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		<title>Will there be a shortage of landscape architects after the Crisis is over?</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2010/02/27/will-there-be-a-shortage-of-landscape-architects-after-the-crisis-is-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two years with the Global Financial Crisis hit nearly every nation across the globe and as a result landscape architects where laid off in large numbers. This was hardest felt in the USA due to lack of work and collapse of the home building market.
Governments from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, China and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the outside looking in &#8211; ideas when returning</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2010/02/20/from-the-outside-looking-in-ideas-when-away-from-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently went back to Australia for one month due to the five year rule in China. Whilst in Australia I found it interesting how when you return to your own country that you can see opportunities for ideas and development that otherwise would have alluded you if you where living there. This can also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private vs Public Money for Parks</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2010/02/12/private-vs-public-money-for-parks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times recently published When Parks Must Rely on Private Money by DIANE CARDWELL concerning the struggles of cities to fund the construction and maintenance of parks throughout the USA. Many parks are funded through selling of land or revenues generated by carparks or taxes from new nearby developments and others are funded by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simplifying my reading and research</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2010/01/01/simplifying-my-reading-and-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As apart of my setting goals for 2010 I set 5 words &#8211; one of which was Simple. 
Simple Ideas. Simple Concepts. Simple Processes and Simplify.
Tonight I decided to Simplify my web reading. In 2009, I read too much business news, business trends, social media trends which often was great for small talk but often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; Whats ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2009/12/29/2010-whats-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian</dc:creator>
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My News Years Eve 2005 &#8211; Sydney Opera House Steps
This time of year is often when people in the west reflect on the past year and set resolutions. However living in China most people don&#8217;t reflect until Chinese New Year which is February 14 &#8211; Year of the Tiger. So, as I am living in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calls for Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2009/12/16/calls-for-collaboration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Szenasy posted on Metropolis an article titled &#8220;United We Stand&#8221; in which she recalls some government officials giving encouragement at a recent NeoCon East annual trade show that there is &#8220;a new day for government design&#8221;. Szeasy goes on to talk about the importance to design of the recent $5.5 billion allocation to General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What can we learn from a Xinjiang Noodle Maker?</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2009/12/04/what-can-we-learn-from-a-xinjiang-noodle-maker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I went to my local Xinjiang Noodle shop for lunch. I ordered my usual and sat down inside on a stool. As I sat there looking around at the full tables, I wondered why is it so many people come here. Now to explain the scene, Xinjiang Noodle shops often have three or four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foursquare &#8211; will it be as addictive as Twitter?</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2009/11/25/foursquare-will-it-be-as-addictive-as-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



Image via CrunchBase



Seems shanghai tweeple are starting to use foursquare more after a prompt on twitter by @chijs last sunday and when Scott Ballantyne(shanghai twitterville member) mentioned that it may be used for his coffee &#8211; Flying Turtle Coffee.
So what is FourSquare? Its a social networking + game play in your city(or cities) website. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When loyalty just ain&#8217;t enough</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2009/11/24/when-loyalty-just-aint-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Dreamhost went down and my main landscape architecture site worldlandscapearchitect.com (gets 15000/month visitors) is still down and its on a Virtual Private Server which I pay good money for every month. I have been with Dreamhost since 2006 and have used them hosting and domain registration for 90% of my domain names, but recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GIGA Print &#8211; takeway ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.damianholmes.com/2009/11/23/giga-print-takeway-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, I attended the GIGA Print presentation given by Mario Van der Meulen of SGTH Designs. It was an interesting presentation about the Print industry and how as graphic and print designers can be more effective in design. Some of the talk was doom and gloom about the environment but it focused more on [...]]]></description>
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