A breeder came in today

seems like he thinks he knew me, most likely from all the rumors/slanders/defamation he heard and took it as the truth (what do you call those people?).

He had mistaken me for Susanne Lo, like so many imbeciles that misled by Hung Havan, Nathan Hillery and Michele Choi.

He seems to see me as if I am a fresh piece of meat.

Anyway, just another person makes me sick to my stomach.

How did I know Susanne Lo and Bill been dating for a long time?  I was up in her office in the 10th floor for a piece of pie on pie day on March, 14 (π 3.14, get it?) 2011.  I was so happy there are people in the USPTO celebrate pie day, as we geeks/nerds did in the Silicon Valley.  I was checking the view out on the 10th floor in her office and said "wow, nice view!  How did you get a nice office like this?".  Susanne Lo replied  "my boyfriend got it for me".   Then later we saw Susanne Lo and Bill together all the time, going home together all the time and behaved like more than friends in a working environment.  In addition to talk about their relationship and marriage openly and loudly in his office where we could hear them all the way down the hall from my office.  Furthermore, people like Dwin Craig and many others also knew they were having an affair.  I knew I wouldn't want to touch that with a ten foot pole, also fear of caught in a cross-fire.  So I kept a distance as much as I could and put my headphone on with  music blasting, which I got a warning for over usage of the bandwidth.

Unfortunately, my officemate was a close associate of Susanne Lo's boyfriend Bill who misled people into thinking I am Susanne Lo and Michele Choi as a way to set me up for termination with his coteries Nathan Hillery and Michele Choi who were also Susanne Lo's boyfriend Bill's close associates, In addition to Susanne Lo and her friends from India, as well Tuan Nygugen and his countrymen, and a few others such as Dwin Craig, Paul Rodriguez, etc I named in my EEOC.  Management used that as a pretext to terminate me even though I worked 24/7 and with outstanding accomplishments.

I DO NOT EVER WANT TO BE MISTAKEN AS SUSANNE LO OR MICHELE CHOI.

Another imbecile stick his head close to me to

take a closer look at my slit throat.  This time is an Asian American male in his 20s/30s on a bike with full biking outfit.  He then said in a surprise, but happy tone  "Wow, they really slit her throat! HA!".  This is at the Four Mile Run Trail near Arlington Blvd.

Yesterday, when I biked nearly Wilson Blvd and Glebe Rd, 2 Indian/Pakistan males in their ~30s keep staring at me and said in English "that's her, no doubt about it."

Study ties hard work to Asian students’ higher grades. What’s your excuse?

By Max Ehrenfreund Updated: May 5 at 3:00 pm

A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that hard work is the reason why Asian-American students do better in school than their white peers.

But the authors of the study also found that, by some measures, Asian youth may not be as happy. Asians in surveys were less likely to agree with the statement "I feel good about myself," and they reported spending less time with friends and feeling more distant from their parents.

Asian students' better academic performance is often commented on, both in research papers and in high-school locker rooms around the country. Yet the causes of that success have been widely debated. Some scholars have argued that they might be doing better mainly because their parents are better educated, while others have suggested that Asians are simply brighter than their classmates.

Some of the debate has focused on parenting. Amy Chua's book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother attracted national attention -- and controversy -- to the parenting techniques stereotypically associated with Asian households. In an interview, Chua praised the new paper. "It's a very striking and original study with a large database," she said.

The authors of the study, University of Michigan's Yu Xie and Amy Hsin of Queens College, City University of New York, examined two national surveys of students in kindergarten through high school, focusing on data for 4,246 white students and 989 Asian students. The authors compared measures of academic achievement such as students' grades with teachers' responses to questions as to whether their students showed a willingness to work. Hsin and Xie found that the differences in how hard students worked, according to their teachers, accounted for much of the Asian group's better performance in the classroom compared to whites.

The authors also considered other explanations for the Asian students' success. Information about students' intelligence as measured by standardized tests or about their families' socioeconomic status was not nearly as accurate in predicting their grades as their teachers' statements about their study habits. Indeed, it is not clear that Asian students have any advantage over whites in terms of natural thinking ability, and in some cases, Asians do better in school than whites whose parents are wealthier and better educated.

These findings do not conclude the debate, but instead raise even more sensitive questions: Why do Asian students work harder, and can members of groups that do not do as well academically replicate Asians' success by adopting their attitudes?

Chua and her husband Jed Rubenfeld, both professors at Yale Law School, contend the study is evidence that aspects of Asian-American culture are partly responsible for Asian children's good grades. The couple published a new book earlier this year arguing that certain cultural traits can explain the successes of various immigrant groups in the country's history.

"There can be no doubt that these practices and attitudes are not exclusive to Asians, and can be incredibly helpful to people outside those communities," Rubenfeld said.

The couple added that a mere change in attitude would not be enough to eliminate the obstacles confronting black children. "When it comes to America's poorest groups, it's pretty clear what the true causes of poverty are. You have to start with history, you know, centuries of slavery and mass incarceration," Chua said.

But Hsin, one of the authors of the study, warned against applying her results too broadly. "Asian Americans have access to a unique set of resources that are not available to other immigrant groups," she said. "The 'Tiger Mom' thesis, and that whole discussion, falls short."

Hsin, who was born in Taiwan and grew up in the United States and Canada, said that even poor Asian immigrants benefit from having well-educated friends or relatives who can recommend a tutoring program for their children and help them understand the American educational system.

She and Xie found that students who responded in surveys that math was not an innate skill were more likely to work harder. But hard work was much more than the result of a student's belief in her ability to learn.

Jennifer Lee, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, said she sees the paper as "a very powerful and informative piece of empirical research that pushes the debate forward." Yet she also noted what she sees as the limitations of the authors' method. Lee argued that wealth and education among Asian-American communities as a whole have an important effect on how students learn.

Tutoring is freely available in some Korean churches in Los Angeles, noted Lee, who wrote a commentary accompanying Hsin and Xie's research.

"If you are poor and working class, say, Chinese or Korean, your class disadvantage doesn't necessarily have to be as disadvantageous because you will have access to other ethnic resources," Lee said. "That kind of thing is not going to be measured in any kind of quantitative study."

Lee criticizes Chua's work in her commentary and elsewhere, but she does not believe that strict parenting is to blame for the fact that young Asians can seem unhappy compared to whites.

Lee argued that these stresses are the result of the expectations placed on Asian children by society as a whole as much as of those placed on them by their parents, noting that even positive stereotypes can have negative consequences and that the United States remains a racially stratified country.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/05/hard-work-really-is-the-reason-asian-kids-get-better-grades-study-finds/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm

I was so afraid of being know

to know as the first person to find the bug in the PCI bus in 1995, on my first week on the job (3rd day actually), that I took a sick day on the day of being introduced by the Technical Principle of Texas Instruments, who was also the Head of the IEEE802.3, in it's meeting in Houston.

I knew I would be targeted if people knew I was that good at my job.  As a woman in the Tech field, I would be an easy target.  Well, I was a target nevertheless as my coworkers knew, and I was targeted relentlessly, even though I was in the lab all the time, and people working around that lab knew me better.

I can't even get hired as a volunteer in Tech with tech shortage

CNM Tech team Ihar irkho wouldn't even hired me as a volunteer to give tech workshops where I had extensive Silicon Valley engineering experiences and as an adjunct in college.  And this is a church group.

Every time when he saw me in the CNM on Tuesday, it is like a Zombie seeing fresh meat, which always make me sick to my stomach anytime when a dirty old man did this as I always knew something bad is going to happen to me.

Trait for Success

This is the personality trait that most often predicts success

By Drake Baer May 2, 2014 2:52 PM

The only major personality trait that consistently leads to success is conscientiousness. 

"It's emerging as one of the primary dimensions of successful functioning across the lifespan," Paul Tough writes in "How Children Succeed." "It really goes cradle to grave in terms of how people do." 

Tough says that people who test high in conscientiousness get better grades in school and college, commit fewer crimes, and stay married longer.

They live longer, too, he says. And not just because they smoke and drink less. They have fewer strokes, lower blood pressure, and a lower incidence of Alzheimer's disease.

There's a staggering amount of research linking conscientiousness with success. A National Institute of Mental Health study found that conscientious men earn higher salaries. The National Institute on Aging also found that conscientiousness is linked to income and job satisfaction. Other studies show that conscientiousness is the most important factor for finding and retaining employment. 

How do you know if you're conscientious? Conscientious people tend to be super organized, responsible, and plan ahead. They work hard in the face of challenges and can control their impulses.

Psychologists classify conscientiousness is one of the "Big 5" personality traits, with the others being agreeableness, extroversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience. The other traits can predict certain workplace outcomes — extroversion is a great fit for highly social gigs like sales and openness to experience often leads to creativity — but conscientiousness is remarkable for the way it cuts across roles.

Research shows that arriving on time, doing thorough work, and being thoughtful toward your colleagues helps people regardless of their job function or workplace situation. "Being on top of deadlines is almost universally a good thing," one industrial psychologist told us.
Moreover, within conscientiousness are the narrower traits of self control and "grit," which University of Pennsylvania  psychologist Angela Duckworth has found to be more integral to children's scholarly success than IQ.

Why conscientiousness people are so successful

"Highly conscientious employees do a series of things better than the rest of us," says University of Illinois psychologist Brent Roberts, who studies conscientiousness.

To start, they're better at goals: setting them, working toward them, and persisting amid setbacks. If a super ambitious goal can't be realized, they'll switch to a more attainable one rather than getting discouraged and giving up. As a result, they tend to achieve goals that are consistent with what employers want.

Roberts also owes their success to "hygiene" factors. Conscientious people have a tendency to organize their lives well. A disorganized, un-conscientious person might lose 20 or 30 minutes rooting through their files to find the right document, an inefficient experience conscientious folks tend to avoid. Basically, by being conscientious, people sidestep stress they'd otherwise create for themselves.

Being conscientious "is like brushing your teeth," Roberts says. "It prevents problems from arising."

Conscientious people also like to follow rules and norms. You can spot the conscientious kids in the classroom. They sit in their chairs, don't complain, and don't act out — which also, of course, contributes to earning good grades from teachers. While conscientiousness doesn't correlate with high SAT scores, it does predict high GPAs.

To spot conscientious people at work, Roberts says to look for punctuality. If someone shows up on time, that's a great clue toward conscientiousness, since a punctual person has to be organized enough — and care enough — to arrive on time. 

The bigger, and less visible, indicator is how people deal with setbacks. Do they give up and redouble their efforts? 

"The conscientious person is going to have a plan," Roberts says. "Even if there is a failure, they're going to have a plan to deal with that failure."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/personality-trait-most-often-predicts-153124913.html

More atrocity done to torrorize girls/women from education

As many as 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram, Nigerian officials say

By Aminu Abubakar, for CNN

updated 8:54 AM EDT, Wed April 16, 2014

Kano, Nigeria (CNN) -- As many as 200 girls were abducted from their boarding school in northeastern Nigeria by heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists who arrived in trucks, vans and buses, officials and witnesses said.

The group has recently stepped up attacks in the region, and its leader released a video last month threatening to kidnap girls from schools.

Dozens of gunmen stormed the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, about 130 km (81 miles) west of Maiduguri, on Monday night as the students slept in their dormitories, officials said. They engaged the soldiers guarding the school in a lengthy gun battle and then herded the girls onto vehicles.

"Many girls were abducted by the rampaging gunmen who stormed the school in a convoy of vehicles," said Emmanuel Sam, an education official in Chibok.

Sam could not say exactly how many girls were kidnapped, but one student who managed to get away said at least 200 students were taken.

"The Boko Haram attackers came to town around 9 p.m. and made straight for the school where they had a gun battle with soldiers stationed at the school and killed two soldiers," said Chibok resident Maina Babagana.

The gunmen then burned homes and businesses in the town in Borno state as they fled with the girls, witnesses said.

A military spokesman in the region declined to comment on the abduction, saying the Nigerian Defence Ministry would issue statement later.

A student who was among about a dozen girls who managed to escape from their abductors recounted her ordeal.

"They forced us into trucks, buses and vans, some of which were carrying food stuffs and petrol. They left with us in a convoy into the bush," said the student, who declined to be named for security reasons. "A group of motorcyclists flanked the convoy to ensure none of us escaped."

At one point, one of the trucks broke down and the girls on that vehicle were transferred to another one, the student said. The broken down truck was set on fire, she added.

When another vehicle broke down and the men tried to fix it, "some of us jumped out of the vehicles and ran into the bush. We later found our way back to Chibok," she said.

Boko Haram, which translates as "western education is sin," is known to have carried out deadly attacks on other schools in the northeast. In a clip released by the group March 23, leader Abubakar Shekau threatened to launch raids and abduct girls from schools.

In early March, Borno state government closed all of its 85 secondary schools and sent more than 120,000 students home following increasing Boko Haram attacks on schools.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/15/world/africa/nigeria-girls-abducted/index.html

An American in China

A U.S. actor succeeds in China, playing a cowboy, a jilted lover or a cool best friend

By Simon Denyer, E-mail the writer

BEIJING — The American soldier roars down a crowded Chinese street in his Jeep, knocking an elderly woman to the ground. He jumps out and tosses some money in the old lady’s direction. “Here you go, granny, but you shouldn’t have been in the street anyway,” he barks — before being beaten up by a group of enraged Chinese patriots.

The scene, in a script for a Chinese TV series, wasn’t exactly subtle, and American actor Jonathan Kos-Read wasn’t impressed. Fluent in Mandarin, he has made his name playing Westerners in Chinese films and television shows for the past 14 years. “I turned that role down,” he said.

For many Chinese people, the 41-year-old Kos-Read is a familiar face, even if he is virtually unknown in the West. He has acted in about 100 films and TV programs here, playing everything from a bisexual Italian fashion designer to a gun-slinging, tobacco-chewing cowboy.

Typically, Kos-Read is offered four or five stock roles. They provide a window into China’s evolving attitudes toward the West, revealing a complex mix of national pride, fascination with life in the United States and Europe, and insecurity about the West.

For example, there is a role that Kos-Read calls “the wrong guy,” the Western man who falls in love and pursues a Chinese woman. She is torn between him and a Chinese suitor, but in the end, the actor said, she always makes “the right choice.” That, of course, is not him.

Another role is what he calls “the fool,” a character who comes to China but is disdainful of the local culture. Eventually, as he learns more about China, the foreigner changes his mind.

“Chinese people don’t necessarily need to approve of America, but they need America to approve of them,” he said.

Playing ‘the cipher’

China’s film industry, which was shut down during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, is now flourishing. China boasts the third-largest movie industry in the world measured by number of films produced and is the second-largest market according to box-office receipts. Its soap operas attract massive television audiences.

But state censorship continues to be heavy, with controversial political issues studiously avoided — meaning that historical subjects are often safer ground than plots set in modern times.

While the TV script with the soldier may have reflected a stereotype of overbearing Americans, Kos-Read is rarely asked to play villains from the United States these days. Quite simply, the Japanese are overwhelmingly the bad guys in modern Chinese entertainment media as the two nations lock horns over disputed maritime territories.

And while the Communist government once churned out reams of anti-American propaganda, the U.S. with China is today much more complex and nuanced.

Beyond politics, the portrayal of Americans and Europeans on TV and in the cinema reflects the diverse, multilayered attitudes in China toward the West. When this country opened to the outside world more than three decades ago, its people found much to admire in the West’s economic and technological progress. But a recent survey by the Pew Research Center showed that while three-quarters of Chinese people admire the United States for its technological and scientific advances, less than half have a favorable view of American people.

The Chinese fascination with the West is evident in a character Kos-Read often plays, whom he calls “the cipher.” “That is when the Chinese scriptwriter wants to make some comment about his own culture, but feels it would have more weight coming from a foreign mouth,” the actor said. His character might, for example, appear in a scene mainly to interject something like, “In my country, people stick together.”
In a similar vein, there is the “best friend,” or the Westerner as status symbol. “The main (Chinese) character has to be an international player, so he has got to have a foreign friend, or even better, a foreign employee,” said Kos-Read.

But lately he has been playing a new kind of character — “the real person, a character who is a person before he is a foreigner.” After decades in which Americans were imperialist running dogs and then symbols of a wealthy but still not entirely trusted superpower, now they can sometimes be plain old people.
That may be due in part to growing familiarity with Westerners. When Kos-Read began his acting career here, very few Chinese scriptwriters knew anyone from abroad.

“They would say, ‘I read a book about foreigners’ — not Americans or French people, but foreigners, the way we do with Asians,” Kos-Read said. Nowadays, with the increase in Westerners moving to China, many scriptwriters have a foreign buddy or two, he said.

A native of the Los Angeles area, Kos-Read studied film and acting at New York University before switching his major to molecular biology. A desire for adventure, “to live the life of a movie character,” brought him to China in 1997 with very little Chinese. He eventually mastered the language.
Married to a Chinese magazine editor and the father of two young daughters, Kos-Read is better known here by his Chinese stage name Cao Cao.

Throughout his career, he said, he has wrestled with the question of whether he is betraying his own culture by reinforcing stereotypes. “It is a question all minority actors run up against,” he said, including African American and Asian actors in Hollywood, “because on one level you are a representative of your race.”  Kos-Read said a minority actor has to draw his or her own line in the sand. But he wonders if turning down the role of the evil American soldier really made much difference. “Somebody else did it — a Russian actor who couldn’t care less about how Americans are portrayed on Chinese TV.”

There are just a handful of foreign actors getting regular work in China. The top women are all blonde, he said, from the United States, Russia and Ukraine. “You can’t work (as an actress playing Western roles) if you are not blonde,” he said.

If Kos-Read is wary of Western stereotypes, he is also critical of the one-dimensional Asian characters who appear in Western productions such as “The Karate Kid, Part II” or “House of Cards.” “This is an open plea, to both China-wood and Hollywood: You need to pay a little more attention when showing things taking place in another country, in other cultures,” he said.

Occasionally, Kos-Read tries to persuade directors to add a little more nuance or accuracy to his roles. Once, he tried to gently point out — without the director losing face — that the Jewish character he was playing would probably not seek repentance for visiting a prostitute by kneeling and praying to Jesus. But there is, he said, “a limit to how much debate you can have on a movie set, both for the sake of your career and because there is limited time.”

He lost the argument about the Jewish character.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/a-us-actor-succeeds-in-china-playing-a-cowboy-a-jilted-lover-or-a-cool-best-friend/2014/05/01/f8699d84-cb34-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html

Could've been killed from missing bike wheel axle

Just found out yesterday when I took my bike to the Phoneix bike.

A front hub axle has been missing from my bike.  I would have been killed had the front wheel came off without the axle to hold the front wheel in place, especially when I usually go down a steep hillside road (60-70 degree) full of cars.

This front hub axle with screws firmly in place can not come off by itself, someone has to take it off from my bike.  Like the slit of my throat, this was meant to kill me.

Has Marathon Sex Until It Goes Blind and Drops Dead

Absurd Creature of the Week: This Marsupial Has Marathon Sex Until It Goes Blind and Drops Dead

• BY MATT SIMON  
 
• 05.02.14  |  
 
• 6:30 AM  |  
 
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When antechinus makes eyes, run. Something terrible is about to happen around you. Photo: Gary Cranitch, Queensland Museum

In the forests of Australia, every year just before spring, there erupts a sexual frenzy unlike any other on Earth. It’s bigger than an ultra-romantic Neil Diamond concert, bigger even than spring break in Cancun. Here a tiny hyperactive marsupial called antechinus sprints around mating almost non-stop for an exhausting three weeks, with single romps lasting as long as 14 straight hours.

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Males relentlessly bound from partner to partner, as massive hormone releases in their bodies cause their immune systems to crash and their fur to fall out. They bleed internally. Some males even go blind, yet still stumble around the leaf litter hoping for one last tryst. In a few short weeks, every single male lies dead, leaving the females to raise their offspring. And so it seems that in perpetually dangerous Australia, even the sex can kill you.

For these three weeks of sexual kamikaze, antechinus males are concerned with nothing–absolutely nothing–other than mating with as many females as they possibly can. Ecologist Andrew Baker of Australia’s Queensland University of Technology, who studies these critters’ astonishing habits, has even picked up a copulating pair, who ignored him entirely and went about their business in his hands. “It’s pretty frenzied,” said Baker. “There’s no courtship or anything like that. The males basically just grab the females and go for it.”

Driving males to such feats are astronomical levels of testosterone. Think of an MMA fight wrapped in an Insane Clown Posse concert wrapped in the Insane Clown Posse playing during an MMA fight. While the hormone mobilizes all the sugars in the antechinus’ body so it doesn’t need to feed for the three-week orgy, it also glitches the mechanism responsible for regulating the production of cortisol, a stress hormone that in small amounts results in bursts of energy and higher pain tolerances.

With runaway levels of cortisol, though, the males’ bodies literally begin to fall apart. Bone density plummets and blood-sugar levels go nuts. Their immune systems essentially degrade to worthlessness, as open sores form and never heal. Of course, females are also quite stressed during all of this, but they don’t produce anywhere near the same levels of testosterone, so their cortisol regulation remains normal.

A rare picture of antechinus on top of something other than another antechinus. Photo: Gary Cranitch, Queensland Museum

The whole affair is one of nature’s most striking manifestations of the true meaning of life: At a very basic level, all critters, including you and me, are on this planet to pass along their genes, even if it means an early demise. Antechinus males, after all, were only born after the previous year’s mating season. Not a single one reaches 12 months old, while females live up to three years.

And while it may not seem like anything other than strange hedonism, the males, with their mass suicide, in a way help guarantee the success of the offspring they’ll never get to enlighten with what would have been a truly epic sex talk. (You see, son, when a man loves a woman very much, it’s not long before he goes blind and dies.)

“It’s all geared toward the young being born when spring starts,” said Baker, “so there will be a big flush of insects in spring. The female will give birth to the young and then she’ll have plenty of food available because the population has been halved, because all the males are dead.”

In the eight to 12 weeks leading up to the mating season, though, males are taking more than their fair share of food, scurrying around frantically and hoovering up insects. “They’re spending all of their time building up food and fat stores,” said Baker, “because they know they’re going to need it across that intensive mating block.”

Plus, the more weight you pack on, the more energy you can devote to producing sperm, which males store in enormous quantities before the mating season begins. Bigger males will also beat out smaller ones for the right to mate–Baker has found individuals that are twice the weight of others (MMA enthusiasts, obviously).

In the end, though, females find themselves alone in a forest of dead males, carrying an incredible amount of sperm from perhaps dozens of different potential fathers. But this seems to be problematic for one of evolution’s most basic principles: sexual selection. Typically, females pick only the most fit of males, so they can better guarantee offspring with strong genetics. But antechinus ladies aren’t exactly picky–it’s not like they roll up to a sperm bank and studiously flip through catalogs of donors. So aren’t they inevitably stuck with sub-par sperm?

Well, sure, she’s carrying sperm from smaller, less fit males. But larger males produce more sperm, boosting the chance that theirs will win out in the fertilization game. And obviously, with that many partners the competition is fierce. Indeed, a single brood will consist of young from several different fathers.

She’ll actually give birth to up to three times as many young as she has teats. This, too, is where good genes from their fathers benefit the diminutive, barely developed young. “They haven’t got much going for them except for a really strong mouth and sucking mechanism and some little hands and arms to crawl their way up,” said Baker. “They’ll crawl up and attach to a teat and then once all the teats are occupied all the other extras that were born will die within an hour or two.”

As a marsupial, antechinus gives birth to highly underdeveloped jelly beans. Photo: Gary Cranitch, Queensland Museum

So right from birth, natural selection favors only the strongest young from the strongest fathers. The ones that survive settle into a kind of pouch, though it’s nowhere near as luxurious as a baby kangaroo’s digs. This is more of a depression in the lower abdomen, with raised and slightly enclosed walls, where the young hole up even while the mother hunts.

And the female must feed ravenously, for milk production in marsupials is extremely energy-intensive. In placentals, most of the energy in rearing young is spent in utero, as you mothers out there can attest (that’s not to say that significant energy isn’t eventually spent on the uniquely human duties of keeping kids from tumbling down stairs and eating crayons). “But marsupials are born small and immature,” said Baker, “and most of the energy is driven toward milk production. So when she’s producing milk for the growing young, it’s an incredible imposition on her energetics.”

After six weeks, the young have become too large for their mother to schlep around, so they’ll detach and hang tight in the nest and resume suckling when the mother returns. After another six weeks, they’re large enough for the female to evict entirely.

And so the tiny critters scurry toward their fates: for males, certain death–for females, a male-free paradise of boundless food. Ah, la petite mort.

Browse the full Absurd Creature of the Week archive here. Have an animal you want me to write about? Email matthew_simon@wired.com or ping me on Twitter at @mrMattSimon.

Antechinus has an itch to scratch, if you get my meaning. Photo: Gary Cranitch, Queensland Museum

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/absurd-creature-of-the-week-this-marsupial-has-marathon-sex-until-it-goes-blind-and-drops-dead/

More bigots in Arlington, VA

So I was at this Rally Against Rape (rallyagainstrape.org) at 7pm in the Arlington Gateway Park in Rosslyn.  On my way out, I picked up my candle and put it on the nearby table.  A young woman behind me yelled  "OMG, did she swipe something?".   So young, yet so racist, in Arlington near the Courthouse.


APRIL IS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTHng

Another male imbecile

when I was in Shoppers, may even be 2.

"I was born to love her","she's my soul mate"

etc., I am sure lots of women would be flattered by this.  Too bad I am not some little girl desperate for attention or love.  I would have married at least half a dozen times if I married every man said this about me.

I would have married over a dozen times if I married every man who wanted me to marry him.

As the resulted, some had deliberately done harm to me.

Those who wanted to buy me, my price was one Billion dollar$ back when Bill Gates and Warren Buffett were the only billionaires.

I am an asexual, most likely due to my fibroid.

And yes, most Asians, particularly those from Asia, knew I am usually well-received by none-Asians as many had asked Asians for my information, as if we all know each other.

With over 2 billions of Asians on earth; it is akin to assuming all Caucasians on earth knew each other.  Their defamation of "no one wanted her; no one liked her; etc" had helped me eliminate unwanted attention, be it pernicious rumors; which they also defamed me with anyone who asked for my information, and some malicious individuals then help spread such pernicious rumors.

Not safe to go to the Employment Center anymore

now that the defamation of "no one wanted her; no one liked her; etc" is being promulgated around the Employment Center, it is not safe for me to go there anymore.

Many who had gone to the Employment Center had express abusive behavior by the women employees toward the unemployeds seeking help.

A childhood friend had also targeted by Asian version of the KKK/Nazi

KKK/Nazi/Extremists while she worked for the IBM in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980s to early 1990s.  She had to leave the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s as the resulted.

People just need an excuse to do harm to others

it doesn't have to be true.  All they need is an excuse so their dark side can be free to hurt other people.

And that's what the defamation against me had done, an excuse.

Korean parents of ship wrecked couldn't eat

had to be hooked up to an I-V.

I know how that feels, I was so sick to my stomach in 2001 due to the massive attacks for years, by most of the people from Asia in the Silicon Valley at that time, most were fresh off the boat, as soon as I arrived in the Silicon Valley; that I couldn't eat or sleep for months.

When I went to the Central Park in Fremont to Rollerblade to help get over this PTSD.  One day the whole park sudden inundated with people from Asia as if it was Chinese New Year in Chinatown, and an ex-worker came to want to do physical harms to me, but I out ran him as I was on a Rollerblade.  One pervert Chinese old male even unzipped his pant in front of me.  From then on, there were continuous stream of people from Asia going to the Central Park where I went rollerblade, where prior to that day, I rarely seen an Asian.  This could only happen if a concerted effort in a well organized and well-planned way.  Well, I guess they are now in control of the Silicon Valley-the High Tech capital of the world, and will be in control of the DC metro too, of the US capital.

This was around 911, 2001

Laughing uncontrollably by USPTO employees

As I pass-by Crystal City today, an Asian male in his 30s keep staring at me for as long as I was in his sight, then said something to his male and female friends, they all laughed uncontrollably, and loud enough to be heard from a block away.

I was running some errand in the USPTO campus in 2012, where a Middle Eastern guy in his 20s came out of one of the building and laugh uncontrollably, couldn't stand up and said  "I can't believe those idiots really fired her".

I am an Asian and a woman who had an airtight first case, which may be the first woman to have an airtight first case, how could they allow an inferior race to have such achievement?  They would put me on a pedestal if I am a white woman.

All these Asian version of the KKK/Nazi/Anti-West managed to use Americans' bigotries and our anti-discrmination to their advantage, and played the Amerians like a bunch of retards, while took our trade secrets like taking candies from a baby despite people like me warned them since 2004, that resulted in all sorts of attacks from name calling and other threats.

warns against procedure to remove uterine fibroids

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FDA warns against procedure to remove uterine fibroids; says it could spread hidden cancer

By Brady Dennis, Published: April 17

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday took the rare step of urging doctors to stop performing a surgical procedure used on tens of thousands of women each year to remove uterine growths, saying the practice risks spreading hidden cancers within a woman’s body.

The procedure, known as power morcellation, has long been used in laparoscopic operations to remove fibroid tumors from the uterus, or to remove the uterus itself. It involves inserting an electric device into the abdomen and slicing tissue in order to remove it through a small incision. The surgery is far less invasive than traditional abdominal operations.

But the FDA on Thursday agreed with a growing chorus of researchers and clinicians who oppose the procedure, saying that it can recklessly spread undetected cancers throughout the body and make the disease more lethal in the process. The agency is not seeking to ban the practice or the roughly two dozen FDA-approved devices used to perform it, but hospitals and gynecologists are likely to abandon the procedure because of potential liabilities.

The FDA said its analysis determined that an estimated 1 in 350 women who undergo morcellation have an unsuspected form of uterine cancer called uterine sarcoma.

“The existence of the risk is not new,” said William Maisel, chief scientist at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. “What is new is that the magnitude of the risk appears to be higher than was appreciated by the clinical community.”

Maisel acknowledged that the agency was spurred to action — or at least moved more quickly — because of a high-profile campaign waged in recent months by a Massachusetts couple, both doctors, for a moratorium on the practice.

Anesthesiologist Amy Reed, a mother of six who last spring treated Boston Marathon bombing victims as well as one of the suspected bombers, underwent what was supposed to be a routine procedure last fall to end bleeding from fibroids. The procedure spread undetected, cancerous tumor fragments throughout her abdomen. Now she is battling stage-four leiomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of uterine cancer.
Her husband, Hooman Noorchashm, a Harvard-affiliated cardiothoracic surgeon, responded by launching a campaign to ban the widely used procedure. He has e-mailed numerous regulators, doctors and lawmakers, written to medical journals and lobbied hospitals. The couple started a Change.org petition to end the practice.

Noorchashm said Thursday that he appreciated the FDA’s relative speed in addressing the problem. “You don’t even have to be a doctor to recognize that if tissue or a tumor has malignant potential, you should not mince it up inside someone’s body,” he said. “That’s just bad medicine.”

Many women develop uterine fibroids — benign growths that originate in the muscle tissue in the wall of the uterus. Although many fibroids do not cause problems, others can result in frequent urination, prolonged menstrual bleeding and pelvic pain.

Of the more than 500,000 hysterectomies performed in the United States each year, about 11 percent, or more than 50,000, involve morcellation, according to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Some doctors advocate performing a morcellation only when using an “isolation bag” in an effort to minimize the spread of tissues, but that method is not foolproof, as the bags can break.

“When you consider what the benefit is, which is a shorter hospital stay and less pain, then consider what the risk is — this could kill you — most women would not choose that risk if they really understood what is at stake,” said Diana Zuckerman, president of the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund.

Even before Thursday’s announcement by the FDA, the push to limit uterine morcellations had gained traction.

In February, Temple University Hospital issued guidelines instructing surgeons not to perform the procedure on fibroids over a certain size. Doctors may use the procedure for smaller fibroids only after informing patients about the risks and, in most cases, using isolation bags. Even before that, prompted by Noorchashm’s campaign, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston took similar measures.

On Thursday, the heads of obstetrics and gynecology at both Boston hospitals promptly notified their staffs to suspend use of power morcellation until further notice.

Margaret Jacobson, the medical director of Whatcom Hospice in Bellingham, Wash., cried upon hearing of FDA’s action on Thursday.

In March 2012, her sister, Elizabeth Jacobson, had a hysterectomy by morcellation. Elizabeth Jacobson did not want to miss much work, and the promise of a minimally invasive procedure appealed to her.

But inside the large fibroid that a doctor shredded lurked malignant cells that spread throughout her abdomen, her sister said. Soon, Elizabeth Jacobson was diagnosed with aggressive uterine cancer. She then had a second surgery, rounds of chemotherapy and long stretches of misery. She died Jan. 8, 2013.
“She suffered terribly,” Margaret Jacobson said. “It devastated our family.”

Thursday’s news brought a measure of relief, she said, that other women might avoid the same fate, especially given that safer surgical alternatives already exist.

“It’s a victory ,” Jacobson said. “It’s not okay to tolerate these deaths. . . . My sister’s life was extraordinary; she was beautiful and loving. She does not deserve to be an easily dismissed statistic.”

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tctctc2

4/17/2014 10:54 PM EDT

Uterine fibroid embolization. Not every hospital does it and many obstetricians don't even tell you about it, but it worked for me. It cuts off the blood flow to fibroids. I had almost instantaneous relief - others have more gradual relief. I highly recommend that women look into it.

smurfsmom

5:24 PM EDT

Last April I was scheduled to have a partial laparoscopic hysterectomy using the method described in this article, to relieve me of side effects of multiple uterine fibroids. My insurance company would not approve the procedure until I had a biopsy done on my uterine lining. My GYN performed the procedure, which was quite uncomfortable, but in fact saved my life! I was diagnosed with uterine papillary serous carcinoma - at age 42 - my GYN said she had NEVER seen it in a woman younger than 60! This is a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

Had a full hysterectomy via da Vinci - still removed everything, but intact, without cutting it up, and without cutting into me. Post-op pathology showed that the cancer cells were entirely contained in the uterus - no spread, and I was declared cancer-free one year ago next Thursday.

My GYN has now changed her procedures in recommending biopsies, and I would encourage EVERY woman considering this procedure to ASK for a biopsy beforehand. Or ask for the entire, intact removal. My heart hurts for every woman who went thru this procedure and the subsequent treatment. Let's hope these new changes and new laws will better protect and prevent this kind of horrible chain of events from happening again....more

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