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Friday, May 4, 2012

Life lessons that speak to the heart

My Paper, Friday, May 04, 2012, Page A21, Viewpoints
From http://epaper.mypaper.sg/cnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2012-05-04
Source Website: http://news.asiaone.com/News/Mailbox/Story/A1Story20120504-343804.html
By Geoff Tan, my paper, Friday, May 04, 2012



PHOTO: Regina Brett published her column titled 50 Life Lessons, in The Plain Dealer - a Cleveland, Ohio newspaper - in 2006.
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PHOTO: Geoff Tan
The writer is a senior vice-president of Singapore Press Holdings’ marketing division.
My Paper, Friday, May 04, 2012, Page A21, Viewpoints


America award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Regina Brett has taught me a lot about life through her column titled 50 Life Lessons, which was published in The Plain Dealer - a Cleveland, Ohio newspaper - in 2006.

Her article is so popular that bloggers the world over have re-posted her sayings.

I'd like to share with you the ones that struck a chord with me. Take this: "Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch." This is a timely reminder to us all not to focus on work at the expense of our health.



PHOTO: Thankful for my best friend…
"It’s difficult to find those friends that “understand you” and well, when you find someone who ‘gets you’, hold on to them! I have a once in lifetime friendship that I wouldn’t trade for anything!"
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And this: "Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone." I have experienced much-needed release on the occasions when I confided in a good friend who journeyed with me through some of my life's most difficult moments.

"Don't compare your life with others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about." This reminds me of the story of a man who complained he had no shoes, until he ran into someone who had no legs.

"Time heals almost everything. Give time time."

In this world of instant gratification, patience does not feature strongly as a virtue. We seem to want everything immediately.



PHOTO: 45 Life Lessons from a 90 year old
Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio.
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:"

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. ........

Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2010
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http://www.princesswarriorlessons.com/2010/10/45-life-lessons-from-90-year-old.html


However, when we are dealing with pain, there is no quick fix (fast but temporary solution) - searching for one may lead us onto the path of alcohol and drugs.

Brett wrote: "Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need." Coveting what others have places undue stress on us. Isn't it better to live within our means?

"If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back." Let's all learn to be more appreciative of what we have been blessed with.



Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save them for a special occasion. Today is special.
PHOTO: Using the Power of your imagination and positive visualization to create an amazing year.
Posted on December 20, 2010 by Zen Your Den
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My favourites are the ones that are written tongue-in-cheek (ironic, slyly humorous). Take this: "Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save them for a special occasion. Today is special."

And this: "Be eccentric (unusual or odd behavior) now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple." And I can certainly relate to it when she wrote: "Growing old beats the alternative - dying young."

There are so many gems in her column that it's worth taking the time to ponder each of them.



Work with the positive energy to build wealth, good health, and well-being! There are so many gems in her column that it's worth taking the time to ponder each of them.
PHOTO: Work with the positive energy to build wealth, good health, and well-being! There are so many gems in her column that it's worth taking the time to ponder each of them.
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My parting words are from her list, too: "No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up." Have a great day!

By Geoff Tan, my paper, Friday, May 04, 2012
The writer is a senior vice-president of Singapore Press Holdings’ marketing division.



PHOTO: From A Story Without Words
Posted by Hello World, 13th March 2011
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May you be safe.
May you be healthy and strong.
May you be happy.
May you be peaceful and at ease.
http://awakened-living.blogspot.com/p/sacred-journey-path-2-track-1-normal.html
A Metta ~ Lovingkindness Blessing ~ for You



HELPDESK
我的字典: Wǒ de zì diǎn

Timely reminder: 及时的提醒 - jí shí de tí xǐng
Quick fix (fast but temporary solution): 权宜之计 - quán yí zhī jì
Tongue-in-cheek (ironic, slyly humorous): 幽默的 - yōu mò de
Eccentric (unusual or odd behavior): 古怪 - gǔ guài



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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Now, you can call an 'angel'

My Paper, Wednesday, March 7, 2012, Page A8, World
From http://epaper.mypaper.sg/cnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2012-03-07
Source Website: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/a-dutch-churchs-angel-is-in-demand.html
By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Published: March 5, 2012


‘HALO ANGEL:'. The statue of an angel outside St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in 's Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, holds a cellphone, which has two numbers.
PHOTO: "HALO ANGEL":. The statue of an angel outside St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in 's Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, holds a cellphone, which has two numbers.
Dirk-Jan Visser for The New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/a-dutch-churchs-angel-is-in-demand.html


’S HERTOGENBOSCH, the Netherlands — High on the cathedral in this trim Dutch town, amid a phalanx of stone statues of local noblemen, crusaders, saints and angels, one figure stands out. Smiling faintly, with lowered eyelids, one of the angels wears jeans, has a laptop bag slung over one shoulder and is chatting on a cellphone.

The angel gets about 30 calls a day on the phone.


The last angel in the series holds a mobile phone, a bag and wears a nice pair of jeans. 'The phone has just one button, says the artist. - It dials directly to God'. (I would think the phone also needs a button for answering…but maybe it’s an iPhone…)
PHOTO: The last angel in the series holds a mobile phone, a bag and wears a nice pair of jeans. "The phone has just one button, says the artist. - It dials directly to God". (I would think the phone also needs a button for answering…but maybe it’s an iPhone…)
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http://flipperdeflap.blogspot.com/2011/05/calling-angelor-tweet-angel.html


That is because, shortly after the statue was unveiled last April, a local couple, the parents of two children, set up a number so people could call the angel. Business cards soon appeared in pubs, restaurants and hotels with a picture of the angel and the number. So successful was the line that the couple opened a Twitter account, @ut_engelke, managed by the husband, which now has about 2,700 followers.


asmijn Aartsen, left, and Roos Verheijen, both 13, called the number on a sign outside St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in 's Hertogenbosch.
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“The telephone is ringing all day,” said the wife, who like her husband agreed to meet a reporter on the condition that they not be identified. “It was a fairy tale,” she said over beer and snacks. “Now, it’s real.” To identify them, she said, would end it.

What began as a joke continues because the cellphone number has become something of a hot line, dialed by people of all ages, some in need of help, others just because they are lonely.



PHOTO: ’S HERTOGENBOSCH, the Netherlands
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At the holidays, the calls became so frequent and so pressing that the couple was tempted to give up. “Between Christmas and New Year’s, that was an emotional time frame, it was so heartbreaking,” she said. A small girl called begging the angel to pray for a grandmother who had just died; a woman asked help to celebrate her first Christmas without her parents. A widow sought prayers for her dead children.

The statue of the Little Angel arose out of a 1997 competition, won by the Dutch sculptor Ton Mooy, to create 40 statues, including 14 angels, to replace those on the cathedral that time and pollution had ruined. The Little Angel was the only unconventional one.



PHOTO: 40 statues, including 14 angels created by Dutch sculptor Ton Mooy.
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http://flipperdeflap.blogspot.com/2011/05/calling-angelor-tweet-angel.html


“You can make a phony Gothic statue,” Mr. Mooy, 63, said in his studio in Amersfoort, about an hour north of here. “That’s not what I wanted. It had to fit in with what was always on the church, namely, refinement, emotion.

Angels are there to guide, to protect people, they get messages from above. How do you show that? With a cellphone.”

“I tell kids, ‘There’s one button on that cellphone,’ ” he said with a chuckle — a direct line to heaven. “So she doesn’t get naughty, calling other angels.”



PHOTO: Dutch sculptor Ton Mooy
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http://whotalking.com/flickr/Mooy


The cathedral, which dates to 1220, has a centuries-old tradition of unusual, sometimes bawdy, art. One medieval statue is of a bricklayer bending over and baring his bottom. Some is tragic. A stained glass window over the main entrance depicts the apocalypse with a panel showing the Sept. 11 attack on the twin towers.

Catholic Church officials who administer the immense Gothic cathedral, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, are not entirely amused. “Success has many fathers,” said Pieter Kohnen, a cathedral board member. “And maybe exploiters.”

The couple do not charge a fee for calls to the Little Angel, and insist they are not profiting from its spreading fame. But in December the church set up an official number for the public to phone the angel — for $1.07 a minute. Now, a sign next to the cathedral invites passers-by to “Call the Angel.” A man’s voice answers, giving the caller several options: “Dial 1, for a history of the church; dial 2, to learn what Christianity is about,” and so forth.



PHOTO: Now, you are our angel! - The couple do not charge a fee for calls to the Little Angel, and insist they are not profiting from its spreading fame.
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http://kindergartenlifestyle.blogspot.com/


“We chose a male actor, for his trustworthy voice,” explained Mr. Kohnen, noting that the number gets about 100 calls a week. The goal, he said, was, “to promote the gospel, evangelize, but also financial.” About $940,000 a year is required for the cathedral’s upkeep.

Competition has erupted. The Little Angel is a celebrity. Church attendance may be flagging and the Catholic Church’s image tarnished by past child-abuse cases, but the cathedral has become the buzz of the town.

Callers to the earlier number, where they pay only the regular rate for calling a cellphone, never get an answering machine, the woman who provides the angel’s voice explained. “I say, ‘Hello, this is the Little Angel,’ and then various things can happen,” she said.



PHOTO: “Kids under 10 are the best,”. "Are you cold? What about the rain, no umbrella?”.
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http://frugalshoppingwithjulie.com/2011/10/the-best-birthday-freebies.html


Not all callers are in dire need of help. “Kids under 10 are the best,” she said with a laugh. “What language do I speak? What’s for dinner? Are you cold? What about the rain, no umbrella?”

Students seek help with exams, others with driving tests. “My answer’s always the same: I will blow some angel magic to you,” the woman said. Others just want to vent. “They talk about the church, about the abuse scandals, and so forth,” she said.

“In most cases there is laughter, but there are callers who have no faith in friends or relatives, so they would like to talk to someone they have some kind of faith in,” she said. A widow in her 80s called from Amsterdam to complain of loneliness — bad weather prevented her going out and there was no one to bring in groceries; moreover, her sink needed repairs for the equivalent of $135.



PHOTO: "I will blow some angel magic to you,” for Students who seek help with exams.
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http://community.humanityhealing.net/profiles/blogs/are-there-angels


“She said she’d lost faith in humanity, in her own family,” said the woman who lends the angel a voice. Two weeks later the elderly woman called again, to thank the angel. Things had gotten better.

Albert van Osch, 52, a musician, liked the angel so much he brought his mother and a friend to admire her on a recent rainy afternoon. “These are modern times,” he said. “This is completely modern.”

The woman who gives the angel a voice said she tries to impart a message of tolerance. A school class called recently from the southern province of Zeeland. “The kids asked why Catholics eat pork and Muslims don’t,” she said. “I said, ‘Well, Hindus are not allowed to eat cows, so perhaps Catholics are very much in between.”



PHOTO: Cherub and Ray of Light
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She does not feel she is deceiving anyone by impersonating the angel. “If someone is serious, I am serious,” she said. “If someone is calling for a prank, I go along with that.”

The couple knows that church officials are displeased. “They would like us to stop, though they haven’t told us directly,” the husband said. “We are not getting any money, and we are not competing with the church.”

She is not sure how much longer they will do it. “Till I get fed up with it, I guess,” the wife said. “Sometimes it’s hard.”


Steve Jobs will soon arrive upstairs — perhaps I’ll get a new model!
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http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/arcana/1451


But it is still fun, too. When Steve Jobs died, the phone rang endlessly. The angel, she said, told callers: “Steve Jobs will soon arrive upstairs — perhaps I’ll get a new model!”
By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Published: March 5, 2012



HELPDESK
我的字典: Wǒ de zì diǎn

Angels: 天使 - tiān shǐ
Bricklayer: 砖匠 - zhuān jiàng
Hotline: 电话热线 - diàn huà rè xiàn
Answering machine: 电话答录机 - diàn huà dá lù jī


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Ice Age flower blooms after 30,000 years

Today, Wednesday February 22, 2012, Page 36, World
From http://imcmsimages.mediacorp.sg/CMSFileserver/documents/006/PDF/20120222/2202WNP038.pdf

My Paper, Wednesday, Feburary 22, 2012, Page A8, World
From http://epaper.mypaper.sg/cnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2012-02-22

Source Website: http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC120221-0000165/Ice-Age-flower-blooms-after-30,000-years
By AP, BLOOMBERG, Updated 09:49 PM Feb 21, 2012



PHOTO: A prehistoric plant resurrected from frozen tissue.
A narrow-leaf campion, revived from the remains of 32,000-year-old fruit that was found buried within the fossilized burrows of ancient squirrels deep in the Siberian ice (BLOOMBERG).
Copyright © MediaCorp Press Ltd
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MOSCOW - It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for more than 30,000 years.

From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that could pave the way to the possible resurrection of Ice Age mammals.

"If we are lucky, we can find some frozen squirrel tissue," said Dr Stanislav Gubin, one of the authors of the study.

"And this path could lead us all the way to mammoth."



PHOTO: A red squirrel curls up to protect itself from freezing day-time temperatures in Warsaw's central Lazienki Park. Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and found in Siberian permafrost have been regenerated into full flowering plants by scientists in Russia, a new study revealed Tuesday. (AFP Photo/Janek Skarzynski).
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The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, the researchers said, and it is fertile, producing white flowers and viable seeds. Canadian researchers had earlier regenerated some significantly younger plants from seeds found in burrows.

The Russian experiment proves that permafrost serves as a natural depository for ancient life forms, said the researchers, who published their findings in yesterday's issue of the United States journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



PHOTO: Ice Age mammals
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http://image455910.seesaa.net/article/182212676.html


The Russian research team recovered the fruit after investigating dozens of fossil burrows hidden in ice deposits on the right bank of the lower Kolyma River.

The sediments, dating back 30,000 to 32,000 years, were firmly cemented together and often totally filled with ice, making any water infiltration impossible - creating a natural freezing chamber fully isolated from the surface.



PHOTO: The Russian research team recovered the fruit after investigating dozens of fossil burrows hidden in ice deposits.
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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/21/russians-resurrect-30000-year-old-frozen-flower/


"The squirrels dug the frozen ground to build their burrows, which are about the size of a soccer ball, putting in hay first and then animal fur for a perfect storage chamber," said Dr Gubin, who spent years rummaging through the area for squirrel burrows. "It's a natural cryobank (A place of storage that uses very low temperatures to preserve semen or transplantable tissues)."

The burrows were located 38m below the present surface in layers containing bones of large mammals, such as mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, bison, horse and deer.



PHOTO: Woolly mammoth tusks dug up from Siberian permafrost in 1999
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http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16174136


Japanese scientists are already searching in the same area for mammoth remains, but Dr Gubin hopes that the Russians will be the first to find some frozen animal tissue that could be used for regeneration.

"It's our land, we will try to get them first," he said.
By AP, BLOOMBERG, Updated 09:49 PM Feb 21, 2012


Ice Age Dinosaurs
PHOTO: Ice Age Dinosaurs
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Source Website: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/20/flowers-regenerated-from-30000-year-old-frozen-fruits-buried-by-ancient-squirrels/

Svetlana Yashina from the Russian Academy of Sciences grew the plants from immature fruits recovered from the burrow. She extracted their placentas – the structure that the seeds attach to – and bathed them in a brew of sugars, vitamins and growth factors. From these tissues, roots and shoots emerged.

Yashina potted the plants and two years later, they developed flowers. She fertilised the ancient flowers with each other’s pollen, and in a few months, they had produced their own seeds and fruits, all viable. The frozen plants, blooming again after millennia in the freezer, seeded a new generation.



PHOTO: Still growing strong: After 30,500 years buried in permanently frozen soil, the Silene stenophylla bore fruit and bloomed petite white flowers.
© National News and Pictures
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http://www.sott.net/articles/show/241859-Just-in-time-for-the-ice-age-Ancient-plant-brought-back-to-life-after-being-buried-by-squirrels-in-Siberian-permafrost-more-than-30-000-years-ago


S.stenophylla’s resurrection shows how many treasures lie buried within the world’s permafrost. This soil, defined as that which stays below freezing for two years or more, covers a fifth of the planet’s land. It is home to bacteria, algae, fungi, plants and more. In the fossil burrows that Yashina has studied, scientists have found up to 600,000 to 800,000 seeds in individual chambers.

Update: The lead author, David Gilichinsky passed away on 18 February, just two days before his final paper was published.


David Gilichinsky passed away on 18 February, just two days before his final paper was published.
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