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POPSChina from Above with rare photo of snow-covered Great Wall Incredible photography by George Steinmetz for National Geographic http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/05/china/aerials/steinmetz-photography 1. The terraced farms of the Lisu people, one one of China's minority groups, create a patchwork on mountains near Weixi in Yunnan Province. 2. The Great Wall of China 3. In Guangxi, limestone pinnacles line the Li River. 4. Blooming fields of rapeseed plants weave around hills near Luoping in Yunnan Province. 5. sand dunes in the Kumtag Desert located in the Xinjiang region 6. Taklimakan oil field in the Xinjiang region 7. Guandong Province toulou, the traditional dwellings of the Hakka minority group 8. a new suburban development in Shenyang (thanks, openthink)
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POPSStamp Increases From 41 To 42 cents On May 12* *unless you buy the "forever stamp" News of a postage increase is not good news for snail mail spammers, nor is it for businesses who mail documents and letters as a course of normal business. In our business offline we’ve tried to transition to email for as many correspondences as we can, but ink signatures are still required for many documents.
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POPSDNC Chairman Joe Andrew Is Urging Clinton Supporters To Switch May 1, 20 Dear Friends: I have been inspired. Today I am announcing my support for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of America. I am changing my support from Senator Clinton to Senator Obama, and calling for my fellow Democrats across my home State of Indiana, and my fellow super delegates across the nation, to heal the rift in our Party and unite behind Barack Obama. The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. That is the decision Democrats face today. We have an embarrassment of riches, but as much as we may love our candidates and revel in the political process that has brought Presidential politics to places that have not seen it in a generation, we cannot let our family affair hurt America by helping John McCain.
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POPS10 Simple truths about oil Fact #4. The OPEC nations, those in the Middle East and including Venezuela, control 77% of the world’s known oil reserves. Like Russia and Mexico, where the oil industry is controlled by the state, it is generally poorly managed. Several Big Oil companies that were induced to undertake exploration and development in Russia and Venezuela actually had their assets nationalized or stolen at prices well below their investment and value. Fact #5. Energy is the master resource. All nations with any hope of growing their economies require it, mostly in the form of electricity, but also for oil’s role in transportation. The failure to have a national long-range energy policy that is based in reality can severely impact energy prices.
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