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This section aims to explore some of the variety of occupations and interests that perhaps the rest of us never knew about but would like to.
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The Pastmasters (UK) dinner in 2009 was another very enjoyable occasion...
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John Eustace tells of the joys of olive picking in Italy - which all seems to be largely due to the inspiration of Malcolm Gladwell and 'Blink'..
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Click here for the illustrated version of the Mars Moto Tour 2009 featured in the News section
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Rob Sawyer writes about his retirement project of becoming a qualified cabinet-maker - a far cry from General Management in Mars. Here is his story of how it happened.
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Wrigley's 5 gum ' Solstice' ad, 2009 - the current highest-rated on YouTube
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Wrigley's Doublemint Gum commercial featuring Chris Brown, 2008
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Although Vanessa and her colleague work in England, the design principles they outline here would apply in any garden, large or small.
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Black is back. Bettina Kühnel reports on the launch of 5™ gum in individual European markets.
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After leaving Mars, Peter was successively Chief Executive of the British Sugar Company, Berisford plc and BUPA, along with a string of non-executive roles that still continue. His big retirement project, however, is Cove Park, a residency centre for all the arts.
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Building a conservatory is often the catalyst for the redesign of a garden, but in our case the design of the garden was the catalyst for building a conservatory.
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The credit crisis visualised. This video gives a wonderfully clear visual account
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We need to think about ways to share the garden with the children over the long summer holidays
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Dave Hammond has been at Mars for 38 years, and looks much the same as when he started. Same smile, same size - due to a long-standing gym habit - and one of Mars’ most inspirational managers.
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Jane Stevens (now Nichols) started her Mars life as a Food Science student at Four Square, “taking swabs from various places around the factory in order to see what would grow”.
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At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play - with a number of examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't). Tim Brown is the CEO of the "innovation and design" firm Ideo - taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface.
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The story of how one Mars P&O manager became a garden designer – otherwise known as the Journey from Mars to Earth.
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Why build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale is founder of Second Life, an online 3D virtual world inhabited by millions. He chairs Linden Labs, the company behind the digital society. In this video, he talks about Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. He desciribes it as the natural place to find ‘early adopters, people who tend to be creative and entrepreneurial’.
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I never cease to be amazed that something as insignificant as a small onion contains all the necessary ingredients to produce a wonderful garden plant! Bulbs are like little food parcels, they are a complete kit for producing some of the most amazing and good value garden plants.