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Welcome at the Weisee. Have a seat and get a first look at the untouched nature of the Hohe Tauern National Park. Another year over, staring into space thinking random thoughts. And it lead me to take a deeper look at the year gone by and what I've done. I've had a good year but as everyone suffer from the recession. Let's hope it will be better at the new year. The Weisee glaciers can only be reached by cable car. This already makes the journey an unforgettable event. Surrounded by 22 peaks and numerous glaciers overlooking the Weisee. There is the Rudolfshtte at 2315m where you can spend the night. In winter holiday awaits you in the Weisee glacier, just outside our door, ski-snowboard and tour fun without waiting times. With 23 slopes and numerous ski runs and off-piste descents everyone comes winter athletes at his expense. In summer you can find many marked trails for all abilities, whether a leisurely stroll on Weisee, a family walk to Tauernmoossee or a high-altitude tour on Granatspitze provides, for each is given the opportunity the fascinating world of high-alpine experience.

Photo of the Weisee in Austria at 2300m, located in the Hohe Tauern National Park. A man is having a rest and enjoying the panoramic view. The sun was still shining but suddenly a thick mist descends. Such phenomenon can appear on any high altitude mountainside.

Welkom bij de Weisee. Neem plaats op het bankje en geniet van de ongerepte natuur van het Nationaal Park Hohe Tauern. Een jaar weer voorbij met de blik op oneindig denkend aan willekeurige gedachten. Dit brengt mij tot diepere gedachten van het afgelopen jaar en wat ik heb gedaan. Het was een goed jaar voor mij maar zoals iedereen last van de recessie. Laten we hopen dat het een beter nieuw jaar wordt. De Weisee gletsjers kan alleen worden bereikt met de kabelbaan. Dit maakt de reis een onvergetelijke gebeurtenis. Omringd door 22 bergtoppen en de vele gletsjers met uitzicht op de Weisee. Het skigebied van Weisee staat bekend om zijn prachtige heuvels en sneeuwzekerheid. De uitstekend geprepareerde natuursneeuw pistes zijn over het algemeen makkelijk tot middelmatig. Een moderne kabelbaan brengt u rechtstreeks naar het centrum van het skioord Weisee-Alpinzentrum Rudolfshtte. Ook voor beginners zijn hier prachtige skitoeren. In de zomer kun je vele bewegwijzerde wandelroutes vinden, Een familie wandeling naar Tauernmoossee of de hooggelegen Granatspitz, een fascinerende wereld en een mooie high-alpine ervaring.

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Rouse hill town Centre / Sydney / Australia

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A wonderful evening

Ich habe heute einen herrlichen Sonnenuntergang und kurz darauf ein tolles Abendrot erlebt - am Stausee des Lechs bei Urspring...im Hintergrund die Allguer Alpen.

Today I watched a magnificent sunset and shortly afterwards a great afterglow - at the reservoir of the river Lech near Urspring ... in the background you see the Allgu Alps.

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Garbage piled up on a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand, over the weekend.

BANGKOK—Thai authorities are boosting efforts to collect drain-clogging garbage in Bangkok as Thailand's slow-rolling floodwaters send debris from upstream into the capital, threatening two more massive industrial parks Monday after swamping seven others.

Flooded roads are preventing garbage collectors getting to many areas—raising fears over the risk of disease and over the blockage of drains, which is impeding the flow of water into the sea. Bangkok produces about 8,700 tons of rubbish a day—roughly a quarter of Thailand's total. Added to that figure is the additional trash flowing into the city from northern provinces.

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A Bangkok resident wades near a mountain of garbage on Monday.

In some areas, such as Khlong Sam Wa in Bangkok's northeast, residents demolished government-built levies that had penned in the stagnant, trash-strewn water in their neighborhoods, freeing it to move south where it is encircling the Bang Chan and Lat Krabang industrial estates. Companies, including Unilever Pcl, Nestle SA and Honda Motor Co., operate in the area, and if the parks fall it would present a fresh blow to Thailand's economy and its credibility as a destination for global manufacturers. The floods already have submerged several key industrial parks, severely disrupting the global supply of crucial auto parts and computer components.

"You can't blame people for deciding to take matters into the own hands" by tearing down embankments, said Boonsern Chitchuen, who has been living on the fetid, flooded side of the Khlong Sam Wa flood barrier for weeks. "People are getting sick from the garbage, and there is no help here to collect it all."

City governor, Sukhumbhand Paribatra, has ordered the municipal refuse collectors to work around the clock in their trucks and boats in an attempt to to prevent a bigger disaster, while teams of street sweepers scour the city to keep debris from clogging vital drains.

Countrywide, more than 500 people have been killed by the floods since late July. In Bangkok, city leaders are urging people to leave 12 of the city's 50 districts, and several more are under partial evacuation orders as the floodwaters encroach on Bangkok's main business district, past the famous Chatuchak Weekend Market.

Some city workers say the public employees can't do it on their own. Street sweeper Jiraporn Sirikul says her fellow residents need to learn to pick up their own trash and dispose of it properly. "I don't mind doing what I can to pick up the garbage. It's my job. But people have to learn to help themselves, too, and realize that when they dump garbage in the streets they risk flooding their own homes and those of their neighbors," Ms. Jiraporn, 45 years old, said, as she surveyed a flooded city intersection with her two young daughters. "People have to learn to be more responsible."

It's a lesson other cities in the region have had to learn. In 2009, when a typhoon ripped through Manila, about a third of the Philippines' capital quickly flooded because of garbage blocking the city's drainage systems. Government workers there mobilized to clean up Manila's drains and launched a public awareness program about the dangers of recklessly tossing trash away. When a similar storm then passed over Manila in September, the flooding was less intense.

Thailand's clean-up, when the floods eventually recede, will be more of a challenge, and analysts say it could determine whether foreign manufacturers choose to reinvest here or relocate to other countries.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra plans to propose to her Cabinet on Tuesday an initial budget of 100 billion baht, or $3.3 billion, to rebuild roads, homes and hospitals, and intends to travel to the Ayutthaya province, where many industrial parks are located, to oversee drainage operations as water levels begin to fall. Longer term, her government has said it will look at ways to better manage the country's water flow following a series of heavy monsoon seasons.

—Wilawan Watcharasakwet contributed to this article.

Write to James Hookway at james.hookway@wsj.com

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Tule Elk

While heading out of Point Reyes Beach, Mieko says "You might want to pull over and take a picture of the fighting reindeer". Huh? I look over and there were two Elks clashing antlers with an insane sky backdrop! There were a couple of cars already pulled over and everyone was snapping away. I quickly pulled over grabbed the camera ran across the road took aim...and noticed how tiny they were. I had the wide angle lens on! Argh! Run back to the car switch lens get back out there and take aim.... Too dark for handheld! Argh! The tripod was packed in the trunk. I couldnt wait so I just balanced the camera on a fence post as a makeshift stand. By then the Elk were through smaking heads and just standing there like Christmas decorations on the neighbors lawn. Still it was a spectacular sight to see.

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