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International News, By Tim D, 12th September, 2008

Guyliner is not just okay, it’s gold. Or that’s what we’re being told by Yves Saint Laurent.

Launching make-up and eyeliner for men in the UK today, the cosmetics company used a shirtless former Big Brother contestant, Stuart Pilkington, to let us know just how sexy our eyes could be.

Sold in UK stores for $50 a stick, the eyeliner isn’t the first on the market but indicates guys are getting serious (or seriously deluded?) about spending a little extra to achieve that alluring look.

‘Men have gone from stealing beauty products from their wives and girlfriends to stocking up on their own. They no longer consider them to decrease their male bravado’ says David Walker-Smith, director of beauty at Selfridges.
‘We have tinted moisturiser, fake tan, eyebrow waxing…It’s all there if they want it’ Walker-Smith says.

But even though it’s ‘okay’ for guys to wear a little make-up, that doesn’t extend to lippy, or when others can actually ‘tell’ it’s been put on. The new range is not meant to convey a fully ‘made-up’ look, but is unfragranced, comes in subtle pewter container, and is ‘easy to stow in your man-bag’.

Experts in the industry expect men’s cosmetics to become a 1 billion dollar market by next year. Unfortunately, Yves Saint Laurent’s ‘Touche Eclat For Men’ which includes guyliner, isn’t available in Australia just yet.

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The moon festival is a different way to celebrate the Mid-Autumn harvest moon.
By Rhonda Parkinson, About.comhttp://chinesefood.about.com/od/mooncake/a/moonfestival.htm

                               
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The Moon festival (also called the Mooncake or Mid-Autumn festival) falls on September 14th in the year 2008. What is the Moon festival? Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate "zhong qiu jie."

Children are told the story of the moon fairy living in a crystal palace, who comes out to dance on the moon's shadowed surface. The legend surrounding the "lady living in the moon" dates back to ancient times, to a day when ten suns appeared at once in the sky. The Emperor ordered a famous archer to shoot down the nine extra suns. Once the task was accomplished, Goddess of Western Heaven rewarded the archer with a pill that would make him immortal. However, his wife found the pill, took it, and was banished to the moon as a result. Legend says that her beauty is greatest on the day of the Moon festival.

Other Moon Festival Legends
According to another legend, on this day the "Man in the Moon" was spotted at an inn, carrying a writing tablet. When questioned, he said he was recording the names of all the happy couples who were fated to marry and live happily forever after. Accordingly, just as June is the traditional month for exchanging nuptials in the west, many Chinese weddings are held during the eighth lunar month, with the fifteenth day being the most popular.

Of course, the most famous legend surrounding the Moon festival concerns its possible role in Chinese history. Overrun by the Mongols in the thirteenth century, the Chinese threw off their oppressors in 1368 AD. It is said that mooncakes - which the Mongols did not eat - were the perfect vehicle for hiding and passing along plans for the rebellion. Families were instructed not to eat the mooncakes until the day of the moon festival, which is when the rebellion took place. (In another version plans were passed along in mooncakes over several years of Mid-Autumn festivals, but the basic idea is the same).

How to Celebrate the Moon Festival

Today, Chinese people celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival with dances, feasting and moon gazing. Not to mention mooncakes. While baked goods are a common feature at most Chinese celebrations, mooncakes are inextricably linked with the Moon festival. One type of traditional mooncake is filled with lotus seed paste (see side photo). Roughly the size of a human palm, these mooncakes are quite filling, meant to be cut diagonally in quarters and passed around. This explains their rather steep price (around $5.00 in Canada). A word of caution: the salty yolk in the middle, representing the full moon, is an acquired taste.

More elaborate versions of mooncakes contain four egg yolks (representing the four phases of the moon). Besides lotus seed paste, other traditional fillings include red bean paste and black bean paste. Unfortunately for dieters, mooncakes are rather high in calories.

While in the past mooncakes took up to four weeks to make, automation has speeded up the process considerably. Today, mooncakes may be filled with everything from dates, nuts, and fruit to Chinese sausages. More exotic creations include green tea mooncakes, and ping pei or snowskin mooncakes, a Southeast Asian variation made with cooked glutinous rice flour. Haagen-Daz has even gotten into the act by introducing a line of ice cream mooncakes in Asian markets.

Given the difficulty of making them, most people prefer to purchase their mooncakes instead of making them. You'll find them at Asian bakeries beginning around mid-August. Meanwhile, for those with a culinary bent, here are several recipes.

Mooncake Recipes:
Mooncake - A basic recipe using red azuki beans from my recipe file.

Mid-Autumn Mooncake Recipe - A good basic recipe, using lotus seed paste and walnuts, from Yan Can Cook, Inc.

Online Shopping - Buy Mooncakes and Mooncake molds to make your own mooncakes online.

Moon Festival Photo Gallery - face painting, fan dancers, folk dancers and more, from the San Francisco Chinatown Merchant's Association. (Check out the intricate melon carving on the last page).

Mooncake Mania - the Shanghai Star looks at the mooncake market in China's most cosmopolitan city.

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call him "Da Bai Pang Zi" then, if he ask, explain and teach him...

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Dave Freeman, 47; ad executive co-wrote '100 Things to Do Before You Die'

此人不幸，未完成他的列表，但是仍然很一个很大的启发，对于我们还幸运的或者的每一个人来说。
FreeOZ为什么不征求大家共同愿意完成的10件事呢？看看最后能不能征出100件事。
大家投片，按票数决定，然后我们就去做！版主考虑一下！




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Dave Freeman, 47, was an advertising agency executive who co-wrote “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” an adventure-seeking and often unconventional travel guide that personified the way he lived his life.
Dave Freeman, 47; ad executive co-wrote '100 Things to Do Before You Die'
Dave Freeman, 47, was an advertising agency executive who co-wrote “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” an adventure-seeking and often unconventional travel guide that personified the way he lived his life.
By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 26, 2008
Dave Freeman, an advertising agency executive who co-wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die," an adventure-seeking and often unconventional travel guide that personified the way he lived his life, has died. He was 47.

Freeman died Aug. 17 after falling and hitting his head at his home in Venice, said his father, Roy.



    * Dave Freeman's icons
      Photos: Dave Freeman's icons
    * On location
      On location

Published in 1999, "100 Things" was one of the first contemporary books to create a travel agenda based on 100 sites and then market it with a title that reminded mortal readers that time was limited.

The "100 Things" approach later swept the publishing industry, said Neil Teplica, who wrote the book with Freeman.

The title meant "you should live every day like it would be your last, and there's not that many people who do," Teplica told The Times. "It's a credit to Dave -- he didn't have enough days, but he lived them like he should have."

Subtitled "Travel Events You Just Can't Miss," the book grew out of the pair's now-defunct travel website, which Freeman often said was ahead of its time. Online from 1996 to 2001, it showcased festivals and events, often in a feature called "The Coolest Place on Earth Today," which became a primary source for the book.

"This life is a short journey," the authors wrote. "How can you make sure you fill it with the most fun and that you visit all the coolest places on earth before you pack those bags for the very last time?"

Freeman had visited about half the sites in the book. He preferred to travel alone because he could cover more territory, said his aunt, Barbara Freeman.

The book's listings were adventure-based, but "it wasn't just physical adventure, it was cultural adventure and spiritual adventure, such as a voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti," Teplica said.

Together, the authors had visited almost every site in the book, which included the familiar (the Academy Awards ceremony, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain) as well as the more exotic (the National Hollerin' Contest in North Carolina, Australia's Nude Night Surfing contest).

One of Freeman's favorite lesser-known events was "land-diving on the tiny island in the Pacific called Vanuatu. . . . Tribesmen climb up homemade towers . . . and it's sort of like the original bungee-jumping," he said on National Public Radio in 2001.

Another favorite was Las Fallas, a festival in Valencia, Spain, that features huge papier-mâché and plaster statues that satirize local political figures and celebrities. "Secretly, they're full of fireworks and dynamite. . . . At the stroke of midnight, they light them all on fire in a huge, loud . . . pyromania display," he said on NPR.

Freeman brought an off-kilter sensibility to the book by insisting on irreverent graphic icons. He especially enjoyed the logos that stood for "potential to see blood," "dangerous," "down and dirty" and "religious fervor."

"We would try to have odd combinations of logos, such as 'gluttony' and 'Grandma approved' on the same thing," Teplica said. "The icons gave the book a lot of life, and people really reacted to the categories, which are kind of a snapshot into Dave's brain."

Critics said the graphics made the book fun to read.

David Stewart Freeman was born Feb. 21, 1961, in Whittier. His father worked in the packaging industry and his mother sold real estate.

After graduating from USC in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in urban planning, he joined an ad agency in Newport Beach.

In 1986, he moved to New York to work for Grey Advertising.

On Sept. 11, 2001, he was eating breakfast in his sixth-floor New York co-op when the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. From the roof of his building, he saw the second plane crash into the south tower, just blocks away.

Deeply affected by the terrorist attack, Freeman decided to move back to Los Angeles in 2002 to be near his family.

He joined the ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day as the founder and director of "the disruption consultancy." His team tried to help clients look at existing accounts in new ways, his father said.

His friend Cyndi Yee called Freeman "amazingly fabulous at what he did, which was living big, but also as a business strategist and cultural anthropologist" who lectured on lifestyle trends.

According to his father, Freeman was famous for saying, " 'We're going to the future. Do you want to come along?' It always made everybody laugh."

In addition to his father and aunt, Freeman's survivors include his stepmother, Barbara, and a sister, Virginia Freeman Robb. His mother, Anne, died in 1995.

Memorial donations may be made to the children's charity Room 13 International in care of Barbara Overlie, TBWA/Chiat/Day, Dave Freeman Memorial Fund, 5353 Grosvenor Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90066.

valerie.nelson@latimes.com

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NBC领导认为"长城"不能充分的表达其含义 (from Bing' s)他说"The Great Wall" 简直是 'Awesome Wall!'"呵呵...正在北京指挥报道奥运会的NBC主席Ben Silverman 连日来, 深深地被北京气势磅礴的阵势感动了, 他通过越洋电话口若悬河般的接受美国偶像节目主持人Ryan Seacrest"同志"的采访时, 让Seacrest听得心花怒放的, 恨不得立刻飞去鸟巢, 他告诉Seacrest: 呆在"鸟笼子"的感觉, 就像在West Hollywood里的"同志村"一样自由自在, 呵呵...他俩的这段对话是在LA的KIIS-FM电台上现场直播的, 美国媒体现在给NBC领导起了个响亮的名字, 称他为'Beijing Ben', 呵呵...有兴趣的读者看这里的细节和听听这段笑谈

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'Beijing Ben' Brings Olympic Glory to Seacrest, KIIS-FM



NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman delivers daily dispatches on Beijing Games for On-Air with Ryan Seacrest.
By Joel Topcik -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/18/2008 12:44:00 PM

Beijing Ben Silverman Phones In"Oh! Fireworks! Live! On-air!! Oh, my -- Holy Cow!!!"

If you've been relying on Bob Costas or Matt Lauer or any of NBC's ubiquitous platforms for your Beijing Olympic Games coverage, then you've been missing the high-octane reportage of Ben Silverman on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles.

The voluble NBC co-chairman is on the scene in China, where he's been phoning in daily dispatches on the Olympics experience for On-Air with Ryan Seacrest.

Dubbed "Beijing Ben" by Seacrest, Silverman has treated KIIS listeners to live color commentary on the open ceremonies' pyrotechnics (see above), as well as accounts of his gastronomic adventures ("dim sum and then some") and sightseeing excursions to the Great Wall and the tomb of the Terracotta Warriors.

"The Great Wall is an understatement," Silverman reported. "It's the 'Awesome Wall!'"

The gig has produced some priceless banter between Seacrest and Silverman, who admitted that he'd been misidentifying Beijing's so-called Bird's Nest Olympic stadium.

"I've been calling it the 'Bird Cage,'" he said, "which I realize is something in West Hollywood."

Recounting some proverbs he learned from his Chinese guide, Silverman quipped, "Her name is Fun Fun, so you can imagine how much fun-fun Fun Fun is."

"I think I met her in Vegas," Seacrest replied.

After Seacrest joked Thursday that NBC has been showing promos for its new comedy Kath and Kim "every 10 minutes," things got surreal when he resumed a running game of fill-in-the-blank free association.

"I am your horse," Seacrest began, "you are my ... "

"Chariot?" Silverman replied.

"I am your Kath, you are my ... "

"Kim!"

Returning the volley, Silverman offered, "I am your warrior, you are my ... "

"Emperor!" said Seacrest, who then closed out the round with birthday wishes for Silverman (he turned 38 last week).

"You are my cake, I am your candle," he said. "Happy Birthday."

Perhaps "Seacrest Out," the host's signature catch-phrase on American Idol, will soon be eclipsed by "This is Beijing Ben Silverman signing off."

With Melissa Grego

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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 14:40 GMT 15:40 UK

I am astonished by the paranoia expressed here about China. China is the workshop of the world, and it would be disastrous for our economy to seek a policy of confrontation with this country. On the contrary, we urgently need to tighten our links with China and forge a strong political and economic partnership before countries like Russia and India beat us to it. What is at stake is many thousands of British jobs! I have no time for the bleeding hearts who find faults in any nation. Grow up!
令我一场吃惊的是这里表现的这些对于中国的无需有的担心。中国是全球的工作室，如果抵制这个国家的政策实施，那对于我们自己的经济将是致命的灾难。反过来讲，我们急切地需要加强与中国的关系，我们需要赶在俄罗斯和印度前面，马上和中国结成政治上和经济上的联盟。我们可能会失去成千上万的就业机会。但是我已经没时间去让流血的心去归咎错误与其他国家，长大吧！
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 13:18 GMT 14:18 UK

You think that in the west we are 'free' and in China they are not ? At least in China I can sit in a bar and have a smoke !!!
你就认为我们西方人拥有自由，而中国人没有自由？至少在中国我可以在酒吧里吸烟！
Chris, High Wycombe


Yes, when the sum of human history is taken into account, and audited for oppression of man by man, the terrible hardship and imposition of taking a few steps outside the door to have a smoke will surely be considered as worse than tianamen square and the cultural revolution combined.
是的，从人类历史的角度上看人对人的压迫，。。。。需要多走几步到室外才可以吸烟将会是比天安门广场事件和文化大革命加起来更严重的人对人的压迫。 （因为我不吸烟，这个我可没意识到！）
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 13:17 GMT 14:17 UK

"China has no deeds as dark as ours!"
中国不需要向我们一样的阴暗！
Ian Cheese.

Have you not heard of Mao's Cultural Revolution? It was a struggle for power within the Communist Party of China that manifested into wide-scale social, political, and economic violence and chaos, which grew to include large sections of Chinese society and eventually brought the entire country to the brink of civil war. Millions of people had their human rights annulled and were forcibly displaced. It is estimated that 40 million died!
你没听说过毛的文化大革命么？它源自于党内势力的斗争，发展而危及国家范围的，社会，政治，经济。毛最终获得胜利，成千上万的人被害，4千万！
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 08:33 GMT 09:33 UK

My opinion is that the Olympics should not be held in China
我觉得奥运会不应该在中国主办。
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 14:35 GMT 15:35 UK

China: Ally or threat? China is a very big nation $tate; the 21st Century is their century... not the Amerikan century. We should try to get along with them... or else.
中国，21世纪将不再是美国世纪，而是中国世纪。我们应该尽量学会怎样和他们共处。
Also... when was the last time China sent their military forces overseas to bomb and invade distant lands... such as Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq-nam, etc? When was the last time China sent troops and planes to bomb foreign capitals to assassinate the leaders there... such as Panama, Libya, Grenada, etc?
中国什么时候派遣军队到海外去爆破和入侵像朝鲜，越南，老挝，柬埔寨，阿富汗，伊朗之类的国家了？你什么时候看中国派军队去轰炸外国首都，暗杀别国领导人，例如：巴拿马，利比亚，关岛？
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 14:41 GMT 15:41 UK

China is a world threat to gobal warming and has the capabliter
to be a bullying world super power and would not concern it self with civilian lives or the rights of POW in any war or other Issues
中国队全球变暖和二氧化碳上升都是一个威胁。

BE very afraid if China becomes a super power ( like the USA or USSR) It would not think twice as striking at any country or person it does not like or who tells the most frighting thing THE TRUTH TO THE WORLD..............!
我很担心一旦中国成为前苏联或者美国那样强大，他会毫不犹豫地经济封锁他所不喜欢的国家或者人。我在这里告诉世界这个最令人害怕的真相。
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 20:45 GMT 21:45 UK

Even the Chinese government has admitted that the Cultural Revolution was unfortunate. Today, things are different, but not so different that people can be confident they will not face reprisals for pursuing complaints about problems and abuses. Why should it be a surprise that many in the West sympathize with those in Taiwan who do not want such a condition to spread to their island, or those in Tibet who wish to see it gone from where they liive?
连中国政府都承认了文化大革命是一个错误。今天，世界不同了，但是还不至于人民自信到他们将不会对他们曾经受到的责备和不公而进行报复。那就是为什么需要感到很吃惊有那么多西方人支持台湾和西藏DL。（这段翻译的不通 ）
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 14:41 GMT 15:41 UK

China: Ally or threat?

Without wishing to sit on the fence too much, there's 1.3 BILLION of them, my guess is that they could equally and simultaneously be both in equally extreme measures.
我不用过去亲自看就知道对于一个拥有13亿人的中国，他们同时既是盟友，又是威胁。
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 12:48 GMT 13:48 UK

"Is China an ally or a threat?"

I don't know. When was the last time China invaded or bombed another country?

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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 10:46 GMT 11:46 UK

Reg Rainmac, Kingsley & Steve Strongbow:
This "Have your say" is not asking about which countries are a threat, it is merely asking for your opinion on China. Why do people find it necessary to debate the Muslim/West issue in completely unrelated forums.
名叫发表你的观点，但实际上却没有问你哪个国家才是威胁，而是问你怎样看待中国。为什么大家都觉得有必要在一个完全不相关的论坛，去讨论穆斯林与西方国家的冲突？
I believe China is neither ally nor threat, just a country looking out for its own interests (Just like the rest of the world.) Also the fact that 86% of Chinese are happy with the direction the country is taking, shows that it is progressing
我认为中国既不是盟友，也不是威胁。而仅仅是一个向世界上其他国家一样的正在寻求发展的国家，而实际上有86%的中国人赞同国家的发展方向，认为这是一种进步。
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 08:12 GMT 09:12 UK

I find it appalling the way the media, especially the BBC is whipping up anti China hysteria. Maybe we can learn a lot from the way China goes about its internal affairs. A little less press freedom may be a good thing in this country. Most of the press and Tv news in this country is just BULLS**T.
我觉得BBC传播反华攻势的方式是骇人听闻的，也许我们可以了解更多的关于中国如何处理其内政。也许少一点新闻自由对我们国家来说其实是一件好事，绝大多数的媒体和电台都胡说八道。
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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 18:04 GMT 19:04 UK

Be afraid, Be very afraid.

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Added: Tuesday, 5 August, 2008, 05:42 GMT 06:42 UK

Some Westerners have a kind of inborn prejudice when they face orient cultures and societies. They confuse all orient cultures togather from a European heliocentric point of view. How many of those people who critisize China hysterically have travelled in China themselves? Please comment on Cinese goverment's Tibet policy after you visit Lahsa. The gate is open to all of you.
一些西方人在评论东方文化和社会的时候有一点主观臆断。他们把西方的观点和东方的文化混淆，你们有多少人去过中国，请去过西藏以后再去评价中国政府和其西藏政策。西藏对所有人开放。
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Added: Monday, 4 August, 2008, 21:45 GMT 22:45 UK

They are an economic threat but that's the game we have have decided to play and they just happen to have decided to join in properly. I would like to see them more supportive on the environment.
I don't feel threatened in terms of their military might, the UK doesn't even register on the world radar anymore.
I applaud their efforts on population control.
Generally speaking the Chinese seem decent people with a magnificent culture and history.
A balance for the US, Russia and India.
在经济上是一种威胁，但是这正是我们制定的游戏，现在他们只不过是合法的加入了这个游戏的竞争。我当然更愿意看到他们会支持环保。
我不认为他们在军事上是一种威胁。
我赞赏他们在人口控制上所作的努力。
一般来讲，中国人看起来比较诚恳，有文化内涵
是对于美国俄罗斯印度的一种平衡。
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Added: Monday, 4 August, 2008, 21:26 GMT 22:26 UK

To paraphrase Churchill:-

"A mystery wrapped up in an enigma."

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How about the 'Red Door' ?

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Cute boy, he's hot now. following the link above to find out those comments from girls. So many girls want him!

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Any of you done an enneagram personality test? If so, what personality type are you?

[Once you finish the 36 questions, it'll give you a table of your scores in different collums and the collumn where you scored the highest is your personality type (a number). Then you can read up on your personality analysis + Wikipedia has articles on the 9 different personalities ranging from Reformers to Achievers to Peacemakers].

I'm a Type 4. What personality type are you?

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hoho, I guess she is not married yet......

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strongly agree with 127

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IT IS A BRAND NEW DAY TO LAND/LIVE IN OZ

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我喜欢深深的爱~~~

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men love PC games the same as women hate it

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support

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13. I have plenty of talent and vision; I just don't give a sh*t.

every new migrant should learn this, esp. when hunting for a job - it's just so true!!!

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SHE may have formerly fitted snugly into the struggling musician category but Elly Hoyt is no longer singing for her supper.
  Tow weeks ago, Hoyt was your typical musical student – stars in her eyes and moths in her pockets.
  Today she’s $5000 better off ,but the most valuable part of her win in the James Morrison Generation In Jazz Vocal Scholarship 2008 is the opportunity itself.
  Hoyt is into her second year of a bachelor of music, majoring in jazz voice, at the Queensland  Conservatorium of Music and her win makes her the fourth students from the academy to win the award since it started five years ago.
Hoyt, 21 , said she planned to invest her prize money in her first solo album.
“I want to keep on singing and working around the scene,” she said.

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How To Conquer Interview Nerves?   (from michael page)

Knowledge is power
The more you know, the less you'll panic. That's the conclusion of Gary James, who has spoken to job seekers at every stage of the interview process over his 18 year career with Michael Page. "It may seem an obvious thing to say, but it amazes me the number of people who go to visit a company knowing nothing, or next to nothing, about it."
"Of course," says Gary, "if you have secured the interview through Michael Page, your consultant will have given you some preliminary information about the company, the interview format, and probably the person interviewing you. But the more preparation you do, the more confidence you'll have, so you'd be foolish not to do as much of your own research as you possibly can."


Starting the preparation
So where to start? Company websites, is the short answer. It's very rare for a company not to have a website these days, and it's incredible what you can find on some of them. In addition to corporate history and press releases, many organizations have stacks of downloadable reports and reviews. Increasingly, you can even find video presentations, which make research easy and fun. In fact, if this kind of information is available on your prospective employer's website, you may seriously compromise the impression you make if you don't use it.
If the company that's interviewing you doesn't have a press center on its website, it's simple enough to search for relevant articles yourself. All national newspapers are available online these days, with archives that reach back over years. Just enter the company's name in the search box. You can do this directly in a web search engine too (google.com, altavista.com).
Finally, you can get some incredibly useful information by phoning the company. Investor relations departments will always send you the latest report, and secretaries can be astonishingly forthcoming about their bosses' 'little foibles' - even to complete strangers. One enterprising city whiz kid even opened negotiations with a prospective employer -  a stockbroker - by claiming to be a prospective multi-million dollar investor. He was able to make a spookily accurate (but modest) diagnosis of the company's new business problems in the interview and got the job on the spot.


Thinking about the questions you may be asked
As mentioned, your Michael Page consultant will advise you on the format your interview will take (some helpful information on various types of interviews is available in the Candidate Advice section on this website). But you should also devote some time to thinking about all the possible questions you might be asked. It sounds like a daunting task, but look at it this way: the only questions you'll be asked that don't relate to your prospective company will relate to you. Which means you'll just be putting time into thinking about yourself!
This is the point at which to return to your resume, since the information here will form the basis of any interview. Study your resume and think about the questions which could arise from it. Say, for example, you've mentioned on your resume that you led a team in a previous job. Imagine being asked about the easiest and most difficult aspects of that task (easiest/hardest questions are useful in relation to any achievement). Or, if you've said on your resume that you managed a budget, envision being quizzed about the details of that budget.
In general, be prepared to talk about:

• Problem solving (your biggest problem in particular)
• Planning how you could have performed better with hindsight
• Any gaps in your resume

If it's difficult to develop objective curiosity about your own resume, study someone else's (your Michael Page consultant will be able to furnish you with sample resumes), and then apply any questions that occur to you, to your own. You could also give your resume to an intelligent friend or relative and ask them to quiz you about your career.


The famous question - "What's your greatest weakness?"
There are some famous 'impossible' interview questions around, the most dreaded of which is 'What's your greatest weakness?'. Rather than tell your interviewer that your perfectionism lets you down, think carefully about the qualities of the people doing the job you're interviewing for, advises Sarah Scott, Operating Director for Michael Page Marketing. "Everyone has weaknesses. The important thing is to pick the most forgivable one for the role you're doing. A good way into this is to think about the strengths necessary for your role and then think how those strengths could shade into weaknesses. For example, confidence can shade into arrogance; dedication can shade into blindness to the task, and so on.
Other things to cover in your preparation include your:

• Motivations
• Expectations
• Long term career plan

A popular interview question these days revolves around your greatest achievement. It's important to exercise some discretion here. If the most important aspect of the prospective job involves leading and motivating people, talking about finishing the marathon may not be the most relevant reply. Remember, your interviewer ultimately wants to know what you can do for the company. Hence, for most jobs (not all!) your achievement should probably include an element of teamwork. Once you've chosen an achievement that relates the skills required for the job, write a few paragraphs about the situation, using some of the questions and issues discussed above to guide you.


Your achievements
Writing about your achievements and experiences is a good brain flow exercise. On the night before an interview, when your research is complete, it's a good idea to take a few sheets of paper and just write out what you feel about your career so far. Start anywhere and write anything that comes into your head. You'll be amazed at how effective and comforting this can be. Apart from giving you the confidence that you've covered all relevant points, it's a great way to tire out your brain and ensure you get a good night's sleep!
Finally, don't worry about having interview nerves to some degree. It's only natural to be apprehensive in an important situation. Nerves are healthy. What you want to avoid is debilitating fear, and if you're fully prepared, this shouldn't be an issue.

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THE city’s public transport shortage will be countered via 500 new buses over four years in the Brisbane City Council Budget, says Lord Mayor Campbell Newman.
He is also pushing ahead with a Paris-style bicycle hire scheme and has ordered improvements to Adelaide, Alice, Creek, Market and  Water streets and along Bowen and Vernon terraces and Commercial and Gardens Point roads.
Brisbane’s inner city is also set to receive $6.4 million in green Budget initiatives with more than $2.4 million of this dedicated to improving active and healthy transport options around the city.

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yeah ,if  we enjoy in our peaceful lives,the happiness is  a easy thing to  be achievied by us.

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The first human habitation of Australia is estimated to have occurred between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago.[7] These first Australians were possibly the ancestors of the current Indigenous Australians; they may have arrived via land bridges and short sea-crossings from present-day South-East Asia. Most of these people were hunter-gatherers, with a complex oral culture and spiritual values based on reverence for the land and a belief in the Dreamtime. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, inhabited the Torres Strait Islands and parts of far-north Queensland; their cultural practices were and remain distinct from those of the Aborigines.
The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland was made by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, who sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in 1606. During the 17th century, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines of what they called New Holland, but made no attempt at settlement. In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast of Australia, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The expedition's discoveries provided impetus for the establishment of a penal colony there.

The British Crown Colony of New South Wales started with the establishment of a settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip on 26 January 1788. This date was later to become Australia's national day, Australia Day. Van Diemen's Land, now known as Tasmania, was settled in 1803 and became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the western part of Australia in 1829. Separate colonies were created from parts of New South Wales: South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, and Queensland in 1859. The Northern Territory (NT) was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia. South Australia was founded as a "free province"—that is, it was never a penal colony. Victoria and Western Australia were also founded "free", but later accepted transported convicts.[8] The transportation of convicts to the colony of New South Wales ceased in 1848 after a campaign by the settlers.[9]


Port Arthur, Tasmania was Australia's largest gaol for transported convicts.The Indigenous Australian population, estimated at 350,000 at the time of European settlement,[10] declined steeply for 150 years following settlement, mainly because of infectious disease combined with forced re-settlement and cultural disintegration.[11] The removal of children from their families, which some historians and Indigenous Australians have argued could be considered to constitute genocide by some definitions,[12] may have contributed to the decline in the indigenous population. Such interpretations of Aboriginal history are disputed by some commentators as being exaggerated or fabricated for political or ideological reasons.[13] This debate is known within Australia as the History Wars. Following the 1967 referendum, the Federal government gained the power to implement policies and make laws with respect to Aborigines. Traditional ownership of land—native title—was not recognised until 1992, when the High Court case Mabo v Queensland (No 2) overturned the notion of Australia as terra nullius (lit. "land of none" or "empty land") at the time of European occupation.

A gold rush began in Australia in the early 1850s, and the Eureka Stockade rebellion against mining licence fees in 1854 was an early expression of civil disobedience. Between 1855 and 1890, the six colonies individually gained responsible government, managing most of their own affairs while remaining part of the British Empire. The Colonial Office in London retained control of some matters, notably foreign affairs, defence, and international shipping. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies was achieved after a decade of planning, consultation, and voting. The Commonwealth of Australia was born as a Dominion of the British Empire. The Federal Capital Territory (later renamed the Australian Capital Territory) was formed from a part of New South Wales in 1911 to provide a location for the proposed new federal capital of Canberra (Melbourne was the temporary seat of government from 1901 to 1927 while Canberra was being constructed). The Northern Territory was transferred from the control of the South Australian government to the Commonwealth in 1911. Australia willingly participated in World War I.[14] Many Australians regard the defeat of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) at Gallipoli as the birth of the nation—its first major military action. The Kokoda Track Campaign is regarded by many as an analogous nation-defining event during World War II.

The Statute of Westminster 1931 formally ended most of the constitutional links between Australia and the United Kingdom when Australia adopted it in 1942. The shock of the United Kingdom's defeat in Asia in 1942 and the threat of Japanese invasion caused Australia to turn to the United States as a new ally and protector. Since 1951, Australia has been a formal military ally of the US under the auspices of the ANZUS treaty. After World War II, Australia encouraged immigration from Europe; since the 1970s and the abolition of the White Australia policy, immigration from Asia and other non-European parts of the world was also encouraged. As a result, Australia's demography, culture and self-image have been radically transformed. The final constitutional ties between Australia and the UK were severed in 1986 with the passing of the Australia Act 1986, ending any British role in the government of the Australian States, and ending judicial appeals to the UK Privy Council.[15] In 1999, Australian voters rejected by a majority of 54% a move to become a republic with a president appointed by two-thirds vote of both houses of the Australian Parliament. To alter the Australian constitution an Act of the Australian Parliament must occur as well as a referendum receiving not only a majority of votes across the country, but also a majority of votes in a majority of the six Australian states. The referendum of 1999 not only did not receive a majority of votes across the country, it also did not win one of the six Australian states. [16] [17] Since the election of the Whitlam Government in 1972, there has been an increasing focus on the expansion of ties with other Pacific Rim nations while maintaining close ties with Australia's traditional allies and trading partners.

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The name "Australia" is derived from the Latin Australis, meaning "Southern". Legends of an "unknown land of the south" (terra australis incognita) date back to Roman times and were commonplace in medieval geography, but were not based on any documented knowledge of the continent. In 1521 Spaniards were among the first Europeans to sail the Pacific. The first use of the word "Australia" in English was in 1625—the words "A note of Australia del Espiritu Santo, written by Master Hakluyt", published by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus.[4] It is said that the name Australia originally came from the Spanish man Pedro Fernández de Quirós whose travels around the southern seas brought him close to the lands he named “Australia del Espiritu Santo” in honour of the House of Austria which, at the time, governed the Spanish Empire. The Dutch adjectival form Australische was used by Dutch officials in Batavia to refer to the newly discovered land to the south in 1638. "Australia" was used in a 1693 translation of Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voyage de la Terre Australe, a 1676 French novel by Gabriel de Foigny under the pen name Jacques Sadeur.[5] Alexander Dalrymple then used it in An Historical Collection of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (1771), to refer to the entire South Pacific region. In 1793, George Shaw and Sir James Smith published Zoology and Botany of New Holland, in which they wrote of "the vast island, or rather continent, of Australia, Australasia or New Holland."

The name "Australia" was popularised by the 1814 work A Voyage to Terra Australis by the navigator Matthew Flinders, the first recorded person to circumnavigate Australia. Though its title reflected the British Admiralty's usage, Flinders used the word "Australia" in his book and as it was widely read it gave the term general currency. Governor Lachlan Macquarie of New South Wales subsequently used the word in his dispatches to England, and on 12 December 1817 recommended to the Colonial Office that it be officially adopted.[6] In 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as "Australia".

The word "Australia" in Australian English is pronounced /əˈstɹæɪljə, -liːə, -jə/.

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The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and a number of other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 The neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australia is the only country that is also a continent.

The Australian mainland has been inhabited for more than 42,000 years by indigenous Australians. After sporadic visits by fishermen from the north and then European discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, the eastern half of Australia was later claimed by the British in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales, commencing on 26 January 1788. As the population grew and new areas were explored, another five largely self-governing Crown Colonies were established during the 19th century.

On 1 January 1901, the six colonies became a federation, and the Commonwealth of Australia was formed. Since federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and remains a Commonwealth realm. The capital city is Canberra, located in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The population is just over 21.3 million, with approximately 60% of the population concentrated in and around the mainland state capitals of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

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Interesting

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sounds interestinggood
I like flea markets

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The Little Market

The monthly Little Market at Avid Bookstore is held on the last Friday of the month. We have up to ten stalls of unusual and unique jewellery, cosmetics, cards, clothes and other handmade items. All stallholders are the makers of their wares so you can talk to us directly about our work and support local creativity! Please join us and check out what local crafters have been up to over each month!

Date range  Fri 28 March 2008 - Fri 31 October 2008
Time             5.30pm - 8pm, selected dates
Where          Avid Bookstore, 193 Boundary Street, West End
                      at the back of the Bookstore - outside
How Much   Free entry Contact Justine or Rowena, The Little Market
E-mail:         wenitsuj555@yahoo.com.au

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Brisbane’s Big Cheese Bite offers the largest range of Australian-made cheeses ever seen in one location. Cheese producers will offer free tastings of award-winning cheeses, plus a wide range of their produce will be available for sale. In addition to cheese, you can try and buy other fabulous food and gourmet goods as well as wine and beer.

- Free tasting of award winning cheeses

- Large range of cheeses for sale

- Wine and gourmet food stalls

- Live music with Afro-Cuban Salsa Band Chu'kale', Popera Classics and Dancing Queen

- Comedy with the Ab Fab Girls

- Interactive Latin dancing with Vida Latina

- Natty Satty's cool reggae beats

- Kid's rides, face painting

- Roving entertainers

No BYO alcohol or food.

Formally the Rosalie Cheese and Wine Carnivale. See our Big Cheese Bite article.
Date range Sun 15 June 2008 Show datesTime 10am - 4:30pm Where Norm Buchan Park , Baroona & Rainworth Rds, Paddington
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How Much Under 12 free accompanied by Adult: $17.95, Age Pens, Senior Card, High School Stds: $12.95 Contact Big Cheese Bite
web http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=BIGCHEES08

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food coordinator in child learning school

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese

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so beautiful language, immersing in the picturesque  scenery...  

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