lunes, 18 de julio de 2011

Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, New Hope for Children and Pregnant Women

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The word was out: it was no longer necessary to give birth at home and risk losing a baby or dying in childbirth. Hadiatou Kamara, 18, waited in the crowd. She had already lost a baby boy and girl. “They both died,” she said quietly.
Now, for her third pregnancy, she was at this rural health clinic outside Freetown, the capital. The Sierra Leone government has eliminated fees for pregnant women and children, and Ms. Kamara, like thousands of women in a country where surgery has been performed by the light of cellphones and flashlights, could afford trained medical staff to oversee her pregnancy for the first time.
At the Waterloo Community Health Center here, the women were spilling out the door, as they have consistently since the fees were lifted last year.
Sierra Leone is at the vanguard of a revolution — heavily subsidized for now by international donors — that appears to be substantially lessening health dangers here in one of the riskiest countries in the world for pregnant women and small children.

BRASIL CAE ELIMINADO EN CUARTOS TRAS UNA PÉSIMA TANDA DE PENALTIS

Justo Villar salvó a Paraguay con varias intervenciones decisivas durante el partido
Los paraguayos apenas hicieron un tiro a puerta en todo el encuentro
Brasil no fue capaz de transformar un solo penalti en la tanda

Copa América

Cuartos de final

Brasil	0
Paraguay	0


0 - Brasil: Julio César; Maicon, Lucio, Thiago Silva, André Santos; Lucas Leiva, Ramires, Ganso (m.99, Lucas Moura); Robinho, Pato (m. 110, Elano) y Neymar (m. 79, Fred).
0 - Paraguay: Villar; Verón, Da Silva, Alcaraz, Torres (m. 70, Marecos); Vera (m.62, Barreto), Cáceres, Riveros, Estigarribia; Valdez y Barrios (m. 82, Pérez).
Gol:Tanda de penaltis: 0-0: Elano, fuera. 0-0: Barreto, fuera. 0-0: Thiago Silva, para Villar. 0-1: Estigarribia, gol. 0-1: André Santos, fuera. 0-2: Riveros, gol. 0-2: Fred, fuera.
Árbitro: Sergio Pezzotta (ARG). Expulsó a Lucas Leiva y Alcaraz (m.102). Amonestó a André Santos (m.56), Maicon (m.58) por Brasil; Vera (m.20), Barreto (m.64), Marecos (m.71), Estigarribia (m.110) por Paraguay.
Incidencias: Partido de cuartos de final de la Copa América jugado en el estadio Ciudad de La Plata, ante unos 36.000 espectadores.

Brasil también se dio el batacazo y cayó eliminado de la Copa de América por Paraguay. Justo Villar apuntaba a héroe de la noche por sus intervenciones durante el tiempo reglamentario, pero no hizo falta. Los brasileños tiraron tan mal los penaltis en la tanda, que no marcaron ni uno.
Dicen que Paraguay es 'la Italia de Sudamérica' y se volvió a demostrar el motivo. El partido del combinado guaraní lo podía haber firmado perfectamente la 'azzurra'. El equipo del 'Tata' Martino sólo tiró a puerta una vez en todo el partido y aún así le bastó para tumbar a la vigente campeona

viernes, 15 de julio de 2011

Harry Potter

jueves, 14 de julio de 2011

Hackers Gained Access to Sensitive Military Files

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department suffered one of its worst digital attacks in history in March, when foreign hackers broke into the computers of a corporate contractor and obtained 24,000 sensitive Pentagon files during a single intrusion, senior officials said on Thursday. The disclosure came as the Pentagon released a strategy for military operations in cyberspace, embodying a belief that traditional passive programs for defending Pentagon data systems are insufficient in an era when espionage, crime, disruptions and attacks are increasingly carried out over the Internet.

In releasing the strategy, William J. Lynn III, the deputy defense secretary, disclosed that over the years “crucial” files stolen from defense industry data networks have included plans for missile tracking systems, satellite navigation devices, unmanned surveillancedrones and top-of-the-line jet fighters.

Some of the stolen data was mundane, and included plans for small parts of tanks, airplanes and submarines, he said.

“But a great deal of it concerns our most sensitive systems, including aircraft avionics, surveillance technologies, satellite communications systems and network security protocols,” Mr. Lynn disclosed.

Pentagon and administration officials declined to identify the military contractor whose data system was compromised in the March attack. They also refused to name the nation they suspected was the culprit, saying that any accusation was a matter of official, if confidential, diplomatic dialogue.

However, when major intrusions against computers operated by the Pentagon or military contractors have occurred in the past, officials have regularly blamed China, and sometimes Russia. Even so, it remains unknown whether the attacks were officially sponsored by those governments or were the work of industrial competitors or criminal hackers operating from inside those nations.

“Current countermeasures have not stopped this outflow of sensitive information,” Mr. Lynn said during a speech at the National Defense University. “We need to do more to guard our digital storehouses of design innovation.”

The Pentagon’s new strategy, which is the final official piece of a larger effort launched by the Obama administration to defend computer networks operated by the government and the private sector, calls for actively looking for attackers on the Internet rather than waiting for an intruder to attack. “You have to hunt on your own networks,” Mr. Lynn said. He stressed the importance of cooperation with foreign partners to spot computer-network threats before they try to crack systems in the United States.

The military’s new Cyber Command was ordered to prepare for defensivee and offensive operations on computer networks. Officials confirmed that the command has computer programs to carry out offensive operations in cyberspace if it is so ordered by the president.

Though for now the strategy is centered on how the United States can defend itself against an attack, Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon had to focus on offense — including the possibility of responding to a cyber attack with military action.

“If it’s O.K. to attack me and I’m not going to do anything other than improve my defenses every time you attack me, it’s very difficult to come up with a deterrent strategy,” General Cartwright told reporters on Thursday.

He said that American military commanders were now devoting 90 percent of their attention to building better firewalls and only 10 percent to ways of keeping hackers from attacking in the first place. He said a better strategy for the Pentagon would be the reverse, focusing almost entirely on offense.

The Pentagon, he said, needs a strategy
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The U.S. president, Barack Obama, compared himself to Lionel Messi

The Colorado Rapids, MLS champions, presented a shirt with the number 10', reserved for the team leader, to the U.S. President, and he compared himself to the FC Barcelona striker.

Barça’s global recognition has even reached the White House. The U.S. President, Barack Obama compared himself to the first team player Lionel Messi. Obama made this comparison during the official reception for the champions of the North American Soccer League (MLS), the Colorado Rapids.

The director of the Rapids, Jeff Plush, presented the President with a shirt from the Denver team, with the number 10 on the back, “reserved for the team leader”. Obama, on receiving the gift, said: "Like me and Messi, at the same level".

Obama, a basketball fan, has emotional ties with football as his daughters, Malia and Sasha, practice the sport known in the United States as soccer. It’s not surprising that the President auto-defined himself as a "football father".

Obama's response occurred exactly one month ahead of the game in Washington where Barça will be playing against Manchester United on the 30th of July (at 19.00 GMT-4). It will be the first game that the team is scheduled to play on their 2011 tour of the United States.

miércoles, 13 de julio de 2011

3 Bomb Blasts Shake Central Mumbai

Santosh Verma for The New York Times

People injured in one of the bomb blasts in Mumbai waited for help on Wednesday

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MUMBAI, India — Three bomb blasts shook the city of Mumbai at the height of the evening rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people in what Indian officials called a coordinated terror attack on the country’s economic capital.

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Policemen surrounded a vehicle which was damaged at the site of a bomb explosion in Mumbai on Wednesday.

The explosions struck central locations in the city, including the crowded Dadar neighborhood; the Zaveri Bazaar, a well-known jewelry market; and near the Opera House, according to India’s Home Ministry, which said 113 people had been injured.
The attack was the first in Mumbai since militants from Pakistan mounted large-scale assaults on hotels, a train station and a Jewish community center in November 2008, killing more than 160 people.
No immediate claim of responsibility for the Wednesday bombings was reported. India’s home minister, P. Chidambaram, said at a news conference in New Delhi that terror investigation teams had been dispatched to the blast sites.
The Opera House blast was the strongest of the three, said Prithviraj Chavan, the chief minister of Maharashtra state, though the precise severity of the blasts was not immediately clear. Indian news accounts described the bombs as improvised explosive devices.
Sidewalks in the Dadar neighborhood were littered with shattered glass as crowds jostled to get into a nearby train station as a rain fell over the shaken city. Television images showed scenes of minor destruction.
Officials said that the device in Dadar appeared to have been hidden in an electrical box near a bus station. “The blast took place at the meter box of electric cabin of the bus stop, as it looks initially,” said Madhukar Sapre, an assistant commissioner of police in the Dadar area. Four people were injured and taken to nearby hospitals.
Another of the devices, at the jewelry market, was hidden in an umbrella, according to Mumbai’s police commissioner.The largest blast, at the Opera House, occurred just before 7 p.m. local time, said Bhavesh Bhansali, a merchant who was leaving his nearby office when he heard a loud blast. Rushing to the site in a narrow but busy street, he described a bloody scene of dead and dismembered bodies. He said he knew several of those killed in the attacks, which he said given the timing and location, were a “very well thought out conspiracy.”
A fourth explosive device was found in Mumbai, but it did not go off. The city remained on high alert as reports of the blasts spread.
The Zaveri Bazaar jewelry market has been bombed at least twice before, including a 2003 bombing that killed at least two dozen. “This is another terrorist attack on Mumbai,” said Mr. Chavan, the chief minister of Maharashtra, the state where Mumbai is located.
The police in Mumbai have been bracing for trouble for months. In December 2010, police said that several men suspected of belonging to the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba entered the country; Indian and American officials say that group carried out the November 2008 attacks,
In February 2010, a bomb explosion at a popular bakery in Pune, a city 100 miles east of Mumbai, killed 17 people and injured 60 people. Indian officials have said that attack was the work of terrorists affiliated with Illyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani militant commander.
Mr. Chavan said the city and state were much better prepared to deal with Wednesday’s blasts than they were during the 2008 attacks. “I have appealed to the people of Mumbai to maintain calm and peace,” he said. “We are all unitedly facing this challenge.”
In a statement, Pakistan swiftly condemned the attack, saying that the country’s leaders “expressed their deepest sympathies to the Indian leadership” on the loss of life in Mumbai. President Obama in a statement called the bombings “outrageous” and said the United States would stand with the Indian people.

Vikas Bajaj reported from Mumbai, India, and J. David Goodman from New York. Lydia Polgreen contributed reporting from New Delhi.