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December 1st is observed around the world as AIDS Day and the occasion is largely publicized.
Unlike the attention World AIDS Day receives, World Disability Day barely registers on the world
media’s radar.
Celebrated every year on December 3rd, World Disability Day honors the contribution made to our
world by those with physical and mental handicap. In case of South Asia, there is severe stigma
attached any kind of physical and mental handicap. World Disability Day is an opportunity to
spread awareness about the rights of the handicapped and that being differently able is not a sin
or something to be ashamed of.
In India, activist Javed Abidi, the country’s leading
advocate for the rights of the handicapped, will lead an event called “Dilli Chalo”
or “Lets go to Delhi” to mark the occasion. It will be held at the historic India
Gate.
Mr. Abidi says that India has made some progress in securing rights of the disabled but
more needs to be done.
“Now, in India, as we are aware, we have had the Disability Act for the last 12 years. Last
year we thought was a momentous year for two reasons. One was that our country ratified the UN
Convention, and the second was that we also got the XI Plan. And in the XI Plan.....for the first
time, there is a distinct chapter or a section on disability. And we thought that things were
going to change. ......if we were look at the last one year, we find that things have not really
moved the way we had expected them to move....”
Along with addressing legal issues related to the rights of the disabled and the opportunities
they deserve, efforts are also needed to help those living in abject poverty because of their
physical condition.
A news report published by the The National shows
how urgently India’s poor disabled citizens need their government to take steps to insure
that they are able to live in dignity.
Shaikh Azizur Rahman reported this November that an elderly father taking care of two
severely disabled bed ridden daughters has asked the Indian President that they be allowed to be
euthanized. He said that he is too poor to take of his daughters who need round the clock care
and attention. Fatema, one of his daughters, says that she too wants her life to end.
“I told my father many times to bring poison for me. Nobody is helping me to kill
myself.”
Across the border in Pakistan, there is still the mountain of odds facing citizens with
disability. Writing for Dawn, Zahid
Abdullah, who works for the Center for Peace and Development in Islamabad, says that country
still has a long way to go before those with different ability can feel that society values them
too. He also expresses frustration at slow pace of legal reform regarding the rights of the
disabled.
Like in India and Pakistan, the society in Nepal too views physical and mental handicaps as a
result of past life’s sins. Handicapped are usually treated as sub human; they have very
limited access to education and meaningful employment. Often you can see a person with physical
disability begging on the streets to sustain life.
Meen Raj Panthi says that
families hide those with a disability to protect their honor and prestige:
“The notion that people with disabilities have equal rights and duty as any other
individual, is largely absent from the popular mindset.”
“While her parents work at fields, she is often locked in her own room and tethered with
rope by her parents because she has no one to look after her at home. But her elder brother and
sister go to school.”
Update le 01/12/2008 - Nouvelle version PLUS en ligne dans son édition 2008u avec ses 15
déclinaisons (voir www.POIauto.com pour les versions "clés en main" via le Club
GpsPasSion) pour vous accompagner sur la route et rouler "informé". Les installations de
radars fixes continuent de plus belle ...
p[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]/pp[Radio sound:] ldquo;Northeast 480 you
are cleared for landing, Northeast 480 you are cleared for landing.rdquo; a
href=http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=monitoring-baby-breathing-with-rada-08-12-03[More]/a
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A l'approche des fêtes, TomTom a mis en place deux Winter Packs destinées aux
promotions de fin d'année incluant une mise à jour radars valable un an.
Détails dans la suite.
David Recordon /
O'Reilly Radar: Getting
OpenID Into the Browser — Google Chrome did a smart thing:
Less. They unified the search box and address bar, since that's what people do
anyway. That gives us back precious pixels for the only thing that's as important to an
average web user as where they're going: Who they are.
A film that was slammed on our radar last night was Rupert Glasso's Coffin Rock, which we've been heavily
researching over the past 24 hours. If you click on over to BDTV you can
check out a very impressive trailer for the film, along with two clips. Beyond the break you can
check out a lo-res one sheet, along with the first official image and synopsis for the film that
comes from the producer of WOLF CREEK. We're told this is one to watch, so we'll be keeping a very
close eye on it.
Ponca City, We love you writes "Two mobile applications, NMobile and Trapster, are providing
drivers with up-to-date maps of speed-enforcement zones with live police traps, speed cameras or
red-light cameras. Each application pulls up a map pinpointing the locations of speed traps within
driving distance and an audio alert will sound as vehicles approach an area tagged as harboring a
speed trap. Both applications rely on the wisdom of the crowds for their data with users reporting
camera-rigged stop lights and areas heavily populated with radar-toting police officers via the
iPhone or their web-based application, creating the ultimate speed trap repository available to you
when you need it most — while you're driving. To thwart false alarms and eliminate
inaccuracies, Trapster enlists its community of nearly 200,000 members to rank speed traps on their
accuracy. NMobile founder Shannon Atkinson declined to provide detailed data, though he did
estimate that 'well over 1,000' users had downloaded the application since it became available last
week. The company insists they've received only positive feedback from law enforcement officials
and police officers regarding their products. 'If the application gets people to slow down, I think
it's generally considered to be a good thing,' said Atkinson."
Au 31 octobre 2008, 1.383 radars fixes étaient installés et 800 mobiles
opérationnels. Le gouvernement prévoit d'en installer 2.000 de plus dans les cinq
prochaines années
pEditors note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a
mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet. Following is the sixth of her updates on the
effort as part of ScientificAmerican.coms in-depth report on the quot;Future of the
Poles.quot;/ppMcMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- For a geologist, Antarctica can be a very frustrating
continent.nbsp; Stepping off an aircraft onto the ice, one is greeted by a 12,000-foot smoking
volcano on one side and a mountain range rising about 14,000 feet on the other.nbsp; This would
appear to be a geologists dream.nbsp; The problem is the ice. Only 1 percentnbsp; of the rock on
the continent is free from the veil of ice.nbsp; The rest is hidden from prying scientists.nbsp; We
are forced to rely on remote sensing techniques to tell us about the types of rocks beneath the ice
sheet.nbsp; Our team uses radar, gravity and magnetics. Other scientists shoot off small explosives
or release pressurized air to record the echoes from different layers of hidden rock. a
href=http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=dispatches-from-the-bottom-of-the-e-2008-12-02[More]/a
There's been plenty of attention paid to the news that the website for President-Elect Obama's
transition team, a href="http://change.gov/"Change.gov/a has been a
href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/33310/change_gov_swaps_traditional_copyright_for_creative_commons"
target="_new"placed under a Creative Commons license/a, allowing others to make use of the content
with attribution. However, I'm a bit hard pressed to see how this actually is a big deal. The whole
thing is made a bit odd by the fact that federal government content is not covered by copyright, so
anything that comes out of the White House is in the public domain. But, apparently since Obama has
not yet been inaugurated, the campaign can still claim copyright on the content. But, why would
they? Rather than going with a CC license, why not go all the way and put the content in the public
domain? After all, in two months, all such content will be in the public domain anyway? It seems a
little odd, counterproductive and unnecessary to add imore restrictions/i to the content than there
will be once Obama is actually in office. If the Obama team ireally/i wanted to do something
meaningful concerning the content on the site, they could follow the advice of Tim O'Reilly and go
ibeyond/i just putting the content in the public domain and also add a
href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/change-gov-revision-control.html" target="_new"revision
control/a, thereby committing to alerting people to any changes to the content. Now, that would be
an impressive change.br /br /a
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click to enlarge It's no
secret that Atari rescued Starbreeze Studios' hi-def remake of
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher
Bay after Activision-Blizzard kicked
it to the curb. What you don't know - and we didn't know until we recently saw it in
action - is that those added "Dark Athena" levels are quite substantial. They've been expended into
an entirely new, 10-plus-hour campaign, complete with new game mechanics, full-game production
values ... the works.
Starbreeze told us that, despite the game being absent from
anyone's radar for quite some time, it never let up on development. In fact, the acquisition of
the game by Atari has afforded the team upwards of nine additional months of development time,
hence the (essentally) second full game and what the team was visibly ecstatic about: more time to
polish every last detail.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (Escape from Butcher's Bay is
still there, looks amazing, and will incorporate new gameplay and tech developed for Dark
Athena) is set for release in spring of 2009. Check back tomorrow for our full impressions of
the new campaign.
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href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a
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src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/riddick.dark.athena.490.jpg" alt="" //abr
/ div align="left" div align="center"emsmallclick to enlarge/small/em/div It's a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/30/riddick-remake-and-maybe-ghostbusters-go-to-atari/"no
secret/a that Atari rescued Starbreeze Studios' a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/22/riddick-remake-confirmed-for-ps3-xbox-360/"hi-def remake/a
of a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/riddick"emThe Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher
Bay/em/a after Activision-Blizzard a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/28/blizzavision-keeps-crash-spyro-ice-age-prototype-loses-bruta/"kicked
it to the curb/a. What you don't know - and emwe/em didn't know until we recently saw it in action
- is that those added "Dark Athena" levels are quite substantial. They've been expended into an
entirely new, 10-plus-hour campaign, complete with new game mechanics, full-game production values
... the works.br /br /Starbreeze told us that, despite the game being a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/11/riddicks-next-gen-remake-delayed-until-2008/"absent from
anyone's radar/a for quite some time, it never let up on development. In fact, the acquisition of
the game by Atari has afforded the team upwards of nine additional months of development time,
hence the (essentally) second full game and what the team was visibly ecstatic about: more time to
polish every last detail.br /br /emThe Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena /em(emEscape
from Butcher's Bay /emis still there, looks amazing, and will incorporate new gameplay and tech
developed for emDark Athena/em) is set for release in spring of 2009. Check back tomorrow for our
full impressions of the new campaign.br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a
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title="" //a/div/div /divp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a
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MySpace and provider of
authentication and identity management solutions Vidoop have teamed up with
Flock to develop an OpenID management addd-on
for version 2.0 of the ’social’ browser.
Here’s how works: the extension will enable Flock to collect and manage OpenID credentials
and use them whenever you browse an OpenID-supported service. It will also automatically alert
you if you can use a stored OpenID to log into a website. The plugin, currently in alpha, can be
found here. Further
details on the IDIB project and OpenID for Flock (which is open source, under GPL) are also
available at the project’s Google
group page.
Bringing OpenID directly to the browser is a sensible thing to do, too bad that Flock isn’t
exactly the most popular kid on the block. I wonder how well OpenID would do if it were
integrated into IE, Firefox and Safari as well?
NL Weerradar 2.0NL Weerradar is a Dashboard widget that shows a map of the
Netherlands with an overlay of the current rainfall. In addition, an animation of 90 minutes or
three hours of the rainfall can be shown.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 2.0:
Satellite images from Sat24.nl added. Both animated and static images, infrared as well as
visible light.
URLs to Buienradar.nl and Wetteronline.de updated.
Total rework of the code, functionality has stayed the same.
pimg src=http://www.framablog.org/public/divers/webshot/screenshot_obama_change-gov.jpg
alt=screenshot_obama_change-gov.jpg style=display:block; margin:0 auto;
title=screenshot_obama_change-gov.jpg, déc. 2008 //p pEn attendant l'investiture et dans la
continuité de sa campagne, Barack Obama et son équipe ont mis en place le site a
href=http://change.gov/Change.gov/a au lendemain des élections./p pRéseau social,
discussion citoyenne, démocratie participative... appelez-cela comme vous voulez mais
toujours est-il que les internautes américains sont donc invités à donner leur
avis sur leur pays et le prochain mandat. Et ça marche plutôt bien car le nombre
d'interventions (et d'interventions argumentées) y est impressionnant. Il faut dire aussi
que le site est extrêmement bien réalisé : messages, votes,
multimédias et fils RSS à tous les étages./p pUn exemple
«Â au hasard » dans la rubrique emIdeas for Change in
America/em : a
href=http://www.change.org/ideas/view/support_the_free_software_movementSupport the Free Software
Movement/a ;-)/p pBonne nouvelle : le site vient de passer hier a
href=http://change.gov/about/copyright_policysous licence Creative Commons By/a, licence a
href=http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/changegov_set_free.htmlqualifiée par Larry Lessig/a
lui-même de «Â la plus libre des licences Creative
Commons » (emthe freest CC license/em)./p pIl est à noter que tout ce qui
émane d'une agence gouvernementale US est d'ordinaire placé automatiquement a
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#United_States_lawdans le domaine public/a. Sauf
qu'ici on ne se retrouve pas exactement dans ce cas de figure puisqu'il s'agit d'un site de
transition avant prises de fonction. Et puis surtout la licence a
href=http://change.gov/about/copyright_policys'applique/a également à tous les
contributeurs citoyens du site : emVisitors to this website agree to grant a
non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to
Change.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License/em./p pAjoutons à cela que
l'identification d'inscription au site se fait via a
href=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIDOpenID/a. Et rappelons que tous a
href=http://flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/les photographies/a du staff de campagne du
candidat Obamasup[a href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/12/02/#pnote-369-1
id=rev-pnote-369-11/a]/sup étaient placées elles aussi, via Flickr, sous Creative
Commons (la By-Nc-Sa)sup[a href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/12/02/#pnote-369-2
id=rev-pnote-369-22/a]/sup./p pCe ne sont que des petits détails eu égard à ce
qui attend le prochain président mais ils témoignent d'une connaissance et d'une
sensibilisation si ce n'est à la «Â culture libre » tout
du moins à une certaine approche des libertés numériques publiques qui se
trouvent être ainsi communiquées à tous les citoyens qui participent au site./p
pEt pendant ce temps-là de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique.../p pimg
src=http://www.framablog.org/public/divers/photos/david-katz_obama_cc-by-nc-sa.jpg
alt=david-katz_obama_cc-by-nc-sa.jpg style=display:block; margin:0 auto;
title=david-katz_obama_cc-by-nc-sa.jpg, déc. 2008 //p div class=footnotesh4Notes/h4 p[a
href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/12/02/#rev-pnote-369-1 id=pnote-369-11/a] La
photographie représentant Barack Obama et sa famille la nuit des élections à
Chicago est de a href=http://flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/3009095088/David Katz/a et est
placée sous licence Creative Commons By-Nc-Sa./p p[a
href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/12/02/#rev-pnote-369-2 id=pnote-369-22/a]
Signalons par ailleurs une récente et intéressante proposition de a
href=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O'ReillyTim O'Reilly/a qui, dans un article intitulé a
href=http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/change-gov-revision-control.htmlPut change.gov Under Revision
Control!/a critique le fait que le site Change.gov ait récemment modifié son contenu
sans que les internautes aient eu la possibilité de voir les changements effectués.
S'inspirant du logiciel (et de l'historique des pages de Wikipédia) il propose que le site
se dôte d'un système de a href=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestion_de_versionsgestion
de versions/a pour que tout un chacun puisse localiser les changements et accèder aux
versions antérieures du contenu ainsi modifié./p/div
Russia plans to upgrade its missiles to allow them to evade American weapons in space and penetrate
any prospective missile shield, a Russian officer said Monday. The officer, Col. Gen. Nikolai Y.
Solovtsov, chief of strategic missile forces, said Russia’s intercontinental ballistic
missiles would be modernized to protect them from space-based components of the United States
missile defense system, the news agency Interfax reported. He also said the military would
commission new a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/rs-24.htm" title="Missile
specs"RS-24 missiles/a with systems to help penetrate a missile shield. The Kremlin has fiercely
opposed the United States plan to deploy 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a related radar
system in the Czech Republic.br/br/span class="advertisement" a
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