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lin ping

Statue of Liberty to close for a year for renovations | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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Statue of Liberty close for renovations

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  • 27.25m renovation that will make the interior safer
  • remain open and the statue itself will be mostly unobstructed from view, officials said in a statement.
  • October after the 125th anniversary of its dedication.
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  • stairwells
  • 2004 after a $20m security upgrade. The observation deck at the top of the crown was reopened on 4 July 2009.
  • 240 people visit each day. About 3.5 million people visit the monument every year.
  • history
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Rebecca Lee

Google sites top Yahoo as No. 1 internet destination « News [Brafton] - 0 views

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Yahoo vs Google

shared by Rebecca Lee on 23 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Google sites – ranging from the company's search engine to YouTube
  • This is only the second time in the past six months that Google has managed to come out on top of the company's web property rankings.
  • Microsoft, Facebook and AOL rounded out the top five, with Microsoft garnering 174 million visitors, Facebook attracting 162 million and AOL drawing 105 million visitors. Overall, more than 215 million Americans used the web in July, up 1 million from the previous month
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  • Given the timing with the launch of Google+ on June 28
  • strates how many American consumers use Google and the other major search engines. The top three internet destinations are all owned by companies with search engines, and by leveraging search-optimized news content, businesses will be able to extend their companies' reach and generate more exposure.#dd_ajax_float{background:none;float:left;margin-left:-120px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:10px;position:absolute;z-index:1}.fb_iframe_widget{margin-left:10px}.dd_button_v{padding:8px 0}Want to receive Brafton news automatically? Join our daily or weekly email list! Filed under News · Tagged with: Bing, Google, Yahoo Disqus Login About Disqus Glad you liked it. Would you like to share? Facebook Twitter Share No thanks Sharing this page … Thanks! Close Login Add New Comment Post as … Image Sort by popular now Sort by best rating Sort by newest first Sort by oldest first Showing 0 comments M Subscribe by email S RSS Reactions Google sites top Yahoo as No. 1 internet destination http://t.co/4iUX7kI 7 hours ago <d
  • ComScore's data illustrates how many American consumers use Google and the other major search engine
  • op three internet destinations are all owned by companies with search engines
Ronald Trinh

Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil | Hsiao-Hung Pai | Commen... - 0 views

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shared by Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
  • Schools for children of migrant workers in China are being closed down.
  • "We live under the same sky, why are we not entitled to the same rights?"
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  • migrant workers – who build the capital's offices and mansions, clean its streets and guard its security – have been shut down,
  • Tens of thousands of migrant children are left without schools
  • rural origin – a third of the city's 19 million population
  • day-to-day inju
  • stices
  • hukou (household registration), set up in 1958
  • control rural-to-urban migration
  • Peasants' role was to produce and feed the cities and support the modernisation process of their motherland.
  • as shown on their ID – no matter what they might choose to do. "Wo shi nongmin [I&nbsp;am a peasant],"
  • Deng Xiao Ping's gaige kaifang (economic reforms and opening up), in the late 1970s.
  • Agricultural production increased in the early stage of the reforms in "releasing the productive forces",
  • half of the 400 million rural working population have been pushed off the land, seeking a livelihood away from their villages.
  • As rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion.
  • They spoke their own dialects instead of "proper" Mandarin. Many faced verbal abuse as soon as they arrived.
  • the strict requirement for the unaffordable temporary residency permit, and the random street search by police.
  • The criteria for applying for a hukou remain harsh, and unreachable for most migrants, and many work for years without any status.
  • Without hukou,
  • healthcare, education and housing.
  • urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
  • "These children aren't treated as everyone else. They're called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools. Their parents have for years sent their children to privately run schools without proper facilities or curriculum."
  • hundreds such private schools were set up.
  • government-funded National Development and Reform Commission
  • admits it is an "institutional barrier"
  • government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands.
  • voice their discontent is by petitioning the local authorities
  • Little happens as a result.
  • Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration.
  • protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes.
  • Hsiao-Hung Pai, Beijing
  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrant workers should have tell the police earlier so they won't be treated so violent. 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why does the chinese people have to segregated themself, they're from the same country! 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why do they have to treat people like that? They're all from the same country!
  • Beijing "a city of violence"
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      it reflects the conflict of the urban dwellers and the migrant workers.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      I think maybe the urban dwellers pay the government to be on their side and act ruthlessly to the migrant workers.
  • Beijing's migrant worker slums
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      which means that the migrant workers cannot move to other city or quit their job, they have to work there and got treat badly, ruthlessly.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "I've had migrant workers tell me about their class origin, as if it were a stamp on your body for life. It was impossible for peasants to move their hukou to the cities."   http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/20/china-migrant-workers
  • are ruthlessly segregated from the urban dwellers, economically, socially and culturally
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      the government is not fair!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      why dont the government get involve earlier if they already knew what's going on?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      they have to speak their own language?  not Mandarin? 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Once the rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion??? that's so not fair and segregated.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants children are called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Urban childrens have free primary education while migrants children aren't be able to go to school because their parents cannot afford it. It costs 2/3 of their parents wages.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      IT'S NOT FAIR
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants workers continue to be burdened with the hukou system. So they won't be able to access any services in the cities like: helthcare, education or housing. While urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Even the government-funded National Development and Reform Commission admits it is an "institutional barrier" and believes it should be scrapped. However, these institutions aren't in the position to change things. "Protection of migrant workers' rights" is a rhetorical statement of state organisations, but the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands."
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      What? the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers demands? Why? They think they're rich so they don't care about other people? These governments should be in jail!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration. "   What??? There's no reason why they hate the migrants workers and childrens! They're all from the same root! They don't have a right to do this?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "In recent years, migrants have raised their demands through protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes. Although these have not always proved effective, workers have become more aware of their collective strength. In the past year they have won some improvements in wages and working conditions. Many migrant workers, now better informed, are far less willing to accept the status quo. As they grow in confidence, the regime will find it increasingly difficult to ignore their demands. China's rulers should realise now that it is in their long-term interests to listen." YES, they really should do this to show the government that they have a right to complain about what's right or wrong! If you're rich still doesn't mean that you have all the rights to do anything you want.
  • Chozen Takei on 22 Sep 11
     
    In China, poor migrants who earn a living by working low calss jobs in Beijing is treated unfairly. The chinese public schools, especialy nursery schools, would not let the migrant's children be enrolled. Yet, migrants are treated differently than Beijing citizens, and they can't have a normal life. 
  • Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
     
    Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil
Na Young Kim

Firefox 6 ships, but we shouldn't really pay attention - 0 views

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  • Firefox 6 ships, but we shouldn't really pay attention
  • eight weeks after the release of Firefox 5
  • not a lot has visibly changed
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  • s much less memory
  • attach some significance to the new release
  • It's just "the latest."
  • Mozilla wants to take this a step further
  • The argument is made that you don't know what version of, say, Twitter or Facebook you're using, so why should your Web browser be any different?
  • If you're going to force the user to know about every update, it seems a little unfair to refuse to even tell her what version she's using.
  • he regards the entire discussion as crazy.
Hye Rin Bae

Toronto News: Survey: Teens on Facebook more likely to do drugs - thestar.com - 0 views

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survey teens facebook to do drugs

shared by Hye Rin Bae on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • That’s the kind of Facebook status update making American teens more likely to drink and take drugs, according to a phone survey of 1,037 teens by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
  • Teens who use social media are five times likelier to smoke, three times likelier to use alcohol and twice as likely to use marijuana than those who don’t, the survey found.
  • It warns that viewing photos of kids passed out drunk or lighting up a joint on social media sites has an even greater impact on teens.
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  • Forty per cent of teens said they were exposed to such images, half of them before they were 13. This group were also more able to procure weed or prescription drugs and four times more likely to smoke up.
  • psychiatrist
  • skewed
  • portrayal
  • demographics
  • Parents were skeptical, according to the survey. Of a phone poll of 536 parents, a majority said they did not think social media made their child more likely to drink or use marijuana.
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