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Working as a cartonera involves going through bags of rubbish and separating out the material into different bags.
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As soon as a service from the BBC becomes popular – commercial interests seek to play politics and wish to limit people’s access to non-commercialised content
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We all know from the glorious summer of 2005 that nothing makes the sport grow in every way so much as the success of the national team. Patches of ground which had never had cricket played on them before were used for bat and ball by people who had never
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Once completed, ScottishPower will open the entire 55sq km moorland site to ramblers, mountain bikers, birdwatchers and the curious, connecting the newly laid onsite road network with existing tracks and paths, offering spectacular views of central Scotla
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hould we be surprised by such exaggerations? Of course not. Though the papers are generally good at reporting job cuts, they rely for the good news on companies and government departments that have an interest in talking up the benefits of their schemes.
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Ben Stewart, Greenpeace’s director of communications, puts to the test other examples of products claiming to have ecological benefits
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Over 1500 villagers marched to the Coca-Cola company’s bottling plant in Mehdiganj in Varanasi in India yesterday demanding that the bottling plant shut down immediately.
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Many shoppers filling into stores on Tuesday, however, mourned the fact that the newly available goods are unaffordable on the government salaries they earn.
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Because Glasgow, Scotland is home to numerous bands and live concert venues, Time magazine called it “Europe’s secret capital of music.” The city also boasts hip new restaurants, a thriving arts scene, stunning Victorian architecture and enough rollicking
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the city has an embarrassment of rock riches — think Detroit and Liverpool in the mid-1960s, Seattle in the early 1990s. Scotland’s biggest city (pop. 600,000), 570 km from London’s media maw, has always been an underground music incubator,
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For those who use the Metric system, divide your weight (in kilograms) by 30 (ex. somebody weighing 70 kg is going to need 2.3 litres per day).
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# Take time for naps. Seriously. # Smile a lot and talk to the locals. # Eat, eat, eat and savour the flavors. # Don’t get caught up with sights. Plan some must-dos and leave the rest to chance. # Wander around at night and stay open to the crazier elem
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Put space between things. Related to the “Do less” rule, but it’s a way of managing your schedule so that you always have time to complete each task. Don’t schedule things close together — instead, leave room between things on your schedule. Tha
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The Perunika Trio formed in October 2005. Eugenia Georgieva, Victoria Mancheva and Victoria Evstatieva met through the London Bulgaria Choir and decided to go it alone and form a trio. All are of Macedonian descent and spent their early years in the Bulga
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Hungarian Gypsy (Roma) music is vibrant, passionate and brimming with colour, yet its songs reflect the hardships of daily life. From the camps and villages of rural Hungary, its popularity has swept around the world.
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Gordon Richardson moves on from the coffee chain he set up in Glasgow to begin new venture in live music venues.
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“What Glasgow did in the years from 1980 on was absolutely amazing. It was phenomenal that the city was able to turn itself round in such a short space of time, bearing in mind the dramatic rundown in industry. “It was an achievement of the Glaswegians th
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The first ever recorded voice comes to haunt the cool, sophisticated composure of the Radio 4 Newsreader…
Playing Spoons
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We are taught a brilliant card game by Emmet – ‘Spoons’ requires a collection of said utensils and enough players to have one less spoon than people. The aim is to ensure a bit like musical chairs that you are not left without a spoon at the end of each round. This is decided upon by making sets of fours with the dealt cards, which are then circulated round the group by passing a card at a time to your left and picking up from your right – this is all done at a frantic pace until someone makes a four of a kind and picks up a spoon. Once this happens anyone else can pick up a spoon as well even though they haven’t made a four of a kind until there’s one player left empty handed. Because you become caught up in the getting of four of a kind and passing cards around it’s difficult to spot when someone finally picks up a spoon, when that moment of realisation hits all the other players there’s a frenzied grab at the remaining spoons on the table in front of you. The game is completely addictive, stressful to play and brilliant to watch.
I get to play in the second game, lose in the first round having grabbed only a fistful of tablecloth
This is a test post from 
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It features a conversation between an interviewer (the voice of Michael Deakin—father of Lemon Jelly’s Fred Deakin) and ‘John’, the Ramblin’ Man (the voice of actor John Standing),[1] during which ‘John’ lists 67 places around the world he has (supposed
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