All categories - 28 September 2006

2006-09-28 11:59:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hair

2006-09-28 11:59:07 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I have a problem with letting go of my first boyfriend. Although it was a short relationship, it was beautiful and innocent (it never went past kissing),and we saw each other alot so it felt longer. But he was the one who ended it. I had dated only one guy before him but that was nothing, it was 2 dates and he wasn't even my boyfriend. I also shared my first kiss with my first bf at 20! I know it sounds late but I'm really picky. Neways, I just met another guy, we're just chatting on msn but he's nothing like my first bf. My first bf was so sweet, caring, he called all the time. Some people have told me that my first bf might not care as much as I do, now that its over, since I was 20, he was my first relationship and I had no experience, while he was 24, in grad school and more experienced. He even told me that our relationship was the "purest" one he had had! Do you think he still cares or even thinks about me, or was he just trying to get laid, but since it didn't happen he left?

2006-09-28 11:58:54 · 7 answers · asked by sweet kisses 1 in Singles & Dating

http://www.geocities.com/twigman428@sbcglobal.net

This is my first website, not even completed yet. I created it using HTML, which I learned in about 3 days, so it isn't that good. Please give me constructive criticism about how it is for my FIRST website.

Yes, it is about an online game called Runescape. Don't tell me anything about Runescape. I just want to know what you think about the layout, banner, etc.

2006-09-28 11:58:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Programming & Design

My mom and I are making a quilit for my mother-in-law for xmas with pictures of her family on there (her kids when they were little and grown and some pictures of her grandkids too) we are going to be putting pictures on there and i was wondering if what would be a good way to put the pictures on fabric?!

2006-09-28 11:58:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hobbies & Crafts

2006-09-28 11:58:48 · 20 answers · asked by ? 2 in Singles & Dating

I know that your not suppose to put betta fish with others BUT while cleaning his tank today i put him in with my gold fish/tropical fish. He didnt really do anything, do u think that it is ok? Thanks

2006-09-28 11:58:46 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Fish

I'm thinkin about buying one, are they really all that?
Which one should I buy

2006-09-28 11:58:44 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

A. transportantion
B. communication
C. education
D. all of the above

2006-09-28 11:58:44 · 3 answers · asked by Help Me 1 in Homework Help

2006-09-28 11:58:41 · 8 answers · asked by narziso23 1 in Music

I need to play a mid file in a java applet and I can not find any info on why my sound will not play I have the following code in my program:

URL uwhere;
uwhere = getDocumentBase ();
audio = getAudioClip (uwhere, "C:\Documents and Settings\usernamehere\Desktop\webapp\beetlejuiceR");
audio.play ();

From what I have seen this coding is correct but if still generates errors. The errors are that the \ are a unknown symbol. Do I need different code (if so please post the correct code) or is there a error that I can not see (if so please post how to fix the error) .

2006-09-28 11:58:40 · 3 answers · asked by thexlaw 2 in Programming & Design

I worked at Krispy Kreme in Arizona and Rigel Corporation, the company that owned our franchise went bankrupt so i have a paycheck worth nothing. Is there anything i can do to get the money i should be paid?

2006-09-28 11:58:35 · 14 answers · asked by storyofagirl05 1 in Careers & Employment

This actually happened a couple of nights ago in Lima, Ohio. Both were bowling in league competition and both were bowling as substitutes as opposed to being regular members of their respective teams. Amazing!

2006-09-28 11:58:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

Did they lose their shape or perkeyness... ? what did u notice the most after pregnancy and breast feeding? do u think they need to be redone?

2006-09-28 11:58:33 · 11 answers · asked by Cyndi s 2 in Pregnancy

The only way these pitiful, ignorant, confused people will call it quits is to stop all reactions and interaction with them. You cannot INSULT them into going away, they live for the attention from Gays. You cannot report them, it does no good, and you cannot rate their question??? for that is attention. Only by NOT opening the questions will you win. They are not bright enough to read well, so don't waste your time giving them what they want...attention.

2006-09-28 11:58:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I have an 18 month old silver black tabby called Charly who doesn't like it but Frodo the 10 week old little short haired black and white loves the stuff - he bounces off the walls (literally) because he runs around like he has a banshee up his bum and runs into things... (doesnt hurt himself)

His eyes go really wide and you can see it build up inside him like winding up a toy then BOING like someone flicked a switch he's off on one darting around everywhere.

2006-09-28 11:58:22 · 27 answers · asked by the thinker 3 in Cats

Can you name some makeup brands for me ones like bonnebell and jane,E.L.F and others like it in that price range..

2006-09-28 11:58:19 · 17 answers · asked by Daniel O 2 in Makeup

love to have children but can't? how many men would try to get close to a women with a newborn,and try to become the new daddy? be real no jokes .tell me your fears, dream,ect.

2006-09-28 11:58:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

For my birthday I received a doll, a drum, and a kick in the bumm from my family. This is all they gave me and were completely serious. I feel cheated. Should I just let it go, or say something?

2006-09-28 11:58:04 · 5 answers · asked by nj c 1 in Family

"God of the gaps" right?

2006-09-28 11:57:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

ok i don't understand how to write a correct thesis statement i always get marked down on that part but i don't know why i always have the 3 main points and stuff

2006-09-28 11:57:52 · 4 answers · asked by HoTtIe_WiTh_a_BoDy 2 in Other - Education

THANK YOU!

2006-09-28 11:57:51 · 2 answers · asked by Lila 1 in Homework Help

2006-09-28 11:57:50 · 5 answers · asked by Gerardene R 1 in Careers & Employment

2006-09-28 11:57:50 · 3 answers · asked by joshua b 1 in Biology

2006-09-28 11:57:50 · 7 answers · asked by Steph :-) 3 in Diet & Fitness

Immediate Treatment Needed for Bird Flu Cases, Study Says
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: September 11, 2006
Avian flu kills in much the same way the global flu pandemic of 1918 did, by drowning victims in fluid produced in their own lungs, a new study has found. The study also suggests that immediate treatment with antiviral drugs is crucial, because the virus reproduces so quickly that, if not suppressed within the first 48 hours, it tends to push victims into a rapid decline to death.

“The paradigm ‘hit hard and hit early’ probably is very true for H5N1 influenza,” said Dr. Menno D. de Jong, an Oxford University virologist and the study’s lead author. However, he added, because the body’s own immune response does part of the damage, doctors should consider giving anti-inflammatory drugs along with antivirals like Tamiflu.

Although the results of the relatively small study are precisely what flu experts had predicted from laboratory work, Dr. Anne Moscona, a professor of pediatrics and immunology at the Weill Cornell Medical College, called it a “major advance,” because so little clinical information had previously been gleaned from the 241 known cases of the disease.

Many of those cases have been in rural villages in Asia, where victims pick it up from backyard chickens and are buried before the virus that killed them is even identified. Provincial hospitals have done few autopsies and little genetic analysis.

This study, which appears in the October issue of Nature Medicine, was led by an Oxford research team in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and compared 18 people with the A(H5N1) avian flu in 2004 and 2005 to 8 people infected with seasonal human flus.

It found that the avian flu patients, and particularly the 13 who died from it, had unusually high levels of the virus in their bodies. Consequently, they also had high levels of the chemicals, known as cytokines and chemokines, that set off the immune system’s inflammatory response.

Those chemicals, some of which are produced in cells lining the narrowest passages in the lungs, draw in white blood cells to attack invaders. But doing so too vigorously can flood the lungs, causing deadly pneumonia.

The effect, known as the “cytokine storm” is the leading theory as to why so many young, previously healthy people died in the 1918-19 pandemic, known as the Spanish flu, which killed tens of millions of people. Seasonal flus tend to kill the very old and very young, who usually die from bacterial infections that develop days after the milder flu virus has irritated their lung tissue.

The avian flu virus was easier to detect in throat swabs than in nasal swabs, Dr. de Jong said, which is the opposite of how seasonal flu is detected, and useful for doctors doing flu tests. And the virus was found in rectal swabs, which is important for hospitals to know because it means diarrhea, common among flu patients, can also spread the disease.

Flu experts were surprised that such high concentrations of the virus were found in nose and throat swabs. Earlier studies had suggested that the avian flu is not easily transmitted between humans because, unlike seasonal flu, it attaches primarily to receptors found deep in the lungs.

Dr. de Jong said there could be several explanations: the throat swabs could have picked up virus coughed up from the lungs. Different receptors are spread up and down the breathing tract. And it is possible — though unproved — that some people may simply be born with receptors more amenable to the virus. That theory has been offered by epidemiologists who note that, even in villages where all the chickens are sick, human outbreaks tend to cluster in families.

The study also showed that some of the flu strains isolated in Vietnam had particular genetic changes that virologists have been watching for, fearing that these changes would make them more lethal.

But those changes appeared in only some patients, and in those who died as well as those who lived, “so I wouldn’t make too much of it,” Dr. Moscona said.

Henry L. Niman, a Pittsburgh biochemist who has been tracking viral changes and raised earlier alarms about E627K, agreed.

“Lethality in the virus may rely on several changes,” he said. “But it’s got several different paths to the same end. That’s what makes it so efficient.”

2006-09-28 11:57:48 · 5 answers · asked by lrf5020 1 in Other - Science

what do you cosider yourself to be, libreral conservative ect.?

2006-09-28 11:57:39 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-09-28 11:57:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Social Science

2006-09-28 11:57:36 · 2 answers · asked by wallyjaycirca1989 1 in Physics