Oct
23
2018
China Now Music Festival shoowcasing Chinese composers @ Carnegie. Cai Jindong 蔡金冬conducts. Mr. Yu 俞 is there too, in the audience. The music is so so – too modern for my taste. Our comp tickets are front and center @ Parquet E row.
Hyatt across the street is opened

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Oct
22
2018

It’s not easy, apparently. NCL’s Norwegian Joy leaves China in 2018 诺唯真退出中国市场… Here are some reports on the cruises in China.
- 2019.7.11, scmp: Chinese tourist-led cruise ship boom sails into troubled environmental waters
- 2019.6.10, Wired Forget the Bahamas. China’s Cruises Are Where It’s At
- 2019.6.08, Economist: What slumping demand for cruises says about Chinese tourists
- 2018, skift: Norwegian cruise line is moving its built for China ship to the us
- 2018.10.25, Market Screener: NCL leaves China
- 2018.10.10, 诺唯真退出中国市场
- 2018.7.18, Travel Weekly: Built for China the Norwegian Joy is headed elsewhere
- 2018.3.30, scmp: Angry Chinese tourists stage another noisy ‘patriotic’ protest after fog forces cruise ship to stay in port
- 2016.1.26, LAT, U.S. cruise lines look for growth in China’s waters
One Chinese tourist on board NCL made the following observations:
- Too cheap 两三千就可以住海景房或阳台房。三四晚的住宿.. “1949元起” 这个价
- 船上的员工多达1800人,来自46个国家,为近5000名游客提供全方位的服务
- 在5天的航程里,消耗约60吨肉类及禽类,20.5吨鱼类,7吨西瓜、1吨香蕉、11吨土豆、5万2千个鸡蛋以及750加仑牛奶……60吨!我的天!别的诺唯真船上消耗是多少?记得陈小姐当时闪烁其词:大概十几吨吧。
The local group’s cruise 世纪荣耀 Century Glory since 2019, how will it fare?
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Oct
20
2018
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Oct
20
2018

The caption The corner of Broadway and Ann Street, shown here as it looked in 1831, would in the future be made famous by P.T. Barnum, still only an apprentice hoaxer. The American Museum he would acquire was now located in its new, five-story marble building (far left), opposite St. Paul’s Church. Later in the decade, the building at right would give way to the grand new Astor Hotel.

We call it St. Paul, four blocks north of Trinity @ 209 Broadway in New York. This Bell of Hope was gifted by mayor of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002.9.11. It rings annually on Sept. 11, in memory of the attack, of HOPE not tragedy.

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Oct
20
2018
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Oct
20
2018
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Oct
20
2018
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Oct
20
2018
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Oct
20
2018
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