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The top arrangement is the one I had planed for my picture and would only require 24 slices of cane. However, the arrangement below is more appealing but will require 40 slices. I can just about make it.
I took my border collie, Kodiak, out for a hike in Angeles National Forest. After driving through the desert the lush pine Angeles forest was such a welcome site. There were still wildflowers in bloom and small patches of snow on the shaded mountain peaks.
He has discoid lupus erythematosus (aka collie nose), an autoimmune disorder that causes his skin to blister and bleed when exposed to UV rays. He has been about two weeks without a Lupus-bleed-blister flare up. I thought that with proper sun protection he could manage a hike. He did well on the hike, however a few days later his nose was pink and starting to bleed a teeny bit.
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There has been much discussion about the construction of a wall between the United States and Mexico. However, this discussion largely ignores the fact that a wall -- or fence -- already exists in many places along the border in the more populated areas. This image captures the layers of fencing used to divide the US city of El Paso, Texas, and the Mexican city of Juarez, Chihuahua. This fence runs along a portion of the concreted Rio Grande River and what is known as the border highway in El Paso.
A small guard tower just at the border of the land. To show a presents to everyone else that the land is conquered.
View of the Swiss-German border area from the edge of the Aeussere Baselstraße (in English: "Outer Basel Street") in the municipality of Riehen, Canton of Basel-City, Switzerland
Some background information:
Riehen is a municipality in the Canton of Basel-City in Switzerland. Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton. Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a privately owned art gallery) as well as a toy museum and several parks. The municipality is located on the right bank of the Rhine on the Swiss-German border between Wiese and the Chrischona Hill. A salient around 2 km in length protrudes from the northeast, over the Herrenwald forest.
Riehen has a population of roughly 21,800. The municipality is commonly considered one of the more affluent suburbs of Basel, as evidenced by numerous villas in Riehen’s municipal area. The Basel tram network runs through Riehen. Both the mathematician Leonhard Euler and the tennis player Roger Federer spent their childhood in Riehen.
Basel (resp. Basle) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine in the immediate vicinity of the French and German borders. With about 180,000 inhabitants Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva).The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German.
Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland. The city is famous for its many museums, ranging from the Kunstmuseum, the first collection of art accessible to the public in the world (since 1661) and the largest museum of art in Switzerland, to the Museum of Contemporary Art, the first public museum of this type in Europe. Forty museums are spread throughout the city-canton, making Basel one of the largest cultural centres in Europe in relation to its size and population.
The University of Basel, Switzerland's oldest university (founded in 1460), and the city's centuries-long commitment to humanism, have made Basel a safe haven at times of political unrest in other parts of Europe for such notable people as Erasmus of Rotterdam, the Holbein family, Friedrich Nietzsche, and in the 20th century also Hermann Hesse and Karl Jaspers.
In the 1st century, the Romans founded a settlement on the site of today’s Basel Minster, which they extended into a castrum (a fortified camp) in the 3rd century. At that time the area was incorporated in the Roman province of Germania Superior. In the 4th century, the settlement was first named Basilia, from which Basel derives its later name.
After being repelled from crossing the Rhine several times, the Germanic tribe of the Alemanni succeeded in 406. They conquered what is today Alsace in France and a large part of the Swiss Plateau and founded the Duchy of Alemannia. However, in the 6th century, this duchy fell under Frankish rule.
In the 6th and 7th centuries, the Alemannic and Frankish settlement of Basel gradually grew around the old Roman castle and already in the 7th century, Basel began minting its own coins. At that time, Basel was still part of the Archdiocese of Besançon. But in the 8th century, a separate bishopric of Basel was established and at the beginning of the 9th century, a first cathedral was built on the site of the Roman castle.
At the partition of the Carolingian Empire, Basel was first given to West Francia, but with the treaty of Meerssen passed to East Francia in 870. In 917, the town was destroyed by the Magyars. After it had been rebuilt, it became part of Upper Burgundy, and as such was incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1032.
From 999 until the Reformation, Basel was ruled by Prince-Bishops. In 1019, the construction of Basel’s cathedral began and around 1100 the first city walls were built. In the 12th century, a city council of nobles and burghers was established and in 1225, the first bridge across the River Rhine was built. The bridge was largely funded by Basel's Jewish community who had settled there a century earlier. Basel’s first city guild were the furriers, established in 1226, but in the course of the 13th century, altogether 15 guilds were founded, reflecting the increasing economic prosperity of the city.
Political conflicts between the bishops and the burghers begin in the mid-13th century and continue throughout the 14th century. By the late 14th century, the city was for all practical purposes independent although it continued to nominally pledge fealty to the bishops. The House of Habsburg made an unsuccessful attempt to gain control over the city. However, it caused a political split among the burghers of Basel into a pro-Habsburg faction, known as the Sterner, and an anti-Habsburg faction, known as the Psitticher.
In 1348, the Black Death reached Basel. The Jews were blamed and hence, in 1349, an estimated 50 to 70 Jews were executed by burning. This sad event has become known as the Basel massacre. In 1356, an earthquake destroyed much of the city along with a number of castles in the vicinity.
A riot on 26th February 1376, known as Boese Fasnacht (in English: "Evil Carnival"), led to the killing of a number of men of Leopold III, Duke of Austria. This was seen as a serious breach of the peace. The city council blamed "foreign ruffians" for this and executed twelve alleged perpetrators. Leopold nevertheless had the city placed under imperial ban. In a treaty Basel was given a heavy fine and was brought under Habsburg control.
To free itself from Habsburg hegemony, Basel joined the Swabian League of Cities in 1385. In 1393, in the Battle of Sempach, many knights of the pro-Habsburg faction, along with duke Leopold himself, were killed. Following the battle, a formal treaty with Habsburg was made. Beginning around 1400, Basel had gained its de facto independence from both the bishop and the Habsburgs and hence, was free to pursue its own policy of territorial expansion. During the council of Basel, which took place between 1431 and 1449, the city became the focal point of western Christianity.
In the Swabian War of 1499, Basel remained neutral despite being plundered by soldiers of both sides. The Treaty of Basel ended the war and granted the Swiss confederates exemptions from the emperor Maximillian's taxes and jurisdictions, separating Switzerland de facto from the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. In 1501, Basel joined the Swiss Confederation as its eleventh canton. The city was a great win for the Confederation, as it had a strategic location, good relations with Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and control of the corn imports from the Alsace region.
In 1529, the city became Protestant and the bishop's seat was moved to Porrentruy. The bishop's crook was however retained as the city's coat of arms. In 1536, the first edition of Christianae religionis institutio, John Calvin's great exposition of the Calvinist doctrine, was published at Basel.
In 1792, the Republic of Rauracia, a revolutionary French client republic, was created. It lasted until 1793. After three years of political agitation and a short civil war in 1833, the disadvantaged countryside seceded from the Canton of Basel, forming the half canton of Basel-Landschaft (in English: "Basel-Country").
Today, the name of the city is internationally known through institutions like Basel Accords, the art fair Art Basel and the football club FC Basel. The Swiss chemical industry operates largely from Basel, and Basel also has a large pharmaceutical industry. International companies like Novartis, Syngenta, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Clariant, Hoffmann-La Roche, Basilea Pharmaceutica and Actelion are headquartered there. Finally, it should also be mentioned that in 2019, the American human resources consulting firm Mercer ranked Basel among the ten most liveable cities in the world together with the two other Swiss cities of Zurich and Geneva.
The ewes are evaluating if they can challenge Beth's authority or not, right before they decided to turn and go up the chute for their vaccinations. Beth slowly and steadily approached them - it is important to keep them calm and relaxed as possible because they are all heavy with lambs.
Borders Buses Optare Versa YA13AEL 11309 is seen in Edinburgh City Centre on a 51 service, 15th October
BF Hurricane at Great Yarmouth before leaving for Ramsgate.
Name: BF Hurricane
Vessel type: Patrol vessel
Design: StormCat 23
Home port: Ramsgate
Flag: United Kingdom
MMSI: 235118075
Call sign: 2JQJ7
Length overall: 24.48 m
Beam: 8.2 m
Draught: 1.45 m
Displacement: 92 ton
Fuel capacity: 3,960 UK gal. (18,000 litre)
Engines: 2 x MTU 12V 2000 M72
Engine output: 1,448 hp (1,080 kW) at 2,250 rpm
Waterjets: 2 x Rolls Royce 5643
Max speed: 27 knots
Service speed: 22 knots
Max range: 425 nm (490 miles - 787 km)
Builder: Aluminium Marine Consultants (AMC) Ltd, Cowes, Isle of Wight
Built: 2015
Construction: Aluminium
Owner: Global Marine Group, Chelmsford, Essex
Operator: UK Border Force
Previous name:
CWind Hurricane
I took this picture in the area of ​​West Surabaya, is border with the neighboring town, Gresik.
Back in the day, tourists could take a boat from Waterton Park in Canada's Alberta province south along Upper Waterton Lake across the international border to Goat Haunt in Montana, USA, and then hike back to Waterton.
I took the above shot at the international boundary during my hike back to get my car in order to drive back into the US via a border checkpoint (unmanned on my way north early that morning, but manned on my way back in late afternoon) to my hotel in West Glacier; there were no Canadian border posts/inspections.
It is interesting to see that only minute changes were made from the 1818 marker to the 1925 marker; the firebreak on the far shore of the lake is a continuing indication of the border. Alberta, Canada is to the left; I was just inside Montana, USA.
Of course, this was pre-9/11! I believe that Canadians and Americans could still do this sort of trip after 9/11 but not those like me from further abroad. With the orange-faced man-baby back in Washington, I suppose there's a possibility that a wall might blight this view at some point in the future...
And yes, sorry, that's my rucksack getting into the picture by mistake...
It took me some hours to make this block and it’s far from perfect, but I hope you like it anyway Kim!
Borders Buses Optare Solo SR YJ15AAY is seen leaving Edinburgh bus station with a 253 service, 23rd April
This is one of 22 artworks by Johannes Dörflinger that are positionend at german-swiss border at seaside of Constance (Germany) and Kreuzlingen (Switzerland) - the place is called "Klein Venedig" (Little Venezia). This national border is called "Kunstgrenze" - artwork border. Artist Johannes Dörflinger made Tarot figures according to the Visconti Tarot. This one shows the Magus like in Rider Tarot. 2 years ago at the same place it looked like that
The Royal Border Bridge spans the River Tweed between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth in Northumberland. The bridge is 659 metres (2,162 ft) long and constructed in stone.
YN57BWU is a Volvo B7R / Plaxton Profile C70FL purchased new by First Cymru as their 20327 in October 2007. It passed First Scotland East, but was sold with the border operations recently and was working on a school service in Peebles.
Border Buses Scania Wright Solar SN55JVM is seen laying over on Warwick Road, near Carlisle Bus Station between workings of the X95, a route recently taken over by Border Buses when they purchased First, 24th April
Sheriff Buford Presley rode into town on a cold January morning, his badge gleaming like a promise. At almost 80, he was too old for the job, but his steel-gray eyes carried a consequence that silenced many of his doubters. Still, there were those who questioned he could clean up the rough Rio Grande country filled with smugglers and Mexican cartels. It was the Wild West
In just a matter of weeks, he'd secured the southern border, not only in his county, but all the way from Texas to California —and the townsfolk are looking at Buford differently. Not with complete trust, not yet, but with something more important--hope. The fight isn't over, but the new sheriff has drawn a line in the sand, and he isn't stepping back.
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AI image created with GROK3. Parody. Character is fictional.