2008.02.28
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Sunday, March 02, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
天下無不散的水（续）
温馨提示：请勿对号入座。
阿虎以为我在投诉他（见http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_3340.html 的第七点），其实我是听不到他说的，原来他是第二源头（我听到的最少是第三源头），自投罗网。
话说回来，我是针对事，并非针对人... :)
Believe it or not... :)
2008.02.25
阿虎以为我在投诉他（见http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_3340.html 的第七点），其实我是听不到他说的，原来他是第二源头（我听到的最少是第三源头），自投罗网。
话说回来，我是针对事，并非针对人... :)
Believe it or not... :)
2008.02.25
贪小便宜
春节前在超市看到餐酒的推广，买满6支后照价打8折，结果买了6支澳大利亚红酒（现在在喝第二支）。
今天听到财神爷的明年预算，就情不自禁地说 s h _ t。
Well... 可能早有预谋？
但细心想一想，我估计以大型超市的谈判和议价能力，他们应该不永为了去货而促销，应该与 insider info 无关吧。
话说会来，还是真的猪了...
干杯！
今天听到财神爷的明年预算，就情不自禁地说 s h _ t。
Well... 可能早有预谋？
但细心想一想，我估计以大型超市的谈判和议价能力，他们应该不永为了去货而促销，应该与 insider info 无关吧。
话说会来，还是真的猪了...
干杯！
Tiring (cont'd)
average of 3 hours of sleep in the past few nights...
just too old to work too hard... :)
just too old to work too hard... :)
Tiring...
About to finish a heavy week...
and yet the next week will probably be heavier...
Dog's life?
and yet the next week will probably be heavier...
Dog's life?
Protege
温馨提示：我实在不能时常在身边照顾大家，希望各位学会好好照顾自己。
最近开始传功给尊贵的 MM，当中包括 use of english，例如
什么是 CLM?
sense of achievement 和 achievement 的分别?
又例如：
single source of data but N views for M stakeholders
Keep up the good work...
(i mean myself)
最近开始传功给尊贵的 MM，当中包括 use of english，例如
什么是 CLM?
sense of achievement 和 achievement 的分别?
又例如：
single source of data but N views for M stakeholders
Keep up the good work...
(i mean myself)
2008.02.29
A special party
with special people
scattering around the world
who are pulled together by apparently unknown reason
and yet it's interesting to meet the long unmet
as well as to uncover the covered
Everybody,
DO ENJOY!
But, I am sick...
當年今日
2003.02.28 星期五
香港
晚上与 TC 在铜锣湾花生店喝酒。
2004.02.28 星期六
北京
與上海同事在沸腾鱼乡共進晚餐。
無獨有偶，我今天早上見面的客戶，正是他當天在北京的客戶的主要股東。
Small world... right?
香港
晚上与 TC 在铜锣湾花生店喝酒。
2004.02.28 星期六
北京
與上海同事在沸腾鱼乡共進晚餐。
無獨有偶，我今天早上見面的客戶，正是他當天在北京的客戶的主要股東。
Small world... right?
Olympics highlight Beijing water woes
When west meets east...
_____________________________________
Olympics highlight Beijing water woes
Source: Yahoo!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_re_as/oly_beijing_water_woes
By HENRY SANDERSON, Associated Press Writer
Wed Feb 27, 1:28 PM ET
BEIJING - When 16,000 athletes and officials show up this summer, they will be able to turn the taps and get drinkable water — something few Beijing residents ever have enjoyed.
But to keep those taps flowing for the Olympics, the city is draining surrounding regions, depriving poor farmers of water.
Though the Chinese capital's filthy air makes headlines, water may be its most desperate environmental challenge. Explosive growth combined with a persistent drought mean the city of 17 million people is fast running out of water.
Meanwhile, rainfall has been below average since 1999. The result: Water resources per person are 1/30th of the world average, lower even than Israel.
"To ensure the supply for a short period of time shouldn't be a problem, but to keep the long-term sustainable use of resources is a challenge," said Ma Jun, an environmentalist who has written about China's water issues.
In an attempt to ease the water woes, China has turned to a grand engineering feat. Workers are digging up the countryside south of Beijing for a canal that will bring water from China's longest river, the Yangtze, and its tributaries to the arid north by 2010.
The first part of the project is being accelerated to meet anticipated demand from Olympic visitors. By April, the canal is to begin bringing 80 billion gallons a year — an amount equal to the annual water use of Tucson, Ariz. — from four reservoirs in nearby Hebei province.
"I think one of the things the Olympics is showing is it's desperation time and Beijing has the power," said James Nickum, an expert on Chinese water policy issues at Tokyo Jogakkan College in Japan.
In mountainous Chicheng county, about 70 miles northwest of Beijing, dried-out corn stalks stick out of the windblown earth. Farmers limit themselves to two buckets of water a day from icy wells. They are prohibited from tapping what's left in the local reservoir.
The farmers have been ordered to grow only corn, which requires less water but also fetches a lower price than rice or vegetables.
The government offered about $30 in compensation, but farmers say not everyone received it. Too poor to buy coal, they carry discarded corn stalks home on their backs for fuel to heat their homes.
"For two years we've haven't used water for rice, because it's been given to Beijing," said Yu Zhongxin, 56, of Ciyingzi, a village of small houses deep in the mountains by the Hei river, which feeds Beijing's main reservoir.
"But the individual interest submits to the state interests," he said. "I have no objection. I support it for the success of the 2008 Olympics. China must win!"
Sitting on the northeast edge of the arid north China plain, near no major river and 90 miles from the sea, Beijing has had water problems for more than a millennium. Sui dynasty emperors built one of the world's longest canals in the seventh century to bring rice from the fertile south to the capital.
In recent decades, rapid development, intensive agriculture and wealthier lifestyles have both drawn down and polluted the city's water supply.
"Very few people used toilets in the 1950s, but right now everyone uses toilets, uses showers, uses swimming pools, and fancy buildings use lots of water," said Dai Qing, a former journalist who has become one of China's most prominent environmental campaigners.
The last decade has seen the construction of water-guzzling projects across the city from landscaped gardens and artificial lakes to golf courses and parks, many spurred by the Olympics.
"We don't have water but no one mentions it, all the policy makers never mention that, just develop, develop," Dai said.
The city has spent around $3 billion since it won the Olympic bid in 2001. It has built wastewater treatment plants, moved water-intensive industries out of the city and cut down on pesticide and water use by farms. Near its main reservoir, the Miyun, it has closed polluting factories and relocated 15,000 residents to reduce household pollution.
Nearly all Olympic venues and the Olympic Village will use treated wastewater for heating systems and toilets. Recycled wastewater also will irrigate the Olympic Park, which will include a wooded area and an artificial lake.
But the rowing venue, built on the dried-out Chaobai river bed in Beijing's Shunyi district, will use precious water from the Miyun reservoir. Further, an eight-mile-long underground tunnel will divert water from the Wenyu River to keep the landscape green.
Rapid urban development dried out the Chaobai nine years ago. The groundwater in Shunyi dropped at twice the rate of the rest of Beijing from 2006 to 2007, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.
"From the beginning I was against the Olympics," Dai said. "There is not enough for water for us to hold Olympic Games, but they didn't listen."
Beijing's groundwater, which has fallen 76 feet in the last 50 years, is overexploited, experts warn. And construction has paved over the city, so rain drains away instead of soaking through the earth to replenish the groundwater.
A polluted and damaged ecosystem in turn creates less rain, so more water is needed to irrigate city parks and other greenery, said Wu Jisong, a senior adviser to the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee and former director general of the Department of Water Resources.
Similarly, more recycled wastewater is now needed to feed Beijing's artificial lakes, said John Pan, a director at the Beijing Water Authority.
"We cannot blame nature," he said at a recent conference in Beijing. "We must realize that it is the human activity and destruction that has briefly affected the water circulation so we should find effective ways to solve the problem."
Easier said than done in a developing country focused on economic growth. But time appears to be running out.
Waste, fertilizer and pesticides so contaminated one of Beijing's two main reservoirs, that the city stopped using it for residential water or agriculture in 1997. The other reservoir, the Miyun, is down to one-third the water it had 10 years ago, despite government efforts to cut water use by farms and move industry out of the area.
A local farmer, Zhao Fuyin, said the water once lapped at the bases of the trees around the reservoir.
"It has been a government priority to preserve this area," said Zhao as he watched a couple of donkeys amble along the reservoir's dry slopes. "But the reservoir is just not enough."
_____________________________________
Olympics highlight Beijing water woes
Source: Yahoo!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_re_as/oly_beijing_water_woes
By HENRY SANDERSON, Associated Press Writer
Wed Feb 27, 1:28 PM ET
BEIJING - When 16,000 athletes and officials show up this summer, they will be able to turn the taps and get drinkable water — something few Beijing residents ever have enjoyed.
But to keep those taps flowing for the Olympics, the city is draining surrounding regions, depriving poor farmers of water.
Though the Chinese capital's filthy air makes headlines, water may be its most desperate environmental challenge. Explosive growth combined with a persistent drought mean the city of 17 million people is fast running out of water.
Meanwhile, rainfall has been below average since 1999. The result: Water resources per person are 1/30th of the world average, lower even than Israel.
"To ensure the supply for a short period of time shouldn't be a problem, but to keep the long-term sustainable use of resources is a challenge," said Ma Jun, an environmentalist who has written about China's water issues.
In an attempt to ease the water woes, China has turned to a grand engineering feat. Workers are digging up the countryside south of Beijing for a canal that will bring water from China's longest river, the Yangtze, and its tributaries to the arid north by 2010.
The first part of the project is being accelerated to meet anticipated demand from Olympic visitors. By April, the canal is to begin bringing 80 billion gallons a year — an amount equal to the annual water use of Tucson, Ariz. — from four reservoirs in nearby Hebei province.
"I think one of the things the Olympics is showing is it's desperation time and Beijing has the power," said James Nickum, an expert on Chinese water policy issues at Tokyo Jogakkan College in Japan.
In mountainous Chicheng county, about 70 miles northwest of Beijing, dried-out corn stalks stick out of the windblown earth. Farmers limit themselves to two buckets of water a day from icy wells. They are prohibited from tapping what's left in the local reservoir.
The farmers have been ordered to grow only corn, which requires less water but also fetches a lower price than rice or vegetables.
The government offered about $30 in compensation, but farmers say not everyone received it. Too poor to buy coal, they carry discarded corn stalks home on their backs for fuel to heat their homes.
"For two years we've haven't used water for rice, because it's been given to Beijing," said Yu Zhongxin, 56, of Ciyingzi, a village of small houses deep in the mountains by the Hei river, which feeds Beijing's main reservoir.
"But the individual interest submits to the state interests," he said. "I have no objection. I support it for the success of the 2008 Olympics. China must win!"
Sitting on the northeast edge of the arid north China plain, near no major river and 90 miles from the sea, Beijing has had water problems for more than a millennium. Sui dynasty emperors built one of the world's longest canals in the seventh century to bring rice from the fertile south to the capital.
In recent decades, rapid development, intensive agriculture and wealthier lifestyles have both drawn down and polluted the city's water supply.
"Very few people used toilets in the 1950s, but right now everyone uses toilets, uses showers, uses swimming pools, and fancy buildings use lots of water," said Dai Qing, a former journalist who has become one of China's most prominent environmental campaigners.
The last decade has seen the construction of water-guzzling projects across the city from landscaped gardens and artificial lakes to golf courses and parks, many spurred by the Olympics.
"We don't have water but no one mentions it, all the policy makers never mention that, just develop, develop," Dai said.
The city has spent around $3 billion since it won the Olympic bid in 2001. It has built wastewater treatment plants, moved water-intensive industries out of the city and cut down on pesticide and water use by farms. Near its main reservoir, the Miyun, it has closed polluting factories and relocated 15,000 residents to reduce household pollution.
Nearly all Olympic venues and the Olympic Village will use treated wastewater for heating systems and toilets. Recycled wastewater also will irrigate the Olympic Park, which will include a wooded area and an artificial lake.
But the rowing venue, built on the dried-out Chaobai river bed in Beijing's Shunyi district, will use precious water from the Miyun reservoir. Further, an eight-mile-long underground tunnel will divert water from the Wenyu River to keep the landscape green.
Rapid urban development dried out the Chaobai nine years ago. The groundwater in Shunyi dropped at twice the rate of the rest of Beijing from 2006 to 2007, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.
"From the beginning I was against the Olympics," Dai said. "There is not enough for water for us to hold Olympic Games, but they didn't listen."
Beijing's groundwater, which has fallen 76 feet in the last 50 years, is overexploited, experts warn. And construction has paved over the city, so rain drains away instead of soaking through the earth to replenish the groundwater.
A polluted and damaged ecosystem in turn creates less rain, so more water is needed to irrigate city parks and other greenery, said Wu Jisong, a senior adviser to the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee and former director general of the Department of Water Resources.
Similarly, more recycled wastewater is now needed to feed Beijing's artificial lakes, said John Pan, a director at the Beijing Water Authority.
"We cannot blame nature," he said at a recent conference in Beijing. "We must realize that it is the human activity and destruction that has briefly affected the water circulation so we should find effective ways to solve the problem."
Easier said than done in a developing country focused on economic growth. But time appears to be running out.
Waste, fertilizer and pesticides so contaminated one of Beijing's two main reservoirs, that the city stopped using it for residential water or agriculture in 1997. The other reservoir, the Miyun, is down to one-third the water it had 10 years ago, despite government efforts to cut water use by farms and move industry out of the area.
A local farmer, Zhao Fuyin, said the water once lapped at the bases of the trees around the reservoir.
"It has been a government priority to preserve this area," said Zhao as he watched a couple of donkeys amble along the reservoir's dry slopes. "But the reservoir is just not enough."
立此存照 - 財政預算案
Source: Yahoo!
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/080214/12/2osop.html
今日報章頭條摘要
(明報) 02月 28日 星期四 09:00AM
今日報章一面倒全部都以財政預算案「派糖」來做頭條，《明報》說措施惠及「三無人士」。
《明報》說，本年度政府錄得破開埠紀錄的1156億元盈餘，是去年預計的的四倍半。財政司 長曾俊華 隨即建議歷來最「慷慨」、達441億元的一次過「派糖」措施，特別針對去年未能從還富於民措施中受惠的「三無人士」(無領綜援 、無納稅、無物業)推出兩項新招﹕向月入1萬元或以下「打工仔」的強積金 戶口額外存入6000元，又前所未有地向全港241萬個住宅用戶提供1800元電費補貼。
《星島日報 》頭條亦以惠及三無人士為主題，《香港商報》、《信報》、《大公報》、《成報 》、《新報》、《文匯報》和《經濟日報》亦以預算案大幅派錢為頭條。
但《蘋果日報 》就說，港府財政狀況由本年度逾1,100億盈餘，變為下年度的75億赤字。過去批評政府派糖不均的政黨承認，今次派糖做到「人人有份，永不落空」，為曾俊華角逐下任特首增加不少籌碼。
《東方日報 》也作負面報道，指曾俊華為求博取掌聲，竟「亂開水喉」，在一年內將筆超級盈餘派凸，令來年度庫房急劇地轉盈為虧，出現七十五億元赤字，對有錢人慷慨，對窮人刻薄，堅拒增加生果金。預算案不僅對長遠經濟發展缺乏遠見，更藏下一張利刀，為稍後重推商品及服務稅留下伏筆，極可能從另一個口袋重新打劫市民荷包。
同系的《太陽報》也說，曾俊華大手筆減稅博取掌聲，但對數以十萬計要求加生果金的長者呼聲聽而不聞，僅耗十五億元向每名領取生果金的長者派三千元。政黨及弱勢團體狠批曾俊華對有錢人慷慨，對弱勢的長者及基層社群只施小恩惠，加劇貧富懸殊，分化社會，更種下他日加稅的危機。
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/080214/12/2osop.html
今日報章頭條摘要
(明報) 02月 28日 星期四 09:00AM
今日報章一面倒全部都以財政預算案「派糖」來做頭條，《明報》說措施惠及「三無人士」。
《明報》說，本年度政府錄得破開埠紀錄的1156億元盈餘，是去年預計的的四倍半。財政司 長曾俊華 隨即建議歷來最「慷慨」、達441億元的一次過「派糖」措施，特別針對去年未能從還富於民措施中受惠的「三無人士」(無領綜援 、無納稅、無物業)推出兩項新招﹕向月入1萬元或以下「打工仔」的強積金 戶口額外存入6000元，又前所未有地向全港241萬個住宅用戶提供1800元電費補貼。
《星島日報 》頭條亦以惠及三無人士為主題，《香港商報》、《信報》、《大公報》、《成報 》、《新報》、《文匯報》和《經濟日報》亦以預算案大幅派錢為頭條。
但《蘋果日報 》就說，港府財政狀況由本年度逾1,100億盈餘，變為下年度的75億赤字。過去批評政府派糖不均的政黨承認，今次派糖做到「人人有份，永不落空」，為曾俊華角逐下任特首增加不少籌碼。
《東方日報 》也作負面報道，指曾俊華為求博取掌聲，竟「亂開水喉」，在一年內將筆超級盈餘派凸，令來年度庫房急劇地轉盈為虧，出現七十五億元赤字，對有錢人慷慨，對窮人刻薄，堅拒增加生果金。預算案不僅對長遠經濟發展缺乏遠見，更藏下一張利刀，為稍後重推商品及服務稅留下伏筆，極可能從另一個口袋重新打劫市民荷包。
同系的《太陽報》也說，曾俊華大手筆減稅博取掌聲，但對數以十萬計要求加生果金的長者呼聲聽而不聞，僅耗十五億元向每名領取生果金的長者派三千元。政黨及弱勢團體狠批曾俊華對有錢人慷慨，對弱勢的長者及基層社群只施小恩惠，加劇貧富懸殊，分化社會，更種下他日加稅的危機。
08-09年度財政預算案
Source: Yahoo!
08-09年度財政預算案 新招派糖
港大民調68%受訪者滿意預算案 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 05:50PM
曾俊華民望急升一砲而紅 (明報) 02月 28日 星期四 04:00PM
曾俊華否認視長者為包袱 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 12:37AM
曾俊華指分紅式回饋不會加劇通脹 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 10:38AM
今日報章頭條摘要 (明報) 02月 28日 星期四 09:00AM
曾俊華：審慎態度訂預算案 (明報) 02月 28日 星期四 08:55AM
分段派錢 市民慢用 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 06:30AM
曾俊華新招助「三無」 附圖 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 05:30AM
Tax breaks and rebates to cover broad spectrum (STANDARD) 02月 28日 星期四 05:30AM
08-09年度財政預算案 新招派糖
港大民調68%受訪者滿意預算案 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 05:50PM
曾俊華民望急升一砲而紅 (明報) 02月 28日 星期四 04:00PM
曾俊華否認視長者為包袱 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 12:37AM
曾俊華指分紅式回饋不會加劇通脹 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 10:38AM
今日報章頭條摘要 (明報) 02月 28日 星期四 09:00AM
曾俊華：審慎態度訂預算案 (明報) 02月 28日 星期四 08:55AM
分段派錢 市民慢用 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 06:30AM
曾俊華新招助「三無」 附圖 (星島) 02月 28日 星期四 05:30AM
Tax breaks and rebates to cover broad spectrum (STANDARD) 02月 28日 星期四 05:30AM
碧咸未放棄百場英軍夢
碧咸未放棄百場英軍夢
(明報) 02月 28日 星期四 05:05AM
(明報) 02月 28日 星期四 05:05AM
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