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- Mike, I confess I still do not have a picture of what you are talking
about. But when you talk of a wave starting near the magnetic poles, I
must insist that the current that makes our magnetic poles is the SE and
that its positioning in and around the ice poles is not an accident
because the SE is coming from and going to the Sun. It is inducting the
Magnetic field, which in turn is inducing what you have been describing.
The equator turning motion on the Sun is East to West, meaning that the
major electric flow direction is from its north to South. That flow in
the form of eddy currents that are relatively weak go out the Sun South
and come in the Earth South to control its rotation, its weather, and its
ice pole building. The North pole ice is melting more than it should,
because the North SE flow is around the outside of the ice block. Its
minus 80 degree temperature is only present where the SE is flowing
strong enough. At this time the SE is flowing around the edge of the
North Ice pole. At the South pole the SE is coming in around its ice
pole, which is very solidly frozen because the SE is being squeezed by
the ozone hole it is making as it goes through the ozone layer and then
going into the Earth around the South ice cap. This is why the ozone
hole is shaped like the South ice cap. The South circular current is
caused by the secondary induced field by the SE. CMEs are not the SE, but
are like shot from gun - particles. The SE isn't the current that is
blasting through the Sun and holding our Solarsystem by its flow through
our Sun in its position in our galaxy. The SE is a residual flow around
the blasting flow from and to the galaxy. The SE eddys around the solar
system, affecting each electrical conductor according to its materials
conductivity. Earth has special strong flows because of its
conductivity, and water. If you want me to go away I will, but it seems
that few if any are listening. Walter
On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:00:39 -0000 "Mike Doran <mike@...>"
<mike@...> writes:
Interesting report David.
As you know, I postulate that the solar wind commences "Doran waves".
But these low frequency large scale waves must have entry near the
magnetic poles where the isobars are close and the convection low--
because a strike will mess up the signal.
Speed, pressure and volume all in the end equate to electrical
current. The number that seems to correlate largely w/ "weather"
most, just as a causual observer, is the volume. What do you think?
The SOI has been positive strongly now for 5 days. There is a
tropical storm forming near OZ.
SSTs have switched toward a more La Nina condition but in El Nino 1
and 2 the several weeks of flaring you have described have caused a
more nuetral condition--which is interesting to me because I think
that ENSO is not just about SSTs but about direction of current (read
SOI) and the amount of induction Doran waves experiance, but also a
biological aspect of conductivity, such that an upwelling of
nutrients that occurs from a cold anomaly would bring a food chain
about that impacts conductivity. So that the flip to warming type
EMF conditions, IOW conditions with more cirrus enhancement, would
occur BEFORE SSTs warm.
Crazy complex and posutlation, speculation, I know, but I have been
looking at some pretty sophisticated data from NOAA. Now, SSTs along
the SW coast, in the GOC, clearly now have warmed. So much drought
caused so little biological enhancement from the Colorado, and the
rest of the hydrology, that, IMHO, the ocean cooled enough on the
surface to cause upwelling. Upwelling led to biological nutrients
becoming available for the surface microbrial activity, and
conductivity improved--biologically, despite the poor flow from the
Colorado. Combining this with a trend in ENSO and that flaring/CME
you have well described in the past few weeks resulted in the waves
thar gaves us the Nor'easters and finally some precip to drought
starved Arizona. In Northern Arizona they have been getting as much
snow as anyone--many feet of it.
With that snow and the reversal of conditions in the GOC--it will be
interesting to watch the tornado season as it unfolds in the next two
months. The W. GOM is very cold anomaly and there is a black algae
patch in the E. GOM now to go with very warm SSTs after weeks of
streaming clouds from that spot that seem to run a Doran wave over
Florida and even impacts the NE . . . when the storm pulses are
larger and producing the Nor'easters the pulse just goes a little
more north . . .
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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - Ok, Lets try this again. . .
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 04:22:08 -0000 "David <b1blancer1@...>"
<b1blancer1@...> writes:> I
> must insist that the current that makes our magnetic poles is the SE
> that its positioning in and around the ice poles is not an accident
We disagree in this, Walter. The Earth's magnetic field is generated
> because the SE is coming from and going to the Sun.
from within, not created from the outside.
> It is inducting the
> Magnetic field, which in turn is inducing what you have been
Now here, you have something. The Earth's magnetic field is
definitely influenced by the sun. No doubt about that.\
> The equator turning motion on the Sun is East to West, meaning that the
Whoops! You got that one backwards. The Earth's magnetic field lines
> major electric flow direction is from its north to South.
emerge at the south pole and re-enter at the north pole, which means
that the north pole is actually the South pole. Confused yet?
Ok lets try again. In my understanding the Sun's spots appear to us
to be twisting from East to West as we look at it. According to the
right hand rule its rotation turning would be caused by a current flowing
from its North to its South. This current when it flows out its South
comes out and around in an eddy current through its planets and back to
the Sun. As it comes up through the Earth it twists our rotation in
(according the right hand rule) in a West to East rotation. All of the
meteorites that land on the South pole that come from space come there
because of this flow. The clarity of the air in this area is clear
because this Solar Electrojet current charges all particles and takes
them down to the ice. The circumpolar current around the South pole is
in the direction of the same twist of the earth, West to East. It is
going that direction because the SE is spinning it in that direction.
Now if you insist that the magnetic field lines are coming out of the
South pole and going around to the North, then it must be induced to do
so because of Solar Electrojet going from the South to the North. In my
way of thinking the currents that drive our compasses are basically
surface flow of solar electrojet, which hasn't been generated by the
Earth at all, but are coming in from the Sun and flowing over the surface
of the earth as well as up through the center, causing its great stirring
and heating. In order to prove this point we will have to drill a hole in
the center of the South pole and see which way current flows in it. If
the current flows into the South pole as well as up towards the North
over the surface of the earth than it is SE. If the current flows up out
of and around the earth Northerly, then it is generated by the earth and
is doing what you say. This would not make sense for it would be turning
the earth in the opposite direction according to the right hand rule. If
you put your right thumb up into the South pole indicating the direction
of the direct current flow that is inducing the secondary field twist in
the right hand direction and is turning the earth from West to East. (as
it does). If the magnetic flow which is according to my thinking
generated by the SE is going in that direction down the center, then it
is Not causing the earth to rotate because of its flow, because it would
be turning the earth the other direction. The same direction that the Sun
turns. One other proof of the SE coming in and up through the South, is
the shape of the ozone hole itself.. It is shaped by the SE's passage by
the South Ice cap, for it goes into the earth around the ice cap and into
the earth. Its path through the Ozone hole is guided by its direction of
path down and around the ice cap shape. Too bad the bays in the South ice
pole that were there a few years ago are not still there, for they would
show distinct shape in the ozone hole that would be unmistakable. As it
is I think you can still see the shape. Walter> CMEs are not the SE, but
Yes, that is correct. Specifically they are a blast of plasma from
> are like shot from gun - particles.
the sun's corona, as opposed to the solar wind, which originated from
lower down beneath the corona.
> The SE isn't the current that is
> blasting through the Sun and holding our Solarsystem by its flow
> our Sun in its position in our galaxy. The SE is a residual flow
> the blasting flow from and to the galaxy.
I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. There is such a thing as
an interstellar wind, believe it or not. It is a very tenuous, but
high speed flow of particles that is generated by supernova
explosions. It permeates the entire galaxy. Where our sun's solar
wind is finally stopped by the interstellar wind is known as the
heliopause. With a little luck, Voyager 1 and 2 may survive long
enough to reach that point and report back their findings. The
heliopause is considered the true boundary of interstellar space.
Excactly where the heliopause is isn't really known. In fact, it's
probably somewhat dynamic, moving in and out with the sunspot cycles.
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text: The Batam Quarantine Office in Riau Islands Province stopped the import of 25 tons of mackerel from Pakistan worth nearly Rp 1 billion proved to contain formaldehyde, an official with the office said.Head of the Batam Fish Quarantine Office, Ashari Syarief, said that fish importer PT Bintang Nusantara Mulia imported the fish on Feb. 14, 2012 and scheduled to release them to the local market on Feb. 18. A laboratory test conducted by quarantine officials, however, later found that the fish contained formaldehyde. "They must be either returned to Pakistan or destroyed. Fish containing formaldehyde is dangerous for the human health," Ashari told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.Studies have shown the ingestion of formaldehyde caused vomiting, abdominal pain, dizziness, and in extreme cases can cause death. According to the prevailing quarantine regulation, the fish had to be either sent back to Pakistan or destroyed by the end of February at the latest.Ashari also said that the fish actually had been imported according to the prevailing procedures and had also come with a certificate of origin and a certificate of health. "Yet, as we don't have any memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Pakistan, all the documents must be rechecked and the result indeed was different," he said.He added that since the beginning of December 2011, Batam had opened up fish imports from the region. From January until Feb. 20 alone, according to Ashari, a total of 145 tons of fish has been imported from Taiwan, Japan and Pakistan.However, he added, it was the first time that imported fish containing formaldehyde was found in Batam, although Pakistan was notorious for using the chemical to preserve fish exports.Nationally, according to Ashari, there have been four cases of tainted fish being imported from Pakistan, namely in Medan (North Sumatra), Jakarta and Batam."The Fishery Directorate General through the Foreign Affairs Ministry is to send a letter of warning to Pakistan regarding the fish containing formaldehyde," Ashari.

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Date: | 1600-1700 |
Origin: | Perhaps from Irish Gaelic bodhar 'deaf, bothered' |
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both‧er1 S1 W3
1 to make the effort to do something
make an effort
[intransitive,transitive usually in questions and negatives] Why bother to go abroad, when there are so many nice places here?
2 to make someone feel slightly worried, upset, or concerned :
[intransitive and transitive]Being in a crowd really bothers me.
It was very noisy, but that didn't bother me.
3 to annoy someone, especially by interrupting them when they are trying to do something :
[intransitive and transitive]Danny, don't bother Ellen while she's reading.
Would it bother you if I put on some music?
4 used to say that you do not want to make the effort to do something, or that you are not interested in doing something :
somebody can't/couldn't be bothered (to do something)
especially British EnglishIt was so hot I couldn't be bothered to cook.
I should be revising, but I just can't be bothered.
5 if a part of your body bothers you, it is slightly painful or uncomfortable :
cause pain
[transitive]My back's been bothering me.
6 used as a very polite way of interrupting someone when you want their attention :
sorry to bother you
spokenSorry to bother you, but Mr. Grey is on the line.
7 to upset or frighten someone by talking to them when they do not want to talk to you, trying to hurt them, touch them sexually etc :
[transitive]Don't worry, my dog won't bother you.
If he starts bothering you, let me know.
8 to not spend time or effort on something, either because it is not important or because it is too difficult
not bother yourself/not bother your head
not bother yourself/not bother your head with/about
Cliff didn't want to bother himself with details.
9 used to express a sudden feeling of annoyance about something :
bother it/them etc
British English spoken old-fashionedOh bother it! The thread's broken again!


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My creditor said my account was charged off. Does that mean I no longer have to pay the debt?
What is a judgment?
I have built up some equity in my home. Should I use it to pay off my creditors?
A debt consolidation loan sounds like it would solve all my problems. I could pay off all of my bills, have a lower monthly payment to the bank, and at a lower interest rate. Is this a good idea?
Im recently divorced. The judge split up the debts, but my ex isnt paying. Am I responsible for those debts assigned to him?
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If I go on a Debt Management Plan, how long until Im debt free?
If I go on your Debt Management Plan, will I ever be able to get credit again?
I have never had a credit card, but many say it is a necessary part of life. Where do I start?
Will going on a DMP adversely affect my credit report?
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Will all of my accounts be closed if I go on a DMP?
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When an account is charged off, it is considered to be a debt that is no longer collectable. All creditors have different policies regarding the timeframe within which they charge off an account, but it is generally between 90-180 days after you become delinquent. Nonetheless, you are still morally and legally responsible for the debt. As a matter of fact, the creditor often steps up his collection efforts after an account has been charged off. You may begin receiving calls from a professional debt collection agency, and if reported to the credit bureau, your credit report will move into a more negative status.
A judgment is a decision issued by the court at the end of a lawsuit. If you are sued and either dont file the appropriate papers or file papers but eventually lose the case, the person initiating the lawsuit may be awarded a judgment against you. If you choose not to appear in court on the appointed court date, the creditor may be awarded a default judgment. Either way, you may be responsible to pay the judgment, and your credit report will undoubtedly be negatively affected.
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On paper a debt consolidation loan is perfect. And, in reality it can be if, and this is a big if, you dont continue charging. Old habits die hard, and if you are used to charging your purchases or living off of credit, then in a year or so, youre likely going to have your bill consolidation loan payment plus more credit card payments. Not only are you back in the same situation, youre even deeper in debt!
CCCS cannot give out legal advice. However, in practice we have observed that the creditor usually considers the person or persons who signed the original account contract to be responsible for the debt. Even if the divorce decree designates your ex as the responsible party, if you live in a community property state you are likely going to have to cough up the money to satisfy this debt or risk having your credit report affected.
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No. Whereas some agencies require a certain amount of debt or a minimum number of credit cards to be eligible, at CCCS we will advise you regardless of your income level or amount of debt.
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You should research any credit counseling agency before agreeing to allow them to counsel you, and certainly before you send them any money. A good place to start is with the Better Business Bureau. However, even very good agencies can have a complaint filed against them, as that is the consumers right. What youll want to find out is how that complaint was resolved.
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I haven't done a add a point take a point thread in a while, but I saw one for Avengers EMH. So, I thought it would be cool to see a Young Justice one too.
Here are the rules:
- For each post, you may add two point to a character and subtract two point from a different character(this is different from all other take a points in that they have you do 1 whereas 2 is allowed here)
- Add labels to all points that you change. For example, if you subtract a point from a character, then add (-2) after their name. Add (+2) to the character you are giving a point to.
- You may also bold the names and points of the two characters you make a change to. This makes it easier for other users to see
- what you changed. Since you may only subtract a single point and add a single point for each post, there should only be two bold names in your post. (This rule is optional if you follow rule 3)
- Characters with zero points are eliminated. They are removed from the list and cannot be brought back.
- You may only vote once every 24 hours, although you can vote for several days in a row. Your votes do not have to be identical each time.
- After half have been eliminated(this case 8) the amount will double and when that is halved it doubles again...rinse and repeat this formula
Young Justice Cartoon Add a Point Take a Point
Artemis~ 10
Aqualad~ 10
Tim Drake~10
Nightwing/Robin~ 10
Miss Martian~ 10
Kid Flash~10
Zatanna~ 10
Rocket~ 10
Roy Harper/ Red Arrow~ 10
Cheshire~ 10
Lagoon Boy~ 10
Blue Beetle~ 10
Wondergirl ~10
Bumble Bee~10
Beast Boy~10
Mal Duncan~10
1. Robin/Nightwing
2. Aqualad
3. Kid Flash
4. Blue Beetle
5. Miss Martian
6. Tim Drake
7. Roy Harper/ Red Arrow
8. Zatanna
9. Beast Boy
10. Wondergirl
11. Artemis
12. Batgirl
13. Superboy
14. Rocket
15. Bumble Bee
16. Cheshire
17. Mal Duncan
18. Lagoon Boy


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Feb 28 2009
Multnomah's Republicans
Just by way of bookmarking this story out of the Oregonian, about those forgotten political people – the Republicans of Multnomah County. Yes, they're there, and actually in considerable numbers, about 75,000 registered as such.
It's just that they're so heavily outnumbered (more than 3-1, with the gap growing rapidly in recent years).
The story's a good read, for the historic perspective and the viewpoint of a group too seldom acknowledged.
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Amer(2009)Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana's life. Her carnal search sways between reality and colored fantasies becoming more and more oppressive. A black laced hand prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade brushes her skin, where will this chaotic and carnivorous journey leave her? For more about Amer and the Amer Blu-ray release, see Amer Blu-ray Review published by Dr. Svet Atanasov on February 13, 2011 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5. Directors: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani Starring: Marie Bos, Harry Cleven, Delphine Brual » See full cast & crew Amer Blu-ray, Video QualityPresented in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Amer arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Anchor Bay-UK. This is a strong high-definition transfer. Fine object detail is pleasing, clarity impressive, and color-reproduction very good. The various close-ups, in particular, look fantastic in 1080p - the image conveys wonderful depth and tightness. Edge-enhancement is not a serious issue of concern; neither is macroblocking. I also did not see any traces of heavy noise reduction, though sporadic minor corrections have been applied (most notably during the first segment). The grain structure is intact, and blown through a digital projector Amer conveys a strong organic look. Lastly, I noticed a few compression artifacts popping up here and there, but the overall quality of the high-definition transfer is indeed very good. For the record, I did not see any damage marks, cuts, or stains to report in this review. (Note: This is a Region-B "locked" Blu-ray disc. Therefore, you must have a native Region-B or Region-Free PS3 or SA in order to access its content). Amer Blu-ray, Audio QualityThere are two audio tracks on this Blu-ray disc: French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and French LPCM 2.0. For the record, Anchor Bay-UK have provided optional English subtitles for the main feature. When turned on, they appear inside the image frame. The French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is very impressive. It won't test the muscles of your audio system, but it will impress you with its wide range of nuanced dynamics and effective surrounds (the sound design is indeed very good). There is little dialog in the film, but the few lines that are uttered are clear, stable, and exceptionally easy to follow. For the record, I did not detect any disturbing pops, cracks, hissings, or dropouts to report in this review.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
As a result of this belief in ghosts, there are quite a few places in Taiwan believed by locals to be 'haunted'.
I'm not a big believer in the paranormal - the closest I can say that I've come to really wondering about this stuff is in my own home. I grew up in an old, creaky farmhouse in upstate New York that my mother insists is haunted. She's got a point: if there's any house in that town (no, not Sleepy Hollow, though not too far from it) with ghosts, it's ours. But that's an entirely different blog post.
I've known for awhile about a local belief in the haunting of a certain large hotel in Xinyi District. Apparently the site of this hotel was once a cemetery that was razed before construction began. Typical creepy story, probably not true, right? Well, true or not, from what I hear a lot of business travelers from other parts of Taiwan or even other parts of "Greater China" (pfft) won't stay there. That apparently, if you walk into the lobby you'll see two very large pieces of calligraphy on either side, but the calligraphy itself is not of any discernable Chinese characters - and was written by a fa shi (not sure how to translate this term, but something between a priest and an exorcist) hired by the hotel as a talisman specifically to keep those ghosts at bay. From what I've been told, only fa shi and dangki (self-injuring spirit diviners) can write such talismans.
I intend to take a look for myself inside that very lobby in a few days. Until then, this is really only something I've heard.
I've also heard about the supposed haunting of the old building of a very well-known hospital in Taipei (the new one is big and shiny, the old building is still in use and was built by the Japanese. I've worked inside it. It's beautiful on the outside, not so much on the inside). I can see why stories like this would abound in an old building, and a hospital at that. But being inside, it looked so much like a typical hospital that the place just didn't feel, well, haunted.
Another part of Taipei, however, has always felt quite ghastly to me. Until today, I didn't know why. Not being a believer in ghosts, I'm still not entirely willing to concede that "It's haunted" is the reason. But anyway.
I haven't posted about it on here yet, but I've recently acquired a new bicycle from a friend who moved home. It's a typical city-dweller's gearless bike, red and shiny. Living in Jingmei, I'm literally a one-minute ride from the entrance to Jingmei Riverside Park, a small park with a bike trail, sitting areas and basketball/tennis courts. It connects to the much longer Huazhong Riverside Park, with a bike trail that heads all the way to the coast.
Afraid as I was at first to cycle in Taipei proper, I've spent a lot of time whizzing up and down that narrow little path, which for the most part is well-maintained. At Jingmei, a haven for older folks (many of whom are in their 90s and still fluent in Japanese, more so than they ever were in Mandarin), the path is strewn with old ladies walking and clapping their hands to promote blood circulation, and old men riding equally old bikes while playing their favorite Taiwanese old-skool music on little transistor radios. That park runs past Gongguan and spills into Guting Riverside Park, which at the moment is a-bloom with daisies in various shades of pink.
Sometime after Guting, something happens to the park. The grass begins to look wilted and the expanse seems more desolate than family-oriented. There's a very ominous hill - obviously manmade - away from the river a bit. In the distance to the left are mist-covered mountain peaks. The river before you looks sad and weepy.
This is the part where you enter Machangding Memorial Park.
I'd heard of Machangding before, but not with that Romanization. A long time ago, I began reading Death in a Cornfield, an excellent compilation of short stories in English by Taiwanese writers, critiquing and disassembling the bits and pieces of Taiwanese society in the 1980s (for anyone with even a rough knowledge of the history of Taiwan, you'll recognize that decade as being a turning point both politically and economically). In the first story, Mountain Path, a place called Ma ch'ang ting is mentioned. It was an execution ground under the Japanese and again during the White Terror.
Because I'm obviously not a very keen observer , I didn't really realize until I re-read the story today that Mach'angting and Machangding are the same place, and that this place where thousands of people were executed less than 70 years ago is not some abstract geographic location in the whorls and folds of Taiwan's topography. It's not a disembodied place-name that has nothing to do with my Taiwan experience. It's the place where I've been swinging back and forth on my bike and the place that I've found, until just now, to be inexplicably creepy.
Many people believe that this place - Machangding - is haunted, and deeply so. That the restless ghosts of those executed there, whom many would say have still not had their fair piece heard, still wander the place and that the hill, where the killings took place, is especially saturated with anger. The area is quite open, allowing the gray days of Taipei to settle in unhidden, the moldering expanse of sky to stretch unbroken and the wind to hiss through unobstructed - this minimal topography only enhances one's feeling that something, to be frank, just ain't quite right about the place.
Now, as I said - I'm not a big believer in ghosts. It's possible - even likely - that Machangding Memorial Park is only chill-inducing insofar as the poor planning of some not-so-aesthetically-inclined city councilman got lazy in designing it.
It could be that Taipei weather is really quite gloomy, and the days I've been there have been the sorts of days where any quiet park is going to look, by default, haunted.
In any case, I'm not sure what to make of my initial chill at cycling through that area, and subsequent discovery of what it used to be.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Lehua Night Market
Yesterday we headed out to the city of Yonghe, a suburb of Taipei that's just brimming with class and sophistication -
- to check out Lehua Night Market, revered by my students as the best in the Taipei area.
While I disagree that it's the best in the area, I have to admit that as a night market it combines an exuberance of the sacred...
...and the profane...
...that I find truly amusing.
And for Yonghe, famous for Yonghe Soy Milk, old waishengren from Sichuan and a fantastic Sichuanese restaurant, at least one organized crime racket known as the Zhu Lian, love hotels and the Museum of World Religion, I have to say it's pretty sizeable and pretty good. Worth a look if you are interested in exploring every nook and cranny that Taipei and surrounds has to offer.
Some photos, for the heck of it:
Straight from Japan - the world's tiniest hot dog, in gummie form!
My sister, the starving college student, tries on clothes as she contemplates making extra money as a betel nut beauty.
Something about "Grandpa Brand" white pepper powder had me in giggles for...minutes.
Joseph and the amazing deep-fried oyster spinach pie. It was pretty good actually.
The Mountain Dawn
I'm mentioning this on Lao Ren Cha because I was there on Saturday, and every word of the review is true. I loved it. I realize that Yunmen Wuji (The Cloud Gate Theater) seems to have a monopoly on both international and local fame, but U Theater is almost as good and in some ways - including their percussion skills - better.
Brendan and I bought tickets - a compromise of proximity and price - to celebrate our 2nd anniversary, which we celebrated on March 2nd. Yay us!
If you read the article or the theater program, you'll learn that they began in the 1980s and currently live and rehearse on a mountain outside Taipei. They practice dance, drumming and meditation among other things up there, and their latest show, The Mountain Dawn, showcases the group's feelings about their hilltop home.
The costumes were very minimal - almost monk-like and rather androgynous. The music was also minimal; it reminded me of a cassette I picked up at a secondhand shop years ago, featuring the Washington DC Toho Koto Society, full of traditional Japanese music. The Mountain Dawn shared a lot with this sort of quiet, bare dissonance.
In fact, I saw a very strong Japanese influence in the costumery, the music and the topic: more or less meditations on nature. It only goes to show that art in Taiwan is influenced as much by Japan as it is by China.
The pieces performed included one about bamboo in the wind, one about the cloud sea and one about the power of the sunrise - I can't provide much more detail as that is what I could read of the titles.
More about the show is reviewed in the article, in more lyrical terms than I could ever give it. We contemplated buying the CD, but realized that without the dancing and the atmosphere that the performers created, the music itself might be a let-down. It wouldn't capture quite the mood of the theater that night, stripped bare of its plush red seats, lobby chandeliers and gold-leaf hullaballoo and transformed into a mountain top of cool stones and singing bamboo.
In short, if you have the chance, go see it.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
A Country Hike in the City
On Sunday, the clouds cleared up around noon to reveal a warm, sunny day. We set out from Jiantan MRT and hiked via backroads and little-used trails from Shilin to Neihu. The trip is outlined in Taipei Day Trips 1, so if you want to attempt it, pick up a copy.
The hike begins at Jiantan and heads up lots of stairs, around the backside of the Grand Hotel and through a wooded children's park and karaoke spot (for the parents). There are several temples nearby, all with lovely views of Shilin, the Danshui River, Guanyinshan, Beitou and the revolving restaurant tower (at least that's what I think it is.)
This area has a lot of military installations, which means you can't go far off the path. It also means you will pass a lot of unmarked buildings, old guardposts and even older pillboxes, set up in case of a mainland invasion I guess.
Soon you'll reach the peak of the first hill - hardly a mountain - Jiantan Mountain. Heading down, the stairs give way to a proper trail. You'll go down then up again, finding yourself eventually on a very rural road that winds around. You end up with more great views - on one side, Shilin and the Danshui River. On the other, Neihu. There are plenty of great viewing spots, many of which are probably populated with tai chi practitioners early in the morning.
Later, as the road winds around, you begin to get views of Yangmingshan and the National Palace Museum. The glare was quite high at this time of day, when the sun was at its zenith, so I apologize for the washed-out image with the old crater of Yangmingshan in the background. You don't start getting these views where Taipei Day Trips says you do (there's been some forest growth since it was written), but they do come eventually.
Most of these come as you approach and then top Wenjianshan, which is somewhere above Dazhi on the Shilin-Neihu Road (you can stop hiking here and head down to the road at this point if you want - it's about 5kms to get to that point).
One thing we loved about the hike was that it was almost entirely rural, with real trails and forest. Other than the views over urban vistas, you could hardly tell that you were hiking within the Taipei city limits the entire time.
After Wenjianshan, you take some steep stairs down to a road, head left down it for awhile then head straight up a very steep path through the woods. As we approached the leveling-off of the path, several mountain bikers raced down past us. I heard whooping as they hit the steep part, so I don't know if they made it all teh way down on their bikes.
After the trail levels off, you end up at a well-hidden and little-known stone path. It's quite wide and plenty of locals walk it, but you won't see many foreigners and no tourists. There are no views, but it heads through some lovely woods and is an easy walk for a few kilometers.
After awhile, you end up back at the trail up the final peak - Jinmianshan (Gold Face Mountain) which has views over everything.
No, really...
The view is not at the true summit; to get there, you have to walk past the summit and wind your way past lots of bumpy boulders. It's easy to find; you can see the view improving as you head forward and that's where all the people 'in the know' will be.
We lingered a bit too long on the summit, watching the sun go down. We had not underestimated the climb back, it' s just that it was a 10 kilometer hike (so says the book; we think it was longer) to get there, the view was astounding, and we didn't want to leave.
The hike down is over a tricky but fun rock scramble...if you linger for sunset, bring a flashlight. Trust me. There is a rope to help, and it eventually reaches some steep stone steps that could cause a sprained ankle during the day; imagine at night when you can't see (I don't have to imagine, I took a spill here).
The trail lets out in an alley along Huanshan Road in Neihu, very close to Neihu Road. Taipei Day Trips 1 gives the exact address, so if you want to hike in reverse or not bother with the long part and just go for the rocky views, you can start from here (be warned; it's a very steep ascent).
Bring lots of water, especially if you do the full 10 kilometers; there is nowhere to buy it along the way despite there being lots of roads to temples, shelters and recreation areas.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Showing in Shanghai as Taiwan, China
Care to Join the Party?
...all about Taiwanese artists and how they deal with China's restrictions on their freedom of expression, or how they are labeled, when showing in China - as well as interviews with some Taiwanese artists who refuse to show in China.
What I found interesting about this piece was that so many artists seem apathetic about how they are labeled politically. How many 'don't think about' (or don't allow themselves to think about) whether they are billed as being from "Taiwan" or "Taipei, China", and what that means to their identity, their expression and their art.
I realize that the argument that art and politics shouldn't mix has some credence, and there is certainly a strong case to be made for separating the two in the name of...well of I don't know what, but something.
That said, I'm sorry but art is political. The only art that is not political in some way is found in hotels or in Painting Technique 101 classes. Maybe some civic sculpture put in place by extremely non-controversial town boards. (A good friend of mine once defined public art as "stuff so bad that nobody would pay for it except a committee of people with bad taste" - I wouldn't go that far, and I've seen public art that I've liked).
Even a basic landscape can be political; what is in that landscape, and what does it say about the place it purports to represent? Why did the artist choose this scene, and not that one, and how does that reflect on his feelings toward the place he's painting. Someone who chose to paint a traditional-style scroll of cliffs, waterfalls, cranes and bamboo must have a very different opinion on Taiwan than someone who paints a scene of downtown Sanchong.
A sculpture of a naked woman is political, as well. Why did the artist choose this model and this body, and what does his/her technique say about how he views that body? In turn, what does that say about how he/she perceives women and their place in society? How does that compare with the status of women in this artist's home country?
Art is all about expression - art that is merely about aesthetics and not about both aesthetics and expression is, in my humble opinion, less interesting art.
Some of this expression really is free from politics - ideas about universal things such as death and love, for example, although even those can be politicized. See: Guernica. That was bursting with death and yet was also deeply political. Any photograph of modern poverty is just as tied in with death and politics. Love is affected heavily by culture, and politics is also tied into that. So unless you are merely trying to convey emotions of death, love, frustration, boredom, excitement or what have you, and not trying to tie them to a greater cultural entity, even these have a political underpinning.
As such, a good artist has to be careful about things like political labels. It is very telling that some Taiwanese artists don't care how they are introduced in a show; it makes me wonder if they show the same apathy towards their work. Who you are affects how others see your work, so it is really of the utmost importance that you be as honest as you can about who you are. How can an artist do that, if said artist doesn't care how they are labeled?
My Tornado
Is it because I'm in Chinese class and not pulling my weight in housework? You try working and studying - both "full time" - and see how much free time you have to do things like mop the kitchen floor.
Well, that's true (thank you Brendan, for doing your share and some of mine), but I don't think that can fully explain why the place is looking so worn out these days.
Is it that it's an 'old' apartment - long-term Taiwan residents will understand my meaning - and therefore I'm just noticing now that despite our spiffy decorating job, nothing can hide the ancient tile floor, cheap wood and dingy plastic ceiling?
That's true too, but I always thought we did a good job making our accommodations comfortable and maybe even attractive.
Is it that we're both secretly slobs?
No. I mean I hate housework and I really would hire a maid if I felt like paying for one. I'm sure Brendan doesn't like it either. Some people claim to enjoy it; I think they're lying. But we're not slobs. A little messy, sure, but no worse than your average person.
I think, just maybe, the reason our apartment never looks as nice as we intend it to...
Our very own fortune kitty - we even named him Zhao Cai if you remember - who can be very sweet when he wants to be.
But when he doesn't want to be, it's like living with, and cleaning up after, a small tornado that continually whirls around the house, spinning out whorls of destruction as he whips through.
Nothing is safe, nothing is sacred. We recently found a pile of rubber sushi (the little erasers from Japan that look like food; I LOVE them) under one chair, which he'd collected from the bookshelf.
He got hold of my crystal ring; sure, it's not set with gemstones. But I bought it in Prague, it's Swarovski, and it's designer. He batted it around while we were out and now it's missing a crystal.
...and if anyone's seen a silver and amethyst earring from Thailand, let me know.
...and it would be really nice if we could leave our USB drives on the desk and not worry that they'll be batted under the couch.
Don't get me wrong, I love the fuzzy little Tasmanian devil. He's an absolute gem when he wants to be, all cuddling in laps and touching noses with you.
Note: he chose this position on his own. When he's in a certain mood he likes to be held like a baby. Note the "Boxing Panda: Float like a butterfly, sting like a panda" and "Onion Boy: Makes girls cry but good for their health" stickers on the computer, and the demonic green eyes of kitty-head.
But I'd also really like my earring back.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Beautiful Beipu
Anyone who's read a guidebook on Taiwan knows where Beipu is and why it's famous. Well, nationally famous anyway. So I'll be short on the commentary (it was a typical fun day trip with the usual suspects) and get right to the pictures.
Beipu is well-known for being a stronghold of Hakka culture. This means Hakka food (yum!), Hakka lei cha or "pounded tea" - apparently not really an 'old' or 'traditional' drink at all, so says Lonely Planet - made with various nuts and green tea, which tastes basically like liquid trail mix to me. Don't get me wrong, I like the stuff.
And, of course, lots of old buildings as well as the usual tourist market and purty temple.
If you want some good food and to otherwise hang out in a teahouse and wander the streets of a quaint old-style town (with lots of newer buildings as well; Beipu is still an active settlement), it makes a lovely day trip for anyone on the northwest coast.
And now, the photos:
One thing we noticed in the temple is that the decorations are rarely just painted on, as with many other temples. This one follows a different style (which I've also seen elsewhere in Taiwan) where the art is done as tiny sculptures. This takes a lot more time, a lot more skill and, of course, a lot more money. Another form of decoration uses bas-relief carvings, sometimes painted.
The old stereotype of the Hakka is that they're a.) exceptionally hard workers and b.) quite stingy with their money, and good at saving it too. That would explain why they could afford such a spiffy temple.
I'm not a big fan of stereotyping based on culture/race (lordy knows Americans get enough of it directed at them - we are not all fat, lazy, undereducated and materialistic, thank you very much), however, so maybe people in this area donate more to temples than elsewhere.
Drying herbs on a very low roof (the buildings open out onto a street much lower than the one on the opposite side, so from the road we were on, you could climb quite handily up onto these roofs. Besides, older buildings tended to be far lower. Money was scarcer for building materials and people were shorter.
The one on the right is garlic. The one on the left is some traditional herb used in Hakka cooking. I have a few bundles of them at home . They make a great pork stew but I don't actually know what they are.
It was great, being able to peer through old stone fences and down tiny alleys and come upon pretty scenes of plants and old buildings. We did a lot of that through the course of the day.
The area is still a real town, but its main economic bastion seems to be tourism. The area around the temple and square is a huge tourist market, selling toys, balloons, trinkets, souvenirs and lei cha. I kind of like those markets; they're great for gift shopping and I have a soft spot for traditional-style stuff (some of my natural fiber Chinese-style clothes, the tonghua Hakka-style fabric, my flip-flops and my favorite little wooden massage doodad all came from those markets).
Thursday, March 12, 2009
The CCP Likes 草尼馬
Such plays on words in Chinese are nothing new. I'm reminded of the story from Tiananmen Square, where protesters shouted "Ten Thousand Years of [Deng]Xiaoping", but if you change the tones just a little, it sounds like "Smash the little bottle into ten thousand pieces" which is then a reference to smashing Deng Xiaoping in a similar way.
My own name in Chinese is a play on words of sorts. In Chinese, I am Zhang Bai Lian (baise lianhua) or White Lotus Zhang - which is a near-direct translation of the meaning, though not the sound, of my English name.
Change the tones and it becomes White Face Zhang. Haha funny, right?
Anyway, we can only hope that the grass-mud horse defeats the evil river crab. The sooner, the better.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
One Hundred and One Flowers
As if you needed one, here's another reminder of why Taiwan is better than China, and you - whoever you may be - are better off living in Taiwan than China:
In China, Would-Be Protesters Pay a Price
China promised an outlet for protesters and free speech during the Olympics. We all remember - we should remember - how that went down when those elderly ladies attempted to bag a permit to do so. They ended up detained, in jail, and unable to protest:
Two women from Beijing in their late 70s, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, were sentenced to a year of reeducation in a labor camp for protesting their forced eviction from their homes in 2001; the sentence was reduced and later rescinded, but the women said in an interview that they are being closely monitored by local police and that cameras have been installed outside their homes.
Tang Xuecheng, an entrepreneur in his 40s who had gone to Beijing to protest the government's seizure of his mining company, was detained by local officials and sent to a "mental hospital for mental health assessment," according to a public security official in his home town in Chenzhou city in Hunan province. Tang was released several months later.
Zhong Ruihua, 62, and nine others from the industrial city of Liuzhou who tried to petition against property seizures were arrested and have been charged with disturbing the public order. Zhang Qiuping, Zhong Ruihua's youngest daughter, saw her mother for the first time since August on Feb. 23, during her trial.
And now this...In the end, official reports show, China never approved a single protest application -- despite its repeated pledges to improve its human rights record when it won the bid to host the Games. Some would-be applicants were taken away by force by security officials and held in hotels to prevent them from filing the paperwork. Others were scared away by warnings that they could face "difficulties" if they went through with their applications.
Why didn't this get more media attention when it was happening? Why isn't it getting more media attention now? It's toward the bottom of the Washington Post website although the page marker is fairly front-and-center in the print edition.
Why did people expect any different from China? The government is made up of liars and fascists. I am so tired of blog posts, commentators and even politicians explaining away China's disdain for human rights. I am nauseous about people who apologize for their horrific, oppressive regime. I am sick at heart that the realpolitik of the day (I'm looking at you, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. I had some faith in you) overrides the freedom, liberty and basic rights of millions - no, billions of people.
It is sick. Tear-running, face-reddening, blood-racing, black-moodening sick.
Ji has spent the past eight months in various states of arrest and detention. In January, he was sentenced to three years in prison, the maximum penalty allowed, on charges of faking official seals on documents he filed on behalf of his clients. Ji is appealing.
We all learned in History class about Mao's "100 Flowers" period where intellectuals were encouraged to speak out; and then were subsequently detained, investigated, interrogated, jailed and at times executed. It doesn't take a genius to see that the charges are faked, and that Ji, like others, is being detained because he dared to admit he'd like to protest against the power-gobblers who run his government. History is again repeating itself.
It's happening again and there just isn't enough rage out there. There isn't enough desire to do good. There aren't enough good people and those that exist are doing nothing in the name of national debt, geopolitical interests and profit margins. It actually makes my fingers shake - literally shake - to see a world so blithe to the national interest and defense of a functioning (if at times eccentric), prosperous, good country like Taiwan - yes, country, you Commie bastards - silently enabling Big Red across the strait to wreak its worst crimes against humanity.
There is a reason why the Falun Dafa protests where Chinese tourists are near. There is a reason why the National Democracy Memorial Hall is awash with Tibetan freedom activists. There is a reason why "terrorism" on the part of the Uighurs is seen as such a threat, and Uighurs across Xinjiang deeply despise the Chinese autocracy with a righteous venom. (I don't call it terrorism, by the way. Most "terrorist" claims are false, and those that are real should be considered freedom fighting. My great-grandfather was an Armenian freedom fighter against the wave Turkish genocide in 1915 so my own family lore knows this as a well-trodden story).
There is a reason why I left China a few years ago, after a year of teaching there. Nevermind that the water was so acidic that it rotted my teeth (I now have three crowns). Nevermind that the air was so grey that I could barely breathe, that I got bronchial pneumonia twice from the pollution and dirt (and don't say I'm weak; I've lived in India and I was fine there), that you can't trust the food supply or that the CCP is obviously corrupt and makes only the most superficial of gestures to hide it. Nevermind that despite being equal under the law, women are treated in an infuriatingly sexist manner - even in the cities. I left because I couldn't stand the lack of freedom. I couldn't stand that my boss was worried enough about my many trips to the hilltop temple - only because it was the only attractive and authentically old place in town, not because I was going all Buddhist - that he'd ask me not to go so often lest I attract the attention of the police. It bothered me when I told my local friend that I was disappointed with the lack of civil uprising, she 'shooshed' me. It stuck like a pin in flesh when the boss's brother - a man I didn't even really care for as a person - broke down in tears after drinking a few too many and told us about how he saw his best friend get shot in the face by police at Tiananmen Square, and the police had insisted later that they had done no such thing (if they had done no such thing, why was he dead? They couldn't, and didn't bother to, answer that). It stung that I couldn't access basic websites such as Blogspot, Google, Hotmail (at times), the Washington Post, the New York Times...most of those are available now, although some only are because they censored their content. They aided and abetted evil (Google, I'm looking at you). It bit, knowing that everything on TV and in the newspapers was propaganda trash. You couldn't get your hands on a fact - an honest-to-god fact - to save your life.
Then the government wonders why it faces so much scrutiny? Lee Kuan Yew, the Prime Minister of Singapore, asks why people laud India's development but abhor China's? India is free, or mostly so. China is emphatically not. The Chinese government is not facing nearly enough scrutiny. If that makes them uncomfortable, well, tough.
There is a reason why so many who are wronged by China, or see others being wronged by China, revile their government like a fang stuck in their hearts.
Because - not to put too fine a point on it - the Chinese government sucks and they need to be deposed. NOW. I don't care if that "hurts the feelings of the Chinese people" (which it doesn't). I'm sick of playground diplomacy and bratty tactics. "You want to meet with the Dalai Lama? Waaaah! Nooo! You hurt my feeelings!"
Only 77 applications were officially filed. Even so, all but three were subsequently withdrawn, the state-run New China News Agency said, after authorities "satisfactorily addressed" petitioners' concerns.
Yeah, right. Satisfactorily my lilly-white arse. They were bullied and pushed into withdrawing them. Then the state lied about it the way they lied about TiananmenAnd what about the thousands - hundreds of thousands - who would like to file such a petition but are afraid to do so, for exactly the reasons why the applicants of three non-withdrawn petitions have been harassed.
Why is this OK? Why do we live in a world where this is OK? Why is a situation allowed to exist where a free and functional country like Taiwan- exactly the sort of system the US has lied about trying to foster around the world and exactly the sort of country China should aim to emulate - is pushed aside in the name of "pragmatism"?
Before you get all realistic on me, I submit that it doesn't have to be this way. The USA insisted on having its way in Iraq and it still has enough sway with China - our economic crisis is their economic crisis, after all, and their trade profits are our trade deficits - to tell it to stop. Just...stop.
Panama - Panama, for crying out loud - recognizes Taiwan. Let me repeat that again. Panama. They have a nifty canal, if you recall. That canal is enough of a counterweight against their rebuttal of Chinese governmental deathmongering, and yet the entire might of the USA, as weakened as it might be, isn't? Come on.
Instead, we get the optimists of China, the best and the brightest that that grey, bleak political wasteland has to offer, being stomped down with a fury that the rest of the world should not tolerate:
But at his core, Ji was an optimist and believed that change was possible from within the system. He decided he would learn the letter of the law so that he could help laobaixing, or ordinary people, deal with their grievances. He took on cases for free and lived on 3 yuan, less than 50 cents, a day....
When Ji went to
He had recently been evicted from his home office in Fuzhou on suspicion of trying to incite people to petition in Beijing, friends said, but even then he didn't waver from his conviction that China's central government would keep its promises to allow public dissent during the Games, according to his sisters and friends.
If the
No, I am not wrong.
Yes, we on the 'free', liberal democratic end of the spectrum, the end that Francis Fukuyama once called the final destination of human civilization, do have the power to make it end. We don't even need to fire a bullet.
"Everything is fine here, please don't worry! Please believe that I only have done good rather than brought harm to our people and country. I will win the lawsuit in the end," Ji wrote.
His sister Ji Qiaozhuang said she has been surprised and disappointed by how he has been treated because he has never advocated controversial positions such as the end of one-party rule.
"He's not a revolutionary, a young man with anti-government feelings," she said. "He's an old man who just wants to help others. China needs people like him to progress."
Indeed. It's too bad that the Chinese government refuses to recognize that. They'll need to if they want to become the sort of country they can become and should become. A country like Taiwan.
While evil is allowed to exist, why do good 'men' do nothing?
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Temple of Chiang Kai-Shek (and Xinzhu food)
(If Qingshan Wang, Grandfather Seven and Grandfather Eight, Lin Mo - that's Matsu to you - and Baosheng Dadi were all real people, and most believe that they were - then I see nothing wrong with worshipping someone whom we know to have been a real person. I wouldn't pray to him myself, mind you.)
We didn't linger long in the temple, partly because we aren't big Chiang fans, and partly because the temple isn't very big. It's more of a shrine room, filled with statues and pictures of Chiang Kai-Shek, another general whose name escapes me, and (apparently) Sun Yat-sen. I didn't see anything for Sun, though the guidebook says he's there.
Apparently, this little temple in Xinzhu, not far from the Qinghua University campus and night market, collects a lot of the old decommissioned busts and statues of Chiang and uses them in this temple as god-idols. Other ones seem to end up at a spot along the North Cross-Island Highway.
There are other gods and figures present, mostly in the form of woodcarving - the kind you can see in many temples across Taiwan.
We only spoke with one person, but it was clear that the people tending the temple are mostly from the Mainland. The guy we talked to was born near Shanghai and came over with his family when he was 16 (which would make him about 75 years old). Although he still remembers how to speak Shanghainese, he's picked up a Taiwanese accent in his Mandarin and can speak Taiwanese as well.
As we didn't tell them where our true political beliefs lie, they were extremely friendly and happy that we'd stopped by. As important as it is (for me, at least) to own one's own beliefs and moral code and not shrink from admitting them, maybe standing in the temple of Chiang Kai-shek is not the best place to tell people around you that you think he was a murderer and a traitor to Taiwan, especially when those around you are genuinely friendly people.
We were given some fruit and made our way, drippingly, to the night market where we had lumpia - those crepe-rolled burrito-lookin' things with meat and vegetables inside which are a specialty in Xinzhu, and mba wan. The lumpia were better than anything I've tried in Taipei, where they skimp on the meat and savory flavors and add lots of veggies or worse, rou song (which I can't stand). We loved the many-textured innards of these lumpia, replete with lots of richly marinated meat, peanuts, bean sprouts, greens, carrot shavings and other tasty bits and pieces.
The mba wan were very different from Taipei - they're on menus as "Xinzhu Rou Yuan" and are fried rather than steamed, and filled not with regular ground pork but with purple chunks - real chewy chunks - of marinated pork and cubes of young bamboo served in a spicy, flavorful pink sauce that I normally see on vegetarian sticky rice. The bamboo reminded me of Yuanlin Rouyuan at the Heping-Fuxing intersection in Taipei, where they serve it in brown gravy with cubed bamboo and mushrooms.
Then we headed into the city god temple - the most important one of these in Taiwan - where tall god costumes we haven't seen in Taipei were on display.
For anyone in or planning to be in Xinzhu on Friday, the Xinzhu city god's birthday is this coming Friday (3/13/09). If you want to see a cool procession, head over to the temple and inquire about the time (they usually start at 1:30 in my experience).
The most interesting of these tall god costumes - called big dolls in Taiwanese but the actual words escape me - is the god of yin and yang, to whom you should pray so that you "always do the right thing" and have a proper balance of, well, yin and yang.
We also saw all the pinata-like decorations from Chinese New Year - identifiable because most of them involved depictions of cows - hanging from the ceiling of the temple. It was quite a sight; there were hundreds of them.
We then took a quick venture through the old street - which has a few old buildings but not many, but at least one interesting place to have some tea or coffee and one good mashed-taro dessert joint, a pass by the old city gate and a stop at the old moat to feed the fish (but actually ended up feeding the geese). We passed one of the two Matsu temples along the way.
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If you're anything like me, playing popular time-passing games like Snood, Farmville, and Solitaire does not satisfy your hunger for entertainment and doesn't come close to curbing your chronic boredom. Well, try some of these wacky websites on for size and see if they do the trick.
ManBabies.com - This is probably one of the weirdest, creepiest, most hilarious websites I've stumbled across in all my years of interweb surfing. This simple site features photos of men with babies...but there's a strange twist. The heads have been switched in each picture, so what you see is the head of the man on the baby, and the head of the baby on the man. It's incredibly disturbing but you can't help but laugh and think that this might be so wrong, it's right.
The drawback: you need a pretty fast computer, as well as a webcam and a microphone to fully appreciate most of the features.
That's it for now. Check out my first entry for more fun websites to help curb your boredom!


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ZURICH, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Swiss private bank Julius Baer
will cut up to around 1,000 jobs as a result of its purchase of part of Bank of America Merrill Lynch's wealth management business.
Baer said it planned a "significant reduction of former Bank of America corporate overhead" as well as cuts to the middle and back office functions of the combined group, reducing the combined staff of approximately 5,700 by 15-18 percent.
Baer, which is presenting to analysts and investors details of the acquisition later in London later on Tuesday, also reported that its assets under management had risen to 184 billion Swiss francs ($197.11 billion) at the end of August.
Julius Baer announced the acquisition in August of Merrill Lynch's wealth management business outside of the United States and Japan to expand in fast-growing emerging markets.
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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Paper
Publication date | 1998 |
Host publication | 4th International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems, Proceedings |
Place of publication | Los Alamitos |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 128-135 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 0-8186-8451-8 |
Original language | English |
Conference | 4th International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems |
City | ANNAPOLIS |
Period | 4/05/98 → 6/05/98 |
Conference | 4th International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems |
City | ANNAPOLIS |
Period | 4/05/98 → 6/05/98 |
In order to support multimedia applications in mobile environments. it will be necessary for applications to be aware of the underlying,network conditions and also to be able to adapt their behaviour and that of the underlying platform. This paper focuses on the role of middleware in supporting such adaptation. In particular, Ive investigate the role of open implementation and reflection in the design of middleware platforms such as CORBA. The paper initially extends CORBA with the concept of explicit binding, where path of communication between objects is represented as first class objects. We then introduce the concept of open bindings which support inspection and adaptation of the path of communications. An implementation of open bindings is described, based on the Ensemble protocol suite from Cornell University.


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If I can hear your music through closed doors and windows, it's too loud
The people down the hill from where I live have their music cranked up high right now. I asked them to turn it down and was told that because it's only 4pm they don't have to. As I was walking away, the young woman made a remark about old people complaining too music. I wanted to turn around and slap her. I'm not that old and if I can hear it with all of my doors and windows closed, it's too damn loud.
I agree with you OP. There's no accounting for thoughtlessness...
Quoting lifehappy:Eh, if it's my property and it's only 4 p.m., my shit's CRANKED! Lol.
Yes..that's incredibly too loud. I have the same problem with my neighbors. My son and soon to be sd have those wooden letters in their rooms..they are super glued to the wall lol. Their TV was so loud that it knocked the letters off of her wall...you honestly can't tell if it's thunder or their movie playing....
How is it not minding your own business? My business is that I don't want to listen to your music, you are disturbing me. Try and think of others, not just yourself.
Quoting .BREE.:
I think people like you should mind their own business. Just my thoughts though. I like my music loud.
Maybe they're deaf and must have it loud in order to hear it? That's my excuse :)
With light and love
Quoting kayandjsmom:
When I clean I love my music loud. I don't blast it at night.


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From across Hennepin Avenue, something caught LoAnne Turner's eye as she waited to catch a Saturday movie with her girlfriends at the Landmark Uptown Theater.
"It was the colors that grabbed my attention," she said as she examined the window display of the clothing store Heartbreaker. "Then, of course, the shoes. It's beautiful."
The display, a tea party complete with a place setting serving up shoes instead of tea, was part of a University of Minnesota class project.
The women were shocked to learn the display had been entirely designed and constructed by students.
"I hope they got an A," Turner said.
For the third consecutive year, students enrolled in the Visual Merchandising class through the Department of Design, Housing and Apparel created 14 storefront window presentations for Uptown businesses through a partnership between the University, the American Heart Association and the Uptown Association of Minneapolis.
The window projects, which are on display for about a month and make up 40 percent of the students' course grades, are inspired by the annual neighborhood Shop and Walk to Wellness Day last Saturday.
Uptown Association Executive Director Maude Lovelle said between 300 and 500 people viewed the students' work and voted for the best designs that day.
Online voting is open through Friday, when the window displays will be taken down.
Lovelle said she initially invited the University to partner for the annual wellness event to give students hands-on experience and to promote area businesses.
In just a day and a half, 14 businesses jumped at the opportunity to pay $150 to get a group of students to spruce up their windows. Lavelle said she had to create a waitlist for additional interested businesses.
Juanjuan Wu, the course instructor, said many of the participating businesses signed on because it benefitted them as much as students.
She said small businesses lack the budget or personnel to create eye-catching window displays that are vital for success.
"It's a way for stores to communicate who they are to people," she said. "Otherwise, if people didn't know about you, they'd just walk by."
My Sister's Closet, which opened its Uptown location about a year ago, was one of the businesses that signed on for this reason.
Owner Rosemary Williams said the store could afford to let the students be creative since it's a small business with no corporate restrictions.
"I tried to peel back and let them do their thing," she said after describing the increased traffic the design –– which consisted of five mannequins participating in healthy activities such as biking and walking the dog in style –– has brought into her store. "But I knew a few things I did not want, such as a huge Goldy in my window."
The windows had to fit the theme, "What's Goldy up to in Uptown?," incorporate wellness and fitness for the American Heart Association's cause and consider the target market and merchandise.
Davanni's manager Phil Martin said the pizza restaurant signed on after the great attitude of students who did the program last year.
Students tasked with revamping Davanni's window designed a poster with a pizza box unrealistically piled with vegetables. Satisfying the health element, it reads, "Goldy piles on fresh veggies."
Students also had to stick to a $100 budget and meet with business owners to develop ideas.
"The biggest challenge was conveying the theme," said Amanda Arends, a student who worked on the window for My Sister's Closet. "It was easy to find stylish clothing, but harder to connect it to healthy living."
Wu said many groups faced problems with communication, keeping a budget and compromising on ideas, which made the experience all the more valuable.
"There are a lot of big challenges with this project," Wu said. "But we want and expect these situations — this is what these students will have to deal with once they graduate."
The window display projects face different evaluations throughout the semester, including the vote, a community feedback session at an Uptown restaurant, critiques by a secret panel of celebrity judges and a formal grading rubric.
Lovelle said that though there is some room for improvement, the displays were a good addition to the neighborhood.
"Taking them down will be more bitter than sweet," said Arends, whose group spent about 20 hours on the project.
"We put a lot into those windows."


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Poor Jack Wong is a clueless cadet at the Unified Space Academy when his pod is stranded on a planet of disgusting aliens. All he wants to do, other than escape, is to fulfill his proud duty to advance Earth Culture's Primary Heuristic: "Wherever possible, find the weak spot in an alien civilization and interfere as much as possible for the benefit of humanity." It's the Human's Burden! But everything comes unstuck, made worse by his irritating Machiavellian AI.… (más)
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Oct 05, 2006 02:37 PM|joeaudette|LINK
Hi according to here:
"Globalization is the process of designing and developing applications that function for multiple cultures, and localization is the process of customizing your application for a given culture and locale. The topics in this section describe how to create ASP.NET Web applications that can be adapted to different languages and cultures."
I believe intrnationalization is the same thing as globalization, the 2 terms are synonyms at least in terms of ASP.NET developmentAt least that is my understanding of it.
Hope it helps,
Oct 05, 2006 02:43 PM|joeaudette|LINK
Although, here is an interesting blog post where someone makes a distinction between globalization and internationalization
Its basically saying that internationalization is what we do in code to adapt to cultures while globalization is making sure our presentation is not offensive or counter to the policies of a particular culture/country which goes beyond the mechanics of coding.
Oct 05, 2006 07:49 PM|vivek_iit|LINK
I wrote a small article with sample code which might help:
Aug 28, 2009 01:42 PM|hellobiswa2001|LINK
gobalisation means simply just accepted by all in the universe and localisation is by a specific area, thats it


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GDUFA Regulatory Science
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English: Nachi Falls (Nachi no taki) is a waterfall in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. It is one of the places that UNESCO has designated as World Heritage Site "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range".
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The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was established to
address uncertainties in climate research. Computer modeling has shown
that one of the most important uncertainties is clouds and how they impact
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The Spring-Summer 2013 Collection presents minimalist pieces with soft, clean lines. The collection was inspired by travel and the time spent packing your suitcase, and each garment is designed to be an essential, quality piece. The combination of classic, nostalgic colours, such as caramel, mustard yellow and red, with neutral tones softens and brings life to the natural materials, which include cotton, linen and lyocell. Each garment is comfortable and easy to wear and reflects a thoughtful simplicity with careful attention to every detail. With its minimalism and its pure design, it is a timeless collection.
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I was recently introduced to Skinny Sweats, a line of elevated sweats. Yup, dolled up sweats, leggings and comfy trousers. I think I've just found my new favourite wardrobe staple!
One of each please! It seems this French web store - Baruckello shares my love of beautiful blouses. I think I've found my new internet addiction.
Penelope and Coco's AW12 collection is made up of a healthy mix of vintage inspired boots, studs, steel cap toes and sky high heels. Perfect!
I love Solestruck. Who doesn't? It has been amazing to watch them grow over the past few years, from a small boutique in Portland to the go-to online source for shoe lovers worldwide. And now they're getting into the video game with little vignettes promoting their collaboration lines.


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The post of principal of Hereford Residential College will be open as of July 1. Applications or nominations are being accepted until Feb. 24.
As the chief administrator for the college, the principal and his or her family are expected to reside in Vaughan House at the college, to eat meals regularly with the students at Runk Dining Hall, and to contribute to the main goals of the residential college: the facilitation of faculty-student interaction and the integration of intellectual and social activities for both students and faculty. The new leader will have the freedom to shape the residential college according to his or her vision of an ideal center for living and learning.
The principal also is expected to:
The next principal or co-principals will succeed Daniel Bluestone, associate professor of architecture, who has served for five years. Engineering professor Melvin Cherno was the first principal from 1990 to 1995.
The term of appointment is for three years, with potential reappointment for an additional two years. The position is a 12-month, half-time appointment, thus allowing for some release time from the principal's primary department, and for salary during the summer months.
Applications or nominations should be sent by Feb. 24 to the Hereford College Search Committee, c/o Shirley L. Menaker, associate provost for academic support, Madison Hall. Applications should include a letter indicating interest and potential contributions to the college, a current curriculum vitae and the names of two references.
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