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To: thecow who wrote (39856)	3/4/2004 11:30:20 PM
From: Larry S.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

ZA has asked me several times if i want to let iupdate.exe to access the internet. Technical Information: Destination IP: 24.92.226.238:DNS Application: iupdate.exe Version: (blank) This program has previously accessed the internet. what is this? is it NAV intelligent update? should i allow it? not allow it? i am running NAV 2002. tia. larry

To: thecow who wrote (39856)	3/5/2004 8:59:55 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

thecow, chickens have problems, too: "Dim Sum Emergency: Bird Flu Trips Up Trade in Chicken Feet Chinese Ban on U.S. Imports Strands Tons at Sea; 'It's Very Hard to Resist' By MATT POTTINGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL HONG KONG -- A new crackdown in trade between the U.S. and China has stranded an unusual cargo: 16,000 metric tons of chicken feet. Chicken feet are a popular dish in China, and with no significant demand for such morsels in the U.S., American poultry producers shipped an estimated four billion pairs to the People's Republic last year. But on Feb. 10, China banned U.S. poultry products after some chickens came down with bird flu in Delaware. That left vessels plying the Pacific Ocean and elsewhere with no where to off-load millions of chicken feet, sending importers scrambling to find cold storage facilities, lest they spoil before China lifts the ban. U.S. chicken processors such as Tyson Foods Inc., of Springdale, Ark., and Perdue Farms Inc., of Salisbury, Md., as well as Chinese importers, stand to lose out on millions in sales. And prices of White Cloud Phoenix Claws, as steamed feet are referred to on Cantonese menus, are rising in some Hong Kong restaurants. Chicken feet are among the handful of goods that China imports from the U.S. in high volume. Billions of American chickens sacrifice their lower limbs each year to help slow the expanding Sino-U.S. trade gap. Their appendages are hawked to Chinese dim sum restaurants everywhere from Hong Kong to Harbin. China is by far the world's biggest consumer of chicken paws, as the delicacy is known, and America is the top supplier. China is the second-largest buyer of U.S. poultry products after Russia. Of the $310 million in American poultry sales to China last year, 43% was chicken paws, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Poultry and Egg Export Council.[snip] subscribers' link online.wsj.com