from fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
No 2, China FAW Group
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 141
Revenue: $64,886.0 million
Profit: $2,622.4 million
FAW's Hongqi L5 luxury limo is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 22 2014. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]
from fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
No 3, Dongfeng Motor Group
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 146
Revenue: $61,721.9 million
Profit: $1,333.6 million
Dongfeng S30 PHEV is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. [ZhangJie/chinadaily.com.cn]
from fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
No 4, Beijing Automotive Group
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 336
Revenue: $33,374.5 million
Profit: $1,074.4 million
BAIC's Concept 900 is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 22 2014. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]
from fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
No 5, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 477
Revenue: $24,550.2 million
Profit: $52.4 million
A Geely Emgrand Hybrid is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. [ZhangJie/chinadaily.com.cn]
from fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
From Fortune Magazine as quoted in China Daily:
No 6, Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 483
Revenue: $24,144.8 million
Profit: $66.0 million
GAC's concept car is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 22 2014.
driving for miles between houses...sometimes i would lose a hub-cap and have to go back "hubcap hunting.
" why bother since my car was as old as i was .....20 years.
people that live 30 miles from town would be shocked to see us!
One country area I was assigned to as a SP, had a main town of about 3000 and a few scattered villages with only a handfull of inhabitants. (They had once been thriving villages with a few hundred people, but the isolation of country life, and the coming of motor cars, meant that even farmers moved to the bigger towns and drove out to their farms in the morning. So only a few older people were left in these towns, but the territory still had to be covered, lest some poor bugger would be destroyed at Armageddon because I was negligent.
I was too poor to have a car, and only a handful of witnesses in the town, were also carless. I used a bike to get around the town, and I decided to be a good and faithfull witness,(just like Jesus - who never missed a village in his preaching career), and cover my rural villages by bike. So I'd ride out some 20 miles to one village (before Aust. went metric) and be so bloody tired that all I could do was sit around for a few hours and wait for the one train of the day to go back to the town. And, if I left an old magazine with some poor bugger, I'd think I had accomplished something wonderful.
Sometimes, I'd get discouraged and have to try and memorise Hebrews 11:32-40 to remember that I was surrounded by a a great crowd of witnesses who had endured (unneccessarily) all kinds or trials to prove their faithfullness to Yahweh.
I know, I know, I was a really dumb kid. Sh*t what wonderful memories.
driving for miles between houses...sometimes i would lose a hub-cap and have to go back "hubcap hunting.
" why bother since my car was as old as i was .....20 years.
people that live 30 miles from town would be shocked to see us!
Another Aussie experience:
We'd been doing some unassigned territory (remember that ?), far, far from home. Being conscientious and wanting to make sure that our sacrifice to Yahweh was 'perfect' (remember that phase, too?) and having driven for a few hours, we wanted to make sure we were counting our time correctly, we stopped at a small town and decided to do a few houses, so that we could conscientiously count the time.
So I meet this old guy, who asks if I'm a JW, to which I said , "Yes!." And, he starts up like a well-tuned engine:
"Listen mate", he says, "I've been a bloody dairy farmer all my life, and had to get up every bloody morning at 3.00 am to get the bloody cows in, and milk them before the bloody milk truck came for the bloody pick-up. And, now I'm bloody retired, and I can sleep in every bloody morning if I want to."
"But, you stupid bastards, say we are going to live forever on the bloody earth, and you want me to live in that bloody paradise too, and get up every bloody morning at 3.00 am to milk the bloody cows. Well, you can f*** off, because I don't want to live in the bloody paradise and have to milk bloody cows forever."
With that, he slammed the door shut, leaving me without any riposte.
i swear, time is moving so fast.
the only time i know what.
day it is, is by looking at the news paper.
Old Goat:
And I spend too much time in front of the computer.
Yeah! Me too. What did previous generations do without bloody computers and the e-world? (Grin)
But seriously - the world is encapsulated on my (very messy) hard disc.
When I was young, we suffered from too little information, now we suffer from a surfeit.
Thankfully, I still have few aches and pains, but who knows what my last decade or two will have in store for me.
This Land is mine
Some added detail - not sure if the music is cool, but it is catchy -i.e. sticks too long in the bloody mind!
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/richard_dawkins_defends_mild_pedophilia_says_it_does_not_cause_lasting_harm/.
By a coincidence, the UK Independent ran this story in today's web edition.
Can paedophiles be good people? We flinch, but there are varying degrees
Web-Reference:
Here's some extracts:
To help figure out what you think about it, consider this analogy, drawn by Dr Jackie Craissati, a leading psychologist in the field. "If I were to say to you, all violence is the same, and all violent men are persistently violent, and you can't categorise by degrees of severity, you'd say: hang on a second. There's a difference between the bombmaker, and the man who tries to kill his partner, and the man who attacks someone in the pub, and all of these cases need different approaches. But if you make the same point about child sexual abuse, people say, how dare you?"
and,
The mere acknowledgement that they are not all the same is dangerously close to an act of imaginative sympathy, and therefore best made quietly, lest people think you are on their side.
