“The Capital of Empty Spaces”: Dealing with the Shrinking of the Great Baltic City. From East Asia via Great Britain: the Story of Estonia and Latvia’s National Game. By Geoff Chester, LIEPĀJA Novuss is the national game of Latvia; Koroona is the national game of Estonia.
But what are these games and where did they come from? Geoff Chester explains… By 1927, the Republics of Latvia and Estonia had 9 years of independence behind them. During these years, the governments of these two countries had reoriented their trade towards Western Europe, exporting agricultural and timber products, principally to the United Kingdom, and importing modern technology, primarily from Germany. “The Capital of Empty Spaces”: Dealing with the Shrinking of the Great Baltic City. The 15 Best Books of 2015. In the spirit of treating my annual best-of reading lists as a sort of Old Year’s resolutions in reverse, reflecting not aspirational priorities for the new year but what proved most worth prioritizing over the year past, here are the fifteen most rewarding books I read in 2015, following the subject-specific selections of the year’s best art books, best science books, and best children’s books.
Please enjoy. “I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts,” Oliver Sacks wrote in his poignant, beautiful, and courageous farewell to life. Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ “The internet is shit today.
It’s broken. It was probably always broken, but it’s worse than ever.” A Compendium of Useful Information for the Practical Man/Camping and Hiking. The Camp Sheet[edit] From time to time in this department I have mentioned an oiled muslin sheet for the camp outfit.
In the first place it should be made with the idea of accommodating itself to the usages of a two man camp, because more often two go together than one alone; or more than two in company, unless it is a regular party camp, which is usually fully equipped. For two men you should buy a piece of sheeting such as is used in making ordinary bed sheets. This should be not less than twelve feet long, fourteen feet is even better. The cloth itself is about two yards wide, so that a piece of it fourteen feet long gives you a sheet about six by fourteen feet without a seam in it. Library. Eight Books Every Spiritual Seeker Should Read. “You want weapons?
Go to a library. Western liberalism is no match for the Islamic Game of Thrones. As a graduate student in the Harvard Government Department in the late 1980s, I became slightly jaded about the number of visiting professors who warned about the imminent demise of the West.
The thrust of their arguments was nearly always the same. The secular liberal values we cherish, such as freedom of speech and the separation of church and state, won’t survive in the face of growing, religious disenchantment with modernity unless they’re rooted in something more meaningful than rational individualism. They were talking about Islamic Fundamentalism, obviously, although sometimes they threw in Christian Fundamentalism as well in order not to seem ‘Orientalist’ or ‘ethnocentric’. Fascinating graphics show who owns all the major brands in the world. Syria oil map: the journey of a barrel of Isis oil. Kurdistan Regional Government Isis controls most of Syria’s oil fields and crude is the militant group's biggest single source of revenue.
Here we follow the progress of a barrel of oil from extraction to end user to see how the Isis production system works, who is making money from it, and why it is proving so challenging to disrupt. By Erika Solomon, Robin Kwong and Steven Bernard•October 14, 2015. An inventory of the meaningful life. Ieva Melgalve: Baltā kāpa. 20 books Mark Zuckerberg thinks everyone should read. Latvijas iedvesmas stāstu blogs. New Book, Ilkka Kakko: "Oasis Way and the Postnormal Era: How Underst…
Ten Days of Silent Meditation Will Make You Trip Balls and Lust After Puppies. Photo by Flickr user Alice Popkorn When you sign up to do a Vipassana, there's a form they ask you to sign saying that you won't leave.
When you arrive they ask you the same question, and then when you're unpacked and sitting in the canteen sipping herbal tea, they ask you again if you're really prepared to stay for the entirety of the course and follow each of the rules to the letter. A more sensitive soul might get the impression that you weren't really wanted at the Vipassana at all. Urgently Designing Cosmopolitan Localism in the Era of Xenophobia. ÒUrgently Designing Cosmopolitan LocalismÓ Tonkinwise - draft - July 2015 Page 2 of 26 your designing, your teaching, your research, your everyday ways of living?
This near-impossible-to-contemplate urgency is what the Anthropocene should stand for. Tony Fry has called it, ÔDictatorship of Sustainment.Õ Yet, ironically, a dominant mantra in design education and research at this very An-thropocenic moment is: design must not be characterized as a problem-solving activi-ty. Sometimes this is resistance to instrumentalist attempts to rationalize design, and sometimes it is an objection to commercial commodifications of design, but often it is just a disgruntledness with imperatives: design is at its best when it is free, open to inquire playfully; do not constrain designÕs capacity to speculate outside current prob-lems.
8 Famous People Whose Creativity & Innovation Was Inspired By LSD. Source: www.collective-evolution.com | Original Post Date: Growing up, I was conditioned to believe that LSD was one of the worse drugs, with its dangers and addictive properties following close behind those of heroin.
This would all change when I fell severely ill in my twenties. After conventional medicine had failed me, I decided to embark on a journey with plant medicine. This eventually led to an interest in the healing properties of psychedelics, particularly psilocybin, which ultimately cured my depression. Intro to Cults 101. Es. 2. Act normal If you are a high-risk source, avoid saying anything or doing anything after submitting which might promote suspicion. The end of capitalism has begun. The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above. For much of the 20th century this was how the left conceived the first stage of an economy beyond capitalism. The force would be applied by the working class, either at the ballot box or on the barricades.
The lever would be the state. The opportunity would come through frequent episodes of economic collapse. BEFORE THEY - Norwegian equality policy has failed. Men and women are not equal in Norway, in spite of the efforts of politicians and ngos, and an official equal rights policy. Hoboglyphs: Secret Transient Symbols & Modern Nomad Codes.
Uldis Ģērmanis: rotaļīgie sātani. Šā gada jūnijā devos uz Helsinkiem, lai tur universitātes bibliotēkā, kā prātīgi ļaudis saka, "padziļinātu savas zināšanas" dažos Austrumeiropas vēstures jautājumos. Elephant journal: Yoga, Sustainability, Politics, Spirituality. 25 Essential Books That Every College Student Should Read. There is no college student who would like reading books, they say. Can you believe it? We hardly think so! Yes, reading is fashionable. Again. And every college student is always in fashion as a rule. Books widen your vocabulary;books help students find new models for academic writing;books improve your cognitive skills;books expand your view of the world around;books let students remember grammar and punctuation rules autmatically;books help students learn a subject better;books help you avoid a social exclusion (according to this study of the Basic Skills Agency).
Every college student has their own list of must-read, or at least must-check, books; but what if we tell you there are some writing masterpieces that are worth your attention and are essential for college students to read? Eckhart Tolle. How to learn with zero effort. Face to face with the world’s leading memory experts, my mind is beginning to feel very humble. Ben Whately, for instance, tells me about the famous mnemonist Matteo Ricci, a 16th Century Jesuit priest who was the first westerner to take China’s highest civil service exams.
Structured Water Pseudoscience and Quackery. Thinking in Politics. Vol 3, No 1 (2015) Can you learn in your sleep? Just before you climb under your duvet, you carefully prepare your room. You sprinkle a few drops of incense on your pillow, put on some headphones, and place a strange-looking band over your scalp. Then you go to sleep. The ritual takes just a few minutes, but you hope this could accelerate your learning of a diverse range of skills: whether you are trying to master the piano, tennis or fluent French. Self-Compassion Outweighs Self-Esteem for Resilience & Empowerment. Self-Compassion Outweighs Self-Esteem for Resilience & Empowerment. Through the Looking Glass — Human Parts. I’m a single white male in his late twenties. Ice cream - Veganwiki.info. Vegan chocolate ice cream in one of Taipei's Loving Hut restaurants.
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The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur. Why do we have pubic hair? Prince Charles lays out 10 principles for urban design. Scientists have now successfully demonstrated Technological Telepathy! Here are the cheapest and most expensive places in the world to get your vice on. 10 reasons to go green starting NOW.
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