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Friday, December 25, 2009
Some people 'really feel pain of others'
Some people 'really feel pain of others'
May not be all, but some people really do feel the pain of others, say researchers.
A new study by Birmingham University has found that around one in three people actually feel physical discomfort when they see someone else in agony, leading British newspaper 'The Daily Telegraph' reported.
For the study, the researchers conducted an experiment in which they invited 123 university students to watch video clips and photographs of patients and sports stars in painful situations.
The videos included a footballer breaking his leg, a tennis player turning over his left ankle and a patient getting an injection in the hand.
All the students said that, for at least one of the images or videos, they had an "emotional reaction" -- such as feeling sad, disgusted or fearful. But a third, also claimed to feel real pain in the same part of the body as the victim they were watching.
Some experienced tingling or aching, others felt a heavy or stabbing pain. For some the pain was fleeting -- others complained that it lasted for several seconds, the findings revealed.
A picture of an athlete running on a racetrack with a clearly broken leg generated the most physical pain in the students, according to the researchers.
The researchers then asked 10 of these "hypersensitive" students to repeat the experiment while their brains were being scanned with fMRI -- the functional magnetic resonance imaging used in hospitals.
Subsequently, the results were compared with the scans from 10 people who said they felt nothing while looking at the upsetting images. The researchers found that while viewing the painful pictures, both groups showed activity in the parts of the brain that deal with emotions.
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New IT Events are coming
New IT Events are coming:
3rd Mobile Commerce Summit Asia 2010
Started: 24-March-2010New World Hotel Makati City
Manila, PHILIPPINES
The Roadmap of Mobile Commerce is to be revealed in Asia.
The 3rd Mobile Commerce Summit Asia 2010 will be happening in the premier spot of Mobile Commerce in the World – Manila, Philippines. This will bring you the untold story of how the ecosystem should get together in achieving the most rewarding benefits of Mobile Commerce Services in this dynamic world that we are living in. A must attend event in the mCommerce Space that will give the most interesting conference experience in 2010. This conference will be held at The New World Hotel in Makati City 24 – 25 March 2010.
Certified Scrum Master - Ottawa ON
Started: 11-January-2010Marriott,
Canada, Ottawa 100 Kent Street
800-853-8463
2 Days - This course results in a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation from the Scrum Alliance.
Expand beyond classic product/project paradigms and learn why agile/scrum works.
Understand Scrum • Use Agile Metrics and Reports • Apply Adaptive Planning
Final Cut Pro 7 - Level 101 Class w/ Diana Weynand!
Started: 02-April-2010AirTel Plaza Hotel in Van Nuys
7277 ValJean Ave
91406 Van Nuys CA, USA
Classes from (9am to 5pm)
This three-day introductory program is designed for those who want to learn the feature set of Final Cut Pro 7 and how to use it in an editing environment. Topics include basic setup, adjusting and customizing preferences and settings, capturing video and audio, project management, marking and editing, drag and drop editing, timeline editing, adjusting and trimming edit points, slip and slide editing sub clips, story board editing, applying transitions, mixing audio tracks, multicam editing, adding titles and graphics and finishing and outputting, and all the new features of FCP7.
The Internet Show - Melbourne, Australia
Started: 13-April-2010Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre
Melbourne, Australia
The Internet Show is a series of seminars and a showcase. It is the only event that brings together large, medium and small companies, all eager to find new ways of doing business online. This is a business, not a technology show.
Certified ScrumMaster Workshop - HTUDetroit
Started: 16-January-2010Comfort Suites in Livonia
Detroit, MI, USA
This course is aimed at helping those who are experiencing hardship during these turbulent economic times. We schedule these courses wherever they are called to alleviate the burden (Seattle, Detroit, Miami, DC e.g.).
Ask for a course in your area if you do not see one. Other local chapter members will work with you to help launch a course in your area. Unique opportunities exist for those who become vetted to be a Conductor for a local chapter.
Oracle Business Intelligence Seminar in Taipei, Taiwan
Started: 07-January-2010Taipei Grand Formosa Regent Hotel 4F VIP Room 1
(Taipei, Zhongshan North Road, Sec 41)
Oracle Business Intelligence allows you to even more powerful through the same business vision, in-depth business information and evidence-based decision-making capacity, allowing you to develop better decision-making; to provide modeling capabilities to assess, test and then help you choose the best course of action.
Final Cut Pro 7 - Level 101 Class w/ Diana Weynand!
Started: 05-February-2010AirTel Plaza Hotel in Van Nuys
7277 ValJean Ave
91406 Van Nuys CA, USA
Classes from (9am to 5pm)
This three-day introductory program is designed for those who want to learn the feature set of Final Cut Pro 7 and how to use it in an editing environment. Topics include basic setup, adjusting and customizing preferences and settings, capturing video and audio, project management, marking and editing, drag and drop editing, timeline editing, adjusting and trimming edit points, slip and slide editing sub clips, story board editing, applying transitions, mixing audio tracks, multicam editing, adding titles and graphics and finishing and outputting, and all the new features of FCP7.
Introduction to HTML - learning course in London, UK
Started: 01-March-2010Highlander Ltd
London, UK
Introduction to HTML is a school day learning-based course covering the basics of HTML. It is designed for those who are completely new to HTML, and is an ideal base to then develop more advanced skills at the top.
Fast Track to MySQL/PHP - training course in London, UK
Started: 14-June-2010
Highlander Ltd
London, UK
Highlander FastTrack to PHP / MySQL training course combines instructor took 2 days FastTrack to PHP / MySQL class with 6 months access to our Learning Management System (LMS) including course slides and demos, discussion forums, PHP and MySQL extensive glossary, additional exercises and samples, and other online learning support.
Oracle WebCenter seminar - Kiev, Ukraine
Started: 23-December-2009Oracle Office
2 Mechnikova str.
Kiev, Ukraine
Oracle WebCenter - is instrumental creation environment and execution corporate Web-next-generation applications that allow users to solve information and complex business problems of enterprise rich set of Web 2.0 components, as well as business services, integrated into the application. To ensure more effective users of the application components created using Oracle WebCenter, have developed a means of sharing data, determining the current context solve business problems.
Microsoft Excel 2003 Advanced Level Training Course - Birmingham, UK
Started: 28-January-2010Blythe Valley Business Park
Birmingham, UK
Features of Excel training
- Highly qualified instructors certified by Microsoft as competent to train in Excel
- ALL Microsoft Excel software versions available
- Monitoring email and telephone support for 90 days following its course
- Receive all the exercise files to a CD to keep practicing in the office
- Certificate of Completion
Oracle Data Integration Forum - forum in Seattle, WA, USA
Started: 13-January-2010W Hotel Seattle
1112 4th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101, USA
You are invited to a special forum to discover how Oracle's comprehensive platform for data integration products to deliver data faster and more scalable architectures real time at a total cost of ownership. We unified the best of its kind in the ability of real time data movement, massive data processing and quality data to help improve business insight across the enterprise.
Social Media World Forum Europe - London, UK
Started: 15-March-2010Olympia Exhibition Centre
London, UK
Europe's leading social media event. Two-day event with four dedicated conference streams, workshops and exhibitions.
Currents of the conference include: World Forum on Social Media, Enterprise Social Media, Social, TV, Mobile Social Media Cloud Computing Congress.
PEMD 2010 : The 5th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives - Brighton, UK
Started: 19-April-2010Thistle Hotel
Brighton, UK
Join a stellar list of international engineers from industry, research and academia to discuss, debate
and learn about recent developments and future trends in this area of large and rapid change.
Business Continuity Breakfast Seminar - London, UK
Started: 13-January-2010Ambassadors Bloomsbury London
United Kingdom
A-Server is proud to invite you to a series of exclusive seminars about business continuity for small and medium-size businesses. During the seminar, we will demonstrate our managed backup and disaster recoverys solution (BDR). The product is specifically designed for IT Resellers. Join us at a place where IT companies meet in London: 'Ambassadors Bloomsbury Hotel'
eComm (Emerging Communications & Awards) America 2010 - Burlingame, CA, USA
Started: 19-April-2010San Francisco Airport Marriott
1800 Old Bayshore Hwy
Burlingame, CA 94,010 USA
Emerging Communications (eComm) Conference & Awards was established to promote and accelerate innovation in communications.
Telecommunications, mobile and to a lesser extent, Internet-based communications, innovation has been stagnant for too long. However, innovation opportunities that have never been stronger. These opportunities are only going to grow as the dramatic changes that impact multi-billion dollar a year telecommunications industry.
PRINCE2 PROJECT MANAGEMENT FREE WORKSHOP - MADRID, SPAIN
Started: 10-February-2010Madrid, Spain
QRP International organises a Workshop on the methodology of PRINCE2 and the new 2010 version on Wednesday the 10th of February in Madrid and the 24th of February in Barcelona
It’s a FREE Workshop is aimed at who are not familiar with PRINCE2 and wish to deepen their knowledge in this area.
This seminar presents the PRINCE2 methodology by providing a clear view of its benefits. It will also present how PRINCE2 can be used to increase the success of a project.
Security: Whatever - An Information Security Leaders event in Manchester, UK
Started: 02-February-2010Radisson Manchester Airport
Manchester, United Kingdom
Information Security Leaders introduces Security: Whatever it is, the 2nd chapter of exhibitions as a continuation of the successful 'Optimize transaction or series'.
Business Continuity Seminar - Rotterdam, Netherlands
Started: 19-January-2010Novotel Rotterdam Brainpark
Rotterdam, Netherlands
A-Server is proud to invite you to an exclusive seminar about business continuity for small and medium-size businesses. During the seminar we will demonstrate our backup and disaster recovery solutions. The product we offer is specifically designed for IT resellers.
US Court Tells MS Not To Sell Word, Pay $290m
US Court Tells MS Not To Sell Word, Pay $290m
Seattle: A federal appeals courts ordered Microsoft to stop selling its Word programme in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court.
But people looking to buy Word or Microsoft’s Office
package in the US won’t have to go without the software. Microsoft said Tuesday it expects that new versions of the product, with the computer code in question removed, will be ready for sale when the injunction begins on January 11.Toronto-based i4i Inc sued Microsoft in 2007, saying it owned the technology behind a tool in the popular word processing program. The technology in question gives Word users an improved way to edit XML, or code that tells the program how to interpret and display a document’s contents.
A Texas jury found that Microsoft Word willfully infringed on the patient. Microsoft appealed that decision, but the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld the lower court’s damage award and the injunction against future sales of infringing copies of Word.
Michel Vulpe, founder and co-investor of i4i, said in a statement that the company is pleased with the decision, calling it “an important step in protecting the property rights of small inventors.”
Microsoft
said it has been preparing for such a judgment since August. Copies of Word and Office sold before January 11 aren’t affected by the court’s decision. And Microsoft said it has “put the wheels in motion to remove this little-used feature” from versions of Word 2007 and Office 2007 that would be sold after that date. “Beta” or test version of Word 2010 and Office 2010, expected to be finalized next year, do not contain the offending code, the software maker said. Microsoft added that it may appeal further, asking for either a rehearing in front of the appeals court’s full panel of judges or in front of the US Supreme Court.
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