Sunday, August 4, 2013

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Unless Revenues Quicken Jobs Growth Will Slow…GDP's a Weak Predictor of Spreads…Markets See Slower Upturn for Housing

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Consumer Alert: Woman steals thousands from church

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CONSUMER ALERT: An elaborate scheme to steal tens of thousands of dollars. Some of the money was intended for the hungry and homeless. The victims were caught and now their victims are angry.

Paul McFann is not mincing words when he speaks about this con artist. He is talking about the former secretary and treasurer of his church's council, Jane Loprest.

Loperest stole more than $119,000 from the church.

McFann says, "She had endeared herself to many. She's extremely intelligent, extremely personable, very knowledgeable with technology and most importantly, her ability to help others."

McFann, president of the church council, says Loprest used those traits to gain people's trust and then began raiding church accounts.

"She would cut checks to herself, she would increase her pay. She increased her pay, doubled or tripled her pay."

Laura Carter, a US Postal Inspector, says, "She covered her tracks really well. There were never any accounts that the church was overdrawn because of the way she was conducting the scheme."

Postal Inspectors used these surveillance photos from the bank used by the church to track deposits and withdraws.

They found that Loprest would write checks but never issue them. So, the books might "look" correct, but she was actually taking the cash for herself.

McFann says, "There were a number of contributions and causes, people in need, that were never met because the checks were never sent."

This is what made the 120 parishioners of this small church so angry.

McFann says, "I really believe it was a chess game, she loved the challenge, how long can I get by with this? What new approaches can I use?"

Postal Inspectors say oversight is key for any organization, whether it's for-profit or non-profit.

Carter says, "Conduct annual audit with a CPA, volunteers are great, but you need that CPA to give you what's going on with your books."

Janet Loprest plead guilty, and spent one year in jail.

She was also ordered to pay more than $100,000 dollars in restitution back to the church.

Source: http://www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/Consumer-Alert-Woman-steals-thousands-from-church-218147821.html

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S. Court OKs early release plan for Calif. inmates

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2006 file photo, Inmates are housed in three tier bunks, in what was once a multi-purpose recreation room, at the Deuel Vocational Institute in Tracy, Calif. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by year's end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they're forced to open the prison gates. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2006 file photo, Inmates are housed in three tier bunks, in what was once a multi-purpose recreation room, at the Deuel Vocational Institute in Tracy, Calif. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by year's end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they're forced to open the prison gates. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

FILE - In this undated file photo released by the California Department of Corrections, inmates sit in crowded conditions at the California Institute for Men in Chino, Calif. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by year's end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they're forced to open the prison gates. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections, File)

FILE - In this undated file photo released by the California Department of Corrections, inmates sit in crowded conditions at California State Prison in Los Angeles. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by year's end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they're forced to open the prison gates. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections, File)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Despite warnings from California officials, the nation's highest court is refusing to delay the early release of nearly 10,000 California inmates by year's end to ease overcrowding at 33 adult prisons.

In its decision Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed an emergency request by the Gov. Jerry Brown to halt a lower court's directive for the early release.

Law enforcement officials expressed concern about the ruling.

The justices ignored efforts already under way to reduce prison populations and "chose instead to allow for the release of more felons into already overburdened communities," said Covina Police Chief Kim Raney, president of the California Police Chiefs Association.

Brown's office referred a request for comment to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where Secretary Jeff Beard vowed that the state would press on with a still-pending appeal in hope of preventing the releases.

A panel of three federal judges had previously ordered the state to cut its prison population by nearly 8 percent to roughly 110,000 inmates by Dec. 31 to avoid conditions amounting to cruel and unusual punishment. That panel, responding to decades of lawsuits filed by inmates, repeatedly ordered early releases after finding inmates were needlessly dying and suffering because of inadequate medical and mental health care caused by overcrowding.

Court-appointed experts found that the prison system had a suicide rate that worsened last year to 24 per 100,000 inmates, far exceeding the national average of 16 suicides per 100,000 inmates in state prisons.

Brown had appealed the latest decision of the panel and, separately, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to cancel the early release order while considering his arguments that the state is making significant progress in improving conditions. The high court refused Friday to stop the release but did not rule on the appeal itself. Corrections Secretary Beard said the state would press on with that, so the "merits of the case can be considered without delay."

However, inmate lawyer Don Specter, head of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office, said the ruling Friday did not bode well for the overall appeal. He said the decision underscores what inmates have been arguing for years.

"The conditions are still overcrowded," he said. "The medical and health care remain abysmal."

Lawyers representing Brown had argued to the high court that releasing 10,000 more inmates would mean letting violent criminals out on the streets and overwhelm the abilities of law enforcement and social services to monitor them.

"No data suggests that a sudden release of inmates with these characteristics can be done safely," the state said in its filing. "No state has ever done it."

The panel of federal judges has consistently rejected that argument. The judges, prisoners' lawyers and others say other states have marginally reduced inmate sentences without sparking an increase in crime.

The governor said the state has already transferred thousands of low-level and nonviolent offenders to county jails, but that local officials in turn have been forced into releasing some inmates early to ease their own overcrowding issues.

The Supreme Court's ruling rejected Brown's plea over the objections of Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who all said they would have granted the state's request.

Scalia, in a dissent joined by Thomas, wrote that the previous order by the three-judge panel was a "terrible injunction" that threatens public safety. Scalia said the state's evidence shows it has made meaningful progress and that such reductions in the inmate population are no longer necessary.

The legal battle goes back years. In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that California had to cut its inmate population to deal with unconstitutional prison conditions caused by overcrowding. It said that further delay in reducing prison overcrowding would further the substandard delivery of medical and mental health care and, by extension, lead to more inmate deaths and injuries.

In recent years, the special panel of federal judges accused Brown of attempting to delay and circumvent their orders. They previously threatened to cite the governor for contempt if he did not comply.

The judges waived all state laws in June as they ordered Brown to expand good-time credits leading to early release. They also directed the governor to take other steps, including sending more inmates to firefighting camps, paroling elderly felons, leasing cells at county jails and slowing the return of thousands of inmates now housed in private prisons in other states.

If those steps fail, the judges ordered the state to release by year's end enough inmates from a list of lower-risk offenders until it reaches the maximum allowed population.

In its latest filing with the Supreme Court, the state argued that no governor has the unilateral authority to take the steps ordered by the three-judge panel. That would require approval by the Legislature or judicial pre-emption of California's core police powers, the administration argued.

Brown has said the state is spending $2 billion on new or expanded facilities for inmate medical and mental health treatment. That includes seven new centers for mental health treatment and the opening last June of an $839 million prison hospital in Stockton that will treat 1,722 inmates requiring long-term care. The state also has boosted hiring and salaries for all types of medical and mental health professionals.

The state has already reduced the population by 46,000 inmates since 2006.

More than half of the decrease that has occurred so far is due to a two-year-old state law ? known as realignment ? that is sentencing offenders convicted of crimes considered nonviolent, non-serious and non-sexual to county jails instead of state prisons.

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AP Writer Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this story.

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Friday, August 2, 2013

Real Madrid's pressure too much for Los Angeles Galaxy

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Oil contaminated wildlife sent to Edmonton for wash, rinse, rehab

EDMONTON - After a thorough scrubbing of its oil-saturated feathers with the household dish soap Dawn, the American Coot was given the spa treatment.

At the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton, that means a conscientious rinse with a spa-grade nozzle that can flush water between every feather and reach every bit of skin.

The American Coot is among six oil-coated animals that have been rescued from the oil spill at CNRL?s Primose project near Cold Lake that has released 6,000 barrels of bitumen onto the land. The other animals brought to the centre include beaver, muskrats, and ducks.

?If any soap is left on the bird at all, it will have the same effect as the oil in terms of rendering them not waterproof,? said Coleen Doucette of the Oiled Wildlife Society of British Columbia.

CNRL has hired the organization along with American-based International Bird Rescue and the wildlife rehabilitation group to save animals affected by a weeks-long bitumen emulsion seepage at four Primrose sites. Sixteen birds, seven small mammals and 38 amphibians have died, the company has reported.

Workers are scouring the site for oil-affected animals, which are stabilized before they?re sent to Edmonton for cleaning. The animals are often rubbed with a mineral oil to break down the oil before they go through the washomg process.

Michelle Bellizzi, from International Bird Rescue, washed the American Coot while a handler cradled its body and protected its head. The bird was scrubbed with water warmed to match its body temperature and was dipped in one bin of water, then another until the water appeared clear, a sign the oil was removed.

After the rinse, the bird was wrapped in a towel and taken to a heated cage to recuperate.

Bellizzi, a veteran with the bird rescue organization who is based in San Francisco, has worked on sites with hundreds of oil-soaked birds. She said it is unusual to work with the variety of animals that have been affected by the CNRL spill.

?(The beavers?) fur was matted, dull, and they looked like they?d taken a big mud bath,? Bellizzi said. The animals showed signs of having ingested oil and were given a medicine similar to Pepto-Bismol to soothe their gastrointestinal tract before they were put through the wash cycle. The two beavers are starting to thrive, Bellizzi said.

One muskrat has been released after rehabilitation efforts and another muskrat died in care. The rescuers plan to have the rescued animals released close to their original habitat.

A tour of the rehabilitation centre was given the day after CNRL president Steve Laut said the seepage has been caused by ?mechanical failure of well bores in the vicinity of impacted locations.? He said the damage has been contained and the affected area has been reduced from 20 hectare to 13.5 hectares.

It?s an assessment that has earned criticism from organizations such as the Pembina Institute, which noted the Primrose project had a similar spill in 2009.

?They?re characterizing this as a contained incident but what?s happening is that bitumen emulsion is continue to flow to the surface,? said Chris Severson-Baker of the Pembina Institute. ?It?s still escaping from the formation, the formation is still under pressure, it?s still migrating through some unknown path to the surface ... it?s not appropriate to refer to this to contained, it?s out of control and they didn?t put a timeline on when the release would stop or how they?ll address the sub-surface cleanup.?

He noted the province?s energy regulator released a report on the 2009 spill; it ordered CNRL to limit steam injection volumes into its Primrose East site.

?For it to happen again after a thorough investigation really suggests both the company and the regulator don?t know what?s going on or how to prevent it. It calls into question the fundamental design of this project.?

The Primrose project uses high-pressure, high-temperature steam to soften underground bitumen and force it up wells.

With files from Canadian Press

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Source: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/contaminated+wildlife+sent+Edmonton+wash+rinse+rehab/8739418/story.html

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Chevron profit drops on cheaper oil, slim refining margins

Fri Aug 2, 2013 1:12pm EDT

(Reuters) - Chevron Corp (CVX.N) posted on Friday a steeper-than-expected 26 percent drop in quarterly profit on softer oil prices and thinner refining margins.

Shares of the second-largest U.S. oil company slipped 2 percent as quarterly oil and gas volumes weakened to a level well below Chevron's full-year target.

Achieving increased production from oil wells has been a struggle for Chevron and larger rival Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), which reported disappointing results on Thursday along with Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L).

Chevron's second-quarter net income fell to $5.37 billion, or $2.77 per share, from $7.21 billion, or $3.66 per share, a year earlier. Analysts, on average, expected $2.96 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Chevron produced 2.58 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, down from 2.62 million bpd a year earlier. The company is targeting 2.65 million bpd for this year, and reiterated that goal on Friday, with output then expected to grow by 25 percent by 2017.

A big chunk of that growth will be from its huge Australian liquefied natural gas projects, Gorgon and Wheatstone. Once they are complete, Chevron will see a "flattening" of annual capital spending, Vice Chairman George Kirkland said, after the budget ballooned by $7 billion in two years to $36.7 billion in 2013.

In British Columbia, Chevron is marketing LNG from the Kitimat project to Asian buyers and will not make a final investment decision on that until it has sold between 60 percent and 70 percent of the LNG, with equity stakes on the table to sweeten the deal for buyers.

So a final decision on Kitimat is unlikely until next year, Kirkland said on a call with analysts, while acknowledging the competition within Chevron to sell the expected output of both Kitimat and Gorgon.

"There is a little bit of a horse race between them at this point in our own shop," he said, adding that he believed both had a timing advantage over competing LNG capacity from East Africa.

OIL PRICE HIT

In the second quarter, non-U.S. exploration and production earnings fell 10 percent to $3.87 billion, with costs up and the average sale price for liquids down to $94 per barrel from $99 a year before. Output also declined, by 42,000 bpd.

U.S. upstream earnings dropped 18 percent to $1.08 billion, while U.S. refining and marketing earnings tumbled 83 percent as refinery crude input fell 114,000 bpd to 814,000 bpd, mainly due to the fire at its plant in Richmond, California, last August.

Lower margins hit all U.S. refiners, with the discount they enjoyed from cheaper U.S. crude narrower than before.

Shares of Chevron, based in San Ramon, California, were down 2.3 percent at $123.51 on Friday.

The stock has comfortably outperformed peers in 2013, rising 15 percent, compared with 6 percent for Exxon. Chevron's market capitalization of $240 billion is now larger than PetroChina (601857.SS) - making it the world's second-largest publicly traded oil company.

(Reporting by Braden Reddall in San Francisco, with additional reporting by Anna Driver in Houston; editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid)

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Sentencing set in Cleveland kidnap-rape case

CLEVELAND (AP) ? Three months after an Ohio woman kicked out part of a door to end nearly a decade of captivity, a onetime school bus driver faces sentencing for kidnapping three women and subjecting them to years of sexual and physical abuse.

Prosecutors are expected to detail Ariel Castro's daily assaults on the women, recounted in diaries that compared the women's experience to that of prisoners of war. With the possibility of the death penalty for a forced miscarriage taken off the table, Castro stands to get life in prison plus 1,000 years on Thursday.

Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said in a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday that Castro, who chained his captives and fed them only one meal a day, "admits his disgusting and inhuman conduct" but "remains remorseless for his actions."

The memorandum says many of the specific charges in Castro's indictment reflect conduct documented by one of the women in her diary.

"The entries speak of forced sexual conduct, of being locked in a dark room, of anticipating the next session of abuse, of the dreams of someday escaping and being reunited with family, of being chained to a wall, of being held like a prisoner of war ... of being treated like an animal," it says.

The sentencing could take up to four hours, court officials said, with Castro, his attorneys, his victims and prosecutors getting a chance to speak. The legal team representing the women's interests declined to comment in advance on whether they would testify or send statements to the court.

In the court filing, McGinty offered new details of Castro's treatment of the women, who he said were kept "in a state of powerlessness" through physical, sexual and psychological violence.

"He made them believe that their physical survival depended on him, and he threatened to end their lives if they did not comply with his every demand," McGinty said.

Castro lured one of the women into his Cleveland home with the promise of a puppy for her son and tricked another by saying she could see his daughter, said McGinty.

He chained his captives by their ankles, fed them only one meal a day and provided plastic toilets in their bedrooms which were infrequently emptied, the filing said.

He menaced them with a gun, threatened them with tales of other captives, some of whom hadn't made it home, and at one point locked all of them in a vehicle in his garage for three days while he had a visitor.

Castro claimed he didn't have an exit strategy from his complicated double life and finally gave the women a chance to escape by leaving a door unlocked, the court filing said.

The women, each kidnapped separately when they accepted a ride from Castro on Cleveland's blue-collar west side, quickly escaped after Amanda Berry kicked out the door panel May 6 and Castro was arrested within hours. The women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old.

There was no comment from Castro's defense team on the eve of sentencing.

Other horrific details of the women's ordeal had already emerged, including tales of being chained to poles in the basement or a bedroom heater or inside a van, with one woman forced to wear a motorcycle helmet while chained in the basement and, after she tried to escape, having a vacuum cord wrapped around her neck.

Castro repeatedly starved and beat one of the victims each time she was pregnant, forcing her to miscarry five times.

He forced the same woman on threat of death to safely deliver the child he fathered with another victim on Christmas Day 2006. The same day, prosecutors say, Castro raped the woman who helped deliver his daughter.

Prosecutors will ask the judge to prohibit Castro from ever seeing his daughter, now 6.

McGinty says experts will also discuss how Castro was able to keep the women captive for so long.

Berry, 27, made a surprise onstage appearance at a rap concert last weekend, and a second victim, Gina DeJesus, 23, made a few televised comments as a privacy fence was being erected around her house. The third victim, Michelle Knight, 32, appeared with Berry and DeJesus in a video in early July thanking the community for its support.

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Welsh-Huggins reported from Columbus.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sentencing-set-cleveland-kidnap-rape-case-064539357.html

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Shazam (for Windows Phone)


Shazam may have lost some of its 'ooh' factor, but it's still devilishly useful if you don't know what that cool song they're playing is. When the app was first released for iPhone, it was a must-download, if for nothing else than its effectiveness as a party trick. The Windows Phone version was updated last June, and while sharing the strengths and limitations of every Shazam app version, it offers some Windows Phone specific capabilities. But Shazam is not without competition on the platform: Not only can you try the similar SoundHound app, but the built-in Bing search feature in Windows Phone has a microphone feature that listens for ambient music and identifies it for you. So let's take Shazam out for a spin and see whether you really need it.

Setup
Shazam is a free download from the Windows Phone store; a premium version, Shazam Encore costs $5.99, but at this point the free version shows no ads like those on iPhone Shazam, so I can't see any reason to get the paid app. I've asked the company to elucidate the advantages of Encore, and will update this when I hear back.

I tested the app on a Nokia Lumia 928. Like so many mobile apps, Shazam's setup wants access to your location, and, though this seems irrelevant for a music app, it does enable a feature that lets you know what people nearby are Shazam-ing. On first run, you have to accept the user agreement; it's the standard boilerplate that the company is creating a profile on you based on your listening habits.?

Interface
Shazam's store description boasts that the app has a "glorious new UI" for Windows Phone 8. At first glance, it's really the most basic interface you can imagine: Just a single big button saying "tag now." As with most windows apps, you swipe sideways to get to different pages. After the Tag Now page, these include pages for your recent tags, chart, and local tags. The app's live tile lets you see album art for your last tag, and you can make another live tile for Tag Now, so you can immediately start song recognition. Finally, among interface goodies is the ability to use the album art of your last-viewed tag as the phone's lock screen background.

Tagging Tunes
I tested the app with increasingly challenging music. Shazam refers to the act of identifying a song "tagging." The app expectedly had no trouble at all tagging the likes of Katy Perry playing at an outdoor Japanese restaurant. Then I headed to Starbucks, where the Art Garfunkel tune playing was no challenge for Shazam, either. The less mass-market Peter Tosh's Rudies Melody was found, too.

But when I headed to an independent coffee shop, things got dicier: The app was unable to identify anything on the hipster baristas' playlist. I held the phone up to the speaker, and I didn't' think the ambient noise was louder than the restaurant and Starbucks, but that might have been a factor in its inability to find the songs. Nor was the app able to identify a song playing on SomaFM, Terre Thaemiz's Hovering Glows or even M-Seven's Contained.

On the classical front, it had more success, identifying the Jasper String Quartet, the wonderful choral group Stile Antico, and even The Harp Consort's Spanish Dances. In all, though, Shazam was far better at identifying music than its nearest competitor, SoundHound, which didn't recognize the harp music or the string quartet.

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In pictures: Moto X

Moto X.

The many faces of Motorola's latest smartphone

Unlike most smartphones, Motorola's Moto X will come in a wide range of different colors, textures and materials. And today in New York City Motorola was showing off a handful of them — from textured black and white plastic, to a range of wood finishes.

The base device comes in black and white, and Motorola's promising 16 customization options for the rear panel. So check past the break to see the Moto X in various colors from various angles. We've also got side-by-side comparisons with the Nexus 4 and HTC One.

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The Guardian: NSA's XKeyscore tool is its 'widest reaching' system for collecting online data

The Guardian NSA's XKeyscore tool is its 'widest reaching' system for collecting online data

Edward Snowden has said that he still has more information about the NSA than what he's already leaked, and we're now getting a look at another big piece of that. According to a new set of documents provided to The Guardian, the NSA is using a tool called XKeyscore that is said to be its "widest reaching" system for collecting information from the internet -- one that lets it examine "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet," as one presentation slide explains. That apparently includes both metadata and the contents of emails, as well as social media activity, which can reportedly be accessed by NSA analysts without prior authorization; as The Guardian notes, a FISA warrant is required if the target of the surveillance is a US citizen, but not if a foreign target is communicating with an American.

According to The Guardian, the amount of data collected is so large that content is only able to stored in the system for three to five days, or as little as 24 hours in some cases, while metadata is stored for 30 days. That's reportedly led the NSA to develop a multi-tiered system that lets it move what's described as "interesting" content to other databases where it can be stored for as much as five years. In a statement provided to The Guardian, the NSA says that "XKeyscore is used as a part of NSA's lawful foreign signals intelligence collection system," and that "allegations of widespread, unchecked analyst access to NSA collection data are simply not true. Access to XKeyscore, as well as all of NSA's analytic tools, is limited to only those personnel who require access for their assigned tasks." The agency further adds that "every search by an NSA analyst is fully auditable, to ensure that they are proper and within the law."

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Taiwan orders more human vaccine as rabies returns

A dog owner gets her pet vaccinated for rabies at a government clinic in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Taiwan has ordered tens of thousands of vaccine doses to protect people against the island's first rabies outbreak in more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

A dog owner gets her pet vaccinated for rabies at a government clinic in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Taiwan has ordered tens of thousands of vaccine doses to protect people against the island's first rabies outbreak in more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

A dog owner get her pet vaccinated for rabies at a government clinic in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Taiwan has ordered tens of thousands of vaccine doses to protect people against the island's first rabies outbreak in more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

A dog owner gets his pet vaccinated for rabies at a government clinic in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Taiwan has ordered tens of thousands of vaccine doses to protect people against the island's first rabies outbreak in more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

A veterinarian prepares to vaccinate dogs for rabies at a government clinic in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Taiwan has ordered tens of thousands of vaccine doses to protect people against the island's first rabies outbreak in more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

(AP) ? Taiwan has ordered tens of thousands of vaccine doses to protect people against the island's first rabies outbreak in more than 50 years.

Health officials have struggled to contain the Taiwan outbreak since July 17, when a ferret badger in the southern part of the island was confirmed as rabid. Since then, 17 more ferret badger cases have been confirmed, and the case of a rabid Asian house shrew reported Wednesday indicates the disease is jumping species. No humans or dogs have yet been involved in the outbreak.

Health Minister Chiu-Wen-ta says the new human vaccine doses are expected to arrive Friday and will supplement some 3,000 in stock.

Health workers have been vaccinating animals throughout Taiwan to try to control the outbreak. The island has some 40,000 animal-use dosages in stock, with an additional half million expected by Aug. 20.

At a government animal protection facility in the Taipei suburb of Xindian, dozens of anxious dog owners lined up to have their pets inoculated. The animals ranged from well-coiffed poodles and French bulldogs to street mongrels, their mouths covered with muzzles.

Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in warm-blooded animals. It can spread from one species to another, usually through bites. If untreated, it is fatal.

Before last month, Taiwan's last reported rabies case was in 1959. A dog bit a farmer, whose wife became infected after washing the farmer's rabies-tainted clothing; the farmer himself did not contract the disease.

Now, the only jurisdictions that world health officials consider rabies-free are Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and Guam.

Associated Press

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