One of my friend sent me an email about the do’s and dont’s in year 2009. When i went through the points i was really impressed i would like to share this in my blog. Here the points
Health:
1. Drink plenty of water
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food that is manufactured in plants
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy
5. Make time for prayer
6. Play more games
7. Read more books than you did in 2008
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9. Sleep for 7 hours
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day ---- and while you walk, smile
Personality:
11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do ; keep your limits
14. Don't take yourself so seriously ; no one else does
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip
16. Dream more while you are awake
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20.. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
Community:
25. Call your family often
26. Each day give something good to others
27. Forgive everyone for everything
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day
30. What other people think of you is none of your business
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.
Life:
32. Do the right things
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful
34. GOD heals everything
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
37. The best is yet to come
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.
40. Share these thoughts with others.
2009-05-31
CHELSEA 2009 FA CUP CHAMPIONS
Guus Hiddink ended his time in charge at Chelsea in style as a Frank Lampard strike sealed a 2-1 victory over Everton in the FA Cup final at Wembley.
Lampard drove home the winning goal 18 minutes from time after Didier Drogba had cancelled out Louis Saha's opener within the first 30 seconds of the game for the Toffees.
Interim Blues head coach Hiddink, in his last game in charge, left Michael Ballack on the bench, with Drogba and Nicolas Anelka both starting.
Phil Neville and Steven Pienaar both shrugged off knocks to start for the Toffees, with Saha handed the task of being the lone striker.
The game exploded into action within 30 seconds of the first whistle, with Everton taking the lead through Saha.
A ball into the area was not properly cleared by the Chelsea backline and Marouane Fellaini's header fell to Saha, who rifled home a superb left-foot drive from 15 yards.
Hiddink's side were clearly rocked by such an early setback and it took them 14 minutes to find an opening, as Michael Essien shot over from the edge of the area.
However, with 21 minutes on the clock Florent Malouda found space on the left and his pinpoint cross was met by Drogba, who powered home his unmarked header from eight yards.
From that point on Chelsea started to dominate the play, but rarely threatened Tim Howard, with Joleon Lescott a rock at the heart of the Toffees defence.
Just before the break Ashley Cole broke forward from left-back and tried a shot from a narrow angle, but it didn't trouble Howard at his near post.
David Moyes brought on Lars Jacobsen to replace Hibbert at right-back for Everton at the interval, but Chelsea continued to have the better of the game.
On the hour mark, Lampard released Anelka and he almost gave his side the lead, as he lifted a shot over Howard but a couple of feet past the far post.
Seven minutes later Everton had their best chance since the opening minute as Leighton Baines curled in an excellent cross from the left and Saha headed over from ten yards out.
Lampard made them pay for that miss with 18 minutes left to play, turning away from Neville and driving in a left-foot shot from just over 20 yards which just beat the despairing dive of Howard.
Malouda came close to sealing the win with just over ten minutes to go, as his 30-yarder bounced down off the underside of the crossbar and out with Howard well beaten.
Anelka had the final chance of the game in stoppage time, but under pressure from Lescott the Frenchman lifted his shot over the crossbar, but it mattered little as the final whistle sounded.
Lampard drove home the winning goal 18 minutes from time after Didier Drogba had cancelled out Louis Saha's opener within the first 30 seconds of the game for the Toffees.
Interim Blues head coach Hiddink, in his last game in charge, left Michael Ballack on the bench, with Drogba and Nicolas Anelka both starting.
Phil Neville and Steven Pienaar both shrugged off knocks to start for the Toffees, with Saha handed the task of being the lone striker.
The game exploded into action within 30 seconds of the first whistle, with Everton taking the lead through Saha.
A ball into the area was not properly cleared by the Chelsea backline and Marouane Fellaini's header fell to Saha, who rifled home a superb left-foot drive from 15 yards.
Hiddink's side were clearly rocked by such an early setback and it took them 14 minutes to find an opening, as Michael Essien shot over from the edge of the area.
However, with 21 minutes on the clock Florent Malouda found space on the left and his pinpoint cross was met by Drogba, who powered home his unmarked header from eight yards.
From that point on Chelsea started to dominate the play, but rarely threatened Tim Howard, with Joleon Lescott a rock at the heart of the Toffees defence.
Just before the break Ashley Cole broke forward from left-back and tried a shot from a narrow angle, but it didn't trouble Howard at his near post.
David Moyes brought on Lars Jacobsen to replace Hibbert at right-back for Everton at the interval, but Chelsea continued to have the better of the game.
On the hour mark, Lampard released Anelka and he almost gave his side the lead, as he lifted a shot over Howard but a couple of feet past the far post.
Seven minutes later Everton had their best chance since the opening minute as Leighton Baines curled in an excellent cross from the left and Saha headed over from ten yards out.
Lampard made them pay for that miss with 18 minutes left to play, turning away from Neville and driving in a left-foot shot from just over 20 yards which just beat the despairing dive of Howard.
Malouda came close to sealing the win with just over ten minutes to go, as his 30-yarder bounced down off the underside of the crossbar and out with Howard well beaten.
Anelka had the final chance of the game in stoppage time, but under pressure from Lescott the Frenchman lifted his shot over the crossbar, but it mattered little as the final whistle sounded.
4THEGAME
2009-05-30
EFFECTIVE THINKING
While positive thinking allows your mind to accept new ideas and creative thoughts, effective thinking involves directing your thoughts toward specific goals. Daydreaming, relaxation, and free association allow the mind to come up with new or unusual ideas or idea fragments.
Have a Goal for Your Creative Thinking
Without a specific goal in mind, random thoughts and ideas may not be particularly useful. Gerald Kushel, Ed.D., is the author of several books, including Effective Thinking for Uncommon Success. In a 1991 interview for Bottom Line Personal newsletter, Dr. Kushel says that to be an effective thinker, you need to have goals and a commitment to those goals. He outlines four steps toward effective thinking:
1.Take Notice. Take stock of where you are or what you are doing. Is it moving you toward your goal?
2.Pause. Take a break when you get off-track.
3.Identify Effective Thoughts. When a thought enters your head, identify it as effective or defective, positive or negative.
4.Choose. We can choose our thoughts. It's the underlying premise of positive thinking. It's true of effective thinking and creative thinking, as well. Choose to focus on those thoughts that bring you closer to your goals.
Identify Your Creative Challenge. Applied to creative thinking, effective thinking means clearly defining what creative challenge you need to meet. Do you want a new business name? Are you looking for an unmet need to turn into a business? Are you trying to come up with an exciting or unusual direct mail piece within a limited budget? Whatever the challenge, direct your thoughts and activities toward that goal. Gather materials that will help you accomplish your goal.
The right time and place and effective thinking only work if given an opportunity to do so. Creative thinking takes determinition, perservence.
Think Backwards to Think Creatively and Generate IDEAS
Have a Goal for Your Creative Thinking
Without a specific goal in mind, random thoughts and ideas may not be particularly useful. Gerald Kushel, Ed.D., is the author of several books, including Effective Thinking for Uncommon Success. In a 1991 interview for Bottom Line Personal newsletter, Dr. Kushel says that to be an effective thinker, you need to have goals and a commitment to those goals. He outlines four steps toward effective thinking:
1.Take Notice. Take stock of where you are or what you are doing. Is it moving you toward your goal?
2.Pause. Take a break when you get off-track.
3.Identify Effective Thoughts. When a thought enters your head, identify it as effective or defective, positive or negative.
4.Choose. We can choose our thoughts. It's the underlying premise of positive thinking. It's true of effective thinking and creative thinking, as well. Choose to focus on those thoughts that bring you closer to your goals.
Identify Your Creative Challenge. Applied to creative thinking, effective thinking means clearly defining what creative challenge you need to meet. Do you want a new business name? Are you looking for an unmet need to turn into a business? Are you trying to come up with an exciting or unusual direct mail piece within a limited budget? Whatever the challenge, direct your thoughts and activities toward that goal. Gather materials that will help you accomplish your goal.
The right time and place and effective thinking only work if given an opportunity to do so. Creative thinking takes determinition, perservence.
Think Backwards to Think Creatively and Generate IDEAS
2009-05-28
DESPITE OBSTACLES, ISLAM CONTINUES TO SPREAD
Since the advent of Islam, as the final and all-compassing Message to mankind up to the moment, its adversaries left no opportunity to thwart it and curb its followers. Right from day one, they did their level best to kill it in the bud using different ways.
Due to the fact that this new religion holds all people equal in terms of rights, duties, human value, etc, regardless of their ethnic, social or economic backgrounds, the rich and leading figures in Makkah, fearing lest they would lose their prestige and wealth, stood adamantly in the face of the then nascent Message. They tried to put different kinds of obstacles to hinder the spread of Islam, in feverish attempts to maintain their positions and prevent any sort of threat to their interests.
In their war against Islam, they tried many kinds of weapons: bodily torture, economic sanctions, false propaganda, and financial seduction, none of which was of any fruit.
With the Help of Allaah, the Most Exalted, then the will, patience and perseverance of Prophet Muhammad and his faithful companions Islam could successfully pass all those hard tests. It survived all the hardships and expanded its span to include not only the Arabian Peninsula, rather spacious lands outside it.
By the tenth century, Islam became the main religion, or at least, the religion of the majority of nations in an area covering more than half of the civilized world stretching over three continents from the Pyrenees and Siberia in West and North Europe to the farthest end of Asia, up to China and New Guinea in the East; from Morocco in North Africa to the southern tip of Africa, covering two-thirds of the African continent.
It is one of the most striking facts of human history that the spread of Islam over such a vast area took place within three centuries. Most striking of all, within half a century after the Hijrah (Prophet Muhammad's Migration from Makkah to Al-Madeenah), Islam had already conquered the whole of North Africa from Egypt to Morocco, all the Middle Eastern lands from Yemen to Caucasia and from Egypt to the lands beyond Transoxiana (portion of Central Asia corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan and southwest Kazakhstan).
What makes Islam spread?
There are many reasons why nations have been, from past to the present, so ready to embrace Islam, what is pointed out by Muhammad Asad, a Jewish convert to Islam, probably being the foremost:
"Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other, nothing lacking, with the result of an absolute balance and solid composure. Everything in the teaching and postulate of Islam is in its proper place." [Islam at the Crossroads, p.5]
Most of Western writers, especially those under the influence of the Church, have never failed to accuse Islam of spreading by the sword. The causes of this prejudice lie mainly in the fact that the spread of Islam has often occurred at the expense of Christianity. While Islam has, for centuries, obtained numerous conversions from Christianity without much effort or organized missionary activities, Christianity has almost never been able to achieve conversions from Islam in spite of sophisticated means and well-organized missionary activities, and it has always been at a disadvantage in its competition with Islam for fourteen centuries.
This has caused its missionaries and most of the orientalists to develop a complex within themselves by depicting Islam and introducing it as a regressive, vulgar religion of savage people.
If history is to be read with an objective eye, such allegations will easily be debunked.
In addition to many other reasons which are responsible for the spread of Islam, it is the exemplary life-style and unceasing efforts of individual Muslims to transmit the message of Islam throughout the world which lie at the root of the conquest of the hearts by Islam. Islamic universalism is closely associated with the principle of 'enjoining the good' for Islam is to be spread by Muslims by means of this principle. This principle seeks to convey the message of Islam to all human beings in the world and to establish a model Islamic community on a world-wide basis.
Among every four humans in the world, one of them is Muslim. Muslims have increased by over 235% in the last fifty years up to nearly 1.6 billion. By comparison, Christians have increased by only 47 %... Islam is the second largest religious group in France, Great Britain and USA.
The following statistics show the growth of Islam in the world from (1989-1998):
North America: (25%)
Africa: (2.15%)
Asia: (12.57%)
Europe: (142.35%)
Latin America: (4.73%)
Australia: (257.01%)
Western fierce media campaign against Islam and Muslims escalated after the 11th of September attacks. Biased media, especially in the USA, rushed into a feverish contest to depict Islam as a religion based on savagery, intolerance and blood-thirst.
Not only in the media were Muslims harassed in the United States of America, Britain, Australia, and other European countries; rather, they were physically attacked at their homes, in the streets, in public places, and in their Mosques, Islamic centers, etc. The same attitude was, unfortunately, maintained toward the Noble Prophet of Islam and the Noble Quran.
Islamophobia reached its peak when a Danish newspaper published heinous caricatures picturing the Prophet as a terrorist. The noble Quran was also desecrated in the US and some other countries, which indicates the deep hatred towards Islam and Muslims.
There have been many rigid regulations and extremist procedures enacted against Muslims in the US and some European countries, on the pretext of their "war on terror". Many Muslim students were banned from completing their studies, many families expatriated, Islamic activities limited or stopped, Muslim men and women subjected to sophisticated checking and screening procedures in airports, women with hijab and men with beards mocked or harassed, etc. In brief, a Muslim has become for them a word synonymous to "suspect".
Nonetheless, even after the events of September, a wave of new Muslims embraced Islam all over the world. In the USA alone, more than 30000 persons embraced Islam.
By the year 2020, Islam is projected to be the largest religion in the world.
To sum up, in spite of all the feverish attempts on the part of the adversaries of Islam, old and new, Islam is still sweeping the globe easily and peacefully, thus conquering and illuminating the minds and hearts, no matter how hard and intricate their conspiracies are. Allaah, the Most Glorious, Says in the Quran (what means): "It is He (Allaah) Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allaah dislike it." [Quran 9: 33]
Due to the fact that this new religion holds all people equal in terms of rights, duties, human value, etc, regardless of their ethnic, social or economic backgrounds, the rich and leading figures in Makkah, fearing lest they would lose their prestige and wealth, stood adamantly in the face of the then nascent Message. They tried to put different kinds of obstacles to hinder the spread of Islam, in feverish attempts to maintain their positions and prevent any sort of threat to their interests.
In their war against Islam, they tried many kinds of weapons: bodily torture, economic sanctions, false propaganda, and financial seduction, none of which was of any fruit.
With the Help of Allaah, the Most Exalted, then the will, patience and perseverance of Prophet Muhammad and his faithful companions Islam could successfully pass all those hard tests. It survived all the hardships and expanded its span to include not only the Arabian Peninsula, rather spacious lands outside it.
By the tenth century, Islam became the main religion, or at least, the religion of the majority of nations in an area covering more than half of the civilized world stretching over three continents from the Pyrenees and Siberia in West and North Europe to the farthest end of Asia, up to China and New Guinea in the East; from Morocco in North Africa to the southern tip of Africa, covering two-thirds of the African continent.
It is one of the most striking facts of human history that the spread of Islam over such a vast area took place within three centuries. Most striking of all, within half a century after the Hijrah (Prophet Muhammad's Migration from Makkah to Al-Madeenah), Islam had already conquered the whole of North Africa from Egypt to Morocco, all the Middle Eastern lands from Yemen to Caucasia and from Egypt to the lands beyond Transoxiana (portion of Central Asia corresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan and southwest Kazakhstan).
What makes Islam spread?
There are many reasons why nations have been, from past to the present, so ready to embrace Islam, what is pointed out by Muhammad Asad, a Jewish convert to Islam, probably being the foremost:
"Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other, nothing lacking, with the result of an absolute balance and solid composure. Everything in the teaching and postulate of Islam is in its proper place." [Islam at the Crossroads, p.5]
Most of Western writers, especially those under the influence of the Church, have never failed to accuse Islam of spreading by the sword. The causes of this prejudice lie mainly in the fact that the spread of Islam has often occurred at the expense of Christianity. While Islam has, for centuries, obtained numerous conversions from Christianity without much effort or organized missionary activities, Christianity has almost never been able to achieve conversions from Islam in spite of sophisticated means and well-organized missionary activities, and it has always been at a disadvantage in its competition with Islam for fourteen centuries.
This has caused its missionaries and most of the orientalists to develop a complex within themselves by depicting Islam and introducing it as a regressive, vulgar religion of savage people.
If history is to be read with an objective eye, such allegations will easily be debunked.
In addition to many other reasons which are responsible for the spread of Islam, it is the exemplary life-style and unceasing efforts of individual Muslims to transmit the message of Islam throughout the world which lie at the root of the conquest of the hearts by Islam. Islamic universalism is closely associated with the principle of 'enjoining the good' for Islam is to be spread by Muslims by means of this principle. This principle seeks to convey the message of Islam to all human beings in the world and to establish a model Islamic community on a world-wide basis.
Among every four humans in the world, one of them is Muslim. Muslims have increased by over 235% in the last fifty years up to nearly 1.6 billion. By comparison, Christians have increased by only 47 %... Islam is the second largest religious group in France, Great Britain and USA.
The following statistics show the growth of Islam in the world from (1989-1998):
North America: (25%)
Africa: (2.15%)
Asia: (12.57%)
Europe: (142.35%)
Latin America: (4.73%)
Australia: (257.01%)
Western fierce media campaign against Islam and Muslims escalated after the 11th of September attacks. Biased media, especially in the USA, rushed into a feverish contest to depict Islam as a religion based on savagery, intolerance and blood-thirst.
Not only in the media were Muslims harassed in the United States of America, Britain, Australia, and other European countries; rather, they were physically attacked at their homes, in the streets, in public places, and in their Mosques, Islamic centers, etc. The same attitude was, unfortunately, maintained toward the Noble Prophet of Islam and the Noble Quran.
Islamophobia reached its peak when a Danish newspaper published heinous caricatures picturing the Prophet as a terrorist. The noble Quran was also desecrated in the US and some other countries, which indicates the deep hatred towards Islam and Muslims.
There have been many rigid regulations and extremist procedures enacted against Muslims in the US and some European countries, on the pretext of their "war on terror". Many Muslim students were banned from completing their studies, many families expatriated, Islamic activities limited or stopped, Muslim men and women subjected to sophisticated checking and screening procedures in airports, women with hijab and men with beards mocked or harassed, etc. In brief, a Muslim has become for them a word synonymous to "suspect".
Nonetheless, even after the events of September, a wave of new Muslims embraced Islam all over the world. In the USA alone, more than 30000 persons embraced Islam.
By the year 2020, Islam is projected to be the largest religion in the world.
To sum up, in spite of all the feverish attempts on the part of the adversaries of Islam, old and new, Islam is still sweeping the globe easily and peacefully, thus conquering and illuminating the minds and hearts, no matter how hard and intricate their conspiracies are. Allaah, the Most Glorious, Says in the Quran (what means): "It is He (Allaah) Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allaah dislike it." [Quran 9: 33]
MAN SEWS UP RIVAL'S LIPS
Taipei - A Taiwanese man has been arrested for allegedly sewing up the lips of another man to stop him from talking about a disagreement over money, Taiwan television reported on Thursday.
The accused, identified only by his surname Wang, decided to punish another man for talking to others about a money dispute between the two, the television channel ETTV reported.
While Wang's friends overpowered the victim, whose name was given as Chang, Wang allegedly used a needle and thread late on Tuesday to sew up Chang's mouth, ETTV said.
Both Wang and Chang are about 20.
Neighbours in Taichung in western Taiwan heard Chang's screams and alerted police, who arrived at the scene and arrested Wang.
Chang received treatment at a hospital.
"When we saw Chang, his lips had been sewed up with five stitches, and there was blood all over his face," said Yang Chao-sung of the Hotzuo Police Station in Taichung . "We have never seen anything like that."
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The accused, identified only by his surname Wang, decided to punish another man for talking to others about a money dispute between the two, the television channel ETTV reported.
While Wang's friends overpowered the victim, whose name was given as Chang, Wang allegedly used a needle and thread late on Tuesday to sew up Chang's mouth, ETTV said.
Both Wang and Chang are about 20.
Neighbours in Taichung in western Taiwan heard Chang's screams and alerted police, who arrived at the scene and arrested Wang.
Chang received treatment at a hospital.
"When we saw Chang, his lips had been sewed up with five stitches, and there was blood all over his face," said Yang Chao-sung of the Hotzuo Police Station in Taichung . "We have never seen anything like that."
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Red Devils see Red
Two goals from and Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi have made Barca to lift Champions League cup in Rome last night.Cameroon international Eto'o struck after ten minutes and Messi added the second with a superb header 20 minutes from time.
Red Devils can have no complaints as they failed to meet their usual fluency and defended hesitantly with many of their key performers well below-par.
Barcelona lifted the trophy for the third time in their history and matched United's own treble in 1999 as Pep Guardiola's men added Europe's premier competition to domestic League and Cup success.
The Catalan club scored with their first real attack after United started in electric fashion.Andres Iniesta got past Anderson too easily and found Eto'o who cut inside Nemanja Vidic and toe poked the ball under Edwin van der Sar from close range.
After just two minutes Cristiano Ronaldo's 30-yard effort bounced viciously in front of Victor Valdes who spilled the effort and it required a superb block by former United defender Gerard Pique to deny Park Ji-sung a tap-in.
The Portuguese then volleyed just wide from 16 yards before United fell behind with Serb Vidic, named Barclays player of the year earlier in the day, culpable with a lackluster challenge.
Ronaldo looked to get his side back on terms and his run through on goal was ended by a Pique block for which he received a yellow card.
But Barca then began to boss the game and Messi came to the fore with a scorching drive just missing the top corner, with Van der Sar beaten, before Xavi curled a free-kick just over the top.
It was the game of big men after Eto'o scored that first superb goal. United had an escape on the brink of half-time when Van der Sar spilled a low cross from Messi but there was no-one at the near post to capitalise and Sir Alex Ferguson gambled at the interval by replacing the ineffective Anderson with Carlos Tevez.
But Barca relished the extra space in midfield and twice came close to extending their advantage within the space of four minutes. changing passes of Iniesta and Messi led all Manunited fans quite as if they are in the examination room.
Iniesta sent former Arsenal striker,Thierry Henry away down the left, in a big hole vacated by John O'Shea, and he turned Rio Ferdinand inside out before seeing his shot saved by the legs of Van der Sar.
Then a surging run from man-of-the-match Iniesta was ended a yard outside the penalty area by Vidic and Xavi curled the resulting free-kick around the wall and against the post.
United did regroup however and Ronaldo swung in a cross from the right which Yaya Toure completely missed only for the ball to bounce off the hard pitch and over the head of the unmarked Park six yards out.
Park was then replaced by Dimitar Berbatov as Ferguson threw caution to the wind with a 4-2-4 formation only to concede a second.
Patrice Evra hooked his clearance aimlessly to Xavi who picked out an unmarked Messi and the little Argentine climbed high to guide the ball past Van der Sar and into the far corner for his first goal against an English club.
United should have pulled a goal back almost immediately as the ball fell to Ronaldo at the far post only for Valdes to smother his shot.
Paul Scholes replaced Giggs and he was booked along with Ronaldo as United chased the game with the Premier League champions almost conceding a third when Carles Puyol's thumping header was saved by Van der Sar before the advancing Dutchman saved a shot from the Barca captain after the best move of the match.
Berbatov headed over from close range late on but there was no way back for United who failed in their bid to become the first team since Milan in 1990 to retain the European crown.
Victory for Barca also ended United's record 25-match unbeaten run in the competition and inflicted a first defeat in a European final on the Old Trafford club.
2009-05-26
Jose Mourinho Factfile
As Jose Mourinho confirms he is staying at Inter Milan espnstar.com looks at the career of the self-styled 'Special One'.
1963: Born on January 26. Father Felix Mourinho was a former Portugal goalkeeper.
1992: Takes first high-profile role in football when being appointed to work under Bobby Robson at Sporting Lisbon after middle-ranking jobs at Estrela Amadora and Vitoria Setubal. Begins as Robson's translator before becoming involved in team affairs.
1993: Moves on with Robson when the veteran coach goes to Porto.
1996: Joins Barcelona in the summer of 1996 as assistant coach to Robson.
1997: Stays on at the Nou Camp after Robson departs, taking up a role under new coach Louis van Gaal.
2000: Takes his first head coaching job at Benfica but lasts just nine games before resigning due to problems in the boardroom.
2001: Appointed coach of Uniao de Leiria.
2002: Joins Porto.
2003: In Mourinho's first full season in charge, Porto win the treble of domestic league and cup, and UEFA Cup.
2004: Having already successfully defended their Portuguese league title, Porto win the Champions League title in Monaco on May 26 with a 3-0 victory over Monaco.
June 2 - Appointed manager of Chelsea.
2005: January - A Sunday newspaper reports a meeting between Mourinho, Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon and Arsenal defender Ashley Cole - allegations constituting an illegal approach.
February 23 - Following a 2-1 defeat at Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League first knock-out round, Mourinho claims Barca manager Frank Rijkaard went into referee Anders Frisk's dressing room at half-time.
February 27 - Wins first trophy with Chelsea, who beat Liverpool 3-2 in Carling Cup final. Mourinho is later ``reminded of his responsibilities'' by the FA after 'shushing' the Liverpool fans.
March 21 - UEFA charge Mourinho, assistant boss Steve Clarke and security official Les Miles with making ``wrong and unfounded'' statements about the alleged meeting between Frisk and Rijkaard.
March 23 - FA charge Mourinho, Chelsea and Ashley Cole in relation to alleged 'tapping-up' meeting.
March 31 - Handed two-match touchline ban and 20,000 Swiss francs fine by UEFA's control and disciplinary body. Club fined 75,000 Swiss francs.
April - Chelsea seal Barclays Premiership title with 2-0 win at Bolton.
June - Found to be in breach of Premier League rules over Chelsea's illegal approach to Arsenal full-back Cole. Fined |£200,000 by the Premier League, later reduced to £75,000 on appeal.
2006: April - Chelsea beat Manchester United 3-0 to win their second consecutive Premiership title and Mourinho's fourth domestic title in a row.
2007: February - Wins a second Carling Cup, beating Arsenal 2-1.
May - Loses Champions League semi-final to Rafael Benitez's Liverpool on penalties after United win the league. Wins FA Cup with extra-time defeat of United.
August - Chelsea set a new record of 64 unbeaten home matches in the English top flight with a win over Birmingham.
September - Leaves Chelsea by ``mutual consent''.
2008: June - Appointed Inter Milan boss on a three-year contract.
August - Wins his first trophy with Inter, beating Roma to the Italian Supercup.
2009: March 11 - Inter go out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage after a 2-0 aggregate defeat by Manchester United.
March 12 - It is revealed Greater Manchester Police are investigating an allegation of common assault against Mourinho after he is alleged to have punched a fan.
Inter Milan release a statement denying the allegations, insisting Mourinho had a ``very calm post-game experience'' and the case is later dropped.
May 16 - Celebrates winning the Scudetto at the first attempt after rivals AC Milan suffer a 2-1 defeat against Udinese.
May 25 - Responds to speculation linking him to Real Madrid by saying there is "a 0.01%" chance he will leave the club. Inter issue a statement later in the day announcing a contract extension until 2012.
The Wenger Years - Overview
Short-term tenures for Stewart Houston and Bruce Rioch followed George Graham’s departure but Arsenal were still in need of a long-term answer. This would be emphatically delivered in the form of a relatively unknown Frenchman who would change the Club forever.
Arsène Wenger arrived at Highbury in September 1996 after notable success at Monaco and a stint in charge of Japanese side Grampus Eight. He was the Club’s first boss from outside the UK.
Arsenal finished fourth that season but the new manager would officially announce his arrival in his first full campaign at the helm. At one stage in 1997/98 the Gunners trailed leaders Manchester United by 12 points. However, imperious form throughout the second half of the campaign saw Arsenal crowned Premier League champions with two games to spare. Within two weeks, the Gunners had added the FA Cup, securing the Double in Wenger’s first full season in charge.
As well as transforming Arsenal on the pitch, the new manager set about revolutionising his players’ lives away from the pitch, implementing cutting-edge training regimes and dietary systems. The Frenchman was meticulous in his squad construction, adding the likes of Patrick Vieira, Emmanuel Petit and Marc Overmars to a team already boasting Arsenal institutions like David Seaman, Tony Adams and Dennis Bergkamp.
Another Highbury stalwart who continued to flourish under Wenger was Ian Wright. Already closing in on Cliff Bastin’s all-time goalscoring record when the Frenchman arrived, Wright finally scored his magical 179th goal against Bolton Wanderers on September 13, 1997. In the end, perhaps Wenger’s finest signing to date – Thierry Henry - would eclipse Wright’s tally a little over eight years later.
Henry signed in August 1999, after Arsène Wenger’s side had been denied back-to-back titles by one point by Manchester United in the previous May. At first, the Frenchman’s ability to adapt to the rough-and-tumble of the Premier League was questioned, but after failing to score in his first eight games, the former Juventus star plundered an impressive 26 goals that term. Final defeats in the Uefa Cup and FA Cup meant that Henry was still without any Highbury silverware. But not for long.
In 2001/02, Arsène Wenger’s side would surge to a spectacular Double, finishing 12 points clear of Liverpool in the Premier League. They sealed the title with a win over Manchester United at Old Trafford, just days after dispatching Chelsea 2-0 in the FA Cup Final.
Despite lifting the FA Cup once more in 2002/03, back-to-back titles would again elude the Gunners. But they made up for that disappointment in the season that followed, completing an unbeaten title campaign and going on to eclipse Nottingham Forest's long-standing run of League games without defeat. Played 49, Won 36, Drawn 13, Lost None - that Arsenal side was truly 'Invincible'.
Wenger had conquered England but Europe still evaded him. A Quarter-Final defeat against Chelsea in 2004 was the closest Wenger’s Arsenal had come to the biggest prize in European football but that would all change in May 2006 when they went all the way to the Champions League Final in Paris.
Arsenal were quickly becoming one of the most revered sides in Europe. And they underlined their ambition when, in February 2004, construction began on the Gunners' new state-of-the-art home at Ashburton Grove, a stone’s throw from Highbury. The new Emirates Stadium officially opened its doors in the summer of 2006 - a bold step into the future for a Club with a glittering past.
2009-05-17
Wenger thanks his squad, as Man United lifts its 18th Premier league tittle
Arsenal Manager, Arsene Wenger has thanked his young squad by playing with whole heart and desire at Old Traffold. He was speaking this on his post-match interview with club's official website on saturday.
“I believe we played with a lot of heart and desire. When we played in the Champions League I think we were inhibited a bit by the occasion - it was too big perhaps - and in the second leg we had no chance to play the game. Today we showed we have the quality. We played a lot of authority on the pitch.
"Man United like to play counter attack and I felt we were much sharper on winning the ball back but have the regret that we couldn't score the goal that would have livened the game up - it would have forced them to come out. In the last 20 minutes they made a change to play for a 0-0.”
On being spurred on by United's celebrations…
“The hope is there that we can do. The quality is there as well and you saw that today.
“Deep down you want to be out there celebrating. They were the better team this year and congratulations to them. Let us make sure it in on our side next year. In sport things can change quickly and what we have shown today is that we have the quality to be up there. We have to keep the belief and work very hard. My team have learned a lot and we were not far. Since November we have lost just one game. We were close in the Champions League and the FA Cup, and were remarkably consistent. ”
On a marked improvement on last week…
“At the moment the team doesn't get the credit it deserves and it is down to us to show the same consistency. It is not a victory today but it was very important for our pride.”
On Sir Alex Ferguson…
“It is an exceptional achievement and congratulations to him. It is fantastic what his team have done this year. The overall achievement is remarkable.”
On Adebayor's absence…
“He has a small groin problem, like Mikael Silvestre. I also wanted to see Alex Song at the back.”
On a flurry of fouls committed against Patrice Evra…
“I believe that no matter in victory or defeat you should show respect to your opponents. The best answer is always to play good football and to give the answer on the pitch. Of course players are sensitive to certain remarks. I felt, though, that we got some cheap yellow cards today.”
On rumours of interest from Bayern Munich…
“[I turned them down] a long time ago. I do not want to come out on any rumours. I am focussed on what I do and that is that.”
“I believe we played with a lot of heart and desire. When we played in the Champions League I think we were inhibited a bit by the occasion - it was too big perhaps - and in the second leg we had no chance to play the game. Today we showed we have the quality. We played a lot of authority on the pitch.
"Man United like to play counter attack and I felt we were much sharper on winning the ball back but have the regret that we couldn't score the goal that would have livened the game up - it would have forced them to come out. In the last 20 minutes they made a change to play for a 0-0.”
On being spurred on by United's celebrations…
“The hope is there that we can do. The quality is there as well and you saw that today.
“Deep down you want to be out there celebrating. They were the better team this year and congratulations to them. Let us make sure it in on our side next year. In sport things can change quickly and what we have shown today is that we have the quality to be up there. We have to keep the belief and work very hard. My team have learned a lot and we were not far. Since November we have lost just one game. We were close in the Champions League and the FA Cup, and were remarkably consistent. ”
On a marked improvement on last week…
“At the moment the team doesn't get the credit it deserves and it is down to us to show the same consistency. It is not a victory today but it was very important for our pride.”
On Sir Alex Ferguson…
“It is an exceptional achievement and congratulations to him. It is fantastic what his team have done this year. The overall achievement is remarkable.”
On Adebayor's absence…
“He has a small groin problem, like Mikael Silvestre. I also wanted to see Alex Song at the back.”
On a flurry of fouls committed against Patrice Evra…
“I believe that no matter in victory or defeat you should show respect to your opponents. The best answer is always to play good football and to give the answer on the pitch. Of course players are sensitive to certain remarks. I felt, though, that we got some cheap yellow cards today.”
On rumours of interest from Bayern Munich…
“[I turned them down] a long time ago. I do not want to come out on any rumours. I am focussed on what I do and that is that.”
2009-05-15
Getting 97% of what you need to succeed
However you define success, everyone seems to want it. Whether it's achieving goals, living according to one's calling, or making a difference in the world, everyone wants to accomplish something.
But the truth is that most people struggle in the effort, and that begs the question, what is needed to get past the obstacles on the road to success?
To help answer this, I turned to the world's largest bookstore, amazon.com, and entered the word "success" as a search term for books. Turns out that nearly two-thirds of a million titles are tagged with the search term "success."
Not being able to afford that many books, I picked up the top three. No one book can represent the definitive work on success, but combined, these three come darn close.
The Success PrinciplesFirst up is Jack Canfield's and Janet Switzer's "The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be". It's loaded with 64 principles - which at first feels like an overwhelming number. But each principle is addressed in a short, sweet (and often fresh) manner.
I especially like the first principle, Take 100 Percent Responsibility for Your Life. The reason I like it? We can't become successful if we're blaming others for our condition in life.
Think about the successful people you know. Do they sit around and complain about how the world is working against them, or do they assume responsibility for their situations and take actions to make their lives better?
More often than not, people who become successful are those who take 100 percent responsibility for their own lives.
Here are just a few of the other success principles Canfield and Switzer give us:
Be clear why you're here
Decide what you want
Believe it's possible
Unleash the power of goal setting
Feel the fear and do it anyway
There are so many golden nuggets in this book, you can't go wrong reading it.
Decide what you want
Believe it's possible
Unleash the power of goal setting
Feel the fear and do it anyway
There are so many golden nuggets in this book, you can't go wrong reading it.
Success is not an accident
The second book is titled "Success is Not An Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life", by Tommy Newberry.
I was glad to see Newberry emphasizing "choices" throughout his book. In fact, he starts each lesson in the book with the word "choose." Choose who you want to become; Choose to write down compelling goals, etc. It's a good emphasis. Look down the halls of history and you'll find that people thought of as successful made choices to do things that unsuccessful people weren't willing to do.
Lack of success often results from people never learning to think through their choices. Such people experience only sporadic success, if any at all.
Most of us have heard the saying "first you're born, then you pay taxes." I think a better (and more accurate) phrase is "First your born, then you have choices." The sooner one realizes this, the sooner he'll be making substantive progress on the road to success.
By the way, one of the threads found in all three books is the need to write out clear goals. It's amazing how many people do not do this. Writing goals works like magic. Do not hang on to a misguided belief that you don't need to write goals – that you you're your goals within your own head.
If that's you, my response is this: If you think you're successful without writing down your goals, you will be amazed at how much more successful you can be if you make sure your goals are written out.
The Law of Success
The third book is by Napoleon Hill, entitled "The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons". It's a two-volume set, written by the same guy who gave us "Think and Grow Rich", the all-time best seller in the field of success books.
In The Law of Success, Hill gives us a much meatier version of the success principles taught in Think and Grow Rich. It's obviously a longer read, but the principles are reinforced with more examples, so there are more "sticking points" that help you remember (and therefore apply) the concepts.
Fans of "The Secret" (by Rhonda Byrne) will find Hill's book to have a very practical approach to the same basic material (pretty cool, considering Hill wrote this book in 1917).
Like I said up front, the material in these three books is not exhaustive, but I think together they give you 97 percent of what you need to know to achieve success.
I imagine if you got copies of these books and passed them around at work, you would see some amazing things start to happen. In fact, that's my challenge to you. Let me know how it goes.
In The Law of Success, Hill gives us a much meatier version of the success principles taught in Think and Grow Rich. It's obviously a longer read, but the principles are reinforced with more examples, so there are more "sticking points" that help you remember (and therefore apply) the concepts.
Fans of "The Secret" (by Rhonda Byrne) will find Hill's book to have a very practical approach to the same basic material (pretty cool, considering Hill wrote this book in 1917).
Like I said up front, the material in these three books is not exhaustive, but I think together they give you 97 percent of what you need to know to achieve success.
I imagine if you got copies of these books and passed them around at work, you would see some amazing things start to happen. In fact, that's my challenge to you. Let me know how it goes.
Dan
WHAT IT TAKES TO GET PROMOTED
The mere mention of a title like “what it takes to get promoted” is bound to release some sarcasm in more than a few people.
Sadly, phrases like, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” and “they promote everyone who’s inept so they don’t have to fire 'em' are common. Even sadder, in some cases, these clichés are true. But overall, a few key skills seem to be universal for what companies look for when choosing someone for promotion.
According to an employer survey conducted last quarter by Job Service in Idaho, interpersonal skills and thinking were the top skills sought by employers when considering someone for promotion. This aligns with a survey conducted a few years back by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), wherein a variety of interpersonal skills filled the 'most sought after' slots.
Here’s the NACE Top Ten list of what employers are looking for:
Communication Skills
Motivation / Initiative
Teamwork Skills
Leadership Skills
Academic Achievement
Interpersonal Skills
Flexibility / Adaptability
Technical Skills
Honesty / Integrity
Work-Ethic and Problem-Solving Skills
What we have are two different organizations, one surveying regionally and one nationally, and both coming up with the same answers for what make someone promote-able.
The Idaho Works survey created by Job Service in Idaho says it succinctly: Interpersonal Skills and Thinking. Let’s consider these one at a time:
Interpersonal Skills:
If an employee cannot communicate well, cannot get along well with others, and cannot be flexible and adaptable with varying personalities, then serving in a manager or leadership role will prove difficult. The higher up one goes on a corporate ladder, the more he or she needs to be able to gather, process, and disseminate information in a variety of settings. Someone with limited ability in these skills will not lubricate the gears that make an organization’s wheels turn.
Thinking:
As I say often in my workshops, “everyone has thoughts – but not everyone thinks.” Those that think are those that take initiative to do so. It means looking at today’s situation with tomorrow’s eyes. It means considering past trends and predicting future ones. Thinking doesn’t just happen – thoughts just happen. Thinking requires applying ourselves to solving problems. It’s not physical work, but it’s work nonetheless.
Educational guru Howard Gardner of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who researched and promoted the concept of multiple intelligences, says that true intelligence is “the ability to solve problems and fashion products.” And what company wouldn’t want to promote someone who solves problems for them?
As an employer, as well as someone who has interviewed several thousand people for various companies over the past fifteen years, I can tell you that one of the key skills I look for when hiring for or promoting to higher-level positions is the capability to solve problems. Even in my own company, those who take or make recommendations for action when they see a problem are those that get promoted – usually over someone else who may have more seniority but does not show as much initiative.
If you’re wondering why it is you’re not getting promoted, it’s probably because your superiors do not see these skills in you. But before you get defensive on me, let me state that it’s not that these skills are not present – it’s just that your superiors are not seeing them.
This is why the analytical and amiable styles can get passed over for promotion while the outgoing expressives and drivers make rate on a regular basis. The extraverted styles stand out! Introverted styles need to let their bosses know about how they take initiative and exercise interpersonal skills.
But regardless of your temperament (introvert or extravert), if you’re looking for a promotion, sharpen your interpersonal and thinking skills. These are learnable skills, but not ones that many employers provide training for, so you’ll have to take the initiative on your own.
But then, that’s what it’s all about anyway.
Sadly, phrases like, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” and “they promote everyone who’s inept so they don’t have to fire 'em' are common. Even sadder, in some cases, these clichés are true. But overall, a few key skills seem to be universal for what companies look for when choosing someone for promotion.
According to an employer survey conducted last quarter by Job Service in Idaho, interpersonal skills and thinking were the top skills sought by employers when considering someone for promotion. This aligns with a survey conducted a few years back by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), wherein a variety of interpersonal skills filled the 'most sought after' slots.
Here’s the NACE Top Ten list of what employers are looking for:
Communication Skills
Motivation / Initiative
Teamwork Skills
Leadership Skills
Academic Achievement
Interpersonal Skills
Flexibility / Adaptability
Technical Skills
Honesty / Integrity
Work-Ethic and Problem-Solving Skills
What we have are two different organizations, one surveying regionally and one nationally, and both coming up with the same answers for what make someone promote-able.
The Idaho Works survey created by Job Service in Idaho says it succinctly: Interpersonal Skills and Thinking. Let’s consider these one at a time:
Interpersonal Skills:
If an employee cannot communicate well, cannot get along well with others, and cannot be flexible and adaptable with varying personalities, then serving in a manager or leadership role will prove difficult. The higher up one goes on a corporate ladder, the more he or she needs to be able to gather, process, and disseminate information in a variety of settings. Someone with limited ability in these skills will not lubricate the gears that make an organization’s wheels turn.
Thinking:
As I say often in my workshops, “everyone has thoughts – but not everyone thinks.” Those that think are those that take initiative to do so. It means looking at today’s situation with tomorrow’s eyes. It means considering past trends and predicting future ones. Thinking doesn’t just happen – thoughts just happen. Thinking requires applying ourselves to solving problems. It’s not physical work, but it’s work nonetheless.
Educational guru Howard Gardner of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who researched and promoted the concept of multiple intelligences, says that true intelligence is “the ability to solve problems and fashion products.” And what company wouldn’t want to promote someone who solves problems for them?
As an employer, as well as someone who has interviewed several thousand people for various companies over the past fifteen years, I can tell you that one of the key skills I look for when hiring for or promoting to higher-level positions is the capability to solve problems. Even in my own company, those who take or make recommendations for action when they see a problem are those that get promoted – usually over someone else who may have more seniority but does not show as much initiative.
If you’re wondering why it is you’re not getting promoted, it’s probably because your superiors do not see these skills in you. But before you get defensive on me, let me state that it’s not that these skills are not present – it’s just that your superiors are not seeing them.
This is why the analytical and amiable styles can get passed over for promotion while the outgoing expressives and drivers make rate on a regular basis. The extraverted styles stand out! Introverted styles need to let their bosses know about how they take initiative and exercise interpersonal skills.
But regardless of your temperament (introvert or extravert), if you’re looking for a promotion, sharpen your interpersonal and thinking skills. These are learnable skills, but not ones that many employers provide training for, so you’ll have to take the initiative on your own.
But then, that’s what it’s all about anyway.
ROLE OF EMPLOYEE
Some things that the employee should consider in their own development include seeking a variety of assignments, tackling tough problems and asking for feedback. Coaching is another helpful activity, both in looking for opportunities to coach others and finding good coaches for him or herself. It can help to ask for feedback when working with a variety of people and in a variety of situations.
Employees should be looking for developmental relationships that can provide a variety of learning. They can also identify goals for new skills and abilities and then look for ways to meet those goals. It can also be helpful to attend classes and workshops to fill in conceptual needs.
While employee development is critical to the success of an organization, both the employee and the organization must recognize that most of the responsibility for development falls to the employee.
While employee development is critical to the success of an organization, both the employee and the organization must recognize that most of the responsibility for development falls to the employee.
Some things the employee should have and consider when beginning work towards development:
Specific goals; identify goals for new skills and look for ways to meet those goals
Energy to make the development possible
A variety of work assignments
Asking for feedback
Opportunities to coach others and finding good coaches for him or herself
Developmental relationships that provide a variety of learning
2009-05-14
MALAWIANS COMMEMORATE KAMUZU DAY
Malawians citizen are commemorating Ngwazi Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda who was a first Malawi's president. Hastings Kamuzu Banda (born 1905) was a leader in Malawi's struggle for independence, and he became the country's first president. An acknowledged nationalist, he nevertheless frankly advocated trade and diplomatic relations with white-dominated African countries.
Hastings Banda was born to poor parents of the chewa tribe in the Kasungu District of Nyasaland, a British protectorate, which achieved independence as Malawi in 1964. Banda's early education at the Church of Scotland's Livingstonia Mission school in Kasungu fired his ambition for learning. About age 13 he set out to walk to South Africa to continue his education. He stopped to work in an African hospital near Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). An uncle helped him to reach Johannesburg, where he worked as a clerk in a gold mine.
On his Studies and Medical Career, Banda traveled to the United States in 1923 and earned a high school diploma from Wilberforce Academy in 1928. He worked as a Bantu language adviser at the University of Chicago until he earned a doctorate in 1931. He then entered Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 1937 received a doctorate of medicine.
To qualify for practice in Great Britain, he went to Scotland and earned medical diplomas at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1941. He also became an elder in the Church of Scotland. Banda first practiced at the Tyneside Mission for Colored Seamen (1944) and then in a London suburb from 1945 to 1953. His home was a gathering place for Nyasas and for early African nationalist leaders.
In 1951 he published a paper criticizing racial policies in Southern Rhodesia, which was then pressing for a federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. When the federation was imposed in August 1953, Banda went to Ghana as a physician to the poor Zongo people and to campaign for the independence of his homeland.
In Political Career side, Banda agreed in 1958 to return home to lead Nyasaland out of the federation. However, he first headed a delegation to London to petition for a new constitution. He returned to Nyasaland on July 6, 1958. On August 1, 1958, he was elected president of the Congress party.
Mounting anti-federation riots led to a state of emergency on March 3, 1959, and Banda was imprisoned in Southern Rhodesia for 13 months. Upon his release he assumed leadership of the Malawi Congress Party. In June 1960 he accepted a new constitution from Britain which gave Africans a majority in the Legislative Council.
On February 1, 1963, he became his country's first prime minister. Independence came on July 6, 1964, and on July 6, 1966 - when Malawi became a republic within the Commonwealth - Banda became Malawi's first president.
After independence and the creation of a one-party state, Banda had to reconcile the left-wing younger leadership with his own more conservative policies. His firm control - some called him dictatorial - was challenged by dissident ministers in an unsuccessful coup d'etat that lasted from 1964 to 1965.
However, Banda's wide-based support among the people of Malawi was shown in 1967, when villagers directed police to conspirators plotting to kill him. Opposition was based partly on Banda's retention of British civil servants as department heads and partly on his frank recognition of landlocked Malawi's economic dependence on nearby white-ruled South African countries.
Banda deplored segration, but he believed the country could secure badly needed development loans from Rhodesia and South Africa. He maintained reasonable rapport with black African states while initiating trade, loan, and diplomatic relations with white African states.
Elected president for life in 1971, Banda maintained his leadership until economic issues associated with the loss of Western aid in 1992 and a serious illness in 1993 led to his defeat in Malawi's first multiparty elections, held in May 1994. He was succeeded in office by Bakili Muluzi of the United Democratic Front (UDF).
In 1995 Banda and two others were charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the 1983 deaths of four political adversaries. Although the three were later acquitted, the scandal still raged in 1997 as the prosecution appealed a ruling made by the presiding judge in the case that blocked key evidence from the trial. In addition, the UDF government began a thorough inquiry into Banda's financial affairs, especially concerning the personal wealth he amassed from business ventures believed to have been bankrolled by public funds.
In 1995 Banda was dispossessed of the Press Trust, a successful conglomerate, and charged with fraud in the misappropriation of funds intended for the construction of a school in his home district. Banda was later pardoned in the fraud case due to his extreme age and ill health. In May 1997 the UDF Minister of Lands and Valuation directed the reallocation of 2,000 acres that Banda had illegally seized in 1978 and on which he had established a cattle ranch.
Despite Banda's myriad legal woes, advanced age, and failing health, he remained a dominant force within the Malawi Congress Party, which in July 1997 was poised to merge with another opposition party, the Alliance for Democracy.
Bakili Muluzi has been critised by his predeccesor Dr Bingu Wa Mutharika by not doing anything in remembering the so-called life president. He is saying that his administration has alot to remember Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
Malawians commemorate this day on 14 May each year.
2009-05-13
About Me
I am a Blantyre, Malawi based writer who has been working in online news writing industry for more than two years. Since starting my career as a professional journalist in 2006, I have written for various articles in school news clubs and websites, covering football/soccer and some other general interest articles.
Being naturally inquisitive, I am interested in a range of different issues and stories and this enables me to bring an informed perspective to my work. All of the articles I produce are thoroughly researched and are personalized towards the target audience. I am capable of writing in a variety of different styles and this is reflected in my range, which includes descriptive features, thought-provoking opinion pieces, catchy, concise news items.
My interest in online journalism, particularly in the area of football reporting, encouraged me to develop my feature writing skills, so that I could offer a service to football/soccer fans. Focusing mainly on company websites, I can write eye-catching content, which clearly makes more football fans feel vibe.
I am working as Underwriting Clerk in General Insurance Company in Malawi since June 2007.
Being naturally inquisitive, I am interested in a range of different issues and stories and this enables me to bring an informed perspective to my work. All of the articles I produce are thoroughly researched and are personalized towards the target audience. I am capable of writing in a variety of different styles and this is reflected in my range, which includes descriptive features, thought-provoking opinion pieces, catchy, concise news items.
My interest in online journalism, particularly in the area of football reporting, encouraged me to develop my feature writing skills, so that I could offer a service to football/soccer fans. Focusing mainly on company websites, I can write eye-catching content, which clearly makes more football fans feel vibe.
I am working as Underwriting Clerk in General Insurance Company in Malawi since June 2007.
As a freelance journalist, I have been writing news and features about English football, Italia, Spanish and African football at Bleacherreport.com, allvoices.com, CNN ireport.com, mintarticles.com, articlebase.com, associatedcontent.com africanews.com and expertscolumn.com.
I use my research skill, Creative Writing: combining my football hobby with my expressive writing style to produce informative and interesting articles.
I use my research skill, Creative Writing: combining my football hobby with my expressive writing style to produce informative and interesting articles.
I have been writing news features about football and season articles on my blog for more than one year. I have used my Internet research skills; utilizing search engines to search for more information before publishing articles to make sure that content are catchy and meet audience requirements.
Currently I am stdying Freelance Journalism Course with Writers Bureau College of Journalism in United Kingdom
Currently I am stdying Freelance Journalism Course with Writers Bureau College of Journalism in United Kingdom
I am also a Diploma holder in Professional Journalism which I obtained at Blantyre Centre for Managemnt in corraboration with Association Of Business Managers and Administrators in United Kingdom. Subjects tackled include:
Ø Journalism For Press and Broadcasting
Ø Reporting and Editing
Ø Disertation
Ø Business Communication and Environment
Ø Public Relations and Personel Administration
I have 8GCSE’S – English Literature ▪ English Language ▪ History ▪ Geography ▪ Agriculture ▪ Chichewa ▪ Maths and Social And Development Studies which I obtained at Chinamwali Pvt Secondary School.
2009-05-12
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