Bone cement (poly-methy-methacrylate (PMMA)) was originally invented to hold joint replacements in place. It is not a good long term solution, because it stress shields the bone, and then the bone basically dissolves away.
Bone cement can not "glue" two pieces of bone together, as it is only strong on compression, and will break in a few days if used for that.
The only long term solution for bones is a biological one, where new bone is grown. So far ALL of the attempts to "Grow" bone have failed. Yes there are many products out there that supposedly grow bone, but I've used most of them, and none work well at all - most just sit there like a lump of plaster.
Forming new bone is a "Holy Grail" of sorts in orthopaedic surgery, since many trauma patients, and "re-do" patients are missing bone, and we have no good way to reform the bone. This can lead to mega-prosthesis, or even amputations. There are a few ways to "stretch" out bone, but this often takes months with the patient walking around with circular metal pin frames protruding out thru their skin.
Pilots come and give talks in hospitals about how checklists significantly reduced air crashes in the USA, which it has. I saw this presentation at my hospital, but I'm not exactly sure if it is applicable it medicine.
I think that much of the sugar cane is no longer produced on Hawaii, and therefore Big Island has a fair amount of unused land.
Hawaii only has 1.2 million people, so the amount of and needed isn't too big. Scaling down from the 92x92 mile area need to supply the whole USA, would necessitate less that 1x1 square mile spot to generate 90% of the states non-car electric needs.
And yes I had heard of that test, but a test only proves what it's testing. As far as other markers of intelligence, chimps seem to encompass more of what makes humans smart (emotions, bargaining language skills, etc).
I guess it depends on what you define as sentient. Whales (dunno), dolphins, and apes? - OK I'm not eating them, as they seem reasonably intelligent. Dogs - sure, as they are our pets.
Cows, and the rest of their ilk,I gladly eat. Humans are omnivores, and evolved to eat meat. To say that it's immoral is odd to me, as I (and nor should you) don't pass judgment on wolves tigers, and chimps, as they all eat meat.
As the father post pointed out - it's basically a closed system. We've been breathing the same farts, drinking the same urine from the beginning - it's just that it's not so blatant as in the satellite.
An interesting test involved women who are given t-shirts worn by men, who don't use deoderant for about 2 hours. The women were asked to rate each smell whether they liked it or not. When scientists looked at the genetic haplotypes of the women and the men whose smell they preferred, they tended to pick men who were very different genetically from them.
Well, considering I'm a surgeon, and my wife's a doctor also, every hospital that we've worked in, and have worked in, and have interviewed at, use pagers. As a matter of fact, I can think of over 30+ hospitals (large academic to small community) that all use pagers. Can't think of any that don't
Often (not always) operating rooms are deep within hospitals, and hospitals aren't interested in having cell phone repeaters inside hospitals due to possible interference issues, etc.
My iPhone needs to be charged almost nightly - if I forget to bring my charger, I'm S.O.L.
Pretty much all doctors still use them. Why? 1) great reception - I often get pages way inside buildings, where cellphones have no hope of working 2) Less intrusive. I get the info, but can respond to it when I choose. I guess you could call screen, but don't always know when to do that. 3) batteries last for several months 4) Loud common ring tones, strong vibrate mode. Pagers tend to have common ring tones, which different phones do not.Easier to differentiate in a noisy setting if your pager is going off.
Sure they are an older tech, and not "cool", but they are still very useful, and better than a phone in many cases.
My hospital uses Unication text pagers - google it.
Pretty much why I use 192 bit encoding, since the cymbals in music sound like crap to me at 128. Well actually all the cymbals sound like Zilgian "China boy's" instead of different crashes, etc at 128.
I'm a musician, and most of my friends are too. None of us listen to music on "audiophile" equipment. That seems to be something that non-musicians tend to buy. My favorite test was when audiophiles couldn't tell the difference on a high end system between expensive Monster cables, and coat-hanger wires when connected to speakers.
First of all, they polled internist and Rheumatologists, many of whom were treating patients with fibromyalgia. Rheumatologists often wind up treating patients that no one can figure out why they "hurt", and thus often get patients with psychosomatic illnesses. Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis that patients state they hurt in many different places in their body, and no test, MRI or CT scan can show anything wrong. These patients often have depression, and the problem is usually best treated with anti-depressant type medications. So the population of doctors sampled in this study is not typical at all of a normal population of doctors anyway. "Headache"pills, or anti-inflamatories, are quite useful in relieving body aches and pains, and to call them a placebo is just plain wrong. Just go tell the patient with bad bone on bone osteoarthritis that the pill really doesn't do anything, and see how wrong you are. They really work very well. Surgeons often do peer review their procedures - at least orthopaedic ones The journals are filled with articals every month describing how well, or how poorly a technique works.
I've had silent dreams, monochromatic dreams where everything was various shades of blue, or red, etc. Sure - black and white as well as full hyper color, and mixed as well. I've had the same dream for 7 nights in a row when I was sick with the flu. Each day the evil four foot witch with burnt skin, wooden claws, and broken gravel teeth chased me thru my house and got and got a few feet closer to catching me. I've also woken myself out of dreams a few times when a spider jumped on my face in the dream, and my hand hit my face, thereby awakening me.
I have some really, really weird dreams, where I ride my bike and talk to large giant insects under puddles of water, through a clacking language. I don't tell people about these, 'cause I think they might think I'm doing drugs, which I don't do - just have a vivid, vivid imagination.
The housing crisis basically turned into a big Ponzi scheme, not unlike the Dutch tulip mania that hit in the 1600s where certain tulips went for as much as 1 million dollars for 40 bulbs. Everyone got into the act, then, and just like today. Regular people started to "flip" tulips, but contracts, etc. Many of the people defaulting are house flippers, real estate agents, etc, because they had some money - enough to invest and "flip". FLippers tended not to be poor, since they didn't have enough capitol to start.
My wife and I went to Venezuela a few years ago for a vacation. Converted some money to Venezuelan Bolivares (about 3000 to a dollar - first layer of absraction). We then went gambling in a casino where they used credits instead of Bolivars. Asked my wife to convert $80 worth of Bolivars into credits (second layer of absraction). Did really well and quadrupled our money, and cashed out.
When I counted the money, I thought they ripped us off. Turned out my wife dropped a zero, and we only gambled with $8 dollars, and only won about $30, instead of 300. Too many layers of converting, etc can make you lose sight of exactly how much you are dealing with, and its physical value. Granted it's not a perfect allegory, but the concept is there.
I'd beg to differ. Most people wanting to use a computer like a TV don't want to be bothered searching on forums, running scripts so that they can get Flash to work on their browser. It's becomming rarer and rarer nowadays to have to do stuff like that, but it still occurs more with Linux than, say Windows.
When you watch TV/listen to the radio, you just want to turn it on, not wait for the radio tubes to warm up, then adjust the band spread, noise limiter, aim the antennae and fiddle with it's boost, etc.
To these people, this is what using Linux is like - too much work for something that they just want to work. More than likely they also bought the Linux version, because it was cheaper - thus no Windows tax. They want something like a modern car, just turn the key and go(E.g."Microsoft ad campaign"). They don't want to use a hand cranked starter, adjust the manual choke, blend in some oil into the gas for a two cycle engine, etc.
I was talking about metastatic disease, for which those numbers are accurate. If your Mom had it, then they probably caught it BEFORE it spread. The scans are just surveillance to see IF it is metastasizing, on the possible assumption that maybe they did not get it all.
Melanoma is still a bad ass cancer. Yes, if you catch it before it goes too deep 1mm, you can be ok. However, having it four times, is really pushing the odds, because sometimes they are hard to spot. Once melanoma has become metastatic (spread), is is usually 100% fatal within 6 months untreated, and 1 year if treated with some really, really harsh chemo (interferon, etc).
WHAT?! - NO PALADIN CLASS?! Now I'm a little disappointed that the Barbarian is (so far) the only class that is returning to Diablo. Maybe they will call it something else, but it will still function as a pally.
OK cue the WHAT NO XXXX class for the other classes now. The only other classes I played were the occasional necro and barb.
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only barely work, and are mostly used in desperation, and last resort.
Bone cement (poly-methy-methacrylate (PMMA)) was originally invented to hold joint replacements in place. It is not a good long term solution, because it stress shields the bone, and then the bone basically dissolves away.
Bone cement can not "glue" two pieces of bone together, as it is only strong on compression, and will break in a few days if used for that.
The only long term solution for bones is a biological one, where new bone is grown. So far ALL of the attempts to "Grow" bone have failed. Yes there are many products out there that supposedly grow bone, but I've used most of them, and none work well at all - most just sit there like a lump of plaster.
Forming new bone is a "Holy Grail" of sorts in orthopaedic surgery, since many trauma patients, and "re-do" patients are missing bone, and we have no good way to reform the bone. This can lead to mega-prosthesis, or even amputations. There are a few ways to "stretch" out bone, but this often takes months with the patient walking around with circular metal pin frames protruding out thru their skin.
Try smoking hot.
Pilots come and give talks in hospitals about how checklists significantly reduced air crashes in the USA, which it has.
I saw this presentation at my hospital, but I'm not exactly sure if it is applicable it medicine.
I think that much of the sugar cane is no longer produced on Hawaii, and therefore Big Island has a fair amount of unused land.
Hawaii only has 1.2 million people, so the amount of and needed isn't too big. Scaling down from the 92x92 mile area need to supply the whole USA, would necessitate less that 1x1 square mile spot to generate 90% of the states non-car electric needs.
And yes I had heard of that test, but a test only proves what it's testing. As far as other markers of intelligence, chimps seem to encompass more of what makes humans smart (emotions, bargaining language skills, etc).
Besides there is no chimp equivalent of bacon.
I guess it depends on what you define as sentient.
Whales (dunno), dolphins, and apes? - OK I'm not eating them, as they seem reasonably intelligent.
Dogs - sure, as they are our pets.
Cows, and the rest of their ilk,I gladly eat.
Humans are omnivores, and evolved to eat meat. To say that it's immoral is odd to me, as I (and nor should you) don't pass judgment on wolves tigers, and chimps, as they all eat meat.
As the father post pointed out - it's basically a closed system. We've been breathing the same farts, drinking the same urine from the beginning - it's just that it's not so blatant as in the satellite.
Lots of physicists work on wall street, using their mathematical talents to predict the market with mathematical models.
Musicians tend to be good at math, and good at programming, and possibly vise-versa.
An interesting test involved women who are given t-shirts worn by men, who don't use deoderant for about 2 hours. The women were asked to rate each smell whether they liked it or not. When scientists looked at the genetic haplotypes of the women and the men whose smell they preferred, they tended to pick men who were very different genetically from them.
Well, considering I'm a surgeon, and my wife's a doctor also, every hospital that we've worked in, and have worked in, and have interviewed at, use pagers. As a matter of fact, I can think of over 30+ hospitals (large academic to small community) that all use pagers. Can't think of any that don't
Often (not always) operating rooms are deep within hospitals, and hospitals aren't interested in having cell phone repeaters inside hospitals due to possible interference issues, etc.
My iPhone needs to be charged almost nightly - if I forget to bring my charger, I'm S.O.L.
Pretty much all doctors still use them. Why?
1) great reception - I often get pages way inside buildings, where cellphones have no hope of working
2) Less intrusive. I get the info, but can respond to it when I choose. I guess you could call screen, but don't always know when to do that.
3) batteries last for several months
4) Loud common ring tones, strong vibrate mode. Pagers tend to have common ring tones, which different phones do not.Easier to differentiate in a noisy setting if your pager is going off.
Sure they are an older tech, and not "cool", but they are still very useful, and better than a phone in many cases.
My hospital uses Unication text pagers - google it.
Pretty much why I use 192 bit encoding, since the cymbals in music sound like crap to me at 128. Well actually all the cymbals sound like Zilgian "China boy's" instead of different crashes, etc at 128.
I'm a musician, and most of my friends are too. None of us listen to music on "audiophile" equipment. That seems to be something that non-musicians tend to buy. My favorite test was when audiophiles couldn't tell the difference on a high end system between expensive Monster cables, and coat-hanger wires when connected to speakers.
Make the bone marrow donor recipient donate his new bone marrow after he's immune at least twice. Kind of like the gift that keeps on giving.
After several generations of that I might expect weird problems to show up in the marrow.
First of all, they polled internist and Rheumatologists, many of whom were treating patients with fibromyalgia. Rheumatologists often wind up treating patients that no one can figure out why they "hurt", and thus often get patients with psychosomatic illnesses. Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis that patients state they hurt in many different places in their body, and no test, MRI or CT scan can show anything wrong. These patients often have depression, and the problem is usually best treated with anti-depressant type medications.
So the population of doctors sampled in this study is not typical at all of a normal population of doctors anyway.
"Headache"pills, or anti-inflamatories, are quite useful in relieving body aches and pains, and to call them a placebo is just plain wrong. Just go tell the patient with bad bone on bone osteoarthritis that the pill really doesn't do anything, and see how wrong you are. They really work very well.
Surgeons often do peer review their procedures - at least orthopaedic ones The journals are filled with articals every month describing how well, or how poorly a technique works.
that's what kind of monitor I have, but when I had the dreams, it was a 21" CRT.
I don't think it had anything to do with using a dumb terminal, but interesting thought.
I've had silent dreams, monochromatic dreams where everything was various shades of blue, or red, etc.
Sure - black and white as well as full hyper color, and mixed as well.
I've had the same dream for 7 nights in a row when I was sick with the flu. Each day the evil four foot witch with burnt skin, wooden claws, and broken gravel teeth chased me thru my house and got and got a few feet closer to catching me.
I've also woken myself out of dreams a few times when a spider jumped on my face in the dream, and my hand hit my face, thereby awakening me.
I have some really, really weird dreams, where I ride my bike and talk to large giant insects under puddles of water, through a clacking language. I don't tell people about these, 'cause I think they might think I'm doing drugs, which I don't do - just have a vivid, vivid imagination.
I totally agree with the parents post.
Another option for the original poster would be to name their product after the year, as in
FooBar 2009, or even more vague as in just plain FooBar
The housing crisis basically turned into a big Ponzi scheme, not unlike the Dutch tulip mania that hit in the 1600s where certain tulips went for as much as 1 million dollars for 40 bulbs. Everyone got into the act, then, and just like today. Regular people started to "flip" tulips, but contracts, etc.
Many of the people defaulting are house flippers, real estate agents, etc, because they had some money - enough to invest and "flip". FLippers tended not to be poor, since they didn't have enough capitol to start.
My wife and I went to Venezuela a few years ago for a vacation. Converted some money to Venezuelan Bolivares (about 3000 to a dollar - first layer of absraction). We then went gambling in a casino where they used credits instead of Bolivars. Asked my wife to convert $80 worth of Bolivars into credits (second layer of absraction).
Did really well and quadrupled our money, and cashed out.
When I counted the money, I thought they ripped us off.
Turned out my wife dropped a zero, and we only gambled with $8 dollars, and only won about $30, instead of 300.
Too many layers of converting, etc can make you lose sight of exactly how much you are dealing with, and its physical value. Granted it's not a perfect allegory, but the concept is there.
I'd beg to differ. Most people wanting to use a computer like a TV don't want to be bothered searching on forums, running scripts so that they can get Flash to work on their browser.
It's becomming rarer and rarer nowadays to have to do stuff like that, but it still occurs more with Linux than, say Windows.
When you watch TV/listen to the radio, you just want to turn it on, not wait for the radio tubes to warm up, then adjust the band spread, noise limiter, aim the antennae and fiddle with it's boost, etc.
To these people, this is what using Linux is like - too much work for something that they just want to work. More than likely they also bought the Linux version, because it was cheaper - thus no Windows tax.
They want something like a modern car, just turn the key and go(E.g."Microsoft ad campaign"). They don't want to use a hand cranked starter, adjust the manual choke, blend in some oil into the gas for a two cycle engine, etc.
I was talking about metastatic disease, for which those numbers are accurate. If your Mom had it, then they probably caught it BEFORE it spread. The scans are just surveillance to see IF it is metastasizing, on the possible assumption that maybe they did not get it all.
Melanoma is still a bad ass cancer. Yes, if you catch it before it goes too deep 1mm, you can be ok. However, having it four times, is really pushing the odds, because sometimes they are hard to spot.
Once melanoma has become metastatic (spread), is is usually 100% fatal within 6 months untreated, and 1 year if treated with some really, really harsh chemo (interferon, etc).
WHAT?! - NO PALADIN CLASS?!
Now I'm a little disappointed that the Barbarian is (so far) the only class that is returning to Diablo.
Maybe they will call it something else, but it will still function as a pally.
OK cue the WHAT NO XXXX class for the other classes now. The only other classes I played were the occasional necro and barb.