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Khamis, 18 April 2019

New Technology April 18, 2019

CHINA TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE ENOUGH FOOD TO OVER 1 BILLION PEOPLE PART 1 of 8

Seeing is believing. Open your Google Earth and have a look at what is really going on in China from above. Western media won’t normally tell you about this. I will guide you through and point you where to look at. Here are the coordinates:

Location 1: Ningde Bay, Fujian, China (26°43'02.8"N 119°57'45.2"E)

Our first destination is the coastal area in Fujian province.

If we zoom in, we can find millions of floating houses and cages on the sea surface.

If you look around the coastline from Zhejiang province to Guangdong province along the 1000 miles, you can see those floating cages are virtually “everywhere”.

What are those? They are actually Chinese “seafood farms”.

Instead of going out to the oceans and catching wild seafood, why not stay in the same place and raise your own seafood? And you can actually make more money with much less effort from raising fish, shrimps, crabs, lobsters, clams, etc.

It is not just “sea”, the Chinese farmers would find any possible open water such as reservoirs, rivers, lakes for farming their seafood/freshwater food.

Imagine each of the cages contains tens of fishes and crabs. That’s A LOT of FISH!

So how much seafood does China consume?

It is estimated that the global demand for seafood consumption is 143.8 million tonnes per year and China alone has the largest seafood consumption (65 million tonnes, 45% of global consumption), followed by the European Union (13 million tonnes), Japan (7.4 million tonnes), the United States (7.1 million tonnes) and India (4.8 million tonnes). (Source: EU SCIENCE HUB)

As we know, both China and India have a similar population but China consumes 12 times more seafood than India, despite the fact that India is in a better geographical position surrounded by warmer ocean in a tropical fishing-rich region.

Among the 65 million tonnes of seafood consumed in China, only 15 million tonnes are caught from the wild, the rest of 50 million tonnes are all raised by aquaculture “farming”. In contrast, 90% of Japanese seafood consumption is from wild catch. Thanks to seafood farming, normal Chinese families can afford cheap seafood in their daily meal. This is a typical family get-together dinner settings: You can see lots of them are seafood!

This vlog shows how a bigger Chinese family enjoys steamed seafood. The whole table just costs around $120 US dollars.

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Khamis, 7 Mac 2019

Internet Mac 07, 2019

9 SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES DON'T HAVE AN AIRLINE

Which countries don't have an airline? There are currently 9 sovereign countries without an airline.

🔔 Andorra - There are no airports in Andorra, so there are no airlines based there.
🔔 Barbados - there used to be 3 airlines based in Barbados: Carib Express, REDjet, and Trans Island Air. However, they’ve all ceased operations, with the most recent being startup airline REDjet ceasing on 2012. However, there are still 14 foreign airlines flying from Canada, America, the UK, Germany, Panama, and many Caribbean countries to Barbados via Grantley Adams International Airport.
🔔 Liechtenstein - There are no airports in Liechtenstein, so there are no airlines based there.
🔔 Micronesia - There used to be an airline named Air Micronesia (later known as Continental Micronesia) based there, which was a subsidiary of Continental Airlines. However, after the United-Continental merger, United Airlines took over all Continental Micronesia operations on 2010. There are 4 international airports in Micronesia. They are in Chuuk, Kosrae, Yap, and Pohnpei. Air Niugini, United Airlines, and Nauru Airlines have services to Micronesia from Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Guam, and Nauru. They also operate domestic flights within Micronesia en route to their base country.
🔔 Guinea-Bissau - Guinea-Bissau used to have a national airline called Air Bissau, but they ceased operations in 1998. However, ASKY Airlines, euroAtlantic Airways, Royal Air Maroc, TAP Air Portugal, and Transair operate flights from Senegal, Togo, Portugal, Cape Verde, and Morocco to Osvaldo Vieira International Airport, the only airport with commercial flights in Guinea-Bissau.
🔔 Liberia - There used to be an airline based in Liberia named Air Liberia. However, they have ceased operations since 1990. However, 6 foreign African airlines and 2 European airlines (KLM and Brussels Airlines) operate flights from Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Belgium, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Netherlands, and Morocco to Roberts International Airport, the only airport with commercial flights in Liberia.
🔔 San Marino - There are no airports in San Marino, so there are no airlines based there.
🔔 Tuvalu - There has never been an airline based in Tuvalu. However, Fiji Airways operate flights from Nadi and Suva in Fiji to Funafuti International Airport, the only airport in Tuvalu.
🔔 Vatican City - There are no airports in Vatican City, so there are no airlines based there.

Despite Monaco not having any airports, they have two airlines based in their country: Monacair and Heli Air Monaco. This is because they have a heliport, and Monacair and Heli Air Moncao operate helicopter services from Monaco to nearby French cities.

Original information from Quora Digest

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Rabu, 6 Mac 2019

General Mac 06, 2019

SEJARAH SISTEM SUSPENSI

Pereka gerabak dan kereta pedati pada abad ke-16 cuba menyelesaikan masalah "merasakan setiap benjolan di jalan" dengan menggunakan tali kulit untuk menggantung badan kereta yang dipasang pada empat tiang casis yang kelihatan seperti meja terbalik.

Kerana badan pengangkutan ini digantung dari casis, sistem itu dikenali sebagai "penggantungan" - istilah yang masih digunakan sehingga hari ini untuk menggambarkan keseluruhan penyelesaian. Penggantungan badan yang lasak bukanlah sistem peluncuran yang sebenar, tetapi ia membolehkan badan dan roda kereta bergerak secara bebas.

Reka bentuk pegas yang berbentuk semi-elips, juga dikenali sebagai springs, dengan pantas menggantikan sistem penggantungan tali kulit. Penggunaan sistem ini semakin popular pada gerabak, kereta dan kereta api, spring semi-elips sering digunakan pada kedua-dua gandar depan dan belakang.

Walau bagaimanapun, mereka membenarkan pergerakan ke hadapan dan ke belakang dan mempunyai pusat graviti yang tinggi. Dengan kenderaan yang lebih berkuasa berada di jalan raya, sistem lain yang lebih cekap sedang dibangunkan untuk melancarkan perjalanan untuk penumpang.

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Sixteenth-century wagons and carriages tried to solve the problem of "feeling every bump in the road" by slinging the carriage body from leather straps attached to four posts of a chassis that looked like an upturned table.

Because the carriage body was suspended from the chassis, the system came to be known as a "suspension" -- a term still used today to describe the entire class of solutions. The slung-body suspension was not a true springing system, but it did enable the body and the wheels of the carriage to move independently.

Semi-elliptical spring designs, also known as cart springs, quickly replaced the leather-strap suspension. Popular on wagons, buggies and carriages, the semi-elliptical springs were often used on both the front and rear axles.

They did, however, tend to allow forward and backward sway and had a high center of gravity. By the time powered vehicles hit the road, other, more efficient springing systems were being developed to smooth out rides for passengers.

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Khamis, 28 Februari 2019

Inspiring Story Februari 28, 2019

INSPIRING STORY: DIRECTOR AND THE MANAGER STORY

One young academically excellent person went for an interview for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the first interview; BUT in that Company, the director did the last interview, and made the final decision.

The director discovered from the CV, that the youth's academic result was excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never was there a year he did not score. The director asked,

“Did you obtain any scholarship in school?” and the youth answered “no”.

The director asked,” Did your father pay your school fees?”. The youth answered, “my father passed away when I was one year old and it was my mother who paid my school fees”.

The director asked, ” Where did your mother work?”

The youth answered, “my mother worked as cloth cleaner.”

The director requested the youth to show his hands and the youth showed a pair of hands that was smooth and perfect to the director.

The director asked, ” Did you ever help your mother wash clothes before?”

The youth answered,” never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books, furthermore, my mother could wash clothes faster than I could”

The director said, I have a request, when you go back today, go and help to clean your mother’s hand, and then see me tomorrow morning.

The youth felt that the chance of landing the job was high and when he went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother’s hands. His mother felt strange. With happiness mixed with fear, she showed her hands to the kid.

The youth cleaned his mother’s hands slowly and his tears fell as he did that. It was the first time he noticed that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled, and that there were so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises were so painful that she shuddered when his mother’s hands were cleaned with water.

This is the first time that the youth realized and experienced that it is this pair of hands that washed the clothes every day to earn him the school fees and that the bruises in the mother’s hand were the price that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.

After finishing the cleaning of his mother’s hands, the youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes for his mother.

That night, the mother and son talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the director’s office.

The director noticed the tear in the youth’s eye and asked:

” Can you tell me what you did and learned yesterday in your house?”

The youth answered, ” I cleaned my mother’s hands and also finished washing all the remaining clothes.’

The director asked, ”Please tell me what you felt.”

The youth said:

Number 1, I know what appreciation is now’. Without my mother, I would not be successful today.

Number 2, Now I know how to work together with my mother. Only now do I realize how difficult and tough it is to get something done.

Number 3, I know the importance and value of family relationship.”The director said, “This is what I want. I want to recruit a person that can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the suffering of others to get things done, and a person that would not put money as his only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired.”

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates, every employee worked diligently and as a team and the company improved tremendously.

The Lessons from this anecdote:

A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he needs, develops an“entitlement mentality” and always puts himself first. He is ignorant of his parents’ efforts. When he starts work, he assumes every person must listen to him. When he becomes a manager, he will never know the suffering of his employees and always blame others. These kinds of people, may/will achieve good results and may be successful for a while, but eventually will not feel a sense of achievement or satisfaction.

If we happen to be this kind of (protective) parent, this is the time to ask the question - whether we did/do love our children or destroy them.

* You can let your child live in a big house, eat a good meal, learn to play the piano, watch a big screen TV but when you are cutting grass, please let them experience it.
* After a meal, let them wash their plate and bowl together with their brothers and sisters.
* It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love and show them the correct way.
* You want them to understand that no matter how rich their parents are, one day they will grow old, become weak and that their hair too will turn grey.
* The most important thing is for your child to learn how to appreciate, experience and learn the effort and ability needed to work with others in order to get things done. They should also value, appreciate what the parents have done and love them for who they are!

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Selasa, 26 Februari 2019

General Februari 26, 2019

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK FOR A CHINESE COMPANY?

I’m working in a company which is run by Chinese management. I shall stay anonymous to avoid any unpredictable events which may arise due to critical comments below.

Appearance of wealth is extremely important. Higher management of the company should drive high-end cars and never use public transport. Parking spaces should be reserved for members of staff who have the best vehicles. Presentation of wealth leads to more investment opportunities from other businesses.
There is rampant borrowing of money from other companies and even between co-workers. That’s how business and personal relationships can be mended and enhanced.
Management has the power to set out direction of the company in any way they want, even if front-line employees disagree.
There is no such thing as limits. The amount of money that company can borrow, the amount of hours that front-line employees should work and the amount of projects that company can take on are all unlimited.
Quality and user experience of the products and services which company produces is not taken very seriously. The most important aim is to build or launch something very quickly. If it doesn’t work, the company can always find a way to produce something else.
If a worker wants to rise through the ranks, it will be easier to achieve this by agreeing with superiors and doing them favors which may not be related to workplace duties.

To make the long story short, we shall use the analogy of lemons and lemonade : In the West, people are expecting lemonade. In China, people are given lemons and they have to make lemonade if they want to live. Xi Jinping has recently said in an address to nation that people deserve success and happiness only after struggle.

Article published on Quora

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Isnin, 25 Februari 2019

Manufacturing Februari 25, 2019

WHAT IS THE SECRET OF CHINA'S LOW MANUFACTURING COSTS?

I own a factory and work with Chinese factory owners and their staff everyday. Every business owner I know, is actively involved in cost cutting.

Every factory doesn't produce every component that goes into a product e.g. a hair clip factory would buy the plastic from one company and the spring from another and assemble it together. If it were with an emblem, they would buy that from a third company and stick it on. So an assembly company = factory.

Infrastructure - In China, almost every product is produced in a region where their suppliers are all nearby. e.g. electronics in Shenzhen, tiles in Foshan, furniture in Shunde, etc. Having suppliers nearby saves time and cost.

Specialization - Since each company makes only their range of products, e.g. a spring manufacturer just makes springs, they focus on more volume for that product, which gives them leverage to bargain on raw material costs.

Volumes - The more the volume, the better prices you can negotiate. Also, your machines work more efficiently, the process of work is smoother, all these factors bring down the costs.

Quality - Good or bad, many companies are willing to drop the quality or replace components with the cheaper alternative to save on costs. If you compare prices, you should also compare quality. It’s often that samples are good and production is made a little cheaper.

Margins - In this cut throat economy, margins are small. Many companies are willing to sell at low / no margins or even at a loss to get a new customer on board or to stay alive and try to see it to the next phase by losing a little but retaining the workers and factory space etc.

Logistics - China has developed their logistics in a very efficient manner. You can get things cross country in a couple of days or across the city in a couple of hours. Less downtime, higher efficiency = lower costs.

Automation - In many industries, manual labor is being replaced with automation as salaries have risen a lot.

Flexibility - Owners are willing to relocate, change suppliers, hire / fire workers and do what it takes to reduce costs. Most are very hardworking and quite involved in their daily business.

Export rebate - Government support promotes exports and gives export companies a rebate on the value exported. Many companies rely solely on this rebate as their profit margin.

It has taken China years to set up such an infrastructure and so it is not easy to replace them by moving to other countries where labor costs are lower as that is only one component of the cost.

Article from Quora by Harry Daswani, works at Macro Plus

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