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History of the Cube Houses

  • Published in Art

The idea of Piet Blom

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The cube-shaped houses, also known as "treehouses", were designed by the Dutch architect Piet Blom - he developed cube-shaped structures for a test phase in Helmond from 1975 and years later for Rotterdam. The residential units were understood by the designer Piet Blom as a "forest".
In Blom's imagination, they were several building complexes that were assembled from hexagonal bodies to form a trunk and a treetop. The idea for this was born in 1972 as a precursor of self-sufficient architecture in urban planning functionality. In Rotterdam, the first projects were completed in 1984. Even today, you can visit this site and see one of these fantastic living bodies.

 

The best design proposals were built in 1973/74, after four houses were understood as "trees" and the residential units as "treetops", in a sensible division of the hexagonal design, consisting of three reinforced concrete steles assembled with block stones. In addition to external stairs leading to the entrance, there was a staircase inside the hexagonal structure from the ground floor, where one moved past the storeroom.

The lower end of the imaginary tree was used to house shops or restaurants. A school, business premises and promenades formed an urban ensemble.

The living space of the three-storey houses was about 140 square metres and was fed from a central supply of heat and water. Several of these cubes, chained together, looked like pyramids and offered a very individual style of living.

 

Cube house, mc, kasaan media, 2018 

Cube house, mc, kasaan media, 2018

 

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A journey to the culinary delights of Thailand

  • Published in Hotels

On the culinary path to Laos

It's the little friends that make a trip worthwhile. To discover what others never see. You can tell about these pleasures later at home. In Asia there are many places where you can discover things that are closed to the ordinary European. Here are the sensual delights of what is available as food in the countless small markets and mini-restaurants. Bold are the sauces and the soups, in hot yet sweet spices.

 

 

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Fish soup with herbs and pepperoni, sweet and sour, kasaan media, 2019

 

 

 

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Octopus in spicy sauce with fresh herbs, kasaan media, 2019

 

 

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Fried chicken in spicy breading, kasaan media, 2019

 

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Fried fish sweet-sour with different sauce (Attention: extremely hot!), kasaan media, 2019

 

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 King prawns for 100 Bath, kasaan media, 2019

 

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Stuffed dumplings, kasaan media, 2019

 

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Kebabs with meat and fish, kasaan media, 2019

 

 

  

Inside Amazon

The giant without taxes and brains

 

The 1990s, when it was convenient to propagate avarice, are over. During this time, however, the book mail-order company Amazon grew into an international corporation that invaded the existing structures, which had been functioning for years, like a grasshopper, or in other words, covered itself over like a shroud.

The former bookseller Jeff Bezos has become an international group whose expansion seems never-ending. In the meantime to the considerable disadvantage of the clientele.

 

Where are the antitrust authorities?

 

Which tax authority provides information about Amazon's business in Europe? (Tax models in Luxembourg ("Luxleaks")

What agreements did the EU or Jean-Claude Juncker conclude with Amazon before the Internet giant settled in the Grand Duchy?

 

Why is it that people in Luxembourg, without exception, are silent when it comes to Amazon?

 

Allegedly Amazon is making high losses but has tremendous growth rates in sales.

A marginal note here is that Amazon does not pay any or insufficient sales tax. According to a report by the Federal Ministry of Finance, which is headed by Federal Minister Scholz, hundreds of millions of euros are thus lost to the tax authorities every year.

Tax CDs are bought up for a lot of money. Nobody dares to go near Amazon.

Where is the EU, which should stand in front of the retailers in the single European market so as not to destroy more jobs?

Where does the globalization of a system, a structure, come to an end?

Amazon introduces insurance, Amazon fresh, even recently with sandwiches, and other industries that have nothing to do with the actual work of the company.

 

The first thing the Commission should ban would be the alleged informer "Alexa", handy and trained to store anything that the consumer might need to offer it for sale. Nobody needs Alexa! Alexa is an intruder, not a media centre or something the catalogue has to report about the diffuser device. What other functions does "Alexa" actually have? Where has someone dealt with Alexa who can provide information about all the functions of the domestic helper?

 

Who controls this?

 

It is astonishing what this new resident can do if you use him then: Pick out train tickets, Alexa creates shopping lists, Alexa oversees the household and security of the property while the residents probably pick up the next Amazon package. Soon, this will be done by robots that can fly or drive. Alexa also cares about the health of the owner. Amazon is presumably collecting data from people to

set up branches of business. You have to pay a lot for a superficially seen loudspeaker. Alexa talks and the data with the update of the program will surely be passed on.

 

So, who's in charge of security?

 

Today Amazon is a network of companies that the average consumer no longer understands. There are numerous tributaries of this network, which hide from the customer who is actually behind it. Amazon also appears under third-party brands.

Amazon has mercilessly ruined the book trade in the German-speaking world, which was perceived as competition. Sustainable. And still blames the victims of his system for the mass death of the bookstores.

It is a shame how the book market after the bankruptcy of knv finally fell into the hands of Amazon. Where do you think politics will intervene when the largest German book wholesaler goes bankrupt? Amazon has saved easy play and enough taxes everywhere to make the debris of knv their own.

For an appeal and an egg, to strengthen the publishing division so that no one can ever again compete with Amazon.

One wonders how it can be that this group does not pay taxes and then cleaning ladies, packing helpers and other servant spirits that Amazon can afford to have to fight for bare survival every month. The company is playing with its power in a big way, fending off the unions that have been protesting for years. Employees suffer under the rigid working conditions that the shipping giant is determined to enforce with extreme ambition. According to verdi, it sounds like this: "The sickness rate is on some days sometimes up to 20% and more. Muscle and Skeletal disorders and mental illness are predominant. .... Each of our work steps is monitored. Everyone should be above average if possible, but that is mathematically impossible!" People or their fates are not interested in the fact that the monopolist of the near future will squeeze every last Euro out of potential customers.

Writers, no matter who, are trapped by the Kindle system, here in the flat rate and online. Writers degenerate into writing machines that have nothing more to report except to deliver more titles that Amazon pays only moderately or almost nothing. The Group calculates the royalties nicely per page read.

Since the Internet giant does not feel itself to be linked to the book price-fixing, it sells the goods as best it can via its authorised dealers. Amazon has already infiltrated the system to such an extent that dubious dealers sell books from letterbox batteries to third countries for moon prices to harm the writers. Amazon links the sale to a credit card. Not because Amazon now wants to enter the banking business, but to spy on customer behaviour.

Not only  Amazon's Marketplace opens the door to criminals, but also to review blackmailers who demand money for a previously bad review. So that it can be deleted again. Even from pirate copiers, Amazon publishes reviews, unrestrainedly they are further presented. Whole sectors of the economy have shifted to the profitable review capitalization.

At Marketplace, other things are also sold, which are not supposed to be for sale, the refugee children outfits were the annoyance of carnival two years ago. It is only one of many examples.

The question is, who is going to stop the online giant?

One cannot or should not expect anything from politics.

What do whales have to do with the 'Ndrangheta?

Strong contrasts

Wonderful pictures, whose rarity is getting bigger.

Firstly, through the systematic pollution of the world's oceans from which the whales also suffer.

Plastic waste from all over the world collects through the currents of the seas in the Southern Ocean and the North Atlantic.

You wonder what they're thinking while dumping the plastic waste.

From the Mediterranean region one hears disturbing stories about dumped waste, which is said to be highly toxic, even radioactive. Off the shores of Libya, the human catastrophe is particularly exploited. Unfortunately, enough ships sink there.

 

Where do the barrels that are loaded onto ships in the south of Italy come from?

 

One does not want to believe at all that the barrels will then be sunk in the Mediterranean together with the ship.

It's true, though.

The "Metauros" action in Reggio Calabria in October 2017 saw the excavation of numerous members of the Mafia group "'Ndrangheta", who seem to be playing "sinking ships" in the countryside.

According to the federal government, the problem of illegal waste disposal by Mafia clans is well known. This is clear from a small question from the Greens to the Federal Government, or rather from the answer of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

However: "The phenomenon of illegal waste disposal, committed by groups of Italian organized crime, is known to the federal government. No investigations have yet been conducted in Germany in this regard."

Why should it?

It's only the Mediterranean Sea that is being contaminated, from where the Mafia rubbish is pouring into the world's oceans.

Nobody seems to like the preservation of our ecosystems. There will be silence, as always, or as more and more often.

The Mafia enjoys a free ride anyway, everywhere and nowhere. If you read the sobering words from the printed matter of the German Bundestag, a reader can only get sick.

Numerous informants estimate that the number of ships sunk more than doubled. And it is not only in the Mediterranean that the Mafia is supposed to dump the rubbish for good money, but also in other places in the world.

 

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Where do these ships come from, are the tracks to Hamburg in Germany and Chittagong in Bangladesh correct?

How does the Eurogate Group fit into this game with all our health? What does this have to do with the operator of the port at Gioia Tauro MCT, which belongs to the Eurogate Group?

Who cares if the barges to be scrapped are not refloated for the Mafia?

The whale soon doesn't know where to dive. He is still hunted by the Norwegians and Japanese. Supposedly for scientific purposes. Nobody believes that any more.

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