Another great video from General Electric. It explains in plain english how a jet engine works!
How Does a Jet Engine Work?
June 25, 2014
Obesity crisis so severe parents face ‘burying’ their children – Health News | Irish Medical News | The Irish Times – Mon, Jun 23, 2014
June 25, 2014
Uncategorized Early Education, Education, obesity, People & Society, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey Leave a comment
The obesity problem among young people is so bad that the present generation of parents may be the “first to bury our children”, Department of Health secretary-general Ambrose McLoughlin has said.
He told an Irish Heart Foundation conference today that the State had to move away from treatment and towards prevention, adding that tackling obesity was now a “public health priority”.
“If we don’t deal with [obesity], we will be the first generation to bury our children,” he said…
17 aid workers abducted in Sudans Darfur region
June 24, 2014
African Center for Strategic Studies Conflict, Darfur, International Security, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey Leave a comment
17 aid workers abducted in Sudans Darfur region.
Seventeen aid workers have been abducted in the Sudanese troubled Darfur region, sources said.
Irish NGO GOAL and local SAK reported that the abduction took place on Thursday.
They said three GOAL employees and 14 members of the Sudanese SAK were abducted in Kutum, North Darfur.
The sources said the three Goal employees included the country director.
The SAK members included the head of the Kutum branch and an engineer.
“Militiamen in three Land Cruisers stopped the GOAL country director and two staff members who were on their way to Kutum airport. They pulled them from their vehicle at gunpoint and took them to an unknown destination,” the sources, who asked not to be named because they are not authorised to talk to the media, told the Africa Review.
“At about the same time, gunmen in Land Cruisers abducted 14 employees of the Sudanese SAK organisation, in the Um Lyon in Kutum locality,” they added…
Iraq formally asks US to launch air strikes against ISIS..US lacks intel to carry out attacks in Iraq..yeah right..
June 20, 2014
On Iraq, Echoes of 2003 – NYTimes.com
June 19, 2014
International Security Conflict, ISIS, Peace & Security, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey 1 Comment
On Iraq, Echoes of 2003 – NYTimes.com.
Is this 2014 or 2003?
I’m flinching at a painful sense of déjà vu as we hear calls for military intervention in Iraq, as President Obama himself — taunted by critics who contend he’s weak — is said to be considering drone strikes there.
Our 2003 invasion of Iraq should be a warning that military force sometimes transforms a genuine problem into something worse. The war claimed 4,500 American lives and, according to a mortality study published in a peer-reviewed American journal, 500,000 Iraqi lives. Linda Bilmes, a Harvard expert in public finance, tells me that her latest estimate is that the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war will be $4 trillion.
That’s a $35,000 tax on the average American household. The total would be enough to ensure that all children could attend preschool in the United States, that most people with AIDS worldwide could receive treatment, and that every child worldwide could attend school — for the next 83 years. Instead, we financed a futile war that was like a Mobius strip, bringing us right back to an echo of where we started.
‘Africa Rising’? Not really, unless we invest more in girls – CNN.com
June 18, 2014
Education Africa, Education, Gambia, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey Leave a comment
‘Africa Rising’? Not really, unless we invest more in girls – CNN.com.
What factor has the power to transform individual lives, communities, nations and the world?
The answer to this complex question is a simple one: education. While it is widely accepted that there is no one solution to lift the millions across our globe out of poverty, it is also equally accepted that a key cornerstone of addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges is through providing a quality education to all children, especially girls…
A Helicopter of One’s Own – NYTimes.com
June 18, 2014
Aviation Aviation, Helicopter, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey, Pilot, Research Leave a comment
A Helicopter of One’s Own – NYTimes.com.
If we had our own personal mini-helicopters that were almost as easy to fly as cars are to drive, and we could take off from our backyards, soar over the traffic and peer down at the earthbound masses, trudging along below.
That would be cool.
As it turns out, the European Union is making plans for that very thing. Six research institutions across Europe are studying the feasibility of small commuter helicopters, helped along by a $4.7 million grant from the European government in a project dubbed “MyCopter.”..
The Only Bitcoin Wallet Approved for the iPhone
June 16, 2014
Apple is letting bitcoin back onto the iPhone. Over the weekend, Apple approved the first bitcoin wallet app since it announced, earlier this month, that it was going to change policy and permit bitcoin wallets in its App Store. Before then, it had been a rocky ride for folks who wanted to send and
June 17, 2014 at 04:53AM
http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661370/s/3b915096/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A140C0A60Ccoinpocket0C/story01.htm
By Deepak verma
June 17, 2014 at 04:53AM
http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661370/s/3b915096/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A140C0A60Ccoinpocket0C/story01.htm
By Deepak verma
Peter "Just Loves Flying" 
You must be logged in to post a comment.