The Ford XY Falcon GT is an Australian built car based on the Ford XY Falcon. Released in 1970 with the GTHO Phase III released in 1971. 1,557 units were produced from September 1970 to December 1971 with 300 GTHO Phase IIIs produced from May 1971 to November 1971. It was the fourth in the initial series of Ford Falcon GT muscle cars. A limited number were exported to South Africa, wearing Fairmont GT badging. This model is starting to increase in value as genuine GTs become harder to find.

With the rev limiter disabled it was capable of 228 kilometres per hour (142 mph) and would pull 7,000+ rpm in 4th gear. The rev limiter was set to 6,150 rpm. [not as ex factory/production then]

Technical details:

Engine Specifications:

Engine: 351 cubic inch Cleveland V8 (5.763 litre)

Bore & Stroke: 102 x 89mm (4.00 x 3.50in)

Power (DIN): 224kW (300bhp) @ 5400rpm

Torque (DIN:) 515Nm (380lb-ft) @ 3400rpm

Compression Ratio: 11:1

Configuration: Front mounted, longitudinal, 90 degree V8

Head Design: Pushrod & rocker OHV with hydraulic lifters

Exhaust System: Cast iron manifold, low restriction twin exhaust

Fuel System: 600cfm Autolite 4 barrel carburettor

Ignition System: Single point distributor

GTHO Phase III

The Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III was built for homologation, it looked almost identical to the GT. The modified version the Falcon GT built in 1971 with a heavily upgraded engine, a 4 speed top-loader gearbox and Detroit locker 9" differential. It was also equipped with special brakes and handling package, plus a 36 imperial gallons (164 litres) fuel tank.

Winner of the 1971 Bathurst 500, driven by Allan Moffat, the Phase III has been described as "...simply one of the best cars in the world, a true GT that could take on Ferraris and Astons on their own terms..." by Sports Car World.

The GTHO's 351 Cleveland engine output was understated as 300 bhp (224 kW) to satisfy insurers. It is generally accepted to produce in the region of 350-380 bhp (265 kW -283 kW). Initial cars were equipped with an electrical rev limiter which came into effect at 6,150 rpm. With the rev limiter disabled, the engine was reputed to pull in excess of 7,000 rpm, even in 4th gear. The Phase III GTHO was Australia's fastest four-door production car.

Performance:

Top Speed: 228 km/h (142 mph) @ 6150rpm 0 - 60 mph - 8.4 seconds 0 – 100 km - 8.9 seconds Standing 1/4 mile (400m) - 15.4 seconds

Value

The Phase III GTHO is in incredibly high demand with collectors and investors. Good examples have been sold for prices in excess of A$700,000. Due to this demand, a small production run, and 'fewer than 100 remaining' there been a flow on effect into values of the lesser XW and other XY Falcons, particularly genuine GS and 'standard' GT models. Other models that have also benefited from the appreciation of the GTHO include the XA and XB GT hardtops, the earlier XW GTHO Phase 1 and 2 and the XC Cobra.

A Falcon XY GTHO Phase III was sold at by Bonhams & Goodmans at auction for A$683,650 in March 2007. The car had only 40,000 km on the clock. The buyer of the car said it will be garaged, and that it won't be driven, but that he will be "keeping it as an investment". The sale price set a new auction record for Australian muscle cars. Whilst in June 2007 another Phase III sold for A$750,000. Shannons national auctions manager Christophe Boribon blames the global financial crisis for the collapse in values. "We reached an artificial high a couple of years ago but then the GFC hit. Now it is back to reality, " he said. "There is only a limited number of buyers out there for a car like that. "The car is a very rare car. The car is the holy grail of Australian muscle cars."Falcon GTHO Phase III

Price new 1971: $5300 Value 2007: $683,500 Value 2008: close to $1 million Value 2010: $331, 000

The Phase III GT is one of the few cars ever made that appreciated in value from the moment it left the dealership - even in 1975, four-year-old Phase IIIs were fetching prices equivalent to or higher than the on-road price of brand new XB GTs from Ford dealers.

Successor to the GTHO Phase III

In 1972, the XY series Falcon was replaced by the XA Falcon range. Production of approximately 200 XA-based Falcon GT-HO Phase IV cars was originally scheduled to take place in June/July 1972, but this was terminated at 'the eleventh hour' due to what became known as "The Supercar scare". The Sun-Herald newspaper had run this as a front page lead article (with banner headline in large capital letters) on Sunday 25 June 1972: "160mph 'Super Cars' Soon". (not) A copy of that front page is shown at the start of a Phase IV documentary.

Only one vehicle had been completed when production was cancelled. Three standard GTs were also at various stages of conversion into GT-HO race cars for the Bathurst 500 in October 1972. These four vehicles were later sold to specific individuals and/or dealers by Ford Australia. The Phase IV was never officially released.

[Text from Wikipedia]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_XY_Falcon_GT

This miniland-scale Lego 1971 Ford Falcon XY GT-HO Phase III has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 91st Build Challenge, - "Anger Management", - all about cars with some link to being angry.

Gentlepersons:

The Kodachrome Pictures:

These recently uploaded Kodachrome pictures have no artistic value. They were just uploaded to be representative of consumer Kodachrome picture recording during about 70 of the 75 years that Kodachrome was commercially available to the public. Unlike in today’s digital world it took time, money and effort to make a Kodachrome slide. We took fewer pictures, trying to stretch resources, but some sere still frivolous.

I'm 97 (2106). In between health downturns, I fear this will be my last chance to post much. The ratio of today’s digital pictures that are kept for any length of time and/or printed is much less than the film photos taken in days past. History will be lost. Meanwhile you get to be bored by some old Kodachromes.

The Camera:

Most of these pictures are not very sharp. They were taken with an Argus AF 35mm miniature Bakelite camera bought in 1938 at the USNA by saving much of my small student stipend for about six months. It had a Cooke style three element lens of marginal quality for its day of laughable quality compared with any of today’s SLR lenses. It had slightly better resolving ability than today’s ever more scarce disposable film cameras. The AF was an Argus upgrade which enabled the camera to focus at different lengths from about 1.5 feet to infinity. Most consumer cameras of that day were what we call medium format today. Most of the cheaper consumer grade cameras were little more than box- cameras with single element non-focusing meniscus lenses. The larger film hid much of the softness. The then newer miniature cameras had to do better because of the smaller film exposure size.

This one was taken by an Instamatic.

Members of the embarked Air Detachment onboard HMCS FREDERICTON conduct maintenance on the CH-148 Cyclone helicopter’s main rotor head during Operation REASSURANCE on 21 February 2023 in Souda Bay, Greece.

Please credit: Cpl Noé Marchon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo

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Members of the HMCS FREDERICTON diving team after a dive during Operation REASSURANCE on 22 February 2023 in Souda Harbour, Crete.

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Des membres de l’équipe de plongée du NCSM FREDERICTON après avoir effectué une plongée au cours de l’opération REASSURANCE, le 22 février 2023, dans la baie de Souda, en Grèce.

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For a rustic overnight stay deep in eastern Oregon, let your tires roll past the Painted Hills…one of Oregon’s Seven Wonders…and drive deep into John Day River Territory to the Priest Hole Recreation Site. Although primitive, camping here lands you in the middle of the Wild and Scenic John Day River, designated for scenery, recreation, fish, wildlife and geologic values. Camping is allowed everywhere, including on the gravel bar northeast of Priest Hole, where you sleep to the gurgle of the river and stepping out of your tent or trailer lands your foot in the water.

Know Before You Go: Open YEAR ROUND but the rough road can make access difficult in winter.

Accessibility Priest Hole is primitive and not easily accessible for people with disabilities.

There is one toilet; NO potable water, trash cans or campsite amenities. Fire restrictions run June 1 – September 30 (liquid gas or propane only).

No FEES for camping or floating the one-mile section around Priest Hole. Hunting and fishing licenses are required.

PETS are allowed. Watch for rattlesnakes at all times.

Directions: Priest Hole is located on the John Day River about 12 miles from Mitchell, Oregon. From Prineville, head east on Highway 26 and turn north on Burnt Ranch Road toward the John Day Fossil Beds, Painted Hills Unit. Pass the Painted Hills and follow the gravel road for 3 miles. Take a right (uphill) at the junction of Priest Hole or Burnt Ranch Rec Sites. From there, take a left downhill, following the sign to Priest Hole.

Point of Interest: Priest Hole is a local favorite for fishing and swimming. Stopping here is a natural part of a visit to the Painted Hills, Sutton Mountain Back Country Byway and eastern Oregon!

Contact:

Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District

3050 N.E. 3rd St., Prineville, OR 97754

541-416-6700

Balloon's Day Parade - Comic Strip Experience 2020

The immersive experience

Ta-da! The Brussels Comic Strip Festival has turned into an immersive experience in the impressive Gare Maritime at Tour & Taxis. The route, spread over more than 3,400m2 and combining breathtaking scenery and giant balloons, takes you on a journey through nine drawn worlds. It's an educational experience developed in collaboration with publishers and various partners.

Curious? Follow the guide.

9 worlds

Bob et Bobette/Suske &Wiske (Willy Vandersteen / Standaard Uitgeverij)

You start your immersive journey with Spike & Suzy (Bob & Bobette in French, Suske & Wiske in Dutch). Professor Barabas welcomes you in his strange laboratory. It is here that the famous duo reveals the secrets that link them to Brussels. What's more, Spike & Suzy are celebrating their 75th anniversary this year! It's a great opportunity to discover the new giant balloon bearing their faces. You can also see the heroes in their famous car 'Vitamitje' (Vitaminette in French), one of professeur Barabas' thousands of inventions, which appeared for the first time in the album 'De sprietatoom' (le Rayon Magique in French) in 1946.

Yakari (Joris Chamblain, Job & Derib / Le Lombard)

A very different world reveals itself to you here; that of Yakari. By the new giant Yakari balloon and in the setting of a real native American village, you learn the history of Yakari and his people. They have a rich past, full of history and legends, and have a lot to teach us about respect for nature and ecological values.

Yasmina (Wauter Mannaert / Dargaud) (French)

Go for a stroll through the big vegetable garden belonging to Yasmina. Salads, pumpkins, carrots, edible plants, ... Yasmina, a talented young chef, gives you her tips for 'good food'.

Lucien et les mysterieux phenomenes (Le Lay & Horellou / Casterman) (French)

Discover the unique decor of Lucien et les mysterieux phenomenes (Lucien and the mysterious phenomena). Do you know Art Nouveau? Inside Mr Price's splendid building you will learn more about this architectural and artistic movement. The art of 'living together' is also a theme specific to his world.

Alternative comic strips

Ten young Belgian authors present their wonderful worlds. An exhibition introduces you to alternative comic strips with original works by Charlotte Pollet, Mortis Ghost, Gabri Molist, Aniss El Hamouri, Felix Laurent, Exaheva, Aurelie Wilmet, Rebecca Rosen, Stephane de Groef and Mathilde Van Gheluwe. Each author edited a comic strip with alternative comics publishers.

Star Wars - 501st FanWars Garrison South Belgium

Welcome to a galaxy far, far away. FanWars and its garrison of empire soldiers accompanies you through a decor filled with a 6m AT-AT and a giant BB8 balloon, both well-known to Star Wars fans around the world.

Korean Webtoons - The Korean Cultural Center

What is a Webtoon? They're digital comics which are loved by Koreans. Discover this new trend thanks to the Korean Cultural Center in Brussels.

L'Eleve Ducobu (Zidrou et Godi / Le Lombard)

It's the perfect opportunity (or not) to go back to school. Ducobu, the nation's favourite dunce, welcomes you to his classroom and gives you some tips on how to cheat. You never know, they could come in handy...

Gaston (Franquin / Dupuis)

At a time when teleworking is in vogue, discover the unlikely office of Gaston Lagaffe and his zany inventions. But how does he ever get any work done?

The giant balloons and Billy and Buddy's 2CV

Your comic strip stroll is accompanied by about fifteen giant balloons distributed all along the route. You'll find the stars of the Balloon Parade floating in the heart of the majestic Gare Maritime at Tour & Taxis. Ducobu, Spirou, Tintin, a Classic Smurf, Papa Smurf, Lucky Luke, Gaston Lagaffe, BB8, Blork, Le Chat, Billy, Yakari (new 2020), Spike & Suzy (new 2020), Dooly, Toto and the Atomium... they're all here. Even Moucherot, the hero of our 2020 poster by Francois Boucq, will make an appearance for this edition.

Exclusive! The Comics Art Museum has also brought out Billy & Buddy's 2CV.

( Balloon's Day Parade

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Members of HMCS FREDERICTON paint the hull of the ship from a floating scaffold during Operation REASSURANCE on 22 February 2023 in Souda Bay, Greece.

Please credit: Cpl Noé Marchon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo

Des membres d’équipage du NCSM FREDERICTON peignent la coque du navire à partir d’un échafaudage flottant au cours de l’opération REASSURANCE, le 22 février 2023, dans la baie de Souda, en Grèce.

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UN VALUE: Human Rights

This is not to say that one with a great amount of experience is always going to have an accurate intuition, however, the chances of it being more reliable are definitely amplified. The boy is taught to obey his teacher. Credit: United Nations/Mondal Nitai

HMCS FREDERICTON enters Souda Bay, Greece during Operation REASSURANCE, on 21 February 2023 in the Mediterranean Sea.

Please credit: Cpl Noé Marchon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo

Le NCSM FREDERICTON entre dans la baie de Souda, en Grèce, au cours de l’opération REASSURANCE, le 21 février 2023, dans la Méditerranée.

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Bindhyabasini, one of the oldest temples in the Pokhara valley, has an immense cultural value. The temple is dedicated to Goddess Bhagawati. Bhagavati is a popular deity - also in the Indian states of Kerala, Goa and Konkan. It can be used to refer any of the Hindu goddesses like Durga, Kannaki, Parvati, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Kali. In Goa, Bhagavati generally refers to the Mahishasurmardini form of Shakti.

Bindhyabasini is considered as one of the main and foremost Shaktipiths of western Nepal. Situated at a small hill-lock in between the main old market and Bagar it is at a height of 3000 ft. above from the sea level.

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

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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%.

WIKIPEDIA

It was 5.23 pm on 21st august 2004 when Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina was wrapping up a rally protesting Sylhet blasts. A wave of grenade attacks on her left at least 16 people killed and left around 200 persons critically injured including top Awami League leaders Abdur Razzak, Amir Hossain Amu, Suranjit Sengupta, Ivy Rahman and Kazi Zafarullah.

The party secretary on Women affairs Ivy Rahman died in the Hospital later in the day. The unknown assailants fired seven bullets at the bulletproof SUV that Hasina boarded immediately after the blast.

The unusually poor deployment of police at the rally and the absence of forces on nearby building rooftops are a remarkable deviation from the usual practice.

Motaher Hossain, general secretary of AL Krishak League said some people on the roof of Ramna hotel and adjacent building were throwing bombs. At least 13 grenades exploded one after another, and also who were present on the spot told a white Microbus carried of some injured person who were among the assailant and were wounded by their own bomb.

Blame game started at the very moment Hasina spoke out loud about government’s conspiracy to kill the remaining member of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujiber Rahman’s remaining family members, BNP leaders hold back and Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan commented that they have blamed the government out of emotion. But soon BNP leaders changed their tone and started to blame AL for attacking their own rally, they argued AL had done it to destabilize the country and discredit the government only to grab the power.

Fiction and conspiracy theories were put forward by various columnists in the media. Pro Awami columnists blamed the fundamentalist forces and the right wing coalition government for this attack while pro BNP columnists blamed AL and pointed finger towards the country’s biggest neighbor India.

However most columnists inclined towards Awami league and left parties and leaders and activists of these parties discovered a pattern in the bomb blasts. In most cases secular forces and those who believe in culture, tradition and democratic values had been the target. The same group was behind the attack on Hasina’s rally.

Those pro BNP columnists pick up the same incident and argued Hasina was not the target of those assailants, if she were their target then why none of those grenades fall on the truck and also wrote thousand pages about AL’s possible motive behind this?

Some suspected it as a plot by international Muslim extremist groups; some pointed towards the association of ISI (Inter Services Intelligence); while Jamaat leader Matiur Rahman Nizami believes it is the work of “well known enemies of Islam” who masterminded, through various covert organizations, to carry out such brutal murders.

It became increasingly hard to dig out the truth from these fictions. With conspiracy theories you can use any piece of evidence to either prove or disprove your opinion and you can pick up any particular incident to strengthen your position. Truth has many faces but with conspiracy theory all you can achieve is a thousand shade of the truth and all these are equally probable and could be equally false.

In this present regime we have finally a charge sheet that clearly indicates Awami Leagues position is correct in this issue, RAB and other government intelligence agency finally concluded that Islamic militants are behind this attack and also a small fraction of BNP activists patronized this attack.

But is it the whole truth or only a facade? Lets look at the proceedings of the investigations.

To investigate 21st August 2004 bomb blast then BNP government first employed metropolitan police’s detective branch to investigate this incident, then this case was handed over to the criminal investigation department of Bangladesh Police. Five investigating officer under 3 officers in charge investigated this incident for over 4 years and they had submitted two charge sheet contradicting each other.

What is the progress in this case? When ever you ask this question to a law enforcement officer, a certain reply will be that “we are still investigating this matter. We had some lead but for the sake of this on going investigation we can not tell you anything.” Even after submitting charge sheet against 22 person in June 11, 2008 and acquitting all other person found guilty (on the first charge sheet presented by the CID), still the investigation has not been closed. So far we have 2 persons who claimed that they had actively participated in this failed assassination. On 26th June, 2005 Joj Miah from Noakhali confessed to police that for 5000 taka he carried out this attack under the order of Subrata Bain, a top terrorist. Subrata Bain and his group had close ties with some notorious AL leaders and they fled to India after alliance government took over the state in October 2001. He confessed to a magistrate that he had never seen any grenade before but Subrata Bain, Joy, Molla Masud ordered him to participate in this assassination. ASP of Police [CID] Abdur Rashid was the investigation officer then.

But the government were not satisfied with this finding so led by Munsi Atikur Rahman the investigation continued. The investigation found a paved path established by the coalition government.

So far we have two investigation reports, one of them was by Justice Jaynul Abedin, chairman of the one man investigation committee formed by the government to investigate 21st august grenade attack on Awami leagues rally. Awami League has rejected this report claiming it lacks neutrality. And another one was submitted by the Supreme Court Bar Association. According to Moudud Ahmed, who was Law minister at that time, claimed that this inquiry committee is illegal.

Jaynul Abedin’s investigation report:

Justice Jaynul Abedin had submitted his 162 pages manuscript of coalition governments collective story on 2nd October 2004. He was the member and chairman of one man inquiry committee formed by the government to investigate the grenade attack on Awami League rally on 21st august. On the eve of this submission those authorities in concern had invited journalist to give some insight of the report.

After scrutiny, critical and painstaking analysis, Jaynul Abedin did omit the possibility that coalition government and his ally, some extremist religious group and a part of Awami League was behind this heinous attack on Awami League activists.

But he did claim with certainty that a foreign intelligence agency actively participated in this event. They trained those assailants and equipped them with necessary ammunitions. He described this event on that informal press conference, “this incident is a naked attack on the independence and sovereignty of the country.”

Because Jaynul Abedin was a BNP activist in the past, Awami League questioned the neutrality of the investigation committee. Even though 123 people given their statement to this committee but that does not include Sheikh Hasina, who was the prime target of this massacre. Sheikh Hasina rejected the call for her statement.

In that one and half hour informal briefing on the report prior to its submission Jaynul concluded “the commission may not have received cooperation from all, which may have somewhat hindered the investigation, but the inquiry is in no way incomplete.”

Like any other investigation report submitted by any government formed investigation committee it also embraced the fate to remain unpublished till-to-date.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) inquiry committee report:

On 22nd august, 2004, immediately after the grenade attack, The Supreme Court Bar Association formed an inquiry committee. Barrister Kamal Hossain was elected as the chairman of that committee and the other members of this committee were Rokonuddin Mahmud, Abdul Malek, Amir-ul-Islam, M Zahir and Muhammad Ayenuddin.

While Hasina wrapped up the rally, at that very moment a grenade went off loud and it was followed by at least 10 such explosions. Awami League leaders formed a human shield to cover Hasina from the splinter, they were injured in this process and soon after they escorted Hasina to her bullet proof SUV and Hasina left for Sudha Sadan, while on the move that SUV was attacked by bullets. Witnesses on their statement confirmed the SCBA inquiry committee that they had not seen any member of the law enforcing agency in action there.

After inspecting the place of occurrence on 27th august 2004 they went to Sudha Sadan, where Hasina assured the committee her full cooperation to find out the truth. Hasina’s security personal and her driver gave their statement to this committee and this committee also inspected the SUV.

Driver on his statement told the committee that he drove towards the east, then took a left turn and then he drove towards Sudha Sadan through zero point. But police officers deployed at the rally on 21st August on their statement said to inquiry committee, SUV carrying Sheikh Hasina away from that place drove westward, took a right turn, and then went to Sudha Sadan through zero point.

On 16th, 17th, 18th September the committee watched the video tape recorded by ATN, Channel I and NTV. On ATN video tape they saw a young man purposefully looking towards the multi storied Dhaka City Bhaban. Apart from this, on Channel I and NTV footage some suspicious incidents were seen by the committee members.

The inquiry committee sent two letters to Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, requesting her to extend cooperation for the inquiry and to direct the law enforcing agency to cooperate with them in interest of its work.

A letter was sent from the inquiry committee to IGP Shahudul Huq on 29 August 2004 requesting him to direct the police authorities to inform the inquiry committee of the number of persons who were deployed for maintaining the law and order in the public meeting on 21st August 2004 with the descriptions of their duties and locations.

After 3 weeks another letter was sent to him, requesting for his interview. The inquiry committee requested state minister of home affairs, but all of them turned down their request further more the law minister Moudud Ahmed on several occasion said that this inquiry committee had no legal basis and any report of any such illegal committee should not be recognized.

But the government did inform the SCBA inquiry committee that they had done every thing that is possible for them and sent a copy of the statement made by the State Minister for Home Affairs in the Parliament. In that speech the State Minister mentioned that the police made all out efforts to identify the culprits immediately after the incident and within 24 hours a Judicial Inquiry Commission was constituted with a judge of the Supreme Court as the sole Member. He also mentioned that the Government also arranged for an “international” inquiry into the 21st August incident side by side with Bangladesh police investigation and in response to the Government invitation 3 (three) teams from Interpol visited Bangladesh and helped the inquiry. Besides this, the government had also taken cooperation of FBI of USA.

The SCBA inquiry committee made repeated requests at the highest levels of the government for obtaining copies of reports of earlier bomb-blasts, the report of the ‘judicial inquiry’ into the 21 August, 2004 constituted by the Government, and other documents and information, but such requests have till-to-date were turned down.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) inquiry committee concluded it was a pre-planned attack, carried out on the basis of a carefully prepared plan, targeting Sheikh Hasina and other leaders and persons attending the rally. The firing of the bullets and grenades on the vehicle by which she was leaving the place of occurrence, confirms that she was the target.

The committee urged government to publish all reports of investigation within one month or else public may lead to believe attempt on Sheikh Hasina’s life was to some extent was patronized by this government.

The alleged HUJI rage against Awami League:

Some columnists claimed in the media that the AL government, after assuming power in 1996 barred Islamic scholars from issuing fatwa’s through a High Court order. The government also came on strong against the right wing protesters and arrested hundreds across the country. This had angered HUJI.

Mufti Abdul Hannan, the operative commander of the banned Harkatul Jihad-al-Islami revealed on 19th November 2006.

“I masterminded all grenade attacks across the country excepting the August 21, 2004 gruesome attack on the AL rally, and three people financed the outfit for carrying out the attacks”

Hannan gave another detailed statement on 1st November 2007:

“Kajol was given the responsibility to collect funds and grenades for the attack. They decided that 12 persons would carry out the attack and Kajol and Abu Jandal would select the commanders of the operation. It was decided that Kajol and Jandal brief the attackers about their positions and Jandal would throw the first grenade after getting instruction from Sayeed. The others would throw their grenades at around the same time. Hannan said the attackers targeted the truck and left the spot individually after the operation.”

However question remains as why HUJI chose to attack Hasina after all those years and during the period when there was a row of political killings of Awami League leaders (Kibria, Ahsan Master etc.) were happening. HUJI members were used but who masterminded the attack?

The BNP connection:

In January 2008, former deputy minister for information of the BNP government Abdus Salam Pintu was arrested for his involvement with the grenade attacks on Awami League rally on August 21 in 2004. He was arrested on the basis of confessional statement made earlier by detained Mufti Hannan who claimed that the attack on the AL rally was planned at the official residence of the former Deputy Minister. Hannan said that Pintu was present at the meeting and later supplied the grenades.

He made startling disclosure to interrogators about the involvement of former State Minister of Home Lutfuzzaman Babar and ‘Hawa Bhaban’ in the grenade attacks. From The New Nation:

“The CID officer said they were certain after the arrest of Mufti Hannan and Pintu that the attack on the AL rally had been aided and abetted by Lutfuzzaman Babar and the Hawa Bhaban.

“To hide the truth, former investigation officer Ruhul Amin, a CID officer, had gone to Pintu’s house several times,” he said, and added, “former State Minister of Home Babar was involved in the entire process and Pintu would regularly inquire with him about the progress.”

Pintu’s counsel Advocate Sanaullah Mia, however, told : “He was implicated only because his cousin Maulana Tajul Islam, a militant leader and an accused in the grenade attack case, had visited his house when Pintu was a Minister,”

HUJI is the culprit but who used them and why?

On June 11, 2008 charges were finally made against 22 persons including top Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and BNP leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu. Newspaper reports say:

“CID Chief Additional Inspector General Jabed Patwari said HUJI top leaders planned and carried out the attacks to kill Hasina as a few arrested attackers said in their confessional statements that Hasina would harm Islam if she was alive and came to power again.

BNP leader Pintu is not involved with Huji but he has been charged since the attackers had held two meetings at his residence to take decision about the attack.”

But the question remains whether HUJI tried to kill Hasina on their own or it was a political assassination plot linked by BNP to take out the opposition. Like every other political massacre the 21st August grenade attack on Hasina has no clear motive whatsoever and after 4 years of investigation we are not certain whether those who were behind this ghastly attack have finally been exposed. Will we be able to know the truth?

Bindhyabasini, one of the oldest temples in the Pokhara valley, has an immense cultural value. The temple is dedicated to Goddess Bhagawati. Bhagavati is a popular deity - also in the Indian states of Kerala, Goa and Konkan. It can be used to refer any of the Hindu goddesses like Durga, Kannaki, Parvati, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Kali. In Goa, Bhagavati generally refers to the Mahishasurmardini form of Shakti.

Bindhyabasini is considered as one of the main and foremost Shaktipiths of western Nepal. Situated at a small hill-lock in between the main old market and Bagar it is at a height of 3000 ft. above from the sea level.

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%.

WIKIPEDIA

A. Create a design that moves the value from light in the central area to dark in the outer perimeter.

B. Create a design that moves the value from dark in the central area to light at the outer perimeter. The following is what I came up with.

In loving memory of HENRY MARSHALL Colonel 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers.

Born April 22nd 1831, Died April 30th 1914.

…………………………….1.Cor.15.22.

No match on Picture Norfolk, the County Image Archive.

Possible birth and baptism………….

Registration of births with the Civil Authorities did not start until 1837, so the most likely source for this information comes from church records. His headstone tells us he was born on the 22nd April 1831, and the censuses for the adult part of his life, (1861 onwards), all show him as born Godalming, Surrey. But at this stage I could not find him on the earlier censuses and had no parent details for him.

Checking the church records I came up with a match so close that it would be easy to hope for either a transcription error or a mistake in the original entry. The baptism of a Henry Marshall, born 21st April 1831, took place at Godalming, Surrey on the 18th May 1831. His parents were George and Sarah Marshall.

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Checking another source for baptismal information, it adds that the baptism took place at St. Peter and St. Paul. Godalming, that the family lived at Bridgefoot, and that the father George Marshall was a Timber Merchant.

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1841 Census of England and Wales

Even armed with the baptismal information I could not find Henry on this census, but I could identify possible candidates for his parents. The details given on this census are very spare and some bits have to be inferred. Relationships between members of the household are not shown, ages for adults can be rounded up or down, (arbitrarily!) to the nearest multiple of 5, and birthplace information is restricted to in or out of the county. However, one of the household on Wharf, Godalming, consists of George Marshall, (52, Merchant, born in county), Sarah Marshall, (42, born in county), and Murray Marshall, (17, born in county). The other two people in the household have different surnames and so I suspect the most likely explanation is that they were servants.

1851 Census of England and Wales

There does not appear to be a match for Henry or his parents on this census.

Hart’s Annual Army List of 1875 lists Henry Marshall as the Lieutenant Colonel of the 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Regiment of Lancers and sets out his Military Career. He joined them as a Cornet on the 1st May1855, as a time when most promotions were via purchase rather than ability. He was promoted Lieutenant on the 17th September 1857 and purchased his Captaincy on the 1st July 1859. He went on to purchase a Majors’ rank on the 11th April 1868 before being promoted Lieutenant Colonel on the 27th June 1874.

His fighting career consisted of serving in the Crimea with the 17th Lancers from the 13th September 1855 to April 1856, (i.e. after Sebastopol had fallen), and also during the Indian Mutiny from 1857 to 1857, including the pursuit of Tantia Topee.

books.google.co.uk/books?id=quscAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA151&...

However another source has the 17th Lancers reposted to Ireland, and would sail from there for India as part of the reinforcements sent to quell the mutiny.

The 17th Lancers were to form part of the relieving force and set out in October of that year. It arrived at the tail end of the campaign but was immediately dispatched to deal with the rebel leader, Tantia Topi, still at large in Mahratta. The regiment would be involved in a pursuit of over a thousand miles of difficult terrain in the full blare of an Indian summer. They eventually caught up with Tantia Topi and 5,000 rebels at Mangrauli. The small British force dealt with the rebels easily enough but only for Tantia himself to escape again. The force continued to pursue him with the young Evelyn Wood earning a Victoria Cross after rescuing a rich landowner from a large band of robbers in the Sironj jungle.

The 17th stayed in Central India for a year before being marched south to Secunderabad. They spent five peaceful years there before returning to England in 1865.

www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishcavalry/1...

In May 1857 the Indian Mutiny broke out in Meerut with devastating effect. As a result reinforcements were sent from Britain and the 17th Lancers embarked for this task in October. The Regiment did not land in India until December and were not fit for service until May 1858. By this stage the mutiny was all but over, save for one of the mutineer leaders, Tantia Topi, who was still at large. In order to apprehend Tantia Topi and his followers General Michel was given a force of 1000 infantry, four guns and a squadron of 17th Lancers under Sir William Gordon. The pursuit of Tantia Topi lasted nine months and covered a distance in excess of 1000 miles, 500 of which were covered in a single month. It was during this pursuit that Lieutenant Evelyn Wood (who had transferred from the Navy to the 17th Lancers and was eventually to rise to the rank of Field Marshal) was awarded a Victoria Cross for single handedly attacking a squadron of mutineers from the Bengal Light Infantry. Tantia Topi's force was eventually defeated; he was captured and court-marshalled in April 1859. The regimental farrier-sergeant assisted in the hanging. The rope with which Tantia Topi was hanged is displayed in the Regimental Museum of The Queen's Royal Lancers. The 17th remained in India for a further five years before returning to England.

www.qrlnymuseum.co.uk/17l.htm

(Henry must therefore have been home on leave at the time of the 1861 Census).

Tantia Tope (1814 – 18 April 1859) was a general in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and one of its notable leaders. He was born as Ramachandra Panduranga to a Maratha Brahman family and took on the title Tope, meaning commanding officer.

After losing Gwalior to the British, Tope and Rao Sahib, nephew of Nana Sahib, fled into the Rajputana. He was able to induce the army of Tonk to join him. He was unable to enter the town of Bundi and though announcing he would go south in fact went west towards Nimach. A British flying column commanded by Colonel Holmes was in pursuit of him and the British commander in Rajputana, General Abraham Robert was able to attack the rebel force when they had reached a position between Sanganer and Bhilwara. Tope again fled from the field towards Udaipur and, after visiting a Hindu shrine on 13 August, he drew up his forces on the Banas River. They were defeated again by Roberts's forces and Tope fled. He crossed the Chambal River and reached the town of Jhalrapatan in the state of Jhalawar. He induced the state forces to rebel against the raja and was able to replace the artillery he had lost at the Banas River. Tope then took his forces towards Indore but was pursued by the British now commanded by General John Michel as he fled towards Sironj. He was still accompanied by Rao Sahib and they decided to divide their forces so that Tope could move to Chanderi, and Rao Sahib, with a smaller force, to Jhansi. However they combined again in October and suffered another defeat at Chota Udaipur. By January 1859 they were in the state of Jaipur and experienced two more defeats. Tope then escaped alone into the jungles of Paron.At this point he met Man Singh, raja of Narwar, and his household and decided to stay with them. Man Singh was in dispute with the maharaja of Gwalior and the British were successful in negotiating with him to surrender to them in return for his life and protection of his family from any reprisals by the maharaja. After this Tope was alone.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantia_Tope

1860 Marriage…………………………

Henry Marshall, a bachelor of full age, (i.e. over 21), and a Captain in the 9th Dragoons, was married at St Andrew and St Peter, Blofield on the 18th July 1860 to Alice Heath Jary, a spinster of full age.

The Groom’s parish was Exeter while the brides was Blofield. Henrys’ father was George Marshall – occupation “Esquire” and Alices’ was William Heath Jary, also “Esquire”. Witnesses were Henrietta Heath Jary and H. Marshall. Both bride and groom signed the register.

www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58182bb8e93790eb7f4cc38...

1861 Census of England and Wales

The 29 year old “Harry” Marshall, a Captain in the Army, born Godalming, Surrey, was recorded as the married head of the household at 12 Tongham Street, Seale, Surrey. He lives there with wife Alice H., (born Blofield, Norfolk). The household also runs to two live in domestic servants.

1871 Census of England and Wales

The 39 year Major Henry Marshall, 9th Lancers, born Godalming, Surrey and a married man was recorded in Barracks at the Depot in Farnham, Surrey.

His wife was staying with her brother William Jary Esquire, at Burlingham House, Burlingham St Andrew, Norfolk. Also staying in the household are William Jarys’ niece, Alice M. Marshall, (9, born Tongham, Surrey) and two of his nephews, Ernest T(?), (5, born Dundalk, Ireland) and Harold R, (9 months, born Hampton Court).

1874 – Promotion to Lieutenant Colonel

London Gazette notification.

www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24112/page/3464/data.pdf

1879 Promotion to Colonel

London Gazette notification.

www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24739/page/4209/data.pdf

And move onto half-pay.

www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24739/page/4207/data.pdf

1881 Census of England and Wales

The 49 year old Henry Marshall, born Godalming, Surrey and a Colonel on Half Pay, was recorded as the married head of one of the households shown at 68 Marina, St Leonards, Hastings, Sussex. He lives there with wife Alice N(?), aged 49 and born Blofield, Norfolk, and their 19 year old unmarried daughter, Alice M., born Longham(?), Surrey.

1891 Census of England and Wales

The 59 year old Henry, a retired Colonel of Lancers and his wife Alice, (59), had now moved to 7 Lansdowne Place, Hove, East Sussex. Living with them is their unmarried son Harold R, aged 20 and born Hampton Court, Middlesex. The household is supported by 4 live in Domestic Servants.

1901 Census of England and Wales

Henry, (69, Colonel in Army), Alice, (69), and their unmarried son Harold, (29 – its not clear but also possibly an Army Officer although I suspect not of Colonel rank), along with a Ladys’ Maid were recorded as visitors at the Royal Exeter Hotel, Exeter Road, Bournemouth on the night of the census.

1911 Census of England and Wales

The Marshalls were now recorded living at Stanford House, Warrington Road, Ipswich. Henry, (79), gives his occupation as Retired Colonel in the Army. He and wife Alice Heath(?), (79) have been married for 50 years and have had 5 children, of which 3 were then still alive. Living with them is their 40 year old unmarried son Harold Ralph, whose occupation is recorded as “Gentleman”.

On the day………………………..

The death of a Henry Marshall, aged 83 was recorded in Ipswich in the April to June quarter, (Q2), of 1914.

The 1914 Probate Calendar records that Henry Marshall, of Stanford House, Ipswich, died on the 30th April 1914. Probate was granted at the London Court on the 20th June 1914 to Ernest Theodore Marshall, late Captain H.M. Army, Harold Ralph Marshall esquire and Oswald Percival Marshall, one of the Trinity House Brethren. His effects were valued at £33,986 15s.

probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Marshall&am...

(Thanks to inflation that’s about £2.75 million in 2018 money).

Members of the embarked Air Detachment onboard HMCS FREDERICTON conduct visual inspection of the CH-148 Cyclone helicopter’s main rotor blades during Operation REASSURANCE on 21 February 2023 in Souda Bay, Greece.

Please credit: Cpl Noé Marchon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo

Des membres du détachement aérien embarqué à bord du NCSM FREDERICTON effectuent une inspection visuelle des pales du rotor principal de l’hélicoptère CH-148 Cyclone au cours de l’opération REASSURANCE, le 21 février 2023, dans la baie de Souda, en Grèce.

Photo : Cpl Noé Marchon, Forces armées canadiennes

A member of HMCS FREDERICTON’s force protection component stands watch as the ship enters Souda Bay, Greece, during Operation REASSURANCE, on 21 February 2023.

Please credit: Cpl Noé Marchon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo

Un membre de l’élément de protection de la force du NCSM FREDERICTON assure la surveillance lors de l’arrivée du navire dans la baie de Souda, en Grèce, au cours de l’opération REASSURANCE, le 21 février 2023.

Photo : Cpl Noé Marchon, Forces armées canadiennes

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Abandoned Value City near Randall Park Mall in North Randall, Ohio.

August 29th, 2009

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Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor smallholder value chains in Tanzania project (photo credit: ILRI/Ben Lukuyu).

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By far if I have to choose the best one among my photographs, I will choose this one first. Actually while taking this shot, I was waiting for her to take off. The moment she lifted I started firing my camera and the result is what you see.

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Brasília, 16/03/23 - Festival SESI de Robótica

Na arena BRB Mané Garricha

Equipes FLL

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COAST GUARD AWARDS RESPONSE BOAT-MEDIUM CONTRACT

WASHINGTON (23 June 2006) - The U. S. Coast Guard announced today the award of the Response Boat-Medium production contract valued at approximately $600 million to Marinette Marine Corporation of Marinette, Wis. Delivery of the first boat is expected in late 2007 and the Coast Guard expects to eventually purchase up to 180 boats over a period of up to eight years.

“The Response Boat-Medium will greatly improve Coast Guard readiness and responsiveness throughout the country,” said Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen. “With this faster and more capable platform, we are putting the right tool for the job in the hands of our people as they conduct a broad range of vital Coast Guard missions, including homeland security, search and rescue, and law enforcement. It's another significant step forward as we continue to prepare the Coast Guard to meet all threats and all hazards by modernizing our fleet of ships, boats, aircraft, and command and control systems.”

The Response Boat-Medium will replace the aging fleet of 41-foot utility boats and assorted non-standard boats that are in operation throughout the United States and have been the workhorse at coastal stations for more than 25 years. The new boats will have increased maneuverability, the ability to mount light machine guns, and be capable of speeds in excess of 40 knots (46 mph) with twin high output inboard diesel engines that comply with stringent EPA and International Maritime Organization emissions standards. A full cabin will provide crew protection from the elements and be equipped with a robust navigation system, heating and air conditioning, shock mitigating seats and a communication system capable of communicating with other federal, state and local homeland security partners.

The contract represents the culmination of a two-phased, competitive process that began in fiscal year 2003 when the Coast Guard awarded three contracts to vendors to provide test boats. Coast Guard members exhaustively tested these boats, and the three vendors then submitted proposals for the production contract, which were thoroughly evaluated before selecting Marinette Marine Corporation.

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Press release lifted from www.piersystem.com/go/doc/786/122803/

ART & SOCIETY REMIX:

Panel discussion with gallery owner David Castillo and independent curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud. Moderated by Dr. Carol Damian with introduction by Aesthetics and Values 2012 student Maya Castro at FIU on November 17, 2011.

Value Education Workshop at Jalpaiguri and Coochbehar District of West Bengal in April 2017

The nonfiction section of the library is divided by subject and is cataloged using the Dewey Decimal System.

000 GENERALITIES

000 Computers, Loch Ness, Bigfoot, UFOs, Aliens

020 Libraries

030 Encyclopedias & World Record Books

060 Museums

070 Newspapers

100 PHILOSOPHY

130 Ghosts, Witches & the Supernatural

150 Optical Illusions, Feelings

170 Emotions, Values, Animal Rights

200 RELIGION

220 Bible Stories

290 Mythology, World Religions

300 SOCIAL SCIENCES

300 Social Issues - immigration, racism, World Cultures

310 Almanacs

320 Government

330 Money, Working

340 Court System, Famous Trials

350 Armed Forces – Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.

360 Drugs, Environmental Issues, Titanic, Police, Firefighters

370 Schools

380 Transportation,

390 Holidays, Folktales, Fairy Tales

400 LANGUAGES

410 Sign Language

420 Dictionaries, Grammar

430 German Language

440 French Language

450 Italian Language

460 Spanish Language

490 Hieroglyphics, Japanese Language

500 SCIENCE AND MATH

500 Science Experiments, Science Sets,

510 Mathematics

520 Stars, planets, astronomy, space

530 Physical Science - force & motion, electricity,

magnetism, light

540 Chemistry, Atoms & Molecules, Rocks and Minerals

550 Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Weather, Hurricanes, Tornadoes

560 Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Animals, Fossils

570 Forests, Rain Forests, Deserts, Mountains, Oceans, Evolution

580 Plants, Flowers & Trees

590 Animals & Insects

592 Worms, Invertebrates

593 Corals, Sea Invertebrates

594 Seashells, Snails, Octopus

595 Insects, Spiders

597 Fish, Frogs, Toads, Reptiles, Amphibians, Snakes

598 Birds

599 Mammals of the Land and Ocean, Whales

600 PEOPLE USING SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

600 Inventions

610 Human body, Health

620 Rockets, Trains, Cars, Trucks

630 Farming, Farm Animals, Cats, Dogs, Pets, Horses

640 Cookbooks, Sewing

650 Secret Codes

660 How Food is made

670 Paper Making

680 Woodworking

690 Building

700 ARTS and RECREATION

710 Art Appreciation, History of Art

720 Houses, Buildings

730 Origami, Paper Crafts

740 Drawing, Crafts,

750 Painting

760 Printing

770 Photography

780 Music

790 Sports, Games, Magic, I Spy, Camping, Fishing, Racing, Hunting

800 LITERATURE

810 Poetry, Plays, Jokes & Riddles

820 Shakespeare

860 Poetry in Spanish

890 Japanese Poetry, Haiku

900 GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

910 Explorers, Atlases

920 Flags, People (Biography)

930 Archeology, Ancient Civilizations

940 Knights, Castles, World War I & II, European Countries

950 Asian & Middle Eastern Countries

960 African Countries

970 North & Central American Countries, Native American Tribes, American History, States

980 South American Countries

990 Pacific Islands, Australia, Hawaii, Arctic, Antarctica

DLD*women (Digital-Life-Design) Conference is taking place for 3rd time in Munich, July 11-12, 2012 "New Rules, New Values"

My humble (read: cheap) Canon arsenal - including my spankin' new Tamron SP AF28-75mm F/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical lens (mounted on the Canon EOS 350D).

This lens has got rave reviews all over the internet and seems to be a fantastic value-for-money buy. It will achieve a 44-120mm range on a non full frame DSLR like the EOS 350D pictured. This focal range is a little too narrow but still reasonably flexible. But its party trick is its wonderfully "fast" F/2.8 relative aperture throughout the range - great for almost any subject from landscape to portraiture.

It is also an EF-like lens that will work with the old Canon EOS 500 film SLR in the pic too! Can't wait to try shooting in film again using the new lens.

Howie: come back quickly and we can share gear!

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1x10 bevel 3-6'....................$ 0.49/ft

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Std and Btr 1x Boards / lin ft

1x2 sis 2e cedar ...........................0.25

1x3 ...............................................0.32

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2x6 clear s4s d clear 8’ only..........2.69

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2x2 s4s clr 8 +-20..........................0.89

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5/4x4 CLEAR r/edge ......................0.95

5/4x4 architect knotty KD sanded.0.55

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5/4x6 stk radius edge....................1.09

5/4x5 stk radius edge...................0.82

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Value grades: Siding /lin ft

1x6 stk bevel 14’............................0.55

1x8 paint grade bevel siding.......... 0.59

1x8 stk retrimmed bevel stk..........0.65

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11/16x10 stk bevel........................1.15

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3/4x10 Rgh face CLEAR..................2.19

1/2x6 clear kd bevel s/face...........1.15

1/2x6 clear 3’-10’ s/face ...................0.55

1/2x6 clr kd bevel s/face f/ joint 6-15’.... 0.55/ft

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1x6 t@g pine kd SELECT.................0.46

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1x6 kd stk v-jnt 6’.......................... 0.59

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2” Decking: t/g

2x6 select kd s/f SPF......................0.95

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1x4 clr s/face v- jnt t/g 3,4,5' .......0.49

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3-10' or v-jnt................................. 0.59

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1x6 s/face v-jnt t/g 3,4,5 .............0.89

1x6 s/face v-jnt t/g 6 and longer ... $ call

STK kiln dried V-jnt

1x4 stk v-jnt 6 and longer...............0.69

1x6 stk v-jnt 3-5’.............................0.69

1x6 stk v-jnt 6 and longer...............0.98

1x6 stk v-jnt 8 and longer...............1.09

CEDAR v-jnt fencing/ for panelling 5’ and 6’

1x6 kd stk v-jnt 6’.......................... 0.59

1x6 kd stk v-jnt 5’..........................0.57

1x6 clear kd v-jnt 6’........................1.09

1x6 clear kd vjnt 5’.........................0.89

Hemlock CLEAR panelling

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1x6 sis 2e 5’........................2.75 ea

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1x8 sis 2e 4’.........................1.85 ea

1x8 sis 2e 5’........................2.95 ea

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Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of a Tour in the North of Italy, by George Edmund Street, 2nd edition, 1874

“[Piacenza] is a city of no small interest, and remarkable above everything else in the possession of a Palazzo Publico of unusual and striking design—a building of special value and interest to me, since it is a capital example of the use of brick and marble together. Before looking at any of the churches I devoted myself to this building with the more satisfaction when I found that it was really, in some respects, one of the very best works of the sort that I had ever seen.

An inscription carved under a banner on a square stone, in the front, records the commencement of the work in 1281, and I think we may assume that no part of it is of much later date than this. It consists, as do most of these buildings, of a lofty open ground story, and a principal story above this. The facade is very dignified in effect. On the ground level are five lofty arches, very slightly moulded, and resting on square piers just rounded at the corners. The material of this stage is marble, mainly white, but with just a line of red and another of grey near the string-course which divides this from the next stage. From this point up almost the whole work is executed in brickwork of very elaborate and delicate detail. The two stages have no kind of uniformity or connection with each other, six windows being arranged above the five arches. In the centre of the first floor is the old doorway to the Ringhiera (which was altered in the seventeenth century); the windows on each side are of three lights, inclosed under a round arch with a deep archivolt very slightly recessed—all the enrichments being on very nearly the same face as the wall. These windows agree in size, but vary very much in all their details. Some of the subordinate arches are pointed, some round, and the tympana are everywhere filled with fine brick diapers. Above this stage the walls finish with a good marble cornice of intersecting arches, and then with a forked battlement. At the four angles of this are raised turrets, and the ends are finished with battlemented gables, very quaint and picturesque, as will be seen by the illustration which I give. The niches between the two arches in the principal story seem to have been intended for paintings. The marbles used here are red and white. Red is used for the arcades under the cornices, for the middle order of the rose window, and the inner order of the main arches. Elsewhere the marble is white, except the one grey course below the principal string. The whole of the lower stage is open below on all sides and groined—in brick, I think—though it is now plastered; indeed, save the parts already described as being of marble in the principal fronts, the whole of this building is built of red brick. Behind the open ground story there remains a portion of an internal quadrangle, which, incomplete as it is, shews, nevertheless, the same delicate attention to detail which is conspicuous on the facades. I know hardly any detail of Italian brickwork which is so refined and good as that in the arches and some cusped circles between them in this quadrangle.

I have seen this building, full as it is of eccentric departures from ordinary rules and customs—piers being placed over openings, and round and pointed arches used indifferently—quoted for our benefit as a remarkable example of a public building erected in the Middle Ages in the most regular and formal fashion! It is, on the contrary, if the plain truth is to be spoken, an example of a very bold disregard of such fashions indulged in without any detrimental effect.”

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From the Apartheid Musem in Johannesburg. Freedom, Respect, Democracy, Responsibility et al. rusting away.

This double page really seems an amalgam, heterogeneous and slightly madcap. There must indeed have been some therapeutic value for the poet in at least catching and fixing the sheer range of information, opinion, attitudes and imagery that his mind and temperament were exposed to in the post-war world. Otherwise it might have overwhelmed him, especially as he had not yet developed the creative flexibility to deal with it. That would come in the 1960s.

So here is the natural grandeur and wealth of Rio de Janeiro set beside the poverty and ignorance of its shanty towns. The female grace and beauty of Indian statuary and of the Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova (1892–1981) pictured by Picasso, are placed alongside various ‘male pinups’, singers and models whose physical beauty attracted the poet. Kilted soldiers on parade on one page are contrasted with battlefield action on the other. Animals such as the sea-lion and bear inhabit territories increasingly patrolled by human beings who seek to study or control them.

Three things offer a way out of semiotic overload. The first is ironic humour. For example, the bears in Shenandoah National Park are reported to have eaten the signage that says ‘Don’t Feed the Bears’; and the German traffic sign for ‘Cyclists Please Dismount’ is pictured, barely visible above the rising floodwaters. The second way is the potential of machine translation, here outlined by Magnus Pyke in a radio programme. This idea excited Edwin Morgan a great deal, both in its manifestation of the potential of computers and because wide translation of poetry from a range of European languages also allowed him in the 1950s to develop his own poetic voice.

The third means of escape was friendship. The key figure here is the Scottish poet W.S. Graham, whom he had known since the late 1930s. Graham now lived poorly in Cornwall, but had already developed a reputation that led T.S. Eliot to publish his work at Faber & Faber from 1949 onwards. ‘Letter VI’ (Collected Poems 1979: 123) is pasted in here. Morgan corresponded with Graham over many years. He is pictured here in left and right profile on a visit to Rutherglen on 29 September 1954. On the previous evening he had arrived very late, having been misdirected by passers-by, and the two men had quarrelled. Hence the chastened or wary look he has, perhaps. Morgan tried to repair the damage later by the gift of a pen and a poem.

Image: Edwin Morgan Scrapbook 12 (1954-1960) pp 2339–2340

Mosquitoes and God

Bible school helps children squash malaria, learn lessons

By Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Troth

jefferey.l.troth.mil@mail.mil

CAMP CASEY – Mosquitoes and God may not have too much in common, but they were what 86 children learned about at this year’s Area I Vacation Bible School held at the West Casey Chapel July 23-27.

“Vacation Bible School is about character development and spiritual development,” said Jessica Clark, the coordinator for the school. “It is a place where kids can come and learn about God, and to also learn some positive moral values they can take with them every day of the week.”

Helping others is one of those values that the 3 to 12 year olds learned.

“The most exciting thing is the mission project that we are doing,” Clark said. The children are learning about the African country of Mali and how children there are dying from malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease.

The Area I Vacation Bible School students are taking part in Operation Kid-to-Kid’s worldwide effort to squash malaria in Mali. According to the Operation Kid-to-Kid website, malaria is a leading cause of death of children under five, with more than 2,000 children dying every day. The Area I children donated 94 nets, which will protect three children for up to four years. Operation Kid-to-Kid has raised almost $291,000 to purchase mosquito nets for Mali’s children.

“The project really engages the children, because it talks about mosquitoes and that is something that every kid can understand, they have all been bitten by a mosquito,” said Clark. “And they are also helping other kids and they like that too. They can say “hey there is a kid in Mali who is five like me and they are worried about mosquitoes and I can help them to not worry about mosquitoes anymore.’”

Throughout the week they played games to help them understand about the malaria and how the bed nets would help the Mali children. For one game, a couple children were chosen to be mosquitoes; their bite was simulated by tossing rolled up socks at the rest of their classmates. Once those classmates took refuge under a parachute (which represented a mosquito net) the “mosquitoes” bite wasn’t felt.

Those games carried over into learning to trust God, the theme for this year’s Bible school.

“The theme is no matter who you are, no matter how you feel, no matter what – trust God,” said Sgt. Amber Harris, the chaplain assistant for 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion. The daily lessons also included no matter what people do, what happens or where you are. “Tuesday we did ‘no matter how you feel.’ Whether you are sad, whether you are hurt, whether you are happy, no matter how you feel God is truly there for you and no matter what you can truly trust in Him , because He will always be there for you.”

Although this was “Bible” school, the children didn’t open books to learn their lessons.

Instead they visited such places as the Imagination Station, where they did “sciency fun gizmo experiments and got to be little mad scientists doing all these cool experiments that reinforced what they learned,” said Clark.

“I like the fizzy flyers that we did on Tuesday,” she said. They had to put a tablet in a solution and then watch it explode and rocket up high in the sky. We were learning that no matter how we feel we can trust God”

Clark said the experiment allowed the kids to see that no matter how out of control or unsure they were of an outcome or how apprehensive they felt about doing something – that they can always trust God that he will be there for them.

In the Wild Blue Bible Adventures, Chaplain (Capt.) Bruce Duty, 1st BSTB, acted out with the children Jesus’ last week before his crucifixion. On Wednesday, they prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, and then hid as the Roman soldiers came for Jesus. They then counted out the 30 pieces of silver that Judas was paid for identifying Jesus to the Romans.

“I love Vacation Bible School because I get to learn even more about God,” said 11-year-old Jacob White . “And, if I trust God then I don’t have to be alone in my life.”

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