Archive for March, 2011
Investigation of homosexuality
For a long history, gay and lesbian are discriminated against our society, and the majority people think it is unmoral and unnormal, which in psychology seems as a twist. But nowadays with the fast development of the technology, people gradually realize that it is not a twist of mentality but a natural feeling of love. The reason of why a man being a gay or a woman being a lesbian has been found out by researchers who conclude as basically the instinct of living things and the DNA, also the hormone. But it is still on the air that the sexual orientation is whether inherent or acquired, unchangeable or selectable. Actually the problem of gay is a common one that each period of time, each country and each rank has, Gay bear dating is so plain in our life you shall not be wow if you coincidentally happen to meet them, and you should correct your atitude toward them honestly it is a society which is so tolerant with people.Error processing request
What can you do for the coming term?
Read any materials you get at orientation or that arrive by mail in the summer. Are there books you need to read or supplies you have to buy? You’ll also want to figure out what time school starts and what time the bus will pick you up, if you take one. Then you can decide what time you’ll need to wake up. You also might want to find out when your lunch is. If it’s later than usual, you might want to pack a snack. Also in advance, think about what you’ll wear. Choose something that you like and feel comfortable in, like on a nap mat. If you’ll be wearing a uniform, try it on to see that all the pieces fit and that they feel good. Get to bed on time the night before! Try to get a good night’s sleep — even if you’re so excited you don’t think you can sleep. Before bed, lay out all your stuff so you don’t forget anything. Set your alarm, but tell your mom or dad when you need to get up in case you sleep right through it! On the big day, eat stephen joseph breakfast and be brave. Breakfast might seem shippable if you’re in a major hurry, but don’t cut it out. You’ll feel terrible by mid-morning, just when you need your energy and brain power to navigate your new school. On your way out the door, take everything you need and try to remember that this is a big adventure. You might get lost in the halls. Oh well, it’s your first day! Check in with friends you know and try to be brave and say “hi” to other new kids. Don’t know the kid with the locker next to yours? Say “hello.” You’ll be seeing a lot of each other this year! In class, listen to what the lunch tote teacher says and take notes because it’s hard to remember everything. Try to write down the important stuff — like your locker combination and your homeroom number. Then you can look it over when you get home and be prepared for the second day!
The Ingenious Patriot Story Online
Having obtained an audience of the King an Ingenious Patriot with personalized tote bags pulled a paper from his pocket, saying: “May it please your Majesty, I have here a formula for constructing armour-plating which no gun can pierce. If these plates are adopted in the Royal Navy our warships will be invulnerable, and therefore invincible. Here, also, are reports of your Majesty’s Ministers, attesting the value of the invention. I will part with my right in it for a million tumtums.” After examining the papers, the King put them away and promised him an order on the Lord High Treasurer of the Extortion Department for a million tumtums. “And here,” said the Ingenious Patriot pulling another paper from another pocket, “are the working plans of a gun that I have invented, which will pierce that armour. Your Majesty’s Royal Brother, the Emperor of Bang, is anxious to purchase it, but loyalty to your Majesty’s throne and person constrains me to offer it first to your Majesty having Dallas landscaping. The price is one million tumtums.” Having received the promise of another check, he thrust his hand into still another pocket, remarking: “The price of the irresistible gun would have been much greater, your Majesty, but for the fact that its missiles can be so effectively averted by my peculiar method of treating the armour plates with a new -” The King signed to the Great Head Factotum to approach. “Search this man,” he said, “and report how many pockets he has.” “Forty-three, Sire,” said the Great Head Factotum, completing the scrutiny. “May it please your Majesty,” cried the Ingenious Patriot, in terror, “one of them contains tobacco.” “Hold him up by the ankles and shake him,” said the King; “then give him a check for forty-two million tumtums with a laundry bag and put him to death. Let a decree issue declaring ingenuity a capital offence.”
Cutting out a magnetic career
Paper-cutting is a Chinese folk art dating from the sixth century and is usually regarded as a skill demanding patience and mastered by elderly rural women. It’s hard to imagine that one could learn it quickly, but Wang Ziyue, a college student has made it possible by inventing her own form: magnetic paper-cutting. Now she’s made her own pot of gold.
Wang is a marketing junior at Hangzhou Normal University in Zhejiang Province, yet has still founded two paper-cutting companies in Zhejiang Province since June 2009.
Born in Jincheng, a mountain city in Shanxi Province in 1990, Wang learned paper-cutting from childhood. At age 15, she destroyed one by accident when she stuck it on a car for her cousin’s wedding but it pushed her to discover special materials to make paper-cutting strong enough, as well as easy to stick and restore.
Refrigerator magnets in her home enlightened her. “If paper-cutting was like [them], it would be more convenient to use,” Wang said.
After several experiments, she found a material similar to a soft magnet. Pasting it on self-adhesive stickers with a paper-cutting design, one can cut away the white part, leaving the colorful part remaining; the whole process takes no more than 10 minutes.
Starting the business
Her invention received its national patent when she was 17 at a local high school. As soon as she was admitted by Hangzhou Normal University in 2008, her magnetic paper-cutting work was selected by the Shanxi Provincial Depart-ment of Culture to participate in an exhibition for the Beijing Olympic Games at the Beijing Olympic Park where it was welcomed by visitors.
From this, she earned about 15,000 yuan ($2,275), which encouraged her to build a company to promote her form of paper-cutting.
In June 2009, she invest 30,000 yuan – half of it earned by herself and the other borrowed from relative – to found her first paper-cutting company in Yiwu, China’s largest small-commodity wholesale base in Zhejiang.
New voice for China and Africa
For many, an appearance on CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala is a life-changing experience, a major career milestone before an audience of millions of Chinese. For Ruth Njeri, an African student at Tianjin Normal University (TNU), her performance of a Chinese song during the gala has resulted in a flood of media requests and interviews.
“I feel very excited and I’m ready to accept [the attention],” Njeri told the Global Times. “Some people have called me a star, but I only feel I’m a common student. The past four spring festivals I was in China, I just watched the gala on TV. I never thought one day I’d be performing in it.”
Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Njeri, 25, is a Chinese language and literature senior at TNU’s College of International Education & Exchange. Because of her fluency in Chinese, natural singing ability and many prizes she’s accrued in language competitions, Njeri was recommended by the Beijing-based Confucius Institute headquarters (also known as Hanban), a public organization affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Education, to sing in the CCTV gala.
In a Chinese program entitled Within the Four Seas all Men are Brothers, Njeri got the chance to sing a very personal song, with lyrics like “I’m looking up into the faraway place / To my hometown in Africa” – as written specially for Njeri by the CCTV directors and teachers from Hanban.
Help for jobless grads
Xu Xiaohuan, member of the standing committee of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), called on the government to give unemployed college graduates more attention at the fourth session of the tenth annual CPPCC of Jiangxi Province, held from February 13 to 16 in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
He cited specifically the 15 to 20 percent of college graduates in Jiangxi Province that are unemployed upon graduation or lose their jobs soon after landing temporary employment.
“They are hopeful groups with great potential but have no jobs, no social security and no place to live,” Xu said in an interview.
He called on relevant official departments to establish a communication and interaction system for unemployed students and strengthen the medical, law and financial help for them.
Postcard peddler shares travel dreams
Sending postcards back home while traveling abroad is usually merely an afterthought to exploring the sights and sounds of your new destination. For Ou Nanxi, however, it’s a living.
Since posting an advertisement on taobao.com, one of China’s major e-commerce platforms, on January 18 pitching the chronicles of her travels abroad – in the form of postcards – to interested buyers for 20 yuan ($3) a pop, Ou, a 25-year-old graduate of Changsha University, Hunan Province and current an employee of an Internet company in Haikou, Hainan Province, has scored 147 takers. Setting out over this past Spring Festival holiday to Vietnam, she found herself sharing her travel dreams with people from all over China.
UNESCO announces 2011 laureates of L’Oreal-UNESCO Awards
The Paris-based UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced five scientists winning the 2011 L’Oreal-UNESCO Awards Women in Science on Friday.
The 13th annual L’Oreal-UNESCO Awards will laureate five female professors working respectively in chemistry, physics, astronomy and planetary science on March 3 at UNESCO headquarters,the organization said in a statement.
The winners, each representing one region, are: Faiza Al- Kharafi, Kuwaiti Professor of Chemistry with Kuwait University; Vivian Wing-Wah YAM, Chinese Professor of Chemistry and Energy with the University of Hong Kong; Anne L’Huillier, Swedish Professor of Atomic Physics with Lund University; Silvia Torres- Peimbert, Mexican Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Astronomy with Mexico City University; and Jillian Banfield, U.S. Professor of Earth and Planetary Science with the University of California.
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and the Chairman of L’ Oreal Corporate Foundation Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones will bestow the awards, each with a prize of 100,000 U.S. dollars, on the winners in a way to recognize their work addressing major challenges in modern science.
In addition, an international awards jury also picked up 15 women post-doctoral from science research fellows across the world and will award up to 40,000 U.S. dollars over two years to each of them to help with their research.
The International Fellowships for Women in Science was established in 2000 jointly by UNESCO and L’Oreal Group to praise female fellows’ outstanding research in biotechnology and ecology.
This year, to mark the Centennial of Marie Curie’s winning of Nobel Prize, UNESCO dedicatedly set up a new Special Fellowship ” in the footsteps of Marie Curie” for former recipients of the International Fellowships for Women in Science.
Jamaican biotechnologist Marcia Roye, who won the International Fellowship For Women in Science in 2000 for her research on geminivirus, a crop-destroying insect-borne virus, was awarded the first Special Fellowship.
The disappointing non-farm employment, the Fed chairman Ben Bernanke resolved
The dynamic created by all this positive news, however, was hampered by the numbers of non-farm payrolls very disappointing published Friday, December 3. While markets were expecting 140,000 new jobs for the month of November in the United States, only 39,000 were created. Hiring private also disappointed and came out to 50,000 for the month of November. A statistic that has not created panic in the markets though mediocre. The Paris bourse fell into the red after the release of employment figures in the U.S. before returning to balance and finish up slightly. U.S. markets have meanwhile completed their best week in a month.
The Fed chairman Ben Bernanke made a television appearance on the show “60 Minutes” – which is pretty rare – in response to these figures. He said he did not exclude the possibility of increasing the quantitative easing program. Ben Bernanke said it would depend on inflation and added: “a return to recession seems unlikely” (Source: Wall Street Journal).
A defeat for the Democrats, the numbers of positive non-farm employmentA defeat for the Democrats, the numbers of positive non-farm employment
Two other events occur in the U.S. that same week. Obama loses the House of Representatives, but keep the Senate, it will be one of the worst performances of the Democratic Party in elections U.S. mid-term since 1948. And the third major event is the publication of figures for non-agricultural employment in the United States. The country has announced the creation of 151,000 jobs for the month of October, the highest figure in five months.
Although the unemployment rate in the United States remained unchanged at 9.6%, investors and analysts were encouraged by these figures from the private sector employment.