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Exploring the Cordillera de los Frailes in Bolivia

Edit New York Times 23 Mar 2016
In the Cordillera de los Frailes of Bolivia, the Jal’qa people commune with another world ... ....

Sell up, move on

Edit The Economist 23 Mar 2016
Under Maoist madness, farmers were corralled into “people’s communes” where they toiled in abject poverty and sometimes extreme hunger. But from the late 1970s, farmers gradually gained yearned-for freedoms ... But they did not go far enough ... Twin shackles ... ....

Footy ground fulfils fundamental human need

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 19 Mar 2016
Among redgums and she-oaks, beside the Yarra's north bank, on a tongue of basalt – ancient lava flows that smoothed a field perfect for football – where the Wurundjeri people commune, in an 1850s settler society, the game was shaped ... "These open public parks allowed access for people of all walks of life ... "When people ......

Telling Perth's toy stories (Edith Cowan University)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Feb 2016
Through carefully composed portrait photographs she considers the connection people have with their toy and the emotions that underpin their interaction ... 'The photo booth will provide a way to playfully showcase the wonderful ways that people commune with their treasured toys - whether that's big, small, old, new, handmade, fugly or cute,' Ms Noon said....

Songs in the Key of Colonialism (University of California - Santa Barbara)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jan 2016
Music is key in Madzimbabwe spiritualities, as living people commune with God through their spirit mediums and ancestors in mapira musical ceremonies, Chikowero explained ... 'These people are speaking to ancestors, they're speaking to their pagan gods ... Once the indigenous people were subjugated and restricted to reserves, he asserts, their music was ......

To intervene or not to intervene? That is the question for China’s economic policy makers in 2016

Edit South China Morning Post 30 Dec 2015
Unlike the early days of China’s economic liberalisation under Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980s when starving peasants took political risks to carve up land from people’s communes and government employees gave up their “iron rice bowl” jobs in favour of starting their own businesses, China’s extensive state apparatus today is deeply entwined with economic activities....

Major farm reform on near horizon (Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China) ...

Edit Public Technologies 06 Nov 2015
Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China) ... Before the agricultural reforms of the 1980s, farmland and farming operations were concentrated in people's communes ... Han Jun, deputy director of the office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said the policies and incentives promoting large-scale agribusinesses will help attract more highly skilled people to become China's future farm managers....

Major farm reform on near horizon

Edit China Daily 05 Nov 2015
Before the agricultural reforms of the 1980s, farmland and farming operations were concentrated in people's communes ... Han Jun, deputy director of the office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said the policies and incentives promoting large-scale agribusinesses will help attract more highly skilled people to become China's future farm managers....

Major farm reform on near horizon in China (The Central People's Government of the People's ...

Edit Public Technologies 05 Nov 2015
The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China) ... Before the agricultural reforms of the 1980s, farmland and farming operations were concentrated in people's communes ... Han Jun, deputy director of the office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said the policies and incentives promoting large-scale agribusinesses will help attract more highly skilled people to become China's future farm managers....

Piece of Mind: Riverwalk duck couple reunites

Edit Austin American Statesman 24 Oct 2015
Ms. Mostly Muscovy and The Black Duck are together again!. I saw them this morning, and what passed through my mind was a refrain I’d been taught in grade school. God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world. The phrase is from a Robert Browning poem, “Pippa Passes” and I can’t remember whether or not Browning was trying to be snarky ... We, the people, are out there communing with nature and, best of all, with each other ... ....

South Pacific Tuna Corp. and AFT Holdings, Inc. Donate Funds to Marshall Islands Food Bank

Edit Topix 22 Oct 2015
Securing the site is the final step needed in establishing a food bank to support the women and children in of the Majuro community. U.S. fishing boat Captain Mike Baker, who is employed by the Global Companies, which is managed by South Pacific Tuna Corp., founded the volunteer-based RMI Community Food Bank to support the people he's come to commune with for seven years ... ....

Meet Tokyo’s creature comforts

Edit Atlanta Journal 17 Oct 2015
In what’s basically a glass-walled second-floor apartment, I joined a half-dozen people who communed with a sextet of toy poodles, two beagles and a Labrador mix who was almost too big for the room ... Before entering the second chamber, customers don camouflaged ponchos, which encourage the birds to treat the people like trees (and protect from droppings)....

Gael Dohany obituary

Edit The Guardian 03 Aug 2015
An opportunity arose in 1971 to go to China and spend five weeks on a people’s commune. Borrowing equipment, Gael was able to record the lives of China’s peasants at first hand in what became the film Daily Life on China’s Communes. Though broadly positive in tone, the film, released in 1974, did not shy away from showing the problems people faced ... She is survived by her cousins and a close group of childhood friends. ....
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