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Highest in New Zealand, and the training ground for Sir Edmond Hilary (first 'european' to summit to Everest was actually from New Zealand, not Europe). The first true Europeans were Ernst Schmied and Juerg Marmet from Switzerland. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_climbing_Mount_Everest.]
Picture taken from lake Pukaki.
Mount Whitney is the highest summit in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). It is on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, 84.6 miles (136.2 km) west-northwest of the lowest point in North America at Badwater in Death Valley National Park at 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. The west slope of the mountain is in Sequoia National Park and the summit is the south end of the John Muir Trail which runs 211.9 mi (341.0 km) from Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley. The east slope is in the Inyo National Forest in Inyo County.
The summit of Whitney is on the Sierra Crest and near many of the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada. The peak rises 10,778 ft (3,285 m) or just over two miles above the town of Lone Pine 15 miles to the east, in the Owens Valley.
Mount Whitney is above the tree line and has an alpine climate and ecology. Very few plants grow near the summit: one example is the Sky Pilot, a cushion plant that grows low to the ground. The only animals are transient, such as the butterfly Parnassius phoebus and the Gray-crowned Rosy Finch.
The estimated elevation of the summit of Mount Whitney has changed over the years. The technology of elevation measurement has become more refined and, more importantly, the vertical coordinate system has changed. The peak was commonly said to be at 14,494 ft (4,418 m) and this is the elevation stamped on the USGS brass benchmark disk on the summit. An older plaque on the summit (sheet metal with black lettering on white enamel) reads "elevation 14,496.811 feet" but this was estimated using the older vertical datum (NGVD29) from 1929. Since then the shape of the Earth (the geoid) has been estimated more accurately. Using a new vertical datum established in 1988 (NAVD88) the benchmark is now estimated to be at 14,505 ft (4,421 m).
The eastern slope of Whitney is far steeper than its western slope. This is because the entire Sierra Nevada is the result of a fault-block that is analogous to a cellar door: the door is hinged on the west and is slowly rising on the east. The rise is caused by a normal fault system that runs along the eastern base of the Sierra, below Mount Whitney. Thus, the granite that forms Mount Whitney is the same as the granite that forms the Alabama Hills thousands of feet below. The raising of Whitney (and the downdrop of the Owens Valley) is due to the same geological forces that cause the Basin and Range Province: the crust of much of the intermontane west is slowly being stretched.
The most popular route to the summit is by way of the Mount Whitney Trail which starts at Whitney Portal, at an elevation of 8,360 ft (2,550 m), 13 mi (21 km) west of the town of Lone Pine. The hike is about 22 mi (35 km) round trip with an elevation gain of over 6,100 ft (1,900 m). Permits are required year round, and to prevent overuse a limited number of permits are issued by the Forest Service between May 1 and November 1. Most hikers do the trip in two days. Those in good physical condition sometimes attempt to reach the summit and return to Whitney Portal in one day, thus requiring only a somewhat easier-to-obtain "day use" permit rather than the overnight permit. This is considered an "extreme" day hike, which normally involves leaving Whitney Portal before sunrise and 12 to 18 hours of strenuous hiking, while struggling with altitude sickness, cold air, and occasionally treacherous surface conditions (because snow and/or ice are normally present on parts of the trail, except for a short period from early July to late September).
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The highest waterfall in Northland, 46 metes Taheke Falls is found in Taheke Reserve, 20 minutes' drive away from Whangarei. The waterfall's top can be viewed from a wooden platform. Unfortunately, a side track to the lower viewing platform has been closed permanently due to Kauri dieback, so the lower waterfall can't be seen anymore.
{Explore} Highest Position: 169 on Wednesday, May 13, 2009
I drink dew for wine, and hearken to
The voices of the birds, and dance
To the rhythmic swaying of the grass.
I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;
I am the memory of a moment of happiness;
I am the last gift of the living to the dead;
I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
But I look up high to see only the light,
And never look down to see my shadow.
This is wisdom which man must learn.
~ Kahlil Gibran (Last 3 Verses)
I was introduced to the works of Kahlil Gibran back when I was in high school by a good friend who knew of my passion for good literature. She gave me The Prophet which is a series of philosophical poetic essays written in english prose. Must have read that book a hundred times and had to buy another one in hardbound since the pages of my old one were already falling apart. Gibran's work has been an inspiration in my writings and in mine own poetry... now a mere shadow of my past.
HPPT my flickr friends. Good evening to those who's homes are now blanketed in a veil of night and good morning to the rest who have already glimpsed the smiling rays of the rising sun.
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Welcome to Woodside Press, a traditional letterpress printing studio located in New York City's historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. We create printed items of the highest quality for individual, business, and institutional clients. To the graphic-design community we offer typesetting and type-reproduction services, and we are also New York City's leading facility for hot-metal typography, with Linotype and Ludlow typecasting machines and an impressive range of classic and decorative typefaces.
Jog Falls created by the Sharavathi River falling from a height of 253 meters (829 ft) is the highest plunge waterfall in India, Located in Shimoga District of Karnataka state
5,602 m (18,379 ft) above sea level at it's highest point in the Himalaya Mountains of northern India, National Highway NH21D at Khardung La pass between the towns of Leh and Manali in Kashmir is billed as "the Highest Motorable Road in the World". It is one of two possible overland routes to visit the Tibetan region of Ladakh, currently administered by India courtesy of the British colonialists of the past. It takes 22 hours to complete the 462km shared-jeep journey at a cost of 8900 Rupees (about US $65 at the time), which goes over five amazing mountain passes over 15,000 ft elevation, but altitude sickness is a risk. Shown here is a mid October road conditions descending downwards towards the town of Keylong, Rohtang Pass and then finally the destination resort town of Manali still many hours away.... We were delayed by an hour because the single-track was impossible for two vehicles to pass each other so we had to wait for a convoy going northwards to pass before we could proceed. The road is typically closed from October to June, and is one of the "MUST SEE" overland journeys of a lifetime!. © 2007 anthony maw photography! vancouver canada IMG_5700 2007_10_08 India Leh Ladakh
The Himalayas or Himalaya (/ˌhɪməˈleɪ.ə/ or /hɪˈmɑːləjə/) is a mountain range in the Indian subcontinent, which separates the Indo-Gangetic Plain from the Tibetan Plateau. Geopolitically, it covers the Himalayan states and regions. This range is home to nine of the ten highest peaks on Earth, including the highest above sea level, Mount Everest. The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of South Asia. Many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Dharmic religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.
The Himalayas are bordered on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain, on the northwest by the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges and on the east by the Indian states of Sikkim, the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur. The Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayas together form the "Hindu Kush Himalayan Region" (HKH). The western anchor of the Himalayas, Nanga Parbat, lies just south of the northernmost bend of the Indus River; the eastern anchor, Namcha Barwa, is just west of the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. The Himalayas span five countries: Nepal, India, Bhutan, China (Tibet), and Pakistan, the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range.
Lifted by the collision of the Indian tectonic plate with the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan range runs northwest to southeast in a 2,400-kilometre-long arc. The range varies in width from 400 kilometres in the west to 150 kilometres in the east. Besides the Greater Himalayas, there are several parallel lower ranges. The southernmost, along the northern edge of the Indian plains and reaching 1000 m in altitude, is the Sivalik Hills. Further north is a higher range, reaching 2000–3000 m, known as the Lower Himalayan Range.
Three of the world's major rivers (the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra) arise in the Himalayas. While the Indus and the Brahmaputra rise near Mount Kailash in Tibet, the Ganges rises in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Their combined drainage basin is home to some 600 million people.
ETYMOLOGY
The name Himālaya is from Sanskrit: hima (snow) + ālaya (dwelling), and literally means "abode of snow"
ECOLOGY
The flora and fauna of the Himalayas vary with climate, rainfall, altitude, and soils. The climate ranges from tropical at the base of the mountains to permanent ice and snow at the highest elevations. The amount of yearly rainfall increases from west to east along the southern front of the range. This diversity of altitude, rainfall and soil conditions combined with the very high snow line supports a variety of distinct plant and animal communities. The extremes of high altitude (low atmospheric pressure) combined with extreme cold favor extremophile organisms.
The unique floral and faunal wealth of the Himalayas is undergoing structural and compositional changes due to climate change. The increase in temperature is shifting various species to higher elevations. The oak forest is being invaded by pine forests in the Garhwal Himalayan region. There are reports of early flowering and fruiting in some tree species, especially rhododendron, apple and box myrtle. The highest known tree species in the Himalayas is Juniperus tibetica located at 4,900 metres in Southeastern Tibet.
GEOLOGY
The Himalayan range is one of the youngest mountain ranges on the planet and consists mostly of uplifted sedimentary and metamorphic rock. According to the modern theory of plate tectonics, its formation is a result of a continental collision or orogeny along the convergent boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The Arakan Yoma highlands in Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal were also formed as a result of this collision.
During the Upper Cretaceous, about 70 million years ago, the north-moving Indo-Australian plate (which has subsequently broken into the Indian Plate and the Australian plate) was moving at about 15 cm per year. About 50 million years ago this fast moving Indo-Australian plate had completely closed the Tethys Ocean, the existence of which has been determined by sedimentary rocks settled on the ocean floor, and the volcanoes that fringed its edges. Since both plates were composed of low density continental crust, they were thrust faulted and folded into mountain ranges rather than subducting into the mantle along an oceanic trench. An often-cited fact used to illustrate this process is that the summit of Mount Everest is made of marine limestone from this ancient ocean.
Today, the Indian plate continues to be driven horizontally below the Tibetan Plateau, which forces the plateau to continue to move upwards. The Indian plate is still moving at 67 mm per year, and over the next 10 million years it will travel about 1,500 km into Asia. About 20 mm per year of the India-Asia convergence is absorbed by thrusting along the Himalaya southern front. This leads to the Himalayas rising by about 5 mm per year, making them geologically active. The movement of the Indian plate into the Asian plate also makes this region seismically active, leading to earthquakes from time to time.
During the last ice age, there was a connected ice stream of glaciers between Kangchenjunga in the east and Nanga Parbat in the west. In the west, the glaciers joined with the ice stream network in the Karakoram, and in the north, joined with the former Tibetan inland ice. To the south, outflow glaciers came to an end below an elevation of 1,000–2,000 metres. While the current valley glaciers of the Himalaya reach at most 20 to 32 kilometres in length, several of the main valley glaciers were 60 to 112 kilometres long during the ice age. The glacier snowline (the altitude where accumulation and ablation of a glacier are balanced) was about 1,400–1,660 metres lower than it is today. Thus, the climate was at least 7.0 to 8.3 °C colder than it is today.
HYDROLOGY
The Himalayas contain the third-largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic. The Himalayan range encompasses about 15,000 glaciers, which store about 12,000 km3 of fresh water. Its glaciers include the Gangotri and Yamunotri (Uttarakhand) and Khumbu glaciers (Mount Everest region), Langtang glacier (Langtang region) and Zemu (Sikkim).
Owing to the mountains' latitude near the Tropic of Cancer, the permanent snow line is among the highest in the world at typically around 5,500 metres. In contrast, equatorial mountains in New Guinea, the Rwenzoris and Colombia have a snow line some 900 metres lower. The higher regions of the Himalayas are snowbound throughout the year, in spite of their proximity to the tropics, and they form the sources of several large perennial rivers, most of which combine into two large river systems:
- The western rivers, of which the Indus is the largest, combine into the Indus Basin. The Indus begins in Tibet at the confluence of Sengge and Gar rivers and flows southwest through India and then through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. It is fed by the Jhelum, the Chenab, the Ravi, the Beas, and the Sutlej rivers, among others.
- Most of the other Himalayan rivers drain the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin. Its main rivers are the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Yamuna, as well as other tributaries. The Brahmaputra originates as the Yarlung Tsangpo River in western Tibet, and flows east through Tibet and west through the plains of Assam. The Ganges and the Brahmaputra meet in Bangladesh, and drain into the Bay of Bengal through the world's largest river delta, the Sunderbans.
The easternmost Himalayan rivers feed the Irrawaddy River, which originates in eastern Tibet and flows south through Myanmar to drain into the Andaman Sea.
The Salween, Mekong, Yangtze and Huang He (Yellow River) all originate from parts of the Tibetan Plateau that are geologically distinct from the Himalaya mountains, and are therefore not considered true Himalayan rivers. Some geologists refer to all the rivers collectively as the circum-Himalayan rivers. In recent years, scientists have monitored a notable increase in the rate of glacier retreat across the region as a result of global climate change. For example, glacial lakes have been forming rapidly on the surface of debris-covered glaciers in the Bhutan Himalaya during the last few decades. Although the effect of this will not be known for many years, it potentially could mean disaster for the hundreds of millions of people who rely on the glaciers to feed the rivers during the dry seasons.
LAKES
The Himalayan region is dotted with hundreds of lakes. Most lakes are found at altitudes of less than 5,000 m, with the size of the lakes diminishing with altitude. Tilicho Lake in Nepal in the Annapurna massif is one of the highest lakes in the world. Pangong Tso, which is spread across the border between India and China, and Yamdrok Tso, located in central Tibet, are amongst the largest with surface areas of 700 km², and 638 km², respectively. Other notable lakes include She-Phoksundo Lake in the Shey Phoksundo National Park of Nepal, Gurudongmar Lake, in North Sikkim, Gokyo Lakes in Solukhumbu district of Nepal and Lake Tsongmo, near the Indo-China border in Sikkim.
Some of the lakes present a danger of a glacial lake outburst flood. The Tsho Rolpa glacier lake in the Rowaling Valley, in the Dolakha District of Nepal, is rated as the most dangerous. The lake, which is located at an altitude of 4,580 metres has grown considerably over the last 50 years due to glacial melting.
The mountain lakes are known to geographers as tarns if they are caused by glacial activity. Tarns are found mostly in the upper reaches of the Himalaya, above 5,500 metres.
IMPACT ON CLIMATE
The Himalayas have a profound effect on the climate of the Indian subcontinent and the Tibetan Plateau. They prevent frigid, dry winds from blowing south into the subcontinent, which keeps South Asia much warmer than corresponding temperate regions in the other continents. It also forms a barrier for the monsoon winds, keeping them from traveling northwards, and causing heavy rainfall in the Terai region. The Himalayas are also believed to play an important part in the formation of Central Asian deserts, such as the Taklamakan and Gobi.
RELIGIOUS OF THE REGION
In Hinduism, the Himalayas have been personified as the god Himavat, father of Ganga and Parvati.
Several places in the Himalayas are of religious significance in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism. A notable example of a religious site is Paro Taktsang, where Padmasambhava is said to have founded Buddhism in Bhutan. Padmasambhava is also worshipped as the patron saint of Sikkim.
A number of Vajrayana Buddhist sites are situated in the Himalayas, in Tibet, Bhutan and in the Indian regions of Ladakh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Spiti and Darjeeling. There were over 6,000 monasteries in Tibet, including the residence of the Dalai Lama. Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh are also dotted with numerous monasteries. The Tibetan Muslims have their own mosques in Lhasa and Shigatse.
RESOURCES
The Himalayas are home to a diversity of medicinal resources. Plants from the forests have been used for millennia to treat conditions ranging from simple coughs to snake bites. Different parts of the plants - root, flower, stem, leaves, and bark - are used as remedies for different ailments. For example, a bark extract from an abies pindrow tree is used to treat coughs and bronchitis. Leaf and stem paste from an arachne cordifolia is used for wounds and as an antidote for snake bites. The bark of a callicarpa arborea is used for skin ailments. Nearly a fifth of the gymnosperms, angiosperms, and pteridophytes in the Himalayas are found to have medicinal properties, and more are likely to be discovered.
Most of the population in some Asian and African countries depend on medicinal plants rather than prescriptions and such (Gupta and Sharma, vii). Since so many people use medicinal plants as their only source of healing in the Himalayas, the plants are an important source of income. This contributes to economic and modern industrial development both inside and outside the region (Gupta and Sharma, 5). The only problem is that locals are rapidly clearing the forests on the Himalayas for wood, often illegally (Earth Island Journal, 2). This means that the number of medicinal plants is declining and that some of them might become rarer or, in some cases, go extinct.
Although locals are clearing out portions of the forests in the Himalayas, there is still a large amount of greenery ranging from the tropical forests to the Alpine forests. These forests provide wood for fuel and other raw materials for use by industries. There are also many pastures for animals to graze upon (Mohita, sec. Forest and Wealth). The many varieties of animals that live in these mountains do so based on the elevation. For example, elephants and rhinoceros live in the lower elevations of the Himalayas, also called the Terai region. Also, found in these mountains are the Kashmiri stag, black bears, musk deer, langur, and snow leopards. The Tibetan yak are also found on these mountains and are often used by the people for transportation. However, the populations of many of these animals and still others are declining and are on the verge of going extinct (Admin, sec. Flora and Fauna).
The Himalayas are also a source of many minerals and precious stones. Amongst the tertiary rocks, are vast potentials of mineral oil. There is coal located in Kashmir, and precious stones located in the Himalayas. There is also gold, silver, copper, zinc, and many other such minerals and metals located in at least 100 different places in these mountains (Mohita, sec. Minerals).
CULTURE
There are many cultural aspects of the Himalayas. For the Hindus, the Himalayas are personified as Himavath, the father of the goddess Parvati (Gupta and Sharma, 4). The Himalayas is also considered to be the father of the river Ganges. The Mountain Kailash is a sacred peak to the Hindus and is where the Lord Shiva is believed to live (Admin, sec. Centre of Religion). Two of the most sacred places of pilgrimage for the Hindus is the temple complex in Pashupatinath and Muktinath, also known as Saligrama because of the presence of the sacred black rocks called saligrams (Zurick, Julsun, Basanta, and Birendra, 153).
The Buddhists also lay a great deal of importance on the mountains of the Himalayas. Paro Taktsang is the holy place where Buddhism started in Bhutan (Admin, sec. Centre of Religion). The Muktinath is also a place of pilgrimage for the Tibetan Buddhists. They believe that the trees in the poplar grove came from the walking sticks of eighty-four ancient Indian Buddhist magicians or mahasiddhas. They consider the saligrams to be representatives of the Tibetan serpent deity known as Gawo Jagpa (Zurick, Julsun, Basanta, and Birendra, 153).
The Himalayan people’s diversity shows in many different ways. It shows through their architecture, their languages and dialects, their beliefs and rituals, as well as their clothing (Zurick, Julsun, Basanta, and Birendra, 78). The shapes and materials of the people’s homes reflect their practical needs and the beliefs. Another example of the diversity amongst the Himalayan peoples is that handwoven textiles display unique colors and patterns that coincide with their ethnic backgrounds. Finally, some people place a great importance on jewelry. The Rai and Limbu women wear big gold earrings and nose rings to show their wealth through their jewelry (Zurick, Julsun, Basanta, and Birendra, 79).
WIKIPEDIA
Shimshal s a village located in Gojal, Hunza–Nagar District, in the Pakistan-administered Gilgit–Baltistan formerly known as Northern Areas of Pakistan. It lies at an altitude of 3,100 m above sea level, and is the highest settlement in Hunza Valley of Pakistan. It is the bordering village that connects Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan with China. The total area of Shimshal is 3,800 km2 and there are around two thousand inhabitants with a total of two hundred and forty households. Shimshal is made up of four major hamlets; Farmanabad, Aminabad, Center Shimshal and Khizarabad. Farmanabad is a new settlement that comes first on reaching Shimshal. Aminabad is announced by vast fields of stones hemmed in by dry stone walls, and fortress-like houses of stone and mud. As you approach Shimshal look for a glimpse of Odver Sar (6,303m) also known as Shimshal Whitehorn. Shimshal has hydroelectricity from Odver stream for five months (June–October) of the year (when the water isn't frozen). Non availability of electricity for seven months is a big problem of the local community because during this period they have to rely on kerosene oil, firewood, solar plates and compressed natural gas in cylinders as an alternative .
The village was inaccessible by motor road until October 2003, when a new road from the Karakoram Highway at Passu was constructed. The construction of non-metallic Jeep-able road started in 1985 and completed in 2003. Eighteen years (1985-2003) of handwork finally become successful because of hard work, dedication and self-help. It become possible to connect Shimshal with rest of the world by mutual cooperation of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, Government of Pakistan and the local community. It now takes maximum three hours to reach Shimshal by jeep from Passu. Self-help or Nomus ( in local Wakhi language) is the major factor for infrastructure development in Shimshal. Brock University Canada has recently launched a new project A Critical Ethnography of the Shimshal Road.
Shimshalis use numerous seasonal mountain grasslands, located several days walk from the village, to sustain herds of yaks, goats, and sheep. The area was founded by Mamo Singh and his wife named Khudija.They have the only son Sher. According to Shimshal's history and tradition, their first child won the local polo game from Kargiz (Chinese) riding yak while the Chinese rode horses.The Shimshal River comes from this area and then transforms the shape of Hunza River, which mixes with the Indus River below the capital city Gilgit.
The people of Shimshal are Wakhi and they speak the Wakhi language. They belong to the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam.
The entire community is the follower of Aga Khan as their 49th spiritual leader who is the direct descendant of Muhammad. The Ismaili Community
Two books about Shimshal, "Shimshal" and "Women of Shimshal" have been written by Pam Henson of the Shimshal Trust, based on her teaching and living experiences in Shimshal. She is a teacher from Newzealnd who had spent some good times in Shimshal. Detail about her books are available on Shimshal Trust website. شمشال بے مثال written by مستنصر حسسیں تارڑ Mustenssir Hussain Tarrer is one of the best books on Shimshal in Urdu.
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Broadway Tower was inspired by the famous Capability Brown and completed in 1799 from designs by the renowned architect James Wyatt. It was built for the Earl of Coventry as a folly to his Springhill Estate and dedicated to his wife Peggy.
Legend has it Broadway Tower was used as a signalling tower between Springhill Estate and Croome Court near Worcester, which can be seen from the roof platform.
Many famous people have had association with Broadway Tower, including Sir Thomas Phillips and the pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Rosetti.
Broadway Tower is open to the public allowing you to travel into the past of this important building and visit the viewing platform constituting the highest point in the Cotswolds at 1089 feet or 331.6 metres altitude.
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Broadway Tower is a folly located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second highest point of the Cotswolds after Cleeve Hill. Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 55 feet (17 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794 to resemble a mock castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1799. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester - approximately 22 miles (35 km) away - and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. The beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee as well as a gift shop. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village. Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes, in East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name of this volcano resembles that of a different volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, also known as Gunung Merapi; there is also a third volcano named Marapi in Sumatra. The name "Merapi" means "fire" in the Indonesian language.
West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. The work is low-paid and very onerous. Workers earn around $5.50-$8.30 (Rp 50,000 - Rp 75,000) per day and once out of the crater, still need to carry their loads of sulfur chunks about three kilometers to the nearby Pultuding valley to get paid.
Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones forms an east/west-trending zone across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 metres (1,184 ft), a surface of 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi). It is 200 metres (660 ft) deep and has a volume of 36 cubic hectometres (29,000 acre·ft).
In 2008, explorer George Kourounis took a small rubber boat out onto the acid lake to measure its acidity. The pH of the water in the crater was measured to be 0.5 due to sulfuric acid.
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This Demo Day celebrated the opening of the Motion Picture: Ford v Ferrari.
The final demo day of the year is traditionally our voter’s choice Demo Day that features four of highest vote count cars in the Simeone Collection. The event was changed to be in line with the opening of the film Ford vs Ferrari. The featured cars included all the cars in our special Ford vs Ferrari Exhibition, which included the 1958 Aston Martin DBR1, 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Interim Berlinetta, 1963 Ferrari 250P, 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, 1965 Shelby Cobra 289 Roadster, 1966 Ford GT40 MK II, and the 1967 Ford GT40 MK IV.
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Pokhara (Nepali: पोखरा) is the second largest city of Nepal after Kathmandu. It is the headquarters of Kaski District, Gandaki Zone and the Western Development Region. It lies 200 km west of Kathmandu; its altitude varies from 780 m to 1350 m. Three out of the ten highest mountains in the world — Dhaulagiri, Annapurna I and Manaslu — are within a linear distance of 50 km from the city. Due to its proximity to the Annapurna mountain range, the city is also a base for trekkers undertaking the Annapurna Circuit through the ACAP region of the Annapurna ranges in the Himalayas.
Pokhara is home to many Gurkha soldiers. It is the most expensive city in the country, with a Cost of Living Index of 95.
GEOGRAPHY
Pokhara is in the northwestern corner of the Pokhara Valley, which is a widening of the Seti Gandaki valley that lies in the midland region (Pahad) of the Himalayas. In this region the mountains rise very quickly and within 30 km, the elevation rises from 1,000 m to over 7,500 m. As a result of this sharp rise in altitude the area of Pokhara has one of the highest precipitation rates in the country (3,350 mm/year to 5600 mm/year in Lumle). Even within the city there is a noticeable difference in rainfall between the south and the north of the city, the northern part of the city situated at the foothills of the mountains experiences proportionally higher amount of precipitation. The Seti Gandaki is the main river flowing through the city. The Seti Gandaki (White River) and its tributaries have created several gorges and canyons in and around the whole city which gives intriguingly long sections of terrace features to the city and surrounding areas. These long sections of terraces are interrupted by gorges which are hundreds of meters deep. The Seti gorge runs through the whole city from north to south and then west to east and at places these gorges are only a few metres wide. In the north and south, the canyons are wider.n the south the city borders on Phewa Tal (4.4 km2) at an elevation of about 827 m above sea level, and Lumle at 1,740 m in the north of the city touches the base of the Annapurna mountain range. Pokhara, the city of lakes, is the second largest city of Nepal after Kathmandu. 3 eight-thousand meter tall peaks (Dhaulagiri, Annapurna, Manaslu) can be seen from the city. The Machhapuchhre (Fishtail) with an elevation of 6,993 m is the closest to the city. The porous underground of the Pokhara valley favours the formation of caves and several caves can be found within the city limits. In the south of the city, a tributary of the Seti flowing out of the Phewa Lake disappears at Patale Chhango (पाताले छाँगो, Nepali for Hell's Falls, also called Davis Falls, after someone who supposedly fell into the falls) into an underground gorge, to reappear 500 metres further south. To the south-east of Pokhara city is the municipality of Lekhnath, a recently established town in the Pokhara valley, home to Begnas Lake.
CLIMATE
The climate of the city is sub-tropical; however, the elevation keeps temperatures moderate. Summer temperatures average between 25 to 33 °C, in winter around - 2 to 15 °C. Pokhara and nearby areas receive a high amount of precipitation. Lumle, 25 miles from the Pokhara city center, receives the highest amount of rainfall (> 5600 mm/year) in the country. Snowfall is not observed in the valley, but surrounding hills experience occasional snowfall in the winter. Summers are humid and mild; most precipitation occurs during the monsoon season (July - September). Winter and spring skies are generally clear and sunny.
HISTORY
Pokhara lies on an important old trading route between China and India. In the 17th century it was part of the Kingdom of Kaski which was one of the Chaubise Rajya (24 Kingdoms of Nepal, चौबिसे राज्य) ruled by a branch of the Shah Dynasty. Many of the hills around Pokhara still have medieval ruins from this time. In 1786 Prithvi Narayan Shah added Pokhara into his kingdom. It had by then become an important trading place on the routes from Kathmandu to Jumla and from India to Tibet.Pokhara was envisioned as a commercial center by the King of Kaski in the mid 18th century A.D. when Newars of Bhaktapur migrated to Pokhara, upon being invited by the king, and settled near main business locations such as Bindhyabasini temple, Nalakomukh and Bhairab Tole. Most of the Pokhara, at the time, was largely inhabited by Khas (Brahmin, Chhetri, Thakuri and Dalits), the major communities were located in Parsyang, Malepatan, Pardi and Harichowk areas of modern Pokhara and the Majhi community near the Phewa Lake. The establishment of a British recruitment camp brought larger Magar and Gurung communities to Pokhara. At present the Khas, Gurung (Tamu) and Magar form the dominant community of Pokhara. There is also a sizeable Newari population in the city. A small Muslim community is located on eastern fringes of Pokhara generally called Miya Patan. Batulechaur in the far north of Pokhara is home to the Gandharvas or Gaaineys (the tribe of the musicians).
The nearby hill villages around Pokhara are a mixed community of Khas and Gurung. Small Magar communities are also present mostly in the southern outlying hills. Newar community is almost non-existent in the villages of outlying hills outside the Pokhara city limits.
From 1959 to 1962 approximately 300,000 exiles entered Nepal from neighbouring Tibet following its annexation by China. Most of the Tibetan exiles then sought asylum in Dharamshala and other Tibetan exile communities in India. According to UNHCR, since 1989, approximately 2500 Tibetans cross the border into Nepal each year, many of whom arrive in Pokhara typically as a transit to Tibetan exile communities in India. About 50,000 - 60,000 Tibetan exiles reside in Nepal, and approximately 20,000 of the exiled Tibetans live in one of the 12 consolidated camps, 8 in Kathmandu and 4 in and around Pokhara. The four Tibetan settlements in Pokhara are Jampaling, Paljorling, Tashi Ling, and Tashi Palkhel. These camps have evolved into well built settlements, each with a gompa (Buddhist monastery), chorten and its particular architecture, and Tibetans have become a visible minority in the city.
Until the end of the 1960s the town was only accessible by foot and it was considered even more a mystical place than Kathmandu. The first road was completed in 1968 (Siddhartha Highway) after which tourism set in and the city grew rapidly. The area along the Phewa lake, called Lake Side, has developed into one of the major tourism hubs of Nepal.
TEMPLES, GUMBAS AND CHURCHES
There are numerous temples and gumbas in and around pokhara valley. Many temples serve as combined places of worship for Hindus and Buddhists. Some of the popular temples and gumbas are:
Tal Barahi Temple (located on the island in the middle of Phewa Lake)
Bindhyabasini Temple
Sitaladevi Temple
Mudula Karki Kulayan Mandir
Sunpadeli Temple (Kaseri)
Bhadrakali Temple
Kumari Temple
Akalaa Temple
Kedareshwar Mahadev Mani Temple
Matepani Gumba
World peace pagoda
Akaladevi Temple
Monastery (Hemja)
Nepal Christiya Ramghat Church, established in 1952 (2009 BS), in Ramghat area of Pokhara is also the first church in Nepal.
LOCATION
The municipality of Pokhara spans 12 km from north to south and 6 km from east to west but, unlike the capital Kathmandu, it is quite loosely built up and still has much green space. The valley is approximately divided into four to Six parts by the rivers Seti, Bijayapur, Bagadi, Fusre and Hemja. The Seti Gandaki flowing through the city from north to south divides the city roughly in two halves with the business area of Chipledunga in the middle, the old town centre of Bagar in the north and the tourist district of Lakeside (Baidam) to the south all lying on the western side of the river.[38] The gorge through which the river flows is crossed at five places: K.I. Singh Pul, Mahendra Pul and Prithvi Highway Pul from north to south of the city. The floor of the valley is plain, resembles Terai due to its gravel-like surface, and has slanted orientation from northwest to southeast. The city is surrounded by the hills overlooking the entire valley.
Phewa Lake was slightly enlarged by damming which poses a risk of silting up due of the inflow during the monsoon. The outflowing water is partially used for hydropower generation. The dam collapsed in 1974 which resulted in draining of its water and exposing the land leading to illegal land encroachment; since then the dam has been rebuilt. The power plant is about 100 m below at the bottom of the Phusre Khola gorge. Water from Phewa is diverted for irrigation into the southern Pokhara valley. The eastern Pokhara Valley receives irrigation water through a canal running from a reservoir by the Seti in the north of the city. Some parts of Phewa lake are used as commercial cage fisheries. The lake is currently being encroached upon by invasive water hyacinth (जलकुम्भी झार).
Pokhara is known to be a popular tourist destination. The tourist district is along the north shore of the Phewa lake (Baidam, Lakeside and Damside). It is mainly made up of small shops, non-star tourist hotels, restaurants and bars. Most upscale and starred hotels are on the southern shore of the Phewa Lake and southeastern fringes of the city where there are more open lands and unhindered view of the surrounding mountains. Most of the tourists visiting Pokhara trek to the Annapurna Base Camp and Mustang. To the east of the Pokhara valley, in Lekhnath municipality, there are seven smaller lakes such as Begnas Lake and Rupa Lake. Begnas Lake is known for its fishery projects.
TOURISM AND ECONOMY
After the occupation of Tibet by China in 1950 and the Indo-China war in 1962, the old trading route to India from Tibet through Pokhara became defunct. Today only few caravans from Mustang arrive in Bagar. In recent decades, Pokhara has become a major tourist destination, it is considered as tourism capital of Nepal. In South Asia mainly for adventure tourism and the base for the famous Annapurna Circuit trek. Thus, a major contribution to the local economy comes from the tourism and hospitality industry. A lot of tourists visit Pokhara every year. Tourism industry is one of major source of income for local people and the city. There are two 5-star hotels and approximately 305 other hotels that includes five 3-star, fifteen 2-star and non-star hotels in the city.
Many medieval era temples (Barahi temple, Bindhyabasini, Bhadrakali, Talbarahi, Guheshwori, Sitaldevi, Gita mandir temple, Bhimsen temple) and old Newari houses are still a part of the city (Bagar, Bindhyabasini, Bhadrakali, Bhairab Tol, etc.). The modern commercial city centres are at Chipledhunga, New Road, Prithvi Chowk and Mahendrapul (recently renamed as Bhimsen Chowk).
The city promotes two major hilltops as its viewpoints to view the city and surrounding panorama, World Peace Pagoda built in 1996 across the southern shore of Phewa lake and Sarangkot which is located northwest of the city. In February 2004, International Mountain Museum (IMM) was opened for public in Ratopahiro to boost city's tourism attractions. Other museums in the city are Pokhara Regional Museum, an ethnographic museum, Annapurna Natural History Museum which houses preserved specimens of flora and fauna, and contains particularly extensive collection of the butterflies, found in the Western and ACAP region of Nepal; and Gurkha Museum featuring history of the Gurkha Soldiers. The city also has recently been adorned with a bungee jumping site (second in Nepal) titled Water Touch Bunjee Jumping. Also, a cable car service has begun construction joining Fewa Lake with World Peace Stupa led by the government of Nepal which is expected to boost the tourism industry of the place exponentially.
Since the 1990s Pokhara has experienced rapid urbanization, as a result service sector industries have increasingly contributed to the local economy overtaking the traditional agriculture. An effect of urbanization is seen in high real estate prices, which among the highest in the country. The major contributors to the economy of Pokhara are manufacturing and service sector including tourism; agriculture and the foreign and domestic remittances. Tourism, service sector & manufacturing contributes approximately 58% to the economy, remittances about 20% and the agriculture nearly 16%.
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The two local Salvation Army corps were honoured with a visit by their territory’s highest-ranking officers.
Commissioners Bill and Marilyn Francis visited Grand Falls-Windsor as part of their trip to Newfoundland to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Dover corps.
Commissioner Bill is the territorial commander for the Canada/Bermuda territory, and Commissioner Marilyn is the president for women’s ministries for that same territory.
The Salvation Army has 58 territories, which includes 117 countries, throughout the world.
While in Grand Falls-Windsor Monday, the pair held officers councils for all officers throughout the province who were able to attend, and they also participated in a public meeting at the Circular Road citadel that night.
“The Army is one of the few denominations that is truly international with a centralized headquarters in London, England,” said Commissioner Bill. “Therefore, the officers are interested in what’s happening in the Salvation Army world.
“And then we try to focus on local challenges, local issues we are facing in Canada.”
As commissioners, the couple spent four years in London, England at the Army’s international headquarters, overseeing the work in North and South America, central America and the Caribbean before moving to Toronto to head up the Canada/Bermuda territory in July 2007.
To reach the role they now enjoy, they had to start at the bottom of the ranking system in the Army at a small church.
After showing promise of leadership material and ministering successful to a smaller church, larger and more demanding posts open up, with the general in London,
England tracking the work of those officers who are very successful and then appointing those with the most promise as commissioners.
However, although she has dedicated most of her life’s work to the Salvation Army, Commissioner Marilyn did not grow up in it.
It wasn’t until she met Commissioner Bill that she became involved. She was a schoolteacher, but says God spoke to her in a dramatic way, reminding her of the job he had for her.
“If you have everything for yourself, and you have a heart for people who have nothing, you know there has to be some way to give back but you don’t know what to do,” she said. “At least for my own heart, I was longing for that. God knew it and revealed that to me as a prayed and asked me to join the Salvation Army.”
While their jobs are demanding, both of the commissioners agree that is it rewarding work, particularly when they see first-hand the positive ways in which lives are changed as a result of the Army’s work.
“Seeing hopeless situations absolutely turn around, seeing alcoholics whose lives were over, professional people who lost it all because of drinking or drugs, to see those lives turned around,” said Commissioner Marilyn.
“Also, traveling in South America and Africa, seeing tiny children who have been the outcasts of society – people just throwing them away – and the Salvation Army goes in, scoops them up, puts them in orphanages, educates them, clothes them, makes them feel like they’re important people because we all are and they become successful members of society.”
Having logged just over half a year in Canada – the couple is originally from upstate New York – they both say it’s been a positive experience.
In working with the women’s ministries, Commissioner Marilyn says she has been impressed with the commitment seen on huge projects.
A group of Salvation Army women raised funds to travel to Liberia with their sewing machines to make curtains and drapery for orphanages and schools.
Another group of women are paying to fly Mexican women to Canada who otherwise would not have the opportunity to travel, and opening up their homes to them.
Salvation Army women in Winnipeg organized a night of pampering and relaxation for prostitutes in that city so they could take a night off to enjoy manicures, hair styling, movies and food.
“That’s a unique ministry that happens in the Canada/Bermuda territory,” said Commissioner Marilyn. “I’d heard about it, but I’d never seen it in action. I’m standing in such awe of these women, these leaders.”
Commissioner Bill pointed out the Army is heavily involved in the issue of human trafficking, with the Canada/Bermuda territory working with other territories around the world to illicit change and progression.
The pair said they were pleased to have the opportunity to visit this province and hope to return during their tenure as commissioners for the Canada/Bermuda territory.
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Samphanthawong is one of 50 districts of Bangkok, Thailand. Regarded as Bangkok's Chinatown, it is the smallest district in area but has the highest population density of all of Bangkok's districts. Neighbouring districts are Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bang Rak, Khlong San ( across Chao Phraya River ), and Phra Nakhon. The district is sub divided into 3 sub districts, Chakkrawat, Samphanthawong, Talat Noi. You will find some great Chinese restaurants here, nothing like the ones you find around Europe. They don’t go much on decoration and some of them are very bare of decorations. But this is how Chinese restaurants are in China Town. There are the usual upmarket ones but the norm here is very basic. But the food is good and cheap. I usually go for the crispy Chinese duck, its cheap here and a great taste. Washed down with a cold Tsingtao beer. The beer is produced in Qingdao in Shandong province and made by the Tsingtao Brewery Co.,Ltd. nnd was founded by The Anglo-German Brewery Co. Ltd., an English / German joint stock company based in Hong Kong who owned it until 1916.
Samphanthawong area has been a Chinese community since the early days of Bangkok. Originally living in what is now the Phra Nakhon district, they were relocated here when the capital was set up. The narrow Sampheng Lane ( where you will find Sampheng Market ) now called Wanit I Road, was the district's main street until Yaowarat Road was constructed in 1892 during the reign of King Chulalongkorn. Sampeng ( in Thailand, you will see many ways of spelling the same word differently ) is depicted on the back of series 15 of the 20 Baht banknotes, to commemorate an important post World War II visit by a then, young king Rama VIII accompanied by HM's brother, Prince Bhumibol ( the present king of Thailand ). Nowadays, busy Yaowarat Road remains the heart of Bangkok's Chinatown. In this district you will find the Golden Buddha, officially called Phra Phuttha Maha Suwan Patimakon, it is the world's largest solid gold statue. It is located in the temple of Wat Traimit, Bangkok. The statue is about 3 metres tall and weighs 5.5 tonnes It can be disassembled into nine pieces. The statue was housed in a Wat in Ayutthaya until mid 19th century. It is said the gold in the statue ( 18 karat ) is estimated to be worth 250 million dollars. The body of the statue is 40% pure, the volume from the chin to the forehead is 80% pure, and the hair and the topknot, weighing 45 kg, are 99% pure gold.
Yaowarat Road is about 1.5 km in length. Along both sides, many gold shops and all kinds of Chinese restaurants selling noodles, rice, dim sum, bird's nest soup, crispy fried duck, can be found. The aroma is fantastic here. More shops, especially those selling fruit and Chinese traditional medicine, can be found in the small lanes branching off the main road. Recently, a gate was built to celebrate King Bhumibol's 72nd birthday. It is located on Odeon Circle ( named after a cinema that once stood nearby ) at one end of Yaowarat road sometimes called China Town gate. This part of the town is very busy because it’s the entrance to China town, along which most of the buses travel. Known also as “The Celebration Arch of 6th Cycle Aniversary Memorial.”
There are numerous markets around Samphanthawong. There are many shops and stalls along Yaowarat, Sampheng and Charoen Krung roads, especially at night and during weekends. Saphan Lek, the older name of the bridge crossing Khlong Ong Ang canal on Charoen Krung Road, is a narrow strip along both sides of Khlong Ong Ang with lots of small shops selling a variety of goods. It is particularly known as a centre for game consoles. Nearby is Woeng Nakhon Kasem or thieves market. Khlong Thom Market which is near, in Pom Prap Sattru Phai district , a famous market for low cost goods and electronics, is a large area of several blocks on the opposite side of Charoen Krung Road. The small lanes inside the blocks are fully packed with stalls operating on Saturday nights till Sunday mornings
Sampeng Market is a wonderful meeting of Chinese / Thai / Indian traditions and caters for all three of these peoples needs. It also caters for the tourist, providing all manner of items you will not find elsewhere around Bangkok. This is a mystical market, the beautifully designed glass arch roof looks majestically down on all the shoppers who strive to move in the narrow passageway of the main market area. The walkway is no wider than 1½ metres, and believe me it is not easy to move around shopping here. The walkway caters for shoppers, food sellers and motorbikes!
Yes, motorbikes try to negotiate this narrow walkway while carrying goods for delivery. Try to imagine 1 ½ metres wide, shoppers going north, shoppers going south, food sellers in between, then motorbikes appear, trying to overtake everyone. On top of this you then have the shoppers that want to stop either side, it’s crazy and drives you mad sometimes. Especially being so hot and humid in the arcade.China town is renowned for its shops selling gold jewellery. It’s packed full of them selling the usual bright 18 Carat gold that is so popular in Thailand. It never ceases to amaze me no matter how poor or how they complain about having no money, these gold retailers are always full of customers wanting to buy gold chains or lockets or Buddha images. You cannot miss them usually painted red outside and packed full of gold inside, hanging from the walls and locked away in cabinets.
This market is among one of the early Chinese communities during their resettlement in Thailand over 200 years ago. It had become the Wall Street of Bangkok during the mid 1800's. Not only was it prosperous as a business centre but also in illegal activities such as gambling, drugs, and prostitution. Although less attractive and less exciting than in former days, Sampeng never loses its importance as a shopping attraction in Bangkok's industrious Chinese community. The market’s origins are well over a hundred years old. The closeness to the water canals and easy communication were the main reasons that led to the development of this commercial complex. Sampeng Market is often described as something off the regular tourist route, it’s not easy to find your way round this market. I would suggest taking someone with you who can speak Thai and also knows the area. However when arriving there it’s amazing to see all the items on sale here from badges for clothes to hairdressing supplies, items for people who repair clothes or design them. Hair clips, hair bands, handbags, shopping bags, toys, anything you can think of is probably here.
Getting There
Take the BTS Sky train to Saphan Taksin station ( Silom line ) and leave via exit 1 to Tha Sathon. Then take the Chao Phraya Express Boat to Tha Ratchawong. In front of the pier is Ratchawong road. Walk along the road until you reach Soi Wanit road crossing on your left and right. .
from the highest point in Wellesley Township, near Crosshill, Ontario. A view across Mennonite farms. Please note that a second farm group of barns and silos can be seen directly behind the closest ones, being compressed by the long lens view. It is reached by going down the private lane that we can see, and passing through the first farm yard to the second, and then on to a third one !! There are quite a few Mennonite farmsteads like this in this Township.
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Broadway Tower was inspired by the famous Capability Brown and completed in 1799 from designs by the renowned architect James Wyatt. It was built for the Earl of Coventry as a folly to his Springhill Estate and dedicated to his wife Peggy.
Legend has it Broadway Tower was used as a signalling tower between Springhill Estate and Croome Court near Worcester, which can be seen from the roof platform.
Many famous people have had association with Broadway Tower, including Sir Thomas Phillips and the pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Rosetti.
Broadway Tower is open to the public allowing you to travel into the past of this important building and visit the viewing platform constituting the highest point in the Cotswolds at 1089 feet or 331.6 metres altitude.
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Broadway Tower is a folly located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second highest point of the Cotswolds after Cleeve Hill. Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 55 feet (17 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794 to resemble a mock castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1799. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester - approximately 22 miles (35 km) away - and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. The beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee as well as a gift shop. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village. Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
Day 11. Reignited the campfire to give us some warmth over breakfast. Then we slowly made our way up to Searle Pass, Elk Ridge and down over Kokomo Pass. The weather was a little damp but the heavy rain stayed away until we were on our way down the other side. Soaking wet by the time we got to Tenessee Pass Trailhead, where there was no camp, so we made the call to ride 9 miles down Highway 24 to Leadville, the highest city in the US..
The highest salt water lake in the world at Ladakh, INDIA. Tso means Lake in Pali language. This lake is very sacred to the locals as the Lama's pray here on specific occasions. This lake has become extremely popular in India after it was showcased in Indian film - "3 Idiots".
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Mafia, not a word intended to put us on red alert or security watch, but a word meaning an exclusive group with power in a special field. What better word to describe the men of the Together Forever Mafia, better known as TF Mafia.
The TF Mafia was started by one of its own members by the name of Rab in July of 2007, when he and other associates put their own flip on a word meaning negative things, and turned it into something positive.
The TF Mafia is made up of four members whose names are Rab, SK Tha Don, Po Stone, and Dibiase. With these four men sharing the passion for “muzik”, and the power of versatility and originality, they came to form TF Mafia.
Due to some federal investigations of its members and management the first CD recorded was never released, and untitled, but was sponsored by Brooklyn Zoo, and was an album consisting of 18 tracks, such as “Masters of the Zooniverse”, and “Boo”.
Throughout the career of the TF Mafia, they have worked with producers such as Zuckits, Phat Boy production, Joey ZaZa, TF Mafia Muzik, Bogus, and various other producers. Though coming up in the rap game is never easy, M. Garret known as Rab, V. Fearon known as Po Stone, S. Denson known as SK Tha Don, and B. Buchanan known as Diblase make it seem so easy with their calm, cool, and collective swagger. It puts them above the rest making the other inconspicuous.
Despite the fact that TF Mafia has made no magazine appearances, they have made internet appearances on sites such as bronxrap.com, LiveWirez Radio, SeRadio99fm, and heatwaveradio98fm.com; which is where their new hit single titled “Married to the Mob” has been aired, and at its highest with over 12,000 hits on youtube.com and still growing.
When it opened in 1906, Victoria Baths on Hathersage Road, Manchester, was described as the most splendid municipal bathing institution in the country and a water palace of which every citizen of Manchester can be proud. Not only did the building provide spacious and extensive facilities for swimming, bathing and leisure, it was built of the highest quality materials with many period decorative features:- stained glass, terracotta, tiles and mosaic floors.
Victoria Baths served the people of central Manchester for 87 years and established themselves in the affections of all those who used the facilities.
The Baths were closed by Manchester City Council in 1993. The Friends of Victoria Baths was formed and began to investigate the possibility of running the Victoria Baths independently.
Various fund-raising attempts failed to bring about a restoration of the Baths, although work to prevent the further dereliction of the building started in 1998.
In September 2003, the Baths won the first series of the BBC's Restoration programme. The building was chosen by a public phone-vote from a short-list of ten buildings in danger of dereliction in the UK. It was awarded £3.4 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the money raised through the phone-voting process. The Prince of Wales visited the baths a month later to help celebrate the win.
It was intended that the money would be spent on re-opening the Turkish bath by around 2006, with other parts following later at a cost of around £15 - 20m. However, the redevelopment plans were dealt a blow one year later when quantity surveyors delivered a much larger estimate of £6.3m to restore the Turkish baths. The Heritage Lottery Fund requested further details about the full redevelopment before they would hand over any money for the first phase. Final planning approval to begin a restoration process was not received until September 2005.
In September 2006, as part of a number of events to mark the centenary of the building's opening, the gala pool was filled for the first time in 13 years.
The first phase of restoration work consisting of structural work and repairs began on Monday 19 March 2007 and was completed in September 2008.
In 2011 the Baths were used as a filming location, a concert venue and an exhibition centre.
The interior has been seen in film and TV dramas such as Cracker, Prime Suspect, Bedlam, Life On Mars and Mrs Biggs.
On 7th November 2012, the Marketing team from The Co-operative Insurance spent their community challenge day at Victoria Baths, scrubbing, cleaning, mopping, vaccing and carrying to help the volunteers of the restoration of this fantastic building. This is the photo diary of that day.
Super sharp Nikon D800 E photos of a surf goddess!
Rising pro woman's surf star Lakey Peterson won the Nike US Open in Huntington Beac Pier!
She had a couple perfect 10's and a near perfect heat! Lakey's 19.76 was the highest heat score at the 2012 US Open in Huntington Beach, for both men's and woman's!
In Huntington Beach at the Huntington Pier! The US Nike Hurley Open!
Rock on Surf City USA!
The Nikon D800E + 70-200 mm VR2 zoom was amazingly sharp & detailed!
She was wearing a white Nike Wetsuit & a red and/or blue singlet!
She was poetry in motion!
May the goddesses inspire you along a hero's journey of your own making! :)
A moment of silence before her semifinal heat!
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
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Carey parted with Columbia in 2000, and signed a record-breaking $100 million recording contract with Virgin Records America. In the weeks prior to the release of her film Glitter and its accompanying soundtrack in 2001, she suffered a physical and emotional breakdown and was hospitalized for severe exhaustion. The project was poorly received and led to a general decline in the singer's career. Carey's recording contract was bought out for $50 million by Virgin and she signed a multi-million dollar deal with Island Records the following year. After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of music charts with The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). The album became the best-selling album in the US and the second best-seller worldwide in 2005 and produced "We Belong Together," which became her most successful single of the 2000s, and was later named "Song of the Decade" by Billboard. Carey once again ventured into film with a well-received supporting role in Precious (2009), and was awarded the "Breakthrough Performance Award" at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
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TARANAKI, New Plymouth/New Zealand (Thursday, April 28, 2011) – ASP World No. 2 Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) continued to ride her wave of victory to New Zealand, posting another top class performance during Round 1 of the Subaru Pro TSB Bank Women’s Surf Festival in Taranaki, today.
After strong winds delayed the start of competition until 1:15pm, Round 1 was completed in great 0.5- meter left-hand waves at Back Beach, that saw no shortage of excellent rides against the snowy backdrop of Mount Taranaki.
Fitzgibbons, fresh off her maiden ASP World Title Tour victory at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach in Australia this week, proved her backhand to be as polished as her forehand, netting the highest two-wave heat total of the round, an 18.45 (out of a possible 20.00) to defeat Claire Bevilacqua (AUS) and Pauline Ado (FRA).
“It still feels exciting coming straight off a win at Bells,” Fitzgibbons said. “I feel like my surfing has been on the right track for the last couple of years but I was making a few mistakes. I think I’ve learned a lot from the ins and outs of losing as well as winning so it feels really nice to get another win out here today.”
Driving unprecedented speed off her flawless bottom turns, Fitzgibbons posted the top five individual wave scores of the day, which include her winning 8.95 and 9.50 (out of 10) rides.
“I’m so psyched to be going left, we’ve had Snapper and Bells and we’ve been going right for so long, so it’s a nice change to be looking down the line the other way,” Fitzgibbons said.
Four times ASP World Champion Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) shone just as brightly in the wind affected waves, her superb wave selection proving crucial to her victory when she stroked into the best wave of the heat in the dying minutes to unleash a powerful series of backhand snaps on a reeling lefthander for a near perfect 9.00 ride.
“Its actually pretty fun out there, there’s a good little left and it was nice to feel some power in the wave,” Gilmore said. “It’s an interesting experience sitting in the lineup looking at a snow covered mountain but I love it, it’s really raw here and it’s great to be back.”
Gilmore, who has had a relatively slow start to the season, posting equal fifth and third place results at the first two events of the season, now finds herself in the ASP World No. 4 position, and while sealing a victory over Laura Enever (AUS) and Alana Blanchard (USA) today, sighted two of today’s standout girls to beat at this year’s event.
“I think Sally Fitzgibbons and Carissa Moore will be tough to beat this year, the Hawaiian girls are looking really strong and Sally having just come off a win, is looking like the girl to beat,” Gilmore said.
Local surf star Paige Hareb (NZ) attracted a large crowd during her round clash against Chelsea Hedges (AUS) and Tyler Wright (AUS), the ASP Women’s World Title Tour’s only kiwi surfer proving determined to advance in first place.
“I was lucky to get the two better waves of the whole heat,” Hareb said. “I just surfed them and didn’t try too hard, I wanted to get a score under my belt and it paid off. It’s my best result of the season so I’m stoked.”
ASP World Tour rookie Courtney Conlogue (USA) out-surfed tour veterans Silvana Lima (BRA) and Rebecca Woods (AUS), holding nothing back to advance with a pair of excellent 8.00 rides.
“I didn’t know if I’d scored an eight or a six so I just tried to stay busy and keep the exchanges going ‘cos its hard to hear out there,” Conlogue admitted. “I was so ready to surf at 7am this morning but it was called off until lunch time so you’ve just got to be able to turn it off and on, I’m definitely learning that this year.”
ASP World No. 1 and defending event champion Carissa Moore (HAW) joined fellow Round 1 winners by advancing into Round 3 ahead of wildcard Sarah Mason (NZL) and tour veteran Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS).
“The waves were pretty good, but I’m not too psyched with my performance,” Moore said. “I didn’t get too many great waves and only scored two sixes. I wish I could have done a better job but we had some fun waves and at least I’m through.”
The final heat of the day revealed an intense battled between Hawaii’s Melanie Bartels and Coco Ho, the pair exchanging rides with Bartels advancing ahead of Ho by less than a point.
Surfers will reconvene at Fitzroy Beach for the next call at 06.30 tomorrow.
The TSB Bank Women’s Surf Festival will be webcast LIVE via www.nzsurffestival.co.nz/
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TSB Bank Women’s Surf Festival Round 1 Results:
Heat 1: Paige Hareb (NZL) 15.00; Chelsea Hedges (AUS) 7.90; Tyler Wright (AUS) 6.75
Heat 2: Courtney Conlogue (USA) 16.10; Silvana Lima (PER) 14.10; Rebecca Woods (AUS) 11.20
Heat 3: Carissa Moore (HAW) 12.75; ); Sarah Mason (NZL) 11.30; Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS) 10.50
Heat 4: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 18.45; Claire Bevilacqua (AUS) 15.53; Pauline Ado (FRA) 10.00
Heat 5: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 16.10; Laura Enever (AUS) 9.15; Alana Blanchard (HAW) 3.10
Heat 6: Melanie Bartels (HAW) 13.95; Coco Ho (HAW) 13.40; Sofia Mulanovich (PER) 12.90
Photo Steve Dickenson / Curl Magazine www.pacificmedia.co.nz