From teacher to learner To set the record straight I will confess: as a teacher I was a touch sanctimonious about telling students how easy it was to learn English. Then I arrived in Chile in July 2010 about the only words I knew were hola and amigos. Would what I’d been telling students to do work on the other side of the language learning experience? Come with me as I live, eat and talk what I preach. Getting Started I rearranged my life so that Spanish becomes front and center. The language-learning formula is that you will quickly be able to read and follow what is happening. The context w ..read more

Perhaps Africa’s and indeed Nigeria’s biggest enemy with regards to negative and biased reporting is Michael Peel, I have indeed tried to contain myself and to be patient with this voyeur cum journalist but I can not hold myself anymore. Not after his last damning report and one-sided take on fraud and scams purportedly emanating out of Nigeria which he claims costs the United Kingdom billions annually. As we say in Nigeria, enough is enough. How long should we stand by and watch this fellow dehumanise Africans and indeed Nigerians with his negative take on the African continent? This past wee ..read more

Be practical! At this time of crisis we all need to be more practical. Why pay for high priced items when you can actually have them at lower prices? Take for example the tote bags. Many people are very fond of using tote bags because it can carry almost everything they need. And despite of being capacious, it still looks fashionable to carry. You can have these useful tote bags at very low prices when you purchase them at the wholesale market. While wholesale market only entertains bulky orders, you may find this too much for your own use. So what else you can do with these bags? Well, this i ..read more

When placing stories in the media, you want to highlight you product or service, but you also have an equally important second objective. You want to educate. I don’t think that I can emphasize this point strongly enough. Public Relations has bad PR. It is known for its fluff and hype, for the sleight-of-hand work, and, whereas, all of that exists, the glitter and flash isn’t what makes for an effective campaign. What makes media placement effective is that it tells a story, it educates, it gives the public information on a particular topic or field that they otherwise wouldn’t have access to ..read more

Five years on, I talked to Afshin Rattansi who worked on the Al Jazeera strand that first identified the 9/11 plot. His novel, The Dream of the Decade, deals with the issues of finance, terrorism and the media. What do you think about the conspiracy theories that linger about 9/11? “‘I don’t want to get into the conspiracy theories that maintain that 2,752 people died because of deliberate action by U.S. federal authorities. Those theories, along with scores of websites that catalogue seeming inconsistencies about the attacks, are believed, however, by hundreds of millions of people around the ..read more

Today, extra income whether it’s from regular or online sources, is being looked for by many people. These people have many different reasons for looking for the extra income; it could be for extra leisure time spending or it could be to simply make ends meet in their busy lives. At the end of the day, it just means that many more people are looking for ways to supplement their regular incomes. That is where all the available internet business opportunities come into play. You can make money at all sorts of online businesses provided you are skilled and knowledgeable enough to make effective u ..read more

Most of our teens now a days want well-known designers handbag to grab. Above all, the most wanted brands in the world of fashion world have been continuing to innovate their patterns for a growing customer base parents of teenage girls who wants to purchase their products. Teens these days go for the supreme and most recent lavish accessories available in the market, they always wish to own branded handbags as well. As the prices of these products most of time considered as excessive and unaffordable, some parents of these teens have looked and found a great route to have their teenage daught ..read more

No one really knows how many television stations there are in China. Best estimates put the number at 5,000. Yet, just over ten years ago there were no more than 40. The number of newspapers has increased from around 200 to more than 2,500, radio stations have blossomed from a 100 to 1,200 and TV and radio penetration is now over 85 percent. In just, 10 years, the media in has exploded. But it is still heavily regulated and owned and controlled by the state run Communist Party. Most local media is pro-China in its content and style and is used as a tool for control and influence over the count ..read more

In the women fashion world, one of the more important ladies accessories made available in the market are the belts. And these belts are fancied frequently studded with rhinestones, turquoise and other semi precious stones. A woman belt must hug either the hips or the waits, so the rhinestone belts would be a size larger than the standard size of the woman’s waist. From thick to thin, dressy to casual to formal wear, our belts must go well with all moods, ages, costumes and important events we attend to. There are numerous types of exclusive women belt such as custom-made belts and those studd ..read more

It is normal for a business to have or face different kinds of problems and issues whether you are starting it or while it is on the run. Some of the facets a business struggles with especially for the starters are the lack of money investment for establishing it. The biggest challenge for a business while it is on the run is how to keep its momentum to keep it strong and be consistent with the services they are rendering. Business men and women have found out that SaleHoo can overcome these kinds of issues. They have used SaleHoo to alleviate all the problems and conquer every challenge a bus ..read more