ldquo;In the 1920s O G S Crawford invented aerial archaeology, one of many services this eccentric Marxist misanthrope performed for the study of antiquity.rdquo;

- Jonathan Meades: Link

Bloody Old Britain: O G S Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life

By Kitty Hauser

Granta Books, 286pp

Amazon: Link

ldquo;Future archaeologists will perhaps excavate the ruined factories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when the radiation effects of Atom bombs have died away.rdquo;

- O. G. S. Crawford, from Archaeology in the Field (1953)

O. G. S. Crawford @ Wikipedia: Link.

~ Karl Jones

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Con el motivo de generar discusión entre los jóvenes sobre la temática ambienta a nivel local, los Puntos Focales de GEO Juvenil han realizado una serie de talleres en las diferentes regiones del Ecuador.

Con el motivo de generar discusión entre los jóvenes sobre la temática ambienta a nivel local, los Puntos Focales de GEO Juvenil han realizado una serie de talleres en las diferentes regiones del Ecuador.

Con el motivo de generar discusión entre los jóvenes sobre la temática ambienta a nivel local, los Puntos Focales de GEO Juvenil han realizado una serie de talleres en las diferentes regiones del Ecuador.

Con el motivo de generar discusión entre los jóvenes sobre la temática ambienta a nivel local, los Puntos Focales de GEO Juvenil han realizado una serie de talleres en las diferentes regiones del Ecuador.

Con el motivo de generar discusión entre los jóvenes sobre la temática ambienta a nivel local, los Puntos Focales de GEO Juvenil han realizado una serie de talleres en las diferentes regiones del Ecuador.

Technology for human needs:

• The Outquisition


• Engineers Without Borders


• MIT International Design Summit


• Free/Open Appropriate Technology


• Transition Towns


• Technology for Humanity

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Rome: Itrsquo;s beautiful and itrsquo;s not. Kinda like everything else in life.

ldquo;La prossima fermata è Roma Termini.rdquo;

I moved to Italy to live at the end of September last year. I lived in Brescia (a medium-sized city in Northern Italy) until March 1, when I moved to Siena.

(I am once again back in Brescia, but thatrsquo;s a story Irsquo;m going to save for another day.)

I picked up some vocabulary during those first five months in Italy, but it wasnrsquo;t until I started attending an Italian class for immigrants in Siena that I really started learning the language.

Now, finally!, I understand much of what is being said either to me or around me. The language no longer sounds foreign or like pretty sounds flowing forth from peoplersquo;s mouths. Although Irsquo;m more motivated to learn the languagendash;because it finally seems like an achievable goal to converse fluentlyndash;the glossy veneer of the nonsensical musical sounds has dulled. I donrsquo;t know, therersquo;s something about understanding when somebody complains about the weather (or conversely, the ease in which I can complain about it) that makes any language sound less romantic.

Shiny glossy veneers are so overrated. Donrsquo;t you think? I mean, a veneer is just a thin expensive sheet of wood (or metal) with layers upon layers of unusually toxic clear varnish. If it wasnrsquo;t for the common cheap material beneath (like pine or regular mild steel), the veneer would have nothing to attach itself to.

And Irsquo;ve always preferred the look of a dull, used or aged finish anywayhellip;and now that Irsquo;ve exhausted my analogy Irsquo;m finished with this post.

But one more thing before I go to bed on this hot summer night: it is nice to know that you can simply listen to the conductor to know when your next stop is and not have the nervous wondering of whether yoursquo;ve missed it or have yet to arrive.

Arrivederci a dopo.

~Janelle Renée

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Natural Touch is a Non Governmental Organisation based in Calabar the Eastern part of Nigeria.The inspiration come from a point of observation of handicapped people and Children roaming the streets of some citites in Nigeria mostly in Calabar begging for alms.

Most of them at the end of the day retired to uncompleted buildings to pass the night,It was a very gory site when a reported case of ritual dehumanising killing of two of such people in a street close to my residence.These two were killed and some part of them remove for rituals activities or some other things not quite known to us.

So touched by such inhuman treament to people because of their inability to defend themselves or provide proper accomodation for themselves,and even a source of livelihood was traumatic,hence,my decision to get the NGO (NATURAL TOUCH) started,with the aim to provide food and shelter for the hanicapped.Make sure there is a future for them and security of life for them.

Upon our inception,we had limited our intention to mostly the young ones and average aged.Although we could not provide accomodation for them but we  provide the basic needs which is food for them atleast once a day.

It is our aim to increase the feeding arrangement to twice a day and also build a home for them.It is our aim to accomodate at least 2000-5000 handicapped people of difiers ages in the home,and Animals too.

With support from other Organisations/Individauls that are touched just as we are.We will establish a school or a handicraft centre for them to study and become independent of their own in future.

Suffice to say here that most of them roam the street with torn cloths and look unkept,We also provide clothing where necessary and affordable to them.

Based on our inability to sustain the financial burden,we are looking forward to Groups or Individuals with similar passion as we have towards uplifting the living standard of these hadicapped and also thinking of ensuring their future.

We are planning of building a home for them in Calabar to accomodate the handicapped and also recruit personnels to take care of their cooking and tranining.

We look forward to support  from passionate groups and individuals.

Thanks,

Dennis

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But the fund needs to be restructured in the long term. Lloyd Gedye reports.

Lynley Donnelly finds that the South African home market does not have the same risk

profile as the US and UK.

National Awards Honor Leading Green Power Purchasers

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Dizzying construction boom relies on migrant labourers who are lured into a life of squalor and exploitation, writes Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.

As cities mushroom at an alarming rate municipal water systems struggle to keep up. Thembelihle Tshabalala investigates

Prominent lawyers think Judge Carole Lewis’s remarks were racist.

Duncan Clarke’s account of the harsh realities of Africa’s oil industry is not for the faint-hearted.

Former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa has called for political tolerance in the run-up for to the formation of the new political party.

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This world is absolutely insane. Why is war the only way to solve a problem?? Have we not evolved enough to make reasonable decisons yet? Why do we have violence in this world? It all began because of the superiority complex. Most men possess it because they think they are better than most others and they should be listened to insdtead of the other. They believe what they say is right and always try to one-up the other. This is what created this social darwinism in society. The need/hunger to be better than everyone else and being proud of it. Men have held their heads up high as the leaders of the world and just look where they have lead us. Instead of working together to solve world problems, we are all in competition with each other. The United States, one of the most powerful countries in the world right now, is clearly abusing that power. Bush, someone who I have no respect for, has lead the country into war blindly and now has the entire world debating about it. How can one country cause so much turmoil? Well, with Bush at its head, they can and have caused disaster. Why else do you think the world is in such chaos and can't seem to co-operate? In my opinion, it is because of the terrible examples world leaders have set. Without them acting greedy and selfish, how would we be able to congregate and all act greedy and selfish? Without the leaders of the world, we have no union and because our leaders are so corrupt, our world is damaged to the core.

Isn't greed a fabulous thing? Power, money, and fame is all that matters in this world now and somehow everyone has to learn to deal with it. Great... do we get a choice in that or is that entire decision up to Bush? What if we don't want that power, money or fame? Most probably, we will be isolated from the rest of the world. Society is stuck in a rut and people like Bush are digging in deep and getting ready for the winter. So who will help get the world out of this power hungry rut? Who knows...

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