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In my opinion these so called middle-class educated professionels are not so educated because the are unable to think; otherwise they would think about how to improve manufacturing processes, their living habits in order to improve the air around them and to clean up their living space (including the oil laden fans in ... |
If the PX project expansion has been well-reasoned by experts, there is no reason that the Ningbo government (or any government) must ditch it and kowtow to misinformed public pressure. The government should have the courage to stand by truth and not give in to misguided passion. |
I am impressed that Chinese citizens are becoming more aware of protecting and caring for their environment, and speaking up to the government about their concerns. What use is having more jobs and affluence if you are ill in a bed with cancer? |
Here is a good article about this issue. |
‘Toxic legacy of economic growth’ |
SCMP.com Account |
Collectors Can Explode, Sandstorms Are Creepy, and Other Things I Learned The Hard Way In Mass Effect 3: Retaliation |
When BioWare added all sorts of new challenges, modes, and enemies to Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode yesterday, they also added a new stat-tracking page that tells you, among other things, how many hours of your life you have spent shooting down enemy waves. It is a number that I kind of wish I hadn't seen... and it ... |
The Retaliation DLC—like all other multiplayer DLC for the game so far, free of charge—doesn't just add some new maps and content, but also fundamentally changes the philosophical approach to the multiplayer. Where its original sense of safety and low barrier to entry led me to develop a mild addiction to the game earl... |
New player character types are all well and good, but are of course obtained randomly. While I've unlocked quarians, geth, batarians, krogan, asari, drell, turians, and vorcha, luck has not been with me on being able to try out either the volus or the new turian havoc and ghost classes. I have, however, been able to tr... |
By "delightful," I of course mean, "creepy as hell," but in a challenging, exciting way. Firebase Dagger(Ontarom) is old and familiar. It exists in single-player Mass Effect 3 as an N7 mission; I've played it dozens of times in multiplayer since March, as its abundance of sniper nests makes it quick and easy for someon... |
Collectors sound like bees. Swarms approach, buzzing madly just out of the corner of your hearing. And in the sandstorm, the buzzing hives disappear into the swirling maelstrom mere meters away from you. Their big, obvious heads, so easy to snipe in profile, or peeking out above the edge of cover, seem like a paltry si... |
They're not any less creepy (or less fast, or less hard to kill) when you can see them, for that matter. As I played through Firebase Reactor, each new Collector enemy type led me to exclaim, "oh god, a what now?" And naturally, they all can be possessed. Some of the collector types also explode on their demise. Try, u... |
The nice thing about the hazard mode on Reactor is that you can lead your enemies into the now-active reactor core, then lock them in and let the system fry them. Doing so is much more satisfying than it should be. I may have cackled like a madwoman, briefly, when I caught two collector captains (think marauders, only ... |
With new enemy classes in every creature type, new hazards warming up old maps, and new challenges tracking every single player motion, BioWare is clearly trying hard to keep their six-month old multiplayer experience fresh and compelling. On me, at least, the trick is working. Quantify me, and I will always try to mee... |
So, 53 headshots since they started tracking yesterday... I can hit 250 in a week, right? Sure I can. Just one more round... |
Spins Without Fear |
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This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, Mar. 2005. |
A little anxiety is perfectly normal when an airplane begins rotating toward the ground in a 60-degree nose-down attitude. But the thought of spin training need not cause you to break out in a cold sweat. In fact, many pilots find that the actual spin experience, while exciting and dramatic, usually isn't as bad as the... |
What Is Spin Training? |
Too many pilots mistakenly believe they are "spin trained" after performing a couple of intentional, one- or two-turn spins. The practice of intentional, precision spins by itself, however, offers little in the way of practical knowledge about spin avoidance during critical flight operations. Pilots so trained are real... |
Is Spin Training Beneficial? |
A common argument against spin training attempts to weigh its benefits against the following hypothetical: "Even a spin-trained pilot won't be able to recover a spin entered while in the traffic pattern." Nice try, but stall/spin accidents do not occur in a vacuum. While 95 percent of stall/spin accidents begin below t... |
1. Pilots who did not receive spin training consistently failed to recover from the spins; |
2. Pilots who only received training in intentional spins were often unable to recognize the spin departures. When they did, it often took multiple turns and the recoveries tended to be inconsistent; |
3. Pilots who received spin training in the context of real-life accident scenarios consistently initiated corrective actions within the incipient phase of the departure, and oftentimes immediately upon departure. |
In the short term at least, contextual spin training appears able to reduce the occurrence of accidental spins during critical flight operations. |
Is Spin Training Safe? |
A myth that continues to circulate is the notion that mandatory spin training was deleted way back in 1949 because more pilots were being killed during spin training than the training was saving. No evidence can be found to substantiate this claim. While it is sad-but-true that the average flight instructor is neither ... |
More articles to help you become a better pilot are available in AVweb's Airmanship section. And for monthly articles about safety like this one, subscribe to AVweb's sister publication, Aviation Safety. |
The problem of unemployment in Nicaragua has reached the point where the instinct for survival is much more important to people than their human dignity. |
We live in an era when it is better to earn something and survive than it is to have nothing and suffer from poverty. In these times, choosing a job to have is a luxury, since jobs are so scarce. People must work in whatever job they can find, and do the best they can, without consideration to what the job pays, whethe... |
What has become of us? Where is the value of human life? Does this crisis have a solution? Or are its roots so deep that we are destined to live this way for a long time? |
The youth of Nicaragua, despite being the majority of the population, don’t have enough work experience by virtue of the fact that we’re young; as a consequence, many young people are not being hired for decent jobs. And if they do find work, it is usually in exchange for favors. |
Employees in Nicaragua—in both the public and private sectors—are usually hired on the basis of friendship or personal relations, and not so much based on professional merit or competition. That’s why many institutions don’t work properly or simply fall under the weight of their own incompetence. When enterprises fail,... |
Companies do not have enough incentives to hire young people, even those with university degrees. The vast majority of the youth between the ages of 16 and 35 are unemployed. Many of those who are lucky enough to be employed have a job that doesn’t pay well, or doesn’t give them the opportunity to grow within the insti... |
The alternative to working in a dead-end job is equally grim. Dignified young people who choose not to pay that price have to endure unemployed for a long time, which produces an increasing amount of economic and psychological anguish. |
Unfortunately, there are many who give in and accept the stingy alms they are offered in order to prevent starvation, or to avoid a life of crime. The country is filled with involuntarily delinquent youth who threaten the security of all the Nicaraguans; it’s a danger that increases every day. |
But there is a solution to those with means. It consists of creating their own business, with imagination and solidarity and even with few resources. Entrepreneurship is not only an alternative to survive in a micro-enterprise, but will also improve the quality of life of youth. |
By triggering individual initiative and entrepreneurial character, we will inevitably create new employment. By creating their own businesses, young people will become productive citizens and free themselves of the humiliation of working for humiliating alms doled out by those who continue to feast, fatten their bank a... |
Cristiana Guevara-Mena is a lawyer and young blogger living in Managua. A version of this article ran on the author’s blog, Ensayos Politicos, a bilingual blog on national politics and youth issues. |
(1815 - 1896 / Australia) |
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THE BRAVE old land of deed and song, |
Of gentle hearts and spirits strong, |
Of queenly maids and heroes grand, |
Of equal laws,—our Fatherland! |
Though born beneath a brighter sun, |
Shall we forget the marvels done, |
By soul outspoken, blood outpoured, |
By bard and patriot, song and sword? |
Forget how firm and true our sires, |
Still lighted by their battle-fires, |
’Gainst kingly power and kingly crime, |
Long struggled in the darkened time? |
How in a rolling sea they stood, |
Where every wave was freemen’s blood,— |
Shall we forget the time of strife, |
When freedom’s only price was life? |
Shall Cromwell’s memory, Milton’s lyre, |
Not kindle ’mong us souls of fire, |
Not raise in us a spirit strong— |
High scorn of shams, quick hate of wrong? |
Shall we not learn, Australians born! |
To smile on tinselled power our scorn,— |
At least, a freeman’s pride to try, |
When tinselled power would bend or buy? |
The brave old land of deed and song, |
We ne’er will do her memories wrong! |
For freedom here we’ll firmly stand, |
As stood our sires for Fatherland! |
Submitted: Thursday, January 01, 2004 |
Read poems about / on: freedom, power, song, memory, hate, pride, smile, fire, sea, sun, time, hero |
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• WILFRED JOHN (8/9/2007 9:08:00 AM) |
YOUR POEMS ARE VERY GOODThe brave old land of deed and song, |
We ne’er will do her memories wrong. YOU ARE A GENIOUS |
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