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There’s good news for all the e-bookworms out there. The New York Public Library released an app today that allows anyone with a library card (and an iOS or Android phone) to “borrow” any of the 300,000 e-books in the collection.

It’s called SimplyE and will allow you to read books on your phone, but beware, there might be a wait list for some popular titles, including the Game of Thrones series. (Check out the Harry Potter books, quick!) The online collection will continue to grow, and there are Kindle and web browser versions in development. But, for now, take a break from Pokemon Go and read to your digital heart’s content.

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/you-can-now-download-over-300-000-books-from-the-nypl-for-free-071216

If you think learning Chinese is hard now, how about mastering English pronunciation via Chinese characters in the mid-19th century?

Last week, a Chinese collector living in Chengdu showed off an old textbook that was apparently used to teach Chinese people to speak English during the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911). A note printed on the book reads, “Emperor Xianfeng’s 10th year of reign,” which would be 1860, Chengdu Business Daily reported.

The book contains helpful phrases such as, “You want cheap go buy other man,” “Tomorrow I give you answer” and “Very much this silk.”

Along with words of wisdom like, “Don’t stop half way and fail” and “Don’t answer at random.”

Above the English phrase is its meaning written in Chinese characters, meanwhile below the phrase is a series of nonsense characters that were apparently meant to help students phonetically pronounce the words above in English.

Obviously, China has come a long in way in 150 years. Earlier this summer, the city of Hangzhou published a pronunciation guide ahead of the G20 summit to help allow residents to greet foreign visitors. The “English made easy” booklet included 100 English phrases along with Chinese words accompanying each sentence which attempted to imitate the sound of the original English.

For instance, “Welcome to Hangzhou” became “wai-kan-mu tu Hang Zhou” and “Hangzhou, the most beautiful city in China” became “Hangzhou, mou-si-te, bu-you-te-fu si-ti yin qian-a.)

http://shanghaiist.com/2016/11/08/qing_dynasty_english_book.php

Though finding Atlantis may still be a pipe dream, these lost sunken cities of the ancient world, long submerged in the depths of their surrounding oceans, provide enough mystery and wonder to whet your imaginations….. For more, please visit the following link:

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/sunken-cities?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fbhistory

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China’s leaders, including President Xi Jinping. He has paid multiple visits to the country to meet its top internet executives. He has made an effort to learn Mandarin.

Inside Facebook, the work to enter China runs far deeper.

The social network has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas, according to three current and former Facebook employees, who asked for anonymity because the tool is confidential. The feature was created to help Facebook get into China, a market where the social network has been blocked, these people said. Mr. Zuckerberg has supported and defended the effort, the people added.

For more, visit this NY Times link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-censorship-tool-china.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

近日，纽约市政府正式宣布启动ActionNYC项目，该项目将为市民提供免费的移民法律服务，市府已经投入了790万美元到这个项目中。根据网站介绍，ActionNYC提供的免费法律服务包括入籍、申请或更新绿卡、申请幼年入境暂缓递解（DACA，俗称“达卡”），咨询扩大版“达卡”或者公民绿卡父母暂缓递解（DAPA）等。ActionNYC的社区专员还提供移民申请、市民卡等方面的服务。关于ActionNYC的更多详情，可以登录网站查看：nyc.gov/ActionNYC。

看详细报道，请点击这个链接：http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/16/2/26/n4648823.htm

The moment a groom asked the 6-year-old child of his bride to be his daughter for life at their wedding has gone viral (video below).

Diogo Bolant, 37, surprised the young girl, named Isadora, at the wedding with her very own ring to bind them together, the Daily Mail reports.

The moment was captured on video and shared to Facebook. It has been viewed more than nine million times in just one week.

“I want to ask you something,” Diogo says to Isadora during the wedding ceremony in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo. “Do you agree to be my daughter forever?”

Of course the little girl said yes without hesitation.

For more and the video, visit this link: http://www.ntd.tv/2016/11/29/groom-suddenly-knelt-fiancees-6-year-old-daughter-happens-next-brought-tears/

加拿大多倫多大學一項研究發現，大陸科網公司騰訊的即時通訊 App微信（WeChat），針對大陸用戶及海外用戶，採用不同的審查準則，而大陸用戶身處海外時，審查會更加嚴格。

多倫多大學 Citizen Lab近日發表研究〈一App兩制：微信在中國與境外採用不同審查機制〉（One App, Two Systems: How WeChat uses one censorship policy in China and another internationally）

研究指出，對於以大陸電話號碼註冊的用戶，微信會對其進行敏感字審查，即使該用戶之後身處海外，或改用海外電話號碼，審查仍會繼續。而使用大陸以外地區，如香港、美國等地號碼註冊的用戶，則不會受到審查。

研究亦指，過往，用戶在發言被屏蔽後，會收到訊息發送失敗的通知，但這項設定已悄然消失，用戶的發言若被屏敝，亦不會知道自己的發言事實上並無發出。（详情请点击下面链接）

http://thestandnews.com/politics/%E5%A4%9A%E5%80%AB%E5%A4%9A%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%B8%E7%99%BC%E7%8F%BE-%E5%8D%B3%E4%BD%BF%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B6%E8%BA%AB%E8%99%95%E6%B5%B7%E5%A4%96-%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E4%BB%8D%E6%9C%83%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB%E5%AF%A9%E6%9F%A5%E7%99%BC%E8%A8%80/

肠胃不好的人，平日饮食要非常小心，以下4种水果虽然美味，但是吃多了却很伤胃，不可不慎。

4种水果多吃伤胃 1、柿子…. (请点击链接看内容)

http://www.secretchina.com/news/gb/2016/11/27/804394.html.%E7%89%A2%E8%AE%B0%EF%BC%9A%E8%BF%99%E5%87%A0%E7%A7%8D%E8%94%AC%E6%9E%9C%E5%85%BB%E8%83%83%E6%88%96%E4%BC%A4%E8%83%83%E9%95%BF%E7%9F%A5%E8%AF%86%E4%BA%86(%E7%BB%84%E5%9B%BE).html