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Emanuela is a counselor, has great laughing eyes and the certainty to look awful in any photo.
"I dare you to shoot a decent pic of me"
"Listen, I'm not going to insist if you don't like the idea. I just like how your eyes match with your nice jacket"
The light in her eyes changed, she raised her collar, click.
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The Hornberg shooting is the event that has spawned the phrase "that goes like the Hornberg shooting". The phrase is used when an affair is announced with great fanfare but then nothing emerges from it at all and it ends without result.
Origin
Historians disagree as to whether the following events and explanations really underlie the known phrase. As with any etymological meaning that cannot be clarified with any certainty there are with the Hornberg shooting numerous legends about this phrase, the two below ones in relevant works being the most widespread. However, neither of these stories is historically accurate.
Duke visit
Cannon on the cobbles as an advertisement for the theater
In Hornberg anno 1564 Duke Christoph of Württemberg had announced himself. This one should be received with gun salute and full honors. When everything was ready, approached from afar a large cloud of dust. All cheered and the cannons roared like there was no tomorrow. But from the cloud of dust emerged only as a stagecoach. The same was happening then as a grocer carts and still much later a herd of cattle came towards the town. The lookout had given each time a false alarm and all the powder was fired when the Duke finally came. Some Hornberger tried to imitate the cannon by bellowing. Some reports even put the Duke visit on the end of the 17th century.
This version is regularly performed in summer on the outdoor stage in Hornberg as a folk theater.
Attack on Hornberg
According to the second version of the explanation the proverb refers to an event from 1519 when the city was attacked by the neighboring Villinger (Villingen, a city in the Black Forest not that far away). The Hornberger are said to have fired their ammunition in a short time so that the attacker just had to wait for the end of the cannonade to conquer Hornberg subsequently. This explanation goes back to the pastor Konrad Kaltenbach who describes it in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Heimatklänge (Echoes of home) from ancient and modern times, a supplement to the Freiburger daily mail from 1915 and relies on historical sources (Villinger Chronicle 1495-1533 ).
Other versions
Early 18th century should have been in a free shooting in Hornberg such inconsistencies regarding the operation that gradually all the shooters left the festival and the planned shooting finally was dropped.
Use in the literature
Already Friedrich Schiller writes in his book The Robber (first edition 1781) in the first act: There it ended like the shooting at Hornberg and they had to withdraw with disappointed faces. Thomas Mann formulated in his narrative Man and His Dog (1918): "However, it may also be that the whole thing, after all the events and fussinesses, ends as the Hornberg shooting and comes to nothing." Hannah Arendt used the phrase in her book power and violence (1970): "However, this situation does not have to lead to revolution. It can first end with counter-revolution, the establishment of dictatorships and it can secondly end as the Hornberg shooting, it needs nothing to be happening".
Das Hornberger Schießen ist das Ereignis, das die Redewendung „das geht aus wie das Hornberger Schießen“ hervorgebracht hat. Die Wendung wird gebraucht, wenn eine Angelegenheit mit großem Getöse angekündigt wird, aber dann nichts dabei herauskommt und sie ohne Ergebnis endet.
Entstehung
Die Historiker sind sich nicht darüber einig, ob die folgenden Begebenheiten und Erklärungsversuche wirklich der bekannten Redewendung zugrunde liegen. Wie bei jeder nicht mit Sicherheit zu klärenden etymologischen Bedeutung ranken sich auch beim Hornberger Schießen zahlreiche Legenden um diese Redewendung, wobei die beiden nachstehenden in einschlägigen Werken als die am weitesten verbreiteten gelten. Allerdings ist keine der beiden Erzählungen historisch verbürgt.
Herzogsbesuch
Kanone auf den Pflastersteinen als Werbung für das Theater
In Hornberg hatte sich anno 1564 der Herzog Christoph von Württemberg angesagt. Dieser sollte mit Salutschüssen und allen Ehren empfangen werden. Als alles bereit war, näherte sich aus der Ferne eine große Staubwolke. Alle jubelten und die Kanonen donnerten, was das Zeug hielt. Doch die Staubwolke entpuppte sich nur als eine Postkutsche. Selbiges geschah dann, als ein Krämerkarren und noch einiges später eine Rinderherde auf die Stadt zukam. Der Ausguck hatte jedes Mal falschen Alarm gegeben, und alles Pulver war verschossen, als der Herzog endlich kam. Einige Hornberger versuchten, durch Brüllen den Kanonendonner nachzuahmen. Manche Berichte legen den Herzogsbesuch auch auf das Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Diese Version wird regelmäßig im Sommer auf der Freilichtbühne in Hornberg als volkstümliches Theaterstück aufgeführt.
Angriff auf Hornberg
Der zweiten Version der Erklärung nach soll sich das Sprichwort auf ein Ereignis aus dem Jahr 1519 beziehen, als die Stadt von den benachbarten Villingern angegriffen wurde. Die Hornberger sollen in kurzer Zeit ihre Munition verschossen haben, so dass die Angreifer nur das Ende der Kanonade abwarten mussten, um anschließend Hornberg erobern zu können. Diese Erklärung geht zurück auf den Pfarrer Konrad Kaltenbach, der sie in den Nummern 3, 4 und 5 der Heimatklänge aus alter und neuer Zeit, einer Beilage zur Freiburger Tagespost aus dem Jahr 1915 beschreibt und sich auf historische Quellen beruft (Villinger Chronik 1495–1533).
Andere Versionen
Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts soll es bei einem Freischießen in Hornberg derartige Unstimmigkeiten über den Ablauf gegeben haben, dass nach und nach alle Schützen das Fest verließen und das geplante Schießen schließlich entfiel.
Verwendung in der Literatur
Bereits Friedrich Schiller schreibt in seinem Werk Die Räuber (Erstausgabe 1781) im ersten Akt: Da ging's aus wie’s Schießen zu Hornberg und mussten abziehen mit langer Nase. Thomas Mann formuliert in seiner Erzählung Herr und Hund (1918): „Es kann aber auch sein, daß das Ganze, nach allen Veranstaltungen und Umständlichkeiten, ausgeht wie das Hornberger Schießen und still im Sande verläuft.“ Hannah Arendt verwendet die Redensart in ihrem Buch Macht und Gewalt (1970): „Dennoch braucht diese Situation nicht zur Revolution zu führen. Sie kann erstens mit Konterrevolution, der Errichtung von Diktaturen enden und sie kann zweitens ausgehen wie das Hornberger Schießen: es braucht überhaupt nichts zu geschehen.“
Nativities is a darkly comic new play set in the world of petty office politics, designated smoking areas and the cheeky pint after work.
Excited about her new job as administrative assistant at a call centre, Stella is eager to fit in with her workmates and they seem to like her too, especially when they find out how much they all have in common. It’s really like a family at Scion Communications so when they discover that Stella is pregnant they’re all delighted for her. However, as her pregnancy progresses, their certainties about love, relationships and parenthood are questioned and their lives both at work and at home begin to unravel.
After all: where’s the harm in a celebratory drink and some office karaoke?
At Live Theatre from Tuesday 14 February to Saturday 3 March 2012.
bo-kaap, cape town, western cape- kramat of tuan sayeed alawie, in the tana baru cemetery
It is this extraordinary man, who after a prison sentence of 12 years could forgive his goaler and help him keep law and order in the very city to which he was banished. Such a man was Tuan Sayed Alawi. He became a policeman in Cape Town. He obviously had a motive in becoming a policeman. The job gave him access to the slaves, and hence an opportunity to teach them Islam.
Tuan Sayed Alawi was a citizen of Mocca in Yemen, the southern portion of the Arbian peninsula. There is no certainty as to whether he was brought here directly from Mocca, or from Indonesia where he was a missionary. Nonetheless, he and a fellow prisoner, Haji Matarism arrived at the Cape in 1744. They were classified as Mohammedaansche Priesters, who had to be kept in chains for the rest of their lives.
When Tuan Sayed Alawi died in 1803, he was buried in the Muslim cemetery at the top end of Longmarket Street. Those who loved him erected around his grave a simple wall. It was a structure very much Cape in origin, but symbolical of the simplicity of his life. The tombstone of Robben Island slate was wrapped with white cloth, stained with the oils of the atars and other scents which his devoted followers sprinkled on it.
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A Kramat is a shrine or mausoleum that has been built over the burial place of a Muslim who's particular piety and practice of the teachings of Islam is recognised by the community. I have been engaged in documenting these sites around Cape Town over several visits at different times over the last few years. They range widely from graves marked by an edge of stones to more elaborate tombs sheltered by buildings of various styles. They are cultural markers that speak of a culture was shaped by life at the Cape and that infuses Cape Town at large.
In my searches used the guide put out by the Cape Masaar Society as a basic guide to locate some recognised sites. Even so some were not that easy to find.
In the context of the Muslims at the Cape, historically the kramats represented places of focus for the faithful and were/are often places of local pilgrimage. When the Dutch and the VOC (United East India Company aka Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) set up a refuelling station and a settlement at the Cape, Muslims from their territories in the East Indies and Batavia were with them from the start as soldiers, slaves and “Vryswarten" (freemen). As the settlement established itself as a colony the Cape became a useful place to banish political opponents from the heart of their eastern empire. Some exiles were of royal lineage and there were also scholars amongst them. One of the most well known of these exiles was Sheik Yusuf who was cordially received by Govenor van der Stel as befitted his rank (he and his entourage where eventually housed on an estate away from the main settlement so that he was less likely to have an influence over the local population), others were imprisoned for a time both in Cape Town and on Robben island. It is said that the first Koran in the Cape was first written out from memory by Sheik Yusuf after his arrival. There were several Islamic scholars in his retinue and these men encouraged something of an Islamic revival amoung the isolated community. Their influence over the enslaved “Malay” population who were already nominally Muslim was considerable and through the ministrations of other teachers to the underclasses the influence of Islam became quite marked. As political opponents to the governing powers the teachers became focus points for escaped slaves in the outlying areas.
Under the VOC it was forbidden to practice any other faith other than Christianity in public which meant that there was no provision for mosques or madrasas. The faith was maintained informally until the end of the C18th when plans were made for the first mosque and promises of land to be granted for a specific burial ground in the Bo Kaap were given in negotiations for support against an imminent British invasion. These promises were honoured by the British after their victory.
There is talk of a prophecy of a protective circle of Islam that would surround Cape Town. I cannot find the specifics of this prophecy but the 27 kramats of the “Auliyah” or friends of Allah, as these honoured individuals are known, do form a loose circle of saints. Some of the Auliyah are credited with miraculous powers in legends that speak of their life and works. Within the folk tradition some are believed to be able to intercede on behalf of supplicants (even though this more part of a mystical philosophy (keramat) and is not strictly accepted in mainstream contemporary Islamic teaching) and even today some visitors may offer special prayers at their grave sites in much the same way as Christians might direct prayer at the shrine of a particular saint.
The Path of Wildness is easy to find
The course of a stream
Leaves blown in the wind
A beast's track through the brush
And the direction of our first inclination
The Path of Wildness is an answer and response to a prescribed way of life which may leave some individuals with a sense that their living is little more than a series of pre-determined, step-like episodes between birth and death. The stages of living between these events: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood and senior are themselves natural and in accord with the needs of the species and most individuals. Many find their satisfaction in living this course and to these individuals I have little or nothing to say. Others though long for something more; something innate, genetic and seemingly calling. Adventure and change can give a degree of satisfaction and relief yet even these may seem too tame. To those who feel drawn to something beyond the entertainment and stimulation of senses I offer a walk along The Path of Wildness. Don't bother penciling the event in your schedule, preparing a pack with goodies and supplies or even inviting a friend along, for this experience is along the course of your first inclination and you must surely always go alone.
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Oh, what a difference better focus and more certainty make. And sunshine. XD Today is a good day.
This is the commuter bought last July. I'd shopped around, done a cost projection, and no other makes even came close to what I was paying with the deal I'd gotten. Have put 27K miles on her already, and I'm still getting 38 mpg even with half my commute being stop-and-go. That's my Doll, good girl.
Fill flash to counteract the odd shadows from the angle of the sun. Shot in raw with the contrast and temperature tweaked right about 3%. Edited out a distracting stray hair (which of my hairs aren't stray, today?) in CS and cropped down a little from the original frame for more balanced composition.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
"With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game. Speed helps people think they are keeping up."
Gail Sheehy, Speed Is of the Essence, 1971
Truth: We become what we hate. History is littered with examples of this truth. Certainty in judgement based on feelings is usually a red flag for what I call circular thinking. What we fear may not be based in reality and that is dangerous as well as stifling.
I have always said that the more I learn, the less I know, and the more I fear those that do. When, I encounter someone that has certainty...I usually run the other way. When, I have discussions with someone, I love it when they leave me or I leave them a question-now that is enriching and educational. My final thought on this subject is that mystery is a beautiful word-not having all the answers leaves me open to new experiences and ideas.
-rc
The Hornberg shooting is the event that has spawned the phrase "that goes like the Hornberg shooting". The phrase is used when an affair is announced with great fanfare but then nothing emerges from it at all and it ends without result.
Origin
Historians disagree as to whether the following events and explanations really underlie the known phrase. As with any etymological meaning that cannot be clarified with any certainty there are with the Hornberg shooting numerous legends about this phrase, the two below ones in relevant works being the most widespread. However, neither of these stories is historically accurate.
Duke visit
Cannon on the cobbles as an advertisement for the theater
In Hornberg anno 1564 Duke Christoph of Württemberg had announced himself. This one should be received with gun salute and full honors. When everything was ready, approached from afar a large cloud of dust. All cheered and the cannons roared like there was no tomorrow. But from the cloud of dust emerged only as a stagecoach. The same was happening then as a grocer carts and still much later a herd of cattle came towards the town. The lookout had given each time a false alarm and all the powder was fired when the Duke finally came. Some Hornberger tried to imitate the cannon by bellowing. Some reports even put the Duke visit on the end of the 17th century.
This version is regularly performed in summer on the outdoor stage in Hornberg as a folk theater.
Attack on Hornberg
According to the second version of the explanation the proverb refers to an event from 1519 when the city was attacked by the neighboring Villinger (Villingen, a city in the Black Forest not that far away). The Hornberger are said to have fired their ammunition in a short time so that the attacker just had to wait for the end of the cannonade to conquer Hornberg subsequently. This explanation goes back to the pastor Konrad Kaltenbach who describes it in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Heimatklänge (Echoes of home) from ancient and modern times, a supplement to the Freiburger daily mail from 1915 and relies on historical sources (Villinger Chronicle 1495-1533 ).
Other versions
Early 18th century should have been in a free shooting in Hornberg such inconsistencies regarding the operation that gradually all the shooters left the festival and the planned shooting finally was dropped.
Use in the literature
Already Friedrich Schiller writes in his book The Robber (first edition 1781) in the first act: There it ended like the shooting at Hornberg and they had to withdraw with disappointed faces. Thomas Mann formulated in his narrative Man and His Dog (1918): "However, it may also be that the whole thing, after all the events and fussinesses, ends as the Hornberg shooting and comes to nothing." Hannah Arendt used the phrase in her book power and violence (1970): "However, this situation does not have to lead to revolution. It can first end with counter-revolution, the establishment of dictatorships and it can secondly end as the Hornberg shooting, it needs nothing to be happening".
Das Hornberger Schießen ist das Ereignis, das die Redewendung „das geht aus wie das Hornberger Schießen“ hervorgebracht hat. Die Wendung wird gebraucht, wenn eine Angelegenheit mit großem Getöse angekündigt wird, aber dann nichts dabei herauskommt und sie ohne Ergebnis endet.
Entstehung
Die Historiker sind sich nicht darüber einig, ob die folgenden Begebenheiten und Erklärungsversuche wirklich der bekannten Redewendung zugrunde liegen. Wie bei jeder nicht mit Sicherheit zu klärenden etymologischen Bedeutung ranken sich auch beim Hornberger Schießen zahlreiche Legenden um diese Redewendung, wobei die beiden nachstehenden in einschlägigen Werken als die am weitesten verbreiteten gelten. Allerdings ist keine der beiden Erzählungen historisch verbürgt.
Herzogsbesuch
Kanone auf den Pflastersteinen als Werbung für das Theater
In Hornberg hatte sich anno 1564 der Herzog Christoph von Württemberg angesagt. Dieser sollte mit Salutschüssen und allen Ehren empfangen werden. Als alles bereit war, näherte sich aus der Ferne eine große Staubwolke. Alle jubelten und die Kanonen donnerten, was das Zeug hielt. Doch die Staubwolke entpuppte sich nur als eine Postkutsche. Selbiges geschah dann, als ein Krämerkarren und noch einiges später eine Rinderherde auf die Stadt zukam. Der Ausguck hatte jedes Mal falschen Alarm gegeben, und alles Pulver war verschossen, als der Herzog endlich kam. Einige Hornberger versuchten, durch Brüllen den Kanonendonner nachzuahmen. Manche Berichte legen den Herzogsbesuch auch auf das Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Diese Version wird regelmäßig im Sommer auf der Freilichtbühne in Hornberg als volkstümliches Theaterstück aufgeführt.
Angriff auf Hornberg
Der zweiten Version der Erklärung nach soll sich das Sprichwort auf ein Ereignis aus dem Jahr 1519 beziehen, als die Stadt von den benachbarten Villingern angegriffen wurde. Die Hornberger sollen in kurzer Zeit ihre Munition verschossen haben, so dass die Angreifer nur das Ende der Kanonade abwarten mussten, um anschließend Hornberg erobern zu können. Diese Erklärung geht zurück auf den Pfarrer Konrad Kaltenbach, der sie in den Nummern 3, 4 und 5 der Heimatklänge aus alter und neuer Zeit, einer Beilage zur Freiburger Tagespost aus dem Jahr 1915 beschreibt und sich auf historische Quellen beruft (Villinger Chronik 1495–1533).
Andere Versionen
Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts soll es bei einem Freischießen in Hornberg derartige Unstimmigkeiten über den Ablauf gegeben haben, dass nach und nach alle Schützen das Fest verließen und das geplante Schießen schließlich entfiel.
Verwendung in der Literatur
Bereits Friedrich Schiller schreibt in seinem Werk Die Räuber (Erstausgabe 1781) im ersten Akt: Da ging's aus wie’s Schießen zu Hornberg und mussten abziehen mit langer Nase. Thomas Mann formuliert in seiner Erzählung Herr und Hund (1918): „Es kann aber auch sein, daß das Ganze, nach allen Veranstaltungen und Umständlichkeiten, ausgeht wie das Hornberger Schießen und still im Sande verläuft.“ Hannah Arendt verwendet die Redensart in ihrem Buch Macht und Gewalt (1970): „Dennoch braucht diese Situation nicht zur Revolution zu führen. Sie kann erstens mit Konterrevolution, der Errichtung von Diktaturen enden und sie kann zweitens ausgehen wie das Hornberger Schießen: es braucht überhaupt nichts zu geschehen.“
Vouni palace is 9 km west of Gemikonağı in Northern Cyprus and 250 m above sea level on a cliff top.
Its origins are not known with certainty but it is thought to have been built during the Persian occupation in the 5th century B.C. The palace was burnt down by a fire in 330 B.C. In a later document it was found that its foundations were destroyed by the soli inhabitants. Its original name is unknown.The moderin meaning of it in Greek is “mountain”.
A Swedish expedition excavated Vouni at the same time they excavated nearby soli. It is one of the most important and unusual sites on the island of Cyprus. The site comprises a small township grouped on the steep slopes of a conical hill a few miles west of the ancient city of Soli There is a ruined Temple of Alhena perched on the precipitous edge of the hill on the landward south side and a superb palace site on the summit of the hill facing the sea and the north. Only the palace site and the temple site have been fully excavated and both are open to visitors.
The palace was evidently a building of great wealth and luxury and during the excavations a group of sculptures and works of art were discovered along with treasure consisting of silver coins and two superb gold bracelets of the finest known examples of Persian gold work. The palace contained elaborate hot baths supplied by a water system from numerous deep and efficient wells. The living rooms of the palace were grouped round a central atrium which was surrounded by a colonnade. A " Royal road " led from the lower township into the palace.
A small number of pairs of eagle owls are known to breed in Britain. While the origin of these birds is difficult to prove with certainty, there is no evidence that birds other than from released stock, or their offspring, have bred in Britain in recent times.
As a probable introduced species, eagle owls have been the subject of a government risk assessment to determine their likely impacts on economic interests, society and the conservation status of native wildlife.
The risk assessment concluded that an increasing population of eagle owls in Great Britain may pose a significant threat to species of conservation concern, such as hen harriers. Eagle owls are not the reason that hen harriers are absent from large parts of the UK’s uplands – that is due to sustained persecution over decades – but they do occur in places where hen harriers are hanging on.
The RSPB welcomes the publication of this risk assessment. We await Government’s response, and believe it should consult interested groups on its recommendations.
Me and Jeffrey from Burn Notice. When he first saw us there the first thing that came out of his moth was :how did you guys know I was going to be here?" haha he was so charming and sweet :D check out my instagram and twitter @mayracansigno
Mit Sicherheit eine Aloe, wahrscheinlich eine Rotrandige Aloe. Gesehen in der Wilhelma in Stuttgart.
Januar 2013
Certainty an aloe, probably a Aloe striata. Seen in Wilhelma in Stuttgart.
January, 2013
The mentally ill commit crimes on television that diabetics do not. Think. Has an episode of Law and Order ever focused, front and center, on a defendant's irritable bowel syndrome? Or has a raging sinus infection ever been a mitigating factor?
Nope and nope....
Bipolar Disorder is not an identity, or an excuse or a reason to feel sorry for me, it is a chronic illness. And I'm a person. Not an illness with a person hanging off of it. It hurts me in a way I can't express that I can pick a random police drama and, with reasonable certainty, see someone with the same diagnosis on trial for a heinous crime because.... apparently.... the mentally ill commit crimes on TV that people with carpel tunnel syndrome do not.
The portrayal of mental illness in the media is endless generalizations; generalization upon generalization upon generalization... Until any kernel of truth is lost.
We see creepy, scary folks that eat bugs. The homeless. The stalkers. The people who pee in doorways while reciting the Gettysburg address and make you want to take another way home. (And yes, I want to walk home another way, too.) There are also those that are news worthy when they run naked at major sporting events.. And the movies with fun-loving inpatients who your kids would love to hang with...
I don't know what's worse; stigma or sideshow over-fascination... although I lean towards stigma. Sideshow over-fascination is at least socially acceptable and usually Oscar worthy. Despite the media's portrayal, we are not all bug-eating doorway peeing naked streakers or hopelessly hip inpatients. There is a middle ground to live with bipolar disorder and most of us are there; boring as hell.
Stigma is about shame. Stigma can only go on in the dark so I try to answer questions people ask me:
"It's called Bipolar Disorder, rapid cycling with mixed episodes. Uh-huh. That is a mouthful. Yes, I've hallucinated. No, not often. It's been years, I think.... The funniest one? Well-It's hard to classify the psychotic as amusing but I suppose the funniest one was when the linguine with clam sauce was talking. It did too! No, I swear. Well. What it was saying is a hard one. No matter how close I moved my ear to the plate I still couldn't tell what they were saying. I ultimately decided the clams weren't talking to me but amongst themselves."
I am willing to talk openly about my meds:
"There are a lot of drugs. Mood stabilizers like anti-consultants that epileptics use. (I feel on safe ground here because a drug used for epilepsy doesn't pack the drooling-stigma-punch of Thorazine.) There are drugs for depression. Oh, and the anti-anxiety drugs, the sleeping pills and anti-psychotics are used (The last one can be a bit tricky. While people say they want information, I lose a lot of folks on anti-psychotics.)"
The drug side effects:
"Some make me tired. Confused. Liver failure. Acne. Hair loss, except of course on your chin. Where it grows. Weight gain. No, this one didn't make me gain weight but I gained 80 pounds on a different one. Yes, that was a lot of weight. No, your right. Haven't lost it all."
When people ask if I see and hear things "like TV crazy-people do," maybe they don't want to know. "I'm just like you, silly! No one really has those kinds of thoughts." Well, no one they know. No one with a son in their kid's school. No one behind them in the 10 items or less grocery aisle...Or shops for shampoo at the same drugstore. Or waits on line behind them at the ATM.
I hope that being open and comfortable about myself will lessen stigma over time even if it makes my world a little uncomfortable for a moment or two. Or nine. Granted, copping to hearing clams speak amongst themselves isn't something most people are ready for but most people aren't ready to change their minds about anything without a little push.
About ten years ago, I went to a seminar with a speaker who couldn't make a strong point without swearing. And he made a lot of points. After about an hour, a proper-looking woman got up and said she wasn't accustomed to hearing that kind of language. The speaker bolted to within an inch of her face and let loose a string of expletives with ferocity unequaled to anything since the big bang. The audience held its collective breath and after a minute, the speaker screamed at the now pale woman, "Are you f-ing accustomed to it yet?"
It was a point well taken, with me anyway. People live at their own comfort level until they are challenged. Being that in your face does have a place but it isn't usually necessary. Just living visibly in the bipolar middle ground can be enough. Even if people seem a bit queasy at first about talking shellfish, perhaps living openly will widen the middle ground and give me a bigger place to live over time.
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One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.
~Sophocles
Program Director and Assistant Professor of Peace and Global Studies Joanna Swanger delivers the Baccalaureate Address, entitled "The Tyranny of Certainty," to the Class of 2010 at Chase Stage. Following tradition, the seniors select an Earlham faculty member to give this culminating speech.
certainty not my illustration! but I heard the news that Voyager 1 is on the doorstep of interstellar space. I thought that was so awe inspiring & cool that I copied this from the Voyager mission page @ Nasa.
*looks up in the sky, waves bye*
The Poet Says Goodbye to the Birds
A provincial poet and birder,
I come and go about the world,
unarmed,
just whistle my way along,
submit
to the sun and its certainty,
to the rain’s violin voice,
to the wind’s cold syllable.
In the course
of past lives
and preterit disinterments,
I’ve been a creature of the elements
and keep on being a corpse in the city:
I cannot abide the niche,
prefer woodlands with startled
pigeons, mud, a branch of
chattering parakeets,
the citadel of the condor, captive
of its implacable heights,
the primordial ooze of the ravines adorned with slipperworts.
Yes yes yes yes yes yes,
I’m an incorrigible birder,
cannot reform my ways -
though the birds
do not invite me
to the treetops,
to the ocean
or the sky,
to their conversation, their banquet,
I invite myself,
watch them
without missing a thing:
yellow-rumped siskins,
dark fishing cormorants
or metallic cowbirds,
nightingales,
vibrant hummingbirds,
quail,
eagles native
to the mountains of Chile,
meadowlarks with pure
and bloody breasts,
wrathful condors
and thrushes,
hovering hawks, hanging from the sky,
finches that taught me their trill
nectar birds and foragers,
blue velvet and white birds,
birds crowned by foam
or simply dressed in sand,
pensive birds that question
the earth and peck at its secret
or attack the giant’s bark
and lay open the wood’s heart
or build with straw, clay, and rain
the fragrant love nest
or join thousands of their kind
forming body to body, wing to wing,
a river of unity and movement,
solitary
severe birds among the rocky crags,
ardent, fleeting,
lusty, erotic birds,
inaccessible in the solitude
of snow and mist,
in the hirsute hostility
of windswept wastes,
or gentle gardeners
or robbers
or blue inventors of music
or tacit witnesses of dawn.
A people’s poet,
provincial and birder,
I’ve wandered the world in search of life:
bird by bird I’ve come to know the earth:
discovered where fire flames aloft:
the expenditure of energy
and my disinterestedness were rewarded,
even though no one paid me for it,
because I received those wings in my soul
and immobility never held me down.
— Pablo Neruda
translated by Jack Schmitt,
University of Texas Press, 1989
Another quick snapshot of an out-of-price car, we are speaking here of a Mercedes CLK (again, no certainties). Saw it while strolling in Montreal.
The whole shot took about 20 seconds. Post-processing include cropping, light & contrast, vibrance, sharpness... I think there is a bit too much sharpness but then, most people don't view the picture from up close, so it give a nice effect on a small version. Quality has, once again, been toned down to allow an easier transfert toward flickr. The shot is also published on blog.pacharest.com.
Quick reminder that all my photos fall under the creative-common licences (Attribution, non-derivative, share-alike, non-commercial). Any usage not covered by those terms must be approved in writing before taking places.
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100 shooting in RAW
Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 35 mm (on 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5)
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV
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“In black and white you suggest, in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but the statement demands certainty… absolute certainty.” – Paul Outerbridge
If God persists, persists in saying yes
I guess we'll have, we'll have to test ourselves
Maybe the Summer, will come and clear our minds
And find the impulse, to love the sunshine
I guess we'll have to test, until there's nothing left
We said the truth was fixed, it's lost without a trace
This crime is eternity
When time lost its certainty
The Indian Summer
Maybe this time
We'll kiss and we'll not shake hands
Indian Summer, still hurt and broken
And leave all this material belief
Remember the reasons
The reasons that made us be... ♥
~Manic Street Preachers
The Hornberg shooting is the event that has spawned the phrase "that goes like the Hornberg shooting". The phrase is used when an affair is announced with great fanfare but then nothing emerges from it at all and it ends without result.
Origin
Historians disagree as to whether the following events and explanations really underlie the known phrase. As with any etymological meaning that cannot be clarified with any certainty there are with the Hornberg shooting numerous legends about this phrase, the two below ones in relevant works being the most widespread. However, neither of these stories is historically accurate.
Duke visit
Cannon on the cobbles as an advertisement for the theater
In Hornberg anno 1564 Duke Christoph of Württemberg had announced himself. This one should be received with gun salute and full honors. When everything was ready, approached from afar a large cloud of dust. All cheered and the cannons roared like there was no tomorrow. But from the cloud of dust emerged only as a stagecoach. The same was happening then as a grocer carts and still much later a herd of cattle came towards the town. The lookout had given each time a false alarm and all the powder was fired when the Duke finally came. Some Hornberger tried to imitate the cannon by bellowing. Some reports even put the Duke visit on the end of the 17th century.
This version is regularly performed in summer on the outdoor stage in Hornberg as a folk theater.
Attack on Hornberg
According to the second version of the explanation the proverb refers to an event from 1519 when the city was attacked by the neighboring Villinger (Villingen, a city in the Black Forest not that far away). The Hornberger are said to have fired their ammunition in a short time so that the attacker just had to wait for the end of the cannonade to conquer Hornberg subsequently. This explanation goes back to the pastor Konrad Kaltenbach who describes it in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Heimatklänge (Echoes of home) from ancient and modern times, a supplement to the Freiburger daily mail from 1915 and relies on historical sources (Villinger Chronicle 1495-1533 ).
Other versions
Early 18th century should have been in a free shooting in Hornberg such inconsistencies regarding the operation that gradually all the shooters left the festival and the planned shooting finally was dropped.
Use in the literature
Already Friedrich Schiller writes in his book The Robber (first edition 1781) in the first act: There it ended like the shooting at Hornberg and they had to withdraw with disappointed faces. Thomas Mann formulated in his narrative Man and His Dog (1918): "However, it may also be that the whole thing, after all the events and fussinesses, ends as the Hornberg shooting and comes to nothing." Hannah Arendt used the phrase in her book power and violence (1970): "However, this situation does not have to lead to revolution. It can first end with counter-revolution, the establishment of dictatorships and it can secondly end as the Hornberg shooting, it needs nothing to be happening".
Das Hornberger Schießen ist das Ereignis, das die Redewendung „das geht aus wie das Hornberger Schießen“ hervorgebracht hat. Die Wendung wird gebraucht, wenn eine Angelegenheit mit großem Getöse angekündigt wird, aber dann nichts dabei herauskommt und sie ohne Ergebnis endet.
Entstehung
Die Historiker sind sich nicht darüber einig, ob die folgenden Begebenheiten und Erklärungsversuche wirklich der bekannten Redewendung zugrunde liegen. Wie bei jeder nicht mit Sicherheit zu klärenden etymologischen Bedeutung ranken sich auch beim Hornberger Schießen zahlreiche Legenden um diese Redewendung, wobei die beiden nachstehenden in einschlägigen Werken als die am weitesten verbreiteten gelten. Allerdings ist keine der beiden Erzählungen historisch verbürgt.
Herzogsbesuch
Kanone auf den Pflastersteinen als Werbung für das Theater
In Hornberg hatte sich anno 1564 der Herzog Christoph von Württemberg angesagt. Dieser sollte mit Salutschüssen und allen Ehren empfangen werden. Als alles bereit war, näherte sich aus der Ferne eine große Staubwolke. Alle jubelten und die Kanonen donnerten, was das Zeug hielt. Doch die Staubwolke entpuppte sich nur als eine Postkutsche. Selbiges geschah dann, als ein Krämerkarren und noch einiges später eine Rinderherde auf die Stadt zukam. Der Ausguck hatte jedes Mal falschen Alarm gegeben, und alles Pulver war verschossen, als der Herzog endlich kam. Einige Hornberger versuchten, durch Brüllen den Kanonendonner nachzuahmen. Manche Berichte legen den Herzogsbesuch auch auf das Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Diese Version wird regelmäßig im Sommer auf der Freilichtbühne in Hornberg als volkstümliches Theaterstück aufgeführt.
Angriff auf Hornberg
Der zweiten Version der Erklärung nach soll sich das Sprichwort auf ein Ereignis aus dem Jahr 1519 beziehen, als die Stadt von den benachbarten Villingern angegriffen wurde. Die Hornberger sollen in kurzer Zeit ihre Munition verschossen haben, so dass die Angreifer nur das Ende der Kanonade abwarten mussten, um anschließend Hornberg erobern zu können. Diese Erklärung geht zurück auf den Pfarrer Konrad Kaltenbach, der sie in den Nummern 3, 4 und 5 der Heimatklänge aus alter und neuer Zeit, einer Beilage zur Freiburger Tagespost aus dem Jahr 1915 beschreibt und sich auf historische Quellen beruft (Villinger Chronik 1495–1533).
Andere Versionen
Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts soll es bei einem Freischießen in Hornberg derartige Unstimmigkeiten über den Ablauf gegeben haben, dass nach und nach alle Schützen das Fest verließen und das geplante Schießen schließlich entfiel.
Verwendung in der Literatur
Bereits Friedrich Schiller schreibt in seinem Werk Die Räuber (Erstausgabe 1781) im ersten Akt: Da ging's aus wie’s Schießen zu Hornberg und mussten abziehen mit langer Nase. Thomas Mann formuliert in seiner Erzählung Herr und Hund (1918): „Es kann aber auch sein, daß das Ganze, nach allen Veranstaltungen und Umständlichkeiten, ausgeht wie das Hornberger Schießen und still im Sande verläuft.“ Hannah Arendt verwendet die Redensart in ihrem Buch Macht und Gewalt (1970): „Dennoch braucht diese Situation nicht zur Revolution zu führen. Sie kann erstens mit Konterrevolution, der Errichtung von Diktaturen enden und sie kann zweitens ausgehen wie das Hornberger Schießen: es braucht überhaupt nichts zu geschehen.“
Photo from Trevor Webb. Trevor (a National Serviceman) served with the Australian Army in South Vietnam from 12/4/1967 until 30/1/1968. He was attached to 2 Composite Ordnance Depot/2AOD and based at Vung Tau.
The painter Bonnard said “Make little lies to tell a great truth”. Use that as your inspiration.
— Chloe Dewe Mathews
What is the truth? This is something I have struggled to define all week. Everyone will have their own definition, their own interpretation, which has made this task tricky. I decided to choose to the subject of death this week, its a certainty for all of us - a Truth if you will. Look closely at the photograph and you will see the little lie which tells my Truth.