Wednesday, August 6, 2008
NEW CUP TO JUMP START YOUR WEEK KKIM/DDC August 4th 2008
Good Morning Friends!
May the Peace of the Lord be with You and Yours!
"It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness......" Abraham Lincoln 1863
OUR NEW WEB SITE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!!!
So after you have this cup head over and take the POLL we have up and check it out. I do not know how much longer we will be emailing out the DDC, with the AWESOME site Jannetta has created there may be no need for email except for urgent prayer requests and news. So please go to www.deweysdailycup.com I have prayed about a site like this for YEARS!! So please book mark the new web site and make it one of your favorites and check it out each day...MANY NEW FEATURES!!! Email from the site and let me know what you think!!! PRAISE GOD!!! PRAISE GOD!!!! AND PRAISE GOD FOR JANNETTA!!! I thank you all for being friends!
THE FIRST 5 PEOPLE THAT EMAIL ME FROM THE NEW SITE GET A KKIM GIFT PACK!!!!!!
He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. Isaiah 59:16
"All Christian virtues are locked up in the word prayer." Charles H. Spurgeon
The hand of our GOD is upon all those for good who seek HIM. Ezra 8:22
"The path to a LIFE FULL of answers to prayer is through the WILL OF GOD." Andrew Murray
First of all we have these updates from Amy and her Mother Cheri.........and Cheri reminds us to keep praying for Paul Rieth.........
Dear Dewey and faithful prayer frien ds,I am home from surgery! It is Saturday evening at 5:40. The surgery was yesterday at 3:30, and went well. It was over quickly, and I have met all of the criteria for coming home. It was a success, and everything looks pretty good! I still have more chemo ahead of me, but it is such a relief to have this step over with. God is good, and ever faithful, and I am so grateful that He is with me through all of this! :0) Amy Schultz Thank you all so very much for your prayers. They help sustain me, and I am sure they are part of my healing! Amy Dewey....I am praying for Paul and his family!Amy had her surgery yesterday and seems to be doing well. She will see the doctor this week. I know she will also write an update soon, but I wanted to thank all of you for the prayers. She was sent home early evening today. Last time I checked the pain was under control. She was up and walking. We are all thankful and grateful as we see how the Lord works in her life as he is getting her through this long and difficult journey. Again, you are all such a vital part of this journey to healing and I feel very blessed to have you love enough and care enough to pray for my daughter! Love in Christ,20Cherie Also friends, please pray for Lynne Buggs as she continues to go through treatment for her cancer. Though I have not been familiar w/Bob Rieth's ministry, the name caught my eye b/c we share the same last name. It is especially jolting when something happens to our children... how old is Paul? May our Heavenly Father of Grace and Mercy bless this family with Comfort and the warmth of His Presence. May we cast every care on Jesus, and the family know the consolation of His Love. May this be true for each and every hurting one in their place of need.Because of Jesus,Karen Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. James 4:17 Here is a real good one from Mike and Jan.........Having grown up in Minnesota and being a Norskie and Swede and being raised in the Lutheran Church this is extra special!!! LUTHERAN AIRLINESWE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE LUTHERAN AIRLINES IS NOW OPERATING IN MINNYSOTA! ALSO SERVING VISCONSIN, NORDERN MITCHIGEN, NORT & SOUT DAKOTAIf you are travelin soon, consider Lutran Air, the no-frills airline. You're all in da same boat on Lutran Air, here flyin is a upliftin experience. Dair is no first class on any Lutran Air flight.Meals are potluck. Rows 1 tru 6, bring rolls; 7 tru 15, bring a salad; 16 tru 21, a hot dish, and 22-30, a dessert.Basses and tenors please sit in da rear of da aircraft. Everyone is responsible for his or her own baggage. All fares are by free-will offering, and da plane will not land til da budget is met.Pay attention to your flight attendant, who vill acquaint you wit da safety system aboard dis Lutran Air. Okay den, listen up; I'm only gonna say dis vonce: In da event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, I am frankly gonna be real surprised and so vill Captain Olson, because ve fly right around two tousand feet, so loss of cabin pressure would probably mean da Second Coming or someting of dat nature, and I wouldn't bodder with doze liddle masks on da rubber tubes--you're gonna have bigger tings to worry about den dat.. Just stuff doze back up in dair liddle holes. Probably da masks fell out because of turbulence which, to be honest wit you, we're gonna have quite a bit of at two tousand feet, sorta like driving across a plowed field, but after a while you get used to it.In da event of a water landing, I'd say forget it. Start saying da Lord's Prayer and just hope you get to da part about forgive us our sins as we fo rgive dose who sin against us, which some people say "trespass against us," which isn't right, but what can you do?Da use of cell phones on da plane is strictly forbidden, not because day may confuse da plane's navigation system, which is by da pants all da way. No, it's because cell phones are a pain in da wazoo, and if God had meant you to use a cell phone, He wudda put your mout on da side of your head.We start lunch right about noon and it's buffet style wit da coffeepot up front. Den we'll have da hymn sing; hymnals are in da seat pockets in front of you. Don't take yours wit you when you go or I am gonna be real upset and I am not kiddin! Right now I'll say Grace:"Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest and let deze gifts to us be blessed. Fader, Son, and Holy Ghost, May we land in Dulut or pretty close." THAT IS SO GOOD!!!! Thanks Mike and Jan........I think Sandy at the Windom paper should put that in the Citizen!!! This from Merry.......... This is nice… Click here: Rain On The Windshield Friday night at Heights Christian Church we held a prayer service for our Military Men and Women. Saturday I spoke to a group of volunteers who go into the prisons to share G od's word. Then I spoke to a group of Sr's at Paradise Hills Methodist. They have such a large eating area and kitchen at Paradise Hills they host many events. Anyhow as I was finishing up my presentation I took questions. One very nice lady says to me, "You are creating fear about China." I said not I was just sharing the truth and If folks want to be fearful that is there choice. What I was sharing about China was that with the new energy bill we will can only get those new light bulbs from China, I shared about there building a HUGE war machine, Industrial Revolution, Pollution, and how funny it is that we are having the Olympics in China when the air quality is so poor and many are talking about having to wear masks, and it is like we are masking the truth as to what is going on in that country. For heaven sakes they have to shut down many factories and stop people from using cars to help clean up the air during the Olympics. I also talked about the push that is going on in New Mexico to pass same sex marriage. This same lady along with four others said we should not worry about that and leave that alone. We had a good discussion on these topics and like I told the group this is America and we are all free to express our opinions. Polls show that well over 70% of New Mexicans are opposed to same sex marriage. The question I then ask, is why then did HB9 just fail by one vote in the last session. I will not argue about same sex marriage I just refer to the Bible and God's word on this. Here are two items that tie in with all this................ US says it understated number of new HIV infections each year, raises estimate to 56,000By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press August 3, 2008ATLANTA - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 — about a 40 percent increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the past dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.But it likely will refocus U.S. attention from the effect of AIDS overseas to what the disease is doing to this country, said public health researchers and officials."This is the biggest news for public health and HIV/AIDS that we've had in a while," said Julie Scofield, executive director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.Experts in the field, advocates and a former surgeon general called for m ore aggressive testing and other prevention efforts, noting that spending on preventing HIV has been flat for seven years.The revised estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the methodology behind it were to be presented Sunday, the opening day of the international AIDS conference in Mexico City.Since AIDS surfaced in 1981, health officials have struggled to estimate how many people are infected each year. It can take a decade or more for an infection to cause symptoms and illness.One expert likened the new estimate to adding a good speedometer to a car. Scientists had a good general idea of where the epidemic was going; this provides a better understanding of how fast it's moving right now."This puts a key part of the dashboard in place," said the expert, David Holtgrave of Johns Hopkins University.Judging by the new calculations, officials believe annual HIV infections have been hovering around 55,000 for several years."This is the most reliable estimate we've had since the beginning of the epidemic," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, the CDC's director. She said other countries may adopt the agency's methodology.According to current estimates, around 1.1 million Americans are living with the AIDS virus. Officials plan to update that number with the new calculations but don't think it will change dramatically, a CDC spokeswoman said.=0 A The new infection estimate is based on a blood test that for the first time can tell how recently an HIV infection occurred.Past tests could detect20only the presence of HIV, so determining which year an infection took place was guesswork — guesswork upon which the old 40,000 estimate was based.The new estimate relies on blood tests from 22 states where health officials have been using a new HIV testing method that can distinguish infections that occurred within the past five months from those that were older.The improved science will allow more real-time monitoring of HIV infections. Now, CDC officials say, the estimate will likely be updated every year.Yearly estimates allow better recognition of trends in the U.S. epidemic. For example, the new report found that infections are falling among heterosexuals and injection drug users.Some experts celebrated that finding, saying it's a tribute to prevention efforts, including nearly 200 syringe exchange programs now operating in 36 states despite a federal ban on funding for such projects.But they also lamented the CDC's finding that infections continue to increase in gay and bisexual men, who accounted for more than half of HIV infections in 2006. Also, more than a third of those with HIV are younger than 30.Some advocates say that suggests a need for more prevention efforts, particularly targeting younger gay and bisexual men.For yea rs, AIDS was considered a terrifying death sentence, and since 1981, more than half a million Americans have died. But medicines that became available in the 1990s turned it into a mana geable chronic condition for many Americans, and attention shifted to Africa and other parts of the world.Last week, President Bush signed a $48 billion global AIDS bill to continue a program that he called "the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in human history."But some advocates complain that CDC's annual spending on HIV prevention in the United States has been held to roughly $700 million since 2001, while costs have risen. (That's about 3 percent of what the federal government spends on AIDS; much of the rest is on medicines, health care and research.)The new estimate is "evidence of a failure by government and society to do what it takes to control the epidemic," said Julie Davids, executive director of the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project.Whether more funding comes or not, the revised estimate clearly is a "wake-up call to scale things up," said Dr. Kevin Fenton, who oversees CDC's prevention efforts for HIV/AIDS.Some said more attention needs to focus on prevention among blacks, who account for nearly half of annual HIV infections, according to the new CDC report.A recent report by the Black AIDS Institute concluded that if black Americans were t heir own nation, they would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with HIV."We have been inadequately funding this epidemic all along. We need to step it up," sa id former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, who is now an administrator at Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine.The new estimate has been anticipated for a long time. The CDC began working on the new methods nearly seven years ago.Late last year, advocates said they had heard the figure was about 55,000 and pressed the CDC to release it. Agency officials declined, saying they were submitting their research for medical journal review."These are extremely complicated statistical methods," and CDC officials wanted the work to be thoroughly reviewed by outside experts, Gerberding said. The CDC's findings are being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.Until 1992, the number of diagnosed AIDS cases was used to predict how many people were newly infected each year. That method produced an estimate of 40,000 to 80,000. More recently, the CDC focused on infections among men who have sex with men, who account for about half of new HIV diagnoses.___On the Net:CDC HIV fact sheets: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/JAMA: http://jama.ama-assn.org
Hawaii man accused of helping China design missile
(AP) HAIKU, Hawaii - Cheryl Gowadia couldn’t figure out why FBI agents in riot gear, guns drawn, were storming her home on Maui’s tranquil North Shore.At first, she thought they might be after the man building a pond in her backyard. Instead, she was stunned to learn they wanted to question her husband, a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer."This came out of nowhere," Gowadia said.A week later, on Oct. 13, 2005, agents arrested Noshir Gowadia, a native of India who received a Ph.D. at 15, on suspicion he sold military secrets to China.Maui is an unlikely place for a spy saga., a mostly rural island of 140,000 known more for big-wave surfing and five-star resorts.But prosecutors say Noshir Gowadia used Maui as a base to design a stealth cruise m issile for China. He was indicted on 21 counts of conspiracy, money-laundering and falsifying tax returns.Despite the seriousness of the charges, the case has received scant public attention.The20defendant has been out of sight since a judge determined he was a flight risk and denied him bail.And, adding to his obscurity, Gowadia’s trial date has been repeatedly postponed as both prosecution and defense lawyers have sought more time to review thousands of pages of classified evidence.The trial is now due to begin on Jan. 21. Gowadia has pleaded not guilty.The case comes amid growing U.S. concern about Chinese spying and enhanced prosecution efforts across the country.Last year, a jury convicted Chi Mak, an engineer for a California-based defense contractor, of conspiring to export U.S. submarine propulsion technology to China. He was sentenced to 24 1/2 years in prison. In June, a Chinese national with Canadian citizenship was sentenced to 24 months for selling fighter pilot training software to the Chinese navy.Dan Blumenthal, a former China country director at the Pentagon and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said Beijing is after technologies that would help it counter the U.S."It’s not necessarily James Bond-like spying where you have some super spy penetrating the deepest U.S. secrets," Bl umenthal=2 0said. "It’s trying relentlessly to get defense related technology from U.S. companies, U.S. engineers and the U.S. military."Cheryl Gowadia says that FBI raid nearly three years ago was her first indication her husband was suspected of anything illegal.=0 A Agents scoured every corner of the couple’s two-story home, and left with boxes of papers and family photos, including wedding pictures. Officers interrogated her husband in the vacant maid’s apartment in the back of the house for six hours."They’re claiming that we built this house with money he earned illegally," Cheryl Gowadia said, sitting in her living room with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Uaoa Bay. "There’s isn’t a shred of truth in it, not one dime."Although the house is valued at $4 million, Cheryl Gowadia must live frugally because the couple spent most of their savings hiring a Washington law firm to defend Gowadia. The money ran out a year after his arrest and they’re now relying on a court-appointed attorney.They can’t sell the house to raise money because prosecutors have a lien on it, saying Gowadia will have to forfeit the property if he’s convicted. The couple’s son has been paying the mortgage, but there isn’t enough left over for hot water or to maintain the yard.Gowadia’s new attorney, David Klein, declined to20make the engineer available for comment .Gowadia moved to the U.S. from India in the 1960s for postgraduate work. In 1968 he joined defense contractor Northrop Corp., now Northrop Grumman Corp., where he designed elements of the B-2.He became a U.S. citizen in the 1970s and retired from Northrop in 1986, two=2 0years before the B-2 made its public debut.Cheryl Gowadia said he’s honest and, in a way, naive. He didn’t bother calling a lawyer when agents showed up at his home and started questioning him."He is totally unable to lie. It is not his nature. He’s as honest and truthful and trusting as they come," Cheryl Gowadia said.The indictment alleges he made six trips to China from 2003 to 2005, conspiring to conceal some of his visits by getting border agents to leave immigration stamps off his passport.In Chengdu in 2003, Gowadia allegedly gave Chinese engineers and officials classified information about missile exhaust systems that emit little heat and thus are hard to detect. The city is home to the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute, which created the J-10, a state-of-the-art fighter plane China unveiled last year.Prosecutors allege Gowadia pocketed $110,000 over two years for his exhaust nozzle design.He’s also accused of attempting to sell classified stealth technology to the Swiss governm ent and to businesses in Israel and Germany.The defendant ’s son, Ashton Gowadia, said it doesn’t make sense that someone with a distinguished career like his father’s would sell military secrets. He also questioned why anyone living a comfortable life would sell classified material for so little money."We want this thing in court," Ashton Gowadia said. "He wants to show the world that he’s innocent and he wants to clear his name."
One other thing that I have been talking about for months and now this..................
The current Congress has enacted less legislation than any within the last decade, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan Tax-payers for Common Sense.
The 100th Congress has passed just 260 laws-----and 74 of those were RENAMING POST OFFICES!!!!
But they passed hundreds of resolutions, including one to RECONGNIZE SOIL AS AN "ESSENTIAL RESOURCE". Rep. John Shimkus introduced a resolution to recognize June 30th as NATIONAL CORVETTE DAY!!!! "It's probably not the best use of our time," he says, "but we have to do something. These resolutions make it look like we're working." HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT!!!!!
Washington DC is so out of touch with the American people!
May God Bless you and Yours, Dewey Sharon and family
May the Peace of the Lord be with You and Yours!
"It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness......" Abraham Lincoln 1863
OUR NEW WEB SITE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!!!
So after you have this cup head over and take the POLL we have up and check it out. I do not know how much longer we will be emailing out the DDC, with the AWESOME site Jannetta has created there may be no need for email except for urgent prayer requests and news. So please go to www.deweysdailycup.com I have prayed about a site like this for YEARS!! So please book mark the new web site and make it one of your favorites and check it out each day...MANY NEW FEATURES!!! Email from the site and let me know what you think!!! PRAISE GOD!!! PRAISE GOD!!!! AND PRAISE GOD FOR JANNETTA!!! I thank you all for being friends!
THE FIRST 5 PEOPLE THAT EMAIL ME FROM THE NEW SITE GET A KKIM GIFT PACK!!!!!!
He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. Isaiah 59:16
"All Christian virtues are locked up in the word prayer." Charles H. Spurgeon
The hand of our GOD is upon all those for good who seek HIM. Ezra 8:22
"The path to a LIFE FULL of answers to prayer is through the WILL OF GOD." Andrew Murray
First of all we have these updates from Amy and her Mother Cheri.........and Cheri reminds us to keep praying for Paul Rieth.........
Dear Dewey and faithful prayer frien ds,I am home from surgery! It is Saturday evening at 5:40. The surgery was yesterday at 3:30, and went well. It was over quickly, and I have met all of the criteria for coming home. It was a success, and everything looks pretty good! I still have more chemo ahead of me, but it is such a relief to have this step over with. God is good, and ever faithful, and I am so grateful that He is with me through all of this! :0) Amy Schultz Thank you all so very much for your prayers. They help sustain me, and I am sure they are part of my healing! Amy Dewey....I am praying for Paul and his family!Amy had her surgery yesterday and seems to be doing well. She will see the doctor this week. I know she will also write an update soon, but I wanted to thank all of you for the prayers. She was sent home early evening today. Last time I checked the pain was under control. She was up and walking. We are all thankful and grateful as we see how the Lord works in her life as he is getting her through this long and difficult journey. Again, you are all such a vital part of this journey to healing and I feel very blessed to have you love enough and care enough to pray for my daughter! Love in Christ,20Cherie Also friends, please pray for Lynne Buggs as she continues to go through treatment for her cancer. Though I have not been familiar w/Bob Rieth's ministry, the name caught my eye b/c we share the same last name. It is especially jolting when something happens to our children... how old is Paul? May our Heavenly Father of Grace and Mercy bless this family with Comfort and the warmth of His Presence. May we cast every care on Jesus, and the family know the consolation of His Love. May this be true for each and every hurting one in their place of need.Because of Jesus,Karen Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. James 4:17 Here is a real good one from Mike and Jan.........Having grown up in Minnesota and being a Norskie and Swede and being raised in the Lutheran Church this is extra special!!! LUTHERAN AIRLINESWE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE LUTHERAN AIRLINES IS NOW OPERATING IN MINNYSOTA! ALSO SERVING VISCONSIN, NORDERN MITCHIGEN, NORT & SOUT DAKOTAIf you are travelin soon, consider Lutran Air, the no-frills airline. You're all in da same boat on Lutran Air, here flyin is a upliftin experience. Dair is no first class on any Lutran Air flight.Meals are potluck. Rows 1 tru 6, bring rolls; 7 tru 15, bring a salad; 16 tru 21, a hot dish, and 22-30, a dessert.Basses and tenors please sit in da rear of da aircraft. Everyone is responsible for his or her own baggage. All fares are by free-will offering, and da plane will not land til da budget is met.Pay attention to your flight attendant, who vill acquaint you wit da safety system aboard dis Lutran Air. Okay den, listen up; I'm only gonna say dis vonce: In da event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, I am frankly gonna be real surprised and so vill Captain Olson, because ve fly right around two tousand feet, so loss of cabin pressure would probably mean da Second Coming or someting of dat nature, and I wouldn't bodder with doze liddle masks on da rubber tubes--you're gonna have bigger tings to worry about den dat.. Just stuff doze back up in dair liddle holes. Probably da masks fell out because of turbulence which, to be honest wit you, we're gonna have quite a bit of at two tousand feet, sorta like driving across a plowed field, but after a while you get used to it.In da event of a water landing, I'd say forget it. Start saying da Lord's Prayer and just hope you get to da part about forgive us our sins as we fo rgive dose who sin against us, which some people say "trespass against us," which isn't right, but what can you do?Da use of cell phones on da plane is strictly forbidden, not because day may confuse da plane's navigation system, which is by da pants all da way. No, it's because cell phones are a pain in da wazoo, and if God had meant you to use a cell phone, He wudda put your mout on da side of your head.We start lunch right about noon and it's buffet style wit da coffeepot up front. Den we'll have da hymn sing; hymnals are in da seat pockets in front of you. Don't take yours wit you when you go or I am gonna be real upset and I am not kiddin! Right now I'll say Grace:"Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest and let deze gifts to us be blessed. Fader, Son, and Holy Ghost, May we land in Dulut or pretty close." THAT IS SO GOOD!!!! Thanks Mike and Jan........I think Sandy at the Windom paper should put that in the Citizen!!! This from Merry.......... This is nice… Click here: Rain On The Windshield Friday night at Heights Christian Church we held a prayer service for our Military Men and Women. Saturday I spoke to a group of volunteers who go into the prisons to share G od's word. Then I spoke to a group of Sr's at Paradise Hills Methodist. They have such a large eating area and kitchen at Paradise Hills they host many events. Anyhow as I was finishing up my presentation I took questions. One very nice lady says to me, "You are creating fear about China." I said not I was just sharing the truth and If folks want to be fearful that is there choice. What I was sharing about China was that with the new energy bill we will can only get those new light bulbs from China, I shared about there building a HUGE war machine, Industrial Revolution, Pollution, and how funny it is that we are having the Olympics in China when the air quality is so poor and many are talking about having to wear masks, and it is like we are masking the truth as to what is going on in that country. For heaven sakes they have to shut down many factories and stop people from using cars to help clean up the air during the Olympics. I also talked about the push that is going on in New Mexico to pass same sex marriage. This same lady along with four others said we should not worry about that and leave that alone. We had a good discussion on these topics and like I told the group this is America and we are all free to express our opinions. Polls show that well over 70% of New Mexicans are opposed to same sex marriage. The question I then ask, is why then did HB9 just fail by one vote in the last session. I will not argue about same sex marriage I just refer to the Bible and God's word on this. Here are two items that tie in with all this................ US says it understated number of new HIV infections each year, raises estimate to 56,000By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press August 3, 2008ATLANTA - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 — about a 40 percent increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the past dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.But it likely will refocus U.S. attention from the effect of AIDS overseas to what the disease is doing to this country, said public health researchers and officials."This is the biggest news for public health and HIV/AIDS that we've had in a while," said Julie Scofield, executive director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.Experts in the field, advocates and a former surgeon general called for m ore aggressive testing and other prevention efforts, noting that spending on preventing HIV has been flat for seven years.The revised estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the methodology behind it were to be presented Sunday, the opening day of the international AIDS conference in Mexico City.Since AIDS surfaced in 1981, health officials have struggled to estimate how many people are infected each year. It can take a decade or more for an infection to cause symptoms and illness.One expert likened the new estimate to adding a good speedometer to a car. Scientists had a good general idea of where the epidemic was going; this provides a better understanding of how fast it's moving right now."This puts a key part of the dashboard in place," said the expert, David Holtgrave of Johns Hopkins University.Judging by the new calculations, officials believe annual HIV infections have been hovering around 55,000 for several years."This is the most reliable estimate we've had since the beginning of the epidemic," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, the CDC's director. She said other countries may adopt the agency's methodology.According to current estimates, around 1.1 million Americans are living with the AIDS virus. Officials plan to update that number with the new calculations but don't think it will change dramatically, a CDC spokeswoman said.=0 A The new infection estimate is based on a blood test that for the first time can tell how recently an HIV infection occurred.Past tests could detect20only the presence of HIV, so determining which year an infection took place was guesswork — guesswork upon which the old 40,000 estimate was based.The new estimate relies on blood tests from 22 states where health officials have been using a new HIV testing method that can distinguish infections that occurred within the past five months from those that were older.The improved science will allow more real-time monitoring of HIV infections. Now, CDC officials say, the estimate will likely be updated every year.Yearly estimates allow better recognition of trends in the U.S. epidemic. For example, the new report found that infections are falling among heterosexuals and injection drug users.Some experts celebrated that finding, saying it's a tribute to prevention efforts, including nearly 200 syringe exchange programs now operating in 36 states despite a federal ban on funding for such projects.But they also lamented the CDC's finding that infections continue to increase in gay and bisexual men, who accounted for more than half of HIV infections in 2006. Also, more than a third of those with HIV are younger than 30.Some advocates say that suggests a need for more prevention efforts, particularly targeting younger gay and bisexual men.For yea rs, AIDS was considered a terrifying death sentence, and since 1981, more than half a million Americans have died. But medicines that became available in the 1990s turned it into a mana geable chronic condition for many Americans, and attention shifted to Africa and other parts of the world.Last week, President Bush signed a $48 billion global AIDS bill to continue a program that he called "the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in human history."But some advocates complain that CDC's annual spending on HIV prevention in the United States has been held to roughly $700 million since 2001, while costs have risen. (That's about 3 percent of what the federal government spends on AIDS; much of the rest is on medicines, health care and research.)The new estimate is "evidence of a failure by government and society to do what it takes to control the epidemic," said Julie Davids, executive director of the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project.Whether more funding comes or not, the revised estimate clearly is a "wake-up call to scale things up," said Dr. Kevin Fenton, who oversees CDC's prevention efforts for HIV/AIDS.Some said more attention needs to focus on prevention among blacks, who account for nearly half of annual HIV infections, according to the new CDC report.A recent report by the Black AIDS Institute concluded that if black Americans were t heir own nation, they would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with HIV."We have been inadequately funding this epidemic all along. We need to step it up," sa id former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, who is now an administrator at Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine.The new estimate has been anticipated for a long time. The CDC began working on the new methods nearly seven years ago.Late last year, advocates said they had heard the figure was about 55,000 and pressed the CDC to release it. Agency officials declined, saying they were submitting their research for medical journal review."These are extremely complicated statistical methods," and CDC officials wanted the work to be thoroughly reviewed by outside experts, Gerberding said. The CDC's findings are being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.Until 1992, the number of diagnosed AIDS cases was used to predict how many people were newly infected each year. That method produced an estimate of 40,000 to 80,000. More recently, the CDC focused on infections among men who have sex with men, who account for about half of new HIV diagnoses.___On the Net:CDC HIV fact sheets: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/JAMA: http://jama.ama-assn.org
Hawaii man accused of helping China design missile
(AP) HAIKU, Hawaii - Cheryl Gowadia couldn’t figure out why FBI agents in riot gear, guns drawn, were storming her home on Maui’s tranquil North Shore.At first, she thought they might be after the man building a pond in her backyard. Instead, she was stunned to learn they wanted to question her husband, a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer."This came out of nowhere," Gowadia said.A week later, on Oct. 13, 2005, agents arrested Noshir Gowadia, a native of India who received a Ph.D. at 15, on suspicion he sold military secrets to China.Maui is an unlikely place for a spy saga., a mostly rural island of 140,000 known more for big-wave surfing and five-star resorts.But prosecutors say Noshir Gowadia used Maui as a base to design a stealth cruise m issile for China. He was indicted on 21 counts of conspiracy, money-laundering and falsifying tax returns.Despite the seriousness of the charges, the case has received scant public attention.The20defendant has been out of sight since a judge determined he was a flight risk and denied him bail.And, adding to his obscurity, Gowadia’s trial date has been repeatedly postponed as both prosecution and defense lawyers have sought more time to review thousands of pages of classified evidence.The trial is now due to begin on Jan. 21. Gowadia has pleaded not guilty.The case comes amid growing U.S. concern about Chinese spying and enhanced prosecution efforts across the country.Last year, a jury convicted Chi Mak, an engineer for a California-based defense contractor, of conspiring to export U.S. submarine propulsion technology to China. He was sentenced to 24 1/2 years in prison. In June, a Chinese national with Canadian citizenship was sentenced to 24 months for selling fighter pilot training software to the Chinese navy.Dan Blumenthal, a former China country director at the Pentagon and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said Beijing is after technologies that would help it counter the U.S."It’s not necessarily James Bond-like spying where you have some super spy penetrating the deepest U.S. secrets," Bl umenthal=2 0said. "It’s trying relentlessly to get defense related technology from U.S. companies, U.S. engineers and the U.S. military."Cheryl Gowadia says that FBI raid nearly three years ago was her first indication her husband was suspected of anything illegal.=0 A Agents scoured every corner of the couple’s two-story home, and left with boxes of papers and family photos, including wedding pictures. Officers interrogated her husband in the vacant maid’s apartment in the back of the house for six hours."They’re claiming that we built this house with money he earned illegally," Cheryl Gowadia said, sitting in her living room with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Uaoa Bay. "There’s isn’t a shred of truth in it, not one dime."Although the house is valued at $4 million, Cheryl Gowadia must live frugally because the couple spent most of their savings hiring a Washington law firm to defend Gowadia. The money ran out a year after his arrest and they’re now relying on a court-appointed attorney.They can’t sell the house to raise money because prosecutors have a lien on it, saying Gowadia will have to forfeit the property if he’s convicted. The couple’s son has been paying the mortgage, but there isn’t enough left over for hot water or to maintain the yard.Gowadia’s new attorney, David Klein, declined to20make the engineer available for comment .Gowadia moved to the U.S. from India in the 1960s for postgraduate work. In 1968 he joined defense contractor Northrop Corp., now Northrop Grumman Corp., where he designed elements of the B-2.He became a U.S. citizen in the 1970s and retired from Northrop in 1986, two=2 0years before the B-2 made its public debut.Cheryl Gowadia said he’s honest and, in a way, naive. He didn’t bother calling a lawyer when agents showed up at his home and started questioning him."He is totally unable to lie. It is not his nature. He’s as honest and truthful and trusting as they come," Cheryl Gowadia said.The indictment alleges he made six trips to China from 2003 to 2005, conspiring to conceal some of his visits by getting border agents to leave immigration stamps off his passport.In Chengdu in 2003, Gowadia allegedly gave Chinese engineers and officials classified information about missile exhaust systems that emit little heat and thus are hard to detect. The city is home to the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute, which created the J-10, a state-of-the-art fighter plane China unveiled last year.Prosecutors allege Gowadia pocketed $110,000 over two years for his exhaust nozzle design.He’s also accused of attempting to sell classified stealth technology to the Swiss governm ent and to businesses in Israel and Germany.The defendant ’s son, Ashton Gowadia, said it doesn’t make sense that someone with a distinguished career like his father’s would sell military secrets. He also questioned why anyone living a comfortable life would sell classified material for so little money."We want this thing in court," Ashton Gowadia said. "He wants to show the world that he’s innocent and he wants to clear his name."
One other thing that I have been talking about for months and now this..................
The current Congress has enacted less legislation than any within the last decade, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan Tax-payers for Common Sense.
The 100th Congress has passed just 260 laws-----and 74 of those were RENAMING POST OFFICES!!!!
But they passed hundreds of resolutions, including one to RECONGNIZE SOIL AS AN "ESSENTIAL RESOURCE". Rep. John Shimkus introduced a resolution to recognize June 30th as NATIONAL CORVETTE DAY!!!! "It's probably not the best use of our time," he says, "but we have to do something. These resolutions make it look like we're working." HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT!!!!!
Washington DC is so out of touch with the American people!
May God Bless you and Yours, Dewey Sharon and family
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