FDA approves world's first RSV vaccine [Click] Thanks, Bill! “On average, [RSV kills 100-300 children under the age of 5 in the US every year, according to the CDC. It also kills about 6,000 to 10,000 adults over 65 annually, and causes between 60,000 [and] 120,000 hospital admissions.” I hadn’t realized how big a threat it is to old folks until recently. —Alan
a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNusMHoSdss>Might the 12 “homo erectus” skull caps found along the Solo River in Java actually be Denisovans? [Click] In a word, yes. But we don't have enough old enough DNA to be sure. I wonder if some progress might be made by studying proteins; that is a long shot, it provides less information than DNA, but it is a possibility. We will probably hear within the next few years. ---Alan
We're attending A Midsummer's Night's Dream tomorrow evening! It's a Kennebunk High School production, and eldest grandchild (high school junior) is doing the Lighting! She has recently been thinking that instead of pursuing Biology as her major, she may actually want to go to school for Lighting Design.
It is really remarkable how a single high school teacher can have such a strong effect on (at least some) peoples' lives. In my case it was Mr. Elmore, my 12th grade Chemistry teacher. But I had known from third grade that I wanted to be a scientist of some sort. ---Alan
So...a little drama in the neighbourhood. We are part of an 8 unit condo association, consisting of four duplexes along a small side road. A year ago the unit which is one building over from ours and kitty-corner from our unit sold. We understood that a widow from California had bought it and would be moving in with her teenage son. That seemed nice because the other family in that building are a widow with her three pre-teen and teenage daughters. Turns out the mother and son did not both move here. Just the son, who is 20. Mom still lives in California and pays his way completely. She is trying to give him some freedom as he went through some hard times from his dad's illness and death, and he has a lot of anger about anyone coming down hard on him. His younger friend moved in and is crazy wild. There were late night parties with alcohol, fighting on the lawn and ladders on the roof. Then their girlfriends moved in, and one more friend and girlfriend. So now there are 6 cars where 2 to 3 fit, and cars parking all over the lawn. They stacked two dorm fridges on the front lawn for weeks, even after being asked to move them. They have set up a 10'x20' structure (without town or board approval), and simply ignore all rules and reasonable requests for cooperation. Most recently they made a HUGE bonfire on a day with wind gusts to 34mph, and close enough to the neighbour's fence that she called the fire marshall to go speak with them. The result was the group of them yelling, swearing and making threats loudly, while blowing an air horn, on and on. So, we have a group meeting with the board, the Mom and the 20 year old kid on Monday evening. I don't see this going well. Send some good vibes!
We've lived here nearly 40 years and the most drama before now was related to a noisy bug zapper or someone having a dog the insurance wouldn't permit. Ha!
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ReplyDeleteHow Bears Hibernate without Getting Blood Clots
Reasonable, and fascinating! That is not a protein measured or even discussed in medical management of clotting problems.
Delete---Alan
Hopefully this changes the conversation.
DeleteCloudy again this morning, a little rain predicted tonight. The river has fallen a little bit.
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Ah, that's good.
DeleteHere we are finally transitioning from clouds and rainy days to some sun and warmer temps. Should be a lot of 60's brushing 70 in the coming week.
Upper 70s here. Finally a real spring.
DeleteTrump’s attorneys argue he shouldn’t be subject to a gag order [protective order] in his hush money case. [Click] How that would work I don’t know, unless he were held incommunicado.
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If somebody would just please put that guy under oath for 3 minutes...
DeleteEmails Reveal ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Herschel Walker Money Scandal [Click] Could he be defended on the basis of mental incompetence caused by being hit in the head too often?
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Karl Rove: Will Trump Prove to Be Another Romney? [Click]
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Billionaire Paid Tuition for Clarence Thomas’s Child [Click] And Thomas didn’t disclose it.
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Correction: The Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow paid for the great-nephew of Clarence Thomas, who the conservative supreme court justice raised “as a son”, to attend a private boarding school in Georgia. [Click]
DeleteTexas Republicans want power to overturn Harris County elections over mishaps at the polls [Click] “Legislation advanced by the Texas Senate on Tuesday would give a governor-appointed official authority to toss results and call a new election.” At the expense of the county, and yes, just Harris County.
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Enrique Tarrio, three other Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy [Click]
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DeleteI can think of one more….
Hold that thought . . .
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FDA approves world's first RSV vaccine [Click] Thanks, Bill! “On average, [RSV kills 100-300 children under the age of 5 in the US every year, according to the CDC. It also kills about 6,000 to 10,000 adults over 65 annually, and causes between 60,000 [and] 120,000 hospital admissions.” I hadn’t realized how big a threat it is to old folks until recently.
ReplyDelete—Alan
The trial I'm in runs for another year. Seems to be the same vaccine, though. Maybe the point is to see whether annual shots are better.
Deletea href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNusMHoSdss>Might the 12 “homo erectus” skull caps found along the Solo River in Java actually be Denisovans? [Click] In a word, yes. But we don't have enough old enough DNA to be sure. I wonder if some progress might be made by studying proteins; that is a long shot, it provides less information than DNA, but it is a possibility. We will probably hear within the next few years.
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Can't see why the link isn't clickable; trying again [Click]
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Yes, that works. Maybe the first time I failed to copy some part of the coding.
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You left off the initial <
DeleteTexas school district scraps James and the Giant Peach trips over cross-gender casting [Click] No Shakespeare plays including female parts, then, I suppose; he cast boys as women.
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We're attending A Midsummer's Night's Dream tomorrow evening! It's a Kennebunk High School production, and eldest grandchild (high school junior) is doing the Lighting! She has recently been thinking that instead of pursuing Biology as her major, she may actually want to go to school for Lighting Design.
DeleteIt is really remarkable how a single high school teacher can have such a strong effect on (at least some) peoples' lives. In my case it was Mr. Elmore, my 12th grade Chemistry teacher. But I had known from third grade that I wanted to be a scientist of some sort.
Delete---Alan
Sorry for no updates for a few days. Dad is feeling much better and his congestion is almost completely gone.
ReplyDeleteThanks, everybody, for all the concern.
Good news!!
DeleteOutstanding!
Delete---Alan
Oh, this is such a relief to hear, Cat...! I hope you sleep deeply tonight.
DeleteDr. Becky: JWST's "too massive" galaxy problem solved?! [Click]
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So...a little drama in the neighbourhood. We are part of an 8 unit condo association, consisting of four duplexes along a small side road. A year ago the unit which is one building over from ours and kitty-corner from our unit sold. We understood that a widow from California had bought it and would be moving in with her teenage son. That seemed nice because the other family in that building are a widow with her three pre-teen and teenage daughters.
ReplyDeleteTurns out the mother and son did not both move here. Just the son, who is 20. Mom still lives in California and pays his way completely. She is trying to give him some freedom as he went through some hard times from his dad's illness and death, and he has a lot of anger about anyone coming down hard on him.
His younger friend moved in and is crazy wild. There were late night parties with alcohol, fighting on the lawn and ladders on the roof. Then their girlfriends moved in, and one more friend and girlfriend. So now there are 6 cars where 2 to 3 fit, and cars parking all over the lawn. They stacked two dorm fridges on the front lawn for weeks, even after being asked to move them. They have set up a 10'x20' structure (without town or board approval), and simply ignore all rules and reasonable requests for cooperation. Most recently they made a HUGE bonfire on a day with wind gusts to 34mph, and close enough to the neighbour's fence that she called the fire marshall to go speak with them.
The result was the group of them yelling, swearing and making threats loudly, while blowing an air horn, on and on. So, we have a group meeting with the board, the Mom and the 20 year old kid on Monday evening. I don't see this going well. Send some good vibes!
We've lived here nearly 40 years and the most drama before now was related to a noisy bug zapper or someone having a dog the insurance wouldn't permit. Ha!
DeleteEgad.
Delete---Alan
Update…meeting will now be Saturday evening, right after we return from Maine.
DeleteThe Kent State Massacre happened 53 years ago today. Two friends of mine were students there at the time.
ReplyDeleteIt was a form of state sanctioned violence, which students there now say has a relationship to the gun violence of today, in which schools have shootings and the "state" doesn't do anything about it.
(That wasn't a quote...that's my paraphrase.)
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