TELECOM Digest     Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:59:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 436

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Internet Helps Speed Stroke Therapy in Rural Areas (Anthony J. Brown, MD)
    China Imposes New Rules on News Web Sites (Audra Ang)
    Gulf Coast Emerges From Battering by Rita (Julia Silverman)
    Mayor Nagin Once Again Plans to Open New Orleans (Michelle Roberts)
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From: Anthony J. Brown, MD  <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Internet Helps Speed Stroke Therapy in Rural Areas
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:47:57 -0500


By Anthony J. Brown, MD

An internet-based network that allows doctors in rural hospitals to
consult a stroke expert in real-time can hasten the delivery of
clot-busting drugs to treat stroke patients, new research indicates.

With the network, known as REACH, doctors at eight rural hospitals in
Georgia were able to immediately consult a stroke expert at the
Medical College of Georgia (MCG). The system, which incorporates a
video feed, allows the consultant to examine the patient and view the
CT scan and then decide if treatment with tissue plasminogen activator
(tPA) is needed.

A previous report has shown that stroke care at rural hospitals often
does not follow published guidelines and that tPA is used
infrequently.

Lead author Dr. David C. Hess, from the Augusta-based MCG, told
Reuters Health that "doctors at rural centers may not feel comfortable
reading a CT scan for stroke and may be worried about giving tPA,
which carries a 6 percent rate of intracranial hemorrhage." The REACH
system "is a way of providing physicians at rural hospitals with
immediate access to a stroke consultant at any time."

In the new study, reported in the medical journal Stroke, the
researchers describe the results of 194 stroke consultations that were
delivered with REACH. Thirty of the patients received tPA.

The average and median National Institutes of Health Stroke Scores
were 15.4 and 12.5, respectively.

The time between stroke onset and treatment fell during the study
period from 143 minutes for the first 10 patients to 111 minutes for
last 20 patients. Sixty percent of patients received tPA within two
hours and 23 percent received it within 90 minutes.

None of the patients treated with tPA experienced symptoms of cerebral
hemorrhage, the report indicates.

"We were surprised by the findings -- we never thought we'd be
treating patients with tPA in under 2 hours or, in some cases, 90
minutes," Hess said. "Rural hospitals move pretty fast in getting
blood work and CT scans done, they just need assistance in
interpreting the results and making treatment decisions."

Hess said that the REACH system could probably be applied to a number
of rural settings across the US. However, he noted that the biggest
obstacle to widespread adoption of this and similar telemedicine
systems is reimbursement.

He explained that Medicare and insurance companies have certain
reimbursement stipulations that, at present, do not encourage the
adoption of such systems.

SOURCE: Stroke, September 2005.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. 

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From: Audra Ang <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: China Imposes New Rules on News Web Sites
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:49:15 -0500


By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer

China is imposing new regulations to control content on its news Web
sites, the government said Sunday, another step in its ongoing effort
to police a rapidly expanding Internet population.

The rules, issued by the Ministry of Information Industry and the
State Council, China's cabinet, will "standardize the management of
news and information" in the country, the official Xinhua News Agency
said. They take effect immediately, it said.

The report did not give any details on the regulations but said sites
should only post news on current events and politics. It did not
define what would be acceptable under those categories.

Only "healthy and civilized news and information that is beneficial to
the improvement of the quality of the nation, beneficial to its
economic development and conducive to social progress" will be
allowed, Xinhua said.

It added: "The sites are prohibited from spreading news and
information that goes against state security and public interest."

China's population of Internet users has surpassed 100 million and is
the world's second largest after the United States, which has 135
million.

While the communist government encourages Internet use for education
and business, it also keeps an extremely tight rein over online
content, usually blocking material it deems subversive or
pornographic. Online dissidents who post essays questioning government
actions and policies or those who express their opinions in chatrooms
are regularly arrested and charged under vaguely worded state security
laws.

Earlier this month, a French media watchdog group said e-mail account
information provided by Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. helped lead to
the conviction and 10-year prison sentence of a Chinese journalist who
had written about media restrictions in an e-mail.

Also as part of an ongoing effort to curb potential dissent, thousands
of cybercafes -- the main entry to the Web for many Chinese unable to
afford a computer or Internet access -- have been closed.

Authorities in Shanghai have installed surveillance cameras and begun
requiring visitors to Internet cafes to register using their official
identity cards to keep tabs on who's seeing and saying what online.

The government also recently threatened to shut down unregistered Web
sites and blogs, online diaries in which users post their thoughts for
others to read.

According to Xinhua, the previous set of rules governing Internet news
was issued in 2000 and have become obsolete given the development of
technology and China's rapidly growing online community.

The new rules will "satisfy the public demand for receiving news and
information from the Internet as well as safeguard public interest,"
Xinhua said.


Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. 

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I have been advised that since the
situation with Yahoo about a month ago which led to the Chinese
writer being sent to prison, Associated Press at least has begun
giving their writers/reporters in China alias names when something
appears in print.   PAT]

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From: Julia Silverman <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Gulf Coast Emerges From Battering by Rita
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:32:14 -0500


By JULIA SILVERMAN, Associated Press Writer

For the storm-shattered Gulf Coast, the images were all too familiar:
Tiny fishing villages in splinters. Refrigerators and coffins bobbing
in floodwaters. Helicopters and rescue boats making house-to-house
searches of residents stranded on the rooftops.

But as the misery wrought by Hurricane Rita came into clearer view --
particularly in the hard-to-reach marsh towns along the Texas-
Louisiana line -- the lasting signs that emerged a day after the
storm's 120-mph landfall were of an epic evacuation that saved
countless lives, and of destruction that fell short of the
Katrina-sized fears.

"As bad as it could have been, we came out of this in pretty good
shape," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said after taking a helicopter tour
Sunday.

Even with nearly 1 million in the region without electricity, some
coastal towns flooded to the rooftops and the prospect of nearly 3
million evacuated residents pouring back onto the highways for home,
the news was overwhelmingly positive.

Petrochemical plants that supply a quarter of the nation's gasoline
suffered only a glancing blow, with just one major plant facing weeks
of repairs. The reflooding in New Orleans from levee breaks was
isolated mostly to areas already destroyed and deserted, and could be
pumped out in as little as a week. And contrary to dire forecasts,
Rita and its heavy rains moved quickly north as a tropical depression
instead of parking over the South for days and dumping a predicted 25
inches of torrential rains.

Most significantly, deaths were minimal -- with only two reported so
far -- largely because residents with fresh memories of Katrina heeded
evacuation orders and the storm followed a path that spared Houston
and more populous stretches of the coast.

Along the central Louisiana coastline, where Rita's heavy rains and
storm-surge flooding pushed water up to 9 feet in homes and into
fields of sugarcane and rice, weary evacuees slowly returned to see
the damage.  Staring at the ground, shoulders stooped, clearly
exhausted, many came back with stories of deer stuck on levees and
cows swimming through seawater miles from the Gulf of Mexico.

"All I got now is my kids and my motorhome," said Tracy Savage, whose
house in rural Vermilion Parish was four feet underwater. The
33-year-old diesel technician was able to salvage a toolbox and a few
life vests, but not much more. "We've never had this much water, we've
just never seen it."

More than 100 boats gassed up at an Abbeville car dealership Sunday
before venturing out on search-and-rescue missions to find hundreds of
residents believed to have tried to ride out Rita.

An estimated 1,000 people were rescued in Vermilion Parish, said Chief
Sheriff's Deputy Kirk Frith. About 50 people remained on a 911
checklist, and Frith said authorities would probably conclude rescue
operations by Monday and begin damage assessment.

Authorities were having trouble keeping residents with boats from
entering the parish. "How are you going to stop them from going to
their home to check on their dog or something like that?'" Frith
asked.

During a helicopter tour, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, whose Cajun
roots run deep in the region, got her first look at the hardest-hit
areas.

In Cameron Parish, just across the state line from Texas and in the
path of Rita's harshest winds east of the eye, fishing communities
were reduced to splinters, with concrete slabs the only evidence that
homes once stood there. Debris was strewn for miles by water or
wind. Holly Beach, a popular vacation and fishing spot, was gone. Only
the stilts that held houses off the ground remained.

A line of shrimp boats steamed through an oil sheen to reach
Hackberry, only to find homes and camps had been flattened. In one
area, there was a flooded high school football field, its bleachers
and goal posts jutting from what had become part of the Gulf of
Mexico.

"In Cameron, there's really hardly anything left. Everything is just
obliterated," said Blanco, who has asked the federal government for
$34 billion to aid in storm recovery.

Added Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, head of the Louisiana National
Guard: "This is terrible. Whole communities are gone."

Some bayou residents who arrived with boats in hopes of getting back
in to survey the damage to their property were turned away by state
officials. But all it took was a scan of the Intracoastal waterway to
see a hint of the damage: refrigerators and even a few coffins from
the area's above-ground cemeteries bobbing in the water.

After a briefing with Blanco in Baton Rouge, President Bush said: "I
know the people of this state have been through a lot. We ask for
God's blessings on them and their families."

Just across the state line, Texas' Perry toured the badly hit refinery
towns of Beaumont and Port Arthur area by air Sunday.

"Look at that," he said, pointing to a private aircraft hangar with a
roof that was half collapsed and half strewn across the surrounding
field. "It looks like a blender just went over the top of it."

He said the region has been secured by law enforcement, but does not
have water and sewer services available. He urged residents to stay
out for now, though the statewide picture was better.

"Even though the people right here in Beaumont and Port Arthur and
this part of Orange County really got whacked, the rest of the state
missed a bullet," Perry said.

In contrast to Katrina, with its death toll of more than 1,000, only
two deaths had been attributed to Rita by Sunday -- a person killed in
north-central Mississippi when a tornado spawned by the hurricane
overturned a mobile home and an east Texas man struck by a fallen
tree. Two dozen evacuees were killed before the storm hit in a fatal
bus fire near Dallas.

In Houston, which along with coastal Galveston was spared the brunt of
Rita, officials set up a voluntary, staggered plan for an "orderly
migration" with different areas going home Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
to avoid the massive gridlock that accompanied the exodus out.

Traffic was bumper-to-bumper in the southbound lanes of Interstate 45
north of Houston on Sunday evening, with a seemingly endless stream of
charter buses, cars and sport utility vehicles clogging the highway
and adjacent access roads.

Gasoline containers were strapped to the roofs of many vehicles, while
police officers stationed every few miles helped stranded drivers.

John Willy, the top elected official in Brazoria County, southwest of
Houston, said he would ignore the state's staggered return plan.

"I am not going to wait for our neighbors to the north to get home and
take a nap, before I ask our good people to come home," he said in a
statement.  "Our people are tired of the state's plan! They have a
plan too and it's real simple. They plan to come home when they want."

Crude oil and gasoline futures traded lower Sunday, a response to news
that damage to refineries was relatively light. The 255,000-barrel-per-
day Valero Energy Corp. plant in Port Arthur appeared to be the most
heavily damaged, facing at least two weeks of repairs from significant
damage to two cooling towers and a flare stack.

Still, a rapid recovery for refiners hinges on power being restored to
parts of Texas and Louisiana where facilities are concentrated. The
area's primary utility, Entergy Corp., said 271 high-voltage
transmission lines were down and 275 substations out of service, and
there was no immediate timeline of when power would be restored. 
Residents of Beaumont have been told it could be as long as a month.
Also, most telephone lines in the area are down; no estimates on 
dates for restoral of service.

In New Orleans, the U.S. Corps of Engineers moved rocks and sandbags
into the holes that broke open in the Industrial Canal levee as Rita
closed in, flooding the already devastated Lower Ninth Ward. Workers
believe that once the breaches are closed, the Ninth Ward can be
pumped dry in a week, far more quickly than initially projected.

With most of the city spared significant new damage from Rita, Mayor
Ray Nagin immediately renewed his plan to allow some residents to
return to drier parts of the city. Those areas -- including the
once-raucous French Quarter -- could eventually support a population of
at least half ot its pre-Katrina population of about 500,000
residents.

Associated Press writers Liz Austin, Matt Curry, Brett Martel, Erin McClam,
Adam Nossiter, Doug Simpson and Tim Whitmire contributed to this report.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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From: Michelle Roberts <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Mayor Once Again Plans to Reopen New Orleans
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:33:30 -0500


By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer

The mammoth tasks of restoring power to much of New Orleans and
removing heaps of debris, interrupted when Hurricane Rita rammed the
Gulf Coast, resumed Sunday as the mayor pushed his plan to reopen
parts of the city this week.

Even those areas newly flooded this weekend by Rita could be pumped
dry again within a week after levee damage is repaired, far sooner
than initially predicted, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman
said Sunday.

"All indications are all operations are getting back to normal," said
Ted Monette, deputy federal coordinating officer for Katrina recovery.

Monette said federal officials had been coordinating with Mayor Ray
Nagin's effort to begin allowing evacuated residents to return and
were supportive of his plan.

The signs of renewed life included widespread utility trucks restoring
electricity and restaurants seeking customers, such as the Slim
Goodies diner in the Garden District. The telephone company was even
seen patching more fiber cables.

"You wanna burger?" owner Kappa Horn called out to the steady stream
of police and others who came by.

Horn's diner doesn't have electricity, but she's been using supplies
driven in from Baton Rouge and New Orleans' West Bank to serve
pancakes and burgers for more than a week. She closed for two days
when Rita came through.

"The city is not going to survive unless it's got people in it," Horn
said.  "I want to be part of rebuilding my city."

Nagin on Saturday renewed his plans to allow some residents to return
to drier parts of the city where utilities have already been
restored. Dry districts will eventually support a population of
between 250,000 and 300,000, he said.

Residents of the Algiers neighborhood, which has working power, water
and sewer services, could be allowed to return Monday or Tuesday,
followed by people in other ZIP codes, Nagin said.

Nagin has suggested that only people who are mobile -- not families
responsible for children or senior citizens -- come back. "That's
going to be the reality of New Orleans moving forward."

However, Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen, who is in charge of the
federal disaster effort in the city, sounded a cautionary note. The
city can continue allowing business operators to return to unaffected
areas and letting residents return to the West Bank and Algiers, he
said.

"Where the mayor needs some thoughtful approach to is the areas that
have been reflooded and the areas that may remain uninhabitable for
safety, health and other reasons," the admiral said Sunday on ABC's
"This Week."  "And I think a timetable associated with that still
needs to be worked out."

A handful of evacuees returned to the city aboard a flight from
Cincinnati.

"You go from joy to disbelief to sadness to just being tired, to just
wanting to go home," said Paul Jordan. "Our goal is to help rebuild
the city, and we're going to do whatever we can."

But not everyone headed back to New Orleans plans to stay.

Haney Joudeh has resettled in Chicago and was coming to take photos of
his clothing store, which he heard was looted, for the insurance
company.

"It's like starting a life all over. That's it for me. There's nothing
left," Joudeh said.

Most of the city was spared significant new damage when Rita struck
near the Texas-Louisiana line, but the hurricane's rain and storm
surge partially breached levees along the Industrial Canal, causing
renewed flooding in the Ninth Ward. That is the section of east New
Orleans that was submerged by Katrina and pumped dry just days before
the second big storm.

The Army Corps of Engineers worked through the night to pile rocks and
sandbags in the breaks. Workers believe that once the breaches are
closed, the Ninth Ward can be pumped dry in a week, said Mitch
Frazier, a spokesman for the corps. Federal officials had estimated
Saturday it would take two to three weeks to pump out the water
delivered by Rita.

Entergy, the state's biggest power company, was assessing new damage
that Rita caused for customers in hard-hit southwestern Louisiana, but
work continued in New Orleans, said Chanel Lagarde, a company
spokesman. More than 200,000 customers still lack power in the New
Orleans area, but many are in badly damaged areas.

Entergy has restored power to most of the city's central business
district, and hopes to tackle work in the French Quarter early this
week, he said.

Associated Press writer Dan Sewell, airborne between Cincinnati and New
Orleans, contributed to this report.

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From: nospam4me@mytrashmail.com
Subject: Re: Getting Rid of "Legal" Spam?
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:58:21 UTC
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC


hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> Several years ago I signed up for the big PC Expo show in New York
> City.  I included my real email address.

> Since then I have received many advertisements for subsequent
> technology shows and from various vendors.  Early on I sent in a
> request to remove my name; that request was ignored.

About all you can do is contact each individual emailer and tell them
you want no more email from them; this is a CAN SPAM Act requirement.

As for the promoters of PC-EXPO, perhaps a cease and desist letter
from your attorney is the next step.

If you note the email address I use for posting here ... that absorbs
all the spam generated from usenet harvesters; if you think having a
@mytrashmail.com address would be a problem simply make a freemail
account on Yahoo, Hotmail etc to give to any unknown/untrusted
businesses; although in my case if they don't like @mytrashmail they
can ESAD/FOAD!

 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
 Herb Oxley
 Reply-to: address IS Valid.

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From: NOTvalid@XmasNYC.Info
Subject: Re: Getting Rid of "Legal" Spam?
Date: 25 Sep 2005 17:36:58 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Yes.

Next time buy a domain name from GoDaddy. WIth each domain name you
can make 100 forwarding Email address.

I have one just for contests. Another for tix wife is selling for
charity.

Then kill as needed and create new ones.

Incredibly low long distance phone rates. As low as USA-Canada 1.9CPM!
Works as prepaid phone card. PIN not needed for calls from home or cell
phone. Compare the rates at https://www.OneSuite.com/ No monthly fee or
minimum. Use Promotion/SuiteTreat Code: FREEoffer23 for FREE time.

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From: A. Berger -- Onlynux <andresberger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Getting Rid of "Legal" Spam?
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:43:07 -0500
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


The best way to get rid of spam is always give an email alias to
everybody, this way all people will have a different email address and
when you want to stop the spammer simply delete the alias, also you
will know for sure who the spammer is.

When you go to newsgroups, never give any email with your domain, give
a gmail, hotmail or yahoo address.

To create aliases you need a web hosting, but it's worth the effort.


Regards,

Andres Berger Garcia
Director  http://www.Telecom-Marketing.Info
Parque Leoncio Prado 285. Magdalena. Lima, Peru
Telefax: (511) 261-3760

<hancock4@nbs.cpcn.com> escribi en el mensaje
news:telecom24.434.7@telecom-digest.org:

> Several years ago I signed up for the big PC Expo show in New York
> City.  I included my real email address.

> Since then I have received many advertisements for subsequent
> technology shows and from various vendors.  Early on I sent in a
> request to remove my name; that request was ignored.

> The promotors of PC Expo are not some "fly by night" basement outfit,
> they are supposedly a legitimate organization.  But I am angry that
> they released my email (which was required) to outsiders and that I
> continue to get spam from them.  The latest spam came from: ITD
> Holdings <dnina@itdholdings.com>

> Any suggestions?

> Thanks.

> [public replies please]

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