China re-opening tiger trade again?

According to the article on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6745497.stm
China consideres a vague suggestion to reopen tiger trade again, which caused consternation all over the globe. Dissuading them from doing so appears to be imppossible since they have already launched a clear concept supported by facts and figures. Despite their claim that it is mainly for the sake of medicine, thus human future, they still plan to breed and house 5000 tigers on farms, which is more than the whole tiger population world-wide. As far as endangered species are concerned, I believe they should keep their beary ideas for themselves. What worries me is that once there is no official prohibition of tiger breeding, it might soon come that needy natives will want to take the biscuit in the struggle to survive.
As far as the credibility of the information is concerned, obvioulsy the politicians try to squelch the media due to the non-ubiquity of the tigers in the wildness.

jaywalking with the irish - the text

Jaywalking with the Irish

David Monagan, the narrator, explains why he had decided for uprooting his family and moving to Cork. Reasons are mainly of social nature – Americans are so busy working that they do not attain their highly regulated standard of living. Above all, they talk about casting aside their dreadful daily obligations, but never realize that. So Monagans are in quest for less programmed life. The problem is that David experienced “idyllic Ireland” as a student which has changed significantly due to the economic boom. Despite some bureaucratic problems at the beginning (unable to open a checking account, impossible to pay with a credit card in a grocery store, difficulties getting a phone line ...) the family settle down gradually. Obviously, Irish culture is not equal to the American which can be seen in the following incidents: neighbors simply stopping by whenever they like to and discuss whatever came to their minds, superstition and fairies playing an important role, not expressing their opinion directly as David is though in the pub, consequently one should always watch one’s back. Asking questions about your job are considered to be too straightforward if not even rude, on the contrary, the most common way to get a well-paid an influential post is by knowing the right people. That’s why Jamie fails to find a job despite her desperate search. Some other Irish features are shared pint-buying and procrastination as well as reckless drivers on the jammed roundabouts and wide highways.

The Monagan family often undertakes trips to different regions in order to get in touch with the culture and to avert kids from being homesick. They are introduced to the Irish attitude “the more the merrier”, which proves to be one of the leading ones when it comes to parties. There are people dropping in till the house is bursting at the seams.

When Irish lives were progressing on all cylinders, Monagans face another Irish phenomena: exponentially raising crime rates. A burglar broke into their home and their car is stolen during the night. Back in the fifties Ireland was the safest place to live in on the entire Globe, but now due to the radical changes in the economy which affected the social life, it is not like that anymore. Above all, young people under the influence of alcohol loose control and smash everything around them, beating up innocent people or committing other crimes. Monagans even file a formal complaint with the police against youth gone wild in their neighborhood.

In spite of their wish to stay in Ireland another year, things turn out differently in the end. Some family members in America are becoming ill, others have even died. Above all, Harris has failed his class and their renter has moved out of their house. Consequently, they chose to move back to America with a pleasant memory in their hearth about a country where they have been loved and accepted.

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don't drunk and drive!

There was an article in the Slovene magazine Ona about the drunk youth who belts out in the streets at hight. This is a typical fodder of all public discussions on how to solve the aforementioned problem. The journalist tries to include some opinons of different celebrities from the political scene, but does not succeed. The first one is equicocating a lot abut what measures are going to be taken in order to tackle this and the written answer of the second politician is dotted with digressions.
I strongly believe that what causes the most consternation in the society are young teenagers under the influence of alcohol below the age of 12 or even 10. Despite the deviations to the norms is our society tolerated to the certain point, one must agree with me that everything has its limits, so does alchol consumption. Although we've heard about different useful measures to be taken ad nauseam, there is not enough put into practice. Th government always procrastinates with legislation, so do the bar owners with checking the IDs.

some vocab from the nerd's eye view

While reading some old posts on the blog I came across about some interesting vocab:
"They’re all a little damp around the edges but they look exhilarated, if a little tired." An euphemism for a little fat is a little damp around the edges.:)
Till now little did i know about snowshoeing - a winter sport :) which seems a mixutre of snowboarding and walking for me.

When you do something that does not makes sense or helps you achieve your goal, it is to no avail.

sailing ...

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I've read a criminal story, but I don't remeber either its title or its author. For more information contact Ivana, who lend me the book. So, there is an investigation on a susupicious murder in America. The police appreciates when private citizens come forth with information, but to avail. Nobady has reported any helpful information. On the basis od the witnesses' testimonies, the police could charge the suspect with murder. However, as long as the do not catch him it is difficult to sue him for anything. According to the victim's report, the suspect went beserk due to the long queue in the bank and they suspect he was a drug-addict, so probably after putting him behing bars, he will probably be given an opportunity to take part in a rehab programm.
In the end, this story becomes more and more complicated due to a girl who the suspect falls in love with. She's stuningly beautiful and rotten spoilt, but she always listen intently to him psychological problems. Despite the fact they are on different wavelenghts, they get on with each other. Finally, she manages to have him under hin thumb and help rebuild his life again - this time in the more acceptable way from the view of the today's society.
I would commend this book to anyone who likes whodunnit-stories.

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voca from the nerd's eye view

other books I'm reading

other books I'm reading

other books

Bread and butter or enyoment?

An article about jobs in general and tipps on this topic intiate me to summon up some of the most important tipps.

Firstly, everybody should think deeeply about their personal traits as well as their wishes. What kind of businness would you like to do? Mainting law and order or doing the washing-up? Comparing facts and figures of the economic market with your own wishes will give you an idea how high are your chances of achieving whatever imaginative job you would like to do.

Secondly, entrepreneurship might seem attractive at first, but you have to consider all pros and cons and what way of life does that brings to you.

Thirdly, try to specialize in a particular field. It is even more promising if that is a field where experts are few and far between.

All in all, it is of major importance to do your best in achieving your success and remain grounded. Constantly doing somebody else a favour would not help you make aprofit. Good luck!

Martin Strel - Amazon 2007

A Slovene marathon swimmer Martin Strel has succeed in swimming more than 5000 km long Amazon river in approx. 70 days. Doctors declared he has returned from this extremely exhausting route safe and sound.

In my opinion, that kind of challenge demand your whole mind and soul as well as physical strength. Broadly speaking, you do not make any noticeable progress in the first few days. In addition, such ordeal is a real touch and go considering the great peril lurking in the river in the forms of crocodiles and piranhas. To top it all, you have to do your duty no matter what it takes once you start such expedition. I believe, he deserves everyboy's admiration.

Austrians

A saying: Birds of a feather flock together might come in handy when describing Austrians' main features. According to "The Xenophobe's guide to the Austrians" they strive to be one country when they can help themselves financially from the main Austrian budget, otherwise they are patriotic members of federal provinces.

Moreover, these are the characteristics that find common ground in Austria, no matter what their provenance is: miscegenation, devious, morose, time-serving, but on the other hand pleasure-loving as well as genial. Some federal provinces bordering on Swiss are deemed to have features, such as thrift, piety and stubbornness.

In historic terms, the whole nation was ruled with an iron fist. By the same token, here lies the root of Austrian ambivalent attitude to power. What is funny in my opinion, is the fact that Joseph II attempted to burry dead people in coffins already used for financial reasons.

A footling idea that European Union means living in England is the same as in Austria is not true. As a traditional nation, Austrians need time to be tampered with modernised way of live. Consequently, their religios holidays bespatter the calender and their workes get generous holiday allowances.

Austrians do not trust novelties for a simple reason;namely, they believe somebody will make money at their expences.

All in all, you cannot lump all Austrians together, cause each and every individual is beautiful and different.

irish characteristics

According to the article in our script some expertsarrived at a similar conclusion: What is typical Irish is their contrariness. It has also lodged in their minds that they are lucky, which is a nice characteristic in my opinion. One logical explanations for this luckiness could be found in the definite and great peril imposed on the Irish throughout the history (wars, famine...). Consequntly, they consider themselves lucky to have survived all the troubles and tribulations.

A remarkable factor which has a great effect on their life is the economic boom that is transforming the country beyond recognition.

The quintessential word in Irish vocabulary is "craic".Everything connected with conversation or having fun can be deemed a "craic". The spelling is probably phony. However, the term found itself so much in demand that it stayed in the language.
Broadly speaking, "Craic" is a vital word of Irish everyday life.


The second important symbol of Irishness is the shamrock can thrive only in Ireland.

types of human "sounds" and reactions

So, in the past days I was searching for some intersting vocab in our script and I came across some illustrative words, such as: stammer, snigger and squeak. A person who stammers is normally quite annoying to talk to, although you know it's not there fault to speak like that. To squeak reminds me of the door in our old house who squeaked open every time you entered the main room. Snigger is something I connect with my teenage schoolmates who did this each and every time a cute boy strolled aroung the corner.
A reaction which is typical for a half of my family is scowling - my father and my sister do this constatly when tired, bored or in the process of getting angry. Consequently, my father's forehead is an embodiement for wrinkles.

pharmacy lobbies

I' ve read an instructive article about pharmacy lobbies the other day and I managed to scribble the main points on a pice of paper. So, here it goes:
A lot of successful pharmacy companies are often implicated in financial scandals due to the fact that they pay their own scienties to "proove" their medicine to be in line with standards or that this medicine really cures a person's illness. What is more, nowadays it is almost impossible to acquire objective information as well as impartial advice on the topic of cancer due to pharmacy lobbies. In other words, the majority of information you pick up from everyday's news are đ misleading. So, therefore trying to be up-to-date in that way has really no intrinsic value. Sad, but true.

easter holidays

As one can see, I haven't touch my blog over the holidays. There is no explicit elucidation for that, just the fact that I sometimes need a incentive to start a computer over the holidays. The inherent part of my holiday's was writing seminars for my home university, which I considered enough of a contact with a stupid machine. So, now I'm back agains, full of energy and new ideas what to write about.

volunteering

When Rebecca first mentioned the volunteer project we were about to focus on in the next few weeks, it did not seem nothing particularly new to me. However, it has turned out to broaden my horizons on this particular topic although I was not physically present on the fair itself.
Firstly, I have gained a bunch of new information considering types and names of the organizations. Although I had done some quite intensive research on this topic in my home country a few years ago, I had missed some vital aspects – such as working in order to give aid somebody. As far as I remember, there was much more stress put upon the fact that you gain new experiences and learn a foreign language (in most cases this means English) than to draw the volunteer's attention to the simple humane characteristic – will to help.
Secondly, on account of working in a group I have managed to discover others' opinions and experience about that. I believe that majority has a positive view on volunteering and would join a group of volunteers one day. Nonetheless, one should still remain realistic about that – saying is not the same as doing.
All in all, volunteering might be a rich life experience for a young person, that is why it is certainly worth trying it out.