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.
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