tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77632048522777846542024-03-10T10:46:03.666+08:00M.'s blogJust more than nobody!Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-71131772506697806182023-04-05T21:32:00.002+08:002023-04-05T21:32:34.525+08:00Tomb sweeping day<p>It's Tomb-Sweeping Day Today. It's a very important traditional Chinese festival. It's a day for tomb-sweeping. People visit their ancestors' graves, sweep the tombs, burn incense and paper, and offer sacrifices.</p><p>Its history can be traced back 2500 years.</p><p>There are activities like flying kites, having picnics, and enjoying the spring flowers.</p><p>I should go to my ancestors' grave to sweep it and burn incense and paper. That's a great way to show respect to ancestors. But nowadays, people work far from hometown, we have no enough time to do this.</p><p>This is a very precious tradition that we should pass on to future generations. And people also get to experience the charm of traditional culture.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01042311231812245746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-37467769751859966412022-04-14T14:59:00.006+08:002022-04-14T14:59:39.016+08:00English study diary<p> dictating is a good way to memorise<span> new words, I dictate words for more than one hour a day </span></p><p>I have to spend more time to practice writing </p><p><br /></p>M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01042311231812245746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-42335458847148866302022-01-16T21:25:00.001+08:002022-01-16T21:25:17.009+08:00English schedule from Bob the Canadian<p> <span style="color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this English lesson I will explain what I think is the best way to learn English in 2020.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">As many of you know I am an actual teacher. I have used both my teaching knowledge and my own experience as a language learner (French) to create this English learning plan.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be honest, I am calling this video, "The Best Way to Learn English", but there is nothing really amazing or remarkable about this plan. It is however a very thorough approach to learning a language, and it will help you learn a lot of English if you stick to the plan for a whole year.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is based on the concept that you should be spending an equal amount of time reading in English, writing in English, listening to English, speaking in English, and building your English vocabulary.</span></p><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-flexy" id="meta" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-flexy" id="meta-contents" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer class="style-scope ytd-watch-flexy" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--yt-spec-10-percent-layer); display: block; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><div class="style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer" id="container" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ytd-expander class="style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer" style="--ytd-expander-collapsed-height: 60px; display: block; font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: 2rem; margin-left: 64px;"><div class="style-scope ytd-expander" id="content" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div class="style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer" id="description" slot="content" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 615px; padding: 0px;"><yt-formatted-string class="content style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer" force-default-style="" split-lines="" style="color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
I think since there are 5 days in the week, and there are five areas you should focus on, it makes a lot of sense to focus on one of those things each day of the week.
So essentially you will use Mondays to focus on Reading, Tuesdays to focus on Writing, Wednesdays to focus on Listening, Thursdays to focus on Speaking, and Fridays to focus on Vocabulary Building.
You won't of course use your entire study time each day just focusing on one thing, but you will spend the majority of time each day focusing on one aspect of learning English.
✅Here is the plan:
THINGS YOU WILL NEED:
- 1 hour per day (30 minutes will work as well).
- a notebook and a pen to write down new vocabulary each day.
- an English song.
- an English a book.
- an English TV show.
MONDAYS (Spend 30-40 minutes Reading)
- Read your book.
- Read the news.
- Read an article on </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkNKaENERWNIdDVsNzctTGdONmlEejZQTm1HZ3xBQ3Jtc0tteDgyOEV0Zm9UVnVhdVdsdjNoLW9sVFlOMDF0dlpvSWVKU0I3dGZNaVJMVENXc3pZa29vY2ZzaXF1NWNELVV0cWhUTHJlNGZ3WXpySkV2Zl9fM2N1WUVyRzNnMkNOUHoybjFxaWk0cFR1NkZfb292OA&q=http%3A%2F%2Fsimple.wikipedia.com&v=5-T6Xqlh6BU" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);" target="_blank">http://simple.wikipedia.com</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
- Write down some new words in your notebook with their definition.
- Spend the rest of your hour:
-- Reading out loud from your book
-- Writing out some passages from your book.
-- Listening to the audiobook of your book.
-- Using Duolingo or other learning apps.
TUESDAYS (Spend 30-40 minutes Writing)
- Write what you did yesterday, today, and tomorrow in your notebook.
- Write a few comments on Youtube videos.
- Write some sentences about what you like and dislike about your song, your book, and your TV show.
- Write a summary of what you have read in your book the day before.
- Put some new words in your dictionary.
- Spend the rest of your hour:
-- Reading what you have written.
-- Listening to what you have written by pasting your writing into Google translate and have it read it to you.
-- Reading what you have written out loud.
-- Using Duolingo or other learning apps.
WEDNESDAYS (Spend 30-40 minutes Listening):
- Watch your TV show.
- Listen to your song.
- Listen to the Audiobook of your book if you have it.
- Watch a few Youtube videos.
- Put new words in your dictionary.
- Spend the rest of your hour:
-- Read about your TV show.
-- Write about how your song makes you feel.
-- Mimic or shadow people from your TV show.
-- Sing along to your song.
THURSDAYS (Spend 30-40 minutes Speaking):
- Hire a tutor on:
-- Preply: </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbE10eF9Od2Y3OUtZZVQ2UG9CYWt0a3VkWWtDUXxBQ3Jtc0trYjN6SjFCakFVRy00OE9IMXBpNWtYNTNXNnlmcWp0eFN0NW9aVmVyYXowYWlfcmQxeGRPV2ZGS1oyQldXZXBaMGpmN28wVUdNMFRHV1NmTGNwcUNMNTNXQmNCeXNrV082M05LOExyNjU0Z0wwLTFHUQ&q=http%3A%2F%2Ftracking.preply.com%2FSH2X&v=5-T6Xqlh6BU" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);" target="_blank">http://tracking.preply.com/SH2X</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
-- Cambly: </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbU5weDhIa184NHk0eDBqRU9iZnRPUXd4Z0dYZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttUV9BVjdPejFUZGZPUjJfRE5QN0dZZ3V4MUFLbDFGOHgtNEpIazFteG83QVNYeUJDcDhndGcxR1JSdmxQMG1BUUpDSDFJWVY4ekFmejhMdGFRZ3czVnpjeTJ5NDVqVkxpR096MGVtTFRYV2pSOWlyWQ&q=http%3A%2F%2Fcambly.com&v=5-T6Xqlh6BU" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);" target="_blank">http://cambly.com</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
-- iTalki: </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVdpV1A0em50RHQxYmNNQjEwN1Fsd21EbzJ5Z3xBQ3Jtc0ttRFB4X0FDY1VzSXBld1Nla1ViazVKR2JnQ3hnTkxzSEZLWHNURjAyMnllNmlydGhOb1NVZnlSSUtodDBUNnUwOEVLZTZ1LWdjeVJLUGNkMEFBX1dIYndkY2dRZjlZSnN3R1k5dV9QZHZPMGNUdWYxMA&q=http%3A%2F%2Fitalki.com&v=5-T6Xqlh6BU" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);" target="_blank">http://italki.com</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
- Talk out loud.
- Narrate your life.
- Record yourself and play it back.
- Put words in your dictionary.
- Spend the rest of your hour:
-- Reading out loud.
-- Singing out loud.
-- Shadowing or mimicking actors from your TV show.
FRIDAYS (Spend the Entire hour on Vocabulary):
- Review all the words in your dictionary.
- Write them out.
- Say them out loud.
- Use them in a sentence.
- Make a </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXh3c1F0YWNDdDlwYWc2RXJsdklrc2lXczJ6Z3xBQ3Jtc0ttUXdvN3FYRjJ3akkwa1Bxb3hqVjduNnA5S1pVUWN2WnpyVkxVT0EyQzcteGpTRlFPMlRSNUxRMmhjMi05RlpxMVBIaFhkRlFnUUtRUUNiMXBGeHVzR2ViZm1zUkVMc3hCM0FnbFJJcmJqVWR3WFQwRQ&q=http%3A%2F%2Fquizlet.com&v=5-T6Xqlh6BU" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);" target="_blank">http://quizlet.com</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> set.
- Make flashcards.
- Work until you have them all memorized.
WEEKENDS:
- Find a new song.
- Find a new book.
- Find a new TV show.
- Take a break.
⌛ Remember: Always watch the video three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off to reinforce the English you have learned!
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美联储宣布降息,利率降到0.</div>
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M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01042311231812245746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-78607680812370711112012-08-09T22:07:00.001+08:002012-08-09T22:07:28.682+08:00I like English languageI am trying to write English...<br />
very difficult for me...<br />Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-88040602755256879522012-07-22T23:48:00.000+08:002012-07-22T23:48:05.990+08:00Can not post on a page which not belongs to meI think, we need a place to talk, argue, which we all can post something at the same place, but now, only the author can post on a page.<br />
I main that I need a function like BBS.<br />
<br />Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-43078115587084044312012-07-17T18:10:00.000+08:002012-07-17T18:10:17.879+08:00who is her or him?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRxutk0jf6ET80qaPv3NOZL40pJ3KQZymxvlQCoZXSNK2vdFSE08J-OD0dyqkXbhn-zjbst2WaCN1Nvpb98qeXCKCbhdgWzbI0SRcMvx70UNfB6S9zuwWaaTJjHw5KNHTDK9I-AphtNdex/s1600/ramos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="291" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRxutk0jf6ET80qaPv3NOZL40pJ3KQZymxvlQCoZXSNK2vdFSE08J-OD0dyqkXbhn-zjbst2WaCN1Nvpb98qeXCKCbhdgWzbI0SRcMvx70UNfB6S9zuwWaaTJjHw5KNHTDK9I-AphtNdex/s320/ramos.jpg" /></a></div><br />
站在拉莫斯旁边的那位,不知道是女的还是男的还是....,难道拉莫斯是...?Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-44394277943385882292012-07-11T17:30:00.001+08:002012-07-11T17:30:16.307+08:00Why do I always think about the meaning of life, there is no answerMobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-61711712945297384572012-06-25T14:25:00.000+08:002012-06-25T14:25:10.302+08:00come back to bloggerBecause of GFW of China government, I can't visit my blogger from China mainland, so that I had to give up blogger, use WordPress.<br />
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Now I find I can use my domain to visit blogger. I decide to write blogger, and import all of my old posts to here, too many blogs let me feel bored.<br />
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<br />Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-60069715006458241592012-06-24T22:36:00.000+08:002012-06-25T15:30:53.326+08:00IfBy Joseph Rudyard Kipling<br/><br/>If you can keep your head when all about you<br/>Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;<br/>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br/>But make allowance for their doubting too;<br/>If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br/>Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,<br/>Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,<br/>And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;<br/><br/>If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;<br/>If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;<br/>If you can meet with triumph and disaster<br/>And treat those two imposters just the same;<br/>If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken<br/>Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<br/>Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,<br/>And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;<br/><br/>If you can make one heap of all your winnings<br/>And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<br/>And lose, and start again at your beginnings<br/>And never breath a word about your loss;<br/>If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br/>To serve your turn long after they are gone,<br/>And so hold on when there is nothing in you<br/>Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";<br/><br/>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<br/>Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;<br/>If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;<br/>If all men count with you, but none too much;<br/>If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br/>With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -<br/>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<br/>And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-9078865395178707252012-06-08T23:11:00.000+08:002012-07-11T12:29:36.031+08:00人生需要放下的8样东西:1、压力:累与不累,取决于心态;2、烦恼: 快乐其实很简单; 3、自卑:把它从你的字典里删去;4、懒惰:奋斗改变命运;5、消极:绝望向左,希望向右;6、抱怨:与其抱怨,不如努力; 7、犹豫:立即行动成功无限;8、狭隘:心有多宽,世界就有多宽。Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-7139640964025968492012-05-30T05:29:00.000+08:002012-06-25T15:42:25.788+08:00Why Chinese football clubs want top talentBy John Sudworth<br />
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Chinese football clubs have been spending money recently - a lot of money.</div>
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Former France international Nicolas Anelka has been lured here with a salary reported to be worth around £200,000 a week.<br />
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And now, rumour has it, Chelsea hero Didier Drogba is on the verge of following his old team-mate to China for an even bigger sum.<br />
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And yet when you look at the finances of China's Super League, as the top division is known, the sums simply do not add up.<br />
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Of course, it is not unusual these days for football clubs to lose money.<br />
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But in China, the losses are so large that they are leading some pundits to ponder an intriguing theory.<br />
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Could all of this financial largesse, they wonder, be part of a plot by China's Communist leaders to get their hands on the World Cup?<br />
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Shanghai Shenhua is a long way from the English Premier League in more than just miles.<br />
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Rumour has it that Chelsea hero Didier Drogba may follow his old team-mate to China</div>
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On an average match day, the Hongkou Stadium attracts a crowd of less than 10,000 fans. That leaves a lot of empty seats.<br />
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The club's total annual income is just £2m or so, a budget that would not keep Anelka and Drogba's former employer, Chelsea, going for even a week.<br />
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And yet Shanghai is now spending five times its income on the wages of just one man, and doubling down on that bet, if Drogba does indeed sign, on the wages of another.<br />
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But while the club might not be rich, its owner certainly is.<br />
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Zhu Jun has made his fortune in the online video game business. Founder of a company that bought the Chinese distribution rights to the World of Warcraft franchise, he is said to have pocketed about £60m when it went public in 2004.<br />
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He has grown richer since.<br />
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And he is not the only tycoon now using his own wealth - or that of the companies he owns - to bankroll the title-chasing hopes of a Super League club.<br />
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Guangzhou Evergrande, currently league leaders, have recently announced the appointment of a new manager, Italy's 2006 World Cup winning coach Marcello Lippi.<br />
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He will be taking over a team with an impressive and, needless to say, very expensive array of talent including Argentinian midfielder Dario Conca and Paraguayan striker Lucas Barrios.<br />
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Mr Xi Jinping, the future president of the People's Republic of China is a great fan of football. So these businessmen are being very smart.”</blockquote>
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Club owner property billionaire Xu Jiayin is said to have bankrolled the club by as much as £45m in the past couple of years.</div>
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He has made the point to Chinese media that, if nothing else, the investment buys him valuable exposure for his brand.<br />
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'Special connection'<br />
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But Tony Shao, a sports commentator for China's state-run broadcaster CCTV, said that with China about to anoint a new leader later this year, it is no accident that businessmen are throwing their cash at football.<br />
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"Mr Xi Jinping, the future president of the People's Republic of China is a great fan of football," he says. "So these businessmen are being very smart.<br />
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"If you make a special connection with high-level officials in government, then you definitely get yourself an advantage in business."<br />
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Rowan Simons, is the author of the book Bamboo Goalposts, the story of his long-term efforts to develop grass-roots football in China, and he has no doubt about the money now being lavished on foreign signings.<br />
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"These are vanity projects, investments to curry political favour and to show off," he says.<br />
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And he agrees that the wealthy club owners will be paying close attention to the political signals coming from the very top.<br />
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"Of course the Chinese government has been fairly consistent in its ambition to win the World Cup, and it sees investment in football at club level as being a spur for the game."<br />
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But there is a big flaw in the plan, he adds.<br />
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"It's certainly true that the likes of Anelka and Drogba turning up will increase interest in the game, but the problems in Chinese football are systemic; very few football pitches and virtually no infrastructure at the grass-roots level."<br />
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Match-fixing<br />
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Nicolas Anelka has been reportedly lured to China with a salary of around £200,000 a week</div>
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And there is another problem, one now being aired in a very public cleaning out of China's football stables.<br />
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So far this year, dozens of senior officials, referees and players have been convicted of match-fixing and some of them given lengthy jail sentences.<br />
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Corruption, the cases demonstrate, had become blatant and routine with large sums of money changing hands to throw matches at the highest level of the sport.<br />
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No wonder China's fans are sometimes said to be the most cynical in the world.<br />
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Given the parlous state of the game, it would seem that there would be little here to attract expensive star signings, other than of course the eye-watering salaries on offer.<br />
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Not so, says Mario Bozic, another of Shanghai Shenhua's foreign recruits.<br />
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"I think it's not just the money, because these big names that come here are already rich," he says.<br />
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"Maybe they want to try something else, maybe they want to teach Chinese people how to play real football."<br />
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Whether China's expensive foreign players really are unwitting pawns in a Communist quest for world footballing domination is hard to say, but they might certainly help to raise standards.<br />
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Chinese fans will be hoping so.<br />
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Despite their long suffering, they remain resilient, and football remains one of the most popular spectator sports, with millions tuning in to watch the Super League on television.<br />
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But win a World Cup?<br />
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China's leaders are capable of many things, global economic supremacy even. But football, most fans agree, may be beyond them.<br />
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From bbc <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18233985">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18233985</a>Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-74181053509085500032012-05-29T08:09:00.000+08:002012-06-25T15:30:53.275+08:00<img class="alignnone" title="chinaconsoredkeywords" src="http://img.labnol.org/files/censored-keywords-china.png" alt="" width="550" height="611" />Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-53923813149067102872012-05-28T04:56:00.000+08:002012-06-25T15:30:53.238+08:00<object width="480" height="400" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XODE5Nzc0OA==/v.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed width="480" height="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XODE5Nzc0OA==/v.swf" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" /></object>Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-1027784867971558542012-05-27T17:08:00.000+08:002012-06-25T15:30:53.215+08:00Is Cristiano Ronaldo going to be captain far Real Madrid?17 May 2012 : Real Madrid defeat Kuwait national team 2-0 in friendly, but the captain was not Iker Casillas in this game.Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-67112629170317123102012-05-23T20:35:00.000+08:002012-06-25T15:30:53.180+08:00NothingGardenia flowers in the yard are blooming, very fragrant.<br/>In the bus, I saw a boy's t-shirt wear anti Seems we all were in a hurry, in the morning.<br/>My job made me feel tired, some issues do not know how to solve.<br/>Looking forward a holiday,^_^<br/>Just want write something, but, I don't know how to ....Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-16193719197088541422012-05-23T12:38:00.000+08:002012-06-25T15:30:53.203+08:00Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen by Dr. Gerard
Nolst Trenité)<object width="480" height="400" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMzM5Njg3OTM2/v.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed width="480" height="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMzM5Njg3OTM2/v.swf" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" /></object><br/><h1>The Chaos!</h1><br/> <br/><br/>Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité)<br/><br/>Dearest creature in creation,<br/>Study English pronunciation.<br/>I will teach you in my verse<br/>Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.<br/>It will keep you, Suzy, busy,<br/>Make your head with heat grow dizzy.<br/>Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear.<br/>Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.<br/>Pray, console your loving poet,<br/>Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!<br/>Just compare heart, beard, and heard,<br/>Dies and diet, lord and word,<br/>Sword and sward, retain and Britain.<br/>(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)<br/>Made has not the sound of bade;<br/>Say, said, pay, paid, laid but plaid.<br/>Now I surely will not plague you<br/>With such words as vague and ague.<br/>But be careful how you speak:<br/>Say gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak,<br/>Previous, precious, fuschia, via,<br/>Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;<br/>Woven, oven how and low,<br/>Script, receipt, shoe, poem, and toe.<br/>Hear me say, devoid of trickery,<br/>Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,<br/>Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,<br/>Exiles, similes, reviles;<br/>Wholly, holly, signal, signing<br/>Same, examining, but mining,<br/>Scholar, vicar, and cigar,<br/>Solar, mica, war and far;<br/>From “desire”: desirable<br/>-admirable from “admire”;<br/>Lumber, plumber, bier but brier,<br/>Topsham, brougham, renown but known,<br/>Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone,<br/>One, anemone, Balmoral,<br/>Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;<br/>Gertrude, German, wind and mind,<br/>Scene, Melpomene, mankind.<br/>Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,<br/>Reading, Reading, heathen, heather.<br/>This phonetic labyrinth<br/>Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.<br/>Billet does not end like ballet,<br/>Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.<br/>Blood and flood are not like food,<br/>Nor is mould like should and would.<br/>Discount, viscount, load and broad,<br/>Toward, to forward, to reward.<br/>Ricocheted and croqueting, croquet?<br/>Right! Your pronunciation’s O.K.;<br/>Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,<br/>Friend and fiend, alive and live.<br/>Hugh but hug and hood but hoot,<br/>Buoyant, minute but “minute”.<br/>Would it tally with my rhyme<br/>If I mentioned paradigm?<br/>Liberty, library, heave and heaven,<br/>Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.<br/>We say hallowed, but allowed,<br/>People, leopard, towed, but vowed.<br/>Mark the difference, moreover,<br/>Between mover, plover, Dover,<br/>Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,<br/>Chalice, but police and lice;<br/>Camel, constable, unstable,<br/>Principle, disciple, label.<br/>Petal, penal, and canal,<br/>Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal.<br/>Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit<br/>Rhyme with “shirk it” and “beyond it,”<br/>Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,<br/>Senator, spectator, mayor.<br/>Ivy, privy, famous; clamour<br/>Has the a of drachm and “hammer,”<br/>Stranger does not rhyme with anger,<br/>Neither does devour with clangour.<br/>Soul but foul and gaunt but aunt;<br/>Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant.<br/>Arsenic, specific, scenic,<br/>Relic, rhetoric, hygienic,<br/>Prison, bison, treasure-trove<br/>Treason, hover, cover, cove.<br/>Don’t be down, my own, but rough it,<br/>And distinguish buffet – buffet;<br/>Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, stool,<br/>Worcester, Boleyn, foul and ghoul.<br/>But mind trivial and vial,<br/>Tripod, menial, denial,<br/>Troll and trolley, realm and ream.<br/>Schedule, mischief, schism and scheme.<br/>Shoes, goes, does. Now first say: finger;<br/>Then say: singer, ginger, linger.<br/>Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge,<br/>Marriage, foliage, mirage, age.<br/>Hero, heron, query, very,<br/>Parry, tarry, fury, bury,<br/>Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth,<br/>Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath.<br/>Though the difference seems little,<br/>We say actual but victual<br/>Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height,<br/>Put, nut, granite and unite.<br/>Reefer does not rhyme with deafer,<br/>Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.<br/>Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,<br/>Hint, pint, senate but sedate,<br/>Gaelic, Arabic, pacific,<br/>Science, conscience, scientific,<br/>Tour but our and succor, four,<br/>Gas, alas and Arkansas.<br/>Sea, idea, guinea, area,<br/>Psalm, Maria, but malaria.<br/>Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.<br/>Doctrine, turpentine, marine.<br/>Compare alien with Italian,<br/>Dandelion and battalion.<br/>Rally with ally; yea, ye,<br/>Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay.<br/>Say aver, but ever, fever,<br/>Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.<br/>Starry, granary, canary.<br/>Crevice but device and eyrie.<br/>Face, but preface, but grimace.<br/>Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.<br/>Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging,<br/>Ought, oust, joust and scour, scourging.<br/>Ear, but earn and wear and tear<br/>Do not rhyme with here but ere.<br/>Seven is right, but so is even,<br/>Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,<br/>Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,<br/>Ask, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork work.<br/>Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)<br/>Is a paling stout and spikey?<br/>Won’t it make you lose your wits,<br/>Writing groats and saying grits?<br/>It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:<br/>Strewn with stones, like rowlock, gunwale,<br/>Islington and Isle of Wight,<br/>Housewife, verdict and indict.<br/>Don’t you think so, reader, rather,<br/>Saying lather, bather, father?<br/>Finally: which rhymes with enough,<br/>Though, through, plough, cough, hough<br/>Or tough?<br/>Hiccough has the sound of “sup”.<br/>My advice is give it up!!!Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-78780676276094208412012-04-04T17:13:00.000+08:002012-07-11T12:30:12.460+08:00Nothing is impossible Sony推出超小本<p>世界上最小的笔记本,这个世界,没有做不到,只有想不到<br/><embed src="http://player.ku6.com/refer/kiPctLdZX2oS8LEQ9zEebg../v.swf" width="480" height="400" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 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blog.</strong><br/><br/>Here are some step to remove this restrictions.<br/><br/>WordPress hook directory : subdirectory_reserved_names<br/><br/> <br/><br/><strong>Wp-admin/ms-edit.php line no:154</strong><br/><br/>//$subdirectory_reserved_names = apply_filters( ‘subdirectory_reserved_names’, array( ‘page’, ‘comments’, ‘blog’, ‘files’, ‘feed’ ) );<br/>$subdirectory_reserved_names = apply_filters( ‘subdirectory_reserved_names’, array( ‘page’, ‘comments’, ‘files’, ‘feed’ ) );<br/><br/> <br/><br/><strong>Wp-includes/ms-functions.php line no:516</strong><br/><br/>//$subdirectory_reserved_names = apply_filters( ‘subdirectory_reserved_names’, array( ‘page’, ‘comments’, ‘blog’, ‘files’, ‘feed’ ) );<br/>$subdirectory_reserved_names = apply_filters( ‘subdirectory_reserved_names’, array( ‘page’, ‘comments’, ‘files’, ‘feed’ ) );<br/><br/> <br/><br/><strong>Wp-includes/ms-settings.php Line no: 73</strong><br/><br/>//$reserved_blognames = array( ‘page’, ‘comments’, ‘blog’, ‘wp-admin’, ‘wp-includes’, ‘wp-content’, ‘files’, ‘feed’ );<br/>$reserved_blognames = array( ‘page’, ‘comments’, ‘wp-admin’, ‘wp-includes’, ‘wp-content’, ‘files’, ‘feed’ );<br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.justwebdevelopment.com/blog/install-wordpress-in-blog-name-subdirectory/">http://www.justwebdevelopment.com/blog/install-wordpress-in-blog-name-subdirectory/</a>Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-74192302900895918972012-03-01T00:30:00.000+08:002012-06-25T15:30:53.117+08:00Chinese Netizen’s “Occupy Obama Movement” on Google PlusLast night I heard from friends on Sina Weibo that Google Plus was unblocked and there is a Chinese <strong>carnival</strong> on Barack Obama’s G+ page, where we can do our favorite online activities such as 抢沙发 (”occupying sofa”-being the first in the comment roll ), and刷屏 (”swiping screen”-creating a sea of comments that flood the whole page). I immediately went to my G+ account, which I haven’t used since I opened it last year, and added Obama to my circle of “family”. Wow, under the first post I saw on Obama’s page dated Feb.24, 90% of the 500 comments are in Chinese, and a significant amount of the rest are in Chinglish. I have not seen a virtual party so wild since the April of 2010 when we climbed over the Great Firewall to follow the twitter of Aoi Sola (Japanese AV star).<a href="http://www.chinabubblewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/obama-page.png"><img title="obama page" src="http://www.chinabubblewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/obama-page.png" alt="" width="714" height="654" /></a><br/><br/><a title="Chinese Netizens Occupy Obama" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17167770" target="_blank">BBC actually reported on this phenomenon already</a>, but its misinterpretation of the Chinese comments has itself become a source of amusement for Chinese netizens. The BBC article says, “they talked about occupying the furniture and bringing snacks and soft drinks.” Obviously the reporters had no idea what “occupying sofa” means in Chinese Internet Language, which is the frontier of linguistic innovation. The folks at <a title="occupying sofa" href="http://www.chinainternetwatch.com/1393/occupying-sofa/" target="_blank">China Internet Watch</a> tried to help out and explained:“occupying sofa” is a common behavior often in online forums trying to be the first to leave a comment or reply. Imagine many friends visit you at your house, the first ones arrived can take the sofa (which is more comfortable), those who are a bit late have to take the chairs, and the ones come last have only the floor to sit on”.<br/><br/>But most of my friends found the misunderstanding so funny that they excitedly gathered more people to occupy the Obama page and say more nonsense to further confuse the poor translators of Western media.<br/><br/>Anyway I feel that some of the Chinese comments are so good that they deserve good English translation. Here are some of my favorite comments:<br/><br/>-Good afternoon Mr. President, I just come here to chill.<br/><br/>-Don’t fight with me, this is the last available space! Advertisers interested in renting this space please contact me.<br/><br/>-How to tell if a girl is a virgin by looking at her thigh…<br/><br/>-The one above me is a very very bad person.<br/><br/>-People behind me, keep your line straight!<br/><br/>-For Sale, Canon 60D+17-55mm f2.8 Lense…<br/><br/>-Tour group from Huadong University blowing by.<br/><br/>-This is such a historical moment! Have you guys had dinner?<br/><br/>-Mr. President, I’d like to order some food. The people behind me will pay.<br/><br/> <br/><br/>I was so inspired that I decided to take advantage of the publicity there and promote my own business. I wrote, 办证刻章 13658579367(you probably saw my ads before on street-corners, just helping people make diplomas, identity cards and official seals.)<br/><br/>There are serious political comments also. Some netizens requested Obama to talk to our president Mr. Hu about giving up Internet censorship and releasing dissidents, some warned the US not to mess up with China in Southern China Sea, some demanded that the US pay back the debt it owed to China (referring to the US treasure bonds that China is holding). Some argued with each other about whether democracy is good for China. Some were picking fights with 五毛党 (“50-cent-party”, used by pro-democracy netizens to call people who they think are serving the authoritarian government) or 带路党 (“invasion-guide-party”, used by nationalistic netizens to call people who they think would be the local guide for western invaders).<br/><br/>Of course the English-speaking readers were very confused. But some found it interesting to communicate with Chinese people. <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/115399459187056221767/posts" target="_blank">Ali Utlu</a> is one of the first Western readers who used google translator to start an uneasy conversation with Chinese netizens on Obama’s page. Ali Utlu has become an Internet celebrity in China overnight. He now has more than 800 Chinese friends in his circle thanks to his unintentional participation in the “Occupy Obama Movement”, which he himself found hard to believe.<a href="http://www.chinabubblewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ali-page.png"><img title="ali page" src="http://www.chinabubblewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ali-page.png" alt="" width="674" height="276" /></a><br/><br/>By the way, I think Google should grab this chance and seriously launch G+ promotion targeted at Chinese people, it can finally become the only international player in Chinese social media market, which is still not accessible for Facebook or twitter.<br/><br/>The first unblocking of an international platform (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress etc. still blocked) is certainly meaningful for the Chinese Internet, which is confined by<a title="“The Father of the Great Firewall of China” Re-defines Internet Sovereignty" href="http://www.chinabubblewatch.org/2011/11/20/the-father-of-the-great-firewall-of-china-re-defines-internet-sovereignty/" target="_blank">“Internet Sovereignty”</a>. But overall Chinese netizens participating in the “Occupy Obama Movement” just wanna have fun. My girlfriend and myself spent two nights browsing through those comments and could not stop giggling. Maybe we are just silly and crazy, but if in your whole life you are also always told “you are not allowed to do this to do that”, or “this place is forbidden”, or “this is saved for the authority”, or “we have to ‘stabilize’ you for the sake of society”, then you might understand the simple joy of being able to gather for no particular purpose and do the most nonsensical things in front of one of the most powerful figures in the world.Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7763204852277784654.post-73291881140613947522012-02-29T23:52:00.000+08:002012-06-25T15:30:53.083+08:00Are IT Workers the Coal Miners of the 21st Century?A few weeks back, I introduced you to my friend Shawn. He’s a strong systems thinker, a former soldier, someone I respect and admired from my youth.<br/><br/>Shawn cut his teeth in the dotCom era, becoming a programmer, then general technologist, then IT manager, now … I’m not sure. Last time I checked, he was an account rep for an IT managed services firm, the kind that has been eating a hole in traditional IT departments.<br/><br/>Shawn cares about his field, and his perspective is shared by life in the trenches. So when he kept writing about what he sees happening to our field, and asked me to publish it, I couldn’t say no.<br/><br/>Here’s the question that keeps Shawn up at night: Are IT Workers the Coal Miners of the 21st Century?<br/><br/>From here on out the words belong to Shawn, not me.<br/><br/>IT as Coal Mining<br/>Starting in the 1870s and extending to the Great Depression in the 1930s, coal miners in the US suffered at the hands of their employers. Coal companies took absolute advantage of their workers to maximize profits: Working conditions varied somewhere between “poor” and “lethal.” Workers were paid by weight of coal they sent out of the mine, not for time spent doing things like shoring up the tunnels for safety. They were forced to live in company-supplied housing and paid in worthless company scrip, redeemable only at the company store.<br/><br/><br/>Is IT that bad? Really?<br/>Now, I’m not suggesting that IT workers today are at a high risk of cave-in, injury or death. At least, not like the colliers of old. Our cave-in risk comes from the stack of decommissioned 100 Gb disks piled up in the server room, carpel-tunnel is our most common on-the-job injury, and yeah, I suppose you could die from that ulcer you’re developing, but if you laid off the coffee a little, it might get better.<br/><br/>Yet, employers today seem to have no qualm about taking advantage of their workers without due respect paid toward working conditions, hours committed to the employer, and payment for work accomplished.<br/><br/>How do they do this? Its thru what was once a “wonderful” opportunity called being a “salaried” or “exempt” employee.<br/><br/>Back when the “exempt” classification of employee was created, it was because there was an obvious difference between the hourly “shop floor” kind of workers and the salaried “higher ups” in the office. Your hourly “blue collars” and your salaried “white collars.”<br/><br/>White collar workers were there to direct the business. Their contribution to the bottom line was not easily translated into a per-hour pay basis, unlike the worker working on the production line whose productivity could be measured in pieces per hour, tons per day, whatever.<br/><br/> In 2004, the federal labor laws were changed and more classifications of employees were able to become exempt employees (especially administrative employees). A lot employees were happy to be considered exempt. I know I was when I started one of my first professional jobs in IT. If I worked till 6pm, oh well. But if I had to leave at 4pm for a doctor’s appointment, I didn’t have to worry that I wasn’t going to pay the heat bill because my paycheck was short that week.<br/><br/>In today’s business environment, however, more employers are using the “exempt” employee status as a way to get extra coverage and more work out of their IT departments without increasing headcount.<br/><br/>Have a company that runs two shifts in the warehouse? Naw, we don’t need two shifts of IT people. The PC tech who was in the office at 7am to meet the telemarketers can also be the guy who makes sure the executive’s printer gets unjammed at 6pm, that the hiccup in the telemarketer’s VoIP phone system gets squared away at 7:15pm, and he’s also the guy who gets the call at 9:55pm because the damn UPS system is printing FedEx labels *again*.<br/><br/>To be fair, they do this to some extent with other segments of the business, too, but I’m pretty sure the marketing manager didn’t get rolled out of bed at 2am because the new product brochures crashed…<br/><br/>Back in the “bad old days” before Y2K and the dot.com bust, I worked for a software company that had a mainframe. They employed “computer operators.” On a legitimate 2nd and 3rd shift schedule.<br/><br/>Links:http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/unchartered-waters/are-it-workers-the-coal-miners-of-the-21st-century/Mobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996972448163038930noreply@blogger.com2