Family Circle

叔叔（廷平）评上正教授。并被任命为金华教育学院院长。

Congratulations to Uncle (Xie, Tingping) to become full-Professor in Education, and the Dean of Jinhua College of Education!

We just got back from a ski trip to Lake Tahoe this evening, a couple minutes before 9:00PM when the new year count down happened in Time Square. The ski at Heavenly was great, and Emily also enjoyed her ski lesson and “graduated” to go on green line.

As a family tradition, we made our 2007-2008 news letter at
http://www.xiesland.net/family2007. You are welcome to check it out.

Wish everyone a happy and successful 2008!

Okay!

#1 Prove this:

1) Take a 3-digit #, e.g. 135
2) Write it twice to create a 6-digit #, e.g.135135
3) Divide by 7,
4) Divide by 11,
5) Divide by 13,
6) And it’s the original #!!!
HOW???

#2

One who makes it tells it not.
One who takes it knows it not.
One who knows it wants it not.
One who knows the answer is stupid not.

#3

Put more riddles as you learn them!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

One of our classmates at Tsinghua University has invented “Touch and Talk Pen” (TTPen), and produced a series of educational materials (for learning Chinese and English). The TTPen incorporated an optical sensor which can recognize the characters and text in the books, and can speak the word, sing songs and engage children for an interactive play, just with the TTPen and TTPen-enabled books (which has special pattern dots in the background of pages).

The TTPen has been a huge success in China and is being used widely in school. For the first time we have make the TTPen and books available in North American. You may check out at our website:
http://www.ttpen.com

Some of the elemental monsters:

Fluffer:
Health: 100
Attack Type: Ranged
Smoke damage: 0-12 Wind (Ranged 1-5) (Double attack)
Special attack: Sonic Tackle (O)
Sonic Tackle damage: 0-22 Wind, 0-10, 8 Wind
Ability: Float (P) – Immune to melee
Notes: Fluffers resemble wind and speed.

Bluter:
Health: 130
Attack Type: Ranged
Energy Wave damage: 0-3 Energy, 0-3 Water (Ranged 1-4)
Special attack: Retribution (O)
Retribution damage: Last hit taken *1.5 Water, rounded up
Ability: Bubble Screen (P) – Immune to melee and ranged
Notes: Bluters resemble water and health.
More notes: Bluters regenerate its health by 2 every turn.

Treant:
Health: 100
Attack Type: Melee
Log roll damage: 8-12 Earth (Ranged 1-3)
Special attack: Chomping roots (O)
Chomping roots damage: 5-15 Earth, 2(3) (Ranged 1-5)
Ability: Absorbent Bark (Every 5 Attacks) – Invincible for the next 5 seconds, if you attack, temporary –3 strength levels.
Notes: Treants resemble earth and balance.
More notes: Treants regenerate its health by 1 every turn.

I have made a list of car brands, all I could think of. Please feel free to add in the Comments…
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Hino
Mitsuoka
Tommy Keira
Hyundai
Honda
Toyota
Lexus
Saab
Saturn
Subaru
HongQi
Ford
Chevy
BMW
Volkswagen
Scion
Mercedes-Benz
Volvo
Land Rover
Mazda
Acura
Ferrari
Lamburghini
Audi
Chrysler
Lincoln
Mustang
Pontiac
ASL
Porche
Nissan
Infiniti
Jaguar
Bentley
Buick
Jeep
Isuzu
Avanti
Mini
Mercury
Mitsubishi
Chevrolet
Cadillac
Koenigsegg
Lancia
LDV
Carterham
Mangusta
Ginetta
Alfa Romeo
Aston Martin
Bugatti
Carver
Citroen
Daewoo
Daihatsu
Dodge
Daimlerchrysler
Eagle
Fiat
Ginetta
Holden
Lotus
Marcos
MG
Maserati
McLaren
Micro
Morgan
Navistar
Nissan
Oldsmobile
Opel
Packard
Panoz Auto
Perodua
Peugeot
Plymouth
Proton
Rolls Royce
Renault
Rover
Seat
Shelby
Skoda
Smart
Suzuki
Tatra
TVR
Vauxhall
Ultima
Hummer

We just picked up our new 2008 BMW 328i Couple yesterday (color: Sparkling Graphite Metallic) . We ordered it about 6 weeks ago, and then it was custom-built in Germany and delivered to us over the past weekend.

And here are some of photos for sharing.

DIAMONDBACK WARRIOR

Health: 20
ATK type: (c), (r)
Damage: (c) [Earth] 5-9; (r) 1-5
NOTES:
When Diamondback Warrior is eliminated, DiamondBack Twins appear on the squares Above and below it.

DIAMONDBACK TWINS
Health: 15
ATK type: (c)
Damage: 1-9 Earth
NOTES:
After DiamondBack Twin has endured 10 moves, it evolves into a DiamondBack Warrior.
If not evolved into DiamondBack Warrior and Attacked, it will explode into flying shards, dealing 5 Earth Damage to everything 2 (not 1) Squares away from it.

SLIPP SPELL
Type: Spell
Notes:
Slipp makes the opponent’s monsters slip and slide, and this does no effect on you.

This year I volunteered to work on Murwood PTA website redesign. After about two months of planning, redesigning and testing, it is officially live on http://www.murwoodpta.org. The user interface and navigation has been improved a lot, and I am looking forward to making new functional improvements.