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These are reasonably well known HDB flats in Rochor, there are a few colourful towers that together look very beautfiul. My favourite part of Singapore too.
The block of flats is Alpha House at Barras Heath in Coventry. It is also known as The Jackblock as each floor was built at ground level and then jacked-up. I understand that it was the first block of flats to be built in this way.
In ABCs and 123s: U is for urban
I think people should read this for themselves.
I found it a mix of insightful, interesting, frustrating, deceitful, inaccurate, poorly argued, arrogant, amusing and overall fairly irritating.
It's written by a Guardian journalist and it's basically a look at how particularly the UK media, but more generally the world's media has changed in terms of how it works since commercial owners started buying up media and er running them like businesses. This has led to less journalists, more reliance on news wires and PR agencies and so on.
The tone is alarmist, there are no thoughts about solutions to the problems, no discussion that media are businesses, an assumption that his ideas are right and a lot of slipshod argument and poor fact checking.
Perhaps the best example of poor argument/fact checking being the point that the Tories under Thatcher really brought spin into uk politics and just threw money at PR agencies. For instance spending millions on Saatchi & Saatchi. Er...last time I looked - when Thatcher was in power S&S were an ad agency not a PR agency.
Now is the above a simple small mistake or a something a little more serious in that it completely undermines his point if S&S is not a PR agency. The error itself (one of numerous) is also an irritant as he talks continuously about how journalists are under so much pressure on dalies that they don't have time to fact check properly. One would assume you would have time when you are writing a book though?
The other main annoyance, and the killer for me, is the slating he gives all the other papers (which he didnt write much for), while the Guardian remains pretty much unscathed. So is the Guardian the only newspaper/media outlet escaping this crushing commercial attack on every media outlet around the globe (even the BBC)? Or is it more a case of when you decide to write a book ripping into your industry - you need to leave one company alone so you can still earn a living...
Read it and see what you think.
New shed nearly ready to lift, they are build on the ground, lifted with 2 cranes, the legs fold out...Nice
I don't ever remember getting a flat tire on my big wheel as a kid (they are plastic), but this kid did.
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On my way back from White Heath, IL I got a flat on the front tire, 15 miles from home. Fortunately I had a spare tube and 2 C02 cartridges.
From the archives: nature preserve Kouden Hoek near Ouddorp in the Netherlands. The church tower of Goedereede on the horizon.
I decided to be European about this, after all, I *was* wearing Armani : ) I pushed the Bat a couple of blocks and let the very nice guys at Mojo Café do the work for me. I could change the tire, but why?
Meet Manny the three-toed tree sloth. He is a hopeless romantic who loves to hang in the trees all day and night. Manny's poetry and music are highly revered throughout the Rainforest. Who wouldn't want to be his new muse?
Went for an awesome ride today after dropping off the kids at school and had a 2hr+ window. On the last downhill section I suddenly noticed that something wasn't right with the tire. Sure enough I had a flat. Had to hike out and carry the bike out the last 2km. Wouldn't have made it to pick up Maya so I called a friend if she could grab Maya and I raced to go get Lucy from her school.
A hangglider pilot friend John took me up for a ride. Chris, also a plane pilot, decided to flyby us when he saw my camera. He made many beautiful passes around me. We just fly freely like birds...
For Eric's birthday this year, we decided to stay in a hotel overnight in Wendover. On our way then, we decided to stop off at the Bonneville Salt Flats where we played around for a bit before heading to our hotel.
Pictured in the 1980s.
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