Blog:.Butterfliers in love2009.11.03. // news

Last time I went to Changsha Window of the World, and visit the butterfly museum, knowing butterfly is the symbol of pure love. It’s no wonder the story of Liang Shan bo and Zhu Ying tai is translated into “butterflies in love”.

I believe we all heard their story. Actually, I knew their story when I was very little, but I didn’t have special sentiment at that time. Today I watched the cartoon edition again and was deeply moved.

At that time women had no right to choose their husbands. It is countless that how many women were forced to marry the men they didn’t love. The special point of Zhu ying tai is her courage. She finally chose to betray the dignitary to follow her lover. What I appreciate is their pure love. Though the result is a little exaggerated, I still believe if there is God, it may really happen.

Today the situation of women has changed greatly. For men or women, we can choose freely. However, it’s not easily to find true love nowadays, especially hard to hold on true love. There are so many material disturbances. I knew too many cases about aparting because of material reasons. Yesterday some of us discussed why A (one of my acquaintance) chooses his present girl friend, because his last girl friend is beautiful and graceful. The answer somebody told us is that his present girl friend’s background is not simple. I don’t know what the exact reason is. But I am sure the similar cases are not seldom.

So it’s not strange a lot of people are proud of marring rich husband or wife with influential background. True love is just their fall back. As I also live in big city and have to struggle hardly for my future, I can understand why they choose the path. To stick to true love, we may sacrifice a lot, like Liang Shan bo and Zhu Ying tai. But I still regret true love gradually become lighter in our heart.

Maybe somebody will say that if we have the chance to succeed more quickly with the help of marriage, the majority will choose to sacrifice our true love. A lot of us haven’t chosen the way because we didn’t have the chance. I don’t know if the saying is the common feeling. I do hope we can hold more true love. This is what I mostly want to say after I watched “Butterflies in love”.

Blog:The Three Fishermen by Tom Sheehan2009.11.03. // news

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There were three of them. There were four of us, and April lay on the campsite and on the river, a mixture of dawn at a damp extreme and the sun in the leaves at cajole. This was Deer Lodge on the Pine River in Ossipee, New Hampshire, though the lodge was naught but a foundation remnant in the earth. Brother Bentley’s father, Oren, had found this place sometime after the First World War, a foreign affair that had seriously done him no good but he found solitude abounding here. Now we were here, post World War II, post Korean War, Vietnam War on the brink. So much learned, so much yet to learn.
Peace then was everywhere about us, in the riot of young leaves, in the spree of bird confusion and chatter, in the struggle of pre-dawn animals for the start of a new day, a Cooper Hawk that had smashed down through trees for a squealing rabbit, yap of a fox at a youngster, a skunk at rooting.
We had pitched camp in the near darkness, Ed LeBlanc, Brother Bentley, Walter Ruszkowski, myself. A dozen or more years we had been here, and seen no one. Now, into our campsite deep in the forest, so deep that at times we had to rebuild sections of narrow road (more a logger’s path) flushed out by earlier rains, deep enough where we thought we’d again have no traffic, came a growling engine, an old solid body van, a Chevy, the kind I had driven for Frankie Pike and the Lobster Pound in Lynn delivering lobsters throughout the Merrimack Valley. It had pre-WW II high fenders, a faded black paint on a body you’d swear had been hammered out of corrugated steel, and an engine that made sounds too angry and too early for the start of day. Two elderly men, we supposed in their seventies, sat the front seat; felt hats at the slouch and decorated with an assortment of tied flies like a miniature bandoleer of ammunition on the band. They could have been cons for Emilano Zappata, so loaded their hats and their vests as they climbed out of the truck.
“Mornin’, been yet?” one of them said as he pulled his boots up from the folds at his knees, the tops of them as wide as a big mouth bass coming up from the bottom for a frog sitting on a lily pad. His hands were large, the fingers long and I could picture them in a shop barn working a primal plane across the face of a maple board. Custom-made, old elegance, those hands said.

“Barely had coffee,” Ed LeBlanc said, the most vocal of the four of us, quickest at friendship, at shaking hands. “We’ve got a whole pot almost. Have what you want.” The pot was pointed out sitting on a hunk of grill across the stones of our fire, flames licking lightly at its sides. The pot appeared as if it had been at war, a number of dents scarred it, the handle had evidently been replaced, and if not adjusted against a small rock it would have fallen over for sure. Once, a half-hour on the road heading north, noting it missing, we’d gone back to get it. When we fished the Pine River, coffee was the glue, the morning glue, the late evening glue, even though we’d often unearth our beer from a natural cooler in early evening. Coffee, camp coffee, has a ritual. It is thick, it is dark, it is potboiled over a squaw-pine fire, it is strong, it is enough to wake the demon in you, stoke last evening’s cheese and pepperoni. First man up makes the fire, second man the coffee; but into that pot has to go fresh eggshells to hold the grounds down, give coffee a taste of history, a sense of place. That means at least one egg be cracked open for its shells, usually in the shadows and glimmers of false dawn. I suspect that’s where “scrambled eggs” originated, from some camp like ours, settlers rushing west, lumberjacks hungry, hoboes lobbying for breakfast. So, camp coffee has made its way into poems, gatherings, memories, a time and thing not letting go, not being manhandled, not being cast aside.

Blog: Closing the gap2009.11.03. // news

Oracle said its new licence revenue rose to $1.39bn in the three months to 28 February, while sales of new software applications rose by 57% to $423m.
“We think we have a good chance to catch and pass SAP in the overall applications business,” Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison told investors.
“We closed the gap and gained applications market share again this quarter.”
Over the past three years Oracle has spent $20bn buying rivals such as Siebel Systems and PeopleSoft in a bid to challenge SAP.
SAP, meanwhile, has been struggling to maintain growth in the US, the world’s biggest market.

Blog:What language do role players speak?2009.11.03. // news

d00d speak, where letters are replaced by similar symbols, and acronyms like lol (laugh out loud) and rofl (rolling on the floor laughing) are generally frowned upon. Emotes such as *laughs* and *smiles* are generally preferred. Other than that, pick anything that fits with your character. Speak modern english, ye olde english or even english with a french accent if you have to. Does your character have a lisp ? Does he have difficulty pronouncing the ‘th’? Perhaps you will have him speak Orcish, Elven or Gargish… It really does not matter, as long as you are consistent. Is going out of charter (ooc) allowed?
This seems to be a very personal thing. I personally always try to use [] to show ooc, but it’s not the only way. You can just say you are talking ooc and speak normally. At some point though you will find it necessary to go ooc, don’t worry, I think this is natural and something that we all have to do from time to time. However, die hard role players will rather cut off their right foot than be caught talking out of character. Tolerance
Just because someone does not role play in exactly the same way you do, is not a good reason to flame them or say they are not role playing. However you may come across someone, either in-game or on message boards, who just seems to like arguing and attacking you personally regardless of your arguments. Don’t try to argue with people like this, as that is what they want, they love to argue, just try to ignore them if possible. Role playing for girls
Some girls do not like having guys hit on them in role-playing games. One way to avoid this is to play a male character. Playing a different sex must surely be an interesting and challenging role playing experience. Of course you don’t have to play a man if you don’t want to, maybe you can be that powerful girl you have always wanted to be (Girl power). But always keep in mind that just because you see a woman in game, it does not necessarily mean they are a woman in real life. In fact, a lot of ‘girls’ you meet in-game are in reality role-playing guys.
I have known quite a variety of girls who play role playing games, some just like to run shops, make things and sell them, others really like PvP (Player vs player combat ). Again try things out and do what feels right for you. While there are more men playing role playing games, there are certainly lots of women too so you will not be the only girl playing.
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Blog: Pollution in river kills crayfish2009.11.02. // news

thousands of crayfish at a beauty spot.
An investigation has started into a pollution incident which killed The Environment Agency was alerted on Sunday after a member of the public saw a number of crayfish in the River Mint at Patton Bridge, north east of Kendal.
Officers found large numbers of native white-clawed crayfish had been killed or were in distress.
Exact figures have not been confirmed, but it is expected the number killed is likely to be thousands.
The Environment Agency said initial investigations confirmed the crayfish had been killed by a pollutant entering the water, but the exact nature is still unclear.
10km stretch of the river is believed to have been affected by the incident and Agency officers are still checking whether the pollutant has affected the neighbouring River Kent.
They are also trying to find out whether any other fish species have been affected and trying to find a possible source for the pollutant.
Agency fisheries technical officer for Cumbria Graeme McKee said: “White-clawed crayfish are the only native crayfish species and we expect this loss to have a significant impact on other creatures locally such as otters, who rely on crayfish as a key food source.
“The pollution has affected the entire river and clearly our key concern at this stage is to minimise any further impact, particularly into the nearby River Kent.”

Blog:Labour ‘dying’2009.11.02. // news

The speech was also watched by a group of Gurkhas, who received a round of applause after Mr Clegg said he was “honoured” they could be present.
Mr Clegg deliberately chose not to talk about what might happen in the event of a hung Parliament, focusing instead on what a Liberal Democrat government would do.
He stressed the party’s commitment to fairer taxation and vowed to “clean up” Westminster politics including MPs’ expenses.
And he said young people were his party’s top priority – and proposed a 90 day job or training guarantee for the young unemployed, paid for by scrapping Labour’s VAT cut.
He said: “Labour is dying on its feet. We are replacing them as the dominant force of progressive politics. We are the alternative to a hollow Conservative Party that offers just an illusion of change.”

Blog:India launches seven satellites2009.11.02. // news

India has successfully launched seven satellites in a single mission, nearly a month after the country’s inaugural Moon mission was aborted.
The rocket was carrying an Indian remote-sensing satellite and six smaller ones, all of them foreign.
The Indian satellite will help spot fishing zones in the sea by monitoring ocean temperatures.
Observers say India is emerging as a major player in the multi-billion dollar space market.
Wednesday’s launch, from the Sriharikota space centre off India’s east coast, is being described as another milestone for the country’s 46-year-old space programme.
This is the 16th mission for India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) – a seven-storey-high, 230 tonne rocket.
A spokesman for state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) S Satish told the BBC that the Indian satellite Oceansat-2 is carrying a new instrument which can measure wind speed over the surface of the ocean. He said the device will help track monsoons and cyclones.
The rocket is also carrying six smaller satellites from Germany, Switzerland and Turkey.
Wednesday’s launch came as a boost to India’s space scientists after the country terminated its inaugural Moon mission last month.
Despite the termination of the mission, Isro chief G Madhavan Nair said that the project was a great success and 95% of its objectives had been completed.
Last year India successfully launched 10 satellites in a single mission, boosting its capabilities in space.
The country started its space programme in 1963, and has since designed, built and launched its own satellites into space.
In 2007, India put an Italian satellite into orbit for a fee of $11m. In January 2008, India successfully launched an Israeli spy satellite into orbit.

Blog:Crash pilots given conflicting orders2009.11.02. // news

German investigators have revealed that the pilots of the Russian airliner involved in last week’s mid-air collision with a cargo plane received contradictory instructions seconds before the crash.
They said voice recorders recovered from both aircraft showed Swiss air traffic controllers told the Russian pilots to descend, while the on-board warning system instructed them to climb.
All 69 people – including 45 schoolchildren – aboard the Russian Tu-154, and two crew members on the Boeing 757 were killed when the two aircraft collided at 35,000 feet (10,500 metres) over the German-Swiss border.
The revelation came as at least 1,000 people in the Russian city of Ufa, about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) east of Moscow, attended an emotional service in memory of their dead.
Forty-five children from Ufa died when the Russian Tupolev crashed into a Boeing cargo jet last Monday night
Russian President Vladimir Putin, on a visit to neighbouring Volga region, made an unscheduled stopover at Ufa’s cemetery on Monday, where dozens of crash victims were earlier laid to rest.
Mr Putin told the widow of the Tu-154’s captain that “the Russian pilots were not to blame for the tragedy”, the Russian news agency Itar-Tass quoted him as saying.
Mr Putin said the Russian pilots “were professionals of the highest class

Blog: Financial competition2009.10.28. // news

China has been determined to develop the financial services industry on the mainland.
In 1990 it created a new stock market in Shanghai to rival Hong Kong.
Open mainly to domestic investors, it is now in the midst of an unprecedented boom.
China boosted its own banking sector, and increased regulation, especially after the banks got into difficulties over bad loans to state firms.
And it is gradually opening up the financial sector to international firms, with foreign banks now being allowed to open yuan accounts for domestic residents.

Blog:Hong Kong Brits few but faithful2009.10.28. // news

That’s the response I generally get when asking people about what has happened to the British in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong still has double-decker buses, trams, hotels serving high tea, a district called Aberdeen and Victoria Peak, and Victoria Park and Victoria Harbour.
But what of the Brits themselves? There are fewer of them these days, but those who remain have no regrets.
“Hong Kong has been my home for years. I arrived in 1948 and I loved the life here,” said Peter Malpas, 88.