A Profile of Vancouver’s Street Youth
Compiled by Covenant House from On the Streets, Youth in Vancouver
prepared by Bill McCarthy for the BC Ministry of Social Services Global Information
* over 10,500 (now 15,000) runaways reported in BC annually
* 500-1000 youth on the streets on any given night through out the year
Family Backgrounds
* 70% of youth reported abusive family situations
* 30% of youth reported what we would consider normal family situations
Geographic Origins of Vancouver’s Street Youth
* 37% are from the Greater Vancouver region
* 25% are from elsewhere in BC
* 38% are from elsewhere in Canada
Gender
* 58% of Vancouver’s street youth are male
* 42% of Vancouver’s street youth are female
Do not wait. Do something.
Covenant House Vancouver Web site.
Online Donation now

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I read Parents Aren’t Worried About Facebook Privacy, Partly Because They Don’t Understand It
As a parent, you should know more than your kid about the privacy issues. Tell them how to protect themselves.
I don not think any kids below 13 years old can have a BBS account, Facebook account or any other social network user account. They may have email account, a blog.
Google it, you will find more related articles.

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HTTPS encryption keeps your mail secure as it travels between your web browser and Gmail servers, so someone sharing your favorite coffee shop’s public wifi can’t maliciously read it. Banks and credit card companies use this same protocol to keep your online accounts safe. To protect your Gmail account, we’ve turned on the option to “always use HTTPS” for everyone. This added layer of security can make Gmail slower, so if you don’t use unencrypted wireless connections, you can choose to disable this option in your account Settings. Even if you change this setting, Gmail will always encrypt the login page to protect your password.

It is an option, but I STRONGLY suggest you to use HTTPS connection.

To enable this feature in Gmail:
1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
3. Set ‘Browser Connection’ to ‘Always use https.’
4. Click Save Changes.
5. Manually change the URL to https://mail.google.com to start accessing Gmail via HTTPS.
It can reduce the risk of your Gmail account.

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The polls are open and British Columbians are on their way to school gyms and church basements across the province to pick their next government. Polling stations will be open on Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific Time and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Mountain Time zone. via CBC.ca

Some candidates’ party shown below:
B.C. Liberals
NDP
Greens
B.C. Conservatives

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This is an urban riding, located east of Vancouver on the southern shore of Burrard Inlet. It contains that part of Burnaby bounded in the east, north and west by the city limits and on the south by the Kingsway.
According to the 2006 census, more than 47 per cent of this riding’s residents are immigrants. About 30 per cent are of Chinese origin.
Burnaby-Douglas has a diverse economy, which includes retail trade, manufacturing and other services. Simon Fraser University is here. Residents are well-educated – almost 30 per cent over age 25 have a university certificate or degree. The average family income is $78,973 and the unemployment rate is 6.7 per cent.
This riding was created in 1996, drawing three-quarters of its population from the old Burnaby-Kingsway riding. In 2004, it retained 85 per cent of its population and added about 7,500 people from Vancouver South-Burnaby.
Population: 112,119 (2006 census; an increase of 3.0% since 2001)

Political History
The 2006 election was a virtual repeat of 2004: New Democrat Bill Siksay defeated Liberal Bill Cunningham. In 2004, Siksay edged Cunningham when he captured just two per cent more of the vote; in 2006, the margin increased to 2.6 per cent.
For the previous 25 years, voters in Burnaby-Kingsway and Burnaby-Douglas gave their support to New Democrat Svend Robinson. However, Robinson stepped down in April 2004, citing severe stress after confessing to stealing a ring at a public jewelry sale.
Robinson’s 2000 win was no landslide: He held off the Canadian Alliance’s Alan McDonnell by fewer than 2,000 votes. In the quarter-century before Robinson, the NDP and its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, carried all but two elections here.
No matter which party you vote, go to vote for Canada.

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I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
~Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963, Washington, DC
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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Now from today I will put this Buy me a cup of Starbucks on each post of David Yin’s Blog.
Let everyone has a chance to say thank you to me. 🙂

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Here is the news link. And Xinhua news.

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How do you think about it?
So, can you imagine I will give the full right of posting to my 7 years old daughter?
Take care your life. Protect your privacy.
Update: The video clips were gone from Youtube.

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There are over 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.
A grand total of over 100,000 titles is available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources.
If you don’t live in the United States, please check the copyright laws of your country before downloading or redistributing a book.

You can download it into your palm or smartphone to read it anywhere.
Most of them are located in Public Domain. So free to copy.
There are some languages with more than 50 books: Chinese Dutch English Finnish French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Tagalog
On this site, you will find some audio book which are human read.
Ok, There is another site provide audio book to listen.
Librivox
Go there to download some and have fun when reading and listening.

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You want to exchange the link to me. So you should prepare your link to my Blog in your site before send your request. If I review your site and feel comfortable to link back to you, I will inform you. If I don’t, I will also let you know.

If you don’t want to link to me first, do not leave similar comment in my blog.
It is just waste your time.

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