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Newport Bay in Pembrokeshire. Watercolour painting.
The Ancient Shore.
Escape the playground of Yr Traeth Mawr,
with cars, and children romping in the surf,
to where the pink starred centuary
is in flower along the dunes
amid the sheep-nipped turf,
and find, alone, the pristine, ancient shore:
the rippled sand, echo of mackerel sky;
the streams and pools unchanged,
from long before the spread of humankind.
Above the high tideline, rust-red and blue,
the slabs of slate, formed
when the ever sinking earthly crust
built up grit from rivers' yearly spate,
and mountain heaving forces,
shook and thrust the layered beds,
cracked and bent the rocks, and left them twisted,
standing on their edge.
Then tide on tide cut deep within the blocks
and tunnelled far below the harder ledge,
gouged out the softer shales.
The constant drip of water from the overhanging ferns:
hypnotic beat against the splashing rip
of silver pystyll in the cwm;
the terns call harshly as they dive
into the distant hissing murmur of incoming waves;
like shells' internal spirals keep,
insistent, the ocean's sound,
captive within the caves.
Beyond the wrack and kelp beds of the bay,
the carreg points towards the northern star.
Morfa's ravens croak above the spray on headland,
pebble strand and sandy bar.
And ever on the river winds beneath the moorland heights
of golden broom and gorse, with berried whin
and scented purple heath, to shoreline's mouth
from mountain's springing source.
(Published in "The Lie of the Land" Cinnamon Press).
Life is a giant puzzle full of suspense and mystery
Many a question has gone unanswered since time began and throughout history
Thoughts of how life began and how it might end fill the minds of humankind
The ageless question about our existence in life is asked by the seeing the deaf and the blind
Why are we alive what purpose do we serve
To whom do we owe our existence to and why is he not visible
Can He be one of us or is he some higher being
We think and we ponder we start to let our imaginations wander
We lay awake sometimes at night discussing with ourselves our many doubts
Sometimes many sleepless nights go by and our health begins to plunder
There are many religions and beliefs many faiths and many ideas
So many gods there are so many lords and so many ladies
Whom should I choose and whom should I follow
So many are they that following just one is an idea that is sometimes hard to swallow
They all have their definitions of life they have guidelines and they have moral codes
Their leaders and scholars come from many classes in life
While some prefer the beggar's life others prefer a mighty abode
All seem to be so logical all have their own philosophies
They talk about everything from who to worship to how to appreciate a gentle breeze
The more you think the more you are confused and the more you wait or try to avoid it the more you are accused
Wars have come and gone and come again all in the name of faith
All came from good intentions but as wars go their outcomes were the same
A lot of innocent lives were lost and many historical treasures were damaged or stolen again as wars go people never stopped to think about the costs
I dream of a peaceful world one free of violence and of fear
Sadly that is much more of a foolish dream than one which might come true
For in spite of all our differences on one thing we all agree
For all the good in our world there is also a dark side which is seen
For all the angels there are devils that are full of hate that enjoy cruelty and being mean
Yet we still choose to live our lives we still choose to go on
We all have different answers some of which we search for others we stumble upon
Unless you choose a path by which to go by this mystery might remain unsolved
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Lloyd Dean, Fred Najjar and Samira Najjar attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Elizabeth Shih and Joan Beach attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Denise Bradley Tyson attends CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
One Giant Leap for Humankind - Birmingham 2022 Festival.
Spotted this from Grand Central Square, heading into Birmingham New Street Station on a hot morning, going to Birmingham International for a visit to BBC Gardeners World Live at The NEC.
One Giant Leap for Humankind by Jacob Chandler.
Probably a summer trail during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The term stalactite comes from the Greek word stalaktos, which means “dripping”, because these other-worldly formations are produced by “drips” from the ceilings of limestone caves. Water reacts with chemical elements in the ground and rock, and seeps slowly through the roof of the cave, depositing calcium carbonate, which hardens and builds up over time to form a stalactite.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Fred Najjar, Jed York, Kristi Yamaguchi, Wright Lassiter, Remi Kajogbola and Lloyd Dean attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Pablo Bravo and Sister Mary Haddad attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all that I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot conceal.
~ Lord George Byron, "Childe Harold," Canto IV, Verse 178
The Damanhur, Temples Of Humankind, a gorgeous series of underground temples in northern Italy.
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Our gymnasts visit the Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg. Pre-human fossils, millions of years old, have been found in these caves. (Am I loosing my brains? There are people in my head!)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Theresa Shargill, Kristi Yamaguchi and Dr. Narinder attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Wanda Cole Freeman attends CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
photo by Bob Ziegler
Instead of war, we declare peace. Peace is not only end, but a means to an end. Peaceful ends necessitate peaceful means.
Humankind has engaged in war and other acts of violence for centuries, if not millenia. Thus far, neither war nor violence has brought any lasting or true peace to our lives. War isn't working; it has not resulted in peace. War is not the answer.
Do the ends justify the means? I believe that they, the ends, do not justify the means.
Rather, the means inform the ends. The means create the ends. If we want a peaceful end, then we must utilize peaceful means. The means are the ends.
So if we want peace, then we must live peacefully. Peace is, indeed, the way.
Too often war is pursued with the idea of peace as end product. The problem is that war is coercive and violent. War is often times the end product of policies or mindsets that are exploitative and domineering. Throughout human history, war has not brought a truly peaceful condition to society.
So, peace must be understand as not only an end, but also the means to an end. Peace is the way! Declare it! Ask yourself how you can live peacefully - please, for the sake of the health and prosperity of the planet and future generations. Can you do that?
Some questions that we all deserve to ask of ourselves are:
"Do I have peace in my life?"
"Is my lifestyle peaceful?"
"Do my actions promote or inhibit a peaceful society?"
John Woolman, an American Quaker who lived from 1720 to 1772 asked that we may examine our material possessions to determine if they contain nourishment for the seeds of war.
War has not brought peace to our lives. Indeed, violence has not brought peace to our lives.
Peaceful means; practicing peace in daily life; understanding peace not only as and end, but as a means to an end: therein lies hope and possibility.
Living peacefully also feels good. It really does. Being open and honest, looking each other in the eye, making eye contact with strangers, exchanging friendly and warm greetings, demonstrating and exuding positive regards for others, friends, foes, neighbors and strangers - each alike: the path to peace awaits.
We, members of humanity, are connected. All of us are inextricably interconnected. We are connected with each other. And we are connected with the bio-sphere - that thin and relatively fragile layer where life on Earth persists.
We have the power to make, and we have the power to break.
Reverend James Lawson said that violence has not brought peace to our lives. History proves him correct.
But perhaps, now, in the 21st century, there is the possibility to learn from our mistakes and make real substantive changes. Perhaps in the pursuit of truly peaceful and nonviolent means (economic and political) we can find the very real possibility of a genuine outbreak of peace.
Dear friends and neighbors, acquaintances and strangers, have hope. Have hope in the development of peaceful and nonviolent daily modes of operation. Have hope in the creation of social structures, customs and institutions that are based in the wisdom of kindness, moral reciprocity (the Golden Rule), truth, compassion, and nonviolence.
We can reject meanness. For example, we can decide to refuse to say things about other people that we would not say to directly them face to face. We have the power to make real substantive changes in our own lives. And we have the power to change the world. We can create a way of life that respects life. We can heal ourselves. We can heal the world. We can.
It's Peace. I declare it.
With love,
Berd
Good luck finding the field of focus in the cluttered flower photo. Think of it as my metaphorical commentary on so-called Climate Change theory, which truth isn’t so clear as political proponents of the science would have everyone believe.
The hubris of humankind is to put ourselves at the center of everything—and that’s as much taking blame as claiming credit. Much is clear that the planet undergoes a warming trend. Focus on carbon emissions identifies sole cause and people to blame. But the picture is more complex, or so I say, like the one here presented for your viewing.
Hubris and Humility
I am not one of these so-called Climate Change Deniers. I don’t doubt that we burn too many fossil fuels and that changes are necessary. I worry that too much emphasis is placed on the one cause—kind of like putting all eggs into one basket, as the cliché goes.
Recent urgency to solve the problem puts forth solutions, such as wind farms, that may lead to other, unexpected catastrophic environmental outcomes. Human hubris—no arrogance—is certainty that we understand the full scope of Earth’s ecological and environmental systems when we most certainly cannot.
The starting point should be humility—admitting that we do not understand the complexity of our planet’s ecosystems and acknowledging that all the science supporting, or even questioning, so-called Climate Change is fundamentally flawed. Until we loudly accept how little we understand and how much we don’t know, any identification of causes, and the solutions, risks failing. That’s if we’re lucky. If unlucky, we might create bigger problems than the one sought to be resolved.
Disagree, Please
Right now, in the United States (if nowhere else), alarmist politicians and progressives say we have nine years to save the planet from irrevocable climate disaster. Political expediency is to create urgency and compelled common consensus. Dissension is impermissible, and disagreeing individuals or institutions are given labels like deniers—and that’s when they’re not less politely called stupid.
But we need sound science minds that disagree about the causes or what humans might do in response to them, and when. Their ideas, their voices, contribute to the Scientific Method. Debate is essential to addressing a simple, but profoundly significant hypothesis: Human production of carbon emissions is the fundamental cause of global warming. That’s but one hypothesis of many to be further researched and continually debated in the quest to understand the extent of the so-called Climate Crisis.
Anyone suggesting that the science is settled should check his or her ego at the door, so to speak. Your arrogance, and that of anyone supporting you, poses far greater threat to our species’ survival, and that of our home, than the burning of even one gallon of gasoline. Research and debate should continue, not be silenced. Of course, solutions should be pursued, meanwhile, and certainly cutting carbon emissions is a fantastic start. Waving the threat of imminent doom can only lead to rash responses. Research should continue alongside actionable public policies.
Research should look into other human causes, such as the heat producers that are cities. What about the planet’s natural responses—like increased plant growth resulting from increased carbon dioxide levels? Plants absorb more heat than reflect sunlight, right?
Disastrous Distraction
Meanwhile, Climate Change obsession distracts, if not sidelines, examination of other potential problems facing humanity long before the consequences of rising greenhouse gases. Among them: Availability of drinkable water, which already is in short supply some places where humans live. Increasingly inevitable future water wars would be absolutely attributable to human beings and likely lead to far more Earth ecosystem disruption and destruction than rising greenhouse gases.
Where is the urgency and where are the public policies for conserving water? Surely that’s more easily enacted than massively reducing carbon emissions in short order.
I wonder how many of the people crying “nine years to Climate Doom” also drink bottled water? Consider the amount of energy required to produce plastic bottles (you know, from oil), so there’s problem one. Problem two: The plastic in the bottles is petroleum-based. Another: How much water is used to produce one liter bottle of water? Low estimate, from industry: 1.39 liters. University California Davis researchers: 8.23 liters.
Know-it-Alls
So, please, as you celebrate Earth Day and bang the drum for reducing carbon emissions, open your mind. There are many other immediately urgent environmental problems. Don’t fixate on the one, nor be a know-it-all about the science.
Nobody knows enough, and the fool isn’t the person disagreeing with your so-called facts but you: arrogance refusing to debate or to encourage continued Climate Change studies. If you believe the point-of-no-return quickly approaches, isn’t that all the more reason to learn more?
Ce vendredi 14 avril 2017, tous les médias étaient réunis à Saint-Malo pour la mise à l’eau du navire Energy Observer. Une journée forcément particulière pour l’initiateur de ce projet, le Malouin Victorien Erussard, d’autant plus qu’au même moment naissait son fils !
“On met le bateau à l’eau et mon fils naît en même temps… C’est formidable !”
Victorien Erussard ne cache pas son émotion et sa joie, perché sur le cockpit de son catamaran futuriste Energy Observer, qui vient d’être mis à l’eau ce vendredi 14 avril, vers 13 h 15. Alors que quelques minutes plus tôt, il était encore auprès de sa femme, qui venait de mettre au monde son fils, Georges.
Une joie partagée par toute son équipe, notamment Jérôme Delafosse, le chef d’expédition d’Energy Observer. Le bateau débutera en effet bientôt un périple de six années autour du monde, pour sensibiliser le public sur l’utilisation des énergies renouvelables. La première étape est prévue à Paris en juillet prochain.
Energy Observer est un navire autonome en énergie et sans émission de gaz à effet de serre, propulsé grâce à diverses énergies renouvelables : 130 m2 de panneaux photovoltaïques, deux éoliennes à axe vertical, une aile de traction et toute une chaîne de production d’hydrogène via la transformation d’eau de mer, assurent la propulsion électrique du bateau.
On peut dire que la Bretagne est d’ailleurs pionnière en la matière. Puisque le 9 avril dernier, c’est de Lorient qu’est parti un autre bateau, Raceforwater, un projet suisse qui a les mêmes objectifs.
Le capitaine d'Energy Observer a vécu deux moments inoubliables, ce vendredi 14 avril 2017. La mise à l'eau du bateau, sans souci, dans le bassin Duguay-Trouin, à Saint-Malo. Et la naissance de son deuxième fils, Georges, qui a vu le jour à 12h50!
Si la mise à l'eau a été retardée d'une petite demi-heure, c'est parce que tout le monde espérait la venue de Victorien Erussard, le capitaine d'Energy Observer.
Ce dernier attendait un autre événement de taille, la naissance de son deuxième fils. Le petit Georges a pointé le bout de son nez à 12h50, soit 20 minutes avant la mise à l'eau du bateau!
Ça y est ! Le bateau Energy Observer est à l’eau. Il y avait foule ce matin pour suivre l’événement, esplanade Saint-Vincent, à Saint-Malo. Temps gris mais pas de pluie. Les manœuvres se sont faites en douceur et sans anicroche. Energy Observer est paré pour l’aventure !
Encore une étape pour le projet Energy Observer. Le bateau a été mis à l'eau, hier midi, sous les yeux de la foule. Une matinée riche en émotions et ponctuée d'une jolie surprise.
11 h. L'effervescence commence à se faire sentir. Le clou du spectacle ne se produira pas avant deux heures, mais les passants commencent à prendre place derrière les barrières entourant le bateau et l'esplanade.
Energy Observer a déjà été déposé sur la plateforme d'un poids lourd. C'est un grand jour pour ce bateau unique au monde. Une semaine après sa sortie de chantier, il va retrouver son élément.
Sa mise à l'eau intrigue et fascine les spectateurs. Jean-Marie, 65 ans, habite la région parisienne, mais il vient régulièrement à Saint-Malo, où il a un bateau. Intéressé par les « choses de la mer », il est venu suivre l'événement avec des amis. « Je n'ai jamais vu de mise à l'eau d'un bateau comme ça. Il est vraiment magnifique. »
12 h. Il a bougé ! Le catamaran a quitté son promontoire de l'esplanade Saint-Vincent, où il était exposé depuis une semaine, pour se positionner près du bassin Duguay-Trouin. Une grue l'y attend déjà.
La famille Leblond ne perd pas une miette du spectacle. Arrivés le matin même à Saint-Malo pour leurs vacances, les quatre membres de la famille ont été accueillis par Energy Observer.
« On l'a découvert à ce moment-là. Nous n'en avions pas du tout entendu parler. On n'a pas l'habitude de voir un moment exceptionnel comme celui-ci. On sait qu'il y a pas mal de risques, que les ouvriers n'ont pas le droit à l'erreur dans leurs manipulations. C'est passionnant à regarder. »
12 h 30. Le public ne lâche pas des yeux les opérations. Energy Observer est en train d'être sanglé afin d'être soulevé dans les airs. Ce moment magique et crucial va être retardé d'une demi-heure pendant lesquelles Jérôme Delafosse, futur chef d'expédition de l'aventure Energy Observer, et l'équipe retracent l'histoire et la vocation expérimentale du projet.
Curieux : Victorien Erussard, le président du projet et capitaine, n'est pas là... Un bruit circule parmi les proches du projet. On en saura davantage plus tard.
13 h. C'est parti. Le bateau se soulève dans les airs, comme en lévitation. À une dizaine de mètres du sol, il opère une rotation pour se placer dans le bon angle, pour la mise à l'eau. Observé sous toutes les coutures, Energy Observer révèle son élégance. Appareils photo et smartphones capturent ce moment émouvant.
Autre moment émouvant, Jérôme Delafosse explique au micro pourquoi Victorien est en retard à cet événement pourtant crucial pour lui. Il est, depuis quelques minutes, le papa d'un petit garçon, né à 12 h 50. Un très joli clin d'oeil du destin.
13 h 15. Alors que le bateau se rapproche du plan d'eau, le jeune papa vient tout juste d'arriver de l'hôpital. C'est une double naissance qu'il vient de vivre. Son petit Georges est né vingt minutes avant la mise à l'eau du projet sur lequel il travaille depuis trois ans. « C'est une synchronisation absolument incroyable », lâche-t-il, applaudi par la foule qui partage son bonheur.
13 h 17. Le compte à rebours est lancé et va durer bien plus longtemps que les cinq secondes prévues. Le temps suspend son vol, alors que le bateau n'est plus qu'à quelques centimètres de l'eau.
Zéro ! Ça y est, Energy Observer flotte sur cette eau de mer d'où il puisera son énergie. Victorien Erussard et Jérôme Delafosse grimpent sur le bateau. Bras en l'air, ils savourent ce moment unique dans une vie.
Dans la foule, Louis aussi est ému. Ce biologiste de 24 ans salue l'initiative des deux hommes en faveur de la planète. « Mettre en avant ce genre de projet, trouver des partenaires qui vous accompagnent et réussir à attirer autant de monde pour ce genre d'événements, je trouve ça très encourageant », reconnaît le Vannetais. Energy Observer transportera le message dans le monde entier.
C’est un grand jour pour la soixantaine de personnes qui travaille depuis deux ans sur le bateau Energy Observer. Le catamaran de légende, reconditionné avec un condensé de technologies, va être le premier à faire le tour du monde, propulsé grâce à des énergies renouvelables et de l’hydrogène fabriqué à partir de l’eau de mer. Ce vendredi 14 avril, le bateau va être mis à l’eau officiellement à 12 h 30. Le public est invité à suivre cette première aventure. Energy Observer est exposé depuis une semaine sur l’esplanade Saint-Vincent à Saint-Malo.
Il était exactement 13 h 20, hier, lorsque le catamaran Energy Observer, un bateau propre à propulsion hydrogène, a touché l'eau du bassin Duguay-Trouin sous un tonnerre d'applaudissements.
Ils étaient nombreux à ne pas vouloir manquer l'événement. Hier, en fin de matinée, plusieurs milliers de personnes s'étaient massées sur l'esplanade Saint-Vincent, autour du catamaran Energy Observer. Malgré l'attente de la foule, « le bateau du futur » de 25 tonnes a d'abord joué les filles de l'air avant de toucher l'eau du bassin Duguay-Trouin. Il était 13 h 20. Un tonnerre d'applaudissements a aussitôt résonné de la place et de « l'Étoile du Roy » où avaient pris place les personnalités.
Double bonheur
Le plus heureux d'entre eux était certainement Victorien Erussard, le skipper malouin qui a failli rater la mise à l'eau de son catamaran qu'il attendait depuis quatre ans et demi. Il s'en est fallu d'une petite demi-heure. La raison : à 12 h 50, son deuxième fils, Georges, voyait le jour à la maternité voisine ! Nicolas Hulot, le parrain, est lui arrivé bien après que le catamaran à propulsion à hydrogène ait rejoint son élément. Il était resté bloqué dans son train. Ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de saluer les vertus de ce bateau propre. « C'est une illustration de ce que pourrait être la transition écologique. J'aurais rêvé d'avoir un tel bateau quand j'ai fait Ushuaia. »
Claude Renoult, le maire de Saint-Malo, était également présent avec, près de lui, Stéphane Fiévet, conseiller artistique à la Ville de Paris. En effet, durant son tour de France, le bateau malouin fera escale dans la capitale durant la première quinzaine de juillet. Ce n'est qu'ensuite qu'il entamera un tour du monde qui devrait durer 6 ans.
The Energy Observer catamaran is poised to set sail around the world powered by renewable energy. It will spend six years on its historic journey on the high seas.
The craft will be powered by the sun and wind, backed up with a fuel cell system that converts sea water into hydrogen.
A team of around 50 sailors, engineers and architects are preparing the two hulled boat in St.Malo in France.
The ambitious project comes in the wake of the Solar Impulse plane which completed its flight around the world using just solar energy.
“Energy Observer is a technological challenge. We are a kind of Solar Impulse of the sea, made in France and the idea is to aim for energy sustainability of the vessel; to use nature, renewable energies and make a world tour completely autonomously,” explained Victorien Erussard, Energy Observer founder and captain.
The 30 metre long catamaran started life as a successful multi-hull ocean racer which itself had been recycled.
Solar panels, wind turbines and the hydrogen fuel cell system are being installed during the refurbishment which has taken more than three years.
The boat remains the same size but on completion will be twice as heavy.
When Energy Observer sets sail the crew will include a multimedia cameraman to document the journey. The expedition leader hopes it will record what can be done to reduce global emissions.
“Everybody will be able to see this boat, to know it better and then to follow it on social networks and live the adventure from the inside because we will offer very innovative content, like the virtual reality; so you would be able to follow Energy Observer almost daily,” enthused Jerome Delafosse, expedition leader.
It’s hoped Energy Observer will be ready to set sail in April.
The five million euro craft will depart from Saint Malo in Brittany and make the first of its 101 stops across 50 countries in Paris as part of its six-year global circumnavigation.
Forsee Power, a specialist in lithium-ion battery solutions, is proud to announce at the Electric & Hybrid Marine World Expo that the company will be providing the battery system that will be integrated aboard the Energy Observer – the first ever self-sufficient electric catamaran: Energy Observer
The Forsee Power battery system will be coupled with an energy system developed by the CEA Liten research institute. The system can store the energy produced by the solar panels on the boat, and will be combined with electricity generated by a fuel cell used to propel the vessel forward and supply the auxiliary systems.
The battery system will be made of the Flex EP7 modules, as well as the BMS and Master-BMS battery management systems.
Available on the market for the past four years, Forsee Power technology is extremely safe, reliable, and durable, and has proven experience in marine applications.
The project is sponsored by Florence Lambert and Nicolas Hulot, and supported by the Nicolas Hulot Foundation for Nature and Humankind.
The CEA will be attending the Electric & Hybrid Marine World Expo with a new model of the Energy Observer.
Sunset above the Tiananmen Square. The sky turned into a diffuse soft salmon-pink. A beautiful sight, but the realisation that a lot of this beauty comes from the excessive air polution above Beijing takes away a lot of the fun.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Lili Forouraghi and Anne Marie Schultz attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
The Damanhur, Temples Of Humankind, a gorgeous series of underground temples in northern Italy.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 10 - Mark Kroll, Susan Kroll, Kathleen McIntosh and Michael Covarrubias attend Humankindness Gala 2018 on May 10th 2018 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Atmosphere at CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Jane Weldon attends CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Desmond Hollingsworth, Paul Ackins, Heather Nelson, Michael Vero, Kim Griffin-Hunter and Allison Gorman attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Atmosphere at CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Atmosphere at CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
“The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.” ―Slavoj Žižek
°To celebrate animal life in all its forms
°To celebrate humankind’s relationship with the animal kingdom
°To acknowledge the diverse roles that animals play in our lives – from being our companions, supporting and helping us, to bringing a sense of wonder into our lives
°To acknowledge and be thankful for the way in which animals enrich our lives
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The Sterkfontein Caves attracted miners because of the extensive deposits of calcium carbonate in the form of stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone. Calcium carbonate is a chemical combination of calcium, carbon and oxygen. When burned, it yields lime – what the miners were really after.
The Damanhur, Temples Of Humankind, a gorgeous series of underground temples in northern Italy.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Dr. Narinder and Remi Kajogbola attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Remi Kajogbola, Wright Lassiter and Lloyd Dean attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
The luxuriant nature of the Dominican Republic inspires a multiplicity of powerful emotional reactions, from the wonder that is felt before its shining beauty, to the vague anxiety that prefigures a catastrophe. The contemporary drama that affects this precious land is, in fact, that of a constant threat to the ecosystem and gradual but progressive environmental degradation. These clearly sensitive artists have found a positive, common denominator for all the problems that afflict the future of the Earth and humankind. Their works, suspended between reality and dream, between denunciation and responsibility, have become a powerful ethical tool to send messages of realistic hope.
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Since the creation of humankind, war has been an inevitable part of our history. Through times, weapons and equipments become more and more sophisticated, but something has never changed: the raging bloodlust of men, seeking for the sweet taste of victory and revenge. Nothing can represent such idea as well as a mecha named Arthur. It has appeared in almost every battles that had occured since 1893 - the rising year of mecha technologies. While Arthur mostly just killed everyone insight, it peculiarly withholds its fury during wars with Britain's involvement. Subsequently, it usually takes side with the UK, eagerly and willingly battle for the nation. As such, many considered it, or rather who piloted it, to be an English. The robot earned its name due to its weapon: the long broadsword, and its bias for Britain coincide with the legendary hero King Arthur.
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Finally getting back to mechas! My 6-month absence can be justified with the enrollment announcement from my top dream school: CNN. I spent 6 months to study hard for probably the most important exam in our country and finally got in my favorite school. So personally, this mech is built as a celebration to this event!