Food is becoming more expensive not only in our local market but the impact is seen all over the world. Severely affected are the Jamaicans. The researchers and the education officials claim that the current condition of Jamaican children is something that really needs to be taken care of. Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Director General Dr Wesley Hughes recently brought the matter to the world’s notice while speaking at one of the functions for Children.

Jamaican government runs a meal schemes for school going children. The children are given one meal per day, however, in recent times a lot of hurdles have been seen in continuing with the scheme.

This is attributed to the increase in the price of the food all over the world. The schools are shelling out more for meals and may not be able to absorb these costs for a long time. Thus, Yvonne Mathison, principal of the Constitution Hill Primary and Junior High School in St Andrew, suggested that the quota from the government regarding the school meal scheme needs to be increased.

Although as per the government resources, the allocation for this year is already done and any changes in that might not be possible now.

This may not be very encouraging as Jamaica is a country where 4.6 per cent of children are undernourished, 3.6 per cent of them under five years old. Having a decent school meal is one place where they can fight malnutrition to a small extent.

Via: Jamaica Gleaner

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They have created works in various fields of design with mixed subject and method in fashion, furniture, graphic and environmental design.

Known for their out of the box designs, these two designers from Finland have caught the imagination of the critics world over with their amazing, fun packed designs.

Like in the picture given, the simple leather red school bag has an inbuilt hood, known as Hood Bag.
The name comes from backpack + hood = Hood bag!

It’s a simple yet stylish, interesting creation. One also needs to check their bizarre creations like dancing shoes, lucky shirt, etc.

As the designers say, that they are very traditional designers in the sense that they really want to make things for use, not just to be admired or looked at.

‘It is important for us that objects really suggest a use, that they make the users’ lives better, happier, funnier, more enjoyable...’

As per Aamu Song,

‘I can’t hold all my ideas in my own head; it will explode unless I take the ideas and realize them into prototypes, drawings or products. I would like to design things that have not yet been done; to bring out new ideas, to make the world bigger with them.’

Via: Ozoux

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You can see Ian McKellen as King Lear in one of the six theatrical performances that are offered in the tour, the musical “Desperately Seeking Susan” and the South African group Isango Portobello performing Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”

This tour is led by L.A. arts writer Barbara Isenberg. It also shows museums and has two concerts in the package. One travels through various venues in London and even visits famous Astors’ 18th century Kirby House located in Berkshire.

One can avail all this for just $5,989 per person. For double occupancy it takes a single surcharge of $1,000. This cost is inclusive of round-trip airfare, accommodations, breakfast, interviews, talks, museum tours and group transfers.

Via: Latimes

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The latest fad for spring 2008 is boots made especially for beaches - a new accessory you must have in your beach wad robe.

Pocket Beach Boots made by Karim Rashid for Crack are available in lots of designs and colours to suit a person’s individual style.

From sober, to fashion savvy to more loud expression regarding fashion, these shoes are available in all types.

So what you waiting for? Go get these boots and flaunt them proudly by the sea.

Via: Stylosophy

Worried how to keep some files as private, while some on sharing basis on your computer? Also, in a dilemma as to how to share the heavy files such as videos, photos, music, and documents by electronic mail.

ADrive.com has come up with a new public sharing enabled feature recently.

Now, one can share the files maintained in the ADrive account, needless of their size, instantly with anyone while keeping the private files safe, secure and away from sharing folders.

ADrive.com, an online data storage and backup company offers its users 50GB of free online data storage capacity! Amazing, I would say.

It’s a boon to youth which is wired to social networks, web bloggers, net savvy people as this feature even allows one to link and share files from Facebook, MySpace, blogs etc. In short, it’s a centralized storage vault for all your files which would soon become a necessity in very short time.

Via: 901am

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The invaluable piece of work, supposedly the biggest medieval book, was taken by the Swedish troops from the Prague Castle in 1648.
Its return to Prague after 359 years has been made possible after years of negotiations between the diplomats of Czech and Swedish. It is on exhibition in Prague from Sept 20 - Jan 6, as on loan from Sweden’s Royal Library in Stockholm.

This manuscript is believed to have been written with the help of devil and is also known as Codex Gigas. It is put on display under high security at the Czech National Library.
As per Czech National Library spokeswoman Katerina Novakova,

“We expected big interest from the public. Now, we are 100% full.”

Source: USA Today
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Alphasat will enable us to offer improved services through greater capacity, better quality communications and faster download times to existing and future Inmarsat customers.

Evert Dudok, CEO of Astrium said,

Astrium is proud to be have been chosen to implement this ambitious satellite programme that will demonstrate a large number of innovations, both at platform and payload level, and position Astrium firmly as a world leader for mobile satellite communications technology.

The satellite Alphasat I-XL, will support a new generation of mobile technologies and enable communications across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Via: BBC

Flying is the best option for the people who wish to take a trip around the world. However, always considered flying around the world as an expensive option...now, it’s made simpler, affordable and manageable by AirTreks.com.

Airtrecks.com is a website which makes the globe trotters work easier. It gives them plenty of options for planning their trip.
One can easily put even a dream trip together like say from Los Angeles - Reykjavik - Moscow - Bangkok - Hawaii - Los Angeles.

The site would also provide the necessary stopovers that one needs to make during the trip and the estimate of the ticket prices so that you can choose the route best suitable for you.

Incase, you need help of an agent to process tickets, fine tune your itinerary, manage stay etc. is available on the site itself. To say in short, one stop shop for all your needs for flying around the world.

Via: Gadling

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This golf course is rather an unconventional one, with each hole being located at a different town along the course. Looks like golf players would be needing long distance transportation.

A hole course that might start at Kalgoorlie may end up at Ceduna.
To add more to it, one of the holes isn’t even located in a town, it’s at a secluded, out of the way sheep farm.

Via: Gadling

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The original content of Reuters will now be identified and monitored by the Attributor Corporation. This technique of protecting the content is more commonly known as fingerprinting technique. Companies like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, Viacom etc use Attributor’s fingerprinting technology.

Attributor will better enable Reuters to spread its content in a more effective way over the Internet, at the same time safeguarding it as Reuters’ expands and transforms its online distribution strategy. It will also be analyzing how to distribute Reuters’ content over the ever growing Internet.

The association is Reuters’ attempt to engage in newer selling options, and provide more targeted offerings to its market and customers. It is an important move for Reuters as CNN recently announced its decision on no longer using Reuters for their content.

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