A mock earthquake drill was held in Guwahati, Assam on Tuesday, Dec 27, and the director general of civil defense highlighted the importance of Amateur Radio in natural disasters.

A Times of India report says:

Expressing happiness over the programme, director general of civil defense Rajendra Prasad was hopeful that such programmes will help the citizens understand how to conduct rescue operations with the available resources.

Saying that Amateur Radio sets proved quite useful during earthquake and Tsunami in 2004, Prasad said. He added, "the Amateur or HAM radio was very useful during the devastating earthquake at Bhuj and also in conducting rescue operations in Andaman and Nicobar islands in 2004.

This device can be used when mobile towers and other communication devices gets destroyed."

He said the civil defence will urge the Centre to issue licenses to run Amateur Radio in Assam soon. Though Amateur Radio is the only mode of communication which works during an emergency, the use of Amateur radio in Assam is yet to gain popularity as Wireless planning and Co-ordination has not issued any license to run Amateur radio in the northeastern states since 1990 due to security reasons.

Read the full Times of India story – Mock drill to raise awareness on earthquake management timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Mock-drill-to-raise- awareness-on-earthquake-management/articleshow/11275435.cms

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Amateur Radio praised in Indian Earthquake exercise

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You can experience excellent health gains from simply walking, and if you would like to lose some pounds with it then that is doable, too. Naturally, it all is determined by the amount you walk and also the power of your walks. If you are sincere about about losing unwanted weight, then you can easily do that with a vigorous walking program. If long lasting weight loss is what you’re seeking, then that can be done with walking because it is easy to maintain this type of routine. Taking walks coupled with gradual modifications in your diet, including eating fat burning foods, can produce excellent results.

There are so many people who have trouble with stressful exercises, and they just do nothing. If you are able to walk, and want to avoid the really difficult training, then you have every reason to start walking asap. Depending on the amount you walk and the amount of training, you will soon see some muscles starting to be firmer specifically in your lower extremeties. The best part of all is the calorie burning result that walking will most definitely provide for you. with time, you will be able to do more and maybe increase your walking speed. Once you achieve that milestone, then you can walk for more distance and more quickly which will result in increased calorie burning.

The way to get rid of extra weight is through lower levels of stress and demand plus longer duration exercise times. That is why aerobic exercises and cardiovascular workouts are so great. That is the similar result you can get from walking despite the fact that it is not regarded as an aerobic workout. If you are able to get in a great walk for an hour, then you will be building great progress. Do be careful about starting if it has been a long time since you exercised, and it might be a good idea to check with your doctor, first.

You can certainly experience many terrific gains from a solid walking routine. for instance, you will begin firming your muscles that is certain to boost your resting rate of calorie consumption. As you walk, the flow of your blood will rise, and the more you do it the longer the effect will last. with this boost, the cells in your body will have a lot more oxygen, and that will offer you more energy. In addition to being more lively on a physical level, your mental alertness will grow due to increased blood circulation and oxygen quantity.

Another excellent advantage of walking is it can be really pleasant if you form a team to walk with. Taking walks is a form of exercise most can easily do, and that will enable you to find others to join in. One more great part of this approach to exercise is you do not need hardly any equipment other than a good pair of walking sneakers. You can come across shoes specifically designed for walking, and they will help protect your feet, ankles and knees.

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Experiments on naked mole-rats may lead to better treatments with fewer side effects for humans suffering from painful inflammatory arthritis, according to a new study published Friday in the journal Science.

The partially blind, hairless, wrinkly, cold-blooded mammals were good candidates for the study because of their unique insensitivity to acid-induced pain.

Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the naked mole-rat makes its home burrowed deep in huge colonies in underground tunnels, with access to very little oxygen and high levels of carbon dioxide.

“Exposure to high levels of carbon dioxide in turn would evoke acidosis, but the naked mole-rat has evolved in a way to manage this acid load and to be able to live in acidic environments, which for most other rodents in the world would be uninhabitable,” said neuroscientist Ewan St. John Smith, the lead author of the study.

Scientists say in most mammals – including humans – exposure to acid stimulates special channels at the tips of sensory neurons, called nociceptors. Once these nociceptors are activated, they transmit a signal along the spinal cord to the brain.

But among naked mole-rats, although acid triggers the nociceptors, their pain-sensing neurons contain proteins with genetic mutations that prevent neurons from firing off pain signals in response to acid.

Inflammatory disorders, such as arthritis, are normally associated with acidosis, scientists say.

“If a drug could now be developed which acts on these particular proteins on the sensory neurons, you could limit the ability of acid to cause pain in patients with arthritis and other inflammatory disorders,” Smith said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 50 million U.S. adults (about 1 in 5) report doctor-diagnosed arthritis. That number is projected to increase to 67 million by 2030.

“We can learn a lot from comparative physiology. By understanding how an animal adapts to its environment, this will teach us a lot of our own biological system,” said neuroscientists Gary R. Lewin, one of the authors of the study, conducted by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany.

The naked mole-rat has been the subject of other groundbreaking studies. The buck-tooth rodent has been found to have an unusually long life span; it can live three years longer than other rodents and is resistant to cancer.

Most recently, scientists sequenced and analyzed the entire genome, which Smith and his colleagues hope to be able to use for their next phase of research.

“It’s cool to know how things work, especially when things don’t work as you expect them to,” Smith said.

Dr. Peter Diamandis wants you to be the CEO of your own health care.

You should be able to make decisions based on technology that analyzes your body and gives you personalized feedback and treatment recommendations, he says. And Diamandis wants to speed the development of that technology along by offering prizes for the people who can make it happen.

Diamandis is the founder and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, which offers $10 million prizes for various technological feats.

In October, he announced the $10 million Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Medco, which is a challenge to sequence 100 genomes of centenarians quickly, cheaply and accurately.

Such sequencing is getting more accurate and inexpensive all the time. And data collected from sequencing specific groups of people – those who have had specific diseases, for instance – will help scientists gain a better understanding of those conditions and how to treat them.

“We’re about to enter a data explosion,” Diamandis said. “We finally have enough low cost, fast, ubiquitous computing to help us crunch these numbers.”

As if that’s not futuristic enough, he also wants to take a hint from “Star Trek” in reimagining health care. Characters from that sci-fi hit used a tricordor, a device that can analyze and record data. One variant of a tricorder is specialized for medical purposes to diagnose diseases and get other patient information.

Diamandis wants to have a $10 million prize to make a tricorder in real life. The prize would anyone who develops a mobile device that can match or beat a panel of board certified physicians in diagnosis. He envisions a hand-held device that has artificial intelligence, so you could talk to it. And you could cough on it to see if you have a cold, or prick your finger to test your blood.

It’s called, appropriately, the Tricorder X Prize, partly funded by Qualcomm, and is still in development.

Diamandis just finished a book with science writer Steven Kotler called “Abundance,” which is coming out in February. By his account the world is getting better at an accelerating pace. A “rising billion” people will be gaining access to the internet this decade, becoming interconnected through low-cost handsets and tablets. They will gain access to health care information and education that will help them become true innovators. Their passions and time investment will lead them to solve big problems.

“As these problems get solved in the developing world at a very low-cost rate, it’ll come back here to the United States and give us amazing benefits,” he said.

Diamandis and Kotler’s book introduces innovators such as Steve Hawking, Larry Page, Dean Kamen and others who are making strides in some of the biggest problems of our time.

The X Prize Foundation is probably best known for the Ansari X Prize in space flight. The challenge was to fly two people 100 kilometers (62 miles) up – one notion of “where outer space begins” – twice in two weeks. In October 2004, SpaceShipOne was named the winner of the $10 million prize.

The prize gave innovators a clear goal, and gave legitimacy to the undertaking of private space flight. In the five years after SpaceShipOne won this prize, $1 billion was invested in the personal spaceflight industry, Diamandis has said. Diamandis, who wanted to be an astronaut as a child, has not personally been to space. But he holds two tickets – one with Space Adventures and one with Virgin Atlantic. He plans to be on one of these early commercial flights to space and fulfill his passion.

“But it’s not just about going on a trip,” he says. “It’s the fact that we are on the verge of the greatest exploration humanity’s ever undertaken”…….Source…. CNN.com

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 20, 2011

The I CARE Foundation is urging lawyers in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada interested in assisting parents of children who have been internationally abducted or who may be targets of international parental abduction to participate in the Department of State’s “Hague Convention Attorney Network” according to Peter Thomas Senese, a director of the foundation. “In order to prevent child abduction, the reality is lawyers educated on the complex issues of international child abduction need to be mobilized within the Department of State’s attorney network. When this occurs, there will be significant opportunity to educate a less than knowledgeable judiciary who are too often unfamiliar with the complexities typically present in these cases. Additionally, and of equal importance, particularly in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada is the need for undocumented individuals living in the United States to know that if their child is abducted from the United States, they have major recourse under the Hague Convention, and that the Department of State’s Office of Childrens Issues is ready, willing, and able to assist them.

The Office of Children’s Issues in the U.S. Department of State serves as the U.S. Central Authority for the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the “Convention”). The International Child Abduction Remedies Act (“ICARA”), establishes procedures for litigating Convention cases in the U.S. The U.S. Central Authority has numerous functions including facilitating the institution of judicial proceedings in the U.S. “with a view to obtaining the return of the child and, in a proper case, to make arrangements for organizing or securing the effective exercise of rights of access.” In April of 2008, the U.S.Central Authority assumed the responsibility for all incoming cases, and overseeing a network of volunteer attorneys.

The “Attorney Network” provides critical assistance. Lawyers that join the “Attorney Network” are asked to consider taking Hague Convention return and access cases on a pro bono or reduced fee basis. There is never an obligation to take a case, and legal fees and expenses may be recoverable under the Convention’s Article 26 and the implementing statute (42.U.S.C 11607), and under state law when state law remedies are pursued (e.g., UCCJEA). In addition, lawyers with and without Hague experience are welcome to join the Attorney Network, as the Attorney Network offers a host of information and mentor programs. In addition to incoming cases of abduction, attorneys can also represent parents in abduction prevention cases and outgoing abduction cases.

Presently, there are over 1,640 ‘reported’ cases of IPCA originating from the United States according to the last published report issued from the Department of State to Congress. The number of cases has nearly tripled from 2006 to 2009 alone according to a recent report issued by the Government Accountability Office’s (“GAO”). According to I CARE, the number of ‘unreported cases’ of IPCA appears to be substantial and at least equal the number and growth rate of ‘reported’ cases.. Many of the ‘unreported’ cases appear to involve immigrants who originate from Central and South American, and Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada (along with California) clearly have a high-volume of incoming and outgoing cases.

Peter Thomas Senese added, “Overall growth rate of IPCA is conservatively estimated to be between 15% – 20% per year, and there could be well over 100,000 children abducted from the United States between 2009 and 2020 if current trends conservatively stay the same.”

As the growing rate of abduction and the shortage of trained attorneys becomes more well known, key media voices in the legal community have recently come to support I CARE’s recruitment campaign for attorneys to join the Department of State’s “Attorney Program.” Aware of the growing crisis in Connecticut, the Connecticut Law Tribune(CLT) recently published an important article concerning this issue.

Patricia M. Lee, a Florida attorney practicing in the area of parental child abduction and a Director of the I CARE Foundation who was interviewed by the CLT states, I feel privileged to have been a referral attorney for the implementing agency for many years of my private practice. The trauma experienced by victimized children and parents when faced with a child abduction, especially in the international arena, is overwhelming, primarily due to the lack of experienced attorneys, but also, due to the great financial burden, and cultural and language barriers. When they have nowhere else to turn and are so desperate, being able to help these people has been a rewarding experience personally, as well as professionally. It is worth every hour I have spent climbing the learning curve in this little known area of the law. OCI has always been responsive and helpful in the practicalities of dealing with clients living abroad, and the network of mentor attorneys available across the U.S., nothing short of a wealth of information and assistance. My experience in taking these cases has been humbling, to say the least, as I have seen the very best of my profession, which is too often the object of jokes and derision. I would encourage any attorney to join the Attorney Network.

Joel S. Walter, an lawyer practicing in New York, a member of the I CARE Foundation, and a Director of the Attorney Network said, “As a lawyer practicing complex cases primarily in federal court for over 30 years, it is astonishing to learn of the tragedies children of abduction and their targeted parents face. In joining the Department of State’s “Attorney Network”, I have an opportunity to give back to our community, and make a difference in the life of a child. Participating in the network is not just good lawyering, but it is good citizenship. The I CARE Foundation looks forward to assisting the Department of State by educating other lawyers about the attorney network in hope that they too may participate in this critical program.”

Denise Gunn Garno, a Naples, Florida based lawyer practicing primarily complex family law matters and who is a member of the Department Of State’s Hague Convention Attorney Network commented on the significance of lawyers from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada to join the ‘Attorney Network’ when she stated, “Florida’s new CAPA law presents a challenge to attorneys attempting to ensure CAPA is applied in cases wherein children are in imminent danger of abduction. A lack of judicial awareness is extremely detrimental as it puts children’s lives in jeopardy. In order for the State of Florida and our nation to protect our children from abduction, we must not only create abduction prevention laws, but the rules of law must be adhered to. My participation in the Department of State’s Hague Convention Attorney Network will make a difference in the lives of my clients and hopefully the children targeted of this crime from my home state.”

Carolyn Ann Vlk, writer of Florida’s CAPA law and a director of I CARE said, “The reality is that laws that have been established to protect children are not followed in part due to an uneducated judiciary. The way to remedy this is to have informed litigators who can make a difference before the courts. Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona have a high case load and clearly attorneys are needed by the Department of State to join their “Attorney Network.”

An extensive report to be published by I CARE this December puts the cost of IPCA in the United States over the next 10 years at over 1.6 Billion dollars.

If you are a lawyer interested in finding out more about the Hague Convention Attorney Network, please visit http://travel.state.gov/pdf/AttorneyNetworkFlyer.pdf or call 202-501-4444. To learn more about international parental child abduction please visit http://www.travel.state.gov/abduction.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) November 20, 2011

The United States and several countries worldwide, throughout Europe and Asia in particular, have a glut of college and graduate school students entering the worforce each year. Recently, this oversupply of talent and undersupply of work has caused a recalibration of career goals in both the short and long term, noted Jonscott Turco.

The number of people in the workforce who are disengaged and employed in jobs where they simply punch the proverbial clock and collect a paycheck; as compared to pursuing a career and life they value and give their fullest effort, is having a dramatic impact on the present state of the world economy. Research statstics noted by Gallup earlier this year are dramatic and support these observations. According to Gallups recent survey, the lost productivity of actively disengaged employees costs the US economy alone $ 370 Billion annually.

Its impossible to have this high a percentage of dissatisfied workers without having consistent and long term negative impact on their local economy. Moreso, this has a collective far reaching impact on communities, states, and countries and their economic health, concluded Jonscott Turco.

As part of a solution to engage employees and hire smart, Jonscott Turco works to help clients through comprehensive individual and organizational consulting services to pursue careers and talent in a thoughtful and strategic manner.

About LIVathon

LIVathon is the definitive coaching for individuals looking to live their best life. Careers, Relationships, Children – healthy balance of social media and in person interaction among families, are all areas of expertise. Individual programs are designed by our team of highly experienced and caring professionals.collaborative and supportive approach to their individual opportunities. LIVathon is an active supporter of various philanthropic causes with special attention to St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital and the American Cancer Society.

About Jonscott Turco

For 20 years, Jonscott Turco has worked to help individuals and organizations conceive, plan, and implement dynamic business and human capital initiatives. His innovative techniques have helped his clients drive more accountable personal and business practices, grow individually, and achieve bottom line results. He is currently a recognized leader in the Human Capital and Management Consulting industries. Jonscotts experiences, as a former NBA employee, Strategic Human Resources Executive, and Career Coach, as well as his personal accomplishments as an Ironman distance triathlete, help him connect to his clients and craft a uniquely collaborative and supportive approach to their individual challenges and opportunities.

Contact Jonscott Turco: 914-338-8229

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(PRWEB) November 20, 2011

Chi-Town Boot Camps offer access to a Chicago fitness trainer, without the traditional costs associated with such personalized care. The program begins with a one-on-one consultation with a Chicago fitness trainer and certified nutritionist. A customized monthly meal plan is drawn up, with a grocery list printed out, to help participants lose or manage weight. Individuals discuss any medical conditions or concerns they may have, as well as their goals, which helps the chicago personal trainer create a program that is both safe and effective. Currently, Chi-Town Boot Camps is offering this consultation, plus a full week of free boot camp sessions, for just $ 1.

Boot camp client Amy Bulpitt says she chose the program because she needed something drastic to stir her from apathy. Throughout my life, I had longed to have the body that my friends had. I wanted to be thin, but I didn’t do anything about it, she said. Instead, I was depressed because I was overweight, which lead me to food as my comfort and only perpetuated my problem. With the help of a Chicago fitness trainer, she learned how to develop fitness tolerance and increase her energy levels. She went from a size 24 to a size 10 and never looked back.

Jennifer Widger, another camp participant, had been athletic and in good shape her whole life until she had three kids. She explains, I didnt know what to do to get [the weight] off and consequently tried every quick fix there was. Nothing worked and I pretty much gave up. She dropped 45 pounds and six sizes so far, and shes still going! She found the passion and commitment of the Chicago fitness trainers to be contagious and she appreciated how they truly care about every person who walks in their door.

I have just never been a gym kind of girl, says Tobi Davidson. She adds that she always felt intimidated by buff people who made her feel inadequate and she never really knew how to use the equipment, so she never felt a sense of accomplishment. Yet, after having twins, she felt disgusted by her looks and knew she needed to get her energy levels up. They taught me how to eat properly. I was losing weight, losing inches, gaining energy and feeling awesome! She was able to lose 42 pounds in 12 weeks with her Chicago fitness trainer and she felt challenged, motivated and educated to boot.

The workouts people receive with a Chicago weight loss will be rigorous and intense, but may be modified for any individual. No two sessions will be exactly alike, but the moves are easy to follow and may include everything from squats, lunges and crunches to push-ups, jumps and obstacle courses. Interval training gets the heart rate up and the metabolism revved for several minutes, which is then followed by a brief recovery period. This type of exercising is said to really melt fat off faster than any other method.

About The Company: Chi Town Boot Camps is a Chicago boot camp that is committed to helping people reach their ideal health and fitness goals. The company prides itself on having professional and experienced personal trainers who are committed and genuinely concerned with clients and the achievements of their objectives. Each individual is different, so the exercise programs are customized based on individual fitness goals, health history and current health condition. Chi Towns fitness boot camp programs are unique and exclusive and are consistently reviewed to maintain the highest possible standards. All programs come with a 100% money-back guarantee. Please visit http://www.chitownbootcampblogs.com for more information.

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