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Reliving Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches: New Tour Package To Attract Australians

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:02:25 +0000

In a move to attract more Australians to visit Malaysia, the tourism ministry plans to put together a tourism package aimed at offering Australians the experience of reliving the three Sandakan-Ranau death marches.

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Reliving Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches: New Tour Package To Attract Australians

The end of venture capital and the beginning of peer-funded, “slow money” based production using shared designs and low-capital machinery

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:01:58 +0000

We’ve made and cited the argument before: In peer production, the interests of capitalists and entrepreneurs are no longer aligned Essentially, in an era of open knowledge, free code and shared designs, the design phase needs less and less capital, and as shared design communities progress, they design not just sustainable products, but a new kind of machinery, along with new ways to peer-fund entrepreneurship.

Incredibly specific — Daqing, Heilongjiang, China

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:33:36 +0000

Jump to the full entry & travel map Daqing, Heilongjiang, China I haven’t updated in ages. I’d like to say that my excuse is that it’s been “summer intensive” period at EF, so I’ve only had one day off a week, but “one day off” still means I have hours every day where I don’t have to do anything and I easily could have updated.

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Incredibly specific — Daqing, Heilongjiang, China

The First Steam Locomotive – England 1804

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:13:14 +0000

As an Englishman born and bred and a fan of history of steam Locomotives I thought it may be of interest to write an article about the history of the earliest steam locomotive. The first full scale working railway steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in the United Kingdom on 21st February 1804 when the world's first railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales.

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The First Steam Locomotive – England 1804

Covenant Mortgage — Camarillo, Washington, United States

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:02:05 +0000

Jump to the full entry & travel map Camarillo, Washington, United States Covenant Mortgage Website Depending on the size of the loan and the prevailing practice in the country the term may be short (10 years) or long (50 years plus). In the UK and U.S., 25 to 30 years is the usual maximum term (although shorter periods, such as 15-year mortgage loans, are common).

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Covenant Mortgage — Camarillo, Washington, United States

The Gordon Cook Interview (4): Peak Hierarchy and Open Agriculture

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:41:27 +0000

On March 4 2010, Gordon Cook was able to interview me in Bangkok. This became the basis for the August-September special issue of the Cook Report, a newsletter that is distributed to telecommunication leaders. It’s the most in-depth profile of our work to date and the first 17 pages, which feature a detailed comparison of John Robb’s work with ours, will be serialized separately

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The Gordon Cook Interview (4): Peak Hierarchy and Open Agriculture

Beauty’s Emerging Green Packaging Trend Bids Goodbye to Plastic Bottles

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Beauty , News , Makeup , Skin & Body Photo: Getty Images Beauty is beginning to say so long to old-school plastic. Two of the industry’s biggest players — Whole Foods and Procter & Gamble — are passing new regulations for sustainable and recyclable packaging that are causing a growing rumble in the marketplace, where other brands are beginning the shift to using renewable materials. The new Whole Foods regulations go into effect this month, and mandate that suppliers use packaging materials that are easily reused or recycled, are non-toxic, and that they switch from plastic to glass when possible

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Beauty’s Emerging Green Packaging Trend Bids Goodbye to Plastic Bottles

Ancient Numidia

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:21:33 +0000

The ancient Berber kingdom of Numidia existed between 202 BC and 46 BC in what is now Algeria and part of modern-day Tunisia in North Africa. With the sparkling Mediterranean Sea to its north and the unforgiving Sahara Desert to the south, Numidia had the Roman-ruled province of Mauretania on its western border and the province of Africa, which was also under Roman rule, to the east.

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Ancient Numidia

Eat, Pray and Love, the director’s cut

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:49:39 +0000

And the book, the bestseller Eat, Pray and Love , became a movie, hopefully a blockbuster. As we hinted last year, Julia Roberts (yes that Julia Roberts!) plays Elizabeth Gilbert touring the world after a divorce in a quest for the perfect life, i.e.

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‘Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers’ at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:46:43 +0000

Anyone concerned with contemporary or post WWII art should get to Washington by Sept. 12 to see this exhibition. Yves Klein is an essential figure in post war art whose work resonates through much of what followed: happenings, performance (and films of performance), installations, minimal and conceptual art. For a current generation of young artists making their way in a world shadowed by the threat of environmental annihilation, his work will have particular resonance

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‘Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers’ at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington