Kudos to current Cal Poly Orfalea College of Business MBA student Steve Rodger for putting this YouTube piece together on last year’s China MBA trip. Click HERE to view. Good work, Steve and thanks for taking the time to do pull this together. Steve, aka Martin Scorsese, please remember us when you are rich and famous. One of the stamps of legitimacy in today’s world seems to be having a YouTube presence, so perhaps we are now “official.”

On another completely different YouTube note, on occasion I have been called a “panda licker” or “panda hugger,” usually by someone in Internet-blog land who can’t stand it when people see a silver lining on any geopolitical cloud. I don’t know that I hug or lick pandas (real ones or nation state pandas), but I do have an admitted soft spot in my heart for pandas who sneeze, baby pandas and any panda slammin’ down a bottle of warm milk. Click HERE and HERE and HERE to see why. By the way, pandas are found in Sichuan, the province that Xiaodan comes from, one of your MS in Tax student colleagues (we won’t get to Sichuan; too far out of the way from what we have scheduled this year).