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Several Fake IEEE Conferences have been reported by a professor in the University of Minnesota

2011-09-16T05:53:00.000-07:00

Several Fake IEEE Conferences have been reported by a professor in the University of Minnesota

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This fake paper has been accepted now in IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010, Hong Kong, December 11-13, 2010. Hong Kong SAR, China, December 11-13, 2010 http://www.eu

2010-06-17T04:16:00.001-07:00

From the Blog http://fromwillis.blogspot.com/

we found

The HONG KONG News - Hong Kong Visitors Information.
has also confirmed that the IEEE accepted a bogus (fake) paper with text copied from Wikipedia
See:
http://www.loginhongkong.com/index.php?page_title=HONG+KONG+WIKIPEDIA&dir_content=&page=true

See this “PAPER” here: http://netdriver.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-others-have-accepted-bogus-texts-in.html

Obviously, the text of the junk IEEE paper, i.e. of the bogus IEEE paper
is copied from Wikipedia (History of American Football).
It has been accepted now in IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010, Hong Kong, December 11-13, 2010
Hong Kong SAR, China, December 11-13, 2010
http://www.euc2010.org
Session Human-Computer Interaction

The letter of acceptance is provided in http://netdriver.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-others-have-accepted-bogus-texts-in.html

This fake paper has been accepted now in IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010, Hong Kong, December 11-13, 2010. Hong Kong SAR, China, December 11-13, 2010
http://www.euc2010.org
Session Human-Computer Interaction

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2010-02-03T06:43:00.001-08:00

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French ex-PM Dominique de Villepin has accused President Sarkozy of pursuing a vendetta against him, after prosecutors promised to appeal over his acquittal.

2010-01-29T03:33:00.001-08:00

Mr de Villepin was found not guilty on Thursday of having a role in a smear
campaign against Mr Sarkozy.
But the Paris state prosecutor said there was scope for an appeal as not all
the facts of the case had emerged.
The ex-PM, Mr Sarkozy's one-time rival for the presidency, said the
president was acting out of "hatred".
"This decision is a political decision and what it shows is that Nicolas
Sarkozy, president of the Republic, prefers to continue in his
relentlessness and hatred instead of assuming the responsibilities of his
office," he told French TV.
Minutes earlier, Paris state prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin announced the
appeal, saying it was "surprising" that Mr de Villepin had been acquitted.
He told French radio: "All has not emerged in this case. There is still
scope for a part of the truth to emerge. "Whatever happens, there will be a
second trial." Mr Marin added that the appeal could be heard later this year
or early in 2011. On Thursday Mr de Villepin was cleared of four counts of
complicity to slander, to use forgeries, dealing in stolen property and
breach of trust.
Mr Sarkozy had promised he would "hang from a butcher's hook" for trying to
smear his name.

Bribe allegations:
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In 2004, Mr Sarkozy's name appeared on a list of top politicians and
businessmen who were wrongly linked to an illegal bank account in
Luxembourg. It was alleged those named on the list had received bribes from
international arms sales.
The list was sent to people including Mr de Villepin, who was accused of
failing to stop the conspiracy.
During the investigation, Mr de Villepin admitted he knew of the documents -
but the court found no evidence to prove he had known they had been faked.
At the trial, prosecutors had called for him to receive an 18-month
suspended sentence and a fine of 45,000 euros (£39,000). Three other
defendants were convicted, including a former executive of the EADS
aerospace group, Jean-Louis Gergorin, who admitted leaking the fake list to
investigators, and Imad Lahoud, a computer specialist, who confessed to
adding Mr Sarkozy's name to the list. Both men were fined 40,000 euros
(£34,500; $56,000). Gergorin must serve 15 months in prison and Lahoud must
serve 18 months. A fifth defendant was cleared.

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Professors against Plagiarism in IRAN http://professorsagainstplagiarism.blogspot.com/

2010-01-28T01:35:00.001-08:00

http://professorsagainstplagiarism.blogspot.com/
Senior officials in the Iranian government are suspected of plagiarizing
published scientific content for political gain.
Nature, the international weekly journal of science, reported last week that
its research unearthed even more plagiarism allegations against prominent
figures in Iran. The first person to be implicated more than a year ago was
Masumeh Ebtekar, the head of the Environmental Protection Organization under
President Khatami.
A few months ago, Nature tabbed Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani, who
supervised President Ahmadi-nejad's doctoral thesis, for plagiarism in a
paper he co-authored. Nature says the paper appeared based on three earlier
articles by three different authors. The journal Transport retracted the
paper in October, but the Iranian government has not investigated the
allegations.
Behbahani told the public he did not plagiarize and that only parts of the
article were identical to earlier work. He called the plagiarism allegations
a "media attack, far from fairness and integrity" and "an illegitimate
accusation."
The Majlis did, however, informally investigate Science Minister Kamran
Daneshjou and the four papers he co-authored. Daneshjou oversaw this year's
elections in his previous post of deputy interior minister. The Majlis
Science and Education Committee held an informal inquiry into the case and
dismissed it after Daneshjou's colleague and co-author, Majid Shahravi, took
responsibility for the content in the papers. Three of the four papers have
been retracted from publications. The fourth paper was published in an
Iranian journal.

Nature speculates that the frequent cases of plagiarism in Iran are partly
the result of poor fluency in English. Nature said the culture in Iran and
some other developing countries expects officials to have strong academic
credentials. That encourages resort to plagiarism to uphold this cultural
expectation and gain promotions.
Nature notes many of Iran's best scientists left Iran after the 1979 Islamic
revolution because universities were asked to eliminate Western influences
and staff. Iranian research improved and became more credible in the late
1990s with the help of President Mohammad Khatami who made academic
appointments based on merit, Nature said. It said research in Iran has gone
downhill since Ahmadi-nejad took power in 2005 because political influence
directed promotions within universities.

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In the wake of a recent controversy over the retreat of Himalayan glaciers in which the UN's climate

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science body admitted that it was an error to assert that they would
disappear by 2035, water availability has emerged as a key issue with even
more uncertainty.

Receding Himalayan glaciers grabbed headlines because they feed major rivers
in South Asia and some parts of Southeast Asia, which is home to a sizeable
proportion of the planet's population.

If the glaciers significantly retreated or even disappeared, it would be an
issue of life and death for many millions of people who depend on these
rivers.

But now that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said
that it was a mistake to say the glaciers will be gone in a matter of
decades, does that mean water is not a worrying issue any more?

Many scientists believe it is - even more so more given the uncertainty
surrounding the future impacts of climate change in a region of not only
high population, but one of high population growth.

The broad consensus is glaciers themselves are indeed retreating, although
the rate of the recession may be debatable.

However, there are other climate-influenced factors that affect river flows,
such as changes in precipitation, snowfall and regional temperature.

North Korea has fired artillery near its disputed maritime border with South Korea, a day after the two exchanged shots in the same area, reports say.

2010-01-28T01:20:00.001-08:00

The North fired several rounds of artillery toward the border early on
Thursday, Yonhap news agency reported. According to an unnamed official
quoted by the Associated Press, the shells landed in North Korean waters.
The South had not responded, the official said. On Wednesday, it called the
North's firing "provocative". But the North said the firing had been part of
an annual military drill which would continue. The second incident in as
many days comes after the North designated two no-sail zones in the area,
including some South Korean waters, until 29 March. On Wednesday, the
North's initial artillery rounds landed north of the sea border, while
Seoul's forces fired at the rounds while they were in the air, the AFP news
agency reports.

Toyota recalls another 1.1 million cars

2010-01-28T01:19:00.001-08:00

Toyota has announced the recall of an additional 1.1 million cars in the US
over concerns about accelerator pedals getting stuck on floor mats. The firm
also said the recall would be extended to Europe, but exactly where and
which models had yet to be decided. The new recall comes just one day after
the carmaker said it was suspending sales of eight popular US models. Toyota
also announced that 750 jobs would be going at its Burnaston plant in the UK
before the end of August. It said no decision had been taken about how the
jobs would go, but added that it was not currently considering compulsory
redundancies. The plant employs about 3,800 people.

Investor concerns:
Last week, the world's largest carmaker recalled 2.3 million cars with
faulty pedals. It has now recalled almost 8 million cars in the US in the
past four months. Last October, it recalled 4.2 million cars in the US
because of worries over pedals getting lodged under floor mats. "Toyota's
remedy plan is to modify or replace the accelerator pedals on the subject
vehicles to address the risk of floor mat entrapment," the company said. The
latest recall affects five models: the 2008-2010 Highlander and the
2009-2010 Corolla, Venza, Matrix and Pontiac Vibe.

Toyota shares fell a further 3.9% in Japan, after dropping 4.3% on
Wednesday, as concerns about the impact of the recalls on the carmaker's
financial health and reputation gripped investors.

"It is still uncertain how this recall problem will affect Toyota's profits.
But investors are worried it could really pressure the company's overall
earnings," said Masatoshi Sato at Mizuho Investors Securities.

Iraq inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot has said he shares ex-Attorney General Lord Goldsmith's "frustration" at key documents not being declassified.

2010-01-27T04:48:00.001-08:00

Lord Goldsmith, giving evidence on his advice about the war's legality, said
he did not agree with the decision not to allow publication of some
documents.

Sir John added: "Can I just say that the frustration is shared."

The documents, which the inquiry can see but not publish, are understood to
relate to the legal basis for the war.

Consistent advice

The legality, or otherwise, of the invasion is the focus of the six-hour
hearing with Lord Goldsmith - who was the government's chief legal officer
and a member of the cabinet between 2001 and 2007.

Lord Goldsmith said he was not put under any pressure to reach a decision on
whether the war was lawful, saying that at a meeting in Feburary 2002: "The
prime minister made it clear that he accepted that it was for me to reach a
judgment and he had to accept it."

He told the inquiry he gave "consistent" advice to ministers that UN
Security Council approval would be needed to approve military action against
Iraq, although he said he did change his mind on what extent of UN
authorisation was needed.

And he said he told Tony Blair in the summer of 2002 that other
justifications for military action - including self-defence, prevention of a
humanitarian disaster or regime change - would not be valid in law.

No 10's response to this advice appeared to be that it was "unwelcome", he
said.

Pressed about whether UN resolution 1441, approved in November 2002 and
giving Saddam a "final opportunity" to comply with UN demands, was
sufficient to justify war, he said it was not "clear cut" as there were
ambiguities in it.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Irish counterpart Brian Cowen are travelling to Northern Ireland for further talks on policing and justice.

2010-01-25T08:14:00.001-08:00

Earlier, talks between the DUP and Sinn Fein ended after less than an hour.
SF's Martin McGuinness said he was "frustrated" at the DUP because of the
lack of progress on devolving policing. The impasse over the issue is
causing a growing crisis, with mounting speculation on the future of NI's
political institutions. Sinn Fein and the DUP - Northern Ireland's two
biggest political parties - have been arguing for months over the transfer
of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont.

Sinn Fein want the completion of devolution to happen as soon as possible,
but the DUP argue there must be unionist "community confidence" before
powers are put in the hands of local politicians. The "confidence" issue
causing most division is over the handling of parades. The DUP wants to
scrap the Parades Commission, which puts conditions on some of the most
contentious marches, but Sinn Fein has accused them of giving the Orange
Order a talks veto. Speaking at a press conference in Downing Street on
Monday afternoon, Gordon Brown said he believed difficulties could be
overcome. He said: "We believe that the problems that exist in devolving
policing and justice are all soluble problems. "We believe that it is right
for Northern Ireland to move forward in this way now and we believe that
together we can assist the completion of these talks.

"And while I recognise that there are difficult issues, we believe that
these issues can be overcome." The Irish prime minister Brian Cowen said he
was confident progress would be made. http://dominore.blogspot.com

Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed -- also known as Chemical Ali -- was executed Monday, an Iraqi government spokesman said.

2010-01-25T08:08:00.001-08:00

He was hanged after having been convicted on 13 counts of killings and
genocide, Ali al-Dabagh said.
Al-Majeed had been sentenced to death in four separate trials, including one
that focused on his involvement in a poison gas attack against Iraqi Kurds
that killed about 5,000 people. His execution had been delayed for political
rather than legal reasons. It is not clear what change, if any, led to the
reported execution. Al-Majeed had been held in United States custody since
his capture in 2003. But he was handed over to the Iraqi authorities in the
24 hours before his execution, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill told CNN's
Diana Magnay on Monday. The 1988 poison gas attack on the village of
Halabja, which earned al-Majeed his nickname, was part of the Anfal
campaign, in which the Hussein regime killed at least 100,000 Iraqi Kurds.
The campaign is believed to be worst poison gas attack on civilians ever.
Al-Majeed was sentenced to death separately for his role in putting down a
Shiite uprising against Hussein in 1991, and for his part in putting down a
Baghdad revolt in 1999. Estimates of the Shiite death toll in the 1991
rebellion range from 20,000 to 100,000. Al-Majeed was convicted of playing a
key part in the slaughter during the revolt in southern Iraq that followed
the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
One of his co-defendants in the Anfal case, Sultan Hashem, is a prominent
Sunni leader who is considered a key player in efforts to reconcile the
country's once-dominant Sunni community with the Shiite majority that now
wields political power.
Hashem was also sentenced to death, but Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice-President
Tariq al-Hashimi has long refused to sign his execution order. That delayed
the execution of al-Majeed and another defendant as well.
Iraqi law requires all three members of the Iraqi presidency council -- the
president and two vice-presidents -- to sign execution orders. It does not
say what happens if they do not sign.

A watchdog has accused the US state department of grossly mismanaging the oversight of a $2.5bn (£1.5bn) contract for training Iraq's police force.

2010-01-25T05:11:00.001-08:00

An audit by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Sigir)
said the state department repeatedly failed to monitor the contract. In one
case, it assigned heavy security costing $4.5m to a group of contractors who
already had their own bodyguards. The state department has disputed the
report's conclusions. Awarded in 2004 to private firm DynCorp International,
the police contract is the largest awarded by the state department.

So many doctors are answering Haiti's call for medical aid that the largest hospital in Port-au-Prince has a new problem: organizing and finding good

2010-01-25T05:07:00.003-08:00

use for them all.

"I think there is a lot of confusion," said Marivittoria Rava, a longtime volunteer with the charity Friends of the Orphans, which runs a children's hospital now caring for some post-operative patients from the general hospital.

Rava said that medical supplies and resources have improved, but the crush of volunteer doctors in Port-au-Prince can complicate treatment in the city while there is great need for help in other places hit by the earthquake.

The general hospital has nine operating rooms, but a near platoon of volunteer surgeons. That leaves many standing by for work, though there are relatively few nurses.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta learned medical teams are now taking their first steps to organize and see exactly how many of them are needed. Representatives from each volunteer doctor group at the general hospital gathered for a quick, to-the-point meeting over the weekend.

"We are all well-staffed," Dr. Paul Auerbach of Stanford University told the group. "The issue is coordinating."

Auerbach is the point person to try and control the surge of doctors. Over the weekend, he and volunteer groups started tackling some basics of treatment: how to ID patients, keep records and make rounds.

Among the problems with the large number of doctors, Auerbach said, is that patients can have their dressings opened three or four times in close succession as one and then another crew of doctors come to evaluate their wounds.

To change that, charity groups have set up shifts and literally drawn lines, sketching maps on hospital walls showing who is working where. They are also identifying medical centers outside of Port-au-Prince, where there is need for the booming supply of doctors in the capital.

Full coverage

Space is also an issue. A team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is carefully assessing the buildings that survived on hospital grounds, trying to find a stable place for post-operative care. Patients now recover in tents or are taken to other hospitals.

As the city's main hospital is brimming with doctors, it is in need of nurses and physical therapists.

Thousands of amputees will need significant, specialized help from physical therapists, but few are available.

Nurses are in short supply. A nursing school on the grounds of the general hospital was crushed in the earthquake, killing some of the people who would be giving care now. The flood of outside volunteers is mostly doctors, not nurses.

Interactive map of where to find aid, hospitals in Haiti

At one point over the weekend, a mass of 12 medical workers gathered around a tiny premature infant. Someone called out, "If you're not a doctor, step away!" Immediately someone else responded, "We're all doctors!"

Even as they juggle an abundance of doctors now, many volunteers worry the general hospital in Port-au-Prince could again face dire need after this first wave of medical staff rotates out of Haiti over the next two weeks.

Those on the ground advise doctors who want to help Haiti to wait and volunteer in a few weeks or months.

Thousands of people were pushing for rescue efforts in Haiti to continue Sunday, after a 24-year-old man was pulled alive from the ruins on Saturday, 11 days after the nation's devastating earthquake.

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The Haitian government says it will be switching from a search and rescue operation to a search and recovery mission.

But families of Americans who were staying at the leveled Hotel Montana are fighting that, and started an online petition Saturday in an effort to continue search efforts there "until all the survivors are accounted for." As of Sunday morning, 2,395 people had signed the petition and sent 6,216 messages to the Senate, Congress and the White House, said Sue Keller, a friend of a family whose relatives are among the missing. The families hope to have at least 5,000 signatures by Monday, she said. The Haitian government has said more than 111,000 people died in the January 12 quake, which registered 7.0 in magnitude. But on Saturday, a French rescue team was able to save one life as they pulled Wismond Jean-Pierre from the rubble of the Hotel Napoli Inn in Port-au-Prince. According to his brother, Jean-Pierre worked in the hotel's grocery store and survived his week and a half in the rubble by consuming cookies and beer. Dehydrated but apparently without injury, Jean-Pierre was even talkative as he was placed in an ambulance and driven to a hospital. Rescues like Jean-Pierre's, and others that have happened in the week following the disaster, sparked hope among families of the missing. But the emotional rescue came on a day when much of Haiti was mourning as operations largely shifted from rescue to recovery, and the country's president attended the funeral of an archbishop who was one of the victims. A Mexican rescue team had pulled the body of 63-year-old Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot from ruins near the national cathedral, which he oversaw as archbishop of Port-au-Prince. The cathedral was destroyed. At the funeral, President René Préval was asked to respond to criticism that he has not shown strong public leadership and has been largely unseen in the aftermath. "This is not about politics today," he said.

The most recent death toll is the worst caused by an earthquake since the 2004 Asian tsunami that resulted from a temblor, and the second-highest death toll from an earthquake in more than three decades, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

"Rescue teams continue to work in Port-au-Prince, we continue to hope that they will be able to find people still alive, but as time passes, we must gradually shift our resources from rescue to recovery," Nick Birnback, spokesman for U.N. peacekeeping operations, said Saturday. International search teams have rescued at least 132 people since the quake struck, the U.N. said. Birnback said the priority now is to remove bodies and clean up affected areas to avoid health hazards and the spread of disease. He said the United Nations will start bringing in heavier equipment, which will allow teams to move concrete and damaged homes. More than 600,000 people have also been left homeless in and around the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

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Meanwhile, up to 140 flights a day are regularly arriving at the single-runway Port-au-Prince airport, compared with 25 in the immediate aftermath of the January 12 quake, OCHA said Saturday. To relieve congestion at the airport, humanitarian cargo is being moved to a forward dispatch area at one end of the runway.

The Las Americas airport in Santo Domingo, in neighboring Dominican Republic, is starting to report congestion as it becomes increasingly used as an alternative airport, OCHA said. It will now be open overnight to accommodate the extra traffic.

Those managing the land transport of supplies from Santo Domingo will need fuel, and OCHA said there is enough in Haiti to last an additional 18 to 19 days. But it said it expects no shortage of fuel because supplies of fuel will be able to enter the port during that time. One concern with cross-border traffic is the unauthorized departure of Haitian children, OCHA said.

Charities and aid groups have said in recent days that they are concerned about the danger of child trafficking after the earthquake. Groups including Save the Children and World Vision have called for a halt to adoptions, saying many children may appear to be orphaned but have simply been separated from their families. "If children must be evacuated from Haiti because their protection needs cannot be met in country, the evacuation must be carefully documented, the children must be registered with the proper authorities and all efforts must be made to reunify them with family before any adoption proceedings are considered," the U.S.-based Women's Refugee Commission said. The number of unaccompanied children needing support is greater than the capacity to respond, OCHA said. Authorities are working with unaccompanied children who are being released from hospitals, it said.

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