Posts Tagged ‘pollution’

  1. Breathe in, breathe out….cough splutter cough

    October 30, 2011 by jess

    This week I met an English fellow who has been here for 6 years. We met thanks to his bull terrier – I love bullies, they have a bad rep but they’re great dogs. To those who brand them dangerous I reply: it’s never the breed, it’s the owner.

    A great pic circulated via email a few years ago. The subject was: ‘Never leave your child alone with a dangerous dog’. I opened the email with a little trepidation only to find a fantastic shot of a bull terrier lying on her side next to a little kid who’d drawn all over her in coloured pens. Google ‘bull terrier and child’ and you’ll find it easily.

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  2. And the weekend air quality is…HAZARDOUS

    October 23, 2011 by jess

    Bless the Yanks and their hourly air quality report from the Embassy in Chaoyang. I have their App on my iPhone.

    from: http://www.wunderground.com/health/pm.asp

    US EPA (http://www.epa.gov/pmdesignations/faq.htm):

    Particulate matter, or PM, is the term for particles found in the air, including dust, dirt, soot, smoke, and liquid droplets. Particles can be suspended in the air for long periods of time. Some particles are large or dark enough to be seen as soot or smoke. Others are so small that individually they can only be detected with an electron microscope.

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  3. 9am – a sunny Beijing morning

    September 26, 2011 by jess