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A Post Olympic Look at China and Wal-Mart: Product Safety
This is the second entry in a series of posts looking at China as it relates to Wal-Mart in the aftermath of the Olympic games. Today, we'll take a look at product safety. Wal-Mart's business model is based on low prices. That means both how much they pay for a product, and how much they sell a product for. In the first post in this series, we looked at how this frenzied urge to reduce labor costs drove manufacturing to China. Today, we look at how Wal-Mart, based on the same desire for chea
28 Aug 2008, 5:05 pm | click here for more
Column - Sick of the scare
I STAGGERED into my local hospital’s emergency department last Thursday and found out just how sick the global warming alarmists really are. Not a single bed to be had. Not there, or anywhere close, either, I was told. No, I’m not saying the beds were every filled with people sick with “climate change delusion”—described by the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry as a condition that gives victims “visions of apocalyptic events”, that leaves them too scared to drink a glass of wa
28 Aug 2008, 4:57 pm | click here for more
Celebrations of the Baroda Parsis
The following is a communique from Dinkoo Mistry of Vadodra (Baroda). We would adore to carry such news and pictures of various Parsi celebrations in cities around the world. If you are a reader and would like to send us write-ups to be published here receive in touch with us through the contact tab. Dinkoo Mistry writes… This news is from Vadodara.The Parsi youth Association called BUZY below the support of Vadodara Parsee panchayat had organized three days program for the Parsee families in
28 Aug 2008, 6:08 pm | click here for more
Comments on Janette Sadik-Khan
She is the transportation commissioner in NYC. The New York Observer ran a little story, "Bloomberg’s road Fighter: The relatively radical Janette Sadik-Khan has championed bike lanes and pedestrian plazas—but does the transportation commish move too quick?," on her. Here are a couple of nice comments to the story that express very well the sentiments I try to express (not as well sometimes) about the difference between the middle city, and Washington specifically, and suburbs. Hugh Taylor:
28 Aug 2008, 5:04 pm | click here for more
Today is the anniversary of MLK’s Dream Speech
August 28, 1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr. I am glad to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of wish to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of cap
28 Aug 2008, 5:17 pm | click here for more
What this is really all about
A little something I wrote last night. Cheers, M Dear Rachel and Charlie, As I write this, you're both upstairs, sound asleep in your cribs. Your mom has gone off to bed too. Just me here, awake on a school night with some things on my mind. I'm thinking about this country we live in. What an imperfect place it is! For instance, we sometimes start wars we shouldn't, many of our leaders are corrupt we now have this vast chasm between a few wealthy people and everybody else. Here in M
28 Aug 2008, 6:13 pm | click here for more
Walking Past a Train With a Camera Is 'Suspicious'
Walking Past a Train With a Camera Is 'Suspicious' By TChris, Section Civil Liberties Posted on Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 03:28:15 PM EST Tags: (every tags) Share This: Digg! Well, that explains it. It seems that the seizure of video recording equipment from reporters who traveled to the Twin Cities to keep an eye on police interactions with protesters was just an exercise in homeland security. Minneapolis police spokesman Bill Palmer said the incident happened at 1:40 a.m. and that the
28 Aug 2008, 5:13 pm | click here for more
Ecuador - Loja - Loja, Ecuador
Jump to the full entry & travel map Loja, Ecuador I had been holding high hopes for Ecuador during my last days in Peru. Ecuador has for a long time seemed a rather majestic and forgotten about place. Tucked in between the drug lords of Columbia and the great tourist mecca of Peru, is has been rendered dwarf. In a continent of Brazils, Argentinas and the politics of Venuezula, Ecuador seems to strugle to post a blip on the heart monitor of the patient down the hall.... though when i
28 Aug 2008, 5:46 pm | click here for more
Ken and Hugo: A partnership from hell
ties with Hezbollah have finally made the MSM news recently, just hired former London mayor Ken Livinstone (h/t Siggy; emphasis added): Chavez gives Livingstone a job Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has got himself a nice little earner - from his old pal and fellow socialist, Hugo Chavez (pictured right with Livingstone). The Venezuelan president has invited him to work as a consultant on policing, urban planning and transport in the country’s notor
28 Aug 2008, 5:05 pm | click here for more
Group Fun!
On Sunday after Hannah finished her St. Paul errands we headed back out to Spicer to rendez vous with Gerry and a few friends who had arrive out from the Twin Cities. As much fun as the home was when it was just the 5 of us, it was so much MORE fun with others with which to share the lake! We swam - they swam and I watched - and fished - and swam - and kayaked - and swam. What a lovely day! Then we had a wonderful dinner and sat outside, around a flame, watching the lake grow dim. When the s
28 Aug 2008, 5:27 pm | click here for more
PlayStation Store Update
Hey, everyone. It’s time again for the PLAYSTATION Store weekly update. Downloadable Games The Last Guy ($9.99) You are the chosen one, a zombie hero from the Himalayan mountains, and it is up to you to rescue the last survivors on Earth by leading them to safety through zombie-infested streets. Make your way through 15 detailed real-world cities, shown from a classic arcade style overhead view, and guide them to the Escape Zone before time runs out in this frantic, addictive game. Download th
28 Aug 2008, 5:01 pm | click here for more
Live Review: Nada Surf, Cold War Kids, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silversun Pickups, at the Manifest Hope Art Gallery
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah. No, seriously, do it! Nada Surf, icy War Kids, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silversun Pickups Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 Manifest wish Art Gallery Better than: Hanging out in the industrial stretches of north Denver when the DNC is not in town. By 6 p.m., the evening was quickly becoming frustrating, aggravating and enervating. As the sound check rang from the improvised stage off of Walnut and 30th streets Wednesday, Aug. 27, the growing crowd assembled for the
28 Aug 2008, 5:41 pm | click here for more
You know what I love? Twitter
I was tardy to hop on this bandwagon, and have opted to use my account mainly for professional networking, but damn, I adore this thing. How I use it: Updating My Current Location (Not starbucks, but different cities) Looking for services Looking for discounts Requesting information Publishing quick snippets/links I find useful (mostly technical) Are you twittering?
28 Aug 2008, 6:00 pm | click here for more
WAR IN THE U.S.!!I.V.A.W. BRINGS THE WAR HOME
The anti-war association Iraq Veterans Against the War has been staging guerrilla theatre warfare in cities every over the U.S. for the past year. They call it Operation First Casualty…and they most recently brought the battle to the streets of Denver, CO, where the Democratic National Convention is meeting this week. This video is of one of their earlier operations in Chicago, but it shows the odd juxtaposition of everyday American life in “wartime” with the everyday life of Iraqis in wa
28 Aug 2008, 5:10 pm | click here for more
Talk Lounge | RE: Jokes from the West [6]
EricP wrote: Still had I lived in 1400, I would have rather been an Italian peasant than a Russian one. Italy didn't exist in XV century. This land was constant subject of conflicts between Spain, Austria and italic cities-states. Spanish monarch Phillipp II was no better that Ivan IV the Grozny. So was Duke Alba of Holland and many other rulers of that time. EricP wrote: Or 1914, 1941, 1961 During first half of the XX century continental Western Europe wasn't good
28 Aug 2008, 5:09 pm | click here for more
Russian Contexts, Myths and Truths | RE: How Russians see their history
Soundbrigade wrote: The way Russia has been ruled has been the same since 790 AD, You've taken too long period of time - in 790AD Kievan Rus' was ruled by swedish conqueror. Historians usually divide it to pre-mongolian times of Cities-States & Veche law and post-mongolian times of regaining independence, fighting with remains of the Golden Horde and Lithuania and rise of Muscovite absolutism. Soundbrigade wrote: nothing did change in 1917 Comparing to 1920's - 30's late
28 Aug 2008, 5:09 pm | click here for more
Like somebody has kicked over an ant pile in Louisiana today
yes. every hell has broken loose here in Baton Rouge and elsewhere across the state today. 4:45 Bobby Jindal is holding a press conference - I am told he will talk about evacuations of special needs patients and people in low lying areas. contra flow from NOLA to Baton Rouge on Saturday. My blog posts here are becoming decidely short and twitter-ish given to the sheer volume of information that is pouring in...we've heard the shelves are empty at Wal-Mart. I'll make my run this evening to stock s
28 Aug 2008, 5:01 pm | click here for more
Practise Your Russian | RE: What does this mean?
nikir wrote: Russia, IMHO has too many inexperienced drivers who take crazy risks on bad roads, an almost total disregard for pedestrians and a corrupt militia. It depends on city. I quite often steer in four cities. The bigger city is the lesser regard for pedestrians. Same for milita. Idiotic laws contribute for that not less than behavior of drivers. nikir wrote: Cameras alone won't fix the problem. Education and heavy fines for offenders will make people more responsible. Came
28 Aug 2008, 5:09 pm | click here for more
The Real Cost of McCain's "Emergency Rooms=Insurance" Plan
(Cross posted at Daily Kos) I don't think enough can be said about the sheer boneheadedness, arrogance, and, yes, elitism of this statement from McCain advisor, John Goodman. But the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National middle for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the pa
28 Aug 2008, 5:45 pm | click here for more
Amnesty International brings Gitmo to St. Paul.
Amnesty International brings Gitmo to St. Paul. Filed below: Civil Liberties By Faiz at 4:56 pm Amnesty International brings Gitmo to St. Paul. “Guantanamo Bay is coming to St. Paul,” courtesy of Amnesty International. The human rights group is bringing their “live-size model of a maximum security Guantanamo Bay cell” to the Twin Cities. Visitors will be encouraged to experience the cell and push the Bush administration to close down Guantanamo. Some details about the exhibit: The cell
28 Aug 2008, 4:56 pm | click here for more