《中国民航报》、中国民航网 记者贾璞瑜 通讯员许凌馨、王智颖 报道:近日,由厦航国旅打造的“绿野象踪”西双版纳生态科考营圆满落幕。该科考营是厦航与中国绿化基金会携手开展的亚洲象保护及特色少数民族村寨赋能项目的衍生文旅产品,标志着厦航“公益+文旅”深度融合模式正式落地,为亚洲象保护和乡村振兴协同发展提供了新路径。 据悉,2025年厦航依托“绿色未来”生态守护行动启动该合作项目,将社会责任与ESG理念融入企业发展,推动公益实践与市场化运营有机结合。项目聚焦亚洲象保护与乡村振兴协同推进,资金投入重点用于村寨科普长廊建设、乡村旅游讲解员专项培训等领域,着力提升当地乡村旅游文化内涵,扩大亚洲象保护社区宣传覆盖面,助力打造乡村旅游示范村,建设亚洲象分布区域乡村社区生计转型示范点,有效缓解人象争地矛盾、缓和人象冲突,实现濒危物种保护与乡村社区可持续发展的双赢。 作为项目重要成果,“绿野象踪”西双版纳生态科考营顺利完成行程。活动以亚洲象保护为主线,组织参与者深入西双版纳亚洲象自然保护区,开展生态保护调研、公益科普课堂、“象迹追踪”科考、雨林徒步体验等特色环节,将生态保护、生物多样性保护与民族文化传承有机结合,让参与者在沉浸式体验中践行绿色理念、传播生态责任。 (厦航供图) 作为深耕绿色发展、积极践行ESG理念的航空企业,厦航始终将社会责任融入企业发展全局,坚持“公益项目开路、商业合作跟进”的创新模式,以公益行动带动当地特色旅游资源联动置换,推动企业社会责任与商业价值协同提升,让生态公益在市场化运作中实现长效可持续。此次行动既是厦航“绿色未来”生态守护行动的重要延伸,也是企业以航空优势赋能生态保护、助力乡村振兴的生动实践。未来,厦航将持续探索生态保护、文化传承、乡村振兴与市场化运营协同路径,带动更多旅客、合作伙伴共同参与到生态守护中。(编辑:许浩存 校对:李佳洹 审核:韩磊)
5月20日,中国垒球协会第九次会员代表大会暨第九届理事会第一次会议在浙江绍兴举行,中国垒球协会副会长李富生代表协会向退休多年的国际级裁判员孙伯杰老爷子颁发了世界棒垒球联合会垒球名人堂奖章。 颁奖现场,全体主席台成员和与会代表以集体起立的方式和经久不息的掌声向这位老爷子表达了最为热烈的祝贺和最为崇高的敬意! 孙伯杰曾担任四届中国垒球协会裁判员委员会主任、还曾担任裁委会顾问。1974年开始从事垒球裁判工作,是中国最早的国际级垒球裁判员之一,曾执裁1984年、1994年两届世界垒球锦标赛,以及1990年、1998年、2002年、2010年四届亚运会,一直致力于推动中国垒球裁判事业发展,为培育青年裁判员、提高垒球裁判水平做出了突出贡献。 2022年7月5日,世界棒垒球联合会宣布新入选垒球名人堂的人员名单,孙伯杰成功入选(同时入选的还有中国著名运动员李念敏和王丽红)。时隔近两年,见证着几十年付出与奉献的沉甸甸的奖章终于颁发到了老爷子手中。 虽然获知入选的消息已近两年,但是在接受本网记者采访时,孙伯杰还是心情非常激动:“我是怀着感恩的心情接受了协会颁发的世界垒球名人堂奖章,这是对我从事半个世纪棒垒球裁判工作的认可,光荣属于全国的垒球运动工作者。” 随后,孙伯杰连续用了五个“感谢”表达了自己的感恩之心:“感谢体育总局曾经主管棒垒球运动的各位主管领导,谢朝权、姜英、杨超、胡加时、吕志华、陈旭、王彤、杨旭以及中国垒球协会全体同志对我的提携和培养!感谢恩师梁友德、李启腾等棒垒球队训练裁判前辈的引领和教导(他们很多人己不在人世)。感谢目前在负责工作的垒球裁判邵年、李哲、张健、邢丽莎、贾阿丽等同志在本人担任四届裁委会主任期间给予的工作支持配合。感谢各省市棒垒队多年来对裁判工作的理解支持,使我近50年的裁判工作顺利圆满!感谢我的家人的支持和理解!” 虽然已经退休多年,但是孙伯杰依然在关心着中国垒球的发展:“我衷心希望棒垒界同仁在新一届协会领导下,齐心一致,团结努力,为中国垒球运动走向世界前列做出贡献!”
中化新网讯 3月20日,巴西总统卢拉正式签署法案,扩大对本国化工及石化生产商的税收减免政策,将关键生产原料的税负削减超六成,以应对中东冲突引发的原料成本上涨压力。 该法案于3月20日在官方公报发布,对化工行业专项税收优惠制度(REIQ)进行扩容,符合条件的原材料相关社保与工业产品税抵扣比例从0.73%提升至5.8%。2026年该政策的财政预算将从11亿雷亚尔增至31亿雷亚尔;2026至2031年,化工专项税收优惠与配套投资激励计划合计优惠规模将达180亿雷亚尔。 巴西副总统兼发展部长阿尔克明在圣保罗签署仪式上表示,此次政策出台时机经过审慎考量。他指出,受地区冲突影响,天然气及化工原料价格持续攀升,联邦政府此时下调化工原料税负旨在提升行业竞争力,吸引投资与创新合作,推动能源效率升级。 该政策迅速获得行业积极响应。墨西哥化工企业阿尔佩克巴西区经理Jorge Villanueva称,此次签署的法案是支持化工企业的历史性举措,但核心仍在于后续落地。他表示,该项税收优惠能减轻基础化工与石化原料税负,提振本土生产、盘活闲置产能、稳定就业,强化巴西在全球产业链中的地位,尤其在当前地缘紧张、经济不确定、供应链承压、能源与原料市场波动的背景下意义重大。
Aviation safety does not stop at Europe’s borders. Through a wide range of technical cooperation projects, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) works with international partners to strengthen aviation safety and sustainability standards across the globe. EASA has just launched a series of pages in a brand-new layout, to make it easier to follow the initiatives and development actions under way in the various regions of the world. As a regulatory authority itself, EASA brings practical experience and technical knowledge to its cooperation activities. This allows the Agency to understand the challenges faced by regional aviation authorities, and to facilitate collaboration between regulators, industry and international organisations. EASA develops and implements major civil aviation cooperation projects in close partnership with the European Commission, EU Member States and European industry stakeholders. These technical collaboration initiatives are mainly funded by the European Union, and focus on delivering practical and sustainable solutions, which are tailored to the needs of partner countries and regions outside Europe. The demand for the Agency’s expertise has steadily increased as more non-EU countries seek to align their regulations with EASA’s internationally recognised standards. This also strengthens their aviation oversight systems. EASA also works closely with international organisations, including the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), contributing to global initiatives such as the No Country Left Behind (NCLB) programme. Through the Technical cooperation projects, EASA supports national and regional aviation authorities in strengthening their regulatory and oversight capabilities. The range of activities delivered is very wide and is tailored to the local environment; some examples include: developing aviation safety regulations aligned with ICAO or EU standards, delivering training for aviation authority inspectors and deploying tools that enhance safety reporting. Technical cooperation projects are implemented in close collaboration with local authorities and stakeholders to ensure lasting impact. By supporting stronger aviation systems around the world, EASA’s technical cooperation initiatives contribute to safer and more sustainable air transport globally. In addition, it protects the European citizens and the competitiveness of European aviation as it operates internationally.
Captain Arvind Sharma sadly passed away recently. His journey shows how it is possible to change the lives of so many through sailing. When he first encountered World Sailing’s Inclusive Development Programme (IDP), he was openly unsure about the purpose, the practicality, and even the value of inclusive sailing. He questioned whether it was relevant to his sailors, his club, or the wider ecosystem in India. And honestly, that hesitation wasn’t unusual. Many leaders in emerging sailing nations share those doubts before they see, first-hand, what inclusion really delivers. But in 2023, Arvind attended the IDP in Singapore and something shifted. Throughout the week, he found himself challenged, inspired, and ultimately reshaped by the course content, the coaching approach, the athlete stories, and the vision behind Para Inclusive Sailing. After the course, he offered a quote that captured the turning point in his own thinking: “The best thing about the course: the inclusion – the amount and range of content seamlessly, smoothly, and simply delivered in a way that was accessible to sailors and non-sailors. Bridging the previous gap between ‘ability’ and ‘disability’ sailing to make inclusive sailing accessible to all. The way the WS course was delivered – with passion, highest level awe-inspiring expertise, and empathy – nobody was left behind.” It didn’t stop there. In 2024, Arvind didn’t just talk about the IDP – he acted on it. He sent his sailors. He sent his coaches. He invested in the movement, exposing his entire team to the same learning curve he experienced. And they came home inspired, motivated, and ready to take the next step, which for India was to host the first ever Para Inclusive National Championship in their newly acquired Hansa boats. Then, in 2025, he took the biggest leap of all: He hosted the Asian Inclusive Sailing Series (AISS) at the Royal Mysore Sailing Club. An event involving 13 nations, dozens of Para and Inclusive sailors, international coaches, and a level of visibility India had never seen in this space before. Arvind and his team didn’t just deliver the event – they delivered it with pride, intention, and a belief in the mission that would have been unrecognisable just two years earlier. This transformation, from scepticism to full-scale leadership, is the strongest proof we have of the power of the IDP. It changes attitudes. It grows capability. It builds pathways. And it empowers local leaders to create opportunity where none existed. Arvind’s journey shows what happens when an open mind meets the right support system. It’s a story of change, courage, and commitment, and it represents exactly what the Para Inclusive movement is striving for: World Sailing is proud to support leaders like Captain Arvind – and even prouder of how he has shaped the future for inclusive sailors across India and the wider Asian region. To lose him so suddenly is a tragedy, but we firmly believe that his legacy will live on as Para Inclusive Sailing grows, and inspire more people to carry forward his vision. For more information on the Inclusive Development Programme, including how to host, please visit the Para & Inclusive Sailing Development section of the World Sailing website.
《中国民航报》、中国民航网 记者张丰蘩 通讯员贺亚炜、苏增蓉 报道:记者从首都机场了解到,2026年3月29日零时起,首都机场将正式执行夏航季航班计划。新航季,首都机场预计日均执行航班量为1305架次,同比增加4.6%,环比提高5.0%。 国内市场方面,首都机场将新开嘉兴、汉中2条航线,季节性新增敦煌、岳阳、六盘水航线,同时进一步加密成都、重庆、长沙、西安、昆明、乌鲁木齐等国内航线。值得一提的是,3月29日,首都机场将联合国航、西部机场集团共同推出北京首都—西安快线,每日单向班次增至10班,快线旅客可在机场地面服务、客票签转、机上餐食及会员奖励等方面享受多项专属权益。 (本文图片均由首都机场提供) 国际市场方面,首都机场将新增直飞印度德里的国际航线,陆续加密布鲁塞尔、伊斯坦布尔、都柏林、爱丁堡、哥本哈根、斯德哥尔摩、布达佩斯、日内瓦、维也纳、罗马、伦敦等十余条欧洲航线,持续增加首都机场至首尔、曼谷、济州、海参崴、平壤、阿拉木图等亚洲航线的频次。 根据新航季航空市场的运行特点,国航在首都机场运营的部分国内航班所在航站楼将同步进行调整,其中延安、阜阳、乌兰浩特、井冈山、衢州等9个航点将从2号航站楼转到3号航站楼运营;泸州、宜昌、盐城3个航点将从3号航站楼转到2号航站楼运营。乌兹别克斯坦航空公司、国航飞往法兰克福的部分航班将转场至大兴机场。 针对2026年夏航季航班运行特点,同时综合考虑国际国内政策形势发展、航空市场环境变化以及航空公司航线网络调整等因素,首都机场将提前评估高峰时段保障能力,及时调整资源配置,切实做好重点岗位、重点时段、重要设备的检查和安全风险评估。结合夏季高温、雷雨、大风频发等天气特点,首都机场将持续加强与航司、空管、地服等单位的协同联动,完善航班保障方案和应急处置预案,做好人员培训演练,做好航班正常和服务工作协同,让旅客出行更加顺畅。(编辑:许浩存 校对:李佳洹 审核:韩磊)
3月23日,山东省教育厅发布《关于拟申报高校设置事项的公示》。根据《中华人民共和国高等教育法》《普通本科学校设置暂行规定》等法律法规和有关政策规定,现对拟申报的空天信息大学设置事项予以公示。 学校官网介绍,空天信息大学(英文全称:Aerospace Information Technology University,英文缩写:AITech)是正在筹建中的山东省属公办普通本科高校,由山东省人民政府主办,纳入山东省高等学校设置“十四五”规划,是我国第一所以“空天信息”命名的高等院校。学校按照“高起点、小而精、研究型、国际化”的原则,努力建设一所空天信息特色鲜明、产学研用一体化发展的新型研究型大学。 学校驻地济南市章丘区,校园规划建设用地约1100亩、建筑面积64.7万平方米。学校在信息与通信工程、电子科学与技术、遥感科学与技术、空间科学与技术、导航工程、光子科学等重大创新领域积极布局,争取取得重大原创性成果、建设国家级科研平台,切实提升服务国家发展战略的创新能力。 学校深入落实教育、科技、人才“三位一体”协同发展要求,深化教育链、创新链、人才链、产业链贯通融合,锚定“五个一流”的目标任务(一流的理工类大学、一流的人才高地、一流的科研创新平台、一流的学术交流平台、一流的产业发展高地),奋力建设国内乃至世界一流大学,为加快建设教育强国、科技强国、航天强国,实现中华民族伟大复兴作出贡献。
由亚洲旅游交流中心和香港旅游业议会联合主办的2026“欢乐春节”港澳地区文化和旅游推广月27日在港启动。活动上,亚洲旅游交流中心同步发布第一批“一程多站”入境旅游精品线路,并展示国家文化和旅游部面向全球推出的2026年“欢乐春节”吉祥物“吉祥马”,为即将到来的农历新春增添了浓厚的文化气息与欢庆色彩。 亚洲旅游交流中心主任张栋在仪式上致辞表示,2025年港澳文旅市场势头强劲,与内地文旅交流不断加深,传统文化魅力不减,新的科技打卡点人潮涌动,文旅融合发展成效显著。亚洲旅游交流中心将继续与港澳业界合作,服务国家旅游强国战略。 香港特区政府旅游事务专员张冯泳萍表示,香港作为中外文化艺术交流中心,有丰富的旅游资源和国际化的优势。2025年全年访港旅客数字约为4990万人次,较2024年上升12%,多个海外市场增长显著。特区政府将继续善用自身优势,拓展多元旅游资源,吸引更多旅客来港。 活动现场,国家文化和旅游部面向全球推出的2026年“欢乐春节”吉祥物“吉祥马”亮相。“吉祥马”以东汉铜奔马——马踏飞燕为设计灵感,借鉴唐代五花马的鬃毛装饰手法,主色采用中国红,辅以祥云纹、如意纹等经典传统纹样,体现中国春节温暖、喜庆的氛围。 此外,亚洲旅游交流中心紧扣“文旅融合、主题鲜明、区域联动”设计核心,正式推出10条“一程多站”入境旅游精品线路。精准锚定港澳作为国际旅游枢纽的独特优势,以港澳为全球旅客重要门户与中转节点。10条线路涵盖长江文明、黄河文明、大运河文明等五大文化脉络,整合京津冀、江浙沪、黑吉辽等区域文旅产业集群,同时聚焦熊猫家乡、世界屋脊等全球知名文旅IP,深度串联内地全域优质文旅资源,为港澳地区和全球游客提供高品质入境旅游选择。 “欢乐春节”活动由国家文化和旅游部主办,自2001年起已连续举办25年。本次港澳地区推广月活动,作为“欢乐春节”全球系列活动的重要组成部分,标志着2026年港澳地区文旅推广工作全面启幕。(来源:新华社)
为深入贯彻落实省公司安全生产工作部署,切实强化加油站施工安全管理,有效防范化解动火、受限空间、临时用电等各类施工安全风险,3月24日,中国石化湖北孝感石油分公司专项组织开展加油站施工项目HSE专题培训,以精准培训夯实项目施工安全根基,为辖区加油站安全、绿色、有序施工筑牢坚实保障。 本次培训紧密结合孝感地区加油站施工实际,聚焦辖区内站级改造、设备升级等项目高频作业场景,围绕安全管理规范、风险精准防控、隐患闭环排查、应急高效处置四大核心要点展开。培训内容紧扣加油站施工中占比高、风险大的动火作业、受限空间作业、临时用电作业、吊装作业等关键环节,细化作业许可办理、现场隔离防护、风险辨识流程等实操要求,确保培训内容贴合孝感石油一线施工需求。 培训中,孝感石油结合省内外加油站施工典型事故案例,深入剖析事故成因、暴露的管理漏洞及整改措施,通过图文解析、现场复盘等形式深化警示教育,让参培人员直观认识违规作业的严重后果。同时,针对孝感地区施工项目多、涉及第三方施工单位多的特点,进一步压实加油站主体责任、施工单位直接责任及现场监管人员监管责任,明确各方在施工全流程的安全职责边界。 此次培训覆盖了施工负责人、现场安全员、作业班组长及核心施工人员等群体,通过理论讲解、案例剖析、互动答疑相结合的方式,全面提升参培人员的安全红线意识与岗位履职能力。参训人员纷纷表示,培训内容接地气、实用性强,不仅厘清了施工安全操作要点,更掌握了风险防控与应急处置技能,为后续施工安全开展提供了有力支撑。 下一步,中国石化孝感公司将以此次培训为契机,持续深化施工HSE管理体系落地,常态化开展施工安全专项检查与隐患排查治理,推广“一书两卡”等实用管理方法,确保每一个加油站施工项目都严格遵循安全规范,实现安全、绿色、有序推进,为孝感地区成品油保供与安全运营保驾护航。
近日,国际标准化组织(ISO)正式发布国际标准《可持续旅游 旅游价值链组织指标 使用要求与指南》(ISO 18060:2026)(以下简称《指南》)。在文化和旅游部组织协调下,该标准由中国与巴西联合提案,于2022年正式立项,历经三年多完成研制并发布。据悉,这是金砖合作机制框架下,首个由金砖国家共同推动形成的旅游领域国际标准。 《指南》为各类组织提供衡量可持续发展绩效的统一指标体系和实施方法,适用于希望通过落实可持续发展理念提升经营质量与社会责任的旅游企业、目的地管理机构及相关服务提供方。从环境、社会、经济三个维度,构建了一套可度量、可对比、可执行的通用指标框架,旨在提升各类组织推动可持续发展绩效,为目的地保护作出贡献,并满足日益增长的“负责任旅游”实践需求,推动可持续管理从“做了什么”向“产生了什么成效”转变。 《指南》文本由引言以及7章技术内容构成,主要包括可持续旅游指标的构建方法。如,环境维度、社会维度、经济维度的相关指标等。在应用层面,《指南》提供了计算公式、计数规则与数据来源等指引。
封关后首列! 3月18日,海南自贸港全岛封关后的首个铁路出岛班列从海口铁路口岸发车,驶向广州国际港。该班列承运的货物为中国石化海南炼化加工增值后的海关监管类化工产品,由中石化化工物流有限公司协同中国铁路广州局集团有限公司进行物流运输,标志着海南、广东两地间再添一条高效、稳定、绿色的物流大通道。 优化运输成本,提升产品市场竞争力。通过铁路班列规模化运输,中国石化海南炼化产品的出岛运输时间由传统的5天缩短至2.5天,有效提升产品周转效率和市场响应速度。同时,依托封关运作下“二线口岸”海关加工增值免关税政策,能够进一步释放海南炼化加工增值业务潜力,增强产品在海南岛外市场的竞争力。 构建物流动脉,助力自贸港产业集聚。铁路班列的高效稳定运行为海南化工、制造等产业提供了可靠的出岛通道,助力自贸港产业链供应链稳定运行。同时,该模式充分发挥封关政策优势,推动“加工增值免关税”政策红利加快转化为实际物流效能,可吸引更多企业依托海南布局加工制造业务,提升自贸港产业集聚效应和辐射带动能力。
As an English teacher in 2016, I spent a summer in the archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society learning about abolition and women’s suffrage efforts. I held original bills of sale of young Black girls from the 1840s in my hands, and I left inspired to teach high school juniors about the legacy of enslavement. Another summer, I looked at 160-year-old whip indentations on the sides of live oak trees in Savannah, Georgia, as I learned how the Gullah/Geechee people have protected their African linguistic, culinary and spiritual traditions since the time of enslavement, due to their relative isolation in the Sea Islands off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. NEH summer teacher institutes helped me explore how Black people have fought to carve a future for themselves. I had these opportunities thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which supports universities and museums across the United States in creating courses for K-12 teachers in which they learn historical concepts they can take back to their classrooms. The institutes gave me hands-on experiences and far more context for books on the American literature list, like “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” I fear other teachers will not receive such opportunities, as these transformative programs are now in danger. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. Alongside a series of drastic cuts, the NEH has announced funding for a new round of grants linked to more conservative thinking, and NEH’s website recently announced that it is only interested in “U.S. history more generally.” It noted that NEH-funded programs cannot promote a particular ideological point of view or “preference some groups at the expense of others.” Gone are popular race-based teacher education programs such as “Sailing to Freedom: New Bedford and the Underground Railroad” and “The Immigrant Experience in California Through Literature and History.” The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has slashed NEH’s $210 million budget and redirected that money for the federal government’s proposed Garden of Heroes, where future visitors will stroll through lush lawns to peer up at 250 life-size sculptures. The irony? One of the Americans slated to be featured in the Garden of Heroes is Araminta Ross, most commonly known as Harriet Tubman. Even if her likeness is created with a hammer and chisel, the U.S. government has been quietly undermining the history she represents by removing funding for people to learn about some of the very people it hopes to carve into monuments. Honoring her with a statue means little if we simultaneously erase her from classrooms and public memory. Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in 3 cities Some state legislatures and local school boards throughout the U.S. are taking cues from the federal government by curtailing discussions of race and Black history in classrooms, under the guise of avoiding “divisive topics” or protecting the comfort of white children. Teachers in these districts will no longer have access to federally or state-funded professional learning about more expansive histories, even though teachers like me can attest to how the federally funded NEH summer institutes helped us deepen our students’ understanding of historical events. These cuts and changes are misguided and dangerous. They erase the diverse and complex history of the United States, undermine democracy through silencing marginalized voices and misinforming the public, and harm Black and Latine students through a lack of representation in their curriculums. They also doom future generations to repeat mistakes of the past, because if we do not learn about the harms of anti-Black structures like Jim Crow, redlining and mass incarceration, we risk reincarnating those legacies under different names. In the absence of NEH support, we must find our own ways to enrich students’ understanding. Teachers — particularly Black teachers — have long found ways to show their students the value of comprehending complex histories so that we can shift from a public that profits from Black suffering to one that invests in Black life. As a research scholar, I study how Black teachers who teach social justice often find themselves teaching fugitively, employing subversive ways of talking about histories that are ignored or erased in mainstream teaching. Professor Jarvis Givens framed this concept in “Fugitive Pedagogy.” He opens the book with the story of history teacher Tessie McGee, who in 1933 was instructed by Louisiana’s all-white Department of Education to teach from the mandated curriculum, which was required to be openly displayed on her desk. Instead, McGee often taught passages from a book hidden in her lap. That book was by Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black history. As the federal government continues removing funding, we look for hope and resistance. Last summer, several of the cut NEH teacher summer institutes either rallied for private funding or taught their seminars virtually, refusing to let the federal government erase these histories. Today, academic groups, including the American Historical Association, are fighting the NEH budget cuts in the courts. Building monuments isn’t a substitute for accountability. A statue cannot teach or inspire growth, but education, especially the story of Black resistance practices, can do both. Historical figures like Harriet Tubman don’t just need monuments; they need people to understand why they are monumental. Jessica Lee Stovall is an assistant professor of African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the director of The SoulFolk Collective. Contact the opinion editor at opinion@hechingerreport.org. 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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford today announced a new measure to enhance safety in areas where helicopters often cross both arrival and departure paths near busy airports. The general notice (GENOT), which suspends the use of visual separation between airplanes and helicopters, now mandates that air traffic controllers will instead use radar to actively manage these aircraft to keep them separated at specific lateral or vertical distances. This upgraded safety protocol is based on a year-long review by the FAA’s safety team that used innovative tools to review cross-traffic data and review incident reports. “The tragedy over the Potomac one year ago revealed a startling truth: years of warning signs were missed, and the FAA needed dire reform. Since then, we’ve implemented numerous changes to protect the skies over our capital and keep the traveling public safe,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “But the job isn’t done. Using innovative data analysis, the safety team at the FAA has identified the need for enhanced protocols at all airports across the National Airspace System. The Trump Administration will continue to act decisively to keep you and your family safe when you fly.” “Today, we are proactively mitigating risks before they affect the traveling public,” said FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford. “Following the mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), we looked at similar operations across the national airspace. We identified an overreliance on pilot ‘see and avoid’ operations that contribute to safety events involving helicopters and airplanes.” Visual separation occurs when air traffic controllers advise pilots about nearby aircraft and allow them to remain visually clear of the other aircraft, in lieu of standard separation. The FAA’s data analysis revealed for high-traffic areas, visual separation was not enough of a safety mitigation tool. Recent examples include: On Friday, Feb. 27, American Airlines Flight 1657 was cleared to land at San Antonio International Airport in Texas when a police helicopter was flying through the airport’s final approach path. The helicopter and aircraft were on converging courses when the helicopter made a left-hand turn to avoid the American Airlines flight. On Monday, March 2, a Beechcraft 99 was cleared to land at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Southern California and conflicted with a helicopter that was flying through the final approach path. The aircraft were on converging courses when the helicopter made a right-hand turn to avoid the Beechcraft. The FAA’s latest GENOT suspends visual separation in Class B and Class C airspace, and Terminal Radar Service Areas (TRSA). Where helicopters cross airport arrival or departure paths, air traffic controllers will use radar to keep the aircraft specific lateral or vertical distances apart. Following the DCA midair collision, the FAA began using innovative AI tools to evaluate airports nationwide with high volumes of mixed helicopter and airplane traffic and is implementing appropriate safety mitigations. Many helicopter operators who are used to obtaining immediate approval to transit through certain areas may have to adjust their flight routes or be delayed while controllers ensure they maintain safe distance from other aircraft. When helicopter pilots, conducting urgent medical or LEO missions, request to fly through these heavy-traffic areas, airline operations to those airports may be disrupted in order to allow these missions priority clearance. Reminder: TIMELINE OF ACTIONS TAKEN AT DCA SINCE JAN. 29, 2025: January 2025: Restricted helicopter traffic in the area over the Potomac River around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and stretching to Wilson Bridge February 2025: Began reviewing other airports with high volumes of mixed helicopter and airplane traffic February 2025: Temporarily eliminated the use of visual separation between helicopters and fixed wing aircraft by DCA. March 2025: NTSB Issued two Safety Recommendations to the FAA March 2025: Established procedures to eliminate helicopter and fixed-wing mixed traffic near the airport March 2025: Amended local air traffic procedures to eliminate the use of visual separation between helicopters and fixed wing aircraft within 5 miles of the airport. March 2025: Permanently closed Route 4 between Hains Point and the Wilson Bridge March 2025: Revised agreements with the military to require ADS-B Out broadcasting April 2025: Increased support, oversight and staffing for the DCA air traffic control team May 2025: Discontinued operations from the Pentagon (JPN) until the FAA and DOW updated procedures and fixed technical issues at the Pentagon Heliport June 2025: Secretary Duffy announced support for an independent audit by the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (DOT OIG) June 2025: Published modifications to helicopter zones and routes moving them farther away from flight paths at the airport. June 2025: Conducted Safety Risk Management (SRM) panel on changes to DCA Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) 7110.2L (SRM document approved July 2025). October 2025: Updated Helicopter routes and zones at DCA, IAD and BWI. October 2025: Use Time Based Flow Management (TBFM) departure scheduling at Washington Center and the supporting facilities using the DCA Extended Departure Scheduling System. January 2026: Published an Interim Final Rule that permanently restricts helicopters and powered-lift aircraft from operating in certain areas near DCA, unless it is for essential operations.
Most annotation pipelines still treat disagreement as something to eliminate. Multiple AI training data annotators label the same data point, a majority vote determines the final label, and the remaining signal is discarded. For many tasks, such as transcription or deterministic object detection, this approach works well. Consensus filtering reduces noise, limits low-quality contributions, and produces datasets that are easier to operationalize. However, as AI data labeling systems move into more complex domains, collapsing disagreement into a single answer can hide valuable information about uncertainty, interpretation, and edge cases. Modern AI data training teams are beginning to ask a different question: What if disagreement itself contains useful signal? The Limits of Majority Vote in AI Data Training Consensus-based aggregation remains foundational to large-scale annotation. Majority vote helps detect fraud, filter unreliable contributors, and maintain baseline high-quality labeled data. In large AI annotation programs, agreement metrics are often used to identify anomalous behavior. Contributors whose labels consistently diverge from peers may be flagged for additional review, retraining, or removal. In this sense, disagreement plays an important role in governance and quality assurance. However, not all disagreement reflects poor labeling. In many modern AI data training use cases, especially those involving human interpretation, variability among annotators can reflect legitimate ambiguity rather than error. Examples include: Preference ranking and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) Sentiment or intent classification Safety and policy interpretation Cross-cultural or linguistic nuance Long-context multimodal analysis In these contexts, collapsing disagreement into a single “correct” label may discard information about how humans interpret difficult or ambiguous inputs. What Research Suggests about AI Data Training and Disagreement Academic research increasingly supports the idea that annotator disagreement can be modeled rather than resolved. In Learning from Multi-Annotator Data: A Noise-Aware Classification Framework (ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2019), Zhang et al. demonstrate that traditional aggregation methods may overlook important differences in annotator reliability and bias. Rather than treating consensus as a preprocessing step, their framework models annotators as probabilistic labelers whose reliability and interpretation patterns can be learned during training. The system incorporated annotator variability and uncertainty directly into model training, thus achieving improved downstream performance compared to simple majority voting. The key insight is not that consensus is flawed. Human disagreement often contains structured information about the training data itself. From Quality Control to Signal Optimization for AI Data Training Historically, data annotation pipelines were designed primarily for throughput and quality control. The goal was to produce the most reliable single label for each example. However, as models expand to longer context windows and multimodal inputs, annotation increasingly involves interpretation (rather than simple classification). In these environments, disagreement may reveal: Ambiguous or edge-case inputs Unclear annotation guidelines Differences in human interpretation Areas where models are likely to fail in production Instead of collapsing disagreement immediately, some AI data solutions teams now analyze it as a diagnostic signal during the annotation process. This shift in AI data training does not replace arbitration or consensus. Rather, it extends the annotation pipeline to extract additional signal once baseline quality thresholds are met. Practical Uses of Disagreement Data When captured and analyzed within governed annotation systems, disagreement can improve both dataset design and AI data training. Organizations are increasingly using disagreement signals for a few key use cases. Identify high-uncertainty samples: Data points with low annotator agreement often correspond to edge cases where models struggle. Prioritizing these samples for retraining or additional review can improve model robustness more efficiently than randomly expanding datasets. Strengthen preference-based training: In ranking and RLHF-style tasks, disagreement reflects real distributional differences in human judgment. Modeling this variability can improve reward models and alignment outcomes. Refine annotation guidelines: Consistent disagreement across contributors may signal unclear instructions rather than labeling error. Detecting these patterns early can reduce costly rework when datasets scale. Surface bias and fairness signals: Disagreement patterns across linguistic or demographic segments may reveal meaningful differences in interpretation, informing fairness evaluations. Support quality governance and fraud detection: At the same time, anomalous disagreement patterns may indicate unreliable contributors or coordinated fraud. Monitoring agreement patterns therefore remains a critical component of workforce governance. Mature annotation systems don’t simply resolve disagreement. They analyze it and distinguish between operational noise and meaningful variability. Operationalizing Disagreement Signal in AI Data Training Capturing disagreement insights requires more than assigning multiple annotators to the same sample. Organizations must be able to: Track annotator-level metadata Measure agreement patterns across tasks Detect anomalous behavior Identify high-uncertainty samples within large datasets Many legacy AI data training annotation pipelines were designed primarily for consensus resolution and task throughput. Extracting structured disagreement insights requires systems capable of capturing annotator reliability, uncertainty patterns, and interpretation variance across large contributor pools. For many organizations, operationalizing these capabilities requires close collaboration with their annotation partner. Annotation providers increasingly play a role in workforce management and helping teams structure annotation workflows, quality controls, and data signals to support modern model training. When implemented effectively, disagreement provides insight into how humans and models interpret complex data. The Next Evolution of Annotation Strategy As multimodal AI data training systems scale and contexts lengthen, annotation tasks will increasingly require human judgment in addition to labeling. Annotation design will become a performance lever, and consensus will remain essential for ensuring data quality and governance. Notably, leading organizations are beginning to treat disagreement as an informative signal within the training pipeline, not a waste. 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On World Hearing Day, under the theme From communities to classrooms: hearing care for all children, WHO is urging governments, civil society, and partners across the health and education sectors to take urgent action to protect children’s hearing. Key actions include: promoting good ear and hearing practices as part of school health programmes to prevent hearing loss; integrating ear and hearing screening into school and community health programmes, with clear referral pathways; and empowering teachers, parents, health workers, and children with accurate information and practical tools. Addressing hearing loss through evidence-based interventions WHO provides countries with technical resources to support ear and hearing care, including: Hearing screening: considerations for implementation; Vision and hearing screening for school-age children: implementation handbook; and Hearing aid service delivery approaches for low- and middle-income settings. WHO has also developed training resources to equip health workers with the skills to identify and manage common ear and hearing problems and refer patients to higher levels of care, when needed. Integrating these tools into national health care systems can significantly narrow the gap in hearing care access. And coming soon, a comprehensive package of evidence-based interventions, designed for use across primary health care and WHOears, a free mobile application for iOS and Android platforms to support the implementation of hearing screening programmes in schools and in communities. By enabling trained individuals to conduct hearing screening for children in schools and community settings, the app will expand access beyond traditional clinic settings and strengthen early identification efforts. “WHO estimates that nearly 60% of ear and hearing problems could be prevented or treated at local health clinics with trained health workers and availability of required equipment, medicines, and hearing devices,” said Ms Dévora Kestel, Director a.i., WHO Department of noncommunicable diseases and mental health. “Yet today, over 80% of the people who need ear and hearing care do not receive it. This gap has serious consequences for children affecting their education, psychological wellbeing, and future livelihoods.” Impact of untreated hearing loss Untreated hearing loss affects more than just a child’s ability to hear. It can delay speech and language development, hinder cognitive growth, and limit social interaction. These challenges often lead to poorer educational outcomes, reduced employment prospects, and long-term economic disadvantage. Prevention of avoidable hearing loss, early identification and timely intervention are critical to improving outcomes for children with hearing loss. Strengthening primary health care systems to include ear and hearing services ensures that children receive the care they need, when they need it. For children already living with hearing problems, timely access to cost-effective, evidence-based interventions—including medicines, surgery, hearing aids, cochlear implants, rehabilitative therapy, sign language, and other assistive technologies like loop systems and captioning—can prevent long-term consequences and enable full participation in school and community life. “Communities and school settings provide a natural and effective platform to reach children with both preventive measures and early care,” said Dr Shelly Chadha, WHO Team lead for eye, ear, and oral health. “With practical and affordable solutions now available, no child should be left behind due to unaddressed ear and hearing problems.”
【环球网财经综合报道】近日,伯克希尔·哈撒韦发布了2025年第四季度及全年财务业绩。 财报数据显示,伯克希尔2025年四季度运营利润为102亿美元,较2024年同期的145.27亿美元下降超29%,业绩下滑的核心原因是公司保险业务的显著疲软。其中,保险承保利润同比暴跌54%,从去年同期的34.1亿美元降至15.6亿美元;保险投资收入也下滑近25%,由40.88亿美元减少至31亿美元。 2025年整年,公司2025年运营利润为444.9亿美元,较2024年的474.4亿美元有所回落。保险业务全年表现同样承压,承保利润从2024年的90亿美元降至72.6亿美元,保险投资收入由136亿美元微降至125亿美元。 伯克希尔在财报中提醒投资者,单季度的投资损益通常不具备实际参考意义,相关数据会让不熟悉会计规则的投资者对每股净收益产生严重误解,建议市场更关注反映公司核心经营状况的运营利润指标。此外,2025年四季度巴菲特依旧未进行公司股票回购操作。尽管无回购动作,公司现金储备较三季度的历史峰值3816亿美元小幅下降至3733亿美元。 值得一提的是,这是沃伦·巴菲特担任首席执行官期间的最后一份季度财报。2026年起,格雷格·阿贝尔正式接棒CEO一职,巴菲特则继续担任公司董事长。 阿贝尔在其首份致股东年度信中指出,自1965年以来,伯克希尔·哈撒韦的复合年增长率达19.7%,几乎是同期标普500指数复合增长率的两倍;该时间段内公司整体涨幅达6099294%,而标普500指数包括股息在内的涨幅仅为46061%。 此外,阿贝尔承诺,将延续巴菲特打造的以财务实力和资本纪律为核心的公司文化,继续坚守伯克希尔·哈撒韦的长期价值投资理念。同时,他承认,随着公司规模不断扩大,复利效应的边际递减成为客观现实,这一点公司始终清晰认知;未来公司的核心目标不再是高增速,而是实现每股内在价值的稳步增长,同时持续管理下行风险,为股东守护财富。(南木)
BayesianMMM — State of the Art Media Mix Modelling Test a bayesian model of your media mix effortlessly Testing a new marketing mix model is time costly. That is the reason behind the development of BayesianMMM a script to fit MMM without writing code. Within a few hours, you could be looking at the results of the state of the art model. Audience marketing data scientist marketing machine learning engineering marketing data analyst campaign manager/owner Introduction Media Mix Modelling is the holy grail of marketing science. An accurate media mix model can give us the optimal media mix, the one that reduces media spending while increasing revenue. A media mix model uncovers the causal relationship between media spends and revenue. The dataset used to train such model generally is at a weekly level, and looks something like this, Model The model used in BayesianMMM was proposed in Bayesian Methods for Media Mix Modeling with Carryover and Shape Effects by a team of researchers from Google. Just like a classic MMM, it aims to predict sales based on media spends and additional control variables (season, weather etc). However, there are three key updates to the classic regression model. Carryover effect Media spends have a lasting effect on sales, a dollar spent on a given week will contribute to sales for multiple weeks. We call this effect, the carryover effect and it is explicitly incorporated in the model. Two mathematical functions can be used to model the carryover effect. Geodecay The geodecay transformation only models the lasting impact of media spends. This function takes as input media spends for a given media during L weeks periods, L and the retain-rate. L is the maximum duration effect of a spend. L can be treated as a hyperparameter, defined using business knowledge or set to 13 (in simulation settings L has been found to be a good approximation of infinity) as proposed in the research paper. The retain rate is the coefficient that gives us the retained spend during the next period (t+1) using the spend during the current period (t). Here, we set the spend to be 1 at lag = 0 and 0 otherwise. With a retain rate of 0.7, we obtained the following carryover spend. Adstock transformation Sometimes we expect the media spends effect to peak after a certain duration. The adstock transformation models the lasting and delayed impact of media spends. This function takes as input media spends for a given media during L weeks periods, L, the retain-rate and the delay of the peak. The delay is the number of periods before the peak effect. Here again, we set the spend to be 1 at lag = 0 and 0 otherwise. With a retain rate of 0.7 and a delay of 5, we obtained the following adstock spend. Shape effect Media spends produce diminishing returns as they grow bigger. We call this the shape effect and it is explicitly incorporated in the model. Hill This function takes as input the spend at period t, the shape and the half-saturation. The parameters are not as interpretable as the ones of the carryover transformations. T understand them you would have to play around with them. Here we set the spend to 1, the shape to 0.5 and the half-saturation to 0.5. Putting it all together our model can be expressed as follows: Fitting method The model parameters are estimated using MCMC via the pystan API. We set the same priors on the parameters’ distribution as in the research paper. After a user-defined number of iterations, we obtained samples of our parameters’ posterior distribution. We use those samples to estimate the parameters true value. Challenges There are big challenges in fitting a media mix model, Here is a non-exhaustive list of them. The limited amount of data available The amount of data available is small compared to the number of parameters. This can lead to accuracy issues and introduce some bias in the test and evaluation accuracy. Correlation between the input variables Often there is a high correlation between the media spends. This can lead to bad attribution of sales to the sales channel. Limited range of data The limited range of data may also be a problem as marketing stakeholders always want to extrapolate the results. You can read more on those challenges and how to approach them in Challenges And Opportunities In Media Mix Modeling. Results After running the script we get the following results, Here you can see the contribution analysis plot generated using a demo dataset. Usage To learn how to use BayesianMMM please refer to the Github repo. Conclusion While the BayesianMMM script will greatly reduce the time needed to test the state of the art media mix model, it does not deal with all the challenges. You will still have to handle those yourself! Thanks for reading, you can connect with me on LinkedIn.
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《中国民航报》、中国民航网 记者钱擘 通讯员罗俊毅、林若瑜 报道:3月24日05时43分,搭载着155名旅客的MF892航班飞抵厦门高崎国际机场,厦门机场2026年出入境旅客量突破100万人次,比去年提前7天,刷新出入境旅客年度最快破百万纪录,迎来开门红。 随着我国出入境便利性政策利好的不断释放和国内外旅游市场持续升温,厦门机场出入境旅客量快速增长。数据显示,截至3月24日6时,厦门机场海关累计监管出入境旅客100.07万人次、进出境航班7001架次,同比分别增长8.31%、1.97%。其中入境旅客49.35万人次,出境旅客50.72万人次,同比分别增长9.25%、7.57%。 作为我国东南沿海重要的区域性航空枢纽,目前,厦门机场累计开通国际客运航线29条,通达20个国家及地区,构建起连接洲际、辐射东南亚、贯通两岸的空中通道。 为持续提升旅客通关效率,厦门机场持续推进“智慧海关”建设。今年2月,福建省首个入境“手提行李先期预检”模式在正式落地。入境通关流程由“先检疫、后查验”,升级为“二检合一”,卫生检疫与手提行李查验并行,极大地方便了入境旅客。针对节假日客流高峰,厦门机场与边检、海关、航司等单位建立联动协调机制,根据航线、航班增量灵活调配保障力量,确保出入境旅客通关高效顺畅。 此外,厦门机场还升级了厦门北站、五通码头以及漳州、龙岩、泉州地区城市候机厅服务内容,全面开通国际及地区航班的值机与行李托运功能,并在T3航站楼设立了福建省首个“境外来宾一站式综合服务中心”,为境内外旅客提供货币兑换、旅游咨询、电话卡办理等便捷服务,助力厦门打造“国际门户航空枢纽”。(编辑:李佳洹 校对:许浩存 审核:韩磊)
3月23日下午,国务院新闻办公室举行新闻发布会,介绍专利转化运用专项行动(2023—2025年)实施情况。 会上,教育部科学技术与信息化司司长周大旺在回答记者提问时说,着力完善科技创新质量、绩效、贡献为核心的评价导向,将科技成果转化绩效指标纳入“双一流”建设成效评价、学科评估、高校教师职称评审。另外,教育部将建立多维度、科学化的高校科技成果转化效能评价体系,定期发布高校科技成果转化效能指数,把专利转化情况作为高校评价的重要内容。 周大旺表示,高校作为国家宝贵的创新资源,蕴藏着服务国家经济社会发展的成果富矿,但高校不同于其他创新主体,其专利等科技成果往往处于前端,具有前沿性、原创性、颠覆性,技术成熟度不高。针对这个特点,教育部着力畅通科技成果转化的链条,加速把高校丰富的专利转变为产业发展的红利,主要从三个方面推动工作,取得了一定成效。 首先,抓源头管理,让专利“为转而生”。持续推动高校探索专利申请前评估制度,加强源头质量管理,从专利申请开始,就瞄准市场、瞄准需求、瞄准转化,推动专利资助奖励制度改革,逐步推动高校取消对专利授权的奖励,加大对转化运用的奖励,引导高校专利从过去的“重申请”向“重实施”转变,从“数量导向”向“质量导向”“转化导向”转变。 其次,抓生态建设,为转化“赋能增效”。教育部过去两年布局建设高校区域技术转移转化中心,搭建政产学研金等要素汇聚平台,促进大学的原始创新能力、企业市场的主体能力、金融资本的支撑能力有效融合,有组织推进科技成果转化。目前,已经在江苏、粤港澳大湾区、北京、福建布局了4个区域中心,覆盖了生物医药、信息通信、先进材料、人工智能等重点产业方向,通过搭建一站式的公共转化平台,让更多的专利成果能够快速进行概念验证、中试熟化,不断提升技术的成熟度。 再次,抓评价改革,让转化“名利双收”。着力完善科技创新质量、绩效、贡献为核心的评价导向。将科技成果转化绩效指标纳入“双一流”建设成效评价、学科评估、高校教师职称评审。特别是有些高校,加大改革力度,设立科技成果转化职称序列,以转化成效来“论英雄”,有效激发转化运用的积极性。教育部跟相关部门共同指导高校开展职务科技成果赋权的改革试点,探索形成各具特色的转化新模式。最新的统计结果显示,2024年,高校专利转让及许可合同数达到3.4万件、合同金额128.6亿元,同比分别增长了15.7%和9.3%。
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