But Lisa Vanderpump more than made up for lost time as she attended Planet Hollywood CEO Robert Earl's 70th birthday bash at Mr. Chow Beverly Hills on Saturday night.
The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star, 60, was a vision of glamour as she flashed some skin in a plunging black dress with a dazzling diamond necklace dripping into her cleavage.
After a long year in lockdown, it's no wonder Lisa was beaming with joy at the event. Attendees were required to provide proof of vaccination at the bash, which ended up being a happy and healthy event.
The Bravo star turned every head as she stepped outside of the eatery, hand in hand with her dapper husband, Ken Todd, 75.
Lisa's black number cinched into her svelte waistline, and matched perfectly with her dazzling clutch.
Lisa provided an inside look of the party on her Instagram account, where she posted a photo of herself sitting beside the owner of Mr. Chow restaurants, Michael Chow.
Parents, students angered after 80 yearbook photos of female students are altered to mask cleavage
(CNN) -- Flipping open a yearbook for the first time is normally a moment full of excitement -- but at one Florida high school, some students were left in shock after seeing that their yearbook portraits had been edited.
When Bartram Trail High School freshman Riley O'Keefe saw her yearbook photo, she noticed a black bar was added to cover more of her breasts.
"I couldn't believe that they printed the yearbook looking like that," O'Keefe, 15, told CNN. "And then I started to flip through the yearbook and saw more and more girls with their chest edited."
"I know she's worn (the outfit) in school hundreds of times because it's like her go-to outfit," her mother Stephanie Fabre told CNN on Monday, saying she believes the outfit had met the district's dress code. The dress code states that girls' tops "must cover the entire shoulder and they must be modest and not revealing or distracting."
There were 80 photos of female students that were altered in the yearbook this year, the district's Chief of Community Relations Christina Langston told CNN on Monday.
The high school's website has a disclaimer saying that if student portraits in the yearbook did not match the district's student code of conduct, they may be "digitally adjusted."
The superintendent said there was an insufficient review before the school decided to edit some of the students' images. He called the staff member involved an "outstanding educator" and said there will be changes in how the content is considered in yearbooks to come.
The student dress code prohibits clothing that is "immodest, revealing, or distracting," according to the district's code of conduct. However, each school's principal has the "final authority" over whether a student's dress is appropriate, the code says.
The anger over the edited yearbook photos is part of a larger issue, said Fabre. It's the district's dress code that needs to be revisited for its inequity with how it treats what girls wear, as opposed to boys, the student's parent said.
A virologist unpacks the lab leak hypothesis | Salon.com
Still, other scientists of good will are starting to wonder if there may be some merit to what has become known as the "lab leak" hypothesis. Notably, this theory does not necessarily imply that the novel coronavirus was created in a lab. Nor does the lab leak hypothesis postulate that the novel coronavirus was intentionally leaked; that, too, is a nonsensical premise for which there is no evidence.
Rather, the lab leak hypothesis' adherents, which includes a number of scientists, say that the virus was likely discovered in the wild, residing in animals (likely bats); taken to a lab for study; then unintentionally made its way to the human population, likely when a scientist was infected.
A March article in MIT Technology Review and a May piece in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists both offered compelling arguments that, at the very least, we should seriously examine the possibility that the virus escaped from a laboratory. President Joe Biden recently announced an intensified 90-day review into the pandemic's origins in part because the Chinese government has stonewalled the World Health Organization's investigation into the matter. The issue of determining the pandemic's origins has increasingly been decoupled from Trump's political brand.
The lab leak hypothesis has changed over the course of this pandemic. Originally, it started as "the virus was engineered," or was obtained from whatever source, and then was manipulated. Now it's changing to raising the possibility that the virus was actually present in the laboratory and leaked.
There are several parts to that idea. One is that it was a naturally obtained virus that was in the laboratory. Whether anything was done in the laboratory is not discussed. I still don't think anything could have been manipulated in the laboratory to make it more virulent because they wouldn't know how to do that. To my mind, the idea that it's a lab accident as opposed to a zoonotic source [meaning originating in an animal before crossing over to humans] — the two ideas are becoming closer and closer.
Partly because we've had a lot of trouble finding these intermediate animals [harboring coronaviruses]. We know that people found them: a [similar] virus was found in a cave, and some of the people infected with it became ill. We know that that virus is similar to SARS-CoV-2 — it's 96% similar — but viruses mutate at a certain rate per year and this virus was a thousand nucleotides different from the SARS-CoV-2. So it is not the direct precursor by any means to SARS-CoV-2. If it was taken into a lab and somehow made into a clone and then manipulated, you still wouldn't end up with SARS-CoV-2. It's not possible to do that.
So that's why I think the thinking has changed — because it's been very, very difficult to find these intermediate animals or that virus that is close to SARS-CoV-2
The Bulletin article made the same point. It said, "both the SARS1 and MERS viruses had left copious traces in the environment. The intermediary host species of SARS1 was identified within four months of the epidemic's outbreak, and the host of MERS within nine months. Yet some 15 months after the SARS2 pandemic began, and after a presumably intensive search, Chinese researchers had failed to find either the original bat population, or the intermediate species to which SARS2 might have jumped, or any serological evidence that any Chinese population, including that of Wuhan, had ever been exposed to the virus prior to December 2019." Is that what you're referring to?
I think that's accurate. So with SARS, we still don't really have the original virus. We know the intermediate animals. We know it's a bat virus. We have never found the exact precursor, but we're pretty close. MERS was really different because MERS is a camel virus. So, it didn't take very much detection work to see that people were around camels all the time and the camels had the virus, so people got infected from the camels.
Caprice Bourret, 49, commands attention as she steps out in an evening gown for London night out
Caprice Bourret ensured she was hard to miss on Saturday evening as she dusted off an evening gown and stepped out for a night on the town.
With London 's once bustling party scene slowly gaining traction, the American model caught the eye as she made her way into the city's Arts Club.
Opting for an elegant red gown with a cleavage exposing front and a bold, thigh-high slash, Caprice, 49, inevitably commanded attention while making her way into the exclusive member's only venue.
She showcased her slender legs as they were revealed from the slit in her elegant dress as she walked.
On her feet she opted for a black open-toe high heel with gold detailing and matching black nail varnish on her toes.
In case anyone was not aware of who she was, the former model wore a pair of hoop earrings which said 'Caprice'.
If you've got a night out booked in your diary, you might be in search of a party dress to wear. In dire need of some inspiration? Allow Caprice to help...
Jessa Duggar's rebel sister-in-law Jessica Seewald files for divorce from husband after just two
JESSA Duggar's rebel sister-in-law Jessica Seewald filed for divorce from her husband after just two years of marriage.
Jessica filed for divorce from her husband Dwight Phillips Lester on May 21, 2021, The Sun can confirm.
One fan wrote on Reddit: "Good for her! I really wonder what the Seewalds and Jessa/Ben think about this."
Another said: "Good for her. I applaud anyone who can admit that their marriage isn't working and has the good sense to run for the hills."
A third commented: "I hope the reason wasn't anything too awful and her family is supportive of her through this. Wonder how Jessa and Ben feel…."
As Counting On fans know, Jessa follows her parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's modest dress code , as she wears long skirts and dresses, and high necklines.
Explainer: What we know about the origins of COVID-19 | Reuters
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The two prevailing competing theories are that the virus jumped from animals, possibly originating with bats, to humans, or that it escaped from a virology laboratory in Wuhan, China. The following is what is known about the virus' origins.
To some scientists, the release of a dangerous pathogen via a careless lab worker is a plausible hypothesis for how the pandemic started and warrants investigation. The Wuhan lab, China's leading SARS research facility, is not far from the Huanan Seafood Market, which early in the health crisis was cited as the most likely place where animal-to-human transmission of the virus may have taken place. The market was also the site of the first known COVID-19 superspreader event. Their proximity raised immediate suspicions, fueled by the failure so far to identify any wildlife infected with the same viral lineage and compounded by the Chinese government's refusal to allow the lab-leak scenario to be fully investigated.
A May 5, story by Nicholas Wade in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said lab scientists experimenting on a virus sometimes insert a sequence called a "furin cleavage site" into its genome in a manner that makes the virus more infective. David Baltimore, a Nobel Prize-winning virologist quoted in the article, said when he spotted the sequence in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, he felt he had found the smoking gun for the origin of the virus.
Many scientists believe a natural origin is more likely and have seen no scientific evidence to support the lab leak theory. Kristian G. Andersen, a scientist at Scripps Research who has done extensive work on coronaviruses, Ebola and other pathogens transmissible from animals to humans, said similar genomic sequences occur naturally in coronaviruses and are unlikely to be manipulated in the way Baltimore described for experimentation.
While an animal source has not been identified so far, swabs of stalls in the wildlife section of the wildlife market in Wuhan after the outbreak tested positive, suggesting an infected animal or human handler.
The scientists' March 4 letter to the WHO refocused attention on the lab-leak scenario, but offered no new evidence. Nor has definitive proof of a natural origin surfaced.
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4 reasons the B1617 Covid-19 virus strain spreads so easily, Singapore News & Top Stories - The
SINGAPORE - The B1617 Covid-19 variant has infiltrated over 50 countries, outcompeted other strains and continues to infect. It will also not be the last time the virus will mutate, experts cautioned.
Dr Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, virus expert and executive director of the Bioinformatics Institute at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, points out four features that the B1617 strain has in common with successful virus strains.
He uses one of the three versions of the B1617 strain- the second B16172 version - to show what makes this virus different. B16172 has appeared to overtake B16171 in local cases as well as those reported globally. The third version, B16173, is rare.
First, a little primer on coronavirus biology. What you see in the diagram below is the spike protein of a coronavirus - the little spikes that give the virus its distinctive shape.
The spike protein is a trimer - three subunits joined together. It is the complex shown in grey. The green and yellow complexes are two different antibodies that bind to the spike protein. The coloured circles represent the different mutations in B16172.
ACE2 receptors are found in various parts of the body, including respiratory airways, and are used as entry points by the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
The Sars-CoV-2 virus gets inside a host cell through its surface spike protein. The spike protein and the receptors have a specific 3D configuration that enables them to bind to each other. The virus attaches only to cells that have these receptors.
The spike protein attaches to an ACE2 receptor in the host cell before being activated by another enzyme.
Now, let's take a closer look at one of the subunits on the spike protein to see how its mutations have helped.
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Carol Vorderman, 60, puts on a VERY busty display in a semi-sheer black top | Daily Mail Online
And Carol Vorderman looked sensational as she stepped out for a night on the town with Ian 'H' Watkins, Gareth Thomas, and Steve Williams on Saturday.
The former Countdown star, 60, put on a very busty display for her outing as she donned a black semi-sheer top that showed a glimpse of her cleavage.
Wow! Carol Vorderman, 60, put on a VERY busty display in a semi-sheer black top as she enjoyed a night out with H from Steps and friends on Saturday
Carol paired her shirt with a plunging black dress that she cinched at the waist with a white belt to offset her attire.
Later in the evening, Carol donned a white lace cardigan over her black ensemble to give it an extra glamorous flair.
Her brunette locks were styled into loose waves that fell over her shoulders, and she wore a light palette of make-up to highlight her stunning features.
Carol appeared to be enjoying her evening with H, Gareth and Steve as she posed for a fun selfie with the trio, while H kissed her cheek in one photo and she covered Gareth with her hair in another and joked he looked like Cher Lloyd.
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