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POPSChange We Can Stomach--I Big Ag on the downslide? Now that argument no longer holds true. With the price of oil at more than $120 a barrel (up from less than $30 for most of the last 50 years), small and midsize nonpolluting farms, the ones growing the healthiest and best-tasting food, are gaining a competitive advantage. They aren’t as reliant on oil, because they use fewer large machines and less pesticide and fertilizer. In fact, small farms are the most productive on earth. A four-acre farm in the United States nets, on average, $1,400 per acre; a 1,364-acre farm nets $39 an acre. Big farms have long compensated for the disequilibrium with sheer quantity. But their economies of scale come from mass distribution, and with diesel fuel costing more than $4 per gallon in many locations, it’s no longer efficient to transport food 1,500 miles from where it’s grown.
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POPSSergio Pessolano: Astounding Travel Photography The thumbnails won't take you to the site or open any images. I clipped them to display the quality and depth of this astounding travel photography website: 4,500 Images Displayed Online. 20,000 Images on File.
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POPSTravel Photography: What to take in your kit? • Tripod - I tend not to travel with a tripod or monopod these days ...Instead if shooting in low light I tend to find fence posts, use my camera bag or find other stationary objects along the way to support the weight of the camera. Some use the mini tripods that are all the rage these days, but they tend to be best with lighter point and shoot cameras than larger and heavier DSLRs. • Point and Shoot - some DSLR users back a compact point and shoot camera as well. This is for those nights when they hit the town and don’t want to haul all their gear around with them but want to record the night. This is a bit of a luxury and indulgence really but if you’ve got the camera and want the flexibility - why not?
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POPSTravel Photography: Considering Which Lenses to Take Other factors will include the type of shots you tend to take (ie if you are into macro shots you might want to invest in a macro specific lens, if you’re going to sporting events you might want something with extra length etc). This rest of the article is Canon user centered in the author's lens recommendations.
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POPSBizarre Foods Unbelievable what people will eat watch the vids you will not believe your eyes.
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POPSAudio Tour: iWalk Dublin I clipped to the limit. The Guinness iWalk is available in Italian, French, Spanish and German. Go to the site to download maps and brochures. Clicking on the mp3 download link automatically opens the file. Enjoy!
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POPSEnglish Baby! American English Lessons For visitors to the U.S., improve your usage of American English style and slang. English Baby is part school, part social networking: music, movies, slang Thursday, streaming lessons, vocab quizzes forums. This ain't yo daddy's language site.
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POPSLearn to speak Italian I practiced along with this podcast in preparation for a trip to Italy. I am not yet fluent, however, learning key phrases helped me to communicate with Italians whom I found were very forgiving when I mangled their language. In fact, my attempts were often appreciated. The podcast hosts are native Italians.
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POPSGustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900 Marking 2008 as the city's year as European Capital of Culture, Tate Liverpool is opening Britain's first comprehensive exhibition of the work of Gustav Klimt. Featuring many of his typically opulent portraits, the exhibition highlights Klimt's position as the founder and leader of the Viennese Sezession, a progressive group of artists and artisans. Klimt opens on May 30. The quote in the final image, Nuda Veritas is from Schiller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiller
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POPSWhat Can Be Learned From a Vacation The article is family centered, but the suggestions would work for singles or childless couples. the Maeght Foundation has almost 9,000 artworks, including some by Calder and Giacometti, and a maze in the sculpture garden designed by Miró.
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POPSPractical Travel Advice: Help! My Credit Card is Lost or Stolen 5) Ask your bank for an extra client card. If the first is taken, you still have the second one to withdraw cash with If you take cash be sure that the bills are crisp and new. My experience in developing nations is that currency exchangers don't accept old, torn or folded U.S. dollars. Perhaps the same is true for the British Pound and the Euro. Exchanging at a bank is an option, but problematic on weekends and bank holidays. Chase does not replace credit or bank cards internationally.
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POPSOne Bag: Learn to Travel Light I used pack way too many bags and suffered for it in terms of time, energy and frustration. Travel is even more of joy now that I've learn how to live out of one bag.
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POPSTurkey Travel Planner I'm not promoting this guys book or anything like that - I don't know him at all. I've clipped this, because I think the site is an excellent resource for planning a trip to Turkey.
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POPSHalf of Vets Suffering Brain and Mind Injuries Go Untreated, but Pentagon Pretends Nothing's Going O It's been left up to Lt. Col. Steven Pflanz, the senior psychiatry policy analyst for the Air Force surgeon general, to report on the mental healthcare practices that have been developed for those on active duty. Kerry Knox, director of the VA's Center for Excellence on Suicide Prevention, was scheduled to share with him these introductory remarks, but is not in attendance. Apologies are made, but no one mentions how obviously difficult it would be for her to get into the self-congratulatory HOOAH! spirit of this conference when her boss just got busted big time for hiding VA suicide statistics, not just to the media but to Congress as well.
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POPSDiscovery and Restoration at Egypt's Colossi of Memnon It is planned that five years from now the statues of Sekhmet the lion-headed goddess will stand again. When the two 15-metre red quartz colossi of Amenhotep become upright again in 2009 Tiya's statue will once again stand next to those of her spouse. The two other giant statues that have been uncovered are not yet ready to reclaim their place alongside the others, however. They are made of alabaster and extremely rare because of the material's fragility. Unlike other neighbouring funerary temples such as the Ramasseum, dedicated to Ramses II, and Ramses III's temple at Medinat Habu, "we will be able to admire the temple's content, not only its skeleton," said Sourouzian.
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