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Bacteria cause plague-like bumps to grow in the cat owner
A 68-year-old man took care of his sick cat. The veterinarian diagnosed cat leukemia without confirming it through laboratory tests. The veterinarian gave the man the medication prednisone to treat his cat, which he administered to his pet at home. The cat died a short time later. Two days later, the 68-year-old began to develop swelling like swelling on the right side of the neck, which he used to go to the hospital. The doctors diagnosed that his cat had infected him with tularemia.
Plagued by fever and huge painful plague-like swellings on the neck, the 68-year-old American from Missouri introduced himself at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. The doctors found Francisella tularensis bacteria in a blood test. These can trigger the zoonosis tularemia. Zoonoses are diseases that can spread from animals to humans. The case was recently published in the "New England Journal of Medicine".
Infected by your own domestic cat
Apparently the deceased cat had caught the bacteria and transferred them to their owner. "Domestic cats can become infected by eating contaminated prey and transmit the bacteria to humans," the doctors write in the description of the disease. The patient was treated with the antibiotic doxycycline for four weeks, after which the symptoms improved.
What is tularemia?
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), tularemia is an infectious disease caused by very resistant bacteria of the Francisella tularensis type. The subspecies common in North America can cause very violent disease courses, which are fatal in around 60 percent of cases. The germs common in Europe are a little less dangerous, but can also cause serious clinical pictures. According to the RKI, the North American pathogens belong to risk group 3 and are even classified as a potential biological weapon pathogen.
What are the symptoms of tularemia?
As the RKI reports, the symptoms of tularemia are non-specific. Flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, body aches, lymph node swelling, chills and general malaise often occur. There are also deviations in the clinical picture, which depend on the way in which the germs got into the body. In the current case, it was a glandular (caused by skin contact) tularemia. In this form, strong local lymph node swellings are typical, which may show suppuration and necrosis.
How common is tularemia?
Between 100 and 200 cases of tularemia are registered in the United States each year. "In Germany, between 20 and 30 cases of this disease, which has to be reported according to the IfSG, have been sent to the RKI annually in the past few years," RKI experts report in a guide to the disease. However, it is likely that the actual number of cases is much higher.
Where do the pathogens occur?
The RKI experts report that the tularemia pathogen can spread in many different hosts. These include, for example, small mammals such as rabbits, rabbits or mice, but also wild animals and pets such as cats can absorb the pathogen. Furthermore, the bacteria can be found in blood-sucking insects such as brakes, mosquitoes and ticks.
How to get infected with tularemia
"Francisella tularensis is a highly infectious agent," write the RKI doctors. Ten pathogens can already cause tularemia. The disease can be transmitted from animals to humans. However, a person-to-person transmission is not known. You can get infected with tularemia in the following ways:
- Skin or mucous membrane contact with infected animals or their excretions,
- Consuming contaminated meat that has not been heated sufficiently
- Drinking contaminated water,
- Inhalation of contaminated dust (e.g. when mowing the lawn or doing hay),
- Stings and bites from contaminated blood-sucking insects.

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... Miss Tanaka, based on a short story by Xavier Herbert, was the writer’s last major play in Melbourne.
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In June the White House released a report on the recent increase in number of patent assertion entities (PAEs), commonly known as patent trolls. PAEs obtain patents for the purpose of extracting royalties from other businesses, sometimes threatening to sue thousands of small companies at once. Suits filed by patent trolls have tripled in the past two years; their victims paid $29 billion in 2011, a 400 percent increase from 2005.
While the government is cracking down on abusive patent litigation, Jonathan Ezor, the director of the Institute for Business, Law and Technology in Central Islip, N. Y., doesn’t envision the problem going away entirely. “My overall advice includes a full awareness of patent-related risks and the tools to manage them,” he says.
Who’s at Risk
Because patent claims are written so broadly, Ezor says, it’s easy to become a target by unknowingly using patented software or machinery. However, recent PAE suits have been concentrated in IT, so the average corner bakery is probably safe. But you might want to talk to your lawyer before advertising your new baking method. “Once you’ve done something that may be new and you’re telling the world about it, that does expose you [to potential litigation],” says Ezor.
Two measures can provide extra protection for highly inventive companies:
1.Patent Portfolios: Companies in industries like electronics and biochemicals that are driven by patentable inventions—and whose competitors are building patent portfolios—should consider whether their own inventions are patentable and, if they are, obtaining patents for them, says Ezor.
Owning multiple patents could ward off trolls, who might see your patent portfolio as a reflection of your ability to countersue. “The more patents a business has,” says Ezor, “the more likely it might find one the troll [is] infringing.”
2.Insurance: The White House study estimated the median cost of litigation was $650,000 for smaller cases. Patent insurance is prohibitively expensive for many small businesses, but high-risk companies may want to research their patent insurance options.
Should you receive a threatening letter from a PAE, don’t assume you can’t fight back. Before calling your lawyer, contact a trade association in your industry to determine whether other companies have received similar letters. The Business Technology Association, for example, advises members to ignore certain letters, and bigger companies than yours may have successfully fought the same claim.

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SINGAPORE - A special-education teacher's tale with her Internet lover started in September.
The 28-year-old met the man claiming to be an American on Facebook, after receiving a random message from him. And she came out of it about $20,000 poorer.
"He would call me every day and talk to me. He fell in love very fast. He would use (terms) like 'you are the one' and so on," she told My Paper in an e-mail interview. She did not want to be named.
The man claimed to have a child from a previous marriage, and it was his "emotional play" that convinced the victim.
"He sent me many pictures of her. He said he had no one back home, just his sister, who was not working and taking care of his kid," she said.
She claimed that she was suspicious the whole time. Nevertheless, she sent him money, over and over again.
Just two weeks after they started talking, he said he was going to Britain on business.
While there, he asked her to help him pay for his hotel accommodation. He said that he could not access his bank account in the United States because there was "funny activity" in his account.
Then, he had to "go back" to the US to get money. She paid for his "flight" back home but, halfway through the journey, he was not allowed to continue because he did not have the sufficient "basic travel allowance" required.
She sent him a further £4,400 (S$7,390) at that point. She did not go to the police, but went to the Embassy of the United States to verify his identity. They advised her to stop sending money immediately.
She did. But, even after she stopped answering his calls, he called her for three weeks. He also got a "lawyer" to call her to say he needed more money.
Asked why she had agreed to his requests, she said: "The problem is he was not like other scammers... He is still asking and he is still sticking to his story.
"His story seems to hold out. But the problem is so many misfortunes befall him."
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Tim Squirrell has had a bad week. I’m sure we all know the story of Oxford’s cancelled abortion debate and the ensuing argument about free speech that broke out across Twitter, Facebook, The Spectator, The Telegraph, and The Tab, but in case you’ve been hibernating: The Cambridge Union’s President, Tim Squirrell, got himself involved in quite a big way.
“I wrote an article for The Cambridge Tab titled, ‘Freedom of Speech doesn’t mean you get whatever platform you want,’ which I didn’t think was particularly controversial, but turns out is. I didn’t say ‘I hate free speech,’ which most people thought I did; I said there were limits on free speech, which most people agree there is, like hate speech laws. Continue reading

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A shooting rampage carried out by a seventh-grade student in Belgrade, Serbia, at Vladislav Ribnikar primary school resulted in the deaths of eight children and a security guard, as reported by Serbian police.
The incident occurred around 8:40 a.m. in the upscale Vracar neighborhood. Belgrade Police Chief Veselin Miljic revealed in a news conference that the student, whose motive remains unknown, had planned the attack for a considerable period. The student entered the school with two pistols and four Molotov cocktails.
Police were alerted to the situation by the school’s vice principal, Ivanka Jovanovic. The perpetrator later contacted authorities to report the shooting and provide the school’s address.
Police apprehended the suspect in the schoolyard, and six children and a teacher were taken to the hospital for injuries sustained in the attack. District Mayor Milan Nedeljkovic confirmed that a security guard was killed while trying to stop the shooter.
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During a state media interview, Nedeljkovic praised the security guard’s efforts to prevent further tragedy and acknowledged the unprecedented nature of the event. The Clinical Center of Serbia’s director, Milika Asanin, stated that three students and a teacher were being treated for gunshot wounds at the facility’s emergency center.
Serbia’s Health Minister Danica Grujicic reported that one student sustained life-threatening injuries, while another student and the teacher were in stable condition. Serbia’s Minister of Education, Branko Ruzic, confirmed three days of official mourning beginning on May 7.
Local TV broadcasts showed numerous emergency vehicles and onlookers at the scene. Photos released by news agencies depicted the student being detained by police, who have not provided a motive for the shooting.
A statement from Serbia’s Ministry of Public Affairs indicated that all police forces were working to uncover the facts surrounding the tragedy.
Gun violence is uncommon in Serbia, although many Serbs keep weapons at home for protection due to the stockpiles remaining from the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
A mass shooting in 2013 resulted in 13 deaths when a 60-year-old man opened fire in a village near Belgrade.
In a similar vein, a recent incident in Texas saw a fugitive apprehended after a ruthless attack, shedding light on the global challenge of addressing such violent outbreaks.
Experts have consistently highlighted the issue of leftover weapons in Serbia following the 1990s wars. They also point out that prolonged instability from these conflicts, combined with ongoing economic struggles, may spark such violent incidents.
Milan Milosevic, whose daughter was in a history class during the shooting, spoke to N1 television about his reaction to the news. He initially couldn’t find any information about his daughter’s whereabouts but eventually received a call from her confirming she was safe.
According to Milosevic’s daughter, the shooter targeted the teacher first before firing at the children who took cover under their desks. She described the shooter as a quiet and well-behaved student.
Police cordoned off the area surrounding the Vladislav Ribnikar school, located in central Belgrade. Serbian primary schools consist of eight grades.


Political Coverage from Austin to Texas on the Potomac in D.C.
Monthly Archive for April, 2011
In what one lawmaker described as a “Sophie’s Choice,” the House voted 67-61 to gut the Commission on the Arts in order to put $3.5 million more into community services for people who are elderly and have disabilities. The proposal by Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, caused consternation from the moment he offered it. “It’s the […] [Read More]
The House began debating a bare-bones budget for the next two years after a pre-emptive news conference by Republicans who say they expect to be painted as “heartless” but that they’re really practicing “tough love.” “We know that short-term, feel-good, share-the wealth approaches to solving our problems by the Democrats are a recipe for disaster,” […] [Read More]
On this day — the House takes up HB1 and the 371 amendments attached to it; the politics of the Rainy Day Fund vote last night; the Senate adds more spending to its budget proposal; the roads funding crisis isn’t looking any better; campus-carry legislation leaves committee in the Senate. [Read More]


It’s time for us to check up on stats outside of the King/Snohomish core with our “Around the Sound” statistics for Pierce, Kitsap, Thurston, Island, Skagit, and Whatcom counties.
If there is certain data you would like to see or ways you would like to see the data presented differently, drop a comment below and let me know.
First up, a summary table:
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Next we’ll have a look at median prices in January compared to a year earlier. The biggest price gains in January were in King, Snohomish, and Skagit counties again, while Kitsap and Thurston counties saw prices lower than a year ago.
Listings are increasing year-over-year in King, Snohomish, Pierce, Thurston, and Skagit. Listings are still down from a year ago in Kitsap, Island, and Whatcom. Snohomish county continues to post the largest gains with home listings up 33.2% there from January 2013.
Closed sales fell in January in King, Snohomish, and Skagit, but were up from a year ago in all the other counties.
Here’s a chart showing months of supply this January and last January. I’ve switched to calculating months of supply based on closed sales instead of pending sales to remain consistent with what NWMLS is reporting, but this change is easy to apply across the whole data set, so the numbers are still comparable across time. In January Skagit County joined the close-in counties with improvements in months of supply, but the measure is still declining in Thurston, Island, and Whatcom.
To close things out, here’s a chart comparing January’s median price to the peak price in each county. Everybody is still down between 13 percent (Whatcom) and 31 percent (Island).
It looks like things are slowing down and softening ever so slightly across most of the region. Listings on the rise, sales flat to down, and home price gains shrinking. Without a big surge in listings, this spring is likely to be frustrating for buyers, but not as bad as last year thanks to decreased demand.


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Having fun on a budget in South Carolina
South Carolina is a wonderful place to explore. Families on a budget will find plenty of fun and exciting things to do in the Palmetto State.
Take a road trip
Road trips are a lot of fun for families, and there are quite a few options in South Carolina. Take a drive from Walhalla to Whitewater Falls and see the beautiful mountains, rivers, waterfalls, and forests. Pack a picnic, stop frequently for photos and to stretch your legs, and spend the day meandering through SC’s most beautiful scenery.
Drive to Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, take the ferry, and spend the day exploring the 66,000-acre avian sanctuary. This area is famous for their Loggerhead Turtle population and has two lighthouses as well as Boneyard Beach.
Soak up some southern history
Visit Camden in Kershaw County. You’ll find Goodale State Park, centered around a mill pond, with miles of trails. Rent a kayak or canoe, relax by the old swimming hole or fish from the shoreline.
Camden is South Carolina’s oldest inland town, so you’ll get plenty of military history, Native American culture, and a close look at how people lived hundreds of years ago.
Spend the day at a beach
Bonneau Beach at Lake Moultrie is an excellent place to relax in the South Carolina summer sun. Bring a picnic and stay for the glorious sunset. The Lake Moultrie Loop is full of fun stuff to do, as well. Visit Diversion Canal, General Francis Burial Site, and Pinopolis.
If you want to camp or rent a cabin, check out beautiful Hunting State Park. It’s just 30 minutes from Hilton Head and has 5,000 acres of fun. Fish off the pier, see South Carolina’s only accessible lighthouse and walk the trails. Four miles of sandy beaches should keep you busy for days.
Tour a museum
For the budget-conscious vacationer, Columbia offers five museums to tour at no charge. Start at the SC Law Enforcement Officers Hall of Fame with its 1950s State Highway Patrol car. Then stop by the City of Columbia Fire Department Museum to see two full-sized historic firefighting vehicles.
See the giant collection of shells, fossils, gems, and minerals at the McKissick Museum, and check out the South Carolina Museum of Education to see programs and exhibitions. Or take a trip to The South Carolina Military Museum and Fort Jackson Museums to see the state’s military history unfold.
You don’t have to blow your budget in search of fun and adventure this summer in South Carolina. This beautiful state has more than enough to keep your family content while providing plenty of quality time together. If you need some extra funds for vacation or help getting ready for Back to School, consider a personal installment loan. This can help you spread out the cost over several months, with equal monthly installments.
Looking for more savings tips? Check out our helpful guide on The Basics of Saving Money.
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The stage is set at the Buddh International Circuit for Vettel to probably wrap-up the 2013 championship.
If Japan’s Suzuka, scene of Sebastian Vettel’s strategically astute ninth win of the season last time out, is regarded as one of the greatest of Formula One’s ‘classic’ circuits, this weekend sees the championship move to a track that has been widely praised as one the finest recent additions to the calendar – India’s Buddh International Circuit.
The location for round 16 of the 2013 F1 World Championship features good changes of elevation, two long, fast straights and a technically challenging middle sector that features the tricky multiple apex Turn 10. The circuit has quickly proved popular with the sport’s drivers, who appreciate it having the second highest average speed of the year after Monza, but also the skill required to hook up a good lap around its 5.125km length.
Getting that perfect lap requires a car that treads a very fine line in balancing the speed needed to get the best from the long straights and good aerodynamic grip and balance for the middle sector.
Vettel’s victory in Japan, his fifth win in a row this year, has given him a 90-point advantage over Fernando Alonso in the Drivers’ Championship and with the Ferrari driver all but conceding defeat in the wake of the race at Suzuka, this weekend could see Vettel crowned champion. The Red Bull driver needs fifth place or better here to become just the fourth driver in F1 history to win four titles and only the third to win four in a row – alongside Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher.
Meanwhile, in the Constructors’ Championship, Red Bull Racing have 445 points, compared with 297 for nearest rival Ferrari, so the Milton Keynes-based team can this weekend also conceivably wrap up the manufacturers’ title.


SMK outs PadDock 10 for the iPad
SMK has introduced a brand-new speaker dock for the Apple iPad, christened the PadDock 10. The SMK PadDock 10 features a very rare 360 degrees rotation of the cradle grips for the tablet with the speaker being static. And while doing this, the iPad can still play music regardless of the orientation. This is possible because of the position of the speaker right below where the iPad would rest, not compromising the free rotation angle of the cradle grips. The only problem is when you want to listen to the speaker facing you – in that case you’ll have to turn the whole unit around.
Additionally, the dock also has USB support which helps it to derive power from another computer to charge the iPad and also sync with the computer. Although, syncing is optional; you can always turn it off with a toggle switch while still using it to charge the iPad.
The PadDock 10 by itself doesn’t require any power source to work with the iPad. Moreover, the SMK speaker dock features a curved design; and with the iPad on it, is reminiscent of an iMac. The PadDock10 is now available for pre-ordering and will in all probability be shipping to your doorstep by November 1. The SMK product has been intelligently priced at $100, and with the Apple iPad sales trend seeing an upwards direction ever since its launch, the PadDock 10 will surely find a good chunk of buyers for itself provided it justifies the price tag through the quality of the speakers.


ACA: Consumers Need FCC Waiver For Low-Cost HD Boxes
According to published reports, the Federal Communications Commission at its April 21 public meeting will launch a rulemaking that will allow low-capacity cable systems to offer consumers low-cost, integrated HD set-top boxes in an effort to help these providers reclaim bandwidth and accelerate their roll out of faster broadband speeds and other advanced digital services.
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FCC Loses Broadband Network Management Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with Comcast Corp. in an April 6 ruling that said the Federal Communications Commission failed to show that it had the necessary legal authority to stop the cable company from blocking peer-to-peer Internet file-sharing traffic as a network management tool.
ACA Calls For Ending Pole Attachment Exemptions For Electric Cooperatives, Municipal Utilities
The American Cable Association strongly supports ending the federal exemption that allows electric cooperatives and municipally owned utilities to charge small cable operators excessive fees to access their poles, conduits, and other bottleneck facilities that are critical elements in the deployment of broadband networks and other advanced communications services in historically unserved and underserved communities.
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Rep. Stupak To Deliver Capitol Hill Keynote Remarks At ACA's 17th Annual Summit
PITTSBURGH, April 13, 2010 – The American Cable Association is very pleased to announce that U.S. Rep. Bark Stupak (D-Mich.), a longtime telecommunications policy leader whose nine-term House career is coming to a close in January, will deliver the Capitol Hill keynote speech during this year's ACA Summit. Rep. Stupak's remarks will be made on Tuesday, April 20 at 1:15 p.m.
"We are delighted that Rep. Stupak will be joining us at this year's ACA Summit," ACA President and CEO Matthew M. Polka said. "The ACA Summit is the perfect forum for such a distinguished Member of Congress to share his policy views with the independent cable operator community that is always focused on the communications needs of rural America."
On Friday, Rep. Stupak announced his retirement from Congress at the end of his current two-year term. Rep. Stupak opted to step aside to pursue new interests after playing a critical role in last month’s passage of the landmark health care reform law. Ensuring universal health coverage was a longtime policy goal of Rep. Stupak.
“Change in Washington is not only about the policy, but it’s about the process, too.” Polka added. “And who better to talk about how bills become laws than Congressman Stupak, who was central to the passage of the historic health care legislation. ACA Summit attendees will get an insider’s account.”
- An Internet For Everybody (The New York Times, 04/10)
Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the legal authority to tell Comcast not to block certain uses of its Internet access services. This decision has become a rip-the-Band-Aid-off moment for the regulatory agency, forcing it to reconsider its effort to impose “network neutrality” by requiring that Internet access providers treat all content equally.
- Comcast, NCTA Want FCC To Exempt HD DTAs For All Operators (Multichannel News, 04/09)
Comcast and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association executives are urging the Federal Communications Commission to make the case that all cable operators -- not just those with bandwidth-constrained systems -- should be allowed to deploy low-cost HD boxes with integrated security in an exemption of agency rules.
- Sky Angel Files Program Access Complaint Against Discovery (Broadcasting & Cable, 04/09)
IPTV distributor Sky Angel has filed both a program access complaint at the FCC and also asked for a standstill order on its current contract.
- NCTA, Comcast Push For Blanket HD Box Exemption (Light Reading Cable, 04/09)
Representatives from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand a proposed exemption for high-definition-capable Digital Terminal Adapter (DTA) boxes with embedded security to all cable systems, and not merely to more bandwidth-strapped properties with 552MHz or less of activated channel capacity.
- Broadband Funds Stimulate Laments From Companies (The Daily Reflector, 04/08)
When Congress included $7.2 billion for broadband in last year's stimulus bill, its goal was to bring high-speed Internet connections and information-age jobs to parts of the country desperate for both things.
- FCC To Start Tackling Broadcast Spectrum Issues This Year (Broadcasting & Cable, 04/08)
The FCC has released its broadband implementation schedule. The release was announced by FCC Chief of Staff Edward Lazarus, who said it would include a 2010 start for its spectrum reclamation plans, though Lazarus said the commission is sensitive to broadcasters ongoing and important role.
- Powell Warns FCC Not To "Stretch" Authority (NationalJournal.com, 04/08)
A former GOP chairman of the FCC warns that if the commission attempts to "stretch" its current authority to more aggressively oversee broadband services as some groups are urging it to do in the wake of a Tuesday court ruling the FCC will continue to face legal challenges.
- Public Activist Groups Want FCC Public Field Hearings On Comcast/NBCU Union (Multichannel News, 04/07)
Public activist groups that are also veteran critics of the proposed Comcast/NBCU joint venture are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to hold public field hearings on the deal.
- FCC: Key Parts Of Broadband Plan In Flux After Court Decision (The Washington Post, 04/07)
The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it is committed to overseeing Internet services, but that a loss in a federal court earlier this week hinders its ability to carry out some key policies related to its national broadband plan.
- NTIA Hopes To Hand Out Balance Of Broadband Funds By End Of September (Multichannel News, 04/07)
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration said Wednesday that it has received 867 applications for $11 billion in the second round of bidding for broadband stimulus funds.
- Uncertainty For FCC's 'Net Neutrality' In Wake Of Comcast Ruling (Law.com, 04/07)
In the wake of a stinging defeat in court, the Federal Communications Commission finds its ability to regulate the Internet in question, its signature "net neutrality" initiative hanging by a thread. Now, the agency faces several unpalatable options.
- FCC Dealt Significant Blow In Net Neutrality Ruling Favoring Comcast (The Hill, 04/06)
A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt a significant blow to the Obama administration and net neutrality advocates, ruling that the Federal Communications Commission has no authority to regulate how Web providers manage their network traffic.
- Incongruous National Broadband Plan? (TMCNet.com, 04/05)
Barbara Esbin, director of the Center for Communications and Competition Policy at The Progress & Freedom Foundation, points out an apparent anamoly you might have noticed when reading the actual text of the Federal Communications Commission’s “National Broadband Plan,” which is to say the data it presents, and the problems it seeks to solve, to not jibe.
- Lawmakers Seek FCC Action In AT&T-Cox Spat (NationalJournal.com, 04/05)
In the latest in a string of programming squabbles, AT&T has recruited the help of two San Diego-area U.S. House members in its spat with Cox Communications over sports programming.
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The galaxy M87 as seen by LOFAR (radio emission is show in yellow/orange, visible light in blue/white). At the centre, the brightest radio emission shows where the jet powered by the supermassive black hole is located. Credit: Francesco de Gasperin, on behalf of the LOFAR collaboration. Optical image: SDSS
Using LOFAR, astronomers have produced one of the best images ever made at the lowest frequencies of giant bubbles produced by a supermassive black hole. The observations were performed at between 20 and 160 MHz, frequencies normally used for communications by airline pilots. The picture shows what looks like a giant balloon filled with radio emitting plasma, which exceeds the size of an entire galaxy.
The image was made during the test-phase of LOFAR, and targeted the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, at the centre of a galaxy cluster in the constellation of Virgo. This galaxy is 2000 times more massive than our Milky Way and hosts in its centre one of the most massive black holes discovered so far, with a mass six billion times that of our Sun. Every few minutes this black hole swallows an amount of matter similar to that of the whole Earth, converting part of it into radiation and a larger part into powerful jets of ultra-fast particles, which are responsible for the observed radio emission.
To determine the age of the bubble, the authors added radio observations at different frequencies from the Very Large Array in New Mexico (USA), and the Effelsberg 100-meter radio telescope near Bonn (Germany). The team found that this bubble is surprisingly young, just about 40 million years, which is a mere instant on cosmic time scales. The low-frequency observation does not reveal any relic emission outside the well-confined bubble boundaries, this means that the bubble is not just a relic of an activity that happened long ago but is constantly refilled with fresh particles ejected by the central black hole.


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On September 19, 2016, the UN General Assembly met to discuss the continuing plight of migrants and refugees with the aim of coordinating global efforts to resolve the crisis in a humane fashion. And on September 20, President Obama hosted a long anticipated Leaders Summit.
The Berkley Forum asks contributors to consider the ethical implications of both UN-coordinated international efforts and individual state policy to address what is aptly termed a crisis. What is the moral and the practical responsibility of different international actors? What in practice can they do most effectively? How can the United Nations encourage European nations to allow refugees to enter their territory and provide economic and other forms of support to those who remain? How might individual states tackle their internal security concerns while still accommodating the needs of migrants and refugees, and what are the religious dimensions of their concerns and responses? What role can and do religious institutions play in encouraging both state and individual assistance in this crisis? Finally, how might religious and ethical considerations shape UN and national policies regarding refugees?
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I’ve wanted to write a short blog post surrounding my cat for a while now but I’ve just never got around to doing it. This seems like the perfect time to talk about her on my blog.
Before we get into the post, below is a photo of my cat. Her name is Indy.
Now, my cat is from the RSPCA so when we first brought her home she was a nervous cat, but that’s expected. She would always find herself places to hide like under our beds. Also, she was already named by the RSPCA as Indy so we decided to keep her name the same rather than changing it!
Around this time two years ago was when we brought her home from the RSPCA which is crazy because it’s flown by. It feels like we’ve had her in our home for much longer but I definitely couldn’t imagine life without her or what life was like before we had her.
Before we brought Indy home I was never a huge fan of cats. Yes, I thought they were cute, but at the time I definitely preferred dogs over cats. Since she’s been a part of our household and home I’ve definitely switched to more of a cat lover which I never expected!
Now we have had her for a couple of years she’s very settled and comfortable around us all and with her surroundings. In all honesty she prefers my mum and I over anybody else in our house. She always enjoys being near me whenever I’m on my laptop and sleeps somewhere close by to me, it’s adorable and I wouldn’t have it any other way!
Although Indy is comfortable around us she’s still wary of other people that she doesn’t know. Whenever she’s outside she’ll avoid other people and just do her own thing. I guess this is a good thing because she knows who to trust!
Either way she’s definitely a lot more comfortable than when we first brought her home which is great. It’s nice to know that you can give a pet who may not have had a great start in life an environment where they can relax and live a happy life with people who will treat them right. I know that in the future when I get my own place and want my own pets then I’ll definitely be going down to my local RSPCA centre.
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The boys from Aussie outfit Cut Copy are back with a brand new video to complement their latest single ‘Blink And You’ll Miss A Revolution’.
It’s all very primitive, you see, with gorillas wandering through the darkest jungle when they come across a selection of people praying. Naturally, these primates believe that they’re praying to the wrong god and set about reeling them in with their funky-ass tunes. But it’s the tools they use to play these musical instruments that makes things very interesting indeed.
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Nearly half of early retirees were forced out of work by poor health or redundancy, new research from retirement specialist Just Group has found. While early retirement may be a desire for some, the survey, of 1,043 UK retired and semi-retired adults aged 55+, found for nearly half (48 percent) of people who stopped working earlier than they had planned, doing so was more of an “unwelcome drama”.
The research found that among retired people aged 55+ who said they had stopped working earlier than they expected, one-third (33 percent) did so due to poor health or physical problems.
Meanwhile, 15 percent said they had lost their job and were unable to find another.
In contrast, a quarter of those asked (25 percent) said they stopped working because they felt their pensions and savings were enough that they could afford to retire.
The main reason for eight percent of those asked was so they could provide care for a family member.
A further two percent said they gave up work due to an inheritance.
Another two percent stopped because they no longer needed the income because their partner was still working.
Stephen Lowe, group communications director at Just Group, said: “Nearly half (47 percent) of retired over-55s said they had stopped working earlier than they had expected compared to 43 percent who said they retired when they expected and nine percent who retired later.
“Going forward it will be interesting to track whether COVID-19 has forced more people out of the workforce prematurely or whether the economic insecurity has led to people putting off their retirements for longer.”
Mr Lowe went on to suggest the research has important implications for later life planning and for policymakers considering future rises in the state pension age.
“People don’t necessarily have the luxury of choosing the point they exit the labour market and many do so knowing their pensions and savings will not be sufficient,” he said.
“This reinforces the importance of using Pension Wise guidance – the free, impartial and independent Government-backed service offered to the over-50s considering how best to use their pensions – to ensure people understand their pension options but are also aware of state benefits which may help them plug a financial gap if they have to leave work earlier than expected.”
A Pension Wise appointment offers specialist pension guidance, and it should last between 45 and 60 minutes.
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In the UK there is no longer a set retirement age, meaning it’s possible to work for as long as one likes.
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In the past, the state pension age was 60 for women and 65 for men.
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I love music. Remember one of the reasons you decided to learn English is not only to become more successful in life and understand the language. It is also so that you can enjoy the language and culture. Listening to English songs and reading the lyrics along with the song is not only a great way to improve English but a great way to enjoy it. The following is a list of my top ten favorite Artists and songs for improving your English. There should be something for everyone in this list. We have all kinds of genres like country, folk, blues, country,reggae, rap, and much more. I hope that the following list will introduce you some new artists and songs .
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Finally! Here is the press release sent to us by Safeway this morning. All looks fine and dandy, but look at the bolded area:
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PLEASANTON, Calif.— February 25, 2011— Property Development Centers (PDC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Safeway Inc., announced today that it will begin construction on approximately 13 acres in the Canyon Park area of Bothell, Washington to develop a 150,000 square foot shopping center that will be anchored by a new Safeway supermarket. Construction will begin the end of February with an estimated completion of September 2011.
The new center, Lakeside at Canyon Park, will be located at the southwest corner of 240thStreetand Everett on Bothell Highway. Lakeside at Canyon Park is an upscale community of over 4,000 existing single-family homes and apartment units.
“We are excited to begin this project and bring to the people of Bothell and the Canyon Park area the superior shopping experience, convenience and retail variety that they need and deserve” said David Zylstra, Chief Operating Officer of PDC.” Please visit our project website at www.Safeway.com/Bothell.
The Safeway at Canyon Park will be over 50,000 square feet and will feature full-service seafood, meat and deli departments, as well as a full-service bakery, and a Starbucks. The store will also have expanded organic and conventional produce departments, expanded beer and wine selection and a full-service pharmacy.
“This is going to be a special store with a broad range of products and services tailored to tastes and needs of the CanyonParkcommunity,” said Safeway President, Greg Sparks. “We have been serving the Bothell market continuously for nearly 60 years, and we look forward to extending that record through this important project.”
In addition to the Safeway, the project will include six shop buildings with approximately 40,000 square feet of retail space immediately available for lease. Scott Blankenship, John Booth and John Zunick with Wallace Properties of Bellevue, WA (www.wallaceproperties.com) are the listing brokers.
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Property Development Centers is a national shopping center development company developing centers for and with Safeway as one of the major anchor tenants. PDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Safeway Inc., a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America, based on sales. Safeway Inc. operates 1,725 stores in the United States and western Canada and had annual sales of $40.8 billion in 2009. The company’s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SWY.
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Morning Bell: President Obama's "Pro-Business" Policies Are Killing the Free Market
Posted By Conn Carroll On February 24, 2010 @ 9:43 am In Ongoing Priorities | Comments Disabled
Last night President Barack Obama held a behind-closed-door dinner  with 17 chief executive officers from major U.S. corporations including Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase, Verizon Communications’ Ivan Seidenberg, and General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt. According to Bloomberg , the President made the case to his select guests that his administration is “fundamentally business-friendly.” This comes almost two weeks after the President told BusinessWeek : “[T]he irony is, is that on the left we are perceived as being in the pockets of Big Business. And then on the business side, we are perceived as being anti-business.”
What the President fails to understand is that there is no irony here. It is entirely consistent for big government policies that favor select and politically connected big corporations to hurt the economy as a whole. In fact, almost all well-intentioned government interventions in the market place do exactly that. In a July 2009 interview with BusinessWeek , President Obama spoke of an earlier behind-closed-door meeting he had with top corporate executives:
The last lunch that I had, I guess we had the CEOs of Xerox (XRX), AT&T (T), Honeywell (HON), and Coke (KO). We talked about the fact that, in the 1980s, when everybody was afraid Japan was going to eat our lunch, a lot of companies did a 180 in terms of quality improvement, efficiency, increasing productivity. There was a change in corporate culture that significantly boosted corporate productivity for a long time and helped create the boom of the ’90s. What they pointed out was, there were a couple of sectors that were resistant to that: health care, education, energy, and government.
[What we're saying] matches up almost perfectly with what those CEOs were saying: Can we introduce the same sort of productivity in the health-care industry, which we know is going to be a growing sector because of the aging population? Can we use the need to transition our energy economy in such a way that it ends up being a huge engine for economic growth? Can we revamp our education system so that it’s producing the kind of workers we need? … we need to get beyond this notion that somehow government is always just the problem.
But as others  have pointed out , the reason the health care, education, and energy sectors all failed to improve quality, efficiency, and productivity in the 80s is because those sectors were, and continue to be, the sectors most dominated by government intervention: our education system is a near total government monopoly ; the federal government controls the majority of health care spending in this country , and our environmental laws make new energy development in this country virtually impossible . But President Obama seems completely oblivious to these facts. He is supremely confident that his government “pro-business” interventions will be ahistorically successful. And so he confidently tells BusinessWeek : “You would be hard-pressed to identify a piece of legislation that we have proposed out there that, net, is not good for businesses.”
Never mind that President Obama’s cap and trade proposal would be worth billions to select power companies but cost the U.S. economy as a whole trillions of dollars . Never mind that his health care plan would turn health insurance companies into public-utility like monopolies  at tremendous cost to small businesses . Never mind that the President’s big labor-friendly tax hikes would cripple American competitiveness . President Obama’s “pro-business” TARP related actions helped lower the United States rank in the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom , from “free” to “mostly free.” The President must stop having behind-closed-door meetings with his favorite CEOs and start pursuing an economic agenda that helps everyone.
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URL to article: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/02/24/morning-bell-president-obamas-pro-business-policies-are-killing-the-free-market/
URLs in this post:
 behind-closed-door dinner: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aU9tIuyE50hU#
 BusinessWeek: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_08/b4167032896448.htm
 BusinessWeek: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/09_32/b4142000676096.htm
 others: http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/the-lessons-of-the-80s/
 have pointed out: http://agenda.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWJjMTIxNWFmYmEzNTc1YzY5Y2JjMGVmNWE2YmI4ZDg=
 our education system is a near total government monopoly: http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/02/17/government%E2%80%99s-evil-education-monopoly/
 the federal government controls the majority of health care spending in this country: http://www.foundry.org/2010/02/04/has-obamacare-already-won-existing-government-programs-to-take-over-health-care-by-2012/
 our environmental laws make new energy development in this country virtually impossible: http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg2341.cfm
 cost the U.S. economy as a whole trillions of dollars: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Economy/bg2365.cfm
 turn health insurance companies into public-utility like monopolies: http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/hl1145.cfm
 tremendous cost to small businesses: http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm2606.cfm
 the President’s big labor-friendly tax hikes would cripple American competitiveness: http://www.foundry.org/2009/05/08/morning-bell-obamas-job-killing-tax-plan/
 2010 Index of Economic Freedom: http://www.jobsandfreedom.com/
 Associated Press: http://blog.heritage.org http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100223/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul
 Democratic congressional leaders are beginning to face the reality: http://blog.heritage.org http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100223/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul_65
 Rasmussen Reports poll: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform
 President Obama’s aggressive domestic policy agenda sparked a boom on K Street: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/83021-ambitious-agenda-pushes-k-street-salaries-skyward
 the Socialist government’s: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704240004575084853361540506.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird
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Weekly Contact – September 19, 2019
First Presbyterian Church
We will be singing this hymn Sunday morning.
God, You spin the whirling plants,
Fill the seas and spread the plain,
Mold the mountains, fashion blossoms,
Call forth sunshine, wind, and rain.
E, created in Your image,
Would a true reflection be
Of Your justice, grace, and mercy
And the truth that makes us free.
Text by Jane Parker Huber. Music by Franz Joseph Haydn
The Bell Choir, conducted Dr. Timothy Hein, will assist with worship leadership.
Luke 16:1-13 is the New Testament reading, a reading often interpreted as focusing on faithfulness and money. But, is that all there is to it?
16 Jesus also said to the disciples, “A certain rich man heard that his household manager was wasting his estate. 2 He called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give me a report of your administration because you can no longer serve as my manager.’
3 “The household manager said to himself, What will I do now that my master is firing me as his manager? I’m not strong enough to dig and too proud to beg. 4 I know what I’ll do so that, when I am removed from my management position, people will welcome me into their houses.
5 “One by one, the manager sent for each person who owed his master money. He said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 He said, ‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your contract, sit down quickly, and write four hundred fifty gallons.’ 7 Then the manager said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘One thousand bushels of wheat.’ He said, ‘Take your contract and write eight hundred.’
8 “The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted cleverly. People who belong to this world are more clever in dealing with their peers than are people who belong to the light. 9 I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so that when it’s gone, you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.
10 “Whoever is faithful with little is also faithful with much, and the one who is dishonest with little is also dishonest with much. 11 If you haven’t been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12 If you haven’t been faithful with someone else’s property, who will give you your own? 13 No household servant can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be loyal to the one and have contempt for the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
Ginny and I invite anyone who is interested to join us for about twenty minutes of meditation in the Chapel at 8:15 each Monday morning. If you already meditate, please come. If you haven’t meditated before, please come. You can bring a mat or sit on a chair.
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Wallabies coach Michael Cheika doesn’t have an ideal number of Super Rugby franchises in his head, but no matter how many Australian teams survive in 2018, the national coach says they all need to work together.
The Super Rugby format is under review, with any changes slated for the 2018 season and Cheika said five franchises would be sustainable, but there would need to be a unified mentality.
Having provinces on the same page has paid off for New Zealand, who has had a formally centralised program in place for a long time, with coaches contracted through the NZRU.
While full centralisation isn’t on the cards just yet for Australia, Cheika said alignment was the key.
“I am one of those that says five is fine as long as we're all focused." - Michael Cheika
“Whatever number they choose is fine and we'll work with the coaches to get the levels up.”
“The best environment is players all playing with great skills and hungry for the next moment in the match,” he added.
“We can play a certain style of game and we've got to have that hunger to play more and more footy all the time.
“Playing with the ball more aggressively. If we build those habits from NRC to Super Rugby and into us.
“If we build and prepare that over time we'll start to play less halves of good footy and more full matches.”
The Wallabies battled against England in June, in their first home series whitewash, after less than a two-week training camp, with players joining from overseas and the Super Rugby competition.
It’s an experience Cheika has said this year he has learned from, and the next step is bringing the Super Rugby franchises together.
Cheika and the Wallabies coaching team will meet with the Super Rugby mentors on their return to Australia, in a bid to align the groups’ mentalities.
“We're not trying to take players away or do anything like that, we want some of the ideas we have to go into the Super Rugby environment and the coaches have all been really open to that." - Michael Cheika
“They are starting to believe together we are stronger instead of operating like six different teams.
“They are five different teams but we are not the sixth. We are the culmination of those five and even with some of the messages I've received from the provinces while I've been here I've been really heartened by.”
The Force has been vocal since revelations that the WA franchise could be the casualty of a revamped Super Rugby format and fullback Dane Haylett-Petty urged fans to get behind the team.
Haylett-Petty is one of two Force players to make his Test debut this season, with promising lock Adam Coleman the other, while Luke Morahan returned from Test exile and Jono Lance went a whisker from making his own debut in Paris.
A number of players have pledged their support for the franchise and Haylett-Petty said he would be among those buying an ownership stake, under a radical move announced by the Force last month.
“Yeah definitely, a couple of shares I think and hopefully everyone else gets behind them because it creates a pathway for so many talented Western Australians to try and make it to this next level,” he said.
“We've seen so many good young Wallabies come out of that system and I think there's going to be plenty more because there's so many talented boys there.
“Hopefully they make a decision (that) the Force is around for a long time to come." - Dane Haylett-Petty
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Adidas, official sponsor and partner for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, celebrated the global unveiling of the world cup 2010 ‘Official Match Ball’ recently. For Malaysia, the launch party hosted by Adidas at Pavilion also debuted the latest federation home kits with the official World Cup Zones across South East Asia. World Cup Zones in Malaysia will open to the public from 5 December 2009 onwards.
The “Jabulani” was created and designed by Adidas specifically for the 2010 FIFA World Cup which takes place in Cape Town, South Africa on 11 June 2010. Its name originates from the Bantu language which is from Zulu and means “to celebrate”.
The 11 different colours on the ball represents the 11 players in every team, the 11 official languages of South Africa and the 11 South African tribes that make the country one of the most ethnologically diverse countries on the African continent. This is also the 11th Adidas World Cup ball.