This is a blog post updating everyone on what obama is currently doing.
President Barack Obama is considering holding terrorism suspects in the United States under a revamp of military commission trials for Guantanamo detainees, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
The proposal being weighed would mean keeping some terrorism suspects on U.S. soil indefinitely under the authority of some kind of national-security court, the newspaper said on its website, quoting Sen. Lindsay Graham.
Obama is reworking the Bush administration's system of military commissions for prosecuting detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba camp -- which he has pledged to close by 2010 -- with the aim of adding more legal protection for those on trial.
The Obama administration has been trying to win European commitments to take some of the 241 prisoners.
Obama, who is trying to balance security concerns with his campaign promise of shuttering Guantanamo and cleaning up America's image abroad, on Wednesday reversed a decision to release photos showing the abuse of terrorism suspects, over concern they could ignite a backlash against U.S. troops.
Since mother's day was just last sunday, I would like to give all of you a brief history about mother's day.
Mother's Day owes its origins to several long standing traditions in Europe and the UK where a specific Sunday was set aside to honor motherhood and mothers. Traditionally the day was marked by the giving of token gifts and the relinquishing of certain traditionally female tasks such as cooking and cleaning to other members of the family as a gesture of appreciation.
While the role of the woman has become less rigid in modern day society Mother's Day (or Mothering Sunday) as it has been called in the UK dating back to the sixteenth century, remains an important day for the honoring of the role that mother's play in the home and in society in general. There is a corresponding holiday for Fathers called, not surprisingly, Father's Day, but most sources site this as a more recent addition coming about in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Different countries celebrate Mother's Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins.
While considered by many as a "Hallmark Holiday", i.e. one with a purely commercial background, Mother's Day is actually a long standing tradition in the UK and several countries in Europe, and has corresponding equivalents in many countries, including parts of India and many communities in Eastern Africa and the Far East.
The modern Mother's Day holiday in the United States has been attributed to concerted efforts by American Anna Jarvis and her Mother's Day International Association which she founded in 1912. The idea, however, that this is not linked in any way to the older British and European versions, from where the majority of the of original North American settlers originated, is clearly spurious.
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In line of the recent Swine flu case, I am posting this entry to educate all of you on the precautions to take.
There are antiviral medicines you can take to prevent or treat swine flu. There is no vaccine available right now to protect against swine flu. You can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like influenza by
1)Covering your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
2)Washing your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze.
3)Avoiding touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
4)Trying to avoid close contact with sick people.
5)Staying home from work or school if you are sick.
New laboratory data showed fewer people have died in Mexico than first thought from a new influenza strain, a glint of good news for a world rattled by the threat of a flu pandemic.
Mexico cut its suspected death toll from the H1N1 flu to up to 101 from as many as 176, as dozens of test samples came back negative. Fewer patients with severe flu symptoms were also checking into hospitals, suggesting the infection rate of a flu that has spread to Europe and Asia was declining.
The World Health Organisation said on Saturday 15 countries have reported 615 infections with the new flu virus A-H1N1, widely known as swine flu.
Italy later confirmed its first case, a man in the Tuscany region who returned from Mexico on April 24. He has recovered.
Almost all infections outside Mexico have been mild. The only death in another country has been a Mexican toddler who was taken to the United States before he fell sick.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agreed the outbreak may not be as severe as it looked a few days ago, citing many mild cases that were not immediately noticed.
President Barack Obama said the United States was responding aggressively to the new flu strain
He outlined steps his administration was taking to address the virus, including school closures, and said antivirals were being distributed to states where they may be needed and new stockpiles had been ordered.
For Mexicans -- spending a second weekend stuck indoors with stores and businesses shuttered across the country and the capital, Mexico City, devoid of its lively restaurants, bars, cinemas and museums -- the data is cheering.
Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova acknowledged the numbers were encouraging but cautioned it was too early to say Mexico had control of the flu.
The new virus is only the third infectious disease experts regard as having pandemic potential in the past 10 years.
It has world health experts racing to find a vaccine and is wreaking havoc with a travel industry that flies hundreds of thousands of people to and from Mexico each week.
China suspended flights to Mexico after Hong Kong authorities on Friday confirmed a Mexican man who flew via the Chinese mainland was infected with the flu strain.
This is a neat trick!
If you square ANY prime number bigger then 3, then subtract 1, the answer always divides by 24!
E.g. 112 = 121 then 121 - 1 = 120 and yes 120 does divide by 24.
WHY?
If you understand algebra, then you'll know that all prime numbers can be written as (6n+1) or (6n-1).
(6n+1)2 = 36n+12n+1. So (6n+1)2 -1 = 36n+12n. This factorises to 12n(3n+1). Either n or (3n+1) must be even, therefore the whole expression must be divisible by 24.
(6n-1)2 = 36n-12n+1. So (6n-1)2 -1 = 36n-12n. This factorises to 12n(3n-1). Either n or (3n-1) must be even, therefore the whole expression must be divisible by 24.
