Spiritual Portal

Comon release the photos!

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Thank You so much mccoy. i believe u are a true scientist. One who does not leave spirituality out as some kind of wishful thinking or superstitious behavior. i wish i could understand all your graphs and scientific models. But i sense someone who is genuinely trying to find the truth without personal bias. I have always read all your posts even though i may not always understand technical points.

Steve, I'm sorry that I'm not able to write so clearly, I'll have to try and simplify things. What I do usually is to rewrite what I grasped but of course I'm not a perfect explainer.
By the way, I'm not a scientist, lol, I'm a professional who likes scientific topics but has serious voids of knowledge in some subjects (for example, biology).

I'll write more topics on gravitational waves, with some very simple yet effective examples. Again, by writing these things I'm testing my own comprehension of such phenomena.

Hello mccoy i long to see some pictures of the area where you live, exercise and meditate!

Thanks steve for the directions to this thread I would have not been able to trace otherwise.
I'm noticing now that I have to use a share site or reduce the image memory, I'll do that ASAP

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Now I tried teh flickr sharign site, KK, better off.
I've been living in a rental flat close to the beach from November to March. I enjoyed to run at every hour, day and night, by night with a light on the forehead. Now I'm always in a rental house but mroe inland and had to stop running  because of a knee problem (hope temporary).


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Where r u tryng to put the picture?

I need to get to the beach more.

Here the truth is pretty sad. On one side you have the beautiful scenery and peace, on the other you have a very polluted sea water (lots of raw sewage gets directly into the sea). My son got ill last year because of swimming where I took the pics. Next year I'll probably have to take him half an hour away from there, where analyses have decen results.

I work in a mountain city but live on the coast. So I regualrly commute and drive thru scenic vistas, although it's an everyday sight by now. A couple of snapshots of a valley along the way from 2 different angles.


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Leon, my American Staffordshire Terrier

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It is so beautiful. i wonder if u get a chance to stop and meditate or energize somewhere on the way to work or back?

There are a few selected places where I sleep and sometimes meditate. In the bottom of that valley there is a small river with crystal-clear water. On one of those slopes there is a very scenic parking place which is almost always empty. Some detours will take me along unpopulated areas and vehicleless roads.

beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing mccoy

I need to move further out, that's all there is to it.

Praying for your knee!

Wow is that snow? Do u get very much snow near the ocean in Italy? Your third eye is very brite mccoy! Your dog looks very kind. A candidate for a human incarnation next time around? He looks like he is saying. ' Hey i didn't mean any harm be merciful on me'!



Your pictures of u have that responsible serious look! i like them but remember to smile once in a while! (LOL)

This picture is a view on the Harbour in the vicinities. The wooden structures on stilts visible on the pier are some ancient form of fishing. There was beach accretion here, so some of'em are no more on water.

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This is the dirt road leading to my home in the hills

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💅💅 Do you have any vacancies available? 😜

IZZA, sorry but we're fully booked for a while...

Steve, it is alas a known fact that hard tarmac may be not too friendly on runners' knees. I started again tonite but on soft sand. It's more fatiguing, but it also means that I work out more in a smaller time. Knee seems to be all right now, if it keeps like that, I'll run again in 3 days, otherwise I'll wait some more.
Snow on the beach is pretty rare but not unheard of.
True, I don't usually smile in pics!

I am almost certain we could use your property to make a successful film. It will be called the Invasion of The Arachnids. Of course you would get some recognition. Think of the publicity. You know you owe me one. You also owe it to yourself. I don't want to use it against you. I am just asking you to be reasonable.

                                                                     Alfred Hitch

I like the plot. The arachnids are coming from thee sea and I fly to the hills. There is no happy ending of course. The arachnids are going to take all the humans and use them maybe as incubators for their eggs. YUK.

Do you guys like my new little toy???

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Nice! Watcha gonna do with it?

I will use it as a convenient nut crusher!

This is another toy I just added to the collection.

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McCoy what is the story behind all these big rigs?

Do you buy these just for personal use? And here I thought you were just a pencil pusher.

SI, you guessed correctly in that I'm basically a pencil, or paper pusher. Part of my job though, to answer to Steve's enquiries, is to check on the field some characteristics of rigs financed by the state.
The government agency which employs me will pay 65% of the cost of those rigs (with a max support of 150K US$) if the employer can prove a specific working hazard has been improved. In the above cases, whole body vibrations at the driver's seat turned out to be lower in the new rig with respect to the old one, hence the government, thru our technical bureau, approved the funding. I check that things are regular (there are no frauds) and carry out vibration or noise measurements. New rigs turn out to be pretty much comfy.

So help me understand, the italian government will pay 65% of the bill for expensive machinery, if the rig it's replacing has a "health hazard" of whole body vibration? How can that possibly be determined to be too much based on who's body being vibrated? There must be guidelines on how to operate equipment safely, example, you wouldn't want to run a jackhammer for a couple hours straight with no break. Must've been from a complaint or a hospital bill? It just reminds me of how when I worked for the state how cash was being handled.

SI, this strategy has started out a few years ago to reward the companies who improve the health & safety conditions at work. Of course the funding is limited, so there is a struggle for it, whose 1st step is speed in sending the electronic request online at a fixed deadline. The winners are determined within a 10-seconds interval from the opening of the server.
The funding is limited to a max of about 150000 US$ and may be bestowed to any technically consistent project: improving vibrations, noise, exposure to airborne chemicals, safety and so on.
In the cited vibrations case, there are standards ruling the whole aspect. The company must measure Whole body vibrations at the driver's seat, according to specific standards, in the old machine. The same must be done in the new machine and must be lower than the old one. I go and carry out an independent measurement to check that the company is not cheating. If everything is all right, the government agency will refund the company 65% of the bill . The latest place where I went was a limestone quarry, pretty dusty, prosaic and unglamorous. But I'm far more interested in a dusty, stony quarry than in watching TV shows or watching soccer matches.


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Sometimes I go and work in more poetical places than the overly prosaic quarries. Like this on top of a small mountain basin.
Although, to tell the truth, there is a big quarry opposite this view.

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And what's the name of that little town?

hello mccoy !

Your pictures look amazing. Ty for sharing.

It seems you have quite a talent as well.

Cheers!  :)

There r many wild flowers in the foreground and quite a view in the background. i can only imagine that there would b many nice places to meditate there if there r not abusive people who believe it is their land and u should keep off. (some people think the sky above them is their's as well.) It helps to have a visual view of where u live mccoy. i may never get there this life but we have virtual reality today in some of our technology. it is a wonder that brings people together and also it has separated those who cannot or will not adapt to it. Although your pictures r not yet three-dimensional graphics, it may come to that point soon. It is wonderful that u have found a way to use your observational skills to serve your country and have been blessed to b given a chance to do it.

SI, it's called 'Cagnano Amiterno', very unlikely you've heard about it before

I'm glad you guys like this kind of pics, actually I have a load of'em, usually places where I carried out geotechnical investigations.
Those are pretty far away from the place where I live, a couple of hours driving. This is another one from the bottom of teh valley previously displayed. Steve, the places higher up are very good to meditate, they usually are nto private porperty so you can meditate there as long as you wish.



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More on their way: a quaint village in an isolated area. Those are pics to be used in technical reports, not artistic ones but they give an idea of the urban environment



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Last batch for tonight. Some pics are attractive in their uglyness.

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Happy ☺ to see u r sharing so much with us about your life in Italy.

Now I have. Will be visiting Italy next year I think, who knows, maybe I'll retire in a town like this.

SI, to call it town is a gross overestimation. 'Mountain village' would be more pertinent. There are of course prettier places, in my region and above all in Tuscany, although out there prices by now are unaffordable with the possible exception of celebrities.

Actually my region was a very poor place (many immigrants in America are from Abruzzo) , so villages tend to be uglish. The mountain town where I work, which was pretty, has been destroyed by an earthquake in 2009.
Also, let me know if you need any tips about places, and if you come nearby we can go out and get drunk together. lol. With freshly squeezed fruit juices of course.
Probably the best small town is Pescocostanzo, this is a nice picture gallery on youtube.

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By the way, anyone knows how to embed youtube vids in this forum?

The picture gallery is cool, the Mountain Village as you call it seems so removed from where I sit.

The first button on the left, insert flash, should just be able to click that then paste your link inside the tags. Preview will not show it as embed, only actual posting, for me anyways.

Thanks SI, I'm going to try that out.
This is a pic snapped from the road leading home. Typical Italian coastal hillside. On the background you can see the coastal town, then the Adriatic sea. 250 cliks further we'll come across the coast of Croatia.

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Another day, another toy!! They can load decent amounts of sand.

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Not sure about the 'toys' but really enjoy the pictures of u and the beautiful open countryside in Italy that u provided. The topography is quite different then this part of the U.S. lots of rippling rolling hills, mountains and there and open spaces. We have many more tress here... so it seems. Many forests. We could use some of that sand at small lakes in Michigan. It would be much more comfy on the feet... knowing what u r stepping into!

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Steve, in Italy woods and forrests are usually much smaller than the ones in America, the larger ones are located within national parks (there are many here). Oftentimes the sand is used even here to feed the natural beaches, which can be subject to severe erosion. Many beaches are becoming narrower or are disappearing. The cause is the past exploitation of riverbeds (no more allowed), the building of dams, the possible, slow rise in sea level.

The beach is no longer the oen I remember when a young boy: wide expanse of clear and clean sand likewise clear and clean water. Now it's narrower, the sand is polluted by silt, the water is polluted by human fecal matter plus industrial wastes.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/los-angeles-sewage-spill-shuts-down-ocean-20-173039331.html?nhp=1

We must constantly let the public know the damage that more and more people are doing to our earth and its oceans and sky.

Steve, something similar happened here last year, on a far smaller scale. Theoretically, an efficient management of waste products should allow good sanitation even in crowded areas.

Point is that, as the facts confirm:

1- In Italy there is often no efficiency at all, just incompetence and inertia
2- In America it may be different (probably it depends on different places). The LA case though was an example of how unstable the system can be. It is not possible to make the system perfectly proof against accident, earthquakes or a floods

It is nice to hear that these big earth movers can serve a positive function. Usually i see them used to plow away wetlands, natural habitats and forests and then come the strip malls, houses and artificial edifices.

There is not presently such a negative connotation in Italy. Wetlands and forrests are protected, although in the sixties and seventies developments have ruined many nice places. In the town where I live they let builders build on the beach. This must be one of the uglier coastal towns in Italy, you walk by the beach and see just houses. We've had our lot of incredibly greed and obtuse politicians. Still have them unfortunately. 

Some day i hope to see beaches open to everyone. We have lakes here in Michigan that the public cannot even get to because of ownership. It is a white mans invention. The Native Indians who lived here before us could not understand the concept.

We have similar situations here in Italy. Some stretches of beach, although being property of the State, are not accessible since they have been 'rented' to private owners (hotels or resorts) who block the access roads with gates. It happens where the beaches are located in between a rocky coast. Otherwise the access is usually free.

I never heard about private lakes, unless they are small lakes built by the land owners themselves in their properties.