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pretzellogic
Posted on: Chinese Baijiu and the Best of the Worst
February 7, 2011 at 8:20 PMAt the risk of sounding sexist, I thought women said to each other, "girl, it's your turn to pay!" I expect enlightenment from others will come shortly.
I'd be careful around having guys treat a woman to "a drink", especially single guys in bars traveling in packs, or alone. Especially guys between the ages of 12 and dead.
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 7, 2011 at 12:43 AMFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice....
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 6, 2011 at 2:46 PMJust to clarify, it's fine however cpod wants to conduct these types of interviews. But for those of us that have been exposed and permanently irradiated with the economics of the business, it would be helpful to clarify in the titles or discussion that you're just going to talk about cooking and preparing baozi, rather than the economics of the business.
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 6, 2011 at 2:19 PMBased on the title "Inside the Baozi Business", I was thinking that we were going to hear more about the economics of the baozi business; how competitive this business is, whether she owns the place she works at, how seasonal her business is, does she have people working for her if she owns the place, is it a restaurant or a baozi stand on the street (I might have missed that in the interview), how's business been recently, has she noticed the economic slowdown, and so on. Thereal economics of opening up your own stand/restaurant are probably guarded secrets (operating/gross margins, EBIT, etc), but that might have been interesting to hear a bit about, especially if it were to turn out that she's having to work 15 hour days 7 days a week as an hourly worker to make sure her children have the life she wants for them.
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 6, 2011 at 1:42 PMActually, wouldn't this interview been a good subject for the Jenny Zhu Show?
Posted on: Of Soldiers and Military People
February 6, 2011 at 2:25 AMThen you probably weren't in the Air Force :-) I'm sure you could give the chain of command from the president down to the grunt level for whatever service you were in,
Posted on: Of Soldiers and Military People
February 5, 2011 at 12:13 PMI saw the portions about the rank in the respective services. I was referring to the chain of command of the various organizations. So for example, the US Air Force might have HQ USAF, then the 13 or so major commands like USAFE, PACAF, ACC, AFMC, AMC, Air University and so on. Then for another example, AFMC might have ASC, ESC, SSC and so on. Component commands in most cases are headed by a 4-star, each of their sub divisions might be headed by a 3-star, and so on, "down the chain". I was wondering if that was available for the Chinese military.
Posted on: Of Soldiers and Military People
February 5, 2011 at 6:24 AMthat was good, thanks. The only thing that would be better would have been the major commands and the chains of command.
Posted on: Of Soldiers and Military People
February 5, 2011 at 3:05 AMSo for example, how would you say,
"She's a lieutenant colonel in the Army"?
or
"He's a captain in the Air Force"?
Posted on: Bringing Pets into China
February 8, 2011 at 2:31 AMThe dialogue sounds like Chinesepod did some fact checking, and this really the procedure for bringing pets into China. Is it?
I also take it that this procedure is for the dog/cat variety of pets, not your pet komodo dragon, python, alligator...