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2010 Fall Apprentice Candidate - Nicole

Watching Adam Lambert "Time For Miracles" Music Video for 2012, for
some reason, I thought of Nicole.

The failed candidate for Apprentice. She was blamed to be wishy-washy,
no integreity, and no leadership. I guessed she is a Chinese and this
guess was tested to be true. In America, especially in USA, to be
wishy-washy and no integrity could be destroyable in one's way of
seeking success. Unfortunately, Nicole did have demonstrated her
coordinative leadership through such an "undecisive" exhibition of her
characteristics. This is not her personal fault. It could be something
rooted in her community and in the political world.

印第安人的节日和美加政治

在印第安人聚会的第20个周年，我去了美加边境的Kahnawake印第安人保留地。这个聚会上有摆摊的、跳舞的和买食品的。集会地在河边空地，有树有草，停车方便。

驱使我写这篇博文的主要原因是在集会上碰到个印第安艺术家，他不好好守摊卖货，见到我们直接就问我们来自哪里，然后大讲印第安文化。最有意思的一个地方是他说美国的宪法除了没有借鉴他们祖先由女性委员会推举一位男性酋长的习俗以外，其他如民主、自由、平等等等的精神都是写在印第安部落的规定。此外，他还提到法裔借鉴印第安人文化的例子，并要求我们这些外来户了解美洲文化时最先了解印第安文化。最后，他提到10年前，有两个拿了奖学金跑到他家那片在美国纽约附近的印第安保留地去深入研究了他们的日常生活，写了本书出来。只不过因为是中文出版，至今他们也不知道书里写了他们些什么，加上书中没有配图片，他们就连时不时翻翻此书的机会都没有了。

印第安人艺术家自我介绍说有使用舶来品做手工艺品的。我看了看他的鹿茸神灵小雕塑，很是独特可爱。其实，其他的艺术家们更有在卖MADE IN
CHINA的产品，连一点印第安特色都没有。最有印第安特色的产品就是他们的符号剪纸了，机器做的要卖10元一个（对），手工做的卖25加币一个（对）。那种符号剪纸比起中国的手工艺剪纸可是容易多了。不由得想到中国路边摊卖得比葱还贱的传统中国手艺。�(���)�这是否没有历史的地方更注重保留历史，而拥有历史和文化的中国压根就不在乎我们的传统文化呢？可叹啊，可叹！

这个集会让我觉得有些不妥而怪的地方是开幕式重点突出的是在加拿大和美国对外战争服役中阵亡的将士。这也是驱使我写这篇博文的第二个原因。集会和魁北克本地农民的集会几乎没有什么两样，不同的是这里的印第安人人大多讲英语，就连保留地的旗帜都是打的星条旗。而且来集会摆摊的印第安人有来自北美各地的，也有来自本地的白人艺术家。估计这些印第安人做将的几率近乎零。主持人提到的战争有越南战争、朝鲜战争、伊拉克战争和正在进行中的阿富汗战争。而加拿大只在阿富汗战争中加入了美国盟军出了兵。默哀时，所有的人都在四顾张望，只有一个穿红色恤衫的白人和什么有色人种混血的姑娘在低头致意了很久很久。开幕式上的旗帜经介绍有美国海军的旗帜和美国陆军的旗帜，和印第安人某氏族部落的旗帜。音响中只没有看到枫叶旗，也没有看到魁省的省旗。

开幕式下一个舞曲真正有印第安人味了。在场外等了足足40分钟的印第安人穿着五颜六色的服饰上场了。骄阳似火。印第安人男女老少都穿着长袍，鹿皮靴子或软底鞋，头戴羽饰纶巾。男人的后腰都有扎成太阳形状的饰物，女人的长裙大都系有银色、细长圆锥形的铃铛，男人也在靴子的后跟缀上方形的铃铛。这节好看得紧，可惜偶尚未整理好自己的录像，也还没找到地方做BT下载，暂时不能给各位分享了。

Fwd: “中国经济将在9~12个月内崩溃”的言论:“末日博士”麦嘉华(Marc Faber)

2010年06月26日 02:04 第一财经日报：
http://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/stocktalk/20100626/02048183680.shtml

一直以来，麦嘉华也都在抨击高负债、高消费的美国经济。

2006年，他就指出："负债增长推动了美国国内物价和消费上升；然而，生产过程和资本支出却在亚洲，特别是在中国进行。美国的过度消费和缺乏资本，导致美国对中国及亚洲其他国家的经常赤字不断增大。如今不管是世界经济还是中国经济，都过度依靠美国人的超前消费。这种超前消费，目前已经到了极限。如果美国的市场坍塌，再加上石油危机，几头夹击，中国的经济也会受到打击。"

2008年6月，他在给投资者的通讯中这样讥讽美国："联邦政府给我们600美元的退税。如果我们把这笔钱在沃尔玛超市花掉，这笔钱会去向中国；如果我们买了汽油，那么这笔钱会去向阿拉伯国家；如果我们买电脑，这笔钱就给了印度；如果我们买水果和蔬菜，是把钱给了墨西哥、洪都拉斯和危地马拉；如果我们买辆好车，那么德国人就拿到了这些钱。把这笔钱留在美国的唯一方法是花在妓女和啤酒上，因为这是美国少数还在本土生产的商品。而我正是在这样做。"

新闻报道：在多伦多G8G20开会之前

加拿大国家电视台提前2天就开始播报准备上街抗议示威的人要注意些什么。今天，他们又开始报道法院决定是否启用某条镇压暴力抗议者的法律。电视里还播报了加拿大人把几大西方领导人做成漫画裸体人的样子。呵呵。

昨天他们还报道说，中国人寻求政治游说的方式和西方不同。（西方国家专门有lobbyist这个职业，据说美国是1小时150美元。）中国人的政治游说就是昨天L随大部队去渥太华国会山前举大旗、耍龙灯、跳扇子秧歌舞这种方式。昨天一早6点钟，唐人街最大的餐厅红宝石楼上楼下就挤满了人，等着用完早餐上车去渥太华。L说唐人街出发的车去了22辆可48-50人的校车。西岛去了5辆车。MCGILL中国同学会还给安排提前两天去渥太华住了4星级宾馆2晚。我同学的爸爸清华的，过来帮忙带孩子。赶上了这节目，也去了。听说清华同学会的车是早上9点才从蒙特利尔出发。

一路上，L车上的老太太们要上厕所。在公路边的公厕排队就排了1个小时。折腾了1上午到了渥太华。开始下大雨，有人发雨衣。我看到L的照片中比国家电台播放的场面可壮观多了。CBC的播放就集中在3个穿红衣的中国人挤在某处欢呼，一大队法轮功被警察挡在另一边的挡路栏杆后面。然后就是采访某个没有思想准备的小伙子：
"你来这里是自己掏钱吗？"
"没有"
"那是有人给你们掏钱吗？"
"可能吧"

这个套下得真好。

中国大使馆给了各个社团这次去渥太华欢迎胡锦涛的活动经费。一日三餐都可以报销，来回车费也给社团报销，就是没有安排公关公司给各社团的组织者上政治课和媒体应对策略。呵呵。

巴黎华人游行后出现骚乱 多名青少年暴力对抗遭逮捕

转篇新闻：

2010-06-22 07:30 环球时报
法国华人20日在巴黎美丽城举行的"反暴力、要安全"3万人大游行结束后，一名华人女孩遭到劫匪袭击，愤怒的当地华人青少年与警方发生冲突，警方动用了催泪瓦斯并逮捕多人。法国华侨华人会主席陈胜武对《环球时报》记者表示，非常理解年轻人对于社会暴力的控诉和不满，但不希望以暴制暴。法国华人华侨界正在通过多种方式积极营救被捕青少年。

当天游行至17时结束，参加游行的人群已经基本疏散，道路秩序恢复了正常。大约半个小时以后，华丽都大酒店下面的地铁站发生了一起抢劫案，一名华人女孩的提包被人抢走。这让一些华人青少年非常愤怒。大约上百名华人青少年重新聚集起来，追打劫匪，燃烧了几个垃圾袋，还掀翻了3辆汽车。

闻讯赶来的巴黎警察和宪兵大队使用催泪弹、辣椒水等防暴措施进行驱散，美丽城一带烟雾弥漫。警方当场拘留了21人。巴黎警方21日对《环球时报》记者表示，他们已经掌握了抢劫现场的照片。

how Anne Murray come to me alive

I saw a program about Anne Murray last night on CBS Passionate Eyes
and thought about my friend's feedback on the post card I sent to him
two years ago. The post card was sent to him as a Christmas greeting
from an international friend in Canada. Then, Anne Murray to me was just the
first Canadian singer who was welcomed by Americans. The program let
me understand that Anne Murray is still a big star in today's Canadian
show business. She is more than an icon of Canadian cultural treasure
but a world renowned star.

My friend is an American in his late 60s. It must have aroused some
good old days memory in his minds. Actually, the first song attracted
my attention of the program was Anne Murray performing You Needed Me
on stage. I thought it belonged to the Carpenters. Well, I was wrong.
Anne Murray humbly recollected the facts about how she had discovered
the song and recorded the song that made it a number one hit in the
American market. There were only a few lines about how Anne Murray
reviewed her rebellion performance style like bare feet. The Global
and Mail book review on All of Me let me gain more insight about how
daring and unconventional this was in her youth time. But I can see
her humble and self-controlled spirit that comes with her hair style,
the way she talks about her cooperation with other stars.

Anne Murray mentioned that Gen Campbell had always been supporting
her. She said Bryan Adams was so sick in their cooperation but
performed so professional that she only got to know that it was so
hard for him to stand up in the back stage when the show was finished.
Anne Murray also talked about her once for a life time duet rehearsal
with a cellular phone. On the other side of the phone, it was Celine
Dion. The next day, the two performed together and Anne's heart was
lifted so high but slowly was put down by the perfect match of voices
and seamless performance. It is like her songs, humble, soft, smooth,
but spiritual, Anne Murray neither highly appraised any star, nor
implied any complain about the strange rehearsal with Celine Dion. She
just said that Celine could not come because of an exhausted long-time
flight but she herself had always prepared and rehearsed for every
show.

I guess there is a gap of time and culture that made it hard for me to
interpret Anne Murray's words about Julio Iglesias' invitation to her
for dinners. Was she indicating a romance between them? She said that
she was so young and could not be assured what could happen if she
accepted his invitation. But she did use fabulous words to describe
her fondness of Julio. I liked the two's duet very much. It would be
more than better if the two really had some romance.

The program went on talking about how Anne Murray had blended so well
with her assistants and band members. It resonated the same feeling of
her songs and lyrics. For the reason that the program let me approach
a bit deeper about the culture and people's feelings in the past
decades of years, it is a warm and delicate TV product. Strange
enough, I had never heard of Anne Murray before I was preparing some
greeting cards to my old friends. Anne Murray's post card was picked
because of the Canadian scent. It is the selections of Anne Murray's
life stories and performances that made her stay in my heart and soul
forever.

2010/5/10

19年一轮的中秋节

查了一下万年历，下一个10月3日的中秋节在2028年。真的是19年一轮啊。向月亮祈求些什么好呢？