Manatee meeting
Walking alone on a remote beach in southwest Florida, I was startled to hear splashes and a deep sigh coming from the water just offshore.
As I squinted in the direction of the sounds, the rounded gray back of a sea creature rose amid a red froth, rolled turbulently at the surface, then sank back into the Gulf. Moments later a broad nose emerged and exhaled in a great snuffling breath. It was a manatee, and by the looks of the reddish-colored water and the way it was thrashing, it was in trouble.
I had often watched manatees in these warm coastal waters, but I'd never seen one act like this before. Usually just their big nostrils appeared for a gulp of air as they foraged on sea grasses or swam slowly to greener underwater pastures. But I also knew how common it was for these lumbering giants to be gashed by boat propellers or entangled in crab traps.
I wanted to help, but what could I do? There was no one else on the beach, and the nearest phone to call the Marine Patrol was miles away.
Tossing my beach bag onto the sand, I began wading toward the animal, who continued to writhe as if in distress. I was still only waist deep when I came close enough to make out the bristly whiskers on the manatee's muzzle as it thrust up out of the sea. Then, to my surprise, a second muzzle, much smaller, poked up beside it.
I pushed on through the shoal water, but now the manatees were also moving toward me. Before I knew what was happening, I was in chest-deep water encircled by not one or two, but at least three blimplike bodies. I felt elated and slightly dizzy like the kid who is 'it' in a schoolyard game.
A bulbous snout emerged next to me. In the translucent water, I could clearly see the rest of the huge mammal, and there, nestled close behind her, a smaller version of her massive body.
Then, with incredible gentleness for such an enormous creature, the larger manatee nudged the little one with her paddle-shaped flipper and pushed it to the surface beside me. I wanted to reach out and touch the pudgy sea baby, but I hesitated, not knowing the rules of this inter-species encounter.
As the two slipped back underwater, two other manatees moved in from behind and slid by, one on either side, rubbing gently against my body as they swam past. They circled and repeated the action, this time followed by the mother and her calf. Emboldened by their overtures, I let my hand graze the side of the small manatee, now clinging to the mother's back, as they made their pass. Its skin felt rubbery and firm like an old fashioned hot water bottle.
The group completed several more circuits. Since they obviously enjoyed touching me, I began stroking each of them as they sidled by. When one of them rolled over for a scratch, I knew I had made the right move.
Eventually my new friends made their way off towards deeper water. I stood anchored to the spot, not wishing to break the spell, until finally the rising tide forced me back to shore.
I suppose I will never know exactly what took place that morning. I like to think that the manatees included me in their celebration of a birth; that I was welcomed to meet the newest member of their tribe. But over time I have come to cherish the experience without questions.
During that unexpected rendezvous, I felt more in tune with the rhythms of life on this vast planet than I ever have. The memory has become a song I sing to myself when I have the blues, a dance I do to celebrate joy.
And each year, during the last week of May, I pack a lunch and head for that isolated stretch of beach for a quiet little birthday picnic on the shore. After all, you never know who might show up for the party.
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Never sell your soul
My fellow job seekers: I am honored to be among the first to congratulate you on completing your years at North Carolina A&T. But all of you should know: as Mother's Day gifts go, this one is going to be tough to beat in the years ahead.
The purpose of a commencement speaker is to dispense wisdom. But the older I get, the more I realize that the most important wisdom I've learned in life has come from my mother and my father. Before we go any further, let's hear it one more time for your mothers and mother figures, fathers and father figures, family, and friends in the audience today.
When I first received the invitation to speak here, I was the CEO of an $80 billion Fortune 11 company with 145,000 employees in 178 countries around the world. I held that job for nearly six years. It was also a company that hired its fair share of graduates from North Carolina A&T. You could always tell who they were. For some reason, they were the ones that had stickers on their desks that read, "Beat the Eagles."
But as you may have heard, I don't have that job anymore. After the news of my departure broke, I called the school, and asked: do you still want me to come and be your commencement speaker?
Chancellor Renick put my fears to rest. He said, "Carly, if anything, you probably have more in common with these students now than you did before." And he's right. After all, I've been working on my resume. I've been lining up my references. I bought a new interview suit. If there are any recruiters here, I'll be free around 11.
I want to thank you for having me anyway. This is the first public appearance I've made since I left HP. I wanted very much to be here because this school has always been set apart by something that I've believed very deeply; something that takes me back to the earliest memories I have in life.
One day at church, my mother gave me a small coaster with a saying on it. During my entire childhood, I kept this saying in front of me on a small desk in my room. In fact, I can still show you that coaster today. It says: "What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God."
Those words have had a huge impact on me to this day. What this school and I believe in very deeply is that when we think about our lives, we shouldn't be limited by other people's stereotypes or bigotry. Instead, we should be motivated by our own sense of possibility. We should be motivated by our own sense of accomplishment. We should be motivated by what we believe we can become. Jesse Jackson has taught us; Ronald McNair taught us; the Greensboro Four taught us; that the people who focus on possibilities achieve much more in life than people who focus on limitations.
The question for all of you today is: how will you define what you make of yourself?
To me, what you make of yourself is actually two questions. There's the "you" that people see on the outside. And that's how most people will judge you, because it's all they can see what you become in life, whether you were made President of this, or CEO of that, the visible you.
But then, there's the invisible you, the "you" on the inside. That's the person that only you and God can see. For 25 years, when people have asked me for career advice, what I always tell them is don't give up what you have inside. Never sell your soul. Because no one can ever pay you back.
What I mean by not selling your soul is don't be someone you're not, don't be less than you are, don't give up what you believe, because whatever the consequences that may seem scary or bad -- whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself are -- they are much better than the consequences of selling your soul.
You have been tested mightily in your life to get to this moment. And all of you know much better than I do: from the moment you leave this campus, you will be tested. You will be tested because you won't fit some people's pre-conceived notions or stereotypes of what you're supposed to be, of who you're supposed to be. People will have stereotypes of what you can or can't do, of what you will or won't do, of what you should or shouldn't do. But they only have power over you if you let them have power over you. They can only have control if you let them have control, if you give up what's inside.
I speak from experience. I've been there. I've been there, in admittedly vastly different ways -- and in many ways, in the fears in my heart, exactly the same places. The truth is I've struggled to have that sense of control since the day I left college.
I was afraid the day I graduated from college. I was afraid of what people would think. Afraid I couldn't measure up. I was afraid of making the wrong choices. I was afraid of disappointing the people who had worked so hard to send me to college.
I had graduated with a degree in medieval history and philosophy. If you had a job that required knowledge of Copernicus or 12th Century European monks, I was your person. But that job market wasn't very strong.
So, I was planning to go to law school, not because it was a lifelong dream. Because I thought it was expected of me. Because I realized that I could never be the artist my mother was, so I would try to be the lawyer my father was. So, I went off to law school. For the first three months, I barely slept. I had a blinding headache every day. And I can tell you exactly which shower tile I was looking at in my parent's bathroom on a trip home when it hit me like a lightning bolt. This is my life. I can do what I want. I have control. I walked downstairs and said, "I quit."
I will give my parents credit in some ways. That was 1976. They could have said, "Oh well, you can get married." Instead, they said, "We're worried that you'll never amount to anything." It took me a while to prove them wrong. My first job was working for a brokerage firm. I had a title. It was not "VP." It was "receptionist." I answered phones, I typed, I filed. I did that for a year. And then, I went and lived in Italy, teaching English to Italian businessmen and their families. I discovered that I liked business. I liked the pragmatism of it; the pace of it. Even though it hadn't been my goal, I became a businessperson.
I like big challenges, and the career path I chose for myself at the beginning was in one of the most male-dominated professions in America. I went to work for AT&T. It didn't take me long to realize that there were many people there who didn't have my best interests at heart.
I began my career as a first level sales person within AT&T's long lines department. Now, "long lines" is what we used to call the long distance business, but I used to refer to the management team at AT&T as the "42 longs" which was their suit size, and all those suits and faces looked the same.
I'll never forget the first time my boss at the time introduced me to a client. With a straight face, he said "this is Carly Fiorina, our token bimbo." I laughed, I did my best to dazzle the client, and then I went to the boss when the meeting was over and said, "You will never do that to me again."
In those early days, I was put in a program at the time called the Management Development Program. It was sort of an accelerated up-or-out program, and I was thrown into the middle of a group of all male sales managers who had been there quite a long time, and they thought it was their job to show me a thing or two. A client was coming to town and we had decided that we were getting together for lunch to introduce me to this customer who was important to one of my accounts.
Now the day before this meeting was to occur, one of my male colleagues came to me and said, "You know, Carly, I'm really sorry. I know we've had this planned for a long time, but this customer has a favorite restaurant here in Washington, D.C., and they really want to go to that restaurant, and we need to do what the customer wants, and so I don't think you'll be able to join us."
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Chronoswiss Timemaster Spring Watch
This lime green watch is meant to remind you of spring and summer. I think it would have been cool to call it the Chronoswiss “Springtime” watch. Right? Chronoswiss is a funny watch maker because they are German, and proudly so, but the name of the brand has “Swiss” in it. Funny enough Chronoswiss has not marketed this watch specifically for men or women. This often happens with designs that could theoretically appeal to either sex - the company doesn’t know who it will appeal to so it is cautious to indicate that it is for men or women (cause most men will not buy a watch that is meant for women, but I would sport this watch based on the design). The Spring uses the basic Chronoswiss Timemaster case and style. You have the large “onion” crown and an automatic Chronoswiss C.128 movement inside. The dial is quite legible though will actually be more legible in the dark as the green SuperLumiNova will shine bright. Strap is green toned alligator.
Decorating the steel case’s bezel are 60 Wesselton VVSI colored diamonds. Nicely cut and large for a quality luxury look. It is a supremely lively facade, and the light green tones feel almost refreshing in comparison to the rest of the diamond watches out there. I also like the bold application of the font on the date disc. Price for the watch will be $9,300 when it is available soon.
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Invicta Leviathan Swiss Quartz Chrono Watch 6657
Stainless steel case with a polyurethane rubber bracelet with stainless steel inserts. Unidirectional rotating bezel with divers scale. Orange sun ray dial with luminous hands and dot hour markers. Date display at the 4 o'clock position. Day of week displayed at certer dial. Chronograph - three sub-dials displaying: 60 seconds, 30 minutes and 1/10th of a second. Swiss Ronda 5040e quartz chrono movement. Scratch resistant flame fusion crystal. Screw down crown. Case diameter: 52 mm. Tang clasp. Water resistant at 50 meters / 165 feet. Case Diameter:52 mm Bracelet:Polyurethane Rubber with Stainless Steel Dial:Orange Sunray Bezel:Unidirectional Rotating Movement:Swiss Ronda 5040E Quartz Chrono Water Resistance:50 meters / 165 feet Crown:Screw-Down X
the founder of chronoswiss watch
Even as a child, German-born Lang had a passion for mechanical things. He pursued a career in watchmaking and was obsessed with tracking time precisely. In 1983, this watchmaker extraordinaire founded Chronoswiss in Munich, Germany, and embarked on a quest to make the most extraordinary mechanic timepieces. He purchased limited-edition- and out-of-use movements that he could embellish and improve. His watches were immediately recognized for their classical elegance and technical prowess.
In 1988, Chronoswiss surprised the world when it unveiled its stunning regulator wristwatch-which carried the oversized regulator dial that heretofore had only graced the faces of pocket watches and clocks. In 1990, the brand began to manufacture its own models and in 1992, it again caused an international stir when it presented its patented two-handed Rattrapante.
introduction of chronoswiss
Chronoswiss is a German watch manufacturer based in Karlsfeld. The company was founded by Gerd R. Lang in 1983 with the mission to make the most extraordinary mechanical timepieces.
Chronoswiss tries to stay exclusive by only producing about 7,000 watches per year. Though a German company, every component is produced in Switzerland and then the watches are hand-finished. While many of the movements used in Chronoswiss watches are based on the Enicar 165 movement, the Chronoswiss versions feature significant improvements, both technical and aesthetic. Although a relatively new brand, innovative timepieces have continued to earn Chronoswiss significant respect within both the horological industry, and among collectors. Founder Gerd Lang is well-known for his love of detail, and their highly detailed crowns, bezels, and casebands are some of Chronoswiss' distinguishing features. As a brand valued mostly by collectors, Chronoswiss watches generally sell at the low-end of their price range at auctions, representing what may be unique value in the collectors market.
Cultural Diversity: Eating in America
Asian
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Patti Hill
Confucius said, "A man cannot be too serious about his eating, for food is the force that binds society together." This statement summarizes the importance of food in the Asian culture. Preparation is meticulous, and consumption is ceremonious and deliberate. Two key elements draw the diverse cultures of the Asian region together: 1) the composition of meals (emphasis on vegetables and rice, relatively little meat); and 2) cooking techniques.
Description of Region
Asian-Americans have emigrated from the Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. The religions they practice include Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Shinto (Japanese only). A large number of native Filipinos are Roman Catholic. The Vietnamese, Laotian, and Hmong cultures are discussed in separate fact sheets.
Food Habits and Their Relationships to Dietary Guidelines
Most Asians living in America adhere to a traditional Asian diet interspersed with American foods, particularly breads and cereals. Dairy products are not consumed in sufficient quantity, except for ice cream. Calcium is consumed through tofu and small fish (bones eaten). Fish, pork, and poultry comprise the main proteins. Significant amounts of nuts and dried beans are also eaten. Vegetables and fruits make up a large part of their food intake. Rice is the mainstay of the diet and is commonly eaten at every meal.
Eating Practices, Food Preferences and Food Preparation Techniques
A typical day's menu might include:
Breakfast-hot cereal, bread, fruit juice, soy milk, fruit, nuts, rice
Lunch-rice or bread with vegetables or fruits
Dinner-rice, vegetable soup mixed with tofu, vegetables, fish or meat
Thai food is generally spicy, hot, and high in sodium. Hot peppers are used daily.
The Japanese are very concerned about the visual appeal of the food and the "separateness" of the foods and tastes. Garlic and hot pepper are not common ingredients.
Koreans make kimchee in October or November for use throughout the winter. Kimchee is cabbage marinated in salt water, layered with peppers and spices in crockery, and left to ferment through November and December. Kimchee is eaten with every meal.
Asian food preparation techniques include stir-frying, barbecuing, deep-frying, boiling, and steaming. All ingredients are carefully prepared (chopped, sliced, etc.) prior to starting the cooking process.
Teaching Implications
Bowing is important, but most Asian-Americans will shake hands. Bowing is a gesture similar to waving.
The elderly, children, and pregnant women are held in high esteem.
Most Japanese women in the United States breastfeed their babies. Thai women usually breastfeed their children up to age two. Many Korean parents bottle-feed their babies. New Korean mothers eat seaweed soup for the first month after delivery; the soup is believed to cleanse the blood.
Positive health factors related to diet include: low incidence of heart disease, bowel cancer and breast cancer.
Major diet-related diseases or concerns include stomach cancer and lactose intolerance.
Customs and Family Traditions
New Year's Day is the major holiday of the year. It is generally the only holiday that work days are taken as vacation. Asian clients tend to use American holiday breaks to travel.
Summary
Because of the diverse cultures within the Asian region, specific cultural customs should be addressed when programs are arranged.
Cultural Diversity: Eating in America
Cultural diversity is a major issue in American eating. To fully understand the impact cultures play in American nutrition, one must study both food and culture.
This fact sheet on the Asian culture is one of a series of nine developed to address cultural diversity in American eating.
This fact sheet is designed as an awareness tool for a novice working with a cultural group previously unknown to them. Given the nature of the variations that exist in each cultural group (i.e. socio-economic status, religion, age, education, social class, location, length of time in the United States, and location of origin) caution needs to be taken not to generalize or imply that these characteristics apply to all individuals of a cultural group. This fact sheet was designed primarily for use in Northeastern Ohio, but may stimulate awareness of differences in these cultural groups in other parts of the country. The goal of this fact sheet is to assist a novice educator in reducing any cultural barriers that may inhibit education. The author strongly recommends continued reading and additional research into the cultural groups in which you work.
Street basketball
This world every corner of the so-types who kitted music, wild plants, all in the head sweat, as if created on the fly in search of a dream, there is a big soul, they Street player, a group will dissolve in one of the smart basketball.
Street basketball development today has become a popular global particularly by young people who campaign anywhere in the world, you will see 3,322 children imitate their idols in the hearts and wear clothes hiphop style campaign signature shoes and stars, chasing a basketball, but also dream.
However the origin and development of street basketball is like this process is not sunshine. As the birthplace of basketball and the street for figurines, the African Americans in the 1950s initially only slum in its own backyard or open space, build a rudimentary basketball goal posts and do not know what to do when leisure materials basketball as a loving and hate. By the 1970s, mostly because of the life and dissatisfaction with the government's inherent musical talent, Hiphop-species known as the free, creative style evolved, and spread rapidly from country to the black slums. Its main elements include : dances, songs ourselves, graffiti on walls and around a dish.
Difference with the formal basketball competitions in street ball matches, players on the specific movements restrictions should be more flexible, you can often see in video player carrying the ball in the walk, kick ball (ball deliberately feet), there are many other seemingly some of the rules movements, which are relatively normal, because of street performances and recreational basketball attention, Sometimes it can be relatively free of rules and arbitrary.
I loved Street ball, because I love young vitality and unrestrained happiness. I like to put their own understanding into street ball move freely in front of us display their creativity. I aspire to become the basketball court, the focus for everyone's eyes I was less than 1.80 that the person is attractive. Street ball to me is my understanding, I hope and I also love street ball friends to join the young, whether you try to ,Just do it! and show yourself~
Pandas
Giant pandas are black-and-white Chinese bears that are on the verge of extinction. These large, cuddly-looking mammals have a big head, a heavy body, rounded ears, and a short tail.
The Chinese people call the panda "Da xiong mao," which means "giant bear cat" in Chinese. The panda is a symbol of peace in China.
This bear is quite different from other bears. It has unusual cat-like eyes, and its front paws have an opposable "thumb."
Female pandas are called sows, males are called boars, and the young are called cubs.
EYES
Most bears' eyes have round pupils. The exception is the giant panda, whose pupils are vertical slits, like cats' eyes. These unusual eyes inspired the Chinese to call the panda the "giant cat bear."
Pandas have very good eyesight.
What can we do to protect the giant pandas?
As more and more green trees and bamboos are cut down, the giant pandas have fewer and fewer food to eat. And some hunters hunt giant pandas for their fur, so the giant pandas are in trouble.
But what could we do to protect the giant pandas? First of all, we could establish nature conservation areas. Secondly, don’t buy clothes made of fur. Last but not least, we had better not cut down or prevent others from cutting down the bamboos so that the giants will have enough food to it. Through our joint effort, I think the giant pandas will lead a better life.
May Day
During May day,I went to Shanghai with my family.We all fell in love with it at the moment we saw it.Shanghai is really a beautiful city!There are many tall buildings and trees!There are also many flowers,it makes Shanghai look like a nice garden!If I have oppotunities to visit Shanghai again,I will be very happy!
i go to beijing yerstoday.i see great wall and so on .i'm very happy because i see a old red man. he is 95 years old.i like him because he tel our many story.
go to beijing yerstoday.i see great wall and so on .i'm very happy because i see a old red man. he is 95 years old.i like him because he tel our many story.
During May day,I went to Shanghai with my family.We all fell in love with it at the moment we saw it.Shanghai is really a beautiful city!There are many tall buildings and trees!There are also many flowers,it makes Shanghai look like a nice garden!If I have oppotunities to visit Shanghai again,I will be very happy!