Archive for October 9th, 2009
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Chatting on the Internet
Next to e-mail, the most popular activity on the net is chatting. And if you ask someone what they talk most about the Internet, chances are they will answer that they like to chat. This seems especially true of the younger generation.
Chatting is like any other social interaction. We all know that if we go into a group of people at a party or at school and start screaming or start asking everyone their age before we even say hello, we aren’t going to make many friends. Chat rooms are different. Below are some tips that will make you chat experience friendly and fun!
Walking into a room and demanding age or sex is the most common mistake a new chatter makes. Most regular chatters will ignore the question and you. In a community such as Youth Tech you will usually find people of all ages and backgrounds. That is the fantastic thing about online chatting. Don’t limit yourself. Talk to everyone in the room equally. You will soon know who shares your interests and who doesn’t. If you prefer a one-on-one type of online friendship then maybe you’d better look for a pen pal.
Shy? Lots of people feel shy when they enter a chat room where everyone seems to know everyone else expect them. It’s really easy to feel left out. The best way to lose that feeling is to make yourself feel that you are not a stranger.
Basically the best way to have a good chat experience is to be yourself and friendly. Try to join in the conversations going on and don’t be afraid to ask for help. Do remember, however, not everyone is going to be nice and friendly. The same as at school, there is also going to be a few people that are rude and just make you feel rotten. The best thing to do is just ignore them. Arguing with them will just make it worse. Show that you are better than they are by just refusing to let them get to you.
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After having his cancer-ridden leg amputated, young Canadian Terry Fox vowed to run on one leg from coast the entire length
of Canada to raise $1 million for cancer research. Forced to quit halfway when the cancer invaded his lungs, he and the foundation he started have raised over $20 million for cancer research.Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals. She once said: “My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.”
Franklin D.Roosevelt was paralyzed by polio at the age of 39,
and yet he went one to become one of America’s most beloved and influential leaders. He was elected president of the United States four times.Sarah Bernhardt, who is regarded by many as one of the greatest actresses who ever lived, had her leg amputated as a result of an injury when she was 70 years old, but she continued to act for the next eight years.
Louis L’Amour, successful author of over 100 western novels with over 200 million copies in print, received 350 rejections before he made his first sale. He later became the first American novelist to receive a special congressional gold medal in recognition of his distinguished career as an author and contributor to the nation through his historically based works.
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Good Table Manners Make You Perfect
Are you table manners much better when you are eating at a friend’s home or in a restaurant than they are at your own home? Probably so, because you are aware that people judge you by your table manners. You make special pains when you are eating in public. Have you ever stopped to realize how much less self-conscious you would be on such occasions if good table manners had become a habit for you? You can make them a habit by practicing good table manners at home.
Good manners at mealtimes help you and those around you to feel comfortable. This is true at home as much as it is true in someone else’s home or in a restaurant. Good manners make
meals more enjoyable for everyone at the table.By this time you probably know quite well what good table manners are. You realize that keeping your arms on the table; talking with your mouth full, and wolfing down your food are not considered good manners. You know also that if you are mannerly, you say “Please” and “Thank you” and ask for things to be passed to you. You know, if you do like this, both you and others will be in good mood. Other person around you will find that you are a good guy and will praise you in their hearts. Also, you will be happy, too.
Have you ever thought of a pleasant attitude as being essential to good table manners? Not only are pleasant mealtimes enjoyable, but they aid digestion. The dinner table is a place for enjoyable conversation. It should never become a battleground. You are definitely growing in social maturity when you try to be an agreeable table companion.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival in China
This year, there is something special about the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, because it falls on October 3, overlapped with the country’s National Day holiday, and people in China could have eight days for holiday. That is so exciting and people can get together for enjoying the long holiday.
The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival, the third and last festival for the living, is celebrated to the fifteenth day of the autumn equinox. Many referred to it simply as the “Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon”. In the western calendar, the day of the festival usually occurs sometime between the second week of September and the second week of October. This day is also considered a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain has been harvested by this time and food is abundant. With delinquent accounts settle prior to the festival, it is a time for relaxation and celebration. Food offerings are placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates, melons, oranges and pomelos might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro, edible snails from the taro patches or rice paddies cooked with sweet basil and water caltrope, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insist that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro is the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival.The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in
diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resemble western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes are made with melon seeds, lotus seeds, almonds, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard. A golden yolk from a salted duck egg is placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust is decorated with symbols of the festival.In China, there are several famous Chinese poems about the Mid-Autumn festival. The mostly widespread is the poem written by Li Bai: Thoughts in the Silent Night
Besides my bed a pool of light—
Is it hoarfrost on the ground?
I lift my eyes and see the moon,
I bend my head and think of home.
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Someone in Fashion (2)
You can’t really talk about fashion without talking about Madonna. Though she might be all grown up now, her 1980s
attire launched a thousand teenage girls to run around the mall and copy her style. On making it: “I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven’t got money, or standing in society, or formal education. I had a very middle, lower-middle class sort of upbringing, but I identify with people who’ve had, at some point in their lives to struggle to survive. It adds another color to your character.”Once a fixture of the explosive after-hours seen in 1980s London, Simon Foxton still lives and works as a stylist today. He was one of the first stylists of the 1980s to make it from the club flyers to the glossy magazines of Milan and New York. Famous quote: “For the last three or four decades it has been the streets [setting trends], and maybe now it’s gone back to the designers again and they’re the ones who are coming up with the goods and setting the trends.”
Fashion designer Jeremy Scott is known for his hilarious and fabulous fashion shows in Paris. Since relocating to Los Angeles, he’s managed to grab the attention of major States-side celebrities. Famous quote: “I’ve never met someone that I thought, oh my god what the — is she doing with my clothes? It’s always cute kids and that’s the most flattering. It’s people I would like to know or would like to talk to, people who have similar interests too. That’s the whole thing about fashion: it’s not only about the clothes but also about the people.”
A man who knows what it’s like to turn a name into a brand, Ralph Lauren set the bar for accessible yet proper fashion and what it means to create a lifestyle instead of just a garment. Famous quote: “I’d like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they’re wearing what they like and what suits them. It’s not a status thing.”
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Plain Ties
As a proverb goes, “clothes makes a man”, everyone knows it. Wearing a tie creates a charming aura around the person and the formal style is an exuberance of fashion and panache.
Ties accentuate a man’s wardrobe and everyman should own atleast one of them. There is always an occasion that will require you to dress up and wear a tie. Ties are available in numerous designs and if you’re not a tie person then choosing the right tie could leave your mind reeling. Plain ties are the best bet and you could never go wrong with them. You can wear them at any occasion or even for a high profile business meeting and still not hurt the sentiments of others. Moreover plain ties go well with plain shirts or even stripped shirts. Although the thumb rule is that your tie should be stripped if you’re wearing a plain shirt, teaming a plain shirt with a plain tie is absolutely fine.A plain tie is available in several sizes and in a whole gamut of colors. Right from neutral colors like black and white to lilacs and bold dark shades. Buying a few of these plain ties in standard colors gives you the flexibility of wearing it with different colored and patterned shirts and suits. Plain ties are simple and diverse and though they are strongly colored in one shade they are harmonious in any material.
If you fancy wearing plain whites or blue shirts, then buying a plain tie would be a sensible bet. These standard shirts are the perfect canvas for ties that are just one color or probably have some self colored stripes or paisleys. If white is the color of your shirt then you can wear any colored plain tie. However if
it’s a light blue shirt then a plain tie of a darker blue shade will go along well with it. Contrastingly if you’re wearing a dark colored shirt like burgundy, then choosing to wear a light shade of the same color or a pink tie of the right shade will work the best.Plain ties again are famously worn on formal occasions and are preferable for any business meetings or if you’re planning to finalize a big business deal. Plain ties in strong colors that are worn for these formal occasions showcase a much confident and strong personality and gives a man the classic appearance.
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Someone in Fashion (1)
Anyone can give advice on fashion. However, for some matters, it’s best to leave opinion to the experts. After all, they’re the ones who managed to make a living out of this zany industry we call fashion, managing to endure day in and day out the trials and tribulations of one of the craziest businesses in the world. But it’s those experts who know fashion the best. So when it comes to tips and words of wisdom, it’s pretty much best to just listen to them.
No list of quotes on fashion would be complete without the reigning queen of it all, Coco Chanel. Practically the most powerful woman to ever exist in couture, Chanel understood what it meant to work hard, and also understand what it was that made a woman beautiful. She also always had something to say about style, like this famous and often-repeated quote: “A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.”For designer Issac Mizrahi, fashion just wasn’t enough–he had to have a television show, too. After years in the business, he’s got more than enough insight and zany quotes to fill several books, let alone a single article. Here’s one: “I don’t like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they’re describing themselves.”
Part model, part musician, part actress, Grace Jones was one of
the seminal figures of the 1970s downtown New York scene. Her influence in the modeling world is still felt, and she was one of the few performers who did a truly decadent job of dressing herself: “Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.” -
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Thomas Edison was probably the greatest inventor in American history. When he first attended school in Port Huron, Michigan,
his teachers complained that he was “too slow” and hard to handle. As a result, Edison’s mother decided to take her son out of school and taught him at home. The young Edison was fascinated by science. At the age of 10 he had already set up his first chemistry laboratory. Edison’s inexhaustible energy and genius (which he reportedly defined as “1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration”) eventually produced in his lifetime more than 1,300 inventions.When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2,000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process.”
In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947—after seven long years of rejections! – He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation, and both it and Carlson became very rich.
John Milton became blind at age 44. Sixteen years later he wrote the classic Paradise Lost.
When Pablo Casals reached 95, a young reporter threw him the following question. “Mr. Casals, you are 95 and the greatest cellist that ever lived. Why do you still practice six hours a day?” Mr. Casals answered, “Because I think I’m making progress.”
After years of progressive hearing loss, by age 46 German
composer Ludwig van Beethoven had become completely deaf. Nevertheless, he wrote his greatest music, including five symphonies, during his later years.After having lost both legs in an air crash, British fighter pilot Douglas Bader rejoined the British Royal Air Force with two artificial limbs. During World War Ⅱ he was captured by the Germans three times—and three times he escaped.
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