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Journal: http://tieba.baidu.com/f?ct=335675392&tn=baiduPostBrowser&sc=6653322094&z=630994123&pn=0&rn=30&lm=0&word=%C4%A7%CA%DE%CA%C0%BD%E7#6653322094

Since World War II, British snipers are well known in great skills of targeting and accurate sniper rifles. Usually when they found their target, they’ll first have to calculate the distance between them and the target, then they’ll have to monitor the wind speed and direction. If the distance is long, they’ll have to take the gravity and coriolis effect into account. The wind speed within 1853 meters are always changing, which brings great challenge to the snipers. The success of taking down the Warlord is a result of years of training and experience. The probability of hitting a target with a distance of 1853 meters is 1%.

Week 3 Journal: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/technology/companies/10apple.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Steve%20Jobs&st=cse

Since the beginning of 2009, Steve Jobs has been missing from the famous MacWorld special event. News reported that he’s been suffering from Liver cancer and has been hospitalized. After 7 months, he’s finally back to his game. On September 9th, he announced the new iPods and some of the new features on iTunes 9. Now he looks very healthy, after a liver transplant he’s been fully recovered. In this special event apple brought to us the new iPod nano 5th generation with a video camera, iPod shuffle with more colors, and iPod touch with a much faster loading speed and larger capacity. Apple's stocks has dropped 1% after the special event because there's not much new things came out this year. But the return of Steve Jobs will keep Apple going.

Week 4 Journal: http://www.pcworld.com/article/172627/china_clamps_down_on_internet_ahead_of_60th_anniversary.html

Since the beginning of 2009, China has blocked Youtube, and in the middle of 2009, China has blocked Facebook. These two websites are probably the favorite sites for entertaining, and it's blocked. Reason is simple, national security. Since Chinese people are sensitive to the information on the internet, they can easily believe what they're seen. Youtube and Facebook could be tools for sharing inapropriate information. Hope they'll unblock them after the special event.

Oct 24th, 2009 http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7016734875 Somalians are famous because of their pirate act. For years they've captured cargo ships, civilian ships, and even cruiser ships. In the middle of 2009, US Navi Seals have successfully eliminated 3 pirates who's guarding the hostage within seconds. Now the Somali pirates had captured a Chinese cargo ship. Chinese officials has sent their warships, and asked for help from other countries. Hope they know who they're messing with.

Nov 1st, 2009 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703294004574509181789222564.html?mod=googlenews_wsj After 2 years of waiting, China finally gets to taste the first legal iPhone. Over the years Apple and China Mobile and Unicom never had an agreement, since buying an iPhone people have to sign a contract with a telephone company. All the iphones in China are legally imported from the US or HongKong, so this is really a big deal for all the Apple fans around China. I actually attended the night party even though it's cold and rainy.

Nov 7th, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8342388.stm Good thing that no one got hurt, but it is evident that people are still unable to predict the exact time and location of an earthquake. In may 12th 2008, a devastated earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5. About 60000 people died, this has proven that if there's an alarming system which could predict the earthquake, there won't be any casualties. Another way of preventing this kind of natural disasters is to build buildings with a stronger and earthquake-proof structure, hence to minimize the number of casualties.

Nov 15th, 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/15/obama-japan-china-visit Since the financial crisis last year, many countries citizens had suffered from unemployment and other issues. While China's state remains the same. Perhaps this has shown that a country with mixed economy are stronger than other free market economic countries. While other countries are falling, China is rising. Many feared about China's rise, of course they should.

Nov 22nd, 2009 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10396593-52.html Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is probably the best first person shooting game in the history of men kind. Playing the whole single player mode is like watching a Hollywood movie. The story is about the War and terrorist. The story opens with a brief summary of what happened after the SAS eliminated Imran Zakhaev. Imran Zakahaev is a Warlord who sell nuclear weapons to the middle east, which brought a threat to the U.S. Once Imran Zakhaev is killed, all the Russians became obsessed with him, and saying that he is the "Hero of the New Russia." After 5 years, Makarov, a terrorist who is not on the side of any country, planned a terrorist attack in Moscow international airport. One of the CIA agent blend into his team and joint the operation in order to gain Makarov's trust and eventually kill him. They killed 1000 people in the airport and managed to escape. How ever, the CIA agent got killed by Makarov, and the police found his body. At the end Makarov said: "Once they've found the dead American, all of Russia will cry for War." And so begin the War between Russia and America.

Nov 28th, 2009 http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=ODU4MDk2NTc1 Private coal mining accident are a major issue now in China, since the government did not permit private mining as a legal business, many coal mining spots have a lack of safety precaution, and since private coal mining business is so profitable, people wanted to do this job even if its dangerous. No in China, each and every year there are thousands of people died because of coal mine explosion, due to the lack of experience of the miners. The Chinese Government should come up with some solutions such as making regulations restricting private coal mining.