Fly to Srinagar on Volvo fare!

Air India’s special offer for Oct 10
Chandigarh, October 7
It will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for those who wish to travel from the city to Srinagar on October 10 as the fare to be charged by Air India that day is equal to the fare of Volvo buses for the 650-km journey. According to sources, this Rs-1,584 fare will be a one-time offer.
Air India also operates as a second line of transport between the city and the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir for the men in olive green.
Between 50 and 60 seats are vacant in the Air India flight, which will take off at 12:30 pm. These are now being offered to civilians planning to visit Srinagar.
Confirming this, Air India station manager MR Jindal has said this will be a temporary exercise as a few seats are available.
The aeroplane has a capacity of 172 seats, of which 152 are in the economy class and 20 in the executive class. Air India will charge only for a one-way journey.
According to sources, there is no proposal to start a new flight from Chandigarh to Srinagar in view of the financial crunch being faced by Air India.
A survey is being conducted to know its feasibility, but there the possibility of starting it is remote as the company is not able to pay salaries to its employees for months together.
The private airliner Kingfisher, which has been running into huge losses, has already decided to discontinue its economy class Kingfisher Red flights.

Consumer Matters

LIC told to pay Rs 1.65 lakh 

Chandigarh, October 7
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has slapped a fine of Rs 30,000 on Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) for causing mental agony and harassment to a Sector 52 resident.
In his complaint, Amit Kumar, a resident of Kajehri village in Sector 52, had averred that his wife took a policy for a sum of Rs 1.25 lakh on October 19, 2009, valid for one year from November 3, 2009, and was required to pay Rs 510 per month as premium.
He said on the same evening, his wife fell ill and got treated at the PGI where it came to light that she was four-month pregnancy. On December 21, 2009, the Amit got her wife admitted to the PGI with the complaint of shortness of breath and irregular respiration. It was diagnosed that she was a case of swine flu which ultimately led to her death after three days along with the foetus in the womb. Thereafter, he submitted the claim form along with requisite documents, but the opposite party rejected the claim on the ground of suppression of material facts regarding her health at the time of proposing for the insurance policy.
The counsel for the LIC pleaded that the claim of the complainant had been repudiated as the insured did not act in good faith and suppressed the true and correct facts from the opposite party at the time of taking the policy. The opposite party further pleaded that the life insured became aware about her pregnancy on December 19, 2009, but she deliberately did not disclose it to the opposite party while filling up the proposal form.

Corbusier was a perfectionist: Alumnus

Chandigarh, October 7
Dr Veena Garella, a first-batch student of the Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA) in 1961, still remembers her interaction with Le Corbusier, the creator of Chandigarh, who told her that to be an architect, one needed to wear a 16-pocket jacket. She remembers clearly that he himself was wearing one at that time.
Speaking on the sidelights of the golden jubilee celebrations of the CCA, Dr Varella said she had met Le Corbusier when he had come to inaugurate the college. Dr Garella knew a little French. This gave her some time with the legendary figure in the world of architecture. Her batch of 1961, naturally, is the toast of the entire gathering.
She said Le Corbusier explained her about the utility of each pocket separately. He had assigned a distinct place to different tools used by a planner, including his pen, pencil, rulers, thread and even spectacles.
She remembered that he would say, “Always remember the number 16 to tally with the number of tools needed before commencing your job.” The master planner would explain the utility of each pocket. In fact, there was a detailed planning involved even in keeping the tools specifically in different pockets. There was a flow in the manner in which a workman could carry his job in case he had planned his pocket layout, she said.
She was just one among over 100 odd ex-students who managed to reach the college. For the gathering, it was largely a trip down the memory lane; about the times they shared; and how their alma mater had helped them reach places of eminence in different fields.
A professor at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, fondly recalled her first day at the college when she met the master architect. “He was very clear in his ideas. He explained the entire concept of the city point by point like a small stream getting together along the journey from the mountain of wisdom to take the form of a river of knowledge,” she recalled.

UT Cops strike big

Recover 42 stolen vehicles from gang
Chandigarh, October 7
The UT police today busted an inter-state gang comprising vehicle lifters, scrap dealers, insurance company surveyors and second-hand car dealers which adopted a peculiar modus operandi of selling off stolen vehicles with the original documents of vehicles damaged in accidents. The police recovered a total of 42 vehicles, including high-end cars and SUVs worth over Rs 2 crore, following the arrest of five of an unknown number of gang members.
The 42 vehicles included a Mitsubishi Pajero, two Toyota Innovas, five Mahindra Scorpios, four Tata Safaris, three Mahindra Baleros, three Hyundai Vernas, two Chevrolet Taveras, four Maruti Swifts, three Tata Indigos, two Maruti Wagon Rs, four Maruti Zens, two Hyundai Santros, three Maruti-800s, two Tata Indicas and one Hyundai i 20 and Maruti Alto each.
The arrested members of the gang were identified as Harinder Singh, alias Goldy, a second-hand car dealer, Vipin Kumar, a scrap dealer
and his accomplices Mohammed Nadeem, Mohammed Amir and Kasim. At least three accomplices of the arrested accused identified as Kala, a resident of Meerut, and Kamal and Iqbal, both belonging to Muradabad, are absconding.
The police said car dealer Harinder used to sell second-hand cars in the tricity at the second-hand car market in Sector 7 every Sunday. All 42 cars have been recovered from the purchasers who had bought the cars from the city’s second-hand car market who were ignorant of the fact that they had bought stolen vehicles with documents belonging to an altogether other vehicle.
The police has managed to trace only two vehicles out of the total 42, which were stolen from Chandigarh. In all, the police has managed to trace from where 11 of the 42 vehicles had originally been stolen from. Investigations are on to ascertain from where the rest of the cars had been stolen.
Terming it as a deep nexus among vehicle thieves, scrap dealers, insurance company agents and second-hand car dealers, UT SSP Naunihal Singh said the accused used to sell off the stolen vehicles in car bazaars of various states after pasting number plates, chassis and engine numbers of those vehicles, which had been completely damaged in accidents.

Modus operandi

• Scrap dealer Vipin and his accomplices used to purchase vehicles damaged in accidents from either the owner of the vehicles with the help of a surveyor or in auctions/direct sale of accidental total loss vehicles from insurance companies
• They would then either steal or get stolen vehicles from other accomplices
• Would either punch the chassis number and engine number of the accident vehicle on the stolen vehicle or cut the plate bearing these numbers and fix the same on stolen vehicles in Meerut
• Would sell these converted stolen vehicles to innocent people as genuine vehicles in the open market

Police yet to nab any thief

Even though the police has arrested five persons involved in the racket, it is yet to arrest any vehicle thief who stole the cars and then sold these off to car dealers with documents of accident vehicles. The police said the case was at an initial stage and there was still plenty to unfold in the coming days, as the gang was large and more arrests were likely in the coming days

Reprieve for PPP chief’s kin; not to be arrested sans notice

Chandigarh, October 7
Another relative of People's Party of Punjab president Manpreet Singh Badal has expressed apprehension of being implicated in a false case by the Punjab Police.
Taking cognisance of petitioner Amardeep Singh Brar’s apprehensions, the vacation Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued directions, which will ensure he is not caught unawares.
Issuing notice of motion on his petition filed through counsel Pankaj Bhardwaj, Justice Jitendra Chauhan directed the issuance of a two-day prior notice in case he is wanted by any branch of the Punjab Police, including the Vigilance Bureau.
Justice Chauhan also directed the State of Punjab and other respondents to ensure the copy of the FIR, in case of its registration, is handed over to the applicant. The directions are significant, as in the event of an FIR being registered against the petitioner, he will be in a better position to defend his liberty after going through the contents of the FIR.
The petitioner, putting up in Sector 11 here, had earlier claimed he was the nephew of estranged SAD leader Manpreet Singh Badal; and was apprehensive of being targeted due to political vendetta. He had added that those considered close to Manpreet were finding themselves at the receiving end.
The petitioner contended he too had participated in Manpreet’s Jago Punjab Yatra. The case will now come up on October 12 for further hearing.

Roaming charges may be dropped in India

New Delhi, October 7
The new Telecom Policy expected to be announced formally on Monday proposes to do away with roaming charges within the country, according to sources in the DoT. This would substantially reduce the bill of frequent travellers but dent the revenue of telecom companies.
Abolishing of roaming charges would be in line with international practices. The policy is also expected to suggest a time-frame for implementing this new rule.
The country is divided into 22 circles and consumers shell out a fee for using their phones when they move out of their base. The proposal to do away with roaming charges is likely to face stiff resistance from telecom companies since roaming charges are said to generate approximately 10% of their revenue.
The new policy also proposes to expand Mobile Number Portability and allow consumers to retain their numbers when they move to a new location in the country without having to pay roaming charges. MNP currently allows customers to retain their numbers while switching operators within the same circle.
The policy is also expected to suggest an exit policy for operators to enable them to surrender licences. In addition, it proposes to set up a Telecom Finance Corporation to facilitate investment in the sector. Telecom sector projects will be eligible for securing finance from agencies like the India Infrastructure Finance Corporation Limited. Taxes and levies affecting the sector will be rationalised to stimulate investment and make services more affordable.
The NTP 2011 also proposes to frame an appropriate exit policy, different from the surrender of licence, to permit easy exit and make mergers and acquisitions easier and increase the availability of spectrum.
New telecom policy
New policy to be unveiled on Monday, will expand Mobile Number Portability 
10mn new jobs by 202o.

Backbench MP aims to abolish sex trade

Joy Smith has already had one private bill become law. She is aiming to do it again with a bill to make criminals out of those who pay for sex

Joy Smith is that rare, backbench member of Parliament whose private bill was not only debated, but became law.
Rarer still is the fact that Smith, a Conservative from Winnipeg, is on track to do it again.
Because of her efforts and her first bill, Canada has mandatory minimum sentences for human traffickers whose victims are children.
Her new bill, which will be on the order paper for the fall session, proposes to rewrite Canada's prostitution laws. It would make criminals out of people who buy sex, but prostitutes would not be criminalized. "It [the bill] will target the market, plain and simple," she said in a telephone interview from Winnipeg. "We need laws that make people responsible for buying and selling children."
However, Smith quickly noted that the bill is not directed only at those who buy and sell children for sex, but will target all buyers and pimps.
(Currently, prostitution is legal but it is illegal to communicate for the purposes of buying or selling sex, running a brothel or live off the avails of prostitution.)
If it weren't for the fact that a lottery determines which of the hundreds of private members' are debated, one might conclude Smith's bill is the government's stalking horse -a draft of the law it will introduce if the Ontario Court of Appeal agrees that three key sections of the prostitution laws are unconstitutional.
But it's fair to say that the Conservative government got lucky when Smith pulled number four in the lottery because reforming the prostitution laws is difficult, as a parliamentary committee found out in 2005.
Among the few things its members agreed on is that the status quo isn't working.
Since then, the decriminalization/legalization lobby has strengthened, hardening its position that prostitution is both a career choice and a legitimate business.
Among the lobbyists are: Vancouver East MP Libby Davies; the dominatrix and two sex-trade workers who went to court in Ontario; and the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society and Pivot Legal Society, which have a similar case set to be heard in B.C. Supreme Court.
They argue that decriminalization/legalization is a form of harm reduction that won't lead to an expansion of the country's sex industry even though that contradicts the experience of countries and states where more brothels, more prostitution and more human trafficking have resulted following legalization.
"Libby Davies considers it [prostitution] an industry. I consider it a crime," said Smith, noting that Davies also voted against the child trafficking bill even though the majority of New Democrats, including leader Jack Layton, voted for it.
Smith sees her bill as a first step toward abolishing the sex trade and an incentive to work with the provinces to establish a version of the so-called "Nordic model." The Nordic model involves a public education program aimed at making it socially unacceptable to buy any sexual services and provision of a wide range of social services including housing, education, detox and income support to address the reality that poverty and desperation often drives women and children into the sex trade.

Smith said Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews support her bill. But she's going to be doing the heavy lifting in the House of Commons, not the ministers and not the government.
Smith's and Harper's government will likely to be accused of bowing to pressure from religious groups, groups such as the Canadian Federation of University Women and organizations such as Resist Exploitation Embrace Dignity, which Simon Fraser University criminologist and legalizer John Lowman has derisively called "liberal feminists."
A coalition of seven women's groups argued before the Ontario Court of Appeal argued that criminalization of prostitution is justified on the grounds of civil liberties and human rights.
The coalition - which includes the Native Women's Association of Canada and the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres - argued that under international human rights laws, Canada is obliged to assist and protect prostituted persons. Further, it said the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees liberty and security of person to everyone, but what it does not do is "guarantee men a right to the prostitution of women or a right to profit from the prostitution of others."
It went on to say, "The danger to women's security is a function not of the laws constraining prostitution, but of the actions of men who demand the sale of women's bodies ... It would be illogical and contrary to the principles of fundamental justice to decriminalize men's prostitution of women in order to protect women from those same men."
Smith's bill is still being written with the help of both government and private-sector lawyers. But she's adamant that it will stand any constitutional challenge: "We are taking meticulous care," she said.
Still, Smith will need all of that, a broad spectrum of support and maybe even more in order to get this bill enacted into law.

Furious pipeline foes take on Keystone XL at public hearing

WASHINGTON — Her voice faltered and her speaking notes wobbled in trembling hands, but Susan Luebbe kept her nerves in check long enough Friday to tell the Obama administration exactly what she thought about Calgary-based TransCanada's plan to build the Keystone XL oilsands pipeline across her land.

"It is an all-out war to battle TransCanada and keep them off our property," said Luebbe, whose family raises black angus cattle on a 1,200-acre ranch in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. "It is not in the national best interest for anyone except the money hungry, greedy corporation of TransCanada."

Luebbe's statement — at once angry and determined — was typical of the emotional testimony U.S. State Department officials heard on both sides of the Keystone XL issue during a raucous public hearing on the $7 billion project.

Several hundred people — from labour union supporters to anti-oil environmentalists and alienated landowners — crowded into a basement auditorium of the Ronald Reagan Building to make a final plea for approval or rejection of the 2,700 kilometre pipeline.

Outside the hearing site, another 300 or so people — including some who drifted over from a nearby anti-Wall Street protest on Pennsylvania Avenue — held a lunchtime rally demanding rejection of the project.

It was the last of nine Keystone XL sessions held over the past two weeks by administration officials weighing whether the 830,000 barrel-a-day pipeline — which would run from northern Alberta to the Gulf Coast of Texas — is in the U.S. national interest.

Three years and three environmental reviews after TransCanada first applied for a presidential permit to build Keystone XL, the Washington hearing should have had an air of finality to it. Almost no one, however, expects the fight to stop with a State Department yea or nay.

"There will be litigation," said Luebbe, who has refused TransCanada's requests for an easement to build the pipeline across her ranch near Stuart, Neb.

"If they think we are going to roll over for them, they've got another thing coming," added Randy Thompson, another Nebraska landowner who has not granted TransCanada permission to cross his property.

The sheer intensity of the controversy over Keystone XL has surprised TransCanada, which completed an earlier U.S. phase of the pipeline — Keystone 1 — with relatively little opposition in 2010.

Russ Girling, TransCanada's president and chief executive officer, said on Friday his company "would never have expected" Keystone XL to become such a lightning rod in the green movement's campaign against fossil fuels.

Girling, in an interview, said Keystone XL has been the victim of bad timing, caught in a wave of public concern caused by last year's BP oil disaster in the Gulf and the spill of 800,000 gallons of oilsands crude from an Enbridge-operated pipeline in Michigan.

But Girling said opponents — including those who live in the six states along the proposed pipeline route — have been "misled" by environmental leaders whose primary goal is to end consumption of all fossil fuels.

"This debate is really misguided," Girling said. "There is literally two and half million miles of pipeline traversing the ground (in the United States). You would think, based on the arguments that have come up, that this is the first pipeline that has ever been built."

The State Department already has given the environmental green light to Keystone XL, finding in its final eco-impact study that the pipeline would have "no significant impact" on natural resources in the U.S.

With the promise of up to 20,000 jobs and increased energy security, Girling said Keystone XL should "win hands down" if the administration makes its decision based on facts.

"It seems to me right now what the United States needs in addition to energy security, it needs economic stimulus and jobs coming from the private sector . . . I think rational, thinking Americans understand those kinds of facts," Girling said.

Bob Van Der Valk, a petroleum industry consultant who travelled from Montana for Friday's hearing, said Keystone XL would make the U.S. "more energy secure from countries that are hostile to us and that don't particularly care for our cultures."

Opponents painted a far different picture during Friday's hearings.

Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, accused government officials of providing unfair access and advice to TransCanada officials with political ties to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — a charge her department has adamantly denied.

"Are these hearings simply a farce? Are they a parody of the government process, and a parody of the rule of law?" Pica demanded.

Nebraskans attending the meeting expressed fear about the damage a major spill would have in the eco-sensitive Sand Hills and the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides the state with 80 per cent of its drinking water.

"You can take a pile of horse manure and sprinkle flower seeds on it, and you can call it a rose garden, but it doesn't change what it really is," said Thompson, whose ranchland sits on the pipeline path near Nebraska's Platte River.

"The oil industry and their pals in Congress, they've been out buying seed by the truckload, and they are spreading it all over this thing. But it doesn't change what the pipeline really is . . . a project being built for the benefit of big oil companies."

The State Department has promised a decision on Keystone XL by year's end. TransCanada is already preparing for legal action likely to follow a favourable ruling.

"I fully expect that when and if we get issued a positive decision, there will be those that will file appeals to that decision in some form or fashion," Girling said.

"But once we get those permits, it would be my expectation that we would commence construction very quickly after that."

Girling challenged recent accusations from Keystone XL opponents that the pipeline, rather than providing oil for the U.S. market, is being built to the Gulf Coast so Canadian producers can sell oilsands crude to China.

The TransCanada executive said the oil will simply replace diminishing supplies of Venezuelan heavy crude for Texas refineries that need it for domestic use.

"This notion that we built a pipeline for export, it's absolutely ludicrous," Girling said.

"There are not Chinese buyers lined up for our crude oil at some terminal on the Gulf Coast."
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Furious+pipeline+foes+take+Keystone+public+hearing/5520503/story.html
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Green+groups+stop+work+Keystone+pipeline/5506286/story.html
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Update+Alberta+jobless+rate+dips+cent+September/5519451/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

Insite ruling could set stagefor decision on prostitution

With the Supreme Court recently ruling as unconstitutional attempts by the federal government to shut down a supervised drug-injection site, at least one expert says it wouldn't be surprising if a separate case finds prostitution laws are also unconstitutional.

At some point in the near future, the Ontario Court of Appeal is expected to issue a decision on whether to uphold a 2010 decision from Ontario's Superior Court that provisions prohibiting operating or working in a brothel, communicating for the purpose of prostitution and living off the avails of prostitution contravene a person's right to safety and liberty and endanger sex workers by forcing them to ply their trade underground.

The act of prostitution — accepting money for sexual favours — is not in itself illegal.

Errol Mendes, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, said there's a particular aspect on last week's decision on the Insite injection site in Vancouver that could conceivably be applied to the prostitution ruling.

He notes that at issue is Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that guarantees "the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice."

While the government has the right to set laws if it finds preserving order is more important than the limiting certain freedoms in some cases, Mendes said the government's decisions "cannot be arbitrary, and it cannot be grossly disproportionate, given the facts on the ground," referring to the Insite decision.

As harm-reduction aspects, such as reducing cases of HIV and preventing overdoses, were found to take priority over the government's concerns such as enabling illegal activity, so too might concerns of prostitutes' safety take precedence over other worries the government has about the sex trade, Mendes said.

Mendes's "hunch" is that the appeal court will uphold the previous ruling on prostitution.

He added, however, that a "suspended declaration of invalidity" is likely, meaning the government would have a period of time — maybe six to 18 months — to determine how it should respond before laws are struck down.

AT&T seeing "extraordinary demand" for new iPhone

AT&T (T.N) said on Friday it has seen "extraordinary demand" for Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) latest iPhone with over 200,000 pre-orders in the first 12 hours.
Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S, which was unveiled on Tuesday, started October 7. The latest smartphone from Apple left Wall Street and fans wishing for more than a souped-up version of last year's device, at a time of heightened competition from rival smartphone makers.

Vancouver businesses urged to add security ahead of Occupy Wall Street protest

VANCOUVER - Downtown Vancouver businesses are being advised to punch up security and get prepared for potential mayhem before a planned protest next week modeled after the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in the U.S.
The city's business improvement association has distributed a memo to its members suggesting businesses in the core should prepare for possible disruptions because thousands of people have indicated they may attend.
The protest, called "Occupy Vancouver," is planned for Oct. 15 in the city's usual bastion for activism, the lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The memo warns of potential traffic blockages if the crowd gets too large, that mud might be tracked onto business properties and washrooms and food services may become overtaxed.
It cautions that random marches may splinter through the streets and specifically migrate to locations association with "big business."
The Occupy Wall Street movement began last month when young adults pitched tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange and it has spread to other cities in recent weeks as demonstrators protest economic inequality they blame on corporate America.

Google warns of FAKE Google 11th Anniversary Awards Centre Lottery

Google lottery:
Sometimes you can get email that "Your email address has being selected as one of the winner of Award of
Five Hundred Thousand Pounds in the Google 11 Years Anniversary Awards as organized by the Anniversary".

Users have told Google about a common email scam in which they're told they've won a 'Google lottery' or other award. Sorry -- there's no Google lottery.

Peace Nobel for women crusaders

One from Yemen, two from Liberia honoured for campaign against war and oppression

Oslo, October 7
Declaring women’s rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize on Friday to three indomitable campaigners against war and oppression — a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country’s President.

Africa’s first freely elected female head of state Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf shared the $1.5 million prize with compatriot Leymah Gbowee, who led a “sex strike” among her efforts against Liberia’s civil war and Arab activist Tawakul Karman, who hailed the award as a victory for democracy in Yemen.

“We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society," Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told reporters.

Johnson-Sirleaf, 72, and once dubbed the “Iron Lady”, is running for a second term in an election on Tuesday where she faces criticism for not having done enough to heal the divisions of years of civil war.

Jagland dismissed suggestions the award might seem to be meddling in the vote. But the former Norwegian prime minister said that honouring Yemen’s protesters, who unlike those in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya are still battling to get rid of their ruler, sent a signal from Oslo that President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a long US ally, and other Arab autocrats should now step down.

It is a message that the era of Arab dictators was over, Karman said in Sanaa, declaring her prize a victory for Yemen and the Arab Spring.

The trio of laureates follow only a dozen other women among 85 men and several organisations to have won the prize over its 110-year history.

The committee said it hoped the three-way award “will help to bring an end to the suppression of women that still occurs in many countries, and to realise the great potential for democracy and peace that women can represent.”

Recognising Karman, a 32-year-old journalist detained during the unrest, was seen as a gesture of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s wider approval for the Arab Spring, which had been heavily tipped to win the prize for their young street campaigners.

“In the most trying circumstances, both before and during the Arab Spring, Karman has played a leading part in the struggle for women’s rights and for democracy and peace in Yemen,” the Nobel citation read. Egyptian activist Asmaa Mahfouz, who had been nominated, said: “Giving it to Yemen means giving it to the Arab Spring, and this is an honour to all of us and to all Arab states.”

The committee said all three women were rewarded from the bequest left by Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel for “their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.”

It noted that Johnson-Sirleaf had led the way for women to lead African states and that Gbowee had mobilised women to bring an end to the war in Liberia and ensure their participation in the polls.

Her brother, Alphonso Diamond Gbowee, said: “I am so excited that her relentlessness to ensure the development of women and children in our region has been recognised. She’s very hard-working, helping with women and children all over the place, especially in Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone ... This will be a challenge for her to do more. I have no doubt she'll continue to impact those vulnerable lives.”

Johnson-Sirleaf was Liberia’s Finance Minister, then suffered jail and fled the country as it descended into one of Africa’s bloodiest civil wars, serving as a World Bank economist before going home and winning the presidency in 2005. Gbowee’s Women For Peace movement is credited by some for bringing an end to the civil war in 2003.

Guide to Best Colleges in India

With a host of universities and an army of colleges, India has one of the strongest education bases in the world. But with only one in every 10 arts graduates considered employable, undergraduate education remains a tough challenge. For the multitude of students queuing up for
admissions the path to a successful career is still not crystal clear.

for more info visit the following weblink:
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110622/educationspecial/index.htm

Crowds excited to see Redford sworn in as Alberta premier



Lt.-Gov. Donald Ethell, right, witnesses Alison Redford sign the Roll Book as Alberta’s 14th premier at the Alberta Legislature on Oct. 7, 2011

EDMONTON - Until Friday, 12-year-old Sneh Yadav knew what she would see when she looked at pictures of former Alberta premiers: Boys, boys, and more boys. In fact, until Friday, there were 13 “boys” in the province’s top job.
“I think it’ll be cool to see a girl leader now, because it’s like changing,” the young Calgarian said Friday morning, standing outside the premier’s office, overlooking the Legislature rotunda where Alison Redford was about to be sworn in as Alberta’s 14th premier.
Sneh and her dad, Dave Yadav, drove up to Edmonton from Calgary Thursday night. Dave Yadav has been friends with Redford since they were in high school and, he said, when the two families had breakfast together Friday morning Redford hadn’t seemed nervous at all about the landmark event.
“She’s more excited,” he said.
Another friend, Natalie McFadden, who drove up Friday morning from Calgary, also doubted Redford would be apprehensive: “Knowing her, probably not. She’s just got it together.”
Through a half-hour ceremony in the Legislature’s rotunda, Redford seemed at ease, smiling often at the hundreds of people who crowded into the building to see her sworn in.
Afterward, before leaving the area with her arm around her nine-year-old daughter Sarah, her husband Glen Jermyn behind her and surrounded by security, Redford made a point of stopping to shake hands with the Grade 6 students of Edmonton’s Kensington Elementary School.
“I wanted them to personally enjoy the atmosphere and understand this is a moment they probably won’t experience again,” said teacher Keri Haskell. “They were pretty darn excited.”
“A lot of the girls got all dressed up,” added fellow teacher Jaelene McEwen.
In a sea of buttoned-up suits and business-casual dresses, 64-year-old Nazek Cayai was dressed casually to see democracy in action. Originally from Egypt, the Edmonton woman said the ceremony was exciting. She was there not as a member of the Progressive Conservative party, she said, but as a member of the public.
“It’s wonderful to see. She has very good values, and to see a woman in this position,” Cayai said.
For Bawlf, Alta. couple Bill and Marion Leithead, the ceremony was the culmination of months of volunteer work, knocking on doors on Redford’s behalf and selling party memberships.
“We quizzed Alison about a number of things, and she convinced us to support her,” said Bill Leithead, for whom land rights issues are paramount.
“We’re very happy,” he said.

Bell is introducing the iPhone 4S in Canada on 14th October 2011.

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iPhone 4S is the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet. The A5 chip delivers up to 2x faster performance, so it’s quicker at launching apps, loading pages in Safari, and taking photos. And with up to 7x faster graphics, gameplay is even more amazing.

·         8-megapixel camera – all new optics

With a custom lens and a new 8-megapixel sensor, iPhone 4S takes photos unlike any you’ve ever seen from a mobile device. You can also record 1080p HD video with image stabilization.

·         High-resolution Retina display

Thanks to the Retina display, the highest-resolution phone screen, everything you see and do on iPhone 4S looks amazing. The pixel density is so high the human eye can’t distinguish individual pixels. Games, movies, and photos are stunning at almost any angle. Text in books, web pages, and email is crisp at any size.

·         Over 500,000 apps on the App Store

Browse more than 500,000 apps on the App Store. You’ll find great apps for just about anything: games, social networking, travel, business, news, weather, sports, and more. Search by category or check out the Top Paid and Top Free charts.

·         iOS 5—the world’s most advanced mobile OS with over 200 new features

iOS 5 is not only advanced, it’s also incredibly easy to use. And with over 200 new features, including Notification Center, Reminders, and Twitter integration, iOS 5 makes iPhone even better.

·         iCloud—your content on all your iOS devices

iCloud stores your music, photos, documents, and more, and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices. Automatic, effortless, and seamless—it just works. iCloud is the easiest way to manage your content, because now you don’t have to.

·         1080p HD video recording

iPhone 4S features:

·         HSPA data speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps

Touch up photos right on your iPhone — without the help of photo editing software on a computer. You can crop and rotate photos, enhance the image overall and even remove

·         red-eye.

·         Edit your HD video right on iPhone. Just drag to select start and end points on a filmstrip to trim your clips. Or make a mini-blockbuster in iMovie with Apple-designed themes, titles, transitions and even a soundtrack

·         Video stabilization removes unwanted motion caused by unsteady hands. And if you’re recording a scene with subjects in both the foreground and the background, the camera focuses where you want with a tap.

Display:

iOS 5 features:

·         Notification center ·         iMessage ·         Reminders ·         Twitter Integration ·         Newstand

·         Lock screen shortcuts ·         Game center enhancement ·         Reading List ·         Sync between iOS devices ·         Tabbed browsing

·         PC-free feature ·         Wireless updates ·         AirPlay ·         Find My Friends ·         Siri – iPhone 4S only

• 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display

Resolution:

• 960 x 640 pixel resolution at 326 ppi

Storage

• 16 GB, 32 GB or 64 GB¹

Cellular:

• UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz)
• GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• CDMA EV-DO Rev. A (800, 1900 MHz)²

Wireless data:

• 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4 GHz only)
• Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology

GPS:

• Assisted GPS

Camera:

• 8 megapixel camera

Battery:

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery²

Talk time:

• Up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)²

Standby time:

• Up to 200 hours³

Internet use:

• Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi³

Video playback:

• Up to 10 hours³

Audio playback:

• Up to 40 hours³

Dimensions:

• 115.2 mm x 58.6 mm x 9.3 mm⁴

Weight:

• 140 g⁴

In the box:

• iPhone 4S
• Apple earphones with remote and mic
• Dock connector to USB cable
• USB power adapter
• Documentation

Input and output:

• 30-pin dock connector
• 3.5 mm stereo headphone mini- jack
• Built-in speaker
• Built-in microphone

Video:

• Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

Mac system requirements:

• Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
• OS X v10.5.8 or later
• iTunes 10.5 or later
• Apple ID (required for some features)
• Internet access

Windows system requirements:

• PC with USB 2.0 port
• Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
• iTunes 10.5 or later
• Apple ID (required for some features)
• Internet access

Details:

1. 1 GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.
2. CDMA available only if iPhone 4S is sold and activated for use on a CDMA network.
3. All battery claims depend on network configuration and many other factors; actual results will vary. Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced by an Apple service provider. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. For more details of iPhone performance tests for talk time, standby time, Internet use over 3G, Internet use over Wi-Fi, video playback, and audio playback, see www.apple.com/iphone/battery.html.