Topic about "White collar crime"
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3102800.stm
Q1 How do you think about "white collar crime"? Have you ever having a thought of committing a crime?
Q2 The article mention that people most likely to commit crimes were of a higher social class, what's your opinion about this?
Mother's Day History
Contrary to popular belief, Mother's Day was not conceived and fine-tuned in the boardroom of Hallmark. The earliest tributes to mothers date back to the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele. Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ. In England this holiday was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Sunday.
In the United States, Mother's Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it "Mother's Work Day."
Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else.
In 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother. Legend has it that young Anna remembered a Sunday school lesson that her mother gave in which she said, "I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother's day. There are many days for men, but none for mothers."
Here is a clip showing a phenomenon in America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlFJsuBjA0&hd=1
Questions:
1. Dumpster divers think it's a protest agaist what they see as a culture of excess affluence and waste. Do you agree with them? Why or why not? Do yo support this movement or not?
source: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/5_tips_for_drinking_responsibly_while_at_work
The science is in. If you're reading this at work, you should probably be drunk right now. Of course, by "science" I mean "an ABC News story" and by "drunk" I mean "having a drink or two.
But still, the word is out. More and more offices are letting their employees have a couple drinks at work thanks to the fact that drinking at the office, provided you manage your consumption, can promote creativity. Read that again slowly if you need to. I'm not talking about being fall-off-your-bar-stool-drunk at work. Nobody is creative when they're hammered, and besides, the bar stool at your desk would be a dead giveaway. But a drink or two can help give you a creative edge over your office rivals. Like how Mark McGwire figured out that drinking all that milk would make him hit a ton of home runs back in 1998.
source: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/top_10_highly_desired_skills_you_can_teach_yourself
On countless occasions, you've likely said to yourself "I wish I knew how to do ______." Then, of course, life got in the way and you put it off until you could find the time. Maybe you wanted to become fluent in a language, learn a new instrument, start performing your house repairs, or a master a myriad of other skills. With the vast amount of knowledge online, you're now your only excuse. Here are the top ten most highly desired skills that you can teach yourself—and should.
Four Views On Megaupload
When the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI shut down the web site Megaupload yesterday, there were many responses, from outrage to confusion to applause, and nearly as many questions. One that stood out was simple: If Megaupload provides a service that can be used for legal pursuits, are they legally responsible for the users who use it to illegally share copyrighted material?
Maybe unsurprisingly, there are at least a few different answers to that question.
From the perspective of the Justice Department, which spent two years investigating Megaupload, the key to the company's guilt is in the way people like Harry Dinwiddie use the site. I asked Dinwiddie if he was stealing music. His answer:
"Pretty much. Mmmhmm."
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7393/full/484141b.html
The plagiarism police deserve thanks for defending the honour of the PhD.
Quoted from:
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/13/tech/gaming-gadgets/draw-something-app-appeal/index.html
Try your hand at Draw Something and show us your best portrait onCNN iReport!
(CNN) -- Chris Pirillo is many things: a self-proclaimed geek, a blogger, an entrepreneur -- and according to him, an average gamer.
Let's go to the webpage, you'll see the full article and photos :
Link: http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/10-coolest-small-tourist-town-taiwan-903796?hpt=hp_bn8
After months of canvassing, Taiwan's Tourism Bureau has named the island's 10 favorite small towns (Chinese only).
A short list of 17 townships and small districts has been competing for votes since January 2012 by giving away iPads and holding street fairs and parades. The 10 winning towns will each receive NT$500,000 (US$16,915) in tourism promotion funds and will also receive extra marketing efforts from the Tourism Bureau in 2012.
source: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/is_april_fools_day_dying
No joke: Researchers say we are moving away from personal, real-world pranks and into a world of media-driven jokes and Internet tomfoolery. Does this spell the end of April Fools' Day as we know it?
Though pranksters and joke-lovers in many countries now gleefully prepare to dupe friends and loved ones on April Fool's Day, no one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began.
A giddy spurt of practical joking seems to have coincided with the coming of spring since the time of the Ancient Romans and Celts, who celebrated a festival of mischief-making. The first mentions of an All Fool's Day (as it was formerly called) came in Europe in the Middle Ages.
The importance of this day of prank-pulling freedom is no laughing matter. It's integral to American culture, a day of funny is important to society, and also helps humans bond. Researchers say our take on comedy is changing, though. And that may mean fewer pranks in the future.
