《魔雪奇緣2》與尋求公義的啟示
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「Let it go~ Let it
go~」這首曾經街知巷問的歌曲，來自2013年迪士尼動畫《魔雪奇緣》。此套講述一位擁有冰魔法少女與其妹妹的姊妹情動畫當年風靡全球，成為家傳戶曉的故事。時隔六年，迪士尼再推出下集《魔雪奇緣2》，其中的冒險故事竟對今天的香港時局有所啟示。
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獅子山隧道 都要大修。無第四條海隧留名睇香港交通有幾大劑
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獅子山隧道 最後由於有路段啲路爛不堪用，太過牙煙，政府要逢禮拜日封鎖慢線維修，上個禮拜未整完，所以今個禮拜， […]
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After 12 years this blog is currently dormant and will probably retire some
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Diaper Sales Down, Rash Cream Sales Up.
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Has anyone seen this?
Here is a link to the article: Diaper Sales Down, Rash Cream Sales Up
The article loosely explains and blames the drop in diaper sal...
Bus Transfer from Rome Fiumicino toRome City Centre
The shuttle bus service is fast and non-stop from Rome Fiumicino international airport to Rome Termini Station, which is Rome’s public transport hub, right in the city centre and a great spot to start exploring the Eternal City! Book Online and Save! Online tickets cost €4 one way/€8 return trip instead of €6/€11.
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Termini Station. Journey time: 55 min
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By Bus -- From Siena, there are 16 daily TRA-IN buses (www.trainspa.it) that make the 20- to 30-minute trip to Colle di Val d'Elsa, from which there are four daily buses to Volterra (50 min.). From San Gimignano, you have to first take a bus to Poggibonsi (20 min.), four of which daily link up with buses to Colle di Val d'Elsa for the final transfer. From Florence, take one of five daily buses (three on Sun) to Colle di Val d'Elsa and transfer there (2 1/2-3 hr. total). Six to 10 CPT (www.cpt.pisa.it) buses run here Monday through Saturday from Pisa (change in Pontedera; 2-2 1/2 hr. total). Tickets and information in Volterra are available at the tourist office.
The CPT bus company runs buses from Cecina, Pontedera and Colle Val d’Elsa to Volterra. If you are arriving from Florence or Siena you can take a bus run by the SITA company to Colle Val d’Elsa and then catch the CPT bus; similarly, if arriving from Pisa (town center or airport) you can take the train (see above) to Pontedera, and then catch the CPT bus to Volterra. The schedules can change every few months so please be sure to recheck the schedule a week or so before your planned trip.The websites with the bus schedules are only in Italian, so the following small glossary may prove useful. Feriale or FR = Work-day (Mon – Sat) Festivo or FS = Sundays and public holidays Da Lunedì a Venerdì = From Monday to Friday
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SITA runs buses between Siena and Florence that stop in Colle Val d’Elsa, where you can get off to change buses and catch the CPT bus to Volterra or San Gimignano. Siena-Florence buses http://www.sitabus.it/sita-toscana/Firenze-Siena08.pdf
The closest train station to Volterra is Saline di Volterra, which is reached only by a line running from the coastal town of Cecina. Train service is very intermittent, and most people choose to arrive in Colle, Pontedera or Cecina by train and then take the bus. Train schedules can be checked at http://www.trenitalia.com
From the North (Milano) - Take the motorway A1 Milano-Roma direction South - Exit at FIRENZE IMPRUNETA - Take the dual carriageway Firenze-Siena - Direction Siena - Exit POGGIBONSI NORD - Follow the road signs for San Gimignano (Km.11)
From the South (Roma) - Take the motorway A1 Milano-Roma direction North - Exit at VALDICHIANA - Follow the road signs for Siena - At Siena Firenze take the dual carriageway Firenze-Siena - Direction - Exit at POGGIBONSI NORD - Follow the road signs for San Gimignano (Km.11)
Connections to train/bus station with taxi and bus.
Travelling to San Gimignano by train and by bus
By train from the North Line: Milano-Bologna-Firenze - Firenze-Empoli - Empoli-Siena (Get down at the station Poggibonsi/San Gimignano) - Bus to San Gimignano Linea: Genova-Pisa - Pisa-Empoli - Empoli-Siena (Get down at the station Poggibonsi/San Gimignano) - Bus to San Gimignano
By train from the South Line: Roma-Firenze (change in Chiusi/Chianciano Terme) - Chiusi/Chianciano Terme-Siena - Siena-Empoli (Get down at the station Poggibonsi/San Gimignano) - Bus to San Gimignano Line: Roma-Pisa - Pisa-Empoli - Empoli-Siena (Get down at the station Poggibonsi/San Gimignano) - Bus to San Gimignano
Recently, investing gadfly James Altucher posted a "cheat sheet" for what you should be doing with your money that spotlighted a handful of "demographic trends" that investors could get behind.
We wanted to expand on that handful to a full-blown list of all the technologies out there that are poised to make people billions.
This may not make you a billion dollars. But it shows where things are going.
1) Mobile payments
WHY: Reuters' Emma Thomasson says the mobile payment market is now "fiercely competitive and growing," citing moves by Google, Apple, and PayPal to launch products. Big box retailers also recently announced a joint digital wallet service called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX. And it's not just dollars: Crypto-payment group Circle said it would soon launch its first consumer product that it's calling the Skype of payments. Also for what it's worth, we also recently explained why you shouldn't be using cash.
WHY: While the fate of Tesla's Gigafactory is now somewhat up in the air, a recent report from Navigant argues worldwide revenue from lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles will grow from less than $6 billion in 2014 to $26.1 billion in 2023. “The shift to lithium ion represents a major endorsement of the ability of this chemistry to perform consistently in an automotive environment,” David Alexander, senior research analyst with Navigant Research says. “Most of the major automakers have introduced battery electric vehicle (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) models in the last two years, almost all of which use lithium ion batteries for onboard energy storage.” If even Bill O'Reilly is getting behind the potential for lithium ion-powered automobiles, you know this one's only going to move up and to the right.
4) Solar storage
WHY: "Grid defection" is the word many utilities have begun to fear as homeowners move to become near-fully autonomous energy providers. A report from NanoMarkets says the global market for solar storage systems alone will be worth $2 billion by 2018. The adoption of lithium ion batteries in cars will help drive the cost of solar storage systems, most of which are basically repackaged l.i. batteries, downward.
5) Farmland
WHY: Despite some temporary declines, wealthy farmers and non-farming investors continue to plunk down money on crops, Reuters says. That's because there remains healthy demand for what comes out of America's breadbasket, especially from China. Check out this chart from the USDA showing forecasts for Chinese imports of soybeans and corn, both of which the U.S. is the largest exporter of. Insane:
WHY: Yes, the numbers have been grim of late. But data show the slack is slowly draining out of the 25-34 cohort not in the labor force. As Matt Busigin points out in his Most Important Charts In The World selection, the data suggest "there is a long uptrend in 25-34 employment coming."
WHY: In their new book "The Second Machine Age," MIT Sloan professors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolffson argue increasing automation of the labor force will be a permanent feature of the economy. Thus robot-makers like Kiva Systems, which built Amazon's warehouse bots, stand to see receipts climb.
WHY: Chris Dixon argues that people have basically stopped using the mobile Web and now exclusively use apps. This means that the owners of app stores — that is to say, for now, the mobile phone developers — wield tremendous power. " What if AOL or some other central gatekeeper had controlled the Web, and developers had to ask permission to create Google, YouTube, eBay, PayPal, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, etc.? Sadly, this is where we’re headed on mobile."
10) Personalized genetic testing
WHY: Shares in gene-testing companies like Myriad have seen some of the best performance of 2014. 23&me had seen strong consumer interest before the FDA temporarily halted sales of its testing kit. The company says it's working with the agency to get its product back on the market.
11) Wearable tech
WHY: It's getting to the point where you probably have a friend, or a friend of a friend, who owns a Nike FitBit, a Jawbone, or some other device tracking their personal health data.
12) Smart fabrics
WHY: There's a company called SmartWeave whose product prevents sweat stains. There are also companies developing new smart uniforms for the military. The sector is constantly growing.
13) Uberification
WHY: Here's a list of every company now offering on-demand personal services, via Steve Schlafman at RRS. There are more than 70. "The “uberification” of our economy signals a fundamental shift in the way that local services are discovered and fulfilled," he writes.
WHY: The companies that insure the insurers have adjusted well to climate change and the climbing toll of natural disasters. "In 2011, the costliest year ever for loss claims thanks to floods in Thailand and the earthquake that caused the Fukushima disaster, the 40 largest reinsurers made pretax profits of $5.4 billion (U.S.), according to Standard & Poor’s," says the Toronto Globe and Mail.
WHY: Rents climbed 12% between 2009 and 2013 as the housing bubble pushed former homeowners into apartments. Seattle saw the largest YOY jump last year at 7.1% followed by San Francisco at 5.6%.
17) Online groceries
WHY: Online groceries generated more than $15 billion in sales last year. Amazon's AmazonFresh is about to get expanded into Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and possibly a bunch more. Wal-Mart To Go has also already been up and running in the Bay Area, and just expanded to Denver.
18) Meal kits
WHY: You could have your groceries delivered to you — or you could have the ingredients for specific meals delivered in precise quantities and with detailed recipes. Blue Apron, the leading start-up in this field, now may be worth more than $500 million. Naturally, there are now at least a half-dozen other start-ups looking to edge their way into the space.
WHY: Goldman Sachs recently ranked Cabot Oil and Gas as the most undervalued stock in the market, and cited a host of other energy companies as having an untapped upside. The forward curve on gas futures doesn't climb above $5 any time soon.
WHY: We recently explained why people keep investing in Bitcoin despite many recent headaches in the Bitcoin ecosystem: Its underlying technology — the Blockchain — is being called the next Internet. The companies incorporating blockchain remain in their infancy, but the most prominent one, Ripple, continues to raise millions of dollars from outside investors.
21) Meteorology
WHY: On Nov. 1, agriculture giant Monsanto bought a 7-year-old firm called Climate Corporation for about $1 billion. Founded by two former Google employees, Climate Corporation might be described as the expression of the "big data" movement in the farming sector: It takes figures from hundreds of monitoring stations and publishes real-time weather forecasts. We have also seen an increasing number of commodities futures move on weather forecast releases.
WHY: Online luxury sales are growing twice as fast as the overall market, according to a new report from McKinsey. "Last year, online shopping 'directly generated more than 13% of offline luxury sales and influenced another 28% of sales.' Consumers typically purchase big ticket items in-person, leading many luxury retailers to overlook e-commerce," BII's Cooper Smith writes.
24) Rockets
WHY: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are paving the way for the first true "space age," The SpaceReview's R.D. Boozer writes. "SpaceX estimates that if they are able reach a point where the whole Falcon 9 rocket is recovered and repeatedly reused in such a manner, they may achieve launch costs for around one hundredth of what they currently are. If they successfully meet this ultimate challenge, then we are on the verge of the first true Space Age, with all of the spaceflights that have occurred before amounting to an expensive, decades-long process of baby steps leading to this new capability."
25) Music streaming
WHY: The profitability models are still being worked out, but there is no doubt this is where the future of music lies. The purchase of music data service The Echo Nest by Spotify for an undisclosed amount signals where this is all going.
