I have to admit, Jaden Smith as Dre Parker is more charming than Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso and Jackie Chan is, well, Jackie Chan. I do not have the guts to compare Jackie Chan (who played Mr. Han) with Pat Norita (who played Mr. Miyagi). Both martial artists are great in their own ways. However, after watching the two movies I have the epiphany that the original version is better than the remake. Here is my top-four list to prove the finding.

1. Obviously: The title

The 1984 The Karate Kid shows karate, while the 2010 The Karate Kid shows: KUNG FU. Some said the word ‘karate’ in the 2010 version refers to Dre Parker’s mother who mistook kung fu for karate in one scene. Other reference said it would be for Cheng (Dre Parker’s archenemy) and his friends called Dre a Karate Kid as he performed a karate stance to confront them. However, if both or one of the references is true, then why bother to re-title the 2010 movie in China, Japan, and South Korea – the places where these martial arts come from? To avoid the fuss? The fact that the movie turns into The Kung Fu Dream in China and Best Kid in South Korea and Japan shows the gaffe of the movie. Even Jackie Chan once believed that the movie would only be called The Karate Kid in the US and known as The Kung Fu Kid in all Asian countries.

2. “Wax on wax off”

As Mr. Miyagi taught his first karate lesson to Daniel, he ordered Daniel to repeatedly wax his antique cars with certain circular hand movements. This is where the “wax on wax off” phrase came from. A catchphrase is what people always remember from a movie. Even after 27 years, people will automatically think of the 1984 The Karate Kid when the “wax on wax off” phrase is heard. How about its 2010 counterpart? As far as I can recall, there’s no words in the movie scenes can surpass or even equal this Mr. Miyagi special.

3. Really, a kid can be that violent?

Cheng (portrayed by child actor Zhenwei Wang) in the 2010 movie is as brutal as Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) in the original, if not crueler. Difference: Johnny is closer to reach adulthood while Cheng hasn’t even hit puberty yet. Watching Cheng with his mighty kung fu forces me to think, what’s wrong with this child? His excellent yet violent kung fu is admirable and terrifying at the same time. Thank God Mr. Han finally made his eyes open.

4. Dre Parker and Mei Ying are loners

As Dre Parker and Daniel LaRusso got to a new place, they soon made friends. Too bad their archenemies prevented them from socializing too much (as other kids were too afraid to confront the ‘bad guys’). Yet, their love interests are supposed to have lots of friends, considering that they were native to the school. The rule, however, only works for Ali, LaRusso’s love interest. She is depicted as a cheerful girl who hangs out much with her girl friends. Scenes in beach, soccer field (where she trains cheerleading), and fairground show her socialization with her peers. What about Mei Ying? She has no close friends at all except for Dre Parker. No scenes in the 2010 The Karate Kids that shows her having strong bonds with any of her girl friends. I don’t know whether Mei Ying is too serious or too lethargic to hang out with girls her age.

I actually still have a long list to note the 1984 The Karate Kid as the winner. Nevertheless, from above evidences, I hope I made my point that the 1984 version is more realistic and catchy than the 2010 version. Thus, better.

They are the symbols of royalty, strength and beauty and are the national animals of India. We are definitely talking about the tigers. Presently they come under the category of endangered animals as they have been hunted by the humans on large scale for their amazing skin which fetches higher sum of money and their claws and teeth are the items of decoration. Mass killing of their beautiful animal has declined its population to that extent that they are on the verge of extinction. Many wild life reserves, national parks are there all over the world to save this elegant animal from extinction.

The scientific name of tiger is Pantera tigris and it belongs to the phylum Chordata and class Mammalia. The order Carnivora and the family Felidae form the complete address of tiger. Tiger is the native of southern and eastern Asia and is an apex predator and obligate carnivorous animal. The average body size of an adult tiger is 3.3 m and its body weight may be 300 kg. Tigers can be easily identified by the presence of dark vertical stripes over the orange white fur and lighter under parts. The subspecies that comprises the largest population of the tiger is the Bengal tiger and the largest subspecies of tiger is the Siberian tiger. They are very well adapted to their habitats and can be found easily available in the Siberian taiga, open grasslands and the mangrove swamps. They make their own territories and love to live solitary and hunt on a large variety of animals for getting their food. When their prey becomes scarce they do not hesitate to attack humans also. Out of the nine subspecies of the modern tigers three are completely extinct and the remaining six share the category of endangered animals. Hunting and fragmentation are the major causes of their population reduction. Tigers form the worlds most popular and charismatic mega fauna.

The word tiger has been originated from the Greek word tigris which means arrow and it refers to the speed of this animal. Tigers were distributed in the Asia from the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea to Siberia and Indonesia in the past. During the 19th century these animals became extinct from the western Asia and became confined to small pocket of the adjoining areas. Presently the only island that is providing shelter to the largest number of tigers is Sumatra. The population of tigers is also present in India, China and the Southeast Asia. Borneo is famous for housing the fossils of tigers only. Tigers prefer to live in those areas where enough green cover, plenty of prey and water resources are available. Bengal tigers have a wide habitat range. They dwell in wet, evergreen, semi evergreen forests of Assam, mangrove forests of Ganges Delta, deciduous forests of Nepal and the thorn forests of the Western Ghats. They are good swimmers and enjoy playing with cold water and can swim up to 4 miles continuously.

Tigers are believed to have evolved from a tiger like cat Panthera palaeosinensis whose remains have been found in China and Java. It is believed that these cats were present two million years ago in the Pleistocene and were smaller than the modern tigers. The earliest fossils of true tigers are believed to be 1.6 and 1.8 million years old. The tigers are most beautiful among all the members of the cat family. They have rusty-reddish to brown-rusty fur coats with a white ventral area and a tinge of white that encircles the face and stripes of black or dark brown over the rusty reddish coat. The number of stripes differs according to the subspecies but every tiger on an average has about hundred stripes. The pattern of the stripe is characteristic of each tiger subspecies and it is used for identification of the subspecies. The striped body acts as a weapon of camouflage and helps the tiger to remain unseen in the vicinity of the prey and helps in getting the prey easily with less effort. The tigers bear a white spot at the back of their ears called ocelli which acts as a social symbol and is found in all the big cats. The other demarcated characters of tigers include strongly built legs and shoulders just like that of the lions which help them to grab and pull the preys heavier and bigger than their own bodies. The body size and the body weight differ according to the species. The tigresses are always smaller than the males and the males are generally 1.7 times larger in size as compared to the females. This distinction is fund in every subspecies of the tigers. The skull of the tiger resembles closely with that of the lion with certain differences which includes longer postorbital region.

At present there are nine subspecies of tigers which are recognized out which three are totally extinct. These include the Bengal or the Royal tiger, Indochinese tiger, Malayan tiger, Sumatran tiger, Siberian tiger, South China tiger. These are the species of tigers which are present today and are searching means to increase in numbers equivalent to the one that occurred in the past. In 1977 the government of China passed a law to ban the mass killing of this royal animal but it was too late and few subspecies had already faced extinction. The extinct subspecies of tigers include the Bali tiger, Javan tiger and the Caspian tiger. The hybridization of tigers was started in the 19th century when the lions and tigers were crossed and the resulting offsprings were given the names ligers and tigons. This practice was first tried in the zoos and is under strict control of the government of China. Liger is the result of cross between male lion and the tigress and tigon is the result of cross between male tiger and female lioness.

White tiger is the result of well known gene mutation termed as chinchilla albinistic. The white tigers are actually rare in the wild and are bred in the zoos because of their popularity. Breeding of the white tigers may also be responsible for inbreeding. The white tiger is actually not a subspecies but a result of colour variation particularly in the Bengal tigers and only one white tiger occurs in every 10,000 live births. The gene carrying such type of mutation is a recessive gene and is carried either by any of the two parents. Another type of recessive gene mutation is responsible for the birth of golden tabby tigers which have light golden fur, pale yellow legs and very faint orange stripes. The population of the golden tabby tigers is only 30.

Tigers are actually solitary animals but have well marked territories. The range of their territories depends upon the availability of prey and access on females. The territory of the tigress may range up to 20 square kilometers but males have larger territories which may extend up to 60-100 square kilometers. When a young tigress makes her territory it prefers an area close to her mother’s territory while young males prefer to make their territories in areas devoid of any other male. The males are very violent and often fight for females. Terrible violent fights occur between the males especially when the female is in estrous and the death of the weaker opponent may also result in such fight. Tigers mark their territories by spraying of urine, secretion of anal gland, scat also. They also roar to defend their territories. Tigers generally prey on large and medium sized animals which include the chital, gaur, sambar, deer, wild boar and buffalo. Sometimes they also hunt leopards, pythons for getting their food. The old or the wounded tigers which are unable to hunt often prey on humans like the tigers of Sunderbans in India are man eaters. Tigers also feed on vegetation for getting their dietary fiber and the fiber of Slow Match tree is highly favoured. Tigers prefer to hunt at night either alone or in groups and run at a speed of 49-65 kilometers per hour. Out of twenty hunts only one result in killing of the prey. When hunting on larger animals they tend to grab the throat with the help of fore-limbs and the prey dies because of strangulation. While preying on smaller animals they bite at the nape, break the spinal cord or often pierce the spinal cord.

Mating in tigers can occur throughout the tear but the most preferred months are November and April. The females are receptive only for short duration and within this duration the mating must take place. A mating pair copulates very frequently and noisily like other cats and gestation period is of 16 weeks. The number of offsprings produced may be 3-4 and each weighing 1 kg, blind and helpless. The tigress takes part in caring of the young ones and the father takes no part in parental care. After five months the tigress will again give birth to another set of litters if the previous ones will be lost. The young ones after 8 weeks come out of the den and are ready to follow their mother. There is a single dominant cub of either sex in the litter. The cubs remain with their mother until they are two and a half years old. The females reach maturity at the age of 3-4 years and the males at the age of 4-5 years. During her complete life span the female gives birth to equal number of male and female cubs.

The mass killing of tigers for fur and destruction of their natural habitat are responsible for the decline of the population of tigers. According to report that at the beginning of 20th century the total 100,000 population of tigers got reduced to only 2,000 in the wild. India is believed to house world’s largest population of tigers. According to a report of World Wildlife Fund out of 3,500 tigers in the world 1,400 are found in India. A major project entitled Project Tiger was started in 1973 with the efforts of Indira Gandhi to save this royal animal and is running successfully till present. Many national parks have already been established in India for conservation of tigers. Not only in India but all over the world measures are being taken to save this beautiful animal from extinction.

Tigers are the symbol of strength and are the source of terror. Yet they look dangerous but make our jungles beautiful. Come, let’s save our tigers from extinction.

Culture is defined as a system of values and norms that are shared among a group of people and that, taken together, constitute a design for living. Although values are abstract ideas and convictions about what people believe, norms are prescribed behaviours that are acceptable in a specific society. Both values and norms are influenced by many factors such as religion, language, social structures, education, and political system and so on. Values are more difficult to learn than norms because they are easily observable. Yet, it is essential for business managers to study values in order to understand the reasons and motivations behind specific behaviours and cultural norms. In this article, we will understand cultural model of Geert Hofstede.

1) Uncertainty Avoidance – This cultural dimension by Hofstede refers to the extent to which people feel comfortable when they are exposed to an ambiguous or uncertain situation. People in a low uncertainty avoidance society are more willing to take risks and appreciate flexibility and informality in the workplace. In contrast, people in a high uncertainty avoidance society tend to be risk averse and favour rigid and formal decision-making processes in the workplace.

Under high uncertainty avoidance, security is a strong motivator relative to achievement or self-fulfilment, and order and predictability are paramount. Rules are important and must be obeyed to avoid chaos. Communication is direct and unequivocal to avoid confusion. Often this directness in high uncertainty avoidance countries such as Germany is mistaken for rudeness, when in reality it is an effort to ensure the clarity of a message of rule observance to preserve order. It is no surprise that Germany is a world leader in precision engineering and manufacturing.

The USA culture of low uncertainty avoidance and tolerance for risk and change has often been mentioned as a main source of the country’s technological leadership in the world. Conversely, people who are culturally inclined to avoid the risks and uncertainties of life tend to think that developing a new technology from the ground up may be too risky. Accordingly, high uncertainty avoidance countries tend to represent a less favourable environment for technology development than low uncertainty avoidance.

Countries with culture of high-uncertainty avoidance – Germany, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Austria, France, Japan, Brazil

Countries with culture of low-uncertainty avoidance -India, China, South Africa, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines

2) Power Distance – Power distance refers to the extent that people have an equal distribution of power. In a large power distance culture, power is concentrated at the top in the hands of relatively few people whereas people at the bottom are subject to decisions and instructions given by superiors. Conversely, in a small power distance culture, power is equally distributed among the members of the society. It is important to note that the particular predominant perspective on power distance is held and reinforced by most members of the society.

Managers in high power distance societies tend to believe in giving detailed instructions to their subordinates with little room for interpretation. Subordinates are supposed to respect the authority and superiority of upper management. Characteristics of high power distance cultures are – inequality among the members in the society, lack of free communication across different levels of the hierarchy and centralized control. These distinguishing traits of high power distance cultures often throttle employee creativity and new ideas. In contrast, the characteristic features of low power distance cultures, such as, lack of hierarchical authority and less centralization, tend to promote employee interaction, lateral communication, and less emphasis on the rules.

Countries with culture of high power distance – Arab Countries, India, Mexico, Philippines, Malaysia

Countries with culture of low power distance – Austria, Germany, United States, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Switzerland

3) Individualism vs Collectivism – Individualism means that people seek and protect their own interests over the common goal of the society and their role in the society. In an individualistic culture, people are comfortable with having the authority to make a decision based on what the individual thinks is best. In individualistic societies, employees are provided with great deal of personal freedom and autonomy. In collectivistic culture, people tend to belong to groups or collectives and look after each other in exchange for loyalty. Employees working in collectivistic culture are not allowed enough independence necessary for organizational members to think creatively and thereby, fail to cultivate an environment that fosters an innovative spirit.

Countries with individualistic culture – United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, France, New Zealand

Countries with collectivistic culture – South Korea, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Venezuela, Thailand, Portugal

4) Masculinity vs Femininity – According to Hofstede, a masculine culture is basically a performance-driven society where rewards and recognition for performance are primary motivational factors for achievement. In masculine societies, people are supposed to be competitive, ambitious, assertive, and risk taking in order to achieve their goals. Such societies tend to give the utmost respect and admiration to the successful achievers who fulfil his or her ambition and demonstrate assertiveness and willingness to take risks in order to achieve goals.

On contrary, in feminine cultures people tend to emphasize the quality of the whole life rather than money, success, and social status, which are easier to quantify. They are willing to reach out to the underprivileged and share their wealth with them.

Countries that follow masculine culture – Japan, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, China

Countries that follow feminine culture – Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Thailand, Finland

5) Confucian Dynamism [Long-term orientation vs Short-term orientation] – This dimension describes how every society has to maintain some links with its own past while dealing with the challenges of the present and future, and societies prioritise these two existential goals differently. Long-term Orientation captures the following elements – adaptation of tradition to the modern context, high savings ratio driven by thrift, patience and perseverance towards slow results, and concerns with respecting the demand of virtue.

On the other hand, a short-term orientation contain following aspects – respect for tradition, lower saving rate, quick-results orientation and concern with possessing the truth.

Countries with culture of long-term orientation – China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Thailand

Countries with culture of short-term orientation – United States, Norway, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Germany

It might be incorrect to generalize culture of a country as many large countries such as India, United States, and China have more than one culture. Despite these criticisms, this research work by Hofstede still remains a seminal work and many scholars continue to apply his model to their cross-cultural studies in various disciplines, including international business and management.

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson seems to explore the identity conferred on an individual via family. “Seems to” is important here, because what exactly might constitute family for Gretel, the novel’s principal character, is always a negotiable point. For many of us, the concept of family can be clearly defined. Its reality is often identifiable, possibly supportive, even dependable. But for others a family can be a site of struggle, a source of conflict, an indefinable and disquieting lack of trust. In either of these extremes, or indeed anywhere else on the spectrum that links them, a child is his or her own individual, an individual that can react against or absorb into whatever form a family might take. Equally, that individual can adopt the family norms, be they for eventual good or ill. Everything Under examines some of these possibilities from Gretel’s point of view, Gretel the daughter of a mother she increasingly seems not to know and has not met for many years.

Gretel seems to live a simple, dedicated and ordered life, with perhaps more than an element of self-imposed isolation. She is a lexicographer, examining the accuracy and scope of dictionary entries. Words thus matter to her. They are her bread and butter. Though she has not seen her mother since she was sixteen, she still has vivid memories of words they shared, words her mother invented to label things otherwise indescribable. As an adult, Gretel finds her world turned upside down by the reappearance of a woman she probably only ever partially knew, but whose own identity has now been transformed by age. Communication is hit and miss, sometimes lucid, sometimes mythical, sometimes disconnected. Gretel, however, decides to relive her past via the family life she can either remember or reconstruct, reliably or otherwise via conversation and reflection with her mother.

And that life was indeed somewhat unconventional. She and her mother lived on a boat that was moored on a river. The waters were, it seems, always murky. Gretel never really knew her father, and one of the areas she tries to uncover via her partial engagement with her mother is nothing less than the truth about her own beginnings. The water on which the family boat floated stayed murky throughout Gretel’s childhood, and, it seems, has not cleared since then.

Complicating the scene is the fact that she and her mother used to communicate via code words, sounds they themselves invented to describe the unknowns, the lurking dangers or merely the otherwise unspeakable things that can surface to threaten these lives lived in a microcosm of their own invention. There is apparently much to uncover, and not all of it is accessible. And when this private language, these codes for the unmentionable, invade either a mother’s or a daughter’s memory, they are used to hide something difficult, to obfuscate, and as if to ensure it remains unknown, unacknowledged.

Characters alternate between the present and memories of a limited family life on their moored boat. There are demons to confront and assumptions to deconstruct. The water, if anything, becomes murkier when stirred. And if there is a criticism of this forensic reconstruction of a shared but only partially remembered past, then it lies in its tendency to over-complicate. It is perhaps minor point, but one might have expected Gretel, with her professional desire for accuracy in everything to do with words, not to tolerate such obfuscation.

Mother and daughter’s invented vocabulary seems, however, to extend to only a few words. This is hardly the “language” we are told they shared. The words reappear in different contexts to indicate apparently different things. Unpicking how these labels have been applied to their shared experience forms a significant element of plot. But again, though much is made of these few words, they hardly constitute the “invented language” of the book’s preamble. And they certainly no not constitute anything that a professional lexicographer might have labelled “language”.

Everything Under thus evolves into a complex, complicated and inevitably confused uncovering of this relationship between mother and daughter. Truths are revealed and unconsciously absorbed detail is newly remembered to add context. Throughout, however, we feel that, in essence, things were probably a little simpler than each character’s desire to speculate might allow. In some ways this is the book’s strength, since Everything Under is a tangle of memories, a tangle of relationships and possibly an undergrowth of old stems that even the participants have neglected to prune.

Everything Under is a challenging read around what is essentially a simple idea. But, when reality finally knocks on the door and these characters find they must own up to the detail of their family life, there are revelations and surprises which, paradoxically, change nothing. Perhaps many families are like that.

Maritime Security, what is it?

Many people understand maritime security to be the role of the military to protect our seas and oceans, but this is not always the case. All of us depend on the seas and oceans, not just as an abundant food supply, but safe, secure and clean seas and oceans ensure our prosperity and peace. Air Transportation can be prohibitively expensive or logistically impossible for the movement of some items, so we rely on ships to transport these goods and foodstuffs. Just as in other methods of transportation, criminal organizations look for any security vulnerabilities in the supply chain and seek to exploit them for their own gain. This leads to actions of Piracy, armed robbery, host taking and other criminal activities. It is through appropriate security that we can maintain the rule of law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and protect strategic maritime interests.

Who Provides Maritime Security?

The seas and oceans are so vast (seas and oceans account for 70% of the earth's surface), that it is literally impossible for Governments to provide security for the whole area. To patrol, literally, millions of square miles of ocean would take legions of planes and warships to protect it. This is quite clearly impossible to achieve.

The most effective option is to employ the services of what are referred to as Privately Contracted Maritime Security Companies (PMSC's) who, for a commercial fee, will provide a team of armed guards, usually three, to stay onboard the ship when it is transiting though high risk areas.

Maritime Security in The Past Decade

Maritime terrorism, piracy, armed robbery and kidnapping, was for hundreds of years limited to isolated criminal incidents around the world. The big change for maritime security came with the rise of piracy off the coast of Somalia between 2008 and 2011. What started as an attempt by local fishermen to protect their local fishing rights against foreign commercial fishing operations, over some years developed into well-organized and well-structured criminal gang activities, funded by influential and powerful organizations.

Piracy emerging from Somalia has decayed intensely. In 2012 the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) (part of the International Chamber of Commerce) reported that there were seventy-five attempted and real piracy occurrences in that year by Somali pirates but only fifteen in 2013.

In the past 5 years, the hotbed of maritime criminal activity has shifted from East Africa to West Africa, in particular in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). In that region there have been many occurrences of criminal activity but with more emphasis on the stealing of property rather than the long-term hostage-taking strategy that was so prevalent in the East African area.

In the South China Sea, criminal activity has been on the increase in the past decade as politically motivated groups seeking to take hosts both for financial and political gain.

Maritime Security and the IMO

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the organization which is responsible for trying to make trading and traveling on the sea as secure and safe as is possible. For any possible security threats, which jeopardize security, the Organization develops feasible guidance and regulations to lower and manage risks through the Maritime Safety Committee and with contributions from the Legal Committee and Facilitation Committee.

The IMO developed provisions designed to address maritime security matters within the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code, which includes many instructions and forms of guidance for all countries who are part of the Convention. The aim of the ISPS Code is to ensure that the applicable port facilities and ocean-going vessels of IMO Member States are implementing the highest possible standards of security.

The ISPS code is divided into 2 sections, a series of guidelines on how to meet those requirements in a non-mandatory Part B, and detailed security-related requirements for shipping companies, port authorities and Governments, in Part A, which is mandatory.

Tactics

To counter the tactics used by Somali pirates, a booklet was collectively published by the shipping industry. Called 'BMP4', which stands for 'Best Management Practices', it suggests three fundamental principles; 1. Register with MSCHOA (Maritime Security Center – Horn of Africa), 2. Report to UKMTO (United Kingdom Marine Trade Operations), 3. Implement Ship Protection Measures (SPM's).

These BMP tactics appear to have been extremely effective in deterring and preventing pirate attacks and vessels being targeted who used at least three evasion measures to have been able to evade boarding by pirates. Many merchant vessels, however, did not use sufficient evasion measures. In fact, in nearly half of the cases attributed to East African pirates, the vessels did not report using any evasion tactics.

Maritime Security will continue to evolve as the threat itself evolves, and that threat will be determined by regional, political and economic factors.

Raw oysters and chocolate have been eaten as popular aphrodisiacs over the years to boost libido. However, ancient herbs found across the world in South America, China and Africa have been used to help treat sexual health problems and enhance sexual desire.

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Chinese tea is a tradition medicinal that has been used in China for thousands of years. It started off as a medicine then slowly evolved into a beverage and became a hallmark in China culture. The Chinese tea drinking habit soon became prevalent around the globe and to all walks of life.

Puer tea is one of the oldest type of china tea with a rich history of over 1700 years. During it height of popularity Puer was freely traded and even used as money for the bartering of goods. Premium Puer was offered as a tribute tea to the Emperor of China and to this day Puer remains a highly valuable commodity.

Yunnan Puer is revered in China as a traditional medicinal tea with a lot of health benefits. It is regarded by tea connoisseurs as the King of Chinese Tea for unique flavor and aroma. It gets name from the city Pu-er in South Western China, where the trade for Puer tea was conducted.

Science shows that Chinese Puer tea creates a surge in metabolism making it easier to burn excess fat. This is achieved by the catechins polyphenols in tea reacting with the chemical transmitter in the nervous system, this is known as Norepinephrine which will burn calories faster. It has thermogenic properties which helps to encourage fat oxidation at a much higher rate than the caffeine in tea does.

Puer Tea is very popular in many countries, such as Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macao, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other places. It has long been used by many chinese women to detox naturally, and as a beauty drink.

Anti aging – Puer can anti-aging because Catechins in tea have anti-aging of materials. Catechins of tea leaf of Yunnan, total is higher than other tea, so anti-aging effects is higher than other teas. Meanwhile, the Puer in the process, the macromolecular polysaccharides converted into a large number of new soluble monosaccharides and oligosaccharides, vitamin C greatly increased, these substances is very important for the immune system, it have health fitness and longevity effect.

Sober up – Puer Tea can increase vascular contractility. Theophylline has a diuretic effect, can induce rapid excretion of alcohol. And it would not harm the stomach, does not make a lot of drunk are vomiting, nausea and pain occur.

Protect the stomach – Yunnan Puer Tea does not produce a stimulating effect on the stomach. It’s thick, sweet slip and mellow, drinking into the stomach to form a membrane attached to the body surface of the stomach, produce the stomach’s protective layer, long-term drinking can protect the stomach. This is the main reason consumer title Puer as “beauty tea”, “longevity tea”.

Anti cancer – Puer Tea contains a rich variety of anti-cancer trace elements, the role of strong tea to kill cancer cells.

Protect teeth – Puer contains many physiologically active ingredients, with the role of disinfection, it can remove bad breath and protect teeth.

Beauty – Puer Tea can regulate the metabolism, promote blood circulation, regulating body, balance the body functions, and thus have the effect of beauty. This is the reason why consumer title it as “beauty tea”.

Politicians create catchy names and word pictures to undermine economic ideas they dislike.

Jesse Jackson disliked “Reaganomics.” Ross Perot described the relocation of jobs to Mexico as “the giant sucking sound.”

America’s insane spending policies of both major political parties have been renamed by me as “Newmanomics” in honor of “Mad Magazine” way too cool cover guy Alfred E. Newman.

His mantra: “what, me worry?”

Not only do many American people, companies, and government officials spend like drunken sailors, some blame “foreigners” for our plight.

Having some alcoholic relatives, I understand how denial works. Denial is simply self-deception.

Can’t we blame China? After all, they consume 382 million tons of grain compared to 278 million tons in America annually. China uses twice as much steel as we do. China uses 800 million tons of coal to our 574 million tons annually. China oil imports are up 34%.

Since China has 1.3 billion people, and we have about 300 million, China consumes less on a per person basis than us. Moreover, China is rapidly transforming itself into a modern superpower. We can’t blame China for our woes.

Our problem is not China, India, Japan, South Korea or any Asian bogeyman.

As Pogo says, “we have met the enemy, and he is us.” The USA is not a victim of anything or anyone external.

We’ve bought Washington’s “Newmanomics” bunk hook, line and sinker.

Therefore, “what, me worry?” is our vote-producing, bipartisan, nonsensical consensus economic philosophy.

You see, as disciples of “Newmanomics,” we can always print more money, sell more debt to Asian nations and banks, increase taxes on the “rich” (anyone making a dollar a year more than we do), and give tax breaks to industries contributing to last year’s elections.

Excessive debt-public and private–is weakening the US Dollar and the American economy.

US Government debt stands at $ 8.00 trillion, which increases a mere $1.76 billion daily. That works out to $26,222 of federal government debt per American man, woman and child.

At least $2.0 trillion of our U.S. government debt is held by persons and institutions in other countries.

If they begin to perceive the US Dollar as weakened, they can refuse of buy more US debt instruments and/or demand higher rates of return, possibly setting off a spiral of inflation here at home.

American corporate debt increased by $1.0 trillion in the last five years to $5.2 trillion.

$453 billion of Ford and General Motors corporate bonds (a form of debt)have been downgraded as “junk bonds.” Their value is likely to erode speedily and sink like a heavy rock.

This $453 billion is 15 times more than the bonds involved in the WorldCom meltdown.

Personal household debt averages $101,445 per American family.

Finally, these debts do not include those of states and municipalities, underfunded private pensions, government pensions, and totally unquantified, underfunded, almost eternal liabilities of Social Security and Medicare.

Americans have always risen to the challenge and found new ways to make more money as circumstances change and new opportunities arise.

Alfred E. Newman is right. Worry is useless. In a shaky economy, build your own business and manage your own money.

Where trees are numerous and a soldier’s eyes and ears and nose are altered, danger can be circumvented;

That’s a way a soldier thinks, anyhow.

I moved through the rainforest with all the assurance of a soldier who has known no other life-that is to say, after six months the human being can adapt itself to whatever environment need be.

And this day already my ears and nostrils had become inured to my surroundings, to such an extent, I could overhear the Viet Cong, and the familiar sounds and odors of the jungle, increasing as I silently moved in its direction.

There are many strange things in the orient, in its jungles, that the western mind cannot grasp.

To include ghosts, tigers.

I have seen them myself, ghosts, yes ghosts, with dirt and sweat on their faces, and legs, and arms.

For many this is a mystery.

But the fact is, they are and remain a fact in the jungles of Vietnam, and Cambodia, and Thailand;

I have been in all three jungles, and down the Mekong: the evidence for me is I have seen the materialization of disembodied spirits on countless occasions.

Seeing is believing.

In our era and our civilization this is of course crazy talk, but here I was following the sounds of the Viet Cong, they were dressed like primitive hunters, naked but for a patch, perhaps of some leopard or tiger skin, rubbed to a dark leather like smoothness.

They were not ghosts of course, they were real human beings.

They had no boots like me, just rude sandals of no certain fashion.

They had stopped and lay quiet now, myself almost opposite them, so I could clearly overhear all they passed between one another.

The man in charge appeared to have little if not petty authority, for he argued with all three men, making him the forth, I appointed him the captain.

“Should we return without the American Nurse?” said this man.

“You are not talking intelligent,” said one of the three, in Vietnamese which I could understand and now am translating to you in English.

As the third man stood up, moved about the fire, I heard him suggest going back to pick up the American Nurse, this was the captain of course, they had captured an American Red Cross woman, whom was being kept in some bamboo cage, I gathered a few miles from where they were.

The longer I listened, the less I thought them being Vietcong.

Yet my judgment told me they were some kind of warriors that inhabited this jungle. Doubtless, of some centuries old village, who came upon this girl, who evidently got lost from her unit, or had wandered away from one of the villages, or was kidnapped from one of the clinics, in one of the villages; not sure exactly what her status was, perhaps a UN, volunteer; the war had been going on now for a while, it was 1971.

I was mystified by what I was seeing, creatures from a delirium.

It was simply my mission to find this abducted nurse, or bring back to headquarters, her, or her death notice.

So I had no intention to alter my course; I was a sniper and Green Bert, and knew how to move through the jungle with ease, getting lost of course is the thing not to do, and my campus was not working all the great, I meant to replace it, but never got around to it, the pointer was flipping and flopping every-which-way.

I figured I’d have time enough to think of a retreat once I got what I was looking for. Dead or alive. Thus it was better for me to keep this group in sight.

In the morning the group had decided to go back to their village, although they didn’t, they sat around a fire debating, drinking rice wine and telling dirty jokes, and deliberating at length of what they should do.

I doubled back, trying to retrace their steps the day before that is before they came to making this campfire, where evidently they had caged the Girl.

It was not hard to find, not more than a mile from where I was, it was there pushed up against an old temple ruin, the cage the girl was in, and the girl was in it. And hence, I moved a little more rapidly, then slowed down, near a creep, and looked in a three dimensional view, as might a scout, and then I halted, more like froze in my blood, to a stop!

There pacing around the cage was a tiger facing the girl.

I could see her puffed up eyes, glossy with terror and tears. She was as if in a trance.

I was frozen to this spot, likewise.

She was slender, and had just rages for clothes on her, and had been missing I knew for three or four days, how fantastically I pondered, she had survived.

Her white uniform torn, soiled, as I said, more like rages, draped on her, exposing large parts of her skin: face and arms scratched and bleeding. She didn’t even see me; her whole mind was on the tiger.

There was no way for the girl to escape, and had she, this was her reward, the tiger’s meal.

To save her from this terrible death, should the tiger decide to rip open the bamboo cage, now surely thinking, ‘Any moment!’

I tiptoed slowly forward, and beyond the realms of possibility that the tiger taking one big leap at me, would not be successful.

And perhaps by smell, instantly the tiger got distracted now, for he turned his attention from the girl onto me.

And so now the center of interest was the brute tiger and me, and I upon him, and the girl now found hope I suppose, hope for escape.

I shouted at the tiger, and it wheeled complete about, taking a 90-degree flip, and a sudden jerk.

The tiger glanced back at the girl, his meal.

The tiger had kicked the hole in the bamboo cage, big enough for her to escape and nearly big enough for him to enter: I could see that now, yet her other fate was too dreadful for her, so she stayed put:

“When I shoot him, even if I miss, run out of that hole and make for a tree,” I decreed.

The tiger hesitated for another instant to see the girl again, and then back to me, it was a rude interruption but it gave me time to aim my M16-

The animal snarled, I was twenty-five feet away, he easily leaped a fifteen feet distance, what more could I do but stand my ground-

In a brief instant, I made a photograph in my mind of his forehead the side of his head, and neck, then figured I’d miss it, and put all my muscle and weight and aim into this one shot, without waiting for the beast to position himself into a second leap.

My shoulder held the rifle tight, timed to a fraction, and my shot hit him full in the chest, his paws curled under him, and the leap he was about to take, caused him to fall to one side, and the girl ran to the tree, like hell was on fire.

I asked myself: is he dead or simply disabled?

I wasn’t going to guess, I put five more shots into the dying body of the beast.

The intended prey, high up in the empire of trees, I could hear taking a long and deep sigh.

Now I approached the tree.

Her face was still filled with fear and terror, stained with blood and wet tears.

She thought the beast might still be alive; she didn’t want to leave the tree.

“Go away,” she commanded me, as I put out my hand to help her down.

“Who are you?” she demanded.

As she stepped down from the tree, it looked as if she had the beginnings of a pernicious fever.

“Pardon me,” said the nurse, “I didn’t catch your name Sergeant?”

“You have no need to fear me,” I assured her.

“I overheard a group of Vietnamese saying they had captured you, and had put you into a cage, although I had orders to find your whereabouts, and rescue you or bring back a report of what happened to you; so I came looking, and to be honest, they may have decided to come back for you, they were thinking of it. Hand you over to the VC.”

“I’ll trust you Sergeant to get me out of here and to a military base,” she said, “for there is no other way, I cannot go back to the clinic I was working at, they took other nurses also, and a white doctor.”

“They’re all dead,” I told her.

“What is your name?” she asked me.

“Sergeant Evens” I replied.

“And what is your name,” I asked.

“Natnof.” She replied.

“What kind of name is that? I asked.

“They gave it to me in the village I was at,” she said with an eye on me, closely on me, as if the name made any imprint on me, and it didn’t.

I found myself appraising her beauty, her dark brown eyes, black velvet hair, and bronze skin, her white ivory teeth.

She was my age, perhaps younger, twenty-three, thereabouts.

I could not help but gaze at this delicately molded figure of a girl, beside me. She had courage and beauty.

A soldier of the United States military could not be less.

Just the stamina to endure this for day or four days not knowing what would be the end, proved her to be an equal to any soldier.

“If I am going to rescue you,” I said with determination, “we had better get trekking, and find a way back to the South China Sea, and then to Cam Ranh Bay. We are eighty-three miles from the sea, and three miles according to where I assume your village is, or that where those militia men had taken you, and no more than a mile from where the militia men were camped:

I call them militia men, for lack of a better name, they will come looking for you to take you hostage again.

I expect they will be told to come back for you, sooner than later by the VC commandant.”

As we set out in the direction of our prescribed destination, it was apparent to me, the young nurse was tired to the point of collapse.

How she sustained herself this long was on pure will-power.

She was lean and small, it was not hard to have her place her one arm around my shoulder and neck, and use me as a helpful walking stick, although she was walking on her toes then, per near.

We walked in a long silence, which induced hunger, thirst and fatigue.

I told myself I must remain strong!

Somehow I found myself near the location I had been before, where the Vietnamese militia men had their campfire; anyhow it looked familiar, yet I wasn’t positive, I was too tired to be positive.

We stopped here because it was a clearing, plus there was a stream, and cold clear water.

For twenty minutes or so we both laid stretched out upon the ground.

Nearby, one of the militia men stood up, his ears had caught the sound of something approaching-

The forth militia man had just returned from a hunt, he had a small wild pig, a boar, dragging behind him, but that was not the sound in question.

“Be quiet,” said one of the men around the campfire, noticing their companion with the boar, “You too be quiet!” he said, he also was hearing something behind him, a light conversation in English, and the sound was drifting back to them.

Now all four heard the noise.

The sergeant and his rescued nurse, had not gone in the direction of the South China Sea.

The leader of the militia, the only one with a skimpy neck, and sparse mustache, signaled his warriors to silence and pointed in the direction of the stream, they knew exactly where it was.

As they all crept slowly in that direction, the sound became closer, and clearer, as they neared the stream, and more pronounced than what they had first heard.

Thus approaching steadily, and then in their sight, they saw the sergeant and the runaway nurse whom they sought, and were having second thoughts over, to return and if still alive, bring back to the VC for a hostage, and perhaps get a reward.

They had taken what they need, what all men seem to think they need from women, unwillingly, as a trophy or perhaps as they say booty, and thus could not kill her outright, had they been VC, this would not have been an issue.

Elated, the one with the mustache leaped from his place of concealment, calling wildly to his men to rush the two.

At sight of them, the sergeant turned to escape, seeing the nurse frozen in fear, he stopped his escape, and put his M16 on Rock and Roll, and sprayed the area in front of him with an array of 7.62 millimeter bullets; knowing of course he could make no headway while burdened with the nurse.

All were dead but the leader.

“We are lost,” said the Sergeant.

The sergeant placed another bullet in the Vietnamese’s throat, he bleed quickly out.

The nurse hesitated, “Did you have to?”

“Yes,” said the sergeant, lest I let the animals eat him alive; plus, I can’t carry two, you and him, who would you prefer I save?”

Natfou, whose name was really Gayle Rosenboum, gave a grimace, hiding her discontent.

Then knowing there was food and supplies at the militia’s camp, they headed in that direction.

The foliage was thick and so they could not rush forward, being as hungry as they were. The girl continued to fall back slowly with a low brow.

At the camp, there were three dead monkeys, and a pig.

The Sergeant had guessed from the attitude of the four man militia, that they were simply an outpost, that soon the more powerful Vietcong, a more courageous and resourceful enemy would be following them as soon as they grasped the situation.

After eating, and pinning some of the meat he put in pouches, to his belt around his body, he took his broken directional compass, and checked the sun to see what direction it was descending, and it was descending in the west of course, thus he went in the opposite direction, following the example of his campus.

The dinner was serene, monkey meat, and over the tiny fire was tasty hot vegetables ready to have the pork cooked in it, but out of necessity to move, they let the delicious pork rot where it lay.

They both were quite content with the full meal of monkey and vegetables, and so looking forward to seeing the South China Sea, for they had both eaten generous portions, the hightailed out of the campsite.

The sergeant had found Gayle to be in a good humor now, no longer immersed in melancholy for the death of the four militants.

Regardless, however, the respectful attention shown him before by her, was not shown any longer.

Prior to this she had figured the sergeant knew his way back, that it was an accomplished fact, now, because of his mistake, he had brought death to four men that might have lived.

She even questioned, if it was for his personal entertainment if he killed the last one.

As they pushed their way through the darkening of the jungle, their wrists, necks, faces and ankles, exposed skin areas, received a multitude of scratches.

Sargent Evens had stripped the four men of their weapons, and what he couldn’t carry, he buried so the VC could not use them against them, now he had to allow the AK47 rifles, three he had taken, lay, gathered together in a pile by a great stack of limbs and branches, and twigs and grasses of the jungle, he could no longer carry them.

And when night fell they lit a light fire, which held a dual purpose, as a fire against the crawling beasts, to protect them, and a gruesome light for the spooky night:

And there was enough wood to burn during the full night, as the Sargent feed it accordingly.

The flames jumped here and there, high and low, shot out against the foliage, against the trunks of the trees.

And the shadows of the fire ushered in more shadows of darkness-greys mixed with flickers of flames that looked like red eyes.

And the silence, and the mystery inverted, by the flames, created ghostly inhuman like figures, and then consumed by smoke, they disappeared, and then the sergeant fell into a complete dead sleep.

For Gayle, sleep was a nightmare; she had asked someone inside her nightmare, “Do all men in this far-off country, especially soldiers, or alike do brutal and cruel things?”

The nightmare demon told her, transplanted in her head “Soldiers do not change. They do not play harps.”

There was an undercurrent she appeared to be endeavoring to conceal, a soft emotion, she was ashamed of what they made her do, and this undercurrent, this hint was sharp.

And now she was gambling on if she would be used for the instrument of pleasure by Sergeant Evens, as she was by the militia men.

“God forbid,” she cried in her sleep, “if they are all alike… “

“No,” whispered another voice, “They are not all alike!”

Was she now stricken with fever, she questioned her mind’s eye.

Eating monkeys, and half naked, looking at weapons ready to be fired at any moment, and the sergeant looking at her with lustful eyes, or were they eyes, simply eyes, attesting to her beauty.

And those roughhousing want-to-be soldiers: watching those four men get stain.

And a beast killed with a single shot, one wanting to eat her.

The Militia wanting her for pleasure, and having their pleasures met, it was all too much.

And now the fever!

Gayle dreamed questioningly if she really ever wanted to wake up!

I mean, was it only a matter of misfortune if she did?

She was ungrudging with admiration for the bravery of Sergeant Evens, then she rose, couldn’t sleep, passed about the fire, walked to the spot where the sergeant had put his M16 rifle.

Picking it up, she examined it closely.

“By gosh,” she ejaculated, “it has blood on it!”

And had the sergeant been awake, it would have been noticeable immediately, she had changed instantly to a melancholy deep void, a depression: however could her life with all this inside of her head, be mended, especially the shame of it all!

Plus, if she was dead, that would give the sergeant a better opportunity to escape.

After a meager drink of cool water, and a prayer, she put more wood on the fire, making it blazingly warm.

A moment of thought passed.

And here, she found a concrete substantiation for life-within that moment: death! And with the sound of the bang of the rifle, the sergeant awoke, and looking at what took place, knew all that he had left to deliver, was a story, a report.

No: 1040 (11-29 & 30-2014)

It is evident that States and International organizations are the primary sources of international law. However, international environmental law is the impact of efforts from non-government organizations and state authorities. There have been positive efforts made on law and policy making in the field of international environmental law in nations such as United States, Germany, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Brazil, China, India and Indonesia. In most cases, environmental protection has been witnessed in those nations in which there is a guaranteed constitutional right to a pollution free healthy environment. For instance, the law in Costa Rica, Latin America, Constitution of Chile, Hungary, South Africa etc., provides for a ‘right to pollution free environment’. Several European member-states have amended their constitutions after the fall of communism and have included right to environment as a justifiable right in the constitution.

In federal states, local governments legislate on environmental issues within their own jurisdiction. The law and policies initiated by different nations and their local regions have influenced each other towards evolving a state practice of transnational environmental regulations. In this respect the state and national level administrative and bureaucratic agencies have played a vital role to create environmental activism.

Additionally, on a global level the organs of United Nations have served as key actors in the process of environment protection law making. For instance, the role played by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund cannot be overlooked since they have helped initiate action among states and pre-existing international organizations including the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD).

Nevertheless, at every level, local, national, international there have been several disagreements with regard to decision making concerning environmental issues. In particular, at a global level although there is a comprehensive institutional framework, there is complete absence of unanimity with respect to environmental decisions. It is therefore a challenge to create an order of international environmental governance with sustainable development as priority concern.

It was not until the late 1980s that sustainable development started to be included on a frequent basis in international texts, first primarily in political documents and then in binding treaty texts. One of the first treaties to use the term, and notably outside the environmental context, was the 1990 Agreement establishing the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Despite the continued political disagreement, the concept of sustainable development has now been included within a significant number of binding and non-binding texts both at the regional and global level. However, in 2012 the international community noticed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development that the progress was most unsatisfactory.

Humanity stands at a defining moment in history, and we need to realize that integration of environment, development concerns and greater attention to them will lead to the fulfillment of basic needs and improved living standards for all; a surety for an eco-friendly prosperous future. No nation can achieve this dependently, but together we can in a global partnership for sustainable development.

Hence development and conservation of the environment should go hand in hand. Governments of all nations (under-developed, developing, and developed) should adopt a development policy that assures pollution control. In this sense international environmental law faces its greatest challenges to meet developmental and environmental needs of present and future generations.