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Post by Laura on Apr 8, 2009 15:26:37 GMT -5
Amazing pictures Lynn..thanks.. and in answer to your question about Jamie..I sent her an email yesterday asking if she and family are ok. Here is her response so we all can see she is ok.. 'We are fine-grazie. We woke up to our bedroom door tapping against our radiator, and then getting out bed to see our light fixture swaying. We are NW of Naples, and the earthquake was a bit over 150 miles NE of us-NE of Roma! The area is a 13th hillside town-which is why there was so much damage. Our houses here are mortar & cement-no give at all. Right now we're waiting to see what the Italian government says what we, as US/military, citizens living here, can do. People are living in tents, and watching Italian t.v. yesterday, so many left with just the clothes on their backs. Many homes are still intact, but the Carabinieri has evacuated them until they can all be inspected. Thank you so much for asking-it means a lot. Please keep those affected in your thoughts and prayers." Love, Jamie
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Post by puhlease on Apr 8, 2009 18:27:47 GMT -5
Amazing pictures Lynn..thanks.. and in answer to your question about Jamie..I sent her an email yesterday asking if she and family are ok. Here is her response so we all can see she is ok.. 'We are fine-grazie. We woke up to our bedroom door tapping against our radiator, and then getting out bed to see our light fixture swaying. We are NW of Naples, and the earthquake was a bit over 150 miles NE of us-NE of Roma! The area is a 13th hillside town-which is why there was so much damage. Our houses here are mortar & cement-no give at all. Right now we're waiting to see what the Italian government says what we, as US/military, citizens living here, can do. People are living in tents, and watching Italian t.v. yesterday, so many left with just the clothes on their backs. Many homes are still intact, but the Carabinieri has evacuated them until they can all be inspected. Thank you so much for asking-it means a lot. Please keep those affected in your thoughts and prayers." Love, Jamie Thanks Laura. That is good to know. Nature is really indiscriminate sometimes.
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Post by g1 on Apr 13, 2009 21:32:49 GMT -5
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Post by moonstone on Apr 13, 2009 22:18:55 GMT -5
It's always something, isn't it? If not a volcano or an earthquake, then an asteroid. Be sure to mark your calendars and don't forget to duck.
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Post by g1 on Apr 17, 2009 10:09:46 GMT -5
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Post by nanalinda on Apr 18, 2009 11:43:33 GMT -5
The EPA announced on Thursday that greenhouse gases endanger the public. It's amazing how much the scientists have accomplished in the 3 months since Bush has been gone. Seriously, this proves to me that the EPA was no more than another political tool during the prior administration. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friaday that the army is on pace to break a record number of suicides that was set last year and that the Pentagon is growing increasingly concerned about the trend. It's amazing how much the Pentagon has learned in the 3 months since Bush has been gone. Next, they'll be remarking on how many service people are suffering from PTSD!!!!!
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Post by g1 on Apr 18, 2009 18:24:49 GMT -5
The EPA announced on Thursday that greenhouse gases endanger the public. It's amazing how much the scientists have accomplished in the 3 months since Bush has been gone. Seriously, this proves to me that the EPA was no more than another political tool during the prior administration. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friaday that the army is on pace to break a record number of suicides that was set last year and that the Pentagon is growing increasingly concerned about the trend. It's amazing how much the Pentagon has learned in the 3 months since Bush has been gone. Next, they'll be remarking on how many service people are suffering from PTSD!!!!! Won't they be surprised to learn that there are no WMDs in Iraq and that the US troops won't be welcomed as liberators. Reality -- ain't it amazing!
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Post by g1 on Apr 19, 2009 12:43:37 GMT -5
News about a cure for macular degeneration. Of more than passing interest to me as seems to run in families... (And a delayed casualty of the Bush admin's war on science.) www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6122757.ece"April 19, 2009 Blind to be cured with stem cells Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Editor BRITISH scientists have developed the world’s first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeons predict it will become a routine, one-hour procedure that will be generally available in six or seven years’ time. The treatment involves replacing a layer of degenerated cells with new ones created from embryonic stem cells. It was pioneered by scientists and surgeons from the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London and Moorfields eye hospital. This week Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical research company, will announce its financial backing to bring the therapy to patients. The treatment will tackle age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness. It affects more than 500,000 Britons and the number is forecast to increase significantly as people live longer. The disease involves the loss of eye cells. ..."
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Post by moonstone on Apr 19, 2009 16:19:33 GMT -5
News about a cure for macular degeneration. Of more than passing interest to me as seems to run in families... (And a delayed casualty of the Bush admin's war on science.) www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6122757.ece"April 19, 2009 Blind to be cured with stem cells Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Editor BRITISH scientists have developed the world’s first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeons predict it will become a routine, one-hour procedure that will be generally available in six or seven years’ time. The treatment involves replacing a layer of degenerated cells with new ones created from embryonic stem cells. It was pioneered by scientists and surgeons from the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London and Moorfields eye hospital. This week Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical research company, will announce its financial backing to bring the therapy to patients. The treatment will tackle age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness. It affects more than 500,000 Britons and the number is forecast to increase significantly as people live longer. The disease involves the loss of eye cells. ..." Thanks for posting this. It's very interesting to me, too. Moonbeam's aunt has the genetic kind. She's only in her early 50's, and she is already experiencing significant problems. It can run in families, but doesn't always.
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Post by g1 on Apr 26, 2009 14:18:04 GMT -5
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Post by moonstone on Apr 26, 2009 17:48:33 GMT -5
Thank you for this. If only I wasn't allergic to tea.
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Post by puhlease on Apr 27, 2009 17:09:14 GMT -5
Ladies and gents, pay special attention to thorough handwashing anytime you go to any public place. The swine flu is being reported in California, Texas, Kansas, New York and a few other states, I think. The outbreak in New York, at least, has come from spring breakers returning from Mexico. How many states have college students who took spring breaks in Mexico? I'm sure YOURS does.
The WHO has raised the alert to level 4, which is just short of declaring a pandemic. They have cases reported in Europe, as well. Thorough handwashing is one of your best preventative measures, short of holing up in your home or wearing a mask everywhere you go. People are contagious for 1 full day before they have ANY symptoms, and 7 days after.
All of you please be careful and be aware, friends.
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Post by g1 on Apr 30, 2009 19:32:41 GMT -5
Intersting new approach to treating HIV: www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/04/by-annalee-newitz-500-pm-on-mon-apr-27-2009-10350-views-edit-post-set-to-draft-slurpcopy-this-whole-post-to-another-s.html"Darwin's Radio: Prehistoric Gene Reawakens to Battle HIV Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio About 95% of the human genome has once been designated as "junk" DNA. While much of this sequence may be an evolutionary artifact that serves no present-day purpose, some junk DNA may function in ways that are not currently understood. The conservation of some junk DNA over many millions of years of evolution may imply an essential function that has been "turned off." Now scientists say there's a junk gene that fights HIV. And they've discovered how to turn it back on. What these scientists have done could give us the first bulletproof HIV vaccine. They have re-awakened the human genome's latent potential to make us all into HIV-resistant creatures, and hey've published their ground-breaking research in PLoS Biology...."
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Post by g1 on May 19, 2009 14:57:44 GMT -5
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Post by nanalinda on May 19, 2009 15:50:59 GMT -5
I wonder what the creationists will have to say about this, assuming that they can read. Funnily enough, the article caused me to shed a little tear. Maybe, it was the realization of how insignificant we are in the big scheme of things.
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Post by g1 on Jun 17, 2009 20:41:56 GMT -5
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Post by g1 on Jun 26, 2009 15:09:42 GMT -5
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Post by moonstone on Jul 3, 2009 17:57:26 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/science/30muse.html?ref=scienceAfter you read this, here's my question: If the extinction of the dinosaurs occurred about 4500 years ago, didn't people already have things like stone tablets, and cuneiform, and hieroglyphs? Why didn't anyone write this down? I mean, they've got cows in caves (Lascaux), but no dinosaurs? All right, admittedly cows are MUCH more important than velociraptors, but why aren't dinosaurs even mentioned in the Bible ... or are they? I'd better go back and take a look. Hmmm. I knew flying saucers were mentioned ... Ezekiel saw the wheel .... way up in the middle of the air. (It's a cloud )
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Post by g1 on Aug 24, 2009 17:31:15 GMT -5
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