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GY will be visiting Atlanta and we think the best places to go would be:

  • Margaret Mitchell House and Museum

Margaret Mitchell House and Museum

http://www.gwtw.org/hours.html

Tours
Monday-Saturday: 9:30am–5pm
Sunday: Noon–5pm

Ticket prices are as follows:

Adults – $12.00
Seniors (65 and older) – $9.00
Students (13 and older) – $9.00
Children aged 4-12 – $5.00
Free – Margaret Mitchell House Members & Children under 4 years old
Groups of ten or more are eligible for discounted rates.

The Margaret Mitchell House
& Museum
990 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
404-249-7015

Going south on I-75/I-85 (from the north, Marietta, Buckhead, Norcross) take the 249D exit, the North Avenue exit. Take a left off the exit onto North Avenue . You will travel through one stop light before you reach West Peachtree Street. Take a left onto West Peachtree Street. (This is a one-way street going north.) Follow West Peachtree Street until you reach 10th Street. Take a right onto 10th Street. Crescent Avenue is your next right before you reach the next traffic light. You will see the house ahead of you once you turn onto 10th Street. Turn right onto Crescent Avenue and you will see our complimentary parking lot on the right .

From downtown Atlanta, head north on Peachtree Street. The house is on the corner of 10th and Peachtree Street. Take a left at the corner of 10th and Peachtree. Take your first left, Crescent Avenue, which is directly behind the house. You will see our complimentary parking lot on your right.

By public transportation:
The Margaret Mitchell House is one block east of the Midtown Marta Station. When you leave the Marta Station by the Peachtree Place exit, turn left and walk up the sidewalk to the light at Peachtree Street. You will see our entrance sign on the sidewalk.

Free Parking:
Free parking is available adjacent to the property.

  • Martin Luther King Center: Center for Nonviolent Social Change

Fees & Reservations

Admission and parking are FREE.

Admission: Free

Vehicle Parking: Free parking is available on John Wesley Dobbs Avenue between Jackson Street and Boulevard.

No special arrangements are needed since most of the park is self-guided. However, you will need to register to tour the Birth Home of Dr. King. Reservations for touring the Birth Home are handled on a first-come first-serve basis the day of your tour, in person. No advance reservations can be made. Register at the Visitor Center Information Desk.

Martin Luther King Center
449 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta

  • Stone mountain park

Christmas time: 10:00AM – 5:00PM Peak; Christmas event 2:00PM – 9:00PM

For more about history of Atlanta, this is the great web site:

http://www.atlantastartshere.org/

峄山刻石 Stone Carving at Yi Mountain

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High Museum 展出的峄山刻石篆文到底写了些什么？

If you have had the chance to visit terracotta army at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, you would have seen a big wall full of huge characters. Those characters are in the Zhuan form of Chinese characters which are the standradized Chinese characters under China’s first Emperor Qin Shihuang, as shown below:

yashan keshi
yishan keshi

正面、左侧面刊刻颂扬秦始皇功绩文字，背面刻秦二世诏书。小篆体，每面5行，共222字.

It is actually a poem with 222 characters, with four characters per line:

皇帝立国，惟初在昔，嗣世称王。

讨伐乱逆，威动四极，武义直 方。

戎臣奉诏，经时不久，灭六暴强。

廿有六年，上荐高号，孝道显明。

既献泰成，乃降专惠，亲巡远方。

登于峄山，群臣从者，咸思攸长。

追念乱世，分土建邦， 以开争理。

功战日作，流血于野。

自泰古始，世无万数，他及五帝，莫能禁止。

乃今皇帝，一家天下。兵不复起，灾害灭除。

黔首康定，利泽长久。群臣诵略，刻此 乐石，以著经纪。

HOA site posts

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Today I posted my first post at our HOA site:

Web site enhancements: Need your input

Posted on December 12th, 2008

The next board meeting will be held on December 18. One of the agenda items is to discuss ways to enhance our web site. Your inputs are much appreciated. Here is the wish list for our web site I can think of:

  • Resident surveys/polls
  • “Contact Us” fill-in forms which will direct to Property Manager’s email automatically.
  • Resident self-posted classified ads/activities (do we need something like a forum)
  • Coventry photo gallery hosting all activity pics, preferably residents can self-post.
  • Each registered user has his/her own personalized profile/info so residents can know each other better.
  • Ability to post ads within certain periods, and can rotate the ad placements on the site.

You may provide your input by December 17.

I also added a WordPress page titled “Coventrians Recommended”. Some user commented in my first post that fieldstone has a good web site.

I also posted “any ham radio operators?” and one replied that he is one of them in the community! Internet is really cool stuff, isn’t it?

A Slap in Our Face: We can’t forget what Richardson did to Wen Ho Lee

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http://www.asianweek.com/2008/12/04/a-slap-in-our-face-we-can%e2%80%99t-forget-what-richardson-did-to-wen-ho-lee/#comment-15910

A Slap in Our Face: We can’t forget what Richardson did to Wen Ho Lee

December 4, 2008

Wen Ho Lee

Wen Ho Lee is as close as it gets in contemporary Asian Pacific American history to a mythic victim of racism in our nation.

Unlike a symbol of injustice like a Rosa Parks, Lee was no activist and did not seek to challenge society. He was merely an ordinary Asian American scientist doing his life’s work. And solely because of his race was he wrongly suspected of being the most heinous kind of criminal to democracy — a spy.

For his ordeal, Lee rarely receives the respect he deserves and now lives in quiet obscurity after being stripped of his livelihood as a nuclear scientist. To add insult to injury, some still don’t think Lee is innocent.

Meanwhile, Bill Richardson, secretary of energy in the late 1990s and the man who fingered Lee and presided over his public flogging, remains in the limelight and is now being honored as President-elect Obama’s new secretary of commerce.

That may be the ultimate injustice to Wen Ho Lee.

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http://www.asianweek.com/2008/12/04/a-slap-in-our-face-we-can%e2%80%99t-forget-what-richardson-did-to-wen-ho-lee/#comment-15910

Bill Richardson: not qualified for Secretary of Commerce

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Obama is proposing the change. But this nomination is not a good sign for Obama’s change – shame on bill’s handling of wee ho lee case and refusal to apologize.

What? What Obama is saying is like this, “I want this guy who ‘lost’ or incapable of protecting the plans for nuclear weapons to now be in charge of our trade agreements.” What a change Obama is going to make by appointing Bill Richardson ???

This guy is proved to be unable to take charge of federal agencies, see below:

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/11/25/richardson-free-trade-oped-cx_dh_1025hemel.html

The confirmation battle might be a bruiser. When Richardson was energy secretary, two computer hard drives containing nuclear weapons secrets disappeared from a vault at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, an Energy Department facility. At a Senate hearing on the security breach in 2000, the longest-serving Democrat in the chamber, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, vowed that Richardson would “never again receive the support of the Senate of the United States for any office to which [he] might be appointed.” But with Obama and the Senate Democrats still in the honeymoon phase, it seems unlikely that Byrd would (or could) make good on his eight-and-a-half-year-old threat.

User comment:

So, are we to assume that by appointing Richardson Obama is saying, “I want the man that ‘lost’ the plans for nuclear weapons to now be in charge of our trade agreements.”

AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet Perks

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If you have AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet, you may not be awared that it comes with the following services without additional chrage:

  • Unlimited nationwide dial-up Internet access
  • AT&T Wi-Fi Basic
AT&T Wi-Fi Basic service is FREE and already included if you subscribe to AT&T High Speed Internet, AT&T U-verseSM High Speed Internet, or AT&T FastAccess® DSL—all speed plans included. No ordering required! Simply use your AT&T high-speed Internet membership ID and password at any AT&T Wi-Fi Basic hot spot.
I need to find out what my AT&T high-speed Internet membership ID and password are and try it out.
AT&T WiFi locator:
http://attwifi.know-where.com/attwifi/cgi/index?design=default
(mostly McDonalds, StarBucks, Barnes & Nobles, etc..)
(*Wi-Fi Service at Starbucks available at U.S. company-operated Starbucks locations equipped with a hot spot. Requires AT&T High Speed Internet or AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet.)

What I want from myvidoop

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I am a heavy myvidoop user. This is a great tool to store passwords online. However, as my password list is getting larger, it loads slow and keep lots of duplicate passwords. So What I wnated most now is another plugin to remove duplicate entries – This makes it easy to merge databases and clean up (import, then remove).

If myvidoop is improving and listening to its users, here is the one.