Yesterday when I accompanied my friend to the bank to do some transactions, a bank officer called us over to discuss about some investment plans. The bank officer was telling us about the bank's plans on what and how to invest and he was patiently explaining to us about the gains and the low risks on the investments. It was a very interesting session listening to her sound advice and its pro and cons. Besides putting in cash in Fixed Deposits, nowadays it is a trend to buy some gold bullion She continued to tell us that another alternative gold is another form of a savings and when it goes up, we can sell immediately through her. Well, everything has its risk. For those who have extra money, it is safe to invest a portion into gold but if money is tight, it is not advisable to do so. For gold collectors, do log into their website for more information and details.
Wisdom Quotes
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
The middle course is the best.
Cleobulus
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley
Friendship Quot3es
I read these somewhere and would love to share with you all here.
Value friendship for what there is in it,
not for what can be gotten out of it.
H. Clay Trumbull
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
To find a good one, you must a hundred try.
Claude Mermet
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many;
three are hardly possible.
Henry Adams
Friendship is the soul's heaven.
A. Bronson Alcott
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero
Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.
Isocrates
Friendship needs no words--it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
Hope For The Best
Anyone heard of Accutane before? I have not but when I look into this Accutane Lawsuit, it sounds like it is something serious. Well, hopefully it is not that serious. In fact I do not know much about medicine. Whatever the doctor prescribes for me when I am sick or unwell, I will just follow his instructions. Now thinking back, we as consumers should make an effort to find out more about the medicines we consume. We should not take for granted what is to be given to us. We are humans, we make mistakes and it is not surprising if one day, the pharmacist gives us the wrong dosage. But hopefully it won’t happen to us. Doctors and pharmacists, they are just trying to do their job.
Some Education Proverbs (2)
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S. Eliot
Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
Greek Proverb
What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison
What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.
Thomas Jefferson
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Publilius Syrus
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.
William Ellery Channing
Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.
Robin Cook
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Charles W. Eliot
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
John W. Gardner
Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am still learning.
Michelangelo
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.
James A. Garfield
Education, like the mass of our age's inventions, is after all, only a tool; everything depends upon the workman who uses it
The Simple Life
Learning is like rowing upstream:
not to advance is to drop back.
Chinese Saying
Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.
J.P Richter
Some Education Proverbs
Education make a people easy to lead,
but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Peter Brougham
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
Wiliam Butler Yeats
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Native American Saying
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterson
Frederick W.Robertson
Gold And Shares
IN college, my lecturers gave talks about investments now and then. IN a way, it is very educational to us students, I love listening to them talking about how, what and when to invest. All that I heard, they are very new to me, now I know how public listing shares market is like, I even know how to go online for virtual commodity investment. All these are very educational, preparing us what is happening in the world today.
Moreover, nowadays in the commodity market, another form of investment is to
Moreover, nowadays in the commodity market, another form of investment is to
gold bullion. Gold has its many benefits in addition to its industrial uses and qualities, it can be in forms of an investment, it will not lose its shape or glitters. Gold prices nowadays are benefiting from the weakness of our currency. While dollar can fluctuates, gold is more on security. For more information on gold investment, you can find more details at United States Gold Bureau.
Education Quotes (5)
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.
Edward Bach
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
Edward Bach
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
Edward Bach
Edward Bach
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
Edward Bach
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
Edward Bach
Education Quotes (4)
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. Milne
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
Sydney J. Harris
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. Milne
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
Gold Coins Investment
According to my friend who is a bank officer, investors generally buy gold as a hedge against any economic, or currency-based crises. These crises include investment market declines, currency failure and even inflation. In other words, gold is a better option in terms of investment as of today. As the share market is fluctuating recently, a lot of people has opted for gold investment, as far as I know. But of course, It doesn't mean gold price will always stable, it is driven by supply and demand too.
However, one has to be careful when to buy gold coins and when to indulge in heavy investments. It is always advisable to get some "healthy advice" from some dedicated professionals to monitor our investment, it always pay to go to the right person and not to decide on our own.
However, one has to be careful when to buy gold coins and when to indulge in heavy investments. It is always advisable to get some "healthy advice" from some dedicated professionals to monitor our investment, it always pay to go to the right person and not to decide on our own.
Education Quotes (3)
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
Mark Twain
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
Education Quotes (2)
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
Michel de Montaigne
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
Online Research Degrees
This is my second year in college and I am more than 150km away from my home town. Before I enrolled in this college, I have registered in another university which is 250km away from my home. When I went there for enrollment, I found to my horror that it was not what I had expected it to be. I have made a mistake and in doing so, I have lost $300 because of the enrollment fees and miscellaneous.
Few months later after doing a wider research online, I have found this present college I am in now and at least I am happier here. For those who are still searching online for the suitable college or university, this research degrees is one of best reference to log into. Just fill a few simple questions and you might be able to find an appropriate college or university which blends well with your course you are taking.
Few months later after doing a wider research online, I have found this present college I am in now and at least I am happier here. For those who are still searching online for the suitable college or university, this research degrees is one of best reference to log into. Just fill a few simple questions and you might be able to find an appropriate college or university which blends well with your course you are taking.
Some Education Quotes
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Russell Baker An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey | |
Ticketing Website For Sports And Concerts
Lately my mum has subscribed back to sports channel again. Phew.. I was so relieved! Three months ago, she has decided to cut off the sport channel because she felt that I have spent too much time watching the live telecasts of all the games played and not paying much attention to my studies. During those three months, I did not get to watch my favorite games such as basketball. I simply love this game!!
The matches are normally played in most states in US and I wish that I could go there one day to watch them Live. My auntie who stays in Sacramento has been inviting me and my mum to go over to her place and I would give anything to fly over. LOL.. Too bad I have not finish my degree yet, well, in another two years, I may have the opportunity to watch all these live basketball competitions in US, especially Dallas, Houston and many more places. Firstly I will book the tickets through my auntie's place in Sacramento, my uncle is also a fan of this basketball team in Sacramento.
Apart from basketball, I am waiting for the opportunity to watch live concerts. All along I have been watching them on television, how wonderful it would be if I can buy the concert tickets here in this website. I think I better let my cousin Bronson knows about this website where they offer tickets for any kinds of sports and concerts!
Seek Financial Advice
Is this a good time to invest in currency market or in gold bars? What is the best investment to generate good returns? If you asked me, I am not too sure but I would advise you to seek professional advice from those who are trained to give you a better prospective on how to go about investments. From what I heard from my financial banker, it is still safe to go into some gold investment. We can buy gold and keep in the long run but of course, we cannot invest all our money into this. Only for those who do not need the money urgently or have some extra cash, then it is encouraged to invest in some gold. The world’s most popular modern coin is the American Eagle Gold Coins and the best place to buy them is from The United States Gold Bureau.
Computer Storage
In order to maintain the durability of DVDs, you must store them in a case that is specifically designed for DVD storage, handle DVDs properly, clean DVDs regularly and with care, avoid exposure to direct light and heat, label them using appropriate materials, and regularly clean and maintain your DVD player.
The thought of being able to save and preserve memories, music, images and other important data files on something envisioned to last virtually forever is quite tempting. DVDs are known for being a practical choice for storing data because of their storage capacity. They are also popular for their archival longevity. In fact, experts have said that with proper handling and treatment, DVDs may last up to 50 years. Unfortunately, many of us may just think that using plastic sleeves for archiving or stacks of DVDs is sufficient in keeping them durable. Actually, there are several basic things that we tend to forget but are actually very important in order to maintain the durability and lifespan of our DVDs. Here are some of them.
Store in a case that is specifically designed for DVD storage
Most of us think that jewel cases or video cases for CDs will serve the same purpose of keeping our DVDs safe. Actually, there is a big difference between CD cases and cases that are meant for DVD media. Basically, DVDs are 2 discs chemically attached together, which makes it the exact opposite of a CD. DVD cases are designed in such a way that only a sufficient amount of pressure is applied on the surface of the DVD when taking it out and putting it back to its case. It is good to remember to use jewel cases that are meant specifically for DVD media and not CDs. Jewel cases are also more effective at keeping dust away and preventing damage compared to paper or plastic sleeves.
The thought of being able to save and preserve memories, music, images and other important data files on something envisioned to last virtually forever is quite tempting. DVDs are known for being a practical choice for storing data because of their storage capacity. They are also popular for their archival longevity. In fact, experts have said that with proper handling and treatment, DVDs may last up to 50 years. Unfortunately, many of us may just think that using plastic sleeves for archiving or stacks of DVDs is sufficient in keeping them durable. Actually, there are several basic things that we tend to forget but are actually very important in order to maintain the durability and lifespan of our DVDs. Here are some of them.
Store in a case that is specifically designed for DVD storage
Most of us think that jewel cases or video cases for CDs will serve the same purpose of keeping our DVDs safe. Actually, there is a big difference between CD cases and cases that are meant for DVD media. Basically, DVDs are 2 discs chemically attached together, which makes it the exact opposite of a CD. DVD cases are designed in such a way that only a sufficient amount of pressure is applied on the surface of the DVD when taking it out and putting it back to its case. It is good to remember to use jewel cases that are meant specifically for DVD media and not CDs. Jewel cases are also more effective at keeping dust away and preventing damage compared to paper or plastic sleeves.
A Break In Between
It is holiday season again, I am back for 10 days break, to relax and to have a "breather." It is going to be a long semester this time, till end of November. A lot of assignments and projects to take care of and I hope I can cope up with these tiring work for the next two months or so. Right now, all I think of is to catch up with my old friends while I am home now. After that, I will have to make effort to do well in my assignments.. this is a very crucial time for me. Wish me all the best, ya!!
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