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CYBER NOTES
PR WATCH - A Google advertising sales rep has apologized after using her
company blog to urge healthcare companies to take out Google ads
attacking Michael Moore's new movie, "Sicko." Moore "attacks health
insurers, health providers, and pharmaceutical companies by connecting
them to isolated and emotional stories of the system at its worst,"
wrote Lauren Turner. "Moore's film portrays the industry as money and
marketing driven, and fails to show healthcare's interest in patient
well-being and care." In response, she suggested, Google ads can help
companies "better manage their reputations through 'Get the Facts' or
issue management campaigns. ... We can place text ads, video ads, and
rich media ads in paid search results or in relevant websites within our
ever-expanding content network." After coming under heavy criticism from
non-Google bloggers, Turner beat a hasty retreat, writing that her
statement was just "my personal opinion." According to a report in
Forbes, however, "The incident does more than call attention to Google's
ever-cozier relationships with corporate advertisers as it deepens its
role as an online advertising agency: It also highlights Google's
unorthodox use of bloggers to communicate with the public. Google has
long used blogs as a casual form of public relations, both on its
official sites and on the personal sites of its employees, sometimes
blurring the line between the two."
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
RADAR - It isn't only Antonio Villaraigosa's political rivals who are
gleeful over the Los Angeles mayor's extramarital exploits. Democratic
presidential hopefuls not named Hillary Clinton are snickering at how
one of the party frontrunner's most coveted supporters has suddenly
become a potential embarrassment. Villaraigosa, who serves as one of
four national co-chairmen of Clinton's campaign, admitted earlier this
week that he's been having an affair with Telemundo news anchor Mirthala
Salinas. Villaraigosa's wife Corina - who merged their last names,
Villar and Raigosa, when they married in 1987 - announced their
separation last month. . . A rising star in the Democratic party,
Villaraigosa's endorsement had been heavily courted by other candidates,
especially New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, the only Hispanic in the
race. "They're probably pretty relieved now that they didn't win that
one," laughs an insider from another campaign.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/07/hillary-clinton-
antonio-villaraigosa-mirthala-salinas.php#more
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MID EAST
PALESTINE INFORMATION CENTER - An opinion poll conducted by the website
of the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper has shown that PA chief Mahmoud
Abbas's popularity was at its lowest ebb with only 13% voting for him as
president if elections were held now. The poll further said that if an
honest election process was held Ismail Haneyya, premier of the
caretaker government, would win 51% of the votes, which is 38% more than
Abbas.
http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/2007/07/abbass-popularity-at-its-lowest-ebb.html
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
PRESS WATCH - Data-crunching detects a risk in cholesterol drugs, but is
it real? The Wall Street Journal contains a feature article on
meta-analyses carried out by Ralph Edwards of the WHO's drug monitoring
centre, who has amassed about four million reports of medical problems
experienced by people taking prescription drugs. One such statistical
analysis showed that of 172 people on his database who developed Lou
Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis- ALS) or similar
conditions while taking prescription medicines, 40 had been on statins.
Pfizer, which brings in nearly $13bn a year from Lipitor, says it too
noticed the ALS signal last year in adverse-event reports, but concluded
that it was not significant.
http://www.presswatch.com/health/#3
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THE POLICE BEAT
SKY, UK - Guests helping to clear up after a dinner party in Belgium
discovered the bodies of the host's wife and son in the freezer. A
woman, one of two guests, made the gruesome discovery after dining at
the home of 43-year-old Didier Charron. As she opened the freezer to put
away remnants of the meal she found the body of a woman and underneath
the body of a boy, both with knife wounds. She immediately alerted
police who found the bodies were those of Charron's 46-year-old wife
Chantal and her 12-year-old son Brian. Both had not been seen in public
for several months. Charron, who had been married to his wife for three
years, has been arrested and is being questioned by police.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1273915,00.html?f=rss
KATHY MARKS, INDEPENDENT, UK - She was a wealthy widow; he was a former
English police officer with a harem of girlfriends and a taste for
sports cars and French champagne. Des Campbell took his third wife,
Janet, on a camping holiday, and pitched their tent a few feet from a
cliff edge. Her body was found at the bottom.
Australian-born Mr Campbell, who left the Surrey force in disgrace in
1997, told police his wife fell over the 120ft cliff after she went
outside at dusk to answer a call of nature. He did not attend her
funeral and, a week later, flew to Queensland for a holiday with one of
at least three other women he was seeing at the time. . .
A few days after her death in 2005, he inquired about her will and made
plans to sell their home. Soon afterwards he withdrew A$70,000 (L30,000)
from a mortgage account, and traveled to the Philippines to bring back a
woman he had met through an internet dating service. That woman is now
his fourth wife, and they have two children.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2739765.ece
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FURTHERMORE. . . .
AP - They're flush with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a
recently-opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing
music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet.
Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to
Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom
listed as the world's largest, the state-run China Central Television
reported Friday. "We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to
gentle music and watch TV," said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the
Yangrenjie, or "Foreigners Street," tourist area where the bathroom is
located. "After they use the bathroom they will be very, very happy."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_LARGEST_
BATHROOM?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=
DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-07-06-09-18-37
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CYBER NOTES
PR WATCH - A Google advertising sales rep has apologized after using her
company blog to urge healthcare companies to take out Google ads
attacking Michael Moore's new movie, "Sicko." Moore "attacks health
insurers, health providers, and pharmaceutical companies by connecting
them to isolated and emotional stories of the system at its worst,"
wrote Lauren Turner. "Moore's film portrays the industry as money and
marketing driven, and fails to show healthcare's interest in patient
well-being and care." In response, she suggested, Google ads can help
companies "better manage their reputations through 'Get the Facts' or
issue management campaigns. ... We can place text ads, video ads, and
rich media ads in paid search results or in relevant websites within our
ever-expanding content network." After coming under heavy criticism from
non-Google bloggers, Turner beat a hasty retreat, writing that her
statement was just "my personal opinion." According to a report in
Forbes, however, "The incident does more than call attention to Google's
ever-cozier relationships with corporate advertisers as it deepens its
role as an online advertising agency: It also highlights Google's
unorthodox use of bloggers to communicate with the public. Google has
long used blogs as a casual form of public relations, both on its
official sites and on the personal sites of its employees, sometimes
blurring the line between the two."
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
RADAR - It isn't only Antonio Villaraigosa's political rivals who are
gleeful over the Los Angeles mayor's extramarital exploits. Democratic
presidential hopefuls not named Hillary Clinton are snickering at how
one of the party frontrunner's most coveted supporters has suddenly
become a potential embarrassment. Villaraigosa, who serves as one of
four national co-chairmen of Clinton's campaign, admitted earlier this
week that he's been having an affair with Telemundo news anchor Mirthala
Salinas. Villaraigosa's wife Corina - who merged their last names,
Villar and Raigosa, when they married in 1987 - announced their
separation last month. . . A rising star in the Democratic party,
Villaraigosa's endorsement had been heavily courted by other candidates,
especially New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, the only Hispanic in the
race. "They're probably pretty relieved now that they didn't win that
one," laughs an insider from another campaign.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/07/hillary-clinton-
antonio-villaraigosa-mirthala-salinas.php#more
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MID EAST
PALESTINE INFORMATION CENTER - An opinion poll conducted by the website
of the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper has shown that PA chief Mahmoud
Abbas's popularity was at its lowest ebb with only 13% voting for him as
president if elections were held now. The poll further said that if an
honest election process was held Ismail Haneyya, premier of the
caretaker government, would win 51% of the votes, which is 38% more than
Abbas.
http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/2007/07/abbass-popularity-at-its-lowest-ebb.html
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
PRESS WATCH - Data-crunching detects a risk in cholesterol drugs, but is
it real? The Wall Street Journal contains a feature article on
meta-analyses carried out by Ralph Edwards of the WHO's drug monitoring
centre, who has amassed about four million reports of medical problems
experienced by people taking prescription drugs. One such statistical
analysis showed that of 172 people on his database who developed Lou
Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis- ALS) or similar
conditions while taking prescription medicines, 40 had been on statins.
Pfizer, which brings in nearly $13bn a year from Lipitor, says it too
noticed the ALS signal last year in adverse-event reports, but concluded
that it was not significant.
http://www.presswatch.com/health/#3
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THE POLICE BEAT
SKY, UK - Guests helping to clear up after a dinner party in Belgium
discovered the bodies of the host's wife and son in the freezer. A
woman, one of two guests, made the gruesome discovery after dining at
the home of 43-year-old Didier Charron. As she opened the freezer to put
away remnants of the meal she found the body of a woman and underneath
the body of a boy, both with knife wounds. She immediately alerted
police who found the bodies were those of Charron's 46-year-old wife
Chantal and her 12-year-old son Brian. Both had not been seen in public
for several months. Charron, who had been married to his wife for three
years, has been arrested and is being questioned by police.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1273915,00.html?f=rss
KATHY MARKS, INDEPENDENT, UK - She was a wealthy widow; he was a former
English police officer with a harem of girlfriends and a taste for
sports cars and French champagne. Des Campbell took his third wife,
Janet, on a camping holiday, and pitched their tent a few feet from a
cliff edge. Her body was found at the bottom.
Australian-born Mr Campbell, who left the Surrey force in disgrace in
1997, told police his wife fell over the 120ft cliff after she went
outside at dusk to answer a call of nature. He did not attend her
funeral and, a week later, flew to Queensland for a holiday with one of
at least three other women he was seeing at the time. . .
A few days after her death in 2005, he inquired about her will and made
plans to sell their home. Soon afterwards he withdrew A$70,000 (L30,000)
from a mortgage account, and traveled to the Philippines to bring back a
woman he had met through an internet dating service. That woman is now
his fourth wife, and they have two children.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2739765.ece
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FURTHERMORE. . . .
AP - They're flush with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a
recently-opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing
music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet.
Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to
Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom
listed as the world's largest, the state-run China Central Television
reported Friday. "We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to
gentle music and watch TV," said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the
Yangrenjie, or "Foreigners Street," tourist area where the bathroom is
located. "After they use the bathroom they will be very, very happy."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_LARGEST_
BATHROOM?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=
DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-07-06-09-18-37
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