Were you aware that President Obama is the first president ever to take the Oath of Office from a recycled, solid-blue carpet? Can you imagine a presidency and country more poised for change? Not only do I anticipate change in fashion, home trends and carpet styles because of the First Family’s Sense of Style, but I also expect a more creative use of carpet for traditional red carpet events.
But we may be hopeless to look farward to a new idea.Thus a traditional red carpet representing exclusivity was deemed boring and out of date. Instead the ball had a purple carpet. Other, so-called “green” balls had their own, yes, green carpets.”
Different client taste different color good. It is nonsense to look down upon someone due to his bad taste on the unsuitable carpet. But that doesn’t include the carpets in public.
However it should be kept clean wherever it is, at home or in public.Carpet in most homes should be vacuumed once a week to remove surface litter.
Regular care is essential for maintaining the appearance and wear life of your carpet. The amount of cleaning required depends on how much traffic the area receives, where the carpet is located, and environmental conditions. Routine vacuuming, responding quickly to spills and stains, shampooing and professional cleaning periodically are necessary for maintaining your carpet.
More than that, most carpets need special treatment as well. Your dog got into some green paint we had hidden behind the shed and came into the house marking up the carpet. You used warm water with oxy clean and blotted it up. Take a soaked clothe with the solution and blot deeply and with some paper towels blot it out. But still some spots remain there. It is so uncomfortable for a carpet in a pure color.
Unfortunately, little can be done to correct the spot since the dye is either destroyed or changed chemically and cannot be restored by cleaning or treating. Generally speaking, spots resulting from chemical spills are not covered under warranties since they are not defects in the carpet.
March, 2009
Prefer to clean instead of color
RMB vs Dollar
China is calling for a new global currency to replace the dominant dollar now!
“One is wealthy not because of his much RMB,but for dollars in his bag.” a slogan Chinese used to preach in decades after the opening of China. Dollar is famous for the value it owed. For decades, the dollar has been the world’s most widely used currency. Many governments hold a large portion of their reserves in dollars. Crude oil and many commodities are priced in dollars. Business deals around the world are done in dollars.People could get anything they wanted by it.
Now, things have changed! The financial crisis has highlighted how America’s economic problems — and by extension the dollar — can wreak havoc on nations around the world. China has long been uneasy about relying on the dollar for the bulk of its trade and to store foreign reserves. Premier Wen Jiabao publicly appealed to Washington this month to avoid any response to the crisis that might weaken the dollar and the value of Beijing’s estimated $1 trillion in Treasuries and other U.S. government debt.
Subsequently,actions have been taken! Holds vastly U.S. government bonds and then adds pressure to overhaul a global financial system dominated by the dollar and Western governments. That shows a growing assertiveness on revamping the world economy ahead of next week’s London summit on the financial crisis.To better insulate countries from the ills of one country or one currency, Zhou said the IMF should create a “reserve currency” based on shares in the body held by its 185 member nations, known as special drawing rights, or SDRs.
China’s proposal would greatly expand the use of an obscure type of currency created by the International Monetary Fund in 1969 known as “special drawing rights,” or SDRs. The SDR was originally pegged to the dollar but is now based on the value of four different currencies. But under China’s proposal, the SDRs would have a much broader role and would be used for international trade, commodities pricing, and other functions.
For the idea to work, the IMF would have to decide how much more of the SDRs would be created, a process that could be easily politicized. In addition, using the SDRs for international trade and commodities pricing would require that private companies accept the new currency. That is “a huge hurdle to overcome”.
It is brushed down by several leaders planning to attend G20 conference. President Barack Obama described China’s proposal as unnecessary during a prime-time news conference.The idea of a creating a new global reserve currency isn’t new. But analysts say the proposal isn’t likely to gain much traction because it faces major obstacles. It would require acceptance from nations that have long used the dollar and hold huge stockpiles of the U.S. currency.
More than that,the creation of a new supra-national global reserve currency to supplant the U.S. dollar would likely lead to a complete collapse of the greenback, of which trillions are held in in foreign exchange reserves by foreign countries such as China and Japan.
The attitude in your life
It isn’t stunning often to come across some difficulties in life. Surrender or conquer, it’s your choice. But before you should know that good affirmation: “There are no problem in my life only adventures, challenges and opportunities to show your stuff.” You’ve heard the statement and Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, that we are masters of our fate.
Actually, an positive attitude may save one from being lost in hardship. It’s because we have a human mind. You see, events, conditions, and circumstances just are. The meanings you assign to them are within your complete control. Follow this, we can get courageous while being stuck, to turn the situation around.
That is not saying you won’t have “challenges and trying times”, but there are no problems in your life. Because you’ve re-classified them. Things will come up, go to the bank on that one, things will.
But to you opportunities coexists in adventures. You see, you feeling good - remember Think and Grow Rich - you feeling good, you feeling empowered, you in control… It is a world of cause and effect. The vibes that you emit trigger and pull from all the HoloCosm what the Law of Attraction is going to bring you.
And you are positive that you are achieving things, that you are contributing, that good things are coming to you. That you can overcome any obstacle, any challenge. You love these kind of things, this is the stuff that life is made of! This is the stuff that gives you passion in your quest!
“How do you design an interpretation system that motivates people?” Now look at this: design an interpretation system. We’re talking about you have the ability to think, by the way. “As a series of opportunities rather than as a series of threats.”
Look at the assumptions behind this scientific human change wisdom… There is no way to change the world to keep it from bringing adventures, challenges, and new opportunities in your life, so you learn to reframe them into excitement rather than frustration and overwhelm.
There won’t be rainbows befor winds and storms! Don’t push difficulties out! That which has bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Embrace all those difficulties that make you bored! Embrace opportunities!
Green Lining in The Recession
Many factories fell in a night after the crises burnt up. Output of autos, electronics and other goods from factories in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, Monterrey and Toluca has fallen so sharply that the amount of cargo trucked across the U.S. border has dropped 40 percent. In India, enough small steel-rolling mills around Delhi have closed that levels of sulfur dioxide (which forms acid rain) fell 85 percent in October 2008 compared with a year earlier. The recession is bringing a green dividend in the developed world, too. Reduced economic activity is projected to cut Europe’s emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief man-made greenhouse gas, by 100 million tons in 2009, and the United States’ by about the same amount.
It is no coincidence that some of the dirtiest industrial operations are falling victim to the global recession. Over the past two decades, much of the world’s manufacturing moved to where pollution standards are little more than mild suggestions. Since small, corner-cutting, inefficient facilities tend to both flout pollution laws and be most vulnerable to a sudden drop in demand, the global recession has hit such operations especially hard.
In recent years there have been several radical outbreaks of disease, the origins of which can be traced back to the contamination of food products during food processing; a direct result of dirty or unhygienic factory space.
They can run, but cannot hide. They owed people too much, and they encountered the recession.
What is startling is that the prevalence of unhygienic food processing plants is on the rise and, oddly enough. People will use ”non-green” methods in order to survive. Older vehicles that are cannibalized for parts begin to pile up on private property. More wood fuel is used instead of cleaner-burning natural gas. [fuels often, as with the 1982 recession, harvested illegally] . Lower -octane gasoline is burned in older vehicles that are less fuel efficient. Overall infrastructure begins to erode causing the greater usage of diesel-burning heavy equipment to repair if and when funding becomes available. Criminal activity is enhanced, leading to further environmental degradation, as the by-product of meth manufacture and marijuana cultivation ends up in lakes and streams, into potable water supply. At what point does ”recession” begin to hurt more than help? Where will enhanced poverty create insurrection, revolution and war which also contributes to further environmental problems?
The real challenge is what to do when orders pick up again. If factories ramp up to 2007 production and pollution levels, the time-out offered by the green recession will have been wasted. There are hints that that might happen. Factory owners in China and elsewhere argue that their top priority should be job preservation, and that spending money on pollution controls or switching to renewable energy has to wait. In Guangdong province, factory owners are lobbying the government to roll back environmental standards that, they argue, have made them uncompetitive with Southeast Asia. And factory managers, under pressure to cut costs, know they can reap easy savings by turning off smokestack scrubbers and dumping waste rather than treating it.
Obviously, using the downturn to institute greener practices is more of a challenge.
Tags: environment, Output, pollution, Recession
Perfectly Handle Portable Solar Panels
There are so many advantages when carrying portable solar panels. It’s basically having electricity on the go. It’s excellent for camping, especially when you have no access to electricity. While camping, you have the ability to bring along your laptop, a cell phone, an mp3 player, or even a portable TV. There are some panels that you can put on your back while your jogging or riding a bicycle and charging your phone or your iPod at the same time.
Portable solar panels provide great convenience to people with lots of outdoor activities. The most popular portable solar panel systems have to be the 12 volt system. Due to their sizes, they may not provide enough heat to warm your entire house, but they do offer more than enough energy to run your portable devices and recharge them. Like their much larger counterparts, they run better under direct and full exposure to the sun but obviously require more time to generate the same amount of electricity.However, development of solar panels which work under indoor lighting is in progress and will be available to the market within an estimated 4 to 5 years.
It may cost less than 72 cents to charge up your laptop using electricity from your home but all those change adds up. If used wisely, you will be able to save over $275 each year. They may be a bit expensive but it is a wise investment.
They, however, need to be handled with enough care, just like any other technical devices.
Make sure your panel has built-in regulator. The built-in regulator is able to control that the panel only generate the amount of energy that is required by the devices being recharged. This is a feature that all superior portable solar panels have, and it eliminates the risk of overcharging which may well destroy the device being recharged.
Avoid folding solar cells. In reality, portable panel systems are foldable and thus can be put into a big pocket or purse with ease. But the solar cells themselves are far from being foldable. It is exact the same case as a weight belt: it is flexible, but that’s only because the fabric they are attached to is flexible. Similarly, in case of solar panels, the fabric which holds them is foldable, thus allowing for the cells to fold with them. Do not use your panel to charge a regular battery. This may sound too obvious, but many people are still doing it. So, bear in mind that your panel only works for rechargeable batteries.
Buy customized connector for your panel. Equipment for connections should be bought separately as they aren’t provided. The recharging plugs in your devices should have customized connectors for them. Trickle charge” your car to make sure its battery is full. In case you plan to trickle charge your car, or snowmobile battery or boat, battery clips are essential. This really comes in handy when the temperature is really low, and you need to keep your car parked for indefinite periods of time.
Compared to grid electricity and the likes, portable solar panels are an expensive alternative, but they are very useful if you camp outside for long intervals of time, or like hiking or working inside your car. In addition, they are invaluable as backup systems during power failures.
Tags: convenience, Portable, regulator, Solar Panels
Ancient time mechine: Candle Clocks
We are wearing various kinds of watches, such as electronical ones, mechanical ones and so on now. people depended on the bell in time calculation. Subsequently, London is famous of its Big Ben. And many of a tempel and a palace have its charactoristic bells. But this isn’t the first vehicle in timing and not hourglass either.
It’s Candle Clocks . Our first written reference to the use of a kind of candle clock comes from a poem written by Chinese thinker You Jiangu, around the year 520 AD. In the work, the candle clock is referenced as a way of telling what time it was during the night, when the sun could not be used.
Just as the four Great Invention of China, it is almost impossible to know when the first candle clock was used, as the practice of marking candles may have been in use throughout the world for centuries before it was ever recorded.
But how does it work? The most famous candle clock was used by King Alfred the Great of England. This clock consisted of six candles, each crafted to be exactly twelve inches in height, and precisely uniform in width. These candles each had 12 marks, with each mark representing twenty minutes, and the entire candle set to burn away every four hours. At four hours each the 6 candles were able to maintain a steady reading of the time, for a full 24 hour period, without being replenished. The candles themselves were protected by wooden frames with glass paneling that allowed the time to be monitored.
In 1206 Al-Jazari fashioned what are considered the most complex and ingenuous candle clocks ever made. These clocks used weight and counterbalance, to move a series of automata which displayed a read out of the time. As the candle burned, it became lighter, and the counterweights would move, allowing the device to operate. These clocks were the first to use a bayonet fitting, which is a fastening mechanism which is still employed to this day.
Due to the uncertain speed at which the flame would burn and the max would melt,which is impossible to completely control, the candle clocks were relatively accurate. The fact that the max would melt unevenly could also cause problems with the accuracy of these timepieces. They were generally abandoned in favor of mechanical clocks once they became widely available.
Tags: Candle Clocks, China, invention, time
Time-management for freedom
Do you have the similar boredom that happy time with families or friends often was occupied by endless work? That damn call ring rong at sleeping time? That we had to have breakfast and lunch while going to work? And that is all individual false, nowhere to suit.
That’s all the gain for a new busy staff.
But now I decide to turn it over from time-management. You cannot hope for high achievement with low quality preparation. Time management is an issue that many business people seem to have challenges with.
In a whole,there are three lanes of life’s highway although different people have a unique interpretation of time management for thenselves and enjoy achievement in it.
Commonly, people spend far too much time in the fast lane, in the belief that this is where superior performance comes from. They are consumed with their work and spend little time in the other lanes because they feel they really need to be in the fast lane. For many, it is where they get their whole sense of identity. That’s the crazy staff we call.
But this strategy is flawed because a high price is often paid in terms of quality of life, health, relationships and productivity.
I appreciate those achievers who spend not so much time in work but produces the energy to accomplish more. They realise that all lanes should be heading in the same direction and spending time in all three that with less. The activities in middle and slow lanes are equally important as those in the fast lane and need to be planned as well.
Still many business owners take far too little time off. Yet, more than most, business owners in a position to decide how much time they allocate to the various aspects of their lives, aren’t they?
Being at the beginning of the year you have a blank canvas and perfect opportunity presents itself for you to block out the right amount of time off in your schedule. Ask yourself “Am I taking the free time I really want this year?” If not, book it in and then plan your work around it.
We get more free time by taking less, but productive time to work because we can cope smarter, not harder. Your ultimate level of success will correlate to the time you take to rest, rejuvenate and enjoy a high quality personal life.
This is the first step we get!
Worse at reading maps but better to find misplaced keys, women able
A yacht which was steered by a veteran captain was sailing across the sea, and it has never lost surprisingly. “I imagine I can soar in the sky, or run in the wild at times. But what I worried about only was I would be lost possibly.”my girl friend always say,”so I hope you can turn up there when I need you.”
It turns out to be scientific what she worried. Women are worse at reading maps but better at finding lost items, research has revealed. Scientists asked 10 men and 10 women to view a series of unfamiliar pictures. The participants were told to give their impressions of the images and whether or not they found them beautiful.The scientists also used a technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG) to measure changes in the magnetic fields generated by active neurons in the brain.
They discovered that a brain region called the parietal lobe, which governs spatial awareness, is active in both men and women when they admire a ‘beautiful’ picture or photograph.
But while neurons on both sides of the brain were stimulated in women, only those in the right hemisphere were activated in men.
The left side of the brain used by women is more involved in ‘categorical’ spatial awareness - assessing the position of objects in categories such as ‘above’ or ‘below’, ‘left’ or ‘right’.
It enable women more aware of objects around them even if they are irrelevant to the task at hand, and could explain why they are more likely to find those lost door keys.
Men meanwhile appear to focus on ‘co-ordinate’ spatial awareness, centred in the right side of the brain. This involves a more precise form of mental mapping using co-ordinates to fix an object’s position in space, like those used on a Ordnance Survey.
The difference probably arose early in the evolution of early modern humans.Hunting, traditionally done by men, required a ‘co-ordinating’ ability to track animals accurately while on the move. However, a ‘categorical’ spatial awareness was better suited to foraging for fruit, roots or berries, a job mainly carried out by women.
Women tend to be more aware than men of objects around them, including those that seem irrelevant to the current task, whereas men out-perform women in navigation tasks.
Men tend to solve navigation tasks by using orientation-based strategies involving distance concepts and cardinal directions, whereas women tend to base their activities on remembering the location of landmarks and relative directions, such as ‘left from’, or ‘to the right of’.
Tags: 'co-ordinate', direction, lost, map, parietal lobe, women
Appreciate you, Writing!
I was always shy while communicating with girls in my childhood. And until my entry of the middle school, it didn’t change a little. Still am I shy now, may you ask?
Certainly not. It just turn better after I join in the senior middle school. Then I caught a story about an shy man who got over it till his fifty years old.
A funny moment of enlightenment happened to him then. You see, as a male, it has always been difficult for him to relate to women. Call it a plague between the two sexes, but that connection has been a lifelong struggle.
Many different relationships, people, and experiences have found their way into his life and, with these encounters, an assorted lot of characters and ideas for stories floated through his brain.
When the time was finally right, he decided to let the fingers do the talking. It has always been fun to have what he believed to be a strong command of the English language, but he was no whiz kid out of college. For that matter, he didn’t have any connections to the major publishing houses either.
However he decided to sit down and write a book.
At any rate, you might ask how made him relate to women better. This is where an unexpected consequence worked in his favor.
The topics of the book that frustrate a lot of Americans were rushing through his mind. Everyone is a little upset with the daily obstacles that normal life brings these days.
An issue such as the disparity that occurs in our country’s judicial system, and the attorneys who come with it, can leave some of us feeling helpless. There is also the problem of political corruption. How many Americans are totally disgusted with our politician, lobbyists, and members of our law enforcement?
Let’s not forget our system of taxation, which at last count indicated that at least forty-one different taxes were in force on the taxpayers of the United States. Forty-one! Is there any wonder that corporations and people alike are filing for bankruptcy at record numbers?
There are also health and lifestyle issues that affect Americans. How about all of the single moms and the increasing number of broken homes that there are in this country? What is in store for the next generation with an overwhelming number of stressed, unhealthy, overextended parents?
We could go even further and talk about discrimination and greed. How about the ridiculous golden parachutes, bonuses, and perks that are granted to the executives of corporate America? These men and women are the ones who are responsible for the unheard of bailout that will come at the expense of the American citizens. How can we productively vent our frustration towards their mismanagement?
The first novel was meant to be written for the guys. The setting is a fictitious golf course high atop the Mississippi river bluffs on the east side of St. Louis. Oddly enough, women have become my biggest fans.
Even though many of the characters are male and the common activity is golf, the topics of my books hit home to the everyday people in this country regardless of gender.
So, in my relationship efforts with women, it was the voice coming from my fingers and not my lips that has allowed for me to connect better with the opposite sex. Who was it who said that it’s better to keep your mouth closed and have people think you’re stupid than open it and confirm it?
After all he figured out a way to connect with the opposite sex …
I do what I like as him, and finally there are more and more topics to talk about. And gradually, I get better in communicating with females.
I wish you lucky like us!!!
Tags: character, communicate, disparity, shy, story
Where Is God?
“The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge.” Psalm 19:1-2 tells us
Of course, all were created by us human beings could be attributed to God who made everything by men and women. Seemingly, there is enough evidence that almost contain a bit of everything.
As David the psalmist said, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the end of the world.”
There’s a popular song that says God is watching from a distance. Or you may have heard Him referred to as a higher power, the man upstairs or a divine imminence. But the Bible tells us He is a person, and that He is near. James, a man history records as the brother of Jesus, tells us that if we draw near to God, He draws near to us.
It sounds horrible at times when you sit isolate at night. Blessing that God would protect you from anything evil, you hope God would not come too close to yourself simultaneously.
Actually God is nothing. It just what we think in our mind when we need aid helplessly. In today’s world, it’s easy for us to think that we suffer alone. But if you have wondered where God is, so has someone else. Now that you know who He is and where He is, you can help someone else know where God is, too.
However, one doesn’t need to be a scientist to see and feel the greatness of creation all around us.
I think people created him to explain conscience, which we normally explain as our heart and our mind. God lives inside of the people that believe in him. As a conceptual idea, that is where it lives. Science and materialism live in empiricism, concepts, such as god, live in the mind until we create something out of it.
In that sense, god also lives in all art, music, beauty, and terror that has been created by people in his name or following his concept as well.
Imagine that I have stood breathless at the sight of millions of gallons of water plunging over the Niagara Falls, and speechless at the splendor of the Grand Canyon. I have walked in amazement in the Yosemite Valley where mountains of granite seem to reach up out of nowhere to stab the sky in unparalleled artistic beauty.
I watched a sea gull, beautiful and agile, swooping over the waves, tipping its beak into the water to pluck a tasty meal from the sea. I marveled at the grace of a huge pelican, stretching his wings to a span of eight to ten feet as he soared effortlessly above me. So many marvels to see: a playful porpoise dodging beneath the bow of our boat, gliding with ease through the crystal clear water; a curious fur seal, popping out of the sea in answer to a child’s call; a kangaroo bounding across a distant field; and a koala high in a eucalyptus tree. Later, a million stars shone above to dance in chorus with a brilliant full moon and mirror their beauty in a now calm sea.
In life we all see and believe basically what we want to see and believe. If we want to see and believe in God, we can. If we don’t want to see him, we won’t. Most people do believe in God but it is an entirely different experience to find him personally.
Tags: Bible, comscience, creat, God, heaven, human, imagine, mind