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Monday, June 23, 2014
June 23 (M), 2014 Ilha Formosa ! Beautiful Taiwan! (with an Incredible History- not included here).
Thanks to my great NTU classmate Steve Chen.
He shared some wonderful videos. I compiled them into a playlist. Truly appreciate that.
For the whole playlist of forty-three episodes, click the following link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR4PZFwrj-hMUL5Jfs9-AeSzwVlpC80mL
Crystal Huang Steve was our class leader (and Chair of Undergrad Student Association), Department of Sociology, NTU.
He shared some wonderful videos. I compiled them into a playlist. Truly appreciate that.
For the whole playlist of forty-three episodes, click the following link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR4PZFwrj-hMUL5Jfs9-AeSzwVlpC80mL
Crystal Huang Steve was our class leader (and Chair of Undergrad Student Association), Department of Sociology, NTU.
June 23 (M), 2014 The deepest enlightenment is the instant moment of letting go
Crystal
Huang shared 黃麗月's photo.
41 minutes ago
from my dear sister 麗月.
Crystal Huang A brief translation (the picture is Avalokiteshvara).
The most beautiful face is incomparable to a kind smile.
The highest achievement is incomparable to a benevolent deed.
The best enjoyment is incomparable to a tranquil mind.
The richest possession is incomparable to the sharing wisdom.
The vast knowledge is incomparable to a compassionate heart.
The deepest enlightenment is incomparable to the instant moment of let-go.
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Just decided to put the picture of Avalokiteshvara and a brief translation together on the poster.
Huang shared 黃麗月's photo.
41 minutes ago
from my dear sister 麗月.
Crystal Huang A brief translation (the picture is Avalokiteshvara).
The most beautiful face is incomparable to a kind smile.
The highest achievement is incomparable to a benevolent deed.
The best enjoyment is incomparable to a tranquil mind.
The richest possession is incomparable to the sharing wisdom.
The vast knowledge is incomparable to a compassionate heart.
The deepest enlightenment is incomparable to the instant moment of let-go.
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Just decided to put the picture of Avalokiteshvara and a brief translation together on the poster.
June 23 (M), 2014 The Forever Beautiful Mind
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Crystal Huang Several learners of the Online Diversity and the Compressed Hybrid Sociology reported that they were unable to see grades and my feedback as well as the uploaded assignments. I checked again and again and had no clues. Then just now, the Director of IT Department Dr. Karin sent out email messages (see below, may be helpful to you) to all, regarding a malicious Rasomware called -Cryptowall that hijacked files for ransom. Then I thought of a connection between these events.
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Mahesh Vangala Crystal , how r u? After long time,thank you.
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Crystal Huang Different browsers take turn to crash ??? What are the under-current of their robust competitions? No clue. Maybe just a kind reminder that it is time to Purchase, to Consume a new made-obsolete device ! Ohh well, am I just another obedient consumer :) ?!

Just heard off a news. Some crashes may reveal a tip of Monetary Icebergs...relating to several lucrative online business - you guess
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IT Advisory
IT Advisory



Monday,
June 23, 2014 8:31 AM
Important Message from IT
The Service
Desk has recently seen several cases of ransomware called Cryptowall.
These cases have resulted in user’s files being compromised.
What is Ransomware?
Ransomware is a form of malware that takes over your systems and
restricts access to your files and folders until you pay the ransom. This access restriction is done by
encrypting files and folders on and connected to your infected computer, including
network drives.
To reduce our exposure, we have
put several measures in place to protect our systems from this kind of attack,
but you can help us by doing the following:
Website advertisements: Cryptowall spreads by clicking on advertisements within well-known
domains. Users should exercise proper judgment and common sense when they come
across ads on websites. Unless you are positively certain about the source of
the ad, do not click on it.
Save to your network drives: This kind of attack emphasizes the
importance of regular backups. Your network drives are backed up daily. If you
choose to use your C: drive, please be aware you do this at your own risk, as
we have no way of restoring your local drive contents.
Email (both CVTC and Personal): Be extremely cautious when clicking on links within email.
Never click on links from unknown
senders. Never reveal personal or financial information
in emails. Never reveal usernames or passwords. If it
looks suspicious, it is best to delete it.
Thank you for helping us keep CVTC’s systems safe.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
June 22 (Sn), 2014 Dorothy murmured to the Wizards of Odds.
Crystal Huang shared Sportskeeda's photo.
June 19
A dubious photo!

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Carmen Hernandez Oh no USA has a big problem
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Crystal Huang Isn't the picture a little bit too harsh?? But where is our dear Mike McCarthy ! ? Good, not on the top list.
Too big to fail? Also the ball (and the themes behind it) is quite different ! In fact, I am getting chubbier as a mouse potato...- worrisome... I definitely, need to mobilize all the limbs and motor neurons for functioning, for example, doing more yard work, engaging more with my garage things, or just going out to play football/soccer...etc. A reminiscence- a few years ago, I went back to Taipei with a growing size of 8+ and many friends were surprised how I "inflated" myself in such a "plumpy" way ? They had no clue that it was O.K. to be size 8 and beyond... (particularly, in the Cheesy state, hehe...)
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Carmen Hernandez Size 8 is most women in US dream size it's a shame that the majority of Americans are so large it must be the type of food we.
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黃麗月 大姐^_^早安吉祥
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Darrell Broten Sometimes I think some obesity is due to laziness, apathy, and low self-esteem.
June 19 at 8:22pm · Like · 3

黃麗月 yes!
June 19 at 11:24pm · Like · 1

Aernest Tree its all against natural law
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Aernest Tree thankyou Carmen
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Crystal Huang

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Crystal Huang Different identity of Football, Soccer, and Rugby. Both pseudo-positive and negative Stereotyping added flavor to the entertaining - Sport Hegemony !
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Crystal Huang Did Dorothy chat with wizards of odds behind the games of D.C., the Wall Street, Hollywood, and surely most of the big money sports?

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June 19
A dubious photo!

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HappyGo LuckyGrace, Will Sanborn, 郭墉 and 18 others like this.

Carmen Hernandez Oh no USA has a big problem
June 19 at 1:24pm · Like

Crystal Huang Isn't the picture a little bit too harsh?? But where is our dear Mike McCarthy ! ? Good, not on the top list.
Too big to fail? Also the ball (and the themes behind it) is quite different ! In fact, I am getting chubbier as a mouse potato...- worrisome... I definitely, need to mobilize all the limbs and motor neurons for functioning, for example, doing more yard work, engaging more with my garage things, or just going out to play football/soccer...etc. A reminiscence- a few years ago, I went back to Taipei with a growing size of 8+ and many friends were surprised how I "inflated" myself in such a "plumpy" way ? They had no clue that it was O.K. to be size 8 and beyond... (particularly, in the Cheesy state, hehe...)
June 19 at 3:01pm · Edited · Like

Carmen Hernandez Size 8 is most women in US dream size it's a shame that the majority of Americans are so large it must be the type of food we.
June 19 at 1:43pm · Unlike · 1

黃麗月 大姐^_^早安吉祥
June 19 at 5:09pm · Unlike · 1

Darrell Broten Sometimes I think some obesity is due to laziness, apathy, and low self-esteem.
June 19 at 8:22pm · Like · 3

黃麗月 yes!
June 19 at 11:24pm · Like · 1

Aernest Tree its all against natural law
June 20 at 5:51pm · Like · 1

Aernest Tree thankyou Carmen
June 20 at 5:52pm · Like · 1

Crystal Huang

about an hour ago · Like

Crystal Huang

about an hour ago · Like

Crystal Huang

about an hour ago · Like

Crystal Huang Different identity of Football, Soccer, and Rugby. Both pseudo-positive and negative Stereotyping added flavor to the entertaining - Sport Hegemony !
about an hour ago · Edited · Like

Crystal Huang Did Dorothy chat with wizards of odds behind the games of D.C., the Wall Street, Hollywood, and surely most of the big money sports?

about an hour ago · Edited · Like · 1
June 22 (Sn), 2014 "We debt, therefore we must exist" :)!
Crystal Huang
53 minutes ago · Edited
Don't worry - you are not alone! I had been a great contributor to that RED bag, too, and have been dreaming ambitiously - would WE, THE PEOPLE, one day, be able to stop nannying the character of the humongous chunk at the right hand side !??

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Crystal Huang Photo shared from The Blue Nation Review and The Blue Street Journal. Steve contributed even unbelievably more to the red bag at UW-Madison: a great motto kept in mind "get your education in order to pay your student debt, if you don't have positive cultural capitals behind you ". Mine (reversed a procedure - "got a job first and then went back to school to pay edu debt !") to U-Minnesota at Twin Cities reached $ 50,000. These two "exemplars", seemingly, did not go well with their cultural capitals. But that's O.K., and in fact, a hard-to-get privilege, in retrospect. Life moves on and on ! By the way, had MOOCs been a Phantom Opera?
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Crystal Huang A friend said - being TA, RA saved a lot. Unfortunately it does not apply to part time students who less likely have the luxury and privilege to contribute to academic ("collaborative") publications.
38 minutes ago · Edited · Like

Crystal Huang Anyway, are you also gradually realizing that the edu debt is good (just like that movie snapshot -"greed is good" ) => "I debt, therefore I must exist" !?? So isn't education, like the health care business, a Commodity, depending on the Purchasing Power along with an artificially distorted supply-demand line? Isn't survival for the fittest? inherited, privileged (surely, we'd better deny them), but earned every bit of them- yes, we all do :D!
10 minutes ago · Edited · Like
53 minutes ago · Edited
Don't worry - you are not alone! I had been a great contributor to that RED bag, too, and have been dreaming ambitiously - would WE, THE PEOPLE, one day, be able to stop nannying the character of the humongous chunk at the right hand side !??

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Julie Furst-Bowe likes this.

Crystal Huang Photo shared from The Blue Nation Review and The Blue Street Journal. Steve contributed even unbelievably more to the red bag at UW-Madison: a great motto kept in mind "get your education in order to pay your student debt, if you don't have positive cultural capitals behind you ". Mine (reversed a procedure - "got a job first and then went back to school to pay edu debt !") to U-Minnesota at Twin Cities reached $ 50,000. These two "exemplars", seemingly, did not go well with their cultural capitals. But that's O.K., and in fact, a hard-to-get privilege, in retrospect. Life moves on and on ! By the way, had MOOCs been a Phantom Opera?
3 minutes ago · Edited · Like

Crystal Huang A friend said - being TA, RA saved a lot. Unfortunately it does not apply to part time students who less likely have the luxury and privilege to contribute to academic ("collaborative") publications.
38 minutes ago · Edited · Like

Crystal Huang Anyway, are you also gradually realizing that the edu debt is good (just like that movie snapshot -"greed is good" ) => "I debt, therefore I must exist" !?? So isn't education, like the health care business, a Commodity, depending on the Purchasing Power along with an artificially distorted supply-demand line? Isn't survival for the fittest? inherited, privileged (surely, we'd better deny them), but earned every bit of them- yes, we all do :D!
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
June 18 (W), 2014. A Multi-level Analysis of Collective Actions.

Published by UW-Madison http://tinyurl.com/qevk76a.
(There is a policy to access the texts via UW's databank :
"Extensive copying or publication of the thesis in whole or in part requires also the consent of the Dean of the Graduate School of The University of Wisconsin. This thesis by LI -CHIN HUANG (CRYSTAL) has been used by the following persons ...").
Currently, I am trying to obtain a digital version from UW-Madison (intend to revise).
Book Title: The February 28, 1947 uprising in Taiwan: A Multi-level Analysis of Collective Actions
http://tinyurl.com/qevk76a

Author : Li-Chin Huang (Crystal)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1993 (Thesis and dissertation data-bank)
Digitized :Feb 19, 2008
Length: 172 pages
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Currently, I am trying to obtain a digital version from UW-Madison (intend to revise).
Book Title: The February 28, 1947 uprising in Taiwan: A Multi-level Analysis of Collective Actions
http://tinyurl.com/qevk76a
Author : Li-Chin Huang (Crystal)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1993 (Thesis and dissertation data-bank)
Digitized :Feb 19, 2008
Length: 172 pages
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From inside the book
2 pages matching Crystal Li-chin Huang in this book
Where's the rest of this book?
Results 1-2 of 2
------------------------------------------------------
Related books by other authors
The Formation and Decline of the Taiwan Independence Organization in the United States of America 1950's--1990's: A Case Study of Social Organization
Kuo-Yang Tang
Ethnicity in Taiwan
Zhongmin Chen, Yingzhang Zhuang, Shu-min Huang
Formosa
Joseph Ballantine
A matter of two Chinas
William Roscoe Kintner, John Franklin Copper
Modern Taiwan in the 1990s
Gary Klintworth
The Social and Political Bases for Women's Growing Political Power in Taiwan
Cal Clark, Janet Clark
Taiwan's Security in the Post-Deng Xiaoping Era
Martin L. Lasater, Peter Kien-hong Yu
From national physicians to medical modernists
Ming-cheng Miriam Lo
Common terms and phrases
228 Incident 228 uprising 32 Demands aggrieved Analysis Association Ballantine Central Government Chiang Kai-shek Chinese civil Chiu City collective action colonial effects colonial nation communication network Communistcontradictory cognitions corrupt crisis cultural democratic Document economic elite event Expanding Political Opportunityfacilitated factors February 28 Formosa Betrayed Formosa Today Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek geo-historical geo-politicalGovernor-General Chen Yi groups historical history of Taiwan Hsin Sheng Daily Hua-lien ideology independence indigenousisland issue Japan Japanese colonialism Japanese rule Kaohsiung Keelung Kerr KoxingaKuomintang League Let Taiwan Liang-kung Mainland China mainland Chinese Mancall March Mark Mancall Martial Law mass media military Ming Daily Ming dynasty motherland Nationalist government Nationalist Rule officialsopportunity structure organizations Peng Peng Ming-min people's perspective province rebellion reform regime relative deprivation Report situation social movement status subjective preconditions Table Taichung Taiwan Provincial Taiwan Youth Taiwanese and Chinese Taiwanese consciousness transition United World
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