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I'm having horrible problems with my email account at Hotpop right now. I can send messages, but for the last 2 days or so I don't think I've been receiving any messages. Does anyone know of any good pop3 free email accounts on the web? Or even pop3 (downloadable email) servers that charge a modest fee, but have quality service?
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[23 Aug 2006|03:43pm] |
To the foreign nation there is a pupil magnification alcoholic beverage?
This is the question one of my students just handed to me. What do you think it means?
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| 4 letters asking for a job, whom to pick? |
[26 Jul 2006|05:26pm] |
I'm teaching summer extra classes right now. My middle school students show up everyday. My high school students have been absent, until yesterday. The high school students say they'll come to class, but once the lunch break comes, they're off to home, the PC rooms or singing rooms. However 4 students have actually come to class for two days. It's a miracle or an omen of catastrophe.
Today I had them write letters of application for an assistant manager position at my (fictitious) Dongducheon restaurant. I'm going to choose to "hire" one of them based on their letter, and the winning student will get a chocolate bar. Their ability is low, so their letters didn't quite come out how I wanted. I told them to include past experience and why they should get the job. I required 11 sentences in their letter, and I gave them a sentence to start them off. Please help me choose who the winner should be. My criteria is not just being well written written better than the others, but that it portrays the student in a positive light. Please read the letters and help me decide.
( Read more... )
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| "Sweet land of liberty, sweet land of oddity" |
[06 Jul 2006|10:53am] |
Here is a opinion from a local newspaper near my hometown. It a humerous article about how bad the US is, and yet how good it is.
Rebels, misfits, and mavericks. My country 'tis of thee. Nonconformists, dissenters, and radicals Sweet land of liberty. Free spirits, freethinkers, and freeloaders. Of thee I sing.
Who can't but love a country whose demographic mix has changed since its founding, yet whose behavior remains -- more or less -- the same? Case in point: Marion Barry. Elected the mayor of Washington, D.C.; convicted of drug use; and four years later, he ran again, and won. What a country! Of course, this is not a new phenomenon. We are a country of rule-breakers. It's our thing. As Stephanie Faul writes "in 1904 Boston Alderman James Michael Curley, later Mayor Curley, was re-elected while he was in jail." Richard Nixon died an elder statesman. I can only imagine what Ken Lay must be thinking: I should have run for office. Is it any wonder that only twenty percent of Americans own passports? Who would want to leave this place?
It should therefore come as no surprise that, according to the U.S. Border Patrol, there are an estimated 15 to 20 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and according to The Economist, the United States is second only to the United Kingdom in total number of asylum applications (with over 60,000 applicants). Who can blame them? Where else can you express yourself so creatively? If the U.S. were a modern-day corporation, we would praise its recruiting and retention strategy -- particularly in a world where the average 18 to 34 year old spends only 2.9 years in a job before moving on to the next. Not only do we attract people, we can't get them to leave. We are the loyalty experts. Although the nightly news may suggest that people hate us, the facts suggest something entirely different. It appears people love us. While the dire conditions emigrants leave behind are often noted, consider -- for a moment - what they are coming to - in droves. We must be doing something right. We must have a secret, but what is it? Consider this.
According to the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 34 percent of American adults are overweight (13 percent of American kids) accounting for over 300,000 premature deaths each year. We are among the fattest countries on the planet, yet they still come.
We are backstroking in a sea of debt (to the tune of $8 trillion, according to the Bureau of Public Debt). We are in the red, yet they still come.
We have the second highest divorce rate on earth (second only to Aruba), yet they still come.
According to the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, the U.S. ranked 15th out of 16 nations on math tests. In physics, we confidently placed dead last, yet they still come.
We have one lawyer for every 19 residents. We sue everybody for everything, yet they still come.
Roughly 42 percent of American households own a gun resulting in 30,000 gun deaths each year. We are armed and dangerous, yet they still come.
And, to make matters worse, we simply refuse to adopt the metric system, yet they still come.
People around the world burn our flag, steal our music, and desecrate our embassies, yet they still come. But why? What is our secret? What do we have that they want? It's simple, really. The United States of America is the land of line dances and second chances. We are the land of hope -- the land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride. Our streets may not be paved with gold, but our hearts are. We are good. Each American -- no matter color or creed -- shares one thing in common: We are believers. We are the hopeful, the courageous, and the creative. We believe that if our intentions are good and we work hard, we can make a difference. And so, we do. We have hope. And we do make a difference. Over 70 percent of American households give money to charitable organizations and over 60 percent volunteer their time. We believe. We care. We make a difference. Hope is as central to the American ethic as apple pie and summertime.
Therefore, in celebration of this July 4th, 2006, take a chance. Do something crazy; something out of character. (Keep it legal, of course.) Start a business. Take a class. Teach. Whatever you do, use the unique gift granted to each and every American. Use hope. Promote it. Act silly. Dance without music. Change something for the better. Putting hope to work is perhaps the most American thing you can do. And then, from every mountainside let freedom (and a glorious bucket of bottle rockets) ring!
Andrew Razeghi is adjunct associate professor at the Kellogg School of Management and author of Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create the Future (Jossey-Bass, June, 2006, $27.95). For more information, visit www.hopeatwork.com.
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| Homework for Yesterday - about books |
[29 Jun 2006|10:47am] |
저는 책을 많이 좋아합니다. 저는 매일에 책을 읽습니다. 치금에 사타닉으 워서스를 읽어요. 저는 이주에 책을 읽기를 끝낼걸애요. 저는 많을 책을 좋아해요. 저는 좋아는 책를 금의당나긔이 이서요. 아푸레이쓰는 의상나긔를 쓰습니다. 그것는 많이 오래왼 이서요. 그것는 많이 채미있는 이서요.
I like books very much. I read everyday. I am reading The Satanic Verses right now. I will finish the book this week. I like many books. My favorite book is The Golden Ass. Apuleius wrote the Golden Ass. It is very old. It is a very interesting book.
New words:
Ass (Donkey): 당나긔
Old (object): 오래왼
Finish: 끝낼다
Many/very: 많는, 많을, 많이
I'm not sure if that's how many changes for the verb form, but I'm pretty sure is how it should be. If not, I'll correct it later.
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| Still in the closet... |
[29 Jun 2006|10:36am] |
I’m going to be posting my homework for learning Korean. I’m meeting with a husband of one of the teachers at my school. He teaches English at an elementary school. Every day we’re writing about a different topic: religion, food, girlfriend/wife, etc. I’m not sure how much it is helping me with my spoken Korean, and certainly my listening skills, but it is helping me build up a little more vocabulary and learning correct forms of grammar.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) the_sween asked me to translate it, so that’s what I’ll do in the future. They really are short inane sentences that are unable to express more than the simplest facts or desires.
I’m happy to be studying again with someone on a regular basis. Structure, like a specific class, is something I really need for learning something new. The only thing I wish was different was that the guy I’m studying with was not related in anyway to my school. MiSook and I are still in the closet and will remain so until she changes schools in March. Tuesday’s homework was about my girlfriend or wife. Obviously I don’t have a wife, but I do have to lie about having a girlfriend. It’s a secret that I know I will have to keep for the next 9 months or so, whether he tries fixing me up with someone else, wonders why I’m never free on the weekends or having to invent people that I go on vacation with. When I finally do tell him, if we’re still friends by that time, I wonder how he’ll feel about being blatantly lied to over and over again. That's one of the things that I that I never realized about being in the closet before, is how it disrupts friendships before they can even start. The person you've been dating for 1 1/2 years, that the other person knows, is a big secret to try and keep.
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| My homework for today... |
[27 Jun 2006|12:41pm] |
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저는 여자친그를 없습니다. 저는 아내를 없습니다. 저는 치금에 아내를 안원합니다. 저는 이년안에 아내를 원할거예요. 저는 치금에 여자친구를 안원합니다. 저는 똑똑한 여자친구를 원해요. 저는 예쁜 여사친구를 원해요. 저는 채미있는 여자친구를 원해요. 한국어 쓰는게 힘이들어요.
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[31 Mar 2006|11:11pm] |
I'll be leaving on a plane to the US tomorrow (Saturday). My grandfather (father's side) passed away Thursday afternoon and I'm going home for a week to go to the funeral. For those of you in the US, I'm not sure if I'll have much time to talk to you. I arrive at O'Hare on Saturday, drive to Arkansas on Sat. night or Sunday to attend the wake. On Tuesday or Wednesday, we'll take my grandfather's body back to Chicago to be buried. I will head back to Korea at 1:00 am Sunday and arrive there Monday morning, just in time for school, although they will probably send me home. That, or I'll just sleep in the nurse's office.
The only silver lining in all of this is that I will get to see my brother (and meet my niece), before he heads back to Iraq. He was on leave when our grandpa passed away. He leaves for Iraq next Saturday.
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[24 Mar 2006|04:39pm] |
In late February a 20 year old GI attacked an 18 year old girl in Hongdae (Seoul Club Area) with a broken beer bottle. She required 80 stitches after the attack.
From Stars & Stripes:
Jasmine said a man, whom she identified as Myers, holding a beer bottle began pushing the two to fight. Jasmyn said she feared he would become violent and asked him for the bottle.
She said the man drew an imaginary line and told her if she crossed it he’d hit her with the bottle.
Jasmyn said she persisted and the man smashed the bottle and followed through with his threat, slashing a two-inch gash through her nose down to the bone. Jagged fragments cut her cheek, lips, chin and forehead.
Jasmyn, who is 5-foot-1, said when her assailant tried to leave in a taxi, she and her friend pulled him from the car. She said she doesn’t remember exactly what happened but admits it’s possible she kicked and scratched the man.
Some of the onlookers began beating the man, Jasmyn said, and bouncers gave her his identification card.
I’ve heard that soldiers aren’t allowed into Hongdae because it’s populated mainly by students, who may be activists trying to get soldiers in trouble. However, it’s hard to think this also is not a primary or secondary reason that soldiers are disallowed into Hongdae. If the victim had been Korean, this would have made the nightly news. That isn’t why I’m writing about this though. The strange thing about this case is not that it doesn’t make the Korean news, but that the victim may be punished. What for? For apparently fighting back and trying to keep her attacker from escaping.
Her father said he asked to accompany her but the investigator told me I had no need to worry, as she was the victim and he was only taking her statement as the victim of this incident.?/p>
Jasmyn said she spent about 10 minutes telling what had happened when Nabors asked if she had hit the man who slashed her that night. She said she thought so.
She said she then was read her rights and informed that her actions were considered assault.
As a civilian, Jasmyn cannot be charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. But as someone covered by the status of forces agreement, she is subject to administrative action. An official document Nabors gave her Feb. 28 explains that administrative actions range from a warning letter, restriction, community service, termination of government quarters to debarment of Area II.
I’m not sure if USFK contractors or family have the same restriction that soldiers in Korea do. If they do, then why is the girl being referred because of an assault? Shouldn’t she be referred for drinking underage or going someplace that is off limits to US personnel and their families? I couldn’t imagine she would actually receive a punishment for this. Okay, I actually can imagine that, but I don’t think she’ll be kicked out of the country. The question that bugs me is whether her disciplinary referral will be used as evidence during the trial. Will it be taken into account when he’s sentenced? Will his sentence be reduced because she didn’t play the part of helpless victim?
*On a side note. I hope the information in the article is correct, since the reporter can’t even decide on the correct spelling of her name. Is it Jasmine or Jasmyn?
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[22 Mar 2006|04:36pm] |
Jihaeng Station is starting to become a dangerous place. Not for most people, but for my students. Three of my girl students jumped another girl student there last year. They hit, kicked and ripped out her hair. She spent a few days in the hospital because of that and the students received what I thought was a slap on the wrist. They had to do cleaning duty at the school for two weeks straight.
A few days ago, two of the senior students had a fight in school. One of my co-teachers broke up the fight, but they finished the fight after school by the train station. Actually that’s not quite true. One of the students and a piece of re-bar ended the fight. The other acquiesced by losing consciousness apparently. The losing kid is okay now. He spent two days in the hospital for a concussion. I’m not sure what will happen to the attacker, but I think he may be expelled from school. The victim’s parents went to the police, so the school needs to take a tough stance. However, if the families come to an agreement, which means money is exchanged, the whole thing may be dropped.
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[20 Mar 2006|03:12pm] |
One of the things you get used to in Korea are salesmen. I wouldn't say there everywhere, but they certainly seem to be. Salesmen are on the train, on the subway, on the sidwalk. They even still come door to door. All of this I can handle. It's when they come to my school office that it starts to bother me. For the most part they see me, an obvious foreigner, and don't give me a second look. The salesmen walk past me and stand over the other teachers' shoulders, pestering them to to look at whatever product is being sold. To my surprise, the teachers simply ignore the salesman. They continue their work and after 30 seconds, a long 30 seconds for the teacher mind you, the salesman moves onto someone else.
Am I out of touch, because I couldn't imagine this in the US. I guess I should say couldn't imagine. It's just that I don't want to. The cubicle prisons are bad enough, but to have someone trying to sell me life insurance while I was trying to get stuff done by the end of the week or end of the day, would be hellish.
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[16 Mar 2006|03:40pm] |
On Monday my grandmother had surgery. It was a major surgery; a double bypass because of a blockage where the artery splits in two. You can't use a stint or balloon, so the only option is surgery.
She's okay. It's a rather standard procedure now, even if it's really major surgery. My father had it done when he was 48. He could walk the next day and was out of the hospital within four days. He still didn't return to work until 2 months later and even that was questionable. There was a lot of stuff he really couldn't do and the other guys in the maintenance shop covered for him. It probably took him four months to get back to where he was before the surgery.
My grandmother is 80. She'll probably be in the hospital for the next week and a half. I don't know if she'll ever get back to how healthy she was before the surgery. My aunts and uncles, however, believe that within 8 weeks she'll be back to normal, even my aunt who is an RN. If she was living at home by herself, I might be tempted to say she can get by after two months. She isn't living alone though; she's taking care of my Grandpa too. He has suffered a couple of strokes and suffers from emphysema. I’m not going to go into the details about what type of care he requires, but he unable to fully take care of himself. My aunts and uncles were thinking of hiring a nurse to come to their house, but they would have to show that my grandparents are housebound. Something neither my grandpa, nor grandma want to be designated as being homebound. Nor can my family afford to take enough vacation time to have someone stay at their house until my grandmother recovers, so I’m not sure what’s going to happen. Hopefully my grandparents swallow their pride for a little while and get a nurse while family can’t stay there, but I think that is the last thing that will happen.
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| It was bad enough that the US lost to Canada. |
[15 Mar 2006|12:24am] |
Tomorrow is going to be a hard day at school!
The Korean national team dealt an ego-bruising 7-3 defeat to the home of baseball on Monday during the second game of quarter-finals play at the World Baseball Classic in the Angels Stadium at Anaheim, California. The win all but assures the as-yet undefeated team a place in the semifinals. An auspicious 101 years after U.S. missionary Phillip Gillette introduced baseball to Korea, the country has overtaken its teacher to secure the ultimate bragging rights by sending an American all-star team packing.
Tomorrow, my day will be filled with students telling rubbing the salt into the wound. Do I really care about the World Baseball Classic? No, not any more than I care about figure skating or curling. But my students care. They're just happy to beat the US and put us in our place. Maybe this can turn to a good lesson about the loveliness of puns and that baseball is America's pasttime.
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| Be a prostitute or lose unemployment |
[11 Mar 2006|09:54am] |
Germany will be importing up to 40,000 women to serve as prostitutes for the 2006 World Cup, but I'm surprised they'll have to. After all, if a women gets laid off at her job, no matter if she was a scientist or factory worker, she can be compelled into the sex industry. How so? Because if she doesn't take the job as a prostitute, she can lose her unemployment benefits.
A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year...
The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same way as those looking for a dental nurse.
When the waitress looked into suing the job centre, she found out that it had not broken the law. Job centres that refuse to penalise people who turn down a job by cutting their benefits face legal action from the potential employer.
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| Please don't send me knives in the mail... |
[02 Mar 2006|03:04pm] |
It's pretty simple in the Us to know what you can't ship through the mail. Things that are illegal, things that go boom, or things that don't go boom, but still can have unexpected properties if leaked. That, and fine white powder or vibrating dildo. Other than that, you're good to go. I'm pretty sure you can even send guns in the mail, as long as there isn't any ammunition accompanying it.
Not so in Korea. I'm not sure if vibrating dildos, or even regular ones are stopped here, but knives are. My brother sent me a middle-eastern knife, or dagger since I didn't really even get to look at it. Customs stopped it, probably because he had written knife in the description box. They sent me a letter in late January telling me to pick it up, and I just finally had time to now. It wasn't a totally wasted trip. I was able to get my brother's letters and I 50 dinars, or whatever the Iraq currency is called. However, the knife I couldn't get. It was deemed to dangerous.
I saw the knife, it was around a good 8 feet away, but I could guess at it's length. The blade was around 7 or 8 inches long. It didn't seem too dangerous to me. After all, I just bought a knife at the grocery store larger than that. They made it pretty clear that I couldn't get the knife under any circumstance, so I asked them if I could ship it to a different address. Nope, it was being rejected by customs, so it had to go back to where it came from, Iraq. My brother still there, so I think he'll get it, but I'm not sure. Because the kicker is, they will send it back by boat. It flew to Korea, but since it was just regular American mail, that means by boat on the way back. The letters and the dinar were worth the 2 hour train and subway ride to the customs office though... I just don't understand why I can't bring a knife into the country.
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[21 Feb 2006|12:14am] |
My parents have been visiting for the last week. They arrived to Korea last Sunday, and they will leave this upcoming sunday (26th). We've been running around Dongducheon, Uijongbu and Seoul since they came.
My dad hasn't starved yet. He's actually eaten some vegetables here, and even tried tofu. He doesn't really have much of a choice, because everything here has veggies of some sort in it. He was doing really well until tonight. He's tried most things I put infront of him, but he just couldn't handle the 불고기 (beef) pizza. It wasn't the green peppers, onions or olives that he couldn't handle, it was the corn. Koreans put canned corn on their pizza (it actually tastes pretty good) and he couldn't/wouldn't eat it. Part of me thinks that it's easier for my dad to eat pure Korean foods with vegetables than Korean American fusion foods.
Trying to find Korean food for my parents has been a little tricky, especially because neither one of them like spicy food. That alone rules out around 60% of the Korean food I want them to try. I've almost run out of non-spicy foods to give them. I have two more things up my sleave to feed them, porridge and raw fish. I think they'll like the porridge, but the raw fish has been a hard sell so far. I'm not sure if they'll be able to get over the psychological fear of raw meat.
There are a few foods I haven't eaten here yet. I can think of five off the top of my head. One is a liver soup. I'm not very interested in trying this one yet. Before I even try it, I'll have to work out and take a rest in order to build up my appetite. Liver just doesn't make my mouth salivate. Another food I'm not in hurry to eat is cooked silk worm. I have to say that even liver sounds better than larva. Three of the foods that I'm at least curious about eating are sauteed grasshopper, dog soup and live octopus. I'm especially curious about the dog soup and live octopus. I'm a little worried about both of them, because I don't like the taste of guilt. I tasted guilt for the first time last winter. MiSook and I travelled to Jeju Island and ate horse their. It was a little stringy, but the taste was okay, except for the guilt. It stayed in your mouth for at least a good 24 hours or so. I'm not sure if dog will do that too, but I think the still writhing octopus tentacle attatching itself to my cheek will taste as if it's steeped in guilt. MiSook tells me that 고추장 (red hot pepper sauce) will make tentacle let go. I'm hoping it overpowers the guilt flavor too.
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| Santas' Palace |
[23 Dec 2005|10:39pm] |
I procrastinate too much. I just sent out Christmas cards today, and I didn’t even get them all sent. I actually didn’t even buy the cards until Thursday night. I went to Seoul to buy one of MiSook’s presents and stumbled upon a bonanza of Christmas and New Years cards. I bought mainly New Years cards because they seemed more interesting. I took pictures of some of the cards. My favorite was what I call, “Santas’ Palace.”
I have a few other pictures in the above link if you want to look at them. The pictures don’t always do the cards justice. Most of you reading this should get a card, although I don’t have all of your addresses.
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| Joy-Tel |
[19 Dec 2005|05:03pm] |
One of the problems I often have in Korea is not knowing what’s going on. Sometimes this is because of language difficulties. Sometimes it’s because people forget to tell me things. Sometimes it’s because many things are well planned and are changed at the last minute. That was the case this last weekend.
I had heard about the teacher’s workshop for the last two weeks over the internet on various discussion boards, but I didn’t know if I was supposed to go or not. The workshop was from Friday through Saturday morning, so I wasn’t too keen on going in the first place. On Tuesday, my teacher got the news about the workshop and said I had to go. I wasn’t happy about giving up my Friday night and Saturday morning, but I figured it wouldn’t be too bad. I had heard that there was an indoor poor at the La Vie ‘Dor Resort, where we met, so I figured some good things could come of it. I also figured it would be a good time to network with some other teachers and scope out people who would be leaving their schools in August.
The workshop seemed cobbled together from the start. We arrived and tried to check into our rooms, but were told that they didn’t have rooms for us. Instead we were ushered into the auditorium. We sat there for around an hour before the actual workshop began. Most of the people there that I knew were planning on leaving after the lectures. They left before we got the second announcement about our rooms.
There weren’t enough rooms. The officials booked the hotel too late, because funding for the workshop had not been approved on time. Everyone in the audience leaned closer to hear who would stay at the hotel and who would be shipped somewhere else. I never really had any hope that I would be among those staying at the hotel. I knew it wouldn’t happen. My pessimism didn’t disappoint me. I ended up at alternative hotel A, otherwise known as Joy-tel.
One thing I love about Korea is the various names for hotels. Some have respectable names, like the La Vie ‘Dor Hotel. Others have names that hang in the shadows between funny and sleazy. My favorite names are the Goodtime Motel and You & I Motel. After getting my room and walking up to the 7th floor (I didn’t want to wait for the elevator), I realized that Joy-tel certainly was on the shady side. When I opened my room, red lights on the ceiling over my bed turned on. They reflected alluringly off of the sex-chair in the corner of the room. I laughed a little, threw my backpack on the bed and headed back downstairs. That’s when I saw the dispenser. It was next to a shelf of free porn provided for our pleasure. Sorry to disappoint any of you, but I didn’t peruse the cinema. I thought the dispenser was for condoms at first. It wasn’t; I should have known, usually condoms are provided in the room free of charge. The dispenser was for sex toys, dildos to be exact. I’m not a dildo connoisseur, but I think they were overpriced. The cheapest one I think was around $15 and I’m not even sure if it came with batteries. The bed was surprisingly comfortable. I was a little sad that I didn’t get one of the heart-shaped beds, some other lucky devil did. The only real regret I had was that I didn’t have my camera on me.
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| As the Embryo Turns |
[02 Dec 2005|04:32pm] |
The story of Professor Hwang Woo-suk continues to twist and turn. The collaboration between Prof. Schatten and Prof. Hwang ended after Schatten "[raised] an ethical objection to the Seoul team’s use of eggs." The Korean press is a little skeptical of Schatten’s claims and thinks he has ulterior motives. This article is actually a little old (over a week), but I couldn’t find it the last time I posted about the issue.
Prof. Hwang’s supporters recently had a candlelight vigil to show their support for him. They want the producers of “PD Diary,” the television show that broke the new of ethics violations and may lose 11 of 12 advertisers for breaking that story, to apologize for their coverage of the issue. “PD Diary” certainly won’t stand down on their accusation. In fact, they’ve now stated not only did Prof. Hwang research break ethic rules, but it was also a blatant lie:
MBC's “PD Diary” said a researcher on Hwang’s team who took part in the somatic cloning of stem cells claimed the results published by Science in 2004 were a collection of falsehoods.
The researcher maintains that Hwang's team fabricated data because in reality it failed to clone a somatic cell and instead used a frozen embryo from the hospital to make stem cells. The researcher says the team also lied about cloning a cow.
Of course, Prof. Hwang and his colleagues are not the only ones being questioned about their professional conduct. It turns out that the reporters for “PD Diary” may be using very coercive and unethical methods as well:
Reporters are charged with applying psychological pressure on interviewees by telling them others had already confessed and saying Hwang would soon be punished by the prosecution. If that is true, it is a gross violation of press ethics. One researcher interviewed by the MBC team in the U.S. said to have been hospitalized due to the stress caused by reporters.
This drama wouldn’t be over without someone disappearing, or the loss of national secrets, would it?
"For the last two weeks we have been unable to contact Park Eul-soon, one of the members of the team that was stationed at the University of Pittsburgh to work” with Hwang’s erstwhile collaborator Gerald Schatten there, an insider with the SNU team said. “The whole atmosphere coming from the U.S. team is strange.”…
Park is a researcher who holds knowledge of key techniques for the removal of an egg cell’s nucleus and transferring the nucleus of somatic cell into the egg cell. The researcher made a key contribution to the extraction of a stem cell line from the world's first cloned human embryo, the subject of a Hwang article in Science. ..
This attention has had some positive results:
Growing numbers of people are volunteering to donate eggs for Hwang’s research since he admitted there were flaws in the way eggs were obtained because of a shortage in donors. An organization devoted to ova donation for scientific research said Sunday some 900 people volunteered through the support website and phone calls. The figure rose steeply to 200 on Thursday after Hwang made the announcement, and rose another 4.5 times since then.
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[01 Dec 2005|08:47pm] |
MiSook, my friend Bret and I went to a wear your student uniform party a few weeks ago. I thought I would share a picture of us. MiSook doesn't really have a student uniform on, but her uniforms from high school and middle school don't fit. Her mother had always thought she would grow into them, but she never got that promised growth spurt. It was a great time, although the dj certainly wasn't the best. He/She didn't seem to know how to fade into different songs and so on. But here's a picture of MiSook and me.
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