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[JURIST] The US Senate on Thursday voted 87-11 [roll call] to approve an amendment [S.Amdt. 573 text, PDF] that would prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine [MBC backgrounder]. Under the doctrine, which was struck down by the FCC in 1987, broadcast licenses could be revoked if the broadcaster failed to give airtime to opposing sides of controversial issues. The proposal was introduced by conservative lawmakers seeking to preempt the Obama administration from attempting to resurrect the policy, but earlier this month a White House spokesman told Fox News that Obama opposes the Fairness Doctrine [report]. The Senate proposal forbids the FCC from prescribing any rules or standards requiring "that broadcasters present or ascertain opposing viewpoints on issues of public importance." The amendment was added to the District of Columbia House Voting Act [S. 160 materials; text, PDF], which seeks to provide full voting rights to the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives. The legislation now moves to the House for consideration. In July 2007, then-FCC Chairman Kevin Martin assured the public that the FCC would not reinstate [JURIST report] the Fairness Doctrine. Martin's comments followed a push from Democratic lawmakers for Congress to consider reinstating the doctrine, after conservative radio talk shows widely attacked immigration reform bills on air. Republican members of Congress responded by introducing the ultimately-unsuccessful Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007 [HR 2905 text], which would have prevented reinstatement of the doctrine.
[JURIST] US citizen and al Qaeda member Christopher Paul was sentenced [DOJ press release] to 20 years in prison Thursday for conspiring to conduct a terrorist bombing campaign against targets in the US and Europe. Paul was sentenced by Judge Gregory Frost [official profile] of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio [official website]. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Paul pleaded guilty [DOJ press release] to one count of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction in June 2008, agreeing to a sentence of 20 years. In the statement, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen [official profile] said:
Todays sentence brings an end to the long, militant career of Christopher Paul, an Ohio native who joined al Qaeda in the early 1990s, fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia and conspired with others to target Americans both at home and abroad. His lengthy prison term demonstrates our continuing resolve to protect the American public against terrorism.
[JURIST] The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] on Thursday sentenced former CIA executive director Kyle Foggo [JURIST news archive] to 37 months in prison for wire fraud related to charges that he accepted bribes in return for granting federal defense contracts. Foggo was originally indicted [text, PDF; JURIST report] in February 2007 on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with allegations that his friend and defense contractor Brent Wilkes [Newsweek profile] gave him gifts and promised him a job in return for the granting of CIA defense contracts. Prosecutors later amended the indictment [PDF text] to include counts of conflict of interest and additional counts of fraud, but Foggo negotiated a plea agreement [JURIST report] last September, limiting the trial to one count of wire fraud [18 USC s. 1343 text]. US District Judge James Cacheris issued the maximum sentence recommended by prosecutors, rejecting the defense team's request for probation. In November 2007, Wilkes was convicted [JURIST report] of 13 felonies, including money laundering, fraud, and conspiracy, in connection with bribes he paid to former congressman Randy Cunningham [official profile; JURIST news archive]. Both Wilkes and Foggo came under investigation when Cunningham pleaded guilty in 2005 [JURIST report] to taking $2.4 million in bribes in return for federal contracts. Foggo was the third highest-ranking CIA officer at the time of the misconduct.
[JURIST] UK Secretary of State for Defence John Hutton [official profile] gave a statement [MOD press release] to the UK House of Commons [official website] Thursday providing details of participation with US forces in the rendition of terrorism suspects from Iraq to US detention in Afghanistan, possibly by way of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] program. Hutton's revelation comes after years of statements [BBC report] by UK officials, including to the House of Commons, that there had been no participation in the CIA program. In his statement [text], Hutton explained the circumstances of the transfer, saying:
In Iraq, we have reviewed the record of detainee numbers listing all individuals held in UK detention facilities... During the final stages of the review of records of detentions, we found information about one case relating to a security operation conducted in February 2004. I am sure that hon. Members will recall that that period saw an increased level of insurgent activity as the transfer to Iraqi sovereignty drew closer. During the operation, two individuals were captured by UK forces in and around Baghdad. They were transferred to US detention, in accordance with normal practice, and subsequently moved to a US detention facility in Afghanistan.This information was brought to my attention on 1 December 2008, and I instructed officials to investigate the case thoroughly and quickly so that I could bring a full account to Parliament. Following consultations with US authorities, we confirmed that they transferred the two individuals from Iraq to Afghanistan in 2004 and they remain in custody there today.I regret that it is now clear that inaccurate information on this particular issue has been given to the House by my Department. However, I want to stress that that was based upon the information available to Ministers and those who were briefing them at that time. My predecessors as Secretaries of State for Defence have confirmed to me that they had no knowledge of these events. I have written to the hon. Members concerned correcting the record, and am placing a copy of these letters also in the Library of the House. Again, I want to apologise to the House for these errors.
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website; JURIST news archive] Wednesday confirmed the Obama administration's intention to close Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] in 2010 despite his belief that the facility is now well-run and that detainees are treated appropriately by guards. After visiting the prison [JURIST report] earlier this week, Holder told reporters that he was impressed with what he saw there. His comments stand in direct contrast to statements [Reuters report] made earlier this week by Reprieve [advocacy website] human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour, who said that complaints of beatings and other abuses have increased substantially since December as guards supposedly anticipated closure and stricter restraints imposed by the new administration. Reprieve currently represents 31 Guantanamo detainees. Holder's visit to Guantanamo Bay was part of the Justice Department's effort to carry out US President Barack Obama's January 22 executive order [text; JURIST report] freezing the military commission [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] system, calling for the review of US judicial policy towards the detainees, and directing the closure of Guantanamo within one year. Earlier this week US Navy Admiral Patrick Walsh [official profile] presented a report pursuant to the same order concluding that the prison now meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions [JURIST report], although it may not have done so in the past.
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; briefs] in two cases on Wednesday. In Flores-Figueroa v. United States [oral arguments transcript, PDF], the Court heard arguments on whether a federal "aggravated identity theft" statute [18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1)] applies only to individuals who knowingly use another person's identification documents. In April, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld [opinion, PDF] Ignacio Flores-Figueroa's conviction for using counterfeit social security and resident alien cards. Flores renewed his argument before the Court on Wednesday, asserting that the statute is aimed at identity theft and not immigration issues:
In common usage to say that somebody knowingly transfers, possesses or uses something is to say that that person knows what it is that he is transferring, possessing or using....The same principle follows under the Federal aggravated identity theft statute, which calls for a two-year mandatory sentence...
I agree that a person who deliberately sets out to misappropriate the identity of a known individual is almost certainly more culpable than someone who does not do it but inadvertently does so.But I don't think that is controlling in this case for a very important reason....[W]e are not having this conversation unless the defendant has already committed the predicate felony, and he is subject to punishment for that predicate felony.
A 1993 congressional apology resolution did not alter Hawaii's right to transfer its public lands or repeal, by implication, prior congressional enactments that it extinguish all competing claims to those lands. It was, as its sponsor said at the time, a simple apology, and no more.
I think that if one looks at the critical portion of the Hawaii Supreme Court's opinion on pages 31A to 32A, where the Hawaii Supreme Court actually discusses the relevance of the Apology Resolution, the Court makes clear that it is relying on it only for the acknowledgment that Native Hawaiians have unresolved claims.
[JURIST] China's Information Office of the State Council [official website, in Mandarin] issued its now-annual report [text] on violations of human rights in and by the United States Thursday a day after the US State Department scolded China [report text] for a variety of human rights abuses in its annual series of country reports on human rights around the world [JURIST report]. Among other things, the Chinese report noted:
The United States of America is [sic] the world's largest prison and has the highest inmates/population ratio in the world. A December 5, 2007 report by EFE news agency quoted statistics of U.S. Department of Justice as saying that the number of inmates in U.S. prisons has increased by 500 percent over the last 30 years. By the end of 2006, there were 2.26 million inmates in U.S. prisons, up 2.8 percent from a year ago. The number is the highest over the last six years. The U.S. population only accounted for 5 percent of the world total, but its inmates made up 25 percent of the world total. There were 751 inmates in every 100,000 U.S. citizens, far higher than the rates in other Western countries (EFE news agency, December 5, 2007). Among the inmates, 96 percent were serving sentences of more than one year, which equaled about one in every 200 U.S. citizens serving a sentence of more than a year (Prisoners In 2006, U.S. Department of Justice, www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs). Since the September 11 attacks, reincarceration rate has been rising in the United States. According to statistics, about two thirds of the inmates would commit a second crime within three years after releasing. Two out of three inmates would be caught again after their release and 40 percent would be put behind bars again.
[JURIST] A US Green Beret was found not guilty [press release] at court-martial Wednesday of murder and mutilating a dead body [UCMJ texts] in connection with the March 2008 killing of an Afghan man near Hyderabad, Afghanistan. Army Special Forces Master Sgt. Joseph Newell of the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) [official website] was charged [JURIST report] last September in connection with the death, which occurred after a driver whom Newell had stopped for questioning lunged, prompting Newell to shoot him twice. The military jury deliberated for about four hours before returning its verdict. The Fay Observer has more.In 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] released documents [JURIST report] describing multiple alleged crimes committed by US soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan [JURIST news archive] but showing that troops believed they were following the law in most instances. The materials were made available in conjunction with a lawsuit the ACLU filed to compel the US military to release all documents relating to the deaths of civilians caused by US troops since January 2005.
[JURIST] US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano [official profile] has called for a review [materials] of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [official website] workplace immigration raid [press release] that occurred in Bellingham, Washington on Tuesday. In a Wednesday hearing, Napolitano told lawmakers that she was not made aware of the raid which resulted in the arrest of 28 foreign nationals, adding:
In my view, we have to do workplace enforcement [and] it needs to be focused on employers who intentionally and knowingly exploit the illegal labor market. That [behavior] has impacts on American workers, it has an impact on wage levels, [and it] often has undue impact on the illegal workers themselves. Our ICE efforts should be focused on those sorts of things.
[JURIST] US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [official profile] announced [materials] on Wednesday that the Committee is set to begin hearings on the creation of a truth commission charged with investigating the national security policies of the George W. Bush [JURIST news archive] administration. Speaking on the Senate floor, Leahy called the hearing Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry, and said that the panel's primary focus would be on harsh interrogation tactics, extraordinary rendition [JURIST reports] and the Bush administration's broad use of executive authority. Leahy said the purpose of the commission was to not to cast blame for the policies, but to learn from previous mistakes and to regain US authority on human rights:
Nothing has done more to damage Americas standing and moral authority than the revelations that, during the last eight years, we abandoned our historic commitment to human rights by repeatedly stretching the law and the bounds of executive power to authorize torture and cruel treatment. As President Obama said to Congress and to the American people [on Tuesday] "if were honest with ourselves, well admit that for too long we have not always met our responsibilities. But what the President said about the economy also holds true here, it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we will be able to move forward. How can we restore our moral leadership and ensure transparent government if we ignore what has happened?
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] released a new report [text, PDF; report materials] on Thursday stating that Germany's bans on religious clothing and symbols, particularly those focused on the headscarves [JURIST news archive] worn by Muslim women, are discriminatory and violate international human rights standards. The report details the impact that the ban has on autonomy and the rights to privacy, self-expression, and religion. HRW argues that the bans violate international obligations and addresses the direct effects they have on the lives of Muslim women who wear headscarves:
After examining the laws and policies in the eight German states that restrict the wearing of religious symbols, and how they are applied in practice, Human Rights Watch has found that they contravene Germany's international obligations to guarantee individuals the right to freedom of religion and equality before the law. These laws (either explicitly or in their application) discriminate against Muslim women, excluding them from teaching and other public sector employment on the basis of their faith. These regulations are not abstract concerns. The restrictions have a profound effect on women's lives, as was described by women affected who spoke to Human Rights Watch. In those states with bans in effect, women wearing the headscarf are not permitted to work as teachers. Immediately after the new laws came into effect, teachers were asked to remove the headscarf and were reprimanded if they refused to do so, and in some cases even dismissed. Teachers, some with many years of employment, have been threatened with disciplinary action if they continue to wear the headscarf, and have been subject to disciplinary action in North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Wurttemberg.
[JURIST] Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic [TrialWatch profile; ICTY case backgrounder, PDF] on Thursday was acquitted [judgment summary, PDF; press release] of all charges [case materials] of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive]. Also Thursday, five other former high-ranking Yugoslav officials were convicted for crimes against humanity by the ICTY. Of the five, former Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic [BBC profile], Yugoslav Army General Nebojsa Pavkovic and Serbian Police General Sreten Lukic were each sentenced to 22 years in prison, and former Yugoslav Army General Vladimir Lazarevic and Chief of General Staff Dragoljub Ojdanic [BBC profile] were each sentenced to 15 years in prison. The charges stemmed from crimes allegedly committed during the 1999 ethnic conflicts [State Department backgrounder] in Kosovo [JURIST news archive], which included the deportation of 800,000 Kosovar Albanian civilians and the forcible transfer, murder and persecution of Kosovar Albanians at the hands of Serbian troops. The ICTY held that Milutinovic had not substantially contributed to the criminal enterprise and that he did not have actual control over these forces. Milutinovic took over as president of Serbia [JURIST news archive] in 1997 after Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news archive] ended his presidency, but Milutinovic reportedly continued to stay in close contact with Milosevic and carry out his policies. The Milutinovic trial was one of the largest and most complex in the ICTY's history as it included testimony from over 235 witnesses and included over 4,300 exhibits. The ICTY has indicted nine of the most senior Serb and Yugoslav officials for the crimes committed during the Kosovo conflict. In total the Tribunal has indicted 161 people for human rights violations allegedly committed in the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001, and 116 of the proceedings have been completed.
[JURIST] The US State Department (DOS) [official website] on Wednesday released its 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices [DOS materials]. Announcing the release [Flash video; statement text], Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the new Barack Obama administration is seeking to both improve the US rights record at home and to continue to promote the recognition and protection of human rights around the world. In its introduction [text] to the reports, which covered almost 200 countries, the Department noted that many countries still abuse basic human rights, that those abuses are generally emblematic of deep-routed problems within the political structures of those countries, and that more robust political systems lead to the better respect of human rights:
Each country report speaks for itself. However, some broad, cross-cutting observations can be drawn.One: In 2008, pushback against demands for greater personal and political freedom continued in many countries across the globe. A disturbing number of countries imposed burdensome, restrictive, or repressive laws and regulations against NGOs and the media, including the Internet. Many courageous human rights defenders who peacefully pressed for their own rights and those of their fellow countrymen and women were harassed, threatened, arrested and imprisoned, killed, or were subjected to violent extrajudicial means of reprisal.Two: Human rights abuses remain a symptom of deeper dysfunctions within political systems. The most serious human rights abuses tended to occur in countries where unaccountable rulers wielded unchecked power or there was government failure or collapse, often exacerbated or caused by internal or external conflict.Three: Healthy political systems are far more likely to respect human rights. Countries in which human rights were most protected and respected were characterized by the following electoral, institutional, and societal elements:Free and fair electoral processes that include not only a clean casting and honest counting of ballots on election day, but also a run-up to the voting that allows for real competition and full respect for the freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, and association;Representative, accountable, transparent, democratic institutions of government, including independent judiciaries, under the rule of law to ensure that leaders who win elections democratically also govern democratically, and are responsive to the will and needs of the people; andVibrant civil societies, including independent NGOs and free media.
[JURIST] A judge in Lebanon on Wednesday granted bail to three men suspected of involvement in the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive]. The judge did not explain why he released [YaLibnan report, AP report] them within days of the planned start-up date for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (SLT) [UN backgrounder]. Of the three men, who have been detained for three years, Mahmoud and Ahmed Abdel-Aal are Lebanese brothers whose phone records allegedly link them to the bombings, and are members of a pro-Syrian Sunni Muslim group. Ibrahim Jarjoura is a Syrian who was arrested for allegedly misleading the investigation. Four more suspects, who are high ranking Lebanese generals, are still being held. The SLT is expected to request their transfer [Lebanon Daily Star report] to The Hague within two months.Created by UN Security Council Resolution 1757 [text] in May 2007, the SLT will commence [JURIST report] operations in The Hague on March 1, but has not yet issued any indictments. Investigation of Hariri's assassination have increased tensions between Lebanon and Syria, because the UN International Independent Investigation Commission's report [text] implicated Syrian officials [YaLibnan report] in the killing.
[JURIST] The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website] on Wednesday found three former guerrilla leaders guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity [press release] for their roles in the country's civil war. Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon, and Augustine Gbao are the three highest-ranking surviving Revolutionary United Front (RUF) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] leaders, after founder Foday Sankoy died before being tried in 2003. Of 18 charges, Sesay and Kallon were found guilty of 16 offenses and Gbao was found guilty of 14 offenses. The SCSL was unable to convict any of the three men of murder or taking hostages, and Gbao was also found not guilty of conscripting child soldiers or murdering peacekeepers because his alleged actions were not sufficiently widespread and systematic to rise to the level of war crimes or crimes against humanity. The SCSL also held that they were not responsible for the January 1999 attack on Freetown which resulted in over 5,000 deaths. The three are expected to be sentenced within in one month. The SCSL announced [press release] last week that this ruling would be its last. The Sierra Leone civil war [UNAMSIL backgrounder] ended in 2002 after eleven years, during which the RUF allegedly killed and mutilated civilians, forcibly recruited child soldiers, and forced many from their homes as villages were burned and destroyed. In 2002, the UN and Sierra Leone jointly established [text, PDF] the Special Court to try the leaders believed to be responsible. In October 2007 [JURIST report], the SCSL sentenced two former leaders of the Civil Defense Forces to serve six to eight years for "murder, cruel treatment, pillage, and collective punishment." In July 2007 [JURIST report], three former leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council were sentenced to 45 years imprisonment on counts of rape, murder, mutilation, pillage, and abducting children to force them to work as soldiers and diamond laborers.
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Monday, March 27, 2006
Tamm's Magisterarbeit online
I've now put Ivo Tamm's Magisterarbeit online at the bottom of the ETC webpage. For a summary, see earlier comments by Tommy Wasserman. The central part of the work is a critique of Bart Ehrman's concept of orthodox corruption of scripture.
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- P J Williams said...
Ivo is now working on a translation into Spanish of the great OT commentaries by Keil and Delitzsch. See http://egora.uni-muenster.de/ijd/forschen/Delitzsch-Uebersetzung.shtml
- 1:27 pm, March 27, 2006
- Tommy Wasserman said...
Thanks Peter, the URL did not fit the window:
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How UPS, Fed Ex Move 25 Million Packages a Day
Fed Ex and UPS deliver nearly 6.5 billion packages a year. For perspective, that's about one package for every person on the planet. What's more incredible is that an unbelievably high percentage of them are delivered on time, regardless of weather, distance or size of package.
"Our customers don't care that it's sleeting and snowing," said Fed Ex's Dan Allen, who works on the airline side of the business. "They want their package, and they want it delivered on time tomorrow."
When you first look at the two companies, it's reminiscent of some other high-profile duopolies. Coke and Pepsi. McDonalds and Burger King. Boxers and briefs. They're in similar spaces, and from afar, they might look the same, but they're not.
UPS is more than a century old and has been synonymous with package delivery as America has navigated itself from the industrial revolution to the technology revolution.
Then, there's Fed Ex . Fred Smith founded what was then known as Federal Express decades later in the 1970s.
The company quickly transformed the concept of the overnight delivery. On its first night in business, Federal Express delivered 186 packages. By the late 1990s, Federal Express became Fed Ex, and volume hit 8 million.
In 2012, Fed Ex and UPS have combined revenue of more than $90 billion and process about 25 million packages A DAY.
They do it through a network of hundreds of airplanes, thousands of trucks and hundreds of thousands of employees.
Understanding the scale of execution actually begins at the airport. For Fed Ex, it's an 832-acre complex in Memphis dubbed the "Superhub."
The hub is so busy that Memphis International Airport is now the busiest cargo airport in the United States.
UPS' central location is in Louisville, Ky., and is called Worldport. Every night, 125 planes land, unload, re-fuel, re-load, depart ... all within a matter of hours.
Worldport can sort up to 416,000 packages per hour. In a night: 1 million. During peak season, like Christmas, UPS processes 1.6 million packages at the Louisville facility alone.
In case you were wondering, both Louisville and Memphis were chosen because they are about a two-hour plane trip from most of the U.S. and rarely do the cities experience severe weather.
Every night, the planes land and huge containers are unloaded and taken into the sorting center. The packages are scanned and then travel miles on automated conveyor belts. They are mechanically diverted into several directions until finally landing in a bag. That bag finds itself in another container and then back on another plane, headed for it's final destination.
The whole process takes just a few hours, and what's even more impressive: sometimes only two sets of hands touch them the entire time.


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How Big are Big-Box Stores?
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/how-big-are-bigbox-stores/Wal-Mart and Target are currently building "supercenters," which combine their usual array of merchandise with a full supermarket and numerous specialty services from cut flowers to eye glasses. Supercenters typically range from 180,000 to 250,000 square feet, or between 4.1 to 5.7 acres. The parking lots that surround these stores are several times the size of the store itself. Continue reading


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WHO recommendations for the post-pandemic period |
As announced on 10 August, the world is now in the post-pandemic period. Based on knowledge about past pandemics, the H1N1 virus is expected to continue to circulate as a seasonal virus for some years to come. While the level of concern is now greatly diminished, vigilance on the part of national health authorities remains important. Such vigilance is especially critical in the immediate post-pandemic period, when the behaviour of the H1N1 virus as a seasonal virus cannot be reliably predicted.
For example, it is likely that the virus will continue to disproportionately affect a younger age group, at least in the immediate post-pandemic period. Groups identified during the pandemic as at higher risk of severe or fatal illness will probably remain at heightened risk, though the number of such cases could diminish. In addition, a small proportion of people infected during the pandemic developed a severe form of primary viral pneumonia that is not commonly seen during seasonal epidemics and is especially difficult to treat. It is not known whether this pattern will continue during the post-pandemic period, further emphasizing the need for vigilance.
WHO is today issuing guidance on recommended activities during the post-pandemic period, including advice on epidemiological and virological monitoring, vaccination, and the clinical management of cases.
National health authorities are reminded that cases and local outbreaks of H1N1 infection will continue to occur, and in some locations, such outbreaks could have a substantial impact on communities.
WHO recommendations to health authorities during the post-pandemic period
Monitoring of respiratory disease activity
WHO recommends that surveillance during the post-pandemic period include the following activities:
Vaccination remains important as a means of reducing the morbidity and mortality caused by influenza viruses. WHO strongly recommends vaccination of high-risk individuals in countries where influenza vaccines are available.
Protection against the H1N1 2009 virus can be conferred through either the monovalent (single virus) pandemic H1N1 2009 vaccines or the current trivalent seasonal influenza vaccines. The trivalent seasonal vaccines now contain the H1N1 2009 virus, which replaces the pre-pandemic H1 strain that is no longer circulating, as well as H3 and B circulating seasonal influenza strains.
Clinical management
Persons suspected of illness from influenza should receive appropriate clinical care. WHO's guidelines for clinical management, which refer to both seasonal and pandemic influenza, offer guidance . The H1N1 virus is expected to continue to circulate as a seasonal virus for some years to come. Cases of severe illness in higher-risk individuals, as well as in otherwise healthy individuals, are likely to occur. Early recognition and appropriate treatment of such cases remains important. WHO's guidelines for use of antiviral medicines, which refer to both seasonal and pandemic influenza, should continue to be followed.
Groups at increased risk of severe illness from the pandemic H1N1 virus included young children, pregnant women, and people with underlying respiratory or other chronic conditions, including asthma and diabetes. Patients who have severe or deteriorating influenza should be treated as soon as possible with oseltamivir. Patients who are at higher risk of severe or complicated influenza should be treated with oseltamivir or zanamivir as soon as possible.
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- 12-26-2012, 06:40 AM Thread Author #1
Should I upgrade to EVO 4G LTE?
I currently have a EVO 4G Shift. Its time for me to upgrade and I've been reviewing phones, and I'll be honest, I'm very disappointed in what I'm finding. I'm on Sprint, and the only HTC phone that Sprint is currently carrying the the EVO 4G LTE.
The battery on my current phone really sucks. I have to keep the phone on a charger to keep the battery at a decent level. If I don't, it'll be died within hours. The EVO 4G LTE doesn't seem to have much better battery life. How is the battery life on this phone?
How about signal reception? The signal with my current phone really sucks. How is the the signal reception with this phone? How about the touch keyboard? I personally like physical keyboards, but looks like sliders are not as popular, and they are getting really hard to find. I guess I'll have to learn to use a touch keyboard. Is the touch keyboard better that what is on the EVO Shift?
Daryl - 12-26-2012, 07:36 AM #2
Re: Should I upgrade to EVO 4G LTE?
Hello Daryl - first let me say that yes some have had issues with this phone and others like myself have had minor issues. In this forum most people here love this phone and will tell you in a heartbeat to get this phone. What this comes down to is what will you be using your phone for? Let us know that and we can give you an honest opinion. You probably don't use your phone the way most people here use theirs. If you are going to leave your phone stock like I have then you should have very few issues if any at all. If you are into rooting and changing roms then it depends. Some have had no issues and claim to have a better phone with the rom they are using and some have not been as enthusiastic but it could be user error also.
To answer your questions, the battery life on my phone was fine until I upgraded to jellybean and then it went to crap but once I did a factory reset my battery life has been great. I have no problems with signal reception but then again I live in Northern Virginia and work in DC so like I said I have no problems with signal reception. Like you I used to be a physical keyboard person but I converted and never looked back. There are several keyboards out there you can load and play with to see what you like. I personally use the swiftkey flow beta which seems to be a hybrid of swiftkey and swype. The stock keyboard in jellybean has also been improved so like I said you have a ton of options those are just a few.
What this boils down to is go get this phone and try it out for a couple of weeks and see how you like it. Come back here if you have questions and we will try and help the best we can. If you like the phone then welcome to the group if not take it back and try something else. Only you can know what phone best suits you we can only tell you why this phone suits us.
Ice - 12-26-2012, 07:37 AM #3
Re: Should I upgrade to EVO 4G LTE?
I personally would not. While this is a good to great phone, like all phones, there are issues. Battery life since the upgrade to Jellybean has suffered. I haven't had any issues relating to signal strength other than with Sprints horrible network. As for keyboards, I highly recommend SwiftKey. If your new to touchscreen keyboards, this will soften the blow to this type of screen.
Plus, this phone is about six months old, so you can certainly find other newer phones out there. Don't get me wrong, this is an excellent phone, but keep your options open. - 12-26-2012, 09:19 AM #4
Re: Should I upgrade to EVO 4G LTE?
My roommate has recently started complaining about his everyday like a grumpy old man. He says he wished he would have waited for the sg3 or note 2 or something else and wasnt saddled down on a contract with the phone. I would get something else.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Android Central Forums - 12-26-2012, 10:26 AM #6
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I have the Evo LTE and I would tell you to go with something else.
There are so many things that you'll nitpick at, it's ridiculous. I'd go with the Note 2.
If there was any way for me to get the Note 2 and not have to pay the full price, I would. - 12-26-2012, 05:05 PM #7
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I have the EVO LTE and my daughter has the s3. I personally like my EVO a lot more even though there both really nice. Just my opinion but the note 2 is to big.
If getting a phone right now, I'd choose the EVO. Just keep in mind the next best thing is always just around the corner - 12-26-2012, 05:33 PM #8
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I really like my EVO 4g lte... Love the camera. The side camera button is great. Picture quality is great.
I get great battery life too... But I'm not an extremely heavy user... So I guess depending on how you use it, you'll see different results. The times that I have used the heck out of it, I manage to use it for the whole day and still have some extra juice left.
The keyboard is nice, but I'd recommend an app like SwiftKey... It's just amazing... Also really nice that it switches flawlessly between languages, for example English and Spanish.
The phone size is pretty manageable too. Fits in my pocket without a problem.
Reception is really great in my area... I live in South Jersey. Call quality is crystal clear for me, too.
If I were in your shoes right now, my decision would be between the Evo 4G LTE or the Note 2. But, it all comes down to you. Whatever you choose, good luck and enjoy :-)
Sent from my EVO using Android Central Forums"Paint to live. Live to paint." - 12-26-2012, 08:02 PM #10
Same here, or the S3. Battery and reception for both are terrific over any other Sprint phone. Great screens, fast, they do everything reasonable very well.
Yes, some small annoying things since the update, but compared to an OG EVO or Shift or Design 4G, no comparison.
I think Sprint should ship one or the other to every customer who doesn't already have one and it would do them well overall immediately. Crazy, but probably true.Sent from my blah-blah-blah using blah-blah-blah. - 12-27-2012, 12:56 AM #11
Re: Should I upgrade to EVO 4G LTE?
I'm also shopping for a new phone. I'm currently on a photon, which has been a fine phone, but I am hankering for jeily bean and an upgrade path.
I miss the physical keyboard of my pre and treo, but swype is very nice. Out has completely spoiled me on electronic keyboards. I just got an ipad, and the keyboard on that is driving me nuts. Swiftkey was hugely popular, and I bet the new swiftkey/swype hybrid is a hit.
The note is too big for me. Even the photon is a little larger than I would really like, and I'm unhappy that all the high-end devices are getting huge.
I would get the nexus, but I am often in places with poor data connectivity, so relying on "the cloud" for everything is a non-starter. I still need local storage. Thus, my interest in this phone.
Will I be able to upgrade it? Is the battery life good? How are the radios? Sometimes I'm in poor data reception, not "no data reception", and the photon's good radios have often yielded me a signal when friends didn't have one.
Thanks for all the info already in this thread, and any further feedback. - 12-27-2012, 09:04 AM Thread Author #13
Re: Should I upgrade to EVO 4G LTE?
Thanks for all of the replies. A good mix of "I really love it, and recommend it" to "I hate it and wouldn't recommend it".
I decided to hold off a couple of more months before I decide to pull the trigger. I just learned that my wife's phone isn't eligible for an upgrade. I forgot that her's was purchased at a separate time, and so I have to wait until it becomes eligible. I'm planning no upgrading the entire family at one time, but I guess I have to wait to do that.
Thanks for all of the great feed back.
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There is a moment in the Friday night Shabbat service when everyone turns to face the open doors, to welcome the Sabbath Bride. She is Shekinah, the Holy Spirit, feminine aspect of God. I was late getting to the temple a few weeks ago, and saw that everyone had already started as I walked down the corridor to the sanctuary. Just as I walked through the doors, it just so happened that this was the moment everyone turned to greet the Sabbath Bride. It was funny, and I laughed and so did a few others. But actually, it felt really cool to get to walk in with Shekinah that night! I am painting this (see above, a detail) meditation of the Hebrew letter shin and of the spirit of Shekinah, a presence unseen but felt.


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Computing overlappings by unification in the deterministic lambda calculus LR with letrec, case, constructors, seq and variable chains
Correctness of program transformations in extended lambda calculi with a contextual semantics is usually based on reasoning about the operational semantics which is a rewrite semantics. A successful approach to proving c
Correctness of program transformations in extended lambda calculi with a contextual semantics is usually based on reasoning about the operational semantics which is a rewrite semantics. A successful approach to proving correctness is the combination of a context lemma with the computation of overlaps between program transformations and the reduction rules.The method is similar to the computation of critical pairs for the completion of term rewriting systems. We describe an effective unification algorithm to determine all overlaps of transformations with reduction rules for the lambda calculus LR which comprises a recursive let-expressions, constructor applications, case expressions and a seq construct for strict evaluation. The unification algorithm employs many-sorted terms, the equational theory of left-commutativity modeling multi-sets, context variables of different kinds and a mechanism for compactly representing binding chains in recursive let-expressions. As a result the algorithm computes a finite set of overlappings for the reduction rules of the calculus LR that serve as a starting point to the automatization of the analysis of program transformations.…
Author: | Conrad Rau, Manfred Schmidt-Schauß |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-115479 |
URL: | http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/papers/frank/frank-46.pdf |
Series (Serial Number): | Technical report Frank / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Institut für Informatik (46) |
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Place of publication: | Frankfurt [am Main] |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2011/09/15 |
Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
Release Date: | 2011/09/15 |
HeBIS PPN: | 277094275 |
Institutes: | Informatik |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
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2012 - present Curator of orthopteroid insects and Wallace collections, Life Sciences
Department, Natural History Museum, London.
2003 - 2012 Curator of orthopteroid insects, Entomology Department, Natural History
Museum, London.
2001 - 2002 Research Entomologist, Entomology Department, Natural History Museum,
1996 - 2000 Research Assistant, Entomology Department, Natural History Museum,
1991 - 1995 PhD - Studies on the ecology and evolution of Neotropical ithomiine
butterflies (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae) - Imperial College of Science,
Technology & Medicine, University of London.
1988 - 1991 BSc Hons (1st Class) (Zoology) - Imperial College of Science, Technology
and Medicine, University of London.
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The curation, conservation and documentation of the NHM's collection of orthopteroid insects:
I am very interested in the taxonomy and systematics of cockroaches (Blattodea), especially the tribe Gromphadorhini, the Madagascan hissing cockroaches. I am the creator and editor of the Blattodea Species File Online (BSF), a comprehensive online synonymic catalogue of world cockroaches, which contains approximately 6,420 scientific names (all ranks, valid and not valid). In 1986 I helped to establish the Blattodea Culture Group, a non-profit-making society whose aim is to encourage the study of world cockroaches. I am the deputy editor of the Group's journal, Cockroach Studies, which publishes articles about the taxonomy, ecology and biology of cockroaches (a pdf copy of the first issue is available to download PDF 5.7 Mb) and I also help to manage the Groups' website and the Forum.
Another of my interests is the life and work of the neglected co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. In 1999 I set up the A.R. Wallace Memorial Fund which has restored his grave in Broadstone (Dorset) and erected memorials to commemorate him at his birthplace and elsewhere. I am currently doing historical research on his insect specimens, especially on his specimen labels.
In 2002 I played a key role in helping the NHM Library acquire a very important collection of Wallace's manuscripts, books and insect specimens from his surviving family, and in 2006 I initiated the NHM library's project to acquire the largest collection of Darwin-related publications ever assembled (3,500 items). At £985,000, the Kohler Darwin Collection is the biggest purchase of any collection in the Museum's 125-year history.
In the past I done work on the evolution of mimicry, macroecological patterns in butterfly-hostplant relationships, and novel methods to quantify the diet breadths of phytophagous insects. I also designed, and am still responsible, for the LepIndex database: a uniquely comprehensive on-line synonymic catalogue of the living and fossil butterflies and moths of the world (see LepIndex). LepIndex is by far the largest contributor of names to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System-Species 2000 Catalogue of Life (253,680 of 1,009,000 in the Catalogue of Life, i.e. about 25%, are taken from Lepindex). My Blattodea Species File database supplies the cockroach names listed in the Catalogue.