The Legend of Chinese New Year's Monster Nian

An ancient Chinese legend tells of a man-eating predatory beast called Nian, extremely fierce, with a long head and sharp horn. Nian dwelled deep in the sea the whole year long, but on every Chinese New Year's Eve it would climb onto the shore to devour livestock and harm humans in a near-by village. Therefore, every Chinese New Year's Eve, all the villagers would take their old and young deep into the mountains to hide from Nian.

One Chinese New Year's Eve a grey haired man appeared in the village. He asked permission to stay for the night and assured everyone that he would chase away the beast. No one believed him. In addition, the old man steadfastly refused to go to the mountains to hide. Seeing that he could not be persuaded, the villagers departed without him.

When the beast arrived at the village to wreck havoc as usual, it was met with a sudden burst of exploding firecrackers. Startled by the noise, the flashes of light, and red banners flying about, it hastily turned and fled!

The following day, as the people returned from the mountains, they found the village intact and safe. The old man had left, but they found the remains of the three precious items he had used to chase the beast Nian away. They all agreed that the old man must be a deity who had come to help free them of the beast.

From then on, every Chinese New Year's Eve, families would hang red banners, set off fire crackers, and light their lamps the whole night through, awaiting the Chinese New Year. The custom spread far and wide and became a grand traditional celebration of the "Passing of Nian" ("Nian" in Chinese means "year").

So celebrating the Chinese New Year should be called “passing of Nian” or “Guo Nian” in Chinese. However the term was gradually changed to “Spring Festival” after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in 1949. Gradually people have forgotten the legend behind these Chinese New Year traditions. It is merely one small example of how the CCP has robbed the Chinese people of their rich traditional culture.

New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) is working hard to reverse this loss. In its 2006 Chinese New Year Global Gala it actually put the ancient story of the Nian monster on stage. NTDTV's Chinese New Year shows are a unique opportunity to experience the magic of traditional Chinese culture. Marvelous music, ancient instruments, magnificent backdrops, splendid costumes, and first class performers--altogether make for outstanding entertainment reflecting China's 5,000 years of civilization and traditional culture--a culture rich in myths and legends worth cherishing and preserving.

Between January and March the 2007 NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular will be touring Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and major cities in Canada, Europe and Asia.

The birth ADMINISTRATION DEVELOPMENT GROUP

In the meantime, Asian experts also appeared to undergo a process of maturation is convincing. Maturation process that resulted in administrative experts in the underdeveloped world are increasingly recognizing that improving the administration and development of concepts of development administration for Asia can not be left to foreign scholars. Their assumption is that the Asian nations who most know the problems they face and the solutions were mainly located in their hands. Not only are the areas of administration, but also in other fields.

Examples that can be put forward in this relationship is an important event that would be noted in conjunction with the development of concepts of development administration in Asia is with the formation of a bond's degree of development administration in Asia are on call Development Administration Group (GAD).

On December 14, 1966 the Tehran, Iran. Association of scholars under the auspices of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EUROPE), a non-governmental organizations engaged in improving the state administration in the east (Asia) of this world.

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You certainly no stranger to the computer, the computer is a machine that is able to receive data, process data, and generate output forms such as text, gambra, numbers, and sounds. In operation consists of hadware computers, software, and Brainware.

 
-Hadware: The need for information will be encountering many obstacles. Therefore to accommodate these interests, humans created the computer support tools to minimize these obstacles include CPU, monitor, keyboard, mouse, printers, CD room, hard drives, scanners and others.

 
-Software: A computer program that contains a set of instructions that sibuat using a special language that instructed the computer to perform various operations for the processing of the data contained in the program or data entered by the user's computer.

 
-Brainware: In the operating or running the computer, the resources actually play an important role, because it must understand the personal computer machine language. So the computer can be used in accordance with the desired. Brainware personal concerns directly involved in the implementation of a computerized, such as programmers, systems analysts, technicians, and operators.

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World Economic Polarization

On the one hand there are the industrialized countries that have national income and income capita is very high, whereas on the other hand most of the nations of the world still belong to the nations of the poor, who live in deprivation and misery.

 
It is often said that two thirds of humanity goes to bed at night with empty stomachs. In other words, most of humanity lives in poverty and deprivation.

 
Various attempts have been undertaken, both by the countries that have been developed and wealthy through foreign aid, nor by international organizations, to narrow the gap between the rich countries to poor countries. However, despite the efforts carried out so much already, but until now has not seen any indication that a gap had been narrowed. Instead people tend to see the gap widens.

Development of the concept of development administration

Often the academics were thrown accusations that they were only able to develop a theory that is not necessarily applicable in everyday life. The accusation that the academics live alone in the ivory towers have often asked. Perhaps that case will never happen but today is not the case anymore.

 
The members of this bond has considerable experience in underdeveloped countries and those who finished the first pioneers of the development of ideas and concepts of development administration. They are generally a professorship in administrative sciences at the country-many universities in the country, has been heavily involved in foreign assistance in engineering, especially the administration.

 
For the development of a more systematic, American Society for Public Administration has established a working group called the Comparative Administration Group, which consists again of the committee based on the continents dunia.Pengalaman showed that among the existing committee, the committee was the Committee Asia the most active and most members of the CAG makes recommendations to the committee's Asia.

Man in a storm

All the way to the horizon in the last light, the sea was just degrees of gray, rolling and frothy on the surface. From the cockpit of a small white sloop she was thirty five feet long the waves looked like hills coming up from behind, and most of the crew preferred not to glance at them.

Running under shortened sails in front of the northeaster, the boat rocked one way, gave a thump, and then it rolled the order. The post and pans in the galley clanged.

A six-pack of beer, which someone had forgotten to stow away, slid back and forth across the cabin floor, over and over again.Sometime late thet night, one of the crew raised a voice against the wind and asked, what are we trying to prove?.