EAP Last Day Pictures

When you talk

Everyone likes to be heard. There's nothing wrong with wanting people to know your opinions, or how you feel. However, expressing yourself can be problematic when it becomes excessive..

10 Reasons To Get Fit

I found this quote and I feel good to share it with you, and I think it is very good to follow to increase the confidence in your self.

A True Story

I think this is good idea that every family should follow for more safe for them children 

My Presentation

Dear All;

       I uploaded my presentation for writing class. The presentation is about Titanic tragedy story. please visit it in the link below and give me your opinion.

Titanic Presentation

Holiday Finished

Dear All

Tomorrow we will return back to EAP classes. Really I miss you all and I hope you enjoyed during this holiday. I would like to remember you that we have peeking test this Thursday. See you and all the best.

Money has different names

Money has different names:

1. In temple or church, it's called donation.
2. In school, it's fee.
3. In marriage, it's called dowry. 
4. In divorce, it's  alimony.
5. When you owe someone, it's debt.
6. When you pay the government, it's tax.
7. In court, it's fines.
8. Civil servant retirees, it's pension.
9. Employer to workers, it's salary.
10. Master to subordinates, it's wages.
11. To children, it's allowance.
12. When you borrow from bank, it's loan.
13. When you offer after a good service. it's tips.
14. To kidnappers, it's ransom.
15. Illegally received in the name of service, it's bribe.

Question: 

When a Husband Gives to His Wife, What Do We Call It?

Answer:
Money given to your wife is called DUTY, and every man has to do his duty,
because wives are not DUTY FREE.

Visiting Canberra

Yesterday we went to Canberra and we visited the following places which are very nice and recommend you to visit.

1. Australia Parliament House.
2. Glass works: They  have show room showing how they manufacturing the glasses items.
3. Australia Royal Mint: Where the coin production factory. 
4. Canberra Floriade; It is a big garden with all kinds of floors in different shapes, very nice.

Human & Circumstances

I red this quote and I would like to share with you; as we are facing a lot of challenges during our life but the person with good upbringing, nature and education will not allow these circumstances to change him to the worst.

Islamic Festival

Dears;

yesterday our Islamic festival starting which is Eid Al-Adha. In this Eid around 2,000,000 Muslim in travel to Mecca and the surrounding area in Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj pilgrimage. Eid Al-Adha is an Islamic festival to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim (also known as Abraham) to follow Allah's (God's) command to sacrifice his son Ishmael. Muslims around the world observe this event.

What do people do?

At Eid al-Adha, many Muslims make a special effort to pray and listen to a sermon at a mosque. They also wear new clothes, visit family members and friends and may symbolically sacrifice an animal. This represents the animal that Ibrahim sacrificed in the place of his son.

Bad Management

Some bad management take a bad decisions by ignoring or firing out the good employee, with that they don't know that they are  destroying the organization and them self in these wrong actions.

Kindness

Kindness means you are concerned about other people. Kind people think about another person’s feelings and just their own, they help someone who is in need, and they are kind even when others are not. Kind people never expect anything in return. They just treat other people kindly because they want to help make someone’s life better. Kindness makes the world a nicer place, because it makes people happier. And it’s a virtue that we have always to use.

MacDonald and FDA

In California the FDA enforced MacDonald to put a sign board in front of the restaurant mentioned that MacDonald's products contains the chemical materials like acrylamide which could cause cancer. Accordingly MacDonald put the board and mentioned that chemicals known to cause cancer may be present in our food.

Benefit of Water

How many persons do you know who say they don't want to drink anything before going to bed because they will have to get up during the night?

Heart Attack and Water - I never knew all of this Interesting info that drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body. benefit

Very Important. From A Cardiac Specialist

·         2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs
·         1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion
·         1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure
·         1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack

Weekend

In my country until I graduated and worked for few years we have only one day holiday "Friday" and I was very happy with it. Then they added another day to become two days. Now really I feel it is not enough as days pass very quickly and I have a lot of things to do. Therefore I think it is the time to add another day for the weekend :). What do you think?

Facts About My Country (Iraq)

Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in Western Asia. The country borders Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. 

Some Facts:

1.     Area: 438,317 sq km

2.     Capital: Baghdad

3.     Population: 33.42 million (2013) World Bank

4.     Currency: Iraqi dinar

5.     Continent: Asia

6.  Ethnic Groups: Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian, or other 5%

7.     GDP per capita: $7,100 (2013 est.)

8.     Pre-historic era:  Between 65,000 BC and 35,000 BC northern Iraq was home to a Neanderthal culture.

Quote of the Day

The tongue expresses what is in the heart. Allah has made it very easy for the tongue to move, and it is not difficult to realize that a person’s tongue moves much more as if compared to the limbs. So if a person is not careful about what he says, even a single saying of his can invalidate his actions. So always connect your tongue with your brain and think before release any world.

How To Tell How Old An Egg is?

Dears; 

 I would like to share with you this information. Have you ever been in the middle of baking or cooking, only to notice your eggs are past the "sell-by" date? Or maybe your eggs are in a container with no expiration date and you're not sure when you should throw them out. Luckily, a bad egg is easy to identify. The picture above will tell you how to figure out if your eggs are good or bad.

HSE

HSE

During the speaking class I spoke about HSE and I would like to documented here. It means Health Safety Environment, it is very important in all industries, factories and contractors. The reputation of any of these industries are depending on how many fatalities or injuries they have per year.

Normally in HSE department they follow the followings to reduce the risk in any job.

1. Identify the hazard. Hazard which is the potential cause physical injury or damage to health of people or damage property or environment.
2. Assess Risk. the risk is the multiplication of  Probability by the Severity

           Risk = Prob. X Sev.

           Where Probability = likelihood of accident to happened

                      Severity = outcome of this accident

And they try to reduce the outcome of this equation as much as possible by applying the required measure control

3. Measure Control is by applying the safety hierarchy of trying first to eliminate the hazard if not then replace it (substitution), then using engineering, procedures and sign boards and then the required Person Protective Equipment PPE. 

BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU VISIT KUREAN

Korean McDonald’s Begins Serving Dog Meat Burgers In Restaurants Due To High Demand 

I saw this advertising and I would like to share with you. The Bosintang Burger, listed on McDonalds Favorites under 400 menu. McDonald’s unveiled their newest burger just three months before, as Koreans people like eat the dog meat.

Difference between Cigarette and Shisha

Hi Everybody;

During the last week in Speaking class there was a debate about the difference between Cigarette and Shisha, and I would like to clarify the followings:

        Shisha was invented by a physician called Hakim Abu Faith in 15th century, as he thought wrongly that the amount of nicotine can be reduced if the smoke pass through the water and ,therefore, the smoking will become safer. Actually researches showing that smoking Shishah tobacco is more dangerous than smoking Cigarettes. Shisha smokers often inhale more smoke than cigarette smokers because of the length of time a Shisha session lasts. One session can last up to an hour during which shisha smokers will inhale a large amount of tobacco. A report from The World Health Organization (WHO) noted that the smoke inhaled in a typical one-hour session can equal 100 cigarettes or more. The WHO report also claims that even after it has been passed through water, Shisha tobacco smoke still contains high levels of cancer-causing chemicals. Shisha smoke may also contain combusted charcoal or wood which can increase the chemicals in the smoke that cause cancer and heart disease. 

for more please visit the link

Happened in Sydney

Hi Everybody'

Yesterday I was in Sydney and I saw a man lifting the following sign. I would like to share with you if you know the meaning of that?

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Welcome Spring

Welcome Spring

       I can notice during last 2 days the weather became more worm than before, so I thing winter will leave us and spring will come “finally” :). Really I miss the hot it is the time to enjoy in parking, swimming, and picnic. Enjoy Dears.

PMP Certificate

PMP

     What is PMP, it is a Project Management Professional certificate and it is very useful for engineers who they want to become a project manager. This certificate is given by PMI institute after passing an exam with 200 multiple-choice questions, and you have four hours to complete it. It is very tricky exam but you have to prepare very well before you attend. If you get this certificate it will open a door for a good opportunity for many jobs in a big organization with a good salary.

You can read more about it in this link

PowerPoint Presentation

Microsoft PowerPoint 

Today in the class requested to start preparing our power point presentation and herewith I would like to add some links to help how to start.



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Stop Making Stupid People Famous

Stop Making Stupid People Famous

I like the street art raised in Australia and also it is starting in Canada, USA and Europe asking the media to stop making any fooling people who didn't add anything to the world or community and making them as hero through the interviews, write reports and focus on them and give them something over what they deserved. We are asking the media to be reasonable and constraint on good example of people so other can follow them and don't use this way for earning money only.

You can read more on that in the following link here.

Referencing

Referencing

What is referencing?

Referencing is a standardized method of formatting the information sources you have used in your assignments or written work.

Why do we have to reference?

Failure to reference, or poor referencing can be classified as Academic Misconduct. It is a standard required of scholarly communication. It is also a standard for written communication expected by professional organisations where you will eventually be employed.

Referencing: 

• shows adherence to academic writing standards
• shows respect for and acknowledges the work of other scholars 
• provides evidence that you have read and considered the relevant literature
• allows validation and confirmation of sources used in your work, and
• gives your work credibility.

Herewith Video shows how to do references using Microsoft word

Generosity

Generosity

Many people don't understand the importance of generosity. Whether or not you have a lot of money or material possessions, be a generous person, looking for ways to help people in need.

an example on that a famous Arab poet in 6th century, He is Hatim Al Taee. He was a very nice person with the qualities of being generous to poor and hospitality for his guests. He never paid attention to his reserves while giving to the poor. Hatim was a great example of the ancient Arabs (long before the Islam came). His quality of being generous to poor was incomparable.

Stories about his extreme generosity have made him an icon to Arabs up till the present day, also many books have been written about him in different countries and languages. Several movies and TV Series have been produced about his adventures. You can find more information about him in the Wikipedia here.

As you know my name is Ahmed Al Taee. Which I prod to belong to this generous person.
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Photo & Comments - Society

Hi Dears;

I would like to comment on the picture above and I would like to see your opinion. I think this photo reflect the present situation of our society and especially in the 3rd world countries. If everyone put an effort to help others in solving them problems all of us will live happily, successfully and peacefully. There are a lot of examples in our life applicable to the picture above; and I will like to mention one of them like Taxation in Australia. 

With the Tax everyone pay part of his income as tax and the percentage is not small amount it reach sometimes (depend on your salary) to 47%. This money going for education all Australian kids, health, services and part of it use to help the poor and unable people to get food, medicine and accommodation. That make everyone can survive and live in this country even if he don't have source of money because of disease, old age, disability...etc. The beautiful on that, it is nobody complain as everyone know the tax from a variety of sources benefit you, your family and your neighbors. If everyone has money to live the percentage of theft will reduce, the percentage of crimes will reduce, and a study show that tax countries have been more successful in achieving their social objectives than no-tax countries, because no one lives in isolation. 

Post & Comment - Dream

Hi Dears;

I would like comment on the post above and I would like to see your opinion. The dream to do something and work hard to achieve it is very important for everyone as it is the fuel in our life and without dream you will not progress. Everyone has to put target and aims for himself and fight, struggle and not sleep (if required) until he achieves it. If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning". We have to try again until we success and remember End is not the end, if fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". So my message, is to continue conquer the problems until you succeed.

The best example on that is Dr. Abdul Kalam (11th President of India from 2002 to 2007) his dream to see India one of the greatest country in the world and he successes in that. He never ever stopped dreaming, and even in his last hours. He will remain one of the finest human beings to have ever lived. His legacy will continue to inspire people around the world in the coming years.

Information About Blog

BLOG

Hi everybody today is my first day to use blogger, I learned about it in EAP class through Prof. Philip and I think it is very useful and interested. I would like to share some information about it with you .

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. You can use blogs for everything from updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in a topic of interest.

Some Definitions

• Blog:           A web log.
• Blogger:      Someone who creates and maintains a blog.
• Blogging:    The process of creating and maintaining a web log.
• Blogsphere: The totality of blogs; a community or social network of blogs.
• Blogroll:      A list of a blogger’s favorite blogs.

Useful links

If you want to learn more about Blogger, herewith some useful videos you can visit them:

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