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Tonight I found a blog which has some pictures of what the feet of these women actually looked like. Rather than copying them here I am giving you the link, Bound Feet in China,so that if you are interested you can see for yourself. Remember it is an old custom!

I am pretty sure that this custom is now longer widely practised in China but there are probably some areas which have been unable to let go of  this tradition.

BTW There are other links to topics about China on this page.

It is extraordinary to think that, in 2008, there remain about a hundred groups of people, scattered over the Earth, who know nothing of our world and we nothing of theirs, save a handful of brief encounters.

The uncontacted tribes, which are located in the jungles of South America, New Guinea and a remote and the beautiful and remote North Sentinel island in the Indian Ocean (the inhabitants of which have also responded to attempts at contact with extreme aggression) all have one thing in common – they want to be left alone.

And for good reason. The history of contact, between indigenous tribes and the outside world, has always been an unhappy one.

Ben Saunders is a record-breaking long-distance skier, with three North Pole expeditions under his belt. He is the youngest to ski solo to the North Pole and holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton. Since 2001, Ben has skied more than 2,500km (1,500 miles) in the high Arctic, which he recently worked out equates to two percent of his entire life living in a tent.

The current record was set in 2005 by a guided team using dog sleds and numerous re-supplies in a time of 36 days 22 hours. Ben’s expedition will be solo and unsupported and on foot.

Read all about his adventure here. He is keeping a journal as he travels so you can read up to date reports on his blog plus you can leave comments / questions for him.

Watch this TED video about him as he prepares for this expedition.

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Pretty amazing, isn’t it? Here’s a short blurb about it:

A Portrait of YouTube’s TheHill88 done with Vegemite and a butter knife on 9 pieces of toast. Original painting time 1hr 30mins.

I hope it’s Rob Waddell! We won’t actually know who is going to the Olympics until Friday.

Okay, how good are you at making predictions? If you watched Dancing With The Stars on TV tonight, how about making a prediction as to who you think will the final in 8 weeks time? You have to make your prediction between now and next Tuesday night – in 8 weeks time we’ll look back here and see how right, close or way out we were.

I’ll make my prediction after watching the rest of tonight’s show and I’ll leave it in the comments.

Worldwide one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe.

It reminds me of the man playing the variety of unusual musical instruments at the Arts Festival in Wellington while we were on camp last year. What do you think?

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