When Chinese Business Bloggers Write in English

This blog, which I think is totally sincere in it’s efforts to write in English, ends up being one of the hands down funniest things I’ve come across in quite a while

Royal Business Blog

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To get psyche, you have to be different from all the leftovers. Just imagine this: so many commerce cards spotted all over your butt client’s list and even the stagger. And all of them have one thing in customary- almost all the thing cards are in black and colorless. Except for 2 or 3 question cards. These few affair cards are printed with a smattering of tint. Which do you think would be able to spot your mark client’s thought?

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The Aliens are coming

Let’s just hope there is a U.S. Marine with bad legs on board who can save our world.
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WASHINGTON – A mystery object from space is about to whizz close by Earth on Wednesday. It won’t hit our planet, but scientists are stumped by what exactly it is.

Astronomers say it may be space junk or it could be a tiny asteroid, too small to cause damage even if it hit. It’s 33 to 50 feet wide at most.

NASA says that on Wednesday at 7:47 a.m. EST, it will streak by, missing Earth by about 80,000 miles. In the western United States it may be bright enough to be seen with a good amateur telescope.

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Casino fun for big money!

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If you are like me, you love to have the chance to make big money even if you might lose a little in the process. That’s why I love checking out the
online casino reviews and finding the best way to get some fast cash.

Don’t make the mistake of going to just any casino site. Go to the best casino reviews on the net before you start to gamble.

http://www.casinoscandinavia.com has the top reviews of all of the best online gambling sites in detail. Included are payouts, bonuses, and details about all the games, how to play them, and where you will find the best odds.

Gambling is never a sure thing, but by being a player with a clue, you increase your odds and bring yourself closer to the big money.

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Top 5 Stories of 2009 you didn’t see reported.

1. Surprise! Obama’s ‘Change we can believe in’ is actually a nearly complete lack of change in terms of policy.

2. Once again, the world failed to end. Some are disappointed but most are actually happy about it.

3. The news media continues to use false statistics to mask the true decline of the world’s economy and manages to actually get the stock market (a false indicator if there ever was one) to creep above 10K even though unemployment is up, foreclosures are up, the cost of living is up, and wages are down.

4. The use of violence and warfare worldwide climbed drastically as world societies began to feel the reins of control over increasingly poor and desperate populations

5. More than half of the world’s population at some point suffered from hunger, inadequate shelter, a lack of clean water, or systemic violence in 2009.

Now….it should be easy to improve on that record. Let’s hope we have a better 2010.

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The Best Place to Find New Music

Our Stage

If you’re like me, you are always on the lookout for great places to get new music. Well, in that case, we are both in luck.

OurStage – Discover New Music

Our Stage gives you the chance not to just listen to new music, but also to tell other people what you think of it! Music is divided into more than 50 categories and the charts are determined by voters on the site.

If you just want to listen to music, no problem. Pick a genre, press play on the Our Stage Player and enjoy. Or, if you are more than just someone who listens to music and are or aspire to be the next great band, producer, or soloist, you can also upload your music to see if it will make it to the top of the charts. See if your taste can reach the masses.

Each month Our Stage offers contests for fans, music videos, and more. So you can also win prizes (in addition to winning fame if you have a chart topper.)

And finally, if you want to stay up to date on who the hottest emerging artists are, what the industry is doing, or what the latest releases are, you can always find up to date information on the Our Stage Blog.

So, if you’re tired of not being involved in the music and you want to get more from your music than just being a passive listener can bring, then it’s probably time that you check out
OurStage – Discover New Music

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Nude Dudes Shopping Shock Clerk

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A group of naked men have been filmed on CCTV cameras after they entered a Devon petrol station and browsed through its pornographic magazine section.

One of the men was recording the incident on his own mobile phone but all left for a nearby minibus after being asked to put their clothes on, the Midweek Herald reports.

Kilmington Services manager Gobu Rasalingham said: “Even though it’s quite funny, it’s unacceptable behaviour because it’s obviously a public place.

“There were no customers in at the time. But if there had been children or women, I would probably have been harsher with them.”

He added of his female cashier: “She was shocked, frozen and unable to do anything – she was almost crying. She said, ‘Go and put clothes on, otherwise I won’t be able to serve you’.

“I don’t think they purposely meant to harm anybody. Maybe they were on a stag party or it was a challenge. I would have taken it in a sporting way as long as they didn’t do any harm.”

Sergeant Pete Trudgeon said: “Each male that paraded himself naked in the shop committed an offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

“We are seeking to identify these males at the earliest opportunity. If they come forward and admit their involvement, they will be dealt with more leniently.”

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Droids are all the rage

NEW YORK–More than a hundred people were lined up at midnight Thursday outside a Verizon Wireless store in midtown Manhattan to be among the first people to buy the new Motorola Droid.

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About 65 eager shoppers lined the south side of West 34th Street across from Macy’s in Manhattan at 11:30 p.m. Thursday waiting for the store to open. Verizon opened the store from midnight to 2 a.m. to give people in the Big Apple a head start on the morning cell phone rush. By midnight, when the doors officially opened, about 100 people stood in line as Verizon officials ushered in customers 25 at a time.

Once inside the store, about 13 sales representatives and another four or five device specialists milled around, helping customers and demonstrating the phone’s features. Representative were also helping customers transfer contacts to their new phone.

Verizon Wireless spokesman David Samberg said he felt confident that Verizon would be able to meet customer demand for the new Droid in New York City. The 34th Street store alone had at least 500 Droids as well as some HTC Android Eris phones, and Samberg said he expects anyone wanting to buy a Droid on Friday in New York City will be able to get one.

“Five hundred phones is a lot of phones to sell in one day,” he said.

Most of the people standing in line at midnight for a Droid were loyal Verizon Wireless customers. Geoffrey Aravallis, who stopped to pick up his Droid on his way home from a dance club in the city, said he has been a Verizon Wireless customer for nine years.

He said he had been tempted to switch to AT&T for the iPhone but didn’t because he felt Verizon has a better network than AT&T. Now that the Droid is out, he is glad he waited.

“I use Gmail and all kinds of Google services, so it’s nice to be able to have all that on my phone,” he said. “And the Droid is much more open than the iPhone.”

Gabrielle Dahms admitted she had also been tempted to get the iPhone. But she had heard terrible things about AT&T’s network and was leery about making the switch. Instead, she decided to wait for the Droid.

“It has all the features I like on the iPhone,” she said. “Plus it has a real keyboard, which sold me.”

Many people have been comparing the new Droid to the iPhone, and some have even called the new device the true iPhone killer. But judging from the people I talked with who were buying the Droid, it looks like it might be more of a BlackBerry killer.

Dahms and her boyfriend, Will Welch, had been BlackBerry Curve users. Welch said he had tried the BlackBerry Storm last year when it first came out, but he didn’t like it. He also thought the iPhone was cool, but was unwilling to switch carriers for it. And he said he would have probably upgraded to the BlackBerry Tour if the Droid hadn’t come along.

The Droid will hit store shelves nationally starting at 7 a.m. Friday in many stores around the country. CNET News will be covering the launch, so stay tuned for updates.
Originally posted at Signal Strength

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Ice skating bear kills

A bear on ice skates attacked two people during rehearsals at a circus in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, killing one of them, Kyrgyz officials said Friday.

In the incident, which happened Thursday, the 5-year-old animal killed the circus administrator, Dmitry Potapov, and mauled an animal trainer, who was attempting to rescue him.

“The incident occurred during a rehearsal by the Russian state circus company troupe which was performing in Bishkek with the program, Bears on Ice,” Ministry of Culture and Information director Kurmangazy Isanayev told reporters.

It is unclear what caused the bear to attack Potapov, 25, nearly severing one of his legs while dragging him across the ice by his neck. Medical personnel were unable to save Potapov, who died at the scene.

The 29-year-old circus trainer Yevgeny Popov, who attempted to rescue Potapov, was also severely injured, according to doctors.

“The victim has sustained serious injuries – deep scalp lacerations, bruising of the brain, lacerations on his body. His condition is considered critical,” Dr. Gulnara Tashibekova told reporters on Russian state television.

After the incident, the circus was cordoned off by police and emergency service workers. Experts have been brought in to examine the bear, which was shot and died at the scene.

Russia has a long-standing tradition of training bears to perform tricks such as riding motorcycles, ice skating, and playing hockey. Fatal attacks are unusual.

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Ethiopians starving again

This sucks. Who is to blame? The world bank and the IMF.

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The Ethiopian government is expected to confirm later that it needs emergency food aid for 6.2 million people.

This is because of the effects of prolonged drought and erratic rains on crops and grazing for livestock.

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) is already facing a shortfall of more than $85m (£50m) worth of food for Ethiopia to the end of this year.

Aid agency Oxfam has called for a new approach to tackling the risk of disaster in the country.

In a report marking 25 years since the famine that killed around one million Ethiopians, Oxfam said that imported food aid saves lives in the short term but does little to help communities withstand the next shock.

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32 new planets in our solar system. Life?

We may not be alone. There are far more planets in our solar system than previously thought and some of them might have life on them.

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European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. Scientists using the European Southern Observatory telescope didn’t find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased the number of planets discovered outside the solar system to more than 400.

Six of the newly found planets are several times bigger than Earth, increasing the population of so-called super-Earths by more than 30 percent. Most planets discovered so far are far bigger, Jupiter-sized or even larger.

Two of the newly discovered planets were as small as five times the size of Earth and one was up to five times larger than Jupiter.

Astronomer Stephane Udry of the University of Geneva said the results support the theory that planet formation is common, especially around the most common types of stars.

“I’m pretty confident that there are Earth-like planets everywhere,” Udry said in a Web-based news briefing from a conference in Portugal. “Nature doesn’t like a vacuum. If there is space to put a planet there, there will be a planet there.”

What astronomers said is especially exciting is that about 40 percent of sun-like stars have planets that are closer to being Earth-sized than the size of Jupiter. Jupiter’s mass is more than 300 times that of Earth’s.

Depending on definitions of the size of super-Earths, the discovery suggests that planets that have a mass similar to Earth’s are “extraordinarily commonplace,” said Alan Boss, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He was not part of the European team. “The universe must indeed be crowded with habitable worlds.”

Boss said finding 32 planets at once is a record “and it really shows that the Europeans have taken the lead” in finding planets outside the solar system.

The discoveries were made by the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, which is an attachment to the European observatory telescope in Chile that looks for slight wobbles in a star’s movements. Those changes would be made by the tug of a planet’s gravity on the star. There are no photos of these planets.

And more news of life in space.

The basic molecules required for life as we know it have been detected in a second hot gas planet beyond our solar system.

The planet, which orbits a sun-like star about 150 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, is not habitable but it has the same chemistry that, if found around a rocky planet in the future, could indicate a world that might support life or the presence of life.

“It’s the second planet outside our solar system in which water, methane and carbon dioxide have been found, which are potentially important for biological processes in habitable planets,” said researcher Mark Swain of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “Detecting organic compounds in two exoplanets now raises the possibility that it will become commonplace to find planets with molecules that may be tied to life.”

The first planet in which organic molecules were detected was HD 189733b, a hot, Jupiter-sized planet. The discovery was made by Swain and his colleagues in December 2008.

Swain’s team used data from two of NASA’s orbiting Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, to study another hot planet bigger than Jupiter, HD 209458b, and characterize it as the second known exoplanet with organic signatures.

The detections were made through spectroscopy, which splits light into its components to reveal the distinctive spectral signatures of different chemicals. Data from Hubble’s near-infrared camera and multi-object spectrometer revealed the presence of the molecules, and data from Spitzer’s photometer and infrared spectrometer measured their amounts.

“This demonstrates that we can detect the molecules that matter for life processes,” Swain said.

Astronomers can now begin comparing the two planetary atmospheres for differences and similarities. For example, the relative amounts of water and carbon dioxide in the two planets is similar, but HD 209458b shows a greater abundance of methane than HD 189733b.

“The high methane abundance is telling us something,” Swain said. “It could mean there was something special about the formation of this planet.”

Other large, hot Jupiter-type planets can be characterized and compared in the same way. The techniques used are also similar for those that will be required to shortlist rocky Earth-like planets where the signatures of organic chemicals might indicate the presence of life.

Rocky worlds are expected to be found by NASA’s Kepler mission, which launched earlier this year, but astronomers believe we are a decade or so away from being able to detect any chemical signs of life on such a body.

If and when such Earth-like planets are found in the future, “the detection of organic compounds will not necessarily mean there’s life on a planet, because there are other ways to generate such molecules,” Swain said. “If we detect organic chemicals on a rocky, Earth-like planet, we will want to understand enough about the planet to rule out non-life processes that could have led to those chemicals being there.”

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