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A board shows the schedule for the workers. Taken at Gilman, the former town of the workers at the Eagle Mine. The town is at an elevation of 9000’ with a population of 350. It was the largest underground mill in the US until in 1984 when it was abandoned by order of the EPA due to toxic pollutants. Graffiti artist often use Gilman as a canvas for their artworks. These photos are part of the Gilman project, a two day photographic shoot of the town and mine site.
Seen during a scheduled break before operating service C2 between Alloa (Shillinghill) and Glenochil.
Chassis type/no: Optare Solo M780SL - SAB19000000001686
Body type/no: Optare Solo - 191686
Seating: B21F
New to Sheffield Community Transport Ltd. (15) in February 2005. It later passed to Stuarts Coaches Ltd., Carluke and finally to Hunter's Executive Coaches Ltd. in August 2014.
I love everything about these schedule boards -- they seem exotic to me and scream "Europe." The constant motion and clackety-clack noise only add to the appeal.
This is Saint Alban's Church on Deansway in Worcester. It may have it's origins in Roman times, but there may have been a church on this site since c.720. The present building is at least early Norman (c.1175). Some of the stone work might be Anglo-Saxon.
It was heavily restored in the 19th and 20th centuries.
It is named after the first British Martyr, who was a soldier in the Roman Army. He converted to Christianity by a fugitive priest who gave him shelter. They switched identies so that he could be martyred in the priests place.
His tomb was liked so much, that a church was built on the site, and around it the town of St Albans.
These days the church is no longer a church but a day centre called Magg's Day Centre. It is a Grade II listed building and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Parish church, now day centre. C12 with later additions and alterations including restorations and alterations of c1821-1850. Coursed red and green sandstone with double pitch slate and plain tile roof. Small church with continuous 3-bay nave and single-bay chancel with north aisle. Norman, Early English and neo-Norman. Chamfered plinth. Entrance to north side a round-arched doorway with 1 order of columns with cushion capitals and roll-moulding to head in chamfered reveals, all renewed; plank door. 2 round-arched windows with 1 order of slender columns and roll-moulding to head, renewed, with blocked narrow opening between and large intel. East end has 3 stepped lancets to chancel with oculus over and lancet to aisle. West end has 2 renewed trefoil-headed lancets and continuous hoodmould; small rose window over. West gable bell cote. Coped gable ends. INTERIOR: the North arcade is Late Norman with round piers and round abaci, double-chamfered arches, one scalloped capital and one flat-leaf capital, nailhead ornament in the hoodmould (mostly recut). Probably Victorian tile floor. Monuments: wall monument to Marci, wife of William Wyatt d.1595; wall monument to Edmund Wyatt d.1711 a cartouche with winged cherubs and drapery; another wall tablet c1796. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 317).
Last week, I found the hair nets of Hare made by my mother are oversized... so she took them back and redid them. If she can finish 7 pairs in this week, I'm going to ship the first batch of Hare at this weekend. Then I'm going to finish the rest of 6 Hares. It's lucky that all hands and bodies brushing were done in the frist batch, so there will be less work. Then, I'm going to prepare and send the first batch of Hatter, including single Hatter orders and those ordered with Hare. If you ordered Alice too, I'm afraid that you have wait for the last batch. Sorry…>x< After that ,I will prepare the rest of Hatters, then Alices, and send all of the orders to finish the Chapter 4.:p
Taking a light semester in the sense that I'm only taking four classes, but they're not easy by any means. (Organic Chemistry II, Organic Chemistry II Lab, Calculus I, Freedom in Eastern Europe).
Heading into Caernarfon. First view of the town walls from Glan Mor.
Between towers 4 and 5. The entrance at Northgate Street near Bank Quay.
Caernarfon's town walls are a medieval defensive structure around the town of Caernarfon in North Wales. The walls were constructed between 1283 and 1292 after the foundation of Caernarfon by Edward I, alongside the adjacent castle. The walls are 734 m (2,408 ft) long and include eight towers and two medieval gatehouses. The project was completed using large numbers of labourers brought in from England; the cost of building the walls came to around £3,500, a large sum for the period. The walls were significantly damaged during the rebellion of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294, and had to be repaired at considerable expense. Political changes in the 16th century reduced the need to maintain such defences around the town. Today the walls form part of the UNESCO world heritage site administered by Cadw. Archaeologists Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham describe the defences as "a remarkably intact walled circuit".
Grade I listed building.
History
The borough of Caernarfon was established by Edward I of England under the Statute of Wales in 1284. It was the centre of government for N Wales and was protected by the erection of the Town Wall, with Caernarfon Castle at its S end. The construction of the Town Wall had begun in 1283 in conjunction with the building of Caernarfon Castle, probably under the direction of James of St George who was architect of the castle. Masonry work on the first phase of the Town Wall was completed by 1285, re-using some stone from Segontium Roman fort. The Town Wall was badly damaged in the native uprising of 1294 and were restored and improved in 1295 at a cost of £1195. The wall walk and towers were further repaired in 1309-12. Of other entrances, only a single postern gate has survived intact, the Greengate to the SE. Former posterns on the W side are infilled and can be seen in the W wall of the church of St Mary and gable end of the police station. Another postern, the Water Gate at the end of Castle Ditch, has been altered. Further openings facing Bank Quay, from Church Street, Market Street and Northgate Street, are later insertions. The bell tower at the NW corner was converted for ecclesiastical use as accommodation for the chaplain of the church of St Mary, built 1307-16. The Bath Tower facing the Promenade was converted in 1823 when the Earl of Uxbridge created public baths on the site of the present 11-17 Church Street, part of a scheme to attract visitors to the town, when the upper stage of the Bath Tower became a reading room. The main E and W entrances survive substantially intact (are listed as separate items).
Exterior
High coursed rubble-stone wall in several straight sections forming an irregular plan and a circuit approximately 730m long, with 2 gate houses (listed as separate items) and eight 2-stage round towers contrasting with the polygonal towers of the castle. The quality of masonry in the wall is variable, accounted for by various repairs and restorations. The towers have mainly open gorges and were originally crossed by timber bridges, one of which has been repaired on the NE side. The upper stages of the towers have arrow loops, while the embattled parapet, where it survives, has similar loops to the merlons. The walls have regular brattice slots. At the SE end the wall has been demolished across Castle Ditch and begins on its N side, where on the inner side facing Hole-in-the-Wall Street stone steps to the wall walk survive at high level, and where there is a postern gate, known as the Greengate, under a 2-centred arch with portcullis slot. The adjacent tower has a shouldered lintel to a fireplace in the upper stage. The wall, with 2 towers and the East Gate to High Street, continues on a high bank, around to the N side facing Bank Quay. The NE tower survives to the full height of its battlements and has stone steps on the inner side. A skewed archway has been inserted leading to Northgate Street. Further W, an inserted segmental arch spans a double-carriageway entrance to Market Street, while the tower on its W side also retains stone steps. A lower segmental arch leads to Church Street immediately to the E of the church.
On the NW side the church of St Mary is integral with the Town Wall and its NW, or Bell Tower, houses the vestry, while its upper storey served as a priest's dwelling. Facing N it has a 2-light Tudor window under a hoodmould, with sunk spandrels, while the W face has a plainer 2-light window in the upper stage. On the parapet is a gabled bellcote. A blocked former postern gate is on the return facing the promenade, incorporated into the church. The next tower facing the promenade is the Bath Tower, which has early C19 detail in connection with the baths established in 1823. It has its doorway in the S side facing the Promenade, which has a pointed arch with studded boarded door and Y-tracery overlight. In the N and S faces the upper stage has restored 3-light mullioned and transomed windows incorporating iron-frame casements, and restored embattled parapet. A 2-storey projection with parapet is built behind. At the W end of the High Street is the former gatehouse known as Porth-yr-Aur, beyond which there is a single tower behind the former jail. The tower is enclosed at the rear by a late C19 wall with segmental arch flanked by small-pane windows under lintels. Further S is a segmental arch across Castle Ditch, on the S side of which the reveal and part of the keyed arch of an earlier gateway is visible, while the wall abutting the castle is an addition of 1326.
Reasons for Listing
Listed grade I, the medieval Town Wall has survived to almost the complete extent of the original circuit, defining the medieval town, and with Caernarfon Castle is of national significance in the survival of a medieval garrison town.
Scheduled Ancient Monument CN 034.
World Heritage Site.
The airline began operations as Robinson Airlines in 1945 out of Ithaca Municipal Airport near Ithaca, New York, flying single engined, three passenger Fairchild F-24 aircraft.
In 1952 it was renamed Mohawk Airlines.
A visit to the Weoley Castle medieval ruins. It is located off Alwold Road in Weoley Castle.
The site entrance was surrounded by these green fences, and the gate was padlocked. So had to take my photos from here (but the gate from Alwold Road was open).
Weoley Castle is the remains of a fortified manor house located in the Birmingham district of Weoley Castle, a primarily residential area, in the English West Midlands. Owned by Birmingham City Council and administered as a community museum by Birmingham Museums Trust, it is a Grade II listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The archaeological evidence suggests a Norman foundation for the site which was surrounded by a moat and bank topped by a timber palisade.
Remains of Weoley Castle, Birmingham
ALWOLD ROAD
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Weoley Castle B29
Remains of Weoley Castle
(formerly listed under
Selly Oak)
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Footings and foundations of a fortified manor house. Sandstone with 6 towers
and a deep moat. These works date from 1264 when Roger de Somery was licensed
to crenellate his manor house. A survey of 1422 gives a detailed plan. Fragments
of early C13 wooden buildings have been discovered, indicating early use of
both horizontal and vertical weatherboarding.
Listing NGR: SP0216782787
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the "Toy Train", is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal, India. Built between 1879 and 1881, the railway is about 78 kilometres) long. Its elevation level varies from about 100 metres at New Jalpaiguri to about 2,200 metres at Darjeeling. Four modern diesel locomotives handle most of the scheduled services; however the daily Kurseong-Darjeeling return service and the daily tourist trains from Darjeeling to Ghum (India's highest railway station) are handled by the vintage British-built B Class steam locomotives. The railway, along with the Nilgiri Mountain Railway and the Kalka-Shimla Railway, is listed as the Mountain Railways of India World Heritage Site. The headquarters of the railway is in the town of Kurseong. Operations between Siliguri and Kurseong have been temporarily suspended since 2010 following a Landslide at Tindharia.
HISTORY
A broad gauge railway connected Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Siliguri in 1878. Siliguri, at the base of the Himalayas, was connected to Darjeeling by a cart road (the present day Hill Cart Road) on which "Tonga services" (carriage services) were available. Franklin Prestage, an agent of Eastern Bengal Railway Company approached the government with a proposal of laying a steam tramway from Siliguri to Darjeeling. The proposal was accepted in 1879 following the positive report of a committee formed by Sir Ashley Eden, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. Construction started the same year.
Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co. constructed the railway. The stretch from Siliguri to Kurseong was opened on 23 August 1880, while the official opening of the line up to Darjeeling was on 4 July 1881. Several engineering adjustments were made later in order to ease the gradient of the rails. Despite natural calamities, such as an earthquake in 1897 and a major cyclone in 1899, the DHR continued to improve with new extension lines being built in response to growing passenger and freight traffic. However, the DHR started to face competition from bus services that started operating over the Hill Cart Road, offering a shorter journey time. During World War II, the DHR played a vital role transporting military personnel and supplies to the numerous camps around Ghum and Darjeeling.
After the independence of India, the DHR was absorbed into Indian Railways and became a part of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone in 1958. In 1962, the line was realigned at Siliguri and extended by nearly 6 km to New Jalpaiguri (NJP) to meet the new broad gauge line there. DHR remained closed for 18 months during the hostile period of Gorkhaland Movement in 1988-89.
The line closed in 2011 due to a 6.8 Magnitude earthquake. The line is currently loss-making and in 2015, Rajah Banerjee, a local tea estate owner, has called for privatisation to encourage investment, which was fiercely resisted by unions.
WORLD HERITAGE SITE
DHR was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1999, only the second railway to have this honour bestowed upon it, the first one being Semmering Railway of Austria in 1998. To be nominated as World Heritage site on the World Heritage List, the particular site or property needs to fulfill a certain set of criteria, which are expressed in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention and its corresponding Operational Guidelines. The site must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. The protection, management, authenticity and integrity of properties are also important considerations.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION
The DHR is justified by the following criteria:
Criterion ii The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is an outstanding example of the influence of an innovative transportation system on the social and economic development of a multi-cultural region, which was to serve as a model for similar developments in many parts of the world.
Criterion iv The development of railways in the 19th century had a profound influence on social and economic developments in many parts of the world. This process is illustrated in an exceptional and seminal fashion by the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGITY
Since 1881, the original route has been retained in a remarkable condition. Only minimal interventions of an evolutionary nature, such as the reduction of loops, have been carried out. Most of the original steam locomotives are still in use. Like Tea and the Ghurka culture, the DHR has become not only an essential feature of the landscape but also an enduring part of the identity of Darjeeling.
MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL STATUS
The DHR and all its movable and immovable assets, including the authentic railway stations, the line, and the track vehicles, belong to the Government of India entrusted to the Ministry of Railways. The Northeast Frontier Railway documented all the elements of the DHR in a comprehensive register. Apart from that, it handles the day-to-day maintenance and management. But moreover, several programs, divisions and departments of the Indian Railways are responsible for operating, maintaining and repairing the DHR. This includes technical as well as non-technical work. In principle, the only two legal protection mechanisms that apply to the conservation of the DHR are the provisions of the 1989 Railway Act and that it is a public property which is state-owned and therefore protected
THE ROUTE
The railway line basically follows the Hill Cart Road which is partially the same as National Highway 55. Usually, the track is simply on the road side. In case of landslides both track and road might be affected. As long parts of the road are flanked with buildings, the railway line often rather resembles urban tramway tracks than an overland line.
To warn residents and car drivers about the approaching train, engines are equipped with very loud horns that even drown horns of Indian trucks and buses. Trains honk almost without pause.
LOOPS AND Z-REVERSE
One of the main difficulties faced by the DHR was the steepness of the climb. Features called loops and Z-Reverses were designed as an integral part of the system at different points along the route to achieve a comfortable gradient for the stretches in between them. When the train moves forwards, reverses and then moves forward again, climbing a slope each time while doing so, it gains height along the side of the hill.
LOCOMOTIVES
CURRENT
STEAM
All the steam locomotives currently in use on the railway are of the "B" Class, a design built by Sharp, Stewart and Company and later the North British Locomotive Company, between 1889 and 1925. A total of 34 were built, but by 2005 only 12 remained on the railway and in use (or under repair).
In 2002, No. 787 was rebuilt with oil firing. This was originally installed to work on the same principle as that used on Nilgiri Mountain Railway No.37395. A diesel-powered generator was fitted to operate the oil burner and an electrically-driven feed pump, and a diesel-powered compressor was fitted to power the braking system. Additionally, the locomotive was fitted with a feedwater heater. The overall result was a dramatic change in the appearance of the locomotive. However, the trials of the locomotive were disappointing and it never entered regular service. In early 2011, it was in Tindharia Works awaiting reconversion to coal-firing.
In March 2001, No.794 was transferred to the Matheran Hill Railway to allow a "Joy Train" (steam-hauled tourist train) to be operated on that railway. It did not, however, enter service there until May 2002.
DIESEL
Four diesel locomotives are in use: Nos. 601-2, 604 and 605 of the NDM6 class transferred from the Matheran Hill Railway.
Past
In 1910 the railway purchased the third Garratt locomotive built, a D Class 0-4-0+0-4-0.
Only one DHR steam locomotive has been taken out of India, No.778 (originally No.19). After many years out of use at the Hesston Steam Railway, it was sold to an enthusiast in the UK and restored to working order. It is now based on a private railway (The Beeches Light Railway) in Oxfordshire but has run on the Ffestiniog Railway, the Launceston Steam Railway and the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway.
IN POPULAR CULTURE
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has long been viewed with affection and enthusiasm by travellers to the region and the Earl of Ronaldshay gave the following description of a journey in the early 1920s:
"Siliguri is palpably a place of meeting... The discovery that here the metre gauge system ends and the two foot gauge of the Darjeeling-Himalayan railway begins, confirms what all these things hint at... One steps into a railway carriage which might easily be mistaken for a toy, and the whimsical idea seizes hold of one that one has accidentally stumbled into Lilliput. With a noisy fuss out of all proportion to its size the engine gives a jerk - and starts... No special mechanical device such as a rack is employed - unless, indeed, one can so describe the squat and stolid hill-man who sits perched over the forward buffers of the engine and scatters sand on the rails when the wheels of the engine lose their grip of the metals and race, with the noise of a giant spring running down when the control has been removed. Sometimes we cross our own track after completing the circuit of a cone, at others we zigzag backwards and forwards; but always we climb at a steady gradient - so steady that if one embarks in a trolley at Ghum, the highest point on the line, the initial push supplies all the energy necessary to carry one to the bottom."
The trip up to Darjeeling on railway has changed little since that time, and continues to delight travellers and rail enthusiasts, so much so that it has its own preservation and support group, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society.
Several films have portrayed the railway. Especially popular was the song Mere sapno ki rani from the film Aradhana where the protagonist Rajesh Khanna tries to woo heroine Sharmila Tagore who was riding in the train. Other notable films include Barfi!, Parineeta and Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman. The Darjeeling Limited, a film directed by Wes Anderson, features a trip by three brothers on a fictional long-distance train based loosely on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
TELEVISION
The BBC made a series of three documentaries dealing with Indian Hill Railways, shown in February 2010. The first film covers the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway, the second the Nilgiri Mountain Railway and the third the Kalka-Shimla Railway. The films were directed by Tarun Bhartiya, Hugo Smith and Nick Mattingly and produced by Gerry Troyna. The series won the UK Royal Television Society Award in June 2010. Wes Anderson's film The Darjeeling Limited also showcases three brothers riding the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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A game I play, called Furcadia. I decided to ask a patron from furcadia if I could borrow this picture and set it with my own colors and markings. Though (c) goes To disney. :)
Schedule and route map of Bi-State Transit's former #559 East St. Louis-Fairview Heights bus route.
From October 5, 1981 schedule brochure.
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A walking weekend around Hathersage, Derbyshire 02/10/2004 Hathersage (pronunciation: /ˈhæðəˌsɪdʒ/) is a village and civil parish in the Peak District in Derbyshire, England. It lies slightly to the north of the River Derwent, approximately 10 miles (16.1 km) south-west of Sheffield. The origin of its name is disputed, although it is generally accepted that the second half derives from the Old English word ecg meaning "edge". In 1086 it was recorded in the Domesday Book as Hereseige, and around 1220 it was recorded as Hauersegg.[1]
It is served by Hathersage railway station on the Hope Valley Line.
St Michael's Church
The earliest recorded church was built by Richard Bassett, son of Ralph Bassett, Chancellor of England in the reign of Henry I. The present Grade-I-listed[2] structure dates mainly from the late 14th and early 15th centuries. It has a stained glass window by Charles Kempe, which was removed from Derwent Chapel before it was submerged under the Ladybower Reservoir. Near the church is an earthwork called Camp Green, thought to have been constructed during the Danish occupation. It is also scheduled as a Norman ringwork castle of the 11th/12th century.[3] In the graveyard lies the base and lower shaft of a plain early Saxon cross.[4]
Stones in the churchyard mark what is known as the grave of Little John, where in 1780 James Shuttleworth claims to have unearthed a thigh bone measuring 72.39 centimetres (28.50 in). This would have made Little John 8.08 feet (2.46 m) in height. One claimant to Robin Hood "of Locksley" is the village of Loxley, only eight miles over the moors on the edge of Sheffield. A number of local landmarks are associated with Robin Hood, such as Robin Hood's Cross on Abney Moor, Robin Hood's Stoop on Offerton Moor, and Robin Hood’s Cave on Stanage Edge.
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North Lees Hall
In 1845, Charlotte Brontë stayed at the Hathersage vicarage, visiting her friend Ellen Nussey, whose brother was the vicar, while she was writing Jane Eyre. Many of the locations mentioned in her novel match locations in Hathersage, the name Eyre being that of a local gentry family. Her "Thornfield Hall" is widely accepted to be North Lees Hall, on the outskirts of Hathersage.
In 1566, Christopher Schutz, a German immigrant, who invented a process for drawing wire, set up a works in Hathersage. This became important in sieves used by miners, and later developed into pin and needle production. This led to one of the first Factory Acts, because inhalation of grinding dust resulted in a life expectancy of only thirty years. In the mid-18th century, Hathersage became famous for its brass buttons. Some of the mill buildings from this era have been converted into flats.
Hathersage Moor is the site of the Carl Wark hillfort and Higger Tor.
Because of the scenery of the Hope and Derwent valleys, its literary connections, and easy access by train or road from Sheffield and Manchester, Hathersage is a tourist destination. Its visitors come to swim (open-air heated swimming pool, with cafe open all year[5]), climb (Stanage Edge, which with other nearby edges have been the nursery for many famous British rock and mountain climbers), or ramble in its river valleys or hillwalk on its open moors.
In 1990, the cutler David Mellor opened the Round Building built on the site of a former gasometer as a cutlery factory in the village. The building was designed by architect Sir Michael Hopkins. In 2007, an extension to the old retort house on the site was opened as a design museum. Mellor's wife, Fiona MacCarthy, continues to live in Hathersage.
Some of the scenes of the horror film Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974, directed by Jorge Grau, also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue) were shot at St. Michael's Church in Hathersage.
Hathersage has a population of 2,000 people with three churches, one school and numerous community organisations. There is an annual gala, scarecrow building competition and well dressing in July. On 1 April 2015 Hathersage and Outseats, the two parishes that currently comprise the village, will be replaced by a single new parish council, to be called Hathersage Parish Council. Despite the aforementioned the population recorded at the 2011 Census was 1,433 only.[6]
Hathersage is also home to Hathersage F.C. who currently compete in the Hope Valley Amateur League.
Tom Bennett and Mathieu Jean Robinette at the Baker County Fair in Baker City Oregon.
Some amazing musicians in Baker City tonight after the Carl Wendt Memorial Bronc Riding during the Baker County Tom Bennett -Country/Blues and Rooster.
Baker County is home to more than 2 dozen Oregon Century Farms and Ranches and agriculture is still an important part of the local culture. The Baker County Fair in Baker City is a celebration of this rich agricultural heritage. The second weekend in August, the fair is all about farming, agriculture, and 4H, offering visitors a glimpse of rural Americana.
For more information including complete schedule of Baker County fair events and activities visit
www.bakercounty.org/fair_/fair.html
For more information about other Baker County events and festivals visit the Baker County tourism website at www.basecampbaker.com
Wednesday 09 July 2014 - Day 10 - Jancapampa (3,673m / 12,050ft) - Quebrada Jancapampa (3,535m / 11,600ft) - Wild camp below Yanacon Pass (4,189m / 13,743ft)
Another fab day.
Awake early, and all packed by the time bed tea was delivered on schedule at 7am by Luis and Amner, along with the news that they'd had a fine time at last night's fiesta. I regretted not going.
Breakfast in the big tent, together with the nurse and the young boy. Anne and Val held an impromptu health clinic outside, tending an old lady with infected cuts on her hands, and working out some basic physio exercises for the boy.
At 8.20am-ish we set off downhill past scattered farms with girls feeding pigs and men leading out cattle, and into the Quebrada Jancapampa proper. High above the glaciers remained shrouded in cloud. A fine walk along the flat, working around the streams and boggy bits, and meeting a couple and a solo man who'd come down from their farms in search of LED solar lights - duly distributed.
We climbed out of the valley through woodland - hard work, but satisfying when we emerged by a babbling brook for a drink and sweets in the sunshine.
A slow and steady walk - sometimes flat, sometimes steep, sometimes in the open, sometimes in sparse woodland, at other times scrambling up dry waterfall gullies - brought us to a wide open upland valley where the donkeys were being unloaded. The farmers at Jancapampa had rented us some more donkeys and a medical horse. En route, wild flowers galore, and a hummingbird sighting.
Anne, Mike and I mucked in to pitch our still damp tents on neatly grazed grass sprinkled with flowers and took photos of the super scenic setting while lunch was prepared - a feast of veg noodle soup, toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches with pimento stuffed olives, gherkins, tuna and guacamole adornment options. Lots of tea.
Revitalised, Christine, Anne and I put our boots back on and clambered over rock slabs above the camp to explore - fabulous views of the ridge coming down from the pass and the valley wed' walked up, a hidden loch and the rare red shongo shongo plant. A lovely stroll back to camp for a wash (with Aguaaaaar paraaaaa lavarrrrrrrr, naturally) and a read - The Guardian Book of Mountains, appropriately.
The rest of the afternoon was whiled away in our now familiar routine - tea, diary, Scrabble/Yahtzee/Ten Thousand. All very sociable, but easily so.
Another gem of an evening meal - Bean soup with egg drop and spring onion garnish, BBQ chicken and chips (BBQ-sauced champignons for me), broccoli and carrots. All rounded off with panettone and custard. The camp fire kept us warm as the chickens roasted and we star gazed.... the daytime cloud cover breaking up to reveal a sparkling night sky. A cold night ahead. Feeling truly away from it all for the first time.
Read more about my Cordillera Blanca trek with Val Pitkethly.
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With short notice, today provided a short and unexpected window of opportunity where the chance elements of weather, my work schedule, my parenting schedule, and aircraft availability all magically lined up.
At the last minute, I texted a friend, who had the day off who had expressed interest in flying with me. She's new to Oregon, and didn't know if she'd seen the Columbia Gorge before.
And what a treat. Large areas that still fall under the shadow of the cascades had plenty of snow left.
After a right downwind departure from KTTD, I flew eastward into the Gorge. With the help of air traffic controllers, I avoided no less than three helicopters and two fixed-wing aircraft also taking advantage of the temporary break in the weather.
Passing Vista House (aka Crown Point) where the turbulence is usually moderate to extreme, I found the winds calm. Where I'd normally climb to 3,000 ft to get into smoother air, it was just fine at 1,500 ft, which is far better for aerial photography.
Past Cascade Locks, over the town of Hood River and into the draw where the bulk of the town sits, then continuing east to the leeward side of the Cascades, the terrain goes from lush forest to desert as you approach the town of The Dalles.
I had planned to land at The Dalles (an uncontrollled airport) and grab some coffee, and I cut across a bend in the river to overfly the town as I cut the throttle and began a descent.
I self-announced "The Dalles traffic, Skyhawk Two Mike Romeo is 5 miles west, entering the 45 for a left downwind for runway three one. The Dalles."
No answer. Quiet day this far east.
Entering the pattern from 45 degrees into the downwind leg, now parallel to the runway off to my left, it looked like the runway was covered in ice. Hmm.
I keyed the mic, "The Dalles traffic, Skyhawk Two Mike Romeo on left downwind for runway three one. The Dalles." Nobody else on the radio.
I eyed the windsock. Nothing. Automated weather had broadcast winds at 4 knots, straight down the runway. Not remotely a concern, but I'm not liking what still looks like ice.
Abeam the end of approach end of runway 31, I drop down to 1500 RPM, roll back one full wheel of trim, and let my airspeed drop until I can put in 10 degrees of flaps, still eye-balling the runway, now behind my left shoulder.
I descend 200 ft, and make a 90 degree turn to my left, putting in 20 degrees or flaps, and again, self-announce "The Dalles, Two Mike Romeo on left base for three one."
Drop another 300 ft, make another 90 degree turn, and now 500 ft above the runway and nicely lined up, "The Dalles, Two Mike Romeo on final for three one...uhhh... this will be a low approach".
This means I'm not actually going to land. I can't tell if the runway is wet, or if it's a block of ice. I know the temperature is above freezing, but I don't really need that coffee.
I descend until I'm 50 ft above the runway, the fly down the centerline, close the carburetor heat, add power, and slowly raise my flaps until I'm past the runway and have plenty of speed, climbing up and away.
Aside from a few pockets of mild turbulence, we fly at a slow and leisurely 2000 ft all the way back until I'm 10 miles east of KTTD.
I contact air traffic control, and I'm advised to make a straight-in arrival and call them back when I'm 2 miles out.
No pattern this time. I pass Crown Point at 1000 ft, wave to the crowds of tourists that aren't there, and fly my approach down to a nice smooth landing just an hour before the overcast and visibility start to drop.
Not a bad day!
5E19 10:26 READING TRAINCARE DEPOT - 16:44 BOTANIC GARDENS D.M.U.D. running on 29/01/2019
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STP schedule runs TO from 29/01/2019 - 29/01/2019
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Rhode Island Pride
RI PrideFest
Illuminated Night Parade (New England's only illuminated night Pride Parade)
"ROAR" The Official RI Pride After Party presented by The Dark Lady & Alleycat
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PrideFest
12:00 pm to 8:00pm
40th Anniversary PrideFest takes place in the heart of downtown on South Water Street, along the Providence River waterfront.
Performance schedule includes:
4:20pm Glenn Stewart "Around Again" - "Little Miss John Wayne" (ROXXI bass player "Drive It To Ya Hard!" as seen on MTV Headbangers Ball)
4:20pm Joslyn Fox, RuPaul's Drag Race season 6, Logo TV
5:50pm Nina Sky (Puerto Rican duo) "Move Ya Body" - "Oyi Mi Canto"
6:30pm Sarah Potenza (Sarah & The Tall Boys) The Voice season 8, NBC Television "Monster"
7:30pm Ephraim Adamz "I'm Thirsty"
* Special performance from Kristine W (Weitz) "Feel What You Want" - "One More Try" - "Walk Away" - "Some Lovin'"
The RI Pride Illuminated Night Parade
8:00pm
The RI Pride Illuminated Night Parade winds its way through the streets of Providence from the intersection of Dorrance and Weybosset Streets, makes a left on Washington Street, and turns left on Empire Street, traveling past the reviewing stand.
10:00pm - 3:00am
EGO Saturday Dance Party
Chi Chi DeVayne, RuPaul's Drag Race season 8, Logo TV
June 18th 2016 WaterFire Providence Full Lighting (Sunset 8:24pm), Rhode Island Pride 40th Anniversary, RI PrideFest, Illuminated Night Parade and the Official RI Pride After Party all took place on the same date in the city of Providence, Rhode Island
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Facts about Rhode Island:
Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States.
Polo was played for the first time in the United States in 1876 near Newport
Rhode Island was home to the first National Lawn Tennis Championship in 1899
Rhode Island's official state name is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
The White Horse Tavern was built in 1673 and is the oldest operating tavern in the United States
Rhode Island founder is Roger Williams
State Nickname - The Ocean State, Little Rhody
State Motto - "Hope"
State Song - Rhode Island, It's for Me
State flower - Violets
State tree - Red maple
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The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn (nightclub / bar / disco), located on Christopher Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
Many pride events happen in the month of June to commemorate this date.
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Rhode Island is app 180 miles from New York City and travel time on I95 without traffic is app 2hrs and 55 minutes one way
Greyhound Bus Service
Roundtrip bus service from New York City $39.00 (June 2016 rate)
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Rio 2016 Olympic Games Releases Everyday Competition Schedule | Rio 2016 Games | Rio 2016 Event Schedule
Rio 2016 Olympic Games Releases Everyday Competition Schedule. There will certainly be 306 medal occasions throughout the 42 Olympic sports disciplines at the Rio 2016 Games (Rio 2016).
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Yup, by the time you used up half of your calendar or schedule book, all of our suppliers already finalized their offer for 2008, some even started to sell their diaries with dates started from July/August 2007. This is the second year Midori's Traveler's Notebook releases diaries, it will be available in Japan from Sep and arrive Hong Kong in October. For 2008 version, it features two vesions: monthly and weekly.
The monthly version is not much different from last year. The new weekly version is comfortably separated into two notebooks containing Jan-Jun and Jul-Dec weeks respectively. You only need to carry what you need instead of a total 52 weeks for the entire year, particularly useful feature during second half of the year when you can lighten up the burden. I like the color of the covers very much, match the mood of the leather cover.
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Phase 1 of the Cannon Renewal Project began in January 2017 and is scheduled to be complete in November 2018. The entire west side of the building, from the basement to the fifth floor, is closed. Work includes demolishing and rebuilding the fifth floor, conserving the exterior stonework and rehabilitating the individual office suites.
Full project details at www.aoc.gov/cannon.
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A wallchart/wallpaper displaying the ICC World Cup 2011 schedule and all the fixtures from 19th Feb to 2nd April.
Tuesday 08 July 2014 - Day 09 - Quishuar (3,740m) - Tupatupa Pass (4,374m/14,350ft) - Jancapampa (3,673m / 12,050ft)
Bed tea was scheduled for 7am, but I was up and about (packing) half an hour earlier. Today we were moving on from Quishuar to pastures and vistas new.
Granola and Gloria strawberry yoghurt made another tasty breakfast, followed by sandwich making and a visit from the old lady who'd been brought to the clinic yesterday, bent double by arthritis but still living in a farmhouse high up in the hills above Quishuar.
Luis and Augustin packed up the tents and we piled up kit bags, watched by the village school children who were slowly congregating in the playing fields.... with the natural consequence that more photos were taken. With a bit of a delay due to transport complications (aka the promised donkeys and medical horse didn't turn up) and farewells to Juan and Michael who were walking the old lady home, we set off.
Beautiful blue skies above as we crossed the Rio Huercrococha and walked upstream towards the Blanca, before taking a last look at the Lucma valley and turning right into the wider valley we'd seen yesterday, with its own winding stream and scattering of farms. Kiswar bushes (after which the village of Quishuar is named) lined sections of the path, and occasionally we found ourselves strolling through woods of Quenual (paperbark) trees.
Easy walking up the valley, trying to beat the clouds to the snowy peaks of Nevado Pukahirka / Pucajirca Sur (6,039 m) / 19,813ft) - we managed it, just. Wonderful views. Lots of photos.
As the clouds gathered, we turn away from the Cordillera Blanca, for a tougher stretch walking uphill over grassland to the Tupatupa Pass (4,374m/14,350ft). Lovely views over rolling hills and long valleys, but under gloomy skies. We lunched at the pass and waited for Melky, Augustin, Luis, Amner and the donkeys. Melky arrived first, carrying his new fishing rod - a present from Dave. Christine and I headed uphill (getting to about 4,400m / 14 440ft) to see if we could get a better view of Pukahirka - which we did, together with more peaks and ridges, snow and glaciers, glacier-scoured rocks and glacier-fed waterfalls. Definitely a pass to return to under cloudless skies.
I took it slow on the steep downhill section from the pass, partly for the knees, partly for the views - the clouds were starting to lift and the snow shone brightly in the sunlight.
Our destination was one of the farm on the hills above Jancapampa, and from high above we could see our tents being put up, and dark clouds gathering over the ridges on the far side of the valley and the glaciers rolling down from Nevado Pukahirka / Pucajirca Central (6,014m / 19,731ft). Strolling through farmland we passed fields of beautiful blue flowers and the familiar 'lupins', which turn out to be chocho beans.
Arriving in camp about 2.30pm, we settled into our tents - after three nights in Quishuar I'd got my camp craft down to a fine art - and pottered around the campsite, watching the flocks of sheep and goats being herded home for the day, shepherdesses spinning as they went. The farmhouses we were camping near had gardens of colourful flowers enclosed in stone walls.
Tea and popcorn in the tent, with diary writing and Scrabble accompanied by the sound of an occasional patter of raindrops on the canvas, and the long low rumble of avalanches from above. Later in the afternoon we were visited by the family from the farm and a local trained nurse who looks after a disabled orphan.
Superb dinner: soup (always!), squash curry (surprise ingredient: strawberry jam to temper the chilli), tinned peaches. I'm afraid I wimped out of joining Val and the crew at the fiesta held at the farmhouse in honour of Val's visit. The music played on pipe, harp and drum provided the soundtrack to sleep after a satisfying day of proper peaks. Not so sure what tomorrow will bring weatherwise....
Not so many barking dogs tonight, but heavy rain and a rooster at 4am instead.
Read more about my Cordillera Blanca trek with Val Pitkethly.
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