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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
"Titanic Exhibits"
In 1912, in just 2 hours, 40 minute for the huge ship Titanic to sink into the North Atlantic. The ship was built and billed to be “unsinkable” but the unthinkable happened when it hit an iceberg and more than 1,500 passengers perished in the maritime tragedy that still fascinates after 97 years.
Noveal Hicks who has worked as the titanic exhibits feels someone is with him or watching him. "His spirit still feels guilty. He wants to keep everyone in this room safe," said Noveal.
He feels that the guiltiness is in the ghost of Fredrick Fleet, who was the lookout who missed the giant iceberg that took down the unsinkable ship, but somehow he survived. But Fredrick spent the rest of his life feeling guilty about it. Finally in 1965 at the age of 78, Fredrick took his own life.
Noveal has worked at the Titanic exhibit for years and says visitors and employees tell him they've felt someone touching them on the shoulder here on the promenade deck and heard alarms go off for no reason.
Noveal himself swears Fredrick would even swing this door open when no one else was around. "It used to scare the heck out of me. So I didn't know what to do. I started speaking to him. I said good morning Fredrick it wasn't your fault, go in peace. And after three months that door wouldn't open anymore," said Noveal.
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Noveal Hicks who has worked as the titanic exhibits feels someone is with him or watching him. "His spirit still feels guilty. He wants to keep everyone in this room safe," said Noveal.
He feels that the guiltiness is in the ghost of Fredrick Fleet, who was the lookout who missed the giant iceberg that took down the unsinkable ship, but somehow he survived. But Fredrick spent the rest of his life feeling guilty about it. Finally in 1965 at the age of 78, Fredrick took his own life.
Noveal has worked at the Titanic exhibit for years and says visitors and employees tell him they've felt someone touching them on the shoulder here on the promenade deck and heard alarms go off for no reason.
Noveal himself swears Fredrick would even swing this door open when no one else was around. "It used to scare the heck out of me. So I didn't know what to do. I started speaking to him. I said good morning Fredrick it wasn't your fault, go in peace. And after three months that door wouldn't open anymore," said Noveal.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP)
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) has offered guidance to Senator's Akaka and Burr in the expansion of crucially needed legislation. Today, wounded warrior project applauds Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) for their introduction of new legislation, the Family Caregiver Program Act of 2009, which assist the family caregivers of the most severely injured veterans.
WWP also guarantees strongest support for the vitally needed legislation. Senator Akaka is the Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and Senator Burr is the ranking member.
"This bill aims to provide the support family caregivers are in critical need of," stated wounded warrior project's Executive Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs, Brian Feser. "We commend Senators Akaka and Burr for standing up for these veterans and their families and creating legislation to ease their economic burdens."
Wounded warrior project is a non-profit organization whose mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors. WWP offers services and programs like benefits and career counseling, advocacy initiatives and combat stress seminars to aid in the transition from hospital bed to an independent, productive life.
Securing comprehensive and continuing support for family caregivers nationwide is wounded warrior project's highest legislative priority. Many family caregivers are struggling to care for their veterans, many times to the detriment of their own health, the depletion of their finances, the loss of jobs and health care, and the endangerment of the family unit due to the emotional and economic toll.
The bill would provide not only a training and certification program for caregivers, but also group and individual counseling, respite, health care coverage and a monthly caregiver allowance.
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WWP also guarantees strongest support for the vitally needed legislation. Senator Akaka is the Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and Senator Burr is the ranking member.
"This bill aims to provide the support family caregivers are in critical need of," stated wounded warrior project's Executive Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs, Brian Feser. "We commend Senators Akaka and Burr for standing up for these veterans and their families and creating legislation to ease their economic burdens."
Wounded warrior project is a non-profit organization whose mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors. WWP offers services and programs like benefits and career counseling, advocacy initiatives and combat stress seminars to aid in the transition from hospital bed to an independent, productive life.
Securing comprehensive and continuing support for family caregivers nationwide is wounded warrior project's highest legislative priority. Many family caregivers are struggling to care for their veterans, many times to the detriment of their own health, the depletion of their finances, the loss of jobs and health care, and the endangerment of the family unit due to the emotional and economic toll.
The bill would provide not only a training and certification program for caregivers, but also group and individual counseling, respite, health care coverage and a monthly caregiver allowance.
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
North Korea Missile Launch
North Korea is all set with equipment that will monitor the launch of a rocket, and indicates it could be fired within hours, the South's Yonhap news agency quoted an unnamed South Korean government official as saying.
North Korea has said it would launch a long-range rocket from Saturday to Wednesday between the hours of 0200 GMT to 0700 GMT. The launch is widely viewed as a camouflaged test of a long-range missile that contravenes the UN resolutions.
"Looking from the completion of fuelling and the setting up of monitoring cameras, the possibility of a launch within a few hours is very high," the source was quoted as saying.
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North Korea has said it would launch a long-range rocket from Saturday to Wednesday between the hours of 0200 GMT to 0700 GMT. The launch is widely viewed as a camouflaged test of a long-range missile that contravenes the UN resolutions.
"Looking from the completion of fuelling and the setting up of monitoring cameras, the possibility of a launch within a few hours is very high," the source was quoted as saying.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
The Starchild Skull Video
The Starchild Skull Video may be an evidence to prove the life of alien. This video was featured today on TV. It was found back in the 1930s in Mexico.
The tests performed on the Starchild Skull disclose that it is a child that died 900 years ago but the species is unidentified.
The tests say that the Normal human eye sockets have a buried conical outline with optic nerves and optic split at the inner back quadrant of the cone. The child in the video has an eye sockets which are shallow (3 cm) scalloped shape with optic nerves and optic fissures moved down and away to the inner bottom. Also, the inner surfaces of both sockets have incredibly subtle terrain shifts that are impossible to explain in any way other than genetic design.
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The tests performed on the Starchild Skull disclose that it is a child that died 900 years ago but the species is unidentified.
The tests say that the Normal human eye sockets have a buried conical outline with optic nerves and optic split at the inner back quadrant of the cone. The child in the video has an eye sockets which are shallow (3 cm) scalloped shape with optic nerves and optic fissures moved down and away to the inner bottom. Also, the inner surfaces of both sockets have incredibly subtle terrain shifts that are impossible to explain in any way other than genetic design.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Studio 57
Studio 57 has got lot of promises and assurances for all their customers. Jacki, Laura, Patty and Holly from Studio 57 have re-invented the major aspect of a stylist's development have advanced their skills to bring in an enhanced salon service in 2008.
Jacki, Laura, Patty and Holly have also attended the recent Matrix Destination 2008 which was an Exclusive Engagement event that was held at the MGM Grand is Las Vegas, Nevada June 1-3 which provided them an opportunity to blend along with the top stylists and learn a many range of new techniques and innovative business skills.
Jacki, Laura, Patty and Holly were with 1,500 enthusiastic salons experts from around the globe, and are scholars in the modern techniques in hair design and hair color in the salon industry. There were courses like “Inspire Me,” “Cut to the Chase,” “Sheer Perfection,” “Pull it Together” and “Smokin' Hot Color” that allowed Jacki , Laura, Patty and Holly to enhance their skills and creativity to new levels."
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Jacki, Laura, Patty and Holly have also attended the recent Matrix Destination 2008 which was an Exclusive Engagement event that was held at the MGM Grand is Las Vegas, Nevada June 1-3 which provided them an opportunity to blend along with the top stylists and learn a many range of new techniques and innovative business skills.
Jacki, Laura, Patty and Holly were with 1,500 enthusiastic salons experts from around the globe, and are scholars in the modern techniques in hair design and hair color in the salon industry. There were courses like “Inspire Me,” “Cut to the Chase,” “Sheer Perfection,” “Pull it Together” and “Smokin' Hot Color” that allowed Jacki , Laura, Patty and Holly to enhance their skills and creativity to new levels."
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
McDonalds All American Game
At McDonalds All American game - Lance Stephenson shoots in the 3-Point contest which is the beginning round and is not been telecasted on ESPN2 tonight. Lance talks to fellow McDonalds All Americans on the court at BankUnited in Miami.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Kensington Runestone in Minnesota
Kensington Runestone is found in Minnesota in 1800’s, and it has been criticized as false b7y most of the scholars. A new revise has given a suggestion that the stone may be genuine.
Olof Ohman one of the Minnesota farmer from Sweden had found a 202-pound carved stone on his ranch in 1898. This stone was covered with runes, which said the story of a Norse journey which turned brutal and saw the end on that location in 1362. The stone was denounced as a scam, but the controversy has simmered for more than a century.
A book by Richard Nielsen and Scott F. Wolter, titled The Kensington Runestone - Compelling New Evidence claims to have proven the authenticity of Ohman’s find. Wolter, who does petrographic analysis for a living, conducted a study of the Kensington stone and concluded that its degree of weathering was not consistent with the theory that it had been carved in the 1800’s.
Other objections were reportedly overcome when a heretofore unknown rune variant found on the stone was discovered in inscriptions from the Swedish island of Gotland. And to top things off, the year 1362 was found to be encoded in the runic inscription, using a medieval Easter calendar.
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Olof Ohman one of the Minnesota farmer from Sweden had found a 202-pound carved stone on his ranch in 1898. This stone was covered with runes, which said the story of a Norse journey which turned brutal and saw the end on that location in 1362. The stone was denounced as a scam, but the controversy has simmered for more than a century.
A book by Richard Nielsen and Scott F. Wolter, titled The Kensington Runestone - Compelling New Evidence claims to have proven the authenticity of Ohman’s find. Wolter, who does petrographic analysis for a living, conducted a study of the Kensington stone and concluded that its degree of weathering was not consistent with the theory that it had been carved in the 1800’s.
Other objections were reportedly overcome when a heretofore unknown rune variant found on the stone was discovered in inscriptions from the Swedish island of Gotland. And to top things off, the year 1362 was found to be encoded in the runic inscription, using a medieval Easter calendar.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
“Anything Goes”
At KITP, Wati Taylor gave titled “Freedom and Constraints” yesterday in the Landscape of Intersecting/Magnetized Branes. In which he explained the difficulty of lack of predicting the cause by the landscape.
We all know that “Anything Goes”, and string theory is of no use for predicting anything. He was looking at some particular classes of vacua which were chosen for the computational tractability, and hoping to find some constraints among the quantities one can compute. There’s no known reason to expect this, but one can compute anyway and hope. The end result was the expected one: you can get whatever you want. Here are some quotes from the talk:
So, We’re really in a very challenging situation where we don’t really know how to define the theory, we don’t know what the set of solutions are, and even if we did we would have a very hard time making a sensible statement about what that means for predictions…
Every piece of data we have so far I would say is consistent with the notion that everything is pretty much uniformly and randomly distributed in the landscape.
There was extensive discussion of the predicitivity problems and overwhelming evidence string theory can’t ever predict anything below the Planck scale (this wasn’t discussed, but I don’t see how it predicts much above the Planck scale either). For some reason there was no drawing of the obvious conclusion that one should just give up on the idea and try something else.
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We all know that “Anything Goes”, and string theory is of no use for predicting anything. He was looking at some particular classes of vacua which were chosen for the computational tractability, and hoping to find some constraints among the quantities one can compute. There’s no known reason to expect this, but one can compute anyway and hope. The end result was the expected one: you can get whatever you want. Here are some quotes from the talk:
So, We’re really in a very challenging situation where we don’t really know how to define the theory, we don’t know what the set of solutions are, and even if we did we would have a very hard time making a sensible statement about what that means for predictions…
Every piece of data we have so far I would say is consistent with the notion that everything is pretty much uniformly and randomly distributed in the landscape.
There was extensive discussion of the predicitivity problems and overwhelming evidence string theory can’t ever predict anything below the Planck scale (this wasn’t discussed, but I don’t see how it predicts much above the Planck scale either). For some reason there was no drawing of the obvious conclusion that one should just give up on the idea and try something else.
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“Anything Goes”
At KITP, Wati Taylor gave titled “Freedom and Constraints” yesterday in the Landscape of Intersecting/Magnetized Branes. In which he explained the difficulty of lack of predicting the cause by the landscape.
We all know that “Anything Goes”, and string theory is of no use for predicting anything. He was looking at some particular classes of vacua which were chosen for the computational tractability, and hoping to find some constraints among the quantities one can compute. There’s no known reason to expect this, but one can compute anyway and hope. The end result was the expected one: you can get whatever you want. Here are some quotes from the talk:
So, We’re really in a very challenging situation where we don’t really know how to define the theory, we don’t know what the set of solutions are, and even if we did we would have a very hard time making a sensible statement about what that means for predictions…
Every piece of data we have so far I would say is consistent with the notion that everything is pretty much uniformly and randomly distributed in the landscape.
There was extensive discussion of the predicitivity problems and overwhelming evidence string theory can’t ever predict anything below the Planck scale (this wasn’t discussed, but I don’t see how it predicts much above the Planck scale either). For some reason there was no drawing of the obvious conclusion that one should just give up on the idea and try something else.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
We all know that “Anything Goes”, and string theory is of no use for predicting anything. He was looking at some particular classes of vacua which were chosen for the computational tractability, and hoping to find some constraints among the quantities one can compute. There’s no known reason to expect this, but one can compute anyway and hope. The end result was the expected one: you can get whatever you want. Here are some quotes from the talk:
So, We’re really in a very challenging situation where we don’t really know how to define the theory, we don’t know what the set of solutions are, and even if we did we would have a very hard time making a sensible statement about what that means for predictions…
Every piece of data we have so far I would say is consistent with the notion that everything is pretty much uniformly and randomly distributed in the landscape.
There was extensive discussion of the predicitivity problems and overwhelming evidence string theory can’t ever predict anything below the Planck scale (this wasn’t discussed, but I don’t see how it predicts much above the Planck scale either). For some reason there was no drawing of the obvious conclusion that one should just give up on the idea and try something else.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Malaysian Fashion Designer - Zang Toi
The Malaysian fashion designer Zang Toi based in America has now signed as The Encore sponsor of The School of American Ballet’s Winter Ball which will take place in New York, scheduled on March 9th, 2009. Along with the expectation of this event, he also has provided an exclusive preview of the beautiful gown which he has designed for Event Chair and philanthropist Pamela Joyner.
The Winter Ball is The School of American Ballet has the uppermost profile in the annual benefit, and they will serve as the School’s celebration of their 75th Anniversary this year. The exciting black-tie dinner dance at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater dance will be filled by 400 of New York City’s socialites and philanthropists, which will include the event chairmen Chelsea Clinton, Stacey Bendet Eisner, Pamela Joyner, Coco Kopelman and New York City Ballet dancers Sara Mearns and Amar Ramasar.
Along with them will be Susan Dunlevy, Dr. Deepa Pakianathan, Janice & Jonathan Zakin, Fran Streets, Sandy Barrett, Alison Carlson, and Dayle Haddon, and many others as the attendees from San Francisco.
Van Cleef & Arpels has created a special Award of Excellence named after Claude Arpels to honor the 75th Anniversary of the school, and whose friendship with SAB co-founder George Balanchine was the inspiration for the ballet “Jewels” in 1967. The first award, which will become annual, will be presented to George Balanchine posthumously and will be accepted by SAB Artistic Director Peter Martins.
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The Winter Ball is The School of American Ballet has the uppermost profile in the annual benefit, and they will serve as the School’s celebration of their 75th Anniversary this year. The exciting black-tie dinner dance at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater dance will be filled by 400 of New York City’s socialites and philanthropists, which will include the event chairmen Chelsea Clinton, Stacey Bendet Eisner, Pamela Joyner, Coco Kopelman and New York City Ballet dancers Sara Mearns and Amar Ramasar.
Along with them will be Susan Dunlevy, Dr. Deepa Pakianathan, Janice & Jonathan Zakin, Fran Streets, Sandy Barrett, Alison Carlson, and Dayle Haddon, and many others as the attendees from San Francisco.
Van Cleef & Arpels has created a special Award of Excellence named after Claude Arpels to honor the 75th Anniversary of the school, and whose friendship with SAB co-founder George Balanchine was the inspiration for the ballet “Jewels” in 1967. The first award, which will become annual, will be presented to George Balanchine posthumously and will be accepted by SAB Artistic Director Peter Martins.
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Shauna Raisch - Twiggs Salonspa
Shauna Raisch who owns Twiggs Salonspa, in a Minneapolis suburb which is featuring $165 razor cuts. Shauna is a perfectionist. She does not allow fat people to work in her salon. Shauna Raisch the best hair dresser will be on the “Split Ends” the reality show from the Style Network about hair salons.
Her Twiggs Salonspa has won awards, and also she has gained the result of a lifetime commitment to excellence. She is a professional who has dedicated herself to the commercial fashion and design by serving clients achieve amazing results, her specialty is designing customized, professional looks by combining face shape, body shape, color, texture and personal preference. Shauna will be in all the fashion capitals of the world working on her high profile fashion shoots and runway shows to bring back trends and inspiration to the Minneapolis market.
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Her Twiggs Salonspa has won awards, and also she has gained the result of a lifetime commitment to excellence. She is a professional who has dedicated herself to the commercial fashion and design by serving clients achieve amazing results, her specialty is designing customized, professional looks by combining face shape, body shape, color, texture and personal preference. Shauna will be in all the fashion capitals of the world working on her high profile fashion shoots and runway shows to bring back trends and inspiration to the Minneapolis market.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Kim Kardashian's ShoeDazzle.com
Kim Kardashian the expert of designing has launched her new website called ShoeDazzle.com where the creations of the shoes will be done by the stylists and specialists.
The shoe line called Shoe Dazzle was launched in November 2008 which consisted aof all the fashionable shoes created by the stylists and these shoes and many more recent creation of the Shoe dazzle can be found at the ShoeDazzle.com website NOW.
There was a launch party which was organized in Los Angles and it was Dazzling as the Kim Kardashian’s smile on Friday night. Along with the launch of this website the ambitions of Kim has been confirmed and its for sure she will reach great heights.
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The shoe line called Shoe Dazzle was launched in November 2008 which consisted aof all the fashionable shoes created by the stylists and these shoes and many more recent creation of the Shoe dazzle can be found at the ShoeDazzle.com website NOW.
There was a launch party which was organized in Los Angles and it was Dazzling as the Kim Kardashian’s smile on Friday night. Along with the launch of this website the ambitions of Kim has been confirmed and its for sure she will reach great heights.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Scholar Karen Armstrong
There was a discussion which took place with the scholar Karen Armstrong which had the topic of human commonalities and many of her work on the international charter for compassion. She is the well-known author of "The Battle for God and the Bible: A Biography," and also the receiver of the coveted TED Prize in 2008.
Armstrong is one of the world's leading analysts on religious affairs, which had given her the recognition with her critically-acclaimed book "Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. Many of her books are best sellers one amongst them is "The History of God", "The Battle for God", "Jerusalem".
She was in an interview with Bill Moyer’s and below is the introduction and the interview report just for you:
Introduction by Moyers: She's written a biography of Buddha, and a short history of Islam. Soon we'll have her new memoir of her life after the convent where she spent seven years as a nun. Joining me now is one of the world's foremost students of religion, Karen Armstrong. Thank you.
KAREN ARMSTRONG: Thank you Bill.
BILL MOYERS: If you were God, would you do away with religion?
ARMSTRONG: Well, there are some forms of religion that must make God weep. There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. Religion that has concentrated on egotism, that's concentrated on belligerence rather than compassion.
MOYERS: And so much of religion has been the experience of atrocity.
ARMSTRONG: But then you have to remember that this is what human beings do. Secularism has shown that it can be just as murderous, just as lethal, uh, as religion. Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
MOYERS: You get September 11th ... you get the Crusades, you get ... do you remember the young Orthodox Jew who assassinated Itzhak Rabin? I can see him right now, looking into the camera, and he says, everything I did, I did for ...
ARMSTRONG: For God.
MOYERS: ... for the glory of God.
ARMSTRONG: Yes. Yes. Well, this is ... this is bad religion. Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? And sometimes we use religion just to back up these unworthy hatreds, because we're frightened too.
MOYERS: Fear?
ARMSTRONG: There's great fear. We fear that if we're not in control, other people will cut us down to size, and so we hit out first.
From the beginning, violence was associated with religion, but the advanced religions, and I'm talking about Buddhism, Hinduism, monotheism, the Hebrew prophets, they insisted that you must transcend this violence, you must not give in to this violence, but you must learn to recognize that every single other human being is sacred.
MOYERS: That's what we're taught when ... growing up, you know, Jesus loves the little children. All the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world. But as soon as they grow up, they go for each other's throats.
ARMSTRONG: Yes. And a lot of this talk about love and compassion can be on the rather sloppy level. Or rather easy, facile level, where compassion is hard. It's nothing to do with feeling. It's about feeling with others. Learning to put yourself in the position of another person. There were years in my life when I was eaten up with misery and anger, I was sick of religion but when I got to understand what religion was really about, uh, not about dogmas, not about propping up the church, not about converting other people to your particular wavelength, but about getting rid of ego and approaching others in reverence, I became much happier.
But you have to go a long journey, a journey that takes you away from selfishness, from greed. And that leads you to value the sacredness in all others. I'm thinking of Abraham in Genesis — there's a wonderful story, where Abraham is sitting outside his tent and it's the hottest part of a Middle Eastern afternoon, and he sees three strangers on the horizon.
And now most of us would never dream of bringing a total stranger from the streets into our own homes, strangers are potentially lethal people. But that's exactly what Abraham does. He runs out, he bows down before them, as though they were kings, and brings them into his encampment, and makes his wife prepare an elaborate meal. And in the course of the ensuing conversation, it transpires quite naturally that one of those strangers is Abraham's God, that the act of practical compassion led to a divine encounter.
In Hebrew, the word for holy, kadosh, means separate, other. And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.
MOYERS: What happened in your case? You said that you came to this insight that you weren't a good person.
ARMSTRONG: After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
I had no job at all, and I was asked to do a television series on Saint Paul, and I was working with an Israeli film company ...I went to Jerusalem. And there, very importantly, I encountered Judaism and Islam. And up until that point, my religious life had been very parochial, been very Catholic, and I'd never thought of Judaism as anything but the kind of prelude to Christianity, and I'd never thought about Islam at all. But in Jerusalem, where you see these three religions jostling together, often very uneasily, even violently, you become aware of the profound connections between them and it was the study of these other faiths that led me back to an appreciation of what religion was trying to do.
MOYERS: What appealed to you about Islam? Because in the context of 9/11 ... there's so much talk about Islam as a violent religion. We saw those suicide bombers, heard those suicide bombers invoking the name of Allah, saying they were doing this in the name of ... of God, and the name of their own faith. So you're saying, there are good things about this religion, that helped you rediscover your own spiritual journey.
ARMSTRONG: Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. That Mohammed didn't believe he had come to found a new religion to which everybody had to convert, but he was just the prophet sent to the Arabs, who hadn't had a prophet before, and left out of the divine plan. There's a story where Mohammed makes a sacred flight from Mecca to Jerusalem, to the Temple Mount. And there he is greeted by all the great prophets of the past. And he ascends to the divine throne, speaking to the prophets like Jesus and Aaron, Moses, he takes advice from Moses, and finally encounters Abraham at the threshold of the divine sphere. This story of the flight of Mohammed and the ascent to the divine throne is the paradigm, the archetype of Muslim spirituality. It reflects the ascent that every Muslim must make to God and the Sufis, when I started talking ...
MOYERS: The mystical sect.
ARMSTRONG: The mystical branch of Islam, the Sufi movement, insisted that when you had encountered God, you were neither a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim. You were at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple or a church, because all rightly guided religion comes from God, and a man of God, once he's glimpsed the divine, has left these man-made distinctions behind.
MOYERS: How do you explain the hatred in the world of Islam toward the west, toward America in particular?
ARMSTRONG: Well, uh, all fundamentalist movements, that's whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle.
Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy is ... is holding them back.
MOYERS: Why do they think American foreign policy is the root of their ills?
ARMSTRONG: This was very much an Arab feeling. They feel that they are fighting a holy war ... that America fights Muslims, has killed Muslims, in Iraq, that America is still continuing to bomb Iraq ...
MOYERS: And yet in Bosnia, we went to the defense of Muslims there.
ARMSTRONG: Exactly, exactly. There's a running sore of the Arab-Israeli conflict, which has been festering for so long, and has become symbolic of everything that Muslims feel that is wrong with the modern world. Just as here, in the United States, fundamentalists have symbolic issues, abortion, uh, and evolution, which they can't see rationally, but they've become symbolic of ... of the evils of modernity. The state of Israel, which meant that Palestinians lost their home, has become for Muslims a symbol of their impotence in the modern world.
It wasn't always like this. At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. Some of them even said that the Europeans, they didn't know about America yet, that the Europeans, uh, were better Muslims than they themselves, because their modern society had enabled them to create a fairer and more just distribution of wealth, than was possible in their pre-modern climates, and that accorded more perfectly with the vision of the Quran.
Then there was the experience of colonialism under Britain and France, experiences like Suez, the Iranian revolution, Israel, and some people, not all by any means, uh, some people have allowed this ... these series of disasters to corrode into hatred. Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
MOYERS: On a cross, crucified.
ARMSTRONG: The cross, crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. But against the West, it's been able to make no headway, and this is as disturbing for Muslims as the discoveries of Darwin have been to some Christians. The Quran says that if you live according to the Quranic ideal, implementing justice in your society, then your society will prosper, because this is the way human beings are supposed to live. But whatever they do, they cannot seem to get Muslim history back on track, and this has led some, and only a minority, it must be said, to desperate conclusions.
MOYERS: You said once that you felt the fundamentalists were trying to restore God to the world.
ARMSTRONG: Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
MOYERS: They drag God back into the political world by denying democratic aspirations.
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: I mean, do you think democracy and fundamentalism are, uh, can co-exist?
ARMSTRONG:Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. Wants to wipe them out. Jewish fundamentalism, for example, came into being ... came really to the fore in a new way after the Nazi Holocaust ...
And some fundamentalists in the Muslim world have experienced secularism, not as we have, as a liberating process, but so rapid and accelerated that it's often been an assault.The Shahs of Iran used to have their soldiers go out with their bayonets out, taking the womens' veils off, and ripping them to pieces in front of them, because they wanted their society to look modern, never mind the fact that the vast majority of the people had not had a western education, and didn't know what was going on. On one occasion in 1935, Shah Reza Pahlevi, gave his soldiers orders to shoot at hundreds of unarmed demonstrators in one of the holiest shrines of Iran, who were peacefully protesting against western dress, uh, obligatory western dress, and hundreds of Iranians died that day. Now, in a climate like this, secularism is not experienced as something benign, it's experienced as a deadly assault.
MOYERS: When fundamentalism experienced its rebirth in this country, a quarter of a century ago, political rebirth, it was because the federal government, the Internal Revenue Service, had, uh, denied their parochial religious schools tax-exempt status ...
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: ... if they segregated.
ARMSTRONG: That's right.
MOYERS: And the fundamentalists became alarmed at that, and fearing that they were going to be annihilated.
ARMSTRONG: Exactly so. And similarly, in the famous Scopes Trial, which I think tells us a lot about the fundamentalist process in 1925, you'll remember, fundamentalists tried to ban the teaching of evolution in the public schools, and there was a celebrated trial, in which the fundamentalists were really ridiculed in the secular press. After the Scopes Trial, after the ridicule, they swung to the extreme right, and there they've remained.
MOYERS: The inequality gap in this country is larger, I believe, than in any other industrial society.
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: What does that say about the most religious country in the world? And that's your definition. America's the most religious country in the world, and yet it's the most unequal economically.
ARMSTRONG: It's ... and this should trouble us all. It should trouble us all. Religious people should join hands, and fight for ... for greater equality. Try and see if you can introduce Christian, Jewish or true Muslims values into society. Not trying to force other people, but bringing to bear that respect for the sacred rights of others that all religions, at their best, three very important words, at their best, are trying to promote.
MOYERS: Where are you in your own journey? You're not a practicing Catholic, are you?
ARMSTRONG: No. I usually call myself these days a freelance monotheist. I draw nourishment from all three of the religions of Abraham, uh, I spend my life studying these faiths, in a sense I'm still a nun. I live alone, and I've never married, and I spend my life writing and talking and reading and studying spirituality and God. And I can not see in essence any one of these three faiths as superior to any of the others. I suppose one of my hopes in life is to try to get Jews, Christians and Muslims to realize the profound unanimity, the unanimous vision that they share, and to join hands together to stop the kind of cruelty, violence and obscenity, moral obscenity that we saw on September the 11th.
MOYERS:Thank you, Sister Karen.
ARMSTRONG: Thank you, Bill.
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Armstrong is one of the world's leading analysts on religious affairs, which had given her the recognition with her critically-acclaimed book "Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. Many of her books are best sellers one amongst them is "The History of God", "The Battle for God", "Jerusalem".
She was in an interview with Bill Moyer’s and below is the introduction and the interview report just for you:
Introduction by Moyers: She's written a biography of Buddha, and a short history of Islam. Soon we'll have her new memoir of her life after the convent where she spent seven years as a nun. Joining me now is one of the world's foremost students of religion, Karen Armstrong. Thank you.
KAREN ARMSTRONG: Thank you Bill.
BILL MOYERS: If you were God, would you do away with religion?
ARMSTRONG: Well, there are some forms of religion that must make God weep. There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. Religion that has concentrated on egotism, that's concentrated on belligerence rather than compassion.
MOYERS: And so much of religion has been the experience of atrocity.
ARMSTRONG: But then you have to remember that this is what human beings do. Secularism has shown that it can be just as murderous, just as lethal, uh, as religion. Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
MOYERS: You get September 11th ... you get the Crusades, you get ... do you remember the young Orthodox Jew who assassinated Itzhak Rabin? I can see him right now, looking into the camera, and he says, everything I did, I did for ...
ARMSTRONG: For God.
MOYERS: ... for the glory of God.
ARMSTRONG: Yes. Yes. Well, this is ... this is bad religion. Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? And sometimes we use religion just to back up these unworthy hatreds, because we're frightened too.
MOYERS: Fear?
ARMSTRONG: There's great fear. We fear that if we're not in control, other people will cut us down to size, and so we hit out first.
From the beginning, violence was associated with religion, but the advanced religions, and I'm talking about Buddhism, Hinduism, monotheism, the Hebrew prophets, they insisted that you must transcend this violence, you must not give in to this violence, but you must learn to recognize that every single other human being is sacred.
MOYERS: That's what we're taught when ... growing up, you know, Jesus loves the little children. All the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world. But as soon as they grow up, they go for each other's throats.
ARMSTRONG: Yes. And a lot of this talk about love and compassion can be on the rather sloppy level. Or rather easy, facile level, where compassion is hard. It's nothing to do with feeling. It's about feeling with others. Learning to put yourself in the position of another person. There were years in my life when I was eaten up with misery and anger, I was sick of religion but when I got to understand what religion was really about, uh, not about dogmas, not about propping up the church, not about converting other people to your particular wavelength, but about getting rid of ego and approaching others in reverence, I became much happier.
But you have to go a long journey, a journey that takes you away from selfishness, from greed. And that leads you to value the sacredness in all others. I'm thinking of Abraham in Genesis — there's a wonderful story, where Abraham is sitting outside his tent and it's the hottest part of a Middle Eastern afternoon, and he sees three strangers on the horizon.
And now most of us would never dream of bringing a total stranger from the streets into our own homes, strangers are potentially lethal people. But that's exactly what Abraham does. He runs out, he bows down before them, as though they were kings, and brings them into his encampment, and makes his wife prepare an elaborate meal. And in the course of the ensuing conversation, it transpires quite naturally that one of those strangers is Abraham's God, that the act of practical compassion led to a divine encounter.
In Hebrew, the word for holy, kadosh, means separate, other. And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.
MOYERS: What happened in your case? You said that you came to this insight that you weren't a good person.
ARMSTRONG: After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
I had no job at all, and I was asked to do a television series on Saint Paul, and I was working with an Israeli film company ...I went to Jerusalem. And there, very importantly, I encountered Judaism and Islam. And up until that point, my religious life had been very parochial, been very Catholic, and I'd never thought of Judaism as anything but the kind of prelude to Christianity, and I'd never thought about Islam at all. But in Jerusalem, where you see these three religions jostling together, often very uneasily, even violently, you become aware of the profound connections between them and it was the study of these other faiths that led me back to an appreciation of what religion was trying to do.
MOYERS: What appealed to you about Islam? Because in the context of 9/11 ... there's so much talk about Islam as a violent religion. We saw those suicide bombers, heard those suicide bombers invoking the name of Allah, saying they were doing this in the name of ... of God, and the name of their own faith. So you're saying, there are good things about this religion, that helped you rediscover your own spiritual journey.
ARMSTRONG: Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. That Mohammed didn't believe he had come to found a new religion to which everybody had to convert, but he was just the prophet sent to the Arabs, who hadn't had a prophet before, and left out of the divine plan. There's a story where Mohammed makes a sacred flight from Mecca to Jerusalem, to the Temple Mount. And there he is greeted by all the great prophets of the past. And he ascends to the divine throne, speaking to the prophets like Jesus and Aaron, Moses, he takes advice from Moses, and finally encounters Abraham at the threshold of the divine sphere. This story of the flight of Mohammed and the ascent to the divine throne is the paradigm, the archetype of Muslim spirituality. It reflects the ascent that every Muslim must make to God and the Sufis, when I started talking ...
MOYERS: The mystical sect.
ARMSTRONG: The mystical branch of Islam, the Sufi movement, insisted that when you had encountered God, you were neither a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim. You were at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple or a church, because all rightly guided religion comes from God, and a man of God, once he's glimpsed the divine, has left these man-made distinctions behind.
MOYERS: How do you explain the hatred in the world of Islam toward the west, toward America in particular?
ARMSTRONG: Well, uh, all fundamentalist movements, that's whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle.
Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy is ... is holding them back.
MOYERS: Why do they think American foreign policy is the root of their ills?
ARMSTRONG: This was very much an Arab feeling. They feel that they are fighting a holy war ... that America fights Muslims, has killed Muslims, in Iraq, that America is still continuing to bomb Iraq ...
MOYERS: And yet in Bosnia, we went to the defense of Muslims there.
ARMSTRONG: Exactly, exactly. There's a running sore of the Arab-Israeli conflict, which has been festering for so long, and has become symbolic of everything that Muslims feel that is wrong with the modern world. Just as here, in the United States, fundamentalists have symbolic issues, abortion, uh, and evolution, which they can't see rationally, but they've become symbolic of ... of the evils of modernity. The state of Israel, which meant that Palestinians lost their home, has become for Muslims a symbol of their impotence in the modern world.
It wasn't always like this. At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. Some of them even said that the Europeans, they didn't know about America yet, that the Europeans, uh, were better Muslims than they themselves, because their modern society had enabled them to create a fairer and more just distribution of wealth, than was possible in their pre-modern climates, and that accorded more perfectly with the vision of the Quran.
Then there was the experience of colonialism under Britain and France, experiences like Suez, the Iranian revolution, Israel, and some people, not all by any means, uh, some people have allowed this ... these series of disasters to corrode into hatred. Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
MOYERS: On a cross, crucified.
ARMSTRONG: The cross, crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. But against the West, it's been able to make no headway, and this is as disturbing for Muslims as the discoveries of Darwin have been to some Christians. The Quran says that if you live according to the Quranic ideal, implementing justice in your society, then your society will prosper, because this is the way human beings are supposed to live. But whatever they do, they cannot seem to get Muslim history back on track, and this has led some, and only a minority, it must be said, to desperate conclusions.
MOYERS: You said once that you felt the fundamentalists were trying to restore God to the world.
ARMSTRONG: Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
MOYERS: They drag God back into the political world by denying democratic aspirations.
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: I mean, do you think democracy and fundamentalism are, uh, can co-exist?
ARMSTRONG:Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. Wants to wipe them out. Jewish fundamentalism, for example, came into being ... came really to the fore in a new way after the Nazi Holocaust ...
And some fundamentalists in the Muslim world have experienced secularism, not as we have, as a liberating process, but so rapid and accelerated that it's often been an assault.The Shahs of Iran used to have their soldiers go out with their bayonets out, taking the womens' veils off, and ripping them to pieces in front of them, because they wanted their society to look modern, never mind the fact that the vast majority of the people had not had a western education, and didn't know what was going on. On one occasion in 1935, Shah Reza Pahlevi, gave his soldiers orders to shoot at hundreds of unarmed demonstrators in one of the holiest shrines of Iran, who were peacefully protesting against western dress, uh, obligatory western dress, and hundreds of Iranians died that day. Now, in a climate like this, secularism is not experienced as something benign, it's experienced as a deadly assault.
MOYERS: When fundamentalism experienced its rebirth in this country, a quarter of a century ago, political rebirth, it was because the federal government, the Internal Revenue Service, had, uh, denied their parochial religious schools tax-exempt status ...
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: ... if they segregated.
ARMSTRONG: That's right.
MOYERS: And the fundamentalists became alarmed at that, and fearing that they were going to be annihilated.
ARMSTRONG: Exactly so. And similarly, in the famous Scopes Trial, which I think tells us a lot about the fundamentalist process in 1925, you'll remember, fundamentalists tried to ban the teaching of evolution in the public schools, and there was a celebrated trial, in which the fundamentalists were really ridiculed in the secular press. After the Scopes Trial, after the ridicule, they swung to the extreme right, and there they've remained.
MOYERS: The inequality gap in this country is larger, I believe, than in any other industrial society.
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: What does that say about the most religious country in the world? And that's your definition. America's the most religious country in the world, and yet it's the most unequal economically.
ARMSTRONG: It's ... and this should trouble us all. It should trouble us all. Religious people should join hands, and fight for ... for greater equality. Try and see if you can introduce Christian, Jewish or true Muslims values into society. Not trying to force other people, but bringing to bear that respect for the sacred rights of others that all religions, at their best, three very important words, at their best, are trying to promote.
MOYERS: Where are you in your own journey? You're not a practicing Catholic, are you?
ARMSTRONG: No. I usually call myself these days a freelance monotheist. I draw nourishment from all three of the religions of Abraham, uh, I spend my life studying these faiths, in a sense I'm still a nun. I live alone, and I've never married, and I spend my life writing and talking and reading and studying spirituality and God. And I can not see in essence any one of these three faiths as superior to any of the others. I suppose one of my hopes in life is to try to get Jews, Christians and Muslims to realize the profound unanimity, the unanimous vision that they share, and to join hands together to stop the kind of cruelty, violence and obscenity, moral obscenity that we saw on September the 11th.
MOYERS:Thank you, Sister Karen.
ARMSTRONG: Thank you, Bill.
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Imperious Valentina
The Imperious Valentina was the first designer of New York and had supremacy in 1930 and 1940’s; she was both dressed and topped in the A-list.
Valentina was a legend in her own time and had clients such as Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, she was the designer who had incredible beauty and brains. In ‘‘Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity’’, Kohle Yohannan has rejuvenated the legend of a woman. Valentina had flawless taste and an extra ordinary instinct for self-promotion. Yohannan describes Valentina as, ‘‘the first designer not just to make fashion a red-carpet affair, but to be a red-carpet affair in her own right.’’
Valentine was known as the queen of New York’s celebrity culture. She started her career in the theaters in 1922, but couldn’t make it shine for her as her accent was not as perfect as required. But still she was on stage for many years and improved her style for self-presentation, and later she implemented those styles as a designer when she started dress making. Soon Valentina was news everywhere she went. Later there were rumors which were spread about her having an affair with Garbo who would frequently be seen with Valentina and her husband George Schlee, these rumors left others to take advantage of her personal life and her career brand. The press coverage was so extensive that she never had to pay for any page advertising.
But her dramatic emotional responses also were conversant like her designing visuals. The critic Brooks Atkinson once said of the costumes she designed for a Broadway show that they ‘‘act before ever a line is spoken.’’ She applied even that in her dressmaking creations.
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Valentina was a legend in her own time and had clients such as Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, she was the designer who had incredible beauty and brains. In ‘‘Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity’’, Kohle Yohannan has rejuvenated the legend of a woman. Valentina had flawless taste and an extra ordinary instinct for self-promotion. Yohannan describes Valentina as, ‘‘the first designer not just to make fashion a red-carpet affair, but to be a red-carpet affair in her own right.’’
Valentine was known as the queen of New York’s celebrity culture. She started her career in the theaters in 1922, but couldn’t make it shine for her as her accent was not as perfect as required. But still she was on stage for many years and improved her style for self-presentation, and later she implemented those styles as a designer when she started dress making. Soon Valentina was news everywhere she went. Later there were rumors which were spread about her having an affair with Garbo who would frequently be seen with Valentina and her husband George Schlee, these rumors left others to take advantage of her personal life and her career brand. The press coverage was so extensive that she never had to pay for any page advertising.
But her dramatic emotional responses also were conversant like her designing visuals. The critic Brooks Atkinson once said of the costumes she designed for a Broadway show that they ‘‘act before ever a line is spoken.’’ She applied even that in her dressmaking creations.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Innovalight
One of our most striking discoveries while working on Earth is “The Sequel” was just how much fun energy innovators are having. Bernie Karl had spent around $20,000 on building an ice hotel in the Alaskan interior, and some $700 a day on diesel refrigeration, and then the whole thing melted in the midnight sun.
Some Forbes said it was "the dumbest business idea of the year." But Bernie didn’t care about the comments and he re built the whole thing again, and hired an engineer named Gwen who could figure out the usage of energy in hot springs to keep it cold.
Most of the experts said Bernie’s experiment would fail, but Bernie made it work. He went on to collaborate with United Technologies on a geothermal power plant capable of using the lowest temperature heat resource ever used anywhere in the world. This opened up many possibilities to turn the low-temperature industrial waste heat, or the waste hot water that comes up with oil from Texas wells, into electricity.
Jack Newman is one of three young founders of a remarkable bio-fuels company called Amyris , which genetically engineers yeast to ferment sugar not into ethanol, but directly into diesel, jet fuel and gasoline chemically identical to fuels made from petroleum. They've assembled an incredibly multi-disciplinary team to achieve their mission, Jack says. "They just sort of ride that wave of energy of people wanting to do something interesting that's going to make a difference, and then it just becomes a great day at work."
For some, the fun is in realizing an opportunity to grow and make money even in these difficult times. Conrad Burke, CEO of a cutting edge solar thin-film company called Innovalight , says "I'm not an environmentalist; I'm a capitalist." In January, Innovalight installed the world's first solar production line using silicon ink, which is printed onto the substrate, making for high-throughput, low-cost manufacture. Amryis is also charging ahead: last year it opened its first pilot diesel plant in California, and formed a joint venture with one of Brazil's largest ethanol distributors to quickly scale-up production. SantelisaVale, the second-largest ethanol and sugar producer in Brazil, committed two million tons of sugar cane crushing capacity for the initial production of their "no-compromise" diesel. And this month, Raser Technologies began delivering geothermal power made in Utah using the technology Bernie helped develop to Anaheim California.
You can meet all these innovators and many more on the Discovery TV special, tonight at 10 p.m. ET, or in the book, which just came out in paperback with a new afterword and illustrations.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
Some Forbes said it was "the dumbest business idea of the year." But Bernie didn’t care about the comments and he re built the whole thing again, and hired an engineer named Gwen who could figure out the usage of energy in hot springs to keep it cold.
Most of the experts said Bernie’s experiment would fail, but Bernie made it work. He went on to collaborate with United Technologies on a geothermal power plant capable of using the lowest temperature heat resource ever used anywhere in the world. This opened up many possibilities to turn the low-temperature industrial waste heat, or the waste hot water that comes up with oil from Texas wells, into electricity.
Jack Newman is one of three young founders of a remarkable bio-fuels company called Amyris , which genetically engineers yeast to ferment sugar not into ethanol, but directly into diesel, jet fuel and gasoline chemically identical to fuels made from petroleum. They've assembled an incredibly multi-disciplinary team to achieve their mission, Jack says. "They just sort of ride that wave of energy of people wanting to do something interesting that's going to make a difference, and then it just becomes a great day at work."
For some, the fun is in realizing an opportunity to grow and make money even in these difficult times. Conrad Burke, CEO of a cutting edge solar thin-film company called Innovalight , says "I'm not an environmentalist; I'm a capitalist." In January, Innovalight installed the world's first solar production line using silicon ink, which is printed onto the substrate, making for high-throughput, low-cost manufacture. Amryis is also charging ahead: last year it opened its first pilot diesel plant in California, and formed a joint venture with one of Brazil's largest ethanol distributors to quickly scale-up production. SantelisaVale, the second-largest ethanol and sugar producer in Brazil, committed two million tons of sugar cane crushing capacity for the initial production of their "no-compromise" diesel. And this month, Raser Technologies began delivering geothermal power made in Utah using the technology Bernie helped develop to Anaheim California.
You can meet all these innovators and many more on the Discovery TV special, tonight at 10 p.m. ET, or in the book, which just came out in paperback with a new afterword and illustrations.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
Space Shuttle Launch Postponed
NASA has postponed the space shuttle “Discovery" launch to the International Space Station on Wednesday. It was delayed due to the leakage of hydrogen during the fueling and also announced that they will try again on Sunday.
The Lift off of the space shuttle on Sunday is scheduled for 7:43 p.m. (2343 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The flight was the first of the five plans of this year and the purpose is to deliver the concluding set of solar power panels to the space station, along with that was the transport the first astronaut of Japan who would be a member and serve the live-aboard station crew.
The launch attempt was called off on Wednesday as there was spill of the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen while the shuttle was being filled.
“Our business requires perfection and our vehicle was not perfect today” said Mike Leinbach the shuttle launch director.
“The leak appeared around a vent valve that funnels hydrogen gases that have boiled off during the fill-up to a disposal system on the ground, creating a potential fire hazard.
Hydrogen gas leaking overboard is not an acceptable condition” Leinbach said.
Managers expect to meet again on Friday to discuss repair options. NASA has until Tuesday to get Discovery off the launch pad to avoid a conflict with a Russian mission to deliver a new crew to the space station. If Discovery cannot fly before the Soyuz arrival, NASA will reschedule the mission for April.
A launch next week, however, will mean the shuttle crew will have to shave a few days off its planned 14-day mission. Mike Moses, head of the shuttle mission management team, said at least one of the four spacewalks planned by the Discovery crew would be canceled and the work rescheduled for the resident station crew members to complete.
Discovery's mission had already been delayed a month due to safety concerns about fuel pressure valves, but after extensive testing and studies, managers cleared the ship for flight. Wednesday's fuel leak was unrelated to the valve issue, NASA officials said.
The main goal of Discovery's flight is to deliver a $300 million set of solar wing panels, as well as a new distiller for the station's urine recycling system.
The panels are inside a 16-tonne module that will complete the station's 11-segment exterior backbone. The seven-man crew includes Japan's Koichi Wakata, a two-time shuttle veteran who will stay behind on the space station to serve as a flight engineer after the shuttle departs. He replaces NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, who has been in orbit since November.
The station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations, has been under construction 220 miles above Earth for more than a decade. The U.S. space agency has up to nine flights remaining to complete assembly, as well as a final servicing call to the Hubble Space Telescope, before it retires the shuttle fleet next year.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
The Lift off of the space shuttle on Sunday is scheduled for 7:43 p.m. (2343 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The flight was the first of the five plans of this year and the purpose is to deliver the concluding set of solar power panels to the space station, along with that was the transport the first astronaut of Japan who would be a member and serve the live-aboard station crew.
The launch attempt was called off on Wednesday as there was spill of the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen while the shuttle was being filled.
“Our business requires perfection and our vehicle was not perfect today” said Mike Leinbach the shuttle launch director.
“The leak appeared around a vent valve that funnels hydrogen gases that have boiled off during the fill-up to a disposal system on the ground, creating a potential fire hazard.
Hydrogen gas leaking overboard is not an acceptable condition” Leinbach said.
Managers expect to meet again on Friday to discuss repair options. NASA has until Tuesday to get Discovery off the launch pad to avoid a conflict with a Russian mission to deliver a new crew to the space station. If Discovery cannot fly before the Soyuz arrival, NASA will reschedule the mission for April.
A launch next week, however, will mean the shuttle crew will have to shave a few days off its planned 14-day mission. Mike Moses, head of the shuttle mission management team, said at least one of the four spacewalks planned by the Discovery crew would be canceled and the work rescheduled for the resident station crew members to complete.
Discovery's mission had already been delayed a month due to safety concerns about fuel pressure valves, but after extensive testing and studies, managers cleared the ship for flight. Wednesday's fuel leak was unrelated to the valve issue, NASA officials said.
The main goal of Discovery's flight is to deliver a $300 million set of solar wing panels, as well as a new distiller for the station's urine recycling system.
The panels are inside a 16-tonne module that will complete the station's 11-segment exterior backbone. The seven-man crew includes Japan's Koichi Wakata, a two-time shuttle veteran who will stay behind on the space station to serve as a flight engineer after the shuttle departs. He replaces NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, who has been in orbit since November.
The station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations, has been under construction 220 miles above Earth for more than a decade. The U.S. space agency has up to nine flights remaining to complete assembly, as well as a final servicing call to the Hubble Space Telescope, before it retires the shuttle fleet next year.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
"Nicole Lamarche"
Nicole Lamarche is the beauty queen, church pastor. Nicole Lamarche has made her way into the news today. A newspaper article published today discloses her beauty pageant past and her new life and duties as pastor of Cotuit Federated Church in Cotuit, Massachusetts, a Cape Cod village with approximately 2,600 year-round residents.
The church is a federation of the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church. The church members were opposing Nicole Lamarche being with them, they had had googled her and found out about her past life as a beauty queen. Now 30 years old, Lamarche has been pastor of the church for two years and has been widely accepted by members who number less than 100.
Nicole Lamarche in an interview had mentioned that there was difficulty with some in the church for “pastor in a swimsuit thing.” But she had dissimilar perception; she needed the scholarship money from the pageant to continue her education and added, “If you can walk on a stage in your swimsuit, you can do anything.”
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The church is a federation of the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church. The church members were opposing Nicole Lamarche being with them, they had had googled her and found out about her past life as a beauty queen. Now 30 years old, Lamarche has been pastor of the church for two years and has been widely accepted by members who number less than 100.
Nicole Lamarche in an interview had mentioned that there was difficulty with some in the church for “pastor in a swimsuit thing.” But she had dissimilar perception; she needed the scholarship money from the pageant to continue her education and added, “If you can walk on a stage in your swimsuit, you can do anything.”
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Friday, March 6, 2009
The UNC Chapel Hill
The community of The UNC Chapel Hill had got together on Thursday to honor the life of former Student Body President Eve Carson, who was murdered one year ago.
There were more than 1,000 people who had gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the remembrance of the murdered student body president Eve Carson.
Holden Thorp, the chancellor spoke during the ceremony on Thursday, after a year of Carson's vicious death. Thorp requested to remember the Athens, Ga. native for her commitment to community service and her excitement about life.
Eve Carson's body was found in one of the Chapel Hill's residential street on March 5, 2008. Demario Atwater and Laurence Lovette were the two men who are charged with her murder and kidnapping. They are in prison waiting for trial.
The 22 year old Demario Atwater and 18 year old Laurence Lovette are charged with first-degree murder and Atwater has to face the death penalty. Laurence Lovette will not be facing the execution as he was under the age of 18 when the shooting incident occurred.
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There were more than 1,000 people who had gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the remembrance of the murdered student body president Eve Carson.
Holden Thorp, the chancellor spoke during the ceremony on Thursday, after a year of Carson's vicious death. Thorp requested to remember the Athens, Ga. native for her commitment to community service and her excitement about life.
Eve Carson's body was found in one of the Chapel Hill's residential street on March 5, 2008. Demario Atwater and Laurence Lovette were the two men who are charged with her murder and kidnapping. They are in prison waiting for trial.
The 22 year old Demario Atwater and 18 year old Laurence Lovette are charged with first-degree murder and Atwater has to face the death penalty. Laurence Lovette will not be facing the execution as he was under the age of 18 when the shooting incident occurred.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Horton Foote
Mr Foote was a generous, genteel American dramatist who had a profound and long-lived human insights were expressed with uncommon sympathy for the fears of decent, small-town Americans, died Wednesday at age 92. According to several reports, Foote was in his temporary apartment in Hartford, Conn., working on a future production of one of his plays.
Horton Foote has passed away. He was the man who chronicled America’s wistful odyssey through the 20th century in many plays and films in a small town in Texas and left a literary legacy as one of the country’s foremost storytellers, died in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday. He was 92years old said his daughter Hallie Foote.
"In a body of work" was the play for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and two Oscars, Mr. Foote was well known as the writer’s writer, and an author who would never neglect his vision or altered his simple, homespun style even when Broadway and Hollywood temporarily turned their backs on him.
In screenplays for such movies as “Tender Mercies,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Trip to Bountiful,” and in plays like “The Young Man From Atlanta” and his nine-play cycle “Orphans’ Home,” Mr. Foote depicted the way ordinary people shoulder the ordinary burdens of life, finding drama in the resilience by which they carry on in the face of change, economic hardship, disappointment, loss and death. His work earned him a Pulitzer Prize and two Academy Awards.
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Horton Foote has passed away. He was the man who chronicled America’s wistful odyssey through the 20th century in many plays and films in a small town in Texas and left a literary legacy as one of the country’s foremost storytellers, died in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday. He was 92years old said his daughter Hallie Foote.
"In a body of work" was the play for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and two Oscars, Mr. Foote was well known as the writer’s writer, and an author who would never neglect his vision or altered his simple, homespun style even when Broadway and Hollywood temporarily turned their backs on him.
In screenplays for such movies as “Tender Mercies,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Trip to Bountiful,” and in plays like “The Young Man From Atlanta” and his nine-play cycle “Orphans’ Home,” Mr. Foote depicted the way ordinary people shoulder the ordinary burdens of life, finding drama in the resilience by which they carry on in the face of change, economic hardship, disappointment, loss and death. His work earned him a Pulitzer Prize and two Academy Awards.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Medicean Stars Discovered By Galileo
The four moons of the planet Jupiter is called as the "Medicean Stars", it was actually named by Galileo when he discovered with his small telescope at those time.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, our planet earth has only one moon, but the planet Jupiter a confirmed 63 moons! Moons are the space bodies which are smaller than the planet and those which revolve around the planet due to the gravitational force of the planet.
History of the Medicean Stars: It was on 7 January 1610 when the legend Galileo noticed with his telescope what he explained then as “three fixed stars” which was some distance away from Jupiter. The next night he saw that the “fixed stars” had change places! On the 10th of January Galileo noted that one of them had disappeared, an examination which he recognized to its being hidden behind Jupiter. After which he came to a conclusion that they were not actual stars but instead are moons which were orbiting Jupiter!
It was noted in the History when Galileo discovered three of Jupiter’s four largest moons: and named them as Io, Europa, and Callisto. After some days he also discovered Ganymede.
Galileo named these four satellites he had discovered Medicean stars, in honour of the grands duke of Tuscany Cosimo II de’ Medici and Cosimo’s three brothers! Yea at that time it was like you had to gave the dumbs with powers importance so that your work is recognised!!
However later on now..scientist have renamed the Medicean Stars as Galilean satellites in honour of Galileo himself.
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Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, our planet earth has only one moon, but the planet Jupiter a confirmed 63 moons! Moons are the space bodies which are smaller than the planet and those which revolve around the planet due to the gravitational force of the planet.
History of the Medicean Stars: It was on 7 January 1610 when the legend Galileo noticed with his telescope what he explained then as “three fixed stars” which was some distance away from Jupiter. The next night he saw that the “fixed stars” had change places! On the 10th of January Galileo noted that one of them had disappeared, an examination which he recognized to its being hidden behind Jupiter. After which he came to a conclusion that they were not actual stars but instead are moons which were orbiting Jupiter!
It was noted in the History when Galileo discovered three of Jupiter’s four largest moons: and named them as Io, Europa, and Callisto. After some days he also discovered Ganymede.
Galileo named these four satellites he had discovered Medicean stars, in honour of the grands duke of Tuscany Cosimo II de’ Medici and Cosimo’s three brothers! Yea at that time it was like you had to gave the dumbs with powers importance so that your work is recognised!!
However later on now..scientist have renamed the Medicean Stars as Galilean satellites in honour of Galileo himself.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Its Square Root Day Celebrations
Its square root say today so dust the slide rules and recharge all your calculators. The math-buffs’ holiday occurs only nine times every century now, is on Tuesday March 03rd 2009.
“These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day — and poof — they’re gone” was the comment of Ron Gordon, a Redwood City teacher who started a contest meant to get people excited about the Square Root Day event. The winner will get $339 for having the biggest Square Root Day event.
Gordon’s daughter has also set up a Facebook page which is dedicated to the holiday — and hundreds of people had signed up with the plans to celebrate in some way. The celebrations are very weird some cut root vegetables into squares, others make food in the shape of a square root symbol.
The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.
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“These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day — and poof — they’re gone” was the comment of Ron Gordon, a Redwood City teacher who started a contest meant to get people excited about the Square Root Day event. The winner will get $339 for having the biggest Square Root Day event.
Gordon’s daughter has also set up a Facebook page which is dedicated to the holiday — and hundreds of people had signed up with the plans to celebrate in some way. The celebrations are very weird some cut root vegetables into squares, others make food in the shape of a square root symbol.
The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
"Robert Goulet"
Robert Goulet is a man who has earned huge respect from many people. His greatness and morality has been spoken and written about more often. It was also said that some institute was ready to create the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year honor, won in 2008 by retired police detective Tim Galvin of New York.
John Connolly and Vince Diviacchi of Chicago and the AMI Friends have decided to put on the annual Robert Goulet party. This event will be held near the Windy Apple, and it is the sixth year of the Goulet party and it has grown each time - last year more than 300 people packed into Mystic Celt for this event that benefits the American Cancer Society.
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John Connolly and Vince Diviacchi of Chicago and the AMI Friends have decided to put on the annual Robert Goulet party. This event will be held near the Windy Apple, and it is the sixth year of the Goulet party and it has grown each time - last year more than 300 people packed into Mystic Celt for this event that benefits the American Cancer Society.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Ted Ammon Found Nude And Bludgeoned
Ted Ammon came out to East Hampton on his own in his silver Porsche on a crisp autumn Saturday on October 20, 2001. Turning to driveway of his house on Middle Lane always buoyed his spirits. Ted Ammon liked being alone on the weekends after his divorce were nearly done. He had lost almost half of his $80 million fortune, but now he feels that time was more important than money. But he could retain only his house which was his great relief, was this house.
Ammon was A sharp investment banker who had been a senior partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) in the wild LBO days of the 1980s and also a flake who would sometimes do “disappearing acts” as said but one of his colleague, he failed to show himself when he said he would. So Mark Angelson, his partner in a new boutique private equity firm, Chancery Lane Capital, hardly worried when Ammon missed a morning meeting on Monday, October 22.
But when noon passed the household help reported that Ammon didn’t call to make after-school plans for his 11-year-old twins, Alexa and Gregory. This made Angelson very nervous. Angelson called all his numbers repeatedly, at the East Hampton house, the New York apartment, Ammon’s cell, but did not get any answer.
Along with Ammon’s chauffeur, Angelson flew out to the East Hampton Airport on a corporate helicopter, and took a cab to 59 Middle Lane. When they entered the house, they were greeted by Ammon’s three dogs. Angelson called Ammon’s name which didn’t get any response. But they saw trails of blood on stairs Ammon was lying nude on his bed with his head bludgeoned and hands trembling. Angelson called the East Hampton Village Police immediately.
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Ammon was A sharp investment banker who had been a senior partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) in the wild LBO days of the 1980s and also a flake who would sometimes do “disappearing acts” as said but one of his colleague, he failed to show himself when he said he would. So Mark Angelson, his partner in a new boutique private equity firm, Chancery Lane Capital, hardly worried when Ammon missed a morning meeting on Monday, October 22.
But when noon passed the household help reported that Ammon didn’t call to make after-school plans for his 11-year-old twins, Alexa and Gregory. This made Angelson very nervous. Angelson called all his numbers repeatedly, at the East Hampton house, the New York apartment, Ammon’s cell, but did not get any answer.
Along with Ammon’s chauffeur, Angelson flew out to the East Hampton Airport on a corporate helicopter, and took a cab to 59 Middle Lane. When they entered the house, they were greeted by Ammon’s three dogs. Angelson called Ammon’s name which didn’t get any response. But they saw trails of blood on stairs Ammon was lying nude on his bed with his head bludgeoned and hands trembling. Angelson called the East Hampton Village Police immediately.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
"Jack The Bookie" - Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon is "Jack the Bookie", he was a newspaperman and writer who died in 1946. He was well known for his short stories which celebrated the world of Broadway in New York City and grew t become the Prohibition era.
To New Yorkers a "Damon Runyon character" brought to mind a characteristic communal type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The "Runyonesque" referred to a character and the type of situations and dialog that Damon Runyon portrays.
He twisted many tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, some of them had "square" names, instead of colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit," "Big Jule," "Harry the Horse," "Good Time Charley," "Dave the Dude," or "The Seldom Seen Kid."
Damon Runyon wrote many of these stories in his own individual vernacular style which presented a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang. These stories were always in present tense, and always devoid of retrenchment.
Damon Runyon was also one of the U.S.’s best paid sports writers. He had written stories about popular people like Chicago O’Brien and Jack the Bookie.
To New Yorkers a "Damon Runyon character" brought to mind a characteristic communal type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The "Runyonesque" referred to a character and the type of situations and dialog that Damon Runyon portrays.
He twisted many tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, some of them had "square" names, instead of colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit," "Big Jule," "Harry the Horse," "Good Time Charley," "Dave the Dude," or "The Seldom Seen Kid."
Damon Runyon wrote many of these stories in his own individual vernacular style which presented a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang. These stories were always in present tense, and always devoid of retrenchment.
Damon Runyon was also one of the U.S.’s best paid sports writers. He had written stories about popular people like Chicago O’Brien and Jack the Bookie.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Had A Surgery
The only woman currently serving Supreme Court as the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg since 1993 has undergone a surgery on Thursday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She is 75 years old and was admitted at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York for the surgery.
She had cancer in the early stages. She has to be in the hospital for 10 more days, announced the surgeon, Dr. Murray Brennan. Ginsburg had a surgery for colon cancer and also undergone chemotherapy and radiation treatment in 1999. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer during a routine annual test late last month at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
She had cancer in the early stages. She has to be in the hospital for 10 more days, announced the surgeon, Dr. Murray Brennan. Ginsburg had a surgery for colon cancer and also undergone chemotherapy and radiation treatment in 1999. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer during a routine annual test late last month at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Michael Steele - The New Chairman Of Republican National Committee
Michael Steele a 50 year young man is the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee on the sixth and final ballot. Steele won by 91 votes, where as Dawson his Contender got 77 votes.
"This is awesome," Steve addressed the crowd and continued as "I accept and appreciate all of you for the opportunity to serve as the next national chairman of our very proud, our very strong, and our very, very hard working Republican National Committee."
Born in Maryland on October 19, 1958, Michael S Steele grew in Washington; D.C. He earned his degree in law from Georgetown University Law Center in 1991 and chooses a career in law after spending three years as a seminarian in the order of St. Augustine in the preparation for the priesthood. He is a member in St Mary's Catholic Church in Landover Hills, MD, and attends the mass with his wife Andrea and children.
Michael S. Steele was in the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 2003 through 2007. He is a partner in the international law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf in Washington, D.C. From 1991-1997, Steele also was a corporate securities attorney at International Law Firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington, D.C. He was also a writer and some of his writings have been published in The Washington Times, Politico.com, Townhall.com, and the Journal of International Security Affairs, among others.
Michael S. Steele the exceptionally talented and the most intelligent person is the right choice to lead all the Republicans in the right direction.
"This is awesome," Steve addressed the crowd and continued as "I accept and appreciate all of you for the opportunity to serve as the next national chairman of our very proud, our very strong, and our very, very hard working Republican National Committee."
Born in Maryland on October 19, 1958, Michael S Steele grew in Washington; D.C. He earned his degree in law from Georgetown University Law Center in 1991 and chooses a career in law after spending three years as a seminarian in the order of St. Augustine in the preparation for the priesthood. He is a member in St Mary's Catholic Church in Landover Hills, MD, and attends the mass with his wife Andrea and children.
Michael S. Steele was in the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 2003 through 2007. He is a partner in the international law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf in Washington, D.C. From 1991-1997, Steele also was a corporate securities attorney at International Law Firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington, D.C. He was also a writer and some of his writings have been published in The Washington Times, Politico.com, Townhall.com, and the Journal of International Security Affairs, among others.
Michael S. Steele the exceptionally talented and the most intelligent person is the right choice to lead all the Republicans in the right direction.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Solve All World Issues By Following The World Leaders
There are many leaders who have left an impact on the world by their serious motivational speeches and the dedication to achieve their thoughts. Those who have created an image in the world for being self, are called as world leaders.
Many of the world issues have been solved by these world leaders who contemplate their time solving these problems rather than complaining about the issues. All the world leaders have shown their work and actions louder than their speeches. It's their motivational words, behavior and helpful actions which has left a non erasable impression on the people.
Some of the world leaders we should bow for are Sir Winston Churchill for his bravery and leadership quality shown during the wars, Martin Luther King, Jr. of USA for his bus boycott and for being a leader of supreme quality, Mahatma Gandhi fought for India's freedom with his unique leadership style, Margaret Thatcher the first woman prime minister of UK with all the elemental leadership quality and many more who had taken the leading ownership and served the world with their persistence.
These world leaders were not leaders from the beginning. They have adopted and implemented some of the great qualities to become a leader and hence have many people who have become their followers. All of them have incredible speaking ability with tons of confidence and a heart to always be on the right path.
Being a good leader is not that hard, you have to maintain some characteristics bring them into action in your day to day life. Some of the requirements to be a leader are to have positive thinking towards all problems, fill in yourself more confidence to do what you think, and have all your actions under control. When you have these characteristics in you, you are bound to be a good leader with extraordinary management skills.
Its time to stop complaining about the defects of the world, and take decisions to solve them by being and implementing all the leadership qualities. Join hands and follow the world leaders or become a leader to solve all the world issues.
Many of the world issues have been solved by these world leaders who contemplate their time solving these problems rather than complaining about the issues. All the world leaders have shown their work and actions louder than their speeches. It's their motivational words, behavior and helpful actions which has left a non erasable impression on the people.
Some of the world leaders we should bow for are Sir Winston Churchill for his bravery and leadership quality shown during the wars, Martin Luther King, Jr. of USA for his bus boycott and for being a leader of supreme quality, Mahatma Gandhi fought for India's freedom with his unique leadership style, Margaret Thatcher the first woman prime minister of UK with all the elemental leadership quality and many more who had taken the leading ownership and served the world with their persistence.
These world leaders were not leaders from the beginning. They have adopted and implemented some of the great qualities to become a leader and hence have many people who have become their followers. All of them have incredible speaking ability with tons of confidence and a heart to always be on the right path.
Being a good leader is not that hard, you have to maintain some characteristics bring them into action in your day to day life. Some of the requirements to be a leader are to have positive thinking towards all problems, fill in yourself more confidence to do what you think, and have all your actions under control. When you have these characteristics in you, you are bound to be a good leader with extraordinary management skills.
Its time to stop complaining about the defects of the world, and take decisions to solve them by being and implementing all the leadership qualities. Join hands and follow the world leaders or become a leader to solve all the world issues.
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