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  1. Remembering your loved one forever on Preserving Memories of a Loved One? · · Score: 1

    Might I suggest that for certain that you also not only videotape digitally and photograph digitally but that you make certain that YOU are also in the pictures and interacting with your wife and kids in those documents. It is so often the case that one sees the pictures of family but the designated photographer is no where to be seen and thus, the life that you have with family is denied by accident. It is important for the kids in other words to see how their dad was with mom and with them also. I do wish your family comfort and love with one another and that whatever is to happen can be handled with the joy of knowing that all were together in life. After all, some live alone and pass away that way also with no one to note the passing nor of their presence either. You and your family are thus lucky in that if not in the long life that some others have had. One must say, quality over quantity to be sure..Get into the video and pictures to be a part of the life you have together..still..I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST.

  2. A teacher asking students to destroy notes? on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    You paid for this knowledge not only with tuition but also with the sweat and tears of interpretation and they are now your notes and not the teacher. I was a professor for 37 years and never encountered such fascist behaviour in my career. I would go to the Dean of your faculty and make a formal complaint..this professor is way over the line into theft of property and needs to be disciplined by the administration. I have absolute certainty about this. Do yourself and other students in future a favour by not allowing this to continue. You have rights that when I was a student were not recognised and to this day I wish that I had pursued equally egregious acts on the part of at least one professor during my academic journey.

  3. Re:Am I missing something? on Cancer Drug May Not Get A Chance Due to Lack of Patent · · Score: 1

    the University of Alberta has one of the most prestigious medical schools and research facilities in Canada and I suggest that such a discovery will not be buried by corporate greed as Canada has Universal Medicare for all of its citizens and since WE taxpayers want the best medicine for the price, there is a strong incentive to test DCA which is already known to be a safe drug. It need only be tested for efficacy with double blind studies which if found to exceptionally improve medical outcome will no doubt be fast tracked as happened to other drugs in the past. I must comment that I find it sad that in the US, the logic of profit supercedes real medical progress such as the synthesis of hormones for women that have dangerous side effects but can be patented rather than production of compounds identical to the natural ones that cannot be patented and thus are not easily obtained. There are many examples of similar corporate tactics. I hope that there is a groundswell and demand for serious medical progress no matter the profit motive. This means that government must pay the tab since stockholders would not. Call it Socialised Medicine if you must, but Canadians live longer, have much better medical outcomes and it costs our society much less per capita than the system that the US suffers under. People here do not worry about what happens when they get sick in terms of the medical costs. We get what we need and when we need it contrary to the lies that are spread speciously by medical corporations in the US who naturally stand to lose bigtime if Americans demand and get publicly funded medicine. DCA could very well be the wedge that breaks open the medical armour that has allowed scantly effective drugs to garner gigantic profits.