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Mind gap 2010 yapwilli
penna nera e acquarelli su fogli di quaderno a quadretti
black pen and watercolor on paper notebook check
noir plume et aquarelle sur papier Livret
MIND THE GAP.
An interactive data game that lets you explore the progress and pitfalls of girls’ and women’s education around the world. “learn more”.
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The new Indian census(2011), which put the population at 1.2 billion, has revealed an alarming trend. Rising incomes only seem to accelerate gendercide – the evocative term for the selective abortion of girl foetuses. There were 945 girls per 1,000 boys in the 1991 census, 927 in 2001 and now 914. It's now a crisis and we need to move beyond just acknowledging the issue.The PC & PNDT Act 1994 prohibits any form of sex-determination practise and sex-selective abortion.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) of India; 89,546 cases of cruelty by husband and relatives; 21,397 cases of rape; 11,009 cases of sexual harassment and 5,650 cases of dowry harassment were reported in India during the year 2009.
Source: National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) India, 2009
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
Nearly high tide at Birling Gap. Fourth failed attempt at reaching Beachy Head lighthouse, beginning to wonder if I'll ever make it there.
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GAP Group conference and dinner
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All images © Sandy Young Photography
GAP Group conference and dinner
Web: www.scottishphotographer.com
Blog: sandyyoungphotography.wordpress.com
Mail: sandy@scottishphotographer.com
Tel: 07970 268944
***Credit should read Sandy Young/scottishphotographer.com***
Mixed series of three. A very gloomy day on Monday. Not much seen but the Spitfire was still flying and a pair of Jackdaws came to see me in the hope of some food. The local café is closed at the moment so they are not getting their usual handouts.
This 1934 historical marker is on the top of Swift Run Gap on Spotswood Trail (Route 33) in Shenandoah National Park, 7 miles southeast of Elkton, Virginia in Rockingham County. The poem on this tablet was written by poet Gertrude B. Claytor (1888-1973) of Roanoke, Virginia.
The goal of the September 5, 1716 expedition was to determine if there was a passage through the Blue Ridge Mountains to develop western lands, find the most direct route to the Great Lakes, and challenge the French influence for Indian hostilities directed at American colonies.
The following information was reported by the Schiller Institute, Washington, D. C.
"From his earliest days in Virginia, Spotswood had formed a company of rangers to explore the colony and inventory its resources, and he often accompanied them to chart the waterways and select promising sites for new towns. By the end of 1710, the rangers had found iron deposits near the falls of the James River, and Spotswood proposed that the Crown sponsor the development of an iron industry. When he was refused, he used his own funds, and contacts with republican networks in Europe, to bring in German miners and settle them in western Virginia. His first iron works were known as Germanna.
Then, in June of 1716, Spotswood informed the Virginia Council that his rangers had found a pass over the Blue Ridge, where even supply trains could cross. The governor therefore recruited a "company of gentlemen," to prove that the Blue Ridge could be easily crossed. Many of these recruits had sons and grandsons who played important roles in the development of the American Republic. Among them was George Mason, whose son worked with George Washington to draft the Fairfax Resolves, and who designed much of the constitution of the new state of Virginia. Then there was James Taylor, the ancestor of two Presidents—James Madison and Zachary Taylor. Robert Brooke's grandson became governor of Virginia in 1798, and Thomas Todd's family helped secure Kentucky for the Americans during the Revolution, and produced a future First Lady for Abraham Lincoln.
Governor Spotswood led his expedition out of the capital at Williamsburg on Aug. 20, and rode to his ironworks at Germanna, where the group was to join two companies of rangers. There, Spotswood had both the pack horses and riding horses shoed with iron for the journey over the mountains. Up until this time, Virginians had ridden their mounts unshod, because there was little domestic iron and the Tidewater Area had gentle, sandy terrain. The governor wanted to make the point that iron was not only necessary for crossing the mountains, but that it was essential for settlers who would tame the wilderness beyond.
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The exploring party crossed the Blue Ridge easily and discovered a major river on the other side. On Sept. 6 they crossed it, and Alexander Spotswood named it the Euphrates, invoking the memory of Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Euphrates to bring the Greek civilization of Plato's Academy to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Spotswood knew he was making history, and he came prepared for a major celebration. At that night's feast along the river, glasses were raised in toast after toast, accompanied by musket-fire salutes. The party drank "Virginia red wine and white wine, Irish usquebaugh, brandy shrub, two sorts of rum, champagne, canary, cherry, punch, cider, etc.," as recorded by one of the jolly participants.
After the return to Williamsburg, Spotswood lost no time in expanding Virginia's iron industry, and he was soon bringing in 80 more German immigrants, at his own expense, to set up the Tubal Furnace 13 miles from Germanna. And he presented to his fellow explorers, now dubbed the "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe," miniature golden horseshoes to commemorate the celebrated occasion. On these mementos was inscribed the Latin phrase, "Sic juvat transcendere montes," which translates as "Thus we crossed the mountains." And thus we did cross, and the forges and iron foundries and steel mills of Pittsburgh and Wheeling and Marietta testify that Spotswood had planned well."
Scan of a slide taken 02/02/96; Given the ambitious plans of the original Great Central Railway (in short to create a high-speed, north-south main line built to 'continental' loading gauge, with direct rail services to France via a tunnel under the English Channel) it is appropriate that the heritage GCR also has ambitions. These take the form of extending both south and north of Loughborough and linking the cities of Nottingham and Leicester. By the time this picture was taken, the core Loughborough to Rothley heritage line had been extended south to Birtstal with Leicester North Station opening in 1991.
Extending north of Loughborough presents a civil engineering challenge as significant bridge work is involved. Therefore the extension started at the Northern end, with a new station being built on a former MoD site at Ruddington. The aim is to both provide an interchange with the Nottingham Express Transit System and to also extend southwards and eventually link at Loughborough with the southern section of the line.
Wikipedia describes the 'Loughborough Gap' as follows:
"The Loughborough Gap is a 500-metre-long (0.3 mi) missing section of the Great Central Railway to the north-eastern of Loughborough, England. The gap was created by the removal of embankments and bridges during the 1980s and the restoration project has been branded Bridge to the Future and Bridging the Gap. From south-to-north the route crosses the Grand Union Canal, Railway Terrace road, four-track Midland Main Line at Loughborough railway station and the A60 road. The Hermitage Brook watercourse runs parallel."
Cleaning up the basement and I ran across my old albums (I got about 300 albums).
Looking through my old music collection made me realize 3 things:
1) Our musical taste was much more diverse back then (I listened to R&B, Rap, Jazz, and even a little Rock) -
2) I miss the 80's -
3) Damn I'm getting old!
Got my Billy-Bob tooth pulled today...Now I'm looking like Ramonas Brother or Son [HaHaHa]..But I'm thinking my gap is bigger...lol