Complainant is Badgley Mischka, LLC of Huntington Beach, California, United States of America (the "United States"), represented by CSC Digital Brand Services AB, Sweden.
Respondent is Domain Admin, Privacy Protect, LLC (PrivacyProtect.org) of Burlington, Massachusetts, United States / Domain Admin, Domain Privacy Guard Sociedad Anonima Ltd of Chitre, Panama.
The disputed domain name <bagleymischka.com> is registered with PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (the "Registrar").
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on January 7, 2019. On January 7, 2019, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain name. On January 8, 2019, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response disclosing registrant and contact information for the disputed domain name which differed from the named Respondent and contact information in the Complaint. The Center sent an email communication to Complainant on January 9, 2019 providing the registrant and contact information disclosed by the Registrar, and inviting Complainant to submit an amendment to the Complaint. Complainant filed an amended Complaint on January 14, 2019.
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2 and 4, the Center formally notified Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on January 15, 2019. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5, the due date for Response was February 4, 2019. Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified Respondent's default on February 5, 2019.
The Center appointed Haig Oghigian as the sole panelist in this matter on February 20, 2019. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
According to the Complaint and apparent facts, Badgley Mischka is a well-known international fashion brand, established in 1988 with trademarks in place in the United States in multiple classes since 2005; such as BADGLEY MISCHKA trademark registered on April 12, 2005. It operates in over 45 countries across the globe. It has a strong Internet presence for its products, owning and operating "www.badgleymischka.com" since May 26, 2003.
Respondent registered the disputed domain name <bagleymischka.com> on September 26, 2016. It links to several of Complainant's sites as well as other fashion-related sites.
Complainant asserts that it is the rightful and legal owner of the trademarks and goodwill associated with the name Badgley Mischka, having created the brand, by merging the last names of its founders, and having invested in its international success. It argues that Respondent registered the disputed domain name <bagleymischka.com> to direct consumers to Respondent's site through a common miss spelling, causing unfair profits by earning revenue via pay-per-clicks caused by the redirecting of web traffic. It asserts that there is no license, authorization, or permission for Respondent's confusingly similar use of its name. It claims Respondent registered the disputed domain name in bad faith and is currently offering to sell it.
From a review of the Complaint, it is clear that Complainant has created and invested in establishing its international brand "Badgley Mischka" over the course of many years. Under section 1.2.1 of the WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, Third Edition ("WIPO Overview 3.0"), this Panel determines that Complainant has established a prima facie case of having trademark rights for purposes of standing.
Respondent's registration of the disputed domain name <bagleymischka.com> is clearly confusingly similar to Complainant's name and domain name <badgleymischka.com> as set forth in section 1.9 of the WIPO Overview 3.0. The simple removal of a 'd' still leaves a phonetic pronunciation that would be confusingly similar to the BADGLEY MISCHKA trademark for purposes of the Policy.
There appears no evidence that Respondent has any license or other rights from Complainant to use the name, marks and goodwill associated with the "Badgley Mischka" name. In addition, it is beyond the realm of reason to believe that somehow Respondent independently created 13 out of 14 letters of the name, without awareness to the actual brand. The name is unique and internationally renowned. Accordingly, under the precepts of Policy, paragraph 4(a)(ii); Rules, paragraph 3(b)(ix)(2), and Sportswear Company S.P.A. v. Tang Hong, WIPO Case No. D2014-1875, this Panel finds Respondent has no rights or legitimate interest in the disputed domain name.
- the Respondent's pattern of registering other infringing domain names as provided in Annex 12 of the Amended Complaint.
These findings are consistent with the precepts set forth by Policy, paragraphs 4(a)(iii), 4(b); Rules, paragraph 3(b)(ix)(3), Caesars World, Inc. v. Forum LLC, WIPO Case No. D2005-0517, WIPO Overview 3.0, section 3.1.4, Longs Drug Stores California, Inc. v. Shep Dog, WIPO Case No. D2004-1069.
For the foregoing reasons and in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the disputed domain name, <bagleymischka.com> be transferred to Complainant.


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The Victorian Football Club, often referred to as Victorians or Vics, was an Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. Formed in 1885, the club was a founding member of the West Australian Football Association (WAFA), which was established the same year. The club merged with the West Australian Football Club at the end of the 1888 season to form the Metropolitan Football Club (now the West Perth Football Club).

History
The club was established on 2 May 1885, when a meeting was held at the Criterion Hotel in Perth in order to form a "new Footballers' Club". At the meeting, A. C. Rankin and H. S. Haussen were elected captain and vice-captain of the club, respectively, while J. C. H. James was elected president. A number of names were suggested for the new club, with "various appellations such as Cornstalks, Wanderers, Federals, and Victorians" being suggested. It was eventually decided that the club would be known as the Victorian Football Club, and would play in navy blue and cardinal guernseys.

The following week, on 8 May, representatives of Victorians and two other clubs, Rovers and Fremantle, met at the Criterion Hotel, establishing the West Australian Football Association. Victorians' secretary, Hugh Dixson, was made secretary of the new association. Later, the High School (now Hale School) was invited to field a team in the competition, but dropped out of the league after two matches due to a lack of competitiveness. Victorians' first match, which was also the first match of the competition, was against Rovers on 3 June, and was played at the Recreation Ground (later the Esplanade Reserve) near the Swan River. Victorians' team consisted of 19 players, with four emergencies. Rules for the match were variable – the game began with a kick-off instead of a ball-up, and one player, Drummond of the Rovers, carried the ball behind the line in an attempt to score a Rugby-style "touchdown". The match ended with Rovers (one goal, six behinds and a touchdown) defeating Victorians (six behinds). The club played a further five games for the season, finishing with a total of two wins, one draw, and three losses, allowing them to finish in second place behind Rovers on the ladder.

At the general meeting of the club in April 1886, Dixson was replaced by H. Wilson as secretary, and J. C. H. James moved to the position of chairman, allowing Edward V. H. Keane to assume the position of president of the club. It was also noted that there were: "names of a hundred members on the books". Victorians finished runner-up in the competition in both 1886 and 1887, dropping to third place in 1888.

In April 1889, a meeting of the West Australian and Victorian Football Clubs was held at the Criterion Hotel, in which it was unanimously decided to amalgamate the two clubs into a single club known as the Metropolitan Football Club, which has survived until the present day as the West Perth Football Club. The West Australians' captain, F. McDonough, remained captain of the combined club, while West Australians' club colours of red and black were maintained for the merged club.

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Awards | Corporate Social Responsibility |
Datamatics Receives 'The Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practices Award'
Mar 4, 2014 12:00:00 PM
Mumbai, March 4, 2014: Datamatics Global Services Limited (DGSL) announced that they have received the award for "Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practices" at the recently held Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Awards in Mumbai. The Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Awards is a platform for recognizing the best practices in Corporate Social Responsibility and Datamatics won this award for the stellar work they have been doing in empowering women and the differently-abled through employability and adopting environment-friendly business practices among other things.
The prestigious award, which was endorsed by World CSR Day, Asian Confederation of Business and World Federation of CSR Professionals; saw companies like Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Tata Steel, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited and Essar Group among the others competing for the honours. This goes to say how Datamatics has woven the practice of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into its working fabric. The CSR initiative of the company is driven through ASHA, a team led by the senior management with specific scalable targets in the fields of employability and environmentally sustainable development.
Speaking on the subject, Rahul Kanodia – Vice Chairman & CEO – DGSL said, "We are very proud to have won this accolade. It recognizes the role that we have played towards spreading the reach of economic development and empowerment. At Datamatics, we do not view CSR as a responsibility per se but incorporate it as a part of our business."
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Q: Remove Facebook photos from Windows 8 Photo Gallery I have disconnected Facebook from Windows 8, but the pictures are still showing in Photo Gallery. How do I remove the photos? I do not just want to hide the tile, but would like the pictures removed completely.

A: I figured this out just now. You need to log into your microsoft account online. From there, hit "Manage Accounts." You should see facebook on there. Click it and remove the button that says share photos with windows 8.

A: You simply open the photos app, select the photos that you no longer want on your computer, and then choose the option to delete them. You will have to delete each photo explicitly. You can, fortunately, select multiple photos at once and then delete them as a group.

A: log in to microsoft account.. at the right upper corner .. put the arrow to your picture.. then hit view profile. then you will see a small facebook logo then hit it.. then click uncheck the box on the lower part of the choices ("view your facebook photos and videos").. thats it,, go back to photo gallery.. :D :)

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Hannah Martin-Singh
Subject(s): Media
Course studied: Media, 2014
Partnerships & Marketing Manager at UniHomes
Equality is one of the main values I hold close to my heart, and I used this as a catalyst to create one of my best standalone projects at University.
Life and inspirations before my studies
Prior to Leeds Trinity, my background included being a member of the UK Youth Parliament and working closely with various Anti-Fascism groups. One of the Media modules, in particular, Radio, taught me how to access a new audience through the use of provocative thinking. Equality is one of the main values I hold close to my heart, and I used this as a catalyst to create one of my best standalone projects at University. I visited Anti-Fascist demonstrations around the country and took audio footage (vox pops) from protestors both for and against the cause. This allowed me to share an unbiased view of the demonstrations, whilst gathering real insights and opinions from people of all races and walks of life – which also broadened my own horizons.
Why I chose to attend Leeds Trinity
I chose to attend Leeds Trinity as it specialised in Media, which is what I went on to study. I love connecting with new people and was interested in learning about all the different ways a single message could be communicated.
What I enjoyed most about the course
The course was a great insight into the real world of Media. It really threw us into the deep end, by pushing us into areas which we were passionate about and allowing us to explore issues which we were personally invested in. The course provided me with the knowledge and tools to put myself out there and form a piece with the potential of making a difference. This is when I realised that studying Media wasn't just a degree, but more a gateway into creating genuine change.
One of my standout moments at Leeds Trinity stemmed from when I was writing my dissertation about 'The questionable methods of charity advertising'. There were moments of doubt, as I'm sure all students have, but my lecturer reassured me that if I continued to pursue what I'd started out to do, I'd accomplish my end goals. I achieved a very high mark for this.
Valuable placement experiences
Whilst at University I undertook a number of placements, including OxyFire Media Creative, where I had the fantastic opportunity to do the voiceover for a documentary called 'My Dangerous Loverboy' which brought issues of underage sexual exploitation to light.
I also worked at The Buy Yorkshire Conference, which connected 5000 delegates with industry leaders and 'billion pound' guest speakers from some of the world's most successful businesses (including Google and IPM). By working on the north's biggest B2B conference and exhibition, I learnt fantastic PR and management skills, which were then utilised later in my career as the PR and Marketing Manager at Genting Casino.
Part of my role for the conference was to secure guest speakers to come and inspire our delegates with zero budget! One of my proudest achievements was getting the Director of HS2, Alison Munroe, to attend the conference to form part of our speaker line-up. I knew that due to the nature of HS2 and the controversy surrounding the plans to expand tracks across the UK, she would have been an extremely controversial guest. My hope was that by having her as a speaker, it would create a talking point and interest amongst delegates, however, it resulted in a demonstration of protestors outside the conference who had a huge inflatable cow with 'stop HS2' written in red down the side. At first, naturally I was worried about how this could cause negative press and reflect badly on the conference, but by the end of the day, the event had been on both the national news and radio several times; ultimately raising the profile of the conference and creating a wave of free publicity across social media.
How my career panned out after graduating
My first job, fresh out of university, was as a Marketing and Events Assistant for student-focused bar and restaurant group Arc Inspirations, which operates well-known brands including The Box and Manahatta. It was great to be working with the specific demographic that I had first-hand knowledge of, which allowed me to design and implement fresh and exciting campaigns.
As Leeds Trinity is more on the outskirts of Leeds, in Horsforth, I was conscious that first year students were potentially missing out on the fantastic nightlife that Headingley had to offer (which is something that slightly impacted my own experience). Taking this into consideration, I went on to set up and manage the 'Headingley Heroes Bar Crawl', which was a fantastic event over the two years that I ran it.
I liaised closely with Leeds Trinity and arranged for double-decker buses to collect freshers from the campus and bring them to Headingley, where they were given exclusive promotions and discounts for the bars we toured around. This introduced the students to a fresh range of venues, whilst also resulting in new, repeated custom for the brand.
My career highlights
Whilst in the role as PR and Marketing Manager at Genting Casinos UK, I assisted with the entry of the 'Best Bar None' Awards (which we'd never taken part in previously) and we went on to win three prestigious awards including 'The People's Choice Award', 'Best Chain' and 'Best Entertainment Venue' which was a real career highlight.
Another proud moment was organising the charity run between all three local casinos (including Grosvenor and Napoleons). Traditionally, the three venues would never work together or co-operate, as they're seen as competitors, however, it was great to be able to bring them together for a meaningful cause, which was to raise awareness around responsible gambling. I was also able to utilise the event skills from my work experience to co-ordinate corporate Golf Days, which raised thousands of pounds for our selected charities.
Coming full circle
Today, I feel like I've come full circle, as I'm now working for a company which also puts students firmly back into my limelight. At UniHomes we aim to make the university student's journey as seamless and stress-free as possible, by helping them to find their dream home whilst taking care of their utilities. I know first-hand that where you live at university plays a vital role in your overall student experience, so being able to throw myself into this company has allowed me to ensure other students have the best three-plus years of their life!
I work on a range of areas, including the implementation of huge marketing campaigns, I've established and manage a nationwide database of 80 student brand ambassadors – and I also work on creating partnerships with big brand names which students know and love (such as Missguided and Taco Bell).
My advice for students interested in media
For any students interested in Media, I would reiterate the fact that it can open a number of doors, which allows you to explore a wide range of career choices – and most importantly, all of the skills are transferable. Although I haven't had an easy life and have had somewhat a difficult upbringing, I've been inspired by the experiences I've learnt at university, and this has led me towards new opportunities such as recently being elected as a member of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce council for a three-year term which is a huge personal achievement.
I'm proud of my journey to date and by putting in the dedication, deciding to take risks, and snatching off anyone's hand who would give me experience, it has ultimately landed me my dream job. I now have the freedom to work on incredible 'out of the box' operations, liaise with famous influencers and make a difference in the student-focused industry that I care about.


Curing Sweet Potatoes in a Tent!
Sweet potatoes must be one of my most favourite vegetables. This was the first year I'd had a chance to grow them; Sow True Seed kindly provided a selection of slips – All Purple Organic, O'Henry and Beauregard. The vines quickly took over the garden, sending out runners like Triffads. I didn't realise until late on that you can sauté the leaves for a mid-summer stir-fry.
It was a disaster: sun flares took out my humidifier and Zombie-Groundhogs destroyed my temperature controlled sweet potato curing room.
Faced with an immediate post-apocalyptic existence of starchy sweet potatoes, and a long-term post-apocalyptic existence of no sweet potatoes (they need to store through the winter to sprout slips for replanting), I decided to improvise with a weather-controlled homemade sweet potato curing tent!
I kept it in the sun, zipped in up at night and placed jars of water between the scattered crop. No, I couldn't maintain a constant temperature or humidity, but it was hotter and more humid in there than everywhere else and the netting allowed airflow during the day.
I think it was a pretty adequate PA-Solution, but the proof is in the potato.
I figure supermarket sellers may justify the fancy curing techniques, but for us home-growers, we have to make do with what we have and most of the time it's more than enough!


St. Jude Medical announces exclusive European co-promotion alliance with HemoSense Inc.
More tests need to be prescribed to save and prolong the lives of Canadians living with coronary artery disease, according to a study released from the University of Alberta. The research shows that the more Alberta physicians prescribe cardiac catheterizations, also know as angiograms, to detect people with coronary artery disease, the more people they are finding who have high-risk blockages and who would benefit from therapeutic treatment, such as bypass surgery and angioplasty.
An image by Stanford University researchers that details taking molecular/nuclear imaging to a three-dimensional level - providing a merged or "fused" picture of the body's metabolism and structure as well as a "virtual" visualization of the body's organs "from the inside out" - has been named the 2005 Image of the Year at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM)'s 52nd Annual Meeting in Toronto.
The federal government has awarded over 100 grants worth $139 million to 38 state governments to implement federal Health Information Technology (HIT) initiatives over the next four years, according to a report released by INPUT, the expert in government market intelligence. The primary purpose of these initiatives is to promote the movement toward health care information automation and to generate electronic health records, which will be shared nationwide.
Philips India, a subsidiary of the Netherlands based Royal Philips Electronics, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), part of the Department of Space under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF) and Development of Humane Action (DHAN), a Madurai-based NGO, are jointly involved in DISHA or Distance Healthcare Advancement, a project aimed at meeting the health care needs of the less privileged in India. Each is a strategic partner in the project bringing their unique capabilities to deliver the project's aims.
Breakages in chromosomes in mammalian evolution have occurred at preferred rather than random sites as long thought, and many of the sites are involved in human cancers, an international team of 25 scientists has discovered. The researchers, reporting in the July 22 issue of the journal Science, also found that chromosomal evolution has accelerated, based on the rate of breakages and reorganisation, since the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Early beta testers of BioTech BLAST Virtual Power Center (VPC), developed by Massively Parallel Technologies (MPT), a provider of on-demand high-performance computing, dramatically reduced time-to-answers for large and complex search sequences. The beta tester programme helped the company to better understand the challenges and needs of life scientists related to search sequences that currently take hours or days to complete.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is using United Devices' Grid infrastructure technology to power an on-line health-risk assessment programme free to anyone with Internet access. Diabetes Personal Health Decisions (PHD) is a unique Web-based tool that makes it easier for people with diabetes, and anyone at risk for developing diabetes, heart disease, or stroke, to better manage their health. The on-line tool is the most accurate health risk profiling programme ever developed.
The BioSciences Group of Fujitsu Computer Systems has unveiled a new technique for generating enhanced predictions for ADME/Tox research, consisting of a unique docking-based approach combined with off-the-shelf and purpose-built technologies, to develop viable and effective predictive models. The new approach was developed with a commercial collaborator focusing on drug-resistant infectious diseases and cancer.
Since 1997, Cybercamps has provided children between the ages of 7-17 the opportunity to learn cutting-edge technology through a unique summer camp programme. This year, Cybercamps has added another layer to its summer programme: distributive computing. Distributive computing enables vastly large computational processing projects to be broken down and spread out amongst a larger set of "idle" computers. For Cybercamps, that means when the campers aren't using their dedicated computers for creating Web pages, designing games, or programming their robots, those same computers are working to predict protein interactions in biological processes, basically solving tiny parts of three-dimensional molecular biology puzzles.
On any given day, tens of thousands of biologists around the globe run DNA sequences of unknown function through a lightning-fast on-line algorithm called BLAST, typically submitting 200 to 400 base pairs, or "letters" of genetic code, to be matched against the billions of letters for known genes. Searching for similarities that can shed light on functional or evolutionary relationships, scientists routinely use BLAST to churn through and produce vast amounts of data. Everyday applications include genetic medicine and pharmaceuticals. Yet this process and, more generally, genomics remain dimly understood by the public.
HiPath SIcurity CardOS is the Siemens operating system for smart cards, the foundation for chip-based access, identification and encryption solutions. The current Version 4.3 of the HiPath SIcurity CardOS has now been certified as compliant with CC EAL 4+ (Common Criteria Assurance Level 4+) for digital signature applications. It supports cryptographic operations with RSA keys up to 2048 bits in length. This means Siemens already meets the technical security standard which legislation is to make mandatory for legally binding digital signatures by the year 2010, and offers its customers a future-oriented investment in addition to top-level security standards.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected Health Hero Network, the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), and medical groups in Washington and Oregon to demonstrate how doctors can use home health monitoring technology to help Medicare patients struggling with severe chronic illness live healthier, happier, longer lives, and reduce Medicare spending by preventing hospitalizations. The medical groups are Bend Memorial Clinic in Bend, Oregon, and Wenatchee Valley Medical Center in Wenatchee, Washington. The medical groups will implement a physician-led, technology-supported care management programme for up to 2000 Medicare beneficiaries with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and/or diabetes.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted into human beings hold the promise of improving patient care, particularly in emergency settings, but only after privacy questions are addressed, according to a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) physician who has a chip implanted in his arm. Writing in the July 28 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, John Halamka, MD, chief information officer at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School and an emergency room physician, says the chip implanted in his upper right arm would allow anyone with a handheld RFID reader to scan his arm and obtain his 16-digit medical identifier.
Zix Corporation, a global provider of secure e-messaging, e-prescribing, and e-transaction applications and services, and eClinicalWorks, a provider of integrated end-to-end electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management systems (PMS), have signed a strategic alliance that will include an interface to enable bidirectional data exchange utilizing industry standards and an integration of applications. The two companies will also co-market and support each other's sales efforts in strategic physician and payer opportunities.
TAGSYS' item-level RFID solution for the life sciences industry is successfully being used in four of France's most prestigious hospital research laboratories: La Timone, Marseille Medical Faculty, Hospital La Conception and the Paoli Calmettes Institute. TAGSYS ARIO SDM (Small Disc Module) 13.56 MHz High-Frequency RFID tags are used to reliably, accurately and securely track and manage invaluable pathology samples.
NuVasive Inc., a medical device company focused on developing products for minimally disruptive surgical treatments for the spine, has filed for an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate the safety and efficacy of its Cerpass cervical Total Disc Replacement (TDR) product on June 30, 2005 as planned. Approval of the IDE from the FDA would allow the company to initiate a pivotal human clinical study of the device in the United States.
DataGlider has achieved industry optimized in IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks. DataGlider can now take advantage of IBM's sales, marketing and technical expertise to develop and deliver on demand solutions that meet customer requirements in the health care industry. Customers are seeking solutions that can help them better integrate processes and applications and allow them to quickly respond to changing market opportunities - all key elements in transforming to an On Demand business.
HERAE LLC, a new business process management and Web services provider for the health care industry, has introduced paperless processing of electronic remittance advice for health care providers and health plan payers. In a clearinghouse fashion, HERAE, pronounced "hurray", moves information associated with health care claim payments from insurance companies to physician offices, electronically. The result is simpler and faster processing, the elimination of paper envelopes, checks and explanation of benefit (EOB) forms, and an expected overall savings of billions of dollars per year for the health care industry.
Bridgetech Holdings International Inc., a company focused on maximizing the potential of emerging health care products and services in the United States and Asian markets, has acquired exclusive distribution rights for the PalTrack Asset Tracking System for the United States and China health care markets from Sovereign Tracking Systems LLC (STS). HealthCare Pilot, an operating division of Bridgetech, is a health care solutions provider focused on RFID solutions to improve hospital operations, lower facility costs and improve patient care.
Trestle's Xcellerator services offering has been selected for use at an upcoming Harvard Medical School Continuing Medical Education course. The event, "Dermatopathology Update with Mini-symposium on Mucosal Pathology and Hands on Slide Seminar on Adnexal Tumours", will be attended by practising pathologists, dermatopathologists and dermatologists from all over the world. It is to be held September 15-17, 2005, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts.
A portable, versatile and low-cost molecular detection tool being developed by a team of European researchers promises to revolutionise the diagnosis of diseases such as cancer and open up new applications in sectors as diverse as environmental protection, chemical analysis and food safety. Working in the field of micro- and nano-technologies, the IST programme-funded BioFinger project is due to begin testing its state-of-the-art system over the summer amid expectations for a commercial product to be available on the market within two to three years.
Involving six partners from four European countries, the IST GRAB project developed a system to allow blind and visually impaired people to access three-dimensional computer graphics through the senses of touch and hearing. The GRAB project - which is among 14 projects competing for the European Commission's 1,15 million euro Descartes Research Prize, the winners of which will be announced in London on December 2 - forms part of ongoing research by Fundación Labein in Spain and the other project partners into haptic and audio technologies to aid people who are visually impaired.
Elekta, a supplier of clinical solutions, comprehensive information systems and services for improved cancer care and management of brain disorders, has signed a global distribution agreement with Medical Intelligence (MI), a single-source supplier of high-precision patient fixation systems. Integrating key elements of MI's radiotherapy and patient positioning systems into its own product portfolio, the agreement reinforces Elekta's position as the world's most comprehensive provider of complete solutions for stereotactic radiation treatment throughout the body.
The European Commission is calling for better use of technology to improve health care, empower patients and save lives. It highlighted several success stories, at a recent eHealth conference in Norway, which show that the European Union's research and technology initiatives are reaping rewards for society.
St. Jude Medical Inc. has signed an exclusive agreement in most European countries with HemoSense Inc. to increase awareness and access to self-testing and monitoring the effectiveness of anticoagulation medication or Coumadin or warfarin for mechanical heart valve patients. Mechanical heart valve patients take blood-thinning medication to minimize the risk of thrombolic events and, as a result, regularly monitor their anticoagulation levels, a measurement expressed in International Normalized Ratio (INR).
Introducing a new direction in the field of cardiovascular medicine, Westside Medical Imaging (WMI) in Beverly Hills, California, now offers technology so precise that coronary problems can often be confidently diagnosed without a hospital visit for a conventional angiography. Cancers or other potential health problems can also be identified before they show up on standard tests.
Advocate Lutheran General Children's Hospital and Royal Philips Electronics have opened the world's first Ambient Experience paediatric radiology suite. This suite is designed to create a soothing environment that enables children to relax while undergoing computed tomography (CT) scans. The overall goal of the design is to make children more comfortable potentially reducing the need for sedation and repeat examinations.
City of Hope National Medical Center has opened one of the nation's most technologically advanced research hospitals on July 15, 2005. The 347.000-square foot, $200 million Helford Clinical Research Hospital at City of Hope is designed to advance research into cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Featuring some of the latest treatments and most advanced equipment, Helford Hospital will further City of Hope's ability to develop promising medical advances for patients battling serious diseases.
The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (ROHCG) will deliver the next step in high-quality, specialized mental health care with the addition of wireless telemedicine applications and services to its new Royal Ottawa Hospital currently under construction. ROHCG plans to deploy a Mobility Solution from Nortel, initially including wireless mesh technology, at the new mental health centre and research institute for use by more than 1000 doctors, researchers and hospital staff to improve the efficiency and productivity of medical staff and enhance the quality of care delivered.
The neurology clinic of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) is yet another clinic to save time and money tracking its clients' charts by using FileTrail's chart management solutions. FileTrail Inc. is a supplier of Enterprise Records and Information Management (ERIM) solutions software that helps clinics track and manage patient medical records.
Telemedicine Aerotel Medical Systems, a manufacturer of cutting-edge diagnostic telemedicine systems, has introduced its new Voice Receiving Module (VRM), the HRS-VRM. The latest tool for the company's Heartline Receiving Software (HRS) designed to receive ECG transmissions from patients via the telephone.
Screven County Hospital has been selected to participate in a comprehensive telemedicine network as part of the Georgia Rural Health Initiative, which was launched by Insurance and Fire Commissioner John Oxendine on March 7. The hospital will be one of the initial sites in what will become a network of 40 health care facilities utilizing leading edge telemedicine equipment and technology to improve access to speciality health care for rural Georgians.
Wyndgate Technologies, a division of Global Med Technologies Inc., has signed a nationwide contract with Nigeria for its SafeTrace donor management system and SafeTrace Tx advanced transfusion management system. Nigeria is the largest country by population in Africa, with approximately 130 million people. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
The Austin Diagnostic Clinic is the first health care facility in the southern United States to utilize PLUS Orthopedics USA Inc.'s PiGalileo computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery system. With the adoption of this innovative technology, the Austin Diagnostic Clinic is now the first facility in Texas and in the entire southern United States to be able to provide patients this advanced computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery technology for total knee replacement surgery.
Medcon Telemedicine Technology Inc., a global expert in cardiac image and information management solutions, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its new haemodynamic monitoring system, Windsurfer. Windsurfer is marketed and sold separately, or together with Medcon's TCS Symphony image management solution for unrivaled integration of cardiac images and data in the cath lab.
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As part of its commitment to enhancing medical education and emergency training throughout the region, the University of California (UC) Davis Medical Center is now the proud parent of a highly realistic infant simulator. The virtual "baby", with many physical characteristics of a 3- to 6-month old, is among the first simulators of its size in California. It offers computerized simulations for paediatric illnesses and emergencies, which test the skills of a variety of patient-care providers, from physicians and medical students to nurses and paramedics.
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The new surgical assistant at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals arrived in February sporting three arms, a computerized brain and a glowing track record in helping to repair heart valves, remove cancerous prostates, bypass blocked coronary arteries and perform gastric bypass operations for morbid obesity. The new arrival is a robotic machine, the da Vinci Surgical System, manufactured by Intuitive Surgical. UNC currently is the only gynaecological oncology programme in the Southeast that is using it.


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Gretta Ray Releases Christmas Cover Of Joni Mitchell's 'River'
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Gretta Ray has shared a special Christmas recording of her song 'It's Almost Christmas In Philly'. The stripped-down re-recording of the track from Ray's ARIA-nominated album, Begin To Look Around, is accompanied by a version of Joni Mitchell's low-key Christmas classic, 'River'.
"I wanted to give a nod to the Christmas-themed song on my album," said Ray. "It's a song about driving through North America with my dear friend Sam while I was opening for Gang of Youths in 2018. It's the most folky sounding song on Begin To Look Around, and with this version I wanted to hone in on that even more."
'River' mightn't be a mainstay of Christmas radio programming, but it fits the criteria. The first verse goes, "It's coming on Christmas / They're cutting down trees / They're putting up reindeer / And singing songs of joy and peace."
"Joni Mitchell has always been one of my biggest inspirations" said Ray. "With this cover of her song 'River', I wanted to acknowledge how much her songwriting means to me. It was such a joy to put my own twist on this song."
Ray has shared a live performance video of 'River' filmed at The Dale Studio in inner Sydney. Find that below.
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Last nights baby shower was great! Baby T is adorable at one month old, and his mama is gorgeous! No one would believe she just had a baby. Her requested theme was "frogs" and the colours were olive green and baby blue. I was surprised to find that those colours were both hard to find! Maybe it's just the time of year, or maybe Edmonton's party and paper scene hasn't caught up to design trends yet.
So we made do with the greens and blues we could find, and mixed in some neutrals. My centrepieces were suspended from the ceiling, so it was pretty hard to get decent pictures of them. The five tables at the back had faux piñatas in blues (water), greens (grass), and brown (mud). The front four tables had cloud mobiles. I made the clouds from felt, and suspended them from pieces of driftwood. Special thanks to the baby's Aunty Shauna for helping with those!
The tables were sprinkled with some multi-coloured tissue confetti and origami frogs made by my wonderful friend Sherisse (my spring tea party co-host).
Baby T's growing collection of frog stuffies adorned some of the tables and looked right at home under the felt clouds. I loved his mama's idea to include frog candies on the tables too!
You can kind of see in the left of this picture below the reeds and cattails in a vase. There were four of those. Three on the food table (which was set up out in the hallway and I forgot to get a picture of it), and one on the drink table. They served green punch which totally amazed my four-year-old and her friend.
The gift table and food table had runners of olive green organza (bought from Jysk, and there was just enough!). I then sprinkled the confetti and frogs along it.
The piñata were made from dollar store beach balls, packing tape, and tissue paper. I also made signs (to direct guests to the room, and to label the coffee) and food labels, but I forgot to get pictures of those. I used some vintage graphics courtesy of the Graphics Fairy: Frog, Dragonfly, and Arrow.
I was really worried that all my random ideas pulled from Pinterest wouldn't look cohesive when I put them all together, but it worked out! My decor was even complimented by a woman who runs a wedding/event decorating company!
Such a cute idea!!! Looks great!
Awesome job Joanna- I really loved the hanging pinatas with the confetti sprinkled underneatb. You are REALLY good at this! You could totally be a party/decor planner.
Thanks Heidi! I was pretty excited what a REAL party decorator (Mrs. Bartel) complimented the decor!
The shower was gorgeously decorated!!! You never fail to impress me. The photos do not do it justice! With the green punch and the reeds and grass, I really felt like I was in a cute little swamp with frogs ;) I used to have a thing for frogs, so I love the theme. It was adorable!!
Thanks Jenn! I'm glad all my ideas came together...I was worried!
It was a beautiful shower! I loved those little clouds. And the candy frogs were a good touch and I'm glad it was a meal off for me (wink wink). Nice job having Mrs. Bartel compliment you!
O that really cute and that little frog is the main attraction.I like those table decoration.


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Kohinoor is a 1960 Bollywood action adventure film produced by Dr V. N. Sinha and directed by S. U. Sunny. The film stars Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Leela Chitnis and Kumkum. The film's music is by Naushad. A huge box-office success, it was the third-highest grossing Indian film of 1960. The film was blockbuster at box office.

It is said that Dilip Kumar went into depression after playing tragic roles in films such as Devdas and his psychiatrist recommended to him to do light roles. One such role that he took up was Kohinoor. Kohinoor cast Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari to play a prince and princess of different kingdoms and was full of sword fights, songs and dances. This film is also notable for some rare comical and funny scenes by Meena Kumari, who is otherwise known as the tragedy queen. Its tone was light and it lacked the intense characterisations of their earlier films.

The film included the melodic songs "Madhuban mein Radhika Nache Re" and "Do Sitaron Ka Zameen Par Hai Milan Aaj Ki Raat".

Plot
After the passing of King Chandrabhan of Kailash Nagar, the General, Veer Singh, crowns Prince Dhivendra Pratap Bahadur Chandrabhan as the next King. Veer's wife, who has brought up Dhivendra like her own son, Surinder, would like Dhivendra to marry Princess Chandramukhi of Rajgarh. The King of Rajgarh is pleased to hear this and asks his daughter to set forth to Kailash Nagar. On the way there, she is abducted by her own General and held captive until she consents to marry him. Dhivendra rescues her and they both fall in love, but get captured by the General's men. Dhivendra is gravely injured, but manages to escape and is looked after by Rajgarh's royal dancer, Rajlaxmi, who also falls in love with him. After Dhivendra recuperates, he finds out that Chandramukhi is being held against her will at the General's castle. He sets forth to her free, but gets captured in the process. Held in chains, he is blinded by a vengeful Rajlaxmi, and Chandramukhi is given an ultimatum - either wed the General or witness the execution of Dhivendra.

Cast

Dilip Kumar - Rajkumar Dhivendra Pratap Chandrabhan
Meena Kumari - Princess Chandramukhi
Azim
Bina
Leela Chitnis
Jeevan
Raja Kapur
Nazir Kashmiri
Kumar
Kumkum
Rekha Mallick
Mukri
Nissar
Qamar
M.Y. Shaikh
Sood
Tun Tun
Uma

Soundtrack

The well acclaimed soundtrack for the movie was composed by Naushad and lyrics were penned by Shakeel Badayuni. The soundtrack became a cult favourite among music lovers for its soul stirring music compositions. The soundtrack consists of 10 songs, featuring vocals by Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle. The best known song in the soundtrack is Madhuban Mein Radhika Nache Re, a classical dance song, composed on rāga Hamir and sung by Mohammed Rafi.

Awards
Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Dilip Kumar
Filmfare Best Editing Award for Moosa Mansoor

References

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Map Happy » Features » The Coolest (and Most Useless) Travel Gifts To Give for Christmas
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The Coolest (and Most Useless) Travel Gifts To Give for Christmas
December 12, 2016 MH Staff 2 minute read Features Gear Guides Opinion
Let's be real: The best gift is a free trip to somewhere.
Most gift guides contain awful suggestions like pashmina scarves—it keeps you warm on the plane!—and Rolodex watches to keep track of multiple time zones so we aren't even going to pretend this guide will solve all of life's (travel) problems. And, if you're going to go the scarf route, why not get the coolest things around that money can buy?
Hilariously, sometimes the most kitschy things like a portable spice rack have the most fascinating, unexpected uses (vacation rentals) and it ends up making our annual gift guide. But a lot of the time, we go OK, I can't justify this purchase for any real, practical purpose, but DAMN, is it cool.
The holidays are buying people things they would never buy for themselves. Right? Right??
(Our editorial policy applies here: we only cover products we have direct hands-on experience unless noted. The only thing we haven't played around with is the Balloon Pin House, which is backordered.)
There's nothing even remotely "travel" about this one. But the real purpose of traveling is being present.
Polaroid-type cameras have been making a huge comeback in recent years for its retro flair, but the thing that's really appealing about this gift is that there is no endless posturing, no curated Instagrams, airbrushed selfies, or shameless Facebook teasing. It's about capturing the moment (even if it's an ugly photo cause the film is not cheap). Besides, there is something nice about giving one away… Sometimes the most special memories aren't the ones on record.
The only downside is that the film isn't the cheapest but with some deal-sleuthing it's possible to get it down to around 50 cents/photo.
Throw it back. (Woojin Suh / Flickr)
Luckies of London Scratch Map
Should have been a little bit more careful around the Gulf and Toronto. Oops.
For a site called Map Happy, you'd think we'd cover maps more often. Nope.
There's no more unique path that a personal journey and there's no better way to capture it than the Luckies of London Scratch Map. Instead of revealing the lottery numbers, it reveals the world! (I hate myself already for writing that.) The best thing thing about this gift is, despite how well-traveled a person may be, it shows how much further you still have to go.
(the original is available for $26, but the deluxe version is cheaper on Amazon)
The Carry on Cocktail Kit
Drunkards, rejoice. This is the crème de la crème of extremely cool: expensive, impractical, bourgeois. In other words, it's got the perfect makings for a hipster on the road. Is this the perfect accompaniment for that business-class flight to Tokyo? (Shinjuku, I am ready.) Having these cocktail recipes for onboard might be helpful too.
Drink up.
Clive Roddy's Balloon Pin House
UK-based designer Clive Roddy's Balloon Pin House is clearly inspired by the spirited Pixar film Up and a bunch of paperweights he had lying around his desk. It's also why this gift is the best.
Be the envy of the office or plan world domination. There's absolutely no rhyme or reason why I'd ever shell out £25 for a bunch of pins but uh, that's exactly what I'm going to do because I'm not a woodworker. It is so popular that its backordered until January 9th, but maybe hey, that's how you know you got to jump on it while it's hot.
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Alexander Fernando Pacheco (Agosto de 1958) é um ativista pelos direitos animais norte-americano. Co-fundador e atual executivo da People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) e membro de uma divisão de bordo da Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Pacheco juntou-se ao capitão Paul Watson em 1979 a bordo da embarcação Sea Shepherd cruzando o oceano atlântico durante uma campanha de oposição as atividade do navio pirata portugues Sierra, um baleeiro pirata. Ambos o Sea Shepherd e o Sierra cessaram suas atividades após intervenção de autoridades portuguesas.

Tornou-se notório publicamente em 1981 pelo seu papel junto com Ingrid Newkirk, eno que se conheceria como o caso dos dezessate macacos, uma campanha para salvar dezessete macacos de uma série de experimentos que seriam realizados no Instituto para a investigação Biológica em Silver Spring, Maryland. Oliver Stone organizou a campanha política para salvar os animais e causou o nascimento do movimento a favor dos direitos dos animaisnos Estados Unidos.

Primeiros anos
Nascido em Joliet, Illinois, mudou-se para o México com sua família ainda criança, onde foi criado em uma casa litorânea junto com seus irmãos, Jimmy e Mary, e por seus pais, um médico mexicano, e uma enfermeira norte-americana.

Guillermo escreveu em Monkey Business que em seus primeiros anos, Pacheco esteve constantemente rodeado de animais. Em seu quintal dos fundos, possuia uma arborização repléta de morcego, as serpentes se escondiam atrás de umas rochas localizadas próximas da casa, e os pescadores regurlamente caçavam golfinhos que eram levados a praia para o preparo em matadouro e consumo. Em vez de matar os animais de seu consumo em matadouros, os [porco]]s, as galinhas e os perus eram sacrificados em sua frente.

Sua família abandonou o México quando Pacheco estaba na escola primária, e se mudaram para Ohio, Indiana e depois para Illinois. Seu interesse pelos animais continuou, obteve diversos animais como tartarugas e aves em uma barraca de filhotes de animais, incluindo um macaco bebê que deu o nome de Chi Chi, que o acompanha em seu ombro pela sua casa.

Entrou para a universidade católica em Ohio, com a intenção de ser sacerdote, porém durante uma visita ao Canadá em seu primeiro ano de universidade visitou um amigo que trabalhava em uma fábrica de empacotamento de carne. Pesando o fato de que no México havia visto em demasia animais sendo abatidospara o consumo, se horrorizou a ver a dois homens estripando um bezerro recém nascido na imundice, logo depois de sacrificae a sua mãe. Mais tarde, durante a mesma semana, um amigo deu-lhe uma cópia do livro Libertação Animal de Peter Singer, e logo que regressou a Ohio, tornou-se vegetariano, já não querendo ser sacerdote, começando a dedicar-se a ajudar aquele que denomina como "seres que não são humanos".

Ativismo
Ja na universidade, Pacheco organizou campanhas contra o uso de armadilhas para animais e contra a esterilização de porco e bovinos sem anestesia. Já que Ohio, como um estado agricultor, seu ativismo sofreu uma ampla oposição, onde começou a receber chamdas telefônicas anônimas onde o ameaçavam de morte.

Em 1979, assistiu a uma palestra em Columbus por Cleveland Amory da revista Saturday Review, que também foi da Fund for Animals, a qual se encarregou pela manutenção da organização contra a caça de baleias Sea Shepherd. Após a palestra, pediu a Avory que o aceitasse como voluntário, juntando-se ao barco durante o verão em uma sala de máquinas como marinero, chegando a ajudar afundar o famos barco pesqueiro português chamado Sierra.

Caso dos macacos de Silver Spring

Nesse caso iniciou quando Pacheco começou a trabalhar como voluntário no Instituto de Investigação Animal como parte de seu ativismo a favor dos direitos dos animais. Edward Taub, um psicólogo, trabalhava ali realizando una investigação na qual queria remover os nervos das extemidades dos macacos obrigando-os a ingerir comidas através de choques elétrico para obriga-los a usar as extremidade que não tinham sensibilidade. Em grande parte devido as condições em que eram conservado os macacos, Pacheco denunciou Taub por violações contra as leis que regem a crueldade animal. A policía entrou no laboratório e resgatou os macacos; Taub, por sua participação, recebeu 119 processo por não haver dados aos macacos os cuidados veterinários necessários, sendo a primeira vez que um científico recebia estas acusações nos Estados Unidos. A princípio foi preso por seis acusações, principalmente pela desatenção veterinária. Outras cinco acusações foram descartadas e o último teve apelação. A batalha legal pela custódia dos macacos chegou a Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos, sendo o primeiro caso de direitos animais, gerando uma grande publicidade para PETA.

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Alunos da Universidade George Washington
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Burmese Updates: Monks, Civilians Killed; Japanese Journalist Gunned Down; Government Clamps Down on Internet...
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http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/east-asia/myanmar-burma/
http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/
Burmese blogs:
http://burmamyanmargenocide.blogspot.com/
http://seinkhalote.blogspot.com/
http://soneseayar.blogspot.com/
http://moemaka.blogspot.com/
http://niknayman.blogspot.com/
More news via NYTimes:
More Deaths in Myanmar, and Defiance (9/28/07)
Myanmar Raids Monasteries Before Dawn (9/27/07)
current news via Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Burmese_anti-government_protests
In pictures: Burma protests (BBC)
Burma-Myanmar Genocide (Picasa Web Album)
Demonstration (video) Mizzima News
Protests, September 26 (video) Mizzima News
Monks demonstrating on September 24 (video) at YouTube
Monks leading a demonstaration of 100,000 on September 24 (video) at YouTube
Monks defy warnings to protest on September 25 (video) at YouTube
Police Clash with Protesters on September 26 (video) at YouTube
Shots fired as protests continue on September 27 (video) at YouTube
Soldiers shoot into crowds on September 27 (video) at YouTube
Protesters clash with Troops on September 28 (video) at YouTube
Video shows Japanese journalist 'being shot deliberately' September 27 (video) at YouTube
Protests today in Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo: Reuters)
via NYTimes, The Lede:
Burmese Government Clamps Down on Internet
September 28, 2007, 9:19 am
By Mike Nizza
Tags: burma, internet, media, protests, violence
Update Appended
Burmese bloggers are now reporting that they are running into significant hurdles to getting the word out on the government's crackdown.
"Burma is blacked out now!," one blogger announced from Yangon, the country's main city. More details from the post:
Internet cafes were closed down. Both MPT ISP and Myanmar Teleport ISP cut down internet access in Yangon and Mandalay since this morning. The Junta try to prevent more videos, photographs and information about their violent crackdown getting out. I got a news from my friends that last night some militray guys searched office computers from Traders and Sakura Tower building. Most of the downtown movement photos were took from office rooms of those high buildings. GSM phone lines and some land lines were also cut out and very diffficult to contact even in local. GSM short message sending service is not working also.
As protests built to more than 100,000, the government apparently allowed internal reports until three days into the crackdown, raising fears that it planned to intensify measures that left 9 dead on Thursday.
It also had immediate effects on the information flow out of the country. "Exile groups and human rights organizations who are in touch with people inside Myanmar said they had less news today than before about clashes," Seth Mydans of The New York Times reported from Bangkok.
A blogger we wrote about on Thursday, Ko Htike, is also having major problems because of the internet cuts, losing the ability to put out a major part of his reporting so far.
He said he's not "able to feed in pictures of the brutality by the brutal Burmese military junta," but he still hoped to find "other means." He also seemed sick of all the attention he's been receiving lately from The Lede and other news outlets:
(Journos!! please don't ask me what other means would be??). I will continue to live with the motto that "if there is a will there is a way".
Michelle Malkin brings more bad news for Burmese bloggers:
Several popular dissident blogs had already gone dark the past few days before the "damaged underwater cable" shut down Internet accesss.
The fate of one prolific Burmese blogger, Moezack, is unknown. The entire blog has been wiped.
The government's explanation, according to an official interviewed by Agence France-Presse, blames an extraordinarily timed bout with technical difficulties. "The Internet is not working because the underwater cable is damaged," the official said.
Still, several sources from inside Burma continued to provide frequent updates; you can find them on several sites we mentioned on Thursday and Cbox, which is aggregating developments in matter-of-fact bulletins that paint vivid, scary pictures.
"The Police Station at South-Okkalarpa is being burnt down," one entry says.
More Web sites are referred by an anonymous Burmese blogger writing to Global Voices today. The post carries more fears of the price the bloggers may pay for trying to document the uprising:
Information flow out of the country has been strictly monitored and even the amateur photographers are warned to be very careful as the Junta is hunting down the sources.
Update, 12:38 p.m. Eastern The rulers of Burma are learning once again how hard it is to keep secrets. A video showing the shooting of Kenji Nagai, the Japanese photographer who died yesterday in Yangon, was broadcast on Japanese television and posted to YouTube. The Times of London describes the implications:
The footage, say Japanese experts, squarely contradicts the official Burmese explanation of Nagai's death – that he was killed by a "stray bullet".
In the few seconds before he was killed, Nagai appeared to being filming the Burmese military as it faced down the crowd. One of the soldiers seems to spot him doing so, and launches his deadly response.
Masahiko Komura, Japan's Foreign Minister, said that the footage appeared to show that Nagai was slain deliberately by Burmese troops as they charged on a crowd of civilians. The government has dispatched the deputy foreign minister to Burma to establish the truth behind Nagai's death.
The video, which repeats the potentially disturbing shooting during the course of a news segment, is available here.
September 28, 2007 at 01:33 PM in Current Affairs, Protest, Web/Tech, Weblogs | Permalink


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This paper presents a particle filtering approach for 6-DOF object pose tracking using an RGB-D camera. Our particle filter is massively parallelized in a modern GPU so that it exhibits real-time performance even with several thousand particles. Given an a priori 3D mesh model, the proposed approach renders the object model onto texture buffers in the GPU, and the rendered results are directly used by our parallelized likelihood evaluation. Both photometric (colors) and geometric (3D points and surface normals) features are employed to determine the likelihood of each particle with respect to a given RGB-D scene. Our approach is compared with a tracker in the PCL both quantitatively and qualitatively in synthetic and real RGB-D sequences, respectively.
C. Choi and H. I. Christensen, "Rgb-d object tracking: a particle filter approach on gpu," in Intelligent robots and systems (iros), 2013 ieee/rsj international conference on, Tokyo, 2013, pp. 1084-1091.


Married At First Sight certainly has received a cult-like following but can people really be bothered to make fan pages on social media for the contestants? Especially for a contestant that not a lot of people have been loving?
These were the questions on everyone's lips yesterday after people started questioning a fan account that had popped up on Instagram for Mike.
Since his honeymoon with onscreen wife Heidi, that saw him have a tantrum because she was apparently rambling too much when trying to tell him about her troubled upbringing, Mike hasn't been many people's favourite MAFS star from the season.
And so people started to look deeper into the account @team_mike_mafs on Instagram and they actually compiled a whole heap of evidence to prove that he might have just made the page himself.
See all of the evidence here.
Speaking with the Kyle and Jackie O Show this morning however, Mike was quick to defend himself, and denied that he had anything to do with the social media account.
"Are you responsible for setting up that page?" Jackie asked.
"Its's pandemonium. Look, no it's not my page. It's a friend of mine who is I guess a bit offended by the trolling and thought she'd throw a bit of support my way," Mike explained.
Beau Ryan, who was filling in for Kyle while he was off sick, then asked if Mike was at all involved in the posts that get put up, seeing as they're quite detailed.
But it turns out that people weren't really keen to jump on the 'We Love Mike' bandwagon and the page actually received a whole heap of trolling.
Mike told us that as a result he asked his friend to shut it down.
Married At First Sight continues on Sunday at 7pm on Channel Nine.


Father Leo J. Walter (Philippines) died on September 20, 1981 at Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio. When his health failed earlier this year Leo returned to the U.S. in anticipation of his Jubilee celebration. In May, while in Cincinnati, his condition worsened. Leo, quite literally, was living for the Jubilee celebration at Maryknoll, N.Y. He was 40 years ordained on June 22nd. His family attended the Jubilee at Maryknoll at Leo's request but Leo himself was unable to attend.
Over these last months, Leo's sister and brothers, as well as their families, have been constantly with Leo during his illness. His brother, Charles, had spent the last night with him at the hospital, and when Leo died he was present along with Leo's nephew who is also a priest. Leo was sustained during these last months of sickness not only by his family but also by the larger family of Maryknollers who surrounded him with visits and constant prayer. Bishop Joseph Regan was the last to visit with Leo.
For ten tumultuous years, from 1941, Leo served our China mission, his baptism by fire. Shortly after arriving he was interned for several months at the Japanese prison camp at Stanley, with 13 other Maryknoll priests, brothers and sisters. Released in 1942, Leo recovered quickly and by January, 1943, was working in Kweilin. In September of 1945 Leo wrote of the Japanese conquest: "The mission is so completely gone that the only way we could tell our property was by a pear tree still standing in the yard. The entire city of Kweilin has been utterly destroyed." He rebuilt his mission then, only to be evicted by the Chinese Communists in December, 1950.
In 1951, through assignment to the Lipa Diocese, Leo began his Philippine mission career. Over the years he served as Second Consultor and First Consultor to the Regional Superior – and eventually, as Regional Superior himself.
Mass was celebrated on September 23rd at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains, Cincinnati. At Maryknoll the wake service was held on September 24th and the funeral the following day with Fr. James Noonan as principal celebrant and Fr. Walter Maxcy as Homilist. Burial was in the Maryknoll cemetery, with graveside service conducted by Fr. Thomas Marti.


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Jurassic Park 3D revitalizes the franchise that put dinosaur movies back into the mainstream. We get the original movie with the 3D treatment that should amaze the next generation. Jurassic Park 3D will be hitting theaters this upcoming April 5, 2013.
Everyone knows that the film is about a bunch of cloned dinosaurs on a remote island who escape their cages. A bunch of survivors must try to find a way off the island without getting getting eatened by the dinosaurs. That is the quick synopsis about the movie but Jurassic Park is a great movie on the whole.


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Jennifer Lopez Gets Star on HWF
IndiatimesUpdated on Jun 22, 2013, 11:47 IST
Los Angeles: Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the recording category for her success in the bilingual market.
"The path I have taken from the streets of the Bronx up to this moment on Hollywood Boulevard is paved with love and the support of my family, friends, and the family I've created in my work," Lopez told reporters and the hundreds of fans who gathered for the event Thursday.
"This is a special moment, it's a reference point and it inspires me to work harder and dream higher in everything that comes in the future. I hope you feel, because I do, that it was all worth it," the singer said.
The five-point star with the name of Jennifer Lopez and decorated with a brass disc is the 2,500th star since the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce decided in 1958 to award these honours to outstanding figures in movies, television, radio and music, and to display them on the 14-block-long Walk of Fame where tourists love to have their pictures taken.
Appearing before more than 600 admirers who obtained special passes through the Jennifer Lopez Web site, the singer of Puerto Rican descent blew them kisses and expressed her love.


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By ramya,
August 2, 2007 in Electrical
Hi, am new member of this site. i have some querries...can u pls clear that...
In INDIA we use 220V,50 Hz supply... In other countries we have 110V,60hz supply... can u say me the reason for that... or correct my answer if am wrong...
P=VI ---- (1) energy can neither be created nor be destroyed,so Power value cannot be increased or decreased... so V and I goes indirectly proportional... When voltage increases,Current decreases and vice versa... But V=I/R ----(2) R=PL/A ---- (3) in India we use high volt,low current as bcos,the length of transmission can be increased at the same time size of the conductor is decreased,resulting in low cost.but only thing is resistance is decreased,so that it may cause danger to humanbeing.But in other country,they respect human life,thus resistance is increased...
but my question is...according to equation 2,when current is decreased voltage is increased...then how resistance is increased...if not in what concept they say resistance is decreased in equation (2)...pls do explain me guys and lass...
jraef
Location:USA, California
You are making it more complex than is necessary, and it has nothing to do with differences in respect for human life.
The only reason why voltages are different in different parts of the world is mainly an accident of timing with regards to electric lighting.
When Nikola Tesla worked with George Westinghouse to develop and install the first AC power system in Niagara Falls New York, he chose a voltage that he felt could be used with the existing DC power systems already installed by Edison's General Electric Co. Edison's new electric lights worked on 110VDC, so Tesla made his system 110VAC. Everything in the US developed from that. He (later) picked 60Hz because he was thinking of a clock and dividing it into equal segments to make calculations easier, so since there were already 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, he made it 60 cycles in a second.
In Europe, specifically Germany, Werner von Siemens had invented the first electric dynamo (contrary to the belief that Edison had done so). Siemens' dynamo was for use in running the first electric powered cable cars, so he picked 220VDC because he could use smaller motors at the higher voltage. Lighting systems were then developed to take advantage of Siemens' dynamo, so they were 220VDC as well, and when AC power distribution began to spread across Europe, 220VAC became the norm. The 50Hz came from the fact that 50 cps = 20ms per cycle, a nice neat "metric" sounding number that can be easily divisible.
Once any individual country paid to electrify themselves, they had to buy their equipment from a neighbor who was already making it. So when Canada was developing their grid, they followed US norms so that Westinghouse's or Edison's (once he succumbed to AC) equipment would work.. The same was true for Mexico. European countries (and their colonies such as India was at the time), tended to favor whatever Europe was using.
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I have been at my new job a week and a half and I am thoroughly enjoying it alhamdulillah. The day goes by in a flash, I am learning so much and there is lots of opportunity to be creative and throw around ideas.
One of the areas I am doing a lot of work in at the moment is Equality and Diversity, both internally as a workplace and externally as part of a wider community. It's funny though, sometimes its small things that can make such a difference as a Muslimah in the workplace.
There seems to be some cultural sensitivity and understanding, in that male co-workers haven't tried to shake my hand. My manager is really supportive about my need to pray and best of all, there is a good facility to make wudhu (ablutions) for prayer.
Pretty much in every place I have worked, I have made wudhu in the disabled bathroom for privacy and almost in every case this has a very small sink with a tap that sprays everything and leaves you and your surroundings dripping wet. I wear a plain abaya, so wearing any colour other than black makes it very visible that you are walking around with the front of your clothes wet. In the last place I worked the disabled toilets were locked and only those with the pass keep could access them. One toilet was left unlocked, but on more than one occasion I went to use only to be told off for trying to use a disabled loo.
In my current workplace, there is a disabled toilet on every floor with a shower. People use the showers after exercise etc, so I don't feel like I will be told off for using it to make wudhu. Best of all the sink is big, the taps flow freely rather than spray everywhere.
I have struggled with praying at work for years, not because of the prayer, but because it always felt like so much work washing up for prayers. It was always a relief when I was on my period and didn't have to pray and could avoid the rigmarole of taking everything off, getting wet and messy, then cleaning everything up – all as fast as possible in the hope that no one is waiting outside to moan at you. I had to remind myself that the ablutions are as much a part of the prayer as the prayer itself.
Now it's a relief that I can relax when I make wudhu, there is space to put my things and there is a clean space to wash up. I think it's something I will raise with my employers to let them know it might seem like a small thing, but it makes a difference and has really improved my experience at work.
I've never understood the point of pressure-spray taps; the amount of water that comes through them is minuscule or it bounces off your hand, taking the urine with it if there was any. I've noticed they've been getting less and less common in recent years (there was one make of tap which you always found fitted with a spray end), so perhaps people have noticed that nobody really likes them. Let's face it, nobody has one in their bathroom.
MashAllah dear!! so happy to see you settled and so happy in your new job! May Allah bless you and your family Ameen.