August 2007 Archives
Job = Not in Poverty
No Job = Poverty
He also thinks working a few hours a week is gainful employment. Australia's employment stats lie. Australia has a lot of working poor.
Madness from the EU. Its chest-thumps about being pro-green, but when it comes to protectionism, it is time to throw out any environmental ideals.
It also shows how cheap an energy saving lightbulb can be... I wonder if we are paying too much for it too.
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So, when Josh Boger, chief executive of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., showed a slide last year comparing one of the drugs his Cambridge company is developing to Apple's iPod, he raised a lot of eyebrows.
"Every so often," Boger told the audience at a healthcare conference, "there is a game-changing product -- one that transforms an entire category, one that transforms a company, and one that transforms an industry."
Amen to that...
My favourite part.....
"We were not alone in our work. Newspapers were also made by copytakers, proofreaders, copygirls and boys, compositors, press artists, printers, photographers, darkroom technicians. Words were worked over by many types of subeditor: down-table subs; top-table subs; wire subs; check subs; stone subs; sports subs; racing subs; business subs; foreign subs; features subs; supplement subs; layout subs; rewrite subs; chief subs; and copy tasters. A wordsmith is "a skilled user and maker of words". Sub-editors are wordsmiths, people who can make a reporter's words into something sharper, better and funnier."
I am positive that Shangers has a -2343 second rule for its food. Maybe the scientific study didn't consider all the variables.
Source of the info? A company that earns money from controlling web access for employers. Hmmm....
The world is currently peeved about China's products and safety record. My current job is predominantly focused on documenting and explaining many of the events around saga. It is intriguing and fascinating story, but one that I think has brought quite a deal of flak to all things Chinese.
Let me set the record straight on one thing that China does really well. Large green boxes. In particular, large green boxes that you purchase from China Post and send your mountains of belongings in to an overseas destination.
China Post's large green boxes are tough, green, and likely to leave a mish-mash of minor cuts and abrasions on your unprotected forearms. They will also contain about 20kg of your belongings that can float their way around the world (in about 2 months) for about RMB 350. Recently I've seen quotes from 'relocation experts' floating between RMB1600 to RMB16,000 for just a few boxes, with most of the services being from Shanghai to destination port. At least China Post will deliver to your door.
If you need to move your life from Shanghai or anywhere else in China, go see China Post. Even if it is for their large green boxes.
Is the crisis in Australian masculinity more serious than I thought? Do Australian men now require constant reassurance about their manhood? Are they unable to even buy a couch unless the manufacturer finds a way of whispering in their ear, "No, really, you do have a big penis."
Beijing's electronic markets have already started to freely advertise unblocked Apple iPhones, apparently able to be used on any GSM phone network. This is starting to give me ideas. I wonder what the language support and any Apple updates are like on the cracked phone...?
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"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."