21 June 2012 - Mumbai blaze (Photos)

Thousands of employees were evacuated from a seven-story government building in Mumbai on 21 June 2012 after a huge blaze tore through.

Television images showed people perching on window ledges as orange flames licked the outside of building. Others made a scramble towards firefighters' ladders, propped precariously against the towering block.

More than two dozen fire engines battled the fire that raged for several hours.

Raging: The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Some witnesses complained that firefighters took almost half an hour to reach the site

Evacuees: Evacuated workers and onlookers watch as the Mantralaya building burns

Gathering: Indian policemen gather as firefighters work to extinguish the blaze at the headquarters

Hard task: Firefighters spray jets at the blaze from a hydraulic platform, left, while right, firefighters and police officials gesture in front of the building as rivers of water from the hoses wash into the street

Terrifying: An Indian man hangs out of the window waiting to be rescued as black smoke billows out behind him

Battle: Firefighters spent several hours trying to put the fire out and black smoke could be seen for miles

Hanging in the balance: Workers, who managed to get down to floors below the fire, wait to be rescued on the building's ledges

Perilous: Television images showed people perching on window ledges as orange flames licked the outside of the building

Search and rescue: Firefighters used hydraulic platforms to evacuate trapped people, and two navy helicopters hovered over the building to pick up people from the rooftop

Blaze: Firefighters from more than two dozen engines battled the blaze that raged for several hours in the Maharashtra state government headquarters.

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13-month-old conjoined sisters (with Photos)

A pair of 13-month-old conjoined sisters, who were abandoned by their poverty-stricken parents, have been successfully separated.

Aradhana and Stuti were left at the Missionary Hospital in Padhar, India, after they were born on May 11 last year, because their parents could not afford to take care of them. Their father Hari Ram Yadav is a poor local farmer who has just two acres of land.

The twins, who were joined at the chest, were separated 20 June 2012 during a 12-hour operation involving 23 doctors and 11 nurses from India and Australia. They were wheeled in the operation room at 8am, before the surgery followed from 9am to 9pm. The team first separated their hearts, which were joined by the same membrane, followed by their fused livers.

Their mother

                            Before the operation

Conjoined twins Stuti and Aradhna: at the Mission Hospital in India.

Separated: The team splits into to work on sealing up the twins chests.

Hospital Superintendent Dr Rajiv Choudhry said he was happy with how the surgery went. The special sisters will now remain on ventilators and under close observation for the next 48 hours.

The team had done a dry run of the entire procedure beforehand.

The surgery was funded by Indian TV viewers and local politicians after hearing of their plight.

The outpouring of generosity, with thousands of small donations by members of the public, is unusual in India where girls are often not valued in rural communities and disabled babies are often abandoned.

Public generosity was matched by a £22,000 fund from the Madhya Pradesh state government.

Separated: Twins Aradhana and Stuti post operation at Padhar Hospital. They are both on ventilators.

The girls have been cared for by hospital staff since their birth, with three nurses taking shifts to act as surrogate mothers. Surgeons at the under-equipped Paddar Hospital spent months appealing for international help and preparing for the operation.

The hospital persuaded the parents, who already have a six-year-old son, to continue having a relationship with their daughters. The couple Hari Ram Yadav and Maya Yadav now hope to take their girls home after surgery. 

'We are happy that they will finally get to be a family and both the girls will get a proper home,' said Vikas Sonwani, assistant administrator of Paddar Hospital. 

The twin girls have been looked after and even named by the hospital staff. Both their names mean 'prayer'.
 
Conjoined twins occur in around one in every 200,000 live births. They are identical - coming from a single egg that doesn't fully separate after fertilization and therefore always the same sex.

Their prospects vary widely depending on their general state of health, how they are joined and what organs are shared.  

 

Medical experts from India and Australia work to separate the twins.

Between 40 to 60 per cent of conjoined twins are stillborn and around 35 per cent survive only one day. The overall survival rate of conjoined twins is somewhere between five and 25 per cent. Female twins are three times as likely as males to be born alive.

Surgical separation is still rare. According to the University of Maryland , at least one twin has survived separation about 75 per cent of the time since 1950.

One of the earliest documented cases of conjoined twins were Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst. They were born joined at the hip and were known as the Biddenden Maids. They died aged 34.

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Baby Seats: Different in China!

When this father wanted to take his son for spin on his moped, he simple wedged him in an old drinks crate and towed him along the road on a piece of rope.
 

The child is too young to ride pillion, who stares out from the box, and knowing he is in danger from other traffic as a bus thunders fast.

The scene, shot by a passer by in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, western China, has provoked wails of protest since it was flashed around local social networking websites.


Crate wall of China: A father drags his son along as he rides on a moped through Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China. The image has sparked outrage on social networking sites.

USB stick deletes all the viruses!

Getting a virus cleaned off your computer can be a burden at the best of times.

But now a new USB stick aims to make it far easier by giving you the same tools as the professionals - and all you have to do is plug it in.

The FixMeStick supposedly finds the files which other anti-virus programmes miss by using powerful anti-virus software normally used by computer technicians.

All users have to do is put it into a USB slot on their PC and it will do the rest.

Fix Me: Stick the USB key into your PC and it will stop Windows
from loading - and scan your computer for errors

The FixMeStick’s advantages are that it works as an automatic safe disk that means you can boot your computer from the drive, and it cleans up the damage.

Rather than scanning it starts your machine again then interrupts Windows so that it can carry out a full check before it loads.

Scanning takes up to a few hours depending on how big your hard drive is and quarantining any viruses takes around 45 minutes.

The product is extremely thorough and uses three anti-virus programmes powered by Kaspersky Lab, Sophos, and GFI, three of the biggest names in computer security.

FixMeStick co-founder Marty Algire said: ‘This is about enabling everyone to rid their machines of malware. And it will help people continue to enjoy their computers and the Internet.’

Early reviews of the FixMeStick however have raised a number of issues.

Giving it three stars out of five, PC Mag’s Neil Rubenking said that 'it can be a bit heavy-handed, wiping out files that it shouldn't’.

He said, ‘When its engines detect a valid file infested by malware, it can't disinfect the file back to its original status.

‘All it can do is toss that file into quarantine. If this happens to an essential Windows file, you may be hosed.’

Among the other problems was that the removal ‘failed to prevent several detected rootkits from running’.

On Amazon.com however reviews from members of the public were more positive and were on average five out of five.

An S M Rivenes wrote: ‘This is an amazing product - simple, user-friendly and works unbelievably well.’

The FixMeStick is available from its Montreal-based manufacturers via the website fixmestick.com.

It costs $49.99 (£31.86) then $29.99 (£15.92) per year to renew the license.

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47 Keyboard Shortcuts for All Browsers

Every major web browsers having their own, specific, shortcuts and in common they've sharing a number of keyboard shortcuts, too. Knowing the common will serve well as switch between different browsers and computers.

 

The following list of shortcuts will work in Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Apple, Opera or Safari browsers. This list includes some mouse actions, too.   

...... Tabs .....

Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, ...   to 8 – Switch to specified tab, counting from the left

Ctrl+9 – Switch to the last tab

Ctrl+Tab – Switch to next tab (the tab on right) 

Ctrl+Page Up also works as above, (but not in Explorer)

Ctrl+Shift+Tab – Switch to previous tab (the tab on left) 

Ctrl+Page Down also works as above, (but not in Explorer)

Ctrl+W, Ctrl+F4 – Close the current tab

Ctrl+Shift+T – Reopen the last closed tab

Ctrl+T – Open a new tab

Ctrl+N – Open a new browser window

Alt+F4 – Close the current window (works in all applications)

..... Mouse Actions for Tabs .....

Middle Click a Tab – Close the tab

Ctrl+Left Click, Middle Click – Open a link in a background tab

Shift+Left Click – Open a link in a new browser window

Ctrl+Shift+Left Click – Open a link in a foreground tab

..... Navigation .....

Alt+Left Arrow, Backspace – Back

Alt+Right Arrow, Shift+Backspace – Forward

F5 – Reload

Ctrl+F5 – Reload and skip the cache, re-downloading the entire website

Escape – Stop

Alt+Home – Open homepage

..... Zooming .....

Ctrl and +, Ctrl+Mouse wheel Up – Zoom in

Ctrl and -, Ctrl+Mouse wheel Down — Zoom out

Ctrl+0 – Default zoom level

F11 – Full-screen mode

..... Scrolling .....

Space, Page Down – Scroll down a frame

Shift+Space, Page Up – Scroll up a frame

Home – Top of page

End – Bottom of page

Middle Click – Scroll with the mouse (Windows only)

..... Address Bar .....

Ctrl+L, Alt+D, F6 – Focus the address bar so you can begin typing

Ctrl+Enter – Prefix www. and append .com to the text in the address bar, and then load the website

For example, type pnonazim.blogspot into the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to open www.pnonazim.blogspot.com

Alt+Enter – Open the location in the address bar in a new tab

..... Search .....

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+E – Focus the browser’s built-in search box or focus the address bar if the browser doesn’t have a dedicated search box (Ctrl+K doesn’t work in IE, Ctrl+E does)

Alt+Enter – Perform a search from the search box in a new tab

Ctrl+F, F3 – Open the in-page search box to search on the current page

Ctrl+G, F3 – Find the next match of the searched text on the page

Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3 – Find the previous match of the searched text on the page

..... History & Bookmarks .....

Ctrl+H – Open the browsing history

Ctrl+J – Open the download history

Ctrl+D – Bookmark the current website

Ctrl+Shift+Del – Open the Clear Browsing History window

..... Other Functions .....

Ctrl+P – Print the current page

Ctrl+S – Save the current page to your computer

Ctrl+O – Open a file from your computer

Ctrl+U – Open the current page’s source code. (Not in IE)

F12 – Open Developer Tools (Requires Firebug extension for Firefox)

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The boy who was born with no eyes

• Doctors found he had an eye under the skin on his left socket
• They cannot remove skin because the eye underneath has no lens
• His parents hope he will be able to have an artificial eye fitted once he is 16

The boy, Marwanijung, was born with no eyes; but he is happy when lighting a torch at his face!

Doctors in China have discovered that he has an eye under the skin - but it is too sensitive to ever be exposed.

Searchlight: Marwanijung shines a torch at his eyes as his mother Salamu holds him protectively

The parents were devastated when their son was born with only smooth skin in the sockets where his eyes should be.

But when father Madamihan and mother Salamu, both 26, took the child from their small community to a hospital in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, they were offered a glimmer of hope.

Yes! Doctors told them their son loved the torch because he actually had a left eye, but it was blocked by skin!!

'He is eager to see light, and we pray everyday that he could see the light,' said the boy's father.

Ray of hope: Doctors in China found that blind Marwanijung has a left eye, but it is covered by skin

Sadly, experts at the Army 474 Hospital said the baby was not suitable for surgery because his eye has no lens.

Even if the surgery exposed his left eyeball, he would not be able see anything.

Doctors suggested that the boy could be suitable for artificial eye installation once he reaches 16 years old.

There are various reasons that children are born with no eyes.

Distraught: Marwanijung's devastated parents sought help in a hospital in Urumqi, where doctors told them their son may be able to have an artificial eye fitted after he is 16

Plans for the future: Marwanijung's parents said they pray every day that one day the boy will be able to see light properly.

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Yahoo ID -களை நிரந்தரமாக அழிக்க ....

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அந்தளவுக்கு நம்முடன் ஐக்கியமாகி விட்ட Yahoo! Mail லின்,  பயனர் கணக்கு(களை), பலவித காரணங்களால் நிர்வகிக்க இயலாத நிலையிலும்  இருப்போம். 

அப்படி நிர்வகிக்க இயலாத / Unused ... Yahoo Mail ID -களை நிரந்தரமாக அழிப்பது எப்படி?    

முதலில், http://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user  என்னும் Link -லிருந்து, அழிக்க வேண்டிய Mail -லின் ID மூலம், அக்கணக்கில் நுழைந்ததும் கீழுள்ள படத்தில்  உள்ளது போல் திறக்கும் Window  -வின்

அடிப்பாகத்தில், 

Are you sure you want to terminate your Yahoo! Account? என்று கேட்கப்பட்டு இருப்பதில் மீண்டும் Password -ஐ உள்ளீடு செய்து, மற்றும் அங்கு ஏற்கெனவே உள்ள Verification Code -ஐயும் சரியாக உள்ளீடு செய்துவிட்டு 'Terminate this Account' என்பதில் 'YES' கொடுக்கவும். 

இப்பொழுது, இந்த கணக்கு  Yahoo! வினால் தற்காலிகமாக Deactivate செய்யப்பட்டு விடும். மேலும், இந்த கணக்கு சம்பந்தப்பட்ட (அதாவது Yahoo Profile, Mail, Address Book etc.. போன்ற) அனைத்து விவரங்(service)களையும் 90 நாட்களுக்கு Yahoo! தன் வசம், தற்காலிகமாகவும், வைத்திருக்கும். 

இந்த 90 நாட்களுக்குள் இக்கணக்கை, பயனாளருக்கு தேவைப்படும் பட்சத்தில், மீண்டும்  Re-activate செய்து கொள்ளவும் முடியும். 

இருப்பினும், இந்த 90 நாட்கள் முடியவும், இப்பயனர் கணக்கு மற்றும் அது தொடர்பான அனைத்து விவரங்(service)களும் Yahoo! விலிருந்து நிரந்தரமாக அழிக்கப்பட்டு விடும்.