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Poor Theresa May, the hypocrite who campaigned to remain in the European Union and switched sides when the chance to be PM arose, is now threatened on several Australia extension cords fronts. Her third prong was her shameless and ill-thought-out pandering to the xenophobia of the Brexit voter. He wasn’t challenging Theresa May for the prime ministership, he was loyally telling her to ditch her plan for withdrawal from the EU as it would keep Britain half-in and half-out and be a betrayal of the will of the electorate. Nothing else is talked about. That means she’ll probably be allowed to hang on. If 48 Tory MPs profess to have no confidence in her, there has to be a leadership election. There is such division and confusion in their party that such a challenge could lead to a general election and to Labour winning.

This insistent prong of her speech was a tribute to the fact that Mr Corbyn and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell had presented at the previous Labour conference a detailed package of policies they would implement as though they were the government-in-waiting. If not, will she resign as an MP? Will she get a job commensurate with her skills? She has got a degree in Geography from Oxford. Theresa May, in her subsequent presentation to the conference, thrust a trishul of persuasion forward. Boris, once the editor of the Spectator and now a columnist on the Daily Telegraph is no stranger to strong language. She made the very clumsy mistake of calling those who earned less than this arbitrary sum “Unskilled Workers”! The average wage in the UK is £26,500. It’s parliamentary recess time so most MPs and throngs of party members attend. She said her Chequers proposal would enforce the ban on immigration which the majority voted for without jeopardising jobs and incomes. Second, Theresa May made some feeble promises which could count as a domestic agenda. In the context of the major upheaval and contrariness within her own party against her Chequers proposals, they would not command the attention of Parliament, leave aside the votes of the electorate.

“If beauty is in the eye of the beholder Is there hope for the ugly yet? The claims of perception are bolderThan self-descriptions on the internet…” From Found in Mussourie, Signifying Nothing ByBachchooEvery autumn, the political parties of Britain hold annual conferences. Today in Britain the political prospects are increasingly interesting, as the response to leaving the European Union seems incrementally muddled, fuddled and fudged. I wonder what a first-year geography teacher’s salary is. He has since then written several pieces attacking Chequers calling it Ms May’s or Britain’s “suicide vest”. When representatives of the business community of the UK made a statement saying that leaving the EU would be bad for business, Boris said “f*** business!”, amusing his large public following and enraging further his detractors in the Tory parliamentary party, including Theresa, who insists that Chequers will soften the Brexit blow to British businesses.

Brexit is now the acknowledged elephant in the room. What she and the conference ended up promising was banning all immigrants whose earnings when they come to work in Britain would be less than £50,000. He said, as strategically he had to, that he was keeping faith with the 51 (something) per cent of the UK population which voted to leave the European Union. The Tories entered their conference in a state of disarray. His fans lined up for hours to gain entrance and hundreds were left waiting outside. He denied surprise, surprise that his stance was a bid for the leadership. The old Chinese saying goes “we live in interesting times”. The Tories are in a funk. It is, on all calculations, including those of her own chancellor and civil servants, a lying contention.

The Tory conference, in Birmingham this year, was universally touted as a Borisfest, because Boris Johnson who recently resigned as foreign secretary published his intention to make the conference his first platform bid for the leadership of the party. She attacked Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, presenting him as the anti-semitic, Britain-hating, fantasy-economising, potentially Stalinistic despot; bankrupter of the exchequer, cheating promiser and general bogeyman who should be put in the stocks before 10 Downing Street rather than be given the keys to it. Already the signatures for a challenge to Theresa May’s continuing leadership are being gathered. His resignation from the Cabinet in protest against Theresa May’s “Chequers’ proposals” which she intends to put to the EU as the UK’s departure seal, was the first step he had to take. So what Theresa’s government is telling 95 per cent of teachers, and perhaps 90 per cent of the population that they count, in her £142,000 wage-packet politicians’ world, as “unskilled”. would see it as an insult. That’s hardly a vote-winning classification and very many teachers, engineers, and the millions of workers in transport, in manufacture, in hospitality, in hospitals etc. Their policies of nationalising the railways and energy companies, of forcing large corporations to give 10 per cent of shares and places on their governing boards to workers, of paying for childcare, stopping tax-dodgers and 20 other costly measures, threaten to be popular with the electorate, especially younger voters, whose recent enrolment in the Labour Party has increased its numbers to more than the membership of all the other political parties put together. Boris’ fringe meeting at the Tory conference was, consequently, the most sought-after gathering at the event.Not only is the elephant itself confused, it has the four blind men of the parable examining it and making their pronouncements: Holding its tail, the first one says this pachyderm is a hot communications cable to the US economy, another, holding its leg, says its certainly a pillar firmly grounded in the Commonwealth, the third, holding its trunk, professes that it is a Shiv Lingam leading straight to India and the fourth, touching its broad body, says its definitely a wall to keep European immigrants out.

“The sample was received with low volume, high viscosity and was degraded.“This dilution of the sample raised the limits of detection for all analyses performed on item 11 (blood samples),” said the FBI report. The medical board has expressed “grave concern” over the investigation into the case, saying it raises serious medical and legal apprehension and called for appropriate legal remedial measures to be instituted. The report also said that the special investigation team (SIT) probing the case should “thoroughly investigate” if any person had access to injectable agents in view of a syringe mark spotted in Sunanda’s body. The dozens of unexplained injuries, including teeth bite mark, are suggestive of active scuffle prior to death.

In its opinion on the FBI report, which had said that the samples provided to them were of low volume and degraded, the board was of the view that the case may have led to a complete “botched-up scenario” had the FBI not been consulted.. What is being published or broadcasted in the media could be right or could be wrong.

The board, at the same time, did not rule out the possibility of any injectable poison, in view of a particular mark on Sunanda’s body (injury number 10), and said that the FBI report confirmed the presence of lidocaine in her body.

At this point of time, I won’t be able to say anything conclusive, adding, “Once the investigation is complete, we shall send a report to the court. Consequently, in order to Europe power cables affect any analyses the sample was diluted with five millilitres of laboratory grade deionised water.”Delhi police commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi on Friday refused to comment on the medical board’s opinion and said that necessary information regarding the case will be shared once the investigation is complete and a report is submitted at the court.“I would not like to enter into speculations. “The circumstantial recovery of empty Alprax tablets (27 tablets) and report of FBI which shows the presence of Alprax in stomach and its contents, spleen, liver section, half of each kidney, blood sample, as well as urine wet clothing, bed cover and bedsheet confirmed the death is due to excessive ingestion of tablet Alprazolam,” the written opinion reads.

At that point we shall brief media about our findings. And I can assure that the investigation will be complete as early as possible.

In its report, FBI stated that due to limited volume and generally degraded nature of the biological specimen submitted, “quantitation” of the identified drugs was not performed.”.It further said: “The medical board does not rule out any injectable poison in view of injury number 10 which is an injection prick mark and the same is subsequently clarified by KIMS Hospital as well as the confirmation of presence of lidocaine in FBI report.Unanimously concluding that there was presence of anxiety drug Alprax in Sunanda Pushkar’s stomach, the AIIMS medical board, which gave its opinion on the FBI findings of the viscera samples, confirmed that she died of “poisoning”

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It’s a closed-loop system of blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, controlled by a special smartphone app, which can essentially take over the job of the pancreas.”.By improving glucose control, the artificial pancreas “will be a very cost-effective way of treating your condition because you will avoid having complications, which make you unable to work, go to school, et cetera,” Thabit says.The review looked at 12 early trials of the artificial pancreas that included nearly 340 people in different settings, such as participants’ homes and diabetes camps.With the artificial pancreas system, however, the glucose sensor is attached to the pump and then blood glucose information is relayed to the smartphone app algorithm “automatically and wirelessly”,” Thabit Raw Materials says. The review found that connecting the insulin pump to the glucose monitor is a game changer for diabetic patients, who spend much of their time monitoring their blood sugar. In response to the data, the algorithm controls the amount of insulin released by the pump. Currently, the medical devices, which are made by several companies, are in a medical device trial with the FDA awaiting approval, which may come by 2018. Thabit is hopeful about the outcome because the FDA “has been very supportive of this whole field.

The pancreas automates these manual tasks.As researchers continue to pursue a cure for type 1 diabetes, by 2018 technology will ease the burden of those who suffer from it: with an artificial pancreas.“So you have the patient who still has to do all the calculations themselves and to manually give a bolus depending on what they eat, and adjust the infusion rate if they’re going low or increase it if they’re sick,” study author Hood Thabit, a diabetologist, tells mental_floss.It isn’t a replacement organ. Thabit’s testing of this algorithm and the artificial pancreas system is one of the 12 studies included in his Diabetologia literature review.

It’s also influenced by what a person eats. In that 2015 study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, “we used the system in our patients day and night for three months, and it actually showed an improvement in [hemoglobin levels] and a reduction of hypoglycemia, and that has never been shown before by using conventional pump therapy or even injection therapy,” Thabit describes. Researchers at the University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories recently published a literature review in the journal Diabetologia of a dozen studies that document the efficacy of the artificial pancreas in outpatient adults, adolescents, and children. This system requires constant attention, especially because, as the review points out, the insulin requirements of someone with type 1 diabetes vary considerably in a 24-hour period, changing on average by 20 per cent during waking hours and 30 per cent overnight.In current conventional therapy, diabetes patients use two separate devices to monitor and adjust their insulin levels: a CGM and an insulin pump, usually worn at the waist or hip, where it connects subcutaneously. An algorithm helps two devices work together seamlessly: a continuous glucose monitor, which measures glucose in subcutaneous tissue, and an insulin pump, which administers insulin automatically.Thabit and colleague Roman Hovorka developed one of the algorithms that make this system possible — one of several that different manufacturers can use to build their devices.An artificial pancreas is a closed-loop system of blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, controlled by a special smartphone app, which can essentially take over the job of the pancreas

Google continues to pile on billions in ad revenue every quarter.06 billion a year ago, a 33 percent increase. The most the company has said publicly is a statement it issued last week, in which it offered support for “efforts to improve transparency, enhance disclosures, and reduce foreign abuse., mentioned the Russia probe or congressional hearings on a call with analysts Thursday.

”Google was hit in June with a 2. But pressure to limit the spread of fake news and curb foreign influence in elections could crimp revenue and raise costs in the future if the companies, for instance, have to add further human oversight to their machine-powered algorithms.“It’s hard to know whether Congress or regulators will actually step up and regulate the company, but there seems to be a newfound willingness to consider such action,” says Daniel Stevens, executive director of the Campaign for Accountability, a non-profit watchdog that tracks Google spending on lobbyists and academics.

Mark Warner and Amy Klobuchar. EU regulators have said they will keep a watchful eye on whether the adjustment actually gives equal treatment to rivals.27 billion. The profit jump was a surprise to analysts, and Alphabet shares rose 3 percent in after-hours trading.9 billion fine by the European Union for harming competitors, and in response, it has tweaked its product search results in Europe by allowing competitive online retailers to bid for premium spots on a search results page. But like its chief rival Facebook, it’s being pressured to rein in its hyper-efficient advertising machine.73 billion from 5.” Google added that it is ‘evaluating’ further steps of its own and pledged to work closely with government and industry to ‘explore the best solutions.21 billion — as Google and other Alphabet units plow more money into artificial intelligence, Google-branded hardware such as the Pixel phone and Home smart speaker, and so-called moonshot projects like its Project Loon balloons, which were recently deployed to deliver internet access to hurricane-ravaged parts of Puerto Rico.Meanwhile, research and development costs continue to rise — up 17 percent to 4. “Google, like every other industry, should not be left to its own devices.POLITICAL ADS AND POLITICSBoth Facebook and Twitter have already announced plans to make political ads more transparent in line with a bill introduced last week by Sens. Google hasn’t said how it might comply with potential new rules around political ads, but observers say it’s unlikely to get a free pass from Congress.

Facebook said it was adding 1,000 human checkers to review ads.Google and Facebook dominate the US digital ad market — Google will take 42 percent and Facebook 21 percent of US digital ad revenue this year, according to e-marketer.Is it possible to win so much that you end up losing? That’s one question facing Google and some of its tech compatriots as they prepare to testify before congressional investigations into Russian meddling next week.Neither Google CEO Sundar Pichai nor Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Google parent Alphabet Inc.Monica Peart, senior forecasting director with e-marketer, says increased revenue is largely coming from higher-cost segments like mobile search and Switzerland plugs YouTube, where Google ends up sharing a bigger portion of ad revenue with partners like cell phone makers and video creators. Net income raised to 6.’THAT SUPERCHARGED AD MACHINEAlphabet posted third-quarter revenues, excluding that shared with partners that rose 22 percent to 22

Dell Technologies also introduced a new Dell EMC X2 entry model for customers, at up to 55 per cent lower cost than the previous generation.Dell EMC PowerEdge MX:Dell EMC will preview PowerEdge MX, a new modular infrastructure solution for the modern data centre.Dell Technologies has launched new Dell EMC storage and server products backed by a services portfolio.Dell EMC also offers expanded options for VxBlock 1000 customers, it promises that users can benefit from fast, smart and efficient storage with new support for PowerMax with end-to-end NVMe and XtremIO X2 All-Flash arrays.Dell EMC PowerMax:Dell EMC’s PowerMax claims to be the future of enterprise-class storage and is architected with end-to-end NVMe and a built-in, real-time machine learning engine.PowerMax also includes inline deduplication and enhanced compression providing up to 5:1 data reduction.XtremIO replication sends only unique data to the remote site to minimise bandwidth requirements by 75 per cent or more, enabling potential network cost savings.

From consulting to deployment and support, from managed services to education, Dell EMC Services are available to help drive the adoption and optimisation of the Modern Data Centre, for customers to integrate new technology and make it a productive component of their business. XtremIO replication requires up to 38 per cent less storage space at disaster recovery sites and operates with predictable performance to achieve recovery point objectives of 30 seconds. To power up the Modern Data Centre, these new products are designed to address a wide range of traditional and emerging data centre workloads to help customers drive better business outcomes.

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It claims to achieve greater than “six nines” availability to help ensure zero downtime of business-critical applications. It also has a built-in machine learning for the cost-effective way to leverage SCM.Dell EMC XtremIO Replication and new entry price point:XtremIO X2 All-Flash arrays gain major updates with the new XIOS 6. Building on the capabilities of Dell EMC’s flagship storage system, PowerMax promises to be the fastest storage array, delivering up to 10M IOPS and 50 per cent better response times – 2x faster than the nearest competitor.In addition, the PowerMax OS includes a built-in machine learning engine, which makes autonomous storage a reality, leveraging predictive analytics and pattern recognition to maximise performance with no management overhead.1 operating system, including delivering the replication across a wide area network (WAN). Designed with Dell EMC’s kinetic infrastructure, PowerEdge MX will enable customers to flexibly configure and optimise their IT infrastructure for new and emerging workloads. This means that the Vxblock system breaks the physical boundaries of traditional CI and claims to offer enterprises simplicity and flexibility to help accelerate their IT and digital transformation efforts. X2 metadata-aware native replication is highly efficient and provides an added level of data protection for application workloads

This means automated or machine-enabled remediation will be needed.It wasn’t long ago when much of an organization’s daily business processes were fulfilled without the need for computers. Remediation runbooks or playbooks focused on auto or semi-auto remediation will be required. Much of an organization’s critical data is available online or on a cloud server. So, let’s take a quick look at the top cybersecurity developments you should expect to see in 2018, and the ones that you should consider implementing. Tools to monitor suspicious activities of employees who have access to the cloud infrastructure will enjoy an even stronger demand in 2018. All that computing devices provided was an ancillary support to an organization’s framework.

This will also translate into GPU-based analytics for faster processing of data for analytics. Speed of response and containmentFaster containment of threats is the need of the hour. While security technologies have grown so have the tactics, techniques, and procedures cyber attackers use to penetrate your defences. Detection and response will be the primary focus. This means larger dependence on data science, statistical, and analytic skills. Therefore, Cloud Service providers will need to ensure that they have a robust mechanism of preventing such incidents from happening. Enhancing cloud securityAs cloud operations are maturing and more and more companies are moving towards the PAAS/SAAS platforms, the need for security of such infrastructure will need stronger focus in 2018. Building security in parallel to application development at the same speed is very critical to its overall success.Organisations spent over 450 billion globally last year to shore up cyber defences, a figure which is expected to reach 2 trillion by 2019.Change of guard: Increasing focus on detection rather than prevention The industry focus is clearly moving towards real-time threat detection.

The only thing that can save businesses from rapidly-evolving cyberattacks is an even more sophisticated approach to countering them and keeping a keen eye on cybersecurity developments.Ravi Raman, Executive Vice President and Global Head at Paladion Networks, believes that smart devices, Internet of Things, and many other technological advancements have completely altered how businesses operate, and more importantly for this article, where they store critical data. Today, digital technology has completely upturned business processes and made them more efficient and effective, enabling us to extract greater productivity in significantly shorter durations of time. Organizations should continue to not only do the basics right – but should quickly deploy tools that can promptly detect threats by mining through large network-based data sets.From DevOps to DevSecOps: To keep up with the ever-growing need to deliver software systems at a high pace, the model of DevOps has emerged and has been practised actively for the past year or so if not more. More money will flow into security detection through Deep Learning and Machine Learning-based threat discovery models. So, the focus in 2018 will move from DevOps to DevSecOps.

The need for Data Science and Analytics skillsOrganizations are generating a large amount of data and in the new model of focusing on detection rather than prevention, there is a need to analyze these data sets to detect potential threats before they actually become an exploit. The ongoing approach to threat prevention will still be valid, but the emphasis on threat detection and response will become stronger.(source). Need to define and deploy policies and controls to protect data, applications, and the associated infrastructure of cloud computing will be imperative for success. Tools which can interact with network endpoints to enable speedier remediation will be the flavour of 2018. People with knowledge in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and statistics will be in high demand. Third-party tools to configure and audit cloud security – with an environment of dynamic IPs that cloud infrastructure ordinarily throw at you – is paramount to ensuring information security. Online integration of tools to enable checking for security flaws in code as it is being developed will become the need of the hour as we get into 2018. Insider attack by employees of Cloud Infrastructure Operators is also a threat that is looming.As the current year comes to an end, it has given us the prelude of the year to come, and when we bring cybersecurity into the picture, things are quite alarming. 2018 will bring a larger focus on this paradigm. So, tools will need to focus on getting Argentina plugs this major lacuna addressed

In no other country I have seen the tradition of offering a guest or a stranger who has come uninvited to your house, a glass of water. India is a hard place to live in for someone who is poor.There has been some sympathy for those, like former President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed’s relatives, who have not been able to do this. And we should, especially those of us in positions of power who take pride in our culture, tradition and religion, ask ourselves how we are to interpret Atithi Devo Bhava for such individuals. He has said he does not want immigrants from “shit-hole countries” but only from places like Norway.

When some years ago I read the Valmiki Ramayana (the version I read is an excellent translation by my friend Arshia Sattar and published by Penguin), I was surprised to see that this same tradition existed in the time of Shri Ram.Such a similar allegation is also happening under American President Donald Trump. This is our Indian tradition and we should be proud of it, especially because, as I have said, I do not think anyone else around the world seems to have it.Something similar is happening with Bangladeshis, or those people who may be Indian but are thought to be Bangladeshis. If one looks around at the service staff at restaurants and watchmen and other such people across all parts of India, many of them are from Bengal, whether east or west. I do not think Power Cables Suppliers that we are showing this Hindu humanity and humaneness in the process of the National Register of Citizens, which to me seems inherently cruel. 

 know America well, and in my experience the Mexican immigrant is, along with the illegal Gujarati Patel immigrant, among the hardest working people in that country. The main anger is directed towards the Mexicans who are thought to come because they want to “mooch”.What do we imagine that those who are born in Bangladesh or those whose parents were born there are doing in our country? The knee-jerk reaction will be casual allegations like they are doing terrorism and they are infiltrating our society and taking advantage of the things that we have.Over the decades I have travelled to many countries, perhaps 30 or 40 or so.Have we seen any such respect or even sympathy, in this business of the disenfranchisement that is going on of people in Assam? The allegation is that many of the 40 lakh people who have not been able to identify themselves as being Indian citizens from 1971 are actually Bangladeshis. But the assumption has been that these are genuine and deserving Indians who are being left out. Even if someone is the child or grandchild of a Bangladeshi or even a Bangladeshi migrant themselves, then so what? My culture, my religion and my upbringing tells me that I must treat them, and especially those of them who are poor and weak, with humanity.

This is an American expression, which means someone who lives off the benefits of the state, such as free housing and cheap public transport, and unemployment benefits but is generally lazy. My mother did not specifically teach me to do it, but because she did it every time someone came home, I developed the habit. It means that the mother, father, teacher and guest must be respected like God.We are all familiar with the line Atithi Devo Bhava, which comes from one of the Upanishads. Those of us who think of ourselves as Hindus, must consider what the true meaning of being Hindu is in light of such instruction from our texts. Why should we spit on such people who come to us because they actually like our nation more than theirs?I need hardly tell the reader what you already know, that unlike America and Europe we do not have free or subsidised public housing, we do not get unemployment benefits and we do not have good public healthcare. We should keep this in mind when we debate what the next stage is in this journey towards declaring these people foreigners and figuring out what to do with them. The exact line is “Matru Devo Bhava, Pitru Devo Bhava, Acharya Devo Bhava, Atithi Devo Bhava” and we were taught this sentence in our school in Surat. They do not expect to be treated as guests at each house to go to, but because it is my habit I still ask them if they want to sit down have a glass of water.. Meaning he does not want people from Africa and India (even though many Indian immigrants apply for the highly valued H1B visa which adds to the America economy) but from white countries. Every time he would go to a new place, whether some rishi’s hut in the jungle or some poor person’s place in a village, he would be offered a glass of water as part of a ceremony.In Italy, there are many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants across the country, but they are without question enterprising and hardworking and have come there because they think it is a good and decent place to live in.My concern is for all of them. Courier delivery people and cable television repairers and such other people drop in almost every day.In these days, most of us have more strangers knock on our doors than in the time of four decades ago. We know of Patel motels but we should also know that most of these people migrated without proper visas and began their careers cleaning motel rooms, which requires hard physical labour

"However, no specific allegation was raised nor could they prove before any court," the statement said.The poll panel said it did not receive specific complaints or concrete material from political parties and candidates about alleged tampering of EVMs during recently held election process.Since the year 2000, EVMs have been used in 107 assembly polls and three Lok Sabha elections held in 2004, 2009 and 2014.New Delhi: Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are "fully tamper-proof, as ever", the Election Commission said today dismissing claims of BSP supremo Mayawati and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who had questioned their reliability.It recalled that the "controversy" over the reliability of the machines was raised by political parties after the 2009 Lok Sabha polls."Such concerns about alleged tamperability of ECI-EVM have been raised earlier also since their introduction including before high court and the Supreme Court.

"The Commission today said that so far, no one has been able to actually demonstrate that EVMs used by the Election Commission can be tampered with or manipulated.The Commission had earlier this month informed the Supreme Court that it will get the 15..In June 2014, the Commission proposed to implement VVPAT at every polling station in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and sought Rs 3,174 crore for the same from the Law Ministry.5 lakh VVPATs manufactured in 30 months from the time of release of fund by the government. Kejriwal too had alleged that EVMs may have been tampered with in Punjab, adding "it is about the credibility of the Election Commission and the faith of people in the electoral system.It said "what has been demonstrated or claimed to have been demonstrated is on a privately assembled look-alike of ECI-EVMs and not the actual ECI-EVMs."The outcome of this exercise was that none of the persons, who were given the opportunity, could actually demonstrate any tamperability of the ECI-EVMs. Based on consultations with political parties in 2010, the Commission explored the use of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) with a view to enhance transparency.In VVPAT, a paper slip is generated bearing name and symbol of the candidate along with recording of vote in Control Unit, so that in case of any dispute, paper slip could be counted to verify the result being shown on the EVM."Electronics Corporation of India Ltd and Bharat Electronics Ltd are the two PSUs which manufacture the EVMs for EC. They either failed or chose not to demonstrate," it elaborated.One hundred EVMs were brought from ten states – Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh -- and were kept at the Commission&power strips39;s office here for scrutiny and for any application to establish its alleged fallibility.

In a strongly-worded statement, the Commission said "baseless, speculative and wild allegations are being made which deserve to be rejected".The poll watchdog assured that its EVMs are tamper-proof and it is "fully satisfied with the integrity of electoral process using EVM".It said the BSP's representation on EVM tampering was without any specific allegation and it had rejected the claim of the party.Those invited included political parties, petitioners before various courts and some individuals who had been writing to the Commission on this issue.The EC's rebuttal came a day after Mayawati said she will move court against the alleged tampering of EVMs. We have strong prima facie evidence of foul play."These allegations have been dismissed.Some activists had then showed on TV a machine which they claimed can be manipulated. ECI unequivocally reiterates that given effective technical and administrative safeguards, EVMs are not tamperable and integrity of electoral process is preserved," it said. "Thus it was no longer the machine used by EC," it said. The Commission had countered the allegation stating that the machine was stolen from EVM warehouse in Mumbai and modified # by the activists.It said in an "extraordinary" move in August, 2009, it had invited those who had expressed reservations about the EVMs to come and demonstrate the flaws in the machines.A printer is attached to the balloting Unit and kept in the voting compartment. The paper slip remains visible on VVPAT for 07 seconds through a transparent window

Neither patients nor medical professionals knew which injections patients were receiving, but each patient eventually got one of each type, in a random order. "Its worth noting, we did not demonstrate any improvement in cognitive function after a single dose of medication in this study. Next, patients were given injections containing either inactive placebo or the anti-seizure drug levetiracetam, at either a low dose (2.Finally, patients took a standardized cognitive test, designed to measure memory, executive functioning, naming, visuospatial ability and semantic function - capabilities all affected by Alzheimers disease. At each visit, patients were given a baseline (EEG) to measure the electrical activity in the brain. Today, it affects more than 5 million Americans, a figure that is projected to reach 16 million by 2050 as the population ages.5 mg/kg) or a higher dose (7. "In the field of Alzheimers disease research, there has been a major search for drugs to slow its progression."

The research was published in the Journal of Alzheimers Disease. There have been a lot of disappointments.Washington: According to a recent study, the scientists have tested an anti-epileptic drug for its potential impact on the brain activity of patients with mild Alzheimers disease.The team led by Daniel Z.

In recent years, researchers have focused plugs Suppliers on developing techniques to clear the brain of amyloid and tau protein plaques that build up and wreak havoc in the brains of patients with Alzheimers disease. So our findings represent an interesting new avenue.. Press, MD, of the Berenson-Allen Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC, documented changes in patients EEGs that suggest the drug could have a beneficial effect.Press concluded by saying, "These strategies have not led to new therapies to date.The risk of developing Alzheimers disease increases sharply with age.Overall, higher doses of the anti-seizure drug appeared to normalize abnormalities seen in the patients EEG profiles.

If this abnormal electrical activity is leading to more damage, then suppressing it could potentially slow the progression of the disease," said Press, an Instructor of Neurology in the Cognitive Neurology Unit at BIDMC and an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. That is, researchers saw overall increases in brain wave frequencies that had been abnormally low in Alzheimers disease patients prior to receiving the higher dose of levetiracetam, and, likewise, saw decreases in those that had been abnormally high. In the seven patients who were able to complete the study protocol successfully, Press and colleagues analyzed changes in their EEGs.In the study, a small group of patients with mild Alzheimers disease visited BIDMC three times. Its too early to use the drug widely, but were preparing for a larger, longer study," noted Press.5 mg/kg). After receiving the injection, patients underwent another EEG, then magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- which measures blood flow in the brain, another way to quantify brain activity and determine where in the brain it is taking place

An empty bottle can be used a few times but eventually it does end up being discarded. “The best part about every product is that it’s all original and formed through eureka moments which help us keep our job interesting,” she adds. So where do the two dainty ladies get their inspiration from “Our interest in spirituality, mythology, art, music and of course our undying love for jewellery inspires us everyday to create everything we do,” says Angeline sighing with contentment. It’s still an ongoing series of unending experiments and their resulting possibilities. But over time, we have learnt to manage it.These neckpieces, ear-rings, pendants are crafted out of plastic bottles, metal bottle crowns, punctured tyre tubes and nuts The world of fashion seems to have joined on to the upcycling bandwagon. Like every other mom, our day starts at 5 am and consists of not missing the bus, rushing the kids to school and what not. That was when the journey began China Power Cords and Silver Nut Tree was formed,” continues the ex banker.

 Accessories too have started to re-use old materials like plastic to create stunning pieces! Doing exactly that are Rituparna Das and Angeline Babu – two Bengaluru based women who have started their own brand Silver Nut Tree.The two ladies mainly take customisation requests from customers and manage their obligations at home at the same time!

“From cleaning all the materials and getting bruised by them while managing our families and children, is certainly not easy,” quips in Rituparna.Founded in 2012, creating jewellery out of what is seen as waste was not their initial intention, reveal the two designers. We first designed a pretty ear-ring, an experiment we which we later shared on our Facebook page. But by upcycling it into something like a necklace or a couple of ear-rings, we are changing its fate forever!” says Rituparna who previously worked as a freelance graphic designer. “We primarily started out with plastic bottles but over the course of time we have begun to use everything from metal bottle crowns, punctured tyre tubes, old washers and nuts, CD’s, and even glass bottles. Out of these recyclable materials, we design neckpieces, ear-rings, bracelets, pendants and even rings,” pitches in Angeline Babu, the other half of Silver Nut Tree.

“We wanted to show our little girls who were introduced to the idea of recycling at school, that waste has the potential of being something more rather than just adding on to our ever bulging landfills. The response was immediate and overwhelming.Everybody else’s trash certainly seems to be their treasure! “We have never had any reference point to create our stuff,” explains Angeline modestly. Today, clothes are not the only things upcycled. “Every single product is a result of our trial and error method. So it’s time for high street fashion to take a step back as upcycling is taking over!. “But it wouldn’t be possible without the constant support and understanding from our spouses.” The delicate and intricate designs are certainly like no other