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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 4, 2014 -Ethiopian Aviation Academy is pleased to announce that it has graduated 21 pilots, 21 aviation technicians, 68 marketing professionals and 20 cabin crew at a ceremony held at Ethiopian Headquarters on 4 March 2014. At the graduation ceremony, Ethiopian Chief Operating Officer Ato Mesfin Tassew, gave out diplomas to all the graduates, and flight wings to graduating pilots and cabin crew. The graduates include one Swiss pilot trainee and 19 cabin crew trainees from six African countries, namely Togo, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Guinea. CEO Tewolde Gebremariam, said, “Ethiopian is more than an airline to Africa. It is also the premier Pan-African aviation academy with the highest international standards and dedicated to bridging the aviation skill gap on the continent. Today, Ethiopian has graduated trainees from six brotherly African countries, a testimony of its commitment to serve the growing training needs of the continent. Over the last 2 years, we have invested 55 million $ to expand the in-take capacity of our academy from just 200 trainees to over 1,000. Going forward, per our Vision 2025, we plan to scale up this capacity to over 4,000 trainees annually, so as to satisfy the growing training need in Africa“. Ethiopian Aviation Academy is certified by the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority, the U.S Federal Aviation Administration, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), and IOSA (IATA Safety Audit). The Academy has been providing training for pilots, maintenance technicians, cabin crew, marketing and leadership for the airlines’ needs and for third party admissions for more than six decades. About Ethiopian Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) is the fastest growing Airline in Africa. In its operations in the past close to seven decades, Ethiopian has become one of the continent’s leading carriers, unrivaled in efficiency and operational success. Ethiopian commands the lion share of the pan-African passenger and cargo network operating the youngest and most modern fleet to more than 78 international destinations across five continents. Ethiopian fleet includes ultra-modern and environmentally friendly aircraft such as the Boeing 787, Boeing 777-300ER, Boeing 777-200LR, Boeing 777-200LR Freighter and Bombardier Q-400 with double cabin. In fact, Ethiopian is the first airline in Africa to own and operate these aircraft. Ethiopian is currently implementing a 15-year strategic plan called Vision 2025 that will see it become the leading aviation group in Africa with seven business centers: Ethiopian Domestic and Regional Airline; Ethiopian International Passenger Airline; Ethiopian Cargo; Ethiopian MRO; Ethiopian Aviation Academy; Ethiopian In-flight Catering Services; and Ethiopian Ground Service. Ethiopian is a multi-award winning airline registering an average growth of 25% in the past seven years.
At the graduation ceremony, Ethiopian Chief Operating Officer Ato Mesfin Tassew, gave out diplomas to all the graduates, and flight wings to graduating pilots and cabin crew. The graduates include one Swiss pilot trainee and 19 cabin crew trainees from six African countries, namely Togo, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Guinea.
CEO Tewolde Gebremariam, said, “Ethiopian is more than an airline to Africa. It is also the premier Pan-African aviation academy with the highest international standards and dedicated to bridging the aviation skill gap on the continent. Today, Ethiopian has graduated trainees from six brotherly African countries, a testimony of its commitment to serve the growing training needs of the continent. Over the last 2 years, we have invested 55 million $ to expand the in-take capacity of our academy from just 200 trainees to over 1,000. Going forward, per our Vision 2025, we plan to scale up this capacity to over 4,000 trainees annually, so as to satisfy the growing training need in Africa“.
Ethiopian Aviation Academy is certified by the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority, the U.S Federal Aviation Administration, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), and IOSA (IATA Safety Audit). The Academy has been providing training for pilots, maintenance technicians, cabin crew, marketing and leadership for the airlines’ needs and for third party admissions for more than six decades.
About Ethiopian
Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) is the fastest growing Airline in Africa. In its operations in the past close to seven decades, Ethiopian has become one of the continent’s leading carriers, unrivaled in efficiency and operational success.
Ethiopian commands the lion share of the pan-African passenger and cargo network operating the youngest and most modern fleet to more than 78 international destinations across five continents. Ethiopian fleet includes ultra-modern and environmentally friendly aircraft such as the Boeing 787, Boeing 777-300ER, Boeing 777-200LR, Boeing 777-200LR Freighter and Bombardier Q-400 with double cabin. In fact, Ethiopian is the first airline in Africa to own and operate these aircraft.
Ethiopian is currently implementing a 15-year strategic plan called Vision 2025 that will see it become the leading aviation group in Africa with seven business centers: Ethiopian Domestic and Regional Airline; Ethiopian International Passenger Airline; Ethiopian Cargo; Ethiopian MRO; Ethiopian Aviation Academy; Ethiopian In-flight Catering Services; and Ethiopian Ground Service. Ethiopian is a multi-award winning airline registering an average growth of 25% in the past seven years.
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Fate of adopted Ethiopian boy lies in a FedEx box on its way from a remote African village
A native Ethiopian, 12-year-old Behaylu and his adoptive family in Stratham are hoping for a miracle after he was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia three weeks ago.
Behaylu needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant, and he's counting on one of his five siblings back in Ethiopia to be a match. "That would be cool," Behaylu said of the possibility of finding a donor within his birth family and seeing one of the siblings he left behind when he was adopted by Aidan and Midori Barry in 2007 at age 6.
Behaylu's three Ethiopian brothers and two sisters provided saliva samples last Friday. The DNA from the samples will be analyzed and hopefully result in a match for Behaylu, a rising star on the soccer field who's been sidelined by a disease in which the bone marrow fails to produce enough blood cells.
The disease is rare, affecting an estimated 600 to 900 people in the United States each year, according to the Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation.
The diagnosis came just after Behaylu, an avid soccer player, who turns 13 on March 28, was selected for an elite team at Seacoast United Soccer Club in Hampton. Symptoms began last month with nose bleeds, chest pain and difficulty breathing. Hospitalized at Boston Children's Hospital after his diagnosis, Behaylu is now back home and is receiving weekly blood transfusions.
"Hopefully, we'll know in a couple of weeks if we have a match," Aidan said.While the recovery from a bone marrow transplant could take six months to a year, it's the only hope for a cure, he said. Doctors have told the Barrys that there's a 25 percent chance that a sibling will be a match.
Behaylu has returned to classes at Cooperative Middle School in Stratham, but he's had to limit his activity.
"Gym class is kind of hard," he said.
The Barrys have already contacted a doctor in Ethiopia who has agreed to help with passports, exit visas and other steps that may need to be taken to bring a sibling to the United States.
"I'm just really appreciative of what everybody is doing," said Midori, his adoptive mother.
The Barrys have provided a loving home for the young boy, the middle child in an African family that relinquished him because of brutal poverty and hunger.Four years ago, after Behaylu expressed concern about their well-being, the Barrys set out on a mission to find his birth family. It took about two years. In 2012, the Barrys traveled to Ethiopia. Behaylu was greeted with a hero's welcome when he arrived in the village and met up with his family.
"It really comforted a lot of his lonely feelings," Aidan said.
The Barrys now help Behaylu's siblings by providing the resources they need to attend private school and have proper clothing and health care.
Meanwhile, the Stratham-based Annie's Angels Memorial Fund has stepped forward to help. Bill Dagiau, founder and president, said the organization is planning events that include a school dance, birthday party and comedy night. They're also planning a fundraiser at Seacoast United Soccer Club and a blood drive and bone marrow donor registration.
For more information, visitwww.anniesangels.net or the organization's Facebook page, Annie's Angels Memorial Fund. Donations to the "Spirit of Behaylu" can also be made on the website.
jschreiber@newstote.com
Ethiopian Airlines Appoints New Vice-President Flight Operations
Mar 04, 2014
Ethiopian Airlines has appointed Captain Yohannes Hailemariam as Vice-President Flight Operations effective 3 March 2014.
Captain Yohannes is a graduate of Ethiopian Pilot Training School and has over 30 years experience with the airline. He joined Ethiopian in 1984, has served in various capacities, including Director Flying and Training as well as Captain B777 and Check Airman before assuming his new position.
Captain Yohannes is replacing Captain Desta Zeru, who left the position of Vice-President for personal reasons but remains a line pilot with the airline.
Captain Yohannes will continue the work of his predecessor and the successful implementation of the Ethiopian fast, profitable and successful growth strategic roadmap, Vision 2025.
Captain Yohannes is a graduate of Ethiopian Pilot Training School and has over 30 years experience with the airline. He joined Ethiopian in 1984, has served in various capacities, including Director Flying and Training as well as Captain B777 and Check Airman before assuming his new position.
Captain Yohannes is replacing Captain Desta Zeru, who left the position of Vice-President for personal reasons but remains a line pilot with the airline.
Captain Yohannes will continue the work of his predecessor and the successful implementation of the Ethiopian fast, profitable and successful growth strategic roadmap, Vision 2025.
Monday, March 3, 2014
CARPLAY.. The next BIG_BIG Thing from Apple
Apple just announced the new IOS called CARPLAY. It will be a new IOs for Apple that is designed just to run on your car. Now the cars such as HONDA and FORD may come up with a new car powered by APPLE. I will have more on this. For now CARPLAY is an Apple next big-big-big thing.
"Technology and Me" by Bezawit and others at White House Student Film Festival.
Last Friday, we hosted the first-ever White House Student Film Festival.
Students from all across the country created more than 2,500 short films illustrating the role that technology plays in their classrooms, why it's so important, and how it will change the educational experience for kids in the future.
More than 60 of the young filmmakers came to the White House for the festival, where we screened the 16 official selections. And, as the President said himself, "these movies are awesome."
Yes! Black is Beautiful stop bleaching your skin
Yes! Black is Beautiful stop bleaching your skin
Years ago I heard in India some dark skin people are using a bleach to whiten their skin because several companies are refused to hire them. At that time I was shocked how far people are going to get accepted by the system. Then few years ago I was watching a documentary about beauty competition in Philippians and I was surprised how skin color plays a major role in the competition process and watched one of the contestant borrowed money from her poor mother to bleach her skin to be accepted by the competition. She was accepted to competition because of her skin was lighter but did not win the competition except she was impregnated by one of the organizers and ended up dropping out from her school and started raising her child while living with her poor mother.
In most cases I always get very angry with the system which is forcing the people to take this extreme major act which will alter their personality for life. I know they are doing it just to be accepted by the few narrow minded individuals I convinced myself that trend will not come to Africa because we are proud blacks and the majority of our people are blacks. But, until I saw an online advertizing trying to sell a bleach/chemical in Africa. For my surprise I saw an advertising posted at Facebook targeting Ethiopians because the ad was in Amharic. I was shocked and wished to locate the person or business who is selling this evil product in our country and ask him to drink that chemical . The product should be banned in Africa and the business who is selling the product should be fined and outlawed. The product is not just washing away a skin color but it takes away self-steam and confidence.
Recently, someone told me it is becoming a fashion in South Sudan, Nigeria and several African counties. They told me those who are using the chemical are smelling like a burned skin (KODA). It is an irreversible action and some people are regretting what they did but unable to return to their natural color. One of the striking thing is since bleaching the whole body will cost lost money some people are doing it only the body which is exposed to outside world all the time and forced to cover the rest of unbleached body from public view. Means these people have two kind of skin color. Some unlucky bleachers are suffering from skin disorder resulting from a procedure administered by unskilled provider, even I heard there are some cheap products they will leave permanent scar on the client's body. Even with this and other high risks and a procedures people could not stop from using it. They told me it is becoming a fashion statement for those people (especially women) are getting a boyfriend even a husband quicker than the dark skins. Means the society is driving the demand, but with proper education and out reach we can stop this trend from affecting more people than ever
I know those people who are suing it soon or later they will regret about their action. It reminds me a story I read online about one Asian husband sued his wife when she gave him three children. In his own words he call them "ugly ", even you can not call your own child an ugly. You may say what? Here is the story. The guy married his dream wife, she was so beautiful he spent lots of money to win her heart, then after
they got married and produced two kids. But the kids do not look as much as he wished for. For that reason the guy went to court and won the case against his wife for having ugly kids Reason? Well his wife's look was not a natural look but a fixed look masked by plastic sugary. Prior to the plastic sugary her look was not that good (in her husband's eyes). Every thing he got was just a fake. That was the reason all her kids were not looking like her present look. The same will be true for those people who are bleaching their skins. Temporarily they may foul some people but they will not cheat the mother nature.
But today, that mask was shattered and crashed by Lupita Amondi Nyong'o. She just showed the world how black is beautiful, how her blackness gave her a career and her blackness helped her to win one of the top prize in the entertainment world. Today she won the Oscars with out bleaching her skin. In my opinion she did not just only won the Oscars but she lifted the self steam and self-confidence of billions of black girls and boys in the world. From now on she will be remembered as a person who restored confidence and showed the world black is beautiful.From now on black girls and boys will not bleach their skin but they need to polish it and make it shiny like black velvet .
Thank you,
Recently, someone told me it is becoming a fashion in South Sudan, Nigeria and several African counties. They told me those who are using the chemical are smelling like a burned skin (KODA). It is an irreversible action and some people are regretting what they did but unable to return to their natural color. One of the striking thing is since bleaching the whole body will cost lost money some people are doing it only the body which is exposed to outside world all the time and forced to cover the rest of unbleached body from public view. Means these people have two kind of skin color. Some unlucky bleachers are suffering from skin disorder resulting from a procedure administered by unskilled provider, even I heard there are some cheap products they will leave permanent scar on the client's body. Even with this and other high risks and a procedures people could not stop from using it. They told me it is becoming a fashion statement for those people (especially women) are getting a boyfriend even a husband quicker than the dark skins. Means the society is driving the demand, but with proper education and out reach we can stop this trend from affecting more people than ever
I know those people who are suing it soon or later they will regret about their action. It reminds me a story I read online about one Asian husband sued his wife when she gave him three children. In his own words he call them "ugly ", even you can not call your own child an ugly. You may say what? Here is the story. The guy married his dream wife, she was so beautiful he spent lots of money to win her heart, then after
they got married and produced two kids. But the kids do not look as much as he wished for. For that reason the guy went to court and won the case against his wife for having ugly kids Reason? Well his wife's look was not a natural look but a fixed look masked by plastic sugary. Prior to the plastic sugary her look was not that good (in her husband's eyes). Every thing he got was just a fake. That was the reason all her kids were not looking like her present look. The same will be true for those people who are bleaching their skins. Temporarily they may foul some people but they will not cheat the mother nature. But today, that mask was shattered and crashed by Lupita Amondi Nyong'o. She just showed the world how black is beautiful, how her blackness gave her a career and her blackness helped her to win one of the top prize in the entertainment world. Today she won the Oscars with out bleaching her skin. In my opinion she did not just only won the Oscars but she lifted the self steam and self-confidence of billions of black girls and boys in the world. From now on she will be remembered as a person who restored confidence and showed the world black is beautiful.From now on black girls and boys will not bleach their skin but they need to polish it and make it shiny like black velvet .
Thank you,
Sunday, March 2, 2014
The full list of winners for the 86th Academy Awards held in Los Angeles on 2 March. 2014
Best picture
Winner: 12 Years a SlaveAmerican Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best director
Winner: Alfonso Cuaron - GravitySteve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
David O Russell - American Hustle
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
Best actor
Winner: Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers ClubChristian Bale - American Hustle
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Best actress
Winner: Cate Blanchett - Blue JasmineAmy Adams - American Hustle
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County
Best supporting actor
Winner: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers ClubBarkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
Best supporting actress
Winner: Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a SlaveSally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska
Best adapted screenplay
Winner: 12 Years a SlaveBefore Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best original screenplay
Winner: HerAmerican Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Nebraska
Best animated feature
Winner: FrozenThe Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest and Celestine
The Wind Rises
Best animated short
Winner: Mr HublotFeral
Get a Horse!
Possessions
Room on the Broom
Best cinematography
Winner: GravityThe Grandmaster
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners
Best costume design
Winner: The Great Gatsby12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Invisible Woman
Best documentary feature
Winner: 20 Feet from StardomThe Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
Best documentary short
Winner: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My LifeCavedigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Best film editing
Winner: Gravity12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Best foreign language film
Winner: The Great Beauty (Italy)The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)
Best live action short
Winner: HeliumAquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
Avant Que de Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
The Voorman Problem
Best make-up
Winner: Dallas Buyers ClubJackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger
Best original score
Winner: GravityThe Book Thief
Her
Philomena
Saving Mr Banks
Best original song
Winner: Let It Go - FrozenHappy - Despicable Me 2
The Moon Song - Her
Ordinary Love - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Best production design
Winner: The Great Gatsby12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Best sound editing
Winner: GravityAll is Lost
Captain Phillips
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor
Best sound mixing
Winner: GravityCaptain Phillips
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
Best visual effects
Winner: GravityThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness
Ethiopians celebrate anniversary of Adowa victory over Italy
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopians on Sunday celebrated the 118th anniversary
of the Adowa battle when an untrained Ethiopian army routed a better
equipped Italian invasion army."Over 7,000 Italian soldiers were killed, 1,500 wounded, the Commanding General [Oreste] Baratieri taken prisoner and 11,000 rifles [seized] from retreating Italian army," Professor Mohammed Habib of the Law School of Addis Ababa University told Anadolu Agency.
The academician said the conflict was linked to the treaty of Wuchale, which Italy signed with Emperor Menelik II in 1889.
He said the Italians had tried to depict the agreement as acceptance by Menelik of Italian protectorate status over Ethiopia.
Menelik, according to Habib, then decided to pick up the gauntlet and mobilize forces against the superior European power.
Though Ethiopia was at the time a loosely connected, predominantly agrarian community of impoverished peasants, Menelik managed to recruit and organize an army of nearly 80,000-100,000 men and women, many of them farmers, for the showdown.
At 6am on March 1, 1896, Menelik ordered his army to mount a blitzkrieg against the Italian army in Adowa, a small town in northern Ethiopia.
The battle pitted the untrained Ethiopian army against a well-trained Italian army of 17,000 men equipped with superior firearm.
But the encounter ended a day later with a humiliating defeat for the invading Italian army, said Habib, adding that around 5,000 Ethiopians were killed.
-National Pride -
On Sunday, scores of people descended on Menelik Square in Addis Ababa, the venue of a bronze statue of Menelik on a horse charging an attack that has since become a source of national pride for Ethiopians.
Veteran soldiers in uniforms showing their insignia at the chest stood proudly in three rows holding spears, scimitars, and shields.
They chanted and recited gallant songs and poems.
Professor Mekuria Mekasha of the Addis Ababa University`s Communications and Journalism Department said the Adowa battle was a demonstration of unity of purpose by all cultures, religions and regions of Ethiopia.
"The war mobilization was done by an interpersonal communications," he told AA.
President of the Ancient Ethiopian Patriots’ Association Lij Daniel Jottie Mesfin, for his part, hailed the day as "a victory for all black people even beyond the African continent."
Mesfin lamented that the Adowa battle is not being given the attention it deserves.
"The grandsons of the Adowa victors do not know about what the event represents," he said.
"The torch of victory that was passed down from the ancient patriots should be shining bright as ever," Mesfin insisted.
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