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  7. Swinging a bridge in Wuhan

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    Here in Portland the Sellwood bridge was long overdue for a rebuild. Instead of building a whole new temporary bridge while they build a new one they simply built the temporary pilons and used Palmolive dish soap to slide the old bridge over onto the pilons. I guess there's something special about Palmolive that no other dish soap will do.

     

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    "You're soaking in it"

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  9. Monkey attacks baby at Chinese Zoo

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    DAMN....remind me to never take a leak at that zoo...poor kid.

    Monkeys are wild, they may look cute, but they can be viscus.

    Monkey tears off eight-month-old baby's testicles
    as his mother changes his nappy at a Chinese zoo and EATS one before it can be caught

    • Horrifying attack took place at Qianling Wildlife Park in Southwest China
    • Chinese news report shows the infant recovering in hospital
    • Monkey numbers at the zoo have recently exploded from 70 to 500
    A mother watched in horror as a monkey tore off one of her eight-month-old baby's testicles at a Chinese zoo before running off and eating it. The shocking incident, is understood to have taken place at the Guiyang Qianling Wildlife Park in Guìyáng, the capital of Guizhou province in Southwest China. The mother was changing the infant's dirty nappy when the animal attacked, ripping off the testicle before dropping it onto the ground.

    Horrifying ordeal: Chinese television shows the infant recovering in hospital with his mother after he had his testicle ripped off by a monkey. An old man reportedly picked it up but a monkey then snatched it out of his hand before scampering away and eating it before it could be caught. A Chinese news reports shows the baby recovering in a hospital bed with his mother looking over him. His injuries are not life threatening. Monkey numbers at the open zoo have reportedly exploded from around 70 to 500 in recent years with the situation now apparently out of control.

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/06/article-2413791-1BA8BED0000005DC-53_634x424.jpg
    The number of monkeys at the park has exploded from 70 to 500 in the last few years, according to Chinese news reports

    Although they are fed three times a day by keepers, members of the public like to feed the monkeys too and while there are signs warning against doing so, they do not seem to be enforced.

    Other footage shows one of the monkeys attacking a little girl, nipping her on the fingers as she reaches over to pet it.
    The report mentions that the monthly incidents involving the monkeys at Guiyang, of varying degrees of severity, are running in the hundreds.

     


    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2413791/Monkey-tears-month-old-babys-testicles-mother-changes-nappy-Chinese-zoo-EATS-caught.html

    http://youtu.be/T8_k56PvS9o

  10. From Yulin

    in Expats

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    Thats a lot of scenery in just 15 miles...almost like a different world. It's cool that you can experience that without getting on a plane. Are you an anomally in the small towns you encounter or are they used to foreigners now?

  20. Democracy in Hong Kong

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    ok, I see what you're saying now. The devil is in the details. They do have some "democratically elected" officials in HK BUT I'd bet a dollar that the selection of those candidates was done in a way that was something less than a democratic process. As you say, the party operates in a very subtle manner, especially when they want to.

     

    What I think will also be interesting to watch is whether or not the party will allow the selection and election of candidates through "universal suffrage" in HK which the National Peoples Congress has said could be done by 2017.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Seems like the same old same old, not really anything new unless I'm missing something.

     

    The news is the occurrence of actual "democratic" elections in Hong Kong, which never occurred even under British rule - along with the involvement of the Communist Party. The Communist Party operates at a MUCH more subtle level than what we were taught in high school. So I found this an interesting tap dance around democracy, with lessons to be learned that might affect the future of "democracy" in China.

     

    After all, "It's the Communist Party that brings democracy to China" - in their own words.

     

    >"But overruling an elected candidate is not likely to happen," said Zhu, adding that challenging the central government will only incur side effects other than promoting the development of democracy in Hong Kong.

    "It would be more meaningful to negotiate on how to improve the democratic procedures during nomination," Zhu added.

     

  23. Going to China tomorrow

    in Communications, Planes, Shipping & Money

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    Have fun and congrats on the China wedding...it will be a great time...the Chinese families are always awesome at these weddings, always so accepting, generous and gracious, You'll have a great time. Hopefully she will be fine on the extension letter and maybe it won't even be an issue, worst case senario, submit a change of address to the post office and start palying house in China... jk, you'll be fine. Post pics for us if you have a chance, congrats once more and have the greatest time of you life so far.

  24. I thought I knew how it works.

    in Communications, Planes, Shipping & Money

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    I don't kow what your schedule is but I've always found reasonable fares in November. A quick search of Orbitz and I found the fares below, granted they're not non-stop and it is Air China (not my favorite to put it mildly) but it does seem reasonable for a fight from Boston to Nanning. Check it out.

     

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    Flight Adult: 1 $954.00 Airfare taxes and fees $411.00 Service fee $6.99 Total due at booking $1,371.99

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    Leave Mon, Nov 5, 2012 Return Fri, Nov 30, 2012

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