Word about the Device Free Drinks party, billed as an occasion to "enjoy a few hours off the grid," had spread through Facebook and other social media (postal mail would have been too much) and drew about 250 participants.
Sadly, the parliament is likely to insist on far-reaching amendments to the law that may mean it excludes areas such as health, the media, postal services, electricity, water and gas.
According to reports in the state-controlled news media, postal officials in five provinces have inspected and confiscated documents at branches of the China International Foreign Trade Transportation Corporation, or Sinotrans, which has several joint ventures with companies, including DHL and U.P.S.
Unlike most recent patients with bioterrorism-associated anthrax, this patient was not a media or postal worker (1– 4).
Recruitment to NELICO began in October 2011, via e-mail, text messaging, social media and postal correspondence with the 98 medical students who attended the original NNEdPro teaching weekends in 2009 [ 6].
In response, public health officials, advised by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, eventually prescribed antibiotics as a preventive measure to more than 10,000 people, including the 5,000 news media employees and postal workers included in the study.
The final case, Kathy T. Nguyen of the Bronx, is the final surprise, the one person who was neither a member of the news media or a postal worker.
Hers was the second case of anthrax in recent days that seemed to fall outside the previous pattern of contamination that exposed only people working in government offices, media companies and postal facilities.
The tourism sector has been badly hit by the anti-government demonstrations as have state-owned firms across Egypt in the postal, media, textile and steel industries.
Meanwhile, a public notice distributed on social media from the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) warned that "…anyone generating, passing on or sharing such abusive and subversive materials which are tantamount to criminal behaviour, will be disconnected and the law will take it's course…perpetrators can easily be identified".
Despite widespread media reports of postal investigators looking into whether a Huntington Beach woman sicced her dog on mail carrier and former Olympic swimmer Shirley Babashoff, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman said Wednesday there would be no investigation because there's not enough evidence.
