Archive for September 18th, 2009

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CDC reported 3.4 million inhallable H1N1 vaccine doses  available first week of october..

“3.4 million doses of vaccines will be available,” said Dr. Jay Butler, who heads the 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Task Force at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“All of that vaccine is the inhalable vaccine,” he said Friday.

That form of vaccine is marketed in the United States as FluMist and is approved only for healthy individuals between the ages of 2 and 49. Pregnant women are not allowed to get this type of vaccine because it contains a live virus.

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So mom you have managed to  carry your baby to full term- maybe,  9 months, went through the labor pains, i mean excruciating, long hours of pains, finally  you are able to bring your baby to this world.  Dad and mom both put all your love, energy, time, money.. you name it to raise a young, smart, beautiful , and responsible child. Then they start school, they manage to do so well throughout high school, then comes college… You somehow  managed to save enough, despite the economy woes, and are able to send them to college.

Then you get that phone call, your worst nightmare, that  your child  is a murder victim. I mean, every time i read this stories, or watch the news.. my stomach  hurts and i forget that i am not  family. The latest one…Annie Le.  So this young woman, someone’s daughter, granddaughter, niece, friend and fiance, Annie Le,  was pursuing her doctorate in Pharmacology at YALE! My goodness Yale. Gets strangled, dies.. just like that!  You are able to send your child to Yale, for a doctorate…I mean…<<<<<screaming>>>>

It angers me, aggravates me. I sit here reading about it, and can’t stop just to think about my own kids, my friends kids, and my nieces and nephews. You know , being  parents we can’t possibly  shield our children from all the craziness out there . It is even harder when they are grown , have  become young adults, pursuing their wordly desires out there. I mean… we send our kids to school to get an education. We tell ourselves we are paving way for our children’s future, we are doing the right thing…Should we stop and doubt ourselves?  Can  all our children out there really stay safe enough to enjoy that future we and they have worked so hard for?

Are we ever prepared to get that phone call. Could we ever stomache the possibility of them not outliving us? Can any mother or father really prepare themselves  to bury their own child?

I pray, and will pray for all mothers and fathers of the world. I pray for  Annie Le’s family and friends, as no human being deserves to get their life taken away from them. No human being should have the right to just take away someone else’s life.  So people have had hard times, like i always say  everyone has a story. Whatever your situation, someone  else out there  has it worse than you , so think before you act.

Do the right thing and preserve life!

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Now this is crazy!! I saw this story on Daily News…. I know folks like me from East Africa are giggling. . :)

Reuters

Thursday, September 10th 2009, 8:29 AM

An 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, raced the Internet with a data card was strapped to his leg.
Taylor/Getty

An 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, raced the Internet with a data card was strapped to his leg.

JOHANNESBURG – A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country’s leading internet service provider.

Internet speed and connectivity in Africa‘s largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive.

Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly the 80 km (50 miles) from Unlimited IT’s offices near Pietermaritzburg to the coastal city of Durban with a data card was strapped to his leg.

Including downloading, the transfer took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds — the time it took for only four percent of the data to be transferred using a Telkom line.

SAPA said Unlimited IT performed the stunt after becoming frustrated with slow internet transmission times.

The company has 11 call-centers around the country and regularly sends data to its other branches.

Telkom could not immediately be reached for comment.

Internet speed is expected to improve once a new 17,000 km underwater fiber optic cable linking southern and East Africa to other networks becomes operational before South Africa hosts the soccer World Cup next year.

Local service providers are currently negotiating deals for more bandwidth.

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