A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
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Green: Operations Alternative To Hysteria (Gr:OATH).
Urban Farming Looking Up In Singapore
Less than 20 miles from Singapore's skyscrapers is a completely different set of high-rise towers. Much smaller in scale but with a big ambition, over 100 nine-meter tall towers at Sky Greens vertical farm offer a new vision of urban sustainability. Green vegetables like bak choi and Chinese cabbage are grown, stacked in greenhouses, and sold at local supermarkets.
Urban Farming Looking Up In Singapore - CNN - 10.12.2012
The Lion City on Vimeo - Vimeo
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Venice in a Day, Joerg Niggli, http://vimeo.com/40977797
Venice, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice
Enrico Dandolo, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Dandolo
Venetian Arsenal,
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetia...d_Shipbuilding
Portugal, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuga...tion_and_trade
Vasco da Gama, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama
Caravel, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravel
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Sapere Aude
I remember it well. Piazza San Marco, summer of '69, a bucolically porcine gondolier yells at me to get the blankety blank off his gondola which I've been horsing around on. An emotional moment.
'First encounter' with Portugal, a visit to then sleepy Malacca in the early seventies. Interesting cannons.
Malacca - WikipediaIn April 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque set sail from Goa to Malacca with a force of some 1200 men and seventeen or eighteen ships. They conquered the city on 24 August 1511. After seizing the city Afonso de Albuquerque spared the Hindu, Chinese and Burmese inhabitants but had the Muslim inhabitants massacred or sold into slavery.
It soon became clear that Portuguese control of Malacca did not also mean they controlled Asian trade centred there. Their Malaccan rule was severely hampered by administrative and economic difficulties. Rather than achieving their ambition of dominating Asian trade, the Portuguese had disrupted the organisation of the network. The centralised port of exchange of Asian wealth had now gone, as was a Malay state to police the Straits of Malacca that made it safe for commercial traffic. Trade was now scattered over a number of ports among bitter warfare in the Straits.
The Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier spent several months in Malacca in 1545, 1546, and 1549. In 1641, the Dutch defeated the Portuguese in an effort to capture Malacca, with the help of the Sultan of Johore. The Dutch ruled Malacca from 1641 to 1798 but they were not interested in developing it as a trading centre, placing greater importance to Batavia (Jakarta) on Java as their administrative centre. However they still built their landmark, better known as the Stadthuys or Red Building.
Malacca was ceded to the British in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 in exchange for Bencoolen on Sumatra. From 1826 to 1946 Malacca was under the rule of the British, first by the British East India Company and then as a Crown Colony. It formed part of the Straits Settlements, together with Singapore and Penang. After the dissolution of this crown colony, Malacca and Penang became part of the Malayan Union, which later became the Federation of Malaya and eventually Malaysia. (Wikipedia - Malacca)
Portugese Malacca - Wikipedia
Follow up to post #13, article on Urban Farming in Singapore.
Wrong on so many levels: The Vertical Farming Scam - Counterpunch - 11.12.2012Why, after more than a decade, does the idea of “vertical farming” keep gathering momentum? Why hasn’t it collapsed under its own weight of illogic? And why is media coverage of vertical farming almost universally positive, often enthusiastically so?
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised when a fantasy persists and thrives despite being unrealistic; after all, that’s what fantasies do. And the vertical-farming concept, unlike, say, creationism, aims at worthy goals. But when a pipedream comes to be regarded, wholly uncritically, as a means of fixing our broken food system, it becomes a dangerous distraction.
Out here in Kansas, for example, farmers and agribusinesses often back up their resistance to much-needed systemic change by claiming that America’s urban-suburban majority has no understanding of what it takes to produce food. And when they learn that city people are wanting to stack fields of crops one above the other, you can be sure that their convictions are reinforced.
Walao! Now mesti ada 6Cs mah.
Cyber Wargame Centre opens at Singapore Polytechnic - straits times - 1.3.2013.Cyber Wargame Centre opens at Singapore Polytechnic
Singapore Polytechnic students will now have state-of-the art facility to learn how to handle realistic cyber security scenarios. The Cyber Wargame Centre, the first of its kind to be based in a tertiary institution, was official opened on Thursday. The centre will be used mainly by students in the school's diploma in Infocomm Security Management course. There are four labs where students will learn how to attack and defend networks, analyse malware systems and investigate cyber security problems.
Singlish - A Language Guide for Foreigners - aussiepete5Cs [polite version]: The 5 C's of Singapore, namely Cash, Car, Credit card, Condominium, (Country) Club
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