West Nile Virus: Are Hemorrhagic-Encephalitis-Mosquito Borne Illnesses Spreading Globally

West Nile Virus is a zoonotic arbovirus that belongs to the flavivirus genus, in the flavivindae family of Mosquito-borne viral infections. Approximately 80% of West Nile virus infections in humans have no symptoms.The cases that are symptomatic are called West Nile Fever, in cases without neurological disease. Symptoms may include fever, headaches, fatigue, muscle aches & pain with a general malaise, nausea, anorexia, vomiting, myalgias and rash. Less than 1% of the cases are severe and result in neurological disease when the central nervous system is affected, and that is termed West Nile Hemorrhagic Fever. West Nile Virus infections are at an all time high in the United States, with 5,207 reported cases in the U.S. with 234 deaths. This total is twice as many as for the previous 3 years, 2009, 2010, and 2011, the total of the 3 being 2,453 cases reported, with 132 deaths occurring. Can the rise in the Earth’s median temperature be to blame? The Planet Earth is warming up, and as Global temperatures rise, threats to food s ecurity from decreased crop yields are a distinct possibility.

Some interesting facts to consider.
The average combined global land and ocean surface temperature for June 2012 was 1.13 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average of 59.9 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the fourth warmest June on record. Temperature for June 2012 was the all-time warmest June on record, at 2.34 degrees Fahrenheit above average. The globally-averaged land surface temperature for June 2012 was also the all-time warmest June on record, at 1.93 degrees Fahrenheit above average. Global Warming is happening, witness the Greenland Ice sheet melt-off this year. The Arctic Ocean and the Continent of Antarctica are melting at a frenetic pace as well. But what does this mean for our planet? Let’s look at one potential problem.
Mosquito borne illnesses. The spread of the West Nile Virus in the U.S. has reached epidemic proportions, and proliferation of mosquito borne illnesses like Dengue Fever and Malaria is a cause for concern among the leading health organizations, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, and the World Health Organization, WHO. Now scientist’s and naysayers can debate the causes of Global Warming until they are blue in the face, regardless of its causes, it is happening.

Video Games to Come Under Scrutiny in US Gun Violence Review

Violence in video games and other aspects of pop culture in the U.S. will be among the areas examined as part of an investigation aimed at reducing gun violence in the country. The investigation, headed by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, has been charged with producing proposals no later than the end of January on legislative action the government could take as it seeks to reduce gun violence. Biden's work comes in reaction to the shocking killing last week of 26 people -- most of them small children -- at a school in Newtown, Connecticut. "When it comes to cultural matters, that's an area that bears exploration and is one of the areas that the president hopes will be a topic of the conversation that he wants to undertake," said Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, at a televised press briefing on Thursday when asked by a reporter if the study would include pop culture.

Why Pinball disappeared as a default Windows app

If you were a Windows user before the days of Windows Vista, 7, and 8, you may remember that Microsoft shipped its operating system with an included pinball game. That game was called 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet to give it its full title, but more commonly got referred to as 3D Pinball or just Pinball. The last time Pinball was included with the OS was when Microsoft shipped Windows XP. When Vista arrived, it disappeared, and has never been included again. But why? Raymond Chen, software engineer and well-known Microsoft blogger, has cleared up the mystery. It all comes down to source code that was difficult read and devoid of any comments. Chen was tasked with porting millions of lines of code over from Windows XP 32-bit so Microsoft could ship Windows XP 64-bit. That code included Pinball, but it had a collision bug that saw the ball drop through the launcher and off the table, rendering the game unplayable. The game was developed by Maxis several years earlier (it also shipped with Windows 95), not Microsoft, but Chen had to try and fix the bug. In the end, Chen and another Microsoft programmer couldn’t figure out how the game worked just from looking through the source code. And with no help being offered from comments or documentation, they had to give up and carry on porting other things due to time constraints. Ultimately that’s why Pinball got dropped after Windows XP, but it doesn’t mean you can’t still play it! Wondering how to play 3D Pinball now? Apparently if you have Pinball on an old machine you can copy the Pinball folder from the C:\Program Files\Windows NT directory and get it to run on all versions of Windows since Windows XP. It even runs through Wine if you prefer to use Linux. via The Old New Thing

mini sim in mobile

Currently We r Using Mini Sim in our Mobile


Nano Vs Mini Dimension:
Nano
12.30mm x 8.80mm x 0.6mm

Vs
Mini
25.00mm x 15.00mm x 0.76mm

PC Game Crashes or Runs very Slow?

->Just Set Low Resolution

->Disable Anti-analyzing

->Disable Anisotropic filter

->Disable Extra Texturing Effect Set it To Medium

->Disable Shadow Rendering in Games setting

upcoming PC games

1.Need for Speed Most Wanted -30 Oct

2.Medal of Honor Warfighter 23 Oct

3.Call of Duty: Black Ops II -13 Nov

4.Assassin's Creed III - 23 Nov

5.Far Cry 3 - 4 Dec

6.Guild Wars 2 - 28 Aug

2013

-Crysis 3

-Splinter Cell:Blacklist

Programming Language Layer Cake

There are many different programing languages in existence today (I’m going to write about the languages I am familiar with) and I like to visualise their relationships as layers of a cake. There are two main ways to categorise programming languages: as having high or low levels of abstraction and as either compiled or interpreted languages.

The bottom half of the cake consists of the languages with low levels of abstraction, with microcode at the bottom and C++ at the top, all of these languages are compiled languages which means their source code is interpreted and compiled into a lower level language e.g, C++ is compiled into assembler. I categorise C++as a lower level language for the purposes of this diagram as its memory management is still a manual process unlike the languages in the layers above it, which makes it less trivial to use.

Microcode is the lowest level of abstraction available and it is the programming language used to create assembly language instructions. Assembly Language is the language used by computer processors (CPUs) and is specific to each CPU family and is also the lowest level at which software can typically interact with the CPU. Next is the common low level languages C and C++ which I’ve bundled into the same layer as C++ can compile C code so they are not really completely distinct. Although C++ is a higher level language than C as it supports object oriented programming which is typically considered a feature of high level languages.

The top half of the cake can be roughly split in to two groups of programming languages: those languages that are compiled (blue box) into a lower level language before execution by a compiler and those that are interpreted (green box) at run time by an specific interpreter program. The bottom half of the green and blue boxes represent the respective compilers and interpreters for the languages. It is worth noting that although the .net programming languages (C#, CLR C++ and VB.net) and the Java family of languages are all compiled, they are compiled into byte code executables before they can be executed (run) by a virtual machine (usually written in C/C++). The interpreted languages Ruby, php and Python are not compiled before execution but are interpreted at run time by an interpreter program (again usually written in C/C++). Interestingly interpreters do exist to process Ruby (JRuby & IronRuby) and Python (JPython & IronPython) source code into byte code for the Java virtual machine or .net CLI, allowing ruby or python to be run on any Java or .net CLI virtual machine.

Compiled languages like Java or .net must be recompiled before they can run on a different virtual machine however this is usually not a serious issue as .net and Java virtual machines exist for most opereating systems in some form or another. Recompilation is not a requirement for interperated lanagues which only require a functioning intererator on the target operating system to be able to be run, which makes them easier to use across multiple operating systems and leds to them being considered more portable than the compiled languages. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.