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Cute, but soooooooooooooo wrong!!!!!!!!

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~ aria :o)

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** Juve x Milan

A huge success with Italian supporters, Juventus have extended their Live Match commentary to include a new version for their international fans. From this Sunday, bianconeri followers across the world will be able to log on to the Juventus website and get live updates of every game in English. Our team of reporters will be at the Delle Alpi supplying a full account of the game with Milan, including every key moment and of course all the goals!

It couldn't be easier to take part. Simply log-on to the official Juventus website, click on the Live Match icon and read the reports as the match unfurls.

** For Women **

International Women's Day


International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.

The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. Following is a brief chronology of the most important events:

1909

In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913.

1910

The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.

1911

As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.

Less than a week later, on 25 March, the tragic Triangle Fire in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working girls, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This event had a significant impact on labour legislation in the United States, and the working conditions leading up to the disaster were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.

1913-1914

As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.

1917

With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.

Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point for coordinated efforts to demand women's rights and participation in the political and economic process. Increasingly, International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.


The Role of the United Nations
Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. Since then, the Organization has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programmes and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.

Over the years, United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions: promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research, including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups. Today a central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation, and the full empowerment, of the world's women.

Jupiter's Red Spot

Seeing Spots

Scientists first spotted Red Jr. in the year 2000, more than 300 years after they spotted Big Red. But at that time, Red Jr. wasn't red. It was white, like the three smaller storms that collided and merged to form it. Then, in December 2005, Red Jr. turned brown. By the time amateur astronomer Christopher Go photographed it on February 27, it was the same red as Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot.

That's not unprecedented. Unlike the proverbial leopard, Jupiter does change its spots. White ovals appear and disappear, and sometimes turn a reddish hue, though not often and not for long. The jury's still out on Red Jr., which is half the size of Big Red. It could be red for centuries--like its big brother--or it could be a flash in the pan.

Massive Storms

Scientists still aren't sure why some Jovian storms turn red. One theory is that some storms become so powerful that they churn up material from deep beneath Jupiter's cloudtops and lift it way up, to where the sun's ultraviolet radiation can affect it and turn it a brick-red color. Or perhaps Jupiter's superpowerful lightning storms zap the material red.

Either way, scientists know that Jupiter's Great Red Spot rises 5 miles (8 km) above the surrounding clouds. And they know that it rotates like a massive hurricane. Winds blow counterclockwise around the vortex at 270 miles per hour (435 km/h). The massive storm is the size of two Earths, a "hurricane" that could swallow our entire planet.

Of course, everything is big on Jupiter. More than 1,320 Earths could fit inside the giant planet--or, if you want to be less geocentric, Earth and every other planet in the solar system. Jupiter is so big that some scientists say our solar system is basically "the sun, Jupiter, and assorted debris."

Michael Himick
March 7, 2006

** Amazing artwork

** Juve.com

Live match in English as well!

Starting from the match against Sampdoria, Juventus.com offers a new service to its users. They will now be able to follow the team's games play-by-play in English as well.
In order to be updated real time on the result of the challenge against Sampdoria, it will be enough to log on Juventus.com on Saturday night and click on the link that can be found on the home page in the cover news section. This way the user will be connected to the Italian version of the site where it will be possible to follow the detailed live play-by-play of the match, both in English and Italian.
Starting from Juventus-Milan on March 12th, the live match will directly be available on the English version of Juventus.com.

** Your angel

To watch over you
To guide you through
To hold your hand
Through the most cryptic land
To send you a kiss on a golden beam
To hold you tight, like in your Dream...

~ rads

** Hahahahahahah!!!!! :P