This app allows you to improve your vocabulary. It runs on the iPhone and iPad. You can unscramble the letters to form the correct word that match the definition. It is suitable for children and adults. It has different levels of difficulty based on the number of letters in the word.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Improve your vocabulary with Word Power
This app allows you to improve your vocabulary. It runs on the iPhone and iPad. You can unscramble the letters to form the correct word that match the definition. It is suitable for children and adults. It has different levels of difficulty based on the number of letters in the word.
Consumers deserve to be treated fairly
This article explains what the regulators in USA are doing to ensure that consumers are protected fairly in the bills that they receive from their telephone companies. I believe that the regulator in Singapore (IDA) has already implemented similar measures - but I am not sure if they have done to the same extent as in the USA.
Bright Jigsaw
This video shows Vera and her friends trying out the Bright Jigsaw, a new app that will appear soon in iPhone and iPad. You can choose several images and break down the images into a number of small pieces from 3X3 to 8X8. It is challenging and fun and suitable for children and adults.
New Yorkers support the Occupy Wall Street Protests
They like tougher regulations on the banks and support the right of the protesters to demonstrate, so long as they obey the law. See this report.
Occupy Wall Street protests in China? Not for now, anyway.
Occupy Wall Street protests spread to four continents over the weekend, but China's major involvement was conspicuously absent.
As the ?Occupy Wall Street? movement spread to four continents over the weekend, guess which major world capital did not see any protesters?
Skip to next paragraphUnsurprisingly, since unofficial public gatherings of any kind are taboo in China, Tiananmen Square was not teeming with anticapitalist demonstrators on Saturday.
Not that China might not be ripe for the spreading movement: A growing gulf between rich and poor here would make this fertile ground for the 99-percenters.
And the government knows it, which is why it is censoring any effort to organize protests in China. Type ?Occupy Beijing? into Internet search engines here and you get either completely irrelevant results, or references to protests in America, Japan, Singapore ? anywhere but China.
There is an ?Occupy Beijing? group on Facebook, but you can only get onto Facebook ? which is blocked by the Great Firewall ? if you have censorship-evading software, a comparative rarity in China. That makes the social networking site a poor organizing tool here.
A group of older men did mount a brief demonstration last week in a park in Zhengzhou, the capital of the central province of Henan, but it had a very different feel to it from the youthful tent cities that have sprung up in European capitals, to judge by a video that made it onto the Chinese web.
?Proletarians of the world, Unite!? read their red armbands, reminiscent of Mao?s days. ?At least 700 arrested in New York, democracy and liberty trampled on,? explained a flyer that organizers were handing out.
Even the video of this event proved too inflammatory for the Chinese authorities. It was taken down from the Sina.com website within a day or so.
A pop-up demonstration of some sort does seem to have taken place in the heartland of Chinese capitalism, to judge by photos linked to from the ?Occupy Shanghai? Facebook page. Pictures show a man in a panda mask in a number of different locations in Shanghai holding up a sign reading ?We are the 99 percent. We do not need greedy financial system. We need to move forward mankind? in Chinese and English.
Another man held up a similar sign in the university city of Nanjing. But those two men and their photographer accomplices appear to constitute the full extent of Chinese mainland public participation on the day ?Occupy Wall Street? went global.
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Young workers stuck in temporary jobs
This article describes a problem faced by young people in many countries. They are paid a low salary, in spite of spending a lot of money to get a good education.
This situation is caused by the failure of government around the world to set and enforce standards on worker's remuneration and their inability to provide a conducive environment for businesses to operate viably. Some businesses find it hard to survive, and cannot pay their workers well. Some businesses are highly profitable, but still exploit their workers. The government fail to do their job and prefer to leave matters to be sorted out by the market.
This situation is caused by the failure of government around the world to set and enforce standards on worker's remuneration and their inability to provide a conducive environment for businesses to operate viably. Some businesses find it hard to survive, and cannot pay their workers well. Some businesses are highly profitable, but still exploit their workers. The government fail to do their job and prefer to leave matters to be sorted out by the market.
Allocating vehicle COEs through a ballot
I have written this paper to set out the case of using the ballot to allocate the available COEs to meet the demand. It takes the views of many people who have written in my blog and Facebook.
Beast Mode beaten: Brewers fall short in NLCS
By RICK GANO
updated 12:22 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2011
MILWAUKEE - Another shaky outing by Shaun Marcum, some more sloppy fielding and a tough night for Milwaukee's two biggest stars ended the Brewers' chance for a trip to the World Series they had so craved.
The Brewers were a major league-best 57-24 in their home park this season in winning their first division title since 1982, when Harvey's Wallbangers, featuring Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor, led them to the franchise's only World Series. The result: a seven-game loss to the Cardinals.
A return trip nearly three decades later was in the offing and had a city riveted by the possibility.
After beating the Diamondbacks, the Brewers needed to get past the wild card Cardinals, who overcame a 10? game deficit on Aug. 25, overtook the Braves and then eliminated the pitching-rich Phillies in the division series.
But St. Louis won twice at Miller Park, including a 12-6 clinching victory Sunday night that included six homers, three from each team. The Cards won the best-of-seven series 4-2.
The loss might have marked the final appearance in a Brewers uniform for burly first baseman Prince Fielder, who will be one of the marquee free agents after the World Series.
The 5-foot-11, 275-pound Fielder went 0 for 4 ? finishing the NLCS just 4 for 20 with a pair of homers and three RBIs. He did get the fans out of their seats with a high drive to the center field wall in the third that Jon Jay pulled down.
And when he came to the plate for perhaps his last Milwaukee at-bat in the eighth, the fans gave him a loud ovation. And he got another rousing cheer after bouncing out and returning to the dugout.
The Brewers other MVP candidate, Ryan Braun, also had a rough night, going 0 for 4 with a pair of strikeouts.
St. Louis should be appreciative of Fielder, too. His homer helped the National League win this year's All-Star game, securing home field advantage for the Cardinals against the Texas Rangers in the World Series that begins Wednesday night.
The Brewers' trouble in the field carried over for a second straight game.
After committing four errors in a Game 5 loss, they made three in the fifth inning ? two by third baseman Jerry Hairston Jr. on the same play when he couldn't handle a grounder and then made a flip with his glove that got past second baseman Rickie Weeks. The miscues led to a pair of unearned runs.
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke wasted no time in removing Marcum, who'd struggled down the stretch and finished 0-3 in the postseason, with two losses in the NLCS.
Marcum lasted one inning, giving up four runs, including a three-run homer to David Freese, and got the hook in favor of lefty Chris Narveson.
Entering the game, Marcum was 1-4 with a 8.18 ERA over his previous six starts dating to Sept. 9 in the regular season. But he still got the nod.
"I feel really good about this decision," Roenicke said before the game. "Whether he pitches well tonight or whether he gets hit a little bit, this is the right decision. For this ballclub it's the right decision."
Narveson didn't exactly fool the Cardinals, either. He made it through 1 2-3 innings and gave up two more homers, solo shots to Rafael Furcal and Albert Pujols.
Milwaukee, buoyed by its towel-waving home crowd, rallied behind homers from Corey Hart, Rickie Weeks and Jonathan Lucroy, pulling within a run.
But pinch-hitter Allen Craig greeted LaTroy Hawkins with a two-run single in the third and suddenly the Cardinals were up 9-4
Marcum gave up a one-out single to Jay, walked Pujols and then yielded an RBI single to Lance Berkman to start the game.
Hawkins was already getting loose as the Cards' No. 5 hitter Matt Holliday came to the plate in the opening inning. Holliday hit a topper out in front of the plate and Marcum shoveled the ball to Lucroy who applied the tag on Pujols.
Replays showed that Pujols may have beaten the throw, but the Cardinals didn't argue. Freese hit the next pitch over the fence in left for a three-run homer and just like that the Brewers were in a 4-0 hole.
The effort was there. Hairston's headfirst slide into first on an infield single in the second inning left him shook up in the dirt. But the versatile veteran told a trainer he was OK and stayed in the game.
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David Freese hit a three-run homer in the first inning as St. Louis roughed up Milwaukee 12-6 in Game 6 of the NLCS on Sunday night, a win that?gave the?Cardinals their 18th pennant.
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Electric Car Conversion Kits
Electric car conversion kits are becoming widely sought after now. This is mainly due to the two main factors of an increasingly uncertain economy, and the ridiculous and rising price of fuel costs all over the globe. Most people who have thought about running their car on alternative energy are not really in a position to go and fork out the ,000- 000 that it would cost to buy a brand new hybrid vehicle, although they are nice.
The electric car kit, has some times been mixed up with the hydrogen car kit, or "water 4 gas" kits that you see around the internet a lot, although the two types of technology are completely different.
We Buy Any Car
There are lots of advantages to using electric conversion over any other method of alternative fueling for your car. In short converting your car to run as an electric will mean lower if not zero carbon emissions, no more expensive gas costs (or at least very minimal, depending on your conversion method), and not to mention the positive cultural effect that it has for people to be using electric powered vehicles.
The main problem with converting your car to run as an electric hybrid was the cost, costing anywhere from 00- 000 in the past to achieve the change over. That is now a thing of the past fortunately, and there is now the opportunity to convert your existing car for only a few hundred dollars. If you are interested in doing this, just be mindful that you need to have some basic knowledge of how to do simple mechanical work, and also you would need to be ok with following step by step instructions.
The concerns about how and if you should install technology such as an electric car conversion kit is really a toss up between going ahead and giving it a shot, or facing the unsteady economy and rising fuel costs which have been said to be going to rise to or potentially within the next 10-20 years. Although that is fairly far off from where we stand right now, it is almost a certainty that oil prices are not ever going to come down again.
Electric Car Conversion Kits
RIM offers free apps to make up for that whole BlackBerry outage thing
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has already apologized for last week's widespread BlackBerry outage, but apparently, that wasn't enough. Today, the manufacturer announced that it's offering customers a full slate of "premium apps" for free, in the hopes of earning back some of the goodwill it lost following that mysterious blackout. In a statement, the company said the gesture is "an expression of appreciation" for the patience that many BlackBerry users demonstrated during the incident, with Lazaridis adding that his company remains "committed to providing the high standard of reliability" that consumers have come to expect. For now, the company's offering a total of 12 apps (collectively valued at around $100), including SIMS 3, iSpeech Translator Pro and Shazam Encore among others, though more will be added at a later date. The offer kicks off on Wednesday and will last for a month, so head past the break to see which goodies are up for grabs.
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