LIFESYTLES-Nelson Mandela,an Icon is gone!!!

Mandela emerged from 27 years in prison under the white racist government in 1990, appealed for forgiveness and reconciliation and became president in 1994 after the country's first all-race democratic elections.

People lined the streets to watch the procession drive slowly to the Union Buildings. They sang old songs from the struggle against the apartheid regime and called out their farewells to Mandela, who died Dec. 5 at the age of 95. Traffic was backed up for several kilometers (miles) on a highway leading into Pretoria.

President Jacob Zuma named the amphitheater after Mandela by decree Tuesday. The Union Buildings, described by the South African government as a "modern-day acropolis," sit atop a hill overlooking Pretoria. The architect who designed it envisioned its two wings, made of half a million cubic feet (14,100 cubic meters) of stone, representing the Afrikaans and English languages spoken in the country - but none of the land's native languages.

Even from its inception, the building long has been considered a symbol of governance in the country - and of apartheid until Mandela took office.

 

LIFESYTLES-Nelson Mandela,an Icon is gone!!!

South Africa Mandela Memorial

A boy with "Rest In Peace Nelson Mandela" painted on his face looks up to the skies during the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- A flag-draped casket containing the body of Nelson Mandela arrived with a military honor guard Wednesday for display in an amphitheater where he was sworn in 19 years ago as South Africa's first black president.
Army helicopters had been circling overhead but then a sudden quiet fell over the amphitheater as the hearse arrived. Eight warrant officers representing the various services and divisions of the South African National Defense Force carried the casket, led by a military chaplain in a purple stole. The officers set down the coffin and removed the flag.
Motorcycle-riding police officers had escorted the hearse from a military hospital outside of Pretoria to the Union Buildings.
"I just hope I won't cry," said Paul Letageng, 47, an employee there. "It's amazing to think that 19 years ago he was inaugurated there, and now he's lying there. If he was not here we would not have had peace in South Africa."

LIFESTYLES-Learn from Bill Gates

RULE NUMBER 8

Your School may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real 

RULE NUMBER 9

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time...

RULE NUMBER 10

Television is NOT real life, in real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

RULE NUMBER 11

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one

IF YOU AGREE, PASS IT ON. IF YOU CAN READ THIS- THANK A TEACHER

SAYS BILL GATES

LIFESTYLES-Learn from Bill Gates

RULE NUMBER 7

Before you were born,your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were.

Bill Gates: So before you save the rain forest from  the parasites of your parent's generation,try delousing the closet in your own room.

Anderson: Delouse mean to remove,clean or wash yourself or someone probably of a menace. Purge yourself from the inside,follow a dynamic positive school of thought that will save your future generation of any error of the youth. You are the future generation and leaders, be the best you can be and your parent will never bored a bit.

LIFESYLES-Learn from Bill Gates

RULE NUMBER 6:  If you mess up!!!

BILL GATES: it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

ANDERSON: Every man living on the surface on this earth will be 95 percent responsible for every decision they make, parent will do their part to send you to school or on training, it is your whole responsibility to chart the course intend to follow. Remember, Warren Buffet Father never told him to buy shares at the age of 11 and when he started a paper vendor business at the age of 14 it was his personal decision to do so. Note that whether you are in school or at work place you can afford to mess up if not you will miss the track. Its not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them and move on with your life.

LIFESTYLES-Learn from Bill Gates

Rule Number 5

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. 

BILL GATES: Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

ANDERSON: Opportunities is one of the major element of success. Successful people in life has applied special formula that works.  Success is what happens when preparations meet opportunity.

  

 PREPARATION + OPPORTUNITIES 

=  SUCCESS

       PREPARATION = EDUCATION

          OPPORTUNITIES= GET A JOB

        CONTENTMENT= SUCCESS

      

                                                                                         








 

LIFESTYLES-Learn from Bill Gates

Rule Number 4: If you think your teacher is touch,
Bill Gates: Wait till you get a boss
Anderson: Students and workers that are with the notion that my teacher is touch does not get things done on time, or if they do, they do it half way.Most Teachers are perfectionist, they want you to do or carry out whatever task you are given even better than what they suggested.Note that those who do well with their teachers naturally ally with the society when they eventually get to work with people. What you need whether you are a student or worker to succeed is to learn how to work with different personalities.
For Students:

• Understand different personalities of your classmates
• Understand different personalities of your subject teachers
• Refrain from being dedicated to one subject or teacher, it could affect your learning and concentration from other teachers and subject you are not dedicated to. 

For Workers:

• Understand different personalities of your work mate
• Never work alone, team work work
• Never find fault  
• Never confront your boss, it could lead to a loss of job and a bad record
• Be a servant and you will one day lead