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CLEMSON, SC – Five Clemson players scored in double-figures and the Lady Tigers shot .508 in an 87-58 win over Jacksonville (3-4) on Sunday afternoon in Littlejohn Coliseum.Nikki Dixon had a career-high 25 points (9-16 FG, 7-9 FT) and nine rebounds for the Lady Tigers, who shot their highest percentage from the floor since Jan. 30, 2011.
"I just thought it was a great team win," said Itoro Coleman, who led their Tigers to a win in the first all-time meeting with the Dolphins. "Any time we see the zone, in the past, we would have settled for passing the ball around the perimeter. I thought we did a good job of getting the ball inside, whether it was the high post or off the dribble or the short corner. We really took advantage of our height on the inside."
Clemson blocked 11 shots and shot 23-38 (.605) in the paint, and outrebounded the Dolphins en route to taking control of the paint.
Joining Dixon in double-figures were Jonquel Jones (15 pts, 7-10 FG, 1-2 FT), Kelly Gramlich (13 pts, 5-7 FG, 3-5 3FG),Quinyotta Pettaway (12 pts, 4-10 FG, 4-7 FT), and Danaejah Grant (12 pts, 3-11 FG, 5-6 FT). 18 of Dixon's 25 came in the second half as the sophomore hit 9-16 from the field overall, and 7-9 from the line.
Jones and Pettaway each added double-doubles as well. Jones had 11 boards, her third double-double of the season, and her fourth game of the season in double-figures rebounding. She also finished with a team-high five blocks, giving her 15 on the season. She entered the game ranked sixth in the ACC in shot blocking and fifth in rebounding.
Pettaway had a career-best 14 boards, and also added five assists in her fifth career double-double. She did see her consecutive free throws made streak end at 12, as she had led the league coming into the game.
Clemson's point guards were tremendous, as Aisha Turner andChelsea Lindsay combined for nine assists and no turnovers in 40 combined minutes. Turner also added seven points and three steals. On the season, she's now recorded 14 assists against just four turnovers in 94 minutes.
Perhaps the most impressive part of Clemson's victory was the ability to capitalize off Jacksonville's mistakes. The Dolphins turned it over just 13 times, but Clemson converted those for 23 points, nearly 1.77 points per turnover. The Tigers had 16 points on the fast break, and had 46 points in the paint.
Clemson led from the outset, their only deficit coming less than five minutes in at the 15:29 mark of the first half, when the Dolphins took a 9-8 lead, while they held for 14 seconds before Jones finished a Pettaway pass to give the Tigers the lead for good. Leading 24-21 with 8:53 to play, the Tigers went on an 8-0 run to take a 32-21 lead. Jones had two layups during the run, while Pettaway and Gramlich each hit shots as well.
Clemson went into the break ahead 40-31, their second straight game entering intermission with a lead. Clemson was 14-28 from the floor, and held Jacksonville to a 14-40 (.350) mark.
The Lady Tigers' second half was one of their most complete of the season. They outscored the Dolphins 47-27, shot .514 percent, and held JU to .333 shooting. Clemson turned it over just five times in the half.
Pettaway had seven points and 11 of her rebounds in the second, while 18 of Dixon's points came in the second.
After trailing by as many as 13, the Dolphins found themselves trailing by just six points with 13:08 to play after a Queen Alford three-pointer.
In their last game against Indiana, the Tigers let the Hoosiers back into it by settling for jumpers. In this game, Clemson went on a 13-2 run over the next four minutes, capped by a Turner three with 9:33 to play to give Clemson a 63-46 win. Defensively, Clemson held Ju to just four points over the final 5:26, while netting 17 of their own.
Clemson will have a week off from competition before playing host to South Carolina State next Sunday at 2:00 pm in Littlejohn Coliseum.
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At Fulin's Asian Cuisine you'll discover a fabulous menu inspired by our culture and brought to life by people from all across the world.
Alaska Roll salmon, cucumber, and avocado $5
Boston Roll cooked shrimp, cucumber, and mayonnaise, topped with fish roe $5
Philadelphia Roll smoked salmon, cucumber, avocado, and cream cheese $6
Tuna Roll $5
Yellow-tail & Scallion Roll $5
Eel and Avocado Roll $5
Avocado Roll $5
Spicy Tuna Rolll $6
Spicy Salmon Roll $6
Pork Egg Roll – (1 piece) $2
Vegetable Spring Roll – (1 piece) $2
Chicken on a Stick – (2 pieces) $4
Crab Rangoon – (4 pieces) $5
Crispy String Beans – $6
Pork or Chicken Dumplings– (6 pieces) $7
Fulins Platter– (1 eggroll, 1 spring roll, 2 chicken on a stick, 2 tempura shrimps, 2 spare ribs, 2 crab rangoons) $15
Miso Soup – (Cup) $2.5 (Bowl) $5
Wonton Soup – (Cup) $2 (Bowl) $4.5
Hot and Sour Soup – (Cup) $2 (Bowl) $4.5
Coconut Soup – (Cup) $3.5 (Bowl) $6
Vegetable and Wonton Soup – (bowl) $7
Vegetable and Bean Curd– (bowl) $7
House Green Salad – mixed greens, served with our signature ginger dressing $3
Seaweed Salad – crispy seaweed, sesame seeds, and cucumber $5
Noodle Soups
Chicken, Pork, Beef, Shrimp, or Vegetable – choice of soup made with thick rice noodles, thin rice noodles, or egg noodles $9
Singapore Rice Noodles – (Chicken, Pork, and Shrimp) $10
Pad Thai – (Chicken, Shrimp, and Beef) $12
Fried Rice
Chicken, Pork, Beef, Shrimp, or Vegetable – $9
Fulin's Combo – (Chicken, Beef, and Shrimp all together) $10
Curry Fried Rice – (Chicken, Pork, Beef, Vegetable, or Shrimp) $10
Teriyaki Chicken – pan-fried chicken cooked with traditional teriyaki sauce
Kung Pao Chicken – tender,diced chicken with chopped scallions, chili peppers, peanuts with our signature kung pao sauce $12
Sweet and Sour Chicken – crisp-fried chicken with pineapple, chopped onion, bell pepper, served with a side of our signature sweet and sour sauce $12
Orange Chicken – battered chicken with red chili sauce with julienne bell peppers and zucchini, garnished with orange slices $13
Chicken Lettuce Wraps – crisp, cool lettuce bowls filled with shredded chicken, diced onions, carrots, and green peas, garnished with crispy rice noodles $12
General Tso's Chicken – breaded and fried chicken with diced red and green peppers in sweet and spicy sauce $12
Chicken in Garlic Sauce – sliced chicken with snow peas, asparagus, carrots, mushrooms, julienne zucchini, and bell peppers $12
Chicken with Vegetables – sliced chicken with snow peas, asparagus, carrots, mushrooms, zucchini, and broccoli $12
Curry Chicken – tender chicken with diced bell peppers and onions, a thai-style curry adds heat along with chili oil $12
Chicken with Broccoli – sliced chicken tossed lightly with fresh steamed broccoli and carrots $12
Sesame Chicken – tender breaded chicken in our fulin's sauce topped with sesame seeds $12
Mongolian Beef – thinly-sliced beef with garlic, scallions, and red onions, served over crispy white rice noodles $14
Beef with Broccoli – slices of tender beef with carrots, lightly-steamed broccoli with our signature fulin's sauce $14
Spicy Sesame Beef – julienne beef with scallions and a sweet and spicy sesame sauce, served with a dash of salt and chili oil and topped with sesame seeds $14
Beef in Garlic Sauce – tender beef strips with snow peas, carrots, mushrooms, julienne bell peppers, and zucchini $14
General Tso's Shrimp – breaded shrimp cooked in sweet and spicy sauce with green peppers, zucchini, carrot $16
Shrimp and Cashews – shrimp mixed with vegetables and cashew nuts $16
Shrimp and Broccoli – shrimp with broccoli and carrots $16
Shrimp in Garlic Sauce – shrimp with mixed vegetables in garlic sauce $16
Shrimp in Lobster Sauce – shrimp with green peas, diced carrots, zucchini, finished with a succulent lobster sauce $16
Sweet and Sour Shrimp – crisp-fried shrimp with pineapple, chopped onion, and bell peppers, served with sweet and sour sauce $16
Scallops in Garlic Sauce – scallops with snow peas, asparagus, carrots, mushrooms, julienne zucchini, and bell peppers $17
Kung Pao Shrimp – shrimp with chopped scallions, chili peppers, peanuts with our signature kung Pao sauce $16
Scallops Delight – scallops with mixed vegetables $17
Shrimp with Coconut Sauce – shrimp deep-fried with a sweet coconut sauce sprinkled with crispy rice noodles $16
Sweet and Sour Pork – crisp-fried pork with pineapple, chopped onion, bell pepper, served with a side of our signature sweet and sour sauce $12
Shredded Pork in Garlic Sauce – tender shredded strips of pork, scallions, bell peppers, onions, zucchini, and asparagus $12
Mu Shu Pork – shredded thin pork with chinese mushrooms, julienne cabbage, scallions, carrots, and tender bamboo shoots, served with hoisin sauce and thin pancakes $13
Eggplant in Garlic Sauce – $9
Vegetable Delight – $9
Curry Mixed Vegetable – $9
Kung Pao Beancurd – $9
Fulin's Homestyle Bean Curd – $9
Sautéed String Beans – $9
Triple Crown – shrimp, chicken, and beef sauteed with snow peas, carrots, mushrooms, julienne zucchini, and bell peppers, cooked in our spicy garlic sauce $19
Seafood Bird's Nest – lobster tails, crab stick, scallops, and shrimp are stir-fried in our signature fulin's sauce, cashews, chopped carrots, diced zucchini, and mushrooms served in a beautifully crafted edible bird's nest display $22
Orange Beef – beef battered and fried cooked with red chili sauce with stir-fried julienne bell peppers and zucchini, garnished with orange slices $16
Sizzling Beef and Shrimp – tender steak and shrimp sautéed with onion, mushroom in chef's special sauce in a sizzling platter $18
Fulin's Famous Fish – mild ocean whitefish, deep-fried with our select vegetables and brown sauce $18
Seafood Combo – lobster tails, crab stick, jumbo shrimp, and sea scallops sautéed with the chef's select vegetables in a light sauce $22
Red Thai Style Curry – (Tofu 12- Chicken 14- Shrimp 16-)
stir-fried with red and green peppers, onion, pineapple, and fresh basil
Thai Basil Street Combo – chicken, beef, shrimp,and crab stick sautéed with basil, onion, red chili pepper in hot basil sauce $18
Crispy Shrimp and Honey Walnuts – shrimp deep-fried with a sweet coconut sauce topped with honey walnuts and sprinkled with crispy rice noodles $19
Thai Curry Seafood Casserole – thai-style curry with shrimp, scallops, crabstick, and select vegetables $18
Our daily lunch specials include choices of pork egg roll or vegetable spring roll and a side of white, brown, or fried rice.
Kung Pao Chicken
General Tso's Chicken
Cashew Chicken
Chicken and Vegetables
Kung Pao Shrimp
Shrimp with Broccoli
Mongolian Beef
Beef in Garlic Sauce
Chicken with Broccoli
Chicken in Garlic Sauce
Sweet and Sour Chicken
Curry Chicken
Sesame Chicken
Shrimp in Lobster Sauce
Pepper Steak
Beef with Broccoli
Sushi Appetizer – five pieces of sushi (tuna, salmon, white fish, crabstick, and shrimp) $9
Salmon, Salmon Roe, Shrimp, Squid, Octopus, or Crab Stick -$4.5
Smoked Salmon, Tuna, White Tuna, Eel, or Yellow-tail -$4.5
Sashimi Dinner 16 pieces of raw seafood: (three salmon, three tuna, three yellow-tail, three white tuna,two red snapper, and two octopus) $23
Maki Combo spicy tuna roll, alaska roll, and tempura shrimp roll $18
Chirashi Dinner assorted pieces of raw fish on a bed of sushi rice, two of each, (tuna, salmon, yellow-tail, white tuna, and octopus) $19
Sushi Classic eight nigiri sushi with american dream roll (tuna, salmon, yellow-tail, white tuna, red snapper, shrimp, squid, eel) $25
Love Boat two of each (tuna, salmon, yellow-tail, white tuna, red snapper, shrimp, squid, eel) american dream roll, and spider roll $41
Joy Roll bean curd, cream cheese, and tempura crunchies, topped with avocado $9
American Dream Roll tempura shrimp, cucumber, avocado, and flying fish roe, topped with eel sauce $9
Rainbow Roll california roll topped with tuna, white tuna, salmon, and white fish $11
Volcano Roll deep-fried crab stick, topped with spicy salmon or spicy tuna and hot sauce $10
Honada Roll deep-fried spicy tuna and avocado topped with fish roe, green chives, and chef's special sauce $10
Green Dragon Roll crab stick and eel topped with thin-sliced avocado and eel sauce $11
Beach Roll spicy crab stick topped with fresh salmon and hot sauce $10
Spider Roll fried soft-shell crab, avocado, cucumber, and flying fish roe topped with eel sauce $11
Tiger Roll tempura shrimp and spicy tuna or spicy salmon, topped with avocado and eel sauce $10
Honada Roll deep-fried spicy tuna and avocado topped with fish roe, green chives, and chef's special sauce $10
Snow Mountain Roll tempura shrimp topped with snow crab meat and mayonnaise $13
Rock City Roll tempura shrimp and avocado topped with grilled, spicy crab stick $13
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text: The Discovery Channel recently reported on Professor Greg Aldrete's linothorax faculty/student collaborative research project. The poster referred to was designed by UWGB graduate Scott Bartell (history and humanistic studies) and last week won the Best Poster Prize at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. More info, including the poster and video, can be found on the project's website.


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Recently I read about a family that took a stranger into their home. He has no family and is slowly dying with a terminal disease.
I admired the family for its kindness and willingness to become involved with the plight of a stranger, but something troubled me about the story. It reminded me of my own fears and cowardice.
I am frightened of where multiple sclerosis may take me. What if my degenerative disability requires that I go to a nursing home like so many other people with degenerative diseases? It would remove me from being actively engaged in the lives of those I love most.
I avoid nursing homes: To see those who are living that nightmare reminds me of that mammoth fear and so I turn away from them. I do to others what I fear most. That is my shame. My fear is abandonment, yet I abandon. I want Good Samaritans for me yet I am not one to others. Fear has been a terrible motivation in my life.
The July cover of the Catholic Missal Living With Christ had an artist's depiction of Christ's parable of the Good Samaritan. The parable is taken from chapter 10 of Luke's Gospel.
Jesus was responding to a lawyer's test about inheriting eternal life. Jesus turned the question around and asked the lawyer "What is written in the Law?" The lawyer answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself." So far so good, and Jesus told him his answer was right.
Then the lawyer cynically asked, "And who is my neighbour?" It doesn't take much discernment to detect the lawyer's question was meant to exclude some people from love's embrace. Jesus responded with a parable to illustrate that love should not have calculable limits.
Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan to illustrate that a neighbour is the person who shows mercy and a neighbour is also someone who needs mercy. Christ's story tells of a man who was attacked by robbers while travelling on a desolate road.
A priest and a Levite passed by the half dead man without helping him. It was a Samaritan who stopped to help. It's interesting that Christ spoke of a Samaritan because Samaritans and Jews were enemies and despised each other (Luke 9.51-56; John 4.9).
The Lord asked the lawyer, "Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" I imagine the lawyer must have felt a little uncomfortable and embarrassed at being put on the spot. He replied, "The one who showed him mercy."
Jesus' reply must have resonated with the lawyer just as it should resonate with you and me: "Go and do likewise."
There have been times it hasn't resonated with me, when I behaved like the priest and Levite and passed by someone in need. There probably were good excuses but they were excuses. The fact remained that someone needed my love but did not receive it.
At such moments, legitimate or lame excuses cheapened my connection to the human family not to mention my Christian faith.
Like the priest and Levite on a lonely stretch of road, there were times when I was afraid that a similar fate might fall upon me. If I stopped and became involved in somebody's predicament or anguish, my own monstrous fear might well up before me.
Yes, fear has been a terrible motivation in my life not to become involved or engaged with others. Sometimes I have been afraid that the needs of the needy may inconvenience me too much and demand more from me than I was prepared to give.
When I passed by a person in need, I may as well have done it to Christ. It would have been a poor defence for me to say, "At least it was not indifference." On the surface, it can be hard to distinguish inaction motivated by fear from that which comes from apathy. The opposite of love is not hate but indifference.
Have you ever turned a blind eye to the plight of someone in need? Perhaps it was fear that held you back. (I hope it was not indifference.) We are called to love God with our entire being and our neighbour as ourselves. Love calls us to action.


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Why married women deserve Social Security benefits
James Taranto highlights a couple of women, Lisa Arnold and Christina Campbell, who complain that it's unfair that married women, when widowed, get to receive social security benefits that tie into their husband's social security "earnings." Here, per Taranto, is the heart of Arnold's and Campbell's argument:
"More than 1,000 laws provide overt legal or financial benefits to married couples," they complain. "Marital privileging marginalizes the 50 percent of Americans who are single. . . . Marital privilege pervades nearly every facet of our lives." Income-tax liability is generally (though not always) higher for unmarried earners; married workers more or less automatically have access to spouses' health insurance; couples can share individual retirement accounts, and so forth.
That of course begs the question. Any policy that differentiates among individuals is "discriminatory," and not all discrimination is unjust or irrational. One of Arnold and Campbell's examples–Social Security–illustrates the point quite nicely.
If a single person dies without children, her money will–must–go into the system to be provided to whomever [sic] needs it most, which is good because that was the original intent of Social Security. However, if a married person dies, the money can be routed back to her family. This is good for the married person, but fails to account for the important people in singles' lives.
"Social Security privileges marrieds in many ways," the duo complain. "For example, [a] married woman could receive up to 50 percent of her husband's benefits while her husband is alive." Wait, that sounds like a cost of marriage to the hubby. "Spouses can also receive 100 percent of their dead spouse's benefits, if the deceased's benefits are higher than the recipient's would have been."
As one would expect, Taranto quickly exposes the logical flaws in their argument, one that flows from a fundamental misunderstanding about social security:
The bottom line is that a married woman is likely to collect considerably more in benefits than a single woman with the same lifetime income. The difference runs into six figures in the hypothetical example Arnold and Campbell devise. That sounds unjust: Why shouldn't benefits be fully concomitant with the money one paid into the system?
Because that's not how Social Security actually works. Although it is often misunderstood as an insurance plan, in reality it is a pay-as-you-go welfare program. That is to say that tomorrow's retirees depend for their benefits not on their own contributions but on tomorrow's workers. If you retire single and childless, that means you're living off the labor of other people's children. Why shouldn't you get a smaller benefit check than those who accepted the personal and financial burdens of raising those workers?
Taranto is absolutely right about the issue from the social security end, but he could have made a further argument — namely, that Arnold and Campbell are being utterly sexist insofar as they're denigrating a woman's very real financial contribution to a marriage.
The old male chauvinist pig argument was that, because women made no income, they actually contributed nothing of value economically, either to the marriage or to society as a whole. The first feminists were quick to point out that this is a fallacy, as the stay-at-home mother's contributions do, in fact, have a very real valuable. If mom were to vanish suddenly, and there was no female relative to step in to fill the gap, the father would have to hire someone to shop, cook, clean, and, most importantly, raise the children.
Merely feeding children is not enough. In an America with large swathes developed after the automobile came along, and in one dominated by media-fed fears of child-snatching, the caregiver spends an inordinate amount of time ferrying children about, whether to school, to friends (if you want them to be marginally socialized), to mandatory "volunteer" activities, to doctor's appointments, or to sports and other extracurricular activities. Additionally, when the children are little — and maybe even more when they're big — they need to be supervised so that they don't get into mischief. Their associates need to be vetted (druggie or good kid?) and their emotional and intellectual development overseen. Children are hard work. There's pleasure involved, but, boy!, is there work.
Many women work outside of the home, with their income going to pay for childcare. This works only if the working mother's income is sufficiently high that, after the household and childcare fees are met, and after the woman pays all her taxes (including Social Security withholding) there's something left over. Otherwise, she's just working so that she and her husband can pay someone else to raise the children.
The core fact here is that raising children and running the household is a job. There are two ways to view this when looking at a married couple. Either the man and the woman are a partnership, with each having a different function, but with all profits derived from the enterprise, in the form of the husband's salary, covering the partnership as a whole. Under this view, as a contributing member of the functioning partnership, the mother is clearly entitled to a share of the Social Security payments, even though her side of the partnership consisted, not of working outside of the home but, instead, of enabling her husband to earn a cash income that's subject to social security withholding.
A less nice, but still accurate, way of looking at social security payments and stay-at-home moms is that the husband essentially employs the wife. He earns the money, and he gives it to her to provide services such as housekeeping and child-rearing. In her absence, he'd have to pay someone else — in cold, hard, taxed cash. Because she is an employee, her earnings are subject to Social Security withholding, something that the government sees to by taking those withholding from the husband. After all, if it wasn't for his children, she could be out there earning money.
It's perfectly true that not all women have children or that there are women with children who cheerfully work outside the home. On the bell curve, though, both of those situations occupy the long-tailed margins. The reality is that married women mostly have children, and that these women mostly provide child and household care, and that, by doing so, these women mostly see their personal income drop, even as they contribute to their husband's income on behalf of the marital estate. This last fact means that they've earned Social Security benefits as certainly as their husband did. And these women certain deserve the payments after their husband's death because their withdrawal from the labor market to benefit the family means that, once hubby dies (and hubby is statistically likely to die first), they no longer have much, if any, income-earning capacity.
Arnold and Campbell couldn't be more sexist than when they demean stay-at-home moms by arguing that their contribution to the martial partnership is valueless and that it shouldn't be compensated in the form of repayment of the money the government forcibly wrested away from the family unit.


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MRAUK-U, Myanmar
(AP) -- It was dusk in a corner of Myanmar recently shaken by some of the bloodiest sectarian violence in a generation, and a dozen Canadian tourists climbed to the top of a grassy hill, cameras ready to capture the sweeping view.
From here, it was hard to tell anything was wrong.
Just six miles (10 kilometers) to the south, though, security forces have blocked roads to a village that was reportedly overrun last month by a frenzied mob of Rakhine Buddhists armed with swords and spears who beheaded Muslim civilians and slaughtered women and children.
Across western Myanmar's Rakhine state, the United Nations is distributing emergency supplies of food and shelter to terrified refugees who have fled burning homes. A nighttime curfew is in force in several townships, including Mrauk-U.
But none of that has kept a small but steady trickle of determined tourists from traveling here to ogle at the monuments of this region's glorious past.
"We heard the news before coming," Caroline Barbeau, a French-speaking social worker from Montreal, said of violence that has shaken the region since June, displacing 110,000 people from their homes.
But "we've had no problems," she said. "The people are very nice, very kind."
Asked what had touched her most, Barbeau turned pensive. "Their smiles."
Mrauk-U itself has been spared the bloodshed between Buddhist and Muslims that has scarred other parts of Rakhine state. It is calm, and for foreign tourists, safe. But the Muslims who once worked and traded here just a few months ago no longer dare set foot in the town, part of a worrying new pattern of segregation that has split the two communities.
What draws tourists to this remote place are its storied relics -- hundreds of them, scattered across the hilltops. Mrauk-U is the spiritual heartland of the Rakhine, the former capital of a now-defunct Buddhist kingdom that reached its height in the 16th century. The dynasty conquered a swath of mountainous territory along what is now Myanmar's western coast, waging major battles against rival empires -- including Muslims from Bengal.
Their descendants -- the Buddhist Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya -- have been fighting and killing each other across this region in recent months.
The conflict centers around the question of nationality, scarce land, and some say, racism. The Rakhine consider the darker-skinned Muslims among them to be foreign intruders from Bangladesh, even though many have lived here for generations. The government denies the Rohingya citizenship, considering them "Bengalis." But Bangladesh does too, effectively rendering them stateless.
After three Muslim Rohingya men allegedly raped and murdered a Buddhist Rakhine woman in late May, violence rocked the state for a week in June, then again in October. In what may have been the bloodiest episode so far, a thousands-strong mob of Buddhists with spears, arrows and homemade guns overran the village Yan Thei, just south of Mrauk-U, razing most of it to the ground, according to Human Rights Watch.
Although the violence has subsided, tensions have not, and there are fears the worst is yet to come.
Which raises the question: Should any tourists be traveling here at all?
During Myanmar's half-century of military rule, which ended last year, only the most intrepid travelers made their way to places like Mrauk-U, and even then there was debate over whether traveling to the Southeast Asian country would bolster the oppressive junta.
But after the army ceded direct power last year to an elected but still military-dominated government, the new president embarked on a wave of widely praised democratic reforms, and the number of tourists skyrocketed.
The serene pace and historic legacy of places like this are a big part of the draw.
Even the route to Mrauk-U is worth the trip -- a slow, meandering boat journey up the Kaladan River past a timeless horizon of shimmering rice fields. Thatched bamboo huts rise from the water's edge on stilts. Oxen graze. Golden pagodas rise from green hills.
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Philippe Grivel, a retired Frenchman traveling solo in Rakhine state, said he was afraid not of the potential for violence, but of the possibility of missing one of Myanmar's grandest historical sites.
After the fighting began, the government banned local travel agencies from taking foreign tourists to the region. But nothing has stopped individual travelers from making the journey, and special permits have been granted to some larger tour groups.
When Grivel emailed a hotel in Mrauk-U to inquire if it was possible to visit, they told him that if the authorities didn't turn him back at the airport in Sittwe, the state capital, he was free to come.
Explorateur, the Canadian tour agency that arranged Barbeau's travel and advertises three-week trips to Myanmar called "Light and Harmony," assured its clients the trip would be safe.
And it was.
"This is still a virgin country without many tourists," said another of the Canadian tourists, a francophone from Montreal who gave only her family name, Allard, because of security concerns. "It's magnificent."
The sightseers -- 12 tourists and one guide -- spent several days bicycling through Mrauk-U's quaint, crumbling streets. They visited the town market. They saw nothing disturbing.
Allard, though, was surprised to learn that one of Mrauk-U's monasteries is home to more than 700 Buddhist refugees, nine of whom had just walked there after hearing rumors that Muslims armed with Molotov cocktails were readying for an assault.
The tour group did not visit the monastery. But they did express concern over the violence. Allard called the recent bloodshed "horrible."
On the eve of their final day, the group toured Mrauk-U's most famous temple, a stone labyrinth called Shittaung. Also known as the "Temple of Victory," it was built in 1535 to commemorate King Min Bin's conquest over the 12 provinces of Muslim-dominated Bengal.
As a Burmese guide explained the temple's history, the group snapped photos of the ubiquitous stone Buddhas lined up inside its dim, maze-like hallways. Some strained their necks to gaze up at the elaborate royal artwork painted on the ceilings above.
Kyaw Zaw Tun, who works at the temple and lost a brother in the October clashes, said it would normally be full of local Buddhist pilgrims at this time of year.
But its halls are almost empty, its guest book filled with, on average, one or two foreign visitors a day.
Asked if Muslims had ever visited before the violence began, he shook his head with disgust.
"If they came in here now," he said, pausing to tighten his right hand as if it were a knife about to slice meat, "chop, chop, chop."
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Intel bets big on thin PCs and phones at Las Vegas show
Top chipmaker Intel Corp on Monday announced shipments of a new low-power chip and showed off next-generation ultra thin laptops and convertible tablets in its latest bid to prove that the struggling PC industry still has a bright future.business Updated: Jan 08, 2013 17:12 IST
Top chipmaker Intel Corp on Monday announced shipments of a new low-power chip and showed off next-generation ultra thin laptops and convertible tablets in its latest bid to prove that the struggling PC industry still has a bright future.
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas , Intel said new energy-efficient processors for tablets and laptops are available now, and it outlined features like voice recognition and drastically improved battery life on future PCs.
"Absolutely all-day battery life where you just don't have to bring your power brick at all anymore," Kirk Skaugen, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel's PC Client Group, said of laptops built with the company's upcoming Haswell processor.
While macroeconomic troubles have weighed on sales for several quarters, the growing popularity of tablets and smartphones is seen as an existential threat to the PC industry.
Anxious to breathe new life into PCs and prove a recent slump in sales is not permanent, Intel and PC manufactures in Las Vegas this week will display a range of ultra thin laptops, dubbed Ultrabooks, and hybrid devices that convert into tablets.
On a stage flanked by dozens of tablets and laptops with rotatable and detachable screens, Skaugen said Intel's newly available chip based on its current Ivy Bridge architecture sips just 7 watts of energy, more efficient than a previously planned 10 watts of power.
No-excuses phone
The Santa Clara, California-based company has long been king of the PC chip market, particularly through its historic "Wintel" alliance with Microsoft Corp, which led to breathtakingly high profit margins and an 80 percent market share.
But it has struggled to adapt its powerful PC processors for battery-powered smartphones and tablets, a fast-growing market led by Qualcomm Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, ARM Holdings Plc and others.
Mike Bell, who co-heads Intel's mobile and wireless business, introduced a new processor platform, code named Lexington, targeted at low-priced smartphones in emerging markets like Latin America and Asia.
"It's designed to be a no-excuses multimedia phone," he said.
Acer, Safaricom and Lava have already agreed to use the new chips in future phones, Bell said.
A handful of manufacturers and telecom carriers in Europe and Asia have already launched smartphones using Intel's Medfield processors this year. Google's Motorola Mobility in September launched the Razr i in Europe and Latin America as the first handset of a multi-device agreement between the two groups.
But Intel is fighting an uphill battle in a market where chips made using technology from ARM Holdings have become ubiquitous. Intel also has yet to release a chip for 4G telephone networks, keeping it out of the running for major smartphone design wins in the United States.
Sales of smartphone processors soared 58 percent in the third quarter, but Intel had just 0.2 percent of that market, according to a recent report from Strategy Analytics.
By comparison, worldwide PC shipments fell 8.6 percent in the third quarter, according to IDC.
Intel said 3D cameras would be integrated in future Ultrabooks to allow consumers to use gestures and facial recognition to control their devices. Upcoming Ultrabooks will also include voice interaction, Skaugen said.
"We're basically going to give the PC the same human senses we've all had," he said.
Intel and other tech companies are increasingly looking for ways to let PCs and other devices use cameras, GPS chips, microphones and other kinds of sensors to predict their users' needs.
"It's this combination of computer devices doing things before you ask them to do it, in that they're smart enough to know based on their sensors," said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.


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Wrap-up Group Discussion
Who is doing what, and when?
What are our next steps?
What:Biocomplexity curricular resources based on specific topics (e.g. El Nino). A model for case-based modules.
- Web site to communicate:
- How to develop student activities and approaches
- Introductory steps around a biocomplexity case study
- Find the links
- Role playing
- Concept maps
- Examples of existing case studies (today El Nino, tomorrow...)
Who:Ghost writer needed
- Carol will provide the reference list for El Nino
- Rose will type what we have
- Julie will turn it into html
- Robin will make a concept map example
What:Identify the fundamental elements of biocomplexity for educators.
How:Conduct a workshop or shourt course on the fundamental elements of biocomplexity.
Who:Workshop run by experts in each needed area who are also audience participants.
What:Case studies based on funded CHN (coupled human-natural systems) projects—articulate links between human and natural systems.
How:Personal contact with PIs Publishers and necessary support persons
Who:Dave McGinnis and Biocomplexity PIs
How do we have an influence?
A) Teaching
- Asking questions
- Using case studies to phrase questions in biocomplexity
- Breaking out of traditional departments
- New ways to include biocomplexity in classes
- Motivation to break down subject barriers
- How to incorporate and make us socially responsible
B) Research
- Incorporation of feedback from stakeholders
- Expand projects to include new collaborators
- Funding for integrated studies
C) Academic Life
- Work to increase interaction between humans and geology
- Validation
- Appreciation of "biocomplexity"
- Collegiality
- Cross-fertilization between disciplines
What to do to reach a wider audience over a longer term?
Spread the message to...
- Paleontologists
- Modelers
- Pattern emergence physicists
- Condensed matter theorists
- Emergence mathematicians
- Social scientists and geographers
- Cultural ecologists
- General ed
- Non scientists
How to get the message out?
- Within university—departments, deans, administration
- Communications written so that non-scientists can understand them
- Science journalism, such as LDEO
- Model complexity across the curriculum
- Broaden thesis resources
- Informal seminar series
- Lecturer series
- Map onto NSES
- Way of thinking
- Form partnerships, such as with school boards
Develop a "party line"
- What is biocomplexity? (3 bullets)
- How is biocomplexity an improvement over the way we currently look at systems? (3 bullets)
Develop publications
- Article for the Chronicle of Higher Education
- No white paper at this time.
Our Message to NSF
- Funding of integrated research by NSF is much appreciated and needs to keep going.
- Biocomplexity has the potential to promote a systemic change in education.
- NSF to facilitate transfer of research to educational materials, from K through grad levels.
- NSF to fund biocomplexity education in parallel, rather than waiting until research is further along.
- Would like to see follow-on workshops (e.g. regional focus).


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Why do you bore me so? The haircut I have now is one I've had on and off since I was 16 years old. It's totally fine. My friends and I like to call it the "Funboy" haircut. It's the type of haircut you have when you have, like, no imagination. Thus, I've been pondering the following five haircuts, wondering which I could pull off.
This one is awesome. If I had this haircut everyone would be scared of me and how cool I was. Which is pretty much my goal in life.
I like this haircut, but it kind of depends on what direction the wind is going. If the wind blows the wrong way I'm sure it looks ugly. Like my current haircut.
I like this 'do. I've tried it a few times but it does weird things in the wind (i.e. when it blows back it looks like your toupee is coming off your head).
Another bowl cut. Super feminine but SO fashiony!
I think this could be the winner of the group. It's definite FashionHair, but it's classic enough not to look like they're trying too hard.
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This dance focuses only on the up to $400 million in cuts, which is in fact only a small fraction of the $70 billion budget - less than half of one percent.
It's time for this absurd dance to end.
Government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people. So I'm introducing what I call "The People' Budget" - a wholesale review of the budget process that contains about 70 new budget proposals overall.
The People's Budget is predicated on the principal that the current reality in New York City is unacceptable, and that we need to reassess our budget priorities to restore government of the people, by the people, and for the people – for all New Yorkers.
While it's true that a significant portion of the budget – about $38 billion – is fixed, that leaves about $32 billion in discretionary funds.
The first priority of The People's Budget is education, including the creation of a universal preschool for three-year-olds.
The second is public safety. We would put an end to Stop and Frisk and hire 5,000 more police officers – restoring the police force to its size in the pre-Bloomberg days.
Another proposal would set aside $3.7 billion to create 100,000 units of affordable housing.
The People's Budget is realistic. We can create better schools, safe neighborhoods, and affordable housing.
Too many New Yorkers have not been able to realize the New York City dream. It's unacceptable that four out of five NYC public school students do not graduate from college, and that nearly half of all New Yorkers pay rents that are unaffordable, and that minimum-wage jobs don't pay enough to support a single person, let alone adults with kids to feed.
This can change. Through revenue growth, cost savings, community investments, and tax relief, we can keep the New York City Dream alive.
We also need to reduce taxes. The People's Budget would create $1.2 billion in new revenues by asking those making over $500,000 to contribute more to the city they live in – while cutting taxes for the 99 precent of New Yorkers who make less than that.
Some will argue that wealthy New Yorkers will flee the city if we ask them to pay their fair share, or that big corporations will leave if we fail to lavish tax breaks and subsidies on them.
But I believe that New York is not a commodity. People all over the world – even very wealthy people - are moving here because they want to become New Yorkers. And businesses are relocating here because they want to take advantage of the unique opportunities of New York City.
So check out The People's Budget at comptroller.nyc.gov. Together, we can keep the New York City Dream alive.
John C. Liu is New York City Comptroller.


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Casshern Sins: Part Two
When we last left
Casshern Sins, the main story was developing an eventual showdown
between Casshern and the two robots created alongside him, Dio and Leda, who want
to rule the world. While the series was one of the most amazing looking
series I have ever seen, unfortunately, the story was a meandering, unfocused, melodramatic stroll
through a dying robot-ruled world. The characters spent an excessive amount of time
thinking about how much they hate life, which made for a story that was itself,
easy to hate. The second half of Casshern Sins stays much more focused on the main
story. While it still dabbles in the fluffy nonsense and tangents that marred the
first half, this final set of episodes comes much closer to achieving the ambitious
goals of its creators.
In this set, Casshern learns that Luna may not be dead after all. He decides that
it is now his duty to find Luna and protect those who are dying from the Ruin. Lyuze,
along with Friender, join Casshern's wanderings. After happening upon Casshern in
practically every episode, Ringo and Ohji finally make it official and join Casshern's
journey to find Luna.
Meanwhile, the former robot dictator of the world, Braiking Boss makes his appearance
early in this set. He is a true wildcard character who just watches the events unfold
from afar. Braiking Boss claims to have no stake in the outcome, but can a man who
once ruled the world with a robot army really stay out of the game or does he have
his own agenda? Casshern's gang uncovers Luna's birthplace and learns something
about Luna, which Ohji must examine further. He leaves Ringo in the care of Casshern
and Lyuze and wants them to take her to Luna. From here, the gang makes their journey
to find Luna, hoping that she is the healing goddess that they believe she is.
Casshern also must eventually face-off against Dio and Leda. After being built up
as the primary enemy and someone who wants to rule the world, Dio is really a pushover.
Leda uses Dio as a figurehead to do her bidding, constantly planting ideas in his
head or just flat out telling him what to do. The one thing she cannot overcome,
however, is Dio's single-minded obsession with defeating Casshern. Throughout his
entire existence, Casshern has always been one step ahead. In their battles, he
has come up just short every time. In order rule the world, Dio feels that he must
first surpass Casshern. Braiking Boss even pulls Dio's strings. In one episode,
he taunts a beaten and bloodied Dio. He knows Dio has an inferiority complex to
Casshern and uses that to get him to jump back into a fight. Dio is merely a puppet.
A powerful puppet, but a puppet nonetheless. Leda is the true threat and these final
episodes are her coming out party of sorts.
The first set of Casshern Sins exhibited poor pacing by building the story to a
crescendo and then ignoring it for multiple episodes. While still agonizingly slow at
times, the second half of Casshern Sins mostly stays on course. The first five episodes
are especially indicative of the true potential of this series. Unfortunately, there
are a couple of episodes in the middle of this collection that dwell on Lyuze's
obvious internal conflict, which could have been condensed. While Casshern finds
purpose in his existence and, for the most part, stops staring at the desolation
and hating himself, Lyuze falls into her own fit of endless self-loathing. She despises
that she has fallen in love with the man who killed her sister and Luna. Someone
in this story could make some serious coin if they created anti-depression drugs
for robots.
Once Lyuze fights through that complication, she then agonizes over her inevitable
demise to the ruin. Casshern, the former suicidal killing machine who now has a
purpose in life, even demonstrates some character growth by playing the role of
Lyuze's counselor, shoulder to cry on, and stabbing dummy--Lyuze gets a little violent
when she's depressed. The two full episodes devoted to Lyuze's inner demons are
slow and unnecessary, but at least they are relevant and do not involve throwaway
characters that build bell towers or paint cities.
Casshern Sins wants to be great. It shoots for the stars with its
gorgeous animation, poetic dialogue, and symbolic imagery. While the second half is far
superior to the first, it still falls short of greatness. Regardless, a good series
is always worth watching. The story does finally come around in this collection
and the conclusion has the nice, circular irony that will set your mind pondering.
The DVD
Audio: I only listened to the English 5.1 Dolby Digital track, but there is also
a Japanese 2.0 track for all the subtitle fans. When there's not an epic battle
between Casshern and some army of robots, the dialogue is slow and quiet. The action
scenes exhibit a fair amount of directionality among all five speakers and there
are some ambient effects throughout the series. I enjoyed the English dub and have
no complaints about the quality. There were plenty of opportunities where a bad
voice actor could ruin the experience, especially with the main cast of Casshern,
Ringo, and Lyuze, but they are all well voiced in this series.
Video: Casshern Sins is a visual treat to behold. The video is presented in 1.78:1
anamorphic widescreen. I did not see any hint of blocking, line noise or any other
artifacts. The color scheme is intentionally sullen and bland. It's a show about
a dying world. Even with that color palette limitation, this is one
of the most incredible looking television-based anime series ever. Once again, this
show is well worth the price of admission just to admire the stylized art.
One of the few complaints I have concerns several fight scenes where the camera
pulls away from the action and just shows a bunch of slashes and a cloud of dust.
The idea is that the combatants are moving too fast for the viewer to focus on the
detailed action. It's a cop out. I have seen this technique in countless other shows
and it always comes across as a cop out. Show us the fight!
Extras: The special features include textless opening and closing credits and trailers.
Also included is a short music video featuring a live performance by Color Band
of "Azure Flowers," the opening theme song for the series.
Final Thoughts: Casshern Sins Part 2 is a vast improvement over the first set. Pacing
problems still plague the series until the bitter end, but at the very least, the
tangents were minimized in these episodes. In the review of the first set, I said
that the series could be cut in half by removing all the fluff and I still stand
by that statement. The characters spend a ridiculous amount of time staring at water,
dreaming, posing, and overstating their obvious internal conflicts in melodramatic
"woe is me" scenes. Beyond that, however, this series is simply a delight to look
at and a good story actually manages to shine through all the murky drama. If you
watched the first set and found some enjoyment out of it, then it is definitely
worthwhile to see Casshern Sins through to the end. Recommended.
Bobby is a programmer by trade and a wannabe writer. Check out his other reviews here. You can also check out his blog about harmless nonsense or follow him on Twitter
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Mother Son Bonding - 2013 Edition
While it's important to us to bring him along and show him the world, I think it's also important for us to do things WITH him that he wants to do, including video games.
I always sort of shudder when I hear people talk about games their kids play, when in fact as parents they don't know ANYTHING about them. How do you KNOW what's going on if you don't play it yourself?
It happens that the husband and I are gamers. So this isn't a stretch for us at all, in fact it's right in our bailiwick. But what's interesting is the bonding time that has come from us playing with him. The boy and I have had lots of questing adventures. We've made toons on both sides, done special events, done battlegrounds and now tonight he and I did dungeons together.
What are we playing?
World of Warcraft. Yes we're nerds. But we're also learning social lessons (some people are asshats) and we're simply spending time together. We laugh hysterically, we cheer each other on. I can play this with him when I'm 80 (if it's around). We're learning about sportsmanship, and rules of engagement, and that well - pandas can be good or bad. And once you roll toons on both sides, you learn that good and bad are really quite based on your point of view.
Video games aren't the BEST way in the world to spend time with your kid. But I think as responsible parents, knowing your kids were playing video games, you'd do better to be involved and in control of what is going on. We don't play First Person Shooters. We play make believe, with imaginary stories of demons and trolls. Where good and evil battle for power, you'll find us some Saturday afternoons.
We play both sides though. :)


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - How to combat circular logic Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in How to combat circular logic Goto page Previous 1, 2 Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Taiwan View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message TheyCallMeTrinityJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 44Location: Taiwan, at the moment Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:33 am Post subject: ???? Quote: squid"]ok, i'm going to have to support taoyuansteve all the way. sorry you guys who disagree, but i've seen far worse things in north american cities than here in taiwan. try walking in a downtown core of a major city in the states or canada, turn the corner and bam! you are right in the middle of strung out druggies who have been hooking all night just to get their next fix. They're either bent over in pain because they're coming off from their high or their eyes are glazed over because they've just taken their next hit. You watch too much t. v. Quote: i don't see that here in taiwan. A.) Different drugs. go to night clubs. Walk around after dark near night clubs. K and E. Do your math. B.) How naive. Because you don't see it means it isn't here? You don't see Lee Deng-hui much, do you? Is he not real? What about the myraid of drunks strung out all over Taipei? Are you naive enough to dismiss alcohol as a drug? [quote]and to trinity: what do you know about chinese people or societies? You're cloaking your obvious racism with pseudo-intellectual BS. chinese societies need colonizers to be civilized? you come straight out of an 18th century travel narrative.quote] What od you know? See my other post. I put up my bakcground now put up yours, or are you just out to point fingers without exposing what makes you "right?" I mean, after all that's what you're trying to prove. Go to Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, and China. Comapre the following: Social welfware systems Employment Social responsibility/Personal liability adherance to safety standards Institurionalized racism Civil Rights Equal rights Standard of living Life expenctancy Civil liberties granted to its people Compare and contrast and do the math for us, on the forum. Don't side-step my direct issues. Dont' give me 'Well what about where you come from" because that place doesn't exist. I talk about WHERE I AM. This is my backyard. This is where I live and pay taxes (do you, or are you an illegal teacher?), and I have a right to care about where I live. I have the right to my opinions. Do you understand, or are you too far 'left' with your bleeding heart that your'e really "right," and therefore a defacto fascist? As the saying goes, "put up or shut up." You raised issues. You wrote some 'checks," now let's see if you have the collateral to cash them. Fight my evil so-called "racism" with your "facts." I'm not a raicst, however. I don't hate the Chinese at all. Quite the contrary, actually, but you misconstrue genuine observations based upon experience with how I view a race. Societies do not define race. Races, however, can define societies, and in America, Canada, Japan, and Europe I can think of more than a few contributions that ethnically Chinese people have made for the betterment of mankind. So, stop behaving like a true racist out to lynch someone and share your "wisdom" throuhg more opinions. I only read attacks and very little of substance ot back your attacks up. This goes for you, Squid, and "Taoyuan Steve". By the way: I SHUDDER to think Squid or TaoyuanSteve are teachers. To lable somone racist when they may be prejudgiced speaks in volumes about your vocabulary skills. I will admit I've become prejudgiced but I have not hatered towards Taiwanese/Mianland Chinese people.Last edited by TheyCallMeTrinity on Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:42 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top TheyCallMeTrinityJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 44Location: Taiwan, at the moment Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:39 am Post subject: Well said, MissusFish Sorry if I mangled your name. We have had different experiences and I agree with you on some things, but disagree with you on other points. Regardless, it is refreshing to see someone posting in a civil manner while offering up a lot of details to back up your feelings. I wish more people were mature enough to do the same. (this is why you are a moderator, right? ) Back to top RogerJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 9138 Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 7:53 am Post subject: Hey guys! It is pretty obvious that some of you were in a mood for tit-and-tat! I can empathise with all of you, really! I agree, Chinese are not rational (but when I wrote that in some publication that was being reviewed by an American I drew heavy flak!). And, yes, Chinese can be very boorish and overbearing at the same time! Still, I am reasonably happy - not in Taiwan but in China! It is the worse of the two Chinese worlds! I only know Taiwan from a previous holiday visit - and I had found it a great getaway from mainland China! Yet, I am confident life is getting better all the time - precisely because China has after long last begun opening itself up to the rest of us! Still, the people in Taiwan are Chinese too. At least the majority. Do they have anything in common with Chinese from the PRC? Singapore? Hong Kong? Apart from the language, obviously...? Probably yes. Probably the fact that they are more individualistic than we are misled into believing. We tend to think: "Chinese - revolving around families, tribes and nation..." Also: "Strict hierarchies..." True for the eye! It is for appearances, mainly, but functionally...? Take a look at social cohesion: Some Belgian sinologue said Chinese societies are like sand hills. There is little cohesion between the grains of sand. A gust of wind, and the hill starts crumbling! See how they scramble and fight to get a seat on board a bus or an underground train in Hong Kong! Over the border, in Shenzhen you will notice that many a boss from the interior will hire natives from his home province only! Clannishness! Do you seriously expect people with these attributes to live up to our behavioral norms? Lining up behind counters... waiting their turn... paying on time, paying without being asked, just paying because it is TIME to pay your utilities... No no no! In China, utilities charge you 2% to 5% for late payments - PER DAY! In one month, your previous month's power bill will set you back double the original amount! Because Chinese cannot be counted on paying on time. Bosses must hurt people where it hurts most! Because people hardly have a common sense. They are born into a predator society, a society of opportunists. It is a society that reveres possessions over anything else. Money buys happiness. Chinese girls tell me a rich man is more likely to make them HAPPY. Happiness is easy to explain in such a society, easy enough to understand for peasants. Things intellectual or even spiritual are frowned upon. Mayhbe less so in Taiwan. In Hong Kong? Many are nominally-Christian or Buddhist. I doubt that the majority understand the underlying principles of monotheist religions. Consequently, Chinese are unsentimental. They migrate, leaving behind their more idyllic rural parts. They emigrate to greener pastures. But often, they return. They will accept any foreign citizenship for purely prosaic and practical considerations - but they will not swear allegiance to another sovereign! Because they never swear any allegiance in their lifetime! Yes, they learn at school - here in mainland China! - to say such niceties like "I love my homeland!" Or "I love Jiang ..." Does it enter their innermost core? Do they love their country as ardently as Romeo loved Juliet? I know from some insights that "love" as we practise it is hardly understood by Chinese. "Love" is what they have been conditioned to feel for their leaders and their country although they hardly love their fellow-countrypeople as they are competitors on the same turf, for jobs and for a livelihood that is not easy to get. Their "love" is a highly idealised form of worship for their national origin, their ancestors and their current leaders. It is a cult. Because of this, it is difficult for them to show their love in a more convincing way: showing respect to their compatriots no matter their social status. Care for the environment. Sympathy for the downtrodden, the innocent victims of justice and of crime (see how they gawk!). It is all very shocking - but also enlightening. You must get used to these things, or else reconsider your role here! After all, ours is a different culture, one that has evolved and been refined through the millenia and over many different national identities - from ancient Egypt and Babylon to Greece, Rome, to the Here and Now. How does that differ from CHinese self-perception - "Middle Kingdom"? Back to top SunpowerJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 256Location: Taipei, TAIWAN Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject: Quote: By the way: I SHUDDER to think Squid or TaoyuanSteve are teachers. To lable somone racist when they may be prejudgiced speaks in volumes about your vocabulary skills. Thought the same thing. That's why I asked Steve if he even lived in Taiwan. These responses that upset steve and Squid had nothing to do with racism. 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Smoke Headlamps: Yes
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Remote Trunk Opener: Yes
Remote Fuel Lid Opener: Yes
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Rear Reading Lamp: Yes
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5,560 square miles: the largest playable environment in a console game recognized by Guinness World Records™
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – May 22, 2009 – It covers the approximate area of Trinidad & Tobago, it's larger than Hong Kong, Singapore, St Lucia and the Isle of Man put together. Innovative open-world racer FUEL™ – launching on June 2ndfor the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft® and a Games For Windows® edition to follow - boasts 5,560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain, making it officially the largest playable environment in a console game ever.
The accolade, presented to FUEL developers Asobo Studio, was confirmed by Guinness World Records, who have verified the record for inclusion in the next Guinness World Records Gamers Edition of the best-selling guide.
Guinness World Records presented Codemasters and Asobo Studio with a certificate that officially documents:
"Largest playable area in a console game: The largest playable environment in a console game is 5,560 sq mi (14,400 km²), and is featured in FUEL (Codemasters, 2009). The area features rivers, deserts, forests and mountains and was demonstrated at the offices of Guinness World Records, London, UK, on 20 May 2009."
"We've been very impressed with the technology powering FUEL, and I'm pleased to welcome Asobo and Codemasters into the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition," said Gaz Deaves, Video Games Records Manager for Guinness World Records, "What we've seen from FUEL places it right at the cutting edge of the open-world racing genre and really raises the bar for games developers in the future."
"We knew FUEL was going to be big," said Phil Wright, Producer, Codemasters, "but to have this confirmed officially by Guinness World Records justifies our faith in this ground-breaking title. No other game comes close to offering the variety of environments, the range of vehicles or the sheer size of FUEL. It's one of the most innovative racers ever, and we're thrilled it's been recognised as the biggest console game of all time."
To celebrate the award, Codemasters has released a new video featuring David Dedeine and Sebastian Wloch, two of the co-founders of Asobo Studio, who explain gameplay features and the technical challenge in creating the record-setting FUEL. The video is available from www.fuel-game.com (in the Downloads section).
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The rosary is
defined as a vocal and mental prayer. The vocal part is the saying of the rosary; the mental is the thinking of the mystery.
In 1460 Our Lady
appeared to Blessed Alan DeLa Roche and told him to re-establish the rosary. Our Lord appeared to him the Sacred Host and told him to preach
His mothers rosary. Before now the rosary was known as Our Lady's Psalter or Angelic Salutation. It wasnt until Blessed Alan
came along that this prayer took the name rosary. These angelic salutations were called crown of roses. Rosarium is Latin
for crown of roses and People started calling this prayer the Rosary. Beads in early English are spelled bede and means prayer.
So, we have the rosary beads today meaning the crown of roses prayer.
The last part
of the Hail Mary was developed by the church at the Council of Ephesus in 430 A.D., to combat the Nestorian Heresy that was spreading about the Motherhood of Mary, as the Mother of God.
In the 14th century
the Apostles Creed was added to the rosary as well as the crucifix. In the 18th century St. Louis DeMonfort started the Glory Be to the Fathers, etc. St. Bernard added the Hail-Holy Queen to the end of the rosary. Our Lady requested we say "Oh My Jesus forgive us our
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Situated on Italy's Adriatic coast, the historic fishing village of Cesenatico is a real catch. The old town provides postcard-perfect scenes at every turn, with its quaint, colorful abodes, and traditional sailboats bobbing on the canal waters. Here, it's all about relaxed pleasures, from lazy afternoons gorging on handmade gelato, to dining on locally caught seafood al fresco before taking a waterside passeggiata.
When you've had your fill of chilling out, there's plenty of attractions too. The Museo della Marineria curates the history of Cesenatico's seafaring and fishing traditions, while the Porto Canale, the heart of old town, was the project of none other than Leonardo da Vinci.
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10 Best Things to Do in Cesenatico
Cesenatico is basically Venice without the San Marco crowds – and with a sandy coast as a bonus. It's one of the great seaside towns gracing the Eastern Riviera, but which is often outshined by the other more popular summertime Italian cities. You can reach this small and quaint canal port town in about 90 minutes of driving southeast from Bologna.
The canal that Leonardo da Vinci designed is stunning, adorned by the colourful sails of traditional boats. Walking streets between charming piazzas easily lead you to the beach, while some transform into pedestrian-only routes with plenty of shopping and entertainment on offer. Here's a list of top things to do in Cesenatico in a day or two, with a combination of history, sightseeing and modern pleasures.
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Driving through the darkened countryside and coming over that last hill on the unlit country road is like driving into a fairyland. Suddenly you find yourself in a dazzling valley set aglow with more than one million Christmas lights adorning buildings, gift barns, and landscape. A reflective lake adds to the stunning beauty of this magical place.
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Appointed and assigned to serve statewide as Senior Judge from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2021.
B.A., Magna cum Laude, College of St. Thomas, 1970 J.D., cum Laude, University of Minnesota, 1973
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Chief Judge- First Judicial District, July 2009-July 2013
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With whimsy and creativity, alphabet-themed apps can do more than simply teach the ABCs. This collection of alphabet apps is full of inventive ways to engage kids — from teaching the alphabet to creating fanciful objects out of everyday items to solving puzzles and playing games. One app isn't even intended to teach ABCs, but rather it uses the alphabet as artistic building blocks.
Endless Alphabet
From Callaway Digital Arts Inc., best for ages 4-7, Free, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad[1].
Rating: 4 stars (out of 4)
"Endless Alphabet" makes learning phonics, spelling and word definitions so much fun that even reluctant learners will want in on the action. This alphabet game is set inside a friendly monster's mouth where the letters of the alphabet appear on his lips. When kids touch a letter, a word that starts with the selected letter appears inside the monster's mouth. Players trigger a game about the word when they touch it inside the monster's mouth.
The word appears in colored letters. Then a group of monsters runs by and dislodges the letters. As the player taps and drags each letter back to its shadowed outline, the letter comes alive, wiggling, blinking and saying its sound aloud. It is hilarious. When all the letters are back in order, an animation starts that helps kids to learn the definition of the new word.
This collection of words, which all lend themselves to silly and adorable animations, are what makes this alphabet app a winner. With the word "Juggle," a red monster with six hands juggles the letters of the word until he gets them in the correct order. For the word "Nosey," the animation shows a two-headed monster where one head has a wrapped present and the other is nosey about wanting to see it. "Itchy" is my favorite, where a little blue furry monster is so itchy that he scratches his fur off.
Callaway Digital Arts, which is well known for creating the Sesame Street app "The Monster at the End of This Book…starring Grover," is offering this gem for free for a limited time. Don't wait, download it now.
puzzles with letters, kids learn ABCs and creativity by playing iMagine machine's new "Faces iMake – ABC."(Photo: iMagine)
Faces iMake – ABC
From iMagine machine LLC, best for ages 3-6, $1.99, iPad[2].
Rating: 4 stars
This app skews a little younger because it introduces kids to each letter of the alphabet. Its magic is how it associates a letter with an object. The objects are all constructed out of collage materials; and they come apart in the form of a puzzle. Kids get to put the object back together by tapping and dragging the parts to the outlined shapes.
Since this app is coming from the brilliant iMagine machine team, expect these objects to be highly creative and unusual. For example, with the "G-"for-girl puzzle, kids recreate a little girl from lollipops, a button, a funnel, bananas and "L" shaped pieces of wood. When a child slides the piece to its correct location, she is rewarded with a special silly sound. These puzzles, one for each letter of the alphabet, draw kids in and make playing with ABCs fun. Plus they help teach young children that there are lots of ways to create objects.
"AlphaTots" by Spinlight Studio stands out from the other ABC apps because it offers 26 mini-games in addition to teaching kids the alphabet.(Photo: Spinlight Studio)
From Spinlight Studio, best for ages 3-5, $2.99, iPad[3], Android[4]. (iPhone/iPod Touch version is called AlphaTots Pocket for $1.99)
Rating: 4 stars
"AlphaTots" combines the 26 letters of the alphabet with 26 fun mini-games. By presenting action words for each letter of the alphabet, kids do something with each letter. For the letter "B," they will move parts of a robot around on the screen to "build." For the letter "K," kids "kick" a soccer ball into the goal by tapping the virtual ball.
This app uses bright, bold graphics and excellent pronunciation to introduce a letter, its name and the sounds it makes. But the hands-on games are what makes it stand out from all the other ABC apps crowding the app store, because they are inventive, original and greatly varied.
"Happipets" from Happi is an app that uses the alphabet as building blocks to create strange and wonderful creatures.(Photo: Happi)
From Happi, best for ages 6-12, $1.99, iPad[5].
Rating: 3.5 stars
"Happipets" uses the alphabet as building blocks to create animals and make-believe beasts. With letters that have eyes, bony ridges, paw marks, dots, stripes and much more, they become building materials to create animals. Kids rotate, enlarge and shrink the letters so as to position them to form a creature.
While the app offers three methods of exploration, kids should start with the "Play" mode. In this area, kids select a familiar animal word, such as "bear" or "cat." The letters in the word separate to become your building blocks. When you move them into the correct position to create the animal, they "click" into place. If you need assistance figuring out how to combine the letters, the app offers a "help" button which temporarily shows you the solution.
The "Explore" mode lets you assemble fantastical beasts from the letters in their silly names, such as "Delipolk" and "Jorghee." In the "Create" mode, kids use their own imaginations to combine the fanciful versions of over 140 embellished letters to create their own beasts. They can save these creatures, select a background to display them and even write up "facts" about their creations. Kids can share their creatures over email and, unfortunately, on Facebook (which is inappropriate for this targeted age, since you have to be age 13 to have a Facebook account).
Jinny Gudmundsen is the author of the new book: iPad Apps for Kids, part of the For Dummies series. Contact her at email@example.com[6]. Follow her @JinnyGudmundsen[7].
- ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/endless-alphabet/id591626572?mt=8 (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/faces-imake-abc/id577754558?ls=1&mt=8 (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alphatots/id436142340?mt=8 (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.spinlight.alphatots (play.google.com)
- ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/happipets/id500492513?mt=8 (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ http://mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com/ (usatoday.com)
- ^ http://twitter.com/JinnyGudmundsen (twitter.com)


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A pinnacle from Duccio's Maestà, from the Cathedral of Siena; cut and rounded at the top; companion pinnacles in collection of Kasteel Huis Bergh, 's Heerenberg, Netherlands; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (P.PI.45.1965); private collection
Workshop of Duccio (Duccio di Buoninsegna), Italian (active Siena and Florence), first documented 1278, died 1318
Made in Siena, Italy, Europe
By 1311Medium:
Egg tempera and tooled gold on panel with vertical grainDimensions:
Overall 9 5/8 × 6 3/4 inches (24.4 × 17.1 cm); width at the top 2 3/8 inches (6 cm); width at bottom 2 7/8 inches (7.1 cm); depth 7/16–1/2 inch (1–1.3 cm). Additions: top 5/8 inch (1.5 cm); right 3/8 inch (1 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 310, European Art 1100-1500, third floorAccession Number:
Cat. 88Credit Line:
John G. Johnson Collection, 1917
The wand in the angel's hand identifies him as an archangel. With these wands the archangels expelled Satan from heaven, thereby securing their privileged position as messengers of God.
This panel comes from the pinnacle, or top section, of Duccio's large altarpiece known as the Maestà, which he made for the cathedral of Siena. Maestà is an Italian term for a depiction of the Virgin in a heavenly court. The altarpiece was disassembled in 1771.
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Researchers have found that natural language processing (NLP) assists patients to better navigate patient portals. A study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research showed that selective use of NPL to overcome medical jargon barriers can help patients better engage with health information on portals. That is, NPL algorithms identify complex medical terms and replace them with layperson definitions for better comprehension. Read more at the Patient Engagement HIT article.
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How To Create A Manicure Inspired By The Prada Runway
Just like the models on the Prada spring 2013 runway, this manicure combines the sweetness of a baby pink base and bright flowers with the fierceness of a black background. Influenced by the contrasting color palette, nail art pro Elizabeth Monson translated the beautiful dress into a mani you can wear all season long. "This captured the overall look of the Prada show in a great way, and when it comes to nails, a stripe down the middle is unique," says Monson.
Nail art pens are great tools for creating this polish look because their nimble points mean precision (and if you need a recommendation, Monson's a fan of the Migi brand). If you'd rather not invest in these colored pens, you can simply use toothpicks instead. You'll be left with your own mini version of this runway favorite!
Need another reason to attempt the look? "Obviously, Prada is amazing," declares Monson. "That's number one!" So what are you waiting for? Grab your polish and let's get started.


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Staff Picks: The Best Dessert in Chicago
Our favorite dishes.
The arrival of autumn signals the end of the dainty and the arrival of the hearty (and meaty) feast. But didn't we already cover that kind of food last month with our picks about where to pig out? Yes. But as we all know, every feast must end with something sweet, and the more options the better.
I expected a lot more overlap, but only two people picked the same place. Instead, the selections ranged from meticulous fine dining offerings to comforting and humble classics. Some require utensils, while you can devour others with nothing but your greedy hands. One of them is even boozy.
Without further ado, let's dig into the best desserts in Chicago. Check out all the picks by clicking on the slideshow.
- Big Anne at Alliance Bakery
- Pumpkin Napoleon at Mindy's Hot Chocolate
- Brioche Doughnuts with Hot Fudge at Mindy's Hot Chocolate
- Strawberry Sable Tart at Sixteen
- Drinking Chocolate at Katherine Anne Confections
- The Chocolate Peanut Butter Vegan Shake at the Chicago Diner
- Homemade Banana Pudding at BJ's Market
- Churros at Xoco
- Pie at Hoosier Mama Pie Co.
- Festa di Santa Lucia Crema at The Purple Pig
- Drunkin' Donuts with Jamo Soft Serve at Boiler Room
- Cupcake at Sweet Mandy B's
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Conquer the curves and the weather in the RLX Sport Hybrid with available torque-vectoring Super Handling All-Wheel Drive™ (SH-AWD®). Power gets distributed to the wheels that need it for seamless power transition and supreme control.
AcuraWatch™ suite of innovative safety and driver assistance technologies comes standard on every new RLX. From the all-new Traffic Jam Assist to radar and ultrasonic sensors, it improves awareness and can even intervene to help avoid a collision.
If you're looking for a little more power, the 3.5-liter i-VTEC® V-6 engine, paired with the smooth-shifting 10-speed automatic transmission, delivers tarmac-punishing torque to your RLX driving experience.
Krell® Industries is the world's premier manufacturer of high-performance audio and video equipment. Its systems and individual components have received the highest honors by reviewers and audiophiles across the globe. The 14-speaker layout is identical to that of the ELS Studio®* Premium Audio System, but the speakers and amplifiers are Krell® designed.