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City management behaving badly in Sanya, Hainan, China, May 23 2008.
City management are not police, they're city management. In 2008, the Sanya municipal government was trying to win a contest to be the "cleanest city in China." I've never been able to find information about any such contest, but I do know that Hangzhou, Dalian and many others already all claim to be China's cleanest city, and to have apparently won the same contest, which nobody seems to know anything about anyway, except when somebody claims to have won it.
I've never been to Hangzhou or Dalian, but I've been to Guilin and it's probably not the cleanest city in China, but it is a good example of a city that is cleaner than Sanya will ever be, period. Who cares? Certainly not me.
So anyway, city management made it their business to go around making it difficult for people to sell food on the street. Because city with food = dirty city. So they would go around throwing fruit on the street or stealing barbecues and then selling them back to the owners. I've never seen old ladies run as fast as when these guys come around. One night I was eating some barbecue on the street and city management pulled up in a truck and took the table and chairs away from me, before I could even finish my meal.
Before "the contest," I could buy one single serving of watermelon on the sidewalk at my convenience for a cheap price almost anywhere in Sanya. But once "the contest" began, if I wanted to eat a piece of watermelon, I would have to go to the supermarket, buy a whole watermelon, carry it home, cut it up, eat a piece and then store the other 99% of the watermelon (exactly like in Canada). Likewise for every single other type of food that there is, it was all available one serving at a time on the street before that contest. That's one of the main things that attracted me to Sanya in the first place!
I don't know if Sanya ever won that contest. Hundreds of Navy people and thousands of middle school students cleaned up the beaches and did an excellent job. But city management did nothing to make anything cleaner, they just make a mess everywhere they go (I've even seen some of them chewing betel-nuts on the job...which is quite messy...I do it too, just not at work).
Of course I still got my street food all along, I just went to seedier and seedier neighbourhoods, and eventually had to resort to eating on the street in my own neighbourhood, which was probably the seediest in all of Sanya! Eventually even that got shut down too (the street food, not the seediness) and I would have to go to the very outskirts of town to get proper street food for normal prices.
Anyway, I don't like these city management guys, they're the worst. They're certainly not gentlemen. And they're not police. They're city management.
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Though Iceland and Reykjavík are what is widely considered to be one of the most well-managed and cleanest human societies on the planet, some decay, abandonment, and dilapidation does exist within the nation and city. Outside of Reykjavík, this normally manifests as abandoned houses and farmsteads, which is largely due to the nation’s rapid urbanization during the 20th Century and the increasing impracticality of formerly fruitful rural lifestyles. However, in Reykjavík, there also are a surprising number of vacant, dilapidated, or abandoned buildings mixed in among the city’s remarkably pristine urban fabric, largely abandoned due to economic circumstances or property disputes, or dilapidated due to age, disability, apathy, or impoverishment of the owners. One of the most famous abandoned buildings is the House At Vatnsstígur 4, which was occupied by protestors who squatted and set up an anarchist commune within its walls for just over a week back in 2009 at the height of the 2008 Financial Crisis that brought the tiny North Atlantic island nation to its knees. The house, built in 1901, remains abandoned and boarded up, as it has been since the protestors were forcibly evicted and carried out by the police, with the protestors barricading themselves inside in an effort to resist arrest. There are plans to convert the building into housing, but, during my visit to Iceland back in December, little had changed since the house was forcibly vacated back in 2009. The other houses are a mix of stone and concrete, with some having tons of graffiti covering their weather-worn walls, and others merely having peeling paint, something that is rarely seen in Iceland’s largely very pristine building stock.
This listing is for a 2004 Mercedes Benz E320 Wagon
This is the cleanest and most well-sorted E320 Wagon on the market.
The car is Tectite Grey Metallic on Sierra grey leather which is a desirable combination.
*Financing is available*
Mileage is low and all services have been just performed including fresh oil change and new tires (records are available); car needs nothing and is ready to go!
Car is accident free and in great condition. No dents or obvious scratches on the exterior, interior is nearly showroom fresh with no obvious blemishes. There are however two dark spots on the navigation display, which is the only fault on this car, electrical or otherwise.
Vehicle options:
Navigation System
Front and rear side impact airbags
Power open and closing rear tailgate
Chrome wheels.
This vehicle needs absolutely nothing and is ready to go!
Willapa Oysters are grown in beds in the cleanest estuary in America, in Willapa Bay in Oysterville (yes, Oysterville!), WA. They’re picked and shipped to you the same day, avoiding the distribution chain, where they sit and fade. With Willapa, you eat an oyster that’s not only pristine from its surroundings, but as fresh as can be without a visit to the ocean. With shipping, the cost is what you’d pay at a restaurant, but the oysters are so much better. It’s an experience you won’t believe...and an indulgence you won’t want to give up, ever.
These fresh Pacific oysters are perfect for the half shell lover wanting a bit more meat from every fresh oyster. They are also well suited for grilled oysters, stews, bisques and Oysters Rockefeller.
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Did you hear that Singapore is one of a cleanest City in the world? Perhaps not, but they surely fine heavily. I always think Airport is like a face of a country. As many international travelers fly, the airport is the first thing they see in the country. And for smokers like myself, arrive at the airport, and the first place to visit (or the last place to visit on board a plane) is a smoking lounge. And this is how it looks like in Singapore. There is a kind of monopoliy $ bill, and something in Korean.
This is probably the cleanest one of the bunch. It seems that 200 speed film is perfect for sunsets in this camera, but will be extremely overexposed in strong sunlight.
Taken with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye and Kodak 200 film.
Next to a bridge over Bradford Beck, which, as the sign says, isn't exactly the cleanest water course around.
Not the cleanest shot and also some diffraction through a dirty window. Beautiful sunrise over this city in the desert though.
Results of the Horizon Prize on the Cleanest Engine Retrofit & Presentation of the Horizon Prize on the Cleanest Engine of the Future
This listing is for a 2004 Mercedes Benz E320 Wagon
This is the cleanest and most well-sorted E320 Wagon on the market.
The car is Tectite Grey Metallic on Sierra grey leather which is a desirable combination.
*Financing is available*
Mileage is low and all services have been just performed including fresh oil change and new tires (records are available); car needs nothing and is ready to go!
Car is accident free and in great condition. No dents or obvious scratches on the exterior, interior is nearly showroom fresh with no obvious blemishes. There are however two dark spots on the navigation display, which is the only fault on this car, electrical or otherwise.
Vehicle options:
Navigation System
Front and rear side impact airbags
Power open and closing rear tailgate
Chrome wheels.
This vehicle needs absolutely nothing and is ready to go!
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Windpower is one of the cleanest, renewable, pervasive, cost-effective, options for producing energy.
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