth. Astronomers were caught by surprise when previous outbursts from this system were seen in 1937 and 1989. When the system erupted on February 6, 2014, however, scientists were ready to observe the event with a suite of telescopes including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
V745 Sco is a binary star system that consists of a red giant star and a white dwarf locked together by gravity. These two stellar objects orbit so closely around one another that the outer layers of the red giant are pulled away by the intense gravitational force of the white dwarf. This material gradually falls onto the surface of the white dwarf. Over time, enough material may accumulate on the white dwarf to trigger a colossal thermonuclear explosion, causing a dramatic brightening of the binary called a nova. Astronomers saw V745 Sco fade by a factor of a thousand in optical light over the course of about 9 days.
Astronomers observed V745 Sco with Chandra a little over two weeks after the 2014 outburst. Their key finding was it appeared that most of the material ejected by the explosion was moving towards us. To explain this, a team of scientists from the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, the University of Palermo, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics constructed a three-dimensional (3D) computer model of the explosion, and adjusted the model until it explained the observations. In this model they included a large disk of cool gas around the equator of the binary caused by the white dwarf pulling on a wind of gas streaming away from the red giant.
The computer calculations showed that the nova explosion’s blast wave and ejected material were likely concentrated along the north and south poles of the binary system. This shape was caused by the blast wave slamming into the disk of cool gas around the binary. This interaction caused the blast wave and ejected material to slow down along the direction of this disk and produce an expanding ring of hot, X-ray emitting gas. X-rays from the material moving away from us were mostly absorbed and blocked by the material moving towards Earth, explaining why it appeared that most of the material was moving towards us.
In the figure showing the new 3D model of the explosion, the blast wave is yellow, the mass ejected by the explosion is purple, and the disk of cooler material, which is mostly untouched by the effects of the blast wave, is blue. The cavity visible on the left side of the ejected material (see the labeled version) is the result of the debris from the white dwarf’s surface being slowed down as it strikes the red giant. An inset shows an optical image from the Siding Springs Observatory in Australia with V745 Sco in the center.
An extraordinary amount of energy was released during the explosion, equivalent to about 10 million trillion hydrogen bombs. The authors estimate that material weighing about one tenth of the Earth’s mass was ejected.
While this stellar-sized belch was impressive, the amount of mass ejected was still far smaller than the amount what scientists calculate is needed to trigger the explosion. This means that despite the recurrent explosions, a substantial amount of material is accumulating on the surface of the white dwarf. If enough material accumulates, the white dwarf could undergo a thermonuclear explosion and be completely destroyed. Astronomers use these so-called Type Ia supernovas as cosmic distance markers to measure the expansion of the Universe.
The scientists were also able to determine the chemical composition of the material expelled by the nova. Their analysis of this data implies that the white dwarf is mainly composed of carbon and oxygen.
A paper describing these results was published in the February 1st, 2017 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is available online. The authors are Salvatore Orlando from the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo in Italy, Jeremy Drake from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA and Marco Miceli from the University of Palermo.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
Image credit: Illustrated model: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
Read More from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
For more Chandra images, multimedia and related materials, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/chandra
For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from the double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light years from Earth. Astronomers were caught by surprise when previous outbursts from this system were seen in 1937 and 1989. When the system erupted on February 6, 2014, however, scientists were ready to observe the event with a suite of telescopes including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
V745 Sco is a binary star system that consists of a red giant star and a white dwarf locked together by gravity. These two stellar objects orbit so closely around one another that the outer layers of the red giant are pulled away by the intense gravitational force of the white dwarf. This material gradually falls onto the surface of the white dwarf. Over time, enough material may accumulate on the white dwarf to trigger a colossal thermonuclear explosion, causing a dramatic brightening of the binary called a nova. Astronomers saw V745 Sco fade by a factor of a thousand in optical light over the course of about 9 days.
Astronomers observed V745 Sco with Chandra a little over two weeks after the 2014 outburst. Their key finding was it appeared that most of the material ejected by the explosion was moving towards us. To explain this, a team of scientists from the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, the University of Palermo, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics constructed a three-dimensional (3D) computer model of the explosion, and adjusted the model until it explained the observations. In this model they included a large disk of cool gas around the equator of the binary caused by the white dwarf pulling on a wind of gas streaming away from the red giant.
The computer calculations showed that the nova explosion’s blast wave and ejected material were likely concentrated along the north and south poles of the binary system. This shape was caused by the blast wave slamming into the disk of cool gas around the binary. This interaction caused the blast wave and ejected material to slow down along the direction of this disk and produce an expanding ring of hot, X-ray emitting gas. X-rays from the material moving away from us were mostly absorbed and blocked by the material moving towards Earth, explaining why it appeared that most of the material was moving towards us.
In the figure showing the new 3D model of the explosion, the blast wave is yellow, the mass ejected by the explosion is purple, and the disk of cooler material, which is mostly untouched by the effects of the blast wave, is blue. The cavity visible on the left side of the ejected material (see the labeled version) is the result of the debris from the white dwarf’s surface being slowed down as it strikes the red giant. An inset shows an optical image from the Siding Springs Observatory in Australia with V745 Sco in the center.
An extraordinary amount of energy was released during the explosion, equivalent to about 10 million trillion hydrogen bombs. The authors estimate that material weighing about one tenth of the Earth’s mass was ejected.
While this stellar-sized belch was impressive, the amount of mass ejected was still far smaller than the amount what scientists calculate is needed to trigger the explosion. This means that despite the recurrent explosions, a substantial amount of material is accumulating on the surface of the white dwarf. If enough material accumulates, the white dwarf could undergo a thermonuclear explosion and be completely destroyed. Astronomers use these so-called Type Ia supernovas as cosmic distance markers to measure the expansion of the Universe.
The scientists were also able to determine the chemical composition of the material expelled by the nova. Their analysis of this data implies that the white dwarf is mainly composed of carbon and oxygen.
A paper describing these results was published in the February 1st, 2017 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is available online. The authors are Salvatore Orlando from the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo in Italy, Jeremy Drake from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA and Marco Miceli from the University of Palermo.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
Image credit: Illustrated model: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
Read More from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
For more Chandra images, multimedia and related materials, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/chandra
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For this week's Saturday Scene, it's a visit to the doctor... Doctor Chlamydia Addams, Starfleet's Chief Medical Officer aboard the Starbase known as Vanguard.
Doctor Chlamydia Addams took a seat behind her desk, and her companion, the Zeta Reticulan spider known as Thing, sprang from her shoulder to disappear behind her. "Have a seat, Lieutenant," the Doctor said, indicating those on the other side of her desk. She tapped the surface of her desk, linking to the files generated by the scan she'd performed on the young woman a few minutes prior. She considered the results again, and looked across the desk at the woman. "You believe your arm is defective in some way?"
Lieutenant Gray shook her head. "I don't know how to describe it, Doctor. It's... it's not real. It's not mine.."
"You can touch it with the other hand?" Addams inquired. "You feel what it feels? In what way is it not real, or not yours?"
Lieutenant Gray held up the hand in question, flexing it, turning it. "It exists, yes," she said, quietly. "But... I left my arm, almost to the elbow, on board a burning freighter. This one...." she trailed off.
Addams made a thoughtful sound. "It's been three years since the incident aboard Sato Maru. In that time, the engineered tissues have undergone apoptosis at a natural rate, and been replaced with your autologous tissue. The muscle and bone are assimilating nicely, and the neurons have completely linked with your own nervous system."
"I know all that," the Lieutenant said with a sigh, lowering the arm again. "But I still can't shake this feeling."
Addams nodded. "What you're experiencing is not physical," she observed. "Which does not mean that you are not experiencing it, or that it is not real. It does mean that I am not the right person to help you. I am therefore writing you a referral to my colleague, Dr. Graves."
"A psychiatrist?" Gray asked, sounding unenthusiastic.
"A shrinker of heads," Addams said. She was tapping away on her desk, presumably writing the referral she'd mentioned. She glanced up, at the top shelf of the glass cabinet secured to the bulkhead, at a curio, apparently a ball of leather with some fiber sticking out the top.
Gray followed her gaze, and realized that the thing was a shrunken head. She paled.
"Usually not so literally," Addams said with a ghoulish smile. She tapped the desktop once more, and Lieutenant Gray's PADD vibrated in her pocket. "I'm sure you will find him quite personable, actually. And if not...." She glanced once more at the top shelf.
"Yes, ma'am," the Lieutenant said, getting to her feet and exiting the office quickly.
Addams sat in silence for a minute after the young woman's departure, regarding the shrunken head. "Ah, Thing," she said at last. "What trouble brains cause us."
Thing, for its part, declined to comment.
Doctor Chlamydia Addams took a seat behind her desk, and her companion, the Zeta Reticulan spider known as Thing, sprang from her shoulder to disappear behind her. "Have a seat, Lieutenant," the Doctor said, indicating those on the other side of her desk. She tapped the surface of her desk, linking to the files generated by the scan she'd performed on the young woman a few minutes prior. She considered the results again, and looked across the desk at the woman. "You believe your arm is defective in some way?"
Lieutenant Gray shook her head. "I don't know how to describe it, Doctor. It's... it's not real. It's not mine.."
"You can touch it with the other hand?" Addams inquired. "You feel what it feels? In what way is it not real, or not yours?"
Lieutenant Gray held up the hand in question, flexing it, turning it. "It exists, yes," she said, quietly. "But... I left my arm, almost to the elbow, on board a burning freighter. This one...." she trailed off.
Addams made a thoughtful sound. "It's been three years since the incident aboard Sato Maru. In that time, the engineered tissues have undergone apoptosis at a natural rate, and been replaced with your autologous tissue. The muscle and bone are assimilating nicely, and the neurons have completely linked with your own nervous system."
"I know all that," the Lieutenant said with a sigh, lowering the arm again. "But I still can't shake this feeling."
Addams nodded. "What you're experiencing is not physical," she observed. "Which does not mean that you are not experiencing it, or that it is not real. It does mean that I am not the right person to help you. I am therefore writing you a referral to my colleague, Dr. Graves."
"A psychiatrist?" Gray asked, sounding unenthusiastic.
"A shrinker of heads," Addams said. She was tapping away on her desk, presumably writing the referral she'd mentioned. She glanced up, at the top shelf of the glass cabinet secured to the bulkhead, at a curio, apparently a ball of leather with some fiber sticking out the top.
Gray followed her gaze, and realized that the thing was a shrunken head. She paled.
"Usually not so literally," Addams said with a ghoulish smile. She tapped the desktop once more, and Lieutenant Gray's PADD vibrated in her pocket. "I'm sure you will find him quite personable, actually. And if not...." She glanced once more at the top shelf.
"Yes, ma'am," the Lieutenant said, getting to her feet and exiting the office quickly.
Addams sat in silence for a minute after the young woman's departure, regarding the shrunken head. "Ah, Thing," she said at last. "What trouble brains cause us."
Thing, for its part, declined to comment.
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Google is removing a massive pain point in putting new Android devices into the hands of enterprise customers with its new zero-touch enrollment. #News #Android80Oreo #Google
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Whether you're lazing in bed, or sitting on the toilet, or waiting for the metro, there's nothing better than a few good video games to keep you company. Well, instead of just a few, here are the top 50 best smartphone games you should be playing right now. Also, this is Part One of a five part list, so be sure to check back in a few days for more.
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True Love - The Real Cinderella’s Story
Here is the dream of my true love story. This dream isn’t from the night when I spoke with my Lady Angel, it happened some time later.
In the dream I found myself on the beach, my true love man was in the water already, up to his knees. He called me over to join him, having his hands wide open like he is going to give me big hug. I hesitated a little bit and joined him soon after. He gave me firm hug and we started walking in the water.
We made only 4 steps and found ourselves on edge of the biggest whirlpool I have ever seen. He said to me “Let’s jump in, it is going to be fun”. I hesitated again, I knew if I jump in, no one can save us, water is going to swallow us in. Anyway, holding each other very tightly we jumped. Water started spinning us so quickly in the circles. We made 4 circles and found ourselves at the bottom of the ocean.
All of a sudden whirlpool disappeared. At the bottom of the ocean, water was so calm and crystal clear. My man and I started walking our path together and after some time I was sitting on the chair, somebody was dressing me up for my wedding. And that was it, we never managed to pull ourselves out.
That is the true love “Being swallowed by deep emotions for ever” I concluded!
Thanks for following and thanks for reading! God Bless!
You can read my original true love story here:
https://plus.google.com/+FatimaSuljagicASM/posts/GYe1RKnFxxA
#love #truelove #truestory #lovestory #RealCinderellaStory #dreams #dreammeaning #lifestory #flowers #redroses #roses #photographers #australianphotographers #fineartphotography #fatimasuljagic #melbourne #australia
Here is the dream of my true love story. This dream isn’t from the night when I spoke with my Lady Angel, it happened some time later.
In the dream I found myself on the beach, my true love man was in the water already, up to his knees. He called me over to join him, having his hands wide open like he is going to give me big hug. I hesitated a little bit and joined him soon after. He gave me firm hug and we started walking in the water.
We made only 4 steps and found ourselves on edge of the biggest whirlpool I have ever seen. He said to me “Let’s jump in, it is going to be fun”. I hesitated again, I knew if I jump in, no one can save us, water is going to swallow us in. Anyway, holding each other very tightly we jumped. Water started spinning us so quickly in the circles. We made 4 circles and found ourselves at the bottom of the ocean.
All of a sudden whirlpool disappeared. At the bottom of the ocean, water was so calm and crystal clear. My man and I started walking our path together and after some time I was sitting on the chair, somebody was dressing me up for my wedding. And that was it, we never managed to pull ourselves out.
That is the true love “Being swallowed by deep emotions for ever” I concluded!
Thanks for following and thanks for reading! God Bless!
You can read my original true love story here:
https://plus.google.com/+FatimaSuljagicASM/posts/GYe1RKnFxxA
#love #truelove #truestory #lovestory #RealCinderellaStory #dreams #dreammeaning #lifestory #flowers #redroses #roses #photographers #australianphotographers #fineartphotography #fatimasuljagic #melbourne #australia
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The Warmth of the Sun
© teresa pilcher teresapilcherphotography.com
#Oslo #street #travel #photography #explore #candid #sony
#breakfastartclub #hqspmonochrome
#BTPStreetPro #BTPMonochromePro #weeklyphoto
© teresa pilcher teresapilcherphotography.com
#Oslo #street #travel #photography #explore #candid #sony
#breakfastartclub #hqspmonochrome
#BTPStreetPro #BTPMonochromePro #weeklyphoto
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The new scheme could save you big bucks on a Google Pixel, but the prices may come as a disappointment overall. #News #Google #GooglePixel
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If you were ever teased as a kid for having a bigger head and defended it by saying it meant you were smarter, turns out, you were probably right. A new study has revealed a direct correlation between brain volume, head circumference, and levels of intelligence.
Note: To read full article click photo below.
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HTC phones aren’t dead yet. At least for now. Even after its smartphone workforce has been almost cut in half by the Google “agreement”, HTC assures its loyal followers and investors that it will still be making smartphones. And as if on cue, details of a certain HTC U11 Plus have surfaced, claiming to be the company’s late 2017 flagship. … Continue reading
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In the WWE endorsed +UpUpDownDown, #XavierWoods play Smite which also supports Connor's Cure: Fighting Pediatric Cancer.
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Linares vs Campbell Headlines HBO This Saturday
VIDEO: http://www.boxingchannel.tv/linares-vs-campbell-headlines-hbo/
#boxing #boxeo #linarescampbell
VIDEO: http://www.boxingchannel.tv/linares-vs-campbell-headlines-hbo/
#boxing #boxeo #linarescampbell
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