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The workshop aims to highlight the growing importance of the mobile phone as an inevitable tool in the Indian context, for empowering the citizens and enabling socio economic development services with the help of a case study and a brief contextual discussion around the subject.
Day 1
13 May 2013
ITU/ Claudio Montesano Casillas
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Italy - 19 February 2015
Indians in Italy join BJP to contribute the growth and development of India. National Secretary, BJP Kisan Morcha and Prabhari Himachal Pradesh Advocate, Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal said though India and Italy are quiet distant from each other but Italy have made its presence felt in the kitchens of India as every modern day indian cooks pasta and enjoys the dish pretty much and Italy resides in the hearts of modern day Indian. In a meeting with the party workers of Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) and people of Indian origin Grewal firstly thanked everyone for inviting him to this historical country. Grewal said that these two ancient civilizations have known, interacted and traded with each other for over 2000 years. Modern day contacts between the two nations were formed through exchanges between the intellectuals from both sides. Noble Laureate Rabindranath Tagore visited Italy on invitation of Carlo Formichi, a Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Rome. Grewal praised indian community Residing in Italy and said there contribution in the country is huge .Italy is home to second largest community of Indians in Europe after UK. As per the latest Italian official estimates, more than 1, 60000 Indian nationals are resident in Italy. As first generation migrants, majority of them are engaged in economic sectors such as agriculture, dairy farming, leather industry, construction works and in service Industry. In meeting listening to the problems of People Grewal said that he is aware of the problems which NRI's face relating to property disputes in India and other cases and he assured that Bharatiya Janata party operates a NRI wing which deals with such problems faced by NRI's , this wing stays in touch with its members . He further stated that NRI thanas are opened in punjab which has Bharatiya Janata party in power, He urged Indians in Italy and across the world to join Bharatiya Janata party and contribute further in the growth and development of your country. Grewal said that the United Nations also declared June 21 as the World Yoga Day. The decision, taken at the UN General Assembly, is being seen as a proud moment for India. Talking with the media persons after BJP workers meeting here today Grewal stated that our Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi had urged the world community to celebrate Indian yoga at the international level during his visit to the United Nations in September this year. Grewal told here that India received support of 170 nations and United Nations declare June 21 as the World Yoga Day. He stated that in their speech at the UNGA, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi had said, "Let us work towards adopting an International Yoga Day. Yoga is an invaluable gift of our ancient tradition. It is not about exercise but to discover the sense of oneness with yourself, the world and the nature." He told that around 170 nations supported PM Modi's proposal. In November, European Union President Mr. Herman Van Rompuy told Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi that the 28 member EU supported his idea for a Yoga Day at the UN. Grewal said that about four months ago, Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had appealed to the world community that India's yoga should be celebrated as World Yoga Day. Grewal said that I am happy to inform you that India have received support of 170 nations and the United Nations will declare June 21 as the World Yoga Day". Grewal told that Yoga is the 5000 years old Indian physical, mental and spiritual practice that aims to transform body and mind for good health. In this BJP Italy meeting President Satish Kumar Joshi, Cashier Sangeeta Sharma Monte-forte Dal pone , Aman Gupta Vicenza , Surender Kumar Khattar Asand Monte-forte Dal pone , Raj Kumar Vicenza , Balbir Saini San Bonifacio Verona , Sandeep Kumar Talhan Lonigo Vicenza Italy , Rajan Kumar Talhan Lonigo Vicenza , Balwinder Singh Dhillon Kulam Verona , Balvir Singh Verona , Jagtar Singh Sanboni Facio Verona , Ashok Kumar Sanboni Facio Verona , Parvesh Kumar Shukla Sanboni Facio Verona , Jagjit Singh Sanboni Facio Verona , Charanjit Singh Vicenza , Harpal Singh Sanboni Facio Verona , Sanjiv Kumar Vicenza , Sher Singh Dherdu Sanboni Facio Verona , Subash Chand San Bonifacio Verona , Baljit Singh Lonigo , Jatinder Pal Trento , Ranjit Singh Vicenza , Gurmukh Singh Crespadoro Vicenza , Rajinder Singh Crespadoro Vicenza , Raminder Singh Altissimo Vicenza were present
The community participation was impressive. In addition to having made reservoirs and fountains they had dug a six kilometer one meter deep trench leading from where the source was capped to the last of a half dozen fountains.
Three villages had worked together for three months, each village working two days a week. They call this way of working together Salongo. Nearly all the villagers work on communal projects until 11h00, in the afternoon going about their own business. Teachers are excused and should a villager not which to work he can pay an exemption per day of 400 Francs Congolais, about 75 US cents.
Villagers contribute 200 Francs Congolais for the maintenance of the project. We were told that this was the same cost as two bottles of banana beer and therefore was affordable.
I suspect that the participation was particularly successful because of the help of the diocese and the lack of fighting in the village. For the villagers the diocese is credible, it supports the villagers on a variety of issues and has been doing so for years. The lack of damage from war or displacement means that villagers do not have to spend their timer repairing what has been lost and broken and hence have more time to spare for community work.
I had an opportunity to explore the construction site for the future city centre and captured a few interesting perspectives.
My attempt at a quick character head-drawing exercise developed by @Shaun_Bryant (on Twitter). You can find him on You Tube under the channel name Shaun Bryant Art. My theme for this exercise was Fictional Characters' New Year's Resolutions. Basically, he gives you head shapes and you try to quickly draw characters using those shapes.
An influx of traffic due to a technology conference downtown. I had a lot of fun setting up this scene.
Accelerating Climate Action through Philanthropic-Public-Private-Collaboration
Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum; Ray Dalio, Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates, USA; Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, European Commission; Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
Nearly 2,000 people attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the Wyandanch Rising transit-oriented development effort at the Wyandanch LIRR station in Suffolk County.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Salvatore Arena.
Large golfing umbrella featuring the Livingston Development Corporation logo and the slogan 'Make it in Livingston'.
Livingston was one of the ‘new towns’ created after WWII to relieve the need for housing in urban areas. Livingston Development Corporation (LDC) was set up by the New Town (Livingston) (Development Corporation) Order 1962 to create and co-ordinate new industrial activity in West Lothian and to manage the population over-spill from Glasgow by providing new homes and employment. LDC wound up in1997, when its functions were transferred to West Lothian Council.
West Lothian Local Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2008.004.001.
On the 12th of September on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks the Polish Institute of International Affairs organized a seminar under the title 9/11 TEN YEARS ON: Past Experiences and Future Challenges Different Perspectives on Countering Terrorism in the 21st Century.
The event was opened by the director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs Dr. Marcin Zaborowski who spoke about the fundamental changes in security policy following September 11 and the new types of threats that the world is facing today. In the keynote speech delivered by His Excellency Lee Feinstein, Ambassador of the United States to Poland the role of international cooperation in the fight against terrorism was addressed with a stress on the tasks and challenges of the American society in this respect.
Guest speakers Ryszard Machnikowski from the University of Łódź, Marcin Piotrowski Senior Analyst at PISM and Martina Strong Political-Economic Counselor at the United States Embassy in Poland shared their views on the achievements and failures of countering terrorism during the past ten years. Marcin Piotrowski presented the Asian perspective explaining the significant role South-Asia plays in the activity of al-Qaeda. Martina Strong outlined the three dimensions of the American war on terrorism: military, ideological and that of broad international cooperation, pointing also to the lessons of the American experience in the interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Presenting the European perspective on the topic Ryszard Machnikowski emphasized the significance of the global character of the fight against terrorism and the implications of technological development on it.
In the last part of the seminar the floor was opened for the audience. During the several rounds of questions addressed to the guest speakers various issues were touched, for instance the financial aspect of anti-terrorism in the shadow of the global economic crisis, the consequences of the Norwegian terrorist attack for the future of global terrorism and Poland as a potential target of terrorist activities during the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship.
Photo by Jadwiga Winiarska
At Bishop's Mill, on Freeman's Reach where the ice rink used to be in Durham City. This National Savings building is nearly finished and nearby they're putting up the steel skeleton of the new Passport Office (info).
Our career development center — in conjunction with academic advising — help you strategically showcase your skills and stand out from a sea of competitors. We start early by helping you define your goals and make the right major and career choices. Job shadowing, learning to network, practice for interviews, and preparing your resume are all part of the process.
The Exercise ARRCADE TRIDENT team pose for a photo with members of the Special Forces Underwater School who have hosted them at their base in Key West, Florida.
Ex ARRCADE TRIDENT is a Personal Development Training (PDT) diving exercise being held in Key West, Florida, USA, during the period 02-17 May 14. The aim of the exercise is to engage team members in arduous, challenging and demanding sub aqua diving in a variety of sites and environments.
(NATO photo/WO2 Ian Houlding GBR Army)
Sustainable GREEN OLYMPIC VILLAGE in Beijing China _0525
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We'll do it by sharing meaningful ideas,
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Rolling Climate Change Agents share "Pe
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RECIPE TO SAVE THE WORLD
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Start now and share the 3 finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol with those you love and care about. We only have one life-sustaining planet... what are you doing to keep it liveable?
It's really EASY!
Understand that the Sustainability Symbol represents a PERSONAL INTEREST in living a good and prosperous life - a life of balance in 3 dimensions - Society, the Environment and the Economy - or if you like "People, Planet and Profit" ... and share the Sustainability Symbol and its meaning with at least 3 friends..
... that's it! that's all you have to do!
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RECIPE FOR "PEACE PLUS ONE"
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
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1.) Make the "Peace" sign in the old boring way,
2.) add ONE finger,
voila!
3.) Peace, Plus One... the 3 finger Sustainability Salute! Cool!
(Now get someone to take a photo of you, and add it to your online photo account... tell us about it and we'll share the link!)
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BE A CLIMATE CHANGE AGENT
- - - - ---- - - - - -
BECOME A CLIMATE CHANGE AMBASSADOR
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If you would like to learn more, and become a Climate Change Agent (or even be appointed a Climate Change Ambassador for your country!!) check out
or
Leave the train wreck behind, stop thinking with a negative, disaster mentality...- take control of your life, and spread the good news that WE the People will make the new sustainable world happen.
We'll do it by sharing meaningful ideas,
we'll do it by cooperating with each other,
we'll do it by becoming our own leaders and decision-makers,
and following what we know is right for us and for the world.
*************************
WEALTH , WISDOM, WELLNESS
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Participate with the Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce,
and we'll help you get a better job, live healthier and longer,
be respected and admired by everyone around you,
and PROFIT BY BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION, not the problem.
Other sites where you can find information on Climate Change Agents and the history of the Sustainability Symbol:
www.PeacePlusOne.cn (Chinese)
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
Rolling Climate Change Agents share "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol as a message to the world that the Beijing Olympics are GREEN! Go Green Olympics! GO Be
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RECIPE TO SAVE THE WORLD
*************************
Start now and share the 3 finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol with those you love and care about. We only have one life-sustaining planet... what are you doing to keep it liveable?
It's really EASY!
Understand that the Sustainability Symbol represents a PERSONAL INTEREST in living a good and prosperous life - a life of balance in 3 dimensions - Society, the Environment and the Economy - or if you like "People, Planet and Profit" ... and share the Sustainability Symbol and its meaning with at least 3 friends..
... that's it! that's all you have to do!
*************************
RECIPE FOR "PEACE PLUS ONE"
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
*************************
1.) Make the "Peace" sign in the old boring way,
2.) add ONE finger,
voila!
3.) Peace, Plus One... the 3 finger Sustainability Salute! Cool!
(Now get someone to take a photo of you, and add it to your online photo account... tell us about it and we'll share the link!)
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BE A CLIMATE CHANGE AGENT
- - - - ---- - - - - -
BECOME A CLIMATE CHANGE AMBASSADOR
*************************
If you would like to learn more, and become a Climate Change Agent (or even be appointed a Climate Change Ambassador for your country!!) check out
or
Leave the train wreck behind, stop thinking with a negative, disaster mentality...- take control of your life, and spread the good news that WE the People will make the new sustainable world happen.
We'll do it by sharing meaningful ideas,
we'll do it by cooperating with each other,
we'll do it by becoming our own leaders and decision-makers,
and following what we know is right for us and for the world.
*************************
WEALTH , WISDOM, WELLNESS
*************************
Participate with the Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce,
and we'll help you get a better job, live healthier and longer,
be respected and admired by everyone around you,
and PROFIT BY BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION, not the problem.
Other sites where you can find information on Climate Change Agents and the history of the Sustainability Symbol:
www.PeacePlusOne.cn (Chinese)
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
Rolling Climate Change Agents share "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol as a message to the world that the Beijing Olympics are GREEN! Go Green Olympics! GO Beijing, Go China!
*************************
RECIPE TO SAVE THE WORLD
*************************
Start now and share the 3 finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol with those you love and care about. We only have one life-sustaining planet... what are you doing to keep it liveable?
It's really EASY!
Understand that the Sustainability Symbol represents a PERSONAL INTEREST in living a good and prosperous life - a life of balance in 3 dimensions - Society, the Environment and the Economy - or if you like "People, Planet and Profit" ... and share the Sustainability Symbol and its meaning with at least 3 friends..
... that's it! that's all you have to do!
*************************
RECIPE FOR "PEACE PLUS ONE"
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
*************************
1.) Make the "Peace" sign in the old boring way,
2.) add ONE finger,
voila!
3.) Peace, Plus One... the 3 finger Sustainability Salute! Cool!
(Now get someone to take a photo of you, and add it to your online photo account... tell us about it and we'll share the link!)
*************************
BE A CLIMATE CHANGE AGENT
- - - - ---- - - - - -
BECOME A CLIMATE CHANGE AMBASSADOR
*************************
If you would like to learn more, and become a Climate Change Agent (or even be appointed a Climate Change Ambassador for your country!!) check out
or
Leave the train wreck behind, stop thinking with a negative, disaster mentality...- take control of your life, and spread the good news that WE the People will make the new sustainable world happen.
We'll do it by sharing meaningful ideas,
we'll do it by cooperating with each other,
we'll do it by becoming our own leaders and decision-makers,
and following what we know is right for us and for the world.
*************************
WEALTH , WISDOM, WELLNESS
*************************
Participate with the Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce,
and we'll help you get a better job, live healthier and longer,
be respected and admired by everyone around you,
and PROFIT BY BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION, not the problem.
Other sites where you can find information on Climate Change Agents and the history of the Sustainability Symbol:
www.PeacePlusOne.cn (Chinese)
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
Participants from Zimbabwe gather together for a Constitution Strategy Development Meeting with the UNDP Resident Coordinator, Elizabeth Lwanga and the Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Thokozani Khupe. (Photo credit. UNIC Harare, 12 February 2010)
Scaling Social Economy: Engaging Private and Public Sectors
Tim Hanstad, Chief Executive Officer, Chandler Foundation, USA ; Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, UNCTAD New York Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), USA ; Precious Moloi-Motsepe, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Motsepe Foundation, South Africa ; Marcos Neto, Director, Finance Sector Hub, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York ; Alexandra van der Ploeg, Senior Vice-President, Corporate Social Responsibility, SAP, Germany ; Dan Viederman, Managing Director, Working Capital Innovation Fund, USA ; François Bonnici, Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; Head, Social Innovation, World Economic Forum ; Hilde Schwab, Chairperson and Co-Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; Cultural Leader
Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete at the 2014 Frontiers in Development Forum at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., on September 19, 2014. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Livingston Development Corporation (LDC) compliments slip, showing their logo and slogan "Make it in Livingston" .
Livingston was one of the ‘new towns’ created after WWII to relieve the need for housing in urban areas. Livingston Development Corporation (LDC) was set up by the New Town (Livingston) (Development Corporation) Order 1962 to create and co-ordinate new industrial activity in West Lothian and to manage the population over-spill from Glasgow by providing new homes and employment. LDC wound up in1997, when its functions were transferred to West Lothian Council.
West Lothian Local Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2008.004.011.
Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde speaks with Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati the Development Committee meeting at the 2017 World Bank-IMF Spring Meeting in Washington on April 22, 2017.
IMF economists Tao Sun and Parma Bains participate in a Capacity Development Talk moderated by Eva-Maria Graf titled Digital Money: Building Capacity for a Virtuous Circle at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
11 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: CH220411018.arw
Ocean 20: A New Sustainable Growth Agenda for G20
Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum; Monica Medina, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental, Scientific Affairs, US Department of State, USA; Cherie Nursalim, Vice-Chairman, Giti Group, People's Republic of China; Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Earth Fund, USA. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September 2022
The temple, or Roman sanctuary, above Terracina dates back to the fourth century BC, though much of the development belongs to the first and second centuries BC. The complex is large and spectacularly-situated, dominating the shoreline and sea. The sanctuary has long been assumed to have been dedicated to Jupiter, although Venus has been another suggestion.
Monte Sant'Angelo, 227m high, is the end of the Monti Ausoni mountain range. Descending straight to the sea, the mountain blocked the path of the Appian Way (Via Appia), which veered north of the summit until Trajan had the rock face cut to clear a route at sea level. This commanding position on a major communications route and above a port gave the site obvious significance, and the religious complex was designed on a large scale, to incorporate a military base.
The large complex consisted of several buildings constructed over several centuries. The principal temple would have dominated the skyline, sitting on a large platform above the arcaded substructure and accessed up twelve steps. Behind this building a colonnaded portico ran along the cliffs. At a short distance a smaller temple had its own levelled rocky base, while other features included an 'oracle's cave', cisterns and military headquarters. A huge wall with nine towers protects the headland.
The most impressive remains are those of the vaulting at the base of the main temple area. A sequence of eleven arches provide a panoramic and striking cloister facing the sea, while on the landward side, the passage opens onto a 60m-long vaulted hall.
Il tempio di Giove Anxur è un tempio romano costruito su un'imponente costruzione del I secolo a.C. sul monte Sant'Angelo, sopra la città di Terracina (LT).
Il monte Sant'Angelo, noto anche come monte Giove (per i Romani mons Neptunius, 227 m s.l.m.) costituisce l'ultima propaggine dei Monti Ausoni, che giunge fino al Mar Tirreno, chiudendo a sud la pianura pontina.
Sulle sue pendici meridionali era sorto il centro ausonio di Tarracina, poi volsco con il nome di Anxur e conquistato definitivamente dai Romani alla fine del V secolo. Nel 329 a.C. la città divenne colonia romana e nel 312 a.C. il monte fu aggirato alle spalle dal tracciato della nuova via Appia, tra Roma e Capua. A quest'epoca risalgono i primi terrazzamenti in opera poligonale, per l'erezione di un primo santuario, probabilmente legato al culto oracolare e forse non comprendente un tempio.
Alla seconda metà del II secolo a.C. si deve un rifacimento con una serie di ambienti addossatti alla roccia a monte (cosiddetto "piccolo tempio").
La facciata della grande sostruzione a terrazzaIn epoca sillana, agli inizi del I secolo a.C. si data infine una monumentale ricostruzione, con una cinta muraria e un campo militare per il controllo del passaggio della via Appia e il nuovo grande tempio, edificato su una scenografica terrazza di fondazione in opera incerta, con portico retrostante.
Dopo l'epoca romana il santuario fu distrutto e incendiato e i resti furono noti in epoca medioevale con il nome di "Palazzo di Teodorico". Nell'alto Medioevo nella zona del cosiddetto "piccolo tempio" si insediò un monastero dedicato a San Michele Arcangelo, dal quale l'intero colle prese il nome attuale. In particolare un corridoio interno di sostruzione fu trasformato in chiesa, con affreschi del IX secolo. Altre strutture medioevali (resti di una torre quadrata e di mura di recinzione e tracce di frequentazione del XIII secolo) testimoniano la continuazione dell'uso militare della sommità del colle.
Fonte : Wikipedia
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This road has been closed for a couple of years....
see www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/la/qala.nsf/18101dc36b6383...
4015—MOUNT COMBOYNE TRIG POINT AND LOOKOUT
Mr John Turner to the Minister for Education and Training, and Minister for Women representing the Minister for Primary Industries, Minister for Energy, Minister for Mineral Resources, and Minister for State Development—
Is access to the trig point and lookout of Mount Comboyne open to the public?
If not, why not?
If not, how long has the trig point and lookout been closed to tourists and the general public?
If not, is the lack of access advertised by way of a road sign or on the State Forest's website to inform the general public?
If not, why not?
Is the Minister aware visitors from Sydney and Melbourne recently travelled to the trig point lookout of Mount Comboyne but access was denied because of locked gates across the road?
When will the gates be reopened to tourists and the general public?
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No.
While the area was used by many bone-fide four-wheel drive enthusiasts and other recreational users, it was also victim to excessive vandalism and misuse. This rendered the fire lookout tower, which is a strategic tool in fire management of the region's State forests, unsafe for use. Additional vandalism had occurred to the Forests NSW radio repeater, which is used to service the whole of the region and is an important tool for the safety of staff. To preserve the safety of the tower operators and other staff, the gate was locked and access permitted to walking traffic only.
Comboyne Trig Road and Trig Point have been closed for approximately 1 month coinciding with the restoration of the fire tower and the upgrade of the road. The restoration of the fire tower and Comboyne Trig Road cost in excess of $10,000.
A sign was erected in the area approximately two years ago advising of the intention to lock the gate.
See above.
No.
Gates will not be open to casual tourists due to safety risks to visitors, and due to excessive vandalism to the fire lookout tower and the radio repeater. A number of other vantage points are available in the region, including North Brother Lookout (picnic and toilet facilities available), Bago Bluff Lookout (Pine Hut Road, Bago NP), Rawson Lookout (Borganna NP), Newbys Lookout and Flat Rock Lookout (Coorabakh NP). These all provide views of Camden Haven and surrounds.
www.exploroz.com/interact/UHFRepeaters.asp?State=NSW&...
Check this trig too! From www.westprint.com.au 14/12/18
Friday Forum
Townsend Corner
Townsend Corner is the junction of the Murray River with the Black-Allan Line at the eastern end of the Victorian – New South Wales border. I hadn’t heard of this before and so I have done some research. Jo.
This Information came from a paper written by Nadia Albert on behalf of the Office of the Surveyor General of Victoria.
Prior to the 1870s, some survey work had been done in the area of the Black Allan
line, most notably that of Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (1812-1869) under the leadership of NSW Surveyor General Major Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell.
Townsend led his party of ‘free-men’ (ex-convicts) and bullocks under difficult conditions, ‘days being generally excessively hot, the nights severely cold.’ To ascertain what he believed to be the nearest source of the Murray to Cape Howe, Townsend surveyed the Great Dividing Range. This was not an easy task given the ‘large number of springs and rugged, densely timbered terrain,’ and it required that ‘every water channel and every minutest bend of the range [be investigated] so as to leave no doubt as to the particular source sought for.’
From this Townsend made a reduced plan to indicate the straight line to Cape Howe. At the expedition’s end, Townsend’s equipment was in a ‘mutilated state:’ his men and bullocks were not much healthier.
In 1866 the Victorian Parliament deemed Townsend’s marking of Cape Howe insufficient, and so in 1869, a conference was held to geodetically survey the twenty kilometres of Cape Howe, and to decide the exact position of the boundary end-point.
It is believed that this survey was never completed or maybe never undertaken.
The Age Nov 24, 2004.
With its restoration of a historic survey cairn near the source of the Murray River complete, a team of 16 surveyors has ended 153 years of unfinished business between Victoria and NSW.
The team, from the Victorian Surveyor General's office, RMIT's geospatial science unit and volunteers from the Institution of Surveyors finished restoring the 134-year-old monument.
The team's work paves the way for a formal recognition of the straight-line part of the border. A draft proclamation was begun in 1874 but never invoked.
The land boundary, as distinct from the Murray River boundary, was agreed to before the colonies separated in 1851.
The border begins at the official source of the Murray - a two-metre-wide patch of wet ground - on the north-west slope of Forest Hill, near Mount Kosciuszko. It then drops east-south-east for 155 kilometres in a straight line to Cape Howe.
RMIT lecturer and survey team member Ron Grenfell said there had been intense rivalry between the two colonies from the start and NSW usually triumphed.
Before they had even split, the southern colony had already lost the rich farm country of the Riverina and rights to tax the lucrative Murray River trade.
The original border was to have been the Murrumbidgee River, which would have ceded to the southern colony a large tract of land, almost as far north as Canberra.
"Victoria would have been huge," Dr Grenfell said.
The discovery of gold at Delegate, and the question of which colony it lay in, prompted the first survey of the line from the Murray to Cape Howe nearly 20 years after the colonies had split. Surveyors Alexander Black and Alexander Allan forced their way through some of Australia's most rugged terrain to finish the two-year survey in 1872.
Black, a Victorian, laid the marker stone so that it faced Victoria. The straight segment of border was named the Black-Allan Line in their honour.
Even though it owns Delegate, not everything has gone NSW's way. When Dr Grenfell and a team of RMIT students surveyed part of the Black-Allan Line in 1984, they discovered an error that meant NSW had for decades been repairing a Victorian stretch of the Princes Highway just north of Genoa.
It was only a 14-metre stretch but, after the loss of the Riverina, the Murray watercourse and the gold at Delegate, it was, for Victoria, a symbolic victory.
And from the Bombala Times Feb 21, 2006.
AFTER a wait of more than 130 years, the eastern straight-line portion of the NSW and Victorian border was formally recognised last Thursday, February 16.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Victorian Premier, Bruce Mildenhall completed a dedication to Townsend Corner, which was named after early explorer, Thomas Scott Townsend who found the source of the Murray River nearest to Cape Howe.
Officially naming Indi Springs of the upper reaches of the Murray, NSW Minister for Lands, Tony Kelly then explained the Aboriginal origins of the title, with 'Indi' meaning ‘something far away, or belonging to the past'.
Below is a photo of the post at the Eastern end of the Black Allen Line (you refer to it as Townsends Corner) and the stone cairn on the first peak about a kilometre East of that point. The trail of stones marks the direction of the border line. This cairn was rebuilt about 7 years ago. Peter.
Plan has been running a project since 2005 to help children who are living on railway tracks. Research revealed that 700 children live on railway stations, including runaway kids. Children sleep on the roofs of the railway tracks or in hide outs alongside the railway tracks. Once they grow older, they disappear into trafficking and prostitution.
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The Compass Point development around Saunders Ness Road and taking in Mariners Mews and Sextant Avenue was built in the mid-80s forming a quiet, neat upmarket estate on the Isle of Dogs.
As part of the development, two tall blocks of flats are abutted by full height cylindrical towers, framing and echoing the view of silos across the Thames and acting as a small reminder of the estate's industrial past.
Architect Sir Jeremy Dixon's Georgian-inspired designs were built on Dudgeon's Wharf, reclaimed after the closure of the docks.
At the end of Sextant Avenue, a memorial remembers the old Wharf - not for its years of hard labour in the service of heavy industry - but for a reason more poignant and tragic.
Forty years ago the world was looking skywards for news of Nasa's audicious mission to take Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins to the moon.
On July 17, a day after Apollo 11 shot into the skies atop a cone of fire, another explosion took the lives of five fireman, the biggest loss of life suffered by the London Fire Brigade in peace time.
Dudgeon's was a ship building firm in the 1800s and was one of a cluster that prospered on the island - including names such as Ash, Stewart's and Samuda's. At its height, in the early 1860s, it is estimated that the firms on the Isle of Dogs employed up to 15,000 men and boys in the shipyards and engineering firms.
The most iconic of the ships built at these docks was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1858.
But the Great Eastern was a last hurrah for ship building on the Thames. The rivers of the North were more efficient and labour and materials were cheaper and in double-quick time large firms of the Thames went bankrupt and tens of thousands were out of a job.
People starved, shipyards became wastelands and revival would take many long painful years.
Some shipbuilding survived by specialising - Yarrow built steam-powered gunboats while other firms turned to ship repair. Shipbuilding skills evolved. Workers produced a diverse range of goods including parts for major civil engineering projects - bridges and gas holders - as well as boilers, engine parts, tanks, propellers and wire rope. Other skills were cannabilised into new industries - sacks and tarpaulins, woodworking and paint, varnishes and chemicals.
Industry survived one way and another for another 100 years of so until the docks and their associated works began disappearing in the 1960s.
The arrival of containers - which London couldn't handle - in the late 60s finally rendered the docklands obsolete.
By the time of the 1969 tragedy, the wharf was a redundant "tank farm" with an array of a hundred or so containers for storing oils and spirit, some up to 200,000 gallons in size. However, these tanks were destined to go as part of the regeneration of the land and demolition contractors had received advice on how to take apart these structures safely.
The demolition was rife with danger and difficulties and firefighters had frequently attended the site after sparks from cutting gear ignited small fires.
Less than two weeks before the fatal explosion, 40 men with eight pumps had tackled a fire on waste oil in a derelict tank and now another call arrived at Millwall Fire Station at 11.21am alerting the emergency services to another fire.
Two appliances were sent from Millwall in F Division and another from Brunswick Road. A foam tender from East Ham was sent later along with a fireboat from Greenwich.
Station Officer Innard, believing the fire to be out when he arrived, decided to put a curtain of water into the open top manhole of Tank 97.
Four other officers joined him on top of the tank to feed in the water. Later reports concluded that this pull of water drew air into the tank, mixing with the flammable vapours.
SO Innard then decided to ensure there was no further fire by opening the bottom manhole. Unable to find a spanner to undo the nuts, it was suggested they should be burned off.
As soon as a workman applied the cutting flame of his torch to the first nut, the vapours inside the tank ignited immediately, blowing the roof off the tank, together with the five firefighters and a work man.
The explosion happened at 11.52. Three appliances were sent from Bethnal Green and Bow. Their role was to collect the bodies.
Remembering the tragedy on a brigade forum, one ex-firefighter wrote: "I had been in the job for seven years when this happened and it really shook us. As you say 'Never forgotten' especially from us guys who could have been involved. Rest easy, mates."
THE VICTIMS
- Temporary Sub Officer Michael Gamble of F23 Millwall, 28, married, 10 years in the brigade.
- Fireman John Victor Appleby of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 23, married, three children, almost five years' service.
- Fireman Terrance Breen of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 37, married with three children, 12 years' service.
- Fireman Paul Carvosso of C25 Cannon Street, aged 23, married, one child, four years' service.
- Fireman Alfred Charles Smee of F23 Millwall, aged 47, one son, 24 years' service.