Cuckoo Clocks

Abigail Franks asked:


I’m starting to age I guess in that I’m enjoying more the sounds of my youth like a simple clockwork cuckoo clock. The timeless sound of the cuckoo bring back many memories. When I was a child, both my uncle and grandparents had cookoo clocks. I remember they were dark colored cases with ornate carvings but the bird that came out was brightly colored. I was told these were from the black forest in Germany.

I guess the Germans have a lock on authentic cuckoo clocks as when I got older, I went shopping for one and they were all German made clockworks. The new ones however were just like I remember. Darker carved woods on the outside with ornate carvings.

My parents had both a mantle clock and a wall clock that struck the quarter half and hour times. They were wonderful. Many people have fond memories about growing up. Foods, holidays, smells, and even sounds. I remember how our home was always breathing the sounds of our clocks. Even as an adult, going for visits brought me in many respects back to childhood days when hearing the constant patterned sounds of those time trackers. It was home!

Today, I have a grandfather clock, cuckoo clock, and several other clockwork type clocks all around my home. Yes, they aren’t as “accurate” as quartz timepieces or as fancy as the latest technology has to offer. But there’s something about their even pace, pendulums, weekly winding and yes, the announcement that time is marching on, that is somehow soothing. Almost melodic.

In the night, when every is asleep, I sometimes go down to the living room and just think. The clocks are busy, as always, pacing out time and announcing yet another quarter hour has past. It’s recognition of mortality, that some things don’t last, while others, like the cuckoo clock seem to last lifetimes.



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St♥rmy Skye asked:


Where I may find a website that sells Herbert Herr Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks at a discount price, and also have a large selection. Many thanks in advance. St♥rmy.

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Gaurav Kaushik asked:


Bird Sanctuary Kumarakom

Situated on the edge of the Vembanad Lake, the bird sanctuary is stretched across 14-15 acres of land. The Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary, a heaven for the lovers of nature and a preferred destination for the birds migrating like the siberian stork, egret, darter, heron and teal.

Kumarakom is interestingly gorgeous. The blue backwaters and the surface of Vembanad Lake replicate the blue sky. The remarkable tones of green of the plants that comprises of mangroves, coconut palms, and paddy grasslands wrap the grassy countryside. Channels and waterways storm their path all the way through this green seventh heaven. Water lilies and lotuses blossom in the water and birds from the bird sanctuary on Vembanad Lake attract as they fly crossways the apparent tropical sky. Kumarakom is a peaceful and a pleasant holiday destination

A stopover to the bird sanctuary, placed inside the flourishing lush green acres of wooded land close by, acquaints you to the selection of migratory birds that gather in a very large number, a number of them from the Himalayas, a little even from as far as Siberia. Along with that you would be thrilled to see the resident kingfishers blazing in different colors, try out a walk under rookeries of egrets and night herons or lone golden-backed woodpeckers and even take pleasure in the playful activities of the paradise fly-catchers.

An enthralling island on the lake, Pathiramanal (sands of midnight), can be reached by boat from here. Approximately 10-11 acre island on the backwaters is dwelling to numerous uncommon varieties of migratory birds from diverse corners of the world. According to traditions a young Brahmin jumped into the Vembanad Lake to carry out his evening ablutions and the water made path for the ground to mount from underneath. The island is approachable only by boat. A journey along the Vembanad Lake is the most excellent way to enjoy the sanctuary.

Magnetism of Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary

The chief pull of this Bird sanctuary are local birds like the waterfowl, cuckoo, owl, egret, heron and the water duck, along with the migrating Siberian cranes. Parrots, teal, larks, flycatchers, wood beetle and numerous different birds are found here at some stage in their own migrating seasons.

Seeing the Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary

Houseboats and motorboats are provided on rent for bird watching that sail on the lake.

Ideal Time To Visit

The most suitable time to watch the migratory bird is between June and August. To watch Migratory birds, November to February is the best time.



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Richard n Williams asked:


 

The clock in its form that we recognise today has been around since the middle of the fourteenth century. Before then, measuring the passage of time had always been a tricky affair with the movement of the sun being the only reliable method of time-telling and the only clocks being crude sundials or water clocks.

When the first mechanical clocks appeared they were driven by a spring and weight, regulated by a verge-and-foliot escapement, a type of gear system that advances the gear train at regular intervals or ‘ticks’. Not only does a clock ticking come from these original devices but also the familiar clock face was developed.

The first clock to use a minute hand appeared in 1475 and innovations like the pendulum were added making mechanical clocks more and more accurate. Shapes, designs and all sorts of bells, alarms and automaton figures were added to clocks to make them more appealing, the most famous of these being the distinctive cuckoo clock which appeared at the end of the 18th century.

The next big step in the development of clocks didn’t arrive until the twentieth century and the development of electronics when it had been noticed that electrical charges running through crystals, such as quartz, made the crystals resonate at an accurate rate.

These digital clocks could use the traditional clock face of mechanical clocks but also were able to replace it with a digital display that showed the time in numbers.

While digital clocks were more accurate than mechanical clocks and even bigger step towards accuracy was taken with the discovery of atomic clocks.

Atomic clocks work on the principle that the caesium -133 atom has an exact resonance each second (somewhere in the region of over 9 billion a second). This makes atomic clocks highly accurate; in fact they are even more accurate than the rotation of the Earth which the national timescale GMT (Greenwich Meantime) used to determine noon. Another timescale, UTC (universal Coordinated Time)) which is based on GMT but allows for the Earth slowing in its rotation by adding ‘leap seconds’ has been developed.

Computer networks use the time from atomic clocks by receiving a specialist transmission of the time through radio waves, the GPS network or over the Internet and can synchronise their networks to this UTC time by utilizing NTP (Network Time Protocol) a protocol specifically designed for synchronization.

Ethernet Clocks can be connected to computer networks that run NTP and can display the exact time as told by an atomic clock and display it on a wall or desk. Other analogue and digital wall clocks can also receive a transmission directly from an absolute time source via radio waves and display UTC time that way.



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ignoring the cuckoo
clocks in our heads
we read
out of disgust at times
the froth builds
around honest edges
we wipe our chins
and turn the page
desperately
clutching stained sheets
whispering to our loneliness
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don’t let me go out like this
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hmm…because it sucks

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