* Did you know that when an employee of Google dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children receive $1000 per month until they are at least 19?
Talk of labour relations!
* Ever wondered how make-up has evolved over the years?
Laboratories churn out creams, pills and lotions that transform a mediocre person into a drop-dead gorgeous work of art.
Make-up is a ubiquitous part of our culture, and almost all women try and improve their looks with concealer, eye shadow, foundation and blush.
Make-up isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it can be used as an artistic expression.
The real issue is that society has huge pressure on women to look good and sometimes they really take that to a crazy level.The face you thought you knew is actually just a mask.
There is a fallacy that if one is fair-skinned, one is beautiful even if that face looks like the back of a trolley bus!
Whatever your views on this topic, you cannot deny that make-up has done wonders for women. And men!
* I have reached an age when my train of thought leaves the station without me.
* Love him or loathe him, Bill Gates hits the nail on the head with the following speech he made at a high school.
He spoke about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of students who had no concept of reality and how this set them up for failure in the real world.
He said: Rule 1 – Life is not fair. Get used to it!
Rule 2 – The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world expects you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 – You will NOT make $60,000 right out of high school.
You won’t be a top executive with a car phone until you earn both.
(Perhaps Mr Gates does not know that in SA, that is possible if you have the right contacts!)
Rule 4 – If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. Rule 5 – Flipping burgers is not below your dignity.
Your grandparents had a different word for that. They called it an opportunity.
Rule 6 – If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault. So don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7 – Before you were born, your parents were not as boring as they are now.
They got that way from paying your accounts, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were.
So, before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation, try cleaning the cupboard in your own room.
Rule 8 – Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not!
Some schools may 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 life.
Rule 9 – Life is not divided into (school) terms.
You don’t always get school holidays off to share with your children and very few employers are interested in FINDING YOURSELF. Do that in your own time.
Rule 10 – Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go back to jobs.
Rule 11 – Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one!
* US food safety officials have taken steps to ban the use of trans fats, saying they are a threat to health.
Trans fats, also known as partially hydrogenated oils, are no longer “generally recognised as safe”, said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The regulator said a ban could prevent 7000 deaths and 20,000 heart attacks in the US each year.
Artificial trans fats are used both in processed food and in restaurants as a way to improve the shelf life or flavour of foods. The fats are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil, making it a solid.
Foods that contain trans fats are some processed baked goods such as cakes, cookies, pies, microwave popcorn, frozen pizza, some fast food, margarine and other spreads, coffee creamer and refrigerator dough products such as cinnamon rolls.
Watch what you eat; health is wealth!
