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To: TobagoJack who wrote (52765)	7/26/2009 8:30:22 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217984

So how many sheep does HK have? And how many times has the HK rugby team reached the final of the World Cup? And how many HKers were first to the top of Everest? I thought so.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (52765)	7/26/2009 10:48:19 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217984

See how the British Empire enabled an otherwise rickshaw runner to move to London, be educated, join a USA company which paid him to goof around with glass fibre in cahoots with others: <In 1966, Kao and another young engineer named George Hockham published a theory that suggested how signal loss could be greatly reduced so that glass communication lines could run for kilometers instead of just a few meters. > George Hockham obviously had something to do with it too. Not to mention others. The Super-colony reaches into the murk of China, India and elsewhere and frees the local yokels from the throttling tentacles of their merciless totalitarian bosses. Hooray for the British Empire, harbinger of civilisation across the planet: <All intersect at a laboratory in London where in 1963, a 30-year-old Kao began experiments that culminated in the proof of a visionary concept - that strands of glass fibers thinner than human hair and cheaper to produce than fishing line can transmit near-limitless amounts of digitized data on pulses of laser light. > Note the extensive litany of inventiveness required to deliver these pixels to you. It was good that he was able to take a tiny part in the process. greatachievements.org Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (52765)	7/28/2009 2:55:52 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217984

California losing allure; immigration numbers decline Two new studies on immigration released last week should ease some of the tension that's been building on the issue as California and the rest of the nation struggle through difficult economic times. The new numbers show that illegal immigration from Mexico is slowing, and that California's allure as the destination of choice for all immigrants continues to fade. That's not necessarily good news. Immigrants, whether legal or illegal, tend to be go-getters who inject new life into our economy. And the fact that California is becoming less attractive to newcomers is hardly something to celebrate. But immigration, particularly of poor, uneducated migrant workers, also creates burdens for society and government. And the presence of undocumented workers willing to work for less than legal residents and citizens tends to drive down the wages of all low-skilled workers. The Pew Hispanic Center reported last week that illegal immigration from Mexico appears to have declined sharply in just a few years. In 2008, the number of Mexicans apprehended by the Border Patrol was 662,000, off 40 percent from its peak of more than 1 million in 2004. The total number of apprehensions was the lowest since 1973. But it wasn't for a lack of trying. The Border Patrol in recent years has increased its budget, enlarged its staff and employed new high-tech tools to catch illegal crossers. The reasonable explanation is that far fewer Mexicans are trying to enter the United States illegally, in part because of the stepped-up enforcement and in part because of the depressed U.S. economy. Immigrants almost always come for jobs. If there are fewer jobs available, fewer immigrants will come. A similar explanation, unfortunately, is probably behind California's fading status as the place in which most immigrants want to settle. This trend has been evident for some time, but the latest numbers from the Public Policy Institute of California are startling. In the late 1980s, the PPIC notes, 35 percent of new immigrants to the United States came to California. But from 2004 through 2007, that number shrunk to 19 percent. The leveling off of immigrant population has been evident in Stanislaus County. According to the PPIC report, immigrants (legal and illegal) made up 25.8 percent of the county population in 2007, not much of a change from 25 percent in 2000. The decline in the number of immigrants coming to California will at least give our state more time and space to assimilate those who are already here. And that's good news, not only for native-born citizens but also for the immigrants themselves. The reports are available at pewhispanic.org and www.ppic.org.