1006G[REBORN FROM THE ASHES组]备考日记 by 海王泪——要么自燃成灰，要么浴火重生

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1.23

睡得还是不够···上周太伤身体了···
右脸多了两颗非常大的痘痘，花容失色了～～555

今天不停地收拾东西，桌面（实体&虚拟）都清理完毕～～
所有碍眼的书籍、文件都清空或归档了～～视野一篇开阔

然后就是上网搜本本～～大家有没有什么好推荐的？
看重了TOSHIBA的NB300系列的～～10寸小本不过是全键盘的。。
但是好贵啊～就上网本而言（中国新蛋3500大元）～～在美国新蛋才399美元～不公平呀。。。

感觉拿来当二奶本又不想花那么多钱···但就是想要个键盘大一点的·
TOSHIBA好是好··但那个价钱都可以买IdeaPad S12了。。。SIGH····

废话不说了···明天开始Reborn From the Ashes~~
狂补Comments！！！

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1.24
今天,整理资料 收拾东西 上医院
本层留做他用...
所欠COMMENT已整理放出```希望尽早能补完作业

1.25
自嘲一下。。。24日休息一天，25日继续松懈了个早上
后来图书馆时，发现精神极度涣散。。。呃

今天DEBATES读了一遍··明天写COMMENT··
要抓紧起来了。。。43天

1.26
早上又松松散散地过了，写了一篇Comment
下午去医院。。。
晚上看了些书，然后写了Comment，背单词。

Well,成绩大体出来了～～哈，洗具了。。有望4.0。。。
等着剩下的两科出分。。有点忐忑不安～

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此层留作日记只用。。直到Comment补完为止

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.18]
Education: Through the Wall of Ignorance
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1052114

My Sum-Up
Education: Through the wall of Ignorance
Quotation of The Bill of Rights tells us laws should not limit religion.
(Question)But this separation also completely excludes the religion and education.
(Evidence)Religion is unmentionable in many schools and thus students do not know how, why or what to believe.
(Solution) A committee was founded for helping bringing the gap of religion and education.
(Conclusions) “Schools should accept religion and the churches as a factor of social life” What schools should teach are a set of principles common to all faith.
(Support for Conclusion)
1)Feasible: American are deeply conscious of a religious heritage to whose central values they want their children to be committed.
2)Purpose: Impel the young toward a vigorous, decisive personal reaction the challenge of religion.
3)First Step: Break through the wall of ignorance about religion and to increase the number of contacts with it.
(Measures)
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Unfamiliar Words
deplore syphilis illiterates secular disintegration
arbitrary interpretations

Useful Expressions
Words and Phrases
He thought at first that the question was "too hot a potato"
Too hot a potato=A very difficult question
For a while the group had considered a proposal to find and teach a set of principles common to all faiths
A set of=a suit of
[We] believe that the American people are deeply, though not always articulately, conscious of a religious heritage to whose central values they want their children to be committed. . . .
Be deeply conscious of=be deeply aware of
Articulately=clearly
But we believe it is the business of public education to impel the young toward a vigorous, decisive personal reaction to the challenge of religion
Impel someone toward something=direct someone to something=urge someone to do something

Functional Sentences
【Something important to be inherit】
[We] believe that the American people are deeply, though not always articulately, conscious of a religious heritage to whose central values they want their children to be committed. . .
A to whose B (a) want (b) to be committed=A’s B that (b) should commit to as what (a) want.
A religious heritage to whose central values they want their children to be committed
A Bushido spirit they want their children to be committed.
We believe that the Chinese people are deeply, though not always articulately, conscious of a Chinese moral to whose central values like filial piety they want their children to be committed.

【Some obstacles should be break for more contacts】
A first step is to break through the wall of ignorance about religion and to increase the number of contacts with it."
A first step is to break through the wall of ignorance about (something should be reached) and to increase the number of contacts with it.

【Something is top/cardinal】
The Bible is second to none among the books that have influenced the thought and ideals of the Western world.
A is second to none among the B.(A belongs to B)
P.S. “Top” equals to “the highest”, so “toppest” is wrong.

【Something as component instead of only additive】
[Religious education] is not something to be added on to the school curriculum, but rather something to be integrated with it"
A is not something to be added on to the B, but rather something to be integrated with it. (A is not only additive but component of B)

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Materials(Ideas/Examples/ Technique)
【Analogy to Something Necessary】
"Schools should accept religion and the churches as a factor of social life, just as much as they do the waterworks."
A should accept B as a factor of social life, just as much as A do the C. (C is something necessary to A and much more common than B)

【Disciplines】
[Religious education] is not something to be added on to the school curriculum, but rather something to be integrated with it"—in existing classes on history, sociology, psychology, economics, philosophy, literature, music, the fine arts.
History, sociology, psychology, economics, philosophy, literature, music and the fine arts.

【Analogy to something helpful/redemptive】
The revival of ancient prejudices, the increase of frustrations, the eclipse of hope. . . . Religion at its best has always been an integrating force, a spiritual tonic for a soul racked by fear and cringing in weakness.
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My Comment(Logical Fallacy/Ideas/Inspiration)
This is an article about religion and education. It is unfamiliar to me but I get some important ideas from it, like “The committee proposed to teach about religion, but not to teach religion itself, in the schools. For a while the group had considered a proposal to find and teach a set of principles common to all faiths”

The movement of breaking a wall of ignorance about religion will focus more on the principles shared with all faiths. By comparison, we may find what are the central values of religious heritage. It is not difficult to understand that essential values are similar among people in the same society and they always serve as benign impetus to direct human development.

Above, I agree with the suggestion of setting religion courses in schools of America, so do education in China.

However, the courses’ form and content should be changed to Confucius, Lao-tzu and some other culture heritage. I believe that the Chinese people are deeply, though not always articulately, conscious of a Confucian heritage to whose central values, such as filial piety, harmony and etc, they want their children to be committed. Again, these central values, though in different forms and tendency from American style, could serve as benign impetus to drive us a better society.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.19]
I'm So Bored With the NEA
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1052308

Useful Expressions
Words and Phrases
The arts’ “role in generating billions of dollars in ancillary economic activity for stores, restaurants and the travel business has been proven in bucketloads of surveys and analyses,”
Ancillary economic activity=relative business
Be proven in bucketloads of surveys and analyses=be proven in a basket of surveys and analyses

In the early 1960s, when our highest elected officials began evangelizing for the creation of state-sponsored arts programs, there was little talk of ancillary economic activity or job creation.
State-sponsored arts programs (noun.)~~Bailout=Fund

You should be equally wary of the NEA.
Be wary of =be cautious of=be watchful of=be careful of
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Materials
Ideas and Examples
【The Declaration of Independence from Art】
We’re artists! Fiercely autonomous! Proudly independent!
Conclusion: Arts should be fiercely autonomous and proudly independent for free will in creation. And creation should neither fawn upon federal fund nor be limited by administrative intervention.
Key: From underachieving arts government should distinguish those competent but extinctive ones when they are not appreciated by most of the people.

【Arts bring Jobs】
The arts’ “role in generating billions of dollars in ancillary economic activity for stores, restaurants and the travel business has been proven in bucketloads of surveys and analyses,”
“Every $1 billion in spending by nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences result[ing] in almost 70,000 full time jobs.”
Do the math on that one and the results are undeniably impressive: If we applied all $787 billion of Bailout: The Sequel to the arts, we’d create approximately 55 million new jobs!
[Opponents] Some people argues that “the arts role in generating billions of dollars in ancillary economic activity for exhibitions, stores and the travel business. It has long been proven in a basket of surveys and analyses” like “every $1 billion in spending by arts organizations and their audiences results in almost 70,000 full time jobs”. But doing the math on the undeniably “impressive” statistics we found it is not so attractive: Equally $1 million for 70 full time jobs per year while each of these 70 people benefits for $14285 per year. By comparing with per capita GDP as $45594 in United States, the arts in fact play an ordinary role, instead of hart-stirring business, in generating dollars.

【Funding arts was successful and meaningful】
At a groundbreaking ceremony for the Kennedy Center in 1964, President Johnson expressed his desire to “enlarge the access of all our people to artistic creation.” A year later, he approved the legislation that created the National Endowment for the Arts. Its first grant, for $100,000, went to the American Ballet Theater, a bequest which, according to the New York Herald Tribune, saved that institution from extinction.
[Purpose]: To enlarge the access of all our people to artistic creation.(I101:"Governments should provide funding for artists so that the arts can flourish and be available to all people.")
[Examples]: National Endowment for the Arts(NEA)’s first grant, for $100,000, went to the American Ballet Theater and thus saved that institution from extinction.

【Funding arts are now ineffective and otiose】
In such a competitive, oversupplied environment, is a lack of funding really the primary reason that not every Midwestern dance troupe is thriving? Will throwing money at highbrow entities suddenly make people less interested in American Idol and YouTube and more interested in Alvin Ailey? At this point, it might be more beneficial for the kinds of arts the NEA has traditionally funded to create a federal agency that spends $150 million a year snipping cable hook-ups, sabotaging iPods, and paying modestly talented environmental sculptors not to create. That way, we might actually have some spare attention to give new orchestral works and accordion festivals.
[Funding do not help] realize the purpose of enlarging access to highbrow arts.
1.Competitive, oversupplied art markets(Already various and excessive accesses)
2.Money on highbrow entities cannot reduce interests of common plays.
3.[reduction to absurdity]Only through cutting the throat of common plays(cable, iPods and etc.) do people have spare attention to highbrow entities(orchestral works and accordion festivals).

【Bad effects posed by federal fund】
NEA is a superfluous organization with a message that belies America’s foundational themes of pluralism and democracy. The wrangling over bailout scraps offered artists an opportunity to exit a bad alliance with an elegant, ironic flourish.
Instead, they acted like investment bankers—really meek investment bankers—and simply asked for more money.
[Paraphrase]: State-sponsored arts programs would belie America’s foundational themes of pluralism and democracy. The combats for bailout would provoke an elegant, ironic flourish of art markets. Lots of articles may be limited to governments’ taste and thus the free will in creation may be curbed.

Technique
【Vivid description to groups who want for federal support】
1)In this long season of bailouts and federally administered stimuli, with seemingly every starving investment banker pleading to Congress that capitalism is just too hard, America’s artists had a golden opportunity to pull off the greatest piece of conceptual art
Starving investment bankers plead to Congress that capitalism is just too hard.
[For unearned income, starving and underachieving artists pleads to government that the art market is depressed right now.]

2)Instead, arts advocates responded like every other underachieving opportunist peddling its troubled assets to federal sugar daddies
[Underachieving opportunists peddle their troubled assets to federal sugar daddies while daddies’ expenditure comes from our competent taxpayers. That is unfair.]
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Relative Issue
85"Government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts."

101"Governments should provide funding for artists so that the arts can flourish and be available to all people."

190"As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—when one considers all the potential uses of such money."
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My Comment
Should governments provide funding for flourish arts?
Inspired by this article, I hold the view that arts should be fiercely autonomous and proudly independent. For free will in creation, it should neither fawn upon federal fund nor be limited by administrative intervention.

The article mainly tell us about a state-sponsored arts program called NEA, The National Endowment for the arts. It first was founded for the purpose of “enlarge(ing) the access of all our people to artistic creation”. And it did it! For example, the American Ballet Theater, which was almost extinct, now is enjoying full house.

However, similar bailout may be otiose today. As what the author means, today we have much more accesses to arts now. Not only those plays thrive itself but also Internet serves as one of catalysts. Audience spontaneously steps into the art market and flourish it.

Today’s state-sponsored arts program are mainly focus on highbrow entities, such as Midwestern dance troupe, orchestral works and accordion festivals. Do they deserve special consideration? Why they need federal fund? Most people do enjoy common works (popular music in iPod and etc.) instead of these highbrow ones. In this competitive, oversupplied art markets (when we do not tell level and quality apart), highbrow entities is not so popular and is probably on the way to death. In consideration of preserving them for extinction, federal sugar daddies begin its state-sponsorship or pose administrative intervention. But, is government competent in distinguishing truly valuable objects from adulterated arts pool?

Saving endangered highbrow entities is unblamable as long as the government has insight for true gold, but in the name of increasing the aesthetic level is definitely unacceptable. As what the author says:” It’s a superfluous organization with a message that belies America’s foundational themes of pluralism and democracy.” The combats for bailout would provoke an elegant, ironic flourish of art markets. Lots of articles may be limited to governments’ taste and thus the free will in creation may be curbed.

Do arts significantly create jobs?
Some people argues that “the arts role in generating billions of dollars in ancillary economic activity for exhibitions, stores and the travel business.” And “It has long been proven in a basket of surveys and analyses” like “every $1 billion in spending by arts organizations and their audiences results in almost 70,000 full time jobs”.

But doing the math on the undeniably “impressive” statistics we found it is not so attractive in fact: Equally $1 million spending changes for only 70 full time jobs and each of these 70 people in relative business benefits for only $14285 per year. By comparing with per capita GDP as $45594 in United States, the arts indeed play an ordinary role in generating dollars. To tell if the arts greatly boost ancillary economic activities, we should make a comparison with other funding programs, such as road works, education and many other influential objects. Otherwise, we cannot judge if the art, especially highbrow entity, is such a heart-stirring business.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.20]        
Using Light and Genes to Probe the Brain
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1052619

Useful Expressions
Words and Phrases
Optogenetics emerges as a potent tool to study the brain's inner workings
Potent=strong=powerful
By adjusting the opening or closing of channels in cell membranes, opsins can switch neurons on or turn them off.
Switch on<->turn off
Instead the electrodes appear to exert their effects on nerve fibers that reach the subthalamic nucleus from the motor cortex and perhaps other areas.
Exert effects on=affect=influence


Functional Sentences
【Issue-To illustrate an Event of a discipline/movement】
A seminal event that sparked widespread neuroscience interest came in 2005, when Karl Deisseroth and his colleagues at Stanford University and at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt demonstrated how a virus could be used to deliver a light-sensitive gene called channelrhodopsin-2 into specific sets of mammalian neurons.
A seminal event [that sparked widespread (discipline/movement) interest] came in (date), when (details about the seminal event).
Seminal=original and important
A is seminal to B=A carries considerable weight with B
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My Comment
The article mainly talks about optogenetics which serves as a method of controlling only specific classes of neurons and leaving the others unaltered.
As the components of its name shows, it is a convergence of optics and genetic engineering which is able to alter animal behavior by throwing a light into an animal's brain.

Certainly, scientists believe that "know how" would brings "know why"; in other words, if we could find ways to control mammalian brain, we may understand brain processes such as memory formation.

In this article, the author emphasizes a seminal event sparking widespread interest in neuroscience. Karl Deisseroth, once a psychiatrist who later devotes himself to bioengineering, succeeded in assembling a powerful tool kit which is able to switch on or turn off neurons. The technique is creative and proved effective so it carries considerable weight with biotechnology.

When I read half of this article, suddenly I fell into the imagination about the possibility of figuring out the fundamental causes of human's behavior and thus getting accesses to control what human do. It seems like a tragedy more than a comedy. If that happens, people may be lost and do not know whether the seemly seamy and stunning world is worth fighting.

The author tells us that Doctor Deisseroth emphasized his papers are not ethics ones, but the ethic issue become daily in his life. Maybe it is too ironic for a science adherent or fanatic to accept that desire, need, and hope probably are nothing but changeable optics information.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.21]        
Electromagnetic manufacturing
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1053017

My Comment

Today’s article tells us something about the use of electromagnetic pulses (EMPs). Once it was always used for warfare; but now people use it in peaceful way such as industry’s metallic production. This article focuses on the new method of shape and punch holes through metal, which could be an alternative way to make goods by using large, heavy presses.

Well, I have not much thing to talk about the technique itself. But about the application of scientific development, I think I could run several essays to express my reasons and emotion.

Scientific development itself has no personality. It does not tell apart kind heart and evil mind. All stunning or seamy consequence are from human being’s proper use or misuse. Melamine, a substance created in science research, was used by businessmen to make available disqualified milk pass the protein test. Nuclear power, which has long been blamed for its ability to kill countless people in short time, could be use for electricity production. And to EMPs, people think it is horrible when associate it with warfare for destroying enemy’s computers and telecommunications gear; in fact, the group of researchers at an institute of Germany recently finds a way to make the reshaping of metal more easy and costless.

Since scientific achievement is innocent, we should be inspired with almost all new inventions. But the application of it should be cautious, should be restricted, should be guided to proper use. Governments are in need. They should realize one of the most responsibilities is to assigns rewards to the good and punishments to the wicked. Such as the EMPs’ old application, government should restrict is as warfare. And about the new application in metal reshaping, government could consider about giving some prizes, no matter material or spiritual, to play a role of ethic guidance. Certainly, if the new application could make a lot of money it need not to be compensated.

Well, my comment is a little bit far away from today’s topic.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.22]        Conformity and individuality
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1053277

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.23] The weakest links
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1053643


Useful Expressions
Banks have been bailed out throughout history.
All this has let the industry operate with smaller safety buffers than in the past, and balloon in size.
The Basel club is making a decent fist of rewriting its rules on capital and liquidity, forcing the banks to operate with larger safety buffers.
This agency cannot be just a glorified contingency planner.

Materials
As any capitalist knows, firms with subsidised funding and no risk of failure usually misallocate capital and can be dysfunctional, as the mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac demonstrate.

My Comment
Agencies with subsidy from governments usually misallocate capital and operate dysfunctionally. “Easy come, easy go.” It is not hard to understand why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prompt a big bubble in real estates.

Governments mostly earn their money from people. Such a big deal of money represents collective material and human resources aiming at market failure when people are in pursuit of individual interests without concerning a larger picture. Ironically, where and how to allocate resources does not always work effectively when a few group of people hijack our governments.

Banks successfully play this trick aboveboard. As what the author said “Banks have been bailed out throughout history.” when “People hate it, but they would hate the devastation that a collapse would bring even more.” The only thing we can do is to learn from history and make sure never does a similar dilemma reoccur in the future.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.24&25] Woman
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1053916-1-1.html

Useful Expressions
Now the debaters have laid out their starting propositions
Lay out=develop
What about women who are more interested in motherhood than the economic rat race?
Economic rat race=Jobs/markets competition.
Women are bearing a burden that their mothers were spared.
A is bearing a burden that B is spared=A do suffer more than B
The struggle for equal pay for equal responsibilities in the workplace between men and women has a long way to run.
The struggle for (something) has a long way to go.(革命尚未成功，同志仍需努力)
Why is the caring role—whether looking after children or the elderly—perceived by some as a raw deal?
A raw deal=inborn skills
This brings us to the nub of the debate: do women have a better opportunity today to realise their potential than they did in the past?
nub= key point
Helping children to understand the world around them is one of the most rewarding experiences that life can offer, while sharing the twilight years of the elderly can be equally rewarding if we can rid ourselves of the shabby images of caring: brattish, screaming infants and incoherent oldies gathered round the TV.
Rid oneself of=get rid of=free from

Sentence Structure
【Pointing Out Fallacies / Eliciting Definitions】
The arguments are beginning to deepen, with serious questions asked about what success means and what it means to say that women have never had it so good.
The argument would be doubtful with serious questions asked about (fallacies / definition)
【Comparison to Unfair Things between A and B】
Female political candidates are subjected to a level of personal scrutiny, some of it strikingly vitriolic, that men do not have to endure.
(A )are subjected to (Unfair Things), some of it strikingly (extreme adj. for Unfair things), that B do not have to endure.
【Metaphor for someone/something suffering for conflicts】
That is harsh, but women must believe this of themselves if they are to reshape a better future than the conflict-strewn path of history carved by men.
Someone/something is on a conflict-strewn path of history

Unfamiliar Words
Angst plight allotted quibble clerical brattish
be slotted within
Carreràcarrier
Metorporàmetaphor
Exlicitingà eliciting

My Comment
The moderator introduce us the bifurcation of this debate. That is, the definition of success. Then he conclude the main point of proposer and opposition.

The proposer depends on the word “never had it so good” so that he believes the question should focus on the comparison between modern and past situation. It seems logical but as far as I am concerned, his argument makes no sense. As what “Effective Writing” told us, readers would ask “So what?” We definitely know after several important feminist activities and equal status in education, woman certainly get better choices than before.

But then, I find how the proposer brings an interesting nub: We should examine if women have a better opportunity today to realize their potential. He illustrates the change from predestined carrier path to today’s freedom in choosing jobs.

The proposer then suddenly points out that feminists women should fight to restore the dignity of mother hood and urge men to direct equal input in family. That means while women have freedom to choose what they do, they also cannot forget the enjoyment in operating a family. That is also a choice. Finally, I understand the proposer prove his issue by women’s more choices not only in career but also between family and jobs.

The opposition critically point out that even though women have lots more choices than they used to have, their choices are still more constrained than men’s. Moreover, sexism makes females in public be suffered from unfair personal scrutiny.

As what the moderators said, “The fact that women have conflicting choices—particularly over whether they should find fulfilment in motherhood or careers—is creating a great deal of angst.” That means women may get more choices in career indeed. In fact, the ingrained concept that women are better than men in family makes them compromise with men and thus give up jobs they are eager for. The dilemma women meet today is a burden that their mothers were spared. So women never had it so good.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.26]
The fat plateau
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1054396-1-2.html

Unfamiliar Words
Heap, enticing, trebled, nanny, nag, propaganda, fare

Useful Expressions

Words and Phrases
Unsurprisingly, this book is not publicly available.
Be publicly available=be available to public
In all, 68% of Americans are either obese or overweight.
Obese>Overweight
Few problems, besides death, afflict more people.
Afflict=cause suffering=torture=rack
Plausible theories abound.
A abound=there are a lot of A
“fighting obesity is at the heart” of health reform.
A is at the heart of B=A is cardinal/important/central/essential of B
Americans are suspicious of the nanny state at the best of times, let alone when it nags them to curb their most basic instincts.
Be suspicious of=suspect
Other wholesome fare (=food)
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Materials

【Description of Hardworking People with Little Money】
They often toil long, irregular hours for not much money.

【Argument-Alternative Explanation】
Eating is social. Studies suggest that people guzzle more if they have overweight friends and relatives, and less if they don’t.
When talking about some activity, you can think about the social interaction among people. That is, mutual boost or curb may cause the phenomenon described in the Argument.
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My Comment
A book with a series of daily photographs opens the curtain of today’s topic. I could understand how the scene looks like: Heaps of hamburgers, spots of ketchup, splash of coke, and certainly, the super size fans.

It is ironic for Americans, who faithfully believe in Bible, commit one of the deadliest sins--Gluttony. From this article I got an interesting idea that the so-called “Nanny State” nags her super-size residents not for maternal love but for the high cost of health-bills. Obesity ruins American’s health and thus places a burden on the health-care system. Nanny Sam, Uncle Sam’s another image, gets a headache about the medical charges for their children.

This article also tells us some plausible theories about obesity. The problem is consuming more calories than burning off as food becomes relatively cheaper and time grows more precious. More and more people enjoy the fast-food and gorge them until they are full. Moreover, automatics saves calories when people lack access to moving their body except fingers. However, the author suddenly point out these theories do not explain why only Americans stand out fattestly among so many developed countries.

Fortunately, supersize American recently meets its plateau in obesity rate. But I believe the struggle for trim has a long way to go.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.27]
Medicine goes digital
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1054792-1-1.html
Unfamiliar Words
Gusto, long-heralded, paternalistic, untenable
The hidebound health-care systems of the rich world may resist new technologies even as poor countries leapfrog ahead.
Useful Expressions
Words and Phrases
The convergence of biology and engineering is turning health care into an information industry.
The Convergence of discipline A and discipline B=the merging of= Discipline A embrace Discipline B.
[m-w]The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole
The health-care sector has been surprisingly reluctant to embrace information technology (IT)
Be reluctant to=be unwilling to=refuse to
But also hugely beneficial to patients
A be beneficial to B=A benefits B
But now, in fits and starts, medicine is at long last catching up.
In fits and starts=frequently stops and starts=disruptive
[idiom]if something happens in fits and starts, it often stops and then starts again
At long last=finally
The sequencing of the human genome nearly a decade ago set off a second revolution which has started to illuminate the origins of diseases.
Set off=take off
Illuminate=enlighten=throw light upon
Illuminate=illustrate=clarify=explain=show
The market for medical innovations of all kinds is bound to grow.
Is bond to=must
Clever technology can help solve two big problems in health care: overspending in the rich world and under-provisioning in the poor world.
Overspending<->under-provisioning(需求过剩vs.供给不足)
There is already a backlash against genomics, which has been oversold to consumers as a deterministic science.
A backlash against=a strong and adverse reaction against(esp.a social, political, technological development) by a large number of people
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Functional Sentences
【Argument-Euphemism before Pointing Out Fallacies】
Some of the industry’s optimism appears to be well-founded.
Appears to be=seems
Well-founded<->Untenable

【Argument-Further Evidence Help Proof】
And given soaring health-care costs, insurers and health systems may not want to adopt new technologies unless inventors can show conclusively that they will produce better outcomes and offer value for money.
(Conclusion is not right) unless the author can show conclusively that (further evidence/information)
Conclusive=convincing=persuasive<->inconclusive
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Materials
【Examples for Advanced Science】
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says that physical sciences have already been transformed by their adoption of information technology, advanced materials, imaging, nanotechnology and sophisticated modelling and simulation.
Information technology, advanced materials, imaging,
nanotechnology and sophisticated modeling and simulation.

【Analogy for a Discipline which was Unpredictable, Unrepeatable】
Like chemistry before it, biology is moving from a world of alchemy and ignorance to becoming a predictable, repeatable science.
Like chemistry before it, economics is moving from a world of alchemy and ignorance to become a predictable, repeatable science by its adoption of physical science.
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My Comment
Well, I think I inappropriately pose an invaluable article today. Hope you guys do not mind. Just treat it as background information about industries’ digitization.

It is a little bit strange that medicine has long been reluctant to embrace the IT. Why doctors in most parts of the world still work mainly with pen and paper while accountants, attorneys, merchants and etc. has computerized with gusto? The answer is the “hidebound” health-care system, which is tagged with mistrust of new tech, new science (e.g. genomics) and high-level health-care costs.

From this article, we can also learn some merits of digitization in medicine. To doctors, they can share medical records so I believe this industry would enjoy a period of knowledge explosion (though privacy perhaps becomes a problem). To patients, digitization can help solve the problem of information asymmetry. In other words, patients could enlarge access to know what they suffer from, what medicines they do or will swallow, how to prevent serious problems, and how much, exactly, their health-bill deserve to pay.

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香港(river crab)投诉(river crab)合唱团
娱乐一下～这是政治的艺术，也因由艺术而带来力量。。。
This time, the power of art is not from ruler, but from people...
However, I again found it has been river crab...囧
http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTQ0MzU4NDQ4/v.swf
了解时事、知道一些典故的童鞋～一定会露出会心一笑～^_^

投诉可以用唱歌的方式来表达？对，你甚至可以与素不相识的人一同唱出不满与牢骚，不理会你是官绅名门，或是打工一族，又或屋恏师奶，有意成为投诉合唱团一分子的都欢迎填表参与。其实，投诉合唱团最先出现于芬兰，其他国家的大城市如首尔、新加坡、汉堡、圣彼德堡、墨尔本、芝加哥、佛罗伦斯等，都先后出现投诉合唱团，唱出对社会的不满，而斯洛文尼亚更有专属残障人士的投诉合唱团。

　筹备多时后，现在香港已有自己的投诉合唱团。香港投诉合唱团由非牟利艺术活动团体Pep!策划筹组，这源于其中的策划成员郑惠森在纽约看到有关当地投诉合唱团的展览，她与另一成员方韵芝都觉得可以在香港作尝试，于是?手筹备。早于今年年初伙炭艺术工作室开放计划时已首次向外作前奏展览，其后于今年的Hong Kong Art Walk期间在中环播放世界各地投诉合唱团的片段，上月亦曾在旺角宣传，至今收集了700多个投诉，并把投诉写成歌词，经彩排后做过至少6次巡回演出，更在今年8月会以录像形式记录整个香港投诉合唱团的过程，于牛棚举行展览。  非为谋私利　唱出心底话 　也许有人觉得这样做会令现时投诉变得泛滥，或者强化了现时所谓的投诉文化。成员之一的方韵芝是香港浸会大学视觉艺术院毕业生，她认为策划本地投诉合唱团是一个平台，让大家能够共同参与，表达对社会的情感。「投诉未必一定能解决问题或得到回应，可能只是对现实提出疑问，如我写了一个投诉是说为什么放工时间巴士上的人都睡?。你未必是追求一个回应，但你会质疑为什么会有这样的场景出现。这次投诉的其中一个分类是『life & fact』（生活与现实），内里很多都是解决不了的事情，要回应就是That's life（这就是现实）。」

合唱团目的　大家齐参与 　
「投诉合唱团的目的不是要机制作出回应，甚或在投诉过程中得到什么利益，也并非要针对某个特定对象，我们收到的700多个投诉只是一个element（元素），让我们去做这个art project，歌词可能包含几百个投诉，但是否要就每一个投诉得到回应？其实不是。反而想一班人共同参与一件事，如参与者在谱写歌词时谈谈不同年代的投诉，互相交流，目标并非要得到什么回应或利益，而是一同谈谈投诉，令他们思考为什么我们会在这个system里作这样的投诉。」

至于合唱团所唱的歌词可不是即场「爆肚」，为了广征不同的投诉，事前已定期收集各界人士的投诉和不满，务求唱出来可以引起社会间的共鸣。这次香港投诉合唱团收集到700多个投诉，分设8个不同类别，包括环境问题、政府、教育、香港人、生活与现实、企业交通与城市发展、工作与金钱，甚至有对投诉合唱团的投诉，经过整理而写成入乐歌词。填词和音乐分别找了周显辉和独立乐队PixelToy的何山合作，可以想像歌词与音乐的配合会带点幽默讽刺的风格吧。

关于投诉合唱团 　投诉合唱团的概念原是来自芬兰艺术家Tellero Kalleinen和Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen。起初他们希望将市民对城市的抱怨转化成另一种强大的力量。芬兰词汇「Valituskuoro」便是投诉合唱团的意思，用以形容很多人同时投诉的情景，他们便以这个字面意思成立了真正的「投诉合唱团」。他们的第一次演出是在伯明翰，取得空前的成功，自此在世界不同城市演出，包括首尔、新加坡、汉堡、圣彼德堡、墨尔本、芝加哥、佛罗伦斯等。而多个城市的投诉合唱团片段更于早前在纽约的P.S.1当代艺术中心播放。投诉合唱团汇聚了男女老少、互不相识的人就特定事件或个人经历道出对城市的不满，这种以集体形式对城市进行控诉，不期然地使参与者和听众会心微笑，也让人关注社会现时的情况，相信这个计划将会陆续在世界上其他城市举行。

I like this song. Complains in the form of art are not necessary for responses from our system, but for an opputunity to gather a group of people thinking deeply about why we make such complains. I like this song when people calmly think and sing instead of impulsively wage rebellion. That's cool!!! I am looking forward to more opus!

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最后一次给你机会，某KON，选择了这条路，就别给我没效率。。。
期末考后，睡也睡够了，就赶快脱离这个状态。。。
最后期限，明天，把东西补完，后天必须加入到作文讨论里面！！！

Countdown:41

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早上补了两篇COMMENT,背了两个LIST
下午晚上很杯具地被拉出图书馆了。。。不说了··早睡早期明天图书馆