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Instant Film Enthusiasts Hit Pavement in New York City for Fujifilm, B&H Photo Scavenger Hunt

July 26, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Participants Celebrate Instant Film Revival, Compete to Win B&H Gift
Certificates
–(Business Wire)–

WHAT: Fujifilm has organized a scavenger hunt on July 25th in New York City to celebrate the resurgence of instant film photography on the declaration of its first annual Instax Day.

Instax Day will bring 50 instant film enthusiasts together to use instant film to capture New York City landmarks and hot spots during a summer fun scavenger hunt that will take place between Rockefeller Center and Union Square Park. Contestants will be given a map to help plot their course, and compete for a chance to win first ($500), second ($250) and third ($100) prize gift certificates to B&H Photo Video.

Other scavenger hunting gear will include:
— Instax Mini 7S camera plus two boxes of Instax Mini instant film
— Round trip MetroCard
— Instax branded t-shirt and hat
— Water bottle

WHO: 50 contestants who signed up through the Fujifilm Instax and B&H Photo Video Facebook pages.

HOW: Each scavenger hunter will be armed with a map, an Instax Mini 7S camera and two boxes of Instax Mini instant film (40 shots) to document their findings. The first three competitors to return to the B&H Event Space with each of the 20 items clearly exposed win.

WHEN: Check-in for the scavenger hunt will begin at the B&H Event Space on July 25th at 10am and the scavenger hunt will officially kick off at 11am sharp. Contestants will return to the starting point by 3pm when first, second and third place winners will be awarded.

WHERE: B&H Event Space
420 9th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001

WHY: The scavenger hunt is to celebrate Instax Day which marks Fujifilm`s commitment to instant film photography and the recent revival of the retro film type. The date of 7/25 reflects the model numbers of the two currently available Instax Mini instant cameras, the Mini 7S, featured in hip hop sensation, B.o.B.`s, “Airplanes” video, and the Mini 25.

FUJIFILM
Lauren Restuccia, 914-789-8329
lauren_restuccia@fujifilm.com

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Instant Film Enthusiasts Hit Pavement in New York City for Fujifilm, B&H Photo Scavenger Hunt

July 24, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100723005112/en

Participants Celebrate Instant Film Revival, Compete to Win B&H Gift
Certificates
–(Business Wire)–

WHAT: Fujifilm has organized a scavenger hunt on July 25th in New York City to celebrate the resurgence of instant film photography on the declaration of its first annual Instax Day.

Other scavenger hunting gear will include:
— Instax Mini 7S camera plus two boxes of Instax Mini instant film
— Round trip MetroCard
— Instax branded t-shirt and hat
— Water bottle

WHO: 50 contestants who signed up through the Fujifilm Instax and B&H Photo Video Facebook pages.

WHERE: B&H Event Space
420 9th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001

FUJIFILM
Lauren Restuccia, 914-789-8329
lauren_restuccia@fujifilm.com

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Pak in list of US panel’s list of 13 violators of religious freedom

April 30, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr.30 (ANI): A US governmental panel has included Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China in a list of 13 countries that have seriously violated religious freedoms.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, described the countries where religious freedom is endangered as ‘hot spots’, and called upon the US Government to take steps to improve conditions in those nations.

“It is a small but critically important point of intersection of foreign policy, national security and international religious freedom standards,” the report stated.

This year’s list of countries included all eight nations named last year where religious freedom is being attacked besides five new countries like Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.

The panel’s report said that though Saudi Arabia has implemented several steps to cut the violation of religious freedom, there has been a “systematic, egregious and ongoing” breach of religious freedom.

Leonard Leo, the panel’s chairman said that visits to the ‘hot spots’ had found situations “where freedom of religion is obstructed and related human rights are trampled.”

“In China, the government continues to engage in systematic and egregious violations of the freedom of religion or belief,” The Daily Times quoted the report, as saying.

Leo said the report offers important foreign policy solutions that should be implemented by the respective government’s and the US should also urge the nations named in the list to take those into consideration.

“The report’s conclusion is clear, the administration must do more,” he said. (ANI)

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New approach helps pinpoint genes behind common diseases

April 30, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): Challenging the long-held view that common diseases are usually caused by common gene variants (mutations), researchers have now said that the culprits may be numerous rare variants.

And these variants are located in DNA sequences farther away from the original “hot spots” than scientists have been accustomed to look.

Using an approach that detects rare but powerful causal gene variants, the researchers say they have accounted for a significant proportion of the “missing heritability” problem.

This refers to the disappointing fact that, to date, conventional gene-hunting studies have often failed to identify, when searching for gene variants, variants that cause a large proportion of common diseases, such as heart disease, cancers and diabetes.

The new approach draws on existing data from genome-wise association studies (GWAS) that have already been performed, re-analysing the data to pinpoint causal variants that have not been identified previously.

In addition, the technique may allow researchers to identify individuals whose DNA is more likely to carry specific mutations in the causal genes.

“Our approach draws us closer to the goal of personalized medicine, in which treatment will be tailored to an individual”s genetic profile. When we can say that a specific gene mutation causes a patient”s disease, we have more meaningful diagnostic results. Identifying causal variants in disease genes provides an opportunity to develop drugs to rectify the biological consequences of these mutated genes,” said study leader Dr. Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children”s Hospital of Philadelphia.

By applying their methods to real DNA samples from patients with genetic hearing loss, the researchers” approach helped them to select from GWAS data a subset of cases for sequencing analysis that were most likely to carry causative mutations.

Sequencing the DNA in this subset, the study team found that the majority of those patients carried an actual mutation known to cause hearing loss.

“Our technique suggests that when we do our resequencing follow-up studies, we can identify people who are much more likely to carry a causative gene,” said Kai Wang, who analyzed the dataset.

Hakonarson added: “We present a more efficient approach for mining GWAS data to find the actual causative gene variants that will have future utility in designing therapies.”

The study appears online in The American Journal of Human Genetics. (ANI)

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Posh hailed for wearing faux fur

March 24, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, March 24 (ANI): Victoria Beckham has won admiration after sporting imitation fur at various chic hot-spots.

The former Spice Girl was seen wearing her trademark shades, a thick brown faux fur jacket, skinny jeans and Louboutins at the pre-Oscar party circuit in Beverly Hills.

“It”s wonderful to see [faux fur on] someone of her position in the industry. Celebrities start almost all trends in fashion. She”s so influential, so people like her at the top of their industry make all the difference,” The Mirror quoted Jaclyn Sharp, founder of faux fur company Imposter, as saying.

Jaclyn added: “I”m just so honoured for people at that level in the industry to have heard about this. The list is still building, it”s been fantastic.

“Most of the celebrities are people that care a lot about animals. I think and I hope it was really the idea and the concept of what it could do that got them excited about it.” (ANI)

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Farmers offered wetland assurance

March 23, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Greater Taree City Council has moved to reassure landholders that an investigation at a remnant wetland will not mean the end of their farms.

The council is working on a project with landholders focusing on the area between Crowdy Bay National Park and Coopernook State Forest known as ‘Big Swamp’.

The council’s executive leader of futures planning, Laura Black, says a feasibility is looking at options and landowners should see it as a good opportunity.

“Big Swamp is one of 26 hot spots in NSW for acid sulphate soils and there is an opportunity to investigate what sort of remediation projects could occur on the land,” she said.

“This is an opportunity to be engaged in protection of the environment, and more substantially, of the Manning River.”

She says a feasibility study is looking at ways to restore the farmland and existing wetland to its natural state.

“The very short-term goals would be to contact each of the landowners and to engage them in the discussions,” she said.

“The project officers would then be looking more broadly at what sort of activities have occurred elsewhere. The intention of the feasibility study is to investigate all of those options and come back to landowners with some suggested recommendations.”

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ICC failed to deal with Muralitharan’s chucking: Richardson

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Christchurch, Aug 24 (ANI): Former New Zealand opener Mark Richardson has accused the Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan of breaching the 15 degree flexion rule.

Richardson said Muralitharan often bends his arm beyond the 15-degree norm even though he felt it was not the spinner but the indifferent International Cricket Council (ICC), which was at fault.

“There is no easy way to put this, no soft way to broach it, so here goes – Muttiah Muralitharan is throwing the ball,” Richardson wrote in Herald on Sunday.

“I know he’s been tested, re-tested, tested again and cleared. And I know, with the special makeup of his limbs to the naked eye, his action looks worse than it is. But, for goodness sake, half of cricket is now not watched with the naked eye, thanks to the invention of super-slow-motion cameras, hot-spots, snicko and hawk-eyes.

“Many of the slow-motion replays I’ve seen of Murali have only strengthened my conviction he is exceeding the 15 degrees bending and straightening allowance. Is it not meant to be the other way round? Isn’t the hi-tech equipment meant to alleviate my fears?” he asked.

Unlike former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe, who often flays Muralitharan, Richardson didn’t blame the offie, but opined ICC had failed to deal with the issue.

“I don’t blame Murali for this situation. Murali can only do what he does – and what he does he does as a champion, and unlike the other great spinner of my time, Murali does it with good grace and gentlemanly conduct,” Richardson said.

“The problem lies with the inappropriate way in which the ICC has decided to police throwing. A player is suspected of throwing and then, for want of a better term, tested in a laboratory. We’ve all seen the pictures of Murali lit up with bulbs. To his credit he volunteered for this. Apparently he proved he wasn’t a chucker.
“But did he really? What he proved is that he can bowl within limitation, not that in the heat of battle he actually does,” The Dawn quoted him, as saying.

He said that the way the ICC has gone about dealing with this situation, too many bowlers now appear to have suspect actions and can operate for too long before there is any reaction. (ANI)

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Ten steps to extended massive orgasm

June 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, June 23 (ANI): While majority of couples wish to have extended massive orgasm (EMO), not everybody comes down to experiencing these repeated orgasmic waves.

Lovers experiencing one of these massive orgasms have reported enjoying more of life’s joys in general, becoming nicer and more generous in their relationship.

An EMO can last minutes or hours, offering up blissful sensations at increasing intensities, reports Fox News.

And here are the tricks of this tantalizing trade:

1. Truly recognize your pleasure

You want to immediately approve of your present sensations. This starts before you even get in the sack by overcoming anxieties you have about sex. This may require identifying limitations you’ve been taught about sex, like how you’re supposed to respond (or not respond). You need to then challenge any social conditioning that impedes upon your response.

Ridding yourself of the uninvited “others” in your bed will enable you to solely focus on the orgasmic sensations, including ones that come from simply anticipating action.

2. Learn to relax

Lovers have the tendency to tense up during sexual excitement, which is not conducive to extended orgasm. You need to be able to surrender your nervous system during genital stimulation. It’s this letting go of tension that allows you to embrace your pleasure.

3. Get in the know

The more we know about our bodies, sex, and sexual response, the better we can recognize sensations, the more we can lose ourselves in them. Become knowledgeable about sexual response, sexual anatomy, and erotic techniques.

4. Give yourselves time for pleasuring

Lovers may stimulate each other by fantasizing out loud, taking your time getting to the genitals and hot spots. Teasing allows for greater energy awareness and arousal, and these are what make the experience ultimately so mind-blowing.

5. Touch for pleasure

You can show your partner that you are into the moment by informing them about what you are going to do so he or she can surrender more easily. Highlighting a lover’s physical responses further enables them to tune into the sensations.

6. Learn to channel your energy

You want to get out of your head, directing your energy to your groin. This will make for more explosive results, plus help you to further tune into your sexual response.

7. Become an effective communicator

To amplify things up, you may need to request changes that will intensify your pleasure if you’re the receiver. As the giver, you may need to ask for feedback or direction. In either case, asking for more will help you to feel more. Giving approval can do wonders for a lover’s ego.

8. Develop your pelvic floor muscles

Exercising your pubbococcygeus (PC) muscle will put you more in tune with your sexual response. It’s also what makes for more powerful orgasms.

9. Have plenty of lubricant handy

As you will be loving for the long-haul, make sure you avoid the friction, pain, and discomfort that can result from working each other raw by using lube.

10. Do away with any drive-thru mentality

Having an EMO isn’t like going for fast food. One can’t go into it thinking instant gratification. Instead, approach it as though training for a sport. (ANI)

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Red Cross spending hit a record 1 billion dollars in 2008

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Geneva – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday said its expenditure in 2008 reached a record high owing to increasing humanitarian problems worldwide.

The Geneva-based organization, in its annual report, said its budget increased to about 1.1 billion Swiss francs (1.01 billion dollars) last year, amounting to an increase of around 150 million on 2007.

Sudan, Somalia and Iraq together cost the ICRC about 300 million francs in 2008. Other hot spots included Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories and Sri Lanka.

The organization said it visited almost half a million detainees in 83 countries last year and handled over 667,000 messages, including 218,000 passed between detainees and their families.

It also helped facilitate family visits for 32,735 detainees and traced 6,000 people being sought by their families.

The Red Cross also distributed some 121,000 tons of food – twice as much as in 2007 – to 2.79 million people. Most recipients were internally displaced people.

Millions also benefited from the organization’s water and sanitation projects and its medical facilities, the report said.

In all, the Red Cross ran aid operations in 49 countries last year, including Russia and Georgia, following the sudden outbreak of a war last summer. It was present in over
80 nations.

The ICRC warned that combined factors were harshly impacting the world’s most vulnerable populations.

“Afghanistan, Somalia and Pakistan are three examples of countries where natural disasters and high food prices have made life even harder for poor people already struggling to cope with the effects of war,” ICRC president Jakob Kellenberger said in a statement.

He said international law could help relieve the suffering of civilians in times of war.

“Much of this suffering could have been avoided if conflict parties had improved their compliance with international humanitarian law,” Kellenberger said.

The Red Cross was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1863. It engages in humanitarian activities and promotes international humanitarian law.(dpa)

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When Lindsay met Samantha

April 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, Apr 17 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson might be finding it hard to get over their split, for the couple keep running into each other at Los Angeles hot spots.

According to the sources, the ‘Mean Girls’ star went to dinner with mom Dina and sister, Ali at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood, where Sam was also present.

“Sam was there, too. They talked for a little and seemed polite, but it was a very brief encounter,” the New York Post quoted a source as saying.

Meanwhile, Ronson has been running around telling pals that she feels “newborn” since parting ways with Lohan.

The lesbian pair reportedly ended their romance earlier this month amid accusations that Ronson had cheated on the star. (ANI)

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Instant Film Enthusiasts Hit Pavement in New York City for Fujifilm, B&H Photo Scavenger Hunt

Instant Film Enthusiasts Hit Pavement in New York City for Fujifilm, B&H Photo Scavenger Hunt

New approach helps pinpoint genes behind common diseases

Posh hailed for wearing faux fur

Farmers offered wetland assurance

ICC failed to deal with Muralitharan’s chucking: Richardson

Ten steps to extended massive orgasm

Red Cross spending hit a record 1 billion dollars in 2008

When Lindsay met Samantha

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