I have to create this thread as a supporting thread for one of my future major articles. At the same time, I think it can stand on its own. So we have Air Travel and Weather Vanes to talk about. To a lesser degree, but Flags could also be involved here.
A weather vane (wind vane, weathercock) is an instrument for showing the direction of the wind. It is typically used as an architectural ornament to the highest point of a building. The word vane comes from the Old English word fana meaning "flag".
Today, this Weather Vane device is considered to be more of a decoration, than that of a necessity. The speed of wind could mater, of course, but its direction... Well, who cares about the wind direction anyways. We care about things like temperature and precipitation, for the most part. Some, with medical conditions might even go as far as being concerned about the air pressure.
Who else might care? Probably somebody related to sea travel, or air travel. But why would we need these Weather Vanes in the urban environment. The reason I'm asking these questions lies within the images below. Please feel free to reference zoomable images I'm using in this thread.
The above images allegedly pertain to 1665, and can be found here. In reality there are hundreds more similar images, and nothing besides architecture really stands out. At first, I thought we had christian crosses up on top. When I zoomed in, they ended up being Weather Vanes.
The Weather Vanes could of course be just a simple decorative accent. At the same time we can not be explaining everything with decorations, rituals and religion. The Weather Vane is a device , which is supposed to serve a specific purpose: show the direction of the wind.
Apart from being decorations, what could be the purpose of the Weather Vanes mounted so high in the... 17th Century? One would need a set of binoculars to see what the reading is. Besides, why would they care about the wind direction at that height? There are no roads up there, and people only walk on the ground. So, why bother installing them that high? Put your Weather Vanes close to the ground, where they could somewhat matter.
Air travel is a form of travel in vehicles such as helicopters, hot air balloons, blimps, gliders, hang gliding, parachuting, airplanes, jets, or anything else that can sustain flight.
Yep, that is exactly what I suggest at this point. The Weather Vanes were not meant for decorative purposes. They were meant to show the wind direction to those who needed it at that height. To the airships, that is... and prior to the 17th century. For some food for thought you can read this 1880s, 1890s wikipedia Mystery Airship article. Or this one here.
Well, and for the last "crazy" suggestion I will offer the Stonehenge-like objects. I think there could be some anchoring possibilities there. As in attaching one's airship like you would a boat. And I do not mean the fake one in Great Britain, but the ones similar in appearance.
KD Summary: In my opinion the Weather Vanes mounted on top of the older, or "ancient" buildings had practical, rather than decorative purposes. To be exact, it was to show the direction of the wind to the pilots of the ancient airships. I understand that it probably sounds way too bananas crazy for some. Yet, if there was a practical purpose for a Weather Vane mounted 150 feet above the ground level, that would be my answer.
Once again, this thread is meant to be a supporting thread for a much bigger article I'm working on. It will be much more convenient to link to an existing supporting thread, versus trying to fit tons of info into one thread.
yess i thought that a long time i think that everyone had a personal flying device.
ranging from boots and backpacks to bicycles like and cars.
that also means that everyone could live a continent or in space away.
and that every thing was done form the air.
Are you kidding! Weathervanes that far up.
Not so far out there at all, I also have this nagging feeling about, not all, but some towers being an anchoring spot for balloons or dirigibles.
Well, may be there is a different reason for the existence of this "year 2000 vision".
The empire state building in NY was originally designed (perhaps used?) with a 200 ft mast to dock zeppelins/airships. I can't think of any reason to do so, as embarking and disembarking would be impossible, other than to recharge batteries. Wasn't it the empire state building that had power production built in during construction? Something about Tesla and a huge generator sticks in my mind. It seems like I remember reading that one of these generated four times more power than the building required and nobody had any explanation why. If electric airships recharged huge batteries...that might explain it.
Weathervanes, not crosses on these churches, weather vanes and flags, to determine wind direction.
Steampunk years, how about that.
To be honest, looking into our past produces more and more crazy unbelievable possibilities.
Again "we do not know, what we do not know"
I agree the past weather-vanes probably had multiple uses and changed over time.
The airships seemed to occur at the end of Tartary's destruction. Maybe recon to see where the enemy was and what forces they had. Gives them time to retreat to an untouchable land, space, maybe underground?
The photos below show what was publicly known of airships at the time. Think about our hidden technology as of now. Why would the past governments not hide the real stuff?
I think to produce maps like this in the 1750s.
They were flying something like that. What made them float in the air remains to be figured out.
More of these images are in this thread here.
Or we could go with this Bartolomeu de Gusmão's magnet powered airship. This guy deserves a thread of his own. Wondering whose design manual he was able to acquire ... Make sure you check his Wiki out.
In 1709 he presented a petition to King João V of Portugal, seeking royal favour for his invention of an airship, in which he expressed the greatest confidence. The contents of this petition have been preserved, together with a picture and description of his airship. Developing the ideas of Francesco Lana de Terzi, S.J., Gusmão wanted to spread a huge sail over a boat-like body like the cover of a transport wagon; the boat itself was to contain tubes through which, when there was no wind, air would be blown into the sail by means of bellows. The vessel was to be propelled by the agency of magnets which were to be encased in two hollow metal balls. The public test of the machine, which was set for June 24, 1709, did not take place.
His designs included a ship to sail in the air consisting of a triangular gas-filled pyramid, but he died without making progress.
One account of Gusmão's work suggests that the Portuguese Inquisition forbade him to continue his aeronautic investigations and persecuted him because of them, but this is probably a later invention.


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Distinguished by its bold design and segment-leading technologies, the Sierra Denali once again redefines the pickup, while advancing Denali's legacy as the pinnacle of GMC design, capability and refinement. The 6.2L V8 coupled to the new 10 speed transmission is powerful yet fuel efficient, and the all-new Dynamic Fuel Management system is engineered to allow the engine to operate within the full range of one to eight cylinders.
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Corbett Solitaire Resort is a deluxe wildlife resort amidst the beauty of nature and wilderness on the outskirt of Corbett National Park. A scenic view of lush green hills of Corbett can be seen right from the resort with dense grasslands on other side. The resort provides elegant and well appointed accommodations having all modern amenities and facilities. Presently, it has 16 luxurious rooms with hill view and forest view.
The resort is situated on the boundary of the most famous National Park, Corbett in Dhela village. Ramnagar is at just 20 minutes distance from the resort. One of the most famous entry gate to Corbett which remains open all round the year is Jhirna Gate and Dhela Gate, situated at only 1 km from the resort. There are many safari tours through the gate in morning and evening time allowed with permission of Park authorities.
The resort is located in the Dhela village on Ramnagar - Jhirna Gate road on the outskirt of Corbett. Ramnagar town is at a distance of only 14 km from the resort.


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Bonassola is a small village. From the pedestrian area you walk through an archway directy to the beach and the resort, which is located exactly in the middle of the bay.
By car: motorway Genova-Livorno, exit either Deiva Marina or Carrodano (from Carrodano the way is via Levanto and it is easier to drive; from Deiva, the way is slightly shorter, more winding but more panoramic).
By train: line Genova-Roma, stop Bonassola station.
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Let's talk about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. And yes, it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, but Wikipedia is also the Internet's largest general reference work and as such an incredibly powerful tool. Today we'll discuss using Wikipedia for good - to help us get a birds-eye view of content, better evaluate information with lateral reading, and find trustworthy primary sources.
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I'm John Green. According to my Wikipedia page, I'm an American author, vlogger, writer, producer, actor, editor, and educator. I've released some books, won some awards, got married, had kids, and I have a brother named Hank. There's also a photo of me from VidCon in 2014, in which I'm wearing a football scarf, which is very on-brand.
Now, you could've learned a lot of that stuff from my personal website, but, then again, I have a certain bias in how I present myself. For instance, I would never write about Hank on my website. He can start his own website if he wants that free promo.
Also, as we've discussed through this series, you shouldn't use one single site as a definitive source. When evaluating new information, we have to read laterally; that means looking to other sources to provide context. Now, it's not always easy to find sources to consult, but, when used correctly, Wikipedia can be a great place to start.
Right, I know that Wikipedia can also be unreliable. My own Wikipedia page once briefly said that I was a professional lacrosse player, and I am an actor only in the sense that I was cut from the one movie I appeared in. But, I do think we can use Wikipedia for good.
So, many of us have been told by teachers, librarians, parents, peers, coworkers, friends, pen pals, babysitters, nieces and nephews, celebrity spokespeople, Instagram-famous dogs, our favorite baristas, particularly cogent toddlers, religious leaders, Jeff Goldblum, long lost cousins, and anonymous Twitter trolls never to use Wikipedia. You've probably heard that Wikipedia is full of totally unusable, unreliable information that was written by random internet users. I'm here to dispel that myth. Well, me and my friends at MediaWise.
Now, it's true that Wikipedia is editable by almost anyone and its content is created by a community of mostly volunteer Wikipedians. The whole network is owned and supported by a non-profit, called the Wikimedia Foundation. And, Wikipedia has become the internet's largest general reference work, with over 40 million articles in 301 languages, including over 5.7 million articles in English.
While you're there, you can learn about anything from the Gothic Bible to Whitney Houston's 1985 hit "How Will I Know" to the absolutely terrifying star-nosed mole. I don't know what it is about the star-nosed mole, but it freaks me out so bad. I've had dreams about it. Anyway... it's got a great Wikipedia page.
Now, you can't learn everything about a single topic from its Wikipedia page. The universe is, of course, much more complicated than even an endless online encyclopedia could account for. But, what makes Wikipedia useful to citizens of the internet is its breadth. It provides information on more topics than any print encyclopedia could. And, a top-notch Wikipedia page can provide a solid overview of a topic, and also provide citations to sources for its claims.
It's kind of like a tour guide: it gives you a general lay of the land and shows you where to discover more. Even fact checkers use Wikipedia to familiarize themselves with unknown topics.
Now, when Wikipedia first launched in 2001, it got a bad reputation because of how easy it was to create and edit articles. Essentially anyone with an internet connection could log on and update their high school's notable alumni to include their own name. You could also delete your brother's Wikipedia page on the grounds that he wasn't a notable person, not that I ever did that. I mean, that, that would be terrible.
That flexibility, to put it diplomatically, is likely why teachers and others have warned you against it, but Wikipedia has grown up a lot since 2001. It's nearly 18. Wikipedia is almost an adult, and it's starting to act like it.
Today, anyone with an internet connection can still edit most pages on Wikipedia, but there are much more rigorous content policies in place and more Wikipedian, and even bots, around to prevent and correct bad edits. Like, if you repeatedly add yourself to your school's notable alumni section, you can bet an editor will be close behind to keep you humble.
You also now have to be a registered user to create an article, and article topics have to meet a standard of notability before they can even be created. Wikipedians also adhere to a set of rules when editing and writing content. Their core content policies are summed up by three key phrases. One, a neutral point of view, meaning content must be represented fairly, proportionately, and without bias. Two, no original research, meaning all material must come from a published, reliable source. And three, verifiability, meaning people reading and editing articles must be able to check that the information comes from a reliable source.
Now, policies and rules are all well and good, but they're only as good as the people who enforce them. So, volunteer Wikipedians act as writers and editors, and also they keep each other in check. There are also administrators who have a higher level of authority, and they can do things like delete pages, or respond to vandalism, or even lock a page so only certain people can make changes. But, they're not, like, all-knowing gods. They're regular Wikipedians in good standing with the community, because they've proven themselves to be responsible editors who use accurate, documented information.
As of the day we filmed this video, there are 1,206 administrators for the English Wikipedia site. In contrast, there are over 34.8 million registered Wikipedians, about 134,000 of whom have edited in the past month.
The good thing about this giant buddy system is that it has to be pretty transparent in order to function. At the top of a Wikipedia article, you'll see little tabs. One says article, that's pretty self-explanatory, and then there's talk. That's where you can see the conversation Wikipedians have had about editing that article. One the American Civil War page, for instance, there's even a frequently asked questions section. And, under a page's view history tab, you can see how and when an article has been edited and by whom.
Some pages are especially prone to vandals who alter their content by adding inaccuracies or violating Wikipedia policies. This most frequently happens to sensitive or controversial topics. And so, if an article is contentious or prone to vandalism, it may be locked for protection. There are different levels of protection under which certain users might be able to edit a partially locked page. Like the pages of the Quran and the Big Bang, for example, are both semi-protected. That means no new or unregistered users can edit it.
But, there are also other kinds of protection. To find out if a page is locked, look to its upper right hand corner for a little padlock icon. Locks appear in many different colors, with gold denoting the highest protection, only administrators can edit those pages.
On Wikipedia, you might also come across different notes and warning labels at the top of a page. Some sub-standard pages have problems with their structure or their sourcing or even their tone. So Wikipedians add attention-grabbing notes to alert readers to any problems. For instance, the page for the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands has been flagged. It warns: "This article contains content that is written like an advertisement." Wikipedia pages are supposed to have a neutral points of view, so that note gives readers a heads up that this one might not. The freestyle (monster trucks) page also has a warning: it doesn't cite any sources. That certainly breaks the verifiability rules, although now I really want to know what a freestyle monster truck show is.
Anyway, thanks to these policies and warning, Wikipedia can be a really useful place for getting a bird's eye view of a topic or starting more thorough research. But, and you knew there was a but coming, that's not permission to use Wikipedia as a one-stop shop for conducing in-depth research, nor is it permission to cite it in your work. Honestly, citing an encyclopedia of any kind just isn't a great look for research projects.
And Wikipedia isn't perfect. It's not always accurate. As we've said before in this series, when navigating digital information, there is no magic bullet. There is no one perfect or objective source, partly because everything was made by fallible humans, and partly because the people using sources are also fallible. That said, Wikipedia does have real power, and I think its biggest power lies in its ability to help us read laterally by harvesting its citations. Let's try it out in the thought bubble.
So, imagine your friend shares the following post in your feed: "Thanks to this site I know exactly what's good for my body and, more importantly, WHAT ISN'T." I links to a website, called Natural News, that you've never heard of. When you visit NaturalNews.com and check the about page, they call themselves a science-based natural health advocacy organization. And, the site is jam-packed with words and pictures.
But, since you're an excellent lateral reader, the next thing you do to evaluate this information is open a new tab to conduct a search. Pro-tip: search the website's URL and the work "Wikipedia" to surface its Wikipedia entry. Wikipedians call Natural News a website for the sale of various dietary supplements, promotion of alternative medicine, controversial nutritional and health claims, scientific fake news, and various conspiracy theories. That is, you know, a significantly different characterization than their own about page.
The Wikipedia entry also has a section for criticisms and controversies, which talks about scientists, writers, and journalists who have called out factual inaccuracies on Natural News. Throughout this section, you'll see superscript numbers in brackets in between words and at the end of sentences. Those link to citations; hover over them to find either direct links or references to where the corresponding information came from. Citation 22, for example, leads to a peer-reviewed journal article calling Natural News a website that spreads irresponsible health information. And, citation 35 links to a post from climate change site, the Girst, titled, literally, "Don't believe anything you read at Natural News."
Thanks thought bubble.
So, now you have a clear understanding that this website and its content are very controversial and considered unreliable by other outlets. And, whenever you are interested in a fact on a Wikipedia page, look for the embedded citation. You can then check in on those sources, and follow up to confirm the information you find.
I've been using this in my own life. For instance, I recently reviewed the Taco Bell breakfast menu for my podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and I started at the Wikipedia page for Taco Bell, which, through the citations, led me to the amazing biography of Taco Bell founder, Glen Bell, Taco Titan: The Glen Bell Story.
So, if you click any of the superscript numbers on a Wikipedia page, you'll find the full list of references for that page at the bottom. And, those also link back to their locations in the text, like an index. Now, not all pages have citations, and not all citations are reliable, but this is a place where you can quickly look for more information from authoritative sources.
The main criticism of Wikipedia concerns the reliability of its information. As we discussed earlier in the episode, the community does have policies in place to regulate its articles. They have ways of letting readers know about inaccuracies or incomplete articles, too, which are certainly helpful. But, plenty of bad information does slip through. It sometimes even leads to editing wars between Wikipedians who edit back and forth to try to set the record straight.
Over the years a variety of studies have evaluated how Wikipedia measures up to similar reference works or examined the accuracy of selected articles. And, the results of these have been mixed, with some finding Wikipedia is comparable to commercial encyclopedias and others finding pretty serious errors of omission.
And accuracy isn't Wikipedia's only weakness. Its community has also been criticized for gender and racial biases, both for the kind of community it fosters and for the topics it covers. The content on Wikipedia is a product of those who get to participate, so it will inherently reflect any inequalities in its community. One example of this is that the article about Toilet Paper Orientation is incredibly carefully written and cited, whereas the English-language article on the Indus Valley Civilization city of Harappa is much less detailed.
Wikipedia is also dependant on published sources, which have their own gender and racial biases and contribute to what is and is not verifiable on Wikipedia. But, as we know from our last episode, it's possible to use sources that are systematically skewed towards one group's perspective, as long as we take that perspective into account when evaluating its information. In this case, that means treating Wikipedia as a launchpad, not a finish line. It's not where you should do all of your research and lateral reading, but it's a good place to start.
One last note, some researchers skip the body of a Wikipedia article entirely and head straight for the citations to look for trustworthy sources. After all, some pages have hundreds of references to primary sources, scholarly journals, and other strong publications.
We should think of Wikipedia as another tool in your information evaluation tool kit. You go there for a general overview of a topic or a stepping stone to more references, or to use as one lateral reading source among several. And, as long as you know how and when to use it appropriately, Wikipedia can be a great friend. But, it shouldn't be your only friend. And, actually, now that we're talking about it, I feel like all your friends, really, they should probably be people. Or dogs. Or a cat, if you're that kind of person.
Anyway, thanks for watching. We'll see you next week.
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Abstract: We report the first detection of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background through a measurement of the four-point correlation function in the temperature maps made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. We verify our detection by calculating the levels of potential contaminants and performing a number of null tests. The resulting convergence power spectrum at 2-degree angular scales measures the amplitude of matter density fluctuations on comoving length scales of around 100 Mpc at redshifts around 0.5 to 3. The measured amplitude of the signal agrees with Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmology predictions. Since the amplitude of the convergence power spectrum scales as the square of the amplitude of the density fluctuations, the 4-sigma detection of the lensing signal measures the amplitude of density fluctuations to 12%.


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Datomic maintains the entire history of your data. From this, you can query against a database value as of a particular point in time.
The db API returns the latest database value from a connection.
An analogy with source control is helpful here. A Datomic connection references the entire history of your data, analogous to a source code repository. A database value from db is analogous to a checkout.
If you know an entity id, you can use the pull API to return information about that entity and related entities. Better still, if the entity has a unique attribue, you do not even need to know its entity id. A lookup ref is a two element list of unique attribute + value that uniquely identifies an entity, e.g.
The following call pulls the color, type, and size for SKU-42.
Note that the arguments and return value of pull are both just ordinary data structures, i.e. lists and maps.
Storing and retrieving data by unique id is useful, but a database needs also to provide declarative, logic-based query. Datomic uses Datalog with negation, which has expressive power similar to SQL + recursion.
Note that the arguments and return value of q are both just ordinary data structures, i.e. lists and maps.
Now we are confident that we can get basic inventory in and out. Just in time, too, because our stakeholders are back with more feature requests.


The good news is that I have no reduction in my general hearing. The problem did make itself known after I'd been working in noisy labs for several months. Well, I thought they were noisy labs. One had 15 computer CPUs set atop the tables, the poster-size printer, and the ranks of fluorescent lights. The other where I spent even more time had a wind tunnel, HID (High-Intensity Discharge) & fluorescent lights, three computers, steam-heat radiators, and a couple of incubators.
The others working in the latter lab didn't think it was loud, but after a couple years of sharing the space I learned that none of the three could hear all of the high frequencies that I could; one guy outright said he had some hearing loss at high tones. The others asserted they could hear fine because they had passed hearing exams. However, the average hearing exam only tests in the 250 – 8,000 Hz (8 kHz) range, which are of interest to audiologists because those are the tones for human speech. Because human hearing should go up to 20 kHz, a person can pass a hearing exam and yet still not have full range of hearing. Even so, one has to be around noises that are 80 dB or louder to sustain hearing damage, the labs weren't that noisy, and I don't have hearing loss.
The down side is that sometimes the extra "background noise" aggravates my comprehension of what people are saying, in addition to the auditory processing issues. I wear a bite-block at night, which is great for preventing TMJ headaches, but sadly does nothing one way or t'other about the tinnitus. Because of the migraines and such, my head's been CT-scanned and MRI'd a couple of times, and the radiologists say it looks normal. (Presumably on the gross physical level, howsoever my brain actually operates.) No one really knows what causes the problem.
Mostly what one can do about tinnitus is to simply accept that it's there, that it's probably gonna stay being there. In addition to masking the imaginary noise with more pleasant, real noise, the best one can do is to re-frame one's attitude. I mean, you gotta find a way of becoming habituated and dealing with it. Otherwise it's annoying as hell, and could drive you nutz or make you depressed.
You can't hear it, so have no fear.
So I've named my companion, Syd.
ROTFL! Thanks, Owen. And yes, even I recognise that Syd is a creaky bit of verse. The thing of it is, I CAN write decent poetry, which you can give opinion to: Plaint of the Aspie. But Syd turned out to be one of those things that just refused to be clobbered into decent form. And so it goes.
William McGonagall (1825-1902), reputed to be the worst poet ever in the English language (and quite possibly any other language, too). Though I must admit your own poesy does give him a run for his money!
McGonagle? Sorry, the reference is lost on me.
I hope the link works. I would be interested in your view of it.
Us Scots have wondered for ages about McGonagle!
I wonder if you can get those gum/bite guards for children? Dentist or pediatrician? Hey and the poem worked for me too!
Hey, I really liked the poem!
My mother has always been partially deaf. Her difficulties have to do with tones. She's tone deaf but she also has the ability to hear certain voices and yet not others that to me seem really soft. It just has something to do with the tones.
She's 72 now and wears hearing aids in both ears and can't hear at all without them. It's getting so that she really can't hear with them either. She's got closed caption on her T.V. and she's learning ASL. I plan to learn it also.
I hope you can get help for this tinnitus. It doesn't sound fun or glamorous. NIH hospital once tried expermental surgery with my mom by taking a bone out of her arm and putting it in one ear. It didn't work but it's facinating what they can do these days. Thanks for this post.


WASHINGTON (AP) � Reported sexual assaults at the nation's three military academies jumped by 23 percent overall this year, but the data signaled a continued reluctance by victims to seek criminal investigations.
In addition to the sexual assault report, the military also is releasing the results of its biannual anonymous survey of academy students, which showed that 12 percent of the women said they experienced "unwanted sexual contact" and 51 percent said they were sexually harassed. Of the men, 2 percent experienced unwanted contact and 10 percent said they were sexually harassed.
The report divides the assaults into two categories, restricted and unrestricted. Unrestricted reports rose slightly from 38 last year to 42 this year, and those are provided to either law enforcement or military commanders for an investigation. Restricted reports jumped from 27 last year to 38 this year, and in those cases victims sought medical care and advocacy services but did not seek an official investigation.
The report is expected to be made public later this week.


The National Centre for Immunisation Research monitors adverse events following immunisation in Australia. This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 29 Issue, Number 4, contains a supplement to the annual report and focuses on children aged less than 7 years, vaccinated from 1 January to 30 June 2005.
This report summarises national passive surveillance data contained in the Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (ADRAC) database at 30 September 2005 for adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) reported for children <7 years who received vaccines between 1 January and 30 June 2005.1–3 The average annual population-based AEFI reporting rates were calculated using mid-2004 population estimates. Reporting rates per 100,000 doses of vaccine were calculated for eight vaccines that are funded by the National Immunisation Program (NIP) using denominator data from the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR). The report includes data for adverse events following receipt of the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7vPCV), which has been funded under the NIP from 1 January 2005 for all infants at two, four and six months of age, with a catch-up program for children born from 1 January 2003.4 AEFI reporting rates were not estimated for some vaccines due to lack of reliable denominator data.
The data reported here are provisional only. It is important to note that an AEFI is defined as a medically important event that is temporally associated with immunisation but not necessarily causally associated with immunisation. Readers are referred to previous reports for a description of the national AEFI passive surveillance system,1 methods used to analyse the data1–3 and information regarding limitations and interpretation of the data.2 Often, more than one vaccine is listed as suspected of involvement in the reported adverse event, so the number of vaccines listed will be greater than the number of AEFI records analysed.
There were a total of 254 AEFI records (28.5 per 100,000 population) for children <7 years for vaccines administered in the first six months of 2005. This was a 16 per cent increase on the 219 records (24.5 per 100,000 population) for the corresponding six month period in 2004. Thirty-five per cent (n=88) of records were for children <1 year, 17 per cent (n=44) for children aged 1 to <2 years and 48 per cent (n=122) for children aged 2 to <7 years. The male to female ratio was 1.6:1.
Of the 254 records analysed, 15 (5.9%) had outcomes defined as 'serious' (i.e. recovery with sequelae, hospitalisation, life-threatening event or death), and was lower than previously reported (9%).2 Serious or potentially life-threatening AEFIs reported included anaphylactic reaction (n=2), seizure (n=5), hypotonic-hyporesponsive episode (HHE) (n=5) and thrombocytopenia (n=3). No deaths were reported. The most common reaction categories were injection site reaction (n=138; 54%), allergic reaction (n=62; 24%) and fever (n=46; 18%).
One or more of the eight vaccines shown in the Table was recorded as suspected of involvement in the reported adverse event for 248 of the 254 records analysed. The six records that listed other suspected vaccines included Bacille Calmette-Guérin (n=1), varicella (n=3) and pneumococcal polysaccharide (n=2) vaccines.
The AEFI reporting rates per 100,000 vaccine doses recorded on the ACIR, both overall and for specific vaccines, were generally similar to those for 20042,3 and lower than the average reporting rate for vaccines received in the first six months for the four years 2001 to 2004 (Table). The reporting rate for AEFIs with outcomes defined as 'serious' for the eight vaccines decreased from 1.0 to 0.6 per 100,000 doses (Table).
* Number of vaccine doses recorded on the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) and administered between 1 January and 30 June 2005.
‡ Number of AEFI records in which the vaccine was coded as 'suspected' of involvement in the reported adverse event and the vaccination was administered between 1 January and 30 June 2005. More than one vaccine may be coded as 'suspected' if several were administered at the same time.
§ The estimated AEFI reporting rate per 100,000 vaccine doses recorded on the ACIR.
The largest reductions in reporting rates of specific vaccines were for meningococcal C conjugate vaccine and measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (Table). There was an increase in the reporting rate in 2005, compared with 2004, for the combined Haemophilus influenzae type b-hepatitis B vaccine (Table) and diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine for children aged <1 year (16.3 vs 8.0 per 100,000 doses). This may relate to reporting of AEFIs following 7vPCV during 2005 as the vaccines are usually given concurrently at two, four and six months of age.
AEFI reporting rates for January to June 2005 were lower among the 2 to <7 year age group and slightly higher for the <1 and 1 to <2 year age groups compared with January to June 2004 (Table). Much of the increase in reporting for the two younger age groups appears to be related to the commencement, on 1 January 2005, of the universal 7vPCV program for infants and the catch-up program for children born on or after 1 January 2003 (Figure 1).
There were 104 reports where 7vPCV was listed as suspected of involvement in the reported AEFI and the vaccine was administered during January to June 2005. The AEFI reporting rate was 15.6 per 100,000 doses of 7vPCV recorded on the ACIR and was similar for the three age groups analysed (16.4, 13.9 and 15.6 per 100,000 doses for the <1 year, 1 to <2 year and 2 to <7 year age groups, respectively). Of the 104 records, 7vPCV was listed as the only suspected vaccine for 45 (43%) records while 10 (9.6%) records listed outcomes defined as 'serious'.
The most frequently reported adverse events following 7vPCV were allergic reaction (35%), fever (25%) and injection site reaction (22%) (Figure 2). More severe AEFIs where 7vPCV was the only suspected vaccine included HHE (n=1), seizure (n=1), severe allergic reaction (n=1) and thrombocytopenia (n=1). The United States of America passive AEFI surveillance system (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) has also received reports of HHE and thrombocytopenia following 7vPCV where it was the only vaccine administered.6 A causal relationship has not been established between 7vPCV and these AEFIs.
Overall, AEFI reporting rates for the first six months of 2005 have decreased among children aged <7 years for most vaccines funded under the NIP compared with average reporting rates for the previous four years. The reporting rate of serious AEFIs among Australian children remains low, with the majority of reported AEFIs being mild, transient events.
We thank Nick Wood, Peter McIntyre and David Isaacs for their assistance with this report.
1. Lawrence G, Menzies R, Burgess M, McIntyre P, Wood N, Boyd I, Purcell P, Isaacs D. Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation: Australia, 2000–2002. Commun Dis Intell 2003; 27:307–323.
2. Lawrence G, Boyd I, McIntyre P, Isaacs D. Annual report: surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2004. Commun Dis Intell 2005;29:248–262.
3. Lawrence G, Boyd I. Adverse events following immunisation for children aged less than 7 years, 1 January to 30 June 2004. Commun Dis Intell 2004;28:324–323.
4. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. National childhood pneumococcal vaccination program – information for immunisation providers. Available from: immunise.health.gov.au/universal/providers.htm. Accessed on 8 November 2005.
5. National Health and Medical Research Council. The Australian Immunisation Handbook. 8th edn. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service; 2003.
6. Wise R, Iskander J, Pratt R, Campbell S, Ball R, Pless R, Braun M. Post licensure safety surveillance for 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. JAMA 2004;292:1702–1710.


I was raised "old school rules": no dangling participles, no dangling prepositions, no split infinitives. (I wouldn't be surprised to find I got the punctuation incorrect in that preceding sentence.) I took Latin for 4 years. I grew numb to Star Trek's "To boldly go"; however there are still some behaviors that I feel should NOT be tolerated. I expect leading newspapers and magazines to follow the old rules, dated as they might be.
Imagine my disappointment at reading the following sentence in The Wall Street Journal the other day.
It's also developing an e-commerce platform to sell those services through local retailers that farmers already do business with.
Sigh. I expected better. That sentence would have still been clear had it used "local retailers with whom farmers already do business". Not only would it be clear, but *I* think it would read more smoothly as well. Sigh.
Ohmygosh it's been so long I don't even remember what any of those things are. LOL That makes me sad since English was my subject.


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Old pic from last week's silks training because I've had a super busy day and all i had time to train was my showcase routine 😢 but it works on a stage pole so im super happy! Showcase is THIS saturday 27th April. Who's coming?
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