Location:
Wind Point, Wisconsin
Year first lit:
1880
Automated:
1964
Construction:
brick, Italianate bracketing
Height:
108 feet (33 m)
Original lens:
Third Order Fresnel
Range:
19 miles (31 km)
ARLHS number:
USA-894
USCG number:
7-20605

Wind Point Lighthouse (or Windpoint Light Station) is a lighthouse located at the north end of Racine Harbor in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is in the village of Wind Point, Wisconsin, on Lighthouse Road, next to the Shoop Park golf course. The lighthouse stands 108 feet (33 m) tall. One of the oldest and tallest active lighthouses on the Great Lakes, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

Wind Point Lighthouse was designed by Orlando Metcalfe Poe and constructed in 1880. The beacon was originally powered by a three-wicked kerosene lamp magnified by a third order Fresnel lens. The light was electrified in 1924, and replaced by a DCB-24R airport beacon in 1964. The light can be seen for 19 miles (31 km). A signal house (horns removed) remains on the grounds as well as a garage, two storage buildings, and an oil house. The Village of Wind Point has maintained the lighthouse and grounds since 1964, and uses the old keepers' quarters as a village hall and police headquarters.
In the summer of 2007, the lighthouse tower
underwent a US$210,000 restoration, during
which windows and doors were replaced,
brickwork repointed, and the tower repainted.

The Bridgewater Bridge and Causeway spans the Derwent River in Tasmania, Australia between Bridgewater and Granton. It consists of a vertical lift bridge and a specially-built causeway connecting the bridge to the east bank of the river. It accommodates a two-lane highway, a single track railway and, on the bridge section, a footpath. As the bridge is the major connector of the Midland Highway on the eastern shore and the Brooker Highway on the western, the lifting of the bridge can cause considerable traffic delays, depending on the time of day and season.
History
The Bridgewater Bridge was one of the first bridges constructed in Tasmania following British settlement in 1803, and gave its name to the nearby suburb of Bridgewater, Hobart. Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur commissioned the construction of the bridge and causeway as part of the Launceston-Hobart Trunk Road, linking both Tasmanian towns and providing easier access to farmlands in the interior of Tasmania.

The causeway
Construction commenced on the bridge in 1829. The causeway, which was constructed first, was built by a workforce of 200 convicts who had been condemned to secondary punishment. These convicts, using nothing but wheelbarrows, shovels and picks and sheer muscle power, shifted 2 million tonnes (2,200,000 short tons) of soil, stones and clay. The finished causeway stretched 1.3 kilometres (0.8 mi), although did not span the full width of the Derwent. The original plan apparently called for a viaduct, but this plan was abandoned and the half-built arches were filled in to form the present causeway.

The first bridges
Upon completion of the causeway, a punt operated across the deep, navigable section of the river, but could not cope with traffic demands. To resolve this issue, the first bridge across this point of the Derwent opened in 1849. The bridge was designed by the firm of architect and former convict James Blackburn.Being a swing bridge, it could pivot out of the way to allow ships to pass. In the late 1870s, the Launceston-Hobart Railway called for modifications to the causeway so they could lay tracks over it. The causeway required widening and the swing bridge was modified as well.
On July 22, 1886, a train from the north was passing over the bridge when the engine left the tracks and tipped over, hanging precariously above the water on the edge of the southern end of the swing bridge. The fireman and driver were injured, but no-one was killed and the locomotive was salvageable. The cause of the accident was found to be that the rails failed to match properly when the bridge was closed, so the bridge was modified again to solve this problem. The bridge lasted several decades more before being replaced by another swing bridge in the early 1900s. The pivot and the sandstone abutments of this bridge are still standing and can be viewed on the left of the present bridge as one travels towards the north.
Both the first and second swing bridges did not run straight off the end of the causeway; rather, they turned slightly to the right. The second swing bridge was left standing when the present lifting bridge was being constructed to prevent traffic stoppages, so the present bridge deviates from the causeway quite appreciably.
The Bridgewater Bridge, Tasmania, from the eastern access near the town of Bridgewater (facing west). This is a very large image which allows a detailed viewing of the structure.
Construction on the present steel vertical lift bridge across the Derwent began in 1939. It was briefly interrupted by World War II, but was finally completed in 1946. It consists of a long concrete bridge that leads off the end of the causeway, and a steel lifting section just before the northern bank of the river. The lifting section is one of only a few remaining in the Southern Hemisphere, and is the largest of its kind remaining in Australia. The bridge was designed to last a century without replacement. A small control house stands on the lifting section. Inside are the switches and locks which operate the bridge.
Until 1984, the Australian Newsprint Mills (now Norske Skog Paper) at Boyer, near New Norfolk, upstream from Bridgewater, moved all its produce by river. Many barges were used to transport paper from the mill to the storage sheds at Pavilion Point at Hobart, and for this reason the bridge was required to open very frequently. Consequently, a bridge-keeper lived on-site and opened and closed the bridge when required. However, when the decision was made to cease river transportation, an on-site keeper was no longer necessary, so although the bridge can and does still open, bridge openings are now infrequent.
In response to vandalism of the house which contains the bridge operating controls, closed-circuit television cameras were installed along the lifting span sometime between 2003 and 2005.
On October 30, 2006 a fault was found in one of the steel cables holding up the two 170-tonne concrete counterweights above the road, forcing the temporary closure of the bridge. This closure caused peak hour traffic delays, mainly along the East Derwent Highway, due to traffic being diverted over the Bowen and Tasman Bridges. The cables, which were put in place in 1994, were supposed to have a 20-year lifespan, and as they have lasted barely over half that time, investigations are underway as to the maintenance procedures of the bridge.

Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009
Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009
Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009
Type of eclipse
Gamma
0.0696
Magnitude
1.0799
Saros
136 (37 of 71)
Maximum eclipse
Duration
398 s (6 min 38.8 s)
Location
Pacific Ocean
Coordinates
24°12′36″N 144°06′24″E / 24.21°N 144.10667°E / 24.21; 144.10667
Max. width of band
258.4 km
Times (UTC)
Partial eclipse
23:58:18 (Jul 21)
Total eclipse
00:51:16
Central eclipse
00:54:31
Greatest eclipse
02:35:21
The solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 was the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting as much as 6 minutes and 39 seconds in some places.It caused tourist interest in eastern China, Nepal and India.
The eclipse was part of Saros series 136, as was the record-setting solar eclipse of July 11, 1991. The next event from this series will be on August 2, 2027.The exceptional duration was a result of the Moon being near perigee, with the apparent diameter of the Moon 8% larger than the Sun (magnitude 1.080) and the Earth being near aphelion where the Sun appeared slightly smaller.
This was the second in the series of three eclipses in a month, with the lunar eclipse on July 7 and the lunar eclipse on August 6.

Visibility

It was visible from a narrow corridor through northern

Maldives, northern Pakistan and northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, northern Philippines, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati.
Totality was visible in many large cities, including Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Varanasi, Patna, Gaya, Dinajpur, Siliguri, Tawang, Guwahati, Chengdu, Nanchong, Chongqing, Yichang, Jingzhou, Wuhan, Huanggang, Hefei, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Huzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Ningbo and Shanghai, as well as over the Three Gorges Dam. According to some experts, Taregana in Bihar, India was expected to be the "best" place to view the event.
A partial eclipse was seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including most of Southeast Asia (all of India and China) and north-eastern Oceania.

Duration

This solar eclipse was the longest total solar eclipse to occur in the 21st century, and will not be surpassed in duration until June 13, 2132. Totality lasted for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring in the ocean at 02:35:21

UTC about 100 km south of the Bonin Islands, southeast of Japan. The uninhabited North Iwo Jima island was the landmass with totality time closest to maximum, while the closest inhabited point was Akusekijima, where the eclipse lasted 6 minutes and 26 seconds.

Reaction

Indian scientists observed the solar eclipse from fighter jets. The Chinese government used the opportunity to provide scientific education and to dispel any superstition. Since the solar eclipse occurred almost exactly 10 years after the Falun Gong movement was banned, it was feared that Falun Gong would use this event to show that the heavens are displeased with the Chinese government.

How much do you feel for a particular brand when you are modelling for it?

NH- Well I always choose to model for brands which I'm comfortable with. I would not model for a brand which I feel does not suit my personality or lifestyle so you can say that I do feel quite a bit for whatever brand I'm modelling for since my name is being attached to it.
What sort of a contribution can a model make towards the fashion industry?

NH- I feel a model has some responsibility towards fashion since she/he is actually representing it and has a name and face attached to it. So whatever a model wears or the look she carries can actually be considered as the 'IN' thing since she is doing it too. So we as models can actually lead fashion which means models should be careful about what they wear but that doesn't mean at all that they always have to be fashionably dressed. Even a casual at home look can be considered fashionable.
The industry obviously has given you a lot making you one of its supermodels, how do you think you can payback?

NH- I'd like to do something for the women of our nation not necessarily the industry.
Do you think our models have the capacity of matching the best in this business elsewhere in the world or even our neighbours India?NH- I think my previous answer should answer this question too. Definitely without any doubt our models have what it takes to become international. If you look at Vinny, Iraj, Iman, Sunita or Cybil or even among our previous ones like Zoella they have everything that is the requirement for any international model. One thing which we really need is 100% support of our family to do this as a profession.
Do you think our industry or market is big enough to give our models the opportunity to do that?

NH- Our industry need not be that big but again like I said earlier that what we need is support from our parents and help from the government to make our industry more international and known to the world. This way our designers and models both will benefit hugely and this can add to the soft image of Pakistan
Is modelling a lucrative business? What's the commercial aspect of modelling besides the fame and glamour factor?

NH- It's a very lucrative business but it's also a very risky profession to completely rely on for ones livelihood because you never know when you might be old and unwanted. Though in this new and evolving industry of ours there's still a long time to go before any of us becomes too old to model but there still is one thing that you have to be on the top of your game to make this a lucrative business and profession for you. If you are not one of the Most Wanted then you are easily forgotten.
If given a chance what steps would you take to revolutionise the modelling industry?

NH- Firstly I would try and get government agencies to recognise this as a serious profession so that the models have some rights and are not taken for a ride; or that we have to run marathons and beg people to pay us our due money. Secondly, I would kind of outline the requirements of being a successful model so that the new girls who want to come in have some kind of guidelines to follow so that if they do not fit the criteria then they should just quit. I mean the basic things should be a good height, good figure and some kind of good looks. You may have the height but if you don't have the other two then honey it won't work!!!

Are there any agencies working on your behalf? Would you like someone to do it all for you from finding, selecting and finalising the projects?

NH- No I don't work with agencies. I have done it all by myself.

Bruce Castle (formerly the Lordship House) is a Grade I listed 16th-century[1] manor house in Lordship Lane Tottenham, London. It is named after the House of Bruce who formerly owned the land on which it is built. Believed to stand on the site of an earlier building, about which little is known, the current house is one of the oldest surviving English brick houses. It was remodelled in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
The house has been home to Sir William Compton, Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, the Barons Coleraine and Sir Rowland Hill, among others. After serving as a school during the 19th century, when a large extension was built to the west, it was converted into a museum exploring the history of the areas which constitute the present London Borough of Haringey and, on the strength of its connection with Sir Rowland Hill, the history of the Royal Mail. The building also houses the archives of the London Borough of Haringey. Since 1892 the grounds have been a public park, Tottenham's oldest.

Architecture

AA detached, cylindrical Tudor tower stands immediately to the southeast of the house, and is generally considered to be the earliest part of the building; however, Lysons believes it to have been a later addition. The tower is built of local red brick, and is 21 feet (6.4 m) tall, with walls 3 feet (0.91 m) thick. The purpose of the tower is unknown, but speculation suggests it might have been a dovecote. In 2006, excavations revealed that the tower continues for some distance below the current ground level.
Sources disagree on the house's initial construction date, and no records survive of its construction. There is some archaeological evidence dating parts of the building to the 15th century; William Robinson's History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham (1840) suggests a date of about 1514, although the Royal Commission on Historic Monuments attributes it to the late 16th century. Nikolaus Pevsner speculates that the front may have formed part of a courtyard house of which the remainder has disappeared.
The principal facade of the Grade I mansion has been substantially remodelled over time. The house is constructed of red brick with ashlar quoining and the principal facade, terminated by symmetrical matching bays, has tall paned windows. The house and detached tower are among the earliest uses of brick as the principal building material for an English house.
Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine (1635–1708) oversaw a substantial remodelling of the house in 1684, and much of the existing south facade dates from that time. The end bays were heightened, and the central porch was rebuilt with stone quoins and pilasters, a balustraded top and a small tower and cupola. A plan from 1684 shows the hall in the centre of the house, with service rooms to the west and the main parlour to the east. On the first floor, the dining room was over the hall, the main bedchamber over the kitchen, and a lady's chamber over the porch.
In the early 18th century Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine (1694–1749) oversaw a remodelling of the north of the house, in which an extra range of rooms was added to the north and a large crest of the Coleraine arms added to the pediment of the north façade. In the late 18th century, under the ownership of James Townsend, the narrow east facade of the house was remodelled into an entrance front, and given the appearance of a typical Georgian house. At the same time, the gabled attics on the south front were removed, giving the southern elevation of the house its current appearance. An inventory of the house made in 1789 in preparation for its sale listed a hall, saloon, drawing room, dining room and breakfast parlour on the ground floor, with a library and billiard room on the first floor.
In the early 19th century the west wing of the house was demolished, leaving it with the asymmetrical appearance that it retains today. The house was converted into a school, and in 1870 a three-story extension was built in the Gothic Revival style to the northwest of the house.
The 2006 excavations by the Museum of London uncovered the chalk foundations of an earlier building on the site, of which nothing is currently known. Court rolls of 1742 refer to the repair of a drawbridge, implying that the building then had a moat.A 1911 archaeological journal made passing reference to "the recent levelling of the moat".

Hrithik Roshan, who was present at the launch of a start-to-finish wedding planning service with wife Suzanne, was forthcoming when it came to talking about his own 10-year-old marriage. “Even though Suzanne and I were dating for six years before we got married, it didn’t take away from the hectic preparations that come with a wedding. While we just had to show up at the venue, I clearly remember how stressed our families and friends were. Had the wedding planning service been launched ten years ago, we would have really benefited from the novel concept,” confessed the actor. Meanwhile, Suzanne added that it is companionship, love and trust that keeps a marriage going after the wedding festivities wear-off.

Split Wide Open
After a year of being together, Kangana Ranaut and Adhyayan Suman have parted ways apparently. Irregular schedules, too much time apart and working on different locations for their respective films, has taken its toll on their relationship. They met for dinner recently and decided to end their relationship mutually as they feel they need to concentrate on their careers.