Cancer is a terrible disease that can’t treat it completely. If we want to avoid it, we have to keep a good life style and eat healthy food. Now is 12:30, so it is time to sleep to keep health. Let us discuss it next time.
2008年6月23日 星期一
Pie Chart of Death Rate of Cancer in Taiwan
Cancer is a terrible disease that can’t treat it completely. If we want to avoid it, we have to keep a good life style and eat healthy food. Now is 12:30, so it is time to sleep to keep health. Let us discuss it next time.
2008年6月15日 星期日
Classification of fruits in Taiwan by seasons
Taiwan has rich resources in fruits. Each season has different kinds of fruits that we can classify them. Spring has peaches, strawberry, and plums. Summer has grapes, granadillas, mangos, papaya, watermelon, pineapples, Hami melons, longans, and cherries. Autumn has apples, tangerines, kiwis, fiery dragons, Sugar apples, grapefruits, and lemons. Winter has calamondins, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, and avocadoes. Some fruits are famous in nations like mangos, pineapple, bananas, and watermelons. So we are very lucky that we can live in Taiwan.
2008年4月13日 星期日
The cause of "fat"
source:METRO, http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=141278&in_page_id=34
This painting 'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping' is painted by Lucian Freud, entitled , is displayed Christie's auctioneers in London, April 11, 2008
According to METRO news says that the JobCentre manager who was the muse for one of Lucian Freud's paintings could see her naked portrait sell for £18million.
Sue Tilley posed for the artwork "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" which is to be auctioned at Christie's in New York on May 13.
Christie's expects it become the most expensive work sold at auction by a living artist and estimates the painting will make between $25 and $35 million. The current auction record for a living artist was £12million paid for Jeff Koons's "Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)" in New York in November.
The cause of "fat"
After reading Angel’s essay named "Cause and effect of going on a diet" and seeing above painting, I decide to control my figure. The first thing I do is to find the cause of fat. And I find an interesting paper named “A Common Variant in the FTO Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity”tells us a big finding. Maybe I can explore some clues to control my weight.
British researchers found a clear evidence of a 'fat' gene that causes some people gain weight and others do not. The gene, called FTO, is common in Europeans, and scientists hope to use this new finding to solve this growing global health problem.
In this paper, we can find if you have two copies, it means that you have a 70 percent risk to be a fat person than those people with none. Moreover, you will have an average of nearly 3kg fat than others with no copies. And those with one copy have a lesser risk than with two copies. But they still have higher risk than those with none.
This paper explains why some people will find it harder to change their weight than others because of their genes. Therefore two people eat same foods and do same exercises, and there is still a person fatter than the other.
The researchers said they do not know what the gene actually does to cause people to be obesity. But they still hope this knowledge of the gene's role can lead to new ways of treating and preventing obesity.
Although researchers only survey Europeans like England, Finland, Italy and northern Europe. They still believe other ethnic groups will have this gene. In the future, they will continue to research these ethnic groups.
I think I can send a mail to tell this research group that I can be a volunteer to understand if I have this gene or not. If I actually have this terrible gene, I think I will eat less and do exercises more. If I do not have it, I will go on a diet later because I have capacity to reduce weight quickly.
2008年3月17日 星期一
The Benefits for Men Doing the Housework
According to a recent report that are released by the Council on Contemporary Families suggests the payoff for men doing more chores could be more sex.
The report summarizes several recent studies on family dynamics and provides a point that “In the USA, men's absolute and proportionate contributions to household tasks increased substantially over the past three decades, substantially lessening the burden on women.” This report quote Coltrane’s research in 2000 says that women will have perceptions of fairness and better marital satisfaction, if husband do more of the housework. And it will decline marital conflict for the couple.
"More couples are sharing family tasks than ever before, and the movement toward sharing has been especially significant for full-time dual-earner couples," the report says. "Men and women may not be fully equal yet, but the rules of the game have been profoundly and irreversibly changed."
Joshua Coleman, a San Francisco-area psychologist says that equitable sharing of housework is associated with higher levels of marital satisfaction -- and sometimes more sex too!
Souce: http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/subtemplate.php?t=briefingPapers&ext=menshousework
It sounds reasonable, if husband who do more housework can raise the relationship of couple and sex life. But I am not sure whether this rule is suitable for Taiwan or not. The equality of men and women is accepted in the Western, but most Eastern families agree that women have to do the housework. But it seems to have a little change in recent years.
I think that Feminism and the concept of fairness between men and women are accepted gradually in the Eastern are critical factors that change the relationship between men and women. Furthermore, modern women have the ability to live dependently will be another important factor. Maybe, in the future, it is normal for couple sharing all hosework in the world.
For me, it is a very interesting news, because I always do the housework in my home. In fact, I am not always willing to do these chores, but just want to decline my mom’s burden. After understanding the benefits of doing housework, I think I will do more housework after marriage to help my marital satisfaction.
The report summarizes several recent studies on family dynamics and provides a point that “In the USA, men's absolute and proportionate contributions to household tasks increased substantially over the past three decades, substantially lessening the burden on women.” This report quote Coltrane’s research in 2000 says that women will have perceptions of fairness and better marital satisfaction, if husband do more of the housework. And it will decline marital conflict for the couple.
"More couples are sharing family tasks than ever before, and the movement toward sharing has been especially significant for full-time dual-earner couples," the report says. "Men and women may not be fully equal yet, but the rules of the game have been profoundly and irreversibly changed."
Joshua Coleman, a San Francisco-area psychologist says that equitable sharing of housework is associated with higher levels of marital satisfaction -- and sometimes more sex too!
Souce: http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/subtemplate.php?t=briefingPapers&ext=menshousework
It sounds reasonable, if husband who do more housework can raise the relationship of couple and sex life. But I am not sure whether this rule is suitable for Taiwan or not. The equality of men and women is accepted in the Western, but most Eastern families agree that women have to do the housework. But it seems to have a little change in recent years.
I think that Feminism and the concept of fairness between men and women are accepted gradually in the Eastern are critical factors that change the relationship between men and women. Furthermore, modern women have the ability to live dependently will be another important factor. Maybe, in the future, it is normal for couple sharing all hosework in the world.
For me, it is a very interesting news, because I always do the housework in my home. In fact, I am not always willing to do these chores, but just want to decline my mom’s burden. After understanding the benefits of doing housework, I think I will do more housework after marriage to help my marital satisfaction.
This website provides some useful skills that persuade men to do housework.
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2005/new/jan/4/life/family-1.htm
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2005/new/jan/4/life/family-1.htm
2008年1月22日 星期二
An introduction on TEEMA’s Automobile Electronics Consortium
Today I want to introduce Automobile Electronics Consortium. When I worked in TEEMA (Taiwan Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers’ Association), one of my major job is to set up and operate this consortium. So the consortium has special meanings for me.
An introduction on TEEMA’s Automobile Electronics Consortium
Automobile Electronics is currently one of the most promising hi-tech industries in Taiwan. It has become the 4C industry in Taiwan and is considered to be the next star industry that would most likely generate big value. Besides, Taiwan has powerfully equipped electronics sector which is supported with comprehensive supply chain, and the automobile electronics is an emerging industry with favorable profitability and steady growth. If Taiwan electronic industry involves in automobile electronic industry would create another phenomenon in the Taiwan electronics industry.
In order to assist the upgrading of the aforesaid industry, TEEMA has set up the Automobile Electronics Consortium on January 4, 2006. Members of the consortium come from various sectors that include IT, Telecom, Automobile Electronics, Auto Parts and Semi-conductor industries. Government organizations, academics, R&D and Testing organizations are also invited to join it. When vertical and horizontal industries would be consolidated and shared critical technological progress would be promoted. The resources from various sectors could be converged to establish industrial discipline and to reinforce international venture capitals and marketing. On the other hand, the consortium can offer practical recommend for the numbers and government organizations.
The Consortium is honored to invite Dr. Ivan T.C. Wu, Vice President and General Director of Mechanical and Systems Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to chair the alliance. Two Special Interest Groups (SIG) - Key Components and Innovation Service Providers are also established. Mr. Chun-Chong Lee, General Manager of the Sin Etke Technology, is the convener of the Innovation Service Provider SIG and General Manager Mr. Joe Lung-Chou Huang is the corporate convener of the Automobile Research and Testing Center. Mr. C.Y. Wei, President of Universal Scientific Industrial Co. Ltd. is the industrial convener of the Key Components SIG. Mr. James Wang, Section Chief of Mechanical and Systems Research Laboratories, ITRI, is the corporate convener.
The objective in setting up the alliance is to create an industrial dialogue platform and to integrate the value chains of the automobile and electronic industries. It is anticipated that the upper, mid and down stream supply chains would be built up by merging all resources from the industry, the government, the academics and the R&D. So that Taiwan automobile electronics industry could generate its value in the international market.
An introduction on TEEMA’s Automobile Electronics Consortium
Automobile Electronics is currently one of the most promising hi-tech industries in Taiwan. It has become the 4C industry in Taiwan and is considered to be the next star industry that would most likely generate big value. Besides, Taiwan has powerfully equipped electronics sector which is supported with comprehensive supply chain, and the automobile electronics is an emerging industry with favorable profitability and steady growth. If Taiwan electronic industry involves in automobile electronic industry would create another phenomenon in the Taiwan electronics industry.
In order to assist the upgrading of the aforesaid industry, TEEMA has set up the Automobile Electronics Consortium on January 4, 2006. Members of the consortium come from various sectors that include IT, Telecom, Automobile Electronics, Auto Parts and Semi-conductor industries. Government organizations, academics, R&D and Testing organizations are also invited to join it. When vertical and horizontal industries would be consolidated and shared critical technological progress would be promoted. The resources from various sectors could be converged to establish industrial discipline and to reinforce international venture capitals and marketing. On the other hand, the consortium can offer practical recommend for the numbers and government organizations.
The Consortium is honored to invite Dr. Ivan T.C. Wu, Vice President and General Director of Mechanical and Systems Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to chair the alliance. Two Special Interest Groups (SIG) - Key Components and Innovation Service Providers are also established. Mr. Chun-Chong Lee, General Manager of the Sin Etke Technology, is the convener of the Innovation Service Provider SIG and General Manager Mr. Joe Lung-Chou Huang is the corporate convener of the Automobile Research and Testing Center. Mr. C.Y. Wei, President of Universal Scientific Industrial Co. Ltd. is the industrial convener of the Key Components SIG. Mr. James Wang, Section Chief of Mechanical and Systems Research Laboratories, ITRI, is the corporate convener.
The objective in setting up the alliance is to create an industrial dialogue platform and to integrate the value chains of the automobile and electronic industries. It is anticipated that the upper, mid and down stream supply chains would be built up by merging all resources from the industry, the government, the academics and the R&D. So that Taiwan automobile electronics industry could generate its value in the international market.
2008年1月1日 星期二
Metaphor
Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧
The things that you are not familiar with will be made perfect if you try to practice and exercise enough.
I think it is a good way for everyone to try new things that he/she never touches or learns before. But there is a premise that he/she has to practice diligently.
Advice when most needed is least heeded. 忠言逆耳
Some advices will not be noticed, especially when you are in a good situation. Someone who flatters you and never tells you the truth or advices is not the good friend. I think the good friends will give you some suggestions whether you are in the good situation or not. Maybe the suggestions or advices will harsh to your ear, but they are sincere. We have to accept them and think what we have to do.
The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. 心靈的財富才是唯一真正的財富
How rich you are does not depend on your wealth of matter is mind. If your mind is ugly or poor, you will not have happy or healthy. Only own a healthy and kind mind, you will have a rich and colorful life.
In the current society, most people think money is everything and earn matter wealth to content their vanity. They do not understand the true wealth is mind not money. Money cannot buy friendship, love, respect, and so on. If your mind is poor, you will feel empty even you are a rich man.
自反而縮，雖千萬人，吾往已
This phrase that was said by Mencius is my motto. It tells us if everybody does not agree with our decision, we have to think deeply. After some serious thinking, if we make sure that our decision is right, we just do what we have to do and do not concern what others say. I think it is very important for everybody. People have to know what they want, what they need, and decide how to finish the matters after serous thinking. If we have the ability that how to analyze different things, we can make everything easy and gain what we want. Because we have to be responsible for our life, we must have our own life and decide how to manage our life.
精誠所至 金石為開
This phrase means that if we are sincerely, the stone that is as solid as golden stone will be affected. Patience is very important for us to do everything, especially difficult one. When we face the difficult or critical position, we must be patiently. It will be helpful for us to overcome the hurdle.
己所不欲 勿施於人
This phrase was said by Confucius. It tells us when we do anything; we need to realize other people’s feelings. What we do not like others treat us, we do it to others. It is a respectful behavior. If everyone does this, our world will be peaceful and filled with love.
The things that you are not familiar with will be made perfect if you try to practice and exercise enough.
I think it is a good way for everyone to try new things that he/she never touches or learns before. But there is a premise that he/she has to practice diligently.
Advice when most needed is least heeded. 忠言逆耳
Some advices will not be noticed, especially when you are in a good situation. Someone who flatters you and never tells you the truth or advices is not the good friend. I think the good friends will give you some suggestions whether you are in the good situation or not. Maybe the suggestions or advices will harsh to your ear, but they are sincere. We have to accept them and think what we have to do.
The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. 心靈的財富才是唯一真正的財富
How rich you are does not depend on your wealth of matter is mind. If your mind is ugly or poor, you will not have happy or healthy. Only own a healthy and kind mind, you will have a rich and colorful life.
In the current society, most people think money is everything and earn matter wealth to content their vanity. They do not understand the true wealth is mind not money. Money cannot buy friendship, love, respect, and so on. If your mind is poor, you will feel empty even you are a rich man.
自反而縮，雖千萬人，吾往已
This phrase that was said by Mencius is my motto. It tells us if everybody does not agree with our decision, we have to think deeply. After some serious thinking, if we make sure that our decision is right, we just do what we have to do and do not concern what others say. I think it is very important for everybody. People have to know what they want, what they need, and decide how to finish the matters after serous thinking. If we have the ability that how to analyze different things, we can make everything easy and gain what we want. Because we have to be responsible for our life, we must have our own life and decide how to manage our life.
精誠所至 金石為開
This phrase means that if we are sincerely, the stone that is as solid as golden stone will be affected. Patience is very important for us to do everything, especially difficult one. When we face the difficult or critical position, we must be patiently. It will be helpful for us to overcome the hurdle.
己所不欲 勿施於人
This phrase was said by Confucius. It tells us when we do anything; we need to realize other people’s feelings. What we do not like others treat us, we do it to others. It is a respectful behavior. If everyone does this, our world will be peaceful and filled with love.
2007年12月23日 星期日
Dongyin-a Mystical Fairyland
Today I want to introduce a mystical island, Dongyin, that is located the most northern territory of Taiwan. It's location in relation to Taiwan is shown in figre 1. It also shows how far Dongyin is from Taiwan. Somebody will be curious why I want to introduce this remote and unknown place. The reason is simple: I had been one and half year's military service there. I severed in the Dongyin Hospital(figure2) as a financial manager from 2000 to 2002.
Figure1
Figure2Dongyin is a small island that only has a total area of around 4.71 square kilometers. The composition of population is very interesting here. There are about 8 hundred residents who live here; and the number of residents becomes fewer and fewer because the young do not want to live, study and work here but chose to work in the other places. However, the number of military men is about 1.2 thousand, that is more than the number of residents. Therefore, military men become the major source of resident’s income. In older to overcome the shortage of manpower, they hire employees who come from Taiwan or China. It is a conflicting and interesting phenomenon.
Dongyin is famous for this rich ocean resource because its reef coast attracts fish to gather. For this reason, I always saw people come here to fish when I severed here. But you need to take care of a lot of things if you want to come here to fish. See figure 1 again. First of all, you spend 8 to 12 hours to take ship to Dongyin or take 1 hour by airplane and 6 hours by ship to Dongyin. Nevertheless, the ships do not operate everyday and you need to identify the operation schedual. Furthermore, you must be very careful when you fish on the rock because the coast is very cliffy. Finally, you need to wear more. The weather in Dongyin is windy and cold. Therefore, as I know about the medical resource of this small island is poor enough. If you catch a cold, you only can get some acetaminophen and a certificate for taking a one-day-rest.
Somebody will wonder why this small island needs so many military men. It is because it’s special strategic value. See figure 1, we will find Dongyin does not like other islands that are close to China. Hence, the traditional weapons can not attack here. If you are a military fan, you will be very excited to be here. You can see some military facilities and amazing tunnels.
Dongyin is a special island that owns some natural and cultural scenes. It retains some original style and features that will be worth it for you to go sightseeing. Remember to do enough homework before visiting here to avoid displeasure.
2007年12月6日 星期四
Describe Myself
I think it is uneasy to describe myself because I do not very concern about my appearance. I will try to do it. First of all, I have the medium height and plump body with short black hair. I look just like a common person whom nobody will take notice of. But I have a friendly face with deep outline. I have a double-fold eyelid, sharp nose, full lips, and rough skin. Furthermore, I always put on casual clothes because I do not want my life to be too serious. It is a simple description of myself.
2007年11月17日 星期六
Writing a essay- My Travel Partner
My travel partner
I like to travel very much, especially to visit nature by car. For this reason, I decided to buy a car last month. However, there were some issues I needed to think for a new car. First issue is an economic consideration because I do not have enough budgets to buy a perfect car. Moreover, the price of oil gets more and more expensive, so that I have to choose a small car that consumes less oil than the common cars. Second issue is maintained consideration. I need a car that should be reliable, and it would not cost lots of money for maintaining or repairing. The final concern is the appearance. My ideal car must look good. After some serious thinking, I decided to buy Nissan March as my travel partner.
There are several reasons why I choose to buy March. First, March is a 1,300 c.c. small car that owns beautiful price, cheap tax, and low oil using features. When I go for traveling, I usually just go with my girl friend. So I do not need a big car but a suitable one. Owing to the fact that is a small car; I would not pay expensive tax every year. Besides, when the car that is drove by two persons, it is lower oil costing than other big cars. So, my car is an economic car that can help me to reduce some costs, and I can use the save money for other uses.
Furthermore, it is a popular car, so the regular maintaining and repairing charge is cheaper than other cars, especially imported ones are at the same level as my car. It is because March is made in Taiwan, and the assembly for the car is inexpensive. It is important for me because I have no idea about the mechanism of cars. If my car breaks down, it is easy and cheap to have it repaired in the garage. Moreover, March is a reliable car and it is easy to take care of it. Now I can travel frequently by my new vehicle and enrich my leisure life. For this reason, it is very appropriate for me.
Finally, March is a beautiful car with nice appearance and sharp. March comes in two types: that are four-door and five-door. My car is five-door that does not have a glove compartment, and it is cuter than the four-door ones. My car has a pretty red color and comfortable leather chairs that my girlfriend likes very much.
My car, red bean, is my good travel partner that contains a lot of features that I like and need. Although is it not an excellent one for traveling, I believe it is enough for me. Recently, I start to plan a three-day tour for east coast. I believe red bean will be a helpful partner in this trip.
2007年10月16日 星期二
Writing a Paragraph-The advantages of my PDA phone
The advantages of my PDA phone
My favorite PDA phone, ASUS P735, has a lot of advantages. It includes some strong functions and metallic appearance that attracts my attention. The PDA phone that is designed and made in Taiwan shows how strong technology and design capabilities our IT industry is. Then I will introduce my gem. I think the best useful function is internet because P735 has outstanding cpu, 3G and wirless transmission capabilities to implement. Thruough this function, I can use internet anyplace and anytime to check e-mail, browse online news, search information, see stocks, and so on. Furthermore, P735 even provides MSN and Skype sevices to support me to communicate with my friends or talk to them by internet phone through internet. Another admirable function is voice control that can allow me to execute different programs like call a phone, review messages, play music and check schedual by voice. When I drive a car, it is very useful for me. GPS is also a good function for P735. When I go to travel, I can gain route, hospital, gas station and scenic spots information through GPS. So P735 is a excellent PDA phone for me. It involves lots of advantages and functions that I can handle my affairs well by it.
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