In the U.S. (or at least the Midwest and South), diesel dispenser handles most often are green. Dispenser handles for fuels with more than 15% ethanol are always yellow. Gasoline dispenser handles are often black but can be any color, although they are rarely yellow to avoid confusion with higher-concentration ethanol handles.
I live in the Dakotas. You can get diesel at pretty well every station. About the only thing you can't get everywhere is E85, even though that's still pretty common.
He can, but he would have to be paid what any other person living here would be paid. The reason things are so much less expensive in some other countries is that their laws and regulations are different. A Chinese employer doesn't have to deal with the EPA, OSHA, the Department of Labor, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare/other Department of Health and Human Services mandates, etc. etc. A tariff or trade embargo would be the only way to stop the arbitrage based on the difference in regulations unless the regulations themselves change.
The rub is how that "true cost" gets assessed and who asseses it, because something like global warming is *extremely* hard to put a price on. That is not a free market interaction because the costs for environmental issues, especially the theoretical costs such as with global warming, are anything but easy to guess at. The government would have to do the assessing. As we know with the global warming issue, asking the government to do this job is *extremely* political. Some politicians would not put a single penny of extra cost on something because of global warming concerns, they think it's a load of crap. Others would hike the price up by an order of magnitude because they hang on Al Gore's every word.
The other thing to consider is that the likely reason the newspaper published this list was to invite retaliation against the firearms owners. There also was no legitimate public interest in disclosing these names, such as there would have been if say, you published everybody who made a campaign contribution to $POLITICAL_FIGURE in excess of $AMOUNT. I suggest we publish the telephone numbers, home addresses, and a list of everybody in the households of the newspaper's editorial staff. It's only fair to know who is behind a media outlet and having disproportionate influence on the public, isn't it?
The point brought up is that simply publishing the address is the harmful act. People with restraining orders against somebody tend to NOT want that somebody to know where they live and take measures to try to keep that information low-profile, such as not having it listed in the phone book. Ditto with informants and police officers. This newspaper just went and published a large list of people without their consent/knowledge and likely "outed" some of these people.
The question that needs to be asked before widely publishing personally-identifiable information gets published through FOIA is "will releasing this information cause harm/retaliation to the person?" Many of those examples you cited would cause a decent amount of harm to the person identified in the "outing." Outing a list of people who made consumer complaints and individual campaign donors (not corporations) could very well lead to retaliation. Publishing tax records isn't necessarily the best idea either as knowing that somebody has a lot of valuable items which may not be immediately obvious (such as several expensive pieces of equipment or vehicles hidden in an unassuming shed) could very easily lead to theft if anybody and everybody can access all of the records. The record publishing was originally done when you had to physically go and have a clerk get you certain records. It was much more difficult to data mine records for nefarious purposes for this reason. The government doesn't publish all of the personnel information of its employees such as addresses, SSNs/tax ID numbers, etc. I think that names, addresses, and financial information of others should fall under that same protection.
"Twilight sedation" is when you are given a drug to make you sedated but not actually to the point of unconsciousness as with general anesthesia. The big advantages of it is that you do not need an anesthesiologist around or quite the same level of monitoring, plus patients tend to come out of it quicker. Usually it is done with midazolam (Versed) which as a useful side effect generally makes people forget the procedure. Sometimes fentanyl is used as well, it also is a pain medication. Kids tend to get ketamine, adults less so because adults can be very agitated (dysphoric) when they come out of ketamine.
Unless the patient is intolerant of iodine, which many people are. Granted, most are intolerant of *IV* iodinated contrast media rather than PO, but if they have "iodine in contrast" in their allergy list, what radiologist wants to risk getting sued for giving them Gastrografin? Not many I know of, for sure...
Layman's explanation: Contrast agent is something that shows up as a bright color on your scan. There are many different kinds of contrast used for many different purposes, too many to list here. Barium contrast is swallowed and shows up as bright white on regular X-rays and CT scans (CTs are a multitude of X-rays taken by a computerized scanner which is then turned into a quasi-3D representation.) The reason somebody would use barium is to look at the shape of the esophagus (food pipe), stomach, intestines, and rectum to see if there are any parts that are too wide, too narrow/pinched off, the wrong shape, if there is a blockage, etc.
Not so layman's explanation of the tests mentioned: - Barium swallow: Barium is swallowed and a real-time series of X-rays (fluoroscopy) of the throat (pharynx) is done to see if the barium is swallowed properly. The resulting video shows where the barium goes. This is ordered if the doctor suspects the person may be having problems swallowing (aspiration or refluxing.) - Esophogram: Barium is swallowed and fluoroscopy of the esophagus is performed to see if there are any abnormalities of the size/shape/anatomy of the esophagus. This is also ordered if somebody has trouble swallowing and the doctor suspects some problem like a stricture, widening of the esophagus (achalasia), abnormal anatomy of the esophagus (such as a diverticulum, malignancy, etc.) - UGI = Upper gastrointestinal study. This fluoroscopy stufy follows the barium from being swallowed until it goes into the stomach. It shows all of the same things as the esophagram along with the size/shape/anatomy of the stomach as well. Ordered for the same reasons as the esophagram as well as if you suspect some anatomic problem with the stomach (e.g. stomach stapling/bypass not working correctly, etc.) - Small bowel follow through: Barium is swallowed and then a series of individual X-rays taken at certain time intervals to track the progress of the barium through the stomach and small intestine. This is done to investigate things like the stomach emptying too slowly and obstructions in the small intestine. - Barium enema: Barium is given via enema into the rectum to look at the anatomy of the rectum. This can investigate anatomic abnormalities of the rectum such as masses and fistulas (a hole from the rectum to somewhere else, this is abnormal.) This can also be used to both diagnose and treat intusussception (a disease of infants where part of the large intestine telescopes into itself.)
He continued the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that he vowed to stop, kept Guantanimo Bay open which he vowed to close, and then attacked Libya which Bush was NOT involved in. Oh, and by Obama's metrics (e.g. that the six highest tax rate years in the last 30 are the "baseline" and that collecting less in taxes is "spending" and has to be "paid for") he *did* in fact give a "tax cut" that increased spending.
Yes, we medical people in the U.S. have heard of a bunch of foreign generic and trade names for drugs in the U.S., including paracetamol. (We generally call it "APAP" rather than acetamiophen or paracetamol after its chemical trade name acetyl-para-aminophenol as it has fewest letters.) Do you think that no foreigner has ever had to go to a hospital in the U.S. and that nobody American has ever gotten drugs from a foreign pharmacy? Come on...
A registered trademark of Intel Corporation:D It's a thinner than average laptop with a slower-than-average low-volt chip and an above-average price tag.
Ron Paul and his supporters align themselves with the Republican Party because if Ron Paul and the libertarian-leaning Republicans split off from the authoritarian-right Republicans, a non-split-up Democrat Party (even though it has three factions- the blue collar union Democrats/historical Democrats, the old hippie Democrats, and the statist Democrats) would walk all over them for decades until their infighting split them up and left us with about five political parties. The little-L libertarians in the Republican Party realize that even the last four years under a statist Democrat are far more ugly to bear than electing a authoritarian-right Republican like Romney and thus stick with the Republican Party as a whole. It's a "we're screwed if we do, we're REALLY screwed if we don't" methodology.
- Rewriting the Constitution in "modern legal language" to give much, much less room for the judicial "interpretation" that has rendered much of the Constitution invalidated (10th Amendment, anybody?) - Getting rid of the previous judgments based on an extreme amount of mental gymnastics used to allow acts that were clearly unconstitutional- e.g. "The Switch in Time that Saved Nine" that allowed the Commerce Clause to be used as justification to allow regulation of almost everything*. - Tightening up some of the loopholes in the Constitution that allowed for creeping government growth- there needs to be a balanced budget article in the Constitution, for example.
The basic framework set by the Founders was solid but 200+ years of many people with huge incentives of increasing their power and influence trying to get around it using any means possible has succeeded in gutting much of it that got in their way. Hitting a reset button would be the best thing that comes to my mind.
*Except to force people to not avoid participating in a market, that apparently is allowed under the 16th Amendment (see the Obamacare decision.)
Obamacare is an example of this- the original bill (HR 3590) dealt with the homebuyer tax credit for veterans until the Obamacare stuff was tacked on as an amendment.
Perhaps the nearly immobile lives that youngsters live has something to do with it as well? Recess and gym are a fraction of the time they used to be, if they even still exist in schools. You can't have kids memorizing material for the federally mandated achievement tests that determine a larger and larger chunk of cash-strapped school districts' budgets if they are outside running around. If that isn't enough "persuasion" to cut recess and gym, the fear of lawsuits if little Brayden (or Aiden or Kayden or Jayden) catches a hangnail as he trips over his own feet and falls into the mandatory two-foot-thick rubber mat on the playground will. It's no better at home. There is the same worry about Brayden catching a hangnail as at school, but now since it is unsupervised, you have to worry about (the one in ten million chance of) a child molester kidnapping Jimmy! Go out and supervise Brayden yourself? And miss watching "Jersey Shore?" That's ludicrous! Better to have Brayden stay inside.
In the Midwest, it's often the opposite. The Kansas Turnpike and the toll road segments of I-44 through Oklahoma are very well maintained. The non-toll roads range from decent to "hope you are dating a mechanic" bad.
Better yet, just drive a Trabant and get the two-stroke weed eater sound PLUS the huge cloud of blue burned oil smoke. The deaf guy will hear you coming, smell you coming, and then be able to move out of the way because you can only go about 8 mph in one of those cars.
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In the U.S. (or at least the Midwest and South), diesel dispenser handles most often are green. Dispenser handles for fuels with more than 15% ethanol are always yellow. Gasoline dispenser handles are often black but can be any color, although they are rarely yellow to avoid confusion with higher-concentration ethanol handles.
I live in the Dakotas. You can get diesel at pretty well every station. About the only thing you can't get everywhere is E85, even though that's still pretty common.
He can, but he would have to be paid what any other person living here would be paid. The reason things are so much less expensive in some other countries is that their laws and regulations are different. A Chinese employer doesn't have to deal with the EPA, OSHA, the Department of Labor, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare/other Department of Health and Human Services mandates, etc. etc. A tariff or trade embargo would be the only way to stop the arbitrage based on the difference in regulations unless the regulations themselves change.
The rub is how that "true cost" gets assessed and who asseses it, because something like global warming is *extremely* hard to put a price on. That is not a free market interaction because the costs for environmental issues, especially the theoretical costs such as with global warming, are anything but easy to guess at. The government would have to do the assessing. As we know with the global warming issue, asking the government to do this job is *extremely* political. Some politicians would not put a single penny of extra cost on something because of global warming concerns, they think it's a load of crap. Others would hike the price up by an order of magnitude because they hang on Al Gore's every word.
The other thing to consider is that the likely reason the newspaper published this list was to invite retaliation against the firearms owners. There also was no legitimate public interest in disclosing these names, such as there would have been if say, you published everybody who made a campaign contribution to $POLITICAL_FIGURE in excess of $AMOUNT. I suggest we publish the telephone numbers, home addresses, and a list of everybody in the households of the newspaper's editorial staff. It's only fair to know who is behind a media outlet and having disproportionate influence on the public, isn't it?
The point brought up is that simply publishing the address is the harmful act. People with restraining orders against somebody tend to NOT want that somebody to know where they live and take measures to try to keep that information low-profile, such as not having it listed in the phone book. Ditto with informants and police officers. This newspaper just went and published a large list of people without their consent/knowledge and likely "outed" some of these people.
The question that needs to be asked before widely publishing personally-identifiable information gets published through FOIA is "will releasing this information cause harm/retaliation to the person?" Many of those examples you cited would cause a decent amount of harm to the person identified in the "outing." Outing a list of people who made consumer complaints and individual campaign donors (not corporations) could very well lead to retaliation. Publishing tax records isn't necessarily the best idea either as knowing that somebody has a lot of valuable items which may not be immediately obvious (such as several expensive pieces of equipment or vehicles hidden in an unassuming shed) could very easily lead to theft if anybody and everybody can access all of the records. The record publishing was originally done when you had to physically go and have a clerk get you certain records. It was much more difficult to data mine records for nefarious purposes for this reason. The government doesn't publish all of the personnel information of its employees such as addresses, SSNs/tax ID numbers, etc. I think that names, addresses, and financial information of others should fall under that same protection.
"Twilight sedation" is when you are given a drug to make you sedated but not actually to the point of unconsciousness as with general anesthesia. The big advantages of it is that you do not need an anesthesiologist around or quite the same level of monitoring, plus patients tend to come out of it quicker. Usually it is done with midazolam (Versed) which as a useful side effect generally makes people forget the procedure. Sometimes fentanyl is used as well, it also is a pain medication. Kids tend to get ketamine, adults less so because adults can be very agitated (dysphoric) when they come out of ketamine.
It's obvious- the ones foaming at the mouth are the ones who are the ones taking advantage of the system.
And apparently vote, judging by what happened in November.
Unless the patient is intolerant of iodine, which many people are. Granted, most are intolerant of *IV* iodinated contrast media rather than PO, but if they have "iodine in contrast" in their allergy list, what radiologist wants to risk getting sued for giving them Gastrografin? Not many I know of, for sure...
Layman's explanation: Contrast agent is something that shows up as a bright color on your scan. There are many different kinds of contrast used for many different purposes, too many to list here. Barium contrast is swallowed and shows up as bright white on regular X-rays and CT scans (CTs are a multitude of X-rays taken by a computerized scanner which is then turned into a quasi-3D representation.) The reason somebody would use barium is to look at the shape of the esophagus (food pipe), stomach, intestines, and rectum to see if there are any parts that are too wide, too narrow/pinched off, the wrong shape, if there is a blockage, etc.
Not so layman's explanation of the tests mentioned:
- Barium swallow: Barium is swallowed and a real-time series of X-rays (fluoroscopy) of the throat (pharynx) is done to see if the barium is swallowed properly. The resulting video shows where the barium goes. This is ordered if the doctor suspects the person may be having problems swallowing (aspiration or refluxing.)
- Esophogram: Barium is swallowed and fluoroscopy of the esophagus is performed to see if there are any abnormalities of the size/shape/anatomy of the esophagus. This is also ordered if somebody has trouble swallowing and the doctor suspects some problem like a stricture, widening of the esophagus (achalasia), abnormal anatomy of the esophagus (such as a diverticulum, malignancy, etc.)
- UGI = Upper gastrointestinal study. This fluoroscopy stufy follows the barium from being swallowed until it goes into the stomach. It shows all of the same things as the esophagram along with the size/shape/anatomy of the stomach as well. Ordered for the same reasons as the esophagram as well as if you suspect some anatomic problem with the stomach (e.g. stomach stapling/bypass not working correctly, etc.)
- Small bowel follow through: Barium is swallowed and then a series of individual X-rays taken at certain time intervals to track the progress of the barium through the stomach and small intestine. This is done to investigate things like the stomach emptying too slowly and obstructions in the small intestine.
- Barium enema: Barium is given via enema into the rectum to look at the anatomy of the rectum. This can investigate anatomic abnormalities of the rectum such as masses and fistulas (a hole from the rectum to somewhere else, this is abnormal.) This can also be used to both diagnose and treat intusussception (a disease of infants where part of the large intestine telescopes into itself.)
A small boxy vehicle made by Kia and advertised with rapping hamsters.
He continued the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that he vowed to stop, kept Guantanimo Bay open which he vowed to close, and then attacked Libya which Bush was NOT involved in. Oh, and by Obama's metrics (e.g. that the six highest tax rate years in the last 30 are the "baseline" and that collecting less in taxes is "spending" and has to be "paid for") he *did* in fact give a "tax cut" that increased spending.
So Obama is no different.
Yes, we medical people in the U.S. have heard of a bunch of foreign generic and trade names for drugs in the U.S., including paracetamol. (We generally call it "APAP" rather than acetamiophen or paracetamol after its chemical trade name acetyl-para-aminophenol as it has fewest letters.) Do you think that no foreigner has ever had to go to a hospital in the U.S. and that nobody American has ever gotten drugs from a foreign pharmacy? Come on...
A registered trademark of Intel Corporation :D It's a thinner than average laptop with a slower-than-average low-volt chip and an above-average price tag.
Ron Paul and his supporters align themselves with the Republican Party because if Ron Paul and the libertarian-leaning Republicans split off from the authoritarian-right Republicans, a non-split-up Democrat Party (even though it has three factions- the blue collar union Democrats/historical Democrats, the old hippie Democrats, and the statist Democrats) would walk all over them for decades until their infighting split them up and left us with about five political parties. The little-L libertarians in the Republican Party realize that even the last four years under a statist Democrat are far more ugly to bear than electing a authoritarian-right Republican like Romney and thus stick with the Republican Party as a whole. It's a "we're screwed if we do, we're REALLY screwed if we don't" methodology.
- Rewriting the Constitution in "modern legal language" to give much, much less room for the judicial "interpretation" that has rendered much of the Constitution invalidated (10th Amendment, anybody?)
- Getting rid of the previous judgments based on an extreme amount of mental gymnastics used to allow acts that were clearly unconstitutional- e.g. "The Switch in Time that Saved Nine" that allowed the Commerce Clause to be used as justification to allow regulation of almost everything*.
- Tightening up some of the loopholes in the Constitution that allowed for creeping government growth- there needs to be a balanced budget article in the Constitution, for example.
The basic framework set by the Founders was solid but 200+ years of many people with huge incentives of increasing their power and influence trying to get around it using any means possible has succeeded in gutting much of it that got in their way. Hitting a reset button would be the best thing that comes to my mind.
*Except to force people to not avoid participating in a market, that apparently is allowed under the 16th Amendment (see the Obamacare decision.)
They have a lot of interest in acting on their re-election campaigns...
I think scrapping the current government would be a huge improvement...bring on the convention!
Obamacare is an example of this- the original bill (HR 3590) dealt with the homebuyer tax credit for veterans until the Obamacare stuff was tacked on as an amendment.
Perhaps the nearly immobile lives that youngsters live has something to do with it as well? Recess and gym are a fraction of the time they used to be, if they even still exist in schools. You can't have kids memorizing material for the federally mandated achievement tests that determine a larger and larger chunk of cash-strapped school districts' budgets if they are outside running around. If that isn't enough "persuasion" to cut recess and gym, the fear of lawsuits if little Brayden (or Aiden or Kayden or Jayden) catches a hangnail as he trips over his own feet and falls into the mandatory two-foot-thick rubber mat on the playground will. It's no better at home. There is the same worry about Brayden catching a hangnail as at school, but now since it is unsupervised, you have to worry about (the one in ten million chance of) a child molester kidnapping Jimmy! Go out and supervise Brayden yourself? And miss watching "Jersey Shore?" That's ludicrous! Better to have Brayden stay inside.
...where they put you on diabetes medication (metformin.)
In the Midwest, it's often the opposite. The Kansas Turnpike and the toll road segments of I-44 through Oklahoma are very well maintained. The non-toll roads range from decent to "hope you are dating a mechanic" bad.
You'd be seeing that 60-second ad a lot. If there was one thing pre-OS X Macintosh OSes did well, it was lock up and require rebooting.
Better yet, just drive a Trabant and get the two-stroke weed eater sound PLUS the huge cloud of blue burned oil smoke. The deaf guy will hear you coming, smell you coming, and then be able to move out of the way because you can only go about 8 mph in one of those cars.