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Richard Roman's Blog – June 2012 Archive (7)

Columbia Law College in Changchun!

Well, this is pretty neat - Changchun College has built a replica of Columbia’s Law Library!

“The seven-floor, 20,000-square-meter library was completed this April and designed to be a “larger version of Columbia University’s library,” according to the City Evening News, a local newspaper covering Jilin province.”

I wonder…

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Added by Richard Roman on June 15, 2012 at 14:00 — 10 Comments

The 2nd China Changchun International Ceramics Symposium

Does anyone know anything about this? It could be interesting!

This is all I know

The List of the Participant Ceramists

        Reviewed carefully by the Organizing Committee of the ceramics symposium, 18 ceramists from 14 countries have been selected to participate in the 2nd…

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Added by Richard Roman on June 14, 2012 at 14:40 — No Comments

Thinking of setting up a Changchun Friends discount card - what do you all think?

I am thinking of a joint Changchun Friends/Changchun Live discount card which, when shown at places that agree will give a discount - restaurants, bars, shops hotels etc.

Any views on this?

Added by Richard Roman on June 10, 2012 at 15:59 — 13 Comments

Jack Field appointed new Marketing Manager for Changchun Friends

PRESS RELEASE

In line with our current re-structuring to be more market focused, The CCF Board is pleased to announce that after conferring with all stake-hiolders, Mr Jack Field (aka Mahatma Jack) has been appointed the Marketing Manager for CCF

His duties will be to report to no one but himself and to significantly increase membership in Changchun. Following a 1 month probationary time…

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Added by Richard Roman on June 7, 2012 at 13:00 — 40 Comments

List of country and place name origins

Following on from mahatma Jack's posting on the origins of words, this is for everyone to tell us where they are from and what the word means (And H/T to Ferney for coming up with the idea)

I will start off with England:

England’s name originally comes from the term “Land of the Angles”, which was translated to Engla Land in Old English. The Angles were an ancient Germanic (or Saxon) tribe, one of the few that occupied the region now known as England…

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Added by Richard Roman on June 6, 2012 at 8:30 — 1 Comment

Jinan Hotel and South East Asian cuisine

I have heard on the grapevine that as from tomorrow (Wednesday), the buffet at the Jinan Hotel will offering South East Asian cuisine - Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian, Vitnamese etc. If anyone goes there then it would be greatto hear what it is like

I gather that there are discounts for group bookings

Added by Richard Roman on June 5, 2012 at 16:29 — No Comments

WHO IS YOUR HERO - AND WHY?

THIS MIGHT BE ONE OF MY MORE THAN MANY USELESS BLOGS - BUT.

WHO ARE YOUR HEROES AND WHY?

 

Mine are:

Socrates (Greece) - the father of reason

Shankara (India) - the man who welded spirituality and reason together

May (China) - because she keeps my feet on the ground

I have many others but this is a starting point!

Added by Richard Roman on June 1, 2012 at 22:40 — 15 Comments

CHANGCHUN STREET VIEW

In and around Changchun with QQ Soso street maps:

Birthdays

Birthdays Today

Birthdays Tomorrow

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