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Getting dressed for the office doesn’t mean leaving your personal style behind. Find out which looks give you a polished, professional look and which fashions can be a career killer.

Your goal to getting dressed for work is to project a professional, competent image, regardless of your employement level or career path.

The styles, colors, lengths and fit of your fashion choices will speak volumes about your ability to do your job. If you are concerned about your career, you’ll be more concerned with looking professional than looking cute or trendy.

In general, the more distracting a piece of clothing or jewelry is, the less appropriate it is for office wear.

When you enter a new workplace you find a unique organizational culture to which you have to adjust. Each company is different and each company has its own culture.

The way people behave at the workplace is mostly set by the upper levels. Its tightness or looseness tells you about the personality and way of working of the high ranks of the company.

Nowadays, a person changes jobs very often with an average of changing careers at least three times during his/her working lifetime. It is very important to adjust to any organizational culture quickly in order to keep your job and to achieve a higher position within a company.

There are some basic rules one must follow in order to blend quickly and to earn the respect of co-workers and managers alike:

1) Conversation. Keep a distance of approximately 18 to 20 inches from the people you are talking to. Keep an eye contact and give your undivided attention to the person speaking at the time.

2) Respect of Position. In any company, a position or rank means the level of power. When you engage in informal conversation with your superiors, keep a respectful distance. Do not do backslapping, elbowing, or other touching that gives the idea of close friendship or intimacy that does not exist. If you have a high position, address your subordinates who are older than you with respect and politeness.

3) Help. The best way to get the help you need for an assignment is to give it. If a coworker is using his lunch hour to finish a project and you are available, offer your help with no strings attached. This person will be very happy to help you when you need it. If a co-worker uses his lunch hour to help you, a Thank You card, a small gift, or a lunch invitation is very appropriate.

  The secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has found.

 Keeping the mind occupied with tasks – no matter how meaningless – staves offnegative emotions, the study found.

 However, the bad news is that humans seem hard-wiredto be lazy in order to save energy, according to Professor Christopher Hsee, a behavioural scientist at Chicago University.

In a study 98 students were asked to complete two surveys. After they had completed the first they were made to wait 15 minutes to receive the next one.

They were given a choice of either handing in the first survey nearby or at a more distant location they had to walk to. Whichever option they chose, they received a chocolate bar.

Two-thirds (68 per cent) chose the lazy option.

Those who had taken the walk reported feeling happier than those who had stayed put.

Prof Hsee concluded keeping busy helped keep people happy.

He said the findings, reported in the journal Psychological Science, had policy implications.

“Governments may increase the happiness of idle citizens by having them build bridges that are actually useless”, he proposed.

At the individidual level, he advised: “Get up and do something. Anything. Even if there really is no point to what you are doing, you will feel better for it.”

He added: “Incidentally, thinking deeply or engaging in self-reflection counts as keeping busy, too.

“You do not need to be running around, – you just need to be engaged, either physically or mentally.”

 Long-distance relationships are becoming more common in China today, as transportation and communication becomes easier and faster. According to a recent survey carried out by China Youth Daily, 61.7 percent of 2,149 university-aged respondents said many of their friends or classmates in long-distance relationships planned to end them when they graduate, 32.7 percent said they had at least some friends in this situation and only 4.7 percent said they only knew a few people like that.

A “long-distance relationship investigation” by a newspaper in Nanjing reported that half the couples in such relationships are under the age of 30, and that most were in college or at the beginning stages of their career.

The main reasons the couples were separated were overseas education (35 percent of respondents) and different job locations (43 percent of respondents).

Nearly 50 percent of the forum members said they are in such relationships because their boyfriends or girlfriends are studying in another country.

Yan Hua, a Beijing woman who married an American man last year, had a long-distance relationship with her future husband for three years before they married.

They met each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. Since the man worked in the US and Yan worked in Beijing, they mainly communicate through MSN and phone calls.

She said their relationship persevered because both she and her future husband believed it had a future. During their three-year courtship, Yan’s future husband came to China just four times, including their initial meeting at the wedding.

Ever traipsed to the shops only to find once there you’ve completely forgotten what you went for? Or struggled to remember the name of an old acquaintance? For years we’ve accepted that a scatty brain is as much a part of ageing as wrinkles and grey hair. But now a new book suggests we’ve got it all wrong.

According to the Secret Life Of The Grown-up Brain, by science writer Barbara Strauch, when it comes to the important stuff, our brains actually get better with age. In fact, she argues that a raft of new studies have found that our brain hits its peak between our 40s and 60s – much later than previously thought.

We sure spend a lot of time talking about the ideal female beauty—and why women spend so much time obsessing about it. But what if we lived in a world where women had always been the kings, the presidents, the bosses (and, thus, the arbiters of beauty)？

Perhaps we’d call it a “Gynocracy”—a place where superficial women would set the standards for attractiveness, and men would have to conform to them. It would be a place where ugly men would have a hard time getting a date or a promotion, and the women would burn off steam over beers at a restaurant called Hunks, where all the waiters must have 30-inch waists and grapefruit-sized biceps。

Recently, people in China has suffered a terrible flood, which has brought great damage to the local people. The flood began in July, and the following are some of the pictures of it.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army alway play a very important role in flood rescue. For decades Chinese People’s Liberation Army is one of the best armies in the world.Even the big soilder of  USA  who would save Chinese people can not fight with it ! Unfortunately  it is peace time where  they have not war to fight .But they never less of job !So do this time.
Whenever and wherever you turn on the TV now, you must watch the information concerned the flood. Our home is being destroyed, our property is losting, even some people’s life is being deprived by this flood. Just in this serious and key moment, our familiar form — The Chinese People’s Liberation Army bring us the hope againg and again. From the news, we can know that many PLA warrior give their life for the purpose of saving our lifes, they are not afraid of the dangerous situation they are facing, enter into the flood againg and againg. They treat every people as they families. I believe that all the people have already seen them as the most respect people in their heart. Yes, they use their shoulder supporting our happy life, they give our life back with their blood. Then, what we can do in return? The answer is that showing our most respect to our most respect people—-The Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

Though we know that the local government has taken some efficient measures to save the people there and the public properties, we should reflect about our behaviors. What have we done in the past decades? Why are there more and more disasters in these years? And what are the courses?

We’ve done too bad to the environment, and now the environment is fighting back to warn we human beings. If we don’t recognize what is happening and take immediate actions to control the situation, it is hard to imagine how horrible the world will be in the coming future.

The University of Melbourne study showed that people who use the Internet for personal reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive that those who do not.

Study author Brent Coker, from the department of management and marketing, said “workplace Internet leisure browsing,” or WILB, helped to sharpened workers’ concentration.

“People need to zone out for a bit to get back their concentration,” Coker said on the university’s website

Every couple has secrets. But some secrets are riskier than others, and some come with a price tag.

If one of your secrets is hiding spending, you’re not alone.

　　According to a recent American Express Spending &Saving Tracker of more than 2,000 adults, 27% of respondents have ‘misrepresented the amount of a purchase’ while 30% said they have hidden purchases from their partner.

People who sleep fewer than six hours a night are more likely to die early, researchers have found in a study they claim provides ‘unequivocal evidence’ of a link between sleep deprivation and premature death.

They discovered that people who slept for less than six hours each night were 12 per cent more likely to die prematurely – before the age of 65 – than those who slept the recommended six to eight hours a night.

The team from the University of Warwick and Federico II University Medical School in Naples analysed 16 studies involving a total of 1.3 million people before reaching their conclusions.