Former triple Formula One motor racing champion Nelson Piquet has been sent to driving awareness school - for repeated speeding and parking offences.
The Brazilian lost his licence after racking up too many penalty points.
Piquet and his wife Viviane, who also had her licence revoked, must attend a week of lessons to learn good and safe driving conduct, and then pass an exam.
Only then will Piquet - F1 champion in 1981, 1983 and 1987 - be allowed back behind the wheel.
Google has announced the acquisition of ImageAmerica, a company that builds high-resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery. ImageAmerica has previously provided images for Google Maps and Earth, including high-resolution black and white imagery of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
Ο δορυφόρος Ikonos, είναι ο πρώτος παγκοσμίως, που προσέφερε Δορυφορικές Εικόνες υψηλής ανάλυσης στο κοινό, καλύπτοντας ένα τεράστιο πεδίο εφαρμογών. Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ σε συνεργασία με την European Space Imaging και την Geospatial Enabling Technologies, προμηθεύτηκε Δορυφορικές εικόνες αρχείου (20/03/04), οι οποίες σε συνδυασμό με πρόσφατες λήψεις (05/07/07), προσφέρουν τη πραγματική εικόνα του μεγέθους της καταστροφής.
Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ κατάφερε εντός 24ώρου το προγραμματισμό των νέων λήψεων, αλλά και την επεξεργασία και γεωμετρική διόρθωση όλων των δεδομένων, έτσι ώστε να μπορεί ο καθένας, άμεσα να διαπιστώσει το μέγεθος της καταστροφής, συγκρίνοντας τη πριν και μετά κατάσταση. Μέσα από την εφαρμογή Zoomify δίνεται η δυνατότητα ταυτόχρονης προσέγγισης της περιοχής , στις διαφορετικές χρονολογίες, όπου με διακριτική ικανότητα έως ένα μέτρο στο έδαφος, αποκαλύπτεται η νέα πραγματικότητα.
Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ στο πλαίσιο της προσπάθειας, για συνεχή και ακριβή ενημέρωση, προτίθεται και σε μελλοντικές λήψεις της περιοχής, έτσι ώστε η παρακολούθηση να είναι διαρκής και αποκαλυπτική.
For ex-hacker Adrian Lamo, victory over federal prosecutors comes in the form of eight cheek swabs.
Last year, Lamo earned the disapproval of his probation officer in the closing months of his two year probation term when he refused to provide a blood sample for the FBI’s DNA database.
«Ο ασθενής έχει το δικαίωμα του σεβασμού του προσώπου του και της ανθρώπινης αξιοπρέπειάς του.»(σύμφωνα με τις διατάξεις του άρθρου 47 του Ν. 2071/ 1992)
«Να γίνουν εξαίρεση οι αλμπάνηδες ρε παιδιά, όχι ο κανόνας…»
(Αμαλία Καλυβίνου, 1977-2007)
Από την ηλικία των οκτώ ετών, η Αμαλία ξεκίνησε να πονάει. Παρά τις συνεχείς επισκέψεις της σε γιατρούς και νοσοκομεία, κανένας δεν κατάφερε να διαγνώσει εγκαίρως το καλόηθες νευρίνωμα στο πόδι της. Δεκαεπτά χρόνια αργότερα, η Αμαλία έμαθε ότι το νευρίνωμα είχε πια μεταλλαχθεί σε κακόηθες νεόπλασμα.
Greek bloggers are mourning the loss of one of their own, a young Greek cancer patient whose adventures through the Greek medical system touched thousands, and are dedicating June 1 to her memory.
Amalia Kalyvinou, who died last week at the age of 30, had attracted many to her Internet Weblog with her stories about incompetent and corrupt doctors who failed to diagnose her for years or took financial advantage of her despair.
This one is for Amalia…
“Every patient has the right to being respected and maintaining his dignity.”
(Greek law, article 47, L.2071/1992)
“Quacks should be the exception, you guys, not the norm…”
(Amalia Kalyvinou , 1977-2007)
Since the age of 8, Amalia Kalyvinou started having pains. Despite her numerous visits to doctors and several admissions to hospitals, no-one managed to diagnose her in time with the benign neurinoma of her lower extremity, which was the actual diagnosis at that point. 17 years later, Amalia was told that the neurinoma had transformed by then into a malignant tumour.
For the next 5 years, Amalia not only had to fight with the cancerous disease and amputation, but also with a corrupt Greek National Health System: it ignores (by choice) the ongoing patient-to-doctor bribery and insists on time-consuming bureaucratic methods and practices. Besides radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Amalia had to face the financial exploitation by doctors that stood opposite to rather than by her side. On top of her pain, she had to endure the greediness of private clinics and the exhaustingly long waiting queues of the health insurance system, in order to get legal approval for some ridiculously low financial compensation.
Amalia passed away on Friday, May the 25th, 2007. She was just 30 years old.
Before dying, she managed to document her experience and share it with us in her blog http://fakellaki.blogspot.com/. The promising literature graduate named in there each and every one of the doctors she had to bribe, praising at the same time the ones that honoured the Hippocratic Oath. Her testimony moved thousands of people that stood by her side all the way to the end.
“Amalia’s main aim was to tell her story, so that she could awaken as many people and as many consciences as possible. She mainly wanted to show that there are ways to resist not only the self-regulation and authority of dishonest and heartless doctors, but also the bureaucrats of the Health System.”
According to the Greek law, it is considered a major disciplinary offence for the doctors of the Greek National Health System to:
“Accept bonus and especially any compensation or property grant, for any medical service provided.”
Amalia Kalyvinou fought for things that are taken for granted in a modern European country. Unfortunately, this is not the case for Greece. Continuing Amalia’s effort where she left off, we protest in public and we demand:
* THE STATE TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO STOP BRIBERY AND THE INEQUALITY BROUGHT IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS.
* THE NATIONAL HEALTH COMMITTEE TO BE MORE FLEXIBLE SO AS PATIENTS STOP FALLING VICTIMS TO TIME-CONSUMING BUREAUCRATIC PROCESSES.
* THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO ENSURE STRICTER CONTROL ON THE RELATION OF DRUG COMPANIES – MEDICAL SERVICE.
* FULL UTILISIZATION OF CURRENTLY ABANDONED HOSPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE. CONTINUOUS AND COMPLETE SCIENTIFIC TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT FOR DOCTORS AND NURSES.
* CREATION OF A NATION-WIDE ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM, TO SPEED UP PROMPT DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
LET’S END THE HYPOCRISY OF THE ONES THAT GOVERN, WHO PREFER TO ALLOW DOCTORS TO BE BRIBED BY THEIR PATIENTS, INSTEAD OF PROVIDING THEM WITH A DECENT SALARY.
* No more bribery
* No more bureaucracy
* No more lies
We demand free and Efficasious healthcare services for all.
Next time you’ll have to bribe a doctor, just don’t. Choose instead to make a donation. Amalia’s last wish was to contribute to the -under construction- Oncological Centre for Children. (Elpida foundation, tel no 0030210-7757153, email: info@elpida.org,
Bank accounts: National bank of Greece, account no 080/480898-36, Alphabank account no 152-002-002-000-515. Please remember to quote that your donation is “for Amalia”)
A huge US email spammer has been arrested and if convicted as charged, he will face a maximum sentence of more than 65 years in prison and a fine of 250,000 dollars.
Robert Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington, a week after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud.
“Spam is a scourge of the Internet, and Robert Soloway is one of its most prolific practitioners,” said US Attorney for the Western District of Washington Jeffrey Sullivan.
Recently, a number of concerned publishers have let us know that they’re seeing ads in foreign languages in the ‘preview mode’ of their HTML editors or on pages that haven’t been published to the web. We’d like to reassure you that this is normal.
Ένας άντρας από την Αγγλία τρέχει ακόμα Μαραθώνιο και δεν πρόκειται να τελειώσει έως την Κυριακή.
Ο Greg Billingham, από την περιοχή Poynton του Cheshire στην Αγγλία πραγματοποιεί έναν μαραθώνιο σε αργή κίνηση.
Ο Billingham, ο οποίος μαζεύει λεφτά για τα παιδιά που πάσχουν από Λευχαιμία πραγματοποιεί ένα βήμα κάθε 5 ή 6 δευτερόλεπτα. Ξεκίνησε την περασμένη Κυριακή μαζί με άλλους 36,000 αθλητές και υπολογίζει ότι θα έχει καλύψει την απόσταση των 26 μιλίων μέσα σε μια εβδομάδα.
Ο Billingham είπε ότι ο κόσμος που έχει συναντήσει κατά τη διάρκεια της διαδρομής του έχει εκδηλώσει πραγματικό ενδιαφέρον για την προσπάθεια του.
Former triple Formula One motor racing champion Nelson Piquet has been sent to driving awareness school - for repeated speeding and parking offences.
For ex-hacker Adrian Lamo, victory over federal prosecutors comes in the form of eight cheek swabs.
Ένας άντρας από την Αγγλία τρέχει ακόμα Μαραθώνιο και δεν πρόκειται να τελειώσει έως την Κυριακή.
