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Originally posted on iLook China: There would not be many choices for someone that wanted to move to a socialist country. There are only four in the world: PRC (mainland China), Republic of Cuba, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. These countries once had Communist governments but that isn’t entirely true anymore. However, there are 189…
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Growing up with Oranges
My child mind thought: okay, then I’ll knock oranges off the tree to the ground, pick them up and eat them, and I was never caught.
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Originally posted on iLook China: A Guest Post by Richard Burger of The Peking Duck One of the questions I hear the most is whether the Chinese people’s attitude toward sex is conservative or open-minded. And the answer is that it’s complicated. First, there is more than one China: there’s rich China and poor China, urban and rural China, young China and…
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I love hiking. My biggest challenges (for hiking) have been the week long hikes in the High Sierras (including the back country of Yosemite) sometimes reaching higher than 11,000 feet near the John Muir Trail. Heavy backpacks weighing as much as sixty pounds are a burden when climbing for miles with thousands of feet of elevation gain but when the…
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Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: We went to see ‘Won’t Back Down’ with Maggie Gyllenhall and Viola Davis, a film that ignores many facts of a complicated issue that causes students to turn out illiterate and schools to be considered failures. Soon after the movie started, I complained. “If her (Jamie played by Ms. Gyllenhall) daughter…
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Originally posted on Café Casey: Bacon Academy band performs under the leadership of Tom Kessler[image: norwichbulletin.com] This past summer I attended a concert in honor of a person who profoundly influenced my life—my high school band director, Tom Kessler. He was the kind of teacher who educated the “whole student,” and though I suspect he originally planned to stay…
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Beatrice, the pick of the 2010 Rizer Goldens litter was generously given to us as a wedding gift. It was a very happy time for us and her addition to our family added to that joy tremendously. Beatrice was a very special gift because she was so much more than just a dog. She was full of light and happiness that you…
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Is the Average RICH person an Idiot?
The Walton family’s now holds as much wealth as the bottom 40 percent of Americans combined—about $90 billion.
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It is through movements such as the Occupy Movement that the American people, that Silent Majority President Reagan used as an excuse for his destructive economic policies that started the US down the path that led to the 2007-08 global financial crises, that the average American has a voice. Now, with the Internet, that voice is louder. This Reblogged post…
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