@Peter: "3-4 years ago you had whole society suddenly wake up to massive pollution, beijing skies black, urbanization had demolished all hometowns and cities full of zombies. On top of that one corruption scandal after another. One fake scandal after another. Food safety, vaccine safety and whatnot safety issues."
Hard to imagine this would be blamed on foreigners, and I don't remember that it was.
Well, I'm sorry you had to go so far before you could take a calm can of juice. As for your success/failure rate as a prophet, it has yet to affect anybody I know around here personally, and as for badshit down the road, there's a limit to just how much I'm going to get excited about it today. You get your nerve up, drop by sometime & I'll take you on a walk around my neighborhood. I don't know where on the planet you happen to be, but I hope it's safe. Best wishes.
Somehow the hypothetical Hump/Obama/punch nexus doesn't give me any new reason to worry about the balloon going up, and I feel free to enjoy my usual calm little 6PM glass of wine. Suggest you might do well to have one too, Peter.
The owner/managers of Salvador's are in touch with a school in Kunming that provides education for local kids whose hukou is outside of Kunming and so find it hard to get registered in ordinary schools. Their parents are largely migrants to the city from the countryside and get by with very menial jobs. I suggest you ask at Salvador's.
There is also a sort of charity kitchen affair that the manager/entrepreneur, who I think is American, who runs Lighthouse (essentially an English-language school), has raised money for - anyway, his contact is through the Lighthouse website (www.lighthouse-edu.com). Guy's name is Murphy.
I think that "volunteering", in the sense that you seem to mean it, is largely an American concept that has arisen over the past few decades and has spread somewhat to a few other countries. Organized programs of such are fine, with certificates and so forth, but if you are serious there are actually quite a lot of things that need to be done, with nobody to provide much of a salary, here and elsewhere; and there are a lot of things for which you can be paid quite well that shouldn't be done at all. In that sense, 'taking a year', or a decade or so, 'off' from Maggie's Farm after university graduation can be worth consideration too.
Maoism may not be the best word, okay. What I am referring to is the effort made to establish reasonably egalitarian access to health care that was policy before the 'opening up' of China.
Seems to me that when the state threw out Maoism they threw out some babies with the bathwater. Universal medical coverage. I don't see why the medical resources that the country has now shouldnt be made available to all citrizens, regardless of income.
Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Yunnan introduces health insurance program targeting poor
Posted byOK, a mistaken one - I should have used some term like 'Chinese socialist policy before the Opening & Reform', mea culpa.
Yunnan introduces health insurance program targeting poor
Posted byMaoism may not be the best word, okay. What I am referring to is the effort made to establish reasonably egalitarian access to health care that was policy before the 'opening up' of China.
Yunnan introduces health insurance program targeting poor
Posted byHey, I'm only referring to equal access to health care, not toppling anybody.
Yunnan introduces health insurance program targeting poor
Posted bySeems to me that when the state threw out Maoism they threw out some babies with the bathwater. Universal medical coverage. I don't see why the medical resources that the country has now shouldnt be made available to all citrizens, regardless of income.
Have a Heart Fundraiser for kids with heart defects
Posted byAppreciation for John, who performed despite experiencing a fair amount of pain.