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PRESS RELEASE: World Radio Switzerland, the recently privatized English language radio station, will continue broadcasting in the Lake Geneva region from midnight on 31 August 2013. The station will be funded and run by members of the international community for the benefit of the region.
Program Director, Mark Butcher, says, "It’s vital that the international community here retains its strong voice and we are making sure that high quality English language radio continues, despite the unpopular decision by the Swiss Federal Government to remove FM from the region. Digital listening - across DAB+, on-line and mobile is building quickly and Switzerland is following the new positive digital listening trends across Europe. Converting to DAB+ is a lot easier and cheaper than many people think - for both car and home listening - and we'll be helping our audience understand how to continue listening to English language radio."
A small design company has just been launched in the region, specializing in designing “tailor-made” hard furnishings for the home.
Located just outside Geneva, but operating in both France and Switzerland, Ralpine Design will provide a customized design service for private clients who require unique pieces of furniture for their home, whether they be small items such as tables and chairs, or larger items including built-in wall units.
Owner, Robert Leeman, told knowitall.ch, “Our aim is to produce bespoke, high quality products that have been beautifully designed and are perfectly matched to our client’s lifestyle. Our products are tailor-made to fit our clients, their surroundings, and more importantly the way they live their life. Like a tailored suit, our furniture excels in its performance through the close partnership of hand-made craftsmanship and creative design. We employ the very best, local craftsmen to create our products, and use the finest materials possible.”
By Daryl Williams, Williams Services
Digital terrestrial television has been around in France since 2005, when the TNT (TélévisionNumérique Terrestre) came into service.
TNT offers a minimum of 18 free television channels, including the main existing terrestrial French television channels. By subscription, it is also possible to receive many other channels, including Canal+.
TNT does not give you access to UK television stations, for which you will need to buy and install a satellite dish!
The TNT service is already available to most of the population, although many households have chosen not to take it, preferring instead to remain with the analogue service.
Nevertheless, from the beginning of 2010 the analogue service has gradually been replaced, region by region, and will be switched off definitively by 30 November 2011.
By John Fox
We are all familiar with the problems: the gap between rich and poor, the loss of biodiversity, climate change, the decline in natural resources, pollution of the air, water and soil, and acres of refuse. It is clear that the world is not working in a way that can be sustained in the long term.
Accepting this situation, the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 launched “Agenda 21”. This is a program to ensure “sustainable development”, that is to say development that meets the needs of the present generation without comprising the needs of future generations.
If everyone on Earth used as many resources as we do in Western Europe, we would eventually need three planets to satisfy humanity. Therefore, if the human race is to survive we must choose goods and services that consume less energy and preserve natural resources. This would mean opting for quality and sustainability and avoiding quantity and excess.
