"Solar activity was very low."
http://www.spaceweather.com/rsga.txt
:Product: Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity
:Issued: 2009 May 17 2201 UTC
# Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
# Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force.
#
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 137 Issued at 2200Z on 17 May 2009
IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 16/2100Z
to 17/2100Z: Solar activity was very low.

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.

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.

Developments on swine flu worldwide
By The Associated Press – 47 minutes ago

Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and government
officials:

_Deaths: Global total of 76 — 68 in Mexico, six in U.S., one in Canada and
one in Costa Rica. Officials said Canadian, U.S. and Costa Rican victims
also had other medical conditions.

_Confirmed cases: WHO says 40 countries have reported more than 8,480 cases,
mostly in U.S. and Mexico.

_CDC says 46 U.S. states plus District of Columbia have combined 4,714
confirmed and probable cases. Most probable cases are eventually confirmed.

_A high school assistant principal has become the first New York City death
linked to the outbreak. He had been sick for nearly a week before his school
was closed on Thursday.

_Japanese health officials said Monday the number of swine flu cases in the
country had surged over the weekend to 92, even as the government shut down
schools and canceled community events in affected cities.

_Chile confirmed its first two cases of swine flu in two women who arrived
from the Dominican Republic. The women, ages 25 and 32, are hospitalized and
in good condition, Health Minister Alvaro Erazo said.

_Global health experts say they plan to examine swine flu's spread in Spain,
Britain and Japan as the World Health Organization prepares for its annual
meeting beginning Monday. Issues to be considered at the Geneva meeting
include vaccine recommendations and the pandemic alert level.

On the Net:
CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu
WHO: http://tinyurl.com/och3eq

On Mon, 18 May 2009 02:05:03 GMT, "Edmund Fitzgerald"
wrote:

"Solar activity was very low."
http://www.spaceweather.com/rsga.txt
:Product: Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity
:Issued: 2009 May 17 2201 UTC
# Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
# Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force.
#
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 137 Issued at 2200Z on 17 May 2009
IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 16/2100Z
to 17/2100Z: Solar activity was very low.

Never mind Sunspot number 1017.
Plus remnants of the previous region which sent out a large CME..
And a new region in the southern hemisphere which just rotated in
view.

http://www.spaceweather.com/images20... 0ggi7fa1ri2r1

"T. Keating" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 18 May 2009 02:05:03 GMT, "Edmund Fitzgerald"
wrote:

"Solar activity was very low."
http://www.spaceweather.com/rsga.txt
:Product: Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity
:Issued: 2009 May 17 2201 UTC
# Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
# Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force.
#
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 137 Issued at 2200Z on 17 May 2009
IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 16/2100Z
to 17/2100Z: Solar activity was very low.

Never mind Sunspot number 1017.

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.

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.

Swine flu tops World Health Organization agenda
5/18/2009 10:15:02 AM

By Frank Jordans
Associated Press

GENEVA -- Swine flu and the possibility of a vaccine was the major topic of
choicd today as the World Health Organization opened its annual meeting amid
concern that the virus continues to spread -- and kill -- around the globe.

WHO said health experts are examining newly reported cases in Spain, Britain
and Japan, where more than 120 people have been infected, prompting school
closures and cancellations of public events.

In the New York borough of Queens a school assistant principal became the
city's first death linked to the disease.

The five-day meeting in Geneva, which involves health officials from the
agency's 193 member states, will focus on fighting the swine flu outbreak
and efforts to produce a vaccine.

WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan will give experts' recommendations on
which companies should produce a vaccine, how much they should make and how
it could best be distributed.

The issue of producing a vaccine is sensitive, particularly for southern
hemisphere countries where the annual flu season is about to begin. Seasonal
flu can claim as many as 500,000 lives a year globally. But to have enough
vaccine to confront a pandemic from a new strain such as swine flu,
companies would switch production from vaccine production for seasonal flu.

WHO estimates up to 2 billion doses of swine flu vaccine could be produced
yearly, though the first batches would not be available for four to six
months.

As of Sunday, the swine flu virus -- which WHO calls the A (H1N1) virus --
has sickened at least 8,480 people in 40 countries, killing 75 of them,
mostly in Mexico.

Chile was the latest country to announce its first case of swine flu on
Sunday.

Japan's Health Ministry confirmed dozens of new cases Sunday, prompting the
government to close schools and cancel events such as Kobe's annual
festival. By Monday, Japan's tally rose from five confirmed cases to more
than 120.

Most of the new cases involved high school students in the western
prefectures of Hyogo and Osaka who had not traveled overseas. Health
officials said they were recovering in local hospitals or at home.

WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said in-country transmission rates were a key
factor in whether the global body decides to increase its pandemic alert
level. Right now, the world is at phase 5 -- out of a possible 6 -- meaning
a global outbreak is "imminent."

"We already know about the UK and Spain, that they have a relatively high
number of cases compared to other European countries. So by simple virtue of
the fact that they have more cases they need to be kept an eye on," Hartl
said in an interview Sunday with AP Television News.

"There seems to have been activity in the last few days in Japan so we need
to watch that, too," he said.

Spain and Britain have had the highest numbers of cases in Europe, reporting
103 and 101 cases, respectively. Britain on Sunday announced 14 new cases --
11 of them transmitted within the country.

A pandemic could be triggered if the virus starts to be transmitted from
person to person on a large scale outside the Americas, WHO experts have
said. But it would have to jump among people outside schools, hospitals and
other institutions that typically pass on such viruses quickly.

"We don't want to prejudge anything, but certainly this is something we are
watching with interest," Hartl said of the weekend developments in Japan.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit WHO on Tuesday to meet with
senior representatives from the vaccine industry, but the U.N. declined to
name the companies.

WHO's health assembly will run through May 22, five days shorter than
initially planned because health ministries are busy fighting the swine flu
outbreak.

Taiwan received an observer seat on the World Health Assembly and is taking
part for the first time in 38 years.

On May 18, 3:50*am, T. Keating wrote:
On Mon, 18 May 2009 02:05:03 GMT, "Edmund Fitzgerald"

wrote:
"Solar activity was very low."
http://www.spaceweather.com/rsga.txt
:Product: Report of Solar-Geophysical Activity
:Issued: 2009 May 17 2201 UTC
# Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
# Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force.
#
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 137 Issued at 2200Z on 17 May 2009
IA. *Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from *16/2100Z
to 17/2100Z: *Solar activity was very low.

Never mind *Sunspot *number 1017.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod200...t5o1mbg22hecn3

'Sunspot group 1017 is so small and widely scattered, "it can hardly
be seen with all the waves and blistering surface detail around it,"
reports astrophotographer Larry Alvarez of Flower Mound, Texas. "It
looks like the remains of a pineapple dropped from 50 thousand feet".
It's hard to take a sunspot seriously when it looks like smashed
fruit.'

* *Plus remnants of the previous region which sent out a large CME..

"Region" =/= "sunspot".

* *And *a new region in the southern hemisphere which just rotated in
view.

http://www.spaceweather.com/images20...ole_soho_blank...

"Region" =/= "sunspot".


Mark L. Fergerson