พวกเราออกเดินทางจากคณะวิทย์ฯ ใช้ทางด่วน (ที่เจอรถหงายหนึ่งคัน) มาลงที่เชียงรากก่อนเข้ามาในม.ธรรมศาสตร์ รังสิต และมุ่งหน้าสู่บ้านวิทยาศาสตร์สิรินธร ด้านในสุดของสถาบัน ...ลงทะเบียนกันก่อนเป็นอันดับแรก พร้อมชาเขียวคนละกล่องจากเจ้าภาพ


คุณจันทร์ธิรา มงคลวัย หัวหน้าฝ่ายพัฒนาบัณฑิตและนักวิจัย ศูนย์พัฒนากำลังคน กล่าวต้อนรับพวกเรา และบรรยายกิจกรรมพัฒนากำลังคนของสวทช.


ชมนิทรรศการหมุนเวียน "เปิดโลกมหัศจรรย์แห่งวิวัฒนการ 200 ปี ชาร์ลส์ ดาร์วิน และ 150 ปีทฤษฎีวิวัฒนาการกับความหลากหลายทางชีวภาพในประเทศไทย"


วิทยากรบรรยายรายละเอียดส่วนจัดแสดงต่างๆในนิทรรศการ


มุ่งสู่บริเวณบ้านวิทยาศาสตร์ ...ไม่น่าจะเรียกบ้าน น่าจะเรียกว่าตึก หรือคอนโดวิทยาศาสตร์ไปเลย


สระว่ายน้ำ ห้องซาวนา คาราโอเกะ (อย่างหลังต้องไปร้องในห้องประชุม)


โรงยิม สนามบาส สนามแบดฯ (ที่เดียวกับสนามบาส) ห้องตีปิงปอง


นาโนวอล์ก...ยิ่งเดินยิ่งรู้สึกตัวเล็กลง (เพราะร้อนมาก ละลายกลายเป็นของเหลว)


ขึ้นไปดูห้องพักกันมา หรูหราระดับโรงแรม ติดแอร์เย็นฉ่ำ (แต่วันที่ไปดูไม่ได้เปิด)


เลี้ยงข้าวกลางวันด้วยครับ (อยู่ประชุมภาคในวันนี้ ไม่มีข้าวเลี้ยงเหมือนพานักศึกษามาทัศนศึกษา ฮุๆ)


พี่โจ (ของน้องๆนักศึกษา) คอยอยู่ดูแลพวกเราตลอด ศิษย์เก่าคณะวิทย์ ภาคไบโอเทคเรานี่เอง ...ส่วนนักศึกษาที่เห็นข้างหลังกำลังหยิบทุกอย่างที่ฟรีกลับมาคณะฯ

Mr. Taweesak Senanarong, Director and Mr. Win Viriyaprapaikit, President of Sahaviriya Steel Industries Public Company or SSI led the management team to have an audience with HRH Princess Maha Chakri Siridhorn and present money for her personal disposition including to lead the winners of SSI Steel House Contest 2008, both in the professional level and student level to receive the royal trophies.

This “SSI Steel House Contest 2008” project to win the royal trophy from HRH Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is a collaboration project between Sahaviriya Steel Industries Public Company Limited or SSI and Iron and Steel Institute of Thailand with aims to create more innovations concerning steel under ‘Innovative Living Steel’ concept. This contest was divided into 2 levels; professional and student. There were 203 teams which comprised of architects and students interested and participated in this activity.

The team who won the first prize award in the professional level is ‘SorThor.MorChor. RorJor Team’, comprising of Mr. Ekkapap Duangkaew, Mr. Thanawin Wichitporn, Mr. Teerasak Kochanil and Mr. Witthawat Lertpaisankul for their marvelous ‘Banana Leaf 3×3x3’ work. While the first prize winner in the student level is ‘Shadow Team’, comprising of Mr. Saichon Chanchaeng and Mr. Nattasith Wongboon, from Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi for their outstanding ‘Skeleton House’ work.

Welcome to one of America's most fascinating,
entertaining, and mysterious stories!

The House of David is a story of great success and great wealth, of entertainers that travelled the world over during the vaudeville times and were considered one of the top acts in the nation; orchestras that played before every U.S. President from Woodrow Wilson to Gerald Ford; baseball teams that not only had long hair and beards and won most of their barnstorming games, even against the pros, but also a team of white guys who travelled across America with the Negro Leagues, breaking the color barrier wherever they stopped, forcing the host teams to play these touring guests of the House of David, many times unwillingly, only to learn that they were some of the greatest players in the country.	Click The Pictures to Enlarge
	The House of David was a group of faithful Christians, living a life of celibacy, who not only believed in and lived a communal life, but also did so at such an extreme that they generated their own electrictiy, grew their own food for their vegetarian lifestye, built their own exquisite mansions which still exist to this day, built their own elaborate furniture, operated and entertained the country with their own pre-Disneyland Amusement Park.
The park is where they built the largest miniature railroad in the world, consisting of over a mile of track, 11 miniature steam engine trains built by House of David crafstmen; owned and operated their own cruise ships, trolley cars, bus lines, jam and jelly factory, built and operated the World's largest Cold Storage Building, the areas largest lumber yard, America's largest Tourist Court, owned and operated their very own coal mine, diamond mines, gold mines, and thus, were some of the wealthiest entreprenuers that this country had seen during their heyday.	Click The Pictures to Enlarge
	The House of David, founded in 1903 by Benjamin and Mary Purnell, is located in Benton Harbor, Michigan U.S.A. Beginning with a handful of brilliant minds and hard working people, the religious colony grew to over 1000 members in its most ambitious era during the 1930's. Having worked the Chicago World's Fair for two full years (1933-1934) the colony was able to tap into an endless tourist trade with this western side of Lake Michigan and after the World's Fair the traffic coming off the once famous cruise ships (which used to line the ship canals of the Great Lakes) was almost more than even a large city could accommodate.
From their own hotels, hospital, green houses, bus line, trolley car line, restaurants, and the biggest tourist court in America at the time, the House of David did all they could to capture the imagination of the American tourists and sightseers and give them something to talk about for years to come. Their strong religious beliefs in long hair and unshaven faces made them talked about the world over. But because of their belief in celibacy, there now exists only 7 living members all in their 80's and 90's.
Click The Pictures to Enlarge ummary	This is a story of love, romance, sports, inventions, fascinating journeys, and controversy. Its a place in time when things were a bit simpler, but yet the accomplishments of the House of David stand to this day as possibly some of the greatest achievements this country has ever seen by one small group of people, devoting their lives to God, making their own way through life, and making great memories for all of us along the way! We have compiled this website so you can get just a small glimpse of their amazing journey, and maybe learn a little bit of history about the wonderful place they call "House of David"!

Mulch annually. Mulching is an important part of rain garden maintenance. Mulch keeps the soil moist, allowing for easy infiltration of rain water. Un-mulched surfaces may develop into a hardpan, a condition in which the soil surface becomes cemented together, forming a hard, impervious layer. Mulching also protects plants and reduces weed growth. Each spring, rain gardens should be re-mulched with 2-3 inches of hardwood mulch.

Keep your garden healthy and clean. Rain gardens should be periodically cleared of dead vegetation and any debris that may collect. Replanting may be necessary over time. If a plant is not doing so well in one location of the garden, it may have to b

The Khmer or Angkor Civilization came into existence during the period from 802 to 1431 A.D. and stretched as far as the modern Thailand-Burma Border in the West and Wat Phou of Laos in the North during its peak.
Its emergence lies in the fact that the ancient Khmer rulers adopted a right political doctrine of its time, which enforce the unity among people. Moreover, they had developed an intelligent irrigation system to control the water of the great Mekong River for agricultures, which enhanced its prosperity. The Khmer Civilization had long been perished over 5 centuries ago, but it left outstanding monuments such as the great Khmer temples of Angkor Wat and Bayon and numerous unique sculptures like Apsara.

The word "Angkor" is derived Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language, of "Nagara" which means "City". Angkor Wat literally means "City of Temple" and Angkor Thom "The Magnificent City".

No doubts, the ancient Khmers were great masters of stone carving. As we can see today the unarguable evidences of various Angkor temples lying on the vast plain of Siemreap, or even beyond its present-day border to the Preah Vihear at Dangrek Mountain, Phnomrung and Phimai in Thailand and Wat Phu in Laos. All these were created and carefully crafts by the ancient Khmers in successive centuries. This seems to contradict with the normal and easy-going life of the local Khmer people and villagers of their time. What drive them to put such an extraordinary efforts and time will be explained in the next chapters.

The study of Khmer civilization in depth is not easy and pain-taking by the historians and archaeologists. Most of the writing, found after the excavation of Angkor, were carved in the stones which became the unperishable materials against time. Although these evidences are important for us to understand the basic constituency of Khmer society and its chronology, they were mainly concerned with religious rituals, King's praise, and literature of Indian epics of "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata". There were little things saying about the ordinary life of the local people.

Interestingly, we learn about the daily way of life of the ancient Khmers, not from the Khmer themselves, but from the Chinese annals. In the middle of 13th century during Chinese Yuan Dynasty, a Chinese ambassador named Zhou Daguan traveled to Angkor, stayed with the local villagers, and explored this empire for a year before his return. He wrote in his Chinese chronicle about this amazing empire, and explain vividly how the people lives with the clear portrayal of the Khmer society during those days.

The center of the Khmer Civilization is at the Angkor Wat area which is situated on the plain of present-day Siemreap province north of the Great Lake of Tonle Sap. Throughout the course of Khmer history, the kingship was frequently attained by violent means with bloodshed throne. There were successive capitals built by different kings in the region, not far from each others; these capitals are at area of Angkor Wat and Roluos with the different names such as Harihalara, Yasodharapura, Jayendanagari, Angkor Thom and a few unknown names.

Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and several other Khmer temples are undoubtedly the relics of the past Khmer Civilization. In order to help travelers as well as readers to get a clearer picture of Cambodia and these temple complexes, we have put up several articles on Khmer Civilization which covers the historical background, successive eras from the beginning till the end, reasons of rise and fall of this civilization and a chronology.

Cambodian Culture

Contents Glimpses of the Culture 2009 Water Festival Chinese Funeral Food Sold from Bicycles Pchum Ben Socks Squatting Khmer New Year Khmer Khramas 2008 Khmer Khramas Water Festival 2008 Khmer New Year 2007 Water Festival 2007 Cambodian Weddings 2006 Water Festival Lunar New Year 2005 Street Funeral Water Festival Cement Works of Art Cambodian New Year Houses: For People and Vehicles 2004 Cambodia's Telephone Culture A Cambodian Wedding Waterfront Restaurants Khmer New Year Fast Food Outlet Clown Assassinated Union Leader's Funeral Ceremony for 7th Day of Death 2003 The Legal Oath in Court! The Traditional Cambodian Diet Water Festival (7-9 November) Khmer New Year (14-16 April) Kirirom National Park 2000-2002 Christmas 2002 in Cambodia Khmer New Year (15-16 April 2002) Water Festival 2002 Cambodian Independence Day Khmer Wedding Lecture Series Pchum Ben Khmer Respect for the Head Restoring an Angkor Temple Khmer New Year (13-15 April 2000) Rules for Behavior

Erected in 1955, the independence Monument symbolizes Cambodian Independence regained from French colonialism in 1953. The monument is a copy of Bakong temple (the group of Roluos in the 9th century). The one hundred Nagas and snake motif can be seen in historical, cultural, archeological, and business contexts.