Urban Landscape Photography, City Singapore Night 2013

      Singapore River Night, Urban Landscape           

by William Yee Khai Teo, Singapore



 

Singapore River Night, Urban Landscape

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Urban Landscape ,Marina Financial Center Singspore

Urban Landscape ,Marina Financial Center Singspore

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Raffles Musket and Borneo Spice

Raffles Musket
Sir Stamford Raffles is well known for its Visionary Urban City Planning of Singapore as a free Trade center. He is able to foresee the strategic location of Singapore early in the 1800s, trades start to flow between Asia and Europe as the Sea trade route between the East and the West start to blossom in the 19th century

Some also known him as a keen natural scientist with interest in plants . Even built the London zoo and several attempt for the Botanical Garden Singapore. He planted the seed as a naturalist in Singapore, a very early Botanic Garden.

The Less well known is his pre Singapore Founder Days. 10,000 British Red Coat Soldier conquering Dutch Java. So before he is the founder of Singapore, He is officially the Governor of Java for a period

Borneo Spice
Yummy

Practical intelligence and emotion

Quite a thick book.
Seems some newer stuff add like emotinoal intel.
Got a few level of mega thinking skill.
Some good advice too.
by Karl Albrecht

Smart thinking and Vaccumm Cleaner

Basic Thinking skill.
Data and logic.
Gather enough data and information.
Derive some useful result from it and apply.
Better to have some kind of formula.

Smart thinking and casual knowledge.
The author emphasis on some casual knowledge relating two items.
Sort of Creative thinking 1+1 method.
Or one of those Medici effect.
Or some chemistry mixture potion stuff.

Not into the Bigger pict social things yet.
Still dwelling on the small itchy mini stuff to built up first

Thinkers 'should join conversation'

Thinkers 'should join conversation' Former top civil servant Ngiam urges academics to 'help the State ask the right questions' http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC121109-0000057/Thinkers-should-join-conversation

Statue of Liberty

PALAD-IN

CCRT Wishes

CCRT Wishes
SINGAPORE Prosperity and Free for evermore.

May the Grace of God be with You - S'pore

History of Republic - Classical Republic 3

Aristotle's Politics discusses various forms of government. One form Aristotle named politeia consisted of a mixture of the other forms he argued this was one of the ideal forms of government. Polybius expanded on many of these ideas, again focusing on the idea of mixed government. The most important Roman work in this tradition is Cicero's De re publica.

Over time the classical republics were either conquered by empires or became one themselves. Most of the Greek republics were annexed to the Macedonian Empire of Alexander. The Roman Republic expanded dramatically conquering the other states of the Mediterranean that could be considered republics, such as Carthaginian Republic. The Roman Republic itself then became the Roman Empire

Special Congrats to Singapore for 45th birthday

The history of Republic

The political philosophy of the classical republics has had a central influence on republican thought throughout the subsequent centuries. A number of classical writers discussed forms of government alternative to monarchies and later writers have treated these as foundational works on the nature of republics. Philosophers and politicians advocating for republics, such as Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Adams, and Madison, relied heavily on these sources.

History of Republic 2

The concept of the "republic" itself was not a meaningful concept in the classical world There are number of states of the classical era that are today by convention called republics. These include the city states of ancient Greece such as Athens and Sparta and the Roman Republic. The structure and governance of these states was very different from that of any modern republic. There is a debate about whether the classical, medieval, and modern republics form a historic continuum. JGA Pocock has played a central role, arguing that there is a distinct republican tradition that stretches from the classical world to the present. Other scholars disagree.[16] Paul Rahe, for instance, argues that the classical republics had a form of government with few links to those in any modern country

History of Republic

History
Until modern times, the form of government for almost all states was monarchy. During the classical period the Mediterranean region was home to several states that are now known as the classical republics.

Several republics also developed during the Middle Ages in the merchant dominated city states. Beginning in the 18th century larger states began becoming republics, and in the 21st century only a minority of countries are monarchies.

The Origin of Republic 3

A further set of meanings for the term comes from the Greek word politeia. Cicero, among other Latin writers, translated politeia as res publica and it was in turn translated by Renaissance scholars as republic. This is not a very accurate translation and the term politeia is today usually translated as form of government or regime. One continued use of this archaic translation is the title of Plato's major work on political science. In Greek it was titled Politeia and in English is thus known as The Republic. This naming is preserved for historic reasons, but is not considered accurate. Within the text of modern translations of The Republic alternative translations of politeia are used.

In English the word first came to prominence during The Protectorate era of Oliver Cromwell.[19] While commonwealth was the most common term to call the new monarchless state, republic was also in common use.

The Origin of Republic 2

Today the term republic still most commonly means a system of government which derives its power from the people rather than from another basis, such as heredity or divine right. This remains the primary definition of republic in most contexts.

This bipartite division of government types differs from the classical sources, and also the earlier of Machiavelli's own works, which divided governments into three types, monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. As Machiavelli wrote, the distinction between an aristocracy ruled by a select elite and a democracy ruled by a council appointed by the people became cumbersome. By the time Machiavelli began work on The Prince he had decided to refer to both aristocracy and democracies as republics.