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明天是bat上战场的日子啦，是不是算小分队最后一波了？bat，小分队等你的好消息哈~沉着冷静地去把GMAC打趴下吧！btw等你来指导我的T啊！！！TAT


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America and the Struggle for Jobs
http://www.51voa.com/VOA_Special_English/The-Struggle-for-Jobs-in-America-43078.html


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FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus.
DOUG JOHNSON: And I'm Dough Johnson. This week on our program, we look at the job situation in the United States. There was zero job growth last month. The national unemployment rate was the same as in July, 9.1 percent. That does not even include people who have stopped looking for work or part-time workers unable to get full-time jobs.
FAITH LAPIDUS: Coming up, we talk to Don Peck, author of a new book called "inched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It." And we hear from two people about what they had to do to find a job.
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FAITH LAPIDUS: Americans face different economic issues. Which one worries them most? A Pew Research Center-Washington Post opinion poll asked a thousand people earlier this month. Forty-three percent said the job situation. About half as many said the federal budget deficit.
Smaller numbers said rising prices and the financial and housing markets were their biggest economic worries.
Three out of four people said additional spending on roads, bridges and other public works would improve the job situation at least a little. Many said the same about cutting business taxes, the federal budget and personal income taxes. But there was no clear agreement about which ideas would do a lot to help.
DOUG JOHNSON: Last Thursday night, President Obama spoke to Congress to present his plan for job growth. His proposals include an extension of jobless benefits for workers who have been unemployed for extended periods. The plan also includes tax breaks for companies to hire more workers and money for projects to fix roads and schools.
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The Labor Department counts about fourteen million workers as unemployed. Millions more are working part time as they try to find full-time employment.
The so-called Great Recession officially lasted from December of two thousand seven to June of two thousand nine. Unemployment was five percent at the start. It reached 10.1 percent in late two thousand nine. This year the jobless rate has been stuck around nine percent.
There are concerns that the United States -- and the world -- could face another recession. Some economists say a "double-dip" could be more painful for average Americans because the economy is weaker than it was before the first recession.
FAITH LAPIDUS: Don Peck is a writer and editor at the Atlantic magazine. In his new book, "inched," he says economic conditions are limiting opportunities for millions of Americans. He says the generation of young Americans known as millennials -- those now graduating from high school and college -- are especially affected.
DON PECK: "The first few years on the job market are extremely important to setting the career track and life path of young people. When young people struggle -- when whole generations struggle in their first few years in the job market -- academic research shows that not only do they start out behind, they never catch up to where they otherwise would've been."
FAITH LAPIDUS: Mr. Peck says early in the recession, millennials thought any period of unemployment would be short. There was even a name for this kind of thinking: "funemployment."
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DON PECK: "The idea that a few months perhaps of unemployment during the recession, could not only be easily overcome but could be kind of fun. You know, people were getting unemployment checks, they didn't have many financial commitments.
"Many of them took that opportunity to reassess career, to take vacations, and I think in part millennials were just trying to make the best of a bad situation."
DOUG JOHNSON: But now, he says, young people are thinking differently.
DON PECK: "That idea that this period is something that can be easily enjoyed and that will not materially affect millennials in the rest of their careers is clearly waning within that generation. I think today you see among millennials much higher job tenure -- they're clinging to their jobs more tightly, they've expressed a desire for a single job, a single employer throughout their career rather than the ability to switch careers. So that notion of funemployment which many millennials began the recession with, I think, is long gone today."
In today's economy, says Mr. Peck, any work is better than no work.
DON PECK: "This is a time where young people need to be extremely aggressive and entrepreneurial and have humility. You know, say yes to whatever job offers one gets because it's certainly better to be working than have the stigma of unemployment all together."
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FAITH LAPIDUS: Twenty-two year old Jessie Way finished college in less than four years and with honors. She graduated from George Mason University in Virginia with a degree in technical writing in January. After that, she spent three months helping her mother who got sick. Then she spent five months searching for a job.
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Jessie was lucky. She recently landed a position as a legal assistant with a law firm.
JESSIE WAY: "The problem I found myself having was, it's what everyone complains about -- there's jobs that want experience, but nobody wants to give you experience."
A demand for experience is not a new problem for young people, of course. But Jessie Way thinks the situation today is more difficult than it was for graduates ten years ago.
JESSIE WAY: "Back then you could say, oh well, I'm just out of college, so I'm a lot cheaper than these people with experience. So companies could say, OK, we'll hire some college graduates and we'll have to train them a little but the price cut is worth it to them.
"Nowadays so many people are out of work and have been let go and all that stuff that they can offer that same salary to somebody who does have five years experience that they used to offer to somebody like me. And it's gotten to the point now where college kids either can't get a job or can't get a job that's actually going to pay the bills."
DOUG JOHNSON: Author Don Peck says one way for young job seekers to improve their chances is by moving.
DON PECK: "I would really encourage people, particularly if they're living in highly depressed places, to consider taking a leap and moving to a more dynamic region. I think that will help them in the long run."
A willingness to move helped Jessie Way find a job. Her new job is more than an hour from where she was living. But she did not have time to find an apartment, so she is sleeping on a friend's couch until she can find a place of her own.
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FAITH LAPIDUS: Thirty-nine-year-old Norm Elrod of Queens, New York, has been laid off from jobs four times in the past ten years. The last job he lost was with an online marketing agency. He left in two thousand eight. After that, he says, he set out to find a way to make himself a better job candidate. He used online resources to create a website and teach himself new skills in the process.
NORM ELROD: "That's how my website came about. I built that and ran it and essentially trained myself, or re-trained myself, taught myself new skills that allowed me to get the job I have now."
DOUG JOHNSON: Norm Elrod created a blog called Jobless and Less: The Blog for the Employmentally Challenged.
NORM ELROD: "I wrote about the one thing I seemed to know, which was at that point being unemployed. [Laughs]"
FAITH LAPIDUS: Jessie found her job by answering an online job posting. But Norm says he had no success applying for jobs on the Internet.
NORM ELROD: "You send your resume out and it goes into a void and one person will get in touch with you for every one hundred to two hundred resumes you send out. And it's not because you're not qualified. It's because they get so many, and oftentimes they're looking for just a certain thing and there's no way to know what that is."
His advice to people looking for a job is to learn new skills and meet new people.
NORM ELROD: "It's very easy to sit at home and send out your resume by clicking buttons on your computer at your dining room table and feel like maybe you're being productive. But it's much harder to actually get out there and meet the people who may know things or can point you towards things or make that face to face contact. I feel like that is where any job seeker is going to get more traction."
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His wife's full-time job helped the couple pay their bills. They also used savings, payments from state unemployment insurance and money from projects he worked on while job hunting.
It was nearly three years until a contact he met through one of those projects led him to his current job. Norm Elrod works full time creating content for the website of a major media company.
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DOUG JOHNSON: The Great Recession was the worst downturn since the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties. Don Peck says the long-term unemployment that many workers have experienced can have lasting effects, and not just on them.
DON PECK: "When you have these long periods of unemployment, they can really leave pretty big scars on people, families and communities that are not lost even once the recession is over. When men, in particular, struggle economically, or when they don't have jobs, women simply don't marry them, but they do have children with them. And that creates often the sort of unstable family environment in which children really struggle."
FAITH LAPIDUS: What would he do about the employment problems in the United States?
DON PECK: "One of the main messages of my book 'Pinched' is we can recover from this period faster with concerted public action."
In the short term, he thinks the government should invest more in public works to create jobs in manufacturing and construction.
DON PECK: "But I think in the longer term we also need to really work to build new skills and create more pathways into the middle class for high school students who might not be going to college.
"That sense of possibility and that concrete sense of how one can move forward in life if one isn't going to a four year college to some extent has been lost in the U.S. over the past twenty or thirty years. One of the things we need to do is rebuild that and give young people an understanding of the ways in which they can build skills and build real careers."
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DOUG JOHNSON: Our program was written and produced by Brianna Blake. I'm Doug Johnson.
FAITH LAPIDUS: And I'm Faith Lapidus. You can read and listen to our programs and comment on them at 51voa.com. Join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.




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British Lawmakers Recall James Murdoch
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904353504576568323746962838.html?mod=WSJASIA_hpp_MIDDLEThirdNews


LONDON—A U.K. parliamentary panel probing phone hacking at News Corp.'s recently closed News of the World tabloid has recalled James Murdoch as it seeks an explanation for conflicting evidence provided by the deputy chief operating officer and two of his former executives.
The Culture, Media and Sport committee said Tuesday it also is recalling Les Hinton, the one-time head of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit who later served as chief executive of the company's Dow Jones & Co. unit before resigning in July amid the phone-hacking scandal.
The committee said Tuesday that it would like to hear further evidence from Mr. Murdoch, News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer. He had appeared in early July, alongside his father, Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., who has called the scandal a "major black eye" for the company.
Following the younger Mr. Murdoch's appearance, two former executives challenged his testimony. News of the World's former editor, Colin Myler, and its former top lawyer, Tom Crone told the committee earlier this month that they informed James Murdoch in early 2008 of a crucial email that suggested phone hacking at the News of the World went beyond a single reporter, contradicting Mr. Murdoch's July testimony.
Messrs. Myler and Crone testified that they believed Mr. Murdoch understood the significance of the email evidence, which was related to a civil lawsuit. But lawmakers struggled to get a clear answer about how explicitly the two men spelled out the implication of more-widespread phone-hacking to Mr. Murdoch, who at the time was head of News Corp.'s Europe and Asia operations.
Mr. Murdoch has said that he stands by his testimony about the 2008 meeting with Messrs. Myler and Crone, which he said focused on why the company should settle a privacy-related lawsuit with a former soccer player. But he said they didn't show him the email or tell him that the wrongdoing extended beyond a former News of the World royals correspondent and a private investigator on the paper's payroll who went to jail in 2007 for phone hacking.
"James Murdoch is happy to appear in front of the committee again to answer any further questions that members might have," a News Corp. spokeswoman said Tuesday. She said the company awaited details of the request.
John Whittingdale, the Conservative member of Parliament who chairs the committee, in an interview said that the panel is likely going to focus its questions on the differing accounts of the meeting between James Murdoch and the two former executives, as well as the large payment approved by Mr. Murdoch to settle the former soccer player's suit. Regarding Mr. Hinton, Mr. Whittingdale said questioning will likely focus on payments he approved to the former royals correspondent who went to jail.
A date for the hearings hasn't yet been set, but is expected to be some time in October. Mr. Hinton didn't respond to a request for comment.
The saga stems from the 2007 sentencing of Clive Goodman, the News of the World's former royals correspondent, and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire after pleading guilty to illegally intercepting voice mails. News Corp. long contended the hacking was limited to those two.
The panel, which is focused on whether it has been misled by News Corp. executives in the past, said it also is recalling Mr. Hinton, chief executive of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit News International until December 2007. Mr. Hinton was among executives copied on a letter sent in March 2007 by Mr. Goodman as part of unfair-dismissal proceedings, in which Mr. Goodman said that other members of staff were involved in phone hacking and that the practice was widely discussed.
Four days after the March 2007 letter was sent, Mr. Hinton told the parliamentary committee that he believed Mr. Goodman was the only person at the paper who knew about the illegal conduct, but that the investigation continued. During testimony two years later, Mr. Hinton said: "There was never firm evidence provided or suspicion provided that I am aware of that implicated anybody else other than Clive within the staff of the News of the World."
In a letter to the committee last month, Mr. Hinton appears to acknowledge he saw Mr. Goodman's letter at the time. He added that he still stands by his 2009 testimony to the committee and that "no evidence was provided to me" that phone hacking was more widespread. Mr. Hinton later became head of News Corp.'s Dow Jones & Co., which publishes The Wall Street Journal; he resigned from the company in July.
Mr. Hinton also told the panel in 2009 that "we took every measure we could" to address what had happened in relation to phone hacking and try to discover any other misconduct.
Recent written and oral evidence from former executives and outside law firms show that phone-hacking related reviews at the time were limited.
The committee also said Tuesday it is calling law firm Farrer & Co., which has represented a subsidiary of News International in various phone-hacking related civil litigation claims, as well as Mark Lewis, a lawyer representing several of those claimants.
Mr. Lewis said Tuesday that he hadn't yet received a formal invitation from the committee but said he agreed to attend if requested. Farrer & Co. confirmed it had received an invitation, but declined to comment further.
As part of the civil litigation, a U.K. High Court judge Tuesday added the mother of a man killed in the 2005 London terrorist bombings to a slate of five "test cases" against the News of the World scheduled to be heard early next year. Sheila Henry, the mother of Christian Small, is suing the tabloid because she believes messages she left for her son were hacked by the News of the World, according to Mr. Lewis, who is representing Ms. Henry. Scotland Yard has contacted Ms. Henry to inform her that her son's phone may have been targeted by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, Mr. Lewis said.
News International in a statement said: "We take very seriously the matters raised in court this morning and we are committed to working with civil claimants to resolve their cases." The company added that it continues to co-operate with an ongoing criminal probe by U.K. police. "We are eager to assist it in any way possible to ensure that those responsible for criminal acts are brought to justice," the company said.

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只知道是关于phone hacking,Mudoph的，（人名还拼错了）。反正就是Commitee和parliament在审查之类的，好多evidence, 好多人名~~
抓抓，我被虐得非常彻底啊~~


再给bat加油，还是回去被我的图虐吧！

superbat28

嗯，我说过我考前早上会来的。过过脑子，熟悉熟悉英文~~~
我要过去啦~~昨晚，太兴奋了0 0，睡半个就醒，折腾到两点多。。。啊啊啊啊~~~~不过状态还可以~~

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抓抓sandra

嗯，我说过我考前早上会来的。过过脑子，熟悉熟悉英文~~~
我要过去啦~~昨晚，太兴奋了0 0，睡半个就醒，折腾到两点多。。。啊啊啊啊~~~~不过状态还可以~~

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-- by 会员 superbat28 (2011/9/14 7:48:42)

事实证明考前睡不好是考得好的预兆!
我考前那天晚上12点半躺下也是好久好久没睡着,早晨天没亮就醒来了在床上脑子里头各种题目~啊哈~
再次cong~~bat快来指导我和daisy T啊~

kidvii

总算占了个位。

哈哈。KID也给Bat道个喜！

Crystaljoy

Bat 是不是要凯旋啦？




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越障受伤，老走神



先去吃饭吧

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哎呀 在抓签名看到bat的喜讯太激动了 速度没看进去什么 囧

daisyの小夢想

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1. Recall James and Hinton
2. the contradiction between James' testmony and the claim of the other two.
M and C claim that they have informed the message of phone-hacking by a employee to James. But James have claimed that he only knowed the other thing in the meeting with M and C and didn't know anything about phone-hacking in 2008.
Both his lawer and company has sticked to what James stands.
3. the contradiction between the first and second claim of Hinton
H said the only other person involved in the meeting was G. But latter, he claimed that the only other person involved in the meeting was C. Then he maintained his latter claim.
The topic is around the issue on the agreement of the payment of the former royals correspondent .
4. the case of a victim in London terrorist bombings sued for justice
And the company says they are willing to assist to make the best outcome.