關於 20th century recipe ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

🌻台灣仍在居家隔離期. 台灣居住空間較小, 居家隔離難度較高. 尤其這次面對的病毒也比較凶猛. 祝大家平安. 在此提供一些當時我居家隔離時所做的一些事情, 供大家參考:

--對家人睜一隻眼, 閉一隻眼. 一家人天天在一起難免會有不順的時候, 不過能夠在一起很珍貴.
--買香料公司已經調好的香料包做料理. 這樣省時間, 也可以不用傷腦筋, 也讓煮飯多了點變化(可參考這網站: https://www.mccormick.com/spices-and-flavors/recipe-mixes/mccormick-one)
--做手工藝(當時有做一個花圈wreath)
--看書, 看劇, 在線上與股友聊天, 看年報, 整理財報內容
--多睡覺
--研究園藝, 在家裡養了很多綠色植物
--整理家裡, 做收納, 移動家具
--晚上喝點小酒, 解壓助眠(不過要注意有可能會胡言亂語😅)

🌻Docusign(DOCU), Crowdstrike(CRWD)的電話會議內容已整理好. 有興趣的讀者可以到部落格那邊去看:
https://makingsenseofusastocks.blogspot.com/

🌻附上本周發表財報公司一覽表(請見附圖)

🌻U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yield Slips Below 1.5%
https://www.wsj.com/articles/10-year-treasury-yield-dips-below-1-5-11623256393

🌻俄亥俄州 躍全球太陽能重鎮
顧問公司Wood Mackenzie統計，去年美國太陽能新增發電量創新高，且2030年前將再增加三倍。First Solar表示，俄亥俄州太陽能面板園區未來主要供應美國市場。近年太陽能產業多數零件來自中國，尤其在去年疫情爆發後，美國重大產業過度依賴海外供應鏈的風險激增，令拜登政府誓言重振美國製造業，並大力推動綠能產業發展。
https://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20210611000866-260203?chdtv

🌻華爾街日報》美國經濟快速復甦，就業成長為何沒跟上？工作機會被科技進步吃掉了！
https://www.storm.mg/article/3743297

"其中一個受益者是CardFree Inc.，該公司為餐飲經營者設計和運營線上和移動點餐系統。CardFree的首席執行官Jon Squire稱，該公司的應用軟體讓餐館能夠更好地預測和管理收到的訂單，以優化人員和產能調配。"

🌻現金太多 美銀行業者向企業喊話：別來存款
https://www.worldjournal.com/wj/story/121477/5524281

🌻華爾街日報選文(中文)
最近花了不少時間看報紙, 發現報紙還真好看, 除了學到不少財經知識外, 華爾街日報(WSJ)有些文章都挺有深度的. 有時候還一邊看一邊畫重點.

Anyway. 發現這個中文網站, 會翻譯一些WSJ的好文章. 值得書籤(bookmark)起來:
https://www.storm.mg/category/173479

🌻去年很多EV方面的新公司或是小公司. 這篇文章的觀點挺好, 說做EV, 要能夠scale(規模化地拓展)也很重要: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-electric-vehicle-stocks-are-stuck-in-reverse-11622709998

"Still, the classic Silicon Valley disruption story isn’t playing out in the auto industry as once expected. With their big batteries, EVs are shaping up to be an industrial product that benefits from the kind of industrial scale 20th century manufacturers are good at. This advantage may not persist as other, software-based automotive technologies take off—in-vehicle internet and ultimately automated driving. But these are probably questions for another year."

可以跟這篇一起看:
Lordstown Motors的預警凸顯電動汽車初創公司的資金難題
https://cn.wsj.com/articles/lordstown-motors%E7%9A%84%E9%A0%90%E8%AD%A6%E5%87%B8%E9%A1%AF%E9%9B%BB%E5%8B%95%E6%B1%BD%E8%BB%8A%E5%88%9D%E5%89%B5%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8%E7%9A%84%E8%B3%87%E9%87%91%E9%9B%A3%E9%A1%8C-11623304812

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即便亞馬遜和沃爾瑪也難理順美國醫療健康亂局
美國企業有無數個理由進軍甚至顛覆醫療健康行業，但即使是技術天才也會發現這個領域令人費解。
https://cn.wsj.com/articles/%E5%8D%B3%E4%BE%BF%E4%BA%9E%E9%A6%AC%E9%81%9C%E5%92%8C%E6%B2%83%E7%88%BE%E7%91%AA%E4%B9%9F%E9%9B%A3%E7%90%86%E9%A0%86%E7%BE%8E%E5%9C%8B%E9%86%AB%E7%99%82%E5%81%A5%E5%BA%B7%E4%BA%82%E5%B1%80-11622432113

🌻信任(trust)
這兩天看了一部電影and一本書的評論, 發現觸及的主題是一樣的: 信任.

電影是Disney Plus上面的"巡龍使者: 拉雅". 書是一本新書"The Power of Giving Away Power".

我發現一個團體要把事情做好, 重要的不是每個人的能力有多強, 而是彼此能否信任. 當大家都有共識(英文有個片語是, "on the same page"), 有同樣的目標的時候, 事情會好辦很多. 但這其實不容易做到(就像電影中的Raya一樣, 還必須先犧牲自己, 才能說服夥伴.)

Anyway. 覺得這題材挺有趣的, 也是生活中常碰到的事情. 分享給大家.

"巡龍使者: 拉雅"影評: https://movie1314.pixnet.net/coblog/post/353485640

"The Power of Giving Away Power"書評:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-power-of-giving-away-power-review-the-stars-look-down-11623277080

Pictures: 網路, Amazon, earningswhispers.com

- 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

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Part 2/2 ( #Vegetarian #Plantbased #Fauxbeef #Satay #Sustainable #Meatfree #Beef #Meat #素 🌱 ) The reason I posted about my fav Satay Beef Noodles #沙爹牛肉麵 again, is because it became a 20th Century staple food in Hong Kong, brought back by the Chiu Chow/Teochew from near Indonesia #Sate & is now usually included in a Daily Set Meal #常餐 . Personally speaking, I find it difficult to live without this Recipe in my life, & my other super weakness is Wagyu Beef #和牛 😔.
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Great news is that I found out @Green_common & Kind Kitchen has currently introduced a Vegetarian substitute for Satay Beef, and I have to report back & say it tasted much like the real thing, even down to the sauce ~! BRAVO.
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On the other hand as a Satay Beef aficionados, I also think they can have some minor adjustments. 1stly is that for basically half of a sandwich at HKD $58, I think it is the norm that customers might expect to have a bit more Vegan Beef fillings inside.. 2ndly their other menu option is the same Plant-based Satay 'Beef' served with Udon, but traditionally, Satay Beef Noodles is either served with Rice Vermicelli 米粉, or Cantonese Egg Noodles 幼麵. Udon 饂飩 usually works better with a more viscous Curry soup base only ~ but it is definitely getting there and it's rather tasty! 😋