Bodwyn Wook (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... of course — at first: “It is just like having a small nuclear reactor all of your own,” as Dr Marie-Louise von Franz says. But then it blows up on you. Everytime. Why? Because the ordinary human being as long as they have a clear distinction still in mind, between me and you, just plain can not see what the results will be of trying to have things all “their own” way. Even when they...
Benn loxo du taccu (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
It’s not just birthdays we’re excited about here at Benn loxo. I’m getting married. A few weeks ago while on the hike on a muddy path overlooking Tiger Leaping Gorge, below Jade Dragon Mountain, I proposed to the lovely Marie Louise Congo .. and she said yes. It’s so wonderful to share these travels [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
... could be 90,000 tonnes per year - enough to fill more than 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Marie-Louise ter Beek, the firm's UK environment manager, said: "As a responsible and progressive business, we are always looking for ways to move closer to our goal of sending zero waste to landfill and the composting trial in Dorset is an important example of this. "If the pilot is successful,...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Canadian children's novelist Bryan Doyle and writer-illustrator Marie-Louise Gay have been nominated for the 2009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the richest award in children's literature.
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Two Canadian storytellers and one Nova Scotia literacy group are in the running for the world’s richest children’s literary prize. Ottawa kids’ novelist Brian Doyle, Quebec author and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay, and Read to Me!, a family literacy program, have all been nominated for the 2009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, worth about $800,000 (or 5-million [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
... Sound familiar? Wind back the clock 20 years and you could be in the docklands of east London. The Marie Louise bar on the Quai de Saône. Photograph: Lizzy Davies But for a taste of authenticity, pop into the Marie Louise bar on the Quai de Saône. A five-minute walk from Nouvel's baths, this little cafe is a world away from the shiny new reality encroaching on the Eure....
colonos (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
“Ayahuasca is going global“, said a prominent psychedelic researcher recently, and it is also going mainstream as part of journeying across the planet. In the Californian TV series “Weeds” the leading act, Marie-Louise Parker’s character, Nancy Botwin, drinks ayahuasca under rather suspect circumstances with the leader of a drug-, guns- and human- trafficking Mexican mafia, [...]
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... he was the real Man in the Iron Mask, but other accounts dispute this. 4. and 5. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Louis inherited the French Blue, Marie wore it, and I think we all know what happened there. 6. Marie-Louise, Princess de Lamballe , was a member of Marie Antoinette’s court and was her closest confidante. She was killed by a mob in a most horrific...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
... credits for the City to use for trading, reports Joburg.org.za.The due diligences for Linbro Park, Marie Louise, Robinson Deep, Goudkoppies and Ennerdale landfills were concluded in March this year, proving that all the sites have enough potential quantities of landfill gas to generate electricity.Landfill-gas-to-energy CDM projects will be initiated at all five sites.A consortium...
SouthAfrica.info RSS feed (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Joburg to tap into landfill energyEmily VisserJohannesburg is about to embark on its first landfill-gas-to-energy projects, which will be the first notable Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project generating substantial carbon credits, which the metropolitan municipality can then use for trading.The due diligences for the Linbro Park, Marie Louise, Robinson Deep, Goudkoppies and Ennerdale...
Wendy's Tiki Hut (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Please, everybody, look at me! Today I'm five years old you see! And after this, I won't be four, Not ever, ever, anymore! I won't be three-or two-or one, For that was when I'd first begun. Now I'll be five a while, and then I'll soon be something else again! (Marie Louise Allen) John's Olympic Birthday party was a Gold Medal event! We competed in the long jump, the high jump, the discus,...
