It is very challenging to try to a picture or portait for a every-moving Jack Russell. I managed to grab the chance to take a photo of Skippy, our dearest family pet during his rare moment of sitting still. I was talking to him while focusing my digital SLR camera on him, asking him "You enjoy your yummy food? Want to take a walk later on?" He responded with his head tilting left and right.Sunday, July 19, 2009
Our Gorgeous Little Friend, Skippy Lim (Auckland, New Zealand)
It is very challenging to try to a picture or portait for a every-moving Jack Russell. I managed to grab the chance to take a photo of Skippy, our dearest family pet during his rare moment of sitting still. I was talking to him while focusing my digital SLR camera on him, asking him "You enjoy your yummy food? Want to take a walk later on?" He responded with his head tilting left and right.
Micheal Jackson in his final days revealed (news report)
THE horrifying state of pop superstar Michael Jackson in his final days has been revealed.Harrowing leaked autopsy details show the singer was a virtual skeleton — barely eating and with only pills in his stomach at the time he died.
His hips, thighs and shoulders were riddled with needle wounds — believed to be the result of injections of narcotic painkillers, given three times a day for years.
And a mass of surgery scars were thought to be the legacy of at least 13 cosmetic operations.
Experts found the distressing evidence of Jacko’s physical decline while investigating his startling death in Los Angeles last week.
The examination showed the 5ft 10in star — once famed for his on-stage athleticism — had:
PLUNGED to a “severely emaciated” 8st 1oz. It is understood anorexic Jackson had been eating just one meagre meal a day.
Pathologists found his stomach empty aside from partially-dissolved pills he took before the painkiller injection which stopped his heart. Samples were sent for toxicology tests.
LOST virtually all his hair. The pop pin-up was wearing a wig when he died and pathologists said little more than “peach fuzz” covered his scalp.
A scarred section of skin above his left ear was entirely bald — apparently the result of a 1984 accident when his hair caught fire as he filmed an ad for Pepsi.
SUFFERED several broken ribs as frantic rescuers pumped his chest after he collapsed in cardiac arrest. Four injection sites were found above or near to Jacko’s heart.
All appeared to result from attempts to pump adrenaline directly into the organ in a failed bit to restart it.
Three of the injections had penetrated the heart wall — causing damage — but a fourth missed and hit one of the 50-year-old star’s ribs.
The autopsy also found unexplained BRUISING on Jackson’s knees and on the fronts of both shins. And there were CUTS on his back, indicating a recent fall.
The King of Pop’s once handsome face bore a network of plastic surgery scars, while the bridge to his nose had vanished and its right side had partially collapsed.
As inquiries into the tragedy last night focused on the star’s personal physician Dr Conrad Murray, a source close to the Jackson entourage said: “Michael’s family and fans will be horrified when they realise the appalling state he was in.
“He was skin and bone, his hair had fallen out and had been eating nothing but pills when he died. Injection marks all over his body and the disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery show he’d been in terminal decline for years.
“His doctors and the hangers-on stood by as he self-destructed. Somebody is going to have to pay.”
Cardiologist Dr Murray was thought to have given Jackson the final injection of painkiller Demerol.
He is facing serious questions about his resuscitation attempts, which began when he started CPR as Jacko lay unconscious on a bed. Basic first aid guidance says patients must be face-up on a hard surface before compressions.
Experts yesterday expressed amazement that a trained cardiologist could have made such an error, potentially wasting vital minutes.
Additional damage was believed to have been caused by oxygen masks and tubing inserted during resuscitation attempts. But in an ironic twist, the probe found Jacko was recovering well from skin cancer — with an op to shave cells from his chest a total success.
A second autopsy demanded by the Jackson family was carried out at a secret location on Saturday after the first ruled out foul play.
Family friend Rev Jesse Jackson said the family were deeply suspicious about what caused his death.
Dr Murray was hired just 11 days ago by AEG Live — the firm masterminding Jacko’s 50-date residency at London’s O2 Arena, which was due to start next month.
Sources claimed the family were preparing a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the cardiologist.
Detectives were unable to find the doctor at Jackson’s home and his car was taken away for analysis as police sought him for questioning. He surfaced late on Friday and was quizzed over the weekend.
The Sun told on Saturday how Jacko had developed stage fright for the first time and was terrified of performing the comeback gigs.
Aides claimed the ailing star even believed he would be KILLED if he pulled out on health grounds. We also revealed he was taking a potentially toxic cocktail of drugs.
Sources last night said prescriptions for drugs for patients other than Jacko were found at his home. Those patients were due to be quizzed.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
The Robot Carer
Many researchers in the US are working to give robots the ability to learn about their environment without the aid of the humans that built them.Already a robotic pet has been developed which can be fed information about the terrain in front of it by a circle of cameras.
It is not pre-programmed for the task - but makes its own decisions instantly about which route to take.
Once robots can learn they could find a role in many diverse fields.
Japan, for example, hopes to use humanoids as caregivers for an increasingly elderly population.
Alternatively miniature robots might one day crawl through our intestines looking for and fixing medical problems.
One learning robot project at MIT is an ornithopter that has a computer on board. Every time it flies it learns how to fly better. One day this may be the perfect surveillance or search tool.
The Ornithopter
The computer driven ornithopter learns from expereince
MIT PhD student John Roberts said: "There is a lot of computational power which is important because some of the learning algorithms can be relatively intensive.
"We have a number of sensors here that are able to measure the rate it's spinning, the accelerations it is experiencing."
Better batteries, smaller chips and more computing power are helping the project get closer to its ultimate goal which is for the robot bird to mimic the endurance, manoeuvrability and speed of a living creature.
These are the challenges that generations of students and professors at MIT have tackled.
Thousands of hours of painstaking research, hundreds of tiny scientific steps forward slowly creeping in the right direction until eventually, for a lucky few the eureka moment arrives.
Apple reveal updated iPhone 3GS, (Tech, news, report, repair, unlock, Auckland) David Lim
In San Francisco on Monday, Apple unveiled what it calls the "fastest, most powerful iPhone yet" - t
he 3GS. So how does it compare to previous versions?
Some critics say the new incarnation isn't anything that wasn't expected.
They argue that for many iPhone users, the new model may simply do things they expected the original one to be capable of.
It has more speed, more storage, better battery life and a better camera that can record video.
The new model will also be able to send picture messages, allow copy and pasting of text and a full search capability.
Apple is promising the new model will be up to two times faster than the iPhone 3G, and users will be able to take higher resolution photos and capture video using the new 3 megapixel camera.
Video function
But once Apple's marketing boss Phil Schiller had got round to announcing the new iPhone's built-in compass, the audience in California had realised this was not a day that would change the mobile phone market very much.
For many users, the decision whether to buy an iPhone 3GS will come down to its price, regardless of how many new features it has.
Apple has not yet given details of how much the handset will cost in the UK.
In the US it is priced at $199 (£125) for the 16GB model, $299 (£187) for 32GB.
Other tweaks which set the iPhone 3GS apart from previous models include up to 32GB of storage, but that's only the same as the biggest iPod Touch.
Apple said it has sold more than 40m iPhones and iPod Touch devices, but the company is facing competition.
Palm will soon be releasing the new Pre phone in the UK, launched on the 02 network.
Whilst it has not generated as much hype as the iPhone, it has proved popular in the US and is seen as a big rival to Apple's product.
The new iPhone 3GS will be available in the UK from 19 June, 2009.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
WHO Influenza A (H1N10 update 51, Swine Flue
I have collect some data for your update on the H1N1, see this link
Influenza A(H1N1) - update 51
Laboratory-confirmed cases of new influenza A(H1N1) as officially reported to WHO by States Parties to the International Health Regulations (2005)
19 June 2009 07:00 GMT
Country, territory and area Cumulative total Newly confirmed since the last reporting period Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Argentina 918 4 185 3 Australia 2199 0 87 0 Austria 8 0 1 0 Bahamas 2 0 0 0 Bahrain 12 0 0 0 Barbados 4 0 1 0 Belgium 19 0 0 0 Bermuda, UKOT 1 0 0 0 Bolivia 11 0 0 0 Brazil 96 0 17 0 British Virgin Islands, UKOT 1 0 0 0 Bulgaria 2 0 0 0 Canada 4905 12 856 5 Cayman Islands, UKOT 4 0 0 0 Chile 3125 2 790 0 China 519 0 137 0 Colombia 60 1 7 0 Costa Rica 149 1 0 0 Cuba 15 0 8 0 Cyprus 1 0 0 0 Czech Republic 5 0 1 0 Denmark 22 0 7 0 Dominica 1 0 0 0 Dominican Republic 93 1 0 0 Ecuador 86 0 0 0 Egypt 29 0 3 0 El Salvador 160 0 35 0 Estonia 5 0 1 0 Finland 13 0 1 0 France 131 0 13 0 French Polynesia, FOC 1 0 0 0 Martinique, FOC 1 0 0 0 Germany 238 0 43 0 Greece 31 0 8 0 Guatemala 153 1 25 0 Honduras 108 0 8 0 Hungary 7 0 3 0 Iceland 4 0 0 0 India 30 0 0 0 Ireland 16 0 4 0 Israel 219 0 67 0 Italy 88 0 16 0 Jamaica 14 0 2 0 Japan 690 0 24 0 Jordan 2 0 0 0 Korea, Republic of 84 0 19 0 Kuwait 18 0 0 0 Laos 1 0 1 0 Lebanon 12 0 1 0 Luxembourg 2 0 0 0 Malaysia 23 0 6 0 Mexico 7624 113 1383 5 Morocco 8 0 5 0 Netherlands 87 0 19 0 Netherlands Antilles, Curaçao * 3 0 2 0 Netherlands Antilles, Sint Maarten 1 0 1 0 New Zealand 216 0 89 0 Nicaragua 144 0 26 0 Norway 17 0 4 0 Oman 3 0 3 0 Panama 272 0 0 0 Papua New Guinea 1 0 1 0 Paraguay 27 0 2 0 Peru 141 0 29 0 Philippines 311 0 118 0 Poland 7 0 0 0 Portugal 5 0 2 0 Qatar 3 0 0 0 Romania 18 0 2 0 Russia 3 0 0 0 Samoa 1 0 0 0 Saudi Arabia 22 0 5 0 Singapore 77 0 28 0 Slovakia 3 0 0 0 South Africa 1 0 1 0 Spain 512 0 13 0 Sri Lanka 1 0 0 0 Suriname 11 0 11 0 Sweden 43 0 6 0 Switzerland 27 0 0 0 Thailand 518 0 208 0 Trinidad and Tobago 18 0 13 0 Turkey 20 0 4 0 Ukraine 1 0 0 0 United Arab Emirates 2 0 1 0 United Kingdom 1752 1 291 0 Isle of Man, Crown Dependency 1 0 0 0 Jersey, Crown Dependency 1 0 0 0 United States of America 17855 44 0 0 Uruguay 36 0 0 0 Venezuela 60 0 15 0 Viet Nam 27 0 0 0 West Bank and Gaza Strip 5 0 3 0 Yemen 4 0 3 0 Grand Total 44287 180 4667 13
Chinese Taipei has reported 60 confirmed case of influenza A (H1N1) with 0 deaths. Cases from Chinese Taipei are included in the cumulative totals provided in the table above.
Cumulative and new figures are subject to revision
Abbreviations
UKOT: United Kingdom Overseas Territory
FOC: French Overseas Collectivity
OT: Overseas Territory
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Down with winter flu, a rather bad case! Auckland, New Zealand
I was not feeling well two days ago and the flu set it. Took Panadol but there were not improvement and the flu get worst since last night. Visited Dr. Leong's clinic for treatment.
Then went to the pharmacy to get the prescribed medications. The doctor told me to take the rest of the week off and start working only next Monday. Luckily it is not the H1N1 flue (swine flu), which proved to be deadly.
Before going home, went to Three Kings Auto to pay for the Mitsubishi's two new front tires (NZ$172). Tomorrow, I have to collect my Nissan March from Total Vehicle, Newmarket; repalce new drive shaft, $441 is due!
Then went to the pharmacy to get the prescribed medications. The doctor told me to take the rest of the week off and start working only next Monday. Luckily it is not the H1N1 flue (swine flu), which proved to be deadly.
Before going home, went to Three Kings Auto to pay for the Mitsubishi's two new front tires (NZ$172). Tomorrow, I have to collect my Nissan March from Total Vehicle, Newmarket; repalce new drive shaft, $441 is due!
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