Man Fined for Using Smartwatch While Driving

 It is against the law to use a smartphone behind the wheel in most countries but what about a smartwatch?

A man in Canada learned the hard way that police will not tolerate those as he was fined 120 Canadian dollars and given four demerit points in Quebec for using his Apple smartwatch.

Jeffrey Macesin from Pincourt said he was shocked when he was pulled over because he did not think he was breaking the law.


The self-described gadget lover said he thought he was permitted to watch his new Apple Watch while driving, so long as he was not tapping away on his smartphone.

"I have it in the bag charging while the auxiliary cable is plugged in to the radio and this controls my phone to play the music. So I was changing songs with my hand on the steering wheel," Macesin was quoted as saying by CTV News Montreal.

US Vice President Joe Biden's 46-Year-Old Son Beau Dies of Cancer

Beau Biden, 46, the oldest son of US Vice President Joe Biden, has died of cancer, a White House statement said late on Saturday.

The vice president, in the statement on behalf of the Biden family, announced "with broken hearts" that Beau had died after a battle with brain cancer.

It added that Beau "battled brain cancer with the same integrity, courage and strength he demonstrated every day of his life."

President Barack Obama, in a separate statement, expressed his condolences.

"Michelle and I are grieving tonight," Obama said.

"Beau took after Joe. He studied the law, like his dad, even choosing the same law school. He chased a life of public service, like his dad, serving in Iraq and as Delaware's attorney general," the president said.

"Like his dad, Beau was a good, big-hearted, devoutly Catholic and deeply faithful man, who made a difference in the lives of all he touched - and he lives on in their hearts."

Beau Biden, an attorney, briefly considered running for the US Senate to take the seat vacated when his father became vice president, but ultimately opted instead to practice law after leaving the post as Delaware's attorney general.

Rs. 55 Crore Electricity Bill Leaves This Family in Shock

When Krishna Prasad returned to his home in Ranchi from a wedding few days ago, he was in for a shock. A whopping Rs. 55 crore monthly electricity bill had been delivered to his house.

"You know my mother could have died because of this. I will take these people to court," said an infuriated Mr Prasad whose 55-year-old mother, shaken by the astronomical bill, had to be taken to a doctor.

The family of five stays in a modest, two-bedroom house in Kadru area in Ranchi and does not even use an air conditioner despite the sweltering heat. Most parts of the city face acute power cuts during summers and this year is no different, with outages extending to about 7 -8 hours every day.

The Jharkhand electricity department has suspended two of its employees, and says the bill could have been a result of a clerical error. The entire work of delivering power bills has been outsourced to a private entity, and officials say they are investigating the incident.

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An Award for Bill Clinton Came With $500,000 for His Foundation

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Petra Nemcova, a Czech model who survived the disaster by clinging to a palm tree, decided to pull out all the stops for the annual fundraiser of her school-building charity, the Happy Hearts Fund.

She booked Cipriani 42nd Street, a luxury restaurant in Manhattan, which greeted guests with Bellini cocktails on silver trays. She flew in Sheryl Crow with her band and crew for a 20-minute set. She special-ordered heart-shaped floral centerpieces, heart-shaped chocolate parfaits, heart-shaped tiramisu and, because orange is the charity's color, an orange carpet rather than a red one. She imported a Swiss auctioneer and handed out orange rulers to serve as auction paddles, playfully threatening to use hers to spank the highest bidder for an Ibiza vacation.

The gala cost $363,413. But the real splurge? Bill Clinton.

The former president of the United States agreed to accept a lifetime achievement award at the June 2014 event after Nemcova offered a $500,000 contribution to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. The donation, made late last year after the foundation sent the charity an invoice, amounted to almost a quarter of the evening's net proceeds - enough to build 10 preschools in Indonesia.

100 US Cities to Host Yogathon on 1st International Yoga Day

More than 100 US cities will organise a Yogathon on the first International Yoga Day to be celebrated on June 21, organisers of the event have said.

In the ambitious 100+ cities drive, 15 cities in New Jersey-New York area, seven cities in California, six cities in Texas and three cities in Ohio have already finalised the details of the Yogathon, said Overseas Volunteer for a Better India (OVBI) - the lead organisers - in a statement yesterday.

All major spiritual and Yoga organisations like Art of Living have joined the campaign, OVBI said adding that more than 50 organisations have joined the countrywide campaign to spread the awareness about Yoga.

Paris to Break Hearts with Removal of a Million 'Love Locks'

Too much love can be a bad thing: Paris city officials, exasperated with lovers sealing their passion by clipping padlocks all over the city, are set to remove 45 tonnes of the locks next week.

Starry-eyed tourists from all over the world flock to the Pont des Arts bridge spanning the Seine River to attach a lock representing their eternal love, and throw the key into the river.

But the now-iconic bridge is buckling under the weight of such devotion, and authorities are desperate to stop the craze.


Plastic panels were put up in places to deter lovebirds and authorities launched a drive to get tourists to upload selfies instead of attaching a lock.

But nothing stands in the way of true love, and tourists have kept piling the locks on the bridge and elsewhere.

The Pont de l'Archeveche bridge in front of the Notre Dame cathedral is now as inundated with locks, while stray locks can often be spotted around the city.

Deploring "destruction of heritage" and a security risk for tourists on the overloaded Pont des Arts, Paris officials have decided enough is enough and will remove all locks from Monday.

"We will remove nearly one million padlocks, or 45 tonnes," said city official Bruno Julliard, criticising the "ugliness" of the locks on some of Paris's most beautiful bridges.

The metal grills of the bridge will be replaced with works of art over the summer, and will later be replaced with clear panels.

"We want Paris to remain the capital of love and romance," Julliard said, adding a campaign encouraging lovers to express their love in different ways - such as the selfie initiative - would get underway soon.

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Decades Later, Germans Still Dread the Bombs That Didn't Go Off

Traffic on the Rhine halted; trams and cars could not cross a main highway bridge, and about 20,000 Cologne residents on either side of the river were forced to leave their homes and gather, for safety's sake, in the gyms of schools closed for the day.

Seven decades after the end of World War II, the threat of aerial bombs still disrupts life in Germany with surprising regularity.

A bomb found along the riverbank during excavations for a heat pipeline forced the mass evacuation of everyone within about a half-mile radius. That included people in homes, businesses, a nursing home, a 45-story apartment building and a youth hostel.

In the end, it took half an hour to defuse the 440-pound bomb, believed to have been dropped by the Americans in the waning years of the war.

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Who Reviews the Reviewers? How India's Online Businesses Are Fighting Fake Reviews

When you're shopping for new gadgets online or trying to look up a restaurant where you can get your dinner, what's the one thing you do before clicking the buy button, or deciding where to go? In our case, that's checking user reviews to help make up our minds. Professional reviews and news articles have their space, but many others have told us that customer reviews on e-commerce websites are the final word in deciding whether to buy a product. But have you ever wondered how reliable the customer reviews you see posted online really are?

If you're trying to buy a new gadget, and half the reviews are one or two stars, while the rest are five-star, which set of ratings are you supposed to trust? Of course, people are much more likely to write about their negative experiences - think back yourself to how many customer reviews you've written. If something goes wrong, no matter how minor, we customers will often rush to different forums and Facebook groups to vent our righteous anger, but if you've had a good meal or bought a good book, how many times did you follow it up with a review?

But that doesn't mean that you can trust all the positive reviews either as brands and businesses aren't above reviewing their own products and services, or hiring people to do it for them, the way you could hire fake Twitter followers. You probably shouldn't take all negative customer reviews at face value either - recently, the launch of a phone in India was accompanied by an email from a "social media consultant" hired by a rival firm to leave negative reviews of the device on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, along with e-commerce sites like Amazon.

The sites themselves don't want false reviews because they hurt the platform's credibility, so you'll see many of them taking steps to weed them out. For some, the method of ensuring that only real customers can place reviews is simple - allow only people who have bought products from their own platform to write reviews. That's the practice that some companies, including healthcare search platform Practo, follow. But others go a step further to ensure that the reviews on their sites are genuine.

"We make use of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to detect fake reviews," says Flipkart's Chief Technology Officer, Amod Malviya. "We constantly learn from the data to discover new patterns of fraudulent reviews."

Nasa's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back Fresh Images of Pluto

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft, on way to meet Pluto, has taken fresh images of the mysterious planet that reveal more detail about its complex and high contrast surface.

The images were taken from just under 77 million kilometres away, using the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons.

"As New Horizons closes in on Pluto, it is transforming from a point of light to a planetary object of intense interest. We are in for an exciting ride for the next seven weeks," said Jim Green, Nasa's director of planetary Science.Pluto rotates around its axis every 6.4 Earth days and these images show the variations in Pluto's surface features during its rotation.A technique called image deconvolution sharpened the raw, unprocessed pictures beamed back to Earth.

"These new images show us that Pluto's differing faces are each distinct; likely hinting at what may be very complex surface geology or variations in surface composition from place to place," added Alan Stern, New Horizons' principal investigator.These images also continue to support the hypothesis that Pluto has a polar cap whose extent varies with longitude.

The astronomers will be able to make a definitive determination of the polar bright region's iciness when they get compositional spectroscopy of that region in July.

The images New Horizons return will dramatically improve in coming weeks as the spacecraft speeds closer to its July 14 encounter with the Pluto system, covering about 750,000 miles per day.Following a January 2006 launch, New Horizons is currently about 2.95 billion miles from home.The spacecraft is healthy and all systems are operating normally.

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#ModiInsultsIndia Trending

#ModiInsultsIndia is top trending on Twitter since Tuesday morning amid much anger on the social media site over Prime Minster Narendra Modi's comments in speeches he made in Shanghai and Seoul.

The PM had said in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, "Earlier, you felt ashamed of being born Indian. Now you feel proud to represent the country. Indians abroad had all hoped for a change in government last year."

Saturday, May 16, was the first anniversary of the spectacular victory that PM Modi and his BJP posted in the national elections.

In Seoul, South Korea, he said yesterday, "There was a time when people used to say we don't know what sins we committed in our past life that we were born in Hindustan. Is this any country, is this any government...we will leave."
In both cities the PM was addressing receptions hosted by the Indian community during his three-nation foreign tour.

The hashtag is at the top of India trends on Twitter with nearly 70,000 tweets around it. It has also climbed to number two on worldwide trends as many sought to remind the PM that their pride in being Indian has nothing to do with which political party is in power.

My Child Can Be Pole Dancer, But Not Doctor

In what many would accept as a startling aberration among Indian parents, a father, who is a doctor, has said he would rather his child choose any profession -including pole doctor- over following in his footsteps.

In a blog post titled, 'Why I will never allow my child to become a Doctor in India', Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan, an anaesthesiologist in Kerala, offers plenty of reasons in commandments with titles like "Thou shalt sacrifice your time, parents, spouse and child."

But there's a lot of serious material offered.

"I wish it were JUST about losing your family life, working twice the allotted hours and taking home the pitiably disproportionate salary though. But sadly, it isn't even that anymore. Now, it is about getting home in one piece. From stopping patients from dying, the medical field is now being forced to worry about not being killed by the patients bystanders," he writes.

The blog was posted on May 15 and has gone viral on social media. It has been shared nearly 20,000 times on Facebook 

"Are you willing to die for your profession?" he asks, citing "The Indian Medical Association confirmed in May 2015 that over 75% of the doctors in India have faced some form of violence at the patient's hands in India. 75%."

He ends with this, "You will have every opportunity to choose whether you want to retain your religion or change it ...you will have every opportunity to choose the love of your life irrespective of caste, creed or even gender...you can be a wildlife photographer trekking through the Amazons or dance the poles at Las Vegas. But I will never allow you to become a doctor in India. Because I did not raise my child for two decades just to watch her lose her sense of right and wrong, of humanity or worse, watch her die. And I don't mean just physically."

Dr Radhakrishnan says he has also asked other doctors to talk about their experience in the profession and what is going wrong in India. The post has already generated 130 comments.

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How to Prevent a Stroke in Middle Age

The number of people having a stroke in their 40s and 50s has risen dramatically. So how can you minimise the risk of it happening to you? 

1. Don’t kid yourself it’s too late to quit smoking

Smoking furs up your arteries, increasing the chance of a blood clot, and makes you more likely to develop high blood pressure – the biggest risk factor for stroke. What if I’m in my 40s and have been doing it for 20 years or so, you might ask – haven’t I missed the chance to reverse the damage? “Absolutely not,” says Professor Peter Rothwell, head of Oxford University’s stroke prevention unit. “There’s been a lot of work done on that which shows convincingly that once you stop smoking, the excess risk of death due to smoking has pretty much disappeared after 10 years – but that well before that the risk of stroke and heart attack start to drop as well. Even people who stop smoking in their 60s and 70s can eventually detect a benefit, and for people in their 30s and 40s the benefit is substantial.”

2. Don’t fixate on how many calories you burn

Exercise is key to stroke prevention, helping to lower blood pressure and aiding weight loss. Official advice is to aim to build up to 30 minutes, five times a week. But if you’re just starting to get active, sessions on the treadmill can seem depressingly slow to clock up results. You’ve got to remember the benefits are much greater than the numbers on the display, says Rothwell. “If you’ve been running for half an hour and you’ve burned 50 calories – about a quarter of a Kit Kat – that sounds disheartening,” he explains. “But what happens when you exercise is that you reset your baseline metabolic rate, so that you’re actually burning more calories the rest of the time.”

3. Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t stick to a planned exercise regime

If you make a plan to go for a brisk half-hour walk every day and then miss a few days, don’t think you’ve failed and give up entirely. “You don’t lose the benefits of exercise by stopping for a short time,” Rothwell says. And don’t be daunted by the 30-minutes, five-times-a-week guideline, either – it’s a recommendation. “It isn’t an all-or-nothing thing,” he says. “Doing a little bit of exercise is better than none and doing a bit more is better than a bit less.”

4. Stock up on herbs and spices and make your own bread

When it comes to diet, reducing your intake of salt – another cause of high blood pressure – is without a doubt the most important change you can make, says Professor Tony Rudd, NHS England’s national clinical director for stroke. Fear you’ll be waving goodbye to flavour? Get used to seasoning your food with herbs, spices and black pepper instead. And be aware that bread is one of the biggest sources of salt in our diets. Rudd advises his patients to invest £100 in a breadmaker, so they can control the amount of salt that goes into each loaf. “Our bodies were evolved to eat hunter-gatherer-type foods, which didn’t include spreading salt all over chips,” he adds.

5. Eat off smaller plates – and don’t skip breakfast

Research shows that being obese increases the chances of having a stroke related to a blood clot by 64%, so cutting down on high-fat foods, eating more fibre and getting yourfive fruit and veg a day can all help reduce stroke risk. Having breakfast will make you feel healthier and stop you snacking during the day, the Stroke Association points out. Top your cereal or porridge with some fruit and that’s one of your five a day covered. Other tips include keeping a food diary to keep track of what you’re really eating and using smaller dishes to cut control portion sizes. “If you want to lose weight it’s a question of not taking seconds, cutting 20% off your normal plate size, and being disciplined about it,” Rudd says.

6. Spread your drinking out over the week

Binge drinking can cause surges in blood pressure that greatly increase your stroke risk. NHS guidelines currently say men should stick to three or four units a day and women should have no more than two or three units a day. (That’s 28 and 21 units respectively over the course of a week, though Rudd thinks those figures should be 21 and 14.) “The important thing is not to drink it all in one go, or even just split it between Friday and Saturday,” he says. “Always make sure you hydrate before you start drinking so you’re not drinking to quench your thirst. Start off with a few soft drinks, or water.”

7. Monitor your blood pressure

Women tend to get their blood pressure monitored throughout their adult lives – things like going on the pill, getting pregnant or starting HRT all mean regular checks. But men can get to their 60s without having it checked for decades, especially as high blood pressure often doesn’t come with symptoms. You can get your GP to do it, but Rothwell suggests the easiest route can be to simply buy a blood pressure monitor from your local pharmacy (at a cost of around £10 or £15) and check it yourself every few weeks.

8. Don’t be scared to seek help for stress and depression

Although the cause-and-effect relationship between stress or depression and stroke isn’t clear, these mental-health conditions do seem to act as markers, Rothwell explains. People with depression are about twice as likely to have a stroke. Make sure you’re seeing your doctor about any other conditions you may have that increase the risk of stroke, including heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol and irregular heartbeat.

9. Avoid recreational drugs

They’re one of the reasons stroke is being seen increasingly in younger people, according to Rudd. “Amphetamine-based drugs cause blood pressure abnormalities and usingcocaine can cause your blood vessels to block off as a result of inflammation,” he says. “Even cannabis, I’m afraid – maybe because it’s mixed with tobacco but maybe as the result of an independent effect as well – seems to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. There aren’t any recreational drugs I’m aware of that are regarded as being risk-free from the point of view of increasing the chance of stroke.”