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Sunday, April 7, 2013
U.S. lawmakers say China has failed to rein in North Korea
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China has failed to use its influence to stop North Korea's warlike rhetoric against the United States and U.S.-backed South Korea, despite an escalating crisis that could trigger armed conflict by accident, U.S. lawmakers said on Sunday.
Republican Senator John McCain, a member of the Armed Services Committee, criticized China's "failure to rein in what could be a catastrophic situation," saying Beijing could step up pressure on Pyongyang by using its influence over North Korea's economy.
"China does hold the key to this problem. China could cut off their economy if they want to. Chinese behavior has been very disappointing," McCain said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program.
"More than once, wars have started by accident and this is a very serious situation," he added.
"South Korea would win. We would win if there was an all-out conflict. But the fact is that North Korea could set Seoul on fire. And that obviously would be a catastrophe of enormous proportions," McCain said.
Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat who has been a prominent critic of China's currency policy, said he agreed with McCain.
"The Chinese hold a lot of the cards here. They're by nature cautious. But they're carrying it to an extreme. It's about time they stepped up to the plate and put a little pressure on this North Korean regime," Schumer said on the same program.
North Korea has threatened war against the United States and the South in what analysts and U.S. politicians see as an attempt to wring concessions from the international community and shore up internal support for Pyongyang's 30-year-old leader, Kim Jong-un.
The senators' comments came as China, North Korea's sole financial and diplomatic backer, showed growing irritation with Pyongyang's vitriolic rhetoric toward the West.
Beijing has warned against "trouble making" on its doorstep in an apparent rebuke to North Korea, while Chinese leaders have spoken against provocative words and actions in the region.
On Sunday, the Foreign Ministry expressed "grave concern" and said China had asked North Korea to "ensure the safety of Chinese diplomats in North Korea, in accordance with the Vienna Convention and international laws and norms."
'BOILING POINT'
Meanwhile, the United States has postponed the long-scheduled test of its Minuteman III intercontinental missile to avoid what a defense official called "any misperception or miscalculation."
Former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman told CNN on Sunday that it was unprecedented for Chinese President Xi Jinping to warn in a recent speech that no country "should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gain."
"It suggests to me, as I've watched the ratcheting up of frustration among Chinese leaders over the last many years, that they've probably hit the 212-degree boiling point as it relates to North Korea," Huntsman said.
The White House on Sunday had no immediate comment on recent Chinese statements.
But White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC's "This Week" program that North Korea is following a long-standing pattern of "provocative actions, bellicose rhetoric."
"The key here is for the North Koreans to stop their actions, start meeting their international obligations and put themselves in a position where they can achieve what is their stated goal, which is economic development," he said.
China also came under fire from Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a leading voice on foreign policy issues who also sits on the Armed Services Committee.
"I blame the Chinese more than anybody else. They're afraid of reunification. They don't want a democratic Korea next to China, so they are propping up this crazy regime. And they could determine the fate of North Korea better than anybody on the planet," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
(Reporting by David Morgan; Additional reporting by Aruna Viswanatha; Editing by Eric Beech)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-lawmakers-china-failed-rein-north-korea-165531592.html
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
John Key hints at China exchange rate policy
Source: ONE News Prime Minister John Key has hinted he is open to the idea of establishing a new exchange rate policy with China. Key told reporters at the Bo'oa Forum in China he had received Treasury advice on New Zealand adopting such a policy. The move would allow the New Zealand dollar to be exchanged directly with the Chinese currency, known as the Renminbi. The policy would ...
Calif. governor looks to China for investments
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California Gov. Jerry Brown has designs on building some of the most expensive public works projects in the nation and wants to keep the state moving forward in its slow recovery from the ...
Chinas debt issue not particularly serious
finance minister Xiang Huaicheng said in Boao, Hainan province on Saturday. "The majority of the debts are internal ones, and the government has always adhered to the principle of sustainability while handling the debt issue," Xiang told a sub-forum of the ...
Robert Downey Jr. hits Beijing to promote Marvels Iron Man 3
Tony Stark in the upcoming movie - said he?s fascinated with Chinese culture and loves Chinese movies, while urging the local audience to see the superhero film.';Iron Man 3'; was financed in part by the Chinese ...
Mexicos Pemex to increase oil exports to China
April 6 (Reuters) - Mexico's state oil monopoly Pemex this month will begin increasing exports to China by 30,000 barrels a day, the head of Pemex said on Saturday.The two-year agreement between Pemex and China's Sinopec was signed in January, Pemex Chief Executive Emilio Lozoya said at a press conference in Sanya, ...
China ?severely concerned? over North Korean tensions
A South Korean soldier walks past barricades on the road leading to North Korea's Kaesong joint industrial complex, at a military checkpoint in the border city of Paju on Saturday. Photo: ...
Private firms lead Chinas investment overseas
/enpproperty--> BOAO, Hainan - Chinese private firms are seeing new expansion abroad and already lead China's investment overseas, Chris Lu, CEO of Deloitte China, said on Saturday at a forum in south China's Hainan ...
China closes poultry markets amid bird flu outbreak
NEW: Nanjing becomes third city to suspend live poultry trading Sixteen human cases of H7N9 have been reported in eastern China No cases of human-to-human transmission have been confirmed Poultry markets in Shanghai and Hangzhou were ...
Capital restraints still challenge China?s SMBs
The difficulty of raising capital from banks remains a major challenge for China's small- and micro-businesses (SMBs) which urgently needs policy incentives, economists said at a discussion session at the Boao Forum for Asia Saturday. China's SMBs saw slower growth in 2012, amid shrinking overseas demand and weaker domestic economic growth, with nearly 60 percent of the 1,000 surveyed ...
B.C. health officials monitoring Chinas bird flu outbreak
Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones, left, speaks to B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall during a news conference at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday October 16, 2009. (Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN ...
China approves anti-flu drug with H7N9 potential
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - China has approved a new type of flu drug that it believes may be effective in treating H7N9 bird flu virus. According to a statement issued by the China Food and Drug Administration on Saturday, the potential of injections of peramivir diluted in sodium chloride injection has been proven by preliminary tests. Peramivir is a neuraminidase inhibitor. As of Saturday ...
U.S. gets rare chance to build ties with China over N. Korea
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera sought support Saturday from Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima for a plan to return a number of U.S. military facilities in the prefecture to Japanese control. ';I believe the plan will contribute to further developing Okinawa,'; Onodera told Nakaima in Naha, ...
Two new cases of bird flu in China
Technicians wearing protection suits begin to cull poultry at a poultry wholesale market, where H7N9 bird flu virus was detected in pigeon samples, in Shanghai. ...
Burning For Freedom Crisis In Nepal As Tibetan Monks Self-Immolate And China Cracks Down
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- On the morning of Feb. 13, Drupchen Tsering, a Buddhist monk from Tibet, walked out of a restaurant here in Nepal's capital, dripping with gasoline. In front of the Bouddhanath Stupa, one of the holiest Buddhist shrines in the world, he lit himself on ...
Firms must learn Chinas rules says PM
Australians doing business in China will be offered training in how to play by its rules and avoid jail under a new program. At least four Australian business executives working in China have been jailed in recent times for questionable reasons, but little action has been taken to address the issue. Attending the Boao Forum for Asia on the Chinese resort island of Hainan, which has trade and ...
NE China colliery blast deaths hit 36
/enpproperty--> CHUANGCHUN - The death toll from a coal mine gas explosion on March 29 in Northeast China's Jilin province has risen to 36 after seven more deaths were reported by local authorities on Saturday. The accident occurred in Baishan city in Tonghua Mining Group's Babao Coal Mine. Another explosion in the same mine on Monday left six people dead and four others injured. ...
Shivraj Singh Chouhan competing with China not Narendra Modi
Bhopal : As comparison with his Gujarat counterpart grows, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today kept his speech on the BJP's 33rd foundation day focussed around his state's "growth." "We are growing at 10.2 per cent which is higher than the entire country. The country's growth rate is only six per cent I would want Madhya Pradesh to compete ...
China Focus BOAO sub-forum debates Chinas innovation bottleneck
Economists and entrepreneurs attending a sub-forum of the 2013 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference have discussed how Chinese firms, faced with rising costs and shrinking returns, must innovate to survive the global economic slowdown.But the country's longstanding weakness in innovation remains the most pressing issue facing Chinese society, they acknowledged, at a sub-forum ahead of the ...
The Real Meaning Behind Apples Apology To China
Apple made one of its rare apologies - this time to consumers of the world's most populous nation, China. Apple does not normally do apologies but if it did, China right now is the place to make them. According to data released in November 2012, Apple had 71.4%of the Chinese tablet market, ...
Flowers in full blossom as spring comes in China
Photo taken on April 6, 2013 shows tulips in full blossom at the People's Park in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan Province. (Xinhua/Li ...
North Korea warns diplomats as Beijing urges caution
British and other foreign embassies in Pyongyang were considering evacuating their staff yesterday after North Korea warned that it could not guarantee their ...
China is growing faster than expected the U.S. is the 1st among equals another world war is not a threat but the collapse of the euro and climate change are possible. Recently the National Intelligence Council of the USA an influential government thi
China is growing faster than expected, the United States is the first among equals, another world war is not a threat, but the collapse of the euro and climate change are possible. Recently, the National Intelligence Council of the USA (NIC), an influential government think tank of the intelligence community, issued a report "Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds." The principal ...
Source: http://www.beijingnews.net/index.php/sid/213657950/scat/55582c89cb296d4c
Arduino-enhanced guitar promises less typing, more shredding
It's far from the first Arduino-based mod we've seen for a guitar, but this one from David Neevel of the Wieden + Kennedy ad agency may well be the most unique. Apparently tired of having to drop his guitar and pick up a keyboard every time he wanted to send an email, he decided to make the guitar the keyboard, and replace the dull drone of keystrokes with an extended solo. As you might expect, the project comes with a fairly high degree of difficulty, but those interested in trying their hand can find the basics to get started at the source link below, and get a look at what's possible in the video after the break. You're on your own with the moustache.
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Source: W + K Blog
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Military: Gaza militants fire rockets at Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) ? The Israeli military says Gaza militants have fired rockets at the south of the country a day after Israel warned of an escalation.
A military spokesman says several rockets were fired early Thursday. One exploded in Israel causing no injuries while the others exploded prematurely inside Gaza. The spokesman spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations.
Gaza militants have fired several rockets at Israel since November, when an informal truce took hold after eight days of fighting triggered by almost daily Palestinian rocket attacks.
Israel retaliated for the first time this week. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon warned he will not allow rocket attacks to become routine again. Israel holds Gaza's militant Hamas rulers responsible for all attacks from the coastal strip.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/military-gaza-militants-fire-rockets-israel-063310057.html
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Speaker voices concerns about abuse culture | The Marquette Tribune
Giving a face and voice to an emotionally jarring subject, Elin Stebbins Waldal spoke on campus last night about her experience as a domestic violence survivor and the role of the media in driving the narrative about rape and abuse.
?We have a big problem with dating violence in this country,? Waldal said.
Waldal, who was in an abusive relationship as a teenager and college student, spent part of her discussion talking about her personal experience and her own recovery, but focused the majority of her talk about rape culture, socialization of gender stereotypes in the media, and current efforts to change the conversation.
?We are in a dire need for a paradigm shift on how to prevent sexual assault,? Waldal said. She referred to the Steubenville case as well as Chris Brown and Rihanna as examples of how the media drives the conversation about domestic violence and abuse.
Waldal said that the ??Twilight? enterprise? inspired her to tell her story. She said that there were several parts of the multi-million dollar book-turned-movie enterprise that disturbed her. She said that the emphasis on the damsel in distress stereotype, as well as the normalization of both stalking and controlling behavior through Edward?s actions, were problematic for her.
?There?s a significant amount of glossing over of signs of abuse in the books,? she said.
Waldal?s presentation was part of the McGee Lecture Series, which focuses on addressing social justice issues. Becca Osmolski, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, was inspired after reading Waldal?s book ?Tornado Warning? to help bring her to campus. ?Tornado Warning? is Waldal?s biography and tells her experience from two perspectives: that of her teenage self experiencing the abuse and reflections on her ordeal from the future.
?I wanted to share how helpful she was to me,? Osmolski said.
?One of the reasons that Ms. Waldal?s story is so powerful is because it highlights that domestic violence can happen to anyone,? said Meghan Stroshine, an associate professor of Criminology and Law Studies who teaches a course on domestic violence.
Stroshine, who teaches Waldal?s book as part of her class, said the book helped students understand the complex dynamics and powerful emotions that are involved in abusive relationships.?The topic of domestic or dating violence is significant for college students, given the statistics regarding its frequency. Nearly one in three (29 percent) college women say they have been in an abusive dating relationship, according to a 2011 College Dating Violence & Abuse Poll, which Stroshine cited. In addition, according to the same poll, girls and young women between the ages of 16 and 24 experience the highest rate of intimate partner violence, at almost triple the national average.
?We may be (far) more educated about domestic violence than we were years ago, but there is still a tendency for many young people to believe that domestic violence is something that can?t or won?t happen to them,? Stroshine said.
For Waldal, changing the societal story is extremely important. She cited several public service announcement campaigns such as ?Love Is Not Abuse? and ?No More,? saying that these are important ways of helping people.?
?The book related well to my life,? Osmolski said. ?It didn?t make me feel so isolated.?
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
finding joy: 10 Motherhood Secrets
I'm often asked what I've learned being a mother. And besides never running out of all forms of paper products at one time or to buy the gallon pails of vanilla icecream in the summer because you can use those pails for so many things most of what I'd tell you I've learned is from my kids. Through trial and error and tears and laughter and storms and sun. Life isn't perfect. But us mothers? We're amazing people - we just need to believe it - to start walking boldly through life wearing the motherhood badge proudly. ~Rachel
Here are ten simple things that I've learned in the almost seventeen years that someone has looked at me as mom. They're life things, secrets, I guess.
3. The agenda doesn't need to be set in stone. Even though you'd sometimes like it to be. Flexibility has been what I've learned - adapt, change, recalculate - and to not let the adaptations taint my mood for the day. Raising a family, having children, and just living life has truly emphasized me the idea of grace and flexibility. If you can learn to laugh, and to brush things off, then your day will go so much smoother. Just pick up where you can, press on, and use the remainder of your day well. Instead of looking where things didn't go right look to what did. And often some of the sweetest life lessons and moments come in those times where you went off schedule and tried something new.
6. Start saying yes. Several months ago I wrote a post called Becoming a Yes Mom. My good friend Toni at The Happy Housewife has been doing a series of pictures called Today I said Yes to... You know what? It's easier for me to say no. I'm being honest. When I say no most of the time it means less effort, less work from me. But I need to say yes. I never realized how often I said no until I had children. Now, now I've learned that I need to start saying yes before it comes to the point that they stop asking. What can you say yes to today?
9. Choose {find} joy. It would be easy to sit and lament how hard everything was during the day. And you know what? Sometimes we simply need to do that. But do you know that it is also of utmost importance for our children to see us happy? Not all the time, but some of the time? Once a little one of mine asked me why I didn't smile much during the day. I didn't even realize that I had been so focused that I was kind of moving through my house like a bull in a china shop. I remember looking in his eyes and telling him that I was so happy to be his momma and he told me then I needed to smile. Mothers, smile at your kids today. Tell them you love being their momma even though inside it might have been a really hard day. Those words matter.
10. Tell your kids you like them. Remember how I said words matter? Well, let me tell you, make sure you tell your kids that you simply like them. Love is unconditional. Like is the word that tells them you like being around them, you like who they are, and that you simply like them as your child. My Samuel the other night was resting in my bed and he said, momma, I like you. Talk about melt my heart. Learn from that - take a minute and walk with your little one or your big one and let them know that you like them. Simple words, but very powerful heart words to cherish.
Here are ten simple things that I've learned in the almost seventeen years that someone has looked at me as mom. They're life things, secrets, I guess.
1. You don't need to know everything. Do you remember those months before that first child came in your home? I do. I remember stacks of books bought at Border's book (this was early internet years - there was no google for me - just thinking about that makes me wonder how on earth I did it - what did I do when I needed a quick recipe? A book? grin) that I would devour, underline, and reference. What to expect the first day, week, year, and so on. And I had this other one - this portable pediatrician one - that I'd scour symptoms making sure that my Hannah was fine. And she was. In fact, she's almost 17 and survived those early years of me looking everything up and calling my mother and worrying. You know what? I didn't know so much, and we did okay. We muddled through, and I figured stuff out, and it's been okay. So I've learned that even if I don't know it all that I'll be okay. And, honestly, sometimes I'd like to know a bit less. We live in a data rich information saturated world and sometimes google search can just stay unopened.
2. Listen first, speak second. My argument, my reasoning, and why I'm right seems to always play in my head when I'm talking with my kids. But, after almost seventeen years of parenting I've truly begun to learn the value in listening first - hearing their point of view - and truly trying to understand before I end up speaking mine. It doesn't mean that they're always right, but rather is this sign of respect for the feelings of their hearts. So I've learned - listen, listen, listen, bite your tongue, listen, and listen. This skill? Applies to all of life and relationships. We can learn a great deal by listening to others and shelving our agenda for a bit. When we bless others with attentiveness we get a glimpse into their heart and their importants. Those things matter.
3. The agenda doesn't need to be set in stone. Even though you'd sometimes like it to be. Flexibility has been what I've learned - adapt, change, recalculate - and to not let the adaptations taint my mood for the day. Raising a family, having children, and just living life has truly emphasized me the idea of grace and flexibility. If you can learn to laugh, and to brush things off, then your day will go so much smoother. Just pick up where you can, press on, and use the remainder of your day well. Instead of looking where things didn't go right look to what did. And often some of the sweetest life lessons and moments come in those times where you went off schedule and tried something new.
4. Others may not agree, but you can still be respectful. Us mothers can work ourselves up in a tizzy about all the different things mothers debate. And all of these things - vaccinations, education, etc - are all good things. Needed things. Remember? It's good that we're not the same - that's beautiful. But here's the deal even if others don't agree with you or you don't agree with them there still needs to be a level of respect. I expect that from my kids when they don't agree with me or with their siblings. As women let's hold that bar high and respect each other even when we don't agree. Our children are watching.
5. Playing matters more than the dishes. There has been so many in a minutes and just a seconds in my life because I've wanted to get those dishes done. You know what? They always get done. Inevitably. But sometimes, playing, and getting on the floor or throwing that baseball in the backyard matters way more than the pile of dishes waiting to get done. I have had to discipline myself to say no to those things and time and yes to my children. They need us there doing life with them. If you need to read more read Dear In a Minute Mom.
6. Start saying yes. Several months ago I wrote a post called Becoming a Yes Mom. My good friend Toni at The Happy Housewife has been doing a series of pictures called Today I said Yes to... You know what? It's easier for me to say no. I'm being honest. When I say no most of the time it means less effort, less work from me. But I need to say yes. I never realized how often I said no until I had children. Now, now I've learned that I need to start saying yes before it comes to the point that they stop asking. What can you say yes to today?
7. Chores are good. Even though my children might tell you otherwise. From a young age we've expected chores around our home. Nothing excessive, but keeping your room tidy, making your bed, putting your clothes in the laundry. My kids rotate with the dishes, and help with the garbage and help with folding. All of that is good. Our society needs kids that are taught the value in work, and that it is not always something that needs to have a dollar sign attached to it. Part of living in a family and in a home is working together to get it all done. So don't run from chores - incorporate them into your life. Now, the kids do get an allowance, but that is for specific chores outside of the general expected stewardship roles. Find the balance, but don't run from chores.
8. Optimism is worth it. Sometimes it's easier for me to be pessimistic and see all that doesn't work. But, when I do that I find myself scurrying around from thing to thing to thing. Optimism is worth it. It's an attitude, a heart adjustment, really. It's being willing to see the good before seeing the things that don't work. It's kind of like the listening before speaking bit - it's practice, but worth the effort. Optimism takes work and choosing to see the good, but living an optimistic life allows for many more finding joy loving the little things moments.
9. Choose {find} joy. It would be easy to sit and lament how hard everything was during the day. And you know what? Sometimes we simply need to do that. But do you know that it is also of utmost importance for our children to see us happy? Not all the time, but some of the time? Once a little one of mine asked me why I didn't smile much during the day. I didn't even realize that I had been so focused that I was kind of moving through my house like a bull in a china shop. I remember looking in his eyes and telling him that I was so happy to be his momma and he told me then I needed to smile. Mothers, smile at your kids today. Tell them you love being their momma even though inside it might have been a really hard day. Those words matter.
10. Tell your kids you like them. Remember how I said words matter? Well, let me tell you, make sure you tell your kids that you simply like them. Love is unconditional. Like is the word that tells them you like being around them, you like who they are, and that you simply like them as your child. My Samuel the other night was resting in my bed and he said, momma, I like you. Talk about melt my heart. Learn from that - take a minute and walk with your little one or your big one and let them know that you like them. Simple words, but very powerful heart words to cherish.
Ten secrets, ten facts, ten things I learned being a mother. Children are often the best teachers - their tenacity, zest for life, and unending curiosity inspires me to look at life through a different lens.
Life is good.
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