Wolbachia is a bacterial genus believed to infect up to ~90% of all insect species. It spreads rapidly through populations by allowing infected females to breed with any individual while infected males can only breed with infected females (the bacteria is passed on mother-to-child). Furthermore, many species actually depend on Wolbachia to become sexually viable, and in a few the bacteria actually induce the insects to undergo parthenogenesis (reproduction with females only).
Even now, Wolbachia is migrating north through California's fruit fly population. Last year I heard it had reached the Sacramento area.
It's dangerous to empower unarmed people to "stand their ground." Based on statute and assuming everything Zimmerman says is true, Martin probably would have qualified because there he had evidence an unlawful forcible act was about to be committed (i.e. he was being followed by some creep with a 9).
I think the trade deficit mostly unfair to foreign workers. After all, they are the ones who lose their real resources and labor inputs and receive only (un-backed, non-convertible) Federal Reserve Notes in exchange.
The deprivations of Soviet Communism were not widely known in the United States during the pre-war labor movement. Most US labor and progressive organizations broke with the international communist and socialist parties by the end of the forties if not earlier. The failure of the anti-war movement played a role, in addition to the conflicting interests of the international parties and the various domestic labor and progressive organizations.
You're wrong, because you don't understand the methods used. In fact, the linked PLoS ONE article reports the proportion of drug-resistant strains, not just the presence.
Among 99 ILO and 105 AFLO participants, S. aureus nasal carriage prevalence was 41% and 40%, respectively. Among ILO and AFLO S. aureus carriers, MRSA was detected in 7% (3/41) and 7% (3/42), respectively. Thirty seven percent of 41 ILO versus 19% of 42 AFLO S. aureus-positive participants carried MDRSA. S. aureus clonal complex (CC) 398 was observed only among workers and predominated among ILO (13/34) compared with AFLO (1/35) S. aureus-positive workers. Only ILO workers carried scn-negative MRSA CC398 (2/34) and scn-negative MDRSA CC398 (6/34), and all of these isolates were tetracycline resistant.
The real drug-resistant bacterial threat is from TDR (totally drug-resistant) Tuberculosis. Two billion people (as in, 2 out of 7 people wordwide) have TB, and TDR TB has been reported in at least India, Iran and Italy. Presumably Indiana is next.
It's not about profit, it's about management and investor laziness. Businesses tend to maximize the profit : effort ratio rather than profit itself.
Polyculture farms have greater profit margins than industrial monocultures but require a higher degree of planning, coordination and labor. It's easy to see why: similar or enhanced productivity plus reduced or eliminated spending on inputs equals greater profitability. Savings on inputs can also be directly reinvested towards water and labor, increasing productivity further.
Here's an agroeconomic study (PDF) of profitability and another agricultural study demonstrating the productivity benefits of polyculture and hybrid "mostly organic" type approaches.
Banning antibiotics in livestock isn't supposed to curtail MRSA infections short-term, it's supposed to allow the percentage of Staph which is MR to gradually fall back to acceptable levels. It's well established that when you stop selecting for drug-resistant bacteria, the population resistance falls relatively quickly - drug-resistance mutations typically compromise some functionality, so non-resistant strains can out-compete resistant ones.
Interesting that they chose not to go after any LIBOR fixers or financial criminals don't you think?
It's almost like there's a double standard in which the people who work in the government use the powers they have been given for their own profit rather than the interests of the public, all the while trotting out a couple of extremely rare bogeymen to justify their actions.
And that's assuming there is a benefit to safety. But there's no evidence of that besides statements to congress from men who've already been caught openly lying to congress.
The NSA has admitted that "using encryption" is justification for keeping all your records for longer (including US persons). Even though strong encryption is mainly used to protect legitimate business interests.
14.5% of US families suffer from food insecurity. That's 17.2 million households. Your simplistic narrative may be comforting to you, but the truth is that hunger in the USA is dire.
2013 US hunger facts
I don't have to think or believe that a lot of Americans are struggling to feed themselves and their families, because unfortunately I have the luxury of knowing it. 14.5% of US families suffer from food insecurity. SNAP (food stamps) only provides $4 / day.
Where I live (Comcast monopoly zone) they charge more per Mb for higher tiers. That is, the opposite of a bulk discount. The lowest tier is a horrific 6 Mbps for $50, which I am on. When LTE gets rolled out here I'm going mobile-only with tethering.
It will be available in the United States from 2015 (hopefully) under the name Vasalgel. A non-profit is conducting the trials and pushing development - RISUG is sort of a "cure," rather than a "treatment," so big pharma is not particularly interesting.
I've read that the mechanism of the irreversibility is that the immune system begins destroying the sperm, which can no longer exit the body. Makes sense given the timelines you quoted.
The ideal method you're looking for is probably RISUG, which has the qualities you seek - nearly 100% effective, lasts 5-10 years, totally reversible (with fertility restored in days - weeks). Also, an injection into the vas deferens sounds a lot better than one in the balls (to me anyway).
Usually vasectomies or other occlusion methods lead to a build-up of sperm, which the immune system reacts against. The main reason vasectomies are generally irreversible.
The best method I know about is RISUG, which is another reversible male method employing an injection (into the vas deferens, not the testes). It lasts for 5 - 10 years depending on the size of the injection and has been nearly 100% effective in testing. There isn't much pharmaceutical interest in "cure" techniques (as opposed to "treatments") but there is a non-profit trying to make RISUG available in the US.
There is already a long-standing, reversible male birth control method called RISUG
RISUG employs an injection into the vas deferens of a copolymer which can be removed at anytime via a second injection of bicarbonate solution. The copolymer is believed to hold a matrix of stable ions which rupture sperm as they pass the affected part of the vas deferens. Decades of testing have shown the method to be almost completely effective. Because the sperm still exit the body, no immune response to built-up sperm develops (the major reason vasectomies are generally irreversible). I know an injection sounds scary, but it's with high gauge needle and a local anesthetic, and one injection would provide 5 - 10 years of protection (depending on amount of material).
Sounds a lot better (more effective, more reversible, less likely to have complications) to me than putting gold nanorods in your balls and heating them with a laser...
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Somebody has never read any Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Wolbachia is a bacterial genus believed to infect up to ~90% of all insect species. It spreads rapidly through populations by allowing infected females to breed with any individual while infected males can only breed with infected females (the bacteria is passed on mother-to-child). Furthermore, many species actually depend on Wolbachia to become sexually viable, and in a few the bacteria actually induce the insects to undergo parthenogenesis (reproduction with females only).
Even now, Wolbachia is migrating north through California's fruit fly population. Last year I heard it had reached the Sacramento area.
David Karp insisted they weren't going to try and censor the adult blogs, while appearing on the Colbert Report just three days ago.
It's dangerous to empower unarmed people to "stand their ground." Based on statute and assuming everything Zimmerman says is true, Martin probably would have qualified because there he had evidence an unlawful forcible act was about to be committed (i.e. he was being followed by some creep with a 9).
The most striking thing to me has always been that both actors would have been within their rights, under "Stand Your Ground," to attack the other.
The subject is referring to the doorway gag.
Great argument in favor of socialized medicine.
I think the trade deficit mostly unfair to foreign workers. After all, they are the ones who lose their real resources and labor inputs and receive only (un-backed, non-convertible) Federal Reserve Notes in exchange.
The deprivations of Soviet Communism were not widely known in the United States during the pre-war labor movement. Most US labor and progressive organizations broke with the international communist and socialist parties by the end of the forties if not earlier. The failure of the anti-war movement played a role, in addition to the conflicting interests of the international parties and the various domestic labor and progressive organizations.
You have a gentle fantasy, but unfortunately history itself is not so kind. Whatever technology made possible, workers had to fight to obtain.
Among 99 ILO and 105 AFLO participants, S. aureus nasal carriage prevalence was 41% and 40%, respectively. Among ILO and AFLO S. aureus carriers, MRSA was detected in 7% (3/41) and 7% (3/42), respectively. Thirty seven percent of 41 ILO versus 19% of 42 AFLO S. aureus-positive participants carried MDRSA. S. aureus clonal complex (CC) 398 was observed only among workers and predominated among ILO (13/34) compared with AFLO (1/35) S. aureus-positive workers. Only ILO workers carried scn-negative MRSA CC398 (2/34) and scn-negative MDRSA CC398 (6/34), and all of these isolates were tetracycline resistant.
The real drug-resistant bacterial threat is from TDR (totally drug-resistant) Tuberculosis. Two billion people (as in, 2 out of 7 people wordwide) have TB, and TDR TB has been reported in at least India, Iran and Italy. Presumably Indiana is next.
It's not about profit, it's about management and investor laziness. Businesses tend to maximize the profit : effort ratio rather than profit itself.
Polyculture farms have greater profit margins than industrial monocultures but require a higher degree of planning, coordination and labor. It's easy to see why: similar or enhanced productivity plus reduced or eliminated spending on inputs equals greater profitability. Savings on inputs can also be directly reinvested towards water and labor, increasing productivity further.
Here's an agroeconomic study (PDF) of profitability and another agricultural study demonstrating the productivity benefits of polyculture and hybrid "mostly organic" type approaches.
Banning antibiotics in livestock isn't supposed to curtail MRSA infections short-term, it's supposed to allow the percentage of Staph which is MR to gradually fall back to acceptable levels. It's well established that when you stop selecting for drug-resistant bacteria, the population resistance falls relatively quickly - drug-resistance mutations typically compromise some functionality, so non-resistant strains can out-compete resistant ones.
And the NSA has said that "using encryption" justifies them collecting and holding your data, regardless of who or where you are.
Interesting that they chose not to go after any LIBOR fixers or financial criminals don't you think?
It's almost like there's a double standard in which the people who work in the government use the powers they have been given for their own profit rather than the interests of the public, all the while trotting out a couple of extremely rare bogeymen to justify their actions.
And that's assuming there is a benefit to safety. But there's no evidence of that besides statements to congress from men who've already been caught openly lying to congress.
The NSA has admitted that "using encryption" is justification for keeping all your records for longer (including US persons). Even though strong encryption is mainly used to protect legitimate business interests.
14.5% of US families suffer from food insecurity. That's 17.2 million households. Your simplistic narrative may be comforting to you, but the truth is that hunger in the USA is dire.
2013 US hunger facts
I don't have to think or believe that a lot of Americans are struggling to feed themselves and their families, because unfortunately I have the luxury of knowing it. 14.5% of US families suffer from food insecurity. SNAP (food stamps) only provides $4 / day.
Page with summary statistics
2011 USDA study
Where I live (Comcast monopoly zone) they charge more per Mb for higher tiers. That is, the opposite of a bulk discount. The lowest tier is a horrific 6 Mbps for $50, which I am on. When LTE gets rolled out here I'm going mobile-only with tethering.
It will be available in the United States from 2015 (hopefully) under the name Vasalgel. A non-profit is conducting the trials and pushing development - RISUG is sort of a "cure," rather than a "treatment," so big pharma is not particularly interesting.
The original name of the technology is RISUG. In case anyone feels that "citation needed" coming on.
I've read that the mechanism of the irreversibility is that the immune system begins destroying the sperm, which can no longer exit the body. Makes sense given the timelines you quoted.
The ideal method you're looking for is probably RISUG, which has the qualities you seek - nearly 100% effective, lasts 5-10 years, totally reversible (with fertility restored in days - weeks). Also, an injection into the vas deferens sounds a lot better than one in the balls (to me anyway).
Usually vasectomies or other occlusion methods lead to a build-up of sperm, which the immune system reacts against. The main reason vasectomies are generally irreversible.
The best method I know about is RISUG, which is another reversible male method employing an injection (into the vas deferens, not the testes). It lasts for 5 - 10 years depending on the size of the injection and has been nearly 100% effective in testing. There isn't much pharmaceutical interest in "cure" techniques (as opposed to "treatments") but there is a non-profit trying to make RISUG available in the US.
There is already a long-standing, reversible male birth control method called RISUG
RISUG employs an injection into the vas deferens of a copolymer which can be removed at anytime via a second injection of bicarbonate solution. The copolymer is believed to hold a matrix of stable ions which rupture sperm as they pass the affected part of the vas deferens. Decades of testing have shown the method to be almost completely effective. Because the sperm still exit the body, no immune response to built-up sperm develops (the major reason vasectomies are generally irreversible). I know an injection sounds scary, but it's with high gauge needle and a local anesthetic, and one injection would provide 5 - 10 years of protection (depending on amount of material).
Sounds a lot better (more effective, more reversible, less likely to have complications) to me than putting gold nanorods in your balls and heating them with a laser...