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