All Women Ethiopian Airlines Operated Crew from Alpa 2 Omega....

Last week, Ethiopian Airlines had an all female-staffed flight for the first time in the company’s history.

The 'All Woman Functioned Flight' was an attempt by the nation to demonstrate gender equality, having previously been ranked by the United Nations as one of the worst in the world for female empowerment.

According to a press release from the airline, every position on the plane was filled by a woman, from the pilots to the cabin crew. Flight dispatchers who worked the flight from the ground were also female.

The crew traveled from Ethiopia’s capital city Addis Ababa to Bangkok, Thailand.

Just one week earlier, Air Zimbabwe pulled off a similar feat for their first time too.

Ethiopian Airlines’ Group CEO Tewolde GebreMariam described women as “the continent’s greatest untapped resources.” He promised that the company would be “fully dedicated to ensure the increase[d] number of women in decision making positions.”

Ethiopia was ranked 174 out of 184 countries in the U.N’s Gender Development Index back in 2011.

How's Australia going, you ask? Well, stats from 2014 reveal that only 4.5 per cent of Qantas’ 3784 pilots are female. The percentages at Virgin and Tigerair aren’t much better (4.9 per cent and 7.7 per cent, respectively).

Forbes Released Its List Of The Highest-Paid Athletes Of The Last 10 Years, Where Did Floyd Land?

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10. Lionel Messi

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Messi hails from Argentina and is considered one of, if not the, greatest soccer player on the planet. He's made $350 million!

9. Cristiano Ronaldo

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Portuguese soccer player and Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has raked in $407 Million.

8. Manny Pacquiao

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Manny Pacquiao has made $432 Million in the sport of boxing, with a major chunk coming from his fight against Floyd Mayweather.

7. David Beckham

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Beckham is the highest paid soccer player on the list, bringing in $441 million over the last 10 years. There's a lot of money to be made on the pitch!

6. Roger Federer

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Feds is one of the greatest tennis players to ever grace the courts, and he has the hardware to prove it. He's also brought in $455 million.

5. Phil Mickelson

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Lefty has been swinging the clubs for a long time, and he's still one of the greatest golfers in the game today. He makes this list with $468 million.

4. LeBron James

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King James may just be the greatest basketball player on the planet, but he's the second highest earner in the NBA in the past 10 years with $472 million.

3. Kobe Bryant

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The Black Mamba comes in a solid 3rd on this list with $475, and he's the highest paid player in the NBA. His legacy is all about those rings, though!

2. Floyd Mayweather

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The champ has been the highest paid athlete 3 of the past 4 years. He comes in second on this list with an astounding $660 million. He isn't called "Money" for nothing!

1. Tiger Woods

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Tiger, Tiger Woods y'all! The only man that could top the champ. Tiger hasn't been the golfer he once was lately, but he still tops this list with $845 million earned over the last 10 years!

Lady LiftOff: Flights of Passage

Fly Blue Crane CEO Siza Mzimela Becomes The First  Black Woman To Launch An Airline

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Siza Mzimela Becomes The First Black Woman To Launch An Airline

South African businesswoman Siza Mzimela becomes the first African woman to launch airline after spearheading the creation of Fly Blue Crane according to Times Live News:

“Fly Blue Crane has anticipated and is positioned to deliver on what customers want: the enhanced convenience of frequent flights through high on-time performance‚ commitment to consistent service excellence‚ advanced online technologies that will make the booking and travel process fuss-free‚ and of course highly competitive fares‚” said Fly Blue Crane CEO Siza Mzimela.

The COO of Fly Blue Crane‚ Theunis Potgieter‚ said the airline was poised to become an African aviation innovator by responding to market needs and implementing invaluable insights from global travelers who have revealed that customer value is not based on low pricing alone‚ but also in areas such as consistency‚ frequency‚ professionalism and reliability‚ as well as softer touch-points which include complimentary quality meals and the level of attention to detail paid to customers’ special needs when flying.

“Fly Blue Crane’s customers can look forward to such a fresh approach to air travel‚ which blends the best of both worlds without compromising on premium service‚” he said.

“By using what we have learned over the years about international airline best practice‚ we have also created a cost structure which allows us to offer competitive fares without cutting any corners on quality‚ safety and reliability‚” explained GM Commercial‚ Jerome Simelane.

During its launch phase‚ Fly Blue Crane will operate modern and fuel-efficient 50-seater Embraer Regional Jet 145 (ERJ) aircraft in a single class configuration. The use of a single aircraft type will allow for quick aircraft turnaround times and maximum crew synergies.

Equation Sensations

Nigerian academic solves 150 year-old math problem

By This Is Africa on November 17, 2015 — A Nigerian professor has reportedly solved a maths problem that has confounded mathematicians for over 150 years, scooping himself US$1 million in the process

Dr Opeyemi Enoch in class. Photo: Opeyemi Enoch

It’s known as the Riemann Hypothesis; a complicated mathematical problem involving the representation of complex numbers, real and complex functions on axes. We tried to understand it so as to explain it to you but we couldn’t. (The simplest explanation we could find is here).

For 156 years it remained unsolved until Dr Opeyemi Enoch of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti came along. On November 11, at the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science in Vienna, Austria, he reportedly presented his Proof in front of his peers 156 years to the day since the problem was first proposed by Bernhard Riemann.

According to the Vanguard, “Dr Enoch first investigated and then established the claims of Riemann. He went on to Consider and to correct the misconceptions that were communicated by Mathematicians in the past generations, thus paving way for his solutions and proofs to be established.

“He also showed how other problems of this kind can be formulated and obtained the matrix that Hilbert and Poly predicted will give these undiscovered solutions. He revealed how these solutions are applicable in cryptography, quantum information science and in quantum computers,” it stated.

Dr Enoch becomes the fourth academic to solve one of the seven Millenium Problems set out by the Clay Mathematics Institute. Solving one of these problems comes with a US$1 million reward.

Listen to a BBC podcast interview with the mathematician below.

SoCal Arts Incentives: Lucas shares Financial Force

Star Wars Creator, George Lucas Gifts $10M To African American Film Students At USC

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Fans of the Star Wars franchise are currently furious that the upcoming film has an African American actor in a leading role. Actor John Boyega will play one of the Storm Troopers, Finn. Lupita Nyong’o will also star in the film as Maz Kanata.
In all but perfect timing, the creator of the franchise, George Lucas and his wife, investment banker, Mellody Hobson will be gifting $10 million to African American and Hispanic students of the University of Southern California (USC).
According to Shadow & Act, this is the largest donation for student support in the history of the university.
“Hispanic and African-American storytellers are underrepresented in the entertainment industry. It is Mellody’s and my privilege to provide this assistance to qualified students who want to contribute their unique experience and talent to telling their stories” said Lucas.
The endowment will be split equally between male and female students who will be known as “George Lucas Scholars” or “Mellody Hobson Scholars”. Recipients of the scholarship will begin in fall 2016.

We love this idea and we look forward to seeing the next generation of artists that are recipients of Lucas and Hobson’s awesome gift!
Notable alums of the USC film school include: John Singleton (Boyz In The Hood, Shaft), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), and Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, How To Get Away With Murder).

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