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or so I've heard......so if this true how come every time I try this cleanliness thingy my minds still so dirty?? Hahahahaha
On my leisurely walk through the old academic quarter of Groningen, I passed by the building erected in 1883 for the Laboratory of Hygienics once part of the pharmaceutical-medical department. It was built in 1883 and the main doorway boasts this rendition of the goddess of cleanliness and purity, Hygeia. The sculpture is by Emilius A.H. Bourgonjon (1841-1927), a Belgian who worked in The Netherlands.
The inset is of a wonderful Widow's Thrill, a Kalanchoè, that I saw in a shop more or less around the corner. Its whiteness symbol of purity. It's well known that astronauts and cosmonauts are subjected to dire hygienic norms on their flights. And, too, that those stays in far-off space can make one homesick. In 1979 Valery Ryumin (1939-) and Vladimir Lyakov (1941-2018) spent a long time in Salyut 6. Space loneliness weighed heavily on them, and to pick up their spirits a shipment of supplies from Earth also had a Kalanchoè plant. They were so thrilled by it that they named it 'Tree of Life'.
Cleanliness is next to godliness. Macro Monday submission this week, plastic. Namely a soap dispenser.
At the end of summer, at the beginning of September, I visited Bergen, the second largest city in Norway.
I arrived at the town at night, but the beauty of the warm sight of the windows
lit up in the houses was impressive and still haunts me.
Each street in the town is full of Scandinavian cleanliness and excellent taste, and is attractive.
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) typically dominate other fox species. Arctic foxes generally escape competition from red foxes by living farther north, where food is too scarce to support the larger-bodied red species. Although the red species' northern limit is linked to the availability of food, the Arctic species' southern range is limited by the presence of the former. Red and Arctic foxes were both introduced to almost every island from the Aleutian Islands to the Alexander Archipelago during the 1830s–1930s by fur companies. The red foxes invariably displaced the Arctic foxes, with one male red fox having been reported to have killed off all resident Arctic foxes on a small island in 1866. Where they are sympatric, Arctic foxes may also escape competition by feeding on lemmings and flotsam, rather than voles, as favoured by red foxes. Both species will kill each other's kits, given the opportunity.
Red foxes are serious competitors of corsac foxes, as they hunt the same prey all year. The red species is also stronger, is better adapted to hunting in snow deeper than 10 cm (4 in) and is more effective in hunting and catching medium to large-sized rodents. Corsac foxes seem to only outcompete red foxes in semi-desert and steppe areas. In Israel, Blanford's foxes escape competition with red foxes by restricting themselves to rocky cliffs and actively avoiding the open plains inhabited by red foxes.:84–85 Red foxes dominate kit and swift foxes. Kit foxes usually avoid competition with their larger cousins by living in more arid environments, though red foxes have been increasing in ranges formerly occupied by kit foxes due to human-induced environmental changes. Red foxes will kill both species, and compete for food and den sites. Grey foxes are exceptional, as they dominate red foxes wherever their ranges meet. Historically, interactions between the two species were rare, as grey foxes favoured heavily wooded or semiarid habitats as opposed to the open and mesic ones preferred by red foxes. However, interactions have become more frequent due to deforestation allowing red foxes to colonise grey fox-inhabited areas.
Wolves may kill and eat red foxes in disputes over carcasses. In areas in North America where red fox and coyote populations are sympatric, fox ranges tend to be located outside coyote territories. The principal cause of this separation is believed to be active avoidance of coyotes by the foxes. Interactions between the two species vary in nature, ranging from active antagonism to indifference. The majority of aggressive encounters are initiated by coyotes, and there are few reports of red foxes acting aggressively toward coyotes except when attacked or when their kits were approached. Foxes and coyotes have sometimes been seen feeding together. In Israel, red foxes share their habitat with golden jackals. Where their ranges meet, the two canids compete due to near identical diets. Foxes ignore jackal scents or tracks in their territories, and avoid close physical proximity with jackals themselves. In areas where jackals become very abundant, the population of foxes decreases significantly, apparently because of competitive exclusion.
Red foxes dominate raccoon dogs, sometimes killing their kits or biting adults to death. Cases are known of foxes killing raccoon dogs entering their dens. Both species compete for mouse-like prey. This competition reaches a peak during early spring, when food is scarce. In Tartaria, red fox predation accounted for 11.1% of deaths among 54 raccoon dogs, and amounted to 14.3% of 186 raccoon dog deaths in north-western Russia.
Red foxes may kill small mustelids like weasels, stone martens, pine martens, stoats, kolonoks, polecats and young sables. Eurasian badgers may live alongside red foxes in isolated sections of large burrows. It is possible that the two species tolerate each other out of mutualism; foxes provide badgers with food scraps, while badgers maintain the shared burrow's cleanliness.:15 However, cases are known of badgers driving vixens from their dens and destroying their litters without eating them. Wolverines may kill red foxes, often while the latter are sleeping or near carrion. Foxes in turn may kill unattended young wolverines.
Red foxes may compete with striped hyenas on large carcasses. Red foxes may give way to hyenas on unopened carcasses, as the latter's stronger jaws can easily tear open flesh that is too tough for foxes. Foxes may harass hyenas, using their smaller size and greater speed to avoid the hyena's attacks. Sometimes, foxes seem to deliberately torment hyenas even when there is no food at stake. Some foxes may mistime their attacks, and are killed.:77–79 Fox remains are often found in hyena dens, and hyenas may steal foxes from traps.
In Eurasia, red foxes may be preyed upon by leopards, caracals and Eurasian lynxes. The lynxes chase red foxes into deep snow, where their longer legs and larger paws give them an advantage over foxes, especially when the depth of the snow exceeds one metre. In the Velikoluki district in Russia, red foxes are absent or are seen only occasionally where lynxes establish permanent territories. Researchers consider lynxes to represent considerably less danger to red foxes than wolves do. North American felid predators of red foxes include cougars, Canadian lynxes and bobcats. Occasionally, large raptors such as Eurasian eagle owls will prey on young foxes, while golden eagles have been known to kill adults.
In fast jedem Land ist Sauberkeit im öffentlichen Raum ein Thema das viele Menschen umtreibt. In Berlin haben Berliner*innen den Verein wirBERLIN e.V. gegründet und wir haben es zu unserem Thema gemacht.
"Wir wollen eine Stadt für Menschen, eine Stadt, die attraktiv, gastfreundlich und sicher ist." dazu gehört auch eine saubere Stadt.
In almost every country, cleanliness in the public space is a topic that drives many people. In Berlin Berliners founded the association wirBERLIN e.V. and we have made it our subject.
"We want a city for people, a city that is attractive, hospitable and safe." Including a clean city.
Dans presque tous les pays de la propreté dans les lieux publics est un problème dérange beaucoup de gens. A Berlin, Berlin * en ont fondé l'association wirBERLIN e.V. et nous avons fait notre thème.
« Nous voulons une ville pour les gens, une ville qui est attrayant, accueillant et sûr. » cela comprend une ville propre.
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En casi todos los países la limpieza en lugares públicos es una cuestión molesta a mucha gente. En Berlín * han fundado en la asociación wirBERLIN eV y hemos hecho nuestro tema.
"Queremos una ciudad para las personas, una ciudad que es atractivo, acogedor y seguro." esto incluye una ciudad limpia.
Em quase todos os limpeza país em lugares públicos é uma questão incomoda muita gente. Em Berlim Berlin * em ter fundado a associação wirBERLIN e.V. e fizemos o nosso tema.
"Queremos uma cidade para as pessoas, uma cidade que é atraente, acolhedor e seguro." isso inclui uma cidade limpa.
In quasi tutti i paesi pulizia nei luoghi pubblici è un problema infastidisce un sacco di gente. A Berlino Berlin * in hanno fondato l'associazione wirBERLIN e.V. e ci hanno reso il nostro tema.
"Vogliamo una città per le persone, una città che è attraente, accogliente e sicuro." questo include una città pulita.
Danke für den Besuch/Kommentar/Favo.
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Merci de visiter / commentaire / Favo.
Gracias por visitar / comentario / Favo usted.
Grazie per aver visitato / commento / Favo.
Obrigado por visitar / comentário / Favo.
Zanzibar. Stone Town.
Nous devons vivre, malgré la pauvreté, la dureté de la vie. Nous restons aussi dignes chez nous.
La propreté des lieux. L'hôtesse dans sa dignité.
Tout cela nous incite au respect et nous renvoie une image de nous-mêmes sans complaisance.
Zanzibar. Stone Town.
We must live, despite poverty, the harshness of life. We also remain worthy at home.
The cleanliness of the premises. The hostess in her dignity.
All this incites us to respect and gives us an image of ourselves without complacency.
A beautiful pond heron is preening briskly in the morning perched on a plantain leaf !!! Gearing up for the day !!!
A distant hill provided for a perfect backdrop for this !!!
Have a great day, friends !!!
பாராயோ என்னைமுகம் பார்த்தொருகால் என்கவலை
தீராயோ வாய்திறந்து செப்பாய் பராபரமே !!!
தாயுமானவடிகள் பராபரக்கண்ணி
A beautiful pigeon engaged in brisk preening in the morning sunlight at Senganatham, a hill village near my town !!!
Have a great day, friends !!!
கைவிளக்கின் பின்னேபோய்க் காண்பார்போல் மெய்ஞ்ஞான
மெய்விளக்கின் பின்னேபோய் மெய்காண்ப தெந்நாளோ !!!
தாயுமானவடிகள் எந்நாள்கண்ணி
GROUP: SMILE ON SATURDAY
THEME: SOAP on BLACK BACKGROUND
SUBJECT: BUBBLY IVORY
Wishing you all a HAPPY, HEALTHY, PEACEFUL and a BLESSED (LABOR DAY, for US friends) WEEKEND!
Thank you so much for stopping by and for the kind comments and favs. They are very much appreciated!
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Nobility, Memory, Cleanliness
"Seabhac brings the ability to see life in perspective, freeing oneself from unnecessary 'baggage' and connecting with one's ancestral roots."
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Nobiltà, Memoria, Pulizia
"Seabhac porta l'abilità di vedere la vita in prospettiva, liberandosi dai 'bagagli' inutili e collegandosi con le proprie radici ancestrali."
Testo tratto da L'oracolo dei Druidi. Lavorare con gli Animali Sacri della Tradizione Celtica. Text taken from The Oracle of the Druids. Working with the Sacred Animals of the Celtic Tradition.
www.edizionilpuntodincontro.it/libri/l-oracolo-dei-druidi...
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19G takes the siding at West Laurel to avoid a significant speed restriction behind a spectacularly clean SD70
Sculpture in the Schönbrunn Garden
Hygieia was the Greek goddess of health and cleanliness. Her name is the origin of the word "hygiene".
The abominable POTUS always scorned hygienic and other measures taken in order to prevent the spreading of covid-19, like wearing masks. Now he's a victim of his own egomania and stupidity.
"A White House long in denial confronted reality this week after President Trump and the first lady both tested positive for the virus, along with a cadre of close advisers, including Hope Hicks, a top White House aide, and Bill Stepien, the Trump campaign manager.
The outcome appeared shocking but also inevitable in a West Wing that assumed that rapid virus tests for everyone who entered each morning were substitutes for other safety measures, like social distancing and wearing masks.
But the outcome was also a byproduct, former aides said, of the recklessness and top-down culture of fear that Mr. Trump created at the White House and throughout his administration. If you wanted to make the boss happy, they said, you left the mask at home.
President Trump at times told staff wearing masks in meetings to “get that thing off,” an administration official said. Everyone knew that Mr. Trump viewed masks as a sign of weakness, officials said, and that his message was clear. “You were looked down upon when you would walk by with a mask,” said Olivia Troye, a top aide on the coronavirus task force who resigned in August and has endorsed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
In public, some of the president’s favorite targets were mask-wearing White House correspondents. “Would you take it off, I can hardly hear you,” Mr. Trump told Jeff Mason of Reuters in May, then mocked Mr. Mason for wanting “to be politically correct” when he refused."
www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/03/world/covid-trump#leading...
is nice. Filth was rare on the old Soo Line. They washed their power seven months of the year when the temperature was above freezing. Number 937 (750-757-778) rolled through Cardigan Jct on the westbound main Wednesday, August 25, 1982 at 1035 AM with a spotless set of 9000 horsepower.
Cleanliness is next to cattiness. Dudley Do-Right grooms himself.
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The cleanliness and orderly nature of Swiss railways is well shown here.
This wasn't an easy shot being caught out at the wrong side of the line. Narrow-gauge Matterhorn and Gotthard Railway number 55 is seen here approaching the small village of Munster.
Cleanliness is next to godliness, or so the ancient saying goes. Here, at the Jama Masjid, India's largest mosque, believers wash their hands, faces and feet before prayer time.
As birds circled overhead, like small black dots in the overcast sky, I wandered around, bathing in the humid, post-monsoon heat, climbing minarets barefoot and takind the odd snapshot when something caught my eye. India is definitely not a place you want to miss visiting in this life!
Matt
From Wikipedia:
Islamic ritual purification is particularly centred on the preparation for ritual prayer; theoretically ritual purification would remain valid throughout the day, but is treated as invalid on the occurrence of certain acts, the passing of wind, sleep, contact with the opposite gender (depending on which school of thought), unconsciousness, and the emission of blood, semen, or vomit. Some schools of thought mandate that ritual purity is necessary for holding the Qur'an.
Ritual purification takes the form of ablution, in a lesser form (wudu), and greater form (ghusl), depending on the circumstance; the greater form is obligatory by a woman after she ceases menstruation, on a corpse that didn't die during battle, and after sexual activity, and is optionally used on other occasions, for example just prior to Friday prayers, or entering ihram.
An alternative "dry ablution"(tayammum), involving clean sand or earth, is used if clean water is not available or if suffering from an illness which would be worsened by the use of water; this form is invalidated in the same circumstances as the other forms, and also whenever water becomes available and safe to use. And is also necessary to be repeated (renewed) before every obligatory prayer.
The obligatory activities of the lesser form include beginning with the intention to purify oneself, washing of the face, arms, head, and feet. while some optional acts also exist such as recitation of the Bismillah,Oral hygiene|brushing of the teeth, the washing of the mouth, nose at the beginning,washing of arms to the elbows and washing of the ears at the end; additionally recitation of the Shahadah. The greater form(ghusl) is completed by first performing wudu and then ensuring that the entire body is washed. Some minor details of Islamic ritual purification may vary between different different schools of thought, as well as scholarly opinions, as well as between the different sects of Islam.
My Gato is an old female cat at cat's age 9 years, cleanliness, bossy, meowly, lovely, loudly yell cat!
I love her so much, cannot leave her over couple days; she also when I do not home she less eat, less sleep; poor both of us:)))
She has many black spots and dots all body, look like someone spread the ink to her clothe...funny dots!
Wood Duck, juveniles
Aix sponsa
It was a beautiful morning as the sun was just clearing the trees.The resident family of nine juvies appeared to be enjoying the building warmth as much as the photographer!
Kensington Metropark, Oakland County, MI
Cleanliness and antiseptic practices are not up to my standards, even in physicians and surgeons offices and in hospitals.
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emptiness is loneliness,
and loneliness is cleanliness
and cleanliness is godliness,
and god is empty just like me
Or should that be ungodliness? (-;
Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) showing us that you don't necessarily need fur to keep 'it' clean LOL