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Charon (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.
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New Horizons
NASA's Mission to Pluto
NEWS CENTER
June 22, 2015
Exactly 37 Years after Its Discovery, Pluto’s Moon Charon Is Being Revealed
In June 1978, U.S. Naval Observatory astronomer James Christy noticed something unusual. He was studying highly magnified photos of Pluto, and Pluto wasn’t round. A small bump marred one side of blurry Pluto.
That bump turned out to be Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, whose discovery Christy (working with late colleague Robert Harrington), made on June 22, 1978. Like Pluto in 1930, Charon was found using photographic plates taken in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Thirty-seven years later, Charon is about to be revealed by NASA’s New Horizons mission. As New Horizons draws closer by nearly a million miles a day, every observation of it brings new knowledge about this mysterious moon – a world far larger than even the largest asteroid, Ceres.
“Even though Pluto and Charon are partners, they are known to be quite different in appearance and composition. As New Horizons reveals them in far greater detail than ever before possible, we hope to find out why that’s so,” says Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
At 750 miles in diameter, Charon is half Pluto’s size. However, it weighs only 12 percent as much as Pluto. This suggests that Charon may be half ice and half rock; Pluto, by contrast, if about 70% rock by mass. The pair form what planetary scientist call the only known binary planet in the solar system.
Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, circling their common center of gravity once every 6.4 days. As a result, an astronaut on Pluto’s surface would always see Charon in the same part of the sky, but appearing seven times larger than Earth’s moon, spanning 3.5 degrees on the sky.
Charon and Earth’s moon are believed to share a similarity in that both are thought to have been born out of giant impacts early in the solar system’s history. In the case of Pluto and Charon, it may have been more of a grazing impact that left both objects largely intact but may have also formed Pluto’s retinue of at least four other small moons. Additional moons, or even dust rings, may await discovery by New Horizons.
Ground-based observations have shown that while Pluto’s surface is covered with frozen nitrogen and methane, Charon appears to be primarily covered in water ice. Charon could even be dotted by icy volcanoes bubbling a slushy mixture of water and ammonia, and it may have an atmosphere, perhaps siphoned off Pluto.
“Every day brings us closer to seeing Charon not as a fuzzy point of light, but as a fully mapped, and maybe even geologically active, world by this July,” says New Horizons Project Scientist Hal Weaver, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. “We aim to find out.”
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/05/battlestar-galactica_20.html ]
http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/battlestar-galacticathe-mini-series-1603714/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Episode 1
Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series
AIRED: 12/8/03
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Brain
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Physiologically, the function of the brain is to exert centralized control over the other organs of the body. The brain acts on the rest of the body both by generating patterns of muscle activity
The operations of individual brain cells are now understood in considerable detail but the way they cooperate in ensembles of millions has yet to be solved. Recent models in modern neuroscience treat the brain as a biological computer, very different in mechanism from an electronic computer, but similar in the sense that it acquires information from the surrounding world, stores it, and processes it in a variety of ways, analogous to the central processing unit (CPU) in a computer.
Anatomy
Neuroanatomists usually divide the vertebrate brain into six main regions: the telencephalon (cerebral hemispheres), diencephalon (thalamus and hypothalamus), mesencephalon (midbrain), cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata. Each of these areas has a complex internal structure. Some parts, such as the cerebral cortex and the cerebellar cortex, consist of layers that are folded or convoluted to fit within the available space. Other parts, such as the thalamus and hypothalamus, consist of clusters of many small nuclei. Thousands of distinguishable areas can be identified within the vertebrate brain based on fine distinctions of neural structure, chemistry, and connectivity.
Physiology
Functions
Further information: Dualism (philosophy of mind)
From an evolutionary-biological perspective, the function of the brain is to provide coherent control over the actions of an animal. A centralized brain allows groups of muscles to be co-activated in complex patterns; it also allows stimuli impinging on one part of the body to evoke responses in other parts, and it can prevent different parts of the body from acting at cross-purposes to each other.
To generate purposeful and unified action, the brain first brings information from sense organs together at a central location. It then processes this raw data to extract information about the structure of the environment. Next it combines the processed sensory information with information about the current needs of an animal and with memory of past circumstances. Finally, on the basis of the results, it generates motor response patterns that are suited to maximize the welfare of the animal. These signal-processing tasks require intricate interplay between a variety of functional subsystems.
Motor control
Motor systems are areas of the brain that are directly or indirectly involved in producing body movements, that is, in activating muscles. Except for the muscles that control the eye, which are driven by nuclei in the midbrain, all the voluntary muscles in the body are directly innervated by motor neurons in the spinal cord and hindbrain. Spinal motor neurons are controlled both by neural circuits intrinsic to the spinal cord, and by inputs that descend from the brain. The intrinsic spinal circuits implement many reflex responses, and contain pattern generators for rhythmic movements such as walking or swimming. The descending connections from the brain allow for more sophisticated control.
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HISTORY
OCTOBER 30, 1974 : MUHAMMAD ALI WINS THE RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE
On October 30, 1974, 32-year-old Muhammad Ali becomes the heavyweight champion of the world for the second time when he knocks out 25-year-old champ George Foreman in the eighth round of the “Rumble in the Jungle,” a match in Kinshasa, Zaire. Seven years before, Ali had lost his title when the government accused him of draft-dodging and the boxing commission took away his license. His victory in Zaire made him only the second dethroned champ in history to regain his belt.
The “Rumble in the Jungle” (named by promoter Don King, who’d initially tagged the bout “From the Slave Ship to the Championship!” until Zaire’s president caught wind of the idea and ordered all the posters burned) was Africa’s first heavyweight championship match. The government of the West African republic staged the event—its president, Mobutu Sese Seko, personally paid each of the fighters $5 million simply for showing up—in hopes that it would draw the world’s attention to the country’s enormous beauty and vast reserves of natural resources. Ali agreed. “I wanted to establish a relationship between American blacks and Africans,” he wrote later. “The fight was about racial problems, Vietnam. All of that.” He added: “The Rumble in the Jungle was a fight that made the whole country more conscious.”
At 4:30 a.m. on October 30, 60,000 spectators gathered in the moonlight (organizers had timed the fight to overlap with prime time in the U.S.) at the outdoor Stade du 20 Mai to watch the fight. They were chanting “Ali, bomaye” (“Ali, kill him”). The ex-champ had been taunting Foreman for weeks, and the young boxer was eager to get going. When the bell rang, he began to pound Ali with his signature sledgehammer blows, but the older man simply backed himself up against the ropes and used his arms to block as many hits as he could. He was confident that he could wait Foreman out. (Ali’s trainer later called this strategy the “rope-a-dope,” because he was “a dope” for using it.)
By the fifth round, the youngster began to tire. His powerful punches became glances and taps. And in the eighth, like “a bee harassing a bear,” as one Times reporter wrote, Ali peeled himself off the ropes and unleashed a barrage of quick punches that seemed to bewilder the exhausted Foreman. A hard left and chopping right caused the champ’s weary legs to buckle, and he plopped down on the mat. The referee counted him out with just two seconds to go in the round.
Ali lost his title and regained it once more before retiring for good in 1981.
From 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) To 7/27/2016 ( --- ) is 6568 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/30/1974 ( Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman ) is 3284 days
From 8/26/1976 ( the first known human case of Zaire ebolavirus ) To 7/27/2016 ( --- ) is 14580 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/3/2005 ( Alastair Graham Walter Cameron deceased ) is 14580 days
From 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 7/27/2016 ( --- ) is 4615 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/1978 ( the discovery of the Pluto moon Charon ) is 4615 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 7/27/2016 ( --- ) is 9265 days
From 1/6/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Mice" ) To 9/30/2014 ( the United States Centers for Disease Control announces confirmation of the first known case of Ebola in the United States and everybody knows the disease was distributed by Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates ) is 18530 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/27/2016 ( --- ) is 18530 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/27/2016 ( --- ) is 18530 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/04/your-god-becomes-displeased-with-you-all.html ]
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/ebola-6-months/guinea/en/
World Health Organization
Ground zero in Guinea: the outbreak smoulders – undetected – for more than 3 months
A retrospective on the first cases of the outbreak
Ebola at 6 months
On 26 December 2013, a 2-year-old boy in the remote Guinean village of Meliandou fell ill with a mysterious illness characterized by fever, black stools, and vomiting. He died 2 days later. Retrospective case-finding by WHO would later identify that child as West Africa’s first case of Ebola virus disease. The circumstances surrounding his illness were ominous.
The forest background
During the country’s long years of civil unrest, natural resources were exploited by mining and timber companies. The ecology in the densely-forested area changed. Fruit bats, which are thought by most scientists to be the natural reservoir of the virus, moved closer to human settlements.
Hunters, who depend on bushmeat for their food security and survival, almost certainly slaughtered infected wild animals – most likely monkeys, forest antelope, or squirrels. (WHO investigations into the origins of previous Ebola outbreaks have often found dead primates and other wild animals in jungles and forests). The wives of the hunters prepared the meat for family meals.
Though no one knew it at the time, the Ebola virus had found a new home in a highly vulnerable population.
Meliandou is located in what is today designated as the outbreak’s “hot zone”: a triangle-shaped forested area where the borders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone converge. All three countries were deeply impoverished, and their health infrastructures severely damaged, during years of civil unrest.
Poverty is pervasive. Large numbers of people do not have steady, salaried employment. Their quest to find work contributes to fluid population movements across extremely porous borders – a dream situation for a highly contagious virus.
Following the young boy’s death, the mysterious disease continued to smoulder undetected, causing several chains of deadly transmission.
Unclear beginnings
Later – in May this year – after the causative agent had been identified, a retrospective WHO investigation of that earliest event, headed by the Organization’s senior Ebola expert, Dr Pierre Formenty, traced the first 14 cases in great detail.
As Dr Formenty observed, these first cases yielded no strong or convincing hints, either from clinical features of the illness or the pattern of its transmission, of just what the causative agent might be, especially in a country with so much background noise from multiple other killer diseases.
But it was deadly, for sure: all 14 patients died, most within days after symptom onset. High-risk exposures were apparent (caring for a sick relative, preparing a body for burial, or delivering a baby) but again yielded no decisive clues. Alarm bells might have gone off had any doctor or health official in the country ever seen a case of Ebola. No one had. No alarm bells rang for the government or, for that matter, for the international public health community either.
As Dr Formenty noted, no one unfamiliar with the Ebola virus could have guessed so early on that this might be the cause. The WHO investigation also revealed a feature that would become a major driving force as the outbreaks in Guinea and elsewhere evolved: the very rapid movement of people from villages to Guinea’s capital and across the border into Sierra Leone. In an ominous hint of what would come, one of these first cases died in Sierra Leone.
The villagers were frightened and baffled. Their doctors were, too. The area is notorious for outbreaks of cholera and many other infectious diseases. Though cases of malaria have dropped in recent years, that disease remains the country’s most persistent and prevalent killer. Health authorities were on high alert but the causative agent still eluded them, camouflaged by early symptoms that mimic those of many other endemic diseases. Meanwhile the outbreak continued to spread, its causative agent still hidden.
Virus on the move
Further retrospective investigations by WHO revealed how the earliest Meliandou cluster of cases ignited spread of the virus to other places. Chains of transmission that began with the illness and death of two midwives put more villages in crisis mode.
Cases began to appear at a hospital in Gueckedou – a city in the same hot zone. At that hospital, the initial suspicions of the attending physicians focused on cholera. Of the nine patient samples tested for cholera, seven came back positive. It didn’t look exactly like cholera, but the tests used were sensitive and specific, and – once again – Ebola eluded detection.
As the investigation continued, links began to emerge between mysterious deaths in different locations. The dots of hotspots were becoming connected. Some single pathogen was likely at work, but which one?
Fortunately, staff from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were already in the country, responding to a serious malaria outbreak. Later, MSF doctors would quickly shift gears to manage clinical care for the swelling number of Ebola patients.
By early March, Guinea’s health officials, MSF staff and WHO knew something strange and very worrisome was going on, but no one knew exactly what. More than three months after that end-December death, Ebola was nowhere on the radar screen of suspects for mysterious deaths in West Africa.
Deeply worried, MSF sent a report in mid-March to one of its most experienced and intuitive disease detectives at its office in Geneva. That expert immediately suspected a haemorrhagic fever, possibly caused by the Marburg virus (the largest-ever outbreak occurred in Angola in 2004–2005), or even Ebola – an unheard event for this part of the world.
Diagnosis
The Ministry of Health sent samples to the Institut Pasteur in Paris. The first news was shocking: the causative agent was indeed the Ebola virus. Who could ever have guessed that such a notorious disease, previously confined to Central Africa and Gabon, would crop up in another distant part of the continent? The news from subsequent virological analyses was even worse: this was Ebola Zaire, the most lethal in the family of five distinct Ebola species.
WHO published the official notification of Ebola on its website on 23 March. By that time, WHO had already shipped supplies of personal protective equipment to Conakry and activated its state-of-the-art centre for real-time outbreak tracking and response. The first medical teams, under the WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) umbrella, were on the ground by 25 March.
Relentless spread
In the meantime, the virus had continued its relentless spread. The bad news got even worse as the virus successfully marched into Conakry and the first cases – which multiplied quickly – were confirmed there on 27 March. In Conakry and elsewhere, new cases hit like sparks from a fire landing on dry grass.
The brushfire had begun. By that time, flare-ups, as new transmission chains were ignited, could no longer be stamped out, even as foreign medical teams from the WHO GOARN umbrella and other partners continued to pour in.
The pattern that followed was heart-breaking as the all-out national and international response escalated and pressure to stop the virus became increasingly intense. On at least three occasions, prospects for nationwide control looked good and the countdown for a case-free 21-day incubation period began.
Breaths were held as Guinea looked ready to enter the second 21-day Ebola-free period required before WHO can declare the end of an Ebola outbreak. On each occasion, vigilance eased and the sense of emergency lapsed as local health officials assumed the outbreak was over.
The country never made it. As the deadline approached, cases suddenly flared up again in previously controlled villages and cities. In other instances, the virus marched on to infect previously untouched areas.
A regional challenge
Some observers have speculated that these tragic up-and-down cycles of apparent control followed by flare-ups demonstrate just how strong this Ebola Zaire virus has become. More likely, these events represent re-introductions of the virus into Guinea – with its notoriously porous borders – from the large outbreaks in neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone.
This more realistic explanation strongly suggests that control in Guinea will not be feasible until the Ebola caseload in its neighbours goes down. On current trends, the prospects that this will happen anytime in the near future are distinctly not good at all.
The fear factor
Today, one of the biggest barriers to control is violence from an impoverished, terrified and shattered population that does not understand what hit it and fights back the only way it can.
Last week, health workers in several parts of the country were viciously attacked by angry mobs, forcing some medical teams to flee for their lives. One team hid in the bush for more than a day. Others saw their vehicles vandalized and their medicines and equipment collected and publicly burned, as though such acts might work as a “cleansing” ritual.
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/59/1/10.1063/1.2180186
AIP Scitation
PHYSICS TODAY
Alastair Graham Walter Cameron
Gerald J. Wasserburg
January 2006, page 68
Alastair Graham Walter Cameron, one of the key discoverers of stellar nucleosynthesis and a founder of modern nuclear astrophysics, died of a heart attack in Tucson, Arizona, on 3 October 2005.
Al was born in Winnipeg, Canada, on 21 June 1925. Son of a biochemistry professor at the University of Manitoba, Al was raised in an environment in which scholarly and professional work was valued. At the age of four, he addressed all men as “Doctor” in an early attempt to form a general hypothesis from limited data. He excelled in science and math and was entranced by the notion of space travel. He did his graduate work in nuclear physics under Leon Katz at the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1952 received the first physics PhD there. The deep knowledge he developed of both experimental and theoretical nuclear physics proved a key to the creative work he would later undertake.
A report that Paul Merrill had discovered technetium in a red-giant star intrigued Al because of the neutrons required to produce Tc—which has only radioactive isotopes—and turned Al’s attention to problems in astronomy, the source of neutrons in stars, and thermonuclear reaction rates. Looking for a place where he could pursue his new interests, he joined the Chalk River Laboratories of the Canadian Atomic Energy Commission.
By the early 1950s, mechanisms for producing the elements were a major focus of interest. The specific energy-producing nuclear reactions in stars had been shown earlier by Hans Bethe and Edwin Salpeter. Efforts by George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and Robert Herman to explain cosmic elemental abundances with a primordial fireball model failed for elements heavier than beryllium. Merrill’s discovery proved that elements were being made in stars and that the elemental abundances reflected ongoing production, not a single episode of nucleogenesis. A time scale for the universe was by then very roughly known and stellar evolution models were being developed. Using meteoritic and stellar data and exploiting the nuclear shell model, Hans Suess and Harold Urey presented abundances of all the nuclear species in 1956. This stew of complex observations was the template to explain.
Two magisterial reports were produced by 1957: “B2FH” (by Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, Willy Fowler, and Fred Hoyle) from the beehives of Caltech and Cambridge University, and “AGWC” (by A. G. W. Cameron) from the seclusion of Chalk River. Those works immediately changed the whole field of astronomy and astrophysics and laid out the processes and framework for the synthesis of nuclei as natural results of stellar evolution over the history of the universe. Nuclear astrophysics, an area of active research, has its origins 50 years ago in those reports. All work on abundances of elements in stars, gamma radiation from short-lived nuclei, and chemical evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) is discussed in terms of those general models.
Following John Reynolds’s 1960 discovery of relics of radioactive io-dine-129 in meteorites, Al began to consider both the galactic environment and the solar system. While continuing his work on nuclear astrophysics, Al spent the bulk of his career on formation of the solar system from the ISM. Al’s profound knowledge of classical physics and nuclear astrophysics, coupled with his drive to understand the origin of things, led to a flowering of that multidisciplinary field. One cannot look into any aspect of stellar nucleosynthesis—from Big Bang debris to star formation from a chemically evolving ISM—without finding Al’s footprints, students, and guiding thoughts.
Al moved to the US in 1961 because of the greatly increased scientific opportunity following a major expansion of space-science research in the US. Despite having helped create a new field, he, of course, found no good academic positions—it took some time for academic departments to recognize that the new arena was an intrinsic part of astronomy. Al joined NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York as a senior scientist. He developed close relationships with the physics department at Yale University as a visiting lecturer and trained several students who went on to have distinguished careers, and in 1966 he became a professor at Yeshiva University. He flourished at those institutions and, with David Arnett, Carl Hansen, and James Truran, produced massive lecture notes—really outstanding monographs.
When Harvard University decided in 1973 to renovate its astronomy department, Al was invited to join the faculty and played a guiding role in the renovation. The result was the Harvard—Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He served on the National Academy of Sciences’s committee for planetary and lunar exploration (COMPLEX) and as chairman of the NAS space science board, where he played a leading role in defining scientific goals of space exploration. On his “retirement” in 1999, he joined the faculty of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona.
Some kids are very happy if they can find a couple of pieces that fit into a puzzle, and they will try hard to fill out the rest. Al had a very different approach. Having found or identified a few pieces of the puzzle, he then created a whole structure from a detailed ab initio model based on theoretical considerations and embedded the pieces in that structure. His deep insights, knowledge of physics, and powerful computational abilities led to structures of great complexity and texture.
In 1975, Al gave a joint Caltech—Jet Propulsion Laboratory colloquium entitled “The Origin of the Solar System” to an audience of several hundred scientists. Starting with the ISM, gas dust, and plasma, Al traced formation of the Sun, protoplanetary disk, giant gaseous planets, rocky terrestrial planets, and the Moon. He stood stationary and spoke in a steady clear fashion, guiding the audience through the detailed dynamics he had obtained through massive computation. Occasionally he would raise a hand to emphasize a point; the gesture seemed to be a way of pointing to one of the computers that had been grinding through a program. At the end, the audience sat in awed silence until someone in the rear of the room asked, “What did you do on the seventh day?” Al responded, “I rested.”
Al’s ability to formulate broad problems in an even broader framework was a resource for the whole scientific community. Nuclear astrophysics, star formation (including metal-free stars), interstellar communication, giant gaseous protoplanets, terrestrial planets, asteroids, meteorites, making the Moon by a giant impact—all these were his playthings. His re-investigations of each problem of “formation” led to new versions and visions of how things were formed. Al was a sort of cosmic Buddha who could tell you detailed histories of each of the universes he had thought about; each was a full thing unto itself. Al’s general approach used first principles and theory as both guides and methods, and he incorporated some data that were critical and some that simply caught his fancy. Because of his great intellect and powerful analytical and computational powers, he tended to hold phenomenological models in disdain. Al once told authors of a new phenomenological model, “I have noticed over the years that the arguments that appeal to you are primarily observational and experimental and that theory is secondary. For me it is the other way around: Theory and theoretical consistency are primary and observations are secondary (which is not to say that they are not of primary importance and on occasion can be the tail that wags the theoretical dog).”
Al would appear at meetings in a suit, his shirt pocket bulging with pens of all colors, and he’d be carrying some calculating device, which grew from a pocket slide rule to a hand calculator to a series of laptop computers. He would eagerly show the simulation of a Mars-sized projectile impacting proto-Earth or a supernova shock wave hitting the protosolar nebula. He was always helpful in explaining things that one needed to know or ought to have known. A very work-centered person, Al was never egocentric and almost never criticized others. He simply wanted to get on to the next piece of intellectual excitement and the intense pleasure of orchestrating a bank of computers to play some scientific symphony that he was composing. He considered that he worked on cosmogony—the generation or creation of the universe (or parts thereof). Cosmology was just discourse on the science of the universe.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4153011/
NCBI
PMC
US National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Epidemiol Health. 2014; 36: e2014014.
Published online Aug 18, 2014. doi: 10.4178/epih/e2014014
PMCID: PMC4153011
What do we really fear? The epidemiological characteristics of Ebola and our preparedness
Moran Ki
Abstract.
Ebola virus disease (hereafter Ebola) has a high fatality rate; currently lacks a treatment or vaccine with proven safety and efficacy, and thus many people fear this infection. As of August 13, 2014, 2,127 patients across four West African countries have been infected with the Ebola virus over the past nine months. Among these patients, approximately 1 in 2 has subsequently died from the disease. In response, the World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. However, Ebola is only transmitted by patients who already present symptoms of the disease, and infection only occurs upon direct contact with the blood or body fluids of an Ebola patient. Consequently, transmission of the outbreak can be contained through careful monitoring for fever among persons who have visited, or come into contact with persons from, the site of the outbreak. Thus, patients suspected of presenting symptoms characteristic of Ebola should be quarantined. To date, South Korea is not equipped with the special containment clinical units and biosafety level 4 facilities required to contain the outbreak of a fatal virus disease, such as Ebola. Therefore, it is necessary for South Korea to make strategies to the outbreak by using present facilities as quickly as possible. It is also imperative that the government establish suitable communication with its citizens to prevent the spread of uninformed fear and anxiety regarding the Ebola outbreak.
The current Ebola epidemic has garnered wide media attention throughout the world. As a result, many people fear that the disease, which is generally limited to the African continent, may cause an outbreak in their local community at any given moment.
The present paper will examine the epidemiological characteristics of Ebola, our level of preparedness, and discuss what we fear.
Ebola is a viral disease. Although it has previously been referred to as “Ebola hemorrhagic fever,” some Ebola patients did not present hemorrhage, and thus, it is now referred to as Ebola virus disease. The first known Ebola patient was a 44-year old man who had managed the construction of a school in northern Zaire (currently the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC). On August 26, 1976, the patient presented at a hospital with a high fever. He received an injection of chloroquine for presumptive malaria and had a clinical remission of his symptoms the next four days. On the sixth day, the patient had a fever of 39.2°C and began to hemorrhage. On September 8 (the 14th day), the patient died with severe hemorrhage. For the following months, until late-October, there was an outbreak of Ebola, with 280 of the 318 patients subsequently dying from the disease
From 8/26/1976 ( the first known human case of Zaire ebolavirus ) To 6/27/2012 is 13089 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/3/2001 ( premiere US TV series "The Legend of Tarzan"::series premiere episode "Tarzan and the Race Against Time" ) is 13089 days
From 7/31/1963 ( premiere US film "Cattle King" ) To 6/27/2012 is 17864 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/30/2014 ( the United States Centers for Disease Control announces confirmation of the first known case of Ebola in the United States and everybody knows the disease was distributed by Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates ) is 17864 days
From 6/13/2005 To 6/27/2012 is 2571 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/16/1972 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Delphi Bureau"::"The White Plague Project" ) is 2571 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-geronimo-machine.html ]
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/01/enhanced-radiation-weapons-statement-by.html ]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=101097
The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
520 - Remarks at the Congressional Picnic
June 27, 2012
The President. Hello, everybody!
Audience members. Hello!
The President. Now, you don't have to worry. I will not be singing. We have professionals for that. [Laughter] But on behalf of Michelle and myself, I just want to say welcome. We have a perfect day for a picnic.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 5:19 PM
Subject: RE: Let's see if you can do I-90.
And then there were the zombies themselves. I don't think I have ever actually dreamed of zombies. I have written many times before that I dream while sleeping of activities I have worked on so it seems that my research on zombie topics would show up in my sleeping dreams but I guess I never woke up from any of those or that I never had any that I became aware of. Those zombies in my dream while last sleeping weren't actually doing anything threatening. They were just stumbling around and walking as you see zombies act in movies but they weren't biting anybody. They were just lumbering about with expressions that seemed kind of stupor. I was thinking later they might be something I used to call "pre-zombies" but they are advanced beyond that but not yet cannibalistic.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 February 2013 excerpt ends]
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 2:03 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 04 June 2016
