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Happy Friday everyone. As I was riding the train into work this morning, I realized how happy I’m happy with my current job. I have had many many many jobs in the past but none had me looking forward to coming into work like now. And my happiness has nothing to do with drinks in the fridge, snacks, window seat, or games (xbox 360, ps3, wii). I mean yeah, they help but ultimately it’s the people who I see everyday that makes my job rewarding. I feel fortunate to be in this position. I think anyone who are not happy with their job should not give up hope… and continue to seek what they are looking for. Um… yeah.
Ok, enough about this boring stuff. Enjoy your Friday everyone and here’s a useful tip from Craigslist to make your life more fulfilling.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Flush with money, eager Chinese students flock to U.S.
Safe for Work? Yes
Chinese students are enrolling in U.S. universities in record numbers, encouraged by aggressive recruiting combined with China’s booming economy and growing middle class.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Weird Prison Restaurant in Japan
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Looks like you no longer have to commit a felony to get some old-fashioned jail food. This bizarre restaurant in Japan is themed like a prison.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Amazing Story of a Man Who Survived Being Buried 40 Days
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According to a fascinating report printed in the London Telegraph in 1880, a man was buried ‘in a condition of apparent death’ for 40 days and survived. No tricks or tomfoolery were involved, so how did he do it?
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Touching Strangers
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When my friend Richard Renaldi showed me the first images from the new series Touching Strangers I was just amazed. Asking two complete strangers to not only pose with each other, but to also touch each other while doing that… And this in a culture whose discomfort with touching someone you don’t know, or touching something that someone else might have touched still baffles me, even after having spent almost ten years in it!
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Why Japan needed prostitution
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In the early 1930s, the prostitution abolition movement — led by women’s, Christian, and socialist groups — strongly petitioned the Home Ministry to abandon the “license system” that essentially legalized the world’s oldest profession in Japan.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Chinese Automakers May Buy GM and Chrysler
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Chinese carmakers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire GM and Chrysler, China’s 21st Century Business Herald reports today.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
World’s First Wraparound View for Vehicles (Fujitsu)
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Fujitsu unveils the world’s first vehicle wraparound real time video camera. Lost? This system uses four cameras that provide a real time 360 degree view of things surrounding you.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Silkworms: an environmentally friendly delicacy?
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A vendor sells live silkworm larvae and sea horses on skewers. Enthusiasts of the unusual snacks claim they have medicinal value.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Red Lantern Diary: Seattleite’s Dispatches from Hong Kong
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Last month, I wrote a blog entitled, A new approach to honesty. The last few days have encouraged me to write a follow up.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The Rise of China
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Between the world wars, the theater director Max Reinhardt had, by his own account, a lovely time owning the Schloss Leopoldskron. He put in a mirrored Venetian Room and a Chinese Room --which in its strange excess might better be called Oriental—and put on productions through the house that had his audiences travel from room to room and sometimes into the garden, overlooking a lake.
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