Heart's Breath Flute Extravaganza is Saturday at Weedon Island Preserve
By Andrew DeLong, Times Staff Writer Saturday, July 31, 2010 Joseph Z played at last year’s Heart’s Breath Flute Extravaganza at Weedon Island Preserve. He returns this year. To calm his nerves and play the music in his heart, Dock Green Silverhawk picks up his flute. As he plays, he absorbs energy from the melodies. A sense of serenity washes over him. "I call it the medicine of the flute," he ...
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There's no stopping China
China has surpassed Japan to become the globe's second-largest economy, behind only the US, a leading Chinese government economist said on Friday. "China, in fact, is now already the world's second-largest economy," Yi Gang, China's chief currency regulator, said. The milestone comes with a big caveat: China...
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A chance to do it all over again
My wife, Carol, is a smart cookie, but this sometimes gets her into trouble. Take, for example, our wedding proposal — or make that proposals. I don’t know what it is, but I can’t slip the slightest thing past that girl.
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Robin Dexter: Blogging from China, No. 6
Robin Dexter, Grand Island Public Schools assistant superintendent, blogs about what she had learned about Chinese jade, her lessons on dumpling making and on how to play the game of Marhjong, and an impromptu invitation she received to do street dancing.
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Secondhand dealers on council agenda
The first reading of an ordinance amending the city code that deals with transactions by secondhand dealers, secondhand jewelry dealers and pawnbrokers will be on the agenda of the Watertown Common Council when it meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the council chambers of the municipal building.
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Luxury Hotels Are Burgeoning in China
As the global economy claws its way back, few places have regained confidence, and the willingness to splurge on luxury goods and services, more quickly than China.
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