Ron Paul on MSNBC: ‘Audit the Fed!’ (VIDEO)
I love how MSNBC accredits Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist, with the Audit the Fed bill — if it were for Sanders the only bank in America would be the Federal Reserve.
Read more: http://www.jackliberty.com/ron-paul-on-msnbc-audit-the-fed-video/#ixzz0n7cspy2j
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
致富!最重要的一句話/朱成志第八集
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【天下講堂】哪一句話可以讓你賺錢？哪一句話會讓你身敗名裂、負債累累？理財專家朱成志與你分享投資理財最重要的一句話！不管你是學生還是上班族，只要你慎選座右銘，就可以累積財富喔！
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【天下講堂】比原子彈威力更強大的投資概念，究竟是什麼？什麼樣的股票適合長期投資？什麼樣的股票適合短線操作？投資專家朱成志教你翻倍獲利的秘密。
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【天下講堂】關心地球也能致富？太陽能、風力發電、水資源都是你可以投資致富的關鍵。但是投資人必須小心，打著能源名號的基金也常隱藏著危機喔！
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【天下講堂】你的藝術投資眼光到底準不準？你會不會從藝術投資中獲利，還是輸到傾家當產？「藝術投資小測驗」馬上分析出你的投資個性。
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【天下講堂】世界首富巴菲特擁有620億美元的身價，少年時期的巴菲特，究竟有何特質與行動，才成就今天的巴菲特？朱成志帶您向巴菲特學習致富絕招。
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【天下講堂】巴菲特因為愛喝可樂而投資飲料賺大錢？愛喝飲料的年輕人們，是否也可以向巴菲特學習，將消費觀察轉成投資，並且產生財富效應？
影音簡介／
【天下講堂】一個月收入只有三萬的上班族，應該如何投資房地產呢？投資房地產有哪些重要的技巧呢？投資房地產又有哪些盲點應該要避免呢？理財大師朱成志為什麼說，買房子好處多多？租房子不如買房子？
影音簡介／
【天下講堂】做一個邊上班、邊投資的上班族，應該學會哪些投資技巧呢？投資理財要達到20%的年報酬率，最重要的三個原則是什麼呢？投資大師朱成志，立刻告訴你「年報酬率20%的投資致富法」。
科特勒行銷新論（英文版）
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科特勒在台灣首度提出4P的行銷模式應該轉化為「CCDVTP」新行銷模式。他認為該新模式建立後再經由創新溝通來傳遞商品價值，針對目標市場才能獲利。除此，他還提出品牌建立三步驟。但究竟是哪些呢？
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品牌一定要花大錢砸廣告嗎？代工到底能不能經營品牌？科特勒認為，善用事件行銷及口碑行銷，品牌自然會流行。他舉例維珍集團的創辦人自身也是品牌，究竟這些企業如何運用不同行銷活動，成功打造品牌呢？
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如何才能做好B2B行銷呢？台灣是否能做到B2B2C呢？當行銷大師科特勒遇到品牌先生智融集團董事長施振榮，他們精采對話要告訴你，B2B品牌第一步是什麼？台灣企業究竟如何利用B2B2C成功建立品牌優勢。
安藤忠雄演講精華：夢想的追尋
安藤忠雄
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安藤忠雄，不曾受過正統建築教育，卻創造出許多世界級的建築作品。成名後的安藤忠雄，不愛名與利。他將書籍版稅所得，全數捐給保護環境的綠色組織。這位與眾不同的建築哲學家，用自己的言行舉止，影響人，感動人。他的夢想與堅持，仍在一點一滴改變這個世界。
http://video.cw.com.tw/pages/public/movie/player/tv_player.jspx?id=40288ae71a56a6eb011a77275c0a2517
影音簡介／
安藤忠雄，不曾受過正統建築教育，卻創造出許多世界級的建築作品。成名後的安藤忠雄，不愛名與利。他將書籍版稅所得，全數捐給保護環境的綠色組織。這位與眾不同的建築哲學家，用自己的言行舉止，影響人，感動人。他的夢想與堅持，仍在一點一滴改變這個世界。
http://video.cw.com.tw/pages/public/movie/player/tv_player.jspx?id=40288ae71a56a6eb011a77275c0a2517
Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom
Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom
In this video presented by Mobile Learning Institute, Alan tours his hometown of Marblehead, MA and comments on the historical global vision of his community.
Alan challenges us to think about the emerging role of “student as contributor” and to globalize our curriculum by linking students with authentic audiences from around the world. (For more on this topic read Alan’s article, Students as Contributors: The Digital Learning Farm.
Find more videos like this on NL Connect
He also discusses three myths regarding the impact of technology on student learning:
Myth #1: Technology is going to be the great equalizer of society.
In reality, technology is actually polarizing society.
Myth #2: The Internet is going to provide a diversity of opinion. We will have an input of ideas from around the world and generally have a better educated society.
In reality, people are going to the web to get their “version” of the truth.
Myth #3 Technology is going to make kids smarter.
In reality, it’s a distraction. Overall we are missing out on critical thinking.
In this video presented by Mobile Learning Institute, Alan tours his hometown of Marblehead, MA and comments on the historical global vision of his community.
Alan challenges us to think about the emerging role of “student as contributor” and to globalize our curriculum by linking students with authentic audiences from around the world. (For more on this topic read Alan’s article, Students as Contributors: The Digital Learning Farm.
Find more videos like this on NL Connect
He also discusses three myths regarding the impact of technology on student learning:
Myth #1: Technology is going to be the great equalizer of society.
In reality, technology is actually polarizing society.
Myth #2: The Internet is going to provide a diversity of opinion. We will have an input of ideas from around the world and generally have a better educated society.
In reality, people are going to the web to get their “version” of the truth.
Myth #3 Technology is going to make kids smarter.
In reality, it’s a distraction. Overall we are missing out on critical thinking.
Tutorial – Using Overlays with Google Maps
Tutorial – Using Overlays with Google Maps
We recently received an email request from Fran Stromsland of Watchung Hills Regional HS in NJ requesting information about a particular Google Maps overlay. This overlay demonstrates the effect of sea level rise anywhere in the world.
The tutorial below explains how to get a Google Maps account, find the Google Map overlays and add one of these overlays to your own map.
To view this video, I highly recommend that you click on the full screen icon at the bottom right hand corner of the video window. You will see it when the video plays and you hover your mouse over the video window
More from Channel 4 News - US questions oil production as disaster looms
More from Channel 4 News
- US questions oil production as disaster looms
Ecological disaster looms as oil from damaged BP well head reaches US shoreline
Ecological disaster looms as oil from damaged BP well head reaches US shoreline
By Kris Jepson Updated on 30 April 2010
The prospect of an ecological disaster looms along America’s vulnerable Gulf of Mexico coastline as oil from a damaged BP well head begins to wash ashore. But BP’s head of group media tells Channel 4 News that the cause of the accident is still not known.
It is BP’s fourth major incident in the United States in as many years.
The rig exploded last Friday, killing 11 men. One week on, oil is still belching out of the open well hole, 5,000 feet below sea level, at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day.
Desperate efforts have been launched to try to protect the wildlife habitats along the coast.
President Obama has ordered a complete halt on oil exploration in the area.
The White House has suspended any new exploration in the Gulf pending the review of last week's explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
Interview: Andrew Gowers, BP head of group media
The head of group media for BP, Andrew Gowers, told Jon Snow that the rig involved in the incident was operated by Transocean, an American company.
He said it was BP's responsibililty to cope with the consequences of the incident. BP was now staging a massive clean-up operation, both below the surface in efforts to cap the well, and on the surface with the largest maritime clean-up the world had ever seen.
Mr Gowers said huge volumes of dispersants were being sprayed on the leak.
More from Channel 4 News
- US questions oil production as disaster looms
He conceded that the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico was BP's – "and that's why we have primary responsibility for cleaning up the consequences and stopping it."
He stressed that "the issue of fault and responsibility between various operators is not actually an issue for now". And he stated that the rig involved "was owned and operated and regulated separately, under Transocean".
Mr Gowers admitted that the cause of the accident was not known. BP, Transocean and the US government had all launched investigations, and that it would take some time to determine the cause, he said.
He continued: "What we know as a consequence of that accident was that the piece of kit – the vital, failsafe piece of safety machinery that is supposed to stop wells tight when trouble happens – failed to work. That's a piece of kit on the Transocean rig."
BP was focused on "helping them (Transocean) (…) by making the blowout preventer (…) work and, failing that, doing other things to cap off the spill."
State of emergency in Louisiana
President Barack Obama pledged to "use every single available resource" and the US military is mobilizing to help contain the spreading spill from the deepwater leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Crude oil is spewing out of the well, following the explosion which sank the BP rig Deepwater Horizon, at a rate of up to 5,000 barrels a day, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
That is five times the original estimate.
Local residents in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have expressed concerned the slick will damage fisheries, wildlife refuges and tourism.
The governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal has been heading up the ongoing recovery from the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Declaring a state of emergency, he has warned that the slick "threatens the state's natural resources." He also asked the Defence Department for funds to deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops to help with the expected clean-up.
Experts have warned that the ecology of the Mississippi Delta area is under threat as the huge 3 mile oil slick spreads to marshland.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Neopolitano declared it "a spill of national significance", which essentially means funds and federal resources could be used from other states to help in the clean-up.
Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson are travelling to the Gulf coast today to assess the situation.
Drilling permits
For Barack Obama, he says the London based BP PLs shoulders most responsibility for the clean-up, but his current proposals to offer new offshore drilling permits, which are before Congress, may be an incentive for the US to do whatever it can to help.
However, opponents of Obama's plan for more drilling permits are moving to block the legislation.
Democratic Senator from Florida, Bill Nelson, said he was filing a bill to temporarily prohibit the administration from expanding offshore drilling, citing the risk of a potential "environmental and economic disaster" from the spill.
The Obama administration did not rule out imposing a pause in new deepwater drilling until oil companies can show they can control any spills that may happen.
Resources deployed so far
· 174,060 feet of boom (barrier) to contain the spill. An additional 243,260 feet is available and 265,460 feet has been ordered.
· Recovered 18,180 barrels (763,560 gallons) of an oil-water mix.
· Deployed 98,361 gallons of dispersant. An additional 75,000 gallons are available and 184,748 have been ordered.
· Deployed 76 response vessels, including skimmers, tugs, barges, and recovery vessels to assist in containment and cleanup efforts-in addition to six fixed-wing aircraft, 11 helicopters, 10 remotely operated vehicles, and two mobile offshore drilling units.
· Five staging areas (Biloxi, Miss., Pensacola, Fla. Venice, La., Pascagoula, Miss. and Theodore, Ala.) are in place and ready to protect sensitive shorelines.
Containment
The navy has supplied inflatable booms and seven skimming systems to the coastguard to contain the oil.
US coastguard Captain Steve Poulin in Alabama said: "We have a booming strategy for coastal Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle."
Poulin added that some 500,000 protection and containment booms were stockpiled along the coastline for deployment.
BP and the coastguard are working together in what the company says is the biggest oil spill containment operation in history.
The oil giant confirmed that it is struggling to control the spill. It has asked the Pentagon for access to military imaging machinery and remotely operated vehicles to help plug the leak in the well which lies 5,000 feet under the sea.
Eleven workers are missing and presumed dead after the rig exploded and caught fire 11 days ago.
Underwater robots failed to activate a cutoff valve on the ocean floor and now BP is relying on a plan to cover the well with a steel cap. However, this will take at least four weeks to put in place, by which stage over 150,000 barrels could have been spilled.
If that plan fails, BP has no alternative other than drilling a relief well, which would take two to three months. If it takes that long, there is a strong chance that over 300,000 barrels could be leaked - that is more than the US's worst oil spill in 1989 by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska.
Obama has been briefed over any disruption to the shipping channels of the Gulf, which is crucial for the delivery petroleum to the US market. But no disruption has been reported as yet.
Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Julian Rush reports:
With the winds forecast to shift to the south-east, oil engineers are in a race against time to prevent the growing oil slick from hitting the Louisiana shore near New Orleans.
At its closest, the slick is only 16 miles from the coast, and it is forecast to come ashore by Friday. The outflow of water from the huge river may push some of it back but no-one's pretending the environmental impact won't be immense - the fragile ecosystem of the Mississippi River delta is very delicate.
NASA satellite imagery shows the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
There's the long term solution. A second drilling rig is now on site and will "spud" this weekend (start drilling). The aim is to drill down to meet the existing well in the seabed beneath the well head, to divert the flow and cap it again.
It's been done often enough before, but it's difficult - they have to drill down and sideways for several thousand feet to hit a target that is two feet wide, several hundred feet underground. And it will take at least a month.
Lawsuit
BP's shares took a massive hit yesterday, falling by six per cent, as investors realised the consequences of the potential cost to stop the leak.
BP has seen its shares plummet by 10 per cent since the explosion, and Transocean Ltd's, the firm which owns the rig, has fallen by 14 per cent.
Oilfield services companies Cameron International Corp and Halliburton Co have also seen their shares tumble on fears about their ties to the Deepwater Horizon rig.
Cameron, which supplied the blowout preventer for the rig, says it is insured for $500 million of liability, if needed. Halliburton says it did a variety of work on the rig and is assisting with the investigation.
Shrimp fishermen in Louisiana filed a class-action lawsuit against BP, Transocean, Halliburton and Cameron, accusing them of negligence. None of the companies would comment on the lawsuit.
大前研一：台灣，東亞的超級矽谷
http://video.cw.com.tw/pages/public/movie/player/tv_player.jspx?id=40288ae71b6cc87b011b7403bab73714
影音簡介／
台灣可以成為東亞的「超級矽谷」？趨勢大師大前研一，接受天下雜誌邀請來台，為三千名企業中高階主管演講。在這個詭譎莫測的世界裡，台灣應站在什麼位置上，大前研一提出了讓人耳目一新的觀點。
大前研一：2020年，世界經濟大預測！
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(採訪整理/莊素玉)2008年春天，日本知名趨勢專家大前研一，接受天下雜誌獨家專訪。他認為世界即將出現巨大的經濟霸權轉移，這段會撼動世界的大洗牌中，2020年將是最關鍵的一年。而誰將是世界的第一霸權，答案恐怕你不一定想得到。
大前研一：台灣要打造成「生活者大國」
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【採訪：狄英、莊素玉】面對21世紀的金融海嘯，台灣學習20年前的日本經驗是否恰當？天下雜誌獨家專訪日本趨勢專家大前研一，他日本人拼命儲蓄、不捨得花錢，是經濟無法成長的主因，台灣必須打造成「生活者大國」，才能避免步上日本後塵！
BP oil spill poses 'logistical nightmare'
May 5, 2010
BP oil spill poses 'logistical nightmare'
Channel4: BP admits operation to keep spill away from the Louisiana coast could take three months
As BP admits the operation to keep its oil spill away from the Louisiana coast could take three months, one expert tells Alex Thomson it is "a logistical nightmare".
The race to keep the oil offshore, as BP admits it could be three months before the leak is fully sealed.
Today saw a further fall in BP’s share price mid the unfolding disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. How long will it take to tame the gushing well 5,000 feet below sea level?
The company hopes to drop a dome over it before siphoning the oil flow away - but that will take a week. And to stem the leak altogether could take at least three months.
Tony Hayward, the head of BP, promised today that the company would pay for the leak, as he outlined plans to try to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . President Obama has called the leak a “massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster”.
Mr Hayward admitted it could be three months before the flow of oil from the ruptured well is capped. For now, the company is trying to drop giant metal hoods directly over the leaking pipe.
The spill has been growing steadily since an explosion sank the Deepwater Horizon rig eleven days ago. Scientists think it may have tripled in size and could threaten coastlines further east - towards Alabama.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson, reporting live from the Louisiana coast, told Jon Snow the rain and wind which have swept the region for several days are now dying down.
But nobody in the area is under any illusions about the mammoth nature of the clean-up task ahead. And local fishermen are demanding action, not words.
The effects of the vast slick are being felt on a variety of species. The booms are not working in the high winds and heavy seas.
From the air, the main slick is still visible – bigger than Hampshire, nine miles out. Nobody knows how much is leaking into the sea.
BP Tony Hayward boss finally accepted today that the clean-up could cost £8bn and that the responsibility was with his company.
Kerry O’Neill, a fisherman from Venice, told Channel 4 News: "Hurricane Katrina was bad, but we were able to kind of go back to work afterwards. This here, there ain’t no telling how long we'd be shut down."
President Obama flew in to the area yesterday, and he underlined BP’s responsibilities. But this morning in Venice, the fishermen were not easily moved. "Talk is cheap," Kerry O’Neill told Alex Thomson.
Booms are being laid down out to sea, but many of them have already been swept to shore.
Venice lives and dies by oil and fishing. BP is saying a well funnel under construction could be placed over the leak in six to eight days, allowing safe pumping and storage of the crude. But the technology is untried at this depth.
But BP also says the well could spew its crude for up to three months – what BP calls a "worst-case scenario".
'Logistically a nightmare, technologically pushing the limits'
Dr Simon Boxall, of the National Oceanography Centre, told Channel 4 News that on land it was easy to put a funnel over a leaking oil well.
"But we're dealing here with a hole that is 1,500 metres, over one mile, deep. And at those depths the pressure is phenomenal," he said.
In addition, the work was remote and in the dark. And the oil pumping out through the sea floor "is like a fog".
"So you're dealing with robots, though a fog, a mile away, with phenomenal pressures (…) It's pushing the boundaries of technology."
Dr Boxall explained: "At these sorts of depths, low tech is the best option… At this stage what they need is a quick fix to at least stem the oil flow."
Those involved in sealing the leak needed to wait for a "calm weather window" to complete the operation. "They've got to get this thing down through a mile of water. They've then got to use robots to position it.
"And another thing we're not used to is dealing with mini-robots under the sea at the same time (…) If you've got two or three things dangling over the side of a ship, or different ships, the chance of them getting tangled up is also very high.
"So logistically it's a nightmare, technologically it's pushing the limits."
Dr Boxall likened the situation in the Gulf of Mexico to a succession of stopcocks controlling the water supply to a house.
"You have a mains stopcock from the mains supply," he told Alex Thomson, "and you've got lots of stopcocks along the line – under your sink, in the shower, whatever.
"If the mains stopcock itself goes, then at the end of the day you have a problem. You can’t turn that safety valve off.
"And that's what’s happened here. You've got a situation where, if you like, it's broken right at the beginning of the line. And when that happens, there’s a limit to what you can put in in terms of safety measures."
Alex Thomson writes from Louisiana
We are way down the Bayou. And when it comes to being way down the Bayou, Venice is about as way down it as you can get.
The thick, driving tropical rain smashed down all the way last night, as I drove from a massive concrete freeway of central New Orleans, down, down and down into the dark night of the Mississippi Delta.
By night you see nothing – and then the vast, sudden light-show of a refinery or flare stack. By day the light has gone, but the thick tropical rain remains.
With the possible exception of water, Venice Louisiana doesn’t share much with the place of gondoliers. You simply drive down Highway-23 till the swamps and waters finally close in, and the only way back by land is reverse.
This morning, sheltering from the rainy onslaught, groups of burly men, all high-vis and hard hat, stand around – and they wait. This whole town – well, "town" isn’t the right word – this whole weird collection of docks, service vessels, oil yards and fishing boats, is in suspended animation.
There are yards full of clear-up equipment, oil booms, even catering. But till the weather clears, little is happening. And for the fishermen too, of course, their ground’s now closed.
And as for the perpetrators, well, BP have admitted responsibility for the oil and for cleaning it up. Potus, visiting Venice yesterday, said so. Venice fishermen and oil men say so. And now Tony Hayward – BP boss – says so.
The BP chief executive said the oil giant was "absolutely responsible" for cleaning up the oil spill caused by a ruptured offshore well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaking on NBC's Today Show, Tony Hayward also said the company was preparing for a "worst case scenario" that it would need to contain the spill for two to three months.
His comments came a day after President Barack Obama said BP was responsible for footing the bill for $4.6bn of damages caused by the massive oil slick heading towards the wetlands of the Gulf Coast.
BP is responsible for this leak. BP will be paying the bill", Obama said, as the race to save wildlife from gallons of crude oil continues.
BP has more than 2,500 people working to clean up the slick, which the oil giant says is costing it at least £6.5m a day.
However, BP's bill looks set to soar as new evidence suggests the slick has tripled in size over the past two days and could cost the US more than $14bn.
Satellite images analysed by the University of Miami show the growing spread of the spill – and indicate the well may now be leaking at a greater rate.
US officials have banned fishing for at least 10 days in the affected area, which provides the nation with around 20 per cent of its seafood.
Mr Hayward said: "We've made it clear that where legitimate claims are made, we will be good for them."
"We have the claims process set up, small claims today that are being paid instantly ... bigger claims we clearly have a process to run through," he added.
The President vowed to spare no effort in responding to the crisis, which he said threatened one of the "richest and most beautiful eco systems on the planet".
Meanwhile, there are fears of a worst-case scenario that would see the spillage infiltrating the Gulf Stream where it could be carried to Florida’s beaches.
"It is also the heartbeat of the region's economic life and we're going to do everything in our power to protect our national resources and compensate those who have been harmed, rebuild what has been damaged and help this region preserve like it has done so many times before," he said in Louisiana yesterday.
The stricken waters in the Gulf of Mexico span the coastlines of four states, with the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana and Florida's Pensacola Bay the worst affected, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA officials are working to keep oiled seafood off the market – which is well-known for its shrimp and oyster supply as well as being a rich source of crabs and fish.
"There should be no health risk in seafood currently in the marketplace," Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Board said in a statement.
More than a billion pounds of fish and shellfish were harvested by fishermen in the region in 2008, according to government figures.
Eleven BP workers were killed after an explosion on April 20 that sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and lead to the massive oil spill.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
史上最嚴打房措施！？能讓經濟軟著陸？
史上最嚴打房措施！？能讓經濟軟著陸？
防泡沫破裂！中國祭10條抑制房價！救命藥有副作用？
張貼者： 公視有話好說-新聞論壇 於 星期五, 四月 30, 2010
來賓：
政大房地產研究中心主任 張金鶚
政大金融系教授 殷乃平
房地產市場分析師 陳韻如
視訊 八九民運領袖 王丹
CALL OUT 北京理工科技大學經濟系教授胡星斗
走過金融風暴，近來兩岸房價連翻漲。房價為何驚驚漲？為了遏制部分城市房價上漲過快，中國國務院17號下達新的「國十條」措施，包括對房價過高地區的銀行，暫停發放新屋貸款等政策。炒房的不貸款？控制貸款不能遏制炒房？
被喚作史上最嚴打房措施，中國政府4/17國十條，打房政策內容分析！房產新政觸動哪些敏感神經？
中央祭鐵腕，這次真打房？
一星期內，兩千四百億人民幣房市熱錢走避，一線城市房產成交量下跌，但二線城市依舊居高。大.中城市房價漲跌情況，越打越漲？還是有效抑制？短期效果？
中國中央祭出鐵腕打房，是否能夠達成預期效果？市場需求源源不斷？大城市房子再多也有人要，價高不愁賣？房產新政還有哪些政策未出手？物業税還是兩面刃？
中央祭鐵腕，地方的執行面如何？
中央力推保障房供應！範圍多大？城市自己找答案？一國多制？中國打房！國十條要地方負起抑制房價責任，地方如何應對？為什麼限制的時候，地方政府不願意超出中央範圍，鼓勵的時候，地方措施卻紛紛超出中央政策範圍呢？中央力推國十條 二、三線城市在觀望？雙方的爾虞我詐！關鍵不在細則？在執行？
土地成地方最主要稅收來源時，政策能順利推動？(北京版新“國十條”延期 房市調控中央地方各懷鬼胎？)
打房如何下手才不會誤傷？
保障性住房概念混亂，商品房定義不明！擾亂政策執行和民眾觀念？保障性住房有哪些？商品房又有哪些？購房成本大幅上升？一般民眾更無力買房？誰來買房？除了投機客之外，還有誰在賺差價？保障性住房和商品房的拉扯！
開發商口袋深不怕調控？挫咧等？投機客降價求售沒人要？房價下跌！重傷是誰？誤傷了誰？
高房價考驗政府、考驗人民？
一部描寫上海小市民為買樓，淪為房奴的電視連續劇-蝸居，推出後，不但在網路熱烈迴響，連三月的政協人大開會期間，官員都拿來討論。溫家寶說：「我也知道蝸居的滋味！」知道真的辦得到？高房價考驗百姓的忍受能力？！考驗政府的執政能力？！
混亂房市造成哪些社會問題，抑制房價真能解決？
打房的顧慮：影響整體經濟？
如何避免房價過熱、擴大貧富差距，在打房後又要如何確保中國整體經濟穩定發展，打壓房價和經濟成長，兩方力道又該怎麼拿捏！
住宅房地產投資是增長的主要推動力，政治敏感，政府大力收緊住宅房產？
當前中國經濟特性解析：高增長和低通脹同時並存？經濟過熱？抑制房價有效？經濟是否過熱？靠抑制房價能讓經濟順利著陸？ 打房措施，打到要害？效果有限？還需要更果斷的緊縮政策？
中國央行是否已對貨幣供應和通脹預期失去了控制？不敢加息？中國抑制通膨要付出的代價(未來5年四大銀行要用4800億元填補資本短缺？)
Monday, May 03, 2010
2010-05-02公視晚間新聞(放牛吃草! 老牛之家安養老耕牛)
"台灣早期農村、常能看到水牛或黃牛在田裡幫忙耕作，不過這樣的景象現在已經逐漸消失了，為了讓民眾了解認識農村文化，台南縣成立了全國第一座老牛的家，這很像牛的安養院，免費幫農民照顧老耕牛。
20歲的老水牛，一看到小泥坑就忍不住躺下去打滾，看起來非常快活，也把來參觀的遊客逗得笑哈哈。
不管水牛還是黃牛，耕牛在農村已經很罕見，即使是以農立縣的台南縣，目前只有161戶農民養牛，耕牛也只剩218隻，比台南的水雉數量還少，這座佔地三公頃的牧場，就專門收養被人綁了大半輩子的老牛，讓牠們重新回到「放牛吃草」的悠閒生活。
雖然是第一個政府公辦的老牛之家，但從跟農民買老牛，到飼養管理，都不使用納稅人的錢，經費倚賴募款，還好地方上不少民眾很認同，出錢出力回報曾經為農民辛苦付出的老耕牛。
老牛的家希望號召更多農民捐牛，這裡除了會照顧老耕牛，未來也要成立犁田體驗區，以及展示牛耕文化的相關農具，讓早期的農村文化不會消失。
記者 王介村 蔡明孝 台南報導"
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Besotted Bread Lovers Treat Starters Like Pet
Besotted Bread Lovers Treat Starters Like Pets 5/2/2010 7:00:00 PM
Vintage sourdough starter -- a bubbly mix of flour, yeast and bacteria used to make crusty loaves of bread -- is all the rage in culinary circles. . WSJ's food writer Katy McLaughlin ordered one online and tried it out.
Made in NY: Anna Hu's Handmade Jewelry 4/30/2010 8:00:00 PM
Made in NY: Anna Hu's Handmade Jewelry 4/30/2010 8:00:00 PM
Anna Hu, who's become known in luxury circles for creating one-of-a-kind baubles that blend Eastern design and European craftsmanship, shows how she creates the jewels that end up adorning celebrities such as Drew Barrymore and Oprah Winfrey.
AM Report: Criminal Probe Eyes Goldman 4/30/2010 9:34:40 AM
AM Report: Criminal Probe Eyes Goldman 4/30/2010 9:34:40 AM
Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into whether Goldman Sachs or its employees committed securities fraud with its mortgage trading. Jamie Heller, Peter Landers and Evan Newmark discuss. Also, David Wessel and Evan Newmark discuss the announcement of 1st Quarter GDP. And, Warren Buffett says that he expects to "give extensive and complete replies" to Goldman-related questions at this weekend's Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting.
News Hub: Buffett - Expect Frank Goldman Answers 4/30/2010 9:46:50 AM
Warren Buffett says he expects to "give extensive and complete replies" to Goldman Sachs-related questions at this weekend's Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting. Berkshire is a major investor in Goldman. Jamie Heller and Evan Newmark discuss.
PM Report: Eco-Disaster Feared 4/30/2010 4:00:00 PM
News Hub: Oil Spill Sparks Washington Debate 4/29/2010 5:03:33 PM
WSJ's Stephen Power joins the News Hub from Washington with the latest on the political fallout of the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Concept 3: Delay of Gratification
Delay of Gratification is the ability of a person to wait for what he/she really wants in life.
A study performed by Walter Mischel in Stanford University involved 4-year-old kids and their ability to get what they really really want: marshmallows.
So basically, each kid was put in a room, with 1 marshmallow. They can eat it right away, or if they wait for 20 minutes, they would be given another one. Here’s the clip:
The university keep track on these kids later on in life and found out that
- Kids who ate the marshmallow look at short term orientation, often moody, envious & jealous, indecisive and more likely to use drugs.
- Kids who waited for the second one turned out to be long term oriented, works well under pressure, scored 250 points higher on SAT, success in school, self reliant and confident.
The ones who has the ability to delay gratification are the ones who can manage self discipline well.
Delay of Gratification is the ability of a person to wait for what he/she really wants in life.
A study performed by Walter Mischel in Stanford University involved 4-year-old kids and their ability to get what they really really want: marshmallows.
So basically, each kid was put in a room, with 1 marshmallow. They can eat it right away, or if they wait for 20 minutes, they would be given another one. Here’s the clip:
The university keep track on these kids later on in life and found out that
- Kids who ate the marshmallow look at short term orientation, often moody, envious & jealous, indecisive and more likely to use drugs.
- Kids who waited for the second one turned out to be long term oriented, works well under pressure, scored 250 points higher on SAT, success in school, self reliant and confident.
The ones who has the ability to delay gratification are the ones who can manage self discipline well.
2010-04-16公視晚間新聞(下水道接管率低 污水直接入河川)
看不到的地方，環境最容易受到忽略，尤其是在地底下的水溝和下水道，容易孳生蚊蟲和老鼠。其實，要解決這些問題，最好的方式就是興建汙水下水道，不過目前台灣的接管率只有兩成三，而且還有一半以上的家庭汙水，是沒有經過符合環保規定的方式來處理，就放流出去。雨水、汙水；乾淨的水、骯髒的水，通通水往低處流，流到水溝裡。環保聯盟問卷調查上千名民眾，其中，近六成三的民眾認為，應該改善水溝下水道孳生的蚊蟲、蟑螂和老鼠問題，五成一的人認為該解決惡臭問題。台灣的水溝這麼髒，主要來是跟我們湯湯水水的飲食文化有關係。台灣的水溝之所以要承載這麼多汙水，主要還是因為汙水沒有分流，流入衛生下水道，營建署統計，有超過一半的家庭汙水，是沒有經過現代環保設備處理過，直接就流入河川。而全台衛生下水道的接管率，平均只有兩成三。全台衛生下水道的建設，從八十一年開始到現在，已經投入一千五百二十多億元的經費，接管率還有很大的進步空間。環保團體呼籲，下水道是基礎公共建設，不只關乎環境乾不乾淨，也牽涉到公共衛生，政治人物不要把它當成看不見的政績，而忽視它的重要性。
自然期刊專訪 林政鞍台灣第一人(影音)
國際頂尖科學期刊「自然」(NATURE)雜誌，首度專訪了台灣青年科學家，這位台灣本土栽培，中原大學生物醫學工程系的林政鞍教授，他研發出可以發出螢光的奈米金材料，受到國際的肯定，他說，他從小立志當一位土產的博士，果真證明了台灣出產的科學研究、也是可以掛保證。這四瓶材料，在紫外燈照射下，各自發出不同顏色的螢光，主要的材料是黃金，將黃金奈米化後產生的發光特性，紅色光是1.5奈米、綠色光是1.1奈米，藍色光最小，只有0.8個奈米，這些獨特的螢光材質，將照亮未來的醫學研究。研發出這些材料的是今年才34歲的年輕科學家林政鞍，林政鞍從小在台灣土生土長，一路上都不是念明星的學校，不過他從小立志要當個本土的博士，如今他的研究成果，備受國際肯定，還在美國的奈米生醫光電學術會議，得到青年研究學者獎，成為國際知名科學期刊自然NATURE首度專訪的台灣科學家。
林政鞍的指導教授說，他的成績一向中等，但活躍於社團，培養了優異的組織能力，對從事研究很有幫助。
雖然林政鞍在念博士班時，才第一次出國，在教授的帶領下到加拿大參加國際會議，之後他參加國科會的德國交流計畫，他說，這些國外交流的經驗讓他開了眼界，雖然是台灣本土博士但也能與國際接軌，林政鞍的表現，可以說是台灣的科學之光。
Saturday, May 01, 2010
20100426 國道走山
北二高大走山！
無雨無地震 為何會山崩？道路橋樑隧道 哪裡有潛在危險？
張貼者： 公視有話好說-新聞論壇 於 星期一, 四月 26, 2010
來賓：
中興工程顧問公司總經理 周南山
經濟部中央地質調查所所長 林朝宗
台北縣土木技師公會理事長 洪啟德
台大地質系教授 陳宏宇
SNG連線：公視記者 林曉慧 (19:05-19:10)
國道三號南下3.1公里處靠近基隆路段，昨天下午發生嚴重土石崩塌，南北雙向路段被覆蓋，目前積極搶救中，無雨無地震，為何會出現大面積的地層滑動？問題到底出在哪裡？
記者連線：
1.現場搜救進度
目視三個足球場大的土石坍方，目前高公局、國軍等搜救的方式，是盡量把土方高度降低，避免因為挖掘土石而讓地質再次鬆動崩落。
2.家屬情形疑似受困人數車數？
先前傳出兩輛車遭到掩埋，今天又傳出有賓士車主沒有到班，懷疑可能也壓在土礫堆中。
3.為何走山官方說法？
關於外界揣測錨釘生銹老化，高公局目前回應每天都有做目視及監測，表示一切正常。
關鍵一瞬間！
國道三號高速公路南下3.1公里處二十五下午發生大崩塌，差點被土石滅頂的車主拍下這一刻。畫面上所有人都驚慌失措這台藍色轎車跟山崩只差一步。目睹這一幕的藝人陳美鳳，簡直不敢相信。
北二高的走山，估計崩落20萬立方公尺的土石，高工局北工處表示，目前動員投入搶救人力達到930人，交通部長毛治國表示，國道還有20幾處屬於順向坡，目前以目視檢測無虞，有疑慮的再做重點式監測。
何以解讀“走山”？
無雨無地震，高速公路旁的山坡到底為什麼會突然崩塌，上午中央地質調查所到現場確認，當地的確屬於順向坡，因為蓋高速公路必須挖空底下的結構，雖然過去做過補強的工作，但可能因為地質不斷風化、或者補強的地錨老化，整片山坡才會滑下來。
何謂順向坡？順向坡下就一定會有危險？國道3號都是沿著山線走，有多少順向坡？大自然是變動的，必須常常監測。監控設備是什麼？(中寮、九份二山)
國道山崩，禍首是岩錨不足或老化？整片山的崩移，只是幾個岩錨的關係？
工程如何克服潛在危險？
多雨多颱風，坡度又陡，加上坡地開發很普遍，工程開發要如何因應這些可能的潛在危險，或作好維護工作？講求工程品質和安全，工程計畫每一環都不可掉以輕心。
還有哪些危險地區？1997年，位在台北縣汐止的林肯大郡，因為受到溫妮颱風大雨的侵襲，山坡地邊坡滑動，毀損了六棟房舍、數十人傷亡，事後調查這也是一起順向坡走山所造成的意外，但台灣地小人稠，蓋在山坡上的房子比比皆是，雖然建商都強調有做擋土牆，但民眾又怎麼會知道買到的房子會不會也是蓋在順向坡的山坡上。走山事前會有跡象嗎？能監測嗎？
還有哪些潛在危險地段？
貓纜、雪隧、國道六號、國道三號、到處都有危險？山坡地除了要擔心順向坡可能造成走山，另外，像貓纜在 2008年時接連受到兩個颱風的大雨沖刷，造成了T-16塔柱淘空、附近邊坡崩塌，連帶影響了山下社區居民的安危，根據台北市政府的調查，確認在颱風大雨之外，貓纜從規劃到施工、驗收，都有行政疏失，為此，台北市長郝龍斌還向市民公開道歉。
而台灣工程界最引以為傲的雪山隧道，由於位在斷層上且附近有水源通過，結果通車後北上車道26公里處就發生過兩次漏水事件，2007年甚至嚴重到封閉隧道修復。走山土石流，想都想不到？環評、公共工程標準是否過低？
山崩、豪雨、過度開發，再加上氣候變遷，讓台灣地表遭受嚴重破壞，災情也一次比一次嚴重，如果相關單位的監測系統不夠完善，只會讓民眾無論是在行的安全、住的安心上，都充滿了擔心。
無雨無地震 為何會山崩？道路橋樑隧道 哪裡有潛在危險？
張貼者： 公視有話好說-新聞論壇 於 星期一, 四月 26, 2010
來賓：
中興工程顧問公司總經理 周南山
經濟部中央地質調查所所長 林朝宗
台北縣土木技師公會理事長 洪啟德
台大地質系教授 陳宏宇
SNG連線：公視記者 林曉慧 (19:05-19:10)
國道三號南下3.1公里處靠近基隆路段，昨天下午發生嚴重土石崩塌，南北雙向路段被覆蓋，目前積極搶救中，無雨無地震，為何會出現大面積的地層滑動？問題到底出在哪裡？
記者連線：
1.現場搜救進度
目視三個足球場大的土石坍方，目前高公局、國軍等搜救的方式，是盡量把土方高度降低，避免因為挖掘土石而讓地質再次鬆動崩落。
2.家屬情形疑似受困人數車數？
先前傳出兩輛車遭到掩埋，今天又傳出有賓士車主沒有到班，懷疑可能也壓在土礫堆中。
3.為何走山官方說法？
關於外界揣測錨釘生銹老化，高公局目前回應每天都有做目視及監測，表示一切正常。
關鍵一瞬間！
國道三號高速公路南下3.1公里處二十五下午發生大崩塌，差點被土石滅頂的車主拍下這一刻。畫面上所有人都驚慌失措這台藍色轎車跟山崩只差一步。目睹這一幕的藝人陳美鳳，簡直不敢相信。
北二高的走山，估計崩落20萬立方公尺的土石，高工局北工處表示，目前動員投入搶救人力達到930人，交通部長毛治國表示，國道還有20幾處屬於順向坡，目前以目視檢測無虞，有疑慮的再做重點式監測。
何以解讀“走山”？
無雨無地震，高速公路旁的山坡到底為什麼會突然崩塌，上午中央地質調查所到現場確認，當地的確屬於順向坡，因為蓋高速公路必須挖空底下的結構，雖然過去做過補強的工作，但可能因為地質不斷風化、或者補強的地錨老化，整片山坡才會滑下來。
何謂順向坡？順向坡下就一定會有危險？國道3號都是沿著山線走，有多少順向坡？大自然是變動的，必須常常監測。監控設備是什麼？(中寮、九份二山)
國道山崩，禍首是岩錨不足或老化？整片山的崩移，只是幾個岩錨的關係？
工程如何克服潛在危險？
多雨多颱風，坡度又陡，加上坡地開發很普遍，工程開發要如何因應這些可能的潛在危險，或作好維護工作？講求工程品質和安全，工程計畫每一環都不可掉以輕心。
還有哪些危險地區？1997年，位在台北縣汐止的林肯大郡，因為受到溫妮颱風大雨的侵襲，山坡地邊坡滑動，毀損了六棟房舍、數十人傷亡，事後調查這也是一起順向坡走山所造成的意外，但台灣地小人稠，蓋在山坡上的房子比比皆是，雖然建商都強調有做擋土牆，但民眾又怎麼會知道買到的房子會不會也是蓋在順向坡的山坡上。走山事前會有跡象嗎？能監測嗎？
還有哪些潛在危險地段？
貓纜、雪隧、國道六號、國道三號、到處都有危險？山坡地除了要擔心順向坡可能造成走山，另外，像貓纜在 2008年時接連受到兩個颱風的大雨沖刷，造成了T-16塔柱淘空、附近邊坡崩塌，連帶影響了山下社區居民的安危，根據台北市政府的調查，確認在颱風大雨之外，貓纜從規劃到施工、驗收，都有行政疏失，為此，台北市長郝龍斌還向市民公開道歉。
而台灣工程界最引以為傲的雪山隧道，由於位在斷層上且附近有水源通過，結果通車後北上車道26公里處就發生過兩次漏水事件，2007年甚至嚴重到封閉隧道修復。走山土石流，想都想不到？環評、公共工程標準是否過低？
山崩、豪雨、過度開發，再加上氣候變遷，讓台灣地表遭受嚴重破壞，災情也一次比一次嚴重，如果相關單位的監測系統不夠完善，只會讓民眾無論是在行的安全、住的安心上，都充滿了擔心。
陳之華新作-《每個孩子都是第一名》最動人的芬蘭教育書
藉由自身的觀察與感受，作者在書中不斷比照、對應台灣和芬蘭在教育方面的差異，對於台灣社會爭執不休的教改的內涵、資優班制的存續、學校排名、補習風氣、孩子的價值觀等議題，有深刻且多面向的討論。
Roz Savage: Why I'm rowing across the Pacific
http://www.ted.com Five years ago, Roz Savage quit her high-powered London job to become an ocean rower. She's crossed the Atlantic solo, and just started the third leg of a Pacific solo row, the first for a woman. Why does she do it? Hear her reasons, both deeply personal and urgently activist.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Hi, my name is Roz Savage and I row across oceans. Four years ago, I rowed solo across the Atlantic, and since then, I've done two out of three stages across the Pacific, from San Fransisco to Hawaii and from Hawaii to Kiribati. And tomorrow, I'll be leaving this boat to fly back to Kiribati to continue with the third and final stage of my row across the pacific. Cumulatively, I will have rowed over 8,000 miles, taken over 3 million oar strokes and spent more than 312 days alone on the ocean, on a 23 ft. rowboat. This has given me a very special relationship with the ocean. We have a bit of a love/hate thing going on. I feel a bit about it like I did about a very strict maths teacher that I once had at school. I didn't always like her, but I did respect her. And she taught me a heck of a lot. So today I'd like to share with you some of my ocean adventures and tell you a little bit about what they've taught me, and how I think we can maybe take some of those lessons and apply them to this environmental challenge that we face right now.
Now, some of you might be thinking, "Hold on a minute. She doesn't look very much like an ocean rower. Isn't she meant to be about this tall and about this wide, and maybe look a bit more like these guys?" You'll notice, they've all got something that I don't. Well, I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm talking about the beards. And no matter how long I spend on the ocean, I haven't yet managed to muster a decent beard. And I hope that it remains that way.
For a long time, I didn't believe that I could have a big adventure. The story that I told myself was that adventurers looked like this. I didn't look the part. I thought there were them and there were us, and I was not one of them. So for 11 years, I conformed. I did what people from my kind of background were supposed to do. I was working in an office in London as a management consultant. And I think I knew from day one that it wasn't the right job for me. But that kind of conditioning just kept me there for so many years, until I reached my mid-thirties and I thought, "You know, I'm not getting any younger. I feel like I've got a purpose in this life, and I don't know what it is, but I'm pretty certain that management consultancy is not it.
So, fast forward a few years. I'd gone through some changes. To try and answer that question of what am I supposed to be doing with my life?, I sat down one day and wrote two versions of my own obituary, the one that I wanted, a life of adventure, and the one that I was actually heading for which was a nice, normal, pleasant life, but it wasn't where I wanted to be by the end of my life. I wanted to live a life that I could be proud of. And I remember looking at these two versions of my obituary and thinking, "Oh boy, I'm on totally the wrong track here. If I carry on living as I am now, I'm just not going to end up where I want to be in five years, or 10 years, or at the end of my life. I made a few changes, let loose a few trappings of my old life, and through a bit of a leap of logic, decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
(Laughter)
The Atlantic rowing race runs from the Canaries to Antigua. It's about 3,000 miles. And it turned out to be the hardest thing I had ever done. Sure, I had wanted to get outside of my comfort zone, but what I'd sort of failed to notice was that getting out of your comfort zone is, by definition, extremely uncomfortable. And my timing was not great either. 2005, when I did the Atlantic, was the year of Hurricane Katrina. There were more tropical storms in the North Atlantic than ever before, since records began. And pretty early on those storms started making their presence known.
All four of my oars broke before I reached halfway across. Oars are not supposed to look like this. But what can you do? You're in the middle of the ocean. Oars are your only means of propulsion. So I just had to look around the boat and figure out what I was going to use to fix up these oars so that I could carry on. So I found a boat hook and my trusty duct tape and splintered the boat hook to the oars to reinforce it. Then, when that gave out, I sawed the wheel axles off my spare rowing seat and used those. And when those gave out, I cannibalized one of the broken oars. I'd never been very good at fixing stuff when I was living my old life, But it's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.
And the oars kind of became a symbol of just in how many ways I went beyond what I thought were my limits. I suffered from tendinitis on my shoulders and saltwater sores on my bottom. I really struggled psychologically, totally overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge, realizing that, if I carried on moving at two miles an hour 3,000 miles was going to take me a very, very long time. There were so many times when I thought I'd hit that limit, but had not choice but to just carry on and try and figure out how I was going to get to the other side without driving myself crazy.
And eventually after 103 days at sea, I arrived in Antigua. I don't think I've ever felt so happy in my entire life. It was a bit like finishing a marathon and getting out of solitary confinement and winning an Oscar all rolled into one. I was euphoric. And to see all the people coming out to greet me and standing along the clifftops and clapping and cheering, I just felt like a movie star. It was absolutely wonderful. And I really learned then that, the bigger the challenge the bigger the sense of achievement when you get to the end of it.
So this might by a good moment to take a quick time out to answer a few FAQs about ocean rowing that might be going through your mind. Number one that I get asked: What do you eat? A few freeze-dried meals, but mostly I try and eat much more unprocessed foods. So I grow my own beansprouts. I eat fruits and nut bars, a lot of nuts, and generally arrive about 30 lbs. lighter at the other end. Question number two: How do you sleep? With my eyes shut. Haha. I suppose what you mean is: What happens to the boat while I'm sleeping? Well, I plan my route so that I'm drifting with the winds and the currents while I'm sleeping. On a good night, I think my best ever was 11 miles in the right direction. Worst ever, 13 miles in the wrong direction. That's a bad day at the office. What do I wear? Mostly, a baseball cap, rowing gloves and a smile, or a frown, depending on whether I went backwards overnight. And lots of sun lotion. Do I have a chase boat? No I don't. I am totally self-supporting out there. I don't see anybody for the whole time that I'm at sea, generally. And finally: Am I crazy? Well, I leave that one up to you to judge.
So, how do you top rowing across the Atlantic? Well, naturally you decide to row across the Pacific. Well, I'd thought the Atlantic was big, but the Pacific is really, really big. I think we tend to do it a little bit of a disservice in our usual maps. I don't know for sure that the Brits invented this particular view of the world, but I suspect we might have done because there we are, right in the middle. And we've cut the Pacific in half and flung it to the far corners of the world, whereas, if you look in Google Earth, this is how the Pacific looks. It pretty much covers half the planet. You can just see a little bit of North America up here and a sliver of Australia down there. It is really big. 65 million square miles. And to row in a straight line across it, would be about 8,000 miles. Unfortunately, ocean rowboats very rarely go in a straight line. By the time I get to Australia, if I get to Australia, I will have rowed probably 9 or 10,000 miles in all.
So, because nobody in their straight mind would row straight past Hawaii without dropping in, I decided to cut this very big undertaking into three segments. The first attempt didn't go so well. In 2007, I did a rather involuntary capsize drill three times in 24 hours. A bit like being in a washing machine. Boat got a bit dinged up, so did I. I blogged about it. Unfortunately, somebody with a bit of a hero complex decided this damsel was in distress and needed saving. The first I knew about this was when the Coast Guard plane turned up over head. I tried to tell them to go away. We had a bt of a battle of wills. I lost and got airlifted. Awful, really awful. It was one of the worst feelings of my life. As I was lifted up on that winch line into the helicopter and looked down at my trusty little boat rolling around in the 20 ft. waves and wondering if I would ever see her again. So I had to launch a very expensive salvage operation and then wait another nine months before I could get back out onto the ocean again.
But what do you do? Fall down nine times, get up 10. So, the following year, I set out and, fortunately, this time made it safely across to Hawaii. But it was not without misadventure. My water maker broke, only the most important piece of kit that I have on the boat. Powered by my solar panels, it sucks in saltwater and turns it into freshwater. But it doesn't react very well to being immersed in ocean, which is what happened to it. Fortunately, help was at hand.
There was another unusual boat out there at the same time, doing as I was doing, bringing awareness to the North Pacific garbage patch, that area in the North Pacific about twice the size of Texas, with an estimated 3.5 milion tons of trash in it, circulating at the center of that North Pacific Gyre. So, to make the point, these guys had actually built their boat out of plastic trash, 15,000 empty water bottles lashed together into two pontoons. They were going very slowly. Partly, they'd had a bit of a delay. They'd had to pull in at Catalina Island shortly after they left Long Beach because the lids of all the water bottles were coming undone, and they were starting to sink. So they'd had to pull in and do all the lids up.
But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging. They were running out of food; I was running out of water. So we liaised by satellite phone and arranged to meet up. And it took about a week for us to actually gradually converge. I was doing a pathetically slow speed of about 1.3 knots, and they were doing only marginally less pathetically speed of about 1.4. It was like two snails in a mating dance. But, eventually, we did manage to meet up and Joel hopped overboard, caught us a beautiful, big mahi mahi, which was the best food I had in, ooh, at least three months.
Fortunately, the one that he caught that day was better than this one they caught a few weeks earlier. When they opened this one up, they found it's stomach was full of plastic. And this is really bad news because plastic is not an inert substance. It leaches out chemicals into the flesh of the poor critter that ate it, and then we come along and eat that poor critter, and we get some of the toxins accumulating in our bodies as well. So there are very real implications for human health.
I eventually made it to Hawaii still alive. And, the following year, set out on the second stage of the Pacific, from Hawaii down to Tarawa. And you'll notice something about Tarawa; it is very low-lying. It's that little green sliver on the horizon, which makes them very nervous about rising oceans. This is big trouble for these guys. They've got no points of land more than about six feet above sea level. And also as an increase in extreme weather events do to climate change, they're expecting more waves to come in over the fringing reef, which will contaminate their fresh water supply. I had a meeting with the president there, who told me about his exit strategy for his country. He expects that within the next 50 years, the hundred-thousand people that live there will have to relocate to New Zealand or Australia. And that made me think about how would I feel if Britain was going to disappear under the waves. If the places where I'd been born and gone to school and got married, if all those places were just going to disappear forever, how, literally, ungrounded that would make me feel.
In very shortly, I'll be setting out to try and get to Australia. And if I'm successful, I'll be the first woman ever to row solo all the way across the Pacific. And I try and use this to bring awareness to these environmental issues, to bring a human face to the ocean. If the Atlantic was about my inner journey, discovering my own capabilities, maybe the Pacific has been about my outer journey, figuring out how I can use my interesting career choice to be of service to the world, and to take some of those things that I've learned out there and apply them to the situation that human kind now finds itself in.
I think there are probably three key points here. The first one is about the stories we tell ourselves. For so long, I told myself that I couldn't have an adventure because I wasn't six foot tall and athletic and bearded. And then, that story changed. I found out that people had rowed across oceans. I even met one of them and she was just about my size. So even though I didn't grow any taller, I didn't sprout a beard, something had changed, my interior dialogue had changed. At the moment, the story that we collectively tell ourselves is that we need all this stuff, that we need oil. But about if we just change that story? We do have alternatives, and we have the power of free will to choose those alternatives, those sustainable ones to create a greener future.
The second point is about the accumulation of tiny actions. We might think that anything that we do as an individual is just a drop in the ocean, that it can't really make a difference. But it does. Generally, we haven't got ourselves into this mess through big disasters. Yes, there have been the Exxon Valdezs and the Chernobyls, but mostly it's been an accumulation of bad decisions by billions of individuals day after day and year after year. And, by the same token, we can turn that tide. We can start making better, wiser, more sustainable decisions. And when we do that, we're not just one person. Anything that we do spreads ripples. Other people will see, if you're in the supermarket line and you pull out your reusable grocery bag. Maybe if we all start doing this, we can make it socially unacceptable to say yes to plastic in the check-out line. That's just one example. This is a world-wide community.
The other point: It's about taking responsibility. For so much of my life, I wanted something to make me happy. I thought if I had the right house, the right car, or the right man in my life, then I could be happy, but when I wrote that obituary exercise, I actually grew up a little bit in that moment and realized that I needed to create my own future. I couldn't just wait passively for happiness to come and find me. And I suppose I'm a selfish environmentalist. I plan on being around for a long time, and when I'm 90 years-old, I want to be happy and healthy. And it's very difficult to be happy on a planet that's wracked with famine and drought. It's very difficult to be healthy on a planet where we've poisoned the earth and the sea and the air.
So, shortly, I'm going to be launching a new initiative called Eco-Heroes. And the idea here is that all our Eco-Heroes will log at least one green deed every day. It's meant to be a bit of a game. We're going to make an iPhone app out of it. We just want to try and create that awareness because, sure, changing a light bulb isn't going to change the world, but that attitude, that awareness that leads you to change the light bulb or take your reusable coffee mug, that is what could change the world.
I really believe that we stand at a very important point in history. We have a choice. We've been blessed, or cursed, with free will. We can choose a greener future. And we can get there if we all pull together, take it one stroke at a time.
Thank you.
(Applause)
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Hi, my name is Roz Savage and I row across oceans. Four years ago, I rowed solo across the Atlantic, and since then, I've done two out of three stages across the Pacific, from San Fransisco to Hawaii and from Hawaii to Kiribati. And tomorrow, I'll be leaving this boat to fly back to Kiribati to continue with the third and final stage of my row across the pacific. Cumulatively, I will have rowed over 8,000 miles, taken over 3 million oar strokes and spent more than 312 days alone on the ocean, on a 23 ft. rowboat. This has given me a very special relationship with the ocean. We have a bit of a love/hate thing going on. I feel a bit about it like I did about a very strict maths teacher that I once had at school. I didn't always like her, but I did respect her. And she taught me a heck of a lot. So today I'd like to share with you some of my ocean adventures and tell you a little bit about what they've taught me, and how I think we can maybe take some of those lessons and apply them to this environmental challenge that we face right now.
Now, some of you might be thinking, "Hold on a minute. She doesn't look very much like an ocean rower. Isn't she meant to be about this tall and about this wide, and maybe look a bit more like these guys?" You'll notice, they've all got something that I don't. Well, I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm talking about the beards. And no matter how long I spend on the ocean, I haven't yet managed to muster a decent beard. And I hope that it remains that way.
For a long time, I didn't believe that I could have a big adventure. The story that I told myself was that adventurers looked like this. I didn't look the part. I thought there were them and there were us, and I was not one of them. So for 11 years, I conformed. I did what people from my kind of background were supposed to do. I was working in an office in London as a management consultant. And I think I knew from day one that it wasn't the right job for me. But that kind of conditioning just kept me there for so many years, until I reached my mid-thirties and I thought, "You know, I'm not getting any younger. I feel like I've got a purpose in this life, and I don't know what it is, but I'm pretty certain that management consultancy is not it.
So, fast forward a few years. I'd gone through some changes. To try and answer that question of what am I supposed to be doing with my life?, I sat down one day and wrote two versions of my own obituary, the one that I wanted, a life of adventure, and the one that I was actually heading for which was a nice, normal, pleasant life, but it wasn't where I wanted to be by the end of my life. I wanted to live a life that I could be proud of. And I remember looking at these two versions of my obituary and thinking, "Oh boy, I'm on totally the wrong track here. If I carry on living as I am now, I'm just not going to end up where I want to be in five years, or 10 years, or at the end of my life. I made a few changes, let loose a few trappings of my old life, and through a bit of a leap of logic, decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
(Laughter)
The Atlantic rowing race runs from the Canaries to Antigua. It's about 3,000 miles. And it turned out to be the hardest thing I had ever done. Sure, I had wanted to get outside of my comfort zone, but what I'd sort of failed to notice was that getting out of your comfort zone is, by definition, extremely uncomfortable. And my timing was not great either. 2005, when I did the Atlantic, was the year of Hurricane Katrina. There were more tropical storms in the North Atlantic than ever before, since records began. And pretty early on those storms started making their presence known.
All four of my oars broke before I reached halfway across. Oars are not supposed to look like this. But what can you do? You're in the middle of the ocean. Oars are your only means of propulsion. So I just had to look around the boat and figure out what I was going to use to fix up these oars so that I could carry on. So I found a boat hook and my trusty duct tape and splintered the boat hook to the oars to reinforce it. Then, when that gave out, I sawed the wheel axles off my spare rowing seat and used those. And when those gave out, I cannibalized one of the broken oars. I'd never been very good at fixing stuff when I was living my old life, But it's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.
And the oars kind of became a symbol of just in how many ways I went beyond what I thought were my limits. I suffered from tendinitis on my shoulders and saltwater sores on my bottom. I really struggled psychologically, totally overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge, realizing that, if I carried on moving at two miles an hour 3,000 miles was going to take me a very, very long time. There were so many times when I thought I'd hit that limit, but had not choice but to just carry on and try and figure out how I was going to get to the other side without driving myself crazy.
And eventually after 103 days at sea, I arrived in Antigua. I don't think I've ever felt so happy in my entire life. It was a bit like finishing a marathon and getting out of solitary confinement and winning an Oscar all rolled into one. I was euphoric. And to see all the people coming out to greet me and standing along the clifftops and clapping and cheering, I just felt like a movie star. It was absolutely wonderful. And I really learned then that, the bigger the challenge the bigger the sense of achievement when you get to the end of it.
So this might by a good moment to take a quick time out to answer a few FAQs about ocean rowing that might be going through your mind. Number one that I get asked: What do you eat? A few freeze-dried meals, but mostly I try and eat much more unprocessed foods. So I grow my own beansprouts. I eat fruits and nut bars, a lot of nuts, and generally arrive about 30 lbs. lighter at the other end. Question number two: How do you sleep? With my eyes shut. Haha. I suppose what you mean is: What happens to the boat while I'm sleeping? Well, I plan my route so that I'm drifting with the winds and the currents while I'm sleeping. On a good night, I think my best ever was 11 miles in the right direction. Worst ever, 13 miles in the wrong direction. That's a bad day at the office. What do I wear? Mostly, a baseball cap, rowing gloves and a smile, or a frown, depending on whether I went backwards overnight. And lots of sun lotion. Do I have a chase boat? No I don't. I am totally self-supporting out there. I don't see anybody for the whole time that I'm at sea, generally. And finally: Am I crazy? Well, I leave that one up to you to judge.
So, how do you top rowing across the Atlantic? Well, naturally you decide to row across the Pacific. Well, I'd thought the Atlantic was big, but the Pacific is really, really big. I think we tend to do it a little bit of a disservice in our usual maps. I don't know for sure that the Brits invented this particular view of the world, but I suspect we might have done because there we are, right in the middle. And we've cut the Pacific in half and flung it to the far corners of the world, whereas, if you look in Google Earth, this is how the Pacific looks. It pretty much covers half the planet. You can just see a little bit of North America up here and a sliver of Australia down there. It is really big. 65 million square miles. And to row in a straight line across it, would be about 8,000 miles. Unfortunately, ocean rowboats very rarely go in a straight line. By the time I get to Australia, if I get to Australia, I will have rowed probably 9 or 10,000 miles in all.
So, because nobody in their straight mind would row straight past Hawaii without dropping in, I decided to cut this very big undertaking into three segments. The first attempt didn't go so well. In 2007, I did a rather involuntary capsize drill three times in 24 hours. A bit like being in a washing machine. Boat got a bit dinged up, so did I. I blogged about it. Unfortunately, somebody with a bit of a hero complex decided this damsel was in distress and needed saving. The first I knew about this was when the Coast Guard plane turned up over head. I tried to tell them to go away. We had a bt of a battle of wills. I lost and got airlifted. Awful, really awful. It was one of the worst feelings of my life. As I was lifted up on that winch line into the helicopter and looked down at my trusty little boat rolling around in the 20 ft. waves and wondering if I would ever see her again. So I had to launch a very expensive salvage operation and then wait another nine months before I could get back out onto the ocean again.
But what do you do? Fall down nine times, get up 10. So, the following year, I set out and, fortunately, this time made it safely across to Hawaii. But it was not without misadventure. My water maker broke, only the most important piece of kit that I have on the boat. Powered by my solar panels, it sucks in saltwater and turns it into freshwater. But it doesn't react very well to being immersed in ocean, which is what happened to it. Fortunately, help was at hand.
There was another unusual boat out there at the same time, doing as I was doing, bringing awareness to the North Pacific garbage patch, that area in the North Pacific about twice the size of Texas, with an estimated 3.5 milion tons of trash in it, circulating at the center of that North Pacific Gyre. So, to make the point, these guys had actually built their boat out of plastic trash, 15,000 empty water bottles lashed together into two pontoons. They were going very slowly. Partly, they'd had a bit of a delay. They'd had to pull in at Catalina Island shortly after they left Long Beach because the lids of all the water bottles were coming undone, and they were starting to sink. So they'd had to pull in and do all the lids up.
But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging. They were running out of food; I was running out of water. So we liaised by satellite phone and arranged to meet up. And it took about a week for us to actually gradually converge. I was doing a pathetically slow speed of about 1.3 knots, and they were doing only marginally less pathetically speed of about 1.4. It was like two snails in a mating dance. But, eventually, we did manage to meet up and Joel hopped overboard, caught us a beautiful, big mahi mahi, which was the best food I had in, ooh, at least three months.
Fortunately, the one that he caught that day was better than this one they caught a few weeks earlier. When they opened this one up, they found it's stomach was full of plastic. And this is really bad news because plastic is not an inert substance. It leaches out chemicals into the flesh of the poor critter that ate it, and then we come along and eat that poor critter, and we get some of the toxins accumulating in our bodies as well. So there are very real implications for human health.
I eventually made it to Hawaii still alive. And, the following year, set out on the second stage of the Pacific, from Hawaii down to Tarawa. And you'll notice something about Tarawa; it is very low-lying. It's that little green sliver on the horizon, which makes them very nervous about rising oceans. This is big trouble for these guys. They've got no points of land more than about six feet above sea level. And also as an increase in extreme weather events do to climate change, they're expecting more waves to come in over the fringing reef, which will contaminate their fresh water supply. I had a meeting with the president there, who told me about his exit strategy for his country. He expects that within the next 50 years, the hundred-thousand people that live there will have to relocate to New Zealand or Australia. And that made me think about how would I feel if Britain was going to disappear under the waves. If the places where I'd been born and gone to school and got married, if all those places were just going to disappear forever, how, literally, ungrounded that would make me feel.
In very shortly, I'll be setting out to try and get to Australia. And if I'm successful, I'll be the first woman ever to row solo all the way across the Pacific. And I try and use this to bring awareness to these environmental issues, to bring a human face to the ocean. If the Atlantic was about my inner journey, discovering my own capabilities, maybe the Pacific has been about my outer journey, figuring out how I can use my interesting career choice to be of service to the world, and to take some of those things that I've learned out there and apply them to the situation that human kind now finds itself in.
I think there are probably three key points here. The first one is about the stories we tell ourselves. For so long, I told myself that I couldn't have an adventure because I wasn't six foot tall and athletic and bearded. And then, that story changed. I found out that people had rowed across oceans. I even met one of them and she was just about my size. So even though I didn't grow any taller, I didn't sprout a beard, something had changed, my interior dialogue had changed. At the moment, the story that we collectively tell ourselves is that we need all this stuff, that we need oil. But about if we just change that story? We do have alternatives, and we have the power of free will to choose those alternatives, those sustainable ones to create a greener future.
The second point is about the accumulation of tiny actions. We might think that anything that we do as an individual is just a drop in the ocean, that it can't really make a difference. But it does. Generally, we haven't got ourselves into this mess through big disasters. Yes, there have been the Exxon Valdezs and the Chernobyls, but mostly it's been an accumulation of bad decisions by billions of individuals day after day and year after year. And, by the same token, we can turn that tide. We can start making better, wiser, more sustainable decisions. And when we do that, we're not just one person. Anything that we do spreads ripples. Other people will see, if you're in the supermarket line and you pull out your reusable grocery bag. Maybe if we all start doing this, we can make it socially unacceptable to say yes to plastic in the check-out line. That's just one example. This is a world-wide community.
The other point: It's about taking responsibility. For so much of my life, I wanted something to make me happy. I thought if I had the right house, the right car, or the right man in my life, then I could be happy, but when I wrote that obituary exercise, I actually grew up a little bit in that moment and realized that I needed to create my own future. I couldn't just wait passively for happiness to come and find me. And I suppose I'm a selfish environmentalist. I plan on being around for a long time, and when I'm 90 years-old, I want to be happy and healthy. And it's very difficult to be happy on a planet that's wracked with famine and drought. It's very difficult to be healthy on a planet where we've poisoned the earth and the sea and the air.
So, shortly, I'm going to be launching a new initiative called Eco-Heroes. And the idea here is that all our Eco-Heroes will log at least one green deed every day. It's meant to be a bit of a game. We're going to make an iPhone app out of it. We just want to try and create that awareness because, sure, changing a light bulb isn't going to change the world, but that attitude, that awareness that leads you to change the light bulb or take your reusable coffee mug, that is what could change the world.
I really believe that we stand at a very important point in history. We have a choice. We've been blessed, or cursed, with free will. We can choose a greener future. And we can get there if we all pull together, take it one stroke at a time.
Thank you.
(Applause)
Friday, April 30, 2010
民意大講堂(四):溫柔守護地球的媽媽們
民意大講堂 (四):溫柔守護地球的媽媽們
張貼者： 公視有話好說NGO觀點 於 星期日, 四月 25, 2010
主講人：主婦聯盟環境保護基金會董事長 胡雅美
時 間：4月24日 17:00~18:00
地 點：台北市光復南路100號B2攝影棚
台灣老字號的環保組織「主婦聯盟」，長期以來推動資源分類、廚餘回收等各項議題，這群媽媽們在三十年前走上街頭，勇於開口捍衛環境，他們主張落實環保要從日常生活開始，從廢油做肥皂、環境家計簿到現在的美牛公投，都看見他們推行環保努力的身影，聽聽這群溫柔守護地球的媽媽三十年的精采故事，請鎖定民意大講堂！
張貼者： 公視有話好說NGO觀點 於 星期日, 四月 25, 2010
主講人：主婦聯盟環境保護基金會董事長 胡雅美
時 間：4月24日 17:00~18:00
地 點：台北市光復南路100號B2攝影棚
台灣老字號的環保組織「主婦聯盟」，長期以來推動資源分類、廚餘回收等各項議題，這群媽媽們在三十年前走上街頭，勇於開口捍衛環境，他們主張落實環保要從日常生活開始，從廢油做肥皂、環境家計簿到現在的美牛公投，都看見他們推行環保努力的身影，聽聽這群溫柔守護地球的媽媽三十年的精采故事，請鎖定民意大講堂！
4/24 ECFA! ㄟ擱發? 當台北鼎泰豐遇上天津狗不理1
經濟部工業局預估，ECFA對毛巾、製鞋、寢具等十二項弱勢傳統產業三千八百家、十一萬從業人員、一千兩百億產值受衝擊。一家彰化傳統五金業者劉之涵如今改做機車高級配件，多樣少量生產，雖然擔心ECFA帶來大陸仿冒品，但是他還是相信MIT的品質和靈活度。當台北鼎泰豐遇上天津狗不理，會有怎樣一場大戰？週六晚間七點公視十三頻道NGO觀點， 對你我未來的生活工作都有著巨大的影響，你不能不懂ECFA！
與談人
工業局長 杜紫軍
中衛發展中心總經理 蘇錦夥
經濟學家 馬凱
台灣寢具產業團結聯盟理事長 黃光藝
雲林毛巾產業科技協會理事長 周清源
全球搶人才！台灣學生壁上觀？
全球搶人才！台灣學生壁上觀？
張貼者： 公視有話好說NGO觀點 於 星期四, 四月 29, 2010
首播 5月1日(六) 晚19:00
重播 5月2日(日) 早10:00
與談人
教育部高教司副司長 楊玉惠
104人力銀行公關經理 方光瑋
淡江大學陸研所副教授 楊景堯
東吳大學EMBA主任 翁望回
北市高中學生家長會聯合會總會長 洪迪光
人力銀行最新調查，因應兩岸三地交流頻繁，高達4成7的台灣企業表示未來願意僱用大陸或香港的大學畢業生，這是否意味著台灣人才將被大陸人才取代？
兩岸青年的總體競爭力比較，一直是個有趣又現實的問題。最新一期美國中學數學分級能力測驗(AMC)顯示，台灣無人滿分，是教改以來十年間表現最差的一次，這是否也代表台灣的國際競爭力下降？
大陸國台辦宣布，今年台灣高中畢業生只要學測達頂標，就可直接申請北京大學等一百二十三所對岸的大學，台生赴中國讀書的結構已經改變，從過去研究生下降到了大學高中生，也不是考不上台灣好學校才選擇到對岸去，而是頂尖學生被挑走。相較之下，新加坡、香港與我們同文同種，用各種獎學金與優惠簽證，早在幾年前就來台大張旗鼓的招生了。
人才就是國家與企業的即戰力，好人才都被吸走，台灣企業五成也願雇用陸生，那麼台灣還能留下什麼？
今年剛要大學畢業的范敦宇，同時考取了政大東亞所及北大的政府管理學院，他決定捨政大就北大，他的回答是：大陸市場大、有遠景。
台灣人才流失中，那麼你贊成陸生來台嗎？來台短期就讀致理技術學院的陸生鄔葉曉來自寧波城市職業技術學院，兩校是姊妹校，她說不虛此行，來台灣看到很多新奇的東西，才知道台灣人真正的想法，回去後，她會鼓勵學弟妹也來台灣交流交流。民國九十年致理技術學院就率先開設兩岸經貿中心，目標一學年能招來三十名陸生，難道這是台灣的大學過剩、學生缺額的生存之道？
讀者文摘一月份調查，有兩成一台生願意去大陸唸書，但只有百分之五的陸生願意來台。在兩黨混戰當中，關係陸生來台的「大學法」及「專科學校法」初審過關，但未來仍以「三限六不」為限制條件，你覺得實際嗎？本週六晚間七點公視十三頻道NGO觀點，一場無視陸生陸校的人才大戰怎麼打？
張貼者： 公視有話好說NGO觀點 於 星期四, 四月 29, 2010
首播 5月1日(六) 晚19:00
重播 5月2日(日) 早10:00
與談人
教育部高教司副司長 楊玉惠
104人力銀行公關經理 方光瑋
淡江大學陸研所副教授 楊景堯
東吳大學EMBA主任 翁望回
北市高中學生家長會聯合會總會長 洪迪光
人力銀行最新調查，因應兩岸三地交流頻繁，高達4成7的台灣企業表示未來願意僱用大陸或香港的大學畢業生，這是否意味著台灣人才將被大陸人才取代？
兩岸青年的總體競爭力比較，一直是個有趣又現實的問題。最新一期美國中學數學分級能力測驗(AMC)顯示，台灣無人滿分，是教改以來十年間表現最差的一次，這是否也代表台灣的國際競爭力下降？
大陸國台辦宣布，今年台灣高中畢業生只要學測達頂標，就可直接申請北京大學等一百二十三所對岸的大學，台生赴中國讀書的結構已經改變，從過去研究生下降到了大學高中生，也不是考不上台灣好學校才選擇到對岸去，而是頂尖學生被挑走。相較之下，新加坡、香港與我們同文同種，用各種獎學金與優惠簽證，早在幾年前就來台大張旗鼓的招生了。
人才就是國家與企業的即戰力，好人才都被吸走，台灣企業五成也願雇用陸生，那麼台灣還能留下什麼？
今年剛要大學畢業的范敦宇，同時考取了政大東亞所及北大的政府管理學院，他決定捨政大就北大，他的回答是：大陸市場大、有遠景。
台灣人才流失中，那麼你贊成陸生來台嗎？來台短期就讀致理技術學院的陸生鄔葉曉來自寧波城市職業技術學院，兩校是姊妹校，她說不虛此行，來台灣看到很多新奇的東西，才知道台灣人真正的想法，回去後，她會鼓勵學弟妹也來台灣交流交流。民國九十年致理技術學院就率先開設兩岸經貿中心，目標一學年能招來三十名陸生，難道這是台灣的大學過剩、學生缺額的生存之道？
讀者文摘一月份調查，有兩成一台生願意去大陸唸書，但只有百分之五的陸生願意來台。在兩黨混戰當中，關係陸生來台的「大學法」及「專科學校法」初審過關，但未來仍以「三限六不」為限制條件，你覺得實際嗎？本週六晚間七點公視十三頻道NGO觀點，一場無視陸生陸校的人才大戰怎麼打？
悲劇真有代價？地質法真能過關？ 地質敏感區 全面公告並管制 保障生命？侵犯權益？
悲劇真有代價？地質法真能過關？
地質敏感區 全面公告並管制 保障生命？侵犯權益？
來賓：
不動產行銷顧問 張欣民
中華民國土木技師公會全國聯合會理事長 余烈
台灣省應用地質技師公會理事長 陳本康
台大生物環境系統工程系教授 譚義績
CALL-IN 保障生命vs侵犯權益 地質法該不該過？能不能過？
國道3號走山事件發生後，各界憂心台灣還有許多類似地質相當脆弱的地方，朝野呼籲盡速完成地質法草案立法。地質法審議十多年，台灣已歷經多次重大災難！這一次，地質法勢必過關？
再續地質法：
93年三讀通過，隨即遭到復議，地質法內容究竟為何？為何遲遲無法通過？
這次雖然有走山的教訓、朝野也有共識要盡快制定地質法，但新版的重要內容包括了第五條規定要建立地質資料管理系統；第六條要公告地值敏感區；第七條要求所有開發行為，要有地質調查和地質安全評估等等。地質敏感區還是要公布。那上次未能立法的阻力，這次消失了嗎？
最終無法過關的理由？
地質法的爭議：無配套、事權不一、法律競合、小農舍也要地質調查…？地質法曾經在2004年遭到60多位立委連署復議而沒能完成立法程序，當初地質法和水土保持法、公路法等多項法律都有衝突，其中還限制了農民在自己的地、蓋農舍都要提出地質安全評估報告，根本就是擾民。而立委也指出，當年地質法功敗垂成的另一個原因是建商反彈。
地質敏感區到底多敏感？對民眾生活有哪些幫助和衝擊？三分之二都是坡地的台灣，地質法訂不訂依然存再許多爭議。
避免悲劇重演，地質法非通過不可？
地質法的重要性？沒有地質法，就不能公開列管住宅？有了地質法，台灣山坡地就真有保障？若無配套就通過地質法，嚴重侵犯民眾權益？
現在因為這次走山意外，使得地質法再度受到重視，行政院新版地質法目前也已經在立法院經濟委員會審議。而無論是新舊地質法版本，其中都規定要公告地質敏感區，但這也容易造成民眾恐慌和建商反彈，立委認為必須要有其它的配套法案。
"公告地質敏感地區"，真的很敏感？
如何判定地質敏感？行水區、淹水、算不算地質敏感？位於板塊聚合帶的台灣，哪裡地質不敏感？地狹人稠又多高山，公開了又能怎樣？台灣目前的地質狀況能否在調查中據實呈現，能否作改善？
除了畫設敏感地質區，若是曾發生地質災變就必須公告，時間設定範圍有多大？十年、二十年？
建商到底有多大的壓力？公開地質敏感，真的就無法賣賣？目前建築法規是否足夠？清境、汐止、溫泉區、為何建照可以輕易取得？目前難道都沒管制？
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