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The 630 and 631 courses run over two semesters, and have two course codes. It is expected that the fall course (ESET 630) will be used to organize into teams, identify projects and sponsoring organization, conduct any necessary background research, and begin the process of gathering project-specific data.
The ESET 631 semester 6 winter course will continue data gathering and project-specific research, development of a planned solution for the client's identified problem, reporting to the client, and possibly implementation (if that is appropriate for the project).
Projects will be related to the key areas of the ESET program. Projects will involve analysis of current energy usage and development of suggestions for improvements in energy efficiency. Some projects may involve the preliminary specification and design of new or novel energy systems equipment. Projects focused on energy improvement will include an analysis of the financial costs and benefits of the proposed changes.
The course is organized to mimic the structure that students are likely to find in the commercial energy auditing or engineering services business. Students are required to develop project schedules, and to report in weekly meetings their progress against those schedules. There will be opportunity to review the reasons for variances from planned schedule, in order to prepare better plans in the future.
Because projects in the real world are generally done by teams, this course will emphasize a team approach. Individuals will not (except under extraordinary circumstances) be permitted to undertake a project on their own.
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An interdisciplinary group of hackers mentored by Dr. Stacy Supak, a teaching assistant professor in the Center for Geospatial Analytics, is heading to Washington, D.C. to present their GObot (Great Outdoors Bot) to government innovators and President Obama after winning the Bayes Hack 2016 in April. This second annual hackathon in San Francisco, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Y Combinator, brought together hackers from Silicon Valley and federal government employees from seven different agencies to build software solutions to the nation's most pressing challenges.
Dr. Supak and the winning team donated a weekend of time, including a mostly sleepless night, to transform droves of data about America's public lands into tools to drive social justice planning that would break down the inequities facing socially and economically underserved communities. They specifically partnered with the US Department of the Interior (DOI) to find a way to make open spaces, parks and public lands easier to reach and explore so that more citizens can benefit from these public entities. The DOI hoped to find solutions with computational tools that would help them understand the interactions between underserved individuals and their natural environment, through novel data-driven, cost-effective and citizen-centric approaches.
The winning team proposed that people not using federal outdoor recreational facilities could be accessed on Facebook, which makes them easy to reach for promoting outdoor activities available based on activity interest, geo-tagged locations and transportation options. They created the GObot to guide citizens, many of whom are likely not using government resources, to find outdoor recreation opportunities.
Their winning hack edged out other prompt winners like a Veterans Affairs team that created a "turbo-tax-like" web interface that helps veterans not only find relevant forms, but populate answers to common questions based on a single input to reduce the amount of time veterans spend on paperwork and another team working with the DOI prompt that used zip code level demographic data to look for correlations with park visits.
For this team, Dr. Supak even did a bit of hacking herself by creating a new attribute capturing the distance from residents to their nearest federal recreational facility and by creating six national maps to support identification of regions to target for increasing park visitation.
"It was very intense map making," she said. "Which I don't usually experience. The atmosphere became more and more charged, especially when Internet issues delayed participants from downloading data sets in the first few hours and uploading data products in the last hour of the Hack."
Dr. Supak, who had never even heard of a hackathon before the event, became a data liaison to the competing teams working through the DOI prompt since she's an expert on the Recreation Information Database (RIDB) through her own research on "Geospatial Analytics for Federally Managed Tourism Destinations and their Demand Markets" in The Journal of Destination Marketing & Management.
"My colleague Rick Delappe, who works as the Recreation One-Stop Program Manager for the National Park Service, invited me to join him in mentoring teams at the hackathon using historical reservation records collected through Recreation.gov and stored in RIDB," Dr. Supak said. "He thought I knew the data better than anyone and that my input would be very valuable to participating teams."
Teams working on the DOI prompt also had access to data from the National park Service Integrated Resource Management Applications Portal (IRMA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comprehensive geospatial data about parks and ecosystems, the Bureau of Land Management GeoCommunicator overviews of administrative status of BLM areas and other federal lands, and the HIFLD geospatial data on state, county, urban, and various political boundaries, including those for federal lands and national forests, collected on the Esri ArcGIS data storytelling platform to create their software solutions.
Using federal public data presented in the prompts, Bayes Hack wants to create actionable next steps by setting the GObot winners up to work with a federal agency that will to turn their hack into a solution at scale. "It's one thing to just hack social good; we're going to bridge the gap and make it happen." So look for Facebook prompts to get outside and get moving to a park near you in the future.


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Signatures Show is the Nation Capital's premier holiday shopping event, a gathering of the finest talents of the Canadian Handmade community in a landmark destination.
Returning to the Shaw Centre for five days, Nov 11-15, Signatures Show features over 170 of Canada's most talented artists, artisans, and designers interacting with shoppers in a unique marketplace, with their works on display for your admiration and inspiration.
Wednesday 12pm – 9pm
Thursday 10am – 9pm
Friday 10am – 9pm
Saturday 10am – 6pm
Sunday 10am – 5pm
With an array of quality Canadian handcrafted products available, including fashion, home décor, natural body care, fine art, stunning jewellery, and specialty foods, it is a truly unforgettable affair for all to behold.
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"Field of Poppies" Exhibition – Opening Day
Free admission to all veterans, active military personnel and reservists.
Signatures Show observes Remembrance Day with a special "Field of Poppies" exhibition. A select group of our artisans have each created a special piece, working within their mediums, incorporating the Remembrance Day poppy symbol. The public is invited to vote for their favorite piece throughout opening day and the winning artisan will be announced at 8:30pm that evening.
TGIF Shopping Party, 2 for 1 admission – Friday, November 13, 5pm – 9pm
TGIF! And there's no better way to cap off the week than heading over to the Signatures Show after work with some friends. Grab a drink from the bar, a bite from the bistro and shop 'til you drop!
"Early Bird Gets The Bag" – Saturday, November 14
Be one of the first 200 customers through the door Saturday morning and receive a sturdy and attractive Signatures shopping bag.
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Going green on your low emission motorcycle has never been easier. The number of electric bikes on the market increases every year and manufacturers of petrol bike are working hard to make them more fuel efficient too. Here Bikesure takes a look at some of the new low emission motorcycles warming up on the start… Read more »
Triumph, Suzuki, Moto Guzzi, BMW, Norton, Piaggio, Royal Enfield, Harley-Davidson, Yamaha, Aprilia, Indian… it reads like a Who's Who from the world of biking but it is in fact the superstar supporting cast of manufacturers attending the Bikesure-backed Motorcycle Live 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham from November 17-25. Motorcycle Live 2018 to host 40… Read more »
If Johnny Hallyday's old rock and roll Street Glide Trike is too hot to handle, how about getting to grips with a 1969 Honda Z50A Monkey Bike once owned by Beatles legend John Lennon?
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Earlier today Bank of America released a presentation and a conference call in which the firm's head of China equity strategy David Cui spoke about the dreaded "China Hard Landing".
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So now even the BBC is getting in on the age old debate. Are entrepreneurs born or made? Is it nature or nurture? Is it in the genes, or is it in the classroom?
The argument rumbles on and the battle lines are fairly well drawn up. Entrepreneurs, by and large, say that it's an inherent characteristic – you've either got it or you haven't. Try suggesting to Alan Sugar or Duncan Bannatyne that they'd have done better with some training. And then perhaps retreat a few paces…
On the other side stand the academics, largely arguing that training and education is the main determinant of success. According to Brian Morgan of Cardiff Metropolitan University, "Sixty per cent of the competencies needed to create a successful and sustainable business have to be acquired."
And in the middle stands … Ed Reid.
I work with entrepreneurs all the time – and clearly I have a vested interest in the 'nurture' side of the debate. And yet I know that the true entrepreneur has a quality that simply can't be taught.
Are entrepreneurs 'born?' Maybe, maybe not. What I do think defines the entrepreneur is his or her attitude to risk – which can come from nature or nurture. In my experience all entrepreneurs are willing to accept risk: no-one running a business has a continually upward path and the number that I know who've come perilously close to losing it all is remarkably high. What sets the entrepreneur apart is that they're prepared to accept that risk: the possibility of going right back to square one and starting again.
Some entrepreneurs may well be born that way. I suspect though a much larger number are exposed to something in their development which encourages an acceptance of risk. It's interesting – and hardly surprising – that many entrepreneurs have a parent who was self-employed or who ran a business. There are also a significant number of successful entrepreneurs who report an early trauma in their life, such as the death of a parent or their parents separating. Similarly – as we've noted before – entrepreneurs contain a far higher proportion of people with dyslexia than the general population.
Dyslexia is obviously a 'nature' factor: your parents divorcing is nurture. What they have in common is that they're problems that need to be overcome. And maybe overcoming them at an early age instils a belief that all problems can be overcome: that they're not problems at all – they're challenges.
So Brian Morgan is right – in part. 60% of the competencies can be learned. But there's an element that can't be learned. And even if this element is only 1%, it's the 1% that holds everything else together. It's a cliché, but the day comes for every entrepreneur when they have to go the extra mile. And then turn right round and do it again. That's when no amount of training can help, because no amount of training can implant a basic will to win: a basic bloody-minded refusal to be beaten.
It's that 1% that allows an entrepreneur to say you've either got it or you haven't – but which gives enough scope to allow the academics to claim that the majority of the necessary skills can be taught.
As you know, I play golf. I'm OK, but I have my faults – and occasionally I go down to the driving range and hit 100 balls to try and correct the faults. At the end I'm tired – and then I remember reading about Greg Norman, who'd go to the driving range and hit 700 balls a day. Who'd hit golf balls until his hands started to bleed…
That's the one quality that all successful entrepreneurs have: an absolute determination to succeed at the one thing that only they do best. Does that come from nature or nurture? In my opinion, it can come from both.
Do I think that every entrepreneur can be more successful with training? Yes, absolutely.
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The good news is my withdrawal from the South Point Senior Shootout before the final round last week was not a re-injury of my hip, which cost me much of the summer of 2010 — I had feared I was drawing closer to needing a hip replacement.
The bad news is that I do have an injury that will keep me off bowling for a few weeks: My Iliotibial Band (IT Band) is partially torn from my iliac crest in my left leg, according to UW Sports Medicine Dr. David Bernhardt. (I graduated from Madison La Follette with Dave in 1980 and he is no relation to the owner of Turbo 2-N-1 Grips.)
My prescription is ice, anti-inflammatories and physical therapy, with my first appointment on Tuesday morning.
Pain will be my guide for resuming activities, but Dr. Bernhardt said it likely would be a few weeks before I can bowl again. For now, I'd just like to be able to walk without pain!
He said the IT Band is like a rope on, say, a boat hoist that as it ages becomes frayed and can simply snap. What happened to me in the second round of match play at the South Point Senior Shootout last Thursday is that mine snapped when I stuck shooting a 10-pin.
Once it heals with scar tissue, I should be able to bowl again and return to running with no lingering effects.
In the meantime, I will miss a couple of tournaments I really enjoy, including the Over 40/Under 40 Doubles on Saturday and likely the Henry Hitter on Dec. 17. I would like to be able to return by the New Year's Eve Classic, but I won't start again until I get the OK.
No bowling means more time for writing, so I can catch up on a few things.
The timing actually isn't horrible as I will be covering the World Series of Bowling Dec. 3-11 and the holidays are coming up.
I just hope that I don't gain back any of the 10 pounds I have lost since August by then!
Update: I had my first physical therapy appointment on Tuesday and was given exercises to start my rehab. They will be intensified and more added as my IT band tear heals.
The goal is strengthening my troublesome glute, which has never really been right since I tore it in 2014. That should both improve my form and help stem additional injuries.
My time frame for returning to bowling is six weeks minimum, which puts it around Jan. 1. One of my scheduled appointments is Dec. 29 and if I get the go ahead that day to try bowling, I will. Which means my first competition — my goal — would be the Kurt Davids Memorial New Year's Eve Classic on Dec. 31 at Schwoegler's.
But I will not push it if it's not ready: The worst possible outcome would be to re-tear it by trying to bowl before it is healed and ready.
Update: I tried bowling again Dec. 29 after reaching the point of being pain-free and re-injured my leg, which led to an ultrasound Jan. 12 that showed the IT Band tear was not healed.
After several more weeks of rest and rehab, I tried bowling again on Feb. 14 after reaching the point of being pain-free and the IT Band not feeling like it was pulling when I got into a bowling position.
I practiced again Feb, 16 and have had no problems and intend to practice again Feb. 21 and 23 and return to competition in the MAST Doubles at Sport Bowl in Middleton on Feb. 25.
My bowling progressed to the point where I was feeling well by mid-March and bowling fairly well.
But on April 1, I suffered another tear during qualifying for the Madison Area Scratch Tour Year End tournament and immediately withdrew.
I rested and then was managed to bowl the USBC Open Championships April 28-29.
Update Monday, May 1, 2017:
I got some better-than-expected news from my sports medicine doctor on Monday. I have another ultrasound set for May 11. If it shows my IT band is more healed than the February one I may just rest for the next two to three months and hope it heals more and focus on my rehab and then resume bowling with the PBA50 Tour in late July.
If it's not looking good, I likely will have a blood platelet injection in the area, which is about $1,500 and not covered by insurance. It's worth it if it gets it closer to healed so it can withstand bowling better without re-tearing. That would be a week or two of no activity, then swimming and maybe the arc trainer for another month, then back to rehab with PT before returning to bowling in 3 months or so, which would be around Labor Day, depending when I get the shot.
At least I have hope of getting back to some semblance of Raisin normal.
(Surgery does not work for this type of injury.)
Update Thursday, May 11, 2017:
The news was about as positive as could be from my ultrasound.
The radiologist said my original injury looks as well healed as it could be with scar tissue. That's not as good as actual IT band material but better than not healed with scar tissue.
The second re-tear of April 1 actually was a small adjacent spot that is healing and should be healed with scar tissue at around three months, which is early July.
The expensive, platelet injection that is not covered by insurance is not needed (unless the new injury doesn't heal).
So I will be focused on continued aggressive rehab until July and then will return to the lanes while ALWAYS wearing a Raisin sock ... and praying for no more re-tears of my IT band.
My goal is to bowl the PBA50 Tour stops in Hammond and Fort Wayne and return to a full schedule of bowling after that.
Update October 2017:
I returned to bowling in July without much discomfort and fairly solid feeling in my IT band. As of April 2018, I have had no further problems with my IT band or glute, other than some soreness you'd expect at age 55!
It took a long time to get back to bowling decently, but by 2018 I was feeling about as good as I can for 55 and have won a few tournaments and had several other high finishes.
So, fingers crossed I am past all of this!


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EE Times has a Special Project report out that addresses growing concerns over technology reliability and safety that is pretty sobering. The report, compiled and in good part written by George Leopold, includes a couple of case studies from either end of the technology spectrum: hoverboards and Boeing 737s, as well as some welcome suggestions […]
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My kids are all grown, so I've been out of the game for a good long while. And there are no grandkids on the immediate horizon, so it may be a while before I'm on diaper duty. But with three children, I did my share of diaper changing over the years – back in the […]
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Hard to believe that, today, we're observing the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Those of us who lived through it have indelible images of this day, and will always remember exactly where we were when we first heard the news. For most of us, our first impulse was to connect […]
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The Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics
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Hey guys! I'm so sorry it's been a while since I've posted. I swear I'm still here, still doula-ing, still learning/studying. It's just been a REALLY busy summer. I'm finally coming up for air though and want to update you on what's been going on.
First of all, I had so many summer clients. In fact throughout May-August I supported 18 families as they brought their babies earthside. Yes, I said 18. Yes, it took me a while to recover. Yes, I'm okay :).
I also trained to become a postpartum Ayurvedic care specialist. I'm working with a wonderful woman based here in the Bay Area and it's been eye-opening to learn the ways of Ayurvedic healing in the postpartum period. If you're interested in that, reach out!
Secondly, I got engaged and married all in less than two months (check out some of my favorite pics below). Talk about major life events happening all at once! It was a whirlwind, beautiful two months and I can't believe I get to call myself a wife. We got married in July in an intimate, private ceremony at SF City Hall on what would have been my mom's 58th birthday. We were surrounded by 25 of our immediate family and closest friends and it was very special. If I could, I would relive that day every day.
We held our reception with a wider group of friends and family in Oakland in August. That party alone took me three days to recover from. Such a blast!
Between that and all my clients (plus a bachelorette party for one of my very best friends, who is also an extremely talented floral designer who did our wedding/reception flowers) I've barely had any time to do anything else.
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A Monkey at McDonald's
January 16, 2016
Happy New Year, albeit a bit late. I must apologize for not writing the past two weeks, but my boss has been in town from the States and only left the other day. While there were many things I have wanted to write about, it's been a whirlwind with her here and there have been very few moments where I could sit down and write. With her departure, things should return to normal and the pace of writing will pick up. Just when I thought I couldn't be surprised, as I was out getting my coffee at the local Starbucks and some milk and apples to throw into a giant bowl of granola and yogurt, I saw a man with his monkey outside of McDonald's.
More to come tomorrow. I promise.
Another Day, Another Mall
December 27, 2015
I don't want anyone to come away from my blog thinking all I do in China is walk around malls and sit in Starbucks drinking coffee, but if I didn't spend any time doing this, I'd be missing out on a big part of what's making modern China tick. These luxury malls and the shoppers who frequent stores purveying these premium brands (yes, Starbucks is a premium brand here when the average drink costs RMB30 or a bit less than US$5) are the future of this country, especially when the leadership is hellbent on reorienting the economy away from manufacturing and infrastructure investment towards domestic consumption. It's places like the IFS and today's mall, Taikoo Li (太古里), that represent the way going forward if China is to ever make that transition.
So yes, I am sitting here at a Starbucks in Taikoo Li, which was built by the Hong Kong developer, Swire Properties. A good friend of mine in Hong Kong who lives in Taikoo Shing, a family-oriented neighborhood on Hong Kong Island, told me that anything with the Swire name is going to be a quality property and this mall is no exception. Built around an ancient temple, Daci Temple, where you can still partake in a traditional tea ceremony, Daci Temple (大慈寺), Taikoo Li is filled with your usual luxury shops including Gucci, Burberry, Max Mara, and Cartier, as well as the Chengdu flagship stores for Apple (which with its two stores in Chengdu has more here than in Shenzhen) and Muji and the first stores in China for brands like Victoria's Secret and Hollister. It's quite the complex laid out as if it was a warren of traditional Chengdu alleys, similar to Xintiandi in Shanghai or even Sanlitun in Beijing, which is another Swire property. And the place is hopping with people eating, drinking, taking pictures, and even doing some shopping.
The Christmas decorations are still out in full force and effect, but so are the after Christmas sales with some stores offering discounts up to 40 or 50% off.
I blogged recently about the "real" China and malls like this one are the new "real" China. What's neat about Chengdu is that you can walk from your hotel to the Metro station in Tianfu Square and pass by little hole-in-the-wall or "fly" restaurants (苍蝇馆), wet markets, and people playing mahjong in the streets, so not all of the old "real" China is lost. It's perhaps this blending of old and new that Chengdu seems to still do so well, whereas a city like Shenzhen which did not exist 40 years ago is all new and will continue to be that way going forward. I don't know if Chengdu will be able to survive the onslaught of modernization and the power of the new "real" China, but at the moment it seems to have found some sort of equilibrium, however tenuous.
Having now been here for a few days, I still really like the city. It's hard for me to put my finger on it exactly, but this trip is my first time to the interior of China. When you think of Chengdu, and Sichuan province in general, it's the last extremely developed area of the country before heading off into the wilds of western Sichuan and Tibet. Chengdu feels less like a frontier city and more like an experiment in modernizing the interior. It's no secret that the government has spent considerable time and money spreading growth from the eastern coast to the interior and Chengdu is something of a showcase city, much like Shenzhen was when it became China's first Special Economic Zone. Chengdu has not received so formal a designation, but walking around the city and taking it all in, it's hard not to feel that there is something special about this place and it's not just all the panda advertising.
Nor is it all of the amazingly spicy food that I have been eating, which I will write about another time. Perhaps it's what China could be, though without the pollution that has rendered today a rather smoggy day (though nothing like Beijing) or the fact that signs are still posted on the street reminding people not to smoke on buses and in the subway reminding parents not to let their kids go to the bathroom on the train. Chengdu, like most of China, is moving quickly to catch up to the rest of the world in terms of development, but it feels a little more comfortable taking it's time doing so and making sure it's being done the "Chengdu way".
Of course I wonder how many Gucci or Louis Vuitton stores a city really needs and who actually fills all of these new office towers going up, including the top floors of the Evergrande Huazhi Office Tower, which sit there all lit up and empty at night.
Those are questions for another day, but one that China unfortunately will have to reckon with as it continues working through it's breakneck growth and reorientation to a consumption-driven economy. These malls and buildings are part of the infrastructure and property investment that has driven growth in many cities around the country and if towers like Evergrande remain empty, one has to wonder what the means for future development and growth in these cities.
On that note, I leave you to get back to the hotel and get ready for a night of sampling Chengdu's many street snacks.
June 21, 2012
Week two has come to a close. It's a national holiday tomorrow to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival (端午节). The festival only became a national holiday in on the mainland in 2008, having not been celebrated since the 1940s. Since it's a three-day weekend, I am off to Shanghai to meet up with a friend and check out the changes that the city has undergone since I was last there in October 2008. It should definitely be insightful to check out China's largest and most outward looking city.
I've been thinking a lot about Western companies trying to crack the Chinese market. As growth slows down in many companies' home markets, China and it's potentially massive market looks more and more attractive. Some Western brands have been here for decades and for some companies, China is an important driver of revenue. However, for every company that is profitable in China, there are many more that have not figured out the market. The New York Times may have been reading my mind when the published an article yesterday about how more companies are moving executives to China. It used to be that companies had a branch office or subsidiary in the region, but the top executives remained in the company's home country. The article describes how that is changing as companies move some of their top-level executives to the region with the belief that being on the ground may make it easier to crack the China market.
Having sent a few days in Beijing before arriving here in Linyi, I was able to see first-hand how foreign companies have tried to crack the China market. Retailers that would not be out of place on any London High Street or in Soho abound in Beijing. The stores are not overrun with only expats, but Chinese consumers who have embraced these brands. There are also many Chinese brands that one can find in cities all around China, brands that one has never encountered in the U.S. such as Meters//bonwe (casual clothing), Li-Ning (athletic wear), Septwolves (clothing), SPR Coffee (like Starbucks), and Dicos (Chinese fast-food akin to McDonalds and KFC). Will these brands move beyond their national borders to open flagships on Fifth Avenue in New York and Harajuku in Tokyo or will they remain exclusively Chinese brands. Will foreign brands such as Uniqlo, GAP, H&M, Zara and Starbucks overrun the country because they are seen as more aspirational than local brands? It's this idea of aspirational buying that I find most interesting.
Take Apple. The first Apple Store opened in Beijing in Sanlitun to coincide with the 2008 Olympics. Walking by the Apple Store when I was there a few weeks ago, the store looked like an other Apple Store – thronging with people checking out and playing with the company's latest offerings, taking advantage of the store's free WiFi, and just hanging out. Once again, it was mostly locals in the store even though it is located in one of the city's expat havens.
Apple fascinates me because it is a company that does very little advertising and relies almost exclusively on word of mouth and it's iconic stores to generate traffic. There is no Apple Store in Linyi, but the distinctive Apple logo is everywhere. Every China Unicom and China Telecom shop has it prominently displayed in their windows indicating that they sell the iPhone. There are also numerous licensed sellers of Apply goods that were not here two weeks ago. One of the retailers is located in a mall by People's Square. I pass by the store whenever I head to the supermarket down there and it's amazing to watch people playing with the iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macs as if they were in a real Apple Store. Apple has managed to penetrate a fifth-tier city like Linyi without even opening a store. I can only imagine what it would be like if one day Apple does open a store here. I must say that Apple goods are priced on par with what they cost in the States and it's not like their products are cheap in the States, so you can imagine that for a lot of Chinese people, their items are still considered aspirational.
So I go back to this idea of an aspirational good. What makes an aspirational good and how does a foreign company go about positioning their goods in such a way? Starbucks, which has huge growth plans for China and is a brand that I would consider aspirational since their drinks are so darn expensive here, even more so than in the States, is trying to prime the Chinese market beyond the first and second-tier cities where it was stores. How? Their VIA instant coffee and pre-packaged Frappuccino drinks are going to be their calling card in markets where they do not have a physical presence. Chinese people do drink instant coffee and like sweet coffee flavored beverages, and it costs less to take up shelf space in a supermarket than it does to open a full-fledged Starbucks. So Starbucks is planning on introducing these products to smaller cities and whet their appetite for a free-standing Starbucks sometime in the future. It's a smart idea and saves Starbucks a lot of logistical headaches in the process.
Perhaps other Western brands can go the pop-up route much as they have done in new markets elsewhere in the world? I must get ready for Shanghai, but I think another market that has proven hard to crack for foreign companies is in the services sector, which is something I will blog more about in the future.
For now I leave you with a picture I snapped on my walk home from the gym.
As I have mentioned before, Linyi has some nice river walks akin to the Hudson River Park in New York. However, right off one of the paths was this random toilet that someone had just left there. It would be like finding a toilet bowl on the side of the path while going for a run on the West Side Highway in New York. Imagine. Till later . . .
Some Linyi With a Side of 火锅
June 17, 2012
It's Father's Day back in the States and I already called to wish my dad a happy Father's Day, but sadly I cannot be there with him to celebrate the day. So I can do the second best thing and heed his wishes by posting some pictures of Linyi to give a sense of how sprawling this city is.
That's the view facing east from the bridge on Tongda Road (通达路) heading back from the gym last Friday. The right side of the picture is the southern part of Linyi and heading in the direction of most of the commercial activity in the city. The left side is north of the river and the new part of the city where the only real tenant is the city government and lots of new apartments.
This view is facing west towards the university and where my hotel is. As you can see, there are some cranes in the sky and lots of open space. The university and bus station are the main anchors in this direction, but a lot of ground has been broken for new housing and in a few years there should also be some commercial development to support the population in this part of the city. Right now though there is nothing to really talk to from the hotel except for the bus station across the street.
This hole in the ground is on the north side of People's Square (人民广成) and is part of a new shopping center that is called Osca. I tried to make out the meaning of the name from the Chinese, but was unable to initially. Right now there is not much in the way of development except for Linyi's first Subway and a new Korean restaurant, but the mall is supposed to be the home of other foreign retailers from Hong Kong and further afield. Of course there will also be a residential component to this development. I guess this would be considered prime real estate in Linyi because People's Square really is the center of town and on the weekends is filled with people. It's also where you can find the city's Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Watsons, the soon-to-be-coming Tesco, and maybe the city's first Starbucks (this last one is still wishful thinking at this point). I think of People's Square as downtown because there are also lots of office towers in the area.
And the Osca mystery is solved – the complex is named after the Oscars, the awards ceremony in the States. A bit random, but no more random than a local residential development named Chianti Mansion, like the wine. Though I did not know the Oscars were such a part of the local culture. But the Chinese word is Aosika (奥斯卡), so it's not that far off in its Romanized form. One other thing that I have been thinking about lately are the artist's renderings of all of the new construction taking place. That image above is the completed version of the previous picture. The artist's renderings always look so opulent and full of life with grand visions of wealth, happiness, and prosperity. I know these renderings are supposed to be somewhat aspirational, but the Chinese renderings are off the charts in their optimism for the future. All of the housing developments look absolutely amazing, to the point where I am staring at the dirt field in front of me and wondering how the developers plan to go from nothing to the most amazing and buzzy mixed-use development complex ever. I saw a lot of this on the bus ride to Qufu in towns much smaller than Linyi, including Feixian, Sishui, and Pingyi.
So those are some recent pictures of Linyi. I wish I had taken a picture of dinner tonight while we're on the subject of pictures. Lu and I went for Sichuan hot pot (火锅) and it was amazing. I have not had good hot pot since I left GZ many years ago. This time we went to Little Swan instead of Little Sheep, our GZ go-to. Little Swan (小天鹅) is a Chongqing-based chain. Yes, Chongqing is the same city where Bo Xilai, the disgraced party official was mayor. This meal was perfection – spicy broth cooking a variety of meat and vegetables. as well as noodles and rice cakes. I don't think a picture would have done it justice. I came back to the hotel and looked up the name of the chain and of course Sequoia Capital, a U.S. private equity firm has taken a stake in the company. I guess the good news is that perhaps it's only a matter of time until we get one in New York. There is already a Little Sheep (小肥羊) in Flushing, Queens, so why not a Little Swan somewhere in Manhattan?
On that note, I leave you all to gear up for week two of class. Happy Father's Day, dad. Until next time . . .
Slumbering No Longer
June 8, 2012
After sleeping for nearly 12 hours last night, my fingers are crossed that I may have kicked the jet lag in one night. Usually I end up going to sleep and waking up at the crack of dawn, but perhaps the two glasses of wine and (very strong) vodka martini were the secret. Those twelve hours of sleep were without my usual jet lag kicker – an Ambien to help prolong the sleep cycle. I'm now sitting in a cafe in the 798 Space, an area of old warehouses that has been turned into a mini-neighborhood of galleries, exhibitions, cafes, and shops. I've seen all of the must-see sights of Beijing on previous trips and 798 has always been on my list of things to see, so I'm glad I made the trip out here today. There are some pictures below from 798.
Last night, I had dinner in Sanlitun (三里屯), which is one of the many mixed-use developments to have risen in Beijing in recent years. It's home to China's first Apple Store, opened to coincide with the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The area also has many bars, restaurants, and shops including Uniqlo, Nike, and Starbucks. The is a "bar street" just north of the shops filled with all sorts of watering holes. I went to a restaurant called Mosto in a complex called Nali Patio (那里花园), which resembled a large plaza with outdoor seating and restaurants spilling onto terraces on the upper floors. The complex had a definite Moorish feeling to it with the white stucco and arches. Below you can see some pictures from Sanlitun. Mosto has been heralded as one of the best newcomers to the Beijing restaurant scene, at least as lauded by Time Out Beijing and other English publications. The restaurant could have been situated anywhere with it's mix of foreigners and middle-upper class Chinese customers. (Okay, Taylor Swift's "Back to December" is now playing in this cafe, which also means I know this song). Actually, whether it's Taylor Swift or Mosto, I am always reminded about how powerful globalization is when I come back to China. Sitting in the U.S. and listening to politicians rail against globalization and foreign influences, it's nice to see other parts of the world still embracing foreign culture, and in turn this softer form of globalization that gets buried in the political rhetoric of free trade, immigration, and the economy. But I digress. Dinner was good, but I just looked around, much as I always do in China and marveled. Not for the pace of development or the ostentatious displays of money, but for the development of a seemingly robust society in spite of the government's best efforts to control thoughts and speech. I saw kids in Starbucks reading art books and fashion magazines. 798 is filled with galleries of Chinese art curated by Chinese curators. Creative juices are flowing and people are learning about things outside
of the well-policed government channels. Combined with the rising discontent over real and perceived inequalities and injustice in Chinese society, it makes for a potent combination.
I met a friend who is an American lawyer here (and indirectly contributed to my restful sleep by taking me out for drinks) and we were talking about China's future. In the middle of my 30 plus hours of being awake, we stumbled on to the topic of China's future. Having been here two and a half years, he said he noticed a change for the worse and it was part of his reason for wanting to return to the States. China is not going to have a full-blown revolution in the mold of the Arab Spring, but there are so many strains of discontent evident in society. That discontent combined with greater freedoms to travel, think, and create means that something is going to have to give. As the type of life that exists in Beijing and Shanghai spreads to third, fourth, and fifth tier cities in various forms, the pressure for change is going to grow. Throw a fraying social contract of economic growth in exchange for passivity and the pressure for change becomes greater. I'm not going to speculate on what that change will look like. It could be on a small scale writ large like the recent village elections in Wukan or it could be peaceful marches in dozens of cities like the Occupy Wall Street or Moscow demonstrations. The challenge for the latter to happen is coordinating online or via mobile phone when he government's censors work overtime to prevent such action.
Whatever it may be, China is moving towards something different. The question is what.
September 22, 2010
Back in Qingdao, which only took three and a half hours this time around since today was a holiday. It's mid-Autumn festival (中秋节) and there was no traffic on the road and no one on the bus. It was one of the first times in China where I was practically alone. There were four people on the bus, including me. When a bus begins its trip and approaches its final destination, the driver tends to make stops at random points along the highway to pick people up and drop them off, sometimes it's just a box or two with no people attached.
All of these things happened on today's trip, so by the time we arrived at the Sifang (四方) bus station, I was truly alone on the bus. Aside from dinner tonight at a great, what else, a Sichuan restaurant, I was able to avoid the mass chaos that seems to typify most Chinese urban experiences. I arrived at my hotel where I stayed last weekend and was greeted by Hattie, whose friend thinks I am so handsome. She gave me some moon cakes and fresh fruit as a gift for the mid-Autumn festival and escorted me to my room, which only made me feel slightly uncomfortable.
After dinner this evening, I decided to tap into my Jersey roots and walk two malls that are a short distance from my hotel and close to the Olympic sailing center along the water. I visited Hisense Plaza (海信广成), which is home to really high-end brands like Gucci and Hermes, and Marine City (百丽广成), which houses a Uniqlo, Zara, H&M, Muji, Dairy Queen, Sephora, and a Watsons (a Duane Reade-esque drugstore based from Hong Kong). It felt a little like home and was very quiet, which was fine by me, but so unlike the China I have come to know and love. I know it's a holiday, but one thing I have learned during my time spent here is that Chinese people use any holiday as another excuse to go shopping. The busiest days of the year at the supermarket tend to be holidays, which I learned the hard way with hour-long queues at the registers and throngs of people making even the quickest of shopping trips nearly impossible to complete. But today was one of those days where the mass of humanity that is China's 1.3 billion people did not cross my path, which so rarely happens and which is why I do not feel guilty for indulging in it. Perpetuating that feeling may have something to do with Qingdao, which is home to only eight million people, most of whom live outside of the central business district where I am staying. But I am not going to be doing much more sightseeing since I did most of it last weekend and I must prepare my final exam and review materials for my students. I am going to be parked in Starbucks most of the day tomorrow, which means you can expect a blog post courtesy of Starbucks' free wireless.
The Handsome Factor
September 20, 2010
Much has been made about the joys of crossing the countryside by train, but very few people seem to extol the virtues of taking a bus across a new country. I was told by many people here to avoid taking the train the Qingdao because only "K" trains run between Linyi and Qingdao, which means that they are the lowest level of train and usually not as nice as the high-speed and newer "C" and "D" trains. They also do not run as frequently between the two cities as the buses do, as many as two per hour. So I opted for the bus. It was pretty convenient. The bus station here in Linyi is about five minutes by taxi and it's relatively new and clean. One of the things I have noticed about this city is that people are always sweeping, whether it's the streets or the floors of the bus station. Yet, I am hard-pressed to find hand soap in most of the public bathrooms. But I digress. The bus was extremely fast due to the massive road building that the Chinese government has undertaken over the past decade or so. We took expressways most of the way from Linyi to Qingdao, which are lightly traveled because of the tolls. Chinese drivers have been slow to taking to paid roads when the local roads are free, but it means that it's easy to make good time. The only traffic jam I encountered was when we arrived at the outskirts of Qingdao and the road that travels the perimeter of the bay was under massive construction because a bridge is being erected that cuts straight across the bay and will reduce travel times from points south heading into Qingdao. But the bus was great because it felt like a more intimate way to see the countryside in a way that does not feel possible from a train. The vegetation reminded me of the sides of 95 or the Garden State Parkway, which makes sense given that Shandong province is roughly on the same line of latitude as the mid-Atlantic states.
As I raved in my last post, Qingdao was awesome. Such a relaxing and pleasant place to spend a few days. It also highlighted for me some of the contrasts between Linyi and Qingdao. In China, there seems to be cities that are destinations and others that you return to or never leave. Qingdao is definitely a city that people in Shandong province "trade up" to versus Linyi where people either are born here and never leave or return here after spending time elsewhere because this is where your family is. I have asked a random cross-section of people here, my students excluded, if they are from Linyi and everyone I have spoken with has said yes. Two days in Qingdao and I met people from Anhui province, Linyi, and other parts of Shandong province. Guangzhou was the other end of the scale, a destination that you don't just spend a period of time in, but a place that you may move your entire family to make a better life for everyone. Beijing and Shanghai also fit into that category. The point of this discussion is that people have asked me how a city of 10 million people (Linyi) that is the logistics center for all of northern China can seem so provincial. I think part of it is that Linyi is not a destination city. You live here because you are from here, but you do not move here and you do not bring your ideas and culture from other parts of China. As a result, the city feels kind of stuck in its ways, but it's fine for the residents because they can get everything they need here. However, the wealthy young people driving around in Mercedes and BMWs will hop a flight to go to Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou if they want nightlife and the other trappings of destination cities. An interesting phenomenon, but perfectly logical if you think about it.
So some much promised pictures of Qingdao
Just a sampling of the sites of Qingdao. I am planning to head back there on Wednesday because I have three days off for mid-Autumn festival. I'll use the time to park myself in Starbucks, reminiscent of my days in GZ, and prepare my final exam and review materials for my students. Be prepared for some more Starbucks-inspired blog entries from Qingdao later on this week.
At the hotel we stayed at in Qingdao, Hattie, the general manager, who happened to be from Linyi, remarked that her friend thought I was very handsome. When we checked out, she proceeded to thrust her friend into my line of sight and introduced her as the one who thought I was handsome. Needless to say, it was an awkward situation for all. But the view that I am handsome ensured that I received personal attention when booking my room for this coming Wednesday and it also resulted in Michael and I being escorted from the hotel to a taxi to take us on our way. While I consider myself fortunate that I'm decent looking enough to be considered handsome here in China, I find that this 'handsome factor" goes a long way in making people treat you better. I hear that my students also think I am "handsome and strong", which I think gives me a little leeway and makes my students more apt to pay attention to what I am saying. At this point, I will take whatever advantage I can get. But the "handsome factor" can also be helpful when my Chinese fails me or my attempts to be extremely nice in English are not coming across as I want them to. When that factor kicks in, it makes getting things done here just a little bit easier.


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