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Podiatrist Dr. Paula Fontaine is preparing her next x-ray shoot… and it’s not of a foot or a leg. Today she is photographing a turtle shell that her business partner Joseph Moisan will turn into a work of art. Together they own “radiant art studios” that sells fine art prints, jewelry and home goods made from prints from the x-ray machine in Dr. Fontaine’s office in Westminster, Massachusetts.
- It’s a collection of images based on both organic and inorganic subject matter. We take pictures of all sorts of things like light bulbs, feet, shells. And we create art using a process called digital map painting on top of the x-ray images.
Moisan was originally hired by Fontaine to work on her computers. But after he learned how to operate the x-ray machine, he noticed that he could treat the pictures like his regular digital photographs.
- It’s kind of like a serendipity kind of moment because that little light bulb goes off and you think to yourself, ‘I could make this work.’
Since then the duo has displayed their work at numerous art shows and on their website, challenging the notion that beauty is just skin-deep…
Podiatrist - a doctor who treats injuries and diseases of the foot.
Fine art - a type of art (such as painting, sculpture, or music) that is done to create beautiful things.
Hired - to give work or a job to (someone) in exchange for wages or a salary.
Serendipity - luck that takes the form of finding valuable or pleasant things that are not looked for.
Duo - two people who perform together, are usually seen together, or are associated with each other.
Challenging - difficult in a way that is usually interesting or enjoyable.
Notion - an idea or opinion.
Ethnic Violence Shakes China's West
Welcome again to As It Is, your daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. Today, we hear about ethnic conflict in western China, deep in the Asian continent.
Then, we take a cultural turn. We learn about the many Chinatowns in the United States. Chinese immigrants have lived and worked in America since the 1800s. As we will hear, Chinatowns can be population centers of people of Chinese ancestry, or they may be tourism centers. Today, many cities have
Shanshan County, Xinjiang Province, China
The provincial government in the capital, Urumqi, says additional security measures have been put in place. Pictures on the Internet show thousands of officers from the People’s Armed Police deployed in the city. The show of force is the largest since 2009, when ethnic riots between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese killed about 200 people.
The most recent violence took place in Shanshan county’s Lukqun area. China’s official Xinhua news agency says an unidentified group attacked police stations, a local government building and a construction area. They say 24 people were killed, including two police officers. Xinhua says police opened fire, killing 11 people. It says 16 of the dead were Uighurs, the mainly Muslim ethnic group of the area.
Other unrest has been reported. On Friday, reports say about 100 people clashed with police after a raid on a local mosque in the city of Hotan to the south.
There is a history of ethnic conflict in Xinjiang. Ethnic Uighurs are mainly Muslim and rural. The Chinese government says Uighurs represent 45 percent of the province’s population. Han Chinese, people whose ancestry is from China’s eastern provinces, make up 40 percent. However, Han Chinese have increasingly settled in the area. Uighurs say they are being turned into a minority in their homeland and that their culture is suppressed.
On Friday, a spokesman for the American State Department, Patrick Ventrell, expressed deep concern about continuing reports that Uighurs and Muslims in China suffer discrimination and restrictions.
“And we’ve urged China to address those counter-productive policies and we’ve urged a thorough and transparent investigation into some of this violence.”
China’s official media have blamed Western countries for inciting extremism in Xinjiang. China says unrest in the area is the result of terrorism. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman urged the United States to increase anti-terrorism cooperation with other nations.
People from China have been in the United States since the middle of the 1800s. Today, Asians are America’s fastest growing minority. Steve Ember has this story.
Almost every major city in the country has an area called “Chinatown.”
They call it Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California, USA
Looks down from Chinatown, over a foggy bay…
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote a Broadway musical in the late 1950s called “Flower Drum Song.” It was about generational conflict in Chinese-American families in San Francisco’s Chinatown. In “Grant Avenue,” Pat Suzuki joyfully sang of the attractions that brought visitors to the downtown Chinese community.
A western street with eastern manners
Tall pagodas with golden banners
Throw their shadows through a lantern glow
You can shop for precious jade or teakwood tables…
A mid-century postcard for tourists shows New York City's Chinatown.
From San Francisco to New York, people visit Chinatown for restaurants, grocery stores, herbal cures, and other businesses. But many Chinese have moved out of traditional Chinatown neighborhoods and now live in suburbs just outside the inner city. For example, one of the largest mainly Chinese suburbs is just outside Los Angeles, California. But such areas are very different from the old Chinatown.
Steve Wong is acting director of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles. He says Chinatowns in major American cities are now mainly for tourists.
“If you walk around Chinatown today in Los Angeles and many other big cities, you have these facades of Chinese-ness, which sometimes is real. Sometimes it’s not. And so you have gift shops, you have Chinese food which is catering towards American tastes. I don’t even call it Chinese food. I think it’s very American.”
But at one time, Chinatown was the only place where Chinese immigrants could live. The first Chinese immigrants arrived from southern China in the 1800s as laborers. Many worked on building America’s first railroads. Then, in 1882, the United States banned Chinese immigration. Hostility toward the Chinese led to the creation of Chinatowns. Steve Wong tells about how the neighborhoods developed.
“Without being able to bring in families and women, they (Chinese men) weren’t able to develop their communities. So they had to turn to the outside and create an economy based on tourism.”
Min Zhou is a professor at the University of Southern California Los Angeles. In the past thirty years, Chinese immigrants from Taiwan, and then China, came to America as students – and then stayed in the United States. She describes their arrival.
“A lot of them are from middle class, they want to buy or rent houses rather than live in apartments and they also want to find good school districts. So Chinatown is not attractive to them.”
I’m Steve Ember.
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The eggs ARE fresh.Mass nouns, on the other hand, are used for things that don't have a natural boundary and can't be counted. Also in my fridge are butter, iced tea, and bacon. These are all mass nouns. Mass nouns always take a singular verb, as in:
The iced tea IS already sweetened and They say bacon IS bad for you, but I love it.
Sau vụ bê bối gần đây của Quốc hội Anh , Phó thủ tướng Anh Nick Clegg thông báo Vận động hành lang sẽ được kiểm soát và các cử tri sẽ có nhiều quyền hơn để bãi nhiệm các nghị sĩ …
The Daily Telegraph reports Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will announce lobbyists will be regulated and voters will get the power to sack their MPs after the latest sleaze scandal to hit Parliament.
VOCABULARY:
Sleaze :
You use sleaze to describe activities that you consider immoral, dishonest, or not respectable, especially in politics, business, journalism, or entertainment.
• The latest, depressing sleaze revelations are only going to increase public cynicism about politics and parliament.
NEWS: Cash for access: Clegg pledges new regulation to tackle lobbyingBy Peter Dominiczak, Political Correspondent |
Lobbyists will be regulated and voters will get the power to sack their MPs after the latest sleaze scandal to hit Parliament, Nick Clegg will say.
Following disclosures by The Telegraph about MPs and peers taking money from undercover reporters posing as lobbyists, the Deputy Prime Minister pledges to bring in laws to create a “cleaner, better politics”. Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Clegg says the lobbying scandal has again shown that our “political system has long been crying out for head-to-toe reform”. His comments came as a peer, Lord Laird, resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party. Two other peers were suspended by Labour after further cash-for-questions revelations. The MP Patrick Mercer has already quit the Tory party following an investigation by The Telegraph and BBC’s Panorama that revealed he tabled parliamentary questions and motions and offered lobbyists a security pass to the Commons after being paid thousands of pounds. Mr Clegg says the Government will now introduce laws to create a statutory register of lobbyists and give constituents the “powers of recall” to force a by-election if an MP engages in serious wrongdoing.In 2010, before he took office, David Cameron identified lobbying as “the next big scandal waiting to happen” in British politics. On taking office, the Coalition promised to create a statutory register of lobbyists, to ensure the industry was regulated. But after more than three years in office, the Government has yet to fulfil that pledge. “I know that the absence of the register from last month’s Queen’s Speech raised some concerns,” Mr Clegg says. “So let me be clear: it will happen. The detail is being looked at thoroughly.” Mr Clegg says he and Mr Cameron are “determined that the register should go ahead” as part of a broad package to clean up politics. Despite Mr Clegg’s claim of a united position with the Conservatives, many Liberal Democrats blame Mr Cameron’s party for blocking action on lobbying. Lord Newby, a Lib Dem minister, said that the Conservatives and Labour had blocked the creation of a register. “It’s totally depressing,” he said. “We haven’t met with universal support from other parties.” Mr Clegg says the “overwhelming majority of lobbying activity is legitimate”. However, “greater transparency” is needed to stop people abusing the system, he says. Mr Clegg also assures voters that the Government still intends to give them the power to remove MPs who break the law or Commons rules. Voters are likely to be able to force a by-election if a petition wins the backing of about 10 per cent of constituents. The Government has previously published a draft of a Bill it says would give voters the ability to sack MPs. But that draft has been dismissed as inadequate by many campaigners, including several MPs, who say party leaders would still have too much influence over a recall vote. Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative MP for Richmond Park, said the promises of action were inadequate. “The Government will bring in a version of recall that empowers party bosses not voters,” he said. “On every level, it’s a stitch up.” Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be “astonished” if the Government did not introduce new legislation for a register of lobbyists by the 2015 election. “We all want it to happen,” Mr Maude told the Sunday Politics programme on BBC One. “It will come into effect.” While Mr Clegg praised The Daily Telegraph for disclosing the scandal, some politicians said the affair should lead to tougher rules on press regulation. Lord Soley, a Labour peer, said yesterday there was a “Leveson agenda” behind the investigations into MPs and peers willing to accept money from lobbyists. He told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend that he had warned his colleagues to “be alert” because the press was “trying to target” MPs and peers. He said: “I’ve said it to both MPs and peers at times, 'Be very alert at the moment’ because there is a call for proper regulation of the press. “That doesn’t justify anything that may or may not have happened but I recognise there is a Leveson agenda here.” |
Denise Herzing has spent almost three decades researching and communicating with wild dolphins in their natural setting and on their own terms. The book "Dolphin Diaries" tells her remarkable story.
ascent [-nt] n.
a movement upward
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summit ['sʌmɪt] n.
the top point of a mountain or hill
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in an unconcerned manner ( thờ ơ )
conquering ['kɑŋkərɪŋ /'kɒŋ-]
overcome by conquest ( chinh phục )
Sixty years ago today, New Zealand explorer Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest. This feat may not seem so significant now, when upwards of 150 people may reach the top of the 29,000-foot mountain on the best climbing day. In fact the summit has become so overcrowded that officials are even debating installing a ladder for descents (to the horror of serious mountaineers). But in 1953, Hillary and Norgay’s ascent was a pretty big deal, you might say.
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Bạn biết gì về Libya và tình hình chính trị sau chế độ độc tài của Gaddafi. Bài thuyết trình của Langhi , nhà sáng lập tổ chức “Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace “ về những gì cần cho sự phát triển của Libya .
What Libya needs now, Langhi suggests, is collaboration, not competition; compassion, not rage.
In Libya, Zahra' Langhi was part of the "days of rage" movement that helped topple the dictator Gaddafi. But -- then what? In their first elections, Libyans tried an innovative slate of candidates, the "zipper ballot," that ensured equal representation from men and women of both sides. Yet the same gridlocked politics of dominance and exclusion won out. What Libya needs now, Langhi suggests, is collaboration, not competition; compassion, not rage.
http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2012X/None/ZahraLanghi_2012X-light.mp4
Zahra' Langhi is the cofounder of Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP), a movement advocating for women’s socio-political empowerment and peace-building.
“Mercy instead of revenge, collaboration instead of competition, inclusion instead of exclusion — these are the ideals that a war-torn Libya needs desperately.”
“Peace has an alchemy: … the intertwining, the alternation, between the feminine and masculine perspectives.”
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Bạn có thích nhạc của những thập kỷ 70 thơ mộng không? Hãy cùng nghe những bài “Hit” của Dona Summer , nũ hoàng dòng nhạc Disco nhé!
Học anh văn vui bằng cách nghe nhạc .
Donna Summer performs at the conclusion of the Nobel Peace concert in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2009
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Học bổng “Australian Endeavour Awards“ là chương trình học bổng của Chính phủ Australia cung cấp tạo cơ hội cho các công dân của khu vực châu Á - Thái Bình Dương, Trung Đông , Châu Âu và Châu Mỹ để thực hiện nghiên cứu và phát triển chuyên môn ở Australia . Chương trình củng ài trọ cho người Úc thực hiện nghiên cứu , nghiên cứu và phát triển chuyên môn ở nước ngoài.
"Ops" is short for "Operations". Operations is a part of a business which manages day-to-day processes, like production, shipping, storage, etc. Operations staff work to make the business run more efficiently.
Many companies have Operations departments or divisions. Some companies have an executive who's named the Chief Operations Officer (COO), who assists the CEO.
"Being responsible for" something means that you have to make sure that something is taken care of. For example:
I was responsible for taking care of my little brother.
This means that it was your job to take care of your brother. If something bad happened to your brother, you would be blamed for it.
Here's an example that you might see on a sign in the locker room at a gym:
Total Fitness club is not responsible for any missing or stolen items.
This means that the gym will not have to pay for your things if they get stolen.
To "determine" something means to figure it out or make a decision about it.
You "determine" facts or conclusions. For example:
Police have not yet determined the cause of death.
I've determined that the next camera I buy should be a Canon T3i
The word "determine" is more formal than "figure out".
When someone asks a question that can be answered by several people, the person who answers is "fielding" the question.
This phrase comes from the game of baseball, where players on the baseball field stand and try to catch balls that are hit in their direction. Catching baseballs in this position is called "fielding" balls.
The word "staffer" means "someone who's on the staff". In other words, it describes someone who works in a certain company or group.
A "division" is a large group of people within a company who are managed together. Divisions are larger than departments, which are another kind of grouping in a company.
A division is usually led by a director, a vice president, or some other executive.
"If you get questions that should be fielded by Ops, this will help you determine which Ops staffer is responsible for which sales division."
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| This cartoon by Morten Morland from The Times uses a play on words to comment on the unimpressive performance of the UK's coalition government on a whole range of issues: the economy, same-sex marriage, the EU referendum, etc. etc. |
Thanh Bùi là một ca sĩ người Úc gốc Việt, thuộc dòng nhạc trẻ, nhạc hải ngoại. Ngoài ra anh cũng tham gia viết nhạc. Anh nổi lên và được rất nhiều người biết đến khi là người việt (thuộc cộng đồng thiểu số tại Úc) lọt vào Top 8 của cuộc thi thần tượng âm nhạc Úc (Australian Idol) vào năm 2008. Ngoài ra, Anh còn là hiệu trưởng của Học viện Âm nhạc mang tên Soul Academy tại Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, đào tạo các bộ môn: thanh nhạc (vocal), piano, guitar, violin, trống (drums), nhảy (dance); sản xuất âm nhạc, chương trình phát triển tài năng và hãng thu âm.Nghe Video về Thanh Bùi ở địa chỉ bên dưới.
. The stories and photos are simply stunning and contains both rare home style dishes as well as well known dishes. 
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For more than 40 years, England fans have wanted the national football team to be more like the Germans. Now, it seems, they’ve got their wish. For the England team’s latest kit bears a striking resemblance to the strip worn by West Germany in 1966. The kit, unveiled yesterday, was designed by Nike to mark the 150th anniversary of the Football Association.
THE CARTOON
The cartoon by Andy Davey from The Sun shows the England team in the dressing room before a match. Three players (Wayne Rooney, Ashley Cole and Andy Carroll) are putting on lederhosen — leather breeches which are traditional Bavarian men's clothing. Cole tells the manager Roy Hodgson, "Boss — these aren't going to make us play like Germans." You can say that again!
VOCABULARY
1. Footballers traditionally address their manager/trainer/coach as boss. In fact, recently retired Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told his players they can call him all the names under the sun - but never to refer to him as 'boss' again.
2. Kit is special clothing and equipment that you use when you take part in a particular activity, especially a sport.
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