They need to be fed a special way so as to prevent aspiration of food into the lungs. They have to be turned constantly in bed to relieve pressure points so they do not develope life threatening bed sores.

Clash of the Artists: Cast Your Vote at artforprogress.org

For the past two months, emerging artists have been sending Art For Progress (AFP) their best, and now it's time for the virtual art community to do its part. AFP's annual arts competition, Clash of the Artists, is the first of its kind, where artists in six categories compete in an interactive on-line environment. People from New York to Japan can visit artforprogress.org and vote for their favorites while viewing short films, listening to music, and seeing new work from emerging artists and fashion designers. The top three artists in each category will compete on Saturday, March 15th at a live finals event in New York City.

In 2007, over 5,000 people voted on-line, and over 300 people attended the memorable live event. The five-week voting period begins January 15th and runs through February 20th.

Pettini Begins Another Season

If things go right for him, he is going to have a good career,'' Pettini predicted. On the subject of steroids, Joe believes it is time that Congress gets out of the business of baseball. ‘‘I'm really tired of all these hearings in Washington. I also think that Congress has a lot more important things to worry about than to get into baseball's problems,'' Pettini bristled. Joe admits that baseball was guilty of dragging its foot at the beginning but stressed that things have changed. ‘‘We are taking the right steps to try and eliminate steroid abuse,'' he insisted. ‘‘We're being singled out over the other sports and that irritates me. But I also understand it. Baseball is a statistics sport. People judge careers by the numbers individuals put up. It is important that we clean up this mess so that the fans and everybody else won't have to question the integrity of our game.'' Our luncheon conversation last week then turned back to the field and his thoughts about the upcoming season.

Call for strike in city colleges today

She emphasised that economic independence of women is a positive step.

Society has to recognise and empower the woman as a self-respecting individual. The irony is that we call our country Bharat Mata, but we dont respect our women, she remarked.

Talking about the corporate world, Ms Mohini Daljeet Singh said: In their training programmes, companies should highlight the legal aspects of sexual harassment and the rights of women should be incorporated in the programme. This will help in educating their fellow employees and restraining them from exploiting them, she added.

Making a presentation on Status of women an overview, Ms Jyoti Seth, Head of Department of Sociology, Government College of Women, pointed out, Of the 1. 3 billion people living in poverty, 70 per cent are women.

Qtrax free music player disappoints

Qtrax had promised a working beta last night, but we knew there was going to be problems after visiting the website. The company warned that downloads weren’t yet available and posted this message on the site.

Disregarding the warning, we downloaded the 9.4 MB install program anyways. After the install, the program scans your hard drive for music and appeared to crash several times during the process. We had to continually close and restart the program to get Songbird working again.