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May 27 这句子不错For certain you have to be lost to find the places that can't be found.
Pirates of Caribbean 3 里Captain Barbossa的一句台词。 May 25 化学药品的包装七层保险，绝对安全——sigma aldrich
100mL 2.0M草酰氯二氯甲烷溶液的包装
拿到经过Aldrich精心包装的草酰氯二氯甲烷溶液，心情十分激动。首先我们看到的是一个大纸盒子，商家的慷慨可见一斑，从来不因为瓶子小就偷工减料用小包装。剪开大盒子，泡沫填料和一个密封的塑料袋子映入眼帘。在赞叹做工精致的同时，我剪开了袋子，从里面掏出一个和大盒子除了大小完全一样的小盒子。剪开小盒子，是一个标准包装的铝易拉罐。拉开易拉罐，是一个严严实实的用一块像布像纸又像纤维的东西包起来的“纸包”，把它从边缘锋利的铝罐里拿出来还颇具危险性。打开纸包，才看到我们的药瓶隐约浮现在一个透明塑料袋子里。剪开塑料袋，发现药瓶有盖子，于是打开盖子，看到了最后一层也是最强的一层保护：aldrich的SureSeal(TM)，也就是在汽水瓶盖上钻个孔，用某种类似布面的材料封起来，这样既可以密封又易于用针头抽取。七层保护，万无一失，像草酰氯这种剧毒的药品，就应该不厌其烦地保护起来，防止其泄露到并破坏我们生活的美好环境…… May 03 热烈祝贺朱烨同学在被老师学生共同折磨2学期之后荣获"Gerhard Closs Teaching Award in Organic Chemistry"~真是不容易啊……奖金数目不详，先要先得，嘿嘿嘿~近水楼台啦…… May 02 美国的中奖电话比国内更狠啊……还好家里电话没有来电显示，也从来不打……
I received the below from a friend. I don't know if the details are true. But it is true that there are some ugly phone scams. So DO NOT make a phone call if you do not know that the number is a legitimate person or company/organization!
Returning calls to "learn about the wonderful prize you have won" will definitely lead to a big phone bill and no prize. If you get a call about "a relative of yours" being in a hospital or jail, etc., don't call the number you are given; call a real relative or friend to check it out. etc., etc.
And never give a credit-card or bank-account number, passport or other ID number, or any such information on the phone unless you are absolutely sure of who is getting that information. Ditto on the internet, of course!
Be aware of the possibilities of IDENTITY THEFT and what to do if you think that someone is using your name and/or identifying numbers for anything.
Marta
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ABOUT AREA CODES -- Marta R. Nicholas "Music Around the World" May 01 五一节的来历刚收到的I-house群发的邮件，关于五一节的来历。
Below is a summary of the 1 origin of May 1 as the important Labor celebration in most countries of the world -- except the United States, where it actually began.
The Haymarket was on Randolph, between Halsted and Des Plaines Streets. There is a bronze plaque in the sidewalk. An earlier statue of a policeman was vandalized and moved from the site. (It is now known that it was the police who started that 1886 riot, a scene echoed in this city in 1968 when Mayor Richard J. Daley -- the present mayor's father -- set the police on anti-Vietnam War demonstrators.) In 2004 another sculpture, this one of the 1886 hay wagon with some of the labor leaders on it, was erected in the square.
There are many websites about this bit of Chicago history. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot
http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/ Chicago History Museum Digital Collection
http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/ http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/S/SiteHaymarket.html
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/haymarket.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayhome.html
The first paragraph refers to the day's original celebration in British tradition and followed in the USA, since its culture was based on that of the British Isles. When I was a child we made pretty baskets out of colored paper, filled them with little flowers on May 1, and gave them to our mothers and old ladies who lived alone.
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THE REAL MAY DAY
by Dick Meister (a San Francisco writer
who has covered labor issues for four decades as a reporter, editor and commentator)
May Day. A day to herald the coming of Spring with song and dance, a day for children with flowers in their hair to skip around beribboned maypoles, a time to crown May Day queens. But once it also was a day for demonstrations that were crucial in winning the most important right ever won by working people -- the right demanded above all others by the labor activists of a century ago: "Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!" The changing economy has forced many workers in recent years to regularly exceed the eight-hour workday that their predecessors won. But eight hours for work nevertheless remains the standard in the United States and every other industrial nation and at least an aspiration in others. Winning the eight-hour workday took years of hard struggle, beginning in the mid-1800s. By 1867, the federal government, six states and several cities had passed laws limiting their employees' hours to eight per day. The laws were not effectively enforced and in some cases were overturned by courts, but they set an important precedent that finally led to a powerful popular movement. The movement was launched in 1886 by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, then one of the country's major labor organizations. The federation called for workers to negotiate with their employers for an eight-hour workday and, if that failed, to strike on May 1 in support of the demand.
Some negotiated, some marched and otherwise demonstrated. More than 300,000 struck. And all won strong support, in dozens of cities -- Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Denver , Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Washington, Newark, Brooklyn, St. Paul and others.
More than 30,000 workers had won the eight-hour day by April. On May Day, another 350,000 workers walked off their jobs at nearly 12,000 establishments, more than 185,000 of them eventually winning their demand. Most of the others won at least some reduction in working hours that had ranged up to 16 a day.
Additionally, many employers cut Saturday operations to a half-day, and the practice of working on Sundays, also relatively common, was all but abandoned by major industries.
"Hurray for Shorter Time," declared a headline in the New York Sun newspaper over a story describing a torchlight procession of 25,000 workers that highlighted the eight-hour-day activities in New York. Never before had the city experienced so large a demonstration.
Not all newspapers were as supportive, however. The strikes and demonstrations, one paper complained, amounted to "communism, lurid and rampant." The eight-hour day, another said, would encourage "loafing and gambling, rioting, debauchery, and drunkenness."
The greatest opposition came in response to the demonstrations led by anarchist and socialist groups in Chicago, the heart of the eight-hour day movement. Four demonstrators were killed and more than 200 wounded by police who waded into their ranks, but what the demonstrators' opponents seized on were the events two days later at a protest rally in Haymarket Square. A bomb was thrown into the ranks of the police who had surrounded the square, killing seven and wounding 59.
The bomb thrower was never discovered, but eight labor,socialist and anarchist leaders -- branded as violent, dangerous radicals by press and police alike -- were arrested on the clearly trumped up charge that they had conspired to commit murder. Four of them were hanged, one committed suicide while in jail, and three were pardoned six years later by Illinois Gov. John Peter Altgeld.
Employers responded to the so-called Haymarket Riot by mounting a counter-offensive that seriously eroded the eight-hour day movement's gains. But the movement was an extremely effective organizing tool for the country's unions, and in 1890 President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor was able to call for "an International Labor Day" in favor of the eight-hour workday. Similar proclamations were made by socialist and union leaders in other nations where, to this day, May Day is celebrated as Labor Day.
Workers in the United States and 13 other countries demonstrated on that May Day of 1890 -- including 30,000 of them in Chicago. The New York World newspaper hailed it as "Labor's Emancipation Day." It was. For it marked the start of an irreversible drive that finally established the eight-hour day as the standard for millions of working people.
Marta R. Nicholas "Music Around the World" International Musics format chief WHPK (88.5fm) University of Chicago + community radio 5801 South Dorchester Avenue -- #3A Chicago IL 60637 |
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