Doctor honoured for her work with CLP patients
A doctor from north Bengal, Neela (Cathrine) Bhattacharya, has been awarded for her work with children born with cleft lips or palates. Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit recently presented the award instituted by a Chennai-based organisation. Dr. Bhattacharya has treated around 4,000 children. She is also the recipient of the 100 Women Achievers in India award, given by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development. Dr. Bhattacharya was the first to set up a plastic surgery department in Siliguri. She said she was elated with the award, “particularly as it came from [her] home State Tamil Nadu”.
View comments Pagasa: Kammuri now a typhoon, may enter PAR by weekend Ethel Booba on hotel’s clarification that ‘kikiam’ is ‘chicken sausage’: ‘Kung di pa pansinin, baka isipin nila ok lang’ Pagasa: Kammuri now a typhoon, may enter PAR by weekend China furious as Trump signs bills in support of Hong Kong Nikki Valdez rushes self to ER due to respiratory tract infection Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss PLAY LIST 02:49Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss02:42PH underwater hockey team aims to make waves in SEA Games01:44Philippines marks anniversary of massacre with calls for justice01:19Fire erupts in Barangay Tatalon in Quezon City01:07Trump talks impeachment while meeting NCAA athletes02:49World-class track facilities installed at NCC for SEA Games The league will also retain its rule on hand checking.“You can not use your hands to prevent offensive players from moving because we believe that talent should come through and we will not allow dirty tactics and hand checking to prevent that,” he said.Players and coaches will also be given more room to react on calls.“We will not slap automatic warning or technical foul based on the initial reaction of a player or coach because we want to give them a chance to control their emotion and we don’t like the league with robots and not playing with human element, which is the beauty of sports,” said Saguisag.“Of course, there are boundaries and we will punish people who will cross the line,” he added.ADVERTISEMENT Lyceum head coach Topex Robinson. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netNCAA deputy commissioner Atty. Rebo Saguisag said the league has created a 40-man pool of referees from the Basketball Referees Association for Schools, Colleges and University in hopes to have a unified interpretation of rules.The 93rd Season of the NCAA opens on Saturday at Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.ADVERTISEMENT Sports Related Videospowered by AdSparcRead Next Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Last year, the league had three separate groups in its officiating team under the guidance of then-commissioner Andy Jao.“This year, we tapped BRASCU because we want consistency and one interpretation of our rules,” said Saguisag, who filled in for commissioner Arturo “Bai” Cristobal during the PSA Forum on Tuesday at Golden Phoenix Hotel in Pasay City.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSSEA Games: Biñan football stadium stands out in preparedness, completionSPORTSPrivate companies step in to help SEA Games hostingSPORTSWin or don’t eat: the Philippines’ poverty-driven, world-beating pool starsSaguisag also said the NCAA will revert back to Fiba ruling with the application of possession arrow instead of jump balls in the last two minutes.“We agreed in principle that we will return to the possession arrow rule the whole game,” said Saguisag. MOST READ Lacson: SEA Games fund put in foundation like ‘Napoles case’ For the complete collegiate sports coverage including scores, schedules and stories, visit Inquirer Varsity. Last one for Pacquiao—Roach Another vape smoker nabbed in Lucena LATEST STORIES LOOK: Jane De Leon meets fellow ‘Darna’ Marian Rivera
Trump strips away truth with hunky topless photo tweet FEU Auditorium’s 70th year celebrated with FEU Theater Guild’s ‘The Dreamweavers’ “We had to go to Salado and we were able to execute,” said Codiñera. “We trust him.”The Chiefs, who bounced back from a 76-67 loss to San Sebastian last week, also got a solid effort from Zach Nicholls who hit two triples to keep Arellano afloat in overtime.Earlier, Letran turned back Emilio Aguinaldo College, 83-80, for its first victory of the season, while San Beda got back to winning ways with an emphatic 76-52 triumph over the St. Benilde Blazers.The Knights drew a big lift from the unheralded pair of Jeo Ambohot and Jeremiah Taladua, who combined for 29 points as the Knights stunned one of the teams tipped to contend for a Final Four berth this season.Ambohot, the 6-foot-6 center, limited EAC’s Cameroonian counterpart Hamadou Laminou, to just seven points on 1-of-7 shooting.ADVERTISEMENT Sports Related Videospowered by AdSparcRead Next Mangulabnan grabs Superbikes lead View comments Church, environmentalists ask DENR to revoke ECC of Quezon province coal plant Lacson: SEA Games fund put in foundation like ‘Napoles case’ Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss PLAY LIST 02:49Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss02:42PH underwater hockey team aims to make waves in SEA Games01:44Philippines marks anniversary of massacre with calls for justice01:19Fire erupts in Barangay Tatalon in Quezon City01:07Trump talks impeachment while meeting NCAA athletes02:49World-class track facilities installed at NCC for SEA Games National Coffee Research Development and Extension Center brews the 2nd National Coffee Education Congress
LATEST STORIES Hotel says PH coach apologized for ‘kikiam for breakfast’ claim Robredo should’ve resigned as drug czar after lack of trust issue – Panelo Ethel Booba on hotel’s clarification that ‘kikiam’ is ‘chicken sausage’: ‘Kung di pa pansinin, baka isipin nila ok lang’ It was a terrific response from Salado, after he missed a couple of free throws in regulation that allowed the Bombers to send the game into overtime at 62-all.Codiñera marveled at his squad’s resolve and composure with Salado, in particular, showing why he’s been hailed as the successor of Jio Jalalon. Salado finished with a game-high 25 points.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSSEA Games: Biñan football stadium stands out in preparedness, completionSPORTSPrivate companies step in to help SEA Games hostingSPORTSWin or don’t eat: the Philippines’ poverty-driven, world-beating pool stars“I don’t know how to describe it,” said Codiñera. “This game was a great character builder for us because I saw how the players trusted each other.”Codiñera said he had full confidence in Salado to deliver, after Jed Mendoza, who sent the game to overtime with a triple, split his free throws to give the Bombers a one-point lead, 70-71, with four seconds remaining in overtime. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netKent Salado staked his claim as Arellano’s top gun, nailing the decisive basket that lifted the Chiefs to a 73-72 overtime victory over the Jose Rizal U Heavy Bombers Tuesday night in NCAA Season 93 basketball tournament at Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan.Given the green light to take over the offense by coach Jerry Codiñera, the reed-thin guard blew past Gio Lasquety before hitting the floater over the outstretched arms of Abdel Poutouchi for the winning basket with two tenths of a second left in the extra period.ADVERTISEMENT Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. MOST READ
Television actor Ashish Sharma , who essayed the role of Lord Ram in Siya Ke Ram, knows how to impress his fans.He has upped his game with the latest bold and smoking hot photo shoot along with wife Archana Taide.He can be seen sporting a gothic look- wearing dark kohl, nose ring and braided hair-do.Pictures courtesy: Instagram/ archanataideThe two lovebirds got married on January 30, 2013. They got married thrice, in a Hindu wedding ceremony in Jaipur, a Christian wedding in Goa–as Archana is a Catholic, and finally a court marriage.He will soon be making a comeback on the small screen with Prithvi Vallabh. The show will hit the screens from January 20.Watch: Rishta Likhenge Hum Naya: Diya is the new maharani of Kesar Mahal
Continue Reading Previous Tektronix announces new 3 MDO and 4 MSO series oscilloscopesNext RIGOL: new vector signal analysis option for RSA5000 series real-time spectrum analyzers The new STM32H7 microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics are the industry’s highest-performing Arm Cortex-M general-purpose MCUs, combining dual-core punch with power-saving features and enhanced cyber protection. The new devices leverage a 480MHz version of the Cortex-M7, the highest performing member of Arm’s Cortex-M family, and add a 240MHz Cortex-M4 core. With ST’s smart architecture, efficient L1 cache, and adaptive real-time ART Accelerator, the MCUs set new speed records at 1327 DMIPS and 3224 CoreMark executing from embedded Flash. ST’s Chrom-ART Accelerator delivers an extra boost to graphics performance. To maximize energy efficiency, each core operates in its own power domain and can be turned off individually when not needed.Developers can easily upgrade existing applications through flexible use of the two cores. They can add a sophisticated user interface to an application such as a motor drive formerly hosted on a single-core Cortex-M4 MCU by migrating legacy code to the STM32H7 Cortex-M4 with the new GUI running on the Cortex-M7. Another example is to boost application performance by offloading intensive workloads such as neural networks, checksums, DSP filtering, or audio codecs.The dual-core architecture also helps simplify code development and accelerate time to market in projects where user-interface code may be developed separately from real-time control or communication features.STM32H7 MCUs come with pre-installed keys and native secure services including Secure Firmware Install (SFI). SFI lets customers order standard products anywhere in the world and have the encrypted firmware delivered to an external programming company without exposing unencrypted code. In addition, built-in support for Secure Boot and Secure Firmware Update (SB-SFU) protects Over the Air feature upgrades and patches.Compared to Flashless processors, STM32H7 MCUs deliver high performance with the extra advantage of up to 2MByte Flash and 1Mbyte SRAM on-chip to better handle space constraints and simplify the design of smart objects in industrial, consumer, and medical applications with real-time performance or AI-processing requirements. Moreover, the Cortex-M7 level 1 cache and parallel and serial memory interfaces offer unlimited and fast access to external memory.Additional advanced features include Error Code Correction for all Flash and RAM memory to increase safety, multiple advanced 16-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), external ambient-temperature range up to 125°C allowing use in severe environments, an Ethernet controller and multiple FD-CAN controllers giving communication-gateway capabilities, and ST’s latest high-resolution timer for generating precision waveforms.ST has already extended the STM32Cube ecosystem by adding STM32CubeH7 firmware modules with application source code, including graphical solutions based on TouchGFX and STemWin graphical-stack library. There are also new Evaluation, Discovery, and Nucleo boards. Developers can leverage all the standard elements of the STM32Cube development environment, including the ST-MC-SUITE motor-control toolkit, STM32Cube.AI machine-learning toolkit, STM32CubeMX, STM32CubeProgrammer, and certified partner solutions for STM32.Share this:TwitterFacebookLinkedInMoreRedditTumblrPinterestWhatsAppSkypePocketTelegram Tags: Chips & Components 
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India cricket team head coach, Ravi Shastri said he was in awe of Virat Kohli’s captaincy during India’s historic 2-1 win in the recently-concluded four-Test series in Australia. Kohli became the first captain in the 71-year history of Test cricket between the two cricketing superpowers to lead an Indian team to Test series win on Australian soil.Shastri heaped rich praise on his captain, Kohli for his on-field tactics, especially his field placements, in the fiercely-fought Test series. The former India captain made a special mention to the dismissal of Australia batsman Marnus Labuschagne on the third day of the drawn final Test in Sydney.Kohli had Ajinkya Rahane closer to short mid-wicket after witnessing a bit of reverse swing while Mohammed Shami was playing. Labuschagne was trying to play straight but after the field change, he hit one straight to Rahane, who took a brilliant low catch. India were unable to seal a 3-1 win despite posting 622 for 7 declared in the first innings of the Sydney Test as rain washed away most of the last two days.”Tactically I think we outsmarted Australia. And a lot of credit should go to his [Kohli’s] leadership on the field,” Ravi Shastri told India Today’s Boria Majumdar in Sydney on Tuesday.”A lot of credit should go to his leadership on the field.. you know, changing of fielders every now and then tinkering with the field a little bit. When you had Labuschagne out caught on the on-side, that was classic Test match cricket… moved him to his right, moved him to his left and then spread two mid-wickets, had another one and pop comes up the catch and Shami persisted. For me, that session defined the Indian cricket team.”advertisementPlenty of classic catches in the #AUSvIND series – here are the top five! pic.twitter.com/R2Xgqpr20Hcricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 7, 2019Ravi Shastri back Virat Kohli’s in-your-face approachWhile a lot has been said about Kohli’s in-your-face attitude, coach Shastri said the India captain’s passion makes a world of difference to the team.”I have seen very few international cricket captains to have that kind of passion when one goes out in the middle. Yes, one’s personality can be different, some may be quiet, some may be reserved. But this guy is in your face. What it does is, it sends a message to the opposition, it sends a message to your dressing room. As players in the tea,m you want to emulate him, you want to get behind him. It makes the team more confident, the youngsters more confident. Players who come into the team pick it up straight away. It makes a world of difference. That passion and the drive gives confidence to the bowlers. It serves more than one role. When you see him on the field with that kind of passion, where he is so expressive, makes a world of difference,” Shastri said.Win in Australia as big as 1983 World Cup win: ShastriIndia were expected to shed their tag of poor travellers in 2018 as they had headed to South Africa and England with an all-round team, including a well-oiled bowling attack. However, tactical errors and ordinary batting displays made sure the Asian giants returned empty-handed. Nonetheless, India achieved a historic win in Australia after learning from mistakes that were made in the two previous overseas tours of the 2018-19 season.Shedding light on the important of the win Down Under, Shastri added: “Sheer hard work, determination, Taking pride in one owns performance and the team’s performance… all those qualities came into play for executing a performance like this. We’ve done well over the year with wins in South Africa, England. But we weren’t able to put it across the finishing line. And this new year when it happened, it was an awesome feeling.”I have been coming here for many many years and Indian teams have been coming here for 71 years, and when you see it unfold in front of your eyes… when you see all the hard work that has been put into paying off… it is probably the most satisfying feeling. That is why when I said 83 [Cricket World Cup] was big… 85 [World Championship] was big.”Also Read | India vs Australia: ‘Ravi Shastri asked players to leave their driver’s license at home’ Also Read | Rishabh Pant now needs to learn how to finish games, says Ravi ShastriAlso Read | Indian batsmen found Jasprit Bumrah ‘one of the most difficult’ to face: Bharat ArunAlso Read | India vs Australia: BCCI announces huge cash rewards for Virat Kohli’s history makersAlso See:advertisement
The Nova Scotia Securities Commission has issued permanent cease trade orders against Celtic Tiger Minerals Exploration Inc. and The Cape Breton West Wind Field Inc. The companies violated Nova Scotia securities laws by not filing continuous disclosure documents. The Cape Breton West Wind Field Inc. is a Nova Scotia community economic development corporation and Celtic Tiger Minerals Exploration Inc., is a reporting issuer. The director of corporate finance ordered the above named companies to comply with Nova Scotia securities laws and ordered all people and companies to permanently cease trading in securities of the above named companies. To view the orders, visit the Enforcement Section under the What’s New page at www.nssc.gov.ns.ca/whats-new . The Nova Scotia Securities Commission is the provincial government agency responsible for regulating trading in securities in the province. -30-
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Truck owners in four Vancouver-area communities are being warned about thieves targeting vehicles for their pricey tailgates.Const. Ian MacDonald of the Abbotsford Police Department says over 80 tailgates have been stolen in the city since early 2016 as well as in Mission, Chilliwack and Langley.Charges have been laid against one man in connection to three thefts, and MacDonald says Abbotsford police are working with other jurisdictions to find more suspects.The bulky pieces of metal may seem difficult to steal, but MacDonald says the act of lowering a tailgate is unlikely to draw much suspicion from onlookers.He says once the gate is lowered, it’s relatively easy for someone to cut cables and lift the piece from a vehicle.MacDonald says thieves could sell the parts for up to $6,000 but replacing a tailgate can cost up to $10,000.“The ease and lucrative nature of it is really quite astonishing,” he says. “If every tailgate represents a $1,000 to $3,000 haul, it makes it a little bit more worthwhile to lug that very conspicuous item out of there.”Police say thieves seem to be targeting various truck models made between 2008 and 2016.Tailgates have gone missing in a variety of places, MacDonald says, including residential neighbourhoods and commercial areas where people have parked overnight.Truck owners are being urged to make sure their tailgates are locked to help prevent theft.
It doesn’t matter how simple a printer is advertised as being, they all end up having annoying software to install, an LCD that is too small to be of any real use, and require a PC and other software in order to get the image or document into the correct state for printing.Artefact, a design partnership focused on “creating a preferable future for humanity” has realized this and decided to do something about the state of printers. Their answer is the SWYP, short for See What You Print.SWYP is a concept printer that is shaped like a very thick sheet of paper with a multi-touch touchscreen dominating the top. The actual printing hardware sits below this with the idea being the touchscreen represents the editing and printing area, so what you see on that screen, and how it looks, is exactly how it will print out on an A4 sheet of paper. There is no other software or hardware, this is your printing canvas.As the touchscreen is only used for the printer, and is the same size as the paper, it is always a 100% accurate representation of how your print out will look. You can plug in or connect devices wirelessly for quick transfers of images, and it’s web connected so services like Flickr, Facebook, or Picasa can easily be accessed for image printing. SWYP also opens up to allow paper to be inserted for scanning.One final nice touch is how you check how much ink you have left. Rather than relying on a piece of software or manually looking at the ink cartridges, the touchscreen interface can be replaced with a representation of the printer internals and a clear level indicator for each ink cartridge.SWYP is just an idea, but one that certainly looks like it could drastically improve the printing process for consumers. Lets hope one of the printer companies sees the concept and decides to run with it.More at Artefact
Mar 11th 2019, 6:50 PM CervicalCheck ex-gratia payments scheme to be set up ‘in the coming weeks’ The scheme is designed to provide an alternative, “non-adversarial” option for women affected by the CervicalCheck issue. IT’S BEEN CONFIRMED that an ex-gratia payment scheme has been made available to the 221 women and their families, who have been affected by the by the non-disclosure of the Cervical Check audit.The amount that will be paid will be determined by an Independent Assessment Panel, taking into account the impact of the non-disclosure.The scheme is designed to provide an alternative, “non-adversarial” option for women affected by the CervicalCheck issue, as the courts process can be both costly and take some time.The scheme will be up and running in the coming weeks, the Department said.Minister for Health Simon Harris secured government approval to proceed with the scheme, which will be “open to all women, or their next of kin, in the 221 cohort identified from the retrospective clinical audit as having discordance in their smear test result and where this finding was not disclosed in an appropriate or timely fashion”.The government also approved the appointment of the Independent Assessment Panel, comprising a retired High Court Judge (previously announced as Mr Justice Aindrias Ó Caoimh), an independent clinician and a person of good standingIn September last year, an interim recommendation of a report into the CervicalCheck non-disclosure issue by Dr Gabriel Scally said that an immediate ex-gratia payment of €2,000 to each of the women involved.Of the 221 women originally affected by the scandal, 19 have died, including campaigners Emma Mhic Mhathúna and Orla Church. 9,218 Views Image: Niall Carson Image: Niall Carson https://jrnl.ie/4535776 Share106 Tweet Email Short URL By Gráinne Ní Aodha 19 Comments Monday 11 Mar 2019, 7:35 PM Tweet thisShare on FacebookEmail this article
Le volume des lecteurs MP3 : principale cause des dommages auditifs ? Selon une étude menée par des chercheurs américains, le volume des lecteurs MP3 qui nous permettent d’écouter de la musique notamment pendant des déplacements, serait le principal danger auquel seraient aujourd’hui exposées nos oreilles et notre audition. Alors qu’il est désormais rare de rencontrer dans les transports des gens qui n’ont pas leurs écouteurs vissés aux oreilles, c’est une alerte importante que viennent de déclencher des chercheurs américains de l’université du Michigan. Suite à une vaste étude, ceux-ci ont en effet découvert que les lecteurs MP3 étaient aujourd’hui devenus une véritable menace pour notre audition. D’après eux, neuf personnes sur dix qui utilisent les transports seraient exposées à un niveau sonore excessif en écoutant de la musique avec leur lecteur MP3. Un niveau bien supérieur à celui provenant de l’environnement. À lire aussiLe baladeur : du walkman au MP3… 30 ans d’évolutionPour arriver à une telle conclusion, les scientifiques se sont intéressés à l’exposition sonore de quelques 4.500 New-Yorkais qui utilisent les transports pour leurs déplacements professionnels ou non. Ils ont également étudié leur utilisation des lecteurs MP3. Au final, ils ont ainsi constaté que le voyageur lambda des transports new-Yorkais passait environ 380 heures à utiliser le bus ou les trains, exposé à un volume sonore moyen de 72 à 81 décibels (dB). A titre de comparaison, une discussion correspond à 60 dB, une rue chargée à 80 dB, une scie circulaire à 90 dB, un bébé qui pleure à 115 dB, rapporte le Daily mail. Le niveau de douleur est situé à 120 dB et une exposition même brève à celui-ci peut causer des dommages importants et irréversibles. “C’est alarmant de savoir que la majorité de l’exposition sonore de deux personnes sur trois provient de la musique. J’ai toujours considéré le lieu de travail comme un risque primaire d’exposition au bruit. Mais ceci suggère que concentrer nos efforts sur le lieu de travail n’est pas suffisant, dans la mesure où une grande partie de l’exposition au bruit provient d’autres sources”, a commenté le professeur Rick Neitzel, co-auteur de l’étude. Il a poursuivi : “c’est un sérieux problème alors qu’il n’existe pas vraiment d’autres “expériences” pour lesquelles nous accepterions que neuf personnes sur dix soient exposées à un niveau que nous savons dangereux”.Le bruit excessif, source de stress Si les chercheurs recommandent de baisser le volume, ils soulignent également l’importance d’avoir du bon matériel. Les écouteurs ou casques peu chers ont, d’après eux, l’inconvénient d’isoler bien moins de l’environnement extérieur et donc d’inciter l’utilisateur à monter le son pour mieux entendre sa musique. “Nous ne tolérerions certainement pas ça s’il s’agissait de quelque chose qui cause le cancer ou une maladie chronique. Un nombre croissant d’études montre que le bruit cause du stress, des troubles du sommeil et des maladies cardiaques. Il se pourrait que le bruit auquel nous n’avons pas assez accordé d’attention jusqu’ici contribue en réalité à quelques uns des principaux problèmes de santé que rencontrent les pays développés”, a estimé le Pr Neitzel toujours cité par le Daily Mail.Le 26 décembre 2011 à 15:31 • Maxime Lambert
