I was cleaning the inbox of my email account and found this interesting article about Heart Attack. Well we got to admit that heart ailment is one of the dreaded disease of many and could lead to death if not treated early. The article below, discusses a few tips and things to do if you are in that predicament.

Let’s say it’s 6.15p m and you’re going home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to adiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.  However,these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

Pls forwad this message to as many friends as possible…

A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

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Image courtesy of : http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov

related link: EU to Require Microsoft to Offer Competitors’ Browsers With Windows

The European Commission and Microsoft appear to finally be on the verge of resolving an antitrust dispute over Windows 7’s browser

Microsoft has long packaged its Internet Explorer browser with Windows.  The bundling has given Microsoft’s browser a dominant position in the marketplace, despite promising alternatives including Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Google Chrome.  That cozy position could soon change, though, thanks to action by Europe’s antitrust watchdog and business regulatory body, the European Commission.

The EC demanded Microsoft offer a ballot selection screen to allow users to pick their browser of choice with Windows 7.  Microsoft at first refused, saying it would not include IE 8 in European copies of Windows 7.  In the end, though, Microsoft came around andagreed to a ballot screen.

The EC had some minor complaints about Microsoft’s first proposal — mainly its lack of information to users about what the browsers were to help them make their selection.  Under the new proposal, which the EC calls much “improved” users could find out information on what a browser is from the ballot screen.  They would also have access to additional information about each browser they could install, to help them make their decision.

Under the new proposal, the balloting system would work for five years after purchase on any new install.  Windows 7 and all future versions of Windows would implement this scheme.

EC showed Microsoft some love, with a regulator stating, “The commission’s concern has been that PC users should have an effective and unbiased choice between Internet Explorer and competing Web browsers to ensure competition on the merits and to allow consumers to benefit from technical development and innovation both on the Web-browser market and on related markets, such as Web-based applications.”

Brad Smith, general counsel of Microsoft stated that his company was “pleased by today’s decisions.”

Microsoft and Europe have had a rocky relationship, with Microsoft fined 899 million euros ($1.35 billion) in 2008 for antitrust violations.  Brad Smith says that situation has greatly turned around, though.  He gave Europe some love back, stating, “It’s heartening to see the much better relationship that exists today.”

Source: DailyTech

WordPress

Well, I’ve been monitoring this software release from it’s beta, and I believe I have published the beta release in my blog. And to think that I have been busy for a while and was not able to check on the updates of this software. What did I missed? Well, I you hadn’t known also, after the beta was up they already released RC1 and not long after that, the official version is already published!

Yep, you heard it right! WordPress 2.8 the official release is available for everybody to use. If you haven’t known the features of the new release, head over to the WordPress Blog.

Grab yourself a copy and test it now!