The long-expected “cash for clunker” project finally came into effect on July 24th, aiming at getting rid of the most terrible situation the car industry ever had. The proposal was signed into a low in June and will last to November 1st.
Apparently the “cash for clunker” project receives warm welcome from the car dealers and customers, about 16 thousand dealers signed to be parts of the plan and the Government received more than 45 thousand inquiring phone call about this plan.
Since last week, the car market is clearly woken up. Car dealers say that after the plan’s release, the footfall is rising g\dramatically and the sales volume is also increased. If this situation could maintain, and the sales volume could stay aloft, certainly this program may help the car industry to get through the trying winter, that is: to be the saviour. If this could really happen, my worry of the last article (July 25th) would be trashy. As I just mentioned, it would be closed three months later, who knows what would happened then, it is just not the timing to judge the project, so if you have a gas guzzle, go and get the money (of cause when it meets claim),if you have not, as I do, sit and watch the movie, a play is on.
Although there is still uncertainty about where did Borscht(also borsht, barszcz or borshch) come from, it is widely approved that it was from Russian, but wherever, it doesn’t matter for us all, what does matter is that it really is a gift from god.
Borscht is a soup that is popular in many Eastern and Central European countries, and now spread all over the world. Jewemigrate from Russian and its surrounding countries is the original spreader of Borscht. And today, because of its riching in nutrition and lower calories, it is beloved by people all over the world, and also is a perfect dish for people that are on diet.
As follow is the simple Recipe of Borscht:
Ingredients
8 cups beef broth*
1 pound slice of meaty bone-in beef shank
1 large onion, peeled, quartered
4 large beets, peeled, chopped
4 carrots, peeled, chopped
1 large russet potato, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
The House of Representative passed the proposal of “cash for clunker” yesterday, Which considered to be an valuable move to solve problems in both field of economy and environment, but, IS IT? I am not very sure and apparently I could get supporters. I admit that the project, cash for clunker, is really hard to say no to, that I can get at least $3500 by giving up my gas guzzler (except for I do not have one).While, from the sight of overall situation, could this project really work?
Well, we don’t have to guess, America is not the first country that putting it forward, in Europe, you can see many forthgoer. Let’s get Germany as an example, after putting the project into effect, the sale of the car market increased dramatically. In America, maybe we could say that the sale may increased in short time, but when this project ends, the sale would fall again. So in my opinion, it apparently not an radical solution.
So would this project at least good for our environment? Maybe I should say. It is up to how the detail goes. Did the project chiefly aim at gas-guzzling cars? What about the environmentally-friendly cars? So there is uncertainness in this case.
This is an extract of a love story from china daily. At the end of my coverage of it, tears run through my face, may you be indulged in it too.
When I was young, I went looking for gold in California. I never found enough to make me rich. But I did discover a beautiful part of the country. It was called “the Stanislau.” The Stanislau was like Heaven on Earth. It had bright green hills and deep forests where soft winds touched the trees. ¡¡
Other men, also looking for gold, had reached the Stanislau hills of California many years before I did. They had built a town in the valley with sidewalks and stores, banks and schools. They had also built pretty little houses for their families.¡¡
At first, they found a lot of gold in the Stanislau hills. But their good luck did not last. After a few years, the gold disappeared. By the time I reached the Stanislau, all the people were gone, too.
Grass now grew in the streets. And the little houses were covered by wild rose bushes. Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago. Then, I realized I was not alone after all.¡¡
A man was smiling at me as he stood in front of one of the little houses. This house was not covered by wild rose bushes. A nice little garden in front of the house was full of blue and yellow flowers. White curtains hung from the windows and floated in the soft summer wind.
Still smiling, the man opened the door of his house and motioned to me. I went inside and could not believe my eyes. I had been living for weeks in rough mining camps with other gold miners. We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.
Here in this little house, my spirit seemed to come to life again.
I saw a bright rug on the shining wooden floor. Pictures hung all around the room. And on little tables there were seashells, books and china vases full of flowers. A woman had made this house into a home.
The pleasure I felt in my heart must have shown on my face. The man read my thoughts. “Yes,” he smiled, “it is all her work. Everything in this room has felt the touch of her hand.”¡¡¡¡
One of the pictures on the wall was not hanging straight. He noticed it and went to fix it. He stepped back several times to make sure the picture was really straight. Then he gave it a gentle touch with his hand.
“She always does that,” he explained to me. “It is like the finishing pat a mother gives her child’s hair after she has brushed it. I have seen her fix all these things so often that I can do it just the way she does. I don’t know why I do it. I just do it.”¡¡
As he talked, I realized there was something in this room that he wanted me to discover. I looked around. When my eyes reached a corner of the room near the fireplace, he broke into a happy laugh and rubbed his hands together.
“That’s it!” he cried out. “You have found it! I knew you would. It is her picture. I went to a little black shelf that held a small picture of the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. There was a sweetness and softness in the woman’s expression that I had never seen before.
The man took the picture from my hands and stared at it. “She was nineteen on her last birthday. That was the day we were married. When you see her…oh, just wait until you meet her!”¡¡
“Where is she now?” I asked.¡¡
“Oh, she is away,” the man sighed, putting the picture back on the little black shelf. “She went to visit her parents. They live forty or fifty miles from here. She has been gone two weeks today.”¡¡
“When will she be back?” I asked. “Well, this is Wednesday,” he said slowly. “She will be back on Saturday, in the evening.”¡¡
I felt a sharp sense of regret. “I am sorry, because I will be gone by then,” I said. ¡¡
“Gone? No! Why should you go? Don’t go. She will be so sorry. You see, she likes to have people come and stay with us.”¡¡¡¡
“No, I really must leave,” I said firmly.¡¡
He picked up her picture and held it before my eyes. “Here,” he said. “Now you tell her to her face that you could have stayed to meet her and you would not.”¡¡
Something made me change my mind as I looked at the picture for a second time. I decided to stay. ¡¡
The man told me his name was Henry.¡¡
That night, Henry and I talked about many different things, but mainly about her. The next day passed quietly. ¡¡
Thursday evening we had a visitor. He was a big, grey-haired miner named Tom. “I just came for a few minutes to ask when she is coming home,” he explained. “Is there any news?”¡¡
“Oh yes,” the man replied. “I got a letter. Would you like to hear it? He took a yellowed letter out of his shirt pocket and read it to us. It was full of loving messages to him and to other people – their close friends and neighbors. When the man finished reading it, he looked at his friend. “Oh no, you are doing it again, Tom! You always cry when I read a letter from her. I’m going to tell her this time!”¡¡
“No, you must not do that, Henry,” the grey-haired miner said. “I am getting old. And any little sorrow makes me cry. I really was hoping she would be here tonight.”¡¡
The next day, Friday, another old miner came to visit. He asked to hear the letter. The message in it made him cry, too. “We all miss her so much,” he said. Saturday finally came. I found I was looking at my watch very often. Henry noticed this. “You don’t think something has happened to her, do you?” he asked me. ¡¡
I smiled and said that I was sure she was just fine. But he did not seem satisfied.
I was glad to see his two friends, Tom and Joe, coming down the road as the sun began to set. The old miners were carrying guitars. They also brought flowers and a bottle of whiskey. They put the flowers in vases and began to play some fast and lively songs on their guitars.¡¡
Henry’s friends kept giving him glasses of whiskey, which they made him drink. When I reached for one of the two glasses left on the table, Tom stopped my arm. “Drop that glass and take the other one!” he whispered. He gave the remaining glass of whiskey to Henry just as the clock began to strike midnight.
Henry emptied the glass. His face grew whiter and whiter. “Boys,” he said, “I am feeling sick. I want to lie down.”¡¡
Henry was asleep almost before the words were out of his mouth. ¡¡
In a moment, his two friends had picked him up and carried him into the bedroom. They closed the door and came back. They seemed to be getting ready to leave. So I said, “Please don’t go gentlemen. She will not know me. I am a stranger to her.”¡¡¡¡
They looked at each other. “His wife has been dead for nineteen years,” Tom said.¡¡
“Dead?” I whispered.¡¡
“Dead or worse,” he said.¡¡
“She went to see her parents about six months after she got married. On her way back, on a Saturday evening in June, when she was almost here, the Indians captured her. No one ever saw her again. Henry lost his mind. He thinks she is still alive. When June comes, he thinks she has gone on her trip to see her parents. Then he begins to wait for her to come back. He gets out that old letter. And we come around to visit so he can read it to us. ¡¡
“On the Saturday night she is supposed to come home, we come here to be with him. We put a sleeping drug in his drink so he will sleep through the night. Then he is all right for another year.”¡¡
Joe picked up his hat and his guitar. “We have done this every June for nineteen years,” he said. “The first year there were twenty-seven of us. Now just the two of us are left.” He opened the door of the pretty little house. And the two old men disappeared into the darkness of the Stanislau.
At Busch Stadium on July 14, 2009 in St Louis, Missouri, U.S. President Barack Obama throws out the first pitch at the 2009 MLB All-Star Game. Yet, my point is not how well he has done. Here goes, President Barack Obama admitted Tuesdays he’s a little frumpy, but leave away the hints that he is not the material for fashion addicts.
“Here’s my attitude, Michelle, she looks fabulous. I’m a little frumpy.” Obama laughed in an interview with NBC. From which, we can tell more lovely things about our president.
“I hate to shop. Those jeans are comfortable. And for those of you who, you know, want your president to, you know, look great in his tight jeans, I’m sorry, I’m not the guy”, shrugged the vexed President.
The president of the United States also admitted that “Basically, up until a few years ago, I only had four suits.”
I can fully understand the situation of Obama. We can say that it is kind of traditional style that lots people of father- and mother-type hold, and we can also explain this by telling that it is a principle for individual to stick to. Be it whatever, coincidently, there are many similarities between Obama and my parents, putting it another way, they fail to hole the passion toward fashion, and once they are forced to, they will feel kind of all-thumbs and are at a loss what to do or how to behavior well.
Kind of lovely, interesting and funny, isn’t it?
However, we should keep in mind that, as long as Obama or our parents are happy and without too much influence on others, they should be bestow with total right to do anything, to wear anything and say anything they favor.
Peace, the most important thing in our life, is presenting here and there. Our families need peace, our community needs peace, our schools need peace, our society needs peace, companies need peace, etc. And of course, most importantly, our countries need peace.
Dated back to our ancestors, peace was always the last thing to worry about, not because there were conflicts all day long, but for that people were considering the interests of each other’s the same way as for theirs, which the most significant humanities lasting for a long time, and they share foods, cloths, happiness as well as sorrow. Thinking about the First World War, however, things changed. There is an increasing appeal for peace, the peace that between men and women, the peace between different countries, the peace between different races, the peace in the society, the peace among friends, etc.
Since peace plays so vital a role in our life, why not putting it in the top place. Yet, for our individuals, we can’t manage “big” things well; we can promote the peace from tiny things. For instance, when you get on the bus, remember peace; when you go to the library, keep peace in mind; when you enjoy a movie in a cinema, pay more attention to peace, when you go across the zebra crossing, no ignorance to the peace, and the like.
Once we can do those small things well, like many leaders say, there will be no reason we can manage “big” things without too much effort.
Hence, for a peaceful family, society, or country, we should spare no effort to do the best. Wish peace be with us for anytime, anywhere and any circumstances.
Solar Eclipse in Hawaii on July 22 2009 is just bite size as told by Hawaii Health Guide. It’s a pity I failed to view it by myself.
Things keep changing and sometimes they are unbelievable. Like all solar eclipses, today's solar eclipse only happens during a new moon, for that is when the sun and moon are on the same side of the earth.
During a an eclipse, the Sun, the Earth and the Moon are in a straight line during a solar eclipse and the Sun seems to be ‘overshadowed
Celestial logic is it that ensures a lunar eclipse only happens during a full moon, when the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the Earth.
However the "size" of the moon appears larger or smaller during different eclipses, changing the duration of time for the darkness of total eclipse.
Total solar eclipses usually take place about once every 18 months, and always at new Moon - when the lunar body sits directly between the Sun and the Earth.
The next total solar eclipse will occur on 11 July next year. It will be visible in a narrow corridor over the southern hemisphere, from the southern Pacific Ocean to Argentina.
Anticipating, hoping when that day comes, I will enjoy the moment without difficulties or obstructions.
As reported on Tuesday third-quarter earnings from apple are higher than analysts had expected, but provided its usual conservative guidance.
Do you like apples? I know there are many girls favor apples a lot. Many celebrities eat apples instead of other foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner so as to keep fit and beautify their skins; many patients eat apples for the sake of a good appetite; many young children eat apples to find funs from it, many factories have apples coming out of varies by-products of apples, etc.
Seeing how multifunctional the apples are, there is no reason apple earning won’t rise.
One apple per day, keep the doctors away. This is true. We can eat apples, we can drink apple, and we can play apples.
Being one of my favorite fruits, apples will always be the apple in my eyes, and I hope, no matter for the nutrition or for the body shape, people you and me will enjoy the benefits bought by lovely apples.
“Oh, my life's terrible!” Doubtlessly, everybody never want to hear someone closed to him or her is complaining all day long like this, neither will themselves, so it is true for Emma, our outstanding actress, who has released the news that she is going to enter the Brown university specializing in literature.
I was just graduating from my university and I am now beginning to miss campus life, which is coexisted with both competition and great enjoyment, friendship, love, study, part-time, hanging-out, shopping, classes, parties, etc, all these happy moments were still lingering on my mind.
I am of the decision made by Emma that she is going to one of the Ivy League establishment in the U.S.A to read literature.
Our lovely star demonstrated that she is anticipating sparing sometime from her acting life to experience university days, which is her favorite thing to do. “I am not trying to hide anything like that. It sounds so geeky, but I really do something like studying and reading, and if I’m not working on Harry Potter, then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book” she said, ”That’s how I escape stress---in literature.”
It doesn’t mean that she’s completely exclude the life as an actress after she enter into the university, she’d willing to include in her new life at college if the right movie comes along.
I can’t say that university life is the most exciting and interesting times in our life, yet, is the memorable and meaningful moment in our lifetime.
Marissa's protective boyfriend is a prince of Newport Beach - a child of vast wealth and privilege. However, the pressure to be the perfect son often forces Luke to bury his insecurities behind a cocky attitude, charming smile, and a sometimes bullying bravado.
As a result, he is adored by his girlfriend’s parents, envied by his fellow students, and desired by a legion Newport Beach Beauties. Though committed to the idea of being Marissa's boyfriend, Luke is less than committed to the idea of being faithful to her.
A star athlete and the captain of the water polo team, Luke stands with Marissa in the center of the OC in crowd. Their longtime relationship represents the status quo that is immediately threatened by Ryan's introduction to the community. Ryan's continued presence in the OC ultimately forces Luke to confront his deepest fears and feelings or risk losing Marissa forever.
The most things impressed me a lot is that Luke was a guy of similarity to the main actor in The Graduate, both of whom have sex with two generations in the same family. It sounds dirty and unbelievable, yet, reflecting some facts exiting in our society and unreasonable scandals or mistakes committed by helpless and emotional human beings.
Actually, I have no comment about Luke, some kind of ignorant him. Nevertheless, gradually I found he is also a nice guy in other fields. People change, that’s right.
This time, we are talking about Marissa Cooper, a charming young lady.
Daughter of Jimmy and Julie Cooper, Marissa has lived next door to the Cohen's her entire life. She has it all, great friends, a great boyfriend as well as a perfect family. So we think... the day she meets Ryan, changes occurred in her world. Over the series tough choices and responsibilities were waiting for her.
With each new decision, she tells the entire community, "I don't care what you think." She stands by her father, befriends Seth, leaves her boyfriend and finds herself falling in love with the ultimate outsider. Like Kirsten Cohen, who was in her shoes at that age, Marissa begins to make choices that will define her as a woman, and determine whether her path would lead her away from the O.C or deeper into its heart.
Marissa and Ryan would begin a relationship that would be challenged every step of the way. Whether it is the jealous ex-boyfriend, the over-controlling mother, or past girlfriends returned, it would never be easy for Marissa and Ryan.
But when Ryan's ex-girlfriend, Theresa, hoped to escape her life in Chino, everything would turn upside-down. Theresa would later become pregnant with a child that was uncertain to be Ryan's. Ryan however, did the right thing, and left with her to Chino in order to help build a strong new family.
Marissa was left devastated and unsure of her relationship with Ryan. Her mother, Julie, would marry the villain Caleb Nichol and force Marissa to live with her. Since then, Marissa has returned to her out-of-control behavior and her future with Ryan is uncertain.
Seriously, this can tell from the series that Ryan and Marissa are a nice match, this is what a couple supposed to like, like the feeling I have to my beloved, I mean, in terms of the time they are being together. However, Marissa is not that smart enough, she often made mistakes when confronting relationships, for instance, and simply regarding any relationships as friendships, regardless what Ryan would think, and then lead to disaster for both of them in the end.
In this case, they are alike. As an old saying goes, after suffering comes happiness, so is true for two lovers.
Today, I’d like to share with you The Orange County, which has been loved by thousands of teenagers and prevailed in USA for long. This sitcom has enjoyed not a few awards, such as “The best sitcom” “The most outstanding sitcom” “The most favored hero” “The most favored actress”, etc.
In this sitcom, there are Ryan, Cooper and Luke whom I am interested in.
From Ryan's first moments in Newport Beach, he finds himself in conflict with a strict social and economic hierarchy that has existed for generations and doesn't tolerate any incursion from outsiders. His very presence in Newport Beach threatens the security of its inhabitants and their way of life simply because this troubled teenager is unable and unwilling to conform. Ryan's arc for the series will continue and expand upon the 'fish-out-of-water' dynamic established in the pilot. Throughout the series, Ryan's outsider status will continue to set him apart from the O.C. elite, but his continued presence in their community ultimately shines like a bright light on the fact that everyone, no matter how rich or powerful, feels like an outsider at heart.
Ryan would come to win the heart of Newport's princess, Marissa Cooper. While they would eventually be together, many obstacles blocked their way. The two would try to tear them apart, and while they stayed strong, it would eventually be Ryan's ex-girlfriend Theresa who would pull them apart.
When Theresa appeared in Newport, hoping to escape Chino, everything would be turned upside-down. Theresa would later become pregnant with a child that was uncertain to be Ryan's. Ryan however, did the right thing, and left with her to Chino in order to help build a strong new family.
Theresa would later lie to Ryan and tell him that she has lost the baby. Ryan would then return to Newport to live with the Cohen’s again. However, Ryan and Marissa may never recover this time.
By reading this, what kind of guy Ryan in your mind? Do you like him, or dislike him, or just without any feeling towards him. As for me, I don’t really favor Ryan, though he is integrated , handsome and kind, he can control himself in a love relationship, or let say, he can do a good job as a boyfriends is supposed to do.
When you fall in love with someone, faith and royalty is of vital importance. You can just fall in love with two guys or two girls; neither have affection with anybody else. While for Ryan, when he was being together with Marissa, though, we can tell from his eyes, she is really his true love; he is still lingering in his ex-girlfriend and has affairs with her, naturally and intuitionally. How come this happen? This is unfair to Marissa.
I have no idea whether is so-call passion, which is beyond the control of human being, but at least I know that, once you know this would happen, why not stay away from him or her, then nothing would happen.
Maybe I am kind of prejudice because apart from which, all in all Ryan is a nice guy.
I would share with you some other characters next time.
Long time ago we have been introduced into this sitcom by our university teachers, and lots of my classmates therefore have become “Sex and city” fans, of course, including me.
At first, I was not quite fond of the scenes, characters, and stories involved in this sitcom, because the some pictures occur on the screen are not that decent, which, as far as a student’s concerned, does not matched our status. Some girls will felt humiliated if they were found by others that they have seen the sitcom. Besides which, as for my consideration, the actors display in the sitcom are not handsome or beautiful enough. Even in some situations, I found that the ladies are far beyond the endurance of the audiences in terms of looks. And lastly, stories are kind of departure from innovation.
But why I have become a fun of them too in the end? This is really a tough question. Yet, I can explain some.
Firstly, though they don’t own outstanding appearances, they are sexy, charming, and trendy, which is what most youngsters are pursuing.
Secondly, the stories are not updated adequately; yet, many are closely related to our life here and there. From which we can learn how to maintain a relationship well including the relationships that between lovers, relatives and friends. When we are confronting the TV or PC and enjoying the sitcom, we can learn, we can feel, and we view.
Doubtlessly, there are still lots to account for the reason why I fall in love with this sitcom, but I have to call it a day since all those points failed to break into my mind in a second.
My dear friends, have you seen this movie, what do you think this sitcom?
“Oh, my life's terrible!” Doubtlessly, everybody never want to hear someone closed to him or her is complaining all day long like this, neither will themselves, so it is true for Emma, our outstanding actress, who has released the news that she is going to enter the Brown university specializing in literature. 