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Narratio

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  1. They were there to mount marshalling boxes for telephone wiring.

    Note the concrete covers on the non-road side?

    There are ducts that drop down out of those brickwork platforms into those underground voids so that cables, running underground, come up into metal cabinets, get joined together and then drop back down and go on their merry way. But then, as was noted, times changed and the cabinets were not used and removed.

  2. Most of that money is not in the 5 + 1 missiles themselves, it's in all that other stuff.

    These things are nastily smart. It's almost like "Turn it on, point it at the target, press the red button, go have lunch while shrapnel falls around you". So the big bucks are most probably in training of people to push the button, trainers to show them how buttons are pushed. Maintenance procedures for keeping the button clean and untarnished. That sort of thing. Very important to know which button is which.

  3. 2 hours ago, billd766 said:

     

    Hint. Not all rural schools are non airconditioned wooden shacks. Most are brick buildings and many have full or part a/c but don't let little things like facts get in the way.

    My apologies, you are correct.

     

    My point was that the better educated teachers appear to only want to work in the better appointed schools per the original post. Which appears to be a mind set more in line with "I put in more hours of learning, at a higher cost, therefore I deserve more appreciation", rather than a person who wants to be a teacher for the joy of teaching. Assuming that there are still such feelings. But I'm probably wrong in my reading between the lines of the original post.

  4. "...that new-generation teachers lacked patience and were unable to cope with the actual work environment at schools because they were trained to teach at well-equipped schools..."

     

    Hint, hint - none of them want to leave the big cities and big schools for the un-air conditioned wooden shacks out in the countryside.

  5. That photo tells an interesting story.

    In the middle is some really nice relief work. Carved cement, very stylish.

    At front left and immediately behind, some poor to rubbish looking brickwork, poorly laid out and uneven.

    And then, far right at the back, some ghastly breeze block and cement work.

    It shows crafts skills in decline

  6. On 10/03/2017 at 2:32 PM, darksidedog said:

    I also don't get the logic of 120,000 people applying for a Social Security number suposedly used as evidence of employment.

    Getting the number and getting a job are two entirely different things.

    Agreed. Likewise Industry investing 103 billion doesn't equal additional jobs, it just means that cash was spent. Could have been for all new automated manufacturing equipment, meaning there are probably less jobs. Could have been for buying licenses to make proprietary brand ed consumer goods (  :cheesy:  sorry, couldn't help myself), whatever, it doesn't directly create jobs.

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