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Feb 8, 2015

Mark Zuckerberg donates $75 Millions to support San Fransisco General Hospital

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of the social networks giant, Facebook, and his wife Priscilla Chan has donated the total of $75 millions, the amount which is believed to be the largest to be given to the public hospital by an individual.

Making the announcement through his Facebook page, Zuck said:

Today Priscilla and I are announcing a $75 million contribution to support the San Francisco General Hospital.
We believe everyone deserves access to high quality health care. The General is the main public hospital in San Francisco, and it is an important safety net for our community. More than 70% of the families it serves are uninsured or underinsured. It is open to anyone who lives, works in or visits the city.
Priscilla has served at The General over the past couple of years, completing her medical residency as a pediatrician. Every day she has worked with the amazing doctors and nurses making a difference in people's lives. Her experience serving our community has only deepened our commitment to help these families.We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone. To serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.
To add some specifics, our contribution today will allow The General to double the size of its new Emergency Room and quadruple the number of beds, and provide state of the art equipment for healthcare providers and first responders.
We hope this contribution alongside the great work of other contributors, will help The General to continue to save lives and deliver care to everyone who needs it.

Congratulations Zuck for giving back to the community.

Written by Admin | Filled in INSPIRATIONS, NEWS Sunday, February 08, 2015

Jan 15, 2013

Aaron Swartz: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.

That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.

“I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal — there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back.

Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.

Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends.

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.

With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

Aaron SwartzJuly 2008, Eremo, Italy

Written by Admin | Filled in INSPIRATIONS Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Nov 13, 2012

New facebook page for relationships

Are you "in a relationship" on Facebook? If so, you might wish to go to this link: Facebook.com/us.

The page is the newly launched digital version of the relationship between you and your significant other, including posts, events and photos that both of you are tagged in.

Cute, right? Well, not so much, according to the (always cheery) Internet.

"I want to vomit," wrote blogger Jennifer Wright.

Emma Barnett, women's editor at The Telegraph, wrote that she may break up with her husband on Facebook just to get rid of the newly created couple's page.

"Mr. Zuckerberg: by all means keep giving people new tools -- as you did when you created Facebook," she wrote, referring to Facebook's co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg. "But when you start doing things for us -- the experience is anything but social or remotely positive. You have infantilised my relationship for me with the creation of www.facebook.com/us. Only I should get to do that."

A little history makes this seem a bit less dramatic.

Facebook Friendship Pages, which show posts that you and a friend have in common, have existed for more than two years.

So there likely already was a "friendship" page between you and the person who you are "in a relationship" with on the billion-person social network. The main change is that now there is an Internet address -- facebook.com/us -- that redirects to your relationship.

Additionally, all of those Friendship and Relationship pages, starting last Thursday, are being updated to look more like Facebook's Timeline. They're more visual than the old pages.

To see the Facebook version of a friendship with someone in your network, go to their page and click the gear icon at the top right of the page. Click "see friendship."

On his blog, writer Justin McLachlan says the changes should be celebrated.

"There's nothing creepy here, that I can see, just more out of proportion reactions to something new, different and innovative," he wrote in response to The Telegraph's article. "It's no different, really, than typing your name into Google and seeing your face and other personal details from social networks mashed up in sidebar."

If you love someone on Facebook but don't love the new Facebook.com/us pages, here's more news, however, that might bother you: It's impossible to get rid of them.

You can, however, have a say in what content appears on them.

"You cannot deactivate the pages, but you can control what you share on Facebook using the privacy settings for each post,"

Facebook's Jessie Baker wrote in an e-mail to CNN. "The friendship page respects the privacy setting of each post. This means the person viewing the friendship page may see each post elsewhere on Facebook, like on either friend's timeline or in news feed. You can curate your friendship page by hiding stories you do not want to appear.

"As a reminder, selecting to 'hide' an object from your timeline or friendship page does not remove it from Facebook, and the object may show up in other places such as news feed. If you would like to remove a story you posted from Facebook altogether, you can do so by selecting delete post or untagging yourself from photos."

Written by Admin | Filled in INSPIRATIONS, NEWS Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Jul 7, 2012

COOL FACEBOOK EMOTICONS

Image or Face:	Name of the Face	Text to type
	Heart	<3
	Robot	:\|]
	Penguin	<(")
	Shark	(^^^)
	Chris Putnam	:putnam:
	Pacman	:v
	Curly Lips	:3
	Grumpy	>:(
	Confused	o.O
	Squint	-_-
	Kiki	^_^
	Kiss	:*
	Angel	O:)
	Devil	3:)
	Cry	:'(
	Unsure	:/
	Upset	>:O
	Sunglasses	8\|
	Glasses	8)
	Wink	;)
	Gasp	:O
	Grin	:D
	Tongue	:p
	Sad	:(
	Smile	:)
	Forty-two LIKE	:42: (y)