2005.4.28=4:[#118]4703.3.20[#60+19/60]: [Sandstorm] Shot, Dog AAA&Hist., Lien Beida: 1)Globalization. 2)Islam. 3)Human Origins: China.

[Iraq Sandstorm] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4491531.stm Rainy cloud cool mild: Lost sleep early morning, 6:15 up. Jyun hands in 2p. of "Dog": Questions, Facts, Issues, then Lung drives him to BART. Bath, breakfast, blog for topic of "Globalization" from last night's rebroadcasting of 4.5=2 Charlie Rose interviewing Thomas L. Friedman on "The World is Flat", stating that Taiwan designs electronic something then to all across China's coast for parts, to Malaya for composition, back to Taiwan for sale. Now 10:37am. Finish topic 12:39pm! 9-10 repeat "Winter Sonata", 1-2 repeat "Strugle", so tv for Lien in China. Now 1:51pm, for lunch & ins.co.? & hospital shot 4:30pm. Now just past 3pm. To AAA getting 800-922-8228 claim tel.no., to hospital for the 3rd & last shot. Home tel AAA getting the idea better to claim so they can help investigate. 6-7 "Winter Sonata" #15, 6:55?-7:37pm live Lien speech in Beida: Beida prof., esp. Fu Ssunien, Shen Gangbo to Taida & Hu Shih to Taiwan Academia Sinica, 1st applaud at "Insisting on peace". 7:37-7:59pm, Q&A. Yes, somewhat moving even to change my mind? Not really. Our president Chen's answer to the whole thing is very good: We don't want to be put in a bird cage! 8-9pm "Stairway to Heaven": He finally catches up with her, but she has different name and identity, like "Winter Sonata". Still check diary and blog from 2.1=2 to 2.13=7 for now, since Jyun's "FACTS" jumps from 2.2=3 to 2.12=6. 9-10pm "W.S."#15: He doubts own identitiy. Just start dinner, almost 10pm! 10-11 "Lovers over Snow(?)": Love between girl and brother-in-law both police. He is hurt. Now 11:36pm, finish for the time. 12-1 "Blue Fog(?)"#13: He to him to bring her to US. Lien-Hu mtg. in progress, 1:10 bed. According to Jyun, ie Sze-jun's "FACTS", on "DOG", p.1: "Tuesday February 1, 2005 1. Between 3-6pm, dog was running at large, reports of his sighting were made by police officers-animal control-residents, calls made to my answering machine." [[ Mr. Earl L. Jiang, Attorney at Law's April 21, 2005 letter addressed to "Sze-Jun Tsai": "Date of incident: 2/5/05" & "an incident occurred on February 2, 2005". ]] 2. I went to pick him up(7pm)from a man on Osgood Rd, who stated that my dog bit him. 3. The first thing he asked me at his house was where I parked(strange). Then he showed me his injuries, which did not seem severe(holding tissue over dried wound). 4. He brought out my dog in a raccoon trap that is next to his house. The first thing I noticed is that my dog cannot move at all in the trap and the fact that his collar was tied to the trap's handle. 5. He released my dog from the trap and I picked him up. We spoke about him going to the doctor tomorrow and that I would follow up with him tomorrow night after work. Wednesday February 2, 2005 1. I called him at that night and asked him how he was doing. 2. I asked him if he had gone to the doctor, he stated that he did. I did not think he was telling the truth as he later stated he just put medicine on it. 3. I ended the call by asking if I could keep following up with him or if he wanted to call me back, he stated his wish to contact me. Saturday February 12, 2005 [[ I'm out, so don't know the following. ]] 1. He came to our house asking for money. 2. We asked to see a bill and he claimed he hadn't received a bill yet. 3. He stated he would bring the bill tomorrow morning and he would settle with my dad. [[ I don't know about this settlement idea. ]] 4. Later on in the evening he called our house making veiled threats when I asked for greater clarification as to what was going on. He never came to our house on Sunday 2/13. [[ We left around 1pm for Skylawn Park, until past 5pm. ]] 1) Globalization of the Twenty-first Century, for the USA: (1) "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", by Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: http://tinyurl.com/dqtln "" Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim, in his new book, The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, "" "" Globalization 3.0, as he calls it, is driven not by major corporations or giant trade organizations like the World Bank, but by individuals: desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world (but especially in India and China) who can compete--and win--not just for low-wage manufacturing and information labor but, increasingly, for the highest-end research and design work as well. "" --Tom Nissley "" From Publishers Weekly "" "" For Friedman, cheap, ubiquitous telecommunications have finally obliterated all impediments to international competition, and the dawning "flat world" is a jungle pitting "lions" and "gazelles," where "economic stability is not going to be a feature" and "the weak will fall farther behind." Rugged, adaptable entrepreneurs, by contrast, will be empowered. The service sector (telemarketing, accounting, computer programming, engineering and scientific research, etc.), will be further outsourced to the English-spoken abroad; manufacturing, meanwhile, will continue to be off-shored to China. As anyone who reads his column knows, Friedman agrees with the transnational business executives who are his main sources that these developments are desirable and unstoppable, and that American workers should be preparing to "create value through leadership" and "sell personality." This is all familiar stuff by now, but the last 100 pages on the economic and political roots of global Islamism are filled with the kind of close reporting and intimate yet accessible analysis that have been hard to come by. "" (Apr. 5) (2) "The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent", by Richard Florida, HarperBusiness (April 12, 2005): http://tinyurl.com/7bpra "" From Publishers Weekly Following up on The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), He argues that the loss of even a few geniuses can have tremendous impact, adding that the "overblown" economic threat posed by large nations such as China and India obscures all the little blows inflicted upon the U.S. by Canada, Scandinavia, New Zealand and other countries with more open political climates. Florida lays his case out well and devotes a significant portion of this polemical analysis to defending his earlier book's argument regarding "technology, talent, and tolerance" (i.e. that together, they generate economic clout, so the U.S. should be more progressive on gay rights and government spending). He does so because that book contains what he sees as the way out of the dilemma—a new American society that can "tap the full creative capabilities of every human being. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. "" "" From Booklist Professor Florida makes an impassioned plea, using his first book, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), as a jump start, for the U.S. to retain its stature as an open and welcoming home for talent. And lest readers think that the author has overstated the hype, that engineers, scientists, and other innovators are not emigrating from America, he musters up an incredible quantity of quality statistics that would disable any contrarian, from the unaffordability of our cities to our insistence on outsourcing. Yet this brain drain is not attributable simply to verifiable factors; rather, it is in large part driven by our demise as an open, tolerant society. Look at the numbers of films now produced in Toronto, New Zealand, and Australia. Who now has the lead in developing new ideas in consumer electronics? Note the decreasing numbers of Nobel Prizes awarded to U.S. citizens. How do we solve the problem? He admits his four-pronged program is not an overnight panacea; it requires a profound societal shift. Barbara Jacobs Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved "" (3) "The Lexus and The Olive Tree : Understanding Globalization", by Thomas L. Friedman, Anchor(May, 2000): http://tinyurl.com/8dagy 1. "" Amazon.com One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble "" "" globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree. "" "" involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations. "" --Lou Schule 2. "" Not Even Close to the Whole Story, February 24, 2002 Reviewer: doomsdayer520 (State College, PA USA) "" "" Friedman also completely avoids the issue of corporate domination, as rulings by the pro-corporate WTO have allowed multinational companies to supersede the laws of sovereign nations (such as the blatant disregard for Nigeria's environmental laws by Western oil companies). Finally, Part Four of this book descends into anemic boosterism "" 3. "" Yeah, it is that simple, March 1, 2005 Reviewer: Brandon E. Wolfe (Arizona, USA) "" "" As a scientist, I value books that are clear and direct. "" "" He has single-handedly changed middle east politics--King Jordan has copied him explicitly, and Bush's speeches run about two weeks behind Friedman's articles. "" 2) Islam's Future: (1) "The Future of Islam", by Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. Posted April 28, 2005: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21891/ ""Reza Aslan explains why the real target in the 9/11 attacks was not the United States but moderates in the Muslim world"": "" In recent weeks, a young Iranian-American author has been making his rounds of the talk show circuit. Turn on the TV and you might catch a glimpse of him on "Meet the Press" or more recently Jon Stewart's "Daily Show". Reza Aslan is a man in demand these days. Aslan's new-found popularity is hardly surprising since his latest book, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, offers a surprising answer "" (2) "Dawn of an Islamic Revolution", by Reza Aslan, AlterNet. Posted April 28, 2005: http://www.alternet.org/story/21887/ ""A Muslim reformation, after centuries of stony sleep, has finally awoken and is now slouching toward Medina"": ""Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from Reza Aslan's new book, "No god but God" published by Random House."" 3) Human Origins Hypothesis: "New evidence challenges hypothesis of modern human origins", People's Daily Online; UPDATED: 17:51, April 27, 2005; Source: Xinhua: http://english.people.com.cn/200504/27/eng20050427_182971.html "" New evidence challenges hypothesis of modern human origins Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, might be one of the regions where Homo sapiens, or modern man, originated. ""