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On Monday, Oct. 3 in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom, the the South Asian Law Student Association in partnership with the International Justice Mission and the South Asian Bar Association of Delaware welcomed Saju Mathew, Esq., director of operations, south Asia, for the human-rights agency International Justice Mission.
The former Seoul office of the Hazama Corporation in Yongsan. Japanese construction company Hazama Corporation was greatly involved in railway construction in Korea, building the Yalu River Bridge and Seoul's Indogyo Bridge.
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Interesting that they should keep this room furnished this way, just as it was in 1945, when MacArthur spent his first night in Japan here at the very beginning of the Occupation.
But are 1945 furnishings really that different from modernday furnishings, enough so to make it interesting to see? Not really.
The hotel was built (or rebuilt?) in 1927, following the devastation of the 1923 Kantô Earthquake, and remains a very fancy hotel today, with ballrooms and elegant common areas and foyers reminiscent of the earlier days of the heyday of Western activity in Yokohama.
I regret not having any picture of the facade, or indeed of any part of the hotel other than inside this room, but then I'm not sure if the outside of the building is all that exciting.
Modernday Aberystwyth: the line of motor caravans under the castle on South Marine Parade. Quite a fixture.
Student leaders from the South Asian Law Students Association listen to the presentation by Saju Mathew.
She got her wig so now, it's time to reveal her name. Meet Elune.
I named after the goddess Elune from World of Warcraft. I kinda like to imagine her as a modernday Kaldorei (= Elf) who was named after Elune, the goddess.
On Monday, Oct. 3 in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom, the the South Asian Law Student Association in partnership with the International Justice Mission and the South Asian Bar Association of Delaware welcomed Saju Mathew, Esq., director of operations, south Asia, for the human-rights agency International Justice Mission.
The former Seoul office of the Hazama Corporation in Yongsan. Japanese construction company Hazama Corporation was greatly involved in railway construction in Korea, building the Yalu River Bridge and Seoul's Indogyo Bridge.
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The former Seoul office of the Hazama Corporation in Yongsan. Japanese construction company Hazama Corporation was greatly involved in railway construction in Korea, building the Yalu River Bridge and Seoul's Indogyo Bridge.
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I still feel robbed by the EU and the Dutch government when we exchanged the guilder for the euro in 2002. I noticed and really like this modernday headstone, which can be found all over Amsterdam adorning houses. In 1378 the Guilder (Gulden) became legal tender in the Netherlands and that all ended with the Euro on the 1st of January 2002.
The left coin is the golden flore from Florence minted from 1252 untill 1303. The lilly is the emblem of the city of Florence and flore became florijn in Dutch eventually leading to the Guilder.
The coin on the right is the last ever design of the Dutch Guilder.
Stone made by Hans 't Mannetje in 1997.
When the Chinese admiral Zheng He set out on the first of seven historic voyages of exploration 608 years ago, the sails of his 317 ships blotted out the horizon. Included in the fleet were several colossal, soccer fi eld-sized vesselslarge enough to fi t 65 of Columbus’ ships end-to-end-whose holds would eventually bring home mountains of gold, ivory and porcelain for the glory of the Ming emperor. Sailing to a dizzying array of coastal countries over the next three decades, Zheng’s fl otilla made its way across the modernday Middle East, ultimately reaching the Cape of Good Hope some 4,000 miles away.
Such expeditions had never been seen before-and would not be seen again. Internal instability, Mongol threats, and high financial costs conspired to cripple China’s Age of Exploration. Zheng died and was buried at sea. His magnifi cent ships were burned. Records of his voyages were destroyed. For nearly six centuries China turned inward, away from the ocean.
That is, until now. With its release last month of a 350-page “blue book” detailing China’s strategy in the Indian Ocean, Beijing has served notice that-while insisting its interests are strictly economic-it is not content to ignore the waters to its west any longer. And India, which relies on the Indian Ocean for most of its trade and has long suspected China of pursuing a so-called “string of pearls” strategy in the regionencircling the subcontinent with a network of commercial and military facilities-is understandably wary.
Despite the blue book’s conciliatory tone, it has become clear, as the journalist and geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan observes in his book Monsoon, that as “China expands vertically [and] India horizontally... the Indian Ocean is where the rivalry between the United States and China in the Pacifi c interlocks with the regional rivalry between China and India.” To explore Kaplan’s view that “together with the contiguous Near East and Central Asia”, the Indian Ocean “constitutes the new Great Game in geopolitics,” I reached out to a man who has trained three generations of Indian diplomats.
Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra, a former foreign secretary under Indira Gandhi in the early 1980’s and ambassador to six countries — a courtly Indian version of Henry Kissinger — is a keen student of this “new Great Game”. Rasgotra joined India’s Foreign Service in 1949, just two years after India’s independence, the same year the People’s Republic of China was established.
He has witnessed the entirety of the two Asian giants’ modern relationship, from the heady years of “Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai”— a popular Hindi slogan meaning “Indians and Chinese are brothers” — to the brief but bitter Sino-Indian War of 1962; to the simmering border disputes that carry into the present day, including a baffl ing Chinese incursion into Indian territory in May that reportedly left New Delhi on the verge of crisis with Beijing.
“I look at the Indian Ocean as a projection of India’s landmass-all of it vital for India’s security, stability and progress,” Rasgotra says. Likewise, “the Chinese have an interest in the Indian Ocean. New Delhi is watching the developments. If the Chinese get militarily interested in dominating the Indian Ocean, then India is strong enough to resist that.”
Certainly, there have been developments worth watching. No sooner had the ink dried on the blue book, for instance, then China offered Iran US$78 million to upgrade its Chabahar Port, which is near the Iranian border with Pakistan and a stone’s throw from the Straits of Hormuza strategically vital chokepoint through which 20 percent of the world’s oil passes. This comes amid China’s $200 million investment in the Pakistani port of Gwadar, a $209 million airport in Sri Lanka, and plans to build another port on the coast of Tanzania.
While China’s Ministry of National Defense has dismissed the “string of pearls” theory as “totally groundless”, India has observed 22 recorded instances of Chinese nuclear submarines encroaching into the Indian Ocean-as recently as February 2013, and as close as 50 miles off Indian soil.
Still, for all China’s newfound assertiveness in India’s backyard, Rasgotra remain skeptical of Beijing’s belligerence. The string of pearls, he tells me, “is part history, part poetry, and part mythology”.
“China’s strategy is motivated by two major factors,” he says. “First, to project power in the Indian Ocean in rivalry not only with India but primarily with the US; and second, to safeguard supplies of much-needed energy and other material sources from the Middle East and Africa.” Neither is cause for hysteria, though Rasgotra feels India should do more to modernize its military.
Indeed, plans are underway to spend nearly $45 billion to build 103 new warships over the next two decades while strengthening naval cooperation with friendly countries.
Echoing Rasgotra, a western diplomat in Sri Lanka says confi dently of the island off India’s coast, “This isn’t going to become India’s Cuba.”
Rasgotra adds that the Chinese “are beginning to realize that containing India is not a practical proposition,” and sees “signs of China becoming less aggressive, even less assertive, in its dealings with India.” China has seemed eager to downplay border disputes, preferring to focus on economic engagement.
Trade between the two countries topped $66 billion last year, a fi gure China and India hope will reach $100 billion by 2015. To promote tourism, India is also considering a proposal to ease visa restrictions for Chinese citizens.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited New Delhi in May, on his fi rst trip abroad since assuming office. After several days of meetings, and signing agreements on issues ranging from urban development to religious pilgrimages, Prime Minister Li declared that “our two countries fully possess the will, wisdom and ability to together nurture a new bright spot in Asian cooperation.”
Until China begins establishing military bases in Sri Lanka, Myanmar or the Maldives, Rasgotra will sleep easy. “There is a desire with China to get along, and I know there is such a desire in India,” he says. “Commerce will help soften political attitudes.”
As these two rising giants navigate the rocky geopolitical shoals, both countries would do well to remember the stone stele Zheng erected in Sri Lanka in 1410, not far from where a Chinese-fi nanced shipping center now stands. Written in Chinese, Persian and Tamil, the inscription “invoked the blessings of the Hindu deities for a peaceful world built on trade”. Here’s hoping that out of the irritants of today’s maritime maneuvering, true pearls may yet grow.
The writer is founding chairman of Business Executives for National Security, a nonpartisan organization based in Washington, DC. This is a personal comment.
www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/07/12/china-s-indian-oce...
An alcove not too far below where the switchbacks end has this set of initials and modernday petroglyph-style graffiti. Funny how no one can compare to real Indian petroglyphs. Not even close in skill or art. But this was a cool green spot up off the trail and it was definitely inviting.
On Monday, Oct. 3 in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom, the the South Asian Law Student Association in partnership with the International Justice Mission and the South Asian Bar Association of Delaware welcomed Saju Mathew, Esq., director of operations, south Asia, for the human-rights agency International Justice Mission.
Only three kan of Cheongnyangni Station's old roundhouse remain. Built in 1938, it originally formed a semi-circle, but sections 10 of the original 27 sections were removed, and then tragically, all but three were removed, despite the structure being listed as a heritage site in 2006.
On Monday, Oct. 3 in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom, the the South Asian Law Student Association in partnership with the International Justice Mission and the South Asian Bar Association of Delaware welcomed Saju Mathew, Esq., director of operations, south Asia, for the human-rights agency International Justice Mission.
The Emperor Trajan set up this column somewhere around AD 109 to commemorate his conquest of modernday Romania. It has over 200m of scenes that go around it. It also has a staircase inside.
and sorry for uploading so many of these -tych things
but i was so happy i was still able to do the monkey bars (i'm also still too short to touch the ground but THAT'S genetics...)
hum dee dum i miss summer... and its only the second week of senior year. goodyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Looking back at photos from just 2 months ago, I must say my hair has definitely grown ALOT!!! Thanks to @hairfinity my hair has been growing like weeds!! I am most definitely pleased!!!!! ☺️ on that note #ontomynextbottle#hairgrowthjourney#naturalista#naturalhealthyhair#mixedchicks#2
Modernday nomads from the 2006 Plymouth-Banjul Rally set up camp in the lee of a huge dune in the Mauritanian Sahara.
Afghan children tilt bricks up on their side after two days of drying in Pakistan. The children, aged 4-6, are forced to labor in the brick factories because they are lightweight and do not deform the bricks which are still somewhat soft.
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Retro and futuristic - a modernday schooner moors next to the 'Veles e Vents' (Sails and Wind) building.
SALSA Vice President Prema Roddam, SALSA President Asim Humayun, Dean Linda L. Ammons, and unidentified.
SALSA Vice President Prema Roddam, SALSA President Asim Humayun, unidentified, and SBA President Andrew Quietmeyer.
This is a painting I made for my grade 12 Art Class! It took me a few hours to finish. The assignment was to paint a modern day fairy tale!