Shan Hills
ရှမ်းရိုးမ / ฉานโยมา
Range
Location of the Shan Hills
Countries	Burma, Thailand
Region	Southeast Asia
Part of	Indo-Malayan System
Borders on	Burma, Thailand, China, Laos
Highest point	Loi Leng
- elevation	2,673 m (8,770 ft)
- coordinates	22°39′00″N 98°4′00″E / 22.65°N 98.0666667°E / 22.65; 98.0666667
Length	560 km (348 mi), N/S
Width	330 km (205 mi), E/W
Geology	Granite, limestone

The Shan Hills in Mae Hong Son Province

Sunset at Inle Lake, Myanmar with the Shan Hills in the background.

The Shan Hills between Chiang Mai and the border with Myanmar.

The Shan Hills (Burmese: ရှမ်းရိုးမ, Thai: ฉานโยมา; Shan Yoma), also known as Shan Highland, are part of the range of hills that extends through Yunnan to Burma and Thailand, linking to the Himalayas, of which they may be considered foothills. The highest point is Loi Leng^[1] Other peaks are 2,565 m high Mong Ling Shan,^[2] 2,565 m high Doi Inthanon and 2,563 m high Loi Pangnao. All are ultra prominent peaks of Southeast Asia.^[3]

Etymology[link]

The name of the range is derived from the Shan State and its peoples, said in its turn to be derived from the word "Siam",^[4] that occupies most of the Shan Highland area.

Geography[link]

The area of the Shan Highland is a combination of hill ranges, steep river valleys and a high plateau, the Shan Plateau. The Shan Hills straddle central eastern Burma and northwestern Thailand.

They rise steeply from Burma's central plain and stretch for hundreds of kilometres eastwards into Thailand's northwest. The average elevation is around 1,000 m. Its surface is cut across by steep river gorges, part of the drainage basins of the Chao Phraya, the Irrawaddy, the Sittaung and the Salween or Thanlwin River.^[5] Geographically the Karen Hills are the southwestern projection of the Shan Hills.^[6]

A series of mountain ranges rises in near-parallel fashion above the plateau, up to heights of 2,500 m, extending southwards from the Daen Lao Range (ทิวเขาแดนลาว) or 'Loi La Range'. This range, the southernmost of the Shan Highland system, separates the Salween watershed from the Mekong watershed.

The Daen Lao Mountain Range begins at Chiang Saen in the east. Its western end is not clearly defined though. Some geographers include the Thanon Thong Chai Range (เทือกเขาถนนธงชัย) subsystem as part of the Daen Lao Range, connecting it with the Dawna Range in the west and with the beginning of the Tenasserim Hills further south. Doi Inthanon, the highest point in Thailand, reaching 2,565 m (8,415 ft), is part of the Thanon Thong Chai mountain range. The tallest point of the Thanon Thong Chai Range in Mae Hong Son Province is Doi Mae Ya (ยอดเขาแม่ยะ) (2,005 m), located on the eastern side of these mountains in Pai District.^[7] Other high peaks of these ranges are Doi Chiang Dao (2,175 m), Doi Pui (1,685 m) and Doi Suthep (1,676 m).

Features[link]

Geologically in the Shan Hills and their southern subranges, layers of alluvium are superimposed on hard rock.^[8] Karstic ranges are common, for large tracts of the hills are limestone.

In the highlands of the Shan hills there are also lakes, like the Inle Lake near Yawnghwe.^[9]

The Shan Hills is the area of Burma which accounts for most of the national potato production.^[10]

In British colonial times, the main hill station in Burma, Pyin U Lwin, was built in the western region of the Shan Hills. Located at 1,000 m above sea level and about one-hour drive from Mandalay, it was one of the retreats for colonial officials escaping the heat of the Burmese summer. Pyin-U-Lwin is still famous for its botanical gardens and, like all British hill stations, has samples of colonial architecture.

The Taunggyi Bird Sanctuary, established in 1906 as the Taunggyi Wildlife Reserve was redesignated as a Bird Sanctuary in 1989.^[11]

See also[link]

• List of Ultras of Southeast Asia
• Doi Inthanon

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Shan Hills

• The Geology of Burma (Myanmar)
• Peakbagger - Shan-Western Thailand

Coordinates: 21°30′00″N 98°00′00″E / 21.5°N 98°E / 21.5; 98

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Gina Silva is a Los Angeles-based newscaster^[1] who works for KTTV Fox News and KCOP. She does live reports for Good Day LA and Fox 11 Morning News. Before moving to the morning shift, Gina worked on special projects (Investigative/Consumer). She also anchored the Sunday morning news with Robb Weller. Gina fills in for the morning and evening anchors on both KTTV and KCOP.^[2] In addition to reporting, Miss Silva does portrait photography. Her work can be seen at Ginasilvaphotography.com. From 2001 through 2003 Gina co-anchored the KCOP weekend news with Kent Ninomiya. Prior to working at KTTV, Gina was a national correspondent for the entertainment program Extra (television show) from 1997 to 2000. Before Extra and KTTV, Gina worked for KNXV, the ABC affiliate in Phoenix. There, she was a member of the exclusive unit "The Investigators". Gina's past experience also includes reporting and anchoring for KOLD, the CBS affiliate in Tucson and the Univision network in Phoenix. She has a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gina Silva's page at Fox 11 Web site

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Harry Hill
Hill in Putney with The Caterers in 2006
Birth name	Matthew Keith Hall
Born	(1964-10-01) October 1, 1964 (age 47) Woking, Surrey, England
Medium	Stand-up, television, film
Nationality	British
Years active	1992–present
Genres	Improvisational comedy, Surreal comedy, Wit, Parody, Musical comedy, Insult comedy
Subject(s)	Humanity, Pop culture, Television, World history
Influences	Burt Kwouk, Eddie Izzard, Ken Dodd
Influenced	Paul Burling
Spouse	Magda Archer (m. 1996) «start: (1996)»"Marriage: Magda Archer to Harry Hill" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Harry_Hill); 3 children
Notable works and roles	Harry Hill's TV Burp Comic Relief You Cannot Be Serious
Website	www.harryhill.co.uk
BAFTA Awards
Best Entertainment Performance 2008, 2009 Harry Hill's TV Burp Best Entertainment Programme 2008 Harry Hill's TV Burp
British Comedy Awards
Best Comedy Entertainment Programme 2006, 2008 Harry Hill's TV Burp Best TV Comedy Entertainment Personality 2006, 2009 Harry Hill's TV Burp

Harry Hill (born Matthew Keith Hall on 1 October 1964),^{[citation needed]} is a Perrier Award–winning English comedian, author and television presenter. A former medical doctor (who remains on the General Medical Council's List of Registered Medical Practitioners), Hill began his career in comedy with the popular radio show Harry Hill's Fruit Corner.

Personal life[link]

Hill was born in Woking, Surrey^[1] and spent part of his childhood living in Hong Kong where he attended Island School.^[2] The family then moved to Staplehurst, Kent where Hill attended the local primary school.^[3] He was educated at Angley School and then Cranbrook School in Kent and St George's Hospital Medical School before training in neurosurgery at the University of London. Hill worked as a house officer at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, before quitting the medical profession because he "didn't feel in control of what was happening".^[4]

Hill married illustrator Magda Archer in 1996 in Wandsworth, London.^[2] They have three daughters, all born in Kensington and Chelsea, London: Kitty, Winnie and Frederica.^[5] He now resides in the seaside town of Whitstable, Kent.

In February 2006, Hill was a victim of identity theft; a sum of £280,000 was stolen from his bank account.^[6] In September 2008, Hill worked with Fairtrade to release Harry's Nuts, a brand of fairtrade peanuts.^[7]

He is known to have been a supporter for his namesake football club Harrow Hill F.C., (also known as Harry Hill). In 2008, he was presented with a Harrow Hill badge, which he subsequently wore regularly on episodes of TV Burp.

Career[link]

Television[link]

From 1997, Hill had his own Channel 4 television series called Harry Hill which ran for three series. The show was essentially a reworking of his radio series Harry Hill's Fruit Corner. Among the regular characters were Hill's big brother, 'Alan' (played by the comedian Al Murray) and his adopted son 'Little Alan' (played by Dr Matt Bradstock). Burt Kwouk appeared in many episodes of Harry Hill and occasionally in Hill's major live standup shows. Kwouk played Harry's "Chicken Catcher" and each week he had an excuse as to why he has not yet captured a chicken, followed by a performance of the song Hey Little Hen. In later series, Hill and Kwouk appeared in sketches as Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace. Hill's screen wife Mai Sung also made appearances on the show, mainly around the theme of trying to steal his bank savings book. Another favourite on the show was Stouffer the Cat, a curious-looking cat glove puppet made of blue rubber, a fetish item bequested to Hall during a dispute^{[citation needed]}. Stouffer normally sits in a throne supported by a rubber arm in the style of Rod Hull, and is employed to intimidate guests during Hill's standup routines and as part of a strange children's TV parody sketch on his TV show. Stouffer's catchphrases are "he got a big face" and "sorted — respect due". The end of each episode was supposed to include an event called "The Badger Parade", a parade of puppet badgers that included Gareth Southgate badger and Tasmin Archer badger, among others. But every week there would be some kind of problem resulting in the badgers being unable to perform. In place of the badger parade, Hill would usually sing a song, with a guest he had invited onto the show.

In 2001, Hill moved to ITV presenting an all-new show Harry Hill's TV Burp which ran for eleven series until it ended in 2012. The BAFTA award-winning show was a comic look at the week's television, showing clips from various UK television programmes and framing them with commentary or intercutting additional footage. Also broadcast on ITV1 was The All New Harry Hill Show, similar to his Channel 4 show, but with a bigger budget and more celebrity guests. Regular features included the Hamilton Challenge (featuring Neil and Christine Hamilton), and a Butterfly in Blue Jeans finale.

In 2005, Hill moved into new territory with Harry Hill's Shark Infested Custard, a 13-part show broadcast in the CITV children's television slot. While many of his previous characters including Stouffer and Garry Hill (Hill's fictional layabout son from his first marriage) remained, it also showcased several new characters including Speed Camera Boy, about an outsider who is half boy and half speed camera, and Evelynne Hussey and her Amazing Instruments. While the show featured a game show element, Help the Aged, it was very similar in structure to Harry Hill. In this show, he wore a pale yellow (custard-coloured) shirt with a giant collar instead of his usual white one.

Other projects[link]

Hill's instantly recognisable voice has led to work in voice-over roles on television commercials such as the holiday adverts for Boots in 2004. Hill also provides the voice over for You've Been Framed and once sang a song entitled "Bring on the Branston!" for the Branston Pickle adverts. Hill has appeared on the BBC Radio 4 series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. In 2002, Hill's first novel, Flight from Deathrow, was published. The novel is based around accounts of the unlikely antics of real-life celebrities and politicians as seen through the eyes of the storyteller, as he drifts in and out of a coma. His second book, Tim the Tiny Horse, was published in October 2006, and his third, The Further Adventures of the Queen Mum, in October 2007. Also available is Harry Hill's Fun Book, a Christmas spin-off from his Channel 4 TV show, Harry Hill's Whopping Great Joke Book (also available as an iPhone app^[8]) and Tim the Tiny Horse At Large, which is the sequel to the first book. In October 2009, Ebury Press published Harry Hill's TV Burp Book, a tie-in to the popular television programme, which included comics, spoofs and pin ups. In November 2010, Harry was set to release his debut comic album 'Funny Times'.^[9] The album has been preceded by the release of the single 'I Wanna Baby'. About the same time as 'Funny Times' was released, Harry Hill released 'Livin' the Dreem' a fictional account of his life in 2010, featuring references to pop culture in 2010.

In January 2008, he guest starred in "Mind Your Manors", the first episode of Series 20 of ChuckleVision.

He had his own comic strip in The Dandy, called Harry Hill's Real Life Adventures in TV Land, drawn by Nigel Parkinson. Hill was directly involved in its creation, and is co-credited alongside Parkinson. He is now the voice of the Green Flag ant in the Green Flag commercials. Harry is also a supporter of Gloucestershire non-league side Harrow Hill F.C. and met their former chairman during a book-signing in Cheltenham. When it was mentioned that Harrow Hill's nickname was 'Harry Hill' Harry thought it hilarious and now wears a Harrow Hill F.C badge on his suit. In 2011, he starred in the Sky Atlantic sitcom This is Jinsy as Joon Boolay.^[10]

Between October and December 2010, Hill starred in a weekly online comedy series on the ChannelFlip website, called Harry Hill's Little Internet Show.^[11]

In late 2011, Harry teamed up with companies The Fly, Muzu and Roland to launch a music competition to find the next big thing. Prizes included £5,000 worth of Roland equipment and a £20 record deal. Oxford band Million Faces were announced as the winners on 19 December 2011.

Filmography[link]

Hill has released a selection of DVDs, Videos and Audio Books, many of which feature recordings of his sell-out live tours. The first, entitled 'Live', was released in 1995, featuring a performance from The Queen's Theatre, London.

Awards[link]

In 2003, Hill was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.^[12] In 2007 he was voted number five on Channel 4's hundred greatest stand-ups. On 13 December 2006, he won two Highland Spring British Comedy Awards, over the favourites Ant and Dec, which Hill made light of in his acceptance speeches.^[13] In 2008 he won two Baftas and another in 2009 for best Entertainment Performance. In 2009 he won two British Comedy Awards, making it his sixth award. He also won again in 2011, but was unable to be there and sent Wagbo to collect it on his behalf. He was also nominated for 3 other awards, including the People's Choice Award, which was won by Miranda Hart.

VHS and DVD releases[link]

Stand-up shows[link]

• Live (16 October 1995)
• Man Alive - Live (27 October 1997)
• First Class Scamp - Live (16 November 1998)
• Birdstrike! - Live (20 November 2000)
• In Hooves - Live (21 November 2005)

Television[link]

• Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold (10 November 2008)
• Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2 (9 November 2009)
• Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 3 (1 November 2010)
• Harry Hill's TV Burp: The Best Bits (14 November 2011)

Discography[link]

Audiobooks[link]

• Fruit Corner (2 October 1995)
• Hooves (20 March 2006)
• Man Alive (20 February 2007)
• Flight from Deathrow (2 April 2009)
• Livin' the Dream (4 November 2010)

Music[link]

• Funny Times (29 November 2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Avalon.co.uk - Avalon, Harry Hill's agent
• Chortle Harry Hill on Chortle
• TV Recordings Free tickets to Harry Hill's TV shows
• Harry Hill Fansite - Unofficial Fansite for Harry Hill
• Official Site - Official Website
• Harry Hill at the Internet Movie Database