Some School Needs Students

Not Like Acalanes High School, schools in Maine needs many students, so they are going for a Chinese students. There, of course, are some reason why people does not move to that area, but they want people to come to their school.

 Kenneth Smith, the schools superintendent, is so certain that Chinese students will eventually arrive by the dozen — paying $27,000 a year in tuition, room and board — that he is scouting vacant properties to convert to dormitories. On Friday, Dr. Smith left for China, where he is spending a week pitching Stearns High to school officials, parents and students in Beijing, Shanghai and two other cities. He has hired a consultant to help him make connections in China, lobbied Millinocket’s elected officials and business owners to embrace the plan and even directed the school’s cafeteria workers to add Chinese food to the menu.

I personally think Kenneth Smith made a smart move, because no matter what they do, he knew Americans will not go to that place where there are hour’s drive from the nearest mall or movie theater, or that it gets an average 93 inches of snow a year.He found a perfect alternative to get his school running, even if it means they have to bring foreigners to their school.

Jerry Brown's New Advertisement

Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman are still competing over the Governor. I do not know who is going to win, but I like this new Ad that came up by Jerry Brown.



This Advertisement show us that Meg Whitman came to California 30 years ago, when Jerry Brown was a Governor,  and I think she kind of admits Jerry Brown's ability of governing a state.

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Chinese Stealing Talented American

The United States' Silicon Valley is known to the world as a world of technologies. However, the this might change as the Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, is trying to hire engineer from Silicon Valley.

This spring, an executive from a Chinese telecommunications equipment company made an intriguing job offer to a Silicon Valley software engineer. The Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, wanted to get into the booming market for Internet-based computing, and it had just moved its United States research headquarters here to capture some of the best local talent.

They are not recruiting few engineers, they are willing to hire almost every people from Silicon Valley. 

“How many engineers would you like for your team? Several hundred? That’s not a problem,” the recruiter said, according to the engineer.

 It sure is great opportunity for the software engineers,  and we cannot say anything about that Chinese company recruiting talented American. However, if Silicon Valley does not do anything to prevent this from happening not only losing money, America will lose their future.

LimeWire is About to be Disabled

LimeWire was a software I used to use to download musics, although I knew it will cost lot of musicians money. However, people who still uses LimeWire might have to find other software to download musics because it is about to be Disabled.

A federal judge in New York issued an injunction on Tuesday that will essentially shut down LimeWire, the big music file-sharing service that has been mired in a four-year legal struggle with the music industry. The case has already resulted in the company and its founder being found liable for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

 Even though using LimeWire is a great software to get a free song, but I do believe it needs to be disabled because its costing musicians' money and if they keep on losing money, they, someday, might stop making musics and we do not want to see that happen.

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 Kobe putting everybody on the clinic

Attack Leading to the Deal

Recently, the United States did not do anything but defending themselves. Sure, the troops are in other country, but in reality, they are not doing anything aggressive. Therefore, it seemed like the war is never going to end. However, America will no longer wait for them to attack them, it's time to finish the job.

And it seems increasingly clear that he is partly using the attacks to expand a parallel path to the end of the war: an American-led diplomatic initiative, very much in its infancy but ultimately aimed at persuading the Taliban — or large parts of the movement — to make peace with the Afghan government.

Because of those aggressive moves, the U.S. and Taliban are approaching to the new deal. If they stopped from being defensive, but being offensive, they could have reached the new deal sooner than this. Even if they do not reach the new deal this time, this proves that Taliban are still afraid of the U.S. so they should keep attack them until they surrender.

Time to Drive Electric Cars?

First electric cars came out a while ago. However, not many people bought it because it was too small, or they just did not like the design. So, some company came up with new electric cars that actually has a lot of space and looks cool. However, many people are afraid to buy the care because  the car itself cost a lot of money and

Buying the charger and having it installed will average $2,000 (Nissan says $2,200), but there are many important variables that could raise the price quite a bit from there. Richard Lowenthal, chief executive of the charging company Coulomb Technologies, said that in extreme cases major wiring upgrades and installation of new panels could cost as much as $10,000. 

Unless people come up with the new ways to reduce the cost of installation, no one, except rich people, could afford to drive the electric cars, which means even though many people care about the environment, simply cannot afford to save the earth. I think government should support the electric cars industry or that charging companies, so they can lower the price of their product.

Reward for Being Patient

33 Chilean was trapped in the mine tunnel for more than 2 months. However, they have managed to get rescued by the government by being patient. They survived from that horrible incident, and they are about to get surprise present. NY Times said,

Leonardo Farkas, a Chilean businessman, has already written checks of five million pesos, or about $10,460, to each of the 33 men. Mr. Farkas, an eccentric mining entrepreneur known across the country for his philanthropy and long blond hair, went ahead with the donations as a way of helping the men ease into their new lives. 

And they also get a free vacation in Greece. I really think they deserve that money and a vacation, because they have motivated a lot of people who was in a desperate situation like them. And they need to relax for a while, because they were under a lot of stresses for last 2 months. There are no doubts that they do not deserves that money.

Silicon Valley’s Solar Innovators Retool to Catch Up to China

Tom Friedman talked about the importance of environment. And attempt of using the renewable resource, fuels from the heaven, are necessary to this country. And this could make our country to be more green and efficient. NY times reporter, Tood Woody says,

Founded by veterans of the Valley’s chip and hard-drive industries, these companies attracted billions of dollars in venture capital investment on the hope that their advanced “thin film” technology would make them the Intels and Apples of the global solar industry.

Solyndra came up with a new technology that would reduce the price of the solar power technology, and this could lead the America to be number one again. And not only that, Solyndra is not outsourcing the jobs to the foreign countries. This kind of proves that Tom Friendman's idea, code green, will lead the United States to be a number one nation again.

My Political Lean

My result for the political philosophy quiz is moderate. 



   The Quiz

The following are your scores. They are based on a gradual range of 0 to 12. For instance, a Conservative/Progressive score of 3 and 0 will both yield a result of social conservative, yet 0 would be an extreme conservative and 3 a moderate conservative

Conservative/Progressive score: 5
You are a social moderate. You think the progressive movement is overall well meaning, but sometimes it goes too far. On issues like abortion and affirmative action, you see the negatives of both extremes on the issue. You probably value religion, but at the same time you think it should still stay separate from the government

Capitalist Purist/Social Capitalist score: 8
You are a Moderate Capitalist. You support an economy that is by and large a free market, but has public programs to help people who can't help themselves or need a little help. Pretty much you believe in the American economy how it currently is.

Libertarian/Authoritarian score: 5
You're a Moderate. You think that we all have certain inalienable rights that must be protected, but that sometimes laws need to be made to protect the majority's lives or quality of lives. You might think that the 2nd amendment isn't necessary anymore because letting everyone a gun is extremely dangerous to the community. You might also be against illegal drug use or public pornography because of its possible harmful effects to society.

Pacifist/Militarist score: 4
You're a Moderate. You think that in very rare occasions, the United States should invade a country in order to make the world better by spreading democracy or ending a tyrants rule. You also think that defense is very important, and we shouldn't lower the defense budget. You think that, while the Iraq War probably was a mistake, that we can make the world a better place by sticking with it and spreading democracy in the middle east.

Overall, you would most likely fit into the category of Moderate