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Cup winners Portadown target Premiership
Newry City 0 Portadown 1
Published 02/03/2009
Gary McCutcheon is backing Portadown to come back fighting with a charge for the Irish FA Premiership title next season.
And the man whose goal landed the Co-operative Insurance Cup for the Shamrock Park men on Saturday when they beat Newry City 1-0 in the Mourneview Park decider, believes that the Ports would be in with a great shout of being champions this time around — had an administrative error not lead to them being banished to intermediate football at the end of last season.
A missed deadline with their application for the Premiership deemed that the club which won the league as recently as 2002 also missed the cut when the top flight was trimmed from 16 teams to 12 last summer.
Aside from the near obscurity that is the Irish FA Championship, the Ports had to play acouple of extra rounds before mixing it with the big boys in the Co-operative Insurance Cup.
And when they did McFall's men proved that while they may be an intermediate club, the team on the pitch is every bit as much a senior outfit as they were last season.
Seeing off first Cliftonville, then Linfield and finally Glentorna in the semi-finals, the Ports put paid to three teams who have occupied the top three spots in the league both last season and the one before.
All that only serves to strengthen McCutcheon's claims that the Ports would be title contenders,
had they not been banished from the top table — even if it is purely a hypothetical discussion.
"Portadown are still a big club in this country," said McCuthcheon.
"It's been a long road beatuing Cliftonville, Linfield and Glentoran to get here and we wanted to finish it off.
"Newry pressed in the second-half and we didn't take the chacnes that we had to kill the game off, but one goal was enough.
"Believe it or not we are probably a stronger team and a better side than when we were in the Premier League.
"We were fourth in the last couple of years and I think we're better now. Glentoran Linfield have lost more points this year than in the last five years, so it might have been interesting if we'd been up there.
"If we can attract more quality players we'll be a right strong side next season, provided we go up.
"We've still got a lot of work to do. We play on Tuesday night in the league and that's what it's about next, trying to get three points to make sure we get oursleves back up."
Belfast Telegraph


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Corruption of the Tumor Microenvironment
Accumulating research suggests that the best possible treatments for cancer will not simply target and kill cancerous cells but will also work by making the neighboring cells—the so-called tumor microenvironment—behave more normally.
"Most people recognize that cancer is not just a ball of malignant cells. It's a complex rogue organ," says Frances Balkwill, Ph.D., professor of cancer biology at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London. "At least half the tumor isn't made up of malignant cells at all. It's all the other cells of the host, particularly immune system cells, fibroblasts, and blood vessel cells, that are recruited and often corrupted by the malignant cells to help the tumor itself grow and spread."
Dormant Disseminated Tumor Cells
Disseminated tumor cells are cells that travel away from the primary tumor and settle in secondary organs. Whether disseminated tumor cells metastasize or remain dormant may depend on the microenvironment of secondary organs.
Inflammatory Chemokines
For metastasis to occur, the tumor has to activate its microenvironment—particularly nearby blood vessels. This process appears to involve chemokines, including CCL2 and CCL5, according to researchers led by Lubor Borsig, Ph.D., senior associate scientist in the Institute of Physiology at the University of Zürich.
Regulating Metastasis
"Half the secret of life is outside the cell. That's true for cancer. It's true for the issue of metastasis," says Zena Werb, Ph.D., professor of anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Werb and her lab study microenvironment changes that set the stage for metastasis.
Highly Multiplexed Tumor Imaging
"I wanted to have an imaging method that actually visualizes the cell within its microenvironment," recalls Charlotte Giesen, Ph.D., scientist and Branco Weiss Fellow at the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Zürich, where she works in the laboratory of Bernd Bodenmiller, Ph.D. "The current treatment in cancer focuses on the cancer cells, but the tumor microenvironment drives many hallmarks in cancer and is therefore as important if not even more important."
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Spoken word artist Kai Davis
Date: Wednesday, May 29
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International slam champion and spoken word artist Kai Davis joins CWU Pride Week all the way from Philadelphia Wednesday, May 29 at 7 p.m. at the SURC Theatre. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Cross cultural Engagement party
My colleague has been invited to an engagement party for his friends who are Indian-Fijian Hindu. What can he expect at the party and what would be an appropriate gift? If it matters everyone lives in Australia at present.
Hindu temple in the Poconos with painted steps
Around 1986, my family visited a Hindu temple or similar religious facility in the Poconos area of Pennsylvania. I remember that the path from the parking lot up the hill to the building was a stairway of huge stone steps, each of which was painted with a different design. Does this temple still exist? Where is it? Online photos of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, the Jain temple Siddhachalam, and Sringeri Sadhana Center don't look like what I remember.
The elephant-donating warrior
Who is Krishnokanto Gojdani and what is his story? [more inside]
Finding a hindu priest to officiate our wedding in Cambridge MA
Indian wedding in Boston/Cambridge area [more inside]
Do I have to go shopping before this wedding?
Some friends of mine got married last month in India, and they're having a large evening reception this weekend. I know that colorful is the way to go, but all of my colorful dresses are too casual. What I have left is a mostly black dress with a few grey panels, and a mostly white dress with a light blue floral print. Would either of those be ok, or should I go shopping this weekend? The bride had previously said that "a dress you would wear to an American wedding" is fine, and I don't want to pester her asking for specifics when I'm sure she has other things on her mind right now!
Who is this Hindu icon?
Who is this Hindu avatar depicted on the temple in Changu Narayan, Nepal? [more inside]
How to find a wedding venue in or near London that matches some pretty specific criteria?
How to find a wedding venue in or near London that matches some pretty specific criteria? [more inside]
How to convincingly pass for a Hindu at a temple?
How to convincingly pass for a Hindu at a temple? [more inside]
Need a shakta novel!
I need a book about Shakta (Indian goddess) mysticism! [more inside]
Traditional Indian music?
The Indian background music in the Beatles' "Within You Without You"... tell me more about it. [more inside]
"So, Rama -- Do you come here often?"
Slumdog Millionaire: Late to the party, I watched this movie for the first time (and second time, too) this past week. [more inside]
How to start a Hindu temple?
I would like to buy or rent a building to convert to a Hindu temple in my community for the Bhutanese/Nepalese refugees. Problem: I have NO IDEA where to start. [more inside]
Name that Babu!
Among East Indians/Hindus, how common is it to name a child after another family member? Trouble finding a name for our soon-to-be born little Babu here... [more inside]
An interesting way to grab people's attention
What instrument is this? [more inside]
Help me not offend my pal's family.
Dress me and Mr. F for a Hindu wedding in November in NorCal. Difficulty factor: we are slightly large white folks who never wear anything except cargo pants and T-shirts, and my native guide doesn't know what non-Indians wear to such things. [more inside]
What is the purpose of a cord around the waist?
(Hindu?) Question about the purpose of a cord around the waist of children. [more inside]
Contemporary music with elements of Indian styles?
I'm looking for artists, albums, or single songs that mix in elements of Indian/Hindi music and other various contemporary styles. [more inside]
What percentage of Hindus are vegetarian?
Is there a reliable source (preferably online) for the percentage of Hindus in India who are vegetarian? [more inside]
Why so many Indians at Niagara Falls?
Is there some special historical / cultural reason that (South Asian) Indians are really big on Niagara Falls? [more inside]
Please help me expand my Hindu pantheon!
There is a South Indian vegetarian restaurant in Paris called Krishna-Bhavan (delicious, BTW), that has an image of a flute-playing butt with eyes (and jewellery) on one of their walls. Can anyone help me identify this deity / character? Picture here (scroll down). [more inside]
the gods must be similar!
What are the similarities between Hindu and Chinese mythology? [more inside]
Is this from the Atharva Veda?
Is quote really from the Atharva Veda? "We are birds of the same nest, We may wear different skins, We may speak in different tongues, We may believe in different religions, We may belong to different cultures, Yet we share the same home – our Earth... [more inside]
My son said he feels the same way, but I think he was being sarcastic.
How can I find a particular Hindu scripture verse about Ganesha and Parvati? [more inside]
Diwali music
Can Mefites point me to Diwali related music? Names of songs , particular artists to look for, would all be appreciated. Places (online or in the Boston, MA) area where I can buy said music would be greatly appreciated.
Hindu Folklore / Mythology Needed
Can anyone help me find Indian / Hindi folklore? [more inside]
Visiting hindu temples
Some questions about visiting hindu temples. [more inside]
What do the Hindu flags mean?
What are the significance of colored flags I see posted in front of my Hindu neighbor's home? [more inside]
Seeking Techno-Hindu chant music.
CDsearch!Filter: I was browsing the world section of the local indie record store a couple years ago, and they had an artist who put Hindu chants to these nifty techno beats. Sound familiar? [more to the inside] [more inside]
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From July 10 through July 12, Bay Valley Resort & Conference Center, 2470 Old Bridge Road in Frankenlust Township, hosted a Cash for Scrap Gold event put on by THR & Associates, of Springfield, Ill. Since the event ended, the troopers have received numerous calls from citizens saying the checks THR & Associates gave them for their gold have been bouncing.
Troopers directed the complainants to the Bay County Prosecutor's Office's non-sufficient funds check program.
Further investigation showed Internet reports of checks issued by THR bouncing in several other states, troopers report. Also according to troopers, all THR representatives left Bay Valley without paying their bills.
Investigators' attempts to contact THR & Associates by phone and email have been unsuccessful, troopers said.
Prosecutor Kurt C. Asbury is asking any citizen with a bogus check from THR & Associates to contact Trooper James Willing at 684-2234, reference complaint number 31-6318-12.


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JERUSALEM, Israel -- To understand the ideology embraced by Hamas and Fatah, a working knowledge of Arabic is very helpful. The two Palestinian factions formed a unity government in early June.
The Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) staff makes it their business to monitor both factions' Arabic-language websites, Facebook pages, Tweets and satellite television programs.
In a song aired earlier this week on Hamas' al-Aqsa TV, the terror group urges its people to seek "martyrdom for Allah through suicide bombings in cafés and buses" in Tel Aviv. Click here to read the lyrics.
While some Western leaders insist that Fatah is a true partner for peace with Israel, the party's Facebook page tells a slightly different story.
In a post Wednesday in Arabic, Ofir Gendelman, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asked the P.A. chairman if reconciliation with Hamas is an avenue to unite against Israel. Gendelman's post included a cartoon showing Hamas and Fatah gunmen shaking hands as they aimed their rifles at an Israeli soldier.
The Fatah Facebook administrator's response: "Yes, this is what we want."
Gendelman asked a second time, "President Abbas, is this what you want?"
"Yes," he answered. "This is what we want."
Earlier this week, PMW translated an Arabic-language post from Fatah's official Facebook page in which a Fatah Central Committee member and advisor to Abbas warned Israelis to "prepare all the bags you can for your body parts."
Posting in Hebrew, Hamas warned Israelis to "wait for suicide attacks on every bus, café and street."
"Start counting the number of coffins you'll need," it warned, accompanied by several Hebrew-language videos depicting stabbings and suicide bombings.
"Zionists, wait and see terror attacks, stabbing[s] everywhere. Wait for suicide attacks on every bus, café and street. Wait for the rage and for revenge for Gaza, wait for the flames of the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] inside you."
Another Fatah post promised, "Death will reach you from the south and the north…the KN-103 rocket is on its way [to] you."
The late PLO chairman Yasser Arafat often said one thing in English and another in Arabic. It seems the tradition lives on in the Palestinian Authority unity government.
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Easy Marinated Slow Cooker Roast with Caramelized Onions2012-11-20
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Place roast in a zip-lock bag or a container with a cover. Pour kombucha and liquid aminos over the roast and marinate 1-2 hours. Turn slow cooker on hugh to heat up. Heat olive oil in skillet over medium-lowish heat. Add onions and stir-fry until caramelized (about 15 minutes). Add marinated roast and brown the sides to lock in the flavor. Place roast in preheated slow cooker along with onions and carrots. Sprinkle everything evenly with herbs and spices. Turn slow cooker to low and cook for 6 1/2-7 hours.
Note: I found the best way to prepare this dish is to start the roast marinating around 8 or 9 in the morning. While it\'s marinating, chop the onions and carrots. Right before removing the roast from the fridge, caramelize the onions and preheat the slow cooker. Stick everything in by 10 and it\'s all ready for dinner!
- 3 lb. cross rib roast
- 2 c. red wine or kombucha
- 1/4 c. Bragg's liquid aminos
- 3 T. olive oil
- 1 onion, diced or chopped the way you like them
- 6-8 carrots, chopped into sticks like baby carrots (or just use about 1 lb. baby carrots)
- 2-3 t. granulated garlic or 1 head of garlic, minced
- basil, oregano, kosher salt & pepper, to taste
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Vol. VIII, No. 21 ~ EINet News Briefs ~ Oct 07, 2005
*****A free service of the APEC Emerging Infections Network*****
APEC EINet News Briefs offers the latest news, journal articles, and notifications for emerging infections affecting the APEC member economies. It was created to foster transparency, communication, and collaboration in emerging infectious diseases among health professionals, international business and commerce leaders, and policy makers in the Asia-Pacific region.
In this edition:
- Southeast Asia: ASEAN works on avian influenza preparedness
- Indonesia: Finds H5N1-infected but healthy chickens
- Indonesia: Avian influenza human case count update
- South East Asia: Cumulative number of human cases of avian influenza A/(H5N1)
- East Asia: No new evidence of Tamiflu-resistant H5N1
- Russia: OIE mission to assess the avian influenza situation; bird flu in Urals
- Russia (Nizhniy Novgorod): Hepatitis A epidemic affects 1438 Persons
- Russia (Rostov): Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever cases
- Indonesia: Poliomyelitis update
- South Korea: 2 women contract HIV via blood transfusion
- USA (Washington D.C.): Tularemia detection by BioWatch; not a threat
- USA: Alert on Menactra Meningococcal Vaccine and Guillain Barre Syndrome
- USA: FDA Proposes Additional BSE Safeguards
- USA (Minnesota): Infection with polio virus reported in infant; public not at risk
- USA (Wisconsin): Salmonellosis linked to county fair
- Canada/France: Trichinellosis, black bear consumption
- Canada (Nunavut): Outbreak of HTLV-1 Infection
- Canada (Ontario): Legionnaires' Disease deaths confirmed
1. Updates
- Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery
- Dengue
- Influenza
- West Nile Virus
2. Articles
- The 1918 flu virus is resurrected
- Researchers map 209 flu virus genomes
- Neuraminidase inhibitors for influenza
- Incidence of Adamantane Resistance among Influenza A (H3N2) Viruses Isolated Worldwide from 1994 to 2005: a cause for concern
- Bats Are Natural Reservoirs of SARS-Like Coronaviruses
- Infectious Disease and Dermatologic Conditions in Evacuees and Rescue Workers After Hurricane Katrina--Multiple States, August--September, 2005
- Laboratory Surveillance for Wild and Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses, January 2004--June 2005
- Outbreak of Pruritic Rashes Associated with Mites--Kansas, 2004
3. Notifications
- Australia Leads Regional Response to Avian Influenza
- WHO: Partners meeting on avian influenza and human pandemic influenza
- PAHO To Assist Member Countries with Pandemic Planning
- A Warning Shot Influenza and the 2004 Flu Vaccine
- National STD Prevention Conference
- WHO: Immunization maintains strong performance made in last quarter century
- The use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
4. APEC EINet activities
- Pandemic influenza preparedness and response: Information sharing through a virtual symposium
5. To Receive EINet Newsbriefs
- APEC EINet email list
Southeast Asia: ASEAN works on avian influenza preparedness
Southeast Asian agriculture ministers agreed on a plan to fight avian flu over the next 3 years. Ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations approved a plan covering 8 "strategic areas". The areas include surveillance, an alert system, vaccination, improving diagnostic capabilities, and setting up a disease-free zone. A task force, led by Malaysia, has been assigned to develop detailed action plans and find donors for a proposed animal health trust fund. $2 million has already been pledged. The ASEAN plan complements a 3-year plan drafted by the WHO, FAO, and OIE in May 2005. Finland is also working on preparedness--it has told drug companies in Europe it wants to buy 5.2 million doses of an avian flu vaccine, enough to protect its whole population. The Finnish government has asked legislators to provide 21 million euros ($25 million) for the vaccine stockpile. Finland had an avian flu scare Aug 2005, when a flu virus was found in some gulls. But it turned out to be a low-pathogenic strain. (CIDRAP 9/30/05 http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/sep3005avian.html)
Indonesia: Finds H5N1-infected but healthy chickens
Indonesia: Avian influenza human case count update
Indonesia's Health Minister lowered the country's number of confirmed human deaths from bird flu to 3 on 6 Oct 2005, in line with figures from the WHO. There had been confusion surrounding Indonesia's toll from bird flu since its first death was reported July 2005. (Until 6 Oct 2005, Indonesia had reported 6 fatalities from the virus). There have been 3 WHO confirmed fatal cases of avian H5N1 infection in Indonesia and 1 confirmed non-fatal case; there is still a large number of suspected cases (variously given by Indonesia sources as up to 75, 85, and 90), which have yet to be confirmed by WHO. Indonesia received 60 000 doses of Tamiflu for human use, mostly aid from Australia. Tamiflu will be distributed to 44 designated hospitals. In Jakarta alone, at least 20 people were treated at Sulianto Saroso hospital as suspected cases as of 4 Oct 2005; many of them had become sick after visiting the Ragunan Zoo.
The virus has spread to 22 provinces out of 33 in Indonesia, killing more than 10 million poultry since late 2003. One of the difficulties in controlling the disease is that many people in both rural and urban areas keep a few chickens and other livestock. Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said chickens without symptoms had been found among those kept in backyards, while commercial chickens usually died quickly when they contracted the disease. The country has come under fire for reluctance to carry out mass culling of chickens in infected areas. (Promed 10/6/05)
South East Asia: Cumulative number of human cases of avian influenza A/(H5N1)
Economy / Unofficial (Official) Cases / Unofficial (Official) Deaths
Cumulative number of confirmed human cases of avian influenza A/(H5N1), 3 Dec 2003 to present:
East Asia: No new evidence of Tamiflu-resistant H5N1
Except for that one partially resistant H5N1 isolate from Viet Nam, no researchers have reported new discoveries of Tamiflu-resistant viruses isolated from human cases of H5N1, both the WHO and Tamiflu's manufacturer, Hoffman-La Roche, confirm. "There is a network of laboratories that has been set up to follow antiviral resistance among influenza strains," says Michael Perdue, a scientist in the WHO's global influenza program. "One of the first things they look at (when they get new viral isolates) is the antiviral sensitivity and resistance. And the papers that have been published thus far have shown all the strains to be sensitive." Oseltamivir is one of only 2 drugs thought to be effective against H5N1; Relenza is the other. Governments around the world have been rushing to stockpile the easier-to-administer Tamiflu as a hedge against a possible pandemic. (Tamiflu is sold in pills; Relenza is inhaled like an asthma drug.)
Everyone, including Roche, expects some resistance to Tamiflu to develop if it becomes widely used. In fact, studies have shown just that in Japan, the only market to date which has embraced Tamiflu in a serious way for seasonal influenza. Dr. Frederick Hayden of the University of Virginia says a recent study of Japanese children showed about 16 per cent developed resistance to the drug. "That's one in 6. So I would anticipate that in H5N1-infected persons that the frequency would certainly be no less," says Hayden, co-chair of an international network of scientists who monitor for resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors. But even when resistance develops, evidence suggests it may not spread easily. In the lab, viruses that develop resistance to oseltamivir pay a price; they are less fit than non- resistant viruses. That suggests it might be difficult for a resistant strain to emerge and claim dominance over non-resistance strains. So far the evidence that resistance strains are less fit has been shown only with human flu strains. Studies should be done to see if the same holds true with H5N1 viruses, he insists. (Promed 10/7/05)
Russia: OIE mission to assess the avian influenza situation; bird flu in Urals
Russia's Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev said 5 Oct 2005 that the situation with bird flu has stabilized. Avian flu, blamed on wild migratory birds from Southeast Asia, was first detected in Siberia July 2005 and has since spread to at least 5 other provinces. No human cases have been registered in Russia. The Minister said preventive measures were still needed. The number of towns and villages affected by the outbreak have fallen from 50 to 7. Investigators are conducting tests in 19 other settlements suspected to have bird flu cases. The latest outbreak was recorded in the Kurgan region in southern Siberia. The outbreak at the Utyatskaya farm in the Kurgan region was the first to be recorded in the region. More than 1/5 of the farm's 460 000 birds have died and authorities will likely cull the rest. The farm stopped sales 28 Sep 2005 when the first birds died. (Promed 10/5/05, 10/6/05; OIE 10/4/05 http://www.oie.int/eng/press/en_051004.htm)
Russia (Nizhniy Novgorod): Hepatitis A epidemic affects 1438 Persons
Russia (Rostov): Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever cases
Indonesia: Poliomyelitis update
South Korea: 2 women contract HIV via blood transfusion
USA (Washington D.C.): Tularemia detection by BioWatch; not a threat
Small amounts of a bacterium that causes tularemia were found on Washington's National Mall 24-25 Sep 2005. CDC said several environmental air monitors in the Mall area detected low levels of Francisella tularensis. Public health agencies had no reports of any related human or animal illnesses caused by the bacteria. CDC issued an alert 30 Sep 2005 as a precaution so medical personnel were aware of the situation and could report any suspected cases. Tularemia does not transmit from person to person and can be effectively treated with available medicines. Symptoms usually appear 3 to 5 days after exposure, but in rare cases can take up to 2 weeks. Symptoms of the disease include sudden fever, chills, headaches, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, muscle aches, joint pain, dry cough and progressive weakness.
Health officials said 1 Oct 2005 that the detected bacteria is not harmful and probably occurred naturally. The Department of Homeland Security delayed in alerting CDC because subsequent tests were not conclusively positive, said Richard Besser, who directs the CDC's coordinating office for terrorism preparedness and emergency response. CDC was not contacted for at least 72 hours. Testing never identified all the definitive markers, and officials were wary of issuing a false alarm. Besser acknowledged that the 2 agencies need to review their protocol. Besser said that if the initial evaluation had revealed true positives, the lab would have immediately contacted Homeland Security, which would have immediately brought CDC and local agencies into the discussion. It appears from this report that confirmatory tests were positive, although the levels detected were rather low to be considered a threat.
A similar incident occurred in Texas in October 2003, when 2 air sensors detected fragments of tularemia bacteria. There were no human cases of tularemia reported after the incident, and some experts in the bioterror field said they believe the incident was actually spurred by a strain of the bacterium that does not affect humans. Although not many human cases are reported in the USA each year, almost every state has reported cases. People can get tularemia by being bitten by an infected tick, deerfly or other insect, handling infected animal carcasses, eating or drinking contaminated food or water or breathing in the organisms. For more information on BioWatch: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL32152.html#_1_3. (Promed 10/5/05)
USA: Alert on Menactra Meningococcal Vaccine and Guillain Barre Syndrome
All 5 patients were 17 or 18 years of age and developed weakness or abnormal sensations in the arms or legs 2-4 weeks after vaccination. All individuals are reported to be recovering or to have recovered. More than 2.5 million doses of Menactra vaccine have been distributed to date. The rate of GBS based on the number of cases reported following administration of Menactra is similar to what might have been expected to occur by coincidence. However, the timing of the events is of concern. Also, vaccine adverse events are not always reported to FDA, so there may be additional cases unreported at this time.
Information on the background incidence of meningococcal meningitis in the US can be found in the 27 May 2005 Recommendations and Reports Issue of MMWR Vol. 54 (RR07): 1-21, Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5407a1.htm. In 1976, there was an outbreak of GBS in the USA following administration of the Swine Flu vaccine. A good review of this episode and on GBS (and other suspected neurologic events associated with receipt of Influenza vaccine) can be found in the Institute of Medicine's publication Immunization Safety Review: Influenza Vaccines and Neurological Complications http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10822.html?onpi_newsdoc0309090865.
*** CDC MMWR has posted a Dispatch regarding these 5 cases:
USA: FDA Proposes Additional BSE Safeguards
The proposed regulation builds on a series of firewalls that include FDA's 1997 feed regulation which prohibits the use of certain mammalian-origin proteins in ruminant feed, but allows these materials to be used in feed for non-ruminant species. The removal of high-risk materials from all animal feed -- including pet food -- will protect against the transmission of the agent of BSE that could occur either through cross-contamination of ruminant feed with non-ruminant feed or feed ingredients during feed manufacture and transport, or intentional or unintentional misfeeding of non-ruminant feed to ruminants on the farm. Comprehensive information about FDA's work on BSE and links are available at http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/bse.html. (FDA 10/4/05 http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2005/new01240.html)
USA (Minnesota): Infection with polio virus reported in infant; public not at risk
MDH says the virus strain found in the infant appears to be a variant of the strain used in the oral vaccine, which is still used in parts of the world. It is unknown how the infant became infected, but the virus is transmitted through direct contact with the stool or oral secretions of an infected person. OPV has been associated with rare cases of vaccine associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) in individuals who have directly received the vaccine and in those who have had contact with recently vaccinated individuals. In addition, there have been reports of cases of paralytic poliomyelitis associated with circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV) where there has been a reversion to neurovirulence of the involved circulating vaccine derived virus. MDH officials say this unusual case should serve as a reminder to make sure that all of your immunizations are current and that children receive immunizations as recommended. (Promed 10/2/05)
USA (Wisconsin): Salmonellosis linked to county fair
Canada/France: Trichinellosis, black bear consumption
Organized travel for hunting in northern Canada are becoming more and more popular. Participants in such travels should be informed of the risk of acquiring trichinellosis by consuming raw or rare meat of wild carnivores. Trichinellosis in northern Canada is particularly frequent, and black bear meat is a frequent source. A particular feature of Trichinella infection is the widespread distribution of cases seen when meat is transported from one country to another or sent to others by mail. (Promed 9/27/05)
Canada (Nunavut): Outbreak of HTLV-1 Infection
There is no cure for HTLV-1 infection. Symptoms take between 10 to 20 years to appear. Nunavut's first case of HTLV-1 was discovered June 2005 in a person with leukemia. Sobol said he doubts there have been any new infections. "We've been doing intensive work with the individuals involved, and we've been doing our contact tracing. I believe we've taken all reasonable steps to protect the public at this time." Since the virus was found, all blood samples taken in Nunavut have been tested for HTLV-1. That testing will continue until officials can properly assess its prevalence in the territory. Confidential, free tests will be available to anyone in Nunavut who asks for one. HTLV-1 is very rare in Canada that it's not a reportable disease in many Jurisdictions. The Canadian Blood Service, which has screened for HLTV-1 since 1990, reports that, out of roughly 900 000 blood donations received every year, only 10 or 12 are found contaminated with HLTV-1. The virus is endemic in Southern Japan, the Caribbean, Papua New Guinea and parts of Africa. In Nunavut, providers have been briefed to give blood tests and advice. HTLV-1 testing will be added to prenatal screening tests. (Promed 10/2/05)
Canada (Ontario): Legionnaires' Disease deaths confirmed
1. Updates
Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery
Seasonal influenza activity for the Asia Pacific and APEC Economies, 1 September 2005
Influenza activity was low during weeks 34-37
Australia. Influenza A activity declined further since week 34. Sporadic activity reported in week 37.
Hong Kong. Low Influenza activity continued during weeks 34–37.
New Zealand. Influenza B activity declined further and sporadic activity was reported during weeks 34 and 37 with ILI consultation rates similar to those at the same time last year.
Other reports. During weeks 34–37, low influenza activity was detected in Canada (H1 and H3), Japan (H3), Mexico (H3), Peru (H1, H3 and A), and Thailand (H3 and B). Philippines reported no influenza activity. (WHO 10/3/05 http://www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/update/en/ )
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Australia. Influenza A activity declined further since week 34. Sporadic activity reported in week 37.
Hong Kong. Low Influenza activity continued during weeks 34–37.
New Zealand. Influenza B activity declined further and sporadic activity was reported during weeks 34 and 37 with ILI consultation rates similar to those at the same time last year.
Other reports. During weeks 34–37, low influenza activity was detected in Canada (H1 and H3), Japan (H3), Mexico (H3), Peru (H1, H3 and A), and Thailand (H3 and B). Philippines reported no influenza activity. (WHO 10/3/05 http://www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/update/en/ )
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2. Articles
The 1918 flu virus is resurrected
The recreation of one of the deadliest diseases known could help us to prevent another pandemic. Or it might trigger one, say critics. In this issue of Nature, scientists publish an analysis of the full genome sequence of the 1918 human influenza virus. And in this week's Science, researchers describe how they used that sequence to recreate the virus and study its effects in mice. Some scientists have already hailed the work as giving unprecedented insight into the virus. Working out how it arose and why it was so deadly could help experts to spot the next pandemic strain and to design appropriate drugs and vaccines in time, they say. But others have raised concerns that the dangers of resurrecting the virus are just too great.
Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute is the lead author of the sequencing study. He says the work was necessary and the risks were low. The full sequence is strong evidence that the 1918 flu virus is derived wholly from an ancestor that originally infected birds. In contrast, the viruses that caused the flu pandemics of 1957 and 1968 arose when human and avian flu viruses infected the same person at the same time, allowing their genes to mix. All 8 of the genome segments from the 1918 virus differ in important ways from other human flu sequences, suggesting that none of the genome came from a strain that had previously infected people. Pinpointing exactly which genetic mutations allowed the virus to jump to humans will enable scientists to recognize other bird viruses that could trigger a pandemic. Taubenberger's team has already identified 25 changes in the protein sequences of the 1918 strain that have been present in subsequent human flu viruses. One such change was found in the virus isolated from the only human fatality in a 2003 outbreak of H7N7 bird flu in the Netherlands.
In the paper in Science, Terrence Tumpey and his co-workers have used Taubenberger's sequence to recreate the complete 1918 virus. When they used the strain to infect mice they found it was extremely virulent. The researchers compared the complete 1918 virus with strains in which some genes had been replaced by those of contemporary strains. They found that replacing the haemagglutinin gene, which helps the virus to enter cells, made it unable to kill mice. Replacing all three of the polymerase genes, which allow the virus to replicate, significantly reduced its virulence. The haemagglutinin gene is essential, says Tumpey. "But no single change or gene is the answer," adds Taubenberger. "It's a combination effect." Future research will involve testing reconstructed viruses with and without certain mutations, to see which are the most important for virulence.
But the studies have also sparked fears. Richard Ebright, a bacteriologist at Rutgers University, said, "Tumpey et al. have constructed, and provided procedures for others to construct, a virus that represents perhaps the most effective bioweapons agent now known." "This would be extremely dangerous should it escape, and there is a long history of things escaping," says Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a molecular biologist and member of the Federation of American Scientists' Working Group on Biological Weapons. Tumpey counters that even if the virus did escape, it wouldn't have the same consequences as the 1918 pandemic. Most people now have some immunity to the 1918 virus because subsequent human flu viruses are in part derived from it. And, in mice, regular flu vaccines and drugs are at least partly effective against an infection with reconstructed viruses that contain some of the genes from 1918 flu. Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature, and Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science, agree that the benefits outweigh the risks. The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity reached a similar conclusion. Taubenberger admits there can be no absolute guarantee of safety: "We are aware that all technological advances could be misused. . . .But what we are trying to understand is what happened in nature and how to prevent another pandemic. In this case, nature is the bioterrorist."
The references for the 2 papers published in Nature and Science are the following: Jeffery K. Taubenberg et al. Nature 437, 889-893, 2005; and T. M. Tumpey et al. Science 310, 77 80; 2005. (Promed 10/6/05; Nature http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051003/full/437794a.html)
Researchers map 209 flu virus genomes
Reference: Ghedin E, Sengamalay NA, Shumway M, et al. Large-scale sequencing of human influenza reveals the dynamic nature of viral genome evolution. Nature 2005 Oct 5 (advance online publication)
Neuraminidase inhibitors for influenza
Incidence of Adamantane Resistance among Influenza A (H3N2) Viruses Isolated Worldwide from 1994 to 2005: a cause for concern
Resistance to amantadine and rimantadine has been recorded previously, but the high frequency of resistant virus where these drugs have been used extensively over a considerable period suggests that their future usefulness will be limited. In places such as China, drug resistance exceeded 70 percent, suggesting that these drugs will probably no longer be effective for treatment or as a preventive in pandemic flu. (Promed 9/30/05)
Bats Are Natural Reservoirs of SARS-Like Coronaviruses
Thus study reports that the likely source of SARS is the horseshoe bat. They say the virus may have needed to infect another animal such as the civet before it could transmit to humans. They suggest that live horseshoe bats should be kept out of markets until the transmission path is fully understood. In May 2003, the suggestion emerged that the virus responsible had entered the human population from civets. WHO endorsed this link early in 2004, an announcement which led authorities in China to cull an estimated 10 000 civets killed. But for some time, the prevailing theory has been that civets were not the reservoir. One clue is that they appear to have little immunity, and become seriously ill; whereas species which harbor pathogens for a long period of time usually adapt to them. Civets could be an "amplifier host" for SARS. If they are, one suggestion, according to Peter Daszak, who was also involved in the study, is to keep them away from horseshoe bats. "In the east Asian region, we need to face up to high-risk behaviours," he said, "and in this situation, bringing these species into live markets, butchering and eating them and using them in medicines, is a high-risk behavior. . . These bats have a wide distribution in Europe and Asia, and what we don't know, and need to know urgently, is the distribution of the SARS-like coronavirus in these bats. The last thing we should do is to take it out on the bats, because the evidence suggests that they have carried this coronavirus for thousands, perhaps millions of years; only recently has it emerged in a big way, and it was human behaviours that made the difference." (Promed 9/30/05)
Infectious Disease and Dermatologic Conditions in Evacuees and Rescue Workers After Hurricane Katrina--Multiple States, August--September, 2005
***For more information on Katrina, visit: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/index.asp (MMWR September 30, 2005 / 54(38);961-964)
Laboratory Surveillance for Wild and Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses, January 2004--June 2005
Outbreak of Pruritic Rashes Associated with Mites--Kansas, 2004
3. Notifications
Australia Leads Regional Response to Avian Influenza
Australia will host a high-level meeting on avian influenza in Brisbane 31 Oct - 1 Nov 2005. This regional initiative will bring together, for the first time, the principal pandemic/disaster management coordinators from APEC economies. The meeting of pandemic and disaster experts will discuss efforts to improve regional coordination of preparedness and response. It highlights Australia's leadership role in providing a strategic and coordinated response approach to the avian influenza threat. It will build on the work undertaken in APEC since 2001 on preparedness for and response to infectious disease threats. It will inform discussion among APEC Leaders and Ministers when they meet in Korea in Nov 2005. The objective is to ensure a swift and co-coordinated regional response to contain any outbreak of avian influenza, by: improving communication between the key personnel leading the fight against avian influenza in the Asia-Pacific region; sharing information about and improving transparency of regional and national strategies for avian influenza preparedness and response; identifying gaps in regional preparedness; and developing mechanisms to better co-ordinate the regional fight against any outbreaks.
The Prime Minister announced a $5 million initiative to combat Avian Influenza at the ASEAN Leaders Meeting Nov 2004. As well as $133 million allocated for prevention and preparedness of a pandemic in Australia, Australia has provided more than $20 million since 2003 to tackle avian influenza and SARS in the region. Emergency coordinators will be joined by health and quarantine colleagues and by representatives of key international organisations including WHO and FAO. (APEC http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/releases/2005/fa124_05.html)
WHO: Partners meeting on avian influenza and human pandemic influenza
• To confirm the two-pronged strategy: to control avian influenza at source in animals for the short and medium term and simultaneously prepare for pandemic influenza;
PAHO To Assist Member Countries with Pandemic Planning
• Promote the development of national influenza pandemic preparedness plans,
Should a pandemic virus emerge, PAHO will work at the regional and country levels to contain or delay the early spread of the virus. In the event of a full-scale pandemic, PAHO efforts will focus on reducing morbidity, mortality, and social disruption through coordinated action with its member countries and WHO. Assistant Director Carissa Etienne called on all PAHO member countries to undertake pandemic planning and to share their plans with one another to strengthen these efforts. (PAHO 9/29/05 http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/pr050929a.htm)
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WHO: Immunization maintains strong performance made in last quarter century
• Global immunization coverage with three doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP3) vaccine has been sustained at 78% for the year 2004.
Unprecedented new resources for immunization are being made available through the International Finance Facility for Immunization towards which a group of European countries committed nearly USD 4 billion. A revolution is expected in the next decade in the ways that vaccines are designed, manufactured, financed, delivered and administered. 20 new or improved vaccines are anticipated within the next ten years. WHO and UNICEF have produced a new Global Immunization Vision and Strategy for 2006-2015.
At PAHO's Directing Council meeting, Peru's Health Minister said "It is crucial for us in the health sector to strengthen our links with ministers of finance and those responsible for budgets in our countries, because we have very important times ahead of us in terms of new vaccines." From a country perspective, she said, one of the lessons learned is setting priorities for health interventions and protecting the immunization achievements to date, while promoting new alliances and improving efficiency. (WHO http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr48/en/index.html; PAHO 9/29/05 http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/pr050929.htm)
The use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests
Despite reductions in recent years, malaria still constitutes a public health problem in the Americas, according to a report presented at PAHO meeting. The report shows that of the 21 PAHO Member States where malaria is endemic, 15 reported decreases in the absolute numbers of cases between 2000 and 2004. However, six countries reported increases, including Peru (23%). (WHO/WPRO; PAHO 9/30/05 http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/pr050930.htm)
4. APEC EINet activities
Pandemic influenza preparedness and response: Information sharing through a virtual symposium
APEC EINet is currently planning for a major video conference on pandemic influenza preparedness in January 19, 2006. The overall aim of this "virtual symposium" is to promote regional information sharing and collaboration to enhance biopreparedness against pandemic influenza and other emergent threats. In order to improve preparedness regionally, it is vital to understand how each economy in the region is undertaking preparedness and response planning. Details will be forthcoming.
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APEC EINet email list
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August 17, 2009, 10:33 AM
If Buds list a gun for 300 delivered is my total 300 plus w/e my shop charges for the transfer or is there a tax?
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August 17, 2009, 10:48 AM
If you live in the state where the store is located then you will have to pay tax. If you don't live in the state then you don't. That's with guns I'm not sure about ammo.
August 17, 2009, 12:39 PM
That's with ANYTHING - If you have a Cabela's in your state - even if you order over the net, they must charge you sales tax (states without sales tax notwithstanding).
August 17, 2009, 01:12 PM
Thanks, I realize if its in your state thing but with silly laws i wasnt sure if gun owners got some kinda "sin tax" like smokers
I have no Cabelas in my state,so i can order tons of ammo without tax?
Buds is in KY and i am not so again no tax?
August 17, 2009, 01:44 PM
Some states do allow business outside of their state to charge sales tax. (Don't ask me which ones!) The easiest way to find out is to put together an order and you will see what the total is with shipping before you put in your credit card information. If you don't like what you see, cancel the order.
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No tax on out of state sales, but your local FFL will charge a transfer fee to cover the paperwork. It runs $20 to $40 in most places.
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text: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C0A0CB.225D02A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Markm wrote: > 2) Your transform of this scenario, in which Alice > eventually sends (<-) > this reference to Bob in message Y after she has eventually > sent X to Carol. > The semantics guarantee that Bob will not be able to use > this reference to > deliver W before X. Since a NEAR reference would give Bob > the ability to > deliver W immediately (via a call), the semantics require > that the reference > delivered to Bob not be NEAR until after X has been delivered. This is actually the case that I am thinking about. The confusion is about what "the semantics require". Take this adaptation of your code. define alice { to doSomething() { myCarol <- X myBob <- Y(myCarol) } } Assume Alice, Bob and Carol are all in the same Vat. After sending Y to Bob, Alice is free to do a synchronous invocation with myCarol. I assume that as soon as Bob gets his copy of myCarol, Bob will also be able to do a synchronous invocation with myCarol. Bob should get exactly what Alice sent him. Alice could do a synchronous invocation, so Bob can too. The delivery of X to Carol is not an element of this timeline. I am guessing that when you say "the semantics require", you are saying that the semantics require that Bob gets a reference that is not able to do an eventual invocation that arrives before the last eventual invocation by Alice. You are then using this condition to justify the creation of a temporarily non-NEAR reference. It is this last step that does not seem clear to me. Alice sent a NEAR reference. Why does Bob (in the same Vat) get a non-NEAR reference? Just looking at the code, I see nothing that implies this transformation. The raw code suggests to me that Bob gets the powers Alice gave to him, which included the ability to do a synchronous invocation. Bob is granted access to pre-X Carol. > >> When we tried to build it without > >> these ordering > >> guarantees, we had a hell of a time. > >> > >> The ordering guarantees originated in syntactic sugar used > >> in the Joule user > >> language (though I don't think they are in the on-line > >> manual). When we > >> added these guarantees to Original-E and used them, > >> suddenly a whole mess of > >> n-party (for n >= 3) concurrency problems went away. > > > >Are these problems adequately solved by the multi-promise resolve > >sugar you recently introduced? > > No. They solve a different issue -- waiting for multiple > separate things to > be resolved before taking some action. Could you give me an example of the type of problem you are thinking about? > >[...] In Droplets, the > >Carol reference is just another sturdy reference that lives for as > >long as the Bob Vat is willing to let it live. This makes surviving > >temporary partitions a lot easier. > > > >In E, the advent of partition means that you have to tear down the > >entire structure of "live" references that you've built up > and rebuild > >it from scratch when the partition is fixed. In Droplets, > you may get > >a few smashed return values; however, you might be able to > carry on as > >you were when the partition is fixed. Your pointers may > still be good. > >E pointers that suffered a smashed return value are permanently > >broken. > > In some sense, the whole point of the E mechanism is to > "tear down the > entire structure of 'live' references that you've built up" > and make the > programmer "rebuild it from scratch when the partition is > fixed." Rather > than have all references be somewhat flaky all the time, > and make the > programmer have to deal with this flakiness everywhere, So, if we are working in a network environment where the references are behaving as if they were "somewhat flaky", then we are working in a network environment in which an E program would be continually building up and tearing down its entire program structure. I terms of "dealing with flakiness", I think the E strategy is more difficult. Every part of an E program must know how to recapture its state from the sturdy references. This means that the logic of every part of the program is coupled with the "rebuild" logic. In a Droplets program, individual parts of the program can assume that they will recover from temporary partitions and assume that if they cannot recover, something truly catastrophic has happened and they are unable to recover. I want to show an example of this, but I first have to explain one other feature of a Droplets reference. Consider: def r := foo <- bar() The programmer can assume that if "bar()" gets to "foo", "r" will eventually resolve to the return value of "bar()". If "r" is smashed, the programmer can assume that one of the following is true: 1) "bar()" was never delivered to "foo", so there is no return value. 2) "bar()" was delivered and it produced an exception. 3) "foo" is also smashed. When writing code, this means that the programmer does not need to think about how to recover from partition. If "r" is smashed, then the situation is not recoverable. If "r" is not smashed, then you carry on without ever noticing the partition. At the implementation level, the Cistern implements this by sending the "yourself" message on the return value promises that it was waiting on when the partition occured. These return values are then substituted for those of the actual method invocations. Now let's do an example. I suggest a Bank. The Bank hosts a brand of erights that is redeemable upon demand for a brand of erights hosted on a remote machine. I'll use my version of the ERTP and a Droplets-like E notation. I've attached the version of Commodity that this code uses. # Constructs a new Bank. # @param base The contract for the base erights. # @param escrow The Conduit for the base erights. # @param reserve The reserve Purse for the base erights. # @return The [ Bank, Bank PurseFactory, Bank Conduit ] def Bank(base, escrow, reserve) { def Self; def [ mint, factory, pay ] := Commodity(Self) def Self { # Gets the contract associated with the base erights. to getBaseContract() :any { base } # Purchase local currency. # @param amount The amount of the base currency to transfer. # @param src The remote Purse containing the purchase erights. # @param dst The local destination Purse for the purchased erights. # @return The amount of currency received from the src Purse. to deposit(amount, src, dst) :any { def deposited_p := escrow <- transfer(1, amount, src, reserve) when (deposited_p) -> done(deposited) { pay transfer(1, Assay(mint getContract(), deposited getValue()), mint, dst) } deposited_p } # Redeems local currency for base currency. # @param amount The amount of the local currency to redeem. # @param src The local Purse containing the erights to redeem. # @param dst The destination Purse for the redeemed erights. # @return The amount of currency added to the dst Purse. to withdraw(amount, src, dst) :any { def withdrawn := pay transfer(1, amount, src, mint) def redeemed_p := escrow <- transfer(1, Assay(base, withdrawn getValue()), reserve, dst) when (redeemed_p) -> done(redeemed) { } catch problem { pay transfer(1, withdrawn, mint, src) } redeemed_p } } [ Self, factory, pay ] } I contend that this simple program correctly handles all error conditions. Moreover, if the "base" currency is in the same Cistern (Vat) as the Bank, then the code does not impose unneeded overhead (ie: creation of temporary Purses). I challenge you to write the same in E. You can use your or my ERTP. > This reproduces the valuable part of distributed atomic > transactions -- > abort (throwing away questionable state) and recovery > (rebuilding from > relatively stable things) -- while not taking on any > impossible problems. The question is how precisely you can limit what the "questionable state" is. I think E often throws the baby out with the bathwater. A lot of the destroyed state was still good. A lot of the questionable stuff can be automatically validated. > >The Internet being what it is, I think the ability to easily handle > >temporary partitions is an important feature. > > I agree that handling partitions is important. That's the > point! I claim > that the effort needed to correctly maintain consistency > despite partitions > is lower with the E pattern than with the Droplets pattern. ;) Well, lets see your Bank first. > With less than > this effort, the path of least resistance using the E > pattern leads to an > application that safely disconnects. But using the > Droplets pattern, the > corresponding path of least resistance leads to an application that > innocently continues in a confused state. You haven't made an argument for confusion, just asserted it. I don't understand how the confusion could arise. I contend that the E pattern is too difficult to use. You can easily get yourself into a situation where it is impossible to fully recover from a temporary partition. Analyzing a program for such conditions is difficult work that is beyond the abilities of your target audience. Moreover, the E pattern requires that the host service's API be constructed a priori to anticipate all the possible conditions and provide "sturdyVouch"-like services to enable recovery. Failure to anticipate a possible use of your service means that all clients will be vulnerable to untimely partitions that are unrecoverable. Tyler ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C0A0CB.225D02A0 Content-Type: text/x-escript; name="Commodity.e" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Commodity.e" def Assay(contract, value) : any { def Self { to openState :any { meta scope } to openSource :any { meta sourceTree(self) } to printOn(out) { out print("<Assay: " + value + " " + contract = + ">") } to compareTo(other) :any { value compareTo(other getValue) } to isEmpty :boolean { value =3D=3D 0 } to getContract() :any { contract } to getValue() :any { value } } } def Commodity(contract) :any { def [ sealer, unsealer ] :=3D BrandMaker pair(contract) def Purse(mint :boolean) { var balance :int :=3D 0 var observers :=3D [ ] toFIFO def Private { to getValue() :int { balance } to withdraw(amount :(int >=3D 0)) :void {=20 if(balance < amount && !mint) { throw(InsufficientErights("" + amount + " > " + = balance)) } balance -=3D amount=20 for x in observers { x <- withdrawn(Assay(contract, amount)) } }=20 to deposit(amount :(int >=3D 0)) :void {=20 balance +=3D amount=20 for x in observers { x <- deposited(Assay(contract, amount)) } } } def Self{ to getBalance() :any { Assay(contract, balance) } to getContract() :any { contract } to observe(observer) :void { observers +=3D observer } to pack() :any { sealer seal(Private) } } } def PurseFactory { to getContract() :any { contract } to makePurse() :any { Purse(false) } } def Conduit { to getContract() :any { contract } to makeEmptyAssay() :any { Assay(contract, 0) } to deliver(src, dst) :any { def src_balance :=3D unsealer unseal(src pack) def dst_balance :=3D unsealer unseal(dst pack) def delta :=3D src_balance getValue src_balance withdraw(delta) dst_balance deposit(delta) Assay(contract, delta) } to transfer(n :(int >=3D 0), amount, src, dst) :any { assert(contract =3D=3D amount getContract) # Just for = debugging. def src_balance :=3D unsealer unseal(src pack) def dst_balance :=3D unsealer unseal(dst pack) def delta :=3D n * amount getValue src_balance withdraw(delta) dst_balance deposit(delta) Assay(contract, delta) } } [ Purse(true), PurseFactory, Conduit ] } ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C0A0CB.225D02A0--


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India, A New Facebook Testing Ground
BANGALORE—India is becoming a critical testing ground for Facebook FB 0.11 % as it strives to cash in on growth in emerging markets and better target mobile-phone users—two increasingly pressing goals for the social-networking firm.
The company sees the giant nation, whose Internet user base is expanding rapidly, as a market central to its future prospects. Since putting its first employee in India in 2010, Facebook has grown from eight million Indian users to 65 million as of this month, making it one of the company's top global markets.
But sustaining that growth and cashing in on it won't be a cinch. The firm must cater to millions of Indians coming online for the first time on low-tech mobile phones with spotty cell service. Everything—from Facebook's own services to the many apps Indian companies develop—will have to work in that environment. The firm must also lure marketers who still see social-media advertising as a fringe, experimental activity.
The lessons the company could learn here will apply in other emerging markets like Indonesia, Brazil and parts of Africa, executives said. "As we think about how to deliver the best possible Facebook experience to an emerging-market customer, India is probably the best place to incubate and experiment on different ways we can deliver that experience," said Meenal Balar, Facebook's director for international growth.
Facebook has said relatively little about its India approach. However, in interviews, executives at the company described the firm's strategy: Building for users who don't have smartphones and forging relationships to mobile-phone operators, advertisers and partners that provide popular content like streaming Bollywood music.
The company opened a new office last month in Hyderabad to accommodate growing staff.
The country poses some special cultural challenges. Indian government rules require Internet companies to remove, within 36 hours of being notified, content that falls into a broad range of categories, including anything "grossly harmful," "menacing in nature" or "ethnically objectionable." That's put Facebook, Google Inc. and Twitter Inc. in the uncomfortable position of being arbiters of free speech. Erring too much on the side of removing things the government deems offensive would carry the risk of alienating users. Facebook has said it only removes content that violates its terms of use or local laws.
At a recent panel in New Delhi on Indian hate speech, a local journalist pressed a Facebook executive to explain more clearly to users why it removes specific pieces of content when it does. "There's no lack of willingness to be transparent on our part," said Richard Allen, director of public policy for Facebook in Europe, the Middle East and Asia said at a recent panel event. "Over time, we will develop transparency tools." Mr. Allen said Facebook is also encouraging law-enforcement agencies to use Facebook as a tool to get their own messages out and is promoting education campaigns to teach better Net etiquette.
Emerging markets are important for the company as Facebook's growth in rapidly saturating markets like the U.S. is slowing: the company reported 955 million active users in the June 30 quarter, just 6% growth from the previous quarter. (It has since crossed the billion-user mark.) Revenue growth is also decelerating, one reason the firm's shares have plunged 47% since its initial public offering.
India looks enticing: the country has about 100 million Internet users now, mostly via desktops, but the real prize is the group of 900 million-plus mobile-phone users, most of whom will get Web access for the first time in coming years.
The problem is that only 9% of urban Indians have smartphones, according to Nielsen Informate Mobile Insights, and the incidence is minuscule in rural areas.
Kirthiga Reddy, Facebook India's first employee and head of country operations, said the company is investing significantly to target lower-end feature phones and those in the "few thousand-rupee range." A thousand rupees is about $20. The firm has also added support for Hindi and seven other Indian languages this year. "We're just early in our journey," Ms. Reddy said. "We've got 1.2 billion people in India. We have a lot of people we still need to reach."
The other big issue: Indian brands only spend 5% of their marketing budgets on digital campaigns. Ravi Rao, South Asia leader of ad agency Mindshare, said he expects India's roughly $290 million digital-ad industry to enjoy 30% growth annually, but said brands are still learning what campaigns work best.
Some marketers are finding voice ads reach users with low-tech phones, he said. Big consumer-product companies are seeing that it is smart to be choosy and only do online ads for higher-end products like fancy skin creams, rather than basic bath soap. "Those are the nuances you have to take into account," Mr. Rao said.
Facebook doesn't release specific advertising-revenue figures for India. Ms. Reddy said brands including Pepsi, big Indian auto maker Maruti Suzuki and retailer Shopper Stop, in addition to small businesses like online souvenir-seller Chumbak, are advertising via Facebook. "Over the last two years, I've seen a marked change," she said. "Of course there are people who need more of a business case than others."
Facebook is also trying to drum up more India-specific content by engaging the country's software developers, who are known as experts in providing back-end outsourcing services to global businesses but are just starting to dive into making consumer apps for the iPhone, Android and other platforms.
Many U.S. and European-made games like "Temple Run and "Angry Birds" are popular in India, too, but the company believes Facebook could have even broader appeal if India produced viral content of its own.
The company assembled a few hundred Indian programmers at a convention center in Bangalore one recent morning and gave them seven hours to come up with useful, original apps.
Facebook holds such marathon programming sessions—known as "hacks"—internally from time to time and has done several overseas. At the Bangalore event, engineers sat through seminars on the various plug-ins Facebook offers to allow apps to interact with user profiles, then sprawled out on bean bags. Fueled by chai, chips and candy bars, the geeks raced against the deadline and produced a hodgepodge.
The promising apps included one that turns Facebook profile photos into jigsaw puzzles and another that facilitates blood donation drives. The less promising included a virtual dating app in which a girlfriend-avatar in a hot pink dress speaks when her belly is poked.
Vivek Juneja, a 28-year-old tech consultant who made an app to help users raise money from friends during a crisis, said Indian software entrepreneurs are gradually getting more comfortable venturing into consumer products like apps. "In the next two-three-four years, you'll see people experimenting with these ideas," he said.
A crop of Indian start-ups is already starting to make a small mark in the $9 billion global market for virtual goods and casual games. Apps that focus on entertainment and Bollywood and the sport of cricket do especially well in India, Facebook executives say.
"I would love to see the next billion-dollar software company from India be built on the Facebook platform," Ms. Reddy said. "The ecosystem is just building."
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Governor Cuomo Announces First Solar Schools Project At The New York Institute For Special Education In The Bronx
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Ocean City, Maryland - If you want to fish in a saltwater haven where each day the sunrise is breathtaking and the fish so plentiful that they jump into your boat, you should bring your favorite rod to Ocean City, Maryland - the White Marlin Capital of the World, and see what you can reel in.
Whether you are casting a line for dinner or fishing for that tail-dancing billfish, you'll find the waters in and around Ocean City filled with action. Ocean City is world-famous for deep sea fishing, sailing, pleasure boating, bottom fishing in the bay, recreational fishing and an endless array of other watersports. Ocean City is comprised of hundreds of square miles of water, from gleaming waters of the bays, canals and rivers, to miles and miles of open sea, and there is plenty of action in every square mile for avid fishermen.
The Gulf Stream is a short distance offshore and easily reached by boat to work the waters that are teeming with tasty fish including bigeye, yellow fin tuna, mako and dolphin, plus trophy fish such as blue marlin, white marlin and an occasional sailfish. The larger fish feed in and around the canyons of the Gulf Stream and haunt the relics of sunken ships and artificial reefs seeking a snack of smaller fish.
Headboats and chartered craft go out every day as early as 5:00 a.m. in search of mako shark, wahoo, tuna, dolphin (mahi-mahi) and trophy billfish and return in the early afternoon with flags billowing from the rigging, announcing their catch of the day. Smaller charter fishing boats take bookings well in advance so it is important to call and reserve a boat to avoid disappointment. Headboats for the most part, operate on a first come, first served basis but you can call and make a reservation, just to be sure.
Great catches have also been pulled from the piers and other fishing areas throughout Ocean City, including the Route 50 Bridge. Surf fishing off both Assateague and Ocean City beaches yield fine catches of bluefish, sea trout, kingfish and more. Please be advised that effective January 1, 2011, a license or registration is required for anglers age 16 or older to fish Maryland's coastal waters, including the coastal bays, Ocean City inlet, surf and waters out to 3 miles offshore. For more information of license requirements to fish Maryland's coastal waters, click here.
If you have your own boat with you, several public boat ramps provide access to area waters. Headboats for bay and inlet fishing are plentiful in Ocean City as well, and carry bait, rods, tackle and ice to keep your catch cold. Trips are available on these bay fishing boats twice a day.
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WEST PALM BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — A request to lower bond for former WPTV Channel 5 weatherman Rob Lopicola was denied this morning, according to reporters in the courtroom.
Lopicola is being held on $130,000 bond on charges that he engaged in unlawful sexual contact with minors — at least two young men who were 15 and 17 at the time.
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Lopicola's mother, according to a reporter, told the judge that her family could not afford bail. The judge, however, refused to lower the amount.
Lopicola has been in custody since his arrest in early July.
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"A Winter Holiday" Muffin Mix
After a cold winter day, nothing is better then coming to have warm muffins right from the oven. Send your guests home with these personalized winter theme muffin mixes as their wedding favors to do just that.
- Personalize labels with winter design, color, and add names and date
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Shaolin Temple Revisited
Andy Lau stars in Shaolin, a star-studded tale of how an arrogant warlord Hou Jie turned his life around because of the teachings of Shaolin. It also features Nicolas Tse as Cao Man, Fan Bingbing as Hou Jie's wife and Jackie Chan as the fabulous cook Wu Dao.
Shaolin is a gripping kung-fu movie about repentance and rebirth. It is set during the time when China was plagued with internal conflicts and at the same time threatened by foreign forces. General Hou Jie is a greedy warlord, whose thirst for power is only matched by his second-in-command Cao Man. Right from the start, the movie shows how tyrannical the two men are as they chase down their enemy inside the compounds of the Shaolin temple. They didn't listen to the abbot's pleas to spare the man's life.
Just when it looks like Hou Jie is invincible, he is betrayed by Cao Man. And as a total reversal of fortunes, he goes to the Shaolin temple to seek the monk's help to rescue his daughter. This started the warlord's metamorphosis. At this point of Shaolin, the pace settled down as it builds up for the explosive ending.
In Shaolin, Andy Lau shows us why he's one of Hong Kong's superstars. His portrayal of Hou Jie is different from that of Jet Li in the 1982 movie Shaolin. Lau might not have Li's martial arts expertise but he made up for it with his acting.
Jackie Chan as the cook provides the much needed comic relief after the intense scenes from Nicolas Tse and Andy Lau. He might just be a support in Shaolin but Chan's character will be remembered hours or even days after watching the movie.
Shaolin is an epic kung-fu movie that is ended badly. The moral of the story that was provided in the middle would be forgotten by the bloody finale. I lost count of the number of dead people in the last sequence and I'm with the abbot when he said enough. But I guess that was what really happened in the Shaolin temple and a movie can't change that.
Shaolin is well-paced that it doesn't feel like a two hour long movie. The actors did well and the action scenes were well-choreographed. It is entertaining enough that's worth the watch. I wish Fan Bingbing had more screen time.


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THE PROBLEM: Sean Dukes isn't happy with the property owners around the corner from his West Philly home.
Unfortunately, he can't just go complain to them.
Out of a group of three rowhouses, two sit abandoned. Their roofs are caved in, their facades boarded up and marred with graffiti, and several back windows are blown out so trespassers can easily get in.
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Since Bordet and Gengou in 19061 announced the discovery of the etiological cause of whooping cough, basing their claim mainly on the complement fixation reactions given by the serum of whooping cough convalescents, complement fixation has been studied by many serologists both from an etiological and from a diagnostic standpoint.
Bordet and Gengou used as antigen a saline emulsion of a culture of the Bordet-Gengou bacillus on solid medium. Four hours at room temperature were allowed for fixation, and readings were made the following day. In later publications2 the constancy of a positive complement fixation reaction among convalescents is reaffirmed, but no figures are given. The work of Bordet and Gengou has been confirmed more or less completely by some investigators and by others their claim has been declared invalid. Meier3 found the serum of pertussis patients to react with an extract of the lung tissue of
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The above comparisons come to mind after a wintry week with the Mazdaspeed3 GT. It was uncanny how I would insert the ignition key, hear the turbo four's enticing growl, and see a fine snow just beginning to fall. So much power, so much agility—neutralized by the sudden impotence of the Bridgestone Potenza performance tires. Sometimes it seemed as though I was walking uphill at the ski jump. On one boulevard an old woman in a Buick zoom-zoomed right past me.
So there was no opportunity to run up through the gears; in fact, I was short-shifting the six-speed manual transmission. Nor was there opportunity to pitch the 3 GT into a corner—although it was perfectly obvious how well the body motions would be controlled, how finely calibrated the independent suspension is, and how deft the car could potentially be on dry pavement.
The 3 GT lets you know all about itself in the very first moments. It calls to mind how the film Crash takes off and wants to carry you along.
Yet all that remained was to appreciate the leather-trimmed seats and steering wheel with evocative red stitching. (The seats have cloth inserts.) I also toyed with the navigation system, and with the notion of setting "Tucson" as the destination.
The 3 GT is also equipped with a limited-slip differential, xenon headlights, and stability and traction control.
For $26,300, it represents quite a package, and it comes with a mean look on its face and a rear spoiler that obviously has a bone to pick with the atmosphere.
If you ever get to drive a 3 GT in wintertime, here's hoping you can keep your snow boots planted while operating the aluminum foot pedals.