The Tiger Mother and HER ROARING

Amy Chua GO googling the internet using the keyword “Tiger Mother” and you might be a little surprised with the result it brings you. Because, within the first page of the Google search result  you may find most of the articles regarding “Amy Chua’.

Who is Amy Chua and what is the relation of her with the “Tiger Mother” ?

Amy Chua is the John M.Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined Yale in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law school and serving as a visiting professor at Columbia, Stanford, and NYU. Her expertise is in international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. She is also a book writer. Her first book, World on Fire : How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability and her second book, Day of Empire : How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall are all about the international affairs. While her third and latest book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother which was published in January 2011, is a memoir of her experience in raising her two daughters using the strict “Chinese mother” parenting techniques.

Following, on January 8, 2011, The Wall Street Journal published an article written by her under the headline “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”. This article contained excerpts from her book (Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother) about, as she said, how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. Soon, this article became controversial. I’ve noted there are more than 7 thousand comments posted at this moment. Many readers of her article (and also her book) disagreed with her strict parenting practices. Read further the article from WSJ.com : Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.

I will give you one of her book readers’ comment which was published in Yahoo! Contributor Network : Amy Chua, the 'Tiger Mother' vs. Positive Parenting 

The photo of Amy Chua was taken from : FreeImageFinder.com

Read also another related article from The New York Times : Retreat of the ‘Tiger Mother’

The Oscars 2011 Nominees. Check Out the List

The Oscar 2011 nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards as one of the highest appreciation for the film artists were announced on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President, Tom Sherak.

Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock and also Oprah Winfrey were amongst the presenters that will present on the awards ceremony. While Jeff Bridges, Collin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman and Annette Bening are amongst the nominees of the best actors and actresses. 

The big show will take place in Hollywood’s Kodak Theater on Sunday, 27 February 2011.

Here are the nominations of the leading Actors and Actresses :

Actor in a Leading Role

  1. Javier Bardem in “Biutiful”
  2. Jeff Bridges in “True Grit”
  3. Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network”
  4. Collin Firth in “The King’s Speech”
  5. James Franco in “127 Hours”

Actress in a Leading Role

  1. Annette Bening in “The Kids Are All Right”
  2. Nicole Kidman in “Rabbit Hole”
  3. Jennifer Lawrence in “Winter’s Bone”
  4. Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”
  5. Michelle Williams in “Blue Valentine”

See the complete list of the nominations from : the official site of Oscar

The photo was screen captured from : www.oscars.org

How to backup your Ms Outlook files in an easy way

OutlookHow about if suddenly your Microsoft Windows crashed and you won’t be able to access your Ms Outlook at all ? It must be frustrating to face this situation.

To avoid the worst thing that may happen such as all of your contact and email wiped out, you have to regularly back up your Ms Outlook content.

All right, but how to do that ?

There is an easy way and no third party application required at all.

  1. First, you have to go to the File menu of your Ms Outlook and click on it.
  2. From that point, choose the ‘Import and Export’ menu.
  3. After the Import and Export Wizard menu appear, select the ‘Export to a file’ and click ‘Next >’
  4. Further, from ‘Export to a file’ menu, select the ‘Personal Folder File (.pst)’ as the type of file to export to, click ‘Next>’ again
  5. Then, from the ‘Export Personal Folders’ menu, select the folder you want to backup. If you want to include the subfolders in your backup file, you have to check the ‘Include subfolders’ menu. Click ‘Next>’
  6. After that, you have to select the file name and the location where you want to safe the file. By default, if you’re using Windows XP, your backup file will be saved to “Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Backup.pst”. It’s better not to safe your backup file at the default place as provided. Choose the drive D:\ instead or another place that apart from the location where your OS was installed. it’s preferable to safe the backup file in the flash drive. It is important to do that, so in case your Ms Windows crashed or damaged by viruses and you have to reformat the drive C:\ where your OS was installed, it won’t influence your backup file at all. And another notable step to remember is always safe the file using the same file name as the source file. For example, if you are going to safe the ‘inbox’, safe the destination file as ‘inbox’ too. This is to keep you away from replacing the wrong file. To change the default location and the file name, click the ‘Browse’ panel.
  7. Finally, click ‘Finish’ to end the steps and you’re done.

Now, you already have the backup files of your Ms Outlook content. Anytime when you re-installed your Ms Outlook you just have to import the backup file from your backup folder, and all of your previous data will be available again (HRD).

CutePDF Writer, creating a PDF file for free

Creating Portable Document Format (PDF) file with Adobe Acrobat is quite easy. But, as you know it is not a free software.

If you're looking for a free and easy to use software to make PDF document, then you should try CutePDF Writer.

This application will help you, not just in converting your Microsoft Office Document such as Word or Excel into Pdf file format, but it will do lots more. For example, if you're opening a webpage and need to print it out for later reading while you're offline, but unfortunately you don't have any installed printer in your computer. Then, you can use this CutePDF Writer to print the webpage as a pdf file.

To install this app is quite easy. But first, you have to install the free GPL Ghostscript as the converter before installing the CutePDF Writer. You can get both from the CutePDF website for free, of course.

CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. The latest Version 2.8 added support for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows Vista and also for 64-bit Windows XP/2003.

Get the latest version of CutePDF Writer with 3.36 MB in size and the converter Ghostscript with 5.01 MB in size from CutePDF.com