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Magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattles T&T
Darlisa Ghouralal Created : 11 September 2019 T&T News
Image via Facebook, UWI Seismic Research Centre (SRC).
If you think you felt an earthquake on Tuesday night, you are correct.
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake was recorded just off Port-of-Spain.
According to the UWI Seismic Research Centre's Automatic Earthquake Location system, the quake occurred at 9.31 pm local time, at latitude: 10.75N, longitude: 62.06W, and at a depth of 35 kilometres.
The earthquake was felt 61 kilometres West of Port of Spain, 87 kilometres West of Arima, and 86 kilometres North West of San Fernando.
The SRC said, however, that this is only a preliminary result automatically located by a seismological computational system.
It's yet to be reviewed by an analyst, therefore, the result may vary when new additional data are processed.
This is the third earthquake in the Lesser Antilles and South American continental shelf for this week, as magnitude 4.2 and 5.7 quakes were recorded on the morning and afternoon of September 9, near Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, respectively.
The events ranged from light (4 to 4.9) to moderate (5.9) magnitudes. Quakes ranging from magnitude 2.5 to 5.4 are often felt, but only cause minor damage, while those of magnitude 5.5 to 6.0 result in slight damage to buildings and other structures.
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) one of the world's deadliest earthquakes occurred in Western Honshu, Japan on September 10, 1943. USGS said around 7500 houses were destroyed in the Tottori area.
The quake, which was felt from Niigata, to Kumamoto, Kyushu resulted in 1,190 deaths.
Surface faulting was seen on two nearly-parallel faults about three kilometres apart southwest of Tottori, with the longest one around eight kilometres long with both horizontal and vertical displacements.
Did you feel any of the earthquakes this week?
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MidVille crematory holds annual memorial service
by Lisa A. Fraser Queens Ledger
Dec 07, 2010 | 9187 views | 2 | 149 | |
On Saturday, December 4, the U.S. Columbarium held its 10th annual memorial service at the Fresh Pond Crematory in Middle Village.
The event ushered in over 50 families as they paid tribute to loved ones lost by placing paper doves on the memorial tree after it was lighted.
"This celebration is very important," said J.P Di Troia, president of the U.S. Columbarian. "Life goes on, you have to live on and continue, yes it's hard but it's part of the grieving process."
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"Bereavement is a hard topic especially this time of the year, trying to give somebody a little bit of hope, that's what this memorial does," Nieman said. "It's a wonderful cause to be part of."
Irene Romero of Jackson Heights has attended the memorial for four years now. She along with her father, her brother, sister and sister-in-law paid memorial to her late mother and husband, who are both resting in the crematorium.
"We would not miss this for anything," she said.
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Nearly 21.3 million USD mobilised from Government bond auction
The State Treasury mobilised 500 billion VND (21.87 million USD) through a Government bond auction on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) on April 15.
VNA Thursday, April 16, 2020 09:57
Over 9.72 trillion VND raised from Government bonds in March
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Hanoi (VNA) - The State Treasury mobilised 500 billion VND (21.87 million USD) through a Government bond auction on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) on April 15.
Some 3.5 trillion VND worth of G-bonds were offered, including 10-year and 15-year bonds each valued at 1.5 trillion VND, and 30-year bonds valued at 500 billion VND.
The State Treasury raised 300 billion VND worth of ten-year bonds with an annual average yield rate of 2.28 percent, up 0.1 percent from the previous auction on March 11.
A total of 100 billion VND was mobilised from 15-year bonds with an annual interest rate of 2.63 percent, up 0.1 percent from the auction on March 18.
Meanwhile, 100 billion VND worth of 30-year bonds were sold with a yield rate of 3.1 percent, up 0.1 percent as compared with the March 11 auction.
So far this year, the State Treasury has raised over 33,513 billion VND from G-bond auctions at the HNX./.
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Paris Agreement: Lessons on independence, self-reliance, int'l solidarity
The signing of the Paris Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, was a resounding victory of Vietnam's revolutionary diplomacy in the Ho Chi Minh era, making important contributions to the common victory of the whole nation and, at the same time, leaving invaluable diplomatic lessons.


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Nikon are a hallmark of engineering prowess. In terms of IQ they have been beating the competition for the last half decade, or so.
There are 9 Nikon cameras in the DXO top-20 and Nikkor lenses typically get raging reviews.
So, why the company has been scrambling around new product strategies, recently, and why have the shares dropped off so dramatically?
The answer is as simple as complicated.
The Japanese adagio says that the importance of the project shines through in the details, and it's in the details where Nikon are failing.
Nikon is engineering over customer experience, perfection over usability.
So rather than wondering why compact sales are dropping off, why the Nikon One is not the success they envisioned it to be, or why the market is concentrating elsewhere, they ought to ask themselves why the customer experience is not as expected.
The D600 puking oil blobs all over the sensor is not exactly helpful, however, it's Nikon's response to the issue – or rather – the lack thereof, that has customers infuriated.
Even more so, now that rumors suggest they may launch a second gen camera – the D610 – that supposedly resolves the prob.
It's the D5200 beating the D7100 in image quality according to DXO.
And then there is the EN-EL3e false low battery warning (FLBW), which has customers scrambling all over the Web trying to figure out what is happening to them.
More than four years after the issue stuck its ugly head up, Nikon still have to formally respond to – let alone solve – a problem that is as actual today as it was four years ago.
Still, it's the details of details that are the most tale-telling.
For example: they changed the position and/or inverted the orientation of the Accessory Terminal of the D90 on some of the posterior cameras – like the D7100, for example – meaning that the plugs of some third party accessories do not quite fit (photo).
They also introduce artificial limitations for non-Nikon devices, like GPS's, for example, causing the gps-icon not to appear on the top LCD panel of the D600 and D7100.
Changing something that worked flawlessly ever since the D1X and hampers the customer experience for no obvious reason, is not just plain silly but also extremely annoying.
Today, Flickr launched a mayor interface update and finally, and I mean finally, eliminated their measly 200 picture limit for free accounts, something that was way overdue.
Yahoo / Flickr now give you one Terabyte (1.000 Gigabyte) of space to show off your stuff, which makes them look a little like a pendulum: either hardly anything or way too much.
Anyway, space is cheap and since they now encourage us to upload hi-res stuff, the first, say, 20 Gigs may fill up quicker than you expect.
That is, if you don't mind that other people have access to your hires files, which I – for one – do definitely not want.
There is a way to avoid that others steal your images, however, there is no guarantee whatsoever that they will not be able to capture them at at least their native screen resolution, while your Flickr account is also not configured by default from preventing other people to rip you off.
Access to original files sizes must be configured in the Settings menu > Privacy and Permissions > Who can access your original image files?
If you want to avoid losing control over your work, access must be set to "Only you". Alternatively it can be set to "Friends and Family", "Contacts", "Any Flickr Member" or "Anyone".
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You can access the settings menu by rolling over your buddy icon in the right-hand top corner of the screen and click "Settings" in the associated menu.
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I'm sure I deserve it.
One can hardly pretend to know better than a few hundred Google engineers, Pandas or Penguins, right?
Only a month ago I was about to post on having reached 8.000 monthly visitors and 12.000 page views, which I think is a lot for a niche site like this one.
On April 24 my browser hits dropped off to 98, compared to 204 on the previous day and then kept dropping off to reach an all-time low of 4, on June 22.
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Google reps have been going on and on about "capital sins", such as keyword stuffing, over-optimizing SEO and bad external links, among others, none of which I am guilty of – as far as I know.
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Those are very big and very generic words, and the Goog does not go into detail on what that means – much like praying to the true Almighty goes mostly unanswered.


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Ventilatory response to hypercarbia in newborns of smoking and substance abusing mothers
Kamal Ali, Ravindra Bhat, Kim Wolff, Simon Hannam, Gerrard Rafferty, Anne Greenough
European Respiratory Journal 2012 40: 3293; DOI:
1Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, King's College London, United Kingdom
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Kim Wolff
2Addiction Sciences, King's College London, United Kingdom
Infants of smoking and substance abusing mothers have an increased risk of sudden infant death. A possible explanation for the association is that such infants have neurodevelopmental abnormalities which adversely affect the control of ventilation.
Aims: To test the hypothesis that infants of substance abusing mothers (SA) and of smoking mothers (SM) compared to infants of non substance abusing, non-smoking mothers (controls) would have a poorer ventilatory response to hypercarbia.
Methods: Infants were assessed before maternity/neonatal unit discharge. Respiratory flow (and tidal volume) was measured using a pneumotachograph inserted into a face mask placed over the infant's mouth and nose. The ventilatory responses to three levels of inspired carbon dioxide (baseline = 0%, 2% and 4% CO2) were assessed.
Results: 8 SA, 15 SM and 15 control infants were assessed. The birth weight of the controls was higher than the SA and SM infants (p=0.01). At baseline SA infants had a higher respiratory rate (p=0.03) and minute volume (p=0.049) compared to controls and SM infants (Table). Both the SA and SM infants had a lower respiratory response to 2% (p=0.02) and 4% (p=0.004) CO2
Conclusion: These results are consistent with infants of smoking and substance abusing mothers having a dampened ventilatory response to hypercarbia.
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As has become an annual tradition with MultiChoice, through its subsidiary, DSTV Uganda has announced a significant price reduction effective today, 1st November 2017. This is in preparation for the upcoming festive season. DStv's strategic move aligns with their commitment to ensuring its customers receive the best possible access to great home entertainment at a pocket-friendly price.
DStv further sweetens the deal with their year-on-year price deductions. In a bid to offer true value for money vis-à-vis the economic situation, DSTv has added extra channels to their bouquets. The DStv Family bouquet will now include additional lifestyle and children channels. SuperSport, too, recently secured WWE broadcasting rights, a first across sub-Saharan Africa. So you have that too, along with La Liga among other international football leagues to look forward to.
"The majority of our input costs are in US dollars and we hope we won't experience any further currency devaluations or other unexpected increases in costs for the remainder of the year. We will continue to review pricing from time to time, taking into account the economic conditions of our operations." Charles Hamya, General Manager, MultiChoice Uganda.
As evidenced in the table above, DSTv has consistently revised their rates. We should clarify that these rates differ from those of GOTv Uganda. The Pay-tv giant has often justified their price increments to an unstable dollar. Keep in mind that sourcing for and paying for the content you enjoy is done in dollars, the global monetary lingua franca. Hopefully, the economy will remain stable enough so that we don't see these unwelcome price hikes. With the entry of big-hitters like KweseTV, DStv has to give its subscribers a reason to stay even as they chalk up more subscriptions.
As if that this offering isn't enough, DStv is also offering a few perks for its customers. Dubbed 'Blue Christmas', the promo will award customers who either purchase the full kit at UGX 132,500 or re-subscribe to the Compact, Compact Plus and Premium bouquets exciting prizes ranging from weekend getaway trips for 2, branded items and subscription.
More on this, DStv will reward subscribers one full week of extra sports channels when they pay for their monthly active DStv subscriptions on time. DStv Compact or DStv Compact Plus subscribers will watch all Sports channels available on DStv Premium for a week after the payment from 31st December 2017. Those subscribing to DStv Access and DStv Family will watch all Sports channels available to DStv Compact for a week after the payment.


Blush will close its Coventry shop at the end of March.
On March 31, after nearly a decade on Coventry Road, Blush Boutique will be closing the doors to its small, intimate Cleveland Heights boutique.
Owner Laurie Klopper, a Cleveland Heights resident, said she is closing to focus on her other location in Chagrin Falls and because sales at her shop on Coventry Road have greatly diminished.
"People just aren't coming to Coventry to shop and walk around anymore," said Klopper. Indeed, American Apparel, Winking Lizard, Chipotle, Big Fun and Piccadilly have all left in the past few years. "It's an alarming trend on what was once a vibrant and eclectic street," she added.
Frequently named Best East-Side Boutique by both Cleveland Magazine and Scene magazine, Blush is known for its colorful and affordable clothing from smaller lines and labels.
Klopper enthusiastically supported local artisans and products at her Coventry Village shop. Most of the jewelry was handcrafted by local artists, as were the candles, Cleveland T-shirts, greeting cards and facial products. "I recognized how important it was for start-up businesses to be seen in a local and thriving boutique," said Klopper.
Blush Boutique Coventry, 1783 Coventry Road, will offer 50-percent off all items until closing at the end of March. After that, Blush can be visited at its Chagrin Falls location (9 N. Franklin St.), which has been open since 2016.
Amy Fischer is a friend of Blush owner Laurie Klopper.


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The Greatest Wine Forger in the World
On Our Fascination with Scammers, Conmen, and Dupers of the Super-Rich
August 30, 2017 By Dwyer Murphy
Just before dawn on the morning of March 8th, 2012, a team of a dozen FBI agents in bulletproof vests drove through the streets of Arcadia, California, 15 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains. Soon, they arrived at a white stucco house on Naomi Avenue, the home of Rudy Kurniawan.
Kurniawan was one of the world's preeminent wine collectors and dealers. In 2006, at just 30 years old, he'd consigned a cellar to the house of Acker, Merral & Condit that set a wine auction record with a sale of $24.7 million. The source of his wealth and his wine was a mystery. There were rumors of a family fortune in Indonesia, where he was born. His collection was said to derive from a cache once owned by the French merchant, Nicolas. Kurniawan regularly played host at exclusive cellars and well-stocked restaurants like Cru in New York and Osteria Mozza in LA, where he covered the bill for hedge fund managers, wine barons, and auctioneers. He was a tasting room savant and a full-fledged oeno-socialite. He was also, as it turns out, a fake, one of the most prolific forgers in the long and storied history of high-class American scammers, which is why the FBI took him into custody that morning in March, 2012 and shipped him to New York City to stand trial on charges of fraud.
With the release of a new book chronicling this strange history (In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire, by Peter Hellman), Kurniawan joins an illustrious, if not entirely proud, tradition. Confidence men have always held a special grip on our imaginations. The literature offers up a few different varieties. There's the trickster with a twinkle of innocence and ingenuity, like Frank Abagnale, of Catch Me If You Can fame, whose memoir recalled youthful adventures in check fraud, commercial piloting, and Louisiana law practice. Or the brash outsider whose antics reveal a deeper corruption: think Jordan "Wolf of Wall Street" Belfort and his ilk. On the fictional side of things, there's literature's best-known forger, Tom Ripley, the outcast who wants desperately to belong and is willing to cross almost any line to get the life he believes he deserves. The adventurer, the crasher, and the striver.
Rudy Kurniawan bore shades of all three figures. Over the course of a nine-day trial in December, 2013, prosecutors from the Southern District of New York laid out his exploits and methods. Burgundy, by and large, was his wine of choice, although he dealt in counterfeit Bordeaux, too. The process was simple, though by no means obvious. With an American Express Black Card, Kurniawan bought elite bottles at retail from dealers and restaurants, then became intimately familiar with the wine's profile, usually over the course of an expensive meal with high-profile acquaintances. Eventually, he began scooping up great quantities of very old bottles of mediocre wine. Armed with his connoisseur's knowledge (his palate was undeniable) and a stock of young wines from California, he uncorked the old bottles and tinkered with the liquid inside, pouring some out, adding a little pinot here, shiraz there, until he had a decent simulation of the world's most sought after vintages. The old labels were easily soaked off in the kitchen sink. For the new labels—the fakes—he set up a print shop inside his Arcadia home. The paper came from Indonesia and was browned and worn to meet expectations for wines almost a century old. Special waxes were imported, corks manipulated, and printing errors meticulously copied.
In short, Kurniawan had all the tools of a good counterfeiter—the print shop, the seals, access to buyers—but what really distinguishes a confidence man is his story.
In her 2016 book, The Confidence Game, Maria Konnikova, the author and New Yorker contributor, laid out the history and psychology of scams, from three-card monte to Bernie Madoff to the $190 billion a year credit card fraud industry. What Konnikova found was that nothing smoothed the way for a con like a good narrative. "When we're immersed in a story," she observed, "we let down our guard. We focus in a way we wouldn't if someone were just trying to catch us with a random phrase or picture or interaction… The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help."
Empathy was, in a sense, Kurniawan's specialty. In In Vino Duplicitas, Hellman recalls the bacchanals that fueled the wine business in Kurniawan's glory days—the freewheeling era before the 2008 financial collapse. In New York, the restaurants were Cru and Veritas. Both are now shuttered, but in those days, managers would gladly stay open all night while well-heeled groups dropped $8,000 on each bottle delivered from the cellar. Kurniawan's customary move, according to Hellman, who was writing for Wine Spectator at the time, came at the evening's close. Just when his companions thought the festivities were done, Kurniawan would produce one more magical bottle. Recounting one notable evening when, at the end of an extravagant tasting, Kurniawan went to his car for a bottle of Rousseau Chambertin 1923 ("both appellation and producer are supreme, the vintage excellent"), Hellman describes guests' rapture at tasting the burgundy's "silky kiss," as well as Kurniawan's manner as he poured one of the world's premiere libations: "[He] avoided lording it over the recipients of his costly bounty. He wanted you to share the pleasure, and did not seek gratitude. And so gratitude is what he got."
Kurniawan's story was about grace and companionship, appetite and largesse. Who wouldn't want to be a part of that? Who but a world-class prick would drink a fine wine from a respected host and think, "sure that kiss was silky, but was it authentic?"
Now, you might be inclined to think those were in relative abundance—world-class pricks. Kurniawan's actions caused damage across the wine industry, from auction houses to banks to the growers whose reputations he sullied. But mostly his victims were collectors, insanely wealthy men who subscribed to a few more or less insane beliefs: namely, that on this earth were bottles of drink worth many thousands of dollars, that their mouths could distinguish that drink from hundred dollar swill, and that, by God, the more of the stuff they could keep in their basements, the better.
(This simplifies wine collecting, surely, but reading Hellman's account—the account of a genuine wine lover and a sophisticate—you can't help but conclude that the industry, like many that cater to the uber-wealthy, is built on illusions and wishes.)
But being rich and powerful doesn't make you immune to the confidence man's charms. If anything, collectors of rare goods are the perfect marks: confident in their own expertise but desirous to the point of greed. That, and they know how to spend.
Kurniawan largely shared his victims' beliefs and their lifestyle. He bought wines at record-breaking prices. He spent lavishly, burying himself deep in debt. In a sense, his story was genuine, if not true. He plainly wanted to be the man he seemed to be.
For Hellman, the history of Kurniawan's rise and fall brings to mind another figure from the canon of confidence men, perhaps the greatest of them all: Jay Gatsby. In Fitzgerald's words, Gatsby "sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty."
The analogy is almost too perfect. Wine has beauty, no doubt, enough to rival any collection of tailored shirts or rare books with their uncut pages. And at $8,000 a pop, what could that beauty be but vast, vulgar and meretricious?
Reading about con artists like Gatsby and Kurniawan serves up a twin thrill, much to our discredit, perhaps. First, we get proof for our niggling suspicion that the haves of this world are full of shit. But we also get to imagine that one day, with a bit of cleverness—a pen stroke, wax, the right credit card—we, too, could be full of shit.
Kurniawan is currently serving a ten-year sentence at a privately run federal prison in California, at the southern reach of the San Joaquin Valley. He declined to testify at the 2013 trial and opted not to speak with Hellman before the publication of In Vino Duplicitas. Late in 2015, however, the US Marshals Service auctioned off what was left of his wine collection. The marshals made their best effort to separate the real wine from the fake, but ultimately buyers were warned no guarantees of authenticity could be made: caveat emptor. The wine brought in over $1.5 million.
Even when the grifters end up face down in a Long Island pool, adrift in the Ionian, or locked up in a California prison, the stories still manage to hold us in their grip.
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Philip Lindsay, All That Glitters. Sampson Low. 1949. 1st Edition. 402pp. Very Good condition with Good Dust Jacket, a little torn at the spine. Priced 10s. 6d. Philip Lindsay (1906 - 1958) was an Australian writer of historical fiction who was long resident in the UK. This novel takes place in 1450 London, a favourite time and place for the author. Indeed, it is the third volume of a series dealing with merchant life in 15th century London. This has more substance than the simple historical romance, portraying the conflicts and tensions of a turbulent period of history.
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Mike Tyson thanks Christie for work on prisoner re-entry
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie accepted a champion's belt from former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson on Thursday for his efforts on prisoner re-entry.
Mike Tyson thanks Christie for work on prisoner re-entry New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie accepted a champion's belt from former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson on Thursday for his efforts on prisoner re-entry. Check out this story on gosanangelo.com: http://www.gosanangelo.com/story/entertainment/people/2017/04/13/mike-tyson-thanks-christie-work-prisoner-re-entry/100437288/
Boxer Mike Tyson is patted on the shoulder by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie while speaking about his life post prison during the 4th Annual New Jersey Prisoner Reentry Conference, Thursday, April 13, 2017, in Jersey City, N.J. During the event, Tyson presented Christie with a championship belt for his efforts in helping former prisoners reinstall themselves into society.(Photo: Julio Cortez, AP)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie accepted a champion's belt from former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson on Thursday for his efforts on prisoner re-entry.
"You took the punches, trust me, you deserve it," Tyson told Christie during the presentation at a conference in Jersey City where they were speakers.
The Republican governor has dedicated his final year in office to prisoner re-entry issues and drug addiction. He was the featured speaker at the reopening of a state prison as an institution to treat drug-addicted inmates earlier this week.
Christie also heads a panel for President Donald Trump on opioid addiction.
People addicted to drugs end up behind bars too often, Christie said.
Tyson was convicted in 1992 on rape charges and sentenced to six years in prison. He urged former inmates Thursday to stay enthusiastic and remain committed to staying on the right side of the law.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, center, is presented with a belt by boxer Mike Tyson, left, for Christie's work in promoting help for ex-prisoners re-entering society, during the 4th Annual New Jersey Prisoner Reentry Conference, Thursday, April 13, 2017, in Jersey City, N.J. (Photo: Julio Cortez, AP)
"You got to want to do this stuff," he said. "You have to say, 'I don't want to rob that guy no more, I don't want to shoot those people no more.' And that's just where it's at."
Christie noted that it may have seemed odd to see him, Tyson and former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey — who organized Thursday's event and also runs Jersey City's prisoner re-entry program — appearing together on the same panel.
"We sit up here as imperfect people who have had challenges in our lives of all different kinds," Christie said. "But I also think we're people who can contribute a great deal to making society better."
McGreevey, a Democrat, resigned as governor amid a sex scandal in 2004 and announced he is a "gay American."
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Last week we learned how to use "Yahoo!" This week we will learn how to use Alta Vista, another famous search engine.
Go to the Alta Vista homepage and click on the "help" on top of the page. Read the help page.
Return to the Alta Vista homepage by clicking on the "search" on the top of the help page.
Word search: Fill in the "search box" of Alta Vista--Keiichi Shimada--and see the result.
Phrase search: Fill in the "search box"--"Keiichi Shimada"--and see the result.
Try your name this time. First without quotation marks, and then with quotation marks.
Now find "Dave's ESL Cafe" by Alta Vista. You may try natural language querries such as "Where can I find Dave's ESL Cafe?" or "Find ESL web pages".
Last week we learned how to use "bookmarks". This week we will learn how to record the sites you visited on an html file.
First, be sure to check your e-mail box and see if you have received my "bookmark" mail.
As is written in my mail, copy "bookmark.htm" to "Eawase/bin" folder.
Open the "bookmark.htm" file in the bin folder with Hidemaru. Read the direction.
Open Dokkyo Homepage in Japanese and copy the URL (i.e. "http://www.dokkyo.ac.jp/jp/" ) on the Netscape by clicking on the right button of the mouse. Then paste it at the directed place on the Hidemaru "bookmark.htm".
Now go to the Composition Homepage with the Netscape. Copy the URL (i.e. "http://www2.dokkyo.ac.jp/~esemi006/others/comp.htm") and paste it on the Hidemaru "bookmark.htm" as directed above.
Save the "bookmark.htm" on the Hidemaru and open it with the Netscape. See if the links you have just created work.
Add the "Yahoo!" and "Alta Vista" links to your "bookmark.htm".
This Week's Assignment: Send me your "bookmark.htm" file after adding a few more links. Be sure to change the file name as "your-last-name.htm" (i.e. not as "bookmark.htm" but as "shimada.htm" -- in my case) before sending it to me.


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Q: How can I send PHPSESSID in the URL? I'm trying to send the PHPSESSID via a HTTP GET variable for a cookie-less client.
I've seen this in various drupal implementations where ?PHPSESSIONID=123ABC is appending to each link, but how do I specify this in PHP and is there any way of changing the GET parameter so it could be ?token=123ABC, or even sent via HTTP POST?
Standard LAMP stack, running the Zend framework.
Thanks!

A: You can change PHPSESSID using session_name() or session.name in your php.ini file (or using ini_set()).
For cookieless clients, there's the session.use_trans_sid php.ini option - you should be aware that this can cause problems - for example users passing URLs with session IDs in to each other, or search engines picking up such URLs.

A: Doing it manually:
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A: Using a cookie or not is configured by these PHP options :

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*session.use_cookies

*session.use_only_cookies
If the first one is set, cookies will be used if possible.
PHP should detect if cookies are enabled or not, and use them only if they are supported by the client.

To enable passing of the session id by GET instead of cookies, you might have to activate session.use_trans_sid, which is disabled by default (Which means that, by defaut, session id is only passed by cookies -- never by GET).
But note that, with this option activated, PHP will pass the session id by GET at least for the first page each user of your site will come to... as they won't have the cookie at first, and the only way to check if they support cookies is by setting one, and trying to read it back on the next page.
And users that don't support cookies, including search engines I'd probably say, will have that session id -- and that is not nice :-(

And, you might also want to take a look at session.name to set the name of the key (set to to "token" instead of "PHPSESSID", I mean)

For more details, you can take a look at the Session Handling section of the manual :-)

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Summary/Abstract: The thesis consists of three parts. Each of them is divided into separate chapters devoted to particular authors. The composition of those chapters is determined by the level of representativeness of a particular issue in a particular prose text. Therefore, in the first part, dedicated to the strategy and fragment poetics, the author takes into consideration their updating firstly in the works of Krzysztof Varga, then of Zygmunt Haupt, and finally, of Stanisław Czycz.Reaching back to the past and the rise of importance of individual experience of loss constitute the axis around which the considerations are developed in the second part. It opens up with issues concerning brooding as a particular way of being in Haupt's prose. Also, the fragments of Czycz's short stories which are the trace of cherishing of a particular loss in the narrative are marked and discussed. In Varga's prose, the author attempts to save the myth of the past, instead of the past itself.In the third part, the questions about the status and the way of being of the authorial subject are raised, as well as about conceptions of subjectivity in the works of Haupt, Czycz and Varga.The considerations proposed in the thesis, concerning the prose of the three different authors refer to thinking about literature in terms of both performance and representation. Each careful reading of a literary work understood in these terms should subsume not only what is represented, but also the act itself as well as the fact of representing. Then the text is understood, or imagined, as a scene from which a voice is heard. This is a phenomenon of the very communication, of the contact itself, whose symptom is all that is happening in the text and via the text itself on every formal and content level. In texts of those authors, the voice belongs to someone who can come into existence as the voice only. The identity of such a person, or rather his image, consists of life experience of the personal author, shreds of his biography, his consciousness, but also his unconsciousness, social and cultural norms, linguistic mechanisms and, finally, the literary tradition. The question about the "who" of this voice is in fact a question both about a particular, historical unit, but also about psychosocial, linguistic and literary norms and practices. Just such questions are posed from the scene of writing in this prose, while the specific answers are inscribed into the "I" field of this voice.Both the "who" of this voice and his "what" are to large extent powered by the experiences of the authors themselves. Characters who appear on the scene of writing have traits that are similar, or even identical with the traits that could be attributed to the people hidden under the names of the authors. Often enough, those characters point out to, or even declare, this similarity themselves. They narrate stories about themselves, about their past evoked by the power of their memory. By talking about it, they also talk about more or less conscious manners of shaping depictions of the past, about culturally determined mechanisms of not so much reproducing, but of producing it. They appear in texts as actors and narrators of the story. They will not refrain from speaking about that second activity. It gives them the semblance of authenticity, the semblance of being, but still this is just the semblance.The possibility of presence is undermined by the voice, which unceasingly performs the act of disillusion, being the act of disillusion itself. The way of its existence is paradoxical. It is not personal, or certainly, not only personal. It is a result of pure productivity of the act of writing, to be exact, of writing out, writing up and writing to show off. The voice says: I am here instead of; I mean something here because soand-so on the scene of writing is not able, or does not want to spring into existence as himself; By thus speaking and marking I am supplanting him here (that is the cynical voice of Czycz's writing out). Some other time: I am not the voice of any individual, not even of a community, but a voice of collectiveness. I am not only the voice which presents, speaks about something, I am the voice of the dialogue itself (the dialogic voice of Haupt's writing up). Finally: I am the voice of the scene itself, of writing, of representing" (the spectacular voice of Varga's writing to show off).The voice attempts to head to its source, but the only thing it is left to do is to mark the source's impossible presence. Literary marking and emulating in texts do not lead to any purpose (of retrieving what is lost, restoring the presence, establishing identity and expressing it in a complete work), as it is the purpose itself. That is why the author of the thesis states that in the prose of the authors mentioned above, the literary staging of the desire itself is effectuated. This desire renders any communication possible, which becomes here an act of summoning, corresponding with, and, as a result, saving only the remnants of what is not present or unavailable.The works of Haupt, Czycz and Varga are read as a project of the redeeming loss: occurring in the voice which comes from the scene of writing during the process of redeeming the remnants of a particular presence, by destroying and dispersing it in its literary articulation.


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Kits are not creating sales orders correctly for release A9.3 as written below.
When running the program with multiple orders with at least 5 kits lines with 103 components, the first sales order is created correctly and all subsequent orders created are missing data in the sales order detail F4211.
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town of Gurabo and toured 33 towns in 33 days to raise awareness about the case of López Rivera and to gather support for the call for his release.
Each day one town was connected with another in a 333 mile walk through winding mountainous roads. While a small, hearty core group of activists and supporters participated in consecutive daily walks, each town added its own flavor, sometimes its own mayor, and often hundreds of walkers — an eclectic group of young people, seniors, athletes, elementary, high school and college students, unions, musicians, civic and religious groups, elected officials, those in wheel chairs and the able bodied, pro-independence activists, supporters of the present political status with the U.S., as well as supporters of statehood.
People in small rural villages and barrios stood and waited at their front gates for the "Caminata". Passing cars blasted their horns and shouted their support. Children came out of their classrooms to shout approval and display signs they made themselves, of love and support for Oscar. Some schools even allowed their students to leave the classroom to join the walk.
When the walk reached each town's plaza, a beautiful cultural event took place with music and poetry. Under a blazing afternoon sun, children sang while others read their writings dedicated to Oscar.
As the walk in the mountains was underway, another event took place in San Juan called "Al Mar X Oscar" (To the sea for Oscar), inspired by a letter from prison to his granddaughter Karina, in which he wrote, "… after the family, what I miss the most is the sea. It's been 35 years since the last time I saw it." On a beautiful Sunday afternoon on May 25, hundreds marched along the waterfront of Old San Juan while row boats, paddle boats, rafts, kayaks, fishing boats, long Asian inspired dragon boats, jet skis, practically anything that could float accompanied them. At the foot of the century old walls of the Spanish fort, El Morro, the water crafts landed with a "cabezudo" papier-mache puppet head representing Oscar wading on shore symbolically representing his arrival to Puerto Rico by sea. Oscar's daughter Clarisa López and granddaughter Karina Valentín emotionally greeted the symbolic Oscar. At a cultural and political rally held in front of El Morro, Clarisa stated, "We are going to achieve what seems the impossible … returning my father to the motherland …" The multitude present shouted their approval.
At 71 years of age and having served 33 years in remote prisons, far away from his country, accused of seditious conspiracy, but never having been found guilty of shedding any blood, Oscar López Rivera is the symbol of a flagrant dishonor for his jailers and an affront to democracy that fails to respect human rights. In spite of the unanimous demands of the people and from every sector, and important voices in the international community, Oscar López is still held in a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The United States government persists in ignoring the call for his release. The government of the United States is morally impeded from intervening on behalf of any political prisoner, in any place in the world, while the president continues to mock the memory of Mandela, violate civil and political rights and Oscar's right to freedom.
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Group I Championship
Shore 5, Glen Ridge 4
Sophomore Julia Eichenbaum scored two goals in the final 3:09, including the winning goal with nine seconds left, and the Blue Devils (20-4-2) rallied to beat the Ridgers (15-4-1) and win their third straight Group I title in dramatic fashion.
Eichenbaum settled a cross from senior Kendall Rich and knocked it in to tie the game with 3:09 left. Shore continued to mount pressure over the final three minutes and Eichenbaum struck again when she settled a bouncing ball from junior Hannah Birdsall and hit a left-footed shot from six yards out to set off the celebration.
Shore trailed for the majority of the game, but stayed in it thanks to Birdsall, who scored the first two Blue Devils goals. Her first one was a 30-yard bomb that came 1:18 after a penalty kick by Ridgers sophomore Tara Feenaghty opened the scoring in the 17th minute.
Senior Lindsey Jaiyesimi scored the first of her three goals to give Glen Ridge the lead back in the 21st and scored again off a turnover in the back to make it 3-1 in the 33rd.
Birdsall quickly answered for Shore, punching in a rebound off an initial shot by Eichenbaum 1:06 after Jaiyesimi's second goal.
Jaiyesimi scored her third goal on a counter-attack, with Sydney Mansfield playing her the ball on the ground from the back in the 56th minute.
Junior Frankie McDonough kept Shore within striking distance by bending a 23-yard free kick from the left side in the 60th.
Group II Championship
Wall 4, Westwood 3 (OT)
Hailee Reinhardt served a free kick from 40 yards out off a defender and into the goal for the golden goal with 20 seconds left in the first overtime to give the Crimson Knights (24-1-2) a wild, back-and-forth win over the Cardinals (18-2-3) for their second straight group championship and first ever outright title.
A Westwood foul with 25 seconds left in the first overtime period set up Wall with one more chance to score before heading to the second 10-minute period. Reinhardt played the ball into the middle of the 18-yard box and it went off the head of a leaping Nicolette Lombardi and into the net.
Wall jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals by seniors Sarah Gordon and Jenna Karabin in the first 16 minutes, but Westwood responded with three unanswered scores over the next 24 minutes.
Lucy Gehringer converted a penalty kick in the 22nd after a foul in the box by Cara Capra and the Cardinals tied the game when Sarah Levy deflected an attempted clearance into the goal in the 33rd.
Wall pulled even in the 60th on Gordon's second goal of the game, which she scored on a low right-footed shot from 12 yards out off a pass from Lauren Karabin.
Group III Championship
Allentown 2, Middletown South 1
Senior Carly Roche scored the go-ahead goal in the 69th minute and the Cardinals (22-1) outlasted the Eagles (14-6-5) to win their first ever group championship.
Coming off an upset of Northern Highlands - the No. 1 team in the state at the time - Middletown South fell behind 1-0 in the first half but battled back in the second half and pulled even in the 53rd. Senior Christina Sundt lined up a shot from 25 yards out and drilled an upper-90 strike into the back of the net to even up the score at 1-1.
The Eagles held the edge in chances and possession during the first 28 minutes of the second half, but Allentown remained dangerous when it did attack and cashed in on a chance with 11:05 left to play. Roche took a pass from freshman Olivia Ricci, dribbled to her left, turned her hips and fired a left-footed shot to the lower left of the goal.
Allentown jumped ahead in the 32nd minute on a goal by Marin Hartshorn off a corner kick by Emma Pascarella.
Middletown South played in its first Group III final since winning a share of the championship in 2000. The Eagles began the tournament as the No. 5 seed in North Jersey Section 2 Group III and scored wins over top-seeded Somerville and the aforementioned Northern Highlands - which had appeared in six consecutive group finals before losing to Middletown South.
Group IV Championship
Freehold Twp. 0, Ridge 0
For the second time in three years, the Patriots (23-1-1) and the Ridgers (18-4-2) played 100 minutes without scoring against the other and settled for a share of the Group IV championship.
Ridge produced more chances over the course of regulation and the two overtime periods, including a goal that was waved off because of an offsides call as well as several challenges of Freehold Township junior goalkeeper Alessia LaRosa.
LaRosa was up to the challenge, as the junior saved seven shots, including one on a close-range shot in the final three minutes of the second overtime period.
Freehold Township's best opportunity came in the 61st minute, when senior Meaghan Latona poked a shot off the crossbar on a corner kick. Corners were Freehold Township's advantage in the game, with the Patriots earning seven to Ridge's three. Ridge outshot Freehold Township, 11-6.
The co-title is the second in three years for Freehold Township, which are the only two in program history.
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Tuesday 16 July 2019 | UK News feed
The racy Earl of Downton Abbey
Viewers are captivated by the goings on in TV's Downton Abbey - but, as Iain Hollingshead discovers, the real-life inhabitants had a life which was far too saucy to broadcast.
Henry, the 6th Earl of Carnarvon, whose racy life is mirrored in ITV's Downton Abbey. Photo: HULTON ARCHIVE
By Iain Hollingshead
7:00AM BST 22 Oct 2010
Downton Abbey, ITV's drama series set in 1912, is the new Sunday Evensong for its dedicated 11 million viewers, delivering a welcome shot in the arm for the broadcaster's finances. It has also come as something of a godsend to the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, the owners of Highclere Castle, near Newbury, Berkshire, where the series is shot.
As we reported earlier this week, the show's popularity has allowed them to push ahead with a £11 million refurbishment to the Elizabethan castle and its 1,000-acre grounds. According to the countess, hits on the castle's website have soared since the opening episode, bringing the enticing prospect of more paying visitors. They already welcome tens of thousands every year, including Egyptology enthusiasts (the fifth Earl famously discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun) and wedding guests (Peter Andre and Jordan tied their short-lived nuptials here).
One thing visitors to the website will miss out on, however, is a sense of the deliciously salacious history of the Carnarvon family – and just how closely it sometimes mirrors events in Downton Abbey.
The 6th Earl, we are told on the "Family History" section, was called Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert. The son of the 5th Earl, who had almost as many names, he was born in 1898, married, divorced, and died in 1987.
What this rather bland entry leaves out is that in the meantime he was variously a soldier, sportsman, bloodstock breeder, amateur actor, exhibitionist, chat-show guest and, apparently, lover of half of Berkshire. According to a wonderfully indiscreet obituary in the Telegraph, he liked to "regale Mr Michael Parkinson (or whoever) with renditions of how, as a young cavalry subaltern, he had been chased through the back gardens of Maidenhead by cuckolded husbands".
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"Porchy" (he acquired the nickname from his courtesy title, Lord Porchester) became something of a television personality following the publication in 1976 of his racy memoirs, No Regrets. A second volume, Ermine Tales, in 1980, described how he satisfied George V's fervent wish (he was a particular favourite of the royal family) to hear someone shout on the rails at Newmarket that the favourite had been "f-----d for fifty".
Other stories circulating about the 6th Earl include his revival of a house guest, who had fainted after a particularly vigorous ravishing, with a pitcher of iced water. "A most uncompromisingly direct ladies' man," summarised the Telegraph obituary – a popular euphemism to describe a flasher. He was particularly prone to knocking on women's bedroom doors with an unconventional part of his anatomy.
Such corridor-creepings will be familiar to fans of Downton Abbey. In one episode, a visiting Turkish diplomat seduces the young Lady Mary before, somewhat inconveniently, passing away in the middle of the night. Lady Cora, her mother, is left to carry his dead body back to his own bed before the affair is discovered.
Although Porchy didn't seem to care too much about avoiding a similar scandal, his father, the 5th Earl, was more circumspect when it came to getting found out. While best known for his archaeological adventures in Egypt – his death from blood poisoning, after accidentally shaving a mosquito bite, prompted much talk of the "Curse of Tutankhamun" – he also had an intriguing sideline in taking photographs of scantily clad girls. In his will, he reportedly left instructions for his butler to destroy the extensive collection.
The 5th Earl's other hobbies included motor racing, sailing a 34 metre yacht to South America and spiritualism, hosting several séances at Highclere. In 1895 he married Almina Wombwell, the illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild, with a dowry of £500,000 (£25million today) – another echo of Downton Abbey, in which the Earl of Grantham marries a wealthy heiress to save the family's finances.
Enthusiasts of aristocratic tomfoolery will be disappointed that the Carnarvons' naughty gene appears to have been slowly bred out over the generations. The 7th Earl, who died in 2001, spent a relatively low-profile career as the Queen's racing manager (apart from a controversial incident when he sacked her trainer as he lay recovering from double heart surgery). He was a solid member of Hampshire County Council for 24 years.
Meanwhile, the current Earl – a jolly nice chap, to judge by the various interviews – seems more worried about stopping his roof leaking and checking his internet stats than sowing his wild oats. The husbands of Maidenhead will be relieved. But it won't make much of a Sunday-night period drama in 100 years' time.
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Q: If $M$ is a real symmetric matrix such that $M^{k}=0$ for $k \in N$ then $M=0$. My attempt :
$M$ is a real symmetric matrix so $PMP^{-1}=D$ for some $D$ being a $n \times n$ diagonal matrix.Now, $PM^kP^{-1}=D^k$.So we see that $M^k$ is also similar to a diagonal matrix and $D^k=0$, (as $M^k=0$)so $D=0$.If $D$ is a zero matrix then $M=P^{-1}DP$ from here we can conclude that $M=0$.
Is my reasoning OK?

A: Your solution is absolutely correct.
You can see;
$D^k=\begin{bmatrix}\lambda_1^k &0&0\\ 0&\lambda_2^k&0\\0&0&\lambda_3^k\end{bmatrix}$.
Therefore $D^k=0 \iff D=0$(provided $D$ is a diagonal matrix).


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For my outfit I opted for something light and summery, since there were 35 degrees outside. I held my hair in a high top bun in order to keep it out of my face and went for a bold lipstick. It was a nice kind of cultural experience, tiresome but definitely a must if given the chance.
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This El Mundo story takes for granted that the NIH/FDA paper is real.
Thanks for that! I could do with a cure but a treat would be nice as well.
the Spanish doctors still refer to the 67%, they are saying something like" still 33% hasn't got it..."
This is popping all over the world, It needs to make it to the national stage now!!! we need to start seeing xmrv/cfs/me on major network news and health shows. The quicker this happens, the quicker we get $ for research and clinical trials etc.!!!!
To emphasize "still 33% don't got it" shows still don't believe, previous bias, or ignorance of later reports. I understand you don't take as gospel unless something is in published paper. So to say 98% got it would not be scientific. But to emphasize that 33% don't, is also not scientific, and shows where you mind is.
As for a treat, great. Except, can't have any sugar, you know.
I posted these articles on facebook however folk were having trouble translating them so i made a note .
European XMRV Articles translated .
I have posted a number ofEuropean XMRV articles though it appears folk are having problems with being able to translate them . So here they are .
There is hope for patients with Chronic Fatigue (CFS). According to the American Institute of Health NIH is the disorder may be linked to virus.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis, or CFS (ME) is an umbrella term for symptoms related to fatigue, chronic inflammation of the spinal cord and / or muscle pain. The cause of CFS is still shrouded in riddles. In our country it is still assumed that CFS is a psychological disorder. That's why this week, two physicians were ordered to pay back 635,000 euros to the disease due to the frequent prescription of expensive drugs for CVS patients.
For several years indicate growing evidence that CFS is not "between the ears', but is linked to viruses such as herpes and enteroviruses (the intestines). In October last year, American specialists published in the journal Science conducted a survey showing that 67 of their 101 CFS patients were infected with the retrovirus XMRV range. This virus is rare in healthy people and blood donors are (still) not scanned. The scientists assumed that XMRV through blood transfusions transmitted infection in causing CFS.
That finding is now confirmed by Harvey Alter of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Alternaria is the specialist in infections of NIH and the discoverer of the virus that causes hepatitis C. In late May he said in a conference decided that the figures in Science "extremely strong and probably correct. We (NIH) have their own research findings can be confirmed. Alter is not his statements in public again because he is working on an own publication.
Yet CVS respond doctors and patients excited. Because if there is a physical cause for CFS is detected, the patients also increases the hope for a real treat.
A researcher influential NIH (NIH), Harvey Alter, chief of Infectious Diseases Section, supported the theory that a retrovirus XMRV virus (or viruses of xenotropic murine leukemia) would be responsible for fatigue syndrome Chronic (SFC) and says that two teams of government researchers have confirmed the association of independent, said a Dutch scientific journal Ortho report the Wall Street Journal and New Scientist. The news would be a great noise among the groups of patients, researchers and clinicians, raising hopes of a solid explanation for the disease and possible treatment.
A link between the virus and chronic fatigue syndrome has been reported last year in the journal Science by researchers at the Peterson Institute Whitmore (Nevada, USA). But this theory has been widely criticized after several groups of investigators have failed to confirm the hypothesis.
Last month, at a closed workshop in Zagreb was for the protection of blood banks, the researcher presented the link between CFS and the virus as being "extremely loud and probably true, despite the controversy." Researchers at the NIH and the Food and Drug Administration have confirmed this link.
Moreover, there is a little over a week, the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) has published a Bulletin of the Association recommending its members to actively discourage potential donors who received a diagnosis of CFS.
An NIH spokesman confirmed to the Wall Street Journal about the researcher have been well reported but said could not comment on the study because the data have not yet been published. The researcher confirmed to reporters that the magazine Ortho search results will be published shortly.
The researcher and his team estimated that the virus and related viruses are present in 3-7% of blood donors.
MADRID.- The answer to this question is not yet clear. A few months ago, research published in journal Science found that a high percentage of people with chronic fatigue syndrome (67%) was a virus called XMRV, present in the blood. Since then, countries like Canada are taking steps to ensure that patients diagnosed with the condition not to donate blood. The goal? Avoiding possible contaminated plasma transfusion and, therefore, the spread of the disease.
However, the experts consulted by ELMUNDO.es insist that this hypothesis is not confirmed and requires further study. The work led by the scientist Vincent Lombardi had only 101 patients. "It is true that among them there was a high prevalence of HIV infection, but 33% did not present this abnormality, "said Oscar Beloqui, specialist of the University Hospital of Navarra. And more: "According to the same job, 4% of the healthy population also had the virus and nothing happens." Ultimately, further studies are needed and many are already underway.
And in this line are American Drug Agency (FDA, according to its acronym in English) and U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH, its acronym in English), whose investigations have also found the virus in the blood XMRV people diagnoticadas chronic fatigue. For this reason, some countries are considering whether these patients may or may not donate blood. In fact, American Association of Blood Banks recommended not to start when they suffered from this disease.
In Spain, according to some patient groups, "the diagnosis should not be affected blood donors." For its part, the Ministry of Health guidelines are not specific. According to sources in this body, "only allows for the donation of those people who are in perfect health." Although there is no specific reference to chronic fatigue syndrome, is defined as Beloqui explains that "a sick person, whether by the syndrome or any other, can not donate." They are health professionals who are responsible for screening out persons whose donation could present a risk to their health or to others.
Although "in Spain there are no guidelines that say if people with chronic fatigue syndrome may or may not donate, since research was published in "Science" (October 2009), in Catalonia, we rule out the possibility that these patients donate , as a matter of utmost caution, although the cause-effect relationship is not yet conclusive, "says Luis Puig, director of the Division of Blood Blood and Tissue Bank of Barcelona. "Also, since not many people with this disease who come to donate blood (not usually found well enough to do so), this average does not significantly affect the stock of blood."
Meanwhile, the specialist said, "we have initiated a study to verify the presence of XMRV virus in the blood of people diagnosed with this disease."
As Dr. Beloqui, "continued progress in research to find the source of chronic fatigue syndrome, but we must not alarm with the new findings. This virus may be one more in the list of possible causes of the disease. " The question is, while confirming the relationship between the virus and this condition is relevant or not the affected donate blood. Countries like Canada and New Zealand and regions such as Catalonia, are clear. Preventively, bet on us to discard these candidates.
THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THAT WONDERFUL POST TOGETHER! it was exciting to read.