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How to Reduce Your Stress

oceanlu — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:35:18 +0000

Follow the following tips to reduce your stress to manageable levels!

Avoid “Must” Thinking. Let go of the notion that you must do something in a certain way—for example, “I must get a great score on a test, or else.” This thought pattern only adds to the stress you’ll feel.

Evaluate your situation coolly and analytically, and not as a “life-or-death” situation.

Watch the Mess. Do not study in a messy or cramped area. Clear yourself a nice, open space that is free of distractions.

Set Manageable Goals. Break large projects into smaller and doable parts. You will feel a positive sense of accomplishment as you finish each part.

Ocean Dumping. Visualize yourself walking on a beautiful beach, carrying a sand pail. Stop at a good spot and put your worries into the pail. Drop the pail and watch it as it drifts away into the ocean.

Think Good Thoughts. Create a set of positive but brief affirmations and mentally repeat them to yourself just before you fall asleep at night. You will feel a lot more positive in the morning.

Imagine Yourself Succeeding. Close your eyes and remember a real-life situation in which you did well. Imagine facing your stressful situation with the same feelings of confidence.

Use your bed for sleeping, Not Studying. Your mind may start o associate your bed with work, which will make it harder for you to fall asleep.

Soothing Sounds. If you want to play music, keep it low in the background. Classical music especially, can aid the learning process.

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Telegraph Cable

oceanlu — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:39:03 +0000

The first telegraph cable was laid under the sea between England and France in 1850. Cables are very much thicker and heavier than telegraph wires. There are a number of reasons for this: one reason is that the salt water of the sea harms ordinary telegraph wires, and so they have to be protected; another is that , because electricity passes easily through water, wires have to be covered to prevent electric signals which are passing through them from escaping and getting lost in the sea; a third reason is that cables have to be very strong or they will break while they are being laid along the bottom of the sea from a ship sailing on the surface.

The first cables that men tried to lay between England and America broke and were lost during storms. At last, after nine years of hard work, the two English speaking nations of Britain and America were joined in 1866 by the electric telegraph under the sea.

Later, all the different parts of the world were joined up by a network of cables. It is as easy to send a message by cable as it is to send an ordinary telegram, and it takes no longer for a message to travel half way round the world than from one town to the next. Every hour of the day and night messages are being flashed underneath the ocean to and from every country in the world.

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Essays Reasy

oceanlu — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:29:12 +0000

I feel no good at the end of a semester when all assignments and exams suddenly come around the corner. It just makes me sick and tired of all those readings and papers. And I am not the only one.

I say there is indeed a demand of term paper help from students. How do I know that? Well, if you look around the web and you will surely find certain essay writing company online. What do those companies do? And what are their motivations? Just think and you know what I mean.

As I have seen essay writing companies online before this one seems to be a little different.

Essaysreasy is designed in three columns in a modern and simple way. With the top and top-left bars, it is easy to navigate through the site. You can find pages of About, Services, Order, Prices, Policies and F.A.Q” on the top and “How it works, Warnings and Testimonials” on the top-left. Essaysreasy has a short description about services they offer in the middle. A log in Account is positioned at the right side bar.

So I think Essaysreasy seems to be a little more professional than others, well, at least from their site design.

EssaysReasy says they provide high quality essay writing service. Of course, refund policies, no plagiarism and paper delivered on time. If you want to buy essay, perhaps you should have a look at EssaysReasy as they are offering 5% summer discount now.

The voice of America

oceanlu — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:52:39 +0000

The voice of America began during World War II, when Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international support. American believed they should answer the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with these words in German:”The news may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA announcers were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

After World War II ended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s purpose had to be changed, considering that the Soviet Union had become the new enemy. They wanted to reach Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was called “Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959. VOA knew that many listeners did not know enough English to completely understand its normal English broadcast. So VOA invented a simpler kind of English, which uses about 1,500 words and is spoken slowly. Of course, it is Special English.

In the opinion of most VOA listeners, the most important program is the news report. News from around the world flies into the VOA newsroom in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in major cities and also from other broadcasts like the BBC.

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Free WordPress Themes from WPRex

oceanlu — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:02:51 +0000

The first thing I want to do when I set up my self-hosted wordpress blog is to find a wordpress theme that fits my potential niche perfectly. What about you? Are you looking for wordpress templates ?

Some people just buy their themes online. It is good choice. But there are also free wordpress themes online and some of those free ones do work great. As a matter of fact, I have all my blogs installed on free themes. I just love them.

The process of looking for a good theme takes time and often you have to test two or three times so as to make sure everything works including wordpress plugins.

And now WPRex is a collection of free wordpress gallery for bloggers. It is easy to download wordpress templates without login or any hassle from WPRex. You can find template by Theme Specifications, Theme Colors or Most Popular Keywords. With 6968 Templates listed, I am sure you will find your theme on WPRex. And you could also submit your wordpress template to WPRex, if you want to.

Business is War and Peace

oceanlu — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:29:58 +0000

“Business is war.” the traditional language of business certainly makes it sound that way: winning the competition, getting market share, beating up suppliers, locking up customers. There are the victors and the losers.

But today in doing business, you have to listen to customers, work with suppliers, keep good relations—even with competitors. That does not sound like war. Besides, there are few victors when business is looked upon as war.

Most businesses succeed only if others also succeed. Business is competition and cooperation as well. In other words, business is war and peace.

To bring together competition and cooperation, we turn to game theory. Game theory provides that whether one person wins or loses depends on what other people do. It is particularly effective when there are many interdependent factors and no decision can be made in isolation from other decisions.

Game theory breaks down the game into key elements: players, added values, rules, tactics, and scope (PARTS). Every element affects the result of the game. This means that each of the five elements gives you a way to change an existing game into an entirely new one. Change on of the PARTS, and you change the whole.

Essay Writing

oceanlu — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:09:38 +0000

To students, essay writing is a must. And it has truly been the most unforgettable experience in my undergraduate school life.

Paper writing is not easy. And depends on your purpose of writing, the difficulty level varies. You could talk about a love story in the style of narration, which might be an easy job for most people; you could argue against some opinion in the style of argument and then present your ideas, which might be a little bit difficult.

I still remember my writing of Homosexuality in the Bridegroom. We had to first read the whole story and it is a long story. Then we choose one of five topics given by the lecturer. I spent two afternoons in the library to have that essay written. Evan (the lecturer of my Literature Class) sent it back the next day and told me to rewrite my essay. And in fact, I rewrote that six hundred words essay for three times.

But I have to say essay writing helps me understand the story better. For students today who need help in writing, they could find many Essay Online services. Those services often offer custom essays and term papers samples writing. Students can use those professionally written assignments to write their own A+ work.

When I start to write my research paper, I hope I could find some professional and experienced writers, academically of course, with free plagiarism and unlimited revisions. just joking

Posts Content I do not like

oceanlu — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:25:23 +0000

Being a blogger is the best decision I have ever made. I can write anything on my blog and I make friends with other bloggers by reading and making comments on their posts. This helps me understand what is happening around the world and what people’s attitudes are.

I open my friends’ blogs every other night and see what they are talking about. Then, I update my blog and replay to comments made by others on my posts. It just makes me feel connected.

Though I would love to read people’s post, there are posts that I do not like at all.

Many people choose health as their blog niche and they write health related topics. You could always find useful and interesting information and tips about how to keep a healthy diet and things like that. This is good. But some people write these posts in purpose of promoting health related products, say drugs. Most often you could see they use personal experience even. Well, I do not reading these posts. I just ignore them. I would ask my doctors or go to hospital whenever I do not feel well. Drugs just matter a lot.

Game related content is another one that I do not like at all. By game I mean online gambling here. Just an example, I have never played Backgammon and I am not sure if it belongs to the category of online gambling. Some people say Play65 is the largest backgammon community online, hosting thousands of online backgammon games since 2004. But I just want to say there is no winner in gambling. You win today and you are sure to lose some day. It is just a matter of time.

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Shrinking Your Fear

oceanlu — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:53:11 +0000

Create a mental picture of the thing you fear. Now change its dimensions. If you are scared of social situations, imagine that the people you are going to meet are the size of peanuts. If you are scared of flying, imagine looking down on a tiny plane. If you are scared of small spaces, imagine yourself as a teeny, tiny person surrounded by acres of space.

Encourage the image to become as ludicrous as possible, and fill it with movement and color and sound. If you are scared of flying, imagine yourself wearing two plane-shaped roller skates. If you are scared of your boss, imagine him or her as a tiny dot of a person who is shouting to be heard but all you can hear is a distant squeaking. If you are afraid of being in a tall building, imagine yourself playing with cardboard boxes which look like buildings and which you can stack and rearrange at your whim.

Whatever your fear, diminish it to a point where it is unable to affect you and where you are controlling it. Enjoy feeling strong, confident and having fun.

Fear of Fear of Itself

Limitlessness

oceanlu — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:09:31 +0000

The final lesson you must learn is limitlessness. It is the sense that there are no boundaries to what you can become or do. You learn it when you know that your evolution is never-ending and your potential for growth reaches to infinity.

You were born knowing your limitlessness. As you grew and became socialized in this world, however, you might have come to believe that there are boundaries that prevent you from reaching the highest levels of spiritual, emotional, or mental evolution. However, boundaries exist only in your mind. When you are able to transcend them, you learn the lesson of limitlessness.

In this world, we have countless people who have proven that a person can do whatever he or she strives to do.