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  1. How long will it take to re-activate my website if it was suspended due to lack of hosting credits? Thanks for concern.
  2. Maybe you can consult about the potential problems with some departments or agencies in your country. Since there might be not so many Bangladeshi on this website and there might be enormous differences in laws or policies in various countries, so it is not likely for the members of Xisto to provide appropriate suggestions which can apply to your situation in Bangladesh. Or you can visit to some mature companies in this field, or be hired be such a company for a time that you can obtain a mature comprehension on every aspect of the operation of such a company. It is always believed that if you wanna succeed in operating your own business, you'd better work for others' business for a time. From this angle, you can also contact some people who are on the manage board in a certain company and hire him/her as your consultant. Best wishes for your new business.
  3. TOPIC: "We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning."WORDS: 377 TIME: 00:42:00 DATE: 2008-4-3 9:39:42When it comes to the problem whether we can learn more from people holding similar views with us or from those supporting opposite views, I will definitely choose to learn from people with contradict opinions without any hesitate. For one thing, those maintaining different views can aid to point out the flaws and weak points on us; for another, debating with them can help to exploit the truth hidden behind; even more, it is various debations among people holding thoroughly different statements that push the humanity civilization forward in history. While only working with analogous views will enclose our vision, slow down the pregress for human beings. First of all, those maintaining different views can aid to point out the flaws and weak points on us. Looking back to our growth path ever since we were born, we will easily find out a fact that being more mature actually consists of the accumulations of others critiques when we did something wrong. Imagine a world without any rejecting voices, without anyone else pointing out our weak points, we will never be aware of what we did wrong, what we did right. For another, debating with them can motivate us to exploit the truth hidden behind. Debation is actually a communication method for us to express our opinions, especially with thoroughly contradict views; during this course, everyone can contribute his very little value to the whole team, therefore a comprehensive conclusion is made. Even more, it is various debations among people holding thoroughly different statements that push the humanity civilization forward in history. Similarily to individuals, human progress is an accuHowever, not only can working with analogous views enclose our vision, but also it will slow down the progress for human beings. Bruno, who published his sun-center theory by accurate calculations and violated the common perception of earth-center, was sentenced to death by the authoroties because of his opposite statement on the center of universe. What would it be like if the authoroties at that time had not enclosed their opinion in earth-center but had accepted the contradict opinion? Maybe Newton would have find gravity from earth earlier, sapce exploration had taken place decades ago, and possibly the general level of human science would have been enhanced more. TOPIC: The Mozart School of Music should obviously be the first choice of any music student aware of its reputation. First of all, the Mozart School stresses intensive practice and training, so that students typically begin their training at a very young age. Second, the school has ample facilities and up-to-date professional equipment, and its faculty includes some of the most distinguished music teachers in the world. Finally, many Mozart graduates have gone on to be the best known and most highly paid musicians in the nation.WORDS: 310 TIME: 00:27:00 DATE: 2008-4-3 9:39:42The author claims that the Mozart School of Music (MSM) should be the first priority when selecting a school for music students aware of its reputation. To support his claim, he points out the three advantages of MSM: (1) MSM students typically begin their training at a very young age because of its intensive practice and training; (2) MSM owns affluent facilities and up-to-date professional equipment, and hires some teachers of high reputation in the world; (3) Many MSM graduates have become the best known and most highly paid musicians in the nation. However, this argument suffers from the following flaws, unconvincing as it stands. First of all, the early start of training for a student can only apply to young music learners but not adult. The argument implies that MSM's extensive practice and training from a student's beginning days lead to a mature master of basic and advanced music skills, then lead to success. However, for those adolescent at an elder age or even adults, can they get ample practice and training of such kind? It is quite dubious. Secondly, the author fails to illustrate the learning atmosphere in MSM. Though facilities, equipment and faculty play a significant role for a student's comprehensive improvement of music skills, yet learning atmosphere is also essential for a student's growth. It is possible that most of students in MSM cannot get access to such up-to-date equipment due to various reasons, which is very common in many higher institutions. Perhaps students in MSM severely lack communications with each other therefore little progress can be made. In the final analysis, not everyone aims at high reputation or imcomes. It is entirely possible that some students just learn music for the sake of their own interests. Or perhaps they just want to master an additional skill to enhance their competition when hunting for a job.
  4. TOPIC "For many years all the stores in our chain have stocked a wide variety of both domestic and imported cheeses. Last year, however, the five best-selling cheeses at our newest store were all domestic cheddar cheeses from Wisconsin. Furthermore, a recent survey by Cheeses of the World magazine indicates an increasing preference for domestic cheeses among its subscribers. Since our company can reduce expenses by limiting inventory, the best way to improve profits in all of our stores is to discontinue stocking many of our varieties of imported cheese and concentrate primarily on domestic cheeses." WORDS: 502 TIME: 00:28:00 In the memo, he president recommends a cease of stocking many of the varieties of imported cheese and a concentration on domestic cheeses. To support his recommendation, he cites a survey led by Cheese of the World magazine among its subscribers which indicates an increasing trend of consumption on domestic cheeses. He also points out that all the stores in their chain have stocked plenty of both domestic and imported cheeses, thus deleting those imported cheeses from the inventory would benefit the company due to a decreased expense. To strengthen his conclusion, he claims that it would be the best way to implement the recommendation in all the chain stores. However, with further considerations into the problem, one can easily find this recommendation unconvincing as it stands in the following aspects. First of all, whether the survey is statistically reliable is open to doubt. Lacking of detailed information of the survey about when the survey was made, how many respondents reacted, and whether those respondents can be regarded as the representative of the targeted customers for the cheese chain company. It is entirely possible that the subscribers are low-income family members so that they preferred to domestic cheeses for their relatively lower prices, and perhaps such a group of customers are not the targeted consumers for the company. Or perhaps the survey led by the magazine was sponsored by a domestic cheese retailing company which led the subscribers not to show their real preferences. Either of the reasons can diminish the reliability of the survey. Further more, the president fails to take the cost of potential losses of sales in other districts out of the surveyed areas, merely based on the cut of expense by limiting inventory in the short run. Admittedly limiting inventory of imported cheeses will result in a cut on cost, however this might be just a small fraction of the potential profits from the increase of sales on imported cheeses. In this condition, the company would benefit more from the imported cheeses other than withdrawing from shelves. In the final analysis, the president fails to explain why the solution is the best way to maximize the profits without comparing other alternatives. Lacking information about the company, we cannot rule out the possibility that the cease of profits in imported cheeses was conducted by poor management, limited advertisement campaign, or even wrong decisions from the board. Also the president fails to prove this solution to be the most profit plan without comparing the other strategies from other segments of the company. To sum up, the recommendation is not so persuasive as it stands. To get it more convincing, the president should clearly announce the statistical reliability of the survey. Also he needs to precisely compare the potential losses of sales after deleting the imported cheeses from inventory with the extra savings by doing so. To better assess the recommendation, I must also know the alternative solutions and the accurate gains and losses to evaluate whether this solution the best one.
  5. I am a man, unable to get such a feeling though, yet I do concede that there are some unknown mysteries sciences cannot explain even in such a highly scientific world. But I guess this is not some kind of mystery, instead, a kind of biological changes inside the body which result in the phenomenon. Maybe some specialist can explain the problem with nutrition, genetic knowledge, physical theorems. Who knows...
  6. It might be true for the enlargement of pupils when you are looking at something you like, such as a delicious meal on the table, a cheesecake. Then your hormone inside begins to produce more than average. But I doubt whether the enlargement of eyes also makes you look more sexy more attractive. Surveys also show that the pupils enlarge when one is under extreme tensity. Then I look more attractive if I am extremely tense? haha
  7. As far as I know from biology class, two eggs per day for an adult is enough to absorb protein. For more, one will be exposed to a high risk of cholesterol-caused chain diseases like coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis. As the basic foundations of protein, amino acid counts. Among all the eighteen kinds of indispensable amino acid which can not be produced inner our body, there might be some kinds of amino acid that you cannot obtain merely from eggs. Thus a lot of other various kinds of food is necessary for you, taking your future health condition into consideration, including those can aid to produce decompose into indispensable amino acid through the inner metabolism. For more detailed information about the amino acids, you can refer to some professional books or your doctor. There you can get a more nutritious diet suggestion than now. For the long run, you'd better pay more attention to your variety and nutrition of your absorption.
  8. Thanks for your patient reply. As instructed from the above, I have been browsing news on WSJ online, CNN, NYTimes and Scientific American. But now the problem is there might be a lot of hidden habitual mistakes in my prerequisite, other than I have not sufficient materials to write about. Should there be a native American helping me modify such mistakes, I will be so grateful. By the way, I am to take the GRE writing test early April, not more than two weeks left to promote my writing. Any volunteer to modify my compositions?
  9. In my opinion, I think the best wap site and the first one in my opera-mini bookmark is WAP.SCIAM.COM, Scientific American. In this site, you can get a digest of the recent advances in all fields of science, as well as detailed stories about preferred topics. In this way, one can enlarge his horizon with tiny network traffic. Also, its prestigious reports and justifiable commentaries are good resources for technical English. Most of all, it's free of charge, unlike the charged news.
  10. My last phone is Sony Ericsson K510. Now I am suing a new phone Nokia 5300 of China Mobile Release. And I am sorry to hear about the Motorola split.
  11. Yes, there is quantities of special codes with various functions. As far as I can remember, at least the following codes may apply to some of SE phones: →*←←*←* to run test function (without any settings on navigation keys) (→:RIGHT ←:LEFT) *#0000# to set phone language *→*←←*←* to run test function (without any settings on navigation keys) (→:RIGHT ←:LEFT) I hope it will help. If there is anything regarding special codes on your cell phone, please inform me the model of your phone via message.
  12. I agree. There is a popular saying in China that women are always making changes to amuse the beloved men. That is, they may have made several changes in their daily life to get you happier. Also I have a question: since the women with you are so happy, why do you feel unhappy? From this aspect, I think there is another possibility that they dedicate a lot of time and energy on you so that they lost the weight to some degree. If this is the case, a psychologist is advised for you to diagnose whether there is too much pressure inside your mind. Best wishes.
  13. Cool question. Before thinking over this question, let's think about another question: Bruno found out that the sun not the earth is the center of universe. However, at that time Papacy regarded the earth as the cosmic center. Then a contradiction came out: whether the public should believe in the GOD, represented by Papacy, or the SCIENCE, Bruno as a representative? Common sense though it is for contemporary people that the sun is the cosmic center, yet who can imagine the heated discussions at that time, undeveloped in science and ruled mainly by theology, about this COMMON SENSE today? As science progressed forward, human being solved more and more controversial problems in a scientific way. Gradually more and more common sense formed. Yet, as more disputations were fixed, more emerging problems came at an advanced level. Before such emerging problems could be explained in a scientific way, people always turn to spirituality, like the GOD, for psychological satisfaction as a born nature for human beings. Time forward, more research work dedicated to such new controversial problems made it clear that science can explain how these problems came out. This is an interesting circulation that human beings seem never tired to solve emerging problems, first in a supernatural way then a scientific way. Why GOD still exists in western people's minds for so long a period? It is obvious that never could be various problems solved completely, therefore people will turn to GOD for spiritual explanation or satisfaction. This is more or less like the egg-chicken problem, one producing another forever without definitely RIGHT explanation. However, in my point of view, science is a definite trend as human progresses, accompanied by super-nature. The only thing making a person unique is the solution of 'a' and 'b', weight of science and spirituality, in the equation Uniqueness=a*Science+b*Spirituality (0=<a=<1, 0=<b=<1, 0=<a+b=<1), based on his framework of knowledge.
  14. After reading through the model essays on GRE official websites, I felt ever pressure. According to the BARRON'S HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE GRE, fluency, organization and technical English are three utmost important factors for GRE writing. However, for those Asian students like me, writing in idiomatic and grammatically correct compositions is really challenging. For example, most of those Japanese students study English word by word other than sentence by sentence, forming habitual mistakes in word matching in a Japanese way, thus it is quite common that nobody else but the Japanese could understand the whole composition. In this situation, a fixed phrase might be toughly torn out. Then here comes the question: how could an non-native English speaker improve his writing skills? A generally advised method is to practice writing on and on. Imagine that one had no sense of his mistakes, how could others expect his correction by continually practice? It just applies to the English writing for oriental students. Forming solid mistakes and having no sense of them, they generally get lower mark than the Americans in GRE Analytical Writing, even though they have devoted much of their time practicing for GRE. There is no exception for me as a Chinese. In April, I am to take AW test. But now I have little confidence to get an ideal score though I have practiced writing for months. Is there any native American available to help me correct the idiomatic mistakes in my compositions? Thank you. Here are two samples of my essays. Thanks for your concern, and I will so appreciate your modification. TOPIC: The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a national newspaper. "Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in the United States is misleading. The article gives the mistaken impression that many competent workers who lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment. But this impression is contradicted by a recent report on the United States economy, which found that since 1992 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated. The report also demonstrates that many of those who lost their jobs have found new employment. Two-thirds of the newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time." *Downsizing is the process in which corporations deliberately reduce the number of their employees. WORDS: 415 TIME: 00:30:00 DATE: 2008-4-5 11:09:50 In the letter, the author disagrees with the editor of a national newspaper who composed an article giving the readers a misleading impression that the nationwide corporate downsizing results in the enduring financial challenges for those having lost their jobs in the process. To support his disagreement, he cites a reconomy report which shows an increase of jobs since 1992, and indicates that many have found new jobs after unemployment. He also cites that two-thirds of the new jobs are full-time ones and provide above-average salaries. However, with scutiny on the process of his analysis, one can easily find it unconvincing as it stands. First of all, the author unfairly assume that most capable workers who have lost their jobs in the corporate downsizing find new jobs again due to an general increase of job vacancies. Consider a printer A who was more skillful in manual printing in 1970's than the rest of the industry. With the development of newly introduced printing technologies, fewer manual printing operator are needed than before, though the printing industry is booming at the present, offering ever more job chances for competetors. How could A find his ideal job merely with his out-of-date skills in the newly formed printing industry? Perhaps those newly created jobs call for newly skills and technologies while most of those losing their jobs lack. Or perhaps the newly offered jobs include most manual jobs, saying, city engineers, newspaper distributors, which the experienced competent workers who lost their jobs are not willing to choose. Either of the explanations can give us an alternative for the possible situation. Even if most of competent workers find their jobs again from the newly created vacancies, no evidence shows they are among the two thirds who receive higher wages than avarage. Though the avarage wages for the newly created jobs have been in the industries offering higher salaries, we cannot get detailed information about how much those people who have lost their jobs get as an average. It is entirely possible that those industries call for initiatives and innovations which are more suitable for the young, not for the elder experienced workers. For this reason, we can fully believe that the experienced people cannot get so high wages. In sum, the author fails to convince me with the merely general data, lacking detailed analysis of the making-up of those newly jobs. Besides, he also needs to provide more protrait of the avarage salaries they get after finding the new jobs. TOPIC: "There are two typesof laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility toobey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjustlaws." WORDS: 627 TIME: 00:43:00 DATE: 2008-4-5 11:59:54 A recent heatedly discussion involves in the fairness of laws: just and unjust. Everyone will encounter a vital problemis to what extent a law can be regarded as just or unjust. Without a clear judgment of the justice of laws, no one could make any conclusion about whether we should obey or disobey a law. In fact, in my pint of view, the laws,including its set-up and implementation, will definitely go forward into a more scientific and democratic direction, though the dispute of the justice and obeyance will exist in a long time. When it comes to the justice of laws, I have not seen a absolutely authentic judgment about it. Why, you may wonder,are there not any widely accepted instructions about the justice of laws so far, though quantities of debates have come up? The reason is simple that there is no unified standard like ISO9002, a quality standard. Consider the Marriage Law in China which restricts the rights of wives and husbands. In the wealth part, it commands the husband-and -wife share all the incomes they get after legal marriage, as well as expenses. However a practical question comes out:generally the husband earns more salaries per month than his wife does in China,it might be "unfair" for him to share half of the incomes with his wife when they get divorced. But for a wife, he might deem it to be"just" for women should be protected due to their innate disadvantages, and the society does protect them in many fields. In this case,no one could draw a conclusion about the justice convincing to all about this part of the Marriage Law. It is the same with many other laws all over the world. No single standard can we rely on to get a general judgment about justice of laws. Since we have not got an unified standard about the justice of laws, harsh decision of obeyance or disobayance will definitely cause disorders in the whole society. Can you imagine a scenario which the printing companies disobey the Environment Protecting Law for its negative impact on the profits and keeps pulling water with poisons directly into rivers, whereas an environmentalist, who advocates highly on protecting endangered species near the severely polluted printing company calls for punishment on the company? It is hard to image the consequence if it did happen in our society.Obviously such a contradict on related laws will cause severe social problems,even catastrophe, not only limited in a certain field but widely spread in the related chain. From the foregoing analysis, there are quite a lot of problems on law set-up and implementations to be solved if we want to live better in a democratic society. The first and fundamental problem springs from the set-up of a law. Before a law is publicly announced and valid,the authorities should consider carefully about whether a draw-up a law can suit for the contemporary situations, how to avoid potential contradicts among related laws, whether a law can sustain its role in the long run. Only in this way can we prevent potential disputes to a larger degree. On the other hand, whether a law can be implemented efficiently is also a critical challenge on the issue. Police and army forces should take their responsibilities when a disobeyance truly happens. And only complete and no bureaucracy on the implementations on disobeyscan entitle the rights of those who strictly obey the laws. To sum up, before we can not judge whether a law is just or not, no conclusion about the abeyance can be convincingly made. Only under the scientific set-up of a law by the authorities and justimplementations by the forces can people's rights be protected.
  15. Absolutely I agree with the statement that margin trading is highly risky so that it is not fit for everyone. Seeing from the bankruptcy of Barings, one will easily find that an intelligent management of risks plays the essential role in the whole process. Especially for those with a fixed schedule at work, it is not likely to spend much time on such a financial matter-hedge against inflation is far more practical than making enormous profits with leverage. However this might not be the case in a relatively solid recession of us dollar. If you can judge a relatively fixed trend in a pair, say EUR/USD, during a valid period, then such a leverage can offer you great chance to win times more than your wage. Just like cncinfotech said, "leverage is two edge sword". Another leverage similar to margin trading is option, from which I earned 400% during a week, and lost 60% in three hours. Best wishes for all in the foreign exchange and its derivatives.
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