I also think that having the humans become terrorists during the occupation made many people uncomfortable.
Ah, but don't you find it ironic that the leaders of the insurgents were Cylon's themselves? Things that may have made us uncomfortable on the first viewing have a much different interpretation after watching all of 3.
Not if that's all they said, but it doesn't "play well" on TV.
Actually the issue was that the SAG actors would have boycotted the Oscars just like they did the Golden Globes. Without the stars there's nothing for people to watch.
Personally I'd prefer simple "and the winner is", but the networks want more.
I was supposed to go back for another endoscopy last year. Guess what? I'd rather have colin cancer than have that damned TV camera shoved up my ass again!
Trust me, the pain from a large mass in your colon is much worse than the pain from a colonoscopy. The pain doesn't go away and will leave you doubled over almost continuously. Then to get rid of the pain they have to cut out part of your colon, which is more painful than the mass was. To make matters worse you still need a colonoscopy before they'll schedule the surgery. Thankfully my mass was benign, but my grandmother's sized mass was malignant. As much as I hate my five year screenings, they're still better than the initial problem.
Now, if Obama really did win in NH, that would be two victories, which would inspire those in SC, and if he were to win that one as well, Florida voters would be more inclined to vote for him.
It really doesn't matter who wins the Florida Democratic Primary. Because the state moved the primary election date up to before Super Tuesday, the national parties decided to punish the state by decreasing the number of delegates to the convention. The Republican party cut our number of delegates in half. The Democratic party took all our delegates away. So a Florida Democrat's primary election vote doesn't count at all.
Ultraviolet photographs might work, but since water absorbs longer wavelengths infrared photographs may not show anything.
On a side note, that's why everything underwater looks blue-green without a supplemental light, the red wavelength has been mostly absorbed.
A bit of a late reply, but yes. The last office I worked in had this kind of arrangement. We had 6 person offices, each office had a laser printer and shredder six full cubicles, and one half cubicle for the printer & shredder. The only problems were that the organization had tried to cram too many cubicles into some of the offices, and some visitors to the office would forget to shut the door.
According to the ninth amendment, we do have the right to privacy. Although not specified in the other 9 amendments the ninth states "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
As did I about two years ago, so I know pretty much what your mother went through and I agree with you. The one thing that surprises me is that this news article was released in November. Typically every October (Breast Cancer awareness month for those who don't know) the news media searches for some medical research that they can misrepresent as the "cure" for breast cancer. I just hope that this research might help people with metastatic breast cancer, but I'm not holding my breath.
Since my diagnosis I've been convinced that the best way to treat breast cancer is with early detection. DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ) can be treated by surgery and radiation with no chemotherapy needed. Since Ductal Carcinoma accounts for 80% of all breast cancer, catching it while it's still non-invasive in all inflicted with it would go a long way toward preventing anyone from needing chemo for breast cancer. It wouldn't help with more rare forms of breast cancer such as Lobular Carcinoma or Inflammatory Breast Cancer, but then more research money could be directed at those.
That said, I'm glad that advances have been made with the research money being spent on breast cancer. There was a time, not long ago, when the only option was Radical mastectomy where all breast tissue was removed, including part of the pectoral muscle and all the lymph nodes in the area (potentially causing permanently swollen arms). Advances have been made in many areas over the years. In surgery sentinel node biopsy lowers potential for post-surgical edema called lymphedema. The use of radiation treatments reduces the amount of tissue loss from surgery. New drug therapies have been discovered both hormonal and chemo (Tamoxifen, Herceptin, the taxane drugs, etc.). Also palliative treatments have been improved. Anti-emetics are much better now than they use to be and don't cause as many undesired side effects. Procrit can be used to help prevent anemia. Drugs like Neulasta can help stimulate the creation of neutrophils to help shorten the length of time a person's immune system is compromised.
Altogether the research has helped, but it does get tiring hearing every year that the "cure" for breast cancer has been discovered.
If you don't vote you don't have the right to complain, no matter how bad your choices are.
Actually, if you vote you have no right to complain, because you essentially agree to participate in a democratic system that is utterly, completely, hopelessly corrupt. If you're in America, you have the right to complain either way. The only question is will other people pay any attention to your complaints.
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For those who don't wish to fileshare, you can now buy singles on-line. The record company has long had a disconnect between what they market (singles on the radio) and what they sell (CD albums). They got away with this because you couldn't buy singles. Now you can, so many people are going to save their money and only buy the one or two songs they really want. The record companies have been selling singles for many years, originally on 45 RPM records with one song per side. The second side song wasn't always released on a full album or to the radio. Then when cassette tape came out they started selling cassette singles with one song per side. Just because they haven't been easy to find doesn't mean they didn't exist.
I'll admit that I use my debit card for almost everything. I still like having the option of using cash though if only for one reason that I didn't mention in my previous post. As long as we use paper currency if my debit card gets lost or stolen I can drive to the bank and withdraw money to pay for things while I wait for a new card to be issued and mailed to me. Surviving for a few days without any way of paying for necessities like gas, food, or medicine gets much harder. Not every store accepts checks and not all places of business accept payment over the phone.
Can't pay kid's allowance with plastic (technically you can, but then they don't learn how to handle their own finances since mommy & daddy have to do it for them which is the purpose of an allowance anyway)
More difficult to transfer money between individuals This wouldn't be a problem for large transactions like buying a used car, but you wouldn't want to call the bank or write a check for small sums every time you borrowed a few dollars from someone.
Dependant on networks never going down. This is a big one. Natural disasters can affect financial networks (even in unaffected parts of the country) and prevent debit cards from working.
Can't work if the power is out. Stores can still accept cash when the power is out. Granted most stores will close if this is the case, but not always.
I'd start with wiring the house for a security system. Unless the house is overly large I wouldn't bother with putting in an intercom system (that is unless you want to pipe your music to all rooms of the house at once). In wall or ceiling speakers are a must for the living/great room.
Then I'd move on to wiring for a home automation system that would run the lights, monitor the security system, control the temperature. The main thing I'd do though being in a hurricane prone location would be to install roll down shutters and have the control system centrally located with the home automation.
Build a small network room with both phone and cable jacks. You could also put the circuit breaker box in this room. Put all phone wiring in there along with Cable/DSL modem, router, etc. If you put this room in the right location (i.e. just behind wherever you plan to put your living room entertainment center) then you could also use this room to get easy access to the wiring of all your A/V components. If you don't put this room there, you still want to consider building in easy access to the back of the entertainment center.
If the house is more than one story, consider a centralized vacuum system.
I'm not sure I'd put many computerized gadgets into the kitchen, except for the home automation of lights and phone. If you're much of a cook spend your kitchen money on a convection oven a good refrigerator, and a high quality stove (if you want high tech you could go with an induction stove). Consider an under sink hot water heater for instant hot water from the tap. Don't forget a good water filtration system (possibly for the whole house and not just the kitchen).
The class of drugs that are extracted from the yew tree are the taxanes. Although the Pacific Yew may be scarce, there's also one other type of taxane, Docetaxel that's derived from the European yew tree. Not being an oncologist (just someone who's been treated with Docetaxel) I'm not completely familiar with the differences between the two are, but according to Wikipedia Paclitaxel is more potent than other taxanes.
Finding that the soil around a yew tree can be a source of taxanes should help prevent the loss of the Pacific Yew though.
Well, it could explain why the Chinese are so far ahead of the Western Hemisphere in math and science if they've managed to prove that two non-intersecting lines can be perpendicular. something like that would have far reaching consequences, and I'm very surprised that they haven't released the proof yet.
Either that or the BBC translator probably doesn't know much about math and missed some important detail like "in a non-Euclidean system where...", "Prove or disprove", or "the projection of the line onto the plane" that to a translator wouldn't make much sense, but to a mathematician would.
Somehow I suspect that the problem is the latter. I also suspect the BBC deliberately picked what looked like the most difficult problem from the Chinese entrance exam.
I have not idea how to start the Chinese test. I don't think you should feel too bad about not knowing how to start it since it appears that there's a typo in the Chinese question. The first part asks the student to prove that BD is perpendicular to A1C, but as far as I can tell those two lines should never cross being in separate planes.
Disclaimer, yes I do have a math degree, and remember my trig, but it's been a long time since I took geometry.
I'm hardly an expert in relativity, but from what I remember, relativity only comes into play when speeds of an object come within close order of the speed of light in a vacuum. Scientists have on several occasions experimented with slowing down, or even stopping light Slow Light Experiments
I'm not sure about other models, but on the remote for the Scheduler model, you can press two buttons on the remote simultaneously and it will dock itself as well (as long as it's within range of the docking station).
Right off hand I don't know what the boiling point of coffee is, but I suspect that it's not very different from the boiling point of water. By the time it reached 300 F, it would have completely vaporised into steam (i.e. the hottest temperature any liquid can reach is its boiling point. When the entire volume of liquid turns to gas then the temperature starts to rise again.). But then again even if the boiling point of water is over 300 F, you would scald yourself when you tried to drink it.
Sorry to hear about your wife's aunt's diagnosis. If she hasn't found it yet, the website http://www.breastcancer.org/ has a lot of information. It really helped me during my diagnosis and treatment last year.
Is there any woman still out there not aware that sometimes her boobs can develop lumps that will kill her? If such an utterly clueless person exists, is turning websites pink really the best way to communicate with her?
That's not really the problem. Most women, at least in developed parts of the world, know that they can develop breast cancer. The problem is that the possibility of being diagnosed with breast cancer is terrifying. The women at highest risk were raised in an age where breast cancer wasn't a treatable disease. They've been told, but it hasn't yet sunk in that there are treatments (not cures) for breast cancer. They feel that the treatment is worse than the disease. They're scared to even get a mammogram. Unfortunately this leads to diagnosis at a much later stage in the illness. The earlier the illness is diagnosed, the easier it is to treat.
Another problem is that people don't realize that even teenagers can get breast cancer (very rarely but my mother worked with a woman who had breast cancer at 19). Doctor's don't start recommending mammograms till a woman is over 40. There are women who get diagnosed with extensive breast cancer in their very first mammogram.
As a side note, yes men can and do get breast cancer. It's usually diagnosed at a later stage then in women because men aren't screened for it. The surgeon who removed my tumor (stage 2 breast cancer) has also treated men with breast cancer.
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However, there are some situations where it could be used. Hospitals could use it to prevent taking bacteria into a clean room housing a severely immune-compromised person. It might also be slightly useful to immune compromised (either natural AIDS, etc. or medically induced chemo/radiation) persons in their homes. Touching a keyboard or mouse with even a small break in the skin can cause serious infection for such people.
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Ah, but don't you find it ironic that the leaders of the insurgents were Cylon's themselves? Things that may have made us uncomfortable on the first viewing have a much different interpretation after watching all of 3.
Not if that's all they said, but it doesn't "play well" on TV.
Actually the issue was that the SAG actors would have boycotted the Oscars just like they did the Golden Globes. Without the stars there's nothing for people to watch.
Personally I'd prefer simple "and the winner is", but the networks want more.
Trust me, the pain from a large mass in your colon is much worse than the pain from a colonoscopy. The pain doesn't go away and will leave you doubled over almost continuously. Then to get rid of the pain they have to cut out part of your colon, which is more painful than the mass was. To make matters worse you still need a colonoscopy before they'll schedule the surgery. Thankfully my mass was benign, but my grandmother's sized mass was malignant. As much as I hate my five year screenings, they're still better than the initial problem.
It really doesn't matter who wins the Florida Democratic Primary. Because the state moved the primary election date up to before Super Tuesday, the national parties decided to punish the state by decreasing the number of delegates to the convention. The Republican party cut our number of delegates in half. The Democratic party took all our delegates away. So a Florida Democrat's primary election vote doesn't count at all.
Ultraviolet photographs might work, but since water absorbs longer wavelengths infrared photographs may not show anything. On a side note, that's why everything underwater looks blue-green without a supplemental light, the red wavelength has been mostly absorbed.
A bit of a late reply, but yes. The last office I worked in had this kind of arrangement. We had 6 person offices, each office had a laser printer and shredder six full cubicles, and one half cubicle for the printer & shredder. The only problems were that the organization had tried to cram too many cubicles into some of the offices, and some visitors to the office would forget to shut the door.
According to the ninth amendment, we do have the right to privacy. Although not specified in the other 9 amendments the ninth states "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
As did I about two years ago, so I know pretty much what your mother went through and I agree with you. The one thing that surprises me is that this news article was released in November. Typically every October (Breast Cancer awareness month for those who don't know) the news media searches for some medical research that they can misrepresent as the "cure" for breast cancer. I just hope that this research might help people with metastatic breast cancer, but I'm not holding my breath.
Since my diagnosis I've been convinced that the best way to treat breast cancer is with early detection. DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ) can be treated by surgery and radiation with no chemotherapy needed. Since Ductal Carcinoma accounts for 80% of all breast cancer, catching it while it's still non-invasive in all inflicted with it would go a long way toward preventing anyone from needing chemo for breast cancer. It wouldn't help with more rare forms of breast cancer such as Lobular Carcinoma or Inflammatory Breast Cancer, but then more research money could be directed at those.
That said, I'm glad that advances have been made with the research money being spent on breast cancer. There was a time, not long ago, when the only option was Radical mastectomy where all breast tissue was removed, including part of the pectoral muscle and all the lymph nodes in the area (potentially causing permanently swollen arms). Advances have been made in many areas over the years. In surgery sentinel node biopsy lowers potential for post-surgical edema called lymphedema. The use of radiation treatments reduces the amount of tissue loss from surgery. New drug therapies have been discovered both hormonal and chemo (Tamoxifen, Herceptin, the taxane drugs, etc.). Also palliative treatments have been improved. Anti-emetics are much better now than they use to be and don't cause as many undesired side effects. Procrit can be used to help prevent anemia. Drugs like Neulasta can help stimulate the creation of neutrophils to help shorten the length of time a person's immune system is compromised.
Altogether the research has helped, but it does get tiring hearing every year that the "cure" for breast cancer has been discovered.
IANAD, just an informed breast cancer survivor.
For those who don't wish to fileshare, you can now buy singles on-line. The record company has long had a disconnect between what they market (singles on the radio) and what they sell (CD albums). They got away with this because you couldn't buy singles. Now you can, so many people are going to save their money and only buy the one or two songs they really want.
The record companies have been selling singles for many years, originally on 45 RPM records with one song per side. The second side song wasn't always released on a full album or to the radio. Then when cassette tape came out they started selling cassette singles with one song per side. Just because they haven't been easy to find doesn't mean they didn't exist.
From the article: "Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria". Looks like he's already in school.
Yes, but either we're few and far between, or like me don't post often.
I'll admit that I use my debit card for almost everything. I still like having the option of using cash though if only for one reason that I didn't mention in my previous post. As long as we use paper currency if my debit card gets lost or stolen I can drive to the bank and withdraw money to pay for things while I wait for a new card to be issued and mailed to me. Surviving for a few days without any way of paying for necessities like gas, food, or medicine gets much harder. Not every store accepts checks and not all places of business accept payment over the phone.
Build a small network room with both phone and cable jacks. You could also put the circuit breaker box in this room. Put all phone wiring in there along with Cable/DSL modem, router, etc. If you put this room in the right location (i.e. just behind wherever you plan to put your living room entertainment center) then you could also use this room to get easy access to the wiring of all your A/V components. If you don't put this room there, you still want to consider building in easy access to the back of the entertainment center.
If the house is more than one story, consider a centralized vacuum system.
I'm not sure I'd put many computerized gadgets into the kitchen, except for the home automation of lights and phone. If you're much of a cook spend your kitchen money on a convection oven a good refrigerator, and a high quality stove (if you want high tech you could go with an induction stove). Consider an under sink hot water heater for instant hot water from the tap. Don't forget a good water filtration system (possibly for the whole house and not just the kitchen).
Finding that the soil around a yew tree can be a source of taxanes should help prevent the loss of the Pacific Yew though.
Either that or the BBC translator probably doesn't know much about math and missed some important detail like "in a non-Euclidean system where...", "Prove or disprove", or "the projection of the line onto the plane" that to a translator wouldn't make much sense, but to a mathematician would.
Somehow I suspect that the problem is the latter. I also suspect the BBC deliberately picked what looked like the most difficult problem from the Chinese entrance exam.
It's in both actually, the Kansas City metro area spans across the state boundary between Kansas and Missouri.
I'm hardly an expert in relativity, but from what I remember, relativity only comes into play when speeds of an object come within close order of the speed of light in a vacuum. Scientists have on several occasions experimented with slowing down, or even stopping light Slow Light Experiments
I'm not sure about other models, but on the remote for the Scheduler model, you can press two buttons on the remote simultaneously and it will dock itself as well (as long as it's within range of the docking station).
Right off hand I don't know what the boiling point of coffee is, but I suspect that it's not very different from the boiling point of water. By the time it reached 300 F, it would have completely vaporised into steam (i.e. the hottest temperature any liquid can reach is its boiling point. When the entire volume of liquid turns to gas then the temperature starts to rise again.). But then again even if the boiling point of water is over 300 F, you would scald yourself when you tried to drink it.
Sorry to hear about your wife's aunt's diagnosis. If she hasn't found it yet, the website http://www.breastcancer.org/ has a lot of information. It really helped me during my diagnosis and treatment last year.
That's not really the problem. Most women, at least in developed parts of the world, know that they can develop breast cancer. The problem is that the possibility of being diagnosed with breast cancer is terrifying. The women at highest risk were raised in an age where breast cancer wasn't a treatable disease. They've been told, but it hasn't yet sunk in that there are treatments (not cures) for breast cancer. They feel that the treatment is worse than the disease. They're scared to even get a mammogram. Unfortunately this leads to diagnosis at a much later stage in the illness. The earlier the illness is diagnosed, the easier it is to treat.
Another problem is that people don't realize that even teenagers can get breast cancer (very rarely but my mother worked with a woman who had breast cancer at 19). Doctor's don't start recommending mammograms till a woman is over 40. There are women who get diagnosed with extensive breast cancer in their very first mammogram.
As a side note, yes men can and do get breast cancer. It's usually diagnosed at a later stage then in women because men aren't screened for it. The surgeon who removed my tumor (stage 2 breast cancer) has also treated men with breast cancer.
However, there are some situations where it could be used. Hospitals could use it to prevent taking bacteria into a clean room housing a severely immune-compromised person. It might also be slightly useful to immune compromised (either natural AIDS, etc. or medically induced chemo/radiation) persons in their homes. Touching a keyboard or mouse with even a small break in the skin can cause serious infection for such people.