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Listen to the story Download (623 K mp3) What's the furthest you have ever cycled? Perhaps you cycle to school or to work, or maybe at most a short cycling trip with friends? How would you feel about spending months on the road travelling solo from the UK to China, by bike? For British cyclist Pete Jones, camping rough and cycling long distances through inhospitable terrain are second nature. Mr Jones is currently undertaking a mammoth trip across the Eurasian continent from Britain to China. Pete Jones is no stranger to China. But he says many people there are puzzled by his passion for cycling, asking why he would choose to cycle when he can afford a car. Indeed, while there are an estimated 400 million bicycles in China, where it has long been the preferred form of transport, rapid economic growth has fuelled an explosive expansion in car ownership. Edward Genochio, another British cyclist who completed a 41,000km trip to China and back, said one of his aims was to "promote cycling as a safe, sustainable and environmentally benign means of getting about". In the UK, the last few years have seen a rise in the number of people choosing two wheels over four, with some estimates saying the number of people cycling to work has almost doubled in the last five years. Politicians also see cycling as a way to boost their eco-credentials, with people such as London mayor Boris Johnson often riding to work under his own steam. But we may have to wait some time before we see him emulating Pete Jones in attempting to cycle all the way to China! Vocabulary trip a short journey (usually going to a place and then coming back) solo on his own, without anyone else camping rough spending nights in a tent in difficult conditions inhospitable terrain ground/a piece of land that is difficult to cross second nature integral part of his character mammoth very long and very difficult puzzled slightly surprised/baffled rapid economic growth when the production and consumption of goods and services becomes larger very quickly fuelled become the reason for explosive expansion extremely quick growth car ownership here, the number of people who have cars sustainable that causes little or no damage to the environment (and so can continue for a long time) environmentally benign causing little or no damage to nature/the environment boost their eco-credentials show people that they care about the environment under his own steam if you do something under your own steam, you do it without help emulating copying (someone else's achievements)

How to download Flash, FLV and media files using Firefox or IE?

I got info from LabNol, this maybe usefull for u guys, ....

Download and save Shockwave Flash swf files from the web browser to your hard disk using Firefox or Internet Explorer.

There's a good chance that the animation or cartoon game you want to download was created using Flash. Use these tips for downloading Flash files from the Internet to your hard drive. You save all Flash animations from web pages, including Flash websites, Flash game, Flash Animations, Flash Tutorials, Flash Movie Trailers, Flash Advertisements, or what ever Flash files you find in the web.

Shockwave Games, Website elements, Screencasts (software demos) created in Macromedia Flash (swf) always fascinate me. I generally like to save these flash files embedded in webpages to my hard-drive for offline viewing.

But saving flash animations from websites is not so easy. Macromedia Flash player context menu has no option to download or save the Flash movie from the web browser. The right-click context menu of most browsers won't work on Flash objects. So I will share some techniques (work-arounds) to save flash files from Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer (IE), Opera or MyIE2 web browsers.

1. Saving Flash files from Firefox

Firefox for Newbies
a. Click Tools - Page Info
b. Click the Media Tab on the Page Info Windows
c. The media tab has a complete list (with preview) of Images, CSS Files and Shockwave Flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while rendering (loading) the page.
d. Scroll down the list and locate the swf file.
e. Click the "Save As" button. Select some directory on your hard drive and save the file (No need for a third-party plug-in)

Firefox for Geeks and Power Users
a. Type about:blank in the Firefox address bar
b. Now click List cache entries or directly type about:cache?device=disk (Disk cache device)
c. Press Ctrl+F and try to location the flash file by typing some part of website URL or the flash file name or just .swf. After some hit and trial, you should be able to locate the swf file URL
d. Click the SWF URL to open the Cache Entry Information page. Right click on the link and choose "Save link as"

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Bagaimana cara belajar bahasa inggris yang tepat???

by cherrryb...

Jawaban Terbaik - Dipilih oleh Suara Terbanyak

Untuk belajar bahasa asing yg bagus, kita harus rajin baca, denger, dan ngomong. Intinya harus rajin latihan.

1. Ambil kursus yg diajarin sama Native-speakers.
2. Rajin baca buku2 berbahasa inggris
3. Cari arti dari lagu2 berbahasa inggris yg suka kamu dengar. Biasanya kalo dari lagu2 gitu, kosakata2 inggris-nya bisa lbh lengket di kepala.
4. Latihan nulis. Contohnya kalo nulis daftar belanjaan, buku harian, dll, coba pake bahasa Inggris.
5. Nonton film2 berbahasa inggris, dan coba ikutin gimana cara mereka ngomong.
6. Harus berani ngomong. Gak usah malu sama orang2 yg suka kritik. Belom tentu inggris mereka bagus kok.
7. Tips tambahan: ikutan yahoo answer-nya Amrik, Inggris atau Singapur.

Semoga sukses!

Joke > Baseball

Two old guys, Abe and Sol, are sitting on a park bench feeding
pigeons and talking about baseball, like they do every day.
Abe turns to Sol and says, "Do you think there's baseball in heaven?"

Sol thinks about it for a minute and replies, "I dunno.
But let's make a deal: if I die first, I'll come back and
tell you if there's baseball in heaven, and if you die first,
you do the same."

They shake on it and sadly, a few months later,
poor Abe passes on. One day soon afterward, Sol is sitting there
feeding the pigeons by himself when he hears a voice whisper, "Sol... Sol..."

Sol responds, "Abe! Is that you?"

"Yes it is, Sol," whispers Abe's ghost.

Sol, still amazed, asks, "So, is there baseball in heaven?"

"Well," says Abe, "I've got good news and bad news."

"Gimme the good news first," says Sol.

Abe says, "Well... there is baseball in heaven."

Sol says, "That's great! What news could be bad enough to ruin that!?"

Abe sighs and whispers, "You're pitching on Friday."

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