Wanderlust | Istanbul
The Moment (Free subscription) | yesterday
The international style crowd recently descended upon Istanbul for a three-day fashion extravaganza . Here's a look at some more stylish spots the city.
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Istanbul Opens World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building
Wired Science (Free subscription) | yesterday
The world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching across more than 2 million square feet, the terminal doesn’t sit directly on the soil, but rather on more than 300 isolators, bearings that can move side-to-side during an earthquake. The whole building...
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Worlds of Flavor 2009: Chef Musa Dagdeviren
EatingAsia (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Chef Musa Dagdeviren takes a break at Worlds of Flavor 2009 I first heard about half-Turkish, half-Kurdish chef Musa Dagdeviren in 1999, from my Turkish teacher. I was one of only two students taking second-year Turkish at UC Berkeley. My...
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Can Turkey Break the Copenhagen Deadlock?
Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Turkey is being suggested as a "bridge between East and West" on climate change too. Photo of the Bosphorus Bridge spanning Europe and Asia by Jennifer Hattam . As a city that literally straddles Europe and Asia, Istanbul -- and, by extension, Turkey -- has been endlessly described as a "bridge" between East and West. But the manager of a international program on cities and global...
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We Love ... Maria Cornejo’s Prints
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
As one of Michelle Obama's designers, Maria Cornejo continues to gather steam. While quietly creating some of New York's coolest clothes, Maria launched into the land of prints. Along with Balenciaga 's designer Nicolas Ghesquière, Maria is at the forefront for the print phenomenon. Taken from her trips around the world and extracted and stretched digitally, these prints are truly original....
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Turks react with concern to EU presidency appointment - Summary
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Istanbul - The appointment of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Union was met with concern in Turkey because of the Belgian's previous comments against Ankara's joining the EU. The headlines of Turkey's major paper...
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Turks react with concern to EU presidency appointment
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Istanbul - The appointment of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Union was met with concern in Turkey because of the Belgian's previous comments against Ankara's joining the EU. The headlines of Turkey's major paper...
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Investigation into Ergenekon revealed list with Turkish-Armenians' names
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fatma Cengiz, who is currently a suspect in the case against Ergenekon, collected various dossiers regarding the Armenian community in Turkey.
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Lufthansa flight from London as from £159
Airline News & Opinions (Free subscription) | yesterday
Author: caribb Lufthansa, the airline based in Germany is now proposing flight from London as from £159. Moreover Lufthansa cheap flight as from £159 is for destination such as Athens, Bologna, Istanbul, Budapest, Florence, Naples, Nice, Prague, Rome, Sofia, Turin, Vienna and Verona. In addition Lufthansa is also proposing flight from London to other destination at other [...]
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shop for vinyl products
Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | yesterday
While walking down the street of Bangsan market located at Euljiro 4-ga in Seoul. I got to pass shops on both sides selling all kinds of vinyl products including mats for the interior floor, vinyl envelopes, coating vinyl, and etc. Colorful cylinders caught my eye. In that market I had bought vinyl envelopes of different size for keeping my drawings years ago.
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Cooney and Leaney set down markers
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
SWIMMING:AISLING COONEY continued her preparations for next month’s European Short Course (25 metres) championships in Istanbul with an impressive win in the 200 metres backstroke on the opening day of the Irish Championships at the NAC in Abbotstown.
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Islamic Calligraphy
Dragon's Scriptorium (Free subscription) | yesterday
I very apologize because this calligraphy is outside the SCA period, but I found it at the MKG (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe) in Hamburg, Germany and thought you would appreciate if I share it with you (I also made some close-up pictures of this lovely work) "Belehnungsurkunde mit Tughra" Istanbul, Osmanen-Dynastie, datiert (dated) 1737
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Lemon Sinks by Cenk Kara
3rings (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
We’re broadening our coverage here at 3rings. Previously, our tours of the far east were heavily focused on China and Japan (and truthfully, they continue to be, since those countries are taking over the world! cue ominous music). But alas, we are moving outwards and onwards. Last week, Joseph Starr looked at Slovenia with [...]
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Umbrella STORMS
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
When we arrived in Istanbul it was very windy and seemed like every street corner had someone selling Umbrella for 5TL about 4 OZ I bought one the second day and by the time we left Venice we had three. One that Rose gave us and one that we found. At every port we saw bins of broken Umbrellas a sign that a storm has swept through the region.
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FAA: System back up after causing flight delays
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
murpheytm The $9 Billion attempt in the 80s to modernize the system was scavenged by in-fighting within the FAA, between the 2 major bidders for the modernization, and between the bidders and the FAA. It's politics, folks, only politics, which dictate the Rules of Government Contracting.5 minutes ago | | Guest Geez, stuff happens and when it does we humans is the best-of-the-best and most reliable...
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