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South Thompson Planning Report
No full textThe South Thompson River Basin is a major sub-regional area of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. The South Thompson serves as a pathway for major salmon runs, a corridor for rail and highway transportation, a recreational resource for the Kamloops/Shuswap population, a scenic treasure, an agricultural base, a reservoir of flat land, and a clean water supply. It contains a priceless record of our archaeological and historical past. At the same time, it is obvious that this area is a delicate and vulnerable ecological and aesthetic system. Haphazard or random residential sprawl, ill considered industrial development, or inappropriate land use of any type could endanger and destroy this resource permanently. A policy statement indicating the desired directions in which the Regional District should permit development to proceed is imperative. This document, then, is a statement of policy.Not peer reviewedPlanning documentInterim Repor
South Thompson Settlement Strategy: Policy Document
No full textThe purpose of the South Thompson Settlement Strategy (STSS) is to strike a balance between anticipated settlement pressures and the many other important values in the South Thompson valley.Not peer reviewedPlanning documen
South Thompson Valley and Pinantan official settlement plan.
No full textThe recommended policies contained in this plan provide the Thompson-Nicola Regional District with the means to protect and enhance the agricultural economic base, regulate the supply and location of rural residential growth, guide commercial and industrial development and satisfy the historical, recreational, social and environmental concerns of the settlement plan area.Not peer reviewedPlanning documen
Mountain landscape
No full textThis unidentified mountain landscape in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was photographed by Jim Thompson. This image is from the collection of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club, a group formed in the fall of 1924 after a group of outdoor enthusiasts hiked up to Mount LeConte. Enjoying the spectacular views, they decided to form a hiking club. The club was formally organized in Knoxville, Tennessee. Early club members included Carlos Campbell; Paul Adams, builder of Mount LeConte Lodge; author Laura Thornborough; Paul Fink, who served on the Park’s nomenclature committee; and Albert “Dutch” Roth. Jim Thompson was their “official” photographer
High-performance SiC-fibre reinforced beta-sialon CMCs prepared from heat-treated Nicalon fibres
No full textIn a previous paper (Demir, A. and Thompson, D. P., Heat-treatment of Nicalon SiC fibres in various atmospheres and pressures. In Proc. 3rd Int. Turkish Ceramic Congress, Vol. 2, Engineering Ceramics, ed. V. Gunay, H. Mandal and S. Ozgen. Turkish Ceramic Society, Istanbul, 1996, pp. 180-185) it was reported that a high-pressure, high-temperature carbon monoxide treatment of Nicalon SiC fibres resulted in significantly improved strength and refractoriness, and at the same time deposited a thin carbon coating on the surface of the fibres. In the present study, fibres heat-treated in this way have been used to reinforce a range of beta -sialon ceramic matrices, and the resulting mechanical properties (bend strength, fracture toughness) have been compared with results for similar materials prepared from non-heat-treated Nicalon fibres. All samples showed significant increases in strength and density, with in general, not much change in fracture toughness. The presence of the coating on the fibres assisted the densification of the composites by decreasing friction during hot-pressing, thereby increasing density and matrix strength. SEM micrographs indicated that the carbon coating is still present after fabrication and is sacrificed during fracture, assisting in easy gull-out of fibres. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved
Laura Thornborough
No full textA native of Tennessee, Laura Thornborough (born Laura Thornburgh, 1885-1973) was the author of several books; her most well-known work is “The Great Smoky Mountains.” In this 1937 publication, Thornborough describes the mountains and surrounding communities and provides a first-hand history of the park’s formation. James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) was a noted photographer, hiker, and outdoor enthusiast who played a major role in promoting a national park in the Southern Appalachians. In the 1920s, up to the park’s dedication in 1940, Thompson was often referred to as the “Official Photographer of the Great Smokies National Park Movement.” His work was reproduced in brochures and reports promoting the idea of a park and many of his photographs depict the landscape before park construction
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