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Mayan ruins peeking out from verdant jungle, street vendors hawking their wares on colonial streets, pristine white-sand beaches sparkling under the Caribbean sun — now this is the real Yucatán. On this unique 15-day journey, you'll tour the ruins at Chichén Itzá and Palenque, and head deep into the jungle of Guatemala to experience the ruins of Tikal. You're free to choose your own adventure! So escape the resort packages and witness all the incredible wilderness, wildlife, and Mayan culture — past and present — that you can imagine.
What's Included
Your G for Good Moment: San Antonio Women's Pottery Cooperative and Local Lunch, San Ignacio
Your G for Good Moment: El Hongo Mexican Community Restaurant & Youth Art Program, Playa del Carmen
Your Discover Moment: Mérida
Your Discover Moment: San Ignacio
Your Discover Moment: Caye Caulker
Your Discover Moment: Playa del Carmen. Chichén Itzá guided tour. Mérida orientation walk. Palenque guided tour. Tikal guided tour. All transport between destinations and to/from included activities.
Explore Mayan temples, spot monkeys in the jungle, chill out on a Belizean island, stare out into the Caribbean blue from a Mayan Riviera beach
Dossier Disclaimer
The information in this trip details document has been compiled with care and is provided in good faith. However it is subject to change, and does not form part of the contract between the client and the operator. The itinerary featured is correct at time of printing. It may differ slightly to the one in the brochure. Occasionally our itineraries change as we make improvements that stem from past travellers, comments and our own research. Sometimes it can be a small change like adding an extra meal along the itinerary. Sometimes the change may result in us altering the tour for the coming year. Ultimately, our goal is to provide you with the most rewarding experience. Please note that our brochure is usually released in November each year. If you have booked from the previous brochure you may find there have been some changes to the itinerary.
VERY IMPORTANT: Please ensure that you print a final copy of your Trip Details to review a couple of days prior to travel, in case there have been changes that affect your plans.
Itinerary Disclaimer
While it is our intention to adhere to the route described below, there is a certain amount of flexibility built into the itinerary and on occasion it may be necessary, or desirable to make alterations. The itinerary is brief, as we never know exactly where our journey will take us. Due to our style of travel and the regions we visit, travel can be unpredictable. The Trip Details document is a general guide to the tour and region and any mention of specific destinations or wildlife is by no means a guarantee that they will be visited or encountered. Aboard expedition trips visits to research stations depend on final permission.
Additionally, any travel times listed are approximations only and subject to vary due to local circumstances.
Important Notes
1. As this trip crosses national borders, please be prepared to pay some border fees for certain countries ranging from $1 to $30 USD. Please check with your local embassy or consulate for up-to-date visa requirements, or see your travel agent.
2. When entering Mexico by land for the second time (from Belize) you must pay a tax of 533MXN payable in cash (35 USD approximately) due to new regulations).
3. The Cancún airport is only 45 minutes from Playa del Carmen and frequent buses run on schedule.
Group Leader Description
All G Adventures group trips are accompanied by one of our group leaders, a G Adventures representative, or an expedition team. The aim of the group leader is to take the hassle out of your travels and to help you have the best trip possible. They will provide information on the places you are travelling through, offer suggestions for things to do and see, recommend great local eating venues and introduce you to our local friends. While not being guides in the traditional sense you can expect them to have a broad general knowledge of the countries visited on the trip, including historical, cultural, religious and social aspects. We also use local guides where we think more specific knowledge will add to the enjoyment of the places we are visiting- we think it's the best of both worlds.
Group Size Notes
Max 16, avg 12
Meals Included
1 lunch, 1 dinner
Eating is a big part of traveling. Travelling with G Adventures you experience the vast array of wonderful food that is available out in the world. Generally meals are not included in the trip price when there is a choice of eating options, to give you the maximum flexibility in deciding where, what and with whom to eat. It also gives you more budgeting flexibility, though generally food is cheap. Our groups tend to eat together to enable you to taste a larger variety of dishes and enjoy each other's company. There is no obligation to do this though. Your CEO will be able to suggest favourite restaurants during your trip. The above information applies to G Adventures group trips. Please refer to the meals included and budget information for included meals and meal budgets.
Public bus, private vehicle, water taxi, taxi, walking.
Solo Travellers
We believe single travellers should not have to pay more to travel so our group trips are designed for shared accommodation and do not involve a single supplement. Single travellers joining group trips are paired in twin or multi-share accommodation with someone of the same sex for the duration of the trip. Some of our Independent trips are designed differently and single travellers on these itineraries must pay the single trip price.
Simple hotels (14 nts).
Joining Hotel
For details of your joining hotel please refer to your tour voucher, G Account, the G Adventures App or contact your travel agent.
Joining Instructions
If you have paid in advance for an arrival transfer, a G Adventures representative will be at the airport to meet you. If for any reason you are not met at the airport, please call our local support line. If you are unable to make contact for whatever reason, please make your way to the joining point hotel via taxi.
Please note that Day 1 is an arrival day and no activities have been planned for that day other then your welcome meeting in the evening, so you can arrive at any time.
A G Adventures Representative will organize a short meeting soon after arrival, during which you will meet other tour participants and receive information about general and specific aspects of the trip. A welcome note will be left for you in the hotel so you have all the necessary information regarding the meeting time. If you arrive late, s/he will leave you a message detailing what time and where you should meet the next morning.
Arrival Complications
We don't expect any problems, and nor should you, but if for any reason you are unable to commence your trip as scheduled, as soon as possible please contact your starting point hotel, requesting that you speak to or leave a message for your CEO (if you are not on a group tour please refer to the emergency contact details provided in this dossier). If you are unable to get in touch with your leader, please refer to our emergency contact details. If you have pre-booked an airport transfer and have not made contact with our representative within 30 minutes of clearing customs and immigration, we recommend that you make your own way to the Starting Point hotel, following the Joining Instructions. Please apply to your travel agent on your return for a refund of the transfer cost if this occurs.
Emergency Contact
Should you need to contact us during a situation of dire need, it is best to first call either the G Adventures Local Operator (if one is listed below) or our G Adventures Local Office. If for any reason you do not receive an immediate answer, please leave a detailed message and contact information, so they may return your call and assist you as soon as possible.
G Adventures Office San Jose, Costa Rica
During Office hours (Weekdays 9am-5pm Local Time): +506 4001 8474
After hours emergency number: +506 8322 9140
If you are unable for any reason to contact our local office, please call the numbers listed below, which will connect you directly with our 24 hour Sales team, who will happily assist you.
Toll-free, North America only: 1 888 800 4100
Calls from UK: 0344 272 0000
Calls from Germany: 0800 365 1000
Calls from Australia: 1 300 796 618
Calls from New Zealand: 0800 333 307
Outside North America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the UK: +1 416 260 0999
What to Take
We recommend using a backpack for your convenience, or a medium-sized suitcase if you prefer. A daypack is also essential for carrying everyday items. Space is limited on transportation, so there is a limit of one main piece of luggage per person. You will be responsible for carrying your own luggage.
Packing List
• Flight info (required) (Printouts of e-tickets may be required at the border)
• Insurance info (required) (With photocopies)
• Passport (required) (With photocopies)
• Required visas or vaccination certificates (required) (With photocopies)
• Vouchers and pre-departure information (required)
• Binoculars (optional)
• Camera (With extra memory cards and batteries)
• Cash, credit and debit cards
• Day pack (Used for daily excursions or short overnights)
• Ear plugs
• First-aid kit (should contain lip balm with sunscreen, sunscreen, whistle, Aspirin, Ibuprofen, bandaids/plasters, tape, anti-histamines, antibacterial gel/wipes, antiseptic cream, Imodium or similar tablets for mild cases of diarrhea, rehydration powder, water purification tablets or drops, insect repellent, sewing kit, extra prescription drugs you may be taking)
• Flashlight/torch (Headlamps are ideal)
• Fleece top/sweater
• Footwear
• Hat
• Locks for bags
• Long pants/jeans
• Moneybelt
• Outlet adapter
• Personal entertainment (Reading and writing materials, cards, music player, etc.)
• Reusable water bottle
• Shirts/t-shirts
• Sleepwear
• Small travel towel
• Sunglasses
• Toiletries (Preferably biodegradable)
• Watch and alarm clock
• Waterproof backpack cover
• Windproof rain jacket
Warm Weather:
• Sandals/flip-flops
• Shorts/skirts (Longer shorts/skirts are recommended)
• Sun hat/bandana
• Swimwear
Laundry facilities are offered by some of our hotels for a charge. There will be times when you may want to or have to do your own laundry so we suggest you bring non-polluting/biodegradable soap.
Visas and Entry Requirements
All countries require a valid passport (with a minimum 6 months validity). Contact your local embassy, or consulate for the most up-to-date visa requirements, or see your travel agent.
Spending Money
Every traveller is different and therefore spending money requirements will vary. Some travellers may drink more than others while other travellers like to purchase more souvenirs than most. Please consider your own spending habits when it comes to allowing for drinks, shopping and tipping. Please also remember the following specific recommendations when planning your trip.
Money Exchange
It is uncommon to pay for optional activities, souvenirs and meals on credit card in the areas this trip visits, so be prepared with a combination of USD cash and local currency to pay for these on-trip costs.
That said, credit cards and debit cards are very useful for cash advances. Visa cards are the most widely accepted cards. While ATMs are widely available, there are no guarantees that your credit or debit cards will actually work in Latin America. Check with your bank prior to travelling. ATMs generally only dispense local currency, not USD. Do not rely on credit or debit cards as your only source of money. A combination of US dollars cash and cards is best. Always take more rather than less, as you don't want to spoil the trip by constantly feeling short of funds.
You will be able to exchange USD to local currency along the way , but please be advised that slightly torn notes and notes that have been heavily marked or are faded may be difficult to exchange. It is best to bring notes in fairly good condition, in denominations lower than 50USD (or equivalent). Learn about local exchange rates at www.xe.com.
Emergency Fund
Please also make sure you have access to at least an additional USD $200 (or equivalent) as an 'emergency' fund, to be used when circumstances outside our control (ex. a natural disaster) require a change to our planned route. This is a rare occurrence!
Departure Tax
Mexico departure tax: 533 Mexican Pesos (approximately 35USD)
Mexico entrance tax by land: 533 Mexican Pesos if staying more than 7 days, otherwise no entrance tax
Mexico exit fee in airport: None, but if stay was longer than 7 days, must present receipt from land entrance.
Guatemala entrance tax: 10Q ($1.25USD)
Guatemala exit tax: 10Q ($1.25USD)
Border Fees must be paid in full at the time of entry and exit and are subject to change without prior notice.
It is customary in Latin America to tip service providers such as waiters, at approximately 10%, depending on the service. Tipping is an expected – though not compulsory – component of your tour program and an expression of satisfaction with the persons who have assisted you on your tour. Although it may not be customary to you, it is of considerable significance to the people who will take care of you during your travels. There are several times during the trip where there is opportunity to tip the local guides or drivers we use. Recommendations for tipping drivers and local guides would range from $5-10 USD per day depending on the quality and length of the service; ask your CEO for specific recommendations based on the circumstances and culture.
Also at the end of each trip if you felt your G Adventures CEO did an outstanding job, tipping is appreciated. The amount is entirely a personal preference, however as a guideline $20-25 USD per person, per week can be used.
Optional Activities
- Day Trip to Progreso Beach (4USD per person)
- Celestún Bird Watching (45-50USD per person)
Uxmal Ruins
- Uxmal Ruins Visit (800MXN per person)
- Cenote Visit (45USD per person)
- Jungle Trail Hike (25USD per person)
- Roberto Barrios Waterfalls (35-50USD per person)
- Yaxchilan and Bonampak Ruins (65USD per person)
Lago Petén Itzá
- Lake Petén Itzá Boat Tour (10-20USD per person)
San José
- Swimming
- Xunantunich Visit (5USD per person)
San Ignacio
- Horseback Riding (40-65USD per person)
- Cave Tubing (75USD per person)
Actun Tunichil Muknal
- Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave Visit (90USD per person)
Mountain Pine Ridge
- Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Visit (75USD per person)
Barton Creek
- Barton Creek Cave Canoeing (50-75USD per person)
- Caracol Ruins Tour (95USD per person)
Caye Caulker
- Bike with Purpose Rental (7-30USD per person)
- Fishing (200USD per group)
- Guided Kayak Trip (25USD per person)
- Sunset Sailing Boat Tour (35USD per person)
- Blue Hole National Park Flight (180-250USD per person)
- Blue Hole National Monument Dive (200-250USD per person)
- Cozumel Diving (Certified Divers) (85-140USD per person)
- Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve Canal Float (40USD per person)
- Tulum Ruins Visit (10USD per person)
Playa del Carmen
- Cenote Visit (10-30USD per person)
- Coco Bongo Disco and Show (70-75USD per person)
- Tequila Tasting (850-1100MXN per person)
Please note inoculations may be required for the country visited. It is your responsibility to consult with your travel doctor for up to date medical travel information well before departure.
You should consult your doctor for up-to-date medical travel information well before departure. We recommend that you carry a First Aid kit and hand sanitizers / antibacterial wipes as well as any personal medical requirements. Please be aware that quite often we are in remote areas and away from medical facilities, and for legal reasons our leaders are prohibited from administering any type of drug including headache tablets, antibiotics, etc. When selecting your trip please carefully read the brochure and itinerary and assess your ability to cope with our style of travel. Please refer to the Physical and Culture Shock ratings for trip specific information. G Adventures reserves the right to exclude any traveller from all or part of a trip without refund if in the reasonable opinion of our CEO they are unable to complete the itinerary without undue risk to themselves and/or the rest of the group.
Safety and Security
Many national governments provide a regularly updated advice service on safety issues involved with international travel. We recommend that you check your government's advice for their latest travel information before departure. We strongly recommend the use of a neck wallet or money belt while travelling, for the safe keeping of your passport, air tickets, travellers' cheques, cash and other valuable items. Leave your valuable jewellery at home – you won't need it while travelling. Many of the hotels we use have safety deposit boxes, which is the most secure way of storing your valuables. A lock is recommended for securing your luggage. When travelling on a group trip, please note that your CEO has the authority to amend or cancel any part of the trip itinerary if it is deemed necessary due to safety concerns. Your CEO will accompany you on all included activities. During your trip you will have some free time to pursue your own interests, relax and take it easy or explore at your leisure. While your CEO will assist you with options available in a given location please note that any optional activities you undertake are not part of your itinerary, and we offer no representations about the safety of the activity or the standard of the operators running them. Please use your own good judgment when selecting an activity in your free time. Although the cities visited on tour are generally safe during the day, there can be risks to wandering throughout any major city at night. It is our recommendation to stay in small groups and to take taxis to and from restaurants, or during night time excursions.
Protests and Demonstrations- Protests and demonstrations, even those that are well intended, have the potential to turn violent with no warning. Counter protests can also turn violent. Action by security forces to disperse demonstrators and protesters may occur at any time. If you are in an area where demonstrators or protesters are gathering, avoid the temptation of staying for a good photo opportunity and leave the area immediately.
Water based activities have an element of danger and excitement built into them. We recommend only participating in water based activities when accompanied by a guide(s). We make every reasonable effort to ensure the fun and adventurous element of any water based activities (in countries with varying degrees of operating standards) have a balanced approach to safety. It is our policy not to allow our CEOs to make arrangements on your behalf for water based activities that are not accompanied by guide(s).
Swimming, including snorkeling, is always at your own risk.
We take all prudent measures in relation to your safety. For ways to further enhance your personal safety while traveling, please visit:
A Couple of Rules
Illegal drugs will not be tolerated on any trips. Possessing or using drugs not only contravenes the laws of the land but also puts the rest of the group at risk. Smoking marijuana and opium is a part of local culture in some parts of the world but is not acceptable for our travellers. Our philosophy of travel is one of respect towards everyone we encounter, and in particular the local people who make the world the special place it is. The exploitation of prostitutes is completely contrary to this philosophy. Our CEOs have the right to expel any member of the group if drugs are found in their possession or if they use prostitutes.
Travel Insurance
Travel insurance is compulsory in order to participate on any of our trips. When travelling on a group trip, you will not be permitted to join the group until evidence of travel insurance has been sighted by your leader, who will take note of your insurance details. When selecting a travel insurance policy we require that at a minimum you are covered for medical expenses including emergency evacuation and repatriation. A minimum coverage of USD200,000 is required. G Adventures can provide you with the appropriate coverage. We strongly recommend that the policy also covers personal liability, cancellation, curtailment and loss of luggage and personal effects. Some tours include adventure activities that require extra coverage (e.g. crampon use); please review your itinerary and make sure that you are covered for all included activities. If you have credit card insurance we require proof of purchase of the trip (a receipt of credit card statement) with a credit card in your name. Contact your bank for details of their participating insurer, the level of coverage and emergency contact telephone number.
Planeterra-The G Adventures Foundation
The Planeterra Foundation planeterra.org is a Canadian non-profit organization that helps empower local people to develop their communities, conserve their cultures, and create humane and supportive systems for their endeavours. Planeterra provides capacity building and catalyst grants to get community social enterprises off the ground. These businesses address local challenges by providing benefits for indigenous people, empowering marginalized women, and granting disadvantaged youth access to education, employment, and brighter futures. Planeterra also works to ensure these businesses have a thriving customer base by integrating programs into G Adventures' itineraries globally.
G Adventures is Planeterra's largest corporate donor, covering all operating costs so 100% of your donation will bring opportunity to people in need.
Dollar-a-Day Program
G Adventures' Dollar-a-Day Program provides travellers with the opportunity to give back to the people and places visited on our tours by donating one dollar for every day you are on trip. 100% of these donations go directly to support community development projects worldwide that are implemented by Planeterra.
After your travels, we want to hear from you! Your feedback information is so important to us that we'll give you 5% off the price of your next G Adventures trip if your feedback is completed on-line within 30 days of finishing your trip. Your tour evaluation will be e-mailed to you 24 hours after the conclusion of your trip. If you do not receive the tour evaluation link in the days after your tour has finished, please drop us a line at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will send it on to you.
Our adventure travel e-newsletter is full of travel news, trip information, interesting stories and contests. To avoid missing out on special offers and updates from G Adventures, subscribe at www.gadventures.com/newsletters/
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Minimum Age
You must be 18 to travel unaccompanied on a G Adventures tour. For minors travelling with a guardian over 21 years old, the minimum age is 12.
International Flights
Check-in times and baggage allowances/restrictions vary by airline and can change at any time. For the most up-to-date information for your flight, please contact your airline. We recommend checking in online in advance to avoid potential delays at the airport.
Max Pax
Group Leader
Chief Experience Officer (CEO) throughout, local guides.
Day 1: Playa del Carmen
There are no planned activities before an evening welcome meeting.
Included Activities:
Arrival Day and Welcome Meeting
Day 2: Playa del Carmen/Mérida
Stop for a guided tour of the popular Mayan ruins of Chichén Itzá. Explore this famous site, known for its huge stepped pyramids and elaborate stone carvings.
Continue on to Mérida, the capital of the Yucatán State. Follow your CEO on an orientation walk to get the lay of the land.
Included Activities:
Chichén Itzá Guided Tour
Orientation Walk
Private Vehicle (2.00-2.50 hours, 190km)
Private Vehicle (1.25-2.00 hours, 130km)
Day 3: Mérida
Opt to visit ruins of Uxmal, ride the PUUC Route, go bird-watching in Celestún, hit the beach in Progreso, visit cenotes in the nearby town of Cuzamá, or walk around town and soak in all of the history this city has to offer.
Day 4: Mérida/Palenque
Sit back and relax on a travel to Palenque in the lush jungle of Chiapas.
First-class bus (9.00-10.00 hours, 620km)
Day 5: Palenque
Take a guided tour of the ruins of Palenque. Later, choose from one of the many optional activities in the area.
Included Activities:
Palenque Ruins Guided Tour
Day 6: Palenque
Enjoy a free day to explore Palenque and surroundings. Opt to visit the Mayan ruins of Yaxchilán and Bonampak.
Day 7: Palenque/San José
Journey through the jungle by private vehicle, crossing into Guatemala and continuing on to San José. Explore Lake Petén Itzá and the island of Flores.
Included Activities:
Border Crossing (Mexico – Guatemala)
Private Vehicle (3.00-4.00 hours)
Private Vehicle (4.00-5.00 hours, 200km)
Day 8: San José
Learn about Mayan culture and history on a guided tour of Tikal archaeological site. Relax on Lake Petén Itzá with a boat cruise or a swim.
Included Activities:
Tikal Ruins Guided Tour
Day 9: San José/San Ignacio (1L)
Continue on to Belize, a country with a decidedly Caribbean flavour. The relaxed atmosphere of San Ignacio allows for options including horseback riding, canoeing, caving, or exploring the Mountain Pine Ridge area.
Included Activities:
Border Crossing (Guatemala – Belize)
San Antonio Women's Pottery Cooperative and Local Lunch
Stretch out and scan the scenery from the comfort of a private vehicle; the drive today will be on a mixture of paved and unpaved roads.
Private Vehicle (2.00-3.00 hours, 95km)
Private Vehicle (0.50-0.75 hours, 13km)
Day 10: San Ignacio
Optional acitivities abound around San Ignacio. Choose to see the Mountain Pine Ridge area or take a day trip to the astounding Actun Tunichil Muknal cave. Explore the cave's water systems using a helmet and headlamp. An experienced local guide will provide insight into the fascinating practices of the ancient Maya.
Alternatively, opt for a trip to the impressive Maya ceremonial centre of Xunantunich. Getting there includes crossing a narrow river by a hand-cranked ferry.
Day 11: San Ignacio/Caye Caulker
Caye Caulker is a relaxed and easy going island with friendly and welcoming local residents. Snorkel and dive boats leave daily for full- or half-day outings to the reef, Hol Chan Marine Reserve, the Blue Hole and for manatee spotting tours.
Try your hand fishing and be rewarded with a fresh catch, then barbecue it on the beach.
Climb aboard and enjoy travel as the locals do.
Local bus (3.00-4.00 hours, 123km)
Water taxi (0.75-1.00 hours)
Day 12: Caye Caulker
Opt to snorkel with stingrays, nurse sharks, and green turtles at Hol Chan Marine Reserve, go diving in Blue Hole National Park, take a flight over the Blue Hole and coral reef, rent a bike, or just chill out, Belizean style.
Day 13: Caye Caulker/Playa del Carmen
Head to Playa del Carmen, located on the beach just a 45-minute drive south of Cancún. Enjoy some nightlife, buy last minute souvenirs and relax and swim in the Caribbean.
Just off the coast is the island of Cozumel, renowned for its world-class diving. Take the ferry from Playa del Carmen (30-75 mins depending on the boat) across the turquoise waters and explore the towns and the reefs of the island. For a final dose of ruins, Tulúm is just a 45-minute drive south of Playa.
Included Activities:
Border Crossing (Belize – Mexico)
Water taxi (0.75-1.00 hours, 39km)
Climb aboard and enjoy travel as the locals do.
Local bus (3.00 hour(s))
Private Vehicle (4.00 hour(s), 313km)
Day 14: Playa del Carmen (1D)
Enjoy a free day to explore the Mayan ruins of Tulúm, visit one of the many cenotes or the diving mecca of Cozumel. Enjoy dinner at a G Adventures-supported community restaurant with a youth-focused art program.
Included Activities:
El Hongo Mexican Community Restaurant & Youth Art Program
Day 15: Playa del Carmen
Depart at any time.
Additional Notes:
Playa del Carmen is located just south of Cancún airport (45 mins) so you can head directly there without returning to Cancún.


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|Yvette Azane Ngwemetoh, from north-
west Cameroon, speaks at IFAD on
International Women's Day.
For most of those women, and the daughters who work alongside them, yesterday was probably just another day of rising early and tending their fields or herds. But their achievements and challenges were in the spotlight at IFAD headquarters, where the three Rome-based UN food and agriculture agencies – IFAD, FAO and WFP – jointly celebrated International Women's Day.
The event illustrated the complex dynamics of gender, food security and poverty. As various speakers pointed out, women and girls do more than 40 per cent of all farming and virtually all household work in rural areas. Yet they don't share equally with men in the resources needed for productive agriculture. Research suggests that women's crop yields would increase by 20 to 30 per cent if they had access to such resources. In turn, the number of hungry people in the world would decline by 100 million to 150 million.
Participants in yesterday's event focused on how rural girls and young women figure into this global equation. The question at hand was how they can fulfil their potential as agents of change. In broad strokes, the answer was starkly simple: Give rural girls and women access to the right tools, and they will change the face of agriculture.
IFAD President Kanayo F. Nwanze started off the discussion. Dr. Nwanze called gender equality and rural development "inseparable," adding that "women hold the key to food and nutrition security" by virtue of their untapped capacity for higher yields. FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva followed, announcing the launch of his agency's new gender-equality policy. He said the policy cuts across all FAO programmes and "underscores the organization's commitment to addressing gender and women's issues to eradicate hunger and poverty."
|IFAD President Kanayo F. Nwanze (right) and FAO
Director-General Josè Graziano da Silva listen to
WFP Deputy Executive Director Sheila Sisulu.
WFP Deputy Executive Director Sheila Sisulu weighed in with an appeal for the Rome agencies to take their lead from the grass roots. "The first thing we need to do," she said, "is listen to rural women." Sisulu noted that even in industrialized countries, women are the main processors and preparers of food for their families. Women's voices, she said, are central to any discussion of food and agriculture policy.
South Africa's Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, called for redoubled efforts to educate rural girls, who lag behind boys in school enrolment, especially after the early grades. Motshekga cited the "tremendous multiplier effect" of girls' education, which generates far-reaching economic and social benefits. Once rural girls gain equal access to the classroom, "the world will never be the same," she said.
Ertharin Cousin, US Ambassador to the UN agencies in Rome, echoed Motshekga's call for parity. "A plant doesn't know if it was planted by a woman or a man," observed Cousin, who will become WFP's Executive Director next month. But because rural women and women's organizations start at a point of material disadvantage, she said, they need technical and financial support to enhance their productivity and to compete in the marketplace.
A lawyer by training, Cousin said history would judge the international community's liability for continued gender inequality on the basis of three basic queries: "What did you know, when did you know it and what did you do about it?" She argued that the obstacles faced by girls and women in rural areas – such as poor access to land and credit, and a disproportionate burden of household labour – have been well known for years.
|From left: Ertharin Cousin, US Ambassador to the UN
agencies in Rome; Angie Motshekga, South Africa's
Minister of Basic Education; and youth representative
Yvette Azane Ngwemetoh.
Of course, history is not the only judge. Young rural women themselves are obviously well positioned to assess the pace of progress on gender equality. Yvette Azane Ngwemetoh spoke yesterday on their behalf.
Originally from north-west Cameroon, the young woman just recently arrived in Italy to join her husband. She grew up in the countryside and worked on the family farm with her mother. Unlike many rural girls, she managed to complete her secondary education. She was unable attend university for financial reasons, however, and migrated to an urban centre, where she lived and worked for three years.
Ngwemetoh was soft-spoken but firm in her conviction that farming can and should be a viable livelihood for young women. Given access to machinery and modern technology, as well as adequate rural health and education facilities, she said she would welcome a career as an agricultural entrepreneur.
"The land has a lot to offer," said Ngwemetoh. "You just have to improve on the land."
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Troy project draws raves
Apartments, farmers market, parking garage to replace old city hall
The $27 million plan to redevelop the old city hall site at 1 Monument Square is a relief for those in the heart of downtown.
"It's something we've all been waiting for," said Tom Clement, co-owner of Clement Frame and Art Shop, 201 Broadway.
Mayor Lou Rosamilia announced Monday that 50-plus luxury apartments, a year-round home for the Troy Waterfront Farmers Market and a 175-space parking garage will be built at the 2.1-acre site on the Hudson River.
"That's just what we need as a catalyst to the growth and renaissance of Troy," Clement said.
The project, led by Kirchhoff Companies, Sequence3 Development and CSArch, is the city's third attempt to redevelop the location in the heart of the city's downtown.
The first two efforts didn't proceed when questions arose about the financing of the proposals. The latest comes with the city assured that the partnership has access to the money needed to erect the two buildings.
"One Monument Square presents to the city of Troy and the entire Capital Region an opportunity that rarely exists along the Hudson River, a location that links the water directly to a vibrant downtown," Rosamilia said in a statement.
City Council President Rodney Wiltshire said he was impressed with the project, which will add to the city's tax base.
There will be pedestrian access from River Street down to the southern end of Riverfront Park and the riverside.
The project will proceed in two phases. The northern building standing five stories and encompassing 100,000 square feet will go first. The southern building of 50,000 to 100,000 square feet will rise after that.
The first floor of the north building will be home to the Troy Waterfront Farmers Market.
Seth Jacobs, president of the markets board, said the organization will study similar waterside operations to develop the project.
The market has several large producers who are interested in having a downtown location where they can sell on a daily basis, he said.
The second building may be the site of a future city hall. That will be decided at a later date. It also could be mixed-use including a restaurant.
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Mandriva 2009.1: Administration Advantages/Disadvantages
I train administrators every day. I often work with administrators who are moving from a Windows server background to Linux. One of the most often asked questions is, "Is there a graphical interface to administer the server with?" One of the solutions, though it be a partial solution, is using Mandriva 2009.1. Mandriva offers an administrative option under Administration/Configure Your Computer. This provides intuitive access to much of server administration. "Intuitive" is a key word here. By "intuitive" I mean, you can look at something, click on it and just by viewing the information you get an idea on where or what you should do next. For example with a graphical tool for adding users when you want to add a user and you see the button "Add User" you know what to do and it gets you there for the most part.
I think one of the issues that many distros are missing as far as administration, is the huge fear of the command line. Having used the command line for 12 years, I am all for it..faster, more efficient, etc. But, many in the new generation of Linux administrators are coming from Windows administration, are required to produce Linux projects for their company with little sympathy for the difficulties of learning from the Linux command line. Mandriva and Suse are two distros trying to help in that direction, both have merit. Note that both have server models that cost for support but provide more administrative options. All that said, let's face it Linux was designed to be administered from the command line and it is very important to be heading in that direction. Mandriva, may provide an option to fill the transition to the command line.
As you review the graphical tools it is easy to see that each leads you down the path that you are looking to work with. The tools are easy to work with and each option is mostly laid out for you.
Networking today can be a nightmere with all of the options. Mandriva helps you work through those with the interface options. You still need to know a few terms, like are you using a DSL connection, Ethernet …wireless? But it is straightforward and can be usefull for almost all users.
Under "Security" one very nice feature is the easy to use firewall configuration, Ubuntu could take a lesson here. Click the options you want, save and you are set. You also have "Parental Controls" which allows a time restriction and Blacklist/Whitelist options. It is very basic and not going to be as useful as could be, but it is a start for a parent.
Having tried several with easy solutions I decided to use the graphical tools to create quotas on the /home directory. This is a good test as that task is always a little challenging from the command line. Go to Local Disks/Manage disk partitions and choose Continue…they do warn you about making mistakes here, Click on the /home directory and then "Toggle to expert mode" so you can see additional options. Choose "Options".
Once you open the Options you will see a check box to initiate User Quotas. Save and restart the system, at least that was logical to do for the system to detect and load quotas.
The bad news was that after a restart userquota was installed in the /etc/fstab but it did not work. This is a disaster for an new administrator trying to work with graphical tools. To make it even worse the default install does not install the text tools for quota so you are completely stuck with a mess to fix. This is certainly not what an administrator who is trying to find a easier solution needs, it is a show stopper.
Though I did not work with every tool for this article, I will say that most tools worked fine. I will also say that the hardware management with Mandriva is excellent which means easier work with hardware devices. The tools that are a part of the Control Center are basic tools and seem to be fine for someone who is doing basic administration, but not up to speed for more advanced options.
May 10, 2009 at 9:28 am
Great review of the mandriva control center. Other distro's need this. To a great extent ubuntu does, but their firewall sucks. Suse has their YAST. Idk why yast is so popular when mandriva control center is way better. Hell, configuring options in ubuntu is easier than yast. Anyway, the control panel, i wish, was ported over to debian. So far it's just a mandriva/pclinuxos thing. I don't use all of the options in there, but it does have a lot and i'm glad.
May 11, 2009 at 7:56 am
Don't hesitate to open a bug report concerning quota support at http://qa.mandriva.com
By the way, you have also server wizard ( dns, dhcp+pxe, ntp, … ). Just install the drakwizard package.
May 11, 2009 at 4:46 pm
This is a philosophical question: What are the major negatives/turn-offs for having a GUI on a machine that'll be a file/web/mail server for a family of five?
Considering that I come from the days of Unix System III, command line *IS* my god. However, I like having a GUI in order to help others in my family learn their way from GUI–>Command Line–>Remote SSH for administration. My family's used to Window$ environments, and of course having a GUI helps them move towards the ultimate goal of a pure non-GUI server.
The server will *not* be used for casual computing but instead shall be used for administration of our web site, internal email and file service. Having the GUI allows for ease of use when it comes to administration (for the rest of the family) while I can always ssh to the machine and do what needs be done. So many articles I've read scream, "DANGER! DANGER! NEVER EVER USE A GUI IF YOU RUN A LINUX SERVER! THE END OF THE WORLD SHALL BEFALL US! WOE AND DOOM…." but I cannot ascertain as to what specifically is so harmful. Is it due to services being run that "shouldn't" be running? I want Apache. I want email. I want file service via samba. I'll set up the server to kill services I *don't* need. I can and will do this. So what remains that causes a GUI to be so terrifying?
The short question, is:
What harm/damage/horrible things come from having the GUI up and running versus pure command-line?
May 14, 2009 at 9:53 am
Very nice review.. fair & balanced conclusions!
@tom: I've often wondered the same thing.. the best explanation I have seen says that more stuff = more possible points of entry.. nothing specific to the GUI environment.. one option is to have a GUI environment, then unoad it when it is not needed.. "init 3" from c/l. ..my favorite option is to use Werbmin; it offers a great web-based interface to configuration of most aspects of your system, while still allowing access to config files, etc.. a great way to transition from gui to c/l (there is even a place to run shell commands from your browser if the gui doesn't do what you like.. and of coarse, full ssh / https support!)
May 15, 2009 at 10:38 am
@tom : try nmap on a system where only ssh is *ON* and then on a full service and GUI (x, rpc, etc)
May 15, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Tom Bridemore> It should be not that most Mandriva tools can :
– be run run in CLI ( no X needed, it will fallback to a text version if available )
– and of course can be run over SSH 🙂
June 9, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I still prefer the command line than the GUI, although previously worked with windows servers
perhaps this habit of mind
although.. yes.. the first time was scary problems)
sorry for my bad english(
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- Aaron Murray.
- Kickoff coverage. It was awesome. We kicked to them five times. The longest return Auburn had was 25 yards. After the past few weeks, that is more than improvement, that is a whole different game.
- Thomas and Crowell running the ball. Easily the strongest running performance from Crowell, who took hits to people. In the second half, no less.
- The run blocking to make it happen.
- Coaching. Especially defensive coaching. The best in game adjustments we've seen in Athens in many, many years. Special props to Bobo for varying the run game in the second half to exploit whatever Roof was giving him.
- Rambo taking the interception, and Auburn's desire to play, to the house.
- 528 yards to 195 yards. 41 minutes to 19 minutes. 30 first downs to 9 first downs. Damn.
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Auburn Review
3 comments:
- PatinDC said...
Thanks for pointing out Crowell's nice game. I really don't understand our fans sometimes. Over on the Dawgrun, the posters there all felt he was a"girl', a 'wimp' etc. The guy is on a pace for a 1000 yd season yet they just rag on him that he is not Richardson or Lattimore...no he is a TRUE FRESHMAN. Get your head out of your but people.
- Aladawg said...
2 obscure plays happened during 2 of the big plays in the game by Carlton Thomas. He made 2 bone crunching blocks on blitzers on the Bennett and Figgins touchdowns. When we block, good things happen.
Any word on how many tix the university will allow donors to order for Atlanta. ?1 per season ticket? or less?
Obviously we can't swallow a fish and not be ready to play UK.
- Tyler Dawgden said...
Great point on Thomas' blocking. He has never been afraid of doing that.
As for tix, we were just having that conversation thus morning. No idea what they will do. Prob be like 03, but with fewer folks in the buying pool considering the decrease in points the past couple of years.


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I apologize to Mac users because this focuses on Windows PC options.
I don't own a Mac. If anybody out there wants to buy me a new one, I will be happy to throw together some suggestions for that platform, too.
It's fairly easy to resize (and compress) a photo using MS Windows Paint. Also, it's built into Windows so doesn't cost anything to use (except your time, of course.)
1. Open Paint and then open your photo file
2. Use the Resize Tool
If you have Microsoft Office installed, you most likely have The MS Office Picture Manager (MSO PM) tool available, too.
1. Right-click on the file and select "Open With" | MS Office
2. From the menu, select "Edit Pictures"
3. Use either the "Resize" or "Compress" tools to the right
4. I have found it best to use the "Resize"
5. Select one of the Predefined Width x Height options (best for this board is "Web - Large 640 x 480")
Save your photo (or use the "Save as...[different file name]" so you can save the smaller version as a copy and keep the original file intact.)
As it downloaded from my camera, the photo below is gihumongous. It's too big to upload here. If it did upload, it would take a very, very long time to upload and it would eat your monitor.
The version below was resized to Web - Large using MSO PM
the whole process takes only a few minutes. with practice, you can resize several pictures, one after the other, in just a few seconds each.
To see examples of other versions of this picture, please check out this page:
Trust me when I tell you that mastering this important skill is much easier than trying to achieve a stinkin' scant quarter-inch seam.


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CHICAGO (AP) Chris Stewart and the injury-depleted Minnesota Wild got the breaks they needed for their first victory of the season.
Stewart broke a tie midway through the third period with the first of his two goals and the Wild beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Thursday night.
Jason Zucker had a goal and an assist, and Devan Dubnyk made 36 saves to help the Wild (1-1-1) hand Chicago (3-1-1) its first regulation loss.
Stewart tapped Zucker's feed past Corey Crawford from the doorstep with 9:28 left in the third to give Minnesota a 2-1 lead on a disputed play.
Stewart and Zucker broke in 2-on-1 against Duncan Keith after fellow defenseman Brent Seabrook fell down. The goal withstood a video review after the Blackhawks challenged Zucker was offside.
The NHL ruled that Seabrook accidentally kicked the puck away from Zucker while tumbling, causing it ''to enter the attacking zone'' a split second after the Minnesota forward crossed the blue line.
''I knew that he kicked it,'' Zucker said. ''I don't think I ever touched the puck until it was in the zone. It's tough to know whether that's considered possession or not. Glad it went our way.''
Zucker added a power-play goal with 7:31 to go on the delay-of-game penalty that resulted from the failed Chicago challenge. He banged the puck in from behind the net off Crawford's skate.
''Then come back with that power play and make them pay,'' said Stewart, who has four goals in three games.
Minnesota lost Charlie Coyle, Nino Niederreiter and Marcus Foligno to undisclosed injuries and finished with eight forwards. Coach Bruce Boudreau thought none of the three would play in the Wild's home opener Saturday night.
Minnesota already was skating without Zach Parise and Mikael Granlund.
''Losing Charlie and Nino and not having Zach and Mikael, it's tough,'' Zucker said. ''A gutsy win for us. It was digging down deep and making sure we got the two points.''
Stewart scored into an empty net with 4:04 remaining to make it 4-1. Mikko Koivu added another empty-netter with 2:01 left.
Minnesota's Eric Staal opened the scoring with 34.5 seconds left in the second. Chicago's Ryan Hartman connected midway through the third period to tie it at 1.
Jonathan Toews' goal in the final minute completed the scoring.
Crawford stopped 29 shots. Chicago entered having outscored its opponents 21-7 in four games.
Seabrook took the blame for the go-ahead goal despite the unusual call.
''I should have made a better play,'' he said.
Coach Joel Quenneville didn't accept the ruling, saying the ''one play'' cost his team.
''I still don't think (the goal) should have went in,'' Quenneville said. ''(Zucker ) didn't carry it in. He didn't have possession so I disagree with that ruling.''
Neither team had many chances in the scoreless first period as the Blackhawks failed to connect in the opening frame for the first time in five games. Chicago has outscored opponents 11-1 in the first.
''We played tight,' Boudreau said. ''If they had one chance in the first period, that's what they had.''
Crawford made point-blank saves on Zucker and Coyle less than a minute apart early in the second. The Blackhawks dominated late in the period, but misfired on prime chances or were stopped by Dubnyk.
Staal scored with 34.5 seconds left in the second to make it 1-0 as Minnesota capitalized on a turnover and coverage mistake by 21-year-old Chicago defenseman Gustav Forsling.
Forsling lost the puck just to Coyle just inside the Chicago blue line, then was caught flat-footed as Staal broke in alone down the left side of the slot. After taking Coyle's cross-ice feed, Staal beat Crawford on the short side.
Hartman tied it 1 at 8:21 of the third, when he tucked in a rebound of Patrick Kane's shot from the left point past Dubnyk's left pad.
NOTES: LW Zach Parise sat out with an undisclosed injury and has yet to play this season, but he resumed practicing this week. ... RW Mikael Granlund missed his second game with a groin injury and is expected to miss three more, according to coach Bruce Boudreau. ... Chicago C Nick Schmaltz missed his third game with upper-body injury. He practiced on Thursday and could return on Saturday. ... Blackhawks D Connor Murphy, acquired in the offseason from Arizona, returned to the lineup after being a healthy scratch Tuesday night in Chicago's 3-1 win at Montreal.
Wild: Host Columbus on Saturday night.
Blackhawks: Host Nashville on Saturday night.
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Training Deal to Be Worth More Than $35M to Kratos
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Inc. received a five-year deal worth more than $35 million to provide training equipment for crews working aboard the MH-60R and MH-60S Seahawk helicopters, the company said.
BSC Partners LLC of Binghamton, N.Y. is the prime contractor.
Kratos (Nasdaq: KTOS) said it will deliver four MH-60R Naval Aircrew Training Systems and four MH-60S Aircrew Virtual Environment Trainer devices. The aids will provide a blend of virtual and physical environments to prepare air crew members for work on the MH-60, concentrating on crew coordination, gunnery, sonar, hoist, search and rescue as well as vertical replenishment.
The Naval Air Systems Command (Navair) awarded the contract.
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Imagery is a window on your inner world; a way of viewing your own ideas, feelings, and interpretations. But it is more than a mere window--it is a means of transformation and liberation from distortions in this realm that may unconsciously direct your life and shape your health.
Imagination, in this sense, is not sufficiently valued in our culture. The imaginary is equated with the fanciful, the unreal, and the impractical. In school we are taught the three R's while creativity, uniqueness, and interpersonal skills are either barely tolerated or frankly discouraged. As adults, we are usually paid to perform tasks, not to think creatively. The premium is on the practical, the useful, the real, as it should be--but imagination nurtures human reality as a river brings life to a desert.
Without imagination, humanity would be long extinct. It took imagination--the ability to conceive of new possibilities--to make fire, create weapons, and cultivate crops; to construct buildings, invent cars, airplanes, space shuttles, television, and computers.
Paradoxically, our collective imagination, which has allowed us to overcome so many natural threats, has been instrumental in creating the major survival problems we face on earth today--pollution, exhaustion of natural resources, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. Yet imagination, teamed with will, remains our best hope for overcoming these same problems.
Imagery and Physiologic Change
Imagery in healing is probably best known for its direct effects on physiology. Through imagery, you can stimulate changes in many body functions usually considered inaccessible to conscious influence.
A simple example: Touch your finger to your nose. How did you do that? You may be surprised to learn that nobody knows.
A neuroanatomist can tell us the area of the brain where the first nerve impulses fire to begin that movement. We can also trace the chain of nerves that conduct impulses from the brain to the appropriate muscles. But no one knows how you go from thinking about touching your nose to firing the first cell in that chain. You just decide to do it and you do it, without having to worry about the details.
Now make yourself salivate.
You probably didn't find that as easy, and may not have been able to do it at all. That's because salivation is not usually under our conscious control. It is controlled by a different part of the nervous system than the one that governs movement. While the central nervous system governs voluntary movement, the autonomic nervous system regulates salivation and other physiologic functions that normally operate without conscious control. The autonomic nervous system doesn't readily respond to ordinary thoughts like "salivate." But it does respond to imagery.


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I decided to get off the train at Millbrae and save two bucks. Could have gone to San Bruno and saved some headache. I actually started from Rollins to save the hassle of the train track crossing. I hit the red light at the exit from 101S - in retrospect maybe I run the light to get a "free" crossing of the overpass.
I set up in the far left lane. There are three lanes crossing the freeway and they are marked - South McDonnell (where I was headed), "local traffic" (meaning the roads to the hotels), and the right lane is for the heavy traffic to 101. I was "following the lane markings" as well as avoiding having to cross the freeway onramps. The light turned green and I headed across - dead center of the left lane, the only legal lane for where I was headed.
I regretted having the cross bike which was slower to get off this overpass and slowly just decided I am just trusting my fellows on the road.
A driver coming from Millbrae who had clear view of me for several hundred feet nonetheless did not register my presence. He was also headed to S. McDonnell (which basically goes to airport service buildings - I rarely see cars headed this way). Shortly before reaching me he decided to get on 101 N instead and looked away from where his car was headed at 30 MPH to see if the right lane was clear (note this implies he needed to change lanes twice in a hundred feet or so). He looked forward again, saw me, hit his brakes but hit me anyway. I bounced off the hood and back onto the pavement. My right shoulder sublexed but went back in quickly.
He was frantic, I told him to back off. He started to grab my bike and put it in his car and I said we have to wait for the police. After some debate I relented to clear the road and instructed him to pull over so we could call the cops. He said "can't we just handle this ourselves", and I said "I'm getting the feeling you are a pretty nice, decent guy. But you are a very bad driver. And we cannot let emotion take over - injury accident means we get a police report - period. Not personal - just protocol". He said "I was a good driver until today" and I said "never confuse luck with skill" then told him to take a deep breath and let's be thankful together we both see another day.
The cops and ambulances showed up anyway. Drivers on the overpass called it in before we could.
Refused transport to the hospital. I self-diagnosed as "can wait until urgent care in the AM and will go to the SFO meeting". He was relieved but I said you weren't paying for it unless you were uninsured, and your rate increase won't be affected by a thousand dollars here or there. He fussed a lot about his financial situation and I said "you were 3 yards from bankrupt and in jail - this too shall pass."
I'm going to call and let him know my medical status either way but financially it all goes to his insurance. And I'll be following up with the Millbrae cops to get a copy of the police report to see if there is any fault determination.
Rear wheel destroyed, frame bent. "Luckily" since I expected to be locking the bike outside I had my poorly size CX bike and not my custom Seven. BoxDog is writing it up.
SFO on the other hand - those guys are GREAT. They had taken prior feedback, had great suggestions to address everything, and took our newer feedback. I am 95% sure all the soft hits will be gone. Super nice guys and very willing to listen and probably react.


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he Association for Demand Response & Smart Grid (ADS) has announced that four more leading companies had become members of the organization. The new members are Siemens, Constellation, Landis+Gyr, and GE.
Dan Delurey, executive director of ADS, welcomed the newest members: "These four companies are helping to grow the new areas of demand response and smart grid, and now their membership in ADS will be helping to grow our organization." Delurey continued, "Their expertise will contribute greatly to ADS' informational and educational projects in the coming months. Their enthusiasm and support for the 2013 National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid, scheduled for July 9-13, 2013, will also serve to make our signature event bigger and better for the upcoming 10th anniversary."
ADS is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, that focuses on the development and exchange of information among policymakers, utilities, technology companies, and other stakeholders. Its members include companies and organizations involved in DR, as well as individuals who consider themselves to be DR and smart grid professionals.
Siemens Infrastructure & Cities Sector, with approximately 87,000 employees worldwide, offers sustainable technologies for metropolitan areas and their infrastructures. Its offerings include integrated mobility solutions, building and security technology, power distribution, Smart Grid applications, and low- and medium-voltage products. The sector comprises the Rail Systems, Mobility and Logistics, Low and Medium Voltage, Smart Grid and Building Technologies Divisions and Osram Sylvania. For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com/infrastructure-cities.
Constellation, an Exelon company, is a supplier of power, natural gas and energy products and services for homes and businesses across the United States and Canada. Constellation provides integrated energy solutions that help customers buy, manage and use energy, from electricity and natural gas procurement to load response, energy efficiency and solar solutions. For more information, visit www.constellation.com.
Landis+Gyr is a global provider of integrated energy management products tailored to energy company needs and unique in its ability to deliver true end-to-end advanced metering solutions. Today, the Company offers the broadest portfolio of products and services in the electricity metering industry, and is paving the way for the next generation of smart grid. With annualized sales of more than US$1.5 billion, Landis+Gyr, an independent growth platform of the Toshiba Corp. and 40% owned by the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, operates in 30 countries across five continents, and employs 5,000 people with the sole mission of helping the world manage energy better. More information is available at www.landisgyr.com.
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Estonia Next In Line To Receive US 'Encouragement' To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Laws
from the nice-little-country-you've-got-here dept
Numerous Wikileaks cables have highlighted the pressure that the US has brought to bear on several foreign governments behind closed doors in an attempt to get the latter to pass maximalist copyright laws. But it's worth noting that plenty of arm twisting takes place openly. Here, for example, is a letter (pdf) from the American Chamber of Commerce in Estonia addressed to the Minister of Justice, and the Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications of that country:
We find that the level of intellectual property protection in Estonia needs to be improved, both on the legislative and practical fronts. Estonian government should also focus more on investigating the commercial IPR infringements committed through the Internet, and not only breaches of law in relation with cyber terrorism. In addition, the government must follow the EU and national level debates that might have an impact on IPR legislative framework.
In other words, Estonia really ought fall into line like the other countries. Because if it doesn't:
Insufficient IPR protection has a negative effect on the entire economic situation in Estonia. As long as the IPR holders cannot be sure that their rights are protected, the international groups are hesitant in having their R&D units in Estonia and it is likely that R&D projects are run in countries with more comprehensive IPR protection. Insufficient IPR protection can also be an obstacle for starting new production units in Estonia as the IPR holders feel that the risk of IPR infringement is too high in Estonia and therefore it is better to produce their products in countries where the IPR-s are better protected.
Although the letter touches on trademarks and other areas, its central concern is copyright infringement, especially on the Internet. Its list of demands -- sorry, suggestions -- is depressingly familiar: stronger protection; more criminal prosecutions; intermediary liability for ISPs and website owners; and an "effective mechanism of damage compensation, without having to go through lengthy, complicated or costly procedures for achieving redress through the courts."
However, as an excellent post on the Estonian Public Broadcasting site explains, the letter's underlying assumptions about lack of enforcement are simply wrong:
They claim, for instance, that there is poor intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement in Estonia. However, Estonia's IPR laws and enforcement, at least in the commercial space, are quite adequate. Operations, including websites, that exist for commercial exploitation of unlicensed rights, are already illegal and get shut down. The operators can be imprisoned for up to three years.
The article goes on to point out one of the likely casualties of any harsher approach to copyright enforcement in Estonia:
if suing for non-commercial infringement is allowed, sooner or later, the pubs, restaurants and hotels offering free WiFi will be receiving legal threats and fines because someone downloaded something via their connection. It will be simpler for businesses to close their free internet access points, rather than face the legal harassment and risk of huge crippling fines that could result from one of their clients downloading something illegally.
That's an important point: copyright legislation does not exist in isolation, but can have serious knock-on effects on the digital life of a country -- in this case, jeopardizing Estonia's place in the vanguard of open wireless Internet coverage. Let's hope the Estonian ministers bear that in mind when their visitors from the US Embassy come calling.
When that happens, the Open Internet, an item of national pride in Estonia, will effectively be dead.
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Staggy wrote:No, because Miller 1) isn't a player you can legally hit and 2) Lucic was barreling down on Miller for 100 feet, had every opportunity to see him and avoid him but he decided to just go right through him. Sarich didn't have a chance to avoid Hall. Hall fell when Sarich was one stride away from him. Of course his elbow will make contact with him if the guy falls into it.
If you're going to use unrealistic scenarios so will I: so what you're saying is that if Crosby purposely dives head first into say Hartnell's elbow when Harntell's trying to hit him, then Hartnell is responsible for it?
How am I using unrealistic scenarios? The events in my post actually happened.
Lucic was playing the puck and it was clear from the get-go that he was going to, Miller should've stayed in his crease if he wanted to be assured safety (also, Lucic sees Miller less than second before impact in the video - he's clearly not Lucic charging at Miller for 100 feet across the ice).
If he Sarich had lead with his shoulder properly his elbow shouldn't have made contact with Hall. He attempts to destroy a vulnerable opponent (another complaint many people have on here).


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There are lessons to be learned here. Some of them I draw directly from the events linked above. Others are derived from watching large software-intensive organizations from the inside.
Lesson 1: It happens without warningYour business is ticking over nicely. You have just approved the annual IT budget, and your CIO has assured you that everything is green. Then at 6am you get a phone call telling you that your annual profit for this year, and maybe your entire company, has just vanished into thin air courtesy of a computer that you own but quite possibly have never heard of. How can this happen?
The answer is that computers are non-linear; small changes can have huge consequences. Change a plus to a minus somewhere in a program with 100,000 lines of code (which is fairly typical) and if you are lucky you will get no output, and if you are unlucky you will get the wrong output.
Mistakes like that happen all the time. As a rough rule of thumb, when programmers type code they make a mistake every 10 lines or so. Everything after that is about finding and removing those mistakes. On top of that you have the mistakes that were baked in at the specification stage (assuming that your software even has a written specification; if you are relying on a programmer having an informal chat with the person who wants the program then you are in even worse shape).
The only way to prevent this stuff happening is to treat the technology as important.
Lesson 2: Do a Risk AssessmentDo an inventory of every single program used by the company in regular business. If anyone has a spreadsheet file that they regularly use, treat that as a separate program. You may have to do some digging to find these things, but that spreadsheet that some bright intern in Operations invented last year to schedule the truck drivers could be the one that paralyses your entire operation next February 29th.
When you have done this you will have a depressingly long list that fits into roughly three categories, listed here in ascending order of risk:
- Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software. For the most part you can treat this as low priority; it tends to be reasonably well tested before it leaves the supplier. Not always, but you can be sure that you have bigger problems elsewhere. HOWEVER take a long look at any configuration or other input files supplied to this software; they tend to be less well controlled and hence more prone to error. Consider putting anything like this into category 3.
- Ancient dragons. Twenty or thirty years ago your company commissioned a big piece of software which has since become a key part of your operation. Its poorly documented and maintained by a few aging programmers, but at least they do understand it (until you offer them early retirement in a round of cost-cutting).
- Ad-hoc bits of stuff. These hang off the side of categories 1 and 2 like remora fish around sharks. Typically they convert between obsolete protocols, massage data formats, generate specialist reports, generate input tables and configuration files, and other odd jobs. All those spreadsheets will fit in here too, as will any particularly complicated configuration files from item 1. This stuff is risky because it was generally written on the cheap; poorly specified, documented and tested. As a result it tends to be fragile, and nobody quite knows how it all works or how to fix it when it goes wrong.
Start with the stuff in item 3, and then work upwards. For each piece of software, figure out where the output goes and how important it is. Make a short list of the biggest risks based on the initial analysis, and then produce Value At Risk figure for each bit of software if it either fails to work or produces the wrong answer (the Knight Capital Group algorithm, for instance, would have had zero impact if it had simply done nothing, but the RBS account update was a problem precisely because it did nothing). Don't forget to include reputation, regulatory and compensation costs in the analysis.
Lesson 3: Risk cannot be outsourcedYou've probably got some outsource contracts already. If any of your high-risk software is outsourced, either as software maintenance or operation, then compare the penalty clauses in your contract with your VAR. You will probably find at least one order of magnitude difference, if not two or three.
In general you cannot pay a supplier enough to take on your risk. If you are not careful you will find that your supplier has all the power to control the service while you have all the responsibility for their failures.
Consider running your own acceptance tests on external software development. Yes, the supplier has already run a bunch of tests, but you still need to check that it works in your context before it goes live. If that means you need a whole duplicate IT set-up for testing then so be it. I haven't seen an analysis of the Knight Capital Group failure, but I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that lack of test infrastructure was an important element.
Take a look at Section 2.2.4 in Nancy Leveson's book Engineering A Safer World. On one level, the Bhopal disaster was about engineering and procedural failure; an essential safety step was omitted during a routine procedure. But behind that was a long history of cost reduction and outsourcing; skilled staff were replaced by external contractors and training programs were cut back over several years until a serious accident became inevitable.
(Aside: the system safety world has faced similar issues, and tends to have better documented case histories because loss of life generally triggers public scrutiny: you could learn a lot from reading about system safety).
IT has many of the same properties as a chemical plant; it is complicated, it requires ongoing maintenance and operation by skilled personnel, and a small mistake can cause a disaster. Companies manage IT as a cost centre, and cost centres exist to be minimised. Hence there is always pressure to replace expensive staff with cheaper, lower skilled replacements, or to outsource the whole thing to someone who promises to do it cheaper, maybe in another country. Over time an accident becomes more and more likely, and eventually inevitable.
Lesson 4: Pay attention to processProcess, meaning the steps your people go through to carry out part of the operation, needs to be considered as a component of the overall system, and treated almost as if it were a piece of software. The difference is that any complicated process will, sooner or later, include a mistake. This was probably a significant component in the RBS debacle.
Complicated manual processes can be automated. This often means creating another bit of remora software, but that is actually preferable to a manual process.
Systematise your processes; make sure they are written down and followed. Keep them up to date.
Pay attention to change control and configuration management. Lots of mistakes stem from the wrong version of some file being used. You should know the version of every piece of software you are using, but equally any kind of configuration file should also be under the same kind of control.
Lesson 5: Listen to your engineersNeither managers nor engineers can see the whole story; if you listen only to the managers then you will sleepwalk into disaster. If you listen only to engineers then you will wind up commissioning another Concorde or Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (both of which were created by senior engineers who wouldn't listen to the accountants). The trick is to listen to both.
The managers will tell you about how to trim costs. The engineers will tell you why that is a bad idea. They will also tell you about the current problems and hazards.
Do not trust your management reporting chain to tell you this stuff. No manager wants to take a problem to his boss, so the instinctive response to an engineer or lower level manager with a problem is to solve it quickly, or failing that, put a lid on it. An engineer who says "this is fragile" will usually be told "We haven't got time for that now, but we'll fix it when the current urgent project is finished". Of course there is always another urgent project, and so the fix is postponed indefinitely, and no information about the problem percolates upwards.
A related issue is "technical debt". This is incurred whenever a project makes an expedient short-term decision (usually to meet a project deadline) that has long term costs. Examples include engineering kludges (such as adding one of those remora boxes I talked about earlier) or skimping on documentation. The analogy is with financial loan; you get a short term productivity boost (the loan), but a long term productivity cost (the interest) until you go back and fix the original short-cut (paying off the loan). Imagine the financial chaos if every software project in your company was allowed to borrow money off the books. Then imagine the technical chaos caused by uncontrolled accumulation of technical debt across all your different systems.


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The significant other and I decided to take a trip to Nashville last weekend and decided we would swing by and visit Bowling Green, Kentucky. Bowling Green is home to the only place in the world where they make the Chevrolet Corvette. It also houses a sweet Corvette museum (where the cache was located).
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"We are going to keep knocking down barriers to re-employment so more of the nearly 4 million long-term unemployed Americans can regain stability," said President Obama after the meeting. "…They will [then] have more money to spend on local businesses, which will lift the entire economy up and create a virtuous cycle, instead of a negative one."
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