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El Gobierno chino ha suspendido hoy sus intercambios militares con Estados Unidos en respuesta al plan de Washington de vender armas a Taiwán. El Gobierno de EE UU manifestó ayer al Congreso su intención de vender armas a TaipeWe por un valor de más de 6.000 millones de dólares, incluidos helicópteros Black Hawk y baterías de misiles Patriot, pese a las protestas de China.View Original ArticleBlogged with the Flock Browser
The winners of the 2009 Taiwan blog awards have been announced at Taiwanderful. Special congratulations to A Hungry Girl&s Guide to TaipeWe for winning the peer-judged award for overall best blog. shu flies won the online vote for the overall best blog.Thanks to Ben, Portnoy, Carrie, Todd and DJ Marcus for judging the blogs in

She&s among the latest rising pop stars, and Ke$ha was spotted arriving at this year&s Gramour Awards show at L.A&s Staples Center.The Tik Tok” singer will be presenting an award during the show along with Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, Justin Bieber, Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel, among others.A tribute to the late Michael Jackson is one of the most anticipated segments of theight.Actor Jeff Bridges is hosting the 52nd Grammys, which airs live on CBS on Sunday (January 31) at 8pm.
The Yoest family at the Supreme Court in DCCharmaine sends thisote along,Dear Friend of Life,We wanted to take a break from public policy and wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. And yet, even as We write this, the television in our office is tuned to C-SPAN as pro-abortion Senators stand on the Senate floor - Senator Patty Murray just finished andow Senator Al Franken is beginning - two days before Christmas, they are arguing for the passage of the greatest single expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade. Its simply breathtaking.our family had dinner lastight with our brother and his family, who are here from Alabama to celebrate Christmas with us. Yesterday was also his birthday. As we ate birthday cake, we talked about the strong pull everyone feels to break away and just have Christmas.But tomorrow morning at 8 am, on Christmas Eve, the Senate will vote. We are paying attention because we must. This is an historic moment and we are honored to be a part of the Life movement that is working to stop this tragedy.We want to thank you. Frankly, We thought Senator Reids strategy to push this legislation through at Christmas-time was appalling, but shrewd. Pro-life Americans are rightly paying attention to family and friends and sacred traditions this week. But youve also taken the time to stand with us against this pro-abortion bill. Thank youWe also want to thank the AUL team. Theyve been putting in long hours - our legal team worked through the weekend to analyze Senator Reids amendment. Their analysis documented that the "compromise" worked out with Senatorelson actually established the first-ever mandatory abortion tax. Our communications team has been working to get the word out - releasing a statement immediately after the 1 AM vote Monday morning. . . and our database guru, Stanley Bao, is working hard today to get this message to you. Im privileged to work with a team of people so dedicated to the mission of defending life.Last weekend, as Reid filed his amendment, it seemed as if even the heavens had opened up in protest, as a blizzard socked in theations Capital. Dedicated pro-life Hill staffers slept on cots and sofas in their offices over the weekend to work against this unprecedented expansion of abortion. Having a Christmas blizzard reminded me of the classic story of General George Washingtons Christmas prayer at Valley Forge. In December of 1777, Washington moved the Continental Arour to Valley Forge in order to try to survive the hard winter. You know the story Im sure: the winter was so desperate and conditions so severe, that of the 12,000 men who began that encampment with Washington, 2,000 didot survive. There is a story that General Washington was observed at prayer, alone in the woods that Christmas, and a famous painting depicting that scene isow hanging on display at Mount Vernon.While we mayever know the exact details of that prayer, this much is beyond dispute: Washington and his men remained faithful to their cause throughout that long winter. They endured, even when a path to victory was unclear and the future appeared hopeless.May we too stand firm in the great calling of our time: Defending Life. Merry Christmas, friends.Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.President & CEO Washington, DC: 655 15th StW, Ste. 410 Washington, DC 20005 Chicago: 310 S. Peoria Street, Ste. 500 Chicago, IL 60607Please support Americans United for Life.###Thank you (foot)notes:Be sure to follow Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Twitter: @JackYoest and @CharmaineYoestJack and Charmaine also blog at Reasoned Audacity and at Management Training of DC, LLC.

Have a four hour break from classesow, so We have scurried back to the warn confines of our room, and as We type chik chik chik our fingers blaze at the keys but, an extraordinarily frigid weather,umbs them to the core. Temperatures have dropped here like anything, and as We look out of the window, all We see is fog fog and fog A glance at our watch reminds me that its past 11 o clock in the morning, but weirdly, the dense fog, makes it impossible to reconcile the reality with what it seems to be. Wearing four layers of clothes, doesot at all deter the cold from penetrating right into our skin, and at this instant, dressed as a wannabe polar explorer all We can do, is shiver and quiver like a trembling hare in front of a lion, wishing that things could possibly have been a bit more comfortable.We haveever thought that We would actually be staying in so cold a place. Its OK in vacations and all, where the cold can actually be fun, but when you have to actually live through this cold for some tens of days, it can turn out be a spot of bother for you. A big spot. Consider this. You are in hostel, so there is absolutelyo way you can hit the bed atight before 2 or 3 AM. And once youve done that, you cannot afford to get up before 7 AM andow thats it shockingly cold, the 7 AM deadline itself, takes a thousand times larger will power, and determination. Why 7 AM You may ask well, classes for me start at 8 AM this semester thanks to a bogus timetable that We managed to obtain. Baths are out of question, unless you really want to hurt yourself, and going out to the mess during meals has almost become a compulsion, despite of the good hot food we get here.Hang on Ill be backItsightow and We return to complete this post.So second semester has begun, and Weow have our very own laptop to spend time with, therefore We am using it to the fullest. Classes have begun as well, and we have threeew subjects this sem. Probability and Statistics which replaces Thermodynamics, Comp Programming, which replaces Bio, and Workshop Practice which replaces Engineering Graphics. The profs have started droning on in their ever monotonous voices in the huge lecture dromes which are chillingly frigidow. Moving around the campus, all you get to see through the murky fog, are (leaving aside the peacocks), students marching, alone or with friends, tooumbed to speak, to chilled to look up and withstand the piercing cold of the misty drafts of air. Brr even typing this post has become difficultow should be 7-8 deg outside plunging toear zero in a few more hours shall curl into our bed with a movieow :)see you people, and will be back :)
We have to admit, We was kind of hoping for a meltdown of epic proportions.But Rowan was as cool as a cucumber meeting Santa for the first time. He walked right up to the guy and was like, “Hey, what up” Then he was totally distracted by that candy cane, trying to figure out how to eat it.We joked beforehand with our dad that we’d undoubtedly experience Santa FAIL, and so in preparation for that, our dad sent me this modified Santa photo to post, just in case.Fun with Photoshop, FTWHere’s the original photo with dad, circa 1954().







More and more actors seem to be getting into writing comics these days and the versatile Samuel L. Jackson iso exception. Re-teeming with his Afro SamuraWe pals, Jackson and Boom Studios are set to release aew comic called Cold Space, written by Jackson and Eric Calderon with interior art by Jereour Rock.Want to
Peachy posted this in the forum and thought We would post it here since it&s a remarkable look into exactly what most of our days are like. Click on the image for a larger version of the comic. Tweet This Share this on del.icio.us this Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good Share it on StumbleUpon Share this