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How exciting. Have a watch of these crazy crosswind airplane landings. I wonder if you were a passenger on these planes would you have noticed the plane wasn't landing straight?

Japan Airlines Boeing 747 crosswind landing Hong Kong. Filmed from the checkerboard used for the approach into Kai Tak. Overshoots and then lines it up just to get caught in the wind...again. Unedited. You can hear another enthusiast in the background with a scanner.

Korean 747 Extreme Landing. A Korean Airlines 747 performing an extreme crosswind landing at the infamous Kai Tak airport of Hong Kong. The aircraft busted several tires.

Crosswind Landing Testing. This is a pretty cool video of a 777 & 747 SP landing in a cross winds down in Brazil. This little item shows the Boeing factory determining the demonstrated crosswind landing limits on the 777 and the 747SP. The engineers make educated guesses, but then the test crews have to go actually prove the numbers. They sneak off to Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF airbase famous for its continual atrocious crosswinds... Should the gear sideloads be excessive and fold one up, there is nobody there to take nasty pix for the Airbus guys to wave around in the press...

Eat Here. Corregidor Entertainment Centre & Restaurant

122 Rooty Hill Road North, Rooty Hill. (Located in Sydney's Western Suburbs - Across the road from St Aidan's Church) Call them on 9625 6289. Open from Wednesday to Sunday for Lunch and Dinner.

You can have a look at their menu. Yummy Filipino Food. Yum.

Plus they have entertainment on some nights.

Do you know what you are eating? Do you know how or why certain foods end up on your plate? Are these philosophical questions even relevant? Those are the types a new book by Raj Patel is asking. The book is entitled: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Here's an abstract from the book:

One ingredient we consume a lot more than most of us realise is the soya bean. Patel labels it the food industry's secret ingredient.

"Soy is new, it's weird and it's absolutely everywhere," he says. "It can be found in three-quarters of products on supermarket shelves and almost everything the fast-food industry produces, and yet we have no idea, not a clue."

But the soya bean has a dark side because its mass cultivation in Brazil, especially by several big agricultural companies, has deforested vast tracts of the Amazon.

That most consumers don't make the connection between food production and its impact on the environment shows we become oblivious to what goes on to produce what we eat, Patel says.

It's interesting to see where the food we eat are coming from. Just going through my food pantry I've noticed that Oreos are made in Indonesia, Premium crispbread crackers are made in China, Instant noodles were manufactured in Korea, Fisherman's Friend mints are made in England and Vick's Vapodrops are made in India. Thankfully Buttermenthols is still made in Australia.

Goal setting. How do you setyour goals? I thought I had it all down pat... but I guess I haven't been specific enough with my goals. Self help books keep repeating it over and over. The three key things for a successful goal. Goals need to be specific, their results quantifiable and they must have a time frame. But before you go ahead and set your goals you need to know what you really want. Once you know that you can determine where you want to be in the long term, then working backwards you set milestones - smaller goals to meet along the way. Easier said than done.