Apple Campus 2

Apple Campus 2 nearly $2 billion over budget and behind schedule, says Bloomberg 

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Architects are looking for ways to cut costs

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Land mines, tuberculosis , and rats 利用老鼠找地雷及肺結核

Tanzania: Land mines, tuberculosis – never fear, rats are here 

http://www.itbeganinafrica.com/inspiring-people/tanzania-land-mines-tuberculosis-%E2%80%93-never-fear-rats-are-here

Posted by chrisanthi on 25/11/2011

A dynamic duo. Landmine detecting rat Salima and her trainer Abu Chongole

Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania: I’m sitting on a windowsill. It’s a nice windowsill and I like it here.
The terracotta red buildings with their timber-framed screen doors, the pink flowers, the palm trees, my big cousins, which my human friends call cows, are coming along the path, and to my left, in the distance, I can’t see them, because my eyesight is not great, but I can smell, my cousins the camel.
I’m glad we young rats get this time that the Apopo bosses call ‘socialisation’, before we begin our training and then our work.
I’m glad too that my friend Hannah is here and she is letting me lick her hand; this morning she was eating bananas.
I’ve learned so many things already in my life. I was born under the ground in a comfortable dirt place which one day was dug up and then we were introduced to the light.
My siblings and I were then given our names. I am Aaron, and at four weeks we were moved from our mother, we were put in a new cage with a brown clay pot to sleep in, wood to play on and we began to be properly introduced to the world of humans.
This is a place of important learning but it took me a long time to learn its name was Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) because everyone calls it ‘Soowa’. I have smelled the fresh cut grass on what is called a football field, the grass cut by young men with machetes, I have seen the different types of vehicles that the students move about in, the tired, beaten looking ones called taxis and the small bright coloured ones which have no windows and doors called tuk-tuks – my favourite being a red one with words in thick pretty writing that said ‘campus shuttle’.

I am an African giant pouched rat, when I start work I will become a Hero Rat. I wonder what role will be chosen for me.

「My Hyperinflation Vacation」mentioned Taiwan experience in 1946

 My God
40000  to 1 N.T
100000 to 2.5 N.T

From The Atlantic.

Steve Hanke, an economist at Johns Hopkins University, has documented 56 instances since 1795, ranging from a comparatively benign monthlong burst in Taiwan in 1947 (prices rose by a little more than half in that month, then the increase slowed), to a truly surreal year in Hungary in 1945–46, when at one point prices doubled every 15 hours. In Slobodan Milošević’s Yugoslavia in 1994, hyperinflation stopped only when the presses at the national mint, in Topčider, overheated to their breaking point.

(Oblivion) Tom cruise, Olga Kurylenko in Taiwan(007龐德女郎2)

STOP DISASTERS! A disaster simulation game from the UN/ISDR

http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/home.html

 

Offshore Leaks: Vast Web of Tax Evasion Exposed

The town of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands: The UK territory is at the center of an explosive new report on global tax havens.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/icij-journalists-expose-mass-web-of-global-tax-evasion-a-892505.html

An international network of journalists has obtained some 2.5 million records from tax havens detailing shell companies, offshore accounts and dubious financial deals. The unprecedented leaks include the names of 130,000 people who at one time or other moved their money offshore. 

Oligarchs and dictators' daughters apparently have a penchant for bunkering their assets on the British Virgin Islands. Barons and composers, on the other hand, seem to prefer the Cook Islands. To cheat on taxes, they create bogus firms with imaginative names like Tantris, Moon Crystal or Sequoia.

Those are just a few details published this week on a major global system of tax evasion, which sheds new light on the methods used to deceive fiscal authorities and hide money. In what is believed to be the largest data leak in history, anonymous informants have provided an international consortium of journalists with around 2.5 million documents detailing activities in tax havens around the world. The virtual Everest of data exposes some 120,000 letterbox entities, offshore accounts and other dubious deals in more than 170 countries, in addition to the names of 140,000 individuals alleged to have placed their money in known tax havens. The list includes politicians, celebrities, weapons dealers, oligarchs, financiers and a very diverse cast of characters. It also includes hundreds of Germans. Reporters at the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper noted that the most famous German featured on the list is society playboy Gunter Sachs, best known abroad as Brigitte Bardot's husband for a brief period in the 1960s, who committed suicide in 2011 at the age of 78.

H7N9 virus in Shanhai maybe like SARS in year 2003

 

遺體隨地拖　病毒標錯名 內地防疫大亂

2013年04月05日 (12:45 am)爽報

H7N9禽流感肆虐華東，疫情有不斷蔓延和擴大的趨勢！根據官方公佈的數據，截至昨晚11時，上海、江蘇、浙江和安徽四地共確診有14人感染H7N9禽流 感，其中六人死，八人留院接受治療。當中，上海有一名四歲小童受感染，幸病情輕微。面對突如其來的疫情，浙江省的防疫系統卻出現混亂的現象。