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Emil and Danish Christmas

"This is a fictional children's novels wrote  by Astrid Lindgren, covering twelve books written from 1963 to 1997.. It had turn into a play. That I used to watch it on Danish TV with my daughter . In the beginning I link to some video clips that are on you-tube, and I build  my story  by applying to the  Danish Christmas tradition " (I known Emil is Swedish , but as Sweden and Denmark are sister countries, many tradition are alike. I do not hope that I have offended someone by doing this. It is not my intention" 

Emil Christmas a la Danish style

Ida and Emil are brother and sister. They live with their family on a farm called Katthult, in the Village of Lönneberga in Småland district in Sweden

Emil 
 

He has fair hair and blue eyes and looks like an angel, but is not, because he has a prodigious knack for getting into trouble. Contrary to what most people around him think, Emil is not malicious, but does not think about the consequences of his actions. He even states at one point that "you don't make up pranks, they just happen".

 

Ida 

Ida, Emil little sister, is a very well-behaved child, unlike Emil. She has tried to pull pranks like her brother since she wanted to go to the shed, which she thinks is cozy, but she failed.
Emil's mother writes down every bad thing Emil does in a blue book, although, that blue book expands to several blue books. His mother, however, adores her boy and tends to say, "Emil is a nice little boy, and we love him just the way he is."

Danish Christmas "nisse" and Glædelig Jul

Many of you have notice.  I change my images on this blog frequently, particulary below the head line. For me is not just beautiful layout. I also apply images accordently to season or the tradition background , that I known about and relate to
This time during december,  4 advent images and the Christmas "nisse"turn the candles light on one each time is posted. This is a Danish tradition, that  I adopter from the time I was living there.
In Denmark, Christmas starts with advent which means "coming". It is the coming of Christ that is referred to.

 "Rissen Grod -Nisse familie og katten"

What is The Christmas "nisse"?  It is a small Danish mythical creature. The nisse was usually a small, old man with a white beard, dressed in a grey sweater, grey trousers, a red pixie cap, red stockings and wooden shoes. He was believed to live hundreds of years. As Christmas today is a family time, also the nisse has a family now.
These small creature, The Danes normally and  definitely want to stay best friends with, since he is able to control your fortune. Hence the tradition of putting porridge out for the nisse on Christmas Eve.

One of the great Danish traditions is the "Children's Christmas Calendar" which is a television show made by Danish television. Most years a new one is made. Every day from the first of December to the 24th of December, a new episode is shown on television. mostly a Human family and also will have a Christmas nisse familie  as carater.Usually it is a Christmas story or fairytale either with real people performing or with puppets. In the later years, there has been a tradition for an adult Christmas calendar on television as well. Usually a humorous one.

Danish Advent Wreath

On the fourth Sunday before Christmas Eve - the first Sunday of advent - a wreath of pine twigs mounted with four candles and red or purple ribbons is hung up and one candle is lit. The following Sunday the next candle is lit, lighting one more each Sunday.
The Danes prefere to use " fresh and real" pine for the  wreath and real candles that are able to lite it .  

"Glædelig Jul" in Danish as "Merry Christmas" in English

A folkale - how the panda acquired its color

This is a retold story 

   One day a shepherd went up to the mountain with her animal . When she was crossing a bamboo wood, she heart a frightened voice from the tall bamboo wood “Help! Help! Help!... ”.
She decided to find out the reason. She saw a young panda. Its fur was as white as snow. He was attacked by a mean leopard. She though, I have to help him. She was fearless. Without thinking of consequent, she charged the leopard with a large bamboo shoot, striking him over and over again. The leopard was not hurt by the big bamboo. It turned on to fight with the little girl instead. While she fought fearlessly, the white panda rushed to get help. Her bravely action rescued the defenseless panda.

When the white panda returned with his helper “the other white panda.” They found the little girl lost hers life in the fight.

All the white pandas decided to held a funeral in honor of the brave little girl. As a local customer, the Pandas wore black armbands as a sign of mourning. All Pandas were very sad. They were carrier away in a tide of tears that moistened the black armbands, and the black dye began to run. When the pandas wiped their eyes, the armband left black marks. When the pandas consoled each other by hugging, the dye left black spots on their backs. When they covered their ears to block out the sound of crying, the black dye colored their ears. The pandas did not wash the black off their fur as a way to remember the girl.

To this day, pandas are covered with the black markings spots on their body to always remember the girl.

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Me and The Palindrom

From on line there are chance for expanding knowledge and new vocabulary. It add to my explosive "CPU". I strive to digest it slowly and put it in use.  I hock into my foolish imagination. Today my new word is "palindrome". It means a phrase or word or number can be read as forwards or in backwards. It is reverse spelling. I wonder maybe after learning English in America, I become a mutant of the words game. An extra mirror are begun to form in me . I am thinking  Palindrom as  a  mirror inside of me. There are many types of Palindrome in our everyday. I don't aware of their existent in daily and maybe this is a solution for my English learning!

The  examples  I see in every day are:.
Palindromic Characters (words):
civic, radar, level, rotor, kayak, reviver, racecar, and redder.

Palindromic numbers, (I mostly able to see it as a prime number.)
1221,  5885....

Dates  
It depends on what system you are looking  at "The US or The other". I wonder if I say  The US is the complementary of the European can be offensive context Palindrome video

Genetic in the human DNA
"In the genetic instructions will be able to find the palindromic context too. The DNA is formed by two paired strands of nucleotides, and the nucleotides always pair in the same way (Adenine (A) with Thymine (T), Cytosine (C) with Guanine (G)), a (single-stranded) sequence of DNA is  a palindrome if it is equal to its complementary sequence read backwards. For example, the sequence ACCTAGGT is palindromic because its complement is TGGATCCA, which is equal to the original sequence in reverse complement."
 There are many more of this subject,  I need to hold off for now.
One thing I can conclude Palindrome is " monkey see monkey do"

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Quotation Mark about life

I like to analyze philosophical quotes, particularly "Chinese Philosopher Quotes", because way of expression is simple but there are always a more meaningful messages behind them.  I consider this form of expression, like an Iceberg of our life journey. The list below is from "Zhuangzi" (in simplified Chinese: 庄子; traditional Chinese: 莊子; pinyin: Zhuāngzǐ) "  and  may I ask: "Which quote do you like best?" and "Why?"

I can tell you my favorite at  the moment are the butterflies. as follows'

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreams of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? " See this link to video Chasing Butterflies, You will ask me "Why?" I will answer "Because I see myself as a butterfly when I sit in front of the computer and surf around on the net. I feel,  I 'm a butterfly that is moving from flower to flower, because I never known what will be on the next  link or pages." But I know that the next flower could have something nourishing for me! My other favorite at the moment is "Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing."

Below is a list of the  philosopher  "Zhuangzi"  quotes.
"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. "
"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. "
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. "
"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious."
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. "
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. "
"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreams of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? "
"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. "
"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. "
"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it."
"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. "
"Those who realize their folly are not true fools."
"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. "
"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. "

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Topic: Healthcare for All
Introduction: It is a well-known and famous issue, within the well developed world,  the US’s health care system is a problem child , that needs reform, so that health care is accessible and affordable to all.


The best and the most expensive 

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Internationally the US has the  largest impact within the Medical area in technology, research, and ground breaking treatment methods. Logically this nation would be statically be top ranking world wide in health care measurement,  like life expectancy. However, in reality the life expectancy in the US is falling sharply behind in worldwide rankings, with a growing number of US residents ,who aren't accessible to health care because of affordability. It is shocking to see the U.S’s health care , falling behind other countries because the healthcare costs soar ahead of them. The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world .
The overall US Health care spending in 2009 was $8,160 per U.S. resident equivalent to nearly 18% of GDP (gross domestic product)
The Healthcare expenditure projected to be $13,100 per resident or accounting for over 20% of GDP by 2018 .

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The right to health care 
ccording to the UN universal Declarations of human right in 1948, article 25
“(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”

The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized country that does not recognize and anticipate health care area as the human right to ensure all citizens have health care coverage. Instead of treating healthcare as a human right, the U.S. generally approaches health care as a commodity—either to be administrated out to the needy as a matter of charity, or to be provisioned by the private sector for maximum profit. While some public funding does exist for certain groups (e.g. those over the age of 65, those poor enough to meet Medicaid criteria, and the military). Problems are US do not adapt healthcare system’s model of the mixture of public and private funding , but rather the heavy reliance on a private sector whose bottom line dictates a focus on profits over people.
Health care policy needs to be about the right to health equally to all of our citizens. The level or quality of healthcare should be an inalienable right of all people, not a privilege of the few. Money should not be allowed to dictate that some should live in good health while others suffer in humiliation and anger.

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Simplify and transparency.
Currently the health care system build on option of federal, state, and private funding sources, and hundreds choices of individual insurance plans, and different referral procedures for different types of delivery systems. It results that is to obtain basic care has become a bureaucratic nightmare for individual. The current health care system is becoming extremely complex and entails wasteful expenditures on administrative and litigation costs, making it more and more difficult than ever for individuals to access health care. Because the U.S. health care system frequently delivers inadequate and poor quality health care, and policymakers must streamline  the system to make it easily understandable and accessible for all citizen in our country.
Transparency and simplify regulation within the healthcare  are the beginning step toward making it accessible and affordable to the all.




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 Cost control
Government shall act more actively and firmly in aiming for price control, with freezing and decreasing the growth of costs through improved efficiency in the health care system. This will ease the burden to citizens in our society. Providing a healthcare system that is accessible and affordable for all, regardless of race or stature, can only improve our civilization, and protection its citizens with  a dignity and life quality and not constantly emotional fear when illness strikes, because right now it proves to be a significant and potentially ruinous  financially strain on families with personal bankruptcy and more.

The common good is served best by serving all
I believe:
• The right to health is a fundamental human right that all people are entitled to regardless of race, sex, nationality, employment or health status. The right to health is a birthright no different from the right to life or the right to freely express one’s opinion.
• The US is capable of figuring out a healthcare system as other well developed country with accessible, available, affordable, and quality health care. As long the political and its citizens willingness to do.
• The common good is served best by serving all.

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My Informal letter to US new comer

Dear the new comer 

Welcome to United States of America. There is a well known slogan :  The America  is the land of milk and honey. With time you will realize this expression is out of date.
Many challenges are waiting in front of you. Adjustment is the key to success in the States.
Generally Americans are friendly and helpful . Americans are a very mixed, diverse population that places high priority on individualism. With time you will discover everything is  possible and can happen in the United States.

          This is a country of opportunity and with lots of opportunists. This is one  reason to educate yourself to be a " well rounded  educate consumer". It is the best way of protecting your self against schemes and scams in the everyday living. You will  find that bureaucratic administration is  very heavy. Be patient,  polite, determined and follow up will ease lots in your way. Remember the art of asking the right question to the right person or authority are very important, otherwise you will get lost in the systems jungle. US citizens are very keen on using disposables, as individual convenience is a more importan  issues than environmental. Event through America is a country with freedom of speech, be careful with expressing  your frustration,  particularly in front of "the new American", as you don't want to be in a confrontation. Many of these individual are more patriotic than the "American-born American". You will also meet "reverse discrimination" , don’t get discouraged, just learn a way to kill it with kindness and remember later on help others without bias whenever you can. Americans have very good habits especially with waiting in line culture, people are used to helping each other to fit in line. America is the fast food heaven and a convenience meal is avaible on every corner.You will experience lots of familys with a cooking skills  limited to "unable to cook without a microwave".At last a car is a necessity in your everyday life. You will observer there are more car on the street than people.
Welcome again to a land with unlimited opportunity on individual hard effort for success. Keep on smiling, and adjusting and improvement in all aspects will ease your American's life in the longterm.

Best wish to you and me.
Victoria