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At the very end of last year a German ship on the river Meuse ( Maas in Dutch ) hit a barrage near Grave leading to a drop in the water level of 2.7 meters ( 9 ft ). It now appears that the responsible Dutch civil service called Rijks Water Staat, which is responsible for rivers and canals but also large bridges, large roads and the dikes that protects the country against the sea didn't have any engineers left able to take the necessary actions. There are just managers and administrative personnel. If a new project is to be built or an old one is to be maintained the hire experts to negotiate a contract with the company/ies to do the work but no-one has a view any more of the systems of waterways, roads and dikes as a whole. Not RWS, nor the experts, nor the companies. It has been economised away since the 1980's and that makes those contracts much more expensive and now let to great trouble recovering from this accident.
A friend of my was experiencing a farcial epsiode which reflected how poorly trained our so called tradesmen are.
My friend was installing a new coffee roasting machine which required the services of a properly licensed gas fitter and welder whose job was to connect up the gas supply at the proper pressure so that the roaster would roast Xamount of kilos properly while conforming to council guidelines.
Despite several attempts over a period of weeks, the gas fitter could not get the right gas flow to the to the roaster for it to work properly.
Finally the company which dozens of gas fitters of varying experience had to call in the semi retired manager who was close to 70yrs old.
After being told what the problem was, the ex manager put on some overalls and had the problem sorted within the hour. The roaster is working properly now without a glitch, and that was nearly two years ago
My friend was installing a new coffee roasting machine which required the services of a properly licensed gas fitter and welder whose job was to connect up the gas supply at the proper pressure so that the roaster would roast Xamount of kilos properly while conforming to council guidelines.
Despite several attempts over a period of weeks, the gas fitter could not get the right gas flow to the to the roaster for it to work properly.
Finally the company which dozens of gas fitters of varying experience had to call in the semi retired manager who was close to 70yrs old.
After being told what the problem was, the ex manager put on some overalls and had the problem sorted within the hour. The roaster is working properly now without a glitch, and that was nearly two years ago
I just found this written by a Chinese tourists description of the town, closest to where I live.
Is this a true translation of what he said?
Reviewed 31 October 2015
Lovely roadside store"
31 Oct 2015 A TripAdvisor China Member
Way Clinton Township, is such a basic roadside restaurants. Next to a small supermarket, and a restaurant. Supermarkets sell takeaway, restaurant can eat together, the two are together, a checkout. . Focus here: You can use CUP! ! ! Think of it, this town can also use CUP.
途径克林顿小镇，路边基本就是这么个餐馆。旁边是小超市，和餐馆是一家。超市卖外带，餐馆可以堂吃，两家是一起的，一块结账。。重点来了：可以用银联！！！想不到呀，这种小镇也可以用银联。
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Yup , we are basic country folk with simple requirements and tastesIwonder what he/she was told buy the travel agent about us.
Twizel which is also a main tourist stop for .
visitors has only one
toilet, and the times i have driven past i have seen tourists from a couple of coaches line up to use it.
I wouldn't mind reading comments about that.
Is this a true translation of what he said?
Lovely roadside store"
Way Clinton Township, is such a basic roadside restaurants. Next to a small supermarket, and a restaurant. Supermarkets sell takeaway, restaurant can eat together, the two are together, a checkout. . Focus here: You can use CUP! ! ! Think of it, this town can also use CUP.
途径克林顿小镇，路边基本就是这么个餐馆。旁边是小超市，和餐馆是一家。超市卖外带，餐馆可以堂吃，两家是一起的，一块结账。。重点来了：可以用银联！！！想不到呀，这种小镇也可以用银联。
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Yup , we are basic country folk with simple requirements and tastesIwonder what he/she was told buy the travel agent about us.
Twizel which is also a main tourist stop for .
visitors has only one
toilet, and the times i have driven past i have seen tourists from a couple of coaches line up to use it.
I wouldn't mind reading comments about that.
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I just found this written by a Chinese tourists description of the town, closest to where I live.
Is this a true translation of what he said?
Reviewed 31 October 2015
Lovely roadside store"
31 Oct 2015 A TripAdvisor China Member
Way Clinton Township, is such a basic roadside restaurants. Next to a small supermarket, and a restaurant. Supermarkets sell takeaway, restaurant can eat together, the two are together, a checkout. . Focus here: You can use CUP! ! ! Think of it, this town can also use CUP.
途径克林顿小镇，路边基本就是这么个餐馆。旁边是小超市，和餐馆是一家。超市卖外带，餐馆可以堂吃，两家是一起的，一块结账。。重点来了：可以用银联！！！想不到呀，这种小镇也可以用银联。
Visited September 2015
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Yup , we are basic country folk with simple requirements and tastesIwonder what he/she was told buy the travel agent about us.
Twizel which is also a main tourist stop for .
visitors has only one
toilet, and the times i have driven past i have seen tourists from a couple of coaches line up to use it.
I wouldn't mind reading comments about that.
I'll give translating a try:
We passed by the town of Clinton (?), there's a restaurant by the road. Beside the restaurant is a small supermarket. They're basically the same business. The supermarket sells take out. You can pay your restaurant bill together with the supermarket (I'm guessing it's really a food court?). The important part is this: you can use Union Pay! I can hardly believe that even in a small town like this, you can use Union Pay.
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I had to have a chuckle at places.
I think he must have been a "self drive" tourist who stopped for petrol or he had to stop to take a dump, because the water is notoriously bad in the Clinton region.
Clinton does not have a bank or ATM and if CUP was the only means of paying and if the restaurateur or petrol vendor did not take CUP...........
Actually IMO referring to Clinton as a small town would be exaggerating things. Its made up of bar at the opposite end to the cafe grocery shop which is the only eating place, a petrol station,mail distribution stop and and a other empty/semi shops/ properties ( I think theres about 10 commercial buildings all up) a some of which I understand to be in liquidation, for non payment of council taxes, and about 100 dwellings.
In other words its a slowly dying hicky place
It's about numbers, not remorse. And it's a fact that the number of people who were killed in Nanjing in the winter of 1937 grew year by year in PRC distributed sources after the war. And many historians think that the number was much lower than the one you see in the article as well.
In other words, it is a one horse town
AssassinsMace
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Oh you mean like how they include people who starved while Mao was in power as being a part of the 70 million people they say were killed by Mao? Notice no numbers on how many people were killed under Western colonial rule of China or the world? They say 200 million African slaves were killed in the Middle Passage and 90 million Native Americans were slaughtered in the US alone. Sounds like the right numbers to me.
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