Surviving is hard but oh so much fun (sometimes)
The second Coffeeman Night was held Friday 16 August, at LANTERN Club.
Latin Groove with Dancing performances, Salsa Electro – Music, all very much “Columbia café and dance”. I guess I will need to get into that salsa stuff. Reminds me of my Brazilian times…
The FAMMM community consists of 2,000 members – comprised equally of Chinese and Western fashion editors and designers, media, trendsetters, artists, models, movie and vocal talent, as well as industry producers and agents.
As reported in our RCB Bulletin dated 19 August 2008, it was announced during the weekly lunch that on 17 August 2008, former Olympic Pole Vaulting Gold Medal winner Sergey Bubka and a number of Rotarians visited Sun Children’s Village. Sergey’s second visit to the Village of this year drew media attention to the program, resulting in stories in the local press and China Daily. Sun Village was created in 1996 by Zhang Shuqin.
See here the pictures taken during the visit.
The original Bulletin and pictures were posted on the old website, later all trashed. I found back the original Bulletin: 080819_bulletin
In our auction list for the 2009 Rotary Ball, item 10 said:
10. T-shirt signed by Sergey Bubka, voted the world’s best athlete
The interesting news is that Bubka is one of the contenders to be the next IOC President, to succeed Jacques Rogge.
See the article: “In I.O.C., New Obstacles for an Expert at Clearing Them”, NYT 14 August 2013 (updated link):
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/sports/olympics/15iht-bubka15.html
His name is also spelled Sergei Bubka:
Wikipedia:
Serhiy Nazarovych Bubka (Sergey Nazarovich Bubka; born 4 December 1963) is a retired Ukrainian pole vaulter. He represented the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991, was repeatedly voted the world’s best athlete, and in 2012 was one of 24 athletes inducted as inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame.
Bubka won six consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympics gold and broke the world record for men’s pole vaulting 35 times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records). He was the first to clear 6.0 m and the only (as of July 2013) to clear 6.10 m.
He holds the current outdoor world record of 6.14 m, set on 31 July 1994 in Sestriere, Italy and the current indoor world record of 6.15 m, set on 21 February 1993 in Donetsk, Ukraine.
This post was updated on 18 June 2021.
This time, “COFFEEMAN NIGHT” with a taste of “Cafe de Colombia”.
Saturday 3 August, as the normal events on Wednesday and Thursday were cancelled due to the rain forecast.
A quiet evening and ideal to relax and chat with friends.
Thanks Christian!
According to our friend Alfred, an “Old China Hand” based in Suzhou:
Note that there are over ten catenary arch suspension bridges in the world longer between the two towers than Aizhai. The longest is in Japan: The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, also known as the Pearl Bridge, links the city of Kobe on the mainland of Honshu to Iwaya on Awaji Island, in Japan. Since its completion, in 1998, the bridge has the longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world, at 1,991 m. Somewhat longer than the bridge in Hunan. Chinese bridges with a longer central span are: The Xihoumen Bridge in Zhejiang (1650 m) ; the Runyang Bridge at Zhenjiang (1490 m) and the Yiangyin Bridge (1385 m) , both over the Yangtze are also much longer. The Tsingma Bridge in Hong Kong is 1377 m. Several more are in construction. The shorter bridges we see over the Huangpu River in Shanghai are cable stayed bridges.
And according to Wikipedia again the World’s highest suspension bridge is China: The Sidu River Bridge (Siduhe Bridge, 四渡河特大桥) is a 1,222 m-long (4,009 ft) suspension bridge crossing the valley of the Sidu River near Yesanguan in Badong County in Hubei Province. They quote the height above the Sidu River as around 500 m. Note it is also longer than Aizhai!
Seems the Aussie media put me on the wrong track! It is well possible the original “record” was referring to bridge between tunnels”, being a bit far-fetched as a “record”.
And happy to see some people really read my stuff… Thanks Alfred.
Where else? In China, again.
(origin of most pictures is not clear)
Aizhai Bridge in Hunan province is 336 m high and has a 1,176 m span. It connects two traffic tunnels in the mountains, cutting the time needed to traverse the canyon from 30 minutes to 1 minute.
Construction took five years and was finished at the end of 2011.
Vehicles drive motor along a two-way, four-lane motorway. Pedestrians walk along it on a special walkway under the road.