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Mark Weinberger, Global Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, EY, USA speaking during the Session "Towards Better Capitalism" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
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Henry Blodget, Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief, Business Insider, USA, Theresa Whitmarsh, Executive Director, Washington State Investment Board, USA, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, USA, Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA; Member of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum during the Session "Towards Better Capitalism" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
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On 2nd May 2009 We Start Hiking Towards Sharda Mandir and University .while Crossing a Hanging Bridge an army soldier told us do not take pictures of these bridges and Sharda Mandir or university.. any way A Great Landscape in May and we realy enjoy the Hiking which was literly 90 Digree High and make our toungs out of our mouths ..
:::Sharda History::
Great effort, one can never escape history. The Sharda temple has a special significance in the evolution of the Kashmiri Pandits as an intellectual identity.It is the ancient site of learning in the subcontinent.The script of Kashmiri language is also called Sharda and the script has been named in the honour of the Presiding deity of the temple i.e the Goddess Sharda- the Goddess of learning.Even to this day the Saraswat Brahmins who migrated to the other parts of India due to the successive intrusions and invasions of the religious zealots from Kashmir make their prayers, while the yagnopavit ceremony(putting on the sacred thread) by chanting the sloka-Namastey Sharda Devi Kashmirpura Vasani (salutations to the goddess Sharda who has her abode in Kashmir).
Kashmir's association with Hinduism is very old. The very name Kashmir derived from Kashyapa, one of the seven Rishis in Hindu mythology. Kashmiri Pandit are an ancient people and are often mentioned to to be the purest of Aryans. All evidence points that this Race had its origin from the Vale of Kashmir and its neighbourhood. Moreover, many ancient epics refer to Kashmiri Brahmins as people of great learning.
Kashmiri Pandits have made significant contributions to thought and science. Abhinavagupta, Kalhana have been stalwarts in the fields of, philosophy and history respectively. Kashmir figures prominently in Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's compositions. The birth place of Charaka one of the founders of ayurveda and Indian medice in general is also considered to be in Kashmir. Many Sanskritic scholars and poets (i.e. Bilhana, Mahimbhatta, Ksemraja, Vasugupta, Anandvardhana, Ksemendra) were Kashmiris.
During the period of Islamic rule of the Kashmir valley, hundreds of Hindu and buddhist temples in Kashmir were destroyed.9 As a result, Kashmiri Pandits gradually migrated to other parts of India to escape persecution. Many Kashmiri pandits and buddhist were forcefully converted which in time resulted in Kashmir becoming predominantly Muslim. The devastation wrought by the Turkish general from Turkmenistan Zulju in 1320, during his conquest of many regions of Kashmir Valley was especially noteworthy.
Sultan Sikandar Butshikan (1389-1413), the seventh Muslim ruler in Kashmir, is known for his oppression of non-Muslim populations, which caused many Kashmiri Pandits to leave the Kashmir valley.[1] Historians call him an idol-breaker (or iconoclast) and he is said to have killed several thousand Kashmiri Pandits and/or forced them to convert to Islam or flee.[2] Sultan Ali Shah and others followed suit.[3] There have been a few Muslim rulers who were tolerant towards the Pandits, however they were not able to ultimately alleviate the plight of the Pandits. This can be ascertained from the fact that the Pandits never rose to their pre-Islamic glory and that their population in the valley continued to decrease over time. From the 14th century due to the growth of Islam their numbers in the valley began to diminish and the Muslims by spreading Islam began to outnumber them.
Shot on the Mamiya 7 mk2 using Kodak T-MAX 400 Film. Not to be used or blogged without my permission.
09 red Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 F-13 C/n Unknown Preserved. Displayed in the town on the road towards the base entrance.
Google Map co-ordinates: N55.60265, E38.10867
One of several shots I made from the Empire State Building.
Here you see the blocks around the Garment District, and to the extreme right, Hell's Kitchen, and planespotters might be able to make out the Phantom aboard the USS Intrepid ;-)
Behind is the Hudson River and Weehawken, New Jersey.
We were blessed with a gin clear sky, but my advice would be not bother paying the extra $$ to go to the very top as the view is no different really! The 86th floor is the main deck, being in open air. The 102nd floor is very small and totally enclosed.
Manhattan, New York
1st October 2017
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Carmel-By-The-Sea, California
(March 8, 2013)
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Looking through the mist towards London. The Thames can be seen near the Isles of Dogs before disappearing. Seen from the top of Severndroog Castle, Shooters Hill.
This beach picture was taken on the Applecross peninsula in North West Scotland. This beach is just a couple of miles north of Applecross and looks across to the Isle of Skye.
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Székesfehérvár, one of Hungary's oldest and most historical cities, in medieval times a coronation and burial place of the Hungarian kings - more about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9kesfeh%C3%A9rv%C3%A1r
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..............towards The Benett Arms (which has lost it's 'B'!) and was built in 1875. Tisbury, Wiltshire.
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The village has some historical significance. As in much of the Wiltshire downs, there is evidence of Bronze Age settlement and traces of a probable henge monument with some evidence of settlement 3–4000 years ago. To the southeast of the village there is a quite large hill fort, known as Castle Ditches.
The Saxon settlement came into the possession of Shaftesbury Abbey across the county border in Dorset. The administration centre was the monastic grange, still called Abbey Grange Place Farm. Its 15th-century thatched tithe barn, a Grade I listed building, bears the largest thatched roof in England. The old Wardour Castle lies approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the southwest of Tisbury.
The village's 13th-century prosperity came from the quarries that produced stone for the building of Salisbury Cathedral, and from the wool that supported a local cloth industry. The village suffered a serious setback with the Black Death in the mid-14th century but slowly recovered. Thomas Mayhew (31 March 1593 – 25 March 1682) who in 1642 established the first English settlement at Martha's Vineyard in North America, was born in Tisbury. On John Speed's map of Wiltshire of 1611, the village's name is recorded as Tilburye: the cartographer or the engraver clearly having mistaken a long s for an l.
Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle, a great landowner and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, was entombed in the Tisbury parish church, St John's, in 1598. The churchyard also holds the graves of Rudyard Kipling's parents, John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Kipling (née MacDonald), and contains the second oldest tree in Great Britain, a large yew tree which is believed to be around 4,000 years old. According to one source, "After a long and distinguished artistic career in India, the Kiplings moved to a residence along Hindon Lane which they renamed 'The Gables'. Their famous son visited them here and, whilst working on his novel Kim, his father (his illustrator) used the drawings of one of the pupils from Tisbury Boys' School as the model for the main character."
Another photo of Hyacinth blooming towards spring. I wanted to make the "main" blossom pop out. Various techniques applied.
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Televised Session "Towards Better Capitalism" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
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Some photos of the new A45 road section near Birmingham Airport where the original road was diverted to make way for the runway extension, seen here before opening, although the footpath/cycle lane was opened about five days before the first carriageway.
Powdery dry snow, temperature heading towards minus 15F, wind gusting around 30 miles per hour giving a wind-chill "Feels Like" of some 40 below zero. That's some bitter cold wind right there.
I hope the power stays on. We're gonna be mighty cold if it goes out.
Stay warm and safe all you in the path of this deep freeze storm.
72 days until Spring.