I open the accompanying PDF and discover
I open the accompanying PDF and discover that Alex Ross wrote an introduction.Chopard Sunglasses Fountain of Tears. Evocative title. Link to an article on Osvaldo Golijov.The Buddhist Mummies of Japan Estimates of the number of self-mummified priests in Japan range between sixteen and twenty-four priests. Impressive though this number is, many more have tried to self-mummify themselves; In fact, the practice of self-mummification — which is a form of suicide, after all — had to be outlawed towards the end of the 19th century to prevent Buddhist priests from offing themselves this way…
aqian100330 and yet the grand majority of priests who have tried to do this have failed. The reasons will take some explaining — but first, some background on the whole practice and the reasons for it. Click here for the whole story.27 was my number at lunch…To Make Cities Resilient, Reduce Car Travel
Suburbs on the fringe built with all the certainty of the future are now very uncertain because people living there sometimes have to spend 40 percent of their household budget on transport, and 40 percent is not sustainable. If you’re going from $3.50 a gallon gas to $6 a gallon, which is the price of fuel in Europe . . . many of these suburbs will be abandoned. They are not resilient.
Nobu Makes Rice with Fiji Water : TreeHugger Besides the extraordinary news that Nobu Matsuhisa, owner of the Japanese restaurant chain Nobu, uses Fiji Water to boil rice, we learn that “Celebrity supporters of Fiji Water include Tom Cruise, P Diddy, Jennifer Aniston and Elton John.” And we thought it was the poster child for bottled water stupidity. Clearly we don’t travel in the right circles. Also see this and this previous post.
Osvaldo Golijov: Oceana Hit skip, if you are impatient and then listen to “Tenebrae 1″. Beautiful music. Just received the tip from LR, purchased this album and “Ainadamar” and am downloading the music now. Fits perfectly the rain and grey sky here in Memphis and the book I am reading: The Rest is Noise. Wonderful book!
Protein Blogs | Peace Symbol: 50 this week! One of the most widely known symbols in the world, in Britain it is recognised as standing for nuclear disarmament ” and in particular as the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).