http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/credit/2010-02-08-creditcards08_CV_N.htm
Emily Maddox, 24, of Knoxville, Tenn., is the kind of customer credit card companies covet. She has a good job as an Internet marketing coordinator, and she lives within her means. But she's never had a credit card, and she has no plans to apply for one.
Credit cards, she says, "make me really nervous, and I've never felt comfortable having one."
In a country where the average consumer owns five credit cards, Maddox may seem somewhat quaint, like an Amish farmer who drives a horse-drawn buggy. But proponents of a no-credit-card lifestyle say there's nothing old-fashioned about their choices. And they're convinced that their numbers will grow as consumers become increasingly disenchanted with credit card industry practices.
Louis Rosas-Guyon, 37, a business technology consultant in Miami, says his life has become less stressful since he stopped using credit cards 10 years ago. "My life has gotten substantially easier because I've offloaded 10 to 12 different credit cards that I no longer have to make a payment on."
A decade ago, consumers who didn't want to use credit cards had two choices: carry a lot of cash or write checks and hold up the supermarket line. Today, debit cards blend the discipline of cash with the convenience of plastic and are accepted by most merchants that accept credit cards. In recent years, their popularity has soared.
"There's quietly been a debit card revolution," says best-selling personal finance author Dave Ramsey, who urges fans of his radio and Fox Business TV show to cut up their credit cards. Now that debit cards are broadly accepted, he says, using a credit card "with all its fees and interest rates and traps with customer service is really stupid."
12.31
Tim McFarlin, a consumer bankruptcy attorney in Irvine, Calif., 34, stopped using credit cards eight years ago because he thought the industry's business practices were unfair to consumers. "Any time there's even a hint of a financial issue in the consumer's life, the credit card company will raise the interest rate to the high 20s, or 30%," he says. "They'll do anything they can to make life as difficult as possible."
Some consumer experts say consumers who have sworn off credit cards are misguided. Among the reasons:
If fraudulent charges show up on a credit card bill, the card holder can simply refuse to pay them. Federal law limits credit card holders' liability to $50 of fraudulent charges, and most card issuers have zero-liability policies for victims of identity theft.
Federal laws also limit liability for debit card theft, but resolving the problem is more complicated. Money used with a stolen debit card is immediately drawn from the holder's account, which means the consumer must fight to get the funds reimbursed. In the meantime, outstanding checks could bounce.
It's also more difficult to dispute a defective purchase that has been paid with a debit card. Credit card holders can refuse to pay for the item; debit card holders have to battle for a refund.
"We still live in a credit-dominated society, and even if a person chooses to live on a cash basis, most of us are going to need credit when it comes time to buy a house or a car," says Gail Cunningham, spokeswoman for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. "This means having a thick credit file and a high credit score, which can only be accomplished by having some degree of credit and treating it responsibly."
2010年12月27日 星期一
12.27 -12.29
http://www.africaresource.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=506:tracing-human-diversity-through-the-ages&catid=117:science&Itemid=361
12.27
A coalition of Stanford scientists has released the most detailed road map yet of human diversity, offering insight into the emergence and restless migration of the world's populations...
A group of Russian people called the Yakuts, native to the cold, dry tundra of Siberia, share genetic similarities with people indigenous to South and Central America - such as the Mayans, the Pima and even the Surui of the Brazilian jungles. This supports theories about human migration from Siberia across the Bering Strait to the Americas
12.28
Chinese fall into northern and southern groups. People who live along the northern border near Mongolia are genetically distinct from the Han Chinese of the southern part of the nation
...
In the future, they hope to have access to samples from even more populations, adding to the map.
12.29 (Silk Road mummies provide clues to history)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010-03-18-silkroadmummies18_ST_N.htm
The mummies from western China's arid Tarim Basin are so well-preserved that the viewer can see their intricate clothing and eyelashes, and also that they are distinctly non-Asian in appearance.
One mummy, affectionately dubbed the "Beauty of Xiaohe" by archaeologists, is so lifelike that she looks as if she's taking a nap. She has fair skin, round eyes, and a felt hat resembling an alpine head covering with a long feather stuck in the top
The mummies' Caucasian appearance suggests that Bronze Age nomads speaking Indo-European languages from perhaps Russia and Ukraine brought culture, physical features and genes to parts of western China and may have also been the first to domesticate the horse, says Spencer Wells, who has studied the Tarim mummies and is director of the National Geographic Society's The Genographic Project.
"I was shocked when I saw them. I thought, 'My goodness, they look like Europeans,' " says Victor Mair, a Chinese language and literature professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied the mummies since 1993 and is a co-author of The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples From the West.
Some artifacts found with the mummies, including bronze and sheep bones, hint that Europeans brought technologies such as metallurgy and some domesticated animals to China, which may explain the European appearance of the mummies and suggest that trade between Europe and Asia existed nearly 4,000 years ago, Mair says.
Although the artifacts imply that trade between Europe and Asia existed during the Bronze Age, the Silk Road, a trade route between different parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, did not formally develop until about 138 B.C., during the Han Dynasty.
Western archaeologists have only discovered these mummies relatively recently. It's a very exciting thing."
12.27
A coalition of Stanford scientists has released the most detailed road map yet of human diversity, offering insight into the emergence and restless migration of the world's populations...
A group of Russian people called the Yakuts, native to the cold, dry tundra of Siberia, share genetic similarities with people indigenous to South and Central America - such as the Mayans, the Pima and even the Surui of the Brazilian jungles. This supports theories about human migration from Siberia across the Bering Strait to the Americas
12.28
Chinese fall into northern and southern groups. People who live along the northern border near Mongolia are genetically distinct from the Han Chinese of the southern part of the nation
...
In the future, they hope to have access to samples from even more populations, adding to the map.
12.29 (Silk Road mummies provide clues to history)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010-03-18-silkroadmummies18_ST_N.htm
The mummies from western China's arid Tarim Basin are so well-preserved that the viewer can see their intricate clothing and eyelashes, and also that they are distinctly non-Asian in appearance.
One mummy, affectionately dubbed the "Beauty of Xiaohe" by archaeologists, is so lifelike that she looks as if she's taking a nap. She has fair skin, round eyes, and a felt hat resembling an alpine head covering with a long feather stuck in the top
The mummies' Caucasian appearance suggests that Bronze Age nomads speaking Indo-European languages from perhaps Russia and Ukraine brought culture, physical features and genes to parts of western China and may have also been the first to domesticate the horse, says Spencer Wells, who has studied the Tarim mummies and is director of the National Geographic Society's The Genographic Project.
"I was shocked when I saw them. I thought, 'My goodness, they look like Europeans,' " says Victor Mair, a Chinese language and literature professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied the mummies since 1993 and is a co-author of The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples From the West.
Some artifacts found with the mummies, including bronze and sheep bones, hint that Europeans brought technologies such as metallurgy and some domesticated animals to China, which may explain the European appearance of the mummies and suggest that trade between Europe and Asia existed nearly 4,000 years ago, Mair says.
Although the artifacts imply that trade between Europe and Asia existed during the Bronze Age, the Silk Road, a trade route between different parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, did not formally develop until about 138 B.C., during the Han Dynasty.
Western archaeologists have only discovered these mummies relatively recently. It's a very exciting thing."
12.23-12.25 Christmas
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20081224/1agoodholiday24_cv.art.htm
In his classic short story, The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry tells of an impoverished young husband and wife who each sacrifice something precious to buy the other the perfect Christmas gift.
...
(X)
Only one in five say they expect it to be less happy. "We're a glass-half-full people," says Kathy Moakler of the National Military Family Association, which helps servicemembers and their relatives.
That optimism begets generosity. "We spend what we can spend, and it hasn't been a hardship in our house," says Suzanne Lemmons, a secretary at M&S Turquoise in St. George, Utah, who donated gifts for children of low-income families at the Paiute tribe's Christmas party.
"As long as we're helping others, we haven't wanted for anything."
Who are the magi?
They're the ones who've tried to make this blue Christmas bright, not in hopes of receiving, but through plans to give ?sometimes to their closest loved ones, sometimes to strangers, sometimes anonymously.
12.24
The magi are the ones who, foten because of their own trials, approach Christmas most thankfully and throughtfullly
Some magi give sacrificially.
Ray and Aileen Copeland, a recently retired couple from Naperville, Ill., say they donated the money for each others' gifts to a food pantry.
"It's nothing extraordinary," he insists. "We're fortunate we could spare it."
Some give empathetically.
Edwin Messikomer of Chadds Ford, Pa., a retired naval officer, says a Christmas memory led him to volunteer to stuff shoe boxes with goodies for international merchant seafarers at the Seamen's Center at the Port of Wilmington, Del.
"I spent one Christmas at sea," Messikomer says. "I know little things mean a lot."
Some give on orders.
Tom Bosch, a hotel manager in Sioux Falls, S.D., says an idea came to him in a dream: Open the place to homeless families on Christmas Eve. So this year the Holiday Inn City Centre will give 200 rooms and a free breakfast to the needy.
Bosch says his Christian faith compels such generosity: "If we can make their Christmas brighter and more cheery, well, that's what it's all about."
In December 1941, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt went to the South Lawn of the White House to light the national Christmas tree. He brought a special guest: Winston Churchill.
"Here, amidst all the tumult, we have tonight the peace of the spirit in each cottage home, and in each generous heart," the British prime minister told the crowd. What we have, he said, is "happiness in a world of storm."
12.25
But those who study the history of the holiday are struck by its durability.
Through war and peace, feast and famine, "people have kept doing what they were doing at Christmas," says Karal Ann Marling, a University of Minnesota art historian who wrote Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday.
"In hard times, people try harder," she says. "Nothing has really put a dent in Christmas."
Not the Great Depression nor World War II, when some Americans gave necessities ?razor blades, tires, cigarettes ?as gifts.
Not the Civil War, during which Christmas traditions ?the tree, the stockings, the visit from Santa ?spread nationally. "The idea was to keep the home fires burning," Marling says.
"Christmas has survived all sorts of things," says University of Massachusetts historian Stephen Nissenbaum, author of The Battle for Christmas. "People reinvent it all the time."
In The Gift of the Magi, Della secretly sells her long, beautiful brown hair to buy a platinum chain for Jim's prized gold watch. He, meanwhile, has secretly sold the watch to buy combs ?"tortoise shell, with jeweled rims" ?for Della's hair.
When they discover their folly, they see in their mutual sacrifice a love that both epitomizes and transcends Christmas.
This season finds many couples in the same spot as the pair created by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910). They include Brandon and Morgan Faulkner of Indianapolis; Tony Glasier and Kathryn Logan Glasier of Visalia, Calif.; and Kate and Tim Frye of Chandler, Ariz.
The couples have suffered economic setbacks. They have agreed to spend little or nothing on each other for Christmas. And they have schemed, individually and secretly, to break that vow.
The fruits of such plotting cannot be revealed until Dec. 25. But the impulse to give a little more ?maybe too much ?is more traditional than mistletoe.
As Della tells Jim in Magi, "I couldn't have lived through Christmas without getting you a present."
Sometimes, keeping Christmas in hard times means having the wisdom to change it.
In his classic short story, The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry tells of an impoverished young husband and wife who each sacrifice something precious to buy the other the perfect Christmas gift.
...
(X)
Only one in five say they expect it to be less happy. "We're a glass-half-full people," says Kathy Moakler of the National Military Family Association, which helps servicemembers and their relatives.
That optimism begets generosity. "We spend what we can spend, and it hasn't been a hardship in our house," says Suzanne Lemmons, a secretary at M&S Turquoise in St. George, Utah, who donated gifts for children of low-income families at the Paiute tribe's Christmas party.
"As long as we're helping others, we haven't wanted for anything."
Who are the magi?
They're the ones who've tried to make this blue Christmas bright, not in hopes of receiving, but through plans to give ?sometimes to their closest loved ones, sometimes to strangers, sometimes anonymously.
12.24
The magi are the ones who, foten because of their own trials, approach Christmas most thankfully and throughtfullly
Some magi give sacrificially.
Ray and Aileen Copeland, a recently retired couple from Naperville, Ill., say they donated the money for each others' gifts to a food pantry.
"It's nothing extraordinary," he insists. "We're fortunate we could spare it."
Some give empathetically.
Edwin Messikomer of Chadds Ford, Pa., a retired naval officer, says a Christmas memory led him to volunteer to stuff shoe boxes with goodies for international merchant seafarers at the Seamen's Center at the Port of Wilmington, Del.
"I spent one Christmas at sea," Messikomer says. "I know little things mean a lot."
Some give on orders.
Tom Bosch, a hotel manager in Sioux Falls, S.D., says an idea came to him in a dream: Open the place to homeless families on Christmas Eve. So this year the Holiday Inn City Centre will give 200 rooms and a free breakfast to the needy.
Bosch says his Christian faith compels such generosity: "If we can make their Christmas brighter and more cheery, well, that's what it's all about."
In December 1941, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt went to the South Lawn of the White House to light the national Christmas tree. He brought a special guest: Winston Churchill.
"Here, amidst all the tumult, we have tonight the peace of the spirit in each cottage home, and in each generous heart," the British prime minister told the crowd. What we have, he said, is "happiness in a world of storm."
12.25
But those who study the history of the holiday are struck by its durability.
Through war and peace, feast and famine, "people have kept doing what they were doing at Christmas," says Karal Ann Marling, a University of Minnesota art historian who wrote Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday.
"In hard times, people try harder," she says. "Nothing has really put a dent in Christmas."
Not the Great Depression nor World War II, when some Americans gave necessities ?razor blades, tires, cigarettes ?as gifts.
Not the Civil War, during which Christmas traditions ?the tree, the stockings, the visit from Santa ?spread nationally. "The idea was to keep the home fires burning," Marling says.
"Christmas has survived all sorts of things," says University of Massachusetts historian Stephen Nissenbaum, author of The Battle for Christmas. "People reinvent it all the time."
In The Gift of the Magi, Della secretly sells her long, beautiful brown hair to buy a platinum chain for Jim's prized gold watch. He, meanwhile, has secretly sold the watch to buy combs ?"tortoise shell, with jeweled rims" ?for Della's hair.
When they discover their folly, they see in their mutual sacrifice a love that both epitomizes and transcends Christmas.
This season finds many couples in the same spot as the pair created by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910). They include Brandon and Morgan Faulkner of Indianapolis; Tony Glasier and Kathryn Logan Glasier of Visalia, Calif.; and Kate and Tim Frye of Chandler, Ariz.
The couples have suffered economic setbacks. They have agreed to spend little or nothing on each other for Christmas. And they have schemed, individually and secretly, to break that vow.
The fruits of such plotting cannot be revealed until Dec. 25. But the impulse to give a little more ?maybe too much ?is more traditional than mistletoe.
As Della tells Jim in Magi, "I couldn't have lived through Christmas without getting you a present."
Sometimes, keeping Christmas in hard times means having the wisdom to change it.
12.20-12.22
12.20
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/22/business/la-fi-facebook-20100722
Facebook Inc. on Wednesday issued its own eye-popping status update: The world's most popular social networking site had surpassed 500 million users.
And now, the Internet phenomenon that has transformed how the world communicates is eyeing another distinction — connecting one out of every seven human beings on the planet.
Six years after getting its start in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook said it was aiming to have 1 billion members, matching the reach of Internet search giant Google Inc.
If it can keep up its current breakneck pace, a feat that would defy predictions from analysts, Facebook could reach that goal by next year.
"We all love to dream big around here," said Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who handles marketing. "We are going to take a day or so to celebrate 500 million users before we start thinking about going beyond that."
The site's runaway growth is nearly without precedent. Last summer, Facebook had 250 million users. It has amassed 100 million new members since February alone. Now if Facebook were a country, it would be the world's third largest.
All of which has lent credibility to Mark Zuckerberg's confident assertion that his company could almost "guarantee" growing to 1 billion active users despite a recent spate of privacy concerns and increasing competition from Google and others. Facebook defines active users as people who have logged onto the site within the last 30 days.
Two years ago, Facebook was available only in English, making overseas expansion more of a challenge except in English-speaking countries such as Britain and Australia.
Under Javier Olivan, who joined Facebook as head of international growth three years ago when the site had 30 million users, Facebook has encouraged its users to translate the site into more than 70 languages. Now Facebook is pulling even or overtaking social networking services in country after country, gaining traction in Europe, Latin America and beyond. Some 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.
12.21
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-09-23/news/0909230201_1_social-networking-motoblur-home-computer
The outlook for the wireless industry is getting cloudier.
...
"When you have a laptop or a netbook, those are true computers and have great processing power and data storage," said Mark Beccue, a senior analyst at ABI Research. "But anything from a smart phone down does not. Mobile cloud computing says: 'What if you can enable these devices to access applications and data in the cloud?'
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Analysts say faster networks will dovetail with proliferation of smarter devices. "This is going to be much more accesuble to a lot of us on affordable phones,; Beccue said.
12.22
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/23/business/la-fi-ct-digital-comics-20100723
Technology, which has already upended the music, television and movie businesses, is now gripping the comic book world. ...
Enthusiasts dismiss such fears as nonsense. Digital distribution is not only bringing a desperately needed infusion of young comic readers but also giving birth to a renaissance of innovation in a medium that some say badly needs updating
Motion comics account for only a fraction of the digital comic market and are expensive to produce. Though early versions have been given a thumbs-down by many critics, growth of the motion comics sector is continuing to grow.
Jim Lee, co-publisher of DC Comics and a well-regarded artist and writer, says the move to digital is altering the creative process.
As readers become more familiar with reading digital comics, it will affect the way we think about producing the comics," Lee said. "We start to think about constructing our pages differently. Some publishers have asked artists to create layouts specifically for the iPad, for instance. We also think about the length of our stories because people with smart phones have shorter bits of time to consume media.... I see a lot of experimentation with the art form."
"Every time we undergo a change in technology, people say we're losing something," said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor in chief. "I see it as gaining something.... Comic creators will learn how to tell their stories in new ways."
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/22/business/la-fi-facebook-20100722
Facebook Inc. on Wednesday issued its own eye-popping status update: The world's most popular social networking site had surpassed 500 million users.
And now, the Internet phenomenon that has transformed how the world communicates is eyeing another distinction — connecting one out of every seven human beings on the planet.
Six years after getting its start in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook said it was aiming to have 1 billion members, matching the reach of Internet search giant Google Inc.
If it can keep up its current breakneck pace, a feat that would defy predictions from analysts, Facebook could reach that goal by next year.
"We all love to dream big around here," said Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who handles marketing. "We are going to take a day or so to celebrate 500 million users before we start thinking about going beyond that."
The site's runaway growth is nearly without precedent. Last summer, Facebook had 250 million users. It has amassed 100 million new members since February alone. Now if Facebook were a country, it would be the world's third largest.
All of which has lent credibility to Mark Zuckerberg's confident assertion that his company could almost "guarantee" growing to 1 billion active users despite a recent spate of privacy concerns and increasing competition from Google and others. Facebook defines active users as people who have logged onto the site within the last 30 days.
Two years ago, Facebook was available only in English, making overseas expansion more of a challenge except in English-speaking countries such as Britain and Australia.
Under Javier Olivan, who joined Facebook as head of international growth three years ago when the site had 30 million users, Facebook has encouraged its users to translate the site into more than 70 languages. Now Facebook is pulling even or overtaking social networking services in country after country, gaining traction in Europe, Latin America and beyond. Some 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.
12.21
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-09-23/news/0909230201_1_social-networking-motoblur-home-computer
The outlook for the wireless industry is getting cloudier.
...
"When you have a laptop or a netbook, those are true computers and have great processing power and data storage," said Mark Beccue, a senior analyst at ABI Research. "But anything from a smart phone down does not. Mobile cloud computing says: 'What if you can enable these devices to access applications and data in the cloud?'
最後接
Analysts say faster networks will dovetail with proliferation of smarter devices. "This is going to be much more accesuble to a lot of us on affordable phones,; Beccue said.
12.22
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/23/business/la-fi-ct-digital-comics-20100723
Technology, which has already upended the music, television and movie businesses, is now gripping the comic book world. ...
Enthusiasts dismiss such fears as nonsense. Digital distribution is not only bringing a desperately needed infusion of young comic readers but also giving birth to a renaissance of innovation in a medium that some say badly needs updating
Motion comics account for only a fraction of the digital comic market and are expensive to produce. Though early versions have been given a thumbs-down by many critics, growth of the motion comics sector is continuing to grow.
Jim Lee, co-publisher of DC Comics and a well-regarded artist and writer, says the move to digital is altering the creative process.
As readers become more familiar with reading digital comics, it will affect the way we think about producing the comics," Lee said. "We start to think about constructing our pages differently. Some publishers have asked artists to create layouts specifically for the iPad, for instance. We also think about the length of our stories because people with smart phones have shorter bits of time to consume media.... I see a lot of experimentation with the art form."
"Every time we undergo a change in technology, people say we're losing something," said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor in chief. "I see it as gaining something.... Comic creators will learn how to tell their stories in new ways."
12.17-12.18
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/07/25/1581501/mystery-of-familys-art-unraveled.html
A cache of art stolen at the end of World War II is finally back ...
(X)
"It was kind of a family secret," says McFadden, 45, a legal assistant. "We weren't supposed to talk about it."
...
(X)
And after they died, the artwork went to McFadden's sister in West Windsor, N.J., who kept them in her basement. In November, when the sister was moving, the paintings came to McFadden.
(X)
She didn't know whether they were important. A family friend, Barry Pedersen, and his partner in their Mooresville architectural millwork company, Gary Dunne, both of Davidson, offered to help find out.
....
On March 22, 1945, U.S. troops occupied Pirmasens and on Sept. 19 the museum announced that "about 50 paintings which had been stored in the air-raid shelter at Husterhoh School during the war have been lost during the arrival of the American troops."
12.18
For 60 years, the paintings were missing. Then on Oct. 25, 2005, an auction company in Pennsylvania advertised three of them.
...
They were told by the woman who was trying to sell them that they were given to her by Gursky's wife, Florence, years ago. That case is still under investigation, the U.S. Attorney's office says.
On McFadden's behalf, Dunne sent an e-mail to Pirmasens' mayor, Bernard Matheis, a few days before Christmas asking whether the city would like the paintings back. At a ceremony at the Goethe-Institut in Manhattan with federal authorities and German Consul General Horst Freitag, the paintings were formally returned.
"It is thanks to your integrity, foresight, your firm belief in justice and your joint effort with ICE that these paintings could be traced and now returned," Freitag told McFadden.
As the Nazis moved across Europe in World War II, they systematically looted an estimated 20 percent of the continent's artwork. German dictator Adolf Hitler chose the best for himself and other high-ranking officials amassed collections as well - Hermann Göring took 594 pieces for himself in Paris alone.
But art thefts by U.S. servicemen were all but unknown. Charles Mo, director of fine arts for the Mint Museum, says he's never heard of a single case, while the plunder of the Nazis was well documented.
Experts estimate the recovered Buerkel paintings are worth $50,000 each. Others in the cache are valued at $4,000 to $10,000.
McFadden says she never had any interest in making money off the works.
"They didn't belong to me and were of sentimental value to someone else. I wouldn't want anyone else to take my stuff."
A cache of art stolen at the end of World War II is finally back ...
(X)
"It was kind of a family secret," says McFadden, 45, a legal assistant. "We weren't supposed to talk about it."
...
(X)
And after they died, the artwork went to McFadden's sister in West Windsor, N.J., who kept them in her basement. In November, when the sister was moving, the paintings came to McFadden.
(X)
She didn't know whether they were important. A family friend, Barry Pedersen, and his partner in their Mooresville architectural millwork company, Gary Dunne, both of Davidson, offered to help find out.
....
On March 22, 1945, U.S. troops occupied Pirmasens and on Sept. 19 the museum announced that "about 50 paintings which had been stored in the air-raid shelter at Husterhoh School during the war have been lost during the arrival of the American troops."
12.18
For 60 years, the paintings were missing. Then on Oct. 25, 2005, an auction company in Pennsylvania advertised three of them.
...
They were told by the woman who was trying to sell them that they were given to her by Gursky's wife, Florence, years ago. That case is still under investigation, the U.S. Attorney's office says.
On McFadden's behalf, Dunne sent an e-mail to Pirmasens' mayor, Bernard Matheis, a few days before Christmas asking whether the city would like the paintings back. At a ceremony at the Goethe-Institut in Manhattan with federal authorities and German Consul General Horst Freitag, the paintings were formally returned.
"It is thanks to your integrity, foresight, your firm belief in justice and your joint effort with ICE that these paintings could be traced and now returned," Freitag told McFadden.
As the Nazis moved across Europe in World War II, they systematically looted an estimated 20 percent of the continent's artwork. German dictator Adolf Hitler chose the best for himself and other high-ranking officials amassed collections as well - Hermann Göring took 594 pieces for himself in Paris alone.
But art thefts by U.S. servicemen were all but unknown. Charles Mo, director of fine arts for the Mint Museum, says he's never heard of a single case, while the plunder of the Nazis was well documented.
Experts estimate the recovered Buerkel paintings are worth $50,000 each. Others in the cache are valued at $4,000 to $10,000.
McFadden says she never had any interest in making money off the works.
"They didn't belong to me and were of sentimental value to someone else. I wouldn't want anyone else to take my stuff."
12.15-12.16
http://articles.dailypress.com/2010-01-14/features/dp-life_homefitness_0114jan14_1_exercise-equipment-exercise-program-sweat-home
12.15
A few years ago, in January, Barb Lito and her husband decided to bite the bullet and buy some home exercise equipment.
"We both had gym memberships, but with demanding jobs and family commitments, we were not making that time to get to the gym," said Lito, who works as superintendent of recreation programs for Newport News Parks and Recreation.
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Their daughter, who was 10 at the time, was too old for the nursery but too young to turn loose at the gym.
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That doesn't mean that it's necessary to spend thousands of dollars to get a good workout at home. Local experts and enthusiasts we interviewed, including Lito, told us what to look for in home exercise equipment in all price ranges.
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Let's start at the bottom and work our way up, beginning with what you tie on your feet.
Running Shoes ...
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Hand weights
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"With free weights or a stability ball, there are a lot of things you can do without spending a lot of money," said Andre Moore, senior director of wellness and membership at the Newport News YMCA.
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"With dumbbells, you have a choice of neoprene-covered or just iron," he said. "It's just personal preference and comfort." He said the price shouldn't be more than a couple of dollars per pound. "If someplace is asking you to pay $5 or more a pound, go somewhere else."
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For those choosing how much weight to use, Moore suggested using this test: Do two or three sets of 12 to 15 lifts, such as a curl. "If you are straining on the last couple of reps, that's probably a good weight for you."
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Typically, people just starting out use hand weights of 3-5 pounds.
12.16
Exercise balls...
DVDs ...
Exercise Machine...
(這邊 網頁的文章有部分被修改 這裡就不仔細列出了)
12.15
A few years ago, in January, Barb Lito and her husband decided to bite the bullet and buy some home exercise equipment.
"We both had gym memberships, but with demanding jobs and family commitments, we were not making that time to get to the gym," said Lito, who works as superintendent of recreation programs for Newport News Parks and Recreation.
(X)
Their daughter, who was 10 at the time, was too old for the nursery but too young to turn loose at the gym.
(X)
That doesn't mean that it's necessary to spend thousands of dollars to get a good workout at home. Local experts and enthusiasts we interviewed, including Lito, told us what to look for in home exercise equipment in all price ranges.
(X)
Let's start at the bottom and work our way up, beginning with what you tie on your feet.
Running Shoes ...
(X)
Hand weights
(X)
"With free weights or a stability ball, there are a lot of things you can do without spending a lot of money," said Andre Moore, senior director of wellness and membership at the Newport News YMCA.
(X)
"With dumbbells, you have a choice of neoprene-covered or just iron," he said. "It's just personal preference and comfort." He said the price shouldn't be more than a couple of dollars per pound. "If someplace is asking you to pay $5 or more a pound, go somewhere else."
(X)
For those choosing how much weight to use, Moore suggested using this test: Do two or three sets of 12 to 15 lifts, such as a curl. "If you are straining on the last couple of reps, that's probably a good weight for you."
(X)
Typically, people just starting out use hand weights of 3-5 pounds.
12.16
Exercise balls...
DVDs ...
Exercise Machine...
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12.13-12.14
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-11-01/news/0910300086_1_ipod-touch-wi-fi-iphone
12.13
Some people consider devices like iPhones and laptops to be a roadblock to an enjoyable vacation ...
While Google's walking directions came in handy many times, they weren't always correct (they are still in beta), so it's smart to keep an old fashioned paper map as well. When you get back, cancel the international data plan immediately and make sure that AT&T didn't mistakenly charge you for data roaming like it did in our case. You'll also want to carry an iPhone charger with you, or spare battery for when you run out of juice.
按下一頁
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-11-01/news/0910300086_1_ipod-touch-wi-fi-iphone/2
Wi-Fi is plentiful in Europe, so it's wise to carry a portable Wi-Fi enabled device with you such as an iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry or netbook so you can look up information, get directions, check your e-mail and even make low-cost international phone calls. ...
In some cases, we skipped the museum guides and downloaded free high-quality podcast audio tours from well-known travel author and TV host Rick Steves. The free audio tours can be downloaded from ricksteves.com or iTunes, and they feature pictures for each stop on the tour so you can make sure you are in the right place.
12.13
Some people consider devices like iPhones and laptops to be a roadblock to an enjoyable vacation ...
While Google's walking directions came in handy many times, they weren't always correct (they are still in beta), so it's smart to keep an old fashioned paper map as well. When you get back, cancel the international data plan immediately and make sure that AT&T didn't mistakenly charge you for data roaming like it did in our case. You'll also want to carry an iPhone charger with you, or spare battery for when you run out of juice.
按下一頁
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2009-11-01/news/0910300086_1_ipod-touch-wi-fi-iphone/2
Wi-Fi is plentiful in Europe, so it's wise to carry a portable Wi-Fi enabled device with you such as an iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry or netbook so you can look up information, get directions, check your e-mail and even make low-cost international phone calls. ...
In some cases, we skipped the museum guides and downloaded free high-quality podcast audio tours from well-known travel author and TV host Rick Steves. The free audio tours can be downloaded from ricksteves.com or iTunes, and they feature pictures for each stop on the tour so you can make sure you are in the right place.
12.09-12.11
http://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/article_03705fe0-b786-5ccc-9cb2-87fab21da4d0.html
12.09
-- A Lego brick is a Lego brick is a Lego brick.
Except when it's a Lego Star
...
(X) Lego controls the construction-toy rights to licensed properties such as "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones" and "Toy Story" whereas its rivals operate in the less overtly edifying sphere of games, dolls, action figures and vehicles.
...
Considering their stellar results so far this year were achieved in a lousy economy and up against difficult growth comparisons from a year ago, I'd say the future should be even better," said Sean McGowan, an analyst at Needham & Co., in reply to e-mailed questions.
(X) But the future wasn't always so bright.
There was a period around the millennium when, after more than 50 years of unbroken sales growth, this iconic, mild-mannered, privately-held Danish toy firm had lost its way.
It may have succeeded in putting, on average, five plastic bricks into the homes of each and every one of us on the planet, but it was also trying to be all things to all comers by moving away from products that exemplified the creative, open-ended imaginative play on which it cut its teeth.
In 1998 the firm posted its first-ever loss. Profitable licensing agreements with Hollywood buoyed the business for a few years, but when another loss in 2004 signaled a more sustained slump, it was time to start rearranging the bricks.
12.10
Enter Knudstorp, a former kindergarten teacher and McKinsey consultant tasked with halting a sales decline, reducing debt and focusing on cash flow -- all classic turnaround stuff.
...
"The 'retro' aspect is definitely powerful," said Needham's McGowan. "What dad with a 10-year-old son doesn't have fond memories of Lego?"
12.11
A FAMILY AFFAIR
Lego claims that their classic product lines such as Lego City featuring diminutive scenes of fireman, police and hospital workers -- and more recently Lego Power Miners -- give children an insight into how the adult world is organized.
...
As for growth, Knudstorp has a stackable line on that too. At the moment, Europe remains its top market, with Germany alone accounting for 20 percent of sales on the Continent, but Lego has its sights set on the U.S. where it wants to gain on rivals like Hasbro and Mattel, and so move beyond its current 3.5 percent share of the U.S. toy market.
(X)
"We want to make North America our second core business. We are growing strongly there, we want to continue doing that despite the economics in North America right now," said Knudstorp.
"In the U.S. you now have a minister of education and indeed a president who recognize that children need 21st century skills, that they need to become creative problem solvers. We can help with that, which is a completely new way of doing business for the well-established Lego brand."
12.09
-- A Lego brick is a Lego brick is a Lego brick.
Except when it's a Lego Star
...
(X) Lego controls the construction-toy rights to licensed properties such as "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones" and "Toy Story" whereas its rivals operate in the less overtly edifying sphere of games, dolls, action figures and vehicles.
...
Considering their stellar results so far this year were achieved in a lousy economy and up against difficult growth comparisons from a year ago, I'd say the future should be even better," said Sean McGowan, an analyst at Needham & Co., in reply to e-mailed questions.
(X) But the future wasn't always so bright.
There was a period around the millennium when, after more than 50 years of unbroken sales growth, this iconic, mild-mannered, privately-held Danish toy firm had lost its way.
It may have succeeded in putting, on average, five plastic bricks into the homes of each and every one of us on the planet, but it was also trying to be all things to all comers by moving away from products that exemplified the creative, open-ended imaginative play on which it cut its teeth.
In 1998 the firm posted its first-ever loss. Profitable licensing agreements with Hollywood buoyed the business for a few years, but when another loss in 2004 signaled a more sustained slump, it was time to start rearranging the bricks.
12.10
Enter Knudstorp, a former kindergarten teacher and McKinsey consultant tasked with halting a sales decline, reducing debt and focusing on cash flow -- all classic turnaround stuff.
...
"The 'retro' aspect is definitely powerful," said Needham's McGowan. "What dad with a 10-year-old son doesn't have fond memories of Lego?"
12.11
A FAMILY AFFAIR
Lego claims that their classic product lines such as Lego City featuring diminutive scenes of fireman, police and hospital workers -- and more recently Lego Power Miners -- give children an insight into how the adult world is organized.
...
As for growth, Knudstorp has a stackable line on that too. At the moment, Europe remains its top market, with Germany alone accounting for 20 percent of sales on the Continent, but Lego has its sights set on the U.S. where it wants to gain on rivals like Hasbro and Mattel, and so move beyond its current 3.5 percent share of the U.S. toy market.
(X)
"We want to make North America our second core business. We are growing strongly there, we want to continue doing that despite the economics in North America right now," said Knudstorp.
"In the U.S. you now have a minister of education and indeed a president who recognize that children need 21st century skills, that they need to become creative problem solvers. We can help with that, which is a completely new way of doing business for the well-established Lego brand."
12.06-12.8
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/look-whos-curing-cancer.html
12.06
For the past four years, Lauren Moran has devoted herself to groundbreaking cancer research, chronicling the fickle interaction between molecules and proteins. Despite having a full...
Moran's laptop displays a screen saver of her latest WCG assignment, but the science, she admits, is "way over my head. I just know when I'm not using my computer, it's crunching numbers that could lead to a cure."
12.07
Most of us use our computers about as efficiently as we use our brains: We scratch the surface, never tapping the full potential. WCG exploits this unused computing power by borrowing ...
WCG, which hosted one project its first year, now runs a half dozen or more simultaneously. The latest: In hopes of discovering new organic electronic materials that could lead to cheaper solar cells, Aspuru-Guzik is screening about 2 million chemical compounds for photovoltaic properties. That's roughly 20,000 times more compounds than he could analyze on a single computer. And the project will take only a couple of years, instead of two decades.
12.08
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/look-whos-curing-cancer.html?page=0%2C1
The IBM team is acutely aware that its public grid is only as effective as the public allows it to be....
Worldwide, there are several dozen large public grids, says Berstis.Their membership tends to top out in the tens of thousands, while WCG continues to grow by several thousand members a week. Although IBM promotes the effort on Facebook, at conferences, and internally, the volunteers themselves are the best recruiters. Some 400 companies and schools that have signed on as partners receive marketing tools to spread the word. Today, people on some 24,000 teams -- from Slashdot Users (3,953 members) and Facebook (382) to Team Boulder (413), run by teenage brothers Grant and Max Buster in Colorado -- blog and post Web videos about the grid.
12.06
For the past four years, Lauren Moran has devoted herself to groundbreaking cancer research, chronicling the fickle interaction between molecules and proteins. Despite having a full...
Moran's laptop displays a screen saver of her latest WCG assignment, but the science, she admits, is "way over my head. I just know when I'm not using my computer, it's crunching numbers that could lead to a cure."
12.07
Most of us use our computers about as efficiently as we use our brains: We scratch the surface, never tapping the full potential. WCG exploits this unused computing power by borrowing ...
WCG, which hosted one project its first year, now runs a half dozen or more simultaneously. The latest: In hopes of discovering new organic electronic materials that could lead to cheaper solar cells, Aspuru-Guzik is screening about 2 million chemical compounds for photovoltaic properties. That's roughly 20,000 times more compounds than he could analyze on a single computer. And the project will take only a couple of years, instead of two decades.
12.08
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/look-whos-curing-cancer.html?page=0%2C1
The IBM team is acutely aware that its public grid is only as effective as the public allows it to be....
Worldwide, there are several dozen large public grids, says Berstis.Their membership tends to top out in the tens of thousands, while WCG continues to grow by several thousand members a week. Although IBM promotes the effort on Facebook, at conferences, and internally, the volunteers themselves are the best recruiters. Some 400 companies and schools that have signed on as partners receive marketing tools to spread the word. Today, people on some 24,000 teams -- from Slashdot Users (3,953 members) and Facebook (382) to Team Boulder (413), run by teenage brothers Grant and Max Buster in Colorado -- blog and post Web videos about the grid.
2010年12月26日 星期日
12.03 -12.04
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/12/world/la-fg-china-characters-20100712
12.03
For Ma Silang, the long descent into forgetfulness began after he graduated from high school, went off to London ...
(X)"People don't write anything by hand anymore except for name and address," admitted Ma.
...
Almost any Chinese person you meet will confess to a lapse of memory, almost like a senior moment. The hand clutching the pen or pencil is poised above a sheet of paper about to write a character learned in childhood and memorized in countless repetitions when — suddenly — an embarrassing pause.
12.04
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/12/world/la-fg-china-characters-20100712/2
(點選下一頁 就會到上述網址)
In China, the situation rises to the level of a cultural crisis since the characters, more than any other facet of life, epitomize thousands of years of tradition.
Writing, moreover, is not merely about communication — in Chinese culture, it is an art form and spiritual ...
"These characters are in the soul of every Chinese person," said Wang Jianxue, a 38-year-old calligraphy teacher from Harbin who was lovingly leafing through the stacks at a bookstore in Liulichang, a street of quiet shops that sell brushes, ink stones, rubbings, scrolls and curios. "The nation has to maintain its personality through its characters. They are our cultural heritage. The computer is just a tool."
Many young Chinese are sufficiently concerned that they have taken it upon themselves to study calligraphy.
"It will take a lot of effort to preserve our Chinese characters. It is the same way they try to preserve these old hutongs," said Zhu Linfei, 24, a Beijing graduate student, referring to the traditional Beijing alleys, now rapidly succumbing to the wrecking ball.
Zhu, who was touring the old bookstores of Liulichang with her classmates to buy calligraphy books, estimated that she had already forgotten about 20% of the characters she knew in high school.
"But it's not such a big problem," she said. "If I don't know a character, I take out my cellphone to check."
12.03
For Ma Silang, the long descent into forgetfulness began after he graduated from high school, went off to London ...
(X)"People don't write anything by hand anymore except for name and address," admitted Ma.
...
Almost any Chinese person you meet will confess to a lapse of memory, almost like a senior moment. The hand clutching the pen or pencil is poised above a sheet of paper about to write a character learned in childhood and memorized in countless repetitions when — suddenly — an embarrassing pause.
12.04
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/12/world/la-fg-china-characters-20100712/2
(點選下一頁 就會到上述網址)
In China, the situation rises to the level of a cultural crisis since the characters, more than any other facet of life, epitomize thousands of years of tradition.
Writing, moreover, is not merely about communication — in Chinese culture, it is an art form and spiritual ...
"These characters are in the soul of every Chinese person," said Wang Jianxue, a 38-year-old calligraphy teacher from Harbin who was lovingly leafing through the stacks at a bookstore in Liulichang, a street of quiet shops that sell brushes, ink stones, rubbings, scrolls and curios. "The nation has to maintain its personality through its characters. They are our cultural heritage. The computer is just a tool."
Many young Chinese are sufficiently concerned that they have taken it upon themselves to study calligraphy.
"It will take a lot of effort to preserve our Chinese characters. It is the same way they try to preserve these old hutongs," said Zhu Linfei, 24, a Beijing graduate student, referring to the traditional Beijing alleys, now rapidly succumbing to the wrecking ball.
Zhu, who was touring the old bookstores of Liulichang with her classmates to buy calligraphy books, estimated that she had already forgotten about 20% of the characters she knew in high school.
"But it's not such a big problem," she said. "If I don't know a character, I take out my cellphone to check."
12.01- 12.02
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2010-06-21-justinbieber17_CV_N.htm
12.01
It's not much past 6 a.m., and Justin Bieber looks like any 16-year-old should at such an hour ...
(X)
If you had landed here from another planet, it would be easy to think that Bieber is some sort of local deity. But often it's Bieber who feels like the alien, teleported from the galaxy Obscurity — aka Stratford, Ontario— directly into the maw of the American music machine.
(X)
"It's crazy," Bieber says during a rare respite as he prepares for his aptly named My World tour, a six-month headlining run whose sold-out first leg kicks off Wednesday at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. "Sometimes, I can't believe I'm doing this. I wake up and I think, where am I?"
(X)
Relaxing in a Midtown hotel, playing video games on his iPad the day before his Today appearance, Bieber looks every bit the average teen — admittedly, one who has been blessed with no acne, a pixie-like grin and a mop of sandy hair that covers all but his face.
(X)
But it's what happens when Bieber opens the mouth that has stripped him of a normal childhood. The cute kid can sing.
"He's a one-man Beatles," says Matthew Rettenmund, editor of Popstar! magazine, who bowed to reader requests and put Bieber on the cover in January. Now he plans to include him in every cover's collage of faces this year. "Justin is the heir to that throne occupied by Shaun Cassidy and countless others, but he's also the first real example of someone discovered by the Web."
...
"It wasn't overnight, I put in a lot of time on the road going to radio stations at 6 a.m. and singing, all in the middle of my growth spurt." The 5-foot-6 singer laughs. "Thanks to the music industry, I'm going to be really short."
最後接
Of his hair, he shrugs and says: "I just kind of liked it, and now people are copying it. I used to have a buzz cut as a kid."
12.02
In 2007, when he was 12, Bieber entered a local singing competition and placed second doing Ne-Yo's So Sick. Mallette thought it would be fun to post a video of that performance on YouTube. Millions tuned in. More videos followed.
Usher is convinced Bieber can make the leap into adulthood without losing popularity, much as he and Timberlake have done.
"Justin (Bieber) is a talented child and one I felt I could nurture," Usher says. "He has a passion more than anything. I remember having that as a kid, and I see it in his eyes. ..
"I like that he stands up for himself, but also is very open to direction."
Bieber also is human. And the grind required to forge a career often gets to him. When he recently complained that he missed just being a normal kid, "I told him you have to be dedicated," Usher says. "It's about sacrifice, so be sure it's what you want." (In the end, Usher relented and flew in a gaggle of Bieber's buddies for a weekend of goofing off.)
Team Bieber consists of roughly a dozen people, including Usher, Smith and Mallette (Bieber's father, Jeremy, is remarried and has two young children). But none are around when Bieber sits down to chat while he digs into a plate of Boston Market chicken. Leaving a teen star alone with a reporter is far from typical public-relations protocol, and it speaks to the team's confidence in the star's grounded nature.
Grew up in the church
This decidedly un-MTV Cribsattitude likely has roots in his pious upbringing. Bieber says he and his mother have always attended church and "are really involved with God. He's always been like, I don't know, he's held our family together. We grew up with not a lot of money, my mom and I. She was young when she had me. We struggled, but we never blamed him."
A bit later, Bieber's mother hustles over to the Today stage in anticipation of her son's performance. A petite woman with an easy smile and a copy of the Billy Graham book Angels in her hand, Mallette shrugs to deflect a question about how she is coping with her son's sudden and outsized popularity.
"Sometimes it's crazy, sure," she says. "But we just try to take things one day at a time."
12.01
It's not much past 6 a.m., and Justin Bieber looks like any 16-year-old should at such an hour ...
(X)
If you had landed here from another planet, it would be easy to think that Bieber is some sort of local deity. But often it's Bieber who feels like the alien, teleported from the galaxy Obscurity — aka Stratford, Ontario— directly into the maw of the American music machine.
(X)
"It's crazy," Bieber says during a rare respite as he prepares for his aptly named My World tour, a six-month headlining run whose sold-out first leg kicks off Wednesday at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. "Sometimes, I can't believe I'm doing this. I wake up and I think, where am I?"
(X)
Relaxing in a Midtown hotel, playing video games on his iPad the day before his Today appearance, Bieber looks every bit the average teen — admittedly, one who has been blessed with no acne, a pixie-like grin and a mop of sandy hair that covers all but his face.
(X)
But it's what happens when Bieber opens the mouth that has stripped him of a normal childhood. The cute kid can sing.
"He's a one-man Beatles," says Matthew Rettenmund, editor of Popstar! magazine, who bowed to reader requests and put Bieber on the cover in January. Now he plans to include him in every cover's collage of faces this year. "Justin is the heir to that throne occupied by Shaun Cassidy and countless others, but he's also the first real example of someone discovered by the Web."
...
"It wasn't overnight, I put in a lot of time on the road going to radio stations at 6 a.m. and singing, all in the middle of my growth spurt." The 5-foot-6 singer laughs. "Thanks to the music industry, I'm going to be really short."
最後接
Of his hair, he shrugs and says: "I just kind of liked it, and now people are copying it. I used to have a buzz cut as a kid."
12.02
In 2007, when he was 12, Bieber entered a local singing competition and placed second doing Ne-Yo's So Sick. Mallette thought it would be fun to post a video of that performance on YouTube. Millions tuned in. More videos followed.
Usher is convinced Bieber can make the leap into adulthood without losing popularity, much as he and Timberlake have done.
"Justin (Bieber) is a talented child and one I felt I could nurture," Usher says. "He has a passion more than anything. I remember having that as a kid, and I see it in his eyes. ..
"I like that he stands up for himself, but also is very open to direction."
Bieber also is human. And the grind required to forge a career often gets to him. When he recently complained that he missed just being a normal kid, "I told him you have to be dedicated," Usher says. "It's about sacrifice, so be sure it's what you want." (In the end, Usher relented and flew in a gaggle of Bieber's buddies for a weekend of goofing off.)
Team Bieber consists of roughly a dozen people, including Usher, Smith and Mallette (Bieber's father, Jeremy, is remarried and has two young children). But none are around when Bieber sits down to chat while he digs into a plate of Boston Market chicken. Leaving a teen star alone with a reporter is far from typical public-relations protocol, and it speaks to the team's confidence in the star's grounded nature.
Grew up in the church
This decidedly un-MTV Cribsattitude likely has roots in his pious upbringing. Bieber says he and his mother have always attended church and "are really involved with God. He's always been like, I don't know, he's held our family together. We grew up with not a lot of money, my mom and I. She was young when she had me. We struggled, but we never blamed him."
A bit later, Bieber's mother hustles over to the Today stage in anticipation of her son's performance. A petite woman with an easy smile and a copy of the Billy Graham book Angels in her hand, Mallette shrugs to deflect a question about how she is coping with her son's sudden and outsized popularity.
"Sometimes it's crazy, sure," she says. "But we just try to take things one day at a time."
2010年11月20日 星期六
2010年11月2日 星期二
11.19-11.20
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/10/science/la-sci-oldest-shoe-20100610
11.19
Archaeologists from UCLA and Ireland have discovered the world's oldest leather shoe, an exquisitely preserved 5,600-
...
(X) It was stuffed with grass, which may have been used to keep the wearer's foot warm or to preserve the shoe's shape for storage, the researchers reported Wednesday in the online journal PLoS One.
(X) Such materials usually degrade over time;
the team attributed the unusual preservation to the cave's perennially cool temperature and low humidity and a concrete-like layer of sheep dung that sealed in everything and prevented fungi from destroying the remains.
(X) "The potential to rewrite the early history of northern Mesopotamia is quite vast," he said.
"The shoe itself is really interesting and cool," added archaeologist Mitchell S. Rothman of Widener University in Chester, Pa., who also was not involved in the research. "But it is just a marker of how incredibly good the preservation is at the site, which is incredibly important."
11.20
the cave ... are rather rare," allowing preservation of artifacts from a time period for which such materials are scarce, said UCLA archaeologist Charles Stanish, who was not involved in the research. The cave, he added, is one of at least 39 that researchers are just beginning to explore.
"The fourth millennium is when the modern world appears -- the first cities, the first kings, the first axes, the first bureaucrats, and the first international trading system," Rothman said.
下ㄧ頁
(X) The research paper focuses primarily on the shoe, however
Prior to the discovery, the oldest known footwear from Eurasia was found on Otzi, the "iceman" discovered on a glacier in the Otztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy. Those shoes are about 5,300 years old, but were in relatively poor shape. They were moccasin-type footwear in which the sole is attached to an upper "sock" with leather thongs.
...
到這段 修改如下
Radiocarbon dating indicated that the newly found shoe was from about 3,600 BC. Its relatively sophisticated design, however, suggests that the style had already been in use for a long time, said UCLA archaeologist Gregory Areshian, co-leader of the research team.
(X) Previously, he added, researchers had tried to reconstruct what shoes had looked like from impressions on pottery and other fragmentary artifacts. "Here we have it in an absolutely tangible way."
The shoe is shaped to fit the wearer's right foot. It is 9.65 inches long, which corresponds to a U.S. women's size 7.
(X) Though small, it could easily have fitted a man from that era, said archaeologist Ron Pinhasi of University College Cork in Ireland, Areshian's co-leader.
Researchers have so far excavated only about 2% of the cave
...
The team believes the cave was abandoned after an earthquake, which caused the ceiling to collapse.
11.19
Archaeologists from UCLA and Ireland have discovered the world's oldest leather shoe, an exquisitely preserved 5,600-
...
(X) It was stuffed with grass, which may have been used to keep the wearer's foot warm or to preserve the shoe's shape for storage, the researchers reported Wednesday in the online journal PLoS One.
(X) Such materials usually degrade over time;
the team attributed the unusual preservation to the cave's perennially cool temperature and low humidity and a concrete-like layer of sheep dung that sealed in everything and prevented fungi from destroying the remains.
(X) "The potential to rewrite the early history of northern Mesopotamia is quite vast," he said.
"The shoe itself is really interesting and cool," added archaeologist Mitchell S. Rothman of Widener University in Chester, Pa., who also was not involved in the research. "But it is just a marker of how incredibly good the preservation is at the site, which is incredibly important."
11.20
the cave ... are rather rare," allowing preservation of artifacts from a time period for which such materials are scarce, said UCLA archaeologist Charles Stanish, who was not involved in the research. The cave, he added, is one of at least 39 that researchers are just beginning to explore.
"The fourth millennium is when the modern world appears -- the first cities, the first kings, the first axes, the first bureaucrats, and the first international trading system," Rothman said.
下ㄧ頁
(X) The research paper focuses primarily on the shoe, however
Prior to the discovery, the oldest known footwear from Eurasia was found on Otzi, the "iceman" discovered on a glacier in the Otztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy. Those shoes are about 5,300 years old, but were in relatively poor shape. They were moccasin-type footwear in which the sole is attached to an upper "sock" with leather thongs.
...
到這段 修改如下
Radiocarbon dating indicated that the newly found shoe was from about 3,600 BC. Its relatively sophisticated design, however, suggests that the style had already been in use for a long time, said UCLA archaeologist Gregory Areshian, co-leader of the research team.
(X) Previously, he added, researchers had tried to reconstruct what shoes had looked like from impressions on pottery and other fragmentary artifacts. "Here we have it in an absolutely tangible way."
The shoe is shaped to fit the wearer's right foot. It is 9.65 inches long, which corresponds to a U.S. women's size 7.
(X) Though small, it could easily have fitted a man from that era, said archaeologist Ron Pinhasi of University College Cork in Ireland, Areshian's co-leader.
Researchers have so far excavated only about 2% of the cave
...
The team believes the cave was abandoned after an earthquake, which caused the ceiling to collapse.
11.17 -11.18
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jul/11/beaufort-teems-with-history-wildlife-food/?partner=RSS
11.17
Some weekenders love nothing more than a relaxing stroll down a historic street or two, with a little fancy shopping topped by a visit to a fine restaurant. ...
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You can have either here. Or both. The different agendas are separated only by a 1 1/4-mile sound stocked with frolicking dolphins and high-end pleasure craft.
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Beaufort is the third-oldest settlement in North Carolina. For 150 years, Beaufort's Queen Anne clapboard homes were lost in the shuffle as progress headed west.
"BOW-fert" was given a second
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They wander a community of 4,200 that in the 1970s made a Savannah-like choice to restrict development and point up its past. From the sound now, you can see Beaufort's elegant three-story Victorians, many topped with widow's walks
(X) Get a free Walk Through History map at the welcome center (130 Turner St.).
Restored residences - more than 100 in all - hold yard markers bearing a couple of lines about the homes' origins. Older doesn't necessarily mean grander. Those dating to colonial times are often small and simple survivors. The oldest, Hammock House (1709),allegely was where Blackbeard hung his hat. Many have stories, of course, and Beaufort Histronic Site Tours offers several bus and walking tours that go inside select houses.
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You'll notice the souvenir places have lots of pirate items. Whether or not Blackbeard actually lived here, his Queen Anne's Revenge was sunk near Beaufort Inlet in 1718.
What researchers believe to be the wreck of the QAR was discovered in 1996. You'll find some salvaged items, including cannonballs, at the N.C. Maritime Museum.
Front Street today is plunder-ready, lined with boutiques, galleries and the like. Don't miss the art and jewelry at Handscapes Gallery (415 Front St.), where more than 200 artists are represented.
11.18
Down at the waterfront, you can't help but notice a strange little booth in what appears to be a yard littered with old planking and other abandoned boat parts. This is where your work-off-the-pounds opportunity begins.
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No one's lived here for a century.
The island's notable residents today are several bands of wild horses - Banker horses, 110 to 130 - descended (depending on whom you ask) from shipwrecked Spanish steeds or 19th-century Carolinians.
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Seveeral points are hammered home by the time the ferry beaches on Shackleford's north-west corner.
You want shells? Head east on the oceanside. Want to see horses? They're up on the hills. Be careful and don't get too close: They're wild.
Then you're on your own on what looks like a desert island, ocean gusts whistling through your teeth.
We made for
....
and you'll eventually see a brown pony or two. They're small but full-grown.
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Get to shackleford early and plan to spending the day.
11.17
Some weekenders love nothing more than a relaxing stroll down a historic street or two, with a little fancy shopping topped by a visit to a fine restaurant. ...
...
You can have either here. Or both. The different agendas are separated only by a 1 1/4-mile sound stocked with frolicking dolphins and high-end pleasure craft.
這段有點修改 改成以下
Beaufort is the third-oldest settlement in North Carolina. For 150 years, Beaufort's Queen Anne clapboard homes were lost in the shuffle as progress headed west.
"BOW-fert" was given a second
...
They wander a community of 4,200 that in the 1970s made a Savannah-like choice to restrict development and point up its past. From the sound now, you can see Beaufort's elegant three-story Victorians, many topped with widow's walks
(X) Get a free Walk Through History map at the welcome center (130 Turner St.).
Restored residences - more than 100 in all - hold yard markers bearing a couple of lines about the homes' origins. Older doesn't necessarily mean grander. Those dating to colonial times are often small and simple survivors. The oldest, Hammock House (1709),allegely was where Blackbeard hung his hat. Many have stories, of course, and Beaufort Histronic Site Tours offers several bus and walking tours that go inside select houses.
加入這些
You'll notice the souvenir places have lots of pirate items. Whether or not Blackbeard actually lived here, his Queen Anne's Revenge was sunk near Beaufort Inlet in 1718.
What researchers believe to be the wreck of the QAR was discovered in 1996. You'll find some salvaged items, including cannonballs, at the N.C. Maritime Museum.
Front Street today is plunder-ready, lined with boutiques, galleries and the like. Don't miss the art and jewelry at Handscapes Gallery (415 Front St.), where more than 200 artists are represented.
11.18
Down at the waterfront, you can't help but notice a strange little booth in what appears to be a yard littered with old planking and other abandoned boat parts. This is where your work-off-the-pounds opportunity begins.
...
No one's lived here for a century.
The island's notable residents today are several bands of wild horses - Banker horses, 110 to 130 - descended (depending on whom you ask) from shipwrecked Spanish steeds or 19th-century Carolinians.
接這段 ( 課文沒有的部份)
Seveeral points are hammered home by the time the ferry beaches on Shackleford's north-west corner.
You want shells? Head east on the oceanside. Want to see horses? They're up on the hills. Be careful and don't get too close: They're wild.
Then you're on your own on what looks like a desert island, ocean gusts whistling through your teeth.
We made for
....
and you'll eventually see a brown pony or two. They're small but full-grown.
最後接
Get to shackleford early and plan to spending the day.
11.15-11.16
http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/96503509.html
Chopping down the rain forest can harm animals such as toucans, golden lion tamarind monkeys and poison dart frogs. Now, add another species to the list - humans
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The region's 10,000 to 15,000 inhabitants logged a staggering 15,437 cases of malaria that year.
11.16
Health districts with extensive deforestation had higher rates of malaria than those with intact forests, even when controlling for population density or how quickly people got treatment.
... (最後段)
"If we keep treating diseases like malaria and other infectious diseases without understanding the underlying determinants of disease transmission, it's equivalent to mopping up the floor without turning off the faucet,
Chopping down the rain forest can harm animals such as toucans, golden lion tamarind monkeys and poison dart frogs. Now, add another species to the list - humans
...
The region's 10,000 to 15,000 inhabitants logged a staggering 15,437 cases of malaria that year.
11.16
Health districts with extensive deforestation had higher rates of malaria than those with intact forests, even when controlling for population density or how quickly people got treatment.
... (最後段)
"If we keep treating diseases like malaria and other infectious diseases without understanding the underlying determinants of disease transmission, it's equivalent to mopping up the floor without turning off the faucet,
11.11 -11.13
11.11
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2012394910_webdisney19.html
Disney is set to open its first resort in Oahu next year.
The 800-plus-unit property, dubbed "Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa," is designed as a Polynesian village (albeit one with high-rise towers) that will include hotel rooms and two-bedroom Disney Vacation Club Villas.
...
The Youyube ....
Customers will have to wait awhile to actually visit — the resort isn't going to open its doors until Aug. 29, 2011.
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A centerpriece of the Hawaii project will be a large fake volcano designed by Disney's "imagineers" to be embedded with subtle images of culturally significant Hawaiian animals and legends.It's the centerpiece of the water park portion of the propoerty.
In the video, Rohde says Aulani will be aplace where "pwopple will come back again and again."
11.12
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/20/business/la-fi-apple-data-20100720
Apple Inc. acknowledged recnetly that it collects batches of precise user location data from owners of its mobile and computer products but said that users can keep themselves from being part of the data collection.
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(X)Apple's answers came in a document released by Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe L. Barton (R- Texas), who sent the electronics maker a list of questions last month after The Times published a report pointing to the company's practice of collecting, storing and sharing the "precise," "real-time geographic location" of users' mobile devices.
Apple said user location information ...
But once ...
In those case, ...
(X) Markey and Barton thanked Apple for sharing basic information about its use of location data but noted that industry practices in that area have been less than transparent.
(X) "The new challenges and concerns that present themselves with the collection and use of location-based information are particularly disconcerting," Barton said in a statement. "While I applaud Apple for responding to our questions, I remain concerned about privacy policies that run on for pages and pages."
When the latest version of the iPhone operating system was released in late June, ...
Observers have noted that removing a user's name from highly precise data, such as location coordinates, may not always allow for true anonymity, as individual travel and movement patterns are often unique.
11.13
http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/pets/2010-07-22-restaurantdogs22_ST_N.htm
Alfresco dining is going to the dogs.
...
There are never any outbursts of canine bad behavior, says co-owner Sylvia Sharp. The dogs "seem to view (the patio) as neutral territory, kind of like Switzerland."
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"Folks know their dogs and how they'll behave in certain situations," says Chris Lynch of Sonoma County's Mutt Lynch Winery in Healdsburg, Calif., voted the wine country's most dog-friendly winery by the monthly newspaper Bay Woof in San Francisco. "We get very, very few misbehaving dogs" at the private tastings and giant charity functions, where the guests often consist of 300 humans and 100 or more dogs, he says.
It's the rare person who questions the winery's blatant dog-friendliness. "Even people who don't bring their dogs to the winery appreciate animals and enjoy having them around," Lynch says.
And those who don't? "We tell them there are a lot of other very nice wineries around."
我很喜歡APPLE這一篇 因為它提供了我工作必須要查的一些資訊
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2012394910_webdisney19.html
Disney is set to open its first resort in Oahu next year.
The 800-plus-unit property, dubbed "Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa," is designed as a Polynesian village (albeit one with high-rise towers) that will include hotel rooms and two-bedroom Disney Vacation Club Villas.
...
The Youyube ....
Customers will have to wait awhile to actually visit — the resort isn't going to open its doors until Aug. 29, 2011.
最後接下兩段
A centerpriece of the Hawaii project will be a large fake volcano designed by Disney's "imagineers" to be embedded with subtle images of culturally significant Hawaiian animals and legends.It's the centerpiece of the water park portion of the propoerty.
In the video, Rohde says Aulani will be aplace where "pwopple will come back again and again."
11.12
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/20/business/la-fi-apple-data-20100720
Apple Inc. acknowledged recnetly that it collects batches of precise user location data from owners of its mobile and computer products but said that users can keep themselves from being part of the data collection.
....
(X)Apple's answers came in a document released by Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe L. Barton (R- Texas), who sent the electronics maker a list of questions last month after The Times published a report pointing to the company's practice of collecting, storing and sharing the "precise," "real-time geographic location" of users' mobile devices.
Apple said user location information ...
But once ...
In those case, ...
(X) Markey and Barton thanked Apple for sharing basic information about its use of location data but noted that industry practices in that area have been less than transparent.
(X) "The new challenges and concerns that present themselves with the collection and use of location-based information are particularly disconcerting," Barton said in a statement. "While I applaud Apple for responding to our questions, I remain concerned about privacy policies that run on for pages and pages."
When the latest version of the iPhone operating system was released in late June, ...
Observers have noted that removing a user's name from highly precise data, such as location coordinates, may not always allow for true anonymity, as individual travel and movement patterns are often unique.
11.13
http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/pets/2010-07-22-restaurantdogs22_ST_N.htm
Alfresco dining is going to the dogs.
...
There are never any outbursts of canine bad behavior, says co-owner Sylvia Sharp. The dogs "seem to view (the patio) as neutral territory, kind of like Switzerland."
之後接
"Folks know their dogs and how they'll behave in certain situations," says Chris Lynch of Sonoma County's Mutt Lynch Winery in Healdsburg, Calif., voted the wine country's most dog-friendly winery by the monthly newspaper Bay Woof in San Francisco. "We get very, very few misbehaving dogs" at the private tastings and giant charity functions, where the guests often consist of 300 humans and 100 or more dogs, he says.
It's the rare person who questions the winery's blatant dog-friendliness. "Even people who don't bring their dogs to the winery appreciate animals and enjoy having them around," Lynch says.
And those who don't? "We tell them there are a lot of other very nice wineries around."
我很喜歡APPLE這一篇 因為它提供了我工作必須要查的一些資訊
11.08-11.10
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/18/1688181/a-star-is-reborn-high-definition.html
11.08
Audiences don't usually jump out of their chairs and cheer when a movie star's name is projected on the big screen -- especially when the movie is 56 years old and
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Her other films at MGM included a series of backyard musicals with co-star Mickey Rooney and Meet Me in St. Louis in 1944, directed by Vincente Minnelli, who later became her second husband. After making more than 25 feature films in 13 years, the studio fired her in 1950 following a string of illnesses and breakdowns.
11.09
A year later, Garland made big stage comebacks at the London Palladium and Palace Theatre on Broadway. She won a special Tony Award in 1952.
...
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``The original negative was the source for the film transfer,'' says Feltenstein, Warner's senior vice president for theatrical catalog marketing. ``The production design in the film is astounding. Gorgeous. The [unrestored] film was always a grimy, mousy brown. Now it looks great.''
11.10
Garland's performance as Esther Blodgett (aka Mrs. Norman Maine), whose show-biz career skyrockets while her movie-star husband's collapses, earned an Oscar nomination. Her unexpected loss to Grace Kelly in The Country Girl prompted Groucho Marx to call it ``the biggest robbery since Brinks.''
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When A Star is Born briefly played in its original length, critics called it ``the Gone With the Wind of musicals,'' according to Garland historian John Fricke, who wrote text for a book bound into the Blu-ray jacket.
11.08
Audiences don't usually jump out of their chairs and cheer when a movie star's name is projected on the big screen -- especially when the movie is 56 years old and
...
Her other films at MGM included a series of backyard musicals with co-star Mickey Rooney and Meet Me in St. Louis in 1944, directed by Vincente Minnelli, who later became her second husband. After making more than 25 feature films in 13 years, the studio fired her in 1950 following a string of illnesses and breakdowns.
11.09
A year later, Garland made big stage comebacks at the London Palladium and Palace Theatre on Broadway. She won a special Tony Award in 1952.
...
(下一頁)
``The original negative was the source for the film transfer,'' says Feltenstein, Warner's senior vice president for theatrical catalog marketing. ``The production design in the film is astounding. Gorgeous. The [unrestored] film was always a grimy, mousy brown. Now it looks great.''
11.10
Garland's performance as Esther Blodgett (aka Mrs. Norman Maine), whose show-biz career skyrockets while her movie-star husband's collapses, earned an Oscar nomination. Her unexpected loss to Grace Kelly in The Country Girl prompted Groucho Marx to call it ``the biggest robbery since Brinks.''
...
When A Star is Born briefly played in its original length, critics called it ``the Gone With the Wind of musicals,'' according to Garland historian John Fricke, who wrote text for a book bound into the Blu-ray jacket.
11.05 -11.06
http://www.bcbs.com/news/wellness/longevity-it-s-in-your-genes.html
They may not have discovered the fountain of youth, but scientists are beginning to unravel some of the mysteries of living past 100 -- specifically, that it's in your genes
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(x)In the United States, where the average life expectancy is about 78 years, centenarians account for about 1 out of every 6,000 people. Supercentenarians, or people over the age of 110, are even rarer, at 1 out of 7 million.
(X) "It's kind of like winning the lottery," Perls said.
There are social reasons to avoid the game of prediction as well, including concerns about how it might affect health insurance premiums and whether people are equipped with guidelines to respond appropriately to the results, Perls said.
Researchers said the task now is to characterize the genes and biochemical pathways identified in the study. Down the line, such information could be used to develop drugs for age-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's, which occur at much lower rates in centenarians.
11.06
"This really opens the door to future research," Perls said.
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Calment's parents were also extremely long-lived. Her father died at 94 and her mother at 86, which would be considered healthy lives now but were remarkable for the time when they lived. Overall, 24% of her immediate relatives lived at least into their 80s, compared with 2% of the general population
They may not have discovered the fountain of youth, but scientists are beginning to unravel some of the mysteries of living past 100 -- specifically, that it's in your genes
...
(x)In the United States, where the average life expectancy is about 78 years, centenarians account for about 1 out of every 6,000 people. Supercentenarians, or people over the age of 110, are even rarer, at 1 out of 7 million.
(X) "It's kind of like winning the lottery," Perls said.
There are social reasons to avoid the game of prediction as well, including concerns about how it might affect health insurance premiums and whether people are equipped with guidelines to respond appropriately to the results, Perls said.
Researchers said the task now is to characterize the genes and biochemical pathways identified in the study. Down the line, such information could be used to develop drugs for age-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's, which occur at much lower rates in centenarians.
11.06
"This really opens the door to future research," Perls said.
...
Calment's parents were also extremely long-lived. Her father died at 94 and her mother at 86, which would be considered healthy lives now but were remarkable for the time when they lived. Overall, 24% of her immediate relatives lived at least into their 80s, compared with 2% of the general population
11.03 -11.04
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/06/20/20100620Butterflies0620.html
11.03
Butterfly wings are so synonymous with bold color that few people may wonder what makes them that way. But Yale University researchers studying the green color on the wings of five butterfly species have found the source of that striking color - three- dimensional crystals known ...
Vinodkumar Saranathan, co-author of the study, took a stab: "Imagine a maze of these pinwheels, hundreds of thousands of pinwheels connected in all directions."
11.04
The team surmised that the wing cells weave in and out among themselves, so that the external surfaces become internal, creating channels in which a material called chitin can be deposited. Chitin is the hard material that forms insect exoskeletons; when the cells die and decay, the chitin is left behind as a gyroid, making the wings a vivid green. Not all butterflies employ such complex structures to make their colors; others use simpler structures or pigmentation.
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Structural colors of all types are appealing to textile and cosmetic manufacturers because they're fade-resistant.
They're also responsible for iridescence, and are used in products such as holographic wrapping paper and CDs.
Gyroids, however, are too complex for current fabrication processes, so manufacturers are keen to mimic the butterflies' method for producing them. Not only could they be used to create vibrantly hued textiles, gyroids respond to light much like wires transmit electricity, so the potential technological applications could be enormous.
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Because butterflies create such stucyure naturally, the findings suggest that technological developments wouldn't have to come at an enormous enviromental cost.
"These guys can make all the stuff at room temperature without toxic chemicals," said university of Albany biologist Helen Chiradella, whose prior work ion stuctural color had impact on this study. "The biological systems are showing us it can be done."
11.03
Butterfly wings are so synonymous with bold color that few people may wonder what makes them that way. But Yale University researchers studying the green color on the wings of five butterfly species have found the source of that striking color - three- dimensional crystals known ...
Vinodkumar Saranathan, co-author of the study, took a stab: "Imagine a maze of these pinwheels, hundreds of thousands of pinwheels connected in all directions."
11.04
The team surmised that the wing cells weave in and out among themselves, so that the external surfaces become internal, creating channels in which a material called chitin can be deposited. Chitin is the hard material that forms insect exoskeletons; when the cells die and decay, the chitin is left behind as a gyroid, making the wings a vivid green. Not all butterflies employ such complex structures to make their colors; others use simpler structures or pigmentation.
...
Structural colors of all types are appealing to textile and cosmetic manufacturers because they're fade-resistant.
They're also responsible for iridescence, and are used in products such as holographic wrapping paper and CDs.
Gyroids, however, are too complex for current fabrication processes, so manufacturers are keen to mimic the butterflies' method for producing them. Not only could they be used to create vibrantly hued textiles, gyroids respond to light much like wires transmit electricity, so the potential technological applications could be enormous.
(這兩段沒有出現在網址連結中 就用KEY的)
Because butterflies create such stucyure naturally, the findings suggest that technological developments wouldn't have to come at an enormous enviromental cost.
"These guys can make all the stuff at room temperature without toxic chemicals," said university of Albany biologist Helen Chiradella, whose prior work ion stuctural color had impact on this study. "The biological systems are showing us it can be done."
11.01 -11.02
http://www.latimes.com/sns-travel-walking-the-golden-gate-bridge,0,2174615.story
11.01
Walking the Golden Gate Bridge isn't on everyone's to-do tourist list. But when this city's fabled fog parts for sunshine, it could be one of the most memorable experiences you will ever have.
.....
At the same time, up close, you can see that each rivet is the size of a salad plate. The orange paint is slightly ocher. The pavement beneath your feet vibrates a bit from the traffic.
11.02
More than 1.8 billion vehicles have crossed the Golden Gate Bridge since it opened in 1937. Bridge officials don't keep track of how many pedestrians use the bridge, but there can be as many as 6,000 on a busy summer day, says Mary Currie, spokeswoman for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District.
In the early 20th century, San Francisco boomed with dreamers, but ferries were the only way across the Golden Gate straits. Why? Nobody thought it was possible to build an earthquake-proof bridge there.
.....
At the bridge's highest point, walkers stand 271 feet above the water, while the Art Deco-style towers loom another 500 feet straight up.
最後接這些
Other Way to see the bridge
ON FOOT: The 10-foot-wide walkway on the bridge is free and open from dawn to dusk.
BY BIKE: Bike and Roll bike rental has a "Bike the Golden Gate Bridge" tour. It's a 9-mile ride offered at 1 p.m. daily ($55) from San Francisco to Sausalito. Cyclists ride over the bridge, then take a ferry back. For info: www.bikeandroll.com, 415-229-2000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 415-229-2000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
BY BOAT: The Red and White Fleet has a one-hour Golden Gate Bridge tour. It's narrated by an audiotape, which is filled with tales of hair-raising San Francisco events — earthquakes, fires, Alcatraz prison escapes, runaway horses, collapsing buildings — but nothing bad about the bridge, which is good, since your little tour boat passes right under it.
11.01
Walking the Golden Gate Bridge isn't on everyone's to-do tourist list. But when this city's fabled fog parts for sunshine, it could be one of the most memorable experiences you will ever have.
.....
At the same time, up close, you can see that each rivet is the size of a salad plate. The orange paint is slightly ocher. The pavement beneath your feet vibrates a bit from the traffic.
11.02
More than 1.8 billion vehicles have crossed the Golden Gate Bridge since it opened in 1937. Bridge officials don't keep track of how many pedestrians use the bridge, but there can be as many as 6,000 on a busy summer day, says Mary Currie, spokeswoman for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District.
In the early 20th century, San Francisco boomed with dreamers, but ferries were the only way across the Golden Gate straits. Why? Nobody thought it was possible to build an earthquake-proof bridge there.
.....
At the bridge's highest point, walkers stand 271 feet above the water, while the Art Deco-style towers loom another 500 feet straight up.
最後接這些
Other Way to see the bridge
ON FOOT: The 10-foot-wide walkway on the bridge is free and open from dawn to dusk.
BY BIKE: Bike and Roll bike rental has a "Bike the Golden Gate Bridge" tour. It's a 9-mile ride offered at 1 p.m. daily ($55) from San Francisco to Sausalito. Cyclists ride over the bridge, then take a ferry back. For info: www.bikeandroll.com, 415-229-2000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 415-229-2000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
BY BOAT: The Red and White Fleet has a one-hour Golden Gate Bridge tour. It's narrated by an audiotape, which is filled with tales of hair-raising San Francisco events — earthquakes, fires, Alcatraz prison escapes, runaway horses, collapsing buildings — but nothing bad about the bridge, which is good, since your little tour boat passes right under it.
11.29 -11.30
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-14-coffee14_ST_N.htm
When you wake up at the crack of dawn each day, like cafe owner Natalia Kost-Lupichuk, you need your coffee.
...
(X)But be aware of how much caffeine you're consuming, because it varies among coffee drinks, says Mary Rosser, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y.
Loading up on cream and sugar is a bad idea, Hensrud says. A Starbucks venti ...
researcher Jim Lane, a professor of medical psychology at Duke. He recommends pacing yourself throughout the day: "It's nice to have places to meet friends that aren't alcohol-related, but it does sort of encourage people to ignore the drug effects of caffeine."
11.30
Aging
Recent research suggests caffeine could help protect against cognitive decline, including Alzheimer's disease and other dementia, says Mayo's Hensrud. Large clinical trials are still needed, though, says Duke aging expert Murali Doraiswamy. "We still don't know the right dose for seniors," Doraiswamy says. "Bottom line: I would not recommend caffeine solely as a preventive strategy for dementia."
Wakefulness/performance
Convinced you need a morning cup to wake up? Research online this month in Neuropsychopharmacology suggests frequent coffee drinkers develop a tolerance to the anxiety-producing and stimulatory effects of caffeine. A study last month suggests those who consume caffeine perform better on the job.
Dental
Coffee exacerbates bad breath, Zied says. It also can give teeth a yellow tinge.
Diabetes
Although research suggests drinking five or six cups a day might reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, other studies show caffeine can exaggerate blood sugar problems in people who already have it, says Duke's Lane.
Gastrointestinal
High levels of caffeine can exert a laxative effect in some people but constipate others, Zied says. Heartburn and peptic ulcer patients should steer clear, too.
Heart
Too much coffee at once can increase blood pressure, but a cup or two a day generally does no harm to heart health, says Carl Lavie, medical director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention at John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans. Rarely, overindulgence can increase heart rate and cause heart rhythm disturbances, he says.
Liver
"Coffee intake is associated with a reduced risk of cirrhosis and liver cancer," Hensrud says.
Migraine
Hensrud says coffee can ease migraines in some people. Coffee lovers who drink at work each day should keep up the habit on weekends, because skipping coffee can lead to withdrawal headaches, he says.
Mood
Too much coffee can increase anxiety, Zied says, especially in people who are prone to panic attacks. Lane has done studies showing that caffeine ups adrenaline and stress, especially if the body is already under stress.
Pregnancy
The March of Dimes and the Food and Drug Administration recommend no more than 200 milligrams of caffeine a day for pregnant women and nursing mothers, says Montefiore obstetrician Rosser. More can affect babies in utero — increasing the heart rate and possibly slowing fetal growth. Trying to get pregnant? Same recommendation. But if infertility is a concern, avoid coffee.
Sleep
The caffeine in coffee is a stimulant. It can make you jittery and contribute to insomnia, says sleep expert Craig Schwimmer, medical director of The Snoring Center in Dallas. "It's all in how you use it," he says, explaining that caffeine has a half-life of about six hours. A couple of cups in the morning is fine, but for those with sleep troubles, cut coffee at least six hours before bedtime
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When you wake up at the crack of dawn each day, like cafe owner Natalia Kost-Lupichuk, you need your coffee.
...
(X)But be aware of how much caffeine you're consuming, because it varies among coffee drinks, says Mary Rosser, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y.
Loading up on cream and sugar is a bad idea, Hensrud says. A Starbucks venti ...
researcher Jim Lane, a professor of medical psychology at Duke. He recommends pacing yourself throughout the day: "It's nice to have places to meet friends that aren't alcohol-related, but it does sort of encourage people to ignore the drug effects of caffeine."
11.30
Aging
Recent research suggests caffeine could help protect against cognitive decline, including Alzheimer's disease and other dementia, says Mayo's Hensrud. Large clinical trials are still needed, though, says Duke aging expert Murali Doraiswamy. "We still don't know the right dose for seniors," Doraiswamy says. "Bottom line: I would not recommend caffeine solely as a preventive strategy for dementia."
Wakefulness/performance
Convinced you need a morning cup to wake up? Research online this month in Neuropsychopharmacology suggests frequent coffee drinkers develop a tolerance to the anxiety-producing and stimulatory effects of caffeine. A study last month suggests those who consume caffeine perform better on the job.
Dental
Coffee exacerbates bad breath, Zied says. It also can give teeth a yellow tinge.
Diabetes
Although research suggests drinking five or six cups a day might reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, other studies show caffeine can exaggerate blood sugar problems in people who already have it, says Duke's Lane.
Gastrointestinal
High levels of caffeine can exert a laxative effect in some people but constipate others, Zied says. Heartburn and peptic ulcer patients should steer clear, too.
Heart
Too much coffee at once can increase blood pressure, but a cup or two a day generally does no harm to heart health, says Carl Lavie, medical director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention at John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans. Rarely, overindulgence can increase heart rate and cause heart rhythm disturbances, he says.
Liver
"Coffee intake is associated with a reduced risk of cirrhosis and liver cancer," Hensrud says.
Migraine
Hensrud says coffee can ease migraines in some people. Coffee lovers who drink at work each day should keep up the habit on weekends, because skipping coffee can lead to withdrawal headaches, he says.
Mood
Too much coffee can increase anxiety, Zied says, especially in people who are prone to panic attacks. Lane has done studies showing that caffeine ups adrenaline and stress, especially if the body is already under stress.
Pregnancy
The March of Dimes and the Food and Drug Administration recommend no more than 200 milligrams of caffeine a day for pregnant women and nursing mothers, says Montefiore obstetrician Rosser. More can affect babies in utero — increasing the heart rate and possibly slowing fetal growth. Trying to get pregnant? Same recommendation. But if infertility is a concern, avoid coffee.
Sleep
The caffeine in coffee is a stimulant. It can make you jittery and contribute to insomnia, says sleep expert Craig Schwimmer, medical director of The Snoring Center in Dallas. "It's all in how you use it," he says, explaining that caffeine has a half-life of about six hours. A couple of cups in the morning is fine, but for those with sleep troubles, cut coffee at least six hours before bedtime
斜體的被往後拉 排到下一頁 課本部分 實際會如何上課 就不知道了
11.22 -11.24
11.22
Jay Chou
Once a behind-the-scenes guy who penned songs for other musicians and subsisted on instant ramen, Jay Chou has parlayed his wild success as a singer-songwriter -- he reportedly made $17.5 million last year -- into other ventures. His debut as a movie director, the 2007 film Secret, was an instant hit. When the film was released, he opened his second Mr. J restaurant in Taiwan, with servers wearing costumes from the film. Last year, the 31-year-old launched a dessert shop filled with Chou memorabilia; directed his first television series; and made his first foray into Hollywood, playing Kato in Michel Gondry's Green Hornet, set to release in December. This year, he says, will be devoted to music; his latest album debuted in May
Stacey Simmons Founder Omnicademy
http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/67/stacey-simmons
Think of Omnicademy as a semester abroad minus the travel ...
Omnicademy comes out of beta this fall semester, engine revving.
Any Pascal cochair - Sony pictures
www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/55/amy-pascal
Sony quietly racked up a banner year, thanks to Amy Pascal. ..
franchise, without director Sam Raimi or star Tobey Maguire.
11.23
Jamie Oliver
http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/37/jamie-oliver
Here's one big, fat challenge: get Americans to eat right. Millions of
... I can still barely read. Cooking was the only thing I was ever good at."
Jonney Shih Chairman AsusTek
www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/71/jonney-shih
11.24
Samuel Stupp
www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/32/samuel-stupp
chris-anderson
www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/07/chris-anderson
Jay Chou
Once a behind-the-scenes guy who penned songs for other musicians and subsisted on instant ramen, Jay Chou has parlayed his wild success as a singer-songwriter -- he reportedly made $17.5 million last year -- into other ventures. His debut as a movie director, the 2007 film Secret, was an instant hit. When the film was released, he opened his second Mr. J restaurant in Taiwan, with servers wearing costumes from the film. Last year, the 31-year-old launched a dessert shop filled with Chou memorabilia; directed his first television series; and made his first foray into Hollywood, playing Kato in Michel Gondry's Green Hornet, set to release in December. This year, he says, will be devoted to music; his latest album debuted in May
Stacey Simmons Founder Omnicademy
http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/67/stacey-simmons
Think of Omnicademy as a semester abroad minus the travel ...
Omnicademy comes out of beta this fall semester, engine revving.
Any Pascal cochair - Sony pictures
www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/55/amy-pascal
Sony quietly racked up a banner year, thanks to Amy Pascal. ..
franchise, without director Sam Raimi or star Tobey Maguire.
11.23
Jamie Oliver
http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/37/jamie-oliver
Here's one big, fat challenge: get Americans to eat right. Millions of
... I can still barely read. Cooking was the only thing I was ever good at."
Jonney Shih Chairman AsusTek
www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/71/jonney-shih
11.24
Samuel Stupp
www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/32/samuel-stupp
chris-anderson
www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/07/chris-anderson
2010年10月27日 星期三
10.25 ~
October 25th-26th
出自於http://www.prospectusnews.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=5b498ae7-9c66-4f05-a111-0b56136b6320
October 25th
從這裡開始
Giant chocolate sugar cookies and cherry tuiles. Mini black and whites and fig pinwheels. Peanut butter and jelly bars.
一直到
It's harder to control lighting at night or in restaurants........ or strong light.
October 26th
從這裡開始
Composition is also important. .....
一直到
Finally, remember why you're there. As much fun as it is to photograph ......first place - to eat.
這裡結束
October 27th-28th
出自於http://www.prospectusnews.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=5b498ae7-9c66-4f05-a111-0b56136b6320
October 25th
從這裡開始
Giant chocolate sugar cookies and cherry tuiles. Mini black and whites and fig pinwheels. Peanut butter and jelly bars.
一直到
It's harder to control lighting at night or in restaurants........ or strong light.
October 26th
從這裡開始
Composition is also important. .....
一直到
Finally, remember why you're there. As much fun as it is to photograph ......first place - to eat.
這裡結束
October 27th-28th
2010年10月20日 星期三
10.18 -10.23
Advanced 10.18-10.23 2010
分享Facebook Plurk YAHOO! 分享在我的 Facebook
分享在我的 Plurk
分享在我的即時通
October 18th and October 23rd
出自於http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-05-25-1Atwitter25_CV_N.htm
October 18th
從這裡開始
The halls of Twitter barely chirp. Nearly 200....
一直到
Twitter is "brewing a social revolution," says Jeff Pulver..... to the world."
這裡結束
October 19th
從這裡開始
After the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, Pulver says....
一直到
"Pharmaceutical companies can hear the conversations patients are having about their products....
這段結束
October 20th
從這裡開始
Twitter's rapid rise to the cultural forefront shouldn't surprise ....
一直到
But, she says, "I'm not yet interested in sending ....or a fixture of our world."
這段結束
October 21st-October 23rd
出自於
Your Brain at work (Book by David Rock)
can't find on Internet
分享Facebook Plurk YAHOO! 分享在我的 Facebook
分享在我的 Plurk
分享在我的即時通
October 18th and October 23rd
出自於http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-05-25-1Atwitter25_CV_N.htm
October 18th
從這裡開始
The halls of Twitter barely chirp. Nearly 200....
一直到
Twitter is "brewing a social revolution," says Jeff Pulver..... to the world."
這裡結束
October 19th
從這裡開始
After the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, Pulver says....
一直到
"Pharmaceutical companies can hear the conversations patients are having about their products....
這段結束
October 20th
從這裡開始
Twitter's rapid rise to the cultural forefront shouldn't surprise ....
一直到
But, she says, "I'm not yet interested in sending ....or a fixture of our world."
這段結束
October 21st-October 23rd
出自於
Your Brain at work (Book by David Rock)
can't find on Internet
2010年10月11日 星期一
10.10 ~10.15
October 11th and October 12th
can't find on the Internet.
October 13th
出自於 http://thesouthern.com/lifestyles/family/article_8471471e-710c-11df-9b48-001cc4c03286.html
從這裡
More than 40 years of behavior modification propaganda has the typical American
到這裡結束
This is all well-intentioned, mind you, but good intentions are no excuse.
October 14th
從這裡
True parent-love is not concerned with a child’s immediate reaction to a parental decision.
到最後面結束
And each of the two hands knew what the other was doing.
以下出自於http://www.theledger.com/article/20100401/NEWS/4015075
October 15th
從這段
Robert Stephens recalls with precision the night he signed the deal that would put his sassy startup
到第二頁
"I was no longer the owner, and that was quite humbling ......Learn and study. (結束)
can't find on the Internet.
October 13th
出自於 http://thesouthern.com/lifestyles/family/article_8471471e-710c-11df-9b48-001cc4c03286.html
從這裡
More than 40 years of behavior modification propaganda has the typical American
到這裡結束
This is all well-intentioned, mind you, but good intentions are no excuse.
October 14th
從這裡
True parent-love is not concerned with a child’s immediate reaction to a parental decision.
到最後面結束
And each of the two hands knew what the other was doing.
以下出自於http://www.theledger.com/article/20100401/NEWS/4015075
October 15th
從這段
Robert Stephens recalls with precision the night he signed the deal that would put his sassy startup
到第二頁
"I was no longer the owner, and that was quite humbling ......Learn and study. (結束)
2010年10月6日 星期三
10.07-10.09
10.07-10.09,2010
以下出自於http://www.usatoday.com/travel/hotels/2010-05-12-luxuryrebound12_ST_N.htm
October 7th,2010
這段開始
The hotel industry's luxury segment is rebounding faster than the overall hotel
(X)We've turned the corner," says Kathleen Taylor, chief operating officer for Four Seasons.
接下去
The USA's luxury hotels sold almost 17% more ....
(X) The Four Seasons chain ........ He cites Boston, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, London and Paris.
這一段結束
Yet, even as demand "roars back with a vengeance... Freitag says that rates could rise this year. (end)
October 8th,2010
這段開始
So what's contributing to the uptick?
(X)Taylor says the return to luxury goes beyond the USA. She says strengthening world economies are contributing to an uptick in people's confidence in the future.
接下去到這段
Although demand for luxury hotels is coming back,
(X)When companies book meetings to reward their top salespeople or schmooze with customers today, Cooper says, "The open bar is a little bit less open.
接下去到這段結束
"The (former offers of) 'Have a couple of spa treatments' ....... "The excesses of two, three years ago are less prevalent today."
以下出自於http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/113700/arabian-nights.html?complete=1
October 8th,2010
這段開始
not the elevator," my friend says ...
Three minutes later, we glide into port, the whole thing having been a virtual ride straight from Disney.
(X)"We only dropped six feet," ..... but a city that looks and feels like one giant amusement park wasn't it.
從這邊開始
The comparison gets even stranger when you learn ..... I'm told, "Rose City." Of course!
中間都跳過
接下來這段
now for the pure fantasy part. .....
一直到最後一段結束
The next morning when, sadly, I have to leave, I pat the door frame lovingly and actually kiss my room goodbye.
以下出自於http://www.usatoday.com/travel/hotels/2010-05-12-luxuryrebound12_ST_N.htm
October 7th,2010
這段開始
The hotel industry's luxury segment is rebounding faster than the overall hotel
(X)We've turned the corner," says Kathleen Taylor, chief operating officer for Four Seasons.
接下去
The USA's luxury hotels sold almost 17% more ....
(X) The Four Seasons chain ........ He cites Boston, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, London and Paris.
這一段結束
Yet, even as demand "roars back with a vengeance... Freitag says that rates could rise this year. (end)
October 8th,2010
這段開始
So what's contributing to the uptick?
(X)Taylor says the return to luxury goes beyond the USA. She says strengthening world economies are contributing to an uptick in people's confidence in the future.
接下去到這段
Although demand for luxury hotels is coming back,
(X)When companies book meetings to reward their top salespeople or schmooze with customers today, Cooper says, "The open bar is a little bit less open.
接下去到這段結束
"The (former offers of) 'Have a couple of spa treatments' ....... "The excesses of two, three years ago are less prevalent today."
以下出自於http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/113700/arabian-nights.html?complete=1
October 8th,2010
這段開始
not the elevator," my friend says ...
Three minutes later, we glide into port, the whole thing having been a virtual ride straight from Disney.
(X)"We only dropped six feet," ..... but a city that looks and feels like one giant amusement park wasn't it.
從這邊開始
The comparison gets even stranger when you learn ..... I'm told, "Rose City." Of course!
中間都跳過
接下來這段
now for the pure fantasy part. .....
一直到最後一段結束
The next morning when, sadly, I have to leave, I pat the door frame lovingly and actually kiss my room goodbye.
10.04 -10.06
10.04-10.06
以下出自於http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/startup/week4-partnerships.htm
October 4th 2010
這段開始
The business partnership between celebrity....
一直到
If you've got more than one owner,
這段結束
October 5th 2010
這段開始
An agreement is a must
一直到
"Being married partners, ...... she says.
這裡結束
October 6th 2010
這段開始
Relatively speaking
一直到
"When things are good, ..... the partnership."
這裡結束
以下出自於http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/startup/week4-partnerships.htm
October 4th 2010
這段開始
The business partnership between celebrity....
一直到
If you've got more than one owner,
這段結束
October 5th 2010
這段開始
An agreement is a must
一直到
"Being married partners, ...... she says.
這裡結束
October 6th 2010
這段開始
Relatively speaking
一直到
"When things are good, ..... the partnership."
這裡結束
2010年9月9日 星期四
2010年8月11日 星期三
SC 08-26 ~28
http://giftshopscommunity.com/2010/07/20/think-twice/
08-26
“Even the most intuitive people make dumb decisions now and then. Being ...
infallible.
08-27 只有這段 其他的就沒了 8-28 找不到
Believing that each of our problems is unique, Mauboussin writes, is often our first decision-making mistake.This common problem is apparent when executives remain eternally optimistic about the next corporate acquisition when experience shows that acquisitions are often dismal failures. He explains that simply considering outside views and the experiences of others can improve all decisions
08-26
“Even the most intuitive people make dumb decisions now and then. Being ...
infallible.
08-27 只有這段 其他的就沒了 8-28 找不到
Believing that each of our problems is unique, Mauboussin writes, is often our first decision-making mistake.This common problem is apparent when executives remain eternally optimistic about the next corporate acquisition when experience shows that acquisitions are often dismal failures. He explains that simply considering outside views and the experiences of others can improve all decisions
2010年8月9日 星期一
SC 08-17
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/62423862.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ
Kidney exchanges use the oldest economic model of all - trade. Computer matching can start a chain of transplants, but the idea has a long way to go.
By Josephine Marcotty, Star Tribune
Melissa Larson sat outside a Minneapolis coffee shop staring at the brochure her doctor had just handed her. ...
(網址直接複製到 The idea這段)
原文到這段 有修改
The idea still faces daunting hurdles. It needs buy-in from more of the nation's 220 transplant hospitals, a broader set of widely accepted medical guidelines for living donors, and financial support from Medicare and other health plans. But with that support, exchanges have the potential to create a national matching system. That could save millions of dollars in the cost of treating kidney disease and end the ordeal of thousands of desperate kidney patients. (Including Melissa Larson. 課文沒有這句 接後面PAGE裡的下一段)
Such kidney exchanges are brand new, but they rely on the oldest economic model of all -- trade. Your wife gets a compatible kidney from a stranger, you give a compatible kidney to the stranger's sister. Two perfect matches -- or four or 10 or 100 -- are made by a computer that chooses the best medical and geographic combinations.
(最後段)
No one expects exchange pools to eliminate the deceased kidney waiting list. But some predict they could increase the number of transplants by up to 4,000 per year - the same number of people who die each year while waiting on the list.
Kidney exchanges use the oldest economic model of all - trade. Computer matching can start a chain of transplants, but the idea has a long way to go.
By Josephine Marcotty, Star Tribune
Melissa Larson sat outside a Minneapolis coffee shop staring at the brochure her doctor had just handed her. ...
(網址直接複製到 The idea這段)
原文到這段 有修改
The idea still faces daunting hurdles. It needs buy-in from more of the nation's 220 transplant hospitals, a broader set of widely accepted medical guidelines for living donors, and financial support from Medicare and other health plans. But with that support, exchanges have the potential to create a national matching system. That could save millions of dollars in the cost of treating kidney disease and end the ordeal of thousands of desperate kidney patients. (Including Melissa Larson. 課文沒有這句 接後面PAGE裡的下一段)
Such kidney exchanges are brand new, but they rely on the oldest economic model of all -- trade. Your wife gets a compatible kidney from a stranger, you give a compatible kidney to the stranger's sister. Two perfect matches -- or four or 10 or 100 -- are made by a computer that chooses the best medical and geographic combinations.
(最後段)
No one expects exchange pools to eliminate the deceased kidney waiting list. But some predict they could increase the number of transplants by up to 4,000 per year - the same number of people who die each year while waiting on the list.
2010年8月8日 星期日
SC 08-14
08-14
課文到這段
Sanrio has placed its best-selling character on almost every product imaginable, from toasters to cars, bathroom scales, shoelaces and fruit baskets.
最後接這句
She's gone upscale with a Sanrio Luxe store in Manhattan and appearances at New York'S
Fashion Week.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-12/news/0911130475_1_kitty-sanrio-store-cute
課文到這段
Sanrio has placed its best-selling character on almost every product imaginable, from toasters to cars, bathroom scales, shoelaces and fruit baskets.
最後接這句
She's gone upscale with a Sanrio Luxe store in Manhattan and appearances at New York'S
Fashion Week.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-12/news/0911130475_1_kitty-sanrio-store-cute
SC 8-13
FROM: http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=montgomeryadvertiser&sParam=38029640.story
下半段
The monarch population is typically measured by the number of acres of pine trees the butterflies fill. This year, scientists found the smallest area of monarchs overwintering in the 16 years they have been looking — down to 4.7 acres from an average of 18.3 acres, Taylor says.
.....
Monarchs are beautiful, but creating habitats where they can thrive also benefits humans, Taylor says. Those habitats also "protect other insects, the little guys whose life's work is to pollinate our nuts, our fruits and our vegetables."
下半段
The monarch population is typically measured by the number of acres of pine trees the butterflies fill. This year, scientists found the smallest area of monarchs overwintering in the 16 years they have been looking — down to 4.7 acres from an average of 18.3 acres, Taylor says.
.....
Monarchs are beautiful, but creating habitats where they can thrive also benefits humans, Taylor says. Those habitats also "protect other insects, the little guys whose life's work is to pollinate our nuts, our fruits and our vegetables."
SC 8-30 8-31
http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/pets/2010-03-31-dogcamps31_ST_N.htm
08-31 Some campers partake...
08-31 Some campers partake...
SC 8 23~ 25
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/sec/2009-12-03-tim-tebow-florida_N.htm
8-24 He has no modern reference points. ...
8-25 Last year, ...
8-24 He has no modern reference points. ...
8-25 Last year, ...
SC 8-20 21
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/profile/2009-10-25-ehow-richard-rosenblatt_N.htm
8-21 "I believed there was ...
8-21 "I believed there was ...
SC 8-18 ~19
The movie: an adaptation of Sara Gruen's 2006 bestselling novel "Water for Elephants," about a veterinary student who quits his ...
The Elyeas were still living in their Hollywood apartment when Jim landed his first major job, supplying military gear to Oliver Stone's film "Platoon." He shipped 85 boxes of flak vests, helmets, machetes and other gear to the Philippines.
到這個字結束
08-19 開始
Opening in a small storefront in North Hollywood, the company rapidly expanded after it acquired a warehouse full of props from Paramount Studios in 1989. ...
網頁要用 next page 可以看到
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/24/business/la-fi-ct-onlocation24-2010mar24
The Elyeas were still living in their Hollywood apartment when Jim landed his first major job, supplying military gear to Oliver Stone's film "Platoon." He shipped 85 boxes of flak vests, helmets, machetes and other gear to the Philippines.
到這個字結束
08-19
Opening in a small storefront in North Hollywood, the company rapidly expanded after it acquired a warehouse full of props from Paramount Studios in 1989. ...
網頁要用 next page 可以看到
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/24/business/la-fi-ct-onlocation24-2010mar24
SC 08-16
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2010-03-30-skinnyasianwomen30_CV_N.htm
但是文章很多地方被拿掉
建議 先看過 (已經弄完了)
(從這裡 ~ Breakfast)
Agatha Yau, a marketing executive, is one of these women. ...
"Sometimes, I'll look at the food and just smell it," Yau, 22, says one morning as she has her breakfast
之後接這三段
In most developed parts of the world, women feel pressure to be thin.
... l perceptions of beauty
In Asia, women want to stay .... at Chinese University.
That's why, "when they want to control their body weight, they eat less or take pills" instead of exerting themselves, Lee says.
最後一段
A new kind of competition
With the ... 到 You can ... thinnest (end)
"You can see how pervasive slimming is in this culture," says Yu, of the Hong Kong Eating Disorders Association. In the old days, Asian women competed with one another to see how many children they could have, but now they compete to be the most successful, and the thinnest,
但是文章很多地方被拿掉
建議 先看過 (已經弄完了)
(從這裡 ~ Breakfast)
Agatha Yau, a marketing executive, is one of these women. ...
"Sometimes, I'll look at the food and just smell it," Yau, 22, says one morning as she has her breakfast
之後接這三段
In most developed parts of the world, women feel pressure to be thin.
... l perceptions of beauty
In Asia, women want to stay .... at Chinese University.
That's why, "when they want to control their body weight, they eat less or take pills" instead of exerting themselves, Lee says.
最後一段
A new kind of competition
With the ... 到 You can ... thinnest (end)
"You can see how pervasive slimming is in this culture," says Yu, of the Hong Kong Eating Disorders Association. In the old days, Asian women competed with one another to see how many children they could have, but now they compete to be the most successful, and the thinnest,
SC 8-9 ~8-11 8-12
Article
8/9-8/11
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2010-03-31-1Aappworld31_CV_N.htm
8-10 That's scary news for... (這邊開始)
8-11 The essence of the app's (這邊開始)
8/12
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/technology/022210_social_games.html
8/9-8/11
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2010-03-31-1Aappworld31_CV_N.htm
8-10 That's scary news for... (這邊開始)
8-11 The essence of the app's (這邊開始)
8/12
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/technology/022210_social_games.html
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