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VANCOUVER A B.C.-based salmon-farming company has voluntarily quarantined one of its facilities as officials investigate the apparent outbreak of a dangerous virus.

Greig Seafood says its farm on Culloden Point, in Jervis Inlet on the Sunshine Coast, north of Vancouver, has produced preliminary positive results for the IHN virus.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is doing more tests and final confirmation is expected over the weekend.

A release from Greig says the virus is not a risk to humans, and wild fish in the Pacific have a natural immunity, but IHN can be deadly to Atlantic salmon raised in the fish farms.

In May, the virus was confirmed at one Vancouver Island fish farm operated by Mainstream Canada, and all the fish at its Tofino-area facility were destroyed.

Precautionary quarantines were also imposed on two other farms in May, including a Greig Seafood operation on the Sunshine Coast, but final tests showed IHN had not infected those fish.

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BLACKSBURG, Va. (WTVR)Virginia Tech has added a new word when it comes to describing who is getting married on its campus.

Virginia Tech says this is not a big deal, but others disagree.

The Virginia Tech Chapel serves as a site for weddings, recitals and memorials, completely under the direction of the university.

Since its construction the chapel has acknowledged on paper only heterosexual weddings. That quietly changed a few weeks ago.

Lets just get specific, the War Memorial Chapel has added a box on the form for the use of the facility that used to say bride and groom, now it says bride, groom, or spouse. Not everyone wants to be referred to as a bride or a groom, Larry Hincker, associate vice president of university relations said.

Virginia Tech sends out press releases nearly every day on various stories, but said nothing about this one. The explanation: Now come on Orlando, were not going to put out a press release for a change on a form.

But that one word spouse is understood to mean gays and lesbians one word on a form.

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02-08-2012 04:49 Marathon Runner Guor Marial is going to the Olympics without representing any country. He lives in the US And did not want to represent Sudan. He hoped to represent the newly-formed South Sudan, but that country is not yet part of the Olympics. (Aug. 2)

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31-07-2012 18:07 It's amazing how much trouble can be stirred up in 140 characters. The 2012 Olympics are being shaped, shaken and indisputably changed by a social media revolution that four years ago in Beijing was in its toddlerhood. (July 31)

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By Wilson Ng

Wired Desktop

Thursday, August 2, 2012

FACEBOOK is in a lot of trouble. While it may be any day now that it will reach a billion users, its stock has been less than stellar. In fact, its quite disappointing. After setting the initial price at $38 per share, which valued the company at around $100 billion, it is now $20.80 per share, at least as of this writing. This means most investors who bought shares during the initial offering have lost nearly half their money. Close to $50 billion in value wiped out.

This also goes true for Zynga (makers of Farmville, Mafia Wars and many other favorite games in Facebook) as well as Groupon, which tends to suggest that social media suddenly seemed to be out of favor.

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On the other hand, technology continues to affect significantly the way we work and play, with the reports that in the London Olympics, several athletes were barred from the competition due to posts or comments they made in Twitter and other social media sites. It seems every day, there are reports of people losing their jobs, fighting over their marriage, friends or family finding each other after a number of years or suing each other in court because of social media.

Meanwhile, I am quite excited that Hotmail, which can be considered as one of the Internets blazing success in social communications since way back in the 1990s, is getting another facelift.

We here in the Philippines dont feel it, but Hotmail is still the worlds biggest free email system with over 350 million users. Hotmail was launched in 1995, and when it became a hot success, it was bought by Microsoft. Hotmail is very popular in some countries, but very unhip in others, including the Philippines (an informal survey of friends showed that probably over 80 percent of people use Yahoo).

Microsoft tried to reinvent it and a few years back, it became Microsoft Live. Now, there is another rebranding, and it might be renamed into Outlook Mail (www.outlook.com). The email is supposedly going to morph into a hybrid Hotmail and Microsoft Outlook available via the Internet. It is hard to describe, but if you can, check out the new website.

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