Cheung Sha Wan Road Kowloon 3 December 2010 The Administrative officer Environmental Protection Department 33/F-34/F Revenue Tower 5 Gloucester Road Wan Chai Dear Sir/Madam‚ I am writing to inform you of my dissatisfactory with the poor air quality long existing in Hong Kong. Fuelled by the pollutants from power plants and vehicles‚ and made worse by the regional pollution‚ Hong Kong in most of the days seems wrapped in a grey shroud to a point that‚ you cannot make out from the Central
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Turkish Airlines compared to a Competitor The report compares International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A is to Turkish Airlines because they both operate in the same industry: air transportation of passengers. They both serve similar geographic segments: Europe and US‚ 38% of International Consolidated came from other areas and 44% of Turkish Airline’s income comes from other geographic areas. Furthermore‚ taken from the 2012 financial statements‚ the total equity for both companies is similar
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by 1995‚ and 10 million by the year 2001.” Total start-up cost was estimated at £500 million. Sky Television: Unlike British Satellite Broadcasting’s use of D-MAC‚ News Corporation’s Sky Television took a different approach and focused on the use of PAL. It chose to broadcast via the higher risk‚ medium-powered Astra communications satellite. To lease four channels for 10 years would cost Sky Television only £100 million. In order for transmissions to be received‚ satellite dishes were
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causes: Air Pollution Air pollution is perhaps the most common and the most dangerous type of pollution. It involves the direct release of chemicals into the environment. The chemicals then become the part of the air around us that all the living things take in. The increase in the rate of diseases such as asthma and lung cancer today is due to the increase in the air pollution around us. Air pollution is also a cause of global warming andacid rain. Causes Of Air Pollution Basically the air pollution
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Air Navigation - The Pilot/Navigator All air navigation involves basic principles that apply to all aeroplanes‚ from the simplest trainer to the most sophisticated passenger jets. These basic principles are discussed in this manual. Since The Air Pilot’s Manual is a training programme for the Private Pilot’s Licence (PPL)‚ we will concentrate on accurate navigation of a light aircraft‚ flown by a single pilot‚ in visual conditions. PPL holders‚ when flying cross-country‚ act as pilot‚ navigator
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Addressing Air Pollution Threats with Air Purifier We are already in the year 2013 and like many other fields of technology there also has been significant improvements in the field of pollution prevention. Using an air purifier could address problems of air pollution substantially. With the world growing more and more conscious about environmental issues‚ pollution control is taking driver’s seat among various considerations for home‚ office‚ and workshop owners. Many people are turning towards
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This memo is for the recommendation of a study into the proposed construction of the LaGuardia Air Rail proposal by the MTA/ Port Authority‚ like the JFK Air Rail. The proposed study should also consider proposed routing plans in agreement with any possible NIMBY complaints. The air rail proposal calls for a terminal at Willets Point directly above the Corona Yards in the middle of the 7 line stop and the LIRR station with lanes above the Grand Central Parkway to LaGuardia Airport‚ under two miles
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Air Bag An airbag is a vehicle safety device. It is an occupant restraint consisting of a flexible envelope designed to inflate rapidly during an automobilecollision‚ to prevent occupants from striking interior objects such as the steering wheel or a window. Modern vehicles may contain multiple airbags in various side and frontal locations of the passenger seating positions‚ and sensors may deploy one or more airbags in an impact zone at variable rates based on the type and severity of
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H A B I T A T INTL. Vol. 19‚ No. 3‚ pp. 279-292‚ 1995 Pergamon Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain 0197-3975/95 $9.50 + 0.00 0197-3975(94)00071-9 Sustainable Development and the Construction Industry* ROBIN SPENCE and HELEN MULLIGANt Cambridge University‚ UK and tCambridge Architectural Research Limited‚ UK ABSTRACT The construction industry‚ together with the materials industries which support it‚ is one of the major global exploiters of natural resources‚ both physical
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Dickinson successfully compared the brain’s ability to interpret‚ absorb and look into‚ and generalize to the ability of ocean‚ the sky‚ and God. The imagination in the brains is wider than the sky. The sky is the atmosphere people see from the earth. So even though the sky looks wide‚ it has a limit. However‚ there is no limitation of the imaginations in the brain. The sky cannot restrict people’s mind being curious about the outer space. People tell stories about aliens and the world out of the
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