A dysfunctional family, a bullying teacher, tawdry business deals, a ne’er-do-well sibling, and the glorification of cheap television - the stuff of which a colorful, #funny, lively, musical is based - right? Ironically it works thanks mainly to a smart, savvy, articulate, charming main character - MATILDA and superb stage production. Like Roald Dahl’s off-the-wall novel on which it is based, the #musical appalls and charms in equal measure. How do they do that?
Matilda The Musical Singapore
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tawdry 在 Mordeth13 Facebook 的精選貼文
If you use WhatsApp.....you shouldn't. I use LINE. It's better in most every way. Plus someone doesn't need your phone number for you to add them. And it can run on your PC as well as your phone.
"WhatsApp last week failed almost EVERY criteria in a scathing report into online privacy.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation – dubbed EFF – ranked the biggest technology companies in the world, based on how transparent and protective they are of their users' data.
Both WhatsApp and LINE offer voice and video chats for free with in-app contacts around the world
WhatsApp was criticised in almost EVERY aspect in the damming report.
But is there an alternative service which offers the same cross-platform messaging – but with better privacy settings? Well, maybe.
LINE messenger is hugely successful in Asia and currently boasts more than 600 million active mobile users – some 200 million fewer than rival WhatsApp.
The app – which has became Japan's largest social network – is available across all major mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Firefox OS and Nokia feature phones.
LINE also boasts fully-featured desktops apps for Windows 7, Windows 8 and OS X.
WhatApp has been criticised for its online privacy policy and data usageGOOGLE PLAY
WhatApp has been criticised for its online privacy policy and data usage
Although both WhatsApp and LINE sport the ability to send text messages, photos, videos and voice calls over mobile data and wifi connections, LINE does have one major advantage.
The Japanese app is free of charge. WhatsApp currently operates on a subscription plan of 69p per year – although the Facebook-owned app does offer one-year for free.
Another advantage LINE holds over WhatsApp is its broader feature set.
The hugely popular app allows users to transfer payments to contacts from within the app – instead of WhatsApp, which only allows users to send a nagging text message.
LINE also has a Hidden Chats function, which keeps private or tawdry conversation private by allowing users to set a self-destruction timer on their texts, pictures and files.
Both WhatsApp and LINE offer voice and video chats for free with in-app contacts around the world.
However – WhatsApp was recently criticised for draining huge amounts of mobile data for voice calls in comparison to rival services."
https://line.me/en-US/download
tawdry 在 華人民主書院 New School for Democracy Facebook 的最讚貼文
中國軍演恫嚇台灣 美眾議員:很低俗
中國18日起在台灣海峽進行射擊訓練,美國聯邦眾議員約霍表示,中國以此恫嚇台灣、逼迫台灣屈服的企圖很低俗,如果想藉此警告美國,美國不予理會。
美國眾議院外交委員會亞太小組今天舉行「強化美台關係」聽證會,美國聯邦眾議院外交委員會亞太小組主席約霍(Ted Yoho)在會後接受媒體訪問,被問及外界分析中國這次軍演的目的在恫嚇台灣,也藉此警告台美日漸密切的關係時,做上述表示。
約霍指出,中國此舉試圖恫嚇台灣,讓台灣屈服,這很低俗(It’s a cheap thing to do. It’s tawdry)。至於這是否也是對美國發出警告?約霍認為,美國不予理會。
今天的聽證會關於台灣現狀內涵也有討論。約霍指出,多數台灣人希望維持現狀,但現狀已經有所改變。中國的崛起為區域帶來威脅,對台灣民主帶來威脅。他認為美台應該一起找出解決之道,為台灣民眾提供安全感,維持民主與經濟自由,並持續為國際做出貢獻。
2049計畫協會執行主任石明凱(Mark Stokes)指出,美國應考慮在現有的一中政策框架下擴大與台灣的互動,並鼓勵北京在沒有先決條件的前提下,與台灣接觸,放棄使用武力。
他也建議川普政府成立政策工作小組,評估與台灣實現正常、穩定與具建設性的長期關係,並依據台灣關係法與台灣旅行法,鼓勵美台高階官員定期、制度性接觸。
紐約霍夫斯特拉大學(Hofstra University)國際法教授古舉倫(Julian Ku)則指出,中國不斷在國際打壓台灣外交空間,阻止台灣參與世界衛生大會(WHA)、國際民航組織(ICAO)與國際刑警組織(INTERPOL)。
他說,儘管美國國會多次通過決議案支持台灣參與國際組織,但美國行政部門卻未扮演具效率的角色。建議美國政府履行台灣關係法,支持台灣面對非軍事和軍事形式的脅迫。
民主黨眾議員薛曼(Brad Sherman)則提及台灣旅行法通過後,美國國會邀請總統蔡英文到國會演說是否可能的問題。顧問公司BowerGroupAsia資深主任馬翊庭(Tiffany Ma)認為,這將是美台關係的一大進展,蔡總統對美國有豐富了解,也曾多次到華府訪問,相信她的到訪會受到許多朋友的歡迎。
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