December 1st, 2011 | No Comments »
On Life
A collection of Haikus; – ON LIFE
Contrary to popular belief, great poems can come from the most ordinary of experiences. If the poems you are about to explore are on Life, then they are also about you. Poems can really be an effective way of opening the heart door.
Our lives are vast stretches of sand, but if we look closely, we will find many crystals strewn among them. With a keen eye for observation and reflection, we can find life so interesting and meaningful. No one person can ever experience all that life has to offer. It is only through sharing – experiences, feelings, insights – that we can hope to grow beyond our own meager lifetime. As they say, learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have the time to make all yourself. So, are you ready to grow today?
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November 3rd, 2011 | No Comments »
No joke! Scary! But true.
Images of a futuristic “new Mercedes-Benz SCL600” automobile.
Do you think that you can drive with a joystick?
Your kids and grand kids sure can. The influence of video games in our lives has really arrived, wouldn’t you say?
But there is more!
The Scary Thought is — Now, a 7-year old can steal your car and drive it better than you can !
Yep, 2012 – Start checking the senior bus schedule!!!!
But, as they say down under “no worries mate”. We are already living in the age of innovations, therefore, everything has connection to innovative technology – we just need to open our eyes to see and welcome it. So, when you are joyous – no scary thoughts come in.
Safety is always stressed by Mercedes-Benz.
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October 6th, 2011 | No Comments »
Explanations for the mystery
The subject of rumor and legend for over a hundred years, the riddle of the carpenter’s identity was finally solved by Mary Jean Straw Cook, author of Loretto: The Sisters and Their Santa Fe Chapel (2002: Museum of New Mexico Press). His name was Francois-Jean “Frenchy” Rochas, an expert woodworker who emigrated from France in 1880 and arrived in Santa Fe right around the time the staircase was built. In addition to evidence that linked Rochas to another French contractor who worked on the chapel, Cook found an 1895 death notice in The New Mexican explicitly naming Rochas as the builder of “the handsome staircase in the Loretto chapel.”
The supposed “miraculous” nature of the staircase. The staircase has been claimed to be unsafe since its helix shape may make it oscillate just like a very large spring. To appreciate the architectural and other problems such stairs present we must recognize that builders use turns in staircases to save space or to adapt to a particular floor plan. As to its apparent ability to stand without a central support (central pole), however, this staircase appears to have a concealed central support, an inner wood stringer of a very small radius that, because of its small size, functions effectively as a central pole. This technique is well known. In addition — and this seems to have gone unnoticed by those who choose to emphasize the “mysteries” of the staircase — the outer stringer is attached to a neighboring pillar via an iron bracket, providing extra structural support.
As to the wood, that it has not been identified precisely means little. The wood has reportedly been identified as to family, Pinaceae, and genus, Picea — i.e., spruce, a type of “light, strong, elastic wood” often used in construction. But there are no fewer than thirty-nine species — ten in North America — so that comparison of the Loretto sample with only two varieties can scarcely be definitive.
All in all, nothing about Loretto’s design of manufacture evidences any sign of the miraculous. The Loretto Chapel is now a museum and no longer functions as a church . Call it an inspired feat of engineering, call it an aesthetic triumph — the spiral staircase of Loretto Chapel is the work of beauty and deserves its status as an international tourist attraction.
The case was investigated and subsequently re-enacted in the Unsolved Mysteries episode “The Staircase“.
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