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IBM may have made the open source Linux OS a staple of its software line, but is is keeping its own DB2 database proprietary, a company official said on Wednesday afternoon.
Asked about the notion of open-sourcing DB2 during the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, Jim Wasko, director of the IBM Linux Technology Center, said such an issue was "a challenge for us at IBM." Afterward, he acknowledged directly that an open source avenue for DB2 was not planned.
[ The Linux Foundation announced a carrier grade Linux upgrade on Wednesday. | Get the latest insights and news on open source trends with InfoWorld's Technology: Open Source newsletter. | Follow Paul Krill on Twitter. ]
Wasko said there was conflict within IBM depending on different product lines, such as his having a Linux bias and Windows representatives in IBM having a Windows bias. "It's a constant give and take," he noted. "Do we sacrifice some software revenue for services revenue?" In another instance, the issue may be about whether to sacrifice hardware revenue, he said, joking that "it depends on whose bonus it's based on."
"It's something [in which] we constantly evaluate what makes the most sense," Wasko said during a panel session about Linux and enterprise and cloud computing. Just prior to the DB2 query, Wasko was asked whether Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and its open source projects, such as MySQL, had affected Linux usage with these products. "It's created some challenges for us," he responded. Elaborating on his response later, Wasko said Oracle has been trying to get customers to swap out IBM equipment for Oracle's own Exadata server and the Oracle database.
Earlier on Wednesday at the conference, Linux Executive Director Jim Zemlin cited the upcoming 20th anniversary of Linux, which occurs in August. "It's amazing to think but it's been 20 years since Linus Torvalds's original post announcing the Linux project," Zemlin said. The choice of the GNU General Public License for Linux and the freedom offered to use the software as users' pleased revolutionized the computing industry, he said.
Since then, companies like Red Hat have businesses around Linux, and key users abound, such as Google and air traffic control and global equity trading systems, Zemlin said. "You use [Linux] literally every time you surf the Internet." Meanwhile, participation in development of the platform is widespread. "Today, the Linux kernel community numbers in the thousands."
For 2011, Zemlin anticipates more innovative business models based on open source; pre-integrated, minimal-configuration computing powered by Linux; and an expansion of specialized, high-performance computing in the vein of IBM's Watson, which uses Linux. In the mobile space, much is still to be decided given the still-evolving marketplace, according to Zemlin. "My main point here is the fat lady hasn't sung yet," he said, noting that there is still "no declared winner" and opportunities abound for compelling products based on Linux.
He also advised against believing the "fear, uncertainty, and doubt" around copyright and patent issues: "I assure you, most of this really not relevant." People will comply with licenses, and the fear seems to emanate from Linux competitors, Zemlin contended.
During a panel session covering the Linux kernel, kernel maintainer Andrew Morton, commenting on where Linux might be in 20 years, said he suspected "it'll still be going strong." But there was a chance some new technology could come along and make Linux obsolete, while still emulating the x86 architecture, he said: "I doubt within 20 years' time the kernel's going to be much smaller or simpler or easier to understand."
Zemlin and officials from several companies, including Texas Instruments and Wind River, touted the foundation's Yocto Project. "[Yocto] is a set of common tools that will help companies, particularly in the embedded space, make custom products" and enable rich innovation, Zemlin said. Yocto Project Release 1.0 was made available on Wednesday.
This article, "IBM bullish on Linux, but will keep DB2 proprietary," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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By comparing simulations from 20 different computer models to satellite observations, Lawrence Livermore climate scientists and colleagues from 16 other organizations have found that tropospheric and stratospheric temperature changes are clearly related to human activities.
The team looked at geographical patterns of atmospheric temperature change over the period of satellite observations. The team's goal of the study was to determine whether previous findings of a "discernible human influence" on tropospheric and stratospheric temperature were sensitive to current uncertainties in climate models and satellite data.
The troposphere is the lowest portion of earth's atmosphere. The stratosphere sits just above the troposphere, between 6 and 30 miles above earth's surface.
The satellite temperature data sets were produced by three different research groups, and rely on measurements of the microwave emissions of oxygen molecules. Each group made different choices in processing these raw measurements, and in accounting for such complex effects as drifts in satellite orbits and in instrument calibrations.
The new climate model simulations analyzed by the team will form the scientific backbone of the upcoming 5th assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is due out in 2014.
In both satellite observations and the computer model simulations of historical climate change, the lower stratosphere cools markedly over the past 33 years. This cooling is primarily a response to the human-caused depletion of stratospheric ozone. The observations and model simulations also show a common pattern of large-scale warming of the lower troposphere, with largest warming over the Arctic, and muted warming (or even cooling) over Antarctica. Tropospheric warming is mainly driven by human-caused increases in well-mixed greenhouse gases.
"It's very unlikely that purely natural causes can explain these distinctive patterns of temperature change," said Laboratory atmospheric scientist Benjamin Santer, who is lead author of the paper appearing in the Nov. 29 online edition of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"No known mode of natural climate variability can cause sustained, global-scale warming of the troposphere and cooling of the lower stratosphere."
The team analyzed results from climate model simulations with specified historical changes in human and natural external factors, and from simulations with projected 21st century changes in greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols. They also looked at simulations with no changes in external influences on climate, which provide information on the year-to-year and decade-to-decade "noise" of internal climate variability, arising from such natural phenomena as the El Nino/Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
The team used a standard "climate fingerprint" method to search for the model signal pattern (in response to human influences, the sun and volcanoes) in the satellite observations. The method quantifies the strength of the signal in observations, relative to the strength of the signal in natural climate noise.
Other contributors include researchers from Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa; the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne, Australia; the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, Victoria, Canada; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton; the University of Colorado, Boulder; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; the U.K. Met. Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, U.K.; the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France; North Carolina State University; the National Climatic Data Center, Asheville; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder; the University of Adelaide, South Australia; the University of Reading, U.K.; and the Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Camp Springs.
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A blog launched on the 41st anniversary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), the first pro-life organisation in the world, established on 11 January 1967. I wrote this blog in my role as SPUC's chief executive, commenting on pro-life news, reflecting on pro-life issues and promoting SPUC's work. I retired from my post on 31st August 2021 and will therefore be adding no further posts.
Monday, 24 March 2008
Let's not support charities who refuse charity to the unborn
They say: "We of course respect and acknowledge the sensitive feelings that surround this issue. However, public understanding of the importance of the use of early stage embryos and ensuing stem cell research remains robust; there is a real acknowledgement of its potential for those who are ill. Recent surveys by MORI and HFEA in 2003 and 2007 respectively, showed that the vast majority of the British public - 70% and 79% - support the use of human embryos for medical research to find treatments for serious diseases and for fertility research."
In other words, however concerned they are for members of the human family who qualify to benefit from their charitable aims, the AMRC's concern is refused to the smallest, most vulnerable members of the human family of whom the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child says: "The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth." (Declaration on the Rights of the Child,1959). This is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world.
Why not check the AMRC's list of charities and see if there are any there that you, or that people you know, support?
With the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill ready to sweep away any last vestige of respect for the dignity and right to life of the human embryo, isn't it time to draw a line in the sand and to say to charities who lack all charity for the youngest human beings, human embryos, that we will not only not support them, we will spread the word and urge others not to support them too?
So I suggest that concerned readers of this post, write to your chosen charities from the AMRC's list, challenge them on the points in the AMRC's open letter and if they won't budge, make it clear that you won't support them any longer and that you will urge others to do the same. Please let me know what responses you receive. You can find helpful information for your letters here.
For background information on the Association of Medical Research Charities, check here in SPUC's Charities Bulletin.
Sunday, 23 March 2008
"Stop exploiting embryonic human beings": Bishop of Lancaster plea to Gordon Brown
Bishop O'Donoghue tells Gordon Brown bluntly to "stop the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill". In another passage, listing the many guises of death in Britain today, he refers to
"euthanasia through the withdrawal of food and fluids" and says "here the numbers are countless".
Last week, I blogged on the calm eloquence with which the Bishop of Lancaster stood his ground before the House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Select Committee – defending not only the position of the Catholic church, but also defending human life, parental rights, and the rights of the family.
Last night, Bishop O'Donoghue preached at the Easter vigil Mass with passionate eloquence. Please write to the media supporting what he says and write to your Member of Parliament to oppose the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Full a full briefing on the Bill, click here.
Finally: Write to Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue to thank him for his clarity, and for the moral authority of his Easter message – to the Catholic faithful, to the general public, and to the British government. Write to him at email@example.com
Here's an extract from his homily which I urge you to read in full:
"We must hold on to the hope of these words: Jesus conquered death! We need to hold onto this truth today because death takes on so many guises; through legalised abortion – that kills nearly 200,000 children a year, through experimentation on the unborn, that has resulted in the deaths of 2.2 million, and euthanasia through the withdrawal of food and fluids, here the numbers are countless.
"Jesus has conquered death, but the powers of death and evil still strive to overcome the light of love and life. The tragedy is that the authority and power of Government seem to be behind the greatest threat to the dignity and rights of human life.
"As your bishop, I want to join my voice to that of Cardinal Keith O'Brien and others, in protesting in the strongest terms against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. If this bill becomes the law of the land, it will allow the creation of animal-human hybrid embryos for medical experimentation.
"Supporters of this so called 'medical' experimentation, justify it by offering the hope that at some unknown date in the future the dissection and destruction of unborn human life will lead to cures for truly terrible diseases, such as cancers, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and M.S.
"All right thinking people will agree that we must seek to discover cures for diseases that cause so much human suffering. But compassion cannot result in us exploiting and destroying the life of unborn human beings.
"Many in government, the media and research are so strident in promoting research on embryonic humans that they forget to mention that the greatest strides in discovering cures derive from adult stem cell research - not the defenceless unborn.
"We need to ask who are these vested interests in the promotion of experimentation on embryonic humans and the creation of animal-human hybrids. I read about them but I've yet to find them in person.
"The Prime Minister has made it clear that he wants Britain to be the world's number one centre for genetic and stem cell research. He sees it as building up the hi-tech sector of British industry and contributing to economic growth.
"It is good to develop British industry and foster economic growth, but not through exploiting and destroying embryonic human persons.
"A society that seeks medical cures and economic development at the cost of human rights, human dignity and human life is 'monstrous'. It is not the defenceless, human-animal embryo, that is 'monstrous'; it is we ourselves who have become 'monsters' for allowing the exploitation of the unborn for our economic and medical gain.
"On this holy night when we celebrate life conquering death, I want to make two appeals as your Bishop:
"First, to the Prime Minister and his ministers. Please stop the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Stop exploiting embryonic human beings, and support adult stem cell research instead…
"…Second, I call on the Catholic community - clergy and laity - to speak with one voice and insist that parliament: protects and cherishes human life. Pray, Protest, and Petition your Member of Parliament to stop this monstrous medical experimentation on human beings.
"Never give up hope, nor allow it to be dimmed, because the light of Christ shines out in the darkness, and the darkness can never overcome Him."
The bishop also released a robust press release in advance of his homily which you can read here. His postal address is in the press release.
Saturday, 22 March 2008
Courageous Scottish Cardinal speaks out
Look here for a detailed briefing when writing to the media and to MPs.
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Russian Orthodox leader condemns human rights trends
In a major address to the 7th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, Metropolitan Krill has condemned the monopoly on human rights of a limited number of representatives of the human species.
"…These human rights are just defending the right to choose but nothing is said about humans' responsibilities and as a result the freedom of the individual from evil is left undefended…", he said.
Here are some extracts from his speech:
"The attraction [of human rights] is based on a very simple and easily accessible idea – namely, that we should be concerned about the happiness of each individual. This idea in European culture is something that was brought by Christianity which has always proclaimed access to salvation for every person irrespective of that person's national or social origins and the unique nature and value of each individual in the Divine conception of the world has always been stressed. Christians cannot simply remain on the sidelines when it comes to the fate of this important factor even when it's expressed in secular language…
"...Now, many Orthodox Christians, when it comes to the development and implementation of human rights today, note that there are trends which are arising now which are dangerous when it comes to the defence of these high ideals. The development of institutes of human rights is something that has become the monopoly of a limited number of representatives of the human species. International organizations frequently, when they deal with matters of human rights, draw their conclusions on the basis of the opinions of a limited group of experts or civil servants or audible, though well-organized, minorities.
"Many States are also under the influence of these forces and they are losing the ability to translate the authentic values sought by their peoples. Something which is typical is that the most widespread and most widely used concept of human rights – that is, human dignity – is something which is not broadly or clearly understood…This concept provides the key to how we understand the individual, the person that is, and therefore human rights...
"...For Orthodox Christians something which is obvious is that human dignity cannot be conceived of without a religious and spiritual and moral dimension. At the same time in order to ensure the acceptability of the concept of human rights for people of different views, very often the distance between human rights and religion is stressed. As a result religious views have become a private matter and are not seen as a source of modern law, including human rights, and this is happening despite the fact that according to widespread information some 80% of the inhabitants of the planet are religious. What is in fact happening is that there are requirements that religious views should be subject to legal norms which are based on non-religious ideas and this leads to a dominance of an agnostic or even a materialistic approach to life which causes anxiety amongst believers…
"...In addition, the woman's right to abortion neglects the right of the embryo. And no reference is made to ethics when scientific experiments are carried out on human embryos. And it's even more astonishing to hear that human rights should now include the right to euthanasia because human rights are based on the most fundamental right of all, that is the right to life and yet soon it might turn out that human rights are favouring death rather than life...
"...On the other hand there are serious questions when it comes to the enjoyment of human rights. One of the problems in this area is the interpretation of the idea of freedom…These human rights are just defending the right to choose but nothing is said about humans' responsibilities and as a result the freedom of the individual from evil is left undefended.
"Before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe last year His Holiness Alexis II. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia said:
'Morality is freedom in action, that is, freedom which has already been enjoyed"I'd like to recall that UN standards on which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, is based, suggests the restriction of the freedom to choose in order to satisfy the fair requirements of morality. Unfortunately the European Union's Charter of Rights does not include such a restrictive parameter...
as a result of a responsible choice and which restricts itself in the interests
of the good and benefit of the individual and also society'
"…In our view human rights should not contradict moral norms…
"...A non-conflictual way out of the situation which has come about could be found in conducting an intensive dialogue. The Russian Orthodox Church is involved in a process today of developing a comprehensive approach to human rights. It is planned that the document being developed in this regard…will be adopted by the Council of bishops. On the basis of an inter-Christian and inter-religion dialogue we know that other Christian confessions and world religions have approaches to human rights and it would be appropriate to take into account these views within the context of the Human Rights Council and, all together, within the context of the United Nations..."
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
help stop Europe-wide abortion campaign
– guarantee unrestricted access to abortion;
– make sex education of young people compulsory. (Most "sex education" is infected with an anti-life mentality, and compulsory sex education would undermine the role and rights of parents).
To back up its recommendations, the report makes some of the usual false pro-abortion claims - huge numbers of illegal abortions, an unmet need for more birth control to reduce abortion rates, discrimination against women, etc.
The report will undoubtedly be used as leverage towards the creation of a right to abortion on demand in international law, which has always been the most important and ultimate goal of the worldwide pro-abortion lobby.
Please contact the representatives of your country in the Assembly immediately, urging them to reject the report when it is debated by the Assembly's plenary session, 14 - 18 April. Contact details for Assembly members can be found here. Please remember to email any replies you receive to Anthony Ozimic, SPUC political secretary
Click here for SPUC briefing: Abortion law and the Council of Europe
Click here for Southern Cross Bioethics Institute (SCBI) response to the report
Click here for SPUC's Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe campaign page
Monday, 17 March 2008
The danger of abortion amendments
Most MPs will only consider a change in the 24-week line if abortion up to birth continues for disabled babies; and we can expect further conditions to be demanded before they allow restrictions on late-term social abortions.
These conditions could include removing restrictions to abortion on demand in early pregnancy, allowing nurses to perform certain types of abortion and extending the Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.
That's why SPUC considers it dangerous to introduce upper limit or any abortion amendments in the current Parliament.
Hippocratic Oath posters and leaflets for pro-life doctors
The Times reports tells us: "Doctors must display posters or give out information leaflets detailing any ethical objections they hold on abortion or other contentious medical issues under new guidelines published today by the medical regulator… They must also set aside their own beliefs where a patient wishes it, or directly refer the patient to another doctor who does not hold the same objections."
This is what the great pro-life leader, respected by people of all faiths and none, Pope John Paul II, said on the subject: "Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws: instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection" (Evangelium Vitae, 73, emphasis as in the original).
SPUC is offering doctors posters and leaflets promoting awareness of the Hippocratic Oath which states: "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy."
Tibet and genocide
SPUC has for many years helped to voice the opposition of Tibetans to coercive birth control in Tibet, and the complicity of the
"What is the
The UK government gives millions of pounds every year to UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) and IPPF (the International Planned Parenthood Federation), who in turn help the Chinese Communist regime to manage its population control programme, the main feature of which is a one-child-per-woman policy, brutally implemented by both the threat and the practice of forced abortion.
The BBC has been airing a programme recently entitled "A year in
Thursday, 13 March 2008
The moral maze created by IVF
"You said earlier that we all have disabilities; so in your perfect universe or pursuit of perfection, where is this going to end?"
Prof. Savulescu's answer proves - if proof were needed - that eugenics and a eugenic society is the goal of embryo research:
"Well, it will actually end by transferring power from nature to families and couples to make decisions about the kinds of children they wish to bring into the world."
The programme's presenter, Michael Buerk - who had introduced the programme by blithely informing the audience that IVF is "a wonderful medical technique that has given hope to thousands of otherwise childless couples" - asked Ms Phillips:
"[I]f there are to be guidelines and it is not to be just a matter for parental choice or leaving it on a random level, where would the line be drawn? Would the line be drawn on treatable things or be drawn on things that are life threatening or drawn on some notion of pain and hardship?"
Ms Phillips got to the core of the issue in her answer:
"Well, I think we are up a gum tree. I mean, personally, I would not have started from here, I would not have gone down the IVF road."
I have blogged previously on the intrinsic wrongnesss of IVF.
On the specific question of deaf parents selecting deaf embryos,
"The idea of deliberately producing disabled babies is simply an extension of the current belief that there is a 'right to choose' the kind of baby whom an individual will accept or reject. Of course, in most cases this means that disabled children are thrown away or killed by abortion, but the principle is equally unjust and unethical in the case of rejecting non-disabled babies.
"The truth is that every human being, disabled or not, has infinite value and should be welcomed into the world whatever his or her abilities. 'Manufacturing' human beings, and then rejecting those who do not measure up to our ideas of what is desirable, is a form of eugenics which should be rejected by all who recognise and respect the value of human beings.
"Designing children and throwing away those we choose to reject for whatever reason is a form of fatal discrimination, which should not be tolerated in any civilised society."
The only ethical action, therefore, that MPs can take regarding the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is to vote against it when it comes before the House of Commons, which could be soon after Easter. Please contact to your MP today – visit http://www.spuc.org.uk/lobbying/ for guidance.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Bishop stands up under fire
Fiona McTaggart MP challenged the bishop on the fact that his recent guidance to Catholic schools (Fit for
The Bishop was also criticised for saying in the document that schools in his diocese should see it as their prime duty to teach the Catholic faith and to evangelise. Committee members said they thought this meant non-Catholic pupils were to be proselytised. The Bishop denied this – pointing to the distinction between genuine evangelisation – proclaiming the truth to others – and proselytisation, which was characterised as coercive.
Barry Sheerman MP, the Committee Chairman, asked if Church leaders were not worried that it seemed that church schools had become adept at keeping out poor and needy children.
The Bishop said that Catholic schools [within the state 'comprehensive school' system] should not be selective, and said he would intervene if schools were found to have been selecting children on the basis of their social class. He maintained, however that admission quotas for different class or religious groups should not be imposed on schools.
On the question of interfaith schools, the committee chairman asked whether there had been a change in policy under Pope Benedict XVI (or, as Barry Sheerman impolitely put it: under the "present occupant of the
If you want to write to congratulate Bishop O'Donoghue for his brave defence of values, particularly pro-life values, during his questioning in Parliament today, write to him at: Bishop's Apartment, Cathedral House,
pray for bishop's witness to life
Spare a thought this morning for Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue, the bishop of
Remember some of the things Bishop O'Donoghue has been teaching in his diocese in his document "Fit for
"…Schools and colleges have to cope with increasing government 'social engineering' legislation, seeking to impose secular values on our curriculum and ethos…
"…Parents, schools and collegesmust reject secularized and anti-life sex education, which puts God at the margin of life and regards the birth of a child as a threat (The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality, 137)
"Sterilization, contraception, abortion, and IVF should only be discussed during adolescence and only in conformity with the teaching of the Catholic Church. Therefore, the moral, spiritual, and health values of methods for the natural regulation of fertility, such as Natural Family Planning, must be emphasized (The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality, 137).
"Parents must insist on continence outside marriage and fidelity in marriage as the only true and secure education for the prevention of AIDS. Parents, schools, and colleges must also reject the promotion of so-called "safe sex" or "safer sex", a dangerous and immoral policy based on the deluded theory that the condom can provide adequate protection against AIDS. (The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality, 139)…"
Of course, this is exactly what very many citizens, Catholic or not, are crying out to hear from their religious leaders – and thank God Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue has been saying it. We live in a country in which the Government's policy, enacted in schools, including Catholic schools, is to provide abortion and abortifacient birth control to children without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
Bishop O'Donoghue is calling for resistance to this policy in accordance with the teaching of Pope John Paul II who wrote: "Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection". (Emphasis as in "Evangelium Vitae", 73)
However, Barry Sheerman, MP for
Simon Caldwell writes in today's Daily Mail:
"The bishop has been criticised by Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the schools select committee. 'A lot of taxpayers' money is going into church schools and I think we should tease out what is happening here," said Mr Sheerman, the Labour MP for
As I make this post, all we can do is pray for the bishop. Pray that Barry Sheerman and his committee fail to convict him in the court of public opinion for standing up for the natural, inalienable, rights of citizens to defend the sanctity of life and the right to protect and promote the dignity of married love.
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
UN report could be used to make abortion a right
A United Nations official is today presenting a report in
Mr Paul Hunt's document says that states have a legal obligation to provide health services, and it's hard to take exception to that. However, he includes in this provision: "sexual and reproductive health services including information, family planning, prenatal and post-natal services, and emergency obstetric care."
"Sexual and reproductive health services" is a term used by UN bodies such as the UNFPA and CEDAW to promote legal access to abortion on demand – and to put pressure on developing countries worldwide to legalise abortion.
What's needed is a firm declaration by the international community that none of this report is to be taken to imply a right to abortion. Better still, nations should re-assert what the Convention on the Rights of the Child says about how children need special protection "before as well as after birth".
Please contact your country's foreign ministry to ask them to ensure that your nation opposes any interpretation of the Hunt report as supporting abortion. In the
Monday, 10 March 2008
Worldwide prayer alert to protect Northern Ireland
I am in
The number one item on our agenda is the British Government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
There is a terrible danger of Parliament imposing the British Abortion Act on
In addition to their political campaign, SPUC Northern Ireland wants to build on any existing prayer campaigns against the government bill and, in particular, against the pro-abortion lobby's agenda for this Bill.
If any readers know of existing prayer campaigns against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, either locally or on a national level, and either in Britain or in Ireland or in any other part of the world, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Please would other bloggers, reading this post, pass on the message.
By the way, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is a danger to the world. Just as the British Abortion Act has been copied throughout the world and, therefore, British politicians responsible for the killing of unborn children worldwide; just as the Human Fertilisation and Embrology Act 1990 and the permission it gave for IVF and human embryo experimentation has been copied around the world; so will the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and the permission it gives for the creation of human-animal hybrids be copied around the world - if it is enacted by the British Parliament in the coming months.
So this is a worldwide prayer alert.
Giving counselling or taking lives?
Friday, 7 March 2008
MP's muddled thinking on abortion
The dangers of Nadine Dorries's proposal are clearly illustrated in her own position on abortion. She endorses a woman's right to choose abortion. She introduced a 10-minute rule bill in 2006 which included a provision to fast-track abortion once the final consent had been given. This provision, if the Bill had succeeded, could have led to even more resources being spent on killing the unborn.
Her revulsion at late abortion is wholly appropriate, but her tactics in trying to curb it are wrong, dangerous and likely to make matters worse, not better.
Her inconsistent stance politically is perhaps a reflection of her muddled thinking on abortion, best expressed by Ms Dorries herself in today's Daily Mail: "What got me was the total lack of regard for human life. I have no issue with abortion at the right time. But this is murder."
My letter in this weekend's Catholic Herald:
It's misleading to describe SPUC's approach to abortion law reform as "all or nothing". (Catholic Herald, Interview,
For many years SPUC has pointed out that the Abortion Act 1967, terrible as it is, could be made significantly worse. A careful examination of the recent votes on abortion in the current Parliament shows many more MPs supporting the pro-abortion lobby than the pro-life lobby.
With the numbers stacked against us, it makes no sense at all to add to the calls of the pro-abortion lobby for Parliament to amend the abortion law.
When Parliament last voted on the upper limit for abortion (in 1990), exceptions were included which resulted in the legalisation of abortion up to birth. Leading pro-abortion politicians have since indicated that want abortion to be more widely available. Negotiating any lower limit is likely to involve a trade-off with more exceptions being allowed beyond the limit – up to birth – thus resulting in more abortions taking place.
The beginning of political influence for the pro-life movement in the
Thus, along with other pro-life groups, SPUC is working closely with leading pro-life politicians in
It is wrong to say that SPUC does not communicate with other groups.
SPUC has always acknowledged that our lobbying and educational work is not the whole of the pro-life battle. We have encouraged and supported the work of other groups especially in the field of pro-life counselling. We continue to liaise with other organisations through the London-based 'Choose Life' committee and in several areas, particularly
SPUC fights for the right to life of all unborn children, and works on the basis of a realistic political strategy. It is not an "all or nothing" approach. It's one which takes into account the real danger of making things worse, as well as the urgent need to devise strategies that will enable us to make progress despite the hostile political climate.
Yours sincerely,
John Smeaton
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Thursday, 6 March 2008
retirement of Rev Dr Ian Paisley
- In February 1984 he co-sponsored a motion (along with Rev Ivan Foster) in the Northern Ireland Assembly rejecting the extension of the Abortion Act to
. The motion was approved by 20 votes to 1. Northern Ireland
- In autumn 1992 he led a rally in
to oppose the opening of a Brook Advisory Centre in the city. Brook refers for abortions and provides girls under the age of consent with abortifacient birth control drugs and devices. Belfast
- On 20 June 2000 he spoke in the New Northern Ireland Assembly in favour of a motion reiterating the rejection of the Abortion Act saying: "As a public representative, I shall speak for the child today, the child who feels, who can recognise its mother's voice and know pain, who is a member of the human family and who has been given the unique gift of human life. We cannot get away from that."
- As a member of the House of Commons and an MEP, Dr Paisley has consistently supported the pro-life cause, working with other elected representatives regardless of religious or political differences.
- He is expected to lead his party's opposition to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill.
You can read the rest of Dr Paisley's speech quoted above in this transcript of a Northern Ireland Assembly debate. Scroll down a few screens till you reach it.
SPUC's briefing on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill is here as a PDF.
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Chinese regime: no end to one child policy
Chimp or person?
Monday, 3 March 2008
The child's life which does not haunt Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown spoke movingly the other day about child poverty. Watch him here as he says: "When we allow just one life to be degraded or derailed by early poverty it represents a cost that can never be fully counted. What difference could that child have made? What song will not be written? What flourishing business will not be founded? What classroom will miss out on a teacher who could awaken aspiration? Because just one child's life wasted haunts us with the thought of what might have been. So this government must end child poverty in this generation."
You may like to write to him to tell him that exactly the same sentiments could be applied to the unborn and to abortion.
Check here for Gordon Brown's voting record on abortion. In 1988 and 1990, he voted with the pro-abortion lobby no fewer than 16 times, including three times for abortion up to birth.


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MIAMI (AP) - Two new reports show that the taxpayer-funded Medicare program paid more than $120 million from 2009 to 2011 in violation of federal law for medical services for inmates and illegal immigrants.
Under federal law, Medicare generally doesn't pay for services for inmates or illegal immigrants. But the reports issued Thursday by federal health inspectors say Medicare was billed for more than $33 million in inmate care and more than $91 million for illegal immigrant care over that period.
The Department of Health and Human Services inspector general recommends that officials establish a better system to automatically flag and deny charges for both groups of patients.
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Dell to stick to current strategy as private company
Dell Inc, which intends to go private in a $24.4 billion deal led by founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell, plans to stick to its current turnaround strategy to diversify away from personal computers.
Dell Chief Financial Officer Brian Gladden told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday that the company can now pursue its strategy without being limited by the pressures of public ownership.
"Under a new private company structure, we will have time and flexibility to really pursue and realize the end-to-end solutions strategy," Gladden said. "We will be able to pursue organic and inorganic investment and we won't have the scrutiny and limitations associated with operating as a public company."
"So we are generally very, very encouraged by the future here," he added.
The company, once the world's top PC maker and a pioneer in computer supply chain management, is struggling to defend its market share against Asian rivals including Lenovo Group Ltd. It is trying to bolster growth by focusing on products and services to corporations.
Dell has also over the past couple of years given up low-margin sales to consumers and is moving into higher-margin areas, such as businesses in the public sector and the healthcare industry.
But the turnaround has been slow and painful. In November, Dell saw its fiscal third-quarter profit slide 47 percent, hurt by lower PC sales, weaker demand from large corporations and the shift to mobile computing.
Gladden acknowledged that the turnaround will take more time and investment, which the company plans to make as a private enterprise that will have less emphasis on quarter-to-quarter progress.
"Without having really the scrutiny that is associated with a publicly traded stock, we can make the necessary investment and stick to plan, in some cases be more aggressive than we can today," he said.
Rival PC makers were quick to dismiss Dell's move as disruptive, and one that will not be good for customers.
"Dell has a very tough road ahead," No. 1 PC maker Hewlett Packard said in a statement. "And with a significant debt load, Dell's ability to invest in new products and services will be extremely limited."
HP said leveraged buyouts tend to leave existing "customers and innovation at the curb" and HP plans to take full advantage of any disruption the move will cause among Dell's customer base.
Asian rival Lenovo said in a statement it was focused on products and customers "rather than distracting financial maneuvers and major strategic shifts."
Dell's founder and CEO, and private equity firm Silver Lake are paying $13.65 per share in cash for the buyout.
When asked if Dell plans to exit the PC business, Gladden said the board completed a review, and "this is where they ended up."
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Most of the kids gobbling up cheese pizza, chicken nuggets and carrots are participating in summer learning programs at the campus. But, as indicated by a big red banner hanging on the school's fence, anyone 18 years old and younger was invited to the free meals.
"If I see somebody out there, I'll go drag them in -- 'Go eat! Go in!' " said Colleen Ivie, the school's cafeteria manager.
Still, Ivie said, the school would not have fed nearly as many kids without summer school.
Across California, the loss of summer learning opportunities has lowered participation in federally funded summer meal programs, according to a recent report by California Food Policy Advocates. Summer school provides a central location where students congregate; without it, kids are scattered and more difficult to reach.
Participation in July 2011 - an average of nearly 387,000 children per day - was 6 percent lower than it was a year earlier and nearly 30 percent lower than it was in July 2008, the report found. Yet the number of low-income children served by the National School Lunch Program during the academic year has grown in recent years.
"This summer nutrition gap is harming kids," said Tia Shimada, a nutrition policy advocate with California Food Policy Advocates. "Along with that lack of opportunity for learning and enrichment during the summertime, there's also a lack of access to meals."
Last July, summer meals reached just 16 percent of California children who ate free or reduced-price lunches during the school year, which means more than 2 million students missed out on the meals, the report found.
Shimada said schools, which are the most common sponsor of summer meal programs, should promote the opportunity before the academic year ends and make sure families know where to go. The state Department of Education lists summer meal sites in every county that are open to all children.
Focus groups recently convened by Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit working to end child hunger, also said meal locations should be within walking distance of homes or transportation and be safe, supervised environments, like schools.
The Mount Diablo Unified School District hosted 14 summer meal sites at its schools, including Cambridge Elementary. Most ended their programs Friday, but two - Rio Vista Elementary and Shore Acres Elementary, both in Bay Point - will continue through Aug. 10.
Before the programs began, the district placed advertisements in its local newspaper, the Contra Costa Times; posted flyers at local farmers markets, churches and other community locations; and mailed information to every household in the area, said Tim Watson-Williams, a supervisor in the district's food and nutrition department.
Although daily participation has been strong, ranging from 75 to 325 kids per site, Watson-Williams said he'd like to see more people eating the free meals. The district, which is able to cover the cost of operating the programs with federal reimbursement, could easily serve twice as many people, he said.
"It's a valuable community service," Watson-Williams said. "So many of our kids, lunch and breakfast at school is the core of the meals that they're getting. These are kids that without school may not get a proper meal at all."
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
CoffeeShop Valentine Textures!
In the spirit of another holiday, I whipped up some Valentine textures. They are a bit grungy and not your typical "pretty" paper, but I think you will like them. Just open them in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or any program that you edit in and use them as textures, frames, or digital paper on photos, cards, or templates.
I used two free textures on these papers, Door Panel by Paul Grand also his Scratches Inverted (I love that texture!) and Painted Frame Texture by Irisb477 . They have other great free textures, so be sure to check them out and thank them for being so generous.
And thanks again for visiting my blog and leaving such great comments. I really appreciate it! I have tons of stuff on the horizon, so please keep on checking back, you never know what you might find here.
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- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Fabulous! Thank you so much.ReplyDelete
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Can't wait to see what the name is going to be for your new action...*drum roll...*
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- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2009 at 6:13 AM
these are pretty neat, love them!ReplyDelete
love them, Rita! Thank you!!!ReplyDelete
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hi rita- loving the new textures!! Thank you.ReplyDelete
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hi rita-me again- played around w/ the textures- I am sure I have not done your beautiful textures justice, but I am a newbie ; )-check it out..ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2009 at 8:14 PM
You are extremely creative and your textures are wonderful! You are so very generous to provide them for free!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Wow, Rita, these are so amazing. I can't wait to play with them. Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
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Rita I was just directed to your blog today and let me tell you... You are one talented, generous lady!!!! Thank you SO much for all that you do!!!!! You are my hero!! :) I too am a stay at home mommy, I have a 5 1/2 boy with Asperger's Syndrome, a 3 3/4 year old little girl and our 1 year old baby girl! Never a dull moment around here!!!! I too play in PS CS4 after the kiddos are down for the night and it's mommy time!!! I just wanted to give you some kudos and say you are doing AWESOME stuff!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2009 at 7:21 PM
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Rita, I really want to thank you for all of your hard work. I love everything you have offered. Thank you.ReplyDelete
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first time ever to use a texture on a photo with PE8 I used one of these valentine textures...I had lots of fun...thanks!ReplyDelete
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Beautiful textures....Yall are awesome !!! Thank you so very much !!!! I am just learning to use them. .ReplyDelete
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November 1, 2017 - Incheon, South Korea - Nov 1,2017-Incheon, South Korea-South Korean speed skater Lee Sang-hwa carry the torch with run for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Incheon Bridge in Incheon on Nov. 1, 2017. South Korean speed skating star Lee Sang-hwa realized her dream of running in an Olympic torch relay on Wednesday, carrying the flame for next year's Winter Games on home ice. Lee, two-time reigning Olympic gold medalist in the women's 500m, ran as the 60th torchbearer for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games. The Olympic flame arrived at Incheon International Airport earlier Wednesday, having been lit and handed over to PyeongChang in Greece, and the torch relay got underway on Incheon Bridge, near the airport. (Credit Image: © Zuma via ZUMA Wire)
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Thank You – 10 Million Times
When we started SoundCloud a few years ago, we had the vision of enabling people to create and share sound more easily and collaboratively.
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Karl the Curmudgeon Finds FacebookErik Deckers
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"Kid, why do you insist on playing on that Facespace," said Karl, grabbing my mobile phone from me.
It's Facebook, I said, grabbing it back from him. You don't 'play' Facebook. Besides, I wasn't on Facebook, I had to check a text from my wife.
"But I don't even see the point of it," said Karl, plonking his beer on the table. It was Saturday afternoon, and we were sitting at Boudica's, a Scottish restaurant, eating lunch and having a beer. The waitress brought an order of Scotch eggs.
Ahh, look at that, I said, marveling at the egg-and-sausage dish, rubbing my hands together in gleeful anticipation. Scotch eggs are hard-boiled eggs with a sausage coating. The sausage ball is baked, and you cut it into pieces, eating both the egg and sausage together. These eggs were the size of my fist.
"Aye, those are mighty fine eggs," said Karl, slipping into his Scottish brogue, something he did whenever he was reminded of his homeland.
The point of Facebook, I said, my mouth full of sausage, is to keep in contact with your friends and family. To let them know what you're doing, and to find out what they're doing.
"That's stupid," said Karl, scowling. "Why would I want to know that?"
Don't you want to know what your kids are doing with their family on a particular day?
"Sure, but I just call them."
But do you call them every day?
"Why the heck would I want to do that? They've got their own lives to lead."
What about your friends from high school?
"I don't even like them. Why would I give a rat's butt about what they're doing?"
Do you have any friends from the last couple of years?
"Kid, what if I said you were my only friend?" said Karl.
The way you're acting right now, I'd say you overestimated.
"Oh, get bent," he said, forking some Scotch eggs into his mouth. He chewed for a minute, and then swallowed. "I just don't see the point of knowing all the details about someone's life? Why would anyone want to know what I'm doing?"
Well, you don't actually know all the details of their lives. Only what they choose to tell you. So you might see something interesting, like if your son posted a photo or video of your grandson scoring a goal. Or your daughter sharing that your granddaughter won the spelling bee at her school.
"Okay, I can see how that might be handy. But why can't they just call me with the news?"
You only talk to your kids once a week by phone, right?
Don't they forget to tell you something from time to time? They tell you about it later, but it's one of those things that would have been better to know up front?
"Sure, that happens once in a while."
Or they have videos of one of their kids' plays, but you can't see it until you see them for the holidays?
"All the time. Then I'm usually stuck watching hours of videos at a time."
So what if you could watch the videos or see the photos or hear the news online right after it happens?
"Well, they email me stuff sometimes."
Sure, but that's still only sometimes. But your son is on Facebook quite a bit.
"How do you know?"
Because we're Facebook friends.
"But you never met him."
I didn't need to. I knew who he was, I found him on Facebook, knew he was your son, and I friended him. Now I get to hear about stuff he's doing at work, things he's reading, games he's playing, that kind of thing.
"And that's not boring?" said Karl. "My son can be kind of boring."
A little bit, but the great thing about Facebook is that it allows me to find connect with new people, people I knew from a long time ago, or even find people I share a common interest with.
"So why would I want to do that?"
What are some of your likes or dislikes?
"Well, I'm a grammar curmudgeon, I hate the word 'moist', and I like proper Scotch whisky," Karl said, properly leaving the 'e' out of the word.
I pulled out my laptop and fired it up. Look at this, I said. There are groups on Facebook for all three of those interests. There are several groups for grammar and punctuation sticklers. There's a group for people who hate the word 'moist. And here's a group for people who like Scotch whisky. That one has nearly 4,100 people in it.
"What about the one for people who hate. . . 'that word?'"
Let's see, 2,277.
Karl thought for a minute. "And I wouldn't have to tell everyone everything that I'm doing?"
Not if you don't want to. You share what you want to share, leave out what you want to leave out.
"All right, I'll do it. I'll sign up when I get home." I started typing something on my computer. "What are you doing now?" he demanded.
I'm posting to my Facebook wall that I just won another argument with you.
"Dammit, Kid!"
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2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa will feature all the emotion and passion of the fiercest national rivalries battling on the world's biggest stage, with all 199 national teams that took part in qualification, all 10 official stadiums to be used in South Africa and stadiums from each qualifying region. Gamers will be able to play as their home nation from qualification right through to a virtual reproduction of the FIFA World Cup Final and feel what it is like to score the goal that lifts a nation. Everything fans love about the World Cup will come to life in spectacular detail, including confetti rain, streamers, & fireworks—just like the official tournament.
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The 155-mph, luxury-outfitted, carbon-fiber Superbus is the product of Netherland's Delft University and, maybe, a few trips to Amsterdam. With 800-hp on tap, the all-electric bus aims to revolutionize public transportation. And it works! Video proof below.
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This Superbus demonstrator has been tested up to 50 mph in the Netherlands, NSis set for a more high-speed unveil in Germany in the coming weeks. The 23-passenger bus combines high-technology with first-class accommodations and convenience in a way its backers hope will revolutionize mass transit. [Telegraph]


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Page 164 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Page 324 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
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IQST – iQSTEL Reduces Overall Debt By 48% In Conjunction With Convertible Debt Elimination
NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — iQSTEL, Inc. (USOTC: IQST) today announced that the company has reduced its overall outstanding debt obligations by 48%, down over $1.5 million from $3.3 million in conjunction with the previously announced elimination of all derivative liabilities including convertible debt and warrants. The company has exchanged all derivative liabilities for standard commercial promissory notes bearing 10% interest reducing its overall debt obligations. The balance sheet improvements (see summary below) are intended to enhance the company's current efforts to up-list onto a major exchange.
Sep 30, 2020
Jan 13, 2021
Convertible Notes
Promissory Notes (Non Convertible)
Settlement Agreement
"We are on track in our debt reduction strategy, getting a stronger Balance Sheet for our up-listing path," commented Mr. Iglesias, iQSTEL, Inc. CEO.
About iQSTEL Inc (Updated):
iQSTEL Inc (OTC: IQST) (www.iQSTEL.com) is a US-based publicly-listed company offering leading-edge Telecommunication, Technology and Fintech Services for Global Markets, with presence in 13 countries. The company provides services to the Telecommunications, Financial Services, Liquid Fuel Distribution and Electric Vehicle Industries. iQSTEL has 3 Business Divisions: Telecom, Technology and Fintech, with worldwide B2B and B2C customer relations operating through its subsidiaries: Etelix, SwissLink, QGlobal SMS, SMSDirectos, IoT Labs, itsBchain and Global Money One. The Company has an extensive portfolio of products and services for its clients: SMS, VoIP, 4G & 5G international infrastructure connectivity, Cloud-PBX, OmniChannel Marketing, IoT Smart Gas Platform, IoT Smart Electric Vehicle Platform, Mobile Number Portability Application MNPA (Blockchain), Settlement & Payments Marketplace (Blockchain), Visa Debit Card, Money Remittance, and Pay Mobile Phone Services among others.
About Etelix.com USA LLC (iQSTEL's Telecom Division):
Etelix.com USA LLC (www.etelix.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of iQSTEL Inc. Etelix.com USA, LLC is a Miami, Florida-based international telecom carrier founded in 2008 that provides telecom and technology solutions worldwide, with commercial presence in North America, Latin America, and Europe. Enabled by its 214-license granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Etelix provides International Long-Distance voice services for Telecommunications Operators (ILD Wholesale), and Submarine Fiber Optic Network capacity for internet (4G and 5G). Etelix was founded in 2008 and has been profitable since inception.
About SwissLink Carrier AG (iQSTEL's Telecom Division):
SwissLink Carrier AG (www.swisslink-carrier.com) is a 51% owned subsidiary of iQSTEL Inc. SwissLink Carrier AG is a Switzerland based international Telecommunications Carrier founded in 2015 providing international VoIP connectivity worldwide, with commercial presence in Europe, CIS and Latin America. SwissLink Carrier AG is a Swiss licensed Operator, having a domestic Interconnect with Swisscom, allowing their international Carrier Customers direct terminations via SwissLink into all Switzerland Fix & Mobile Networks. Since the takeover from Swissphone in November 2018 and the rename into SwissLink, they operate on a profitable level.
About QGlobal SMS LLC (iQSTEL's Telecom Division):
QGlobal SMS LLC (www.qglobalsms.com) is a 51% owned subsidiary of iQSTEL Inc. QGlobal SMS is a USA based company and a commercial brand founded in 2020 specialized in international and domestic SMS termination, with emphasis on the Applications to Person (A2P) and Person to Person (P2P) for Wholesale Carrier Market and Corporate Market in US. QGlobal SMS has commercial presence in US, Mexico, Latin America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Asia) and Africa, through our SMS service providers based in Austin, TX and Miami, FL Our Austin-based SMS service provider is specialized in the SMS traffic exchange between US and Mexico, and our Miami-based SMS service provider is focused in the development of Latin America and the rest of the world. QGlobal SMS has robust international interconnection with Tier1 SMS Aggregators, guarantying its customers high quality and low termination rates, over more than 100 countries worldwide.
About Alcyon Cloud SMS S.A.S, Commercial Brand SMSDirectos.com (iQSTEL's Telecom Division):
Alcyon Cloud SMS S.A.S. (Commercial Brand SMSDirectos.com), is a whole subsidiary of QGlobal SMS, a Colombian-based Application and Content Provider. Alcyon Cloud SMS (SMSDirectos.com) is registered with the Secretary of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Colombia, offering services to government, enterprises, small and medium business, as well as end-users. Using SMSDirectos' existing network, they plan to expand services from SMS to offer omnichannel products and services such as: SMS, Emails, RCS (Rich Communications Services), Social Media Channels (Whats App, Messenger, etc), WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication), VoIP (IP-PBX, SIP Trunking) ChatBots (Artificial Intelligence Based), SMS to Email, and Email to SMS.
About IoT Labs MX SAPI (iQSTEL's Technology Division):
IoT Labs MX SAPI (www.iotlabs.mx), a subsidiary of iQSTEL Inc, is an Internet of Things (IoT) Mexican technology development company, creator of the "IoT Smart Gas" Platform and Application. The IoT Smart Gas platform www.iotsmartgas.com consists of an IoT field device installed on the LP gas tank (adaptable to virtually any gas or liquid storage tank) and, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) technology via Sigfox or GSM network connectivity, allows remote managed and improved logistic processes of refilling, usage tracking and tank monitoring in real-time by the Smart Gas mobile app. The new GSM tracking feature allows for mobile use including ground, air, and sea tank monitoring.
About itsBchain LLC (iQSTEL's Technology Division):
itsBchain LLC (www.itsBchain.com) is a 75% owned subsidiary of iQSTEL Inc. itsBchain is a blockchain technology developer and solution provider, with a strong focus on the telecom sector. The company is the final stage of development of a series of blockchain solutions aimed at using the blockchain ledger and smart contract solutions to enable more efficiency, quickness in execution and fraud-prevention in the telco industry. Specifically, the company is developing a solution that will enable users and carriers to transfer mobile phone numbers with just a few clicks, allowing users and carriers the ability to transfer retail users from one mobile carrier to another instantly. Additionally, the company is finalizing a carrier-grade marketplace solution to procure payments between carriers for cross-traffic of VoIP, SMS and data realtime as traffic is crossed between carriers. This marketplace will allow for instant payment settlement as well as the prevention of fraud between carriers.
About Global Money One Inc (iQSTEL's Fintech Division):
Global Money One Inc. (www.GlobalMoneyOne.com) is a 75% owned subsidiary of iQSTEL Inc. Global Money One Inc is a Miami, Florida-based Fin-Tech company that uses a blend of industry expertise, state-of-the-art technology and compliance requirements to create disruptive solutions that deliver control, security and real-time payments and innovative Financial capabilities with reduced cost for consumers, specially to the unbanked, underbanked and underserved segments of today's society. Our portfolio of services will include a Prepaid VISA MoneyOne Card (www.visamoneyone.com) expected to enable customers to make purchases in stores and online, withdraw cash at ATMs or receive cash back when using it to make a purchase, recharge prepaid mobile phone service and send money domestically or internationally (+ 40 countries). The VISA MoneyOne Card is expected to also facilitate the deposit of funds into bank accounts, Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) by mobile phone, bill payments, rewards, and digital gift cards. The VISA MoneyOne is the new and freedom financial world wallet expected launch in early Q2 2021.
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The Colombian Agustin Codazzi Geographic Institute - IGAC and their Center of Research and Development of Geographic Information – CIAF, recently did a series of projects based on risk management. One of those was focused on indentifying zones in the process of decertification using optical remote sensing in the Andean dry region of Villa de Leyva (Boyacá), Colombia. For this, the experts analyzed the values of the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) from 60 rasters per month (from January 2006 to December 2010) obtained from a MODIS sensor (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer). Based on the results of this analysis, zones in process of desertification were identified through linear and nonlinear regressions between the years 2000 and 2010 based on the values of the index in a certain season of the year. Finally, the IGAC experts estimated change between 2000 and 2010 for three categories that are usually employed to calculate the spatial change in desertification: desertified areas, areas with high risk of desertification and areas with low risk of desertification.
More information on this will be available in the next issue of the IGAC Magazine Geographic Analysis.


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By Jose Jara
Eugenio Derbez and Salma Hayek star in the upcoming comedy HOW TO BE A LATIN LOVER – which hits theaters April 28, 2017!
EUGENIO DERBEZ is the star of what could be his funniest movie yet! In this laugh out loud comedy, OR In this riches to rags story, Eugenio plays a very handsome and very young Maximo who has a dream to be rich without ever having to work a day in his life. Having made a career of seducing rich older women, he marries a wealthy woman more than twice his age. 25 years later, spoiled and bored from waking up next to his now 80-year-old wife—he gets the surprise of his life when she ends up dumping him for a younger car salesman. Forced out of his mansion and desperate for a place to stay, he must move in with his estranged sister, Sara, (SALMA HAYEK) and her nerdy but adorable son, Hugo in their small apartment. Anxious to return to the lap of luxury, Maximo uses his nephew's crush on a classmate to get to his new target—her grandmother, Celeste, a widowed billionaire. As Maximo tries to rekindle his powers as a Latin lover, he finds himself bonding with his nephew Hugo, and he begins to learn that being a Latin lover means that loving money isn't as important as the love of your family.
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Posted by Editoress on 05/13/10
The track in Aguascalientes [Mexico] appears to be fast, with Pan American records being set in almost every event. World Records have also been broken by American Sarah Hammer in the Individual Pursuit (3:22.269) and with her teammates in the Team Pursuit (3:19.569).
The second day of competition had the Canadians competing in four events on the track. Joseph Veloce and Stephane Cossette competed in the Keirin. Joseph advanced to the second round by winning his heat, while Stephane blew his second tire of the meet and had to go through the repechage. He was third in his rep but the Canadian coach successfully filed a protest as the Argentinean rider passed the derny; so a re-ride was contested at the start of the afternoon session, but the result was the same for Stephane. Joseph raced in the second round where some very dodgy riding by several riders prevented the Canadian from moving in to the final, and raced in the 7-12 final where he rode a smart ride to claim 8th.
Remi Pelltier-Roy, excited to be competing in his first international track race, and Mark MacDonald contested the men's 15 kilometre Scratch Race final. Mark has been sick all week and put in a very solid ride to gain confidence for tomorrow's team pursuit, placing 20th. Remi commented "this was the fastest race I have ever done", but he handled himself admirably, getting in a few moves to finish 15th.
Monique Sullivan, Laura Brown, and Steph Roorda qualified fourth in the morning for the Women's Team Pursuit, in a time of 3:29.8, and faced Colombia in the bronze medal match. Monique was transformed into an endurance rider for the day [Tara Whitten is missing with a broken elbow] and put in an excellent ride in the morning qualifier and in the bronze medal final. The Canadians, however, could not match the Colombians' speed, but did post a faster ride of 4:29.2 to claim fourth place.
The riders who were not racing, including Travis Smith, rode rollers in preparation for the next day of competition. "I had a rest day to reset and get ready for the Kilo, It's been about a year since my last Kilo so I'm really excited to go out there and try to better my Canadian record that I set at the Pan Ams last year. I just rode the rollers and did some small starts in my aerobars to make sure they are ok, but all this prep started to make me nervous as I have some big goals I want to hit!" Travis has also mentioned that he has his sights set on breaking Curt Harnett's 200 meter Canadian Record that was set in 1995 when he races on Friday.
The events the Canadians will be contesting on May 13th are:
Kilo: Travis Smith and Stephane Cossette
Sprint: Monique Sullivan
Team Pursuit: Mark MacDonald, Daniele Defranceschi, Jean-Michel Lachance, Remi Pelltier-Roy
Scratch Race: Laura Brown and Steph Roorda
Report courtesy CCA
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The Facts on Hands-Only CPR
BIDMC Contributor
Q: What is Hands-Only CPR?
A: Hands-Only CPR is CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths. It is recommended for use by people who see an adult suddenly collapse in the "out-of-hospital" setting. It consists of two steps:
- Call 911 (or send someone to do that).
- Begin providing high-quality chest compressions by pushing hard and fast in the center of the chest with minimal interruptions.
Q: Who should receive Hands-Only CPR?
A: Hands-Only CPR is recommended for use on adults who suddenly collapse. The American Heart Association recommends conventional CPR (that is, CPR with a combination of breaths and compressions) for all infants and children, for adult victims who are found already unconscious and not breathing normally, and for any victims of drowning or collapse due to breathing problems.
Q. Do I need to take a training course to learn how to do Hands-Only CPR?
A. CPR is a psychomotor skill. The AHA continues to recommend that you take a CPR course to practice and learn the skills of CPR, including giving high-quality chest compressions. People who have had CPR training are more likely to give high-quality chest compressions and are more confident about their skills than those who have not been trained (or have not trained in the last five years). Even a very short CPR training program that you can do at home, like the AHA's 22-minute CPR Anytime™ program, provides skills training and practice that can prepare you to perform high quality chest compressions.
Q. Do I still need to learn "conventional" CPR with mouth-to-mouth breathing?
A. The AHA still recommends that you learn conventional CPR that includes mouth-to-mouth breathing. There are many medical emergencies that cause a person to be unresponsive and to stop breathing normally. In those emergencies, CPR that includes mouth-to-mouth breathing may provide more benefit than Hands-Only CPR. Some examples include:
- Unresponsive infants and children
- Adult victims who are found already unconscious and not breathing normally
- Victims of drowning or collapse due to breathing problems
Q: Is Hands-Only CPR as effective as conventional CPR?
A. Hands-Only CPR performed by a bystander has been shown to be as effective as conventional CPR (CPR that includes breaths) in the first few minutes of an out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest. Provision of conventional CPR may be better than Hands-Only CPR for certain victims, though, such as infants and children, adults who are found in cardiac arrest or victims of drowning or collapse due to breathing problems. Any attempt at CPR is better than no attempt.
Q. If I was trained in conventional CPR that includes breathing (30 compressions to 2 breaths, or 30:2 CPR) and I see an adult suddenly collapse, what am I supposed to do?
A. Call 911 and start CPR.
If you ARE CONFIDENT in your ability to provide CPR that includes breaths with high-quality chest compressions with minimal interruptions, then provide either the conventional CPR that you learned (CPR with a 30:2 compression to ventilation ratio) OR Hands-Only CPR. Continue CPR until an AED arrives and is ready for use or EMS providers take over care of the victim.
If you ARE NOT CONFIDENT in your ability to provide CPR that includes breaths with high-quality chest compressions with minimal interruptions, then provide Hands-Only CPR. Continue Hands-Only CPR until an AED arrives and is ready for use or EMS providers take over care of the victim.
Q. Why don't adults who suddenly collapse need mouth-to-mouth breathing in the first few minutes after their cardiac arrest?
A. When an adult suddenly collapses with cardiac arrest, their lungs and blood contain enough oxygen to keep vital organs healthy for the first few minutes, as long as someone provides high quality chest compressions with minimal interruption to pump blood to the heart and brain.
Q. Not all people who suddenly collapse are in cardiac arrest. Will CPR seriously hurt them?
A. Adults who suddenly collapse and are not responsive are likely to have sudden cardiac arrest and their chance of survival is nearly zero unless someone takes action immediately. You should call 911 and start giving hard and fast chest compressions in the center of the chest, with minimal interruptions. If sudden cardiac arrest is the cause of the collapse, Hands-Only CPR is an easy, effective way for any bystander to more than double the victim's chance for survival. If an adult has collapsed for reasons other than sudden cardiac arrest, Hands-Only CPR could still help by causing the person to respond (begin to move, breathe normally or speak). If that occurs, Hands-Only CPR can be stopped. Otherwise, chest compressions should continue until EMS providers arrive.
Q. Can you break people's ribs doing CPR?
A. Yes. A 2004 review of scientific literature showed that conventional CPR can cause fractures of ribs and/or the breastbone (sternum) in at least 1/3 of cases. In a related study of people who had received such injuries from CPR, the fractures did not cause any serious internal bleeding and, thus, mortality. On the other hand, the chance of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is near zero for a victim who does not immediately receive high quality chest compressions with minimal interruptions, followed by additional therapy within minutes (a defibrillating shock and/or more advanced care from EMS personnel).
Q: Is there a danger in jumping in and giving CPR without being trained?
A. On average, any attempt to provide CPR to a victim is better than no attempt to provide help.
For more information, visit the American Heart Association.
Posted October 2014