Husband and son search for missing Chinese woman

The husband and son of missing Chinese national Lianjie Guo made a plea on Thursday morning for the public's help in finding her.

A grid search was being conducted by investigators in the area where she was last seen, near Garden City Road and Capstan Way on June 7.

"Guo's disappearance is considered suspicious in nature and foul play has not been ruled out," RCMP Cpl. Sherrdean Turley said.

Guo, 47, went missing after coming to Canada on June 7 with her husband to visit their son.

She's described as five feet four inches tall, and was last seen wearing a red blouse, blue belt and blue jeans.

Police conducted an initial search at the onset of the investigation by Surrey Search and Rescue.

Anyone with information about Guo is asked to call the Richmond RCMP at 604-278-1212.

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Roy Nelson challenges Mike Russow to a win or leave (the heavyweight division) bout

In a heavyweight division of the UFC filled with fighters who are built like a Greek god, Roy Nelson and Mike Russow don't exactly fit the mold.? After watching Fabricio Werdum knock out Russow at UFC 147, Nelson was struck with matchmaking inspiration.

"I want Mike Russow and loser goes to 205 or becomes Dana White Rich. Let make it happen @danawhite," Nelson tweeted.

Both men appear to carry more body fat than most of their counterparts and look like they could cut down a weight class. They also both have recent losses to Werdum, as Nelson dropped a decision to him in February.

This isn't the first time Nelson has contemplated a drop down. In March, he said he would try to get to light heavyweight if he added 100,000 Facebook likes. However, he abandoned the plan when he was booked for the all-heavyweight main card at UFC 146.

A drop for Russow, who weighed in at 246 pounds for UFC 147, may be a bit more difficult than for Nelson. In addition to being a pro fighter, he is a full-time officer in the Chicago Police Department. He doesn't train full time, like Nelson does.

Of course, the difficulty in dropping down would also give Russow more motivation to win the fight. Do you want to see this fight? Speak your mind in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

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Masonry in the US Industry Market Research Report Now Available ...

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The skilled services performed by the Masonry industry include brick and block laying; pointing, tuck pointing, cleaning and caulking masonry; building foundations using masonry products; and working with granite, marble and slate. This industry generates 45.0% of its annual revenue from work on residential construction, which commonly includes brick work on exterior wall siding and pavements. Another 32.0% of industry revenue derives from the laying of masonry and dimension stone on walls, facades and foyers in offices, retail stores and other commercial buildings. The balance comes from schools, hospitals and other municipal construction projects, and from non-building construction work, such as fences, dams and reservoirs. ?The industry has a fragmented structure and is made up of many small-scale, geographically dispersed contractors, with no major players holding a significant market share,? says IBISWorld industry analyst Sean Windle.

Masonry industry revenue is expected to increase 3.8% in 2012 to $ 26.6 billion. ?The recovery in demand for masonry and bricklaying services in the residential construction market is expected to gather momentum during the year and outweigh slower growth in demand from commercial builders, particularly from office building developers, which are dealing with high vacancy rates,? adds Windle. Even with an increase over the current year, industry revenue will contract at an estimated average annual rate of 3.9% over the five years to 2012. Demand for bricklaying and masonry services collapsed in the residential construction market after the housing bubble burst in the mid-2000s, with the number of housing starts falling at an average rate of 11.8% per year over the five years through 2012. Over the same period, the value of commercial building construction declined at an average of 13.4% per year. Municipal development fared better through the recession than commercial development due to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which provided funds for local and state municipalities through 2012. The federal aid helped to ease some of the downturn in municipal construction, and helped cushion the blow to masonry operators struggling with plummeting demand in the residential and commercial construction sectors.

Looking ahead, a strong recovery in the residential and commercial building markets will positively affect industry performance. Over the five years to 2017, revenue is forecast to increase. During this time, competitive pressures are expected to ease and profit margins will widen. The new housing construction market is forecast to maintain accelerated growth as the economy recovers, stimulating demand for the many brick laying contractors that service regional housing markets. For more information, visit IBISWorld?s Masonry in the US industry report page.

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UK in EU legal stink over garlic from China

UK in EU legal stink over garlic from China

Britain is being taken to court by the European Commission in a battle over a ?15m unpaid tax bill on imports of Chinese garlic.

The UK mistakenly classified fresh garlic imported from China as frozen, which has a lower tax rate.

The European Commission is demanding compensation for the missing tax and is taking legal action to recover it.

The action was branded "vindictive" by Conservative MEP group leader Richard Ashworth.

The mistake was revealed during an inspection by the European Anti-Fraud Office in July 2006. The UK authorities were then asked to to justify why they had issued authorising documents for frozen garlic between 2005 and 2006.

The European Commission said it had begun demanding compensation in January 2008 and launched legal action after the UK's "continued failure" to pay.
'Common interest'

In a statement, the European Commission said: "In failing to collect the correct amount, the UK authorities did not act with all due care.

"The UK authorities, however, have failed to compensate for the missing amount, by claiming that the customs took all necessary actions justified by the case."

The statement said the European Commission was taking legal action "to protect the common EU interest," adding: "Fair treatment of all member states must be ensured - if one member state fails to deliver on its obligation to collect the common resources of the EU budget, the other member states are forced to pay more as a result."

Commenting on the row, Richard Ashworth MEP said: "I'm sorry to say that the aggressive approach of the Commission - over garlic of all things - leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

"In such hard times, when all countries, including ours, are looking to save every bit of money they can just to combat the debt crisis, it defies all sense of proportion to be taking Britain to court over what amounts to a demand for garlic tax.

"Whether or not you care for the aroma of garlic, nobody likes the whiff of vindictiveness."

All customs duties charged on imports of goods coming from a non-EU country are collected by member states on behalf of the EU and paid to the common EU budget as part of each member state's annual contributions.

source: www.bbc.co.uk

Publication date: 6/22/2012


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Obama?s counterfeit concept: US president?s fake-work make-work jobs scheme a real bust for taxpayers

"A shocking new study by the U.S. government's National Renewable Energy Laboratory shows the Obama administration's $9-billion solar power program created just 910 long-term jobs.

That's $9.8 million per job created.

Even if you add in all possible "indirect" jobs that could be attributed to this subsidy flurry, it still works out to $1.63 million in subsidies per job created, according to the report.?Just to be clear, this isn't some taxpayers federation or Republican Party group writing this scathing review. This is the US government itself.

That $9 billion was taxpayers' money - wrung out of the hides of Americans with real jobs. Or, to be more accurate, it was borrowed by Obama, from the Chinese government, and will hang around the neck of taxpaying Americans like an unpaid $9-billion credit card debt.

How many jobs will that kill?"

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Sorry Einstein, the universe needs quantum uncertainty

It doesn't look like quantum mechanics will ever be intuitive. Take away one of its weirdest components - the uncertainty principle - and you end up with a perpetual motion machine. The finding dashes the hopes of those searching for a less bizarre way to make sense of quantum theory, which has made many physicists uncomfortable, including Albert Einstein.

Despite being one of the most successful theories of all times in terms of its ability to explain and predict various phenomena, the world of quantum mechanics incorporates many counter-intuitive ideas.

One of these is the uncertainty principle, which states that in the quantum world it is impossible to simultaneously know two quantities, such as a particle's location and its momentum, with complete accuracy. The more you know about one, the less you can know about the other.

This is demonstrated in a variation of the famous double slit experiment, where single photons seem to pass through two slits in a barrier at once, producing an interference pattern on a screen that is due to its momentum. Adding a photon detector at either one of the slits, however, removes the uncertainty in the photon's location, causing the momentum to be more uncertain. This destroys the pattern on the screen.

Nevertheless, accepting that uncertainty exists not due to a lack of knowledge but thanks to a fundamental law doesn't sit well with some physicists. One famous dissenter was Einstein, who was contemptuous of the idea that unpredictability could be integral to the physical laws governing the universe. Oscar Dahlsten, a theoretical physicist from the University of Oxford, says that a lot of people still intuitively feel that the uncertainty principle should not hold up.

Previously, researchers have searched for a solution via "hidden variables", which may be operating behind the scenes, making things look weirder than they actually are. So far, though, this approach has failed.

Now Stephanie Wehner and Esther H?nggi at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technology have taken a new tack, recasting the uncertainty principle in the language of information theory.

First, they suggest that the two properties of a single object that cannot be known simultaneously can be thought of as two streams of information encoded in the same particle. In the same way that you can't know a particle's momentum and location to an arbitrarily high level of accuracy, you also can't completely decode both of these messages. If you figure out how to read message 1 more accurately, then your ability to decrypt message 2 becomes more limited.

Next the pair calculate what happens if they loosen the limits of the uncertainty principle in this scenario, allowing the messages to be better decoded and letting you access information that you wouldn't have had when the uncertainty principle was in force.

Wehner and H?nggi conclude that this is the same as getting more useful energy, or work, out of a system than is put in, which is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics. That is because both energy and information are needed to extract work from a system.

To understand why, imagine trying to drive a piston using a container full of heated gas. If you don't know in which direction the gas particles are moving, you may angle the piston wrongly and get no useful work out of the system. But if you do know which way they are moving, you will be able to angle the piston so that the moving particles drive it. You will have converted the heat into useful work in the second scenario, even though the same amount of energy is available as in the first scenario.

Being able to decode both of the messages in Wehner and H?nggi's imaginary particle suddenly gives you more information. As demonstrated by the piston, this means you have the potential to do more work. But this extra work comes for free so is the same as creating a perpetual motion machine, which is forbidden by thermodynamics (arxiv.org/abs/1205.6894v1).

"The second law of thermodynamics is something which we see everywhere and basically no one is questioning," says Mario Berta, a theoretical physicist from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, who was not involved in the work. "Now we know that without an uncertainty principle we could break the second law."

Since this would be far weirder than the existence of such a principle in the first place, it essentially justifies the uncertainty principle. "This work is about understanding why exactly quantum theory is as it is," says Berta.

When this article was first posted, its first sentence read "SORRY Einstein, but it doesn't look like quantum mechanics will ever be intuitive. "

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Insight: Children of Mao's wrath vie for power in China

BEIJING (Reuters) - Forty five years before ambitious Chinese politician Bo Xilai fell from power accused of flirting with Cultural Revolution extremism, he stood as a teenager in front of a baying crowd that accused him of defying Mao Zedong's campaign.

Bo's divisive rise and downfall has kindled debate about how the chaotic Cultural Revolution (1966-76) shaped him and his generation, which will assume power at a ruling Communist Party congress later this year.

At the start of the Cultural Revolution, the man at the centre of China's worst political scandal in decades was a student at the Number Four High School in Beijing, an elite cradle for "princelings", the sons of Communist leaders who had risen to power with Mao.

The school became a crucible for conflicts unleashed with Mao's call to rebel in the name of his unyielding vision of communism. The era paralyzed the country politically, triggering social upheaval and economic malaise.

One day in 1967, Bo and two brothers were paraded at the school by an angry group of student "Red Guards", and accused of resisting the Cultural Revolution just as their father, Vice Premier Bo Yibo, had been toppled along with dozens of Mao's former comrades and accused of betraying their leader.

Their persecutors twisted their arms behind them and pressed their heads nearly to the ground while pulling back their hair to expose their faces, Duan Ruoshi, a fellow student at the Number Four school, wrote in a memoir published last year.

"Despite the shouts of condemnation from all sides, Bo Yibo's sons exuded defiance and twisted their bodies in defiance against their oppressors," Duan wrote in the memoir published by "Remembrance", an online magazine about the Cultural Revolution.

The ordeal was a lesson for Bo in the capricious currents of Communist Party power, which only a few months before seemed to promise him and other princelings a bright future as inheritors of the Chinese revolution.

Now the effects of the Cultural Revolution on Bo and his generation are in question.

In mid-March, Bo, who had ambitions to be elevated this year to China's top decision making body, was dismissed from his post as party secretary of Chongqing, a crowded municipality in southwest China.

Critics, including Premier Wen Jiabao, have suggested that Bo, 62, flirted with reviving the extremes of the Cultural Revolution, a decade of zealotry and violence etched in the memories of tens of millions of Chinese.

Yet the era was a formative one for many Chinese leaders now poised to rise to power in a Communist Party leadership transition later this year. President Hu Jintao is due to retire as party leader and hand power to a generation including many leaders who were Red Guards - student-militants fighting for Mao's vision of a communism purged of compromise.

At many schools, gangs of the loosely organized Red Guards marched into a vacuum of authority in the summer of 1966, when officials were toppled and police retreated. Across Beijing in August and September that year, nearly 1,800 people died in attacks instigated by Cultural Revolution radicals, according to official estimates published in 1980.

A Reuters investigation based on interviews with 10 former students and recent memoirs from the Number Four school shows that Bo, his brothers and many fellow princelings experienced the Cultural Revolution as both enforcers and victims of Mao's wrath - a double legacy key to understanding its influence.

"They experienced both attacking others and being attacked by others, and then counter-attacking. Their role underwent a massive reversal," said Zhu Jingwen, another student at the Number Four school during the Cultural Revolution.

Some see parallels between what Bo did or saw at his school and his controversial policies in Chongqing, where he encouraged "red" choirs exuding nostalgia for Mao's time and an anti-crime gang crackdown that critics said revived elements of Maoist mobilization which trampled on legal protections.

"Bo Xilai is one example of the effects of growing up in the Cultural Revolution," said Yang Fan, a professor at the University of Political Science and Law who was a student at Number Four at that time and knew the Bo boys.

"He's the negative side of that experience," said Yang.

THE ATTACKERS ARE ATTACKED

Many princelings who studied at the Number Four school in the 1960s remain powerful in politics or business. They include Chen Yuan, president of the China Development Bank; Yu Zhengsheng, the party chief of Shanghai; and Liu Yuan, a military commander who stayed close to Bo.

The Cultural Revolution-era elite alumni of Number Four are part of a generation marked by chaos that has made them less conformist than their predecessors. While Bo's brash ambition was rare among Chinese politicians, his sense of destiny and pragmatism are seen by some as shared princeling traits.

"Overall, I think, their experience has made them more independent-minded and less trusting of central authority," Yin Hongbiao, a student at Number Four at the start of the Cultural Revolution, said of politicians from Bo's generation.

"At a time when they should have been studying, they were embroiled in political turmoil," said Yin, who is now an historian of the Cultural Revolution at Peking University.

At Number Four and other elite high schools, children of party officials were the core of students who threw themselves into Mao's initial movement and formed gangs of "Red Guards".

The Number Four students paraded teachers around the sports ground. Some mocked students lacking their "red" revolutionary pedigrees as "bastards." They built a jail, with a slogan written in blood on one of its walls, "Long live red terror".

Yet princelings often became victims of the next phase of the Cultural Revolution, when Mao turned on their parents. Bo's father was toppled. His mother killed herself in the hands of Red Guard radicals. Bo and two brothers spent years in jail.

"They experienced the Cultural Revolution from the very top to the very bottom," said Zhu, the former student, who is now a law professor at Renmin University in Beijing.

"But I don't think they ever lost their belief that they are privileged and deserve to have power," he added. "There was never any reflection on their misdeeds, they chose to dwell on only their own suffering."

THE RED AND THE BLACK

Fighting for his political survival in March this year, Bo challenged opponents of his campaign against organized crime by quoting a poem from the first years of the Cultural Revolution.

"We'll dare to fight for the high-ground with these devils. We'll never give an inch to the overlords," Bo told a news conference at China's parliament, citing words from a verse that in the mid-1960s was widely but wrongly believed to be by Mao.

Those words recalled an era when a young Bo and other students wore spare blue and green clothes at Number Four, a collection of squat brick buildings near the walled Zhongnanhai compound where Communist Party leaders worked and often lived.

Another large group of students included children of intellectuals, professionals and engineers, some of whom had worked under the Nationalist government before 1949.

"Number Four was special among Beijing schools because of the number of cadre children, so the school students formed into two camps," said Wang Zu'e, a former student and Red Guard at the Number Four school who became a Beijing government official.

As Mao placed growing emphasis on ideological struggle and class into the mid-1960s, "children of senior cadres began to feel like they were different from the rest of us and began to enjoy more privileges and higher status", said Yang Baikui, a former student at Number Four whose father was a translator.

Nowadays the widespread impression of the Cultural Revolution is a convulsive revolt against all authority. Initially, however, its most fervent supporters in high schools were the children of officials, who saw Mao's call as a test of their mettle, said former Number Four students and staff.

"At the start, to become a Red Guard, you virtually had to have a red family background," said Zhou Xiaozheng, a former Number Four student who is now a professor of sociology at Renmin University in Beijing.

At the school from June 1966, fervent students turned on teachers and the principal, accusing them of hiding "bad" and "reactionary" class backgrounds and failing to heed Mao's demands.

They searched homes and patrolled the streets, forcing youths to get rid of John F. Kennedy-style haircuts, sharp shoes, denim trousers and other signs of deviance, recalled former student Yin.

The sense among officials' children that they boasted proud revolutionary pedigrees - and futures - passed from their fathers inspired a slogan that spread among the children of officials at Number Four and other high schools.

"If the father is hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard," ran the slogan painted on a wall at the Number Four school, former students said.

On August 4, 1966, students paraded the 20 or so teachers around the school sports ground, the victims' heads bowed and weighed down with high "witch" hats and placards that declared them to be "cow-ghosts and snake-demons" - the phrase used to describe people deemed beyond the revolutionary pale.

"Their clothes were spattered with ink, and their faces showed scars from beatings," ex-student Duan Ruoshi wrote.

"LONG LIVE RED TERROR"

In the middle of this uproar, Bo Xilai was a shy, gangly boy squeezed between two lively brothers, schoolmates recalled. His older brother, Bo Xiyong, was a star athlete who became a deputy head of the school's Cultural Revolution committee. His younger brother, Bo Xicheng, was a boisterous junior secondary student.

Bo Xilai "was the shy one among the Bo family boys", said Yang Fan, the professor and former schoolmate, who later kept in touch with Bo's brothers. "His face would go red when he spoke."

"He was there as an old Red Guard, but he followed others, including his big brother," a former official who grew up as a near neighbor to Bo's home. The ex-official spoke on condition of anonymity.

"Old Red Guard" is the term for the first wave of such activists, mostly from politically privileged families.

But Bo Xilai was no mere bystander, said Song Yongyi, a historian of the Cultural Revolution who works as a librarian at California State University in Los Angeles. Bo joined in the rallies and home searches that spread in 1966, said Song, citing an interview with a classmate of Bo.

"One day they had an argument about family background, or the blood lineage theory, and Bo Xilai slapped him on the face two times, and also Bo Xilai called him a son of a bitch," said Song, using the phrase common among "red" students to disparage students from "bad" class backgrounds.

At Number Four, the Red Guards turned a teachers' canteen into a jail, or "labor re-education team", to hold teachers deemed foes of the revolution, and then "riff-raff" and "counter-revolutionaries" rounded up from nearby neighborhoods.

Some ex-students from Number Four take pride in pointing out that none of the school's teachers were killed, and students rarely brutalized each other, unlike at other schools.

But four Number Four teachers killed themselves, according to the memoirs of Wang Xingguo, an ex-teacher, published by "Remembrance." Two or three people detained from outside the school died in its jail, said former students.

Some of the young guards used blood to write "Long live red terror!" on one of the jail walls, and inside they used thick belts to whip inmates, one of the students who was in charge, Liu Dong, wrote in an essay for "Remembrance".

"The jail reeked from blood," said Zhu, the law professor at Renmin University. "There were some things done there that were unforgivable. People had skin flayed off their backs so the bones showed."

BO'S FIRST DOWNFALL

As Mao's campaign escalated, however, Bo and other princeling students experienced what it was like to be a victim.

Mao had become convinced that top officials, including President Liu Shaoqi, the officer Liu Yuan's father, were seeking to hobble the Cultural Revolution.

Students from "bad" class backgrounds, spurned and criticized during the first months of the Cultural Revolution, now had their chance to counter-attack.

By 1967, Bo Xilai's family was engulfed in Mao's fury. His father, Bo Yibo, was a veteran of the revolution who after 1949 took up a job as a senior financial official.

On January 1, 1967, Bo Yibo was seized by Red Guards while he was in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou and taken back to Beijing where he was jailed for eight years.

Bo Yibo's wife, Hu Ming, was taken back on another train two weeks later but died before she arrived. An official account said she "committed suicide for fear of punishment", said Warren Sun, an historian at Monash University in Australia.

Since Bo Xilai's downfall, some online accounts have repeated allegations that he beat his ousted father in a bid to protect himself. But former Number Four students, including several critical of Bo, said they doubted the story was true.

Glimpses of Bo and his siblings in 1967 suggest a rootless existence on the margins. His older brother Xiyong and younger brother Xicheng were caught after stealing a car and colliding with a mule, said Yang Baipeng, a former schoolmate.

Bo Xilai was caught stealing a book from a store on Beijing's main shopping street, according to "Memories of the Storm", a collection of memoirs about the Number Four school during the Cultural Revolution published in Hong Kong this year.

In 1967, radicals at the Number Four school rounded up Bo, his brothers and other sons of officials, said Yang Baikui, a former student and a brother of Yang Baipeng.

"They were targets not just because of what they did, but because of who their fathers were," said Yang Baikui.

"The struggle meeting went on for two or three hours. They weren't hit, but we shouted slogans and demanded that they admit their errors."

In late 1967, Bo Xilai and two of his brothers were jailed, and later sent to Camp 789, a prison for children of disgraced senior officials. They were released in 1972, and Bo later became a worker.

He now risks another stint in jail. He was suspended from the party's top ranks in April, when his wife Gu Kailai was named as a suspect in the murder of Briton Neil Heywood, a long-time family friend. Both Bo and Gu could later face trial.

After Bo's dismissal, his wife's sister told friends not to worry about him, said a retired academic who said she overheard their comments at a funeral in March of a fellow princeling.

"Don't worry about Bo Xilai, he's been through much worse than this," the academic said, citing the sister's words. "He's been through the Cultural Revolution. This is nothing."

(This story is refiled to fix typo in the fourth paragraph)

(Editing by Brian Rhoads and Neil Fullick)

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