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QR8340 - Airport Services Supervisor | Qatar Airways | Zurich
Positions: About Your Job: In this role, you will be responsible for supervising and controlling flight-handling activities such as flight editing, transfer and boarding in order to achieve a high standard of service.  You will also aim to achieve optimum satisfaction and on-time departure of flights. Specific accountabilities include: Acting as station coordinator in liaison with GHA and QR department.  Working closely with GHA and all airport departments to ensure on-time performance targets are met. Supervising airport team in achieving on-time performance Facilitating the Ramp Handling activities in liaison with GHA, caterers, fuelling agent, maintenance, cargo, and crew to expedite departure Working with all departments to ensure precision timings towards on-time departure are met. Utilising available resources by planning efficient duty allocation for customer service agents. Ensuring efficient use of manpower during duty period Reviewing aircraft allocations according to the movement messages / late arrivals / loads etc. Ensuring all departures are aware of operational messages and requirements	City: Europe | Switzerland | Zurich
About You: To be successful in this role, you will need a trade or vocational qualification combined with a minimum of four years of related experience.  Exposure to an airline or GHA as dedicated ground staff in passenger handing and ground operations is required.  You will also need a good understanding of conditions of carriage, international civil aviation safety and security procedures.  Knowledge of airport functions including baggage handling, weight and balance and dangerous goods regulations is required. You will also need to be fluent in English (written and oral) for this position. Note: you will be required to attach the following: 1. Resume / CV 2. NOC for Internal Candidate OR Blank Page for External Candidates
About Company: Qatar Airways Welcome to a world where ambitions fly high From experienced pilots to dynamic professionals embarking on new careers, Qatar Airways is searching for talented individuals to join our award-winning team. We take pride in our people—a dynamic and culturally diverse workforce is essential to why we are one of the finest and fastest growing airlines in the world. We offer competitive compensation and benefit packages.   Apply Now
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BBC to Launch Five New HD Channels

NASA Successfully Test 3D Printed Rocket Engine Part Posted: 20 Jul 2013 05:00 AM PDT NASA has announced that it has successfully tested a 3D printed part for a rocket engine. The technique called selective laser melting (SLM) was used and resulted in the part being produced quicker and cheaper. The California based Aerojet Rocketdyne were able to make an injector component, a part that is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas to an engine’s combustion chamber. Using the SLM method, a computer-designed object is turned into a real part  by using high-powered laser beams that melt and fuse thin layers of metallic powders into the designed shape. According to NASA an injector component would normally take a year to make but by using this technique, they have been able to cut production time to less than four months and reduce the cost by more than 70 per cent. The test part is not full scale, it is smaller than what would normally be used in a full-size rocket but it is still big enough to give proof that the part is able to withstand the pressure and heat it would be exposed to. “Nasa recognises that on Earth and potentially in space, additive manufacturing can be game-changing for new mission opportunities, significantly reducing production time and cost by ‘printing’ tools, engine parts or even entire spacecraft,” said Michael Gazarik, Nasa’s associate administrator for space technology. The space agency are also exploring other techniques. It has asked researches at Washington University to explore the possibilites of producing 3D printed objects from lunar rocks. It is also testing a process called electron beam freeform fabrication (EBF3), which uses a computer controlled electron beam gun in a vacuum that  then welds metal wires into complex shapes and patterns. All these techniques are making steps towards NASA’s astronauts being able to produce spare parts in space, thus saving more time and money during space exploration.

BBC to Launch Five New HD Channels Posted: 20 Jul 2013 03:00 AM PDT The BBC has announced it plans to launch five new high definition channels by early next year.  There will be High Definition versions of BBC News, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC Three and BBC Four. These channels will be available over rooftop aerials via Freeview receivers as well as cable and satellite services. This news coincides with the regulator Ofcom‘s announcement that is making it possible to launch a total of 10 new HD channels using airwaves freed up by the switch off of the old analogue TV signals.  ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 had no statement at this time as to whether they intended to take advantage of Ofcom’s move.  Surprisingly BSkyB said it had no plans to launch an HD service on Freeview.    BBC’s director general Tony Hall said “BBC One HD and BBC Two HD have already proved to be highly valued by our audiences and I’m delighted that we’re able to follow this with the launch of five new subscription-free BBC HD channels by early 2014…These new channels will allow us to showcase more of our programming at its very best.”  Currently there are four HD channels offered over Freeview, which launched its High Definition service in 2010.  They are BBC One HD, BBC Two HD, ITV HD and Channel 4 HD. These include variants of the BBC One HD service for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Two of the BBC’s new channels, BBC Three HD and CBBC HD, will utilise existing unused capacity, and CBeebies HD and BBC Four HD will share a channel since they will not be broadcast at the same time.  As a result there is still the potential for up to a further eight new HD channels to be offered over Freeview as a result of Ofcom’s move.  Transmission company Arqiva will provide the infrastructure behind the new Freeview services, having being awarded a licence to do so by the regulator. It will handle other applications for the added capacity.  The company has indicated that up to 70% of the UK population should be able to receive the new channels over their aerials. The 550-606MHz spectrum band being used was freed up as a result of the UK’s digital TV switchover, which was completed last year.  Ofcom has said it reserves the right to take back the bandwidth from December 2018 if it needs to prevent a “capacity crunch” caused by the roll-out of future mobile broadband services.  The BBC has indicated it also wants to launch English regional variants of its existing BBC One HD service as well as Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland editions of BBC Two HD. This would not need any of the new capacity, it would, however, need to be approved by the BBC Trust. Currently more than 50% of homes in the United Kingdom are already HD-enabled. The BBC said it expected that figure to grow a further 40% to around 90% by 2019.

Optimum Egg Quality Global Poultry News

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Optimum Egg Quality: A Practical Approach

A fresh egg, with a clean, smooth, brown or white shell, a pure, deep-yellow yolk and a translucent, firm white — this is the ideal of the egg producer and the consumer. How can producers make sure that hens lay more eggs like this, and fewer with shell or internal defects?

The Optimum Egg Quality Handbook describes 15 shell defects and 9 internal defects, each illustrated with a colour photograph. It explains the possible causes and corresponding control measures for each defect.

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Egg producers and anyone else interested in poultry management will find this book a comprehensive, yet clear, simple and practical guide to improving egg quality.

Introduction

• Preface
• Formation of the egg
• Optimum vitamin nutrition of laying hens
• The nutritive value of the egg
• Internal and external egg quality
• The importance of calcium and vitamin D3
• Quality control
• Changes in quality as the egg ages
• Egg quality in the retail store and in the home
• Consumer perceptions of egg quality
• Egg defects
• Nutrient check list
• Glossary

Shell Defects

• Gross cracks
• Hairline cracks
• Star cracks
• Thin-shelled eggs and shell-less eggs
• Sandpaper or rough shells
• Misshapen eggs
• Flat-sided eggs
• Body-checked eggs
• Pimples
• Pinholes
• Mottled or glassy shells
• Cage marks
• Stained eggs
• Fly marks
• Fungus or mildew on shells

Internal Defects

• Blood spots
• Meat spots
• Watery whites
• Pale yolks
• Mottled yolks and discoloured yolks
• Discoloured whites
• Rotten eggs
• Roundworms in eggs
• Off odours and flavours

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Egg Consumption in Europe Global Poultry News

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With little growth in the human population and egg consumption generally flat, there is little chance of significant growth in overall European egg consumption, writes industry analyst, Terry Evans.

Egg consumption per person in Europe is, at best, static in contrast to a steady increase in the global average (Table 1 and Figure 1), which rose steadily between 2000 and 2009 from 8.1kg to 8.9kg. Although average uptake in Europe at the start of the past decade was 50 per cent above the world level as it climbed from 12.1kg to 12.8kg between 2000 and 2007, it has since stagnated and in 2009 was just 43 per cent higher. Since 2005, the average for the European Union has shifted from being above to below that for the whole of Europe.

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Between now and 2020, Europe's human population is forecast to increase by just 3.3 million (0.5 per cent) so no great boost in demand can be anticipated from this development.

In developed economies, a major trend to emerge has been the growth in eggs consumed as egg products. For Europe, roughly 20 per cent of all eggs are eaten in some form of product although for those EU countries that provide a break-down of shell egg and egg product consumption, the proportion of product usage averages nearer 27 per cent. Unfortunately, in only a few instances has the rise in egg product uptake increased total egg consumption as, in most instances the switch to products has been at the expense in the usage of eggs in shell. Again, in developed economies, the impact of real income growth on egg demand is minimal.

Another factor which does little to help expand demand is that, in general, egg industries spend relatively little on promotion when compared with their competitors, particularly cereals and juices for breakfast. Differences in average consumption between countries in Europe are less marked than in other major regions of the world. Also, where uptake is say, less than 10kg per person and year, and where a rise in consumption might reasonably be envisaged, unfortunately - without exception - these are countries with small human populations, hence the total volume of any increase will be small. Although this means that, for Europe as a whole, no significant increase can be foreseen in total egg consumption, this observation does not hold true for all countries in the region.

Hardly any European Union member country has managed to record higher annual per-capita egg uptake than in 2000. The FAO published figure for the Netherlands in 2009 of just 7.5kg looks like a typing error as the correct figure is likely to be nearer 17.5kg. But, even so the Dutch figures are misleading as the estimate is based on the availability of all hen eggs including hatching eggs.

Outside the EU, the most dramatic increase in egg consumption has taken place inUkraine, where the estimate of supplies available to be eaten has risen from 9.5kg in 2000 to 15.6kg in 2009.

An expansion has also been recorded in the Russian Federation, the average rising from 12.7kg to 14.6kg. Although the human population there has contracted since 2000 and looks likely to continue to do so, the forecast for 2030 still points to around 137 million, which compares with 147 million in 2000.

More recent data on egg consumption has been gathered by the International Egg Commission (IEC) and published in its Annual Review. According to this IEC data egg consumption in France in 2011 averaged 222 eggs per person, of which, 135 were consumed as shell eggs and 87 (39 per cent) in egg products.

In Germany, uptake is considered to have slipped from 214 in 2010 to 212 in 2011. Just over 62 per cent of household purchases were barn eggs, 24 per cent came from free-range units, nine per cent were organic and a little over four per cent were from colony cages.

In Italy, the number eaten contracted between 2010 and 2011 from 210 to 206/person of which some 71 (35 per cent) were consumed in products.

According to the IEC country reports, egg consumption in the Netherlandsincreased between 2010 and 2011 from 185 to 188 eggs per person, equivalent to around 11.6 to 11.8kg. Some 23 per cent were eaten as products.

For Spain in 2011, it is estimated that almost 105 eggs (45 per cent) were consumed as products out of a total of almost 233.

In 2010, Poland's average was 200 per capita, while in Russia, where consumers consider that the egg price is far more important than the system of production, the 2011 average was 260 per person.

Price is also a big factor influencing egg demand in Ukraine, where earnings are low compared to most other European countries and where household expenditure on food accounts for around 48 per cent of income. Nevertheless, egg uptake is booming having risen from 282 per person in 2010 to 305 in 2011.

A positive promotional campaign in the UK boosted retail egg sales by almost four per cent in 2011 as total egg consumption in shell went up from 138 to 146. However, the quantity eaten as product was estimated to have slipped a shade from 44 to 43 eggs (23 per cent) as total usage climbed from 182 to 189 eggs per person and year.

April 2013

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