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Municipal libraries will soon be outsourced, away from being unionized. The NYT article mentioned a lady who had come to the library for 50 years (not being territorial, she must have felt somewhat invaded). So she signed up 1200 petitions against outsourcing. This was her second protest since her first (probably against the war) back…
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I am half-way through East Eats West, by Andrew Lam. In one of the pieces, he mentions “my parents speak to ghosts – ancestors shrine at home- and I, with my fingers on the key board, negotiating the past (Vietnam) and present”. One’s person sacredness could be viewed as “para-normal” by others. In a soon-to-be-published…
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Udon. Thailand. Women married foreign husbands, as trophies. She wants economic security and status, he wants “wives like in the 50’s”. “When you married a woman, you are married into the village”, commented a ex-US serviceman. They discovered Thailand during R&R back during the Vietnam war. With money to splurge, little time to spend and…
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We don’t thank people enough. That’s a fact. Bride and groom leave those thank-you notes at the door even pictures taken earlier in the banquet. Efficiency over gratitude. Sales people are advised to send Thank-you cards to get referrals. For job candidates, it’s a must. But what about situations other than wedding, sales referral request…
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Skyline of West VA presents quite a scene and makes a case for Fall foliage. We used to play King of the Hill on top of a heap of dead leaves. Reminds me of the Last Leaf, a story about a terminally ill patient looking out the window and said “when those leaves all fell…
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I switched the channel, and kept seeing X-Presidents and Prime Ministers on TV. Then I saw Obama on CNBC Town Hall. Apparently he took President’s Clinton’s advice to go out and sell his plan. Meanwhile, Mr Blair is on a book-signing tour (no sign of protest in the US, just in the UK). I kept…
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I was crunching, when the PA system announced “free pizza at Planet Fitness, 1st Monday of the month”. Might as well. Indulge. After all, it says “No judgment zone.” Get fat, get fit. Carrot and then Stick. In a blog I recently subscribed to, I found : ” the extent that we help fulfill other…
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http://www.ukti.gov.uk/de_de/uktihome/pressRelease/117708.html?null Among the top findings from an UK investment survey (Economist Survey Unit – above), Vietnam, India and China (VIC) are the top three to watch. Other findings by HSBC came up with CIVETs (remember BRIC?): Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and S Africa as stable political markets (as of this edit, you can take…
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The verdict is in. Marketing folks all know by now that top of the list reigns COKE. My first wage (selling Vietnamese worthless currency in Subic Bay on my way to the US a few days after the war had ended) was spent on Coke, from a vending machine. I remembered til this day the…
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