Silicon photonics have been approved as one of the best platforms for dense integration of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) due to the high refractive index contrast among its materials. Silicon on insulator (SOI) is a widespread photonics technology, which support a variety of devices for lots of applications. As the photonics market is growing, the number of components in the PICs increases which increase the need for an automated physical verification (PV) process. This PV process will assure reliable fabrication of the PICs as it will check both the manufacturability and the reliability of the circuit. However, PV process is challenging in the case of PICs as it requires running an exhaustive electromagnetic (EM) simulations. Our group have recently proposed an empirical closed form models for the directional coupler and the waveguide bends based on the SOI technology. The models have shown a very good agreement with both finite element method (FEM) and finite difference time domain (FDTD) solvers. These models save the huge time of the 3D EM simulations and can be easily included in any electronic design automation (EDA) flow as the equations parameters can be easily extracted from the layout. In this paper we present experimental verification for our previously proposed models. SOI directional couplers with different dimensions have been fabricated using electron beam lithography and measured. The results from the measurements of the fabricate devices have been compared to the derived models and show a very good agreement. Also the matching can reach 100% by calibrating certain parameter in the model.
Full Text Available The contribution is dedicated to the processing of the problems of the insufficient charging for the electric vehicles within the concrete urbanistic centre. It brings a different perspective on the mobility, which is shown in the form of electric energy as the alternative for the needs of urbanization of the cities. It analyses electromobility, new technologies in the field of electric vehicles and the charging stations as the elements of the urbanism. In terms of the solution, the contribution is focused on the KoÅ¡ice city and the location of the public charging stations. KoÅ¡ice do not have sufficient amount of the public charging stations and until the 2014 there was only one public charging station. The contribution is focused on the designing of the parking places with the charging station placed on the appropriate parking places. The resulting design is created in the CAD system, it brings the view of the layout of the charging station at the shopping centre in the open space and in the parking house.
The optimum wind farm configuration problem is discussed in this paper and an evolutive algorithm to optimize the wind farm layout is proposed. The algorithm's optimization process is based on a global wind farm cost model using the initial investment and the present value of the yearly net cash flow during the entire wind-farm life span. The proposed algorithm calculates the yearly income due to the sale of the net generated energy taking into account the individual wind turbine loss of production due to wake decay effects and it can deal with areas or terrains with non-uniform load-bearing capacity soil and different roughness length for every wind direction or restrictions such as forbidden areas or limitations in the number of wind turbines or the investment. The results are first favorably compared with those previously published and a second collection of test cases is used to proof the performance and suitability of the proposed evolutive algorithm to find the optimum wind farm configuration. (author)
While future terabit networks hold the promise of signifi- cantly improving big-data motion among geographically distributed data centers, significant challenges must be overcome even on today s 100 gigabit networks to real- ize end-to-end performance. Multiple bottlenecks exist along the end-to-end path from source to sink. Data stor- age infrastructure at both the source and sink and its in- terplay with the wide-area network are increasingly the bottleneck to achieving high performance. In this paper, we identify the issues that lead to congestion on the path of an end-to-end data transfer in the terabit network en- vironment, and we present a new bulk data movement framework called LADS for terabit networks. LADS ex- ploits the underlying storage layout at each endpoint to maximize throughput without negatively impacting the performance of shared storage resources for other users. LADS also uses the Common Communication Interface (CCI) in lieu of the sockets interface to use zero-copy, OS-bypass hardware when available. It can further im- prove data transfer performance under congestion on the end systems using buffering at the source using flash storage. With our evaluations, we show that LADS can avoid congested storage elements within the shared stor- age resource, improving I/O bandwidth, and data transfer rates across the high speed networks.
Advanced process photolithography masks require more and more controls for registration versus design and critical dimension uniformity (CDU). The distribution of the measurement points should be distributed all over the whole mask and may be denser in areas critical to wafer overlay requirements. This means that some, if not many, of theses controls should be made inside the customer die and may use non-dedicated patterns. It is then mandatory to access the original layout database to select patterns for the metrology process. Finding hundreds of relevant patterns in a database containing billions of polygons may be possible, but in addition, it is mandatory to create the complete metrology job fast and reliable. Combining, on one hand, a software expertise in mask databases processing and, on the other hand, advanced skills in control and registration equipment, we have developed a Mask Dataprep Station able to select an appropriate number of measurement targets and their positions in a huge database and automatically create measurement jobs on the corresponding area on the mask for the registration metrology system. In addition, the required design clips are generated from the database in order to perform the rendering procedure on the metrology system. This new methodology has been validated on real production line for the most advanced process. This paper presents the main challenges that we have faced, as well as some results on the global performances.
For visualizing large-scale biochemical network maps, it is important to calculate the coordinates of molecular nodes quickly and to enhance the understanding or traceability of them. The grid layout is effective in drawing compact, orderly, balanced network maps with node label spaces, but existing grid layout algorithms often require a high computational cost because they have to consider complicated positional constraints through the entire optimization process. We propose a hybrid grid layout algorithm that consists of a non-grid, fast layout (preprocessor) algorithm and an approximate pattern matching algorithm that distributes the resultant preprocessed nodes on square grid points. To demonstrate the feasibility of the hybrid layout algorithm, it is characterized in terms of the calculation time, numbers of edge-edge and node-edge crossings, relative edge lengths, and F-measures. The proposed algorithm achieves outstanding performances compared with other existing grid layouts. Use of an approximate pattern matching algorithm quickly redistributes the laid-out nodes by fast, non-grid algorithms on the square grid points, while preserving the topological relationships among the nodes. The proposed algorithm is a novel use of the pattern matching, thereby providing a breakthrough for grid layout. This application program can be freely downloaded from http://www.cadlive.jp/hybridlayout/hybridlayout.html.
Full Text Available BACKGROUND: For visualizing large-scale biochemical network maps, it is important to calculate the coordinates of molecular nodes quickly and to enhance the understanding or traceability of them. The grid layout is effective in drawing compact, orderly, balanced network maps with node label spaces, but existing grid layout algorithms often require a high computational cost because they have to consider complicated positional constraints through the entire optimization process. RESULTS: We propose a hybrid grid layout algorithm that consists of a non-grid, fast layout (preprocessor algorithm and an approximate pattern matching algorithm that distributes the resultant preprocessed nodes on square grid points. To demonstrate the feasibility of the hybrid layout algorithm, it is characterized in terms of the calculation time, numbers of edge-edge and node-edge crossings, relative edge lengths, and F-measures. The proposed algorithm achieves outstanding performances compared with other existing grid layouts. CONCLUSIONS: Use of an approximate pattern matching algorithm quickly redistributes the laid-out nodes by fast, non-grid algorithms on the square grid points, while preserving the topological relationships among the nodes. The proposed algorithm is a novel use of the pattern matching, thereby providing a breakthrough for grid layout. This application program can be freely downloaded from http://www.cadlive.jp/hybridlayout/hybridlayout.html.
Metal or metal oxides/carbon nanocomposites with hierarchical superstructures have become one of the most promising functional materials in sensor, catalysis, energy conversion, etc. In this work, novel hierarchical Fe3O4/carbon superstructures have been fabricated based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)-derived method. Three kinds of Fe-MOFs (MIL-88A) with different morphologies were prepared beforehand as templates, and then pyrolyzed to fabricate the corresponding novel hierarchical Fe3O4/carbon superstructures. The systematic studies on the thermal decomposition process of the three kinds of MIL-88A and the effect of template morphology on the products were carried out in detail. Scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and thermal analysis were employed to investigate the hierarchical Fe3O4/carbon superstructures. Based on these resulted hierarchical Fe3O4/carbon superstructures, a novel and sensitive nonenzymatic N-acetyl cysteine sensor was developed. The porous and hierarchical superstructures and large surface area of the as-formed Fe3O4/carbon superstructures eventually contributed to the good electrocatalytic activity of the prepared sensor towards the oxidation of N-acetyl cysteine. The proposed preparation method of the hierarchical Fe3O4/carbon superstructures is simple, efficient, cheap and easy to mass production. It might open up a new way for hierarchical superstructures preparation. PMID:26387535
The B-physics performance for the Initial and the Complete Inner Detector layouts is presented. Selected types of B-physics events were simulated, reconstructed and analyzed using the software tools of ATLAS Data Challenge-1 (DC1). The results were compared to those obtained with an older ATLAS detector design the so-called TDR layout. Within the limitations of the DC1 software tools an attempt was made to evaluate the performance loss due to missing detector parts in the Initial layout in comparison with the Complete detector.
Post-combustion carbon capture technologies seem to be necessary to realize the CO2 mitigation policies internationally shared for the next future, despite none of them appears to be ready for full-scale applications. This work considers the aqueous ammonia based process for a coal-fired Ultra....... The second layout operates at cooled conditions, which does not yield any salt precipitation. The Chilled layout reveals low specific heat duty and SPECCA equal to 2.2 and 2.86 MJ/kgco2, respectively. In contrast, the Cooled layout presents a higher specific heat duty of almost 3 MJ/kgco2 but, importantly...
.The energy efficiency is optimized using a proposed new automatic winding layout (AWL) technique and a comprehensive loss model.The AWL technique generates a large number of transformer winding layouts.The transformer parasitics such as dc resistance, leakage inductance and self-capacitance are calculated...... for each winding layout.An optimization technique is formulated to minimize the sum of energy losses during charge and discharge operations.The efficiency and energy loss distribution results from the optimization routine provide a deep insight into the high voltage transformer designand its impact...
This paper presents the overall picture of the processes happening in printing industry. This research is aimed to improve the plant layout of existing plant. The travel time was reduced by relocating machinery. Relocation is based on systematic layout planning (SLP). The complete process of raw material entering the industry to dispatching of finished product is shown in 3-D Flow diagram. The process happening in each floor explained in detail using Flow Process chart. Travel time is reduced by 25% after modifying existing plant layout.
This paper proposes a thoracic anatomy segmentation method based on hierarchical recognition and delineation guided by a built fuzzy model. Labeled binary samples for each organ are registered and aligned into a 3D fuzzy set representing the fuzzy shape model for the organ. The gray intensity distributions of the corresponding regions of the organ in the original image are recorded in the model. The hierarchical relation and mean location relation between different organs are also captured in the model. Following the hierarchical structure and location relation, the fuzzy shape model of different organs is registered to the given target image to achieve object recognition. A fuzzy connected delineation method is then used to obtain the final segmentation result of organs with seed points provided by recognition. The hierarchical structure and location relation integrated in the model provide the initial parameters for registration and make the recognition efficient and robust. The 3D fuzzy model combined with hierarchical affine registration ensures that accurate recognition can be obtained for both non-sparse and sparse organs. The results on real images are presented and shown to be better than a recently reported fuzzy model-based anatomy recognition strategy.
The hierarchical assembly of colored cationic molecules with receptor-modified counteranions can be used to control optical properties in materials. However, our knowledge of when the optical properties emerge in the hierarchical organization and the variety of cation-anion salts that are availab...
Creating desirable layouts of building interiors is a complex task as designers have to manually adhere to various local and global considerations arising from competing practical and design considerations. In this work, we present an interactive
An AI-based layout design system for nuclear power plants has been developed. The design of the layout of nuclear power plants is a time-consuming task requiring expertise, in which a lot of machinery and equipment must be arranged in a plant building considering various kinds of design constraints, i.e. spatial, functional, economical etc. Computer aided layout design systems have been widely expected and the application of AI technology is expected as a promising approach for the synthesis phase of this task. In this paper, we present an approach to the layout design of nuclear power plants based on a constraint-directed search; one of the AI techniques. In addition, we show how it was implemented with an object-oriented programming technique and give an example of its application. (author)
1. I haven't written on here for so long! Mainly because I have been flat out with secret preparations for our WEDDING! It was on Saturday and was honestly the best day of my life. I will do a big blog post when I get more time and photos, because I need time to do it all justice. So, so magical and special. I am still buzzing three days later.
2. Archie had his six month health nurse check up yesterday - he will be six months this coming Saturday. He is 8.99 kilos and 70cms, so still a big bloke. The health nurse was very impressed with how well we had gone with getting rid of the dummy and working on his sleep. He has gone from waking up every two hours and having three 30-40 minute naps a day, to going to bed at 7pm and waking at 8am, with one or two feeds during the night. She said that because he is putting on weight so well and is eating solid foods, we could probably stop his night feeds. At first I was like, yay! More sleep! But last night when I was feeding him in the dark at 3am, and he was all sleepy and warm and gorgeous and snuggly in his sleeping bag, falling asleep at the breast, I didn't want to give up that middle-of-the night special time. So we will see. I think we will wait until after January anyway to implement any routine changes as we are staying at Lee's mum this weekend, then are going up to my dad's family's Christmas in Swan Hill, then staying at Torquay after Christmas, so he might be a bit frazzled from all the bed-hopping.
3. On that note, Christmas is in exactly three weeks today! Crap! I haven't even thought about it because I've been so focussed on the wedding, but I am realising that I better get my act together. I have got presents for my parents and Archie, and need to get something for Ben and for the Kris Kringle presents. I am making flavoured olive oils for Lee's family so have to get onto that, and there are a few crafty things I want to do to celebrate Archie's first Christmas that I can't reveal yet as my mum reads this! I also want to get a photo with Santa and Archie too. And I haven't even put the tree up yet. Agh!
4. I have a massive uni project due tonight. Gulp! I feel like I have done a half-assed job because my mind has been elsewhere, but I will be so glad to get it over and done with.
5. I have made so many awesome friends since becoming a mum. I have the playgroup mums on Fridays, who are all lovely, and gym mums on Mondays, and then other mums who I catch up with intermittently too. Plus I have made one really good mum friend who is freaking awesome and I have to restrain myself from being too full on because I basically want to be her best friend.
6. Speaking of best friends, the photographer who did our wedding was amazing. We just connected so well and got on like a house on fire. I love when you meet people who just get you, and you secretly fall in love with them a bit and want to be their best friend and want them to like you and to come over for dinner and go shopping together. Anyway, we both just hit it off and hopefully can stay in touch (I will stalk her until we are BESTIES!).
7. Mums come in lots of different flavours. Someone in our family is about to get ( I don't think 'get' is really the right word... have? take custody of? welcome?) a permanent foster son. Mind. Blown. The kid is eight, and they have no other kids. I cannot even imagine how intense it must be to one day go from having no kids and lots of spare time and no one is dependent on you, and then BANG. School pickups, dinners, rules, tidying rooms, play dates, computer games. Full on parenting. What an experience.
Ok, so this post was going to be 'Ten things from a married lady' but Little Man is chatting to himself in his cot and his yabbers are getting more insistent, so I have abridged it to seven items. More to come!
News comes tonight that police in New Jersey have arrested the main who evaded security, walking where he wasn’t supposed to, causing massive delays and stranding thousands of people at Newark Airport. Surprise, surprise, he’s from China!
In news reports, such as this one in the New York Times, Haisong Jiang is wrongly identified as being “of Piscataway, N.J.” or a “New Jersey” man. A little digging reveals he is from China and is merely a student at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He has also alternately been identified as a “Rutgers University graduate student.” So, more correctly it should be said he is “From China and is studying in New Jersey.” If I were arrested in Shanghai, China, I GUARANTEE the news would not say “Shanghai Man Arrested,” it would say “Foreigner/American Arrested, He Lives in Shanghai.” Check any Chinese news-site if you don’t believe me (such as the Taipei Times). It is always “Foreigner Arrested” in their stories.
Give Haisong a call. Ask him what’s up and why he’s such a dumbass. Send him a polite email, reminding him to behave himself when he’s in a foreign country on an F-1 STUDENT visa (should they cancel his student visa? they DO deport people with Green Cards if they get arrested).
This of course illustrates a MASSIVE problem. NOTE: He is not American. Americans know how to behave in airports. They are aware of the current, difficult state of affairs with transportation security and behave accordingly. We know how to obey the laws and don’t try to make short cuts in these kinds of situations. And, what did he THINK would happen, in this current climate, if he broke the rules? Of course it would create chaos for thousands of travelers.
But, he is from CHINA. They do not care about other people in China. They have 5 kinds of relationships in the Chinese system (based on Confucian teachings). These are things like parent to child, teacher to student, etc. There is NO relationship for Chinese people with strangers. Strangers are invisible. “I am not related to you so I could care less what happens to you” is the thinking. In China when there is a traffic accident, people come running, gleefully asking “Is anyone dead?” But, no one will offer assistance. Because in China you are taught not to care about others/strangers.
What was this guy doing? He was a nerdy guy who wanted to meet up with his Fobby nerdy chick. So what does he do? Break the law. Because he is NOT American and he doesn’t care. In the Chinese parts of my city, I sometimes see parents letting their young boys pee in the street. Why? Because they don’t care! This is not their country, you are a stranger, so why would they care what you think?
Do you know what Chinese people call Americans IN THIS COUNTRY (it is what they also call white people in China)? “Waiguoren.” This means “foreigner.” I have been called foreigner MANY times in the U.S. Why? Because 1. They don’t care about you; 2. They don’t feel they are American; 3. They make NO effort to assimilate.
This guy is the ULTIMATE FOB. Just take a look at his Facebook page (here). He has 113 friends and ALL OF THEM are Chinese. Not a single one of them is White, Black or whatever. What would you say if you saw a Facebook page for a White guy living in China and NONE of his friends were Chinese? You would think maybe 1. He doesn’t like Chinese people or 2. He really hates China and is not trying to fit in or assimilate. So what are we to make of Haisong Jiang? Are there no “Americans” or “foreigners” (as he would refer to us) in New Jersey for him to make friends with?
This whole case is just a classic example of a Chinese guy who doesn’t want to play by the “White devil”‘s rules, doesn’t have any regard for anyone but himself, and has no interest in behaving the way normal people do in this country. Hilariously, he has also shown that just like the drivers back home, this Chinese guy shows they can’t walk the right way either!
Examples abound of selfish, imprudent, dangerous behavior by Chinese travelers. Here is an hysterically funny one of a Chinese woman throwing a fit at an airport in Hong Kong because she missed a flight (youtube). This is really typical behavior of all Chinese, but especially the new “entitled” class who are no longer peasants and can afford to go overseas. I could bore you all day with my stories of China’s travelers behaving badly. The press has been blathering forever about the “rise of China” and all of their economic achievement. But we all KNOW money doesn’t buy class. The rise of China means more and more of these people going out in the world, acting despicably and fucking things up for the rest of us. Are we ready for this?
They really are some of the worst people. And the Newark Airport gatecrasher is one of the WORST PEOPLE.
Gawker, now you jumpin’ on my hatin’ bandwagon! The media gossip site just printed a SCATHING critique of shameless media whore Tila Tequila (nee Tila Nguyen), who is now using the death of her “fiancee,” drug addled socialite Casey Johnson, to try to stay in the spotlight (read it here). It’s entitled “Tila Tequila: Disgusting Little Girl” and is basically EXACTLY what we would have written. In fact, we were thinking today “should we write about this disgusting Tila person? Nah, everyone’s gonna be all over it and it will be played to death.” But Gawker has paid your WorstPeople bloggers the GREATEST compliment of all. In fact, the thrust of the piece: “Tila Tequila is the world’s worst person.” Oh, snaps, now they steal our lines! Actually, it’s OK, Gawker, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and we all flattered and shit!
The analysis of why we should not care about or pay attention to Tequila is spot on and in-depth. A great excerpt:
Casually tossing words like “worst” around is one of the unfortunate clichés of the current talky-head, bloggy media culture. But Tila Tequila, through her desperate attempts to latch onto and enable an heiress who was dealing with some serious addiction and psychological problems, has done enough for her to secure legitimate claim to the title in some category. Internet creation? Famewhore? Person in the World?
I don’t know if we need to spend much time further investigating this story. Though, one thing interesting to ponder: why is Tila like this? First, she saw the opportunity to make a “career” from doing nothing in our new reality/entertainment/famous for being famous media world. Also, her background says a lot. Child of immigrants who didn’t assimilate in to U.S. culture. From a poor background. Short of stature. Adolescence spent going off the rails on sex and substances. Lack of formal education. An Asian in a “modeling” world where 5-foot-tall FOBs are not exactly a hot commodity. What does this all say? LOW SELF-ESTEEM. Of course, someone with zero self-esteem like Tila is going to seek as much negative attention as possible. Classic psychology.
Anyway, being a basket case whack-job doesn’t absolve her. I think all the votes are in. Tila Tequila, the talentless trainwreck who helped to wreck the life of a tragic person, is officially the WORST PERSON in the WORLD.
An UNBELIEVABLE piece of garbage was allowed into a “newspaper” today. An unemployed “journalist” in Queens (sorry “freelance journalist and marketing consultant”?!) somehow got the editors of the Daily News (once considered a decent paper for the working class) to run an “opinion piece” ostensibly about iPhone apps that she says “reduce women as objects” (maybe English isn’t her first language?).
Of course this is complete nonsense. The apps mentioned by “Iris” Chung (in a vain effort to provide evidence of a “trend”) number exactly two. So there are TWO apps out of the 100,000 iPhone apps out there that she says are offensive to Asian women. I’m sure she must have put in a HUGE amount of effort to find them and must be a seriously self-hating Asian woman to have obsessed over it so much. You can look at it this way too: if ONLY TWO out of 100,000 people out there in society today were offensive that would be GREAT! IF only TWO out of 100,000 ASIANS were offensive, that would be FANTASTIC. Jeez, Louise!
Even more amusing is the fact that one of these apps is based around the Japanese fetish (featuring pics of Japanese women) of looking up girls’ skirts. One would think before being mad at the rest of the world, this Asian woman would want to first get her own house in order. There is an INCREDIBLE amount of the “perversion” she talks about in the piece right home in her Asia: the Japanese world of porn is notorious for perversion and their subway gropers are legend. If you want to do something about it get the ENTIRE Japanese male-dominated culture to change.
BUT it takes her THREE paragraphs in the article before these offensive apps are even mentioned. The first section and the bulk of the piece is her simply venting about “yellow fever” or “Asian fetish” or whatnot. She recounts personal tales about how she was “objectified” as part of the “fetish” of White men. There is a LOT that’s wrong with that.
2. It is VERY possible that she is NOT good-looking enough to attract one of her Asians but the only ones left out there who are into her are random White dorks. PLEASE, I ask you this: how many times a day do you see a DORKY-ass White guy on the street with an Asian woman? THEN, go spend time in a Chinatown/Koreatown-whatever, you will see that the “locals” (Asian dudes) want none of the nasty-ass Asian girls, they are with the VERY good-looking girls. This “writer” lives in New York City. She sees this as much as we do. She is really sick of it for sure – as we know, she is self-hating anyway.
3. What about “white fetish” or “Jew fetish” among Asian girls? In my SMALL apartment building alone there are THREE Jewish guy/Asian female couples. Spend time in NYC and they make up probably at least HALF of the White/Asian couples you see. BUT, of course, this is OK, right? At least these Asian females don’t go around SAYING they are hunting for Jew meat. It just so happens that they keep that to themselves and by SOME CHANCE they end up with a Jewish guy. Yeah, right! They are just as interested in chasing Jewish guys, they are just not honest about it. If there even are Asian fetishist guys out there, at LEAST they are honest and upfront about what they are seeking.
4. It’s also likely that our little writer got burned by White boyfriends and is bitter about it. Most “journalists” and/or late-20s women in NYC are bitter and angry. I BET more than half of her ex-boyfriends have been White (probably Jewish, to boot!).
Let’s hope that this “newspaper” will not try to cling to life by continuing to publish garbage like this.
Yes, we all love our celebrifucks. Everyone’s famous these days, no one knows why. Lots of celebrities (or people “famous” for one reason or other) died in 2009. We are pretty happy that some of them are gone as they were talentless/worthless/assholes. In one way or another, each of them were one of the “WORST PEOPLE” of 2009, even if being the WORST in this case means they weren’t evil but actually just sucked. So hereto with, our list for 2009 (with explanation appended).
As you see, we can go on like this forever, but to REALLY create a complete list would take us well into 2010, by which time we’d have to get started on the list for the new year.
Have you been following the news of the follies in Copenhagen? Seems the whole thing is a clusterfuck. Anytime the U.S. and other developed nations want to do anything, the third-worlders from China, et al do some diplomatic cock-blocking. The Chinese premier Wen Jiabao even stood Obama up at some things, the Chinese have been boycotting meetings and sending underlings to attend. It’s all a huge mess.
The Chinese press corps shoved their way into the small room where POTUS and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao were about to meet, preventing most of the American press pool from entering.
Robert Gibbs said something to the effect of “my people” (meaning American press corps) have to get into the room, “or we’re leaving.” A few American media were able to get in, but your pooler and other non-broadcast reporters could not get in.
This photo of Wen’s goons muscling our first amendment heroes is positively chilling. Still, we have to admire Robert Gibb’s courage, here, standing up for the rights of people he is paid to lie to constantly.
According to Helene Cooper of the New York Times, who managed to actually make it into the meeting for the photo spray and file to the pool: “White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs and NSC chief of staff Denis McDonough both got roughed up a bit trying to get into the room.”
So, there you have it. We always knew the average mainland Chinese peasant had no idea about proper human behavior in public. And, we really don’t mind all that much as they usually keep their behavior in their swamp-hole home country. On rare occasions we are subjected to their neanderthal-like behavior in our local Chinatown or tourist areas popular with the Chinese hordes. HOWEVER, this was a UN MEETING on the highest reaches of the international world stage. These are meetings attended by presidents and other heads of state. A retarded person would know that you send your best-behaved professionals — those with lots of knowledge and experience with protocol and diplomatic settings — to attend, work at, cover, etc. this kind of high-level event.
Perhaps these WERE China’s top, sophisticated media and diplomatic professionals? Maybe they are still such a third-world, undeveloped country that is this the BEST THEY HAVE. We should assume that since China’s leaders probably are at least at the level of a retarded person, that in fact, this is the best representation their country has to offer.
So, since the Chinese would only send their best people to such an important event, we can conclude that their best people are actually the WORST PEOPLE. In a setting like this at Copenhagen, they push and shove, give no respect to heads of state and cause violence and chaos. No other country at the conference was doing this. So we can then conclude that even China’s best are the WORST. According to the media reports and their behavior at this UN conference, Chinese are the WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.
We have always known that people in mainland China are pretty bad. Spend some time there and you will be generally disgusted by the lack of manners and outright rudeness everywhere. What you may not have known (but I knew!) is that people in China are also FRIGHTENINGLY racist. Our favorite blog, Chinasmack, had a recent post about the UNBELIEVABLY horrid and racist treatment of Lou Jing (read HERE). The biracial girl won some kind of “American Idol” type contest in China, and she and her family have been suffering vile abuse ever since.
Now, our favorite bastion of ineptitude, the New York Times, has a “room for debate” blog post called “China’s Changing Views on Race.” There are a few laughable problems with their premise. 1. The presumption is that this is “debatable.” Well, the fact that people in China are extremely RACIST is not debatable. Anyone living there can tell you so. 2. The idea that China’s views on race may be “changing” is a joke. The only way they may change is to become even more RACIST in China. We are talking about a stone-age culture where Han chauvinism is so much the norm that it is never even discussed, it is not worth comment because it is EVERYWHERE in China, like bad smells and dirty people.
But you don’t need to believe me. Just READ THE COMMENTS on the NY Times blog post. There are a HUGE number of eyewitness accounts in the comments of the “non-changing” RACIST environment from people LIVING IN CHINA. This view runs counter to those of the NY Times “panel,” who seem to have been selected only for being Chinese. As commenters noted, NONE of these people actually live in China. They are also – mostly – the typical type of China apologists. Funny that China is such an enlightened, modern place and yet none of these Chinese choose to live there.
This NY Times blog post, most of the coverage in Chinasmack, and my own personal experiences living in China leave no room for doubt: people in China are the WORST PEOPLE.
[MANGA] Legendary GeGeGe no Kitarou mangaka, Shigeru Mizuki, laid to rest in a custom tomb he designed himself - WOWJAPAN
Shigeru Mizuki has inspired countless mangaka with his works, and as he passed away late last year at the age of 93, a lavish funeral service was given to him from some of the biggest names in the Japanese anime, manga, and entertainment industries.
Now, approximately six months since his passing, the legendary mangaka has finally been laid to rest, and his tomb is something fitting of a mangaka such as Shigeru Mizuki himself. A tweet announced his burial in a custom tomb, together with a picture taken 30 years ago, when Mizuki became impressed with a custom tomb which featured two of his characters, Kitaro and Nezumi-otoko.