East Meets West

The best thing about Lombard is The Eastgate Shopping Center, a community neighborhood located along Westmore-Meyers Road, between Wilson Avenue and Jackson, in the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois. The Eastgate Center is only five blocks from Route 38, on Roosevelt Road and Westmore-Meyers Road in Illinois. Eastgate is notable for the Drivers Services Facility, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, and the Illinois Employment and Training Center. The Eastgate community has a multi-ethnic and diverse population near Trinity Lutheran Church and School, the Islamic Foundation Center, Saint Pius X Catholic Church and School, and the Lombard Community Church on Madison Street in DuPage County, Illinois. Schroeder’s Ace Hardware and the 7-Eleven convenience stores open regular hours, accesible to the public with free parking. There is also the Chinese Restaurant for Mr. Wonton  featuring authentic Cantonese cuisine, Oriental decor for dining inside, online ordering, and fast delivery.  Eastgate Center combines the best of town and country life in the western suburbs for residential and commercial businesses, educational facilities, banking, laundromat, restaurants, etc. Nearby, Madison Meadow Park hosts many community events, family reunions, picnics, celebrations, athletic and recreational sports during the year, as well as music concerts, fireworks during the July 4th festivities, arts and crafts exhibits, Lombard Food Festival, and many other sports, games, and tournaments, close to the Eastgate Center in Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois. Lombard is a great place for the Lilac Festival at Lilacia Park…

How Are Languages Used As Communications Tools in the 21st Century?

As we move through the new millennium, we need to focus on how languages are used as communication tools in the 21^st century to promote understanding, listening, cooperation, trade, military security, and peace in the world to become more effective and efficient communicators. 

Technology, research, and developments in communications for the 21^st century will regulate how languages will be used as tools in diverse professional fields and disciplines.  In addition, the application of languages as communication tools in the 21^st century is subject to the existing influence of political and socio-economic developments in the world.

According to Philip Howard in his Foreword for The World of Words.  An Illustrated History of Western Languages, new revised edition, I quote, “we can only guess that hundreds of thousands of languages have been spoken since the beginning of the world, from the fact that 2,769 languages are spoken around the world today (the figure depends a bit on what one counts as a language)”.   

Human communication is defined as the process by which people exchange information.  Languages are forms of communication in our everyday world.  We use languages to communicate on a daily basis at home, work, with friends, at leisure.  Languages are an indispensable way to function, interact, and exchange information, especially as our world becomes closer.  Thus, languages become communication tools in the 21^st century as work issues, military protection, and concerns in the world evolve from local to global to become “glocal” in the international arena. 

Given the multilingual population in our planet Earth, there is a need to communicate and listen in more than one language in the U.S.A. and around the world.  The process of active listening is an essential and important factor in communication because it allows us to perceive selectively what the information exchange entails, without overlooking details and steps to follow directions. 

The need to communicate effectively and efficiently in the 21^st century requires a mandatory acquisition of another language, in addition to English, which fulfills an educational requirement in the our country and overseas.  Thus, in the same way that “Education is a tool for success”, languages are used as tools in the 21^st century because these facilitate the process of communication around the world.

Tools are means by which we ease our interaction in a work environment and around us.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines a tool as anything regarded as necessary to implement one’s occupation or profession.  Since languages in the 21^st century are used to perform one’s job, as the work force travels and relocates around the world, in response to employment and military deployment, labor supply and demand, then languages become communication tools in the 21^st century. 

International companies in the United States and around the world require personnel to travel on demand where employee skills are needed.  Consequently, employment relocation and logistics are common factors for global work in the 21^st century.  An awareness and knowledge of languages is an underlying pre-requisite to international employment, deployment, and travel.  So, if one knows two or more languages in the world, chances are that one will travel for work or leisure and become more effective and efficient as a communicator and an employee…

We need to discuss how languages are used as communication tools in the 21^st century to promote understanding, cooperation, trade, and peace in the world. 

Technology, Research and Development: 

                      Videophone,  Videoconferencing, Global Positioning

                      Systems World-Wide Assistance with Satellites,

                      Student Centered Distance Learning for Remote Rural Areas, 

                      Internet Delivery of Instruction On-line, Email Tutorials,

                      Intranet Web-Based Educational Environments
                     Audio Computer-Based Test for ESL Listening Skills

Understanding:   Interpersonal, one-to-one basis, people-to-people;

Interpreting—Consular, Commercial, Legal, Medical, Technical, On-line; Translation—Electronic, Commercial, Legal, Medical, Technical

Listening:               The process of active listening is an essential and important factor in communication because it allows us to perceive selectively what the information exchange entails, without overlooking details and steps to follow directions.        

 Cause and Effect:  The application of languages as communication tools in the 21^stcentury is  subject to the influence of political and socio-economic developments in the world.  

We need to foster the use and application of languages in education to facilitate communication in a global and local sense, around the world  and in our own communities to become effective and efficient communicators. 

The application of languages as communication tools in the 21^st century is subject to the influence of political and socio-economic developments in the world.

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Certified Legal Interpreting and Translation in Illinois, USA

I started language interpreting for Action Translation with the Illinois Industrial Commission in Chicago at the James R. Thompson Illinois Government Center when Joseph Raudonis used to live in Palos Heights, Illinois—I found a job wanted ad in the newspaper and telephoned Action Translation for assignments translating legal documents for Spanish into English.

Then,   I met Carmen Kenny, a legal interpreter at the Arbitration Center in Chicago, who was looking for a freelance interpreter and translator who could share legal interpreting assignments in the Chicagoland area, travel on-site to judicial hearings, arbitrations, depositions, and translate legal documents upon assignment for Carmen Kenny & Associates based in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

A colleague referred me to Arroyave Academy of Languages managed by Guillermo Arroyave himself in Highland Park and Arlington Heights, who was looking for a communications cross-cultural consultant who could teach foreign languages, interpret, and translate from English into Spanish, French, and/or Portuguese, available for travelling around the Chicagoland area—throughout the counties of Cook, Lake, Will, DuPage, Kane, Grundy, LaSalle, etc.

I had been working for Berlitz Schools of Languages in Chicago, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, and Schaumburg as a language cross-cultural consultant. 

By professional referral and networking, I was contacted by Inlingua Schools in Chicago to work as a professional cross-cultural consultant, language interpreter and translator on-site, in the Chicagoland area.

In addition, I was a member of the American Translators Association and Chicago Area Translators and Interpreters Association.In 1990, I found a newspaper job ad from Diplomatic Languages Service, Inc. , based in Virginia, looking for language interpreters and translators in Chicago, Illinois.

During the 1990’s I interpreted and translated for several Translation Agencies:  Burg Translation, Palencia Language Services,  Interlate Systems, Inc., Linguistic Systems, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts, Access Translation managed by Rosa Ridderbusch in Lake Zurich, AIM Translations in Bloomingdale, Illinois. 

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A Community Interpreter

In September 1977, when I was a freshman at Northeastern Illinois University, in Chicago, Illinois, I used to work as a student aide at the Financial Aid Office, for the Veterans Administration Scholarship department and the UNI Scholarship department, when I was not in class, and I also helped the front desk accepting student financial aid forms and advising students about registration procedures. Since Northeastern Illinois is an urban university, the majority of the student population were urban minorities who commuted to school and work to get a college education in Chicago.

Many of the students were Spanish-speaking people who had just arrived from Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean or Spain and needed to enroll in college courses to learn English and get a college degree or validate their college transcripts from their former countries in the United States.

Since these students spoke Spanish only at the beginning at UNI, whenever they went to the Financial Aid Office, they required an explanation in Spanish of all the financial aid requirements to apply for the Pell Basic Grant, the Illinois State Scholarship and/or student loans. When I was not completing Veterans’ Scholarship forms, totaling veterans’ points for scholarship after military service, typing award letters and post cards for the veterans, filing, and/or managing awards letters or denials for other scholarship funds, I would be asked to work at the front desk informing students and answering the telephone in English and Spanish.
If a Spanish-speaking student was interviewed by a financial aid counselor who only spoke English, sometimes I would be called to interpret from English into Spanish. In so doing, I enjoyed the rapport and the language interaction with my fellow students and fulfilled my responsibility to the community by helping Spanish speakers become mainstreamed into the English-speaking community at Northeastern Illinois University and in Chicago, as I had been during my high school years where I only spoke English and French, in a Catholic parochial school, Madonna High School on the Northwest side of Chicago.

After completing my core curriculum for my Bachelor’s Degree, I decided to focus on double majors in Education to teach languages like English, French, and Spanish, Writing, and minor in Linguistics and Athletics. Having had four years of English and French in high school, I was accelerated into more advanced courses in these two disciplines, so I completed my major requirements early enough that I could regain my usage of the Spanish language through specialized coursework for bilingual Spanish speakers. As I became more proficient in my colloquial use of the Spanish language for bilingual speakers in the Chicago area of the Midwest, I interacted between English and French easily, thus I became multilingual. I graduated from Northeastern Illinois University after five years of study with a B.A. in Secondary Education, Type (09) Illinois State Teaching Certificate, English, French, Spanish, and minors in Linguistics, Writing, and Athletics.

It was through one of my friends, Maureen, that I started doing translation work and language instruction at Translingual International. I also taught at Berlitz Language Schools in Downtown Chicago and surrounding suburbs. Later on, I began to interpret at the Illinois Industrial Commission through Accurate Translations for workers’ compensation arbitration hearings for Spanish-speaking employees who had been injured by work-related accidents.

The last two years of college, I was referred and recommended by my French teacher and her physician friend, for a summer job working for an European travel insurance company, GESA Assistance, S.A., based in Barcelona, Spain, with branches in the U.S., Belgium, France, United Kindgom, Germany, Italy, Portugal, some Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Japan, Australia, Mexico, the Caribbean, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Africa. I was hired part-time as a travel insurance representative to assist European travelers with medical-related and other insurance claims, while traveling in the Americas and around the world.

All GESA personnel spoke English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Catalan, Portuguese, Japanese. Most of these travel medical insurance claims were handled through telephone interpreting, facsimile, and designated agents and physicians in the corresponding countries. Assistance was provided on a 24-hour basis and full medical claims reports were written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and any other required language to be passed on via facsimile or by telephone relay to the insurer’s country of origin. Many times I was required to provide emergency medical assistance on world-time, that is to say, observing European time, 8-10 hours ahead of U.S. time, contacting Doctors-on-Call or Physicians Without Borders to effect repatriations, emergency hospitalizations, and/or contact attorneys for legal interventions.  During these emergency situations, I developed a quick way to contact medical personnel and/or legal assistance through a zip code grid identifying the area where the insured called by zeroing in on the address zip code to quickly locate assistance on call, at the last minute. This approach was later on used to organize the U.S. GESA Assistance response to the emergency calls from the insured travelers around the world.

Although this part-time job was not well remunerated, I enjoyed working with foreign nationals who traveled world-wide, interpreting and translating for their claims over the telephone, and using multilingual and cultural skills in an international U.S. and European company. I felt I was a community interpreter as I became an essential link between the insured traveler and the GESA Assistance network around the world.

In the past, I have also worked with a federal agency in Virginia, as a community interpreter assigned to federal investigative work under strict confidentiality. In addition, I have done extensive legal interpreting for workmen’s compensation at the Industrial Commission in Chicago; as well as in the Illinois judicial system in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Will, and LaSalle counties. While doing graduate work for communications at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, I was a also a volunteer community interpreter at the Emergency Room for elderly Spanish and English-speaking patients for a study sponsored by the Gerontological Society of America.

Having worked for the U.S. Department of Labor as a medical claims examiner, and as an insurance customer agent for travelers, also provided excellent background for medical interpreting experience to teach Medical Spanish at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.

So, I have become an incidental community interpreter, in addition to being an educator in Illinois, as I fine-tuned my language skills in English, Spanish, French, and later studied basic Portuguese and Japanese in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

As a community interpreter I feel that I am able to help people using languages to communicate better and assimilate in the community where they live for the benefit of all involved, you, me, and the community. Thus languages are not only used to express our thoughts, ideas, and emotions, but also become working tools for communicating the needs of the community within cultural contexts in the 21st century.

“Frequently Asked Questions about Interpreting” by G.C. Hung, M.A., B.A.,  http://www.americantranslators.org/divisions/FLD/fldfaqs.htm
TIP Lab Seminar for Interpretation and Translation by Holly Mikkelson, Ph.D.

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A Carnival Cruise Bonus Gift: Happy Birthday!

The month of December is always full of surprises, amazing holiday miracles, and wonderful thoughts from family, friends and associates…wherever they are or may be. Early in December 2011, I received a colorful and memorable Happy Birthday! Gift Card from Tampa, Florida…all the way to the Village of Lombard, where I live in Du Page County, Illinois. When I opened the envelope, I read “Happy Birthday!” from Carnival. Wow! Someone thoughtful remembered my Anniversary Birthday in December 2011, and forwarded their best wishes with a birthday celebration aboard a Carnival ship for an 8-day /7-Night Cruise vacation for 2 with an outside cabin, leaving from any major port in the U.S.A—approximate value is $1299 and No Purchase Necessary. What A Big Surprise for my birthday! It included a Bonus Gift for Two Round-trip Airfares leaving from or going to any major airport in the continental U.S.A.—this offer is not redeemable for cash. Right in the middle of the winter Christmas holidays, I just could not get away…to Carnival. Especially when Travel over major holidays is not permitted and some restrictions apply.

So, the New Year 2012 Jubilee celebrations arrived in January with the New Chinese Year of the Dragon in tow to celebrate all the anniversaries that come up throughout this year. I have not forgotten about Carnival Cruise in the middle of the Midwest snowstorms we are having in Illinois. Carnival Cruise offers a wide selection of travel options with Imagination to visit Miami, Key West in Florida and Cozumel, Mexico in the Caribbean. Or, I must travel Destiny to Ocho Rios in Jamaica, then go along to Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. If I have enough time and energy, Valor can take me to Cozumel, Mexico, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. To sail in Glory, there are also ports to see in Nassau for the Bahamas, St. Thomas USVI, San Juan Puerto Rico, and Grand Turk, which includes La Romana in the Dominican Republic travelling the eastern Caribbean. If I take Liberty, there are options to see Cozumel, Mexico, Belize, Mahogany Bay, Isla Roatan, Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. Otherwise, Carnival Glory can take me to Boston Massachusetts or New York, to St. John New Brunswick, Halifax, NS, Sydney, NS, Canada, and return via Portland Maine back to port in Boston Massachusetts. The whole idea for a Carnival Cruise Anniversary is very exciting during 2012.

I am still wondering, “Where is the Carnival Cruise to Cuba, the Pearl of the Antilles and the center of the Caribbean as a destination port along Carnival Cruise itineraries?” If Carnival Cruises travel with Imagination, Destiny, Valor, Liberty, and Glory as far east as the coasts of Cozumel, Belize, Mahogany Bay, Isla Roatan, Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands and makes port in Ocho Rios Jamaica; then Carnival Cruise can make port in Santiago de Cuba, in the island of Cuba, some day! “Why is not Carnival Cruise making port in Santiago de Cuba or La Habana, Cuba?”
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A Perfect Crime Committed by the Lombard Police and Fire Department

The Lombard Police and Fire Department have been responsible for the crimes committed at the Estate of Roberto Hung and Family while the Lombard resident homeowners were at work, travelling, or out-of-town in DuPage County, Illinois, out-of-state or abroad. Consequently, the Village of Lombard has the obligation to compensate and pay the Hung Family for all the damages and losses to the Estate of Roberto Hung and Family in Illinois, USA. The Hung Family members have been Lombard resident homeowners at 502 S. Westmore Avenue and Washington Blvd. in DuPage County. The Hung Family has purchased two (2) Lombard homes during 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 in York Township, Illinois, USA.

For the last nineteen years, the Family of Mr. Roberto Hung, resident Lombard homeowners and U.S. citizens at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Blvd. have been Victims of Heinous Hate Crime Caused by the Village of Lombard and DuPage County, Illinois, United States of America because they purchased two (2) Lombard Real Estate properties and paid cash for their homes, near St. Pius X Catholic Church and School at 1025 East Madison St. and Westmore-Meyers Road in the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois, United States of America.

THE VILLAGE OF LOMBARD HAS TO PAY THE HUNG FAMILY FOR DAMAGES AND LOSSES TO THE ESTATE OF ROBERTO HUNG AND FAMILY MEMBERS ABUSED AS VICTIMS OF CRIMES SET UP BY THE LOMBARD POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT IN DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS USA.Consulting Media Arts Communications©2012 Gardenia Hung.

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1993-2008 DAMAGES AND LOSSES AT THE HUNG FAMILY REAL ESTATE AT

502 SOUTH WESTMORE-MEYERS ROAD, LOMBARD, DUPAGE COUNTY, ILLINOIS 60148-3028

OVERVIEW REPORT BY GARDENIA C. HUNG, M.A.

DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MR. ROBERTO HUNG, J.D.

I. BRICK BUNGALOW HOUSE WITH 3-LEVELS: 1ST FLOOR, 2ND FLOOR, BASEMENT, GARAGE

A. FIRST FLOOR.- FOYER/LOBBY FRONT.- DAMAGED DOOR LOCK,SHUT

1. CEILING PANELS STAINED, CRACKED

2. GLASS WINDOW PANES, 6TH WINDOW SOUTH, CRACKED GLASS

8TH WINDOW SOUTH, CRACKED GLASS

3. DOOR BELL IS BROKEN

4. DOOR KNOB IS BROKEN, FORCED

5. DOOR PANEL, STAINED BY FORCED ENTRY

6. DOOR LOCK/KNOB IS BROKEN, FORCED

7. FRONT STEPS, CHIPPED CONCRETE

8. BRICK BASE NEEDS TUCKPOINTING

B. LIVING ROOM.- 25-GALLON AQUARIUM, DEAD FISH, POISONED CLOROX

1. FLOOR-DRILLED HOLE BY UNAUTHORIZED CABLE CONTRACTOR

2. SOUTH WALL SEEPAGE, PEELING PAINT, CRACKED WALLS

3. SOUTH WALL DAMAGE TO ELECTRICAL WIRING SYSTEM

4. CEILING CRACKED PEELING PAINT CAUSED BY WEATHER EXPOSURE, MOISTURE, WINTERSTORMS

C. DINING ROOM

1. CEILING BULGING TILES, FALLING TILES ON THE WEST CORNER

2. WINDOW GLASS BULLET HOLE, UPPER LEFT GLASS PANE, CRACKED

GLASS WINDOW PANE

3. CARPETING.- WALL-TO-WALL DAMAGE

D. MASTER BEDROOM

1. COLLAPSED CEILING OVER TEAK QUEEN-SIZE BEDROOM SET, VANITY

(2) CHEST OF DRAWERS, (2) NIGHT STAND TABLES, (2) LAMPS

2. WALLS DAMAGED BY MOLD, MILDEW, WATER SEEPAGE

3. CARPETING WALL-TO-WALL DAMAGED

E. CORRIDOR

1. FLOOR WARPED WOODEN PLANKS TO BE REPLACED

2. CARPETING WALL-TO-WALL DAMAGED

3. CEILING GYPSUM COLLAPSED, CRACKED

4. ELECTRICAL WIRING SYSTEM DAMAGED BY WATER SEEPAGE

F. BATHROOM

1. CEILING COLLAPSED WHEN PLUMPING PIPES AND FIXTURES BURST

DUE TO EXCESSIVE WATER PRESSURE UNGAUGED BY THE LOMBARD

WATER DEPARTMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS

2. CEILING WOODEN STRUCTURE DAMAGED BY WATER SEEPAGE

3. PLUMBING PIPES AND FIXTURES DAMAGED

G. GUEST BEDROOM (SOUTHWEST FACING BACKYARD) STUDY

1. CLOSET IS DAMAGED BY PLUMBING PIPES BURSTING DUE TO

UNGAUGED WATER PRESSURE

2. WATER SEEPAGE IN CLOSET ACCESS TO PLUMBING PIPES SHARED BY

THE BATHROOM AND THE BASEMENT LEVELS.

G. STOLEN CLOTHING, BOOKS, FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FILES BELONGING TO GARDENIA C. HUNG

H. KITCHEN

1. SINK PLUMBING PIPES ARE TURNED OFF

2. FLOOR TILES ARE CRACKED, WATER-LOGGED, TO BE REPLACED

3. CEILING PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

4. REFRIGERATOR IS DAMAGED

5. DISHWATER IS DAMAGED

6. DISHES ARE BROKEN

I. BASEMENT

1. PLUMBING PIPES BURST DUE TO UNGAUGED WATER PRESSURE

2. COLLAPSED CEILING, CRACKED, EXPOSED PIPES, MOLD, MILDEW

3. WATER SEEPAGE, HUMIDITY, MOLD, MILDEW

4. WALLS CRACKED, PEELING PAINT

5. GLASS VENTS CLOSED/OPEN SCREENS BROKEN, TO BE REPLACED

6. (2) REFRIGERATORS DAMAGED – VERTICAL UPRIGHT/HALF FRIDGE

7. POOL TABLE GREEN MAT IS DAMAGED

8. BAR DAMAGED DUE TO COLLAPSED CEILING, MOLD, MILDEW

9. WASHING MACHINE IS DAMAGED

10. HEATING FURNACE SYSTEM/AIR CONDITIONING IS DAMAGED

11. STORAGE ROOM, BOOK SHELVES, STOLEN BOOKS BY INTRUDERS

12. STORAGE ROOM INSULATION TO BE REPLACED, FINISHED

13. LAUNDRY ROOM, CEILING FIXTURE PANEL CRACKED, BROKEN

14. CEILING PANEL PULLED DOWN

15. WALL PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

J. BACK PORCH.- INTRUDERS USED A HEAT TORCH ON PAINT BEHIND DOOR
CRACKED WOODEN BEAM BY THE WINDOW

1. CEILING LEAKAGE ON RAINY DAYS

2. LIGHT FIXTURE AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEM IS WATER DAMAGED

3. DOOR BELL IS BROKEN, FORCED, PULLED OUT BY INTRUDERS

4. DOOR BELL WIRING IS PULLED OUT

5. DOOR SCREEN IS DAMAGED, INSIDE, OUTSIDE, TORN OFF FROM HINGES, DROPPED OFF, TO BE REPLACED

6. PORCH DOOR IS DAMAGED, CRACKED PAINT, PEELING TO BE REPLACED

7. GLASS DOOR KNOBS DAMAGES TO BE REPLACED

II. SECOND FLOOR

1. STAIRS, STEPS.- WOODEN, WATER STAINED, GLASS DOOR KNOB IS

DAMAGED, BROKEN

2. WALLS, CEILING PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

3. STORAGE ROOM INSULATION IS DAMAGED BY INTRUDERS TO BE

REPLACED AND REFINISHED

A. STUDY/HALF BEDROOM

1. PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

2. DAMAGED TO PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER PC EQUIPMENT, STOLEN

CD-ROM DRIVE. STOLEN DOCUMENTS FROM MR. ROBERTO HUNG

B. BEDROOM

1. CLOSED IS DAMAGED BY WATER SEEPAGE, MOLD, MILDEW,

CRACKED WALL

2. CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE CRACKED AND BROKEN GLASS OVER BED

C. KITCHEN

1. CEILING CRACKED AND PAINT PEELING CAUSED BY HEAT TORCH USED BY INTRUDERS, TRESPASSERS AND UNAUTHORIZED ENTRIES

D. PANTRY, TO BE RESTORED, REMODELED, REPAINTED, REFINISHED

1. PANTRY CEILING PAINT CRACKED, PEELING, MOLD, MILDEW

2. PANTRY STORAGE DOOR CRACKED, MOLD, MILDEW, REPLACE

E. BATHROOM, PLUMBING PIPE FIXTURES BURST FROM 2ND TO 1ST FLOOR

PAINT CRACKED, PEELING, TO BE RESTORED, REMODELED, REDONE

F. LIVING ROOM FURNITURE STAINED AND DAMAGED

1. CEILING CRACKING, FISSURE UNDER ROOFING STRESS

2. WALL RETAIN HUMIDITY, MOLD, MILDEW

III. GARAGE

1. GARAGE DOOR OPENER IS BROKEN, DAMAGED, SEARS BRAND

2. REPLACE GARAGE DOOR

3. LAWN MOWER IS DAMAGED, BROKEN POWER STRING

4. ALUMINUM SIDING POST (LEFT) IS CRACKED, BROKEN

5. WOODEN-FRAME STRUCTURE IS DAMAGED BY HUMIDITY

6. CONDUIT FOR ELECTRICAL WIRING WAS PULLED DOWN

7. DAMAGE TO NINE (9) MOTORIZED AUTO VEHICLES, CARS, SUV, MOTORCYCLE, LAWN MOWER, ETC.

8. NEW ROOFING FOR GARAGE TO MATCH THE HOUSE IN AGED REDWOOD SHINGLES

IV. BACKYARD

1. ROOFING DAMAGE TO ROOFING SHINGLES, WOODEN STRUCTURE, WIRING, GUTTERS, DUCTWORK

2. T.V. ANTENNA FOR COMMUNICATIONS KNOCKED DOWN BY CABLE CONTRACTOR HIRED BY THE VILLAGE OF LOMBARD AND UNAUTHORIZED BY THE HUNG FAMILY OR G.C. HUNG

3. SIDE ROOFING DAMAGE

4. FENCE DAMAGED BY EVA AND JOHN CARPENTER & SONS, AS WELL AS BY INTRUDERS, TRESPASSERS JUMPING THE FENCING POSTS WHICH ARE DAMAGED AND SPLINTERED BY SBC TELEPHONE COMPANY AND OTHER INTRUDERS AND CRIMINALS

5. FENCE POSTS ARE BROKEN, SPLINTERED, KNOCKET OUT, KICKED IN

6. GRASS LAWN TRAMPLED, FLOWER BED BORDERS DAMAGED

LOMBARD DAMAGES & LOSSES TO HUNG FAMILY REAL ESTATE PROPERTY, ASSETS, AUTOMOBILES, MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT, ETC. FROM 1993-2007

MEMO OVERVIEW FROM GARDENIA C. HUNG, M.A.

TYPED ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2006, 10:55:35 AM

Oracle and IBM Solutions for the 21st Century

Archiving with Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g for Small Business Practices with IBM System p and System Storage Configuration for Unix® and Linux® operating system-based Oracle Database.

All businesses in need of information technology management are looking at the Oracle Enterprise Management Portfolio and the newest Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g with IBM Solutions.

Small business practices requiring large-scale data warehousing, combined with “powerful, reliable, and secure” information processing and computing solutions for a very large customer base, ranging from 1,000 to 100,0000 accounts or more, for operational transactions, management, market analysis, statistics, data warehousing, archives, can find the IBM System p for Oracle Data Warehousing 11g as a practical business solution to information management.

The IBM System p models run on advanced IBM Power™ Dual Core chip technology, at affordable price/performance, innovative virtualization capacity, and mainframe-inspired reliability features. System p allows simultaneous applications and multi-threading technology to run at the same time, delivering outstanding performance for a single server, using the Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g.

Case-in-point, a typical multimedia business can consolidate separate servers for graphics design, animation, audio, film, text, video games, and operational services on the IBM System p models. Multiple applications run on AIX and Linux operating systems simultaneously, separately, and securely, using one-tenth of the power with Advanced Power virtualization for the IBM System p. Flexible “capacity-on-demand” is custom-designed to scale up or down on processing power and memory load, based upon business demands and fluctuation.

IBM System p storage is compatible with Oracle Data Warehousing 11g and offers customer-oriented solutions and options for small business practices. For instance, IBM System Storage DS8000™ family delivers powerful “robust, flexible, highly available, and cost-effective disk storage operations for project management and mission-critical workloads”. While the IBM System Storage DS4000™ family-scalable, modular Fibre Channel Disk Storage, is designed for expansion growth, reliability, and availability in mind, from entry-level small business practices to corporate enterprise environments and performance-oriented service operations to capacity-oriented applications.

IBM and Oracle have teamed up to establish information technology standards used as Information Appliance Foundations, along with the Oracle Information Appliance Initiative. These are balanced configurations for data archiving warehouses that integrate system resources including hardware storage, Input/Output, and networking into data warehouse building blocks, partitioned for different economies of scale, in a linear mode—architecturally designed to support fluctuating workloads, based on varying raw data size, concurrent user load and diverse query complexity.

The architecture for Oracle and IBM System p is custom-designed and developed for Business Intelligence, reference, performance, and query analysis.

The Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition consists of high-level architectural software and system design solutions, that is to say: interactive dashboards, reporting and publishing queries, ad-hoc analysis, proactive detection and alerts, disconnected analysis, Microsoft Office; Oracle Intelligence Server, Partition Management, Oracle Database EE, Enterprise Tools, Oracle Automated Storage Management, supported by IBM AIX 5./3/Linux on x86, for IBM System p/ System x, and IBM System Storage.

The BI Server repository in the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, with the individual client applications used to access the data warehouse, are part of the third software architecture group.

The architectural systems for Oracle on IBM System p, from data Input to Output, is defined as “a series of processes encompassing data integration, data warehousing, and data analytics; extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data constructed on repeatable building blocks, known as Oracle “nodes” for extracting, transforming, and loading data into the data warehouse and analytics application using corresponding sizing techniques for storage capacity.

Functional nodes are sized upon workload characteristics for Input/Output bandwidth, memory requirement, and the use of the central processing unit (CPU).

The Oracle BI Enterprise Edition processes data integration through ETL/Application, Synchronization, Transportation/Messaging, Information Integrity, etc.

The IBM business intelligence solution is the Oracle BI “Quick Sizer” Reference Tool developed over the years of business service to determine total storage capacity for integrated systems in the partnership between Oracle infrastructure, architectural systems design, and IBM information technology for Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g and the IBM System p.

Accurate sizing provides an exact number of Oracle data integration nodes, Oracle data warehouse nodes and Oracle analytics nodes required.

Quick sizing for the Oracle DB Data Warehousing 11g is based upon performance data and other information collected from the customer’s operational environment—used to estimate the resources required for the following:
• New Oracle Business Intelligence or Data Warehousing 11g installations
• Additional applications for an existing Oracle BI or Data Warehousing 11g production environment
• Migrations to upgrade to new IBM hardware platforms, that is to say System p or System x™ servers, for expansion and growth performance

For questions and inquiries, contact Sales, Eric W. Brown at Email: ewbrown@us.ibm.com
or call, Tel. 1-800-426-0222, Nicole Parker, Oracle.

Oracle Business Intelligence combines information technology and applications for the small business entrepreneur to the corporate level in the Enterprise Edition Model. Enterprise information is architecturally designed for smart management with business insights for the entrepreneur, who is advised by its best features, in the Oracle EE Portfolio, as follow:

• Interactive Dashboards which access data via live reports and charts, dynamically custom-designed and personalized, based on functional roles in the business setting
• Microsoft Office and Outlook Integration which users embed and interact with BI content from familiar Microsoft Office desktop tools, using Oracle Business Intelligence Server Authentication
• Disconnected and Mobile Analytics for mobile users to have full analytical functionality with the same intuitive interface, while connected or off-line
• Proactive Detection and Alerts provide notifications and alerts to managers through multiple channels in response to predefined business events to improve and fasten, refined decision-making
• Reporting and Publishing for users who can integrate data from multiple sources to provide a wide array of reports using Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat, in order to deliver them through multiple channels
• Ad hoc Analysis for users who can gather and interact with a logical view of the information acquired from multiple data sources
• Essbase designed as the Oracle’s Hyperion Essbase, an online analytical processing (OLAP) server which provides users with an environment for rapidly developing custom analytics and enterprise performance management applications
• Desktop Gadgets for users who can choose multiple channels for which they want their intelligence reports delivered—including desktop gadgets.

The Oracle’s Business Intelligence Portfolio includes integrated security, user management, custom-designed personalization, a multidimensional calculation and integration engine, intelligent request generation, and optimized data access services.

With Oracle, “the innovation continues” by the current and updated Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g, featuring:
• Online upgrades and patching
• Advanced partitioning and compression for customized archiving
• Record and replay real workloads
• Delegated jobs to a standby database
• Total Recall Query to a database “as it was a week ago”.

Oracle BI on IBM Systems can be accessed through a Web browser, portals, devices, and web services.

A model example for an Oracle data warehouse with the following specifications include:

• Architecture/OS – Powers5 2.2 GHz/Aix 5.3
• Server – IBM System p5 570
• Processors per block – 8
• Memory per block – 32 GB
• Internal Storage – 4x73GB 15K rpm HDD
• Fiber Channel HBA’s per Block 8xDual Port 4Gbps
• Interconnects per Block 4x 10/100/1000 Ethernet
• SAN Switch 16 port SAN Fibre Channel Switch
• External Storage Configuration: 1xDS4800 with 10x EXP810 Expansion Units – 160 x 145 GB 15 K rpm HDD
• Raw/Usable Storage Space 5TB/18TB

The IBM System p for Oracle Data Warehousing 11g allows data deployment throughout Enterprise and other applications from data sources, unstructured, informational, external.

IBM and Oracle are simplifying data processing for archiving, extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL), analytic applications through innovation and integrated technology for data warehousing with Oracle Database 11g and the IBM System p Optimized Storage configuration and deployment examples for Oracle Data Warehousing. Change without risk.

For additional information technology about the IBM System p and Oracle DB Data Warehousing 11g, visit the website at http://www.ibm.com/solutions/oracle

Small business service practices with projected expansion growth performance can benefit from the information technology and business intelligence provided by Oracle and IBM solutions.

Source: http://www.oracle.com and http://www.ibm.com

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Out in Galaxy S with Samsung and U.S. Cellular

Life is Good telephones have become a sign of the times for the last three years. The prototype telephone has been gradually evolving from landline phones to mobile wireless cellular ones. Motorola RAZR is still leading the market with its own line of wireless technology. On the other hand, U.S. Cellular introduced the Samsung Smartphone as a direct competitor and rival for the consumers who are conservative, budget-conscious, and need a functional, pragmatic communications device.
The existing issues with U.S. Cellular Samsung service remain open for contention after customers purchase the Galaxy S Mesmerize Android. A customer has to purchase the mobile wireless cellular device to start the unnerving rollercoaster experience with U.S. Cellular on a Samsung electronic device. One never knows the reasons why there are so many and so frequent daily updates; even weekly, monthly U.S. Cellular Samsung Android software updates with shutdowns, no service lapses, blackout screens, data overloads, missing Contact name listings and files, changing parameters, added Applications, slow web browsers, sluggish connections, interrupted telephone service, disconnected calls, dropped telephone calls, and so on.
First of all, one needs to sign up for the Belief Project with an internet bundle package which includes unlimited messaging text and pictures, as well as an unlimited web browser, to complement the number of monthly minutes to match the Samsung customer service. The only problem arises when the monthly bill arrives and U.S. Cellular adds a “Moomba” Polling Service for $9.99, when no one is dialing a polling service on the phone. Overcharges for non-required service cannot be tolerated by customers, especially when a polling service charge has never been requested nor used.
The average mobile wireless cellular device has become a virtual communications networking link with Android Applications. More and more customers need help and training to understand that the telephone has become a mobile wireless computer device. Since U.S. Cellular and Samsung rely on vicarious learning experiences with the Android Applications, both have done without the traditional paper manual book used by Motorola. Instead, the former use a summary Compact Disc as an electronic manual, and removed all the Help applications from the Android now. Obviously, the customer needs to ask the U.S. Cellular Service Center, “How To Use The Android?” in person, instead of reading about its functions on a manual. Now in 2012, U.S. Cellular has arranged for scheduled Device Workshops for customers to learn how to use Samsung Android Application devices. It is amazing how learning by discovery can still leave one baffled by new mobile wireless cellular technology and science. Even the technician at the Service Center can find challenging how every individual programs one’s own virtual communications Android device.
Some customers still have problems with human mobile wireless cellular hackers who interfere with standard and normal communications practices by the owners of the Samsung electronic devices as users. Human communications blockers can hinder Updates and Downloads on the web all the time.
So far, learning from experience reveals that the U.S. Cellular Samsung Galaxy S is the third slowest virtual mobile wireless cellular device with 1GHz and only one processor to manage its own communications network.
In addition, Samsung has not revealed to all Illinois customers the next Smartphone Android to be the Merge model with two processors on beta now—only used by U.S. Cellular Samsung employees, not by the customers. It is amazing how much faster other wireless cellular devices can be, compared to U.S. Cellular Samsung services now. Must be that U.S. Cellular network must be updated constantly with direct service lines (DSL) for fiber-optic telecommunications. In conclusion, it seems that U.S. Cellular Samsung do not want the customers to have a faster wireless cellular mobile service than their own electronic devices nor the latest technology for a virtual wireless cellular network, like other competitors provide for an emerging mobile communications market.

A British Swim School in Villa Park, Illinois

British Swim School, Saving Lives Since 1981…Survival of the Littlest in Villa Park, Illinois 60181 USA.

Drowning is the leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age. Swimming lessons are a vital part of your child’s development and should be started as early as possible.

British Swim School has been dedicated to teaching water survival for over 30 years. The British Swim School methods are based on teaching beginners of all age groups that the ability to float on their back is the most important water survival skill of all. This enables all swimmers to rest, breath and call for help, thus alleviating the “silent” danger of floating face down. British Swim School owner, Rita Goldberg, has worked continuously to develop, improve and fine tune these methods resulting in the ability to teach babies as young as 3 months old to roll over onto their backs. Our teaching is a gradual, gentle and fun process.

Before opening her British Swim School locations in the United States, Rita Goldberg was a national swimmer in Britain, who went on to become a dedicated swim instructor. Rita is also a member of NAWBO, National Association of Women Business Owners.

After working in the education system for many years, Rita Goldberg left to open her own private swim school in 1981 in the basement of a Victorian house in Manchester, England. It was there she developed the unique teaching methods that have become a recognized trademark of British Swim School. Still the driving force behind the success of numerous year round indoor swim schools located throughout the United States, Rita Goldberg is an active member of the US Swim School Association and served as a board member for three years.   Saving Lives Since 1981…Survival of the Littlest in Villa Park, Illinois 60181 USA.

A New Year’s Twelve Resolutions

 “Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”–von Goethe

     At Midnight, I remembered to observe and follow the old tradition of the Twelve Grapes which are to be eaten one at a time marking the hours leading to 12:00 o’clock sharp, followed by a sparkling grape juice, sipped slowly while recollecting the year’s end, coming to mind all at once, at the prospect of another one.  The New Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve (2012) marks Anniversaries and Celebrations with Hopes for Peace, Justice, Equity, and Fairness tempered with Love, Joy, Meditation, Reflection, Foresights and Insights into the new millennium.

     While I visited the public library, I came across a quote from Gloria Steinam scripted on the wall:  “The Future Depends Entirely on What Each of Us Does Everyday.”

      In the New Year 2012, I have set out Twelve Resolutions as a Lombard resident homeowner, Illinois Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes in York Township, DuPage County, U.S.A.:

1. To protect my personal Civil Rights and Human Rights in the State of Illinois as a Lombard resident homeowner in District 5.
2. To stop being a Lombard Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes.
3. To investigate the reasons why I have been singled out as a Lombard resident homeowner for Abuse of Civil Rights and Human Rights in Housing Under The Law in the Village of Lombard.
4. To identify my Mother who has been sequestered by medical staff, friends, and other relatives for the last six (6) years, since January 12, 2006.
5. To contact Nathan Scott Wittler whom has been estranged since 2001.
6. To uphold the Enforceable Illinois Victims’ Rights Act  under the Constitution.
7. To enforce the Constitution of the State of Illinois, Article I, Bill of Rights, Section 8.1 for Crime Victims’ Rights, Section 12 Right To Remedy and Justice with the National Victims’ Constitutional Amendment  for Illinois Enforceable Victims’ Rights Act.
8. To obtain Compensation and Restitution as a Lombard Resident Homeowner who has become an Illinois Victim of Crimes in District 5, York Township, DuPage County, U.S.A.
9. To set out new personal, professional, and financial goals in the New Year 2012 with high hopes for the future.
10. To maintain personal relationships with others, family, relatives, friends, and associates.
11. To keep a healthy diet, balanced nutrition, and daily exercise during the year.
12. To pray for peace, justice, equity, and fairness for myself and all others in 2012.