National Basketball Association suspends season due to COVID-19 concerns

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National Basketball Association suspends season due to COVID-19 concerns

Posted: July 30th, 2021 by Admin

Friday, March 13, 2020

On Wednesday, the United States’ National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended its professional basketball season due to concerns regarding COVID-19. The NBA’s decision followed a Utah Jazz player testing positive for the COVID-19 virus.

The NBA did not release the identity of the player in question in its announcement. They did say he was not present at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, where the Utah Jazz were to play against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

According to its press release, the NBA was “suspending game play following the conclusion of [Wednesday’s] schedule of games until further notice.” The Jazz’s game was cancelled, as was another NBA game Wednesday between the Sacramento Kings and the New Orleans Pelicans. Other games scheduled for Wednesday were still held, according to NBC News.

The United States’ other major basketball organization, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which runs college basketball, has cancelled its own tournament, March Madness, for both men’s and women’s leagues.

According to Johns Hopkins University, as of Wednesday, there were at least 1,279 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States. CNBC reported there were at least 118,381 cases worldwide.

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Dell joins Microsoft-Nortel VoIP Team

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Dell joins Microsoft-Nortel VoIP Team

Posted: July 29th, 2021 by Admin

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Dell Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will partner up with the Microsoft-Nortel Innovative communications alliance (ICA) team to sell Unified Communications and VoIP products.

The announcement on Tuesday the 16th of October 2007 includes Dell selling VoIP, data and wireless networking products from Nortel and the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and other unified communications products.

The partnership with both manufacturers should allow Dell to provide a pre-integrated solution.

In March 2007, competitors IBM and Cisco announced they would join in the competition for developing unified communications applications and the development of open technologies around the unified communications and collaboration (UC2) client platform an application programming interfaces (APIs) offered by IBM as a subset of Lotus Sametime.

“We want to make it simple for our customers to deploy unified communications so their end users can get access to all their messages in one place – whether its e-mail, phone or mobile device. This will pave the way for more business-ready productivity tools,” said vice president of solutions, Dell Product Group, Rick Becker.

  • Customers have four options:
    • Core Office Communication Server 2007 – provides instant messaging and on-premise Microsoft Live Meeting.
    • Office Communication Server: Telephony – enables call routing tracking and management, VoIP gateway and public branch exchange (PBX) integration.
    • Audio and Video Conferencing – allows point-to-point conference, video conference and VoIP audio conference.
    • Exchange Unified Messaging – provides voicemail, e-mail and fax in Microsoft Outlook, and anywhere access of Microsoft Outlook Inbox and Calendar.
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UK public sector workers strike over pension rights

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UK public sector workers strike over pension rights

Posted: July 25th, 2021 by Admin

Wednesday, March 29, 2006Local Government workers in the UK withdrew their labour yesterday as part of a dispute over pension entitlements. The members of 11 different trades unions were involved in the 24hr strike. As the day began they declared that support for the strike was solid. Although the strikers work for local councils, their pay and conditions are agreed nationally. The Local Government Association which represents the local councils in England and Wales declared predictions that 1.5 million people would stay away from work as “wildly optimistic”.

The Unions’ complaint is that local government workers are being treated unfavourably compared to other public sector employees. They say that agreements on pensions that have been reached with civil servants, teachers and health workers will allow those staff to continue to retire at 60 while local government staff will be forced to work until they are 65. Civil servants work for national government, teachers work for local councils but have their own pension arrangements and most health workers are employed by the state-controlled National Health Service.

The Local Government Association claims that if council workers continue to be able to retire at 60, it will increase the levels of Council Tax (a tax on people living in properties which funds a proportion of local government expenditure) by 2%.

The striking workers provide a wide range of services from assisting teachers in the class room, through inspecting kitchens for hygiene to provising care to the vulnerable in society. In some places council workers collect tolls for road tunnels or manage ferries. Mainstream media have reported on the strike all day with heavy coverage of disruption to commuters where transport has been affected. The unions have emphasised the large number of their members who are women working in low paid jobs.

The Government which regulates the scheme claimed that the early retirement provisions (called the rule of 85) were age-discriminatory and had to be removed.

The strike ended at midnight. The Unions have not declared any further strike days.

The Unions involved were AEP, AMICUS, CYWU, GMB, NAPO, NIPSA, NUJ, NUT, TGWU, UCATT and UNISON.

  • “Unison Pensions Campaign” — Unison, 28 March 2006
  • “Pensions strike bites across UK” — BBC, 28 March 2006
  • LGA Media Office. “Union demands for pension scheme will cost council taxpayers more than 2% extra a year” — Local Government Association, 28 March 2006
  • “ODPM STATEMENT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT PENSIONS” — Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 28 March 2006
  • “Unions fighting together to protect our pensions” — Joint Union Strike Team, 28 March 2006
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How Does Stomach Stapling Help You To Lose Weight?

Posted: July 25th, 2021 by Admin

Submitted by: Seomul Evans

The easier term for gastric bypass is stomach stapling , and its aim is to make you eat less. It acts to accomplish extreme weight loss by creating a small pouch in the stomach through stapling up parts of it, in order to bring down the amount of food you can eat. If you could earlier eat the big triple burger meal, post stomach stapling you will probably only manage a cup of tea. Your body is eating less calories and the pouch admits digestive processes to go around the small intestine, so that nutrients from food aren t absorbed.

Is it for you?

If you are only looking to lose weight in particular areas, you may try liposuction or a tummy tuck; a gastric bypass is for those 100 pounds overweight who have unsuccessfully tried to diet. Patients are usually between 15 and 65 and require understanding the psychological dangers involved in coping with what may be an entirely changed body figure. Obesity can be serious and this makes the gastric bypass a crucial surgery for several people, not just a cosmetic one.

No pain, no gain

Stomach stapling, although simple sounding is a complex surgery and you need to be organized for practical pain, major swelling and post operation hospitalization. Many of the nutrients that you take in with your food are not absorbed after stomach stapling; in the long run this may make you anemic. Later, it could put you at danger for osteoporosis and bone diseases. You may need to regularly take pills or dietary supplements. Many patients of gastric bypass need to remain particular diets through their lives. After your stomach stapling surgery, foods rich in sugar and fat are likely to make you feel uncomfortable.

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Small and constant

Gastric bypass will change the way you consume pretty permanently. Instead of the few big meals that you may have been used to, after stomach stapling you’ll find yourself requiring eating maybe eight or nine small meals a day. The surgically created pouch does not admit you to eat food and drink a liquid simultaneously: you will be able to do one or the other.

Things that may go wrong

There are additional dangers as well, one of which is the possibility that the pouch may stretch and expand to the original size of the stomach. The food pouch develops to twice its capacity in just two months and it s possible that it may stretch further. The stomach stapling may come apart, having the same effect: stomach enlargement to original size. If there are leakages, the acid content from the stomach may leak onto other organs, damaging them severely. Also, if the contents of the stomach move too quickly through the small intestine, you may find yourself reeling from nausea, perspiration, and diarrhea and so on. Patients occasionally produce gall stones and develop complications such as hernia which require further follow up operations; remember that corrective procedures come with their own dangers.

Chiseling away

After the extreme weight loss surgery, you may be 100-200 pounds lighter, but you ll still have skin sufficient for the big size that you once were. Gastric bypass normally needs to be followed by some kind of body contouring process for excess skin removal. This is an added cost that you may not have factored in when considering stomach stapling, but it s likely to crop up. The body contouring surgery also has a few dangers and requirements needed, so before choosing on the gastric bypass, you should probably consider the body contouring too.

The surgery requires a small band which is positioned around the upper part of the stomach, making a small pouch. The small size of the pouch means that you feel full sooner than before. The band can be adjusted in size by inflating or deflating the band which allows your doctor to correct the size of the gap between the pouch and the stomach. These procedures could be done by making a large incision in the stomach (an open procedure) or by laparoscopic instruments and a camera to guide the surgery.

Another alternative is stomach stapling, also called vertical banded gastroplasty, where an incision is made in the stomach. Surgical staples and a plastic band make a small pouch at the top of the stomach which is not completely closed off from the rest of the stomach.

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IRS goes after eBay sellers

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IRS goes after eBay sellers

Posted: July 23rd, 2021 by Admin

Monday, March 28, 2005

San Jose, California — As the April 15 deadline for U.S. private citizens to file their 2004 income tax returns draws near, the government is reminding sellers on eBay that they may have to report any proceeds from sales on the auction site as taxable income.

This could be a surprise to some of the 135 million registered eBay users who consider trading on San Jose-based auction site to be a non-taxable hobby. Complicating matters, eBay says it doesn’t report individual sales figures to the government – users are responsible to report any profits on their own tax returns.

The amount of money traveling through eBay is big business. $33.8 billion worth of merchandise was sold on the site in 2004, up from $5.2 billion in 2000.

Although eBay pays taxes on its share of the sales (5.25 percent cut from each transaction as of Feb. 18), the IRS fears some small businesses are using the site to dodge tax responsibility. Adding to the confusion, some sellers may legally be a taxable business without realizing it.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has a nine-point checklist it uses to determine whether or not a money-making activity is legally a business, which means money made is taxable, or a simple hobby – where it is not taxable. The IRS can consider a person to be a legal “business” even though they never incorporated or claimed to be one.

According to Woodbury, New York-based accountant Bart Fooden in an Associated Press interview, the IRS looks for such things as evidence that the auction seller depends on the eBay sales income to pay for activities other than maintaining the hobby, acts in a businesslike manner when selling on auctions or puts enough time and effort into the eBay activities that there is an obvious intent to make a profit.

But Fooden said in the same interview casual users probably have nothing to worry about. Those cleaning out closets or the garage and selling off junk for less than the original price paid are not turning a profit, so that money is not considered income and is not taxable.

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London serial murder accused Stephen Port makes first court appearance

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London serial murder accused Stephen Port makes first court appearance

Posted: July 20th, 2021 by Admin

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

A London man charged on Sunday with drugging and murdering four men made his first court appearance yesterday. Stephen Port, 40, was remanded to appear before a higher court tomorrow.

Port faces four counts of murder and four counts of “administering a poison with intent to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm”. He is alleged to have administered overdoses of recreational drug GHB. He allegedly murdered the men at his home before dumping the bodies, after finding victims online using gay dating services.

Three of the deaths were last year. Anthony Patrick Walgate, 23, was found dead on June 19, 2014 in Cooke Street. Port lives in Cooke Street. The other three alleged victims were found in the vicinity of St Margaret’s Church on North Street. Gabriel Kovari, 22, was discovered dead on August 28. Daniel Whitworth, 21, was found dead the following month on September 20. Fourth alleged victim Jack Taylor, 25, was found a year later on September 14.

Whitworth and Kovari were known to each other, according to testimony at inquest. The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission concerning what police called “potential vulnerabilities in [our response] to the four deaths.” Police did not initially link the deaths.

Special needs teacher Port, who was guarded by three officers in the dock, spoke in court to confirm his identity. He did not indicate if he will deny the offences. He was arrested following a police appeal to trace a man seen with Taylor shortly before his death.

Police at the time released security footage of Taylor’s movements, with an officer telling the press “the man captured on CCTV may well be the last person to talk to Jack.” The four deaths were finally linked and passed to the Metropolitan Police’s serious crime investigators on Wednesday last week.

The Magistrates’ Court ordered Taylor to appear at the Old Bailey, a famed London courthouse, tomorrow. He spent the hearing holding one arm, and repeatedly looking at the floor, whilst clad in a grey tracksuit given to him by the authorities holding him.

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Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

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Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

Posted: July 20th, 2021 by Admin

Sunday, August 21, 2005

A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not a statistically significant sample.

If this surgical procedure is as successful in large-scale studies, it may lead the way for the use of robotic surgery in even more delicate procedures, such as heart surgery. Note that this is not a fully automated system, as a human doctor controls the operation via remote control. Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery is a treatment for obesity.

There were concerns that doctors, in the future, might only be trained in the remote control procedure. Ronald G. Latimer, M.D., of Santa Barbara, CA, warned “The fact that surgeons may have to open the patient or might actually need to revert to standard laparoscopic techniques demands that this basic training be a requirement before a robot is purchased. Robots do malfunction, so a backup system is imperative. We should not be seduced to buy this instrument to train surgeons if they are not able to do the primary operations themselves.”

There are precedents for just such a problem occurring. A previous “new technology”, the electrocardiogram (ECG), has lead to a lack of basic education on the older technology, the stethoscope. As a result, many heart conditions now go undiagnosed, especially in children and others who rarely undergo an ECG procedure.

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Monetizing Your Clutter: Buy Sell Toronto

Posted: July 20th, 2021 by Admin

Submitted by: Pluto M

People are generally sentimental by nature. Young or old, people tend to feel jitters discarding old stuff. Merely looking at your grandma s antique rocking chair will send you down memory lane. This is perfectly understandable except, however, that one s urge to hoard any item of sentimental value will result in piled up clutter in the stock room, in the backyard, or in your own bedroom. The good news is – old clothes, shoes, gowns, furniture, appliances, sports equipment and lots of other items collecting dust at home can be monetized to augment our weekly or monthly budget.

Attention Toronto residents! Clutter don t matter discard your old stuff for cash with Buy Sell Toronto. Items which are not anymore useful to you may be useful to people around the area, and they are willing to pay cash for it. Or perhaps, other people may want to exchange their old stuff for yours. The Buy Sell Toronto website is the place for you. The best thing about this website is that users can advertise for free.

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Buy Sell Toronto is the Toronto arm of the community-based BuySellUsedStuff offering a no-subscription fee option for classified advertisement or announcements on top of fun and hassle-free access to people in one s own neighborhood within Canada. Hence, the basic idea beyond the site is a portal where community locals can do worthwhile activities while stashing honest cash to supplement each other s finances in this hard and trying times of recession, inflation, and unemployment.

For best results, people who are interested in selling anything or buying something should create a free account with Buy Sell Toronto. This can be done by simply supplying your email address and a password of your choice, as well as passing the CAPTCHA challenge. The last one simply requires you to enter letters or number as shown in a slightly distorted image to make sure that you are not a robot. Any website would like to make sure that they are dealing with people and not automated software programmed to fill-in online forms. In order words, Buy and Sell Toronto would not want to waste your time bargaining with these so-called bots .

Buy and Sell Toronto offers an online forum for people to buy and / or sell, and browse advertised items in neatly categorized groups such as: cars and vehicles, real estate, jobs, services, pets, and of course buy and sell. Entries in the main categories are alphabetized for patrons ease and comfort in searching for items of interest. The website even requests users to suggest categories which they want to see. Another very useful feature of the website is its keyword-activated search function which may be found near the top of the page. The website also offers interesting articles for prospective buyers and sellers.

Finally, the help function was presented in the form of questions categorized in terms of activities, like: putting up ads, present ads, promoting ads, most viewed ads, recently viewed ads, latest posts, etc. Check out the site, folks! This is one of the finest developments that technology can offer to the community in the name of camaraderie, self-help and cash-generating activities.

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