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Stop lying when lives are at stake. Medical professionals in the US are required to get the flu shots. It's not true only a small amount of them get it - 100% gets it

Sorry, but I'm not the one spreading lies. The vaccination rate among medical professionals in the US is high but well short of 100% according to this article. Furthermore when not mandated the article states that the rate drops to 45%.

In Canada it seems the rates have increased somewhat in recent years but still around half do not get vaccinated as this, very pro-flu vaccine article states. In BC making it mandatory has increased rates of vaccination to 80% but that's avoiding the point.

If the only way you can get medical professionals to have flu vaccinations is to force them to it raises very serious questions about how medically valuable this vaccination is. Trying to cast doctors as uncaring, as the Alberta article does, has not been my experience, Generally, they seem to just disagree that the shots are worth it due to the rapid-evolving, unpredictable nature of the virus. The recommendation I have always received is that when you get elderly it is worth it but for a normal, healthy adult the benefit is minimal.

... had first heard the term in this context (a reflection on it 30 years later is here), I had always found the importing of the term into Canada, which seemed to only start to become a big thing here after around 1990 or so, to be inconsiderate towards those that experienced the event, and especially those who lost someone they cared about on that day. While I know it is not deliberate by any means, as one who lived through that event, it will never be a term that sits well with me, and will forever be associated with that day.

For comparison, how would it look to you if some other country were to have had some big consumerism event going on that they had happened to always refer to as 9-11 (possibly only as a reference to store hours... open from 9am until 11pm, for instance), and they wanted to bring it into the USA? It's unlikely it would be seen to be in very good taste, even though absolutely no offense may have ever be intended.

I'm not suggesting that the Americans should change the name of the event.... but I do quite firmly believe that it should not be happening here.

Where we all thought at the time that he was poking fun, Gary Larson was prescient.

See, in the great white north, this sort of thing ends up in the humor section rather than the obituaries.

Um..ships *are* traveling along it - hate to link to Wikipedia, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage#Effects_of_climate_change

You're correct that it isn't being used much, but it's because it's not really all that efficient and ice is the least of their concerns: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Northwest+Passage+shipping+potential+cooled+transport+minister/9659331/story.html

I wish there was a mod point for 'Didn't Google Own Claims Before Posting'. I'm trying to believe this isn't flamebait, but it's sad to me that so many claims are made here that come from zero research and easily disproved with a simple search... Oh, and the ice isn't contained solely around the 'North Pole'...ugh..

I'd like to see some guy run the marathon as fast as the wheelchair guys.

Anyway, same crap is happening here in Alberta, Canada. With math as well as reading "discover for yourself how numbers work".

http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/2014/04/06/alberta-educations-planned-changes-to-schools-will-damage-economy-limit-our-childrens-future/

My son many years ago, used that system. And despite all new things being evil, and how those rotten fscking kids mess up our lawns by their very existence, it works.

It just works. I was a little skeptical, but I was wrong. He had a short time where his spellings were odd. But he and his classmates were writing a lot. Then they shifted over to correct spelling. It gets people to write at the same time they are learning to read and learning to spell.

I'd like to see some guy run the marathon as fast as the wheelchair guys.

Anyway, same crap is happening here in Alberta, Canada. With math as well as reading "discover for yourself how numbers work".

http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/2014/04/06/alberta-educations-planned-changes-to-schools-will-damage-economy-limit-our-childrens-future/

Unfortunately, Alberta's isn't that great. This article mentions having to move equipment from hospital to hospital in taxis. My dad, because of Redford's (and previous Premiers') health care cuts, has to spend his time in one hospital, and will have to be moved back and forth to another one on the other side of the city up to three times a week for the treatment he needs. The Conservatives keep pushing for a more privatized health care model - which means cutting funding for the nurses to staff the beds at the hospitals.

Helium is not scarce yet. But it soon will be; 75% of all Helium comes from a handful of gas wells in the US, where the helium content in natural gas is the highest. These are expected to pretty much run out in a decade or so.

Until that happens, helium recycling isn't really economically profitable. That's why. Nevertheless, some recycling initiatives are going on.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/University+Alberta+looks+become+leader+helium+recycling/6937916/story.html

Alberta's unemployment rate is 4.6%.

...and if anyone needs any evidence just look at what was on the front page of my newspaper this morning. If the local schools are going to implement this idiocy then it is going to be exceedingly hard on the students when they get to university and find out that not only do they get a zero if they fail to and in an assignment but they'll get zero if they hand it in late too.

Still he did miss one opportunity: if you cannot award a zero for work that is not handed in you could give them an imaginary grade for their imaginary work - they might even learn something about complex numbers when they ask why they got 100i% for a fully imaginary assignment.

It's amazing how much you can get if you steal constantly.

For example, Salim Kara made several million dollars stealing coins from light rail boxes

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/thief+stole+nearly+million+coin+time/4028648/story.html

Apparently disclosing the following counts as an act of terrorism according to a certain republican:

* US diplomats spying on UN

* Canadian diplomats asking ExxonMobil and BP to help "kill" U.S. global-warming policies to ensure that "the oil keeps a-flowing" into the U.S.

* Yemen goverment lying to its people on US bombings

* US pressing Germany to not pursue arrest warrants for 13 agents CIA agents. (arrest warrents that the cables describe as "From a judicial standpoint, the facts are clear, and the Munich prosecutor has acted correctly.")

This is stuff that people need to know.

From TFS:

first clinical trial against brain tumours

From TFA:

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That seems more sensible to me too, though this article quotes Wang Mengshu, "a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a senior consultant on China's domestic high-speed railways", as saying that India is involved, and may have even originated the idea.

Actually, I found a real article that describes this research, and the solution that is proposed is this: Moore will make the cows metabolize their food more efficiently, so that for a given weight of cow, it will have eaten less over its lifetime, and thus have produced less methane. The research actually sounds really boring. It would be much more exciting if he were changing the metabolism of a cow's cellulose-digesting symbiotes to replace methane entirely with some more desirable byproducts. Of course, the really exciting research would be if he were attempting to make cows able to directly digest cellulose, eliminating the methane-producing bacteria entirely.

Of course, Moore is probably funded by some lame greenhouse-gas grant, but it is entirely possible that if he succeeds there will be a market for cows that need to eat 20% less than their fellows on that merit alone.

Summarized it details a wireless tablet PC that can stream audio & video from a "base station". Who wants to bet that these are two halves of a whole? The next step will be Sony TV's that can also have wireless capability and can display video from the base station.

Suddenly you'd have a PC/TV/DVR/Music system that would work on your desktop, in the livingroom with the whole family, or in your lap out on the back deck, all wireless & all from a name-brand consumer electronics company.

Sorry, can't pass up an opportunity to fuel the rivalry. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology1/stories /001103/4805036.html