Michelle Williams will play Marilyn Monroe in wow gold a new movie based around the iconic actress's 1956 film shoot in London opposite Sir Laurence Olivier, producers said on Friday.
Williams, 30, who earned an Oscar nomination for her 2005 role in "Brokeback Mountain" and also appeared in "Shutter Island", stars as Monroe alongside a British cast that sees Kenneth Branagh as Olivier, Julia Ormond playing actress Vivien Leigh and Judi Dench in the role of British screen veteran Dame Sybil Thorndike.
"My Week with Marilyn" chronicles runescape gold a week in the life of Monroe as she escapes her Hollywood routine and is introduced to the pleasures of 1950s Britain by an assistant on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl".
British actor Derek Jacobi, and young stars Dominic Cooper and Emma Watson of "Harry Potter" fame, will also appear, with Simon Curtis directing.
Work on the co-production between BBC Films, Trademark Films and the Weinstein Company has buy wow gold already started at Britain's Pinewood Studios, producers said.
The movie is the second planned film treatment of Monroe -- still one of the world's best-known sex symbols more than 40 years after her death.
Australian Naomi Watts is due to play Monroe in the Hollywood movie "Blonde" based on U.S. writer Joyce Carol Oates' 2000 fictional biography of the star. "Blonde" is expected cheap wow gold to start shooting in early 2012.
2010年10月10日星期日
2010年10月9日星期六
Cardio routine can nurture sweet dreams
Sleepless and runescape gold sedentary? Instead of counting sheep in a field, try running through a meadow.
Experts agree that an aerobic exercise routine during the day can keep you from tossing and turning at night, even if they're not sure why.
"The bottom line is we really don't know why people tell us that exercise helps them sleep," said Dr. David Davila of the National Sleep Foundation.
"But if people are normally active, reaching their aerobic goals, chances are they will sleep the right amount for what they need."
Davila, who practices sleep medicine in Little Rock, Arkansas, said the low-grade sleep deprivation suffered by many time-pressed, under-rested Americans has a cumulative effect.
"People have more car accidents and what they call 'presentee-ism', or poor performance, at work," he said. "There are fallouts for the average person."
But evidence is emerging that aerobic exercise can offer relief from runescape accounts insomnia.
A recent study at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois tracked 23 previously sedentary adults, primarily women 55 and older, who had difficulty falling or staying asleep.
After 16 weeks on an aerobics training program that included exercising on a treadmill or stationery bicycle, average sleep quality improved.
"Most of poor sleepers became good sleepers," said Dr. Phyllis Zee, the lead researcher in the study, which was funded by the National Institute on Aging.
She said an earlier study using Tai Chi showed less dramatic results, as did a control group doing non-physical activities such as cooking classes and museum lectures.
"This is the first time that I'm aware of where we've looked at the benefits of aerobic exercise as a treatment modality in a population with insomnia," Zee said.
She added that she sees runescape money a lot of patients with insomnia, which afflicts 25 percent of the population and can reach as high as 40 percent in older people.
"We tell them to get regular exercise. But we really don't emphasize how to exercise."
If your schedule dictates that you can only hit the gym at 5 a.m. Dr. Shawn D. Youngstedt, an expert on sleep and exercise at the University of South Carolina, believes that an hour of exercise can do more good than an extra hour of sleep.
"There's no scientific evidence that people need eight hours, seven is fine," he said. "It's far clearer that exercise has wonderful benefits. It's better than drugs for diabetes, mental health, cancer prevention."
Dr. William Roberts, of the American College of Sports Medicine, cautions that for some people the time to exercise is not an hour before bed.
"To exercise close to sleep time is not good for everyone," he explained. "Try to get a wow gold half hour to an half hour of exercise early enough in the day and try to sleep on same schedule."
Roberts suggests doing something calming to wind down.
"Do not play video games," he said. "Read away from bed and then go to bed. Avoid caffeine and other stimulants before turning in."
The improved sleepers in Zee's study also reported better moods, fewer depressive symptoms and enhanced vitality.
"Vitality is everything," Zee said. "It's how somebody feels, how alert. If you think about the complaints of poor health, people will always buy wow gold say, 'I feel so tired.'"
Experts agree that an aerobic exercise routine during the day can keep you from tossing and turning at night, even if they're not sure why.
"The bottom line is we really don't know why people tell us that exercise helps them sleep," said Dr. David Davila of the National Sleep Foundation.
"But if people are normally active, reaching their aerobic goals, chances are they will sleep the right amount for what they need."
Davila, who practices sleep medicine in Little Rock, Arkansas, said the low-grade sleep deprivation suffered by many time-pressed, under-rested Americans has a cumulative effect.
"People have more car accidents and what they call 'presentee-ism', or poor performance, at work," he said. "There are fallouts for the average person."
But evidence is emerging that aerobic exercise can offer relief from runescape accounts insomnia.
A recent study at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois tracked 23 previously sedentary adults, primarily women 55 and older, who had difficulty falling or staying asleep.
After 16 weeks on an aerobics training program that included exercising on a treadmill or stationery bicycle, average sleep quality improved.
"Most of poor sleepers became good sleepers," said Dr. Phyllis Zee, the lead researcher in the study, which was funded by the National Institute on Aging.
She said an earlier study using Tai Chi showed less dramatic results, as did a control group doing non-physical activities such as cooking classes and museum lectures.
"This is the first time that I'm aware of where we've looked at the benefits of aerobic exercise as a treatment modality in a population with insomnia," Zee said.
She added that she sees runescape money a lot of patients with insomnia, which afflicts 25 percent of the population and can reach as high as 40 percent in older people.
"We tell them to get regular exercise. But we really don't emphasize how to exercise."
If your schedule dictates that you can only hit the gym at 5 a.m. Dr. Shawn D. Youngstedt, an expert on sleep and exercise at the University of South Carolina, believes that an hour of exercise can do more good than an extra hour of sleep.
"There's no scientific evidence that people need eight hours, seven is fine," he said. "It's far clearer that exercise has wonderful benefits. It's better than drugs for diabetes, mental health, cancer prevention."
Dr. William Roberts, of the American College of Sports Medicine, cautions that for some people the time to exercise is not an hour before bed.
"To exercise close to sleep time is not good for everyone," he explained. "Try to get a wow gold half hour to an half hour of exercise early enough in the day and try to sleep on same schedule."
Roberts suggests doing something calming to wind down.
"Do not play video games," he said. "Read away from bed and then go to bed. Avoid caffeine and other stimulants before turning in."
The improved sleepers in Zee's study also reported better moods, fewer depressive symptoms and enhanced vitality.
"Vitality is everything," Zee said. "It's how somebody feels, how alert. If you think about the complaints of poor health, people will always buy wow gold say, 'I feel so tired.'"
2010年5月20日星期四
Curtains for Shrek marks claiming for DreamWorks
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"Shrek Forever After," which opens on Friday, is billed as the fourth and final blur in the activated Shrek franchise.
If the blooming bogey accurate by actor Mike Myers is assuming any signs of wear, it may be reflected in forecasts from some analysts that the cine ability accessible beneath expectations.
DreamWorks is as abased on franchises as any Hollywood flat in this age of big account movies and, with the blind advancing down on Shrek, the aggregation added will accept to await on its three added franchises to accumulate growing.
In a appointment alarm with analysts endure month, DreamWorks arch controlling Jeffrey Katzenberg alleged "Shrek Forever After" one of the "most awful advancing movies of 2010."
He added that the company's "growing abiding of franchises will abide to accomplish amount at the box appointment and above for abounding years to come."
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The Shrek authorization has already generated added than $1 billion in accumulation for DreamWorks back the aboriginal blur came out in 2001, Crockett said.
By comparison, "Kung Fu Panda" and "Madagascar" accept apparent alone about two-thirds that acquirement breeding power, said Michael Pachter, analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities.
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In the latest film, Shrek suffers a mid-life crisis. He ducks out of the obligations of ancestors activity and makes a accord with the angry Rumpelstiltskin to barter a day from his past, in barter for getting able to run chargeless and alarm villagers.
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If the cine has elements of angst, some investors this anniversary displayed agnate apropos about DreamWorks.
The company's banal fell 5.9 percent on Tuesday afterwards Benjamin Mogil, an analyst at Thomas Weisel Partners, said in a agenda he expects "Shrek Forever After" will accept a lower than accepted aperture weekend of amid $75 actor and $90 actor at U.S. and Canadian box offices.
Crockett told Reuters he expects the blur will accomplish $100 actor to $120 actor during its aperture weekend, which matches what added analysts expect.
The banal bankrupt up 3.5 percent on Wednesday to $35.31.
"Shrek Forever After" has a 50 percent approval appraisement on analysis accumulation website RottenTomatoes.com.
Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel wrote that "DreamWorks seems apathetic with the bogey who laid the aureate egg." But Pete Hammond of Box Appointment Magazine said it is "without catechism the funniest blur of the year -- at atomic so far."
"Shrek the Third" had 41 percent approval on Rotten Tomatoes and becoming $799 actor at common box offices in 2007. Better advised "Shrek 2" fabricated $920 actor in 2004.
Although the behemothic blooming bogey may be authoritative his final bow, DreamWorks has added affairs to milk the franchise.
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"Shrek Forever After," which opens on Friday, is billed as the fourth and final blur in the activated Shrek franchise.
If the blooming bogey accurate by actor Mike Myers is assuming any signs of wear, it may be reflected in forecasts from some analysts that the cine ability accessible beneath expectations.
DreamWorks is as abased on franchises as any Hollywood flat in this age of big account movies and, with the blind advancing down on Shrek, the aggregation added will accept to await on its three added franchises to accumulate growing.
In a appointment alarm with analysts endure month, DreamWorks arch controlling Jeffrey Katzenberg alleged "Shrek Forever After" one of the "most awful advancing movies of 2010."
He added that the company's "growing abiding of franchises will abide to accomplish amount at the box appointment and above for abounding years to come."
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"The ambition is to be actual assisting and so the baseball affinity is hit lots of singles and doubles and again occasionally hit a home run," he said. "If you try to hit a home run every (time) at bat, you're traveling to bang out a lot."
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In the latest film, Shrek suffers a mid-life crisis. He ducks out of the obligations of ancestors activity and makes a accord with the angry Rumpelstiltskin to barter a day from his past, in barter for getting able to run chargeless and alarm villagers.
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Crockett told Reuters he expects the blur will accomplish $100 actor to $120 actor during its aperture weekend, which matches what added analysts expect.
The banal bankrupt up 3.5 percent on Wednesday to $35.31.
"Shrek Forever After" has a 50 percent approval appraisement on analysis accumulation website RottenTomatoes.com.
Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel wrote that "DreamWorks seems apathetic with the bogey who laid the aureate egg." But Pete Hammond of Box Appointment Magazine said it is "without catechism the funniest blur of the year -- at atomic so far."
"Shrek the Third" had 41 percent approval on Rotten Tomatoes and becoming $799 actor at common box offices in 2007. Better advised "Shrek 2" fabricated $920 actor in 2004.
Although the behemothic blooming bogey may be authoritative his final bow, DreamWorks has added affairs to milk the franchise.
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2010年3月29日星期一
Boost your eyes with green tea
This is the theory behind a new trial involving children runescape money with recurrent otitis media, an infection or inflammation of the middle ear.
Previous smaller studies have shown that the sugar - known as Xylitol - may block the growth of the bacteria. One study showed a 30 per cent reduction in acute attacks.
Otitis media often begins when bacterial infections that cause sore throats, colds or other respiratory problems spread to the middle ear.
Some 75 per cent of children experience at least one episode of otitis media by their third birthday, and about half of them will have three or more ear infections during that time.
In the trial at the Children's Hospital, Boston, the sugar, in the form of a syrup, is being given three times daily for 12 weeks.
Drinking green tea may improve the health of your eyes.
Laboratory tests showed antioxidants runescape gold found in the drink can be absorbed deep inside the eye, helping to protect it against disease.
Antioxidants are natural chemicals that neutralise free radicals - the potentially damaging molecules linked to disease.
Green tea is rich in these and is said to have a wide range of health benefits, including fighting cancer.
Although previous studies have suggested it may reduce the risk of conditions runescape accounts such as glaucoma, new research confirms the eyes can actually absorb antioxidants from the blood.
In the study, Chinese scientists measured levels in the eye tissue of rats fed green tea.
They found the retina, the area at the back of the eye where images are formed, soaked up the most - while the cornea, the clear outer layer rs gold of the eye, absorbed the least.
Previous smaller studies have shown that the sugar - known as Xylitol - may block the growth of the bacteria. One study showed a 30 per cent reduction in acute attacks.
Otitis media often begins when bacterial infections that cause sore throats, colds or other respiratory problems spread to the middle ear.
Some 75 per cent of children experience at least one episode of otitis media by their third birthday, and about half of them will have three or more ear infections during that time.
In the trial at the Children's Hospital, Boston, the sugar, in the form of a syrup, is being given three times daily for 12 weeks.
Drinking green tea may improve the health of your eyes.
Laboratory tests showed antioxidants runescape gold found in the drink can be absorbed deep inside the eye, helping to protect it against disease.
Antioxidants are natural chemicals that neutralise free radicals - the potentially damaging molecules linked to disease.
Green tea is rich in these and is said to have a wide range of health benefits, including fighting cancer.
Although previous studies have suggested it may reduce the risk of conditions runescape accounts such as glaucoma, new research confirms the eyes can actually absorb antioxidants from the blood.
In the study, Chinese scientists measured levels in the eye tissue of rats fed green tea.
They found the retina, the area at the back of the eye where images are formed, soaked up the most - while the cornea, the clear outer layer rs gold of the eye, absorbed the least.
2010年3月28日星期日
NY Times staffer's book details dark family secrets
In April 2007New York Times metro news runescape money assistant Jennifer Mascia penned a "Modern Love" essay for the paper's Sunday Styles section titled, "Never Tell Our Business to Strangers." Her story, which detailed her strange but love-filled childhood later followed by the adulthood discovery of her father's murderous past, remains one of the most popular "Modern Love" columns ever published by the paper. Soon after it ran, a book deal materialized and now Mascia's book, which bears the same title as her 2007 essay, went on sale last runescape accounts week. She graciously took some time recently to answer a few questions about her book for Yahoo! News.
Yahoo: Your story is, let's be honest, rather dark, so I could imagine how many people might prefer to keep such things locked away in a closet and not talk so openly about them. With that said, what motivated you to first tell the story of your family's history in the Times, and what, if anything, gave you the most pause?
Jennifer Mascia: It was a deadly boring Sunday night shift on the Metro desk in January of 2007 and I was killing time by reading the complete archive of Modern Love columns. After about 10 or 15 pieces, I realized I also had a story to tell, and the words began pouring out - 2,500 of them. I wrote about how my father had died when I was 23, and how I'd just lost my mother, making me an orphan (albeit at 28). I wrote about how much these losses had pained me, as I was an only child and the three of us had been unusually close. This closeness, I theorized, had begun when the FBI arrested my father when I was 5, when we were living in Southern California. He was returned to us five months later, and I'd always wanted to know what he'd done, but whenever I asked my mother she'd become rather evasive and serve up partial-truths. In 2000, the Internet was expanding, and I searched the New York State Department of Corrections web site in search of my father's inmate record. I discovered that he'd been incarcerated for a dozen years before I was born -- for murder. My stomach dropped through the floor. At this point, my father was a year away from dying of lung cancer, and I didn't want to upset him. So I confronted my mother, and she was forced to admit that the reason he was arrested when I was 5 was because he'd broken his parole by selling cocaine. Faced with the runescape gold prospect of a long prison stay, he ran away, first settling in Houston, then California. Because we'd crossed state lines, the FBI was after us. They found us, even though we'd adopted fake names and social security numbers. No wonder we'd been so close -- we'd been fugitives.
I thought that was the end of the story, but right before my mother died, in January of 2006, she told me from her hospital bed that my father had actually killed half a dozen people right before we went on the lam, a by-product of his drug-dealing career. "It was part of his business," she rationalized. "Nothing more."
After she died, I was burdened with her secret, which she'd kept from everyone else in her life. How she hid something like that for two decades, I'll never know, but I did know that I couldn't do the same. So I wrote about it. But it was more than that: I was suddenly faced with the fact that I was the only one left to tell our story, and the thought haunted me. Flawed as they were, I couldn't live with the prospect that I would be the only one who remembered my parents, who, despite their flaws had been loving, and witty, and my best friends. They were my soul mates, and having their memory just fade into the ether was a not something I could live with, so I wrote the book. I suppose it was a way to keep rs gold them with me longer, to keep them alive.
What gave me the most pause was writing about my father's former cohorts. I was scared, I'll admit, that one or more of them would come after me. After all, his "career" brought him into contact with made men, and they detest rats. And judging by the title of my book, I was the biggest rat of them all.
Yahoo: Well I have to ask...I'm assuming that you haven't heard from any of your father's former cohorts up to this point, so are you worried at all that the book might bring more attention to your talking publicly about your Dad's crimes than the Modern Love column did?
Jennifer Mascia: My mother told me the circumstances of only one of the unsolved murders my father committed in the late 1970s in Florida before we went on the lam, and as I was writing the book, friends and relatives (and my editor) expressed concern that the murder victim's son and ex-wife might come after me. Maybe not with knives or guns, but with a piece of their mind. But no one has come after me -- yet. I am sure people will come out of the woodwork, and not all of it will be pretty.
Yahoo: So the title of your book, "Never Tell Our Business to Strangers," I'm guessing these were words that your family drilled into your head as child, apparently for good reason?
Jennifer Mascia: I was told from a very early age that I was never to tell our business to anyone outside the family, as they're not my blood. Now I know where this comes from -- we were fugitives from 1978 to 1983, and our very survival depended on our silence -- but that mentality persevered even after that. When I was seven I let slip to a friend that my father had been arrested in front of my eyes but I didn't know why, and I told my mother what I had done. She scolded me, told me never to do that again, and demanded I tell my friend that my father had gone to jail because he'd gotten a speeding ticket. Three strikes, I guess? I wasn't old enough to question the lies she was feeding me, but now I think, what was she supposed to tell a child?
Yahoo: Well then I have to assume that being able to tell your story after your mom and dad both died had to be quite therapeutic, right? Just to be able to sit down and let it all spill out onto the page had to be a bit of a soul-purging?
Jennifer Mascia: It's funny -- when they were alive it was understood that this was the one subject we never, ever broached. In fact, aion gold I had buried it so deeply that whenever I'd raise the topic with my mom -- every five years or so -- it surprised us both. It just lived so far beneath the surface that I didn't even realize how badly I wanted the answers. As I got older I had come to believe that I would never get to the bottom of this, the greatest mystery of my life, and for several years I accepted that.
The most therapeutic part of the whole process was not just remembering our history and recording it for posterity, though that was very empowering. It was the uncovering of my father's criminal record, FBI record, court testimony, letters my parents wrote back and forth that were never meant for my eyes, interviews with relatives and family friends who, now that my parents had passed, finally felt comfortable to betray their secrets. To hear my mother admit the truth about our lives was eye-opening, but to see it in print accords it a legitimacy that can't be refuted. Before that, I could pretend that my mother had told me a fairy tale, but reading about my parents' past from multiple sources outside the family made it real.
Yahoo: One of the things that struck me about your story is that it reads like the plot of something out of Hollywood? Is there a deal in the works for the movie rights, and who's on your aion kina short list of actresses you'd like to see play you in the movie? (Jamie Lynn Sigler seems like the obvious choice to me!)
Jennifer Mascia: As I got deeper into my twenties, and I began telling this story to my closest friends, each one of them had the same reaction: "This should be a movie." Now that I've written the book, the first question I get asked is, "Who is going to play you in the movie?"
I understand the cinematic qualities of the book, specifically that surprises tend to lurk around every corner, and just when you think it can't get any worse, it does -- someone gets arrested, or goes to rehab, or dies. I wouldn't mind selling the film rights, but I am aware that if I do that, the story belongs to someone else. In film form, it must exist on its own, and can't be a carbon copy of the book. And I am OK with that -- I already wrote my version, and I'm content with my control of the story ending there.
In terms of an actress to play me, it would have to be someone in her twenties, because that's when I discovered the bulk of this information, and when both my parents died. A friend told me several years ago that Anne Hathaway and I share a strong resemblance, and she was excellent in "Rachel's Getting Married." Can Carey Mulligan master an American accent? She was terrific in "An Education." And I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a huge "Gossip Girl" fan, and in my opinion, the best actors on the show are Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester. And I know Leighton has a history similar to mine -- both of her parents did time for selling marijuana when she was an infant -- and I think aion kinah she's be fabulous in this type of role. Plus, she's the perfect age.
Yahoo: Your story is, let's be honest, rather dark, so I could imagine how many people might prefer to keep such things locked away in a closet and not talk so openly about them. With that said, what motivated you to first tell the story of your family's history in the Times, and what, if anything, gave you the most pause?
Jennifer Mascia: It was a deadly boring Sunday night shift on the Metro desk in January of 2007 and I was killing time by reading the complete archive of Modern Love columns. After about 10 or 15 pieces, I realized I also had a story to tell, and the words began pouring out - 2,500 of them. I wrote about how my father had died when I was 23, and how I'd just lost my mother, making me an orphan (albeit at 28). I wrote about how much these losses had pained me, as I was an only child and the three of us had been unusually close. This closeness, I theorized, had begun when the FBI arrested my father when I was 5, when we were living in Southern California. He was returned to us five months later, and I'd always wanted to know what he'd done, but whenever I asked my mother she'd become rather evasive and serve up partial-truths. In 2000, the Internet was expanding, and I searched the New York State Department of Corrections web site in search of my father's inmate record. I discovered that he'd been incarcerated for a dozen years before I was born -- for murder. My stomach dropped through the floor. At this point, my father was a year away from dying of lung cancer, and I didn't want to upset him. So I confronted my mother, and she was forced to admit that the reason he was arrested when I was 5 was because he'd broken his parole by selling cocaine. Faced with the runescape gold prospect of a long prison stay, he ran away, first settling in Houston, then California. Because we'd crossed state lines, the FBI was after us. They found us, even though we'd adopted fake names and social security numbers. No wonder we'd been so close -- we'd been fugitives.
I thought that was the end of the story, but right before my mother died, in January of 2006, she told me from her hospital bed that my father had actually killed half a dozen people right before we went on the lam, a by-product of his drug-dealing career. "It was part of his business," she rationalized. "Nothing more."
After she died, I was burdened with her secret, which she'd kept from everyone else in her life. How she hid something like that for two decades, I'll never know, but I did know that I couldn't do the same. So I wrote about it. But it was more than that: I was suddenly faced with the fact that I was the only one left to tell our story, and the thought haunted me. Flawed as they were, I couldn't live with the prospect that I would be the only one who remembered my parents, who, despite their flaws had been loving, and witty, and my best friends. They were my soul mates, and having their memory just fade into the ether was a not something I could live with, so I wrote the book. I suppose it was a way to keep rs gold them with me longer, to keep them alive.
What gave me the most pause was writing about my father's former cohorts. I was scared, I'll admit, that one or more of them would come after me. After all, his "career" brought him into contact with made men, and they detest rats. And judging by the title of my book, I was the biggest rat of them all.
Yahoo: Well I have to ask...I'm assuming that you haven't heard from any of your father's former cohorts up to this point, so are you worried at all that the book might bring more attention to your talking publicly about your Dad's crimes than the Modern Love column did?
Jennifer Mascia: My mother told me the circumstances of only one of the unsolved murders my father committed in the late 1970s in Florida before we went on the lam, and as I was writing the book, friends and relatives (and my editor) expressed concern that the murder victim's son and ex-wife might come after me. Maybe not with knives or guns, but with a piece of their mind. But no one has come after me -- yet. I am sure people will come out of the woodwork, and not all of it will be pretty.
Yahoo: So the title of your book, "Never Tell Our Business to Strangers," I'm guessing these were words that your family drilled into your head as child, apparently for good reason?
Jennifer Mascia: I was told from a very early age that I was never to tell our business to anyone outside the family, as they're not my blood. Now I know where this comes from -- we were fugitives from 1978 to 1983, and our very survival depended on our silence -- but that mentality persevered even after that. When I was seven I let slip to a friend that my father had been arrested in front of my eyes but I didn't know why, and I told my mother what I had done. She scolded me, told me never to do that again, and demanded I tell my friend that my father had gone to jail because he'd gotten a speeding ticket. Three strikes, I guess? I wasn't old enough to question the lies she was feeding me, but now I think, what was she supposed to tell a child?
Yahoo: Well then I have to assume that being able to tell your story after your mom and dad both died had to be quite therapeutic, right? Just to be able to sit down and let it all spill out onto the page had to be a bit of a soul-purging?
Jennifer Mascia: It's funny -- when they were alive it was understood that this was the one subject we never, ever broached. In fact, aion gold I had buried it so deeply that whenever I'd raise the topic with my mom -- every five years or so -- it surprised us both. It just lived so far beneath the surface that I didn't even realize how badly I wanted the answers. As I got older I had come to believe that I would never get to the bottom of this, the greatest mystery of my life, and for several years I accepted that.
The most therapeutic part of the whole process was not just remembering our history and recording it for posterity, though that was very empowering. It was the uncovering of my father's criminal record, FBI record, court testimony, letters my parents wrote back and forth that were never meant for my eyes, interviews with relatives and family friends who, now that my parents had passed, finally felt comfortable to betray their secrets. To hear my mother admit the truth about our lives was eye-opening, but to see it in print accords it a legitimacy that can't be refuted. Before that, I could pretend that my mother had told me a fairy tale, but reading about my parents' past from multiple sources outside the family made it real.
Yahoo: One of the things that struck me about your story is that it reads like the plot of something out of Hollywood? Is there a deal in the works for the movie rights, and who's on your aion kina short list of actresses you'd like to see play you in the movie? (Jamie Lynn Sigler seems like the obvious choice to me!)
Jennifer Mascia: As I got deeper into my twenties, and I began telling this story to my closest friends, each one of them had the same reaction: "This should be a movie." Now that I've written the book, the first question I get asked is, "Who is going to play you in the movie?"
I understand the cinematic qualities of the book, specifically that surprises tend to lurk around every corner, and just when you think it can't get any worse, it does -- someone gets arrested, or goes to rehab, or dies. I wouldn't mind selling the film rights, but I am aware that if I do that, the story belongs to someone else. In film form, it must exist on its own, and can't be a carbon copy of the book. And I am OK with that -- I already wrote my version, and I'm content with my control of the story ending there.
In terms of an actress to play me, it would have to be someone in her twenties, because that's when I discovered the bulk of this information, and when both my parents died. A friend told me several years ago that Anne Hathaway and I share a strong resemblance, and she was excellent in "Rachel's Getting Married." Can Carey Mulligan master an American accent? She was terrific in "An Education." And I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a huge "Gossip Girl" fan, and in my opinion, the best actors on the show are Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester. And I know Leighton has a history similar to mine -- both of her parents did time for selling marijuana when she was an infant -- and I think aion kinah she's be fabulous in this type of role. Plus, she's the perfect age.
2010年3月26日星期五
12 Job Interview Questions & What They Really Mean
The interview is a classic point of stress runescape money for most job seekers, and with good cause. Many firms like asking indirect questions that make it hard to judge what information they're really fishing looking for. Of course, interviewers don't want anyone to know the motivation behind their method of questioning, or else potential job candidates could easily game the system. For this reason, most firms ask slightly different questions and have their own method of interviewing. Today, we explore twelve common indirect questions that employers often ask and the motivation behind them.
“How long have you been looking for a new job?”
A big sign that something is amiss with a potential hire in a normal economic climate is how long he or she has been searching for a job. What potential employers really need to determine is whether there is something wrong with the candidate that other potential employers have picked up on already. Of course, asking the candidate such a thing will not yield an honest answer, so instead, employers ask how long the candidate has been looking for a job. They can interpret the candidate’s response and try to gauge how likely it is that other interviewers have picked up runescape accounts on some glaring disqualifier that they have not yet discovered.
“How did you prepare for this interview?”
The more passionate an employee is about a particular organization, the more likely it is that he or she will strive to exceed expectations if they are hired. A good candidate will have read up on the firm, researched the products and services they offer, read a bit about the executives who work there, etc. A bad candidate takes the shotgun at the wall approach. This latter candidate takes walks into any old office building, hoping to get through the interview on personality alone. One way companies separate the two is to ask an indirect question regarding how they prepared for the interview. The candidate who mentions reading up on the organization and demonstrates a working knowledge of the firm’s strengths, services and management team is enthusiastic about working for that company and will likely strive to be the best they can be if selected.
"What are your salary requirements for this position?”
No matter how stellar a candidate might be, budgetary capacity often limits who companies can afford to hire. The firm might only have room for a $60,000 annual salary for the position runescape gold and anyone requiring more than that is out of luck. Beyond a certain point, more qualifications and experience cannot equal a higher salary. This is why it is important to the company to determine if they can afford to hire new applicants. They might also try to determine if they can the right person for less than is budgeted for that position, because money saved equals a bigger bottom line. Of course, no interviewer will ever tell the candidate “we can afford to pay you up to $60,000, but we’d like to hear you say you’ll do it for less.” Instead, companies will frequently ask the person what their salary requirements are. The number they name will be important when they review the interview results of multiple applicants and make the final hiring decision.
“What kinds of people do you have difficulties working with?”
In today’s expanding global economy, it is almost unavoidable that any new hire will be working in some capacity with people from a wide range of ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. The last thing companies want to find out is that their new employee is a bigot and treats people differently because of their background. Not only will this cause problems in-house, it can also destroy the firm’s credibility and reputation, depending on how high-up a position he or she is assuming. However, it isn’t politically correct or at all professional to ask someone if they have a problem with specific groups of people, and even if an interviewer did, the candidate would likely deny it. Instead, many firms try an indirect way of asking the same thing, for example: “What kinds of people do you have difficulties working with?” By asking this question, the interviewer is subconsciously communicating that the candidate must have a problem working with some kinds of people. This method can be very effective in subtly revealing inner prejudices the potential hire might possess. In contrast, a good candidate will likely name some neutral group of people, like “dishonest employees,” or “perpetual slackers.”
"When have you been most satisfied in your career?"
Much like individual people, every company has its own “personality,” per se. This means that every new working environment has its own perks and bottlenecks, its own energy, its own level of employee-employee interaction, etc. Certain companies offer their employees more creative leeway while others demand strict adherence to guidelines. Every one of these factors (and many more) will directly effect a new hire’s motivation. Various people thrive under many different circumstances, and the job of the interviewer is to try to select the person whose personality best fits their firm’s unique environment. The problem is that people in interviews like to smile and nod along whenever the interviewer starts talking at length about the perks of their working environment, making it almost impossible to read what the candidate is really thinking. Instead, many companies have taken to asking something like, “When have you been most satisfied in your career?” This question will get the potential hire talking about the elements of their last few positions and will likely highlight aspects of those jobs that they felt happiest working under. From this, firms can determine if the person would fit in well with their atmosphere.
“What is your greatest weakness?”
Perhaps one of the most important tasks of the interviewer is to find a person with a level head on their shoulders. No company wants the narcissistic, fresh-out-of-grad-school candidate who thinks that they’re an infallible compendium of industry knowledge any firm would be lucky to acquire. These kinds of people hurt companies far more often than they help them because they refuse to acknowledge their weaknesses or consider the idea that they might need further training in certain areas. Rather, companies strive to find confident and qualified employees who can be honest with themselves about their shortcomings. These employees are likely to be flexible, honest and are less likely to try and pass blame around the cubicles when they make a mistake. In order rs gold to get a grasp on how realistic a candidate is, employers like to ask people about what they feel their biggest weakness is. This question will demonstrate whether or not a candidate can be honest in accepting that which they need to work on. (In contrast, a haughty candidate might spin off the tired response of “My biggest flaw is that I work too much.”)
“Where do you see yourself five years from now?”
A big problem in the corporate world is employees using firms as rungs up the corporate latter. Especially in today’s economy, the last thing a company wants is to allocate salary, benefits and human capital into acquiring a new manager only to have them jump ship to a competitor a year or two later. Sometimes this isn’t even the employees fault. One cannot reasonably expect a person to stunt their own professional life for the sake of a few headaches. Nonetheless, companies will try and gauge the likelihood of that happening by asking an indirect question such as “Where do you see yourself five years from now?” Responses to this question can be good indicators of how stable and loyal the potential employee is likely to be. A response like “I want to lead a large team at a marketing firm somewhere” is indicative of a mercenary attitude to the corporate world. In contrast, someone who says something like “At the moment I plan on growing my roots here in this company and rising from within to be the best marketer I can for XYZ Firm” demonstrates far more loyalty.
“What are some of your hobbies?”
Employers must be careful not to cross the line into asking too specific questions about a person’s personal life. Professionally speaking, your personal life needn’t impact your working life. However, in reality we all know that it does. For this reason, employers often look for indicators of stability and healthy hobbies in a person’s home life. The idea is that a person with a healthy and enjoyable life outside the office is likely to carry some of that positive energy into work with them. Workaholics and, at the other end of the spectrum, party animals, are not likely to be very friendly, emotionally stable people. Without probing too far, some interviewers will ask questions such as “What are some of your aion power leveling hobbies.” Answers to this question can help reveal a little bit about the potential hire’s lifestyle and serve as good indicators of roughly how they will carry themselves day to day.
“What were you hoping we'd ask today, but didn't?”
No interviewer can possibly ask all the right questions to highlight every one of the candidate’s strengths and accomplishments. At the same time, candidates are often somewhat nervous on the other side of the desk and might not freely offer up information pertaining to aspects of their personal or professional life that they are not asked for. Nonetheless, this information may positively or negatively sway the interviewer’s opinion of the candidate and it is thus necessary to prompt the potential hire to speak about it. Therefore, many firms now ask the open-ended question, “What were you hoping we’d ask you today, but didn’t?” This question gives the candidate a chance to touch on anything he feels is important to the interview and the employer a chance to hear the candidate speak on his own behalf.
“What do you think of your old boss?”
No employer wants to be maligned to other companies or to the public. Many ex- employees hold very sour opinions of their former bosses. Justified or not, this is not the kind of thing companies want people spreading around. Especially if it appears that a candidate was fired from their last position, an employer might ask about their opinion of their old boss. Of course, very few candidates will go on a tirade about the injustices they suffered at their old job during the interview, but even subtle hints of distain can be picked up on by the interviewer. This question gives the firm an indicator of how they may be spoke of to other firms this person interviews at in the future, should they need to fire him.
"If you had enough buy aion gold money to retire right now, would you?"
Many companies survive not on great ideas alone, but by the tireless work ethic and dedication of their teams. It is therefore of great importance for a firm to find people who are passionate about their work and who have a drive to get the job done regardless of reward. Of course, money is extremely important in our society, but the last thing a firm wants is a bump on a log who just wants to do the bare minimum and suck up his salary until he can retire. Questions such as, "If you had enough money to retire right now, would you?" reveal a candidate's level of passion about their field. Someone who quickly shouts "Yes of course!" without much thought is seen as being in it primarily for money. These are not the kinds of people most firms want to see in their inner circle.
If you were hiring a person for this job, what would you look for?
Questions about another person can only reveal so much about about them. Something companies really want to know is what the candidate thinks are the qualities of a good employee for that position. The idea is that if the candidate has a misconstrued concept of the roles he or she will be expected to play at that firm, they might not be the right person for the job. It is much easier to hire a person with notions of the job that are congruent with company expectations than to try to change a candidates entire idea of what's important in that position. To determine this, interviewers will often ask the question "If you were hiring a person for this job, what would you look for?" This allows the candidate to give his concept of what a good manager is. His or her answer is a great indicator of how he or runescape money she will behave if hired.
“How long have you been looking for a new job?”
A big sign that something is amiss with a potential hire in a normal economic climate is how long he or she has been searching for a job. What potential employers really need to determine is whether there is something wrong with the candidate that other potential employers have picked up on already. Of course, asking the candidate such a thing will not yield an honest answer, so instead, employers ask how long the candidate has been looking for a job. They can interpret the candidate’s response and try to gauge how likely it is that other interviewers have picked up runescape accounts on some glaring disqualifier that they have not yet discovered.
“How did you prepare for this interview?”
The more passionate an employee is about a particular organization, the more likely it is that he or she will strive to exceed expectations if they are hired. A good candidate will have read up on the firm, researched the products and services they offer, read a bit about the executives who work there, etc. A bad candidate takes the shotgun at the wall approach. This latter candidate takes walks into any old office building, hoping to get through the interview on personality alone. One way companies separate the two is to ask an indirect question regarding how they prepared for the interview. The candidate who mentions reading up on the organization and demonstrates a working knowledge of the firm’s strengths, services and management team is enthusiastic about working for that company and will likely strive to be the best they can be if selected.
"What are your salary requirements for this position?”
No matter how stellar a candidate might be, budgetary capacity often limits who companies can afford to hire. The firm might only have room for a $60,000 annual salary for the position runescape gold and anyone requiring more than that is out of luck. Beyond a certain point, more qualifications and experience cannot equal a higher salary. This is why it is important to the company to determine if they can afford to hire new applicants. They might also try to determine if they can the right person for less than is budgeted for that position, because money saved equals a bigger bottom line. Of course, no interviewer will ever tell the candidate “we can afford to pay you up to $60,000, but we’d like to hear you say you’ll do it for less.” Instead, companies will frequently ask the person what their salary requirements are. The number they name will be important when they review the interview results of multiple applicants and make the final hiring decision.
“What kinds of people do you have difficulties working with?”
In today’s expanding global economy, it is almost unavoidable that any new hire will be working in some capacity with people from a wide range of ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. The last thing companies want to find out is that their new employee is a bigot and treats people differently because of their background. Not only will this cause problems in-house, it can also destroy the firm’s credibility and reputation, depending on how high-up a position he or she is assuming. However, it isn’t politically correct or at all professional to ask someone if they have a problem with specific groups of people, and even if an interviewer did, the candidate would likely deny it. Instead, many firms try an indirect way of asking the same thing, for example: “What kinds of people do you have difficulties working with?” By asking this question, the interviewer is subconsciously communicating that the candidate must have a problem working with some kinds of people. This method can be very effective in subtly revealing inner prejudices the potential hire might possess. In contrast, a good candidate will likely name some neutral group of people, like “dishonest employees,” or “perpetual slackers.”
"When have you been most satisfied in your career?"
Much like individual people, every company has its own “personality,” per se. This means that every new working environment has its own perks and bottlenecks, its own energy, its own level of employee-employee interaction, etc. Certain companies offer their employees more creative leeway while others demand strict adherence to guidelines. Every one of these factors (and many more) will directly effect a new hire’s motivation. Various people thrive under many different circumstances, and the job of the interviewer is to try to select the person whose personality best fits their firm’s unique environment. The problem is that people in interviews like to smile and nod along whenever the interviewer starts talking at length about the perks of their working environment, making it almost impossible to read what the candidate is really thinking. Instead, many companies have taken to asking something like, “When have you been most satisfied in your career?” This question will get the potential hire talking about the elements of their last few positions and will likely highlight aspects of those jobs that they felt happiest working under. From this, firms can determine if the person would fit in well with their atmosphere.
“What is your greatest weakness?”
Perhaps one of the most important tasks of the interviewer is to find a person with a level head on their shoulders. No company wants the narcissistic, fresh-out-of-grad-school candidate who thinks that they’re an infallible compendium of industry knowledge any firm would be lucky to acquire. These kinds of people hurt companies far more often than they help them because they refuse to acknowledge their weaknesses or consider the idea that they might need further training in certain areas. Rather, companies strive to find confident and qualified employees who can be honest with themselves about their shortcomings. These employees are likely to be flexible, honest and are less likely to try and pass blame around the cubicles when they make a mistake. In order rs gold to get a grasp on how realistic a candidate is, employers like to ask people about what they feel their biggest weakness is. This question will demonstrate whether or not a candidate can be honest in accepting that which they need to work on. (In contrast, a haughty candidate might spin off the tired response of “My biggest flaw is that I work too much.”)
“Where do you see yourself five years from now?”
A big problem in the corporate world is employees using firms as rungs up the corporate latter. Especially in today’s economy, the last thing a company wants is to allocate salary, benefits and human capital into acquiring a new manager only to have them jump ship to a competitor a year or two later. Sometimes this isn’t even the employees fault. One cannot reasonably expect a person to stunt their own professional life for the sake of a few headaches. Nonetheless, companies will try and gauge the likelihood of that happening by asking an indirect question such as “Where do you see yourself five years from now?” Responses to this question can be good indicators of how stable and loyal the potential employee is likely to be. A response like “I want to lead a large team at a marketing firm somewhere” is indicative of a mercenary attitude to the corporate world. In contrast, someone who says something like “At the moment I plan on growing my roots here in this company and rising from within to be the best marketer I can for XYZ Firm” demonstrates far more loyalty.
“What are some of your hobbies?”
Employers must be careful not to cross the line into asking too specific questions about a person’s personal life. Professionally speaking, your personal life needn’t impact your working life. However, in reality we all know that it does. For this reason, employers often look for indicators of stability and healthy hobbies in a person’s home life. The idea is that a person with a healthy and enjoyable life outside the office is likely to carry some of that positive energy into work with them. Workaholics and, at the other end of the spectrum, party animals, are not likely to be very friendly, emotionally stable people. Without probing too far, some interviewers will ask questions such as “What are some of your aion power leveling hobbies.” Answers to this question can help reveal a little bit about the potential hire’s lifestyle and serve as good indicators of roughly how they will carry themselves day to day.
“What were you hoping we'd ask today, but didn't?”
No interviewer can possibly ask all the right questions to highlight every one of the candidate’s strengths and accomplishments. At the same time, candidates are often somewhat nervous on the other side of the desk and might not freely offer up information pertaining to aspects of their personal or professional life that they are not asked for. Nonetheless, this information may positively or negatively sway the interviewer’s opinion of the candidate and it is thus necessary to prompt the potential hire to speak about it. Therefore, many firms now ask the open-ended question, “What were you hoping we’d ask you today, but didn’t?” This question gives the candidate a chance to touch on anything he feels is important to the interview and the employer a chance to hear the candidate speak on his own behalf.
“What do you think of your old boss?”
No employer wants to be maligned to other companies or to the public. Many ex- employees hold very sour opinions of their former bosses. Justified or not, this is not the kind of thing companies want people spreading around. Especially if it appears that a candidate was fired from their last position, an employer might ask about their opinion of their old boss. Of course, very few candidates will go on a tirade about the injustices they suffered at their old job during the interview, but even subtle hints of distain can be picked up on by the interviewer. This question gives the firm an indicator of how they may be spoke of to other firms this person interviews at in the future, should they need to fire him.
"If you had enough buy aion gold money to retire right now, would you?"
Many companies survive not on great ideas alone, but by the tireless work ethic and dedication of their teams. It is therefore of great importance for a firm to find people who are passionate about their work and who have a drive to get the job done regardless of reward. Of course, money is extremely important in our society, but the last thing a firm wants is a bump on a log who just wants to do the bare minimum and suck up his salary until he can retire. Questions such as, "If you had enough money to retire right now, would you?" reveal a candidate's level of passion about their field. Someone who quickly shouts "Yes of course!" without much thought is seen as being in it primarily for money. These are not the kinds of people most firms want to see in their inner circle.
If you were hiring a person for this job, what would you look for?
Questions about another person can only reveal so much about about them. Something companies really want to know is what the candidate thinks are the qualities of a good employee for that position. The idea is that if the candidate has a misconstrued concept of the roles he or she will be expected to play at that firm, they might not be the right person for the job. It is much easier to hire a person with notions of the job that are congruent with company expectations than to try to change a candidates entire idea of what's important in that position. To determine this, interviewers will often ask the question "If you were hiring a person for this job, what would you look for?" This allows the candidate to give his concept of what a good manager is. His or her answer is a great indicator of how he or runescape money she will behave if hired.
2010年3月25日星期四
Survey shows office workers seeking out luxury goods
As a sign of growing affluence following the economic runescape money crisis, a survey by MSN China showed luxury products are regular purchases among a third of the white-collar workers it surveyed in Beijing.
The research conducted by IResearch Consulting Group among 17,644 respondents from Dec 29 to Feb 5, showed 60 percent of them are defined as white-collar workers, aged between 20 to 40 and with an average income of more than 3,000 yuan ($439.4) in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
The MSN China survey runescape accounts showed more than 30 percent of the surveyed white-collar workers in the capital buy premium-brand cosmetics and 20 percent own at least one Louis Vuitton bag.
Liu Shu, chief editor and executive producer of MSN China Portal, said 38 percent of Beijingers are regular customers of luxury products, higher than 37.3 percent in Shanghai and 33 percent in Guangzhou.
She revealed that almost 63 percent of Beijing white-collar workers buy luxury cosmetics, 48 percent purchase luxury bags, 45 percent wear luxury watches, and runescape gold 40 percent have premium-brand clothing.
Fu Lei, a 26-year-old woman working in Beijing and earning more than 10,000 yuan per month, recently went on a shopping trip to Hong Kong to buy cosmetics.
"I go to Hong Kong to buy cosmetics almost every year, because they are cheaper there," said Fu.
The survey also showed that large numbers of people now regard luxurious products as a sign of lifestyle quality.
In Beijing, 44.6 percent of white-collars surveyed agreed with the concept, slightly more than 44 percent surveyed in Shanghai.
"I still remember my first LV bag. In 2008 I bought a red LV purse to bring me good luck," said a 28-year-old woman surnamed Wang.
Wang said she has several LV and Gucci bags but no longer buys them because they are too common.
According to the Hurun China Rich List, compiled by British Rupert Hoogewerf, Beijing is home to 143,000 people with wealth of rs gold more than 10 million yuan and 8,800 people with more than 100 million, the highest in the Chinese mainland.
The research conducted by IResearch Consulting Group among 17,644 respondents from Dec 29 to Feb 5, showed 60 percent of them are defined as white-collar workers, aged between 20 to 40 and with an average income of more than 3,000 yuan ($439.4) in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
The MSN China survey runescape accounts showed more than 30 percent of the surveyed white-collar workers in the capital buy premium-brand cosmetics and 20 percent own at least one Louis Vuitton bag.
Liu Shu, chief editor and executive producer of MSN China Portal, said 38 percent of Beijingers are regular customers of luxury products, higher than 37.3 percent in Shanghai and 33 percent in Guangzhou.
She revealed that almost 63 percent of Beijing white-collar workers buy luxury cosmetics, 48 percent purchase luxury bags, 45 percent wear luxury watches, and runescape gold 40 percent have premium-brand clothing.
Fu Lei, a 26-year-old woman working in Beijing and earning more than 10,000 yuan per month, recently went on a shopping trip to Hong Kong to buy cosmetics.
"I go to Hong Kong to buy cosmetics almost every year, because they are cheaper there," said Fu.
The survey also showed that large numbers of people now regard luxurious products as a sign of lifestyle quality.
In Beijing, 44.6 percent of white-collars surveyed agreed with the concept, slightly more than 44 percent surveyed in Shanghai.
"I still remember my first LV bag. In 2008 I bought a red LV purse to bring me good luck," said a 28-year-old woman surnamed Wang.
Wang said she has several LV and Gucci bags but no longer buys them because they are too common.
According to the Hurun China Rich List, compiled by British Rupert Hoogewerf, Beijing is home to 143,000 people with wealth of rs gold more than 10 million yuan and 8,800 people with more than 100 million, the highest in the Chinese mainland.
2010年2月27日星期六
Liverpool survive scare as Roma crash in Europa League
PARIS – Liverpool survived a big scare against Romanian underdogs Unirea Urziceni on Thursday night before securing a 3-1 victory that takes aion kinah them into the Europa League round of 16.
Serie A giants Roma, however, crashed out of the competition after losing 3-2 at home to Greek side Panathinaikos, while defending champions Shakhtar Donetsk were eliminated by English Premier League side Fulham.
Fulham will play Juventus in the next round after the Turin side drew 0-0 in a drab game at home to Ajax to see out a 2-1 aggregate success.
German champions Wolfsburg thrashed Villarreal 4-1 for an aggregate 6-3 win, while Valencia needed two extra-time goals from Spain midfielder Pablo Hernandez to achieve a 3-1 victory against Belgian side Club Brugge.
Liverpool led 1-0 on aggregate following a tense first leg at Anfield and fell behind on the night to a 19th-minute header from Joao Bruno Fernandes, before goals from Javier Mascherano, Ryan Babel and Steven Gerrard took them through.
"I think it was a difficult game and the pitch was terrible so we knew it could be tough and very demanding for the players," said Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez, who also revealed that centre-back Martin Skrtel had sustained a suspected broken toe.
"We conceded a goal and we then had to be calm and just keep playing our game."
Liverpool, five-time European champions, will aion gold face French side Lille in the next round, after their defender Adil Rami glanced in an 85th-minute free-kick to secure a 3-2 aggregate victory at Turkish heavyweights Fenerbahce.
Roma had seen a 20-match unbeaten run come to an end when they lost 3-2 at Panathinaikos in the first leg in Athens but they drew level in the 11th minute at the Stadio Olimpico thanks to a free-kick by John Arne Riise.
The visitors took control of the tie in a dazzling six-minute spell prior to the break, with Djibril Cisse -- the match-winner in the first leg -- scoring twice, either side of a fine effort by Sotiris Ninis.
"We wanted to do our best, the stadium was full but, unfortunately, there were a few minutes of madness, like in Athens," said Roma coach Claudio Ranieri, whose side are currently third in Serie A.
Panathinaikos will now play Belgian champions Standard Liege, who beat Red Bull Salzburg 3-2 on aggregate.
Fulham produced perhaps the shock of the evening after securing a hard-fought 1-1 drawaion money at Shakhtar, winners of the last ever UEFA Cup last season.
Brede Hangeland secured a crucial away goal for Roy Hodgson's team in the 33rd minute, with Rodrigues Jadson replying in vain 21 minutes from time.
"It was a marvellous display and we've eliminated one of the best teams in Europe," said Hodgson.
Everton were unable to join their Premier League colleagues in the last 16, however, as they were beaten 3-0 at Sporting Lisbon after winning the first leg 2-1.
Sporting will face Atletico Madrid in the next round after Quique Sanchez Flores's charges snatched a 3-2 aggregate victory over Galatasaray in Istanbul thanks to a last-minute goal from star striker Diego Forlan.
Elsewhere, Hamburg went through on away goals despite losing 3-2 at PSV Eindhoven in a game in which both sides finished with 10 men, Anderlecht thrashed Athletic Bilbao 4-0 to progress 5-1 on aggregate and Marseille completed a 6-2 aggregate victory over FC Copenhagen.
"I'm pleased with the result," said Marseille coach Didier Deschamps.
"It was a good evening, with no injuries, and we were able to keep some players warm on the bench."
Benfica, who defeated Hertha Berlin 4-0 on Tuesday to round off a 5-1 aggregate win, await Marseille in the last 16.
Wolfsburg will meet Russian champions Rubin Kazan, 3-0 aggregate winners over Hapoel Tel Aviv, while Valencia must take on aion kina last season's runners-up Werder Bremen, after striker Claudio Pizarro netted three times in their 4-1 win over FC Twente.
Serie A giants Roma, however, crashed out of the competition after losing 3-2 at home to Greek side Panathinaikos, while defending champions Shakhtar Donetsk were eliminated by English Premier League side Fulham.
Fulham will play Juventus in the next round after the Turin side drew 0-0 in a drab game at home to Ajax to see out a 2-1 aggregate success.
German champions Wolfsburg thrashed Villarreal 4-1 for an aggregate 6-3 win, while Valencia needed two extra-time goals from Spain midfielder Pablo Hernandez to achieve a 3-1 victory against Belgian side Club Brugge.
Liverpool led 1-0 on aggregate following a tense first leg at Anfield and fell behind on the night to a 19th-minute header from Joao Bruno Fernandes, before goals from Javier Mascherano, Ryan Babel and Steven Gerrard took them through.
"I think it was a difficult game and the pitch was terrible so we knew it could be tough and very demanding for the players," said Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez, who also revealed that centre-back Martin Skrtel had sustained a suspected broken toe.
"We conceded a goal and we then had to be calm and just keep playing our game."
Liverpool, five-time European champions, will aion gold face French side Lille in the next round, after their defender Adil Rami glanced in an 85th-minute free-kick to secure a 3-2 aggregate victory at Turkish heavyweights Fenerbahce.
Roma had seen a 20-match unbeaten run come to an end when they lost 3-2 at Panathinaikos in the first leg in Athens but they drew level in the 11th minute at the Stadio Olimpico thanks to a free-kick by John Arne Riise.
The visitors took control of the tie in a dazzling six-minute spell prior to the break, with Djibril Cisse -- the match-winner in the first leg -- scoring twice, either side of a fine effort by Sotiris Ninis.
"We wanted to do our best, the stadium was full but, unfortunately, there were a few minutes of madness, like in Athens," said Roma coach Claudio Ranieri, whose side are currently third in Serie A.
Panathinaikos will now play Belgian champions Standard Liege, who beat Red Bull Salzburg 3-2 on aggregate.
Fulham produced perhaps the shock of the evening after securing a hard-fought 1-1 drawaion money at Shakhtar, winners of the last ever UEFA Cup last season.
Brede Hangeland secured a crucial away goal for Roy Hodgson's team in the 33rd minute, with Rodrigues Jadson replying in vain 21 minutes from time.
"It was a marvellous display and we've eliminated one of the best teams in Europe," said Hodgson.
Everton were unable to join their Premier League colleagues in the last 16, however, as they were beaten 3-0 at Sporting Lisbon after winning the first leg 2-1.
Sporting will face Atletico Madrid in the next round after Quique Sanchez Flores's charges snatched a 3-2 aggregate victory over Galatasaray in Istanbul thanks to a last-minute goal from star striker Diego Forlan.
Elsewhere, Hamburg went through on away goals despite losing 3-2 at PSV Eindhoven in a game in which both sides finished with 10 men, Anderlecht thrashed Athletic Bilbao 4-0 to progress 5-1 on aggregate and Marseille completed a 6-2 aggregate victory over FC Copenhagen.
"I'm pleased with the result," said Marseille coach Didier Deschamps.
"It was a good evening, with no injuries, and we were able to keep some players warm on the bench."
Benfica, who defeated Hertha Berlin 4-0 on Tuesday to round off a 5-1 aggregate win, await Marseille in the last 16.
Wolfsburg will meet Russian champions Rubin Kazan, 3-0 aggregate winners over Hapoel Tel Aviv, while Valencia must take on aion kina last season's runners-up Werder Bremen, after striker Claudio Pizarro netted three times in their 4-1 win over FC Twente.
2010年2月25日星期四
Waves of the life
Sioux Indian story ...
My grandfather took me to the fish pond on the farm when I was about seven, and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me to watch the circles aion gold created by the stone. Then he asked me to think of myself as that stone.
"You may create lots of splashes in your life, but the waves that come from those splashes will disturb the peace of all your fellow creatures," he said.
"Remember that you are responsible for what you put in your circle and that circle will also touch many other circles."
"You will need to live in a way that allows the good that comes from your circle to send the peace of that goodness to others. The splash aion kinah that comes from anger or jealousy will send those feelings to other circles. You are responsible for both."
That was the first time I realized that each person creates the inner peace or discord that flows out into the world. We cannot create world peace if we are riddled with inner conflict, hatred, doubt, or anger.
We radiate the feelings and thoughts that we hold inside, whether we speak them or not. Whatever is splashing around inside of us is spilling out into the world, creating aion kina beauty or discord with all other circles of life.
My grandfather took me to the fish pond on the farm when I was about seven, and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me to watch the circles aion gold created by the stone. Then he asked me to think of myself as that stone.
"You may create lots of splashes in your life, but the waves that come from those splashes will disturb the peace of all your fellow creatures," he said.
"Remember that you are responsible for what you put in your circle and that circle will also touch many other circles."
"You will need to live in a way that allows the good that comes from your circle to send the peace of that goodness to others. The splash aion kinah that comes from anger or jealousy will send those feelings to other circles. You are responsible for both."
That was the first time I realized that each person creates the inner peace or discord that flows out into the world. We cannot create world peace if we are riddled with inner conflict, hatred, doubt, or anger.
We radiate the feelings and thoughts that we hold inside, whether we speak them or not. Whatever is splashing around inside of us is spilling out into the world, creating aion kina beauty or discord with all other circles of life.
2010年2月24日星期三
What I have lived for
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable aion kinah pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this aion gold is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have aion kina found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this aion gold is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have aion kina found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
2010年2月20日星期六
Holds in your life that star
Catch the star that holds your destiny, the one that forever twinkles within your heart. Take advantage of precious opportunities aion gold while they still sparkle before you. Always believe that your ultimate goal is attainable as long as you commit yourself to it.
Though barriers may sometimes stand in the way of your dreams, remember that your destiny is hiding behind them. Accept the fact that not everyone is going to approve of the choices you've made. Have faith in aion kinah your judgment. Catch the star that twinkles in your heart and it will lead you to your destiny's path. Follow that pathway and uncover the sweet sunrises that await you.
Take pride in your accomplishments, as they are stepping stones to your dreams. Understand that you may make mistakes, but don't let them discourage you. Value your capabilities and talents for they are what make you truly unique. The greatest gifts in life are not purchased, but acquired through hard work and determination. Find the star that twinkles in your heart?for you alone are capable of making your brightest dreams come aion kina true. Give your hopes everything you've got and you will catch the star that holds your destiny.
Though barriers may sometimes stand in the way of your dreams, remember that your destiny is hiding behind them. Accept the fact that not everyone is going to approve of the choices you've made. Have faith in aion kinah your judgment. Catch the star that twinkles in your heart and it will lead you to your destiny's path. Follow that pathway and uncover the sweet sunrises that await you.
Take pride in your accomplishments, as they are stepping stones to your dreams. Understand that you may make mistakes, but don't let them discourage you. Value your capabilities and talents for they are what make you truly unique. The greatest gifts in life are not purchased, but acquired through hard work and determination. Find the star that twinkles in your heart?for you alone are capable of making your brightest dreams come aion kina true. Give your hopes everything you've got and you will catch the star that holds your destiny.
2010年2月5日星期五
Integrates the new post necessary rare book fast
Talk it out. When moving from one job to another or transitioning between bosses and departments you can easily get stuck with twice the work. You might be eager to start the new job, but the expert advisessitting down with aion gold the old and new bosses together to reach an agreement about how the transition will be handled. Who will take over your oldrole? What will your new jobsresponsibilities entail? If you’re askedto take on work in addition to what you do now, ask for a priority listand find out who you will report to for the new responsibilities。
Understand the new rules.Just because you arestill in the same company, doesn’t mean you will be playing by the samerules. Take the time to learn how things operate in your new worksituation. Do not say “It’s easy to think, I know the company, and I’vebeen here for 20 years”. It’s really important not to assume that it’sthe same. While you handed in monthly reports and held monthly meetingsin your old job, a new manager may expect you to report your progressweekly or meet more frequently. Be sure to ask about these detailsearly on. And talk to colleagues about the particulars of thedepartmental culture。
Stay open. Reorganization usually leads to angst and fear amongemployees, whether it’s a favorite co-worker whose place you’ll betaking or former peers who now report to you. You’ll be bringingwhatever old baggage you have and dealing with the worries of newcolleagues. Don’t be surprised by push-back from co-workers who may seeyour new role as a threat. Be open with your colleagues about your roleand aion kinah how it fits into the group。
Learn to let go. Consider in advance what mighthappen if you’re needed back in the old job — even temporarily. Willyour new manager be on board with the idea? Can other colleagues oroutside consultants help if a crisis hits and your hands are full? Make sure you run interference for yourself, and plan for the unexpected。
Manage your relationships. While you may have a new set of colleagues, preserving relationships with old co-workers and managersis important, particularly in such a volatile work environment. Stop byto say hello aion kina or to invite a former boss to coffee. There’s so much reorganization. You might end up back with those people。
Understand the new rules.Just because you arestill in the same company, doesn’t mean you will be playing by the samerules. Take the time to learn how things operate in your new worksituation. Do not say “It’s easy to think, I know the company, and I’vebeen here for 20 years”. It’s really important not to assume that it’sthe same. While you handed in monthly reports and held monthly meetingsin your old job, a new manager may expect you to report your progressweekly or meet more frequently. Be sure to ask about these detailsearly on. And talk to colleagues about the particulars of thedepartmental culture。
Stay open. Reorganization usually leads to angst and fear amongemployees, whether it’s a favorite co-worker whose place you’ll betaking or former peers who now report to you. You’ll be bringingwhatever old baggage you have and dealing with the worries of newcolleagues. Don’t be surprised by push-back from co-workers who may seeyour new role as a threat. Be open with your colleagues about your roleand aion kinah how it fits into the group。
Learn to let go. Consider in advance what mighthappen if you’re needed back in the old job — even temporarily. Willyour new manager be on board with the idea? Can other colleagues oroutside consultants help if a crisis hits and your hands are full? Make sure you run interference for yourself, and plan for the unexpected。
Manage your relationships. While you may have a new set of colleagues, preserving relationships with old co-workers and managersis important, particularly in such a volatile work environment. Stop byto say hello aion kina or to invite a former boss to coffee. There’s so much reorganization. You might end up back with those people。
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