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Sunday, June 26, 2011
Search for Miss Southern Leyte 2011
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| Miss St. Bernard - Chellon Agoylo |
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| Miss Sogod - Beryll Lynn Yu |
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| Miss Silago - Rose Marie Grace Penaverde |
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| Miss san Ricardo - Sarah Ching |
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| Miss San Juan - Nattie Tahil |
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| Miss San Francisco - Maricar Torentera |
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| Miss Pintuyan - Hydee Tiempo |
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| Miss Padre Burgos - Mary Angelyn Bactindon |
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| Miss Macrohon - Sheila Diokno |
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| Miss Maasin - Beverly Oraiz |
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| Miss Libagon - Jonnalyn Ren |
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| Miss Hinundayan - Sushmieta Bacoy |
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| Miss Hinunangan - Loreles Galleto |
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| Miss Limasawa - Cindy Mae Lugo |
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| Samantha Dane A. Torres |
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| Shara Tibon - Miss Bontoc source : Facebook Page/Miss Southern Leyte 2011 |
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| Miss Liloan - Louis Suzanne Paloga |
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Millions still die due to lack of midwives: U.N.
(Reuters) - More investment in midwifery could save many of the millions of babies and hundreds of thousands of women who still die every year because of a lack of skilled healthcare during childbirth, the United Nations said on Monday.
In the first global midwifery report for 35 years, the United Nations said as well as saving lives and preventing disability, good midwives can also help contribute to a country's human and economic development.
"If we want to stop these women and babies dying, we need to invest in skilled care," said Flavia Bustreo of the family and community health department at the World Health Organization, one of around 30 organizations who compiled the report -- the first systematic survey of midwifery worldwide since 1976.
"Midwives can provide such care in communities and primary health care services. They can also link women up with emergency obstetric care services if they need them."
Increasing access to midwives has become a focus of global health efforts since it is central to three of the Millennium Development Goals agreed by the international community to reduce child death, improve maternal health and step up the fight against AIDS, malaria and other diseases by 2015.
The report found that every year 358,000 women and 3.6 million newborns die due to largely preventable complications in pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. Up to another 3 million babies are stillborn.
No comparative figures were available because the report was the first of its kind by the United Nations.
The report surveyed 58 countries representing just under 60 percent of all births worldwide but 91 percent of all maternal deaths. It estimated that countries need a minimum of six skilled birth attendants for every 1,000 births if they are to achieve 95 percent coverage.
It said that among the 38 countries most desperately in need of midwives, 22 needed to double their midwifery workforce by 2015 and seven needed to triple or quadruple it.
Nine countries -- Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Niger, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan -- needed to scale up midwifery by a factor of between 6 and 15, it said.
"Ensuring that every woman and her newborn have access to quality midwifery services demands that we take bold steps," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in the report's foreword. "Our responsibility is clear: we must safeguard each woman and child so they may live to their full potential."
The report, commissioned and coordinated by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), was launched at an International Confederation of Midwives in Durban, South Africa.
Refugees on rise and poor countries bear brunt: UNHCR
(Reuters) - The number of people forced to flee their homes to escape war or abuse has risen to its highest for 15 years, with four out of five refugees in developing countries, the United Nations said on Monday.
In all, there were 43.7 million displaced people worldwide at the end of 2010, up from 43.3 million a year before, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
They include 15.4 million refugees who fled across borders -- 80 percent of them to nearby developing countries -- and 27.5 million uprooted within their own homelands, it said in an annual report. A further 850,000 are asylum seekers who lodged claims.
"Fear about supposed floods of refugees in industrialized countries are being vastly overblown or mistakenly conflated with issues of migration," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
"Meanwhile it's poorer countries that are left having to pick up the burden," said Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who heads the Geneva-based agency.
At a news conference in Rome, he urged all states not to close their borders to people seeking protection and called for more support from richer western countries for those handling the bulk of refugees.
"The most relevant contribution a state can give to refugee protection when there is a conflict is to keep the borders open," he said.
Rising food prices and poorer countries' limited access to financial markets had intensified the humanitarian crisis for refugees.
The world's poorest countries host huge refugee populations, both in absolute terms and in relation to their economic size, according to the agency's report, "Global Trends 2010". Slightly more than half of all refugees are children under 18.
Pakistan, Iran and Syria host the most refugees, with 1.9 million, 1.1 million and 1 million respectively, it says.
Afghans form the largest group, 3 million refugees, including many who left their homeland years ago, followed by Iraqis, Somalis and Congolese, whose countries are also mired in protracted conflicts.
"UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION"
"The causes of displacement are not going away. So far this year we have seen conflict in North Africa, Ivory Coast, Syria, Sudan and other places around the world that have produced people fleeing dangerous situations," Alexander Aleinikoff, Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, told a news briefing.
But there is an "uneven distribution" of the world's displaced, he said. "Sometimes it seems the loudest objections come from countries that don't shoulder the biggest burden."
Thousands of people fleeing upheavals in North Africa have been heading to Italy on rickety boats in recent months, creating an immigration crisis in Lampedusa, an Italian island situated half way between Tunisia and Sicily.
Italy passed Greece as the main point of entry into the European Union (EU) for illegal border migrants in the first quarter of this year, officials said last week.
Asked about anti-refugee sentiment in some parts of Europe, Aleinikoff said: "I think that difficult economic times sometimes breed unfortunate populist politics, and cultural differences and religious differences may account for some of that as well."
In Europe, there were 1.6 million refugees at the end of 2010, down some 40,700 from a year before, mainly due to registration and verification conducted in the Balkans, according to UNHCR. The agency was founded 60 years ago to help 2.1 million refugees in Europe after World War Two.
Asia is home to some 4 million refugees, followed by 2.1 million in Africa, while there are nearly 7 million in the Middle East and North Africa and 800,000 in the Americas.
Some 100,000 refugees who could not return home or stay in their first countries of asylum were resettled last year in 22 countries, more than 70,000 of them in the United States.
In all, there were 43.7 million displaced people worldwide at the end of 2010, up from 43.3 million a year before, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
They include 15.4 million refugees who fled across borders -- 80 percent of them to nearby developing countries -- and 27.5 million uprooted within their own homelands, it said in an annual report. A further 850,000 are asylum seekers who lodged claims.
"Fear about supposed floods of refugees in industrialized countries are being vastly overblown or mistakenly conflated with issues of migration," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
"Meanwhile it's poorer countries that are left having to pick up the burden," said Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who heads the Geneva-based agency.
At a news conference in Rome, he urged all states not to close their borders to people seeking protection and called for more support from richer western countries for those handling the bulk of refugees.
"The most relevant contribution a state can give to refugee protection when there is a conflict is to keep the borders open," he said.
Rising food prices and poorer countries' limited access to financial markets had intensified the humanitarian crisis for refugees.
The world's poorest countries host huge refugee populations, both in absolute terms and in relation to their economic size, according to the agency's report, "Global Trends 2010". Slightly more than half of all refugees are children under 18.
Pakistan, Iran and Syria host the most refugees, with 1.9 million, 1.1 million and 1 million respectively, it says.
Afghans form the largest group, 3 million refugees, including many who left their homeland years ago, followed by Iraqis, Somalis and Congolese, whose countries are also mired in protracted conflicts.
"UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION"
"The causes of displacement are not going away. So far this year we have seen conflict in North Africa, Ivory Coast, Syria, Sudan and other places around the world that have produced people fleeing dangerous situations," Alexander Aleinikoff, Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, told a news briefing.
But there is an "uneven distribution" of the world's displaced, he said. "Sometimes it seems the loudest objections come from countries that don't shoulder the biggest burden."
Thousands of people fleeing upheavals in North Africa have been heading to Italy on rickety boats in recent months, creating an immigration crisis in Lampedusa, an Italian island situated half way between Tunisia and Sicily.
Italy passed Greece as the main point of entry into the European Union (EU) for illegal border migrants in the first quarter of this year, officials said last week.
Asked about anti-refugee sentiment in some parts of Europe, Aleinikoff said: "I think that difficult economic times sometimes breed unfortunate populist politics, and cultural differences and religious differences may account for some of that as well."
In Europe, there were 1.6 million refugees at the end of 2010, down some 40,700 from a year before, mainly due to registration and verification conducted in the Balkans, according to UNHCR. The agency was founded 60 years ago to help 2.1 million refugees in Europe after World War Two.
Asia is home to some 4 million refugees, followed by 2.1 million in Africa, while there are nearly 7 million in the Middle East and North Africa and 800,000 in the Americas.
Some 100,000 refugees who could not return home or stay in their first countries of asylum were resettled last year in 22 countries, more than 70,000 of them in the United States.
Top 5 features that make Android a better choice over iOS 5
The competition between iOS 5 and Android is getting more intensed day by day. With each update and head-to-head comparison between the biggies, striking similarities as well as dissimilarities have forced millions of gadget lovers to think twice over their smartphone of choice.
Check out the top five useful features of Android that will make it a better choice over Apple's latest build of iOS.
Flexible home screen and widgets
The beauty of Android home screen and widgets is that they are flexible and can be customized according to users' needs. You can easily customize your home screen, place widgets anywhere you want, and they will give you updates on features that matter. You can use widgets for weather updates, breaking news, emails, clocks, WiFi or even media playback controls. When it comes to iOS, users can only launch apps and create folders.
Customizability
You are free to customize almost anything on your Android. You can extend or replace almost every core Android feature by third-party apps. If you want more, the Android source code is there at your service. You can take the code and customize your ROM, by installing CyanogenMod or Gingerbreak. With Android you can change your default browser to Firefox or any other browser. But in case of iOS, Safari is your only option. If you want to customize your iOS, you need to jailbreak your iOS device.
Better voice control functionality
You just speak and Android brings you what you want. Yes, Android carries voice commands. You can easily search and find with voice search through Google. While listening to music, you just have to speak the title or the artist's name and Android lets you enjoy the music. You can also load third-party music apps like Pandora with the "listen to" command. But in iOS, the voice command options are limited. The music-by-voice feature of the iPhone is only linked to the iPod app.
Flash Support
Android can play Flash games and video, and iOS can't (and never will). It supports only HTML5 web apps. With iOS embracing HTML5 web apps, questions are raised on whether Flash offers what the industry really needs. According to numerous reports, most of the performance related issues have been rectified with Flash for Android Honeycomb.
Google Account Integration
iCloud is interesting. But it's just a cloud storage service. It stores your docs, pictures and apps. With Android, you'll have the benefit of Google Account Integration. You can edit your Google Docs no matter which device you are using, it can be your smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop. You can upload music to Google Music, and stream from the cloud to your phone. You even can do a VoIP call via Google voice. But with iOS, you neither get streaming music nor VoIP.
GPS Navigation
Voice-guided GPS is a service which has been there in Android phones as a standard component since October 2009. Although iPhone has some third-party apps that offer turn-by-turn voice guidance, with Android's built-in functionality, you can easily jump in to navigate from other apps. In case of iOS, users have to manually copy and paste the address into the app they want to use.
Check out the top five useful features of Android that will make it a better choice over Apple's latest build of iOS.
Flexible home screen and widgets
The beauty of Android home screen and widgets is that they are flexible and can be customized according to users' needs. You can easily customize your home screen, place widgets anywhere you want, and they will give you updates on features that matter. You can use widgets for weather updates, breaking news, emails, clocks, WiFi or even media playback controls. When it comes to iOS, users can only launch apps and create folders.
Customizability
You are free to customize almost anything on your Android. You can extend or replace almost every core Android feature by third-party apps. If you want more, the Android source code is there at your service. You can take the code and customize your ROM, by installing CyanogenMod or Gingerbreak. With Android you can change your default browser to Firefox or any other browser. But in case of iOS, Safari is your only option. If you want to customize your iOS, you need to jailbreak your iOS device.
Better voice control functionality
You just speak and Android brings you what you want. Yes, Android carries voice commands. You can easily search and find with voice search through Google. While listening to music, you just have to speak the title or the artist's name and Android lets you enjoy the music. You can also load third-party music apps like Pandora with the "listen to" command. But in iOS, the voice command options are limited. The music-by-voice feature of the iPhone is only linked to the iPod app.
Flash Support
Android can play Flash games and video, and iOS can't (and never will). It supports only HTML5 web apps. With iOS embracing HTML5 web apps, questions are raised on whether Flash offers what the industry really needs. According to numerous reports, most of the performance related issues have been rectified with Flash for Android Honeycomb.
Google Account Integration
iCloud is interesting. But it's just a cloud storage service. It stores your docs, pictures and apps. With Android, you'll have the benefit of Google Account Integration. You can edit your Google Docs no matter which device you are using, it can be your smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop. You can upload music to Google Music, and stream from the cloud to your phone. You even can do a VoIP call via Google voice. But with iOS, you neither get streaming music nor VoIP.
GPS Navigation
Voice-guided GPS is a service which has been there in Android phones as a standard component since October 2009. Although iPhone has some third-party apps that offer turn-by-turn voice guidance, with Android's built-in functionality, you can easily jump in to navigate from other apps. In case of iOS, users have to manually copy and paste the address into the app they want to use.
source : IB Times
