The number of shark fins set out to dry like the morning laundry on a Hong Kong factory building rooftop is staggering. To look at the accompanying images and video, revealing perhaps 10,000 fins, and to grasp that sharks are being slaughtered at a furious pace so their fins can be used to make soup...

Robert Norman"Bob"Ross(October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was anAmericanpainter,art instructor, andtelevisionhost.[1]He is best known as the creator and host ofThe Joy of Painting, a television program that ran for more than a decade onPBSin the United States and Canada.

Robert Norman"Bob"Ross(October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was anAmericanpainter,art instructor, andtelevisionhost.[1]He is best known as the creator and host ofThe Joy of Painting, a television program that ran for more than a decade onPBSin the United States and Canada.

I’ve spent quite some time over the last few years in Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore. When listening to the local radio it’s surprising how much music from the West you can hear. Not just Top 40 songs but also