Cac dia phuong tap trung phong, chong dich benh cho cay trong

Kinh Doanh, Be Trap | medical student |

Ở miền trung, nắng nóng mở rộng khắp vùng, một số khu vực ở Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh nắng mức 36 - 38oC. Các tỉnh Nam Bộ nắng nóng cũng tăng, riêng khu vực đông Nam Bộ nhiệt độ cao hơn ở 32 đến 35oC.

Ngày 17-4, Bộ Nông nghiệp và Phát triển nông thôn có công điện gửi các bộ, ngành, các tỉnh, thành phố trực thuộc T.Ư về việc tăng cường chỉ đạo sản xuất lúa hè thu năm 2012 ở đồng bằng sông Cửu Long. Bộ yêu cầu các Sở Nông nghiệp và Phát triển nông thôn tại các địa phương ngăn chặn, phòng trừ sâu bệnh trên lúa. Chủ động sử dụng các giống lúa có khả năng chống chịu sâu bệnh và thời tiết tốt, cho năng suất và chất lượng cao. Tu sửa hệ thống thủy lợi, bảo đảm ngăn xâm nhập mặn, chống hạn đầu vụ.

Chi cục Bảo vệ thực vật tỉnh Ninh Bình cho biết: Hiện trên địa bàn tỉnh đã phát hiện hơn 30 ha lúa vụ đông xuân năm 2012 bị nhiễm bệnh đạo ôn lá, gây hại cục bộ đặc biệt là trên trà lúa xuân muộn. Tỉnh chỉ đạo, hướng dẫn các địa phương làm đúng kỹ thuật, không bón phân đạm hoặc phun các loại thuốc kích thích sinh trưởng, phân bón lá. Cán bộ nông nghiệp trực tiếp về cơ sở hướng dẫn hộ nông dân tiến hành phun thuốc trên những ruộng có tỷ lệ nhiễm bệnh từ 3% số lá trở lên.

Hiện toàn tỉnh Đồng Tháp có gần 700 ha lúa hè thu bị nhiễm bệnh vàng lùn, tập trung nhiều là ở các huyện Tân Hồng, Lai Vung, Lấp Vò, Châu Thành. Trong đó, có khoảng 80 ha có tỷ lệ nhiễm từ 10 đến 30% và khoảng 20 ha bị nhiễm nặng. Tuy mức độ nhiễm nhẹ nhưng có nguy cơ lây lan, nhất là trên giống lúa IR50404. Chi cục Bảo vệ thực vật tỉnh khuyến cáo nông dân cần thực hiện triệt để việc nhổ, hủy cây lúa bệnh, phun thuốc trừ rầy nâu trong trường hợp diện tích lúa đã có dấu hiệu bị nhiễm bệnh mật số rầy tăng cao quá ba con/tép. Tích cực chăm sóc, bón phân cân đối để bảo đảm năng suất lúa.

Từ cuối tháng 3 đến nay, tại địa bàn thôn Khau Moàng, huyện Văn Quan, tỉnh Lạng Sơn phát hiện một loại sinh vật gây hại trên cây hồi lên tới hơn 24 ha. Trạm Bảo vệ thực vật huyện đã phối hợp với chính quyền địa phương, tổ chức huy động bà con nông dân tiến hành phun thuốc OFATOX, CYPERKILL 10EC, bước đầu đã đem lại hiệu quả. Đây là năm thứ ba liên tiếp loại sâu này xuất hiện và gây hại trên cây hồi.

Khoanh vùng vị trí các nạn nhân vụ sạt lở mỏ than

Ban Chỉ huy tìm kiếm cứu nạn và khắc phục hậu quả sạt lở bãi thải mỏ than Phấn Mễ (Thái Nguyên) bằng máy dò BTS09 đã dò tìm và khoanh vùng được hai vị trí: một vị trí có một nạn nhân và một vị trí còn lại có bốn nạn nhân bị vùi lấp. Ban Chỉ huy đã mời thêm bốn chuyên gia nước ngoài cùng tham gia tìm kiếm thông qua phương pháp kỹ thuật mỏ - địa chất, tức là thông qua khảo sát địa hình, địa chất, vết trượt, dấu tích của vụ sạt lở để đưa ra những nhận định phục vụ công tác tìm kiếm. Đến thời điểm này, tổng số người tham gia tìm kiếm tại hiện trường là hơn 500 người cùng với chín máy xúc, năm ô-tô tải và một máy ủi. Ban Chỉ huy cũng đã chỉ đạo địa phương di dời thêm tám hộ dân trong vùng bị ảnh hưởng ra khỏi khu vực nguy hiểm.

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China Rising Incomes Lead to More Consumer Activists

Kinh Doanh | medical student |

As China"s economy continues to grow, citizens are getting a crash course in consumer rights, as increasing personal wealth leads to a rise in commercial disputes.  One local property conflict in Beijing illustrates the growing activism of upper middle-class Chinese.

Park 1872 is one of the many high-end residential developments that are springing up all over Beijing.  Beneath the sleek exteriors is a drama familiar to many city dwellers, anger over the exorbitant price for parking. But in China, residents say they have little power to negotiate with the state-owned China Merchants Property development company.

So the disgruntled owners have banded together and hired advocate Shu Kexin to represent them.

"But in China, the public security departments have intervened in this and use their public force to interfere in the activities between the parties involved.  You saw there were so many security personnel who came to frighten ordinary people, when in reality, the people do have the right to do such things," he said.

The security officials stormed out before the meeting started ,because they objected to the presence of China Central Television journalists, who residents had called in to report on the dispute.

"Twenty years ago, when so many police show up, it was us who would be scared," stated Shu. "Now, as soon as they saw a TV camera here, they are the ones who are afraid."

Citizen journalism is also playing a role, as consumers use camera phones to document malfeasance, such as a recent incident when owners clashed with plainclothes thugs.  Housewife Shero Cheng, who owns a Park 1872 apartment with her entrepreneur husband, says the conflict has bonded like-minded neighbors.

"We have made friends and our kids have made friends too.  And now, when they want to go play, we can just tell them to go see this or that friend.  We feel like this is a community, not like before, when it was just individuals behind closed doors," she said.

There is still no resolution to the parking conflict, but owners say they will continue their activism.  The neighborhood policeman acknowledges the owners have a cause, but he also reminded them that their protest tactics must follow the law.  China Merchants Property did not accept VOA's request to tell its side of the dispute.

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Spanish Workers Protest Labor Reforms

tin tức iphone | medical student |

Spanish workers took to the streets Thursday to protest sweeping labor reforms, public spending cuts and widespread unemployment.

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Demonstrator covers face during general strike in Barcelona, Spain, March 29, 2012.

The 24-hour general strike comes a day before government ministers are set to adopt a new austerity budget to meet strict guidelines set by eurozone leaders.

Strikers set up a picket line at Madrid Central Market in Spain's capital, disrupting businesses, banks and public transport hubs. According to news reports, at least 58 demonstrators have been arrested and nine were injured in scuffles.

Union Member Regino Martin says he is trying to convince people to resist the new labor rules and government policies of the recently elected conservative government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, which make it easier for companies to fire workers and cut wages.

Spain, under pressure from the European Union and international investors to cut spending, is only one of numerous European countries facing tough austerity. Across the continent, tax hikes and cuts in public spending have been met with widespread public protest.

On Friday, ministers are set to adopt a 2012 budget that will cut billions of dollars from government spending. News reports say Spain's economy is headed into its second recession since 2009 with a jobless rate at 23 percent -- the highest in the 27-nation European Union.

No panacea

Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Center for European Reform in London, said austerity measures in Spain, like elsewhere, will not solve its economic problems.

"What's worrying about what we are seeing is that very little seems to have been learned from what happened in Greece and Ireland and Portugal," he said. "They are applying the same strategy to Spain. Now the big risk for the eurozone is that Spain is twice as big as those three economies combined. So if Spain gets into similar difficulties, it won't just be a tragedy for the Spanish people, but it will also pose an existential threat to the euro."

According to Tilford, austerity only serves to shrink rather than grow euro economies. The European Union, he said, needs a closer degree of integration with a federal budget that would enable resources to flow easily among euro countries, what he calls the only feasible -- yet unlikely -- resolution.

"The political will to do what is necessary to stabilize the situation within the eurozone is really just not there," he said. Now that's not to say that we will not see big institutional changes going forward -- it's possible that we will. But it's just as likely that the ongoing crisis will undermine solidarity between countries and that that could actually militate against the changes that are needed to put the single currency on a more sustainable currency."

Eurozone ministers are set to meet in Copenhagen Friday to discuss the bloc's debt rescue fund, which is used to help prop up debt-ridden European governments.

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Way of the World

gia dinh | medical student |

Gambling on Jobs That Make Things

By CHRYSTIA FREELAND | REUTERS

Published: March 29, 2012

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NEW YORK — Chalk one up for continental Europe’s economic architects. For the past several decades, the Anglo-Saxon consensus was that state interference in the private-sector economy was a mistake. Government bureaucrats were in no position to pick economic winners and losers — and if standing aside meant letting the forces of creative destruction sweep away entire industries, so be it.

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The continental Europeans, most successfully the Germans, demurred. They were unconvinced that the shift from manufacturing to services was either good or inevitable, and they used the full might of the state to try to hang on to their industrial base. The financial crisis may have briefly felt like a vindication of this model — but the near collapse and continued frailty of the euro brought a quick end to that moment of schadenfraude.

When it comes to manufacturing, though, the European approach is being embraced in the White House. In a speech this week, Gene B. Sperling, director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy, carefully laid out the economic rationale for the U.S. shift. Mr. Sperling was careful to point out that the new approach did not amount to industrial policy, or an attempt by the government to pick winners and losers.

But the White House has come to believe, Mr. Sperling said, that manufacturers more broadly should be first among equals. Giving manufacturers slightly lower taxes and more support for their research and development is a good idea, Mr. Sperling argues, for two reasons. First, because manufacturing has a particularly powerful spillover effect on the rest of the economy.

The benign effect of manufacturing Mr. Sperling is most enthusiastic about is the connection with innovation. That link, he argues, has been drawn out in research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s "Production in the Innovation Economy" initiative. Its premise, which Mr. Sperling embraces, is that in most new technologies, innovation happens most quickly and effectively when the inventors work close to the builders.

Apple is today the most beloved — and financially successful — U.S. manufacturer of physical stuff. But Mr. Sperling’s argument amounts to an assertion that the Apple approach — with designers and engineers in California and factories in China — works for the IT business, but not for much else. In most industries, Mr. Sperling contends, those who outsource manufacturing will soon find that they have outsourced their innovative edge, too.

The second pillar of the White House approach is to insist that the decline of U.S. manufacturing, and, by extension, manufacturing in the rich Western economies, is not inevitable. Manufacturing, Mr. Sperling argues, is not the agriculture of the 21st century, a sector fated to provide fewer and fewer jobs over time.

Instead, Mr. Sperling believes that the United States has a chance to bring jobs back home. "The degree that the U.S. is becoming more and more competitive in bringing manufacturing facilities and jobs back to our shores is very encouraging," Mr. Sperling said in an interview after he gave his speech.

This is clearly one of the administration’s talking points this season — on Wednesday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. trumpeted the rise of "in-sourcing" in a speech in Iowa.

This White House view that the government can — and must — support manufacturing relative to other businesses is a profound shift in the conventional wisdom of the English-speaking world. Since the days of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the received trans-Atlantic wisdom has been that state intervention is an inevitable failure, that the decline of manufacturing is inevitable, too, and that service-sector jobs can be just as good anyway. The shiny towers of the City of London and the canyons of Wall Street are evidence of that last conviction and, for a while, seemed to be a vindication of it.

Mr. Sperling is an earnest technocrat, and his speech this week was a determined effort to document the intellectual foundations of the White House’s pro-manufacturing tilt. "Let me begin by acknowledging upfront that this is an area where otherwise like-minded economists disagree," Mr. Sperling said at the start of his remarks. His goal is not so much to persuade his listeners that he is right as it is to assure them that his approach is intellectually respectable.

But for all its nerdy leanings, the White House is not the Harvard faculty club, and an election is coming up. Manufacturing could be an area of strong contrast between President Barack Obama and his most likely challenger, Mitt Romney. Mr. Romney has more hands-on experience, but Mr. Obama may have a more deft popular touch.

Unless you have a doctorate in economics, your intuition probably accords with Mr. Sperling’s point that building things is essential to a country’s economic well-being. Mr. Romney, who opposed the bailout of the Detroit carmakers, often finds himself on the other side of that argument.

Inside the United States, the big story this week is the Supreme Court’s deliberations on the legality of Mr. Obama’s health care overhaul . Elsewhere, that is a barely comprehensible local story — all other rich countries provide some version of universal coverage and spend less money and achieve better outcomes than the United States.

But from Berlin to Beijing, the debate about manufacturing and whether governments have a duty to support it is a live issue. That is one more reason this U.S. election campaign matters so much to the rest of the world.

Chrystia Freeland is global editor at large at Reuters.

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Passover Seder, Smoothly Done

lap nghiep | medical student |

MY 98-year-old mother calls my Passover seder a gantzeh megillah — a big production. She’s right. For me, the seder is the hardest event of the year to prepare for. Yet it is by far the most meaningful because it commemorates the defining chapter in Judaism, when the Jews fled slavery in Egypt to freedom in the promised land.

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The seder plate, clockwise from top: a burned egg, haroseth, shank bone, parsley and horseradish.

By JOAN NATHAN

Published: March 27, 2012

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For the seder plate, an egg is burned, symbolizing the destroyed temple in Jerusalem.

By the time the 40-plus guests arrive at my home in Washington on the evening of April 6 and are seated around the mismatched tables and chairs, I will let out a deep sigh of relief. I will also probably get chills, knowing that I’m following what was written in the Bible more than 2,500 years ago. We may not "eat the flesh that same night, roasted over fire," as the Book of Exodus says, but we still eat unleavened bread, bitter herbs and many other dishes added to the original meal.

I have been the host of this Passover meal for about three decades. I’ve mixed recipes that we’ve eaten for years with new ones, like eggs that are covered in sand and baked overnight. I have a gefilte fish party with some friends beforehand. The main course and desserts are on a buffet table. I prepare at least five variations of haroseth, a mixture of sweet fruit and nuts that symbolizes the mortar used for buildings in Egypt. (On Wednesday I will make one of them at the White House.) For the vegetarians at my table I make a vegetarian broth with matzo balls.

My seder survival tactics boil down to a few basics. Make a list. Follow it. Always accept help when offered. And remember to create your own family traditions. With my nine-day Passover countdown plan, you can give a stress-free seder for five or 50. And you can enjoy yourself.

Unlike many practicing American Jews, my husband, Allan, and I have only one formal Passover seder and do not use special dishes. But we remove all leavened products and legumes like beans from our house, and we eat matzo each day. We divide the work: he conducts the seder, buys the wines and gets the gifts for the children who find the afikomen, the hidden matzo; I prepare the food and tables.

The seder plate, holding special foods that are mentioned in the seder service, is a focal point of the table. On our seder plate the horseradish, symbolic of the bitterness of slavery, is served with matzo and haroseths whose recipes I have gathered in my trips around the world. I make versions with chestnuts, dates and cherry preserves, all representing places where Jews wandered in the diaspora. This year I’m using a recipe from a recent visit to Arkansas.

The eggs for the plate — symbolic of the sacrifice in the temple in ancient Jerusalem and of everlasting life — are left in the shell, covered in sand and cooked overnight in a tagine, a recipe I found in a French cookbook with Jewish recipes imported from North Africa. My husband’s mother started the formal meal with hard-cooked eggs, serving them peeled and in salt water, an Eastern European custom. I have followed her tradition with my eggs, which come out caramel-colored and creamy.

Then, the gefilte fish, which I make with friends in my kitchen the day before the seder at our annual "gefilte fish-in." My friends bring their own pots and their own mix of whitefish, pike and carp, and onions and carrots. We grind the fish and the onions in my KitchenAid mixer and cook them in six separate pots. With the fish I always serve homemade horseradish sauce; the root holds a place of honor in my garden. Sometimes a guest will bring great horseradish from New York, ground on the Lower East Side; this year I am using a recipe from Kutsher’s Tribeca .

For the children, the most welcome dish is the chicken soup with matzo balls. My matzo balls, neither heavy as lead nor light as a feather, are al dente, infused with fresh ginger and nutmeg. This year, with so many guests, I will freeze them, and the soup, in advance.

On the buffet is either brisket with lots of onions, carrots and wine, or one made with preserved lemon and tomato. There is also roasted chicken with fennel for those who don’t want red meat. With the meat I always serve a spring vegetable like asparagus in an orange mayonnaise that a friend brings, as well as other make-ahead dishes like roasted red-pepper salad , roasted beet salad and, lately, quinoa with vegetables. I have been omitting kugel — too heavy.

For dessert, I have a buffet of Passover chocolate roll, lemon torte, strawberries and a compote with chremsel, a fritter filled with nuts and dried fruit that my father loved when he was growing up in Germany.

Like everything in Judaism, our seder evolves each year and the props seem to pile up. A few years ago we added an orange to our seder plate, symbolizing that a woman, too, can lead a seder. I also have a collection of plastic frogs and snakes to throw when the plagues are mentioned. When we sing the Passover song "Dayenu," I give everyone a scallion, and we playfully hit each other to act out a Persian custom that symbolizes the sting of the whip from Egyptian taskmasters.

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U.S. kindergarten boy brings heroin to show and tell

dientoandammay.edu.vn | medical student |

A five-year-old boy brought packets of heroin to a show and tell at his Connecticut kindergarten, leading to the arrest of his stepfather, police said on Tuesday.

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The child was proudly displaying packets of a powdery substance to his kindergarten classmates in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Monday when his teacher noticed what he was holding, Detective Keith Bryant of the Bridgeport Police Department said.

"He was waving it around," Bryant said, adding that the teacher collected the packets and immediately notified her supervisors.

Authorities were called and a field test determined the substance was heroin, he said. Later, the child's stepfather, Santos Roman, 35, showed up at the school and was arrested.

"He went to retrieve it (the heroin), and it wasn't there so he came back for his stepson," Bryant said.

Roman was arraigned on Tuesday on three drug-possession charges, including intent to sell within 1,500 feet (457 meters) of a school and risk of injury to a minor, police said. Roman was held on $100,000 bail.

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