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Read and interpret dreams

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Read and interpret dreams at this site

USA China - relatii economice

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:57:00 +0000

Nu demult, fostul secretar al Trezoreriei Americane, Henry Paulson, afirma cu tarie ca vina aparitiei crizei trebuie purtata de chinezi. N-a trecut nici macar o saptamana de la preluarea puterii de catre administratia Obama si deja Casa Alba vrea parca sa confirme ca Paulson a avut drepate.
Astfel, relatiile economice dintre Statele Unite si China au inceput cu stangul in "noua era Obama", in urma acuzatiilor aduse asiaticilor cum ca nu inceteaza sa-si manipuleze moneda pentru a-si proteja exporturile.
Aceste acuzatii au fost categoric respinse de administratia de la Beijing, care le-a catalogat ca fiind nefondate.
Mai mult, oficialii chinezi s-au intrebat retoric daca aceste acuzatii facute in plina criza financiara sunt oportune, dat fiind faptul ca este necesara o cooperare internationala pentru depasirea acestei crize.
"Nu ne depreciem intentionat moneda pentru a ne sustine exporturile", a declarat ministrul chinez al Comertului.
Expertii in economie tin sa dea dreptate chinezilor, aratand ca o depreciere intetnionata a yuan-ului ar fi putut avea un efect de bumerang asupra economiei chineze, intrucat acest lucru ar fi putut atrage capitaluri speculative in tara si ar fi nascut tensiuni cu principalii parteneri comerciali.

Aceste acuzatii arata ca idei precum cooperare internationala si sustinere reciproca in fata crizei raman simple vorbe spuse in cadrul reuniunilor la nivel inalt si care, dupa cum arata realitatea, nu se regasesc deloc in relatiile concrete dintre state, apreciaza expertii in relatii internationale.

Registering a second-hand car in Romania

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:45:00 +0000

The newly-installed minister of environment in the Government of Romania, Nicolae Nemirschi, does not agree to eliminate the tax of car registration (taxa de prima inmatriculare), for Romania should not turn into a car graveyard of Europe. The phenomenon began after 1990, when many citizens would buy second-hand cars especially from Germany and has increased in intensity with the aderation of Romania to the European Union in 2007. In order to increase the sales of Dacia cars, the romanian brand, and to avoid the pollution that second-hand cars would give, the Gouvernmnet has set up the disputed tax.

Nicolae Nemirschi has stated that the qualities of a car should be in the level of exhaust release and not in its "age". The minister has proposed a plan similar to that applied in many european countries: there should be created a number of "rings" surrounding the big cities, and the access towards downtown should be restricted more and more, depending of the level of car emission control.

It is now left to the citizens to see if the project should work or not.

Skype gets a Jumper

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:34:00 +0000

The MPLAT Jumper S100 Personal Gateway. Yet another box which lets you use your standard landline phone as a Skype phone. Clever bits include call forwarding to your mobile phone, 3 way conferencing between Skype and standard PSTN calls, voice recording and voice mail. $49.90.

The MPLAT Jumper S100 is a personal gateway between USB Port and regular telephone port (RJ11) for Skype Voice communication. It will setup the brigde between your skype call and PSTN Call, You will obtain more convenience and freedom, Keep all your tranditional experince, improve the feeling of using the skype. Make and receive Skype calls using your regular telephone,support cordless phone, ordinary answering machine,refreshing your existed telephone built-in features such as handfree,speed dial, redial, mute.

Using SSH access for Linux shared hosting at GoDaddy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:28:00 +0000

Some of you may have noticed the latest and greatest feature GoDaddy began offering to the Linux shared hosting customers. SSH, or Secure Shell, is a program that you can use to log in to another computer over a network. In this way you can execute commands on a remote machine and then move files from one machine to another.
Where do I find this new feature?
All paid accounts will find SSH under 'Settings' in the Hosting Control Center.
How do I begin?
First, you will need to enable SSH in your hosting account using the following help article.
Enabling SSH on Your Linux Shared Hosting Account
Once my account is enabled how do I connect?
In order to connect, you will need an SSH client. Use this article for instructions.
Using SSH to Connect to Your Linux Shared Hosting Account
In order to provide the best experience, customers using SSH are required to be located in our newest hosting environment. All new hosting accounts will have SSH available. For existing customers, GoDaddy is in the process of creating a mechanism for you to have your account moved to the new environment. This mechanism is currently available if your hosting account does not have any databases configured for it. If you do have databases, you may choose to use the existing MySQL database backup feature to save your content before removing that database and enabling SSH.

So How Much Time Do You Waste On Twitter?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:45:00 +0000

Making the rounds quickly on Twitter this weekend is Tweetwasters, a site that gives you an idea of how much time you’re really ‘wasting’ posting messages and status updates to the popular micro-sharing service. Users are calculating away and tweeting about it, ironically spending even more time on Twitter (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

There’s even a WordPress plugin that lets you show off your Twitter usage stats to your blog visitors, and if you try hard you might just make the Tweetwasters Hall Of Fame.

Tweetwasters estimates that a user spends about 30 seconds on creating a Tweet on average, which I think is a bit long. They multiply that by the number of Twitter messages you have produced and they provide you with the approximate number of seconds, minutes, hours or days of your life you have spent on Twitter.

twins (+. and .+)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:50:00 +0000

+. and .+ (interesting)

I also love some things...

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:04:00 +0000

1. Nichita Stănescu` poetry and his profound blue eyes.

2. The theatre.

3. The colourful, passionate life of gipsies along with the everlasting story of their beautiful Zaraza.

4. The beach, the sand, the ocean, me swimming y hablar espanol con los nativos de un pays latina.

5. The mountains and the snow.

6. My dreaming of the interbelic Bucharest.

7. Me, myself and I cuddling in bed late in the morning in weekends.

8. My getaways.

9. Parties in the PUB with tequilla.

10. My life and things I do in the pursue of an accomplished existence.

11. The way the Military High School handles the liberty of movement.

10 things I hate about you

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:37:00 +0000

Firstly, you should take notice that YOU is not a person, but my whole small pittiful Universe. Moreover, I request you dont`t take it personally.

1. Stop staring in my life and begin minding your own business.

2. Why complaining about the weather when you´ve been waiting for this warm summer rain since always?

3. Coke addiction.

4. I´d rather you talked less and drove more since you own a cab.

5. Do you really detest your own country? It means you detest yourself.

6. Is it so hard for you to understand the disparities between us?

7. You´ve lost your tenacity on the way. Stop underestimating yourself!!

8. Leave that cell phone away at least while I´m talking to you!!!...and also leave the others, I´m trying to express myself here!

9. From time to time you should remember that vanity is the greatest of all sins:P

10. Are you laughing me out?!You´better not!...

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:16:00 +0000

Mobile phones and pagers are nowadays items used by almost everyone, whithout which we might find ourselves in the impossibility of communication; we might find ourselves secluded indeed. It is said that we are contemporaries in the century “of information” and it’s been long time since information was transmitted through humans’ live meetings. However, for us and the upcoming generations, this technology has turned into accessories “in” or “out of” trend.
To my regard, mobile phones and pagers should not be banned from school, but introduced as clauses in certain rules for students. These communication “tools” are essential for our serene survival nowadays. We need to be kept in touch with everything and the possiblility of making contact at any times with certain people can be life-saving. Parents are at peace with themselves when they know their child can call them or the authorities if they are in trouble or simply they can get the assurance their loved-ones have reached their destination safely. Though, the discussions that have gone on and on on this topic refer to the over-usage of these apparatus, mostly during classes, usage which is refeacting into the disturbance of the program, of the teacher or of the other classmates. A cell-phone ringing at those times is not only annoying, but also wrong. I believe the silent mode is a solution for this problem.
Another aspect is represented by the manipulation of all adolescents, people at the “life-training” stage into wanting newer and more professional devices, irrespective of their percentage of facilities usage. The need of being accepted into different “stylish” groups is directly proportionate with the amount of trendy items you can bring altogether, fact that is not benefic to the psychological development of children. They need to trust in themselves for their own “internal memory” instead that of a cell phone equiped with an mp3 player whose music you never update.
The primordial importance of these “keep-in-touch” hi-tech has been stated above. If I were to balance this importance with the low points of it, I were to incline to the benefits. And don’t ever forget that in the virtual world the future is always unpredictible, but auspicious.

Vanity is the greatest of all sins

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:46:00 +0000

What do we regard nowadays as values to guide us towards a happy, or at least accomplished life? Should you ask me, I will deffinately agree that vanity is the greatest of all sins. If you analyze it, the course of a mediocre life can be assembled to a Monopoly game at a human scale. Money and real estate rule our Universe and values are being counted as we count the numbers in a bank account. Exarhu's editorial from today's edition in EVZ has awaken inside me thoughts I have often let out, but never in wtiting. A way too sensible text for him, in a totally different style, deep and restrospective. He says he imagines happiness as a dance with his friends. Truth be said! Going back in time I find myself thinking of the uncountless moments of "luxury" if I may say so, trips I took, places I've been, moments that I wish I could share with my close ones. The real essence of things has its settlement in the times where you truly live. And you don't truly live in your car, waiting for the green light to come, swearing every Monday and prasing every Friday, getting your paycheck and making loans after loans to have all the confort you need (or everyone has). The human race seems to be damned to make compromises. There are a few only that benefit from the priviledge of doing their thing with pleasure and making profits from it. Most of us are to live normal and to wait for the short week end, where we can either spend some quality time with some real friends or waste it with the ones that are of interest.

It just takes a look into his eyes to raise your interest

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:11:00 +0000

In this world there are realities that bring unimmaginable among us. The average people of the civilized countries regard surreal as a 1-week vacation on a secluded island, with an all-inclusive vacation package finalized with a return to their normal lifestyle, to their normal jobs and shopping habits. Most of us don't even think of an eventual different world which is actually included in ours whether we want it or not. The poverty of the third-world countries may be brought to our attention in news, but these coverages are only treated with superficiality, sparing the viewer from emerging in a real insight into their realities. There are movies and documentaries based on the horrors which happen at this time in the world, but there the average viewer finds himself into the impossibility of catching up with the superfluity of the data presented.

Has anyone heard of the child soldiers? Their existence will not seem a fact for us, all used to working in capitalism, struggling for a "decent" existence, shopping at the local mall and hypermarket, travelling a week or two per year at a popular vacation destination and having our laptops tied to the neck. There are children whose way of life is killing each other just like a highschool student from London would kill his virtual enemies in Counter Strike.

Since the struggle of gaining their independency the past century, since adopting ideologies like comunism and since fighting for an elusive freedom, countries like Sierra Leone, Angola, Sudan or Uganda have passed through incredible rough civil wars. Due to their exploit by the superpowers, these countries' people are trying to regain independence by turning into rebels. It is perfectly understandable foe wanting them to get the intruders, the colonists out of the country, but why fighting with each other? These colonists have taught groups the taste of money. A whole series of situations and events have brought chaos into these lands. Groups of rebels kidnapping little boys after having them watched their mothers and sisters being raped and their fathers being killed; groups of rebels fighting against their own Government, which is active on the black market, washing money with other countries Governments; groups of rebels wanting to take control by not being very clean themselves. Little boys are forced to fight, suffering brainwashes and being determined to forget or, worse, hate their families, doped to blindly listen to their new commandors. Having passed such horrors, most of them would most likely grow up into fierce warriors, having their mind washed forever. They would keep on killing, making themselves uncounsciently guilty of this sin and many others.

But rebels are not the only ones using this type of army force. Governments do not hesitate in doing the same for constantly having civil wars ablaze. The situation in Nepal may pass as a paradigm to you, I hope. "Thousands of children were recruited by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) during Nepal's 10-year civil war. Children served on the front lines, received weapons training, and carried out crucial military and logistical support duties for the Maoists. Even after signing a comprehensive peace agreement with the government in November 2006, the Maoists continued to recruit children and refused to release children from their forces." (http://hrw.org/campaigns/crp/index.htm)

What is it to be done, you may ask... Should I be ecstatic to find solutions. But basically, there is nothing you and me and our neighbours or friends can do. The hatred will go on, once in a while extinguished by the ones in position to control the situation. UNICEF will continue to supply medical and nutritional help and the UN is making steps further into restoring peace. What's left for us is to sing petitions, make donations or volunteer. But this is what we will do the times that we remember of the situation in third-world countries and how badly they need a do up. We watch Governments spending money on stupid wars in the Middle East, fighting for stealing the oil resources over there, just like it happened with the diamonds in Africa not long ago. We feel rage, we feel pitty, we feel supportive in a way or another, but we will go on being blind witnesses to plans that are so vague to us only the ones who have created them are in matter of clarifying them. Meanwhile, we live. Nevertheless, the majority of us will always be living the same opaque life, driving the same car, fueling it with an oil of whose existence in the local gas station we are unaware of, buying another apartment and dreaming of a penthouse and having no precise interest in dealing the cards of our future. Still, it would be nice if once in a while we helped the ones less fortunate than us. Those child soldiers, daily witnesses to HIV, malaria and shtooting guns are extreme cases whose power of dealing with is not in our hands. But an awake conscience and an interest in a matter like this is always a step further. We must only make understanding of the fact that living in an ideal world has never been more than the shell of our mediocre thinking.

a "Salud!" to Gabriel Garcia Marquez for resurrecting your spirit

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:33:00 +0000

Not long ago I discovered that my leisure readings are deeply connected to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I search for any novel that I can find and I am eager to discover a totally different world from the one described in his other writings. The Columbian author lets go of all his "demons" and proudly exploits his latin roots in creating incredible works, books that take the reader into a passionate Universe, dispared from reality, stories that happen in times controlled by human senses, love, divinity and ancient traditions and superstitions. His characters seem to follow the path which it was written for them, never in contradiction with their South American background. The Nobel prize winner succeeds to bring his readers into surreal worlds, that have a positive effect on their psychic. When reading Marquez is like a trip to the Caribbean, as I like to say. Along with his stories, he brings a flow of "corazon caliente", "una vida llena de passion".

I recommend his lecture begins with his autobiography, "Living to tell the tale", for an introduction in his world. Then, the paramount "One hundred years of solitude" is a must-read. Though you may not identify any element of your daily life in it, Macondo will grow as an ideal place to live. By approaching the same style in different stories, Marquez gets to be true nutrition for your spirit. A brilliant storyteller will reveal to you, allowing you to take a bite of every piece of South America: traditions, names, fiestas... a warm lifestyle. A man born with such a prodigious talent: telling tales.

For more elaborate informations, consult http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:35:00 +0000

This post is about a clock put together after 10 years or so of research and statistics.I found out about numbers that elude true stories from Ioan T Morar's blog. And, as I've said before, it is a pitty we have all become the puppets of a satellite and a server. I am just a number on the clock at the bottom of my page, and you are another one and so on.

How to understand a text

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:05:00 +0000

In the last blog I posted some useful literature reading skills. In this article I want to share techniques that will help students, professionals or anyone trying to understand a certain text that reveals knowledge for their study.

SKIMMING
If you are reading to get a general impression, you should use a skill called skimming. When looking at a book, this will involve looking at the cover, title and contents page, chapter headings, sub-headings, the first and last sentence or paragraph within the chapters.

SCANNING
To search for the answer to a particular question, try scanning. This is the skill you use when finding names in the phone book – let your eyes scan down the page till you see the information you want.
Skimming and scanning are speedy and efficient techniques for getting what you need out of books and articles. Many students think it is cheating not to read every word in a book. Not so. You are cheating yourself when you waste time reading material not essential to your purpose.

READING FOR A DETAILED UNDERSTANDING - USE SQ3R

For a detailed understanding you might like to try the SQ3R method. Here’s how it works:

Step 1. SURVEY Look over the whole text. Check out the headings and the way it has been set out.

Step 2. QUESTION Ask yourself some questions about the text. Why am I reading this text?
What do I need to find out from this text? Does it look useful for my assignment?

Step 3. READ the text. Take some notes while reading. Sometimes this helps to keep you mind on the content.

Step 4. RECITE Stop every now and then and try to put into your own words what you have just read.

Step 5. REVIEW After you have finished look back over your notes and see if you can recall the main the points.

Source:
http://www.ncistudent.net/StudySkills/LearningSkills/ReadingEffect1.htm

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:19:00 +0000

The Romanian critic George Calinescu said in one of his writings that nowadays it gets harder for people to read efficientily, if not to read at all; they have lost the essence of true reading and the pleasure of understanding the book. When do we have time to read, anyway? When do we have that amount of time for ourselves when our life seems to be passing at high speeds. The truth is we barely find moments for literature. What about understanding it? Check out below if you want to read effectively. Don't let those pages be blank.

Tips I found on http://academic.pgcc.edu/bookbridge/literature.htm :

The way you approach reading a novel is very important. While reading you must be able to see relationships, perceive the development of character, theme, symbols, and be able to detect multiple meanings. You can reject or accept, like or dislike the literary work, depending on the effect it has on you. It is okay to do so. You shouldn’t jump to a final judgment too soon, whether it is about the character, the theme, or other elements. Remember: People and situations are not always as they appear at first. Be objective because your emotional reaction can sometimes cause unsound perception and interpretation. Keep this question in mind — “Can I justify my judgments based on evidence from the work itself?” To get the most out of literature, you must be aware of several elements in fiction and know how to make inferences. Below are a few guidelines to help you understand..
Characters — people and animals in a story. Examine each character for his or her own unique qualities, behavior, needs, and values.

Setting — the time and place of a story. What impact does it have on the plot of the story?

Plot — the series of events that happen in the story. Make sure you understand the most important events.

Theme — the idea or point of view expressed throughout. It unifies the work.

Conflict — the main struggle between opposing forces. The conflict can be (1) internal, i.e. within a character; (2) between two or more characters, or (3) between one or more characters and some force in the environment.

Climax — the final turning point in the story when the action changes course and begins to resolve itself. Sometimes the character may solve the problem in his or her mind.

Narrator — the person telling the story. Be alert to the tone of the narrator and how it influences your perception of the story.

Figures of Speech — expressions in which words are used to mean something other than what they usually do. For example, “Life is like a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” This is a line from the Langston Hughes poem entitled “Dreams.” What is he trying to say about life?Inferences — to read “between the lines.” An inference is a message that comes across but is not directly stated by the author. You must draw conclusions based on the information given.

Writers of fiction often show what they mean while writers of non-fiction directly state what they mean.

As you read the novel and ultimately complete it, go back and review the elements listed. See if you can identify each element by citing specifics from the novel. Write down that information. Sit back and relax in a comfortable reading chair and have adequate lighting nearby. Make sure you are in a room without distractions for at least 30 minutes.

The experience of writing a magazine.

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:34:00 +0000

Many of my acquaintances may assert this is a somehow outdated subject I'm writing about, but I still am pretty proud of what my writing team and I have achieved. Being a journalist is a chore that may bring some to the edge since readers unconsciouslly set their own standards when reading an article. It requires talent and a wide vocabulary to fuel one's talent, and of course a rough documentation on the subject. But, all in all, it requires objectivity. Anyway, I still live under the impression that we lacked objectivity. This spring, Academia Catavencu, a journal in my country, Romania, has given our high-school the opportunity to struggle ourselves into writing a supliment of their magazine. The compulsory task?... Put down in writing whatever bothered us: adolescence, school, the system?!:)) However, and gladly, it did not turn out to be 7 pages of teen frustrations at all. Considering our experience (NONE) we did well.

So, what are the steps of putting together a magazine?

1. Get a team formed of people ready to brainstorm

2. Scoop, sneak, find your subjects

3. Assign a number of subjects to each person

4. Start writing and while doing so make sure you are updated to your colleagues' work.

5. Read your stories among yourselves and find the best output for each article

6. You will need pictures right?

7. Make sure each page represents a different category of subjects, you don't want to make a mess of the general look, don't you?

8. Review and send it to print

9. Wait for your acclaims. haha.

While writing you will also want to promote yourself. Spread the news of your magazine. Make them curious. You don't want people to be surprized by the coming out of your articles, but to be anxious of their apparition.

So go on, I encourage you to find where to write if you feel like writing;)

Ubuntu!

noreply@blogger.com (Girllish) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:47:00 +0000

For I have stated discovering the true meaning of "Ubuntu" as my interest, why don't I commence sharing my flow of thoughts with this one African quote. If translated, Ubuntu would mean "I am who I am because of who we all are". Though rejected by many of us - outkasts - we can't hide from the paradigm society has created from our personality. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a propagandist of peace and erradication of economical disparities between countries explains: "A person is a person through other persons." Despite my rejection of this assertion, I still find it ludricuos to deny that I am not the person my parents have educated, I find it futile to deny that I lack the basis principles that my grandfather has been trying to inoculate throughout my whole childhood. Not a single punk can contest the influence of their favorite rock star on their appearance and lifestyle. Ubuntu can mean the essence of being human, of interracting, willingly and unwillingly alike. I don't know if it's only me, but I am sure I am not the one who displays a general state of happyness if secluded.