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America’s act as the world policemen has created controversy in cyber space, as China reacted strongly to America’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton disrespectful of China handling the latest issues with Internet usage and access. As reported by reuters.com quoted Beijing Association of Online Media Chairman Min Dahong, "How China's Internet develops and how it is managed are Chinese people's own affairs." As Mr. Min continued saying "On the Internet question, China doesn't need any lessons from the United States on what to do or how."
About one week ago Google had threaten to leave China after intruders hacked into Google email system where Google believes hackers were originated from China. Big American corporations always act like a superpower and trying to force their desire to a ‘small’ guy. As China is now considered the other superpower, it is about time for China government to shoot down those spoiled corporations and let them go home. China should not allow spoiled corporations to return to the mainland.
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American astronaut and flight engineer, T.J. Creamer, has sent the first ever tweet from outer space to earth on Friday (Jan 22), as reported by NASA press release and was published thru prnewswire.com. On his first tweet, astronaut Creamer wrote "Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s"
About one week ago, NASA upgraded computer system at the International Space Station, as per NASA press release “…The system will provide astronauts with direct private communications to enhance their quality of life during long-duration missions by helping to ease the isolation associated with life in a closed environment.”
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According to ABC News report, America’s Marine Corps has contacted weapons manufacturer, Trijicon, regarding secret Bible references that was printed on military weapons. The manufacturer has a long-term contract worth about $660 million to provide more than 800,000 gun sights. According to the ABC News, many American guns manufactured by Trijicon were printed Bible passages, such as John 8:12 Passage: When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
(picture of gun: abcnews.com)
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A team of scientists led by Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has discovered an old pottery depicted in Hebrew words during the era of King David in Israel about 10th century BC. The latest finding proved that Bible's Old Testament were written at about 10th century B.C, compared to the current estimated of 6th century B.C. On the finding, the old pottery’s text content resembled to some Biblical scriptures, such as in Isaiah 1:17, Psalms 72:3, and Exodus 23:3, as reported by LiveScience.com and published thru yahoo.com.
(photo: AFP/U of Haifa)
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Many American and British parents picked Avatar characters as their new baby names. Avatar’s movie characters such as Neytiri, Toruk, and favorite planet Pandora are among top choices for new baby born in America and in the UK since December 2009, as reported by thesun.co.uk.
The first of three planned Avatar movies was directed by James Cameron and won the best drama at the Golden Globes on Sunday night (January 17). Avatar also considered as the fastest film ever reaching $1billion for ticket sales worldwide in less than one month since premiere.
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A proposal to ban on smoking, spitting, and sex in Seattle parks have been sent to local park commissioners. Local authority under Seattle Parks and Recreation division wants to regulate several bad behaviors in the area, as reported by local news Seattle Times. The new law will take into effect soon, a violator such as spitters, smokers and sexual misconduct caught doing such bad behaviors will be banned for at least 24 hours for first timer. While on the second time, they will be ban of using public facilities for at least one week, and continue to 30 days for a third offense.
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An annual survey runs by International Living magazine which is now on newsstand, showing France as the top place to satisfy all criteria as the best place to live. As reported by UPI, the criteria for Quality of Life Index consideration are cost of living in the country, local culture, environment, infrastructure and safety and risk.
The top-10 rankings are:
1. France
2. Australia
3. Switzerland
4. Germany
5. New Zealand
6. Luxembourg
7. USA
8. Belgium
9. Canada
10. Italy
From number 11 to 25 rankings are: 11. Netherlands; 12. Norway; 13. Austria; 14. Liechtenstein; 15. Malta; 16. Denmark; 17. Spain; 18. Finland; 19. Uruguay; 20. Hungary; 21. Portugal; 22. Lithuania; 23. Andorra; 24. Czech Rep; 25. United Kingdom (UK).
Other popular countries include: 36. Japan; 97. China; and 111. Russia.
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A new law is being introduced in France that ban violence words within marriage. The law will go into effect within the next six months. This is to ban married couples to use words that harmful and ‘psychological violence' (including F-word) when one person insulting the other during arguments, as reported by dailymail.co.uk. Local police department could write a citation for repeat offenders, and they must pay a fine for those tickets.
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A study conducted by Conference Board research group for over 22 years found that Americans' job satisfaction fell to a new record low in 2009. Only 45.3% of people who have a job are satisfied with their work in 2009. Compared to 1987 when the study started, over 61%of Americans were satisfied with their job. According to the study, American workers were not happy for many reasons including workers’ take-home check continue to decreasing as inflation went up and the cost of health insurance also expensive.
AP News wrote as published at yahoo.com “If the job satisfaction trend is not reversed, economists say, it could stifle innovation and hurt America's competitiveness and productivity. And it could make unhappy older workers less inclined to take the time to share their knowledge and skills with younger workers.”
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The New Year 2010 starts with a bang for Magnus Carlsen. This Norwegian teenager chess player is now ranks as the world number one, as reported by washingtonpost.com. Previously, the youngest chess number one player in the world was held by a Russian teenager, Garry Kasparov, when he was at 20-year-old, and held the world champ for most of the 1980s.
Other world top chess players for 2010 include Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) and Viswanathan Anand (India).
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