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Bio Terror - How to Survive a Biological Terrorist Attack
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Fears of Bio-Terror Are Growing Around the WorldThe fear briefly became reality in the U.S. after 9/11, as man-made anthrax spores were found in letters and in east coast post offices on a number of occasions.
Mysteriously, the attacks ended almost as quickly as they had begun. But they were so frightening to many U.S. citizens that a new term -- bioterror -- was soon burned into the American consciousness.
Those attacks also showed the panic and very real danger posed by the release of such toxins on an unsuspecting public.
Dealing With BioterrorMany Americans now wonder how they can protect themselves from a release of a potentially deadly biotoxin, bacteria, or virus. Authorities are urging people to become familiar with the early symptoms of things like anthrax, and report any suspicious letters or packages to law enforcement.
While people clearly need to worry about exposures to various chemical and biological agents during these trying times, the mail attacks right after 9/11 quickly put anthrax front-and-center in the minds of many Americans.
In a way, that early emphasis on the perils of anthrax exposure may have actually aided the U.S. in its fight against a bioterrorist attack. Bioterror experts say that the symptoms of an anthrax exposure are the easiest to deal with as long as one is treated soon after exposure. The flu-like symptoms may persist for as long as three days before becoming worse; although once the severe stage sets in, death can occur in as little as two hours or up to two days.
Death Can Happen FastThere is no known cure once the anthrax infection becomes severe, note researchers.
That problem showed governments everywhere the necessity of a rapid response to a bioterror attack, since a large segment of a nation's population may die if those with the infection are not quickly and properly treated.
What Is Anthrax?One thing to note is that bioterror experts actually know very little about anthrax -- which is the real reason for their overall silence on the subject. After all, anthrax is something little-seen this day and age in the West, and our knowledge of it is spotty at best. This is not to suggest that the experts know nothing about its symptoms; they simply are not as certain about anthrax as they are about smallpox, for example.
So while microwaving mail probably won't kill any spores, it won't really hurt anything to continue doing just that if you've been microwaving letters since 9/11. Though be careful; some experts have recorded cases of people starting serious fires in their microwaves as they 'nuked' their mail. If you decide to do this, be cautious of the dangers.
Should people stockpile antibiotics?Some people are stockpiling antibiotics -- a practice health officials are concerned will lead to dangerous side effects and drug-resistant germs. Still others are toting around gas masks purchased from Army surplus stores.
Gas mask may be useless"Purchasing a gas mask and having that around increases, if you will, the terror associated with these incidents and brings it home in a way that is unnecessary because you would never know when to put that gas mask on," said Dr. Sue Bailey, former assistant secretary of defense.
Granted -- but isn't there anything people can do to protect themselves?
"They should learn more about anthrax so they know what it [certainly] is and what it isn't," Coffin advised.
What Is Anthrax?
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The cutaneous form of anthrax is contracted through the skin, via a cut or abrasion. Three to five days after infection, a painless blister appears. A day or two later, this becomes a black, open sore. Cutaneous anthrax accounts for 95 percent of anthrax cases in the United States, and is easily treated with antibiotics.
But left untreated, perhaps 5 percent of cases progress to a dangerous bloodstream infection, which is almost always fatal.
The inhaled form of anthrax incorporates the same germ as the cutaneous form; however, inhaled anthrax is both rare and extremely deadly. Studies of previous cases indicate that a dose of just 2,500 to 55,000 anthrax spores is lethal to about half of the people who inhale them.
The first stage of inhaled anthrax infection, lasting from hours to a few days, involves flu-like symptoms, including fever, coughing, weakness and chest pains. Only at this stage can inhaled anthrax be treated with antibiotics.
The second stage usually ends in death within days. Lung damage deprives the body of oxygen. The victim then goes into shock. Brain infection may also occur. Antibiotics only prove helpful at the earliest stages of the disease because they fight bacteria, not the toxins the bacteria produce in abundance during the final stage of infection.
Antibiotic WarningThree types of antibiotics are approved for preventing and treating anthrax in its early stages: ciprofloxacin, tetracyclines and penicillins. People who have been exposed to the germ but do not have symptoms are given an antibiotic for 60 days to reduce the risk of developing the disease.
What people should not do, health officials say, is demand antibiotics from their doctors. The reason is simple: "If these drugs are used inappropriately, the organism is going to develop resistance to them. The worst thing you can do is contribute to these organisms becoming resistant," said U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson has asked people not to hoard anthrax antibiotics, saying the government had enough to treat those who might require the drugs. A more reliable form of protection, many say, is to simply keep an eye on unusual letters or packages arriving in the mail.
Examine PackagesBesides the telltale fine white or brownish, grainy powder on or in a piece of mail, the FBI says several things can tip you off about a questionable letter or package:
*misspelled words or wrong titles on the label;
*having been sent from an unknown person in a foreign country;
*having excessive postage or no return address;
*restrictive markings such as "personal";
*oily stains, discolorations or crystallization on the packaging.
If you receive an envelope and there's a powder inside, set it down carefully, don't move it or give it to anyone else, quickly wash your hands with soap and water and call 911.
The flip side to all this is that most Americans probably won't have to worry about such a threat: most of those actually targeted in the anthrax attacks, after all, were public officials and journalists. Experts therefore say there is very little reason to suspect you've been exposed unless there has been a specific incident where you live or work.
"It's just not a big enough threat for most people to be worrying about," said Dr. Henry Rosen, a professor of medicine and expert in infectious diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle. "It's a threat that has been tremendously exaggerated. How often do you worry about things that effect two or three people in 300 million?" he said.
Rosen said he is more concerned about the ill effects of constantly living in fear of bioterrorism. "The health effect from the anxiety of this is probably bigger than the overall threat from [such things as] anthrax," Rosen said.
The Top Peril: SmallpoxBut as health authorities ramp up to deal with the potential threat posed by anthrax, an even bigger effort is focusing on what many consider the top bioterror peril: smallpox. Smallpox and anthrax lead the list of potential biological weapons capable of devastating civilian populations, along with plague, botulism and hemorrhagic fever.
Experts say smallpox would be a very effective bioweapon, both because it kills 30 percent of its victims and it has a long incubation period. It may take up to two weeks for symptoms to appear; but after that time, the victim may develop high fever, malaise, headache and backache. Two days after symptoms start, a rash of pus-filled boils develops, spreading all over the body. Smallpox is easily spread, and there is no known treatment for one who has contracted the disease.
For centuries smallpox was a worldwide terror, one spread through coughing, sneezing or physical contact -- even by handling the bed linens of the afflicted.
But thanks to a global vaccination effort begun by the old Soviet Union, by the late 1970s the virus' domain had been contained to a few tightly controlled laboratories in Russia and the United States.
That's indeed something for the Reds to be proud of; yet we shouldn't pat the old Soviets on the back just yet. There are rumors in U.S. intelligence circles that the Russians, along with Iraqis and North Koreans, have held onto undisclosed stores of smallpox for weapons purposes.
Russia said to have large stockpiles of smallpox for bioweaponsDefector Ken Alibek has acknowledged that the Soviets built up large stockpiles of smallpox in the 1980s for use in bioweapons, and terrorism experts worry that virus samples could somehow find their way into terrorist hands.
America at risk of smallpox attackSo how are Americans protected? U.S. health authorities stopped recommending routine vaccinations for smallpox in 1971. Even those immunized before that time are unlikely to still be protected. We are all sitting ducks, in a phrase.
And that, dear friends, is what makes smallpox so very dangerous.
But don't head for the hills just yet, folks. There are arguments against smallpox being used as an instrument of bioterror.
Remember, unlike anthrax, the human smallpox virus was virtually eradicated in the late 1970s, and the only known stores are in Russia and the U.S. Both countries have sworn to a war against terrorist activity after the events of 9/11. All of this would presumably make it far more difficult for an extremist person or group to obtain smallpox for bioterror purposes.
Smallpox highly contagious, much more dangerous than anthraxThe final analysis regarding smallpox? "It's a less likely threat than anthrax, but potentially more catastrophic, because it's contagious," says Dr. Jonathan Tucker, author of a book on smallpox titled "Scourge" and director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Smallpox: Low-tech weaponSamuel Watson, co-director of the BioMedical Security Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, reluctantly told MSNBC in late 2001 that the anthrax cases after 9/11 could have an effect on the whole bioterror debate, and especially over smallpox concerns.
"If this thing in Florida with the anthrax turns out to be a strain that the Soviets had, or if it turns out to be a strain that the Iraqis had, or Iran or North Korea, or if we had it only in a (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) lab -- if that turns out to be the case, then I think we need to be worried about smallpox," he said.
According to Dr. Raymond Zilinskas, deputy director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program, the main danger is that a smallpox attack wouldn't require the highly technical dispersal mechanisms that terrorists need to spark a widespread anthrax outbreak.
"With smallpox, you don't need any of that, you just need infected people ... the biological equivalent of a suicide bomber," he said.
Making More VaccineThat's why the CDC is once again building up the nation's long-dormant stocks of smallpox vaccine -- a store that currently could be used to vaccinate 7.5 million to 15.4 million people.
In 2000, a year before 9/11, the CDC put in a $343 million order with the company Acambis for the production of 40 million doses of a new smallpox vaccine at its facility in Cambridge, MA; the order however would not be filled until 2004. But in the wake of the anthrax attacks, the timetable was accelerated so that those doses would be available by the end of 2002 -- even though the vaccine would still lack the Food and Drug Administration's full approval.
"It could only be administered with informed consent," Tucker explained. The vaccine still has to go through years of testing before it could be administered routinely, however.
In the meantime, researchers at four medical centers -- Baylor College, the University of Rochester, St. Louis University and the University of Maryland -- are investigating whether the existing vaccine would work even if it were diluted fivefold or tenfold. That would stretch out the nation's supply to serve 75 million people or more, a much more comforting scenario.
"75 million doses still not enough"Tucker said the results so far were encouraging, but even 75 million doses were "still probably not enough for a worst-case attack."
Other researchers are trying to develop anti-viral drugs to fight smallpox cases, but it will take years to turn that research into safe medications.
Even in the wake of the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 9-11, some experts like Zilinskas find it hard to believe that anyone would seriously attempt to unleash smallpox on the world again.
"Even though (Iraqi leader) Saddam Hussein is ruthless, I don't think he is completely reckless," he said. "You'd have to be reckless, because if you have these things you must know that everyone is vulnerable... . The pandemic would spread to other parts of the world, including Iraq, and they're just as vulnerable as anyone else in the world."
Of course, he's not considering the fanatical beliefs of Iran and Radical Islam. They're likely to believe that "Allah" will protect them from the effects of smallpox, if they could ever get their hands on and to use it as a weapon.
Best Bioterror Clue: Flu Drug SalesResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University have stated that monitoring sales of nonprescription drugs might help provide early detection of a bioterror attack, according to the Associated Press (AP).
For instance, since early symptoms of deadly inhaled anthrax are similar to the flu, a sudden increase in sales of flu medications could tip off authorities to check for anthrax before victims become ill enough to seek medical attention, the researchers suggest.
The Carnegie Mellon project was started long before the anthrax mail attacks in late 2001, said Stephen E. Feinberg of the university's department of statistics.
He added the group's focus is on larger scale attacks in an urban area, not the relatively limited hazard posed by the mailed germs.
"We're talking about exposures of thousands of people in a concentrated location, and then you've got very large-scale impact to assess and every second counts," Feinberg explained.
"In search of unusual outbreaks of disease"Scientists already watch sales of antibiotics in search of unusual outbreaks of disease. Systems such as the one proposed by Carnegie Mellon researchers would extend that to over-the-counter medicines as well.
Gregory C. Gray, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa, said there is precedent for using such sales to detect disease. An outbreak of the intestinal parasite cryptosporidium in Milwaukee in the early 1990s was first detected by pharmacists who noticed a run on antidiarrheal medicines, he said.
The Carnegie Mellon work focused on sales of cough medicine and the system had trouble detecting a flu outbreak during a holiday, but the study could point the way to developing a more broad-based method for detecting bioterrorism attacks.
That will have to take into account seasonal sales patterns, local flu outbreaks, cut-price sales, store hours and other factors that affect how much of a product is sold.
According to Carnegie Mellon's Stephen Feinberg, the long-term goal is to develop a system looking at cough syrups as well as pain pills, stomach medicines and other drugs so analysts can create a "footprint" of sales and detect unusual patterns.
"Cough medicine has a lot of variability. You have a set of symptoms working in concert and if you can look at an ensemble of symptoms, you clearly will have a more accurate system for detection," he explained.
If the system signaled an alarm, he said, local public health officials could be alerted. They would determine if an actual bioterror attack were underway before the public is unnecessarily alarmed, Feinberg added.
That, he said, could give officials a head start toward reducing the number of deaths if an attack were occurring.
Can biological agents be detected on radar?On top of the millions already allocated to states, the Army is launching a series of experiments to see if clouds of chemical or biological agents can be detected on radar. There will be test sprays a few miles from Key West, Fla., using safe materials with properties similar to potential threats to see if the radars can tell them from rain or clouds.
Such sweeping governmental moves would probably never have occurred without the attention newspapers and other news outlets have brought to the problem. But there is a sad part about the American media's fixation on bioterror. According to a supposed statement released in December 2001 by Aiman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda's real military leader, it apparently never occurred to the group to use something like anthrax against its targets until 1998, after the group's bombing attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Operatives began reading worried reports published by U.S. media outlets on the possibility and inherent danger of bioterror attacks -- and the rest, as they say, is history.
All the same, these efforts by both scientists and government officials to fight bioterror are now necessary. But with the rise of rogue governments like Iran and North Korea, and probably alliances with powerful nations like Russia and China, it seems more likely each year that some kind of bioweapon or other weapon of mass destructions will make it's way into the hands of a terrorist organization willing to use it.
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Bespoke app will collect cycling casualty data
Researchers from Barts Hospital in London have developed a web-app to help them better understand injuries sustained by cyclists in the Capital.
The Bespoke Project is a collaboration being led by the research teams of the Orthopaedic and Emergency Departments of Barts Health NHS Trust. The Bespoke team is undertaking research to gather information about bicycle related injuries, and will then use the data to work with key stakeholders in a bid to reduce casualties among cyclists in London.
The project team has developed a crowdsourcing web-app that can be used to log cycle accidents, injuries and near misses. Reporting through the app will enable a real time picture of cycling related accidents to be developed, and a map of accident hotspots to be created.
Going forward, the study will look at the circumstances surrounding accidents and the severity of injuries sustained by patients attending emergency departments, and explore as how well patients recover from their injuries.
The team is encouraging cyclists to become involved in the Bespoke project by using the app.
The project is supported by Jon Snow, presenter, journalist and cycling champion, who said: "The innovative Bespoke data project lead by researchers in London's biggest Emergency Department is key to unlocking data which is currently lacking from the debate about cycle safety in London. I urge all London cyclists to get involved."
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I think Bob's point is that near miss data is not collected and neither is (very) minor (single vehicle) damage or injuries (even if precipitated by avoiding another road user). My only concern is that the results will be skewed by the reporting method preferring younger and (particularly if it is only for iPhone) richer riders.
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The injuries sustained in typical motorcycle accidents are well known in the medical profession as there has been many years of data to look at. The Helibikes website has a useful primer on the types of injuries that are usually encountered.
Injuries occur due to many reasons, but some of the major factors are:
What primary obstacle has been crashed into. What was the speed of impact. What was the angle of impact. What protection was worn by the rider, did it fit properly and was it worn properly.
Of course cyclists and motorcyclists have their soft bits on the outside of the metal rather than having them on the inside of the metal like car drivers etc which makes any post-crash injury much more likely.
Duncan MacKillop, Stratford on Avon
I have wanted some enquiry or research of this nature to take place for motorcyclists, to recognise the type and degree and seriousness of injuries suffered and also the most frequent found in accidents involving this group, but no such study has as yet been made or if so no information has been made available. And now we are looking at cyclists as possibly becoming one of the most at risk minority groups.
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In this article, I use a multivariate vector-autoregressive (VAR) approach to examine the effects of permanent financial development on domestic investment and output in 41 countries between 1960 and 1993. The VAR approach permits the identification of the long-term cumulative effects of financial development on the domestic variables by allowing for dynamic interactions among these variables. The results reject the hypothesis that financial development simply follows economic growth and has very little effect on it. Instead, there is strong evidence that financial development is important to growth and that investment is an important channel through which financial development affects growth. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.
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When Rasmus gets of the train at the Central Station in Stockholm in September 1982 he leaves the little city of Koppom behind, to never go back. Young and beautiful he throws himself out in the gay Stockholm. Benjamin is a Jehova''s Witness. Eagerly he walks from door to door to tell about God. And nothing can disturb his faith. Not until he knocks on Paul's door, one of the warmest, most funny and most bitchy gay person that God has ever created. And on Christmas Eve, Rasmus meets Benjamin at Paul's and nothing ever becomes the same again. What is told in this series has happened. It's happening in this city, in these quarters, amongst the people that live here. In a city where most people go on living as if nothing has happened when young men start to get sick, fade away and die.
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text: For all the Montreal Canadians fans out there! After some inspiration (thanks Maaike!) I have designed these cloths for you to use. The pattern is available in 3 sizes- small (about 4.5" x 6") - shown medium (about an inch larger in all directions) large (another inch larger, plus has the words "GO HABS GO" across the top and bottom) (The sample was test knit by Maaike. Her blog link is above, her ravelry notebook is here.) In the sample shown, the chart was not worked as pure intarsia. Maaike did the thick stripes and most of the C in intarsia, and then duplicate-stitched the H in the middle. She also used duplicate stitch to create the points on the open end of the C so she didn't have to carry a blue float behind the red. You are free to do the same, to use pure intarsia or even to duplicate stitch the whole thing. The white and blue outlines were done last, once all the ends were woven in, using a slip-stitch crochet chain- first the white, then the blue just outside of the white one. BASIC SKILLS NECESSARY Knit colorwork (intarsia), duplicate stitch


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MUMBAI: Mauj Mobile has acquired UK based Mobango, which is an independent mobile application and user generated content store.
With the advent of 3G and availability of feature rich smart phones at low prices in India, Mauj expects consumption of data-based services to increase significantly. This deal will allow Mauj to provide its partners, in India and abroad, a wider array of applications and content for their customers whilst further consolidating its foothold in the telecom managed services space.
People Group founder and CEO Anupam Mittal said, "Mauj was founded with a vision of providing compelling content and applications over the mobile internet. Mobango's acquisition is another step in that direction. Mobango is a pioneer of the rapidly growing Pay Per Download (PPD) business model and is one of the world's largest independent app-store, so we are obviously very excited to round off our Applications, Content & Communities offering."
Mobango founder Fabio Pezzoti added, "We are delighted to have concluded the transaction with Mauj Mobile, a leading Mobile VAS company in the fastest growing telecom market in the world. With Mauj and Mobango coming together, customers and partners of both the companies will benefit through a broader choice of products and services."


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Jaguars This Morning: Telvin Smith loses brother, welcomes baby boy within days of each other
Telvin Smith loses brother, welcomes baby boy within days of each other
Telvin Smith's brother, Brian Moore, was murdered Sunday night in Valdosta, Georgia. He was only 25 years old when he was shot to do death. Days later Telvin welcomed into this world a new baby boy. To lose life, and then gain life within such a short period of time has got to be one of the more unique and heart wrenching experiences that can be had in this world. Our thoughts are with Telvin while he mourns the loss of his brother and welcomes his new child.
The Jaguars have led for just 2:49 over the past 5 games, #becausejaguars
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The Jaguars are failing to properly utilize Julius Thomas
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Stars waking up to learn the shock news about the singer's death describe it is a "black day" and speak of the "loss of a hero".
His wife, model Iman, tweeted: "sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory."
Singer Marc Almond tweeted: "It's not often I truly cry at the loss of an artist but I'm devastated. He meant so much. Goodbye David Bowie and our youth. We loved you. X"
Minutes later he added: "There will never be another that comes close. It's too much . Just can't take it in. Black day!"
DJ Tony Blackburn described Bowie as an "amazing showman". He told Sky News: "He was quite unique - you never quite knew what you were going to get. He was always reinventing himself."
Actor Russell Crowe, referencing one of Bowie's better known singles which featured on covers album Pin Ups 1973, wrote: "RIP David. I loved your music. I loved you. One of the greatest performance artists to have ever lived. #sorrow"
Golden Globes host, comedian and actor Ricky Gervais, who convinced his long-time idol Bowie to star as himself - and ridicule Gervais - in an episode of 2006 sitcom Extras, wrote that he had "just lost a hero".
Fellow comedian Eddie Izzard said the 69-year-old artist would "live forever through his music"
Izzard urged every radio station around the globe to just play Bowie's music today. "I think the world owes him that," he tweeted.
Comedian Jack Dee tweeted: "So sad to hear the news about Bowie. A genius."
Singer Alison Moyet hailed Bowie as "our greatest, gone and here forever". "A world's heart breaks," she added.
Rock guitarist Joel Madden, quoting Changes, simply wrote: "Turn and face the strange."
Singer Kanye West tweeted: "David Bowie was one of my most important inspirations, so fearless, so creative, he gave us magic for a lifetime."
Actor Mark Ruffalo wrote: "Rip Father of all us freaks. Sad sad day. Love always Legendary singer David Bowie dies at 69."
Bowie biographer Mary Finnigan, who lived with the singer between April- September 1969, described him as a "kind and thoughtful person", who was very dedicated to his career.
She told Sky News: "While he lived with me, he composed a lot of music. Me and my children were witnesses to an extraordinary process, it was one song written after another which appeared after his second album."
Speaking to Sky News the associate editor of music magazine 'Q' said that Britain, Rock and Roll, and art was poorer for Bowie's death.
Paul Stokes said: "David Bowie was always contemporary, that was the great thing about him as an artist.
"Even at the beginning of his career in the 60s when people weren't taking him seriously and it took him a while to break as an artist, he was always contemporary.
"He was always someone who, despite his age and which way fashion and trends were going, he was almost perpetually contemporary. His last record was still a cutting edge record."
Former NME editor Krissi Murison told Sky News the only other musician's death she could think of which was comparable was that of John Lennon.
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Don't expect to buy the clock in stores anytime soon. That invention, and hundreds of others, were on display yesterday at Microsoft's annual science fair of the most futuristic ideas from the company's research division.
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Microsoft Techfest, as it is called, is designed to expose employees to projects being developed in Redmond and Microsoft laboratories around the world. Employees have a hard time following who is working on what in such a large company, and Techfest tries to connect some and inspire others.
Chairman Bill Gates is expected to tour the event today and might even take in a lecture on such topics as "bridging the gap between science data and databases" or "impromptu communication." Reporters were allowed in yesterday, but Microsoft kept them away from all but a few inventions.
The people-tracking clock is an idea out of Microsoft's research laboratories in Cambridge, England. Technology in cellphones these days can easily track a person's location, and that information could be sent to the clock to be seen by those at home.
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Susan Dumais, a Microsoft researcher specializing in search, showed a program that can personalize a Web search based on e-mail messages and other documents stored on a computer.
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How do local people afford ANYTHING, period?
Most store workers in the Philippines tell me they make around 150p per day, or a little more. But 150p per day is not even enough to eat even two meals per day!
So WHO are the mysterious people buying those 700p chairs in the furniture store, those 350-450p shirts in the mall, those 1000p nice jeans at SM Mall, and these 1000p baby milk cans every week?! The numbers do not add up at all, not even close. There is no way that a person making 150p a day, even two people making that much, can afford ANYTHING in a store, period. Nothing. It's mathematically impossible to purchase ANYTHING on an income of 150p per day. Thus there's a HUGE UNEXPLAINED DISCREPANCY here.
So who keeps all the stores and expensive products in business? How does anything get bought or paid for at all, period? This is a great mystery and no one can provide any logical answer to this. I'm very confused. Dianne can't explain it either.
I do not believe that other people here who say they only make 150p per day can afford the same expenses as me, so there must cheaper ways of living here right?
Right now I'm spending over a thousand pesos a week on baby milk, for a huge 900g can that gets used up in less than a week! I can't believe it. A thousand pesos a week just on one product! Even an entire family making 150p a day each could not afford that, among other things. So what gives? How do they raise their babies then, with prices for baby milk being completely outside of their reach?
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only customer in the Philippines. lol Is there a big secret here that I don't know about? (Maybe I'm in something like The Truman Show and the whole world is playing a practical joke on me, as I try to make sense out of everything? lol)
Am I missing something here? How do you account for this huge widespread mathematical discrepancy?


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For BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Too Big to Jail Gets Lost in TranslationBy
The long-awaited get-tough-on-banks campaign has taken on fresh life as investigations into BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse have come to a critical point, with top executives of each making the rounds in Washington and New York in recent days to try to stave off criminal charges against their banks. Both investigations now have potential price tags attached, with accompanying dueling media rollouts: Prosecutors are asking for more than $3.5 billion to settle with BNP Paribas, according to Bloomberg News, while the number being floated for Credit Suisse to put its troubles behind it is more than $2 billion, according to Reuters.
France's BNP is under investigation for doing business with countries under U.S. sanction, such as Iran and Sudan, while the Swiss bank Credit Suisse is being scrutinized for helping wealthy Americans shelter their money from taxes. The BNP investigation is conduced by the Justice Department in Washington, as well as Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, while the Credit Suisse case involves the tax division of the DOJ and federal prosecutors in Virginia. Benjamin Lawsky, New York's superintendent of financial services, is said to be looking into both.
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While Lawsky has indicated he plans to pursue individuals at the companies who were involved in the alleged wrongdoing, possibly requiring that they lose their jobs and return back compensation, the Justice Department is seeking settlements with the banks rather than charges against individuals—so those eye-popping fines will be paid by the corporation, but no one is threatened with jail.
Remarkably, the two banks faced with pleading guilty to an actual crime are both non-U.S. institutions. This can't be a coincidence: Not only is it less painful politically to extract a guilty plea from a European company, but the effects on the rest of the U.S. financial system would be far less than they would be for an American bank of similar size.
In January, when prosecutors were considering criminal charges against JPMorgan Chase for its handling of Bernard Madoff's accounts, Thomas Curry, the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, would not assure JPMorgan that the OCC wouldn't consider revoking the bank's charter. The Madoff case was resolved through a deferred prosecution agreement with the bank, in which the JPMorgan agreed to pay a $1.7 billion fine and promised to reform its ways in exchange for avoiding criminal charges.
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|Posted by AN1M3ASSAS1N 6 years, 3 months ago
it just SUCKS man everything in this movie just SUCKS
|Posted by mardy8 6 years, 3 months ago
well youll appreciate it if you know karate! theres no technical effects needed in here it was just for real well as per this is a movie it is expected to be no harm each to one of them.. haleer they are all actors and actresses here its a good job that theyve come up for good scenes without needing a technicalities just to do all those routines they are all jumping in here no harness! no illusions they are all great ^^,) 10/10
|Posted by fra181 6 years, 2 months ago
A cute movie but i was wanting more fighting and dramatic scenes. Still good movie.
|Posted by romeovia81 6 years, 2 months ago
the grammer in the sockshare version was very bad it was like listening to my two year old daughter talk... but the movie was pretty good, great karate sequences..7/10 (due to bad grammer)
|Posted by obyice 6 years, 3 months ago
ya liked this film fighting is good 7/10
|Posted by OG4GP 6 years, 3 months ago
love martial arts movies.. yeaaa, thing bout that is u need good martial artists to make a good martial arts movie.. makes sense rite?
|Posted by aldrinef 6 years, 3 months ago
aw karate girl pa gusto hehe
|Posted by barham 6 years, 3 months ago
dont waest ur time with this one
|Posted by MUramasa13 6 years, 3 months ago
I think that the tailand movie chocolate is still a better martial arts movie. the girl is cuter ther & the fights were more intence & realistic. but this movie is still good, 8/10 because of the fights scences.
|Posted by AddiKhan 6 years, 3 months ago
Realistic.................GREAT MOVIE!! Inspire me lot lot lot
|Posted by Shizuko 6 years, 3 months ago
The fight scenes were fairly authentic. I do appreciate that aspect. And the young martial artist girl was definitely impressive. Acting on the other hand was pretty stale all around and the story line brought nothing new to the table. This IS a kids movie though. And I'm sure a lot of kids will enjoy it. Myself, I give it a 7/10 for the fight scenes. But overall this is a 5.5/10 movie IMO.
|Posted by chatpilot 6 years, 3 months ago
This movie was a good one time watch. As stated by the rest of the comments the subs on this film were terrible but despite that it wasn't hard to follow the story. There was some pretty good fight choreography although not much of the techniques displayed would be very practical in a fight. But of course this is a movie. I did get that feeling that it was geared more towards a younger audience though. The story was nothing new and the final fight was anti-climatic.
|Posted by dennis_maltar 6 years, 3 months ago
this movie has a bad story line but good karate
|Posted by abadcito 6 years, 3 months ago
great movie, it's not tons of blood in the scenes but i guess thats what makes it brilliant, you dont need to see an eye popping out every time someone punches a face, subtitles aren't great but it gives you an idea about the storyline, and that girl has some technique, 9/10 I would recommend it!.
|Posted by searsy 6 years, 3 months ago
chocolate is 10 times better than this! the fight scenes arnt special, one time watch!
|Posted by ammrepanzer 6 years, 3 months ago
worth a watch 7/10
|Posted by mardy8 6 years, 3 months ago
i love it! forget the subs.. this movie is real karate no tech effects very nice =) i want to go back practice karate again ^^,)
|Posted by flavor 6 years, 3 months ago
Very painful watch, it just goes to show fantasy can be better than reality. Attacks were slow, shouting behind the attacks were like crap...honestly i wud shoot myself before recommending this. It was just bad, really really really bad. Not the worst, just bad.
|Posted by djbuckethead 6 years, 3 months ago
this movie did not change from start to finish. Hard to watch. Predictable. the actors hand hardly any emotional change. definitely years away from a kill bill type movie.
|Posted by skenzmac 6 years, 3 months ago
Great fighting but the subs were the worst that I've ever seen!
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21 weeks! I'm sorry I didn't update last week, we were out at the beach all weekend and I was in kind of a funk. Here's what I posted to my DDC last Friday:
4 years ago today, when I was 26 weeks 6 days pregnant with Jim, my water broke. 3 days later, he was born. 9 weeks after that, he came home from the hospital.
This morning, I woke up, and had probably my first GOOD cry about all that. I've cried bitterly about it loads and loads of times, but I've never cried and felt like it was cleansing me of that trauma a little, until today.
Today was also my 20-week ultrasound, and DH and I had Jim with us today (daycare is closed because our daycare person is going on a cruise that leaves today, plus we headed out of town for the weekend this afternoon), so we decided that in between the ultrasound and the doctor portion of the visit, we'd pop up to the NICU and say hi to any of the nurses who are still working there. I got teary eyed, and so did DH, but we both held it together. One of our favorites, Celia, happened to be on duty, and she came out to see us and say hi to Jim. This will sound really weird, but I found it comforting that I don't feel comfortable there anymore. I felt like I belonged there by the time Jim was ready to come home, but visiting today, I didn't feel like that anymore. I think that's a good sign.
Honestly, I was thinking I'd feel like a total mess this weekend, but after today, I'm feeling better. It's like I've smoothed off another rough edge of the trauma so it can't cut me up as much anymore. I'll never be able to ditch it completely but at least it's not as scratchy.
Anyway, beyond all that, the appointment went well. Maggie is doing great, my cervix is still nice and long, and I'd only gained a pound since last week (and that was with shoes on this time--much better than last appointment, I'd gained a whopping 8 pounds in just 2 weeks!). The only thing that was a little off is that there was a trace of protein in my urine, but my BP is super low so they said it's not anything to worry about. They did yet another blood draw to check my thyroid and my iron to see how it's going, will get those results next week.
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8-11-2012 Randalln: The basket is a real thing. It's what the IMF gauges the world trade of SDR's from. Please do some research. It's how the currency world gets the rate of trade for all transactions.
This aint some make-believe thing tied to a RV thats going to save the planet (we call that the Iraqi dinar) and yes I believe in the dinar.
It's a real thing that is based on the 6 top currencies of the world. Please look in to it and gold is not involved, oil either.
8-11-2012 Whatsthis: First off, baskets of currency are controlled by the World Bank & IMF together. As for which currency will go when, I believe it is up to the country as to how much they will raise or lower their currency.
Take China as an example they are under valued & have are being pushed to raise it but they will set it at what they feel is the right amount to keep inflation down.
Now as for a reset button that is guru talk. But keep in mind when 2 or 3 currencies gain in value & are used as reserve currency it can have an effect on others. How much it can effect it I have no clue.
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CAGE to sue David Cameron for calling it 'extremist' ISIS and Jihadi John supporting group
CONTROVERSIAL advocacy group CAGE is to launch legal action against David Cameron for calling it an "extremist" organisation which supports Islamic State (ISIS) and Jihadi John.
Mohammed Emwazi went from a London teen to an ISIS executioner
The Prime Minister came down hard on the group as he laid out plans to stamp out ISIS, but CAGE has defended itself today and said it is seeking legal advice on whether Mr Cameron is "guilty of defamation".
Speaking in Birmingham yesterday, Mr Cameron said: "I want to say something to the National Union of Students.
"When you choose to ally yourselves with an organisation like CAGE, which called Jihadi John a 'beautiful young man' and told people to 'support the jihad' in Iraq and Afghanistan it really does, in my opinion, shame your organisation and your noble history of campaigning for justice."
When west Londoner Mohammed Emwazi was ousted as the ISIS executioner nicknamed Jihadi John, CAGE's research director, Asim Qureshi, said he was a "beautiful young man" when they had known him before.
In a video in 2006 Mr Qureshi called to "support the jihad of our brothers and sisters" in the Middle East at a protest outside the US Embassy.
But today CAGE said it has "never supported terrorism in any way" and maintained it works to "stand against torture and against the violation of human rights" by using the rule of law to end the "war on terror".
We are not the problem, even though our call for dialogue and conciliation may not be welcome by the Government
As well as potentially launching legal action against the Prime Minister, CAGE also announced today it has applied for a judicial review against UK charity watchdog, the Charity Commission.
CAGE says the commission "exceeded its role as government regulator" by pressuring donors to stop funding it and claims the Charity Commission "spread false information based on misleading reports in certain sections of the media".
It said the commission "demonised" CAGE because Jihadi John approached it for advice before he left to fight for ISIS in Syria.
The organisation is not stopping there on the warpath against the establishment - it has also complained to the United Nations (UN) about "sustained attacks on its ability to do its advocacy work", which it says involves campaigning for the rights "of those adversely affected by the war on terror".
CAGE research director Asim Qureshi spoke in defence of Mohammed Emwazi
Tonight, Dr Adnan Siddiqui, director of CAGE, said: "The concerted efforts to demonise CAGE are counter-productive and fits into a broader counter-terrorism strategy that is founded on a combative, securitised approach that will increase the chance of politically motivated violence, rather than counter it."
He said CAGE is "taking steps to challenge this strategy" and warned "maligning" the organisation will damage efforts made by others in British society who are searching for solutions "to issues that affect all of society".
Dr Siddiqui added: "We are not the problem, even though our call for dialogue and conciliation may not be welcome by the Government.
"We are looking to all fair minded people to join us in preventing alienation, division and fear with a view to preserving the basic freedoms that have been the fruits of the struggles of previous generations."
The Prime Minister's office said it would not be commenting on the allegations.