Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

75th Anniversary of Radio City Music Hall

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Ah the festiveness of New York City during the Thanksgiving and then sprint to Christmas season. Even with many Broadway shows shuttered during the current stagehand strike, there is the annual Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall shown here in the early evening festooned with 75th Anniversary markings.
The streets are naturally chock full of excited, wide-eyed folks of all ages , walking leisurely sometimes purposelessly impeding the progress of us hurried New Yorkers.

I am off to India on business in a week and will miss about half of the “shopping” season but since I wait till the last moment anyway, should not be much of a problem. Stay tuned for photos of India including a few surprises. I won’t let the cat out of the bag yet of what I mean by that.
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Bangalore Mall

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Just having returned from China, its a perfect time to talk about India. I will be off to India the week after Thanksgiving. Two huge countries modernizing in their own way. At the rate they are growing and we are squandering our potential in wars, threats of wars , SUVs well it will still be a long time before they even come close to surpassing the wealth generation of the USA as described in this Business Week article excerpted

China and India. Rarely has the economic ascent of two still relatively poor nations been watched with such a mixture of awe, opportunism, and trepidation. The postwar era witnessed economic miracles in Japan and South Korea. But neither was populous enough to power worldwide growth or change the game in a complete spectrum of industries. China and India, by contrast, possess the weight and dynamism to transform the 21st-century global economy. The closest parallel to their emergence is the saga of 19th-century America, a huge continental economy with a young, driven workforce that grabbed the lead in agriculture, apparel, and the high technologies of the era, such as steam engines, the telegraph, and electric lights….The New World Economy

Bangalore, India Photos
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Peking Duck

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Here I am at the world famous or at least Beijing famous Peking Duck restaurant. This duck gave its all to the assembled team. We ate the Duck’s feet (tasted like rubber even with the spicy mustard), the bones used to blend a delicious soup and of course the meat that you see the chef carving next to me.

Word of advise, Chinese food in China is nothing like the bland variety we get back home in the states. I knew that already of course but it was even more obvious during my recent business stint in Beijing. It is not for the faint of heart who think wonton soup ,egg-rolls and fried rice represent the best Chinese cuisine has to offer.

You probably can’t guess what the image below is?
Guess the Dish
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Great Wall

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Looking back over many steps just climbed on China’s Great Wall. Though I am here in China on business, it was Sunday and what better way to spend it then walking and gasping along the Great Wall about 50 kilometers outside of Beijing.

Must admit, these tourists (about 99% Chinese) were in very good shape. Except for landings every 500 0r 1000 feet, it is in incline (or decline depending on direction) the entire way through the hills.

Though Beijing is chock full of cars and the attendant smog and traffic jams, the population at least up to now appears from my empirical observations to not be suffering from the obesity epidemic prevalent back home in the States.

Lets see what the relentless modernization brings in the future.
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View from Hotel Room

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Just arrived in Beijing , China for an intense week of work around setting up a new publishing development group. One comment, if Beijing is representative of what the rest of China is experiencing , watch out! This place is booming, full of optimism , young people working hard and so on. Of course I am not naive, there are problems, widening gulf between haves/have nots, normal traffic that parallels New York City on its worse gridlock alert days, pollution and sundry political issues I won’t go into.

Nevertheless., while we are distracted with spending our resources on useless and endless wars, there are countries that are truly embracing for and grabbing the future.

[tags]China,Beijing[/tags]