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Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened up 96-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 19,609 on turnover of 4.4-billion N-T. The market bucked a regional upward trend on Monday and closed marginally lower after early gains eroded amid lingering investor concerns over the Trump administration's tariffs on semiconductors. MOFA slams Cambodia for sending Taiwan fraud suspects to China The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged a protest with the Cambodia government after it deported a group of recently arrested Taiwanese telecoms fraud suspects to China. According to the ministry, some of a group of 180 recently arrested Taiwanese fraud suspects were deported to China late Sunday and early Monday in three groups along with arrested Chinese fraud suspects. The ministry says it doesn't know how many were sent to China over the past two days because the Cambodian government has refused to provide a full list of those who were deported. The foreign ministry is accusing the Cambodian government of bowing to Chinese pressure (壓力) by not providing that information and calling on Phnom Penh to released a list of all the deportees as soon as possible. Housing prices fell in foruth quarter of last year Housing prices declined in the fourth quarter of last year. According to Chinatrust Real Estate, the decline came after the housing market was hit hard following the central bank;s seventh round (輪) of credit controls - which were introduced in September. Data from the Ministry of the Interior's real estate information platform shows that averages housing prices fell to 338,600 N-T per ping in the fourth quarter and that was a 6.6-per cent decline from the third quarter. All six special municipalities registered falling housing prices in the September to December period. Kaohsiung's housing market saw the steepest decline at 10.4-per cent - while housing prices in Taipei City were down by 3-per cent in the fourth quarter. US Trump Bukele Rule Out Releasing Man MIstakenly Sent to Prison US President Donald Trump and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele have ruled out (排除…的可能性) releasing a man mistakenly sent to a maximum security prison in the Central American country. Nick Harper reports from Washington. Algeria Expels French Officials Algeria on Monday announced the expulsion of 12 French officials, shattering recent hopes of a diplomatic thaw and plunging relations between the two nations to a new low. The country's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement that French consular agents had been given 48 hours to leave the country, in response to the arrest of an Algerian consular official in France. French counterterrorism prosecutors said three Algerians were arrested Friday on preliminary charges of “kidnapping or arbitrary detention … in connection with a terrorist undertaking (任務),” including one that French media has said was an Algerian consular official. The group is allegedly involved in the April 2024 kidnapping of an Algerian influencer, Amir Boukhors, or Amir DZ, a known critic of the Algerian government with 1.1 million followers on TikTok. That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _____. －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ ✨宏匯廣場 歡慶璀璨女王節✨

It's a busy hive of hipster cafes, hair salons, and independent book shops. But there is more to Taipei's Chifeng Street than meets the eye, and it took a tour with Nadia Lin to get to get to know this fascinating neighborhood. Hosted by ICRT's Hope Ngo. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened up 210-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 22,171 on turnover of $6.7-billion N-T. The market took a beating on Wednesday as the bellwether electronics sector was in investor focus after tech stocks saw heavy losses on Wall Street overnight ahead of the conclusion of the U-S Federal Reserve's two-day policymaking meeting. Market watchers say foreign institutional investors stayed on the sell side during the session and the local main board could see further unpredictability (不可預測性) as volatility on U-S markets is continuing to dictate large-cap electronics stocks here in Taiwan. Taipei animal protection office seeks new owner for bitey pit bull Authorities in Taipei are seeking a new owner for a pit bull named "Lucky," who was confiscated from it owner after biting people on two separate occasions this month. The Taipei City Animal Protection Office says "Lucky" is currently being kept alone to minimize (使降到最低) stress and is looking for owners who have experience with pit bulls. "Lucky" mauled people on two separate occasions, prompting the Taipei City government to fine the owner 200,000 N-T for violating the Animal Protection Act by allowing an aggressive animal out in public place without proper supervision and precautions. The authorities confiscated the dog on Tuesday. The Taipei City government's Department of Economic Development says the original owner is no longer allowed to look after Lucky due to his lack of control over the animal. Russia Ukraine Prisoner Swap Russia and Ukraine say they have each swapped 175 prisoners in one of the largest exchanges of the war began. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday the exchange included severely (嚴重地) wounded fighters whom Russia had prosecuted on fabricated (編造的) charges. He says all those who returned will receive immediate medical and psychological assistance. Russia's Defense Ministry said it had released an additional 22 severely wounded Ukraine captives as a goodwill gesture. Originally, Russian President Vladimir Putin had promised to release 23 prisoners when he spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump about a potential partial ceasefire. There was no immediate comment on the reason the number changed. Reknowned Pianist to Boycott US Over Trump Presidency The concert pianist Andras Schiff has become the latest performer to announce that he will boycott the United States over Donald Trump's presidency. Mr. Schiff is widely considered (被視為) one of the world's leading performers of music by Bach and Mozart, and has announced he is cancelling plans to tour the country later this year. From Washington, Simon Marks reports. Pope Condition Continues to Improve Pope Francis's condition has continued to improve and he no longer needs to use noninvasive mechanical ventilation to help him breathe at night. The Vatican said 88-year-old pontiff is also reducing his reliance on high-flow supplemental oxygen during the day. The Holy See press office says his double pneumonia infection, while not completely eliminated, is under control. Francis celebrated Mass on Wednesday, on the anniversary of his installation as pope 12 years ago. That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _____. －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ 福斯原廠認證中古車提供一站式購車安心保障 歐洲進口跨界休旅 The T-Cross 配備 Level 2 駕駛輔助系統 限時優惠 66.8 萬起再享一年原廠保固 試駕請洽璿豐汽車 03-3349555 https://sofm.pse.is/7b9uhs -- YES！我的高股息國際巨星來啦！ 國際級的高股息！？哪一檔這麼給力？ 00963 中信全球高股息，嚴選海外優息企業，掌握全球收益機會，3月首次除息囉！ 上除息行列！打開券商APP，輸入00963，3/17前買進即可參與，趕緊下單去！ https://user285523.pse.is/79hhbf -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Special guests Mike "Mister Perfect" Schloesser, and Vegas Shoot organizer Bruce Cull join us for a special podcast from the streets of Taipei City, as Mike comes off his third straight perfect score at the Taipei Open, and his third in a row season win in the Indoor World Series.  

In July we took the show on the road bringing Talking Taiwan to the 53rd annual Taiwanese American Conference, East Coast that was held at West Chester University. I sat down and spoke with New Taipei City Councilor Chen Nai-Yu (陳乃瑜市議員). We spoke about how she went from being a journalist to a politician, working on Lai Ching-te's presidential campaign, and the controversial bills that got passed in Taiwan's legislature in May and that led to massive protests and the Bluebird Movement.    Related Links: https://talkingtaiwan.com/counselor-chen-of-new-taipei-city-talks-about-her-political-career-and-the-controversial-bills-passed-by-taiwans-legislature-ep-295/   Special thanks to Bill Wu who sat in on the interview to provide translation assistance to City Councilor Chen, and to Anmy Lee for additional research and translation assistance.   This episode is sponsored in part by the Taiwanese American Council of Greater New York.   Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode: ·          How Naiyu went from working as a journalist for 14 years to becoming a politician ·          Issues she's focused on as a City Councilor ·          Anti-Han Kuo-yu rally in Kaohsiung ·          Naiyu's work as a journalist ·          How her experience as a journalist prepared her to be a politician ·          The challenges she faced in working on Lai Ching-te's presidential campaign ·          Cases of state-owned land on which people built personal mansions ·          The different communication styles and approaches to social media use of Lai Ching-te and Ko Wen-je ·          What Naiyu has to say about President Lai Ching-te's personality and character ·          What could happen with the controversial bills that led to the Bluebird movement protests in Taiwan in May ·          Cases of ill-gotten assets and how the handling of ill-gotten assets could be reversed ·          Naiyu's observations of the Bluebird movement ·          The most rewarding thing about being a City Councilor   Related Links: https://talkingtaiwan.com/counselor-chen-of-new-taipei-city-talks-about-her-political-career-and-the-controversial-bills-passed-by-taiwans-legislature-ep-295/

Taiwan's leading Tech House DJ duo Take Note deliver a high energy set recorded recently from their Red Light District show in Taipei City. Seamlessly bleding their Eastern and Western musical influences, the mix features music from GENESI, Gorgon City, KREAM, NOIZU, Odd Mob & more! Their interview takes us inside the scene in Taiwan and profiles their upcoming collaboration “Pulse” with Sam Collins on Showtek's Skink Records.

Today on our episode #384 of All in the Industry®, Shari Bayer has a special “On the Road” show from Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, which took place in Seoul, South Korea in late March 2024, with the gala awards ceremony on Tuesday, March 26th. Asia's 50 Best Restaurants is part of the 50 Best brand, which includes The World's 50 Best Restaurants. The 50 Best is a leading authority in global gastronomy and the international drinks scene, showcasing worldwide trends and highlighting great restaurants and bars from all corners of the world. This edition of Asia's 50 Best Restaurants marked the first time the awards were held in the Korean capital, and was the 12th edition of the event program. Shari attended the awards ceremony and #50BestTalks, and has several interviews with chefs who were recognzied at Asia's 2024 awards, including Peter Cuong Franklin, Anan Saigon (#48), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Yoshihiro Narisawa, Narisawa (#14 / #51 World 2023), Tokyo, Japan; Dave Pynt, Burnt Ends (#15 / #65 World 2023), Singapore; Jordy Navarra, Toyo Eatery (#24), Manilla, Philippines; Daniel Calvert, Sezanne (#1 / #37 World 2023), Tokyo, Japan; and Richie Lin, Mume (#45), Taipei City; Taiwan. Congratulations to the #1 award recipient, Daniel Calvert of Sezanne; and all of the chefs, including many who are featured in Shari's new book, CHEFWISE; and many thanks to everyone involved in the 50 Best. It was an outstanding awards celebrations and honor for Shari to be a part of the festivities. For more informaton and the full awards list, go to theworlds50best.com and @theworlds50best #asias50best. Today's show also features Shari's PR tip to seek collaborations; Speed Rounds; and Shari's Solo Dining experience at Mingoo Kang's Mingles (#13 / #89 World 2023) in Seoul. ** Check out Shari's new book, Chefwise: Life Lessons from Leading Chefs Around the World (Phaidon), available wherever books are sold! #chefwisebook**Listen at Heritage Radio Network; subscribe/rate/review our show at iTunes, Stitcher or Spotify. Follow us @allindustry. Thanks for being a part of All in the Industry®. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support All in the Industry by becoming a member!All in the Industry is Powered by Simplecast.

Nuit Blanche is a global urban night-time festival that began in Paris, France, in 2002. For one night each year, a diverse lineup of artwork and performances are on display in several cities around the world. 「白晝之夜」是二〇〇二年始於法國巴黎的一個全球性城市夜間藝術節。每年的一個晚上，世界各地幾座城市都會展示其多樣藝術作品及表演。 This year, Taipei City will turn into a gigantic art museum on the night of October 7. 今年，就在十月七日的晚上，臺北市將搖身一變成為一座巨大的博物館。 【非當年當月新聞】 －－－－以下訊息由 SoundOn 動態廣告贊助商提供－－－－ 城揚建設新推出的「陽明第一廳」 緊鄰三民區的明星學府-陽明國中 46~52坪，每層四戶兩部電梯 最適合有換屋與置產需求的你 讓生活中充滿書香、運動風，滿足食衣住行的消費需求 城揚建設 陽明第一廳 07-384-2888 https://bit.ly/4azoWGy -- 【00941】全台首檔鎖定半導體上游設備與材料廠的ETF 半導體不是只有護國神山，想投資真正的隱形英雄，力爭「上游」就對了！中信上游半導體(00941)，帶你與科技王者中的王者同行：https://bit.ly/3Umqe2r -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Today's Primary Sponsor is Snowball - www.Snowballclub.com - A private community of entrepreneurial investors helping each other.Watch Here: https://youtu.be/LVI5G-HJDmYAbout the Guest(s): Dominic Wells is an accomplished entrepreneur and the CEO of Onfolio, a publicly traded company specializing in the acquisition of online businesses. Located in Taipei City, Taiwan since 2008, Wells started his journey as an English teacher before venturing into the digital business space. His diversified business portfolio includes marketing agencies, WordPress plugins, online courses, e-commerce businesses, and online content. With a team spread across the globe, Wells has spearheaded numerous acquisitions and has become a prominent figure in the digital acquisitions sphere.Summary: Ronald Skelton welcomes Dominic Wells to discuss the landscape of business acquisitions, particularly in the context of a rapidly evolving market influenced by concerns around AI, economic stability, and business valuations. The conversation delves into the nature of operating a publicly traded company and the strategic moves made by Onfolio in the current acquisition-friendly environment.Dominic Wells delves into Onfolio's recent shift towards acquiring marketing agencies, citing their appeal for high returns and growth potential. He highlights the strategic geographical distribution of his team, suited for managing primarily online businesses. Wells also discusses market trends, AI's impact, and Onfolio's readiness for the future. Reflecting on his CEO role post-IPO, he shares unexpected realities and the learning curve. Exploring investment strategies and acquisition criteria, Wells illustrates Onfolio's trajectory and stresses the significance of tenacity in acquisition entrepreneurship.Key Takeaways:Marketing agencies present lucrative opportunities for acquisition, with Onfolio focusing heavily on this sector due to impressive performance metrics.The influence of AI on businesses is significant, but Wells urges a more tempered and strategic approach to incorporating AI advancements.Going public as a company involves facing market dynamics and investor behaviors that may not align with pre-IPO expectations.Onfolio's approach to acquisitions involves maintaining the independent brands and operations of acquired companies while centralizing certain functions for efficiency.Wells advocates for the importance of tenacity in the acquisition entrepreneurship space and considers the current market an advantageous time for acquisitions.Notable Quotes:"So I'm located in Taiwan, Taipei City... But my team is located all over the world." - Dominic Wells"I think it's a little bit of a calm time, but a good time to be acquisitive." - Dominic Wells"You can learn from bumps and bruises." - Dominic Wells"Dominic Wells opens up about operating a publicly traded company and the strategic moves made by Onfolio in the current acquisition-friendly environment." - Episode Summary--------------------------------------------------Contact Dominic onLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-wells-onfolio/Website: https://onfolio.com/--------------------------------------------------How2Exit Joins IT ExchangeNet's Channel Partner Network!Have an IT Company doing between $5M and $30M You may Sell?The IT ExchangeNet M&A Marketplace @Ronald Skelton - How2Exit Host has a proprietary database of 50,000+ global buyers seeking IT Services firms, MSPs, MSSPs, Software-as-a-Service platforms and channel partners in the Microsoft, Oracle, ServiceNow and Salesforce space.If you are interested in learning more about the process and current market valuations, complete the contact form and we'll respond within one business day. Everything is kept confidential.https://www.itexchangenet.com/marketplace-how2exitOur partnership with IT ExchangeNet focuses on deals above $5M in value. If you are looking to buy or sell a tech business below the $5M mark, we recommend Flippa. --------------------------------------------------

China-born architect Yang Cho-cheng 楊卓成 (1914-2006) left his magnificent mark on Taiwan with the CKS Memorial Hall, and the National Theater and Concert Hall (NTCH) among his greatest masterpieces. This week, we've got part one of the story of how a classical Chinese-style trilogy of buildings came to stand in the heart of Taipei City. Pics and more at ⁠formosafiles.com⁠

竹筒飯 zhútǒng fàn - Bamboo tube rice 烹調 péngtiáo - cooking; preparation 竹筒 zhútǒng - bamboo tube 煮 zhǔ - boil; cook 糯米 nuòmǐ - glutinous rice 香菇 xiānggū - shiitake mushroom 豬肉絲 zhūròu sī - shredded pork 配料 pèiliào - ingredients 攪拌均勻 jiǎobàn jūnyún - mix evenly 倒入 dàorù - pour into 小火 xiǎohuǒ - low heat; simmer 竹子 zhúzi - bamboo 香氣 xiāngqì - aroma; fragrance 露營 lùyíng - camping 這輩子 zhè bèizi - in one's lifetime 巴歌浪小聚所 Bā gē làng xiǎojù suǒ - An indigenous-themed izakaya in Taipei City 風味 fēngwèi - flavor; taste 串燒 chuànshāo - skewered and grilled food 居酒屋 jūjiǔwū - izakaya (Japanese-style pub) 山豬肉 shānzhūròu - wild boar meat 香腸 xiāngcháng - sausage 鹹豬肉 xián zhūròu - salted pork 縣市 xiànshì - counties and cities ---- Want Taiwanese friends to understand your Chinese instantly?  Ready to effortlessly communicate and blend into Taiwan's vibrant culture?  Join my Chinese Speaking Course!

During the Talking Taiwan Election Tour we planned to host 2 in-person events for our guests, supporters and friends. The first event was held on January 19th at 4SC CrossFit's Xindian branch in New Taipei, thanks to TH Schee who's been a guest on Talking Taiwan several times. In fact episode 234 with TH one the Top 5 episodes of 2023. Related Links:  https://talkingtaiwan.com/live-conversations-with-our-past-guests-at-4sc-crossfit-in-new-taipei-city-taiwan-ep-273/ We had a chance to meet some of our past guests in-person for the first time in person. We started off talking to JD Chang from episode 80 about Crushing the Myth. Next up was John Eastwood  who talked about legal reforms needed in Taiwan in ep 203. We also talked about the election results in Taiwan's legislature that had the KMT with 52 seats, the DPP with 51 seats and the TPP with 8 seats and 2 seats going to Independents John shared his thoughts on Ko Wen-je the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) candidate and how he's managed to attract younger voters. The subject of Bi-Khim Hsiao Taiwan's former ambassador to the U.S. and now vice president elect also came up. Here's what John thought would be some of the challenges that Bi-Khim might face in the role of vice president We next spoke with Jerome Keating who talked about understanding the history of Taiwan in Ep 97. Jerome shared his thoughts on Bi-Khim Hsiao Jerome explained why he wrote in his recent Taipei Times article that he doesn't expect the TPP, the Taiwan People's Party to survive to the next presidential election in 2028. Jerome also shared his thought on the younger voting demographic that Ko Wen-je attracted.  And finally at the end of the night Kaju and I talked to TH Schee who's been on Talking Taiwan several times, and who's one of the investors of 4SC Crossfit where we held our January 19th event.  Toward the end of the event Kaju got into a discussion with TH Schee about 4SC CrossFit.   Related Links:  https://talkingtaiwan.com/live-conversations-with-our-past-guests-at-4sc-crossfit-in-new-taipei-city-taiwan-ep-273/

BUFFALO, NY- January 24, 2024 – A new #research paper was #published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 16, Issue 1, entitled, “Targeting of FSP1 regulates iron homeostasis in drug-tolerant persister head and neck cancer cells via lipid-metabolism-driven ferroptosis.” Research has demonstrated that some tumor cells can transform into drug-tolerant persisters (DTPs), which serve as a reservoir for the recurrence of the disease. In this new study, researchers Yang-Che Wu, Chin-Sheng Huang, Ming-Shou Hsieh, Chih-Ming Huang, Syahru Agung Setiawan, Chi-Tai Yeh, Kuang-Tai Kuo, and Shao-Cheng Liu from Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taitung Mackay Memorial Hospital, Tajen University, National Taitung University, and Taipei City's National Defense Medical Center investigated lipid-metabolism-driven ferroptosis and its role in drug resistance and DTP generation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). “The regulatory roles of ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1) in HNSCC metabolic regulation were investigated.” High levels of FSP1 were discovered in the tissues of patients who experienced relapse after cisplatin treatment. RNA sequencing indicated that a series of genes related to lipid metabolism were also highly expressed in tissues from these patients. Consistent results were obtained in primary DTP cells isolated from patients who experienced relapse. The Cancer Genome Atlas database confirmed this finding. This revealed that the activation of drug resistance in cancer cells is influenced by FSP1, intracellular iron homeostasis, and lipid metabolism. Next, the team generated human oral squamous cell carcinoma DTP cells (HNSCC cell line) to cisplatin and observed higher expression of FSP1 and lipid-metabolism-related targets in vitro. The shFSP1 blockade attenuated HNSCC-DTP cell stemness and downregulated tumor invasion and the metastatic rate. They found that cisplatin induced FSP1/ACSL4 axis expression in HNSC-DTPC cells. Finally, the researchers evaluated the HNSCC CSC-inhibitory functions of iFSP1 (a metabolic drug and ferroptosis inducer) used for neo-adjuvant chemotherapy; this was achieved by inducing ferroptosis in a patient-derived xenograft mouse model. “The present findings elucidate the link between iron homeostasis, ferroptosis, and cancer metabolism in HNSCC-DTP generation and acquisition of chemoresistance. The findings may serve as a suitable model for cancer treatment testing and prediction of precision treatment outcomes. In conclusion, this study provides clinically oriented platforms for evaluating metabolism-modulating drugs (FSP1 inhibitors) and new drug candidates of drug resistance and ferroptotic biomarkers.” Corresponding authors - Ming-Shou Hsieh - 22057@s.tmu.edu.tw, and Shao-Cheng Liu - m871435@mail.ndmctsgh.edu.tw About Aging-US Launched in 2009, Aging-US publishes papers of general interest and biological significance in all fields of aging research and age-related diseases, including cancer—and now, with a special focus on COVID-19 vulnerability as an age-dependent syndrome. Topics in Aging-US go beyond traditional gerontology, including, but not limited to, cellular and molecular biology, human age-related diseases, pathology in model organisms, signal transduction pathways (e.g., p53, sirtuins, and PI-3K/AKT/mTOR, among others), and approaches to modulating these signaling pathways. Please visit our website at https://www.Aging-US.com​​ and connect with us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AgingUS/ X - https://twitter.com/AgingJrnl Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/agingjrnl/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@AgingJournal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/aging/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/AgingUS/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1X4HQQgegjReaf6Mozn6Mc MEDIA@IMPACTJOURNALS.COM

Here's something we bet you didn't know: in 1938, Soviet pilots in Soviet planes (disguised to look like ROC Air Force planes) bombed the main airfield in Taihoku (now the Songshan Airport 臺北松山機場 in Taipei City). We've got that story and more as this week John and Eryk get a bit geeky and delve into some of the stories behind the planes we saw during recent visits to the Gangshan Aviation Education Exhibition Hall (航空教育展示館). Visit formosafiles.com for lots of great pics, links and more.

These Forests Are Very Small Forests are great. They have many trees. The air is clean. You can hear birds. And forests are very big, right? 森林有很多樹，空氣也很新鮮，還能聽到鳥叫聲，而且森林都很大對吧? Well, many forests are big. But some are small. How small? Some are the size of a basketball court! They're very small! 很多森林都很大一片。但也有迷你的小森林。有多小呢? 居然只有一個籃球場這麼大。 The idea of very small forests is from Japan. Japan has thousands of these forests! People in many countries like this idea. Now there are many of these forests in Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America – hey, that's almost everywhere! 迷你森林的概念來自日本。其他國家的人也喜歡這個想法，現在世界各地都有迷你森林。 These forests are great for cities. They make places cooler in the summer. They make the air cleaner. That's important in cities. Some of the forests are also nice to walk in. 這種森林很重要，它可以讓都市在夏天的時候涼快一點，也能讓空氣更新鮮。 The forests are very small, but they're full of life. All of them have many local trees and plants. Geckos, frogs, and other small animals live in the forests. There are butterflies and other insects too! 雖然迷你森林面積很小，卻充滿生機。不但有原生的樹木花草，也有動物跟昆蟲棲息。 These very small forests help cities, people, animals, and insects. Does Taiwan have any of these forests? I want one near my home. Do you? Vocabulary 迷你森林對於動物植物和人類，都很有貢獻。 1. hear 聽到 Did you hear that? 你聽到了嗎? Yeah, some kind of bird? 有啊，是某種鳥類嗎? No, they're squirrels. 不是，是松鼠。 I see them in this park all the time. 我經常在這公園裡看到牠們。 2. tree 樹木 So they like this park? 所以牠們喜歡這個公園? Very much. 很喜歡。 There, can you see one in that tree? 在那裡，你看到有一隻在樹上嗎? Yeah, so cute! 有啊，好可愛! 3. city 城市 Squirrels are very common in Taipei City, right? 松鼠在台北市很常見吧? They are. In parks big and small. 沒錯，大小公園裡都有。 4. bird 鳥類 But I like birds better. 不過我比較喜歡鳥類。 Like sparrows? 比如說麻雀? Sparrows and Japanese white-eyes. 麻雀和綠繡眼。 一起來讀單字。 hear聽到 tree樹木 city城市 bird鳥類 Quiz 1. Where is the idea for very small forests from? a. Europe b. Japan c. Africa 2. Where are these forests? a. Many countries b. Two or three countries c. Only one country 3. How do these forests help cities? a. They're warm in the winter. b. They use basketball courts. c. They make the air cleaner. Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. c

台灣的出生率是世界排名倒數最後幾名，一般媒體也通常報導台灣房價太貴、薪資太低，抱怨年輕人到底要如何成家養孩子，這集邀請到一對在台北上班，養三個孩子的王先生王太太，請他們分享如何在有限的資源養育三個孩子。 Taiwan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. The media often reports that Taiwan's low salary and high real estate prices make it hard for young people to have kids. In this episode, our guests, Mr. and Mrs. Wang, talk about how they raise 3 kids by making the most of the limited resources they have. 老派聯絡方式 Connect us : connectingwithtaiwan@gmail.com

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. **Tai-Ex opening ** The Tai-Ex opened marginally higher this morning from Friday's close, at 16,579 on turnover of 2.2-billion N-T. The market closed lower on Friday as Apple concept stocks came under pressure on the back of reports that China plans to expand (擴張) restrictions on the use of iPhones in government offices and state-backed entities dealers said. And while the bellwether electronics sector led the downturn, buying in the financial sector helped the local main board offset the impact of escalating trade tensions between the United States and China, **Kee Tai and Taipei City Government Reach Consensus on Response to Building ** Collapse Kee Tai Properties and the Taipei City government have reached an initial agreement to help people affected by the partial collapse of a building in the city's Dazhi neighborhood. A total of 442 people from 201 households have had to be evacuated pending safety inspections and that figure includes 25 people who will need to be temporarily rehoused after their homes suffered severe (劇烈) structural damage. News of the agreement comes after Kee Tai Properties C-E-O Feng Hsien-mien had been facing criticism for his failure to make any public statement since the incident occurred last Thursday. Kee Tai has agreed to create a 100-million N-T fund for the purposes of disaster relief and to cover the costs of building restoration and temporarily resettling displaced residents. The company has also promised to "fully cooperate" in the reconstruction of the damaged buildings, regardless of whether the work is carried out by Kee Tai or Taipei's Urban Regeneration Office. **Lee Hong-chi's "Love Is a Gun" Wins Best First Feature Award at Venice ** Festival Director Lee Hong-qi's debut movie "Love Is a Gun" has been awarded the prize for best first feature at the Venice International Film Festival. The award makes Lee the first Taiwanese director to score a win in the debut (首次亮相) category at the annual film festival. Lee was also the scriptwriter and lead actor in the movie that tells the story of a a young man who, upon being released from prison, discovers that he cannot escape his past. It's the first time a Taiwanese film has won an award at the Venice International Film Festival since 2013. **US Biden Visit Enhances Vietnam Ties ** US President Joe Biden, visiting Vietnam, is praising the newly-enhanced (增進) relationship between the two countries – once at war. AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports. **Subject: E*Sudan Drone Attack Kills Dozens in Khartoum ** Sudanese activists and a medical group say at least 43 people have been killed in a drone attack on an open market south of the capital, Khartoum. They say more than 55 others were wounded in the attack Sunday and were transferred to a hospital. Sudan's military and a powerful rival paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, have been battling for control of the country since mid-April. The paramilitary group blamed the military's air force for Sunday's attack. It wasn't immediately possible to independently verify (核實) the claim. That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____.

Pasuya Yao (姚文智) is a politician turned film producer. His film production company thuànn TAIWAN, produced the documentary Su Beng, The Revolutionist and more recently the feature film Untold Herstory that ranked third at Taiwan's box office in 2022. We spoke about Untold Herstory, which is based on a book authored by Tsao Chin-jung (曹欽榮) and published in 2012, the book's title has been translated as "Bonfire Island: Untold Herstory." It is a collection of interviews of women political prisoners held on Green Island in the 1950s. If you haven't seen Untold Herstory yet, it will be coming to Taiwan Plus on February 28 2024. Special thanks to Loretta Chen for her translation assistance for this episode. Related Links: https://talkingtaiwan.com/pasuya-yao-on-his-film-untold-herstory-about-1950s-women-political-prisoners-on-green-island-ep-244/   Mr. Yao is a former Democratic Progressive Party legislator and previously ran for Taipei City Mayor in 2018. We talked about why he decided to switch from a career in politics to film producing, and about the subjects his upcoming television and film projects: artist Chen Cheng-po （陳澄波）, the Taiyuan uprising of 1970, and Chen Nylon (鄭南榕).   This episode of Talking Taiwan has been sponsored by NATWA, the North America Taiwanese Women's Association.      NATWA was founded in 1988, and its mission is:   1. to evoke a sense of self-esteem and enhance women's dignity, 2. to oppose gender discrimination and promote gender equality, 3. to fully develop women's potential and encourage their participation in public affairs, 4. to contribute to the advancement of human rights and democratic development in Taiwan, 5. to reach out and work with women's organizations worldwide to promote peace for all.   To learn more about NATWA visit their website: www.natwa.com   Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode: Pasuya Yao's career as a politician before becoming a film producer ·       How Mr. Yao got interested and involved in politics as a college student ·       Mr. Yao recalls the Kuomintang's authoritarian rule during Taiwan's martial law era ·       When Mr. Yao served as director of the News Bureau in 2004 he gained a more comprehensive understanding of Taiwan's media culture and film industry ·       Mr. Yao served as director of the GIO (government information office) in 2005 he ·       How Mr. Yao ran for Taipei City mayor in 2018 but lost and decided to switch to producing films ·       How Mr. Yao was exposed to opposition (dangwai) magazines when he was a teenager ·       The meaning behind the name of Mr. Yao's film production company, thuànn  TAIWAN Film Company ·       The difference between the first film Mr. Yao's produced, Su Beng, The Revolutionist (a documentary) and Untold Herstory (a feature film) ·       How fundraising is the most challenging part of film production ·       The subjects of Mr, Yao's future television and film projects: Chen Cheng-po, a Taiwanese artist that was executed in 1947, Taiyuan 1970, Cheng Nylon ·       Mr. Yao's relatives that were affected by the 228 Massacre and White Terror era ·       “Puanpuatsu” which means that Chiang Kai-shek personally signed and issued orders to change people's verdicts to death sentences ·       Documents revealing Chiang Kai-shek's orders to execute were gradually exposed and made public over two decades since the DPP was the opposition party ·       How Mr. Yao feels it's important that younger generations of Taiwanese understand Taiwan's history and that Taiwan's democracy was hard-earned and due to the sacrifices of many ·       How a thousand or more people's fate were changed directly by Chiang Kai-shek who personally signed and issued orders to execute people ·       How the film Untold Herstory is based on the oral history research done by Tsao Chin-jung ·       The film Untold Herstory depicts 29 cases ofindividuals whose outcomes were changed directly by Chiang Kai-shek's orders ·       The challenges in casting actors for Untold Herstory ·       Where Untold Herstory has been screened ·       What kind of response the film has received ·       How Untold Herstory was release around the time of Taiwan's local elections in November 2022 ·       Untold Herstory ranked third at Taiwan's box office in 2022 ·       Where Untold Herstory will be screened in the future ·       Untold Herstory will be available on Taiwan Plus beginning February 28, 2024, the anniversary of the 228 Massacre Related Links: https://talkingtaiwan.com/pasuya-yao-on-his-film-untold-herstory-about-1950s-women-political-prisoners-on-green-island-ep-244/

Faye Angevine is a French-American who has lived and worked in Taiwan since 1974, and works with numerous non-profit organizations here on the island. ICRT's Trevor Tortomasi chats with Faye about Taiwan's animal welfare initiatives, local community centers, what it's like to live with 23 dogs, and her fascination with Taiwan's history and antiques. You can find more information on adopting rescue dogs in Taiwan from the PACK Sanctuary: https://packtw.org/ And you can check out Faye's antique showroom, the Bai Win Collection, in Tianmu, Taipei City: https://baiwincollection.com/ Thanks for listening!

Ah, that tastes good! Hey! Do you like soda? How about some cold milk tea? Drinks are great on a hot day! 你們喜歡喝甚麼飲料呢？汽水嗎？還是冰奶茶？ But there is a problem. Many drink shops use plastic cups. People use these plastic cups just once. Then they throw the cups away. Plastic is very bad for the earth. Lots of plastic gets into the ocean. It hurts the animals there. 很多飲料店都用塑膠杯，用一次之後就會丟掉。塑膠對環境有害，流進海裡也會傷害到海洋動物。 That's why New Taipei City has a new rule. It started on May 1st. Drink shops can't sell drinks in plastic cups! This is a big change! There are 2,700 drink shops in New Taipei City. Now 368 million plastic cups won't be used there every year! 所以，新北市政府規定從五月一日開始，飲料店禁止用塑膠杯。新北市有 2700 間飲料店，這樣每一年會少用三億六千多萬個塑膠杯！ New Taipei City is the second city in Taiwan to have this rule. Which city was the first? Taipei. Yes, Taipei was the first to ban selling drinks in plastic cups. 新北市是第二個推行這個規定的城市，第一個是台北市。 What do drink shops in New Taipei City and Taipei use now? They use paper cups. Paper is better for the earth. 現在新北跟台北的飲料店都用紙杯，紙杯對環境的危害比較少。 I'm happy to drink from paper cups. I hope you are too! ________________________________ Vocabulary 為了環保，許多飲料店都已經停用塑膠杯。 1. drink shop 飲料店 Time to go, Paz. 該走了。 Okay, let me get my water bottle.好，我來拿水壺。 Why bother? 幹嘛那麼麻煩？ There are drink shops everywhere.到處都有飲料店。 2. better than 比別的好 No, I prefer water. 不，我比較喜歡水。 Water tastes better than most soft drinks.水比大部分飲料好喝。 Does it? I like tea.會嗎? 我喜歡茶。 3. first 第一 First, some tea drinks have too much sugar. 首先，有些茶放太多糖。 Second, it now costs some 50 NT a cup. 第二，現在一杯茶要五十塊。 4. cup 杯子 That's not a lot. 那沒多少。 No, but you will save one cup. 對，但你省下一個杯子。 That's just one in a billion. 那只是十億個裡面的一個。 You're hopeless, Jane. 你沒救了。 你常喝飲料嗎？來讀單字。 drink shop 飲料店 better than 比別的好 first 第一 cup 杯子 ________________________________ Quiz 1. What kind of cups are very bad for the earth? A: Paper cups B: Glass cups C: Plastic cups 2. How many drink shops are in New Taipei City? A: 368 B: 2,700 C: 368 million 3. What will drink shops in New Taipei use now? A: Plastic cups B: Glass cups C: Paper cups Answers 1. C 2. B 3. C

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. **Tai-Ex opening ** The Tai-Ex opened up 10-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 15,886 on turnover of $1.6-billion N-T. The market gained ground on Monday, after investors reacted (反應) positively to a report on the U-S jobs market, which was released after regional markets closed last Friday. **Canadian Parliamentary Delegation Visiting Taiwan ** A 10-member Canadian parliamentary delegation arrived in Taiwan for a week-long visit. According to the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei, the multi-party delegation includes the chair of the parliamentary Committee on National Defense and the vice chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. The delegation will be hold talks with President Tsai Ing-wen and other senior government officials. It will meet with representatives of the business community and local N-G-Os. The Canadian lawmakers are also scheduled to visit the National Palace Museum. It is the second trip to Taiwan by a Canadian parliamentary group since last October. **New Taipei to Ban Disposable Plastic Ups at Drink Stores from May ** The New Taipei City Government has announced that beverage shops will be required to stop providing single-use plastic cups from next month. According to the city's Environmental Protection Department, the move is aimed at cutting down on plastic waste. The department says the 2,704 beverage shops in New Taipei will be banned from using disposable plastic cups, including those made from bioplastic polylactic acid, with effect from May 1. Under the regulation, beverage shops that continue to provide single-use plastic cups will face a fine of up to 6,000 N-T for violating the Waste Disposal Act. Officials say the ban is expected to reduce (減少) the use of disposable plastic cups in the city by about 368-million per year. New Taipei is the second city to ban single-use plastic cups, following a similar decision by Taipei City last December. **NKorea Leader Vows to Enhance Nuclear Arsenal ** North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to enhance his nuclear arsenal in “practical and offensive” ways. State media said Tuesday he made the remarks while meeting with military officials to discuss war preparations in the face of their rivals' “frantic (瘋狂的)” military exercises. The commission discussed strengthening North Korea's defense capacities and perfecting its war preparations. The U.S. and South Korean militaries conducted field exercises last month and naval and air force drills involving an aircraft carrier and U.S. bombers. KCNA claimed the drills simulated all-out war against North Korea. The United States and South Korea say their exercises are defensive. **US Classified Leak Origins ** More details are emerging (出現) about the origin of leaked classified documents. AP correspondent Norman Hall reports. **Slovenia French Citizens Rescued Off Mountain ** Slovenia's emergency mountain teams say they have rescued four French citizens who were stuck in bad weather in the Alps. Monday's operation on the Skuta mountain came a day after dozens of emergency officers used helicopters to rescue another five people swept away by an avalanche in an Alpine region further north. The five were part of a group of seven people attending a mountaineering (登山) course when the avalanche hit. Three people were seriously injured. The French citizens were unharmed. Slovenia's rescue service has urged mountaineers to avoid climbing in bad weather. That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____.

Japan is great for art, food, science… and sports too! There's a town in Japan called Tsuruta. It's very small. Only about 10,000 people live there. That's not very many. About two and a half million people live in Taipei City! 日本有一個小鎮叫做鶴田，居民很少，只有一萬人。台北市有兩百五十萬人喔！ Every year before the COVID pandemic, Tsuruta hosted a very special sports tournament: the National Sucker Tug of War Tournament. It was only for men who have no hair or not much hair: bald men! 在疫情之前，鶴田都會舉辦很特別的比賽，叫做全國吸盤拔河大賽。 Maybe you play Tug of War too. You need a rope. There are two teams. Each team pulls on one end of the rope. This tournament is the same. But it is also not the same. To play, you need a string, two bald men… and two suction cups! 拔河需要一條繩子，兩支隊伍各拉一邊。吸盤拔河跟那種拔河有一點像，又有一點不像，它需要一條線，兩名光頭男子，跟兩個吸盤。 The suction cups are at the ends of the string. Each bald man sticks a suction cup on his head. The men are face-to-face. Then both men pull back as much as they can! They want to pull off the other man's suction cup first! 參賽選手要把吸盤黏在頭上，面對面往後拉，誰先把對方的吸盤拉下來，誰就贏了！ This year, the tournament returned! People came from all over Japan for it. Would you go to a sports tournament for bald men? ________________________________ Vocabulary 這個日本小鎮的光頭拔河活動，是不是很有趣呢？ 1. team 隊伍 Come on! It's time for Tug-of-War! 快來，拔河時間到了！ Can we play? 我們可以玩嗎？ No, you have to join the team first. 不行，你得先加入一個隊。 It takes a lot of practice. 需要很多練習呢。 2. pull 拉 I thought you just need to pull the rope. 我以為你只要拉繩子就好了。 Of course, everyone has to pull hard. 每個人當然都要用力拉。 3. sport 運動 But it's also a special sport. 不過它也是很特別的運動。 Skills are important. 技巧很重要。 4. man 男人 Hey, it looks the women's team will win! 嘿，看起來女子隊會贏！ Woohoo! They did win! 她們真的贏了！ What's going on with the men's team? 男生隊是怎麼回事？ 你有參加過拔河比賽嗎？ team 隊伍 pull 拉 sport 運動 man 男人 ________________________________ Quiz 1. What do bald men have? A: No hair B: Lots of hair C: Long hair 2. Where is the bald men's tournament held? A: Tokyo B: Tsuruta C: Tsuruga 3. What do bald men need to play this sport? A: Hair B: Two teams and a rope C: Two suction cups and string Answers 1. A 2. B 3. C

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. **Tai-Ex opening ** The Tai-Ex opened down 75-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 15,419 on turnover of $3.6-billion N-T. Shares in Taiwan lost some momentum after a strong opening yesterday, as Wall Street stocks also trended lower overnight. Investors are now reserved as they await announcements this week from the U.S Fed, as well as other key economic indicators. **China's partial lifting of import ban on Taiwan a political move ** China has lifted its ban on 63 products from Taiwanese food and beverage producers, which was imposed in December 2022. The lifting of the ban enables Taiwanese companies making the 63 items, including Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor Inc., to export those products to China, effective from last Saturday, January 28th. The head of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, Chiu Tai-san, has called the lifting of the ban a "political maneuver" (政治花招), as it violates international trade practices. Chiu says China's import ban on Taiwanese beverage suppliers in early December violated international trade practices, and that the lifting of the ban on some of their items on Sunday was politically motivated. **Free Taiwan Lantern Festival lanterns up for grabs from February 1st ** 80,000 Year-of-the-Rabbit-themed lanterns are to be made available to the public tomorrow. The 2023 rabbit light can held like a traditional lantern, or reassembled (重新組裝) into a luminous rabbit ear ornament and worn as a hat. The Taipei City government's Department of Civil Affairs says members of the public would be able to place preorders for 10,500 of the free lanterns via the festival's official website and TaipeiPASS app, starting from 10 AM tomorrow. **France Rail Operator Recommends Staying Home Amid Strikes ** France's national rail operator is recommending that passengers stay home if possible today to avoid labor strikes. The strikes over pensions are expected to cause major transport woes but largely spare high-speed rail links to Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands. Labor unions mobilized massive street protests in an initial salvo (行動的第一炮) of nationwide strikes earlier this month. They're hoping for similar success Tuesday to maintain pressure on government plans to raise France's retirement age. Rail operator SNCF warned that major network disruptions are expected from Monday night to Wednesday morning. It recommended passengers cancel or postpone trips and work remotely if possible. **US Biden to End COVID19 Controls ** US President Joe Biden is going to end the nation's coronavirus emergencies. The AP's Ed Donahue reports. **Emirates Tests Boeing 777 on Sustainable Fuel ** Long-haul carrier Emirates has successfully flown a Boeing 777 on a test flight with one of its two engines entirely powered by so-called sustainable fuel. The flight lasted just under an hour over the coastline of the United Arab Emirates, after it took off from Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international travel. The fuel powered one of the Boeing's two General Electric Co. engines, with the other running on conventional (傳統的) jet fuel for safety. Emirates described the sustainable fuel as a blend that includes compounds from plant-based sugars, and vegetable oils and animal fats. Those fuels reduce the release of carbon dioxide, but analysts suggest sustainable fuels can be three times or more the cost of jet fuel. It wasn't immediately clear how much the fuel used in the Emirates' test today cost per barrel. That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____.

Our guest for today is Garrick Cheung from Hong Kong, founder of WorkSpace. He came to Taiwan more than 4 years ago to help people from Hong Kong set up their companies here in Taiwan. His startup WorkSpace is a co-working space and also connected to his wife's accounting firm for foreigners who wish to set up a company here. Since his co-working space is located in New Taipei City, he discusses why a foreigner should consider this location for their startups.Accounting firmhttps://www.shop1688.com.tw/aom20210331016/Co-working spacehttps://www.workspace.com.tw/Support the show

Liting Tan, also known as “Uncle Southside”, is a seasoned performer organizing an upcoming show for Taipei's Fringe Festival, a city-wide cultural season for all kinds of performing arts. ICRT's Trevor Tortomasi speaks with Liting about their show “Journey to the Jest”, a wild adaptation of the well-known myth that starred such characters as Wu Kong, the Monkey King… and a horse?! “Journey to the Jest” will be performed in Mandarin, with English subtitles, at "Venue" (濕地), on the evenings of September 1st and 2nd. "Venue" address: Taipei City, Zhongshan District, Linsen North Road, Lane 107, No. 10 Liting also has an earlier show this weekend, “Drag Mania”, at Two Three Comedy, on Saturday, August 20th. Check out their shows soon, and follow Uncle Southside on Instagram: @southside.tingles.king Thanks for listening!

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This Week in Skating is hosted by Gina Capellazzi and Daphne Backman and is a cooperative project between Figure Skaters Online and Ice-dance.com. New episodes are available every Tuesday.Website: http://www.thisweekinskating.comEmail: thisweekinskating@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisweekinskatingTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/thiswkinskatingInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinskating_________________________________________EPISODE NOTESJune - Pride MonthSkate Canada and U.S. Figure Skating had Instagram Lives for Pride Month this week. U.S. Figure Skating Instagram Live host Eliot Halverson interviewed former skater turned coach Derrick Delmore about how he creates a safe space for athletes to express themselves. Skate Canada's Community Voices host Kaitlyn Weaver talked with Eliot Halverson about her journey in skating and how she navigated being a transgender non-binary athlete. U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone did an article on Jason Brown about the one-year anniversary of his coming out. June 23, 2022 - 50th Anniversary of Title IXMembers of U.S. Figure Skating talked about the female athletes that inspire themEvent ResultsNational Theatre on Ice CompetitionLake Placid Figure Skating ChampionshipsChesapeake OpenGeneral Skating News2023 Four Continents Championships, which was originally to be held in Sydney, Australia, will now take place in Colorado Springs. Ice Skating Australia statement on Four Continents: The ISU released Communication #2488 with more decisions made by the Council during the Congress. The ISU Council granted provisional ISU Membership (Figure Skating Branch) for the Kuwait Figure Skate Federation. Kaitlyn Weaver, of Canada, was appointed as the ice dance representative for the ISU Ice Dance Technical Committee and Alper Ucar, of Turkey, was appointed as the coach representative for the Ice Dance Technical Committee.For Single & Pair Skating Technical Committee, the appointed skater is pending, but the appointed coach is Patrick Meier, of SwitzerlandThe ISU has provisionally allotted the 2024 Four Continents Championships to Shanghai, China and the 2024 World Junior Figure Skating Championships to Taipei City, Chinese Taipei.The Council decided to postpone the allotment of ISU Championships seasons 2024/25, 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons to the Council meeting in October 2022 in order to fully evaluate the impact of the Congress decision to amend the qualifying rounds of the World Figure Skating Championships.The Council determined that the skaters/couples participating in the 2023 ISU Championships must have reached the minimum total elements scores during the ongoing season (2022/23) or the two immediately preceding season (2021/22).  In case that due to the Covid-19 pandemic an extended number of competitions are canceled during the fall 2022, the Council will review the situation in regard to the Minimum TES again at the October Council meeting. If the number of entries based on the Minimum TES would be significantly higher or lower than expected, the ISU Council reserves the right to adjust the minimum TES in order to achieve the objective. Olympic champion ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron told French media June 20 that they will sit out this upcoming season.Elections for President of the French Figure Skating Federation were held on Saturday.  Nathalie Pechalat, who has been steering the organization for the past several years was defeated by Gwenaëlle Gigarel-Noury, who received 52.8% of the vote. Executive Director Ramsey Baker is leaving U.S. Figure Skating at the end of his contract, which runs through the end of 2022. Baker has been with U.S. Figure Skating since 2005.Skate Canada announced that Joseph Phan has decided to retire from competitive figure skating. The German Figure Skating Federation announced June 20 that pair team Minerva Hase and Nolan Seegert have announced the end of their partnership, and ice dance team Katharina Mueller and Timothy Dieck have ended their partnership. German ice dancer Joti Polizoakis, who is coming out of retirement to compete this season, has applied for clearance to compete for the Czech Republic. Joti has Czech citizenship. Joti will skate with Denisa Cimlova. They will be coached by Barbara Fusar-Poli. Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khaliavin are already coaching the new team of Sofia Val and Alexandre Gnedin, who she hopes will surpass what she and Kirill achieved in the sport.  She also mentions in the article that they all, including Kiriil's wife and former partner, Ksenia Monko and their young son, left Moscow in three days All-event tickets for the Skate Canada International will be on sale to the public on Monday, June 27 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Segment - Social Media UpdatesThe new ISU President Jae Youl Kim (KOR) was a guest on the ISU's Ice Skating Podcast.  Kaitlyn Weaver was on ET Canada live on June 21. Upcoming Events for the WeekBroadmoor Open/Peggy Fleming Trophy/Aerial Challenge continues this week in Colorado Springs.Segment -  Upcoming Summer Competitions - JulyAll the competitions mentioned on the show can be found on our website.Ice-dance.com and Figure Skaters Online spotlightIce-dance.com's Profile Information Form  Ice-dance.com's Photo shoots at Lake PlacidFigure Skaters Online's coverage of the U.S. Olympic Paralympic Hall of Fame

Born in 1978 in Taipei City, Arthur Huang moved to the US at age 12. He is a structural engineer and architect, focusing on sustainable architecture. In 2005, Arthur established MINIWIZ. Five years later, he and his team designed the EcoARK pavilion in Taipei, a massive structure built from 1.5 million recycled plastic bottles. Arthur's innovative ideas won him several awards and set a new bar for future buildings and consumer products! As reducing our carbon footprint is a critical task in this day and age, let us hear Arthur's creative thoughts about the unlimited potential of trash! 黃謙智1978年出生於台北，12歲時移居美國，他是位工程師，也是建築師，專研永續建築。 2005年，黃謙智創立小智研發。 2010 年的台北花博，他和他的團隊利用150 萬個回收寶特瓶，設計出花博園區遠東環生方舟展館。 黃謙智的創新想法獲得許多獎項肯定，並為未來建築和消費產品，樹立新標竿。減少碳足跡是我們這個世代的重要任務，一起來聽聽黃謙智對於垃圾無限潛力的創造性想法。 TaiwanPlus | Bring Taiwan to the World Watch our programs now: https://www.taiwanplus.com/?c=Programs Lifestyle, culture, nature, and technology……everything about Taiwan is within your grasp. Download our App» https://tw.plus/YYaZk Connect with TaiwanPlus » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TaiwanPlusMedia » Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/taiwanplusnews » Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taiwanplus About TaiwanPlus TaiwanPlus (Taiwan+) is an independent media organization funded by the people of Taiwan and is the nation's first English-language video news and programming platform for an international audience. #唐鳳 #AudreyTang #innovation #architect #garbage #recycle #environment #greenbuildings #carbonemission #waste #greentech

Don't forget to click like and subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EddyLIVE Have you ever thought about becoming an angel investor in a startup or business that you believe in? Elias Ek is an entrepreneur, an author, and an angel investor. In fact, he is probably Taiwan's OG ex-pat angel investor. But how did he get there? How can you participate in becoming an angel investor? Well on June 20th More info: https://dragonschambertaiwan.com/2022... Here is the event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/13491... Details are below: Since 2016, Dragons' Chamber has given foreign entrepreneurs in Taiwan a platform to gain exposure and valuable feedback on their businesses. Now we want to look at the other side of the equation and show how people can become angel investors. Investing in startups is a risky but potentially rewarding endeavor. Please come and learn from experienced investors about why and how to do angel investments. If you have a few hundred thousand NTD that you could possibly, under the right circumstances, consider investing in a worthy startup you believe in, please come and learn how that would work. Co-organized by MUSA Trademark, Enspyre, and CCCT Small Business Committee. Agenda Introduction: Elias Ek introduces Dragons' Chamber Keynote: Mark Hsu Short introductions by angel investors: Dr. Torbjörn Nordling, more to be added Panel and Audience Discussion led by Ping Chu Mark Hsu Mark Hsu is a serial Entrepreneur, co-founding GD1, KKBox, Envision & other companies. He has now been an angel investor for twenty years and has invested in 25 companies. Torbjörn Nordling Torbjörn Nordling is an international angel investor with a passion for disruptive innovation and research, investing in people that want to reach their potential. He has invested in more than 10+ companies in the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and Israel. Li Ping Chu Li Ping Chu co-founded Apex Language Consulting and training in 2016. Ping has been a member of the Canadian Chamber since 2018 with a focus on helping organize events with the Business Committee and is now part of the board of directors. He is also their head of communications and hosts the CCCT Podcast. Elias Ek Elias Ek is a life-long entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently invested in 10 companies in Taiwan, Singapore, Sweden, and the US. Place: Futureward B1F., No. 343, Changchun Rd., Songshan Dist., Taipei City 105, Taiwan Date: June 20th Time: 18:30PM Fee: $500 (Light Food and Drinks Included, pay at event) This event is sponsored by Enspyre and MUSA Trademark ------------------------------------------------- Order food or Reaper Hot Sauce directly from Eddy's: www.eddys.tw

Welcome to Episode 97 of Never on the Backfoot Podcast. Joining us on the podcast is Annesha Ghosh. She is a multimedia journalist with ESPN (India) Digital Media Pvt Ltd with more than five years' experience in working with leading governing bodies in sport. Having begun her career in sports journalism in February 2017, she has covered the 2017 World University Games in Taipei City as a FISU Young Reporter, the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires as an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Young Reporter, and the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan as a writer-photographer on the CISM staff to name a few. She works as a full-time reporter, writer, and sub-editor with ESPN Cricinfo, the world's leading cricket website, and has covered Olympic sports such as tennis, shooting, football, hockey, and sports climbing for ESPN.com. In the recent past, she reported on a lot of the latest tournaments and has broken news several times from the headquarters of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. A major part of her work in cricket is focused on the women's game and involves creating long-form features (text, photos, and videos) for The Cricket Monthly, the digital magazine of ESPN Cricinfo. It was a lively conversation where a lot of things about her career, interests, passions and everything cricket was discussed, so don't miss out. The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast and a lot of other platforms and so please do spread the word. Do check out @neveronthebackfoot on Instagram and @neverontheback1 on Twitter for the latest facts, trivia, quizzes, terminology, retweets, fresh tweets and a lot more coming up this cricket season. Stay safe and take care, listeners

Professor Joseph Allen's book "Taipei: City of Displacements" tells the story behind Taiwan's unique architecture -- from the Japanese colonial era to the current time. ICRT's Hope Ngo invites Professor Allen on an imaginary walk along the streets leading to Taipei's Ketagalan Boulevard, to tell audiences about two of the most distinctive buildings in the area. Thanks for listening!

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Will China attack Taiwan given the current circumstances surrounding the war in Ukraine? My guest on this episode of Talking Taiwan is Kuan-Ting Chen, the CEO of Taiwan NextGen Foundation, which is an NGO (a non-governmental organization) founded in Taipei that focuses on various issues such as Taiwan's soft power, promoting democracy, educational policy research, public advocacy and issues related to domestic and foreign policy. He shared his thoughts on Russian's invasion of Ukraine and the comparisons being made between Ukraine and Taiwan. I asked him how people in Taiwan have been reacting to the situation.   Prior to serving as CEO of Taiwan NextGen Foundation Kuan-Ting served at the Taipei City government as the chief research officer and deputy spokesperson. He was in charge of various issues related to public affairs, international affairs, and student affairs.   Before that Kuan-Ting served on Taiwan's National Security Council. In that capacity he was responsible for Taiwan-Japan relations.   Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:   Some of the history of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia The famine that Ukraine endured during the early 20thcentury due to the policies of the Soviet Union The Budapest Memorandum Why people are drawing comparisons between Ukraine and Taiwan How the situation in Ukraine and Taiwan are similar and different How the invasion and conflict in eastern Ukraine's Donbas has been going on for 7-8 years already Comparing China with Russia Kuan-Ting's thoughts on the relationship between China and Russia How the international reaction to Russia can send a message to China The weaknesses of Russia and China militarily and economically China's reactions to Russia's invasion of Ukraine The role that China could play to possibly deter Russia's invasion of Ukraine Why Kuan-Ting doesn't think that China will try to attack Taiwan at this time What Taiwan can do as deterrence What has been the reaction in Taiwan to what's been happening to Ukraine Taiwan's military preparedness A recent survey of how many Taiwanese would be willing to fight to defend Taiwan The rallies in support of Ukraine in Taiwan How the sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine How thousands have showed up to rallies in support of Ukraine How the government of Taiwan has shown support for Ukraine The Taiwan Can Help campaign How the U.S. has responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and what we could infer, if anything about how the U.S. might respond if Taiwan was to be attacked by China What Taiwan can realistically expect in terms of military assistance from the U.S. How Taiwan needs to be better prepared in case China attacks What Taiwan can learn from what's happening in Ukraine What Kuan-Ting learned about how Ukrainians are reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine when he interviewed a Ukrainian minority   Related Links: To view all related links for this article, click link below: https://talkingtaiwan.com/will-china-attack-taiwan-kuan-ting-chen-discusses-ramifications-of-the-war-in-ukraine-on-taiwan-ep-175/

Director and filmmaker Eric Rettstadt joins us on Taiwan Talk this week to discuss his new short movie "Tank Fairy" which stars Taiwan drag queen Marian Mesula. The film has enjoyed screenings at a number of prestigious film festival across the US. It tells the story of a fabulous gas delivery agent that meets a schoolboy in Taipei City and turns his world upside down.

Episode 59 - Treating Mold Illness with Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture with Chris VoleskyChris Volesky is a licensed Acupuncturist and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner. He received his Masters of Oriental Medicine from Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, MN. He has extensive experience treating people suffering from brain and spinal cord injuries and served as one of the few practitioners to work in-patient, specializing in post-surgical pain management. Throughout his career, he has studied with Dr. Wei-Yen Chang, a master diagnostician from Taipei City, Taiwan; Dr. Teh-Fu Tan, an internationally recognized acupuncturist; and, more recently, Dr. Jin Zhao, one of the most famous herbalists in Chengdu, China. He has created treatment programs designed to help those suffering from fibromyalgia, mold illness, and autoimmune diseases. In this episode, we explore interesting concepts such as cold and damp, its relation to mold illness, and the methods used by Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat mold illness. Transcript:https://bit.ly/3MKBy2iResources mentioned in this episode: https://bit.ly/3KGUNYMFind us on Linktree, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,  TikTok and YoutubeNeed help navigating your mold injury without breaking the bank? Join our low cost education group: patreon.com/exposingmoldSponsors: Michael Rubino, The Mold Medic and  All American Restoration,  the first and only mold remediation company in the country specializing in remediating mold for people with underlying health conditions or mold sensitivities. They've quickly become the most recommended remediation company  from doctors and mold inspectors nationwide. Pick up your copy of Michael Rubino's book, “The Mold Medic: An Expert's Guide on Mold Remediation, " here: https://amzn.to/3t7wtaUAt MyGoToDoc.com, you can obtain help from Dr. Syed Haider, who has treated over 40,000 COVID and COVID Long Haul patients with ZERO deaths. Once you sign up to become a patient at MyGoToDoc.com, you can send free messages to Dr. Haider's care team forever and obtain prescription medications from the most affordable pharmacies in the country that ship right to your door. Sign up for MyGoToDoc.com, your go-to resource for COVID-19. Exposing Mold is officially a non-profit! To support our efforts donate here: Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/exposingmold)

A quick look at the Taiwanese winter solstice celebration or family reunions and, most prominently, tangyuan!!! Send us an email at deartaiwanpodcast@gmail.com! Two shops mentioned in the episode: 御品元冰火湯圓 in Taipei City's Tonghua Linjiang Night Market, and 古早味新街龍湯圓 nearby Zhongli District's Renhai Temple in Taoyuan City.

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Hello to you listening in Taipei City, Taiwan, China!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday.I've come to the end of my annual ritual, re-tracing my steps along 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago.When pilgrims arrive in Santiago many attend the Pilgrim Mass. It's tradition. The Cathedral of Saint James (Santiago) seats 1,000. At Mass all seats are filled with many more pilgrims standing in the aisles, perched on the steps.The homily given that morning challenged us to: “Bring Camino home. Camino is not just The Way here in Spain. You must walk Camino at home. How? Give thanks. Give help.”As my life gets farther and farther away from actually walking the pilgrimage road I find I am closer to the purpose of the walk: Give thanks. Give help.My daily 60 Seconds episodes are a gift of thanks, imagination, inspiration, courage, and more from me to you in the hope that they give help wherever you might need it.Question: How do you give thanks, give help?  60 Seconds is your daily dose of hope, imagination, wisdom, stories, practical tips, and general riffing on this and that. This is the place to thrive together. Come for the stories - stay for the magic. Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, follow, share a nice shout out on your social media or podcast channel of choice, including Android, and join us next time! You're invited to stop by the website and subscribe to stay current with Diane, her journeys, her guests, as well as creativity, imagination, walking, stories, camaraderie, and so much more: Quarter Moon Story ArtsStories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 - Present: for credit & attribution Quarter Moon Story Arts 

It is already fall, and the summer is over, but that doesn't mean you can't still pretend! The Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf Station in northern Taiwan, is decorated like it's still summer! 雖然現在是秋天，淡水漁人碼頭車站仍然被裝飾得像夏天。 The entire place is decorated so visitors feel like they're at the beach! There are fun things to look at and take pictures with. There are ice cream shops, shower rooms, and swimming equipment stores! All of these things are fake, of course. 整個車站都讓人覺得像在海邊，有冰淇淋店，泳衣店跟淋浴間。當然, 這些東西都是假的。 But do you know what is real there? Popsicles! 冰棒！ You can get popsicles at the station. There are four flavors, so you can try them all to see which one is your favorite. 有四種口味，看看你最喜歡哪一個。 The station is on the Danhai light rail transit line. So if you live in New Taipei or Taipei City, you can easily ride that line all the way to the station to see all these fun things. 這個車站就在淡海輕軌旁，要是你住在大台北地區，可以很容易地來這裡玩。 Don't worry if you can't visit the station right away. These decorations will be there all through December. 這些裝飾會維持到年底。So you can pretend that it is still summer for the rest of this year! ________________________________ Vocabulary 如果你想念夏天，可以去淡水輕軌漁人碼頭車站逛逛。 1. Summer 夏季。 Do you miss summer, Ryan? 你想念夏天嗎，萊恩？ Not really. Summer in Taipei is too hot. 不會，台北的夏天太熱了。 2. Fake 假的。 This fake puppy is amazing! 這隻假小狗太驚人了！ I know, and it's ice cream. 我知道，而它卻是冰淇淋。 How can anybody really eat it? 怎麼會有人真的吃它？ Well, it's fake so I'm going to eat it. 它是假的，所以我要吃了。 3. Run out 快用完。 I'm running out of money. 我的錢快花光了。 Don't look at me. I don't have enough for two. 別看我。我的錢也不夠兩個人。 4. Station 車站。 Please meet me at Tainan Station tomorrow. 請你明天跟我在台南車站見面吧。 Where at the station? 在車站哪裡？ Inside. 在裡面。 Please read the words with me. summer 夏天 fake 假的 run out 快用完 station 車站 ________________________________ Quiz 1. What station is mentioned in this story? a. Beitou Station b. Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf Station c. Zhongxiao-Fuxing Station 2. What does the station look like right now? a. Like you're at the beach b. Like you're in the mountains c. It looks the same as always 3. How many popsicle flavors are there? a. Four b. One c. Ten Answers 1. B 2. A 3. A

Guess what? New Taipei City is getting a new YouBike system. It's already in Taipei City, but the new YouBike system will be ready in New Taipei City at the end of this month! 新北市新的微笑單車，月底就可以用了。 It is called YouBike 2.0, and there will be new bikes and new stations. The colors are a little different too. 顏色有一點不一樣。 The original was orange and yellow. The new version is white and yellow. There will be seven hundred places in New Taipei City where people can borrow these bicycles… 有七百個地方可以租腳踏車。 These rental stations will be in places where it is convenient for a lot of people. 會放在方便的地方。 For example, near MRT stations! Another place you can rent them is at New Taipei City Hall in Banqiao. And in the future, the government plans to add even more stations for YouBikes… as many as one-thousand-five-hundred! 還會增加一千五百個租腳踏車的地方。 This is great! I really like riding bikes, and I'm excited to try the new bikes. I think they're very convenient to use to get around the city. They are also better for the environment than driving cars, and it helps you get very good exercise! 我覺得腳踏車很方便，也比開車環保，而且你還可以運動！ Will you be using the YouBike 2.0 bicycles? ________________________________ Vocabulary 大台北地區，要騎YouBike越來越方便。 1. System 系統。 We have a new YouBike system. 微笑單車現在有新的系統。 So I don't need to bring my EasyCard? 所以我不需要帶悠遊卡？ That's right. You only need your cell phone. 對的。只需要手機。 2. Ride a bike 騎腳踏車。 I feel bored. 我覺得好無聊。 Let's go and ride bikes at the riverside park. 去河濱公園騎車吧。 Great idea! 好主意！ 3. Excited 興奮的。 I'm so excited about tomorrow's School Day! 我好興奮明天的學校日！ Me too. I'm excited to see my old friends. 我也是。我很興奮會跟我的老朋友碰面。 Are they coming? 他們會來嗎？ Yes they are! 會來。 4. In the future 未來。 There will be more bike trails in the future. 未來會有更多自行車道。 I can't wait. 我簡直等不及了。 Do you ride a bike every day? system 系統 ride a bike 騎腳踏車 excited 興奮的 in the future 未來 ________________________________ Quiz 1. What kind of transportation is this story about? a. Cars b. Trains c. Bicycles 2. What are the new bicycles called? a. YouBike 2.0 b. YouTube 2.0 c. Moovo 3. What city is mentioned in this story? a. Taipei City b. New Taipei City c. Taichung City Answers 1. C 2. A 3. B

Kali ini, Dohets mengajak kita ke 8 destinasi di Kota Taipei. Dari museum sampai hiking, Taipei City menyediakan berbagai experience yang bisa dijelajahi dalam maktu singkat. Enjoy the trip!

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The early morning sounds of Lungshan Temple, Taipei City, at 6.00am, recorded by James A. Holland.  Part of the 5,000 Miles project in partnership with Ithaca Studio, an immersive 360-degree audio experience that transports you to another place through the evocative sounds of places 5,000 miles from the UK through spatial audio technology and ambisonic 3D recording.  The project was an immersive live experience touring festivals in 2021, and is presented online via Cities and Memory at www.citiesandmemory.com/5000-miles.

My good friend and travelblogger/podcaster Bruno Black gives us an update on the current pandemic situation specifically affecting Taipei City. Bruno is a long-time resident of Taiwan and currently lives in one of the main centers of Taipei, Main Station, which is very close to the latest epicenter of the pandemic. Bruno also gives some context to what you've been seeing on the news from Taipei specifically the historical significance of Wanhua District.Taiwanese in my experience are very adept at handling emergency situations or as Bruno puts it, are always ready for "surprises". You can listen to Bruno's podcast here:https://open.spotify.com/show/0wsi0TqXSCvAePBioJB5Pk?si=KNeKKcziQ7i9eqxVjqYL2wFollow Bruno here:https://m.facebook.com/brunoblackofficialSupport the Far East Travels Podcast with a monthly pledge or donation:https://www.patreon.com/FarEastTravelsDonations:https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/my/profile

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Stephen Gordon's bio "I fell in love with all the sounds I heard as a child, so I pursued them" says Drummer/Pianist/Composer STEPHEN GORDON of Charlotte, N.C. - "Rather it was Gospel music at church, Funk and Motown with my Dad, Rock and Metal with my friends, Swing or European Classical literature with my peers and colleagues - I did it all." From the age of 4 years old, it became apparent that young Stephen would emerge into the world bringing forth sound, art, visual perspectives and living melodies to all that he pursued. Through the piano, taking lessons from the age of 5 with many teachers of different perspectives at the guidance of his parents and family, Stephen began playing the trumpet at age 12, which ventured into all brass, woodwinds, and eventually the drums and percussion. "They wanted to expand the Mass Choir at church, so my Dad and I became the rhythm section - That will always be my favorite rhythm section: Me and my Dad." From traditional and contemporary Gospel music, Stephen began sitting in and eventually gigging around Charlotte as a drummer and a keyboardist. "It was the Swing that I heard that I wanted to pursue. When I saw Terence Blanchard Sextet live at 15 years old, I said - Yeah, that's what I want to do; Swing." This path would lead Stephen to graduate high school from Northwest School of The Arts in Charlotte, N.C. and pursue touring and traveling internationally/nationally. "I got so many opportunities to travel with the choir, that when it came to gigging and touring with bands and my friends, I didn't see a difference; I was still going after that sound." These opportunities would lead to Stephen traveling and living in many different places and playing with some of the musicians and educators pushing the forefront of this music - pianist Ellis Marsalis, Jr., drummer Mike Clark, organist Joey DeFrancesco, trombonist Wayne Henderson, trombonist Fred Wesley, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, Jr., percussionist Bill Summers, drummer/vibraphonist Jason Marsalis, alto saxophonist Wessell Anderson, vocalist Kurt Elling, pianist Aaron Goldberg, trumpeter Bobby Shew, trombonist Steve Turre, trumpeter Raymond Williams, Sr., bassist Roland Guerin, Poet Abidune Olyewole (The Last Poets), trombonist Tyrone Jefferson - to name a few. Stephen has performed in venues such as Tchaichovsky Hall in Moscow, Russia, The National Concert Hall in Taipei City, Taiwan, Opéra Bastille in Paris, France, The Kursk Philharmonia in Kursk, Russia, Lincoln Center in New York, New York, Ronnie Scott's in London, England, C Venues in Edinburgh, Scotland, The Village Vanguard, The Blue Note and The Jazz Standard in New York, New York, Blues Alley in DC, Babylon in Istanbul, Turkey, The North Sea Jazz Festival in Amsterdam, and many other great venues across the world. Beside playing and touring, recording and teaching have been prospects for Stephen to share in his talents and learn and grow as a musician and as a person. As Stephen resides in Charlotte, N.C., you may catch him all over the world on any given day, swinging and grooving. For all info, check out www.stephengordonmusic.com, as well as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram! STEPHEN GORDON uses exclusively -MURAT DIRIL cymbals, EVANS drumheads, VIC FIRTH sticks/brushes, TACKLE SUPPLY CO. bags and ROC-N-SOC drum thrones.

In this week’s edition of the BryghtCast Weekly Podcast, Bray Wheeler, Consultant, and Bryan Strawser, Principal and Chief Executive discuss three recent events and their potential impact on private sector organizations. Topics Discussed Axios:  The China challenge stumps the 2020 candidates Axios: BlackRock's new climate strategy NPR: In the Philippines, Volcano is quieter, but officials renew warnings for people to leave //static.leadpages.net/leadboxes/current/embed.js Episode Transcript Bray Wheeler: Hi and welcome to BryghtCast Weekly or the week of January 13th, 2020. This is our first one for 2020. Bryan Strawser: It's our first one for a little bit. Bray Wheeler: It has, we've taken a little break during the holidays and such as well as just kind of- Bryan Strawser: There really wasn't a whole lot of significant stuff that was going on. Bray Wheeler: Yeah, there's only probably so much you people want to hear about either impeachment or sports or all sorts of different things. You had put out an episode on Iran as well. Bryan Strawser: So we did an episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast yesterday, where I talked a little about Iran and some of the things happen there and what companies should consider and do. Bray Wheeler: Yeah, so this is Bray Wheeler. I'm a consultant here at Bryghtpath. Bryan Strawser: And this is Bryan Strawser, principal and chief executive here at Bryghtpath. Bray Wheeler: We like to do, our intro is a little delayed here on BryghtCast. So this week we're going to try, and keep it just a little bit short and sweet and focus on a couple of different things. One kind the major kind of global conversation or global moment that's happened here in the last few days is the volcano eruption in the Philippines. That started occurring on Sunday. The volcano erupted Sunday sending ash about nine miles into the sky. Prompted warnings from Philippine officials in terms of hey, this could be a lot worse. This could really be a catastrophic explosion. So far that hasn't necessarily been the case. It's certainly kind of continued to rumble and spew ash and lava. Bray Wheeler: However, kind of the major impact from this so far has been kind of an ash cloud that was initially sent, that initial one that disrupted flights and operations within Manila. So this volcano is located about 37 miles south of Manila, the Philippines Capitol. And so this ash cloud on Sunday really started to kind of disrupt air operations and that's usually the kind of real critical thing with a lot of the volcanic eruptions. There's not a whole lot of major technology bases or industry things kind of at the foothills of a volcano for probably obvious reasons. But certainly is having an impact on the folks that do live near there. There are thousands of people who have been evacuated around the volcano, but that disruption to Manila and major cities kind of around that area is certainly the big thing for travelers. Bray Wheeler: So flights were disrupted Sunday. That continued into really today when operations kind of resumed normally. So for right now for companies, it sounds like Manila is ... The airport is open, Manila is available, it is not under lava, it is not at risk for some kind of awful- Bryan Strawser: This is not Pompeii. Bray Wheeler: Yeah, awful, awful, awful kind of situation. However, there is a major backlog from those flights being delayed here in the last couple of days. There's a lot of people that are just trying to leave the area in addition to that. So there is a lot of travel disruption at the airport in general, but for businesses in Manila, it is important to make sure that you're accounting for your folks you're looking at your business continuity plans. You're monitoring, kind of the air quality, the travel ability within the area. Just kind of really your basics for monitoring those different things. Bryan Strawser: Yeah. I think yesterday when we had a couple of clients that were impacted by this, I think it was kind of a known how long of a problem this was going to be. Of course, the Philippines government doesn't do the best job of kind of communicating what's happening with these things either. But yeah, I think Bray's got it right. I would monitor carefully what's going on. Travel disruption is probably the biggest risk and that would become reality before there was any real disruption in ... I started to say Hong Kong. Many real disruptions in Manila in terms of regular business operations. It's air quality and transportation, particularly air travel issues I think are the biggest issues to keep an eye on, for right now. Bray Wheeler: Yep. So moving on. The next topic we have for this week is BlackRock. The kind of major investments group made an announcement this week that they're going to be holding companies to higher environmental standards. And really the implications here are, this is kind of a conversation long time kind coming and BlackRock has kind of made similar statements in similar positions on some different issues. But really, they've issued an overt threat as we get into the kind of proxy season and board meeting season and shareholder meeting season. Bray Wheeler: They're threatening to vote against management boards that aren't disclosing kind of climate change risks in the fashion that they would like to see them or having those plans kind of associated with those be in line to key industry standards. So standards like CAFE standards, which are really around car emissions or the gold standard for carbon or the IS 14,000 kind of family of standards around kind of climate environmental policies. Those are kind of some of the kind of the major ones that are out there. But really for companies, BlackRock is a huge, huge player in the game. As probably most companies know, but to have a position on climate change risks, climate change plans, that narrative is becoming a bigger and bigger topic just in general. Bray Wheeler: And when some of these bigger players like BlackRock or if Vanguard steps into it or some of these others, companies are going to have to do something about them and start implementing some of those things and having those conversations if they aren't already taking place. And if they are already taking place, making sure that they are aligned to something substantial because these players will not back off of that. And they control big votes. Bryan Strawser: Yeah, I mean I've been down this road, I mean in the previous employer, dealing with activists, investors at various levels of aggression and influence. And then we've had consulting clients that have been the subject of activist investor campaigns including large private equity firms of which BlackRock is pretty much, I think the largest PE firm and portfolio management company that's out there. It's tough to ... I don't want to overemphasize the importance of this play that BlackRock is making. It's going to make some publicly traded companies very uncomfortable to have to address some of these issues. At the same time in less BlackRock is willing to go in and attempt a proxy fight for majority control over this issue. It's not going to have a huge amount of influence on companies that choose to resist them. Bray Wheeler: No, I think though the one-piece with a BlackRock versus kind of more the kind of activist hedge fund managers is oftentimes groups like BlackRock or Vanguard or things like that are seen as active investors. This means they're actively having a dialogue with those corporations and they're actively engaged. There's more of a kind of a partnership kind of approach there. And so I think to your point, BlackRock isn't going to probably issue too many proxy fights against it, but their influence and their vote in the general conversation and with other investors to say, "You know what, you didn't do enough there. And we're choosing to make company X an example here, And we're going to vote against management proposals on whatever or we're going to vote against these board members because they're members of the committee that's charged with overseeing some of these things." That could have an impact in terms of the dialogue and the ability for companies to kind of adjust. Bray Wheeler: And I don't think that they're looking for every company to kind of save the world, but I think they are looking for companies to start being a little bit more frontal. And a little bit more strategic in kind of ... Trying to think of the right word. A little bit more overt in terms of how they're playing within kind of this sphere and what influence they do have kind of on the overall kind of issue itself. Bryan Strawser: I would agree with that. Bray Wheeler: So with that kind of our last topic, and it should be a relatively quick one because of course, they'll probably be more to play out here, but because it has to do with China. Which has been one of our favorite frequent topics here over the last few months? But ironically doesn't have a whole lot to do with Hong Kong, fortunately, but does have to do with Taiwan. Another kind of satellite geographic location within a kind of China's sphere of influence or in this case not influence. Bray Wheeler: So China has always viewed Taiwan as part of China. Taiwan has always in the rest of the world, has always viewed Taiwan as generally independent of China for the most part. There's probably a few kinds of geopolitical exceptions with different countries, but everybody's seen Taiwan as a separate independent country. China very much wants to bring it back to China. They recently had an election over the weekend. It was- Bryan Strawser: It didn't go the way that China thought it was going to. Bray Wheeler: It did not. And actually it surprised quite a few people in terms of how decisive it was against China. So the pro kind of independent President Tsai, and I apologize if I get this wrong. Tsai Ing-wen won decisively. It wasn't too close. Of course, China then responded with their typical bluster of there were hands in the pot, it was rigged. The United States may have had some influence. We don't believe it kind of conversation and narrative that China typically puts out, but in the face of what they're dealing with, Hong Kong and the decisiveness of this Taiwan election. China's kind of in a weird kind of awkward spot for the moment of trying to figure out is this policy and this plan that Xi Jinping has put forth, is that actually bearing fruit? Bray Wheeler: And this was kind of a direct challenge back to the Chinese premier of yeah, we're not falling in line. Your influence has clearly waned, at least in this election of what's going on. So on the heels of continued unrest in Hong Kong, which China has much more control over that situation along with Taiwan. China is kind of in a weird spot right now. Just in kind of in their home area. Bryan Strawser: Yeah, there's a pretty good article coming out of the election in Axios yesterday. I think Axios, China is their smaller magazine, smaller online product that looks at just trying to ... That said that they think that China has been overestimating and over-communicating their influence and wealth and economic growth and military capacity for some time. And then you start to look at ... They were kind of building this off of a couple of different things, but one of the biggest was the Taiwan elections, just not going the way that China was expecting that to go. And really being rebuffed at the polls. And I don't know, I mean maybe I have an American point of view on this, but I've been to Taiwan a couple of times and you walk and talk to folks who live there and folks in Taipei City, I haven't been outside of Taipei. But around Taipei City and none of them want to be part of China. Bray Wheeler: No. Bryan Strawser: They might be interested in a peaceful reconciliation that allows for some easier border movement and some things. But I don't get the sense that the average Taiwanese man or woman wants to live in China. Bray Wheeler: No. Bryan Strawser: Their version of China, Taiwan. Bray Wheeler: Right. Bryan Strawser: Not the communist China version of China. Bray Wheeler: Correct. Yeah. I think that's kind of a good read because not only in addition to these elections, there's also the kind of the international and domestic challenges of their kind of their relations with the Muslim minorities within China. And the fallout from some of their policies and things that they've been doing. Reeducation or whatever you want to call it. With some of the children and things like that within these Muslim minority populations and in Western China. Really kind of China's influence over the last few months. It's kind of just taken some weird kind of hits. And I think that Axios article is probably pretty, pretty interestingly kind of accurate in terms of what China is projecting is not necessarily what is reality or what even people have ... Because I think a lot of people kind of internationally probably have some skepticism around China's bluster, but they don't overtly kind of challenge a lot of it because there's a lot of interdependency of where China is interconnected. Whether it's economically or politically or things like that. Bray Wheeler: But to kind of see some of these things start to play out in their kind of their rebuffs just in general within the international community. The trade war, things like that, that they've kind of just taken some weird kind of hits over the last ... Nothing that's going to destabilize or kind of throw them off orbit. But definitely their influence and their kind of reputation or their brand perception to put it in kind of business terms is definitely not what it was six months ago or a year ago. Bryan Strawser: Yeah. I mean I think you're dead on. And we both looked at the article. I thought it was a pretty good summation that China's perhaps not at the peak of their game in some areas that are commonly thought that they were. That article covered the economy and military and might and projection. I think it was really focused on China's Naval fleet and some of the challenges China's had with operating a fleet at the capacity and expertise that the United States and the United Kingdom have. But also just where their foreign policy has perhaps not been as astute in dealing with President Trump and dealing with Taiwan and others in there. And I don't think this takes away anything from China's rise to be a pure competitor of the United States in the long haul, but certainly indicates that perhaps not all as well inside the bubble as the Chinese government might portray itself to be. Bray Wheeler: No, especially post kind of president Xi Jinping election and kind of the expectations that were to come from really kind of that like the lifetime election of him in this role, it's not really what you want to see right out of the gate. Kind of after an election like that to have kind of these types of hits. China probably wanted to see some of this stuff go a little bit more their way to kind of justify what was going on, and especially after everything that he's done internally. Bryan Strawser: Right. That's it for this edition of BryghtCast. We'll be back next week or thereafter with another new episode. Be well.  

This week the global BGP IPv4 table is around 800,000 entries in size. I bring this up just to give you a head-up and say a “Wow”. I don’t want to make you worry about the number. This is not my intention.I still remember the “old good time” when I had installed a BGP router (Cisco 3660) with 256 Megabytes of DRAM memory in year 2001. At that time, the BGP table is below 150,000 entries so that router worked well.Screen capture of CIDR REPORT website on November 3, 2019The size of router DRAM memory is not a problem today for most of BGP administrators. I had created a post about BGP memory consumption and had this rough estimate: every 100K BGP entries from a single peer requires 80 Megabytes of DRAM.In other words, to store 800,000 entries today, we simply need around 800 Megabytes (that is 0.8 Gigabytes) DRAM for BGP protocol. This is simply a piece of cake for today’s router hardware.Even an old Cisco ASR 1000 RP1 router with 4 Gigabytes DRAM supports “up to 1,000,000 IPv4 routes”. No worry on 800K BGP entries.Taipei City view over Taipei Main Station (台北車站).August 21, 2019One more thing…I just want to remind you when you are planning for BGP Route Reflectors. The memory size could be an issue because you must multiply the above estimates to the number of BGP protocol peers.Again, with Cisco ASR 1000 RP1 router with 4 Gigabytes DRAM, BGP Route Reflector scalability is “up to 5,000,000 IPv4 routes”. If you are planning a route reflector using this model to have more than 5 BGP peers, you must examine the table size more carefully.And by the way, IPv6 global BGP table size is around 80K this week. IPv6 table size is still not that huge compared to IPv4 today.I am Li-Ji Hong. This is my blog “Show IP Protocols”. See you next time!

It is always a best practice to keep full track of all IP address assignments inside our local area network. From time to time, it might also be a good idea for security purposes to check whether we have any hidden nodes inside our network.To discover any node with active IP addresses inside our network, we might imagine that we must acquire powerful tools such as Cisco Prime Infrastructure before we can achieve anything. In fact, it might be much easier than you have expected. Let me show you how.All you must have is a Windows 10 PC. I think that should be easy.Step 1: Start a PowerShell window with normal user privilegeType “Windows Logo Key ❖ + R”, in the popup dialog, type “powershell”, and press Enter key to start a new PowerShell window.Step 2: Type in or copy/paste this one-liner, and press Enter key to runHere is a PowerShell one-liner I tested on my computer.$ipv4prefix=$(ipconfig | where {$_ -match 'IPv4.+s(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.)' } | out-null; $Matches[1]); 0..255 | %{"$ipv4prefix$_"}| % {"$($_): $(Test-Connection -count 1 -quiet -ComputerName $($_))"}Just in case the variable “$ipv4prefix” is not parsed correctly, or you simply want to scan other networks in different IPv4 prefix, you can manually assign that string. For example, your IP address range is in “192.168.1.X”, you can assign “$ipv4prefix” variable with “192.168.1.”. Please be careful, we need a dot at the end of string. The modified one-liner now becomes like this:$ipv4prefix="192.168.1."; 0..255 | %{"$ipv4prefix$_"}| % {"$($_): $(Test-Connection -count 1 -quiet -ComputerName $($_))"} Step 3: Wait for about 5 minutes to finish the scanning and capture your PowerShell window screen.The output should be something like this screen:192.168.1.0: False192.168.1.1: True192.168.1.2: False192.168.1.3: False192.168.1.4: False192.168.1.5: True…Those lines with “True” result are active IP addresses inside your network. The rest of IP addresses are not responding at all.If you want to print out only active ones, you can attach filters at the end of previous one-liners with “| Select-String True”. For example:$ipv4prefix=$(ipconfig | where {$_ -match 'IPv4.+s(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.)' } | out-null; $Matches[1]); 0..255 | %{"$ipv4prefix$_"}| % {"$($_): $(Test-Connection -count 1 -quiet -ComputerName $($_))"} | Select-String TrueThe output should be like this:192.168.1.1: True192.168.1.5: True…Playground inside Central Culture Park (中央藝文公園、華山大草原)Taipei City, TaiwanOne more thing…In this post I just showed you how easily you can explore your network with simply your Windows 10 PC. You can now imagine that with a Linux desktop we can do even more powerful discovery than this. Here is a one-liner for BASH together with standard tool “awk”:ipv4prefix="192.168.1."; for i in `seq 1 255`; do ping -c 1 ${ipv4prefix}$i | tr n ' ' | awk '/1 received/ {print $2}'; doneNow you have no excuses to say, I cannot do any network exploration until I have Cisco Prime Infrastructure. You can start network discovery right now after reading my post here.And now you know how easily malicious hackers can find your public IP addresses, and create trouble for you if your public-facing network devices are vulnerable, just like this incident.Show IP Protocols: Bank lost 1 million US Dollars because of outdated routersI am Li-Ji Hong. This is my blog “Show IP Protocols”. See you next time!

Graine de Business reçoit cette semaine Philippe Tzou pour un dossier spécial sur l'événement qu'il organise : The Hacking House. The Hacking House est un projet qui part à l'origine de deux idées : Le suivi d'une startup ou d'un groupe d'étudiants pour lancer un projet de zéro à un La demande forte et l'expertise d'Unabiz dans le monde des objets connectés. Les inscpritions à ce projet d'accelérateur sont encore ouvertes jusqu'au Samedi 28 Septembre 2019. Vous retrouverez toutes les informations sur : The Hacking House Pour rappel, les dates importantes : 28 Septembre : clôture des inscriptions 16 Octobre : Annonce des 4 projets retenus pour bénéficier du programme 4 Janvier : "Démo Day", jour de présentation du prototype et du concept par les 4 équipes Lieu : Cospace 2F., No.12, Zhouzi St., Neihu Dist., Taipei City 114, Taiwan

Cisco recently announced major changes of certification programs and they all will take place on February 24, 2020. In this post, I am giving you my quick summary on CCNA alone.CCNA Exam Changes (200-301)The official new exam name for CCNA 2020 is “Cisco Certified Network Associate v2.0 (CCNA 200-301)”. I know it is quite confusing since CCNA exams has already been changed for a couple of times in recent years. I will call this 2020 CCNA by its exam code “200-301” instead.Compared to current single 200-125 exam, more topics and questions would be tested in the new 200-301, such as Wireless LAN, Automation and Programming. The exam time is also increased. For short, the new CCNA exam would be more challenging to prepare over the current exams.The good news is, we still have around 8 months to take current single 200-125 exam, before February 24, 2020 from today.If you are in the middle of CCNA preparation, I recommend keep going, which is also what Cisco recommends. Eight months should be enough for you, no matter you plan to dedicate days to take a classroom training, online training, or use self-studying kits, as tools for exam preparations.Let’s move on to impacts.Impacts to CCENT holdersIf you plan to achieve CCNA by passing 2 exams in 2 stages, the 2020 changes could impact you the most. This is because CCENT certification itself is also gone after February 24, 2020! Your CCENT passing status could not be re-certified after February 24.To acquire your CCNA, you must pass both ICND1 (100-105) and ICND2 (200-105) in 8 months from today. Otherwise, you can only restart your whole CCNA certification process after February 24.Impacts to specialized CCNA, e.g. CCNA WirelessSpecialized CCNA certifications, such as CCNA Wireless, would all be gone after February 24! They all will become the single certification: CCNA. No more individual specialized CCNA anymore. Here is the list of “specialized CCNA” I know would be gone:CCNA CloudCCNA CollaborationCCNA Cyber OpsCCNA Data CenterCCDACCNA IndustrialCCNA Routing and SwitchingCCNA SecurityCCNA Service ProviderCCNA WirelessWait a minute, what about my passing status of these above certifications?In fact, Cisco will send you a new CCNA certificate if you are still a valid specialized CCNA holder on February 24. Since you have paid extra efforts for specialized CCNA, Cisco would recognize and count them in credits. These credits would be counted for your future CCNA recertification. I will talk more on CCNA recertification soon in next topic.For short, if you already are specialized CCNA certificate holder, you still preserve your extra efforts over plain CCNA. If you are in the middle of taking specialized CCNA exam, unless your exam costs are sponsored or requested to do it anyway, then I recommend wait until February 24.I want to clarify that Cisco do also announce new Cisco Certified Specialist (or CCS for short) certifications. However, do not confuse them with specialized CCNA. Your specialized CCNA exam passing status would not help you to acquire the new CCS certifications. Although the tested topics might be overlapping with your specialized CCNA, you still must take new CCS exams after February 24 to acquire your new CCS certification.Impacts on CCNA RecertificationAfter February 24, you have more paths to recertify your CCNA. Originally, you can only re-take the same CCNA exam every 3 years to recertify. After February 24, you have more options. You can take any training classes that Cisco recognizes with credits. If you have acquired more than 30 credits every 3 years, you recertify your CCNA without taking any exams.Although up to this moment, I don’t find any “credit” assignment rules to training classes yet. I believe Cisco would announce them soon.In my opinion, this is a more flexible approach because many people have completed many major training classes, and they just don’t have the time to pass the exams.Shimen Red House (西門紅樓)Taipei City, TaiwanOne more thing…I like the new changes to CCNA certification. Although it would be more difficult to prepare for new exams, adding topics such as Automation and Programming is great because this is the trend for TCP/IP networking. I will talk more on automation and programming soon in future posts.In addition to CCNA, Cisco also announced major changes to CCNP and CCIE, and they all take place on February 24, 2020. If you want to know more on CCNP and CCIE certification changes, please let me know by leaving your questions below.This is my blog “Show IP Protocols”. I am Li-Ji Hong! Stay tuned!Links on Cisco.com:Cisco Certified Network Associate (200-301)New CCNA exam goes live on February 24, 2020

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Produced by Pikkal & Co - Award-Winning Podcast Agency. Kai-Yin Lin, founder of Takupa, joins Graham Brown in the ATP studio to tell us about his Shared Parking App which their company has worked on and pilot launched for the Taipei city. Takupa is working in the space of mobility and logistics for heralding in solutions for smart city. They look to ease the problem of scarcity of parking spaces in Taipei city with their app. Currently raising their seed round to further develop their platform and reach, Kai-Yin Lin is constantly on the move.

Kai-Yin Lin, founder of Takupa, joins Graham Brown in the ATP studio to tell us about his Shared Parking App which their company has worked on and pilot launched for the Taipei city. Takupa is working in the space of mobility and logistics for heralding in solutions for smart city. They look to ease the problem of scarcity of parking spaces in Taipei city with their app. Currently raising their seed round to further develop their platform and reach, Kai-Yin Lin is constantly on the move. Listen to the entire episode to know the entire founder story, his reasons for starting Takupa, their motivations and work behind the app and the road map ahead. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel and hit the like button to support us. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud

On November 2014, Dr. Wen-Je Ko, an independent and a political novice, was elected as the mayor of Taipei City, Taiwan. As a surgeon who had served as the head of the Intensive Care Unit at National Taiwan University Hospital for 17 years, Mayor Ko brings a much different set of skills and new thinking to his task than other politicians. Mayor Ko says he aims to overcome the ideological obstacles of being associated with a political party and directly appeals to the needs of the people. What does that mean for how Taiwan addresses its domestic and international challenges? Join us as Mayor Ko shares his experiences in politics, including his governing concepts and values as well as his opinions on Taiwan’s domestic and international situations and its future development. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Discover more tech podcasts like this: Tech Podcast Asia. Produced by Pikkal & Co - Award Winning Podcast Agency. Kai-Yin Lin, founder of Takupa, joins Graham Brown in the ATP studio to tell us about his Shared Parking App which their company has worked on and pilot launched for the Taipei city. Takupa is working in the space of mobility and logistics for heralding in solutions for smart city. They look to ease the problem of scarcity of parking spaces in Taipei city with their app. Currently raising their seed round to further develop their platform and reach, Kai-Yin Lin is constantly on the move. Listen to the entire episode to know the entire founder story, his reasons for starting Takupa, their motivations and work behind the app and the road map ahead.

Kai-Yin Lin, founder of Takupa, joins Graham Brown in the ATP studio to tell us about his Shared Parking App which their company has worked on and pilot launched for the Taipei city. Takupa is working in the space of mobility and logistics for heralding in solutions for smart city. They look to ease the problem of scarcity of parking spaces in Taipei city with their app. Currently raising their seed round to further develop their platform and reach, Kai-Yin Lin is constantly on the move. Listen to the entire episode to know the entire founder story, his reasons for starting Takupa, their motivations and work behind the app and the road map ahead. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel and hit the like button to support us. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud

Kai-Yin Lin, founder of Takupa, joins Graham Brown in the ATP studio to tell us about his Shared Parking App which their company has worked on and pilot launched for the Taipei city. Takupa is working in the space of mobility and logistics for heralding in solutions for smart city. They look to ease the problem of scarcity of parking spaces in Taipei city with their app. Currently raising their seed round to further develop their platform and reach, Kai-Yin Lin is constantly on the move. Listen to the entire episode to know the entire founder story, his reasons for starting Takupa, their motivations and work behind the app and the road map ahead. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel and hit the like button to support us. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud

Another update on day 8 of living in Ho Chi Minh City. The last few days have been good as I adjust to the climate which I'm told will be scorching hot before the rains start in June. With the heat also comes an adjustment of diet, mostly eating lighter, and of course remembering to stay hydrated-absolutely essential. I miss the water fountains and stations that Taipei City provides it's population. There are plenty of convenience stores in Ho Chi Minh City where one can stop, get rehydrated and some even have small sitting areas. This is definitely a city that's buzzing with growth and opportunity. Thanks very much for listening to the podcasts. Please send your travel questions to john@fareasttravels.com. You can also connect with me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/johnsaboesfareasttravels/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/FarEastAdventureTravel/Help others discover the podcast by writing a review in the iTunes Store:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/john-saboes-far-east-travels/id1079513943?mt=2Support the podcast and unlock exclusive content by becoming a patron! Visit my Patreon page to get started:https://www.patreon.com/FarEastTravels

Wei Wang is a DJ from Taipei City, Taiwan. We spoke about rave/party culture in Taipei, the connection between art subcultures and politics in Taiwan, and much more. Check out Wei Wang: https://www.facebook.com/weiwangyo/ https://soundfarmers.bandcamp.com/releases Songs in this Episode: Song 1: Aristophanes - Humans Become Machines Song 2: I Mean Us - Soulmate Spoken Word: I Had A Dream Last Night Comp - SWIM Song 3: 88 Balaz - Jimi and Mary Support the TVTV Podcast: www.patreon.com/thevoyagesoftimvetter

I saw a post about Cisco has announced 400G Ethernet switch products.400G Ethernet means the bit rate can be up to 400 Gbps. Here are some of my observation notes on 400G Ethernet products. Cisco announced four models of Nexus 400G switchesScreen capture on Cisco.comIn the product page, Cisco announced 4 new models of Nexus switches with 400G Ethernet capability.Nexus 9316D-GX is for Cisco ACI Spine. Nexus 93600CD-GX is for Cisco ACI Leaf. Nexus 3408-S and Nexus 3432D-S are non-ACI Ethernet switches.Cisco's Product page is:https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/data-center/high-capacity-400g-data-center-networking/index.html400G port transceivers: QSFP-DDAll four models use QSFP-DD as 400G Ethernet transceiver type.Screen capture on Cisco.com.QSFP Double Density (QSFP-DD) transceivers are the same size on the switch front panel as QSFP transceivers. The switch ports are also compatible with existing QSFP28 transceivers. That means, my current 100G transceivers can be inserted and reused on these new faster Nexus switches.The fiber connectors: LC or MPO-12Fiber connectors should be in LC or MPO-12 types.I cannot find an official datasheet to confirm that at this moment. However, I believe this should be true when I saw photos published on Cisco official web site.Screen capture on Cisco.comScreen capture on Cisco.comIf my fiber cabling connectors are in types of LC or MPO-12, I can reuse my existing fiber infrastructure to upgrade to 400G Ethernet. When you are planning for new fiber installation, I also recommend choosing LC and MPO-12 connectors.One more thing…I believe 400G Ethernet should still be very expensive today in year 2018. I might not need it soon. I know I can reuse my existing expensive 100G Ethernet transceivers and fiber infrastructures when I upgrade to 400G Ethernet in the future. And this makes me feel better.I am Li-Ji Hong. What do you think about 400G Ethernet? Please share your ideas with me in the comments below! Thank you!Lotus pond inside Taipei Botanical Garden (台北植物園).Taipei City, Taiwan

Taipei, Taiwan-5 Top Districts For Your Hotel Search It's always challenging when you visit any city for the first time to decide on where exactly you want to stay. This video highlights my 5 favorite districts to stay in Taipei. The characteristics of each district are highlighted to make it easier to decide which one suits you best. Technically Taipei Main Station is not a district but falls in Zhongzheng but I think it's better to use Taipei Main Station when you're searching for hotels and other retail or services.The districts fall in order of transportation convenience with number 1 Taipei Main Station being the best and Xinyi District the area furthest away. Taipei City is not that expansive so if you stay in Xinyi it will take you approximately 20 minutes to get to Taipei Main Station by MRT.Zhongshan is convenient and has a some nice sites to visit including the Ningxia Night Market, Dihua Old Street, The Museum of Contemporary Art.Daan is great for shoppers, foodies, bar hoppers, and some nice parks and neighborhoods to explore. Ximending is the most energetic district with lots of choices for food, cafes, entertainment, street performers, and is completely safe even with the crowds that inhabit the place every night. Xinyi is the most luxurious of all the districts with the best selection of 5 star hotels, international restaurants, Chinese/Taiwanese fine dining, and the best Japanese food. Bars, hot nightclubs and one of the best selections of luxury goods stores in East Asia.Thanks so much for watching the video! Please subscribe to the channel for the latest videos from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia! Music: http://www.purple-planet.com Help Support The Podcast! Become a patron! Patrons get access to exclusive content and help contribute to production and travel costs. For as little as $2/month you can become a patron! Visit my Patreon page to view all of the offers:https://www.patreon.com/FarEastTravels

    Taipei, Taiwan is a super modern city with a deep-rooted culture that is becoming more and more popular as a gateway to East Asia and Southeast Asia. It’s new express MRT service from Taoyuan International Airport, a 36 minute ride, will make it even more convenient for travellers, especially those on a short layover. This short but important list of essential things you should know will help keep you on track with a smooth stay. Although taxis are plentiful and relatively inexpensive compared with other big cities in East Asia the MRT is one of the best ways to get to most of the main sites and business centers of Taipei City. The Nangang Exhibition Center where many conventions and shows are held is accessible by the blue and brown MRT lines. Neihou, where many tech industry businesses have their head office is also on the brown line, Xihu is one of the most convenient stops for quick and easy access. Taipei 101 for the last 3.5 years has had it’s own MRT stop on the red line. This is where you’ll also find The International Convention Center next to the Taipei 101 Shopping Mall. It’s also in close proximity to Taipei City Hall and is apart of the Xinyi Shopping District, where you’ll find one of the largest selections of luxury goods stores in East Asia. If you want to get more of a local perspective pick up an Easycard available at most MRT stations and register it online with Ubike, https://taipei.youbike.com.tw/en/index.php so you can have access to the city bikes that have stations across Taipei City and New Taipei City. Simply swipe your card next to the bike you want to rent and you’re ready to go. You can drop the bike off at any Ubike station. They’re almost always located near an MRT station. In the video I mention briefly that the Taiwanese people are very friendly and helpful. It’s true! If you ever appear to be lost or confused while looking at a map you will in most cases immediately attract the attention of a local who will be pleased to help you find your way. That’s wny I said “get lost”, literally you can get lost while exploring this amazing city with it’s maze of alleyways, quiet cafes, food stalls and shops and not worry that you won’t have help getting back to your hotel. Taipei and the rest of Taiwan is an extremely safe place to travel. There is literally no or very rare violent crime against tourists. Personal ownership of guns is banned. There has been reports of pick pocketing and petty theft, particularly in night markets and crowded places, but I think this is even rare now. Enjoy your stay in Taipei and please feel free to leave any comments or questions. You can also message me on the Far East Adventure Travel Facebook page! Become a sponsor of Far East Adventure Travel for as little as $1/month. Check my Patreon page for the latest sponsorship offers! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4035923   Thanks to Purple Planet! http://www.purple-planet.com

Shanghai, Beijing-China, Taipei, Taiwan-All cities in East Asia that can give you the full Chinese experience but very different in pace, and local culture. How to avoid scams in China, how to get the true local authentic Taiwanese cultural experience and scenery. Bruno Black, Travelblogger and an expert on traveling through China and Taiwan is my guest in this podcast episode. Bruno has lived and studied in China and also has offices in Shanghai, Xiamen and Taipei. He has also been a resident of Taiwan for 19 years so I couldn't think of a better person to have as a guest in order to help you get the most out of your next trip to China and Taiwan. Bruno has suggestions on places to go in China that will give you true insight into local culture as well as some great suggestions to enjoy the beautiful nature of Taiwan only minutes away from Taipei City. Plus an itinerary that will give you the complete picture of China and Taiwan for a better understanding of their complex relationship.Follow Bruno Black: https://www.brunoblack.comBruno Black business inquiries:https://www.brunobranding.comHelp support the podcast by becoming a patron! Get exclusive content only available to patrons! Visit my Patreon page to find out more:https://www.patreon.com/FarEastTravels

Lasse-Peter Pestel is an Investment Strategist at Deka Investment in Frankfurt Am Main. He self-describes as having grown up between two cultures - Germany and Finland. He later added to this cultural mix by through extensive investing experience in Asia, in particular, Thailand and Taiwan. Starting his career as an intern at Georg Reisse GmbH CoKgin 2004, Lasse-Peter worked for over a dozen different companies including DE-Consult in Taipei City and Fidelity Investments in Frankfurt, Germany. Lasse-Peter also earned an MBA degree focusing on statistical studies such as econometrics and its usefulness in banking, risk management, and portfolio management. His work has always been with companies active in capital markets. These companies have been focused on fund management, portfolio construction, and asset simulations regarding return and risks, and various tax issues in relation to stock returns.   In this episode, Lasse-Peter Pestel shares his investment experience venturing into government bond investments that are based on political rationality without knowing and studying the risk that comes with it, only focusing on the projected returns.   “Make your research then sit back. And let your common sense run a little bit. Just rethink if there are really irrationality on it or not.” -Lasse-Peter Pestel     What do you want to hear from the My Worst Investment Ever Podcast? Tell us here!     Resources:  My Worst Investment Ever Book   myworstinvestmentever.com      Topics Covered:  00:53 – Lasse-Peter Pestel’s professional and investment background 02:41 – The circumstances that lead to Lasse’s worst investment experience: venturing into government bonds under Eurozone bailout plans 03:08 – Troika’s patchy record on bailouts of distressed Eurozone countries 04:30 – Converting government bonds to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) Bond that has a longer maturity period of 25-30 years 06:51 – Lasse’s Learnings from the experience 07:53 – Andrew summarizes the critical learning point from Lasse’s experience 08:51 – Hedge Fund Trade in the Credit Default Swap (CDS) Market 09:16 – Importance of investment risk management   Main Takeaways Lesson 1: If you think history repeats itself, don't follow the herd.Just because you see a pattern in the past, and it repeated itself three times or five times. It doesn’t mean that that pattern will repeat itself again. You could be the unlucky one at the unlucky time. If things worked two times as it did before, they do not necessarily work the third time. Lesson 2: Do not rely on politicians to provide your return. Because when things go bad, they’ll throw you into the open market. Political rationality is not the same as economic rationality. Once these two collide, economic rationality tends to win. Lesson 3: Be careful in following the market and the sentiment running around. Gather more information to cover instead of blindly running around the markets. Whenever we make a bad mistake in our investing, it usually does have to do with our lack of research that we have done or maybe just the idea of not stopping and thinking about the risks. And a lot of time we just think of the returns.   You can also check out Andrew’s books How to Start Building Your Wealth Investing in the Stock Market My Worst Investment Ever 9 Valuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Transform Your Business with Dr.Deming’s 14 Points   Connect with Lasse-Peter Pestel: Linkedin Xing Book    Connect with Andrew Stotz: astotz.com Linkedin Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube My Worst Investment Ever Podcast  

David Ying is a Senior Consultant at the Systex Corporation in Taipei since 2012. David Ying holds a bachelor degree in Economics from National Taiwan University, along with an MBA degree, and an Executive MBA degree in Business Administration.   In 1982, David started his career as a banking officer at Continental Illinois National Bank (CINB) located in Taipei City, where he was promoted to loan officer. He has more than 35 years of experience working for a dozen companies, including 5 years at International Investment Trust Company Ltd in Taiwan, 4 years at Dow Jones Telerate and the last 20 years at Systex Corporation.  In this episode, David Ying shares his big dreams during the DotCom era leading to a painful start-up venture that brought his years' worth of salary into the bubble.    “Investment pretty much at that time [dotcom era] is driven by your behavior and driven by the environment. Lots of people around you say, ‘Yeah, I make a lot of money because I invest in the internet’. ” -David Ying     What do you want to hear from the My Worst Investment Ever Podcast? Tell us here!   Resources:  My Worst Investment Ever Book   myworstinvestmentever.com      Topics Covered:  00:56 – David Ying’s professional background  02:09 – David as a risk-averse investor 03:01 – The circumstances that lead to David’s Dot.Com investment 05:01 – What persuade him to venture into internet business during the Dotcom era 06:09 – The type of start-up cosmetics business that he ventured in dreaming it to be as big as Amazon and Yahoo 08:33 – How big of an investment was it relative to the money he had 09:11 – Andrew summarizes the critical learning point from David’s experience  10:37 – Jack Ma’s experience when he visited Taiwan for venture funding    Main Takeaways: Lesson 1: People easily fall for the fear-of-missing-out. When you hear your friends and everybody talking about their winners and you are thinking that you are missing out, and you try to belong to the fad and invest your way to what they are doing. Lesson 2: The Dot-Com start-up period was the time of BIG DREAMS, BIG FADS. As you get older you recognize big dreams, big fads period is much better when you are younger. Lesson 3: Not all people will become a superstar like Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai.   You can also check out Andrew’s books How to Start Building Your Wealth Investing in the Stock Market My Worst Investment Ever 9 Valuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Transform Your Business with Dr.Deming’s 14 Points   Connect with David Ying: Linkedin Facebook   Connect with Andrew Stotz: astotz.com Linkedin Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube My Worst Investment Ever Podcast

After reading articles by Doug Madory, and by Louis Poinsignon, here are some notes I observed and learned.[What happened in this incident?]Hackers somehow made some BGP routers of “eNet” to falsely announce that they own the following 5 IP subnets, which are indeed NOT belonging to “eNet”. The true owner is Amazon. To be more specific, they are for Amazon’s Route 53 DNS name resolution services.205.251.192.0/24205.251.193.0/24205.251.195.0/24205.251.197.0/24205.251.199.0/24The registered domain server for domain “MyEtherWallet.com” is hosted on Amazon Route 53.Hackers also somehow embedded malicious DNS server (or servers, I really don’t know) also inside service network of “eNet”.After that, any affected clients’ DNS query for domain “MyEtherWallet.com” would hit hacker’s malicious DNS server. Of course, malicious DNS server would respond with false IP addresses, and those false IP addresses are indeed hacker’s own web servers.At this moment, clients thought they were accessing “MyEtherWallet.com”, and they indeed were accessing hacker’s web servers.[Which clients are affected?]I believe all clients inside “eNet”, and any clients in other Internet Service Providers who trusted “eNet”’s false announcements, would be affected as well.[Network “eNet” should have been compromised for enough time]To falsely announce BGP routes, we must either change configurations of hardware routers, or BGP route servers (maybe on Linux).For me, to configure BGP correctly on a couple of Cisco routers is already a heavy task. It’s not easy. To modify existing BGP configurations to inject false announcements without getting noticed, or without breaking anything at the same time, is even a more difficult task for me.I really don’t think it would be easier to achieve the same results by working on BGP route servers.Moreover, hackers even embedded DNS server inside “eNet”’s service network. I really believe hackers had already controlled most of the hardware routers and some hardware servers, maybe for quite a long time, long enough for them to do all such modifications.I really think some hackers involved in this incident are quite skillful at network hardware maybe Cisco’s or Juniper’s. They could also be CCIEs.[BGP Injection, instead of BGP Leak]So, the last thing I want to say is, I would rather call this incident as BGP injection, instead of BGP leak.Why?If I hear someone says BGP Leaks, I would feel maybe some unknown bugs inside BGP protocol or some configuration errors caused this incident. As far as I understand now, I really think the false BGP announcements are “intentional”. I would rather say it is BGP Injection.Although no strong security mechanisms are defined in BGP protocol itself, in this case BGP protocol is not to blame.Flowers of East Asian sage, around Zhoumei Xian Zai Gang Park (洲美蜆仔港公園)Taipei City, Taiwan.One more thing…Amazon is also not to blame for this incident. Clients’ DNS query packets never reached Amazon at all.I suggest Internet Service Providers should pay more attention to the security of their service infrastructure. Don’t become another “eNet”.I also suggest Internet Service Providers should review their incoming BGP policy. In this case, some ISPs other than “eNet” were also affected because their BGP routers “trusted” “eNet”’s false announcements. They affected their own customers and forwarded that false information on at the same time.

Join Val Febbo, Joel Fruci and Josh Campbell as they review all of the action from the Australian Open, with Ryan Tennison joining the team on the line to give his thoughts on the events at Melbourne Park. Also on the agenda are the rankings and previews of the upcoming Davis Cup ties and the WTA events in Taipei City and St Petersburg. Tune in for all that and more on Break Point this week.

https://www.patreon.com/FarEastAdventureTravel Check out the offers on my Patreon page to become a sponsor and patron of Far East Adventure Travel!Follow me on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/johnsaboeofficial/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/fareastadventuretravel/ What a thrill it was to watch the giant feast offering for the hungry ghosts at the recent “Pudu” ritual at Taipei, Taiwan’s Provincial City God Temple. During the 7th month of every lunar calendar year ghosts or “good brothers”, as they are politely referred to by Taiwanese, walk the earth potentially causing trouble for the living. Food, drink, other offerings, and prayers are offered to appease the wandering ghosts. Taiwan Provincial City God Temple in Taipei City, Taiwan holds one of the biggest “Pudus” on the 25th day of the lunar calendar month. The Taipei City mayor is invited every year to help initiate the event and thousands show up throughout the day to bring offerings of food, drink, and other items and watch the rites performed with help of Taoist and Buddhist monks. The local media was out in full force to cover the event and would probably out number any North American city of the same size. I was impressed with the amount and variety food that was brought to the Taiwan Provincial City God Temple and my friend Wayne Chen shared with me that many of the items are donated to charity as well as local aboriginal tribes in Central and Southern Taiwan once the rites have been completed at the Pudu. I want to thank the director of the temple Chan Ling Chuan and Wayne Chen for inviting me to the Pudu along with all of the wonderful volunteers that work very hard to put together this event. Taiwan is an amazing place filled with a fascinating rich vibrant culture. I hope on your visit you are exposed to these great festivals and rituals and the hospitality of the Taiwanese. fundly.com/far-east-adventure-travel-video-production-improvements I am in desperate need of upgrades to my video equipment. Please visit my crowdfunding page. If you enjoy these videos I create a donation will help me to bring you better quality content from Taiwan and across Asia. Thank you! John

 It's always challenging when you visit any city for the first time to decide on where exactly you want to stay. This video highlights my 5 favorite districts to stay in Taipei. The characteristics of each district are highlighted to make it easier to decide which one suits you best. Technically Taipei Main Station is not a district but falls in Zhongzheng but I think it's better to use Taipei Main Station when you're searching for hotels and other retail or services. The districts fall in order of transportation convenience with number 1 Taipei Main Station being the best and Xinyi District the area furthest away. Taipei City is not that expansive so if you stay in Xinyi it will take you approximately 20 minutes to get to Taipei Main Station by MRT. Zhongshan is convenient and has a some nice sites to visit including the Ningxia Night Market, Dihua Old Street, The Museum of Contemporary Art. Daan is great for shoppers, foodies, bar hoppers, and some nice parks and neighborhoods to explore. Ximending is the most energetic district with lots of choices for food, cafes, entertainment, street performers, and is completely safe even with the crowds that inhabit the place every night. Xinyi is the most luxurious of all the districts with the best selection of 5 star hotels, international restaurants, Chinese/Taiwanese fine dining, and the best Japanese food. Bars, hot nightclubs and one of the best selections of luxury goods stores in East Asia. Thanks so much for watching the video! Please subscribe to the channel for the latest videos from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia! Music: http://www.purple-planet.com

Support production, broadcast, and travel costs by becoming a sponsor of Far East Adventure Travel! Visit my Patreon page to see the offers:patreon.com/FarEastAdventureTravel I find the history and relationships Taiwan has had with nations like the United States and Japan absolutely fascinating. Unfortunately due to the development and rapid growth particularly of Taipei and New Taipei City many buildings that were apart of the history of America's years of on island support are gone. The old U.S. Embassy has been replaced by the National Taxation Bureau. The U.S. Taiwan Defence Command is now the location of The Taipei Fine Arts Museum. I sense though that there are still places out there to be discovered and shared. Video Script: "In Zhongshan District, a vibrant area of Taipei where many luxury hotels are located sits an iconic building of the neighborhood with a past life deep rooted in American history. When it was first built the former U.S. Ambassador’s residence was originally used as the U.S. Embassy during the Japanese colonial period of Taiwan. At the time of it’s completion in 1926 it was considered one of the most beautiful buildings on the island. The Western design with square floor plan and Grecian columns originally served as an administrative office as well as living quarters for the ambassadors and their families. When the United States established a new embassy after WWII this became the residence of the ambassador. I liked that this building has been repurposed as a venue for films and a meeting place rather than a museum. I felt sitting in it’s converted atrium and enjoying the surroundings in an unhurried manner had alot more value as an experience then a walk through a building with roped off areas. Not only did I have a great time hanging out where a U.S. President once stayed I had a pretty interesting selection of movies I could choose to watch, from a documentary about an American photographer turned Buddhist monk to a Japanese man living with a bunch of cats. In 1950 the United States started deploying U.S. military personnel to the island to aid the Republic of China with training, support, and economic relief. Special Western style housing was built for personnel including this almost 14 hectare site in the Yangmingshan area of Taipei City where many houses still remain today. Some of the houses have been leased from the Bank of Taiwan and are occupied by local politicians, artists, and personnel of the American Institute in Taiwan, the defacto U.S. Embassy in Taipei. But it appears many are cafes. The most recent building of the U.S. Taiwan Defense Command era to spring back to life is the Yangminghsan U.S. Military Club, now a Cultural and Creative Park with American style restaurants. This was also the home of the Grass Mountain Teen Club for personnel families. The Bank of Taiwan and a local tech company have invested over $3 million dollars in the renovation which includes a vinyl listening room and museum. Yes they passed the taste test and there are some beautiful grounds and a rooftop deck to enjoy the spectacular Yangminghan Park setting." Getting To The Yangmingshan U.S. Military Housing and Brickyard 33 1/3:Take the Red Line MRT to Shilin, leave Exit 1 and walk to Zhongzheng Rd. Catch Bus #5 to Yangmingshan. The ride will be approximately 20 minutes before you'll get off at the Shanzihou Police Station stop. Walk across the street to Kaixuan Rd. You'll see signs for Brickyard, just follow those and you'll arrive there in about 5 minutes. This is also where you'll see many of the military houses that are either private, cafes, or empty. Getting To the Former U.S. Amassador's Residence(SPOT Taipei Film House) take the MRT Red Line to Zhongshan Station. Walk West along Nanjing East Road to Zongshan Rd. North. turn left and walk to #18. photos courtesy of http://taipics.com music: http://www.purple-planet.com

Taipei, Taiwan is a super modern city with a deep-rooted culture that is becoming more and more popular as a gateway to East Asia and Southeast Asia. It’s new express MRT service from Taoyuan International Airport, a 36 minute ride, will make it even more convenient for travellers, especially those on a short layover. This short but important list of essential things you should know will help keep you on track with a smooth stay. Although taxis are plentiful and relatively inexpensive compared with other big cities in East Asia the MRT is one of the best ways to get to most of the main sites and business centers of Taipei City. The Nangang Exhibition Center where many conventions and shows are held is accessible by the blue and brown MRT lines. Neihou, where many tech industry businesses have their head office is also on the brown line, Xihu is one of the most convenient stops for quick and easy access. Taipei 101 for the last 3.5 years has had it’s own MRT stop on the red line. This is where you’ll also find The International Convention Center next to the Taipei 101 Shopping Mall. It’s also in close proximity to Taipei City Hall and is apart of the Xinyi Shopping District, where you’ll find one of the largest selections of luxury goods stores in East Asia. If you want to get more of a local perspective pick up an Easycard available at most MRT stations and register it online with Ubike, https://taipei.youbike.com.tw/en/index.php so you can have access to the city bikes that have stations across Taipei City and New Taipei City. Simply swipe your card next to the bike you want to rent and you’re ready to go. You can drop the bike off at any Ubike station. They’re almost always located near an MRT station. In the video I mention briefly that the Taiwanese people are very friendly and helpful. It’s true! If you ever appear to be lost or confused while looking at a map you will in most cases immediately attract the attention of a local who will be pleased to help you find your way. That’s wny I said “get lost”, literally you can get lost while exploring this amazing city with it’s maze of alleyways, quiet cafes, food stalls and shops and not worry that you won’t have help getting back to your hotel. Taipei and the rest of Taiwan is an extremely safe place to travel. There is literally no or very rare violent crime against tourists. Personal ownership of guns is banned. There has been reports of pick pocketing and petty theft, particularly in night markets and crowded places, but I think this is even rare now. Enjoy your stay in Taipei and please feel free to leave any comments or questions. You can also message me on the Far East Adventure Travel Facebook page! Become a sponsor of Far East Adventure Travel for as little as $1/month. Check my Patreon page for the latest sponsorship offers! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4035923 Help others discover the Far East Adventure Travel Podcast! Write a Review:

The routing protocol Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) is an advanced and robust link-state protocol used in many service provider networks. Most of the other enterprises I know of prefer to use protocols like OSPF or EIGRP instead of IS-IS. Therefore, enterprise administrators might not be familiar to this protocol at all.Here I want to share my short note to start IS-IS quickly without digging into protocol details. In case you must configure and maintain an IS-IS network, this note might save you some time.You can follow these five steps to start IS-IS routing protocol in short time.Step 1: Prepare a pool of IPv4 addresses as non-overlapping Router-IDsRouter ID is a unique identifier of any single router. Identifiers are just unique numbers. We know one citizen should have one and only one Citizen Identifier. No two citizens share the same identifier. This is the same for router IDs.No matter we are starting a production network or we just want to practice in lab, my recommendation is to always start from this step. The earlier we do this, the lesser time we might waste afterwards.In addition, I also recommend reserving a pool of IPv4 addresses just for router IDs. This pool should not overlap with any other network addresses. Any host route (/32) in this pool is for a single router. For easier discussion, I assume we reserve 10.0.0.0/16 for router IDs. Router 1 (R1) is assigned router ID: 10.0.0.1/32, and Router 2 (R2) is assigned router ID: 10.0.0.2/32, and so on.This unique host address is not just for identifying a single router. We can use this address for management protocols such as SSH, SNMP, and SSL. We can even add DNS mapping so we don’t have to remember the IPv4 address. For example, R1.MyDomain.COM can be mapped to 10.0.0.1. When I am about to manage a router on command line, all I do is starting a SSH to R1.MyDomain.COM, like “ssh admin@R1.MyDomain.COM”.Step 2: Pick a unique Area ID for Level 1Here I want to emphasis starting from Level 1 (First Floor, Ground Floor) area. My recommendation is always start from Level 1. Expands to Level 2 only when necessary (most of the time we never need Level 2).Area ID is a unique number within 0000 to FFFF in hexadecimal (or 0~65,535 in decimal).If you really want, Area ID Zero (0000) is also a legal IS-IS area number. Area 0000 inIS-IS is just a normal Level 1 area. This is quite different from OSPF. Because we might easily confuse this area with the special OSPF Area Zero (Backbone Area), I recommend avoid using this area number at all.Many connected routers are grouped into a single area. All routers in the same area should be assigned with the same Area ID.For easier discussion, I assume we use Area 7 for Level 1.Step 3: Compose Network Entity Title (NET) for every routerNetwork Entity Title (NET) is really an awkward name for many network administrators. It’s just a name used in ISO documents that define IS-IS protocol. It is the format IS-IS protocol recognizes as Router-ID.You are correct, NET must also be unique, and we must convert the router IDs in Step 1 into this NET format. The question now is “How”.I learned on Cisco Live an easy trick to convert unique IPv4 address into a unique NET. Here you are.First, expand the four decimal numbers of IPv4 address to 3 digits. For example,10.0.0.1 -> 010.000.000.001.Now we have a 12-digit string. Then, we just see this number as hexadecimal in digits, and reposition the “dots” to separate into 3 parts instead of 4. For example,010.000.000.001 -> 0100.0000.0001In case you really want to know, this converted number “0100.0000.0001” is called System ID in IS-IS protocol. We will need this number again when we are expanding the IS-IS network to Level 2 connected topology.Finally, we can create NET now.NET is in a format of 49.[Area ID].[System ID].00.The NET for R1 is now “49.0007.0100.0000.0001.00”.Step 4: Start IS-IS on every routerWe can start IS-IS protocol on every router with the following partial commands.router isis net 49.0007.0100.0000.0001.00 is-type level-1 metric-style wideInterface loopback 999999! This interface is for easier management only. IS-IS doesn’t need it. ip address 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 ipv6 address fd00::1/128 ip router isis ipv6 router isisI purposely neglect the explanation of every components of NET.Step 5: Enable IS-IS on interfaces.It is simpler than you might expect. We look at the network map and every connected interface of every connected router should be enabled with IS-IS protocol, like this example.interface Ethernet0/0 no shutdown ip router isis ipv6 router isisThat’s all. Folks!One more thing…In the partial configuration example above, “interface loopback 999999” is only for easier management. IS-IS doesn’t need this interface at all. We can safely skip it for plain IS-IS practice.We can even assign illegal IPv4 address such as 0.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.2 as router IDs for easier typing IS-IS lab practices.In ISO documents, they don’t call routers as “routers”. They call routers the “Intermediate Systems” instead. Therefore, IS-IS protocol is exactly a protocol for “routers to routers”. Straightforward, isn’t it!Sunset at Gongguan Waterfront Plaza (公館水岸廣場)Taipei City, Taiwan

This is just a short notice for you in case you are not aware of it. Cisco announced a vulnerability on Cisco IOS and IOS XE operating system. For short, you only have to disable incoming TELNET service onto the router itself to avoid this vulnerability. You can use Secure Shell (SSH) instead for remote management. SSH is not vulnerable in this problem.The Jin-Dai Bridge (錦帶橋) in Dahu Park (大湖公園).Taipei City, Taiwan.You can read the original announcement for technical details.Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Cluster Management Protocol Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityOne more thing…You can disable TELNET service and enable SSH at the same time by this command:transport input sshYou can list listening ports by these commands:show control-plane host open-portsshow tcp brief

Taipei, Taiwan becomes unusually quiet for most of the Chinese New Year holiday as many who work and live in the capital visit family in their hometowns around the island. You'd never believe it though when you visit some of the city's most prominent temples. Overflowing with visitors getting in their good luck prayers to ensure a healthy and prosperous year for themselves and their family. Longshan Temple is by far the most visited with the temple so crowded it's not unusual to get a little poke from someone's incense stick as you make your way through the throngs of people. Guandu Temple near the old fishing village river port town of Danshui is another favorite with many making their yearly visit to the big complex and oldest in Northern Taiwan. Another one of my favorite's to visit, especially on a sunny day, is Zhinan Temple on Monkey Mountain near the Taipei Zoo. Accessible by stairs that start at National Chengchi University, it's an approximate 30-40 hike through the forest and jungle to the temple. If you're not up for the hike the temple can be accessed via the Maokong Gondola near the zoo. The views are wonderful and the temple complex as one visitor shared with me has perfect Feng Shui, the Chinese belief of harmony with surroundings. The main Zhinan complex faces south over a beautiful terrace with views of Taipei City and lots of sunny exposure. The back of the temple is on the mountain side, sheltering it from the inclimate weather of the rainy season and winter. Next to the main Zhinan Temple is the Daxiong Buddhist Chapel, on many days offering a free vegetarian lunch in it's bottom level-a delicious selection of tofu, vegetables, rice, and soup. After lunch I sat in the courtyard of the Daxiong Chapel, listening to the recorded traditional music playing as I gazed out at the hills checkered with small vegetable/produce farms, little tea plantations and the Maokong Gondola transporting people through the hills. Later watching groups paying respects at the temple with offerings and prayers. Feeling refreshed, alive, and full of chi,(good energy), I made my way down the stairs to complete a perfect way to spend a day in Taipei during the Lunar New Year(Chinese New Year), holiday. Getting there:Take the MRT "brown line" to Taipei Zoo. Cross the road from the MRT station and take bus 236 and get off at National Chengchi University. There are signs to the trails at the plaza entrance. Donate now and help support the Far East Adventure Travel Podcast. A gift of $5, $10, $20, or $30 goes along way to help with production and travel costs. Whenever possible I stay in guesthouses, employ local guides and drivers, and support local business. The money I spend goes directly back into the community and so can yours. Support Far East Adventure Travel with a donation now!Donate paypal.me/JohnASaboe Donate Write a Review:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/adventure-travel-far-east/id890305531?mt=2

We speak to Taiwan Dr. Dog, a group working to train strays to become therapy animals for disabled patients. We discuss a new cooperation with Taipei City that aims to find families who can help raise and train the next generation of "Dr. Dogs."

We speak to Taiwan Dr. Dog, a group working to train strays to become therapy animals for disabled patients. We discuss a new cooperation with Taipei City that aims to find families who can help raise and train the next generation of "Dr. Dogs."

Taipei’s MRT System is super efficient and very easy to get around on with all stops and information in English. If you’re staying in Taipei for more than a day make sure you get an Easy Card pass from the vending machines at all stops or pick-up a 1, 2, 3 or 5 day Taipei Pass at information counters. In this podcast we will make 3 stops on Taipei’s MRT Red Line. First from Main Station we’ll head for Yuanshan stop and the Dalongdong neighborhood, next a ride all the way to the end of the line at Xiangshan for a hike up Elephant Mountain, then back to finish off the afternoon at Liberty Square and the final Honor guard of the day at Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall.Yuanshan is the first elevated stop on the red line that finishes in the riverside village of Danshui. All stops before Yuanshan are underground.This is the old Dalongdong neighborhood with many historic buildings and quiet lanes to explore. Our destination here is the Confucious Temple and the Bao An Temple. Like most sites in Taipei there are English signs everywhere leading you in the right direction whether you look up or down.Confucius was a Chinese teacher, philosopher, editor and politician born in 551 B.C. Confucius was a champion of strong family loyalty, respect of ancestors, and respect of elders by their children among other things. Confuciunism is said to have played a big role in the successful economies of the 4 Asian Tigers. Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan all have had educational programs that taught the values of Confucius-hard work, respect, loyalty, and respect towards authority figures. Excerpts from "Taipei, Taiwan's Top Sites In One Day, On  One MRT Line".

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