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I heard a very funny thing at English class today.
A man wants to make a toy dinosaur.He asks his younger brother to help him make it.When they finish,his younger brother say to him.We need to go to shop."Why?" asks brother.His younger brother answer,"Beacause we don't have any food to feed the dinosaur." #@$%&^*()!*@_+_@(*^%$@*&
I think I'll be crazy because that is too interesting= =
RANONG, Thailand - Dozen of migrants from Myanmar who narrowly escaped suffocation while being smuggled through Thailand in a locked, stifling truck were convicted of illegal entry Friday and will be sent home, authorities said Friday.
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Fifty-four migrants died in the tiny truck headed for the resort town of Phuket after the driver abandoned the vehicle — normally used for transporting seafood — when its air conditioning failed Wednesday night.
Fourteen of the 67 survivors were minors who were almost immediately returned to Myanmar. The adult survivors were tried and convicted of entering the country without permission. Those who can't pay a $63 fine will be jailed for two months and then deported, police said.
The truck's owner has been detained. The truck driver and organizers of the smuggling are being sought.
Prosperous Thailand is a magnet for people from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar who take menial and dangerous jobs shunned by Thais, and face exploitation in their efforts to earn a living. More than 1 million migrants from Myanmar are believed to be working in Thailand.
One hospitalized survivor said he came with his 19-year-old wife from Mon State, a coastal province in eastern Myanmar.
Ko Ko Lah, 32, said they paid about $380 each to a human trafficking gang to arrange the trip, meeting his fellow migrants on the southern tip of a peninsula just across a spectacular island-specked bay from Thailand's Ranong province.
They were taken at night by fishing boat to a quiet pier in Ranong town, where they were all crammed into the truck's sweltering container area, measuring 7 feet wide by 7 feet high and 20 feet long.
"The container was very jammed and dark, my wife and I were trapped in the middle, after about 30 minutes we found that we did not have enough air to breathe, everyone begged for help," he said. "I heard many people call the driver on mobile phones but it seemed he did not answer."
"It was horrible, I heard people screaming, shouting and banging on the walls until I passed out," he said. "I regained consciousness and found that I was lying on the ground, confused. I crawled to the roadside and found some water there to drink."
Ko Ko Lah said he married just four days before the incident, with hopes that he and his wife could find work on a rubber plantation in Thailand's Phuket or Phang Nga province, where three relatives had earlier found jobs.
"I do not know the fate of my wife, but pray that she is still alive," he said.
Others in the group were believed to have been seeking service jobs in Phuket's booming tourism sector.
Col. Kraithong Chanthongbai, police chief for Ranong's Suksamran district, said the truck's owner denied any knowledge of the smuggling but was being held on a charge of conspiring to traffic the migrants.
The U.N.'s International Labor Organization said the demand by Thai employers for migrant workers — documented or undocumented — "is continuing and may even be accelerating. However, the formal systems of recruitment are not working."
It called for the Thai government to overhaul its system for employing foreign workers.
The reason for the failure include "a slow and expensive migrant registration system, a breakdown in the sending countries' abilities to provide the initial documentation required and legitimate concerns of migrants who are worried that they will not be able to change employers, even if they suffer abuse," said the ILO.
"Within such an environment, trafficking for labor exploitation is bound to flourish," it said.
LONDON - Happy Birthday, Big Ben.
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One of Britain's last bell foundries on Thursday marked the 150th anniversary of its biggest creation — the massive bell whose bongs sound the hour at the Houses of Parliament.
It was made by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which also made Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and the Bell of Hope, given to New York by Londoners on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The 15-ton Big Ben was cast on April 10, 1858, at the foundry in east London, although it was another year before it first rang out from Parliament's clock tower.
"We are going to toast Big Ben's health at the end of the working day," said Mike Backhouse, the foundry's works manager. "Whether we'll sing 'Happy Birthday,' I don't know."
Big Ben has given its name to one of London's most famous landmarks — Parliament's 19th-century neo-Gothic clock tower, designed by Charles Barry. The tower is popularly known as Big Ben, although the name actually refers only to the Great Bell inside.
The Whitechapel foundry was marking the anniversary by casting 3 1/2-inch (9-centimeter) replicas of the bell — one for every two years of its life. They will be sold for about 100 pounds (US$200; euro130) apiece.
Founded in 1570 and officially Britain's oldest manufacturing company, Whitechapel is one of only two remaining bell foundries in the country.
Backhouse said Big Ben remains the largest bell ever made at the foundry, and would have presented a "massive challenge" to 19th-century bell-makers.
"The technical challenge would have been making the mold for the bell strong enough that it wouldn't have been broken or distorted by 13 1/2 tons of molten bell metal," Backhouse said.
The bell cracked soon after it was installed — as an earlier version had during testing. Officials simply fitted a smaller hammer and turned the bell so the hammer wouldn't strike the crack.
The bell, crack and all, remains in use, and has become a symbol of reassuring reliability. During World War II, Big Ben's resonant bongs became a sign of resistance to Nazi bombs.
Parliamentary officials plan to mark the 150th anniversary of Big Ben's first bong with a ceremony next year.
The bell has been silenced briefly by weather, mechanical failure and accident, and for four periods of maintenance — in 1934, 1956, 1990 and for six weeks last year.
Bookmaker William Hill is offering odds on the bell failing to chime in its anniversary year. The odds are 100/1 of Big Ben being silenced by bird interference, 150/1 on it being stopped by ice or snow, and 1000/1 on one of the clock's hands falling off.
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On the Net:
Whitechapel bell Foundry:
http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk
Big Ben and the clock:
http://www.parliament.uk/about/history/big_ben.cfm
From:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080410/ap_on_re_eu/britain_big_ben_birthday
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Today is my birthday.I forgot that today is my birhtday.
I got a surprise this morning.When I went to school,some people looked at me and they smiled to me.Then a girl gave a present to me.I was very excited.Then some people talked about my birthday.I have just known that today is my birthday.
☆★～HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME～★☆
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