Has Freedom Been Eradicated By The Internet? [AMTV Live 6.25.13]
Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GreeneWaveTV My Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreeneWave Website: http://www.amtvmedia.com Blog: http://www.gre...
By: cgreene34
View post:
Has Freedom Been Eradicated By The Internet? [AMTV Live 6.25.13] - Video
Obama Visit to Soweto Seen as Bow to Struggle for Freedom
During his tour of Africa, President Barack Obama plans to address students in the South African suburb of Soweto, the birthplace of the struggle against rac...
By: VOAvideo
Link:
Obama Visit to Soweto Seen as Bow to Struggle for Freedom - Video
Meet The Experts: Freedom from UV #39;s, Ptex Painting in Mudbox 2014
Learn how PTEX Painting in Mudbox 2014 can help you break free from UV #39;s.
By: Autodesk
View original post here:
Meet The Experts: Freedom from UV's, Ptex Painting in Mudbox 2014 - Video
By J.O. PARKER joparker@dmreg.com
Ray Bubba Sorensen II and his Freedom Rock Tour will be leaving its mark on Montezuma.
Sorensen, who since 1999 has honored servicemen and servicewomen by painting a 60-plus ton roadside rock on Memorial Day in Adair County, is tentatively scheduled to paint a similar Freedom Rock in Montezuma.
The painting is part of the statewide tour Sorensen originated to paint a Freedom Rock in all of Iowas 99 counties.
Ron Hensel
Placing a Freedom Rock in Montezuma came about after a news report on the tour aired early last week on a Des Moines television station.
Ron Hensel, a Montezuma barber, said various community-minded individuals began circulating an e-mail promoting the idea of having a Freedom Rock in Montezuma.
Hensel took the idea a step further, approaching the city council at its June 17 meeting.
I thought it would be a good community effort, Hensel said. Montezuma should have a Freedom Rock, since we are known as the community of monuments. This would be a good acquisition.
The city agreed to fund the $1,000 deposit, overnighting a check and application to Sorensen on Tuesday, June 18.
Originally posted here:
MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Today, Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices Global Partnership announced that they have joined forces to help end child trafficking. Together, they have launched the Global Freedom Exchange, an innovative, multi-faceted educational and mentoring program targeting emerging and established women leaders. Program participants are on the forefront of global efforts to prevent and respond to the crime of child trafficking. Global Freedom Exchange is intended to create an international network of activists.
As a fundamental element of the Global Freedom Exchange, Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices have brought together a select group of 26 women leaders from 13 countries, to participate in a two-week interactive learning and networking program. This event spans three U.S. cities - areas that have strong national and international resources focused on addressing human trafficking Washington, DC, New York City, and Dallas, Texas. Activities include opportunities to meet with government officials and NGO leaders to provide donors with knowledge about funding and other support needs and to learn about collaborating with local law enforcement.
Hilton Worldwide takes an aggressive stance against child trafficking, and we continually seek innovative partnerships that will enable us to make a real difference on such an important issue, explained Kristin Campbell, EVP and general counsel, Hilton Worldwide. We are very proud to support Vital Voices and invest in the crucial efforts of these amazing women. We believe that each can make a vast and deep impact, and we are fully committed to helping them realize their full leadership potential.
Program participants are established or emerging leaders recognized for their passion and commitment to ending human trafficking and their innovative approach to this global issue. They include founders, advisors, legal counsels and program managers from non-governmental organizations. The women come from:
The goal of this program is to provide participants with specific knowledge, skills and relationships that will benefit their professional development, their respective NGOs and the communities they serve, explained Alyse Nelson, president and CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership. The program will also develop an ongoing international network of activists working together to prevent and respond to the scourge of child sex trafficking throughout the world.
This multi-year partnership between Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices is part of Travel with Purpose, Hilton Worldwides promise to providing shared value to its business and communities around the globe. It is an extension of the organizations existing work to address child trafficking worldwide. Hilton Worldwide is the second U.S. multi-brand hospitality company to sign the ECPAT Code of Conduct and is signatory of the UN Global Compact. In addition to child trafficking awareness and training programs for hotel employees, the company also supports the capacity of non-governmental organizations to increase their programs to reach trafficking survivors.
Together, Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices will provide a network of support, connecting each participant with Hilton Worldwide hotels in their communities to explore partnerships that will enhance their on-the-ground work. Five $10,000 grants will be awarded to the most collaborative and innovative projects addressing the Global Freedom Exchanges mission to end child trafficking worldwide. Participants will also become members of the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network, which includes over 14,000 innovative change agents in more than 140 countries.
For more information about the Global Freedom Exchange and to learn more about program participants, visit http://www.vitalvoices.org/blog/2013/06/global-freedom-exchange-working-end-child-sex-trafficking.
About Hilton Worldwide
Here is the original post:
PARIS, June 27 (UPI) -- The United Nations said it was concerned about press freedom in Uganda in response to the alleged murder of a journalist for the New Vision newspaper.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reports New Vision journalist Thomas Pere was discovered dead just outside Kampala on the morning of June 17. He was last seen alive the previous evening when he left New Vision offices in the Ugandan capital.
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova said the "murder" of Pere was an assault on press freedoms in Uganda.
"The murder of a journalist is a crime against the whole of society; an attempt to choke off democratic debate and muzzle the basic right of freedom of expression," she said in a statement Wednesday. "A clear message must be sent to the perpetrators of such crimes that their acts will not go unpunished."
Monitor Publications Ltd., parent company of Ugandan newspaper The Daily Monitor, issued an apology last month after its offices were raided by security forces. It said its editorial policy had been violated when it published a feature alleging orders were given to kill anyone who stated opposition to Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
UNESCO did not state the two incidents were related.
Kainerugaba this week denied claims he was being groomed to succeed his father.
Read more:
Freedom Fair officials have become more security-conscious after the Boston Marathon bombings and are asking for the publics help at next weeks event.
Keep an eye out for anything that looks suspicious, said Doug Miller of the Tacoma Events Commission. Help us by being attentive.
The jet-powered car Smoke-N-Thunder, which normally fires up its engine at Freedom Fair, will remain silent this year, Miller said. Officials were concerned that the noise and flame could alarm the public in the wake of the Boston bombings in April.
More than 100 Tacoma police officers will be on duty at Freedom Fair, most in uniform but some in plain clothes, spokeswoman Loretta Cool said. The numbers do not reflect a policy change from years past, she said.
Alcohol and fireworks are prohibited at Freedom Fair, and officers might ask to check backpacks and other containers. Those who refuse a search may be asked to leave, Cool said.
You cant have any fireworks down there, she said. We have zero tolerance. If we see fireworks, youre going to get cited and they will be confiscated. There will be no warnings. The fine is $257.
And that goes for anywhere in the city.
There is no such thing as safe and sane fireworks, Cool said. Not even sparklers. Anything you have to light is considered fireworks, and its illegal.
With huge crowds expected along the waterfront, children might be separated from parents and chaperones. Before attending the event, parents should instruct children to immediately seek out a police officer if they become lost, Cool advises. And parents should do the same if they lose a child.
Tacoma fire personnel will be on hand to provide first aid.
Read more:
Tacomas Freedom Fair air show next week will fill the skies over Commencement Bay with aerobatic planes just not Raptors, Hornets and anything called Stealth.
Federal budget cuts resulting from sequestration and imposed by the Department of Defense have done what enemy forces only wish they could do: ground U.S. air power. The Defense Department has canceled military aircraft participation at air shows and other public events across the country and even at the recent Paris Air Show.
The Blue Angels, a staple at Seattles Seafair, will be a no-show at the August event for the same reason.
Nationwide, theres no military participation whatsoever (in air shows), said Doug Fratoni, Freedom Fairs air show coordinator.
It hasnt been easy, but Fratoni was able to keep the show at the usual two hours by increasing the number of civilian acts.
Crowds at Thursdays Freedom Fair still might see a C-17 over Commencement Bay but only if one of the giant planes is making a final approach to McChord Field as they do on most days.
Usually, one of the Globemasters can be counted on to thrill Freedom Fair crowds with a low flyby along the Ruston Way waterfront.
But not this year.
Last year, crowds were enthralled by the aerobatics of the nations most advanced jet fighter, the
F-22 Raptor. At one point, the stealth fighter joined up with a vintage P-51 Mustang for an intergenerational flyby. Thousands of cameras up and down the waterfront recorded the moment.
The rest is here:
SAN DIEGO, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Freedom Meditech, Inc., developer of non-invasive ophthalmic products for the detection of disease and management of patient health, has launched the ClearPath DS-120 Lens Fluorescence Biomicroscope. Cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January, the ClearPath DS-120 is a first-in-class, non-invasive tool designed to quickly and accurately measure autofluorescence through a six second scan of the crystalline lens of the eye. A significant number of independent peer-reviewed studies have suggested that elevated lens autofluorescence may be an early indicator of the presence of diabetes.
Nearly 104.8 million Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes, costing an estimated $250 billion annually. Complications of diabetes including blindness, kidney failure and amputations can be avoided with early disease detection and intervention.
"There is a great need for early detection of diabetes beyond the currently available blood tests and doctor visits," said Daniel Einhorn, M.D., an endocrinologist with the Scripps Health System. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that almost 80 million Americans have pre-diabetes, a stage where intervention is most cost-effective. There is increased public awareness of this, and theophthalmic community could be at the center of one of the most important public health opportunities of our generation."
The ClearPath DS-120 produces a quantitative result that is immediately available to the optometrist and patient, and can be electronically transmitted to a patient or referral healthcare provider. The scan does not require a blood draw or pupil dilation. The device has a small footprint, sits on a table top, and employs an easy to use touch screen display that can be wirelessly linked to a practitioner's electronic medical record system.
"With over 100 million eye exams now performed in the U.S. annually, the eye-care provider is a gatekeeper for people within the age range when adult onset diabetes typically presents," explained Craig Misrach, Chairman and CEO of Freedom Meditech. "The ClearPath DS-120 has the potential to change the standard optometry visit and increase the role of the optometrist in the management of their patients' overall health."
Freedom Meditech will be hosting a Meet and Greet with Dr. Arthur Medina, O.D. (San Antonio, TX) and with attendees of the 116th Annual American Optometry Association Congress on June 27th at 4:00 p.m. at exhibit booth #1146. Dr. Medina will demonstrate the ClearPath DS-120 six second scan and present the real-time test results report. Demonstrations of the ClearPath DS-120 will be available throughout the AOA meeting June 27-30.
About ClearPath DS-120
The ClearPath DS-120 Lens Fluorescence Biomicroscope is cleared by FDA as a tool for the measurement of autofluorescence by scanning the crystalline lens of the eye with a blue light. In independent scientific studies published in peer-reviewed journals, elevated autofluorescence measurements have been linked to high levels of advanced glycosylated end products which accumulate as a result of the aging process and the presence of systemic disease.
The ClearPath scan is pain free, takes just six seconds and produces an immediate, quantitative result available to the patent and health care provider. Unlike some eye exams, the scan does not require dilation. The ClearPath is completely non-invasive and does not require a blood draw to produce a result.
About Freedom Meditech
See the rest here:
19 Freedom Fighters Artist Zar Foresight Album Title BACK TO THE ROOTS OF REGGAE Year 2012 co
By: zar foresight
Read the original post:
lps fight for freedom
I agree bambitta1.!
By: carnella crabb
See the original post:
Going to jail for Freedom | Bald eagle rescue may land man in jail
So should he have let the bird die? Or is he being penalized for his Patriotism? -- While hunting mushrooms several weeks ago, 49-year-old Jeffrey Henry of G...
By: KSEnterprises
Go here to see the original:
Going to jail for Freedom | Bald eagle rescue may land man in jail - Video
Freedom Munitions 9mm Reman Ammunition test
Freedom Munitions 9mm Reman Ammunition test Four part test starting with statistical check of Specs including OAL 2 Days of shooting including real drills Fi...
By: AceEyeEd
See the article here:
Robert Spencer on the BBC on Leftist push to ban freedom fighters from the country, June 21, 2013
This June 21, 2013 BBC news report on the Left-fascist attempt to keep Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller from entering the UK contains a brief interview with ...
By: JihadWatchVideo
The rest is here:
BASS FREEDOM TRYOUT 2013 | FAHRUL | INDONESIA
wish me luck :D.
By: Abimanyu Hadisuryo
Read the original:
(PRWEB UK) 25 June 2013
Freedom Australia specialists in tailor-made holidays to Australia are delighted to announce a new service offering travellers home to airport transfers.
Potentially saving travellers hundreds of pounds on fuel, coach travel or rail connection services, the exclusive door to door service is available to those passengers booking Australia holidays on with Freedom Australia.
Available when booking a holiday with Freedom Australia, passengers of the London international airports as well as Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow will be offered the pick-up service making the entire travel package Down Under more streamlined and stress-free than ever before.
With destination airports in the deal including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in Australia, also extending to Auckland and Christchurch in neighbouring New Zealand, travellers are invited to complement a generous plethora of travelling options Down Under via a handy, straightforward service eliminating restricting pre-travel expenditure.
Many dream holidays can be scuppered via a testing airport transfer phase but given Freedom Australias personalised service, travellers can relax and conserve vital energy before embarking on their adventures whether these take them to stellar tourism hotspots such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House or alternatively Ayers Rock, the Red Centre, the Great Ocean Road and beyond.
Freedom Australias door to door service operates with pick-ups in private cars which will assist you in your journey to and from the airport 24 hours a day. This around the clock service operates in whatever weather meaning travellers need not worry about anything other than what exact activities to take part in once they reach their chosen destination.
The home to airport transfers are also available for flights to Africa and Asia which include stop-offs in Asia a popular option for many embarking on an Australia flight and valid stop off cities include world-renowned hubs such as Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Dubai.
Freedom Australia place travellers at the heart of their operations, building their dream getaway around them and the latest service only serves to emphasise these principles even further. Visit http://www.freedomaustralia.co.uk/airport-transfers to find out more about our Door to Door service.
Original post:
by Advaita Mihai Stoian
Know the truth and the truth will set you free!
Freedom, a paradox of our world
One of the keywords of our world today is freedom. Many of the themes of discussion about our life systems are spinning around the concept of freedom. Freedom became nowadays even a trading value, reorganized comparing with the old era of slavery. But freedom is deeply related with other notions like responsibility, knowledge, compassion, sacrifice, and love. Some spiritual traditions are saying that freedom is a golden chain. Even if it sounds paradoxical this statement (the association between freedom and a chain even made of gold might sound like a paradox), just looking around us will give an unmistakable confirmation for it. In our world today, we are facing sometimes-paradoxical situations even greater than the golden chain of freedom. Today we are talking about notions like fight for peace or war on terror as part of our daily life concepts. If nowadays peace is obtained with fight and terror is cured with war than we should not be amazed that freedom is just another chain made of gold.
Let us take as an example how the idea of freedom develops for an individual. A newborn child is so charming because his spontaneity is coming from a freedom that is unspoiled by any personality yet. The amazed eyes of a little child express the best this state of inner freedom to abandon in the protective hands of life.When the child grows into a teenager the first notions about individuality, pleasure and ego comes into the attention. The first reaction is to liberate from the tyranny of the parents, the protective hands. The teenager has a strong impression that he needs to be free and this becomes his principle of living thus his first chain.In the name of this freedom he becomes anarchic. The way he walks, talks and dresses, expresses almost all 0f the time the tendency to contradict what he has learnt until then. In the case of the newborn child freedom was associated with total surrender, thus the child has this capacity to take everything as it is, being in the state of natural freedom.
The moment he grows up and become more aware about himself, he begins to be enslaved by the tendency to interfere and to impose his newly awakened will thus becoming an anarchist. He breaks the rules but he is not aware about the consequences of his acts or why those rules were in place. He exists at this level only to break the rules and freedom is often measured by the rules he have broken.Out of this attitude the teenager is making mistakes that hurt him and the people around. Due to this fact while reaching adulthood he is already wrapped into new sets of rules that are the results of the traumatic experiences from puberty. Gradually the anarchic freedom is replaced by the idea of responsibility. Trading freedom for responsibility leads the teenager to adulthood through a continuously growing labyrinth of rules and conventions. In this way, the so-called adulthood is just a set of predefined rules among which freedom is just one of them. Freedom becomes just a dry concept used to cover most of the time the fears we have in front of any form of superior authority. The responsible adults gradually lose their appetite for life because life is deeply related to freedom. Solving this apparently conflicting situation will become the reason for searching the truth. Nevertheless, while struggling with the self-imposed rules the adult begins to understand life and the more he understands it the more he values the power of the truth that brings back the ineffable feeling of freedom without killing the responsibility.First, the adult is squeezed from all the directions by the rules he assumed before, in the early years of his life. Trying to survive the routine of an responsible existence buried in rigid rules and conventions, the adult is forced to realize the limitations that are imposed by these rules and the freedom given by the truth in the shape of the right knowledge. Here begins the spiritual transformation.
Freedom and searching for the truth
From this moment on the individual is searching for the truth as a solution to solve the conflict between responsibility in life and freedom. Nevertheless, freedom has more to reveal. The first attempt will be to become an egoistic seeker for the truth, caring only about himself. When this attempts to find the truth will become a very rigid and sometimes painful practice of a doctrine, than in the soul of the aspirant and out of this spiritual suffering starts to grow love and compassion for all the beings around. Thus, the individual enters the Christic legacy of those that are free to love and to sacrifice for the good and happiness of their beloved ones.As we can see, freedom is an idea that constantly pushes us further in our evolution. We can say from this perspective that the only moments when we experience freedom is when we are on the path of transformation. Unfortunately these days we can see freedom associated with ignorance and thus turning into the strangest paradox.
This is the level that our civilization is at today. We can see clearlly this in the case of the concept in fashion preventive strikes! To see the whole absurdity lets complete the picture: after 2000 years of Christianity a doctrine based on the idea turn the other cheek we, the Christians, synthesized our experience in the idea better to strike first!!! Until now the church was imposing very strict ways to look upon different matters of life and the conflict situations where among them. It was the era of childhood. But nowadays we feel freer from the church doctrine (which failed to adapt to the rapid transformations in the world) and out of this freedom we created such an anarchic paradox! Moreover, we did that because we dropped the rules without replacing them with the proper knowledge. We are not ready to be free! In this way we proved to be in the puberty with our civilization, experiencing the difficult times of this period. If we look carefully, we can even see the teenagers pimples on George Bushs brain and heart expressing a reality for the most majority. Let us hope together that our humanity will get out of this puberty without hideous scars as a mark of our classes on freedom. Tantra the consciously assumed freedom solution to the modern freedom Today, freedom is reflected differently by the two fundamental currents: science and religion. If religion is asking us to believe without questioning its sets of values proposed, science is questioning everything thus ending up with a relative conclusion on anything. Caught in this dilemma the modern society is struggling between blindly assumed moral rules leading to rigidity and intolerance and complete denial of any need for moral rules making us lose the fundamental purpose of our life. Apparently, these two extremes cannot be conciliated.On one hand, religion is giving us a higher purpose in life and a certain direction but make this without any explanation by imposing rules that often cannot be understood. On the other hand, modern science is teaching us to dare to question anything but fails in finding a higher purpose for our life.Speaking from the point of view of freedom in the first case we are told what to do with our freedom but without being told how to get there and in the second case we are pushed to have the freedom which does not have a meaning. The ancient concept of tantra is giving here the genius solution. Tantra means network so the tantric system is the system that find the links and the correlations that exist between everything.The Tantric system brings the scientific method into the spiritual life creating in this way a form of spiritual science, which represents the synthesis between religion, and science. We can say from this perspective that tantra provides a staircase from slavery to freedom.The method used in tantra is the conscious approach on every experience of life. Experiencing life in full awareness will allow us to receive a very efficient feedback, to learn fast about the consequences of our actions and becoming in this way free of any fantasies, daydreams or illusions.As we previously saw, we lose our freedom when we blindly assume certain rules or when we blindly deny any rules. However, tantra is not saying dont eat that or eat only this but is saying, be aware that if you eat that you will have these consequences and if you eat this youll have these consequences. For this reason, tantra was often considered to be the science of life, linking in a harmonious whole net all the genuine science and all the genuine religious systems.Freedom in this way becomes a measure for our awareness, a result of knowing the truth, truth that is revealed by life itself once we wake up from the dream of our daily life.The tantric is not questioning everything but is experiencing everything in full awareness. The tantric is not taking anything for granted but is open to experience. In this way, tantra is replacing the dogma with life experience and dry theories with direct understanding. There is no more need for building a fence of taboos around something that is not good or is dangerous because with this new attitude we will know precisely what is not good or what is dangerous, what is harmonious or what is good. Life becomes a chain of spiritual lessons through which we get to know the Truth which will set us free.
Read more: mihaistoian.net
Original post:
June 25, 2013 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom The Florence Freedom (20-14) scored two late runs to beat the Washington Wild Things (17-16) by a score of 7-5 in game one of a three game series at University of Cincinnati Medical Center Stadium.
The Freedom would waste no time jumping on Wild Things starter Shawn Smith. Junior Arrojo would lead off with a double and would come around to score on an RBI single by DH Byron Wiley. Wiley would then come around to score on a single by third baseman Jacob Tanis, giving the Freedom a 2-0 lead after one inning.
Florence would stretch the lead to 3-0 in the second on an RBI single by Arrojo and would score two more in the fourth as Arrojo would double again, this time driving in two runs to give the Freedom a 5-0 lead after four innings.
However, the Wild Things would come charging right back, scoring two in the fifth and three in the sixth to tie the game at five.
The tie would not last long though as the Freedom would break the tie in the sixth. Smith (L, 3-3) would walk Pablo Bermudez with one out before exiting the game. Two batters later, Arrojo would drive in his fourth run of the game on his fourth hit, pushing the Freedom ahead 6-5.
Florence would tack on an insurance run in support of Daniel DeSimone (W, 6-2) in the seventh as Jacob Tanis would hit a solo home run to left field. The bomb was Tanis' fifth of the season and would put the Freedom up 7-5.
Jorge Marban (S, 10) would strike out the side in the ninth to cap off a 7-5 win for the Freedom.
The Freedom and Wild Things will meet again tomorrow night in the second game of this three game series. First pitch is at 6:35 with the UCMC Stadium gates opening one hour earlier at 5:35. Tickets are available at the UCMC Stadium ticket office or by phone at (859) 594-HITS. The game can also be heard on 1320-AM WCVG or online at gospel1320.com. Steve Jarnicki and Jake Meyer will have all the play-by-play action beginning with the pregame show at 6:20.
Discuss this story on the Frontier League message board... Digg this story Add to Del.icio.us
Visit link:
(PRWEB UK) 26 June 2013
African travel specialists Freedom Africa have complemented their invigorating 2013 catalogue by launching their exclusive Kilimanjaro Climb an unrivalled seven-day adventure tour of the highest mountain on the African continent Mount Kilimanjaro.
The gargantuan peak that stands at a staggering height of 5,895 m not only resides as a national symbol of Kenya but it is revered worldwide as one of the most challenging summits for adventurers to scale, but thankfully enough for travellers, this comfortable adaptation follows the straightforward Marangu Route and is available at 1079 per person excellent value considering the untouchable status Kiliminjaro negotiates.
The dormant volcanic peak is located in the Kilimanjaro National Park in northern Kenya and the peak is handily served by her own international airport, whereby those taking part in the Kilimanjaro Climb tour on their holidays to Kenya will be met upon their arrival to ease a mixture of nerves, anticipation but ultimately excitement.
Before travellers embark on their Kilimanjaro Climb, individuals are advised to consult medical advice and should possess sufficient levels of fitness ahead of their Kenya holidays but the nature of the routes Freedom Africa have carefully selected on this unforgettable tour mean that the majority of abilities are catered for, with day fours mildly strenuous climb proving the biggest challenge.
Freedom Africa recognise that adventure travel holidays are proving increasingly popular in the contemporary marketplace what with the themes of achievement and scenic sightseeing converging to produce ultimate fulfilment and day two is where the tour comes to life.
The lower reaches of the peak are significantly vegetated by rainforest and before day two commences, travellers would have already trekked an impressive 2700m above sea level. The climb will become increasingly challenging with days three and four comprising four to six hour negotiations of areas known as Horombo hut and The Saddle each.
Friendly and helpful Freedom Africa tour guides will be hoping travellers have proved lucky enough in selecting a clear day for their tour as the views of the twin peaks Mawenzi and Kibo from this point are truly out of this world.
Day five begins with travellers having already amounted a remarkable 4700m in the height stakes with renewed energy and drive born out of the fact that by the end of the day, travellers would have reached Gilmans Point popularly regarded as the craters rim.
For those still feeling pumped, a wondrous two hour encirclement of Uhru Peak the highest point in all of Africa rounds off the climb before descent, and of course that well deserved meal before onward travel. Visit http://www.freedomafrica.co.uk/ for more tours in Africa.
Read the rest here:
For Immediate Release
Kingsport, Tenn., June 25, 2013 - Eastman Chemical Company (EMN) has received the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. This is the U.S. Department of Defense`s highest recognition given to employers for exceptional support of employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve. Eastman will receive the award from the Secretary of Defense at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on September 26, 2013.
"While I value everyone who volunteers service to others, there is a special place in my heart for those who serve in our military," said Jim Rogers, Chairman and CEO. "How we treat our veterans speaks to who we are as a company, and this recognition is a tremendous affirmation of how exceptional our Eastman culture is, and something every one of us can take pride in."
A review board comprised of military and civilian leaders selected 30 finalists from almost 3,000 nominations, and a national selection board of senior Department of Defense officials, business leaders and prior awardees selected 15 winning employers in three categories: large business, small business and the public sector.
Freedom Award finalists distinguish themselves by implementing both formal policies and informal initiatives that go above and beyond in assisting and encouraging National Guard and Reserve service. Eastman provides full pay during annual training or emergency call-ups and 100% differential pay and continued health and dental insurance coverage to employees and families during active duty. The reservist also continues to receive cash bonus awards and 401k contributions while deployed.
In addition, the company provides an additional week of paid leave to military employees returning from deployment to allow them more time at home with their families. Eastman hosts going away and welcome-home ceremonies, posts updates in company communications about military employees, and presents an eagle casting award that recognizes the service of National Guard and Reserve Service members. The Kingsport site has a military honor wall in its employee center that includes a large screen interactive touch display that presents reservists` stories of experiences while serving. Eastman employees volunteer to perform yard maintenance and routine home repairs for deployed employees, to help ease their families` added workload.
"I commend and thank the 15 recipients of the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award for providing exceptional support to our Citizen Warriors," said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. "So many of our Nation`s employers are finding ways to contribute to our Nation`s security, but these employers stand out for their commitment to our Guardsmen and Reservists. They have the gratitude and thanks of the entire Department of Defense."
About Eastman Eastman is a global specialty chemical company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With a portfolio of specialty businesses, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. Its market-driven approaches take advantage of world-class technology platforms and leading positions in attractive end-markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. Eastman focuses on creating consistent, superior value for all stakeholders. As a globally diverse company, Eastman serves customers in approximately 100 countries and had 2012 pro forma combined revenues, giving effect to the Solutia acquisition, of approximately $9.1 billion. The company is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA and employs approximately 13,500 people around the world. For more information, visit http://www.eastman.com.
About ESGR and the Freedom Award: The Freedom Award was instituted in 1996 under the auspices of ESGR to recognize exceptional support from the employer community. In the years since, 175 employers have been honored with the award. ESGR develops and maintains employer support for Guard and Reserve service. ESGR advocates relevant initiatives, recognizes outstanding support, increases awareness of applicable laws, and resolves conflict between service members and employers. Paramount to ESGR`s mission is encouraging employment of Guardsmen and Reservists who bring integrity, global perspective and proven leadership to the civilian workforce. For more information, visit http://www.freedomaward.mil.
Excerpt from:
Eastman Chemical Company Selected 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award Recipient