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Talk with Lei

Hear from one friend got an offer.

My god~~~

I am so nervious.~~~~

I only applied 6 Univs~~

career

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Individual sport Team sport

I love team sports, you know, there's something about team sports. It's so fun. Like you have camaraderie. You have friendship, you know, like you share the thrill of victory or you share, you know, when you lose, the pain of the loss. I just love that. When you do something individually, you just don't have that.

English websites

http://www.englishbaby.com/lessons/2601/real_life/women_in_sports


http://www.webenglishteacher.com/esl.html


http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

A writer- Jackie mitchard

http://www.jackiemitchard.com/

Adeline Yen Mah - "Chinese Cinderella"

Adeline Yen Mah - "Chinese Cinderella"

radio

http://www.cbsradio.com/streaming/index.html/

Blog from Taiwan_English Books

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/trenton-kang/article?mid=15565&prev=15567&next=15563

All 155 survive plane crash in NYC's Hudson River

All 155 survive plane crash in NYC's Hudson River
Buzz Up
NEW YORK – A US Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines, but rescuers pulled all 155 people on board into boats as the plane sank. There were no immediate reports of any serious injuries.

Flight 1549 went down minutes after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport for Charlotte, N.C., splashing into the river near 48th Street in midtown Manhattan.
"There were eyewitness reports the plane may have flown into a flock of birds," said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown. "Right now we don't have any indication this was anything other than an accident."

Passenger Jeff Kolodjay of Norwalk, Conn., said he heard an explosion two or three minutes into the flight, looked out the left side of the Airbus 320 and saw one of the engines on fire.

"The captain said, `Brace for impact because we're going down,'" Kolodjay said. He said passengers put their heads in their laps and started saying prayers. He said the plane hit the water pretty hard, but he was fine.
"It was intense. It was intense. You've got to give it to the pilot. He made a hell of a landing," Kolodjay said.

The plane was submerged in the icy waters up to the windows when rescuers in Coast Guard vessels and ferry boats arrived, opened the door and pulled passengers in yellow life vests from the aircraft, whose fuselage appeared intact. The plane was sinking in the near-freezing water on one of the coldest days of the year, with the mercury around 20 degrees.
Witnesses said the plane's pilot appeared to guide the plane down.

"I see a commercial airliner coming down, looking like it's landing right in the water," said Bob Read, who saw it from his office at the television newsmagazine "Inside Edition." "This looked like a controlled descent."
Barbara Sambriski, a researcher at The Associated Press, saw the plane go down from the news organization's high-rise office. "I just thought, 'Why is it so low?' And, splash, it hit the water," she said.

The pilot reported a "double bird strike" less than a minute after taking off, said Doug Church, a spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Union. The controller sent the aircraft back toward LaGuardia, but the pilot saw an airport below him and asked what it was, Church said. It was Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, and the pilot asked to land there, Church said.
The instruction to land at Teterboro was the last communication with the plane before it went down in the river, Church said.

US Airways said 150 passengers, three flight attendants and two pilots were on board the jetliner.
Joe Mazzone, a retired Delta Air Lines pilot, said it is not unusual for birds to strike planes. In fact, he said, when planes get ready to take off, if there are birds in the area, the tower will alert the crew.

In the rare cases in which birds get sucked into an engine, "they literally just choke out the engine and it quits," Mazzone said.

Twenty-seven years ago this week, an Air Florida plane bound for Tampa crashed into the Potomac River after hitting a bridge just after takeoff from Washington National Airport. The crash on Jan. 13, 1982, killed 78 people including four people in their cars on the bridge. Five people on the plane survived.
On Dec. 20, a Continental Airlines plane veered off a runway and slid into a snowy field at the Denver airport, injuring 38 people. That was the first major crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since Aug. 27, 2006, when 49 people were killed after a Comair jetliner mistakenly took off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Ky.

Barron , Practise English~

keep trying for every mins~

好冷。。。

好冷

天气怎么这么冷！！！


快死了～～
等待宣判～～

save money for rainy days

Money in the mattressOf all the variables in life, job loss may be one of the most disconcerting because the bills just keep coming. In this case, being prepared means having money you can access immediately--and lots of it. Financial experts say you should carry three to six months (more, if you're self-employed) worth of bare bones living expense money in some liquid form, like in a savings or money market account. (We carry an ultra-cautious ten-month supply of cash in the bank, though I never imagined that I'd use the entire thing for major home repairs.) The three-to-six month rule of thumb assumes it'll take about that long to find a new job. But really, who knows? It could take a week or six years.Some layoffs come with a severance package, but it's best to assume you'll get nothing. Taking steps now will give you peace of mind--and some financial wiggle room in the event of job loss.

Feel terrible today

I feel terrible tonight~~~

For my spoken English, for the chances that I missed~

What if I had practiced more in English Corner at NTU, what if i attented the English class together with Qi, what if...

There is no if.

Some time the chance is only once, one time in your life.

If you cannot overcome iBT, what else, can you over come?
An exam that i fight with more than 5 times.
the money you spent is more than ...

What if...

I can nothing to myself, for my fault.

Wait the day, when i was able to express myself fluently in English.
How many times should i wait before the sky is clean?

I donot know, and I am not sure. It is so sad for me.

for arcadia.

my god~~~
the mircale coming ? I didnot know.

Singapore botanic garden

this garden is a wonderful place to go for a simple stroll, watching some children rolling on the turf - laugh with them, have a picnic, immerse in the lush greenery of the garden, get some fresh air, and enjoy life as it should be.

Sport tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each. Each player uses racquet to strike a yellow rubber ball Yellow over a net into the other side of court.

Tennis helps to combat stress and tension of the daily life because hitting the ball liberates the bad energy.

You forget everything because tennis needs a lot of concentration.

The physical aspects of tennis are wide-ranging: balance, speed, quickness, strength.

It moves all parts of the body.

It is a great way to do exercies while having fun with friends.

a person you would like to see again.

We meet many people through our whole life but not everyone we like and respect. In my opinion there are not so many people from our past who we would like to meet again and be close to. I wonder who is still in my memory and who means a lot to me. It seems to me that the person from my past, who I would like to see again, is my friend Jola.

As I recall she was the first person that I met in high school 11 years ago. When we met each other we got on well from the beginning and I’m sure if we kept in touch we would still have a lot in common and our friendship would survive.

Her appearance, smile and optimistic expression made me like her immediately. Jola, who was 16 years old then, was rather slender in addition to being quite tall. She paid much attention to what she was wearing because she was very attractive girl with curly long blond hair and piercing blue eyes. She was so beautiful that she looked like a model. Although she preferred rather elegant and modern style of dressing she liked to be dressed in jeans and T-shirt at weekends. As a result of practicing sport she was in a very good physical condition with well-developed muscles, therefore she was not afraid of frightening or dangerous situations and physical work.

In my opinion, the main reason that made her so special to me was her character. First of all, her kindness and courage was unusual. I am convinced that she would never just pass by when someone was unhappy as she was sensitive and caring girl. She was not only patient, but also helpful and sympathetic to other people.

Another advantage of her was that she did not get annoyed and frustrated and no matter what happened she never lost her temper. Having both a great sense of humor and being funny, Jola was also very intelligent. Although she was calm I believe that no one would ever get bored with her because she was very clever person with many new ideas.

She was friendly, honest and treated people equally that’s why she had a lot of friends. She enjoyed being with other people owing to the fact that she was very sociable and opened. I knew not only her habits but I could always tell her when there was something wrong

. Furthermore, Jola was a splendid companion, no matter if we were learning together or just having fun, we were constantly searching for new ways to laugh. She was working very hard because she wanted to get good marks at school and achieve her ambitions to get in and study at university. In spite of having much to learn and doing the homework on weekdays, she always found some time after school to spend with me. We used to go to the cinema, listen to music or meet our friends while she usually spent weekends with her family at the countryside.

What is more, we shared most of our interests and had the same subjects to talk. Therefore, we could just sit for ages reading books or exchanging ideas. The main reason I would like to see her again is that she paid much attention to friendship and I could rely on her. As far as I am concerned I would not hesitate to share my deepest feelings, thoughts and secrets with her. She never let me down. Another reason is that not only we were best friends and inseparable, but also there was a bond between us that let us understood each other even without words. We could talk about everything as we were like sisters. To conclude, I regret losing contact with her. I’m certain that if she had not move to England, we would still be best friends. I wish I met her again and had a chance to reconstruct the only friendship that I haven’t forgotten about. I will remember my best friend and keep in my mind due to the fact that I appreciate her very much.

She has taught me not only how to live and care, but also how to be a good person. The world would be better if there were more people like her.

Beautiful words about life

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.

It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

seeing the world from a whole new perspective.


there is usually a good little breeze that is pretty refreshing in the summertime.



Solitude Hiking offers a chance to get away from it all.

Hiking

Hiking to Understand Who We Are & Our Place in the Universe


In our hectic, modern lives it is easy to get lost, to lose a sense of who we really are and why we are here. It is easy to get so busy doing so many things that we loose track of why we are doing them. How much of this being busy is a part of our real purpose in life?

Have you ever felt a general sense of dissatisfaction or an inner restlessness? Perhaps it is because you know you have the potential to be more. Perhaps you need a better understanding of the meaning of life to help you focus.

Clearly each of us is an individual with our own unique mix of skills, talents, and abilities. Our modern, mechanized way of life makes it easy to loose track of these. We all too easily become dependent on our material possessions to do almost everything for us including even our thinking and imagination. Each of us can make a difference in the world, but to do so we must first find our purpose in life.

From a spiritual point of view we are more than just our bodies and the electrical activity of our brains. The real essence of who we are lies within. Our bodies and our lives here are merely a means of expression for our true selves that will endure beyond this lifetime.

What gives meaning to our lives is our relationship with our inner selves, our creator, and others. We are each an instrument in the orchestra of life. We honor ourselves when we harmonize with others. To play in harmony we must learn what our part is supposed to be. Playing our part or fulfilling our purpose in life is a balance between looking within and expressing what we discover there through relationship and service to others.

Hiking can help us to tune our instrument. Hiking gives us a break from our ordinary routine and a chance to reconnect with the natural world and ourselves. Hiking can be a time to let your mind soar and contemplate the most difficult problems and abstract ideas. Hiking gives us a chance to leave our mechanized way of life behind for awhile at least and to begin reclaiming our soul's heritage.

While you are hiking and enjoying nature you may from time to time feel a presence that communicates with you through the natural beauty of your surroundings. That presence is your higher self or the deeper, more enduring part of you. Learn to listen to it. It often comes to us as a few moments of wonder while we are observing the magnificence of nature.

With this sense of wonder may also come an increased awareness of purpose not only in your life, but everywhere and in everything. You may discover that there truly is a season for all things. You will begin to feel that you too are a part of the natural flow of all life and all things. From this connectedness with all of nature new joy, delight, and energy will flow into you.

Spend the free time

No need to concern about any deadlines, the thing you need to do is just hear to the peace.

How to stay in the moment

http://www.onsimplicity.net/2008/12/how-to-stay-in-the-moment/


How to Stay in the Moment
Posted on December 19th, 2008 in Happiness, Personal Development, Relationships
Take a few seconds and think back on your favorite moments. Are you thinking about doing something in those moments, or are you actually doing something? There’s a really good chance that in your most prized experiences, you’re doing, not just thinking about doing.
That’s one huge reason why learning how to stay in the moment is so important. While it’s true that anticipation is one of the best parts of life, your most treasured times are those lived fully in the moment. Often (but not always), your most memorable experiences—the ones that stand out from all the others—are those when you’re caught up in the moment, while the time spent planning ahead or reminiscing about the past are mostly forgotten.
Four Paths to Staying in the Moment
There’s more than one way to experience moments of flow, but here are four of the simplest:
1. Practice a gentle form of meditation. Say you’re in the middle of a fun or unique experience, and all of the sudden, you’re wondering whether you remembered to lock the door. Or feed the dog. Or how to ask your boss for a raise. You’re letting your mind take you out of the experience. Don’t worry. Just bring your mind to back to what’s going on right now. Each time your mind wanders, just bring it back gently, without worrying about why you’re not staying focused.
2. Set yourself up for moments worth remembering. It’s hard not to live in the moment when you’re experiencing something novel, exciting, or simply breathtaking. So practice creating these moments for yourself. Take the scenic sundown walk, go snowboarding after the next big snow, or head out for a night of fun with friends.
3. Focus on the five senses. Take a deep breath. What does the moment smell like? What sounds do you hear? What do you feel on your skin? These are the details that make each moment special. When you can’t stop the interior monologue from intruding, take a minute or two to create a mental catalog of what this moment feels, smells, looks, sounds, and tastes like for you. It can be a pretty effective way of quelling that inner voice, and at the very least, gives you a few minutes to savor the moment before returning to what’s on your mind.
4. Try journal writing. This is one way to get out of meta-thinking (thinking about thinking). By giving yourself an allotted time each day to reflect on the previous hours, you can think all those lovely deep thoughts without trying to mentally record them in your head as they happen. You’re free to experience the moment now, and reflect on it later.
Moment Killers: Watch Out For…
Trying to hard to record a moment. Working too hard to “capture” a moment can, in effect, kill it. Whether you’re trying to find the perfect words to describe how you feel or scrambling to capture a photo for Facebook documentation, it’s can be counterproductive. Truly great moments don’t have to be recorded for you to remember them. Enjoy it for what it’s worth and be willing to let it go when it’s done.
Worrying. Guess what? Unless you can take action, worrying won’t get you anymore. It’s human nature to worry, but try not to be a slave to worrywart-ism (a serious challenge for me!). I don’t think you can totally axe worry and concern, but you can accept that you’ve made a choice to act or not to act, and that you’ll deal with the consequences later.
It’s time to hear your views! How do you live in the moment? Are there times when it’s important not to live the moment?

Five reasons to read fashion magazine

http://www.arabia.msn.com/Women/FashionAndBeauty/2008/april/FiveReasonsReadFashionMagazines.aspx

Five Reasons Why You Should Always Read Fashion Magazines

Sometimes reading fashion magazines can be depressing. All the models are so perfect and most women are not. Even so, a good fashion magazine is a woman's most important fashion accessory.


Apart from being fun to read and beautiful to look at, fashion magazines offer the most up-to-date tips on absolutely everything about the fashion world, including all the latest trends and designs, without which, a women can't even hope to begin making sense of what she should or should not wear.


Here are five reasons why women (and men!) should always read fashion magazines.


1.Fashion magazines know who their readers are: they are women of all shapes and sizes and ages. You'll find that fashion magazines are changing their philosophy about what to feature in their pages and are now catering to the more voluptuous women and men. Sure, the skinny models are still stunningly plastered all over the pages, but that doesn't mean that fashion magazines are not for you if you are plus size. You'll find hints and tips about fashion that are applicable to all women and you might even come across a fashion spread for plus sizes.


2.Some people think that fashion magazines manipulate women into becoming victims of fashion; that they force them to believe they always need to be updating their wardrobes. This is not really the case. If you read creatively, you'll see that you can a lot from what what you see and read without actually going out and spending money.

You may find that you can alter some of the clothes you already own, or wear them in a different way, to keep them in line with current trends.


3.Obviously fashion magazines are full of advertisements that want to sell some new clothing, but if you look beyond that you'll find that fashion magazines are really just one ongoing tutorial on the fashion world. By reading and applying what you read to your real life, you can learn what types of clothes will suit your type of body shape, you will learn how to mix and match what you already own and develop your own new look. Sometimes, even the advertisements are helpful, letting you know about cheap designer clothes, for example.


4.One major source of excellent information in fashion magazines are the advice columns and letters pages. Here readers can send in queries about any fashion dilemma and the magazine experts will offer the latest advice. Where else can you find such invaluable information? Send in your own questions or study others. Almost everything applies to all women, everywhere, regardless of shape, size or fashion sense.



5.Fashion magazines may feature an abundance of very thin models, but don't be mistaken that you should go on a crash diet in order to look like them. Look for the articles on healthy eating, instead. Photographers and designers may have a specific fashion philosophy that currently exploits thin women, but remember it was not always like that. Fashionable body shape changes almost as often as fashions change.


Look for the designers that design clothes for all body types. Remember, fashion editors and publishers want to create an aesthetic experience within the glossy pages of their publication, they are not health doctors issues advice.


In short, fashion magazines should be read when and how you want. Take everything in, but chose what is relevant to you and your life and your own unique fashion philosophy. Be informed, but don't be persuaded. In the end, you will dress yourself they way you want.



Read more:How Fashionable Are You?
Are You A Fashion Victim Or a Fashion Heroine?
Fashion Tips for Petite Women
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iBT- TOEFL materials

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=19&ID=172397&page=1

A good leader

http://joannayanz.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-effective-leader-needs.html

an website to find articles on personal value and family, social values

http://www.helium.com/channels/774-Personal-Morals-Values

Learn from mistakes

The lessons you learn from making mistakes, are not always the lessons that you wanted to learn, but they usually end up being the best lessons possible for you to learn from in the most productive way.


Never be discouraged because we all make mistakes and which are really just sharpening your learning curve. Learn and sharpen, and sharpen and learn, and you will make less mistakes, and get better as you build on your learning's. Becoming discouraged and feeling guilty for making our mistakes are of course perhaps always one of the biggest of mistakes that we can make.

The author and motivational speaker, Stephen R Covey once made a very pointed and poignant observation about making mistakes. He is the well known author of the book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", first published in 1989.

He said the following:
"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and then learn from it, immediately."

And is this true I asked myself?
I think that for myself I nearly always try to defend my weaknesses, when someone points them out to me, as I don't often readily admit them, either to myself or to others. I don't like criticism and I will defend myself, even if I am wrong or even when it is the truth that they are telling me. I will try to say that it's not actually true in all circumstances, and maybe I might then admit to it only in one small instance.

Setting up a defence like this is not building a learning curve, and then moving on, with the lesson firmly on board. It's usually staying right where you are, and it is only defending your own current position. Doing this you become entrenched more in your present position, and so you will have a harder time learning what really needed to be learnt from this criticism, or from this learning experience. For in truth all experiences are learning experiences if we remain humble enough to see the lesson contained in it, and when we are big enough to admit to our own faults, and then to admit that we don't know it all, already.

There is learning in every experience, and we can learn from every experience.

It's much better not to argue about our weaknesses or strengths, or to argue about anything. Just admit to your actual position which includes any mistakes and any weaknesses and try to see the truth that is in all things. This is what Covey's quote is really saying. He wants us to follow truth, and to not try to only steer ourselves.


away from truth by defending falsehoods, or mistakes, or even our beliefs.

Admit to the truth as soon as you see it, and so more quickly recognise the false paths and the mistakes, and then return again back to the truth, for this remains for all of us, the only real path forward. You can only go forward from a mistake by seeing the bigger picture in which the mistake has occurred, and perhaps seeing now that it is no longer a mistake, but actually it is a part of your overall journey, and the life picture that you are taking or painting, for yourself.

All mistakes therefore serve you, and move you on to learn the lessons that will take you to the next mistake, or lesson always endlessly coming towards you. It's all in how you view it, as a mistake or as a lesson, and that's life, your life, simply the way that life is and set up to be. Life then is either seen as a series of mistakes, or a series of life lessons and learning experiences. No life is a mistake, and all of us are learning this in one way or another. And there's no mistake about that!

There is an interesting paradox existing in some of our lives here about making mistakes in our lives. Some of us are not really looking for solutions or lessons from our making of these mistakes at all. Solutions are not what you actually want, you only want not to have a problem. You only do not want to make another such mistake.

The truth is though that you will keeping making similar mistakes, and sometimes the very same mistake, until you learn the particular life learning lesson that is always embedded into the mistakes somewhere.

Every mistake is an opportunity to learn and to expand our self knowledge to a point past where this particular mistake can ever occur in that exact way ever again. We need to learn to learn from our mistakes, so as we do not need to revisit them once more again. Life is a hard taskmaster, and it always ensures that you will learn in one way or another. The lesson is always about learning another new aspect about love, and the way that love works, and can work for us all in our lives

The way past problems and their annoying influence is to see the problem for what it is. When you first recognise a problem, the first step is to simply accept it, and then to just live with it for now. Accept it, look at it from different angles and perspectives, and love it and what is might be bringing to you, and treat it with a real respect.

Allow the problem to actually begin to solve itself,
as you and your life grow together into where the problem is moving you towards. If you stop, and if you are stopped by your problems, you will never get past them to where you are really going, and to a point where these problems will actually all then drop off for themselves. All problems disappear when you grow yourself past the point of now seeing them as a problem to now embracing them as just another aspect of love, and an opportunity to grow into that love, and to learn and to understand it more.

God allows us to reach the low points in life, because this is the only way to ever reach the high points.

Learning from the lowest points of your life is always the greatest of your learning's at any point in your life. You learn the most from the hardest of lessons. The learning is forced into you in some way, because you are now really intensely listening and at last paying full attention.

A mistake might be, for example to eat junk foods for so many years that you become a diabetic, and then finally this becomes a great learning of some of the underlying truths of your inner and outer being. And so you now become diet conscious, learning all about nutrition, and establishing a linkage from your physical self, back to your own thoughts and ways of believing, and establishing whether you are now acting responsibly or not.
In short you learn to love yourself as you are, and to then make the very best of where you find yourself right now, for the rest of your ongoing remaining life.

You have perhaps learned the hard way, but the truth is that now you have actually finally learned that which you could have not leant in any other way. A mistake is usually the very best way to learn, and an unparalleled opportunity to learn what not to do the next time around.

Learning is really about the aware observing of our own mistakes.
"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state." Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 to 1882) American philosopher.

Olbama McCain debate

http://www.youdecide2008.com/2008/09/27/video-obama-mccain-debate-from-mississippi-9-26-08/

The debate transcripts
http://www.ilisten.cn/showdetail.asp?id=12805

There are address
1.. Presendial debate- Foreign policy
2. Presendial debate- Economy
3. Presdedial debate-final
4. A prefect Union- Philidaphia
5. Obama's keynote address - 2004 DNC

Oh, My God, a good material to learn english~

I just found these videoes, It seems a little late for me, but at least, it is not too late for me to catch up with the way.~~~

I prefer Olbama, not only I think he is more polite and his words are more logic. But he is kind, and more friendly. While, McCain, not so good.
I didnot agree with Mccain's policy.

Olbama:
1. he encourage education, promote research and technology, I think it benefits our student. Most of all, he support the energy policy on alternative energy or renewable energy such as, solar, wind, fuel-cell, etc.

My major is closed related with the energy.
I though I should do my future research on the interconnection of the wind, sloar panel into Utility Grid.

It is exciting. I hope that the US government invests more money on this area, which means that there is more oppertunities for me~~~~

Make a wish~~~ for my future 2009~

Chinese new year

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.
The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.
The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.
The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year's Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. The communal feast called "surrounding the stove" or weilu. It symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations.

Chinese Lion, China culture

http://www.chcp.org/lion.html



http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/events/chinesenewyearparade.html

New Year in New York City

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ghOAcLuSJKsaI9p-XPLBFcj_c0pg


New Year in New York City's Chinatown: culture, shopping, food
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NEW YORK — The Year of the Ox begins Jan. 26 and stores all over Chinatown are selling bright red decorations to mark the new year. But while it's easy to pick up cheap souvenirs at shops around the neighbourhood, it's also worth spending a day seeking out the unfamiliar.
You can sample new dishes, listen to a two-stringed fiddle called an erhu, or even visit a Buddhist temple.
Michael Moi, spokesman for the Chinatown Partnership, which was formed after the Sept. 11th attacks to promote the area and preserve local culture, encourages visitors to "open themselves up when it comes to Chinatown, and disregard preconceived notions. People recognize that Chinatown is good for good food and shopping, but there's a lot more to it. We're a cultural centre, and people should bring a sense of adventure when they visit."
Dim sum restaurants, where small plates of food are offered from carts that circle the dining room, offer an easy and inexpensive way to try new dishes. Typical fare includes dumplings filled with shrimp, pork and vegetables, stuffed tofu rolls, sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves, and mildly sweet desserts like egg custard tarts and sesame seed balls with red bean paste.
There's no shortage of dim sum places in Chinatown, but a good one that's a little tricky to find is the Golden Unicorn, at 18 E. Broadway near Catherine Street; take the elevator up to the dining room. Dim sum is served Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and weekends beginning at 9 a.m.; most dishes are US$3.75 each. The restaurant offers a regular pre-order menu for dinner. Don't be surprised if you're seated at a large round table with other customers; it's common practice in Chinatown and may inspire you to try something new recommended by your tablemate. (Bills are tallied separately.)
Gift shops are also ubiquitous in Chinatown. Wind-up toys and shiny red wall hangings spill from every other storefront along Mott Street south of Canal. But a few specialty stores are worth exploring in depth. Ten Ren Tea at 75 Mott St. sells tea that ranges from $2 a bag for regular jasmine to $144 for a pound of "King's Tea."
At 50 Mott St. you'll find Yunhong Chopsticks, a boutique that sells nothing but chopsticks, from $1.99 plastic chopsticks to $600 chopsticks made from black ebony in beautiful display cases. Some chopsticks are engraved and some are inlaid with seashells. The Yunhong company is based in China and has stores there, it also sells chopstick styles from Korea and Japan. The more expensive sets are bought for wedding and housewarming gifts.
Store manager Richard Lam says "chopsticks have a lot of culture," and he'll gladly explain the significance of any chopsticks you take a fancy to. For example, he says, traditional Chinese chopsticks are round at the bottom and square at the top to symbolize "common people on the earth and gods in the sky."
Pearl River Mart is another must for serious shoppers, even though its location at 477 Broadway north of Grand Street puts it closer to Soho than the heart of Chinatown. Look around this vast emporium for Asian goods and you'll be tempted to throw out everything you own and start over again with new home decor and a new wardrobe. Lamps shaped like Chinese takeout boxes are $18.50, silk evening bags are $8.50, richly coloured cushion covers with delicate floral designs are $8.50, and sandalwood scented soaps are three for $1.25.
Some shoppers come to Pearl River with specific needs, like Mia Hockett of Burlington, Vt., who knelt in an aisle twirling parasols with her fiance Adam Blake. "We're buying parasols for our wedding next summer in Vermont," she explained.
On the other side of the neighbourhood is the Mahayana Buddhist Temple at 133 Canal St. It's a busy location, near the ramp to the Manhattan Bridge and next to the Fung Wah bus stop, where college students line up for cheap tickets to Boston.
But walk past the golden lions at the entrance and inside you'll find an oasis of peace. Here worshippers light incense, leave offerings of food and flowers, and fold their hands in devout prayer to Buddha, represented by a smiling golden five-metre-tall statue.
"They come to say 'Thank you for a wish come true,"' explained Molly Chen, who works in the temple, "or if someone in their family passes away, people ask Buddha to give them a better life in the next life." Chen said January is a busy month, as people seek good luck and protection for the new year.
The temple is open to the public. On a recent day, tourists from Holland, France and Ohio were among those buying paper fortunes for $1 and reading the story of Buddha's life in a series of illustrated signs on the walls.
Another side of Chinatown is best experienced outdoors. Many markets have open-air displays of fish, vegetables and fruit like the exotic green durian. Vendors sell bags of tiny sweet pancakes, cooked on griddles in streetcarts, for $1.50. A statue of Confucius can be found on Bowery Avenue south of Canal Street. A few blocks south of there stands a monument to Lin Zexu, who crusaded against the opium trade in the 19th century and whose statue describes him as a "pioneer in the war against drugs."
Near Mott Street, in Columbus Park, you might find seniors practising tai chi or a man playing the erhu. He sells the instruments from a cart, $350 apiece. Look for the dragon head carved into the scroll of the neck.
Sara Delano Roosevelt Park is home to the Wah-Mei Bird Garden (near Chrystie and Broome streets), where bird owners bring their pets in ornate cages to get fresh air. On a chilly winter morning, four or five men hung cages from cross-poles there; one whistled to his bird and the creature trilled back. On a warm spring weekend, dozens of bird owners gather here.
If you're up for more than a day trip to Chinatown, check out the Best Western Bowery Hanbee Hotel at 231 Grand St. and the Holiday Inn at 138 Lafayette St. Both have rooms around $200 - a bargain for Manhattan.
You'll find a good map of the area and lots of information about things to see and do at http://www.ExploreChinatown.com. Or stop by the Official NYC Information Kiosk at the triangle of Canal, Walker and Baxter streets, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., near the Canal Street subway stops on the N, Q, R, W and 6 trains. The neighbourhood is also served by the F train to East Broadway, and the D or B trains to Grand Street.
If you're visiting in late January or early February, catch some New Year's festivities. There will be lion dances on Jan. 26 and Feb. 8 in and around the neighbourhood, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., and a ceremony with firecrackers Jan. 26, at noon in the Sara Delano Roosevelt Park soccer field near Canal and Forsyth streets by the Manhattan Bridge.
The Museum of Chinese in America offers New Year's Walking Tours, Jan. 17, 24 and 31, 1 p.m - 2:30 p.m., with stops for shopping and tasting. Tickets are $15 (students and seniors, $12; children under five free). Tours depart from 70 Mulberry St., second floor; reservations at http://www.mocanyc.org or 212-619-4785.
A New Year's parade is scheduled for Feb. 1, beginning at 1 p.m., with a route that includes Mott Street, Chatham Square, East Broadway, Allen Street, Grand Street and Chrystie Street, and a performance in Sara Delano Roosevelt Park, noon-4 p.m.
Cantonese Opera performances are offered at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, 62 Mott St., every weekend through March. The Museum of Chinese in America is sponsoring a family-oriented Lunar New Year Arts Festival, Jan. 18, noon-5 p.m. at the Children's Museum of the Arts, 182 Lafayette St., with workshops and performances in art, music, dance and theatre ($10 admission).

america accent

http://www.americanaccent.com/pronunciation.html#vc

travel to paris

One of the most beautiful cities of the surface of earth is none other than Paris.
Located in France the city stands tall as the most beautiful and famous city in the world. Eifel tower is one place which catches the eyes of all the visitors who gather at this place.

Famous for its fashion, designers and painting Paris is a place which has been the centre of attraction for ages.
Picasso and many other famous painters have been associated with this unique place. It has the biggest galleries one can wish for. The museum and the art exhibition centre at this famous place really take the breath off.

Fashion is one other thing which comes as part and parcel with this famous place so if you are a fashion and art lover and want to travel this is the place you must strive for.

Paris is simply a marvellous institution for art and fashion.

Leader or follower?

Are you a leader or a follower?
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Charisma—Martin Luther King, Jr., had it. Joe Paterno, Bill Gates and Meg Whitman all have it, too. Whether from the pulpit, the sidelines or the boardroom, each of these leaders have relied in part on charisma to inspire their organizations and achieve great success.

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In the corporate world, leadership talent is such a hot commodity that it is worth an expensive fight: Google, Microsoft and Motorola are all involved in mega-lawsuits over enticing away executives from each other's companies. Today's businesses face a leadership drought: 77 percent of companies say they don't have enough qualified employees to succeed their most senior managers, according to a recent survey from Right Management Consultants.
Those who can lead have the world at their fingertips. So how can you tell if you are a leader or follower?
First of all, says David Day, a Penn State psychology professor who has studied leadership for nearly 20 years, you're not one or the other. You can fulfill both roles even in the same situation.
"Leadership is a dynamic process, not a position," says Day. "The kinds of challenges organizations face today are too complex for any one individual to figure out. The day of the superhero leader who figures everything out for everyone else is gone."
For example, whenever those perceived as followers in a group do something that helps set direction, build commitment, or align the group with a larger mission, they are leaders, says Day. Even the seemingly passive act of listening to someone is a leadership skill, Day explains. "People who feel heard are more likely to embrace a concept or company. Listening builds commitment."
"We have pre-conceived notions," continues Day, "that leaders are always out in front directing the band, but the process is much more complex, and it really involves everybody on the team."
Nevertheless, some people surface as visible leaders. What qualities do they share? Charisma is one that is easy to spot. You know it when you see it. Some people magically draw others to them, says Day.
Size matters, too. On the playground, the biggest kids tend to dominate the others. But there is so much more to real leadership, says Day. Would-be leaders often fail because they relied too much on bullying people physically or psychologically. "Leadership in the adult world requires a lot more than being the biggest, baddest hombre," asserts Day. "It depends upon influencing others through interpersonal processes and also working through even more abstract processes like dialogue."
Natural leaders tend to be competent, self-confident and socially assertive, Day adds. They also tend to be able to get along with just about anybody in any group. Known as "social chameleons," these folks adjust to meet the expectations of the important people around them, he clarifies. They are also known as interpersonally flexible and "high self-monitors," a term for those who readily adapt their behavior to external cues. On the flip side, low self-monitors tend to have a strong set of internal values and resist changing to please someone else.
When it comes to finding success and moving up in the business world, the social chameleons have the edge. To find out what personality traits help people make career advancements, Day and colleague Martin Kilduff, tracked the early careers of 139 Cornell MBA graduates for five years. As they reported in the Academy of Management Journal, Day and Kilduff found that the high self-monitors generally were more likely to get promotions, change companies and make geographical moves than individuals characterized as low self-monitors.
Whether you're a high or low self-monitor, self-awareness and honest feedback are the keys to improving your leadership skills, says Day. He suggests using a technique called 360-degree feedback as part of a leadership development program or on one's own.
"The point is to get other people's perspectives on you as a leader and then try to reconcile them with your self-perception," Day explains. "If there are large discrepancies between how you see yourself and how others see you that's a big red flag," says Day.
Your success is doomed if subordinates don't think they can trust you, no matter how honest you are, because they won't go above the call of duty, he says. But if others have confidence in your judgment and you can work with just about anybody, you've got what it takes to lead.

Benefits of on line teaching

Benefits of Online Learning
Adapted from: Educational Benefits of Online Learning: A Blackboard Tip Sheet; found at: http://resources.blackboard.com/scholar/general/pages/ictraining/Online_Learning_Benefits.pdf

Student CommunicationCommunication between students increases. Students are encouraged to participate in a non-threatening environment, especially when anonymous discussion boards are used. Online forums, like Blackboard's Discussion Board and Chat, provide public areas to post information. Each student can view another student's answers and learn through the exposure to different perspectives. This benefits students because they can combine new opinions with their own, and develop a solid foundation for learning.

Students experience a sense of equality Another benefit to using web-based communication tools is giving all students a reinforced sense of equality. Each individual has the same opportunity to "speak up" by posting messages without typical distractions such as seating arrangements, volume of student voices, and gender biases. Shy and anxious students feel more comfortable expressing ideas and backing up facts when posting online instead of speaking in a lecture room. Studies prove that online discussions provoke more confrontational and direct communication between students.

Instructors are more accessible Online Communication also benefits students by providing additional layer of instructor accessibility. Students in courses supplemented by products like Blackboard no longer have to worry if they cannot make an instructor's regular office hours. They can still submit inquiries via e-mail at any time. This is good for the instructor too, as he/she can respond at their convenience instead of being tied to a desk or office. This is particularly helpful when a student's schedule conflicts with office hours or if a question arises at the spur of the moment. For example: A Blackboard course web site is supplementing an on-campus math course. On a Sunday night, a student is reviewing an assignment, thinks of a question, and e-mails it to the instructor. The instructor reads the e-mail Monday morning, looks up the answer, brings up the relevant information to the class during the Monday lecture, and the entire class benefits. If the student waited until office hours on Tuesday, perhaps the integration into the lecture would not have occurred, or maybe if the student asked the question during class on Monday, the instructor would not have had the time to frame the question correctly.

Enabling student-centered teaching approaches. Each student has a unique learning style. Some students are visual learners, some learn better when they "learn by doing." Web-based learning environments permit the instructor to build one course, yet implement a variety of resources to help the needs of each student. An instructor can present materials in many formats to accommodate different learning styles. For example: An instructor puts both lecture notes and slides online, both visual and auditory learners benefit. Students who prefer to focus on "listening" and "watching" during lecture do not have to worry that they are missing important concepts while scrambling to take notes.

Student OrganizationStudents with attention difficulties or those who get overwhelmed by organizational tasks also benefit, because online materials show how the instructor has grouped and prepared the information in the handouts, and indicate what items are most important. Instructors can post calendars and other aids to help students stay organized in the course.

Provide opportunities for exploration and additional 'rehearsal' timeInstructors can increase the opportunity for student exploration and activity learning by providing links to related websites. Content is reinforced, and students can see how course material is utilized in "real world" situations. Typically, students rehearse information only when studying for exams or complete assignments. However, they also rehearse information when formulating thoughts into sentences and typing those thoughts into the computer. When instructors post discussion questions in the online portion of a course, students must reflect on the subject matter before responding. This results in articulation of content, and the very process of reporting and writing about what they have learned engages students in the learning process.

Provide 24/7 accessibility to course materialsSome students work best in the morning, some in evening. Some students commute and others take night classes. Scheduling time for homework and group projects can be difficult depending on each student's course, job, and personal responsibilities. When course content and activities are provided online, students no longer need to worry about accessing course materials. Busy students can choose to download readings or take practice exams whenever it is most convenient, in the evening after kids are put to bed, or at 4am during a bout of insomnia. Continual access to course documents also insures students can obtain materials at any time, removing excuses like: "The library was closed," or, "All the copies of reserve readings were checked out," or "I missed that handout during your lecture."

Provide just-in-time methods to assess and evaluate student progressOnline assessment tools provide instructors with many ways to build, distribute, and compile information quickly and easily. Interactive quizzes, polls, exercises, writing assignments, and discussion postings can provide a timely evaluation of student learning, without requiring additional classroom attention. Feedback can be provided via email or a discussion board. For example: An instructor assigns students to watch a political debate on television at 8pm on Sunday night. He wants to assess students' opinion of the issue to discuss during Monday's lecture. The instructor creates a short poll using Blackboard's Quiz/Survey engine. After the show, students log in and complete the survey. The results are tallied automatically and available for the instructor in plenty of time for lecture.

Maximize the classroom experienceInstructors using online materials no longer have to spend valuable classroom time dealing with "administrivia." The 15 minutes at the start of each class typically spent distributing handouts, collecting assignments, and making announcements can be utilized for teaching when administrative tasks are managed through online tools. Copying and distributing handouts alone is a big time-saver. Email and discussion boards can be used to collect student assignments and reflections.

Reduce faculty workload Instructors can also save time using online tools. Interactive quizzes used to deliver tests can automatically score and record results, all the grading and analysis is automated. Student participation can easily be monitored on a discussion board, and email communication is often quicker and more efficient than classroom or office hour time for addressing student concerns.

Why internships are important to students

From this link
http://www.brokegradstudent.com/why-internships-are-a-college-students-best-friend/

Why Internships Are A College Student’s Best Friend
by Broke Grad Student on February 26, 2008


“What are you going to do this summer?”
I can’t even remember how many times I’ve heard that question throughout my life. Okay, I can probably figure it out by counting how many years of my life I’ve spent in school and multiplying it by 10. I must admit that I’ve been guilty of asking this question to my friends back in college. The idea of having a “summer” still intrigues me to this day. In fact, 2008 will be the first year since I started kindergarten that I’m not going to have a summer break.
Some people like to travel over the summer. Some people like to work. Some people even enjoy sitting at home in front of a computer blogging all day. I’ve tried all three, and each one has its pros and cons. However, in over two decades of summer vacations, my favorite summers were in college. In particular, the best experiences I had were the two summers in which I participated in internships.
While an internship may not sound as exciting as backpacking across Europe or sleeping in till 1 PM everyday, every internship I have had has turned out to be a blast. No matter how much you enjoy being lazy, you have to admit that summer does get pretty boring after a while if you don’t have anything to do. With that being said, here are four reasons why I think internships are a college student’s best friend.
You get paid.
All right, not all internships are paid, but the larger the company, the more likely it is that they’ll pay you. While a paid internship is definitely preferable, you will probably still get something out of an unpaid internship. After I interned at a small consulting company one summer, they sent a massive care package to me the following semester at school. Even if you don’t get money or a care package, you will still gain something very valuable from the experience, which brings us to the next reason on the list.
You get experience.
An internship gives you the opportunity to get practical experience in a field. When you get job interviews after graduating, most employers will be more impressed to see that you have practical experience rather than classroom experience. If you’re lucky, you might even land an internship at a company that you want to work at after you graduate. Some companies even use internships to see if people are a good fit before hiring them on full time.
You get a break from school.
Everyone needs to take a break from what they’re doing every once in awhile. While working may not sound like taking a break, it will feel like one because work is so much different from school. You’ll most likely get a little taste of the 9-to-5 routine, but the great part about an internship is that it’s short. It’s kind of like trying on shoes. If the shoe doesn’t fit, then you can throw it out and try a different one. If it does fit, then you can start working towards obtaining a full time job in that field.
You meet new people.
If there’s one thing I wish they would have emphasized more in college, it’s the importance of networking. The truth is that there are plenty of other people out there who are just as talented as you are, competing for the same jobs that you’re trying to get. So if all of these people seem equally skilled on paper, how does an employer decide who to hire?
Some employers may check references from previous bosses or rely on referrals from current employees. Others may have strong ties with certain colleges and primarily hire students from those schools. Notice how all of the things I just mentioned have nothing to do with you. Instead, they all depend on the network of people and places that you’re associated with. Being skilled at something does you no good if the employers who need your skills aren’t able to find you. By meeting more people, you increase your chances of being found and expand your opportunities for finding an ideal job. An internship is a great opportunity to meet new people, make new connections, and start showing other people what you’re capable of achieving.

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In order to improve my Written english, I decide to use this blog to record my life everyday, since now~~~


keep on going~~

I should sleep now~~