Today "146 " News and Relevant News on "146 " as Parts

Keyword: 146

Century Park Law Group - centuryparklawgroup.com News Center

Texas cats die on dairy farm after drinking raw milk contaminated with bird flu, CDC warns

A cluster of cats on a Texas dairy farm died after drinking raw milk from dairy cows affected with bird flu, according to a report from the CDC. An infectious disease expert commented.

Anger can increase heart attack risk, study finds: aChronic insult to arteriesa

Feeling angry for as little as eight minutes a day could raise your chances of experiencing a cardiac event, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Dairy farm worker infected with bird flu; CDC urges workers to wear protective gear

The CDC urged dairy workers to wear protective equipment when working near cows after a farm worker in Texas developed a serious eye infection while infected with bird flu.

Eating one type of fruit regularly could reduce diabetes risk in women, study suggests: 'Incredibly healthy'

A new study found a correlation between avocado consumption and reduced diabetes risk in Mexican adults. Several dietitians weigh in on the fruit's nutritional benefits.

Are noise-canceling headphones hazardous to your health? Audiology experts share warnings

Noise-canceling earbuds and headphones can be helpful when you need silence a but could they be hazardous to your health? Audiology experts offered important insights.

Cat owners could be at higher risk of schizophrenia, study suggests, but more research needed

Cat cuddles might seem therapeutic, but a study suggests this could have adverse mental health effects down the road. The study researcher and a psychologist weighed in on the findings.

Mpox outbreak that is rapidly spreading through Congo may be a new form of the disease

Scientists say a mutated form of mpox, detected in a mining town in Congo, might spread more easily among people than previous outbreaks.

Pregnancy-related deaths back down to pre-pandemic levels, CDC data says

New CDC data shows that pregnancy-related deaths have fallen to pre-pandemic levels after seeing an immense increase over the last couple of years.

High levels of resistant bacteria found in uncooked meats and raw dog food: aRed flaga

High levels of E. coli were found in uncooked meats and raw dog food sold in U.K. grocery stores, according to research presented last week at the ESCMID Global Congress in Barcelona.

A mother's heartbreaking story, plus mammogram guidance and cancer-fighting nutrients

The Fox News Health Newsletter brings you trending and important stories about health warnings, drug shortages, mental health issues and more in this weekly recap.

When a parent must care for a parent: How to avoid caregiving burnout, according to experts

Serving as a caregiver for a parent with dementia while also caring for kids can come with physical, mental and emotional challenges, several caregivers shared with Fox News Digital.

Common mental health problem can shorten cancer survivorsa lives, study finds: aCritical issuea

Cancer survivors who feel lonely tend to have a greater risk of dying, according to research from the American Cancer Society. Researchers and mental health experts offered insights.

Breast cancer mammogram screenings should start at age 40 instead of 50, says health task force

Women should get mammograms every other year starting at age 40, according to updated recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).

US health experts recommend less alcohol as new research challenges benefits of moderate drinking

A growing number of public health experts say if you choose to drink alcohol, you should drink as little as possible. Guidelines vary from country to country.

aLiquid golda could bring new hope to multiple sclerosis patients, study suggests: aProfound benefita

An experimental medication called CNM-Au8 a a drinkable liquid with gold nanocrystals a has shown promising results in clinical trials for improving MS symptoms. Doctors and researchers weighed in.

Cancer immunity gets a boost from one common nutrient, study finds: aIntrigue and optimisma

Vitamin D could be a surprise weapon against cancer, new research suggests. A doctor weighed in in on the nutrient's impact on immune response and tumor growth.

Cancer trends revealed, including most common types of the disease and biggest risk factors

USAFacts, a Washington-based nonprofit that compiles and reports on government data, took a deep dive into the latest cancer data to identify trends. Here are the key findings.

Health weekend roundup: Bird flu, stroke risks, a mother's heartbreak and more

As your weekend continues and you look to the week ahead, check out some of the top recent stories in Health that you may have missed, or have been meaning to check out.

Daily showers could be harmful for skin health, some experts claim

Daily showers arenat necessary and may not have any health benefit, according to certain experts. Some claim that most people take them every day only because they have become the societal norm.

'Vampire facials' at unlicensed spa likely resulted in HIV infections: CDC

Three women likely contracted HIV after receiving so-called "vampire facials" making them the first known cases of the virus being transmitted during a a cosmetic injection procedure.

Amid bird flu spread, experts reveal if it's safe to drink milk: 'Indirect concern'

Traces of bird flu have been detected in pasteurized milk, leaving many people wondering if itas safe to drink. Doctors offered their insights about the potential risk.

aSleep disorder drove my son to suicide,a New York mother says: aBroke my hearta

Derek McFadden was 23 when he took his own life on August 17, 2018, in Tucson, Arizona. His mother, Robin McFadden, said she believes that her sonas insomnia was the adriver" of his suicide.

To keep your teeth white, bright and healthy, follow these 7 tips from dental experts

Want the secrets to a whiter smile? Two dental experts share their best advice on how to avoid teeth discoloration and keep your smile looking bright and white.

CrossFit for beginners: How to make the most of the fitness program

CrossFit is one of the world's most popular training resources for improving health and fitness performance. The program focuses on high-intensity workouts.

5 womenas health tips to prevent and detect strokes, according to cardiologists

One in five women between the ages of 55 and 75 will experience a stroke. Parag Shah, MD, a physical medicine specialist in Jacksonville, Florida, shares tips for women to reduce their risk.

An ideal google phone - the Nexus 4

This review is a bit late considering that the Nexus 5 is already available in India.

I am sure it is going to be an awesome phone, just like the Nexus 4 is.


I have been through a lot of Android phones - over the last few years ; I must have used almost every major Android device at some point or the other since Gingerbread was released - which is quite some time ago now.

One of my favourite devices was the Galaxy S3. It felt just right to hold - the perfect shape and size , slim et al. It was STILL all plastic and the only, the biggest gripe for me.If only Samsung could have done with better quality materials. . .

I have heard a lot about the so called "Pure Google" experience or the "Pure Android" experience. For a while, before I switched over to the "Nexus" bandwagon, I didn't really think it was that much of a difference.

To me, all droids stuttered, coughed every now and then and I had accepted this as a natural phenomena on all droid devices. Until, I laid my hands on the Nexus 4 and its amazingly well integrated software and hardware experience.

Let me start with the build - not an iPhone by any means but its times better than a Samsung PlasticDroid. It has the right heft and weight to it. Feels very comfy in one hand and as long as you dont drop it , there is nothing to complain about the build quality.

Stutter ? what stutter - this is truly the first android phone I have seen which has the seamless software experience people craved for. Pretty much the best hardware specs at the time of its production and fantastic integration on software by LG/Google - after a while it dawned on me, what project "butter" and other under the skin improvements by google had materialized into.

The more I use it, the more it feels "just right" in all aspects. Yes the camera could be better in certain conditions and to each his own on the quality of pictures considered acceptable.

Bottom line is  - N4 is the biggest bang for buck in the market today and if prices drop further when N5 floods the market, you can buy a N4 for even cheaper and make a really good buy - one that you wont regret even 3 years down the line and that is a long time in Smartphone terms.



Wild flower




A wild flower in bloom - as if it was conscious of its beauty.

Intemperate and haughty , knowing her like is not in bounty.

Near so perfect outside , a fragile makeup inside.

Founded on floundering principles  , staggering in her ambitions.

The right and wrong all in one place , confusing and amazing are his ways

Should I enjoy the fragrance and let be or pluck it and take it with me ?

A,B and C of Software Teams



In India, there are "A" players and "B" players, mostly, who make up the bulk of a Software Development company. Of course there are "C" players but there should be a good reason for them to exist and in small numbers so we exclude them here. And then there are an equally small number of "AB" players.

"B" players make up the vast majority of Devs. Its like the middle-class of India. Most of these are people who dabble in almost every technology in the project portfolio but are not really a master of any. Example, a .NET web developer (B) would perhaps be a good all-rounder in client side technologies, C# based backend tech stack, decent DBMS programmer etc but not really stand-out at any one of these.

The "A" players are the ones who are hard-core technologists. The lot who can have an intellectual orgasm at the mere prospect of deciphering / delivering a very complicated system. The people who can stare at the same 5 lines of code for a thousand minutes and still find an optimization ; or those who can hold a program in their head for days on end and have the solution etched in mind before it becomes code. No QA/QC required.

There are very few "AB" players who overlap between being very good at something - say, algorithms or overall concepts of the system etc, and are also "good" at the rest of it. Their numbers are about the same as the "C"

Looking at what each of these bring to the table :


  • The "A" players bring technical expertise - they are specialists and most of the time focused only on coding, refactoring, efficiency et al. These people are the real "DEVELOPERS". They push the limits, push the framework, break code and rebuild it. This is the sharpened edge of the team. These are they guys who are always bugging the support team of some latest framework on the market. They raise the most tickets, the most complicated tickets and for the rest of the team, they appear to be working at an unimaginable level of coding.
If a product development manager / lead wants a cutting edge feature, he would be looking at the "A"s first.  Say you have a legacy spaghetti bowl which needs to talk to the greatest and latest ERP modules of a Co's product , with the usual improvements in speed, reliability etc. - this is where you would come to.

  • The  "B" players are more like "coders" or "programmers" than "developers" - the difference being that, A's push the limits and explore the boundaries of the stack while B's are tasked to concentrate on known areas and often come up with "safe" solutions. Unspectacular yet solid. In this sense, the B's all put together are nothing but a relatively stable "processing program". They take-in a lot of requirements from their leads,designers and turn out 100's of lines of code - not the best or the most efficient, but something that works most of the time. This is the mundane part of the team.
If you had to develop 15 modules for an ERP with dedicated features/screens for each ; dependency on each other and well defined business rules, you would push it to the "B"s and expect an almost error-free working prototype in a time-bound manner.

  • The "AB" players are an interesting lot. They are few in number and sometimes very "malleable"  / "scalable" - they are mostly clear B+ people who can upstage an A from time to time at something very particular. Its like the LINQ-to-SQL expert in your front-end team who can write more efficient queries than an A for certain parts of the program ; and is still a better B than all the others. 
The "AB"s are floaters. Almost all  of the A's and the B's tend to work within well defined boundaries - their area's of expertise. But "AB"s wander around. At worst they are B players but from time to time they scale up and contribute to spikes in the development.

But there is another important facet of "AB"'s and "B"s which needs to be explored  - "Non-technical Skills".

"Your brain is not functioning correctly ... "



"a2"a2?a2"a3a2" BRAIN a2,a2dega2?a2-a23/4a2a2? a2a3a22a2, a2(r)a23/4a2!a3a2$?a2?a22a3a22! "


Like he had a eureka moment, this is what my dad told me a few min back. 


My dad bought me my first computer when I was in 9th STD.  Specs as below - 

  • Pentium II 233 MHz
  • 64MB RAM courtesy Hyundai Hynix
  • 2GB Seagate hard-disk at less than 4500RPM 
  • 11" or maybe 12" bulbulous CRT monitor
  • A CD-ROM drive rated at 32X
  • PS/2 connectors for mouse and keyboard
  • The already very nearly redundant floppy drive - 3.5" 
  • One USB port (!)
Seems pedestrian by todays standards but this was a pretty good "rig" back then  - almost 14 or 15 years back .  

To buy this PC my dad and myself went around town for 6-8 months. You see the personal computer was still a luxury in those days and my dad is not the kind to invest his money in "needless luxury". Considering that,  8 months is actually not a very long time to have changed his position ;)

The story of shopping the first computer is for another day. 

Back to 1999 - one fine day our brand new PII 233 (that was how I used to call it ever since I got the specs) landed up - complete with a UPS from "Genesis" worth 20min of backup ( it never, ever lasted more than 5 min - it was big heavy and fugly) ; and a very good HP Deskjet colour printer. 

2 months later, Intel launched the PIII and the processor race had started in earnest. Oh and my PC was obsolete already....

In the 14 years since I got this computer, the most frequent source of conflict between father and son is THE computer :) Credit to my dad, he took to the computer like a duck to water but he is by no means an expert on how it works - rather he is good at working with it.

And so every once in a while the computer would break-down for whatever reason - hardware , software , electrical and we would have a big argument as to why it broke down, what could have been done to prevent it, what I didn't do to prevent it and so on. 

I have come to understand that being proficient with any technology at home is more of a bane than a boon.  Don't agree ? Read on- 

  • You are the de-facto "operator" of the said device whenever the family wants to use the device.
  • You are singularly responsible for its operation and maintenance
  • You should be "available on hand" to "operate" the device "whenever the family needs it " ; in other words, because you are the expert, you should be like customer support 24/7
  • If it WORKS FINE, you are not responsible but  - 
  • If ANYTHING goes wrong with the device, its ALWAYS your fault.
  • ....and the list goes on....

And so with this PC, I was always and I still am the person responsible for everything wrong about it :D I can grin about it now, but a few years ago it wasn't like that ! 

3 weeks back, the HDD on the PC packed up. I had given up on maintaining this PC almost a year back - its running XP Home edition and is infested with virus like scavengers feasting on a rotten cadaver. So it wouldn't boot up and the BIOS doesn't detect the master drive. When I told so to my dad he was disgusted.  This coming on the back of a few weeks where the boot-up was troublesome - BIOS failures , RESETs etc

Apparently he must have tried to switch it on today and it works (!) - which is why he had the Eureka moment today evening and told me what I have written as the title of this post. 


BMTF vs BBMP

Very interesting article - http://bit.ly/O4dohT


Going by the tone of the parties involved, it looks like Tit for Tat.

Corruption is commonplace in all institutions in society today. More so in the individuals holding power as the  office-bearers / staff of such institutions.

While I feel a tinge of satisfaction in the BMTF chief and his loyalists taking on the apparently "more corrupt" corporators and their ilk - especially those in the BBMP, I really do fear of a strong backlash from the BBMP again.

Remember the last time the BBMP staff were on strike, they raised a big stink - literally.

It would be nice if all such corrupt entities were taken to task without causing inconvenience to the common man.

Page took 1 seconds to load.

News on 147

Century Park Law Group is Los Angeles Car Accident Lawyer

Home Page