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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Sept. 24 (Sa), 2016. Favorite meals vs. Livestock's Long Shadow

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Some delicious veggie meals that I like and cook often (with an Alkaline Mineral Chart).






















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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang A way to challenge or check on Akrasia.
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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang For reference - from Taiwan.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNf1ZuQF02ARe



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聯合國農糧組織（ＦＡＯ）2006年底公佈報告書「畜牧業的巨大陰影（Livestock’s Long…
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Sept 23 (F), 2016. Culture: Freedom vs. Constraints from functional and conflict perspectives

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As an instructor/educator, I ask all of my classes to do daily journal entries (with required texts, imagery, and hyperlinks) to document learning processes and for a portfolio project.
I do the same thing. Here is my journal entry of the day:
~ Art, Sociology, and Social Constructionism ~ Serial entries #25
Today's topics in Art Appreciation vs. Sociology: Culture functions as: constraints/ideologies vs. freedom/way of life;
as: ethnocentrism vs. cultural relativism

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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang In an art- psychosocial-economic context. Tradition !!!!
















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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang In an amygdala-social-economic context - dog-fighting sub-culture.
Where were those men's faces in the original photo....?? Michael Vick could be just one of them?











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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang Cultural hegemony - a manifestation of Power Structure - from the conflict perspective. Thanks, Carmen Hernandez's post.




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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Sept 21 (W), 2016. Language pragmatism and hierarchy.


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September 21 at 5:11pm ·

 ~ Language : Diversity vs. Universality ~ Art and Sociology series#24

Emphasizing the top ingredient among the 5 of the cultural recipe: Language.
I "seduce" students to commit (or take seriously) to 2 of the most "pragmatic" languages in the US and to the world during covering Chap 3-Culture, Sociology.
Several students asked : why not offer Mandarin and culturally related subject matter... (after you have looked at this language chart and to figure out how and why these 2 languages rose to the top? What about a revival of Esperanto - a constructed international auxiliary language?)

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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang In fact, two new curriculum projects have been on my mind for a long long while. They hit one of them.
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James Kimbrough Xena, I wanted to learn mandarin back at a very young age ( 13) my " European bloodline " teacher asked me back then ( 1975?) - "what do you need that language for??" 2016 shows me I was right -- he was a social conditioning " hack" to my intuitions. 🎓🌍
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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang James, in fact, today, in my sociology class, I shared the similar story. In 2001, I taught at UW-Stout, and at that time, a "sun" only showed a tiny rising sign (the other Sun has risen at least 30 years ahead of the current one). I asked students to commit themselves to two important (pragmatic) languages when I covered Culture. The "pragmatic seduction" was to "fit the educational mission statement". In fact, a non-pragmatic 2nd or 3rd language might "make the world happier :)!?"
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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang I told a popular story to my class -
2 baby mice were chased by a cat. The mice dashed to their hole at a corner of a wall where their mother was taking a nap. The cat patiently waited outside of the hole.
"Mom, the cat is still outside... I want th...See More
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James Kimbrough Great story Xena, your students should appreciate the value of your experience(s) and knowledge. ^-^
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Sept. 21 (W), 2016. ~ Sociology, Art, and Social Constructionism ~ series #22

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~ Sociology, Art, and Social Constructionism ~ series #22
Nathan showed one of Bansky's works in our Art Appreciation class, and wittily said: "Why hasn't he been arrested?"

Xena Sun-Lasting Huang After my Sociology class, well, I retrieved one of his works and doodled on it - A fun part of mingling the fraternal twins: Sociology and Visual Arts - from the Constructionist perspective.


Xena Sun-Lasting Huang Among the 6 major purposes and functions of arts, the majority of students chose artworks related to the function of "Commentary" !?
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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang Need to work hard not to tint Visual Arts with much Sociological hue.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Sept 13 (T), 2016. ~ Serendipitous teaching-learning-sharing ~ series #21 What if he had taken Sociology, whether seriously or not...


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~ Serendipitous teaching-learning-sharing ~ series #21

"Sociology" and "Art (Visual) Appreciation", these two courses reinforce each other well with two of their commonalities - philosophical (if not revolutionary :)!) imagination and structural insights.

During last two weeks, we worked hard to open up 3 sociological big eyes differentiated into more than 15 smaller mind-eyes to exam any social phenomena from various angles.
Today, an imaginative topic popped out:

What if Trump had taken Sociology, whether seriously or not, then....

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Valerie Hartman He would have found found a way to make a profit. It would have been like spying on the enemy.
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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang In fact, both teaching and learning Sociology can be a "dangerous business", not to mention the severity of those who are not part of the picture. :D!




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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Sept. 10 (Sa), 2016 A lovely yet Reluctant Luddite


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Good news, Thanksgiving is around the corner :D !!!
What about iphone 7?



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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang Our best friends adapt amazingly to the digital Leviathan.

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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang How is the world connected?...Thanks to the ingenuity, innovation, and progress.

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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang All these design-for-obsolescence goodie stuff...


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One of my majors is Learning Technologies (with a minor in Computer Science) that make me a lovely yet reluctant Luddite :)!
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Sept 10 (Sa), 2016 Cross-species Love/Protection vs. Cross-species Slaughtering


Xena Sun-Lasting Huang shared Best of Nature's video. (Click the touching video).
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This could be a staged demo for love and protection across species ? <3 br="">
So, why are some people and organizations much against the brutal dolphin slaughtering for their meat...
More info: Seashepherd warriors:


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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang In particular, Taiji The awarded Movie trailer - the Cove  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo


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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang Some of them were in their pregnancy...


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The bloody verion of Katsushika Hokusai's (葛飾北斎) iconic
Ukiyo-e (浮世絵): The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏)

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Friday, September 9, 2016

Sept 9 (F), 2016 The Avatar of the Sun



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Sept 9 (F), 2016. Why, "Sun-Lasting" ...

Xena Sun-Lasting Huang shared Earthjustice's post.

Why, "Sun-Lasting"- is one of my adopted middle names :):)!

090916 (F) Have a nice weekend!

...../\„,„/\............//^ ^\\ Live simply
....( =';'= )........(/(_•_)\) Speak kindly
..../" * * "\........._/'' * ''\_ Care deeply
....(,,,).(,,,)........(,,,)^(,,,) and Love completely. 願您 慈悲為薪, 智慧如火.

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September 6 at 11:00am ·

Recently, California hit a new solar record, generating enough electricity to power more than 6 million homes.

The Golden State has always been regarded as one of the nation’s top solar states, setting an example by adding more solar jobs and installing more megawatts of solar capacity last year than any other U.S. state.


California Breaks Solar Record, Generates Enough Electricity for 6 Million Homes
California has hit a new solar generation record, thanks to this week's triple-digit heat wave. SF Gate calculated that on Tuesday, the Golden State's solar power plants…
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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang Why do people need to constantly charge cellphones, and the rest of the portable "electronic" devices?

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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Sept. 8 (W), 2016. My Pieta !!!

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Setting up a Memorial Endowment Scholarship at CVTC in honor of the most important person in my life: Li-ling Huang.(黃麗玲)
- our dearest baby sister.　　

She bravely overcomes her socio-economic adversities, and puts her heart and soul in helping the less fortunate people. She advocates for human-animal rights and the earthjustice, and is a community organizer and social justice activist. She works though all her life for the better society until the day she returns to the multiverse on July 3rd, 2016 at the age of 52.


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Martha Wallen I'm so sorry.
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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang The above photo-sketch was part of an ideation for a painting (mixed media) that needs to be done, but too much water (tears - the terrible inhibitor to numb my hand) is constantly drowning the canvas...
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Jo Neverdahl Hayes You are so thoughtful. ❤ sorry for your heartache.
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Lisa Reeve Sorry you are hurting. You are one of strongest women I have ever met. Call or fb if I can help in any way. Sending you lots of love.
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Xena Sun-Lasting Huang Thank to my sister Li-yeh holding the 100th-day Memorial service for our baby sister in Taiwan <3 br="">Like · Reply · 1 · October 8 at 11:30am

Xena Sun-Lasting Huang Not the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, nor any disciples of Jesus/Buddha/ Mohammad... could empathize the feeling entangled by the gender, class, and all sorts of man-made ideologies and miseries - in my Pieta...
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黃麗月 our baby sister---黃麗玪 !
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Caryn Lange My heart is with you. I'm so sorry for your loss.
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黃麗月 我也在成功大學(麗玪母校)為麗玪成立20年的清寒獎學金，紀念麗玪在世行善事跡。See Translation
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