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The World's Women Stuck in the UN's Blind Spot
In a global health report that speaks as much to the powerlessness of women as it does to the diseases that are killing them, the World Health Organization said this week that the leading cause of death for girls and women aged 15 to 44 is now AIDS. The report also found that in poor countries, unsafe sex and lack of contraception is the single leading risk factor for death and disability, resulting in unsafe abortion and range of infections including HIV. Domestic violence poses an additional risk to sexual and reproductive health.
Studies like the WHO report highlight the critical intersections between women's disempowerment and health outcomes--issues the United Nations desperately needs to focus on. But for more than five years, the UN has been dancing around a proposal to create a high-powered, well-financed agency for the world's women. In a last-minute decision in September, before the start of a new UN year, the final session of last year's General Assembly approved the step in principle. But nothing concrete has happened since, and there are plenty of UN members willing to stall implementation, at least into next year.
Progressives may well ask, Didn't the idea of ghettoizing women's issues go out with newspapers' women's pages? That was also the theory around the United Nations, where for decades the buzzword was "mainstreaming," meaning that women would be factored into all the work of the organization. As it turned out, a majority of nations among the UN's 192 members never took seriously the concept of mainstreaming female sexual and reproductive health and rights in development, though the status of women is widely acknowledged to be critical to progress on many fronts from the economy to the environment.
No mention of reproductive rights, aside from maternal health, appears in the Millennium Development Goals, the eight-point plan for reducing poverty and disease worldwide. Ever since the 1994 UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, a relentless Vatican campaign aligned with a claque of nations--among them some in which women most need good reproductive healthcare and rights of all kinds--continues to scaremonger. In its sloganeering, gender equality and sexual/reproductive rights become code words for abortion, feminism and lesbianism.
The debate over gender rights exposes deep fissures in the UN system. One of them is the divide between the expert UN agencies, bodies staffed largely by professionals, and the majority-rules General Assembly, which can box in the international civil servants of the Secretariat and constrain even a secretary general. In the weeks before he resigned in 2006, Kofi Annan tried to jump-start the creation of the new women's agency and was slapped down by member governments. (Among the opponents at the time were large and important nations such as the United States and India.)
Annan's successor, Ban Ki-moon, got the message and shied away from action when he took office at the beginning of 2007, turning the issue over to the Assembly, a surefire way to stall something innovative. Does this sound like the American healthcare debate?
On the other side of this UN divide are the autonomous or semiautonomous UN agencies where policies are set and decisions made with less political pressure. When Margaret Chan, a former director of health in Hong Kong, took over as director-general of WHO in 2007, she vowed that women's health would be a priority, and she has been active on that front. So, to varying degrees, have the leaders of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF, the children's fund.
UNICEF? Yes, because teens and even younger girls barely beyond puberty are dying by the thousands in unwanted pregnancies when their small bodies are not developed enough to give birth. Pregnancy-related complications are a leading cause of death among 15-to-19-year-old girls in the developing world. Globally, girls are also victims of sexual abuse at a rate three times that of boys, WHO found.
When Chan released the new report, Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda, on November 9, she explained why she commissioned it: "I did so based on my conviction that the health of women has been neglected, that this neglect is a major impediment to development, and that the situation needs to improve. I did so based on my conviction that women matter in ways far beyond their role as mothers."
Another fissure that can impede concerted action in the United Nations on women's health and sexual rights yawns between the health and rights of women in the industrial countries and the global South. Those in Europe or North America who may be surprised to learn that, numerically, HIV/AIDS kills the most women worldwide may also be those in the developed world who do not see the lack of access to contraception (and thus control over their bodies) that poor women endure.
Where women's health is concerned, there are clearly two worlds. The new WHO report, for example, finds that while unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortion are major killers of young women in poorer countries, the leading cause of death among girls 10 to 19 in rich countries is traffic accidents.
Among adult women, mostly between the ages of 20 and 59, cervical cancer among the poor account for 80 percent of world cases, and most of the deaths. Ninety-nine percent of the more than half a million maternal deaths annually occur in low-income nations, where societal pressures may also contribute to the powerlessness of women. Leading causes of death among the poor include respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases. For women in rich nations, heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer's or other dementias are at the top of the mortality list.
The proposed new UN women's agency or department, which doesn't have a profile or a name yet, will combine four existing women's offices or organizations. Its role will not, of course, be primarily in matters of health. But the WHO report, and Chan's own comments, stress that the broader deficiencies--legal, political, economic and social--in the lives women lead need serious attention if women, particularly in low-income countries, are to enjoy the benefits of better health.
A coalition of more than 300 organizations in eighty countries called GEAR--for Gender Equality Architecture Reform--is now demanding that Secretary General Ban start an open international search for a strong leader of the new agency, which is expected to have an under secretary general at its head. Waiting for the General Assembly to cobble together an entity with lowest-common-denominator powers would be a waste of time and purpose. A staff with muscle must be assembled and significant money raised. Women's departments and agencies at the United Nations have been notoriously underfunded.
This step at the UN is going to need a push from the Obama administration, and support in Congress when US contributions are considered. The secretary general should not be allowed to get away with a "safe" appointment to this crucial post as so often happens at the United Nations. The lives of several billion women are potentially at stake.


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Every part of body regulated by the brain because it functions as a central coordination, intelligence and a place to store all forms of memory. Who would dare to regulate the brain?
It turned out that fat cells that regulates the brain. Fat cells to the brain sends messages to each other and have some kind of role. Millions of messages back and forth in this process.
"In the past, people might think that fat tissue is a passive organ. But it is now clear that fat cells make and release hormones and proteins that may be more than other organs," said Rexford S Ahima, an endocrinologist at the University of Pennsylvania , as quoted by The HuffingtonPost, Thursday (10/07/2010).
In 1994, scientists identified a hormone produced by fat cells named leptin. Leptin tells the brain obtained on duty how much fat in the body.
In this study also revealed the relationship of direct communication between the brain and fat cells, which suggests that fat cells affect or regulate the brain.
In addition, fat cells also send signals that cause blood vessels to constrict, increasing blood pressure and make the shape of a blood clot. This is what explains how obesity can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.
In the body of an average adult contains about 27 billion fat cells, while the body of someone who is overweight can contain fat cells to 300 billion cells, which means it may contain 10 times more than the normal body.
Fat cells also perform several important functions such as making the body feel warm, give protection, providing deposits or reserves of energy, regulate body functions and refine one's physical appearance.

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Got me a potted Azalea for easter, HELP it's already dying!! I've never had a potted azalea from supermarket before. My kid was pleased to buy me this already bloomed pretty pink flowers in a pot for easter. And its only 3 days old and already dying! Sure I got some from a garden center in early summer, but I reckon it's too early to get some this time of the year? I tried to put it outside with temp. mid 60's yesterday while it rained some, and brought it in last night but it's not looking happy this am :(
... that it was forced early and now it's done blooming.
By "dying" do you mean the leaves are going too? As evergreens, they shouldn't, how big is it? Maybe when it was dug up, they chopped the roots in half or something.


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Juventus have suffered a blow with the news that striker Vincenzo Iaquinta will be out for the rest of the season.
Iaquinta suffered an injury during a training session on Thursday and tests done today confirmed the Italy international has a muscular lesion in his left thigh.
"Iaquinta will be sidelined for at least three months, hence, his season can be considered over," read a statement from Juventus.
Iaquinta has scored four goals in 19 Serie A appearances for Juve this campaign.
It is a further setback for Juve coach Luigi Del Neri with his team having already lost Leandro Rinaudo, Mohamed Sissoko and Fabio Quagliarella to season-ending injuries.
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|Middle Tennessee vs. Navy in Armed Forces Bowl
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Navy (7-4) was a conditional pick for the bowl even before the season, and the Midshipmen guaranteed their spot in the Dec. 30 game when they got their sixth win last month. They still have one regular-season game to play, Saturday against Army in Philadelphia.
Middle Tennessee (8-4) won its last five games, and has its second consecutive eight-win season. The Red Raiders, who are in Conference USA, last played in a bowl game in 2010, losing to Miami, Ohio, in the GoDaddy.com Bowl.
Navy is in its 10th bowl in 11 years.
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Michael Gough is dead. I have just read about it on the Doctor Who News site.
Who is he? To Doctor Who fans, he is the Celestial Toymaker, and Councillor Hedin from Arc of Infinity. He was also once married to former Doctor Who companion Anneke 'Polly' Wills.
To Batman fans, he was one of the few constants in the Burton/Schumacher films, playing Alfred Pennyworth. He also collaborated with Tim Burton on later projects from Sleepy Hollow all the way up to Alice in Wonderland.
And of course, he appeared in many a Hammer Horror film.
RIP, Michael Gough...
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With an instructor, you'll learn faster and with more confidence than if you start out solo. If your instructor's radio has a trainer system, you can buy a compatible radio, connect the two, and fly with less risk to your plane. To find an instructor, check with hobbyist friends. Check the phone book for flying clubs. Attend fun fly events (announced in newspapers and free circulars) and ask around. And consult the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) by calling 1-800-435-9262, writing 5161 East Memorial Drive, Muncie, IN 47302, or visiting their website at www.modelaircraft.org. Ask for the locations of clubs near you.
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Sailplanes can be excellent trainers. Often less complex and expensive than powered models, their stability and slow flight are perfect for beginners. R/C sailplanes can feature several different tail configurations. The conventional tail is recommended for new hobbyists. Most fall into one of two types:
Thermal Sailplanes
Thermal Sailplanes ride on the continuous currents of warm air that rise from the land. They seem to float across the sky. Pilots must be able to detect invisible thermal currents and take advantage of them (rising warm air is often found over such terrain as freshly plowed fields and paved parking areas). With experience, pilots can keep their craft in the air for 15 minutes or even longer.
Slope Soarers
Slope Soarers get their lift from wind that rises when it meets a hill or upward slope. The lift lasts as long as the wind blows. Because they fly in stronger wind conditions, slope soarers are faster than thermal sailplanes, and the extra speed gives them excellent aerobatic capabilities.
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Conventional Tail
Characterized by a standard rudder and a stabilizer mounted on the fuselage. Found on the majority of R/C sailplane kits, it's easy to build and works well.
A compromise between the conventional and T-tail, the mid-tail has many of the T-tail's benefits and is also easier to build.
The stabilizer is mounted at the top of the rudder, where it is less affected by the wake created when air flows over the model's wing. This design can be difficult to build.
The stabilizer is bent into an upward V shape, and there is no rudder. A radio with mixing capabilities is usually required.
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Some sailplanes are better suited to first-timers than others. Look for a model in the 2-meter class that requires only 2-channels of control—preferably a Thermal Sailplane rather than a model designed for slope soaring. If you select a kit, choose one that's sturdy and comes with good building instructions. Like powered models, a sailplane will require some accessories, although the list is generally shorter.
Hand Launch
The smallest sailplanes in the thermal category feature wings that span up to 59-60 inches and can be launched with a hand-toss. Such small models may require miniature radio equipment, which costs a bit more than standard size. Thus, you might prefer to start your R/C career with a 2-meter model.
Spanning 72 to 79 inches, these are the most accessible type of sailplanes for beginners. The added size gives them greater stability, and they will usually accept standard 2-channel radio equipment. Launching is best done with a hi-start or winch (explained later).
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"Open Class" encompasses all sailplanes with wingspans exceeding 100 inches. Because of assembly difficulty and slow control response, they are not recommended for beginners. Like Standard Class models, however, they can carry a lot of additional weight for options - and are absolutely majestic in flight.
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Above, take an exclusive look at a brand new digital billboard for "Gotham." It will make its debut at FOX Studios on Friday, Sept. 5, before popping up around the country. The image gives a brief look at what's to come from the characters, including Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Taylor) holding the Penguin's iconic umbrella.
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Rain shower in a desert..seems interesting..But when I got a chance of rain shower in the cold desert of Spiti Valley, I was scared. I just prayed that rain-rain go away. My wife and I was on a hiking trail from Kaza town to Komic village in the Spiti Valley. Komic is famous for its age-old monastery, so we enquired about the route in Kaza and decided to go there. A lady in Kaza town, who briefed us about the trek route, informed that it could take 2 to 3 hours to reach there.
We started our trek in the morning, but instead of the trek suggested by the lady, we took another trek route to Komic village. After 3 kms of trek, we realized that we forgot our water bottles in the hotel room. There was no chance of going back now. We thought in less than 2 hours we would be in Komic village for our breakfast, lunch and of-course water. At that point, we did not know that we would never reach to Komic Village despite of a continuous 11 hours of trekking on the hills. We were trapped in the cold desert of Spiti Valley !
Despite of missing the water bottles, we were happy in the lap of nature. All areas around us was so charming, we felt that we were in heaven, It was amazing everywhere. Below was the Spiti river divided in many streams, at some distance from the hill, we could see the Kaza town, the largest town of Spiti looked like a small hamlet and another side, we could see the snow-capped peaks of mighty Himalayas, and on the other side is the barren hills of Spiti looking similar to the Utah Desert. We forgot our tiredness, our water problem, cold weather..everything..and we just lost in the beauty of the valley.
But this charming affair ended very soon and a fear took over. That was the fear of rain. The clouds came very low in the valley and due to the cold, they condensed in the form of water droplet and started falling on the ground. Though intensity was very low and it looked like a beginning of snow fall, but still it scared us. We were in the middle of nowhere, Kaza was 5 kms away down the hill, there was no sign of any shelter in upward direction and since all the landscape around us was barren, so we could not hide anywhere. We were totally unprepared for the rain. Only positive thing was that our new Lowepro camera bag was waterproof and it also had a separate all weather cover, so our mobile and camera gears could be at least safe in the case of the rain. Drizzle started, so we thought, if heavy rain would be there, then we will not proceed further and returned back to Kaza. Suddenly, strong wind started with a mysterious sound. Wind was very strong and very chilled. But at least we were prepared for the cold weather.
We rested on a rock for the sometime and waited for the weather improvement. Within 15 minutes, everything was charming again. clouds and rain were nowhere. The snowy peak was visible again. Numerous streams of Spiti River again shone with full glory. Ah, weather was so pleasant now and smiled back on our faces. We trekked further on the day and captured some of the best landscapes of Spiti Valley. But by that time we had realized that we were on a wrong trekking route. It was a big mistake. But we moved further. It was only the landscapes who kept our interest alive. After 7 hours of trek, about 1 PM, we came across to a small house in the middle of the deserted hills and got the first drop of water since the morning. We returned back to Kaza town by 6 PM and it ended our 11 hours unsuccessful, but amazing trek in the search of Komic village. However, we were not able to reach Komic village in that trek despite of 6 hours hiking (which was supposed to be 2 hours only!) and returned back to Delhi without visiting Komic Monastery.
Now, 5 months later, when I watched this The Desert Shower Bath video of Alive is Awesome campaign by Godrej Cinthol, it again reminded me about that trekking attempt to Komic Village. After watching that video, I again wish to hike on that route. I again wish to see those high mountains, snow-covered peaks, charming river, beautiful clouds of the Spiti Valley. This time, I wish to face the strong wind, I wish to face the chilled weather and I wish to take the rain shower also. I wish to be the top of that cold desert in the minimum clothes and I will feel very happy if a heavy rain shower will drench me completely. That will be an incredible experience. In a cold desert surrounded by high barren mountains and snow-covered peaks, taking a rain shower on the top…that will be the awesome bathing experience of my life and I will feel alive. That will be an Alive is Awesome moment of my life.
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This was the part that I found the least information on, and I don't really get why that is. If you have this piece of code running on someone else's site and you don't have concerns about where the HTML or the CSS or the data is going to come from, my understanding of modern terminology leads me to believe that what you have, sir or madam, is a plugin. Anything bigger than a plugin needs other stuff to support it, and unless you want to manage all that stuff as long-ass strings in JavaScript, I'd assume you'd keep it in a different file.
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I've seen a lot of people who seem to be suggesting that when your widget calls for data, it should get it already wrapped up in its HTML, which I hate. It's just a little more processing to run pure data through a template, and it allows the consumer of the widget the option of easily switching out the markup if you expose a config property that provides a path to a customized template. Because creating a view model on top of the pure data seemed like a giant pain in the ass, I used John Resig's Micro Templating. It's small and efficient, bakes in caching of the templates, and allows enough logical flexibility to cover pretty much any need.
The widget I'm working on needs a good deal of setup info. Not only does it need data corresponding to anywhere from 1-n different objects, it needs to be able to find the places where those objects are rendered and be able to choose among a few options for how the widget itself will get rendered. It also needs normal widget stuff like an API key and all that. This adds up to one big-ass config. Asking the consumer to append all that data to the querystring that loads the widget code is possible, but seems awfully fragile to me. Better that they just keep it in a big object literal and the widget goes and finds it once it's loaded. However, because all the config data isn't part of the additional request, we have to deal with complicated cross-domain messaging issues when we do get the data, instead of the data being pre-loaded like the HTML and CSS.
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By far this seems like the piece of the equation with the most information and the least clear answer. There are a few simple, modern ways around the cross-domain problem, but they only work with newer browsers, and IE, in a move surprising 100% of no one, has decided to implement their own version of the standard in their newer offerings. I actually made a flow chart trying to describe the choices to be made in picking a solution stack (and a stack is what you need, unless you somehow can manage to only support WebKit) that seemed to get some lulz, so I assume it's close enough to accurate to at least be funny.
Because I need to send and receive a decent-sized chunk of data, but had the option to break it up into smaller requests/responses, I ultimately decided to use CORS and JSONP where CORS was unsupported. Previously, I'd ultimately decided to try and send/receive all the data for however many objects the widget needed to be rendered for at once, but I was skeptical about fitting all that in the URL of an iframe. So now I make one request per object and that seems like the best solution for making good use of resources and maintaining my sanity. I looked into easyXDM, but it seemed to me in reading the docs that I was going to need to manually manage all the same fallbacks, just accessed through a nice clean abstraction. I may have misunderstood that, but once I figured out how I could accomplish my goals without reading the documentation necessary to understand how that tool works, I decided to just try to get it done DIY-style.
External libraries
I had a fun debate with some friends on twitter about the merits of using jQuery vs. using a microlibrary or something completely hand-rolled. My point about jQuery was that there are decent odds that the third party site would be using it or that the end user would have it cached. I still think that's true, but I needed so damned little of it that it seemed better to just write a couple of custom functions to do things like get elements from selectors. The totally efficient thing to do would be to make the signatures of those custom functions match jQuery or some other common library so that I could easily switch between them, but the code has to get loaded either way and now I have no external dependencies. Although I did copy and paste other code, like Micro Templating, into my widget code. That feels icky, but also efficient.
Lots of thinking for very little processing
I still feel weird that so much frustration went into this project, because it actually does so little. The external site calls the node.js server, which responds with the widget code and the static files embedded within that. It iterates through the objects defined in the config, makes its request to get the data for each, runs it through a template, and inserts it into container defined in the config by either a class name or an ID. The
init() portion of the code may be the smallest piece. Did I do that right? I have my doubts, but I'm also not sure what I'd change. If you have comments, I'd love to hear 'em.
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A Jonesboro resident, and former correctional officer at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, pled guilty, in federal court, to violating an inmate's civil rights by using excessive force against the inmate, and obstructing a federal investigation of the incident.
According to a news release issued by Patrick Crosby, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Benjamin Montgomery, 47, faces a maximum sentence of 10 years for the civil rights violation and 20 years for the obstruction of justice violation.
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According to United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, the charging document and information presented in court stated that, on June 2, Montgomery, while working as a correctional officer in the penitentiary, physically assaulted an inmate, violating the inmate's constitutional right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
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Skipping right over the superheroes, I'm just glad I'm not the only one battling keeping children in clothes! James is almost ALWAYS just in undies (maybe undies and a shirt) when we're home. And you know what? I don't care. As long as he's not undressing in public, I'm okay with it. HA!
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Posts like this make me not-so-scared to have boys! Looks like tons of superhero fun! I'm one of 3 girls and my husband has a sister, so I didn't grow up with boys… If God thinks I can handle them…. SO be it. Haha, my mom always said God knew she couldn't handle boys, so He gave her 3 girls.
HAHA. Hilarious! Gotta love boys. I only have one but I could totally see myself an "all boy momma!!" xo
This is absolutely adorable. I'm guessing my husband and dad feel this way about our family. Girls dominate around here (from 3 to 57 years old) and we're all fairies, princesses, lipstick, and boots. My mom had two girls, my sister had two girls, and I have two girls. Estrogen everywhere. LOL
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I have three boys…the middle of which turned 9 today! The oldest is 11 and the youngest is 7…and a half! My daughter is about to 4 (12 days and counting!) I can remember those days before she came…..and the "hold me" moments that seemed to be more frequent than not! Spiderman is awesome, tho….I still have our first spidy outfit…size 6 months….I was very sad when we finally out grew the super heros….now we collect military toy guns and camo attire….my boys are fighting the war on terror….in my hallway!
Ahh…that brings me back. My son loved superheroes, Spidey especially. He even learned to ride his two wheeler in full Spidey costume. Now we are into sports. EVERY.SINGLE.ONE. He doesn't just play sports, he watches them, he's always bouncing around the house "pitching" or "shooting" baskets. I don't know how he sits still in school!!
Hahaha! Oh Mandy, I wish I could say they will grow out of it, but my soon to be 18yr old senior in high school wears his spidey outfit regularly to school! He is the social butterfly and I love that he is not afraid to be different, but honestly I am tired of sewing this costume back together! I did finally get my girl with number 3, but even at 4 years old…she loves hanging with her bros! Luckily, she can roll in the mud in her pink tutu and plastic high heels!
And this is exactly what it's like to live in my house!
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you and I are kindred spirits… girly girl mamas to three wild, precious boys! with a wild, precious hubby to boot! Darci tells me you'll be at Blissdom… I am so excited to meet you! I need to be a better blogger and comment on your darling blog more often. I couldn't pass this post up without saying "hello!"


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AMAVUBI Stars will go for an outright win against visitors Namibia in today's international friendly match at Amahoro stadium, according to head coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojovic.
In preparation for the match, Amavubi had a week-long training camp with foreign based players like Haruna Niyonzima, Elias Uzamukunda, Solomon Nirisarike and Steven Godfroid all joining the group ahead of the game.
"I expect a tough game keeping in mind that Namibia plays better in away matches. They have been boosted with two new additions to their squad, but we'll be going out for a win," Micho told Times Sport after yesterday's morning training session.
He added, "With good home support, I expect a good performance from the players, who know their performance will in a way determine how they would perform in the Cecafa Cup."
Micho called on fans to come in large numbers and play their role as the team's twelfth player.
The Serbian tactician says he regards international friendlies as Rwanda's gateway to improve her Fifa ranking.
"We hope to play a couple of international friendly matches in coming days as this will help us rise in the world rankings," he said.
The Brave Warriors, who arrived in the country yesterday, held a training session last evening at Amahoro stadium.
The South Africans, who held Amavubi to a 0-0 draw in the first friendly last month, expect a different approach from the home team, but coach Bernard Kaanjuka is confident his team will do the job.
"We have a good team with players, who understand my philosophy and based on what we saw from the first match, we expect a tough game, but we are ready," explained Kaanjuka.
From the 18 players called up, the star of the first meeting between the two sides, Hansa Rostock midfielder Manfred Starke is missing, while Ramblers Emilio Martin makes a return to the national team fold.
Amavubi is using this match to stay competitive ahead of the Cecafa Challenge tournament due in Uganda next week as well as the next 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier - against Mali on March 22.
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|Date Recall
|October 2006
November 2006
OneTouch® Ultra® blood glucose test strips lot numbers:
Blood glucose test strips are used by people with diabetes to measure their blood glucose.
|Recalling Firm:
|Discount Diabetic Supply
1420 N. Lamar, Suite 102
Oxford , Mississippi 38655
( Lot #2691191)
Milwaukee Notions, Inc.
1006 Vine Street
Union Grove , Wisconsin 53182
(Lots #2691191 and #2691261)
Medical Plastics Devices Inc.
161 Oneida Drive
Pointe Claire , Quebec, Canada
( Lot #2691191)
Royal Global Wholesale
5681 Northpoint Lane
Boynton Beach , Florida 33437
(Lots #2691191 and #2691261)
Core Care Technologies, Inc.
309 Fries Mill Rd. , Suite 14
Sewell , New Jersey 08080
(Lots # 2691191 and #2691261)
Matrix Distributors, Inc.
110 Tices Ln
Unit 5B
E Brunswick , New Jersey 08816-2048
( Lot #2691191)
Safety & Supplies Co., Inc.
17 Edgeboro Rd.
East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816-1600
(Lots #2691191 and #2691261)
|Reason for Recall:
These blood glucose test strips are counterfeit (fake) versions
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Contact: 1-800-227-8862
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New Orleans
|FDA Comments:
In addition to the device an lot numbers listed in this Class 1 Recall, the following device and lot numbers have also been determined to be counterfeit test strips:
OneTouch® Basic®/Profile® blood glucose test strips lot numbers:
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This is where the rift between Thor and Loki began. Thor wanted to be called the Hammerhead Brothers and Loki wanted to be called the ruler of Asgard.
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I would buy the shit out of this shirt.
Screw the shirt, i'd buy the game!
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Boy do I feel sorry for Loki. To be born a Frost Giant, basically kidnapped by Odin, feed stories of how "FROST GIANTS ARE BABY EATING MONSTERS", being raised to believe he had a genuine claim to the throne of Asgard, then to find out later that his entire life was a lie and that he's one of those baby-eating monsters. The guy just needs a hug…and therapy…lots of therapy.
I wish I could have stood there next to him when Phil said "you lack conviction" and tell Loki, after I help him to his feet after being blown through the wall. "He's right you know, about the conviction thing. Not that it's a bad thing. It's just something you'll have to find. One thing you'll want to do first though is lose the Scepter. I don't think the Chitauri are to be trusted. If you want to rule the humans you don't need an army, your silver tongue and gorgeous face are enough. And who knows you'll probably do a better job at it than the shitheads we already have!".
Oh and Loki riding a koopa shell is just awesome. Though I can't tell if he's aiming for the Goombas or at Thor.
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Based on data from 120 U.S. metal and industrial mineral mines, CostMine's new 2012 Survey Results U.S. Metal and Industrial Mineral Mine Salaries, Wages and Benefits provide lots of data about wages for miners in the United States. The full survey is available from CostMine. With their permission, I note some wages in this posting. The facts I provide are selected on the basis of my personal interests and quirks—no system , rime, or reason here.
Here are some "benchmark" hourly base wages on surface mines (averages in dollars per hour):
- Electrician = 27.16
- Heavy Equipment Operator = 22.66
- Production Truck Driver = 20-91
- Laborer = 18.66
A laborer at an underground mine, on average, earns pretty much the same as at a surface mine, namely $18.58/hr. Interestingly the underground electrician earns less, namely $25.99/hr. But the underground equipment operator earns more, namely $24.90/hr. Not sure what the system, rime, and reasons for this are.
If you want to earn more, leave the industrial minerals mine and go to the metal mine. Here are some comparisons for surface mines (first the metal mine wage and then the industrial mineral wage):
- Electrician = 29.09/25.89
- Driller = 25.35/21.09
- Laborer = 20.41/17.64
Now averages are one thing and only a small part of the bigger picture. The range tells us how well some folk are doing. Here are some ranges and averages for underground metal mines:
- Electrician = 15.75 to 35.25 with an average of 26.48
- Miner = 15.45 to 36.00 wiht an average of 25.35
- Underground Laborer = 13.00 to 27.03 with an average of 18.55
I hope that you are waging out at the top of these ranges. Not sure what you are to do if you are not: live long and get more experience; move to another mine; strike; get the union moving. It all depends; but keep in mind near half will always be above the average and near half will always be below. Life is a game of striving, luck, and chance. Mining is better than Vegas as an income generator. Let me know where you are in the rankings and let us build a bigger picture.


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Look, Nate (Chace Crawford), it's nothing personal about you that makes us want you to die on Gossip Girl before the final tip is sent. Well, actually, it is. There are a lot of things about you that make you our number-one candidate for mortality by the end of the final season.
Mostly, we think someone who actually matters should die before the show is over. When Bart Bass "died" before, Chuck (Ed Westwick) was devastated for a while and Lily (Kelly Rutherford) grieved for like five minutes before moving on with Rufus (Matthew Settle). But it had no effect on anyone else who matters, really. If he were to bite the dust again, the only real effect would be on Chuck and Blair (Leighton Meester), but we'll get back to that.
Nate is a strange anomaly. He has always been in the inner circle, but he's never really made a huge impact. He is Chuck's best friend, and sometimes Dan (Penn Badgley)'s too, but he hasn't done anything significant or dated a character that has stuck around since... well, Blair in Season 1. And when we met that couple, they were already on their way out.
Every storyline involving Nate is on the outskirts. He dates the new characters — The Duchess, Bree Buckley, Raina Thorpe, Diana Payne (Elizabeth Hurley), Juliet (Katie Cassidy), Lola (Ella Rae Peck) — and he has a business that barely ever interacts with central people. Sure, Serena once blogged for him, and Dan screwed him over, but that's largely it.
His only family on the show at this point are his friends. Although their lives are more interesting than his own, he affects Chuck, Dan, Serena, and Blair strongly because of a history that has largely been left out of the everyday action. If he were to die, he would impact the characters in their final moments enough that his role would have been worthwhile.
Another side effect, for all you Chair shippers (us included), is that his death might force Chuck and Blair to see how short life is and that waiting until everything is perfectly laid out is a silly way to live. Or die.
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Microsoft wins record amount from spammer
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Paul Fox, whose e-mail messages were intended to direct traffic toward his pornographic download site, was this week forced by a court order to pay Microsoft 45,000 pounds, or $84,177, for breaching the terms and conditions of its free Hotmail service. Those terms explicitly prohibit the delivery of spam to its customers.
But while Microsoft has clearly won, the case highlights a failure in the British legal system to tackle spam. Despite efforts by the Information Commissioner's Office to gain power from the Department of Trade & Industry to deal with spam, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas remains hamstrung.
"He can do very little," Struan Robertson of law firm Pinsent Masons said. Because Thomas' office can only deal with spam originating in the United Kingdom, the actions it can take are limited, said Robertson, who believes there should be more serious deterrents in place.
"What should change is there should be a penalty where somebody is identified as sending spam--at the moment, if the information commissioner comes across somebody sending spam, all he can do is send a notice telling them to comply with the law," Robertson said. "If they continue, the worst that happens is they face a maximum fine of 5,000 pounds ($9,353), and that's not much of a deterrent."
While Microsoft could turn to its terms and conditions to prove illegality, individuals are still largely powerless to fight spam, Robertson said.
"If an individual wanted to take action, in a way, it's even more difficult, he said. Individuals "can only claim compensation for damage that has been caused, and it's difficult to show what the damage would be from an individual spammer--you might be able to show you had to buy a spam filter, but you can't show it's because of that one spammer."
Due to limitations in tackling spam that originates overseas, technology would provide the best defense against spam in the foreseeable future, Robertson added.
A representative of Information Commissioner Thomas confirmed that he is "definitely trying to get better powers in this area."
A representative for the Department of Trade & Industry told ZDNet UK that the commissioner's powers derive from the Data Protection Act, which is currently under review by the Department for Constitutional Affairs.
David Meyer of ZDNet UK reported from London.
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- There are plenty of ways to convict spammers
- Spammers forge communication data (email transmision headers). Spammers steal identities (forged sender headers, meant to have others cope with complaints). Spammers steal computer and network resources by taking over vulnerable PCs and building spam sending "botnets" from them. Spammers cheat their customers (advertisers) by using false claims that their service is completely legal (including forged headers, botnets etc.)
There are plenty of ways to bring a spammer to court without even mentioning the question whether or not sending unsolicited bulk email is OK or not OK.
Spammers work for money. Advertisers pay for their service. If an advertiser pays someone to infiltrate other people's PCs and use them to send spam, then the paying party should be responsible for the result (trojan horses in other people's PCs, mailbombing of Joe job victims etc.) and pay the price (spend time in jail). If you pay someone else to kill someone, or just steal something you need, then you are an accomplice. You are responsible to the crime even though someone else carried it out. Advertisers are paying the spammers to perform criminal activities for them. They should should pay the price for the crimes they finance, and the price should be jailtime if breaking into computer systems or posing as a third person is part of the deal.
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- Not letting them off easy, or anything!
- There have been a couple news stories about spammers (finally) getting charged for flooding inboxes, and I've yet to see a sentence that fits the crime. http://www.essentialsecurity.com/Documents/article20.htm
An old email account got spammed so bad that I had to completely shut it down to open a new one. Might not be a big deal for personal email, but for your business address it can cause major damage... so why aren't these Internet CRIMINALS actually PAYING for their crimes...?!
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- Record amount? Doesn't look like much!
- If this judgement is a record amount then the British courts and laws are seriously lagging behind. This piddling little amount isn't nearly enough to deter spam unless the bozo that sent all that spam was making seriously less than other spammers.
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- Hope it helps...
- I don't really care whether Microsoft profited from it or not.
Nor whether the amount was really anything worthy of such news.
But what I do care about is the signal that SPAM won't pay in the future. Although the fee itself isn't really that phenominal... hopefully this will set a future trend to make spammers think twice prior to pushing the "Send Millions of Spam" button!!!
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- Very Simple Solution
- Hold ISP's responsible for their users.
SPAM originates from users.
Users MUST connect to the internet via ISP's.
Thus ISP's ARE the First Line of DEFENSE!!!
Holding ISP's responsible for Spammers WILL FIX THE PROBLEM.
If Irresponsible ISP's want to continue accessing the internet... they MUST assist in stopping SPAM originating from their network!!!
If they don't BLACKLIST their entire IP address range.
It may seem draconian... but it's not really. You fix the problem at the root.
And in this case... the root is irresponsible ISP's.
Thus until somebody starts holding the ROOT responsible... not much will change.
This article about only effective within the UK only goes to serve just such.
ISP's... regardless of where they're located in this world... MUST follow Anti-Spam guidlines or else face the wrath of their entire IP Address Range being blocked.
Irresponsible ISP's will fall by the way-side while responsible ISP's fighting to retain their entire IP address range WILL FIX THE PROBLEM!!!
No two (2) ways about it.
The problem MUST be solved at the root. And in this case... the ROOT is the irresponsible ISP!
Hold them accountable or face further increases of SPAM!
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