无间道 [上]

Fores :

我所说的无间道不是戏院里的无间道，而是 [无间] 的道路。当你困惑在两方面人际关系的中间的时候，你就是困在一个无空间的人。现时代，[无间] 道已是多数男生的噩梦。它多数是发生在家人跟爱人之间。

何谓无间？当两个对方跟你有亲密关系，却不合好或当他们相见的是候，你就会困惑在[无间] 道，你会有想要跳墙的感觉，可是又不能，骑虎难下。你又不可以跟任何一方坦诚，因为害怕另一方不高兴，又不可以对朋友或外人透入家事。这条路就叫[无间] 道路，对内无助，对外无门。

老板的苦恼

Fores :

一位公司员工时常都闯祸，一次，老板招他进去问话，他向老板一五一十讲述了问题的所在，间中还问了老板一些没有建设性的问题。老板发怒了说：[我比你更清楚问题的所在，我们是一个组合，在还没发问或点诉之前，你因该去掺议和聊解更多，在问题上给以更多有建设性的分解和参见，而不是遇到问题就把问题都抛出来，我门需要的是解决方案。] 老板在想: [这位员工所讲述的我门早已经有了长远的方案对策，希望他可以明百，在这个人多复杂的大环境，有时候我门的不动或是大动作都是我门长远的策列解决方案。]

Smart Lighting Can Turn LED Lights into WiFi Hotspots

by Jaymi Heimbuch, Central Coast, California
on 10. 9.08 Science & Technology (Article from treehugger)









Everyone is a smarty pants. A research team at Boston University is developing a whole new way to use LEDs for more than just energy-efficient lighting. They’re creating Smart Lighting, which would enable wireless communication through visibile light.
Ditching radio frequency, the prototype from BU uses light instead to connect. Each light would essentially be a Wi-Fi hotspot with 1 to 10 megabits per second networking speeds. Data transmission would be done over existing electrical wiring.
“Imagine if your computer, iPhone, TV, radio and thermostat could all communicate with you when you walked in a room just by flipping the wall light switch and without the usual cluster of wires,” said BU Engineering Professor Thomas Little.
I like imagining that.
The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center is part of an $18.5 million, multi-year NSF program awarded to Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of New Mexico. Their task is to develop this awesome way to use lighting as a method of wireless communication over the next 10 years.
The possibility of using LED rather than radio waves boosts the potential for energy efficiency. Another interesting point brought up is that since light doesn’t go through walls, wireless evesdropping is limited.
Even cooler, it can potentially be used in the transportation industry. Imagine – Smart cars with Smart lights. Clever.

A Solar Refrigeration System, Carried by Camels

Article from TreeHugger
by Eliza Barclay, Nomad on 10. 9.08
Science & Technology (solar)

Reaching the nomadic communities who roam the arid and hot Sahel of Africa with vaccines has always posed an exceptional challenge to health workers, particularly because vaccines need to be refrigerated. (See past posts on the Ice Battery.) National immunization programs to eliminate serious diseases like polio and measles rarely benefit pastoralist communities in Kenyan districts like Laikipia and Samburu, nor do those communities often get access other medications requiring refrigeration.
In the last two years, a team of designers, health workers, and development experts from Designmatters at the Art Center College of Design, Princeton’s Institute of Science and Technology of Materials, and the Mpala Community Trust has conceived and rolled out a clever mobile, refrigerated health clinic using solar energy and camels.

While the mobile health clinic still relies on vehicles to carry the supplies to the camels, once they're loaded up the camels transport supplies to remote areas, where local health staff travel by bicycle and foot between camel camps and communities.
In transit, the lightweight, foldable solar panel powers the camel-pack refrigeration system. Once the camel convoy arrives at the remote health clinic site, the panel can be used in combination with larger solar panels to provide power for the health clinic. A foot-powered system provides backup and provides light in the clinic during extended operational hours when solar power is not available.
While nomadic communities have long used camels for transport, the team had to design a new frame for the camels, with a tighter fit that so that the camels could easily carry the solar panels.
The partnership originated in a proposal, Integrated Mobile Health Clinics for Remote Communities in Kenya, which was selected from more than 2,900 projects as one of the 105 finalists in the 2007 World Bank Development Marketplace competition. :: Via Trendhunter

Kiss Penguins Goodbye if the Planet Warms 2 Degrees Celsius: WWF

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:13 PM CDT (Article from Treehugger)
by Matthew McDermott, Brooklyn, NY on 10. 9.08


Though the jury is still out on whether global warming had anything to do with large numbers of dead penguins washing ashore in Brazil back in July, according to a report from WWF if global warming increases temperatures by 2 degrees Celsius more than half of Antarctica's colonies of Emperor penguins could be wiped out.
WWF’s Antarctic Climate Change Coordinator, Juan Casavelos, described the problem as very serious, “Antarctica and the Arctic are the most threatened regions from climate change. In the Antarctic Peninsular, the temperature has risen 2.5°C in the past 50 years, which is five times faster than the global average.” Casavelos went on to describe how these temperature increases have impacted penguins:

50% Drop in Penguin Populations in 50 YearsCasavelos said that in the past 50 years in which temperatures have been rising in the Antarctic, emperor penguin populations have declined by 50 percent. On the Antarctic peninsula’s northwest coast, Adelie penguin numbers have “dropped dramatically in the past 25 years”. (Reuters)

我的工作小格

Fores :
这就是我的工作小格了。。。

回忆童年

很久很久没进过去我以前的房间了。今天28 sep 2008,回家收拾孩子睡床的时候，偶然进去我以前睡过的房间，童年的时候，我们三兄弟都睡在这间房子里，回忆就重脑海里涌上来。。。以前的房间，虽然很肮脏，可是里边的家私，一点也没有变，那张写桌，以前考试前才会坐在那里。还记得我睡的那张床，还在。。。我们童年的生活照，跟七八年前一样，摆在书橱里。。。。当我看到了这一却，我真的很心痛，流下眼泪来。。。。。。我的心很痛，很伤心，是不是母亲特别把我们的童年回忆都留在这房间里！实在很心痛母亲。。。。。我相信每一位母亲，回忆她孩子的童年时候就是最快了的。

我的心很痛，很伤心，原来我的心还是很想念你们！童年就好像做了一场梦，我们现在已经自己有自己的家庭了。虽然如此，你们永远都是我的兄弟姐和父母，永远。。。。

我要对我的父母说对不起。。。我很久没回来了！

等於栽種100萬棵樹‧鄭雨週要釀10萬桶酵素

星洲日報 . 北馬 2008-10-06 10:32
（檳城）鄭雨週不僅要在檳城種植100萬棵樹，還要醞釀10萬桶環保酵素，為大地恢復綠色植被及生態林貢獻力量！
丹絨武雅區州議員鄭雨週週六（4日）下午聯合生活藝術協會成員，在丹絨武雅區水池路主持“全檳第一家酵素谷”開幕儀式時承諾，他會努力實踐種植100萬棵樹的競選諾言。與此同時，他也增加了一項新計劃，那就是醞釀10萬桶環保酵素，做為丹絨武雅區環保的大目標！
“全檳第一家酵素谷”開幕
他解釋，根據泰國教授樂素坤的研究報告顯示，每種植一棵樹將會釋放出40加侖的氧氣，足夠200人使用；而每一桶環保酵素在發酵過程所釋放出來的氧氣，則相等於在種10萬棵樹。
“生產10萬桶酵素就等於栽種100萬棵樹，對環保必然有很大的幫助！種樹與製造酵素這兩個目標都是同等的重要，皆是未來要努力實踐的大目標。”
他說，種樹和製酵素都可以把我們居住的地方變成一個淨土。前者可以綠化環境、平衡生態，後者則能夠淨化空氣、河流及活化受化學肥料破壞的泥土。
吁公眾商家支持環保計劃
“我要特別感謝丹絨武雅居民溫進敬，借出他在水池路上的工廠後院做為製做酵素。這個場地目前是檳城的第一家，至少可以存放百餘桶的環保酵素。未來，我們還會建立更多更多的酵素谷。”
他呼吁公眾、企業商家多多支持這項環保計劃，如能支援，歡迎提供30至120公升的有蓋塑膠空桶及紅糖原料，讓丹絨武雅的酵素谷可以達成生產10萬桶酵素的目標，降低溫室效應帶來的衝擊。
所有的贊助原料可送往：
No.3，Jalan Chee Swee Ee，11200 Tanjung Bungah，Pulau Pinang或No.97，Jalan Lembah Permai，11200 Tanjung Bungah，Pulau Pinang。
有疑問者可聯繫：04-890 1279。

New Vertical Farming - city-centre towers

Article from Discovery Channel Magazine :
Fores :
This must be very interesting. The idea was exectly the one I mentioned in my previous blog article "Big Tree" concept ! posted on Saturday, July 5, 2008. (http://myforestland.blogspot.com/2008/07/big-tree-concept_05.html)