Constant Comment

..Suffice it to say that the world of NuGrief is so vast and confusing, it gets to be like the Dragon Dance in Chinatown, where the dragon is persuaded after an hour to eat an orange, ...

Black Peter by the Grateful Dead

All of my friends
come to see me last night
I was laying in my bed
And dyin'

I just want to have
A little peace of mind
And a friend or two
I love
At hand

People roll up
Past a hundred and five
Gonna roll on up
Gonna roll back down

See here how everything
leads up to this day

And its just like every other day that's
Ever been

The sun, coming up and them
The sun, it going down
Shine through my window
And my friends
They come around

The people they know
But the people don't care

Take a look at poor Peter
He's lying in shame

Now his friends
Come and see
Come and see
Come and see

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Napoleon Dynamite looks nice, the movie makes no sense. The same is probably true for Juno, I haven't seen it.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

La Gombe
La Gombe or Gombe (formerly Kalina, after the lieutenant, E. Kallina) is a central district in Kinshasa City, in the north of Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is bounded on the north by the Congo River and in the south by the Boulevard du 30 Juin.

La Gombe is both a residential area and Kinshasa's business district. It also houses some of the DRC's principal governing bodies, including the Palais de la Nation and the Banque Centrale du Congo on the Boulevard Colonel Tshatshi. Various ministries, diplomatic and media organizations are also situated there.

The offices of Kinshasa's governor are located in La Gombe, making it the capital of Kinshasa Province.

Gombe
"Gombe" can refer to:
-Gombe State, Nigeria;
-Gombe the capital of Gombe State, Nigeria;
-Gombe Streams National Park in Tanzania;
-La Gombe or Gombe, the central business district of Kinshasa
-Gombe, a traditional Norwegian dish.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo

The RDC has a surprising number of colleges and universities.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Super idea: The Montreal NBA franchise; Quebec Hydro Campers.

On the Columbo tip

It was Colonel Mustard, in the solarium, with a hairdryer

The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3

1973 - novel published
2009 - movie released

2009 - 1973 = 36

You have just got to let me turn your coat, man,

In his Harlem detective novels, Chester Himes brought the detective genre from Perry Mason to NYPD Blue.

"Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones", two Harlem detectives. "At 6:00 the rib joint was starting up the nights work; the vent spouted gouts of black smoke into the night air. 118th Street was bustling with activity. Coffin Ed and I were sitting in our car drinking coffe....."

Have you ever wanted to know what was going on in Bochcoworld while Martin Luther King Jr and Miles Davis were working?

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

My first major Wikipedia contribution was to the Chester Himes article, in 2004. Since then I have over 12,000 English and over 2000 Chinese wikipedia edits. Thank you Chester Himes.

-If He Hollers Let Him Go, 1945
The Lonely Crusade, 1947
Cast the First Stone, 1952
The Third Generation, 1954
The End of a Primitive, 1955
For Love of Imabelle, alternate title A Rage in Harlem, 1957
-The Real Cool Killers, 1959
-The Crazy Kill, 1959
-The Big Gold Dream, 1960
-All Shot up, 1960
Run Man Run, 1960
-Pinktoes, 1961
-The Heat's on, 1966
-Cotton Comes to Harlem, 1965
-Blind Man with a Pistol, 1969
Black on Black, 1973
A Case of Rape, 1980
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes, 1990
Plan B, 1993
Yesterday Will Make You Cry, 1998

I think there are more than this.


Himes transitioned the detective genre from Perry Mason and Miss Marple, all the way to Shaft, Mannix and Stephen Bochco, like 50s rock n roll brought us from Tin Pan Alley to Elvis and Rubber Soul and rap brought us from Foghat to Danzig. Himes and others worked to create an environment in which The Wire, Silkwood, All the President's Men and The Godfather would be created. etc Car 54, where aren't you?

born in the 60s

{| class="infobox" style="text-align:center; width:97%; margin-right:30px; font-size:90%"
|-
! align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[List of largest cities in Brazil|Rank]]
! align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[List of cities in Brazil|City]]
! align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[States of Brazil|State]]
! align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[List of largest cities in Brazil|Pop.]]
! align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[List of largest cities in Brazil|Rank]]
! align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[List of cities in Brazil|City]]
! align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[States of Brazil|State]]
! align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[List of largest cities in Brazil|Pop.]]
! rowspan=4 style="background:#f0f0f0;" | [[Image:Sao Paulo Business District.jpg|border|145px|Central Bussiness District, São Paulo]]

|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 1 ||align=left | '''[[São Paulo]]''' || [[São Paulo (state)|SP]] || 11,016,703 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 11 ||align=left | '''[[Belém]]''' || [[Pará|PA]] || 1,428,368
|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 2 ||align=left | '''[[Rio de Janeiro]]''' || [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|RJ]] || 6,136,652 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 12 ||align=left | '''[[Guarulhos]]''' || SP || 1,283,253
|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 3 ||align=left | '''[[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]]''' || [[Bahia|BA]] || 2,714,119 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 13 || align=left | '''[[Goiânia]]''' || [[Goiás|GO]] || 1,220,412
|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 4 ||align=left | '''[[Fortaleza]]''' || [[Ceará|CE]] || 2,416,920 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 14 ||align=left | '''[[Campinas]]''' || SP || 1,059,420 ||align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[São Paulo]]
|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 5 ||align=left | '''[[Belo Horizonte]]''' || [[Minas Gerais|MG]] || 2,399,920 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 15 ||align=left | '''[[São Luís, Maranhão|São Luís]]''' || [[Maranhão|MA]] || 922,458 || rowspan=5 style="background:#f0f0f0;" |[[Image:Barra001.jpg|border|145px|Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro]]
|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 6 ||align=left | '''[[Brasília]]''' || [[Brazilian Federal District|DF]] || 2,383,784 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 16 ||align=left | '''[[São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro|São Gonçalo]]''' || RJ || 973,372
|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 7 ||align=left | '''[[Curitiba]]''' || [[Paraná (state)|PR]] || 1,788,559 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 17 ||align=left | '''[[Maceió]]''' || [[Alagoas|AL]] || 922,458
|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 8 ||align=left | '''[[Manaus]]''' || [[Amazonas (Brazilian state)|AM]] || 1,644,690 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 18 ||align=left | '''[[Duque de Caxias|D. de Caxias]]''' || RJ || 855,010
|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 9 ||align=left | '''[[Recife]]''' || [[Pernambuco|PE]] || 1,515,052 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 19 ||align=left | '''[[Nova Iguaçu]]''' || RJ || 844,583
|-
| align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 10 ||align=left | '''[[Porto Alegre]]''' || [[Rio Grande do Sul|RS]] || 1,440,939 || align=center style="background:#f0f0f0;" | 20 ||align=left | '''[[Teresina]]''' || [[Piauí|PI]] || 813,992 ||align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | [[Rio de Janeiro]]
|-
| colspan="11" align=center style="background:#f5f5f5;" | {{small|'''Source:{{cite web |url=http://www.ibge.gov.br/cidadesat/default.php |title=Cidades@ |publisher=IBGE | accessdate=2007-06-23}}'''}}
{{small|[[Guarulhos]] is part of the [[Greater São Paulo]].
[[Duque de Caxias]], [[Nova Iguaçu]] and [[São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro|São Gonçalo]] are part of the [[List of the largest metropolitan areas in the Americas|Greater Rio de Janeiro]].}}
|}{{clear}}

Sao Paolo Pop. 11 mm

Bom dia! It's the Portuguese flag.

The shield structure is held together by straps, when the flag is flown, it seems as though the shield motif has been sewn together. The red and the green, the castles surrounding more shields, it seems like other flags. The strapwork is noticeable and interesting and is an important part of the flag.

Good one, Eliot;

Providence = Neurotic
Boston = Irritated
Philadelphia = Unorganized
Washington = Secretive
Minneapolis = Unhappy
Los Angeles = Unhealthful

and

New York = Poor.

Normally in the course of human affairs, as seen on cable news channels and sports radio, people talk and talk about all the different problems in the world and that's good; the governor seems to have actually alienated many people on Wall Street, the very key to his political venue. What a puzzling turn of events!

Gunma-ken

or Gunma Prefecture

What a handsome, tired horse. 群馬県の自治体 Gunma Ken's autonomous political bodies

市部: 前橋市 Don't be afraid to cross the bridge.
高崎市 桐生市 伊勢崎市 太田市
沼田市 館林市 渋川市 Shibuya River
藤岡市 富岡市 安中市 みどり市 Midori City

Hot tsunami of love 勢多郡: 富士見村 Ah, Mt Fuji is visible
North Gunma 北群馬郡: 榛東村 Thinking about baseball in the wee hours of the morning
吉岡町 There is a lucky cat meowing at the door
You have many new things to try! 多野郡: 吉井町 Luck is like a well.
上野村 I'll accompany you through the wilderness
神流町 | Heaven shine your light on me
Sweet Music 甘楽郡: 下仁田町 南牧村 甘楽町
吾妻郡: 中之条町 長野原町 嬬恋村 草津町 六合村 高山村 東吾妻町
利根郡: 片品村 川場村 昭和村 みなかみ町
佐波郡: 玉村町
邑楽郡: 板倉町 明和町 千代田町 大泉町 The Big Spa
邑楽町

"田" is so funny here. One thinks of getting the harvest in and then setting to making frames for rice seedlings over the winter, for the planting. It's important to make the frames, a lot of scientific and technological thought is expressed here, and they seem a lot like pallets at the factory to me in their function and role.

田 is also a map of a ricefield, obviously. I grew up in an agricultural area in New England, fans of geology and geography know that Southern New England has a similar agricultural value to Long Island, home of legendary potato fields, Yaz, and famous tomatoes, as seen on tv's Seinfeld. I worked on the farm and lived for a month on an orange grove in Cheju, it was there that I understood how a farmer will think of his farm as a 田, and then take each quadrant and think of the quadrant as a 田, so on down to the individual plants or trees, all of which makes it possible to keep track of each precious one. I think graph paper was invented by farmers, (x + y)(x - y) and so forth.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Gunma Prefecture is part of the Kanto Plain. Japan consists mainly of 'the Alps'; plenty of level land exists in Kanto (Tokyo) and Kansai/Kinki (Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe-Nara).

這17個聯邦州及一個自治市分別詳列如下：The 17 states and self-governing cities [of the Central Area] are as follows:

You would have to be Loki [trickster god] to get through these. It's ok, I can try, I grew up in Mass youth hockey, I get it. I can learn Cyrillic by matching out the Chinese with my extant Soviet geoknowledge, I'll make a game of it. Here's a fact: 'Soviet Union' in German is "Sowjet Union", it sounds ridiculous.

别尔哥罗德州（Белгородская Область） Belkroskiy Oblast
布良斯克州（Брянская Область） Bulangzik Oblast
伊万诺沃州（Ивановская область） Yiwanowa Oblast - must be in Siberia
卡卢加州（Калужская Область） Kalujia Oblast
科斯特罗马州（Костромская Область） - Kestelouma - Kostroma Oblast 2 points
库尔斯克州（Курскская Область） Kanelske Oblast
利佩茨克洲（Липецская Область） Lipazz Oblast - Lipetsk Oblast 1 point
莫斯科自治市（Москва） Mockba SGC 2 points
莫斯科州（Московская Область） Mockba Oblast 2 points
奥廖尔州（Орёл / Орловская область） Aovel Oblast
梁赞州（Рязанская Область）
斯摩棱斯克州（Смоленская Область）Smajik Oblast - Smolensk Oblast 1 point
坦波夫州（Тамбовская Область） Tanpofu Oblast - Tambov Oblast - 2 points
特维尔州（Тверская область） Tuva Oblast 2 points
图拉州（Тульская область） Tula Oblast 2 points
弗拉基米尔州（Владимирская область） Frackiy-Mell Oblast
沃罗涅日州（Воронежская область） Walaw Jir Oblast
雅罗斯拉夫尔州（Ярославская Область） Yal - Jaroslavl Oblast 2 points

I went through the list twice. My score was 16, seems low. I'll try with Northwest Area, Volga Area didn't have Cyrillic.

西北部聯邦管區 (俄语：Северо-западный федеральный округ)位於俄羅斯西北部。由下列聯邦主體組成：

阿尔汉格尔斯克州 (Архангельская Область) Archangelsk 2 points
涅涅茨自治区 (俄语：Ненецкий автономный Округ) Nenetsk Autonomous Area 2 points
加里宁格勒州 (俄语：Калининградская Область) Kaliningrad 2 points
卡累利阿共和国 (俄语：Республика Карелия) Kaslia?
科米共和国 (俄语：Республика Коми) Kemi 1/2 point?
摩爾曼斯克州 (俄语：Мурманская Область) Murmansk 2 points
诺夫哥诺德州 (俄语：Новгородская Область) Novogorno 2 points
普斯科夫州 (俄语：Псковская Область) Pskov 2 points
圣彼得堡自治市 (俄语：Санкт-Петербург) St Petersburg 2 points
列宁格勒州 (俄语：Ленинградская Область) Leningrad 2 points
沃洛格达州 (俄语：Вологодская Область) Wagegerda 00 points

總面積1,677,900平方公里，人口13,974,466 (2002年)。現任總督為Ilya Klebanov。

Better, 14 1/2 out of 22.

南部联邦管区 (俄语：Южный федеральный округ)位于俄罗斯最西南部，介乎乌克兰和哈萨克斯坦之间，大致覆盖了北高加索地区。由下列联邦主体组成：The Southern Area is to Russia's Southwest, Ukraine and Helaksetan - Kazakhstan 2 points - are there, ....... -2 points. The list:

1阿迪格共和国 (Республика Адыгея) Adiger Republic
2阿斯特拉罕州 (Астраханская Область) Astrakhan 2 points
3车臣共和国 (Чеченская республика) Kanglu Republic
4达吉斯坦共和国 (Республика Дагестан) Dagestan 2 points
5印古什共和国 (Республика Ингушетия) Ingushetia 2 points
6卡巴尔达-巴尔卡尔共和国 (Кабардино-Балкарская республика) Kabalda Balkar #$#@
7卡尔梅克共和国 (Калмыкия-Кхалмтангч Республика) Karmaike Repbulic - Kalmyr Republic ? points
8卡拉恰伊-切尔克斯共和国 (Карачаево-Черкесская республика) Kalahiy Chekst
9克拉斯诺达尔边疆区 (Краснодарский край) Krasnodar 2 points
10北奥塞梯-阿兰共和国 (Республика Северная Осетия–Алания) North Ostia Aran ?
11斯塔夫罗波尔边疆区 (Ставропольский край) Stavropol 2 points
12罗斯托夫州 (Ростовская Область) Rostov ? points
13伏尔加格勒州 (Волгоградская Область) Halgegg-Ler 00 points

總面積589,200平方公里，人口22,907,141 (2002年)。現任總督為迪米特里· 科扎克(Dmitry Kozak)。
Surface area is 589000, population 22mm, current president Dimitri Kozak.

10 points out of 26. Not good. I used to sort of know this.

Kamchatka OblastThat is a nice yurt. I should finish watching All About Lily Chou Chou, the ancient Altaic ways are so prevalent in Japan.

Recipe Talk: Coconut Milk

Coconut milk is good and good for you. Reading some recipes at 'the place that sells the canned Thai curry', one learns that it is ok to simmer coco milk for a long time, and one should fry meat and vegetables with the material at the top of the can of milk. Excellent information.

Making Thai curry from a small can of red curry, green curry, tamarind curry, etc, is simple, one follows the English language instructions on the label or one looks up some recipes online. The best recipe I have found yet involves making spaghetti sauce the normal way and then adding a can of coconut milk. As is the case with many other changes in my life in the past 15 years, I am sure I will never make plain spaghetti sauce ever again.

Here's a good one: bacon, coconut milk, vegetable, egg + fried rice.

Indian curry is another good idea, as with Thai it is easy and inexpensive to get restaurant quality food in the kitchen. The key is to cook up some 'garbanzos' to create the base of the curry.

Growing up with European-American food you learn it's good to simmer things, and sometimes leftovers taste better because the food gets more suffused with the onion, garlic, parsley, sage, as time passes. With Asian food, which may have a shorter simmering time, you fry or pop the spices in oil, as the beginning of the cooking process.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

zh:Czech

Karlovy Vary in Karlovy Vary Kraj
This picture is a freakin' winner.

Czech

As of yet there's just not as much work put into these Czech names as the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese names. I suppose after a long time passes new names will evolve, one definitely starts developing ideas for place names as one goes along with one's studies. Western place names are "place holders" that sometimes are interesting, and provide a workable phonetic translation product.

It's difficult but not impossible to find some productive thread of meaning in these translations, its difficult but not impossible to produce some kind of readable English expresssion, of the Chinese translation, of the Czech name. And it certainly is difficult to compile this list without it seeming very arbitrarily composed.

Regions

布拉格（Prague，首都） Imagine yourself at the market
中波希米亚州（Středočeský kraj） The comic situation of leaving the house and then worrying if one has left on the computer
南波希米亚州（Jihočeský kraj） Same
比尔森州（Plzeňský kraj） Same; 10/10 = 1/1
卡罗维发利州（Karlovarský kraj）"Don't worry, honey, we can put the extra .001 cent of electricity on our credit card"
拉贝河畔乌斯季州（Ústecký kraj） "Yes, but what if we make a habit of it?"
利贝雷茨州（Liberecký kraj） "We can worry about that some other time."
赫拉德茨-克拉洛韦州（Královéhradecký kraj） Red Red Wine, I'm Mad About You (Belinda Carlisle), Hey Ya!, Walk Like an Egyptian, material which has value at every level of the music spectrum. "That song is so good in an AM kind of way, and yet it still has punk, hip hop or reggae credentials!"
帕尔杜比采州（Pardubický kraj） If one is having trouble with one's chodor, one could print some cloth with rad designs, rai motifs or some deep pleasing color
维索基纳州（Vysočina）Gregor Mandel is Czech
南摩拉维亚州（Jihomoravský kraj） South Moravia
奥洛穆茨州（Olomoucký kraj） A lead up to a good punchline or conclusion, as in a joke, anecdote or mildly scary story
兹林州（Zlínský kraj kraj） A good punchline; a deep magnetic forest
摩拉维亚-西里西亚州（Moravskoslezský kraj）Moravia-Silesia

Cities

Brno: Squall at the market

Many Czech cities' names are part of the names of their respective regions.

Floating Tomato Garden, Inle Lake, Myanmar
Kampong Speu, Khmai
Kampong Speu is located near the ocean.

Brno has made me thoughtfult. "Squall at the market" is quite a concept, it led me to google "floating village" where I found a nice video of a trip to a town in Tonle Sap in Chinese Yahoo. This waterworld looks a lot like the landworld near it and there is an airconditioned church. The name of the video is 'Chong Khneas Floating Village on Tonie Sap Lake near Siem Reap Cambodia'.

As far as Czech is concerned, the national football team has been doing quite well, soccer and UEFA are not well-covered on ESPN and on national sports radio, it brings up a little-known aspect of Confucianism, "Geopolitical Confucianism", wherein we as European-Americans are supposed to pay attention to our ancestors across the pond. Given all the events of the last 100 years, it would be a good idea to do so. One gains merit in the act of watching sports. Perfectly amazing.

http://www.uefa.com/

Saga Prefecture

In musing through new material one thinks of many many things. In writing a blog one chooses a main direction to go, writing is different from thinking.

I am not on drugs; I am just bored.

Saga Prefecture

The flag says '999' in a circular manner.
佐賀縣行政區劃 : "The Georgia"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
市部： 佐賀市 | Saga City; We're slowing down for hitchhikers.
唐津市 | 鳥栖市 | 多久市 | 伊萬里市 | 武雄市 | 鹿島市 | 小城市 | 嬉野市 | 神埼市
神埼郡： 吉野里町 三養基郡： 基山町 | 上峰町 | 三養基町
東松浦郡： 玄海町 西松浦郡： 有田町
杵島郡： 大町町 | 江北町 | 白石町 藤津郡： 太良町
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Aichi Prefecture

Aichi Prefecture:Love Knowledge

愛知縣行政區劃 R U Confused by the media?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nagoya City: 名古屋市：Fame; what's in a name? I reject you first. Fame!
千種區 | Well, I spend $100 a month on cable, phone and internet access, let me really find out what's on...
東區 | The late late picture show
北區 | Sunday morning tv
西區 | Post Sunday morning tv
中村區 | Local access; local sports; I have watched the "Mother's Day Miracle" twice this winter, Boston came back 5 runs against Baltimore in the ninth inning; I also watch rtpi on a local access channel.
中區 | I learned so much about organic chemistry and chip fabrication from tv, this is a concept that exists only in our future.
昭和區 | Unbelievable footage
瑞穗區 | Sports, geopolitical unity, block party on tv
熱田區 | Art
中川區 | Serious news, serious nonfiction
港區 | Government and law; Let's be careful out there!
南區 | Good looking
守山區 | Scary
綠區 | Psychedelic
名東區 | Thoughtful
天白區 | The thing about a blizzard is, you can either watch TV the whole way through, or you can turn just turn it off for 2 days; you get to decide.

其他市部： 豐橋市 | Today's sports schedule is superfull.
岡崎市 | The cat at our mousehole is cracking me up.
一宮市 | At this point Comcast is the only extant legal authority.
瀨戶市 | I can't function without tv.
半田市 | I need split screen.
春日井市 | In the next 48 hours I will have five chances to watch tonight's Bruins game.
豐川市 | Since I have access, I don't miss it when it is off.
津島市 | I was quite anxious and then I watched Divorce Court for a while, the pain is gone.
碧南市 | This provocative programming made my day.
刈谷市 | I use the timer; it is difficult work to maintain elan and sense when something good is on another channel.
豐田市 | If tv is boring then maybe in its wisdom it is telling you there is opportunity nearby.
安城市 | If chaos breaks out in our community the cable equipment might be damaged, the cable company doesn't really want that to happen.
西尾市 | While drinking beer in front of the tv, avoid watching stuff you don't enjoy.
蒲郡市 | TV is an important vehicle for national security and national enthusiasm, news and such is normally delivered in a globally positive, United Nations-friendly context.
犬山市 | My favorite show, I watched this when I was sick.
常滑市 | I have no idea why this is on.
江南市 | I sort of sat on the remote and then something important came on
小牧市 | Surreal sexuality, sometimes unavailable in real life, is always on cable somewhere. Do you like the video Andre by L Seven?
稻澤市 | Think of how things were before tv.
新城市 | Think of how things were before tv.
東海市 | Sometimes it puts me to sleep at night.
大府市 | I do not lack a global perspective.
知多市 | I know many things.
知立市 | I believe in some of the stuff I watch.
尾張旭市 | I try to keep up on what is on because I don't want to have to catch up on things later.
高濱市 | Control of the remote is important, especially when company is over.
岩倉市 | I like this video; it rocks.
豐明市 | I like this romantic comedy, it gives me to think about marriage.
日進市 | A cautionary tale.
田原市 | A comic moment.
愛西市 | Tonight the bottle let me down
清須市 | I bought this book or magazine after seeing it on a show or ad.
北名古屋市 | North Nagoya; tv has helped us through some national emergencies, this is true for every country
彌富市 | The tv production industry pours billions into making sure that if anything good exists then you could get a chance to see it on tv

Outlying districts:

愛知郡： 東鄉町 | 長久手町 西春日井郡： 豐山町 | 春日町
MBA Kids Practice:丹羽郡： 大口町 | 扶桑町 海部郡： 七寶町 | 美和町 | 甚目寺町 | 大治町 | 蟹江町 | 飛島村
幡豆郡： 一色町 | 吉良町 | 幡豆町 知多郡： 阿久比町 | 東浦町 | 南知多町 | 美濱町 | 武豐町
額田郡： 幸田町 西加茂郡： 三好町
北設樂郡： 設樂町 | 東榮町 | 豐根村 寶飯郡： 小坂井町
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Blue blue electric blue, is the color of the room, where I will live; uuu uuuu, Sound and vision.

Niigata Prefecture

Niigata Prefecture. When I first started reading this wikiarticle I thought about all the feelings of being in love. It's very romantic, like moving in with someone, two people are now together within the context of society and the successful outcome of this existence is children and marriage, the continuation of the species, with lots of walking around, spaghetti dinners with bottles of wine, it's an important step in the sociobiological process of reproduction, with an emphasis on being very pleased with one's life and the results of one's existence. Do you remember when we used to sit, in the government yard in Trenchtown?

Seriously.

新潟県の自治体等
Niigata City:新潟市: 北区 North End | 東区 East End| 中央区 Center City | 江南区 | 秋葉区 Autumn World | 南区 South End | 西区 West End | 西蒲区
Major cities in Niigata ken:その他市部:
長岡市 | This second word is used a lot, it is a cat looking in a mousehole, or I suppose a weasel or a marmot, various agencies such as crime, bad government, ill friends, nosy family members, are part of the communications environment, life and happiness and romance seem to go on anyway. In this case the cat looking in is "long", it longs to be in the den or garrett one is now in.
三条市 | Looks like "3 Fixes".
柏崎市 | For men, one reliable method of moving from a single state to a double state involves ESPN, pro cheerleaders, Maxim, Brian McKnight, Jang Nara, and Ellen DeGeneres. After this works, the relationship itself is the center and the nice media blizzard is just something that is happening outside.
新発田市 | Ar-Ti-Fi-Cial - when one is in a big relationship one achieves a new anesthetized state, it suddenly is not a chore to go to work every day for the rest of one's life, things that used to vex are now difficult to get to.
小千谷市 | Small 1,000 Valley City - It is so cute how everything reproduces, one wasn't as aware of it before; everything has a father and mother, it's a created world.
加茂市 | "I googled 'couchgrass', we can make a couch." "I have a recipe for cola, we'll never have to buy any." - Being funny.
十日町市 |
見附市 | The government seems so benign.
村上市 | Village Top - This is the best place, I guess this must be the place, we can live here 4eva.
燕市 | The store windows are so bright and there are so many shoppers; + this occurs around Christmastime.
糸魚川市 |
妙高市 | As a successful reproductive unit, I am now a vested member of society, I see stuff in catalogs and I like to think of what I need. I see a computer server, for instance, and I think "I think I'll need one of those (someday)."
五泉市 | 5 Springs; we have been sleeping on this futon for two years now; we should buy a bedroom set.
上越市 | I think we should eat some Vietnamese soup tonight.
阿賀野市 | "I say, How fascinating this adult movie is, it's like a brutal wilderness, why on earth is it on?" "IDK, it just came on by itself; it is interesting in a kind of a way; did you pick up our tax forms?" I did, Click...
佐渡市 | "I don't wear these superfoxy clothes anymore" + "I now have phone numbers on my phone I can't remember when I used."
魚沼市 | Your cooking is the best. And the guy at the deli was wicked funny.
南魚沼市 | I guess we should set up some sort of prenewlywed reward system for cooking and such.
胎内市 | We're pregnant!

Other, more outlying zones of Niigata Pref:

北蒲原郡: 聖籠町 When I put our ring on I feel like Saint Superman.
西蒲原郡: 弥彦村 You look good today
南蒲原郡: 田上町 Let's split this ice cream sandwich
東蒲原郡: 阿賀町 We need a paper plate
三島郡: 出雲崎町 Girls are neater than boys
北魚沼郡: 川口町 Hunger is a river.
南魚沼郡: 湯沢町 Getting a big bowl of soup to eat on the train.
中魚沼郡: 津南町 Sign says: "We don't serve big ramen at the train station snack place"
刈羽郡: 刈羽村 x + y = z, go figure
岩船郡: 関川村 | 荒川町 | 神林村 | 朝日村 | 山北町 | 粟島浦村
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Niigata:新潟県:Robot Chicken just doesn't do it for me anymore.

Hyogo Prefecture

Hyogo Prefecture: Rx Love Overdose

兵庫縣行政區劃

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
神戶市： 東灘區 | 灘區 | 兵庫區 | 長田區 | 須磨區 | 垂水區 | 北區 | 中央區 | 西區
其他市部： 姬路市 | Himeji City: Do you remember in Friends when Rachel talks to Chandler about how he should watch some ESPN? Himeji is a big city.
尼崎市 | Given that religious people deal with really weird stuff all day, it is obvious that pastors and pastorellas sometimes seem a little strange, especially if they're not paying attention to you.
明石市 | 西宮市 | The liquor industry. The great Meiji Restoration, same time as the Civil War in the US, also known as the overthrow of the samurai cult, was more or less accomplished by the sake industry, also by the book industry and the education industry.
洲本市 | "I could care less about the government" - something to say as one leaves the building for lunch break.
蘆屋市 | Whether you work at the pizza place or just show up for a slice, you still get the feeling of it.
伊丹市 | Why are you arguing with that cruel industrialist?
相生市 | 豐岡市 | Here is the cat at the mousehole again, this time it is the kitchen cat, either it is full of food or it is just your mom telling you to come to dinner.
加古川市 | 赤穗市 | 西脇市 | If you build it they will come.
寶塚市 | 三木市 | 高砂市 | 川西市 | 小野市 | 三田市 | 加西市 | 篠山市 | 養父市 | 丹波市 | 南淡路市 | 朝來市 | 淡路市 | 宍粟市 | 龍野市 | 加東市
川邊郡： 豬名川町 多可郡： 多可町 加古郡： 稻美町 | 播磨町
神崎郡： 市川町 | 福崎町 | 神河町 揖保郡： 太子町 赤穗郡： 上郡町
佐用郡： 佐用町 美方郡： 香美町 | 新溫泉町
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Fukuoka Prefecture

Fukuoka Prefecture

Be alert, care for your world

福岡県の自治体等 Fukuoka is a state or prefecture, in this case the cat at the mousehole is groomed, well dressed, all business. The carpool is here, off to work, you know the feeling. Our blog entry has taken a serious turn at the end. From days of wine and roses the seasons have turned to daily coffee and local work travel. Fukuoka State is at the north of Kyushu. Kyushu is one of two islands named for a number, Kyushu = 9 State, Shikoku = 4 Nation.

Kita Kyushu: North Kyushu City: 北九州市: I know my limits....
門司区 | It's ok to figure stuff out
若松区 | The ongoing Schwarzeneggerian Truth
戸畑区 | When one is figuring something out one's being attains that of a rapt five year old.
小倉北区 | Sometimes it is amazing what one will do for a very small reward.
小倉南区 | Sometimes a Sabrett's tastes better than a filet mignon.
八幡東区 | It's 8 PM, I will be sleepless at 3 AM. It's 8 AM, 5 hours ago it was 3 AM.
八幡西区 | Does beer have calories?

Fukuoka City: 福岡市: 東区 East | 博多区 Superuntenable | 中央区 Central | 南区 South | 西区 West | 城南区 South City | 早良区 Superavoidable

Other cities:

その他市部:
大牟田市 |
久留米市 |
直方市 | Flippancy floppancy
飯塚市 | Do you remember on Friends when Phoebe dated the restaurant inspector?
田川市 | Women fighting over a man, turns out he's a jerk
柳川市 | The very artificial tone of obeisance that men crave and find on sports radio.
八女市 | Very pesky, vexing and easy to avoid
筑後市 | "Fear is behind us"
大川市 | 行橋市 | That weird feeling of reading about some tragedy and in figuring out one's own idea about it, the logic occurs to one: Oh, if he or she had been more careful.....tragedy is the most vexing.
豊前市 | Rx Partytime
中間市 | 小郡市 |
筑紫野市 | Fear the purple wildnerness (comic); fear Tai Tai Matsuzaka (baseball); fear Harold and the Purple Crayon (Handiwipes advertisement)
春日市 | You must never break the chain (Fleetwood Mac)
大野城市 | Bubble gum + tobacco; Big League Chew
宗像市 | Church furniture; where does one buy an altar?
太宰府市 | Batman gets elected mayor.
前原市 |
古賀市 | Very old commodities.
福津市 | Clean fake law, law(s) for the purpose of entertainment, as The Game on Seinfeld, The Tuck Rule Game, the Pine Tar Incident, these all have their own articles on the Wikipedia. It's a concept at work in "The Game" (1972 Olympic basketball finals). Pedro Martinez, George W Bush, Downtown Julie Brown, Elain Benes' father, his character on that other show, Jang Nara, SNL, Dodgeball, all have a lot of this quality, it's a quality that My Name is Earl aspires to. Funny thing. It's a combination of Fujian and Tianjin, two major cities in China, perform triangulation and the result is Shanghai.
うきは市 |
宮若市 | Social services should be administered by people who know the community
朝倉市 | Petty matters often go wrong.
嘉麻市｜Gray market joy.
みやま市 | Ayame City
筑紫郡: 那珂川町 Jesus is king of the river or I really need seat covers; something to say that marks the juncture of sleep mode and work mode; getting serious by tossing away something that isn't important. This reminds me of Hilary.
糟屋郡: 宇美町 | Space is beautiful, something to think of before one decides to eat a donut.
篠栗町 | 志免町 | Caricature of Tim McCarver or Frank Gifford
須恵町 | 新宮町 | Martian Constitution, Lunar Articles of Confederation
久山町 | 9 Mountains
粕屋町 | The blizzard of rice has arrived.

Outlying areas:

遠賀郡: 芦屋町 | The open-door policy has finally produced a visitor
水巻町 | The water is in the harbor, don't worry about the sewage system, just use it.
岡垣町 | The cat at the mousehole will be there all day, it isn't really a cat, its a metaphor for working all day.
遠賀町 |
鞍手郡: Shoe Hand (literally)
小竹町 | Small bamboo
鞍手町 Shoe hand, this is not a children's game, this is a shoestore.
嘉穂郡: 桂川町 Cinnamon River, don't fall in. Cinnamon River is a word for "playing a cellar dweller", don't lose to a newly promoted team.
Tidal Food (Supply) 朝倉郡: 筑前町 | Fear is going forward, a descriptive slogan for all the crappy events that journalists have to deal with.
東峰村 East weird summit; this is east as in dawn, like someone says something and you wake up at 3 AM and then you think about it for a while
Silk Island 糸島郡: 二丈町 | My coworker is goodlooking and single
志摩町 I am so lucky. (religious)
Three Well District 三井郡: 大刀洗町
Three Otter District 三潴郡: 大木町 Big Wood Town. These "3" districts, I'm not sure.
Comic gravity 八女郡: 黒木町 | 立花町 | 広川町 | 矢部村 | 星野村
田川郡: 香春町 | 添田町 | 糸田町 | 川崎町 | 大任町 | 赤村 | 福智町
京都郡: 苅田町 | A good time for the day's first cigarette.
みやこ町 Nayanicho
築上郡: 吉富町 | 上毛町 | Upper hand.
築上町

Osterreich - Suisse, Schweiz, Svizzera

Final tournament match schedule

1 07/06 Grp A Switzerland 18:00 Czech Republic Basel
2 07/06 Grp A Portugal 20:45 Turkey Geneva
3 08/06 Grp B Austria 18:00 Croatia Vienna
4 08/06 Grp B Germany 20:45 Poland Klagenfurt
5 09/06 Grp C Romania 18:00 France Zurich
6 09/06 Grp C Netherlands 20:45 Italy Berne
7 10/06 Grp D Spain 18:00 Russia Innsbruck
8 10/06 Grp D Greece 20:45 Sweden Salzburg
9 11/06 Grp A Czech Republic 18:00 Portugal Geneva
10 11/06 Grp A Switzerland 20:45 Turkey Basel
11 12/06 Grp B Croatia 18:00 Germany Klagenfurt
12 12/06 Grp B Austria 20:45 Poland Vienna
13 13/06 Grp C Italy 18:00 Romania Zurich
14 13/06 Grp C Netherlands 20:45 France Berne
15 14/06 Grp D Sweden 18:00 Spain Innsbruck
16 14/06 Grp D Greece 20:45 Russia Salzburg
17 15/06 Grp A Switzerland 20:45 Portugal Basel
18 15/06 Grp A Turkey 20:45 Czech Republic Geneva
19 16/06 Grp B Poland 20:45 Croatia Klagenfurt
20 16/06 Grp B Austria 20:45 Germany Vienna
21 17/06 Grp C Netherlands 20:45 Romania Berne
22 17/06 Grp C France 20:45 Italy Zurich
23 18/06 Grp D Greece 20:45 Spain Salzburg
24 18/06 Grp D Russia 20:45 Sweden Innsbruck
25 19/06 QF Winner Grp A 20:45 Runner-up Grp B Basel
26 20/06 QF Winner Grp B 20:45 Runner-up Grp A Vienna
27 21/06 QF Winner Grp C 20:45 Runner-up Grp D Basel
28 22/06 QF Winner Grp D 20:45 Runner-up Grp C Vienna
29 25/06 SF Winner #25 20:45 Winner #26 Basel
30 26/06 SF Winner #27 20:45 Winner #28 Vienna
31 29/06 F Winner #29 20:45 Winner #30 Vienna

There are 4 groups of 4 teams, 24 group matches, two per day starting on June 6.

4 08/06 Grp B Germany 20:45 Poland Klagenfurt
6 09/06 Grp C Netherlands 20:45 Italy Berne
9 11/06 Grp A Czech Republic 18:00 Portugal Geneva
14 13/06 Grp C Netherlands 20:45 France Berne
19 16/06 Grp B Poland 20:45 Croatia Klagenfurt
20 16/06 Grp B Austria 20:45 Germany Vienna
22 17/06 Grp C France 20:45 Italy Zurich


From wiki:Euro 2008

Spain controversy
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has threatened Spain with expulsion from international football if the Spanish government interferes in the election process of the Spanish Football Federation.[3] Should Spain be suspended for the European Championship, Northern Ireland, as the next highest team in Spain's qualifying group, or England, as the highest non-qualifying European team in the FIFA World Rankings, would take their place in Group D.

Latin American rights are ESPN Latin America; US and Canadian broadcasting rights are ESPN, matches are at 6 PM and 8:45 Central European time.

In Chinese:
-Switzerland and Sweden have similar names
-Austria and Austin TX have similar names, as do Australia and Aomen (Macao)

Nelspruit

内尔斯普雷特（Nelspruit）是在南非的一個城市、普马兰加省的首府, 艾兰泽尼地区的首府, 人口22万。
Nelspruit is a city in South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga Province and of Ehlanzeni District Municipality, its population is 220,000.

历史 History

地理 Geography

气候 Climate

人口 Population

法律与政府 Law and government

经济 Economy

教育 Education

文化 Culture

媒体 Media

体育 Sports

名人 Famous people

友好城市 Sister cities

外部链接 External links
内尔斯普雷特网站 Nelspruit website

内尔斯普雷特是一个與非洲地理相關的小作品。你可以通过编辑或修订扩充其内容。
Nelspruit is an African geograpy stub, you can help Wikipedia by editing or expanding it.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

I just wrote this article on Chinese Wikipedia; it took about 20 minutes. I suppose I should sit down and turn out half a dozen more, but it is late, I have been reading all day. Writing zh:Wikiarticles is great language practice, one can copy part of an extant article and create entire sets of articles that don't exist, each province of Nigeria, Mexico, New Guinea, Burlington Vermont, it's also a lot like an exercise in public speaking, there is a thrill involved, one's work is in the book, more or less permanently, it creates a good discipline for oneself.

You stem

A phrase often heard in middle school.

Steroids are real prevalent, in our free society they are always there, in our high tech society they are very important to science. South Africa, Korea, Thailand, France, Massachusetts, the biology industry should be wide open, let common sense sort out the jags and misfits.

There are a lot of American jobs at stake and we need better therapies and pharmaceuticals. Let the congress and the senate put paychecks first.

HKFA teams

SCAA, South China Athletic Association, is a leading team.

This bridge connects the great city of Kobe with the sleepy island of Shikoku. From what I understand of it from reading about it, Kobe (the city) is a very interesting place. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers certainly has a 'worthy' namesake. I am very pleased to sit with this diagram of the settlements of Hyogo Prefecture and muse upon my life and the future of the world.

Hyogo Prefecture

0 兵庫県の自治体等
1 神戸市: 東灘区 | 灘区 | 兵庫区 | 長田区 | 須磨区 | 垂水区 | 北区 | 中央区 | 西区
2 その他市部: 姫路市 | 尼崎市 | 明石市 | 西宮市 | 洲本市 | 芦屋市 | 伊丹市 | 相生市 | 豊岡市 | 加古川市 | 赤穂市 | 西脇市 | 宝塚市 | 三木市 | 高砂市 | 川西市 | 小野市 | 三田市 | 加西市 | 篠山市 | 養父市 | 丹波市 | 南あわじ市 | 朝来市 | 淡路市 | 宍粟市 | たつの市 | 加東市
3 川辺郡: 猪名川町
4 多可郡: 多可町
5 加古郡: 稲美町 | 播磨町
6 神崎郡: 市川町 | 福崎町 | 神河町
7 揖保郡: 太子町
8 赤穂郡: 上郡町
9 佐用郡: 佐用町
10 美方郡: 香美町 | 新温泉町

1 - The city of Kobe has 9 regions. 2 - Hyogo Prefecture has 28 cities. 3 - 8 - Hyogo has 6 more suburban regions. It's area is over 8,000 sqkm, or 2 x Rhode Island. It has big shores on the Pacific side and on the Asia side of Japan. There are 5.5 mm people, almost as many as Massachusetts. The population density is similar to New England, then.

Sometimes it gets to be a competition, to organize one's geopolitical area in a pleasing way.

Let's find analogies to known quantities even though it's a boring exercise:

Queens, Fenway, Daytona, Aston Villa, Crystal Palace + Himeji
the Bronx, the Pack, Tampa Bucs, the late "Fatty" from Hong Kong, Lily Tomlin, Coach + 明石市
parts of Jersey, Minnesota Vikings, A-Rod + 西脇市
Greenwich, A-Rod, Swiper the Fox + 川辺郡: 猪名川町
Burlington, Illinois, Amsterdam, Po Valley + 多可郡: 多可町
Hartford, Dallas, pizza + 赤穂郡: 上郡町
Mass + Hyogo City Area of Kobe
The Inland Empire + 加古郡: 稲美町 | 播磨町
Beverly Hills + 美方郡: 香美町 | 新温泉町
Venice area + 神崎郡:
Dazed and Confused; Goodfellas, Sucker Duck attitudes towards Boston sports teams; Hollywood Knights; the Tenderloin, J.G. Ballard + 丹波市
Marlins beat Braves + 佐用郡: 佐用町

This exercise is definitely getting boring for those who can't read.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

This is nice; it's Niigata Prefecture on the north shore of Japan. My student was from Niigata; like continental Northeast Asia, there is a lot of snow. The northerly winds get all snown out as they cross the Alps and during the winter Tokyo and the South Shore is very dry, winter in Tokyo is 5 / 40F degrees in the daytime. In the Tokyo summer there is an onshore wind and it rains a lot, then there is rainy season, and then it rains for 10 weeks more.

Niigata Prefecture

0 新潟県の自治体等
1 新潟市: 北区 | 東区 | 中央区 | 江南区 | 秋葉区 | 南区 | 西区 | 西蒲区
2 その他市部: 長岡市 | 三条市 | 柏崎市 | 新発田市 | 小千谷市 | 加茂市 | 十日町市 | 見附市 | 村上市 | 燕市 | 糸魚川市 | 妙高市 | 五泉市 | 上越市 | 阿賀野市 | 佐渡市 | 魚沼市 | 南魚沼市 | 胎内市
3 北蒲原郡: 聖籠町
4 西蒲原郡: 弥彦村
5 南蒲原郡: 田上町
6 東蒲原郡: 阿賀町
7 三島郡: 出雲崎町
8 北魚沼郡: 川口町
9 南魚沼郡: 湯沢町
10 中魚沼郡: 津南町
11 刈羽郡: 刈羽村
12 岩船郡: 関川村 | 荒川町 | 神林村 | 朝日村 | 山北町 | 粟島浦村

1 - The city of Niigata has 8 zones, "Autumn World" is highlighted. Harvest is a busy season and there is nothing like bringing in the sheaves, knowing that 3 or 4 months of cozy rest and work in the mainenance barn awaits one, along with regular visits to the inn to catch up on one's winter drinking. Autumn World, trending into Winter World, nature's cycle of productivity and rehabilitation.

6 - The origin of rest, sitting there with $800 in your pocket and nothing to buy, lying up late so late at night thinking after sleeping so heavily during work season, plenty of time to get right again with all that went past us during work season.
4 - The origin of walking to the inn and recovering from the hard labor of summer and fall, feeling like a clown again, again after seriously driving the combine and getting the harvest done right.
5 - The origin of catching up on one's reading; this book is so interesting. Miss Marple is such an interesting personality!
3 - The feeling of accomplishment and watching winter sports, those dogs sure can play.
8 - How 'easy' it is to catch a hungry pike in winter, how amazing that one is capable of watching up to 100 hours of ESPN per week while surfing the web.
9 - It's pickle season and canned food season, those sun-dried tomatoes, all those crackers and cheese.
10 - And how great is it to stretch and look forward to the next spring while preparing for the renewal of life.
11 - More spring practice.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Considering how easy it is to muse on stuff while reading through these Niigata values, which of course now look like American values, it's quite different from trying to muse on stuff while reading through Kumamoto values, where the miracle of life is so unavoidable.

It's common knowledge in America that Southern Japan including the Kumamoto area, which faces China, and the Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe area a few 100 km north, traditionally served as defense against China.

The Chinese language was adopted in Japan between 200 and 400 AD, by the time the Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe area had developed a short time later, it was such an astounding accomplishment, doing as well or better than the Chinese had ever done, like New York and Washington surpassing Paris and London. It's a perfectly amazing city area, maybe like Moscow and or Athens.

Which more or less puts the rawer, happier regions like Kumamoto, Oita and eastward-facing Miyazaki Prefectures in a category with the Runnin' Rebels of UNLV, the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest, the Blue Devils of Duke and the Rainbow Warriors of Hawaii.

.
.
.

Q: So who's defending against China?
A: I'm not sure.

%%%%%%%%%%

Well, I've gone as far as I can go with this travelogue for the time being.

A Ming Pao banner popup says

Only one thing is certain
This dynasty will end
Grab what you can
8 hours a day

And treat the customers with respect

Ming Pao Property

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

This is supposed to be refreshing; for sake of comparison, what property development comedy exists in the West? Glen Garry Glen Ross? Donald Trump on SNL?

The Ming Pao always comes with an extra advertisement in a separate tab. This one says

The scent of ramen is deep and shocking
Don't just stand there
Housewives United!

Are you a man or are you a tumor?
Come on, you filthy longshoreman
Do you think I'm posing for pictures?
Come in and have coffee
It's on me

Let's participate in California culture
Three's company, too

Please attend the Roche Health Seminar

Clicking on the picture http://www.mingpaohealth.com/htm/seminar/seminar64.htm one gets the same picture, with some copy and an eForm.

This is the year of the orgasm
Confucius says that Hong Kong women look like apartment chieftains
My ex-husband is at his tanning bed emporium herding cows into 5-year purchase plans

Are my breasts not correctly aligned?
Do I look like I want to fight?
I need sex energy to prevent breast cancer!

Please take a minute to participate in our survey.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Translator's note: Try substituting "freshly baked bread" for "the scent of ramen".

Please see the next post for a disclaimer, I am not on drugs. Without the pleasing subexts written in by the well-paid advertising executives, staring at an ad like this in the subway during a long commute could result in boredom, distraction and mild narcolepsy. You should always remember to bring a book anyway.



To continuing mining today's Ming Pao, one clicks to see the New York edition of the paper. Picture an executive marching into an office:

I have only one point to make, you self-loathing office furniture!
Sell stock,
Get high,
and go home to your wives or husbands after work

The economy says we should go to the corporate strip club
Those chicks don't say no

Your department of self-esteem
Recommends that you focus on the financial architecture
And leave your 5-fingered girlfriend at home

Please consider the Ming Pao Investor Club.

&&&&&

Ming Pao finance: http://www.mpfinance.com/htm/Finance/main.htm



The Vancouver and San Francisco edition banner ad of today says:

It takes a big hawser to anchor a Malacca-rated oil tanker
And it takes an army of marriage-minded Macanese women to dislodge the world's apathy

North and south will unite in 2008

They will wander in the peach garden and soon they will be changing diapers
Celebrate the Beijing Olympics

An advertisement from the front page of today's HK online Ming Pao Daily, Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu, and Hyogo Prefecture which includes Kobe and which lies near Osaka and the great Buddhist city of Nara.

If I'm not mistaken the ad says

Sun King Horn Light Microdike
Tavern Management Building 42
#8-11

Each day the chief sends us 30 bright young journalists [see picture]
These casino otters are ready to do what it takes
Y.E.S. Credit card transport
Free Prince Valiant bobble head dolls, get 'em while they last

I could be wrong. But consider the English language; how would you translate the following into Chinese?

Jingle bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg...

I mean, you're supposed to stare at these ads while riding the subway for 45 minutes, if you started thinking about how the stork flies to the Eastern mountain or how supreme enlightenment flows from the government, you just might experience sycope right there on the train. And by syncope I mean "fainting".

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Kumamoto, Kobe, Osaka and Nara are a different kettle of fish altother. I guess Britney is a native of Kumamoto. And I guess Siskel & Ebert hail from the Osaka-Kobe-Nara area. You do the math.

The word Kobe is something like "God has left the door open". If you've ever seen Ice Cube's first Fridays movie, it's something like that, an expression of the togetherness and lack of security that existed during the Floating World Era. I mean, if you've seen that movie, you have to wonder how a person could keep and own a desktop or a laptop computer in an open door environment. During the Floating World Era there was a certain imbalance of common sense in which Babe Ruth, Ozzy Osbourne and Madonna had assumed command of Japan (as opposed to George W Bush, Barack Obama and Condoleeza Rice), it was the time of samurai cult. Of course, then as now the city served as a destination for kids from the boondocks, Kumamoto-jin really made the Floating World turn. As opposed to naming your city after a security breach, which seems to me to be a way to put the government's problems squarely in front of you all day, the Kumamoto people have a different method of nomenclature. Let's see, we have here

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%86%8A%E6%9C%AC%E7%9C%8C

Kumamoto = Bear Body
Thighnasty
Manluck
Shameflow
Scrunchie.com
4:20 w/Jade
Whole Explanation
Chrysanthemum Puddle
Space Dust
Lawn Heaven
Space Dust Burglar
Pillowmates
Whorvard
more Lawn Heaven

2nd line
Littermouth
Easytown
Better Housekeeping
Beautyrest


3rd line
Jade Pop
Jade A.M.
Easy Conjugal
Long Island City
Robotgasm

4th line
Deerfriend
True Wood

5th line
Chrysanthemum Puddle
People's Court
Chrysanthemum Mann

6th line
Pillowfriend
Mailporn
Baby Mountain
You're Confused
Homebrew
Penpal Pillowfriend

7th line
Roofbabes
Delicious Boat
Happy Island
Townprize
Independent Mantrap
Girlcity

8th line
Thighnasty
Obeisant Scrunch

9th line
You left the baby on the lawn
Doorstop is a baby
Lawyer Boyfriend on a Unicycle

10th line
Escaped Mormons
Tintown
Many Strong Bodies
Forwardly Warm
Scrunchtop\
Doubleroot
Fivewood
Baby Creek
Ballrock
--

11th line
Lawn Heaven
Bicycle in the Rain

Here's the Kumamoto data in case you're not viewing with View menu:Windows (Western Europe):

1 熊本県の自治体 市部: 熊本市 | 八代市 | 人吉市 | 荒尾市 | 水俣市 | 玉名市 | 山鹿市 | 菊池市 | 宇土市 | 上天草市 | 宇城市 | 阿蘇市 | 合志市 | 天草市
2 下益城郡: 城南町 | 富合町 | 美里町
3 玉名郡: 玉東町 | 南関町 | 長洲町 | 和水町
4 鹿本郡: 植木町
5 菊池郡: 大津町 | 菊陽町
6 阿蘇郡: 南小国町 | 小国町 | 産山村 | 高森町 | 西原村 | 南阿蘇村
7 上益城郡: 御船町 | 嘉島町 | 益城町 | 甲佐町 | 山都町
8 八代郡: 氷川町
9 葦北郡: 芦北町 | 津奈木町
10 球磨郡: 錦町 | 多良木町 | 湯前町 | 水上村 | 相良村 | 五木村 | 山江村 | 球磨村 | あさぎり町
11 天草郡: 苓北町

The point of all this is that if you put happy stuff in front of you all day, you will never solve the hard cases. It's why we have People's Court and Cops on TV, I guess. "My sister and her girlfriend moved in with me and now I have a $400 phone bill." Judge: "Did you make those calls?" "No, I did not, your honor." on and on

Hyogo could be a "Security Warehouse". If you had money to build a Fermilab, and you had to choose, where exactly would you have to put it?

Translation Control:
Beverly Hills = Beaverheel
Las Vegas = Lost Wages
Butte = Butt
British Columbia = Britney's Lumber Yard
Fermilab = Lunch Money Scholarship Fund or $erious Car Payment Economic Resource

Citric Acid Cycle

This diagram, of the use and regeneration of citric acid and all its attendant molecules, is perfectly typical of very very many molecules that have similarly configured lifecyles in biology, in all the different departments of biological function: metabolic, neurologic, reproductive, etc.

Citric Acid is a valuable molecule, it participates in metabolism, it is one of many valuable molecules in biochemistry studies, it happens to be a flavor molecule found in lemons, limes, grapefruit, tomatoes, pineapples, kiwifruit, lemon candy, et cetera. Dehydrated lemons and limes are up to 8% citric acid!

Citric acid is an important nutrient, and when it "does what it does", it changes, into cis-Acotinate, according to the diagram's second step going clockwise, and continues changing step by step until it is regenerated into another citric acid molecule. It's like a circular assembly line.

There are 10 step molecules in this citric acid circular diagram, there are other molecules that exist during this cycle. There are also molecules that participate in making each step, and breathed oxygen and glucose from food are used along the way.

There are many different sugars and starches that we eat:

Glucose - Grape sugar
Sucrose - Cane sugar
Lactose - Milk sugar
Maltose - Malt sugar
Mannose - Manna sugar
and more.

Starches are long chains of sugars. All the different sugars and starches are changed to glucose - grape sugar - for the use of the body.

The other main component of energy is oxygen, from breathing.

The amount of change that the big molecules can accomplish (per step) is more or less defined, determined, limited, by what the two main energy units, glucose and oxygen, are able to do for them. And, plant and animal biologies have evolved very clever, involved and ingenious methods to get all their work done.