It is a devastating reality that every day at least one person dies in West Africa, with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa killing over one thousand people. The outbreak is particularly severe in Movoria, Liberia, where a photographer, John Moore risked getting the virus to take images of the depressing state of the nation.The United Nations has promised to send food supplies to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea since the outbreak has collapsed their economies. The supplies are expected to feed one million. This is perhaps the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history and whereas previously experimental drugs were not allowed to be given to patients in Africa because of potential risks. This week, the World Health Organization gathered a group of ethicists and unanimously decided to that the situation demands that the risk be taken. The experimental drugs were given to two American missionaries and one Spanish priest. The two Americans seem to be recovering while the priest died Tuesday morning. Let us all hope and pray that they will save some lives in West Africa.
Biggest economic contraction in Japan since the Tsunami
The increase of sales tax in Japan has triggered an abrupt fall in consumer spending in the last quarter, which has consequently lead to an economic contraction that hasn’t been seen since the earthquake and tsunami more than three years ago. The annualized 6.8% decline in GDP reported by the government in a preliminary estimate on Wednesday, was relatively mild compare to the latest market forecasts but still far more severe than what most experts had predicted when the tax rise originally took effect in April.
Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, took office in late 2012, and promised to rejuvenate Japan’s economy with his program of “Abenomics”. The GDP decline could be analyzed keeping in mind the similar sized jump in the first quarter, and some may even call it a statistical anomaly.
Changes in spending patterns were noticed as many moved expensive purchases forward and stockpiled daily items. However, the point of importance here is that, the contraction was more significant than the earlier gain. Growth from January to March was revised in Wednesday’s report from 6.7% to 6.1% while the government also said that it had reason to believe that the economy had shrunk slightly in the final quarter of 2013.
Mr. Abe should understand that it is imperative to address the tax issue again soon, he needs to decide whether to let it increase or if the economy is too fragile. The dominant opinion among the experts regarding the current quarter is that the economic activity has picked up and data for this period is due for release in November, and is one of the biggest considerations in Abe’s decision.
Japan’s public debt is the largest in the world which makes raising revenue crucial for the government and the sales tax is still much lower than that of other wealthy, developed countries.
However, it must be noted that the previous time tax was increase in 1997, the economy suffered greatly and many critics and experts haven’t forgotten that. On the other hand, the government argues that it was the Asian currency crisis and not the tax increase that caused the crash while the critics still remain unconvinced.
Report: Stop Buying Ivory Will Stop Killing Elephants Too
Many of the present day incidents questions on Humanity. Where is it lost?
To what extent we can go to incur wealth and maintain showbiz.
Over the past years, African elephants are diminishing due to epidemic plundering accelerated by sale of ivory tusks in black market. Among them, elephants in Kenya have been the most targeted ones. Last year, 30,000 elephants approximately were slaughtered in Africa, making it one of the brutal acts and a shame on humanity.
People benefiting from this trade include dealers, cartels, vendors and the poachers themselves. A lesser known fact about this ivory business is that around 70 percent of it is pouring into China. A data shows there has been a steep rise on the demand of ivories and people in China are extravagantly spending on it, an exalted economy has pushed the ivory price around &1,000 in the streets of Beijing. Chinese online websites selling different products of ivory cup, combs, bookmarks, chopsticks are on heavy demand and clear techniques are also found on the forums including how to smuggle. Some rock solid evidence sheds light on the fact 150 Chinese citizens were arrested across Africa, for dealing ivory. And highest number of plundering took place where These Chinese were hired for road construction.
Not only this, the urge of expanding this trade has increased so much that in Tanzania, the impoverished are killing elephants by poisoning pumpkins an rolling them into the streets . In Garamba, many Congolese soldiers have been arrested who were seen with slabs of elephant meats and tusks.
Thanks to some organizations who are taking lead to save these innocent species, this inhuman act would have been more than ever imagined if these organizations haven’t come forward to rescue them.
Last week, a baby elephant that got segregated and lost while following a herd of cows was rescued and saved by the team of Kenya based David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, who has saved many orphaned elephants who would have otherwise destroyed in these heinous acts.
This year, this charity already saved six orphaned elephants. The aerial surveillance method used by this organization helps them in pointing out the herds of elephants and save if any poacher signals to approach them. They even rescue the lost baby or adult elephant. If an elephant is found in a secluded area, they arrange an airplane to transfer the calf to the organizations’ secure place.
Once these baby elephants are transferred to rehabilitation centers, they are grouped with other elephants to get away with the trauma.
High rise in Re-hospitalization of Lupus Patients
A study recently shows that patients with lupus disease are getting re-admitted just after a month of discharge with the ratio of 1 is to 6 hospitals.
The reason of readmission is the dreadfulness of the disease. Dr. Jinoos Yazdany , lead researcher and associate professor of medicine at the University of California , San Francisco addresses this issue by saying that re-hospitalizations could be lessened by some improved strategies and providing better health care services.
Lupus is a persistent which damages any part of the body. In this disease, there is a severe damage in the immune system. Research and studies are unable to answer underlying causes of it, but there is evidence that though drugs are available to conceal the immune system and control lupus but with side effects.
Few of the things associated with Lupus are the following:
Women are more likely to get Lupus 10 times more than men.
Affects lower socioeconomic groups, racial and ethnic minorities
Environmental, biological, psychosocial and even health care are few of the factors.
Major concern above all is the infection caused by the same drugs which is used for healing the disease so that lupus can’t invade the body also cuts down the person’s strength to beat off viral and bacterial infections.
The data shows 16.5 patients were brought to the hospitals again after 30 days of admission.
“If you have more signs of lupus infected badly then you are likely to be treated with more advanced immunosuppressant which will increase the chances of infection,” said Dr. Joan Merrill, medical director of the Lupus Foundation of America and Head of Clinical pharmacology research at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.” It is going to heighten your risk of re-hospitalization, and if by any chance the treatment goes wrong then there can be an organ failure.”
In fact, more serious disease was due to readmission in the hospitals. Condition led to readmission is: low blood platelet count; kidney inflammation; an inflammation of the linings of the organs.
Others noticeable thing was Black and Hispanic patients were seeing re-admitted more than white people comparatively which shows a discrimination or unequal service regarding health care.
Yazdany added that there is more to educate people on Lupus disease and managing the patients who are suffering with it.
Oil Spill and it’s After Affects on Environment.
It is a very common fact that water and oil do not mix but nobody knows that when petroleum is spill into a water surface, then some amount of oil immediately get dissolved in water and the rest of it disappears into the air. This oil can have a really bad effect on the environment and the surroundings of the sea. The quantity of oil which evaporated in the air can induce an extreme type of aviation pollution, whereas, the water dissolved amount of oil can be hazardous for aquatic creatures.
An experiment performed in North Sea give some significant clues that can assist in the formation of measures of tackling these kinds of calamity. The conclusion of this study is published inEnvironmental Science and Technology. In this report they recognized the immediate reaction of oil spillage in the environment. It is primarily focused on the first 24 hours after the incident and how water acts in response to this new environment. Shortly after the spill water changes its composition and transform itself in a completely new element.
According to Samuel Arey, a researcher at EPFL and Eawag in Switzerland and author of the study, most of this transformation of oil begins on the inaugural day of the disaster. The Majority of the unstable compounds mixes with the air and starts the process of air pollution. On the other, the remaining poisonous substances like naphthalene dissolve into the sea water and creates a real jeopardy for the all the aquatic ecosystems.
The researchers also worked with the emergency response specialist to make a fake incident of oil spill in water. This false experiment provides a fuller apprehension of what happens when this type of huge events happens.
Oil Spill and it’s After Affects on Environment.
It is a very common fact that water and oil do not mix but nobody knows that when petroleum is spill into a water surface, then some amount of oil immediately get dissolved in water and the rest of it disappears into the air. This oil can have a really bad effect on the environment and the surroundings of the sea. The quantity of oil which evaporated in the air can induce an extreme type of aviation pollution, whereas, the water dissolved amount of oil can be hazardous for aquatic creatures.
An experiment performed in North Sea give some significant clues that can assist in the formation of measures of tackling these kinds of calamity. The conclusion of this study is published inEnvironmental Science and Technology. In this report they recognized the immediate reaction of oil spillage in the environment. It is primarily focused on the first 24 hours after the incident and how water acts in response to this new environment. Shortly after the spill water changes its composition and transform itself in a completely new element.
According to Samuel Arey, a researcher at EPFL and Eawag in Switzerland and author of the study, most of this transformation of oil begins on the inaugural day of the disaster. The Majority of the unstable compounds mixes with the air and starts the process of air pollution. On the other, the remaining poisonous substances like naphthalene dissolve into the sea water and creates a real jeopardy for the all the aquatic ecosystems.
The researchers also worked with the emergency response specialist to make a fake incident of oil spill in water. This false experiment provides a fuller apprehension of what happens when this type of huge events happens.
Apple Hinted SIRI on Mac
Apple Insider revealed, Apple has registered a comprehensive application that explains a Siri like Desktop that can function on the voice recognition quality or simply can execute on speech command. It means that all the voice or text could be easily converted into required function. This Desktop Siri will understand context based commands.
Well, it’s not new that the desktops don’t support voice command application but it has been a third party application on Linux and Windows operating systems till now. If apple extends Siri to Mac, then it will be the first discovery of an operating system already having a voice assistant without the aid of any third party application. Apple has been striving to develop Siri to the extent that it can understand any accents and commands, so it can be expected to perform well after reaching the Mac OS.
Someone could easily see the great functionality of this feature of voice recognition commands especially for the people who can’t use their hands for typing or are unable to use the mouse. Though wonderful feature it is , there are certain tasks which still requires hands to be operated like editing photos, editing videos. Other useful tasks Siri can do is to duplicate or combine the file with another file, organize, sort file in a particular folder. A user can ask for a new setting in his email or can put on hold on some files which are supposed to be treated for later use. One of the other features includes multi tasking which means till now we could open different applications but working on it simultaneously was not possible but with voice command someone can do the task in one app while commanding the other app to perform the other one.
Apple already threw the news of launching latest version of Mac OS- OS X Yosemite in WWDC this year. There are chances that Apple might stands out this voice assistant in upcoming version or may declare its launching in the final version of OS X Yosemite.
Apple Hinted SIRI on Mac
Apple Insider revealed, Apple has registered a comprehensive application that explains a Siri like Desktop that can function on the voice recognition quality or simply can execute on speech command. It means that all the voice or text could be easily converted into required function. This Desktop Siri will understand context based commands.
Well, it’s not new that the desktops don’t support voice command application but it has been a third party application on Linux and Windows operating systems till now. If apple extends Siri to Mac, then it will be the first discovery of an operating system already having a voice assistant without the aid of any third party application. Apple has been striving to develop Siri to the extent that it can understand any accents and commands, so it can be expected to perform well after reaching the Mac OS.
Someone could easily see the great functionality of this feature of voice recognition commands especially for the people who can’t use their hands for typing or are unable to use the mouse. Though wonderful feature it is , there are certain tasks which still requires hands to be operated like editing photos, editing videos. Other useful tasks Siri can do is to duplicate or combine the file with another file, organize, sort file in a particular folder. A user can ask for a new setting in his email or can put on hold on some files which are supposed to be treated for later use. One of the other features includes multi tasking which means till now we could open different applications but working on it simultaneously was not possible but with voice command someone can do the task in one app while commanding the other app to perform the other one.
Apple already threw the news of launching latest version of Mac OS- OS X Yosemite in WWDC this year. There are chances that Apple might stands out this voice assistant in upcoming version or may declare its launching in the final version of OS X Yosemite.
Orbiters readjust as Comet Siding Spring approaches
As Comet Siding Spring approaches to make a close encounter with the Red Planet, the Mars Odyssey orbiter will have to change its orbit to avoid potential dangers. The orbital connection takes place on August 5th in anticipation of the celestial encounter taking place on October 19th.
The orbiter is worth $297 million, however there is no danger of it colliding with the comet but dust from the comet will be shot out at unbelievable speeds because of heating from the Sun and this could cause problems.
At its closest approach, the comet will come within 82,000 miles of Mars and at that point dust will be rushing at the speeds of more than 126,000 miles per hour. At these speeds particles as small as 1/50th of an inch could be hazardous.
NASA officials wrote in a press release that researchers plan to use instruments from the Mars orbiters to study the coma surrounding the nucleus, the tail of Siding Spring and its possible effects on Martian atmosphere. Attempts will be made to better understand the composition of the comet, coma a tail.The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) which is due to arrive just one month before the comet makes its close encounter will study the interaction between the comet and solar wind from the Sun and the effect of the gas on Martian atmosphere.
The period under which the planet shall encounter the greatest danger will last about twenty minutes and that is also when the spacecraft will be more at risk as this will be the period when the planet encounters the greatest concentrations of dust and debris from the comet.
Samsung Gear Live vs Samsung Gear 2 Neo – The Battle Begins
Smart watches are greatly known as wearable computers. Currently, they are extensive in range with various thrilling functions for instance; Sony smart watch has the technology through which it can work with any smart phone.
Several companies have launched a series of smart watches due to which a watch is often compared with the other smart watch of the same company. Right now, we will do a contrast between Samsung gear live and Samsung gear 2 neo. The most prominent dissimilarity is in the software of both the smart watches Samsung gear live runs on Google Android Os, which obviously has the facility of voice search, whereas Samsung Gear 2 Neo runs on Samsung’s Tizen software which has actually very basic options.
There is just a slight difference in its size, gear live is a bit thinner than the other one, that doesn’t make any big difference. When we talk about available colors in both the smart watches then we can easily say that Samsung gear 2 is the champion in it since it has 3 different colors that are black, gold, and orange. When it comes to the size of display screen, display type, water resistance ability, heat rate observer and fitness track then both smart watches stands on the same line with 1.63” screen.
In conclusion, one cannot be the winner because if we look at the appearance then the vote will be for Gear live on the other hand Gear 2 Neo has some certain features which you would not find in Gear live.
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