Its population cowered in fear, and every day more villagers were buried in rough wooden coffins. They saw oppression and terrorism in a far-off land, so they made war against it.
That’s more important than one mountain stream, isn’t it?” “It’s not a pretty sight,” they said, “but now a million people can run their air conditioners all summer. They needed more electricity in the city, so they found a mountain stream to dam.Īs the waters rose, dead rabbits and deer floated by īaby birds too young to fly drowned in the nest while mother birds cried helplessly. The head said yes, but the heart said no. Until you can do better for yourselves, you should be grateful, shouldn’t you?” “What do you expect?” they asked impatiently. Somehow it wasn’t much like home, even home in a shack. Huge blocks of cement and glass towered over asphalt parking lots. They saw the poor living in cardboard shacks, so they knocked the shacks down and built projects. One of biggest humanists ever, the late Michael Jackson, once wrote a parable: Buddhist thing is not about harming innocent ones even for rightful reasons. Mission-critical Apple iPads in cockpits may hasten end of era for paper charts – March 7, 2011įAA authorizes use of Jeppesen app on iPad to replace paper aeronautical charts – February 16, 2011
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‘It takes five minutes to teach someone how to use the thing – it’s so intuitive and easy, you don’t really have to think about it.’”Īlaska Airlines pilots using Apple iPads in cockpit – May 23, 2011 ‘It’s all about sharing situational awareness and using the iPad is much better than using a paper chart,’ Belsha said. Osborne reports, “Work is now ongoing to get the iPads equipped on aircraft based in the US, so they can be used in training. “‘It’s a game changer,’ said Capt John Belsha, one of the sensor operators on the KC-130J Harvest Hawk, which is also making use of the iPads in the close air support role.” “Since November last year, marine pilots have been using iPads and more recently iPad 2s with digital maps, which allow the crews to search out locations in the region at the tap of the screen rather than flicking through map packs that are heavy and take up room in the cramped cockpits of aircraft such as the AH-1W Cobra and the F/A-18 Hornet,” Osborne reports. “USMC aviators in Afghanistan are using iPads loaded up with maps of the southern regions of the country to reduce their workload in the cockpit,” Tony Osborne reports for Shephard Group.