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• Learning to be a good mother

  2009-4-24

  As a mother of a 3-year old girl, I am learning to be a good mother.

   

  Maybe I should know the “what” before I answer “how”. Because “what” is the aim and destination, and “how” is the way. The education of children is a systematic project, and it is like to build a building, the base determine the height.

   

  It is said the education a people received in his first 3 years is critical for his whole life. In this period, the character is forming and the value system and the way of thinking is established. Children learn from the people they live with and contact in everyday life, such as the parents, the kindergarten teachers, the kids in their classes. The behavīor of the “educators” is the model of the children. They tend to follow them.

   

  So If I hope my girl to be a tender, patient and happy girl, I must be tender, patient and with a smile in face. But actually, I’m not always so good as that. I got angry with her and shouted at her when she did not do as what I told her, and I lost temper when she could not sit at the table and finished eating her meal by herself time and time again. I do not know how to keep happy all time and even just when I am with her.. How could I be a good model of my girl?

   

  Sometime, I really got angry and disappointed with myself. I am not a good mother, I can’t spend enough time companying her. I am not so excellent to be a model of a smart girl. I don’t know how to dance, and I have no idea of any of a music instruments. I do not have enough ideas in taking good care of her and make her a winner in this society of violent competitive.

  Then what can I do ?.

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• 西藏问题：中国无中间路线

  2009-3-19

  China and Tibet

  No middle way for China

  Mar 10th 2009
  From Economist.com

  After 50 years in exile, the Dalai Lama seems close to despair

  经过50年的流亡，达赖喇嘛集团似乎接近绝望。

  
  

  AP/Reuters

  MARCH is the cruellest month in Tibet, breeding protests on the roof of the world, each of which in turn creates an anniversary to remember and mourn. As the Dalai Lama, Tibetans’ spiritual leader, put it in a speech on Tuesday March 10th in Dharamsala, his seat in exile in northern India, it is a time “to pay tribute and offer our prayers for all those who died, were tortured and suffered tremendous hardships…for the cause of Tibet”.

  西藏的三月是最让人痛苦的，达赖喇嘛想在世界范围内制造反对（中央政府）的声音，但这种努力似乎反过来更加勾起了人们对“西藏事件”的周年纪念和哀悼。当达赖喇嘛，这位西藏人的精神领袖3月10日在印度北部达兰萨拉，他的流亡地发表演讲提及此事时，该是“为那些在西藏骚乱事件中死去、受到折磨和遭遇苦难的人祈福和祈祷的时候了”。

   

  His speech included the offers of friendship and conciliation to China with which he usually tempers criticism of its rule. But much of it was angry and pessimistic in tone. It reads like the exasperated outpouring of a man despairing of the compromise he himself continues to promote. The Dalai Lama also reiterated the claim for an autonomous Tibetan homeland that extends beyond what China calls the Tibet Autonomous Region, into other parts of China.

  他的演讲中谈到他对中国的友好和容让，他常对中国的制度发火指责。但他的语气中多半是愤怒和悲观。 这像是一个对妥协感到绝望的人自己在继续推动这种愤怒情绪的倾泻.达赖喇嘛集团重申西藏自治国,的主张,而这种主张超越了中国将西藏作为中国一部分的西藏自治区的政策.

   

   

  In March 50 years ago an uprising against Chinese rule led to his flight into exile with tens of thousands of his followers. In 1989 commemorative protests in Lhasa were bloodily suppressed and martial law briefly declared. Last year saw an outbreak of vicious rioting in the Tibetan capital, directed at ethnic-Han Chinese and symbols of their commercial dominance.

  50年前的3月,一场反对中国政策的起义导致了他和成千上万的追随者登上了流亡之路的飞机.

  The region is still suffering from the crackdown that ensued, in which, the Dalai Lama claimed, Tibetans “live in constant fear, and the Chinese authorities remain constantly suspicious of them…In short, the Tibetan people are regarded like criminals deserving to be put to death.”

  The unusually harsh words from the Dalai Lama reflect both the bleakness of conditions in Tibet at the moment, and the poor prospects for political progress. Human Rights Watch, a monitoring and lobbying group, this week reported that there were thousands of arbitrary arrests after last year’s unrest and that hundreds of detainees remain unaccounted for.

  To forestall protests during the anniversary season, the Chinese government has deployed a massive security presence both in the autonomous region and in the neighbouring provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai. Foreigners have been largely excluded from the region; the mobile-telephone network in Lhasa is undergoing “system maintenance”; and some websites have become inaccessible.

  Exile groups have reported protests in some places, and in one part of Qinghai two small bombs damaged police vehicles. But the precautions are such that it seems unlikely that large-scale protests could erupt.

  But those precautions themselves show how even the Chinese government realises the extent of Tibetan unhappiness with its rule. It continues to blame this on the influence of the Dalai Lama himself. It likes to harp on the feudal serfdom of historic Tibet, and is even marking March 28th as “Emancipation from Serfdom” day.

  Yet the Dalai Lama has democratised his “government-in-exile”, and remains more moderate than many of his followers. Not only does he accept Chinese sovereignty, arguing instead for a “middle way” of genuine autonomy within China—a compromise he has repeatedly to defend from the criticism of more radical Tibetans that it is leading nowhere. Also, the Dalai Lama is unwavering in his opposition to violence.

  Last year China did resume a sporadic and desultory dialogue with his representatives. They reported no hint of flexibility from China. China’s unspoken hope is presumably that with the passing of the Dalai Lama, who is 73, Tibetans will lose both their international figurehead and their internal unity. However, China will also lose perhaps its best and last hope of reconciliation with the Tibetan people it claims as its own.

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• May you a happy holiday !

  2008-9-28

   

    The 7-day holiday is around the corner again, and what's your plan ? Travelling to a longing for places? Staying at home and having a big rest? Studying in a training school to charge up yourself? or shopping in the discount season? Anyhow,May you a happy and significant holiday!

   I am expecting the holiday because I really want a break from the boring bus-shift life. I want to stay at home and enjoy the time with my families, to do exercise in the sports field rather than to be jammed in the crowded bus in the beautiful early morning. I want to enjoy a one or two-day trip in the countyside with my baby. I plan to read an interesting book and meet some friends in the free days.

   Er, too much ideas for the coming holiday, and I hope I can carry out my plan and have an good holiday!

   Again, happy holiday  to you all !

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• 有史以来最伟大的残奥会

  2008-9-19

  

  9月17日晚，北京2008年残奥会闭幕式在国家体育场隆重举行。（中文来自凤凰网）

  The night of Sep.17,the 2008 Paralympics closing ceremony was grandly held in the national stadium.

  　　The greatest Paralympics of all times

  　　残奥会闭幕式标志着北京奥运的结束。中国为此次奥运会准备了7年，在奥运场馆和基础设施上投入400亿美元———这些都是为了向世界展示中国已经崛起成为21世纪的大国。

  The Paralympics closing ceremony symbolized the ending of the Beijing Olympic games. China has prepared for 7 years for the games and has invested 40 billion dollars for the Olympic stadiums and infrastructures. All of these is to show the outside world that China have grown up a great nation of the 21^st centry.

  　　国家体育场“鸟巢”的残奥会闭幕式门票销售一空，91000个座位座无虚席。在闭幕式上，国家体育场熊熊燃烧的火炬渐渐熄灭，标志着奥运会正式移交给将在2012年主办下届夏季奥运会和残奥会的伦敦。

  The tickets of the Paralympics closing ceremony that held in the national stadium were sold out, and the 91,000 seats were all occupied. The brightly-burning flame went out in the national stadium at the closing ceremony, which indicated the Olympics were officially turned over the Landon, who would held the 2012 summer Olympics and Paralympics.

  　　和奥运会一样，官员们高度赞扬东道主中国为此次残奥会奉献了令人惊讶的比赛场馆和紧凑有序的组织。在长达11天的比赛中，残奥会场馆几乎都坐满了观众。

  The officals highly praised that the host China had provided miraculous competition gymnasiums and stadiums and strickly ordered organization. During the 11-day competitions, the Paralympic stadiums were almost full of spectators.　　

  在残奥会期间，北京的天气近乎完美，没有交通拥堵，抬头可见蓝天。

  During the Paralympic games, the whether in Beijing was approximately perfect and there were no traffic jams and the sky was blue.

  　　残奥会闭幕式上的“伦敦8分钟”依然选择了红色的双层公交巴士，巴士顶层竖立着著名的尼尔森勋爵纪念柱。表演达到高潮时，一名演员推出装满了茶点的小车，演绎英国人的“下午茶”习惯。

  In the Paralympic closing ceremony, the 8minutes in Landon was showing in red double decked bus still, there stood the famous Nilson lord memory pole on the upper deck. When the show culminated, an actor pull out a little cargo that was fully load of tea snacks, deducting the customs of afternoon tea of the British people.

  　　据路透社17日报道，今晚，“鸟巢”体育场上演了6周之内的第四场盛大仪式，一个充满运动精彩的夏天就此落下帷幕。

  According the Reuters in 17,tonight the fourth prosperous ceremony was been held in the Bird nest in 6 weeks, the curtains of the summer full of splendid sports thus came down.

  　　　　国际残奥委会主席菲利普·克雷文说：“这是有史以来最伟大的残奥会。”

   International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Philip Craven said:” It’s the greatest Paralympics ever since ”

  　　他说，在残奥会历史上一直大放光彩的精神在中国找到了类似的精神。

   He said, the highlight spirit in the Paralympic history find the similar spirit in China.

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• Problems Outbreak in the Areas we do not pay Attention to

  2008-9-19

   

      I went to see the dentists the fifth time this year today. I always have confidence in my own health, I ate the green food, drink clean boiled water, do  exercise regularly, go to sleep at the set time and have a open-hearted mind, which will ensure my body and mentle  health as the saying of the doctor. I never thought there were problems in my mouth, but it did.I have 3 teeth mend and one redone just in the few months.Seeing the dentists is a painstaking thing--long time waiting, sore in the teeth, blooded watering mouth and the postache...That's really bad.

     But problems do outbreak in the areas we do not pay attention to.

     The baby milk food , even the liquid milk for our daily comsuption, who have ever thought they should have mixed with industry chemical materials? Who have ever thought the well-known national brand SANLU, MENGLU,YILI and BRIGHT DIATY would be the leading actors f the scandal? It is really out of the expection.It's only an accident? I will say NO.There must be some underground rules in the milk industry, which the government does not pay attention to, as well as the  the puplic who take it grant that the milk must be good and safe to the health.

  Maybe it's time to roll, to give attention to the virgin areas, both the government , you and I ! 

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• about financial crisis

  2008-9-17

   

  Moral hazard needs to be faced.There is an inherent contradiction when financial entities are permitted to reap extraodinary profits and manage vast assets and the, when conditions change, are declared too large to be permitted to fail, requiring taxpayer's bailouts. Fiancial institutions,whether investment banks or hedge funds,need oversight in a way that protects the taxpayer's interest.

  道德风险必须面对。有一个内在的矛盾问题，即金融实体被允许获得超额利润和管理庞大资产，而当境况发生变化，又被宣布因其太大不能允许其倒闭，却要求纳税人来救市。金融机构，无论是投资银行或是对冲基金，需要以某种方式加以监管，以保护纳税人的利益。

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• 如何避审稿人的大斧？（简介）

  2008-9-01

  New Roman" size=4>Guest Editorial
  How to Avoid the Reviewer’s Axe:
  One Editor’s View

   

  如何避审稿人的大斧

   ----一个编辑的建议

  From Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol.12, No.3, June 2003

  I. INTRODUCTION
  
  
  SINCE this is a personal commentary, I will use the first person, something that no proper writer of scientific dis-course would ever do. As an author of many technical papers over my 35-year academic career, I have too often felt the anx-iety of opening that envelope from the journal editor, which, from its bulk, obviously contains my precious manuscrīpt, re-turned to me for either minor revision, massive rework, or—the ultimate wound—assignment to the manuscrīptal trashbin.  

  由于本文是个人观点，因此我用第一人称来写，一些严谨的科技论文的作者一般不会这么做。在我35年的学术生涯中，我也写作很多科技论文。我也多次感受到打开杂志编辑来信时的紧张心情，这些信中当然有我珍贵的手稿。它们被退回来，有的要作小小的修改，有的要大量重写，或者完全被否定--只能丢进垃圾桶。
  
  Now, having spent some 17 years on the opposite side of the table, my cumulative experience with many manuscrīpts and almost equally many unhappy authors is that the primary reason reviewers attack certain manuscrīpts is that those manuscrīpts are genuinely flawed. Many, if not most authors won’t agree, at least not at first. So I thought it would be helpful to authors if I were to set down some practical suggestions for preventing the reviewer’s axe from giving the authors a whack.

  现在，作为与作者相对的编辑和审核人已经有17年了，我从大量的手稿和相当数量的伤心的作者中积累的经验表明，审稿人诟病某些手稿是因为其的确存在缺陷。许多，如果不是大多数，起先是不承认的。因此，我想如果我能给作者们提出一些实用的建议，使他们能避免审稿人“大斧”的打击，对他们或许是有帮助的。
  A scientific manuscrīpt is intended to communicate new in-formation and to teach new material to a willing audience. Many authors forget this simple fact; rather, they view the writing process as an opportunity to bolster their own egos and impress the reader, even discomfit the reader somewhat, either with too much material or too little. Since there are many different styles of paper, I will select a hypothetical example of an experimental paper in which the authors make a minor advance in an estab-lished experimental method, and they then use this method to obtain some new results that are to be compared with a model Digital Object Identifier .1109/JMEMS.2003.814319 that is also a minor modification of already published work. Along the way, some unusual behavīor is observed that the mod-ified model cannot explain. The authors believe that they under-stand why this behavīor is observed, and wish to propose their explanation, even though they have not yet done the definitive experiments to prove their hypothesis.
  科研论文的目的是要交流信息或教给一些需要的人新的西。许多作者忘记了这个简单的事实，而把写作的过程当作是炫耀自己和让读者注目自己的机会，甚至在一定程度上使读者不快，如提供太多或太少的信息。由于论文的种类很多，我将选取一个假想的实验论文的例子，论文的作者对建立实验方式做了小小的改进，他们用这种实验方式取得了一些新的结论，并把这些结果与同样也只是对已发表的理论模型做了一点小改进而得到的结果进行对比。由此，他们观察到一些特别的现象，而这些现象一些改良的模型无法解释。作者们认为他们理解了他们为何得发现这些现象，并想发表他们对此的解释，尽管他们还没有进行过必要的实验来证实他们的假设。
  
  
  

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• 如何避免审稿人的大斧？（前言）

  2008-9-01

  Guest Editorial
  How to Avoid the Reviewer’s Axe:
  One Editor’s View

   

  如何避审稿人的大斧

   ----一个编辑的建议

  From Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol.12, No.3, June 2003
  
  Editor’s Note: Stephen D. Senturia has been a member of the Board of Editors for IEEE/ASME JMEMS since the journal’s first issue in 1992 and was named a Senior Editor in 1998. This experience, coupled with his service from 1985–1995 as the Solid-State Sensors Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES, adds up to 17 years in an editor’s chair. Over the years, Steve has kept mental notes on the myriad of problems that authors have with reviewers and has been inspired to compile the following “advice to the author” about ways to keep reviewers satisfied; hence, to keep them “at bay.”

  编者按：Stephen D. Senturia 自ASME JMEMS （美国机械工程师协会微机电系统）电气和电子工程师协会1992年创刊以来，一直是该杂志编委会成员，并在1998年被任命为高级编辑。这些经历，加上从1985年至1995年作为IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEVICES Solid-State Sensors 的编辑，一共在编辑岗位上工作了17年，这些年中，Steven 总结了撰稿人给审稿人带来的大量的问题，因此，我们邀请他写了这篇“给作者的建议”，告诉作者怎样做才能使审核人满意，使他们无话可说。
  Abstract—Based on his many years of experience, a JMEMS ed-itor provides guidelines for authors that will, if followed, greatly reduce the risk of a devastatingly negative result from the review process. The premise is that there are certain things that rightfully anger reviewers, and, once angered, the reviewers become both negative and aggressive in their judgments—hence, the imagery of “the reviewer’s axe” and how to avoid it.

  摘要：在多年实践经验的基础上，这位JMEMS编辑给作者们提出了一引些建议。如果遵从这些建议，将大大降低论文在审稿过程中遭到拒绝的风险。前提是，文中确实有些问题惹恼了审稿人，他们一旦变得愤怒，他们在审稿中会变得消极和批判。作者将这比喻为“斧头”，并告诉人们如何避免这些情况的出现。

  
   

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• 牙买加的秘密

  2008-8-22

  Jamaican secrets

  from August 19, 2008 China Daily

  牙买加人的秘密

  New Zealand's biggest free-to-air broadcaster TVNZ said the explanations for Jamaica's success in producing the fastest man and three fastest women at the Olympics range from the power of root vegetables to the study of genes.

  新西兰最大的免费广播电视公司TVNZ说，牙买加之所以能在 奥运会上产生跑得最快的男运动员和3个女运动员，其解释从根类蔬菜的魔力到基因研究不一而足。

  Jamaica, an island of 2.6 million people, has made remarkable achievements on the tracks of Beijing's Bird's Nest and let the yellow, green and black flag fly with pride.

  牙买加，是一个260万人口的岛国，在北京鸟巢的田径赛场上取得了举世瞩目的成绩，让他们黄、绿和黑色相间的国旗熤熤生辉。

  Once known for being the land of laid-back reggae culture, Jamaica's athletes are giving their country a new image as the island of power and pace and many are asking the question - why?

  "It's part of the natural ability of Jamaicans," Jamaican Sports Minister Olivia Grange told Reuters when asked the question recently.

  牙买家曾以其悠闲的瑞格舞文化闻名，牙买加运动员给他们的国创造了一 个全新的形象—力量和步伐。许多人问，为什么呢？

  “这部分源于牙买加人的天份。”当最近被问到这个问题时，牙买加体育部长奥里沃告诉路透社说，

  Men's 100-meter gold medalist Usain Bolt's father credited the local yam for his son's success and while that might raise smiles there are many on the Caribbean island who believe their diet - full of root vegetables and herbs - is behind the pace of their youth.

  男子100米金牌得主博尔特的父亲把 儿子成功归功于当地的红薯，尽管这会引人发笑，他相信因为他们的食物基本上是根类植物和草本植物，这就是当地年轻跑得快的原因。

  The popularly held idea among Jamaicans that they are born quick has been given some academic support by Professor Errol Morrison of the island's University of Technology.

  牙买加人普遍认为他们天生跑得快得到了他们岛内的科技大学埃尔.莫里森授的理论支持。

  Morrison told the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper that research conducted with the University of Glasgow has identified a special component, called Actinen A, found in the "fast twitch fibres" in muscles.

  莫里森告诉牙买加格宁那报说，一项由格拉斯哥大学实施的研究已经证明在肌肉的“快速启动纤维”有一种称为肌动蛋白A的特殊成份。

  Morrison says the gene is present in a disproportionately high number of Jamaicans and others of West African descent.

  "What it says to us is what is happening is not a flash in the pan, but there will be many potential Asafa Powells, Sherone Simpsons and Sherikas (Sherika Williams), because the genetic predisposition is there," he added.

  莫里森说这种基因大量存在于牙买加人身上，而其他西非人则相对很少。他又说：“这么说来所有发生的这一切对我们来说并不是昙花一现，而将来会有更多的阿萨法鲍威尔，沙龙辛普森，沙拉克威兼姆斯，因为具有这种基因。”

  "The question is always there. What is it, nature or nurture, that makes us so good? The answer seems to be coming that there seems to be a strong underlying genetic or nature predisposition as to why we are able to perform like this." There is also the power of tradition - athletics has long had strong roots in Jamaica.

  “总会有人问，究竟是什么，天性条件或是后天培养，使我们如此优秀呢？至于我们能够做得这样好，其答案似乎在于一种强大的未知的基因和先天优势。”另外还在于强大的传统力量，体育运动在牙买加源远流长。

  Arthur Wint won the 100 metres gold medal at the 1948 Games, the first the country had entered while still a British colony, and Herb McKenley won four medals from 1948 to 1952 and later Merlene Ottey enjoyed success throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

  亚瑟温特赢得1948年100米金牌，这是这个国家第一次参加（奥运会），当时它还是一个英国殖民地，哈博迈克科林从1948年至1952年先后获得4块奖牌，至后来的默林欧蒂从20世纪80年代至90年代一直享受着成功的喜悦。

  "I think it's a combination of factors," Jamaican athletics chief Howard Aris told Reuters."We have the tradition from way back, from 1948. We have the talent, we have the certified coaches. From the very early stages, they are taught the right things - how to eat, how to train, how to sprint."

  牙买加体育运动主席霍华德亚里斯告诉路透社，“我想是几种因素综合的结果，我们从1948年开始就有这个传统。我们有这个天分，我们有正规的教练。从最早的阶段开始，他们就受到正确的教导，如何吃，如何思考，如何奔跑。”

  Whatever may be pushing Jamaicans to run fast - it is certainly working in Beijing.

  无论是什么使牙买加人跑得快---它确定无疑地在北京发挥了作用。

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• 博尔特在北京再创奇迹

  2008-8-21

  

  Bolt hits Beijing again in historic run
  By Yang Xinwei
  China Daily Staff Writer
  Updated: 2008-08-21 07:31

  博尔特在北京再创造奇迹

  He did not slow down, or stretch his arms or slap his chest, this time. But he still won the 200m sprint in world record time, giving himself the best present on the eve of his 22nd birthday.

  这次，他没有慢下来，或者伸展双臂。但他仍然打破世界记录赢得了200米短跑冠军，在他22岁生日前夕送给自己一份最好的礼物。

  Maybe he did not want to take a chance till he crossed the 200m finish line yesterday. After all, it was the great Michael Johnson whose world record he was after, unlike the 100m in which he broke his own on Saturday.

  或许在他昨天越过200终点线时没有想过要冒险。毕竟，与他在周六打破自己的100米记录不同，他想超越的是伟大的迈克尔约翰逊创造的世界记录。

  21日的头版奥运新间。那么，为什么小小的牙买加能在田径赛场上创造这么多奇迹呢？

  我们来探究一下牙买加人的秘密。

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