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15 global challenges that cannot be addressed by any government acting alone

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  The 15 Global Challenges  from t he Millennium Project, a global participatory think tank. 1. How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change? 2. How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict? 3. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance? 4. How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes? 5. How can decisionmaking be enhanced by integrating improved global foresight during unprecedented accelerating change? 6. How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone? 7. How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor? 8. How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced? 9. How can education make humanity more intelligent, knowledgeable, and wise enough to address its global challenges? 10. How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts,...
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Chinese Community Centre Derby

By Jim Sheng
Some photos of Chinese Community Centre Derby. Centre address is 110-112 Abbey Street, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 3SS, Telephone: 01332 342436. Members of the centre like playing Mahjong, every time I pass outside the centre, I can hear the noise of mahjong and exciting shout of the players.
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Compare Prices and Nutrients of Baby Formula Brands in UK

By Jim Sheng
Our first baby was breast-fed exclusively for nine months before my wife returned to work. We then fed her Heinz Farley's follow-on milk until she switched to regular whole milk at 12 months old. Our second baby is mix-fed. When it comes to choose the baby milk, we found that Heinz Farley's baby milk had just been discontinued and replaced with a fancy milk with extra pro-biotic etc and re-packaged at the cost of £7.95, which now becomes the most expensive one. My wife did a research, compared Prices and Nutrients of all Baby Formula Brands in UK. You may find the article here .
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Reigate's Got Talent Show

By Jim Sheng
There will be a Reigate's got a Talent Show in my daughter's School on Wednesday 10th December 2008. This show name is after the British Got Talent Show . There will be singers, musicians, comedians, variety, magicians and dancers, plus Reigate school choir and a grand finale performance. Of course we need to pay the tickets, it's only 50p, though. I showed the leaflet to my wife, her first question was:　"Is it free?" This question always come to her before she think about any treats or surprise. But I think I won't miss it. I am looking forward to the show!
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The Old Man Who Lost His Horse

By Jim Sheng
Percy Wakefield was born in 1891. In 1910 he moved to Derby and got a job working with horse at the midland Railway depot. At the out break of the First World War, he volunteered to enlist but was rejected by the Army, again, as unfit. He was reported to have a 'weak heart'. Frustrated at being rejected again, he volunteered to become a railway ambulance man. His duties included unloading the wounded off the specially-built ambulance trains that arrived at Derby station. These trains arrived at night so as not to draw attention to the dreadful carnage they contained. He transported these poor souls to hospitals and nursing homes around the county. He was very moved by the suffering he saw and became grateful to the medical board that had declared him 'unfit'. Percy retired from the railway in 1963 and had an active retirement enjoying his garden and reading just about anything he could get his hands on. He lived in the same house and remained fit and strong until his de...
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A porn spammer’s post

By Jim Sheng
I just installed SMF (simple machine forum ), the topics are supposed to be 3D game design and development . But the next day some strange registered members and posts appeared. Those posts seem to be composed randomly of words, phrases, but make no sense at all. Today, the same guy (from same IP) posted such thing as bellow: Okay, this is a happy moment. I fixed the washing machine. I tried this a few weeks back and nothing worked right then (got it working though), but today the thing just fell apart again. I popped open the front cover, the motor was (this time) easy to remove, I super-glued the bottom pulley back together, and it was running again in 30 minutes. The squeak and rattle are gone. And it looks like this time they'll stay gone! What's your recent victory? Do these spammer post manually or by machine?
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My Daughter's First Achievement Report

By Jim Sheng
My daughter got her first achievement report, this is for last half term, foundation stage 1, autumn term (1): CLL: a green button; PSRN: an orange button; KUW: a green button; CLL is short for Communication, language & literacy; PRSN means problem solving, Numbers and Reasoning; KUW means Knowledge and Understanding of the World. Green button means target achieved; orange button represents target partly achieved; and Red button indicate target not achieved. My daughter has problem to count after 11, she mixes up 12 an 13 and 14, or just skip one of them. Topics for Autumn term (2) are colour, light and sound.
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What does "mortgage" mean?

By Jim Sheng
In the 17th and 18th centuries as people were going to the "new world", America, many of them couldn't afford the boat ride. So to get to America, they would agree to be indentured servants. They would commit to work for someone for 3 to 7 years, and in the end they would be part of this new free world, at least that was the idea. You see, in many cases, the indentured servant would become further indebted to their "employer" who would then agree to forgive that debt if they would stay on, many times indefinitely. Today, we still have indentured servants, more like financial slaves really. But instead of being obligated for 7 years, it's 30, or more. And that's assuming you actually become debt free, but incidentally, many people won't see that day before they die. In fact, dissect the word "mortgage" and what do you get? Well "mort" comes from the Latin word for death, and "gage" comes from Latin to mean pledge, so a mo...
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