Finance & Economy

My Miraculous Family

I never considered myself unique, but people are constantly telling me, "you are a miracle." To me, I was just an ordinary "guy" with realistic goals and big dreams. I was a 19-year-old student at the University of Texas and well on my way toward fulfilling my "big dream" of one day becoming an 1)orthopedic surgeon.

On the night of February 17, 1981 I was studying for an 2)Organic Chemistry test at the library with Sharon, my girlfriend of three years. Sharon had asked me to drive her back to her dormitory as it was getting quite late. We got into my car, not realizing that just getting into a car would never quite be the same for me again. I quickly noticed that my gas 3)gauge was registered on empty so I pulled into a nearby convenience store to buy $2.00 worth of gas. "I'll be back in two minutes," I yelled at Sharon as I closed the door. But instead, those two minutes changed my life forever.

Entering the convenience store was like entering the 4)twilight zone. On the outside I was a healthy, athletic, pre-med student, but on the inside I was just another statistic of a violent crime. I thought I was entering an empty store, but suddenly I realized it was not empty at all. Three robbers were in the process of committing a robbery and my entrance into the store caught them by surprise. One of the criminals immediately 5)shoved a .38 6)caliber handgun to my head, ordered me to the cooler, pushed me down on the floor, and pumped a bullet into the back of my head - execution style. He obviously thought I was dead because he did not shoot me again. The 7) trio of thieves finished robbing the store and left calmly.

Meanwhile, Sharon wondered why I had not returned. After seeing the three men leave the store she really began to worry as I was the last person she saw entering the store. She quickly went inside to look for me, but saw no one-only an almost empty cash register containing one check and several pennies. Quickly she ran down each aisle shouting, "Mike, Mike!"

Just then the 8) attendant appeared from the back of the store shouting, "Lady, get down on the floor. I've just been robbed and shot at!"

Sharon quickly dropped to the floor screaming, "Have you seen my boyfriend? He has 9)auburn hair." The man did not reply but went back to the cooler where he found me choking on my vomit. The attendant quickly cleaned my mouth and then called for the police and an ambulance.

Sharon was in shock. She was beginning to understand that I was hurt, but she could not begin to comprehend or imagine the severity of my injury.

When the police arrived they immediately called the 10)homicide division as they did not think I would survive and the 11)paramedic reported that she had never seen a person so severely wounded survive. At 1:30 a.m. my parents who lived in Houston, were awakened by a telephone call from Brackenridge Hospital advising them to come to Austin as soon as possible for they feared I would not make it through the night.

But I did make it through the night and early in the morning the 12)neurosurgeon decided to operate. However, he quickly informed my family and Sharon that my chances of surviving the surgery were only 40/60. If this were not bad enough, the neurosurgeon further shocked my family by telling them what life would be like for me if I 13)beat the odds and survived. He said I probably would never walk, talk, or be able to understand even simple commands.

My family was hoping and praying to hear even the slightest bit of encouragement from that doctor. Instead, his pessimistic words gave my family no reason to believe that I would ever again be a productive member of society. But once again I beat the odds and survived the three and a half hours of surgery.

Granted, I still could not talk, my entire right side was paralyzed and many people thought I could not understand, but at least I was stable. After one week in a private room the doctors felt I had improved enough to be transferred by jet ambulance to Del Oro 14)Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston.

My 15)hallucinations, coupled with my physical problems, made my 16)prognosis still very bleak. However, as time passed my mind began to clear and approximately six weeks later my right leg began to move ever so slightly. Within seven weeks my right arm slowly began to move and at eight weeks I uttered my first few words.

My speech was extremely difficult and slow in the beginning, but at least it was a beginning. I was starting to look forward to each new day to see how far I would progress. But just as I thought my life was finally looking brighter I was tested by the hospital europsychologist. She explained to me that judging from my test results she believed that I should not focus on returning to college but that it would be better to set more "realistic goals."

Upon hearing her evaluation I became furious for I thought, "Who is she to tell me what I can or cannot do. She does not even know me. I am a very determined and stubborn person!" I believe it was at that very moment that I decided I would somehow, someday return to college.

It took me a long time and a lot of hard work but I finally returned to the University of Texas in the fall of 1983 - a year and a half after almost dying. The next few years in Austin were very difficult for me, but I truly believe that in order to see beauty in life you have to experience some unpleasantness. Maybe I have experienced too much unpleasantness, but I believe in living each day to the fullest, and doing the very best I can.

And each new day was very busy and very full, for besides attending classes at the University I underwent therapy three to five days each week at Brackenridge Hospital. If this were not enough I flew to Houston every other weekend to work with Tom Williams, a trainer and executive who had worked for many colleges and professional teams and also had helped many injured athletes, such as Earl Campbell and Eric Dickerson. Through Tom I learned: "Nothing is impossible and never, never give up or quit."

Early, during my therapy, my father kept repeating to me one of his favorite sayings. I have repeated it almost every day since being hurt: "Mile by mile it's a trial; yard by yard it's hard; but inch by inch it's a cinch."

I thought of those words, and I thought of Tom, my family and Sharon who believed so strongly in me as I climbed the steps to receive my diploma from the Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas on that bright sunny afternoon in June of 1986. Excitement and pride filled my heart as I heard the dean announce that I had graduated with "highest honors", been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and been chosen as one of 12 Dean's Distinguished Graduates out of 1600 in the College of Liberal Arts.

The overwhelming emotions and feelings that I experienced at that very moment, when most of the audience gave me a standing 17)ovation, I felt would never again be matched in my life-not even when I graduated with a masters degree in social work and not even when I became employed full time at the Texas Pain and Stress Center. But I was wrong!

On May 24, 1987, I realized that nothing could ever match the joy I felt as Sharon and I were married. Sharon, my high school sweetheart of nine years, had always stood by me, through good and bad times. To me, Sharon is my miracle, my diamond in a world filled with problems, hurt, and pain. It was Sharon who dropped out of school when I was hurt so that she could constantly be at my side. She never wavered or gave up on me.

It was her faith and love that pulled me through so many dark days. While other nineteen year old girls were going to parties and enjoying life, Sharon devoted her life to my recovery. That, to me, is the true definition of love.

After our beautiful wedding I continued working part time at the Pain Center and completed my work for a masters degree. We were extremely happy, but even happier when we learned Sharon was pregnant.

On July 11, 1990 at 12:15 a.m. Sharon woke me with the news: "We need to go to the hospital… my water just broke." I couldn't help but think how ironic it was that my life almost ended in a convenience store and now on the date "7-11" we were about to bring a new life into this world. This time it was my turn to help Sharon as she had helped me over those past years.

She was in labor for 15 hours. At 3:10 p.m. Sharon and I experienced the birth of our beautiful daughter, Shawn Elyse Segal!

Tears of joy and happiness came to my eyes as our healthy, alert, wonderful daughter entered this world. We anxiously counted her 10 fingers and her 10 toes and watched her wide eyes take in the world about her. It was truly a beautiful picture that was 18)etched in my mind forever as she lie in her mother's waiting arms, just minutes after her birth. At that moment I thanked God for blessing us with the greatest miracle of all-Shawn Elyse Segal.

Edinburgh Festivals

Traditional Scottish celebrations at the Military Tattoo

Summer in Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, is the time for festivals. Between the end of August and the beginning of September there are several different festivals which take place there.

The original Edinburgh International Festival started in 1947, and offers visitors a rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and dance. The same year that the official festival began, a handful of theatrical companies gatecrashed the festival and organised their own event, which grew into what is now called the Fringe Festival.

The term ‘fringe’ means something on the outside of the main event, but over the years, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has become the largest of all the festivals, and indeed the largest arts festival in the world!

The Fringe features performers and acts which are less traditional and more unconventional than those in the International Festival, and includes a lot of stand-up comedy shows, music and children’s entertainment. The Edinburgh Fringe is seen as an important place for up and coming stand-up comedians to perform at.

At the same time in Edinburgh there are various other festivals, such as the Jazz and Blues festival, the Book Festival, the Film Festival, and even an Internet Festival! There is also a multicultural festival called Mela, which celebrates the diversity of people living in Edinburgh, in particular people with South Asian orgins.

Edinburgh Castle is the site of one of the most spectacular events ? The Military Tattoo. A military tattoo has nothing to do with a tattoo on your skin! It means a performance of military music, for example, by marching bands. In Scotland the military tattoo traditionally includes bagpipes and drums. This year the display will also feature dancers, horses and motorbikes!

Though you have to pay to attend most of the events at the various festivals, there are several groups who organise large numbers of free events as well.

Unusual Names

Recently, a couple in New Zealand were forbidden from naming their baby son 4Real. Even though New Zealand has quite liberal rules about naming children, names beginning with a number are not allowed. They decided to call him Superman instead.

In many countries around the world, unusual names for children are becoming more popular, especially since the increasing trend for celebrities to give their children wacky names. In Britain, you can call a child almost anything you like ? the only restrictions on parents relate to offensive words such as swear words.

Some parents choose names which come from popular culture. For example, there have been six boys named Gandalf after the character in the Lord of the Rings novels and films. Equally, names related to sport are fairly common ? since 1984, 36 children have been called Arsenal after the football team.

Other parents like to make up names, or combine names to make their own unique version, a method demonstrated by Jordan, the British model, who recently invented the name Tiáamii for her daughter by combining the names Thea and Amy (the two grandmothers). She was quoted as saying that the accent and double letters were added to make the name 'more exotic'.

Other countries have much stricter rules when it comes to naming children. Countries including Japan, Denmark, Spain, Germany and Argentina have an approved list of names from which parents must choose. In China, there are some rules about what you may call a child ? no foreign letters or symbols are allowed. As a result a couple were recently banned from calling their baby @.

In Britain, some names which were previously thought of as old-fashioned have become more popular again, such as Maisie or Ella for a girl, or Alfie or Noah for a boy.

But the most popular names are not the wacky ones. The top names are fairly traditional ? Jack, Charlie and Thomas for boys and Grace, Ruby and Jessica for girls.

Medical experts never testified in Katri

(CNN) -- A New Orleans grand jury that declined to indict a doctor on charges that she murdered patients in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina never heard testimony from five medical experts brought in by the state to analyze the deaths.

All five concluded that as many as nine patients were victims of homicide.

In detailed, written statements, the five specialists -- whose expertise includes forensic medicine, medical ethics and palliative care -- determined that patients at Memorial Medical Center had been deliberately killed with overdoses of drugs after Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005.

The grand jury had been asked to consider second-degree murder charges against a doctor and two nurses in four deaths. But in July, the grand jury decided that no one should be indicted.

A grand jury is charged with determining whether there is sufficient evidence to indict a defendant and pursue a trial. The grand jury's proceedings are held in secret, and grand jurors and officers of the court are typically prohibited from divulging what goes on in grand jury sessions.

In a decision that puzzled the five experts hired by the state, New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan never called them to testify before the grand jury. What remains unclear, because of grand jury secrecy laws, is whether the grand jury even saw the experts' written reports.

"They weren't interested in presenting those facts to the grand jury," said Dr. Cyril Wecht, the former coroner of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and a past president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists.

"The hard scientific facts are those from five leading experts, [the patients died] from massive lethal doses of morphine and Versed. As far as I know the toxicological findings were not presented to the grand jury and certainly not with quantitative analysis."

Deplorable conditions at medical center

While the grand jury considered charges in four hospital patients' deaths, the medical experts' reports reveal that investigators believed as many as nine patients were victims of homicide. The documents were released after CNN filed a public records request. Read the documents (pdf)

The probe into the deaths of patients at Memorial Medical Center began after witnesses alleged that seriously ill, mostly elderly patients had been euthanized by medical staff as floodwaters rose around Memorial and conditions inside the building became nearly intolerable.

Those originally arrested in the investigation have denied any wrongdoing, and their lawyers have said they should be applauded for staying with patients as conditions inside the hospital worsened.

One of the physicians absolved in the proceedings, Dr. Anna Pou, described post-Katrina conditions at the hospital as "less than Third World." Hospital staff went into "reverse triage," in which the sickest patients would be treated last, Pou told Newsweek in an article published Saturday.

In the interview, she acknowledges sedating the sickest patients -- not to kill them, she said, but to alleviate their pain until medical personnel could treat them properly.

'I think a lot of people are perplexed'

Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti also questions why Jordan did not call the five experts before the grand jury. Foti's office conducted the investigation before turning over the evidence to Jordan.

"We're perplexed. I think a lot of people are perplexed," Kris Wartelle, a spokeswoman for Foti, said.

"Those victims' loved ones are asking what happened. They want to know what happened. I think our concern has always been and always will be about them. Nine people died, according to one of the experts, in a three-hour period; one of the experts called that beyond coincidence," she said.

Arthur Caplan, the chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said it's inconceivable that the case is not going to go to trial.

"I was never called to the grand jury," said Caplan. "As far as I know, the grand jury never saw my reports. As far as I know, none of the reports prepared by these experts, who looked at all the cases, who were independent, and came to the conclusion that massive amounts of drugs were used as the cause of death and that they couldn't have been requested [by the patients], they had to be given involuntarily. That's evidence that I think a grand jury would want to be familiar with before it made its decision as to whether or not to proceed with an indictment.

"Now you can still get into a dispute about the evidence," Caplan added. "You can get into a dispute about the circumstances and all the rest of it, but at face value there is no other conclusion I think that's possible, other than these people -- or someone -- killed them."

District attorney says insufficient evidence

Last year, Foti ordered the arrests of Pou and two nurses, Lori Budo and Cheri Landry, on preliminary charges of second-degree murder in the deaths of four of the patients.

Jordan -- who under Louisiana law was responsible for presenting the case to the grand jury -- gave Budo and Landry immunity, in effect ending the state case against them, in exchange for their testimony.

Jordan has refused repeated requests for an interview to discuss his actions in the case. Last week, he sent an e-mail in response to a question about why he had not called the five experts to testify.

"It is inappropriate to disclose what the grand jury did or did not consider," said the e-mail. "The Orleans Parish grand jury concluded that there was insufficient evidence to indict Dr. Poe (sic) on any violations of criminal law."

But all five forensic specialists believe the medical evidence warranted a trial. All five said that the medical charts, toxicology and autopsy reports they reviewed indicate that deliberate overdoses the pain killer morphine and the sedative Versed led to the deaths of the nine patients.

"The primary and immediate cause of death for each of these patients was acute combined drug toxicity, specifically morphine and Versed," wrote Wecht. "The manner of death would be classified as homicide."

"Large doses of these drugs were present in patients and the administration of the drug was not documented," wrote James Young, the former chief coroner of the province of Ontario, Canada, who, like Wecht, once served as president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

"Accidental overdoses would need to have occurred nine times between 12 noon and 3:30 p.m., all on one floor, to every patient who was left on the floor," Young wrote. " Again, it is noted that morphine was not ordered for seven of the patients and Versed was not ordered for any. Therefore it seems highly unlikely that nine patients died on the same floor on the same afternoon of accidental overdose."

Caplan wrote that there was no evidence any patient asked to be given assistance in dying, and no evidence that any consented to be given an overdose of medication to end their lives.

"In reviewing the facts and opinions, my conclusion is that the deaths of the nine persons at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans are all cases of active euthanasia," Caplan wrote. "Each person died with massive doses of narcotic drugs in their bodies."

Dr. Frank Brescia, a Charleston, South Carolina, doctor specializing in palliative care, wrote that the patients were very ill and the deteriorating conditions in a hospital without air conditioning, electricity and running water contributed to the patients' declining health. Still, he wrote, those conditions did not kill them.

Brescia wrote, "I feel that the manner of death in these individuals, especially in four cases, obligates the legal process to consider them as homicides."

In fact, Brescia wrote in his report that the medical charts showed the patients were "stable, without an immediate or obvious threat of dying."

Dr. Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist from New York, also concluded that all nine patients died from drug overdoses.

"It is further my opinion that the circumstances surrounding these simultaneous deaths mandate a homicidal manner of death," Baden wrote.

Wecht was the first expert hired by Foti on the recommendation of New Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard. When Jordan took over the case, he ordered Minyard to hire additional experts. Caplan was asked to review the work of Baden, Brescia, Wecht and Young.

Report: Decision made to administer lethal doses

In its executive summary report included with the forensic experts' findings, the attorney general's office paints a chilling picture of what its investigators say happened four days after the hurricane hit New Orleans.

The summary cites a number of people -- whose names are blacked out in the report -- as having offered statements through their attorneys and having sought immunity from prosecution.

The summary states that Pou told the nurse executive of Lifecare, the acute care facility on the seventh floor of the hospital that housed the nine patients, that "a decision had been made to administer lethal doses of morphine to Lifecare patients."

According to the report, none of the nine was a patient of Pou's and there was no indication she had talked to their doctors before seeing them on the day they died.

The attorney general's report also said that other medical personnel told Pou that one of the patients, Emmett Everett Sr., was conscious and alert. Everett was 61 years old, weighed almost 400 pounds and was confined to a wheelchair.

"Dr. Pou decided (patient name blacked out) could not be evacuated. He could not be taken out by boat because he was not ambulatory and Dr. Pou felt he was too heavy to be evacuated by helicopter," according to the report.

In a written statement, Pou's lawyer denied that the combination of morphine and Versed is a "lethal cocktail." In addition, Rick Simmons said Pou's own expert said it is well-known among scientists that blood levels of morphine are "greatly increased" in patients who have been dead for many days. Read Dr. Pou's response to attorney general (pdf)

Pou does not deny giving the patients drugs. In the days following Hurricane Katrina, floodwaters ran freely through the sweltering, pitch-black hospital, carrying human waste through its corridors, Pou told Newsweek.

Patients were moaning and crying in the halls; some were being fanned with slats of cardboard, others cooled off with dirty water and ice. Treatment was being administered under flashlights, Pou told the magazine.

"What you have to do when resources are limited, you have to save the people you know that you can save. And not everybody is going to survive those kind of conditions. And we knew that," Pou told Newsweek.

The patients on the seventh floor were among the sickest in the hospital, Pou said. Pou administered painkillers and sedatives "to help the patients that were having pain and sedate the patients who were anxious," she acknowledged.

"Basically what we're trying to do is help the patients. Let me tell you --God strike me dead -- what we were trying to do was help the patients," she told Newsweek. "Any medicines given were for comfort. If in doing so it hastened their deaths, then that's what happened. But this was not, 'I'm going to go to the seventh floor and murder some people.' We're here to help patients."

John DiGiulio, attorney for Landry, one of the nurses originally targeted by the state investigation, said he wasn't privy to the grand jury testimony. "But," he said, "I don't think any information was withheld from the grand jury."

DiGiulio said of his client and the circumstances in the hospital: "[The patients] were either dead or dying in the early days of Katrina. [Landry] was there to assist in giving comfort and care to the dying."

Eddie Castaing, attorney for Budo, the other nurse, said the state's experts' comments don't mean anything.

"The grand jury made its ruling of no true bill so it's not relevant," Castaing said, adding that he has no concerns about these documents.

"We could get 10 experts to say it's not homicide," he said. "It means nothing."
Brescia, one of the five medical experts, said the fate of Everett troubled him the most.
"This one case sort of stands out to you and says to you, 'Gee, I'm not sure what happened,' " Brescia said. "And that's what I said, this particular case, if you want to use the word suspicious or unclear or whatever word you want to use, I'm not sure why this patient is dead."

Family conducts its own investigation, says mom was poisoned

Family members of another one of the patients, Elaine Nelson, hired their own forensic expert to explore why the 90-year-old woman died. The report alarmed her son, Craig, a New Orleans lawyer.

"It showed that Mom had received on September 1 eight milligrams of morphine, which was four times the amount that she was prescribed by her doctor, and which was a lethal amount that was certainly enough to kill her," Nelson said.

Nelson said neither he nor his sister Kathy, a registered nurse who was with their mother after Katrina until guards ordered her to leave the hospital, were called before the grand jury. Their forensic expert wasn't called either.

Nelson has filed a lawsuit against the hospital owner and others. He said he refused a settlement offer because he wants the truth to come out, especially now that Jordan has closed the case. Nelson said he is disappointed in the way the grand jury was conducted.

"I think they'd want to hear as much evidence as possible to make a well-informed decision," he said.
But not everyone agrees. In early August, District Court Judge Calvin Johnson delayed a decision on whether to release more records in the case. Lawyers for some medical personnel and former hospital owner Tenet Healthcare Corporation are seeking to seal the records from the public. CNN, along with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, is seeking to get the records.
Johnson indicated he wasn't sure people should know what happened.
"What you presented to the grand jury room stayed in the grand jury room. On one level, I'll suggest no one should know. In a way, I don't want to know," the Times-Picayune quoted Johnson as telling the court.

Man’s Guide

Man’s Guide

By Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [Britain]

Man in this moment of his history has emerged in greater supremacy over the forces of nature than has ever been dreamed of before. There lies before him, if he wishes, a golden age of peace and progress. He has only to conquer his last and worst enemy—himself.

The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes, but with this shield, however the Fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

　We shall go forward together. The road upward is long. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys, through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere, and we shall persevere, we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

China blames U.S. for toy scares

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- China hit back on Monday after Mattel's massive toy recall, saying designers and importers should also take responsibility for product safety, but promised to punish its own manufacturers who flout standards.

The world's largest toymaker recalled more than 18 million Chinese-made toys this month because of hazards from small magnets that can cause injury if swallowed, just two weeks after it recalled 1.5 million toys due to fears over lead paint.

"I myself looked at some of the samples of these problematic toys, and I found that there is a serious problem with the design. The design is seriously defective," Li Changjiang, head of China's General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, told a news conference.

"In my view, no matter where those toys were sold there would be a recall, because it is highly likely they are dangerous for children.

"While we recognize that Chinese producers should be blamed for those problematic toys, what kind of responsibility should the U.S. designers and the U.S. importers take in this respect?" Li asked.

China is facing growing global pressure to clean up its manufacturing sector and ensure the quality of its exports after a series of scandals involving products ranging from poisonous pet food ingredients to sub-standard toys and tainted toothpaste.

Li has described the storm surrounding Chinese-made goods as politically motivated and unfair, but he has also called for tougher regulation of manufacturers and warned that failure to improve quality was undermining China's trade strength.

On Monday, he blamed differing national standards, misleading statistics and lack of communication for some of the product safety scares that have alarmed foreign consumers.

"For some products, the two countries enforce different standards," Li said of China and the United States, also citing "inaccurate statistics".

But he said the latest Chinese campaign to improve product safety would focus on creating a chain of supervision across the entire production process for both industrial products and food.

Monitoring and inspection of drug manufacturers would also be strengthened, and celebrities banned from endorsing drugs in advertisements, Li said.

The country's certification body also plans to strengthen controls of export permits for toys, the official Xinhua agency said on Monday.

Li acknowledged the vast challenge China faces in overseeing its hundreds of thousands of tiny, often family-run producers, a task compounded by lack of communication between myriad government agencies overseeing production and safety standards, and between central and local authorities.

But he defended the "made-in-China" label and said Chinese-made toys in particular were enjoyed the world over.

"In China, about 3 million workers are working in the toy industry, providing toys to children all across the world," he said. "It is because of their hard work that children in other parts of the world are having fun in their daily life."

Venture sell experience

Thinking of personal character traits, interests, clearly do hold the number of funds, the investment industry to be the kind of fitness for each assessment, such as work sessions, the length of working hours and work methods and scientific choice of investment projects to focus on The following points:

  First, predicted that the combination of local conditions, the emerging markets to make judgments.
  The second is from that used in. But follow suit and copy and different. Mainly from the advanced experience of foreign countries, the practice. And that is foreseen in the local new-type projects, with local and their own conditions on a selective basis of the implementation.
   The third is to choose their own familiar with the trades and master knowledge of the industry for the investment objectives, which should give full play to its own master the knowledge and skills of their choice as a favourable investment conditions.
   Fourth, as far as possible with the choice of relatives and friends in the industry related or similar items, while they can be kind of guidance, the business can also be helpful.

Venture decision on the fate of a few words

1: outstanding is a habit.
If that is a good habit, then laziness is a habit. Our words and deeds are accumulated to develop the habit. From now on to become a good habit, to make our best behavior so used, become our second nature. Let us customary manner creative thinking, habitual way to do things seriously, customary and friendly to others, customary to enjoy nature.
2: Life is a process.
Although the results of the important things, but the process of doing things more important, because the good results we will be more happy, but the process to enrich our lives. The life of the final outcome is certain death, we can not therefore say that our life is of no significance. Few eternal world.
3: The shortest distance between two points is not necessarily a straight line.
In the relationship between people and doing things in the process, it is difficult to put things simply do a good job. We sometimes need to wait, sometimes necessary, sometimes necessary skills. Doing things we will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and sometimes we can choose to bypass the difficulties, to bypass obstacles, and perhaps more things to do so smoothly.
4: only know how to stop people know how to speed up the pace.
I ski the course, the greatest experience is not been stopped. I have just started to learn to ski without a coach, watching other people skiing, find it very easy to slip from the Peak is not the foot of the mountain? » So I put on skis, Chi Liu click on the slide down to the results from the Peak I Gundao the foot of the mountain, throw a lot of Gendou. I found that simply do not know how to stop, how to maintain balance. Finally, I repeated how to practice in the snow on the slope to stop. Training for a week, I finally learned to stop at any slope, taxiways, and then stop. This time I will find themselves on the ski, from the Peak-to dare to under-the slope. Because I know that as long as I would like to stop, one will be able to stop and turn around. Only know how to stop people before they know how high-speed ahead.
5: give up is a wise, defects is a favour.
When you have six apples, do not eat them all, because you eat all of the six apples, you eat only to the six apples, to eat only a taste, that is, Apple's taste. If you put Apple in six out of the five others to eat, although on the surface you lost five apples, but in fact you got the other five personal friendship and goodwill. People must learn how to use your own things for you in exchange for more important things and the rich. Therefore, it is a wisdom to give up.

The 13 steps to get rich

1. Desire

     Through the dream of a strong and clear desire to translate into practical action, it can be realized. To the requirements of life, the more you bring to life the rich.

     2. Confidence

     Can be full of confidence in the strength of thinking. You can in your strong confidence in the drive, to enhance their unlimited heights.

     3. Hinted that self -

     To get amazing results, you need to mobilize awareness of the innermost part of the work for you. Its combination of strength and emotional, has become the most powerful combination.

     4. Expertise

     Knowledge is only a potential force, only it organized into a clear plan of action, knowledge can be translated into real power. Comply with the plan to do, you do not have to start from the grassroots struggle.

     5. Imagination

     You need the "opportunities", at any time in your imagination in waiting for you. "Imagine" is your sense of the processing plant, it can put your energy into a sense of wealth and success.

     6. Organized plan

     Collection of business partners working together, team work and fighting for ideals. Play your leadership, can make a lot of money in the short term.



     7. Determination

     Said on a thousand words, and not a practical action. Can quickly make a decision, to know what people usually can get what he wanted.

     8. Tenacity

     Stop in between you and the great achievements of the enemy is lack of willpower. Courageous reflection, review the reasons for the lack of tolerance - to overcome those shortcomings.

     9. The strength of the think tank

     Organized and guided by the knowledge that is smart power, it can promote the plan to create wealth and accumulate wealth. Think-tank is to provide this force.

     10. Transfer of the mysterious

     For sexual desire can be transferred into other forms of desire and action, people can upgrade to the extraordinary level.

     11. Subconscious

     Sleeping like a sense of the Giants, the Giants are on standby to support your plans and decisions. Please with a positive thinking as navigation.

     12. Minded

     Minds far beyond the power of your imagination. Make the best use of our minds, you will be able to react fast, clear thinking and more effective.

     13. Sixth Sense
Sixth Sense is the door leading to the palace smart Hall. It is truly great figures of the sources of creativity.

     Emphasizes speed of the computer age, but we can easily lose direction of the era of knowledge explosion, it is easy to forget the importance of mastering basis. Dream a little, there is little the world; would like to have good prospects are good. Get rich from the heart, the Department and allow small start, the rich can be a rich life outside the money.

Venture's 10 Tips

From the characteristics of the contemporary socio-economic development, people's work can basically three types are as follows: public servants of the state, enterprises, workers, their Zuolao Ban. Great deal of diversity among them, but I am afraid that many people want to own Zuolao Ban! But everyone knows that the boss is the boss of the difficulties, not everyone can Zuolao Ban, the real owner to make a profit, so the boss is a great achievements in their career needs hard work and wisdom. As an ancient saying goes: nor from the high plains! No cause is from small to large and from the start Some in the constantly sum up experience, in the process of capital accumulation, and slowly developed! Everything is hard in the beginning! Below we summarize the experience of their predecessors on the basis of characteristics of contemporary social development, summed up: Ten Tips for personal enrichment venture! Hope that friends can help!
     1, will minimize the amount of venture capital.
     Do not borrow, do not cast household savings, the chance of success only 20 to 30 per cent of the new cause, not worthy of you to take the risk. You plan to the cause from the existing concept and you start with the individual talent and expertise, and need only a little cash.
     2, sales of their own learning.
     As a small business operators, people are buying you, not your product. As long as you know how to sell themselves, the initial investment does not need to prepare for large funds. Within 30 days of opening, you can find customers, the cash will come in within 60 days, helping to promote business growth.
     3, to be generous to customers.
     New business should not be excessively high fees to customers. In my practice, or even provide free services to customers, to let them know what I can do. Later, even if no contract, they will also introduce other paying customers to me. Sometimes, Deyong fish you catch a big fish.
     4, at the beginning, preferably directly from home to provide products or services.
     I have in the bedroom of an iceberg, to table, a chair, a small computer, and create a consulting firm. Within five years, the company at more than 500,000 people, have their own offices and 12 employees. All small scale, gradually expanding.
     5, from day one, all computerized.
     Typewriters and manual operations, in the current market no longer competitive, and from the correspondence, accounting, the city tried instruments, sales are not an exception. From the first day of business is to use the computer.
     6, work long hours.
     Accounting, correspondence and other administrative work to stay the night. These things can not occupy nine to five hours. The prime time can only be used to establish relationships, for briefings, phone calls or face-to-face chat with customers. And customers on a day in the not have to go home after the resumption of work.
     7, the customers love you.
     Always courteous to customers and to speak, regardless of how they sometimes make you angry. Remember, the customer is not only a king and queen, or dictator. No one than the small business operators to more clearly this point, to use their best efforts to customer satisfaction. My approach is to introduce Although on the specified services, but I always do more, exceeding customer expectations. Often go beyond the contract, to provide more services, more than customer expectations, it is small business owners the best advertisement.
     8, beginning in vain to continue to work hard.
     Do not give up, often on the success of failure of the other side. Has failed to represent you in the right path, as long as the increase in the number of failures, the efforts of the time long enough, on their way to make smart choices, you will eventually succeed.
     9, operating alone.
     Venture began, to avoid inviting other people partners. Just as marriage partners, you are willing to accept such constraints? » Moreover, statistics show that the marriage partnership, two pairs out of a divorce or permanent Generally speaking, if you want to venture, to their best. Of course, it was up to you to decide.
     10, arrangements for leisure time.
     Despite the to-do mountains, but also forced their rest day on Saturday or Sunday. You lost that day, because next week will increase productivity and to redouble their meeting, but family members and customers also hope that you made kind, because vacation Shirenyukuai and Wyatt. Set aside time for exercise, and family trips, or even to look at the film market, allows you to temporarily forget the business, instead of working more efficiently.