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Clock and jeweler historian Paul Middents gave a half-hour talk discussing the history of street clocks in Seattle and Bremerton, and focusing on the life and career of Joseph Mayer. Mayer manufactured perhaps 100 street clocks in addition to manufacturing spoons, urns, trophies, medals, streetcar tokens and other items.
The audience at the Kitsap County Historical Society was comprised of street clock fans and experts from around the country.
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LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines (June 28, 2016) Lt. Rebekah Kopesky, a native of Appleton, Wisconsin, gives a glove balloon to a child during a subject matter expert exchange at Ziga Memorial Hospital in support of Pacific Partnership 2016. During the exchange, U.S. and Filipino medical personnel discussed best health practices and patient care techniques. Pacific Partnership is visiting the Philippines for the seventh time since its first mission in 2006. Throughout the mission, partner nations will work side-by-side with local military and non-government organizations to conduct cooperative health engagements, community relation events and subject matter expert exchanges to better prepare for natural disaster or crisis (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Brittney Vella/Released)
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Experts are questioning the validity of this recently discovered picture purportedly to be a previous unknown portrait of Billy the Kid (left in top hat). Perhaps it's because Billy is playing cards with Burt Reynolds and Kermit the Frog. I wonder what gave it away?
Infantrymen with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team complete a 12-mile foot march in less than three hours during the final stage of Expert Infantryman Badge testing, June 13, 2013, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Forty-two candidates, each carrying up to 70 pounds of gear, completed the forced march to earn the coveted badge. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Mary S. Katzenberger)
An F-35 from VFA-97, callsign EXPERT 11, taking off from Luke for the Super Bowl flyover. This was the first all-female flyover in US Navy history.
Robert Graves of the U.S. Geological Survey, left, and W. Richard Laton, CSUF associate professor of geological sciences, sat side by side on the panel during the symposium about the "Impact of Oil Extraction in North Orange County." The Sept. 23 event held at Cal State Fullerton was geared to provide community and campus members with information on the topic.
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Sa Pa (About this sound listen), or Sapa, is a frontier township and capital of Sa Pa District in Lào Cai Province in northwest Vietnam. It is one of the main market towns in the area, where several ethnic minority groups such as Hmong, Dao (Yao), Giáy, Pho Lu, and Tay live.
HISTORY
Sa Pa is a frontier township and capital of Sa Pa District in Lào Cai Province in northwest Vietnam. It was first inhabited by people we know nothing about. They left in the entire valley hundreds of petroglyphs, mostly composed of lines, which experts think date from the 15th century and represent local cadastres. Then came the highland minorities of the Hmong and Yao. The township is one of the main market ones in the area, where several ethnic minority groups such as Hmong, Dao (Yao), Giáy, Pho Lu, and Tay live. groups, as well as by smaller numbers of Tày and Giay. These are the four main minority groups still present in Sa Pa district today. The Kinh (lowland Vietnamese) never originally colonised this highest of Việt Nam’s valleys, which lies in the shadow of Phan-Xi-Pǎng (Fansipan, 3143 m), the highest peak in the country
It was only when the French debarked in highland Tonkin in the late 1880s that Sa Pa, name of the Hmong hamlet, with "S" is pronounced almost as hard as "Ch" in French, "Sh" in English, "S" in standard Vietnamese, so Chapa as the French called it, began to appear on the national map. Near to the now Sa Pa townlet is "Sa Pả commune", which shows the origin in Hmong language of the location name.[a]
In the following decade, the future site of Sa Pa township started to see military parties as well as missionaries from the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP) visit. The French military marched from the Red River Delta into the northern mountainous regions as part of Tonkin's ‘pacification’. In 1894-96 the border between China and Tonkin was formally agreed upon and the Sa Pa area, just to the south of this frontier, was placed under French authority. From 1891 the entire Lào Cai region, including Sa Pa, came under direct colonial military administration so as to curtail banditry and political resistance on the sensitive northern frontier.
The first permanent French civilian resident arrived in Sa Pa in 1909. With its attractive continental climate, health authorities believed the site had potential. By 1912 a military sanatorium for ailing officers had been erected along with a fully fledged military garrison. Then, from the 1920s onwards, several wealthy professionals with enough financial capital also had a number of private villas built in the vicinity.
At the end of the Second World War a long period of hostilities began in Tonkin that was to last until 1954. In the process, nearly all of the 200 or so colonial buildings in or around Sa Pa were destroyed, either by Việt Minh sympathisers in the late 1940s, or, in the early 1950s by French air raids. The vast majority of the Viet population fled for their lives, and the former township entered a prolonged sleep.
In the early 1960s, thanks to the New Economic Zones migration scheme set up by the new Socialist regime, new inhabitants from the lowlands started to migrate to the region.
The short 1979 occupation of the northern border region by Chinese troops had little impact on Sa Pa town, but did force the Kinh (lowland Vietnamese) population out for a month.
In 1993 the last obstacle to Sa Pa's full rebirth as a prominent holiday destination was lifted as the decision was made to open the door fully to international tourism. Sa Pa was back on the tourist trail again, this time for a newly emerging local elite tourist crowd, as well as international tourists.
Sapa is now in full economic boom, mainly from the thousands of tourists who come every year to walk the hundreds of miles of trekking trails between and around the villages of Dao villages of Ta Van and Ta Phin.
In 2006, the Chairman of The People's Committee of Sapa Province was elected to The Communist Party Central Committee as the youngest ever member (born in 1973).
GEOGRAPHY
Sa Pa District is located in Lào Cai Province, north-west Vietnam, and 380 km north-west of Hanoi, close to the border with China. The Hoàng Liên Son range of mountains dominates the district, which is at the eastern extremity of the Himalayas. This range includes Vietnam's highest mountain, Fan Si Pan, at a height of 3143 m above sea level. The town of Sa Pa lies at an altitude of about 1500 meters above sea level. The climate is moderate and rainy in summer (May-August), and foggy and cold with occasional snowfalls in winter.
Sa Pa is a quiet mountain town and home to a great diversity of ethnic minority peoples. The total population of 36,000 consists mostly of minority groups. Besides the Kinh (Viet) people (15%) there are mainly 5 ethnic groups in Sapa: Hmong 52%, Dao 25%, Tay 5%, Giay 2% and a small number of Xa Pho. Approximately 7,000 live in Sapa, the other 36,000 being scattered in small communes throughout the district.
Most of the ethnic minority people work their land on sloping terraces since the vast majority of the land is mountainous. Their staple foods are rice and corn. Rice, by its very nature of being a labour-intensive crop, makes the daily fight for survival paramount. The unique climate in Sapa has a major influence on the ethnic minorities who live in the area. With sub-tropical summers, temperate winters and 160 days of mist annually, the influence on agricultural yields and health related issues is significant.
The geographical location of the area makes it a truly unique place for many interesting plants and animals, allowing it to support many inhabitants. Many very rare or even endemic species have been recorded in the region.
The scenery of the Sa Pa region in large part reflects the relationship between the minority people and nature. This is seen especially in the paddy fields carpeting the rolling lower slopes of the Hoàng Liên Mountains. The impressive physical landscape which underlies this has resulted from the work of the elements over thousands of years, wearing away the underlying rock. On a clear day, the imposing peak of Fan Si Pan comes into view. The last major peak in the Himalayan chain, Fan Si Pan offers a real challenge to even the keenest walker, the opportunity of staggering views, and a rare glimpse of some of the last remaining primary rain forest in Vietnam.
Geology, climate and human activity have combined to produce a range of very distinct habitats around Sa Pa. Especially important is Sa Pa's geographic position, at the convergence of the world's 14 “biomes” (distinct biographic areas), producing an assemblage of plant and animal species unique in the world.
In 2014, Sapa ranked #9 in the top 10 rice terrace destinations of the world by SpotCoolStuff
ECOLOGICAL LIFE
The Hoàng Liên Mountains are home to a rich variety of plants, birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and insects, many only found in northwestern Vietnam. For this reason, the Hoàng Liên Nature Reserve was made a National Park in 2006, and covers much of the mountain range to the immediate south of Sa Pa.
Forest type and quality change with increasing altitude. At 2000 meters the natural, undisturbed forest begins to be seen. Above 2500 meters dwarf conifers and rhododendrons predominate in the harsh “elfin forest”, so called because a lack of topsoil and nutrients means that fully mature trees grow to measure only a few meters in height. Higher still, only the hardiest of plant species are found. At over 3000 meters, Fan Si Pan's summit can only support dwarf bamboo.
TOPOGRAPHY
The Hoang Lien Mountains lie at the southeastern extent of the Himalayan chain. The national park is located on the northeast flank of these mountains and includes Vietnam's highest peak, Fansipan, at 3,143 m. The lowest point is 380 m but most of the national park lies above 1,000 m. The flanks of the mountains are very steep and many areas are almost inaccessible on foot. Between Fansipan Mountain and Sa Pa town, lies the Muong Hoa valley, which has been terraced for wet rice agriculture. This valley becomes wider towards the east of the national park.
CLIMATE
The climate of Hoàng Liên National Park is unique to Vietnam. It is highly seasonal, with a subtropical climate in the summer and a temperate climate during the winter. Under the Köppen climate classification, Sa Pa has a subtropical highland climate (Cwb). Mean annual temperature for Sa Pa town is 15.4 °C, with a maximum of 29.4 °C and a minimum of 1.0 °C. The warmest months are July and August, and the coldest months are December and January. Snow falls in some years on the highest peaks. It has snown in the town itself in 1983, 2000, 16 March 2011, 15 December 2013, and 19 February 2014.
In common with the rest of northern Vietnam, Hoàng Liên National Park experiences a marked wet season from May to September, with the heaviest rainfall occurring in July and August. Mean annual rainfall is 2,763 millimetres, with a high of 4,023 millimetres and a low of 2,064 millimetres. Humidity ranges from 75 to 91 percent with a yearly mean of 86 percent.
Climate varies considerably within the national park. The prevalent wind direction for most of the year is west to east, leading to cloud formation on the upper slopes of the Fansipan massif. These high-altitude areas are covered by cloud most days of the year and have very high humidity. Cloud also penetrates into the valleys but these areas are usually less humid than the mountain slopes. In the extreme east of the national park, around Ban Ho village, mean temperatures are considerably higher due to the lower altitude of these areas.
Extreme temperatures have ranged from −6.1 °C to 33 °C.
GEOLOGY
The geology of Hoàng Liên National Park includes metamorphosed sediments and a granitic intrusion. The metamorphosed sediments strike from northwest to southeast along the Muong Hoa valley. On the northeastern side of the valley is a craggy ridge of marble and metamorphosed carbonate rocks that exhibit a karst style of weathering. These formations are currently being quarried for road building. The valley floor is characterised by schist and, to a lesser extent, gneiss. The granitic intrusion extends from the Muong Hoa River to the summit ridge of Fansipan and beyond. Due to the high humidity and rainfall in the area, chemical weathering is prevalent. This is reflected in the clay nature of the soil.
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Before the 1990s, the town's economy was mainly based on small size agriculture.
Tourist arrival between 1995 and 2003 grew from a total of 4,860 to 138,622. On average, 79% of the visitors are Vietnamese and 21% are foreigners.
The people of the Sa Pa area have been very poor even by Vietnam's rural standards. Efforts to improve the situation for the local people include both governmental and non-governmental initiatives. The government of Vietnam and foreign governments have contributed to local development programs. International non-governmental organizations such as Oxfam have also been involved in Sa Pa. Locally, the Hmong-run social enterprise, Sapa O'Chau, organizes volunteer placements, such as English teaching, and visiting through trekking and homestays at local villages for short or long-term periods. Vocational training by the Hoa Sua School also aims to increases skills and earnings potential for local residents.
HYDROLOGY
Hoàng Liên National Park is drained by the Muong Hoa and Ta Trung Ho rivers, which feed the Nam Po River and, finally, the Song Hong (Red) river. The forest has an essential role in water catchment protection, particularly the forest at high altitudes, which is frequently covered in cloud. Water condenses on the vegetation and falls as ‘occult’ precipitation. Occult precipitation makes a major contribution to stream-flow during the dry season when rainfall is low.
VEGETATION
The forest of Hoàng Liên National Park can be classified as belonging to 3 types: sub-montane dry evergreen forest, tropical montane deciduous forest and sub-alpine forest. The sub-montane dry evergreen forest, which occurs at lower altitudes, has been the most heavily disturbed by the activities of man.
In addition to the forest habitats, the national park contains large areas of agricultural land, scrub land and Savannah. Agriculture is concentrated at altitudes below 1,500m, in the bottom of valleys. Scrub land and Savannah areas are found where forest has been cleared: around the edge of cultivated areas and on ridge tops, which have been subjected to burning. A final vegetation type represented at Hoàng Liên National Park is dwarf bamboo. This habitat is confined to the highest ridges of the Fansipan massif, at altitudes above 2,800 m.
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Cheeky and lovable Jackie Chan (1954) is an actor, former stuntman, singer and Kung Fu expert from Hong Kong. He is best known for the 'comic Kung Fu film', which he more or less invented. He always performs the acrobatic stunts himself. Chan also directs, writes and produces many of his films himself. He also released several Chinese records as a singer. Worldwide, he has millions of fans and is considered the most successful Chinese actor of all time.
Jackie Chan was born as Fang Shilong (Cantonese: Fôong Sie-Long) 房仕龍 in 1954 on Hong Kong's famous Victoria Peak. He later took the name Chen Jiangsheng (Cantonese: Chan Kwôong-Saang) 陳港生. His parents were Charles and Lee-Lee Chanand both worked for the French embassy in Hong Kong. In the early 1960s, the family immigrated to Canberra, Australia. The young Jackie was bad at school, so his father sent him back to Hong Kong to attend the rigorous China Drama Academy, one of the Peking Opera schools. Chan excelled at acrobatics, singing and martial arts. Jackie eventually became a member of the Seven Little Fortunes performing troupe and began lifelong friendships with fellow martial artists/actors Sammo Kam-Bo Hung and Biao Yuen. Chan journeyed back and forth to visit his parents and work in Canberra, but eventually he made his way back to Hong Kong as his permanent home. Chan started singing in the 1970s. He is a well-known singer, especially in Asia. He studied at the Chinese Academy of Dramatic Arts from 1971 to 1973. While still a student, he started working as a stuntman for major film studios such as Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. Interestingly, he appeared in minor roles in two films starring Bruce Lee: Jing wu men / Fist of Fury (Wei Lo, 1972) and the Warner Bros. production Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973). Not long after Lee's untimely death, Chan was often cast in low-budget martial arts films that were churned out at a rapid-fire pace by Hong Kong studios eager to satisfy the early 1970s boom in martial-arts cinema. His films cashed in on the success of Bruce Lee by utilising words like "fist", "fury" or "dragon" in their US release titles. In 1976, he starred in Shao Lin mu ren xiang / Shaolin Wooden Men (Chi-Hwa Chen, 1976). He scored a breakthrough with the action comedy Jui kuen / Drunken Master (Yuen Woo-Ping, 1978), which has become a cult favourite among martial arts film fans. In this film, he played the historical figure Wong Fei Hung. Drunken Master was a huge success, but also received a lot of criticism: viewers felt that Chan ridiculed the legendary Wong Fei Hung by portraying him as an alcoholic in the film. Drunken Master is a mixture of Kung Fu and slapstick, in which Wong Fei Hung invents a technique that allows him to fight while drunk. Not too long after this, Chan made his directorial debut with Shi di chu ma / The Young Master (Jackie Chan, 1980).
Jackie Chan's popularity soared. Enter the Dragon producer Robert Clouse lured Jackie to the United States for a film planned to break Jackie into the US market. The low-budget action film Battlecreek Brawl (Robert Clouse, 1980) featured Jackie competing in a 'toughest Street fighter' contest set in 1940s Texas. Jackie was unhappy with the result, and the film failed to fire with US audiences. In a further attempt to get his name known in the United States, Jackie was cast alongside Burt Reynolds, Sir Roger Moore and Dean Martin in the car chase film The Cannonball Run (Hal Needham, 1981). Regrettably, Jackie was cast as a Japanese race driver, and his martial arts skills are only shown in one small sequence near the film's conclusion. Undeterred, he returned to East Asia and directed, produced and starred in 'A' gai wak / Project A (Jackie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, 1983), loaded with amazing stunt work. It became the most successful Hong Kong film that year. It was the official formation of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team and established Chan's signature style of elaborate, dangerous stunts combined with martial arts and slapstick humour. Chan paired again with the dynamic Sammo Kam-Bo Hung to star in Qi mou miao ji: Wu fu xing / Winners & Sinners (Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, 1983), Fai caan che / Wheels on Meals (Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, 1984), Fuk sing go jiu / My Lucky Stars (Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, 1985) aka Winners & Sinners 2, and Xia ri fu xing / Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars (Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, 1985) aka Winners & Sinners 3. Chan then journeyed back to the United States for another shot at that market, starring alongside Danny Aiello in The Protector (James Glickenhaus, 1985), filmed in Hong Kong and New York. However, Jackie felt American directors failed to understand his audience appeal, and the film received lukewarm reviews and box-office receipts. Back in Hong Kong, he made Ging chaat goo si / Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985), filled with large-scale action sequences. The elaborate, dangerous stunts performed by Chan and his stunt team, including car chases, Chan hanging off a speeding bus, parkour-like acrobatics, and a shopping mall fight with shattering glass panes, leading up to Chan sliding down a pole with exploding electric lights as he falls to the ground. The following year, he broke his own record with Armour of God (Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang, 1986), influenced by Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). During filming, Jackie mistimed a leap from a wall to a tree on location in Yugoslavia and fell quite a few feet onto his head, causing a skull fracture. Armour of God was the most successful Hong Kong film of that year.
In the years that followed, Jackie Chan founded his own production company, which allowed him to produce his own films independently of the major film studios. Between 1985 and 1993, Chan made more than 40 films, many of which starred Chinese comedian Sammo Hung. For a long time, Chan's work was considered pulp by critics, and Chan wanted to be taken seriously as an actor. He made Pinyin / Miracles (Jackie Chan, 1989), a historical drama in which Chan himself also starred. The film was both a critical and commercial success and is Chan's only film that is not a Kung Fu film. In 1993, Chan embarked on his second attempt at a Hollywood career, this time with more success: Hung fan kui / Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong, 1995) successfully blended humour and action and brought Chan into the North American mainstream. Chan made his definitive breakthrough with the big-budget action comedy Rush Hour (Brett Ratner, 1998), starring alongside fast-talking comedian Chris Tucker. The film was a bigger hit than Rumble in the Bronx and firmly established Jackie as a bona fide star in the United States. Jackie then paired up with rising talent Owen Wilson to star in Shanghai Noon (Tom Dey, 2000) and its sequel, Shanghai Knights (David Dobkin, 2003). He re-teamed with Tucker in Rush Hour 2 (Brett Ratner, 2001), as well as starring in The Tuxedo (Kevin Donovan, 2002), The Medallion (Gordon Chan, 2003) and as Passepartout in the delightful Around the World in 80 Days (Frank Coraci, 2004), with Steve Coogan as Phileas Fogg. Not one to forget his loyal fanbase, Jackie returned to more gritty and traditional fare with San ging chaat goo si / New Police Story (Benny Chan, 2004) and San wa / The Myth (Stanley Tong, 2005). The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff, 2008) marked his first collaboration with fellow martial arts star Jet Li. He played martial arts mentor Mr. Han in two Karate Kid films, the remake The Karate Kid (Harald Zwart, 2010) and Karate Kid: Legends (Jonathan Entwistle, 2025) with Ralph Macchio. Jackie Chan is married and has two children. In 1982, he married Lin Feng-Jiao, an actress from Taiwan. A year later, they had a son, Jaycee Chan, who is now also an actor. In 1999, Chan had a daughter, Etta Ng, with Miss Asia 1990, Elaine Ng Yi-Lei. In China, Chan announced that he would donate half of his fortune after his death to the Gates Foundation, which supports poor children. Chan's fortune was estimated at $350 million in 2015.
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