What is the difference between an average student and a gifted student?

What is the difference between an average student and a gifted student?

An average student will not expect that even if she/he works hard, she/he still won’t do well.

A gifted student knows that if she/he works hard, she/he will do extraordinary well.

Why a plane crashes on landing

Why a plane crashes on landing:

The landing gear gets stuck.

The plane lands  on its belly.

Faulty landing gear

The plane overshot the runway

Landing on heavy wind.

An emergency landing.

Plane skidded past the landing strip.

Trim the plane for maximum glide.

Pilot inexperience and excessive speed.

Landing gear failed to deploy.

The engine stopped working.

Attempting to land during a rainstorm.

Aborted  landing.

Attempting landing without gear.

Electronic interference and airplane dysfunction

The best ways to survive a plane crash is to  choose the right seat to avoiding smoke inhalation.

 A look at real-world crash stats, however, suggests  that the farther back you sit, the better your odds of survival. Passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front.

The New American Job

The New American Job:

The part-time job.

The number of workers employed part-time because they couldn’t find a full-time job increased by a seasonally adjusted 322,000 last month.

What is a  part-time job? :

 The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does  not define full-time employment or  part-time employment

A new way of governing

The selective enforcement of laws.

The government delays the insurance mandate for  businesses, though not for individuals,  of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

The government  rewrites via regulation the laws it dislikes.

The Law Against Free Market

The Law Against Free Market

Tesla has won lawsuits in several states giving it the right to sell its cars directly to customers.

But Virginia recently slapped down Tesla’s attempt to sell its electric Model S directly to customers.

Automobile dealers associations have been trying  to prevent Tesla Motors from opening its own
dealerships.

Tesla is banned from opening dealerships in Virginia.

The law is restrictive and  intends to prevent large car manufactuers from  selling directly to customers.

The car-dealer lobby has worked hard to  ensure that  You Can't Buy a New Car Online.

Since the late 1990s, car dealers have used their  considerable political clout to pass or better
 enforce state franchise laws that in many cases  make it a criminal offense for an auto manufacturer  to sell a new car to anyone but a state-licensed  car dealer.

The Privilege of Large Employers

The Privilege of Large Employers:

The Obama administration said it is delaying penalties for large employers who don't provide  health insurance coverage to workers under  the federal health-care law for 2014.

If You Are Self-Employed You Are Required to  Have Health Insurance or  Pay a Penalty.

Number of employees of EPA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 17,359 employees  (2011) and a budget of $8.682 billion (2011), $500,144 per employee.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (MEP) was set up in March 2008 with  two Chief Engineers one Minister , five Vice Ministers and one Member of the Leading Party Group of MEP,