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Bangkok Blues - By Joshua Kurlantzick In the 1990s and early 2000s, Bangkok's Democracy Monument, a towering series of spires looking toward the sky, located on the central avenue in the older part of the city, was a lively area for street life. Outdoor vendors selling phat kii maw and other noodle dishes jostled for business with watermelon and jackfruit sellers while yuppies sat at the cafes and fast-food outlets surrounding the monument. Like the events that inspired the monument itself, which memorializes the end of absolute monarchy in the 1930s, Thailand's political system seemed to be settling down. From the 1930s to the 1990s, Thailand had essentially been ruled by the armed forces, in alliance with the business elite and the royal family, which still wielded enormous power behind the facade of a constitutional monarchy.
The 5 Best Outfits Of The Week: Vote For Your Fave! : Slaves to Fashion Friday, 5/18/2012 at 5:05PM This week's stylish ladies were all about drama, from the street to the red carpet. So which outfit tops them all? This week Charlize Theron demonstrated the art of pulling off a sheer dress. Singapore Airlines Promotional Fares From Thailand Plan your ultimate holiday experience on Singapore Airlines with our latest Great Online Deals to Singapore, Japan and Australia. This special offer is available for booking from now until 24 September 2012 and for travel until 31 October 2012. Fares will be available only at singaporeair.com. With such great fares, there is no better time than to book now and enjoy the inflight service that even other airlines talk about. As an additional offer, to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Singapore Airlines A380 service, you can earn double KrisFlyer miles when you travel with us to our A380 destinations. Click here for terms and conditions.
Vice Presidential Candidate Like to laugh? Like to be informed? Then sign up for TheDC Morning email here. 1.) Will Crowdfunding Crowd Out Venture Capital? Venture capitalists have been getting a black eye to go with their blue shirts. A recent report from the Kauffman Foundation slammed VCs for “shortchanging” investors, pointing out that public markets deliver better returns. The next day, Fred Wilson, general partner at Union Square Ventures and prominent VC blogger, suggested that a flood of crowdfunding money unleashed by the JOBS Act could sweep away venture capitalists altogether. It could happen. “The game has changed,” says Paul Kedrosky, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation who’s focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and the future of risk capital.
Model Ubah Hassan Raises An Umbrella To Help East Africa Photo Courtesy of Oxfam America Ubah Hassan’s modelling career is marked with Ralph Lauren campaigns and Steven Meisel editorials. Yet the Somalia-born, Vancouver-raised Canadian has even bigger goals in mind. Hakeem Jeffries: Brooklyn’s Barack Obama? Is Hakeem Jeffries Brooklyn’s Barack Obama? The young New York assemblyman running for the seat held by retiring Rep. Ed Towns (D) shares some surface characteristics with the president. New Federal Standards Offer Unprecedented Protections to LGBTI Prisoners Last week, the Department of Justice released the long-awaited Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) regulations, representing the first time that the federal government has issued national standards to help end sexual abuse in correctional facilities. The regulations are two years late and a lot of harm has been done in their absence, but now they will help protect important constitutional and human rights and ensure safe and fair correctional facilities that assist prisoners in rehabilitation rather than needlessly brutalizing them. This is the final of three blogs marking the occasion. Yesterday the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the long-awaited National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape.
Simon Pegg Cast In Director Peter Chelsom’s HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS EmailEmail British comedic actor Simon Pegg (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -GHOST PROTOCOL, PAUL) has been cast in the lead role in director Peter Chelsom’s (SHALL WE DANCE?, FUNNY BONES,) next movie – drama comedy HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS, it was announced today by Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel, founders and co-partners of The Solution Entertainment Group (“The Solution”) who are handling worldwide rights to the film. Adapted for the screen by Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay from the bestselling novel of the same name by François Lelord, the film is a German/Canadian co-production produced by Egoli Tossell Film and Screen Siren Pictures currently in pre-production and set to shoot straight after Pegg’s THE WORLD’S END. Pegg plays Hector, an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis: his patients are just not getting any happier!
The Brain's Highways: Mapping the Last Frontier Frontiers are in short supply. No explorer will again catch that first glimpse of the Pacific Ocean with “wild surmise,” take the first steps on the moon, or arrive first at the Challenger deep – the remotest corners of the earth are now tourist attractions. Even in science, great mysteries have fallen – life itself has gone from being the subject of metaphysical speculation about vital substances to the biophysical understanding of cellular processes. Uncharted territories, both physical and metaphorical, are hard to find. Yet there is one largely unmapped continent, perhaps the most intriguing of them all, because it is the instrument of discovery itself: the human brain.
Three TYPO Berlin “Sustain” Talks Online TYPO Berlin “Sustain” is not over yet and already the first presentations are being made available in their entirety on the TYPO Video Portal. Yesterday the talks by Bernd Kolb (D), Daniel van der Velden (E) and Kirsten Dietz (D) were published, and today two of the very best presentations (in my opinion) were released for your viewing pleasure: Nat Hunter (E) and Matthew Butterick (E). Ditch that fake Hollywood crap tonight and get inspired and motivated. But before you do that, join us in 15 minutes for the livestream of the slightly fantabulous Jessica Hische.:: UPDATED ::