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- UPS Pilots & Mechanics
After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a ‘gripe sheet, which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS [...]
- Keepin’ it real and intelligent
FP Passport spotlights the hiphop track The Economist by Psikotic, an ode to my favourite magazine suggestive of the nerdcore genre. The track features some choice cuts from The Economist podcast and samples Perpetuum Mobile the iconic composition by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, one of my favourite modern classical groups (see a performance of [...]
- And not a moment too soon
In February of 1985, Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, and Chedly Klibi, the mayor of Carthage, signed a symbolic treaty “officially” ending the Third Punic War (which had been supposedly extended by the lack of a peace treaty for more than 2100 years).
