Monthly Archives: October 2009
Adverse Physical Conditions in a Dredging Contract
The assessment of a dredging projects soil conditions are the most important factor to determine dredgeability, the choice of suitable equipment, production rates and ultimately the associated investment for the works. A prudent tenderer when analysing the site data needs … Continue reading
Make it a Green Christmas and Stockpile Love not Landfill this Year
A mountain of Christmas gifts and goods make their way from and into homes each Christmas season. It is a harsh reality but, not long after the festivities subside, many of those well-meaning gifts move quickly on to mounds of … Continue reading
New Guinea – Island Paradise
New Guinea is the world’s second largest island, and is in addition one of the world’s last, vast and remote wildernesses. With a complex political history, this great island is divided. The western half, is now known as Papua, a … Continue reading
The Australian Building Business During WWII
After the declaration of war in September 1939 house construction went through a period of decreasing activity. But it did not drop to its minimal level until February 1942 when National Security Regulations posed severe restrictions. Private building ceased in … Continue reading
The Cocos Islands
Stick a pin in a globe through the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and it emerges almost exactly through the Cocos in Costa Rica. Discovered in 1609, these islands were settled and owned by a single family from 1827 until the Australian … Continue reading
Socotra Island – Isolated Splendor
In the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa lies a small archipelago of four islands and islets. Although closer to Africa, the islands are part of the Republic of Yemen. The archipelago consists of the main island of Socotra … Continue reading
Sri Lanka Island Profile
The Pearl of the Indian Ocean lies only 31 km (19 ml) off India’s south coast. Its modern name is taken from the Sanskrit ancient Indian epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and means resplendent land. Sri Lanka’s chief characteristic is … Continue reading
Tips and Pros of Using Digital Printing
Digital Printing, as its name implies, is the process of producing digital images on physical surfaces (called substrates) using either toner or ink jets. These substrates can include film, common paper, plastic photographic paper, and even cloth. Digital printing is … Continue reading
The Post-War Housing Shortage
Sometimes described in the post-war years as `the housing shortage’, the nationwide effort to address a very troubling problem has in time come to be called `the housing boom’. Undoubtedly it was a boom in demand and building. There was … Continue reading
PR Massacre Review or PRMassacre Review
I just got an email promoting a product called PR Massacre. I guess that stands for Google PageRank Massacre. The first thing I did was go to Google and do a search on PR Massacre review. Not a lot there. … Continue reading
The Safe and Tropical Island of Tobago
Tobago is the beautiful, reserved, soul-sister of jump jiving Trinidad, its partner in the Republic. The contrast is awesome. Tobago is small and it has no major industry to impinge on its lush fertility. It has one main town, Scarborough, … Continue reading
The Cayman Islands of the Western Caribbean
South of Cuba in the heat of the western Caribbean, the three Cayman Islands are the visible summits of the Cayman Ridge, an underwater mountain range which drops suddenly into the 7,100 m (22,000 ft) Cayman Trench, separating them from … Continue reading
Getting Employment as a Web Site Designer in Brisbane Australia
So you want to work in a web development company in Brisbane? This article gives you useful tips and advice for all would-be web developers in Australia’s most livable city. The web design employment market is very crowded in Australia, … Continue reading
Mineral Makeup is Revolutionising the Cosmetic Market – but is it Really Natural?
It seems that every cosmetic company is leaping on the mineral makeup band wagon, but is mineral makeup really natural? The promise of being natural is what interests many users, but are we being “green-washed” into believing that just because … Continue reading
The Island of Tasmania
A world apart in every sense, Tasmania is Australia’s only island state, and the very isolation that once made it an ideal location for penal settlements now helps preserve its natural riches. Tasmania would seem to have it all, from … Continue reading
The Islands of Phang-Nga Bay
Phang-Nga Bay is one of Thailand’s most jaw-droppingly beautiful seascapes. Covering some 400 sq km (154 sq mi) tucked in between Phuket and Krabi, the bay, edged with mangrove forests, is home to hundreds of limestone formations. Some of these … Continue reading
Kangaroo Island Southern Australia
Kangaroo in both name and nature, this large island just 13 km (8 mi) off the South Australian mainland has remained relatively untouched for thousands of years; and as such is an unblemished microcosm of the vast red continent. Towering … Continue reading
Corfu Island Greece
The most northerly and, with Greece’s highest rainfall, the greenest of the Ionian Islands. Corfu lies close to the mainland and the Albanian coast. Described by Homer as ‘beautiful and rich’, it is mountainous, lushly fertile and fringed by fine … Continue reading