Temporary airport closure raises concerns: Palomar runway repair schedule will disrupt business.(AVIATION)(McClellan-Palomar Airport)(Hazard Construction ... An article from: San Diego Business Journal
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There's no undue harshness in harassing, suspending, and finally firing (or towing to jail) the officials primarily responsible for creating doubt/anxiety on the safety of commercial flights, domestic, and international, for neglecting one important and large navigation instrument that conked out due to "old age."
Postpone the temporary shutdown of airport.(COMMENTARY: Editorials, letters, columns and other opinions): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
This facility costs a lot, P120 M, but DBM has been releasing, for a dozen or more years, pork fund by the billions some of which found its way into questionable "public projects."
By means of fault
Sudbury repositioning airport as catalyst for economic development. (Sudbury: Special Report).(Greater Sudbury Airport plans $6 million expansion)(Brief ... An article from: Northern Ontario Business
Another thing: Crimes (felonies) are committed not only by means of deceit but also by means of fault, defined as wrongful acts resulting from imprudence, negligence, lack of foresight, or lack of skill. (Art. 3, Penal Code) This definition has not been contradicted by modern jurisprudence even if its origin is more or less ancient: 1) Spanish Penal Code of 1870 and French Penal Code of 1810. (Criminal Law by Justice Florenz D. Regalado)
Immediate effects
Veteran critics view the condition in terms of injuries and losses to RP, namely: 1) Cancellation of international flights whose passengers can spend US dollars in Manila, 2) it gives RP's NAIA the model of standards against safety, 3) foreign tourists, by the tens of thousands, with millions to spend in RP may decide to cool their heels in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, 4) it also reflects on our kind of efficiency and preferences, and 5) many more.
The long campaign v. graft
Our penal laws against graft can fill volumes but implementing them with thoroughness and speed is a different matter. In our courts nationwide, small crimes like theft, robbery, and physical injuries may not be decided for years until witnesses lose interest - that can result in a dismissal of charges.
Known venues
Graft cases have specific venues - like BIR, BoC, DPWH, etc. - where omerta (code of silence) has defied discovery and prosecution for decades.
Crime is like a lifetime career in these agencies resulting in the loss of billions in revenues and diversion of public funds programmed for various infrastructures.
Faster than criminal suits
Most observers prefer the filing of administrative cases first in lieu of criminal complaints for speed: 1) A two-page administrative complaint can have two immediate effects - preventive suspension outright and quick dismissal of the crook in less than six months, 2) decisions in administrative cases take effect immediately, subject to review only by the courts which lasts for years, 3) evidence for conviction is not the same that requires a determination "beyond reasonable doubt," and 4) dismissal from the service may not stop criminal complaints to be filed.
Exceedingly long process
Criminal cases for malversation/diversion of public funds may need a truckload of documents subject to the strictest tests from the defense lawyers who can demand a long parade of a dozen or more witnesses. The prognosis can be extremely dire for the anti-graft crusaders in the new administration.
The entire process of getting a final solution may exceed six years or beyond June 30, 2016.
Our strong, stable economy
In most political ads and claims we find one conclusion: The national economy is comfortably strong which needs to be continued, with or without plans.
The above begs for a few counter punches like: 1) Has this strong economy partially defeated endemic poverty?, 2) this can be shown if some 30 M of us in the countryside have small homes and full meals, 3) cities near Manila still show tens of thousands of shanties and leantos on stilts, some near the Palace built on creeks two to five stories high, 4) riverbanks of Pasig and tributaries have "homes" for squatters, recently named informal settlers to lift their status, and 5) infrastructure projects are defaced by mini ghettos.
No definition
How does a citizen define a strong economy? It's not the definition that counts, which can be disproved in ways beyond the reckoning of a "dream society" and its spokesmen of politics of spin and exaggeration of results.
There were no political ads in the late 1940s and 1950s. Despite the ruins of WW II there were no nationwide sighs of extreme hardship and poverty.
Beyond authorized versus assigned: aircraft maintenance personnel capacity.: An article from: Air Force Journal of Logistics
Doctrine of happiness Or the people were plain happy in "wanting what they have, not in having what they want" as the doctrine of contentment.
TWC finally lands at Van Nuys Airport: expanded maintenance services just one of the positives.: An article from: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
No amount of self-praise can sweep under the rug what the national population can plainly see in our so-called local and national politicians in contrast to the common lot.
Years of propaganda by spin doctors about our economy and politics may not be reversed in a matter of months or years.
Comments are welcome at roming@pefianco.com
Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Aircraft, Airports, and Aerospace Hardware II: Proceedings of Spie 31 March - 2 April 1998 San Antonio, Texas (Spie ... Society for Optical Engineering)
Airports and airways,: Cost, operation and maintenance, (Ronald aeronautic library)
Oil changes: how often? No surprise that the companies who sell the oil say frequent changes are bitter. Here are our recommendations.(AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE): An article from: The Aviation Consumer
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