wrap up of 3 Jun and 4 Jun and some quotes from linyutang

[Laura Zhang]

1. i know it is really nerdy... but list of active and extinct volcanoes in China:

Name	Elevation		Location	Last eruption
	metres	feet	Coordinates
Changbai Mountain	2744	9003	41.98°N 128.08°E	1903
Honggeertu	1700	5577	41.47°N 113.00°E	Holocene
Jingbo	500	1640	44.08°N 128.83°E	520 BC
Keluo Group	670	2198	49.37°N 125.92°E	Holocene
Kunlun Volcanoes (See also Kunlun Mountains)	5808	19,055	35.50°N 80.20°E	1951
Leizhou Bandao	259	850	20.83°N 109.78°E	Holocene
Longgang Group	1000	3281	42.33°N 126.50°E	350
Tengchong	2865	9399	25.23°N 98.50°E	5050 BC
Tianshan Volcanic Group	-	-	42.50°N 86.50°E	650
Turpan	-	-	42.90°N 89.25°E	1120
Unnamed	5400	17716	35.85°N 91.70°E	Holocene
Wudalianchi	597	1959	48.72°N 126.12°E	1776

2.Quotes from Steve

the essence of any movie/novel/music, etc are about three things:

1) man vs man

2) man vs nature

3) man against themselves

3. quotes from Linyutang

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. 

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. 

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

4. white nights/midnight sun

5. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964 was awarded to Jean-Paul Sartre "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age".

Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize.

5. the two eyes mascots

[Martin Tsui]

Thanks a million, Laura. 

[Downtown David - 白大伟]

Designing a mascot must be a very difficult job.

[Laura Zhang]

yeah, i was just trying to make notes, to consolidate the quiz knowledge... I know this is really really nerdy...

[John Rutledge]

Thank you, that makes me feel better.  Yes, I can get you a copy.  I've had that nightmare too.

[Chris Knight]

Don't worry about it Laura. Sometimes not having all the answers can be a good thing. ;)

[Laura Zhang]

Quiz master, the quiz was fantastic! Can I have a copy of your quiz? 

Btw, I had a nightmare yesterday: I was back to high school and the teacher ask me to the blackboard to do the questions, as what happened during the quiz, I failed some of the questions...

[John Rutledge]

Are you trying to tell me something about the quiz?

[Richard Roman]

Laura - one of your quotes

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

I must be doing something right then! I have done this many times!