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I'm no tech whiz, but the news about a newly-discovered online vulnerability seems pretty important. It's called "Heartbleed."
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Linda Orrison, marketing director for The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint in Ocean Springs, has been elected president of the National BBQ Association. "This is a vibrant organization filled with talented professionals doing great things in the industry," said Orrison. "The NBBQA is where passion meets professionalism, and I'm proud to be part of the leadership team." Among new members ...Read More »
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When Toronto Mayor Rob Ford stepped out of the elevator and into a throng of reporters as he returned to City Hall this week, a slight man in a white button-down shirt trailed just a few steps back. For the rest of the week, the same silver-haired figure appeared at the mayor's side at each of his public events, listening intently with arms crossed during interviews, and pacing around the mayor's office between appearances.
That man is 53-year-old Jeff Silverstein, the newly hired communications director on the re-election campaign for Toronto's embattled mayor. Mr. Silverstein, a former journalist who now specializes in PR and reputation management, has staked his name on "honest, open and transparent" communication, especially in times of crisis – experience he will tap into for the campaign.
"I was interested in this opportunity because I saw that he was coming back from rehab and he was going to have some communication issues," Mr. Silverstein said when approached by The Globe on Friday. "I wanted to work with him."
Mr. Silverstein, who started the job just one week ago, enters the mayor's office at a pivotal moment. Over the past year, Mr. Ford has made international headlines for a long list of troubles involving drug and alcohol abuse and inappropriate behaviour – culminating in a two-month leave of absence in April to attend rehab. He now has just four months to persuade Toronto voters to put their faith in him again for the October municipal election.
Mr. Silverstein will play a key role in helping Mr. Ford do that, despite the fact he has never worked on a campaign before.
"I, like a lot of people that work in this field, have a lot of experience in the media," he said, describing his role as "managing" those relationships.
Mr. Silverstein spent more than a decade in broadcasting, including as a producer for CTV's W5. He has also worked as a freelance writer, including for The Globe and Mail. In a 2004 travel story for The Globe, he wrote that he was a nationally ranked tennis player when he was younger, and that he has two kids. He was also a researcher on Robin Eggar's 2005 biography of Shania Twain.
For the past few years, he has worked for a firm that specializes in risk assessment for financial companies. He's also launched his own PR firm focused on the mining industry.
Mr. Silverstein declined to discuss specifics about the campaign, though he has spoken in the past about his views on communication. In April, he told Mining Weekly that he advises his clients on the importance of honesty and transparency.
"There are three things that are very important for a mining company to do," he said. "One is to tell the truth! The other is to engage with their critics."
With Mr. Ford as his client, however, Mr. Silverstein has been less willing to engage.
Journalists from at least four media outlets who had scheduled interviews with Mr. Ford this week found cancellation e-mails sent to them by Mr. Silverstein. The e-mails told reporters the mayor had "said all there is to say to a national audience and to a local audience."
One of Mr. Silverstein's former journalism colleagues said he was surprised to hear about the new job.
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Rob Ford, Mr. Fryer said, "is not the kind of candidate that I would've figured he would've hooked up with."
Mr. Silverstein isn't the only new face in the mayor's office this week. The mayor's spokesman confirmed Friday that the mayor is also working with a sobriety coach – a man the CBC identified as Bob Marier. The white-haired coach, who has been at the mayor's side all week, would only identify himself to a Globe reporter Friday as "Bob," and described himself as a "volunteer."Report Typo/Error
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Pirates, matey!
Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africas Gold Coast...The change wasnt so much what pirates did as the context in which they found themselves: a global market economy with England at its head...It was one thing when looted Spanish gold filled the Queens meager treasury; it was quite another when pirates threatened to disrupt the increasingly disciplined circulatory system of the...the British economy... Pirates represented a dual threat to the Atlantic Ocean factory of early capitalism. They were not only thieves; they were also free.
Being a sailor has never been easy, and it was particularly tough in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To maximize profits, sailors were forced to eat rotten food and bunk in cramped quarters, and were paid on credit..You could die...Or you might be pressed into military service, or forced to work an extra few years on another ship, or forfeit your wages as a punishment for insolence....Any complaining or shirking could be deemed mutinous, and punishment could range from whipping to hanging to being dangled over the side of the ship to have your brains bashed in.
Pirate ships were different they were under democratic worker control. Captains werent absolute rulers, but elected leaders who commanded only during battle...Loot was divided equally and immediately, and pirates ate and drank better than their law-abiding contemporaries. This was the major reason pirates were feared: it was easy to convince exploited sailors to join up with them. And join up they did. Pirate crews were a polyglot, multiracial multitude (this isnt Hardt and Negri; this was the word used at the time) that included oppressed Irishmen, escaped slaves, French heretics, and members of Caribbean indigenous groups...Marcus Rediker notes in Villains of All Nations that sixty members of Blackbeards crew of one hundred were black...
Media piracy, the now-mundane practice of streaming a TV show or downloading an mp3, seems a far cry from the life-or-death struggles of buccaneers on the high seas. But the history of media piracy in the US is similar to that of seafaring pirates....
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1. Complaints about media piracy go back to the heyday of naval piracy
If you look up piracy in the Oxford English Dictionary, you find a complaint from 1668 about "some dishonest Booksellers, called Land-Pirats, who make it their practice to steal Impressions of other mens Copies.
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2. They also spoke Dutch, Yoruba, and Spanish more than West-Country English
Every "Talk Like a Pirate Day" I try to talk in a Dutch-Yoruba pidgin, but nobody plays along, sadly.


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18 night Suez Canal Cruise with RCCL: Brilliance of the Seas Cruise Review by egyptes
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18 night Suez Canal Cruise with RCCL
Destination: Middle East
Embarkation: Barcelona
We arrived in our aft Grand Suite to find broken drawers, a broken closet door, stained carpet among many worn and stained places in the suite. The space of the suite was wonderful as well as the balcony. We thoroughly enjoyed transiting through the Suez Canal with this aft view and oversized balcony.
Our bathroom was really beautiful and spacious except for the stained, old worn out towels and lack of a bath rug. We used a small chintz towel when we exited out of the bath tub for the entire cruise.
We found a More complimentary bottle of water and fruit basket in our suite and everything else was available for a charge. We received a letter in our suite outlining all the things we were to get because we were in a suite. Most of the things listed were insignificant. We had a DVD player that we reported several times as not working, they would come and look a it and tell us nothing was wrong with it. That was not true as all the DVDs we brought and all the ones we checked out of the ships DVD library continually stopped and would not work.
Room service food was excellent. It always took 30 to 40 minutes even for ice tea and water only. It is too bad the dining room food was not as good as the room service food. We asked about what night we would be having lobster during our 18 night cruise and was told by the head waiter that Europeans did not eat lobster and since we cruised out of Europe we would not be having lobster at all. We have cruised many many times in and out of Europe and every cruise line served lobster at least once during the cruise. I really could not believe what he said about Europeans because our friends that were born and raised in Europe eat lobster so obviously RCCL corporate has told their employees this lie and they are telling it to passengers. Unbelievable!
We looked at the schedule and discovered there would only be three production shows during the 18 night cruise. The first production show was horrible. The next two production shows were better but more like a regular show on Princess or Celebrity. The musical entertainment was usually good during the entire cruise. The music in the atrium was good but they played the same songs many times each night.
The atrium was beautiful and was a great place to sit on any deck and hear the music each night. The elevators were great as they faced the ocean, they were just slow to arrive to the deck and then you had to run to catch one before it left once it arrived.
Being in a suite gave us access to the Concierge Club. We were able to get complimentary drinks from 5 to 8:30 pm each night. Doc who served us drinks each night was wonderful. The club is very small and the entire cruise we sat in the beautiful Yacht Club just outside as a very loud woman was in there every night and talked the entire time about how wonderful she was. We enjoyed having our drinks each night before dinner and some times after dinner there as well.
We found the ship to be in continual cleaning and repairing. This is an older ship but we found the public areas mostly in good repair. It is the cabins that need a complete overhaul. We did not participate in very many ship activities but the ones we did we found the Cruise Director Paul to be wonderful and very upbeat.
The Concierge Edson was nice but we found that asking him for anything to be done was like talking to the wall. Everything we asked of him in regard to problems etc were never addressed and he never got back to us as well as when I ask him to send strawberries to my parents cabin and charge my room. It never happened and that was the only thing I ask him to do the entire cruise. There was a couple in one of the grand suites that were mad about something and became very vocal and we heard physical with the Captain. This resulted in their being held captive in their suite for five days and put off the ship in Oman. From what we heard the Captain did the right thing as they were violent and a possible danger to other passengers.
We really enjoyed the Captain and thought he sense of humor was great as well as his personalty.
We met the Captain at a cocktail party for passengers in the suites. He was very personable and had a great way with the passengers as well as his crew. The crew seemed to love the Captain and respect him.
Overall, we will NOT cruise RCCL cruise line again as we found it to remind us of Carnival cruise line which we cruised in the 1980s when we were in college. Less
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The World Health Organisation fears that the bird flu that has killed five people and caused millions of chickens in Asia to die or be destroyed could develop into an epidemic worse than SARS.
Thailand yesterday confirmed two human cases of the highly infectious bird flu. Three more people were being tested.
The Thai Government has until now argued that an outbreak of chicken disease that has forced the culling of up to 6 million chickens is not bird flu.
Australia's flu diagnostic laboratories have been put on high alert for the bird flu strain, known as H5N1, with a new protocol for fast-tracking samples that cannot be easily recognised as a known human strain.
The WHO said the unprecedented outbreak was of serious concern for human health and for agriculture and the poultry industry.
"Of all the avian influenza viruses . . . the H5N1 strain may have a unique capacity to cause severe disease, with high mortality, in humans," it said.
Although there is no evidence yet that the H5N1 virus can be transmitted from human to human, its simultaneous appearance in several Asian countries increases the risk of it mutating.
Australia's chief medical officer, John Horvath, yesterday said the bird flu, with outbreaks also in Vietnam, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, could spread rapidly if it developed a human-to-human form. It is believed that H5N1 is spread to humans by dried bird faeces, in a form that can be inhaled and infect the person's respiratory system.
Professor Horvath said the outbreak in Asia was still mainly a bird problem, with about 23 cases of infected humans, five of whom have died in Vietnam.
Alan Hampson, deputy director of the WHO's Collaborating Centre for Influenza in Melbourne, said the scale of the outbreak had not been seen before.
"I think this current situation is, to my mind, far more serious than the one we had in Hong Kong in 1997," he said. Six people died in that outbreak.
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Services spokesman Carson Creagh said Australia had been on alert for bird flu since cases were reported last October.
"We already check all mail items and are screening close to 100 per cent of people coming from Asia," he said. "We're looking for serious risk products, like poultry meat items, eggs and anything with feathers."
Melbourne University professor of virology Ian Gust said that although it was possible for the H5N1 virus to be brought to Australia by birds, it was unlikely given Australia's geography.
Thailand's poultry exporting business, Asia's largest and worth $US1.2 billion ($A1.55 billion) a year, has already been hit with an import ban by Japan, which takes about half of Thailand's chicken exports.
And the European Union would ban poultry imports from Thailand because of the outbreak, an EU health official said last night. EU authorities were expected to officially announce the measure later this morning.
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The more humanity acidifies and warms the world's oceans with carbon emissions, the harder we will have to work to save our coral reefs. That's the blunt message from a major new study by an international scientific team, which finds that ocean acidification and global warming will combine with local impacts like overfishing and nutrient runoff to weaken the world's coral reefs right when they are struggling to survive.
Modelling by a team led by Dr Ken Anthony of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and The University of Queensland's Global Change Institute has found that reefs already overfished and affected by land runoff are likely to be more vulnerable to increasing CO2 in the atmosphere caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
Their study is the first to integrate global scale processes, such as warming and acidification, with the local factors overfishing and runoff, to predict the combined impact on coral reefs.
"As CO2 levels climb to 450-500 parts per million - as they are now expected to do by 2050 - how well we manage local impacts on reefs like fishing and runoff will become absolutely critical as to whether they survive as coral reefs, or are overtaken by algae that compete with corals for space on reefs," Dr Anthony says.
Warmer conditions cause periodic mass coral deaths by bleaching, while acidifying sea water - due to CO2 dissolving out of the atmosphere - weakens the corals by interfering with their ability to form their skeletons, making them more vulnerable to impact by storms.
If the corals are also affected by heavy nutrient runoff from the land - which fertilizes the algae - and overfishing of parrot fishes and others that keep the reefs clear of weed, then corals can struggle to re-establish after a setback, he explains. "In those situations, the reef can become completely overgrown by algae."
The team's modelling, which they say is on the conservative side, has far-reaching implications for the preservation even of well-managed reefs such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef - and extremely serious implications for reefs in developing countries, where most reefs are located and where reefs face high levels of stress from human activities.
"Put simply, our model indicates that the more CO2 we humans liberate, the harder it will become for coral reefs, as we know them, to survive. This means they will need all the help they can get in the way of good management to prevent their being overgrown by sea weeds," he adds.
"Coral reefs in developing nations, where most of the world's reefs occur and overfishing and nutrification remain key concerns, are particularly vulnerable, highlighting the need to continue to build capacity amongst reef managers and governments in areas like SE Asia," the team warns in their report, which was recently published in the journal Global Change Biology.
"A failure to rapidly stabilize and reduce the concentration of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere is likely to lead to significant loss of key (coral) framework builders such as Acropora, irrespective of the effectiveness of local management," the scientists conclude.
"However local reef management efforts to maintain high grazing fish populations and prevent runoff of silt, fertilisers and sewage from the land will play a critical role in maintaining coral resilience while CO2 concentrations are stabilized", they add.
The study, which is the first to quantify the relative importance of carbon emissions and local disturbances in compromising reef health, can be used to optimise future management practises of coral reefs. It makes clear that both policy changes on emissions and local management measures are required to secure a future for coral reefs.
Their paper, "Ocean acidification and warming will lower coral reef resilience" by Kenneth R Anthony, Jeffery A Maynard, Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, Peter J Mumby, Paul A Marshall, Long Cao and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg appears in Global Change Biology (2011).
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mimacom group continues global growth with the opening of an office in Singapore (3)
Published: 21 November 2016
mimacom asia Pte Ltd. Is located at 30 Cecil Street in the downtown core. The opening of the Singapore office is the company`s first presence in the Asia-Pacific region. To date, mimacom has seen strong growth in the North American market since the opening of an office in the U.S. in 2015, and in Europe with the recent opening of an office in the Czech Republic in June 2016.
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Children of Mana
The computer game Children of Mana
Children of Mana
Classification: PG
Rating: 2/5
This anime-styled adventure is packed with sword-slashing action and colourful fairytale characters but it doesn't quite have the depth or imagination that graced earlier games in the Mana series.
Instead of having the freedom to explore the world, discovering useful items
and encountering monsters to fight, Children of Mana warps your character from your village home to the battle site and back again, which makes the game feel less like an epic fantasy journey and more like a mechanical mission generator.
Quests generally involve clearing successive rooms of cartoon-like monsters by hitting them with a sword or hammer.
Because you can wield two weapons at once, it's also possible to accost enemies with a ranged weapon (such as a bow and arrow) first before closing in for the kill. Oddly, enemies tend to bounce around when struck, which can be annoying.
A smattering of magic is at your fingertips, as an elemental spirit can accompany you to provide special power in times of need. However, it seems far more effective to bash monsters as quickly as possible than to bother with the clumsy magic system.
Neither the touch screen nor the double screen features of the DS are used well, which seems a waste.
It may be formulaic but Children of Mana still dangles a carrot by allowing players to enhance and customise their character by combining coloured gems to invoke new powers and abilities.
Fusing gems in the search for a new skill to play with is interesting but the combat still involves repetitive button use.
The vague story built on a pervading evil, magical tree and legendary sword is dull and too cliched to be compelling.
ENDGAME: Children of Mana is beautifully presented but it's too childlike to satisfy serious gamers. Eliot Fish
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Danette Frenz
Rhyme Time - Poem by Danette Frenz
Laughter outside,
no one can deride
the feeling I have, inside.
A mixed state
no one can berate,
is a part of my Bipolar One,
as I come undone.
Happy and snappy,
wanting to take a 'nappy'.
Up and down,
the feelings that surround,
like a merry-go-round.
Spinning, spinning, feeling dizzy,
feeling lost, in a tizzy.
Medication, education, makes up me...
...but still, I can see.
A vision of no derision,
I make my decision.
To be strong,
even if I'm wrong.
I'll sing a song
among the throngs...
I am a person,
not a worse one.
I am Bipolar One,
don't be stunned.
It is good and bad,
has me sad, glad and rad.
It's a gift,
gives me a lift.
At it's best, creativity,
much activity.
It has me rhyming,
within this timing.
I can still write,
with much insight.
It is my light,
in my life, tonight.
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text: SANParks.org Forums Discussing the National Parks of South Africa 2011-08-30T13:06:23+02:00 https://www.sanparks.org/forums/feed.php?f=27&t=55567 2011-08-30T13:06:23+02:00 2011-08-30T13:06:23+02:00 https://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=55567&p=1536972#p1536972 I thought I would share just a few highlights of the trip. You can read my report on my blog http://www.lauradyerphotography.com. I update it with all trips I go on, if you are interested! I live in CT, so its not very far to go. This is one huge plus for me, as it means I can actually consider visitng during the week or weekend just for a day!! I obviously went now to see the flowers, and it was quite a display. I have never done it before, so Im not sure what it usually is like, but I was impressed... Photo's of flowers are not so easy, so excuse me for the very average ones!! We saw loads of game as well, huge herds of Eland in Postberg, along with Wildebeest, Blesbok, Springbok. We also saw a couple of bat eared fox in the flowers, which was a surprise and a treat... We stayed in the Duinepos Chalets, and I was incredibly impressed. They were big, clean and had a wonderful 'holiday house' feel to them. Also reasonably priced. I would definitely recommend to anyone who was considering a stay. Te only down side of the trip was the speeding cars on the tar roads. Also, some people seem to lack a good deal of common sense, and when a caracla is sighted, they jump out of their cars to photograph it- I cannot for the life of me understand this, as how many of you expect the ca would stick around? Anyone, even tho you are allowed out the car, I would have thought people would think before acting. We did see 3 caracal, which was super exciting as I love this amazing cat! The hide near Geelbek is lovely, although we were a it early for the migrants. We did see flamingoes, and a kestral who allowed us within about half a metre before flying off. I cant wait to go back to this hide in the summer months, holding thumbs for Osprey If you have any questions, feel free to ask. And do try and visit this spectacular park!!Statistics: Posted by lovehyena — Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:06 pm ]]>


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Mortal Kombat 4
Review by Rakothurz
"Get over here!"
Get over here!
Mortal Kombat 4 is a great game multi-player or singe-player this game has many, many fun hours in it.
Story - 1/10
Each character has a little story, nothing big but fighting games aren't notorious for having great stories are they?
Here's the background for the story
"Thousands of years ago, in a battle with the fallen elder god known as Shinnok, I was responsible for the death of an entire civilization. To rid all realms of Shinnok's menace, I waged a war that plunged the Earth into centuries of darkness and banished Shinnok to a place called the Netherealm. Now after Shao Khan's defeat at the hands of Earth's warriors, Shinnok has managed to escape his confines in the Netherrealm. The war is now being fought once again, only this time it can be won by Mortals."
Understand any of it? Neither do I. Let's move on.
Graphics - 7/10
For the time the graphics are great. The characters are represented in polygon goodness(Translation: it's in 3D). Being the first 3D Mortal Kombat you'd expect some graphic flaws but there's next to none. I have one thing to say that's bad about it. It's in 3D yet you can only side step. This adds no reason for the game to be in 3D. I'll get into the side-stepping a little later in the review.
Gameplay - 9/10
For those who've never played a Mortal Kombat game here's the lowdown. You take control of a person you fight another person using a variety of low and high punches and low and high kicks plus special powers and grapples. New to MK4 is weapons specifically designed for each character although you can mix and match. When you win you can activate gruesome looking finishers known as a "Fatality". Bascially Two weird looking people battling it out with strange yet cool superpowers.
This game has a awesome roster of characters that should appeal to anyone. There's a total of 15 characters, two bonus unlockable ones and an extra skin for any character. Each character has his or her own strategies and powers but the basic punches and grapples.
Replayability - 10/10
Replayability is where Mortal Kombat excels due to the different multi-player modes and singe-player modes such as Arcade(Fight enemies until you get to the boss), Endurance(Fight enemies until you die) or Tournament where you can set up your own matches. All these are in single-player and multi-player so the fun never ends.
Buy or Rent?
If you can find this game buy it. I doubt you could find it as a rent and the price should be cheap so Buy it Now.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
Originally Posted: 06/08/09
Game Release: Mortal Kombat 4 (US, 07/31/98)
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Since the onset of AIDS medical authorities have known the vulnerability of blood supplies to contamination. So why did they allow donors with hepatitis C to continue giving blood? Gerard Ryle reports.
MICHAEL Pollack was trying to repay a favour when he joined his federal public service colleagues in giving blood in July 1990. Seven years earlier, as a 25-year-old, Pollack was involved in a horrific motorcycle accident which left one side of his body battered, almost beyond repair. It took several blood transfusions to save his life.
"I decided that I would like to give back the blood that I borrowed so I went to the blood bank in Parramatta with some work colleagues," he says. "Then a couple of weeks later they sent me a letter telling me I had hepatitis C. I was absolutely devastated, as was my wife who was five months pregnant with our first child. I had no idea what hepatitis C was or the impact it would have on our lives."
Ahead for Pollack were years of chronic sickness, but the events which immediately followed receipt of the letter have, until now, remained a closely guarded personal secret.
"I was asked to attend an interview with a medical officer ... and her words to me were that the Red Cross were 99 per cent sure that I contracted the disease through a blood transfusion at the time of my accident," he says.
"I said to the officer that it was obvious that they would not want my bad blood any more. But then she informed me that they could still use my blood, which was all rather confusing.
"I mean, I was concerned that if I could receive this disease through transfusion then maybe I could pass it on to another person. But she assured me I had nothing to worry about and I should keep donating. They even issued me with a donor card."
Pollack says he continued to donate blood for about another six months: "Every time I donated I asked the same questions. Why do you want my blood? Why do you want infected blood? They kept telling me I had antibodies to the virus which is why they wanted it. But it just didn't make any sense to me. I stopped doing it. And I never heard from the Red Cross again."
Pollack's story has opened up a hitherto little-known chapter in Australia's blood safety history. For 12 years the Red Cross has claimed that Australia led the world in screening hepatitis C sufferers from the blood system.
The proud boast has been that Australia's blood bank was second only to Japan in introducing screening in February 1990. And public statements issued from the Red Cross since then have not revealed that blood known to contain the hepatitis C virus was not necessarily destroyed.
The Herald has learnt that dozens of people with hepatitis C, like Pollack, were actively encouraged to keep donating blood plasma even after they had tested positive to the screening program. The potentially infected plasma was sent to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) in Melbourne, which turned it into blood products, like factor V111 which is used by hemophiliacs, albumin which is used to treat burns victims in hospitals, and immunoglobulins, which are used to fight infectious diseases.
The decision by the then National Blood Transfusion Committee - a body made up of the federal Health Department, the CSL and Red Cross representatives - was made in the belief that if the blood was heated during a manufacturing process it would kill the virus, making the product it was used for safe.
At the time the CSL was a semi-government body. Today it is a private company, listed on the stock exchange.
Although potentially contaminated blood was used as an ingredient in blood products for only a short time - months - until its withdrawal, the question is why was it used at all?
According to James Kreppner, who helped force a judicial inquiry into blood safety in Canada which led to a recent $C1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) compensation settlement for Canadian victims of hepatitis C, such use would breach all modern safety procedures. He also believes it breached safety conventions that were known at the time: "I just can't believe that any organisation would do something like this ... You need all the elements of safety when you use blood and it is a well-established fact that you need both screening procedures that are effective and you need other features like the heat treatment ...
"Anyone who understands the principles of blood safety knows it is a multiple step procedure and that any one step can fail. It is like the space shuttle; you need back-up systems. You are going to kill a lot of people if you make mistakes."
Kreppner, who is chairman of the blood safety committee of the Canadian Hemophilia Society, said he knew of no other blood system in the world which took a similar decision. "I find it unbelievable that a developed world's blood system can get a positive result on a test and not screen out that blood," he says. "Even if you have the most effective heat treatment in the world that doesn't mean that mistakes can't happen. That doesn't mean that the technician doesn't forget to leave it in the required amount of time or that for some other reason the heater is not working the way it normally does ..."
The revelation has also shocked public interest advocates in Australia and taken most blood experts by surprise. "No, I am not aware that that happened ... Absolutely, if somebody knew they had hepatitis C the first bit of public advice to give them is not to donate blood," says Professor Geoffrey Farrell, Storr professor of hepatic medicine at the University of Sydney.
Farrell, who has recently written a book about hepatitis C which discusses the problem from an Australian perspective, says the danger of transmitting hepatitis C through blood was known from 1989. "A lot would depend on what the product was but in general that would not be a prudent thing to do," he says. "No matter how good your procedures are for deactivating a virus a priority with an agent like that [was] that you wouldn't use starting material that was contaminated."
But Dr Peter Schiff, the former medical director of the bioplasma division of the then Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, has defended the decision.
"One needs to qualify one's surprise and just be clear about the type of product we are actually talking about," he says. "This was not fresh plasma but plasma that is turned into products such as albumin, immunoglobulin and factor V111 which go through a series of steps that would minimise any risks that would be there.
"I don't recall any evidence that there are cases transmitted that could have been traced back to using that sort of plasma for the sort of products we have been talking about."
Schiff says that although the decision to use the potentially contaminated blood was quickly overturned it had to be seen in the context of the time. "Nowadays it [hepatitis C-infected blood] is not utilised [but] there was a period ... where people were a little worried about throwing out the baby with the bathwater," he says. "I think people were concerned that we were going to unnecessarily throw out a fairly valuable starting material given that there was always a shortage of, for instance, factor V111 and we were trying to meeting the demands of the hemophilia community as well. It was a risk judgement that was made at the time on the best available evidence."
Dr Gordon Archer, the former director of the NSW division of the Blood Transfusion Service, says he was assured by the CSL that the blood plasma was safe to use in heat-treated products. "It was a decision that was taken as a temporary measure," he says. "The thing is you have to look at the picture as it was then."
Professor Yvonne Cossart, Bosch professor of infectious diseases of Sydney, said the infected blood was never used for direct transfusion. "Everybody believed it was [safe] or they wouldn't have done it," she said.
But the Uniting Church minister the Rev Bill Crews, who has been agitating for a judical inquiry into medically acquired hepatitis C, says most people would be horrified, particularly the estimated 20,000 Australians who may have acquired hepatitis C through tainted blood.
"When you look at the fact that hospitals make mistakes with blood products anyway, and there seems to be mistakes all the time, the last thing you would want is for people to knowingly use products that any mistake with would cause trouble," he says. "People who have got hepatitis C through blood products will be outraged, absolutely outraged, because something they feared has been proved to be true."
Charles MacKenzie, a spokesman for the Tainted Blood Product Action Group, says the revelation contained a double whammy for victims. "The first is that infected blood plasma was knowingly introduced into the Australian blood system. The second is the fact that we have never been told the full story," he says.
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service said that on legal advice it was unable to respond to questions because of "active litigation on the subject".
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Canada will have to pay - both in terms of money and reputation - for a decision to ditch the launch of its satellite by a Russian rocket, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Friday.
Commenting on the Canadian media reports that the government's hard line on sanctions against Russia has scuttled the launch of what was described to be a "key Canadian military satellite," Rogozin wrote in his Twitter that Canada will "certainly" have to pay the forfeit.
In addition, the Canadian government exposed the true military purpose of its satellite, claimed to be a civilian one, he said.
"The Canadians screwed things up. They refused to launch the satellite and admitted that it was a military one, despite earlier assurances of its civilian purpose," Rogozin said.
The M3MSat was to be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on June 19. The spacecraft is intended for sea surveillance and was to operate jointly with the RADARSAT-2 orbiter.
Canadian media said the government was currently looking for another state or private space contractor to carry out the launch.
Canada was among the first to join targeted sanctions, including asset freezes and visa bans, imposed on a number of senior Russian officials and businessmen whom the West accuses of involvement in Crimea's reunification with Russia.
A number of Western officials have since been calling for even tougher sanctions on Russia, including against key sectors of its economy - such as space, defense and energy.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper earlier said that Ottawa could impose sanctions targeting Russian banks.
On Tuesday, Moscow expelled the first secretary of the Canadian embassy in Moscow in response to the recent expulsion of a staff member of the Russian embassy in Ottawa, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti.
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Independence Day
Let's see… what happened this weekend? I probably need to be more prompt with these weekend updates or else I forget. Saturday, we played ultimate which was pretty fun. I got new shoes that I think were much better at keeping me from injuring myself, but I felt slower. Not sure if that was due to the shoes or not though. I don't remember what else happened on Saturday…
On Sunday, we went to the Quarries to watch fireworks at Andrew's suggestion. I was very pleased since it was so close to my house and we didn't have to fight a mad rush of people getting in and out. Here are some pics from that:
Melissa grew fangs and so I had to drive a stake into her heart. =(
… she might come back to life next week though.
On Monday, we played video games, cooked meat, and made chili. I forgot to take pictures.


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Distinguishing Taxis From Livery Cars
In New York City, you can hail a cab but not a livery car, at least not legally - that may change if Mayor Bloomberg has his way. He is expected to propose a rule change in his State of the City speech that eliminates the 'hailing' distinctiion and also installs meters in livery cars.
"As things now stand, only yellow cabs can legally pick up street hails within the five boroughs, while livery cars can respond only to radio calls. Yellow cabs have meters, while liveries use a zone pricing system. It's worked this way since the medallion system was introduced in 1937.
The livery cabs that do ply the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island wouldn't have many passengers to pick up on the street, because these boroughs have relatively little pedestrian traffic. This is what led to the rise of the radio-dispatched livery industry in the first place. What works in busy Manhattan doesn't necessarily work in the other boroughs."
The writer of this this column, who is an author as well as a taxi driver, explains why it is not only bad for cab drivers but customers who need to leave Manhattan as well - so you might just not get the cab you hailed. The rule will have to be approved by the City Council.


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Max Weber Foundation Transnational Research Group - India
"Poverty Reduction and Policy for the Poor between the State and Private Actors: Education Policy in India since the Nineteenth Century"
Max Weber Foundation India Branch Launch, February 2015
Report on the Inauguration of the Branch Office of the Max Weber Foundation, New Delhi (PDF file), published in: GHIL Bulletin 38 (2015), Vol 2
- Street Dwelling and City Space: Women Waste Pickers in Kolkata. Article by Debarati Bagchi in the Economic and Political Weekly
- The TRG is now on Facebook:
New Publications
- Transnational Research Group Poverty and Education in India: Annual Report 2016 (download PDF file)
- Report on the Inauguration of the Branch Office of the Max Weber Foundation, New Delhi, held at the India International Centre in New Delhi on 14 Feb. 2015. (download PDF file)
- Commissioned Paper: Nandini Manjrekar, The Neighbourhood and the School: Conflict, Educational Marginalisation and the State in Contemporary Gujarat (download PDF file)
- Commissioned Paper: Farida Abdulla Khan, Mathematics and its discontents: How well does Mathematics pedagogy serve the children of the poor? (download PDF file)
In January 2013 the German Historical Institute London in cooperation with faculty members from the Centre for Historical Studies and the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen and the King's India Institute, King's College London, established a transnational research group (TRG) on poverty and education in India. The work of the TRG focuses on social and educational policy in India since the nineteenth century with an open approach to regional and global comparative perspectives. The five-year project is funded by the Max Weber Foundation - German Humanities Institutes Abroad and supported in its activities in India by the American Institute of Indian Studies within the framework of the AIIS-GHIL Delhi Program.
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The abrupt closure of Quattro Formaggi Deli and Wine Bar in Mosman shocked lower north shore Italophiles. Now the Military Road venue has appointed a liquidator, Jason Porter, from Pitcher Partners. He says Kerwin Mathews, the owner of the Military Road venue, had tried to find a buyer but the business wasn't profitable, so he handed the keys back to the landlord. A creditors' meeting has been called for this Friday (19/2).
Porter estimates creditors are owed around $400,000. The venue's mix of tightly packed tables and high stools, with a massive selection of cured meats, pasta dishes and a wine bar thrown in, garnered some good reviews. Pino Iacobbe opened the Mosman venue in 2010, expanding to include a wine bar two years later. Lacobbe sold the business in November 2012.
Two other businesses using the Quattro Formaggi name – in Brookvale and Chatswood – are not associated with the Mosman outlet and remain open.


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this pic+me= jizz everywere!
She is very close to the all time hottest babe with big juicy tits an nice round firm @ss and long legs big blue eyes and a beautiful face and that dark long hair and a bubbly personality and a kick @ss voice. My dream girl Love you Katy
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In a survey of 42 common vegetables, cucumbers were ranked second in cancer risk and 12th in "most contaminated food" by the Environmental Working Group, a respected public-interest group.
No organic? Peel the cucumbers, since the waxes used to make the skin shiny also tend to hold chemicals.
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Bonsall is within easy reach of a range of colorful Derbyshire's attractions. Among the places not to miss are the fascinating Haddon Hall Manor and the remarkable Wingfield Manor. Two other recommended attractions close by Bonsall are the All Saints Church and Chatsworth House.
There are a number of natural gifts here as well, so don't miss the chance to get outdoors. To see the native flora and fauna, head out to the Peak District National Park Authority in Bakewell.
Sports fanatics visiting Bonsall should get tickets for nearby Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Derby to see the Derbyshire County taking on visiting rivals. If you want to endear yourself with the locals, wear blue and white, the colors of the Derbyshire County.
To make sure you get the most out of this fascinating part of the world, think about booking a room close by in one of the area's charming bed and breakfast or hotel options. The Riverbank Guest House, Matlock, the Cavendish Hotel, Bakewell and the Red Lion, Bakewell are just three of the most popular accommodation options here.


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In a replay of last year's events, the City of Rittman again declined to file a petition initiated by Anthony Christian that would give voters the option of reducing the 1.5 percent income tax by 0.5 percent.
Rittman council met in executive session Thursday to discuss pending litigation. Afterward city manager Robert Kellogg said, "The city came to the conclusion to take no action in filing Mr. Christian's petition with the Wayne County Board of Elections.
"It's our belief it was not filed properly with the city. It's defective," he said.
He declined to comment on how the petition was "defective."
City officials declined to file a similar petition Christian filed last year, which led him to file a writ of mandamus in Wayne County Municipal Court in September to force the city to file the petition.
The city contended Christian did not file a certified copy of the petition with the city before he began circulating it for signatures, which made the filing improper, and therefore the city did not have to file it with the board of elections. The court agreed.
If the city had filed Christian's current petition, it would have been on the Nov. 7 ballot. Christian had asked the reduction take effect Jan. 1.
The petition also asked for redistribution of the remaining 1 percent in income tax monies. He is asking for 60 percent to be placed in the general fund, 35 percent in the water fund and 5 percent in capital improvements.
In 1996 voters approved setting the income tax split at 50 percent to the general fund, 25 percent to the water fund and 25 percent to the capital improvement fund, with 10 percent earmarked for recreational purposes. The distribution had been 33 percent for the water fund and 67 percent to capital improvement/general fund.
Christian contends voters also inadvertently made the 0.5 percent portion of the tax permanent with the 1996 vote. That portion of the tax was approved in 1977 as a 30-year tax to pay for improvements to the city water system.
Kellogg said it is his opinion the tax was made permanent since there was no expiration date on the ballot language. He said by law the city can impose only a 1 percent tax without a vote by the residents.
The income tax brings in around $1.2 million annually. A 0.5 percent reduction would cost the city around $400,000.
Christian could not be reached for comment Thursday evening


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10 Reasons Why You Should Invest in Facebook IPO
It is no longer an issue if a person or a business rises to fame with the use of Facebook, and taking the opportunity of its social networking powers in reaching not just desired markets, but amassing yourself with the traffic and the attention you deserve. However, Facebook has just made itself even more talked about, thanks to its market movement, even presenting itself as an IPO (initial public offering) for people who might be interested in investing and possibly taking part in the growth of cyberspace's most successful social networking engine. Nevertheless, one question still needs to be answered: Why should you invest in Facebook IPO? In case that you are considering possibilities of making the bold move with your money, then check this list of the 10 reasons why you should invest in Facebook IPO.
10. Facebook Being Open Source
If you have been using Facebook for quite some time now, you may have been a victim of change, beginning from sidebar chat boxes to timeline profiles and better marketing opportunities. Unlike some products that are subject to consistency in order to meet client and consumer demands, Facebook is different. It moves and changes depending on the needs of its users, both considering non-profit and profit-generating aspects. This can be attested when Zuckerberg mentioned that Facebook does not build services to make money, but they make money to create better services.
9. It Covers an Important Commodity
What has been the secret of Facebook's success that made it rise to global fame? While others are cynical of the fact that it is beneficial to kids, teens, and even adults, taking time to some things more valuable, there is one commodity that makes it an enduring market… Socializing is now becoming a necessity to maintain stable mental health, and this is what Facebook is focusing to keep active. Therefore, as long as man seeks the pleasure of being connected to friends and acquaintances in different places, Facebook will be there to provide.
8. Market Focus is on the Rising Generation
Some people are worried on investing in the Facebook IPO because it is being looked at as a sinking market where the old are becoming less focused. However, looking at the trend of how baby boomers are moving, they are more into retirement plans, insurance, medicines, and other products that give priority to the elderly. Nevertheless, the amassing numbers of Facebook users ranging from ages 18-24 are about 25% to 50% of the total user population in many places all over the world, while people aging 25-34 comprise of about 15% to as much as 35% in certain countries.
7. Competition Not Steep
You can think of LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, Google+, and other social networking competitors that try to shake and even join with Facebook. If you think that any of these mentioned giants are close to reaching what Facebook has achieved, then you can be surprised that LinkedIn has 161 million users, Twitter has only 140 million, MySpace only 30 million, and Google+ catching up with 170 million, despite of being launched only in June 2011. Therefore, it may take about 5 years or so before Facebook faces its fiercest competition.
6. Huge Companies are Tied to Facebook
Consider Apple, Amazon, EBay, or even Netflix thinking of gaining huge global revenue and not having Facebook Pages as a channel of gaining public exposure. As Facebook is becoming the next "it" in advertising, even if not having official ads, or if just having a page being "liked" by certain people, it is still an opportunity to having more customers in the process. Therefore, it is becoming a corporate magnet, making Facebook an enduring IPO.
5. Valuation is Progressive despite of its Dedicated Marketing Dimension
Facebook's estimated value is about $100 billion, and it has been compared to Google being $150 billion. Although both are considered giants in their respective fields, it should be considered that Google has expanded its market reach and products to different spheres. Google+ is not the flagship product that it provides to consumers, it has YouTube, the Google Search Engine, Android, Gmail, Picasa, and others that you could think of. Facebook on the other hand has reached its market value, only focusing its scope in social networking for the last couple of years.
4. Investment is Low-Risk
Many online financial websites mentioned that Facebook may become unsuccessful and a flop as an IPO because of what happened to Pandora, Zynga, and Groupon, where their initial price dropped sharply only after a few days after opening. Pandora is not that famous globally, Zynga only relies on Facebook for exposure, and Groupon may be limited in some countries. Facebook overcomes the challenge of these three, making it a low-risk investment.
3. Target Reach is Global
From the heights of Greenland to the lowest reaches of Argentina, there are Facebook users that can be found. Some of its account holders may be 100% while others are 50% active. It does not even matter if they are logging into their accounts daily since nations that are technologically developed, even those living in third world countries, are finding themselves being at least online once a day, every day. This is enough info you need, in case you are worrying about market population.
2. Expansion of Advertising Show Promise
When Facebook turned over their S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission, some of the information that has been shared has something to do with the reach of users utilizing mobile devices. This may concern investors because the only application environment which Facebook touches in respect to advertising is computer access, and almost 50% of the many users are utilizing smartphones, tablet PCs, and basic mobile services to be posted with their status updates. Due to this plight, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that they are taking the next step of including ads with their push on updates for mobile applications.
1. Facebook is a Growing Market
We have to admit that in such a short time span, Facebook has grown from a website visited by a few dozens to an online phenomenon that serves millions of users, even 900 million strong, in only seven years. It is also considerable to know that more than 50% of this user population is accessing the said website with the use of mobile devices, whether we are talking about smartphone or ordinary cellphones with access to the internet. It continues to grow as it penetrates over 70 different languages all over the world, recognizing the value of social networking and connecting with friends or office workers.
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In another wild game North of the border, the Canadians picked up the comeback win over the Emeralds by a final score of 11-9.
In a back-and-forth affair that proved to be one of the wildest games of the season, the Ems struck first and took an early lead in the top of the first inning. Thanks to a pair of two-out doubles by Nick Torres and Jose Urena, three Emeralds runs came in to score and the Ems led 3-0 heading to the bottom of the frame.
The Canadians immediately responded with two runs of their own in the bottom of the second, and another C's run in the bottom of the second inning would tie the game at 3-3.
After both offenses were held at bay in the third and fourth innings, Vancouver would take their first lead of the ballgame in a two-run bottom of the fifth inning.
Two innings later, eleven Emeralds batters would come to the plate as the Ems put up a whopping six runs in the top of the seventh inning to retake the lead, this time by a score of 9-6.
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After a scoreless eighth inning, Joe Lovecchio would come out of the bullpen and pick up his first professional save as the Canadians would hold on to win, 11-9.
Joey Epperson, who was inserted as a defensive substitute for the injured Felipe Blanco, played in the field for the first time since getting injured on June 22nd against the Dust Devils. The former UCSB Gaucho finished 2-for-2 at the plate with a double, a run scored, and a walk. Meanwhile, former college rival and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mustang, Nick Torres, finished 2-for-5 with a double, two RBIs, and a run scored.
With Thursday night's win, the Canadians stayed just two games back of NWL North Division leader Spokane, while the Ems will look to salvage a win in the series finale. Both teams will face off for the final time in Vancouver on Friday afternoon for another "Nooner at the Nat" with the first pitch scheduled for 1:05pm.
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Merrill Lynch Shoot-Out 2007
For my generation, I am 42 in 2008, there is something special about watching Greg Norman compete. I have seen him lose more than win, like all players , including the great Tiger Woods. But somehow Greg Norman could lose like no one else. He is the only player to lose in a play-off in all four major championship. Masters - 1987 to Larry Mize, US Open - 1984 to Fuzzy Zoeller, British Open - 1989 to Mark Calcavecchia and PGA Championship - 1986 to Bob Tway. And then, the greatest of his collapses the 1996 Masters Tournament, which I have watched over and over again, hoping that maybe one time my hero would not miss the green on the 10th fueling the amazing come back by Nick Faldo. Greg Norman, like Tiger today, just looked like an incredible athlete, but the loses, unlike Tiger, made him human, I admired him and related to him.
The Merrill Lynch Shoot-Out offers various formats that are entertaining, proving that there is a market for 2 man partner games outside of the Ryder and Presidents Cup's. Hey why not try it mid-season, it certainly would be a break from the continuous string stroke play events. Outside of the major championships there is some room to take a few risks. More Holiday Season golf coming your way next week, Dec 13-16, with the Target World Challenge, also known as Tiger's Tournament . Then we all get a break until January 4-7, when the PGA Tour returns with the Mercedes Benz Championship.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The president of the U.S.-based Maryknoll Sisters urged leaders of the newly independent Republic of South Sudan to prioritize peacemaking and reconciliation within its national concerns.
Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin also suggested that the fledgling country's leaders begin efforts to disarm and demobilization ex-combatants in South Sudan's militia.
Her recommendations came during an interview with Catholic News Service after she spent nearly three weeks in the country July 25 through Aug. 13 leading a series of workshops on conflict transformation.
The workshops were for nursing students, seminarians and radio broadcasters in both Diocese of Wau and the Archdiocese of Juba. She previously served as a missioner in Kenya, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
"It is critical to provide skills training and employment possibilities for former fighters so they have means of making a living and contributing to rebuilding the nation," Sister Janice said. "If they feel left out and have no way to support themselves, they can easily turn to crime or to extortion to survive."
Counseling for trauma and other means to help people emotionally heal from the violence they have experienced also is needed, she said.
Sister Janice said she found most people hopeful and optimistic about the future. Young people in particular, she said, view South Sudan's independence as a miracle that they thought would never be realized in their lifetimes. People seem to be aware of the challenges ahead and realize that it will take united action to rebuild the war-torn country, she added.
She commended the new government under President Salva Kiir for establishing an anti-corruption body to prevent the misuse of funds.
The Catholic nun recalled that the Maryknoll community of priests, brothers, sisters and lay missioners has been rendering pastoral services in the region since 1976, when the community was invited by the bishops of Sudan to start a pastoral institute in Juba, now South Sudan's capital.
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