Message date: 2008-08-15
Kunming, Dali, Lijiang - Kunming, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Kunming, China Let's see, where I left off I had just been chilling in Kunming and hanging out with Marcel (the Swiss guy) and two of his Chinese friends. Later on I went to this super beautiful park where everyone is pumped about feeding birds, especially seagulls. I met up with Marcel and two girls and we just walked around and chilled. With my shitty Chinese I got to be the translator for the day, so when the girls tried to tell mePublication date: 2008-08-15 more
Up the Yangtze encore at the Forum
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Camel Ride - Broome, Australia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Broome, Australia Spent the morning in "China Town"and most of the day in the pool. Went on a camel ride along Cable Beach this afternoon. Caitlin and Milly thought it was good fun even though when the camels stood up/down it was a little bit scary! Nothing like having a camel chewing it's cud right in your ear, NOT! After the camel ride we drove along the beach and the girls were looking a bit perplexed! There were nudistsPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
How to Make Millions and Not Pay Taxes!
Today's Feature Story: The Great Corporate Tax Heist By Robert L. Borosage, Huffington Post - Alternet Want to learn how to make $50 million and not pay taxes? More than a quarter of large U.S. corporations do it every year. Remember the old Steve Martin routine on how to make a million dollars and not pay taxes: "First, make a million dollars. ... Second, don't pay taxes." Turns out Martin's joke is standard operating procedure for corporations in the United States -- only, in comparison, MartPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
The Cost of Being an Olympic Athlete
The Beijing Olympics are in full swing. Most certainly there are numerous gay athletes both out of the closet and in hiding. I recently read The Advocate article on Australian swimmer Matthew Mitcham and in the print edition. If you want to talk about Queer money, just think of the sheer cost of being an Olympic athlete - as an adult or for the families of younger athletes being groomed for the Olympics. If you think having a baby is expensive well letPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
China Education Alliance, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results
China Education Alliance, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results Business, China No Comments HARBIN, Heilongjiang, China, Aug. 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/Publication date: 2008-08-15 more
Jean Arthur In the 30's
Jean Arthur In the 30's 9/1/1933 HCN Elizabeth Yeaman Nothing pleases a columnist so much as to see faith in a performer justified by a studio contract. From time to time I have shouted about the talents of Nydia Westman. I might have shouted oftener and more loudly if I had had the opportunity to see her more frequently. I first made her acquaintance at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. Then she bobbed up in a picture or two. Perhaps you saw her as the comedian in King of the Jungle, with BusPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
George Clooney Matt Damon and Brad Pitt are helping launch
George Clooney Matt Damon and Brad Pitt are helping launch Posted on August 15th, 2008 in Airway myanmar by mannunni29 Travelport GDS proudly supporting Star Alliance. State funding puts street work on fast track. Travelport GDS were named the sole sponsors of the event, which was well attend by over local travel agents. Lost in the new Beijing The old neighborhood. Sure, I can tell you all things about Mpio fl100. New Yorker cover depicts Barack Obama as Muslim. There were sales on flightPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
Brave Old World
it's time to indulge my weekly op/ed addiction... yup, it's time for more victor hanson action, which always makes for a good read if you ask me --- Brave Old WorldRussia invades Georgia. China jails dissidents. China and India pollute at levels previously unimaginable. Gulf monarchies make trillions from jacked-up oil prices. Islamic terrorists keep car bombing. Meanwhile, Europe offers moral lectures, while Japan and South Korea shrug and watch — all in a globalized world that tunesPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
Misty Mountain - Hua Shan, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hua Shan, China We had an early (for us) breakfast and made our way to Hua Shan. Hua Shan is one of Taoism's five sacred mountains, and in ancient times this would have been a place for monks to become one with the universe. There are five peaks on Hua Shan and they are said to resemble a lotus flower. You can climb up from the base, but we elected to take the cable car up the mountain to near the North Peak (Bei Feng). The mountPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
Bite into a Rainbow if You Want Better Health
A number of the old time nutritionists have written about the need for people to eat an array of colors in our fruits and vegetables. Why would colors matter? WhatPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
Sapa Dapa and the end to China thank feck - Sapa, Vietnam
Jump to the full entry & travel map Sapa, Vietnam vbcvbnvPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
Oh Yeah, You
I'm unmotivated. For everything I have to do, I have a reason not to do it. Scratch that. I have no reason not to do these things, but yet, I continue to not continue or persue. Be the change you want to see in the world. If you change nothing, nothing changes...blah, blah, blah, etc. etc. etc. You know that thing that's deep inside that you have to dig down to to excel in moments of adversity? The thing advertisers tell you can be found in the bottom of a sugary drink? "It"? Are you familiarPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
The future of aviation
How quickly times change. Most people have been aware of the idea of climate change for about a decade, but rising awareness of carbon dioxide as a pollutant was coupled with rapidly increasing consumption of fossil fuels. Globalisation and shopping online created a world in which people and products moved more and more. Efforts to curb fossil fuel consumption faced the rise of the SUV. But declining fuel efficiency in the US and increased fuel consumption in China and India, coupled withPublication date: 2008-08-15 more
Limited Perspective Playhouse: The Olympic Diet, Part 1
By Meredith Brody My friend Bill was the one who named it thus: the skewed perspective that comes from viewing culture through your obsessions, a.k.a. Limited Perspective Playhouse. You know, the particular filter through which we see the world. In this case, itPublication date: 2008-08-15 more