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Un upgrade de l'iPhone 3G au 3GS pour 107â, une montee de lait de ma part sur le manque de civisme de mes compatriotes avec l'histoire du Velib #28511 remis en liberte!! :-) Bonne ecoute, Pierre - www.lepcc.net - pjournel@gmail.com Le PCC, une chronique eclectique et passionnee twitter.com/pjournel

El hotel NH Plaza de Armas en Sevilla, un hotel razonablemente barato en una ciudad maravillosa. Mi nota: Este vídeo es parte de la serie que narra mi viaje al EBE en Sevilla. Podéis ver todos los vídeos de viajes en mi videoblog de viajes. Suscribíos a estos videos de viaje con RSS, con iTunes o con Miro. O descargad este vídeo gratis. 1 Deberías seguirme en twitter aquí

Un momento didattico sulla lingua italiana con La Lavagna di Incontro Italiano. Questa volta: la parola 'cinema' :: :: Music by Kevin Macleod :: :: :: Learn Italian with Maxmondo - Incontro Italiano: l'audio-rivista per conoscere meglio l'italiano e l'Italia - www.maxmondo.com/incontroitaliano. This podcast is a summary only. The complete audio and the accompanying magazine are available for download for subscribers in digital format (mp3 and pdf) from the website. The magazine contains the complete transcipt of the audio and additional vocabulary and exercises.

Download this podcast Length 6:43 Download audio file (20091126_soe_and_poe.mp3) Those who have been doing business in China for awhile are quite familiar with the differences between the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and the Privately-Owned Enterprises (POEs).  For those of you not familiar with this distinction, let me break it down for you.  The POEs are just that, companies owned privately with little or no government involvement – they are often run by business-savvy executives with global business experience.  The SOEs, to put it succinctly, are seen as hulking, unprofitable behemoths chocked full of aging assets and run by 55 year old Party hacks in moth-eaten Mao suits and greasy comb-overs.  OK … maybe I am being a bit too hard on them, but the term “SOE” has been used as a pejorative descriptor more often that not. After Liberation in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party brought all businesses under their control and POEs were, for all intents and purposes, completely eliminated in China (as was nearly all foreign investment when they were unceremoniously kicked out of China).  Through a series of disastrous events in the 50s through the 70s (the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, etc.), the government proved that, not unlike their Soviet cousins, they were terrible CEOs – factories were inefficient, poorly run and churned out bad-quality junk that had no relationship to any market demands whatsoever.  That wasn’t as bad as it seemed because China retail and commercial trade was not yet standardized so bad products were also hard to purchase.  Go figure. One of the many reforms that the Deng Xiao-ping administration started in the early 80s was captured under the Party phrase 民进国退 (min2 jin4 guo3 tui4): “POEs will advance; SOEs will retreat.”  What this meant, in effect, was that the Party wanted to get out of the business of being in business and started the long, mind-numbing, ulcer-inducing process of unwinding the complicated SOE culture … which included, for many people, guaranteed housing, education and healthcare. Fast forward to the mid-2000s and you begin to see private Chinese companies really moving the market.  Thanks to China’s joining the WTO in the early part of this century, various sectors in the China market were opened to foreign investment, particularly retail and distribution/logistics.  This led to further (and more rapid) modernization of China’s business environment and it looked as if the SOEs were going to go the way of the dinosaur, only to be studied by business anthropologists who dug up their jerry-rigged balance sheets and padded expense accounts. But don’t count the SOEs down for good … we see that there might be life in these old war horses yet, in part because the Chinese government and the Party (one in the same thing here) sees some advantages to keeping their fingers in the business world, particularly in areas that have remained the jurisdiction of the government such as automotive, oil and second, the government makes available an almost unlimited stock of growth capital through forced lending from the State-controlled banks.  Imagine if you, as a business executive, were told by your shareholders, “OK … here is the deal – we want you to grow this company.  Don’t worry about profits, just bring in the revenue … we have ways of dealing with the P s a “go slow to go fast” strategy if there ever was one. All of this has led to private chats over dinners and drinks all over China that the government is trying to reverse their dictum of the 80s and say, rather, 国进民退 (guo3 jin4 min2 tui4): “SOEs will advance and POEs will retreat.”  While I seriously doubt we will ever see this in an official government document, the government’s practices are certainly encouraging this.  The SOEs are no longer run by Party hacks … their CEOs are often Western-business educated and understand very well both international commerce and the unique requirements of doing business in China.  They are dressed in Armani suits, have their hair styled and show up at the right parties, all the while maintaining their status in the Party-with-a-capital-P! Just this past year, we’ve been involved in more competitive intelligence programs with our clients, helping them understand the ever-changing landscape around them.   It used to be that they were just interested in understanding their foreign competitors; however, more and more we see Chinese companies – and particularly SOEs – coming to the forefront of our clients’ concerns.  And given the competitive advantages these SOEs bring with them, everyone is very smart to be concerned about them. So the question you need to answer is this – do you know your SOE competition?  Do you know who is backing them?  Who is running them?  Do you know what their growth strategies are and what their plans are to grow in the market?  Do you know what they think of you?!?  I can almost guarantee that they are no longer the lazy competitors you once knew.  You better understand them because they are a big threat, whether you know it or not.

Gina, de Ginatost, de Ginatonic, de Balzac, de Videos from Barcelona, y de mil cosas más, encantadora como siempre. Me la encontré en el EBE en Sevilla, y este es el vídeo que hice con ella. Este vídeo es parte de la serie que narra mi viaje al EBE en Sevilla. Podéis ver todos los vídeos de viajes en mi videoblog de viajes. Suscribíos a estos videos de viaje con RSS, con iTunes o con Miro. O descargad este vídeo gratis. 6 Deberías seguirme en twitter aquí

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On Remembrance Day, Ian Bell (fresh from a CBC appearance On The Coast ) joins Dave to read from Grandpa Mark s diaries written in the trenches in WW1 as a young Canadian. They reflect on the costs and motivations of war, importance friendship and ethereal experience of going over the top as well as discourse on the importance of personal documentation to pass forward to generations. Sit awhile for Vimy Ridge Diaries on Remembrance Day Postcard # 61 Featuring: Geoff Berner Excerpts from Maginot Line Recorded live at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC, Feb. 28, 2009 Various artists (including piper Dave Ahl) Recorded live at UBC Remembrance Day Ceremony, Nov. 11, 2009 Ian Bell reading from Grandpa Mark s diaries William Markle Pecover – Memory of Vimy Ridge William Markle Pecover – On Being Bombed in Britain Photo via CDN Veterans Affairs asks How Will you Remember? Download Canadian historical war time photo and video packs, organized by theme and era, then remix and share via social networks. More Remembrance Day White Poppies for Remembrance podcast series John Cairney reads Robert Burns on Remembrance Day podcast Remembrance Day Events in Vancouver plus Canadian Campaigns Remembrance Day posts on Ephemeral Feasthouse Ian Bell on CBC s On The Coast [note: Real Audio files] Wednesday November 11 To commemorate Remembrance Day a Vancouver man has posted excerpts from his great-grandfather s wartime journals on to his blog. Ian Bell told Stephen why it s important to him to remember. Listen to the interview. (runs 7:04) 50 years ago the Vietnam war began. When the war ended many Americans moved to BC. Woody Carmack was one of them and he attempted to help ex-soldiers deal with post-traumatic stress disorder and other problems. Listen to the interview. (runs 8:53) More Postcards Subscribe to PfGB Feed Subscribe in PfGB in iTunes Dave Olson’s Library at Uncleweed.net Twitter: @uncleweed Podcast Gear I use Koss Sterophones, M-Audio MicroTrack II, M-Audio Solo audio interface , Griffin iMic and Sony Microphone – in case you were wondering.

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc., of British Columbia, Canada, announced the voluntary recall of more than 2.1 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs, including about 147,000 Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo.More on recall of Stork Craft drop-side cribs

We’ve been cooped up taking shelter from the rain with no communications or internet for the last few days. It was quite pleasant waking up to the sound of rain pouring down and not having to be anywhere or do anything, but I was eventually itching to get out. So I eventually got to do a little photo commentary to pull us through - enjoy. After a little wet weather the bugs are starting to make their appearance along with the flying ants. I shudder at the thought of the mosquitoes coming out in full force! Animals know when the rain is coming; the hyenas prudently took shelter in the hills in expectation of the wet weather, but they still come down to the communal den during the evenings to socialize. The elephant bulls are out and about looking for the high protein browse in the south of the reserve. Just before the rains came I paid a visit to Nduna Dam and ran into a Kori Bustard walking the edge of the dam. They are huge birds and this one was not in a hurry to fly away as I was shadowing it. Another great thing about summer is the summer visitor birds taking up residence on the reserve including the woodlands kingfisher with its expressive call.

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The cost of long term care can severely impact your family s future financial security. Requiring care in any setting is not a topic many of us want to talk about, for obvious reasons. But the fact is, 40 percent of Americans who need long term care are working age adults 18-64 - and this care comes with a very steep price tag. For example, according to recent data from Genworth Financial the national average cost for one year of home care is more than $42,000.More on planning for long term care

We look at Christmas memories from Bridget Haggerty and talk with Imen McDonnell about her life as an American married to an Irish Farmer.

Over the weekend a modest but passionate group of European Videobloggers got together for the 5th time in 5 years.  While the world of video online didn t quite turn out how we had hoped or perhaps how we had thought, we still gather to discuss issues as well as reminisce about the past and what may come. Instead of trying to further explain it, I ll end on a lighter note, with a video of me being remixed by my good friend and videoblog veteran Raymond who was in town from Norway. Related Posts:Protest or Film?Seen my Niece Lately?Weekend MarketThere Are Still Walls Out Therebmtv87 Killing Fields and S21 Vlog

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He does what? People often ask whenever I mention Lewis Gordon Pugh. He swims the arctic, I tell them again.  Why? is always the next question. When you sit across from Lewis Gordon Pugh for just a few minutes, you understand why immediately.  You also understand you re in the presence of someone who puts his entire life on the line for a global problem he is passionate about tackling. Lewis s concern about climate change and the urgent need to do something about it take him beyond the freezing waters of the arctic, as he explains in this interview, he is also concerned for the rapidly melting ice in the Himalayas, water that 1/5 of the world s population lives on.  Thus setting the stage for his next swim, a lake formed from a melting glacier on Mount Everest. If you enjoyed this interview and want to learn more about Lewis work, visit his website. I highly recommend seeing the video of his arctic swim. Related Posts:Scandinavian Arctic Pathbm244 The Arctic Cold War, My Talk at 24C3Rising Sea, Eating Cities?Calling the ArcticInuit Sovereignity

Don Stephens shares some great insights about Biblical Worldview as it applies to this generation and missions. GlobalCAST is a ministry of YWAM Colorado Springs at "The Park" got feedback? globalcasts@gmail.com