Rivers and wells dry up farmland cracks … …, continuous high temperature dry weather, resulting in five provinces in southwest China’s drought continues to grow. Including Yunnan, Guangxi, drought in parts has reached the level of extraordinary drought, autumn and winter drought in Guizhou Province, there once in 80 years of severe drought in parts of drought or even a hundred years. Currently, the local government is taking measures to ensure the public safety of drinking water and production water.
Affected by the drought in southwest, Yunnan, Guizhou and other arid areas into rice began to grab meters Yu. Together with the main producing areas had raised the national production of rice in 2010 the minimum purchase price, the market price of rice in Chongqing recently rallied. Yu rice into how your number of meters away? At present no detailed data, but the rice market in Chongqing has had an immediate impact. Reporters learned yesterday panxi market in recent ten days, the market price of rice rose across the board. According to analysis by the north before the snow disaster weather, in February on the national CPI to 2.7%. Now drought in the Southwest, the nation will not stimulate the CPI is too small. Southwest drought or by rising rice prices, and generate inflationary expectations. HC food industry network Here to introduce you to our Rice Some of the species, and how to distinguish the quality of rice.
Types China’s rice growing areas
wide yield, variety, so their classification, also different. According to national standards, rice by rice grain shape and grain quality is divided into three categories:
(1) Long Rice: The non-waxy indica rice made of rice. Grain generally elongated oval or elongated type, according to grain quality and rice harvest season is divided into the following two:
1) indica rice: white belly bigger, less hard-plasmid;
2) Wanxian Mi: white belly smaller, more hard-plasmid.
(2) japonica: use of non-waxy japonica rice made of rice, rice generally oval shape, its grain quality and rice harvest season is divided into the following two:
1) early japonica rice: white belly bigger, less hard-plasmid;
2) late japonica rice: white belly smaller, more hard-plasmid.
Concept of interpretation: rice, white belly – refers to the horny endosperm of japonica of rice or rice in the center parts of the abdomen appears milky white opaque phenomenon, also known as white heart. This rice, grain structure, loose, low hardness, machining easily be broken, poor quality. White belly visible grain rice commonly known as chalk.
(3) rice: rice made with glutinous rice, according to their grain shape is divided into the following two:
1) of indica rice: waxy rice made with indica rice, rice elongated oval or elongated shape, white opaque, and some are translucent (commonly known as Yin waxy), Viscous.
2) Japonica rice: waxy rice made with japonica rice, rice oval, white opaque, and some are translucent (commonly known as Yin waxy), Viscous.
Specifications: Accordance with GB1354-86 requirements on national standards, all kinds of rice into the Principal according to precision, the standard first class, standard second and third class 4 standard. The level of precision machining precision of national standard sample set to stay in control skin test level:
Principal: back groove with leather, grain bran basic to more than 85% of the net.
Standard first class: the back channel has the skin, leaving skin grain no more than 1 / 5, accounting for more than 85%.
Standard second class: the back channel has the skin, leaving skin grain no more than 1 / 3 accounted for more than 75%.
Standard three classes: back groove with leather, grain leather to stay does not exceed 1 / 75% 2 or more.
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How to Tell a Joke is a Business Skill
How to Tell a Joke is a Business Skill
1. You and I are not interested in playing the Comedy Room.
2. However – discovering how to improvise our selling story is a closing-skill.
3. So what? We need to learn to organize a funny joke because it helps influence, convince, and persuade folks to accept our business or professional proposals. Not by being a comedian, but because it has the same three elements.
Secret of a Successful Joke
The framework: First, the Set-Up, Second, the plot, and Third, the Punchline.
The Set-Up is a logical beginning where we show agreement with the listener’s long-term beliefs and expectations.
Set-Up: A 12 year old comes to his father for help with his homework in using five specific words in five different sentences. Makes sense, right?
The Plot: The Pop seriously creates these five-sentences, but they are obviously wrong, and even jerky. Raises our curiosity – why did he do it?
The Punchline: The kid dopes out he has been scammed by his old man, and gets
mad. The Pop explains why he scammed the kid with wrong answers. Problem/Solution.
A Punchline offers a conclusion, payoff, and moral of the story (joke). It is an exaggerated point that makes us laugh at Pop’s Switcherzoo. We (listeners) are IN
on the joke. We GET it without thinking, analyzing or going to a dictionary.
My Aha! Experience
“Pop, can you help me with my homework? I got these five last words
I can’t figure out how to use each one in a sentence. “
“Sonny, you come to the right window. Gimme your problem. It is just as
important to know where to find the right answer, as learning itself.”
“Here, five easy words, but I have to use each one in a separate sentence.
First is Tsunami, that’s one I never saw before. Two, is Tutor. Number Three is
Denial, used as a legal term. Four is Defeat, used in a specific battle. Number
Five is Cataracts, which I don’t know at all.”
“Gimme that list. Are you ready? I’m not going to repeat it twice, so pay
attention.
Tsunami, it comes from Latin meaning Salt. I fried the Tsunami and eggs,
and added mustard on Italian bread for flavor.
Tutor, from the Latin for Horn. In the Bible, Joshua blew down the walls of
Jericho because he was a Tutor. Harry James played a mean trumpet, and he was a hot Tutor. See, two for one.
Denial runs 4,184 miles in Africa and feeds into the Mediterranean Sea. Oh
yeah, Denial separates into the White and Blue, and they collect in Egypt.
Defeat. George Washington had 2,300 Patriots at the Battle of Trenton,
against the Hessians on December 26, 1776 (day after Xmas). The Americans could not afford boots for their soldiers, who had to wrap Defeat with rags for the seven-mile march to Trenton, New Jersey.
Last, is Cataract. The word is taken from the name of a Native-American
chief and has come to mean luxury. General Motors owns the Trade Mark for
the name Cataract, since August 18, 1902.”
I sat there stunned, just 12 years old, but I knew Pop had scammed me.
“I will never ask you anything again. Thanks for nothing.”
“Wait – you don’t trust me and my answers?”
“No, I don’t trust you or anybody else after this.”
“Pay attention – this is an important moment in your life.
It is called an Aha! Experience. You don’t trust your own father, and nobody
else, right? You have to trust and depend only on yourself, right?”
“Yeah, right, so what?”
“Sonny, tomorrow I am going to sign you up at the New York Law School.
You have learned your first critical lesson about independent research.”
“That’s was my Pop. Yeah, I went to New York Law School graduated, and
passed the Bar (not Kelly’s) on the first crack.”
How to Persuade, Influence, And Convince
You will almost never read the following in a textbook, hear it from a professor,
or reach this conclusion by yourself. It is against the grain, contrarian, and counterintuitive. That is why it is important.
Thinking Bad, Knowing Good
Thinking is B-A-D if you want to persuade, convince or influence others to your ideas. You never want the client, a judge or jury, or a buyer to stop in the middle of your proposal to think, analyze or critically judge your proposal or defense argument.
Procrastination is another name for Think-ing. It delays and terminates the action
response you require. You language should communicate simple, basic ideas Automatically – without recourse to complexity and complications. As easy-as-pie.
Problem/Solution
Consider me an Oversimplifier – that is a compliment because Oprah, Dr. Phil, and
Jay Leno use Oversimplification – (generalizing) to thank for their superstar status.
We the public, from six-year olds to professionals, to Seniors with PhDs, H-A-T-E
thinking, school, and education. It has to be said if you want to learn how to Manipulate – folks to your ideas and proposals.
Wait! Ma-nip-u-late – that word has a negative aura of twisting someone’s arm to accept what you say. Yet everyone, every hour of the day is successfully or failing to
manipulate their adversary (client) to accept our version of the facts.
Lawyers must manipulate clients to hire them instead of 42,000 other competent counselors. What about manipulating Judges and Juries? Manipulate means to
persuade, convince, and influence. It also is a synonym for guide, direct and, negotiate. It is what Doers – do to succeed.
From intelligent folks to the other-kind, we all have problems – stuff that burns our
fundament, and causes us pain. We do not want complex explanations. What do we all want? Solutions, cures, and answers, right? Problem/Solution is our universal life goal. Answers, not pleasant conversation.
Endwords
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H. Bernard Wechsler
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Do You Live Or Work In An Earthquake Danger Zone? How To Tell If You Need Earthquake Insurance?
How Much Danger is Your Home or Business In? It is all about location.
If you live in California, the US Geological Survey has said that Southern California will most likely be hit with a big earthquake within the next 30 years. They said that there is a 99% chance that we’ll experience a quake with a magnitude of at least 6.7. They also said there is 46% chance that we will have a 7.5 magnitude quake – or bigger.
So what does that mean for San Diego County residents? Even though the “big one” is supposed to have an epicenter somewhere in Southern California, most San Diego residents are not highly at risk. Well, at least compared to Orange County and Los Angeles (LA) residents. One indicator is earthquake insurance rates. In San Diego versus LA, the average premium cost in San Diego is only $251 per year compared to Los Angeles and Orange Counties which is $693 per year.
According to a recent San Diego Union Tribune article, a ‘Big One’ in California would not be like the recent big quake in Chile. Because California’s seismic plate tectonics differ from Chile’s, our region is not subject to the large magnitude quakes that they experience down there. In California the plates slide sideways while in Chile they slide under each other. Additionally the crust is a lot thinner here than in Chile. Because of those two factors, seismologists predict a maximum 8.1 quake at the worst for Southern California.
The San Andreas Fault, which extends from the Salton Sea to the town of Parkfield in Monterrey County, provides the greatest seismic threat. Luckily though, the Salton Sea area is a long distance away from most San Diego residents. In addition, the San Andreas Fault is inland and would not result in a tsunami, which caused much of the recent damage in Chile. There are several off shore faults near San Diego but they are very small and do not present much risk.
If a big jolt did indeed hit the San Andreas Fault near the Salton Sea, San Diego City residents would definitely feel it, but most likely would not experience catastrophic damage or casualties. Despite that, we do have a few smaller local faults that have the potential to generate a pretty big jolt. The most worrisome San Diego County faults are the Rose Canyon Fault on the east side of Pacific Beach and La Jolla. A little further south and inland, the La Nacion Fault runs through South San Diego, Chula Vista and National City. In East County mountains and deserts, you need to be aware of the Elsinore, Aqua Caliente and San Jacinto Fault Zones.
So, depending on where you live, there is varying danger of fault movement and earthquake shaking. If you live close to a known fault, you should be aware of the possibility of a large jolt damaging your property. However, there are two other risk factors as well, they are landslide and liquefaction. During an earthquake, especially after wet weather, the violent earth shaking may trigger a landslide. However, of more importance is what your home or business is built upon.
Many San Diego homes and businesses are built on sand or on fill and are vulnerable to what is known as soil liquefaction. During a quake these kinds of soils can act like jello, amplifying a quake’s movement more than a home built on rock or settled land. Because of liquefaction, a home that is close to a earthquake epicenter that is built on rock may experience less shaking and damage than a home that is much further away that is built on sand or fill.
How can you find out what is under your home and what danger is neighborhood is in?
A great online resource to check out your specific neighborhood is this online map to find fault lines, landslide and liquefaction zones in your San Diego community http://files.sangis.org/interactive/viewer/Viewer.asp
It’s a little complicated to use this online map. Start by clicking on the “custom map” button. On the right side scroll down and then click on Faults. Next click on Geologic Hazards. That will activate those map layers. Then hit Refresh at bottom of page on the right side.
Now is the fun part – finding your neighborhood. Using the PAN and ZOOM IN controls, navigate around the map and zoom in to find your neighborhood and its geologic hazards for fault zones, liquefaction and landslides. You can zoom in to your specific block to get an idea of the earthquake related threats around your home or business.
If you are clear of all those, you probably don’t need Earthquake Insurance as much as someone whose home is in a liquefaction zone adjacent to an earthquake fault.
When You Tell Me That You Love Me
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What they never tell you (but should) when you fly
Imagine someone blindfolding you, and when the blindfold is removed you find yourself strapped into a seat on the front of a rollercoaster.
Now some people would think that what’s coming next would be a lot of fun. However a good percentage of people are scared to death of the thought of riding a coaster, and would want to get off immediately.
Yet this is the scenario the airline industry presents us with whenever we take a flight.
If you are lucky (because it doesn’t always happen) the pilot will give you a hint that the flight might be rough – breaking the news once the cabin door has been closed.
In other instances passengers hear the grim news just before entering the turbulent air. “It may last for an hour or so and there’s nothing we can do about it” the pilot announced the last time I crossed the Atlantic.
On some flights no announcement of any kind is made about what you are flying into, apart from the “ding” of the “fasten seatbelt” sign. You are left to simply guess how rough it’s going to be, and for how long.
Pilots and the airline industry maintain that flying is almost completely safe, even in rough weather, and while that is almost always true I think they are missing the point.
And the point is – I believe you should be entitled to know in the departure lounge what kind of flight to expect. The current levels in use to describe turbulence should be displayed for all to see and make informed choices. So for example if it is going to be “moderate” then that term would be displayed.
Pilot’s know before they even leave the ground what kind of weather they are going to encounter en route and what kind of turbulence has been reported. In addition other pilots radio in reports of what they are experiencing en route. So don’t be fooled into believing that the airline can’t be certain about what lies ahead. They know – but just don’t like to scare passengers. I’m sure the prospect of passengers seeking to be re-routed or put on alternative flights is simply an administrative nightmare to the industry, rather than reflecting on the reasonableness of people’s concerns.
The decision over whether you feel comfortable about flying through a severe storm should be for you to decide.
So let’s get specific. As soon as the Air France flight 447 jet crashed into the Atlantic killing everyone on board two facts quickly emerged – the plane was flying into severe storms, and the pilots, airline, and air traffic control all knew that in advance.
But did the passengers know before they boarded? I doubt it. At the very least this was going to be a rough flight, and that would have been enough for me to have decided to fly another day.. had I known.
The same grim scenario emerges today – another plane crashes in the sea off Africa and almost immediately we learn that it was attempting to land in 40 mph winds. Do you think any passengers knew before they got on the plane that such a landing was anticipated? I very much doubt it.
And then of course there’s the bigger question of why these flights were allowed to take place at all, and weren’t delayed until conditions improved. But that’s a discussion for another article.
I’m not only concerned about turbulent conditions when planes crash. I’m also concerned about turbulent conditions when they don’t.
There are, I read, around 5,000 cases each year of turbulence affecting flights. Passengers and crew can end up injured as a result – sometimes dozens are hurt, as in the case of a flight in the Far East.
Injuries can also be serious – such as the recent Texan woman who broke her neck and ended up paralysed.
In summation an airline can never give you an absolute guarantee about all turbulence on a flight, because there is also what is known as “clear air turbulence” which strikes unexpectedly.
However I believe they should be under a legally enforced (and moral) obligation to start providing pre-flight information about what you can expect. At the very least if you know it’s going to be rough up there you can mentally prepare for it. If you are a nervous flyer you can contemplate postponing the trip.
It’s time for some informed honesty – and the days of being compelled to fly on the rollercoaster from hell should be brought to an end.
As I said earlier in this article… I’m pretty sure that all those who lost their lives had little or no information about the flight they were about to take before they got on the plane, and some of them may well still be alive had they known.
If you agree with my premis that you should know be informed about flying conditions before boarding the aircraft let’s all try and bring about change.
Dormant or Extinct? How to Tell if a Volcano is Safe
Copyright (c) 2008 Mary Smith
The Auvergne is the stunning and seemingly tranquil region found in the heart of France. It is a lush, fertile landscape characterised by crater lakes and big skies. Its spectacular scenery was formed thousands of years ago by a powerful combination of volcanic eruptions and glacial activity. It has been compared to the English Lake District but with one very important difference – the mountains of the Auvergne are dormant volcanoes.
The ‘Parc Naturel Régional des Volcans d’Auvergne’, contains France’s largest concentration of recently active volcanoes. The volcanoes of the Auvergne are still classed as recently active rather than extinct even though there have been no eruptions since just after the last ice age. Indeed, volcanic activity was still occurring as recently as 3 500 years ago in the Chaine des Puys.
The main volcanic areas are known as the ‘Massifs’ and there are four of them – Chaîne des Puys (highest peak – Puy de Dôme, 1465m/4792ft high), – Monts Dore (highest peak – Puy de Sancy, 1886m/6188ft high), – Monts du Cézallier (highest peak – Signal du Luguet, 1551m/5089ft high) – Monts du Cantal (highest peak – Plomb du Cantal, 1855m/6086 ft high)
They are considered to be the most spectacular and popular of the volcanoes situated in the Auvergne. It is worth asking ourselves if the thousands of tourists who visit these magnificent, sleeping giants each year actually realise that we still have 5 000 years to wait before they will be officially classified as extinct.
These, as well as several other volcanoes, were created from one monumental volcano which is thought to have measured up to 3000 metres in height. The region is of eminent interest to geologists who make up a sizeable percentage of the Auvergne’s tourists per year. The volcanic activity has created an array of elaborate formations which consists of solidified lava flows filling valleys to result in dammed streams and rivers which form lakes and waterfalls of rock. The lava flows in the Auvergne are thought to only be rivalled by similar formations situated in Alaska and New Zealand. Glaciers and peat land can also be found in the region as well as a wide variety of plants and animals.
The Chaîne des Puys extends for 40 km north to south. Just west of the city of Clermont Ferrand, it lies on a granite plateau at an altitude of 900metres. It is characterised by the linear positioning of 80 volcanoes, all taking different forms.
How can you actually tell if a volcano is dormant or extinct? Volcanologists study and classify volcanoes according to their activity. With special instruments they can determine if pressure in the volcano is building up. They check to see if the top of the volcano is plugged with cooled lava. There are three different classifications of volcanic activity: active, dormant or extinct. An active volcano is one that has erupted recently or might erupt soon. Active volcanoes are watched very closely so people and animals in the area can be moved to a save place.
The official classification of a dormant volcano is as follows – it has been quiet for some considerable time ( even thousands of years) but still exhibits some signs of activity. When the magma seeps back under the earth’s crust or the vent is blocked by hardened lava ( the plug) then the volcano is referred to as dormant. Volcanoes can be dormant for hundreds, even thousands) of years. Then suddenly a volcano will erupt again. The eruption is usually very violent. The plug of a dormant volcano stops the magma from rising. Then pressure under the plug builds up, so the plug gives away and a large eruption is caused. The volcano is then classified again as an active volcano.
An extinct volcano is one that has not erupted for thousands of years. Sometimes it is hard to tell if a volcano is dormant or extinct. They will be listed as dormant until volcanologists are sure there will be no more eruptions. Even then, it has been known for ‘extinct’ volcanoes to erupt unexpectedly.
For the moment, the volcanoes of the Auvergne provide a spectacular summer and winter holiday destination; whether skiing, hiking, biking, rock-climbing or hang-gliding the volcanic landscape provides physical challenges and breathtaking vistas. The volcanic nature of the area causes numerous forms of springs, including hot, whose water is particularly rich in minerals. People often come for a ‘cure’ (to ‘take the waters’) as it is thought to have healing properties.
You can never really tell if a volcano is extinct, even if you are equipped with all the science and the instruments. The geographical history of the Auvergne has been nothing if not dramatic; spectacular volcanic eruptions and an Ice Age have combined to create the stunning landscape of this beautiful region. Let’s enjoy it while we can!