The Guardian's website is running a slideshow of Albertus Seba's painstaking colour-plate portrayals of animal and insect life, in honour of publisher Taschen's release of his drawings. And if old-fashioned illustrations of people and cooking implements and so on can be peculiar, sometimes animal sketches can be even more so.
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Greek Salad and the Dodgy Sheep's Cheese
Greek salad is a dish which I have never managed to get very wrong. Today I tweaked the dressing and it turned out fine, so here is the (mostly) unquantified recipe:
From: Wikimedia Commons, by Fir0002/Flagstaffotos
Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, 1.2
Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, 1.2
In Brief: Philip Morris and Labour
On May 9 the watchdog Verité published its report on tobacco industry workers in Kazakhstan and the firm Philip Morris reemphasized its commitment to protecting the workers in its supply chain. In 2009 Human Rights Watch criticized the mistreatment of migrant labourers under the Kazakh farmers who cultivate tobacco for the company's Kazakh base; for example the suppliers withheld their workers' passports, used child labour, and refused to pay their wages.
The language of the HRW and Verité reports is surprisingly gentle; apparently Philip Morris approached Verité to examine the problem in the first place and it is probable that the company had not known what suppliers' working conditions were like. From one or two other instances I guess that on the whole multinational corporations are taking more pains not to be flagrantly diabolical; from what I remember of the No Logo era, the attitudes used to be far more unrepentant and belligerent.
Kazakhstan: Philip Morris International Overhauls Labor Protections [Human Rights Watch] (May 9, 2011)
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Postscript: Child labour in carpet factory, Pakistan (UNICEF photo)
The language of the HRW and Verité reports is surprisingly gentle; apparently Philip Morris approached Verité to examine the problem in the first place and it is probable that the company had not known what suppliers' working conditions were like. From one or two other instances I guess that on the whole multinational corporations are taking more pains not to be flagrantly diabolical; from what I remember of the No Logo era, the attitudes used to be far more unrepentant and belligerent.
Kazakhstan: Philip Morris International Overhauls Labor Protections [Human Rights Watch] (May 9, 2011)
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Postscript: Child labour in carpet factory, Pakistan (UNICEF photo)
Forewarned, Forearmed: Da Vinci in London
The exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings and sketches at the National Gallery in London will probably not fail to be talked to pieces once it opens in November,
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