Jack Lynch published the book as the title above by Walker. 326 pp. $26. Reviewed by Carolyn See in the Washington Post,Dec.4,09 on page C2:
People tend to go nuts around the English language. Of course,most of us are nuts anyway, but the lajnguage is always there, in the ether, or staring at us from a page, and if we're feeling particularly cranky, it never fails to provide a ready excure for us to fly off the handle.
Scholars went berserk, of course. And that's waht this book is about: humans soing berserk. In the end, this language mania is probably preferable to sitting on the couch watching TV, endukring an angst-attack over how Kate Hudson lets her jaw go slack when she smiles. That's truly crazy, which is whey we're fortunate to have a language over which to pitch our fits. Cf. bookworld@washpost.com
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Zhu Zhu Pets:Washington Post,Dec.5,09 page A1
"Zhu" in Pin Yin system of romanization of Chinese means Greetings to offer good wishes.("Zhu ni hao") as an example.
Lifelike toy hamsters(Cangshu)called Zhu Zhu Pets are among the season's most sought-after gifts. Such toy is timely by virtue of history below: Believe it or not?
President Jimmy Carter was born in the year of the Rat and he started normalization with China 3 decades ago with his good vision for US-China proper relations in the 21st century
Page B1 Tai Shan(meaning peaceful mountain) heading east, breaking hearts on his way. Before panda's move to China, expect a long, mushy goodbye. Panda is loved by all folks in USA and in China as well.
Page C1: Style section- Theater Review: A show of girl power: At imagination stage, the animated Disney feature "MULAN" gets live-action treatment with anestral spirits and an inept dragon that offers help to a plucky young woman in ancient China.
My cousin is named after "Mulan" and her husband earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard but he passed aways years ago as a former Director of Exports in China. Unfortunately, my cousin is having hearing trouble for reason of aging,living in Beijing.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao blogs on a raining day at the Andrews AF Base Library on Saturday,December 5, 2009 at 9.38 a.m. I was in Shanghai ,Jiaxing and Suzhou in the month of November 2009. Got back on Monday, November 30th with fond memories of Shanghai,the host of Expo 2010, The American Pavilion will be the largest in May 2010.
Lifelike toy hamsters(Cangshu)called Zhu Zhu Pets are among the season's most sought-after gifts. Such toy is timely by virtue of history below: Believe it or not?
President Jimmy Carter was born in the year of the Rat and he started normalization with China 3 decades ago with his good vision for US-China proper relations in the 21st century
Page B1 Tai Shan(meaning peaceful mountain) heading east, breaking hearts on his way. Before panda's move to China, expect a long, mushy goodbye. Panda is loved by all folks in USA and in China as well.
Page C1: Style section- Theater Review: A show of girl power: At imagination stage, the animated Disney feature "MULAN" gets live-action treatment with anestral spirits and an inept dragon that offers help to a plucky young woman in ancient China.
My cousin is named after "Mulan" and her husband earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard but he passed aways years ago as a former Director of Exports in China. Unfortunately, my cousin is having hearing trouble for reason of aging,living in Beijing.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao blogs on a raining day at the Andrews AF Base Library on Saturday,December 5, 2009 at 9.38 a.m. I was in Shanghai ,Jiaxing and Suzhou in the month of November 2009. Got back on Monday, November 30th with fond memories of Shanghai,the host of Expo 2010, The American Pavilion will be the largest in May 2010.
Friday, December 4, 2009
USAToday and Washington Times,Dec.4, 2009
USAToday: Panda cub gets check up-FREE! Dec. 4, 2009 issue of the paper.
Page 3A: A little giant: Yin Zi, a 17-week-old giant panda cub at the San Diego Zoo is checked by veterinarians with photo.
Super-medical care and excellent health care were rendered to the Panda,an envy to folks who are still watching the outcome of health care for humans in USA. In Pin Yin:" Ren bu ru xiong mao" meaning homosapiens are not treated as given to the animal with thought in the light vein. Haha again for fun.
Washington Times,Dec.4, 2009: Page A3:
Terra Cotta Warriors: National Geographic Museum is the last stop for blockbuster exhibition. Terra cotta warriors: Guardian of China's First Emperor. Running from Nov. 19-March 31, 2010,it's the largest collection of ancient antifacts ever to travel to the US from China. Among the treasures are 15 life-sized terra cottta figures unearthed from the tomb of China's first emperor.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao on Friday,December 4, 2009 at 1.30 p.m.
Page 3A: A little giant: Yin Zi, a 17-week-old giant panda cub at the San Diego Zoo is checked by veterinarians with photo.
Super-medical care and excellent health care were rendered to the Panda,an envy to folks who are still watching the outcome of health care for humans in USA. In Pin Yin:" Ren bu ru xiong mao" meaning homosapiens are not treated as given to the animal with thought in the light vein. Haha again for fun.
Washington Times,Dec.4, 2009: Page A3:
Terra Cotta Warriors: National Geographic Museum is the last stop for blockbuster exhibition. Terra cotta warriors: Guardian of China's First Emperor. Running from Nov. 19-March 31, 2010,it's the largest collection of ancient antifacts ever to travel to the US from China. Among the treasures are 15 life-sized terra cottta figures unearthed from the tomb of China's first emperor.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao on Friday,December 4, 2009 at 1.30 p.m.
Reality Check in the real world in genuine economics
GREETINGS TO ALL READERS: It is said that the pragmatic school believes that globalization is the result of forces inherent in imperfect human nature with the behavior of homo-sapiens. To improve the world, one must work with on-going forces, not against them. Such being a world of opposing interests with conflict and contradiction without full realization of moral principles. The balancing of interests and precarious settlement of conflicts are being seen in daily happenings as the reality check.
Confucianism sees a system of checks and balances a universal principle for all pluralist societies with lesser evil rather than the absolute good. Let us witness the happenings.
The key concept for folks with practical interest is to seek political and economic clout. Every nation and every person pursues his/her self-interest instead of some abstract moral ideal but
Adam Smith is known to be an economist and a moral philosopher as well.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, a lifelong student of philosophy and economics to be applicable to daily living in USA and in China as I would envision with my thoughts above. Your feedback is cordially welcome.
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 10.56 a.m.
Confucianism sees a system of checks and balances a universal principle for all pluralist societies with lesser evil rather than the absolute good. Let us witness the happenings.
The key concept for folks with practical interest is to seek political and economic clout. Every nation and every person pursues his/her self-interest instead of some abstract moral ideal but
Adam Smith is known to be an economist and a moral philosopher as well.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, a lifelong student of philosophy and economics to be applicable to daily living in USA and in China as I would envision with my thoughts above. Your feedback is cordially welcome.
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 10.56 a.m.
Tai Shan's days in DC may be numbered:Headline
Washington Post, Dec.4, 2009 FRONT Page with a photo of Panda: Beloved adolescent giant panda, Tai Shan,is leaving his place of birth(US) and being sent to China. "Tai Shan" is the name of a famous mountain in Shandong Province or a father-in-law to be trusted as the son-in-law with family tie from the popular image in Chinese culture.
Although he has felt like ours since his birth at the zoo July 9, 2005, he has always been Chinese property. Since Tai Shan is not a human being and is not subject to US Law of birth as a native American citizen.
Mayor of DC called Tai Shan as Washington's most important "citizen "but he is of Chinese ancestry. The zoo just announced his appearance on a postage stamp.
Three other zoos in the United States have giant pandas, in San Francsico, Atlanta and Memphis.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, an admirer of Panda with envy of his popularity.(sic) Hehehahahoho all the way and we shall live to be centenarians with such humor.
December 4, 2009 at 8.16 a.m.
Although he has felt like ours since his birth at the zoo July 9, 2005, he has always been Chinese property. Since Tai Shan is not a human being and is not subject to US Law of birth as a native American citizen.
Mayor of DC called Tai Shan as Washington's most important "citizen "but he is of Chinese ancestry. The zoo just announced his appearance on a postage stamp.
Three other zoos in the United States have giant pandas, in San Francsico, Atlanta and Memphis.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, an admirer of Panda with envy of his popularity.(sic) Hehehahahoho all the way and we shall live to be centenarians with such humor.
December 4, 2009 at 8.16 a.m.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Longevity and Theme for 3Rs in Pin Yin system
USA Today,Dec.3, 2009 on page 1A: Frank Buckley,at age 108 seeking memorial to his comrades for WWl veterans. Page 4A It pays to live to be centenarians+/
Page 2B: Photo of Job Training class at Northampton Community College-the same logic as I sent my prior blogs. Cf. www.ask.com of visit www.Borders.com for information(Used Book)-"Keys for Economic Understanding"is the title.
Washington Times,Dec. 3, 2009
Page A10: Theme of 3Rs for the White House Holiday Celebrations:-
1, Reflect - Shensi in Pin Yin system of romanization
2. Rejoice - Xin Xi Ditto
3. Renew - Gengxin "
Be positive all the way to live longer and be happy with good luck. Righton!
Page A19: Job Training with photo: Details may be found from
Keys for Economic Understanding" www.ask.com 'www.Borders.com Search such title by clicking Used Book for reference.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao on December 3, 2009 at 2.25 p.m.
Page 2B: Photo of Job Training class at Northampton Community College-the same logic as I sent my prior blogs. Cf. www.ask.com of visit www.Borders.com for information(Used Book)-"Keys for Economic Understanding"is the title.
Washington Times,Dec. 3, 2009
Page A10: Theme of 3Rs for the White House Holiday Celebrations:-
1, Reflect - Shensi in Pin Yin system of romanization
2. Rejoice - Xin Xi Ditto
3. Renew - Gengxin "
Be positive all the way to live longer and be happy with good luck. Righton!
Page A19: Job Training with photo: Details may be found from
Keys for Economic Understanding" www.ask.com 'www.Borders.com Search such title by clicking Used Book for reference.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao on December 3, 2009 at 2.25 p.m.
Washington Post, December 3, 2009
Page A32: During the last 96 years, the Federal Reserve has played havoc with our economy and achieved what only a central bank can i.e. a steady depreciation of our currency. Today's dollar is worth 5 cents compared with the dollar entrusted to the FED in 1913.
The FED fixes interest rates at levels lower than those demanded by the market. This is a form of price control through credit expansion and causes business cycles and so many of our economic problems, generating malinvestment, excessive debt, and the stock, bond, commodity and housing bubbles.
Mr. Bernanke concludes :"America needs a stgrong (think "cartel"), with the so-called
"non-political"(think "Goldman Sachs") "and independent (think "secret") "central bank with the tools to promote financial stability (in the midst of a horrendous financial crisis" "to help steer our economy to recovery without inflation. The writer is a Republican from Texas, a member of US House of Representative. I have detected such negativity.
Page A20: Mr. Bernanke is likely to acknowledge that joblessness is unacceptably high, showing that the FED considers unemployment to be its foremost challenge in the near future. FED leaders expect the unemployment rate to be in the 9% range at the end of 2010 and inflation to remain low hopefully. Let us wait and see the empirical evidence next year.
US Monetary Policy to be relevant to China's Monetary Policy: On page A33: We should give the FED the tools it needs so that the unwinding of the next AIG doesn't need to result in an unjust enrichment of stakeholders. (My uncle was an auditor for AIG for 3 decades+ and he passed away at the age of 99 in Shanghai years ago.)
Warren Buffett considers Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner as heroes for their selfless efforts. "At the time, I called it an economic Pearl Harbor, and in the end we got through Pearl Harboer," Buffett told CNBC. Bernanke, Paulson and Geither were truly the Committee that saved the world. They should be thanked, not trashed. I am inclined to endorse such judgment.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao , a witness of economic happenings in USA to be reflected to the world but the readers may have your own assessment.
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 11.52 a.m.
The FED fixes interest rates at levels lower than those demanded by the market. This is a form of price control through credit expansion and causes business cycles and so many of our economic problems, generating malinvestment, excessive debt, and the stock, bond, commodity and housing bubbles.
Mr. Bernanke concludes :"America needs a stgrong (think "cartel"), with the so-called
"non-political"(think "Goldman Sachs") "and independent (think "secret") "central bank with the tools to promote financial stability (in the midst of a horrendous financial crisis" "to help steer our economy to recovery without inflation. The writer is a Republican from Texas, a member of US House of Representative. I have detected such negativity.
Page A20: Mr. Bernanke is likely to acknowledge that joblessness is unacceptably high, showing that the FED considers unemployment to be its foremost challenge in the near future. FED leaders expect the unemployment rate to be in the 9% range at the end of 2010 and inflation to remain low hopefully. Let us wait and see the empirical evidence next year.
US Monetary Policy to be relevant to China's Monetary Policy: On page A33: We should give the FED the tools it needs so that the unwinding of the next AIG doesn't need to result in an unjust enrichment of stakeholders. (My uncle was an auditor for AIG for 3 decades+ and he passed away at the age of 99 in Shanghai years ago.)
Warren Buffett considers Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner as heroes for their selfless efforts. "At the time, I called it an economic Pearl Harbor, and in the end we got through Pearl Harboer," Buffett told CNBC. Bernanke, Paulson and Geither were truly the Committee that saved the world. They should be thanked, not trashed. I am inclined to endorse such judgment.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao , a witness of economic happenings in USA to be reflected to the world but the readers may have your own assessment.
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 11.52 a.m.
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