Worrying is ...

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

- Anonymous

One man who has a mind and knows it (George Bernard Shaw)

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

- George Bernard Shaw (an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics, 1856-1950)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality ... (Albert Einstein)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

- Albert Einstein

Whining is ... (Maya Angelou)

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth ... (Francis Bacon)

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

- Francis Bacon (an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer, 1561-1626)

The 11 Top Biofuels Trends of 2011

The 11 Top Biofuels Trends of 2011
Jim Lane | December 27, 2011

It’s that holiday time, time to look-back with misty eyes at the glories of yesteryear. In our case, at the 11 Hottest Trends of 2011, in what proved to be a vintage year for biofuels. There were IPOs a go-go, a big comeback from biodiesel. The global ethanol fleet has acquired new popularity amongst advanced biofuels developers looking for capital light steel in the ground. Meanwhile, gasification got hot. Seemed like every algae venture headed for Algstralia, and Brazil and the US Navy became everyone’s new best friends.

Dying Words, Henry Ward Beecher

Now comes the mystery.

- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887

If a man will begin with certainties ... (Francis Bacon)

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

- Francis Bacon (an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer, 1561-1626)

The grass may be ...

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

- Anonymous

A politician divides ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

An economic forecaster is ... (Anonymous)

An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.

- Anonymous

Thomas Jefferson--still surv...

Thomas Jefferson--still surv...

- John Adams, dying words

Vices

Never practice two vices at once.

- Tallulah Bankhead

If you live among wolves ... (Nikita Khrushchev)

"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

- Nikita Khrushchev

Is Algae-based Biofuel an Energy Game Changer?

Is Algae-based Biofuel an Energy Game Changer?
Author: Devon Bass
Published: December 19, 2011 at 10:26 am

Algae is one surprising potential energy source that is showing great promise. It has gained recent media attention as the U.S Navy has announced plans to test the use of algae biofuel in one of its cargo ships. Unlike oil which is only found in underground deposits in certain parts of the world, algae grows in abundance all over the globe. Approximately half of algae’s weight is comprised of lipid oil can be converted into biodiesel. Biodiesel burns more cleanly and efficiently than petroleum.

My own art is ... (Emile Zola)

My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

- Emile Zola

A straight line is ... (Maria Edgeworth)

A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.

- Maria Edgeworth

The days that are still to come are ... (Pindar)

"The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses."

Pindar

Television is ... (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is ... (Madame de Stael)

"Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's."

Madame de Stael

Genius (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Since when was genius found respectable?

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think we are drawn to dogs because ... (George Bird Evans)

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

- George Bird Evans

Two red roses

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend."

- Anonymous

Life improves slowly ... (Edward Teller)

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

- Edward Teller

Democracy is ... (E.B. White)

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

- E.B. White (1899-1985)

Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

- Anonymous

1 Corinthians 13 NIV

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

- 1 Corinthians 13 NIV

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

- Anonymous

Marriage is ... (Hoshang N. Akhtar)

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Hoshang N. Akhtar

Experience (Albert Camus)

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

- Albert Camus

Happiness is ... (Ingrid Bergman)

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

- Ingrid Bergman

Two cheers for democracy (E.M. Foster)

Two cheers for democracy: one because it admit variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: There is no occasion to give three.

- E.M. Foster (an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist, 1879–1970)

Mother-in-law (Anonymous)

Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.

- Anonymous

Human race

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

- Anonymous

Men and Women (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The gods are ... (Aristotle)

The gods too are fond of a joke.

- Aristotle

An egg is dear on Easter day.

- Russian proverb

All marriages are ...

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

- Anonymous

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

- Erich Fromm

I was never less alone than when by myself.

- Edward Gibbon (English historian, 1737-1794)

If you want to be happy ...

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

- English Proverb

Thanksgiving is ...

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

- P. J. O'Rourke

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

- Winston Churchill

UGLINESS

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.

- English Proverb

Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it.

- Anonymous

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

- Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

NYT: The Right Reasons to Stretch Before Exercise

November 16, 2011, 12:01 AM
The Right Reasons to Stretch Before Exercise
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

For an article being published in next month’s issue of The British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia reviewed dozens of recent studies of stretching, hoping to determine whether the practice prevents people from getting sore after they exercise. The authors found 12 studies completed in the past 25 years that looked directly at that issue. Most were small and short-term. But each produced essentially the same result, the review authors write, showing that “stretching does not produce important reductions in muscle soreness in the days following exercise.”

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

- Ellen DeGeneres

My good intentions are completely lethal.

- Margaret Atwood

Positive Thinking

Positive thinking gains the whole world, Negative thinking is reduced to begging.

- Power Of Positive Thinking

Old soldiers ... (Douglas MacArthur)

Old soldiers never die; They just fade away.

- Douglas MacArthur

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.

- Cher

Happiness is ... (Charles M. Schulz)

Happiness is a warm puppy.

- Charles M. Schulz (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)

I didn't accept it. I received it.

- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

- Aesop

Art (Al Capp)

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

- Al Capp

Politics, Julius Caesar

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

- Julius Caesar (Roman general and statesman, 100BC-44BC)

Victory and defeat

You can learn a little from victory; you can learn everything from defeat.

- Christy Mathewson (1880-1925)

Man with all his noble qualities...with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

- Anonymous

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

- Carl Sagan

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

- Anonymous

Friend (Shawshank Redemption)

Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.

- Shawshank Redemption

USA Today: Happy? You may live 35% longer, tracking study suggests

Happy? You may live 35% longer, tracking study suggests
By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY

Be happy. Live longer.

Freedom is ... (Charles Peguy)

Freedom is a system based on courage.

- Charles Peguy

Opportunity & temptation

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

- Anonymous

Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."

- Anonymous

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

Progress (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the 32nd President of the United States, 1933-1945)

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

- Henry B. Adams

[Y^^]E: Brief Chat about Dokdo

[Y^^]E: Brief Chat about Dokdo

Someone asked me what is Dokdo.

Dokdo is an island between Korea and Japan. It has been Korean territory for a long time except Japanese Ruling Era. The Japanese occupation period was a time of tribulation for Korea.

After the independence of Korea, it belongs to Korea again. However, Japan has an eye on Dokdo, because Japan thinks there are a lot of marine resources under the seas surrounding Dokdo.

Japanese name of Dokdo is Takeshima.

Later, I'll post more.

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Today is Dokdo Day

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."

- Charles de Gaulle

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

- Woody Allen

Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.

- Anonymous

Accurst be he that first invented war.

- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Inspiration, Edith Wharton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

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Even though I can not write any good text, I clipped these texts. Can I be kinds of the mirror?

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http://joeungul1.blogspot.com/2011/10/two-ways-of-spreading-light.html

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

- Carol Burnett

I married beneath me. All women do.

- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed

Happiness (Bertrand Russell)

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

- Kingsley Amis

When she finally stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

- Betty Friedan

Age (Anonymous)

Count your age with friends but not with years.

- Anonymous

First Love (Benjamin Disraeli)

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81)

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

- E. B. White

Biography lends to death a new terror.

- Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

- Oscar Wilde

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

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Steve Jobs Speech at Stanford Graduation

Steve Jobs Speech at Stanford Graduation

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5￠ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky ? I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me ? I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything ? all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life,is so breathtakingly serious!

- Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

- Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

- Joseph Addison

Finance, Newt Gingrich

(If elected president in 2012) I’d fire him tomorrow. I think he’s been the most inflationary, dangerous and power-centered chairman of the Fed in the history of the Fed.

- Newt Gingrich (1943- ), 09/07/2011

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Daily Caller: Newt Gingrich in debate: I’d fire Ben Bernanke as fed chairman

How to do business

How to do business

Dad: I want you to marry a girl of my choice.
Son: No!
Dad: The girl is Bill Gates' daughter.
Son: Then okay

Dad goes to Bill Gates.
Dad: I want your daughter to marry my son.
Bill Gates: No!
Dad: My son is the CEO of Goldman Sachs.
Bill Gates: Then okay.

Dad goes to the Chairman of Goldman Sachs.
Dad: Appoint my son as CEO.
Chairman: No!
Dad: He is the son-in-law of Bill Gates
Chairman: Then okay.

THIS IS DOING BUSINESS

Oakley Fashion Show Hermosa Beach

Oakley Fashion Show Hermosa Beach

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K-Pop Stars Lure Japanese Consumers

K-Pop Stars Lure Japanese Consumers
By Mariko Yasu and Maki Shiraki - Jul 26, 2011 12:01 AM GMT+0900

Yuko Ishii, a 53-year-old factory worker in central Japan, used to feel reluctant about buying products made in neighboring South Korea. That changed after she became a fan of pop stars such as boy band TVXQ.

I am a bear of very little brain (Winnie the Pooh)

I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

- Winnie the Pooh, character created by author A. A. Milne

WSJ: Attack of the Urban Mosquitoes

LIFE & CULTURE JULY 20, 2011
Attack of the Urban Mosquitoes
Aggressive and Hard to Kill: Two Asian Cityslickers Swarm the East Coast

The latest scourge crossing the country has a taste for the big city.

When men are employed, they are best contented

When men are employed, they are best contented.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

However, the truth is...

NYT: Somehow, the Unemployed Became Invisible

Common sense (Albert Einstein)

Common sense (Albert Einstein)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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Albert Einstein, Common sense, Quotation, Quote

Sharapova, the Up-and-Coming Veteran

JUNE 28, 2011, 3:21 PM ET
Sharapova, the Up-and-Coming Veteran

Maria Sharapova celebrates after her quarterfinal victory over Dominika Cibulkova on Tuesday.

“To tell you the truth, I don’t know what happened in the match. I don’t know how I won. I don’t know what the tactics were. I was just out there. I was just playing. I could really care less what was going on outside me. I was in my own little world—I don’t know what world that was, really.”

Finance·Money, Marc Faber

I suppose the world will always develop but that we will always have periods where we have wars and tremendous wealth destruction, or where we have plague and where the population shrinks. I am optimistic about certain issues and pessimistic about others.

- Marc Faber, interview with the Daily Bell, 06/26/2011

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Daily Bell: Marc Faber on 21st Century Investing, Why It's Too Late for the Dollar and Why Emerging Markets Look Good

Economy, Marc Faber

Economics is a very complex system and is essentially human life and the behavior of humans. So to build one theory around it is probably wrong.

- Marc Faber, interview with the Daily Bell, 06/26/2011

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Daily Bell: Marc Faber on 21st Century Investing, Why It's Too Late for the Dollar and Why Emerging Markets Look Good

Finance·Money, Marc Faber

I think that interest rates in time will be much higher because the fiscal deficit will stay very elevated or even increase and that will impair the ability of the government to pay the interest. If the ability to pay the interest is impaired, there's only one way out and that is for them to print money, and so eventually you will get higher interest rates.

- Marc Faber, interview with the Daily Bell, 06/26/2011

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Daily Bell: Marc Faber on 21st Century Investing, Why It's Too Late for the Dollar and Why Emerging Markets Look Good

Sundries: One man with courage (Andrew Jackson)

Sundries: One man with courage (Andrew Jackson)

One man with courage makes a majority.

- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)

Gov't looks into algae potentials

Gov't looks into algae potentials
By ELLALYN B. DE VERA
June 20, 2011, 2:23pm

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) has consulted algae experts to look into the potentials of algae as a source of biofuel in the country.

Sundries: Hungry man is... (Adlai Stevenson)

A hungry man is not a free man.

- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

WSJ: Short Suits for Office and Beyond

FASHION|JUNE 11, 2011
Short and Sweet
Shelve your skirt and pant suits. The summer's most versatile combo is cropped and goes from office to party without a hitch
By ALEXA BRAZILIAN

A summer suit with shorts creates an unexpected combination of crisp polish and playful sportiness.

Respect and Fear

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Sundries: You don't live in a world all alone

Sundries: You don't live in a world all alone

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

- Albert Schweitzer(1875-1965)

To love another person is ... (Les Miserables)

To love another person is ...

To love another person is to see the face of God.

- Lyric from Les Miserables

A great writer is ... (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers,only minor ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-)

Whining is ... (Maya Angelou)

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

- Maya Angelou

The Web’s top 10 conspiracy theories

The Web’s top 10 conspiracy theories

An obvious truth can be difficult to face. British magazine The Economist lists Google’s 10 most searched on conspiracy theories.

Business? (Alexandre Dumas)

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

- Alexandre Dumas

Literature is ... (Virginia Woolf)

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

- Virginia Woolf

Love looks together in the same direction

Love looks together in the same direction

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Love

Sundries: A friend & a foe (Alfred Tennyson)

Sundries: A friend & a foe (Alfred Tennyson)

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Common sense and a sense of humor (Clive James)

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

- Clive James

Prejudice is the child of ignorance (William Hazlitt)

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

- William Hazlitt

Thought & Prejudices (William James)

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

- William James

Grand Canyon

USA Today: Boost your diet with a rainbow of fruits, vegetables

Boost your diet with a rainbow of fruits, vegetables
By Darla Carter, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal

If fruits and vegetables aren't the stars of your meals or at least strong supporting characters, it's time to recast with an eye toward diversity.

Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Mesa Arch at Sunrise, Canyonlands National Park

Mesa Arch at Sunrise, Canyonlands National Park

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USA Today: How a 'Jester god' revealed oldest Mayan royal tomb

How a 'Jester god' revealed oldest Mayan royal tomb
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY

SACRAMENTO — The image of a "Jester god," a symbol of royalty among the ancient Maya, may have done just the trick. Some archaeologists suggest its discovery has helped identify the oldest known burial site for a Maya ruler.

USA Today: Less stress, better sleep may help you lose weight

Less stress, better sleep may help you lose weight
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay

If you're looking to lose those extra pounds, you should probably add reducing stress and getting the right amount of sleep to the list, say researchers from Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research in Portland.

Reuters: China Fashion Week in Beijing

A model presents a creation for the 2011 Aimer Swimwear Collection during China Fashion Week in Beijing March 30, 2011.

REUTERS/Jason Lee

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http://www.reuters.com/

WSJ: Quakes Echo World-Wide

JAPAN NEWS|MARCH 28, 2011
Quakes Echo World-Wide
Major Temblors Can Set Off Small Eruptions but Not Big Ones, Researchers Say

By GAUTAM NAIK

Seismologists have revived a longstanding question in the wake of recent earthquakes: Can a giant temblor in one location trigger another large one thousands of miles away?

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF HOW TO GET ALONG WITH PEOPLE

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF HOW TO GET ALONG WITH PEOPLE

1. Keep skid chains on your tongue. Always say less than you think. Cultivate a low, persuasive voice. How you say it often counts more than what you say.

2. Make promises sparingly and keep them faithfully, no matter what it costs.

3. Never let on opportunity pass to say a kind and encouraging word to or about somebody. Praise good work, regardless of who did it. If criticism is needed, criticize helpfully, never spitefully.

4. Be interested in others: their pursuits, their work, their homes and families. Make merry with those who rejoice. With those who weep, mourn. Let everyone you meet, however humble, feel that you regard him as a person of importance.

5. Be cheerful. Don’t burden or depress those around you by dwelling on your minor aches and pains and small disappointments. Remember, everyone is carrying some kind of a load.

6. Keep an open mind. Discuss, but don’t argue. It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

7. Let your virtues, if you have any, speak for themselves. Refuse to talk of another’s vices. Discourage gossip. It is a waste of valuable time and can be extremely destructive.

8. Be careful of another’s feelings. Wit and humor at the other person’s expense are rarely worth it and may hurt when least expected.

9. Pay no attention to ill-natured remarks about you. Remember, the person who carried the message may not be the most accurate reporter in the world. Simply live so that nobody will believe them. Disordered nerves and bad digestion are a common cause of backbiting.

10. Don’t be too anxious about the credit due you. Do your best and be patient. Forget about yourself and let others “remember.” Success is much sweeter that way.

- From Internet -

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From http://joeungul1.blogspot.com/

[Y^^]E: Check the past (先察已然)

[Y^^]E: Check the past (先察已然)

If you want to know the future, check the past first.
慾知未來 先察已然
- 明心寶鑑 省心篇上

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell (1903-1950)

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These sayings are not about the financial market. Nevertheless they also come to mind when I think of the financial market.

A lot of participants use the historical data to price financial products or to forecast the future.

Of course, the past does not repeat in the future. However, it does not mean the past is useless. The important thing is how to use the historical data and the record of past events.

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It is linked from http://nowgnoy1.blogspot.com/2011/01/check-past.html.