Reliving Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches: New Tour Package To Attract Australians
In a move to attract more Australians to visit Malaysia, the tourism ministry plans to put together a tourism package aimed at offering Australians the experience of reliving the three Sandakan-Ranau death marches.
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Reliving Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches: New Tour Package To Attract Australians
We’ve made and cited the argument before: In peer production, the interests of capitalists and entrepreneurs are no longer aligned Essentially, in an era of open knowledge, free code and shared designs, the design phase needs less and less capital, and as shared design communities progress, they design not just sustainable products, but a new kind of machinery, along with new ways to peer-fund entrepreneurship.
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The end of venture capital and the beginning of peer-funded, “slow money” based production using shared designs and low-capital machinery
Jump to the full entry & travel map Daqing, Heilongjiang, China I haven’t updated in ages. I’d like to say that my excuse is that it’s been “summer intensive” period at EF, so I’ve only had one day off a week, but “one day off” still means I have hours every day where I don’t have to do anything and I easily could have updated.
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Incredibly specific — Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
As an Englishman born and bred and a fan of history of steam Locomotives I thought it may be of interest to write an article about the history of the earliest steam locomotive. The first full scale working railway steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in the United Kingdom on 21st February 1804 when the world's first railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales.
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The First Steam Locomotive – England 1804
Jump to the full entry & travel map Camarillo, Washington, United States Covenant Mortgage Website Depending on the size of the loan and the prevailing practice in the country the term may be short (10 years) or long (50 years plus). In the UK and U.S., 25 to 30 years is the usual maximum term (although shorter periods, such as 15-year mortgage loans, are common).
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Covenant Mortgage — Camarillo, Washington, United States
On March 4 2010, Gordon Cook was able to interview me in Bangkok. This became the basis for the August-September special issue of the Cook Report, a newsletter that is distributed to telecommunication leaders. It’s the most in-depth profile of our work to date and the first 17 pages, which feature a detailed comparison of John Robb’s work with ours, will be serialized separately
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The Gordon Cook Interview (4): Peak Hierarchy and Open Agriculture
Filed under: Beauty , News , Makeup , Skin & Body Photo: Getty Images Beauty is beginning to say so long to old-school plastic. Two of the industry’s biggest players — Whole Foods and Procter & Gamble — are passing new regulations for sustainable and recyclable packaging that are causing a growing rumble in the marketplace, where other brands are beginning the shift to using renewable materials. The new Whole Foods regulations go into effect this month, and mandate that suppliers use packaging materials that are easily reused or recycled, are non-toxic, and that they switch from plastic to glass when possible
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Beauty’s Emerging Green Packaging Trend Bids Goodbye to Plastic Bottles
The ancient Berber kingdom of Numidia existed between 202 BC and 46 BC in what is now Algeria and part of modern-day Tunisia in North Africa. With the sparkling Mediterranean Sea to its north and the unforgiving Sahara Desert to the south, Numidia had the Roman-ruled province of Mauretania on its western border and the province of Africa, which was also under Roman rule, to the east.
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Ancient Numidia
And the book, the bestseller Eat, Pray and Love , became a movie, hopefully a blockbuster. As we hinted last year, Julia Roberts (yes that Julia Roberts!) plays Elizabeth Gilbert touring the world after a divorce in a quest for the perfect life, i.e.
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Eat, Pray and Love, the director’s cut
Anyone concerned with contemporary or post WWII art should get to Washington by Sept. 12 to see this exhibition. Yves Klein is an essential figure in post war art whose work resonates through much of what followed: happenings, performance (and films of performance), installations, minimal and conceptual art. For a current generation of young artists making their way in a world shadowed by the threat of environmental annihilation, his work will have particular resonance
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‘Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers’ at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
Also in New York, I fought the Saturday crowds to get a look at Haunted, the Guggenheim's extraordinarily thoughtful, well-mounted exhibition of contemporary photography and video. Thoughtful because, above it all, it strives to make connections beyond simple media and into the realm of idea, reference and intent, understanding formal concerns like appropriation — a huge current in the early moments of conceptualism, and a lingua franca of contemporary art today — and its connections across that epochal divide.
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Haunted: Luis Jacob at the Guggenheim
Following is from http://the-diplomat.com/indian-decade/2010/08/29/orissa’s-pyrrhic-victory/ . … Some commentators in the Indian press with a strong anti-corporate orientation, meanwhile, are also gleeful that the project has come to a halt. Ostensibly, this delight stems from having stopped a greedy multinational corporation from ruthlessly exploiting the natural resources of a remote part of the country and the traditional homelands of some of India’s adivasi (original), tribal population
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Professor Sumit Ganguly on the Vedanta decision by Ramesh
Illustration: Paul Burck. Herbst im Isarthal , c1899. The tapestry work produced by the German artist and designer Paul Burck during the last years of the nineteenth century are probably some of the most interesting examples of the new European art of that era
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Tapestry Work of Paul Burck
Every year thousands of tourists, students and business travellers come to Milan. Be it for work, pleasure, or both (for example studying at Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci ), you should take advantage of certain attractions during your time in this amazing city. Some may seem obvious, you will find them in guide books or already know about them, but other destinations are hidden gems and Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci wants you to know about them! 1) See Milan from the top of the Duomo : The Duomo is breathtaking from the outside but you have to go to the top to fully appreciate it. At the top you can walk among the structure itself, admire its intricacies, and if the sky is clear, you have before you an amazing view of the city. Many people don’t realize that you can go to the top and yes, there is an elevator. Cost: 5€ stairs, 8€ elevator. Tickets can be purchased at the Duomo Information Point directly behind the Duomo
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10 things not to miss in Milan!
Illustration: Stained Glass from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament , 1856 In Britain stained glass design and production saw a massive rise in both popularity and function in the nineteenth century. It was used extensively in both the domestic and ecclesiastical markets and although artistically it can be said that the twentieth century may well have seen the apex of stained glass design work as far as creativity is concerned, it is still the nineteenth century that saw the craft appealing almost universally, probably for the first time since the medieval period. Although Owen Jones does cover stained glass decorative work in his 1856 The Grammar of Ornament , it is very much tucked away within the larger Medieval Ornament chapter.
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Owen Jones and Medieval Stained Glass Design
Illustration: Arpad Dekani Lace design c1908 Much of the early twentieth century revival of practical lace making, but more particularly that of designing lace within Hungary, can be attributed fairly squarely to Arpad Dekani. Professor Dekani, who started his career relatively humbly as a teacher at a provincial school in Hungary, eventually became a professor at the Arts and Crafts School in Budapest.
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Lace Design Work of Arpad Dekani
The website to accompany Modernist cuisine is up now. It showcases stunning pictures and example pages, the complete table of contents available in pdf format , details on the exceptional printing quality ( stochastic screening and wide gamut inks in case you wondered…) as well as introductions to each volume: History and fundamentals , Techniques and equipment , Animals and plants , Ingredients and preparations , Plated dish recipes – and each page of these pages has additional pictures.
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Modernist cuisine website up
Have you ever snapped a photo of a historic place in the U.S. and thought, “Hey, this turned out pretty well—I could win a contest!” If your exceptional photo is of a National Historic Landmark , then your words just might come true. The National Park Service ’s 11th annual photo contest, “Imaging Our National Heritage,” is underway, and is open to both amateur shutterbugs and professional photographers.
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Enter the National Park Service Photo Contest
Jump to the full entry & travel map Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia WEEK 12 ROCKHAMPTON via MARLBOROUGH! On Saturday 17 July, Mike’s Birthday we passed the half way point of our trip after travelling 11,200 kms from home. Will be interesting to see how many kilometres we travel before getting back to Perth. We set off en route to Rocky (as Rockhampton is affectionately known) from Mackay fairly early on Friday morning with 338 kms to cover
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Half way through our trip for weekend at Rocky — Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Many of the worlds rich and famous past and present have had chauffeur driven cars at one stage or another on the face of it there is nothing unusual or extraordinary about a chauffeur driven car. However there are people in history who through tragedy or political turmoil made their chauffeur cars forever part of history as we know it.
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Chauffeurs – Hitler, Pope, JFK & Princess Diana