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Colours at Kiva

By Mark | Published: 14:26 Monday 26 Jul 2010
There are now some prettier images at kiva for the what where and why of loaning. My loaning more to females is deliberate as is loaning to the Phillipines / Cambodia and other countries there. You should loan at kiva.
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portablueloo

By Mark | Published: 08:44 Friday 18 Jun 2010
This image is taken from http://www.terena.org/webcam/. There is a bright blue object near the centre of the picture. It wasn’t there yesterday, it will disappear late Sunday / early Monday. It’s a toilet. More specifically it is a urinal. So of an evening after much beer men can use that instead of a street corner [...]
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By Mark | Published: 14:15 Wednesday 16 Jun 2010
I’m sitting in a english village and yet I can lend directly to someone halfway around the world. I – and every other Kiva lender – can help people to help themselves, to improve their life and those of those around them. I think that is amazing. I just passed the 50 loan mark at [...]
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It's just a flesh wound.

By Mark | Published: 18:15 Sunday 4 Oct 2009
On a human level, anyone who can recite whole sections of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by heart is all right with me. Muddle on, Mr President, that’s the best option | Andrew Sullivan – Times Online.
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Austria cares about who?

By Mark | Published: 16:29 Wednesday 30 Apr 2008
Describing the “abominable events” as linked to one individual case, Austria’s Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer said he planned to launch an image campaign to restore the country’s reputation abroad. BBC So a guy does a terrible thing, there is a lot of news and they plan to spend a stack of cash to make us think [...]
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