Monday, November 9, 2009
Video jefferson parish public schools
Video jefferson parish public schoolsJefferson Parish School board member Mark Morgan, who proposed the motion, asked to remove it after having heard negative remarks from colleagues and Dean of the Board meeting in Kenner. But asked Superintendent Diane Roussel to review the current policy – which prohibits the presence of mobile phones in schools – and perhaps refine it.
Video marlee matlin
Video marlee matlin
Deaf actress Marlee Matlin was on Family Guy Presents Seth & Alex Almost Live Comedy Show.
Alex Borstein, who makes fun voice speaking Marlee Martin (a gag on Family Guy) sang Lady GaGa Poker Face (which is now stuck in my head). In the middle of it, Matlin has come to act all pissed off, which was, of course, scripts. However, he arrived on stage, shouted at them, and went on his way to walk off the stage, pulled out a tablecloth on the table where someone was sitting.
Deaf actress Marlee Matlin was on Family Guy Presents Seth & Alex Almost Live Comedy Show.
Alex Borstein, who makes fun voice speaking Marlee Martin (a gag on Family Guy) sang Lady GaGa Poker Face (which is now stuck in my head). In the middle of it, Matlin has come to act all pissed off, which was, of course, scripts. However, he arrived on stage, shouted at them, and went on his way to walk off the stage, pulled out a tablecloth on the table where someone was sitting.
Video rob kardashian and scott fight
Video rob kardashian and scott fight
Ahh yes, some fight ‘all the high school’, fight, fight ‘echoes in my ears. Apparently people are looking for a ‘Rob Kardashian and fight Scott’
why?
Rob Kardashian, during a fight with Scott Disic. Scott Kourtney Kardashian’s boyfriend. The Kardashians Rob and Scott Disick fight was not what you were thinking about what it was. It ‘was a planned fight …. part of Charity Knock Out Kardashian at Commerce Casino on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.
However, from that fight, Rob was diagnosed with mild head trauma. Even the fight, Kim Kardashian has a black eye.
Ahh yes, some fight ‘all the high school’, fight, fight ‘echoes in my ears. Apparently people are looking for a ‘Rob Kardashian and fight Scott’
why?
Rob Kardashian, during a fight with Scott Disic. Scott Kourtney Kardashian’s boyfriend. The Kardashians Rob and Scott Disick fight was not what you were thinking about what it was. It ‘was a planned fight …. part of Charity Knock Out Kardashian at Commerce Casino on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.
However, from that fight, Rob was diagnosed with mild head trauma. Even the fight, Kim Kardashian has a black eye.
Video Dinosaurs
Video Dinosaurs
I grew up in Alaska. I did not know there were dinosaurs here, and I admit my perception of dinosaurs has been largely formed by film. What has changed in this weekend’s Rock and Mineral Show, which ended Sunday night.
We saw the skeletons, looking at the big teeth, watching movies with giant lizards roaming tropical lands, so you might expect to find dinosaurs in Alaska. And for many years, scientists agree it was too cold.
In 1961, a dinosaur bone was found near the Colville River on the North Slope. It was thought to be a mammoth bone, and it was not until the mid-1980s that they understood what they had. Since then, thousands of dinosaur bones have been discovered.
“And what’s so exciting to Alaska is that we have more dinosaurs, dinosaurs at high latitude in our state of all other high-latitude locations combined,” said University of Alaska Anchorage geologist Anna Easter.
During the Cretaceous period, the average temperature in Alaska ranged between 30 and 60 degrees – hotter than today, but not tropical. Find dinosaurs in Alaska contributed to a revolution in the way paleontologists think dinosaurs.
I grew up in Alaska. I did not know there were dinosaurs here, and I admit my perception of dinosaurs has been largely formed by film. What has changed in this weekend’s Rock and Mineral Show, which ended Sunday night.
We saw the skeletons, looking at the big teeth, watching movies with giant lizards roaming tropical lands, so you might expect to find dinosaurs in Alaska. And for many years, scientists agree it was too cold.
In 1961, a dinosaur bone was found near the Colville River on the North Slope. It was thought to be a mammoth bone, and it was not until the mid-1980s that they understood what they had. Since then, thousands of dinosaur bones have been discovered.
“And what’s so exciting to Alaska is that we have more dinosaurs, dinosaurs at high latitude in our state of all other high-latitude locations combined,” said University of Alaska Anchorage geologist Anna Easter.
During the Cretaceous period, the average temperature in Alaska ranged between 30 and 60 degrees – hotter than today, but not tropical. Find dinosaurs in Alaska contributed to a revolution in the way paleontologists think dinosaurs.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Genetic analysis of swine flu virus reveals diverse parts
Components of the H1N1 swine flu virus have been circulating undetected for years, but the virus combines the bits and pieces in a way never before seen, a detailed genetic analysis reveals.
The analysis, published online May 22 in Science, pinpoints the origins of each of the virus’s components. It suggests that current influenza vaccines probably won’t provide protection from the virus, but that the virus is susceptible to some antiviral drugs and will be amenable to new vaccine development. A separate study of the virus’s neuraminidase protein (the N in H1N1), published May 20 in Biology Direct, also shows that the virus is sensitive to some drugs but that parts of the protein important for vaccine development and antibody therapies are already changing.
Pigs are the likely origin of the virus, says Nancy Cox, chief of the influenza division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and a coauthor of the Science paper. But it is still unclear whether the virus jumped directly from pigs into humans or infected an intermediate host first.
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DETAILED ANALYSIS
The H1N1 swine flu virus combines, in a new way, bits from several different influenza viruses that have been circulating for a long time among pigs and people. A detailed genetic analysis reveals the origin of each of the virus's pieces, shown here.Gartner, R.J. et al. 2009 in ScienceIn the United States, 6,552 probable and confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza, including nine deaths and more than 300 hospitalizations, have been reported to the CDC as of May 22, says Anne Schuchat, CDC’s interim deputy director for the science and public health program. But public health officials estimate that more than 100,000 Americans may have already been infected with the virus.
Overall the number of new cases in the United States is falling, Schuchat says, but the virus is still active in some pockets of the country and is expected to produce more new cases over the summer. “We don’t want people to think we’re out of the woods yet,” she says. “It could come back in the fall in the worst way.”
CDC is already testing two candidate vaccine viruses and expects to send the viruses to manufacturers by the end of May, Schuchat says.
Genetic analysis of the new H1N1 virus reveals that three of its genes, including the hemagglutinin gene (the H in H1N1), originally came from the 1918 Spanish influenza virus and have been present in pigs ever since. The genes have not changed much, likely because pigs do not live long enough to get reinfected with the same virus, Cox says. Reinfection would have favored changes that could have allowed the virus to evade the immune system. Now that the virus has entered humans, researchers expect it to mutate at the same rate as currently circulating seasonal influenzas.
The new virus does not contain the genetic changes thought to have helped the 1918 flu virus and the H5N1 virus (avian flu) adapt to humans, the researchers report. That means that other genetic components of the new virus must be responsible for its ability to pass from person to person.
Both studies find that the closest relative of H1N1’s neuraminidase gene is from a Eurasian swine flu virus that probably leaped from birds to pigs in about 1979.
The new virus differs in 21 of 387 amino acids from the H5N1 virus and the 1918 Spanish flu (also an H1N1 virus), researchers from Singapore’s Agency for Science and Technology Research report in the study in Biology Direct. Viruses isolated from patients during the first two weeks of the current outbreak already have changes on the outer surface on the neuraminidase protein that could interfere with antibodies against the virus or alter the effectiveness of future vaccines. But none of the changes have altered the parts of the protein targeted by antiviral drugs, such as Tamiflu or Relenza.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
UK holiday firms cancel flights to Mexico
The Foreign Office advised against all but essential travel to flu-hit Mexico on Tuesday as holiday firms started cancelling flights and made plans to repatriate British tourists.
A honeymooning Scottish couple who recently returned from Cancun, one of the country's biggest beach resorts, have became the first in Britain to test positive for swine flu.
On its website, the Foreign Office also said routine consular and all visa services at its embassy in Mexico City had been suspended until further notice.
"British nationals resident in or visiting Mexico may wish to consider whether they should remain in Mexico at this time," it said.
Travel firms Thomson Holidays and First Choice said they had decided to repatriate their customers from Mexico and to cancel flights bound for Cancun from Gatwick and Manchester on Tuesday.
Thomas Cook said it was cancelling all flights to Mexico until May 5, but British Airways said it would continue to operate its services.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would take part in a meeting of the government's COBRA emergency committee on Tuesday chaired by Health Secretary Alan Johnson.
"We have been preparing for this kind of scenario for many years. Britain is among the best prepared countries in the world," he told a news conference during a visit to Poland
A honeymooning Scottish couple who recently returned from Cancun, one of the country's biggest beach resorts, have became the first in Britain to test positive for swine flu.
On its website, the Foreign Office also said routine consular and all visa services at its embassy in Mexico City had been suspended until further notice.
"British nationals resident in or visiting Mexico may wish to consider whether they should remain in Mexico at this time," it said.
Travel firms Thomson Holidays and First Choice said they had decided to repatriate their customers from Mexico and to cancel flights bound for Cancun from Gatwick and Manchester on Tuesday.
Thomas Cook said it was cancelling all flights to Mexico until May 5, but British Airways said it would continue to operate its services.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would take part in a meeting of the government's COBRA emergency committee on Tuesday chaired by Health Secretary Alan Johnson.
"We have been preparing for this kind of scenario for many years. Britain is among the best prepared countries in the world," he told a news conference during a visit to Poland
WHO awaits U.S. confirmation on human flu spread
GENEVA, April 28 (Reuters) - The WHO said on Tuesday it awaited formal confirmation from U.S. authorities the new swine flu virus has spread significantly between people, a sign that could indicate an "imminent" influenza pandemic.
Confirmation infected people in two countries are spreading the new disease to their families or contacts in a sustained way would meet the World Health Organisation's criteria for declaring a phase 5 alert on its scale of 1 to 6.
The United Nations agency raised its pandemic alert level to phase 4 from phase 3 on Monday as the virus spread to Europe.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday some people who have had contact with confirmed cases were also developing flu-like symptoms.
"It appears, and I think we're still awaiting for a final confirmation from the U.S. authorities, but it appears that there's a number of cases in New York which appear to be human-to-human transmission," WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told a news briefing.
Such secondary transmission of the virus was "probable", he later told reporters, adding: "If we have a confirmation from the United States or Canada, we could move to phase 5."
The emergency committee which recommended moving to phase 4 late on Monday -- a "turning point", according to Hartl -- was not scheduled to meet on Tuesday. But its experts could be convened at any time to make such decisions.
People have occasionally caught swine flu from a pig but it has stopped there. Avian influenza has occasionally spread from one person to just one other person and stopped there.
But the new H1N1 flu appears to be spreading beyond that limited chain, which is what worries the WHO.
Confirmation infected people in two countries are spreading the new disease to their families or contacts in a sustained way would meet the World Health Organisation's criteria for declaring a phase 5 alert on its scale of 1 to 6.
The United Nations agency raised its pandemic alert level to phase 4 from phase 3 on Monday as the virus spread to Europe.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday some people who have had contact with confirmed cases were also developing flu-like symptoms.
"It appears, and I think we're still awaiting for a final confirmation from the U.S. authorities, but it appears that there's a number of cases in New York which appear to be human-to-human transmission," WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told a news briefing.
Such secondary transmission of the virus was "probable", he later told reporters, adding: "If we have a confirmation from the United States or Canada, we could move to phase 5."
The emergency committee which recommended moving to phase 4 late on Monday -- a "turning point", according to Hartl -- was not scheduled to meet on Tuesday. But its experts could be convened at any time to make such decisions.
People have occasionally caught swine flu from a pig but it has stopped there. Avian influenza has occasionally spread from one person to just one other person and stopped there.
But the new H1N1 flu appears to be spreading beyond that limited chain, which is what worries the WHO.
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