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The great tit got the nut from our window board. When I hear the little feet klicking on the metal it's time to get the camera...
04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
Bexhill or Bexhill-on-Sea is a seaside town situated in the county of East Sussex in South East England. An ancient town and part of the local-government district of Rother, Bexhill is home to a number of archaeological sites, a Manor House in the Old Town, an abundance of Edwardian and Victorian architecture, and the famous De La Warr Pavilion: today a centre for contemporary art – which has featured the work of Andy Warhol, Cerith Wyn Evans and Richard Wilson amongst others – and an auditorium, where Bob Marley had his first UK appearance and has since seen performances by Elvis Costello, Goldfrapp, Ray Davies, Years & Years, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson.
The first reference to Bexhill, or Bexelei as it was originally called, was in a charter granted by King Offa of Mercia in 772 AD. It is recorded that King Offa had 'defeated the men of Hastings' in 771 AD. At this time, the term Hastings would have referred to this whole area rather than the town itself as it does today. In the charter, King Offa established a church and religious community in Bexhill.
During the Norman Conquest of 1066 it appears that Bexhill was largely destroyed. The Domesday survey of 1086 records that the manor was worth £20 before the conquest, was 'waste' in 1066 and was worth £18 10s in 1086. King William I used the lands he had conquered to reward his knights and gave Bexhill manor to Robert, Count of Eu, with most of the Hastings area. Robert's grandson, John, Count of Eu, gave back the manor to the bishops of Chichester in 1148 and it is probable that the first manor house was built by the bishops at this time. The later manor house, the ruins of which can still be seen at the Manor Gardens in Bexhill Old Town, was built about 1250, probably on the instructions of St. Richard, Bishop of Chichester. St Richard's Catholic College, the local Catholic school, was duly for said bishop. The Manor House was the easternmost residence owned by the bishops and would have been used as a place to stay while travelling around or through the eastern part of their diocese. There were often disputes between the Bishops of Chichester and the Abbots of Battle Abbey, usually about land ownership in this area. In 1276 a large portion of Bexhill was made into a park for hunting and in 1447 Bishop Adam de Moleyns was given permission to fortify the Manor House.
In 1561 Queen Elizabeth I took possession of Bexhill Manor and three years later she gave it to Sir Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset. The Earls, later Dukes, of Dorset owned Bexhill until the mid 19th century. Their main residences were Buckhurst Place in Sussex and Knole House in Kent.
In 1804 soldiers of the King's German Legion were stationed in barracks at Bexhill. These troops were Hanoverians who had escaped when their country was overrun by Napoleon's French Army. As King George III was also the Elector of Hanover, he welcomed them and they fought as part of the British Army. At about this time, defensive Martello Towers were built along the south east coast, some near Bexhill, in order to repel any French invasion. In 1814 the soldiers of the King's German Legion left Bexhill, eventually playing an important part in the Battle of Waterloo the following year. The German troops had been here to protect Bexhill from the French. However, many of the local people were actively trading with the enemy by way of smuggling. The best known of the local smugglers were in the Little Common Gang and the most famous incident was the infamous Battle of Sidley Green in 1828.
In 1813 Elizabeth Sackville had married the 5th Earl De La Warr, and when the male line of the Dukes of Dorset died out in 1865 she and her husband inherited Bexhill.
It was the 7th Earl De La Warr who decided to transform the small rural village of Bexhill into an exclusive seaside resort. He contracted the builder, John Webb, to construct the first sea wall and to lay out De La Warr Parade. Webb, in part payment for his work, was given all the land extending from Sea Road to the Polegrove, south of the railway line. Opened in 1890, the luxurious Sackville Hotel was built for the 7th Earl De La Warr and originally included a house for the use of his family. In 1891 Viscount Cantelupe, his eldest surviving son, married Muriel Brassey, the daughter of Sir Thomas and the late Annie, Lady Brassey of Normanhurst Court near Bexhill. The Manor House was fully refurbished so that Lord and Lady Cantelupe could live in style as Lord and Lady of the Manor. Finally, the 7th Earl De La Warr transferred control of his Bexhill estate to Viscount Cantelupe. When the 7th Earl De La Warr died in 1896
Viscount Cantelupe became the 8th Earl De La Warr. At this time he organised the building on the sea front of the Kursaal, a pavilion for refined entertainment and relaxation. He also had a bicycle track made, with a cycle chalet, at the eastern end of De La Warr Parade. These amenities were provided to promote the new resort. Meanwhile, many independent schools were being attracted to the expanding town due to its health-giving reputation. The railway came through Bexhill in 1846, the first railway station being a small country halt situated roughly where Sainsbury's car park is today. This was some distance from the village on the hill. A new station, north of Devonshire Square, was opened in 1891 to serve the growing resort. In 1902 the current railway station was opened and a Bexhill West Station was built for the newly built Crowhurst Branch Line.
1902 was the year that Bexhill became an Incorporated Borough. This was the first Royal Charter granted by Edward VII. Bexhill was the last town in Sussex to be incorporated and it was the first time a Royal Charter was delivered by motorcar. To celebrate the town's newfound status and to promote the resort, the 8th Earl De La Warr organised the country's first ever motorcar races along De La Warr Parade in May 1902. The town was scandalised at this time by the divorce of Earl De La Warr.
Muriel had brought the action on the grounds of adultery and abandonment. She was granted a divorce and given custody of their three children. Muriel, with her children, Myra, Avice and Herbrand, went back to live with Earl Brassey at Normanhurst Court. The 8th Earl De La Warr remarried but was again divorced for adultery. He also suffered recurrent and well-publicised financial difficulties. At the start of the First World War in 1914 the Earl bought a Royal Naval commission. He died of fever at Messina in 1915.
Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville became the 9th Earl De La Warr. He is best known for championing the construction of the De La Warr Pavilion, which was built and opened in 1935. The 9th Earl also became Bexhill's first socialist mayor. He died in 1976.
The Second World War caused the evacuation of the schools and substantial bomb-damage to the town. Many schools returned to Bexhill after the war but there was a steady decline in the number of independent schools in the town. The break-up of the British Empire and in particular the Independence of India in 1947 hastened the process. Most of the schools were boarding and catered largely for the children of the armed forces overseas and of the colonial administration. Although the number of schools decreased, many of the parents and former pupils had fond memories of the town and later retired to Bexhill.
For further information please visit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bexhill-on-Sea and www.discoverbexhill.com/
|| IC Photo taken at Mischief Managed ||
Grinning, Everett listens to Zaira go over the specs of the garden like the expert she is. Something about her passion amplifies his smile even more, so when she moves to pat his arm, he attempts to grab it. "You know I don't work for free," he returns swiftly. "Not in this economy. I'll be your beast of burden, but it's gonna cost you." He wiggles brows. "On completion of course, I'm not greedy," the boy adds.
Zaira pouted a bit, not that he could see it but she did. Holding his hand she blinked and pouted "Can't it just be a graduation present? I only have so many chocolate wands left!" she whined clearly not getting any hints. "Or! We can sneak some ingredients and I'll make you a lovely dinner? I think I can talk the elves into letting me use the kitchen, or we can use the homemaking magic room, that's always empty." her head was going a mile a minute trying to find ways to pay Everett for his help.
Everett snorts, then snickers, as the girl scrambles to come up with some form of payment. "How do you even function," he teases, turning towards her. "That's in, payment in full, /up front/." The boy reaches a hand up to guess at Zaira's cheek and catches her temple --close enough-- grasping with both hands and angling her gaze upwards. Grinning, the boy tilts down and attempts to capture her in a kiss, his heart pounding in his ears; it had been far too long since he'd attempted it, and was bursting at the seams to get some already!
Bexhill or Bexhill-on-Sea is a seaside town situated in the county of East Sussex in South East England. An ancient town and part of the local-government district of Rother, Bexhill is home to a number of archaeological sites, a Manor House in the Old Town, an abundance of Edwardian and Victorian architecture, and the famous De La Warr Pavilion: today a centre for contemporary art – which has featured the work of Andy Warhol, Cerith Wyn Evans and Richard Wilson amongst others – and an auditorium, where Bob Marley had his first UK appearance and has since seen performances by Elvis Costello, Goldfrapp, Ray Davies, Years & Years, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson.
The first reference to Bexhill, or Bexelei as it was originally called, was in a charter granted by King Offa of Mercia in 772 AD. It is recorded that King Offa had 'defeated the men of Hastings' in 771 AD. At this time, the term Hastings would have referred to this whole area rather than the town itself as it does today. In the charter, King Offa established a church and religious community in Bexhill.
During the Norman Conquest of 1066 it appears that Bexhill was largely destroyed. The Domesday survey of 1086 records that the manor was worth £20 before the conquest, was 'waste' in 1066 and was worth £18 10s in 1086. King William I used the lands he had conquered to reward his knights and gave Bexhill manor to Robert, Count of Eu, with most of the Hastings area. Robert's grandson, John, Count of Eu, gave back the manor to the bishops of Chichester in 1148 and it is probable that the first manor house was built by the bishops at this time. The later manor house, the ruins of which can still be seen at the Manor Gardens in Bexhill Old Town, was built about 1250, probably on the instructions of St. Richard, Bishop of Chichester. St Richard's Catholic College, the local Catholic school, was duly for said bishop. The Manor House was the easternmost residence owned by the bishops and would have been used as a place to stay while travelling around or through the eastern part of their diocese. There were often disputes between the Bishops of Chichester and the Abbots of Battle Abbey, usually about land ownership in this area. In 1276 a large portion of Bexhill was made into a park for hunting and in 1447 Bishop Adam de Moleyns was given permission to fortify the Manor House.
In 1561 Queen Elizabeth I took possession of Bexhill Manor and three years later she gave it to Sir Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset. The Earls, later Dukes, of Dorset owned Bexhill until the mid 19th century. Their main residences were Buckhurst Place in Sussex and Knole House in Kent.
In 1804 soldiers of the King's German Legion were stationed in barracks at Bexhill. These troops were Hanoverians who had escaped when their country was overrun by Napoleon's French Army. As King George III was also the Elector of Hanover, he welcomed them and they fought as part of the British Army. At about this time, defensive Martello Towers were built along the south east coast, some near Bexhill, in order to repel any French invasion. In 1814 the soldiers of the King's German Legion left Bexhill, eventually playing an important part in the Battle of Waterloo the following year. The German troops had been here to protect Bexhill from the French. However, many of the local people were actively trading with the enemy by way of smuggling. The best known of the local smugglers were in the Little Common Gang and the most famous incident was the infamous Battle of Sidley Green in 1828.
In 1813 Elizabeth Sackville had married the 5th Earl De La Warr, and when the male line of the Dukes of Dorset died out in 1865 she and her husband inherited Bexhill.
It was the 7th Earl De La Warr who decided to transform the small rural village of Bexhill into an exclusive seaside resort. He contracted the builder, John Webb, to construct the first sea wall and to lay out De La Warr Parade. Webb, in part payment for his work, was given all the land extending from Sea Road to the Polegrove, south of the railway line. Opened in 1890, the luxurious Sackville Hotel was built for the 7th Earl De La Warr and originally included a house for the use of his family. In 1891 Viscount Cantelupe, his eldest surviving son, married Muriel Brassey, the daughter of Sir Thomas and the late Annie, Lady Brassey of Normanhurst Court near Bexhill. The Manor House was fully refurbished so that Lord and Lady Cantelupe could live in style as Lord and Lady of the Manor. Finally, the 7th Earl De La Warr transferred control of his Bexhill estate to Viscount Cantelupe. When the 7th Earl De La Warr died in 1896
Viscount Cantelupe became the 8th Earl De La Warr. At this time he organised the building on the sea front of the Kursaal, a pavilion for refined entertainment and relaxation. He also had a bicycle track made, with a cycle chalet, at the eastern end of De La Warr Parade. These amenities were provided to promote the new resort. Meanwhile, many independent schools were being attracted to the expanding town due to its health-giving reputation. The railway came through Bexhill in 1846, the first railway station being a small country halt situated roughly where Sainsbury's car park is today. This was some distance from the village on the hill. A new station, north of Devonshire Square, was opened in 1891 to serve the growing resort. In 1902 the current railway station was opened and a Bexhill West Station was built for the newly built Crowhurst Branch Line.
1902 was the year that Bexhill became an Incorporated Borough. This was the first Royal Charter granted by Edward VII. Bexhill was the last town in Sussex to be incorporated and it was the first time a Royal Charter was delivered by motorcar. To celebrate the town's newfound status and to promote the resort, the 8th Earl De La Warr organised the country's first ever motorcar races along De La Warr Parade in May 1902. The town was scandalised at this time by the divorce of Earl De La Warr.
Muriel had brought the action on the grounds of adultery and abandonment. She was granted a divorce and given custody of their three children. Muriel, with her children, Myra, Avice and Herbrand, went back to live with Earl Brassey at Normanhurst Court. The 8th Earl De La Warr remarried but was again divorced for adultery. He also suffered recurrent and well-publicised financial difficulties. At the start of the First World War in 1914 the Earl bought a Royal Naval commission. He died of fever at Messina in 1915.
Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville became the 9th Earl De La Warr. He is best known for championing the construction of the De La Warr Pavilion, which was built and opened in 1935. The 9th Earl also became Bexhill's first socialist mayor. He died in 1976.
The Second World War caused the evacuation of the schools and substantial bomb-damage to the town. Many schools returned to Bexhill after the war but there was a steady decline in the number of independent schools in the town. The break-up of the British Empire and in particular the Independence of India in 1947 hastened the process. Most of the schools were boarding and catered largely for the children of the armed forces overseas and of the colonial administration. Although the number of schools decreased, many of the parents and former pupils had fond memories of the town and later retired to Bexhill.
For further information please visit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bexhill-on-Sea and www.discoverbexhill.com/
ISOLA D'ELBA is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the coastal town of Piombino. Elba is the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago. Elba is also part of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park,[2] and the third largest island in Italy, after Sicily and Sardinia. It is located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 50 kilometres (30 mi) east of the French island of Corsica.
Following the Treaty of Fontainebleau, French Emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814, and he arrived at Portoferraio on May 30, 1814. He was allowed to keep a personal guard of six hundred men. He was nominally sovereign of Elba, although the nearby sea was patrolled by the French and British navies. During the months that Napoleon stayed on the island, he carried out a series of economic and social reforms to improve the quality of life, partly to pass the time and partly out of a genuine concern for the well-being of the islanders. The restored Bourbons quickly reneged on the payments promised to Napoleon by Fontainebleau, however, and he was forced to make economies, raise taxation, and even attempt forced corvées. Napoleon stayed on Elba for 300 days. Hearing that the Congress of Vienna planned to remove him further from Europe and that the more popular and reformist Duke of Orleans was planning to replace his relatives, ruining any chance of Napoleon's popular recall, the former emperor escaped on a ship under British colors to France on February 26, 1815, for the Hundred Days. After his defeat at Waterloo, he was subsequently exiled again, this time to the barren and isolated South Atlantic island of Saint Helena.
Source: Wikipedia
Edmund Spenser is the man believed to have crafted the phrase “without reason or a rhyme”. He was promised payment from Queen Elizabeth I of England of a hundred pounds, a so called, “reason for the rhyme”. Her treasurer, however, considered the sum too much. When seasons passed and Edmund did not receive payment he sent her this quatrain.
“I was promis’d on a time,
To have a reason for my rhyme:
But from that time unto this season,
I had neither rhyme or reason.”
Queen Elizabeth I immediately ordered her treasurer to send Edmund Spenser his due sum....6/12
for Flickriver ~ Sophie Shapiro
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The digital image can be purchased from the NFT Gallery MakersPLace. Credit card payment possible. You can find me in the gallery under my name: Jörg Schubert or link:
makersplace.com/joergschubert/
Das digitale Bild ist in der NFT Galerie MakersPLace zu erwerben. Kreditkarten Zahlung möglich. Zu finden bin ich in der Galerie unter meinem Namen: Jörg Schubert oder link:
makersplace.com/joergschubert/
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Street Art / Graffiti in einer Reihe
Jörg Schubert / Galerie MakersPlace Künstler
Beim Fotografieren des Wochenthemas „in einer Reihe“ von der Flickr Makrogruppe Macro Mondays fielen mir die attraktiven Holzperlen ein.
Ich dachte, das wäre ein weiteres reizvolles Motiv für ein Street Art Bild.
Es entstand das Problem, die Holzperlen spannend darzustellen.
Probierte vielerlei Positionen, Ausschnitte und Entfernungen zu den Holzperlen aus. Fotografierte dann in scharf / unscharf Einstellung die Holzperlen.
Dann der Konflikt der Darstellung der Fotografie. Holzperlen farbig darstellten oder in Schwarzweiß.
Fotografie digital bearbeitet.
Im Prozess der digitalen Bearbeitung gesehen, dass ich auf einem positiven Weg bin.
Am Ende ein digital gemaltes Makro Crypto-Art Bild entstanden, mit dem ich zufrieden bin.
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Street art / graffiti in a row
Jörg Schubert / Gallery MakersPlace Artists
While photographing the weekly theme „in a row“ from the Flickr macro group Macro Mondays, the attractive wooden beads came to mind.
I thought that would be another attractive motif for a street art picture.
The problem arose of presenting the wooden beads in an exciting way.
Tried different positions, sections and distances to the wooden beads. Then photographed the wooden beads in focus / out of focus.
Then the conflict of the representation of the photograph. Depicted wooden beads in color or in black and white.
Photograph digitally processed.
Seen in the process of digital editing that I’m on a positive path.
In the end, a digitally painted macro Crypto-Art picture was created, with which I am satisfied.
“ Well I know it's just a matter of time,
When the fun falls through and the rent comes due, ...”
—Billy Joel,Somewhere Along the Line
I’ve posted a lot of digital collages, but this one is a straight photograph of a physical collage.
2 Mar 2021; 08:10 CST
Romans 6:17 “But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin, you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed.”
Reclaim the Net: Privacy researchers are raising the alarm over Moscow’s “Face Pay”
“Passengers activate Face Pay by connecting their photo, bank card, and the transit card (Metro Troika) through a smartphone app. After that, payments are made through facial recognition cameras at the turnstiles. The facial rec system is so efficient that it can identify faces through masks.”
reclaimthenet.org/privacy-researchers-are-raising-the-ala...
The tower bells were initially hung in the St. James´s Church tower. But when a new big Michael bell was acquired by the town authorities in 1604, it was said the bell made the whole tower quake when it rang.
They therefore decided to have a separate campanile built next to the church at municipality expenses in 1609. The municipality of Lipník started building with the support of the nobility. The Chronicle writes: "the Mayor and town council of Lipník anno domini 1609, on Friday after the commemoration of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At some commandment of His Grace the Lord of Jiří Elder Bruntálský of Vrbno and on Helfenstein with knowledge and will of all the municipality of Lipník they bought the above written house to construct the tower for the bells at this point for a sum of 390 R by Jan Šmic. He received an earnest payment from the Lords for a cash of 50 R. "
The house was promptly demolished and eight days after the purchase, foundations were laid for the new tower. The bell tower was completed by the winter – 12th November 1609. It was built by Italian master Jan Mario Vlach. The stone was brought here from Prusy and Podolí.
The bells of the St. James´ Church were transferred to the bell tower, and thus spared from a great calamity during a fire; the bell tower remained unaffected.
The campanile in Lipník nad Bečvou is the only one in Moravia which preserved its original appearance and which in addition differs from the other preserved bell towers by its size. Its ground plan is 10 x 10 and its height is 24 m. It has square windows in the first and second floor and is provided with a side-hung window on the third floor in the front facade, the remaining windows are set up with semi-circular vault. In 2003, the windows of this floor were fitted with wooden shutters. They better transmit the sound of the bells and are more suitable than the metal coverings used until now. The sound of bells was reflected and the vibrations damaged the bells. Above the top floor, bell decoration is concentrated in the form of uneven arcades and attic friezes. “Due to its noble architectural differentiation and integrity of its exterior, this tower has no equivalent rival among the Renaissance monuments in Moravia, except the gate in the Street of the Mother of God in Jihlava“ wrote in 1933 Dr. Karel Svoboda, the Heritage Office Commissioner from Brno, in the article Art in the history of Lipník.
info.mesto-lipnik.cz/en/vismo/dokumenty2.asp?id_org=20027...
Mainau, Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland.
Mainau es una isla de Alemania, localizada en el Lago de Constanza y más precisamente en la parte noroccidental conocida como lago de Überlingen (Überlinger See). La isla está conectada por el sur con la tierra firme mediante un puente.
Mainau se encuentra comprendida en el territorio comunal de la ciudad de Constanza y de hecho la mejor forma de llegar a la misma es por medio del transporte urbano de esta ciudad, que tiene una línea de autobús con parada en el acceso a la isla. Ésta es un importante destino turístico gracias a su suave clima, merced al cual alberga una vegetación muy rica en especies, incluso subtropicales y tropicales.
La entrada a la isla se hace previo pago, pero su cuidada vegetación, los millones de flores que la decoran (como es evidente, fundamentalmente en los meses de primavera y verano), sus invernaderos de palmas y de mariposas - en el cual estas sobrevuelan libremente a los visitantes y son de gran variedad y grandes tamaños -, su espacio con variados tipos de columpios complejos, y su pequeña zona con diferentes animales, junto a otros detalles, son de un interés objetivo.
De acuerdo con todo lo anterior, el lugar también es denominado La isla de las flores.
Mainau is an island in Germany, located on Lake Constance and more precisely in the northwestern part known as Lake Überlingen (Überlinger See). The island is connected by the south with the mainland by means of a bridge.
Mainau is included in the communal territory of the city of Constanza and in fact the best way to get there is through the urban transport of this city, which has a bus line with stop at the access to the island. This is an important tourist destination thanks to its mild climate, thanks to which it shelters a vegetation very rich in species, even subtropical and tropical.
The entrance to the island is made after payment, but its careful vegetation, the millions of flowers that decorate it (as is evident, mainly in the months of spring and summer), its greenhouses of palms and butterflies - in which they fly over freely to visitors and they are of great variety and size - their space with varied types of complex swings, and their small area with different animals, together with other details, are of an objective interest.
In agreement with all the previous thing, the place also is denominated the island of the flowers.
Mainau, Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland.
Mainau es una isla de Alemania, localizada en el Lago de Constanza y más precisamente en la parte noroccidental conocida como lago de Überlingen (Überlinger See). La isla está conectada por el sur con la tierra firme mediante un puente.
Mainau se encuentra comprendida en el territorio comunal de la ciudad de Constanza y de hecho la mejor forma de llegar a la misma es por medio del transporte urbano de esta ciudad, que tiene una línea de autobús con parada en el acceso a la isla. Ésta es un importante destino turístico gracias a su suave clima, merced al cual alberga una vegetación muy rica en especies, incluso subtropicales y tropicales.
La entrada a la isla se hace previo pago, pero su cuidada vegetación, los millones de flores que la decoran (como es evidente, fundamentalmente en los meses de primavera y verano), sus invernaderos de palmas y de mariposas - en el cual estas sobrevuelan libremente a los visitantes y son de gran variedad y grandes tamaños -, su espacio con variados tipos de columpios complejos, y su pequeña zona con diferentes animales, junto a otros detalles, son de un interés objetivo.
De acuerdo con todo lo anterior, el lugar también es denominado La isla de las flores.
Mainau is an island in Germany, located on Lake Constance and more precisely in the northwestern part known as Lake Überlingen (Überlinger See). The island is connected by the south with the mainland by means of a bridge.
Mainau is included in the communal territory of the city of Constanza and in fact the best way to get there is through the urban transport of this city, which has a bus line with stop at the access to the island. This is an important tourist destination thanks to its mild climate, thanks to which it shelters a vegetation very rich in species, even subtropical and tropical.
The entrance to the island is made after payment, but its careful vegetation, the millions of flowers that decorate it (as is evident, mainly in the months of spring and summer), its greenhouses of palms and butterflies - in which they fly over freely to visitors and they are of great variety and size - their space with varied types of complex swings, and their small area with different animals, together with other details, are of an objective interest.
In agreement with all the previous thing, the place also is denominated the island of the flowers.
Few interesting facts Google told me....
Where are people moving to Sacramento from?
•Across the nation, 3% of homebuyers searched to move into Sacramento from outside metros. San Francisco homebuyers searched to move into Sacramento more than any other metro followed by Fresno and Houston.
•To date, nearly 14,000 families have moved to the Sacramento area from the San Francisco/Bay area.
Where are people from Sacramento moving to?
•63% of Sacramento homebuyers searched to stay within the Sacramento metropolitan area. Boise was the most popular destination among Sacramento homebuyers followed by Dallas and Portland.
The average cost of a house (4 bedroom/2.5 bath; 1678 s/f) is listing for selling for $530,000 in what is considered one of the “better” neighborhoods (low crime rate and above average school rating). Which puts the monthly payments around $3500 + per month.
I have been saying for years now, If I had to buy a house now, I would never be able to be a homeowner. Living in an apartment is just as outpriced as well. Average 2 bedroom apartment is running about $2200 per month. And our gas prices are just as crazy, averaging $4.50 for regular unleaded.
In Lincoln, CA where this photo was taken is just outside of Sacramento in the adjoining county. The housing market for the same size house is about 50-75K more.
My hope is things will get better.
I just received payment for this photo which I have sold to Scholastic Canada for a children's book about careers. That makes 2 sales in one year. Does this mean I have to turn professional?
8^)
Slovakia, Highland; former historical Hungary /Felvidék.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felvid%c3%a9k
Historic centre of the town with castle and churches
The first written reference to the town dates back to 1328, when it was granted royal town privileges by King Charles I of Hungary (I. Károly Róbert). The town's mint was already in existence at the time of the granting of royal privileges. Starting in 1335 the mint produced golden florins and later the famous "Kremnica (Körmöcbánya) ducats", which were used as an international means of payment as a result of their consistently high purity of gold. It was the most important mint, and later the only one, in the Kingdom of Hungary, in Czechoslovakia and nowadays in Slovakia; the prosperity brought to the town led to it being given the nickname "Golden Kremnica (Körmöcbánya)". Bánya=mine in Hungarian.
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The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting by Caravaggio that depicts the moment Jesus Christ calls on the tax collector Matthew to follow him. It was completed in 1599–1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains. It hangs alongside two other paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (painted around the same time as the Calling) and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
More than a decade earlier, Cardinal Matthieu Cointerel (in Italian, Matteo Contarelli) had left funds and specific instructions in his will for the decoration of a chapel based on themes related to his namesake, Saint Matthew. The dome of the chapel was decorated with frescoes by the late Mannerist artist Giuseppe Cesari, Caravaggio's former employer and one of the most popular painters in Rome at the time. But as Cesari became busy with royal and papal patronage, Cardinal Francesco Del Monte, Caravaggio's patron and also the prefect of the Fabbrica of St Peter's (the Vatican office for Church property), intervened to obtain for Caravaggio his first major church commission and his first painting with more than a handful of figures.
Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew hangs opposite The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. While the Martyrdom was probably the first to be started, the Calling was, by report, the first to be completed.[citation needed] The commission for these two lateral paintings — the Calling and the Martyrdom — is dated July 1599, and final payment was made in July 1600. Between the two, at the altar, is The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
The painting depicts the story from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 9:9): "Jesus saw a man named Matthew at his seat in the custom house, and said to him, "Follow me", and Matthew rose and followed Him." Caravaggio depicts Matthew the tax collector sitting at a table with four other men. Jesus Christ and Saint Peter have entered the room, and Jesus is pointing at Matthew. A beam of light illuminates the faces of the men at the table who are looking at Jesus Christ. This is a depiction of a moment of spiritual awakening and conversion, which was something many Baroque artists were interested in painting, especially Caravaggio.
There is some debate over which man in the picture is Saint Matthew, as the surprised gesture of the bearded man at the table can be read in two ways.
Most writers on the Calling assume Saint Matthew to be the bearded man, and see him to be pointing at himself, as if to ask "Me?" in response to Christ's summons. This theory is strengthened when one takes into consideration the other two works in this series, The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, and The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. The bearded man who models as Saint Matthew appears in all three works, with him unequivocally playing the role of Saint Matthew in both the "Inspiration" and the "Martyrdom".
A more recent interpretation proposes that the bearded man is in fact pointing at the young man at the end of the table, whose head is slumped. In this reading, the bearded man is asking "Him?" in response to Christ's summons, and the painting is depicting the moment immediately before a young Matthew raises his head to see Christ. Other writers describe the painting as deliberately ambiguous.
Some scholars speculate that Jesus is portrayed as the Last Adam or Second Adam as titled in the New Testament. This is displayed in Christ's hand as it reaches out towards Matthew. It is almost a mirrored image of Adam's hand in The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, the namesake of Caravaggio. Twice in the New Testament, an explicit comparison is made between Jesus and Adam. In Romans 5:12–21, Paul argues that "just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19, NIV). In 1 Corinthians 15:22, Paul argues that "as in Adam all die, so in Christ, all will be made alive," while in verse 45 he calls Jesus the "last/ultimate/final Adam".
Greetings Designers,
School Day events are school-themed events.
We are planning to hold an event once every spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons.
This is our 2 round.
Event Theme: school - school uniform- summer- vacation - waterbomb - summer Festival - horror
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― OPEN : 6th jun 2021 (00.00 SLT)
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― PAYMENT : 10th ~20th may
― SET UP : 1th jun ~ 3th jun (00:00 SLT)
― BOOTH SET UP EXTENSION : 3th jun ~ 5th jun (00:00 SLT)
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This was not our check! I repeat "this was not our check" but a letter saying "You can expect your payment by 6/6/08...yada... yada... yada..."! Ahhh well, thank the Lord we can wait for the cash. Damn You IRS, Damn You!
This image made Explore, #144. Thank you friends!
I found this charming Beetle in Ocean Springs, MS. There was a sign in the front saying: Only one more payment". It looked to be a perfect subject for applying the HDR magic.
tall lady is getting ready for the payment at a restaurant counter kolalambur, Malaysia.
image has been taken at kolalambur, Malaysia.
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This shot was taken on a day trip to London last month. The location is Southwark Cathedral near the south bank. Photography is allowed there subject to payment of a £4 fee which I was quite happy to pay.
It was a bright sunny day so in processing I used the 3 bracketed shots at 2EV my camera can take to extend the images with a Photoshop Action by creating a total of 7 images from the RAW files at 1EV to get a wider dynamic range.
The images were taken handheld and I used 800 ISO to avoid camera shake.
Further processing included HDR with Photomatix and extra detail with Topaz. The burn tool was used to bring down the brightness more in the sunlit areas.
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While traversing pastureland we came across this grizzly display: a number of dead moles suspended from barbed wire. We were puzzled to come up with an explanation. My first thought was of shrikes, but unless it was a shrike with a serious case of OCD it couldn't have done such a neat job of it. It had to be a person, then, but even if they were trapping moles, why would they have hung them up? The answer came by way of someone with local knowledge. Farmers pay people to come and trap the moles, which to a certain extent are a nuisance to livestock because of the holes they create, but are more feared because in their churning of the soil they are believed to bring to the surface buried strains of the devastating foot and mouth disease. The trappers then hang up their quarry in a place the farmer will pass as a proof of their work and as a bill requesting payment. Dead moles on the Coast to Coast Walk, North Yorkshire, England.
If you want to look at a medical paper with pictures, then this is your lucky day! Any doctors want to comment on this study?
“All of the abnormal blood samples of injected persons, the 948 cases, showed tubular/fibrous formations and frequently also crystalline and lamellar formations with extremely complex but consistently similar morphologies across all of the patients with abnormal blood samples. Our results are so similar to those of Lee et al. (2022) that it could be claimed that, except for our innovative application of dark-field microscopy to mark the foreign metal-like objects in the blood of mRNA injections from Pfizer or Moderna, we have replicated the blood work of the Korean doctors with a much larger sample. Our findings, however, are bolstered by their parallel analysis of the fluids in vials of the mRNA concoctions alongside centrifuged plasma samples from the cases they studied intensively. What seems plain enough is that metallic particles resembling graphene oxide and possibly other metallic compounds, like those discovered by Gatti and Montanari (Montanari & Gatti, 2016; Gatti & Montanari, 2012, 2017, 2018), have been included in the cocktail of whatever the manufacturers have seen fit to put in the so-called mRNA “vaccines”. In our experience as clinicians, these mRNA injections are very unlike traditional “vaccines” and their manufacturers need, in our opinions, to come clean about what is in the injections and why it is there.”
ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/47/95
Ezekiel 6:12 “The one who lives far away will die by pestilence and the one who is near will die violently. The survivors and their surveillance details will die by famine as I exhaust My rage against them.”
Now here’s a bonus! Isn’t it interesting to watch as the stage is being set to fulfill End Time Bible Prophecy? Don’t forget your biometric digital ID, don’t leave home without it tattooed to your face!
Gates Foundation: $200 million to expand global Digital Public Infrastructure:
“This funding will help expand infrastructure that low- and middle-income countries can use to become more resilient to crises such as food shortages, public health threats, and climate change, as well as to aid in pandemic and economic recovery. This infrastructure encompasses tools such as interoperable payment systems, digital ID, data-sharing systems, and civil registry databases.”
www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases...
Bill Gates: “The world today has 6.8 billion people—that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
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2 Timothy 3:13 “Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
Repent, for the end is near!
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Phil is on a mission for me tomorrow .. if he does well he will get some extra seed as a payment. Actually this is 2013.. not sure if this is Phil.. how do you tell pheasants apart??
In the era of credit cards and NFC payments through mobile phones, there is still nothing classier than paying with cold hard cash.
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In the spring of 1916 casualties among Royal Flying Corps' aircrew began to mount as their aircraft were no match for the Fokker monoplanes used by the Germans. Better fighting machines were desperately needed.
To meet this demand, Captain F S BarnwelI at the Bristol Aeroplane Co. designed a new single-seat monoplane incorporating much of the experience gained from earlier machines including the large low-drag spinner first used experimentally on the Bristol Scout D.
The new aircraft had a sparkling performance and manoeuvrability. It was, in many respects, superior in all-round performance to much later types such as the SE.5 and Sopwith Snipe. It was some 30-50 mph faster than its contemporary Fokker Eindecker and Morane-Saulnier N monoplanes.
Great things were expected of the M1 but a combination of prejudice within the RFC against monoplanes, a dislike for its high landing speed (a giddy 49 mph!) and poor downward view meant it found little favour in the War Office; only 125 were ordered.
33 M.1Cs served in the Middle East and the Balkans in 1917–18, while the rest were used by UK-based training units, where they were popular as personal mounts for senior officers!
One pilot of the M.1Cs that served on the Macedonian Front was Captain Frederick Dudley Travers DFC of No. 150 Sqn RAF, the only ace on this type. Travers switched from the SE.5a, in which he had scored three of his four kills and scored the last five of his victories between 2 and 16 September 1918. Amongst his victims was a Fokker D.VII, widely regarded as the best German fighter of its day.
Twelve were sent to Chile in the second half of 1918 in part-payment for the battleships Almirante Latorre and Almirante Cochrane being built for Chile in Britain but commandeered for the Royal Navy before completion. One of these, flown by Lt Dagoberto Godoy, was flown from Santiago to Mendoza, Argentina and back on 12 December 1918, the first flight across the Andes mountain chain.
A Shuttleworth Collection aircraft, the replica above is seen displayed as C4918 of C Flight, No. 72 Squadron Royal Flying Corp in 1917. The scene is at Old Warden aerodrome during the 2015 Wings and Wheels show. The replica, completed in 1997, is powered by an original 110 hp Le Rhone engine.
This scene shows the motte and bailey in the foreground, with the spire of the church just behind. In the distance on the left of the scene Ingleborough dominates the landscape.
North Craven Historical Research:
"The earliest recorded direct mention of the motte and bailey castle at Burton in Lonsdale was during the early 14th century period in an account rendered to the Exchequer by Robert de Widvilla and Henry de Montfort for expenses ‘de castro de Burtona de Lanesdala’ for payment of a ‘militis’ (knight), 10 ‘servientes’ (sergeants), a ‘janitoris’ (gatekeeper) and a ‘vigil’ (watchman) [1] Also Moorhouse [2] discusses this and gives a review of finds in excavations at the motte in Burton.
Stephens [4] infers from the 1379 Poll Tax that the castle at Burton ceased to function a little before 1379, by observing that Adam and Willhelmus de Burgh were in the Poll Tax returns from Thornton, not Burton. The Norman castle was more of a support base than a stronghold; he further conjectures that whereas there is no archaeology to support that it was formerly an Anglo-Saxon fortified site, it may be worth considering it as one of several in the Lunesdale area that could have been in use as signaling posts by the Romans. Burton was the head manor of the Burton Chase, a roughly circular region centred on Ingleborough that included Whernside, Penyghent, Lawkland and Bentham; Ewcross was the wapentake area that included Burton."