"2009-05-04 11:46:58 U.T."

The visible face of the Sun is without blemish:
http://web.ct.astro.it/sun/solef.jpg

Please visit:
http://blog.nj.com/southjersey_impac...SolarCycle.jpg

The right panel shows the visible face of the Sun as it looked on a good day
during the late Modern Warm Period. Sunspots are the apparent size of
craters on the moon. The left panel shows a Sun as it appears today. Please
write to Al Gore so that Al knows that the Sun is not living up to his
religious expectations. Al Gore is a divinity school dropout. George Carlin
had a better grasp of the true nature of God's creation, than does Al Gore.

Please visit:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...es/sun-etc.jpg
which shows the relative sizes of the Sun and planets. Compared to the Sun,
Jupiter is the size of a pea, earth is the size of a grain of sand.

World health body likely to declare flu pandemic

Tue, May 05, 2009
Reuters

MADRID - The World Health Organization (WHO) is likely to raise its flu
alert to the top of its six-point scale and declare a pandemic, its
director-general indicated in an interview published yesterday.

WHO chief Margaret Chan also warned against over-confidence following a
stabilisation in the number of new cases of the H1N1 strain in Mexico.

"Phase 6 does not mean in any way that we are facing the end of the world.
It is important to make this clear because (otherwise) when we announce
phase 6 it will cause unnecessary panic," she told Spanish newspaper El
Pais.

"Flu viruses are very unpredictable, very deceptive...I'm not predicting the
pandemic will blow up, but if I miss it and we don't prepare, I fail. I'd
rather over-prepare."

Last week, the United Nations agency raised the alert level twice, from 3 to
5. Before going to phase 6, it would need to see the virus spreading within
communities in Europe or Asia.

A declaration of a full pandemic would signal governments to institute
pandemic response plans, which may include measures affecting hospitals,
schools or public events.

In Singapore, the Home Quarantine Order (HQO) kicked in yesterday, the
Ministry of Health (MOH) reported.

Travellers arriving within seven days of leaving Mexico will be quarantined
for up to seven days. One foreign resident and two Singaporeans have been
issued HQOs.

Meanwhile, of 27 cases investigated here, none have turned out to be H1N1
cases.

MOH reiterated that the public is strongly advised to exercise caution with
travel to areas affected by H1N1.

If travel is unavoidable, take precautionary measures like avoiding crowded
areas and maintaining high standards of personal hygiene.