Floods kill 27, 900 000 displaced in Northeast India

INTERNATIONAL NEWS - At least 27 people have died and 900,000 others have been forced to leave their homes as monsoon rains swamp wide areas of the northeastern Indian state of Assam, officials said on Thursday.

A state government spokesman said 21 of Assam's 27 districts were hit by flash floods which began last weekend as the rains lashed the tea and oil-rich Indian state.

"So far, 27 people have died in separate incidents including five who were killed when their boat sank," Assam Agriculture Minister Nilamoni Sen Deka told AFP in Guwahati, the state's largest city.

He also said the Brahmaputra river was overflowing its banks in many places.

Deka said an estimated 900,000 people had been displaced from their homes due to the flooding.

"Most of the displaced people have been forced to take shelter on raised platforms and in tarpaulin tents," Deka added.

"All major rivers are running menacingly high with breaches reported in many places," added Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma as rescuers set up 1,500 temporary shelters for people stranded.

In nearby Bangladesh, the death toll from a series of flash floods and landslides rose above 100 on Thursday.

The annual monsoon, crucial to India's food production and economic growth, arrived over the tropical country earlier in the month.

Indian agriculture gets 60 percent of its precipitation from the rains and a bad monsoon can spell financial disaster for the country's 235 million farmers.

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More dinosaur-smuggling cases likely

Mongolia's claim to a tyrannosaur skeleton that experts agree was smuggled out of the country has captured international attention. However, this dinosaur's situation does not appear unique.

Other fossils from the same species of Mongolian dinosaur, as well as other specimens linked to that fossil-rich country, are not difficult to find in auction house catalogs or on eBay.

They may not be for long: According to Robert Painter, the Houston-based attorney representing the Mongolian president in the tyrannosaur case, the Mongolian government is putting plans in place to monitor sales such as the $1.1 million purchase in May of the tyrannosaur at auction, in the hope of intercepting material taken illegally from within its borders.

Not the only one
The dinosaur skeleton, which Heritage Auctions put up for bid May 20 in New York, is a type of tyrannosaur called Tarbosaurus bataar. Its remains are plentiful in the Nemegt Formation within Mongolia's share of the Gobi Desert, where the only clearly identifiable Tarbosaurus fossils have been found. [ Up For Auction: A Natural History Gallery ]

Mongolian law in place since 1924 declares vertebrate fossils excavated within its borders to be state property and makes smuggling valuable artifacts, including fossils, a crime.

In the same auction, Heritage offered Tarbosaurus teeth and the skull of an armored dinosaur, called an ankylosaurid, which paleontologists said are also likely from Mongolia.

Mongolia's president, Elbegdorj Tsakhia, recently enlisted the U.S. Attorney's Office in his fight to have the skeleton returned to his country. No other items have been drawn into the court case.?

Easy to find
A cursory scan of recent catalogs from auction houses with a presence in the U.S. revealed that these sorts of offerings are not unusual. The auction house I.M. Chait offered the skull of a Tarbosaurus, also known as Tyrannosaurus bataar, for sale March 24, 2011, and a Tarbosaurus leg this past May 6. Skinner Auctioneers & Appraisers in Los Angeles offered two dinosaur eggs from Mongolia's Gobi Desert on June 2. Bonhams offered a Tarbosaurus skull on May 17, 2011, and, later in the year, on Dec. 11, offered a frilled Protoceratops skeleton found in the Djadokhta Formation, which is located primarily in Mongolia. (The remainder of the formation is in China, which also forbids the export of fossils.)

LiveScience attempted to contact these auctions houses. The only reply came from a representative of ?Skinner. "I can tell you that Skinner consignors are contractually obliged to state that they have free and clear title to the material they consign with us," Skinner's marketing director, Kate de Bethune, wrote in an email.

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Asked for comment on the Tarbosaurus teeth and the ankylosaurid skull, Heritage Auctions? co-Chairman Jim Halperin released a statement, saying: "Numerous unsupported allegations regarding these fossils have been reported in the news media ? all of which Heritage Auctions hopes will soon be clarified."

As for the Tarbosaurus skeleton, Heritage Auctions has defended Eric Prokopi, the Florida fossil dealer who sought to sell it through the auction house, and cooperated with the Mongolian investigation into the origin of the dinosaur. Prokopi has questioned whether the fossils truly came from Mongolia. "Other than (from) the diggers, there is no way for anyone to know for certain when or where the specimen was collected," Prokopi said in a statement. [ Image Gallery: Dinosaur Fossils ]

Auction houses aren't alone. A search for "dinosaur fossils mongolia" on eBay Wednesday yielded about 20 results, most of them claws.

Not a shock
While it's impossible to be 100 percent certain the Tarbosaurus fossils sprinkled around public auctions and eBay are from Mongolia, "we can be reasonably certain," said Mark Norell, a paleontologist with the American Museum of Natural History in New York who worked in Mongolia in 1990.

"I see it all the time, so it is not anything terribly shocking that some place would have Mongolia fossils for sale," Norell told LiveScience. While other specimens have not provoked attention from the Mongolian government, the nearly complete Tarbosaurus skeleton was too big to pass by unnoticed, he said.?

Paleontologists note that China and other countries have laws similar to Mongolia's that prohibit the export of fossils. However, fossils of Chinese origin are also easily found in the pages of auction catalogs and on eBay.

A watershed case?
The removal of fossils has been a problem for Mongolia during the last 15 to 20 years, amid the "chaos, poverty and corruption" during the country's transition from communism and a planned economy to democracy and a market economy, according to Puntsag Tsagaan, senior adviser to the Mongolian president.

"But now Mongolia has successfully overcome the transition, and it is one of the most fastest growing economies and maturing democracies in this part of the world," Tsagaan told LiveScience.

This loss of dinosaur fossils is likely to be a national priority in the wake of the parliamentary election that took place Thursday, Tsagaan said by email.

Work to that effect has already begun, according to Robert Painter, the Houston-based attorney representing Elbegdorj in the tyrannosaur case.

Elbegdorj has put together a working group to monitor auctions by well-known auction houses and eBay sales in the United States and elsewhere, Painter told LiveScience in an email.

"We hope that vigorous enforcement will help close this global marketplace for illicit fossils smuggled out of Mongolia," Painter wrote.

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C-124A Wreckage On Alaska Glacier Identified As Downed 1952 Air Force Plane

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The wreckage of a military plane found this month on an Alaska glacier is that of an Air Force plane that crashed in 1952, killing all 52 people aboard, military officials said Wednesday.

Army Capt. Jamie Dobson said evidence found at the crash site correlates with the missing C-124A Globemaster, but the military is not eliminating other possibilities because much investigation still needs to be done.

Processing DNA samples from relatives of those on board the plane could take up to six years, Dobson said.

"We're still at the very beginning of this investigation," she said. "This is very close to the starting line, not the finish line."

The Alaska National Guard discovered the wreckage and possibly bones June 10 on Colony Glacier, about 40 miles east of Anchorage. The wreckage was spotted soon after the heavy transport plane vanished Nov. 22, 1952, with 41 passengers and 11 crew members, but it became buried in snow and likely churned beneath the surface of the glacier for decades, Dobson said.

"The ice gives up what it wants to give up when it wants to give it up," she said. "It's really in control."

The plane went down on a flight from McChord Air Force Base in Washington state.

An Associated Press report on Nov. 24, 1952, said the Globemaster was the third big Air Force transport plane to crash or vanish in Alaska that month and the sixth around the Pacific Rim.

Soon after the crash, a 12-member military team tried three times to make it to the site, but was thwarted by bad weather, said Tonja Anderson, whose grandfather Isaac Anderson was among those on board the doomed flight. The 41-year-old Tampa, Fla., woman has researched the crash for 12 years since her grandmother, now deceased, gave her details of the airman who died at age 21, leaving behind a young widow and 1 1/2-year-old son.

"I'm overwhelmed," Anderson said Wednesday about the positive identification. It's something she has tried to long get from the military, she said, only to be told that recovering the remains from the plane's hidden grave was unfeasible and would be too expensive.

"If they can bring me one bone of my grandfather or his dog tag, that would be closure for me," she said.

Days after the Globemaster went down, a member of the Fairbanks Civil Air Patrol, along with a member of the 10th Air Rescue Squadron, landed at a glacier in the area and positively identified the wreckage as the Globemaster.

According to an AP account, the civil air patrol member was Terris Moore, who was president of the University of Alaska. After returning from the site, he told reporters that the plane "obviously was flying at full speed" when it hit Mount Gannett, sliding down the snow-covered cliffs, exploding and disintegrating over two or three acres.

Only the tail and flippers of the craft were intact, but the tail numbers were enough for an identification. Moore said blood was found on a piece of blanket and there was a "sickly-sweet smell of death."

The debris was discovered June 14 while Alaska National Guardsmen were flying a Blackhawk helicopter during a training mission near the glacier. The guardsmen flew over the area several times.

Federal aviation officials implemented temporary flight restrictions over the area while the military investigation was conducted.

An eight-man Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command arrived last week, military officials said. It completed its work Tuesday at the glacier.

The team recovered materials like a life-support system from the wreckage and possible bones from the glacier. The evidence was being taken to the command's lab in Hawaii for analysis.

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Associated Press researcher Susan James in New York contributed to this report.

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Location Name: Crescent City
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Location: Western coastline, located southwest from Goldlight, 40,500 km distance.
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Description: Crescent City is an anti-TCA port city, known for its obvious crescent shape and is built into a small mountain to protect from TCA ground forces. As a resistance-based city, they are generally hostile to any advancements that the TCA brings towards them. However, there has been no proof to connect the city with Resistance Leader Max Rikarius, which has so far kept TCA investigations into the city low. Connected to the southern point is Star Island, which holds the city's guiding lights in and out of the ports.
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Lane Garrison Released From Jail on Bond

Actor Lane Garrison was released from jail Friday after spending more than two months behind bars following his arrest on suspicion of domestic violence.

The 31-year-old posted $50,000 bail and was released.

Garrison was arrested April 22 after allegedly hitting his ex-girlfriend Ashley Mattingly, and has remained in custody since then because he's on parole.

The former Prison Break star was convicted of vehicular manslaughter back in 2007; He pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence last month.

He could spend up to a year behind bars, not to mention even more trouble if a judge determines that the charge was a violation of his parole terms.

His next court hearing is scheduled for July 11.

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The Downstairs
When you walk into the house you enter into a mud room but to enter the and leave the house there is a lock system in which you have to type in a code in which the staff are the only ones to have it. You walk into a hallway to the right there is an open doorway that goes into the kitchen, which has all cupboards locked up to all the patients, its a large room with the kitchen things on the left and to the right as a large table that has 13 chairs. Off of the kitchen is a room that is locked and can only be opened by staff, Patients where never allowed in this room. This was the staff/med room, this was where the staff kept their things and where the medication was locked up, it also had a small bathroom off to the side.

Back into the hallway on the left there are two doors. The first one was to the living room, in the living room there was two couches and two chairs with a tv on the wall with a small shelving with videos and dvds but they are locked up. There was a bookshelf filled with books and a table with a couple chairs. The next room was the activity/day room. This is where most groups and group activities will be, it had a few tables with chairs in it, a shelf with doors that is locked that has different games, activities, and crafts. The stairs are off of this room. The last room is the Treatment room, which is at the end of the hallway and locked, this is where the therapist and doctor meet with each patient during the day.

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When you go up the stairs you first go into a hallway, to your left is the Nurse's room, which is locked, the Nurse lives there 24/7 and have a bathroom connected to it. Next to the nurses room is another hallway that has two rooms which are lockable, these are the safe rooms. Their is one for the girls and one for the boys, the safe rooms are used when a patient is either being a danger to others or themselves. The rooms are bare of anything and actually has padding all around it, there is a light on the ceiling that is actually in a cage looking thing.

Back in the hallway across the hall is the hallway to the bedrooms. The girls on the left and the boys on the right, the rooms start at Girl 5 and Boy 5 and goes down, the first three rooms on each side are found with a bed, nightstand, closet cupboard and dresser. The last rooms are shared by patients girl 1 & 2 and boy 1 & 2, they have two beds, two dressers, two nightstands and two closet cupboards. The bathrooms are found back if you go back out in the hallway and at the end of the hallway you take a left, the boys bathroom is the first room and the girls bathroom is the last room.

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Strong earthquake strikes far west China

BEIJING (AP) ? A strong earthquake has jolted China's Central Asian frontier, shaking buildings and cutting off electricity in the remote mountainous area and sending rescuers in search of casualties.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the Saturday morning quake that hit the Xinjiang region at 6.3 magnitude, while China's Earthquake Networks Center put it at 6.6.

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that residents near the epicenter were shaken out of bed in pre-dawn darkness and that some households lost electricity. It reported that the quake shook buildings 200 kilometers, or 120 miles, to the west in the regional capital, Urumqi.

Xinhua said rescuers are being dispatched to the sparsely populated area to search for casualties.

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Fast work... London Grand Prix bid launches with a star-studded party

Those in attendance included racing superstars such as Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, as well as famous faces such as Phillip Schofield and Rio Ferdinand.

Mr Ecclestone has offered to put up ?35?million to stage the race on a 3.2-mile circuit around landmarks including Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square.

A spokesman for the Mayor said: ?London hosts a vast array of world events and the Mayor is always keen to explore new opportunities to do so, especially if they will create jobs, bring investment and further London?s lead as a world city but we have as yet not received proposals.?

Experts believe the race, watched by 120,000 fans in grandstands, could generate ?100?million for the London economy. Mr Ecclestone said: ?It would be? fantastic ? good for London, good for England ? a lot better than the Olympics.?

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Denver Community College program helps male students help themselves

Ryan Ross says he works "in dreams and visions." But when the dean of students and retention along with other officials at the Community College of Denver were considering creating a program to help male students navigate collegiate life, he knew there were no guarantees of success.

"For some, there's the pride factor, them saying, 'I'm a man, I take care of my own and I'm not gonna ask anybody for help," Ross said. "We have men here who are in dire situations. Maybe they're homeless; maybe they're not eating. We have a food bank but they won't go because they don't want to show weakness.

"They'll say, ' I'm on the campus, but I don't want a pity party.' "

In those cases, Ross continues, the challenge is to help students realize that it's OK to ask for help, whether it's for something as big as something to eat or as seemingly minor as buying the right textbook for class. And for the last few months, one of Ross' flights of fancy, CCD's Urban Male Initiative, has done just that.

The program, which was launched in March, has already started making inroads in helping students deal with life on campus and in areas like professional development. Presently, part of the school's academic advising center, the initiative has been so well received that officials now believe much greater success lies ahead.

"We won't fail," said Leslie McClellon, CCD's vice president of student development. "Within a couple of years, it will be a department of its own."

At any level, college can be a daunting experience. That's especially true in the community college system, where the vast majority of students commute, many of them taking classes while trying to manage jobs and families.

When those pressures become too much, it's often school that suffers, particularly for men. At CCD, for example, fewer than 40 percent of the students are men, and according to McClellon, each year between 33 and 50 percent of them leave.

"That's why this is so important ? we don't want to lose our men," she said. "A lot of them will say there are too many obstacles, too much going on."

And so, even when men are on campus, they often are looking to get off.

"I used to come here for classes and go straight home," said Clenton Tunson, Jr. of Denver, a student at the school. "I never saw what was available. I was doing myself a disservice."

One day this spring, Tunson stuck around long enough for a scholarship meeting that was cancelled. But before he could bolt, someone told him to check out another event ? an Urban Male Initiative meeting.

"It was 2 o'clock on a Friday. I was skeptical," Tunson said. "I didn't know what they were going to ask of me, but I walked in and I haven't left since."

A father of three, Tunson enrolled in school after he was laid off from his job at a mechanical engineering design firm. For a time, he thought it might be better for him to work and let his wife continue school. But his lack of a degree was holding him back from even getting interviewed for jobs, he said. And he also realized that preaching the value of education to his children would ring hollow if he wasn't walking the talk himself.

"Men will drop out and get a job to support their family. But they don't realize it takes both (him and his wife) to finish and get the degree to help them achieve the life that they want," McClellon said. "This program is a way to wrap our arms around them and say, 'This is for you. Let us help you get through the hard times and get to that end result.' "

Typical of those efforts is the two-week summer bridge program Urban Male Initiative is offering to its students next month. The first week will be spent on academics ? "How do you study?" Ross said. "When you pick up a book, how do you read it?"

In the second week, the participants will work on their leadership skills, with part of the curriculum listening to real-life stories from members of the Denver community.

"We don't want the fluff leadership speech ? we want to know, how did you fail and how did you get up?" Ross said. "We want to really give the students that push, to say I have to keep going because here's somebody who's a role model and they've had pitfalls and they were able to get up."

Even in Ross' perfect world, there will still be stumbles. But those who fall won't have to worry about scrambling back to their feet alone.

"When it's graduation day," he said, "We'll walk across the stage together ? all of us, not just some of us."

Anthony Cotton: 303-954-1292 or acotton@denverpost.com

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Yet another Super Powered Roleplay

The Human Race has been around for longer than most know, and most of this time, they have been oblivious to each other?s differences. They continue on with their lives as if nothing is going on around them. However, some of them are different. They have abilities that most can?t fathom; the ability to heal, the ability to fly, the ability to control the elements, and so much more. Most of the people know that they?re different, but most don?t let on about it. If they did, they would be seen as insane, and if they made it obvious, they would be feared. Some are so secretive about it that they could be sitting next to one another and never even know it. However, this will all change soon.

Over the past five months alone, there have been countless attacks on the east coast. From Florida to New Jersey, millions are dead, and even more are injured or have gone mysteriously insane. Entire cities have been destroyed. The government has told everyone that these attacks are a result of terrorism. They have joined up with an anti terrorist organization (Commonly referred to as ?The Corporation.?) in an attempt to end these attacks. They have even closed down all airports. Anyone in the US is staying here.

However, those with powers are beginning to realize that these terrorists are more than just terrorists. They have powers too. How else could any of this be happening? Maybe normal humans choose to be oblivious, but those who know better can no longer ignore this. Soon they?ll have no choice3 but to join together and fight back. If they don?t? everything that they know, they?re loved ones, family, friends, will all be gone. But who are they? And if they don?t know, how will they ever join together, let alone defeat those who are undoubtedly stronger than they are?
I?m trying something different for this RP. If your character doesn?t know something, there is a good chance that you don?t wither. As a result, this RP will require who are willing to PM a lot in the beginning.

This also probably won?t start for around another month. I just need to know if anyone would be interested.

Here are the absolute minimum roles I?m looking for:
1 Government agent (More interesting role then it seems)
1 Corporation agent (MUCH more interesting role then it seems)
4 Citizens with powers
4 Terrorists
2 Citizens without powers

I do however want more characters than this. Anyone can be more than one character

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GOP Frames Contempt Vote Around Justice for Brian Terry

by Mary Chastain 28 Jun 2012, 2:57 PM PDT post a comment

Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was the center of GOP focus. Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa put up a poster of Brian. Agent Terry is the motivation to find out the truth about Fast & Furious; the Terry family has been grieving for 18 months trying to find answers to Brian's death.

Issa wants to know: Who thought of this operation? Who approved it? How far up did it go on the command chain?

The Democrats were concerned that the GOP was playing politics. Democrats said little or nothing about Brian Terry, only a few even bothered mentioning him before they spewed out their typical liberal talking points to protect Mr. Holder.

The victims of Fast & Furious are what matter in this case.

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When we initially did our Nook Tablet / Kindle Fire battle royal, the choice between the devices for comics fans largely came down to the preference between the Marvel and DC universes. The lines, however, are blurring. Thanks to today's announcement, Justice League fans should find as much to love in the Nook Tablet and Color as Avengers devotees. DC has brought more than 100 graphic novels to the aforementioned devices and Android tablets running the Nook app. Barnes & Noble also used the opportunity to announce the new Zoom View feature, which lets readers focus on individual panels -- functionality that sounds fairly similar to what Comixology offers in its own popular app. For more information about Crisis on Infinite Nooks, check out the press release after the break.

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How much would our health benefit from leaving the car at home?

Public release date: 27-Jun-2012
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FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

This study has been published in the European Journal of Public Health

A new study confirms that doing short journeys on foot rather than taking the car or motorbike would avoid the death of 108 men and 79 women a year in Catalonia alone. This would imply annual savings of more than 200 million euros.

Researchers from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB), headed by Catherine Prez from the Healthcare Information Systems Service, have estimated the yearly economic benefits from a reduction in death rates by substituting at least one short vehicle journey for a walk.

The authors conducted a cross-sectional study based on Catalonia's Mobility Survey performed by the Generalitat and the Metropolitan Transport Agency in 2006 which documents the journeys of more than one hundred thousand people.

Then, 80,552 individuals over 17 years of age who did at least one journey were selected and researchers calculated the number of men and women who did not meet daily physical exercise recommendations but travelled by car or motorbike for journeys up to five minutes long.

In order to calculate the annual economic benefits, the 'Health Economic Evaluation Tool (HEAT)' was used. It was designed by the WHO and estimates the benefits of reduced mortality by increasing physical exercise.

For their economic estimations, as set out by HEAT, the researchers took in account certain parameters: 150 minutes walked each week, a relative risk of 0.78 for all deaths linked to walking half an hour a day, a mortality rate in Spain of 21,349 deaths per 100,000 people between the ages of 20 and 49 years and a statistical value of a person's life of 1,300,000 according to the "willingness to pay" methodology.

This study has been published in the European Journal of Public Health and its results reveal that 77.2% of men and 67.7% of women in Catalonia do not reach recommended daily amounts of physical exercise when walking.

"However, 15.6% and 13.9% respectively would reach recommendations if they were to substitute at least one short, 5 minute vehicle journey," as explained to SINC by Marta Olabarria, lead author of the study.

When applied to the population of Catalonia, this would mean that 326,557 men and 252,509 women would meet recommendations. According to the estimations made using HEAT, this new form of physical activity would avoid 108.4 deaths in men and 79.2 in women. In turn, this would bring about savings of 124,216,000 and 84,927,000 respectively.

Walking is a sport

Through the Global Strategy on Diet Physical Activity and Health, the WHO states that it is necessary to do at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise per week. Walking to get around is considered a moderate physical activity and is perfect to meet exercise recommendations.

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Reference:

Marta Olabarria, Katherine Prez, Elena Santamaria-Rubio, Ana M Novoa, Francesca Racioppi. "Health impact of motorised trips that could be replaced by walking". European Journal of Public Health, 1-6, junio de 2011.

Contact:
Marta Olabarria
Servei de Sistemes d'Informaci Sanitria (SESIS)
Agncia de Salut Pblica de Barcelona
Tel. : 93 202 77 96 - Email: molabarr@aspb.cat

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Public release date: 27-Jun-2012
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Contact: SINC
info@agenciasinc.es
34-914-251-820
FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

This study has been published in the European Journal of Public Health

A new study confirms that doing short journeys on foot rather than taking the car or motorbike would avoid the death of 108 men and 79 women a year in Catalonia alone. This would imply annual savings of more than 200 million euros.

Researchers from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB), headed by Catherine Prez from the Healthcare Information Systems Service, have estimated the yearly economic benefits from a reduction in death rates by substituting at least one short vehicle journey for a walk.

The authors conducted a cross-sectional study based on Catalonia's Mobility Survey performed by the Generalitat and the Metropolitan Transport Agency in 2006 which documents the journeys of more than one hundred thousand people.

Then, 80,552 individuals over 17 years of age who did at least one journey were selected and researchers calculated the number of men and women who did not meet daily physical exercise recommendations but travelled by car or motorbike for journeys up to five minutes long.

In order to calculate the annual economic benefits, the 'Health Economic Evaluation Tool (HEAT)' was used. It was designed by the WHO and estimates the benefits of reduced mortality by increasing physical exercise.

For their economic estimations, as set out by HEAT, the researchers took in account certain parameters: 150 minutes walked each week, a relative risk of 0.78 for all deaths linked to walking half an hour a day, a mortality rate in Spain of 21,349 deaths per 100,000 people between the ages of 20 and 49 years and a statistical value of a person's life of 1,300,000 according to the "willingness to pay" methodology.

This study has been published in the European Journal of Public Health and its results reveal that 77.2% of men and 67.7% of women in Catalonia do not reach recommended daily amounts of physical exercise when walking.

"However, 15.6% and 13.9% respectively would reach recommendations if they were to substitute at least one short, 5 minute vehicle journey," as explained to SINC by Marta Olabarria, lead author of the study.

When applied to the population of Catalonia, this would mean that 326,557 men and 252,509 women would meet recommendations. According to the estimations made using HEAT, this new form of physical activity would avoid 108.4 deaths in men and 79.2 in women. In turn, this would bring about savings of 124,216,000 and 84,927,000 respectively.

Walking is a sport

Through the Global Strategy on Diet Physical Activity and Health, the WHO states that it is necessary to do at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise per week. Walking to get around is considered a moderate physical activity and is perfect to meet exercise recommendations.

###

Reference:

Marta Olabarria, Katherine Prez, Elena Santamaria-Rubio, Ana M Novoa, Francesca Racioppi. "Health impact of motorised trips that could be replaced by walking". European Journal of Public Health, 1-6, junio de 2011.

Contact:
Marta Olabarria
Servei de Sistemes d'Informaci Sanitria (SESIS)
Agncia de Salut Pblica de Barcelona
Tel. : 93 202 77 96 - Email: molabarr@aspb.cat

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