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Outbreaks of SARS have now peaked in Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam - but not in China, where the virus that causes it emerged and which will be key to halting its global spread.
China, the world's most populous nation, was the key to curbing the disease, said Dr David Heymann, chief of infectious diseases at the World Health Organisation (WHO). Currently in Bangkok, Thailand, he will brief Asian leaders attending an urgent summit on the disease on Tuesday.
At least 318 people around the world have died from SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), an atypical pneumonia caused by a new virus thought to have arisen in China's Guangdong province in November last year. The disease has been spread by air travellers to 28 countries, and more than 5,000 people have been infected.
Spread of the virus had peaked in all but one of the countries known to have outbreaks. "It seems that it has peaked in all places that we knew about on the 15th of March, except in China, and in China it's on the increase, unfortunately," he told reporters. "Taiwan wasn't known to have ongoing transmission then. It was Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam. They were the four."
But the disease has apparently claimed its first victim in another Asian country. A man classified as a probable SARS case has died in Indonesia, a health official there said, the first such death reported in the world's fourth most populous nation. Vietnam said its SARS outbreak had been successfully contained and the WHO in Hanoi said this success offered hope.
Asked if he was confident that the worldwide spread of SARS could be stopped altogether, Heymann said: "No we are not. We are hoping. China is the key and it's the unknown question in the whole formula, because if China cannot contain it, then it can't be removed."
SARS kills about six percent of the people it infects and has no known cure, and it could take years to find a vaccine.
Virus still a mystery to scientists
Heymann said there were still much that scientists and clinicians needed to understand about the new coronavirus that causes the disease before its spread could be brought under control. "We don't understand whether it is occurring in an asymptomatic form, which may be already spread around the world as occurred in AIDS, with a long incubation period."
The outbreak is having a severe economic impact in Asia, a region that faced recession, debt defaults and currency crises during a 1997-99 economic slump. Hotels, airlines and retailers already face slumping sales; hospitals are stretched to the breaking point and experts say the economic costs are bound to rise.
Taiwan, announcing the most draconian moves to date to control the virus, on Sunday banned visitors from China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada, while Beijing closed theatres and other entertainment centres where crowds might gather.
The Asian Development Bank cut its growth forecast for the region this year to 5.3%, from the 5.6% it expected in December, due to the impact of SARS and an uncertain global economic recovery.
But assuming the deadly virus can be brought under control swiftly with minimal damage to tourism, Asian economies - excluding Japan - should grow at a faster rate of 5.9% in 2004, the Manila-based bank said in a regional outlook.
"Prospects for 2003 are clouded by economic weaknesses in the industrial countries and uncertainties relating to the conflict in Iraq and the recent outbreak of SARS," the bank said in a statement. "If the epidemic is not brought under control by about mid-May, the economic impact on developing Asia will be much broader and deeper."
Canada, the only country outside Asia where SARS has claimed lives, said the disease will hit an economy that has long been the star performer within the Group of Seven rich industrialised countries.
Chinese public still in the dark
The WHO meanwhile urged Beijing's top two officials to tell the public more about how to fight SARS as the number of cases in the city topped 1,100 and people scrambled to protect themselves. Newspapers said 7,672 of the capital's 14 million people were under strict quarantine in several residential buildings, a construction area and dozens of hospitals after the city enacted sweeping powers to control spread of the virus.
Beijing, with 1,114 of China's 2,914 confirmed cases and 1,191 of its 1,921 suspected cases, "has by far the greatest burden of SARS cases for the health care system to cope with", said the WHO in a statement released earlier today. Fifty-six of China's 131 SARS deaths were in Beijing.
Countless Beijing businesses hung 'closed' signs and sent workers home as fear about the disease spread. Traffic was light and people who could opted to stay in. Most who ventured out wore masks - even while riding bicycles Beijing's on broad, wind-swept avenues.
WHO officials told acting mayor Wang Qishan and Liu Qi, the head of Beijing's Chinese Communist Party committee and a member of the powerful 24-member Politburo, the public knew too little about SARS, and it was engendering panic.
"If a hospital is closed, they should know why. Right now, they don't know where SARS is, so everyone is scared," said Henk Bekedam, the WHO's representative in China.


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China's top leaders have vowed to help the US pursue a denuclearized North Korea. The
pledge follows strong rhetoric from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who has threatened a
nuclear attack on the US.
China on Saturday agreed to participate in diplomatic efforts aimed at ridding North Korea of
its nuclear capabilities. It followed a meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, as well as other Chinese officials in
Beijing has remained an ally of North Korea, but has increasingly become frustrated with
Kim Jong-Un's aggression in recent weeks. Despite his threats toward Seoul and Washington,
China's leaders have avoided intervening directly in the conflict, saying they wanted to
maintain peace in the region.
"We are able, the United States and China, to underscore our joint commitment to the
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in a peaceful manner," Kerry told reporters after the
Regional stability continued to be China's top priority, said Chinese State Councilor, Yang
Jiechi. However, a non-nuclear North Korea served "the common interests of all parties."
"It is also the shared responsibility of all parties," Yang said.
"China will work with other relevant parties, including the United States, to play a
constructive role in promoting the six-party talks and balanced implementation of the goals
set out in the Sept. 19 joint statement of 2005," Yang added.
The joint statement in 2005 outlined the renewed goals held by China, Russia, the US
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People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Pyongyang had also participated in the talks and had
agreed to the international plan.
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and the US.
On Friday, he met with South Korea's new president, Park Geun-Hye, in Seoul.
North Korea would be making a "huge mistake" that would lead to further isolation if it went
ahead with a missile test, Kerry told reporters, adding that he also backed Park's diplomatic
initiative to "listen to what North Korea thinks" in a bid to defuse tensions.
"We're prepared to work with the conviction that relations between North and South can
improve and they can improve quickly," he added.
Neither Washington nor Seoul were surprised by belligerent rhetoric from Kim Jong-Un
several weeks ago, when he first threatened missile or nuclear strikes against both nations.
However, other diplomatic developments – such as the closure of a joint industrialized zone
and Pyongyang's inquiry as to whether foreign diplomats would leave the area – have worried
the international community that the North Korean leader would attack, as promised.
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Do Truncated East Side Bike Lanes Threaten a New York Bike Share?
(Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation) On March 3, New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan told WNYC's Brian Lehrer "we can't do bike share until we have safe bike lanes." (Transcript and audio below.) That was when the city planned to build, this year, 160 new blocks of protected bike lanes along First and Second Avenues, from the Battery to 125th Street. Those lanes would have helped fill a gaping hole in the city's bike lane map. From the Flatiron district to Central Park and stretching east from Broadway, bike lanes are virtually non-existent. That's a distance of forty blocks, north to south, and about a mile east to west.
Now, plans to fill in that network on the east side of Manhattan with miles of protected bike lanes have been significantly curtailed. The city says construction deadlines mean it can only build up to 34th Street this year; it isn't offering a timetable for the build-out.
New York City's announcement comes as Boston and Minneapolis are ready to implement major bike share programs this month; Denver's bike share was launched April 22, and Washington DC is poised to launch a 1200-bike program this fall. And as Los Angeles, freeway city, is investing $230 million dollars in bike lanes, plus bike stations, showers, and other infrastructure. As we reported back in February, bike share fever is sweeping urban planners around the U.S.
New York City has taken steps towards implementing a bike share; it has issued a request for expressions of interest, and analyzed -- largely favorably -- opportunities for bike sharing in New York.
Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, widely viewed as a national leader in promoting biking in cities, has organized bike sharing demonstrations at her summer-streets festivals, where she closes some Manhattan streets to cars. She's brought in her friend, musician David Byrne, to publicize bike sharing demos in Union Square.
But she's also said biking needs to be safe in midtown before New York can begin a bike share, and her plan to "double the citywide total [of bike lanes] in just one year" is on hold, for 2010, at least. DOT isn't offering a timetable for construction of the First and Second Avenue protected bike lanes, or bike share in New York. When asked, DOT spokesman Seth Solomonow emailed "As I'm sure you're aware, we continue to explore the feasibility of bike share."
Click here for the audio link to Brian Lehrer's March 3 interview the relevant portion begins at 9:55.
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Janette Sadik-Khan: One of the big new projects that we have got coming up that should be exciting to your caller is the First and Second Avenue Select Bus Service that we are putting in which will be the first such corridor in the city. We're going to be putting in a a protected bike lane and a dedicated bus lane. When you look at what the buses are up against in a lot of these corridors you can see the problem. It's like an obstacle course of traffic and its tough to get around
With this one project alone which will go from lower Manhattan all the way to 125street on First and Second Avenues, we will be putting in 160 blocks of protected bike lanes which will nearly double the citywide total in just one year. So I agree we need to do as much as we can to create a safe biking environment as possible . We've seen double digit increases in biking over the last year and we've continued to build it and they continue to come and we will continue to do whatever we can to build this mobility network into the fabric of the streets of New York.
Brian Lehrer: We just have a couple minutes, how's bike sharing coming? You were thinking of something like Paris has for a short term bike share in midtown. But I've heard there just aren't enough bike lanes to make that safe. Is that the case?
JSK: What were doing now much like the major cities that have invested in bike share, the first step is to get the infrastructure in place. And so what we're doing is getting the infrastructure in place that allows you to get from point A to point B in a safe and protected way and that's the first downpayment on that kind of a program. So we can't do bike share until we have safe bike lanes.


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Frazier grounds previously-unbeaten Avella
Throughout the course of the season, the Frazier football team has built a reputation as a team that can rack up big totals through its strong passing game. But on Friday against Avella, the Commodores also showed that they have the ability to win the ground battles as well.
Frazier used a strong running game to set up its passing game, and the plan worked to near perfection as the Commodores rolled to a 33-9 win over the previously undefeated Eagles.
With the win, Frazier moved into second place in the Tri-County South Conference, one game behind Beth-Center, Frazier's opponent next week.
"We wanted to be able to mix it up," Frazier coach Mike Steeber said.
Steeber praised his offensive line for doing the job of opening up holes early and often.
The Commodores set the tone on the opening drive, using 10 plays to move 78 yards for a touchdown. Eight of the 10 plays on the drive were runs, which set up the pass, and quarterback Charles Manack delivered a 5-yard scoring strike to Hunter Patterson. Manack completed 10-of-15 passes for 140 yards and three touchdowns.
"That first drive really helped us," Steeber said.
Leading 6-0, the Commodores scored early in the second quarter as Manack hit Timothy Carson on a 26-yard scoring pass. And just before the half ended, Nicholas Smalich scored on a 17-yard run to give Frazier a 20-0 lead.
"We knew they had a very good line, and we had to stop their run game," Avella coach Ryan Cecchini said. "But when they got their run game going, it led to their offensive success."
Trailing by three scores, the Eagles regrouped and made a strong push in the third quarter. A botched Frazier snap in the end zone on a punt attempt gave Avella a safety. On the ensuing kickoff, Nick Kusich raced 63 yards for a score to make it 20-9.
The Eagles threatened to draw closer, but the Frazier defense came up big thanks to a Nathaniel Zurich interception and a fumble recovery by Patterson.
"Our defense came up with some big turnovers," Steeber said.
Frazier was able to chew up some valuable clock in the second half with strong running by Zachary Mastowski and Ethan Weiser. Mastowski finished with 68 yards on 10 carries and Weiser added 35 yards on seven carries. Smalich led Frazier with 85 yards on 17 carries, most of which came in the first half.
Leading by 11 points in the fourth, Steeber didn't believe his team was out of the woods.
"Avella is a good team and we knew it would be four quarters," Steeber said. "I didn't feel safe until our last score."
After coming up with an interception in the third quarter, Zurich caught a 48-yard touchdown pass from Manack in the fourth. Then, late in the game, Alvin Ross capped it with a 37-yard touchdown run.
While the Commodores were extremely efficient on offense, the Eagles couldn't find much of an offensive rhythm.
"All game long, our offense struggled to move the ball and our defense was on the field way too long in this game," Cecchini said. "We have to go back to the drawing board."
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PALM DESERT, Calif. - A fire broke out at a Palm Desert apartment complex early Wednesday morning, according to Riverside County Fire.
It started around 7:30 a.m. at the Desert Oasis apartment complex on the 77-700 block of Country Club.
First crews on scene reported seeing smoke coming from the roof of one of the buildings and found a fire in a center apartment, according to Melody Hendrickson with Riverside County Fire.
Firefighters axed their way into the roof and contained the fire within minutes.
They remained on scene to mop up and investigate.
Three units were damaged by the fire, leaving 12 people now looking for a place to stay. The Red Cross is helping them out.
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Online shopping could become a lot more expensive after a government taskforce recommended tax changes that would slug shoppers an average of $60 a parcel for items sent from overseas.
A study of the $1000 tax-free threshold on internet purchases has also found the revenue generated by scrapping the tax break would more than cover the cost of collecting it- undermining a long-standing government objection to imposing tax on internet shopping.
891 Mornings host Ian Henschke spoke to Barry Urquhart from Marketing Focus and Senator Don Farrell, Secretary of the SDA in South Australia, about the potential changes to the dynamic between retailers and online shops.
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The attempt to charge GST on goods under $1000 to deter people from shopping online overseas just seems preposterous. Aside from the chaos it will likely wreak on major and minor retailers who likely would not be able to comply with these regulations, it will do nothing to deter savvy Australians from frequenting international retailers. The selection from these retailers far surpass that which most Australian retailers offer and the 10% GST is negligible in regards to the savings one can incur when shopping online overseas. Instead the government should concentrate on putting in legislation and minimizing taxes so that local retailers can compete with major global competitors on even playing fields.
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Attitude observability of a loosely-coupled GPS/Visual Odometry Integrated Navigation Filter
Dusha, Damien & Mejias, Luis (2010) Attitude observability of a loosely-coupled GPS/Visual Odometry Integrated Navigation Filter. In Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2010), 1-3 December 2010, Brisbane, Queensland.
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We present a novel method for integrating GPS position estimates with position and attitude estimates derived from visual odometry using a scheme similar to a classic loosely-coupled GPS/INS integration. Under such an arrangement, we derive the error dynamics of the system and develop a Kalman Filter for estimating the errors in position and attitude. Using a control-based approach to observability, we show that the errors in both position and attitude (including yaw) are fully observable when there is a component of acceleration perpendicular to the velocity vector in the navigation frame. Numerical simulations are performed to confirm the observability analysis.
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Synchronization of an Uncertain Fractional-Order Chaotic System via Backstepping Sliding Mode Control
1College of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
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A trendsetter in digital cameras, Sony takes design to new heights with its 10.1-megapixel Cyber-shot T700. The main innovation with this good-looking touch-screen camera is its 4GB of on-board storage, as well as a few other features that may be irresistible despite the camera's $400 price tag.
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This story, "Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700" was originally published by PCWorld.
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Please keep it on track, polite and don't make it personal or else it will have to be locked up which we're sure the OP and everyone else does not want.
Yep, exactly the point.
Every genuine forum threads pointing to 'low sales' gets someone (mostly non-author kind of people) jumping in just to interrupt the healthy discussion and hence cause the thread to be locked, obviously no answer from Envato this time also.
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Cedar Key Getting National Attention
Residents say Cedar Key is a direct reflection of what the rest of Florida once was. The place people go to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. That's why the people who live there say, their home is unlike any other.
Cedar Key is in third place to become America's coolest small town. Reader's of the Budget Travel Magazine are casting their votes for towns they feel deserve recognition. As of Lewisburg West Virginia is in first and La Pointe Wisconsin in second. Cedar Key still needs quite a few votes to win the title. They currently have just over three thousand trailing behind Lewisburg by almost nine thousand votes.
The voting ends February 11th, so you can still vote by going to the Budget Travel's Website at budgettravel.com.
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Centennial, CO (September 15, 2010) – The Prostate Conditions Education Council is pleased to announce a partnership with Rocky Mountain Natural Meats, the producers of Great Range Bison. PCEC President, Wendy Poage said, "We are so appreciative to have partners like Rocky Mountain Natural Meats in our community." She went on to say, "Their support has allowed us to do so much by assisting us in funding some of the most advanced early detection and prostate cancer research in addition to providing invaluable education and screening to save lives."
Together, the partnership hosted a golf tournament at Buffalo Run Golf Course in Commerce City, Colorado on Saturday, August 21st. Around 150 golfers attended and free prostate screening was provided.
Their partnership also helped PCEC host the First Annual Set the Pace for Prostate Cancer 5K Race and Family Walk held at City Park on September 5, 2010.
PCEC thanks Rocky Mountain Natural Meats and looks forward to many more successful events with their new partner.
A national organization committed to men's health, the Prostate Conditions Education Council (PCEC) is the nation's leading resource for information on prostate health. PCEC is dedicated to saving lives through awareness and the education of men, the women in their lives, as well as the medical community about prostate cancer prevalence, the importance of early detection and available treatment options, as well as other men's health issues.
December 2009
DENVER, CORocky Mountain Natural Meats' fresh Great Range Brand Ground Bison has been named by Women's Health Magazine as one of the best healthy foods for women. Click here to go to the Women's Health Website article.
December 2005
DENVER, CORocky Mountain Natural Meats again expands their Great Range brand Buffalo retail-ready line of premium quality buffalo products with the introduction of a 12oz Bison Sirloin Steak Pack. Each pack contains two 6oz center cut Top Sirloin steaks. Tender, delicious and full of flavor, these premium quality steaks are sure to be a summer grilling favorite.
Also Available Through: A&P, Albertson's, Fry's, Hannaford, Kroger, King Soopers, Market Basket, Safeway, Shaw's, Shop Rite, Smith's Food & Drug, Stop & Shop, Waldbaum's, Wegmans, Whole Foods, Wild Oats.
August 2004
DENVER, CO Rocky Mountain Natural Meats continues to expand their Great Range Brand Bison retail-ready line of premium quality buffalo products with the introduction of a 16oz Bison Hot Dog. This great tasting hot dog is sure to be a big hit.
March 2004
DENVER, CO In response to increased demand for bison nationwide, Rocky Mountain Natural Meats is pleased to announce the completion of a 6800 sq. ft. addition to their existing facility in Denver, CO. Increased cooler storage and a larger processing room will allow Rocky Mountain Natural Meats to continue to expand sales of all Great Range Brand Bison products to upscale food service distributors, natural and gourmet grocers across the United States.
January 2003
DENVER, CO With the growing demand for high quality, retail-ready Bison products Rocky Mountain Natural Meats continues to lead the charge in the industry with the introduction of their new retail-ready box line. The 12oz Bison Steak Medallions, 16 oz Bison Patties and 16oz Ground Bison boxes are sure to be big winners with their upscale look, premium product and great graphics!
January 2002
DENVER, CO Denver-based Rocky Mountain Natural Meats bought the champion Gold Trophy buffalo carcass during the annual Gold Trophy Sale Auction held in conjunction with the National Bison Associations (NBA) annual meeting here in January. The 685 lb. carcass, entered by Diamond Tail Ranch of Colorado, brought a top bid of $3.00/lb. during the auction held at the NBA's Annual Awards Banquet.


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Postgraduate Coursework Units of Study
ECON7030 - Economics Research Project
Semester 2, 2014 | Credit Points: 6
Coordinator: Pablo Guillen Alvarez
This unit represents a culminating academic experience for students in the MEc by bringing together their knowledge in Economic theory and methodology to analyse an economic problem of their choice. This unit involves the writing and completion of a 6,000 word report. The emphasis is on students acquiring skills in identifying an economic problem, undertaking the required analysis using appropriate tools and disseminating the results.
6,000 word research project (100%)
regular workshop meetings throughout semester to assist with project management
ECON6001 or ECON6002 or ECON6003 or ECMT6002
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When I moved back to Wink in 2001, someone blithely stated to me, "Well, I guess you couldn't handle the real world...you must not have any more dreams."
I examined that statement, and clearly this person didn't know anything about me. I hadn't failed in the "real" world and I surely hadn't ceased dreaming. I thought about the many adventures, good and bad, of my life and a smile spread across my face. In my life existed an abundance of wonderful places, people and events, so much so that I felt fortunate.
Rocked a dying baby in Belize to bring him comfort...he gave me empathy and compassion. Managed the International Friends Show in Houston...caught a glimpse into other cultures and peoples. Rafted down the Hiwasee River in Tennessee...gained a release from my fears. Sang my heart out in the musical Hair in New Orleans...willed myself a permanent escape from my inhibitions. There are so many more people, places and events that they are too many to enumerate.
It doesn't matter where you are or where you've been...you can dream a bigger dream. Your vision will ignite you with passion, infuse you with purpose, renew your commitment and motivate you to action.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Coming Back to Wink Doesn't Mean the End of My Dreams
Posted by Cheap Tricks and Costly Truths at 7:04 PM
Labels: Dreams, Life Empowerment, Wink Texas
2 comments:
- blessingsgoddess said...
Let's hope we can all keep our dreams....
- June 16, 2009 at 4:26 AM
- Cheap Tricks and Costly Truths said...
I just viewed your profile, and one of my dreams has been to visit Greece :)
- June 16, 2009 at 5:00 AM
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Re: Can this integration be done?
try to find out why a=b=c=-1 end up at infinity
and find out what happens when a are somewhere
the complex plane but not at the negative real axis.
You havt to look for the zeros of the denominator
to speak about the possible solutions of the integral.
Daohua Song wrote:
> Dear Group,
> I am wondering whether the following integration has an analytic
> expression. Alough i believe so.
> Integrate[x/((a + x)*(b + (c + x^2)^2)),{0,Infinity}].
> When i set a=b=c=1,mathematica give me an answer.
> Any help is appreciated.
> sincerely
> Daohua