Sometimes, simply the way your browser is set up or a bad decision when visiting a site can spell disaster. Here's some ways you can save yourself from a browser "Drive By" and keep your system more secure.Sometimes, simply the way your browser is set up or a bad decision when visiting a... more
Reports of the Ukranian mutation of the H1N1 virus spreading to other countries and Texas, Iowa, and Florida are popping up everywhere. This is it! This is the mutation our government magically warned about two years ago. Be safe and limit exposure to large crowds.Reports of the Ukranian mutation of the H1N1 virus spreading to other countries and... more
Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart return to the big screen in Twilight: New Moon this Friday. The first installment shied away from vampire myths and offered a modern take on the subject. Last year, Christopher Beam pointed out that Twilight and other recent movies were quick to discredit old vampire legends. The original article is reprinted below.
There's a scene midway through Twilight, the new 'tween vampire flick, in which the heroine, Bella, arrives at the vampire Edward's house—a bright, spare, Modernist home that seems stocked with Calphalon pans and furniture from Design Within Reach. She looks around wonderingly. "What did you expect?" he says. "Coffins and dungeons and moats?" It's a familiar scene to anyone who knows vampire movies: the part where the vampire (or vampire expert) turns myth-buster and explains what vampires are really like.
A perfect example is this exchange from HBO's True Blood. "I thought you were supposed to be invisible in a mirror," marvels Anna Paquin's Sookie, reclining in a bathtub. Sorry, says her vampiric love interest, Bill. "What about Holy water?" she asks. "It's just water." "Crucifixes?" "Geometry." "Garlic?" "It's irritating, but that's pretty much it." Irritating, indeed.
Vampire myth-busters are a cocky lot. Take this scene from Blade, when vampire hunter Wesley Snipes explains "vampire anatomy 101" to his new protégée. "Crosses and holy water don't do dick, so forget what you've seen in the movies," he says. "You use a stake, silver, or sunlight. You know how to use one of these?" He shows her a gun. "Silver hollow point filled with garlic. Aim for head or the heart. Anything else is your ass." http://www.slate.com/id/2236182/pagenum/all/#p2Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart return to the big screen in Twilight: New Moon... more
Viruses are well known for attacking humans and animals, but some viruses instead attack bacteria. Texas A&M University researchers are exploring how hungry viruses, armed with transformer-like weapons, attack bacteria, which may aid in the treatment of bacterial infections.Viruses are well known for attacking humans and animals, but some viruses instead... more
"The Dutch health institute RIVM has stopped the distribution of a batch of Pfizer's Prevnar childhood vaccine following the death of three babies shortly after being vaccinated.
The vaccine has been labeled 'do not use' and and new supplies have been made available to doctors.
The exact cause of the death of the infants is not yet known, the RIVM said. The babies died between one and 11 days after the vaccination."
Don't worry, just take your Viagra and everything will be ok."The Dutch health institute RIVM has stopped the distribution of a batch of Pfizer's... more
Cenzic released its report revealing the most prominent types of Web application vulnerabilities for the first half of 2009. The report identified over 3,100 total vulnerabilities, which is a 10 percent increase in Web application vulnerabilities compared to the second half of 2008. Among Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox had the largest percentage of Web vulnerabilities, followed by Apple Safari, whose browser showed a vast increase in exploits, due to vulnerabilities reported in the Safari iPhone browser." It seems a bit surprising to me that this study shows that only 15% of vulnerabilities are in IE.
Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
Nephews - not niece's !
Lines on movement in the video show.Why ?
No tiny portions please.
Dad always wore a shirt & tie.
Pizzahut.
Hi to Cass from Texas.
No mixed veg.
Alan ponders about my sofa.
Jimmy's eating drives me mad.
He was with me before he found that young thing.
The bill falls in my lap.
Slop bucket.
The virus has been expelled.
How can you throw away food ?
Did your cough come from me ?
Nibbling at a chip.
My letter to the accountant.
Does it travel down wires ?
Eating with just a fork.
I reject evilness.
Gwen is a "Fab old gal".
"The Silver Birch".
Ron was being camp.
Another football.
I can see through the curtain.
James Dean goes off with other friends.
A medium for the same price.
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Reported Cases in Ukraine Double in Two Days
Recombinomics Commentary 14:34
November 4, 2009
478,456 Influenza/ARI
24,003 Hospitalized
60 Ventilators
81 Deaths
The above numbers are from the latest update from Ukraine. The number of infected patients has almost doubled to just under ½ million, compared to the report two days ago (see map). Hospitalized patients also have spiked higher, to 24K from 15K. ICU cases are not listed, but 60 on ventilators are. However, most (37) of those on ventilators are Chernivisti Oblast, but Lviv, which has the most fatalities and cases, has none, suggesting the data is incomplete or there are significant shortages of ventilators. The number of dead has risen to 81, but media reports describe additional fatalities, include those in the Kiev Oblast.
The explosion of cases again raises concerns that the number of fatalities is significantly higher than the 81 listed. Media reports have described an equal number of pneumonia fatalities which were not considered flu related. The basis of these exclusions remains unclear. Similarly, anecdotal reports suggest the number of fatalities is markedly higher than the 81 in the table.
The rapid rise in reported infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in the past few days raise concerns that the virus is transmitting very efficiently. Spikes in cases have been reported throughout the northern hemisphere, but the spike in fatalities and the frequency in hemorrhagic cases in Ukraine have raised concerns.
Earlier media reports suggest that an update by WHO might be issued today and include preliminary analysis of samples sent to Mill Hill in London.
Daily updates on the rapidly evolving situation in Ukraine, including sequence analysis, would be useful.
"LAKE IN THE HILLS – Citizens infected with a fictitious pneumonic plague will line up outside Lincoln Prairie Elementary School on Saturday to help test the site as a medication dispensary in case of an emergency.
The Lake in the Hills Police Department is carrying out the test as part of a grant from the McHenry County Department of Health for its emergency health plan. In case of a biological terrorist attack or widespread disease outbreak, the site would be able get medicine to the community, Lake in the Hills Chief of Patrol Services David Brey said.
“This is just a functional test of the site,” he said.
The event will use volunteers pretending to have been stricken by the plague to help test the flow of the site, from initial triage through receiving proof of being medicated.
“We picked the plague on purpose so it would have nothing to do with the swine flu,” Brey said.
The test will start at 9 a.m. Saturday at Lincoln Prairie, 500 Harvest Gate, across from Lake in the Hills Village Hall."
Don't worry, it has nothing to do with swine flu. They are not turning schools into FEMA Camps. There will not be a police state. Your rights are in tact. They don't want to kill you or make you a slave in a 1 world totalitarian government. War is peace."LAKE IN THE HILLS – Citizens infected with a fictitious pneumonic plague will line... more
Psychic channeling on the swine flu H1N1 epidemic predicts that the virus could mutate into a more deadly flu near Dec. 1 2009.
Psychic ESP Channeling, on the swine flu epidemic and will H1N1 Swine Flu Influeza mutate to a more deadly form. From T. Chase who is the channeler, and Revelation13.net. Copyright 2009 by T. Chase. From the Revelation13.net web site, also see Revelation13.net (Revelation 13: Prophecies of the Future, Astrology, Nostradamus, Bible Prophecy, the King James version English Bible Code).Psychic channeling on the swine flu H1N1 epidemic predicts that the virus could mutate... more
Scientists have found evidence that a virus may play a role in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Vincent C. Lombardi of the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, Nev., and scientists elsewhere studied 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, a baffling, debilitating and controversial condition that affects an estimated 17 million people worldwide. They discovered that 68 of the patients -- 67 percent -- had a virus in their blood known as the xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus or XMRV. Only eight of 218 similar subjects who did not have chronic fatigue syndrome -- 3.7 percent -- had the virus in their blood, the researchers report in a paper published online Thursday by the journal Science.
Further studies showed that the virus is indeed infectious, and can "provoke" the immune system to respond.
The researchers cautioned that the findings far from prove that the virus causes chronic fatigue. It may be just part of the picture. But they suggest that the virus may at least contribute to the development of the disorder. This isn't the first time a virus has been associated with the condition. Previous research has suggested that some herpes viruses and other viruses may also play a role.Scientists have found evidence that a virus may play a role in chronic fatigue... more
A national campaign to inoculate tens of millions of Americans against H1N1 influenza began Monday, with health care workers in Indiana and Tennessee targeted as the first recipients, federal health authorities said.
More than 340,000 laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 and more than 4,100 deaths have been reported to the World Health Organization.
Dr. Jay Butler, who heads the CDC's 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Task Force, has promised there will be enough for anyone who wants it.
Butler said vaccine makers will ship 10 million to 20 million doses per week over the next couple of months.A national campaign to inoculate tens of millions of Americans against H1N1 influenza... more
http://www.bodbeat.com There are some simple ways to help protect your immune system for the upcoming flu season and the threat of the H1N1 Virus. Dr. Loretta lists her top five tips, plus gives you some effective supplements you can take to help ward of colds, flus and flu pandemics.http://www.bodbeat.com There are some simple ways to help protect your immune system... more
In a move that's sure to please a few million Windows users and break the hearts of a handful of anti-virus companies, Microsoft has now finally made the non-beta version of its Security Essentials software available to the general public, and it's not even asking that you throw a launch party to get it for free.
For those not in on the beta or following Microsoft's exciting forays into freeware, the software promises to cover all the security basics and fend off viruses, spyware and other malicious software, and Microsoft even assures us that it'll "run quietly in the background" and only intrude on your life when an action is required. You'll also, of course, get free updates on a regular basis, and it'll work just fine whether you use Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7In a move that's sure to please a few million Windows users and break the hearts of a... more
The retroviruses which gave rise to HIV first evolved around 100 million years ago – about 85 million years earlier than previously thought, a team led by Oxford University scientists have discovered.
The remains of an ancient HIV-like virus have been discovered in the genome of the two-toed sloth. 'Finding the fossilized remains of such a virus in this sloth is an amazing stroke of luck,’ said Dr Aris Katzourakis from Oxford’s Department of Zoology and the Institute for Emergent Infections, James Martin 21st Century School. ‘Because this sloth is so geographically and genetically isolated its genome gives us a window into the ancient past of mammals, their immune systems, and the types of viruses they had to contend with.’
The researchers found evidence of ‘foamy viruses’, a particular kind of retrovirus that resembles the complex lentiviruses, such as HIV and simian retroviruses (SIVs) – as opposed to simple retroviruses that are found throughout the genomic fossil record.
‘In previous work we had found evidence for similar viruses in the genomes of rabbits and lemurs but this new research suggests that the ancestors of complex retroviruses, such as HIV, may have been with us from the very beginnings of mammal evolution,’ said Dr Aris Katzourakis.
Understanding the evolutionary battleground between complex viruses and mammal immune systems could lead to new approaches to combating existing retroviruses, such as HIV. It can also help scientists to decide which viruses that cross species are likely to cause dangerous pandemics – such as swine flu (H1N1) – and which, like bird flu (H5N1) and foamy viruses, cross this species barrier but then never cause pandemics in new mammal populations.The retroviruses which gave rise to HIV first evolved around 100 million years ago –... more
The building fear of the H1N1 pandemic is not being helped by misinformation, exaggeration and simply irresponsible reporting. Dr. Loretta breaks down the Swine Flu scare and exactly what is being done, and what’s not being done, to protect all of us.The building fear of the H1N1 pandemic is not being helped by misinformation,... more
For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.
Think of what this can do for the world. It will end a great deal of suffering if it truly works. I stay hopeful that this will be a leap closer to ending one of worlds most deadly viruses.
Do you consider this to be a major breakthrough?For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS... more
