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[ENG] It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. Warren Buffett, American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.
Detail of the decoration of a water jug from the beginning of the 20th century
For "Macro Mondays" group, "five" theme
[ESP] Se necesitan 20 años para construir una reputación y cinco minutos para arruinarla. Si piensas en eso, harás las cosas de manera diferente. Warren Buffett, magnate, inversor y filántropo estadounidense.
Detalle de la decoración de una jarra de agua de principio del siglo XX
Para el grupo "Macro Mondays", tema "cinco"
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Foto presa amb una KMZ FT-2 soviètica, fabricada el 1965; Kodak Ektar 100.
La dita diu "Tor és un Cel per a les besties, un Infern per als homes". La part del bestiar es refereix a com de bé es crien els ramats en un lloc amb tant de abastiment. Sobre els homes...
Si coneixeu la historia del minuscul però notori poblet de Tor, entre el Pallars i Andorra, haureu sentit parlar de "La Muntanya de Tor" i els conflictes (i morts) que provocà. De fet, pel que tinc entès, la "muntanya" no és un pic en concret, sino tot el territori de la vall entorn Tor. I aquí el teniu, vist des del Coll de Cabús (2302 m.), la important conexió viaria entre Tor i Andorra.
De fet, fins just aquí al coll de Cabús, la via andorrana és una carretera de muntanya perfectament asfaltada, però un cop entra al Pallars, a la vall de Tor, passa a ser un camí de muntanya força més ferestec. El vaig fer tot just pocs mesos després del assassinat del "Sansa", l'estiu del 1995. Diuen que foren els traficants de tabac qui es feren carrec de fer i mantenir la important carretera.
Aqui podeu veure altres fotos d'una altra visita a Tor, el 2015:
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28Alins%29
vallferreratourist.com/pobles-2/tor/
www.hotelbrases.com/blog/el-misterio-de-la-montana-de-tor...
No us perdeu el 30Minuts de TV3, “Tor, la Muntanya Maleïda”:
www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/programa/titol-video/video/1964...
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Panoramic picture taken with a Soviet KMZ FT-2 camera, made in 1965; Kodak Ektar 100 film.
There's a saying in this area, that says, in Catalan: "Tor is a heaven for the herds, and a hell for men". The heaven part is clear considering how important is (or rather was) husbandry in this part of Catalonia. For the hellish part...
This is the so called "Tor mountain", in fact the valley of Tor, a tiny village of only 13 houses in the middle of the most uninhabited part of the Catalan Pyrenees. But just by the Andorran frontier, which links with a path to Tor just here in the Cabús pass (2302 m. above sea level).
The village of Tor has a long dark reputation in Catalonia, as three people at least have been murdered there in the past 60 years arround the ownership of this huge area. And why kill for just a large zone of rocks, pines and meadows? Because it's location by the frontier, and so, smuggling, specially of tobacco, which is way cheaper in Andorra.
Here are my pictures of another visit to Tor:
It's an amazing history of dark hearts in a gorgeously beautiful place:
www.hahn-hartung.com/tor-murder-in-the-pyrenees-stern-crime
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor,_Pallars
www.hotelbrases.com/blog/el-misterio-de-la-montana-de-tor...
There’s a splendid tv-documentary called “Tor, la muntanya maleïda” (Tor, the damned mountain). It’s in Catalan, but anyway you can take a look at the images and the people. Surely it has stuff for a movie:
www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/programa/titol-video/video/1964...
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El Cruce de los Lagos Andinos es un viaje que se realiza saliendo desde Puerto Varas a Bariloche cruzando cuatro lagos de la patagonia Chilena y Argentina (Llanquihue, Todos Los Santos y Lago Frias, Nahuel Huapi en Argentina). El recorrido se hace combinando buses y catamaranes a ambos lados de la Cordillera de Los Andes pasando por Peulla. El recorrido permite ver paisajes de increible belleza escenica de gran fama internacional que lo hace muy solicitado por turistas extranjeros que visitan la region.
Peulla (en mapudungun Brotes de Primavera) es un pequeño puerto lacustre en la orilla más occidental del lago Todos los Santos en la comuna de Puerto Varas, con 120 habitantes. Este puerto se encuentra muy cerca de la frontera con Argentina, está a 26 Km del paso internacional Pérez Rosales y el paso Vuriloche. Aqui se puede realizar diferentes excursiones para conocer las bellezas de la zona y se ubican los hoteles Natura y Peulla este último con casi 100 años de antiguedad.
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The Andean Lake Crossing is a journey departing from Puerto Varas to Bariloche crossing four lakes of Chilean Patagonia and Argentina (Llanquihue and Todos Los Santos, Frias and Nahuel Huapi lakes in Argentina). The tour is made by combining buses and catamarans on both sides of the Andes through Peulla. The travel permit to see awesome scenic beauty landscapes cause its international reputation makes it very requested by foreign tourists visiting the region.
Peulla (in mapudungun Spring Buds) is a small lake port on the western shore of Lake Todos los Santos in the Puerto Varas county, with 120 inhabitants. This port is located very close to the Argentinian border just 26 km from the international pass Perez Rosales and Vuriloche step. Here you can take tours to see the beauty of the area and the Natura and Peulla hotels the latest almost 100 years old.
The Herring Gull has an unwanted reputation, certainly at seaside resorts where it is always looking for its next meal. It's not just that it is an opportunist bird, but they create a good deal of mess when they poo in flight (I for one have received three direct hits over the years). Lastly when we stayed in Scarborough for a few weeks between our house moves in 2020 they made such a noise from the rooftops in the summer. So, I can understand why they are unwanted by some.
All that being said I think they are a great bird to watch, when mature they are so handsome and if ever I sit back to watch their antics I always find that a they are most entertaining.
Lastly, there was a report on TV yesterday which outlined the overall declining level of nature in the UK. Birds that are at threat are detailed on a Red list and guess what the Herring Gull is one. So, the next time you see one, stop, take in its actions and please don't do anything that will drive it away.
Photographed at Clumber Park.
Kam the Alien has something of a reputation among the Aliens on the Mother Ship. She is one of the first to explore the area of physical sensation with so much flair that she has become a legend.
Now a visitor from the Mother Ship has beamed down and is seeking advice on how she can emulate what Kam had already done.
I found out about this when I saw Kam and a lovely young woman having breakfast on the terrace of Kam's home. Kam asked me to join them and I was introduced to Joan. Joan looked to be to be about 20 years old and she was quite a knockout physically. Kam told me that she was there for lessons on how to proceed because now that she had embodied herself she felt terrified. All kinds of new sensations and feelings were flooding her and she did not know what to do about them. She expected Kam to have all the answers.
From what I could gather Joan was a shy Alien and had become overcome with the passions and feelings humans have learned to keep somewhat under control. She wanted to experience the height of sensual and sexual bliss, but at the same time she did not know how to go about it. Additionally she was terrified of the very thing she desired most.
Kam had become a Guru of sorts and promised to help Joan. I learned that though Aliens are not human and do not have emotions and feelings, but they differ from one another. Joan was a shy Alien and Joan is now a shy Alien in a human body. Kam was and is a take charge person. Joan wanted Kam to select a male companion for her and be present while they went out on what would be their first date. Joan also wanted Kam to hold her hand when they had their first sexual experience.
Kam said she would be happy to morph into a male and show Joan the ropes so to speak, but Joan wanted a real human , or at least a Replicant. I could see the logic of that.
Then Kam told her that she would be happy to break Joan in so that she could become bi-sexual. Joan had no objections but she still wanted to mate with a human and Kam was not human.
Kam asked me if I knew anybody and I said I did not want to be drawn into the situation because the last time I tried to play cupid things did not work out.
Joan then asked Kam is she could loan me out. Kam said no. Kam said she had to find her own mate. Joan said that that was just too difficult and she started to cry.
Kam told me I would have to be her new lover until she became used to being embodied. I told Joan she could do far better on her own as I was never much of a lover. Joan said that was allright if it was OK with Kam.
And so the three of us made a pact. I would be Joan's new lover and Kam would hold her hand while she was penertated for the first time. Joan was a virgin. She had never even been kissed.
What I noted was that Kam was becoming a feeling person and was reaching out towards Joan. That was something new. Kam was becoming more and more human.
When Kam and I were alone she told me to be extra gentle with Joan and to take a lot of time with her. She needed to be brought out slowly. Kam told me that she would be there to see that everything went well.
Afterwards Kam was simply glowing with pride. Everything went well and Joan experienced her first orgasm and did she ever love it. Kam took credit for the whole thing. For me it was not difficult because Joan was simply gorgeous and very responsive. Kam told Joan that after a few more sessions she would be ready to go out into the world and find a man of her own and Joan agreed.
Kam was still Kathleen the mannequin and she said she liked that persona because she could shape Kathleen psychologically.
What we had going was really not human at all from one perspective. Kam and Joan were Aliens who had morphed into human form and I was a Replicant. In fact I was one of two Replicants. The whole thing was somehow Surreal. The whole thing was beyond belief.
Those whose know of this place Maroon Bells, in Aspen, Colorado, would second my thought that this is the most beautiful place in Colorado state! It was fall when we visited this place and sure it lives to its reputation "Colorful Colorado".
For scaling purpose, the tiny figures near the lake on the floor are few people walking the lake trail.. you can imagine the enormity of those mountains..
#Colorado #MaroonBells #Aspen #Fallcolors #roadtrip #heaven #snowcappedmountain #colorful #aquabluewater #adventures #foliage🍁🌾🍂🍃 #landscapephotography #mothernature #mystical #natgeotravel
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was a versatile flying boat used extensively during World War II by Allied forces. Known for its distinctive boat-shaped fuselage and long wings, it served in a variety of roles, including maritime patrol, search and rescue, anti-submarine warfare, and transport. Its long range and ability to land on water made it ideal for open-ocean operations, such as locating and rescuing downed airmen or tracking enemy ships. The Catalina’s durability and adaptability earned it a reputation as a reliable workhorse in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
Lake Matheson deserves it's reputation as New Zealand's best reflection lake.
I have shot there a couple of times and have been surprised to find that the evenings seem to produce the best reflections.
Mornings start off fantastic until just as the sun rises. It seems to generate a consistent breeze and pesky fog that clings to the lake. Of course this is just my experience, it will of course vary from day to day.
On this occasion the stiff day breeze, that was rippling the lake 10 or 15 minutes before this shot was taken, dropped of incredibly quickly - just as the light was getting luscious on the Southern Alps.
Nice!
EDITED: The interest in this shot prompted me to do a little post on my blog about reflections in landscape photos. It may be of interest/use to you :)
Cheers - Todd
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
≈ Abraham Lincoln ≈
Have a great weekend!! Fijn weekend iedereen!
Nog eentje uit de examenreeks "Ochtend" van de vorige module fotografie.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
The D700 has a pretty well-know reputation for being a very good low light camera. So I was pretty tickled (must've been to use the word "tickled") to get this relatively low light photo of it with my IPhone. And that's kind of the only reason I'm posting this.
I might risk getting a reputation of travelling a lot now, but from one holiday to another. Last posting was from Wales, this is a little town named Loket in Czech republic.
The main picture is a very poor picture for a main picture, poorly composed, out of focus and in risk of getting my stream xxx-rated.
But this is a picture I just barely manged to capture as this man hurried by! It was a point and shoot, as I had to capture it to be sure that I really saw it! I think the lady at left's face also has a great, if even worse out of focus, expression. I think this picture should be all you need if you ever need an argument why bike riders should be banned from towns!
There are a lot of photos from Loket and another town in Czech, Karlovy Vari, in the first comment.
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
- Abraham Lincoln
La réputation de St-Michel de Bellechasse et ses environs n'est plus à faire avec son emblématique Harfang des neiges, ma première visite.
The reputation of St-Michel de Bellechasse and its surroundings is more to do with his iconic Snowy Owl, my first visit.
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MERCI BEAUCOUP DE VOTRE VISITE ET BONS MOTS !
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VISITING AND GOOD WORDS !
Just one of many quaint little shops in Les Baux. This one seems to operate out of a door.
Les Baux :
Traces of habitation have been found dating back as far as 6000 BC, and the site was used by the Celts as a hill fort around the 2nd century BC. During the Middle Ages it became the seat of a powerful feudal lordship that controlled 79 towns and villages in the vicinity. The town was granted in 1642 to the Grimaldi family, rulers of Monaco, as a French marquisiate. Les Baux is now given over entirely to the tourist trade, relying on a reputation as one of the most picturesque villages in France.
Street lighting aside, Paris’ reputation as the “City of Lights” is accredited to its position as the intellectual center during the Age of Enlightenment. “La Ville-Lumière” as it was then called, Paris was the birthplace of the Age of Enlightenment and it was famous as a center of education and ideas throughout Europe. Paris’ early adoption of street lighting probably also contributed to its “City of Lights” tag. But the city continues to uphold its reputation as the City of Lights, from a wattage perspective… Looking to capture the circling light atop of the Tour Eiffel, I took a sequence of 10 photos which I later combined in post-processing. Taken from the steps of the Trocadéro.
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Die Reputation bundesdeutscher Justizvollzugsanstalten ist nicht besonders gut. Landein, landauf herrscht das Bild von grauen Betonblöcken, kriminellen Insassen und schlechtem Kantinenessen. Diesem Bild gilt es entgegenzuwirken, denn mit so einem beschissenen Image bekommt man natürlich kaum qualifiziertes Personal zur Gefangenenbewachung. Daher wird einmal im Jahr ein Tag der offenen Tür veranstaltet. Dadurch hat die Öffentlichkeit die Gelegenheit, das Gefängnis mal näher kennenzulernen – und die Gefängnisinsassen die Gelegenheit, die Öffentlichkeit mal näher kennenzulernen.
(Quelle.: Stupidedia.org)
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1. My reputation apparently precedes me.
2. I've got the worst case of hat head you've ever seen, and it's permanent. Plastic has its downsides.
3. I've got two kids, Anna and Morph, which is surprising, because I'm entirely sans genitalia.
4. My ex assures me that they're mine.
5. I talk a good game, hence my reputation as a ladies'/laddies' man.
6. I'm traveling around the world via the mail, because it's cheap and because I can.
7. My best friend is a polar bear
8. I'm completely fearless (see 7).
9. I like wearing crimplene suits, which is fine for me, because I have no sweat glands.
10. Beware of imitations. When I arrive at your house, you'll know it's me.
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Hilton Chicago has the reputation for hosting every President of the United States as a guest from the time the Stevens Hotel opened in 1927. There is a fascinating early hotel history from 1927 with the Stevens family of Chicago who built the immense hotel only to lose it in bankruptcy with the Great Depression. The Stevens was the largest hotel in the world when it opened its doors to guests. Six years later, Ernest Stevens was on trial for embezzlement, his brother committed suicide after the family’s insurance business went bankrupt, and the U.S. Army purchased the Stevens Hotel in World War II to house soldiers. In 1945, the property was acquired by Conrad Hilton, and the immense hotel property has carried the Hilton name for more than sixty years.
Stevens Hotel was conceived in the roaring 20s and designed to be the largest and one of the most opulent hotels in the world. Within six years of its grand opening, the Stevens family name was rocked by embezzlement scandals and suicide that brought down their Chicago family business empire.
The Stevens Hotel opened in 1927 on South Michigan Avenue across from Grant Park in Chicago. The 28-story hotel had 3,000 rooms, fine shops, cavernous ballrooms and even mini-golf on the roof.
The landmark Chicago hotel was built by the Stevens family who had built their family wealth with the Illinois Life Insurance Company. J.W. Stevens had already built and owned the La Salle Hotel that opened in 1909 with 1,000 rooms as one of Chicago’s finest hotels in the loop. La Salle Hotel was demolished in July 1976.
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was son of Ernest Stevens, the hotelier who was tried and convicted of embezzling millions from the family’s insurance company to financially prop up their family-owned Chicago hotels. Ernest Stevens’ conviction was later overturned on appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; however, the family was bankrupted and two of Chicago’s finest hotels went into receivership.
This abandoned Coast Guard station at Whiskey Island, OH is a destination for people seeking apparitions and evidence of such things. If you look large you can see the reason.
Tavistock is just a couple of miles from the western edge of Dartmoor, and is one of my favourite small towns in the south-west of England (Totnes is another). It has a reputation for its food shops, and has a delightful indoor "pannier market", which I love visiting. There is an internal road surrounding the market building, and on one side is this charming cafe - Dukes Coffee House - with tables under cover. If I travel over Dartmoor on my way down to Cornwall I will invariably call in here and have a coffee and a bite to eat. It's a nice way to break the journey, even though I am not far from my eventual destination.
Blenheim Palace (pronounced /ˈblɛnɪm/ BLEN-im[1]) is a monumental country house in Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England. It is the principal residence of the Dukes of Marlborough, and the only non-royal, non-episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. The palace, one of England's largest houses, was built between 1705 and 1722, and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.[2]
The palace is named for the 1704 Battle of Blenheim, and thus ultimately after Blindheim (also known as Blenheim) in Bavaria. It was originally intended to be a reward to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough for his military triumphs against the French and Bavarians in the War of the Spanish Succession, culminating in the Battle of Blenheim. Soon after construction began it became the subject of political infighting, leading to Marlborough's exile, the fall from power of his duchy and lasting damage to the reputation of the architect Sir John Vanbrugh.
Designed in the rare, and short-lived, English Baroque style, architectural appreciation of the palace is as divided today as it was in the 1720s.[3] It is unique in its combined use as a family home, mausoleum and national monument. The palace is notable as the birthplace and ancestral home of Sir Winston Churchill.
Following the palace's completion, it became the home of the Churchill, later Spencer-Churchill, family for the next 300 years, and various members of the family have wrought changes to the interiors, park and gardens. At the end of the 19th century, the palace was saved from ruin by funds gained from the 9th Duke of Marlborough's marriage to American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt. wikipedia
The Neo-Gothic style employed by architect Alexander North is seen here in the brickwork above the east door. Although this was completed in 1911, the style is reminiscent of the work carried out by Augustus Pugin in England in the 1840s.
www.architectural-review.com/essays/reputations/augustus-...
C’est l’arrivée de Mathieu Van Roggen, venu de Hollande, qui a dynamisé vers 1880 les CARRIÈRES DE SPRIMONT. Il les a rendues pleinement performantes par la rationalisation de l’exploitation et la modernisation de l’outil. La grande centrale électrique de 1904, devenue “Musée de la pierre”, en est le remarquable témoin. Par la suite, le groupe Merbes-Sprimont gère les propriétés jusqu’à la reprise en 1984 par la famille Brancaleoni.
Plusieurs sites sont actuellement en exploitation. La réputation de qualité de ces gisements est depuis longtemps établie et
les références de prestige en sont fort nombreuses, depuis la Grand’ Poste de Liège et le pont de Fragnée vers 1900, jusqu’au
nouveau pont haubané du Val-Benoît en 2000.
Importante capacité de production et souplesse de gestion sont les atouts premiers de l’entreprise sprimontoise.
Cette carrière de petit granit consiste en une excavation allongée, partiellement occupée par la 'décharge de classe III du Fond de Correux'. L'activité extractive a encore lieu dans la partie médiane et un grand atelier de taille est installé vers la route. Le secteur occidental, actuellement désaffecté, et les abords supérieurs de la fosse présentent toutefois un intérêt biologique: reproduction du crapaud accoucheur et du lézard des murailles; flanc nord incliné colonisé par une végétation des substrats calcaires (e.a. Catapodium rigidum, Crepis foetida, Teucrium botrys); présence de la fougère Gymnocarpium robertianum.
It was the arrival of Mathieu Van Roggen, from Holland, who revitalised the CARRIÈRES DE SPRIMONT around 1880. He made them fully efficient by rationalising the operation and modernising the tool. The large power station of 1904, which became the “Stone Museum”, is a remarkable example of this. Subsequently, the Merbes-Sprimont group managed the properties until the Brancaleoni family took them over in 1984.
Several sites are currently in operation. The reputation for quality of these deposits has long been established and
their prestigious references are numerous, from the Grand’ Poste in Liège and the Fragnée bridge around 1900, to the
new cable-stayed bridge at Val-Benoît in 2000.
Significant production capacity and management flexibility are the primary assets of the Sprimont company.
This small granite quarry consists of an elongated excavation, partially occupied by the 'class III dump of Fond de Correux'. Extractive activity still takes place in the middle part and a large cutting workshop is installed towards the road. The western sector, currently disused, and the upper edges of the pit are nevertheless of biological interest: reproduction of the midwife toad and the wall lizard; inclined northern flank colonized by vegetation of calcareous substrates (e.g. Catapodium rigidum, Crepis foetida, Teucrium botrys); presence of the fern Gymnocarpium robertianum.
Within Italy, Matera came to be seen as just another out-of-the-way town in the impoverished south; among foreigners, it had a reputation as a picturesque troglodytic locale. But, as the world modernized, curiosity gave way to repulsion. It seemed grotesque for people to live in lightless dwellings alongside their animals.
In 1853, John Murray’s “Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy” declared Matera “a dirty city” and noted that “its lower classes are said to be the most uncivilized in the whole province of Basilicata.” Its problems seemed intractable: poor sanitation, brutal work conditions, malaria. Yet the population continued to grow, reaching fifteen thousand by the early twentieth century. Half a dozen family members often crowded into a cave; residents used basins for toilets and burned the waste on the cliffs. Italy was falling behind the other nations of Europe, Basilicata was falling behind Italy, and Matera seemed to be last of all.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinckneyville,_Illinois
Pinckneyville is a city in and the county seat of Perry County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,066 at the 2020 census. It is named for Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, an early American diplomat and presidential candidate.
Pinckneyville is the location of the Pinckneyville Power Plant, a combustion turbine generator (CTG)-type power plant run by Ameren.
Source: www.americanthresherman.com/history.html
ATA HISTORY
The American Thresherman Association (ATA) was organized in March of 1959.
At the annual meeting in 1962, Amos Rixman commented that the Association "organized three years ago this month for the purpose of furnishing some enjoyment to its members and to be the beginning of something very worthwhile." Already in its brief life the Association had earned such a reputation that three towns vied for the chance to become the permanent site for the show. The Pinckneyville Chamber of Commerce invited the ATA with open arms and pledges of support, and the Perry County community was chosen over Mascoutah and Highland for the 1962 show site.
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He's earned himself a nickname -- Rocky (as he mostly hangs out on a rocky outcrop)-- and quite a reputation. Anyone daring to trespass over his Grasslands patch soon learns he's there (here he had spotted Millie)
Some odds and ends I gathered from the internet about house sparrows in the U.S..They were first introduced in NYC in 1851.They are a very adaptable bird and flourish near people. Their numbers increased rapidly.It has been suggested they were introduced to reduce insects, but it was later realized they only feed on insects during nesting season. Their main food source is seed .They have adapted well and now eat a wide variety of food scraps from people.
Early on they were not looked at favorably because they displaced nesting birds such as Eastern Bluebirds and purple martins.The bird earned such a bad reputation that in 1880 a bounty of three cents per bird was made law in Michigan.It was possible to earn $1.50 to $3.00 per day. A lot of money back then.
I was surprised at some of the information I found .. In the mid 1500s they were used a food item and served in sparrow pie. a traditional dish.The oldest recorded life span is 15 years and 9 months.
Because it is such an easy bird to observe they have been the subject of more than 5,000 scientific studies .In recent years there has been an unexplained decline in their numbers ( not in my back yard).
One of my very young neighbors told me it was his favorite bird . I was surprised and asked why. His answer was simple.He said it was because he could always count on seeing it .
Excuse any typos , I'm a hunt and pecker. Hal
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Montenegro is a country in Eastern Europe bordering Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania and the Adriatic Sea. It used to be a part of Yugoslavia. The capital is Podgorica. The name Montenegro is Italian and means Black mountain. Montenegro may be small, but this beautiful nation has a huge array of natural and man-made wonders. Once overlooked in favor of more famous Mediterranean countries, Montenegro is quickly gaining a reputation as a great place to travel. It's easy to see why. The mountainous hinterland is home to deep gorges, flowing rivers, glacial lakes and old-growth forests, popular for adventure activities. Riviera of Budva is situated in the central part of the Montenegrin coast, together with the main tourist centres Budva, Becici, Sveti Stefan, and Petrovac. The coastal area around Budva, called the Budva riviera, is the center of Montenegrin tourism, known for its well-preserved medieval walled city, sandy beaches and diverse nightlife. Budva is 2,500 years old, which makes it one of the oldest settlements on the Adriatic coast. Budva is a charming old town. There is a maze of alleys with tucked away boutiques and restaurants, cafes and bars. The buildings in Budva are exceptionally well preserved and also restored. Nice squares, good food, beautiful beaches. The walls and ruins are amazing, and you can imagine the battles, romances, discussions and other daily activities that took place here. Take the time to walk on the walls; the views are spectacular. Not only is the town very attractive, you also have a few beaches in the town directly, that will blow your mind.
1. centre Petrovac is surrounded by pine forests, caves and olive groves, 2. top left Off the road towards Petrovac, 3. Little Sveta Nedelya church was built by local sailors who miraculously survived a severe storm., 4. Montenegro's most iconic tiny islet of Sveti Stefan, 5. The ancient Saint Ivan basilica in Budva with a landmark bell tower, 6. The seaside resort of Petrovac has a pleasant beach., 7. Time for a cold beer at the Kastio castle terrace, 8. The more I learn color the more I love black and white, 9. Church of Santa Maria just on the beach in Budva, notice its beauty, 10. Superyacht in Porto Montenegro in front of its luxury Regent resort, 11. Porto Montenegro is becoming a super-yacht sanctuary, 12. Dukley Marina Budva is one of the oldest nautical destinations in Montenegro, 13. Porto Montenegro boulevard has a cozy and cosmopolitan atmosphere.
Montenegro is een land in Oost-Europa en grenst aan Bosnië en Herzegovina, Servië, Kosovo, Albanië en de Adriatische Zee. Vroeger was het een deel van Joegoslavië. De hoofdstad is Podgorica. De naam Montenegro is Italiaans en betekent Zwarte berg. Montenegro was tussen 1878 en 1910 een zelfstandig prinsdom en tot 1918 een zelfstandig koninkrijk. Dat jaar werd Montenegro onderdeel van Joegoslavië. In 2003 werd Joegoslavië omgevormd in het nieuwe land Servië en Montenegro, maar dit viel in 2006 uit elkaar toen beide landen een eigen weg gingen. Montenegro is misschien klein, maar deze prachtige natie heeft een enorm scala aan natuurlijke en door de mens gemaakte wonderen. Ooit over het hoofd gezien ten gunste van meer bekende mediterrane landen, krijgt Montenegro snel een reputatie als een geweldige plek om te reizen. Het is gemakkelijk te zien waarom. Het bergachtige achterland herbergt diepe kloven, stromende rivieren, gletsjermeren en oerbossen, populair voor avontuurlijke activiteiten. Het kustgebied rond Budva, de Budva riviera genaamd, is het centrum van het Montenegrijnse toerisme, bekend om zijn goed bewaard gebleven middeleeuwse ommuurde stad, zandstranden en gevarieerd nachtleven. Budva is 2500 jaar oud en is daarmee één van de oudste nederzettingen aan de Adriatische kust. Riviera van Budva ligt in het centrale deel van de Montenegrijnse kust, samen met de belangrijkste toeristische centra Budva, Becici, Sveti Stefan en Petrovac. Budva is een charmante oude stad. Er is een doolhof van steegjes met weggestopte boetiekjes en restaurants, cafés en bars. De gebouwen zijn uitzonderlijk goed bewaard gebleven en ook gerestaureerd. Leuke pleintjes, lekker eten, mooie stranden. De stadsmuren en de ruïnes zijn geweldig. Je kunt je de veldslagen, romances, discussies en andere dagelijkse activiteiten die hier plaatsvonden voorstellen. Neem de tijd om over de muren te lopen; de uitzichten zijn spectaculair. Niet alleen is de stad erg aantrekkelijk, je hebt ook een paar stranden direct in de stad, die je versteld zullen doen staan.
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Memorial Regional Hospital is the flagship facility of the healthcare system and is one of the largest hospitals in Florida.
Memorial Regional Hospital offers extensive and diverse health care services that include Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute featuring renowned surgeons, Memorial Cancer Institute treating more inpatients than any other in Broward County, and Memorial Neuroscience Institute providing innovative technology and world-class physicians.
Memorial Regional Hospital and Memorial Regional Hospital South are both located in Hollywood, Florida, and offer our community a variety of medical and surgical services. Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial provides a comprehensive array of pediatric services and is the leading children's hospital in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Memorial Hospital West, Memorial Hospital Miramar and Memorial Hospital Pembroke serve the communities of western Broward County and others in South Florida. Memorial Home Health Services, Memorial Manor nursing home and a variety of ancillary healthcare facilities round out the system's wide-ranging health services.
Memorial has a reputation as one of Florida's leading healthcare systems and is supported by a distinguished medical staff. In fact, the vast majority of physicians are board certified, or board qualified in their specialties and have been trained at many of the nation's finest medical schools and hospitals. Because of its distinguished medical staff and services, Memorial moves health forward for patients from South Florida and beyond.
As Memorial continues to lead in providing the next level of healthcare, many prestigious awards have been earned throughout the system. The accolades include Modern Healthcare magazine's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, Florida Trend magazine's Best Companies to Work for in Florida, 100 Top Hospitals, Consumer Choice Award, Best-Run Hospital, Best Nursing Staff, Best Pediatric Hospital and Best Maternity Hospital. The health care system was also honored by the American Hospital Association with the "Living the Vision" award and the "Foster G. McGaw" award for which Memorial was selected from more than 5,000 hospitals as the national model for improving the health of the community.
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The Royal Corrington Household Cavalry consists of three regiments of Calvary.
The second of these is the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards; more commonly referred to as the 'Blood Guards' on account of their unusually dark red uniform jackets. Mounted exclusively on large black horses, these troopers have a reputation of stubborn ferocity and bloody ruthlessness. A company of Crimson Guards has just disembarked in Port Woodhouse, the first Household Calvary to be dispatched to the new world. Here they will acclimatise before being deployed to the New Haven Sea theatre for operations against the Lotii.
Some Cavalry troopers I put together for an upcoming MOC. I'm thinking of doing a whole series of small scenes like this depicting different types of Corlander troops.
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I want to get stuck into processing some new images over the coming weekend but in the meantime here's one from my 'Rainy Day' collection, i.e. images which I keep as a back-up for when I run short of new images to upload.
This is an alternative version of a previously upload photo of the iconic Bodleian Library Radcliffe Camera in Oxford. This is maybe verging on underexposure / too much contrast / overly saturated but as a result it has considerably more impact than the original.
A big thank you to the Oxford Flickr Group's Duncan Taylor who just before lockdown gave me access to the interior. No photos were allowed, and probably due to my reputation my camera was safely stored away in a locker, to I guess now my next ambition is to be allowed to shoot some interior shots of this beautiful building.
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From Wikipedia : "The building is the earliest example in England of a circular library. It is built in three main stages externally and two stories internally, the upper one containing a gallery. The ground stage is heavily rusticated and has a series of eight pedimented projections alternating with niches. The central stage is divided into bays by coupled Corinthian columns supporting the continuous entablature. The pedimented windows stand above mezzanine openings, reflecting the interior arrangement. The top stage is a lanterned dome on an octagonal drum, with a balustraded parapet with vases.
The construction used local stone from Headington and Burford, which was then ashlar faced. The dome and cupola are covered with lead. Inside, the original walls and dome were distempered but this was later removed, revealing the decorations to be carved in stone. Only the decorative work of the dome is plaster.
Originally, the basement was an open arched arcade with a vaulted stone ceiling, with Radcliffe's coat of arms in the centre. The arcade arches were fitted with iron grilles: three of them were gates which were closed at night, and which gave access to the library by a grand staircase. In 1863, when the building had become a reading-room of the Bodleian, the arches were glazed, a new entrance was created on the north side in place of a circular window, with stone steps leading up to the entrance."
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'Bout my bad reputation
I've never been afraid of any deviation
An' I don't really care
If ya think I'm strange
I ain't gonna change
An' I'm never gonna care
'Bout my bad reputation
This particular bird is getting quite a reputation in Algonquin Park as he greets all the cars parking at a trail, begging for handouts.
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
~Abraham Lincoln
Chattanooga is a city located along the Tennessee River near the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. With an estimated population of 179,139 in 2017, it is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee and one of the two principal cities of East Tennessee, along with Knoxville. Served by multiple railroads and Interstate highways, Chattanooga is a transit hub. Chattanooga lies 118 miles (190 km) northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, 112 miles (180 km) southwest of Knoxville, Tennessee, 134 miles (216 km) southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, 102 miles (164 km) northeast of Huntsville, Alabama, and 147 miles (237 km) northeast of Birmingham, Alabama.
The city, with a downtown elevation of approximately 680 feet (210 m), lies at the transition between the ridge-and-valley portion of the Appalachian Mountains and the Cumberland Plateau. Surrounded by mountains and ridges, the official nickname for Chattanooga is "Scenic City", reinforced by the city's reputation for outdoor activities. Unofficial nicknames include "River City", "Chatt", "Nooga", "Chattown", and "Gig City", referencing Chattanooga's claims that it has the fastest internet service in the Western Hemisphere.
Chattanooga is internationally known for the 1941 song "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Glenn Miller and his orchestra. Chattanooga is home to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) and Chattanooga State Community College.
The city has its own typeface, Chatype, which was launched in August 2012. According to the Nooga.com website, this marks the first time that an American city has its own custom-made typeface and also the first time a crowd-funded custom-made typeface has been used for any municipality in the world.
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The bases of the trunks along this bit of cypress lake were so graceful and mysterious. Loved my time among them.
I'd rather have a clear conscience than a good reputation.
Reputation is only what others think of you.
Your conscience is who you are.
And you can't escape that.
In 994, Count Palatine Aribo I of the Aribonen noble family donated a monastery in “Sewa”. Due to the very good relationship between the Count Palatine and the Bishop of Regensburg, Wolfgang von Regensburg, monks from the St. Emmeram Monastery in Regensburg move into the new foundation. The monastery receives relics of St. Lambert of Maastricht.
The monastery is in full bloom financially and economically. The monastery has a very good reputation for the production of magnificent manuscripts and books. This economic success is also reflected in the construction of a new, essentially Romanesque church, consecrated in 1200. In 1201, King Philip gave the Bishop of Salzburg the former imperial abbey together with Frauenchiemsee.
At the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century the church was rebuilt in the Gothic style.
But in the 16th century, many monks followed the teachings of Martin Luther and left the monastery.
Duke Albrecht V reformed the Seeon monastery with the help of the Benedictines from Tegernsee. It experiences a new beginning. In 1579, during the Renaissance, the interior of the church was decorated with magnificent frescoes.
Under Abbot Honorad Kolb, however, the monastery experienced an upswing in the middle of the Thirty Years' War. This can be seen in the numerous new buildings that the abbot has built. The interior of the church was also lined with baroque stucco under his leadership. Debt weighs heavily on the monastery's shoulders. The abbot is deposed. However, the monastery was soon debt-free again and was one of the richest monasteries in old Bavaria.
Like all monasteries, Seeon falls victim to secularisation. The monastery church becomes a parish church, and the convent buildings change hands several times.
In the 19th century, the church interior was redesigned in a neo-Gothic style, and the baroque stucco was removed.
Today there is a cultural and educational center in the monastery buildings.
The Seeoner Madonna is famous, a figure of the Master of Seeon (name unknown). A copy of the figure is in the high altar created in 1947, the original is on display in the Bavarian National Museum. The crucifixion group created around 1390 hangs under the triumphal arch. There it was placed in its original place in 2002 after it had been removed during the baroque period, and in 1982 it went to the Diocesan Museum in Freising.