Christopher Yasiejko's Library tagged no_tag →  View Popular

Percentage of GDP made up by expenses like government social benefits, wages, grants and much more.

www.visualeconomics.com/government-spending-by-country - Preview

www.allacademic.com/...p58976-1.php - Preview

South Korea's Daewoo has signed a 99-year lease for half of Madagascar's arable land, reports the Financial Times. The firm expects to pay "nothing" for the lease.

The agreement covers 1.3 million hectares (3.2 million acres) — an area half the size of Belgium. Daewoo says it plans to plant corn on 1 million hectares in the arid western part of the island and 300,000 ha (740,000 acres) of oil palm on land in the tropical east, a region that is home to the bulk of Madagascar's rare rainforests. The company will produce the food for export and plans to import workers from South Africa, although a Daewoo spokesman said that the project could create up to 70,000 local jobs. The company expects the project to cost $6 billion over the first 25 years.

news.mongabay.com/...1119-madagascar.html - Preview

The phone is ringing off the hook in Rep. Frank Oliver's office. That is because he has decided that PA HB1393 "is worthy of discussion."

Patients and doctors have been frustrated by the failure of Pennsylvania to legalize medical marijuana. Pennsylvanians for Medical Marijuana and other organizations had hoped that hearings would be held in September. But the Pennsylvania state budget crisis took priority.

The announcement at Health and Human Services November 10 meeting to hold hearings on December 2 is considered a major step forward in legalizing medical marijuana in the state of Pennsylvania.

www.examiner.com/es-medical-marijuana-has-merit - Preview

A group of medical-marijuana advocates — striving for legitimacy for their still-nascent industry — announced the formation of a new trade group Wednesday.

The Colorado Wellness Association, its founders said, will formulate regulations for the state's booming medical- marijuana dispensary business, develop quality-control guidelines to protect patients, produce a regular magazine and perhaps even start an online medical-marijuana commodities market for dispensary owners to purchase their product.

"This industry is growing up," said medical-marijuana attorney Rob Corry, the new group's chairman.

www.denverpost.com/...ci_13768533 - Preview

Projects in Madagascar could provide a model for stemming deforestation. But first these efforts must deal with the poverty and political upheaval that threaten forests, reports Anjali Nayar.

www.nature.com/...462026a.html - Preview

A veteran reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Murakami lost his job when that paper ceased its print operations in March 2009. In April, more out of reportorial reflex than any latent entrepreneurial ambition, he launched the PostGlobe, with a $2,000 budget and a full-time staff of one. “What’s the alternative?” he asks. “You apply for jobs that 20,000 other people are applying for that you’re not going to get, or you try something.”

www.cjr.org/...man_about_town.php - Preview

A 10% increase in temperature and a 10% decrease in rainfall sees Indian Ocean island struggle to feed its children

viigo.im/1gY6 - Preview

These life stories are from the Anosy region of southern Madagascar. In their own words, the indigenous people of Anosy, the Antanosy, describe their lives in the face of climate change, food insecurity and rapid development due to mining. The stories are from four communities: Petriky; Ambinanibe; St Luce and Ilafitisignana and were recorded by community members and staff from our partner, Andrew Lees Trust.

www.panos.org.uk/pushedtotheedge - Preview

The latest report from the World Bank on Madagascar's financial situation has, moreover unveiled that the Madagascan State is starting to be seriously running out of cash. More than half of the public expenditures having been supported by the local financial market during the latest months. And the civil servants' pay check delays for the month of October is already appearing as a very bad sign.



In the meantime, large scale building works have thoroughly withered from Madagascar's landscape. All of the country's infrastructure projects have been indeed financed by foreign partners who have now suspended their help to the Great Isle.



The release of a certain amount of foreign funds will closely be hanging up to the outcome of political talks between mobilities bound by the signature of the Maputo agreements. The so named talks should normally come to an end with the next mobility leaders' meeting on November 3rd in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia.

www.madonline.com/article_03571_us.html - Preview

Since the transition's very first day, Monja Roindefo has been granted the armed forces' civil command. His eviction from the Prime minister's seat raised questions about the identity of the next figures in charge. The answer is Noel Rakotonandrasana and Cécile Manorohanta.

www.madonline.com/article_03573_us.html - Preview

This four-part series by Justin Rice looks at how the media tables are turning in the world of sports, where the subjects of coverage are becoming the creators of coverage — and what implications those shifts have for the rest of the news business.

www.niemanlab.org/...sports-media - Preview

Following the dark hours that our country is undergoing, and the lack of media resulting from the attack infrastructure, it seemed important to keep informed of our countrymen and our friends in Madagascar and elsewhere in the world.
You will find TopMada.com testimony from relatives, neutral information cross-checked from several sources, whether civil or diplomatic.
We want you to live news and Antananarivo provinces as quickly as possible, an objective we simply transmit raw data at first, and then further analysis.
Pictures, videos, hot stories, here's what you have at your disposal. In our case no political affiliation will not appear in this place dedicated to the inhabitants of Great Island, or his love.

TopMada - Preview

UPDATE: Smashing Magazine posted an excellent article that studies the way typography is used on the web. Tons of good information here (Did you know 60% of major websites today use sans-serif fonts over their serif counterparts?). Be sure to give it a read!

www.elance.com/...ypography_with_these_tips.html - Preview

San Francisco financier Warren Hellman will invest $5 million to develop a nonprofit journalism venture that will provide regional news coverage online and feed stories to media partners including KQED and possibly the New York Times.

www.sfgate.com/...article.cgi - Preview

You can create artisan breads and pizza easily and cheaply with one of these.

planetgreen.discovery.com/...diy-pizza-stone.html - Preview

Foreign investors are showing strong interest in Madagascar's untapped oil reserves, where one field alone holds estimated recoverable reserves of 2.5 billion barrels -- enough to put the Indian Ocean island within reach of the top 30 oil-producing nations if proven.

Here are some questions and answers about Madagascar's oil potential:

www.forbes.com/...afx6904284.html - Preview

Renewed violence in Madagascar over the weekend left two dead and one seriously injured, following a unilateral decision taken by Andry Rajoelina, President of the High Transitional Authority, to form a new government outside the provisions of the recent Maputo agreement, while bypassing all parties involved in the crisis. Fifteen people, including a senator were arrested during the demonstration. Disappointed, the heads of the three main political parties, Didier Ratsiraka, Marc Ravalomanana and Albert Zafy, have decided to join forces against him. They plan to extend demonstrations into the hinterland.

en.afrik.com/article16169.html - Preview

A blog where you can pull up a stool, read, relax -- or sound off -- on all newspaper and media issues, joined by the entire staff of Editor & Publisher. Belly up to the bar! Throw a few darts!

www.eandppub.com - Preview

With all the keyboard shortcuts and drop down menus built into many software programs, it can be tough trying to remember every one. The following are reference sheets that will make your multimedia and web production just a little bit easier.

www.10000words.net/ved-my-career-and-my-life.html - Preview