Monday, April 10, 2017
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Donald Trump inauguration
Donald J Trump has capped the day
of his inauguration with dancing and celebrating, hours after
being sworn in as the 45th President of America with a vow to rebuild
the country using "American hands".
"American carnage stops right here and right now," he said on the steps of the Capitol after taking the Oath of Office.
He said he would strip power away from Washington and give it "back to the people".
"American carnage stops right here and right now," he said on the steps of the Capitol after taking the Oath of Office.
He said he would strip power away from Washington and give it "back to the people".
"We must think big and dream even bigger," he said. "America will start winning again, winning like never before.
"We will bring back our jobs, we will bring back our borders, we will bring back our wealth and we will bring back our dreams.
"We will bring back our jobs, we will bring back our borders, we will bring back our wealth and we will bring back our dreams.
"We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation."
Barack Obama, the former president and his wife Michelle, the former first lady, watched on as they handed power to the Trumps.
Barack Obama, the former president and his wife Michelle, the former first lady, watched on as they handed power to the Trumps.
During Mr Trump's speech, the rain started falling in Washington.
He and wife Melania had earlier had tea at the White House with the Obama's.
Hillary and Bill Clinton were also there along with other former presidents, George W Bush and Jimmy Carter, and their first ladies. George H W Bush and his wife Barbara remain in hospital in Houston.
He and wife Melania had earlier had tea at the White House with the Obama's.
Hillary and Bill Clinton were also there along with other former presidents, George W Bush and Jimmy Carter, and their first ladies. George H W Bush and his wife Barbara remain in hospital in Houston.
It was the first time Mrs Clinton
had come face-to-face with Mr Trump since her bruising election defeat
to the Republican in November.
Eager to demonstrate his readiness to take actions, Mr Trump went directly to the Oval Office Friday night, before the inaugural balls, and signed his first executive order as president - on "Obamacare."
Eager to demonstrate his readiness to take actions, Mr Trump went directly to the Oval Office Friday night, before the inaugural balls, and signed his first executive order as president - on "Obamacare."
Chief of Staff Reince Priebus
said it was an order to federal departments "minimising the economic
burden" of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
The new president also returned a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the Oval Office - in a nod to the "special relationship".
"This is a movement and now the work begins," Mr Trump told supporters, before dancing with his wife, Melania, to "My Way" at the first of three inaugural balls. "We love you. We're going to be working for you and we're going to produce results."
The new president also returned a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the Oval Office - in a nod to the "special relationship".
"This is a movement and now the work begins," Mr Trump told supporters, before dancing with his wife, Melania, to "My Way" at the first of three inaugural balls. "We love you. We're going to be working for you and we're going to produce results."
Sunday, February 28, 2016
oil prices
Pada awal perdagangan Asia Jumat, harga minyak mentah turun karena kekhawatiran tentang kelebihan pasokan tak henti-hentinya dan harapan yang sangat rendah untuk mengurangi pasokan kolektif tetap menjaga pelaku pasar dalam sentimen bearish.
Harga minyak berada terutama di warna merah semalam, meskipun tumbuh menuju akhir sesi perdagangan setelah Eulogio Del Pino, menteri minyak dari Venezuela mengatakan bahwa empat produsen minyak, termasuk Venezuela, Arab Saudi, Qatar dan tentu Rusia akan memiliki pertemuan pada pertengahan Maret untuk membahas upaya yang bertujuan untuk menstabilkan pasar minyak.
Sementara itu, di New York, minyak mentah ringan berjangka, sweet, untuk pengiriman April diperdagangkan pada $ 33,05, sebuah kemerosotan $ 0,01. Selain itu, di London, minyak mentah Brent April dibagi ke $ 35,11, yang merupakan penurunan $ 0,12.
Pada awal pekan lalu, pasar bersorak, ketika empat produsen minyak utama berkompromi seperti untuk rencana masa depan yang bersyarat agar menjaga produksi minyak mentah yang datar di level Januari hanya untuk mendukung harga. Di sisi lain, tanpa persetujuan Iran, yang telah membantah membekukan produksi sampai produkai negara menyentuh level pra-sanksi dari sekitar empat juta barel per hari, itu masih harus dilihat berapa banyak dukungan yang akan diperoleh dari anggota lain dari OPEC.
Monday, December 14, 2015
European Stocks
Investing.com - European stocks were higher on Monday, as all eyes were on the Federal Reserve's upcoming policy decision this week.
During European morning trade, the EURO STOXX 50 gained 0.58%, France’s CAC 40 advanced 0.84%, while Germany’s DAX 30 climbed 0.72%.
Most investors expect the Fed to raise interest rates for the first time since June 2006 at its upcoming meeting on December 15-16.
Market participants also continued to focus on oil prices after they fell to the lowest levels since early 2009 on Friday amid expectations that a global supply glut will worsen next year.
Falling oil prices have sparked renewed concerns over the health of the global economy and weighed on global inflation.
Financial stocks were broadly higher, as French lenders BNP Paribas (PA:BNPP) and Societe Generale (PA:SOGN) added 0.10% and 0.30%, while Germany's Deutsche Bank(DE:DBKGn) gained 0.34%.
Among peripheral lenders, Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo (MI:ISP) inched up 0.07%, while Spanish banks BBVA (MC:BBVA) and Banco Santander (MC:SAN) advanced 0.46% and 0.61% respectively.
Elsewhere, Zurich Insurance Group AG (VX:ZURN) was up just 0.04% after the company appointed Gary Shaughnessy as chief executive officer of its global life business, replacing Kristof Terryn.
In London, FTSE 100 climbed 0.68%, as U.K. lenders tracked their European counterparts higher.
Shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland (L:RBS) edged up 0.11% and Lloyds Banking (L:LLOY) rose 0.27%, while Barclays (L:BARC) gained 0.73% and HSBC Holdings (L:HSBA) rallied 1.31%.
Meanwhile, mining stocks were mixed. Shares in Glencore (L:GLEN) dipped 0.02% andRandgold Resources (L:RRS) retreated 0.97%, while Anglo American (L:AAL) rose 0.22%.
Shire PLC (L:SHP) saw shares tumble 1.65% amid reports the drugmaker is in takeover talks with Baxalta Inc. in a move to expand in rare diseases and fend off larger competitors
In the U.S., equity markets pointed to a higher open. The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures pointed to a 0.70% increase, S&P 500 futures signaled a 0.85% climb, while the Nasdaq 100 futures indicated a 0.74% advance.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
The safe flight
Safety is a concern of everyone who flies or contemplates it. I can provide you with volumes of information about the attention to safety given by the airline industry. No other form of transportation is as scrutinized, investigated and monitored as commercial aviation.
Yet if you decide to hold onto the belief that flying is dangerous, then these reassuring safety facts are lost to you. Statistics and figures that prove airline transportation to be the safest way to travel relate to our logical, reasoning, rational mind. Worry about safety is an intrusion that seems to bypass those faculties of logic and go directly to our emotions. And you will always find another article about some "near miss" or "the crowded skies" that will reinforce your belief.
Even if you hold the belief, "Statistics about flying don't help me," give yourself another chance to reexamine your judgment as you read through this section. After all, your goal is to feel as comfortable as possible when you fly, and there are some very comforting numbers here.
Most passengers who have knowledge of the commercial airline industry believe that flying is safe. But when something occurs that we don't understand, any of us can become quickly frightened. That's why I encourage you to study as much as you need to reassure yourself about the industry and to take some of the mystery out of commercial flight.
However, some small thing may occur on one of your flights that you haven't studied. If you become startled or frightened at that time, the statistics that I am about to present may come in handy. An airline accident is so rare, when some unfamiliar noise or bump occurs, your response need not be, "Oh, no! What's wrong?!" Instead, it can be something like, "I'm not sure what that sound was, but there's nothing to worry about." Feel free to press your overhead call button to page a flight attendant whenever you want to ask about unfamiliar sights or sounds. But you needn't jump to fearful conclusions.
Now, you may notice something a little morbid about this section: most of these statistics have to do with DEATH! This isn't the most pleasant of subjects, I know. But many people who are worried about flying concentrate on the fear that something will go wrong during the flight, and that the outcome of that error would be their own death. So let's put this possibility in perspective.
Dr. Arnold Barnett, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has done extensiveresearch in the field of commercial flight safety. He found that over the fifteen years between 1975 and 1994, the death risk per flight was one in seven million. This statistic is the probability that someone who randomly selected one of the airline's flights over the 19-year study period would be killed in route. That means that any time you board a flight on a major carrier in this country, your chance of being in a fatal accident is one in seven million. It doesn't matter whether you fly once every three years or every day of the year.
In fact, based on this incredible safety record, if you did fly every day of your life, probability indicates that it would take you nineteen thousand years before you would succumb to a fatal accident. Nineteen thousand years!
Perhaps you have occasionally taken the train for your travels, believing that it would be safer. Think again. Based on train accidents over the past twenty years, your chances of dying on a transcontinental train journey are one in a million. Those are great odds, mind you. But flying coast-to-coast is ten times safer than making the trip bytrain.
How about driving, our typical form of transportation? There are approximately one hundred and thirty people killed daily in auto accidents. That's every day -- yesterday, today and tomorrow. And that's forty-seven thousand killed per year.
In 1990, five hundred million airline passengers were transported an average distance of eight hundred miles, through more than seven million takeoffs and landings, in all kinds of weather conditions, with a loss of only thirty-nine lives. During that same year the National Transportation Safety Board's report shows that over forty-six thousand people were killed in auto accidents. A sold-out 727 jet would have to crash every day of the week, with no survivors, to equal the highway deaths per year in this country.
Dr. Barnett of MIT compared the chance of dying from an airline accident versus a driving accident, after accounting for the greater number of people who drive each day. Can you guess what he found? You are nineteen times safer in a plane than in a car. Every single time you step on a plane, no matter how many times you fly, you arenineteen times less likely to die than in your car.
The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 permitted the airlines to be competitive both in the routes they flew and the fares they charged. When the price of air travel decreased, the number who flew increased. In 1977, two hundred and seventy million passengers flew on U.S. scheduled airlines. In 1987 four hundred and fifty million flew. For passengers, that resulted in the frustration of crowded terminals and delayed boardings and takeoffs. But did deregulation cause safety to be compromised? Definitely not!
Accident statistics provided by the National Transportation Safety Board show that -- despite a fifty percent increase in passengers during the ten years after deregulation -- there was a forty percent decrease in the number of fatal accidentsand a twenty-five percent decrease in the number of fatalities, compared to the ten years before deregulation.
If you are going to worry about dying, there are many more probable ways to die than on a commercial jet. Take a look at the chart below, which shows the chance of fatalities on a commercial flight compared to other causes of death in the United States. Notice that you are more likely to die from a bee sting than from a commercial flight. The number one killer in the United States is cardiovascular disease, with about eight hundred and eighty-five thousand deaths per year. Each of us has about a fifty percent (50%) chance of dying of cardiovascular disease. Whenever we fly, we have a one one-hundred-thousandth of one percent (.000014%) chance of dying!
Odds of Death
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DEATH BY: YOUR ODDS
Sources: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley
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How about accidental deaths? In the chart below you can compare the average number of airline fatalities per year (not including commuter airlines) from 1981 to 1994 with the most recent figures for other forms of accidental death. Again, you can see that flying is relatively insignificant compared to other causes of death.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Final Test XI Mitun
Final
Test Grade XI
1. Via : Well done! You deserve to get the award.
Linda : ___________
a. Of
course c. oh yeah e. not at all
b. Thanks d. not so great I
think
2. Mother : ________! Your English
mark is very good.
Ronnie : thanks mom, I’m very happy too.
a. Sorry c. thanks e. that’s
terrible
b. Fantastic d. that’s a pity
3. Riana : I heard that you got the best
score in final exam, didn’t you?
Vera : ___________
a. Oh
it was nothing c. I don’t like
anymore e. it’s not pretty
b. Don’t
give me that d. non sense
4. Odin : what do you think about the
food
Reza : _________
a. A
beautiful painting c. delicious
meal e. it’s the
largest
b. A
wonderful view d. nice cut
5. Julia : How ________ the painting is!
Sofia : I am on your side
a. Beautify c. to beauty e. as beautiful as
b. Beautifully d. beautiful
6. Teacher : ____ done! You have made a
wonderful story.
Student : Thank you Sir.
a. Good c great e. well
b. How d. big
7. Dimas : What do you think of my Jacket?
Nimbi : _____ you look great with that.
a. Great c. not so good e.
how well?
b. Poor
you d. bad
8. Rizal : Is it your own field?
Farmer : No, _______
a. It
is mine c. it is
I am e. my
self
b. It
is me d. it
isn’t mine
9. Sofia : Are you sure that it is going
to rain?
Armand : _________ the sky is cloudy.
a. I
am sure c. no
comment e. I’m not
sure
b. I
doubt it d. not
certain
10. John : Are you sure with your plan to Singapore?
Liana : ______, I’m very busy with my work.
a. I’m
sure c. I’m
not sure e. I’ve
no doubt
b. I’m certain d.
are you sure
11. Hera : May I _________ some candies?
Seller : Sure, here you are.
a. To
buy c.
bought e.
buys
b. Buy d. buying
12. Teacher : __________ study the lesson!
Students : Yes, Sir.
a. Please
us c. would you
us e. let us
b. Will
us d. shall
us
13. Audiences : Would you mind _______ that song?
Singer : I will, don’t worry.
a. To
sing c.
singer e.
song
b. Sing d. singing
14. Yandi : This work must be finish in a week, can you
finish it?
Yoyo : _______
a. I’d
love to c. I don’t
care e. Yes, I
can
b. Not
at all d. I’m
sorry about it
15. X : We’d like to offer you the position
as Assistant Manager?
Y : Thank you Sir, but_________
a.
I’m happy c.
that’s my hope e. non
sense
b.
I like that job d. I need time to think it
16. Andy : _______ about the English test yesterday?
Tiny : I think it’s difficult for me.
a. What
are you opinion c. what is my
opinion e. my ideas
b. What
is your opinion d. in my opinion
17. Joker : What is your opinion about my article?
Audi : _________ your ideas are good.
a. I
don’t think c. I
thought e. I’m
don’t like yours
b. I’m
not sure d. I think
18. Yana : I think drinking a lot of water is good
for our health.
Dania : ________ at least drinking it about 8
glasses every day.
a. I
disagree with you c. no way e. I don’t
think so
b. I
agree with you d. I’m not
sure
19. Tony : What is your opinion about our English
teacher?
Agnes : _______
a. He
is really good c. I’m happy e. I’m so sweet
b. I
like him d. I
quite agree
20. What
is forest guard?
a. A
police man c. a
scientist e. a
forest ranger
b. An
army d. a
marine
Essay
21. I
am _________ a letter to my mother.
22. She
is __________ a novel.
23. I
have __________ at this company for two years.
24. He
has __________ his task on time.
25. I
am going to __________ to get my dream.
Thomas
Alva Edison
Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, in 1847, and grew
up in Port Huron Michigan. He attended school for only three months. His mother
taught him Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic.
In 1862, Edison studied telegraph machine. As thanks, the
father taught Edison how to operate the Telegraph. Edison then made
improvements to the Telegraph. He earned money from his inventions.
In 1870, he built the first electric power plants. He
tried hundreds of schemes. Finally, he
found a filament (thin thread) made of carbon. An electric spark made the
filament glow, Edison lamp was a great success. It burned steadily more than 40
hours.
26. Where
Edison was born?
27. When
Edison was born?
28. What
happened in 1862?
29. Was
he earned money from his inventions?
30. How
long Edison lamp steadily?
*Good
Luck*
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