I once complimented a woman for her Christmas brooch, which had tiny, multicolored, rapidly flickering LEDs on it. "I use it at work," she said, when she has to feed Alzheimer's patients. They fixate on the flickering brooch, she explained, which gives them the calming and the concentration needed to accept her spoonfeeding.
That high-cost form of care adds up too.
Here in Canada, publicly-funded health care — together with retail health care costs outside of the public system (like prescription drugs) — cost about 9% or 10% of GDP...I forget the exact number. By the same yardstick, U.S. health care is 13% of GDP. So tlhingan is right, the user-pay system *is* more expensive. Obamacare will have reduced U.S. costs a bit by now, but maybe not by enough to make a dent in the 13% figure.
From www.webelements.com/cerium...
"It is the most abundant of the rare earth metals and is found in minerals including allanite, monazite, cerite, and bastnaesite. There are large deposits found in India, Brazil and the USA."
I saw one price point online, $12 per kilogram. To my eye, that's cheap and suggests ready availability. Especially for the ingredient in the CalTech fuel-making process which gets regenerated.
My provincial goverment is using your quick and violent method, in fact, to destroy about 30,000 hard drives.
Well, not exactly *your* method, using bullets. But the same idea.
As they take each old computer out of service during a government-wide system upgrade, they:
1. Remove the hard drive.
2. Drill through it once, using a cordless drill. Right there in the office!
Full munching and recovery of recyclable materials takes place later at a depot. The important thing is to keep citizens' private data private! It's leaks to the media which drives the paranoia, by the way.
In the summer of 1961, as a kid, I got to play tic-tac-toe on the new Axel Wenner-Gren computer at the University of British Columbia. No way can I remember the model, but the Wikipedia article on Wenner-Gren suggests that it was a Wegematic 1000.
It filled a room, and they say its air conditioner was housed in a second room. Ah, tubes... It had something like 32 words of memory. I typed my move on an electric typewriter, and it re-drew the board in typewriter characters a few seconds later.
My older sister used it to customize a job application letter for a number of different companies. That surely is one of the first end-user mail-merges in history.
And to think I'm not 60 yet. Computers really are new!
I'm an Opera user at home, but in my office I/we must all stay with IE6. Must not install IE7.
Why? If we do, our enterprise-wide custom-programmed Online Timesheet application will cease to function. It's a custom Java app, running on top of something from PeopleSoft and apparently using some obscure IE6 "feature". No, I'm not from IT, I can't tell you which feature. All I know is, that's the official explanation from the IT department for staying with IE6, essentially forever.
Proof? One frustrated tech-savvy colleague installed IE7, and lost all access to his timesheet. Of course, you cannot back-install to IE6, so he's trapped.
But here's the larger irony. That timesheet app works perfectly in Opera's default install. And keeps working through Opera upgrades.
So the said colleague has installed Opera (against corporate policy, which is Microsoft exclusively) to regain access to his timesheet.
Sigh... at least our IT department uses other means to keep us secure from all the nasties which could exploit IE6. But I sure miss those tabs...
Typically zinc or sulfur powder is used which binds mercury followed by proper disposal...
Yep, I've used sulphur powder twice for spills, once in a chem lab and once from a thermometer at home.
Sulphur powder is preferred over zinc for home use. Sulphur is readily purchased from a drugstore, is inexpensive, has no odor when used, is non-staining to clothing/rugs/pets/furniture, and is non-toxic as long as you don't take a match to it.
Whereas zinc powder is (surprise!) flammable.
Make sure you get *powdered* sulphur. It looks like yellow chalk dust. Coarse granules are much less effective for a couple of reasons.
Directions for use (assumes you're dealing with the 5 mg-10 mg mercury of a CFL):
1. Pick up glass first.
2. Sprinkle the dry sulphur powder wherever you think the mercury went. You can use lots, but piles of sulphur powder are overkill.
2. Work it into the area, say by spreading with a disposable cloth. (Careful of glass though!)
3. Wipe it up. Since it's bright yellow, it's easy to see where to clean. Use dry or wet cloth for this. Final clean with vacuum cleaner is optional.
4. Dispose in trash. Sulphur powder is stable and benign to the environment. As others have pointed out, 5 mg mercury in a sulphur amalgam is a low risk.
While mercury does turn dry sulphur a brown color, you don't get enough mercury from a CFL for the brown to be visible to you.
View of IE7 improvements from an amateur end user...
I read the "New Look" page .
Hmph, all the new features have been in my Opera browser for some time. Including the heightened security.
I won't bother with *this* beta!
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I once complimented a woman for her Christmas brooch, which had tiny, multicolored, rapidly flickering LEDs on it. "I use it at work," she said, when she has to feed Alzheimer's patients. They fixate on the flickering brooch, she explained, which gives them the calming and the concentration needed to accept her spoonfeeding.
I hope other caregivers experiment with LEDs.
That high-cost form of care adds up too. Here in Canada, publicly-funded health care — together with retail health care costs outside of the public system (like prescription drugs) — cost about 9% or 10% of GDP...I forget the exact number. By the same yardstick, U.S. health care is 13% of GDP. So tlhingan is right, the user-pay system *is* more expensive. Obamacare will have reduced U.S. costs a bit by now, but maybe not by enough to make a dent in the 13% figure.
From www.webelements.com/cerium... "It is the most abundant of the rare earth metals and is found in minerals including allanite, monazite, cerite, and bastnaesite. There are large deposits found in India, Brazil and the USA."
I saw one price point online, $12 per kilogram. To my eye, that's cheap and suggests ready availability. Especially for the ingredient in the CalTech fuel-making process which gets regenerated.
My provincial goverment is using your quick and violent method, in fact, to destroy about 30,000 hard drives.
Well, not exactly *your* method, using bullets. But the same idea.
As they take each old computer out of service during a government-wide system upgrade, they:
1. Remove the hard drive.
2. Drill through it once, using a cordless drill. Right there in the office!
Full munching and recovery of recyclable materials takes place later at a depot. The important thing is to keep citizens' private data private! It's leaks to the media which drives the paranoia, by the way.
In the summer of 1961, as a kid, I got to play tic-tac-toe on the new Axel Wenner-Gren computer at the University of British Columbia. No way can I remember the model, but the Wikipedia article on Wenner-Gren suggests that it was a Wegematic 1000.
It filled a room, and they say its air conditioner was housed in a second room. Ah, tubes... It had something like 32 words of memory. I typed my move on an electric typewriter, and it re-drew the board in typewriter characters a few seconds later.
My older sister used it to customize a job application letter for a number of different companies. That surely is one of the first end-user mail-merges in history.
And to think I'm not 60 yet. Computers really are new!
Why? If we do, our enterprise-wide custom-programmed Online Timesheet application will cease to function. It's a custom Java app, running on top of something from PeopleSoft and apparently using some obscure IE6 "feature". No, I'm not from IT, I can't tell you which feature. All I know is, that's the official explanation from the IT department for staying with IE6, essentially forever.
Proof? One frustrated tech-savvy colleague installed IE7, and lost all access to his timesheet. Of course, you cannot back-install to IE6, so he's trapped.
But here's the larger irony. That timesheet app works perfectly in Opera's default install. And keeps working through Opera upgrades.
So the said colleague has installed Opera (against corporate policy, which is Microsoft exclusively) to regain access to his timesheet.
Sigh... at least our IT department uses other means to keep us secure from all the nasties which could exploit IE6. But I sure miss those tabs...
Yep, I've used sulphur powder twice for spills, once in a chem lab and once from a thermometer at home.
Sulphur powder is preferred over zinc for home use. Sulphur is readily purchased from a drugstore, is inexpensive, has no odor when used, is non-staining to clothing/rugs/pets/furniture, and is non-toxic as long as you don't take a match to it.
Whereas zinc powder is (surprise!) flammable.
Make sure you get *powdered* sulphur. It looks like yellow chalk dust. Coarse granules are much less effective for a couple of reasons.
Directions for use (assumes you're dealing with the 5 mg-10 mg mercury of a CFL):
1. Pick up glass first.
2. Sprinkle the dry sulphur powder wherever you think the mercury went. You can use lots, but piles of sulphur powder are overkill.
2. Work it into the area, say by spreading with a disposable cloth. (Careful of glass though!)
3. Wipe it up. Since it's bright yellow, it's easy to see where to clean. Use dry or wet cloth for this. Final clean with vacuum cleaner is optional.
4. Dispose in trash. Sulphur powder is stable and benign to the environment. As others have pointed out, 5 mg mercury in a sulphur amalgam is a low risk.
While mercury does turn dry sulphur a brown color, you don't get enough mercury from a CFL for the brown to be visible to you.
View of IE7 improvements from an amateur end user... I read the "New Look" page . Hmph, all the new features have been in my Opera browser for some time. Including the heightened security. I won't bother with *this* beta!