An 'easier' answer, might bend the rules a little bit..... If you walked a mile to the south you would be 1 mi S. of equator. Then 1 mi W and you are still 1 mile S of equator. Then 1 mi N and you are again on the "exactly" on the equator - 0.
That's a pretty cool map. I would have not guessed the continental US's (in entirety) antipodal points are located off the west coast of Australia in the Indian ocean.
This really intrigues me because it never struck me that this could be a mechanism for antibiotic resistance. It is even more interesting to me knowing the first CRE (Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae)
but the reasons weren't clear to me and I just naively assumed it was a random mutation. India, also according to to that same paper has quite a problem with antibiotic resistance which one wouldn't expect as there isn't so much of a problem with antibiotic overuse as there seems to be in the West. So, maybe not so random and maybe we have honed in on a legit reason for growing resistance.
This is the same excuse many people use about eating out in a restaurant or having a drink in a pub.
Yes, at home it will be cheaper, but this is often not about just the money. It should be about social contact.
I like the sentiment of OP's post, and for sure bars, restaurants there is a social element. But for movies? The most social they get is a glance to your buddy/SO in a "did you just see that" kind of way.
Takeaway from that article - you may lucky if you are a Japanese ex-smoker non-progressor. I tell my patients that lung function declines with age regardless of smoking history, however the decline is faster in active smokers.
(Yes I am a pulmonary/critical care doctor IRL)
Like mentioned before "driving under the influence" and "driving while intoxicated" are two separate issues. If you want to have a hard limit for driving under the influence, which doesn't represent your physical ability to drive well or not, that is fine and it is an arbitrary number. It should be a fine, and it should trigger road-side testing. If you are "impaired" through a series of road-side test you are driving while intoxicated. Conversely, if you are under the limit, but seem intoxicated, it doesn't matter what your BAC is, the same road-side tests should be involved.
I work in the ER, I have seen people with surprisingly high BAC who are quite functional. Those people are chronically intoxicated, and have adjusted appropriately. Same goes true with the current narcotic epidemic. I have seen people on chronic narcotics who are quite functional and seem surprised when I tell them they shouldn't be driving on their 80 mg twice daily of long acting narcotic and 15 mg every 4 hours of a short acting narcotic.
Decision-making skills play a significant role, but there are plenty of other factors that help to reduce recidivism rates, such as anti-social belief systems, mental health, criminal companions, etc
which according to the article were controlled for.......Doesn't mean it is perfect, but it is less of a confounding variable then you may think.
Saying that Safari on MacOS "was not hacked" is slightly misleading. Nobody attempted to hack it, so contrary to some reports (and posts) it didn't survive anything.
As it was slightly misleading in the previous few years when it was "the first browser" hacked (or some variation thereof). Someone found an exploit and they were first up.
Will tell you what? Not as much as you think, apparently.Thank you for illustrating this. ~2 grams/day (some say more, but 2 is solid) of acetaminophen/paracetamol/tylenol/etc have been studied and accepted as safe in chronic liver disease. 500 mg PO QID if you are so inclined.
The Doctors have been colluding with government to fuck over patients well and good for a long time. There'd be some justice in seeing them take the shaft in their turn, but I'd rather just end the power of their guild to control may access to health care services and treatments.
How are "we" (yes I am a doctor" colluding with the government? The government programs - medicare/medicaid pay pennies on the dollar.
First let me say that my area of research is medicine. There is a lot of tax payer funded research that is inaccessible to the public despite their hand in its creation. I think that this aspect needs to be discussed, as well.
Is there a hospital in the United States that turns away a patient. No, it is against the law.
They are required under EMTALA to provide "emergency" care. Outside a few oncological emergencies there are very few cancer related things that will get you treated in the emergency room. You will not get chemotherapy, likely, if you don't have insurance unless you can convince the hospital to give you some charity care.
I think this hits part of the nail right on the head:
Nearly every job requires a BS or BA...even if they don't care which subject.
This is just wrong, IMO. IMO college is not trade school (not that there is anything wrong with trade school), but it has been turned into one by this notion that pretty much any job that is not Jiffy Lube or the Quickie Mart requires a college degree.
There was some research published recently about gains in knowledge and critical thinking skills, this was the conclusion:
Students majoring in business, education, social work and communications showed the least gains in learning. However, the authors note that their findings don't preclude the possibility that such students "are developing subject-specific or occupationally relevant skills."
In other words, there were learning "subject specific" or occupationally relevant skills", we have a name for a program like this -- trade school.
Students who majored in the traditional liberal arts — including the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and mathematics — showed significantly greater gains over time than other students in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing skills.
Aside from the obvious gains those who have vested interest in alternative energy have what do those scientists who feel global warming is man made have to gain? What are the motives? The flip side is obvious, the fossil fuel industry stands to lose trillions of dollars if anthropogenic climate change is the real deal.
I have always been a pragmatist. The logic goes something like this:
1. Everyone knows that fossil fuels are a finite resource whose peak availability may have just passed, is happening now or will happen reasonably soon (decades not centuries, likely)
2. There is a possibility that fossil fuel use is contributing to potentially catastrophic weather pattern shifts on the only habitable and reachable planet we know of in the universe.
3. Since we know this weaning is going to happen sooner of later, why not start (seriously) now.
There is no easy weaning in some industry. Organic solvents aren't going to be replaced by a commercially available synthetic anytime soon. This is important if you like medicine. Next, there aren't any alternative shipping/flight options available on the horizon for commerce. So we need reserve for commercial entities.
But according to a Greenpeace US investigation, he has been heavily funded by coal and oil industry interests since 2001, receiving money from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Insitute and Koch Industries along with Southern, one of the world's largest coal-burning utility companies. Since 2002, it is alleged, every new grant he has received has been from either oil or coal interests.
Take "Greenpeace" with a grain of salt but that clearly says 2001 and 2002 which is before 2003 testimony, no?
I didn't realize the source was sh*tty (i still have no idea who or what rense is) it happened to be the first 2 or so hits on Google. However this is established that Israel spies on the US just as much, if not more than anyone. If different sources make you feel better:
You could list *any* country here. No need to get your vagina's up in arms because someone said something bad about Israel. The point was China is just the next in a long line of countries spying. Now, it might be much worse given how much they make for the US.
No need to unfairly single out the Chinese. I feel confident to extend that out to pretty much any nation. Wasn't our bestest friend (sarcasm) Israel found to have the biggestespionage ring yet uncovered rigth here in the US of A?
Look at the situation here in France, it's funny how our very socialist country came up with something that's quite good for the consumers, and OK for the providers.
See that is the thing here in the modern day US (and I imagine lots of other parts of the "free market" societies). OK isn't good enough for business - it has to be unsustainably over the top better than last quarter/year/week - rake in the dough GREAT. If it works or is tolerable for the customers that is an added bonus.
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An 'easier' answer, might bend the rules a little bit..... If you walked a mile to the south you would be 1 mi S. of equator. Then 1 mi W and you are still 1 mile S of equator. Then 1 mi N and you are again on the "exactly" on the equator - 0.
Just a thought.
That's a pretty cool map. I would have not guessed the continental US's (in entirety) antipodal points are located off the west coast of Australia in the Indian ocean.
This really intrigues me because it never struck me that this could be a mechanism for antibiotic resistance. It is even more interesting to me knowing the first CRE (Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae)
clearly arose in India [source]
but the reasons weren't clear to me and I just naively assumed it was a random mutation. India, also according to to that same paper has quite a problem with antibiotic resistance which one wouldn't expect as there isn't so much of a problem with antibiotic overuse as there seems to be in the West. So, maybe not so random and maybe we have honed in on a legit reason for growing resistance.
This is the same excuse many people use about eating out in a restaurant or having a drink in a pub. Yes, at home it will be cheaper, but this is often not about just the money. It should be about social contact.
I like the sentiment of OP's post, and for sure bars, restaurants there is a social element. But for movies? The most social they get is a glance to your buddy/SO in a "did you just see that" kind of way.
The blame?
Clearly they have upset the G.O.P.
Takeaway from that article - you may lucky if you are a Japanese ex-smoker non-progressor. I tell my patients that lung function declines with age regardless of smoking history, however the decline is faster in active smokers. (Yes I am a pulmonary/critical care doctor IRL)
We've got ourselves a thinker.....
That was my angle when I first read this piece. They know it is going to take buckets of time and more importantly, just a sick amount of money.
Like mentioned before "driving under the influence" and "driving while intoxicated" are two separate issues. If you want to have a hard limit for driving under the influence, which doesn't represent your physical ability to drive well or not, that is fine and it is an arbitrary number. It should be a fine, and it should trigger road-side testing. If you are "impaired" through a series of road-side test you are driving while intoxicated. Conversely, if you are under the limit, but seem intoxicated, it doesn't matter what your BAC is, the same road-side tests should be involved.
I work in the ER, I have seen people with surprisingly high BAC who are quite functional. Those people are chronically intoxicated, and have adjusted appropriately. Same goes true with the current narcotic epidemic. I have seen people on chronic narcotics who are quite functional and seem surprised when I tell them they shouldn't be driving on their 80 mg twice daily of long acting narcotic and 15 mg every 4 hours of a short acting narcotic.
Decision-making skills play a significant role, but there are plenty of other factors that help to reduce recidivism rates, such as anti-social belief systems, mental health, criminal companions, etc
which according to the article were controlled for.......Doesn't mean it is perfect, but it is less of a confounding variable then you may think.
Saying that Safari on MacOS "was not hacked" is slightly misleading. Nobody attempted to hack it, so contrary to some reports (and posts) it didn't survive anything.
As it was slightly misleading in the previous few years when it was "the first browser" hacked (or some variation thereof). Someone found an exploit and they were first up.
5 minutes on google will tell me that.....
Will tell you what? Not as much as you think, apparently.Thank you for illustrating this. ~2 grams/day (some say more, but 2 is solid) of acetaminophen/paracetamol/tylenol/etc have been studied and accepted as safe in chronic liver disease. 500 mg PO QID if you are so inclined.
The therapeutic use of acetaminophen in patients with liver disease.
Alcoholic liver disease: Is acetaminophen safe?
Acetaminophen, When Taken as Directed, is Safe for Patients with Liver Disease
etc......
The Doctors have been colluding with government to fuck over patients well and good for a long time. There'd be some justice in seeing them take the shaft in their turn, but I'd rather just end the power of their guild to control may access to health care services and treatments.
How are "we" (yes I am a doctor" colluding with the government? The government programs - medicare/medicaid pay pennies on the dollar.
First let me say that my area of research is medicine. There is a lot of tax payer funded research that is inaccessible to the public despite their hand in its creation. I think that this aspect needs to be discussed, as well.
100% agree there is no finer "cheap" writing instrument than a Zebra fine pen. Cost benefit ratio is almost all in the benefit.
Is there a hospital in the United States that turns away a patient. No, it is against the law.
They are required under EMTALA to provide "emergency" care. Outside a few oncological emergencies there are very few cancer related things that will get you treated in the emergency room. You will not get chemotherapy, likely, if you don't have insurance unless you can convince the hospital to give you some charity care.
Corporate Personhood has a very long and sorted history in the U.S.
Promise I am not being a jerk, but it is sordid. I completely agree with the rest of the story. :)
There is the promise of the with thunderbolt but latency is an issue. However I believe there is one ( at least) on the market here.
Nearly every job requires a BS or BA...even if they don't care which subject.
This is just wrong, IMO. IMO college is not trade school (not that there is anything wrong with trade school), but it has been turned into one by this notion that pretty much any job that is not Jiffy Lube or the Quickie Mart requires a college degree. There was some research published recently about gains in knowledge and critical thinking skills, this was the conclusion:
Students majoring in business, education, social work and communications showed the least gains in learning. However, the authors note that their findings don't preclude the possibility that such students "are developing subject-specific or occupationally relevant skills."
In other words, there were learning "subject specific" or occupationally relevant skills", we have a name for a program like this -- trade school.
Students who majored in the traditional liberal arts — including the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and mathematics — showed significantly greater gains over time than other students in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing skills.
You could, but you would need to know which errant protein would be on the cell surface to attack.
Aside from the obvious gains those who have vested interest in alternative energy have what do those scientists who feel global warming is man made have to gain? What are the motives? The flip side is obvious, the fossil fuel industry stands to lose trillions of dollars if anthropogenic climate change is the real deal. I have always been a pragmatist. The logic goes something like this:
1. Everyone knows that fossil fuels are a finite resource whose peak availability may have just passed, is happening now or will happen reasonably soon (decades not centuries, likely)
2. There is a possibility that fossil fuel use is contributing to potentially catastrophic weather pattern shifts on the only habitable and reachable planet we know of in the universe.
3. Since we know this weaning is going to happen sooner of later, why not start (seriously) now.
There is no easy weaning in some industry. Organic solvents aren't going to be replaced by a commercially available synthetic anytime soon. This is important if you like medicine. Next, there aren't any alternative shipping/flight options available on the horizon for commerce. So we need reserve for commercial entities.
Thoughts?
But according to a Greenpeace US investigation, he has been heavily funded by coal and oil industry interests since 2001, receiving money from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Insitute and Koch Industries along with Southern, one of the world's largest coal-burning utility companies. Since 2002, it is alleged, every new grant he has received has been from either oil or coal interests.
Take "Greenpeace" with a grain of salt but that clearly says 2001 and 2002 which is before 2003 testimony, no?
I didn't realize the source was sh*tty (i still have no idea who or what rense is) it happened to be the first 2 or so hits on Google. However this is established that Israel spies on the US just as much, if not more than anyone. If different sources make you feel better:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Franklin_espionage_scandal http://www.alternet.org/world/130891/breaking_the_taboo_on_israel's_spying_efforts_on_the_united_states/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24256527/ns/us_news-security/t/american-charged-giving-secrets-israel/
You could list *any* country here. No need to get your vagina's up in arms because someone said something bad about Israel. The point was China is just the next in a long line of countries spying. Now, it might be much worse given how much they make for the US.
No need to unfairly single out the Chinese. I feel confident to extend that out to pretty much any nation. Wasn't our bestest friend (sarcasm) Israel found to have the biggest espionage ring yet uncovered rigth here in the US of A?
Look at the situation here in France, it's funny how our very socialist country came up with something that's quite good for the consumers, and OK for the providers.
See that is the thing here in the modern day US (and I imagine lots of other parts of the "free market" societies). OK isn't good enough for business - it has to be unsustainably over the top better than last quarter/year/week - rake in the dough GREAT. If it works or is tolerable for the customers that is an added bonus.