August 17th, 2010
1. Compliment three people every day.
2. Watch a sunrise.
3. Be the first to say “Hello.”
4. Live beneath your means.
5. Treat everyone as you want to be treated.
6. Never give up on anybody; miracles happen.
7. Remember someone’s name.
8. Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
9. Be tough-minded, but tender hearted.
10. Be kinder than you have to be.
11. Don’t forget that a person’s GREatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
12. Keep your promises.
13. Show cheerfulness even when you don’t feel it.
14. Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years.
15. Leave everything better than you found it.
16. Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do.
17. When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.
18. Don’t rain on other people’s parades.
19. Don’t waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
20. Keep some things to yourself and don’t promote havoc by hurting people you love.
We all laugh. We all hurt. We all make mistakes. We all dream. That’s life. It’s a journey. Please follow these rules to make the journey of your life a journey of joy!
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August 8th, 2010
TEAMS Each soccer team has eleven players and three substitute, or reserve players. The team consists of a goalkeeper, defenders, midfield players, and forwards (or strikers). The object of the game is to get the ball into your opponent’s goal.
THE MATCH A game of soccer is called a match and is split into two halves of 45 minutes each, with a 15-minute break at halftime. A referee and two assistants make sure that nobody cheats or breaks the rules.
GOALKEEPNG Goalkeeping is a special skill. While the rest of the team can afford to make mistakes, if the goalkeeper makes one, it usually results in a goal for the opposition. Above Your Head The best way to catch a ball above your head is by joining the thumbs and forefingers of your hands together so there is a small arch between your hands. Chest or Head Jump off one leg and cradle the ball comfortably to your chest. The ball should rest on your forearms, with your hands holding it from above. Left or Right Always try to get both hands behind the ball and hold on tight. As soon as you’ve caught it, bring the ball quickly into the safety of your body.
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August 8th, 2010
Japan’s post-World War II value system of diligence, cooperation, and hard work is changing. Recent surveys show that Japanese youth have become a “Me Generation” that rejects traditional values.
“Around 1980 many Japanese, especially young people, abandoned the values of economic success and began searching for new sets of values to bring them happiness,” writes sociologist Yasuhiro Yoshizaki in Comparative Civilizations Review. Japanese youth are placing more importance on the individual’s pursuit of happiness and less on the values of work, family, and society.
Japanese students seem to be losing patience with work, unlike their counterparts in the United States and Korea. In a 1993 survey of college students in the three countries, only 10% of the Japanese regarded work as a primary value, compared with 47% of their Korean counterparts and 27% of American students. A greater proportion of Japanese aged 18 to 24 also preferred easy jobs without heavy responsibility.
Concern for family values is waning among younger Japanese as they pursue an inner world of private satisfaction. Data collected by the Japanese government in 1993 shows that only 2304 of Japanese youth are thinking about supporting their aged parents, in contrast to 63% of young Americans. It appears that many younger-generation Japanese are losing both respect for their parents and a sense of responsibility to the family. Author Yoshizaki attributes the change to Japanese parents’ over-indulgence of their children, material affluence, and growing concern for private matters.
The shift toward individualism among Japanese is most pronounced among the very young. According to 1991 data from the Seimei Hoken Bunka Center of Japan, 50% of Japanese youth aged 16 to 19 can be labeled “self-centered”, compared with 33% among those aged 25 to 29 To earn the self-centered label, the young people responded positively to such ideas as “I would like to make decisions without considering traditional values” and “I don’t want to do anything I can’t enjoy doing”.
Diminishing social responsibility, according to Yoshizaki, is tied to the growing interest in pleasure and personal satisfaction. A study comparing society-conscious youth from 1977 to 1990 found that the Japanese had slipped far behind American and Australian students. Only 11 % of Japanese aged 18 to 24 said they get personal satisfaction in doing something on behalf of society, according to 1993 data from the Japanese government, while four limes as many Americans said 50.
Yoshizaki concludes that the entire value system of Japanese youth is undergoing major transformation, but the younger generation has not yet found a new organized value system to replace the old.
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August 3rd, 2010
Rolex was also the first watch company to create a wristwatch water resistant to 100 m (330 ft). Wilsdorf even had a specially made Rolex watch attached to the side of the Trieste bathyscaphe, which went to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The watch survived and tested as having kept perfect time during its descent and ascent. This was confirmed by a telegram sent to Rolex the following day saying “Am happy to confirm that even at 11,000 metres your watch is as precise as on the surface. Best regards, Jacques Piccard”.
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August 3rd, 2010
The first self-winding Rolex wristwatch was offered to the public in 1931, preceded to the market by Harwood which patented the design in 1923 and produced the first self-winding watch in 1928, powered by an internal mechanism that used the movement of the wearer’s arm. This not only made watch-winding unnecessary, but kept the power from the mainspring more consistent resulting in more reliable time keeping.
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July 13th, 2010
Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare announced Thursday it is recalling 21 lots of over-the-counter medicines, including widely used Tylenol.
The lots involved are sold in the United States, Fiji, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, and Jamaica.
This action is a follow-up to a product recall that McNeil Consumer Healthcare originally announced on January 15, which was initiated following consumer complaints of a musty or moldy odor, which has been linked to the presence of trace amounts of a chemical called 2,4,6-tribromoanisole (TBA), J&J said in a release.
It said these lots are being added to the list of recalled products as a precautionary measure after a continuing internal review determined that some packaging materials used in the lots had been shipped and stored on the same type of wooden pallet that was tied to the presence of TBA in earlier recalled lots.
Source: Xinhua
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July 13th, 2010
Aiming at fulfilling President Barack Obama’s ambitious goal of doubling exports in five years and creating 2 million jobs, U.S. trade-related agencies are targeting the fast-growing markets.
“There are tremendous opportunities for U.S. goods and service, not just in our domestic market, but also overseas, in many developing economies,” Diane Farrell, member of the board of directors of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im bank), told Xinhua on Thursday.
“We have a very rich economy in the United States; there are a lot of companies that are only manufacturing in the U.S.,” said Farrell, who is responsible for voting on Ex-Im bank transactions over 10 million dollars as well as on significant matters affecting the bank’s policy.
“As we’ve seen the economic downturn … we need to look to emerging markets, primarily in Asia and Latin America,” she said.
“The U.S. government’s National Export Initiative (NEI) is attempting to educate businesses, to let them know that it’s a good economic decision to look beyond our borders in terms of expanding their own business interests, and also to know the U.S. government through a variety of programs,” she said.
President Obama set a goal to double U.S. exports in five years in his State of the Union address earlier this year. In March, he also announced the establishment of the president’s Export Promotion Cabinet, of which the Ex-Im Bank is a member.
Many economists believe the president’s export goal is unrealistic and have criticized the jobless recovery.
Farrell is generally optimistic about the NEI. Established during the period of the Great Depression in the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Ex-Im Bank has supported more than 400 billion dollars in U.S. exports, primarily to developing markets worldwide.
Regarding U.S.-China economic and trade relations, Farrell said that with a population of over 1.3 billion, “China is an extremely important economic partner for the U.S.”
She said that there is strong interdependency between the two countries, and that the bilateral relationship is mutually advantageous.
Although there is friction between the two major global trade partners, Farrell believed that there is a strong base of cooperation between the two sides.
“We need each other,” she said. “We hope it will be a win-win situation.”
The Ex-Im Bank is the official export credit agency of the United States. Its mission is to assist in financing the export of U.S. goods and services to international markets.
Unlike commercial banks, the Ex-Im Bank provides export financing products including working capital guarantees, export credit insurance, loan guarantees and direct loans that fill gaps in trade financing. About 85 percent of the transactions directly benefit small U.S. businesses.
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June 25th, 2010
Tissot introduced the first mass-produced pocket watch and the first pocket watch with two times zones in 1853 and the first anti-magnetic watch in 1929-30. Charles-Emile Tissot left for Russia in 1858 and succeeded in selling their savonnette pocket watches across the Russian Empire. The Tissot company was also the first to make watches out of plastic (IDEA 2001 in 1971), stone (the Alpine granite Rock watch in 1985), mother of pearl (the Pearl watch in 1987), and wood (the Wood watch in 1988). Tissot merged with the Omega watch making family in 1930 and Tissot-Omega watches from this era are sought after by collectors.
Still based in Le Locle,Switzerland and present in more than 150 countries around the world, Tissot has been a member of The Swatch Group Ltd., the largest watch producer and distributor in the world, since 1983.
Tissot is an official timekeeper for the world championships in cycling, motorcycling, fencing and ice hockey, and was used for the Davis Cup in 1957 and Downhill Skiing in Switzerland in 1938. Tissot was also a key Sponsor for the Formula one teams Lotus, Renault and Sauber.
Tissot has become known in recent years for its tactile, or “T-Touch,” technology; several new watches have touch-sensitive sapphire glasses and include compasses, barometers, altimeters and thermometers. T-Touch watches have been recently featured on Angelina Jolie’s wrist in the movies Lara Groft Tomb Raider:The Gradle of Life and Mr.&Mrs.Smith.
Famous people who have worn Tissot watches include the actress Sarah Bernhardt, singer Carmen Miranda,Elvis Presley,Grace Kelly, and Nelson Mandela James Stewart also wears a Tissot watch in the movie “Rear Window”.
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June 25th, 2010
In my dual profession as an educator and health care provider, I have worked with numerous children infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The relationships that I have had with these special kids have been gifts in my life. They have taught me so many things, but I have especially learned that great courage can be found in the smallest of packages. Let me tell you about Tyler.
Tyler was born infected with HIV: his mother was also infected. From the very beginning of his life, he was dependent on medications to enable him to survive. When he was five, he had a tube surgically inserted in a vein in his chest. This tube was connected to a pump, which he carried in a small backpack on his back. Medications were hooked up to this pump and were continuously supplied through this tube to his bloodstream. At times, he also needed supplemented oxygen to support his breathing.
This dreaded disease eventually wore down even the likes of a little dynamo like Tyler. He grew quite ill and, unfortunately, so did his HIV-infected mother. When it became apparent that he wasn’t going to survive, Tyler’s mom talked to him about death. She comforted him by telling Tyler that she was dying too, and that she would be with him soon in heaven.
A few days before his death, Tyler beckoned me over to his hospital bed and whispered, “I might die soon. I’m not scared. When I die, please dress me in red. Mom promised she’s coming to heaven, too. I’ll be playing when she gets there, and I want to make sure she can find me.”
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June 17th, 2010
Clad in a blue jumpsuit and waving, crew member Sukhrob Kamolov quipped “See you in 520 days!” before hopping into sealed-off chambers Thursday with five other men taking part in a simulated trip to Mars.
To cheers and air kisses from their wives and relatives, three Russians, a Chinese man, a Frenchman and an Italian-Colombian entered the wood-paneled modules where they will live until November 2011, in an experiment to test how isolation affects people.
“So many experiments out there must be done for the first time, and this is what we are doing for Mars,” Anatoly Grigoriev, vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told reporters before the crew “departed.”
But the European Space Agency (ESA) said it would be at least 30 years before humans could go to Mars, adding it would take up to nine months each way to reach it.
Unlike a real trip to the Red Planet, the crew on the record-breaking Mars500 simulated flight, housed in Moscow’s Institute of Biomedical Problems, will have gravity and no exposure to radiation.
But as on a true Mars mission, there is an alcohol ban, no fresh air, vegetables must be grown on board and the only contact with Earth will be via e-mail, with a 40-minute delay.
“When I was a little boy I asked if I could go to Mars and I am now proud that I am part of making this one day happen,” said Frenchman Romain Charles, who added he will bring along his guitar for entertainment.
Wang Yue, who had trained to be an astronaut in China, said he would learn Russian during the 520 days spent closeted away to communicate with the rest of the crew.
Though both English and Russian are official languages on the simulated trip, not everyone has a common tongue.
Led by Russian commander Alexei Sitev, the crew will live and work like astronauts from the $100-billion, 16-nation International Space Station (ISS), and they will split their time between experiments and exercise.
No one will be allowed in or out of the interlinking capsules, where the men — who were picked out of almost 10,000 applicants and are aged between 27 and 38 — will conduct dozens of psychological tests and live in six-meter squared bedrooms.
Thirty days will be spent camping on a red sand-covered Martian surface, lined with black rocks backlit by ruby and whose curved roof glistens with fake stars.
“HARDER FOR WOMEN IN ISOLATION”
Though over a thousand women applied for the venture — which dictates “astronauts” must be under 185cm (6ft 1in) — females are notably absent from the mission.
“It is harder for a woman to be taken out of life and put in isolation,” said Mars500 project director Boris Morukov.
“The most important thing here is motivation, and limitations would upset women. You’re not allowed to talk on a telephone,” he added.
The crewmembers said they would miss women terribly during the simulated trip but that the sacrifice was worth it.
“It will be hard but I just try to recall all the great travelers who found the New World and who were also without their families,” Sitev said.
Last year four Russians, one German and a Frenchman successfully completed a 105-day simulated space trip at the same institute.
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