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By SUNIL Sonkar
13 is just the age when girls become more beautiful, but this is not for Zara Hartshorn, who is turning to be 50 at her 13 age due to midlife crisis. The is the real and cruel blow of nature on her.
The appearance of Zara is like a 50-year-old though she is at [...]
The Collier County Health Department is monitoring an outbreak of Norwalk virus that forced five nursing homes to stop admitting residents. So far, at least a dozen people have been hospitalized with the virus.
WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department is handing out nearly $310 million in stimulus money to bring high-speed Internet connections to 14 rural communities around the country. The awards being announced Monday amount to the largest round of government funding for broadband since Congress included $7.2 billion for high-speed networks and adoption programs in last year’s stimulus bill. The money is intended to bring jobs and economic opportunities to rural communities, poor neighborhoods and other parts of the country that are falling behind in the information age. It is also intended to pay for the network infrastructure needed to deliver telemedicine services, offer online classes and provide other applications that require a lot of bandwidth. “This big batch of projects will create urgently needed jobs now and also build networks that will fuel rural economic development for years to come,” said Jonathan Adelstein, who heads the Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service, which is awarding the money. The awards being announced Monday include: – an $88.1 million grant and loan to an Alaskan telecommunications company that will build “middle mile” networks to connect 65 towns and villages in southwestern Alaska to the Internet. – a $19.1 million grant and loan to a Missouri electric cooperative to build a fiber-optic network that will reach nearly 5,000 homes, businesses, public safety entities and community organizations in rural Ralls County, Mo. – a $3.9 million grant to a unit of TDS Telecommunications Corp. to build a digital subscriber line network to serve homes, businesses and community institutions in sparsely populated parts of Alabama. – a $376,000 grant and loan to a telephone company to build a WiMax network that can deliver wireless broadband connections to nearly 325 homes in northeast Iowa. Including the latest round of funding, the Rural Utilities Service has doled out $363.7 million for 22 broadband projects across the country. The Agriculture Department will award a total of $2.5 billion in stimulus money for broadband programs. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, an arm of the Commerce Department, is handing out the remaining $4.7 billion in stimulus funding for broadband. As of last week, NTIA had awarded roughly $200 million in grants for 15 projects. Applications for the next and final round of broadband funding are due by March 15. In the second round, the Agriculture Department will focus on projects that provide “last-mile” connections that link homes, businesses and other end users to the Internet. The Commerce Department will focus on “middle-mile” projects that connect anchor institutions such as libraries, colleges and public safety agencies. It will also award some money for computing centers in libraries, colleges and other public facilities, and adoption programs that teach people how to use the Internet. Demand for the broadband money has been intense, far outstripping the amount available. The Commerce and Agriculture departments already have received nearly 2,200 applications requesting a total of $28 billion.
The Council of Europe will launch a probe into pharmaceutical companies after reports that vaccine manufacturers pressured the World Health Organization into declaring swine flu pandemic seeking increase in profits.
It was supposed to be a deadly pandemic, but is so far is nothing more than a serious cold.
And it has left a lasting headache as [...]
Although we don’t know much about style-behind-bars, we were aware of the body piercing and the tattooing that goes on in the cells…but two prisoners have opened our eyes to the newest self-mutilating trend: eye tattoos that change the sclera to be blue or even red.
When asked why he would do this to himself, David [...]
December 15, 2009 05:18 PT
Santa Barbara, , United States (IBwire.com – December 15, 2009) Scientists at UC Santa Barbara, in collaboration with scientists at University of Michigan, have developed synthetic particles that closely mimic the characteristics and key functions of natural red blood cells, including softness, flexibility, and the [...]
BEAUFORT — Two more horses have died in Carteret County due to infections of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), according to the county health department.
The county has now seen three equine deaths from EEE since October. All three animals were located in the Newport area.
With the reports, health officials are reminding area residents to take precautions [...]
By Noel Sheppard
Former Clinton Labor Secretary and current obama economic adviser Robert Reich believes healthcare legislation currently being debated on Capitol Hill “won’t offer most Americans any appreciable decline in the cost of their health insurance nor clear improvement in the efficiency or quality of the health care they receive.”
Contrary to what President Obama, House [...]
The votes, in the Senate Finance Committee, underscored divisions among Democrats and were a setback for President Obama, who has endorsed the public plan as a way to “keep insurance companies honest.”
The first proposal, by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, was rejected 15 to 8, as five Democrats joined all republicans on [...]
In the most contentious exchange of President Barack obama’s marathon of five Sunday shows, he said it is “not true” that a requirement for individuals to get health insurance under a key reform plan now being debated amounts to a tax increase.
But he could look it up — in the bill.
Page 29, sentence one of [...]
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