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While I was getting my Win7 machine up and running, there were several items that came through my reading list which I meant to comment on…if I ever survived the reinstall. Considering that the process took much longer than I expected, I’m left with making a “chop suey” style post, to point to a few articles [...] 
Dang, I’ve accumulated quite a bit of material worth commenting on during the craziness of the past few weeks. Some of the more interesting articles include: Redstate referenced an article in the Telegraph entitled “The Great Oil Bubble Has Burst”. While Redstate seems inclined to play up the influence of off-shore drilling expectations in the recent [...] 
It’s Beijing’s week to get a highway feature highlighted. So, in honor of the Summer Olympics…. (View in Google Maps) The Fourth Ring Road is a frequently congested loop about 8 kilometers outside the core of the city of Beijing. This particular location is where the expressway passes just south of the new National Stadium, the “birds [...] 
This article at Bloomberg caught my eye: China is pushing the price of diesel fuel higher by stockpiling it ahead of both the Summer Olympics and the need to rebuild Sichuan province after last week’s earthquake, the Wall Street Journal reported. The country is hoarding the fuel in the event that its power grid fails and it [...] 
By now you’ve probably heard plenty about the 7.9 earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China — over 13,000 people dead, schools collapsed, chemical leaks…and it was felt over 1000 miles away. The New York Times has a map available to provide a bit of scale around the potentially devastated area. Looking at the map, and some [...] 
This week brings us to an interesting interchange in Tianjin, China: (View in Google Maps) This is the interchange of the Jingtang Expressway (京津塘高速公路), the Jinji Expressway (津蓟高速公路), and Tianjin’s Outer Ring Road (Waihuanxian) The Jingtang Expressway (the upper northwest-southeast highway above) is a 4-lane tollway connecting Beijing with Tianjin. It was built in 1993, and is [...] 
A couple of thoughts that have been bouncing around my head, given how much news coverage there has recently been on the Olympic Torch and related pro-Tibet protests. First, in the Olympic Torch relays I’ve been aware of (from ‘84 on), the torch has been portrayed as a symbol of the ideal of the world coming [...] 
While reading about the challenges the Olympic torch relay faced in Paris, a comment in the Washington Post caught my eye: But the relay team struggled at a slow pace as it followed the banks of the Seine and looped back toward the Trocadero across the river from the Eiffel Tower, where pro-Tibet demonstrators pelted the [...]
This week takes us to China: (View in Google Maps) This is the Yangpu Bridge (杨浦大桥), an 8.4 kilometer bridge which provides a link between Pudong and the Yangpu District of Shanghai. It is one part of the Inner Ring Road of Shanghai’s freeway system, and it’s center span of just over 600 meters renders it [...] 
Even though Hong Kong has been returned to China for over a decade now, the autonomy granted to the Hong Kong S.A.R. means that the border between mainland China and the former British Colony still functions like an international border. Consider, for example the Lok Ma Chau ( 落馬洲) border crossing: (View in Google Maps) To [...] |
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