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Introducing the Brightkite Wall Imagine if everyone around you, even non-Brightkite users, had a window into the live stream of notes, photos and checkins being posted at a given place. With the Brightkite Wall this is now possible. The Brightkite Wall allows you to turn any monitor, projector or TV into a live interactive placestream display. The wall is perfect for conferences, live events, bars, trade shows, retailers, or just displaying on your desktop. Saved ...
Tibetans Reaffirm a Conciliatory Path (2)
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After an intense debate, delegates attending a conference of Tibetan exiles recommended a continuation of the Dalai Lama’s conciliatory approach to China.
After The Olympics: The World in 2009 (1)
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The Economist released its annual predictions and insights for “The World in 2009″. Here is a summary of what the magazine foresees for China’s new agenda: - Policymakers will “strive to prevent economic growth from slowing too fast while curbing inflation” in accordance with the current stock market decline - The 20 year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising will bring new demands for political change, both internally and externally. Internally will be the official ...
Daniel Drake: one laptop + one child = change the world (3)
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That’s the equation. In September, I was lucky enough to travel to Ethiopia to assist with the Ethiopian government efforts of providing laptops packed with educational material to schoolchildren free of charge, as part of the One Laptop per Child program. After “what on earth were you doing in ETHIOPIA?” one of the first questions people ask during conversation is “who paid for the 5000 laptops?” The laptops were donated by generous Americans and Canadians ...
Tibetan exiles gather to discuss new strategy | World news | The Guardian (2)
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Hundreds of Tibetan exiles from across the world will gather today in the foothills of the Himalayas to consider an alternative to the Dalai Lama's "middle-path" strategy. It is seen as an admission that almost three decades of trying to get autonomous status for Tibet through negotiations have borne little but despair. The week-long meeting of delegates, from non-government organisations as well as politicians, monks and intellectuals, will see the first challenge to the settled ...
L'asbl Dolor défend-elle l'actionnaire de Fortis ou vise-t-elle la déstabilisation de l'Etat? (1)
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Parmi les chevaliers blancs qui s'enorgueillissent de promouvoir la défense des petits actionnaires de Fortis, on trouve l'asbl Dolor, auteure d'une plainte au pénal contre le gouvernement. C'est cette même asbl qui avait divulgué un scoop relayé sans vérification par Le Soir Magazine, selon lequel le Premier ministre Yves Leterme, le ministre des Finances Didier Reynders et les représentants de Fortis s'étaient vus le 20 août dernier et étaient au courant depuis lors de la ...
Young Tibetans call for civil unrest in split from Dalai Lama (1)
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A new generation of activists believes the time has come to stop hoping that international pressure will persuade China to relent.
Cracking the derivatives code (1)
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Edging Toward Sixty (1)
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As of early this morning, Democrat Mike Begich has taken a 814-vote lead over Ted Stevens in Alaska. Since votes have been swinging inexorably toward Begich ever since they started counting absentee ballots, I assume this means he will win the seat. It's looking increasingly plausible that the Dems may achieve a 60-vote majority in the Senate and, as of January, control every lever of power in Washington. It will be interesting to see what ...
A Little Story..... (2)
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I'm preparing for a short visit to the States. So if you've been reading this blog then you know that the supermarket that used to be on the "bad street" (a street near my apt. so named because it's where I mistakenly ate some "chicken on a stick" that who knows how long had been under the warming lights and which caused well more than one visit to the hospital early after my arrival in ...
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Todd said:
Teresa's been a reader of my blog since the yurt years and through a series of circumstances left her pretty traditional life in Tennessee to teach English in Beijing. It is stories like this one that make me think it would be really interesting to do something similar. Sure, Canada's a foreign country but for me it is so familiar - in fact, strange to say it is more familiar than the US because Toronto is what I thought the US was going to be like as a grownup. Anyway, there is something so exciting about casting off everything familiar and just setting out to do something totally new. It's fun to be able to do that, at least vicariously, with Teresa's blog.
Could the U.S. go bankrupt (literally)? (1)
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The U.S. economy is still by far the world’s biggest, and as a borrower, the U.S. government is still rated as one of the world’s safest. But something weird is happening in the U.S. government bond market, and Randall Forsyth at Barron’s, for one, is concerned. I was taught that you should worry when what’s called the ‘yield curve’ on the bond market inverts, or goes negative. That means the yields on longer term bonds ...
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