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Good to see all the work going on at A'Deane Park.

We must give 'big ups' to Jenny at the CHB District Council for all her input into getting things moving along. A'Deane Park was always intended to be a small recreational oasis for the Waipukurau community, not for sporting events like Russell Park but a place to sit and watch your children play or as JB A'Deane wanted, a place to come and watch the local brass-band play (Orginally he had suggested a little rotunda in the middle)!!

Yet again we see another article filled with incorrect and very out of date information regarding climate change. This time the article appeared in the CHB Mail.

I suggest the author of it read the New Scientist website's series about climate change titled " Climate Change: A guide for the Perplexed ". This series demolishes the 26 most common myths and misinformation regarding climate change, including those in the article such as the " Hockey Stick " graph.

I also recommend people do some research on the author of the original article from which the Mail's article was derived. S. Fred Singer admitted back in 1993 that he did climate change research for oil companies such as Exxon, Texaco, Arco, Shell, and the American Gas Association.

CHB District Libraries have their own blog. You can check it out at http://www.chbdistrictlibraries.blogspot.com

We will try to keep you up to date with all things literature and with upcoming events in the CHB library world. You can send us some comments as well as sending us a message using Meebo.

It's lovely living in this peaceable corner of the world - I consider myself greatly blessed. Hardly anything untoward happens here. Local volcanic eruption? Not likely. Tsunami? Highly improbable. Big threatening fire? Maybe. Earthquake. Mmm, now that's a possibility, and one that could seriously impact upon all of our lives.

My point?

Well, I believe we do have a local Civil Defence Officer, have even heard his name mentioned. But I have NEVER seen any literature, or a radio item, or anything dealing with what to expect in terms of emergency response to a local calamity or what we should do under such circumstances. How might we be able to help in a co-ordinated way?.

I am not laying any blame at the door of the worthy gentleman who holds that office or the authority who employs him. I mean, nothing untoward has happened that might give us reason to doubt the efficacy of our disaster management systems.

Yet.

Broadband is not broadband

1. What do you mean by “Broadband is not broadband”?

There are a number of definitions of broadband. New Zealand defines it as being a connection to the internet which has a speed that is at least 128 kilobits per second in one direction. A lot of the rest of the world thinks that it is a minimum of 256 kilobits per second. The International Telecommunications Union defines it as being as being faster than 1.5 megabits per second which is about 15 times faster than New Zealand’s definition.

Telecom's broadband offering certainly runs faster than 128kb/sec. However it is still not fast enough for the future.