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ChallengesBy CIOinsight
Customized Outsourcing: The Latest on Rentable Software
At one time or another, we've all been presented with the confounding choice of whether we should rent or buy. Whether it's a home, a car, or even a tuxedo, the questions remain pretty much the same. Can I afford to buy it? How much will I use it? What kind of financing is available?
The idea of renting software has been alternately embraced and reviled for decades. Most recently, the hype around application service providers, or ASPs, proved to be built largely on empty promises.
Alas, stymied by unreliable service, confusing price structures, and applications that weren't easily configurable, companies struggled to make hosted software fit their needs in the late 1990s.
But now a new age of outsourced everythingalong with better bandwidth and a more mature marketis making software by subscription, or software as a service (SaaS), a viable option. In fact, Gartner Inc. predicts that renting will be the software model of choice by 2008, with more than 50 percent of all software purchases being made on a subscription rather than license basis.
"The reality is, it's becoming a standard way of how people are doing business," says Gartner Vice President Joanne Correia.
For small companies, software by subscription is a no-brainer, says Dana Stiffler, a senior analyst with AMR Research Inc. "It's ideal for companies that don't have the staff or the up-front investment, so you can let your people focus on your business instead of running the applications." This was the case for Platform Learning, a small New York City-based firm that provides tutoring services for school-age children throughout the U.S. Platform needed to overhaul its paper-based order-fulfillment system in order to get educational materials to its 50,000 students more quickly, but it lacked the capital and in-house resources to buy the necessary software, says CIO Joe Sorisi.
Renting the software gave the company a no-hassle solution to its problem, and shortened the fulfillment process by three days. "Now we can get curriculum expedited to meet demand," he says. "That increases customer satisfaction, which will help us get new business." Gartner's Correia agrees, adding that firms don't want to pay up-front costs with no guarantee of success. "Companies are no longer saying, 'Here's a million dollars for a license, and I am going to absorb all the risk,'" she says.
But it's not just the up-front costs that are driving people to rent. Stiffler says that companies are fed up with paying maintenance fees. According to an AMR survey of several hundred executives, nearly one-quarter feel their vendor's upgrades for traditional software licenses don't deliver enough value to justify the costs, which have risen as much as 25 percent in the past year.
But there are still hurdles for software as a service. For example, it could end up costing you more money in the long run if you don't do a thorough cost analysis and project it out over several years.
And while the challenges of customization have largely been addressed, there are still major difficulties in integrating hosted applications, both with each other and with in-house software.
Holden Humphrey Co. is a small, Chicopee, Mass.-based wholesale lumber distribution company with 24 employeesnone of whom work in IT.
In conjunction with its preparations for Y2K, the company decided it needed an upgrade of its computer systems, but it didn't want to hire IT personnel. "I realized that we are not in the computer business, nor do we want to be," says Lance Humphrey, the company's president. "We need to focus on what we do best, so we opted to pay someone else to do that for us." Holden Humphrey put virtually all its systems on a hosted model. Now, the company pays roughly $1,000 a month to give nine employees remote access to its inventory management, accounting and CRM systems.
While Humphrey says the renting option isn't inexpensive, he says he couldn't even begin to estimate the costs of handling the systems in-house. "We would have had to hire some computer guys, and a manager to look over their shoulderswhen you're done paying for all of that, it makes the subscription model seem really affordable," he says.
It often seems that way at first. However, the cost of renting the software could surpass the cost of buying the license outright over time, something you may want to consider if you plan on being in business for a while.
"Since a lot of these pricing models are volume based, charging per transaction, it means the cost of the software rises with usage," says Andrew Bartels, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc. "It's not a fixed-cost environment, as is the case when you buy software."
Michael Lubanski admits this is a possibility. Lubanski is director of enterprise monitoring for Towers Perrin, a global management consulting firm that subscribes to Mercury Interactive Inc.'s software to monitor the uptime of 200 external client-facing Web-based applications. "I am sure there is a point in the future," he says, "where the line will cross and the cost of the subscription will be more. But I think that point is pretty far away." For now, he adds, the value of subscribing is clear.
"It would have been very expensive to purchase a software license, and a high investment is always going to be tough to get through management," he says. Plus, "a subscription makes it easier to show ROI" because of the small monthly cost.
But companies should never base the decision to rent rather than buy software purely on cost, says Sheryl Kingstone, a Yankee Group analyst. "If it's a money issue, you can do financing plans. You don't buy a car up front for $30,000; you finance it." There are other balance-sheet issues to consider before choosing a subscription service over buying a license.
"If you buy a subscription, it can only hit your expense line," says Gartner's Correia. If you buy the license, on the other hand, it becomes a corporate asset, and you can deduct the depreciation. "One of the reasons some enterprise software won't move to the subscription model is because companies put a lot of resources into developing their programs, and they are assets," she says.
The single biggest obstacle to renting software is the basic inability to integrate different applications. Sharing data between a CRM program and billing software can be a challenge, especially if some of your applications are hosted while others are kept in-house.
Analysts say these issues will wane as IT departments move toward service-oriented architecture (which allows users to access specific software components and tools regardless of their operating systems), but for now, "integration issues are big," says Gartner's Correia.
"The subscription model doesn't lend itself to applications that need to be highly integrated with each other internally; they are set up for very core business process functions, like e-mail." And while most companies haven't even begun to think about integrating their subscription apps with other systems, it's important to consider how programs will mesh as the technology evolves, says Yankee Group's Kingstone. "You want to have a five-year roadmap so you don't end up with siloed applications. If you only look at one at a time, you won't be happy with the implementation in the long run."
That was the approach Joe Lindsay, president and CTO of QS Labs Inc., in Irvine, Calif., took when he decided to move some of his company's software to a subscription model. QS Labs, which develops compliance software for healthcare and life-sciences companies, uses Salesforce.com for its sales automation and CollabNet for some of its software development needs.
Although the systems at QS Labs aren't integrated yet, Lindsay says the company "chose vendors that would make it easy for us because they have open standards." And, he adds, "The rise of standards-based integration around Web services will eventually make integration easier, and cost effective." Gerry Hurley, director of IT for Washington, D.C.-based College Summit, a nonprofit organization that helps disadvantaged teenagers get into college, agrees. College Summit uses Salesforce.com for its fund-raising efforts, which provides an easily accessible CRM program to employees, most of whom travel regularly.
The Salesforce.com software is integrated with the organization's internal workflow software called CSNet, and Hurley is working to add College Summit's accounting software as well.
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Here is a look at the four most popular ways to buy software.
Perpetual License The customer pays an initial license fee and may use the software in perpetuity. However, customers sign an update contract, and must pay additional fees for updates. This type of license is the most popular with users, and makes up over 90 percent of the software licenses sold.
Term License The customer pays an initial fee for the license and may use the software for an established term. Often, the fee is paid in a lump sum up front. Once the term ends, the customer must again pay a fee for a new license. The customer also generally has a maintenance contract of the same duration as the term-license contract.
Subscription License The customer has the right to use the software developed by the vendor for a contractually specified time, as in a term license. But unlike a term license, the customer has the right to subsequent updated versions of the software as well as a certain amount of technical support. There are two types of subscription licenses: The customer buys and runs the subscription in-house, or the customer buys the subscription that is hosted by the same software vendor.
Appliance License The software program is sold on a hardware device branded by the same vendor as a package of hardware and software. Most commonly, the software is available only on the vendor's appliance (board or blade) and is not for installation on a general-purpose computer. Other times, the software is configured so that it will work fully only in conjunction with the purchase of the hardware.
Source: Gartner Inc.
But feeding corporate data into the new system can also be a challenge, Hurley says. While there were very few hiccups in getting up and running with Salesforce.com, "the most difficult aspect of this was moving from a large number of disparate Excel spreadsheets to one system," he says.
In addition, because College Summit is a nonprofit organization and Salesforce.com's product was designed for business use, some of the organization's taxonomies had to be changed to fit the software program.
"In the nonprofit world we talk of the development group, the people who work on getting grants," Hurley says. "In the corporate world, they would be considered salespeople. But because they aren't salespeople, they don't have the same language or do the same reporting. So we needed a new naming convention." Salesforce.com recommended an outside consultant to help the organization with data conversion and preparation.
Control of applications can also be an issue. While it's true that a benefit of software as a service is that vendors handle upgrades, keep in mind that maintenance schedules may not conform to your business needs. "When they do their upgrades, we typically have to work on their schedule, and if it doesn't match ours, we have to make accommodations," says Towers Perrin's Lubanski. "There's not a whole lot we can do about it."
Analysts agree that for now, the best way to approach software as a service is to consider all the options. "Evaluate all the pricing models out there," says Correia. "Right now things are very muddy because we are in the middle of this shift. You have to start understanding all the models."


text: Fujifilm Offers Range Of Innovative Products To Move Towards Era of Ubiquitous Imaging - Pictures Anytime, AnywhereELMSFORD, NY, February 19 - Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., will unveil a wide range of innovative, high-quality imaging products this year at PMA 2003, supported by its official show theme, "Smart Solutions for Tomorrow." The theme encapsulates Fujifilm's movement towards an era of ubiquitous imaging with products and services that can be used anytime, anywhere, for any stage of the photo process - from shoot, to store, to print, to share - whether digital or film. "Ubiquitous imaging will allow users to create beautiful high-resolution images anytime, anywhere, under any conditions, simply by pressing the shutter - and get prints of those images anytime, anywhere," said Yasuo "George" Tanaka, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc. "They'll also be able to edit, share and store those images in a multitude of ways. The wide range of product introductions we are unveiling at PMA 2003 will help consumers and professionals alike achieve this goal.""The exciting new products Fujifilm is demonstrating here at PMA 2003 will offer camera owners everything they need to get high-quality images, while helping retailers and photo labs to be profitable in both film and digital camera development," said Stanley E. Freimuth, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc. "Our tagline this year - Smart Solutions For Tomorrow - is based on our belief that these innovative new offerings will lead the way into a future of imaging that is easy, convenient and seamless for everyone." New Digital Camera Developing Solutions Powered by Image IntelligenceTM Fujifilm's digital imaging initiative, Digital Camera Developing, makes it as easy and convenient to obtain prints from digital cameras, as it is to get prints from film cameras. Fujifilm is showcasing its expanded Digital Camera Developing line of retail photofinishing products with supporting marketing materials at PMA 2003. The new products and materials underscore Fujifilm's continued commitment to helping retailers provide reliable and high quality service to consumers who want their digital photographs to be printed professionally.In addition, at PMA 2003, Fujifilm is proud to showcase its proprietary Image Intelligence, the collection of Fujifilm's unique image-processing software technologies, which have been developed through nearly 70 years of experience and expertise in such diverse fields as consumer photography, graphic arts and medical imaging.As Image Intelligence is applied to consumer imaging, it uses two sets of software technologies. Scene Analysis Algorithm automatically analyzes shooting conditions as well as the subject itself and, based on the analytical data and the image database, determines which methods to use for the best depiction of both the scene and skin areas. Image Expression Algorithm uses the Scene Analysis Algorithm to optimize the hues and brightness of the skin areas while applying a separate set of adjustments to the background so that not only the subject but also the background is defined clearly in the final image.As a result of these technologies, the final product features vibrant skin tones, clear whites, sharp definition, and is an accurate reflection of the photographer's original vision. Image Intelligence technology is incorporated into many new products introduced at PMA 2003, such as the new Printpix DigiCam Picture Center 400, Frontier 340 Digital Lab System, Pictrography 4500 and FinePix digital cameras.Fujifilm's new Printpix DigiCam Picture Center 400 is the company's latest stand-alone digital imaging kiosk that quickly and easily provides high quality prints from digital media, and joins a product line that includes the Printpix DigiCam Picture Center 1000 and 600 models. The Printpix 400 is an easy-to-use, compact and low-cost machine designed for retailers looking to enter into the profitable world of Digital Camera Developing.Fujifilm will also introduce Frontier 340 Digital Lab System as a new addition to its highly acclaimed Frontier family of digital minilab systems. Incorporating Fujifilm's proprietary Image Intelligence, the new Frontier 340 boasts an impressive processing capacity of 900 prints per hour for 3R size high quality prints and 800 prints per hour for 4R size, while still maintaining the compact 13 square feet footprint of the Frontier 330. As a result of a newly developed processing mechanism and chemical system (CP-49E), the new digital minilab system possesses an incredibly fast processing speed that has helped cut processing time from three minutes and 40 seconds to only one minute and 40 seconds. The Frontier 340 can accept multiple input sources, including film, prints, slides, negatives or digital data as well as output pictures as prints or save them to Fujicolor CDs, floppy disks and Zip disks; and can even upload images to Web sites like Fujifilm.net.The wide range of products, including the Printpix Digicam Picture Center, Pictrography, Frontier Digital Lab System and Aladdin Digital Photo Center (a user-friendly, easy-to-operate self-service imaging kiosk that allows digital camera users to select images for printing, edit them, and order prints in the desired sizes and quantities) is designed to help any business to increase profits and productivity.New Net Print Solution on digitalcameradeveloping.com Fujifilm's digitalcameradeveloping.com Web site gives consumers information about printing at retail and allows them to locate their nearby retailers offering Fujifilm Digital Camera Developing services. Now, a new service lets consumers use this Web site to order prints from their home for pick-up at their local Fujifilm Frontier retailer.New Digital Cameras With New 4th-Generation Super CCD Fujifilm has led the development of CCD technology with its award-winning Super CCD sensor, which was first introduced in 2000. This year Fujifilm has reached a new landmark in the industry's quest for a perfectly life-like digital image with its 4th-generation versions of the company's proprietary Super CCD, key devices that provide increased resolution and extended dynamic range, creating for the first time pictures that can begin to match those taken with film. The technology will be marketed under two names: Super CCD HR and Super CCD SR.The first camera to utilize Fujifilm's proprietary new Super CCD SR (Super Dynamic Range) technology, Fujifilm FinePix F700 is the first 6.2 megapixel (S-pixel: 3.1 million, R-pixel: 3.1million) consumer digital camera on the market*. The camera captures pictures with quality approaching that of film, with 2,832 x 2,128 (6.03 million) recorded pixels, and with a dramatically increased dynamic range. Fujifilm will also demonstrate the Fujifilm FinePix F410, the first digital camera with a new Super CCD HR (High Resolution) sensor of 3.1 million pixels in a 1/2.7" chip. The camera can produce high-resolution images with 2,816 x 2,120 (6.0 million) recorded pixels.New Digital Camera Back with 20.8 Pixels Super CCD Fujifilm will announce the development of a new state-of-the-art medium format digital camera back for professional use. The back is equipped with Fujifilm's newly developed 20.8 million total pixels Super CCD with a 52 x 37 mm size chip capable of producing a record breaking 7,648 x 5,408 (41 million) recorded pixels for exceptional quality. The CCD will produce ultra high-resolution images with superb color fidelity for professional photographers.New Film Cameras, Films and QuickSnaps for Everyday Events Building on the tremendous success already enjoyed by the fun, fashionable Fujifilm Nexia Q1 24mm camera, Fujifilm will display several colorful new versions of the camera. Fujifilm also will unveil the latest exciting models in its lineup of 35mm cameras - the new Fujifilm Zoom Date 160EZ, Zoom Date 140EZ and Zoom Date 60EZ. Fujifilm will display new consumer versions of the Fujicolor Superia X-TRA 400 and Fujicolor Superia 1600 35mm color negative films. These high-speed films incorporate advanced new technologies which, combined with the existing 4th Color Layer Technology, produce vibrant and accurate color, exceptional sharpness and excellent gray balance.The new Superia X-TRA 400 film achieves the world's highest* granularity in the ISO 400-class films by incorporating the new Super Fine-Σ (SIGMA) Grain Technology, producing exceptional image quality even under low-light conditions or in enlargements. The film's outstanding performance is even more evident when combined with the exceptional sharpness and exposure correction performed by Frontier digital image processing.In the new Superia 1600, sharp, crisp images are achieved through newly developed Nano-Structured Σ (SIGMA) Grain Technology. This produces smooth granularity that is not typically expected of high-speed film.Fujifilm continues to expand its full line of Fujicolor QuickSnap one-time-use cameras, meeting the rising demand from consumers who are using the product on a more consistent basis. To take advantage of this trend, Fujifilm will introduce a convenient 2-pack of the popular 27-exposure model, as well as a new 39-exposure model. In a continuation of its broader branding efforts, Fujifilm will debut new consumer film and one-time-use camera packaging at PMA 2003. The attractive new packaging underscores the company's commitment to providing consumers with a selection of high quality photographic products to capture everyday life events. The new packaging features a curved header that differentiates Fujifilm from other brands and the recognizable green, in a dynamic design with a modern look. New Professional Films Debut In 1990, Fujifilm transformed the world of professional imaging with its launch of the first FUJICHROME Velvia color transparency film. Today, Fujifilm once again redefines the color reproduction palette for professional photographers, with the introduction of FUJICHROME Velvia 100F Professional. This new color transparency film brings the ultra-high-saturated color of Fujifilm's renowned Velvia to the ISO 100 speed class. Employing the industry's first Multi-Color-Correction Layer technology in a color reversal film, as well as new coupler and emulsion technologies, FUJICHROME Velvia 100F Professional delivers world-class color fidelity, reproducing the finest nuances of hues that test the limitations of conventional films, along with ultra-fine granularity (RMS** granularity of 8***).Fujifilm will introduce FUJICHROME Astia 100F Professional, a new color transparency film offering strikingly improved reproduction of skin tone and texture, which will change the face of the fashion, portrait and commercial photography market segments. FUJICHROME Astia 100F combines exceptionally smooth, natural rendering of skin tones from highlights to shadows with world-class color fidelity across a full palette of hues, thanks to Multi-Color-Correction Layer technology which provides highly accurate color reproduction. With an RMS** granularity of 7***, this film offers photographers an unsurpassed freedom from grain.U.S. Introduction of Instant, Peel-Apart Film for Professionals Fujifilm will introduce to the U.S. marketplace its professional instant color film FP-100C, which produces exceptional picture quality and excellent color reproduction. This ISO 100 instant color film, optimized for use under direct sunlight or electronic flash, produces prints with little to no gradation imbalance, from highlights to shadows, superior light fading characteristics and reduced color variations caused by elongated peeling time. Fujifilm will also introduce FP-100B, an EI 100 instant black and white film, and FP-3000B, an EI 3200 instant black and white film to the U.S. Selection of Storage Options Fujifilm will be exhibiting a full line of Flash Memory products including: the new 256MB xD-Picture CardTM, SD-Secure DigitalTM, Compact FlashTM and Smart MediaTM for a variety of digital cameras in the marketplace. Additional items to be showcased at the booth will be a full line of optical products with special emphasis on DVD Products servicing all current formats including: DVD-RAM, DVD+R/+RW, and DVD-R/-RW for a host of recording applications. Camcorder tape formats will also round out the complete Fujifilm Imaging and Information product line up with: MiniDV, Hi8, 8mm, and VHS-C.For more information on Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., please visit Fujifilm's PMA 2003 Booth E6. About Fujifilm Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc. is the U.S. marketing subsidiary of Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. of Tokyo (FUJIY), a leading global manufacturer in three business segments, including Imaging Solutions, Information Solutions and Document Solutions with consolidated sales of $18.1 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2002. Recognized for its technological innovation and high quality, Fujifilm offers a complete portfolio of imaging, information and document products, services and e-solutions to retailers, consumers, professionals and business customers. The complete Fujifilm product portfolio in the U.S.A. includes: professional and consumer film and cameras; digital imaging products, including cameras and printers for commercial and consumer use; digital minilabs and kiosks; photographic paper and photofinishing supplies; motion picture film; a complete range of optical, magnetic storage and flash memory products including: blank CD and DVD media for audio, video and data, LTO, DLTtape and Super DLTtape storage products, Zip storage products, USB Drive storage; videotape and audiocassettes; microfilm and other micrographic products; and graphic arts film, conventional and digital printing plates, analog and digital color proofing systems, drum and flatbed scanners, imagesetters and computer-to-plate systems. Fujicolor Processing, Inc., a subsidiary of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., provides wholesale photofinishing through a network of laboratories across the country. Fujifilm e-Systems is a subsidiary of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., that develops workflow solutions to support the company's photofinishing labs and consumer photographic businesses, including online imaging services such as Fujifilm.net. Enovation Graphic Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., is the largest U.S. distributor of equipment, consumables and technical services for the graphic communications industry. For more information on Fujifilm products, consumers can call 800-800-FUJI or access the Fujifilm USA Web site at www.fujifilm.com.Other Fujifilm companies in America include: Fuji Photo Film, Inc., Greenwood, SC, Fujifilm's North American manufacturing headquarters, produces 35mm color film, color photographic paper, QuickSnap one-time-use cameras, DLTtape(tm) IV computer data storage media, VHS-format video tape for the consumer and duplication markets, digital and conventional pre-sensitized printing plates and film for the graphic arts market and digital and conventional medical imaging products.Fuji Hunt Photographic Chemicals, Inc., Allendale, NJ, is a leading manufacturer of photographic, medical and graphic arts chemicals.Fujinon, Inc., Wayne, NJ, provides optics and lens assemblies for the broadcast, digital cinema and industrial markets. Fujifilm Microdisks U.S.A., Inc., Bedford, MA, assembles Fujifilm tape media storage products. Fujifilm Software California, Inc., San Jose, CA, develops workflow solutions for Fujifilm. Fujifilm Medical Systems USA, Inc., Stamford, CT, provides an extensive line of products and systems, from traditional printing to a complete digital environment, that are used by healthcare facilities to produce superior diagnostic images and improve delivery of care.### Image Intelligence is a trademark of Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. All brand names or trademarks are property of their respective owners. *as of January, 2003 **RMS (root mean square) granularity is a widely used standard method for measuring and expressing the apparent graininess of photographic films and prints. Statistical density fluctuations in film granularity are measured, and then converted into numerical values. The lower the number, the lesser the fluctuation and the smaller the apparent grain. ***Read at a gross diffuse visual density of 1.0, using a 48-micrometer aperture.

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Woman president?
NPR has a syndicated feature- Fifty One Percent. It is mainly all about women, by women and for women. The premise is that more than half of humanity is female, their loose assertion- 51%.
And now we read the following below from ArmeniNow.
Once again, just as above NPR, is that 52% an arbitrary number or just an assertion that the population of Armenia is more than half female?
NPR has a syndicated feature- Fifty One Percent. It is mainly all about women, by women and for women. The premise is that more than half of humanity is female, their loose estimate- 51%.
And now we read the following below from ArmeniNow.
Once again, just as above NPR, is that 52% an arbitrary number or just an assertion that the population of Armenia is more than half female?
Woman President?
Տիկին Նախագահ? Tikin Nakhagah?
"It is estimated that about 52 % are women" .
Issue #45 (215), December 01, 2006
(December 01, 2006)
Decision 2007: Survey says population warming to idea of women in politics
By Gayane Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Editors note: On December 8, ArmeniaNow will produce a special edition related to issues of women and politics in Armenia. Return here for Listening to the Quieted Voice.
A recent sociological survey says 60 per cent of Armenian men and 83 percent of women are in favor of having women in politics. The percentages have tripled since a similar report five years ago.
The Political Participation in Transition Society: Measuring Gender Equality survey, jointly organized by the Association of Women with University Education and the Center for Democracy and Peace, tried to determine whether Armenian society is ready for women politicians, and whether Armenian women and politics are compatible.
{ai187701.jpg|left}The survey interviewed 500 men and 500 women across Yerevan, Vanadzor, Gyumri and a number of small towns of Armenia.
This is an extremely important survey, says head the UN Department for Public Information in Yerevan Valeri Tkachuk. Women can have a serious contribution to politics, they are quite capable a force that sees the existing problems from a different angle. These qualities are quite necessary for politics.
An expert within the research project and also a holder of a doctorate degree in history Yelena Vardanyan says they first needed to identify the level of womens interests toward political issues.
According to the survey 25.2 percent of women are strongly interested in political issues; 61 percent are generally interested in politics and only 2 percents of them are totally uninterested. For comparison, the figures for men are 41, 57.6 and 1.4 percent correspondingly.
While 82 percent of interviewees said the concern over a lack of women in politics is a recent phenomena, impressions break down according to gender.
Only 29 percent of men believe the problem is very important against 54.8 percent of women. About half the men (50.4 percent) say the problem is generally important.
Sixty percent see gender inequality most vividly in elective bodies a perception that matches reality, as in 15 years of independence women have held only three ministerial posts, four deputy ministerial posts out of 62 in Armenia, and there are no female mayors in all 47 towns.
So, what hinders women from entering politics?
According to the survey, 30.3 percent (both men and women) think the problems lie in the traditional mentality of society; 23.5 percent say it is due to social hardship, while 24.8 percent say womens entrance into politics is hindered by the strict distribution of social and family roles between men and women.
Would the interviewee vote for a woman? The answer was mostly positive.
Sixty four percent of women and 43 percent of men say they would give their votes to a woman candidate for presidency.
The numbers drop when men are asked if they would like to see their wives, daughters, mothers or girl friends running for presidency or a parliamentary seat. Only 34 percent of the interviewed would prefer seeing a female relative as a president, 63 per cents as member of the parliament and 66 per cents in the bodies of local administration.
Perhaps surprisingly, the number of the respondents willing to see their wives and sisters in high position is lower in Yerevan than in Gyumri and Vanadzor.
This indicates that the reason for not wanting to see women relatives on positions is not purely a matter of mentality as the traditional stereotypes in Gyumri, Vanadzor and other small towns are stronger. It is because unlike the regions there are numerous spheres of self-realization in Yerevan. So one should not observe the problem only in the light of mentality, says philosopher Siranush Khachkalyan.
The interviewed have underlined women participation is not an end in itself for them; still they say they cherish some hopes with making the political situation healthier in the country in case of womens participation. For instance, 42 percent believe womens involvement in politics will result in humanization of the core social issues.
It is estimated that about 52 percent of Armenias resident population is female.
. . . So we cant provide sustainability in the processes without their participation, says chairwoman of the Association of Women with University Education Jemma Hasratyan.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Top-seeded South Carolina saw its season come to an end with a 10-1 loss to second-seeded Maryland on Sunday night in the NCAA Columbia Regional at Carolina Stadium.
With the win, the Terrapins (39-21) claimed the Columbia Regional title and advanced to the program's first Super Regional. The Gamecocks finish the season with a 44-18 record. It's the first time since 2009 South Carolina hasn't advanced to a Super Regional and the first time since 1976 it has lost a regional at home.
South Carolina managed nine hits on the night, including two apiece from first baseman Kyle Martin and center fielder Tanner English.
Maryland tallied 13 hits, with center fielder Charlie White going 3-for-4 to lead the way. Jose Cuas, Blake Schmit and Anthony Papio added two hits each.
Terrapin reliever Tayler Stiles (5-2) earned the win after working two scoreless innings, giving up three hits and striking out one. Reliever Bobby Ruse picked up his first save of the season by working the final 3 1/3 innings and giving up just a hit with three strikeouts.
Gamecocks starting pitcher Joel Seddon (3-2) took the loss as he surrendered five runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings on the mound, the longest outing of his career. He matched his career-high in strikeouts with six.
The Gamecocks found success at the plate in the bottom of the first. Marcus Mooney led off with a single up the middle. Three batters later, Martin ripped a two-out double to left center, and Mooney beat the throw home to give South Carolina a 1-0 lead.
However, Maryland took the lead for good with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth. White singled to lead off the inning, and LaMonte Wade drew a walk before both runners advanced to second and third with no outs on a wild pitch by Seddon. Shortstop Blake Schmit delivered a two-out single to left field, driving home both White and Wade to give the Terrapins a 2-1 advantage.
The Terrapins added a run in the fifth, as Papio singled and later scored when Wade reached on a fielder's choice, giving Maryland a 3-1 lead.
Maryland went on to add seven more runs over the final four innings to earn its trip to the Super Regional.
C – Kevin Martir, Maryland
1B – LaMonte Wade, Jr., Maryland & Kyle Martin, South Carolina
2B – DC Arendas, South Carolina
3B – Jose Cuas, Maryland
SS – Tyler Urps, Old Dominion
OF – Charlie White, Maryland
OF – Matt Nadolski, Campbell
OF – Tanner English, South Carolina
DH/U – Max Schrock, South Carolina
P – Wil Crowe, South Carolina
P – Mike Shawaryn, Maryland
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A staple of any awards season is the obligatory "If These Movie Posters Told the Truth" mock-up. However, just because the gimmick is trite doesn't mean it's not amusing. This year's line-up of Academy Award nominees isn't lacking in Oscar-bait material, with everything from The Iron Lady to The Artist. The fact that films like these so blatantly seem to fit into the category of "Oscar nominee" makes them ripe for this kind of ribbing. We've amassed a number of "honest posters" for films like The Artist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Descendants, as well as a few "almost Oscar nominated" films like Shame and We Need to Talk About Kevin. Hit the jump to check them out.
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Two upcoming Relativity Media films may not have titles, but they now have release dates. First up, James McTeigue's Untitled Raven Project (previously titled The Raven) will open on March 9, 2012. Per the press release, "The film is a gritty thriller in which Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders." The untitled movie also stars Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
Relativity has also set the date for the Untitled Farrelly/Wessler Comedy that has an absolutely ridiculous cast starring in a series of interconnected stories. Just some of the names on board include Johnny Knoxville, Gerard Butler, Anna Faris, Seann Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Stephen Merchant. Hit the jump for the full press release.
Here's the press release, which includes the full bonkers cast list for the Farrelly/Wessler comedy:
Relativity Media continued to build its 2012 release slate today, announcing it will release the Untitled Raven Project, directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) and starring John Cusack (Being John Malkovich) on March 9, 2012 and the Untitled Farrelly/Wessler Comedy on April 13, 2012. These two films join previously announced thriller, House at the End of the Street, which is set to hit theaters next Spring on February 3, 2012.
The Untitled Raven Project also stars Luke Evans (Immortals, Clash of the Titans), Alice Eve (Sex and the City 2), Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter Series) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster). The script was written by Ben Livingston (Bruce Almighty) and Hannah Shakespeare (Loverboy).
The film is a gritty thriller in which Edgar Allan Poe (Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders.
Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans are producing for Intrepid Pictures, alongside Aaron Ryder for FilmNation Entertainment, who brought the project to Intrepid. Galavis Films' Jesus Martinez is executive producing. FilmNation is selling international distribution rights to the film.
Following in April, comes the Untitled Farrelly/Wessler Comedy which boasts the greatest cast ever assembled in the most dangerous comedy ever made. The star-studded cast includes Johnny Knoxville, Gerard Butler, Anna Faris, Seann William Scott, Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Patrick Warburton, Josh Duhamel, Jason Sudeikis, Chloe Grace Moretz, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack McBrayer, Kieran Culkin and Chris Pratt in a series of interconnected stories, each one more outrageous than the last.
The film is being produced by Peter Farrelly (Something About Mary), Charles Wessler (Dumb & Dumber), GreeneStreet Films' John Penotti (In the Bedroom) and Relativity Media's Ryan Kavanaugh (Immortals). Executive producers are Tim Williams (Swimfan) of GreeneStreet Films and Tucker Tooley (Immortals) of Relativity Media. Co-producers are Tom Gormican and Marc Ambrose. Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko also serve as associate producers.
Relativity currently has the box office hit Limitless in theaters. Looking ahead, Relativity will release Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer based on the popular kids book series on June 10th, 2011, followed by David Ellis' Shark


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ANALYSIS: Are free-market Catholics ignoring Pope Francis?
(RNS) On one level, the recent clash over Catholic University of America's decision to accept $1 million from billionaire industrialist Charles Koch underscored the stark divide many see between Catholic social teaching and the libertarian-tinged economics championed by Koch and other conservatives.
But the controversy also pointed to another, counterintuitive reality: vocal free-market advocates are gaining traction in the Catholic Church, even as Pope Francis repeatedly condemns a capitalist system that he says is hurting the poor and increasing the gap between the haves and have-nots.
In the political world, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is both a practicing Catholic and a devotee of the libertarian icon Ayn Rand -- as well as the face of GOP proposals for cutting welfare programs and taxes that have drawn fire from U.S. bishops and other church leaders.
In the media, CNBC's Larry Kudlow is a Catholic convert who has taken to the airwaves to scold the pope on economics while pushing the kind of "trickle-down" theories that Francis has derided. On Fox News, Stuart Varney, also a Catholic, has labeled the pope's views as "neo-socialism."
Similarly, Catholic thinkers and pundits like Michael Novak, George Weigel and Tim Worstall have used the opinion pages of National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and other outlets to defend market economics against church criticisms, or to interpret the pope's writings in a way that makes them appear less hostile to capitalism.
"I think it's fair to say that those Catholics who favor free markets and limited government have a wider and broader voice than they did 40 years ago," said Samuel Gregg, author of a new book, "Tea Party Catholic: The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing."
Gregg is also director of research at the Acton Institute, a leading think tank -- headed by Catholic priest Robert Sirico -- that promotes free-market conservatism and often critiques Catholics, including Pope Francis, who they say push the church's social teaching too far to the left. ("Facile and plainly false," is how one Acton writer characterized some of the pope's statements on the economy in his recent apostolic exhortation, "Evangelii Gaudium.")
It's clearly a formula for conflict, and this week's dispute over the Koch donation to CUA epitomized the emerging dynamic: the 50 priests, theologians and academics who signed the protest letter cited traditional Catholic social teaching and Francis' blasts at "the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal."
CUA did not back down. Instead, a tart response accused critics of trying to "score political points" and declared that the Koch foundation's goals are "fully consonant with Catholic social teaching."
If that interpretation doesn't necessarily sync with what the pope or the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops say about today's economic system, it's a view that nonetheless is increasingly getting a sympathetic hearing, even in places like CUA -- a Vatican-chartered school and the only Catholic university in the U.S. sponsored by the American hierarchy.
Andrew Abela, for instance, is the dean of CUA's new business school (the Koch grant will help underwrite its programs) and he is a strong proponent of free-market economics. The Busch Family Foundation also donated $500,000 to the business school; the foundation was founded by Timothy R. Busch, who is a member of CUA's board of trustees and chairman of the board of the Napa Institute, a conservative think tank in California.
What's more, CUA is hardly the only Catholic university to take money from the Koch foundation: as many as two dozen other Catholic colleges, from Notre Dame to Villanova, have accepted Koch grants over the years, though apparently in smaller amounts and for lower-profile purposes.
Loyola University in New Orleans still receives about $100,000 a year from the Koch foundation to fund its Economics Club, which brings in speakers to address the students. Walter Block of the Loyola economics department said he and his colleagues see no problem with that.
"Catholicism is not economics," said Block, who is Jewish and a self-described "anarcho-libertarian" philosopher. "There is no Catholic economics."
Block is a fellow -- along with several prominent Catholics -- of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a think tank that promotes the so-called "Austrian School" of free-market economics that is enormously influential among a range of American conservatives.
Block said all five of the economics professors at Loyola are disciples to one degree or another of the Austrian School, though they were not able to convince the university to establish a master's program in 2011 -- to be funded in part with Koch money -- in Austrian economics. Block said they are resubmitting their proposal.
Many of these economic conservatives hold a variety of views, and they usually reject precise -- and often loaded -- labels like "libertarian" or even "capitalist." They prefer to be known by the principles they largely share: free markets, minimal government oversight of business and the environment, reduced social welfare programs, and lower taxes for everyone, including the wealthy.
While in practice those principles often run counter to official church positions, these free-market advocates say they are in fact true to Catholic teaching; they are simply trying to achieve the same goals through different means. Those means, they add, also regard technical issues that are judgment calls for believers, not matters of faith.
"You clearly can't be an anarchist. And you can't be a socialist, either," said Gregg. "But between those two things there is a lot of room for genuine prudential disagreement among Catholics when it comes to the economy."
"In terms of the debate about what fits with Catholic social teaching or doesn't, there's a lot of opinion there," agreed CUA's Abela. "It's a fairly wide range of what people consider to be consistent with Catholic social teaching."
That wiggle room is a key factor that has allowed economic conservatives to thrive in the church even as supporters of abortion rights or gay marriage have faced official sanctions for their views. While a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey found that few Catholics describe themselves as libertarians or members of the Tea Party, U.S. Catholics have been trending more Republican in recent decades just as the GOP has been trending more conservative.
The rightward shift also can be seen in the hierarchy and the priesthood, meaning that bishops and pastors -- like Ryan's own bishop, Robert Morlino of Madison, Wis. -- often raise no objections to conservative economics or even embrace such views.
Whether the stock of these free-market Catholics continues to rise may depend on forces beyond their control.
Francis might succeed in pushing the church's leadership to reflect his own emphasis on the social teaching of the church and leave economic conservatives out in the cold. And domestic politics could also shift the dynamic for Catholic free marketeers.
Ryan himself shepherded a crucial compromise budget deal through Congress this month, dismaying his longtime Tea Party allies; House Speaker John Boehner -- a devout Catholic whose 2011 commencement at CUA also prompted protests because of his budget policies -- pivoted sharply to the center and said the fiscal critics on his right have "lost all credibility."
"It's a strange new normal, isn't it?" as Ryan told reporters.


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Antoinette Tuff, who stopped a school shooting at the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Center Academy by talking down a gunman in 2013, said her faith helped her stop the shooter.
Antoinette Tuff calmed a man holding an AK-47 assault rifle when he invaded Tuff's school, the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, Aug. 20, 2013. And it was her faith, she said to NPR, that helped her do so. Tuff recently released her new book, "Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege," in which "she shares what was actually going on in her mind on that day and what led up to it," NPR reported. In an interview with NPR, she said she never questioned her faith and kept asking God for help. "I needed him to talk every minute he was there," Tuff said, according to NPR. "I was calling on him more than I'm calling on him any day. I was like, 'God, what we going to do now (sic), what we going to do next, what do I say, how do I say it?' 'Cause, remember now, he had already shot a bullet right there in front of my face, in the office, and it ricocheted. I'm sitting there literally watch (sic) him unfold mentally. You know, spraying bullets everywhere, loading up the magazines, you know loading bullets in his pockets everywhere. I'm actually seeing him self-destruct right there. So I knew that the power of my words had to be powerful." Tuff's heroics earned her a spot at the State of the Union, according to MSNBC. And Tuff wrote in an article for The Huffington Post that her actions that day during the shooting were for a purpose, and she doesn't consider herself a hero. "But I do think of myself as God's servant, and I was able to do what I did on Aug. 20 because God prepared me for my purpose," she wrote. Tuff also said that as bad or a negative as things get, there's always a reason for people to keep fighting and see a brighter side. "The message I hope to convey is that we are all special. We are all God's soldiers, waiting for our next assignment. And the beauty of God's hand at work is that he will take the worst things in our lives - the hardest times, the deepest falls, the moments when we feel most alone - and turn them into strength and faith and love, so that we may serve him better. God prepares us for our purpose."%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D142438%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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Couple with high hopes for new life in Houston killed in horrible wreck
A couple on the way to Houston to start a new life got no further than New Mexico, where they were killed in a fiery wreck.
Natalie Levine and her boyfriend, Dameon Williams, along with Levine's teenage son, were making a nearly 2,000-mile trip from Vacaville, California, near Sacramento in the northern part of the state.
They were about half of the way to Houston on eastbound Interstate 40, just east of Gallup when the accident happened. Their car was hit from behind by an 18-wheeler, about 4 a.m. May 5, said Undersheriff James Maiorano with the McKinley County Sheriff's Office.
"When deputies arrived, they found a small car on its roof and a semi, with the cab portion engulfed in flames," Maiorano said.
Levine, 38, was driving, and Williams, 26, was in the right-front passenger seat. Levine's 15-year-old son, Raymond, who is deaf, was sleeping in the back seat.
The two adults were killed but the boy miraculously suffered almost no injuries.
"It is one of the more amazing things I've seen," Maiorano said. "Most of the vehicle was highly damaged except where the boy was sitting. The window shattered and gave him enough room to crawl out."
The three had planned to make a new start in Houston, according to KTVU-TV in Oakland, California.
Maiorano said preliminary information indicated that the cause of the crash was the car's slow speed, although investigators didn't know the exact speed of either vehicle and didn't know why the car might have been going slowly.
"The circumstances are kind of unknown," he said. "We don't know if the car was having mechanical problems, or if they pulled off the road and were pulling back on."
The truck driver, who suffered smoke inhalation, didn't remember seeing the car, Maiorano said. Due to the impact, the truck veered off the road and struck an embankment.
"Somehow something punctured one of the diesel tanks, and that was the fuel for the fire that caught the cab on fire," Maiorano said.
The impact sent the car vaulting end over end, heavily damaging the front portion of the car, he said.
Raymond was taken to a hospital, and authorities found a sign-language interpreter from an area high school by about 10:30 a.m., Maiorano said. By the afternoon, the teen was on his way to the Albuquerque airport to get on a flight home to California, paid for by the state of New Mexico.
"All of the government agencies here really worked hard for this young man, to make sure we got him home to his grandmother," the undersheriff said.
An account at gofundme.com has been set up to help the family cover expenses related to the accident.


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Tin Foil Hats
"In Soviet Russia, the hats tinfoil YOU!!!!!!!"
A UAV Jammer, otherwise known as a Tin Foil Hat or Aluminum Foil Deflection Beanie (AFDB) s a condom covered with aluminum foil that is fitted over the head, much like a hat. The metallic properties of the aluminum casing deflect a number of rays that cause, but are not limited to, mind reading, mind control, and failure to recognize Fox News as the eternal source of all wisdom.
Tin Foil Hats[edit]
A basic guide to your best protection against MTDs(Mentally Transmitted Diseases).
In the 1960s, the intellectual revolutions occurring across the globe led to the massive spread of both thinking, and a second, less forseen effect: Mentally Transmitted Diseases. At the current time, there are an undocumented number of such diseases, including but not limited to Starbucks, Nascar, Mullets, Civil War reenactors, those Cialis ads where the happy couple have drag separate bathtubs down to the beach, and Sarah Palin
The current best protection against transmission of MTDs is to simply NOT THINK OR EXCHANGE THOUGHTS. However since young people nowadays have no shame, tin foil hats are the best defense available at the time.
Use of a tinfoil hat[edit]
A tinfoil hat is simple and easy to use. Simply mold it into a round shape, and place it on your head like a hat or yarmulke. Wear it like this before engaging in interexchanging of ideas. The prescence of the tinfoil hat should protect you from most ideas, as it will deter all but a few ideas from being expressed to you. It is absolutely critical to keep the shiny side out. Wear the tinfoil hat at all times when you could be exposed to mind control ways beamed down to earth from orbital platforms under the control of the New World Order, Barack Obama (if you're conservative), Sarah Palin (if you're liberal) and/or Dick Cheney (if you've been living in a cave). It is safe to remove your tinfoil hat if you either live in an aluminum house or trailer, or you have completely covered your residence wth (shiny side out) aluminum foil.
If you do choose to aluminize your house, ignore nay-saying neighbors and cease and desist summonses from your homeowner's association, as they are just another part of the conspiracy.
Construction of a tinfoil hat[edit]
Construction of these tools is highly complex, and is not to be attempted by anyone other than professionals. Even the tiniest hole or weak point can lead to puncture, and contamination. If you have no choice, the best way to construct a tinfoil hat is to use multiple large pieces of either tin or aluminum foil and wrap them into a large, round, and concave cap about 1.5 times larger than is needed to fit on your head. From there, press the metal until it is the proper size and shape. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE FABRIC, AS THIS MAY NEGATE THE EFFECTS.
Misconceptions about tinfoil hats[edit]
There are a number of things people believe about tin foil hats which are not true. Bollywood has a lot to answer for.
Fun Fact:Teaching your child how to fold paper airplanes may be fun but teaching them how to hold Tin Foil Hats can save them from the government.
Ion Funnels and Mind-Reading Chips[edit]
Ion Funnels streaming from the ESPN satellite, directed by the CIA to control your mind can be stopped by correct usage of a tinfoil hat (tfh).
If the CIA puts a mind-reading chip in your brain, a tinfoil hat will not stop it from either operating or broadcasting. It will however block all incoming signals which direct itself to the brain, and scramble outgoing broadcasts to the point where they are unusable by the CIA.
Protection against alien mind-reading[edit]
Alien technology currently outstrips our tinfoil hat systems. Besides, they do it at night. The only reason they do it is to see our sexual fantasies anyway.
If you really want to protect yourself against this kind of thing, you should line your hat with Bounty Paper Towel. This makes the aliens simply see continual re-runs of British porn.
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See Also[edit]
External Links[edit]
- Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie - Instructions on how to make and apply.
- The League of Lady Conspiracists - A public service announcement.


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In General Debate speech, Mozambique Foreign Minister highlights need for UN reform
In General Debate speech, Mozambique Foreign Minister highlights need for UN reform
Citing a range of challenges to peace in Africa and elsewhere around the world, in his address to the General Assembly today, Mozambique's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Oldemiro Baloi, highlighted the need for reform of the United Nations, as well as the revitalization of the Assembly itself.
"The nature of the challenges that we face in the areas of international peace and security led us to affirm before this Assembly, the increasing relevance of multilateral mechanisms for the resolution of disputes or situations of conflict through peaceful means," the Foreign Minister told the 67th Assembly's General Debate, taking place at UN Headquarters in New York, noting that Mozambique took satisfaction that, throughout more than a half a century of its existence, the United Nations had reached "irrefutable achievements in maintaining peace, prevention and in the resolution of conflicts."
"In order to effectively respond to the growing challenges to the resolution of conflicts, we are compelled to pursue, with more energy, the agenda for the reform of the United Nations system, the Security Council in particular and, the revitalization of the functioning of the General Assembly," he added.
The Foreign Minister listed five areas which would underpin an approach for the reform of the two UN organs: a global strategic plan of action and a detailed program that addresses conflict situations; reinforcing the capacity of resource mobilization for peacekeeping missions; negotiating and implementing sustainable political solutions; engaging with a long-term perspective; and, the Security Council having a more proactive role in the solution of conflicts through the full implementation of the resolutions that it adopts.
"Thus, we reiterate the validity of the principles embedded in the United Nations Charter and of other international instruments that shall continue to be the main source of inspiration in the search for political and lasting solutions for the current conflicts," Mr. Baloi said.
The Foreign Minister noted "with concern" tension and instability in parts of Africa, mentioning the situation in Madagascar, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, and in Mali. He also cited the issue of Palestine, conflict in the Middle East, the status of Western Sahara and the economic embargo against Cuba as other areas of concern for Mozambique.
Mr. Baloi is one of scores of heads of State and government and other high-level officials who are presenting their views and comments on issues of individual national and international relevance at the Assembly's General Debate, which ends on 1 October.


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Plasma Freeze (TCG)
'Pokémon TCG: Black & White—Plasma Freeze (Japanese: ラセンフォース Spiral Force and ライデンナックル Thunder Knuckle) is the name given to the ninth main expansion of cards from the English Black & White Series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. The Japanese release is the eighth of the BW Era.
Team Plasma's frosty assault on Unova continues in the Pokémon TCG: Black & White—Plasma Freeze expansion, and Trainers everywhere must show an icy resolve if they are to halt the relentless deep freeze! The struggle will be bitter as Team Plasma releases a blizzard of Team Plasma Pokémon, including Deoxys-EX, Thundurus-EX, and all of Eevee's evolutions, backed by Team Plasma Energy, Item and Supporter cards. But, with the Legendary Eon Pokémon Latios and Latias standing by your side and a host of Pokémon-EX ready to do battle, your opponents will find that now is the winter of their discontent!
Plasma Freeze and the Japanese equivalent Spiral Force and Thunder Knuckle continues to center around Team Plasma and features Deoxys and Thundurus Therian Forme. It was released December 14, 2012 in Japanese and May 8, 2013 in English.
Plasma Freeze includes 122 different cards, including six Pokémon-EX: Heatran-EX, Thundurus-EX, Deoxys-EX, Latias-EX, Latios-EX and Tornadus-EX.
Plasma Freeze contains cards from the Spiral Force and Thunder Knuckle expansions and the Team Plasma Battle Gift Set.
The Prerelease promo is Metagross from the BW Black Star Promos, which was also given to those who buy either a Spiral Force or Thunder Knuckle booster box at participating stores in Japan.
Plasma Freeze English boosters feature a new packaging design where the card pack is enclosed in a full cardboard casing featuring artwork from any of the four Pokémon regularly displayed on the boosters. The Pokémon featured on the casing may not match the pack it contains.
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Online voting - which kicked off today and ends April 14th - features not-at-all surprising names like Charlie Sheen, Kanye West, Gabrielle Giffords, Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, Snooki, and Betty White.
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Poetry, for August Kleinzahler, belongs to "the realm of fire," and this fall the critically-acclaimed poet and essayist brings his elemental vision of modern poetics to Claremont McKenna College with two courses on the cultural and historical forces that have shaped the arts, poetry and prose in particular, over the last 150 years. The courses are open to all students of The Claremont Colleges.
Hailed by The New York Times as " a poetry star," Kleinzahler will teach "The Poet and the City: Speed, Compression, Kablooey" (Lit 099CCm) and "Prose Miniatures" (Lit 099DCM), both rooted in the same deep, penetrating explorations of self that characterize his recent book of essays, Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained, and his prize-winning poetry selection, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (recipient of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award).
(More information on both courses can be found at the end of this post.)
Kleinzahler is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Berlin Prize. Last year, Kleinzahler served as a Visiting Fellow of CMC's Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. During the 2013 fall semester, Kleinzahler will teach his two courses at CMC as William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow.
Critics praise his work for reflecting "his ability to modulate between high and low diction...and by his wide-ranging fascinations." That versatility will be on central display in "The Poet and The City" as he traces the transformation of the arts from the mid-19th century to the present day and its collision with pop culture and technology (the "kablooey" of the course's subtitle).
The course will range across a host of figures and movements—including Charles Baudelaire, Walt Whitman, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, William Carlos Williams, Marshall McLuhan, and an "explosion of isms in the early 20th century" — with special attention to the ways in which poetry has been affected by technology and urbanization.
Of that effect, Kleinzahler has said that urban life poses continual challenges to poetic technique and convention for every poet, whether established or aspiring.
"Urban life is dense and fast and requires flexible structures that can incorporate speed and information," he told the poet William Corbett in the pages of the Paris Review. "It's tough to come up with a coherent, interesting structure. Most simply avoid the problem or take refuge in some rote 'avant-garde' gesture like fridge-magnet indeterminism, i.e. spilling the language all over the floor and stomping on it like a three-year-old."
In the face of such an approach, Kleinzahler instead cleaves to a vision of poetry's abiding power to measure and preserve human experience, as the speaker discovers in the title poem of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City:
This is a sacred place I have come here from far away After many years of wandering Disillusion And found surcease here from all my cares Surcease here from doubt Here, at the center of it all On a great slab of Mesozoic rock This sanctified ground
Likening poets' work to childish temper tantrums may seem highly provocative, but the San Francisco-based poet is no stranger to provocation.
Kleinzahler attracted much attention for his 2005 critique of the middle-brow tastes of Garrison Keillor ("the indefatigable and determined purveyor of homespun wisdom has wandered into the realm of fire," he wrote in a review of Good Poems, an anthology edited by Keillor, "and for his trespass must be burned"); in that same year, a New York Times profile described him as possessing both Allen Ginsberg's charm and "Norman Mailer's inveterate pugnacity."
If poetry is a fiery realm, then prose has served Kleinzahler as a more temperate vehicle for studying the compendia of modern life as recorded in journalism, diaries, letters, recipes, travelogues, and much more.
The course "Prose Miniatures" will examine the style and technique of these varied nonfiction forms, and Kleinzahler will challenge students to expand the range of their own writing skills with exercises in imitation of many of these styles, including reviews, letters, and various descriptive assignments.
His intent in this course will be to demonstrate to students how "the art of writing, or artful writing, can be done in less than 500 words and involve subject matter often considered beneath traditional literary art."
For Kleinzahler, however, prose has not only been a form for capturing the variety of sometimes small, marginal aspects of daily life, but also for more searing examinations of the self — as he did with Cutty, One Rock, in which he employed the essay form in his efforts to cope with his older brother's suicide.
"Writing Cutty," Kleinzahler told Paris Review's Corbett, "I think I came to terms somewhat with just how much I adored him and missed him"
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Lit 099C CM/The Poet and the City/Speed, Compression, Kablooey Professor August Kleinzahler Fall, 2013, Tuesdays, 2.45-5.30
This course will be a survey of developments in the arts, chiefly poetry, from 1850 to the present. The emphasis will be on how urbanization and technology pressured the arts into new forms (realism, symbolism, cubism, expressionism, futurism, surrealism, documentary, etc.).
The course will go back and forth between Paris and New York, starting with Baudelaire and Whitman, the Paris Exposition of 1889, the explosion of –isms in the early 20th century, the impact of train travel, photography x-rays, cinema, mechanized warfare, air travel, radio, television, including the revolution of information technology in the late 20th and early 21st century and how it has impacted traditional modes of reading and writing literature.
The texts we will be examining, apart from Baudelaire's prose poems and Whitman's poetry, will include Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, William Carlos Williams, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, Frank O'Hara, and Marshall McLuhan, among others. In almost every instance, the text being discussed will have city life as its subject, or will have been generated by the large fact of urban experience and the related overload and dislocation that experience often entailed.
Throughout the course, we will examine the related arts, including: photography, painting, architecture, music, film, both high-brow and popular entertainments.
The course will require class participation, an individual or joint class presentation, assorted shorter assignments, and a final paper.
Introducing Modernim: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigus and Chris Garratt Modernism by Robin Walz Walt Whitman: Selected Poems Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire, trans. by Louise Varese William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems edited by Robert Pinsky Frank O'Hara: Selected Poems edited by Mark Ford Portable Beat Reader edited by Ann Charters
Lit 099D CM/Prose Miniatures Professor August Kleinzahler Fall 2013, Wednesdays 2.45-5.30
This course will focus on the small, often marginalized, varieties of non-fiction such as:
letters, diaries, police reports, brief character portraits, travel journals, recipes, monologues, rants, movie reviews, diatribes, daily observation, sports reporting and such that usually lie outside the general purview of "literature" i.e. novels, short stories, plays, full length essays, traditional poetry. We shall examine prose styles over several centuries, with an emphasis on syntax, development and sentence structure.
The class will be presented with examples of various forms, from the Elizabethan era to the present and will be asked to both imitate certain styles and fashion new work in the assorted modes, i.e. review a movie, describe the nature around you on the walk to class or the village, write a monologue, comic or otherwise, a love letter, a description of your favorite meal ever, real or imaginary, and so on.
The aim of the course is to demonstrate that the art of writing, or artful writing, can be done in less than 500 words and involve subject matter often considered beneath traditional literary art.
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Fourth of July Celebration Marks 40th Anniversary of Student Voting Rights
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Celebrating their historic right to vote, students drop voter registration forms into a voter box.
July 04, 2011
By Cindy Long
The 2011 RA Fourth of July celebration was all about engagement this year – it started with the engagement of two RA delegates to be married, and moved on to celebrate a historic moment in the political engagement of young people in America.
Forty years ago, educators and students stood together and fought to give young adults the right to vote. In doing so, they amended the Constitution and empowered millions of American citizens to have a say in our democracy.
This Independence Day marks the 40th anniversary of the 26th Amendment which lowered the legal voting age from 21 to 18 (it was signed into law July 5, 1971), and was the result of a grassroots effort – known as Project 18 – led by a dedicated group of NEA student members. Those members – Rosalyn Hester Baker, Ian MacGowan, Les Francis, Mel Myler, and Charles Gonzales, were honored today at the Fourth of July celebration.
It was the result of their efforts, said Executive Director John Wilson, that "allowed millions of young people to participate actively in the democratic process."
The first rumblings to lower the voting age emerged in the midst of the Vietnam War, when young people were demonstrating in the streets and students were holding rallies on campuses all over the county demanding that those being sent to war were able to have a voice in the political system sending them there.
Wilson was a student at Western Carolina University, where he served as president of the NEA student chapter, and he said he remembers well his fellow students being drafted into war. He said he and students across the country were energized by the rallying cry, "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote!"
That energy exploded into action among the student members of the California Teachers Association (CTA), who decided to change the system from within.
"It was all done with the spirit of what was right," said Mel Myler, president of the CTA Student Association at the time. "How do we provide access to people in a way that they've never had access before?"
In 1967, the group passed a resolution supporting an 18-year-old voting age, mustering the support of the NEA-Student Program and the NEA Representative Assembly's thousands of nationwide members. Then, in 1969, the NEA initiated its campaign for the measure, called Project 18, teaming with organizations like YMCA, AFL-CIO and NAACP and creating the Youth Franchise Coalition to lobby for a Constitutional amendment.
"Don't let anybody tell you about the power of an NBI," Wilson told the delegates. When the measure finally made it to Congress, it passed faster than any other amendment in history.
Last Friday, President Barack Obama issued a presidential proclamation and said, "We remember the commitment of all those who fought for the right to vote and celebrate the contributions of young adults to our nation."
To celebrate the anniversary a parade of young people, including Wilson's niece Marlee Shoemaker Yeates, waved their voter registration forms high over their heads and dropped them into a voter registration box set up in front of the stage as the thousands of delegates cheered them on.
"NEA made this happen," Wilson said. "And we need to make sure in 2012 we have the highest percentage ever of young voter turnout. Let us commit to make that hope come true."