Belji of Dhulikhel

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Colopy
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water System ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
Urban Riots ◽  
The World ◽  
May Day ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rural Nepal ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

I first heard of Bel Prasad Shrestha five years before I met him. An article in the Nepali Times lauded his efforts to establish a water system in the town of Dhulikhel while he was its mayor. I clipped it and set it aside. Fifteen miles from Kathmandu was a municipal utility that put Kathmandu’s to shame. I wanted to know more. Perhaps I saved Bel Prasad for last, expecting the visit to Dhulikhel to be a pleasant excursion—a hopeful encounter that would show me that the break down of urban management I saw every day in Kathmandu was not an inevitable part of development in Nepal. After all those discouraging discussions about Melamchi and about Kathmandu sewage and water supply problems, perhaps I was going to meet a Newar who had a gift for water like his ancient forebears. I went to Dhulikhel the day before May Day, 2010, when Nepal’s Maoists were planning to outdo their usual May Day celebrations with protests all over the city. They were massing their cadres in Kathmandu, ostensibly to pressure the prime minister of another party to resign. On a Friday morning I set out with my friend Ram, a Kathmandu taxi driver who was always available when I needed to venture out on a longer excursion. The shocks on his little white Maruti Suzuki were shot, as they were on most taxis in Kathmandu, but Ram was a good driver who knew all the roads and backroads. Aside from worries about being able to return to the city in the face of demonstrations and roadblocks—or perhaps the complete countrywide shutdown that the Maoists were threatening—Dhulikhel was a green and quiet escape, a fine place to wait out urban riots if any were to materialize. And I found a charming host in Bel Prasad, a unique and now elderly gentleman who had straddled the wide gulf between the rural Nepal of his childhood and the world he had seen in visits to Europe, America, and Japan.

The Aqueduct at Amasya in Pontus

1993 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 143-146
Author(s):  
Oliver ◽  
Caroline Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Amasya, wrote a visitor at the turn of this century, is “the most picturesque town of all Anatolia, the Baghdad of Rûm”. Another called the city “l'Oxford de l'Anatolie”. One of its principal charms is the River Iris, the Yeşil Irmak, which runs through the town. Beautiful but not potable: “Tokat dumps in it, Amasya drinks it” is a Turkish proverb at least as old as Evliye Çelebi, who visited the town in the first half of the seventeenth century.In ancient times the city would seem to have taken its water from a source in the neighbouring hills. It was carried along an aqueduct cut, for the most part, into the face of the cliffs which form the side of the river valley south and west of the town and on the right bank of the river (Fig. 1). The castle of Amasya, on the left bank, had its own arrangements for water supply described by the geographer Strabo, a native of the city, and these should not be confused with the aqueduct on the right bank.

A Greek Carnival

1919 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
D. S. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Good Night ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

In the discussion of Greek dramatic origins, a curious passage of Apuleius has never, so far as I know, been mentioned.In the second book of the Metamorphoses the hero Lucius describes a feast given at Hypata in Thessaly by his rich relative Byrrhena. After the feast Byrrhena informs him that an annual festival, coeval with the city, will be celebrated next day—a joyous ceremony, unique in the world, in honour of the god Laughter. She wishes that he could invent some humorous freak for the occasion. Lucius promises to do his best. Being very drunk, he then bids Byrrhena good-night, and departs with his slave for the house of Milo, his miserly old host. A gust blows out their torch, and they get home with difficulty, arm in arm. There they find three large and lusty persone violently battering the door. Lucius has been warned by his mistress, Milo's slave Fotis, against certain young Mohawks of the town—‘uesana factio nobilissimorum iuuenum’—who think nothing of murdering rich strangers. He at once draws his sword, and one by one stabs all three. Fotis, roused by the noise, lets him in and he quickly falls asleep.

Architect Sinan's Kırkçeşme water supply system outside the city of Istanbul and city network

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 626-637
Author(s):  
Ali Uyumaz ◽  
İsmail Dabanlı
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water System ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Water Supply System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Supply Line ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
City Network ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The City

The city of Istanbul has important water system remnants from old civilizations among which water line systems begun with Byzantine period and continued during Ottoman era, including Kırkçeşme water supply system. The original gallery structure within the Kırkçeşme system has been altered with time at some places as a result of necessary planning activities, restoration and repair works. All these activities helped to keep almost the system originality. Since its first opening in 1564, its discharge increased steadily as a result of additional drainage feeding line connections to the main gallery. However, through time only a couple of the 570 additional lines have remained in operation. Although other similar establishments have perished in time without leaving even traces, the Kırkçeşme system is its vivid and harmonious appearance in front of eyes even today. Four dams were constructed at the most convenient locations along the water supply lines from 1620 to 1818. The water from the streams was collected during the rainy season and discharged to the city at times of need with increasing capacity. In general, the Kırkçeşme system has two branches: one extends towards the east, which seemed to have more water, due to its feedback from the Kirazlı, Topuz and Paşa tributaries of the Kağıthane stream; the other branch is westwards which is fed by the Ayvad Deresi, Orta Dere and Bakraç Dere tributaries of the Kağıthane stream. All the water are brought together at Başhavuz (main pool) south of Kemerburgaz, where they collectively enter the main supply line crossing the Alibey Stream over the Mağlova Aqueduct, and then joining a branch from the Cebeciköy Stream and finally flow in towards the south. In a historical document called Tezkiret'ül Bünyan, (The Book of Structures) the author states that Sinan pledged to the Sultan about the existence of some old waterways. However, the Roman waterway still remains in the vicinity of Cebeciköy, which is located at a higher elevation than the Kırkçeşme water supply line but ran parallel to it. The water supply system should have integrated perspective for operation and maintenances. On the other hand, standing structures give to humanity the impression that the stability and design carry not only water, but also valuable cultural heritage. Moreover, they connect many civilizations with each other and also past as well as future.

scholarly journals Contribution to study of the dependability of a drinking water system

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Djamila Boumelita ◽  
Lahbassi Ouerdachi ◽  
Nasr-Eddine Debbache
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Block Diagram ◽  
Water System ◽  
Spatial Modelling ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Drinking Water System ◽  
Criticality Index ◽  
The City

AbstractIn order to ensure better availability of water resource to different users, we undertook a dependability study of system for drinking water supply. A real case study was done on the water supply network in the city of El Hadjarin Algeria. We started from the site modelling, which provided a calculation of a Hydraulic Criticality Index (HCI) in order to prioritize the importance of pipes in the network. Once the indices were calculated, a modelling procedure of reliability block diagram was applied. The objective was to study and analyse the existing network to measure the water availability problems and try to provide viable solutions. An action on the structural aspect and hardware may be required in order to ensure better availability of water and make the system more reliable. Spatial modelling is also proposed to be able to monitor different parts of the network where problems may occur.

Agonising Liminality: A Study Of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
A. Ezhugnayiru
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Republic Of Turkey ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Unpleasant Experience

                      This article throws light on the distress a liminal experience could give for an individual or to a community who belong to a specific ethnicity, regarding the novel Snow written by the Turkish writer, Orhan Pamuk. Turkey located geographically in the edges of landscapes where the east and the west meet encounters this liminality over a couple of decades and stays as the setting of the novel Snow. In the liminal state, people fall in the breaks and crevices of the social structure which they think.The liminal stage individual encounters, a period of instability and vulnerability. Orhan Pamuk's Snow reflects the unpleasant experience of progress from the Islam arranged Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. The setting of the novel, the town of Kars, a periphery city fringe to Turkey stands as a representative of Turkey's minimization from the world. Pamuk supplements the fruitless condition of the city all through this novel.

"THE PLAGUE" BY A. CAMUS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: HUMANITY IN THE FACE OF AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Ryazantsev ◽  
◽  
Alexey V. Smirnov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

The novel of the Nobel Prize winner in literature Albert Camus "The Plague" became one of the most widely read books in Europe during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. A number of researchers consider Camus to be an existentialist writer. Existentialism arises, after two bloody wars, to give answers to questions that concern humanity. Since Albert Camus wrote the novel during the Second World War, he understands the plague not only as a disease, but also as German soldiers, whom the inhabitants of France called the "brown plague" because the invaders wore brown shirts. As the inhabitants of the city of Oran resisted the plague on the pages of the work, so the inhabitants of France fought against Nazism and fascism. A. Camus in the novel "The Plague" describes the quarantine measures that take place in the city of Oran in the 40s of the XX century. The consequences of the epidemic and the behavior of the residents described in the novel have much in common with modern coronavirus realities: the decline of the economy, the growth of the number of unemployed, protests against the quarantine measures introduced; the introduction of curfews, the creation of new medicines, etc. In Russia, as in the pages of the novel, there is a decline in the economy. Thus, during the pandemic in Russia, the number of registered unemployed increased from 1.3 million people to 4.8 million, and the appeal to employment centers for support measures increased from 20% to 80%. Camus in his novel writes about the creation of an anti-plague serum, in Russia, the first in the world, a vaccine against coronavirus infection "Sputnik V" was created. The director of the hotel, described in the work, said that due to the epidemic and quarantine, the tourist business disappeared. According to the World Tourism Organization — tourism at the end of 2020 it has decreased by 77% compared to 2019, which is equivalent to the tourist activity that was recorded in the late 80s. Stray animals were shot in Oran, because they believed that they could be carriers of infection. In China, during the Covid-19 pandemic, pets were thrown out of windows because people believed that they could be the source of Covid-19, and in Denmark, more than 11 million minks were exterminated for the same reasons. The authors of this article attempted to analyze the development of the epidemiological process in the novel and plot the mortality rate from the plague according to the data of the work.

Design of an Irrigation System using a Motor Pump for Desert Areas in Department of Piura - Perú

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 82-90
Author(s):  
Alberto Chuica Patiño ◽  
◽  
Brian Meneses Claudio ◽  
Alexi Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Water Reservoir ◽  
Desert Area ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
The World ◽  
Desert Areas ◽  
The City

Abstract— Currently the world suffers from water scarcity, being one of the most frequent problems that agriculture suffers, there is still no uniformity regarding the extent of the planet covered by these dry lands, varying the calculations from close to 50% to 25% of the earth's surface. Africa and Asia being the continents that had the largest extensions of drylands. Therefore, this research work has as objective the Design of an Irrigation System using a Motor Pump for Desert Areas in Department of Piura - Perú and thus contribute to the agriculture of our country, as well as main points we will focus on the towns far from the city which will use automatic irrigation means through a natural reserve water supply which would have to be stored and through a drip system it will be possible to irrigate and optimize the water in order to give it a better use. Resulting in a water reservoir that once filled to 100% will begin to pump water through a motor pump and through pipes it will be transferred to another reserve reservoir to irrigate a desert area through a drip system so the reservoir plays an important role which will have available water without depleting given greater access to irrigate the land. Keywords— Agriculture; deserted zones; automatic watering; Drip system; Motor pump

David Hilbert 1862-1943

1944 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 547-553 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Compound Fracture ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
David Hilbert ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
East Prussia

David Hilbert, upon whom the world looked during the last decades as the greatest of the living mathematicians, died in Gottingen, Germany, on 14 February 1943. At the age of eighty-one he succumbed to a compound fracture of the thigh brought about by a domestic accident. Hilbert was born on 23 January 1862, in the city of Konigsberg in East Prussia. He was descended from a family which had long been settled there and had brought forth a series of physicians and judges. During his entire life he preserved uncorrupted the Baltic accent of his home. For a long time Hilbert remained faithfully attached to the town of his forbears, and well deserved its honorary citizenship which was bestowed upon him in his later years.

scholarly journals KAJIAN KONSEP IKONIK PADA BANGUNAN FASILITAS OLAHRAGA BENTANG LEBAR (Stadion Utama Gelora Bung Karno)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-241
Author(s):  
Ni'mal Maulana Maulana Rizqi
Keyword(s):  
Sports Facilities ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Great Strength ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

Abstract: The development of architecture is now increasingly rapid because of the many architectural concepts that have sprung up, one of which is marked by the emergence of iconic architecture in various parts of the world. Iconic architecture is a building marker of place or markers of the era and iconic buildings are usually located in strategic locations such as, crossroads, parks, and open spaces. The existence of iconic buildings greatly affects the surrounding environment, even able to market the face of the city in each country. But now many buildings are said to be iconic even though they do not meet the iconic parameters due to the lack of meaning and application of iconic principles to the building. Therefore the writer needs to conduct research on iconic concepts in order to find out the true characteristics of iconic architecture. As for this case study, the study that will be discussed is the iconic building concept in a wide-span sports facilities building, one of which is the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, while the method to be used is descriptive qualitative and the research results can be concluded that the case study of the building under study can be called a building Iconic, because in part of the Bung Karno Stadium building applying iconic characteristics. Among them: Having a building scale that is relatively large and tends to be majestic, has an attractive and attractive shape, has an element of great strength so that it has a long life, and strategic position.Keywords: Iconic, Architecture, Relative, Attractive Abstrak: Perkembangan arsitektur kini semakin pesat karena banyaknya konsep arsitektur yang bermunculan, salah satunya ditandai dengan munculnya arsitektur ikonik di berbagai belahan dunia. Arsitektur ikonik merupakan bangunan penanda tempat atau penanda zaman dan bangunan ikonik biasanya berada di lokasi yang strategis seperti, persimpangan jalan, taman, dan ruang terbuka. Adanya bangunan ikonik sangat mempengaruhi lingkungan di sekitarnya, bahkan mampu memasarkan wajah kota di setiap negaranya. Namun sekarang banyak bangunan dikatakan ikonik padahal belum memenuhi parameter ikonik karena masih minimnya makna dan penerapan prinsip ikonik pada bangunan tersebut. Maka dari itu penulis perlunya melakukan penelitian tentang konsep ikonik  agar mengetahui karakteristik arsitektur ikonik yang sebenarnya. Adapun dalam studi kasus ini kajian yang akan dibahas yaitu konsep bangunan ikonik pada bangunan fasilitas olahraga bentang lebar salah satunya yaitu Stadion Gelora Bung Karno, sedangkan metode yang akan digunakan adalah deskriptif  kualitatif dan dari hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa studi kasus bangunan yang diteliti dapat disebut bangunan Ikonik, karena pada bagian bangunan Stadion Gelora Bung Karno menerapkan karakteristik ikonik. Diantaranya: Memiliki skala bangunan yang relative besar dan cenderung megah, memiliki bentuk yang atraktif dan menarik, memiliki unsur kekuatan besar sehingga memiliki umur yang panjang, serta letak posisi yang strategis.Kata kunci: Ikonik, Arsitektur, Relative, Atraktif

scholarly journals MENYONGSONG 25 TAHUN SISTER CITY JAKARTA – TOKYO

2017 ◽  
pp. 171-182
Author(s):  
Witarsa Tambunan
Keyword(s):  
Provincial Government ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Apparatus ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
And Training

AbstractThe term sister city was originally introduced by Dwight Eisehower to the XII century,which means the town brothers, friendly city. The concept of sister city intends to maximizethe relationship between community members in all corners of the world to be created andmaintain peace. Sister city Jakarta - Tokyo has succeeded in building a positive image ofJakarta as an international city. As an international city, Jakarta has a vision of "Aligningthe city of Jakarta with cities abroad." That is why the cooperation program of sister cityJakarta - Tokyo for the Jakarta Provincial Government is a necessity as a consequence ofJakarta as the Capital of Indonesia Republic and international city. In making the city ofJakarta as the city of city services, through its sister city Quezon City - Tokyo, JakartaProvincial Government to send its agents (HR) to Tokyo to follow the Exchange Program,Apprenticeship and Training Apparatus, to turns knowledge, skill, and attitude towardpositive changing of apparatus, it means improved the quality of human resources so thatits services meet international standards so the city can be a service city. As for thecommunity (people), sister city programs Jakarta - Tokyo has managed to build brotherhoodand friendship through sports and high school student and teacher exchanges.Keywords: Sister City, Service City

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