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If you're a door, stairway, or window aficionado then you will find yourself captivated by San Francisco. Like Rome, "The City" is built on seven hills making stairways an almost certainty on any home. Architects have found very creative ways to accentuate these stairways. The doors and windows have come along for the ride.
San Francisco CA
Artworks & Photography
Location: BBBB Studio (SL)
Model: Narelle Brenner
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Still I Rise
-Maya Angelou-
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
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Ophrys oestrifera subsp. montis-gargani (Orchidaceae) 115 23
This orchid has been recognized from the Gargano peninsula for many years and until recently was known by several different names including O. cornuta and O. rhodostephane.
These uncertainties were eventually resolved in 2010 by a group of Dutch botanists headed by Van de Vijver and Van Looken who collected and formally described the orchid under the name of O. oestrifera ssp montis-gargani. Its distribution is not known with certainty but it has several stations within the Gargano peninsula and may well have a wider range on the south east coast of Italy. It is not however a common species and its presence is extremely localised.
It is an Ophrys of alkaline habitats and shows a preference for a stony, dry soil, usually with a significant degree of shade. In the four sites known to the authors it is growing either in the cover of a thick hedge or in two of the cases, in shadowy clearings within relatively dense mixed woodland. This preference for alkaline woodland renders O. montis-gargani vulnerable and it is becoming increasingly threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation.
Source: John and Gerry's - Orchids of Britain and Europe.
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ICI ET DEMAIN
Je sais avec certitude que l’Univers est… grand.
Tellement que, dans la vie de tous les jours, nous renonçons à demander, comment? pourquoi?
Et ici, devant ce marais salé, nous sommes confinés au moment présent, à l’infiniment près, à l’ambiance et aux émotions que nous procurent ce moment. Là aussi, il n’y a pas beaucoup de place pour se demander pourquoi, comment?
La condition humaine est ancrée « ici et maintenant » et se conjugue plus difficilement avec les concepts « ailleurs et demain ».
C’est pourtant « ici et demain » que l’histoire pourra continuer à s’écrire…?
À moins que… vous ne connaissiez la route des étoiles?
Patrice
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BEYOND « HERE AND NOW »
I know with certainty that the Universe is . . . vast.
So that, in everyday life, we stop asking, how? why?
And here, in front of the salt marsh, we are confined to the present moment, to the infinitely close, to the ambience and the emotions that are coming from that moment. Here also, is not much room to ask why? how?
The human condition is rooted in "here and now" and is not easily combined with concepts as "somewhere else and tomorrow ».
We have to get beyond " here and now " if we hope history continues to be written…
Unless. . . you know the path to the stars?
Patrice
Not a fledgling I can identify with certainty, but it looked vulnerable and photogenic perched in the tree. My camera was primed and ready to shoot; thank you was all I said.
To those who come from the sea shore is in the harbor of Venere and here - in the hills that covered the olive tree is also known that such sweetness Minerva forgets to Athens - her country ...”
With these verses Petrarch, in 1338, celebrated Porto Venere, still considered the "miracle panorama" of the Gulf of La Spezia. History and legend are often confused, but the sea routes of the emperor Antoninus Pius (161 AD) gives us the certainty that Porto Venere exist, as the maritime center, since Roman times, with naval function of "Portus", whose settlement was located in St. Peter, now Piazza Spallanzani (Castrum Vetus).
I just remembered I did not post the female I photographed on my trip, so here she is.
There has been some discussion as to whether the Wall lizard is a native species, as it is on Jersey in the Channel Islands. Although it cannot be ruled out with complete certainty, All scientific evidence (including legacy records, museum specimens, zooarchaeological remains & DNA analysis) suggest that the Wall lizard is an entirely introduced species to the United Kingdom, with many documented releases across the nineteenth century.
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"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
Vincent Van Gogh
Where do the stairs take us? Does the effort to overcome them guarantee certainty on the path? Is it always worth reaching the top? Is it the top the right place to be? Will life continue on pause when you get there? How many stairs do I have to climb to get out of here? Will it continue to hurt so much? But that's not what I wanted to know.
Para onde nos levam as escadas? O esforço em transpô-las garante a certeza no caminho? É sempre merecido o chegar ao topo? O topo é um bom lugar? A vida continuará em pausa quando lá chegar? Tenho de subir quantas escadas para sair daqui? Vai continuar a doer tanto?
Mas não era nada disto que eu queria saber. A questão é: hoje há cupões do Continente?
Pentas lanceolata (Egyptian Star Flower / Star Cluster)
Icon of the week - Cluster Flowers, Week 765 in the Flower Themes group
Fourth place in TMI’s January 2022 contest Inflorescences
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The little sailor marvels at the night sky...
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Keep dreaming and keep shining so bright, my friends!
Rose buds fill me with hope and the certainty of beauty to come.
I wish you a year filled with hope and beauty!
Rose, constantly on my mind. ALL the time.
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
~Monica Baldwin~
Un detalle para mi amigo tonialon
Por estar siempre ahí, por esas largas conversaciones telefónicas, por esos ánimos,
por esa sabiduría y por ser tan buena gente,,,,,,,
,,,,,,No hay forma de encontrar ni una sola certeza absoluta. Ningún argumento irrefutable que nos ayude a dar respuestas a las preguntas de la humanidad, la filosofía por lo tanto ha muerto, porque de lo que no se puede hablar, mucho mejor es callarse.
El hombre, al ser incapaz de adecuar mente y materia, tiende a conferir cierta entidad a las ideas porque no soporta que lo puramente abstracto solo ocurra en nuestro cerebro.
¡¡ Como he oido tantas veces ( La belleza y la armonía de una flor, de un copo de nieve o de una mariposa que agita sus alas y causa un huracán al otro lado del mundo!! ) Llevan hablando décadas de esa mariposa y de esa armonía, pero ¿quién ha sido capaz de predecir un sólo huracán ?, NADIE .
¿Donde está esa belleza y esa armonía en el cáncer por ejemplo,que hace que una célula decida transformarse en una metástasis y destroza el resto de células de un cuerpo sano ? Algien lo sabe ?, NO ,
Preferimos pensar en flores, copos de nieve o en mariposas que en el dolor. Por qué,,,? Porque necesitamos creer que la vida tiene sentido, que todo se rige por la lógica , no por el mero azar.
Si escribimos 2,4,6, nos sentimos bien, porque sabemos que después vendrá el 8, podemos preverlo, no estamos en manos del destino en ese momento.
Por desgracia, y sin embargo, esto no tiene nada que ver con la verdad, no les parece,,,?
Esto es solo miedo.
Triste, pero es lo que hay,,,,,,
El texto es una reflexión
,,,,,,There is no way to find a single absolute certainty. No irrefutable argument that helps us to give answers to the questions of humanity, philosophy is therefore dead, because what cannot be talked about, it is much better to remain silent.
Man, being unable to match mind and matter, tends to confer a certain entity to ideas because he cannot bear that the purely abstract only occurs in our brain.
As I have heard so many times (The beauty and harmony of a flower, a snowflake or a butterfly that flaps its wings and causes a hurricane on the other side of the world!!) They have been talking about that butterfly for decades and about that harmony, but who has been able to predict a single hurricane? NOBODY.
Where is that beauty and that harmony in cancer, for example, that makes a cell decide to become a metastasis and destroys the rest of the cells of a healthy body? Does anyone know?, NO,
We prefer to think of flowers, snowflakes or butterflies than of pain. Why? Because we need to believe that life has meaning, that everything is governed by logic, not by mere chance.
If we write 2,4,6, we feel good, because we know that 8 will come later, we can foresee it, we are not in the hands of fate at that moment.
Unfortunately, however, this has nothing to do with the truth, do you think?
This is just fear.
Sad, but it is what it is,,,,,,
The text is a reflection
Newly planted lavatera behind the patio in my garden.
SW Scotland
"Just like moons and suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still, I'll rise."
Maya Angelou
💙With London💙
Just like the moons and like suns with the certainty of tides
Just like hopes springing high
Still I'll rise
Maya Angelou
Tout comme les lunes et comme les soleils avec la certitude des marées
Tout comme les espoirs qui jaillissent
Je vais quand même m'élever
The largest ceremonial center on the island:
The history of Tongariki mixes mythological stories, wars between clans and settlements of tribes that date back to the tenth century. In the large esplanade that extends in front of the ahu, there have been remains of boat-houses or hare paenga, old hearths or umu pae and hundreds of petroglyphs engraved in the volcanic rock that reflect the importance of this extraordinary place.
It is believed that Tongariki was the sociopolitical and religious center of Hotu Iti, one of the two great clans that grouped the tribes of the eastern sector of the island. The first human occupation dates from the year 900 AD. and it is related to the first phase of a first ahu. The impressive final monument is the result of a successive series of modifications and extensions, carried out throughout history, which show the technical mastery achieved.
Ahu Tongariki is the largest ceremonial structure built on Easter Island and the most important megalithic monument in all of Polynesia. It represents the zenith of the sacred constructions called ahu-moai that were developed in Rapa Nui for more than 500 years.
The central platform, whose axis is oriented to the rising sun of the summer solstice, measures almost 100 meters long and with its wings or original lateral extensions reached a total length of 200 meters. During the last final phase of construction of the ceremonial altar, Ahu Tongariki held 15 moai, which made it the platform with the largest number of images of the whole island.
Unfortunately, as happened with the rest of the ceremonial platforms of the island, the moai were knocked down from the ahu during the violent episodes that took place between the different island clans at the time of decadence of the Rapanui culture. It is believed that this period began after 1500 AD. reaching its peak at the end of the seventeenth century.
It is not known with certainty when the statues of the Ahu Tongariki were demolished, but according to the testimonies of the first European navigators who arrived at the island, it seems that these were no longer standing when they arrived at the beginning of the 18th century. However, the place continued to be used as a cemetery until the conversion of the population to Catholicism in the second half of the 19th century.
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It is the largest ceremonial structure in any area of Polynesia, with a length of 220 meters from one side of a wing to the other.
The platform was restored between 1992 and 1996.
Paid by the Japanese government and a Japanese construction company.
on the Library Terrace at Biltmore House. Asheville, North Carolina. This vine is likely approaching 100 years of age.
"According to our records, it appears the vines on the Library Terrace were planted in the ground by 1920. While it is not possible to say with certainty that the one particular Campsis vine was planted at that time, it certainly seems probable to me." Parker Andes, Director of Horticulture at the Biltmore Estate.
The water tower in the middle of the chapel bridge is part of the historic city fortification of Lucerne and is considered a landmark of the city.
The 35-metre-high octagonal and slightly leaning tower complements the city fortification towards the lake. Its construction time cannot be determined with certainty, but certainly after 1262, so even before the chapel bridge built. It has long served as a defensive and watchtower, as well as a cornerstone of the city's fortification. Over the years, he was a city archive, treasury, dungeon and torture chamber.
It is mentioned for the first time in 1367. The existing roof chair dates back to 1339. Since 1939 the tower has been rented to the Lucerne Artillery Association. The tower is rarely open to the public, usually only in summer.
On the lower floor of the tower is a dungeon. Its walls are three meters thick, there are neither windows nor doors. Access is only possible via an opening in the floor of the room above. The dungeon was probably used as a prison until 1759 and then abandoned. On the first floor is the so-called treasury. It served as a prison and as an interrogation and torture chamber until 1759. From 1759 to 1798 the state treasure was kept here, from 1798 to 1803 the room served again as a prison and from 1804 to keep the securities of the community. The second upper floor was until 1759 the place of storage of the Lucerne State Treasury and the State Archives.
When it was discovered in 1758 that money had been stolen for years, it was converted into a prison (until 1802). From 1804 to 1919 he again housed the municipal archive. The striking stork nest on the top of the tower has not been used for over 100 years. The 15-metre-high attic served as an interrogation and torture chamber. Since 1892 alpine sailors have been breeding here in a colony, which is supervised by the Ornithological Society of the City of Lucerne (OGL), since 1959 on behalf of the City Council of Lucerne. The Alpine sailing colony in the water tower is the largest Alpine swift "Tachymarptis melba" colony in central Switzerland.
Johnny's always running around
Trying to find CERTAINTY
He needs all the world to confirm
That he ain't LONELY
Mary counts the walls
Knows he tires easily
Johnny thinks the world would be right
If it could buy truth from him
Mary says he changes HIS MIND
More than a woman
But she made her bed
Even when the CHANCE was slim
Running around
Running around
Johnny says he's willing to learn
when he decides he's a FOOL
Johnny says he'd live anywhere
When he earns time -
Mary combs her hair
Says she should be USED TO it
Mary always hedges her bets
She NEVER knows what to think
She says that he still acts like he's being discovered
Scared that he'll be caught
Without a second thought
Running around
Running around
Running around
Running around
Johnny feels he's wasting his BREATH
Trying to talk sense to her
Mary says he's lacking a real SENSE of proportion
So she combs her hair
Knows he tires easily -
Johnny's always running around
In der Champagne im Marne Tal findet man im Nationalpark "Montagne de Reims" einen Buchenwald mit unzähligen Süntelbuchen - die weltweit größte Ansammlung, ca. 8oo Stück -. "fau" ist die altfranzösische Bezeichnung für "Buche". Von außen sehen sie aus wie unterschiedliche große grüne Hügel, im Inneren sieht man ein weit verzeigtes Gerüst mit vielen krummen und knorrigen Ästen und Zweigen, welche bis zum Boden reichen. Die Herkunft ist bisher nicht sicher geklärt.
In the "Montagne de Reims" national park in Champagne in the Marne valley you will find a beech forest with countless Süntelbuchen - the world's largest collection, approx. 800 pieces -. "fau" is the old French term for "beech". From the outside they look like different sized green hills, inside you can see a widely branched framework with many crooked and gnarled branches and twigs reaching to the ground. The origin has not yet been clarified with certainty.
A backyard bird taken through my office window, but this one was on a small deck railing, possibly waiting it's turn at the feeder. It was cold and there was certainly lots of action at the feeder.
I do not know these guys well enough to ID with certainty. If I had to guess I would say that it is a female Common Redpoll. I suppose I have a 50% chance of being right.
It was early in the morning in the Schladminger Tauern and we wanted to hike towards a mountain lake. But which one? If I’m honest, I don’t know anymore. Not a year ago, but I can no longer say with absolute certainty. There were too many mountain tours in a short time and unfortunately I didn't keep a diary; I think that will be introduced this year!
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The view from Castlerigg Stone Circles (NT) east of Keswick, Cumbria - A 'Stonewall' certainty for Explore?
"One of several medium-sized terns that are similar in appearance, the Forster's Tern breeds primarily in marshes and winters along the coasts. The comma-shaped black ear patch in winter plumage is distinctive, but some other plumages are very confusing. Forster's Tern appear to have experienced declines between 1966 and 2015 according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey, but there is not enough data to estimate numbers with certainty. The North American Waterbird Conservation Plan estimates between 47,000-51,500 continental breeding birds, and lists it as a Species of Moderate Concern."
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Photographed in the wild, Florida, USA.
Species: Mustela erminea.
Whilst photographing various birds collecting nesting materials, this inquisitive little beauty popped-up to see what was going on. I think it's a Stoat (or Weasel) but difficult to identify with certainty without seeing the key distinguishing feature - the tail.
Many thanks to people who view or comment on my photos
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
~Monica Baldwin
There's nothing like sheltering-in-place for almost one year to make me ready to jump in a spaceship. ;) Here's to better days for all of us. Stay safe everyone! "In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York."
Jules Verne
07-February-2022: it is (finally) the last photo I chose for this reportage and, as expected, you will decide which one (or two) of these 5 photos will remain in the future on Flickr.
In my future I hope that frozen car in the middle of the shot (which Jeep foolishly stopped producing with engines that exploit the great autonomy of traditional fuels), can accompany me for a few more years in these adventures, also given the impossibility of managing an electric or hybrid-plug in Car (the last is the maximum of non-sense, having to be slave to the unobtainable charging columns, and at the same time having to do 40 liters of petrol to go somewhere... Without the certainty of returning).
The charging infrastructures and any logistical spaces where to build them are completely missing; it is a real bluff, at least for southern Europe and a great part of the World.
The fact that electric cars cost a lot and that they are polluting anyway (lithium ion battery to be produced and disposed of and electricity produced by coal or, at best, nuclear power plants...), comes, however, AFTER the real impossibility of managing cars of this type today, tomorrow and always.
EXCEPT
Electric cars have a market only in countries where there is a lot of natural energy available, excellent charging infrastructures and very few people!
Not many all aroud the Planet.
Time to go for certainty? Go for the strong leader? Take refuge in the Buddha, throw myself into the arms of Christ, surrender my life to Allah, sign any other collective contract with the Divine? I prefer honest uncertainty. I will stick to my two traditions, Christianity and critical rationalism. The tensions and contradictions between the two are part of who I am. May be the tensions can be resolved, one day, when I am no longer.
The water tower in the middle of the chapel bridge is part of the historic city fortification of Lucerne and is considered a landmark of the city.
The 35-metre-high octagonal and slightly leaning tower complements the city fortification towards the lake. Its construction time cannot be determined with certainty, but certainly after 1262, so even before the chapel bridge built. It has long served as a defensive and watchtower, as well as a cornerstone of the city's fortification. Over the years, he was a city archive, treasury, dungeon and torture chamber.
It is mentioned for the first time in 1367. The existing roof chair dates back to 1339. Since 1939 the tower has been rented to the Lucerne Artillery Association. The tower is rarely open to the public, usually only in summer.
On the lower floor of the tower is a dungeon. Its walls are three meters thick, there are neither windows nor doors. Access is only possible via an opening in the floor of the room above. The dungeon was probably used as a prison until 1759 and then abandoned. On the first floor is the so-called treasury. It served as a prison and as an interrogation and torture chamber until 1759. From 1759 to 1798 the state treasure was kept here, from 1798 to 1803 the room served again as a prison and from 1804 to keep the securities of the community. The second upper floor was until 1759 the place of storage of the Lucerne State Treasury and the State Archives.
When it was discovered in 1758 that money had been stolen for years, it was converted into a prison (until 1802). From 1804 to 1919 he again housed the municipal archive. The striking stork nest on the top of the tower has not been used for over 100 years. The 15-metre-high attic served as an interrogation and torture chamber. Since 1892 alpine sailors have been breeding here in a colony, which is supervised by the Ornithological Society of the City of Lucerne (OGL), since 1959 on behalf of the City Council of Lucerne. The Alpine sailing colony in the water tower is the largest Alpine swift "Tachymarptis melba" colony in central Switzerland.
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Origine
Je ne connais pas nos origines avec certitude
Mais ce jour-là, en me tenant debout
Près du rebord vertigineux du Grand Canyon
Quelque chose de viscéral, de primal en moi, a réagi à cette intense et fabuleuse lumière qui éclairait les profondeurs du Canyon.
Ce n’était pas spirituel ou métaphysique
Mais profondément physique et intime en même temps
Comme un souvenir de ce qui fut, programmé dans mes cellules depuis le début des Temps
Comme une intuition m’indiquant que cette lumière n’était pas étrangère à celle de nos Origines
Comme la conviction profonde que la poussière qui m’entourait était bien cette même poussière d’étoiles dont sont faits les enfants de Darwin et leur monde.
Nous ne « connaissons » pas nos origines avec certitude
Mais quelque chose en nous le « sait »
Patrice
Photo originale : Grand Canyon, Arizona, É.U.
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Origin
I don't know with certainty our origins
But that day, holding myself erect, next to the dizzying rim of the Grand Canyon, something visceral and primal happened within me, reacting to this intense and fabulous light that lit the depths of the Canyon.
It wasn't spiritual or metaphysics,
but profoundly physical and intimate in the same time,
Like a memory of something that was, programmed in my cells from the beginning of Times;
As an intuition telling me that this light was not foreign from the one of our Origin;
As a deep conviction that the dust surrounding me, could be the same star dust from what were made Darwin's children and their world.
We don't know our origin with certainty.
But something within us « knows".
Patrice
Original Photo : Grand Canyon National Park, USA
The water tower in the middle of the chapel bridge is part of the historic city fortification of Lucerne and is considered a landmark of the city.
The 35-metre-high octagonal and slightly leaning tower complements the city fortification towards the lake. Its construction time cannot be determined with certainty, but certainly after 1262, so even before the chapel bridge built. It has long served as a defensive and watchtower, as well as a cornerstone of the city's fortification. Over the years, he was a city archive, treasury, dungeon and torture chamber.
It is mentioned for the first time in 1367. The existing roof chair dates back to 1339. Since 1939 the tower has been rented to the Lucerne Artillery Association. The tower is rarely open to the public, usually only in summer.
On the lower floor of the tower is a dungeon. Its walls are three meters thick, there are neither windows nor doors. Access is only possible via an opening in the floor of the room above. The dungeon was probably used as a prison until 1759 and then abandoned. On the first floor is the so-called treasury. It served as a prison and as an interrogation and torture chamber until 1759. From 1759 to 1798 the state treasure was kept here, from 1798 to 1803 the room served again as a prison and from 1804 to keep the securities of the community. The second upper floor was until 1759 the place of storage of the Lucerne State Treasury and the State Archives.
When it was discovered in 1758 that money had been stolen for years, it was converted into a prison (until 1802). From 1804 to 1919 he again housed the municipal archive. The striking stork nest on the top of the tower has not been used for over 100 years. The 15-metre-high attic served as an interrogation and torture chamber. Since 1892 alpine sailors have been breeding here in a colony, which is supervised by the Ornithological Society of the City of Lucerne (OGL), since 1959 on behalf of the City Council of Lucerne. The Alpine sailing colony in the water tower is the largest Alpine swift "Tachymarptis melba" colony in central Switzerland.
"Glück auf" - the German miners' greeting and its meaning
Der Bergmannsgruß wurde bereits vor 1700 in dem alten Bergmannslied "Glück Auf, der Steiger kommt" künstlerisch umgesetzt und ist damit in das Volksliedgut eingegangen.
"Glück auf" ist der deutsche Bergmannsgruß. Er beschreibt die Hoffnung der Bergleute, „es mögen sich Erzgänge auftun“, denn beim Abbau von Erzen ließ sich ohne Prospektion nur unsicher vorhersagen, ob die Arbeit der Bergleute überhaupt zu einem Lohn führen würde. Weiterhin wird mit diesem Gruß der Wunsch für ein gesundes Ausfahren aus dem Bergwerk nach der Schicht verbunden. In traditionellen Bergbauregionen wird es auch von Nichtbergleuten verwendet. Im Erzgebirge, Oberharz und Ruhrgebiet findet der Gruß auch heute noch im alltäglichen Leben Verwendung.
"Gluck auf" (difficult to translate literally) is the traditional German miners' greeting. It describes the hope of the miners:"may lodes [of ore] be opened", which is short for "I wish you luck, open a new lode", because, when mining for ore, without prospecting, no-one could predict with certainty whether the miners' work would lead to a reward. The greeting also expressed the desire that miners would return safely from the mine after their shift. Today it is still a common form of greeting in the Ore Mountains region of eastern Germany and in the Ruhr area, specifically Bochum, which is home to the German Mining Museum (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum).
You just can't live that negative way. You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it's a new day... -
Bob Marley
The universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.” -
Abraham Hicks
The words we choose to use when we communicate with each other, carry vibrations. The word ‘war’ carries a whole different vibration than the word ‘peace’. The words we use are showing how we think and how we feel. The careful selection of words, helps to elevate our consciousness and resonate in higher frequencies. -
Grigoris Deoudis
A no has a different frequency than a yes, and a maybe is all vibration, oscillating between no and yes. My favorite answers have no movement.” -
Jarod Kintz, Xazaqazax
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Singapore has a sensibly regulated free market economy, combined with political stability and certainty based on the rule of law. A laser sharp focus on quality education has produced an industrious and well educated work force. Singapore is probably the only country in that has graduated from being a Third World Country to a First World one within a single generation.
These attributes have attracted many international investors that have turned Singapore into a powerhouse for global business and finance.
Several leading multinational corporations have established their regional headquarters in Singapore, and announce their presence in the form of competing skyscrapers that rival any skyline found in the leading countries of the world.
The buried moais of Easter Island - Secrets, history and location:
They are perhaps the most typical moais and the ones that you will see the most in all of Easter Island. It is about those giant heads that protrude from the ground and are the typical figure of all of Rapa Nui. But why are they different from other statues? What makes them so special? Is it true that they have a buried body? I'll tell you then.
About the buried moai:
There is a popular belief that moai are only heads, but the truth is that these statues have a full body and the heads that are seen in the typical tourist images of Rapa Nui, hide a remaining two or three meters of these giants underground. .
But why are these moai buried and not on top of the Ahu like most other statues? The answer is simple and is related to the carving and construction of the same. The construction of the moais was divided into 4 stages:
* In the first place they carved one of the stones that was in the Rano Raraku volcano. These figures were carved directly in the rocks buried or that came out of the volcano.
* Once the base figure of the moai was finished, they carved and removed the stone from its base to move it.
* This stone was then buried so that it would remain standing and the finer details (features, eye sockets, etc.) could be finished.
* Once finished, they moved the moai to its final location (one of the many Ahu on the island).
Okay, so why did these moai remain buried and are not on an Ahu? Simply because the natives did not finish the job and left them halfway (the reason is still unknown).
Theories about the heads of Easter Island:
As I said in the previous point, there is still no certainty about why these moais are buried, but what there are are two theories accepted by the experts.
In the first place we have those who affirm that the moais are buried in holes previously dug to finalize the details and carvings that these statues have.
As a second theory, there are those who say that they were left there (halfway to Ahu) and that later, the climatic changes were burying them little by little until they became the outstanding heads that they are today.
Buried moai size:
Although they vary in size and although not all the moai have been unearthed to have an exact average, those that have been taken from the earth measure between 6 and 7 meters, thus exceeding 4 meters of most of the statues that are in the Ahu.
On the heads (the part that protrudes), they measure on average two meters in height (one third of the total height).
Body of the moais:
Although the shape is very similar to that of the moais that are on the Ahu, there are some differences that are worth mentioning:
* The body (the buried part) is bright yellow. This was the original color of all the moais but these are the only ones that maintain it since the earth protected them from the deterioration that the other giants did suffer.
* The average size of the buried statues is 6 meters, while the average size of the Ahu moais is 4 meters.
* Buried moai have a larger and more prominent nose than Ahu moai.
* Unlike the statues of the Ahu, there is no buried moai that wears a Pukao (red cap on its head).
* The heads of Easter Island do not have the eye sockets carved. This leads us to believe that this part was carved after the moai was raised on an Ahu, that is, when it was already raised.
* Not all, but many of the buried moais have a stake-shaped base (to facilitate the burial of their body), while all Ahu moai have a flat base for standing.
Moai unearthed:
We already know what they are like, what their shape is and the main theories about why they are buried, but is there any record of the body of these heads? It does exist and it is quite impressive.
While there are many archaeologists who have unearthed and studied the moai, one of the most important projects is part of the Easter Island Statue Project, led by American Jo Anne van Tilburg from the University of California.
Jo and her team have already uncovered several bodies of these stone giants and their record is beyond incredible. Thanks to her work, new figures were discovered engraved on the backs of these colossi, new colors and new materials with which they were built.
The record of her work continues to surprise to this day.
Location heads of Easter Island:
Most (almost entirely) of the buried moai are found in the Rano Raraku volcano. It was from here that the islanders took the raw material to build the statues on the island and it was from here that they moved them to the Ahu or left them buried.
In the quarry, on the hillside and even in the crater of the volcano, I saw around 110 buried statues. The panorama and vision was really impressive. I couldn't miss this volcano, which unlike the other volcanoes that are distinguished by their natural environment, here the most impressive thing is to see the set of buried and assembled moais.
The water tower in the middle of the chapel bridge is part of the historic city fortification of Lucerne and is considered a landmark of the city.
The 35-metre-high octagonal and slightly leaning tower complements the city fortification towards the lake. Its construction time cannot be determined with certainty, but certainly after 1262, so even before the chapel bridge built. It has long served as a defensive and watchtower, as well as a cornerstone of the city's fortification. Over the years, he was a city archive, treasury, dungeon and torture chamber.
It is mentioned for the first time in 1367. The existing roof chair dates back to 1339. Since 1939 the tower has been rented to the Lucerne Artillery Association. The tower is rarely open to the public, usually only in summer.
On the lower floor of the tower is a dungeon. Its walls are three meters thick, there are neither windows nor doors. Access is only possible via an opening in the floor of the room above. The dungeon was probably used as a prison until 1759 and then abandoned. On the first floor is the so-called treasury. It served as a prison and as an interrogation and torture chamber until 1759. From 1759 to 1798 the state treasure was kept here, from 1798 to 1803 the room served again as a prison and from 1804 to keep the securities of the community. The second upper floor was until 1759 the place of storage of the Lucerne State Treasury and the State Archives.
When it was discovered in 1758 that money had been stolen for years, it was converted into a prison (until 1802). From 1804 to 1919 he again housed the municipal archive. The striking stork nest on the top of the tower has not been used for over 100 years. The 15-metre-high attic served as an interrogation and torture chamber. Since 1892 alpine sailors have been breeding here in a colony, which is supervised by the Ornithological Society of the City of Lucerne (OGL), since 1959 on behalf of the City Council of Lucerne. The Alpine sailing colony in the water tower is the largest Alpine swift "Tachymarptis melba" colony in central Switzerland.
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Lao Tzu
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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
Anonymous
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
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This Thing, Infinity
Thinking beyond thought, being of non-being,
Certainty without reason and vision beyond seeing.
Everything and nothing, both infinite and finite.
Where nothing escapes or travels beyond light.
A time without end, when all exists for all eternity;
Fascinating paradox, this thing called infinity.
An end without an ending,
From here to eternity, and back to the beginning;
An endless sojourn
From which there is no return.
For, there was, and yet, never is a beginning,
And there never will be an ending;
Only, an end, continually becoming.
~ Gene Margolis ~
Just take a look outside tonight and contemplate the infinity of space.Its vastness is too huge for us to see. We’re in an infinite, never-ending, never-beginning universe.
Endings are beginnings...to infinity and beyond!
Sending love to you... xoxo