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Bangkok’s international airport now offers free wireless Internet access for passengers, matching services already available from regional competitors such as Singapore and Hong Kong, an airport official said Friday.
Nirandra Theeranartsin, general manager of Suvarnabhumi Airport, said the service, along with paid access for persons outside departure areas, was inaugurated this week, slightly over three years after the airport opened.
Passengers wishing to use the service must present their boarding passes at any airport information counter to get a username and password for the 1 Mbps service.
Singapore's Changi Airport began offering free wireless access in January 2008, and Hong Kong in December 2006.
Earlier this year, Suvarnabhumi Airport opened 126 kiosks providing free Internet access for people without laptops.
The $3.8 billion airport was dogged by corruption scandals before it opened, and suffers from overcrowded check-in areas, inconveniently located gates, and touts who harass arriving and departing passengers.
Airport officials this year are implementing upgrades and new security measures costing upward of $4.4 million, including more restrooms, improved signs and the upholstery of all 19,000 cold metallic seats with turquoise, peach, green and purple cushions that brighten Suvarnabhumi's concrete-and-steel design, panned by some critics as too monotone.


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Okowa differs with Elumelu on military operation in Delta
By Barth Ozah
AS the Nigerian Army flagged-off its ‘Operation Crocodile Smile IV’ exercise recently in Delta State, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu have differed sharply on the rationale behind the operations.
While governor Okowa noted that the military operation was a training exercise to help soldiers brush up their military capabilities, including the overall objective of promoting confidence of the Nigerian Army towards curbing crimes, especially in checking cases of kidnapping, cultism and armed robbery, Elumelu on the other hand raised concerns over the nationwide implementation of Operation Positive Identification (OPI) by the Nigeria Army, saying it was a recipe for possible militarization of the country.
Governor Okowa who spoke at the flagged-off of the military exercise in Aladja, Warri promised the readiness of government to continue to support the operation of the Army in the state to achieve the desired operational success required for peace.
The Governor who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Chiedu Ebie, noted that the operation was a training exercise to help soldiers of 63 Brigade, and commended the army for carrying out the exercise in the state, adding that, the Nigerian Army had remained disciplined and very professional in the discharge of its duties.
He expressed the hope that the exercise would further strengthen the partnership between the army and the government in working toward reduction of crime and other violence not only in the state but across the country.
Governor Okowa noted that inter agency understanding was key in checking criminality and violence in the society, stressing the need for security agencies to work in harmony with a view to bringing the security challenges across the country under control.
He warned criminals to desist from nefarious activities, saying that, government would work with security agencies to ensure that anyone caught in the act would face the full wrath of the law.
But Elumelu in a press statement said that such a plan by the army would lead to the infringement on fundamental rights of Nigerians as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution stressing that the plan, if allowed, would downgrade innocent Nigerians to suspects and conquered people in their own country.
Elumelu who is representing Aniocha, Oshimili Federal Constituency at national assembly, said that it could strip citizens of their constitutionally guaranteed freedom of movement, instil fear, anxiety and panic in the entire polity, adding that the nationwide operation would also amount to an indirect imposition of a state of emergency across the country by the Army.
He pointed out that such military operations that involved direct contact and regulating of civilians could result in abuses and serious safety issues.
Elumelu said that many Nigerians, particularly those living in the rural areas, would be victimized especially as there had not been enough public sensitization for such security operation.
According to him, though the nation is faced with serious security challenges, the planned implementation of OPI across the nation will worsen the situation in the country.
He urged the Army to concentrate on its constitutional role of defending the territorial integrity of the country and allow the police and other relevant agencies such as Nigerian Immigration Services to handle regulatory issues relating to internal security.


Two Terrace Primary School pupils have won the top prizes in a recent Enviroschools art competition and promoted awareness of New Zealand’s native birds at the same time.
Jackson Drake won his age-group prize and the top overall prize for his poster on the huia and Hanna Scarlett won the people’s choice for her poster on the white heron.
More than 80 entries from Alexandra and Cromwell primary schoolchildren were received for the competition, which was held during the recent Alexandra Thyme Festival.
Enviroschools facilitator Anna Robinson said the brief for the competition was to choose your favourite native bird and present images and information in poster form.
Entries were judged on artistic merit and the quality of the information conveyed.
Both Jackson and Hanna showed attention to detail and it was obvious a great deal of care and research had gone into their entries and the pupils had “gone the extra mile”, Miss Robinson said.
The pupils did some of the work at their school but completed most of it as a homework task.
Jackson’s teacher, Sean Lowe, said it was great to see the quality of the two pupils’ work.
“They’ve obviously put in a lot of effort and gone to that extra length at home.”
Miss Robinson said it was “lovely” to see the spotlight the competition brought to native birds and it was hoped it would “spur on some backyard projects”.


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My first time up Mt St Helens. So I decided to make this a tribute to David A Johnston, who died 6 miles from Mt St Helens when it erupted. He warned the masses to get away, eruption was imminent. Hiking onto the mountain to take samples from the most active volcano in the world, he hesitantly took the place of one of his peers on a ridge 6 miles from Mt St Helens on May 18th 1980 and watched it erupt. He saved hundreds, if not thousands of lives.
I did not image stabilize the footage, helmet mount GoPro Hero 2. Sorry for the shakes. The footage is still pretty good.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (April 16, 2014) – The Patriots Marathon Team continues to add to record-breaking fundraising totals as they near race day, raising $375,475 and counting.
This Patriots Day, 52 runners, including 15 staff members, will make their way to the starting line of the 118th Boston Marathon after months of training and fundraising. The team will begin the historic race starting on Main Street in Hopkinton at 11:25 a.m. with the goal of reaching the finish line on Boylston Street while wearing an official Patriots Marathon Team jersey generously donated by Nike and All Sports Heroes in Lowell.
This year's Patriots Marathon Team, the largest fielded in the team's seven years, set an ambitious goal of fundraising $300,000 and has already eclipsed that mark with the record-breaking effort of $375,475 and counting. Since its inception, the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Marathon teams have raised more than $1,000,000 to support children and families throughout the region. For the fourth year, the funds raised will support the Myra Kraft Community MVP Awards program which awards grants to nonprofit organizations through nominations of deserving volunteers in the New England region as part of the Patriots ongoing Celebrate Volunteerism initiative.
"On behalf of the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation and my entire family, including my father and my brothers, I would like to sincerely thank all of the runners who have committed to running the Boston Marathon this year," said first-time marathon runner and president of the Patriots Charitable Foundation, Josh Kraft. "My family is involved with many philanthropic initiatives, locally, nationally and internationally; but I know for both of my parents the philanthropic endeavor that is closest to their heart, without any hesitation, is the Community MVP Awards. Through the marathon team's investment of time and fundraising, they are making the New England region stronger for those in need."
This year's team includes runners from 13 states and a variety of lifelong Patriots fans, first-time marathoners and avid runners. Runners include former Patriots linebacker Eric Alexander, and a wide range of Patriots employees, including Josh Kraft, chief operating officer of TeamOps Mark Briggs, Patriots vice president of sales Murray Kohl, community relations director Donna Spigarolo, director of premium sales Jeff Connors and assistant editor of Patriots Football Weekly Andy Hart.
As a result of the circumstances of last year's Boston Marathon, many individuals did not have the opportunity to finish. While these runners were given the opportunity to run again this year, they were not required to raise any additional funds for charity teams. However, this year's Patriots Charitable Foundation Marathon Team has 19 individuals that volunteered to raise money on behalf of the Foundation, including 14 members from last year's team.
Many runners applied following opportunities announced through the Patriots Facebook page and @patriots Twitter accounts. When applying to the team, runners submitted information about their desire to run on the team, which included stories of being lifelong Patriots fans, triumph over personal difficulties and a desire to lead healthy lives. Fans can continue to make donations through race day in support of the team's cause by clicking here.
For more information about the Patriots Marathon Team or the Myra Kraft Community MVP Awards program, please visit www.patriots.com/community. For more information about how to receive email or text alerts each time a Patriots Marathon Team runner reaches checkpoints throughout the race, or for personal stories about members of the team, please contact Dan MacPherson at email@example.com or 774-226-3031.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION MARATHON TEAM MEMBERS
Eric Alexander – Quincy, Mass.±
Lexi Allen – Foxborough, Mass.
Christy Berkery - Boston, Mass.±
Meredith Bielecki – Cambridge, Mass. ±
Lauren Biller – Wallingford, Conn.
Paul Botelho – East Providence, R.I.
Mark Briggs – Foxborough, Mass.±
Jeff Connors – Sharon, Mass.±
Tuere Crawford – Attleboro, Mass.
Dwight Darian – Canton, Mass. *
Melany Engman – Charlotte, N.C. ±
Cecily Faenza – Brighton, Mass. *
David Ferrucci – Essex, Conn.
Michael Flynn – Brighton, Mass.±
Danielle Fogarty – N. Bennington, Vt.±
Patricia Foster – East Brunswick, N.J.
Josh Goldman – Newton, Mass. *
Emily Green – Concord, Mass. *
Brandon Harper – Boston, Mass. ±
Andy Hart – Dartmouth, Mass.
Clayton Herriford – Savannah, Ga.
Samantha Hughes – Charlestown, Mass.
Stephen Hurley – Scituate, Mass. ±
Jennifer Jarbeau – East Greenwich, R.I.
Jessica King – East Boston, Mass.
Murray Kohl – Walpole, Mass. *
Josh Kraft – Newton, Mass. *
Andrew Krueger – Rothschild, Wisc.
Leo Lake – Mansfield, Mass.
Angela Lorusso – Plainville, Mass.
Scott Lyons – Boston, Mass.
Jason Marshall – Boston, Mass.
Bill McQuaide – Andover, Mass. ±
Elizabeth Melampy – Dunstable, Mass. ±
Jon Morgan – Midland, Tx.
Melissa Pennington – Andover, Mass.
Kelly Pierson – Dedham, Mass.
Ella Pittman – Medfield, Mass. ±
Murilo Silva – Boston, Mass.
Donna Spigarolo – Norfolk, Mass.*±
Mike Sundet – Wildwood, Mo.
Jess Tourville – Boston, Mass. ±
Joe VanAllen – Cumberland, R.I. *
Marie Viscardi – Westborough, Mass. *
Jessica Wayashe – Alexandria, Va. ±
Holly Wheeler – Madison, Conn.
Trisha Winton - Canton, Mass.
Jasmine Wu - Glendale Heights, Ill.
- Patriots staff, alumni or Women's Association member
± Member of the 2013 Patriots Marathon Team
Please note that some of our other runners wished to remain anonymous.


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On the first Friday of every month Digistamps4Joy will now be giving away a free digital image….and today is the day for our first freebie image! And what a fabulous image it is…now aren’t you glad you decided to pop in?
The image is called Peacock and ,of course, that’s what it is! And you can find this incredible image right here on our blog for free!
The blue cs I believe is by Basic Grey and the green and blue dp is by BoBunny. You can't see it from the picture, but the white dp has a beautiful vine and leaf design embossed on it (I don't know the dp name as it was a scrap). I embossed the blue cs using my Nestibilities M-bossabilities 2 sided folder. The lace is some that I’ve had in my stash forever (my wonderful mil gave it to me). The white ribbon (that says “With Love” on it) is by Offray and I got it at Michaels and the flowers are by Forever in Time and I got those at my local Dollar Store. I cut my leaves with my Memory Box Leaves die and used my Nestibilities Beaded Ovals die for behind my peacock. I coloured my image with my Prisma Scholar pencil crayons and oms and also my gold and blue metallic pens. The blue flat backed pearls are from Recollections.
I used the sketch from Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge for my card.
I just have to show a close up of this great image. Isn't it great?
We hope that we will see you over at our blog to pick up this image, as it's only going to be available for 2 days, from May 4-6th, and after that it will be moved to the store. And while you're there check out what the DT has done with it. You might be inspired to make something with it and enter one of our challenges *smiling*.
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Organic Jasmine Pearls
Smooth with delicate and pleasing flavor and a heavenly jasmine character.
Jasmine Pearls is a green tea made from the top two leaves and the bud of new season growth. These delicate leaves are then hand-rolled into the small pearls. When you infuse these pearls in your teacup, you will see the top two leaves and the bud come to life. Only the most fragrant blossoms are used (from bushes that are known to produce the most fragrant flowers). These fresh flowers are layered between the tea and before long the intense and uplifting fragrance of the new jasmine blooms is passed on to the tea. An extraordinary taste experience!
Luxury Ingredients: Organic green tea, Organic jasmine petalsAllergens: Dairy Free, Gluten Free. Contains NO: Wheat, Nuts, Soy Lecithin, Crustacea, SulfitesCaffeine Level: MediumAntioxidant Level: HighOrigin: China
HOW TO STEEP
- Put 1 slightly heaping teaspoon of loose tea into infuser
- Heat fresh water to 175* F
- Pour 8 fl. oz. of water over infuser
- Steep 1-2 minutes. (The longer you steep the stronger the taste)
- Milk and sugar are not recommended
- You can re-steep this tea 3 times

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Scientists have been unable to find any signs of life on Venus despite claims the planet’s dense atmosphere could house living organisms.
Sulphur in the clouds of the second planet from the Sun was thought to be able to support life and act as a potential food source. But the unusual behavior of the sulphur in Venus’ atmosphere – that suddenly disappears in the outer layers – cannot be explained by an “aerial” form of extraterrestrial life, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom tested the “life in the clouds” hypothesis, which astronomers have speculated about for decades. They report life cannot explain the make-up of the Venusian atmosphere now why sulphur is “sucked out” of the air.
Any life form in sufficient abundance is expected to leave chemical fingerprints on a planet’s atmosphere as it consumes food and expels waste. But the scientists found no evidence of sulphur-eating life hiding in the clouds of Venus.
Scientific models looked at a particular feature of the Venusian atmosphere: the abundance of sulphur dioxide (SO2). On Venus, which is the brightest natural object in Earth’s night sky after the Moon, there are high levels of SO2 lower in the clouds. But it somehow gets “sucked out” of the atmosphere at higher altitudes, scientists explain.
On Earth, most SO2 in the atmosphere comes from volcanic emissions.
“If life is present, it must be affecting the atmospheric chemistry,” says study co-author Dr. Oliver Shorttle, from Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences and Institute of Astronomy, in a statement. “Could life be the reason that SO2 levels on Venus get reduced so much?”
Researchers used a combination of atmospheric and biochemical models to study the chemical reactions expected to occur, given the known sources of chemical energy in Venus’s atmosphere. The models included a list of metabolic reactions that the life forms would carry out in order to get their “food,” and the waste byproducts.
Scientists ran the model to see if the reduction in SO2 levels could be explained by these metabolic reactions. They found that the reactions can result in a drop in SO2 levels, but only by producing other molecules in very large amounts that are not seen.
The results set a hard limit on how much life could exist on Venus without blowing apart our understanding of how chemical reactions work in planetary atmospheres.
“We looked at the sulphur-based ‘food’ available in the Venusian atmosphere – it’s not anything you or I would want to eat, but it is the main available energy source,” says first author Sean Jordan from Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. “If that food is being consumed by life, we should see evidence of that through specific chemicals being lost and gained in the atmosphere.
“If life was responsible for the SO2 levels we see on Venus, it would also break everything we know about Venus’s atmospheric chemistry,” he continues. “We wanted life to be a potential explanation, but when we ran the models, it isn’t a viable solution. But if life isn’t responsible for what we see on Venus, it’s still a problem to be solved – there’s lots of strange chemistry to follow up on.”
Although there’s no evidence of sulphur-eating life hiding in the clouds of Venus, the researchers say their method of analyzing atmospheric signatures will be valuable when The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – the successor to the Hubble Telescope – begins returning images of other planetary systems later this year.
Some of the sulphur molecules in the current study are easy to see with JWST, so learning more about the chemical behavior of our next-door neighbor could help scientists figure out similar planets across the galaxy.
“To understand why some planets are alive, we need to understand why other planets are dead,” says Dr. Shorttle. “If life somehow managed to sneak into the Venusian clouds, it would totally change how we search for chemical signs of life on other planets.”
Even if Venus is devoid of life, the researchers suggest their results could be useful for studying the atmospheres of similar planets throughout the galaxy, and the eventual detection of life outside our solar system.
“We’ve spent the past two years trying to explain the weird sulphur chemistry we see in the clouds of Venus,” comments co-author Dr. Paul Rimmer, from Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences and Cavendish Laboratory. “Life is pretty good at weird chemistry, so we’ve been studying whether there’s a way to make life a potential explanation for what we see. Even if ‘our’ Venus is dead, it’s possible that Venus-like planets in other systems could host life.
“We can take what we’ve learned here and apply it to exoplanetary systems – this is just the beginning,” he adds.
The research was funded by the Simons Foundation and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
The study is published in the journal Nature Communications.
South West News Service writer Chris Dyer contributed to this report.


A Data Analytics Solution for the AI Era
Microsoft has recently announced what it regards as being the most significant analytical breakthrough since the inception of its SQL Server, namely the launch of Microsoft Fabric. While this is a bold statement, the proclamation does, however, underscore the significance of these advancements.
The introduction of Microsoft Fabric – an end-to-end unified data analytics platform, which brings together all the data and analytics tools that organisations need – is set to revolutionise the data analytics landscape in a number of ways.
In Microsoft Fabric, the company has ingeniously consolidated several of its high-performance analytical tools into a singular, unified service. The integration of these resources is not merely superficial; they are designed to complement and amplify each other in ways that are unprecedented in the industry.
The Critical Need to Harness Data
Data analytics – the science of analysing raw data to make conclusions about information – helps organisations to optimise their performances. Implementing data analytics into the business model means companies can reduce costs by identifying more efficient ways of doing business and by storing large amounts of data.
Today’s world is brimming over with data, streaming continuously from our interactions and devices as well as the applications that we build – we have text, audio, video and image data available in vast quantities. Organisations across all industries must harness this data to digitally transform and thereby gain competitive advantages. As we enter a new era defined by AI, data analytics is becoming even more important.
Weaving It All Together
Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics solution with full-service capabilities including the following:
- Data movement: The transfer of data between cloud or on-premise data stores;
- One lakes: Centralised repositories designed to store, process and secure large amounts of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data;.
- Lakehouse: Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse is a data architecture platform for storing, managing and analysing data that allows for data meshing;
- Data engineering: The complex task of making raw data usable to data scientists and groups within an organisation;
- Data integration: Bringing together data from multiple sources across an organisation to provide a complete, accurate and up-to-date data set for business intelligence (BI), data analysis and other applications and business processes;
- Data science: The study of data to extract meaningful insights for business;
- Real-time analytics: The use of data and related resources for analysis as soon as it enters the system; and
- Business intelligence: The combination of business analytics, data mining, data visualisation, data tools and infrastructure, and best practices to help organisations make more data-driven decisions.
Microsoft Fabric integrates existing technologies like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI to name a few into a single unified product, empowering both data and business professionals to unlock the potential of their data and lay the foundation for the era of AI.
Microsoft Fabric and Generative AI
Generative AI and language model services, such as Azure OpenAI Service, are enabling customers to create chatbots, generate text, translate languages and write different kinds of creative content.
Powering organisation-specific AI experiences requires a constant supply of clean data from a well-managed and highly integrated analytics system. However, most organisations’ analytics systems are somewhat of a maze of specialised and disconnected services – a situation that arisen because of fragmented data within the AI technology market, through an abundance of vendors and service offerings.
Today, Microsoft Fabric takes away the customer’s burden of connecting together a complex set of separate services from multiple vendors, and instead enables these services to function together.
Unleashing the Power of Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric addresses every aspect of an organisation’s analytics needs.
A Complete Analytics Platform
Every analytics project has multiple sub-systems, and this often requires the use of products from multiple vendors. Integrating these products can be both complex and costly.
With Microsoft Fabric, customers can use a single product with a unified experience and architecture that provides all the capabilities required for a developer to extract insights from data and present it to the business user. Microsoft Fabric empowers every team in the analytics process with the role-specific experiences they need, so data engineers, data warehousing professionals, data scientists, data analysts and business users are all comfortable despite their varying business requirements.
Dip Your Toes Into OneLake
Microsoft Fabric comes with a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) multi-cloud data lake called OneLake that is built-in and automatically available to every customer.
All Microsoft Fabric workloads are automatically wired into OneLake, just as all Microsoft 365 applications are wired into OneDrive. Data is organised in an intuitive data hub, and automatically indexed for discovery, sharing, governance and compliance.
OneLake provides a single, unified storage system for all developers, where the discovery and sharing of data are both easy, with policy and security settings enforced centrally.
A key capability of OneLake is ‘Shortcuts’, whereby OneLake allows easy sharing of data between users and applications without having to move and duplicate information unnecessarily. Shortcuts enables developers to compose and analyse data across clouds.
Another amazing feature is that one lake stores a single copy of the data into a delta parquet file which is optimised for large data volumes using v-order indexing. It keeps this file and the different compute engines can now access it making it easier for your spark, python or SQL developers to access the data.
Powered by AI
Microsoft Fabric is infused with Azure OpenAI Service at every layer to help customers unlock the full potential of their data.
The enablement of Microsoft Copilot within the Microsoft Fabric experience means that users can use conversational language to create dataflows and data pipelines, generate code, build machine learning models and or visualise results with the use of LLM’s and Microsoft graph
…And Empowering Every Business User
Microsoft Fabric enables our customers to create a data culture in which everyone in the organisation is empowered to make better decisions based on data. This is brought about because Microsoft Fabric is deeply integrated with the Microsoft 365 applications people use every day.
Power BI is a core part of Fabric and is already infused across Microsoft 365. Through Power BI’s integrations with popular applications such as Excel, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint and SharePoint, relevant data from OneLake is easily discoverable and accessible to users right from Microsoft 365, helping customers drive more value from their data.
Reducing Costs Through Unified Capacities
Purchasing and managing resources is tremendously simplified with Microsoft Fabric. Customers can purchase a single pool of computing that powers all Microsoft Fabric workloads. The universal compute capacities significantly reduce costs, as any unused compute capacity in one workload can be used by any of the workloads. You also have the flexibility of switching the service on or off for cost saving benefits.
The Speed of Change
It can thus be seen that Microsoft Fabric’s introduction marks a paradigm shift in the journey towards artificial intelligence. Rather than viewing this progression as a marathon, Microsoft Fabric positions it as a ground-breaking sprint, fundamentally reshaping the landscape.
More importantly, it addresses all these aforementioned business adversities by addressing every aspect of an organisation’s data analytics needs.


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text: The last three weeks of street violence presage a period of blood and repression. The opposition, which at first wanted to boycott the referendum, is mounting a beleaguered effort to defeat it. The lines are drawn. Morsi and the Brotherhood have been exposed as the heirs of the old dictatorship in new garb. The struggle for an open society is being waged by the betrayed on the streets of Egyptian cities. It will be a fight to the death. Brotherhood posters put up throughout Egypt in support of the pending constitution urge people to vote yes to "Supporting Legitimacy and Shariah [Islamic law]." Those who oppose legitimacy and Islamic law, it goes without saying, are heretics.

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Design of Measurement and Control System for the Rail Fastening Spring Clip Type A and B
The measurement and control system is designed to control the measuring instrument which measures the geometric parameters of rail fastening spring clips. The structure and work principle of the measurement and control system are presented. Nine geometric parameters of a rail fastening spring clip which is installed only one time can be measured atomically. The limited errors of measured parameters are largely smaller than one tenth of the geometric parameter tolerance. It only spends 40 seconds to measure a rail fastening spring clip. It improves the quality of the rail fastening spring clip production and ensures that it is safe and reliably used in railway.
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Y. P. Yao et al., "Design of Measurement and Control System for the Rail Fastening Spring Clip Type A and B", Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 299-300, pp. 1194-1197, 2011


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Saturday, October 3, 2009, the Orlando Police Department participated in the
American Heart Association Heart Walk at Loch Haven Park. This event is the
American Heart Association's signature fund raising event to save lives from
Americas Number One and Number Three killers-- Heart Disease and Stroke. The
Orlando Police Department has been participating in this event for many years.
Due to chronic stress, the risk for cardiovascular disease is higher among law
enforcement officers than the rest of the population.
Heart Walk Chairperson, Officer Barb McClelland organized bake sales, charity
bingo events and sold T-shirts to raise money for the cause. The Orlando Police
Department was able to raise over $3400.00 for this worthy cause.

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A Steamy view of José's Vacation Home when it's inundated in darkness
José's Vacation Home
August 7, 1961
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Wander through José's vacation home, lose yourself in his laundry, and throw a penny in his wishing well.
- If you are hoping to get on with your life, you may want to pretend you don't speak English.
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- Minimum height 34".
- Expectant fathers will probably want to avoid this attraction.
- Contains imported effects.
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[JURIST] Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] Chairman Julius Genachowski [official profile] on Monday proposed [press release, PDF] "net neutrality" [JURIST news archive] regulations that would prevent Internet providers from restricting access to particular services. At a speech [text; recorded video] at the Brookings Institution [think tank website], Genachowski unveiled OpenInternet.gov [official website], stressing the importance of "open Internet" principles. The FCC currently follows four open Internet principles: that consumers must be able to access the lawful Internet content, applications, and services of their choice, and attach non-harmful devices to the network. Genachowski introduced two new principles: preventing Internet providers from discriminating against particular Internet content or applications while allowing for reasonable network management, and ensuring that Internet providers are transparent about the network management practices they implement. Genachowski also said that the FCC would take steps to formally codify the principles as regulations, saying:
We have an obligation to ensure that the Internet is an enduring engine for U.S. economic growth, and a foundation for democracy in the 21st century. We have an obligation to ensure that the Internet remains a vast landscape of innovation and opportunity.
This is not about government regulation of the Internet. It's about fair rules of the road for companies that control access to the Internet. We will do as much as we need to do, and no more, to ensure that the Internet remains an unfettered platform for competition, creativity, and entrepreneurial activity.
Republican lawmakers have already introduced legislation [WSJ report] to prevent the FCC from moving forward with the new regulations, and wireless providers such as AT&T have also objected [Washington Post report].
The issue of net neutrality arises from concerns that broadband providers should not be free to accept money from content providers in exchange for preferential bandwidth treatment or to interfere with the content of competitors. Last year, the FCC said that it was ready to act [JURIST report] to ensure a proper balance is struck between consumer proponents of net neutrality principles and the telecommunication industry's interest in controlling the flow and content of Internet traffic over its networks. In 2006, the House Judiciary Committee approved [JURIST report] a net neutrality bill [HR 5417 materials] that would have applied federal antitrust law to alleged breaches of net neutrality, but the legislation was never approved by the full House.


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Spring is in full swing, and which means extra daylight, hotter temperatures, and extra time spent outdoor. It additionally implies that tick season has begun for a lot of the United States. Whereas tick publicity can happen year-round, these bugs are most energetic in the course of the hotter months, beginning in April.
Some states with elevated mint exercise have begun urging residents to take precautions when having fun with the outside. Ticks carry various kinds of illnesses Lyme illness is the commonest, however well being specialists say Individuals ought to concentrate on an increase in different tick-borne illnesses in some areas of the nation, together with babesiosis.
Babesiosis is a tick-borne illness attributable to a parasite known as Babesia microti and unfold by the black-legged tick, in any other case often known as the deer tick. In america, the illness is mostly discovered within the Northeast and Midwest the place deer ticks are considerable.
A chew from a tick carrying this parasite can infect crimson blood cells. Whereas not all contaminated individuals develop signs, some individuals might expertise flu-like signs reminiscent of fever, chills, physique aches and fatigue.
Extreme instances of babesiosis are uncommon, however the illness may be deadly for some individuals, significantly those that are immunocompromised, in response to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. The company additionally notes that the illness can result in well being problems, together with acute respiration difficulties and kidney failure.
Babesiosis instances are on the rise within the Northeast
This month, the CDC warned of a big enhance in tick-borne illnesses in america. A research performed by the company discovered that instances of tick-borne illness in america elevated by 25%, from 40,795 instances reported in 2011 to 50,856 in 2019.
Circumstances of babesiosis, particularly, have elevated considerably in eight northeastern states, together with New York, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Three New England states, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, have had the quickest progress in instances, prompting the CDC so as to add them to the checklist of locations the place the illness is taken into account endemic (the place it’s persistently current).
It is actually one thing of concern, Griffin Dill, coordinator of the tick laboratory on the College of Maine Extension Cooperative, advised Yahoo Information. He hasn’t but reached the form of case numbers that we’re seeing with Lyme illness or anaplasmosis, nevertheless it’s actually on the rise and one thing to pay attention to, he added.
Though Babesiosis instances are on the rise, Lyme illness continues to be essentially the most generally reported tick-borne illness in america, with roughly 35,000 instances reported to the CDC every year.
Dill and his staff present tick identification and testing companies in Maine. By testing ticks that folks deliver to the lab, her staff can establish the kind of pathogens the bugs is likely to be carrying. She defined that this software is necessary as a result of it offers individuals threat details about ticks on their property. It additionally offers researchers a greater understanding of the geographic unfold of ticks and the illnesses they carry.
The current CDC report, Dill mentioned, confirms what he noticed in his lab.
Over the previous 5 years that we have been doing this, we have seen a rise within the Babesia an infection price over time, he mentioned. So even in only a comparatively quick timescale of 5 years, we’re seeing a rise within the parasite throughout the tick itself, which subsequently might also correspond to a rise in human instances.
Consultants consider the precise variety of instances is probably going greater as a result of babesiosis will not be reportable in all states. A significant concern concerning the growing prevalence of the illness is that the parasite that causes babesiosis may be transmitted by blood transfusion. This, the CDC mentioned, may pose a menace to the blood provide.
Individuals who purchase babesiosis via contaminated blood have been proven to have considerably worse well being outcomes and the next threat of demise than those that purchase the illness from a tick chew, the company mentioned within the report.
Nonetheless, authorities well being businesses have already taken steps to guard the blood provide from tick-borne illness. Since 2019, the Meals and Drug Administration has really useful screening for the parasite at blood donation facilities in 14 states and Washington, DC, the place the illness is most prevalent.
Why are tick-borne illnesses on the rise?
The CDC hasn’t defined why instances of babesiosis and different tick-borne illnesses have elevated, however tick specialists have just a few theories as to why this is likely to be taking place.
Researchers say world warming is a contributing issue. Ticks thrive in scorching, humid climates, normally wherever with lush vegetation. However as winters get hotter and shorter, parasites can keep energetic year-round, inflicting extra infections.
Dill mentioned the seasonality patterns of black-legged ticks have all however disappeared.
Usually, we’ve got some type of disruption in tick exercise in the course of the winter months, when it is chilly, it snows, however hotter climate [and] hotter temperatures, we are able to and do see them energetic year-round, sadly, he mentioned.
Modifications in local weather and climate patterns have additionally impacted the geographic distribution of ticks. The habitat of black-legged ticks and different tick species is increasing, Dill defined.
The black-legged tick, we’re undoubtedly seeing it creeping additional and additional north into northern New England and Canada, he mentioned.
One other kind of mint that has been on the transfer for the final couple of a long time is the lone star mint. These ticks can unfold an uncommon illness known as alpha-gal syndrome, which causes an allergic response to mammalian meats reminiscent of beef, pork and lamb. They’ve traditionally been discovered within the southern United States, however Stephen Wealthy, director of the New England Heart of Excellence in Vector-Borne Ailments, mentioned they’re shifting north and inland. Their inhabitants can also be rising.
There are locations like Lengthy Island, New York, the place just about solitary ticks have all however changed the ticks that carry Lyme illness, the black-legged ticks. In order that they’re undoubtedly shifting north, she mentioned.
Each Dill and Wealthy mentioned local weather change is not the one motive ticks and tick-borne illnesses have unfold throughout the nation.
We can’t say that it isn’t world warming. However the strongest proof is that this has to do with how we handle our landscapes, Wealthy mentioned.
The best way we prefer to see our properties, with stone partitions and lawns with wooded edges, seems to be good for deer and deer ticks, or black-legged ticks. “We have grown good landscapes for ticks and tick-borne illnesses,” she added.
How you can forestall tick-borne illnesses
One of the simplest ways to guard your self from babesiosis and different tick-borne illnesses is to keep away from getting bitten by a tick.
These creatures reside in grassy, bushy, and wooded areas, so that you’re extra prone to have encounters with them while you’re out within the backyard, strolling your canine, tenting, or mountaineering.
To stop tick bites, Dill advises individuals to create a layer of safety.
That barrier may be one thing so simple as placing on protecting clothes, then carrying lengthy pants and tucking these pants into boots or socks—something that can cease a tick from truly attending to your pores and skin, she mentioned.
Utilizing repellents can also be a great choice. Some repellents are designed for use on clothes and others may be utilized on to the pores and skin. The CDC recommends utilizing insect repellents registered by the Environmental Safety Company. For those who’re unsure which product to make use of, the EPA has a search software that may assist you to discover the most effective match for you.
It is usually really useful to verify your physique for ticks after spending time outdoor.
Make it a routine to look at your physique and see if in case you have ticks, Wealthy mentioned, including that folks ought to verify their youngsters and pets, too.
Lastly, in the event you discover a tick on you, specialists mentioned there is no motive to panic, as a result of not all ticks carry a illness. If the bug has bitten you, the CDC recommends eradicating it with fine-tipped tweezers and cleansing the chew space with rubbing alcohol or cleaning soap and water.
Wealthy advised Yahoo Information that folks also needs to contemplate saving or photographing the tick so knowledgeable can consider it and decide if it is carrying dangerous micro organism. He really useful the College of Rhode Islands’ TickSpotters program, which presents a free tick identification service, as one place the place this may be completed.
For those who develop a rash or fever after being bitten by a tick, the CDC recommends seeing a physician.
I believe mindfulness is form of the important thing there, Dill mentioned. “We do not need individuals to be afraid of those illnesses and cease individuals from going outdoor and having fun with out of doors actions. However bear in mind and take some precautions when stress-free outdoor.”

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Pensions triple lock scrapped for millions of Brits
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The state pension is set to rise in April, but pensioners will not receive as much as they previously expected. Changes to the triple lock policy mean a more modest increase.
Pensioners across the UK had been due to receive a boost of up to £756 to their state pension, but will now get less than half that.
This is due to the state pension triple lock being temporarily suspended for the 2022/23 tax year.
The triple lock is a Government promise that pensioners will receive an annual uprating to their state pension income.
Under the terms of the policy, the state pension must increase each year by the highest of three figures.
These figures are:
- The rate of inflation
- Average earnings growth
- 2.5 percent.
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Average earnings grew by 8.1 percent last year, which was by far the biggest figure of the three triple lock prongs.
An 8.1 percent increase to the state pension would have been by far the largest in the history of the triple lock.
However, the Government decided to temporarily remove the earnings link for the upcoming tax year as they believed it was being artificially inflated by people returning to work from the furlough scheme.
Therefore, the next-highest figure was used to boost the triple lock. This was inflation, which came in at 3.1 percent for the year to September 2021.
Pensioners will miss out on potentially hundreds of pounds this year as a result.
The full new state pension is currently worth £179.60, providing £9,339.20 for a full year.
This is paid at a higher rate than the basic (old) state pension, which has a maximum level of £137.60 per week, or £7,155.20 for the year.
The basic state pension is paid to Britons who reached state pension age before April 6, 2016.
If the triple lock had been honoured in its usual way this year, the full new state pension would have risen to £194.15 a week, but instead it will be £185.15.
This means over the course of a year, pensioners could miss out on an extra £468, as the full state pension increases by £288.60 instead of £756.60.
Following the state pension increase being locked in at 3.1 percent, inflation has continued to rise to eye-watering levels, leading to concerns over pensioners’ ability to keep up with the cost of living.
The latest inflation figure for the year to December 2021 was 5.4 percent, the highest number in 30 years.
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The results of the special TPS board meeting of November 14, 2023, were underwhelming. First, the Board decided to put off determining the process for searching for a new TPS Superintendent until sometime before January 31, 2024.
Second, the board only produced a resolution signifying confidence in and support of Interim School Superintendent Dr. Ebony Johnson rather than offering her contract beyond the current school year.
In contrast the agenda and accompanying rumors for the special meeting held great promise. The seven-member board was planning to establish a search process for a new superintendent. One Board Member, Dr. Jerry Griffin, was lobbying the Board to offer a contract to Interim Superintendent Dr. Ebony Johnson fearing that she would be “snatched up” by another school district before the start of the 2024-2025 school year.
Dr. Jerry Griffin boycotted the executive session during which the remainder of the board discussed Interim Superintendent Dr. Ebony Johnson’s employment. He chose instead to remain in the public room which resulted in an unplanned interview with News Channel 8’s Burt Mummolo, who regularly attends the board meetings.
Analysis: Lockdown advocates now say they were wrong, But not Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum.
The Epoch Times reported Monday, Nov. 27 on several experts admitting they were wrong for supporting COVID lockdowns. Unfortunately, that doesn’t include officials in Oklahoma like Tulsa Mayor G. T. Bynum. As this editor wrote in September, we are still waiting for Mayor Bynum to correct his mistake. Dear mainstream media, in now proven fact, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt was right, Tulsa Mayor Bynum was wrong.
Today the question is still on the table: When will the City of Tulsa make right with small businesses, churches and citizens harmed by the unscientific and, now proven unjustified lockdown during the COVID Panic?
Editorial Analysis: President Joe Biden’s nominee for the vacant federal judgeship in the Northern District of Oklahoma endorsed by OK Senators James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin has managed to humiliate Oklahoma supporters, the Cherokee tribe, and her profession during her testimony to Congress.
As she was interviewed by Sen. John Kennedy, (R-La.) during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, Sara E. Hill appeared ignorant of basic legal and Constitutional terms.
According to FoxNews.com, When Kennedy asked Hill the difference between a “stay” order and an “injunction” order — two orders frequently issued by federal courts — Hill stumbled through her answers.
“A stay order would prohibit, um, sorry. An injunction would restrain the parties from taking action. A stay order … I’m not sure I can, actually can, can give you that,” she said.
An injunction is an order from the court that prohibits a party in a case from performing or ordering a specified act as the case continues, either temporarily or permanently, sometimes referred to as a temporary restraining order.
This past week the top homeschool football teams from across the country descended on Florida to compete to take home the trophy. Hosted by the National Homeschool Football Association (NHFA), qualifying teams from Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri made their way out to Panama City Beach to compete for the win.
Editor’s Note:This group of stories on public education in Tulsa feature curated material from CityNewsTulsa.com and City Sentinel Tulsa, the conservative print publication of the city.
Analysis: In this meeting, Interim Superintendent Dr. Ebony Johnson assumed her new role. She got off to a great start. I observed seven positive changes at the Tulsa Public School Board meeting on Monday, September 18, 2023.
The first change appeared on the consent agenda. Perusing the online agenda before the meeting I discovered a link to the full encumbrance report and read a clear explanation of “encumbrances”. I clicked on it and to my surprise and delight, up popped the encumbrance report. Someone made a decision FOR transparency, good choice!
Later, during a staff report given by Chief Financial and Operations Officer Robles, the public learned that he will be adding information to the encumbrance report. A huge win better governance and further transparency with clarity.


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THE head of Scotland’s largest children’s charity has waded into the row over gay marriage, saying “love and care” – not a couple’s marital status – is the critical factor in raising youngsters.
Research conducted by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Equality Network, LGBT Youth Scotland and the Scottish Youth Parliament found 64% of people supported same-sex marriage, although 26% opposed same-sex marriage in places of worship.
However, the Catholic Church, the Church of Scotland, the Council of Glasgow Imams and the Episcopalian Church have registered objections to the legislation, arguing that marriage should be only between a man and a woman. The Humanists, the Unitarians, the United Reformed Church and the Quakers are among the groups who have no objection.
Mr Crew said he supports an equal right to marriage because it removed “yet another unhelpful distinction” between straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families.
However, he said that as part of the debate, opponents of gay marriage seemed to suggest a marriage between a man and a woman automatically made for the “optimal situation” to raise children.
He added: “However, the reality is that most children in Scotland are not now born to married couples. To insist that being married and heterosexual is best does a great disservice to the large numbers of parents doing a great job of raising their children in loving, stable, but varied, circumstances.”
The Barnardo’s Scotland director said: “Raising children is about providing emotional security and being a good role model. It is about encouraging good communication and challenging bad behaviour. Children need these things whether their parents are gay or straight, married or unmarried, lone parents or couples.”
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-full post at Herald Scotland
- Equal Marriage – Scotland goes ahead of England and Wales
- Gay marriage Not thinking about the children
- Ministers signal gay marriage could take place in church
- Gay religious weddings ‘supported by 68% of Scots’ (scotsman.com)
- Marriage equality is going to happen… get over it. (queerlandia.com)
- Majority back same-sex marriage plan (scotsman.com)

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Khloe Kardashian shows off her bootylicious ‘view’ as she posts video of sister Kourtney bending over during weightlifting workout
Khloe Kardashian showed off the ‘view’ of her workout on Tuesday.
The reality star, 35, put her sister Kourtney’s behind on full display as the elder sibling completed a weightlifting exercise.
Khloe posted a boomerang video of her sister, 40, bending over as she lifted a kettle bell.
Bootylicious! Khloe Kardashian put her sister Kourtney’s behind on full display as the elder sibling completed a weightlifting exercise
Clad in tight leggings, the angle left little of Kourtney’s backside to the imagination.
‘Views!!!!’ Khloe wrote in the video, an obvious reference to her sister’s derriere.
In addition to her daily workout, Khloe posted snippets of a glamorous bash she went to later that evening.
The reality star was a vision in a metallic dress as she headed to the Abyss By Abby launch party in West Hollywood.
Working it: Kourtney used a kettlebell to enhance her workouts
No days off: By the looks of her physique, it’s clear Kourtney is a regular at the gym
Inside the intimate party, a belly dancer showed off her docile boa constrictor to guests as attendees dined on a decadent charcuterie plate.
The bash was lavishly decorated, with a white fireplace decked out in white flowers and candles.
‘Thank you for having me at your beautiful event @abyssbyabby,’ she captioned the image.
Sporty: The 40-year-old wore black leggings and a blue sweater
Earning her fashion stripes! Kourtney wowed in a striped suit at the People’s Choice Awards last year
Doting mom: The reality star shares one-year-old daughter True with her ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson
Khloe seemed to be enjoying a night on her own that day, and appeared to have left her daughter True in the hands of babysitters.
The reality star shares one-year-old daughter True with her ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson.
Khloe was pregnant with True when it emerged Tristan had been unfaithful to her.
The couple remained together until 2019, when it was revealed Tristan had kissed family friend Jordyn Woods, triggering Khloe to call it quits for good.
Going glam: Khloe was a vision in a metallic dress as she attended the Abyss By Abby launch party in West Hollywood
It’s lit! The bash was lavishly decorated, with a white fireplace decked out in white flowers and candles
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Legal authorities are on the lookout for illegal polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) dumping after the banned compound was detected in North Carolina's wastewater twice in only a few months.
Charlotte officials said they have identified "another case of PCBs being dumped into wastewater in Mecklenburg County sometime between September and early March," the News & Observer reported.
"That is in addition to the PCBs found in water at a treatment plant in north Charlotte in early February, and ethanol-tainted water discovered at a south Charlotte treatment plant a few days later," the report said.
Drinking water appears unharmed. "Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities says its water supply and those downstream are safe, as the facilities captured most or all of the material," Lake Wylie Pilot reported.
The city is willing to pay for information about the potential crime. "Officials announced Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are offering a $10,000 reward for information [on] the PCB dumping," the News & Observer report said.
Charlotte is on the hook for an expensive cleanup. "The toxic chemicals found in the sewer system in February will cost Charlotte more than $1.3 million to clean up as the city increases testing for the substances," the Charlotte Observer reported.
The report broke down where the money is going: "The Charlotte City Council approved vendor contracts totaling $970,000 for testing, waste handling and decontamination from the PCB episodes. Council approved an additional $317,000 to buy new lab equipment and supplies as testing for PCBs increased."
Utility operators said the PCBs were probably dumped as a cost-saving measure. "[They] think the PCBs were dumped by someone who wanted to avoid the expense of legally disposing of the cancer-causing materials," the Associated Press reported.
North Carolina is not the only state struggling with this issue.
"PCBs were detected in four South Carolina treatment systems, beginning in July. None have been found in North Carolina cities other than Charlotte," HazMat Management Magazine reported.
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The Rod Blumenau Quartet will play songs you know—in styles you don’t normally associate with them—for the final installment of the 2012–2013 Performing Artists Concert Series. “Old Wine, New Bottles” is at 8 p.m. April 24 in Ingle Auditorium, Student Alumni Union at Rochester Institute of Technology.
The program will highlight the group’s unique jazz arranging skills and a performance called “Arrangements While U Wait.” The band will improvise on-the-spot renditions of music selected by the audience. The show celebrates Blumenau’s return to performing after a hand operation last fall and the release of the band’s latest CD, “Jazzography,” recorded live at RIT in March 2012.
Performing with Blumenau on piano will be longtime quartet members Brad Paxton on drums, Jeff Campbell on bass and Gabe Condon on guitar. Joining them for the first time will be Doug Stone, one of Rochester’s premier jazz saxophonists.
Tickets—$5 for students, $15 for faculty/staff/alumni and $20 for the general public—are available at Bytes on the Run in the Student Alumni Union, at the Gordon Field House and Activities Center box office, or at the door on concert night, if available. For Visa or Mastercard phone orders, call 585-475-5210 or 585-475-4121. Additional concert information can be found at www.davidigital.com/concert.


Last summer, on a southern Ontario side road, I watched a combine load a streaming harvest of golden winter wheat into a waiting transport truck and wondered whether the world food crisis was illusion or reality.
Yet, months earlier, amid spiking food prices and tightening supplies, India, Vietnam and Egypt banned rice exports. Food riots broke out among the hungry from Mexico to Uzbekistan. Individuals and governments hoarded what they could. Debates flared over the use of corn to make fuel. The European Union, World Bank and United Nations rushed to find solutions, and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held an emergency meeting in Rome. Wealthy countries pumped more money into food aid to feed those who could no longer afford to feed themselves.
But surely a “global threat” containing elements such as “mass hunger” and “world food shortage” can’t be solved that quickly.
In fact, last spring’s crisis was likely the first high-profile public appearance of what could become a chronic problem — less a disease than the symptom of a coming epidemic. Hunger in developing countries can be addressed in the short term. Long-term solutions are harder. Ironically, some victims of last spring’s food crisis are also the most likely to provide answers to the global food supply question. And higher food prices, which pushed food into the public eye, may be part of the solution.
A situation rooted in petro-politics, commodity trading, hedge funds, land use, productivity and the demand for pork shanks in Shanghai, the global food system must first be understood.
For starters, the world is not running out of staple foods, but it does have much less on hand. Our planet now has less than a 60-day supply of grain — down from 140 days a decade ago. In open markets, decreased supply means higher prices.
Bio-fuels, helping countries cut their dependence on foreign oil, also take some of the blame. A World Bank report leaked last July says bio-fuels account for 75 percent of the rise in world corn and wheat prices since 2002. The report rings true, since the United States uses about a third of its corn crop to produce ethanol, the European Union uses half of its vegetable oil crop for bio-diesel and Australia is mandating 10 percent ethanol fuel by 2010. New ethanol technologies, which use organic matter other than corn or grains, may ease the pressure on food. But the demand is still likely to remain in the short term.
China’s growing economy and massive population are also factors. As incomes rise, so does meat consumption; China’s demand for meat has doubled in the last 12 years. Because it takes about five kilograms of grain to put one kilogram of meat on the table, China’s demand for grain is also soaring.
Finally, the workings of the global marketplace accelerate the grain-price increase. For starters, although most staple foods are produced and consumed locally, it’s the global marketplace that ultimately determines their price. Only 10 to 15 percent of wheat, for example, hits the world import-export market. But it’s this market that sets both global and local prices. Secondly, hedge funds have recently been betting heavily on rising food prices — and winning. Wheat and corn futures now trade alongside commodities such as oil and gold.
My own travels to hungry regions of the world have taught me that anyone with enough money can always find food, almost anywhere. The hungry of the world are the poor. They numbered about 850 million last fall, but hikes in food prices have added another 50 to 100 million. Ironically, many of them are among the estimated 1.5 billion small-holding farmers who produce about half of the world’s food.
The average Canadian farmer working hundreds or thousands of hectares with expensive machinery grows enough food to feed more than 100 people, but an African farmer working with human labour on one hectare struggles to grow and sell enough to feed, clothe and educate a family of 10.
The world’s small farmers can emerge from poverty, but only with global will and a good plan. In his latest book, Common Wealth, American economist Jeffrey Sachs says the world’s population is now half rural and half urban — and on track to becoming 60 percent urban in 25 years.
To survive a population shift without leaving almost a billion people in extreme poverty and hunger, wealthy countries must help poor nations break out of what Sachs calls “the poverty trap.” His plan requires first-world investments in agriculture, health, education and infrastructure. “The first is a boost to productivity of the core livelihood, agriculture. This is the hallowed Green Revolution that initially lifts smallholder farmers out of subsistence.”
The UN Millennium Project, led by Sachs, is putting some of his theories to the test. Three model villages in Africa receive $50 per villager annually for improvement in the four suggested areas. With fertilizers and improved seed, farm yields soared during the first two years. Sachs says taking his plan to 500 million rural Africans would cost $25 billion a year — half of the anti-poverty aid promised (but not yet delivered) by the G-8 group of developed countries. Says Sachs, “If the powerful countries follow through on their commitments, we could make decisive progress against extreme poverty in a very short period of time.”
Last spring’s food crisis, or food price crisis, at least made many more people, governments and agencies aware that farmers hold the key to a peaceful future. As the spring emergency moved into early summer meetings, the UN accelerated a $200-million fund for small farmers, and the World Bank’s Food Crisis Response Programme promised an additional $1.2 billion in support for food “safety nets” and agriculture.
China’s and India’s examples prove that increased production for small-holding farmers can lead countries out of poverty. The Asian giants still have plenty of ecological and social problems, but they are feeding their people and competing with the industrialized world. Indian and Chinese farmers, with holdings averaging 1.4 and 0.4 hectares respectively, are mostly weaned from food aid and are reaping the rewards of larger agricultural economies. In both cases, true to Sachs’s theory, investment in agricultural research, irrigation, seeds, fertilizers and infrastructure worked alongside education to create foundations for development and participation in the world economy.
Just don’t expect everyone to agree on exactly how small-holding farmers should go about producing more food and rising out of poverty. Sachs’s proposal includes fertilizers and high-yield seeds developed by corporate agribusiness in developed countries. Some argue that this model would only strengthen the first world’s corporate control over agriculture and economies.
Grassroots farmers’ groups favour “food sovereignty,” or local control of food, and small-holder agriculture that relies less on external inputs (and exports) and more on locally available solutions.
Grassroots approaches to food production in dry climates are showing promise. One is the Conservation Farming program of Christian Care Zimbabwe, supported by The United Church of Canada through the Mission and Service Fund and through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. About 75 percent of the impoverished country’s population lives off agriculture, and at least 30 percent of them need food aid.
New conservation methods call for farmers to stop plowing, conserve water, sow nitrogen-fixing plants, practise intercropping, spread manure for fertilizer, and mulch for moisture and to control weeds. Christian Care suspended its programs in Zimbabwe amid recent election and post-election turmoil. The simple farming techniques, though, are still boosting yields and spreading from neighbour to neighbour by word of mouth.
On the global research scene, there are dozens of agencies trying to find better ways for small farmers to feed themselves. In Canada, the Foodgrains Bank wants the government to make sustainable agriculture a development emphasis and is asking supporters to help with lobbying. Rising grain prices can actually help farmers around the world, but not if their input costs rise faster than their profits.
“If you don’t supply sustainable livelihoods for the large number of poor and hungry who are involved in agriculture, it doesn’t matter how much you produce, you are not going to do anything about hungry people,” says Stuart Clark, a Canadian Foodgrains Bank senior policy analyst, who attended the FAO’s emergency summit in Rome last June. “You’re only going to end hunger if you make sure there is more food produced and the people who need the food have a way of obtaining it.”
It’s difficult to get your arms around the world food crisis, but the bottom line is easy to grasp. Speculation aside, farmers need a good return on their crops, so higher prices are not all bad. But farmers in developing countries need improved production, too. We need to treat our neighbours around the world as ourselves. And we must share what resources we have with the poor. Simple ideas that Christians should understand.
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The Italian Navy is planning a pair of 10,000 ton Destroyers, known for the time being as DDX.
Fresh from a burst of shipbuilding spurred by the retirement of old vessels, the Italian Navy is now back at the drawing board to design what it considers the cornerstone of its fleet — new destroyers.
Current plans envisage vessels that are 24 meters wide with a 9-meter draft and more than 300 crew, while offering a top speed of over 30 knots using the CODOGAL (COmbined Diesel Or Gas And eLectric) propulsion system, De Carolis said. The system allows the use of either gas or diesel turbines, plus electric propulsion for lower speeds.
These would be the largest surface combatants built in Western Europe since the 40s.“The U.S. and Russia still operate cruisers, but most other navies today rely on destroyers for fighting power. They must cover anti-air, anti-ship and anti-submarine operations with a focus on integrated air and missile defense, including ballistic missile defense.”
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