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Showing posts with label Better than expected. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Better than expected. Show all posts
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Free Cuban News
Will Weissert from AP brings a heartwarming story from Cuba.
The Chinese community has a free-ish newspaper, which while government controlled is privately run. Shine China publishes every few months, with a print run of less than a thousand copies. The paper is hand set, hand printed and the operator is the only one capable of setting the machine - it's 110 years old and has a single lead piece for each Chinese character.
It's 60 centavos, which is approximately 0 Euros, and the owner is having a hard time finding a successor to teach print setting to. Still, for Cuba, this is considered a company enjoying special liberties, and perhaps a signpost to reform.
I would love to get my hands on an issue.
I won't even comment how Weissert says here that 300 words can take five hours to lay out while Joyce Choi of New America Media says it's 20 minutes for 150 words in another article. She also says the paper is biweekly in her 2007 story.
The Chinese community has a free-ish newspaper, which while government controlled is privately run. Shine China publishes every few months, with a print run of less than a thousand copies. The paper is hand set, hand printed and the operator is the only one capable of setting the machine - it's 110 years old and has a single lead piece for each Chinese character.
It's 60 centavos, which is approximately 0 Euros, and the owner is having a hard time finding a successor to teach print setting to. Still, for Cuba, this is considered a company enjoying special liberties, and perhaps a signpost to reform.
I would love to get my hands on an issue.
I won't even comment how Weissert says here that 300 words can take five hours to lay out while Joyce Choi of New America Media says it's 20 minutes for 150 words in another article. She also says the paper is biweekly in her 2007 story.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Dry Wall Follow-Up
Although I've complained how news often are reported then forgotten if you don't count edits, many of the stories I've touched on have actually received attention later. Perhaps not because of my blogging, eh?
The drywalls manufactured in China, that made people sick and the houses uninhabitable when exposed to high humidity and heat returned to the headlines now that the first jury verdict came in. The verdict? 2.4 million dollars for damages, the cost of fixing the house, potential lost resale value etc. These damages are to be paid by the American distributor and associates, not the Chinese manufacturer.
Remember how I noted it'd be near impossible getting any damages from China? Yeah, that was commented upon: Previously a judge in U.S decided against the manufacturer who never showed up in court and who now theoretically owes money which no-one has a way of getting. The article used the term "limbo."
The last line of the linked article is pretty revealing of the problem's extent. The affected houses need the drywall replaced along with any effected wiring, fire alarm systems and gas pipes. Ouch.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100619/ap_on_bi_ge/us_chinese_drywall
The drywalls manufactured in China, that made people sick and the houses uninhabitable when exposed to high humidity and heat returned to the headlines now that the first jury verdict came in. The verdict? 2.4 million dollars for damages, the cost of fixing the house, potential lost resale value etc. These damages are to be paid by the American distributor and associates, not the Chinese manufacturer.
Remember how I noted it'd be near impossible getting any damages from China? Yeah, that was commented upon: Previously a judge in U.S decided against the manufacturer who never showed up in court and who now theoretically owes money which no-one has a way of getting. The article used the term "limbo."
The last line of the linked article is pretty revealing of the problem's extent. The affected houses need the drywall replaced along with any effected wiring, fire alarm systems and gas pipes. Ouch.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100619/ap_on_bi_ge/us_chinese_drywall
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