| Treasury of youth a state heritage
In the early 1850s talented Liverpudlian schoolboy John James Clark drew an exquisite map of his home town for a school project. When John’s parents later emigrated to Australia he brought the drawing with him. Within months of arriving in Melbourne the boy’s canny father took the drawing to the fledgling Public Works Department, which employed the youngster on the spot. At just 14 years of age JJ Clark had begun his remarkable architectural career. By the age of 19, with little formal training he had designed the Treasury Building in Spring St – the first of many achievements. The life and works of the prolific, nomadic and "incredibly fastidious" JJ Clark emerge in a University of Melbourne PhD by Melbourne journalist and architectural history scholar Andrew Dodd, whose interest was first piqued by the beauty of the Treasury Building.
Costa Rican addresses bear a cryptic stamp
Pity the poor Costa Rican postman. Sure, he doesn't have to deal with sleet or snow. But consider what passes for an address here: From the Tibas cemetery, 200 meters south, 300 meters west, cross the train tracks, white two-story house. That's actually an easy one. Making his rounds on the outskirts of this capital city one recent morning, carrier Roberto Montero Reyes pulled from his canvas sack envelopes whose addresses read like treasure-hunt clues or lines of haiku. .
'Bachelor: After the Rose' Wins Hour
The denial of a manufactured, reality storybook ending for ABC's “The Bachelor" has fans enraged. The network likewise reportedly wasn't pleased that Bachelor Brad choose “none of the above" for its finale. That the ending was a brilliant surprise now generating the most discussion in years about the veteran reality show seems to be getting overlooked. Some viewers claim they're going to boycott the show, but there was no evidence of channel flipping last night. “Bachelor: After the Rose" won the 10 p.m. hour and tied for being the highest-rated “After the Rose" ever. Overall, Fox led the evening, but was down slightly week to week, with “Bones" (a 3.0 preliminary rating among adults 18 to 49) and “House" (6.8). ABC was second with “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (3.3) and “He's a Bully, Charlie Brown" (3.5), both improving on last year's performance.
Appetite for sashimi causes prices to soar
TOKYO -- "Tuna cannot look like skinny Japanese women." So says Tsunenori Iida, and he ought to know. His family has been buying and selling tuna for seven generations here at the world's largest fish market. Six mornings a week for 43 years, Iida has been casting his eyes and running his fingers over the torpedo-shaped carcasses of bluefin tuna, the most precious fish in the sea. They are brought here to Tokyo's Tsukiji market, where a dawn auction sets the global price. "I look for beauty and balanced plumpness," Iida said. "I am looking for a Catherine Zeta-Jones type of tuna." Alas for Japan, which wolfs down a quarter of the global tuna catch, and for the rest of the world: An increasingly voracious appetite for sushi is driving the supply of plump pulchritude served raw perilously low.
Local Consulting Duo Takes Home an Award from World's Largest Internet Consulting Firm
Internet Consultants Alan and Tina Winning produce winning Best Industry Application site for 2007 WSI Web Awards. Larnaca, Cyprus (PRWEB) November 26, 2007 -- Alan and Tina Winning, certified Internet Consultants with WSI (We Simplify the Internet) have been honored at the second annual WSI Web Awards at WSI's Excellence and Innovation Conference in Orlando, Florida. Alan and Tina were responsible for developing the winning website in the category of Best Industry Application for the 2007 Web Awards, http://www.pafilia.com The Best Industry Application award was presented to Alan and Tina and the WSI e-Marketplace Production Center. This fresh and vibrant website showcases Pafilia Property Developers' experience in the Cyprus Property market. Pafilia remains at the forefront of the property industry, dealing with all aspects of Cyprus property development.
Every picture sells a story
Magnum photographic agency began life 60 years ago. A few profoundly gifted individuals possessed of lofty ideals founded an agency that was to be politically engaged, liberal, humanistic and serious. When Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodgers, Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour and Bill Vandivert cemented the idea over lunch in the penthouse restaurant of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in April 1947, Magnum was to be a bastion of 20th-century photojournalistic values. You can see how magnificently it succeeded in a new book published by Thames & Hudson, marking the 60th anniversary of the agency. Magnum Magnumis a great slab of a book – 40cm x 33cm (16in x 13in) and weighing almost 7kg (15lb) – containing more than 400 photographs reproduced on a lavish scale and with equal quality, from Josef Koudelka’s photograph of a prowling hound taken in Sceaux Park in France in 1987 to Cornell Capa’s intimate close-up of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits in 1960.
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