Pizza deliverance for a Japanese trawler stranded on Clifton beach in Cape Town.
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17 MayA Starbucks Coffee in Japan...
13 May
Reblogged from seattleinspired:
Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
The stick-like wooden parts you see are around 2 thousands, creating a fluid, cave-like space.
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Petite Japanese Fast Food
13 MayEdible miniature fast food kit, which contains pork and chicken ingredients, but no artificial colours nor preservatives. According to the cook, it tastes like real hamburger, bread, cheese, ketchup, french fries and cola. The cost is 258 yen / 3.2 USD.
Slightly Darkened Streets of Tokyo
13 MayTimelapse fading back and forth between scenes of pre-and post-quake Tokyo. It reveals how Japan’s cosmopolitan nightscape has been altered by ongoing conservation efforts and power shortages.
Reversible Destiny Lofts, Japan
12 May
Comfort deserves only a limited role in the home, according to artists-architects-poets Arakawa & Gins. A home that keeps its inhabitants healthy and young should provide enduring challenges. In their vision, an embedded relationship with your surroundings is key to reversing the downhill course of human life.
Spring at Capitol Grounds
30 Apr
The Aliceara Memoria Jay Yamada ‘Kauai’ Orchid. As a part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Japan’s gift of the cherry blossom trees to Washington, D.C. various orchids are exhibited.
Cymbidium at U.S botanical garden.
Clown Show orchid.
Peter Black orchid.
From US to Japan, and Back
14 Apr
These autos are going to be compressed and shipped to Japan, then return to the US as brand new Toyotas and Datsuns (Nissan). Taken in 1974.
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Tsunami Ghost Ship Sinks
6 AprThe U.S. Coast Guard used cannon fire to sink the empty 50m / 164ft Japanese ship in the Gulf of Alaska’s 305m / 1,000ft deep waters. The ghost ship drifted across the Pacific Ocean after last year’s tsunami.
Send Aid To Japan
15 Mar
Via Google Crisis Response: 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami.
Marginal Revolution on the matter: Should you send aid to Japan?
World GDP Since Jesus
30 Dec
Data from economist Angus Maddison suggest that China and India were the biggest economies in the world for almost all of the past 2000 years. Why they fell so far behind may be more of a mystery than why they are currently flourishing.
Full story from The Economist here and the rest of the magazines cavalcade of the hottest charts of 2010: a year in nine pictures here.
Prolog: Upcoming Financial Highlights
21 Nov
By Shaojin+AT via Flickr
Asia: Production & Trade
- 22.Nov: Thailand & Malaysia Q3 GDP data.
- 25.Nov: Philippines, Q3 GDP data.
- 25.Nov: Japan, October trade report. 26.Nov. Japan, Consumer Price Index.
Europe: Anglo-German Focus
- Bailout of Ireland Mon. 22. Nov?
- Germany: Q3 GDP and Ifo Business-Climate Index.
- 23.Nov. Earnings from Greece’s Alpha Bank and London based Antofagasta (copper miner) releases numbers.
US: Thanksgiving Week
- HP reports earnings and introduces the new CEO.
- Other economic data: Home Sales, Jobless Claims & Consumer Spending.
- Thanksgiving on Thursday 25.Nov.
Get the details via MarketWatch here.
WSJ Markets
- Trump Sells Himself Outside the U.S.Donald Trump hasn't licensed his name for a U.S. real-estate project since before the financial downturn. But he has done so for more than a dozen real-estate developments outside the U.S.
- Traders Try to Game Oil-Price BenchmarkSome oil traders say they try to skew Platts oil-price benchmarks by offering to do small deals at a loss, with the goal of doing bigger ones at better prices.
- For Some Investors Emerging Markets Still Provide a LureSome investors are betting recent losses for emerging-market stocks, currencies and bonds will prove to be a temporary setback.
- Stocks Keep on TruckingStocks pushed to the highest levels in nearly three weeks as investors await news on whether the Federal Reserve will pull back on its stimulus measures.
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