text: This time around Brett Rossi is getting the services of Charlie Sheen's lawyer in her divorce proceedings. Her soon to be ex-husband filed for divorce last year but Brett never did anything about it until Charlie Sheen popped into the picture. Now, with a possible million dollar payday ahead Brett is moving full speed ahead with the divorce before Charlie changes his mind. Helping this all move forward is Charlie's lawyer who is now representing Brett. It is nice of Charlie to help pay for her divorce so he can marry her. Brett will probably become very familiar being on the other side of the attorney when the couple inevitably divorce. I'm not sure how long they will be married. I think she is pregnant or praying everyday she is pregnant so that will get her an extra year. If there were no kids I would say married for a year and going through a divorce for a year. With a kid, the marriage might last two years before a divorce is sought.


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2013 John Clark Mixed Triples
Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 9:00 AM (PDT)
Event Details
We are proud to present the 2nd Annual John Clark Mixed Triples event. In 1936, Hermosa Beach Mayor John Clark was instrumental in the development of the club by personally donating the monies needed to build the greens facility. Please join us for a day of great bowls and fun in our celebration. Lunch and a Final celebration spread will be provided. There will be both A & B green sections each with playoffs to determine the section winners.
Teams entered will be split by the Tournament Director to most fairly place teams into A & B tier teams to create 2 equal fields of 24 teams this year.
- Games will start promptly on the hour every hour.
- (4) 45-minute staggered games of 2-bowl mixed triples played over a period of 6 rounds
- (2) 45-minute staggered breaks followed by A & B green semi-finals and finals
- No trial ends.
- Do dead ends. Jacks will be re-spotted accordingly (Rule 15.5)
- 1-minute mat rule may be enforced for excessive delays (Rule 106)
- Rule A 4.1.7 will be invoked for movement of players to/from head
- Stanard USLBA Scoring will be used (Rule 15.3)
Announcements will begin at 8:40 and rinks will be available for warmup by no later than 7:45.
When & Where
861 Valley Drive
Hermosa Beach,
Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 9:00 AM (PDT)
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Can't wait to get on a plane and be transported to another place. Feeling nervous and restless. The excitement will soon set in. Looking forward to switching off the most! I'll communicate with you soon. Take care lovelies. xx
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Dubrovnik Summer Saver
|Optional Excursions Supplements apply
|Montenegro Tour
|Elaphite Island Cruise
Excursions are pre–bookable with Omega Holidays at £39 per person per excursion at time of booking or before departure. If booked in resort ONLY KUNA or CREDIT CARDS are accepted as payment for excursions.
This tour is organised and operated by Omega Holidays plc ABTA V4782 ATOL 6081
Optional excursions to Montenegro on Wednesday and Elaphite Island cruise on Friday, pre–bookable at a supplement
* Based on two people sharing a room. Rooms with double balcony and sea view are available at a supplement of £70pp for the break. Rooms for single person occupancy may be offered at a supplement, please ring for details.
Norwich airport:
Please note there is a £10.00 per adult (over 16 years) Airport Development Fee which is to be paid directly to Norwich Airport when departing from the airport.
Durham Tees Valley airport:
Passengers at Durham Tees Valley airport are charged a passenger facility fee. Adults (16+) = £6 and children (3–15) = £2. No fee for infants under 3. This fee is payable at the airport.
Sunday Make your way to your chosen airport for the flight to Dubrovnik, where on arrival we will transfer you to the 3 star Hotel Komodor, Dubrovnik for check in and free time before dinner and the first of seven nights stay.
Monday Breakfast today and then a Welcome meeting will introduce you to the resort and give you the option of booking excursions to Montenegro's Kotor Bay on Wednesday or the Elaphite Island galleon cruise on Friday (Croatian Kuna or credit cards only).
Tuesday – Saturday Days at leisure to relax around the hotel and pool, explore the city of Dubrovnik or join the optional excursions.
Sunday Breakfast and then transfer to the airport for your flight home
Here are some example hotels or similar ones that we use for this break, actual availability may change with the travel date you choose.
Some hotels have an additional supplement per person, as shown below. Supplements are stated for the break (not per night)
|Hotel Komodor, Dubrovnik
|Compact and comfortable family hotel with private terrace and pool overlooking Lapad Bay...
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In advance of his set at RA's ADE night at Trouw in October, we do a little Bugnology 101 with the Poker Flat boss.
It's among the largest cities on the East Coast of the United States, but has always struggled in the shadow of its big brother, New York. Shuja Haider takes a look at the unique clubbing landscape of Boston.
As fabric gets set to release his first official mix CD since the 2007 masterpiece, This Is for You Shits, RA's Todd L. Burns sits down with UK techno pioneer Surgeon.
RA talks to London-based producer, Chris Spero, AKA Glimpse, about his quest for grit and the machines that get him there.
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Employers promote use of second-opinion services
Scott Suttell
Before you get that next surgery, "it's not your spouse or best friend who may ask you to get a second opinion — but your employer."
So says MarketWatch.com in
this story
, which mentions what appears to be a successful partnership between health insurer
and the
Cleveland Clinic
The website reports that companies "are increasingly encouraging workers to seek additional medical opinions before proceeding with expensive medical treatments — and they're using both financial carrots and sticks." For instance, MarketWatch.com notes, "getting a second opinion before surgery might earn someone a lower deductible on their health insurance; failing to get one could mean higher premiums or lower reimbursement."
Second-opinion services, which employers provide to employees for free, ask independent specialists to remotely review medical case files and recommend a course of treatment. Employers look to second opinions "as a potential solution to their onerous health bills, as well as a way to keep workers healthier," according to the story.
For instance, Cigna began offering second opinions to some of its U.S. plan members through a trial partnership with the Cleveland Clinic in 2008, and it has continued and expanded the program due to positive feedback.
"Our medical directors are frankly quite high on it," Joe Mondy, a Cigna spokesman, tells MarketWatch.com.
Cigna says its MyConsult program has not resulted in high rates of treatment switching, and the doctors providing the second opinions are all hired by the Clinic — not recruited by the insurer.
Even so, the story notes that the second-opinion services "say it can be hard to convince employees that they might be better off with a treatment plan other than the one their doctor recommended."
One expert tells MarketWatch.com, "How do you convince someone who thinks they need back surgery that the best thing to do is lose a little weight, or do exercises, in a world in which someone says look, you're just trying to do this to save money?"
Also, employees "generally don't expect or trust their company to make medical decisions for them," according to the story. Only 2% believe their employer is a completely trustworthy source of health information, according to a 2011 survey of employee attitudes by the National Business Group on Health.
Strength in diversity
In her latest
for Forbes.com,
CEO Rebecca O. Bagley looks at a central dilemma for growth in the U.S. economy: While our talent pool is rich, we're "not reaching our full potential" because "not every member of our society has equal access to the innovation economy."
For the country to "sustain and grow its competitiveness in a constantly changing global market, we need to make sure we leverage the diversity of our work force," Ms. Bagley writes.
To that end, she notes that more than 200 "inclusion thought leaders" from the business, nonprofit, government, education and tech worlds met recently in Washington, D.C., to look at ways to "ensure all Americans, including those from underserved and underrepresented communities, have the opportunity to successfully compete in the technology sector of our economy."
In Northeast Ohio, she writes, African-Americans and Latinos comprise about 20% of the population yet account for only about 2% of businesses in tech-based, growth industries; little more than 1% of sales and receipts for all high-tech firms; less than 10% of employees in tech-based, growth industries; and less than 2% of the gross regional product.
"These troubling statistics exist despite the fact that 30.4 percent of degrees earned by Latino students and 23.5 percent of degrees earned by African American students were in the STEM fields," Ms. Bagley writes.
She notes that one D.C. speaker proposed several steps urban leaders can take. Among them:
Analyze your city's innovation economy assets to understand your ecosystem, competitive advantages and how new linkages can be made to minority and underserved populations.
Provide city hall leadership and support for the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, creating an inclusive culture that embraces entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds.
Provide tax incentives to create locally managed angel funds and seed and early-stage capital focused on minority high-growth entrepreneurs.
Support STEM and entrepreneurship education in your K-12 system and ensure colleges and universities have robust lifelong learning strategies that reach and serve all parts of the local community.
Awards season
Kaiser Permanente
was named one of two recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.
The company said in a news release that the award recognizes Kaiser Permanente's implant registries, which "help care teams to improve the quality of care provided to its 9 million members by using integrated data systems and advanced statistical analyses to monitor patient outcomes, evaluate new and established device technologies, and identify and facilitate implementation of clinical best practices."
The patient safety awards program, launched in 2002 by the National Quality Forum and The Joint Commission, honors Dr. John M. Eisenberg, former administrator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, who was an advocate for patient safety and health care quality.
The National Quality Forum and The Joint Commission applauded Kaiser Permanente for "the pioneering innovations of their implant registries, which have shown unsurpassed and proven benefits for patient safety, quality, outcomes and cost effectiveness in their integrated health care system."
Another big Northeast Ohio company,
FirstEnergy Corp.
, said a team of employees at its FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. (FENOC) unit won the Technology Transfer award from the
Electric Power Research Institute
The award recognized "successful research, development and implementation of technology solutions that benefit the electric power industry," according to a news release from the company.
FirstEnergy says FENOC "was the first company in the U.S. nuclear power industry to use a standardized process developed by EPRI to train and confirm workers' abilities to perform plant maintenance activities." A key benefit of this process is that qualifications earned at one plant "also are valid at other U.S. nuclear facilities, reducing the time and expenses associated with training workers," according to the company.
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High-risk maternal conditions include diabetes, high blood pressure, a family history of birth defects and recurrent loss of previous pregnancies.
Evanston Hospital is one of the only 10 designated Level III Regional Perinatal Centers in Illinois, which means it offers specialized care for high-risk mothers and critically ill babies that's not found at most other hospitals. For babies who need intensive care, Evanston Hospital's 44-bed Infant Special Care Unit (ISCU) is staffed by a team of neonatologists as well as highly trained neonatal intensive care nurses. The ISCU offers individualized family support for infants who are born early, very small, or who are ill.
Highland Park Hospital was the first in Lake County to provide high-risk infant care around the clock from a team of board-certified neonatologists (physicians specializing in the care and development of newborn babies who are ill), using advanced technology.
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In case of complications during pregnancy, specialists in Maternal-Fetal Medicine provide advanced fetal diagnostics and high-risk obstetrical care at a moment's notice. This group specializes in detecting, assessing and - in some cases - even treating genetic problems in unborn babies. Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialists, pediatric cardiologists, ultrasound technicians and genetic counselors provide care for pregnancy complications at multiple locations conveniently throughout Lake County and Northern Cook County. The Center for Maternal and Fetal Health at Evanston Hospital also offers Rapid MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to evaluate abnormalities as well as consultation with several pediatric and surgical specialties. Contact Information The seven Centers for Maternal and Fetal Health are located at Evanston Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital, Highland Park Hospital, Lake Bluff, Northwest Community Healthcare (Arlington Heights), Gurnee, and Libertyville. To schedule an appointment at any location, call 847.570.2860 Monday through Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm.
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Listening is cool and shit." BlackdogMMA
Regardless of what the regulations say about minimall eye sight requirements. If you're blind in one eye I definitely would not recommend competing in any form of striking art. You''ll miss the on coming hook shot on your blind side.
Think of it this way: if a fighter who has 20/20 vision starts to get blood in one eye the fight will often be stopped. You'd be starting off in that condition.
There's no reason you couldn't compete in grappling, BJJ, Judo, wrestling or similar sports, though.


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Hi Guys,
I'm not sure how applicable this question is as its mainly Cisco related, but if anyone could shed some light onto anything, it would be greatly appreciated.
After playing extensively with BT4, ettercap and different VoIP tools I have a technical scenario that I have tried to create in a lab but cannot get to work.
This is the scenario.
Malicious User <-> Cisco IP Phone <-> Cisco Catalyst Switch (providing VLANs 10, 20 and 30) <-> Cisco Router (performing inter-vlan routing)
The Malicious User is placed in the data VLAN, VLAN 10 for example. The phone is placed in the voice VLAN, VLAN 20 for example. We already know that via VLAN hopping we can jump into the voice VLAN, create a dot1q interface in BT4 and ARP poison phone conversations.
However just say there is a third VLAN, VLAN 30 for example which is a management VLAN. ACL's block vlan access from VLAN 10 to VLAN 30, but allow from VLAN 20 to VLAN 30.
So when we VLAN hop into VLAN 20, we can access the management VLAN. Cool.
My goal and point of the lab is to ARP poison traffic on VLAN 30 so I can capture management traffic.
So heres my two questions.
- Because VLAN 30 is a remote network, I cant ARP poison it. I have read mixed reports about remote ARP poisoning, however the closest I have ever come is to ARP poison the gateway on VLAN 20, and hope that I can capture VLAN20->VLAN30 information, which is NOT what I want, and will only result in a one sided poison, half duplex if you will. Is there such thing as remote network ARP poisoning?
- If I cannot remote network ARP poison, can I double VLAN hop (triple VLAN tagging) into VLAN 30? If this is possible I could then ARP poison directly on VLAN 30.
- - Two issues with this, firstly everywhere I've read states that triple tagging is possible and I can understand how technically it could be, but I have yet to see a working example.
- - Secondly, from the vague information about Voice VLAN assignments (VVID), the switchport voice vlan 20 command acts like: switchport trunk allowed vlan 20. I am unsure whether tripple tagging would work over a VVID *trunk*, my theory is it would just drop the packet.
The major problem I'm hitting with triple tagging is custom packet generation. Can anyone suggest a way to build my own packet with additional VLAN headers?
Can anyone confirm/theorize on ANY of this at all?
Thanks, ecks90.


text: Hey guys, the problem was how the checksums were being created on x64 based platforms. It worked fine on 32 bit. I also fixed the relative path to UPX, all should be working fine now. I had to redo how the checksum calculations were being done for the peheaders for the digital signature stealing. It uses disitools by Didier, so it required a bit of modification (and actually downgrading to 0.1) which isn't a big deal. Everything is working like a champ now, shouldn't be getting any of those errors. Sorry about that. -ReL


text: Western United Dairymen Challenges FDA on Misuse of the Name 'Yogurt' February 11, 2013 07:45 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MILK Editors Email Producer organization says "soy yogurt" is being marketed alongside true dairy yogurt in the refrigerated dairy cases at local supermarkets. Source: WUD Weekly Update Western United Dairymen (WUD) has called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take immediate action to stop the misuse of the name "yogurt" in the labeling of certain products. WUD, a producer trade organization that represents about 60% of California's milk production, said its board of directors had recently learned that "soy yogurt" is being marketed alongside true dairy yogurt in the refrigerated dairy cases at local supermarkets. "These products were being displayed in a fashion so as to mislead and confuse consumers as it is labeled as a 'soy milk' based product," said WUD in its complaint filed with the FDA on Feb. 6. WUD has previously registered complaints regarding the misuse of the name "milk" in the labeling of soy beverages. "For whatever reason, the FDA has refused to enforce the standard of identity for milk leading to a multitude of non-milk 'milks' being sold and the diminution of the standard of identity," WUD reports in its Feb. 8 Weekly Update. WUD reminded the FDA that any product that uses the term "milk" as part of the name on its label must conform to the federal standard of identity described as "the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows." "The regulation is clear and does not equivocate: Milk does not come from beans, rice, nuts or anything else–it comes from cows," WUD says. "By using words such as 'soy milk' and 'yogurt' in the labeling of this soy-based product, consumers are doubtlessly misled to believe that it is a product comparable to the nutritional profile and benefits of milk. "The soy product industry's blatant misuse of the term 'milk' and 'yogurt' as part of a coordinated marketing scheme to deceive consumers must be stopped," says WUD. "The explicit strategy identified herein and being employed by the soy industry is an attempt to fraudulently lure customers to their product as a substitute for wholesome, nutritious milk." Back to news Click here to learn more about the Million Dollar Wildfire Relief Challenge, and see how you can help in the rebuilding effort.


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you can use a tool like socat to push A port through tor, but i dont know of a way to port scan thru it.
so say you wanted to push IRC thru tor. assuming everything else is set up right you'd type
socat TCP4-LISTEN:4242,fork SOCKS4A:localhost:irc.freenode.net:6667,socksport= 9050
then you'll point your IRC connection to localhost:4242
so you "should" be able to scan single ports thru tor that way or try to send an exploit. I honestly havent tried though.


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War is the last and worst stain of barbarism on the escutcheon of civilisation.
This term is sometimes used to denote an escutcheon of Pretence.
His escutcheon bore the seven heads, chained, of monarchs whom he had conquered.
His escutcheon 'was the stake, the flame, and good men in it.'
The escutcheon of M. Dambreuse, which covered a square piece of velvet, was repeated there three times.
War when I will, and rest when I list, is the motto of my escutcheon.
The escutcheon is a shield with three swords in the center, and above it a human arm holding a fourth.
To doubt this, would have been to throw a blot upon his own escutcheon.
I said that you would scorn to tarnish the Jackson escutcheon by not playing the game.
The escutcheon was at the foot of the panel, and it was not this that first attracted attention.
late 15c., from Old North French escuchon, variant of Old French escusson, from Vulgar Latin *scutionem, from Latin scutum "shield" (see hide (n.1)).


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First learn to write in the right section. Then after you can start here:
How rare? Study network protocols, computer architecture, communication networks, etc., that you will find your answer, among many other too!I am also interesting in this Windows protocol enough to want to delve into it more, however tuts are a rarity in regards to Netbios SSN, so as a last resort I just had a few questions to ask and hopefuly draw a response...


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Re-establishing communications vital for
search and rescue in tsunami-affected areas
ITU has dispatched emergency telecommunications
equipment to areas severely affected by the tsunami that struck the
coastal areas of Japan following Fridays devastating earthquake
measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale.
ITU has deployed 78 Thuraya satellite phones
equipped with GPS to facilitate search and rescue efforts along with
13 Iridium satellite phones as well as 37 Inmarsat Broadband Global
Area Network terminals. An additional 30 Inmarsat terminals are also
ready for dispatch. The equipment can be charged by car batteries and
are also supplied with solar panels to enable operations during power
In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake
and tsunami, ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré had communicated
with the Government of Japan, expressing profound sorrow at the loss
of life, injuries and human displacement as well as the extensive
damage to property and infrastructure. With the deployment of
emergency telecommunications equipment, Dr Touré said, ITU is
prepared to help the Government and people of Japan in every way
possible in their hour of need and to deal with the colossal tragedy
that has overwhelmed the country with unimaginable loss of life and
property. I hope the deployment of emergency telecommunications
equipment will assist the Government of Japan in search and rescue
operations and re-establish vital communication links.
Re-establishing communications is a critical
tool particularly in the immediate aftermath of disasters to ensure
timely intervention and support for the victims and to assist in
rescue and rehabilitation efforts.
Further details
This initiative builds on the
base that everything depends increasingly on access to information and
communication technologies.
inclusion could be inserted in the list of social rights enshrined in the
Constitution. The poor Internet access that low-income residents in Brazil have
led to members of the Senate to face this reality through a proposed
constitutional amendment pending in front of the Committee on Constitution,
Citizenship and Justice.
survey was conducted by Ipsos-Napoleon Franco in the top ten cities in Colombia
during the month of December 2010. The questions were about knowledge and use
among the general public on the four screens: mobile, computer, Internet and
television. Also, the 1,500 respondents were consulted about the on-line
governance and regulation, public policy and control of ICT contents.
survey analyzes the behavior of Colombians over the technologies of information
and communications. This information will serve as input for the operations
being conducted by the Plan Digital Living to build applications and digital
content to fit the needs and interests of the Colombian consumers in a
converged environment.
the interests of Colombians on information technology and communications will
make us able to develop more effective actions to expand the use of the
Internet", spoke on the theme the ICT Minister, Diego Molano Vega.
study reveals that the fixed or mobile phone is the most common way to interact
with others, even above personal contact, eight of every ten Colombians have a
cell phone and even say they value more than any other medium. The computer is
the medium that follows. Respondents say that they prefer those because of
their convergence and communication capabilities.
the use of Internet, the study shows that the massive Internet is a primary
concern for Colombians, the vast majority (75%) consider it a public policy
priority of President Juan Manuel Santos. Six of
every ten Colombians use the Internet between common and occasionally, children
and youth are the most common users and the older, greater is the reduction in
the use of Internet. Half of
the users of Internet, they do it every day and in average of 3 hours a day
surfing, the same amount of time that they spend watching television. Nine out
of ten Internet users use it to communicate, four out of ten users generated
content and three out of ten users made transactions.
survey also revealed that the main reason why some people still are not
Internet users is the ignorance in the use of the tool, but half of them would
be very interested in using Internet, and to receive training to learn all
about the web.
One of
the conclusions of the study is the speed with which they seem to be changing
certain trends and attitudes of Colombians face of Information and
Communications Technologies. The advance of technology offering is very fast
and the data suggest that the appropriation of it by the population is also
growing at a significant pace.
Source: (Source: MINTIC - Colombia)
Further details
From early morning, once they known the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and the alert to the possible implications in the coastal area of the country, the Minister of Telecommunication and Information Society, Jaime Guerrero Ruiz, made available immediately for increase the Internet capacity (bandwidth) in the main monitoring and control of the National Secretariat of Risk. Similarly, mobile operators modified their ability to give priority to the coastal sector.Once determined by the President of the Republic, Econ. Rafael Correa, who runs the meeting with the Emergency Operations Committee (COE) in Guayaquil, to monitor, analyze and manage preventive evacuation operations along the coast and the island region, the Minister Guerrero decided to increase the capacity of the bandwidth at the offices of the entity.This resolution was established in order to take advantage of the technological tools and be witness of the reports and the testimony from the governors and the commanders of the bases of Galapagos, through the technology that allowed reporting inmediatly to the president Correa and to the media about the real situation in coastal areas and the Galapagos Islands.The efficient use of ICT was innovative because it was crucial to stay calm in the population; as it were instantaneous reports said the Minister of Telecommunications. "It is important to note that the country did not have these tools in the past and that with the presence of the National Government through the Ministry of Telecommunications, day by day we promote the access to information and communication technology tools that allow a radical redefinition of the functioning of society to improve the quality of life across the population", added the Minister.
(Source: Mintel - Ecuador)
Noting that quality
education and womens full access to and participation in science and
technology were imperative for achieving gender equality and womens
empowerment, the Commission on the Status of Women today urged Governments and
relevant United Nations agencies to take appropriate actions to bolster womens
access to education and to specifically strengthen capacities to ensure that
science education policies and curricula were relevant to their
Those were among the key
observations and recommendations at the core of the Commissions agreed
conclusions (document E/CN.6/2011/L.6), reflecting the overall theme of the
45-member bodys fifty-fifth session, access and participation of women and
girls in education, training, science and technology, including for the
promotion of womens equal access to full employment and decent work.
The Commissions 2011 session, which opened at Headquarters on 22
February, had been originally scheduled to close on 4 March, but protracted
negotiations on the agreed conclusions forced it to suspend its work until its
closing today.
Among a host of vital
priorities identified in the agreed conclusions, the Commission stressed that
access to and participation in quality education, including in the science and
technology fields, by women and girls of all ages, was an economic necessity
and provided them with the skills, knowledge and aptitude necessary for
life-long learning, employment, better physical and mental health, and full
participation in social, economic and political development.
agreed conclusions called for action on behalf of women and girls by
Governments, United Nations agencies, and human rights and civil society
groups, among others, in six key areas, including strengthening national
legislation, policies and programmes; expanding access and participation in
education; strengthening gender-sensitive education and training, including in
the field of science and technology; supporting the transition from education
to full employment and decent work; increasing retention and progression of
women in science and technology employment; and making science and technology
responsive to women.
Before the Commission
adopted the text, Commission Vice-Chair Filippo Cinti (Italy) said it had been
the result of extensive and intense negotiations. Unfortunately, those
talks had not been concluded by the deadline for the sessions final scheduled
meeting, but agreement late that Friday night was a testament to the
willingness of delegations to reach consensus.
In closing remarks,
Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United
Nations Entity for General Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women),
said that while the agreed conclusions indeed reflected the commitment of
Member States, they were only a first step and must be implemented and
followed up at the national level. She called on all Member States to
spare no effort to ensure that their aims and objectives were fully addressed, especially
in the six key areas of ongoing concern, such as violence against women and the
situation of rural women and girls.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged students to use
information technology and the Internet creatively to chart a better future for
humanity, saying that the web is a powerful resource and a tool for
The web is integral to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals. Online classrooms and e-learning are creating new
opportunities for education, the Secretary-General said in a message
to the 35th UN International School-UN Conference, whose theme this year is
The Web: Wiring the World.
Web-based data collection is a key to
charting our progress and identifying areas requiring extra attention. Mobile
phones with broadband technology are helping to identify malnourished children
and to connect HIV counsellors with patients, Mr. Ban told the conference in
New York.
He underlined the UNs commitment to
the freedom of information, as proclaimed in Article 19 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and to promoting universal access to the
information and communications technologies (ICTs) that are central to
realizing that right.
One initiative through which we are
pursuing this effort is the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, which
was launched last year by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and
UNESCO [UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] and which aims to
bring broadband technology to everyone, everywhere, so that countries at all stages
of development can benefit, Mr. Ban said.
Emphasizing the power of the Internet to bring about social change, the
Secretary-General cited the dramatic events in North Africa and the
Middle East, where young people have used the web to help transform
societies and turn the tides of history.
It is young people like you who are leading this revolution, who are
not only finding their voices online but are using the technology to
shape a better future for all of us, said Mr. Ban.
Emphasizing the power of the Internet to bring about social change, the
Secretary-General cited the dramatic events in North Africa and the
Middle East, where young people have used the web to help transform
societies and turn the tides of history.
It is young people like you who are leading this revolution, who are
not only finding their voices online but are using the technology to
shape a better future for all of us, said Mr. Ban.
(Source:UN News Centre)
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The scheme, which is funded by Department of Telecom's (DoT)
Universal Service Obligation Funds (USOFs), is for mobile value-added
services and information and communication technologies (ICT) related
livelihood skills for Women's Self Help Groups.
"The scheme is initiated as a gender budget scheme, it adopts an
innovative approach to connect rural women with the information and
communication technologies (ICT) sector, by involving women Self Help
Groups (SHGs)," Patil told reporters.
It will also serve the purpose of increasing the tele density, as
well as broad band connectivity in rural areas, enabling them to join
the cyber community and in this way, bridge the digital divide, states
the details of the scheme.
With the creation of ICT skills sets in rural areas, over a period of
time, these areas can become centres for the consumption and production
of various ICT goods and services, including hubs for processing
outsourced work, it added.
Patil added, "Real development cannot take root if it bypasses women,
who represent the very pivot around which social change takes shape."
(Source:One world South Asia News)
From 2 to 4 March, it was held the International Educational Innovative
Congress 2011, the most important event on education in Mexico, where they
discussed the latest trends and innovations in learning and education
worldwide, to train teachers in our country with the objective of enabling them
to address the "Era of global intelligence," which concluded that it
is necessary to rethink the role of teaching and learning for current and
future generations of Mexicans.
With the support of TELMEX, more than five thousand people, including
teachers, psychologists, teachers, specialists, school administrators and the
general public throughout the country, both public and private schools,
gathered to attend lectures and workshops where they had the opportunity to
discuss problems and solutions for education in Mexico.
Elementary and high school teachers attended the event; also it
was attended by Mrs. Margarita Zavala, who recognized the important work of
teachers in building a better country. In addition, the Master Mario Vargas
Llosa, Nobel Prize in Literature 2010, gave a lecture.
Within the Congress; TELMEX announced the scope of the various
educational initiatives offered by the company in Information and Technology,
which have been developed by the Technological Institute of TELMEX (INTTELMEX)
which is part of the Education and Culture Digital Foundation Telmex and Carlos
These initiatives that strengthen the Digital Education in our country
are provided free of charge through various activities, workshops, programs,
refresher courses and masters in suitable places set by the company with the
latest digital technology and are more than 3 500 Classrooms - TELMEX Digital
Libraries located throughout the country, TELMEX HUB Digital Library of the
Historical Center of Mexico City and the INTTELMEX IT, which together provide an art education offer, ranging from basic
education and technical, to the Master of Information and Technology to train
highly skilled professionals in technology, without having to go abroad.
Thus, the International Congress of Educational Innovation 2011 has been
a space for exchange of information, ideas and experiences on the latest trends
in education, becoming a meeting point for the main stakeholders in education
in our country.
(Source: Telmex - Mexico)
ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré was one of the international leaders to lend his support to the launch of the new Global Network of Women ICT Decision Makers (podcast), which took place at UN headquarters in New York in conjunction with the 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
initiative of Serbias Minister of Communications and Information
Society, Ms Jasna Matiæ, the network aims to provide support, global
information exchange and mentorship for high-placed women in the
information and communications (ICT) industry.
by Minister Matiæ and Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN
Women, the idea for the network emerged during ITUs Plenipotentiary
Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, last October. It was subsequently
included in Resolution 70 of that conference, garnering overwhelming
support from PP-10 delegates.
In a video message to support the launch,
Dr Touré said ITU was committed to promoting ICTs as tools to empower
women and girls, as well as to encouraging more girls and women into the
ICT industry offers many incentives to those looking for abundant
career opportunities, engaging, cutting edge work, and substantial
remuneration, Dr Touré said. In the world today, there are about 850
million young women aged under 24. With the ICT sector now serving as
the worlds single biggest growth engine for jobs, were going to need
their skills, their enthusiasm, and their fresh ideas.
ITU Secretary-General went on to express his hope that one of the major
achievements of the new Global Network of Women ICT Decision Makers
will be to showcase the many talented women working in the ICT field,
and to promote these women as inspiring role-models for a new generation
of female ICT leaders.
As the 55th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
unfolds in New York, FAO urges world leaders to ensure that rural women are
fully included in the design, testing and use of agricultural technologies and
During its annual session to review
progress on gender equality and to identify critical areas where challenges
remain, CSW invited Member States representatives, United
Nations agencies and NGOs from all regions of the world to share experiences
and lessons learned on this years theme: "Access
and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and
technology, including for the promotion of womens equal access to full
employment and decent work".
At the CSW, FAO together with IFAD, WFP
and the World Bank, held two side events that focused on the practical steps
needed to improve rural womens access to productive technologies. Together
with IFAD
and the World Bank,
FAO presented research and experiences, carried out jointly with IFAD, on the
use of agricultural technologies among small and resource-poor farmers, as well
as discussed new farming techniques to help increase food security and enhance
the livelihoods of rural women and men.
Eve Crowley - Principal Advisor, Gender, Equity and Rural
Employment Division - discusses some of the benefits that science and
technology brings to rural women, and the obstacles preventing them from taking
full advantage of agricultural innovations:
How can science and technology benefit
and empower rural women?
Science and technology offers solutions
to many challenges faced by rural women: they can contribute to food security
by boosting crop yields; reduce womens domestic and productive work by
introducing labour-saving technologies; and increase participation of women in
the rural labour market through better communications.
(Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO)
The device used in the Massachusetts National Hospital did hit the tumor
diagnosis in 96% of patients.
With only a mobile phone, a thin needle and a small
molecular magnetic resonance apparatus it is possible to detect cancerous
tumors. This was explained by the doctors at Massachusetts
General Hospital in an article published in the journal Science
Translational Medicine.
Thanks to this innovative system used by doctors could succeed in the diagnosis
of cancer in 96% of patients, a figure higher than with the traditional biopsy.
"The system prevents patients undergo to procedures that are painful and
potentially dangerous", said Cesar M. Castro from Harvard Medical School,
Boston, and a member of the team that developed the procedure.
Through the collection of a portion of tumor tissue, which is subjected to an
"immunohistochemistry" (a test that uses a specific procedure that
"mark" the existence of cancer cells), is how they do the diagnostic
of molecular analysis fast. To this are added biopsies and in some cases,
previous surgeries.
The nuclear magnetic resonance micro device used nanoparticles as sensors
that measure the chemicals in the cells and the device is connected to a phone,
so that doctors can measure and read the data next to the patient's bed.
After scanning the tissues from patients to detect the expression of nine key
proteins, the doctors correctly identified to 44 patients who had malignant
tumors, and each of the diagnoses was confirmed with conventional biopsy.
(Source: Peru 21 news paper)
Ms. Migiro pointed out that global commitments to achieving universal
primary education and gender parity, at all levels of education, have
had a beneficial impact on girls school enrolment and retention rates
in many countries, but the quality of education has not kept pace,
particularly in the developing world.
Many children leave school without basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Girls and women are under-represented in science and technology,
education and employment. They are simply not getting the knowledge and
skills they need for todays competitive and changing job market.
Your discussions at this session can help connect the dots among those
key issues affecting womens prospects and well-being, said Ms. Migiro.
She said the launch of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN Women) will galvanize worldwide efforts to
realize the rights and opportunities of women and girls.
UN Women will build on the strong foundation of international norms and
policies developed by the United Nations over decades. It will provide a
strong and unified voice. It will work throughout the United Nations
system to strengthen coherence and to ensure accountability, said Ms.
(Source: UN News Centre)
In the presence of the Minister of
Transport and Communications (MTC) Dr. Enrique Cornejo Ramírez was signed the
Project Financing Agreement "Integration of Rural Areas and Social
Interest Preferred locations to the Network Service - Forest", which
includes the implementation of fixed services and mobile telephony for 199
locations and over 20 thousand households in six regions: Amazonas,
Junín, Loreto,
Madre de Dios, San Martin and Ucayali;
which will benefit to 127.205 people.
The signing of the Financing Agreement was signed between the Technical
Secretariat of the Investment in Telecommunications, FITEL, Dr.
Pilar Tejada and Mr. Javier Manzanares, Chairman of Telefónica Móviles del Peru
The project, which will require an investment of US$ 14'717,777 from Fitel resource
will benefit to 199 forest places in the departments of Amazonas, Junín,
Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín and Ucayali. Telefonica will provide the
entire infrastructure, operate and maintain the networks. Also they will develop
further awareness and dissemination activities to inform and encourage the
population on the use of telecommunications services.
The financing of the Investment in Telecom (Fitel) will be used to design,
equipment acquisition, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of
systems that will provide public telecommunications services in the targeted
The installation of telecommunications infrastructure to provide services and
mobile telephony as well as dissemination and awareness of the project must be
made within 12 months.
(Source: MTC - Peru)
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At the first executive board meeting UN Women, the newly created
entity which will focus on the overall condition of females, Puri said
it needs to effectively prioritise its goals if it wants to achieve
"Our effort should, therefore, be to prioritise the focus on gender
equality, the empowerment of women and gender mainstreaming", the top
Indian diplomat said. Setting out a 100-day action plan, former Chilean president and now head
of UN women, Michelle Bachelet, laid out five priorities.
These included - ending violence against women; ensuring women's full
participation in conflict resolution, enhancing women's economic
empowerment as well as expanding leadership and participation.
"I am determined that UN Women will be a catalyst for change,
offering new energy, drawing on long-standing ideas and values", she
told the board. Puri said that from India's national perspective the priority areas Bachelet mentioned were "extremely important."
"These mirror the priorities of our Government as well as the
extremely proactive civil society in India", he underlined. The Indian
envoy also stressed that lack of coordination among the various UN
actors was a major constraint for reform.
"Multiplicity of UN actors in the field had led to lack of
accountability and delays in identifying the right agency for
cooperation", he said, adding that the 100-day Action Plan rightly
addresses this as one of the core principles for UN Women.
Puri, however, pointed out that last year Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon had proposed that the UN Women be created with the initial
corpus of USD 1 billion but now the target had been set for USD 500
million. "The lower target of USD 500 million should not make us
complacent and limit ourselves", he said.
(Source: Hindustantimes)
Ministry of Environment and the Telecommunications company Claro, have signed
an agreement that aims to create a platform for inter-agency collaboration to
implement mechanisms for coordination and cooperation, promoting the activities
of mutual interest and benefit, for the purpose of disseminating issues linked
to environmental management and conservation and sustainable use of natural
In this context, CLARO has been developing some time ago its iniciative "I recycle, I'm Claro" initiative that seeks to promote concern
for environmental care in the population through responsible disposal of cell
phones, batteries and accessories in disuse , nationwide.
In Peru, electronic waste (RAEE) such as cell phones, for
example, generate about 250 tons of electronic waste, stored improperly, cause
environmental damage and health of people due to the high toxicity of its small
components produced based on metals and minerals such as aluminum, copper,
iron, zinc, lead, tin, among others.
In this regard, the Ministry of Environment undertakes to
support all initiatives and events undertaken in the framework of this
strategic alliance for the benefit of a better quality of life and environment
for all Peruvians.
For its part, CLARO, through such actions, seeks to
implement the necessary mechanisms to strengthen the culture of recycling in
the country, while providing all the Peruvians a sustainable alternative to
discard all those teams that are no longer used in a responsible manner, without
causing further damage to the environment.
(Source:MINAM - Peru)
Mr. Nwanze called for investing in rural youth and helping them become better and more successful farmers and business people.
These young people are the next generation of farmers, producers and
workers, he said. Give them the skills and confidence they need to run
profitable farms or start businesses, and they will become the
upstanding citizens and community leaders of tomorrow.
Ignore them, and they will have little option but to leave their homes
and families to search for work in the cities, seeking better lives but
oftentimes finding only more misery, he warned.
In most developing countries, agriculture is already the leading
provider of employment for people ages 15 to 24, according to IFAD.
However, agriculture rarely provides a living wage and the sector is
typified by low levels of productivity, dangerous work and lack of
social protection.Rural youth is the main focus of this year's
session, which features agricultural and rural development experts,
young entrepreneurs from rural areas and youth leaders, and will explore
some of the challenges faced by rural young people. (Source: UN News)Full Story
These young people are the next generation of farmers, producers and
workers, he said. Give them the skills and confidence they need to run
profitable farms or start businesses, and they will become the
upstanding citizens and community leaders of tomorrow.
Ignore them, and they will have little option but to leave their homes
and families to search for work in the cities, seeking better lives but
oftentimes finding only more misery, he warned.
In most developing countries, agriculture is already the leading
provider of employment for people ages 15 to 24, according to IFAD.
However, agriculture rarely provides a living wage and the sector is
typified by low levels of productivity, dangerous work and lack of
social protection.
Rural youth is the main focus of this year's
session, which features agricultural and rural development experts,
young entrepreneurs from rural areas and youth leaders, and will explore
some of the challenges faced by rural young people.
(Source: UN News)
The Ministry of
Telecommunication and Information Society (Mintel) runs one of its flagship
projects "INFOCENTROS" to promote social development and inclusive of
the population through access to Information Technology.
7:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Digital Brigade's of the ICT Ministry will conduct a simulation of earthquake with the participation
of the School of Engineering, Militar University of Nueva Granada. This
exercise aims to involve communities in digital volunteers in order to use the
technology for the relief agencies responsible for dealing with natural
disasters in the country.
The idea of bringing an earthquake simulation was born
into the mastery of risk management of the Nueva Granada Military University.
Once the ICT Ministry met this unique initiative in the country, joined the
squad through the Redsalvavidas de la Brigada Digital, a volunteer group
whose purpose is to demonstrate that ICT also save lives.
The aim is to advance a simulation of an
"earthquake" that would fictitious centered in the university area of
the city of Manizales. Digital Volunteers, 42 in total, grouped into twitter
and mappers in the country, will be connected with the crisis room of the
Nueva Granada Military University and through its technological tools
facilitate the work of institutions responsible for dealing with disasters such
phenomena natural.
The fictional exercise
intended several reports to advance the public perception of the earthquake
through various reports supplied by the twitter notionally exercise
participants, who represent the Manizales affected by the earthquake of course.
The event will simulate the actions to be brought
forward during the first four days after the earthquake. Between 7:00 a.m. and
11:00 a.m. will develop the analysis of what is known as EDAN, the Damage
Assessment and Needs Analysis of the community, allegedly affected during the
first day of natural phenomenon, and between 11:00 am and 2:00 p.m. the work will
focus on actions to be brought forward in the three remaining days of the
This exercise aims to involve technology in the service of
natural phenomena that occur in the country and offer alternatives supported by
tools like Twitter and digital maps.
(Source: Mintic - Colombia)
City of Joy will serve 180 women between the ages of 14 and 35 every
year with psychotherapy an extensive training programme comprising
literacy, economics and sexuality education. The project is also
supported by the Panzi Foundation, which manages a nearby gynaecological
Congolese women are the driving force behind City of Joy. Their needs
and wishes form the basis of this project, which aims to turn the tide
in DR Congo from women as victims to women as leaders. Created from
their vision, City of Joy will be operated by women themselves.
City of Joy marks the latest chapter in the ongoing campaign, Stop
Raping our Greatest Resource: Power to the Women and Girls of DRC,
which V-Day and UNICEF launched in 2007. The new project will provide a
powerful new platform for womens empowerment.
The opening of the City of Joy is the moment where women of the
Congo turn their pain to power, where they who have suffered so deeply,
so invisibly, will claim their rights, their bodies and their future,
said author and V-Day founder Eve Ensler. It is a huge privilege and
honour to be present at this momentous occasion.
(Source: UNICEF)
By signing the memorandum of understanding between the ICT Ministry, the Government of Tolima, the mayor of Ibague and the University of Tolima, was implemented in this region, the strategy "Digital Tolima", which aims to increase the use and Internet access in this department. The agreement was signed on Sunday, when the ICT Minister, Diego Molano Vega, sponsor of this department in the rainy season, visited several places of Tolima.This region is the first to realize this type of agreement, during the administration of the Minister Molano Vega, and seeks to bring the information superhighway for more municipalities and generate profits through the use of Internet.In his speech, the Minister mentioned the importance of ICT literacy and digital delivery of computer equipment in the country through the ICT Ministry's social program, "Computers for Schools". This strategy is intended that 50 percent of the teachers in the country will be certified digitally this year. As for the delivery of equipment for schools, the Minister Molano said, previously they only reused the equipments, whereas now the Ministry also claims that for each computer donated by the ICT Ministry, other public bodies also will provide more equipments to the program.The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development (Beatriz Uribe), and the Governor of Tolima, Oscar Barreto Quiroga and 41 mayors of the municipalities in the department. In what has to do with humanitarian aid and attention to secondary roads affected by the cold wave in the Tolima, the Government announced the delivery of 10 billion dollars to recover them.According to the Government of Tolima, in this department 1,433 urban and 1,632 rural households were affected by the winter and 1,196 houses are in high risk areas. The municipalities Ambalema, Amaranth, Flanders, Honda, San Luis, Rioblanco and Ortega are the most affected.
(Source: El Mundo online)
About a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study
of Wikipedias contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13
percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s,
according to the study by a joint center of the United Nations University and Maastricht University.
Sue Gardner, the executive director of the foundation, has set a goal to
raise the share of female contributors to 25 percent by 2015, but she
is running up against the traditions of the computer world and an
obsessive fact-loving realm that is dominated by men and, some say,
uncomfortable for women.
Her effort is not diversity for diversitys sake, she says. This is
about wanting to ensure that the encyclopedia is as good as it could
be, Ms. Gardner said in an interview on Thursday. The difference
between Wikipedia and other editorially created products is that
Wikipedians are not professionals, they are only asked to bring what
they know.
Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table, she said. If
they are not at the table, we dont benefit from their crumb.
With so many subjects represented most everything has an article on
Wikipedia the gender disparity often shows up in terms of emphasis. A
topic generally restricted to teenage girls, like friendship bracelets,
can seem short at four paragraphs when compared with lengthy articles
on something boys might favor, like, toy soldiers or baseball cards,
whose voluminous entry includes a detailed chronological history of the
(Source:The New York Times)
Millennia2015, "Women actors of development for the
global challenges" is an international research process which gathers
women and men determined to enforce the empowerment of women and the
respect of human rights in every country. It is a worldwide
think-and-action tank supported by a steering committee and
thematic or regional communities, counting now more than 1.000 members
from all the continents. Millennia2015 invites us to think together
until 2015 about those issues in order to build a sustainable future in
solidarity for all the women at the horizon 2025.
This research work is built with foresight as a method (www.millennia2015.org/Method)
and the information society as context, in solidarity and interaction
with those - women and men - who do not have an access to information
and communication technologies. It is a collaborative project including
research centers, international processes, civil society and all the
stakeholders acting towards the same goals.
Your contribution is very important for
Millennia2015's foresight research process. Studying the results of the
"information transfer" phase organized in Liege in 2008, we have
extracted the 37 variables of Millennia2015.
Among them, we would like you to choose the variables that you relate
to most, to analyze and document them by answering the questions
proposed below and publishing your answers on the online form. We
suggest you to collect different testimonies in order to present the
situation as precisely as possible. It will also be interesting to study
the chosen variables in interaction with others that complete them in
order to identify crossed impacts which emerge from the analysis.
The variable analysis ("fiches variables") you will
present will help us to identify the long term issues, the problems and
the possible solutions linked to Millennia2015 37 variables in
relation with your country, region or community. We will analyze them
together to formulate scenarios, to identify the long term issues, to
build the vision at the horizon 2025 and the strategy to reach it. As a
result, we will build the Millennia2015 Action Plan that will be
finalized during the international conference organized at the UNESCO at
the end of 2011.
The report Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty
says although gender inequality varies considerably across regions
and sectors, there is evidence that, globally, women benefit less from
rural employment, whether in self- or wage-employment, than men do.
At the same time, the report says that besides other challenges
regarding gender disparities in rural employment, the recent financial
and food crises have slowed down the progress towards greater gender
equity and decent work for women in agricultural and rural areas over
the past few years. With job losses and cuts in spending on social services and
infrastructure, womens care burdens and unpaid work have intensified,
and their financial contribution to household food security is likely to
decrease, the report says. This is particularly dramatic for
female-headed households.
The report also cites migration and the feminization of rural
activities, international trade and the diversification of the rural
economy, and child labour as other issues and trends affecting women
employed in agricultural work.
The report by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the
International Labour Organization (ILO) brings together the latest
thinking on the gender dimension of rural and agricultural work and
seeks to promote the debate about the importance of women for rural
economic growth and poverty reduction.
The report says some of the factors that may push women into a
disadvantage economic position are: employment (occupation and task),
segmentation (women are disproportionately employed in low-quality
jobs), the gender gap in earnings, and fewer hours of paid work but
overall larger work burdens.
As an example, the report says it is interesting to observe that 90
percent of the wage gap between men and women in developed or developing
counties is unexplained: in other words, it is attributed to gender
The report shows that women face discrimination that limits both
their economic productivity and their personal development. Women need
access to education, training, credit, markets, technical assistance and
labour protection. They need equal, secure access to land and other
assets. And they need social capital, including the ability to
participate equally with men in farmers organizations.
(Source: International Labor Organization)
The Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Society by the National Telecommunications Corporation (CNT EP) continue working for the benefit of society, with the implementation of new Integrated Services Centers (CIS).Now, the cantons are served with three CIS: Cuenca, Gualaceo and Paute, in the province of Azuay, they were designed and developed with the purpose of improving the quality of care of people within the field of telecommunications.
With the implementation of the CIS are benefiting 24,000 users, from which 10,000 are in Cuenca; 8,000 are in Gualaceo and 6,000 in Paute, who will have access to fixed and mobile telecommunications services.These Integrated Services Centers have customer service modules: Cuenca implemented six, and two in Paute and Gualaceo. In addition to bills collection offices, they implemented modules for business advisers who will be responsible for the commercialization of fixed telephony products, marketing of mobile services and technical assistance for customers.In addition, providing sales of telephone lines, transfer, assignment of rights, activation and service blocking, Broadband Internet, authorizations, receipt of reports of damages, and future mobile TV. With regard to infrastructure, there are spaces for the disabled and elderly clients, health care and guardianship to ensure the safety of users.With the implementation of CIS will benefit the population of Cuenca, in Gualaceo, parishes, Simon Bolivar, Daniel Cordova, Jadan, Mariano Moreno, Remigio Crespo, San Juan, Zhidmad and Luis Cordero; in Paute, Bulan, El Cabo, Guarainag , San Cristobal, Tomebamba and Dug Dug.Importantly, the province of Azuay, in the field of telecommunications, has made significant progress, thanks to work performed by the Government. Until now, Azuay, excluding Cuenca, has 28,457 telephone lines; during 2010, 5,675 telephone lines were implemented. Regarding the number of Internet ports at the time, it has 741 ports. In 2010 it implemented 693. The social investment for the implementation of the CIS was US$ 55,000, distributed as follows: Cuenca US$ 25,000, Paute and Gualaceo US$ 15,000.
(Source: Mintel -Ecuador)
Cuba is the only country in the Western
Hemisphere that is not connected to the rest of the world with fiber optic
cables. Instead, they use satellite communications which is slow and costly,
especially for Europe.
A specialized ship arrived in Venezuela with
sufficient fiber on board to connect the South American country with Cuba and
soon will begin laying the cable on the seabed, with this they expected to
improve the dramatic telephone and Internet service situation for Cubans. The French ship Ile de Batz is anchored on the
Venezuelan coast since Sunday and is ready to begin the task in the coming
days, said Jose Ignacio Quintero, manager of the company's solutions by the
French Alcatel-Lucent. The boat
brought the fiber optic cable from the French port of Calais. Quintero said on Tuesday
that the Cable of more than 1,600 miles must be running in July and will go
from Camurí in Venezuela to Siboney in Cuba.
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Cuba is the only country in the Western
Hemisphere that is not connected to the rest of the world with fiber optic
cables. Instead, they use satellite communications, which is slow and costly,
especially in Europe. Also, due to the U.S. trade restrictions against Cuba,
companies from other countries avoid doing business with Cuba.
Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez,
said that he plans to be there to inaugurate the project, one more of many
joint efforts of the two countries. The cable is called "ALBA 1",
referring to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of America, comprising
Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda and
St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Cuban officials have said that the project will cost about US$ 70
million. Quintero declined to comment on the cost of the project.
After the cable comes to Cuba, an extension will also
connect to the neighboring Jamaica, about 245 km, making the total distance of
the two segments about 1,800 kilometers. The cable will has as a starting point
a crossroads of other international telecom cables, including one that
stretches from Brazil to Florida, said Quintero. Alcatel-Lucent, which has experience in installing
similar lines in many parts of the world, affix the fiber optic cable in
various fields, such as the Cuban coast area descending to a depth of about
19,000 feet (5,800 meters), said the manager.


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Brevard, N.C. – What has become a tradition around this time of year, the Brevard College men's baseball team helped to light up Brevard on Saturday night during the Twilight Tour, which was part of the Brevard Christmas Festival.
The men's baseball team, like many of the other Brevard College student-athletes, participated in the Christmas Parade on Saturday afternoon. After the parade, the Tornados helped the Heart of Brevard in a number of ways, such as manning and working stations and booths downtown during the festivities as well as setting up luminaries throughout the downtown area.
Coach Anderson and his squad, who have helped with this event for four years now, also were part of the clean up crew, helping to clean up Brevard at the festivals conclusion late Saturday night.
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Fiesta DWI Arrests Approach 200
A lot of people will remember Fiesta 2014 as the day their life started going downhill.
The Bexar County District Attorney says 178 people have been arrested for drunk driving during Fiesta, and two of the three big parade days are yet to come.
"That is a lot, but it is also due to the fact that there are more officers out there who are dedicated to only doing DWIs," said Arthur Pue of the DA's staff.
Officials pledged before the start of this year's Fiesta to crack down on drunk driving toward a goal of having zero drunk driving fatalities.
"They are getting more intoxicated drivers off the streets before it results in tragedies," Pue said. "Before they maim somebody or kill somebody."
It is estimated that just a standard first time DWI, without an accident or any extenuating circumstances, like a small child in the car, will cost the motorist $18,000. That covers the costs of fines and fees, as well as higher insurance rates, attorneys fees, the costs of mandatory alcohol counseling, lost wages, and other fees. A drunk driving arrest can also mean termination for anybody whose job includes driving, and the loss of a license may make it difficult to keep a job of any sort in this city with limited public transportation.
But it appears some people just don't listen.


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Joe Jonas Medium Wavy Hairstyle
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- Hair Length: Medium
- Hair Elasticity: Wavy
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- Hair Density: Medium/Thick
- Hair Texture: Fine/Medium
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- Glasses: Without glasses suits best
- Styling Time: 10 minutes
- Products: Mousse and Smoothing Shine
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Apply styling mousse to damp hair, using your palm as a measuring guide, and evenly distribute it along the hair shaft. Styling mousse will add hold and can help achieve better results.
2 . Use a Blow-dryer and Fingers to Dry Your Hair Off
Using your blow-dryer, dry your hair using your fingers, separating the hair and allowing it to dry at the roots first then the mid lengths and then the ends. Making sure the roots are dry first will ensure that your hairstyle does not fall flat.
3 . Apply Smoothing Shine
Apply a very small amount of smoothing shine to the palms of your hands and then run it through the mid-lengths and ends of your hair. Be careful not to add any to the roots or a large amount to any section of the hair as smoothing shine can be very heavy on the hair, weighing it down and making it appear oily.


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Would Mayweather's counterpunching be as effective against Manny's workrate and movement?
Would Manny be able to avoid the precise shots of Mayweather on the way out?
They're questions every boxing fan wants answered. I can see why they are mulling over the fight so much but it certainly wouldn't affect the losers legacy a great deal imo. It's such fights that make a fighters career.
I'm with you on wanting Pacman to win any potential matchup. His attitude is fantastic in and outside the ring.


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Obama is right: Fox News promoting "destructive" GOP agenda
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In a recent Rolling Stone interview, President Obama said Fox News is part of the tradition of using the press "very intentionally to promote their viewpoints" because Fox "has a very clear, undeniable point of view" that "is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth" of the country. Indeed, Fox has a long history of actively promoting the Republican agenda and of opposing economic positions which economists say would stimulate growth.
Obama: Fox a "destructive" network that uses its platform "very intentionally to promote" its "point of view"
Obama: Fox "has a very clear, undeniable point of view" that "is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth" of the country. In an interview to appear in the October 15 edition of Rolling Stone, Obama stated his belief that Fox News is a "destructive" network that uses its platform to "very intentionally promote" its point of view, which is "ultimately destructive for the long-term growth" of the country:
The golden age of an objective press was a pretty narrow span of time in our history. Before that, you had folks like Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints. I think Fox is part of that tradition -- it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view. It's a point of view that I disagree with. It's a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world. But as an economic enterprise, it's been wildly successful. And I suspect that if you ask Mr. Murdoch what his number-one concern is, it's that Fox is very successful.
Obama is right: Fox has an extensive record of pushing GOP agenda, candidates
Five potential Republican presidential candidates are employed by -- and speak almost exclusively through -- Fox. As Media Matters documented, five potential Republican presidential candidates are employed by Fox News as contributors or hosts and have made at least 269 appearances on the cable channel -- compared to a total of six appearances on all other major news channels combined. Fox also has a record of supporting ex-employees' bids for elected office with free airtime, fundraising opportunities, and on-air adulation.
Fox lavished coverage on the GOP's legislative agenda. Following the House Republican Conference's unveiling of its 2010 legislative agenda, "A Pledge to America," Fox lavished attention on the pledge, devoting at least 2 hours and 33 minutes on September 22 and 23 to promoting, discussing, and reporting the agenda.
FoxPAC: Fox News' corporate parent gave Republican Governors Association $1 million. News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, causing journalism experts and news veterans to criticize the donation for "compromising the appearance of fairness."
Fox News host and contributors also raise big bucks for the GOP. Meanwhile, Fox News hosts and contributors -- including Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Karl Rove, Dick Morris, and Sean Hannity -- continue to raise money for Republican candidates and causes using political action committees and 527 and 501(c)4 organizations. Delaware's Republican U.S. senatorial candidate, Christine O'Donnell, even thanked Palin and several other Fox-tied supporters for propelling her to a primary victory over Rep. Mike Castle.
Fox also supports candidates with fawning free coverage and serves as a launching pad for their campaigns. Republican candidates regularly appear on Fox for softball interviews to launch their campaigns and promote fundraising. Indeed, Nevada's Republican U.S. senatorial candidate Sharron Angle recently bragged to supporters that her appearances on a "friendly press outlet" like Fox are very profitable for her.
Fox News aggressively promoted tea party protests. Fox News aggressively promoted the tea party protests which the channel described as primarily a response to Obama's fiscal policies, going so far as to host several of the network's shows on location at protests.
Fox has a history of adopting and promoting GOP talking points -- without even stopping to edit them. Recently, following Republican Congressmen Kevin McCarthy's and John Boehner's repeated assertions that failing to vote on tax cuts will inject "uncertainty" into the economy on Fox News Sunday, Fox personalities ran with the talking point, spreading the claim throughout the network. Similarly, last year, Fox News host Jon Scott aired a segment purporting to "take a look back" at how the economic recovery plan "grew, and grew, and grew." In doing so, Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods -- all of which came directly from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release. A Fox News on-screen graphic even reproduced a typo contained in the Republican press release. Fox did not attribute the data to the Senate Republican Communications Center at the time. The following day, Scott apologized -- for running the typo.
Economists agree with Obama: proposals pushed by Fox bad for long-term growth
Fox has opposed every major effort to stimulate the economy -- despite economists' support. Since Obama took office, Fox personalities have opposed every major package proposed to stimulate the economy, despite support from a consensus of economists and economic analysts. Recent opposition has included Obama's newly proposed infrastructure plan, the extension of unemployment insurance, aid to states, and food stamps, all of which have been shown to stimulate the economy.
Fox's campaign to extend tax cuts for the wealthy would add debt, do little to stimulate growth. Over the past few months, Fox has launched a campaign aimed at extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich. However, economists and financial analysts agree that those cuts will cost $700 billion and would be much less effective at stimulating the economy than extending unemployment insurance, food stamps, and providing direct aid to states - all proposals which Fox personalities have repeatedly opposed.
Fox opposed the stimulus and since bill's passage, have repeatedly falsely claimed that it failed. In covering the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly referred to as the stimulus, Fox News consistently advanced false and misleading claims about the economic recovery package. Since the bill's passage, Fox News figures have repeatedly advanced the false claim that the stimulus "failed," despite the fact that independent and private analysts agree that the stimulus boosted GDP and increased employment.
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Tornados Sweep CobrasApril 5, 2014
HARTSVILLE, S.C.-The Brevard College Tornados won both games of their doubleheader with Coker College 5-4 to earn a sweep of the Cobras on Saturday afternoon at Saleeby-Stokes Field.
Game 1: Brevard 5, Coker 4
The Tornados quickly erased a 2-0 deficit with a run in the 2nd and three more in the 3rd before BC scored the eventual winning run on an Alyssa Miller RBI single in the 4th.
Kinsey Parrish cracked a two-out solo homer in the 2nd to spark the BC offense.
Ally Davenport, Miller and Brittany Fowler then started the 3rd with three straight singles. Casey Whitaker singled to tie the game before Miller scored on a throwing error to give BC a 3-2 advantage.
Kinny Davis made it 4-2 with a sacrifice fly to bring Fowler home.
BC starter Jamie Hrobak (W, 9-8) was able to withstand late offense from Coker as the Cobras added a run in the 5th and another in the 6th before the sophomore stranded the winning run on second in the 7th with a strikeout and a fly out to end the game.
Game 2: Brevard 5, Coker 4
Parrish connected on her second homer of the day, a three-run shot in the 7th, to give BC a 5-4 lead as the Tornados rallied from a 4-0 deficit with five runs over the final two innings. The Tornados pieced together five hits in their final two at-bats.
Lauren Parker got BC going in the 6th with a grounder that scored Fowler, and Davis made it a two-run game with a feilder's choice groundball to score Whitaker.
Hrobak (W, 10-8) tossed four scoreless innings to close the game after Miller allowed four runs (two earned) over the first three innings.
The Tornados return home on Monday to host a rescheduled doubleheader with Queens University beginning at 2 p.m.


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Pace University is committed to making a Pace education affordable. University-sponsored scholarships are awarded to students on the basis of academic merit, service to the community, and financial need. To explore opportunities specifically for Lubin students, use the links at the left for details. For other scholarships and financial aid, visit the University's Office of Financial Aid.
Undergraduate students, please note that applications for many of the scholarships indicated are available at the Lubin Office of Undergraduate Academic Advisement: in NYC: Section G, 4th Floor, West, 1 Pace Plaza, phone (212) 618-6550 or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com and in Pleasantville: First Floor, Goldstein Academic Academic Center, phone (914)773- 3531.
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Pace University strives to provide opportunities to students of diverse backgrounds and varied circumstances. To that end, the University is committed to offering financial aid to students to the fullest extent of its resources. Pace's comprehensive student financial assistance program includes scholarships, graduate assistantships, student loans (federal and alternative plans), and tuition payment plans. Scholarships are awarded to students in recognition of superior academic achievement and are available for full- and part-time study. Highly qualified students may be eligible for assistantships awarded by departments, which pay a stipend as well as tuition remission.
Pace participates in all major federal and state financial aid programs such as Direct Loans, New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), Perkins Loan, and Federal Work-Study. All students are encouraged to apply for these programs by filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which can be obtained from any of the University's Financial Aid Offices:
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Premiere magazine once called Gwyneth Paltrow the modern actress "most likely to assume the mantle of Audrey Hepburn." Paltrow was born into the business: her father was the director Bruce Paltrow, and her mother the actress Blythe Danner. Paltrow made her movie debut in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991), and then grew into a willowy blonde beauty who had leading roles in the thriller Seven (1995, with Brad Pitt) and the Jane Austen flick Emma (1996). She proved herself as a leading lady by winning the best actress Oscar for playing Viola De Lesseps in the romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love (1998, with Imelda Staunton). Paltrow's romantic relationships with actors Pitt and Ben Affleck also kept her in the public eye, until she married singer Chris Martin of the band Coldplay in December of 2003. (She and Martin were married for 10 years, until announcing their separation in March of 2014.) Paltrow's other films include The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, with Matt Damon and Cate Blanchett), Duets (2000, directed by her father, Bruce Paltrow), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, with Ben Stiller and Gene Hackman), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004, with Jude Law), Proof (2005, with Jake Gyllenhaal), and The Good Night (2007, directed by her brother Jake Paltrow).
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have a daughter, Apple (b. 2004) and a son, Moses (b. 2006)… Her brother Jake Paltrow (b. 1975) is a film writer and director… Bruce Paltrow was the executive producer of the TV series St. Elsewhere, among his many other credits.
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Essayist and novelist Louis Bayard is the author of several books including Mr. Timothy (2003), a New York Times notable book, and The Black Tower (2008). His historical thriller The Pale Blue Eye (2006), a national bestseller, features a young Edgar Allan Poe at West Point helping a detective solve a string of mysterious murder cases.
Dana Gioia, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (2003-2009), is an acclaimed poet, critic, and literary anthologist. His third collection of poetry, Interrogations at Noon (2001), won the American Book Award. He has also written collections of essays, including, Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992; 2002) and Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (2004).
Under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has written one of the most popular children's serials ever, A Series of Unfortunate Events, which chronicle the travails of the Baudelaire orphans. Handler also writes novels under his own name.
A former Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1973 to 1974, the position now known as U.S. Poet Laureate, Daniel Hoffman (1923-2013) published more than 11 books of poetry and seven volumes of essays and criticism. His biography of Edgar Allan Poe, titled Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (1971), was nominated for the National Book Award.
Emmy award-winning actor and member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Charles Keating (1941-2014) worked in television, theater, and film for over three decades. He starred in a one-man show that grappled with aging, I and I: The Sense of Self.
Writer Laura Lippman is best known for her series of crime novels featuring detective Tess Monaghan. A master of the genre, she has won the Agatha, Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus awards.
Noted for her cultural criticism in books such as Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), and commentaries appearing regularly in Salon and Interview, Camille Paglia is a public intellectual who serves as professor of humanities at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Former U.S. Poet Laureate (1987-1988) Richard Wilbur has won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Things of This World, in 1957, and the second for New and Collected Poems in 1989. He has taught at Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and Smith College.
Arthur Yorinks has written over two dozen books for children, including the Caldecott Medal winner, Hey, Al (1986). He also writes and directs for opera, theater, dance, film, and radio. He wrote the libretto and Phillip Glass the music for the opera The Fall of the House of Usher.
Irish poet Eavan Boland is professor of English at Stanford University, where she directs the creative writing program.
Actor Sam Elliott 's notable films include Lifeguard (1976), The Big Lebowski (1998), and Thank You for Smoking (2006).
Poet Stanley Plumly serves as a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland.
Actress Marian Seldes (1928-2014) had a career in stage, television, film, and radio productions spanning six decades. In 1996 she was elected to the Theater Hall of Fame.


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South Carolina's Powerball® Jackpot Winner comes forward, remains anonymous
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The winner of South Carolina's nearly $400 million Powerball® jackpot has come forward. The winning ticket was presented to the South Carolina Education Lottery Monday afternoon by a Columbia area resident who declined to be identified.
In a conversation, the winner shared that this was only the second time he's played the Lottery. He was home alone on Thursday when he checked his Powerball® ticket and turned around and around in his kitchen telling only his little dog that he had won. He went on to say he stopped for gas at the Murphy Express the day of the drawing when his wife called and told him to pick up hot dog buns. He went inside the store, saw the advertised Powerball® jackpot, and bought $20 worth of tickets, however Murphy does not sell hot dog buns.
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This news comes four days after it was announced the Murphy Express on Augusta Rd. in Lexington sold the winning ticket for Powerball's® fourth largest jackpot. Murphy Express will receive a $50,000 bonus now that the prize has been claimed.
For the state of South Carolina this win means an additional $15 million in tax revenue. For education, this jackpot run will allow the Lottery to transfer up to an additional $2 million in support of education.
While the jackpot gets the most attention, 40,000 Powerball® tickets purchased in South Carolina won a prize from $4 up to the jackpot. A $1 million Powerball® ticket sold at the Tiger Express on Elm St. in Hampton for the drawing on Wednesday, September 18 remains unclaimed.
This is South Carolina's 7th Powerball® jackpot win and its largest at $399.4 million. South Carolina has yet to celebrate a Mega Millions® jackpot win, but that could change tomorrow night as attention shifts to its $160 million jackpot.
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