@Geezer: Marxist thought: we all pay the guy a decent amount for the work he's done & the materials he's used, then those who need it can use it. Much better idea than having plagues arise in poor areas & then having them spread all over the planet.
Suggest you just buy one, shouldn't cost much unless you need something for really serious weather, in which case you'd be better off buying one anyway, as you can freeze to death up there & you don't want to gamble on the effects of somebody else's chicken-soup spill on the thermal quality of the thing.
Probably won't amount to anything for just a few days, but it might - best to just do it, it's pretty painless.
@disco: OK, but be choosy about what you volunteer to do - obviously the value of what you do depends on...what you do. If you want to volunteer some money I know some people who could see that it gets used to good effect (in education) in areas where sending kids to school presents a certain amount of hardship on parents.
@Liumingke: somebody probably is - capitalist ethics encourages people to 'make' money out of anything they can. Good idea to watch the drug companies.
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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.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Portraits from the Tea Horse Road
Posted byTerrific photos, great portraits.
Mike, I don't understand about the 13 centuries, or what era is ending.
Yunnan Baiyao "secret" ingredients found on US websites
Posted byIn referring to 'the Chinese' and 'the US' I assume you mean certain bureaucracies located in China and the US. A common way to speak, admittedly - but doesn't it (subconsciously) corrupt the way we tend to think? Surely only a tiny percentage of real people are involved - we all know this, of course, and we forget it all the time. No blame on JHC, just a reflection that, um, we might all reflect on more often. Managed thought is dangerous and manipulative, let's not assist the managers out of carelessness and lack of attention to what really goes down.
Yunnan Baiyao rebounds after rough start to 2013
Posted byHave scientific tests ever been done on this stuff (i.e., by other than company personnel) - not just on what's in it, but on what it can/does or cannot/doesn't do? I'm not suggesting it's bunk or anything like that, I'd just like to know.
Book Review: Unsavory Elements
Posted bySomewhat stereotypical impression of 'foreigners' too, although I think I may have seen these 2 before.
Zhaotong official may face resentencing following weibo uproar
Posted byI fail to see the point of an execution, public or otherwise. Has somebody confused vengeance with justice?