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听靓颖的heroes,看穆大叔离我们渐行渐远听靓颖的heroes,看穆大叔离我们渐行渐远
91年你打球的时候,我才刚上小学三年级.那时并不熟悉你,只是在若干年后76人队同湖人争夺总冠军的时候,看着你扛不过鲨鱼,但你的敬业是给了我印象的.
之后重看97-98年全明星,我自然是冲着Kobe-Michael去的,但我注意到了你是东部首发. 10年后你成了Yao的替补...
你在场上那经典的摇手指的动作,曾被Kobe模仿,都挺有意思.你严肃的表情中,似乎总在告诉我们一些非洲人的故事,而你宽广的手掌也在讲述着广袤的非洲大地人们的生活.我听说了Bush总统曾专程邀请你去白宫,因为你从不疲倦的慈善事业.
18年了,婴儿都转眼成了汉子.你在竞争程度最高的球场上驰骋了这许多年,你对篮球的理解,和你的精神都将得到传承.愿你离开联盟后的生活安好.
世界那么大需要一个hero.我想,在您的祖国,刚果,该有多少的人因为你的拼搏而获得了生活的希望,获得了继续生存的可能和勇气.你就是他们的hero,也是我的.
看了一篇ESPN的关于他的报道，贴在此，以作纪念：
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Houston Rockets center Dikembe Mutombo said his lengthy career is finished after a knee injury knocked him out of the Rockets' playoff game Tuesday night against the Portland Trail Blazers.
"For me, basketball is over," he said.
Mutombo Mutombo, an 18-year NBA veteran, appeared to get tangled with Portland center Greg Oden and came down hard on his left leg late in the first quarter of Game 2 and did not return. He stayed prone on the court under the Blazers' basket for several moments before he was taken away by stretcher. A preliminary examination revealed a knee strain.
Afterward in Houston's locker room, the 7-foot-2 veteran was on crutches and fighting back tears.
"Nobody ever thought they'd be carrying the big guy out like a wounded soldier," he said.
Mutombo, the league's oldest player at 42, will be examined by doctors in Houston on Wednesday.
"Dikembe is one of the statesmen of this league," teammate Shane Battier said. "There's not a better guy. To see him in pain is tough to see. He cares so much about this game that he doesn't want to end his career like that. That's the tragedy of it, too."
Mutombo is an eight-time All-Star who won the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year award four times and stands in second on the NBA's career blocks list with 3,289. He has played for Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York and Houston.
In 1,196 career games, Mutombo has averaged 9.8 points, 10.3 rebounds and 2.7 blocks.
Moreover, Mutombo is known for his humanitarian work. He founded the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation in 1997 to benefit the people of his homeland of Kinshasha in the Congo. In 2007, he opened the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital and Research Center there, named after his mother.
The Rockets re-signed Mutombo in December after he played in 39 games with the team the previous season. He was a free agent and had considered retirement.
He played in nine regular-season games with the Rockets, averaging 1.8 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.22 blocks.
Mutombo played 18 minutes in Game 1 of the series and had nine rebounds. The Rockets won the opener, 108-81, before the Blazers evened the series with a 107-103 victory on Tuesday.
"I've had a wonderful 18 years of staying injury-free, so I just want to go out with my head up, no regrets," he said.
穆罕默德•尤努斯在法国的时候,孟加拉人我认识几个,都是洗盘子的.
但在前几期的<三联生活周刊>上看到了<穷人的银行家>一书的介绍,方才了解了这个国家有一个获得过诺贝尔和平奖的人,他名字叫:穆罕默德.尤努斯.
穆罕默德•尤努斯(Muhammad Yunus，1940年6月28日－):穷人的银行家、经济学家,格莱珉银行的创始人
穆罕默德·尤努斯开创和发展了“微额贷款”的服务，专门提供给因贫穷而无法获得传统银行贷款的创业者。他也是孟加拉乡村银行（Grameen Bank，也译作格莱珉银行）的创建人。 2006年，“为表彰他们从社会底层推动经济和社会发展的努力”，他与孟加拉乡村银行共同获得诺贝尔和平奖。曾获得过总计60多项荣誉，如1978年孟加拉总统奖、1985年孟加拉银行奖、1994年世界粮食奖、1998年悉尼和平奖，以及2004《经济学人》颁发的社会经济创新奖等。 --百度百科 中国什么时候能获诺贝尔奖?这个实在不好说,但在孟加拉能出一位因为在经济,银行领域对社会做出巨大贡献,而荣获诺贝尔奖的人,实在让人刮目相看.
于是乎,接连几天,把他的自传看了(中文翻译,参见:http://lz.book.sohu.com/serialize-id-5853.html),然后看了些报道.
我至少接受了他的几个看法:
1:穷人是因为体制造成的,如果可以改变体制本身,就可能从很大程度上消除穷人;
2:穷人的信用并不比富人低,但他们需要一种好的机制来抵御风险(尤努斯的格莱珉银行中5人信贷小组的方式就很有特色);
3:能够真正解决问题,尤其是消灭贫穷的经济学家才是好的经济学家.
4:对于穷人而言,他们最需要的,并不是培训或者说技术,而是促使他们能够用已知,熟悉的方式进行生产的资本.因为资本的缺乏,因为信贷的无法触及,才导致了永久的贫穷.
他说了这样几句话,觉得很有智慧,贴在下面:
Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
I am a firm believer that all humans are entrepreneurs. Two-thirds of the world's population are not eligible for bank loans. What kind of system is that?
I started this work with micro loans quite accidentally. Loan sharks in Bangladesh were making local villagers miserable. So I made a list of all the people that owed money to these loan sharks. And the total amount owed was just 27 dollars. I had no idea that people had to suffer so much for so little.
I went to the banks and told them about the loan sharks. The banks said to me, "we don't lend to poor people. They are not credit-worthy."
Who created poverty? Poverty is not in the human being because we were all born the same. Poverty is created by the institutions that we build. If you fix the institution, there will be no poverty. When we started Grameen Bank in 1976, only one per cent of Bangladesh's conventional bank loans were made to women. We wanted to make sure half of the borrowers at Grameen Bank were female. Today 97 per cent of our borrowers are women.
Lending money to women in Bangladesh is not that simple. When you go to a woman she will say "don't give the money to me. I don't know anything about money. I've never handled money in my life." That's not her voice. It is the voice of history.
We lend $1bn a year. No money comes from outside investors. We take deposits and lend. Each branch is self-reliant, which means we are the soundest financial institution in the world.
People ask me how did you design all the rules for Grameen Bank. I say it was simple: all we did was look at how conventional banks do it and do the opposite.
Conventional banks go to the rich—we go to the poor. Conventional banks ask for collateral, we say "forget about collateral". And conventional banks use lawyers, we say "forget about lawyers".
We also help beggars. We say "as you go door to door begging for money, take these cookies to sell, or toys for the children and sell those". We have 100,000 beggars doing this. More than 11,000 of them have given up begging completely. The remaining 90,000 are part-time beggars. They know which house is good for selling and at which house it is better to beg. So they have learned market segmentation.
Grameen Danone is a social business. We produce yoghurt for the millions of malnourished children in Bangladesh. If a child eats two cups of this yoghurt every week, within nine or 10 months that child will get back all the nutrition it has lost. That is our goal.
Once you move from a profit-making business to a social business something happens: your costs go down. You don't need any fancy packaging for the yoghurt. You don't need any expensive advertising, because you have no competition.
The amazing thing about social business is that all you need to do is design a prototype. Once it works, all you have to do is replicate it many times. You develop a seed.
the difference between AI and McGradyEveryone knows AI is a little naughty, but he has a spirit which he inherited from Jordan the Great.He never wins the championship, but he did play in the finals and he has won regular season MVP and all-star MVP. Everytime you watch his play, you know his will is strong, though he is a little man.
But not the case for McGrady. I think this man never deserves his fame in these past years.He is somewhat a better player in the league, but that is all. I never compare him with Kobe or some other great guards in the league. To be a top player, you should be talent, and strong mentally and physically,he has none.
AI has no good luck in his past 13years in the league, hope later he will get good chance as a role player and win a ring,just like the Glove,Gary Payton.
But for McGrady, what he can do, in my opinion is to leave the Rockets,and in such a way makes the Rockets to takeoff.
Maybe AI into the Rockets and McGrady out is a good way. |
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