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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Ching-Ching Ni, Saving His Best for Laughs. No joke: American stand-up
comic Joe Wong used to be Xi Huang, a Chinese biochemist. He decided he'd
rather tickle funny bones than decode genes. Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/news
/local/la-me-joe-wong-20110708,0,7821604.story
Note: Xi HUANG 黄 西
(2) David Pierson, China's Hated Municipal Officers Seek Empathy; The
chengguan are asking the public to look at things through their eyes. Los
Angeles Times, July 7, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld
/world/la-fg-china-chengguan-20110707,0,5410857.story
(3) David Pierson, Amid China's Economic Transformation, Many Farmers
Struggle. Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/business
/la-fi-china-farming-20110707,0,2836392.story
Note:
(a) Sijiazhuang 山东省济南市历城区唐王镇 司家庄村
(b) HAN Jin 韩 进
(4) Steven Zeitchik and David Pierson, Reel China: It's Rough Out West for
Chinese Films. Films that have been blockbusters in China have failed to
find much of a market in the US. Zhang Yimou's $100-million "The Heroes of
Nanking," with Christian Bale and large portion of English dialogue, tries
to change that. Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news
/la-ca-china-blockbuster-20110703,0,6297335.story
Note:
(a) baked-in (adj): "built in or into (a process, a system, a deal, a
financial exchange, etc.)"
Double-Tongued Dictionary; A lexicon of fringe English, focusing on slang,
jargon, and new words.
http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/baked_in/
Quote:
"Instead of a global-cinema powerhouse, some worry China is at risk of
turning into another Bollywood: healthy on its home continent but limp
abroad.
"In 2010, U.S. box office receipts totaled $10.6 billion, almost all for
American films, while receipts in China were $1.5 billion, with 44% of that
going to American films.
"Several of those [China's 1980s and early 1990s] pictures, such as Zhang's
"Ju Dou" and Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine," found a Western audience
but were mainly restricted to the art house.
"China's censorship rules * * * push screenwriters toward politically safer
period pieces (which Western audiences may find difficult to follow) * * * (
Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema have followed separate arcs, thanks to the
different political histories of those territories.)
Note:
(a) The Heroes of Nanking 金陵十三钗
(b) potentate (n): "RULER, SOVEREIGN; broadly : one who wields great power
or sway
(c) My question is: Why Nanking in the title, instead of Nanjing? Make no
mistake about it: I use Nanking.
(5) Ronald D White, Full Steam Ahead for Nassco Shipyard in San Diego; The
last major shipyard on the West Coast has outlasted the competition by
making sure that every new vessel has been built better, faster, cheaper and
with fewer injuries than the one that came before, says its president,
Frederick J. Harris. Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-made-in-
california-shipyard-20110703,0,4193256.story
Quote:
"'In five years, we have reduced the amount of labor required to build these
ships by more than 60%. We'll complete construction on the last one [T-AKE-
14] in less than half the time it took to build the first [T-AKE-1],' Harris
said. Among manufacturers, he added, 'we have the best learning curve in
the U.S.'
"But other traditions have been discarded, perhaps forever, such as the old
style of building ships in one piece, surrounded by scaffolding. Now, Nassco
's yard resembles a giant Lego construction project, with most of the work
occurring on the ground and not on the ship. To build a T-AKE ship, a few
hundred parts are put together into sub-assemblies weighing up to 35 tons.
Sub-assemblies are then combined into blocks of up to 150 tons. These are
eventually pieced together into grand blocks that can weigh more than 600
tons, Dodd said.
Note:
(a)
(i) Lewis and Clark class dry cargo ship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_class_dry_cargo_sh
(The first of the planned fourteen ships, USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE-1),
was placed in service with the MSC in June 2006; BUILDER General Dynamics
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO))
* National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Steel_and_Shipbuilding_Co
(NASSCO; a shipyard in San Diego, California, and a division of General
Dynamics; since 1959)
(ii)T-AKE stands for "Auxiliary Cargo (K) and Ammunition (E) Ship, MSC
Manned." What is T then?
Military Sealift Command
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Sealift_Command
("Their hull numbers have the prefix T- in addition to the normal hull
number that an equivalent commissioned ship in the USN would have")
(b) San Pedro, Los Angeles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro,_Los_Angeles
(a port district of the city of Los Angeles; annexed in 1909)
(c) scuff (vt; origin unknown): "to scratch, gouge, or wear away the surface
of"
(d) gantry crane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantry_crane
The video that accompanied the report, from 28 to 34 seconds, showed how a
gantry crane operated.
(e) Do not forget to see the photo gallery.
(i) Medgar Evers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers
(1925-1963; civil rights activist; his murder was depicted in the 1988 film
Mississippi Burning)
(ii) César Cháve-z
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Ch%C3%A1vez
(1927-1993; farm activist)
(6) Barbara Demick, China's Communists Mull the Party's Future. Los Angeles
Times, July 2, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld
/world/la-fg-china-party-20110702,0,1814407.story
("Want to know what happens these days within a Chinese Communist Party cell
? * * * 'Marxism? Mao? We never talk about that at party meetings, only
practical matters,' said Wan Xiaofeng, 56, a retired human resources manager
for the Railways Ministry")
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发帖数: 6973 | 2 (7) Benjamin Haas, Chinese Cook Obsessed with Jewish Coins. Los Angeles
Times, June 2, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world
/la-fg-china-coins-20110603,0,2347877.story
Note:
(a) numismatics (n; Latin nomisma coin):
"the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes
related objects (as medals)"
(b) shekel (n):
"1a : any of various ancient units of weight; especially : a Hebrew unit
equal to about 252 grains troy
* * *
2: a[n ancient] coin weighing one shekel"
Both definitions are from www.m-w.com. |
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