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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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Samantha Tousignant was inspired to work on her Girl Scout Silver Award by a fellow Girl Scout who donated school supplies and stuffed animals to Common Ground as part of earning her Girl Scout Gold Award.? The Baker Middle School student, who starts 7th grade in the fall, is about halfway toward getting her Silver Award. Samantha decided to donate games and crafts to The Sanctuary, Common Ground's three-week voluntary residential counseling program for youths ages 10-17 because she like board games and thought the kids at The Sanctuary might like them also.? "I just think of it like a big family and in my family we like to play board games so I thought the kids here would too." To earn the Girl Scout Silve Award Samantha has to complete 50 hours of community service and fill out a journal describing her plan to achieve her objective.? "I passed out flyers and did a game drive in my neighborhood to collect used games to donate," she said.? "There are a lot of kids in my neighborhood, so they felt like they needed the help." Samantha also has to do a presentation to some younger students, introducing them to Common Ground and its programs.? Samantha's mom, who is also her Girl Scout Troop Leader, has guided her through the process but says her daughter has done all the work.? "I went shopping with her and just helped make sure she didn't over spend, but she picked out the games.? I'm really proud of her," she added. ? Jessica Pyke, a 2009 graduate of Oxford High School, was impacted by the number of teenagers in her community who have committed suicide in the last year and wanted to do something about it.? So she and a friend organized a 5k walk/run
in memory of several friends, all Oakland county residents, who lost their lives to suicide.? The event was held July 28 and raised almost $2,000, which was donated to Common Ground in support of its suicide prevention programs. ? The event attracted more than 110 participants, which surprised Jessica.? "I think it means a lot to people to have places to go where people have experienced the same problem.? Sometimes people don't ?feel like they can talk to their family and friends.? Knowing there are places (like Common Ground) where they can go and people they can talk to is really important." Jessica stopped by Common Ground's administrative offices recently to present CEO Tony Rothschild with a check for $1,617 and pledges are still coming in! Common Ground ?thanks these two young women for their compassion and commitment to improving their communities.
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Samantha Tousignant was inspired to work on her Girl Scout Silver Award by a fellow Girl Scout who donated school supplies and stuffed animals to Common Ground as part of earning her Girl Scout Gold Award.? The Baker Middle School student, who starts 7th grade in the fall, is about halfway toward getting her Silver Award. Samantha decided to donate games and crafts to The Sanctuary, Common Ground's three-week voluntary residential counseling program for youths ages 10-17 because she like board games and thought the kids at The Sanctuary might like them also.? "I just think of it like a big family and in my family we like to play board games so I thought the kids here would too." To earn the Girl Scout Silve Award Samantha has to complete 50 hours of community service and fill out a journal describing her plan to achieve her objective.? "I passed out flyers and did a game drive in my neighborhood to collect used games to donate," she said.? "There are a lot of kids in my neighborhood, so they felt like they needed the help." Samantha also has to do a presentation to some younger students, introducing them to Common Ground and its programs.? Samantha's mom, who is also her Girl Scout Troop Leader, has guided her through the process but says her daughter has done all the work.? "I went shopping with her and just helped make sure she didn't over spend, but she picked out the games.? I'm really proud of her," she added. ? Jessica Pyke, a 2009 graduate of Oxford High School, was impacted by the number of teenagers in her community who have committed suicide in the last year and wanted to do something about it.? So she and a friend organized a 5k walk/run in memory of several friends, all Oakland county residents, who lost their lives to suicide.? The event was held July 28 and raised almost $2,000, which was donated to Common Ground in support of its suicide prevention programs. ? The event attracted more than 110 participants, which surprised Jessica.? "I think it means a lot to people to have places to go where people have experienced the same problem.? Sometimes people don't ?feel like they can talk to their family and friends.? Knowing there are places (like Common Ground) where they can go and people they can talk to is really important." Jessica stopped by Common Ground's administrative offices recently to present CEO Tony Rothschild with a check for $1,617 and pledges are still coming in! Common Ground ?thanks these two young women for their compassion and commitment to improving their communities.Source: http://commongroundhelps.org/?p=3493
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Monday, July 30, 2012
SMU football player says prostitute he hired burglarized his home
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He told cops he agreed to pay her $50 for sex. But he didn't pay her, and how he's accusing the woman of taking $3,000 worth of electronics.
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NCAA Football 13 Podcast Discusses Updates for the Game
A new episode of the NCAA Football 13 Podcast has been released where the guys from EA Sports discuss the upcoming updates for the game. The first update will go live on July 31, 2012 and will fix numerous problems with the game including a game killing bug in Dynasty Mode. A second update was also announced that is scheduled to release next month and will bring numerous benefits and fixes to the title including the Uniform Store, improvements to zone defense and more. The gang then discusses an online Dynasty and get in a lengthy argument about which conference and teams they want to play as. Check out this entertaining podcast below to learn more about NCAA Football 13.
NCAA Football 13 is now available from all major retailers for the MSRP of $59.99 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. NCAA Football 13 is rated E by the ESRB. For more information on the game, check out the official NCAA Football 13 website.
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UN faces obstacles if Assad falls in Syria - Israel ready for fight over Syria chemical weapons
UNITED NATIONS ? ?Senior officials looking into the role the U.N. could play in Syria if Bashar Assad falls from power face major obstacles, including a bitter division among world powers and the absence of an opposition leader.
A team of senior U.N. officials led by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson is consulting on the Syrian crisis and studying contingencies, and one possible model might be Afghanistan.
After the ouster of the Taliban by U.S.-led forces in 2001, the U.N. moved quickly to fill the political vacuum, convening world leaders and prominent Afghans in Bonn, Germany, to consider the country's future.
Participants adopted an accord on Dec. 5, 2001, spelling out arrangements for an interim government. The U.N. Security Council swiftly endorsed the power-sharing agreement, and on Dec. 20, 2001, it unanimously authorized a multinational force to assist the new government with security.
Emile Hokayem, a Middle East analyst at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that in the case of Afghanistan the major powers were united, making for an easier initial transition.
"In the case of Syria, the great powers are fighting," he said. So "U.N. action is not going to be easy."
Since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011, the U.N. Security Council's veto-wielding permanent members have been split.
Russia, the Assad government's most powerful ally, and China have vetoed three Security Council resolutions backed by the U.S., Britain and France targeting the regime's bloody crackdown. The first two resolutions would have condemned Syrian attacks on peaceful protesters but the most recent resolution went further, threatening sanctions if Assad didn't immediately withdraw heavy weapons from populated areas.
The only thing the five permanent members united to support is the six-point peace plan brokered by Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, which called for a cease-fire in August and Syrian-led political talks to end the conflict and "meet the aspirations of the Syrian people."
But despite pledges by the government and opposition to implement the plan, a cease-fire never happened, and fighting continued to escalate to a point where the conflict was recently declared a civil war. For many diplomats and military experts, Annan's plan is all but dead.
If Assad were to fall, it's unclear whether the major powers could unite again at a Bonn-style summit to set a roadmap for Syria.
For the United Nations, which deals with the governments of its 193 member states, the immediate question if Assad fell would be who -- or what political group -- replaces him.
In the case of Syria, there is a divided opposition outside the country and disparate groups of young fighters inside the country, some aligned to the Free Syrian Army.
Attempts to unify the opposition and agree on a leader have repeatedly failed. Participants at a meeting of opposition groups in Cairo earlier this month did agree on fundamental principles for a post-Assad Syria and a general outline to guide the opposition through a transitional period -- but scuffles and fistfights during the session and a walkout by a Syrian Kurdish group visibly demonstrated the opposition's disarray.
Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow and Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said even if Assad departs he doesn't think protesters will leave the streets and the Free Syrian Army will stop fighting because they want the entire regime to go.
"So what would happen is you're likely to have a contraction of the regime, controlling some parts of Syrian territory, and the opposition controlling parts -- like the Balkans," he said.
In the Balkans in the 1990s, the U.N. established safe havens but Tabler said they couldn't defend themselves, so that option would likely not work.
If Assad left, the Security Council could authorize a U.N. peacekeeping force to go into Syria, which would normally take several months to deploy in the field.
But council members would likely be wary, and want to ensure there was a peace to keep -- especially after the 300-strong U.N. observer force sent to monitor Annan's peace plan was forced to suspend most operations because of the escalating violence. It has been given a final 30-day mandate to its mission, leaving the door open for a possible extension if the government stops using heavy weapons and there is a significant reduction in violence.
"The idea of a U.N. peacekeeping force could reduce the spread of sectarian fighting," the IISS' Hokayem said. But "I don't see any readiness to approve any troops."
After the third double veto by Russia and China on July 19, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said the United States and others "will have no choice but to look to partnerships and actions outside of this council to protect the Syrian people."
The Washington Institute's Tabler said he envisioned "a coalition of the willing" coming from the Friends of Syria political group, which wants to see a democratic government in Syria, being key in post-Assad decisions.
Hokayem said he suspects Syria's immediate and regional neighbors like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Jordan will be more relevant than the U.N. in a post-Assad Syria -- but they might look to the U.N. to support their actions.
After U.S.-led forces ousted Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq in April 2003, the deeply divided Security Council, which had refused to authorize the U.S.-led invasion, did give its backing to a multinational security force in the country in October 2003.
If a coalition of willing nations, most likely from the Muslim world, went into Syria immediately after Assad's departure, it might also overcome the current divisions and eventually get Security Council approval.
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Invicta FC, Sara McMann and Women?s MMA: The Morning News Roundup ? 7.29.12
A weekend without the UFC, Strikeforce or Bellator can often mean a weekend without happiness.? Okay, not really.? But if that actually is the case with you, please, get help.? Or get a hobby or something.? Anyway, there were no offerings from the aforementioned titans of mixed martial arts; however, last night the Invicta Fighting Championships had its second installment, and in terms of high-level MMA action, it pretty much rocked.? Therein lies where this morning's news is coming from.
- Unless you were one of the lucky few to make the trek out to Kansas City to see the event in person, you were forced to watch Invicta FC via the free stream broadcast over the organization's website.? You were also forced to deal with a stream that was virtually non-existent for the first half of the fourteen-bout card, which, according to the event promoter Shannon Knapp, was attributed to crashed servers.? But hey, it was free, and when the feed was strong, we got to see some exciting stuff, like Strikeforce veterans Amanda Nunes and Liz Carmouche kick butt and take names.? Reviews of the event can be found here, here and here.? Personally, I rated it four out of five mouthpieces.
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- Olympic Freestyle wrestling Silver Medalist Sara McMann came away with another win in Invicta FC's thrilling main event, bringing her unblemished record up to 6-0 with a unanimous decision win over the ultra-tough Shayna Baszler.? The bout was a close one and hotly contested right up to the final bell; in the waning seconds, Baszler rocked McMann with strikes, and McMann was moments away from doing "the Worm".? But the bell rang and it went to the judges, and that was all she wrote.? The victory puts McMann in line for a shot at the Invicta FC bantamweight title, which is vacant and waiting for someone worthy to claim it.?
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- With over 200,000 purported Internet viewers, the first Invicta FC event was considered a success, and last night's numbers have to at least be in that ballpark.? So where does that put the current state of female MMA?? Probably in a very good place, especially with Strikeforce champ Ronda Rousey's step up in exposure and Invicta FC already planning a third event.? Say what you will about women fighting, but there's a market for it ? and right now, that market is strong.
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- Yesterday was UFC president Dana White's birthday. ?I hope that in honor of the occasion you all cornered your pets and screamed at them "Do you want to be a [expletive] fighter?"? I know I did.
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Lochte wins 400 IM in blowout; Phelps finishes 4th
LONDON (AP) ? Ryan Lochte strolled the deck of the Olympic Aquatics Centre wearing diamonds in his mouth and lime-green sneakers on the feet that powered him through the water faster than anyone else. Beaming, he chomped playfully on his gold medal while Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" blared throughout the massive arena.
Michael Phelps?
He was nowhere to be found.
Not during the race.
Not when it came time to hand out the medals.
On a stunner of an opening night at the pool in London, Phelps was routed by his American rival in the 400-meter individual medley, losing to Lochte by more than 4 seconds Saturday. That's not all: The winningest Olympian ever didn't win any medal at all, the first time that's happened in a race of this magnitude since he was a 15-year-old kid competing in just one event at the Sydney Games, a dozen years ago.
"It was horrible," Phelps told coach Bob Bowman when he climbed out.
Bowman's reply: "It was."
Lochte turned the much-anticipated duel with Phelps into a blowout, raising serious questions about whether the guy who has won 14 gold medals and 16 medals overall has anything left in the tank for his Olympic farewell.
Phelps is planning to retire as soon as he finishes the last of his seven races in London, but he looked ready to call it a career while struggling just to pull himself from the water when his first event was done.
He was totally spent.
He was thoroughly beaten, perhaps signaling a changing of the guard at the pool.
"This is my year," said Lochte, who popped in his grillz ? diamond-studded mouth jewelry ? for the victory ceremony. "I know it and I feel it, because I've put in hard work. I've trained my butt off for four years ... and there's no better way to start this Olympics off than getting gold."
For Phelps, the start of these games couldn't have been more out of character.
He barely qualified for the evening final, a performance that hinted at trouble ahead. Trouble indeed. Phelps struggled to a fourth-place finish, blown out by Lochte and beaten by Brazil's Thiago Pereira and Japan's Kosuke Hagino.
"It was just a crappy race," Phelps said. "I felt fine the first 200, then I don't know. They just swam a better race than me, a smarter race than me, and were better prepared than me. That's why they're on the medal stand."
Lochte took the gold with a time of 4 minutes, 5.18 seconds. Pereira (4:08.86) and Hagino (4:08.94) were well back but ahead of Phelps, who touched fourth in 4:09.28 ? nearly 5 1-2 seconds off his world record from the Beijing Olympics and not nearly as fast as he went during the U.S. trials last month.
Since finishing fifth in his lone event at Sydney, the 200 butterfly, Phelps was 16-of-16 when it came to winning medals at the Olympics ? 14 golds and two bronzes. That run is over.
Lochte climbed out of the pool with a big smile, waving to the crowd and looking about as fresh as he did at the start. He had predicted this would be his year and, for the first race of the Olympics at least, he was right on the mark.
"I think I'm kind of in shock right now," he said. As for Phelps, "I know he gave it everything he had. That's all you can ask for."
Phelps was trying to become the first male swimmer to win the same individual event at three straight Olympics. He'll have three more chances at a threepeat before he's done in London, having also won the 200 individual medley, plus the 100 and 200 butterfly, at Athens and Beijing.
But he'll need a major comeback. After one race, he looks nothing like the swimmer who won six gold medals in Athens, then a record eight in Beijing to break Mark Spitz's Olympic record.
"I'm surprised, and not pleasantly," Bowman said. "I expected he'd be in the 4:06 range."
With first lady Michelle Obama in the house waving a small U.S. flag, everyone expected a duel between the two American stars.
Only Lochte showed up.
Phelps fell behind right from the start in the butterfly, his trademark stroke. From there, it was all Lochte. He stretched his margin in the backstroke and breaststroke, then cruised to the gold in the freestyle, a good three body lengths ahead of the rest of the field.
"It's frustrating, that's all I can say. It's pretty upsetting," Phelps said. "The biggest thing now is to try to look forward. I have a bunch of other races, and hopefully we can finish a lot better than how we started."
China had a big night, claiming a couple of gold medals.
Sixteen-year-old Ye Shiwen set a world record in the women's 400 individual medley ? only the third mark to fall since high-tech bodysuits were banned at the end of 2009. She won in 4:28.43, breaking the mark of 4:29.45 by Australia's Stephanie Rice at the 2008 Beijing Games. American Elizabeth Beisel took silver and China's Li Xuanxu grabbed the bronze.
Sun Yang flirted with a world record in the men's 400 freestyle. He took gold in 3:40.14, just off the mark of 3:40.07 by Germany's Paul Biedermann in a rubberized suit three years ago. When it was done, Sun propped himself on the lane rope, pumping his fist and splashing the water.
South Korea's Park Tae-hwan won silver in 3:42.06, fortunate even to take part after initially being disqualified for a false start in the prelims. The ruling was overturned by governing body FINA a couple of hours later on appeal. Peter Vanderkaay of the U.S. won the bronze.
Australia captured gold in the women's 400 freestyle relay with an Olympic record of 3:33.15, rallying to pass the Americans and hold off the fast-charging Netherlands.
The U.S. got off to a blistering start with Missy Franklin swimming leadoff under world-record pace, and the Americans were still ahead after Jessica Hardy went next. But the Australians rallied behind Brittany Elmslie on the third 100, and Melanie Schlanger held on at the end, with Ranomi Kromowidjojo closing fast to give the Netherlands a silver in 3:33.79.
The other members of the winning team were Alicia Coutts and Cate Campbell.
The Americans slipped to the bronze in 3:34.24, but that was still good enough to give Natalie Coughlin the 12th medal of her career, tying Dara Torres and Jenny Thompson as the most decorated U.S. female Olympians in any sport.
Coughlin swam in the morning prelims, then was reduced to the role of cheerleader in the evening as the Americans went with Franklin, Hardy, Lia Neal and Allison Schmitt. Everyone who swims on a relay gets a medal, though.
"I really have no idea what to think of it so far," Coughlin said. "I'll have to take it all in tonight. I'm very proud of it, but I've never been on a morning relay before."
There was no medal for Phelps.
His close call in the morning prelims put him in an already uncustomary position ? swimming on the outside in the No. 8 lane. He only had one swimmer next to him and no idea what Lochte and the others in the middle of the pool were doing.
Not that it would have mattered.
"I don't think the lane had anything to do with it," Phelps said. "I just couldn't really put myself in a good spot for that race. It's frustrating for sure. ... It's just really frustrating to start off on a bad note like this."
Phelps still has six more events to swim in London, plenty of time to make up for his dismal start. He remains two behind the most medals won by any Olympian ? Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina's mark of 18 ? nine gold, five silver, four bronze.
Phelps put himself in position to swim another eight events with his performance at the U.S. trials, but he decided to drop the 200-meter freestyle, feeling one less race would give his body a better chance to recover and improve his performance in the other events.
Now, he may be regretting that decision.
The 400 IM was an event he has dominated, winning gold at the last two Olympics and holding the world record for a full decade. But, tired of putting his body through such a grind, he dropped it from his program after setting a world record in Beijing four years ago (4:03.84), vowing never to swim it again.
He should have stuck with that pledge. Clearly, Phelps didn't leave himself enough time to get back in the kind of shape he needed to win the brutal race, having only brought it back earlier this year.
"I was lucky to get in," he said, referring to his slow time in the morning. "I had a chance to put myself in a spot to start off on a good note and didn't do it."
Lochte gave the Americans their first gold medal of the London Games and put himself in position to fulfill the promise he showed at last year's world championships, where he won five golds and beat Phelps in their two head-to-head meetings.
The friendly rivals have one more showdown in London, in the 200 individual medley. Phelps edged Lochte in that race during the U.S. Olympics trials, but Lochte appears to be on top of his game when it really counts.
They might be working together on Sunday, when both are in the mix to compete for the U.S. in the 4x100 free relay.
There appear to be no hard feelings.
"Congrats to (at)RyanLochte," Phelps tweeted afterward. "Way to keep that title in the country where it belongs!!"
"Thanks," Lochte replied: "I couldn't do it without you."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lochte-wins-400-im-blowout-phelps-finishes-4th-185049380--oly.html
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Syrian government pounds rebels in Aleppo, a city of millions
The Syrian military launched tank shells and artillery Sunday into parts of the country's largest city. Rebels control up to half the city's neighborhoods.
Syrian rebels sit in a pick up truck in Aleppo, Syria July 28.
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The bombardment was part of a government counter-offensive to retake control of districts that had fallen into rebel hands last week at the beginning of their bid to capture?Aleppo, the nation's commercial hub.
Activists said the shelling was most intense in the southwestern neighborhoods of Salaheddine and parts of Saif al-Dawla, some of the first areas seized by the rebels when they started the push last week after being routed in a similar attack against the capital Damascus.
The battle for control of?Aleppo, once a bastion of support for President Bashar Assad's regime, is critical for both the regime and the opposition. Its fall would be a major blow to the regime's morale and a realization of the opposition's crucial and strategic goal to establish a stronghold in northern Syria.
The government pledged to continue fighting and said security agents were hunting down armed groups in several areas of?Aleppo?including Saleheddine, inflicting heavy losses upon the "terrorists" ? the term authorities use to describe Syrian rebels.
SANA quoted an?Aleppo?official as saying that troops would continue until the city is "purged" of armed groups and peace and tranquility is restored to its residents.
"We are seeing some of the heaviest bombardment today, but the rebels are still holding up well," said Aleppo-based activist Mohammed Saeed. "No ground troops have been able to enter. They are shelling from outside." He said rebels were fighting back against the attackers.
He said around 200 fighters entered the city Sunday to join about 1,000 fighters who had poured into the city in the past few days to take on the Syrian army, which had been massing forces around the city ahead of the bombardment.
He also said rebels have received "a new batch of weapons and ammunition," but declined to say from where.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported heavy fighting and explosions in?Aleppo Sunday. It reported intense clashes in the Bab al-Hadeed, al-Zahraa and al-Arqoub neighborhoods.
The international community has raised an outcry about a possible massacre in this city of 3 million but acknowledged there was little they could do to stop the bloodshed. The foreign minister of Russia, a powerful ally of Syria, said it was "simply unrealistic" for Damascus to cede control of?Aleppo.
The rebels are estimated to control between a third and a half of the neighborhoods in this sprawling city, especially a cluster in the northeast around Sakhour neighborhood and in the southwest.
They began their attempt to wrest this key city from the government's control a week ago. About 162 people have been killed, mostly civilians, according to the Observatory. Some 19,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011, the group says.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
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Move Over Meteor: Derby Is The Other High Speed Node.js Framework In Town
Although the company behind Meteor, a framework for building real-time JavaScript applications in vein of Google Docs, just announced a nice big $11.2 million round of funding, it's not the only game in town. In my story earlier this week I mentioned Mojito, a framework developed by Yahoo. But there's still another framework that has escaped my attention, even though it's around longer than Meteor: Derby.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/EOqeTsqaboQ/
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Friday, July 27, 2012
IGNOU 2012: IGNOU Cyber Law in Post Graduate Certificate ...
IGNOU offers a Post Graduate Certificate in Cyber Law (PGCCL) that seeks to address the fast changing needs of knowledge society in cyberspace.The PGCCL programme enables the learner to understand, explore, and acquire a critical understanding of cyber law, develop competencies for dealing with frauds and deceptions (confidence tricks, scams) and other cyber crimes like, child pornography etc. that has been taking place via Internet.
The understanding of the subject also pertains to making the learner conversant with the social and intellectual property issues emerging from cyberspace, explore the legal and policy developments in various countries to regulate it and give learners in depth knowledge of Information Technology Act and legal frame work of Right to Privacy, Data Security and Data Protection.
This programme is offered in two modes, both distance and online. Learners can choose their mode of study. The online platform is available at www.ignouonline.ac.in/vel which has several innovative features like walk in admission, integrated multimedia courseware, e-counselling, online examination and assignment management system. Facility for online payment gateway is also available for registration. Once registered, the learners will have access to personalized learning space.
The six months programme can be completed in a maximum time period of two years. A graduate in any discipline or fourth and fifth year students of five year integrated LLB course having passed three years are also eligible to pursue this programme.
The last date to apply for this programme is 30th July 2012 without late fee and 14th August 2012 with late fee of Rs.200. Student Handbook and Prospectus is available in all the Regional Centers of the university as well as in the university?s headquarters and at the City Centre, YMCA building in CP, which can be purchased for Rs.100 and submitted along with the requisite fee in the form of a demand draft to the concerned regional center.
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Director Todd Solondz looks for lightness in new "Dark Horse"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Todd Solondz made his way onto Hollywood's movie map with "Welcome to the Dollhouse," his 1995 independent film about a shy, relentlessly bullied 7th-grade girl that won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for best drama.
Since then, the New Jersey-born Solondz has explored even darker subject matter - including murder, suicide, rape, child molestation and abortion - in such films as "Happiness," "Storytelling," "Palindromes" and "Life During Wartime."
As dark as the topics may be, Solondz has always injected his peculiar sense of humor into the stories and, with the exception of "Palindromes," his movies have been well-reviewed.
Now comes "Dark Horse, which tells of Abe (Jordan Gelber), an overweight man-child in his 30s still living with his parents (Mia Farrow, Christopher Walken) who romances Miranda (Selma Blair), a depressed young woman who also lives at home.
The film, which has earned good reviews in limited release, opened June 8 in New York and has been touring through cities such as Chicago and San Francisco. It opens in Los Angeles on Friday and upcoming cities include Washington, DC, and Dallas. Solondz spoke with Reuters about his latest movie.
Q: You're often accused of being cruel and perverse to your characters - how do you plead?
A: "Those are the nice things people have called me. I am human and I don't really relish people saying bad things about me, but I understand that my movies always generate an ambivalent response. I wish I had a stronger character and was indifferent to all the criticism. That'd make life much easier. But I'm not."
Q: So describe this film for readers who might be unfamiliar with your past work?
A: "I set out to make a boy-meets-girl story, and it seems I ended with an alternative take on the whole arrested development genre that Judd Apatow made famous with "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and other films of that sort."
Q: It plays like a comedy but isn't, is it?
A: "I'd call it a very sad comedy - maybe my saddest. Each time I think I've made my saddest one yet, I always surprise myself. I'm moved by it, and that's what I hope to achieve."
Q: And what were the key themes you wanted to explore through your main character, Abe?
A: "He collects all these toys and is into videogames and his bedroom's decorated like he's still in junior high-school. He's an emblem of that phenomenon where one stops owning a collection to find that it owns oneself. So it's that sort of pathology that develops, and what interested me most was the way he clings to all the hopes and dreams of his youth. He lives a kind of death in life. And I think that obsession with the irretrievability of youth is very much a phenomenon in all secular, prosperous, consumerist democracies, where grown men have collections like Abe's and are very worshipful of things. You seldom see this phenomenon in women. So his drug addiction is toy collecting, and in some sense it staves off a sense of mortality. Maybe in women it's all the cosmetic work."
Q: What did Jordan and Selma bring to their roles?
A: "I saw Jordan in a play and he's been in shows like 'Boardwalk Empire.' He struck me as the perfect actor for the part. In fact, he himself would tell you that he's 70 percent his character. And I'd worked with Selma in 'Storytelling,' and I saw this as a portrait of that same character 10 years later. I loved putting together such a visually mismatched pair and showing that they could in fact find a connection with each other. It may be tenuous, but it's a real one. And I loved the challenge of making it believable."
Q: And Mia and Christopher as Abe's parents. Any surprises?
A: "I felt very lucky to get them both. Mia's a total delight to work with - very funny, very smart, a great storyteller, and a real pro on the set. I was somewhat in awe that she'd work on my film for hardly any money. And Chris was very eager to play this very ordinary, conservative businessman. He said it was very different from the roles he usually gets offered, as it was a recognizable human being. And he's got such a powerful, iconic face."
Q: Abe drives a huge yellow Hummer. How symbolic was that?
A: "It obviously relates to his inner image of himself, and on another level, it's another big toy in his collection. It just seemed like the perfect car for him to drive.
Q: At one point Abe says, "Face the truth, we're all horrible people!" Do you believe that?
A: "Just because a character says something doesn't mean that I believe it (laughs). Abe has this somewhat cynical philosophy - a juvenile one as well - but I think the film gradually undermines this, as there is a tenderness and affection for these characters.
(Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte; editing by M.D. Golan)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/director-todd-solondz-looks-lightness-dark-horse-182054895.html
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Expanding Medicaid to low-income adults leads to improved health, fewer deaths
Thursday, July 26, 2012
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that expanding Medicaid to low-income adults leads to widespread gains in coverage, access to care, and?most importantly?improved health and reduced mortality. It is the first published study to look specifically at the effect of recent state Medicaid expansions on mortality among low-income adults, and the findings suggest that expanding coverage to the uninsured may save lives.
"The recent Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act ruled that states could decide whether or not they wanted to participate in the health care law's Medicaid expansion. Our study provides evidence suggesting that expanding Medicaid has a major positive effect on people's health," said Benjamin Sommers, assistant professor of health policy and economics at HSPH and the study's lead author.
The study will be published online July 25, 2012 and will appear in the September 13, 2012 print issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
In the past decade, several states expanded Medicaid from its traditional coverage of low-income children, parents, pregnant women, and disabled persons to include "childless adults," poor adults without any children living at home and the population most directly targeted by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Medicaid currently covers 60 million people, and the ACA will extend eligibility to millions more beginning in 2014. However, the Supreme Court decision gives states the option of choosing whether or not to expand coverage and, because of budget pressures, some states are considering cutbacks, not expansion.
The HSPH researchers, including senior author Arnold Epstein, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Katherine Baicker, professor of health economics, analyzed data from three states?Arizona, Maine, and New York?that had expanded their Medicaid programs to childless adults (aged 20-64) between 2000 and 2005. They selected four neighboring states without major Medicaid expansions?New Hampshire (for Maine), Pennsylvania (for New York), and Nevada and New Mexico (for Arizona)?as controls. The researchers analyzed data from five years before and after each state's expansion.
The results showed that Medicaid expansions in three states were associated with a significant reduction in mortality of 6.1% compared with neighboring states that did not expand Medicaid, which corresponds to 2,840 deaths prevented per year for each 500,000 adults gaining Medicaid coverage. Mortality reductions were greatest among older adults, non-whites, and residents of poorer counties. Expansions also were associated with increased Medicaid coverage, decreased uninsurance, decreased rates of deferring care due to costs, and increased rates of "excellent" or "very good" self-reported health.
The groups that benefitted from Medicaid expansion in this study?older adults, racial and ethnic minorities, and those living in poor areas?are groups that have traditionally had higher mortality rates and faced greater barriers to care. The study results provide valuable evidence for state policymakers deciding whether or not to expand Medicaid, say the authors.
"Sometimes the political rhetoric is at odds with the evidence, such as claims that Medicaid is a 'broken program' or worse than no insurance at all; our findings suggest precisely the opposite," said Epstein.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Epson WorkForce WF-7510
Printers like the Epson WorkForce WF-7510 ($249.99 direct), are naturally niche products, of interest only to offices that need to print, scan, fax, or copy on paper that's larger than letter and legal size. The WF-7510 fits in an even tighter niche than most. With only one paper tray, the printer is most suitable for a small, micro, or home office that either doesn't need to change paper sizes often or already has a printer for letter and legal size, and needs a larger size printer to supplement it. The good news is that it fits that niche very well.
The WF-7510 has a lot in common with the Epson WorkForce WF-7520 ($299.99 direct, 4 stars) that I recently reviewed. In fact, except for the second paper tray in the WF-7520, the two printers share many of the same of features.
Like the WF-7520, the WF-7510 can print and fax from, as well as scan to, a PC, including over a network, and work as a standalone fax machine and copier. For scanning, both the flatbed and the 30-page automatic document feeder (ADF) can handle up to tabloid size paper.
Paper handling is obviously limited by the single tray. However note that unlike the directly competitive Brother MFC-J6510DW ($250, 4 stars), the WF-7510 isn't limited to a maximum 11 by 17 inches for paper size. The tray is designed for paper up to 13 by 19 inches, and can even accept larger sizes, up to 13 by 44 inches, one sheet at time, although anything over 19 inches long will be hanging out from the front of the tray.
Setup and Speed
Setting up the printer is standard fare, with network support for both Ethernet and Wi-Fi. For my tests I connected using the Ethernet port and installed the driver and software on a Windows Vista system.
Not surprisingly, the WF-7510 tied the WF-7520 for speed. I timed both on our business applications suite (timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software) at the same 3.9 pages per minute (ppm). That makes both closely matched to the Brother MFC-J6510DW as well as the Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J6710DW ($300 street, 4 stars), which both came in at 4.1 ppm. The WF-7510 was much faster for photos than any of these other printers, averaging 1 minute 13 seconds for a 4 by 6, but it's also the only one in the group that I tested with a matte paper rather than a glossy photo paper.
Output Quality and Other Issues
Output quality for the WF-7510 is best described as not particularly impressive, but good enough so it's a not a problem. Text quality is par for an inkjet, which makes it more than good enough for almost any business use, although not something you'd want for serious desktop publishing. Graphics output in my tests was a little below par, but easily good enough for any internal business use. Depending on your level of perfectionism, you may or may not consider the output with default settings to be suitable for PowerPoint handouts or the like.
Photos are a special case, because Epson recommended using a matte presentation paper for our tests instead of the more typical glossy photo paper. Epson lists the paper on its Web site as a photo paper, however, and says that it's typical of the paper most businesses use for printing photos on the WF-7510. In any case, all of the photo output was suitable for business presentations or the like, and most of the photos qualified as true photo quality.
One other issue that demands mention is the running cost for the WF-7510. Epson resists quoting a cost per page, but based on the cost of the cartridges and the claimed yield, the cost per page for letter size pages comes out to 3.2 cents per monochrome page and 11.5 cents per color page. As a point of reference, the Brother MFC-6510DW works out to 1.7 cents per mono page and 7.0 cents per color page. How much this difference in cost per page matters will depend primarily on how many pages you expect to print.
Both the Epson WorkForce WF-7510 and the Brother MFC-6510DW offer only one tray, which is part of what makes them directly competitive (although the Brother printer also offers a manual feed.) It's hard to give an enthusiastic recommendation to either one, given that the Epson WF-7520 and Brother MFC-6710DW both add a second tray without costing much more. But if you don't need to switch paper sizes very often, are looking for a second printer strictly for large-size printing, or just need the tabloid-size scan capability, either will do. And if you need to print on paper that's larger than 11 by 17 inches, the Epson WorkForce WF-7510 is the obvious choice.
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Chirp app sings digital birdsongs to share links
A new iPhone app lets users share links and files wirelessly ? but instead of Wi-Fi, NFC or Bluetooth, it uses soundwaves. The phone will "chirp" a short sound clip, quite like a birdsong, in which is encoded the location of a picture or website.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42218772/vp/48328958#48328958
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Samsung's Q2 2012 earnings show $5.86 billion operating profit, that's a lot of Galaxy S IIIs
The numbers for Samsung's Q2 2012 earnings period are in and it was another big one, with the electronics giant reporting an operating profit of $5.9 billion, driven largely by growth in its smartphone business -- just as it predicted. That's up 79 percent from the same period last year, with the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note specifically mentioned as having contributed to both high sales and higher average selling prices. The company doesn't break out exact selling figures in its earnings reports, however that business unit contributed $3.65 billion in profit to the bottom line. Sales of memory chips and processors declined slightly from last year, TV sales were up slightly, thanks to demand for 3D and LED models. Samsung is claiming a mid-80 percent share of LED HDTV sales and plans to keep that going by pushing "entry level" models in emerging markets. Ready to dig through the numbers yourself? The press release follows after the break, if we find any more details or hear anything on the earnings call, we'll let you know.
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Sleep aid in Kerry Kennedy's blood after crash
FILE - In this Tuesday, July 17, 2012 file photo, Kerry Kennedy, ex-wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaks after she appeared at the North Castle Justice Court in Armonk, N.Y. A court document says the drug found in Ambien sleeping pills was found in Kerry Kennedy's blood after her recent New York auto accident. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, July 17, 2012 file photo, Kerry Kennedy, ex-wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaks after she appeared at the North Castle Justice Court in Armonk, N.Y. A court document says the drug found in Ambien sleeping pills was found in Kerry Kennedy's blood after her recent New York auto accident. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
FILE - In this 2008 file photo provided by Peter Michaelis, Mary Richardson Kennedy poses for a photo outside her Bedford, N.Y. home. Conor Kennedy, the 18-year-old son of Mary and Robert Kennedy Jr. is asking to be named administrator of his mother's estate. The judge says he'll likely be approved. (AP Photo/Peter Michaelis, File) MANDATORY CREDIT
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) ? The recent troubles of the Kennedy clan played out in two courts in New York on Wednesday in cases involving sisters-in-law who were close friends.
A test of blood taken from Kerry Kennedy after a drugged-driving arrest showed traces of a sleeping drug, contradicting her own doctors' findings. And the oldest son of Robert Kennedy Jr. and estranged wife Mary Kennedy stepped forward to take over the estate Mary Kennedy left behind when she hanged herself.
The blood test, filed in North Castle Town Court and first reported by Newsday Westchester, showed that a toxicologist detected 14 nanograms per milliliter of zolpidem, the sleep aid found in Ambien, in a sample taken the day Kerry Kennedy's Lexus swerved across Interstate 684 and swiped a tractor-trailer.
That amount is low, typical of someone who would have just taken a pill or taken one several hours before, said Dr. Michael Thorpy, director of the sleep disorder center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
A urine sample was negative for alcohol, the toxicologist wrote.
Kerry Kennedy, ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a daughter of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, asserted a week ago that her doctors thought the July 11 accident was caused by a seizure. She said their tests found no alcohol, recreational drugs or prescription medication in her system.
She acknowledged, however, that she told a police officer she might have taken an Ambien pill by accident instead of her daily thyroid medication.
Police said Kennedy failed several sobriety tests and was swaying and slurring her speech.
Messages left for her lawyer, John Pappalardo Jr., and spokesman Jason Lee were not immediately returned.
Kennedy, 52, pleaded not guilty July 17 to a charge of driving while drug-impaired. She was released but was ordered to undergo evaluation by a substance abuse agency. She is due back in court Aug. 14.
Earlier Wednesday, in Surrogate's Court in White Plains, a dispute over who would handle Mary Kennedy's estate was settled at least temporarily when Conor Kennedy, her son with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., applied for the job.
Conor Kennedy's lawyer, Brandon Sall, said his client turned 18 on Tuesday, qualifying him to administer the estate of Mary Kennedy, who hanged herself in May in the midst of a divorce.
A lawyer for Robert Kennedy ? who would normally be the court's first choice to handle the estate ? raised no objection, and Judge Anthony Scarpino said he expects to grant Conor Kennedy's application.
Sall said attorney Faith Miller would assist Kennedy.
Meanwhile, Mary Kennedy's divorce lawyers dropped their application that a public administrator be appointed. They had objected to the possibility of Robert Kennedy being named administrator because they claim he owes them $278,000 and would have a conflict of interest.
Mary Kennedy's sister, Martha Richardson, also was in court but did not go before the judge. She said afterward she hadn't decided whether she objects to Conor Kennedy's application.
"I think there are a lot of questions to be answered about the circumstances of my sister's death," she said. She would not elaborate.
Mary Kennedy, 52, who had four children, hanged herself May 16 in a barn behind the couple's home in Bedford amid bitter divorce proceedings and a battle with depression and addiction.
Although her family revealed some hard feelings toward the Kennedys, and lost a court fight to bury her at a site of their choosing, Kerry Kennedy publicly praised her as a mother and friend.
Mary Kennedy was buried May 19 in Massachusetts near her husband's aunt and uncle, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver. Seven weeks later, reportedly at her husband's direction, she was reburied 700 feet away near empty plots he is negotiating to buy.
Douglas Kennedy, brother to Kerry and Robert Jr., is also involved in a court case in Westchester County. He is fighting charges stemming from his attempt to take his newborn son from a maternity ward.
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5 reasons for Spain's colossal economic troubles
MADRID (AP) ? Spain's financial crisis is a lot like peeling an onion: remove one troubled layer and you expose another.
Repeated efforts since 2009 by successive governments to fix the country's problems have managed to undermine confidence in the fourth-largest economy among the 17 nations that use the euro.
A recession is deepening in Spain and a growing number of its regional governments are seeking financial lifelines. These developments are adding to the problems of a government already struggling to prop up its shaky banking system.
Spain's main IBEX stock index has lost 3 percent over the last three days while the government's borrowing costs for its debt have soared to their highest levels since the country joined the euro in 1999.
Last Friday, Spain finally got approval from the other 16 members of the eurozone to access up to ?100 billion ($121 billion) in loans to prop up its banks which are weighed by down by ?180 billion in soured real estate investments.
Spanish officials had hoped a solution for the banks would ease some concerns about the state of the country's finances and prompt investors to stop demanding unmanageably high interest rates for government debt. Such high rates forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek full-blown public finance bailouts.
But instead of easing off, investors panicked again.
On Monday the country's central bank said that the economy shrank by 0.4 percent during the second quarter, compared with the previous three months. The government predicts the economy won't return to growth until 2014 as new austerity measures hurt consumers and businesses.
On top of that, Spain is facing new costs as a growing number of regional governments that function like U.S. states ask federal authorities for assistance.
By Tuesday, investors had sent benchmark borrowing rate for Spain's 10-year bonds to 7.53 percent, just the latest in a series of records. By contrast, Germany's is just 1.26 percent.
If Spain's borrowing rates continue to rise, the government may end up being locked out of international markets and be forced to seek a financial rescue that would push Europe's rescue funds to breaking point.
Here are five reasons investors are scared about Spain:
HURTING REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS
During Spain's property boom, the country's 17 semi-autonomous regions raked in unprecedented revenues from building permits and fees. They windfall to finance infrastructure projects and the ranks or public employees swelled. Across Spain, highways, parks, public swimming pools, gleaming government buildings and airports sprung up.
Now the property market has collapsed and the regions can no longer afford to pay their bills and manage their debts.
The regions' problems have been a focus of investor concern for more than a year, but the fears skyrocketed last Friday when the region of Valencia announced it would be the first to tap a federal fund set up to bail out the hurting regions. Over the weekend, the region of Murcia said it also needed help.
More regions are expected to join the queue, threatening to overwhelm the central government. No one knows how much money the regions will need, though leading newspaper El Pais said they have combined debts of ?140 billion and that ?36 billion must be refinanced this year.
The fund set up by the government on July 13 will have ?18 billion in capital, part of it raided from the national lottery. If more funds are needed, Spain would either have to issue debt at punishing rates ? or ask for a bailout.
WEAK GROWTH PROSPECTS
While one out of every four Spaniards are unemployed, the rate for job-seekers under 25 stands at 52 percent. Emigration by young adults is on the rise, and companies are taking advantage of new labor reforms that make it cheaper to fire workers. The country is in its second recession in three years.
Just as Valencia was announcing its financing needs last Friday, Spain's finance minister revealed that the economic contraction will be deeper than expected in 2013 ? meaning an even longer period of economic pain before Spain can hope to start generating jobs again.
For this year, the government expects a smaller contraction than previously forecast of 1.5 percent, down from a previous estimate of 1.7. However, instead of economic growth of 0.2 percent for next year, the government now forecasts a contraction of 0.5 percent.
BANK BAILOUT WORRIES
The concerns circling Spain's shaky banks intensified in May when Bankia, the country's fifth-largest lender, unexpectedly announced it would need ?19 billion to cover its toxic property loans and assets. A month later, leaders of the other 16 countries that use the euro crafted a rescue package of up to ?100 billion for Spain's banks.
Spain still hasn't put a precise figure on how much the banks will need, denying investors a clear picture of the extent of the problem and whether the ?100 billion is enough to handle it. Those numbers won't start coming out until September when extensive audits and stress tests of each bank are finalized.
Friday's announcement by eurozone finance ministers that they had agreed the terms of the bailout hasn't quelled markets. That's because the government is ultimately liable to repay the loans. Europe's financial leaders agreed in principle earlier this month to eventually make loans directly to banks and take the Spanish government out of the equation. But that shift is a long way off ? a pan-European banking authority would have to be created first and that could take years.
There is also concern that the rules of the bailout mean that eurozone would have to paid back first before other debt is settled. This could leave less money for private investors.
DEBT DEPENDENCY
The bank bailout has only made investors more worried about Spain's financial position.
Two-thirds of Spain's government bonds are held by the country's banks, pension funds and insurance companies ? that's 50 percent higher than last year. This sharp increase is a sure sign that foreign demand for Spanish debt is falling fast.
Market-watchers are concerned that Spain and its banks are dependent on each other: the government is issuing debt, the majority of which is being bought by its banks, only to use the funds from the sale to prop up its banks so that they can buy more government debt.
Spain has so far this year issued ?59 billion in bonds out of a total ?86 billion planned for 2012. But as the banks' condition deteriorates, there is growing concern that they won't be able to buy up much more government debt.
GROWING PUBLIC ANGER
Since beating former Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in the polls late last year, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has been introducing successive rounds of austerity measures aimed at preventing the country from being forced into a public finance bailout.
Rajoy's latest set of measures has been his most controversial ?a steep hike in Spain's sales tax, and the elimination of one of the 14 yearly paychecks that public servants receive.
Spain has been spared the level of brutal anti-austerity street violence like that seen in Greece, but got a taste of it on July 11 after Rajoy unveiled the new round of cuts and tax rises. Spanish miners and sympathizers, incensed with the seemingly endless cutbacks and tax hikes, clashed with riot police who fired rubber bullets, injuring 22 demonstrators and 10 officers.
The miners said cuts in government mining subsidies will leave them jobless, and many Madrid residents joined in because they believe the problems that the miners face are similar to their economic woes.
Off-duty police and firefighters are starting to join in anti-austerity protests by public servants. Officers are prohibited from wearing their uniforms while protesting, but deck themselves out in white shirts to identify themselves, and the firefighters hold their helmets.
If future protests come with escalating violence, that would only make investors more nervous about Spain.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/5-reasons-spains-colossal-economic-troubles-123418720--finance.html
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International Business Alliance creates initiative
[Sarasota, FL] ? International Business Alliance, a group of entrepreneurs active in the global market, has created the initiative of establishing a business and cultural alliance between the cities of Bradenton, Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Naples, Palmetto, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Tampa and Venice, located along Florida?s Gulf Coast and Bogot? (Colombia) for the purpose of opening international trade and commerce relations between Colombia and the aforementioned region in Florida.
The topic for this luncheon event will be the recently signed Colombia ? U.S. Free Trade Agreement. The following keynote speakers, who will offer their professional insights on the aforementioned trade agreement, are:
Carmenza Jaramillo, Director PROEXPORT ? Miami
Juan Camilo Barrera, PROEXPORT
Juliana Ceballos and Jorge Andr?s Cort?s, Colombian American Chamber of Commerce Jay Almeida, President & CEO International Business Council of Florida ? Miami
Rebecca Torres, Tampa Bay Export Assistance Center, U.S. Dept. of Commerce ? Clearwater
Enclosed, the following documents that provide full information about the International Business Lunch:
? International Business Lunch promotional flyer
? I.B.A. International Business Lunch (Summary)
? International Business Lunch Registration Form
Next year, in March 2013, the International Business Alliance will direct a trade mission to Colombia. Information about the trade mission will be sent as soon as a specific date is chosen.
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