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Lift-off: the new jetpack anyone can try and fly!

A new attraction in Florida let’s you fly your own jetpack. But it’s not at easy as it looks.

The animated visions of the future made this look an awful lot easier. When the Jetsons whizzed around nonchalantly, their jetpacks seemed like tame, placid beasts. They seemed easy to control, a dream to manoeuvre and – most importantly – unlikely to send you hurtling towards a highly undignified dunking.Well, the future is here, and it’s much less smooth than those fictional cartoon families would have us believe.

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Riflessioni di un Italiano in Australia…

Il criterio della meritocrazia, universalmente condiviso dalle più disparate anime politiche nel corso della storia, vuole che “premio” vada a chi dimostri di sapere fare. Per una serie di distorsioni e burocratizzazioni dei sistemi valutativi e di accesso alle strutture decisionali (in tutti gli ambiti), avvenuta con l’industrializzazione e la “civilizzazione” dei popoli, lo strumento della valorizzazione basato sul merito è venuto meno. Così oggi ci ritroviamo ad avere strutture e dirigenti “molli”: invertebrate espressioni di potere erette a guide della società. Mi riferisco a tutte le “lobby” manageriali, ai governanti e alle classi di potere che hanno la tendenza a preservare la propria “specie” e garantirne la continuita’. L’ambiente forma l’uomo , come è noto, e l’educazione ha un’importanza primaria nell’evoluzione della civiltà.

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Australian lifestyle

Life Style in Australia: Australians are very friendly and helpful people, with a great sense of humor and a natural ability to tell jokes and play with words. Some times we may appear cold because of our “private nature” which has been imported over the past 2 decades, but it is just takes time to “break the ice”, and everything goes well. It means you can talk about any subject, but for more personal matters, things will take a little bit longer to come out in the open. 

 The majority of Australians live in coastal areas because the interior of the country called “the Outback”, can be a very arid area with many deserts and lack of water. Australians tend to follow each other a bit, like sheep on a hill. This happens because of the stability of Australian Institutions and the strong economy. For example, since the beginning of 2003 there has been a boom in the housing market, which has made thousands of Australians buy and sell homes for investment. The result has been that so many people did it created a steep rise in house prices. For a couple of months every single place I went, the talk was about houses. Because of this stability, Australians tend to plan for the long term, which can make life a little bit boring sometimes.

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New York is on sale.

New York celebrated having surpassed the record of visitors in the history of this great city tourisms, having recorded last year no less than 48.7 millions tourists.

So to boots the next two winter months, the city government launched a campaign that would be worthwhile to take. Invludes deals to enjoy culinary events, cultural and entertainment events nightly in the “Theater District”.

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