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		<title>My Olympic experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 27, 2010
By Alison Bate
It&#8217;s Saturday morning and my sister Gill and I are hanging out over coffee in my little cottage, listening to the rain beating overhead and enjoying being dry again.
Yesterday we spent the day up Cypress Mountain watching the women&#8217;s snowboarding live at the Olympics.
Huge buses from California took us up the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alisonbate.ca&blog=2688852&post=470&subd=alisonbate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bowen Island&#8217;s Olympic moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alison Bate
It was dark and sleepy as I drove down to Snug Cove at 5:30 a.m. yesterday, but every house had its lights on. 
I parked the car, offloaded my bike and pedalled across the cool damp field to Snug Cove. I passed walkers with their headlights on as I trundled across the boardwalk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alisonbate.ca&blog=2688852&post=456&subd=alisonbate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of Bint el Sudan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alison Bate
In the recently-published article about my grandfather and Bint el Sudan, there wasn&#8217;t room to include all the information and memories I collected about the perfume.
Here, then, are some of the emails I received about Bint el Sudan, starting with the present, and followed by memories of those working in the U.K. company [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alisonbate.ca&blog=2688852&post=427&subd=alisonbate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bint el Sudan, my grandfather. . .and me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a trip that took me to Africa, I found my grandfather’s lasting legacy—the continent’s signature scent—in a market in Sudan. 
This story &#8220;The Bint Formula&#8221; is in the December 2009 issue of Reader&#8217;s Digest Canada magazine, now on sale.
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		<title>Online tips at Bowen Island writing festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alison Bate
I learned about Freemiums and Long Tails on Saturday while moderating a panel at the Write on Bowen festival on Bowen Island, near Vancouver, B.C.
As traditional media outlets struggle to make money on the web, panelist Lisa Manfield said Freemium was one way for companies to adapt. Freemium involves promoting services by offering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alisonbate.ca&blog=2688852&post=357&subd=alisonbate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Kashgar destroyed for &#8220;safety reasons&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://alisonbate.ca/2009/06/01/ancient-kashgar-destroyed-for-safety-reasons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Uyghur men in Kashgar souk

By Alison Bate
When I visited Kashgar just over three years ago, I was disappointed at first.
The road in from the airport passed concrete roundabouts and boring buildings typical of the modern Han Chinese city. There was even a giant Mao statue close to the bus station.
While Kashgar &#8211; or Kashi as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alisonbate.ca&blog=2688852&post=346&subd=alisonbate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sun&#8217;s up! Time to put the kettle on</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alison Bate
Watching Brad Pitt in &#8220;Seven Years in Tibet&#8221; the other week, I idly wondered how any movie about Tibet could be so boring.
Tibet&#8217;s so striking, and there are so many surprises around every corner, that making a boring movie about the country should be impossible. But it did trigger a couple of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alisonbate.ca&blog=2688852&post=317&subd=alisonbate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter in Urumqi, one of the world&#8217;s most polluted cities</title>
		<link>http://alisonbate.ca/2009/01/14/winter-in-the-worlds-most-polluted-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Toronto Star recently listed China&#8217;s Urumqi as one of the Top Ten worst places to live in the world. The reason? Pollution. The list prompted my strangely fond memories of coughing and spluttering through winter in Urumqi while teaching English there between 2005 and 2006.
By Alison Bate
It&#8217;s winter in Urumqi and everyone is out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alisonbate.ca&blog=2688852&post=226&subd=alisonbate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if a containership ran aground on Nootka Island?</title>
		<link>http://alisonbate.ca/2009/01/04/what-if-a-containership-runs-aground-on-nootka-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alison Bate
When a ship gets into trouble off the remote west coast of Vancouver Island, there are very few rescue services around.
The province relies on a commercial tug in the area being able to help out. Currently, major seagoing tugs carry electronic tracking devices so they can be located in real-time on computer charts. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alisonbate.ca&blog=2688852&post=206&subd=alisonbate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tug escort rules vary in B.C.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alison Bate
I must admit I was a little surprised not to get a straight answer from Transport Canada at first about the number of tug escorts traveling with condensate tankers into Kitimat.
I assumed it was clearly set down in the legislation whether tankers carrying this kind of hydrocarbon mixture required tug escorts and, if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alisonbate.ca&blog=2688852&post=191&subd=alisonbate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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