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Oil spill in the Scotia Sea 

 19:24 | Posted by Ecosite-news | 
Controlled oil spill in the North Sea platform 

Release Date: 13/08/2011 
Source: Reuters 
Country / Region: Scotland 

  
A North Sea platform owned by Shell Oil last night suffered an oil spill, the company is controlled. 
An Energy Department spokesman explained that the UK oil company has said that the amount of oil discharged is limited. 
In the afternoon, Shell reported that the spill affected an area of ​​31 by 4.3 kilometers, but did not specify the amount of oil, which expects to be dispersed naturally by wave action, so that is expected to reach the coast. 
Scottish Prime Minister, Alex Salmond, said told the BBC that this amount could be in the vicinity of 100 tons, so a spill is "serious", but said they have taken appropriate measures to bring it under control in the shortest possible time. 
A Shell spokesman said this morning that the discharge originated in the connection between a well and the Gannet Alpha platform, and said that the measures taken to stop it and to repair the damage that caused it. 
The company began operating a vehicle by remote control to examine the escape under the sea, while a freighter that specializes in cleaning spills and observation aircraft were sent to the area, 112 miles east of Aberdeen. 
The freighter continues in the vicinity to act if necessary, while the staff of the platform is still in use, is safe and continues to work, said the company also noted that the authorities kept informed. 
In his statement to the BBC, Alex Salmond, said he will begin an investigation into the spill because the obligation of the oil industry is that there is "zero" incidents of this type. 
The company Esso, a subsidiary of U.S. oil company Exxon, co-owns the platform, though the Royal Dutch Shell oil company responsible for managing it. 

National

Government of Colombia: FARC guerrilla abuses of

Illegal armed groups forced women to abort and place them at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
By Carlos Andres Barahona for Infosurhoy.com-07/07/2011
BOGOTA, Colombia - are often violated.

They are often forced to have abortions.

They are put at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

They are beaten.                                                                                         

They are enslaved.

The National Police reported in June that 28% of

those recruited by the FARC since 2009 are women.

(Courtesy of El Tiempo)

Women make up the ranks of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) are often subject to sexual and physical abuse by men who make up the largest terrorist group there, according to the Colombian government.

The government based this comment on the report of the National Police, which includes information and witness statements after years of successful operations against the guerrillas have been fighting the state since the 60's.

"Presumably, the FARC women are treated as such (as) risk their lives like the rest of the team defending the cause," says specialist in Colombia's internal conflict and professor at the Universidad del Rosario Bogota, Germain Ortiz. "They want to sell the idea that the woman is the protagonist in his criminal structure and are a vital part of it."

Ortiz added that "(But) the truth is that women of the FARC are the ones that are battered as we have heard from victims and released hostages and women of the FARC who have escaped from the terrorist group."
 

FARC women are often victims of sexual and physical abuse by their

peers in the largest terrorist group in the nation, according to the Colombian

government. (Police / Handout / Reuters)

The Colombian government intercepted a letter from FARC leader, Henry Castellanos Garzon - recently sentenced in absentia to 22 years in prison - which detailed the abuse of the guerrillas.

"The thing is so fucking bomb, and that we must add that seven were pregnant in the past four months," Castilian, alias "Roman", tells the eastern command of the FARC."A woman had to send to Bogotá because it was already five months and had been hiding her belly with a cummerbund. You can refund the next month. "

According to the National Police, the majority of women in the FARC has between 18 and 30.
The Colombian government confirmed a report in El Tiempo, which states that security forces knew of women who sexually abused a few miles from where he was rescued former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, in July 2008.

According to information found in computers obtained after the operation which struck in 2010 when the FARC's military chief, Victor Julio Suarez, "four young women passed the toughest 'test' imposed by a command of the FARC, one by one, in exchange for not be punished, were forced to have sex with 'Canatuaro', who had been diagnosed with syphilis, and infected them all. "

Betancourt, who was kidnapped by the FARC for over six years, said recently that "in general, the guerrillas have engaged in prostitution, so they see the FARC as a promotion."

"(The women) have a kind of prison by the revolutionary leaders (FARC)," said Betancourt.

Marloes Nijmeijer, a member of the "Operation Woman to Woman" which seeks to encourage women to leave the guerrilla, said that many times members of the FARC are sexual abusers.

"The real problem is the fixation of these groups to recruit girls from early sexual functions to meet the FARC and deceive them with a lifestyle that really is not going to lead anywhere," said Nijmeijer, whose sister, tajne, joined the FARC in 2007. "I want to help other women in the conflict not to enter a life of deception, abuse and cruelty.There are many ways to return to a good life after being in conflict and that is my mission here. "

Colombia's National Police said in June that the total number of recruits since 2009, 28% are women.

"For a woman in the FARC may have a child must go through several bureaucratic steps, ie, the leaders decide on the lives of women," says Leonardo Ordoñez, an expert in the sociology of terrorism at the University of Rosario. "That's why many women flee to realize this deception. The other side of the coin are women who have power within the organization, as they can do whatever they want and are respected.That is, trying to profess equal to attract new members are just words, his actions speak for themselves. "

Local

Child abuse is not a game 

AUGUST 13, 2011 

A total of 20,142 cases of sexual violence were filed last year in Colombia. Although the figure is lower than the previous year, yet the authorities concerned. The problem is that violence is not just sexual. 

The figures are not happy. While in 2010 300 cases were reported less sexual violence compared to previous years, rates of child abuse continue to grow. Ie children remain the main victims. 

The situation is not free. According to Isabel Cuadros, director of the organization concerned that promotes good treatment for minors, minors continue to be a reflection of the breakdown of social fabric, "not now but for many years," says the psychiatrist. 

According to Tables in every society there is the main barrier against the abuse that is the support network that is composed of kin and neighbors, which helps children in case of any sign of violation of their rights. 

But problems such as forced displacement, for example, makes the network is broken and there is thus more vulnerable. Not that violence against children, whether related to sexual abuse or not, has greater influence in the lower strata, explains Manuel Enrique Lopez, advisor to the Personality of Medellin. 

According to the expert, the violence is occurring in all sectors and strata, and only when the child is recibiente, ie, had a proper support during their first years of life, which may change. 

"You learn to be recibiente during the first two years of life, is where you learn to be independent, to have confidence in the environment, and the difficulties encountered in life can be overcome easily." Clarifies Alvaro Posada, a pediatrician, founder of the Child Care Group at the University of Antioquia. 

But all is not lost, if it is true that in abused children there are about both psychological and physical damage are very difficult to recover, at present there are therapies to help mitigate the damage. 

So the organization concerned, among others, promotes the practice of good treatment to make that change in the cycle of abuse. 

And although the figures presented by legal medicine are high, the problem goes further. Manuel Lopez explained that the abuse is not just sexual abuse but also those acts or omissions that interfere with the development of children. 

One of the earliest examples of abuse ranging from the inception stage, "a mother who does not care to have her baby and that alone is constituted as a child maltreatment." So good treatment practices. 

In infancy, a child who is obliged to control his bowels early, ie before the age of two, is also abused. "The child is like an animal that can be taught, of course, but at that age teaching is at the point of fear," says the expert. 

A child to use a walker, is also an act of violence against children, are being forced to do something that does not correspond to their development, with the aggravating factor that changes their center of gravity. 

In the upper strata of all, another phenomenon is evident and is the overuse or otherwise overprotection. 

The first asks the child to give beyond their ability to please the parents, for example to teach reading to a child under three years. 

In the second forget the parents of the importance of learning, in both cases creates damage to the neural connections that can be displayed easily on a network of well established. 

As is clear in stating the experts is that at no time will we be free of violence, especially against children and adolescents. The importance is to decide. Are you a good handler? 

Alliance World

Sport

Spain, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria advanced to the second round of the U20 World

Posted by Rodrigo on August 4, 2011, filed in: Football

In Group D, the selection of Saudi Arabia to his similar humble of Guatemala, 6-0 andrank well beat the second round of the Under 20 World Cup. For the same group, also advanced to beat Nigeria 5-2 in the selection of Croatia.
While in Group C, Spain won his second consecutive victory by defeating Ecuador 2-0,and remain as leader of the group with 6 points, a score that has already secured histicket to the knockout stages. In the other match of the group, Costa Rica won its first 3points after beating the selection of Australia 3-2.
With this result, the Group C as I'm led by Spain with 6 points followed by Costa Rica with 3 and Australia and Ecuador, both with only 1 point.

Farandula

Lady Gaga sediment with a meat bikini and outraged PETA

The pop star made ​​this new extravaganza for the cover of Vogue in its Japanese edition
Lady Gaga never tires of shock through the world and now clashed with the principles of the organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The pop starmade ​​a new craze for the new issue of Vogue in its Japanese edition.
The singer appears in the picture completely naked except for an eccentric costume:a sort of raw meat bikini. Gaga shown posing with a hand on his head, holding a steak. In the other, wearing a bracelet with the same subject.
Lady, like Madonna in the past, has made the religious and far, animal advocates, put the hue and cry for what he has done.
PETA MANIFEST LADY AGAINST CRUELTY
"No matter how beautiful the picture is displayed, the flesh of a tortured animal is flesh of a tortured animal," said Ingrid Newkirk, PETA President, according to Europa Press disseminated. "It's really crazy," he said.
Gaga shows once again that has no limits when it comes to defy belief, and it seemsyou are attempting to change.

fashion

San Cristobal received this weekend a Supermodel of Venezuela

One year, all young Tachira and surrounding states are invited to participate in the Organization casting Supermodel of Venezuela held in that city this Saturday October 10, looking for the members of the group of 20 finalists in December will be able to be measured on the catwalk into a new professional world of fashion.
The meeting will be held in Meeting Room Sambil Center, located in the parking lot from 10 am to 7 pm, and as it should be remembered that requirements must be between 14 and 20 years old measure a minimum of 1.73 meters in height and especially not having practiced plastic surgery since the natural beauty and healthy is the basic premise of this activity.

An activity that takes place for the third consecutive year in our country, backed by a top international model agencies, such as Ford Models. So the young woman to be elected later this year as a Supermodel of Venezuela 2009 will have the opportunity to travel to Brazil in January of next year to show their qualities against young people from over 50 countries in the struggle for a employment contract in the amount of $ 250 000, holder and Ford Models' Supermodel of the World 2010.

For now, there is still opportunity to be part of this enriching experience, participating in national casting culminating his tour of the interior of the country on Saturday October 17 when you visit the Plaza Mayor of Puerto La Cruz and close with a flourishagain in Caracas on October 24.

In all these days is counted with the participation of voluntary SenosAyuda who take their message preventative against breast cancer to all attendees, as CyZone nutritionists and social responsibility program, "Love yourself", that promote self-esteem as a tool to combat eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia.