Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Barbie with diamond choker sells for record price Last week, in an auction in New York, a Barbie was sold for $302,500 (USD) to an anonymous bidder and the proceeds will go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. This broke the previous world auction record – $17,091, for a Barbie in 2006. Stefano Canturi, an […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2010 No Comments »
For the Love of Cardborad Amazon has been trying to persuade its suppliers to get rid of those “annoying, hard-to-open” plastic packaging and put consumer goods in simple cardboard boxes instead. Based on the data provided by the New York Times, companies which have switched into the use of cardboard boxes, have resulted in 73% […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Each year in Canada, there are 40,000 lightning-related insurance claims, totalling between $500 million and $1 billion. Insurers find the need to verify past strikes from a trustworthy source instead of relying on the adjusters to “recreate events that literally happened in the blink of an eye”. Here’s the good news to the insurers. The […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Launched last year with initial $27.5-million-investment from Sprott Resource Corp., One Earth Farms now administrates 93,000 acres of farmland in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It aims at creating the biggest farms in the world by building stable long-term relationship with the First Nations who control 2 millions acres of land in three provinces. Image 1 […]