영어, ABC

억울한 어민과 넋빠진 정치가

2009-11-10T22:25:14Z

수나미 어민 피해와 도지사의 낭비벽.

미국령 사모아 섬( Samoa)에 지난 10월 2009년 수나미(Tsunami ) 참사로

섬사람 33명이 사망하였다. 미국정부에서 수나미 경고 시스템을 설치하라고

$ 13 million불을 지원하였는데 그 돈으로 자동차와 TV 사는데 돈을 사용하여

지원금을 반환하라고 미국연방정부가 사모아 주지사(Togiola Tulafono)에게

요구하고있다.

2,935 평방 km, 326개의 섬에서 해삼도 잡아먹는 이 주민
168,000명 있는 곳에 7.9강한 지진(뢱토ractor scale)

으로 주위의 섬사람을 포함 77명이사망하였다. 참치가 잡히는

곳이라 참치 통조림공장도 있는 이 섬 주민들은 어업으로 $15

million 을 번다고한다. 방대한 해안을 가지고도 그 섬은아직도

어업이GDP의 8%에 그칠뿐이다.

지진이 많은 인도네시아때문에 어민들이 피해가 심한데 정치가

들은 받은돈 가지고 어민을 도울생각을 하지안는다.

사모아에서 자라는 대형 조게, 다자라면 30km넘는 조게로
Boston의 clam chowder(한국 크림-수프 비슷)를 만들면 몇백 그릇이
나올가요? ( $ 1.50 x 650 cans, you can guess)
이지역 넓은 바다에 도미, 비싼 참치, 조게가 나는데도 가난한
이 지역사람이 측은할때가 있다.

아직도 한국이나 이 지역섬 사람들이 정치가의 선거공약에 믿고있어서 그럴겁니다.
CNN / Oct. 28, 2009

Pago Pago, American Samoa (CNN) -- When an earthquake-triggered tsunami cascaded into

this tiny island in late September, the result was 34 lives lost and untold millions in property damage.

But a CNN investigation to air on tonight's "AC 360" has uncovered an array of unsettling facts that point

to a single conclusion: this natural disaster was in many ways a man-made tragedy.

Public records show that the Department of Homeland Security had awarded millions of federal dollars

in grants for disaster preparedness here, including the construction of an island-wide siren warning

system. But all the federal funding was frozen in early 2007 after DHS inspectors found that the local

American Samoan government had been diverting millions of those dollars for its own uses.

Birdsall Alailima, director of American Samoa's territorial office of Homeland Security from 2003 through

2007, now lives in southern Illinois, not far from St. Louis, Missouri. He showed CNN on a map exactly

where on the island the sirens were to have been placed. Thirty towers in all, he said, with 30 sirens that

could have been activated by the push of a single button.

"You're saying that the systems should have been in place?" CNN correspondent Drew Griffin asked him.

"Absolutely," Alailima said. "And people died as a result?" "Yes."

He's not the onl　　y one　　 who thinks so. Federal sources told CNN they believe that had the warning system

been built, the death toll would likely have been lower.

In American Samoa, however, territorial Gov. Togiola Tulafono, told CNN that he knew of no viable plan

for the siren system.

"There was a study, I believe, but never a plan for a system," the governor said. "I was trying to get verification

of what happened to that system, but I could not get the definite information."

Alailima said he was fired by the governor when the federal funding was frozen, and that the governor was

aware of the preparations.

"I'm not going to fault them for freezing the funds," Tulafono said. "These are federal funds that they have

oversight responsibility for and they saw fit to freeze the funds."

The governor told CNN he had tried to correct the problem by firing his entire homeland security staff.

But, he said, that failed to solve the problem.

"All I'm saying is we have tried to work with them and have tried to get partial releases (of the money),

and so far that hasn't happened." A federal official calls the governor's statement "nonsense." American

Samoa would have access to the frozen funds if it had agreed to pay back even some of the money it misused,

said the official. The government and the governor refused, and the tsunami siren system was stopped,

according to the official.

A spokesman for the governor's office later declined comment on the nature of the negotiations.

American Samoan government officials said they purchased another warning system -- radios that would

have triggered alarms across the island. But during the CNN interview, Tulafono conceded that the system

"was not in place" when the tsunami struck.

CNN has learned that the FBI is now conducting an investigation into exactly what did happen to the federa

l preparedness dollars sent to American Samoa. It was launched, sources tell CNN, by the Interior Department

as its Insular Affairs office has federal administrative responsibility for the island.

The FBI investigation is onl　　y the latest and most recent attempt by the federal government to try to track what

one federal official told CNN was "endemic" corruption on the island.

Here are onl　　y a few instances of the alleged corruption:

Both the current Samoan lieutenant governor and a former state senator are under federal indictment on

allegations of fraud, bribery and conspiracy. A trial is pending in Washington because there are no federal

courts on the island. Attorneys for both men have refuted the indictment in court filings and say their clients

are innocent of all the charges.

In half a dozen villages either wiped out or badly damaged by the tsunami, CNN could find no visible evidence

of local government assistance. Workers from a tuna fish processing plant were helping in one　　 village; in another,

students from an island community college were dredging rubbish out of a stream. Red Cross officials distributed

tents in other villages. Children in another village were hauling furniture on
their backs to help clear the debris.

When asked about the seeming lack of local government assistance, the governor told CNN, "Our departments

are out there working and working very hard, and to say they haven't seen
any assistance is totally false."

Since 1995, American Samoa has received nearly $2 billion in federal grants from nearly every federal agency.

On average the 65,000-population -- the size of a typical American suburb -- receives about $250 million in

federal money each year. Congressional sources tell CNN that oversight has always been a problem because

of Samoa's isolation and the expense involved in even mounting an investigation.

"They can do half a dozen investigations in Wyoming or California for the amount just one　　 investigation would

cost in Samoa," a source told CNN.

Federal sources said they don't believe any official is getting rich off the U.S. Treasury. Instead, they said,

federal funds -- including disaster-preparedness money that was to have gone to the warning system ?

were instead used to create local government jobs in an economy almost totally dependent on U.S. federal

grants.

Moreover, the source added, each federal agency may have many employees whose jobs are to allocate

federal funds, but onl　　y a relative handful whose jobs are to "manage" or account
for that money.

In an e-mail to CNN, an Interior Department spokeswoman said that in previous administrations "there were

real issues of neglect and failed oversight that must be addressed quickly,
thoroughly and responsibly."

"We will help the islands rebuild and recover," said Kendra Barkoff, "but taxpayer dollars will be invested with

strong oversight and full accountability."

tag : 정치가, 어민

한국분단과 독일통일

2009-11-09T02:35:01Z

독일 통일 20년 이후

소련:고뱌쳐프, 미국-Bush, 독일-Kohl

서독과 동독이 통일된지 이제 20년이 되었다. 한국정부

들은 20년 뒤늦게 이제 무었을 하고 있는지….

통일협상에 독제자나 정당을 대표하는 정치인들이 자격이

있는지 없는지 이전에 실권자들이 뽑은 사람들에게 마껴

지금까지 전국민의 일을 자기 개인의 놀이game 처럼, 60년

동안 망쳐 가고있다. 국회의 양당이 멱살잡고 싸움질하는

정치인들이 통일의 임무를 받을 자격이있는 정치인이라고

생각하기 힘들다. 시민단체가 남북대화를 하려면 공산국사상

을 가진 자라고, 공산국 소련, 중국과 대화도 하면서 멱살잡기

좋아하고 능력없는 당원들이 game한 결과일 것이다.

혹시 통일을 싫어하는 중국과 일본에 통일을 의지하는지도

궁굼하다.

The N.Y. Times / Nov.7, 200 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/07/world/AP-EU-Germany-Wall Anniversary.html

“Everyone has wall in their heads to a certain extent,” said Berlin

redident…..” It’s always a good thing if one can break them, I

think this is a good symbol.”

Newsweek/ Nov. 5, 2009

The Berlin wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989, marking the end of one era and the beginning

of another. I'll never forget East and West Germans striking their blows for freedom,

taking sledgehammers to the barrier that divided them for almost three decades.

The 20th anniversary of this moment provides an opportunity to reflect

on an extraordinary event—and to draw lessons that might guide us today.

VOA / Nov.6/2009

"The Berlin Wall was not the only wall in the world," he said. "We have many walls in some countries like Korea, or in Palestine or in Cyprus - also between the United States and Mexico. You have so many walls which divide people and what can we do to tear down these walls in the world."

For nearly three decades the Berlin Wall ran through the heart of the city, dividing it into East and West. Monday marks the end of that divide

BBC/ Oct.31, 2009

Mr Bush, 85, who was US president from 1989-93, said the historic

Events…… ” in the hearts and minds of the people who so long had

To strive for their God-given- Right.”

CBS-TV / Nov 8,2009

"I might harbor a single hope, it would be that future generations might

look back at the moment in time when mankind really got it right,"

former President George W. Bush said.

Time magazine/ June 11,2009

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1631828,00.html#ixzz0WIB5fsY0

Two decades later, what can we learn from the epochal events that followed — the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union? "People were afraid of the consequences of what Reagan would say," George Shultz, Reagan's long-serving Secretary of State, told me over lunch in Berlin last week. “ He was right

Telegraph.uk/ 10-31. 2009

Matthias Müller is challenging the stereotypes in a different way as he

organises the Festival of the East, to be held in the eastern city of Schwerin

for three days from Oct 30. "The point is to show the east for what it is - as

the eastern part of a country," he said. "We can't just be defined by our past

as the GDR, but also our present and our future. We all have to move on."

"For some people there is a simplistic tendency to either condemn everything

about our past or to be nostalgic for better days," he said.

"Both are prejudices and neither are correct."

MSNBC/Nov.8, 2009

---- and I think most Berlin residents are thankful to those who made it happen," said Berlin resident Guenter Nowak standing beside one stretch of dominoes.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, herself a resident of East Germany when the wall fell, said in her weekly podcast Saturday that it was a day that "changed the lives of many people including me."

"It is particularly nice for us to be able to celebrate this day with our European neighbors," Merkel said. "We Germans will not forget our neighbors and allies who made the path to German reunification possible."

Researchers estimate that 136 people were killed while trying to cross the barrier during its 28-year existence.

On Saturday in a village outside Berlin, three new memorial stones were dedicated to victims of the wall.

tag : 통일, 한국

바테리 자동차 경쟁

2009-11-05T16:35:49Z

Ford가 1890년에 제조한 첫 자동차

Ford 의 Model-T, 대량생산, 1908년

Musk의 Model-S 바테리 자동차

Mr. Musk의 광고 가족사진

제2의 GM 이되겠다는 Mr. Elon Musk 씨

Ford가 기름(oil)으로 가는 차를 만들기 시작한지 100년이 지난 후

바테리사용하는 차가 시작되자 인터넷 PayPal을 만든Musk는 PayPal

을 판 $ 160 million을 투자하여 4년만에 Roadsters( $10,900)와

Model-S를(Tesla회사)제조하었다. 한번 충전하면 244 miles

운전할수 있는 차를 만들고 정부에서 $ 27.4 billion융자를 받은

그는 제2의 GM이되겠다는 꿈이다.

그는 또 미사일로 달나라 여행을시작하려고 미사일을만들어

여행비를 (한사람에 비행기표를) $ 50억에 팔고 2014년부터

달나라 여행을 시작한다 화성을 정복하려고 우주정거장을

만드는NASA에게 비행 우주선 부속품을 팔기 시작한

그는 Stanford 박사공부하다가 그만두고 기업을시작하였다

중국도 바테리 자동차회사가 250개를 만들었고 제 1위의

일본 Toyota자동차 회사와 경쟁하려면 힘든 도전인것같다.

The New Yorker / Aug.24, 2009

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/24/090824fa_fact_friend

About Elon Musk and electronic cars. In a dressing room above the

“Late Show with David Letterman” stage, the electronic-car magnate

Elon Musk sat on a sofa, eating cookies. Musk, thirty-eight, is the

chairman, C.E.O., and product architect of Tesla Motors, and he was

appearing on Letterman to show off the company’s newest design:

a sleek sedan called the Model S.

After co-founding the Internet start-ups Zip2 and PayPal, when he was

in his twenties, in 2002 Musk launched the Space Exploration

Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), with the ultimate goal of colonizing

Mars; the company recently won a $1.6-billion contract with NASA to

resupply the Space Station. In 2004 he provided

Tesla with its initial funding, in the belief that electronic vehicles, or

E.V.s, together with solar power, will help wean the world off oil.

For decades, E.V.s resembled hovercraft or mobile eggs, and their lead-

acid battery packs were costly and sickly. Last fall, Tesla began making

the only highway-capable E.V. now available: the Roadster, a $109,000

sports car that goes from zero to sixty in less than four seconds and has

a range of two hundred and forty-four miles. Powered by a lithium-ion

battery, the Roadster was designed to prove that E.V.s can not just compete

but excel. Musk plans to cut the price for each of Tesla’s succeeding models

more or less in half and seize the market from the top down.

The Roadster can be found in the garages of George Clooney, Matt Damon,

Leonardo DiCaprio, and David Letterman. Musk was born in Pretoria, South

Africa, and he attended Queen’s University in Ontario and the University of

Pennsylvania. In 2004, Musk met engineer Martin Eberhard, who proposed to

build a sports car with a lithium-ion battery. Musk agreed to underwrite the

company. It took four and a half years and $140 million. As new car sales in

America are expected to fall to ten million this year, the big automakers are

developing E.V.s of their own. Mentions Ford, Chrysler, Renault, Nissan, and

Mitsubishi. Describes Musk’s appearance on Letterman’s show.

In late March, Tesla unveiled the Model S at a cocktail party at SpaceX’s

headquarters, south of L.A. Mentions Anthony Kiedis, Rick Rubin, and Gov.

Arnold Schwarzenegger. For now, if you plug your Roadster into one of Tesla’s

seventy-ampere wall boxes (which the company will install in your garage for

$3,000), it takes nearly four hours to recharge the car completely. Mark Duvall,

of the Electric Power Research Institute, says, of the cost of building charging

stations across the country, “If you want to use E.V.s to drive between cities,

we’re probably into the hundreds of billions.” Shai Agassi, an Israeli software

whiz who runs the company Better Place, plans to build a huge charging network.

In early April, Tesla threw a cocktail party at the National Building Museum, in

Washington, D.C., to show off the Model S to congressmen and other government

officials. Mentions Diarmuid O’Connell, Sen. Maria Cantwell, Sen. Jeff Bingaman,

and Mike Carr. Sen. Cantwell acknowledged that there’s no political will in

Congress to prod consumers to switch to electric by taxing gasoline heavily, as

is done in Europe.

tag : 경제, 자동차

고육계

2009-10-30T22:01:57Z

$ 21,000원-한국교복

$343불-영국교복

$ 30불- 미국교복

교육계비리.

한국 선생님들이 보충교제 체택비로 책값의 30% 받는다는 기사를

읽었다. 시험문제를 학원에 파는 교직원도 있다는 기사도 읽었다.

그런데 주간지 기사에도 한국처럼 영국에서 교복을 일정한 곳

에서만 사라고 학교에서 정한다고 한다. $ 90불에 살수있는 교복을

$ 343불에 파는 옷가게에서만 사라고 한다. 영국의Pace 같은 가게는

학교와 독점계약으로 서민 학부모에게 돈을 빼았아간다.

더구나 선배, 형들이 입던옷을 받아입지 못하게 영국상인들은

스타일마저 자주 바꾼다고 한다. 우리 여 중학생(강화도)의

교복은 대량구입이라고 하며 배우를 모델로 세우고 2십 1만원

이라고 한다. 아래의 미국회사에서는 상하의 교복 값이 $ 30불

이면 된다.

(New!) K12 by Elderwear

Elder Manufacturing Company, Inc. has been producing quality clothing since 1916. The K-12 Gear line of school clothing delivers Elder quality at a more moderate price point.

Oxford Dress Shirts - Starting at $11.75
Flat Front Shorts - Starting at $14.00
Flat Front Flare Leg Slacks - Starting at $14.00

Jean Style Long Skirts - Starting at $15.00
Girls Knit Shirts - Starting at $7.75
Pointed Collar Blouses - Starting at $7.75

The Economist /Sep 24th 2009

ASDA offers one for £55 ($90), Matalan for £49, and British Home

Stores for £69 (including a shirt, tie and leather shoes). For a

teenager needing to look smart, high-street retailers provide suits

at a reasonable price. But not all pupils are allowed to shop around.

Johnny, aged 16, was told to return to his private school this autumn

in a “charcoal wool two-piece with a fine blue pinstripe”. It is available

only from the school outfitters, and costs a cool £210.

His father, Edward, a writer for The Economist, spent the summer arguing

with the school about the uniform. “I don’t object to his being nicer and

more intelligent than I am,” he says. “But I draw the line at his being

more expensively dressed.”

Parents and teachers usually like uniforms: they stop rich children

from showing off, in theory inspire a proud work ethic and in practice

keep gang colours outside the gates. But state schools that ape ancient

private ones by adopting fancy uniforms have had a mixed reception.

It is not the clothes that raise hackles, but specifying their source.

In 2006, after an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT),

the government told state schools not to strike exclusive deals with

specialist suppliers or demand that pupils be dressed by named

high-street shops. But those rules are being breached. A government

survey earlier this year found that most state-school children had to

buy pricey clothes from a named supplier. One in six had to buy their

entire kit that way.

The rules do not apply to the private-sector likes of Eton, though. The

OFT looked only at state schools because it knew it could pass on

enforcement to the government. The presumption is that parents

who can afford fee-paying schools can buy a pure-wool suit as well.

Those parents, unsurprisingly, don’t see things that way. They

particularly object to schools’ tendency to change uniforms on

a whim, which means that costs cannot be cut by buying second-

hand or dressing younger siblings in hand-me-downs.

But more dangerous for schools than some parents’ disaffection is the

broader impression of exclusivity a posh uniform creates. Most are

educational charities, and they are already under fire from the charities

regulator for offering little benefit to the masses.

********** *********** *************

The company said that the feature was filmed in front of its Valletta shop

and comments by people could be heard in the background. There were

also editorial comments giving the impression that a monopoly in the sale

of school uniforms was badly affecting consumers and that the market

should be liberalised.

The feature gave the impression that uniforms sold by Pace were very

expensive because the company enjoyed a monoply. This was not the

case and the company's prices were low when compared to those of

other companies.

PBS's behaviour was illegal and abusive and in breach of the Press Act.

The company's reputation had been badly affected by the feature and it\

was holding the station responsible for damages.

tag : 교육, 부정

Food for Thought

2009-10-29T23:44:18Z

“ Unless somebody can find a way to change

human nature, we will have more crises,”

said Greenspan.

---- Time magazine/ Sept-21-2009.

Note: About greed in the Wall Street.

Bloomberg was one of the largest philanthropic donors in the USA last year to save jounalism...

-an antidote to predatory moguls

M urdoch, Sam Zell, who view the news

strictly as a commodity, not a public service.

T The New Yorker/ 8-24-2009/p40

And to this day, when he(W.Nelson) sings,

Time stands still

Rolling Stone magazine / 9/17/2009

The missile of NASA hit the bull’s eye

(of the moon to find water).

---- CNN /10-11-2009.

One machinist told the Guardian that workers had had taken to coparting themselves to mushrooms

“you know, kept in the dark and fed

on whatsit."

---- The New Yorker/ 9/14/p78

Note: The Burberry factory laid off workers

even Prince Charles tried to stop it.

Note-2. whatsit : a name for a person or thing

whose real name has been forgotten

or is being avoided

copart: to share.

Keep in the dark: to hide.

tag : 명언

위험한 상인 & 정치가

2009-10-28T01:27:52Z

세계에서 제일 무서운 중국 도시

중국 상해에서 340 km 남쪽 도시 Gaiyu

중국 도시: Guyiu, 상해에서 340 km 남쪽

미국회사: Executive Recycling, Denver지역

지난번 Denver지역에서 버린 컴퓨터를 수거하는 회사가 이 공해를 이르키는

쓰레기를 중국회사에게 팔아 넘기고 그 중국회사는 경비를 줄이고 이익금을

높이자는 회사의 목적을 따라 그 지역을 (중국마을) 유독성있는쓰레기장으로

만들고 그마을 시장은 이 사실을 감추고있는추한 사실을 미국 TV-CBS-60

Minutes에서 방영하였다

일년에 100milion 개의 전화기와 컴퓨터를 버리는것을 재활용(recycle) 위해

각 미국 도시는 수거하여 유해성물질을 불리하고 필요한 물질을 재 활용한다.

Denver시에서 버리는 이 물건을 수거한다고 계약을 따낸 미국회사(Executive

Recycling)는 이런 일을 하지안고 그페기물을 그냥 중국 남쪽의 한 마을에

(Guiyu) 보내고 그 수입한 중국 악덕상인은 마을 땅에 그냥 방치하여 세계에서

제일 위험한 ( a sort of Chernobyl of electronic waste)지역을 만들었다.

이 지역을 촬영한 Greenpeace와 과학자의 연구 분석한 결과를 보면 그지역

악성 물질은 임신부가 낙태시킬수 있는 물질의 6배가 있으며 암유발 일으키는

다이억신(dioxins)때문에 이마을이 세계에서 제일 무서운 마을이 되었다. 한국

연제 TV극 City-Hall 의 한토막 이야기처럼 한국에서도 발생하고 있을지도 모른다.

(더 자세히 보려면) To See More

CBS-60 Minutes/updated on Aug. 27, 2009.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/60minutes/main4579229.shtml?tag

=contentMain;contentBody

Following The Trail of Toxic E-Waste

60 Minutes is going to take you to one of the most toxic places on Earth -- a place

that government officials and gangsters don't want you to see. It's a town in China

where you can't breathe the air or drink the water, a town where the blood of the

children is laced with lead. It's worth risking a visit because, as correspondent Scott

Pelley first reported last November, much of the poison is coming out of the homes,

schools and offices of America.

This is a story about recycling - about how your best intentions to be green can be

channeled into an underground sewer that flows from the United States and into the

wasteland

That wasteland is piled with the burning remains of some of the most expensive,

sophisticated stuff that consumers crave. And 60 Minutes and correspondent

Scott Pelley discovered that the gangs who run this place wanted to keep it a secret.

What are they hiding? The answer lies in the first law of the digital age: newer

is better. In with the next thing, and out with the old TV, phone or computer. All

of this becomes obsolete, electronic garbage called "e-waste."

Computers may seem like sleek, high-tech marvels. But what?s inside them?
"Lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium, polyvinyl chlorides. All of these materials

have known toxicological effects that range from brain damage to kidney disease

to mutations, cancers," Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist and authority on

waste management at the Natural Resources Defense Council, explained.

"The problem with e-waste is that it is the fastest-growing component of the

municipal waste stream worldwide," he said. Asked what he meant by "fastest-

growing," Hershkowitz said. "Well, we throw out about 130,000 computers

every day in the United States." And he said over 100 million cell phones are

thrown out annually.

At a recycling event in Denver, 60 Minutes found cars bumper-to-bumper for

blocks, in a line that lasted for hours. They were there to drop off their computers,

PDAs, TVs and other electronic waste.

Asked what he thought happens once his e-waste goes into recycling, one man

told Pelley, "Well my assumption is they break it apart and take all the heavy

metals and out and then try to recycle some of the stuff that's bad."

Most folks in line were hoping to do the right thing, expecting that their waste

would be recycled in state-of-the-art facilities that exist here in America.

But really, there's no way for them to know where all of this is going. The

recycling industry is exploding and, as it turns out, some so-called recyclers

are shipping the waste overseas, where it's broken down for the precious metals

inside.

Executive Recycling, of Englewood, Colo., which ran the Denver event, promised

the public on its Web site: "Your e-waste is recycled properly, right here in the U.S.

not simply dumped on somebody else."

That policy helped Brandon Richter, the CEO of Executive Recycling, win a

contract with the city of Denver and expand operations into three western states.

Asked what the problem is with shipping this waste overseas, Richter told Pelley,

"Well, you know, they've got low-income labor over there. So obviously they don't

have all of the right materials, the safety equipment to handle some of this material."

Executive does recycling in-house, but 60 Minutes was curious about shipping

containers that were leaving its Colorado yard. 60 Minutes found one container

filled with monitors. They're especially hazardous because each picture tube, called

a cathode ray tube or CRT, contains several pounds of lead. It's against U.S. law to

ship them overseas without special permission. 60 Minutes took down the container's

number and followed it to Tacoma, Wash., where it was loaded on a ship.

When the container left Tacoma, 60 Minutes followed it for 7,459 miles to

Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong. It turns out the container that started in Denver

was just one of thousands of containers on an underground, often illegal smuggl-

ing route, taking America's electronic trash to the Far East.

Our guide to that route was Jim Puckett, founder of the Basel Action Network,

a watch-dog group named for the treaty that is supposed to stop rich countries

from dumping toxic waste on poor ones. Puckett runs a program to certify ethical

recyclers. And he showed 60 Minutes what's piling up in Hong Kong.

"It's literally acres of computer monitors," Pelley commented. "Is it legal to import

all of these computer monitors into Hong Kong?" "No way. It is absolutely illegal,

both from the standpoint of Hong Kong law but also U.S. law and Chinese law. But

it's happening," Puckett said.

60 Minutes followed the trail to a place Puckett discovered in southern China –

a sort of Chernobyl of electronic waste - the town of Guiyu. But we weren't

there very long before we were picked up by the cops and taken to City Hall.

We told the mayor we wanted to see recycling. So he personally drove us to

a shop.

"Let me explain what's happening here," Pelley remarked while in Guiyu.

"We were brought into the mayor's office. The mayor told us that we're

essentially not welcome here, but he would show us one place where computers

are being dismantled and this is that place. A pretty tidy shop. The mayor told us

that we would be welcome to see the rest of the town, but that the town wouldn't

be prepared for our visit for another year.

"So we were allowed to shoot at that location for about five minutes,? Pelley

where I suspect we'll be given another cup of tea and sent on our way out of

town with a police escort no doubt." And we were. But the next day, in a

different car and on a different road, we got in. "This is really the dirty little

secret of the electronic age," Jim Puckett said.

Greenpeace has been filming around Guiyu and caught the recycling work.

Women were heating circuit boards over a coal fire, pulling out chips and

pouring off the lead solder. Men were using what is literally a medieval acid

recipe to extract gold. Pollution has ruined the town. Drinking water is trucked

in. Scientists have studied the area and discovered that Guiyu has the highest

levels of cancer-causing dioxins in the world. They found pregnancies are six

times more likely to end in miscarriage, and that seven out of ten kids have too

much lead in their blood.

tag : 공해, 악덕상인

노벨상 받는 세계의 대학과 도서관 현황

2009-10-21T00:42:43Z

< 대학별 Nobel상 받은 숫자>

1. Harvard University                       USA -    -       28
2. University of Cambridge--------   UK -           23
3. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Munich Germany--18
4. Stanford University ------------- USA ------17
    University of London ------------   UK ------- 17
6. Mass. Institute of Techology ---   USA-------15
    University of Chicago -----------   USA-------15
8. Cal. Institute of Technology ---- USA--------14
9 Columbia University -----------   USA---------12
10 Princeton University -----------   USA------- 11

2009년 Nobel 상

문학---Herta Muller----------------------------------------독일

물리학—Charls Kao---------------------------------------미국

Willaard Boyle----------------------------------미국.

George Smith------------------------------------미국.

화학------Venkatraman Ramakrishnan----------------미국

Thomas Steitz -----------------------------------미국

Ada Yonath--------------------------------------Israel

의학------Elizabeth H. Blackburn------------------------미국

Carol W. Greider------------------------------- 미국

Jack W. Szostak---------------------------------미국.

경제학---Elinor Ostrom------------------------------------미국

Oliver Williamson------------------------------ 미국.

평화상---Barack Obama-----------------------------------미국

Note: The 2009 count is not reflected to the below tally.

< 지난 15년Most Nobel Prize by Countries>

1. United States----93
2. United Kingdom 9
3. Germany---------8
4. France---------- 4
Japan----------- 4
Switzerland------4
지난 15년간 노벨상 받는 과학자들은 선진국 5국가가

전세계의85% 차지하였고 이 추세는 계속할것 같다는

연구기관의 발표이다.

< 지난 50년 국가별 노벨상 숫자>

1 United States    163
2 United Kingdom 112
3 Germany            96
4 France                45
5 Switzerland         25
6 USSR and Russia 21
7 Italy                   19
8 Canada               18

Sweden 18

Netherlands 18

11 Hungary 16

12 Japan 15
13 Denmark 14

Poland 14

15. Canada ----------2
16. Denmark---------1
    Netherlands-------1
    Norway -----------1
    Russia-------------1
    Sweden----------- 1

Korea--------------1

<도서관 숫자 >

도시-------------도서관 숫자. . 주변인구---책소장

New York City----85----------1,307m-- 1,100만권

Los Angeles------ 71------------986m--- 639만권

Chicago----------79----------- 538m - - N/A

동경- - - - - - - -390-- - - - - 1,200m - N/A

< 책보유: The Top 10 largest are as follows >

1.    Library of Congress
   Washington DC, USA
   Founded in 1800, this library stocks over 29 million books.
2. National Library of China
   Beijing, China
     Founded in 1909, this library stocks over 22 million books.

3. Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
St. Petersburg, Russia
Founded in 1714, this library stocks over 20 million books.4

4,  National Library of Canada
   Ottawa, Canada
   Founded in 1953, this library stocks over 18.8 million books.

5. Deutsche Biblothek
Frankfurt, Germany
Founded in 1990, this library stocks over 18.5 million books

6. British Library
London, England
Fouunded in 1753, this library stocks over 16 million books.

7. Institute for Scientific Inf.on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia
Founded in 1969, this library stocks over 13.5 million books.

8, Harvard University Library
   Cambridge, MA, USA
9.    Founded in 1638, this library stocks over 13.1 million books.
   Kiev, Ukraine
   Founded in 1919, this library stocks over 13 million books.

10. New York Public Library
New York City, NY, USA
Founded in 1895, this library stocks over 11 million books.

tag : 교육, 노벨상, 도서관

낙옆

2009-10-18T20:37:28Z

Autumn Leaves

by Anton Waller

Gently rustling

Whispering softly

Stirring in autumn's scented breeze

The dance of leaves is drawing closer

Twitching jostling

Nervously waiting

Changing in their tree top canopy

Resplendent in their deep rich hues

Their annual ballet to perform

Sunshine filtering golden rays

Lights up this leaf lavolta

Mellow murmurings

Rippling gusts

Release the coloured chorus

And dressed in autumnal splendour

Come dancing drifting

Floating downwards

To take their final curtain call

tag : 가을, 낙옆

보험회사에 시달리는 미국서민들

2009-10-16T21:51:22Z

민주당이 주도하는 건강보험 개혁에 협조한 단 한명의

공화당 여 국회의원Olympia Snowe

보험회사에 시달리는 우매한 미국 서민들

지난 10년간 미국내 건강보험료가 131% 상승하여 일년에 보험금이

$ 13, 375이며 서민 가구당 수입에 (median income family) 20%가

넘는 다고 일간지 USA Today가 보고하였다 이런 비싼 보험료 때문에

미국서민 4천 2백만이 건강보험없이 살고있다.

지난 30년간 미국 서민들은 너무 가난해졌고 부자들은 많은 부를

축적하였다. 주택비는 GDP의30%에서 50%증가하여 북부 Calif.의

인구 십2만명이 다른주로 이주하였다. 2009년부터 미국서민을 위해

일한다는 민주당 오바마 대통령이 부시정부의 정책을 수정하기 시작했다

서민편을 드는 집권당인 민주당의 오바마는 건강보험회사의 폭리를

막고 정부가 국민보험제를 만들어 보험없는 서민에게보험을 들어

주게하려 노력하자 기업편을 옹호하는 공화당은 오바마 정부의 정책은

사기업 보험회사를 붕괴시키고 정부가 콘트롤 하는 사회주의 정책

이라고 반박하고 대기업 보험회사는 TV,신문에 $ 320억불을 들여

오바마정책에 반대하는 광고를 내고있다

더욱 더 어처구니없는 사건은 공화당을 믿고 옹호하는 서민들조차

기업을 옹호해주는 공화당 정책에 편을 들주고 데모까지하고

있다. 민주주의의 자유경제 정책으로 치솟는 주택값 때문에

정부가 지어주는 저렴한 시민아파트만 찾아다니며 살아가면서도

어떤 우매한 서민들은 광고에 살아가는TV나 신문의 거짓 선전

이나 대기업 선거자금 받는 국회의원말을 고지듣고있다.

다행한 일은 공화당의 단 한명인 여성Olympia Snowe국회의원은

민주당의 보험 개혁정책에 표를 던져주었다.

By John Fritze, USA TODAY 9-16-2009

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-insurance-costs_N.htm

WASHINGTON — An average family health insurance policy now costs more

than some compact cars, and four in 10 companies will likely pass more of that

expense on to workers, according to a closely watched survey of businesses

released Tuesday.

The average cost of a family policy offered by employers was $13,375 this year,

up 5% from 2008, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research &

Educational Trust survey found. By comparison, wages rose 3% over that period,

the study said.

7-22-2009, Washington Post.

Indeed, the leader of the insurance lobby has sent lawmakers a message:

Be careful what you change, because "77 percent of Americans are satisfied

with their existing health insurance coverage."

Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP),

invoked the statistic to argue against the creation of a government-run

insurance option. But the polls are not that simple, and her assertion

reveals how the industry's effort to defend its turf has led it to cherry-pick

the facts.

By 72 to 20 percent, Americans favor the creation of a public plan, the

June survey by the New York Times and CBS News found. People also

said that they thought government would do a better job than private

insurers of holding down health-care costs and providing coverage.

In addition, data from a Kaiser Family Foundation poll last year,

compiled at the request of The Washington Post, suggest that the

people who like their health plans the most are the people who use

them the least.

Those who described their health as "excellent" -- people who presumably

had relatively little experience pursuing medical care or submitting claims

n were almost twice as likely as those in good, fair or poor health to rate

n their private health insurance as excellent.

The level of satisfaction expressed with private insurance was essentially

the same as that with Medicare, the government program for the elderly

and disabled.

The industry's stance against a public health plan revives shades of 1994,

when it was instrumental in blocking President Bill Clinton's health-care

proposals.

"A government-run plan would turn back the clock on efforts to improve

the quality and safety of patient care," AHIP has argued. Such a plan "will

ultimately limit choices and access," the big insurer WellPoint contends.

But systemic problems have persisted for 15 years, and it is not clear how

much private insurers have done, or can do, to solve them.

"Insurers promise choice, they promise innovation, they promise a lot of

things, but I think they've delivered very little," said Alan Sager, professor

of health policy and management at Boston University. "I think net they give

us very bad value for the 10 to 20 percent share of the health dollar they skim

off the top." Instead of choice, they offer "the illusion of choice," he said.

tag : 기업, 정치

유명한 커피집-Cowgirls Expresso in Seattle

2009-10-12T14:41:33Z

제일 유명한 커피집: Cowgirls Expresso( chain ) in Seattle

커피집: Cowgirls Expresso in Seattle

Cowgirls Expresso:

미국에서 제일 유명한 비키니 커피집-

미국-시아틀 지역

하루에 8,000잔을 파니 돈 빨리 벌고

싶은 사람은 아래로 연락

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(253)-584-5999

< 동영상>

http://www.cowgirlsespresso.com/main.php

If you need a quick buck, Try it, it's a chain franchise.

Cowgirls Espresso founded in 2002 by Lori Bowden operates

12 corporate locations and 6 franchised locations selling only the

finest coffee with all employees properly attired in conformity of

state laws and city ordinances. Cowgirls Espresso has been

featured on numerous shows such as the Travel Channel,

Extreme Fast Food, Nightline, and CBS Sunday Morning. For more

information, please visit cowgirlsespresso.com or

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tag : 사업