Liver Cancer Treatment

For fun.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/135980.php

Faustino Winery

By Sir Norman Foster.

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/1327/Default.aspx

It's cool but not impressive. After all, what is a winery building supposed to be? Of couse the first priority is to serve the functionality of the whole winery. Look at the building, it naturally blocks the wind and sunshine of certain regions. It changes the terrior! The designers know nothing about viticulture.

I will have Renzo Piano to design the winery if I have chance to set up one in the future.

实践教学

如果我教授金融，我会让所有学生在第一天都构建自己的portfolio，当然是在virtual market，但performance及最后的review会计入成绩（会对比benchmark indices进行cannibalization），而且要有一些限制，比如只在特定时间开放（类似Bermudan option）避免占用过多时间，以及提供leverage以及一些标准的trading strategies（例如trending following，event driven...）进行比较。

毛寺生态实验小学

http://www.nddaily.com/cama/200811/t20081128_923569.shtml

一个有趣的故事

在wiki看到有关A clockwork orange的条目，里面有一个当时美国出版商出版英国小说家Burgess原著的时候，要求去掉最后一章有关Alex自我反省救赎，而这一章的内容也没有出现在随后Stanley Kubrick的电影里面。

下面是原文：

Omission of the final chapter

The book has three parts of seven chapters each. Burgess has stated that the total of 21 chapters was an intentional nod to the age of 21 being recognised as a milestone in human maturation. The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986.^[3] In the introduction to the updated American text (these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter), Burgess explains that when he'd first brought the book to an American publisher, he'd been told that U.S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around (a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia—the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong).

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U.S. version, so that the tale would end on a note of bleak despair, with young Alex succumbing to his darker nature—an ending which the publisher insisted would be 'more realistic' and appealing to a U.S. audience. The film adaptation, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is based on this "badly flawed" (Burgess' words, ibid.) American edition of the book. Kubrick claimed ^[4] that he had not read the original version until he had virtually finished the screenplay, but that he certainly had never given any serious consideration to using it.