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Mineral Springs Bath House The construction of the Mineral Springs Bath House began in 1907. This was in order to bring in more tourism and wealth into the area. The town it was built in was an excellent location to host a bath house, as it was well known for it's rich mineral water sources which was believed to have medicinal properties. During the start of the 20th century mineral baths were a very fashionable and popular leisure activity. It took 3 years to build, with the help of local residents and neighbouring villages. It was finally unveiled with a ceremony in 1911. The materials which were used for the interior were designed in Vienna, France and Belgium and it was the most expensive healing bath in Bulgaria at that current time. Typical to most bath houses, it was separated into two sections, one for the men and another for the women. Both areas accommodated for it's visitors with a large circular pool, changing rooms and 10 bathtubs. The baths also provided central heating facilities, the main parts of the building were kept consistently at 15°C, the changing rooms at 28°C and the baths themselves were 32°C. The bath house was also equip with a clinic, admin offices and a large laundry room. Sadly the Mineral Springs Baths eventually closed in 2001, due to the decline in interest and popularity along with the lack of investment by the local government. Externals Internals If you've got this far, thanks for reading
Durham Baths - March 2015
Urbexbandoned posted a topic in Public buildings, Education & LeisureThis is somewhere that has been done to death so I won't bore you all with the history! A complete dump really but seriously one of the most photogenic places I have been to. I quite enjoyed it here, visited the day before and stood watching as 3 teenagers were throwing slates from the roof in to the pool below. Decided to go back the next day. Went back, empty! Had a nice walk around, stood for a minute thinking how beautiful it would have looked in its heydey with tons of swimmers in the pool ad watching from the balconies. A bit dodgy in areas, walked halfway along the right hand side balcony and realised it was sloping towards the main pool. That was nearly a brown trouser moment slowly made my way back to safety. As we were leaving there were 2 girls at the other end of the pool taking pics, they must have been no older than 14, was quite nice. They reminded me of me when I was younger, I imagined they had probably told their mum they were round their mates when really they were in the local derelict playground! They are hopefully the next generation of us. Anyway on with the pics!
Intro I was hoping this would be a lot better than it was... Wasn't going to put up a report either but after a request and the realization that it hadn't been properly documented by anyone else to my knowledge, I changed my mind. Plus it may raise some more awareness for the place. It's trashed and derp. In better condition this would've been a lot nicer. Ah well, enjoy! History Ladywell Baths were erected in 1884 to the designs of Wilson & Son and Thomas Aldwinkle, the latter a local architect who designed several bath houses of note. The builders were Hobbs of Croydon. The Ladywell Baths were built at a cost of £9,000 on a site procured by the vicar of the adjacent St Mary's Church. At the time, a local paper commented on the juxtaposition of church and baths that 'cleanliness was next to Godliness'. The site was chosen as it is on the main road into Ladywell from Brockley, Catford, Lewisham and Hither Green. Local vestries were first permitted to levy a rate for baths and washhouses under an Act of 1846. Largely concerned with the hygiene of the lower classes, however, the Act only permitted slipper baths, laundries and open-air pools until an amendment in 1878 encouraged the building of covered swimming baths. Few authorities adopted the Act before the 1890s, when baths began to flourish. Lewisham Vestry, however, was notably progressive and appointed seven Commissioners in 1882, whose aims was to obtain funds and land to build two swimming pools at Ladywell and Forest Hill. By 1900 public baths were not only being built in large numbers, but also with increasing elaboration. On 25 April 1885, the baths were opened by Viscount Lewisham, MP, who remarked that aside from the Paddington Baths (which do not survive), 'there were no others in London of that size'. The Forest Hill baths were opened the following week. The ceremony was reported in the Kentish Mercury of 1 May 1885, which described the baths as 'quite an ornament to the neighbourhood, standing in striking contrast to the ancient church behind it'. The charges for use were 6d for the first class pool and 2d for the second class. On two days a week the pools were reserved for ladies bathing. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Ladywell Baths were erected in 1884 to the designs of Wilson & Son and Thomas Aldwinkle, architects known for their municipal baths, and are one of the earliest surviving public baths in the capital, built shortly after the 1878 amendment to the Baths and Washhouses Act, when vestries could raise rates to build pools, for which it has special historic interest. The building also has special architectural interest for the imposing façade to Ladywell Road, an attractive design in the muscular Gothic style, and the former first class pool interior. There are characterful details in the turret-like sections flanking the pool hall and the oriel window in the tower. The tower is distinctive, although the loss of the conical roof is regrettable. The building also has group value as a significant component of a complex of late C19 municipal buildings which are all of architectural quality. 2010 saw the ladywell baths and playtower get 24 hour security and £400,000 spent to keep it from deteriorating, this clearly didn't work. (https://maxink.wordpress.com/tag/playtower/) Later on some work took place seeing the balcony practically ripped off the sides and some heras and work lights get thrown about inside to presumably stop people falling through the floor. Graffitti riddles the building and sometime later in it's life a fire destroyed the back hall. Future Planning permission has been submitted: http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/documents/s25137/04%20Future%20of%20the%20former%20Ladywell%20leisure%20centre%20site%20311013.pdf But presumably nothing has come of it, the building has been suggested for temporary housing whilst more is built in the area, but locals have had a few things to say about that claiming "temporary" is never temporary. Until something happens, it'll sit and rot. My visit I had some spare time and had seen this in the past but forgot about it, MrWhite reminded me the other day and I thought why not? (Cheers by the way) Not really worth the effort to be honest! Enjoy none the less. Pictures Pow
Visited with Obscurity,Spaceinvader,UrbanGinger,and 2 non members After such a long break since the last time we visited and it being sealed ,then Blatantly ripped open and then sealed tight this place has been off the circuit of explore,so after a lot of recce and planning a way in was found although it very public and risky, off we went to crack on,thos of you who have visited will know the baths are tidal so with that in mind the first visit was a short one due to the "old" way used to get into the rest of the areas via the old smugglers tunnels being a tad destroyed and collapsed.2nd visit was sorted and the rest of the place was explored only missing a few bits here and there due to the rather non existent routes Brief history of which there is much HISTORY The complex of buildings on the site are of two distinct phases: an early-C19 sea bathing establishment, dating from 1824, called the Clifton Baths; and a C20 lido, dating from 1926, called the Cliftonville Lido from 1938. The structures are on four levels, the lower levels excavated from the chalk cliffs and only the upper level, on the landward side, above ground level. More to be found here Margate Architecture: Clifonville Baths granted listed status On with the pics Echoes nightclub A few from Hades where the raves all happened a long time ago now Price list would be a dream in this day and age The underground Harbour and then down a level Below echoes Club Into the changing rooms which is generaly a tad of a paddle about Up in the main hall area The not so grand hall,when i visited 3 years ago it was full of the rotten contents of the hall,stage,chairs the lot all gone Thanks for putting up with so many images which arent my best, but last time i was here i used a very old nokia mobile fone and that report is long gone!!
Durham Baths - June 2013
Nitro posted a topic in Public buildings, Education & LeisureTook a trip down to the Durham swimming baths a couple of months ago with a non forum member. Seems the asbestos was stripped out in 2008 after it had closed and has been left to rot ever since. It's clearly in bad shape and a frequent hang out for graffiti artists and UrbExers. It's been reported loads before so I wont bore you with too many pics. Obligatory fire hose shot
lynemouth pit baths, lynemouth. June 12
scrappy posted a topic in Industrial Locationsdid this while in the area back in june 2012, an easy explore that was stripped but still not a bad wander. there where lockers in but the pikey's have had all of them away! from pictures ive seen there where loads! history stolen form elsewhere:- This is the youngest colliery in the neighbourhood, having commenced operations for the Ashington Coal Co. Ltd. in 1934. The shafts, which are situated comparatively near to the coast, are two in number, and both were sunk to the High Main seam level, which is 486 ft. from the surface. The downcast (No. 1) is 18 ft. in diameter and is used for coal-raising on two shifts per day, and the upcast, which has a diameter of 15 ft., is used for ventilation and emergency manriding only. The seams being worked are the High Main, the Diamond, the Main, and the Yard. Each of these seams shows practically the same nature of roof and floor as throughout the two neighbouring collieries and the distance between the seams is also comparable. They are, of course, found at slightly greater depths at Lynemouth, the Yard seam, for example, being 660 ft. below the surface near to the shafts, as compared with some 300 ft. at Ellington. Pithead baths in Modern Movement style. 1938 by FG Frizzell. Vacant for 19 years and subject to vandalism. Future of the overall site continues to be in doubt, particularly since closure of associated Ellington Colliery in January 2005. off the roof
This was another one of those explores for me that had fond memories attached to it, This place was most recently used as a Motor Museum which was closed back in 2006, In my child hood my Gran used to take me here from time to time the place still smels exactly as it did back then, funny how old oil lingers for ever !, History more than covered by Wevsky In his Report viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1959 Visited with Space Invader, Morgan, Obscurity & Vickie, So on with the Pics ! Good Explore this, Shame its all buttoned up tight again !
visited with morgan ... the West Cliff Concert Hall, once the venue for top artists which included the Rolling Stones who played here in the early 1960's. More recently it was the home of Ramsgate Motor Museum, Before the West Cliff Hall was constructed in 1914, the site was an Italian Garden, complete with a bandstand. To make room for the new hall, the Windmill Parade chalk was literally dug out by hand. If you look towards the cliff edge you'll see some stone balustrades protruding onto the promenade. These marked the entrance to underground public toilets which still exist below the asphalt.Across the road is the Churchill Tavern. Formerly this was the site of the Isabella or Kent baths which were built in 1817. In 1862 new baths were built in the cliff face across the road and were known as Royal Paragon Baths. All remaining signs of the Paragon Baths disappeared following a cliff collapse... on with the pics... Royal paragon baths ... Thanks for looking


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The Woldside Classic and Sports Car Showroom is hosting an evening of coffee and cars on Friday, September 30.
A coffee morning is usually held at Thompson and Smith on the Fairfield Industrial Estate in Louth, but now they have a new showroom to add to their portfolio, organisers wanted to host it there and at night so more people could get involved.
It will kick-off from 5.30pm and will be raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.
There will be lots of lovely cakes, tea and coffee.
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It is hoped that people will be able to park their cars along Tattershall Way so that visitors can wander up and down.

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Quarterly Newsletter - July 07
Major Indices (as of 1/7/07)
* PE ratios as of May 07 (based on 1 year estimate
forward earnings)
Commentary – Past 3 months
Fourth Quarter 06/07 financial year saw share markets globally boom
despite large volatility in the overvalued local Shanghai A market
(mainly on the downwards side). A 15% fall in June was triggered by
the Chinese Government increasing stamp duty on share transactions
from 0.1% to 0.3% in an attempt to cool the sharemarket. Fears over
sub-prime mortgages in the USA and a slowing US economy (read housing
market) caused little worry on global markets, however recent increases
in long term US bonds have caused a small market pullback .This has
been most noticeable in those sectors that are most sensitive to increasing
interest rates such as listed property and infrastructure.
World oil prices have risen again in recent months currently at around
USD $71 /barrel. Other resources prices have remained high, in particular
Copper and Uranium. Copper is trading at a 6 month high trading at
USD 3.58 /pound. Uranium also has continued it's meteoric rise
and has most probably peaked at around USD 1.40/pound. Finally iron
ore has continued it's strength helped by the Indian iron ore
tax (making Indian ore more expensive), and Nickel has at last dropped
back to some sort of reality.
Commentary – Forecast next 6 months
In USA we are unlikely to see further interest rate rises this year, and in Australia we may get one more small (0.25%) rise. The European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, started this process of rising rates later than the US and Australia, and are generally expected to continue on their path of raising interest rates gradually over the period ahead. Having said that, an increase in inflation due to say an oil price spike, may suddenly cause rates to rise. Also, I would not be surprised to see further increase in US long term bond rates which will hurt interest rate sensitive areas such as bonds, property and infrastructure. It will also slow the borrowing to invest mania of the last few years, which means global liquidity and some asset prices should decrease somewhat.
Most expectations are that the world economy will continue to grow at an above-average pace in the year ahead. While growth in the United States is expected to remain weak, this is being offset by very strong Asian, Eastern European and South American growth. Perhaps a sign of this is that Mexican telephone tycoon Carlos Slim has now overtaken USA's Bill Gates as the world's richest man with wealth of USD 68 billion. Growth in the Chinese economy has remained around10 per cent (and India around 8%), and there has been a significant improvement in conditions in the euro area since the beginning of the year. The expansion in Japan is continuing, and strong growth rates are being seen in a range of emerging economies in Asia and elsewhere.
The main areas to be cautious about at present are:
Those regions of the world that have strong GDP growth and are valued reasonably will do well, whilst areas that are overvalued or that have weak growth will do poorly. My favourites regions currently include Venezuela (PE 7.7), Korea (PE 13.4) and Brazil (PE 13.4). Additionally playing China through the better valued Hong Kong market will continue to be a good play leading up to the Beijing Olympics in August 2008. Areas to avoid continue to be USA largely due to their massive debt and the likelihood of continuing weakening currency, overvalued industrial shares in Australia, and most western countries residential property which is still overvalued.
Remember that emerging markets are growing on average at twice the rate of the developed markets and the numbers of population involved is staggering (emerging countries make up over 2/3 of the world population).
An example is mobile phone penetration rates in the following
Finally I expect the Aussie dollar to continue to strengthen relative to the US dollar.
I expect the Australian share market to underperform Asian markets over the next 6 months, due to a weakened property market and a fully valued sharemarket. Home affordability in Australia is still at record lows and building activity is at recessionary levels. Tourism is not performing well, leaving mining to prop up the Australian economy.
We have just had a massive liquidity boom that will start to slow and the Industrial sector which is somewhat overvalued (PE of around 19) may well stall or fall, however I expect the Resources sector to continue to prosper and it is still the hidden gem within Australia trading on a ridiculously low PE of around 13, at a time when there is a massive demand for resources, and soon we will see the Chinese buy more resource companies perhaps a large one such as BHP, Rio or CVRD.
Overall continue to expect financial services, energy (in particular biofuels) and resources to do well and property trusts overvalued industrials, and some infrastructure companies to struggle.
The Australian share (ASX 500) market historical PE ratio is at 18.0, suggesting a market correction of 10% is looking likely in the next 3-6 months. Again this is most likely in the industrial shares where many are trading at lofty PE ratios around 30.
Sovereign Funds
A Sovereign Fund is a country's investment fund, usually using their foreign surpluses to invest into shares and property all over the world, and causing asset prices to boom as a result. Britain did this in the early 1900's, Japan in the 1980's, Singapore (Temasek) in the 70's, 80's and 90's , and now it's China and the oil surplus nations (Saudi Arabia ,Russia) turn. The only difference is this time it is on a scale the world has never seen. For example, China's foreign account surplus last year was 9.5% of GDP, more than double the highest ratio ever achieved by the Japanese in their hey day.
Lou Jiwei is the head of China's new State Investment Corporation (SIC). He recently placed $US 3 billion with the private equity firm Blackstone to invest on behalf of China. This is just the beginning of an avalanche of Chinese Sovereign Fund investments who will have part of the massive $US1.2 trillion Chinese current account surplus to invest. The Chinese will remain linked to the US by way of their US treasury bond investments (usually around 70% of foreign reserves), however this is thought to be capped at around $US 1 trillion. That leaves $US 200 billion available for SIC to invest initially and with China's foreign reserves growing around $US250 billion pa , they would have over a trillion US dollars to invest in less than 5 years. Now that can massively move markets.
So where would they invest these funds?
will the Chinese place these funds?
So, in conclusion, be ready for a new wave of massive Chinese, Russian and Saudi Arabian money that will push up prices of shares and property throughout the world over the next 5-10 years. A great period to own resource companies and in all likelihood most quality assets around the world, as the savers of China push up the values of overseas assets, similar to what we have already seen in the local Chinese property and share markets this last few years. The big question will be what assets overseas do the Chinese most desire? Once you answer this question you will become very rich indeed.
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Recycling Public Advisory Council to meet Wednesday, April 13 in Dover
DOVER (April 4, 2016) – The Recycling Public Advisory Council (RPAC) will meet from 1:30 - 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, at Grotto Pizza's Dover location, 1159 N. Dupont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901.
Topics on the agenda include:
· Call to order, introductions
· Public comments (20-minute cap, priority given to written comments)
· Approval of minutes from Dec. 9, 2015 and Feb. 17 meetings
· Organics Task Force update
· Council by-laws (attendance, etc.)
· Universal Recycling regulations
· Grants and Loan Program announcement
· Recycling market update
· Old/new business
· Additional public comments
· Scheduling meetings May - September
The Recycling Public Advisory Council was enacted into law by Senate Bill 234 in May, 2010, and charged with advising the Governor's Office, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, and the Delaware Solid Waste Authority on all aspects of recycling, including: development of grant criteria and selection of applications; a methodology for measuring recycling rates; and possible outreach activities designed to achieve higher recycling rates.
For more information on the Recycling Public Advisory Council, please visit www.dnrec.delaware.gov/whs/awm/Info/Pages/RPAC.aspx or contact Bill Miller, DNREC Solid & Hazardous Waste Management Section, at 302-739-9403.
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This year I was keen to seek out and observe the Fen Raft Spider (Dolomedes plantarius) on Pevensey Levels. In September, I started following the fortunes of a particular female which was easily recognised by a pale patch on her carapace.
I first saw her on 19th September 2015 when I found her basking in the sunshine with her egg sac.
On 2nd October 2015 I found her standing guard over her nursery web. The mass of spiderlings can
clearly be seen within the web and the remains of the empty egg sac can just be seen behind the grass blade to the right of the spiderlings.
On 20th October 2015 I found her resting on a reed blade away from the now empty nursery web. The spiderlings have dispersed and the female will see out her remaining days basking in the late season sunshine.
I last saw the female on 22nd October 2015 basking in the watery sunshine. She has probably raised two broods during the summer.


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The Knicks and Bulls have agreed to a deal that will send former All-Star point guard Derrick Rose to New York, sources told ESPN.
The Knicks are sending center Robin Lopez, guard Jose Calderon and guard Jerian Grant to Chicago, which is shipping guard Justin Holiday, Rose and a 2017 second-round pick back to New York, sources said.
The Chicago Tribune first reported the deal.
ESPN reported last week that the Knicks had internal discussions recently about trading for Rose, the NBA MVP for the 2010-11 season.
Both Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek and general manager Steve Mills had said that the team was interested in upgrading their point guard position in the offseason.
Rose will be a free agent after the 2016-17 season. He averaged 16.4 points on 42.7 percent shooting and 4.7 assists in 66 games in 2015-16.
The six-year veteran has appeared in just 50 percent of the Bulls' regular-season games over the past four years because of various injuries, including two major knee surgeries.
The Bulls have scheduled a 5 p.m. ET news conference Wednesday.


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Thursday, 13 April 2017
Book review:
Norse Mythology
I used to be a big reader but have fallen out of the habit lately; I generally read on trains and buses but I'm easily distracted there so have recently tended to just watch something with the earphones in to block noise out. But I should probably try to catch up on the books I actually want to read, and with a couple of favourite authors having new (and not that long) books out now's a good time. Neil Gaiman is of course a fan of weaving various mythologies into his fiction but the Norse myths have turned up more often than most so they're clearly favourites of his. He retells the stories in
Norse Mythology
, which aims to create a single narrative out of them. Compared to most mythologies there aren't many surviving stories of the Norse gods, and they mostly revolve around Odin's immediate family and especially Thor and Loki. So they do lend themselves to being told as a single story, although obviously it's still episodic. I've seen bits and pieces of these myths before (admittedly, probably mostly in Gaiman's other work) but this is the clearest version of them I've read.
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Raksha Bandhan Puja Vidhi along with Rakhi Mantra
Tradition of Raksha BandhanIn modern context the meaning of Raksha Bandhan has changed significantly. It is believed to be the festival which is meant for brothers and sisters i.e. only for siblings. Rakhi has become the sobriquet of Raksha Bandhan. However all Vedic reference to this ritual are mentioned with Raksha Bandhan.
Since Vedic time Raksha Bandhan is a significant ritual which is performed to ward off fear of ghosts, bad spirits and Pishach (vampires). All sorts of diseases and bad omens can be avoided by performing the ritual of Raksha Bandhan. Similar to Holika Dahan, Raksha Bandhan is yearly ritual to get protection from all sort of bad things which might occur throughout the year. Raksha Bandhan should be performed during Shravana Purnima after avoiding Bhadra timings.
The Raksha Bandhan Puja Vidhi has been described in Vratraj. According to Vratraj, Raksha Bandhan is ritualistic tying of the thread, which protects the person from all sorts of evils. Raksha, in the form of sacred thread, is personified as the divine power who makes the worshipper fearless. It is believed that it was Shachi, the wife of God Indra, who created Raksha to protect her husband from demons in the war. Since then Raksha is worshipped for victory, comfort, sons, grandsons, wealth and health.
Purohit tying Raksha in the form of Raksha Potli
Raksha Bandhan Puja VidhiOn the day of Shravana Purnima, a full ritualistic bath should be performed during Pratahkal before sunrise. After bath one should perform Deva and Pitra Tarpan, a ritual to appease Gods and ancestors. The ritual of Upakarma, which is famously known as Avani Avittam in Tamil Nadu, should be done in the morning.
As per Vratraj, the ritual of Raksha Bandhan should preferably be done during Aparahna time. The main ritual of Raksha Bandhan involves the worship of Raksha and tying it to the wrist in the form of Raksha Potli or Raksha bundle. The Raksha Potli should be made of unbroken rice, white mustard and the gold thread. Raksha Potli should be woven with colored fabric made of cotton or woolen and should be kept on a clean cloth for the Puja. The Ghatasthapana is also suggested for Raksha Bandhan Puja.
All Bhudeva should be worshipped and clothes should be offered to them. After Bhudeva Puja, Raksha should be worshipped and Raksha Potli should be fastened to the wrist along with the chanting of Mantra. The Mantra which should be chanted while tying Raksha Potli is given below -
"I tie you with the same Raksha thread which tied the most powerful, the king of courage, the king of demons, Bali. O Raksha (Raksha Sutra), please don't move and keep fixed throughout the year."
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Learn a series of tools and methodologies to help implement a common approach to problem solving in an organisation. Discover how to make more robust decisions, rank the priority of key issues and a powerful sequence of tools to take a strategy into action.
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|Module 13
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Road Section
The Club is expected to be allocated 5 entries for the London Marathon on 22 April 2012.
Any member may apply for places but all applicants must be current fully paid up members as of 1 September 2011. The allocation is at the discretion of the Management Committee. If there are more applicants than places then priority will be given to members who have contributed towards the club as a runner or volunteer.
Applications will only be accepted in writing to me either by letter or e-mail with name, address and confirmation of rejection of their entry if applicable to be received before Monday 28 November 2011.
See the website for contact details. Sorry but verbal or telephone applications will not be accepted.
Entry forms will be given to the successful applicants after the December Committee meeting on 5 December. It will be the successful applicants' responsibility to complete and return the entry form with payment to the London Marathon office by 13 January 2012.
Please note that the minimum age for participants is 18.
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12 October 2011