Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken, Canadian ice climbers, have become the first in the world to complete historic ascent of frozen Niagara Falls, parts of which have frozen over winter. They climbed about 45 metres up on the Horseshoe section of the famous falls, which borders the US and Canada.
In his interview (watch below), Gadd described how spray from the part of the waterfall that had not frozen made his ice climb slippery đ
Sable Island sits in the middle of âThe Graveyard of the Atlantic,â and has been the site of roughly 475 shipwrecks, and is home to over 400 wild horses. These horses have managed to survive on the island with only sea grass and rainwater. While it has never been permanently settled, it has been occupied by shipwrecked sailors, transported convicts and pirates. It was declared Canadaâs 43rd National Park on June 20th, 2013.
There are now more cuisines, ingredients, cooking shows and recipe books than ever before. Today it seems most of us know the difference between prosciutto and pancetta, sushi and sashimi, but how foods and drinks influence and communicate identities in social and domestic settings?
We are what we eat. Or are we? If you are what you eat, what food makes you? Join here our Communication & Languages Group on LinkedIn and let us know what you think.
We have prepared for you the following article to spice up our discussion and to give you more ideas and flavor of what to expect at our “debate in English” meetings. So, letâs start with the truly fantastic travel photo essay around the world in âWhat the world eatsâ:
Peter Menzel and Faith DâAluisio traveled the world documenting that most basic of human behaviors â what we eat. Their project, âHungry Planet,â depicts everything that an average family consumes in a given weekâand what it costs â laid out in thought-provoking detail. Their results will be exhibited by The Nobel Peace Center to give viewers a peek into kitchens from Norway to Kuwait, and to raise awareness about how environments and cultures influence the cost and calories of the worldâs dinners.
The Sturm Family of Hamburg. Food Expenditure for One Week: ⏠253.29 ($325.81 USD). Favorite foods: salads, shrimp, buttered vegetables, sweet rice with cinnamon and sugar, pasta.
The Ottersland Dahl Family of Gjettum. Food expenditure for one week: 2211.97 Norwegian Kroner; $379.41 USD. Favorite foods: fresh baked bread with butter and sugar, pancakes, tomato soup with macaroni and cold milk, yoghurt
The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum. Food expenditure for one week: 4265.89 Norwegian Kroner or $731.71. Favorite foods: mutton in cabbage, lasagne, and chocolate.
The Ukita family of Kodaira City. Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $317.25. Favorite foods: sashimi, fruit, cake, potato chips.
The Manzo family of Sicily. Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11. Favorite foods: fish, pasta with ragu, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks.
The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp. Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23. Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat.
The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City. Food expenditure for one week: 63.63 dinar or $221.45. Family recipe: Chicken biryani with basmati rice.
The Revis family of North Carolina. Food expenditure for one week: $341.98. Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken.
The Caven family of California. Food expenditure for one week: $159.18. Favorite foods: beef stew, berry yogurt sundae, clam chowder, ice cream.
The Fernandezes of Texas – Food expenditure for one week: $242.48. Favorite Foods: Shrimp with Alfredo sauce, chicken mole, barbecue ribs, pizza.
he Casales family of Cuernavaca. Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09. Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken.
The Dong family of Beijing. Food expenditure for one week: 1,233.76 Yuan or $155.06. Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce.
The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna. Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27. Family recipe: Pig’s knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips.
The Ahmed family of Cairo. Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53. Family recipe: Okra and mutton.
The Ayme family of Tingo. Food expenditure for one week: $31.55. Family recipe: Potato soup with cabbage.
The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar. Food expenditure for one week: 41,985.85 togrogs or $40.02. Family recipe: Mutton dumplings.
The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis. Food expenditure for one week: 155.54 British Pounds or $253.15. Favorite foods: avocado, mayonnaise sandwich, prawn cocktail, chocolate fudge cake with cream.
The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village. Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03. Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese and pork.
The Browns of River View – Food expenditure for one week: 481.14 Australian dollars or US$376.45. Family Recipe: Marge Brown’s Quandong (an Australian peach) Pie, Yogurt.
The Mendozas of Todos Santos – Food expenditure for one week: 573 Quetzales or $75.70. Family Recipe: Turkey Stew and Susana Perez Matias’s Sheep Soup.
The Kuttan-Kasses of Erpeldange – Food expenditure for one week: 347.64 Euros or $465.84. Favorite Foods: Shrimp pizza, Chicken in wine sauce, Turkish kebabs.
The Natomos of Kouakourou – Food expenditure for one week: 17,670 francs or $26.39. Family Recipe: Natomo Family Rice Dish.
The Melansons of Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory – Food expenditure for one week: US$345. Favorite Foods: narwhal, polar bear, extra cheese stuffed crust pizza, watermelon.
The Le Moines of Montreuil – Food expenditure for one week: 315.17 euros or $419.95. Favorite Foods: Delphine Le Moine’s Apricot Tarts, pasta carbonara, Thai food.
The Madsens of Cap Hope – Food expenditure for one week: 1,928.80 Danish krone or $277.12. Favorite Foods: polar bear, narwhal skin, seal stew.
The Celiks of Istanbul – Food expenditure for one week: 198.48 New Turkish liras or $145.88. Favorite Foods: Melahat’s Puffed Pastries.
By viewing food (and drink) both as cultural practice and cultural expression, we may learn about such concepts as: cultural identity, values, practice, experience, language/meaning, and aesthetics.
We are what we eat. Or are we? If you are what you eat, what food makes you? Join here our Communication & Languages Group on LinkedIn and let us know what you think.
What is believed to be the biggest and most expensive digital billboard in the world was lit up yesterday in front New York’s Marriot Marquis hotel. The only other billboard able to compete is the worldâs tallest billboard at One Times Square, where the ball drops on New Yearâs Eve.
The digital screen spans an entire New York City block and boasts a higher resolution than some of the best TV’s on the market. Google will be the first company to run an ad campaign on it later this month.
The billboard, which is about the length of a football field, will cost advertisers $2.5 million a month. Google’s ad will run from Nov. 24 until early 2015.
There are superstars who wouldnât wear the same dress twice, but this one teacher from Prestonwood Elementary (PE) in Richardson, USA, had himself photographed with the same outfit for 40 years in a row. PE teacher Dale Irby started his legendary yearbook photograph sequence by mistake, when he realized he was wearing the same polyester shirt and coffee-colored sweater like he did for the photo shoot one year ago, back in 1973.
âI was so embarrassed when I got the school pictures back that second year and realized I had worn the very same thing as the first year,â said Dale. It was his wife, Cathy, who managed to make a joke out of the situation, and dared her husband to wear the same clothes again next year. After this dare Dale wore his shirt and sweater for the next 5 years: âAfter five pictures,â he said, âit was like: âWhy stop?ââ Even when the clothes wouldnât fit him anymore, Dale would bring them to school and wear exclusively for the photo shoot. Nice to have something you can count on these days!
School teacher wears the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 Years
via: dallasnews.com
432 Park Avenue, to the right, towers over the high-rises of midtown Manhattan
The new 432 Park Avenue is the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. Located in the centre of Manhattanâs famed Park Avenue, 432 Park Avenue now stands at a staggering 96-stories, surpassing both The Empire State and Chrysler Buildings. It’s the first in a wave of new super-tall apartment buildings coming to New Yorkâs skyline.
Residences are priced from $16.95 million to full floor penthouses at $76.5 million. The top-story penthouse of this building recently sold for around $95 million.
It is believed that âThe Presidentâ is the hugest tree in the world when judged on bio-mass. âThe Presidentâ is located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in the United States.
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The tree is 75 metres tall. Thatâs a 20 storey building! It boasts a circumference of 28 metres at the base and at over 3,200 years old pre-dates the Iron Age. Itâs so huge, itâs impossible to look at in one go. So no one has ever taken a proper photograph of its entirety until a team of photographers from National Geographic worked with scientists from Californiaâs Sequoia National Park to take 126 separate photos of âthe Presidentâ. The final photograph, which represented a mosaic of 126 images, appeared in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
