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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60789)	3/8/2005 5:52:32 AM
From: Taikun	Respond to of 74559

Mqurice, February in NZ...I guess the ice is thinning? No, wait a minute, you guys are on the opposite schedule! D

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60789)	3/8/2005 9:06:21 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

MQ, Ray: I am making my own collection of unusual weather. My opinion is that the little changes we see in the weather patterns, melting ice, nore hurricanes and such, is also showing some interesting side effects elsewhere. And those side effects can be posiitve but no one is menitioning since weather chages MUST be BAD! Brief, Beautiful Rebirth Desert Is Teeming With Wildflowers After Record Rainfall March 8, 2005 Times Headlines By Louis Sahagun, Times Staff Writer DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — The wettest year on record here has transformed this forbidding wilderness of scruffy mountains and buckled earth into a vividly unfamiliar world of wildflowers and reflecting pools, triggering ecological cycles not seen before on so large a scale. Against a background of snowcapped peaks, the region's contoured badlands and splintery rock towers are festooned with bright yellow, pink, white and deep purple blossoms spreading out in all directions. With the wildflowers have come pollinators, including sphinx moths as big as hummingbirds. Another surprise: Badwater, usually the site of a salty pond nearly encircled by massive gray cliffs, features a lake five miles wide — and kayakers and wind surfers gliding over its whitecaps. "It's not Death Valley at all," visitor Wendy Cutler said. "I'm calling it Full of Life Valley." siliconinvestor.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (60789)	3/8/2005 9:24:18 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hello Maurice, the baby definitely has the same somewhat complicated and pliable external ear structure as I achamchen.com achamchen.com ... so, definitely mine :0) BTW, regarding this Message 21111750 , I think it is best that we take a market segmentation approach, as there are at least two, if not four or five China's I quote from an e-mail I just got from HSBC, "ASIAN ECONOMIC INSIGHT > Qu Hongbin > Tuesday 8 March 2005 > > CHINA: MIDDLE CLASS, CENTRE STAGE > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > * Regardless of the investment cycle, China's emerging urban middle class will continue to enjoy double-digit income growth over the next few years. This elite group, which already numbers around 130m, forms the mainstay of discretionary demand and should ensure that growth in consumer spending remains strong as investment growth cools off in the coming years. > * As prime beneficiaries of the boom in private business, privatisation and uneven regional development, the top 25% of China's urban labour pool ( with superior skills, power and appetite for risk ( are earning at least 6x the urban average and 11x the rural average. Their purchasing power is now approaching the per-capita average among Asia's newly industrialised economies. As long as key structural trends remain in place, the incomes and spending of the newly rich can only continue to rise. > * We project that the urban middle-class population will swell to 170m by 2015, as China's ongoing integration into the global economy continues to open up opportunities for private entrepreneurs and skilled labour. Over the same period we expect WTO-led deregulation, market-oriented reforms and foreign direct investment to sustain the progress of China's industrial and tertiary economies in terms of both productivity and scale." Chugs, Jay