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Is Sugar Toxic?
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Everything is toxic. It depends on the dose as to when it reaches toxic levels. For sugar, the LD50 is >10,000 mg per kg of body weight. In comparison, caffeine's LD50 is 100 mg/kg and nicotine's is 1 mg/kg.
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous." Paracelsus, the father of toxicology.
So then more power would be concentrated under the judicial branch by giving them the power over politics at the most basic levels. The formation of 3 branches of government was established so that no one branch could control government while power could still concentrate in one branch as has been seen in the past when the presidency under Roosevelt rose to overpower the rule of the legislative branch.
I can see no real benefit that would outweigh the enormous costs the would be incurred by initiating a huge expansion of the judicial branch to oversee elections. Plus, I fail to see how moving the power over elections to the federal level would be an improvement over having it at the state level. At the state level, one can still make their voice heard whereas at the national level it is easier to ignore a "call from the wildnerness". If you don't like the way elections are held in your locality, you can easliy lodge a comlaint with the election commissioner. If that doesn't satisfy you, go higher to the county board or the State Atourney General.
The way you propose is very remiscent of voting systems in countries where voting is mandatory and a freely excercised right. While the system we have doesn't always work the best all the time, I'd say it is much more preferred to a system that is highly regimented and overseen by some kind of overreaching Byzantine bureaucracy in a faraway location that makes it insular from the people.
I guess I'm lost. Reading through that webpage all I saw was a writing by Jimmy Carter about the work done by he and his foundation. No where in his article did it speak to mandating anything. Setting that aside, it is completely different to set standards to receive aid in a country known for threatening voters with death in comparison to voting in the United States.
Since my career is in mosquito abatement, I can say with assurance that mosquitoes do in fact eat bacteria in their larval state. BTI and Bacillus Sphaericus are 2 widely used bacteria based products which are used in mosquito abatement.
One major negative in the total elimiation of mosquitoes from a region would be in plant polination. As nectar feefers, they are a primary source of plant polination. The elimination of mosquitoes from an environment could potentially have far reaching implications.
It should be noted that professionally run mosquito abatement programs do not seek the total elimination of a mosquito population. The goal is to reduce numbers sufficient to reduce the risk to human populations from diseases vectored by mosquitoes.
Comparing profit margins of companies in the same industry classification is comparing apples to apples. I deal with the analysis of several companies financial reports evry month. It tends to be a long and exacting process to ferret out meaningful numbers for some companies. One of the benchmark measurements for intial selection is the company's profit margin and how it compares to other companies it is copeting with in its industry. It is a prime indicator of how efficient management is in holding down costs and spending of capital to produce revenue. Afterall, earnings are simplistically those revenues left over after deducting the different levels of costs. By these measurements, Apple is a far more efficient company in turning out a profit.
I would suggest you are someone that also needs to read more. We are heading into our 6th year of your nice hot and dry summers. As a result we are having to greatly curtail irrigation in most parts of the state and we aren't the only state having to do this. Unless major rains fall this spring and summer, many irrigators in the western part of the state will run out of water around the end of June and beginning of July. This amounts to about 1/3 to 1/2 the water needed to fully raise a crop. Last summer we were fortunate in having one of the top 5 coolest summers on record to spare some of the impact but it was a minor blip on the screen. At the current pace of drawdowns, the largest reservoir in the state is in danger of growing dry. This was a lake that not 3 years ago was over 20 miles long and 4 miles wide. Some groundwater irrigators have had to either look at drilling much deeper wells or giving up irrigation due to the large drops in water levels created by the increased pumping. The comparison to areas such as Italy is a specious arguement at best as the crops you cited are indigenous to their part of the world. Olives require an arid climate. Also, you don't have to go very far afield to exotic parts of the world to find devestation in local populaces due to hot and dry climates wiping out crops. In parts of Russia and former Soviet states, they have had and most likely will continue to have crop failures due to the changes in climates in their parts of the world. To believe that we are somehow immune to it happening here is akin to sticking your head in the sand. Granted, most of the global warming being recorded can be traced to increased solar activity warming the oceans but some recent studies I've read show a shortfall in that impact that could only be accounted for by human activity. And actually, most indicators that scientists are looking at to explain the the Florida hurricanes this past season point to influences or warming. Glacier depletion also started before the increases in solar activity began. The only account for this has been the increase in overall global temps. It would be wise to remember that global warming does not mean increases of several degrees. What seem like small increases of a degree or 2 to the average person are enormous changes to the climate. To believe that there is nothing that can be done is similar to the same diatribes put forth not that long ago that there is nothing to be done about air and water polution. Last I was aware, great strides had been made in both areas in this country and abroad. And since many of the same strategies also reduce carbon releases into the atmosphere, I would posit that there is something "we" can do rather than instead being so flippant as to say oh well have a beer and enjoy.
Having a dad that is in a district examining changing their school management system, I've gotten an inside view of the drawbacks to these types of systems. Number one being the time factor involved. He has little enough time to teach as it is. Now everyone is wanting to add having to do realtime updates of attendence and grades. Add to this alowing parents to contact him at all times during the day drawing time away from instruction and preperation time. Another factor to the increased time involved is whether there is to be any additional compensation. Programs such as these are sold on being a great panacea for freeing up trachers from mundane records work when in a real world analysis, it adds greatly to the burden. Unless that is your district pops for a person to do nothing but data management. I know that won't happen here in Nebraska anytime soon as many districts are having to plan for firing teachers to cut budgets due to financing problems.
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Everything is toxic. It depends on the dose as to when it reaches toxic levels. For sugar, the LD50 is >10,000 mg per kg of body weight. In comparison, caffeine's LD50 is 100 mg/kg and nicotine's is 1 mg/kg. "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous." Paracelsus, the father of toxicology.
So then more power would be concentrated under the judicial branch by giving them the power over politics at the most basic levels. The formation of 3 branches of government was established so that no one branch could control government while power could still concentrate in one branch as has been seen in the past when the presidency under Roosevelt rose to overpower the rule of the legislative branch. I can see no real benefit that would outweigh the enormous costs the would be incurred by initiating a huge expansion of the judicial branch to oversee elections. Plus, I fail to see how moving the power over elections to the federal level would be an improvement over having it at the state level. At the state level, one can still make their voice heard whereas at the national level it is easier to ignore a "call from the wildnerness". If you don't like the way elections are held in your locality, you can easliy lodge a comlaint with the election commissioner. If that doesn't satisfy you, go higher to the county board or the State Atourney General. The way you propose is very remiscent of voting systems in countries where voting is mandatory and a freely excercised right. While the system we have doesn't always work the best all the time, I'd say it is much more preferred to a system that is highly regimented and overseen by some kind of overreaching Byzantine bureaucracy in a faraway location that makes it insular from the people.
I guess I'm lost. Reading through that webpage all I saw was a writing by Jimmy Carter about the work done by he and his foundation. No where in his article did it speak to mandating anything. Setting that aside, it is completely different to set standards to receive aid in a country known for threatening voters with death in comparison to voting in the United States.
Since my career is in mosquito abatement, I can say with assurance that mosquitoes do in fact eat bacteria in their larval state. BTI and Bacillus Sphaericus are 2 widely used bacteria based products which are used in mosquito abatement. One major negative in the total elimiation of mosquitoes from a region would be in plant polination. As nectar feefers, they are a primary source of plant polination. The elimination of mosquitoes from an environment could potentially have far reaching implications. It should be noted that professionally run mosquito abatement programs do not seek the total elimination of a mosquito population. The goal is to reduce numbers sufficient to reduce the risk to human populations from diseases vectored by mosquitoes.
Comparing profit margins of companies in the same industry classification is comparing apples to apples. I deal with the analysis of several companies financial reports evry month. It tends to be a long and exacting process to ferret out meaningful numbers for some companies. One of the benchmark measurements for intial selection is the company's profit margin and how it compares to other companies it is copeting with in its industry. It is a prime indicator of how efficient management is in holding down costs and spending of capital to produce revenue. Afterall, earnings are simplistically those revenues left over after deducting the different levels of costs. By these measurements, Apple is a far more efficient company in turning out a profit.
I would suggest you are someone that also needs to read more. We are heading into our 6th year of your nice hot and dry summers. As a result we are having to greatly curtail irrigation in most parts of the state and we aren't the only state having to do this. Unless major rains fall this spring and summer, many irrigators in the western part of the state will run out of water around the end of June and beginning of July. This amounts to about 1/3 to 1/2 the water needed to fully raise a crop. Last summer we were fortunate in having one of the top 5 coolest summers on record to spare some of the impact but it was a minor blip on the screen. At the current pace of drawdowns, the largest reservoir in the state is in danger of growing dry. This was a lake that not 3 years ago was over 20 miles long and 4 miles wide. Some groundwater irrigators have had to either look at drilling much deeper wells or giving up irrigation due to the large drops in water levels created by the increased pumping. The comparison to areas such as Italy is a specious arguement at best as the crops you cited are indigenous to their part of the world. Olives require an arid climate. Also, you don't have to go very far afield to exotic parts of the world to find devestation in local populaces due to hot and dry climates wiping out crops. In parts of Russia and former Soviet states, they have had and most likely will continue to have crop failures due to the changes in climates in their parts of the world. To believe that we are somehow immune to it happening here is akin to sticking your head in the sand.
Granted, most of the global warming being recorded can be traced to increased solar activity warming the oceans but some recent studies I've read show a shortfall in that impact that could only be accounted for by human activity. And actually, most indicators that scientists are looking at to explain the the Florida hurricanes this past season point to influences or warming. Glacier depletion also started before the increases in solar activity began. The only account for this has been the increase in overall global temps. It would be wise to remember that global warming does not mean increases of several degrees. What seem like small increases of a degree or 2 to the average person are enormous changes to the climate. To believe that there is nothing that can be done is similar to the same diatribes put forth not that long ago that there is nothing to be done about air and water polution. Last I was aware, great strides had been made in both areas in this country and abroad. And since many of the same strategies also reduce carbon releases into the atmosphere, I would posit that there is something "we" can do rather than instead being so flippant as to say oh well have a beer and enjoy.
Having a dad that is in a district examining changing their school management system, I've gotten an inside view of the drawbacks to these types of systems. Number one being the time factor involved. He has little enough time to teach as it is. Now everyone is wanting to add having to do realtime updates of attendence and grades. Add to this alowing parents to contact him at all times during the day drawing time away from instruction and preperation time. Another factor to the increased time involved is whether there is to be any additional compensation. Programs such as these are sold on being a great panacea for freeing up trachers from mundane records work when in a real world analysis, it adds greatly to the burden. Unless that is your district pops for a person to do nothing but data management. I know that won't happen here in Nebraska anytime soon as many districts are having to plan for firing teachers to cut budgets due to financing problems.