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发帖数: 1717 | 1 saw one article about this
Options Highest Since 2007 Shows Gains Intact Amid Hedging (1)
(Updates with today’s S&P 500 level in seventh paragraph.)
By Jeff Kearns and Whitney Kisling
April 25 (Bloomberg) -- The end of the Federal Reserve’s
Treasury repurchase program is prompting options traders to pay
the most in four years for protection against stock declines, a
signal that proved bullish in the past.
The cost of three-month put options to sell the Standard &
Poor’s 500 Index ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 339 | 2 以下是WSJ上的一篇文章
Paulson Funds Struggle as Big Bets Backfire; Gold Works
By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN
Prominent hedge-fund investor John Paulson, who runs the $38 billion Paulson
& Co., has suffered sizable losses in recent weeks amid fresh worries about
the global economy, pushing a key fund deep into the red for the year so
far.
Mr. Paulson's $9 billion Advantage Plus fund lost more than 13% in the early
part of this month, through June 10, leaving it down 19.65% for the year,
according to two investors b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1972 | 3 CNN) -- A rogue trader has cost UBS an estimated $2 billion, the Swiss
banking giant announced Thursday, revealing what could be the third-largest
loss of its kind in banking history.
A $2 billion rogue trading loss would be all but unprecedented, market
analyst Ralph Silva told CNN.
"We have only had three or four other situations... in the billions, and
that is exactly what happened," he said.
The bank is large enough to take a $2 billion hit, experts said. Shares in
UBS were down 11% on the U... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 575 | 4 【 以下文字转载自 Chinook 俱乐部 】
发信人: chinook (Base Loaded), 信区: Chinook
标 题: Traders Warn of Market Cracks
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 19 00:02:22 2011, 美东)
谁睡不着觉，读者玩。WSJ上的。
Traders Warn of Market Cracks .
By TOM LAURICELLA And GREGORY ZUCKERMAN
Amid the wild swings of the past few weeks, traders are finding difficulty
executing trades without causing a big swing in prices, Gregory Zuckerman
reports on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.
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Amid the wild swings of the past few weeks, cracks are appearing deep in t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1058 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: 法国总统萨科齐说，10年前允许希腊加入欧元区是个错误
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Oct 28 12:16:28 2011, 美东)
Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to take the shine off a day of jubilation in
financial markets at a deal to rescue the eurozone when he said it had been
an "error" to allow Greece to join the euro a decade ago.
As further protests took placein Athens the French president appealed for
the public to back reforms intended to maintain Greece's membership of the
single curr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 440 | 6 NEW YORK—Goldman Sachs Group Inc. earnings topped analysts' expectations
despite significantly lower revenue and profit amid a global slump in
trading and other capital-markets activities.
Fourth-quarter profits fell 58%, to $1.01 billion, down from $2.4 billion in
the fourth quarter 2010. Earnings per-share of $1.84 beat expectations of $
1.24 as the firm chopped expenses and bonuses. Analysts had cut estimates
repeatedly of late amid a slack trading ... |
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发帖数: 621 | 7 The executive hemorrhaging at Zynga (ZNGA) continues as VP Roy
Sehgal, who created Café World, quits to take a sabbatical from work, while
Steve Schreck, a general manager who led the development of a recent hit
called "Hidden Chronicles," is leaving to join the mobile gaming start-up of
another Zyngal alumnus, Mike Verdu.
Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) Vice President Roy Sehgal and Steve Schreck, a general
manager, are departing as the largest maker of social games struggles to
keep top managers amid a stoc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16971 | 8 By AL YOON, JACOB BUNGE AND NICK TIMIRAOSAl Yoon
Updated Nov. 7, 2013 3:40 p.m. ET
Trading in thousands of unlisted shares, including the government-backed
mortgage companies Fannie Mae FNMA +4.78% and Freddie Mac, FMCC +2.71% was
frozen for more than five hours Thursday after a "connectivity issue"
knocked out stock quotes at online-quotations company OTC Markets Group Inc.
OTCM -0.64%
The outage prevented the New York company from opening trading Thursday
until 3 p.m. EST.
OTC Markets provid... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1630 | 9 FROM ZH
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-13/31-year-old-hedge-fund
Over the weekend, there has been some consternation over the report that the
CEOs of the 6 largest US banks: JPM, BAC, GS, MS, C and WFC, collectively
made $96.1 million in 2013, more than $86.3 million the year before and the
most since the financial crisis.
However, we are confident those same people would have an aneurism if they
were to learn that James "Jimmy" Levin, a 31-year-old hedge fund trader -
head of global cred... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4273 | 10 Financials on the move as rate hike draws nearer
This morning's strong nonfarm payroll report may put to rest the idea
of a continuing economic slowdown and puts on the table a rate hike
maybe as soon as September.
The 10-year Treasury yield is up nine basis points to 2.40%.
The KRE +1.5%, KBE +1.6%, and the XLF +1.1% amid a flat S&P 500.
Regional banks: Regions Financial (RF +3.3%), KeyCorp (KEY +2.5%), PNC
Financial (PNC +1.9%), SunTrust (STI +2.3%), U.S. Bancorp (USB +2.2%),
Zions (ZION +3.7%... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4273 | 11 Financials on the move as rate hike draws nearer
This morning's strong nonfarm payroll report may put to rest the idea
of a continuing economic slowdown and puts on the table a rate hike
maybe as soon as September.
The 10-year Treasury yield is up nine basis points to 2.40%.
The KRE +1.5%, KBE +1.6%, and the XLF +1.1% amid a flat S&P 500.
Regional banks: Regions Financial (RF +3.3%), KeyCorp (KEY +2.5%), PNC
Financial (PNC +1.9%), SunTrust (STI +2.3%), U.S. Bancorp (USB +2.2%),
Zions (ZION +3.7%... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4987 | 12 这轮暴跌很多场外资金开始进场了
Investors Threw $5 Billion at S&P 500 ETF in Wednesday's Rally
*Fund flows reversed as S&P 500 rebounded from correction
*Hedge funds turned neutral after being short U.S. equities
Sensing a floor in equities or at least a bounce, clients of exchange-traded
funds poured more than $5 billion into the largest stock ETF Wednesday, a
sum equal to all the money they pulled out as shares plunged the previous
week.
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, also known as Spyders, halted two days of
ou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6339 | 13 Markets | Wed Dec 9, 2015 2:32pm EST
Biggest 2016 risk may be the one just behind us: oil
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The biggest financial risk in 2016 may be the one that's been on stage all
year.
Financial markets have been living with the consequences of the energy
deflation since mid-2014, and the fallout has been pervasive. The idea of
another shock of that magnitude is unnerving to say the least.
More than a trillion dollars of market capitalization has been wiped off oil
stocks worldwide.
Almost ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3577 | 14 By Mark Melin on December 28, 2015 2:10 pm
Chinese Hedge Fund Launches Swell As Count Nears 25,000!
Chinese Hedge fund – As looser regulation has swept across China, new hedge
fund launches are surging at an unheard of pace. This all comes at a time
when some of the larger hedge fund managers have “gone incommunicado,” or
worse yet, “missing” amid a government crackdown.
The Asset Management Association of China (AMAC) counts 24,625 hedge funds
as of December 2015, up from nearly 17,000 in Janua... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 567 | 15 怎么是媒体说。里面是oil producer们在说。自己看吧。
The world’s most powerful oilman brought a harsh message to Houston for
executives hoping for a rescue from low prices: high-cost producers -- many
of them sitting in the room -- need to either “lower costs, borrow cash or
liquidate."
For the thousands of executives attending the IHS CERAWeek conference, the
message from Saudi Arabia oil minister Ali al-Naimi means deeper spending
cuts, laying off more roughnecks and idling drilling rigs.
"It sounds harsh, and unf... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 209 | 16 Judge Re-Opens Case Amid Claim Merck Scientist Lied
Kartikay Mehrotra
Apr 30, 2016 3:09 am ET
(Bloomberg) -- A federal judge re-opened Merck & Co.’s patent case against
Gilead Sciences Inc. over a hepatitis C drug amid claims that an ex-Merck
scientist lied to a jury that awarded the company $200 million in damages.
U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman said Friday she’s “outraged”
about an allegation the now-retired scientist deceived jurors with testimony
that he was responsible for early br... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7881 | 17 Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said she would support
changes to the top ranks of the Federal Reserve, an issue recently
championed by progressive groups amid debate over how long the central bank
should keep supporting the American economy.
The Fed is led by a seven-member board of governors based in Washington and
a dozen regional bank presidents based across the country, from New York to
Kansas City to San Francisco. The governors are nominated by the White House
and app... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2123 | 20 The inverted yield curve has set off alarm bells that a recession may loom
around the corner. Historically, that's been a good bet, and recessions
almost always unleash bear markets for the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq.
But this yield-curve inversion, which may be short-lived, looks different.
While it raises some concern about the long-term economic outlook, the
recent inverted yield curve actually is welcome in the near term.
"We may actually have seen a rather unique occurrence: the Fed actu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1632 | 21 【 以下文字转载自 EB23 讨论区 】
发信人: iceui (iceui), 信区: EB23
标 题: WSJ:1万个签证给美国大学主修工程信息自然科学博士
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Oct 22 14:14:04 2011, 美东)
Visas Could Aid Graduates
By LAURA MECKLER
Momentum is building in Congress toward offering expedited green cards to
people with advanced scientific degrees, addressing complaints from
companies that say the U.S. is training highly skilled workers only to lose
them to other countries.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R., Texas), chairman of the House immigration subcommittee
, said h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 503 | 22 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: 国土部:10月前,一定完成1万叙利亚难民的引进
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Aug 3 13:27:05 2016, 美东)
The Obama administration is on track to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees into
the United States before October, the head of the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) said Wednesday.
Jeh Johnson said "over 7,000" Syrian refugees have already arrived in the
country and "there are several thousand who have been approved and are just
awaiting the physical resettlemen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1632 | 23 Visas Could Aid Graduates
By LAURA MECKLER
Momentum is building in Congress toward offering expedited green cards to
people with advanced scientific degrees, addressing complaints from
companies that say the U.S. is training highly skilled workers only to lose
them to other countries.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R., Texas), chairman of the House immigration subcommittee
, said he plans to introduce legislation providing up to 10,000 visas a year
to foreign students graduating from U.S. universities with d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12782 | 24 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
iceui (iceui) 于 (Sat Oct 22 14:14:04 2011, 美东) 提到:
Visas Could Aid Graduates
By LAURA MECKLER
Momentum is building in Congress toward offering expedited green cards to
people with advanced scientific degrees, addressing complaints from
companies that say the U.S. is training highly skilled workers only to lose
them to other countries.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R., Texas), chairman of the House immigration subcommittee
, said he plans to introduce legislation ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12623 | 25 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: kickok (淡定熟男), 信区: USANews
标 题: Breaking New! 中国的老朋友，美国敌人Hugo Chavez死了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Mar 5 17:14:04 2013, 美东)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who
declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S.
influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died
Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials,
announced ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1912 | 26 【 以下文字转载自 Living 讨论区 】
发信人: YonahYou (Yonah), 信区: Living
标 题: 布鲁克林房价创新高
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jul 11 16:03:53 2013, 美东)
"Apartment rents in Brooklyn have also accelerated, jumping
14 percent in June from a year earlier to a median of $2,737,
the highest in records dating to 2008, Miller Samuel and Douglas
Elliman said in a separate report today. In Manhattan, rents
climbed 1.9 percent last month to $3,195, putting them 2.1
percent from the previous peak reached at the end of 2006."
“At one open h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7881 | 27 【 以下文字转载自 Stock 讨论区 】
发信人: beefcurtain5 (beefcurtain5), 信区: Stock
标 题: now the liberals are complaining the fed is too white
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu May 12 13:14:05 2016, 美东)
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said she would support
changes to the top ranks of the Federal Reserve, an issue recently
championed by progressive groups amid debate over how long the central bank
should keep supporting the American economy.
The Fed is led by a seven-member board of governors based in Was... 阅读全帖 |
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B******1
发帖数: 9094 | 28 From WSJ:
Japanese Car Sales Plunge Amid China Rage
Toyota said it sold 44,100 vehicles in China last month, down 49% from a
year earlier and off 41% from August. For the first nine months of the year,
Japan's top auto maker said it sold 640,200 vehicles, up 4.6%. But it has
all but abandoned the goal of selling one million vehicles in China this
year.
Nissan, Japan's second-largest auto maker by sales, said its sales in China
fell to 76,066 vehicles in September, down 35% from a year earlier an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4412 | 30 【 以下文字转载自 CivilEngineering 讨论区 】
发信人: jeffh (Jeffh), 信区: CivilEngineering
标 题: Solyndra: Largest VC loss ever?
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 2 16:35:41 2011, 美东)
Solyndra: Largest VC loss ever?
Boston Business Journal by Kyle Alspach
Date: Friday, September 2, 2011, 10:58am EDT
Worst VC investment loss evar? Solyndra's $1.1 billion implosion might be it
. Boston's Rockport Capital Partners was an investor.
Bankruptcy-bound California solar panel maker Solyndra Inc. , whose major
investors include... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2534 | 31 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Report-Over-500-HP-Employees-paid
One consequence of HP’s decision to wind down tablet production has arrived: over 500 HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) employees have been let go as the company tries to figure out what to do with its WebOS mobile software.
All Things D reported that the number was as many as 525, a number which HP would not confirm but it did acknowledge that people had been let go from its WebOS group. It’s been about a month since HP announced plans to stop ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2277 | 32 不是才涨不到10%吗？
Sacramento region's home prices up amid low inventory
By Hudson Sangree
h******[email protected]
Published: Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 6B
Last Modified: Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 - 8:04 am
Home prices in the four-county Sacramento region rose in August by 6.3
percent from the same period a year ago and increased 1.5 percent from July
to August, real-estate tracking firm CoreLogic reported Tuesday.
Excluding distressed sales, which make up about half the market, home prices
ro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3172 | 33 去年40，前年才20，回到91年的犯罪高峰期了。警察从1400砍到1000了。
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent_Crime_Rates_in_the_
San Jose: Police investigating killing of teenager in city's 44th homicide
By Robert Salonga and Eric Kurhi
Mercury News
Posted: 12/11/2012 04:51:26 PM PST
Updated: 12/11/2012 10:03:40 PM PST
Click photo to enlarge
Police investigate the scene in the 1500 block of Fairhaven Drive off
Hillsdale... ( Karl Mondon )
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发帖数: 105 | 34 Apple Inc. has cut its component orders for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-
than- expected demand, people familiar with the situation said Monday.
Apple's orders for screens for the January-March quarter, for example,
have dropped to roughly half of what it had previously planned to order, two
of the people said. The U.S. company has also cut orders for components
other than screens, according to one of the people.
Apple notified the suppliers of the order cut last month, they said.
The move indi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3438 | 35 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: laoafei (afei), 信区: Military
标 题: 看来cnn是铁了心了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu May 22 05:56:33 2014, 美东)
遣词用语以及文章架构所表示的立场已经明显到一定程度了：
Blasts kill dozens at market in China's restive Xinjiang region
By Jethro Mullen, CNN
updated 5:49 AM EDT, Thu May 22, 2014
Hong Kong (CNN) -- A series of explosions tore through an open-air market in
the capital of the volatile western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Thursday,
killing dozens of people and wounding many more, state media reported.
Ch... 阅读全帖 |
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B******1
发帖数: 9094 | 36 Me too.
Buy Volvo!
From WSJ:
Japanese Car Sales Plunge Amid China Rage
Toyota said it sold 44,100 vehicles in China last month, down 49% from a
year earlier and off 41% from August. For the first nine months of the year,
Japan's top auto maker said it sold 640,200 vehicles, up 4.6%. But it has
all but abandoned the goal of selling one million vehicles in China this
year.
Nissan, Japan's second-largest auto maker by sales, said its sales in China
fell to 76,066 vehicles in September, down 35% fro... 阅读全帖 |
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z**n
发帖数: 22303 | 37 ATF Acting Director and U.S. Attorney Resign over 'Fast and Furious'
Operation Problems
WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Attorney in Arizona resigned Tuesday
amid investigations into a flawed law enforcement operation aimed at major
gun-trafficking networks on the Southwest border, the Justice Department
announced.
The operation, known as Fast and Furious, was designed to track small-time
gun buyers at several Phoenix-a... 阅读全帖 |
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t***u
发帖数: 20182 | 38 这些天主教的人都在干啥，怪不得受伤的球员这么多。
Notre Dame fires academic coach amid explosive sex scandal that allegedly
involves her daughter and athletes
Notre Dame fired a female academic coach amid allegations she coerced young
football and basketball players into having sex with her daughter, according
to an internal school report obtained by the New York Daily News. An
unnamed student is suing the coach who is arguing the tutor orchestrated “
sexually and racially motivated” trysts with her daughter by includin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11067 | 39 我的quote
* Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident
anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
* Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the
world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up
idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out
of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made
it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 23432 | 40 惨了，BATMAN 也救不了你了（视频）zz
DONGSHIGU VILLAGE, China (CNN) -- As Christian Bale approached an impromptu
checkpoint leading to this tiny village in eastern China, four men blocking
the narrow path started marching toward him in menacing unison.
"I am here to see Chen Guangcheng," the Hollywood actor said and I
translated, with correspondent Stan Grant and cameraman Brad Olson next to
us.
"Go away!" the plainclothes guards barked, pushing us back.
Amid the scuffling and yelling, dozens more guards in o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2024 | 41 For you, my friend, I wreathe these flowers
Amid the summer rain, amid a gloomy day
Like a mermaid rescued from the ancient towers
Now she is yours singing in the windy quay
Hehe, appreciated. |
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发帖数: 43926 | 42 Cancel Yulin's annual dog meat festival
Qinghui Meng1,2,*, Ruixia Li1, Rowena Hamer1,2, Hongmin Dong1, Xiuping Tao1,
Jiade Bai2, Yanju Liu2, Zhenyu Zhong2, Shumiao Zhang2, Yuping Meng2,
Qingyun Guo2
+ Author Affiliations
↵*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]/* */
Science 09 Sep 2016:
Vol. 353, Issue 6304, pp. 1107
DOI: 10.1126/science.aah4388
On 21 June, residents of Yulin held this year's notorious dog-meat festival
amid intense criticism from animal rights groups (1). I... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 43 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: StephenKing (金博士), 信区: USANews
标 题: Hicks跟Lewandowski也搞过？
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Mar 6 05:42:04 2018, 美东)
Hicks跟Lewandowski也搞过？
Hicks不会是受虐狂吧？PORTER打老婆，Lewandowski打女记者，Lewandowski有老婆
http://people.com/politics/hope-hicks-dating-rob-porter-corey-lewandowski/
Inside Hope Hicks' Troubled Romances with Ousted Top Trump Aides Rob Porter
and Corey Lewandowski
President Trump‘s communications director Hope Hicks has now been
romantically linked to not one but two ousted Trump... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1782 | 44 http://news.yahoo.com/china-ordain-more-bishops-amid-vatican-sp
原文出处
译文简介:“中国官方控制的天主教教会计划任命至少七任主教，”一位教会最高官员
如此说道。中国一直以来一系列任命主教的行为，已加剧了中国与梵蒂冈的紧张关系。
“中国官方控制的天主教教会计划任命至少七任主教，”一位教会最高官员如此说道。
中国一直以来一系列任命主教的行为，已加剧了中国与梵蒂冈的紧张关系。
中国天主教爱国会负责人刘柏年透露，这位新主教将在“吉日” 被任命，但没有给出
更多的细节。
刘柏年，现任第十一届全国政协常委、民族和宗教委员会副主任，中国天主教“一会一
团”名誉主席，山东省政协副主席。
梵蒂冈教廷一直与受北京控制的中国教会进行着艰苦的斗争。它声称，这次的任命并未
受到教皇的批准，是不正当的。
中国天主教爱国会继在中国南部广东省的城市汕头任命黄炳章为新主教后，又有了进一
步的举动。
中国已有570万基督教徒，而且人数还在不断增加，他们如果不愿忠于中国天主教爱国
会，情愿忠于教皇，就得成为“地下教会”的一份子。近日发生的一件事就证明了这一
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发帖数: 5114 | 45 最近翻出阿西莫夫作品全集来重看，真挺有意思的，不仅囊括了他最早期那些名不见经
传的短篇，还有自己写的“创作感想”。看到TRENDS那一篇，居然发现他在1938年（当
时他还在读大学）成功预测成两件事：1）1940年第二次世界大战，2）1970年，人类登
月。
两件事都只差1年而已！
我一直觉得那个SF黄金时期的创作高峰,后来者很难翻越……
下面附TRENDS 的原文。
TRENDS
John Harman was sitting at his desk, brooding, when I entered the office
that day.
It had become a common sight, by then, to see him staring out at the Hudson,
head in
hand, a scowl contorting his face—all too common. It seemed unfair for the
little bantam
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发帖数: 1858 | 46 1/19/2010
http://wvmagazine.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/exhilaration-amid-exhaustion/
Exhilaration amid exhaustion
By James Addis in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Children sleep two-to-a-bed in a Port-au-Prince orphanage. (James Addis /WV)
When you see help reaching people who really need it and are intensely
grateful for it, the sense of exhilaration knows no bounds. This happened
for me a few days ago during a visit to an orphanage in Delmas, Port-au-
Prince.
The orphanage was caring for 150 kids wi |
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发帖数: 6791 | 47 UNHAPPY mortals! Dark and mourning earth!
Affrighted gathering of human kind!
Eternal lingering of useless pain!
Come, ye philosophers, who cry, "All’s well,"
And contemplate this ruin of a world.
Behold these shreds and cinders of your race,
This child and mother heaped in common wreck,
These scattered limbs beneath the marble shafts—
A hundred thousand whom the earth devours,
Who, torn and bloody, palpitating yet,
Entombed beneath their hospitable roofs,
In racking torment end their stricken l... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6791 | 48 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37726/37726-h/37726-h.htm
IN GOD'S WAY
SCHOOL-DAYS
I.
In the melting snow on the hill-side by the sea, in the last rays of the
evening sun, stood a boy of fourteen, awestruck. He looked toward the west,
out across the sea; he looked toward the east, over town and shore and the
broad hills; in the background still higher peaks rose far away in the clear
sky.
The storm had lasted a long time; it had been more terrible, too, than any
the old people could remember. In ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7025 | 49 这是个很好的例子，显示没有无我正见的禅修，是怎么修出如来藏的。
Jotika 禅师对证果的描述，可以用来与此文对比。看看什么样的证果是符合阿含的。
Appendix II
Citta – The Mind’s Essential Knowing Nature.
The following comments about the nature of the citta have been excerpted
from several discourses given by Ãcariya Mahã Boowa.
Of foremost importance is the citta, the mind’s essential knowing nature.
It consists of pure and simple awareness: the citta simply knows. Awareness
of good and evil, and the critical judgements that result, are merely
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发帖数: 16371 | 50 Japan's Sharp Corp. 6753.TO -13.22% hasn't started mass producing screens
for Apple Inc.'s AAPL -1.43% next iPhone, a person with knowledge of the
situation said Friday, signaling potential supply problems for the U.S.
company as it gears up to unveil its next-generation smartphone next month.
People familiar with the situation said that Sharp 6753.TO -13.22% had
planned to start shipping iPhone screens to Apple by the end of August, but
mass production has been delayed partly because of manufac... 阅读全帖 |
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