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GoMad with networking

Dhanusha Gokulan / 1 August 2012

DUBAI - For the techno-savvy who are constantly online and addicted to tweets, multiple accounts on social networking websites is not unusual. Gen Y keeps one account for friends and family and the others for professional contacts.

Soon theres the hassle of having multiple browsers, separate profiles and tighter security settings to manage the 5,000-odd friends list.

Adding to the burgeoning list of upcoming social networking websites, GoMadinc.com promises to be a one-stop shop for both your professional and personal networking needs. Founder and CEO of GoMad Ideas Shabbir Adamji launched the spunky new social/ professional networking web portal amidst tight competition and failing IPO of social networking giant Facebook in Dubai on August 1. Adamji and his team of 30 employees including nine webpage designers developed the website in their office in Jumeirah Beach Residence.

The planning for the website began in February. Most of the designing and coding was done from March, said Adamji. Why not Dubai, asked Adamji, I love the city. It has close to 190 nationalities living together amicably, he added. Understanding that social networking works best through word of mouth, Indian-born Adamji, who has been in the UAE for the last ten years, predicts that the website will do well.

We have an achievable target of 10 million users in one year, said Adamji. It started with the need to do something about changing the way people use the Internet. We have a population of seven billion people of which two billion are active users. Yet people are not able to benefit from the Internet despite them spending a lot of time on social media, he said.

People havent been able to exploit the power of the Internet. Adding value to the time spent online and seeing a direct benefit has not happened, added Adamji. What makes GoMad different? Its a one of its kind multifunctional portal.

Primarily being a social media platform, GoMad incorporates standard functions of current social media applications.

Yes, you can chat, update your status and upload albums. Yet, contacts on your professional network will not know what you are telling your peers on the social platform. Set in a black background, which according to the website developers is soothing to the eyes, the portal lets you upload separate content for both your social and professional avatars. People can have multiple avatars on the same account which makes things much easier. GoMad becomes a one stop for all your networking needs, Adamji said.

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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -

It's a part of Facebook, a listing that shows your marital status. Imagine seeing someone's status as sex offender. One state is about to put that law into effect. Louisiana will require sex offenders to document their status on social networking sites starting August 1st.

The state of Louisiana is trying to build on their existing sex offender registration laws by taking a new law to the World Wide Web. The law requires sex offenders and child predators to put their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page. Abuse survivor Allison Black Cornelius said that's information that children and parents need to know.

"I could absolutely see a benefit to it having to be mentioned on a Facebook page or any type of social media. I could see where that would make sense," Cornelius said. "I would want that on a social media site because social media is a requirement tool, but it seems to me that bad guys are so good at marketing and they are so good at reaching our kids, the good guys need to get that good. Instead of us figuring out how to shut them down, why don't the good guys start figuring out how to do as good a job?"

So, what would it take for a law like that to come to Alabama? According to the Alabama Department of Public Safety's web site, there are more than 11 thousand sex offenders in their registry. State house representative Dan Williams says if a bill like that were to be drawn up, it would probably pass.

"I do think it's probably a good idea to keep the child molesters and the people who have been convicted of those types of crimes from using the social networks," Williams said. "I think a lot of people we found out are using those particularly for that; pornography and child pornography. I would be all for something like that."

Athens Police Chief Floyd Johnson said knowing your new friend's criminal past could help them keep track of offenders.

"I think it's important that parents watch what their children are doing online and if the parents are able to see they are communicating with a sex offender, I think it would be to the benefit of the parent and the child and they could tell law enforcement," Johnson said.

Louisiana's law states that sex offenders and child predators "shall include in his profile for the networking web site an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of the conviction, a description of his physical characteristics and his residential address."

Alabama lawmakers said a similar bill could find its way to our states legislature in no time.

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ENTEBBE Two more deaths were confirmed Wednesday in Ugandas ongoing Ebola outbreak, raising the total to 16. Officials are fighting to prevent further transmission of the virus. Through a partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the country is uniquely positioned to respond quickly to suspected cases of Ebola and other hemorrhagic viruses.

Representatives from the World Health Organization say 36 possible Ebola cases have been reported in Uganda, mostly in the west of the country. At least one death occurred in Kampala, raising concerns that the virus had reached the capital. However, there is no evidence of any transmission within the city.

Virus hunters

Ebola is no stranger to Uganda. Last year a 12-year-old girl living an hour outside of Kampala died from the virus. Thirty-nine people died in a 2007 outbreak in an area bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo.

But unlike other countries in the region that have seen similar outbreaks, Uganda has a team of virus hunters from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on hand to respond quickly to hemorrhagic fevers, like Ebola.

The CDC has been working with Ugandas Virus Research Institute in Entebbe for more than a decade. Dr. Trevor Shoemaker, a CDC epidemiologist, says they formalized the relationship two years ago by developing a fully functioning laboratory on the institutes campus to rapidly diagnose possible cases of Ebola and other hemorrhagic viruses.

"In previous outbreaks theres been a long period of time between the first initial suspect case presenting to the hospital and then the initial diagnosis of it either being a hemorrhagic fever. So this laboratory was set up to narrow that amount of time, to close that gap," he explains.

Related - Ugandas Latest Ebola Virus Outbreak Spotlights Poorly-Understood Killer

CDC involvement

Shoemaker says the CDC chose to work in Uganda because of the regions history of hemorrhagic virus outbreaks. While there are different risks at different times of the year, Uganda and much of the region have many of the necessary factors, including the animal population, necessary for an outbreak.

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More than a dozen people are reported dead in western Uganda this week after being infected with the Ebola virus, a highly contagious and often fatal pathogen that has struck this region of Africa several times in the past 12 years. International medical workers are on the scene trying to contain the outbreak.

The latest outbreak in Uganda is being caused by the so-called Sudan strain of Ebola, one of five varieties of a virus that, officials say, typically kills between 50 and 90 percent of its victims.

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Tarik Jasarevic is a spokesman for the World Health Organization or WHO. Although the pathogen is extremely aggressive and easily transmitted, Jasarevic says it can be contained by testing people suspected of being infected with Ebola virus, placing the sick in quarantine and seeking out those with whom they may have had contact.

It is because to stop the transmission chain, that we need to find those people and make sure that they are not infected in the near term and, if they are, they are treated in an appropriate way, Jasarevic said.

Related - Uganda, US CDC Cooperate on Ebola WHO and health care workers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control are helping Ugandan officials determine the scope of the outbreak, tend to the sick and communicate with members of the public about how to protect themselves from infection.

Ebola's average incubation period is between two and 12 days. Symptoms include a sudden onset of fever, extreme weakness and muscle aches. Vomiting and diarrhea may occur and, in rare case of so-called Ebola hemorrhagic fever, patients suffer from internal and external bleeding.

Currently, there is no cure for Ebola, nor are there any specific treatments. Patients who have been sickened but not killed by the virus usually need intensive rehydration therapy during their recovery. But researchers are homing in on a vaccine. U.S. government scientists have developed an experimental vaccine that protects monkeys against the two most lethal Ebola strains.

And scientists at Fort Dietrick, Maryland, have also reported progress on a possible cure that targets Ebola's genetic material and prevents the viral cells from reproducing. After a week of injections, four rhesus monkeys infected with Ebola were cured of their infection. The experimental treatment has yet to be tested and approved for use in humans.

First identified in 1976, the Ebola virus has appeared most often in tropical Africa. While the precise source of Ebola is not known, Jasarevic says health experts suspect that wild bats transmit the virus to other forest animals such as monkeys and antelope, which are frequently killed for meat.

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FILE - In this May 31, 2012 file picture President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi reports to the Economic Committee, in capacity as the head of the European Systemic Risk Board, at the European Parliament in Brussels. European Central Bank president Mario Draghi has already taken Europe's monetary authority into uncharted territory. Now, with the debt crisis in Europe threatening further disaster, he may have to push it even farther into the unknown to save the euro. The 17 countries that use the euro are struggling as economies across the region face deepening recessions. Spain and Italy, the two chief trouble spots, are threatened with a financial collapse that could tear the 13-year old currency union apart and rock the global economy. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe,File)

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) The European Central Bank leaves its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record-low 0.75 percent.

Markets are now waiting to hear bank President Mario Draghi speak at a news conference, hoping for more signals on whether the bank might buy government bonds in the open market. That could lower borrowing costs that are threatening to push Italy and Spain over the edge.

Draghi last week raised expectations the bank might take stronger action by saying the ECB would do "whatever it takes" to save the euro. But he didn't specify what measures he would take.

Markets are looking to the ECB Thursday, a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve held off taking further steps to support the shaky U.S. recovery. But the Fed strongly hinted it might take action soon.

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