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Archives for July 2015

G Spotter Twin Peak Pro 4GX — City Internet Speeds in Rural Areas

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With the new 700Mhz 4GX LTE Wireless Broadband becoming available Australia Wide. It is now possible to achieve Internet speeds the same as our city friends, using G Spotter antennas.

The video shows the new Twin Peak Pro antenna using the New OPTUS 4G LTE 700Mhz frequency to achieve download speeds in excess of 20Meg.

Visit www.broadbandantennas.com.au for details

Farming Regulation Task Force report

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Work will begin immediately to cut red tape in farming, Agriculture Minister Jim Paice announced today. The bureaucracy-busting promise was made as the independent Farming Regulation Task Force presented its recommendations for reducing the administrative burden faced by farmers and food producers.

Further information: http://www.defra.gov.uk/food-farm/farm-manage/farm-regulation/

What is Mad Cow Disease?

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Mad Cow Disease – What to Know – as part of the education series by GeoBeats.

Mad Cow Disease – What is It?

Scientifically named Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, it is a progressive neurological disease that affects a cow’s nervous system. Once infected, the cow’s behavior becomes erratic – inability to walk, uncontrolled movements and lower milk production. Incubation period can be months, even years. There’s no known treatment and the disease is fatal.

How Do Cows Get Infected?

A cow gets infected with the disease if they eat diseased feed which has abnormal proteins called prions found in brains, spinal cords, and other parts. These prions cause the degeneration in brain, giving it a spongy like appearance.

How Can It Affect Us?

Humans don’t get mad cow disease as such but they get a variant of it if they eat the diseased cattle tissue. Health officials in the US and elsewhere control such scenarios by periodic sampling and prohibiting cattle parts in feed which may contain prions.

Where Has It Been Reported So Far?

Although United Kingdom has been most impacted by the mad cow disease so far, the BSE has been reported in many countries around the word. Millions of cattle have been slaughtered and nearly 200,000 cows have died. Around 200 humans have lost their lives.

In the US recently, a cow tested positive for the disease but the health officials say that the infected cow wasn’t designated for meat consumption and it was an atypical strain of the disease.