Monday, June 28, 2010

Dogs vs Firework..

Fireworks are winning... this sucks and this is just the beginning!

A beautiful story

Nature: The Cheetah Orphans
Simon with Toki the Cheetah
Toki the Cheetah

Sunday, June 27, 2010

5 months count down begins

... tick tock.. tick tock...

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Is Management a Profession?

The Big Idea: No, Management Is Not a Profession

Business schools have come under attack as a result of the economic crisis. Many argue that business education must be reformed. But how? One popular recommendation is that management should adopt a rigorous professional code. This week’s chat will explore if management should be considered a profession, and what role education can play.

Q1: Is management a profession in a similar way to lawyers and doctors? Why or why not?

Q2: Should management have a code of ethics—or is there a better way to encourage ethical decision making?

Q3: How would you improve management education and training?
Arrivederci, Italia!
American Wins Marathon 3-Day Wimbledon Match
Japan PM apologises for US bases in Okinawa
How do you punish a football team?
Taiwan and China agree details of key trade deal
The Science Behind Deepwater Oil Drilling
Real Life Documentaries Trump Reality TV Every Day
Changing Tastes Drive Shift In Beer Sales
India's Diverse Faiths, As Told Through 'Nine Lives'
24 rooms in HK, I love the apt.!
More Calls For Moderation In Use Of CT Scans
'Time' Magazine: The Last Of The Big Newsweeklies
Why Are Only Three Americans Great At Tennis? Oh really, who are they? J/K.
Australia Gets First Female Prime Minister
Toyota president apologizes to shareholders
U.S. Spends The Most On Health Care, Yet Gets Least
Energy policy blog
Number of Hong Kong Wealthy Rises, But Is Down From ‘07
Tom Cruise, Firmly In Control In 'Knight And Day'
Elon Musk, PayPal Pioneer, Is Paper-Rich, Cash-Poor
Is it unmanly for guys to carry 'man purses'?.. Go Man purses! America’s Manliest Cities; 2009 Top 50 Manliest Cities, Charlotte Ranks Second, very fun to see where Chicago, Seattle, Portland, LA and SF ranks.
Miss. Officials Agree To Settlement In '64 Slayings, 46 years of waiting.. there are hopes across the world to end impunity for human rights violations!
Job Ad In China: White Man. No Experience Needed
More Asian-Americans Signing Up For The Army
Toll Of Oil Drilling Felt In Peru's Amazon Basin
Supreme Court Lifts Ban On Biotech Alfalfa, two worlds, FOOD INC.
Iraqi Minister Resigns Over Electricity Shortages, if we did it right when Bush was running the show, Iraqi might have been running a spanking new Power plant by now? Does it take over 10 years to build one?
Why Dawn Is The Bird Cleaner Of Choice In Oil Spills
Dr. Demento: Off The Air, But Still Happily Deranged
Using The Wisdom Of Crowds To Translate Language
Is The Homeownership System Broken?
Poor Nutrition In Kids Could Tie Obesity And Cavities
Modernization was a cost-effective solution for Weyerhaeuser
Toyota plant hit by strike at supplier
Is the era of cheap Chinese labour almost over? Foxconn suicides: 'Workers feel quite lonely'
Missing alpha male wolf from Oregon's only breeding pair concerns wildlife trackers
Seattle Mariners counting on their next generation
Finding A Drug's Real Expiration Date
Sinead O'Connor No Longer Alone In Church Protest
Heavy rains kill at least 175 in southern China
Rent a White Guy

Monday, June 21, 2010

Summer solstice!

Unicorn Gag 'Apology' Roasts Pork Board
On The Menu: Unicorns And Lions, hello, kitty!
Happy Birthday, Lawrence!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Canada's economy is suddenly the envy of the world
California University To Allow Media At Palin Event
Canada's economy is suddenly the envy of the world
Rain vs. Colbert
Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white?
Oh No, SpaghettiOs! And Marie Callender, Too! They are not appetizing!
Obama To China: Buy Our Stuff
Can Tokyo Compete With Singapore, Hong Kong?
Utah To Join Colorado In Expanded Pac-10
Utah Firing Squad Executes Convicted Killer
Wal-Mart Helps Small Farms Supply 'Local' Foods
When It Comes To Retirement, 67 Is The New 55
Condom sales rise as South Korea celebrates World Cup win
President's half sister speaks on her mixed-race experience
North Korea hails 'fierce' fight in Brazil match
Does 40% of Food in the U.S. Really Go to Waste?
6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning, a sign from god, he doesn't like his faces all over town! Who's next?
哈佛研究﹕一周5碗飯 糖尿風險較高
港人日吃1.5碗飯, rice daddies, watch out! 哈佛研究﹕一周5碗飯 糖尿風險較高
Keeping Gulf Seafood Safe To Eat Poses A Big Challenge
The Nation: Solving Obama's Press Problem
What's In A Name?
Awareness Of Outside World Growing In North Korea
Pre-Ordering An iPhone? Not So Fast
A Year Later, Journalist Reflects On Iranian Unrest
踩民主黨場被窒 青年民建聯口啞啞..haha!
Ariz. lawmaker takes aim at automatic citizenship... very radical!
The Man-Machine Future Is Just Over The Horizon
The World Cup And Social Media
Chinese face reading for health

To all Dads!

Survey of Dads Reveals Key to Happy Marriage is Equal Division of Housework,New ManoftheHouse.com Study Explores Changing Roles of Dads in the Family

Ranking..Be aware and more news about Delta!

The findings, ranked according to their success rate in test-booking award seats, were as follows:

Southwest (99.3 percent)
Alaska (75.0 percent)
Continental (71.4 percent)
United (68.6 percent)
AirTran (67.9 percent)
American (57.9 percent)
Delta (12.9 percent)
US Airways (10.7 percent)

Five Things You Don't Know About Your Airline Ticket
You Aren't Guaranteed Travel. Early on in Delta's contract of carriage, one finds this disconcerting bit of text:
Rule 3: Schedules and Operations
Delta will use its best efforts to carry the passenger and baggage with reasonable dispatch. Times shown in timetables or elsewhere are not guaranteed and form no part of this contract. Delta may without notice substitute alternate carriers or aircraft, and may alter or omit stopping places shown on the ticket in case of necessity. Schedules are subject to change without notice. Delta is not responsible or liable for making connections, or for failing to operate any flight according to schedule, or for changing the schedule or any flight.

Taken at face value, this makes the so-called contract between you and Delta seem rather ... not guaranteed. Now, this comes early in the contract, and much that follows describes how Delta will (or will not) deal with many of the circumstances mentioned here. Still, the basic gist of this paragraph is true, as most travelers can attest: Don't believe you're going somewhere until you get there. The takeaway is that you should always prepare for the worst, and make sure you know how to contact the airline and any other providers, such as a hotel or cruise line, where reservations could be disrupted by flight troubles.
You Aren't Guaranteed a Seat. One of the circumstances alluded to above is overbooking, that irritating industry practice of selling more tickets than there are available seats because, in Delta's words, "passengers with confirmed reservations on a flight sometimes fail to show." At this point, it's fair to wonder why it isn't adequate to simply sell all the seats on a given flight, and why airlines are allowed to sell more seats than they have. But the unfortunate fact is that they can, and often do. Can you imagine showing up to a baseball game with tickets in hand, only to be told the game was overbooked?

The result is bumped passengers, some of them voluntary and some of them not. The Department of Transportation (DOT) requires airlines to provide compensation and alternate travel for both voluntary and involuntary bumpees.

You Can Be Kicked Off a Plane. We've covered this before, but it's worth mentioning again that there are several ways passengers can get themselves kicked off a plane. Barefoot passengers, drunk and/or abusive passengers, foul-smelling passengers, or passengers who refuse to buckle their seat belt can all be removed from the plane. Passengers who refuse to comply with security searches, whose border crossing papers are inadequate, and who fail to provide identification may never make it on in the first place.

Most reasonable people won't ever find themselves forced off a plane, but it does happen. Every few months we hear about a mother with children or an overweight passenger who is escorted off a plane in a humiliating spectacle. We'd all like to think it could never happen to us, but just in case, it's useful to recognize the various boundaries that could, perhaps unwittingly, be crossed.

You Can Get a Refund, Sort of. There are two kinds of refunds, voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary refunds apply only to refundable tickets, and amount to the full value of an unused ticket or a prorated portion of a partially used ticket. However, even nonrefundable tickets can be refunded under certain circumstances.

Basically, if an airline cancels your flight, or kicks you off for one of the reasons listed above, you're eligible for a refund or some other form of compensation. Force majeure events, cancellations due to mechanical issues, and schedule irregularities that result in canceled flights are all cases where airlines are required to provide a refund or credit toward travel at a later date. Often the airline will encourage you to accept a flight credit rather than forfeit cash, but it's generally up to the customer.

Changes in schedule can result in a refund as well, though in these cases you have less control over whether or not a refund is issued. If the airline thinks it can reroute you in a reasonable manner, it will do so. Of course, your idea of "reasonable" may be quite different, and in that case politely requesting a refund in lieu of a long, pointless flight might be wise.

Your Ticket is Not Transferable. Unlike those baseball tickets mentioned above, you can't resell your airline ticket. Why? The industry says it's for security reasons: Who's to say you're not buying the ticket for someone on the no-fly list? It could also be argued that the rule is all about forcing you to buy new tickets when you simply want to give a ticket you've bought to someone else. Heck, even fixing a typo in the name on a ticket can be a tedious process, and will typically cost $100 or more.

But with all this non-transferability, you might assume that lost tickets aren't that big of a deal. Say you leave your ticket behind at an airport bar—it's not like anyone else can use it, right? Unfortunately, airlines don't really care if you lose your ticket, and if someone did try to use your lost ticket, the airline will just confiscate it and likely offer you nothing. With unused tickets, most airlines simply require you to purchase a new ticket to replace the lost one. Some, like Delta, will reissue a partially used ticket for a $100 fee.

THANKS Smarter Travel for the advice.


iDATE



At new dating site, love is in the MacBook Air

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Friday, June 18, 2010

Should I go to the party?

Happy Birthday, Brayden!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Lakers SUCK!

Dislike, dislike, dislike.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Happy dragon boat festival!

Duanwu Festival
Haiku Takes To Twitter, 140 Characters At A Time
23 Things Not To Write In An E-mail
Wales's Badger cull faces new legal challenge
Big 12 commish: 10 of our members are better than Pac-11
屈蛇28載終獲身分尊嚴 珍惜香港 「只有這裏有這麼多人為弱勢抗爭」
Study finds men are more emotionally hurt than women over bad relationships
For China's Growing Middle Class, Expanding Waistlines Pose Problem; I can't wait to read "Fat China"!
11-year-old college grad: I’m no genius; pretty cool.
The other Arizona battle: A new law makes ethnic studies classes illegal
‘Model Minority’ Stereotype Obscures Reality of Asian American and Pacific Islander Educational Experience; very interesting!
The Endorser: Palin Gains Notice As A Primary Force, this is pathetic!
Add It Up: Pricing Out A Visit To TV's 'Dr. House'
In Your Facebook: Social Sites Are Everywhere
It Costs $222,360 To Raise A Child
The Case Of The Mysterious Puppy, Solved! (Sort Of)... hello... Dovekie!
Scientists Find 5,500-Year-Old Preserved Shoe In Cave
Breach Exposed iPad Users' E-Mail Addresses...yikes.. !
Portland's Next Top Dog Model Contest, need to get my family in for next year!
Pigeon held in India on suspicion of spying
Hello Beige Nation! Interracial marriages at an all-time high, study says; One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is Interracial or Interethnic, I don't think the statistic are very pleasing to the men group.
3 Campaign Ads That Aren't True; 1 That's Amazing
益力多light 含糖量高如可樂
How to Date an Indian (Advice for the Non-Indian) or a Patel? A Patel Motel Cartel?
MBA Pay: Top B-Schools, Top Dollar
Food deserts in the south
6 Career-Killing Facebook Mistakes
歲月情真 張婉婷@英華女學校, 『不論對別人、對自己、對神,最重要的是真誠,講真話』
Their Future, Made by Hand
Apple's Jobs Takes On Rivals Adobe, Google
Apple Says iPad Sales Top 2 Million
With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices

Monday, June 14, 2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

A job, and an excellent opportunity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Female Obama, the first African-American and Asian-American woman elected attorney general in California.
Santa Clara County judge becomes first Asian-American federal judge in Bay Area history
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Socialism Studies
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party

Monday, June 07, 2010

I got an invitation to this, but I won't be able to go.

Preserving Chinese Culture in Oregon: An Evening with Kam Wah Chung

Come join us in learning a part of Oregon's Chinese-American history tomorrow at OCOM!

Super fun!

Are you a warrior?

Me...me...me.. !

雙子座機智, 具創造力, 好奇心強, 重感情... !
Don't drive and text in WA no more

Saturday, June 05, 2010

Suzuki vs. Matsui

World Environment Day!

World Environment Day

Did you try this?
Take Shorter Showers
Use Products with Less Packaging
Organize a Community Tree Planting
Use Reusable Bags for Shopping
Flip the Switch
Use Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products
Compost Leftover Scraps of Food
Leave Your Car at Home
Start a Recycle Drive
Be an Armchair Activist

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Go hawks!

Blackhawks try to get back to winning ways


Puppies

June is Portland Dining month

3 courses for $25... don't miss it!
2010 F!FA world cup S. Africa, which team are you rooting for?

Wednesday, June 02, 2010