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		<title>20100827: Trip to Chongqing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[8:43 PM Friday, August 27, 2010 Heading at 151 km/h on the trusty D5120 from Chengdu North Station to Chongqing Bei, also the north station. The approx 420km trip takes just over 2 hours, so our current speed is disappointingly lacadaisical. I have sent orders to the lower decks for the slaves to pedal harder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtles- 2nd update</title>
		<link>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2010/06/29/yangtze-giant-softshell-turtles-2nd-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emily King is currently working on the Rafetus Project, trying to prevent this species of turtle from dying out completely. The female turtle is thought to be the very last one of her kind. Click on the image to download a larger version of the image file.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Peter Goff, Chairman of SQR</title>
		<link>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2010/04/28/interview-with-peter-goff-chairman-of-sqr/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2010/04/28/interview-with-peter-goff-chairman-of-sqr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with Peter Goff, Chairman of Sichuan Quake Relief, http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=6870 Text from the website: NGOs in China and earthquake relief efforts Ethical Corporation&#8217;s China Editor Paul French is in Chengdu, in China&#8217;s Sichuan Province, where he talks to Peter Goff, the Chairman and founder of the private NGO Sichuan Quake Relief. They discuss the response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20100124/25: Colum McCann in Chengdu</title>
		<link>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2010/01/26/2010012425-colum-mccann-in-chengdu/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2010/01/26/2010012425-colum-mccann-in-chengdu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colum McCann, whose name is an anagram of  &#8220;Coal mum ccnn&#8221;, was in town on Sunday and Monday to launch the Chengdu Bookworm Literary Festival. Having just won the National Book Award in the States, as well as having JJ Abrams (&#8220;Star Trek&#8221;, &#8220;Lost&#8221; etc) snap up the film rights, Colum either is already, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20090426: 5-star brunch</title>
		<link>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2009/04/28/20090426-5-star-brunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday Champagne Brunch at the Intercontinental Hotel Time: Every Sunday from 11:30am to 3pm at the Chengdu Intercontinental Hotel We strolled into the lobby and the tai chi masters practising their art instantly set the mood of focused relaxation.  Instead of joining in (this is encouraged and tai chi clothes are for sale), we, enthusiastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Zurnal Ostrava</title>
		<link>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2009/04/28/radio-zurnal-ostrava/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://projekty.rozhlas.cz/prehravacwma3/index.php?stanice=ostrava The Internet is a marvellous tool for staying in touch with Ostrava and for ensuring that my Chinese language skills remain at their low level.]]></description>
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		<title>20090307: Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Yu Bo&#8217;s restaurant</title>
		<link>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2009/03/19/20090307-lunch-with-fuchsia-dunlop-at-yu-bos-restaurant/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2009/03/19/20090307-lunch-with-fuchsia-dunlop-at-yu-bos-restaurant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the 2009 Bookworm Literary Festival, about 30 lucky diners headed off for lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Yu Bo&#8217;s restaurant at Kuan Zhai Xiang Zi, the recently restored/built &#8216;old&#8217; town area just to the north west of the Mao statue on TianFu Square in Chengdu. There&#8217;s no menu. You book a table [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20090318: Tim Clissold at the Bookworm Literary Festival</title>
		<link>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2009/03/19/20090318-tim-clissold-at-the-bookworm-literary-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2009/03/19/20090318-tim-clissold-at-the-bookworm-literary-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking as part of the 2009 Bookworm Literary Festival, Tim Clissold was engaging, knowledgeable, an excellent public speaker and whose quite confidence and liking for deprecating humour made him one of the most successful speakers at this year&#8217;s Chengdu events. The Sichuan leg of the Beijing &#8211; Suzhou &#8211; Chengdu triangular tour gives the writers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20080514: notes on the big shake</title>
		<link>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2008/12/16/20080514-notes-on-the-big-shake/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2008/12/16/20080514-notes-on-the-big-shake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is so much construction here in Chengdu that most people just thought it was a large lorry going past that was making the windows shake a bit. Then it got a bit looney tunes and I saw a few people doing a Scooby Doo exit (“Yikes!”) and then someone said “earthquake,” at this point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20080902: Lemon curd recipe</title>
		<link>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2008/09/02/20080902-lemon-curd-recipe/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.randomstuff.biz/2008/09/02/20080902-lemon-curd-recipe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fine recipe for lemon curd is at http://www.joyofbaking.com/LemonCurd.html. The ingredients are very simple: lemon, and curd. An alternative recipe involves eggs, juice, zest, butter and sugar. Little lemon-related tippettes included are that room temperature lemons produce more juice, and refrigerated lemons are easier to &#8216;zest&#8217;/'dezest&#8217;: the zest is easier to remove from cold, firm [...]]]></description>
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