David Webb 30年有感,抗病之際寫了篇肺腑之言,節錄首尾部份,全文可按連列。
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30 years ago today, as a young banker, I moved to Hong Kong - one of my better decisions. Here I made my home, my fortune and my family, and hopefully gave something back to make HK a better place than it would have been - we each do what we can, and that's what makes a cosmopolitan city.
Sadly, I doubt that I would make the same decision if I were 25 today. HK may have better days ahead, but for now, increasing government economic intervention, a rollback of political rights and the red iron fist of authoritarianism are sucking the dynamism out of the city and making it a far less welcoming place, not just for international immigrants to HK, but for our brightest local minds planning their future and deciding whether it lies in HK.
The HK and mainland Governments are inching towards opening the "boundary" with the mainland and Macao, at which point HK will become part of a one-Country "China bubble", isolated from the rest of the World until mainland authorities are ready to open up. We would guess 1-Oct-2021 (National Day) for the China Bubble to open, and 1-Jul-2022 for international visitors to China (including HK & Macao). We expect that the Beijing Winter Olympics, scheduled to start on 4-Feb-2022, will either be postponed or for teams-only, arriving into a strictly-quarantined bubble.
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【星情札記 — 緬懷 Chris McRae 女士 】
學習占星的旅程中,我有幸與幾位大師互動過,雖然只是短暫會晤,都覺得深受啟發。
2014年赴北京參加 ISAR 考試時,Chris McRae 女士是當年的考試委員,親授諮詢技巧與職業道德意識,她驚人的體力和對占星充滿熱情的態度讓我難忘。剛得知她在2020年底過世的消息,感念在心 ❤
以下轉貼 David Railey 在微博上的貼文和數張照片
昨天深夜,我得知我的好朋友兼同事克莉絲.麥克雷去世了。據雷.梅里曼和華盛頓星象協會發佈的消息稱,克莉絲於2020年12月28日下午3點在加拿大阿爾伯塔省埃德蒙頓去世。她的死亡是在12月24日左右突然摔倒造成的,當時她因髖骨和鎖骨骨折被送進了醫院。她92歲了,這個月即將93歲。她於1928年1月29日上午10:13:32出生在加拿大的羅斯敦。
克莉絲是職業占星界的傳奇人物,是一位受人尊敬的老師,也是創建ISAR CAP項目中備受尊敬的領導者。她在2013年和2014年作為ISAR代表訪問過中國,受到了很多人的喜愛。2013年和2014年在北京參加過ISAR培訓的同學們可以證明這位了不起的女性擁有不可思議的能量、智慧、承諾以及溫暖的心。當她第一次以ISAR諮詢技巧培訓師的身份來到中國時,她已經85歲了,但你永遠猜不到這點!
我至今還會會想到她拄著拐杖飛快地走著,摩托車和大車在她周圍呼嘯而過。她喜歡在胡同裡散步,但最喜歡的是她的中國新同學!下面的紅玫瑰是2014年克莉絲在PPT課程結束時送給她的中國學生的。Felicia 蔣今天早上發現了這張照片。這些花代表她對學生的愛;很少有老師如此和藹可親。
她對占星學也充滿熱情,並將自己的一生奉獻給了這個領域——在ISAR董事會服務了20多年。克莉絲和她的ISAR團隊花了無數的時間來開發認證專案。ISAR能力考試是這個項目的精華。無數志願者把他們個人時間投入致力於ISAR考試的發展和持續改進。從2011年到2020年,我對Chris有了更深的瞭解,特別是在ISAR考試期間,我和她一起在考試委員會工作。她很高效,總是及時回復電子郵件——而且善於提出實用的建議,與她一起共事的經歷很愉快。
雷.梅里曼(Ray Merriman)與克莉絲非常親近,他曾為《ISAR電子雜誌》(ISAR E-Zine)寫過關於她的文章。我希望你們這些 ISAR會員能讀到 Ray 寫的文章。她是一個非常出色的世界旅行者和 ISAR的全球大使。在她從 ISAR 董事會退休後,我繼續與她通信。她給我的最後一封郵件是在10月份,在我心臟手術康復期間,她發送給我她的愛和療愈的能量。她很擔心我,想傳遞給我能量;她就是這樣的女人。克莉絲準備出版一本新書,偉大的合相:轉變的時代,她剛剛為ISAR雜誌寫了一篇文章 —— 摩羯座革命。
占星界的所有人都會想念她,她也會作為一位靈感源泉而世人銘記。她值得被記住,認識她是人生一大幸事。
In memory of Chris McRae
Late last night I learned of the passing of a dear friend and colleague, Chris McRae. According to posts from Ray Merriman and the Astrological Guild in Washington, Chris died on Dec 28, 2020 at @ 3:00pm in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her death was the result of a sudden fall on or around Dec 24, at which time she was admitted to the hospital with a broken hip and collar bone. She was 92-years old, and would've turned 93 this month. She was born January 29, 1928 at 10:13:32 AM in Rosetown, Canada.
Chris was a legend in the world of professional astrology, a revered teacher, and a highly respected leader in the creation of the ISAR CAP program. She was beloved by many, especially here in China - having visited China in 2013 and 2014 as a representative of ISAR. Those of you who participated in the ISAR Training in Beijing in 2013 and 2014 could testify to the incredible energy, intelligence, commitment and warm heart of this amazing woman. When she first came to China as an ISAR Consulting Skills Trainer she was already 85-years old, but you'd never know it!
I can still see her walking along at a fast clip with her cane as motor scooters and carts whizzed around her. She enjoyed walking through the hutongs, but most of all she loved her new Chinese students! The red roses posted below are "from" Chris to her Chinese students at the end of her PPT course material back in 2014. Felicia Jiang found this photo this morning. These flowers represent her love to her students; rarely has a teacher been so gracious.
She was passionate about astrology, and gave her life to the field - serving over twenty-years on the ISAR Board. Chris spent countless hours with her ISAR team developing the Certification Program. The ISAR Competency Exam was the gem of this program. Countless volunteer hours, months, and years were dedicated to the development and continued improvement of the ISAR Exam. I got to know Chris well from 2011 - 2020, especially through ISAR and serving with her on the ISAR Exam Committee. She was an incredibly efficient person, always returning emails promptly - and always with practical suggestions that made her a pleasure to work with.
Ray Merriman, who was very close to Chris, has written about her for the ISAR E-Zine. I hope that those of you that are ISAR members will read what Ray wrote. She was quite the world traveler and global ambassador for ISAR. I continued to correspond with her after she retired from the ISAR Board. Her last email to me was in October, when she sent her love and healing energy to me during my recovery from heart surgery. She was worried about me and wanted to send me energy; that's the kind of woman she was. Chris was also in the process of publishing a new book, The Great Conjunctions: Shifting Times, and she had just written an article for the ISAR Journal - The Capricorn Revolution.
She will be missed by all in the astrological community and remembered as an inspiration. She deserves to be remembered, it was a true honor to know her.
#ChrisMcRae #DavidRailey #ISAR
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- Luyện đọc và tìm kiếm từ mới nào cả nhà!
Đề Cambridge IELTS 14 Test 2 - passage 2:
BACK TO THE FUTURE OF SKYSCRAPER DESIGN
Answers to the problem of excessive electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings can be found in ingenious but forgotten architectural designs of the 19th and early-20th centuries
A. The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture by Professor Alan Short is the culmination of 30 years of research and award-winning green building design by Short and colleagues in Architecture, Engineering, Applied Maths and Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
'The crisis in building design is already here,' said Short. 'Policy makers think you can solve energy and building problems with gadgets. You can't. As global temperatures continue to rise, we are going to continue to squander more and more energy on keeping our buildings mechanically cool until we have run out of capacity.'
B. Short is calling for a sweeping reinvention of how skyscrapers and major public buildings are designed - to end the reliance on sealed buildings which exist solely via the 'life support' system of vast air conditioning units.
Instead, he shows it is entirely possible to accommodate natural ventilation and cooling in large buildings by looking into the past, before the widespread introduction of air conditioning systems, which were 'relentlessly and aggressively marketed' by their inventors.
C. Short points out that to make most contemporary buildings habitable, they have to be sealed and air conditioned. The energy use and carbon emissions this generates is spectacular and largely unnecessary. Buildings in the West account for 40-50% of electricity usage, generating substantial carbon emissions, and the rest of the world is catching up at a frightening rate. Short regards glass, steel and air-conditioned skyscrapers as symbols of status, rather than practical ways of meeting our requirements.
D. Short's book highlights a developing and sophisticated art and science of ventilating buildings through the 19th and earlier-20th centuries, including the design of ingeniously ventilated hospitals. Of particular interest were those built to the designs of John Shaw Billings, including the first Johns Hopkins Hospital in the US city of Baltimore (1873-1889).
'We spent three years digitally modelling Billings' final designs,' says Short. 'We put pathogens• in the airstreams, modelled for someone with tuberculosis (TB) coughing in the wards and we found the ventilation systems in the room would have kept other patients safe from harm.
E. 'We discovered that 19th-century hospital wards could generate up to 24 air changes an hour-that's similar to the performance of a modern-day, computer-controlled operating theatre. We believe you could build wards based on these principles now.
Single rooms are not appropriate for all patients. Communal wards appropriate for certain patients - older people with dementia, for example - would work just as well in today's hospitals, at a fraction of the energy cost.'
Professor Short contends the mindset and skill-sets behind these designs have been completely lost, lamenting the disappearance of expertly designed theatres, opera houses, and other buildings where up to half the volume of the building was given over to ensuring everyone got fresh air.
F. Much of the ingenuity present in 19th-century hospital and building design was driven by a panicked public clamouring for buildings that could protect against what was thought to be the lethal threat of miasmas - toxic air that spread disease. Miasmas were feared as the principal agents of disease and epidemics for centuries, and were used to explain the spread of infection from the Middle Ages right through to the cholera outbreaks in London and Paris during the 1850s. Foul air, rather than germs, was believed to be the main driver of 'hospital fever', leading to disease and frequent death. The prosperous steered clear of hospitals.
While miasma theory has been long since disproved, Short has for the last 30 years advocated a return to some of the building design principles produced in its wake.
G. Today, huge amounts of a building's space and construction cost are given over to air conditioning. 'But I have designed and built a series of buildings over the past three decades which have tried to reinvent some of these ideas and then measure what happens. 'To go forward into our new low-energy, low-carbon future, we would be well advised to look back at design before our high-energy, high-carbon present appeared. What is surprising is what a rich legacy we have abandoned.'
H. Successful examples of Short's approach include the Queen's Building at De Montfort University in Leicester. Containing as many as 2,000 staff and students, the entire building is naturally ventilated, passively cooled and naturally lit, including the two largest auditoria, each seating more than 150 people. The award-winning building uses a fraction of the electricity of comparable buildings in the UK.
Short contends that glass skyscrapers in London and around the world will become a liability over the next 20 or 30 years if climate modelling predictions and energy price rises come to pass as expected.
I. He is convinced that sufficiently cooled skyscrapers using the natural environment can be produced in almost any climate. He and his team have worked on hybrid buildings in the harsh climates of Beijing and Chicago - built with natural ventilation assisted by back-up air conditioning - which, surprisingly perhaps, can be switched off more than half the time on milder days and during the spring and autumn.
“My book is a recipe book which looks at the past, how we got to where we are now, and how we might reimagine the cities, offices and homes of the future. There are compelling reasons to do this. The Department of Health says new hospitals should be naturally ventilated, but they are not. Maybe it’s time we changed our outlook.”
TỪ VỰNG CHÚ Ý:
Excessive (adj)/ɪkˈsesɪv/: quá mức
Skyscraper (n)/ˈskaɪskreɪpə(r)/: nhà trọc trời
Ingenious (adj)/ɪnˈdʒiːniəs/: khéo léo
Culmination (n) /ˌkʌlmɪˈneɪʃn/: điểm cao nhất
Crisis (n)/ˈkraɪsɪs/: khủng hoảng
Gadget (n)/ˈɡædʒɪt/: công cụ
Squander (v)/ˈskwɒndə(r)/: lãng phí
Reliance (n)/rɪˈlaɪəns/: sự tín nhiệm
Vast (adj)/vɑːst/: rộng lớn
Accommodate (v)/əˈkɒmədeɪt/: cung cấp
Ventilation (n)/ˌventɪˈleɪʃn/: sự thông gió
Habitable (adj)/ˈhæbɪtəbl/: có thể ở được
Spectacular (adj)/spekˈtækjələ(r)/: ngoạn mục, đẹp mắt
Account for /əˈkaʊnt//fə(r)/ : chiếm
Substantial (adj)/səbˈstænʃl/: đáng kể
Frightening (adj)/ˈfraɪtnɪŋ/: kinh khủng
Sophisticated (adj)/səˈfɪstɪkeɪtɪd/: phức tạp
Pathogen (n)/ˈpæθədʒən/: mầm bệnh
Tuberculosis (n)/tjuːˌbɜːkjuˈləʊsɪs/: bệnh lao
Communal (adj)/kəˈmjuːnl/: công cộng
Dementia (n)/dɪˈmenʃə/: chứng mất trí
Fraction (n)/ˈfrækʃn/: phần nhỏ
Lament (v)/ləˈment/: xót xa
Panicked (adj): hoảng loạn
Lethal (adj)/ˈliːθl/: gây chết người
Threat (n)/θret/: mối nguy
Miasmas (n)/miˈæzmə/: khí độc
Infection (n) /ɪnˈfekt/: sự nhiễm trùng
Cholera (n)/ˈkɒl.ər.ə/: dịch tả
Outbreak (n)/ˈaʊt.breɪk/: sự bùng nổ
Disprove (v)/dɪˈspruːv/: bác bỏ
Advocate (v)/ˈæd.və.keɪt/: ủng hộ
Auditoria (n)/ˌɔːdɪˈtɔːriə/ : thính phòng
Comparable (adj)/ˈkɒm.pər.ə.bəl/: có thể so sánh được
Contend (v) /kənˈtend/: cho rằng
Liability (n)/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/: nghĩa vụ pháp lý
Convince (v) /kənˈvɪns/: Thuyết phục
Assist (v) /əˈsɪst/: để giúp đỡ
Các bạn cùng tham khảo nhé!
that's beijing 在 黃小琥官方專屬頻道 Tiger's Official Channel Youtube 的最佳解答
有沒有一種愛,真的抵達永遠?
有沒有一種愛,真的時時刻刻在你左右?
黃小琥刻進靈魂的真愛,是歌唱,是音樂
也是陪伴你我無數時刻的特別存在
喜怒哀樂有音樂相伴的那些時刻
都讓我們心中留下難以忘懷的獨特感受
音樂悄悄貫穿我們每個人的人生
也實實穿透黃小琥的每時每刻
黃小琥:「我幫許多朋友們唱出了他們的愛情、友情、親情,也努力做到每次都讓大家開心,但常常遺憾著,沒有一首歌,能說清楚、講明白自己一路的音樂歷程,或是寫出我是爲什麼而唱,而且一唱就是一輩子!很不經意的情況下,巧妙的緣份,I sing出現了,我看著那淺顯易懂的英文詞,控制不住突如其來的眼淚,這真的是一首我很愛的歌曲。」
有狂妄也有收斂
有直率也有哽噎
有巧合也有無比堅持
因為是刻進靈魂的深愛
讓整首歌曲有一種難以言喻的獨特感受
黃小琥2020最新至愛單曲「ISing」
#黃小琥
#ISing
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■ I Sing
作詞/作曲:李王若涵
I sing when sun is shining through.
I sing when love is shared by two
I sing when summer turns to fall,
when teardrops frozen into snow.
There is a voice that heals your heart.
There is a hand that helps you through.
Whenever spirit hides its way, I rise my head and say.
It's gonna be okay.
Somehow I'll find my way.
And I'll sing.
I sing for every happiness in me
I sing for every drifter in the world.
I sing for you, the one I love the most.
I will rise above to see the morning glory and I'll sing.
I sing the song that's coming from my heart.
I'll touch the heart when people sad and down.
The midnight soon will turn into the dawn.
The voice of love is loud and clear.
Because I sing
I sing a song for you and me.
The words are written truthfully.
It says I love you so my dear.
It's for eternity.
Everything is okay.
I finally find my way.
Because I sing
I sing.
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編曲:秦四風 Sedar Chin
製作:李正帆 Lee Cheng Fan
混音:林英強 Johnson Lin
MUSICIANS
Band:
Drums:李彥超 Li Yan Chao
Bass:趙浩成 Zhao Hao Cheng
Guitar:熊林 Xiong Lin
Keyboards:秦四風 Sedar Chin
Flute:程曉華 Cheng Xiao Hua
Strings:
國際首席愛樂樂團(International Master Philharmonic Orchestra)
樂團總監:李朋 Li Peng
1st Violin:龐闊Pang Kuo 崔方晗 Cui Fang Han 李曦 Li Xi 張浩 Zhang Hao
2nd Violin:閻紅 Yan Hong 倪冰雪 Ni Bing Xue 王睿Wang Rui
秦健 Chin Jian
Viola:付微Fu Wei 方振華Fang Zhen Hua 王宇沛Wang Yu Pei
Cello:張平Zhang Ping 郎瑩 Lang Ying
RECORDING
鼓
錄音室:55TEC(Beijing)
錄音工程師:李游 Li You
助理工程師:邢銅 Xing Tong
貝斯,吉他與鍵盤
錄音室:SEDAR Studio(Beijing)
錄音師:趙浩成Zhao Hao Cheng
熊林Xiong Lin
秦四風Sedar Chin
絃樂與長笛
錄音室:北京唱片廠錄音棚
錄音工程師:李岳松Li Yue Song
助理工程師:劉璆Liu Qiu
全部樂器錄音監製:秦四風 Sedar Chin
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■ 更多黃小琥相關資訊:
黃小琥 新浪微博:http://tw.weibo.com/huangxiaohu
黃小琥 官方臉書:https://www.facebook.com/superTigerHuang
華納官方 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/WarnerMusicTaiwan
華納音樂 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/warnermusictw/
華納音樂 官方 LINE:http://nav.cx/3sTa2ck
華納音樂 官方 TikTok:http://vt.tiktok.com/JPWMLQ/
that's beijing 在 serpentza Youtube 的最佳貼文
Australians did not see this coming, but China pretty much owns Australia.
Gladys Liu has been tied to the propaganda arm of the Chinese communist Party and that's just the tip of the ice-berg, the Chinese United Front has been working behind the scenes in Australia for decades and as the 70th anniversary of Communist China recently showed just how bad things are, the CCP flag is being flown over Australian Police stations and cars mocked up as Chinese police are allowed to drive around the cities of Australia.
For a deeper dive into China's Propaganda influence and soft power, watch our liveshow ADVPodcasts: https://www.youtube.com/advpodcasts
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When something starts to make money in China, all of a sudden things go into OVERDRIVE! and everyone jumps onto the bandwagon! Nothing can demonstrate this China phenomenon more than the shared bike market that's exploded recently. Come find out what's blocking all the sidewalks in Chinese Cities!
Thanks to Camilo Koch for the Shanghai drone footage, his Instagram is: @caig
Mobike (Chinese Simplified: 摩拜单车, Móbāi Dānchē), founded and owned by Beijing Mobike Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese Simplified: 北京摩拜科技有限公司), is a fully station-less bicycle-sharing system headquartered in Beijing, China. It is the world's largest bicycle operator, and in December 2016, made Shanghai the world's largest bike-share city.
In June 2017, Mobike raised $600 million in Series E funding led by Tencent, bringing the firm's fund raising in 2017 alone to nearly US$1 billion. In the same month, the company is valued at US$3 billion.
Currently Mobike operates in over 160 cities in China and in four markets outside of China, which include but are not limited to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Ningbo, Xiamen, Foshan, Zhuhai, Changsha, Hefei, Shantou, Haikou, Deyang, Nanning, Guiyang, Xi'an, Wenzhou, Wuhan and many more. Operations in Singapore started on 21 March 2017.
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