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I have continued blogging at http://stanosheck.com/ so, if you are looking at what is interesting me these days, please join me there. I have been blogging there since 2003 and going non-stop since then. This was just a short jaunt of hot-diggity news, which I now post in full directly to my blog at http://orthodoxscouter.blogspot.com/ instead. I look forward to seeing you there.

The Doggs at Digg removed the “Blog This!” link on Dugg stories. That was all this blog ever was, a collection of my Dugg stories, so I kiss this, my only WordPress.com blog, goodbye. I will continue to work on a WordPress.com hosted site called http://AntlerPicasso.com which is currently a work in process for the Antler Picasso of Earth-Friendly, Enviromentally Sustainable, Renewable Resource, Green Furniture made of annual antler sheds of deer, elk, moose, and their ilk. Be sure to check out that site after its official launch in August 2009!

There are fat, old and ugly laowai (foreigners) with beautiful Chinese women at their sides and the Chinese society doesn’t like the laowai just for such kind of reasons. Because of some laowais misbehaving, all laowai are judged in a negative way by the Chinese due to extrapolation. So stop misbehaving you bad laowai!

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The life of your CHinese gold farmer: LI Hua makes a living playing computer games. Working from a cramped office in the heart of Changsha, China, he slays dragons and loots virtual gold in 10-hour shifts. Next to him, rows of other young workers do the same. “It is just like working in a factory, the only difference is that this is the virtual world,” says Li. WOW!

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During the violent riot by 150 workers, one of the cops protecting us came up to me. ‘We’re hungry, we are thinking about going for lunch,’ he said. My boss was speechless. When we opened the door, there was a huge mess of cigarette butts and sunflower seeds, but there was no one there. All the rioters had gone for lunch too. Welcome to China!

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Married businessman, hit by economic downturn, decides to keep only one mistress
Man stages private talent contest without telling mistresses his intention
First woman to be knocked out drove car over cliff with lover, other mistresses, inside
Amusing ending. 🙂

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The number of abortions performed on teenage girls who have had at least one before has risen by almost 70 per cent since 1991, fuelling fears that terminations are being carried out for lifestyle reasons.

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More than 380 legislators in Tibet unanimously endorsed a bill Monday to mark March 28 as “Serfs Emancipation Day”, the date when about one million serfs and slaves in the region were freed in 1959 following an order of the State Council, or the Cabinet, to dismiss the local government of Tibet and replace it with a Regional People’s Committee.

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Google Drive, or Gdrive as it is better known, has to be the most anticipated Google product so far. When it arrives, Gdrive will likely cause a major paradigm shift in how we use computers and bring Google one step closer to dethroning Windows on your desktop.

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Here is great news for all the foreigners who are curious about China web. Tencent has just quietly launched its international portal for QQ, IMQQ.com where you can find all the English information you need to try QQ. The very latest English version of QQ, QQ2009 Beta for Windows was also released together with its Mac & Linux versions as 1.0 betas

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Pearl Long was an orphan with severe medical conditions. Through a clerical error, she was adopted by an American family not looking to adopt. They nursed her back to health, taught her English, and one day found that their girl was on the cover of a book of orphaned Chinese girls which led her to meeting famous author, Amy Tan. This is her story.

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Orthodoxy was born from the Great Schism of 1054, when feuds over papal authority and differences in the liturgy split Christianity into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox halves. In the past, their growth had been largely fueled by immigration, with churches forming mainly along ethnic lines. But now the growth is mostly by conversion.

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Culturefish Media of China is selling 130 of its prime domains with free SEO and tech support services of its CEO, Lonnie B. Hodge, to benefit two cancer survivors needing immediate treatment. All proceeds above the funds needed will go to three 501C3 Charities in The US and China. Please help if you can.

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The Fed has initiated a program to purchase half a trillion dollars worth of mortgage debt that is purportedly clogging up the credit markets. This is essentially what the TARP program was initially supposed to do – buy back mortgage securities. But they decided not to. Now the Fed is doing something similar, though there are important differences

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No computers, downloads, or phone cards necessary. Just dial and talk internationally and pay local rates! How does it work? You give RebTel the phone number of a friend in another country, and they give you a local number for them. Then you are given a local number for them that they can call you back on your mobile for absolutely no cost to you!

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The following tutorial for people who want to install a Linux distribution on their PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. But, before you jump to the installation of this Linux-based OS, please read the warning information (in red) below and all editor’s notes throughout the entire tutorial.

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Met with Nik and Fei in real life  in Oct of 2008. We firstly met via the Facebook. Impressed by his feeling about China.  Then I began pay attention to Nik. Until there were 2 stories happened in the Oct 2008, a sad and a happy stories…

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Seven years ago today this question would have been ridiculous. Total taxation as a percentage of GDP is much lower in the PRC than the US (18% China vs 35% America). Plus, China has a seemingly enormous grey market economy that operates outside of the reach of government interference and control.

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The strangest thing happens. Everybody in the office stops doing anything at around 11:45 am, and eats (not too strange..), but when you look around at 1:30 pm, everyone’s asleep! There’s even a sofa-bed next to the desks for napping on. Often three of the girls will cram onto it at once and snooze. Many simply sleep through the break at their desk

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A 12-year-old girl has been left paralyzed from the waist down by a mystery illness that came on half an hour after she was given the new anti-cervical cancer jab, according to reports. A week later she was admitted to hospital after losing all strength in her legs — two months later, there has been no improvement. This is not the first incident.

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In an attempt to boost security, Sichuan Airlines is recruiting female flight attendants with martial arts skills to work on a new route between Chengdu in western China and the South Korean capital, Seoul.

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Something remarkable happened when evangelists for two great religions crossed paths more than 1,000 years ago: they got along! With today’s religious intolerance, such a thing seems impossible, but it is true. Christianity and Buddhism not only tolerated one another, but they actually cooperated!

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In response to the financial crisis of 2008, the United States has responded by nationalizing industries and electing a president who promised to raise taxes on entrepreneurial efforts. China, the nominally Communist nation, has responded by cutting business taxes to stimulate growth. Remind me which nation supposedly supports capitalism……>>

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With the advent of the EU, developing over a period of 50 years, all of the ingredients to a World Order is now in place. The EU has a currency, a body of law, trade agreements and a very vocal desire to become the leader of the world. There is even a plan to provide the UN a 50,000 member ‘Peace-Keeping Force’ and a binding climate law.

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In short, human flesh search describes the phenomenon in which a group of Chinese netizens, strangers to one another, organize online to discover an individual
’s personal information and track down his or her whereabouts. Once the target is identified, the online search can transition into the physical world. Enraged netizens will call and harass..

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Internet cafe operators are required to remove unlicensed software and replace it with legitimate copies of either Microsoft Windows or China’s homegrown Red Flag Linux operating system. However, Radio Free Asia said cafes were being required to install Red Flag Linux even if they were using authorized copies of MS Windows.

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Tibet Daily, a leading newspaper in the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwest China, has condemned the Dalai Lama and his supporters for their continued support of secession by violent means while waving the banner of “peace”.

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This new type of street lamp can generate electrical power by means of wind and solar energy panel at the same time. In addition, it can store energy day and night. The green street lamps also apply to wider areas and their life is much longer than the ordinary street lamps. This will reduce pollutant emission and energy costs for the Hunan city.

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Compared with the previous version 6.0, the new version offers features like IBM’s Cell SDK 3.1, Firefox 3, and OpenOffice 2.3. On the Sony Playstation 3, the system can for the first time use the RSX GPU’s 256MB of memory as a swap partition, which should noticeably enhance the distribution’s performance.

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FixStars today released Yellow Dog Linux v6.1 for Apple G4/G5, Sony PLAYSTATION3, PowerStation, and IBM Power Systems. Built upon the CentOS foundation, a derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, YDL v6.1 offers several end-user and development tool improvements over the previous v6.0.

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Based on the tremendously successful Firefox 3, the China Edition is a super-charged version that provides a whole range of benefits to Internet users in China. Note there are both a Chinese version and an English version, and we provide downloads that run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The English version also has the same services.

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Wang Jianbo, the chairman of China E-commerce, stated the company applied for a patent for RSS service in 2005, and obtained the patent certificate in December 2007 from China’s State Intellectual Property Office with patent number being No. ZL 2005 1 0022721.3. Wang says Microsoft adopted the technology in Vista without the company’s authorization.

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Fixstars Corporation, a pioneering company in Cell Broadband Engine™ based solutions, today announced the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Terra Soft Solutions, the world renowned developer of Yellow Dog Linux. The new subsidiary Fixstars Solutions, Inc., of San Jose, California, maintains the entire Terra Soft staff, product line….

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