April 10-11: Jaipur (1st)
Jaipur: called the “City of Victory” is totally chaotic and congested, however, it still tickles the travelers pink. It is also called the pink city, more on that later. “Stunning hilltop forts and glorious palaces demonstrate its glorious and royal past.” It is also considered the gateway to the desert state of Rajasthan. The city owes its name, founding, and planning to the great warrior-astronomer Maharajay Jai Singh II (1600’s). He decided to come down from the Fort and build a city. He painted it pink (a color associated with hospitality) to welcome the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII). The morning saw us visit the Amber Fort.
Amber Fort: outside the city is a winding fort-palace built in the Rajput style. You will notice the difference from the more Islamic Moghul time. Construction began in the 1500’s by the Rajput commander of Akbar’s army. You can notice the fort walls built all around the valley to impede attacking armies. There is also a palace within the walls and is truly stunning. When the kids were told we were going to another fort, they kind of groaned. However, due to its massive size, different architecture and color, and riding on an elephant to get inside, and then being able to roam freely down its many corridors, rooftops, dark staircases, little cubby holes to hide in, it became a vast playground. “This is pretty cool,” was good to hear!
Tim here: I like Forts so we wil let he pictures do the talking, but it is incredible what and how they built what they built. So elaborate on such stark desert and steep hills. Also, how well preserved all the walls and doors and carvings and stone and mirror work has held up over the centuries.
3 ways up – elephant, jeep, or walk – Josh, Annika, and I chose the elephant. Annika is going to write to the Elephant Jaipur animal society to ask for improved care for the elephants
They really like to decorate the elephants up – they also did this centuries ago
main court of the people – entrance
elaborate carvings, decorations, inlaid marble, huge door and carvings etc.
They love their elephants – notice the carvings
Mirror work for ladies area
Notice again the marble carvings, but they also put in cartoon like insects
This fort you could go exploring – the kids love this fort for that very reason. They didn’thave to be so controlled and structured – go “play”.
Family fun shots
The woman behind the shawl ??????
Annika finding hiding spots to jump out and scare us
Artesian water wheel to pull water up from the ground to top floor
The caste system in India. The blue color houses are the higher Brahma class.
We then did a hotel (airconditioning!) break before heading out to the other two sites and some bazaar wandering/shopping. However, the kids started to peter out, so the market/bazaar wandering (which Tim and Natalie like to do) was out. See Jaipur (2nd)
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Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: expanding the College Football Playoff worked.
The grand experiment to allow more teams to play for the national championship wasn’t perfect, but it ended up where it was supposed to: a worthy national champion with exciting, close games in the later rounds when the best teams faced one another. It gave us awesome scenes on campuses around the nation, created new legends and showed how a sport so steeped in tradition can evolve when faced with new demands from its fans and business partners.
Here are four reasons why the new version of the College Football Playoff worked – and the areas that can still be fixed.
The committee picked the right teams, even if some games were blowouts
Before the games kicked off in December, much of the focus was put on the inclusion of Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Indiana University – two teams that won a bunch of games but didn’t have the brand recognition of schools like Alabama, South Carolina and Ole Miss.
Here’s what else those teams had that SMU and Indiana didn’t: three losses.
The Hoosiers lost only once in the regular season – to eventual national champion Ohio State. The Mustangs had lost twice, once to Brigham Young University and again in the ACC championship game to Clemson.
In the first year of the expanded, 12-team playoff, could the committee really leave out a major conference team with 11 wins and punish another one for playing for a conference championship while other teams sat at home? Warde Manuel, the University of Michigan athletic director who served as chair of the committee, said they could not.
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Биография
Мнение
Роман Василенко – известный предприниматель и меценат. Бывший офицер, ушедший в запас с сохранением права ношения военной формы. Создатель альтернативной ипотеке социальной жилищной программы, позволяющей приобрести жилье не только трудоспособным гражданам, но также молодежи, лицам с ограниченными физическими возможностями, пенсионерам.
Биография
Родился 5 апреля 1969 года в Ленинграде, в семье морских офицеров. Детство Романа Василенко прошло в стандартных для многих военных семей условиях – в разъездах. Окончил школу в гарнизоне на Дальнем Востоке, после чего поступил в Ярославское высшее военное финансовое училище. Этот факт говорит о целеустремленности будущего бизнесмена – к абитуриентам военных училищ всегда предъявляются жесткие требования при отборе.
После присвоения воинского звания в 1990 году Роман Василенко продолжил службу офицером в ВМФ. Уволился в запас в 1998 году в звании капитана третьего ранга (майор).
Первые годы в бизнесе
Еще во время службы в армии Роман Василенко начал задумываться о предпринимательской деятельности. После увольнения он работал в финансово-консалтинговых компаниях, при этом активно учился – посещал все доступные на тот момент бизнес-курсы: в Венгрии, Австрии, США, Швейцарии, на Маврикии и Кипре. Степень MBA получил во Франции. Суммарно в финансовом консалтинге бизнесмен проработал около 16 лет.
Все это время Роман Василенко, по отзывам знавших его людей, стремился к чему-то большему. Он мечтал не просто об известности и собственном, хорошо отлаженном бизнесе. Ему хотелось создать проект, который будет полезен людям и обществу.
Первый шаг оказался неудачным. В 2013 году он, вместе с партнером, создал собственную компанию. Благодаря его безупречной репутации и умению держать слово, дела резко пошли вверх. Но произошло то, что часто случается при излишней доверчивости – воспользовавшись удобным случаем, компаньон переоформил все документы на себя, оставив Романа Викторовича буквально ни с чем. Бизнесмен решил принять ситуацию как ценный опыт и продолжил интересоваться инвестированием.
2014 год оказался поворотным в биографии Романа Викторовича – его пригласили на круглый стол, состоявшийся в Государственной Думе. Заседание было посвящено проблемам молодежи в свете утечки мозгов за границу. Главными причинами отъезда были названы нехватка жилья и невозможность найти достойную работу. Именно тогда и оформилась идея с конкретной целью – дать возможность людям жить достойно здесь и сейчас.
Роман Василенко – жилищный кооператив как альтернатива ипотеке
Наиболее предпочтительным вариантом оказалось объединение опыта в сетевом маркетинге и жилищного вопроса, к чему немедленно и приступил Роман Василенко. Best Way был создан в 2014 году. С момента основания принципиальной позицией работы компании стала прозрачность и абсолютная доступность информации для обычных пользователей.
Как говорит сам Роман Василенко, участие в кооперативе можно рассматривать как покупку квартиры в складчину. Пайщик вносит 35% от стоимости квартиры, оставшуюся сумму 65% платит кооператив из собранных средств. Участник выплачивает долг беспроцентно в течение 10 лет, после чего жилье переходит в его собственность. При этом у него есть право прописаться и въехать в купленную квартиру сразу же после оформления сделки купли-продажи.
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