Drug-resistant staph deaths surpass AIDS in the United States

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, killed nearly 19,000 Americans in 2005 alone, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That is more people than were killed by AIDS in the United States. More than 94,000 Americans were afflicted with MRSA infections in 2005.

Although the supergerm, or superbug, is primarily found in hospitals, a growing number of cases have been contracted at public gyms and schools. In Moneta, Virginia, a high school senior died from an infection that spread to his kidney, liver, lungs and heart. In Bedford County, where Moneta is located, school officials have reported five cases of the Methicillin-resistant strain of the Staph bacteria. County officials closed the schools to clean them.

“Certainly, MRSA now has to be viewed as a very important target for prevention and control,” said Dr. David A. Talan, an infectious diseases specialist at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.

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The Amazing Appeal Of Outdoor Kitchens

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Homeowners sometimes find themselves with extra square footage. This is usually amidst a patio or backyard setting. The overall appeal of these locales is fascinating. You’re going to find that they can be retrofitted with a lot of different options. As you look at the different options that you have for outdoor space, don’t dismiss the notion of having a kitchen outside. Outdoor kitchens are interesting in that they provide the best of a lot of different elements outside. If you aren’t quite sure, consider some of the alluring aspects of this option that you’ll want to consider.

Entertaining With Culinary Elements

First and foremost, consider the culinary options that you will have in place. When you have a full outdoor kitchen, you could do a lot more than just grill some steaks. Imagine getting a lot more done. For instance, what if you wanted to do a mixed menu? Some things grilled, some things baked, and others boiled? You can do it all if you have the right equipment in place, and that’s where this comes shining through. This brings together entertaining options that you wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.

The Visual Design

There’s nothing quite as amazing as having a nice open concept kitchen. Now, multiply that by 10 and you will see that outdoor kitchens can absolutely give you a thrill. This concept goes beyond the ability to just cook and entertain. There’s a visual element to this that is absolutely stunning. You’re going to find that it will come into play when you want to sell your home. Selling your home with this in place will draw the eye, and give you a little more wiggle room in terms of asking price.

The Concepts

For those that aren’t sure what outdoor kitchens consist of, you’ll definitely want to look at the possibilities. If you have a lot of space, you could have a full scale culinary range. From installing ovens, burners, grills, and sinks to putting in islands, you have a lot of diverse opportunities to explore. This includes the additional elements of tile, stone, and more that can accent your existing patio or decking.

At the end of the day, kitchen renovations don’t have to be isolated to just the interior of your home. You could use existing, outdoor spaces to create outstanding concepts. Kitchens can bring about so much, especially if you want to entertain. If you want to have friends over, or just have a family get together, you can easily do so when you have outdoor area to cook, entertain and more. Installation is a matter of working with a good crew and contractor. Once all the pieces are put into place, you’ll wonder how you managed without it all.

Islamic State claims attack which killed 25 police recruits in Yemen

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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Yemeni officials said a suicide bombing today killed at least 25 police recruits in the city of Mukalla, Yemen. Islamic State claimed responsibility.

The attack took place where the recruits were queuing outside a police base. Security forces stated Mubarak al-Awthaban, the city’s security director, was nearby in an office but survived the attack.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack through Amaq, their online news agency. They stated the attacker was a “martyrdom-seeker” who used an explosive belt. They also claimed at least 40 people had been killed.

This is the second recent attack in Mukalla, following the expulsion of their rivals al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in a campaign by forces from Yemen and a Saudi led coalition. AQAP had taken the city during Yemen’s recent civil war, during which time they were able to take control over much of the country’s south coast.

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Japanese detain two anti-whaling activists, deny abuse claims

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Yesterday at 6:00 UTC at 60° S 78° E , a Japanese whaling ship detained two Sea Shepherd Conservation Society activists in the Southern Ocean. Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research (IRC) deny Sea Shepherd claims that they have been abused. The Japanese government has assured the Australian Government the release of the men.

According to the conservation agency Sea Shepherd, Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, a helicopter assistant, and Briton Giles Lane, an engine room worker, were detained on board a Yushin Maru No. 2 after delivering a letter asking the ship to exit Antarctic waters .

Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd’s vessel, Steve Irwin, said that the Japanese “tried to throw them overboard, then they tied them to a bulkhead and were beating them”.

He alleged that the men were tied to the radar masts before being brought below deck after which the men were not seen. Sea Shepherd’s international director, Jonny Vasic, claimed that they were “basically strapped by the arms with zip-ties and tied with rope around their chests” for 2½ to three hours.

The captain said he was surprised as he expected Japanese whale ships to treated his men more decently.

“We are concerned but I know the Australian and British governments are in touch with the Japanese government.”

Sea Shepherd said it has photographic evidence that the whalers were abusing the men.

However, the Japanese ship refuted the allegations.

“Any accusations that we have tied them up or assaulted them are completely untrue,” Director-general of the IRC Minoru Morimoto said in the press release, “It is illegal to board another country’s vessels on the high seas.”

Detaining the activists was the “only way”, he said. “You couldn’t have them running around the deck not knowing what they’re going to do.”

He said that the activists were making attempts to entangle the screw and were throwing bottles of butyric acid, as rancid butter, onto the deck of the vessel before boarding the vessel. Mr Watson has confirmed this and said that they were to act as a stink bomb but their actions were still peaceful.

Hideki Moronuki, the chief of the whaling section of The Fisheries Agency of Japan, claimed that “nobody took violent action against the two illegal intruders”.

Mr. Moronuki said that they were treated “very, very humanely” and were provided with “a warm, delicious hot meal”, “[a] warm, nice bath” and “[a] nice bed with clean white sheets”.

Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith said that the Japanese government promised him the release of the men late yesterday night.

“Late last night I was advised the Japanese had agreed to this and they had instructed the relevant whaling ship to return the men to the Steve Irwin,” he told ABC radio.

Mr. Moronuki said the “two illegal intruders” will not be released by the vessel’s captain until “Paul Watson has accepted the conditions of the safety of the Japanese vessel”. He said he knew nothing of the comments that the Japanese government agreeing to release the men.

Mr. Watson said the Japanese were “[holding] hostages and make demands” and were acting like “a terrorist organisation”. A press release said Sea Shepherd “will not negotiate with poachers and demands that the Japanese whalers release Benjamin Potts and Giles Lane as soon as possible”.

Mr. Watson said he would not send a zodiac to collect the men as requested in an email because it “endangers the life of the crew, to put them out in these waters in a small boat, 10 miles out of view”.

On Sky TV, IRC spokesman Glenn Inwood said Sea Shepherd were “not answering phone calls or emails at this stage” to take advantage of “fair amount of media coverage” but they were “still making attempts to contact them”.

An Australian Federal Police spokeswoman said that Sea Shepherd made a police report at around 7:00 UTC.

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Microsoft Dynamics Gp 9.0: Ecommerce Web Development Overview For Programmer

Filed Under (Software And Web Development) by Admin on 12-04-2022

By Andrew Karasev

Microsoft ‘Project Green’ phase one is reflected in Microsoft Great Plains/Dynamics GP 9.0 realization. It is exposed to .Net developer currently through eConnect and as time goes – more and more eConnect object will have XML web service interfaces. In this small article we will be touching the set of object, deployed in eCommerce application, using Microsoft Dynamics GP as a backend.

— Sales Order Processing (SOP). In the light eCommerce case – you push data into SOP10100 – SOP

Header table and SOP10200 – SOP Line table. If you do create Sales Orders Only, do not accept deposits against sales order – then you do not care about SOP Distribution table: SOP10102. All these tasks could be realized through eConnect.

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— Inventory Tables. If you sell from your inventory (not just services), then you use Inventory module tables: IV00101 – Item master, IV00102 – Item QTY master, the last one shows you quantity at the specific location and in general

— Receivable Management Tables. RM00101 – Customer master – in case if you create and register new customer or update existing customer info in Great Plains.

— eConnect extensions. Obviously eConnect will be repeating the logic of former Great Plains Dexterity objects. In Great Plains you typically create work documents: Quotes, Orders, Invoices and then you post them individually or in the batch – posting process is functionally assigned to the operator, this is why you will have hard time to program it via eConnect (which allows you to create work documents). You will need eConnect extensions or simply stored procedures, which post work records in Sales Order Processing and potentially Receivable Management modules – it is not recommended to create ones from scratch – posting and order transferring logic is very complicated.

— Stored Procedures approach. We see more and more cases when eCommerce is built around Microsoft Small Business Financials, former Microsoft Small Business Manager – in such a situation eConnect might be too expensive and too complex – you may need just several SOP oriented stored procedures to create SOP orders and invoices at the back end in SOP SQL tables. The advice to the developer in the case of Small Business Financials – ask SBF user to create sample transaction – Sales Order and watch how did it distribute across SOP tables – you will get the idea and replication pattern for your SQL coding

— Development Tools. Microsoft Visual Studio.Net is becoming the tool of choice (over now legacy Microsoft Dexterity or Great Plains Software Dexterity). However if you are eCommerce developer – you will have to use SQL scripting. Usually the first question is – where do I get Great Plains table structure description: Tools->Resource Description->Tables. Sometimes developers ask about Great Plains Integration Manager. This tool is in process of being rewritten with eConnect panidea. Integration Manager up to version 8.0 was relatively slow in its technical ability to integrate bulk number of records – it used legacy OLE Server technology – Great Plains was OLE Server and IM used GP screens to validate integration records. New integration manager should be more powerful and it is in the process of the creation as we write these lines.

— Microsoft Dynamics CRM web front. In some cases we see this scenario. Microsoft Great Plains – MS CRM integration is in process of being rewritten on eConnect – currently it uses BizTalk server (and does a nice job, however sometimes you have to programmatically tune the BizTalk integration). In CRM you can create Account or Contact that will be integrated to Great Plains Customer, then Order when submitted can be integrated to Great Plains if needed. Sometimes developers complain, that they have to force credit limit for the CRM Account to be non-zero – in order for the invoice to come through.

About the Author: Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at Alba Spectrum Technologies (

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Gunman on the loose in Melbourne

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Police in Melbourne, Australia are on the hunt for a gunman who killed a man and injured two others in the city’s central business district this morning.

Officials warned all office workers to remain indoors, and train services to Flinders Street Station were temporarily on hold, as investigations were carried out on the intersection of Flinders Lane and William Street.

Malcom Bates, who witnessed the shootings at around 8:15 a.m., said the gunman grabbed a woman from inside a taxi. “The lady got away and he turned and shot three people basically point blank,” Mr Bates said. “I was right across the road”. He said that the incident took no longer than the “wink of an eye”.

Paramedics struggled to revive the one victim for almost an hour before declaring him dead at the scene. The two injured people have been taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition.

Police believe the incident began at the Bar Code 24-hour bar in King Street, when a woman attempted to get into a taxi. She was apparently grabbed by the hair by the gunman who then shot her and two men who attempted to come to her aid.

Police have identified the gunman as Christopher Wayne Hudson, aged 29. They believe him to be a member of the Hells Angels bikie gang. Police have described Hudson as about 180 cm tall, with short brown hair and wearing a dark tracksuit top and dark denim jeans.

A building worker on a construction site on the corner of Queen and Flinders Streets has reportedly discovered a handgun. It is understood the gunman may have thrown the weapon into the site as he fled the scene.

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America’s Cup: seventh race postponed

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The seventh race in the challenge for the 32nd America’s Cup has been postponed due to unfair and unstable race conditions. This race could have been the last and final race as Alinghi are currently on match point on four wins, while Team New Zealand are only on two wins in the best of nine competition.

At 12.30 a.m. (NZST) there was already speculation gathering that there could be a delay due to the wind being all over the place. The principal race officer also confirmed that there was a very real possibility that there would be a delay.

The delayed flag was flown at 12.55 a.m., five minutes before the yachting race was due to begin. This was due to unstable weather conditions, which could lead to an unfair race.

At 1.20 a.m., 20 minutes after the race was scheduled to start, there had still been no word from the race committee on a possible racing time. The wind speeds were around five knots near the starting line, but the wind direction still wasn’t stable and fair.

The wind speed was starting to get higher into more acceptable conditions with the wind at the start line around seven knots. But the wind direction was still unstable.

At 2.10 a.m., the principal race officer announced that there would be “no more racing today”. Tomorrow is a guaranteed rest day, so the next possible day for racing will be early Wednesday morning (NZST).

During this America’s Cup challenge and other previous ones, discussion has been raised that a new boat design is needed, as to make the race more interesting with faster boats and more takeovers throughout the race.

It was also Grant Dalton’s, managing director of Team New Zealand, 50th birthday.

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13+ Fashion Tips To Look More Attractive And Stylish

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All these tips may seem small and simple to see you, but we want to tell you that these simple tips will revolutionize the way you wear daily. All these tips are sure to show you fashionable and attractive when you get out of the house.

There are many girls who do not have any knowledge about fashion. This article has been written keeping in mind the girls who take care of their work but do not pay any attention to show themselves a good.

Looking beautiful and fashionable every day is a skill in itself, which is not mastered by all. But by taking care of some extraordinary things, you can show yourself fashionable and attractive. Here we will share 14 fashion tips to look more attractive to you, so read it till the end.

1.Highlight your lips and eyes

It has often been seen that the most attention is paid to lips and eyes, so to look attractive, your lips and eyes have to be highlighted a lot. For this, you can use mascara or eyeliner etc. on your eyes. You can also use lipstick or lip balm to make your lips look soft and beautiful so that whenever you get out of the house, you feel beautiful and attractive.

2.Always Smell good

Keeping yourself clean is one of the very best habits, but some people ignore it, that’s why we recommend that you always use an aromatic perfume whenever you go out to do so that you can keep people on your side. To draw. Always use perfumes with a mild fragrance.

3.Groom your nails

We recommend that you can always clean the nails from time to time to look beautiful and attractive. You can also use a good nail paint to make them look beautiful so that you look much more attractive. If you wish, use golden, or metal coloured nail paints to maintain the beauty of your hands for a long time.

4.Keep Your Teeth Clean

We advise you to keep yourself clean and clean once more so that you always look beautiful. We were hoping you could clean your teeth daily so that your teeth shine like pearls, and wherever you go, people are drawn towards you.

5.Consider your facial hairstyle

Your hairstyle can change your entire style and look very much. Therefore it is essential to take care of it. We would advise you to keep the hairstyle as per your face shape to look more beautiful and attractive. You can also keep your hair open to show yourself beautiful and beautiful, but keep in mind that your hair has a reasonable volume. Check out our cute hair stylepost.

6.Right posture

For any person to look good, his body size plays a vital role, so you should always keep your body posture right. If you want to correct your poster at a very advanced level, you can join a gym or yoga.

7.Wear sunglass

Often we see that Bollywood stars or celebrities use sunglass to look beautiful. If you want to make yourself look beautiful and attractive, you can also use sunglass according to the latest trends, which will help you look much more beautiful. Also, improve your personality to a great extent.

8.Show Off Your Neckline

Show Off Neckline dress has often been seen to play the leading role in looking much more beautiful and attractive than other dresses. We would advise you to opt for the Show Off Neckline dress and ignite your personality to a great extent. if you don’t no about this then check our Western dressespost.

9.Expose Your Shoulders

Many prominent celebrities and actresses always use such a dress to show themselves beautiful and attractive; shoulders should be seen because they look much more beautiful and attractive than other dresses. Also attracts everyone’s attention.

10.A red dress is always magical

According to the research of the year 2008 and 2014, the red colour dress attracts much more attention than other dresses, that’s why we recommend that you choose a red dress to show yourself beautiful. Also, it is one of the most-liked colours, which men like very much.

11.Wear high heels

If you want to show yourself beautiful and attractive, then it is impossible without good causal shoes or high heels, so we recommend wearing high heels according to your dress. If you want to make yourself comfortable, you can also go for good casual shoes, which is very similar to your clothes.

12.Make eye contact

Whenever you see someone, keep eye contact very well to show yourself attractive and improve your personality. Whenever you talk to someone, talk with his eye and eye to have the right image in the people’s eyes.

13.Less Talk

It is often seen that girls talk too much to highlight themselves. But we advise you to ignore it completely. Whenever you go to any party or function, talk less there, because speaking too much will make a wrong impression on your personality. And you remain a joke of people, so you speak less and according to need so that you can make yourself unique everywhere.

14.Be confident

If you do not keep yourself confident, then all the points mentioned above can prove useless for you, so always keep yourself full of confidence. Because after following all these tips, you will become excellent and attractive. We want to tell you once more that you have faith in yourself because you will look fabulous in the real sense.

Conclusion

Friends, if you follow all the tips mentioned above, I can claim that you are the most beautiful and attractive person. Also, you will see a considerable improvement in your personality and confidence level in a few days. My best wishes are always with you.

We hope that you will like the information given above all very much. If yes, you can share our fashion tips to look more attractive with all your friends so that they too can help a lot to make themselves look beautiful and show gratitude to you always.

If you have any question in your mind, then you can tell us in the comment below. If you have missed any tips, you can tell us below to include it in it and make it even more useful.

Author Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Wikinews interviewed author Amy Scobee about her book Scientology – Abuse at the Top, and asked her about her experiences working as an executive within the organization. Scobee joined the organization at age 14, and worked at Scientology’s international management headquarters for several years before leaving in 2005. She served as a Scientology executive in multiple high-ranking positions, working out of the international headquarters of Scientology known as “Gold Base”, located in Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California.

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Public Private Partnerships In The Security Industry And Security Management

Filed Under (Public Relations) by Admin on 02-04-2022

By Daniel Sommer

The War on Terror for the United States began after a sequence of attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. These terrorist attacks left the most powerful nation in the world on its heels and reeling from the audacity of al-Qaida to launch a terrorist attack inside our borders. Subsequently, these asymmetric events have redefined how we as a nation must revisit security strategies to secure our homeland.

Security industry and security management officials alike have banded together with the government to develop and implement effective strategic security solutions. For example, homeland security professionals around the country after 9/11 began to form partnerships with the private sector to close knowledge gaps. Academia stepped in and developed advanced homeland security courses for private and public first-line supervisors and homeland security seniors. From offering a security industry degree or security management degree to public safety or first responder degrees, colleges and universities created momentum for the post-9/11 era of public-private partnerships in the security arena.

Historically, the United States has depended on its geographic location as a natural defense against foreign intruders, and ?we were able to treat national security as essentially an out-of-body experience. When confronted by threats, we dealt with them on the turf of our allies or our adversaries. Aside from the occasional disaster and heinous crime, civilian life at home has been virtually terror-free.’

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Security Management Degree Program: Cost vs. Strategic Value Today’s security professional needs to understand that the complex threat environment is now focused in local communities and not on some obscure battlefield in a faraway country. The professional knowledge and skill-level required to devise and execute strategic security plans at this level, to direct operational response plans expediently, are offered within many security management degree programs. The combination of specialized knowledge and real-world experience is a critical litmus test of faculty at institutions that claim to offer top dollar security industry degree programs. Students need to be sure that they are going to walk away from any education in security with the strategic skills in management and communication they need to become top-level policy and decision makers.

Strategic Security: A Fine Balance of Risk and Opportunity As internationally renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier has properly observed, ‘Security is all about trade-offs, but when the stakes are considered infinitely high, the whole equation gets thrown out of kilter.’ These ‘trade-offs’ have received serious criticisms, thus, placing the government and its various federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in a challenging position of protecting almost 300 million people against future terrorist attacks while simultaneously striving to protect and maintain their constitutional rights. This fine balance of risk and opportunity is present in the mind of every homeland security manager and even those in the private sector security industry.

Even the most advanced security industry degree and security management degree programs face extreme difficulty to provide curricula necessary to enrich and empower current and future security professionals with the knowledge and skills to make appropriate decisions under intense pressure where hundreds or thousands of lives are potentially at stake.

Conclusion There are many similarities between federal, state, and local security management degree programs and private sector security industry degree programs. While there are several courses of action available to prevent and counter future terrorist attacks, both types of programs place a premium on understanding the strategic nature of the terrorist threat to the homeland. Furthermore, the education of antiterrorism measures to the general public also will help in heightening daily situational awareness and provide a much needed perspective on the very real daily threat that will continue to combine the need for security with maintaining the constitutional freedoms inherent to our democratic nation.

About the Author: Dan Sommer works for Henley-Putnam University, a leading educational institution in the field of Strategic Security. For more info on Henley-Putnam University,

security industry degree,

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