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Will electrical goods brought in this country, televisions, DVD recorders etc , work O K in Spain ? my country is U K

what happens to obsolete electrical goods ? there must be warehouses full of these goods eg old televisions -not plasma ,lcd or ipod's before the colour photo versions appeared and all other types of electrical stuff oh yeah where can get them from

Which countries or companies are able to launch satellites today? I looked on Wikipedia - but it still has the UK listed as launch capable (because we launched one in 1971 - Hmmm - sadly our rocket days are over! - come to think of it our car, motorcycle, train, plane, television, electrical goods, computer, radio, and anything manufactured days are over too). So which countries could get a satellite into orbit today? And are any close to exiting or entering the club?

what is the difference in quality, electrical usage and quality of picture in televisions? why is LED more $? im loooking at tv`s that have 60htz, 120,240. what is the benefits of a higher htz unit? and why is LED apparently better than a non-LED unit? Thanks in advance all you wonder answering folks!

TV consumer rights on electrical goods? I bought a Television from Curry's in February 2009. It has now become faulty. what rights as a consumer against this company as this TV is not yet 2 years old & has become faulty within less than 2 years surely when you purchase a product which cost just short of 500 pounds you think it would last longer than this. I contacted the company & they just keep fobbing me off saying that the warrenty had run out & it was nothing to do with them they gave me a number to ring & the people said they would send an engineer round to look at the TV but would charge. What rights do I have.

Old CRT 14" Televisions ......... ? I hav got three of these in excellent working order and wish to dispose of them usefully rather than dump them in the local council recycling site ( where they will probably get sold on anyway ). They have no value nowadays, being replaced by LCD models, but does anyone know of a charity that will take electrical goods like this?

Does your child have a television in their bedroom? My son is almost 7 and at an age where he's starting to go to friends' houses to play.Most of these kids have T.V,D.V.D etc.They seem a little put out on the return playdate when they find no electrical goods in my son's bedroom.This isn't a poverty issue,we could afford one.I just don't thing it's appropriate.What's your take on this?

I am 14 and am looking for some way to make money over school holidays and weekends. Any Help? I am good at film work and have my own camera and professional editing software and a DVD burner, am also good at rigging and setting up electrical things like televisions and free view, DVD players etc. I have computer and printer and would like any ideas to make some money.

Kittens and electrical cords? I am going to get my very first kitten next month. Until then, I am reading lots of books and doing as much research as I can so that I can make a good life for my new friend. The only thing I cannot seem to find information about is what exactly to do about electrical cords. I live in an apartment so we have cords in every room...from computers, to televisions, to lamps, to playstations; they are everywhere. There are very few cords that I could realistically eliminate, but I do not want kitty to be harmed or to harm our expensive things. How can I protect cords from kitty and kitty from cords? Any ideas and/or personal experience would be greatly apprecicated. Thanks so much!

anyone having good knowledge of electrical engineering, please answer this simple question? suppose,i am watching television at night. i just switch it off with remote. i don't switch off the plug switch.will the electricity meter be still running assuming all other electrical appliances are switched off in my house. answer with respect to other appliances also. please answer in scientific/mathematical terms how much percent will be still consumed? if possible, relate it to some scientific law by a scientist.

what to do with an old television ? I've got a telly approx 8 years old. There's nothing wrong with it - just replacing it. What can I do with the old telly ? I don't think charity shops take electrical goods and I really don't want to just bin it.

Electrical problems, any advice or opinions? Hi, I've been told I may have a possible reverse polarity problem or a ground issue (its not visible to see the actual problem but most of my outlets spark when something is plugged in). I was wondering if its safe to plug in televisions, video game systems, etc. because they won't be effected long term or if i'm better off to call an electrician to take care of it. Which in return will more than likely be a hefty expense. Any advice or opinions which be much appreciated, thanks.

How to fix a tuner on a 50" phillips plasma television? I get half screen and I am pretty good at fixing things. Pipes, electrical wiring, Sheetrock, small engine (lawn mowers) etc... I even fixed a radio before but I am stumped on my television. I believe it's the tuner but not sure what to look for. I can sodder any replacement parts I may need if anyone can point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance.

Dual Insignia televisions. How to turn one tv off without turning both off? I run a home business that requires a television to monitor outdoor IRL cameras from around the house and then one is just for general TV use. They sit in a cabinet one on the top shelf and one on the bottom. I don't know how to turn off one without turning them both off at the same time or turning the volume on both of them at the same time. Does anyone know how to program each remote to each TV without mixing the signals? They are identical televisions. I've tinkered with the idea of puting electrical tape over the eye of the tv that projects the camera views but there has to be a better way. Help please. Thank you for your time.

Is being computer savvy a huge part of electrical engineering? Hello I am an electrical engineering student at Drexel university. I am currently a freshman and am finishing up the rest of my pre requisites. I really enjoy that I will learn about how complicated electric circuits work, such as those in avionics and radar systems and plasma screen televisions. My problem is that when I am in conversions with other ee students, they always seem to be talking about computers and computer science. They go on about how their computer has (here's how bad I am if this example sounds totally ridiculous) 15 mega byte processor and other things. Today we were talking about sending a 1.6 giga byte file folder through email and how it exceeds the maximum data transmission and I said we could just split it into two right? I was looked at as if I had two heads. I understand giga mega and all of the prefixes. I love physics and math and one of the reasons I chose ee is because it is one of the more math intensive engineering fields. I love the fact that one day I could build I circuit that solves a problem in the avionics industry. But I hate computers. I like using programs on computers to solve things but I don't give two flying hoots about how many bytes or hexadecimal code or anything like that. Programming is out of the question. I just cannot get into computers that way or understand them. That being said, can I become an electrical engineer and just design circuits? I want to eventually get into avionics, systems engineering or control engineering. Would we suit me, or is mechanical a better choice?

Should Sports Be Eliminated To Reduce Global Warming? Look how much is spent and how much pollution is associated with sports. From new construction for the Olympics, to transportation for the players and fans, billions of man miles are traveled each year to and from sporting events. Not only that, but then theirs the broadcasters and the electrical usage of the television and radio stations. All totaled there must be a measurable amount of co2 put into our atmosphere each day because of sports. Wouldn't it be better if we just made car racing, soccer, football and all other sports illegal worldwide? Are you going to boycott watching the Olympics to help save the planet?

How do I harness radio static? I am aware that radio or television static is caused by backround radiation or something(more info on this would also be good). How could I harness this, and what electrical components would I need?

does it make a difference in pic quality,depending on how expensive my hdmi cable is? i want to get the best poss pic on my full hd 1080p television. ive asked the question lots of times 2 sales people in electrical stores and have got a very mixed response. can anybody tell me weather the major exspensive cables are better and worth spending all the money on. i will add im not rich, but i am a bit of a perfectionist lol. thanks for anybodys help.

business studies survey coursework...? please do this survey, thanks alot. just write the one answer to the questions or copy and paste the whole thing,i duno up 2 u =] but please select ONE answer only for each Q thanks alot !(: 1)Please select gender: Male Female 2)Which of the following best describe your age: 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-35 35-50 50+ 3)Which of the following best describe your type of occupation: Higher managerial - administrative or professional Intermediate managerial - administrative or professional Supervisors or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional Skiiled manual workers Semiskilled and unskilled workers Pensioners, widows, casual or lower-grade workers Student 4)When choosing a general good, do you like to look at all brands available or have a specific brand already in mind? I like to look at all the brands available I already have a specific brand in mind 5)How often and when do you shop online? Daily Weekly Monthly Yearly Only when I can not find the good required locally 6)Do posting and packaging fees influence whether or not you shop online? Yes- I only shop online where free delivery is offered or posting and packaging fees are reasonable. Sometimes – I am more likely to shop online if free delivery is offered or posting and packaging fees are reasonable. No - I shop online anyway 7)When purchasing a good do you generally spend a reasonable amount of time looking at the options available beforehand and making your decision? Yes No 8)Please write next to each the most likely place you are to purchase the following goods from AND whether you are most likely to purchase the item locally or non-locally: e.g - electical goods - comet - locally (: Electrical Goods Furniture D.I.Y Jewelry Toys Gadgets Novelty Gifts Sporting Goods 9)When purchasing the goods, in general, which of the following do you prioritise: Brand Price Appearance Location i.e. – easy and convenient to purchase Service including their return policy 10)Would you prefer to buy locally? Yes No 11)Which radio station do you listen to most often? BBC Radio 5 live Manx Radio talkSPORT Nation Radio Kiss100 Radio 1 Radio 2 Radio 3 Radio 4 Classic FM Other ( if so please state) ………. 12) Which of the following forms of advertisements is usually the most effective on you? Newspapers Radio Internet Leaflets Posters Television 13) Which channel do you watch more often? BBC 1 BBC 2 ITV Channel Four Channel Five Sky One Scuzz Other (if so please state)……….. 14)What time period are you most likely to shop between – other than for groceries? 9am-12pm 12pm-3pm 3pm-5pm 15)Would you be interested in an Argos in your local area OR if there is an Argos in your local area do you find it useful? I find the Argos in my local area very useful I do not find the Argos in my local area very useful I would be interested in an Argos in my local area There is not an Argos in my local area and I do not want one 16)Do you think it is important that trolleys and baskets are available? Yes No 17)If free catalogues are available are you likely to take one? Yes No 18)Would you like to be able to have the option of picking up the good from the store on the day you purchase it, in addition to a home delivery service? Yes No

Europhiles? if the EU has no affect on our daily lives, What is this then? Household: Home Information Packs (HIPs); Fortnightly bin collections; Higher household electricity bills, more wind turbines; Soaring water bills. Consumer affairs: Higher food prices; Written and pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets (including what font to be used); Disappearance of the Crown signs on pints; Lists of ingredients and warnings on food products; Phasing out of incandescent bulbs; Expensive electrical goods, and higher Council tax; New Royal Mail pricing rules; Bureaucracy at the bank; High price of energy saving products; Banning vitamins and minerals; Fewer and more expensive fish; Extinction of swathes of vegetable varieties; The end of selling in pounds and ounces only. Transport and motoring: Car booster seats for children; Photocard driving licences; End of many rural bus routes; Creation of Railtrack; Harder and more expensive motorcycle tests; Preventing the return of the Routemaster bus; In future, all new cars will need to keep headlights on during the day. Law and order: Government’s inability to expel EU criminals from the UK. Media, sport and Entertainment: TV airtime quotas; Banning caps on foreign football players, higher wages, higher ticket prices for fans; Abolition of the 192 inquiries service and replacement with 118; Television advertising rules. Workplace: Banning workers from earning higher wages instead of taking holidays. Economy: The run on Northern Rock; Northern Rock downsizing; Post office closures. Health: Fewer training hours for doctors, compromised patient safety; Higher costs for the NHS. Before you dismiss this, all this came from the horses mouth! Here are all the references to EU Directives implemented in the last decade! the EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2002/91/EC), Fortnightly bin collections. The EU’s Landfill Directive (1999/31/EC) the EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), the EU Tobacco Products Directive Television Without Frontiers Directive (89/552/EEC). Disappearance of the Crown signs on pints. The EU’s Measuring Instruments Directive (2004/22/EC), The EU’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (2002/96/EC), the EU Postal Services Directive (97/67/EC) The Insurance Mediation Directive (2002/92/EC), The Distance Marketing Directive (2002/65/EC) The EU’s Food Supplements Directive (2002/46/EC) EU law (Directive 80/181/EEC), EU Directives 2003/20/EC, 91/439/EC, 98/95/EC, 2003/33/EC, (2001/37/EC), 2003/641/EC. What do you think? ;) Sissel - at least people can email me if they don't agree with what i say, they i will be only happy to back up my point. you carry on hiding behind your sickle & hammer.....Oooops i meant EU flag. hehe. i think the correct term is BOOYAHH!!!!

can you help me with my maths? INSTRUCTIONS This assignment requires you to complete a number of tasks. Each task should include full working and will be completed in class time. Time may also be utilised out of class to complete this assignment. Each question should me answered. Your level of achievement will be based on the quality of response for each task. TASK 1 While shopping for a new LCD television you discover the following prices at three different shops. Prices are for the some item. Mad Max Electrics: $975.00 cash Dinky Di’s Discounts: 6 payments of $176 Metrovision: $1179 minus 10% discount Which shop is offering the best price? Mad max electrics: $975.00 Dinky di’s discounts: 6 х $176 = $ 1056 Mertovision: 0.10 х $1179 =$ 117.90 $1179 - $117.90 = $1061.10 Mad max electrics offers the best price because it is the cheapest. TASK 2 As the new manager for Ishy’s Discount Stores you need to calculate the final selling price of items below. As a general rule, entertainment products are 100 % mark-up, other electrical products are 50 % mark-up and clothing is 15 % mark-up. You will also need to add on the GST (at 10%) in order to give your staff the amounts to mark on the goods for sale. ITEM COST PRICE MP3 $15.50 MEN’S TRACK PANTS $5.00 CD/DVD PLAYER $35.00 ELECTRIC KETTLE $9.90 MP3 $15.50 + 100% = $31 $31 + 10% = $34.10 Men’s Track Pants $5.00 +15% = $5.78 $5.78 + 10% = $77 CD/DVD Played $9.90 + 50% = $70 $70 + 10% = $77 Electric Kettle $9.90 + 50% = $14.85 $14.85 + 10% = $30 TASK 3 In September there will be a store wide promotion. Electrical goods will be 20 % off, clothing 50 % off with 10 % off everything else in the store. Work out prices for the items from Task 2 during September. MP3 $15.50 - 10% = $13.17 Men’s Track Pants $5.00 -50% = $2.50 CD/DVD Played $9.90 - 10% = $31.50 Electric Kettle $9.90 - 20% = $7.92 TASK 4 One of your top workers has come to see you about an apparent mistake in her pay. She should receive $14.50 per hour for normal hours worked (maximum 8 hours per day) With time-and-a-half for any other week day hours and the first 3 hours on Saturday and double time for any other hours at the weekend. Her time sheet shows the following details: DAY START TIME FINISH TIME MEAL BREAK Monday 10:00 am 6:00 pm Yes Tuesday 12.30 am 5:30 pm No Wednesday 9:00 am 6:00 pm Yes Thursday 10:00 am 9:30 pm Yes Friday 1:00 pm 5:00 pm No Saturday 10:00 am 4:00 pm No Sunday 10:00 am 3:00 pm Yes Calculate her gross pay for the hours shown. Monday 10:00am – 6:00pm = 7hr $14.50 х 7hr = $101.50 Tuesday 12:30am – 5:30pm = 5he 30min $14.50 х 5.40 = $78.30 Wednesday 9:00am – 6:00pm = 10hr $14.50 х 8 = $116 $21.75 х 2 = $43.44 $43.44 + $116 = $1205.44 Thursday 10:00am – 9:30pm = 12hr 30min $24.75 х 4hr 30min = $93.50 $93.50 + $14.50 = $108 Friday 1:00pm – 5:00pm = 5hr $14.50 х 5hr = $75.00 Saturday 10:00am – 4:00pm = 7hr $29 х 3hr = $87 $21.25 х 4 = $87 $87 + $87 = $174 Sunday 10:00am – 3:00pm = 6hr $29 х 6hr = $174 Time and a half = $14.50 ÷ 2 = $7.25 Double = $14.50 + $14.50 =$29 TASK 5 Income details for the year 9for a client of your business, Texes ‘R’ Us) are attached. Any other relevant information is included. Work out how much tax your client should have paid and the amount of any refund/ tax owing. Your calculations should also include the medicare lecy. All calculations and explanations should be neatly set out and mathematically organised to present to your client. Gross payments: $76432 Total tax withheld: $18240 Deductions: $3204

can you help me on my maths? INSTRUCTIONS This assignment requires you to complete a number of tasks. Each task should include full working and will be completed in class time. Time may also be utilised out of class to complete this assignment. Each question should me answered. Your level of achievement will be based on the quality of response for each task. TASK 1 While shopping for a new LCD television you discover the following prices at three different shops. Prices are for the some item. Mad Max Electrics: $975.00 cash Dinky Di’s Discounts: 6 payments of $176 Metrovision: $1179 minus 10% discount Which shop is offering the best price? Mad max electrics: $975.00 Dinky di’s discounts: 6 х $176 = $ 1056 Mertovision: 0.10 х $1179 =$ 117.90 $1179 - $117.90 = $1061.10 Mad max electrics offers the best price because it is the cheapest. TASK 2 As the new manager for Ishy’s Discount Stores you need to calculate the final selling price of items below. As a general rule, entertainment products are 100 % mark-up, other electrical products are 50 % mark-up and clothing is 15 % mark-up. You will also need to add on the GST (at 10%) in order to give your staff the amounts to mark on the goods for sale. ITEMCOST PRICE MP3$15.50 MEN’S TRACK PANTS$5.00 CD/DVD PLAYER$35.00 ELECTRIC KETTLE$9.90 MP3 $15.50 + 100% = $31 $31 + 10% = $34.10 Men’s Track Pants $5.00 +15% = $5.78 $5.78 + 10% = $77 CD/DVD Played $9.90 + 50% = $70 $70 + 10% = $77 Electric Kettle $9.90 + 50% = $14.85 $14.85 + 10% = $30 TASK 3 In September there will be a store wide promotion. Electrical goods will be 20 % off, clothing 50 % off with 10 % off everything else in the store. Work out prices for the items from Task 2 during September. MP3 $15.50 - 10% = $13.17 Men’s Track Pants $5.00 -50% = $2.50 CD/DVD Played $9.90 - 10% = $31.50 Electric Kettle $9.90 - 20% = $7.92 TASK 4 One of your top workers has come to see you about an apparent mistake in her pay. She should receive $14.50 per hour for normal hours worked (maximum 8 hours per day) With time-and-a-half for any other week day hours and the first 3 hours on Saturday and double time for any other hours at the weekend. Her time sheet shows the following details: DAYSTART TIMEFINISH TIMEMEAL BREAK Monday10:00 am6:00 pmYes Tuesday12.30 am5:30 pmNo Wednesday9:00 am6:00 pmYes Thursday10:00 am9:30 pmYes Friday1:00 pm5:00 pmNo Saturday10:00 am4:00 pmNo Sunday10:00 am3:00 pmYes Calculate her gross pay for the hours shown. Monday 10:00am – 6:00pm = 7hr $14.50 х 7hr = $101.50 Tuesday 12:30am – 5:30pm = 5he 30min $14.50 х 5.40 = $78.30 Wednesday 9:00am – 6:00pm = 10hr $14.50 х 8 = $116 $21.75 х 2 = $43.44 $43.44 + $116 = $1205.44 Thursday 10:00am – 9:30pm = 12hr 30min $24.75 х 4hr 30min = $93.50 $93.50 + $14.50 = $108 Friday 1:00pm – 5:00pm = 5hr $14.50 х 5hr = $75.00 Saturday 10:00am – 4:00pm = 7hr $29 х 3hr = $87 $21.25 х 4 = $87 $87 + $87 = $174 Sunday 10:00am – 3:00pm = 6hr $29 х 6hr = $174 Time and a half = $14.50 ÷ 2 = $7.25 Double = $14.50 + $14.50 =$29 TASK 5 Income details for the year 9for a client of your business, Texes ‘R’ Us) are attached. Any other relevant information is included. Work out how much tax your client should have paid and the amount of any refund/ tax owing. Your calculations should also include the medicare lecy. All calculations and explanations should be neatly set out and mathematically organised to present to your client. Gross payments: $76432 Total tax withheld: $18240 Deductions: $3204

What is the lowest amount you could cut your food bill to for a month? I have just been reading all the finance news over the last few weeks and it is looking grim even with the rescue packages in place. I would say that the state of things world wide is in financial decline, a depression in other words. For those of us though who have no real money or investments to lose our worry is just getting by and living another day. We have seen an increase in fuel costs this year that has trebled Gas bills and doubled electricity bills. Even water rates have gone up this year and what with the weather the way it has been next year will see this rise again along with all the usual insurance costs. For single people on benefits these folk suffer and struggle the most as the average cost of living for someone in this predicament is really scary to say the least. Unemployment benefit at the moment is 60.50 sixty pounds and fifty pence a week.. The only way someone can manage on this is if three or four share a flat otherwise a single person on there own can already account for at least 190 a hundred and ninety pounds of their benefit with no food, no transport costs for buses no clothes, no shoes, no rainy day fund certainly no insurance policies etc and absolutely nothing in the pocket. If an unemployed person has savings or a fiddle job than they are taking a risk but I can also guarantee that whatever little bit extra they can raise will go on the cost of living. The remaining amount left is 32 .00 thirty two pounds if an individual has no savings or extra income for food for a whole month. You can figure it out Gas at around 80+, Electricity around 30+, Water rates around 22-24, landline phone around 20 twenty pounds a month, an internet connection around 12.00 twelve pounds a month, a mobile phone voucher for emergency use only 10. 00 ten pounds a month, and television license 22 .00 pounds a month on a payment scheme. So if this was you could you manage your entire food bill on 32.00 yes I did say thrity two pounds a month. My own food bill and I am single over the space of a year has gone up from 25/26.00 twenty five twenty six pounds a week to around 33/34.00 thrity three to thirty four pounds and I would say I don't live on the most expensive foods, I don't have a high standard of living but I do know that like fuel bills the cost of the weekly shop has escalated. For a family the weekly shop must have escalated to the point where economies have to be made as what with the credit curnch, and rising costs everything is way out of control. So if you had to could you cut your food bill, and cut your waste? Is it cheaper to live off fresh foods and cook or is covenience foods still the cheapest way to shop and feed your family? List all the things you could save money on here. Here are two from me. Cut out that holiday costing a thousand pounds. Save on fuel bills and don't leave electrical goods on standby. There must be loads more..............

labour, conservative Lib Dems? When the hell are they going to listen? I have just been made redundant this week.It is the second time it has happend to me.I have worked all my life and now again i see my job being exported to China. The companies i worked for exhalted lean manufacturing.Ie get rid of the British staff and import from China direct to the customer and cut out wharehousing and manufacturing in the UK. I have seen my British identity destroyed When i watched the politics show on television today it seems like Cambell has his views on immigration but they are not mine or many peoples views. My views are this Both political parties have failed Britain over a long period of time. We have no industrial base now. We import everything from electrical goods to motor cars. We have no British owned real manufacturing industry so always money is going out of the country to a bank account in the far east.or an oil barron in Russia. Yet we still import workers from other countries to work in foreign owned business. Well it seems i am going to have a lot of time on my hands soon. What i will say is this. My wife is Ukrainian.i am British.and i am not rascist in any way. Who wants to join me in a march from john o goats to westminster, and from lands end to westminster just to get the bloody politicians to start to listen to what the Briish public want answers to?

Can You answer the following questions on batteries? What are the parts of a battery? What happens when you connect a wire to the battery terminals? Where and Why would you connect a load to a battery? With the battery you made, what are the functions of the battery parts? What are the chemical reactions that are associated with the batteries you made? What is potential difference and how is it measured? What are good conductors of electricity? Which metals create the most voltage? Describe the first battery (voltaic). How was it made? Was there an electrical current in your voltaic pile? How was it measured? Name the two types of forces that can result from electric charges You bring two balloons together and they repel. Explain what happens in terms of charges. How can a negatively charged comb be used to determine the charge of an object? Why does the television screen attract dust after it has been wiped clean?

I'm thinking of extending the wire of a electrical coupler? So I need to extend the wire a electrical coupler (I don't know if this is the right word, this is an image of it: http://www.okaphone.com/artikel.asp?id=1045). I want to make it 6 meters (20 feet) long. It has 4 sockets. So I was thinking of getting a 6meter long XVB 3G2,5 cable. Is this good or do I need to thicken the diameter of the cable, because I'm using 4 sockets? I know 2,5 can hold up to 20amps so this should be enough? As I'm only connecting my television and DVD player to it. Don't say that I have to buy a new coupler, I'm someone who doesn't throw something away because I can't use it anymore, I'm someone that makes something useless into a usefull thing. Thanks in advance! Kenneth.

Can excessive exposure to electrical pollution make you thirsty? I have a ton of electric appliances in my home... computers, music equipment, kitchen appliances, televisions, video game devices, fridges... everything is always buzzing and I feel like my body is constantly stressed while home. Lately, I've noticed that whenever I'm home, I feel thirsty no matter how much water I drink. And I tend to eat a ton of fresh fruit and vegetables, very little to no foods that would be causing dehydration (that i know of). So can it be from all the EMF fields? (electromagnetic fields, that emanate from the appliances?). The quality of my water is also not great and I've been looking for a good water purifier. That may be contributing to the thirst as well.

HA HA HA HA.... Those jokers, how can I stop Cryme Tyme breaking into my home ,fourth time this week ? LOL... Those guys, ..HA HA HA .... Stole my HD television, CD players, stereos,and other electrical equiptment ... Good thing it's only money to replace those things .. ..... Oh yeah, they stole my car,too.. Shad and JTG are too much ... Good thing I'm a big fan of theirs ...

Reverse percentages? Can someone please help me. How do I work this out? Hi there, I am very stuck with this 'Reverse Percentages' questions too, so, I have tried my best but I am not quite getting it, so someone, please help me and explain how to work it out...... Here are the questions; 1)Matt's salary is increased by 2% to £22236. How much was his salary before the rise? =£_____ 2)During a promotion, some bags of sweets contain 40% extra free. There are 42 sweets in a bag during the promotion. How many sweets are there normally? =_____ 3)An electrical shop reduces display goods by 10%. A display Television is sold for £90. What is the usual price of the same TV? =£________ 4)The price of a coat is reduced by 60% in a sale. The sale price is £26. What was the price before? =£______ These are the questions, some might think "again" but please do help, please. But please let me know how to work them out, and please try to give the answers too. Please... Thank you, Rizla07!

Fear of big things (this is not a rude question)? Does anybody else have a fear of big buildings or things like massive televisions?? If I am in a car & we are going past Jodrell Bank (cheshire) I can look at it and it make me feel very panicked & sick. I use to work at an electrical store & I could never turn off the big televisions. A very large home would never be any good for me! If I visited some of the worlds biggest buildings I think I would die! angel if I could get over it I would, that type of answer is not very helpful.

Under the American system of regulation, most regulars are selected from what? Under the American system of regulation, most regulars are selected from A) politicians and their friends. B) the industry that is to be regulated. C) consumer advocacy groups. D) university professors who understand the nature of the industry and who understand the true interests of consumers. 2. If regulators force a natural monopoly to price as a perfectly competitive firm would, the natural monopolist A) will earn higher economic profits. B) will earn an economic loss. C) will expand its output. D) will experience a rise in long-term average costs. 3. Cost-of-service regulation allows regulated companies to charge prices that A) reflect the cost of regulating the industry, plus the marginal cost of the product. B) allow monopoly profits to the producer. C) reflect the actual average cost of providing the services to the customer. D) are determined by competition in other geographic markets. 4. Which of the following refers to the capture hypothesis of regulation? A) The ability of the government to capture monopoly profits. B) The control of regulatory agencies by firms in an industry. C) Consumer cost savings captured through regulation. D) Horizontal mergers. 5. This agency is responsible for protecting consumers from products posing fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazards or dangers to children. A) Environmental Protection Agency B) Consumer Product Safety Commission C) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission D) Occupational Safety and Health Administration 6. If a natural monopolist is unregulated then A) the monopoly will produce efficiently from society's point of view. B) the monopoly will produce inefficiently from society's point of view. C) the monopolist will be earning just a normal rate of return on investment. D) the monopolist will determine the profit maximizing quantity by equating marginal cost to the demand curve. 7. Suppose that a regulated industry realizes an increase in the price of inputs used to produce the good. According to the capture theory we would expect A) prices to increase by a little immediately and profits to decrease by a lot. B) there will be some increase in price but not immediately. C) no increase in price. D) a quick increase in price maintaining profits in the industry. 8. Which of the following are exempt from the antitrust laws? A) Colleges and universities B) All professional athletes C) Labor unions D) Deregulated industries 9. All of the following are exempt from antitrust enforcement except A) professional baseball. B) labor unions. C) hospitals. D) television and radio stations. 10. The Supreme Court has defined the offense of monopolization to A) be when only one firm exists in an industry. B) occur when asymmetric information exists. C) include the possession of monopoly power and the willful maintenance of that power. D) be unfair acts in the practice of commerce.

why do we choose everything? Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f... big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of f..... fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f... you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f.... junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f...ed-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons.

What are the effects of electroshock therapy? As a young child, I accidentally shocked myself while plugging in an electronic device. I discovered that it felt good, so I tried it several more times. Since that time, I've been able to see, hear, and feel what seems to be ionic energy. Mostly, I get these sensations from nearly any electrical source: computer screens, televisions, lightbulbs, power-lines, etc. I can control it fairly well. I can also, on occasion, see an ionic discharge around people, which appears almost like a viscous membrane. I can feel personality characteristics, and even one's quality of health. During thunderstorms, I can often tell the direction in which lightning will strike, or the direction it will move through the clouds (in the case of sheet-lightning). I experimented with occult practices as a teenager, and discovered that their efficiency was questionable; so I'm not completely sold on occult or psychic explanations anymore. If anyone can give me a valid, scientific explanation for this phenomenon... I'm open to ideas.

How can we get the word out that Michael Richards is not Jewish? Michael Richards Not a Jew With Source Please ask Mark Simone, who thought that Richards was Jewish, to issue a statement on this and please do so yourself. Mr. Simone erroneously stated several times on his Saturday Morning November 25th, 2006 WABC radio show that Richards was Jewish when in fact Richards is not Jewish. Please click on http://www.wabcradio.com/contactus.asp to email Mark Simone, who is a very good person, but was misinformed on this issue, and other WABC radio personalities about this issue, etc. Please also call WABC Radio and get on the air about this and other issues at 1 800 848-WABC. And please call other talk shows around the country about it, and other issues too. Michael Richards is not a Jew. http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16838 As Cosmo Kramer in "Seinfeld," Richards played one on TV. But he himself is not Jewish—not that there's anything wrong with that. Richards lashed out a heckler at the Laugh Factory last Friday, spitting out the "N" word without humor and with abandon. Audience members booed, several walked out, then Richards himself walked off stage. The incident was caught on a cellphone camera and posted at the TMZ.com Web site, where it ignited a firestorm of criticism against Richards. Richards apologized on "The Late Show With David Letterman" Monday night. "I was at a comedy club trying to do my act, and I got heckled, and I took it badly and went into a rage," he said. "For me to be in a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I'm deeply, deeply sorry. I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this." Fellow comedians and fans have been quick to criticize Richards—and misrepresent his religious background. Comedian Paul Rodriquez held a press conference at the Laugh Factory, saying that Richards should know better, because the Hollywood community defended Jews against actor Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic tirades. The implication was that Richards, a Jew, should not be launching racist attacks. He shouldn't, but he also isn't Jewish. "Someone needs to tell Rodriquez that Michael isn't a Jew," said a television director who has known Richards for years. The two worked together in 1980 on ABC's "Fridays" television show and have remained in touch ever since. According to sources familiar with Richards, the actor was raised Catholic. A biography of him on the Wikipedia web site lists no religion, but does say Richards is very involved in the Masons. "Seinfeld" was Richards' first big break after a long and unlikely rise to stardom. According to Wikipedia, Richards was born in Culver City to William Richards, an electrical engineer, and Phyllis (nee Nardozzi), a medical records librarian. "Richards attended California Institute of the Arts but received a bachelor's degree in drama from Evergreen State College in 1975. He was drafted during the Vietnam War and stationed in Germany , as one of the co-directors of the V Corps Training Road Show. He produced and directed shows dealing with race relations and drug abuse. He then spent two years in the Army developing educational skits and a couple more years `finding himself' at a commune in the Santa Clara Mountains . He drove a bus and developed a stand-up comedy act in 1979," according to the Web site. In "Seinfeld," which aired from 1989-1998, Richards played Kramer, a character based on show co-creator Larry David's former across-the- hall neighbor, Kenny Kramer. The real Kramer is indeed of Jewish heritage—not that there's anything wrong with that. Richards did appear Sep. 14 at the Laugh Factory's evening of Jewish comics, called, "The King Davids of Comedy." However, the management made it clear at the time that Richards and the other major comic at the event, Louis CK, were not part of that evening's themed show, and that no photography would be permitted during their sets. Following Richard's racist remarks, Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada posted this message on the company's Web site: "We do not support or condone the inappropriate, hurtful and offensive comments that Mr. Richards made on Friday night at the Laugh Factory. "Mr. Richards was scheduled to appear on Saturday night and had informed management of his intention to apologize for his hurtful and unprofessional outburst from the previous night. He failed to do so and disappointed us. "We have made it clear that Mr. Richards is no longer welcomed here. The Laugh Factory is a comedy club not a forum for personal attacks." Laugh Factory owner Masada is Jewish. Confusion over Richards' heritage grew after the Anti-Defamation League issued a press release Monday denouncing the actor's tirade. "Richards' repeated use of the `n-word' and apparent reference to lynching is offensive in any context. There is no excuse for such insensitive and bigoted language. It has no place in a comedy club and no place in America and must be clearly repudiated," the release said. "We hope Mr. Richards will now take a public stand against appeals to racism and bigotry and publicly apologize for his poor judgment in shouting them from the stage." The release did not address Richard's own religion. In the past, the ADL has regularly taken public stances against instances of racism unrelated to anti-Semitism."

Tell me if you like any of these 73 start up ideas for a company? its a list I have been collecting for a while. I know alot of them are inside references that only I would know, but I dont want to take the time to edit them, so just try and guess what it means if you dont understand it. If any one particular idea seems to have any merit, Ill address it more fully. I know alot of them are also underdeveloped. Just take it for what it is please. Thanks! 0. Hologram T.V. 1. MyTutorGuide.com 1.5 Dog wash 2. Car wash 3. iron that doesnt need heat 4. Sonic boom speakers 5. the intense flavor candy 6. high quality water dispensers 7. market research product demand 8. internet fraud prevention/verification website 9. ice catcher 10. way to clear numbers when entering on a phone ( enter your atm card number) 11. recycling system for frat parties Associated students 12. household appliance rentals for students 13. temporary bike rentals ucsb 14. cell phone banking system 15. online notary 16. 3D television 17. light that uses quantum tunneling to avoid glare 18. road pavement that doesnt permit ice to form on it 19. a magnetron that lasts for a long time 20. a more accurate computer mouse 21. light energy transfer with emitter/receiver light frequency paired 22. fiber optic joints with gradient densities to avoid light-edge reflection to achieve higher efficiency 23. Translucent material of gradient density to receive light at almost any angle, but emit it uniformly normal 24. hand-mouse 25. material that become more insulating with temperature drop pores that dilate with warmth hairs that straiten with decreased temperature (think animal hairs) or material that expands 26. Wirless internet over large areas that you pay for monthly (university campus internet speed in normal cities.) 27. 3D camera market pinhole 28. Sole food restaurant in IV 29. window blind replacement with LCD technology <-- check out “smart glass” 30. tv remote locator 31. glasses made out of something unbreakable. 32. massive drive up laundromat 33. rims that look like they are spinning backwards 34. better bike gear system 35. lower toilet water level more buoyant floater 36. make existing urinals waterless 37.t-shirt cannons 38. water tire for developing countries 39. automated football pitching machine 40. online site showing gis maps of what items are most commonly sold in an area 41. lights that you put on your lawn that light up your sprinklers water droplets when they pass over them 42. ranking website- users can sumbit things to be ranked 43. tutor database website 44. designer 3D glasses 45. 3D glasses with a position sensor. When your head turns, the sensor tells the image to turn 46. DJ track fading website for parties. line up songs and the software matches the bpm and plays them 47. website that details what products are sold in a certain area. This would be useful for consumers looking to buy particular items and for companies looking to add inventory 48. website that shows world issues/world news and lets user rank importance. This lets people know what issues the population deems most important. 49. solar cells that first seperate the light into different frequencies then uses it 50. glasses lenses where you can set the light curvature with LCD crystals 51. making ping pong balls without the seam 52. wetsuit that reduces surface tension of water, and makes big waves hurt less 53. paper that changes when you shine light on it 54. other smart materials fabric that selectively lets air through on only one side material that changes insulation based on temp(mentioned above) material that selectively lets heat through only one way windows that let through air sometimes but can be switched on and off 55. better optical-electrical conversion for fiber optic communication - reverse laser - quantum wells where the photons and electrons interact 56. gps based on something other than satellites (earths magetic field, solar wind, ect.) 57. reverse drum petals so shins dont hurt 58. reverse sunglasses 59. better lighter more windproof point flame with finger 60. Service that gives ID for people over cell phone ← 61. Good solution to prevent losing things (small trackers on everyday items) 62. retractable keel 63. artificial gills 64. toothpaste exchange tool 65. plain t-shirt shop IV 66. sinks with the faucet in the center and water shooting upwards 67. carbon fiber weave triangular 68. service that determines where your friends text messages were sent from 69. gas buddy 70. mechanical amplifier 71. chatterbox 72. music library organization website 73. HOLY *$#% THERE MUST BE A GOOD IDEA BY NOW!

anyone see trainspotting? The truth is that I'm a bad person, but that's gonna change. i'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. I'm cleaning up and moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm gonna be just like you -- the job, the family, the fucking big television. The washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener. Good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisure-wear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine-to-five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, index pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead the day you die.' my ex has that up in his facebook.... what does it mean in relation to the movie??? i never saw it!!

Where to go after university? Currently in year 11. Hoping to go to college then university. Mainly interested in ICT and a little bit of business. There are parts of ICT that i really like for example learning about the insides of PC's, hacking and creating security softwares and software programming. On the business side it's mainly just about opening my own business. I have no idea what to do at college and what to do at uni that will get me a good job, and i really don't want to stay in the UK. I want to travel abroad to a different country and start a new life basically. Is there some kind of specific route of education that i need to take in order to get a good job in the UK and abroad? Once I have finished university which countries can I go to? There are some other things that I am interested in but don't have much knowledge about like engineering. I like to learn how things work like Televisions, computers, cars and other electrical equipment. Well education and jobs are really confusing. Last question if i were to study a subject in college then go to university get a degree, then later on in life get a job that I don't like and discover that all the jobs in this category suck. What can i do?

I choose life, do you? Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ******* big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of f**king fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing ******* junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ******-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. I choose life Do you? Ha ha, funny comment

How to avoid having a mundane life? If you've ever seen trainspotting (not that I would take life advice from addicts frequently) the intro is a pretty good description. Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life. I'm trying to avoid this entirely I don't want to work hard in high school so I can work even harder in college so I can work even harder at work and while im at it work extremely hard to maintain a family I've decided one thing to do would be to Find something i love to do find a way to make money off of it (check) Never have children I might have a wedding for shits and giggles and for the awesome party but never legally get married Hell why doesn't anyone else do that But what else what can I do to keep from being another slaving cog in the machine that wasted their lives trying to meet everyone's expectations but their own Aside from doing heroine, which as fun as it may be for some reason everyone wants to quit so I guess it can't be that great. @lynnmarie yes so I can force myself to live up to the expectations of god my family and society good idea.

does anyone know who wrote this poem? this poem is from the movie trainspotting but i dont know who wrote it , its called choose life Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

What do you think this quote means? Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. Sorry its long!

what do you think the aim of this poem is? Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ******* big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of ******* fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing ******* junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ******-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life

Films with terrific narration at the beginning? So, I was just answering a favorite-movie-quote question, and I was torn between the opening narration in Trainspotting and the opening narration in Adaptation. "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?" "Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling out. Life is short. I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm a walking cliché. I really need to go to the doctor and have my leg checked. There's something wrong. A bump. The dentist called again. I'm way overdue. If I stop putting things off, I would be happier. All I do is sit on my fat ***. If my *** wasn't fat, I would be happier. I wouldn't have to wear these shirts with the tails out all the time. Like that's fooling anyone. Fat ***. I should start jogging again. Five miles a day. Really do it this time. Maybe rock climbing. I need to turn my life around. What do I need to do? I need to fall in love. I need to have a girlfriend. I need to read more. Improve myself. What if I learned Russian or something, or took up an instrument? I could speak Chinese. I'd be the screenwriter who speaks Chinese and plays the oboe. That would be cool. I should get my hair cut short. Stop trying to fool myself and everyone else into thinking I have a full head of hair. How pathetic is that? Just be real. Confident. Isn't that what women are attracted to? Men don't have to be attractive. But that's not true. Especially these days. Almost as much pressure on men as there is on women these days. Why should I be made to feel I have to apologize for my existence? Maybe it's my brain chemistry. Maybe that's what's wrong with me. Bad chemistry. All my problems and anxiety can be reduced to a chemical imbalance or some kind of misfiring synapses. I need to get help for that. But I'll still be ugly, though. Nothing's going to change that." Both amazing pieces of writing which perfectly set the tone of the film to follow. Any others come to mind?

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family...? Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? It's a quote from Trainspotting, but I'm also asking it as a serious question

do YOU know who says this? Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f*cking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of f*cking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f*ck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f*cking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f*cked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons....

I have a question ask on Life In General? Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the hell you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, messed up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose something' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

But why would I want to do a thing like that? Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

choose life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a...(trainspotting quote, whats it mean?)? "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life what does this mean? whats the point hes trying to make? i dont get it...

What is the meaning behind this quote in the film trainspotting? Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? thanks :)

does anybody know what this poem is about? Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?

How do you deal with a strong-willed 18 month old? I love my son so much, but he is making me a little crazy. He is a very active child and is constantly moving. I don't think I've ever seen him sit still for more than 5 minutes unless he's asleep. He has become very demanding and my in-laws call him a brat. He wants attention 24/7 and if you don't show him attention even for a couple of seconds, he goes and finds something to get into that he shouldn't (the trash can, the television cabinet, pulls electrical cords out of the wall). It's impossible to child proof enough that he won't find trouble to get into. I can't sit down for a minute or cook or do anything while he's awake. When he knows he's being bad, he says, "no" and does it anyways...often with a big grin on his face. I've tried being stern, time-out, hand smacking, diversions, ignoring....everything I can think of. I feel very stressed out on the bad days and I definitely feel like I can't relax for a second while he's awake. Nobody can watch him without being absolutely exhausted and angry. He's very good-natured and affectionate, however. Anyhow, what has worked for you with your strong-willed children?

Why is no one seeing that technology is the biggest problem in our economy? I hate to say it, but I must. I honestly think that technology is one of the biggest killers in our economy today. The media: Newspapers, Magazines, News, Television - All killed by their online couterpart, but making way less money on advertising. Entertainment: P2P file sharing, torrents, etc...Google "watch movies online", and your first result will let you watch every Golden Globe nominee online instantly. I doubt that's what the movie industry wants. Not to mention Netflix and Redbox, which have doomed just about every movie rental business on the face of the earth. Electronics and Tech industry: Electrical components are made better, the last longer, they are purchased less, their manufacturers sell less, and resort to ads on their sold products. Auto Industry: They last longer, they are more efficient and they are purchased less. This is all before electric cars become mainstream. Which will kill every Jiffy Lube on the block. The Employee: Lazy at work, lazy at home, less productive on the job. Less money made. These are just a few of my examples, but it's been on my mind lately and it really scares me how much the internet has doomed many businesses and will continue to do so. The scariest part, is that it's not going anywhere soon, so much jobs will be lost and less money will be spent. Technology is the demise of today's present and future economy.

Anyone use an indoor antenna for freeview? And does it work good? I live very close to the glasgow city centre (Less than a mile) so I'm guessing the area should get strong reception (How do I find where the nearest transmiter is?). Also on the freeview website it says reception is good so will an indoor antenna work? How about this one: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5346831/Trail/C%24cip%3D1500011405.Sound%2Band%2Bvision%3EC%24cip%3D1500011414.Electrical%2Baccessories%3EC%24cip%3D1500011425.Television%2Baerials%2Band%2Bboosters.htm

Anyone use an amplified indoor antenna for freeview? And does it work good? I live very close to the glasgow city centre (Less than a mile) so I'm guessing the area should get strong reception. Also on the freeview website it says reception is good so will and indoor antenna work? How about this one: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5346831/Trail/C%24cip%3D1500011405.Sound%2Band%2Bvision%3EC%24cip%3D1500011414.Electrical%2Baccessories%3EC%24cip%3D1500011425.Television%2Baerials%2Band%2Bboosters.htm

what are your reactions about these applications on electromagnetism? Galvanometer - a galvanometer is at the heart of all analog ammeters and voltmeters. It is basically a needle mounted on a wire coil in a magnetic field. When a current passes through the coil, the coil will experience a torque which will move the needle over a scale. The torque of the field acting on the coil is balanced by the torque of a spiral spring, so the reading on the scale is proportional to the current passing through the coil. DC motor - a DC motor is a good application of the principle that a magnetic field can apply a torque to a current-carrying loop of wire. If the magnetic field is perpendicular to the plane of the loop, there is no net force or torque on the loop. If the field is parallel to the plane of the loop, however, there is a net torque on the loop, making it spin, and converting electrical energy (in the form of the current flowing through the loop) into mechanical energy (the spinning loop). If the current kept flowing the same way around the loop, then after rotating through 180 degrees the loop would experience a torque in the opposite direction. To prevent this (i.e., to ensure that the torque is always in the same direction) the current in a DC motor is reversed after every half revolution of the loop. This reversal is normally done by something called a split-ring commutator. There is a nice diagram of this in the text. Cathode ray tube - the cathode ray tube, is the basis of televisions and computer monitors. It consists of an electron gun and two pairs of deflecting plates. The electron gun has a heated filament to provide electrons, and a pair of parallel plates, known as the cathode (negative) and anode (positive), to accelerate the electrons. If a potential difference V is applied across the cathode and anode, the speed of the electrons emerging from the anode is given by qV = 1/2 m v^2. The stream of electrons leaving the electron gun can be deflected horizontally by applying a potential difference to one set of parallel deflecting plates, and vertically by applying another potential difference to a second pair of plates. The deflecting plates are needed to scan the electron beam over the entire fluorescent (or phosphorescent) screen at the end of the cathode ray tube, producing, for example, a television picture. Mass spectrometer - a mass spectrometer separates charged particles (usually ions) based on their mass. It is usually a two-stage device. The second stage is the mass separator, while the first stage is a velocity separator, known as a velocity selector. The velocity selector ensures that only ions of a particular velocity go on to the mass separation stage, which is simply a region in which there is a uniform magnetic field at right angles to the velocity of the charged particles. As usual, such a magnetic field causes the charges to follow circular paths of radius r = mv / qB. All the particles should have the same charge, velocity, and be exposed to the same magnetic field B, but if they are of different mass they will follow different paths; the heavier ones will travel in a circular path of larger radius than the lighter ones. The particles are collected after they have travelled half a circle in the mass seperator. All the particles enter the mass separator at the same point, so if a particle of mass m1 follows a circular path of radius r1, and a second mass m2 follows a circular path of radius r2, they will be separated by the difference between the diameters of the circular paths after half a circle. Therefore, the separation is s = 2 (r2-r1). Electronic balance - digital electronic balances work on the same principle as a standard two-pan balance in which the mass on one-pan is balanced by an equal mass on the other. In a digital balance, however, the balancing force is provided not by another mass, but by the force exerted by a magnet on a current-carrying coil. The coil in the current is proportional to the force, and therefore proportional to the weight of the object whose mass is being measured.

Is it possible for a cable tv hookup to be electrified? My roommates and I recently moved into an older house that does have grounded sockets. Yesterday, AT&T came to hook up our cable television, but when the tech went to plug the HDMI cord from the receiver into the TV, sparks erupted from both ends and my television was no longer function. The television was playing at the time, but the cable receiver was only connected to the cable wire - not plugged into the electrical socket at the time. The tech obtained a new receiver assuming that somehow the receiver was holding a charge and connected it with a spare television and everything looked good. Later, though, my roommates and I tried to plug in our PS3 to the now cable connected television via another HDMI. At this point, sparks and a pretty significant flame erupted from free end of the cord as we tried to connect it to the PS3. That end of the cord and the port are both charred badly, and now the second TV is fried. All three components are plugged into a power strip that was never tripped, so I don't believe the problem is arising from that site. Of the two TVs that have been fried, one was OFF and the other was ON at the time. Also, the cable receiver was unplugged the first time and plugged in the second. Can anyone offer an explanation of the problem? Any potential solutions? Thanks!

Any good band names? 10 points!!? ... for a band that plays rock and alternative music. Music like Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Fray or The Killers. We have had some thoughts about calling us "Like Yellow", "Orange Oranges", "Electrical clouds", "Radioactive Dolls", "Ludo", "Limegreen televisions". Do you have any suggestions for a band name? Thank you ...

How to mount 32" lcd tv on masonary wall? The mounting bracket did not come with wall mounting instructions or with the screws/bolts i'll need to mount the whole unit to the wall, it just came with assembeling instructions and stuff just to attach the tv to the bracket but i need to know how to mount the bracket to the wall properly. What would I need to bolt the bracket to the wall? A parts list would be good too, this is the bracket I bought...http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5346082/Trail/C%24cip%3D1500011405.Sound%2Band%2Bvision%3EC%24cip%3D1500011414.Electrical%2Baccessories%3EC%24cip%3D1500011415.Television%2Bwall%2Bbrackets%2Band%2Bstands%3EFC%24Brands%3DRoss.Ross.htm

Can somebody please chick my history homework???????? and correct them if you can? 1. Many unique stores, with ties to the local community, were replaced as a result of the franchise system. television. the computer industry. <------ the rise in per capita income. 2. Computers came into widespread use in the 1950s mainly because they became safer and easier to clean. <------ slower and easier to use. smaller and faster. larger and more powerful. 3. In the 1950s scientists succeeded in using atomic energy to make better vaccines. run automobiles. <------ generate electrical power. streamline computers. 4. William J. Levitt contributed to the growth of the suburbs by mass-producing houses. criticizing urban life. designing interstate highways. providing low-interest mortgage loans.<------ 5. Credit cards became popular because they were issued to all service workers. <------ the least expensive way to purchase cars. easy and convenient to use. accepted in more places than cash was

Does my resume look good? David Burton *** ******* **** *********** ** ***** (***) ***-**** My Email Address Objective To gain a dynamic and challenging role in the area of electronics, electrical, electro-mechanical, and communication engineering that will offer me the best opportunity for further development of my abilities, skills and knowledge in an established firm with long term career growth possibilities. Summary of Qualifications •Superior knowledge of and expert-level hands on skills in electronic circuit design in both computer-aided simulation, real physical components implementation, and modern wireless communications •Above average skills in modern digital communications systems, including digital signal processing, formatting, and modulation. •Basic knowledge and entry-level hands-on skills in Linux, and communications cabling •Ability to analyze analog and transform circuits, utilizing such techniques as differential equations, transfer functions, and computer-aided circuit simulation programs. Relevant Experience Encompass Service SolutionsLawrenceville, Georgia Electro-Mechanical Technician2010 •Test performance of electromechanical assemblies, using test instruments such as oscilloscopes, electronic voltmeters, and bridges. •Read blueprints, schematics, diagrams, and technical orders to determine methods and sequences of assembly. •Install electrical and electronic parts and hardware in housings or assemblies, using soldering equipment and hand tools. •Align, fit, and assemble component parts, using hand tools, power tools, fixtures, templates, and microscopes. •Analyze and record test results, and prepare written testing documentation. Inspect parts for surface defects. •Verify dimensions and clearances of parts to ensure conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments. •Repair and test GPS units: Garmin, Magellan, Mio, Motorola, Navigon, Nextar, Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung, Sony, TeleType, and Tomtom. Fix your pc’sFayetteville, Georgia Senior Technician 2010 •Working knowledge of TCP / IP internetworking / WAN data communications. •Demonstrated ability to learn new techniques, perform multiple tasks simultaneously, keep accurate records, follow instructions, and comply with company policies. •Managed ten Junior Technicians, Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and a positive attitude. David BurtonPage 2 Dixieland FunparkFayetteville, Georgia Arcade Technician2010 •Solder and re-wire games and televisions. •Conduct tests to determine whether equipment, software, or procedures are operating as expected. •Perform routine maintenance and diagnose equipment malfunction to determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed. •Install, move, and modify arcade games and related equipment. •Maintain and report accurate records of hours and materials used. U.S. ArmyPeachtree City, Georgia Computer Detection System Technician2008 •Assisted in maintaining computer systems; installs and supports software/hardware applications and peripheral equipment. •Troubleshoot and resolved computer operating, software/hardware problems and provide technical support as requested. •Provided information to staff and users, and prepare and maintain documentation for processes, policies and procedures related to computer systems and operations. •Repaired staff and users computers and software/hardware. Dunkin DonutsFayetteville, Georgia Shift Manager2007-2008 •Responsible for the business performance for Dunkin Donuts. •Prepared reports at the end of the shift, including staff control, food control and sales. •Managed staff and providing them with feedback. •Maintained high standards of quality control, hygiene and safety Crown SecurityFayetteville, Georgia Security Installation Technician2005-2007 •Installed security systems, home theaters, data lines, phone lines, and ran cables for multiple level houses. •Repaired cable system, defective lines, and auxiliary equipment. •Feed/pull lines through ducts by hand or use of winch. •Cleaned and maintained tools and test equipment. Known computer programming skills •Known Office Package: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook Express •Known Operating Systems: Windows9X, Windows2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, Unix, MS DOS David BurtonPage 3 Education Fix Your PC’S Atlanta, Georgia Certificate of Completion2010 Sales Communication level one ITT Technical InstituteAtlanta, Georgia Associates of Computer Electronic Engineering Technology2008-2010 Academic Deans List Award Recipient ITT Technical InstituteAtlanta, Georgia Bachelor’s of Commun

help me with my history 10 points history buffs? 1. Many unique stores, with ties to the local community, were replaced as a result of (1 point) the franchise system. television. the computer industry. the rise in per capita income. 2. Computers came into widespread use in the 1950s mainly because they became (1 point) safer and easier to clean. slower and easier to use. smaller and faster. larger and more powerful. 3. In the 1950s scientists succeeded in using atomic energy to (1 point) make better vaccines. run automobiles. generate electrical power. streamline computers. 4. William J. Levitt contributed to the growth of the suburbs by (1 point) mass-producing houses. criticizing urban life. designing interstate highways. providing low-interest mortgage loans. 5. Credit cards became popular because they were (1 point) issued to all service workers. the least expensive way to purchase cars. easy and convenient to use. accepted in more places than cash was.

Can you help me with my slow internet problem? A couple of months back I formatted my computer due to a virus that put me in a 'botnet'... Sky (my ISP) sent me a letter disabling my connection until I reformatted. Since then, my internet connection has been really bad. Some days it is OK; downloading a 3mb file in a minute. However, some days such as today, it is really slow and downloading about 12 kb/s. I have done a speed test on speedtest.net and it came up with this; download; 0.26mb/s upload; 0.32mb/s ping; 62ms Other details you may need; - I'm using Windows XP Home Edition SP2 - 704MB ram - My PC speed is fine. I did a defrag with 'Defraggler' and a cleanup using CCleaner on Tuesday. - I have done scans with Spyware Terminator, Spybot Search and Destroy, and AVG. I know these are not the best anti-virus programs, but I cannot really download a better anti-virus until I get a decent internet to do it with! - I have tried connecting to the internet without the Windows Firewall and there is no difference. - I'm tempted to use Winsock XP Fix but with some of the bad reviews out there and the general description I am not sure it is the option I need to take. - I have reset the router a numerous amount of times, checked all the connections and tried connecting at the wall instead of an extension. I have even tried removing the phones and just connecting with my router. - I am using a Belkin Desktop Card with the white Netgear box provided when purchasing Sky Broadband (DG834GT). - I have no wireless phones or electrical appliances near the router except a television; however this is unplugged. - My Nintendo Wii can connect to the internet fine. - I am on a Basic broadband package but the speed provided isn't as bad as the speed I am getting! - I have no bad processes running; I haven't done a Hijack This but I have checked about my processes and where they are running etc etc. - This isn't just in my browser (Firefox); it affects any program I try and use. When I try using FTP to connect to somewhere, it fails most of the time, and I fail using Windows Live Messenger and Skype. - A 5 minute Youtube video takes about 15 minutes to fully load on a bad day. - I have rung Sky several times and they insist it isn't their end. Their advice is to unplug the router which helps for about 5 minutes; within that time they hang up saying it's sorted. Shows how much they help. - Uploading is usually fine; I can upload at a great speed. - Pages do not come up 'page cannot be displayed', the loading is just really slow. - All the Windows Updates are up to date. So there you are; I've tried a LOT to fix my problem. It's really getting on my nerves now. If you need any more information from me I'll give it to you. Thanks.

Essay "A day in the life of ... "? Guys, please rate and comment. Also don't forget to give me advices on how I can improve my work. This is a homework that I have to finish before monday. Great constructive critisms are so much welcome. p/s -- English language is my second language. A day in the life of a traveler wannabe, I love to travel and nurture the grace and beauty of earth with it's freshness where no one can't feel in a well-developed metropolitan of science and technology. "Keep your hope held high", by the famous motivator Dr. Will Baker. Is it true? Can be, can be not. I've long to travel for years but I never get the chance. If thy ask me if I still grasp the phrase in my pinky heart, my answer is a big yes! It's all thanks to scientist and technologist for invading the television. The television is a rectangle in shape but it stores a variety of magics in it. By just pressing the remote control, you can see the beauty of earth, the variation of culture and how we learn or what kind of food we want to study. It's so finger licking good. All you need is just an electrical devices. My favourite channel is Discovery. It shows the tranquility and serenity of rainforests, culture and many many more. I guess, you are assuming I'm a person who gets stuck and glued infront of the TV 24/7, but the fact is I'm not. Just on a specific time, I will spend some time for it. I have to keep in touch with the snaky world too. One salubrious morning, I quickly packed my office bags and ran to the parking lot, get into the car and reached home as quick as possible. When I reached home, the padlock hardly can be unlock. Just after 10 minutes, I managed to unlocked it. I quickly open the tv and press the remote to switch to Discovery Channel but the remote control is in period or something. It doesn't function on how it used to be. As if it was yelling to me saying " you idiot, change my heart! I need a new heart, I need fresh oxygen!" Then I reached my boiling point and smashed the remote control on the mat. It didn't break because it was made from purely plastic ( thanks ICT ) and it even tuned to CBS Channel as if it was jeering at me. I noticed it and went over to the switch to end the circuit but my intention was halt when I heard the word " Welcome To The Amazing Race, where you race around the world." The Amazing Race is a reality program where teams are selected from auditions. The participants are required to race around the world by neatly following the route info, doing several task namely roadblock and detour. The racers have to complete all the task given as fast and strong as a fiddle so that they wouldn't arrive last at the pitstop which might ultimately eliminate them from continuing the race to compete for 1 million dollars price. The time when I unnoticeably watched The Amazing Race, they are casting in Arctic City Sweden. The racers are instructed to sit on chairs made of ice in the Ice Hotel for 10 minutes, choose a sled-dog team and hitch them to asummer training sled, race down a mountain course and build a tradisional Sami-dwelling known as goathi before reached the pitstop. When they are sitting on the ice chair, one of the race Kevin Wu said " my butt is frozen, it hurts as if million of scorplings happily stinging my butt ". I rolled on the floor laughing on that statement. Overall the show was so much fun. They'll be racing in Norway next. The Amazing Race hosted by Phil Keoghan totally keep myu hope held high to be a traveler. I wish when I'm illegible to participate in the race I will surely do the best of me to apply for it. Yet before all that, I have to find a partner. Who's gonna be the lucky person? My mom? My former girlfriend? or is it you? ( giggled )

Whats Better? Computer VS Laptop? Hey There, I will be going off to university this fall, and was wondering what I should have for university. Should I get a laptop or a desktop computer? Presently, laptops are more convenient due to their ease of mobility compared to their counterpart which is not. I have several scenarios- 1) Buy a powerful laptop which will do everything from MS Office to power video games. It will also be used for media purposes- Ex: television, music movies. Programs such as CS4 will be used as well. Drawback with this idea- Expensive, especially if I would need 4GB ram, 512mb video card, and min 320GB hard drive. Also, I would be using it non-stop so I would be scared that I would destroy my battery due to over exposure. *Could someone confirm this statement whether it be true/false "When your laptop is plugged in, it does not affect the battery whatsoever meaning that if your computer is on and plugged in, and your using it nonstop, it will not wear the battery out unless it is not directly plugged into an electrical socket* Also, it may be heavy due to the fact it would be powerful and possibly bulking. 2) I would buy a desktop computer which would be stored in my dorm room meaning that I wouldn't have a laptop at my disposal in class. I would have a powerful PC, 4GB at least, terabyte hard drive, 1GB video card, etc. 3) Buy both desktop PC and Laptop. It would be rather expensive, but I wouldn't go all out on an expensive laptop. I would just buy a mini laptop. Something that would do me over for university only. It would be light, portable, fast and efficient, and definitely wouldn't be unresponsive in class since I would only be running MS Office and would store documents etc. I would than have a PC back in my dorm room which I would build to defer the costs. Newegg.ca supplies parts for low prices, so that means I could that as a main computer for gaming, video, music, movies etc. Also, if there was a file I needed to access from my PC in my dorm room, I could remotely via laptop. What do you think would be the better choice. I want something that's going to give me a bang for my buck, but also be piratical as well. Also, because I live in Canada, anyone know of some good suppliers, or know where I could get a miniature laptop? Examples: http://labs.vnunet.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/25/asus_and_hp.jpg Also, if you have any other alternatives, I'm open! Thanks! Neil

am i a good writer? (easy 10 points)? hey, this is the first few paragraphs of the book i am writing. what do you think of the way i write, should i continue? am i good enough to maybe one day be successful? i want HONEST answers please!!! i dont mind criticism. please keep in mind it is a rough draft so i havnt corrected my grammer yet. I watched from the sidewalk as the car sped up. It shined a sparkling dark purple colour that was almost blinding as the sun shined upon it. I squinted my eyes as I tried to read the number plate: 4 LYNDS A huge grin spread across my face as I realized this was him. Although it was hard to see through the tinted windows, I knew it was my father in there. My summer holidays were coming up, and he had promised me a road trip around Australia in his fancy new car, just me and him. And here it was, better that the pictures. I began bouncing up and down as the car got closer and closer to me. I couldn’t wait to get inside to check out the leather seats and built in television he was telling me about. Perfect for our road trip, I thought to myself. From the corner of my eye, I saw a young boy –no older than 5 years old- trip over his pants which were clearly too long for him, and fall straight onto the road. At this point, my dad was driving straight towards the spot where the boy had fallen. It was then when my mouth fell to the ground and my eyes felt like they were going to pop out of their socket. I heard a loud, shrieking voice. Someone was screaming, and it was getting louder and louder. I couldn’t turn my head to see who it was though, as my eyes were glued to the little boy and my dads new car just metres away heading straight for him. in an attempt to dodge the kid, my dad made a sharp turn, while pressing down hard on the breaks. Before I knew it, I could see the car spinning out of control. As much as I wanted to shut my eyes and block out the screaming that wouldn’t stop, I couldn’t. it was almost like I was trapped in a tiny cage. And then it happened. Dad crashed hard into an electrical pole before coming to a complete stop. The car missed the boy, thankfully, but I wasn’t even sure you could call that thing a car anymore. The impact was so strong that the front half of the car was completely damaged. So of course, the road trip with dad and I would have to be postponed. My dream had been shattered there right in front of me, and when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, the ten metre high pole fell straight back onto car and smashed right through it. I was shaking with shock as I stood there, helpless. The mystery screaming wouldn’t stop. Still frozen in place and shaking, I could faintly hear someone saying my name over that loud screaming noise. “lyndsay! Wake up lynds!” my eyes shot open to see sara leaning over me, shaking my shoulders. As my mind slowly came back to reality, I realized I could still hear that mystery screaming, and it was coming straight from my mouth. “gee, can you shut up already.” Sara complained with little sympathy. I couldn’t blame her though. My morning screams and bad dreams had become part of my daily routine, and it was always the same. I mean, I guess the location of the crash, the brand of the car, the number plate, little things like that, changed slightly every so often, but one thing always stayed unchanged – my father crashes and dies. please just give me as much detail about it as you can! 10 points!!! hey yeah it was a dream but it needs to be one because of the story line :)

Projector Over Fireplace? I'm getting ready to move into my condo and I'm still trying to figure out how to setup the television in the room. The condo is very open with Cathedral Ceilings. The television is going to go downstairs below the loft in a room roughly 12x9 (so the distance to where it would projected is roughly 9ft and I would build a shelf on the wall). I'm hoping to put the television over the fireplace. However, there are no electrical or cable feeds over there. Rather paying a lot of money to have them run over there, I was thinking about just using a projector. I don't watch a lot of tv so I thought this would be a good solution. Good idea? Bad? How many lumens should I get? Looking to stay under $1k. I'm also not sure how bright the room can be. It's going to be projected on to the wall opposite of where the light comes in but I'm not sure if that will help. The room is naturally bright because there are two 10ft of glass on both sides of the fireplace. It's a relatively nice condo so the idea is to keep the visibility of the wires to as little as possible. I have hard wood floors and I can't go under them so I'm not sure how to run them without going around the whole room. However, I'm now starting to think that the right idea would be to have a handyman put an electrical and cable jack near the fireplace. Then cover this with a mantle. That way only a few inches of cable show up to the television. I realize the projector is overkill but I was trying to find a simple, inexpensive answer that didn't involve running wires. The point of saying that I don't watch a lot of tv was that it would take a long time for the bulb to burn out. I wasn't sure if a projector was the right answer but I guess it wasn't.

What can I do about connecting a "converter box" to my small simple tv set that I bought for $19.00? As of recent months no one can just watch their old tv set anymore without one of those "converter boxes"( I think that is what they are called). The problem is that it seems that the people whom instigated the whole system do not consider that not all people have those modern flat screen tvs, and such. I have never owned the more technical types of television sets and never have had cable in my household. I am not too familiar with what has to be used or done with these kinds of sets and I guess there must be accessories for the newer styles of tv sets or at least wiring that is not as simple as plugging a regular wire into a regular electrical outlet. I rarely watch tv, which is good because I would miss it terribly since I no longer can even watch it for a favorite program every now and then. Nevertheless, I only have a small tv set that has a screen that is no more than six inches diagonally and it seems to be totally worthless and useless now. It has some receptacles in the back but when I borrowed a converter box from a relative of mine to see if it fits on my little tv set, it seems that the wires and jacks and such are not compatible. When I turn on the little tv set I only get a channel that gives constant information about installing a converter box. Do I have to spend money on an expensive tv set and also a converter box so as to watch some tv? Thanks. I guess I will have to spend a good deal of money no matter what, whether I keep my old cheap little tv set, or if I replace it. However I just don't see how those converter boxes can accomodate a tv with a screen that is only 6" diagonally Oh by the way, I also need to know how I can now use a small radio that has TV- band on it. Are the channels from 2-13 useless now ? I can't get the sound of the channels like I used to . Does anyone out there have answers?

A survey on Megacities? It would be appreciated if you can take some time to fill up this survey below on megacities. Please answer all the questions. Do not write like 1 paragraph of non-answers. 1.What is your definition of a megacity? 2.Based on your answer, write down 5-8 cities that you think are present megacities and explain briefly. 3.Write down 3 cities that you think are past megacities. 4.In addition to the megacities listed above, write down 3 cities that you think would be future megacities. 5.On a scale of 1 to 10, rate the importance of the factors below required for a megacity to function best (1 is the least important; 10 is the most; use each number only once) a.Extensive transportation network[ ] b.A good government[ ] c.An optimum population[ ] d.Water and electrical sources [ ] e.An entertainment industry[ ] f.Infrastructure[ ] g.More facilities (e.g. schools, hospitals etc.) [ ] h.Recycling plants[ ] i.Power plants[ ] j.Cleanliness/Sanitization/Hygiene [ ] 6.In your opinion, do you think that 2nd and 3rd World countries (like those in Africa) will become future megacities? Explain briefly. 7.Which region (sub-continent) do you think that, in the future, will have the most number of megacities? Why? 8.Have you heard of the following man-made structures before? a.Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid [ ] b.Trans-Atlantic Tunnel [ ] c.Canton Tower [ ] d.Bering-Strait Bridge [ ] e.Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur [ ] f.Taipei 101 [ ] g.Tokyo SkyCity [ ] 9.Where do you hear of the above man-made structures (if applicable)? a.Discovery Channel [ ] b.National Geographic Channel [ ] c.History Channel [ ] d.Discovery Magazines [ ] e.National Geographic Magazines [ ] f.Internet [ ] (specify): ___________ g.Television [ ] (specify): ___________ h.Newspaper/Web Articles [ ] (specify): ___________ i.Research Papers [ ] j.Others/I don’t know [ ] Thank you for doing this survey.

What is the strange noise coming from our alarm clock and keyboard? Every once in awhile our alarm clock will make a very rapid low pitched beep/chirp sound that kind of has a rhythm to it and lasts for about 2 seconds at most. The story gets better... Our keyboard which is in a different room of the house makes the exact same noise on occasion, but wait the story gets even better! I went to FL to see my family recently and noticed that their television makes the EXACT same noise! Was hoping some of you experienced in electronics might have an idea. Its just a random rapid sequence of low pitched chirps or beeps and its lasts for 2 seconds in a rhythm. It almost sounds like morse code or something. I'm assuming its an electrical interference of some kind but it seems kind of strange that I heard the exact same noise in 2 different states on 3 different electronic devices. Hobo Joe ... Interesting. I can't say with total certainty but I'm pretty sure this has occured when the cell phone is with my wife at work. I'll be more mindful of it in the future though. Ha! I'm hearing a frequency that normal people don't hear? In 3 different electronic appliances from 3 different companies? That seems a little far fetched to me. In fact the TV in FL was in my room for 8 years when I was a kid and I never heard it then. (Its super old)

for thous that they insult me? The bed speller put it in righting for some that insulting my spelling. The language and spelling have nothing to do with the intelligence of a person, by all means any one out there that can be able to compete with my intelligence is very welcome to do so. If can and be able to have. All the knowledge of all my trades, then you can compete. And I mean not who was the president 50 years ago or what the spelling of a word is or meaning , nothing like that. I mean constructive thinking, things that you can see. Not b**s. I invite any lawyers doctors engineers professors teacher economists or any other you can thing you can beat me,. By all means I am not try to say I am the smartest persons? Not at all and I apologies for my ignorance to all my friends. This is not those like The (DESAMOR) THAT I HAVE NO DO IN My MIND SHE IS A GOOD SPELLER,000 brains,. But she can COMPETE if she thinks is smart enough. I dislike people that put the tongue first before there brains . THE TEST IS. I retire at the age 49 as a successful business man , wife never bring one dollar home, never worked. If you wife work. You are done. You out of the race .I possess 1- yacht builder= 2=total constriction from foundation to a complete buildings= 3-a total electrical - machines. Laths and milers .4-a complete designer and production of shoes, from the beginning to the end. 5-total plumbing and good one.6-a very good cook very experienced. 7- A brick layer. 8- Cabinet maker.9- I have been on the television at least 50 time channels 4-7-11-60- and in the news papers many times and I am a celebrity. Bat I can’t spell. This test and if you have the ****s try to compete in all. I do not want foul language just honest answers

Which of these "tactical breaks" may be the next that come to fruition? tactical breaks, over breaks...then what? Here's a list of possibilities from our humorous friends in cricinfo IPL Page 2 1. The Dog-Running-Onto-The-Ground Break After some six overs of the first game, the first dog - second only to rain as cricket's constant companion - arrived. The advertisements during the ensuing break apparently took care of the salaries of half the Chennai team. 2. The Injury-Break Break One player is nominated during each match to fake an injury. The cameras then move away from the action, and television viewers are treated to a whole cycle of advertisements. The time is not important, timing is. 3. The Ball-Change Break Grounds are encouraged to have at least one unfit, overweight, knock-kneed official with sciatica, whose job it is to waddle to the field with replacement cricket balls, while the cameras move away and television viewers are treated to you-know-what. 4. The Floodlights-Go-Dark Break Another official's job is to switch off the floodlights at a psychological moment so the cameras get a rest and we are told what toothpaste, car or brand of electrical switch to buy. 5. The Arguing-With-Umpire Break Captains are paid a bonus to bring the game to a halt by arguing with the umpire. "If you don't change the ball, I will refuse to let my player fake an injury and ignore any dog that runs onto the pitch," is a good start. 6. The Wicketkeeper-Changing-Pads Break This could evolve into (5) above, and keep the viewer's attention riveted on the lack of action on television. 7. The Sightscreen-Shift Break And sometimes, for variety, the Spectator-Walking-In-Front-Of-The-Sights... break. 8. The Substitute Who Trips And Falls While Running Up With A Message-For-The-Batsman Break 9. The Player-Troubled-By-An-Earthworm Who-Picks-It-Up-And Hands-It-Over-To-The Umpire Break 10. There-Hasn't-Been-A-Break-For-Some Time Break Players who make a mere million or so from their weeks in South Africa are entitled to a bonus if they can bring the game to a halt creatively and naturally when if there hasn't been a break for a while. 11. The Commentator-Has-Misplaced-His-List-Of Superlatives Break e.g. Mark Nicholas forgets to say "You beauty," when a batsman trying to swing the ball to midwicket mis-hits to third man for a six. Action is stopped while the commentators search for their Hype Bible. Here's the original article: http://content.cricinfo.com/iplpage2/con...

Irresponsible biased media discouraging American citizens? Verifiable facts from DOD website http//www.defense.gov/. that the media does not report. 47 countries have established embassies in Iraq. Iraqi government employs1.2 million people Iraqi people. 3100 schools have been renovated, 364 schools are under renovation 263 schools are under construction and 38 new schools have been completed in Iraq. Iraq's higher educational structure consists of 20 universities, 46 institutes or colleges and 4 research centers, all currently operating. Iraqi navy is operational, it has 5 100' patrol craft and 34 smaller vessels, it also has a naval infantry regiment. Iraq's air force consists of 3 operational squadrons which includes 9 reconnaissance and 3 C-130 transport aircraft and will soon have 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 Bell Jet Rangers. Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion. The Iraqi Police service has over 55,000 fully equipped trained police officers. There are 5 police academies in Iraq that produce more than 3000 new officers every 8 weeks. 1000 building projects are ongoing in Iraq. They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities and 69 electrical facilities. 96% of Iraqi children under age 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccination. 4.3 million Iraq children were enrolled in primary school at mid-October. Iraq has an independent media that consists of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations. The Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June 2004. There are 2 candidates in the Iraqi presidential election and they had a televised debate recently. Our media does not tell us any of this. We get photos of flag burning incidents at Abu Ghraob and people throwing snowballs at the presidential motorcades. Does this undermine the world's perception of the United States thus minimizing consequent support ? Is not reporting facts like these a blatant (and very effective ) attempt to make the current Administration look bad in this election year ? Do the citizens of the United States deserve better service from the media ? Is Iraq better off, or at least well on the way to being better off, than it was under Saddam Hussein ?

Anyone want to review this essay? I don't know if i did the conclusion right...? Over the years, science and technology have developed immensely. These advances have caused a tremendous amount of change in our world and society. Change for better, change for worse, change that is highly beneficial to our human race, but also change that that has made us humans more cautious as to how we survive in our world. As the years go on, such activities of change will continue to occur and cause even greater discrepancy between the good and bad of the advancement of science and technology. There is no question that there has been huge leaps in the development of science and technology with new things invented that we could have never imagined, but has it been for the better or for the worse? The twentieth century saw more momentous change than any previous century. These changes occurred very quickly and affected many people around the world in many different ways. Basically, a lot of what happened was scientists, inventors, and engineers took the great inventions of the nineteenth century and built onto them. These additions created major developments in the areas of agriculture, communication technology, and transportation. Our world has become more interconnected and knowledgeable due to all of these advancements. The twentieth century marked the transition from the railroad to the automobile and airplane. There was huge production of the automobile and the building of roads and highways which made it possible for Americans to travel around the United States faster by car. Also in the twentieth century, radio and television brought news and entertainment into the home. Furthermore, close to the end of the twentieth century, the World Wide Web linked people, news and entertainment by personal computer. Lastly, an era of scientific combined with farming was introduced in the twentieth century. The techniques of animal and plant breeding combined with the science of genetics concluded to the production of large varieties of crops and livestock to suit the consumers. Many other advancements in all areas of science were made as well but let us not forget the advancements made in nuclear science. These advancements introduced a whole new line of weaponry to be used in many wars and conflicts. From new ways of transportation, to new ways of killing people, there were many advancements in the twentieth century that no one could have ever comprehended. To a large extent the nuclear arms, and weaponry race was driven by scientists. “They kept on designing new types of weapons, not because of any credible requirement - arsenals a hundred times smaller would have sufficed for any conceivable deterrence purpose - but mainly to satisfy their inflated egos, or for the intense exhilaration experienced in exploring new technical concepts” (Sir Joseph Rotblat). Does this sound like scientists have been responsible with their new discoveries and developments? Many have, but some scientists advancements have been deemed irresponsible. Scientists that were involved in the war, such as Fritz Haber, Anthony Fokker, and Hiram Maxim are some of the few. These very intelligent scientists contributed to the killing of other`s in war which has caused controversy over the years as to whether they have used their ideas and knowledge responsibly. Anthony Fokker started an aviation company in Wiesbaden, Germany. His first aircraft, Spin I, made a couple of 100 yard flights at the beginning of December, 1910. However, later that month it crashed into a tree and was destroyed. His second aircraft, Spin II, also crashed in May, 1911. His third effort, Spin III, was more successful and was sold to the German military. Hiram Maxim was an engineer who took out several patents including those for gas appliances and electric lamps. He went to the Paris Electrical Exhibition in 1881 where he met a man who told him "If you wanted to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility." Maxim then went on to invent the first portable machine gun called the “Maxim Machine Gun” which was adopted by the British Army. Fritz Haber was a German chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for his development in industrial chemistry. Although, being such an intelligent chemist, he played a huge role in the development of chemical warfare in world war one. All of these scientists made great contributions to the development of science and technology, but their intelligence and ideas have been used in aiding militaries in their objective to destroying other human beings. Outstanding research in science, physical and biological, has expanded our horizon immensely. It has given us a better understanding of the structure of matter and of the universe. It has also brought better awareness of evolution and the nature of life in our world. Technology, the application of science, has made fantastic advances that have affected us in a good way in almost every part of our lives including better

Is it good to drink milk? The text is too long but worthwhile read....? "MILK" Just the word itself sounds comforting! "How about a nice cup of hot milk?" The last time you heard that question it was from someone who cared for you--and you appreciated their effort. The entire matter of food and especially that of milk is surrounded with emotional and cultural importance. Milk was our very first food. If we were fortunate it was our mother's milk. A loving link, given and taken. It was the only path to survival. If not mother's milk it was cow's milk or soy milk "formula"--rarely it was goat, camel or water buffalo milk. Now, we are a nation of milk drinkers. Nearly all of us. Infants, the young, adolescents, adults and even the aged. We drink dozens or even several hundred gallons a year and add to that many pounds of "dairy products" such as cheese, butter, and yogurt. Can there be anything wrong with this? We see reassuring images of healthy, beautiful people on our television screens and hear messages that assure us that, "Milk is good for your body." Our dieticians insist that: "You've got to have milk, or where will you get your calcium?" School lunches always include milk and nearly every hospital meal will have milk added. And if that isn't enough, our nutritionists told us for years that dairy products make up an "essential food group." Industry spokesmen made sure that colourful charts proclaiming the necessity of milk and other essential nutrients were made available at no cost for schools. Cow's milk became "normal." You may be surprised to learn that most of the human beings that live on planet Earth today do not drink or use cow's milk. Further, most of them can't drink milk because it makes them ill. There are students of human nutrition who are not supportive of milk use for adults. Here is a quotation from the March/April 1991 Utne Reader: If you really want to play it safe, you may decide to join the growing number of Americans who are eliminating dairy products from their diets altogether. Although this sounds radical to those of us weaned on milk and the five basic food groups, it is eminently viable. Indeed, of all the mammals, only humans--and then only a minority, principally Caucasians--continue to drink milk beyond babyhood. Who is right? Why the confusion? Where best to get our answers? Can we trust milk industry spokesmen? Can you trust any industry spokesmen? Are nutritionists up to date or are they simply repeating what their professors learned years ago? What about the new voices urging caution? I believe that there are three reliable sources of information. The first, and probably the best, is a study of nature. The second is to study the history of our own species. Finally we need to look at the world's scientific literature on the subject of milk. Let's look at the scientific literature first. From 1988 to 1993 there were over 2,700 articles dealing with milk recorded in the 'Medicine' archives. Fifteen hundred of theses had milk as the main focus of the article. There is no lack of scientific information on this subject. I reviewed over 500 of the 1,500 articles, discarding articles that dealt exclusively with animals, esoteric research and inconclusive studies. How would I summarize the articles? They were only slightly less than horrifying. First of all, none of the authors spoke of cow's milk as an excellent food, free of side effects and the 'perfect food' as we have been led to believe by the industry. The main focus of the published reports seems to be on intestinal colic, intestinal irritation, intestinal bleeding, anemia, allergic reactions in infants and children as well as infections such as salmonella. More ominous is the fear of viral infection with bovine leukemia virus or an AIDS-like virus as well as concern for childhood diabetes. Contamination of milk by blood and white (pus) cells as well as a variety of chemicals and insecticides was also discussed. Among children the problems were allergy, ear and tonsillar infections, bedwetting, asthma, intestinal bleeding, colic and childhood diabetes. In adults the problems seemed centered more around heart disease and arthritis, allergy, sinusitis, and the more serious questions of leukemia, lymphoma and cancer. I think that an answer can also be found in a consideration of what occurs in nature & what happens with free living mammals and what happens with human groups living in close to a natural state as 'hunter-gatherers'. Our paleolithic ancestors are another crucial and interesting group to study. Here we are limited to speculation and indirect evidences, but the bony remains available for our study are remarkable. There is no doubt whatever that these skeletal remains reflect great strength, muscularity (the size of the muscular insertions show this), and total absence of advanced osteoporosis. And if you feel that these people are not important for us to study, consider that today our genes are programming our bodies in almost exactly the same way as our ancestors of 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. WHAT IS MILK? Milk is a maternal lactating secretion, a short term nutrient for new-borns. Nothing more, nothing less. Invariably, the mother of any mammal will provide her milk for a short period of time immediately after birth. When the time comes for 'weaning', the young offspring is introduced to the proper food for that species of mammal. A familiar example is that of a puppy. The mother nurses the pup for just a few weeks and then rejects the young animal and teaches it to eat solid food. Nursing is provided by nature only for the very youngest of mammals. Of course, it is not possible for animals living in a natural state to continue with the drinking of milk after weaning. IS ALL MILK THE SAME? Then there is the matter of where we get our milk. We have settled on the cow because of its docile nature, its size, and its abundant milk supply. Somehow this choice seems 'normal' and blessed by nature, our culture, and our customs. But is it natural? Is it wise to drink the milk of another species of mammal? Consider for a moment, if it was possible, to drink the milk of a mammal other than a cow, let's say a rat. Or perhaps the milk of a dog would be more to your liking. Possibly some horse milk or cat milk. Do you get the idea? Well, I'm not serious about this, except to suggest that human milk is for human infants, dogs' milk is for pups, cows' milk is for calves, cats' milk is for kittens, and so forth. Clearly, this is the way nature intends it. Just use your own good judgement on this one. Milk is not just milk. The milk of every species of mammal is unique and specifically tailored to the requirements of that animal. For example, cows' milk is very much richer in protein than human milk. Three to four times as much. It has five to seven times the mineral content. However, it is markedly deficient in essential fatty acids when compared to human mothers' milk. Mothers' milk has six to ten times as much of the essential fatty acids, especially linoleic acid. (Incidentally, skimmed cow's milk has no linoleic acid). It simply is not designed for humans. Food is not just food, and milk is not just milk. It is not only the proper amount of food but the proper qualitative composition that is critical for the very best in health and growth. Biochemists and physiologists -and rarely medical doctors - are gradually learning that foods contain the crucial elements that allow a particular species to develop its unique specializations. Clearly, our specialization is for advanced neurological development and delicate neuromuscular control. We do not have much need of massive skeletal growth or huge muscle groups as does a calf. Think of the difference between the demands make on the human hand and the demands on a cow's hoof. Human new-borns specifically need critical material for their brains, spinal cord and nerves. Can mother's milk increase intelligence? It seems that it can. In a remarkable study published in Lancet during 1992 (Vol. 339, p. 261-4), a group of British workers randomly placed premature infants into two groups. One group received a proper formula, the other group received human breast milk. Both fluids were given by stomach tube. These children were followed up for over 10 years. In intelligence testing, the human milk children averaged 10 IQ points higher! Well, why not? Why wouldn't the correct building blocks for the rapidly maturing and growing brain have a positive effect? In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1982) Ralph Holman described an infant who developed profound neurological disease while being nourished by intravenous fluids only. The fluids used contained only linoleic acid - just one of the essential fatty acids. When the other, alpha linoleic acid, was added to the intravenous fluids the neurological disorders cleared. In the same journal five years later Bjerve, Mostad and Thoresen, working in Norway found exactly the same problem in adult patients on long term gastric tube feeding. In 1930 Dr. G.O. Burr in Minnesota working with rats found that linoleic acid deficiencies created a deficiency syndrome. Why is this mentioned? In the early 1960s pediatricians found skin lesions in children fed formulas without the same linoleic acid. Remembering the research, the addition of the acid to the formula cured the problem. Essential fatty acids are just that and cows' milk is markedly deficient in these when compared to human milk. WELL, AT LEAST COW'S MILK IS PURE Or is it? Fifty years ago an average cow produced 2,000 pounds of milk per year. Today the top producers give 50,000 pounds! How was this accomplished? Drugs, antibiotics, hormones, forced feeding plans and specialized breeding; that's how. The latest high-tech onslaught on the poor cow is bovine growth hormone or BGH. This genetically engineered drug is supposed to stimulate milk production but, according to Monsanto, the hormone's manufacturer, does not affect the milk or meat. There are three other manufacturers: Upjohn, Eli Lilly, and American Cyanamid Company. Obviously, there have been no long-term studies on the hormone's effect on the humans drinking the milk. Other countries have banned BGH because of safety concerns. One of the problems with adding molecules to a milk cows' body is that the molecules usually come out in the milk. I don't know how you feel, but I don't want to experiment with the ingestion of a growth hormone. A related problem is that it causes a marked increase (50 to 70 per cent) in mastitis. This, then, requires antibiotic therapy, and the residues of the antibiotics appear in the milk. It seems that the public is uneasy about this product and in one survey 43 per cent felt that growth hormone treated milk represented a health risk. A vice president for public policy at Monsanto was opposed to labelling for that reason, and because the labelling would create an 'artificial distinction'. The country is awash with milk as it is, we produce more milk than we can consume. Let's not create storage costs and further taxpayer burdens, because the law requires the USDA to buy any surplus of butter, cheese, or non-fat dry milk at a support price set by Congress! In fiscal 1991, the USDA spent $757 million on surplus butter, and one billion dollars a year on average for price supports during the 1980s (Consumer Reports, May 1992: 330-32). Any lactating mammal excretes toxins through her milk. This includes antibiotics, pesticides, chemicals and hormones. Also, all cows' milk contains blood! The inspectors are simply asked to keep it under certain limits. You may be horrified to learn that the USDA allows milk to contain from one to one and a half million white blood cells per millilitre. (That's only 1/30 of an ounce). If you don't already know this, I'm sorry to tell you that another way to describe white cells where they don't belong would be to call them pus cells. To get to the point, is milk pure or is it a chemical, biological, and bacterial cocktail? Finally, will the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protect you? The United States General Accounting Office (GAO) tells us that the FDA and the individual States are failing to protect the public from drug residues in milk. Authorities test for only 4 of the 82 drugs in dairy cows. As you can imagine, the Milk Industry Foundation's spokesman claims it's perfectly safe. Jerome Kozak says, "I still think that milk is the safest product we have." Other, perhaps less biased observers, have found the following: 38% of milk samples in 10 cities were contaminated with sulfa drugs or other antibiotics. (This from the Centre for Science in the Public Interest and The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 29, 1989).. A similar study in Washington, DC found a 20 percent contamination rate (Nutrition Action Healthletter, April 1990). What's going on here? When the FDA tested milk, they found few problems. However, they used very lax standards. When they used the same criteria, the FDA data showed 51 percent of the milk samples showed drug traces. Let's focus in on this because it’s critical to our understanding of the apparent discrepancies. The FDA uses a disk-assay method that can detect only 2 of the 30 or so drugs found in milk. Also, the test detects only at the relatively high level. A more powerful test called the 'Charm II test' can detect drugs down to 5 parts per billion. One nasty subject must be discussed. It seems that cows are forever getting infections around the udder that require ointments and antibiotics. An article from France tells us that when a cow receives penicillin, that penicillin appears in the milk for from 4 to 7 milkings. Another study from the University of Nevada, Reno tells of cells in 'mastic milk', milk from cows with infected udders. An elaborate analysis of the cell fragments, employing cell cultures, flow cytometric analysis , and a great deal of high tech stuff. Do you know what the conclusion was? If the cow has mastitis, there is pus in the milk. Sorry, it’s in the study, all concealed with language such as "macrophages containing many vacuoles and phagocytosed particles," etc. IT GETS WORSE Well, at least human mothers' milk is pure! Sorry. A huge study showed that human breast milk in over 14,000 women had contamination by pesticides! Further, it seems that the sources of the pesticides are meat and--you guessed it-- dairy products. Well, why not? These pesticides are concentrated in fat and that's what's in these products. (Of interest, a subgroup of lactating vegetarian mothers had only half the levels of contamination). A recent report showed an increased concentration of pesticides in the breast tissue of women with breast cancer when compared to the tissue of women with fibrocystic disease. Other articles in the standard medical literature describe problems. Just scan these titles: 1.Cow's Milk as a Cause of Infantile Colic Breast-Fed Infants. Lancet 2 (1978): 437 2.Dietary Protein-Induced Colitis in Breast- Fed Infants, J. Pediatr. I01 (1982): 906 3.The Question of the Elimination of Foreign Protein in Women's Milk, J. Immunology 19 (1930): 15 There are many others. There are dozens of studies describing the prompt appearance of cows' milk allergy in children being exclusively breast-fed! The cows' milk allergens simply appear in the mother's milk and are transmitted to the infant. A committee on nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics reported on the use of whole cows' milk in infancy (Pediatrics 1983: 72-253). They were unable to provide any cogent reason why bovine milk should be used before the first birthday yet continued to recommend its use! Doctor Frank Oski from the Upstate Medical Centre Department of Pediatrics, commenting on the recommendation, cited the problems of acute gastrointestinal blood loss in infants, the lack of iron, recurrent abdominal pain, milk- borne infections and contaminants, and said: Why give it at all - then or ever? In the face of uncertainty about many of the potential dangers of whole bovine milk, it would seem prudent to recommend that whole milk not be started until the answers are available. Isn't it time for these uncontrolled experiments on human nutrition to come to an end? In the same issue of Pediatrics he further commented: It is my thesis that whole milk should not be fed to the infant in the first year of life because of its association with iron deficiency anemia (milk is so deficient in iron that an infant would have to drink an impossible 31 quarts a day to get the RDA of 15 mg), acute gastrointiestinal bleeding, and various manifestations of food allergy. I suggest that unmodified whole bovine milk should not be consumed after infancy because of the problems of lactose intolerance, its contribution to the genesis of atherosclerosis, and its possible link to other diseases. In late 1992 Dr. Benjamin Spock, possibly the best known pediatrician in history, shocked the country when he articulated the same thoughts and specified avoidance for the first two years of life. Here is his quotation: I want to pass on the word to parents that cows' milk from the carton has definite faults for some babies. Human milk is the right one for babies. A study comparing the incidence of allergy and colic in the breast-fed infants of omnivorous and vegan mothers would be important. I haven't found such a study; it would be both important and inexpensive. And it will probably never be done. There is simply no academic or economic profit involved. OTHER PROBLEMS Let's just mention the problems of bacterial contamination. Salmonella, E. coli, and staphylococcal infections can be traced to milk. In the old days tuberculosis was a major problem and some folks want to go back to those times by insisting on raw milk on the basis that it's "natural." This is insanity! A study from UCLA showed that over a third of all cases of salmonella infection in California, 1980-1983 were traced to raw milk. That'll be a way to revive good old brucellosis again and I would fear leukemia, too. (More about that later). In England, and Wales where raw milk is still consumed there have been outbreaks of milk-borne diseases. The Journal of the American Medical Association (251: 483, 1984) reported a multi-state series of infections caused by Yersinia enterocolitica in pasteurised whole milk. This is despite safety precautions. All parents dread juvenile diabetes for their children. A Canadian study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Mar. 1990, describes a "...significant positive correlation between consumption of unfermented milk protein and incidence of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in data from various countries. Conversely a possible negative relationship is observed between breast-feeding at age 3 months and diabetes risk.". Another study from Finland found that diabetic children had higher levels of serum antibodies to cows’ milk (Diabetes Research 7(3): 137-140 March 1988). Here is a quotation from this study: We infer that either the pattern of cows' milk consumption is altered in children who will have insulin dependent diabetes mellitus or, their immunological reactivity to proteins in cows' milk is enhanced, or the permeability of their intestines to cows' milk protein is higher than normal. The April 18, 1992 British Medical Journal has a fascinating study contrasting the difference in incidence of juvenile insulin dependent diabetes in Pakistani children who have migrated to England. The incidence is roughly 10 times greater in the English group compared to children remaining in Pakistan! What caused this highly significant increase? The authors said that "the diet was unchanged in Great Britain." Do you believe that? Do you think that the availability of milk, sugar and fat is the same in Pakistan as it is in England? That a grocery store in England has the same products as food sources in Pakistan? I don't believe that for a minute. Remember, we're not talking here about adult onset, type II diabetes which all workers agree is strongly linked to diet as well as to a genetic predisposition. This study is a major blow to the "it's all in your genes" crowd. Type I diabetes was always considered to be genetic or possibly viral, but now this? So resistant are we to consider diet as causation that the authors of the last article concluded that the cooler climate in England altered viruses and caused the very real increase in diabetes! The first two authors had the same reluctance top admit the obvious. The milk just may have had something to do with the disease. The latest in this remarkable list of reports, a New England Journal of Medicine article (July 30, 1992), also reported in the Los Angeles Times. This study comes from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and from Finnish researchers. In Finland there is "...the world's highest rate of dairy product consumption and the world's highest rate of insulin dependent diabetes. The disease strikes about 40 children out of every 1,000 there contrasted with six to eight per 1,000 in the United States.... Antibodies produced against the milk protein during the first year of life, the researchers speculate, also attack and destroy the pancreas in a so-called auto-immune reaction, producing diabetes in people whose genetic makeup leaves them vulnerable." "...142 Finnish children with newly diagnosed diabetes. They found that every one had at least eight times as many antibodies against the milk protein as did healthy children, clear evidence that the children had a raging auto immune disorder." The team has now expanded the study to 400 children and is starting a trial where 3,000 children will receive no dairy products during the first nine months of life. "The study may take 10 years, but we'll get a definitive answer one way or the other," according to one of the researchers. I would caution them to be certain that the breast feeding mothers use on cows' milk in their diets or the results will be confounded by the transmission of the cows' milk protein in the mother's breast milk.... Now what was the reaction from the diabetes association? This is very interesting! Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, the president of the association says: "It does not mean that children should stop drinking milk or that parents of diabetics should withdraw dairy products. These are rich sources of good protein." (Emphasis added) My God, it's the "good protein" that causes the problem! Do you suspect that the dairy industry may have helped the American Diabetes Association in the past? LEUKEMIA? LYMPHOMA? THIS MAY BE THE WORST--BRACE YOURSELF! I hate to tell you this, but the bovine leukemia virus is found in more than three of five dairy cows in the United States! This involves about 80% of dairy herds. Unfortunately, when the milk is pooled, a very large percentage of all milk produced is contaminated (90 to 95 per cent). Of course the virus is killed in pasteurisation-- if the pasteurisation was done correctly. What if the milk is raw? In a study of randomly collected raw milk samples the bovine leukemia virus was recovered from two-thirds. I sincerely hope that the raw milk dairy herds are carefully monitored when compared to the regular herds. (Science 1981; 213:1014). This is a world-wide problem. One lengthy study from Germany deplored the problem and admitted the impossibility of keeping the virus from infected cows' milk from the rest of the milk. Several European countries, including Germany and Switzerland, have attempted to "cull" the infected cows from their herds. Certainly the United States must be the leader in the fight against leukemic dairy cows, right? Wrong! We are the worst in the world with the former exception of Venezuela according to Virgil Hulse MD, a milk specialist who also has a B.S. in Dairy Manufacturing as well as a Master's degree in Public Health. As mentioned, the leukemia virus is rendered inactive by pasteurisation. Of course. However, there can be Chernobyl like accidents. One of these occurred in the Chicago area in April, 1985. At a modern, large, milk processing plant an accidental "cross connection" between raw and pasteurized milk occurred. A violent salmonella outbreak followed, killing 4 and making an estimated 150,000 ill. Now the question I would pose to the dairy industry people is this: "How can you assure the people who drank this milk that they were not exposed to the ingestion of raw, unkilled, bully active bovine leukemia viruses?" Further, it would be fascinating to know if a "cluster" of leukemia cases blossoms in that area in 1 to 3 decades. There are reports of "leukemia clusters" elsewhere, one of them mentioned in the June 10, 1990 San Francisco Chronicle involving Northern California. What happens to other species of mammals when they are exposed to the bovine leukemia virus? It's a fair question and the answer is not reassuring. Virtually all animals exposed to the virus develop leukemia. This includes sheep, goats, and even primates such as rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees. The route of transmission includes ingestion (both intravenous and intramuscular) and cells present in milk. There are obviously no instances of transfer attempts to human beings, but we know that the virus can infect human cells in vitro. There is evidence of human antibody formation to the bovine leukemia virus; this is disturbing. How did the bovine leukemia virus particles gain access to humans and become antigens? Was it as small, denatured particles? If the bovine leukemia viruses causes human leukemia, we could expect the dairy states with known leukemic herds to have a higher incidence of human leukemia. Is this so? Unfortunately, it seems to be the case! Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin have statistically higher incidence of leukemia than the national average. In Russia and in Sweden, areas with uncontrolled bovine leukemia virus have been linked with increases in human leukemia. I am also told that veterinarians have higher rates of leukemia than the general public. Dairy farmers have significantly elevated leukemia rates. Recent research shows lymphocytes from milk fed to neonatal mammals gains access to bodily tissues by passing directly through the intestinal wall. An optimistic note from the University of Illinois, Ubana from the Department of Animal Sciences shows the importance of one's perspective. Since they are concerned with the economics of milk and not primarily the health aspects, they noted that the production of milk was greater in the cows with the bovine leukemia virus. However when the leukemia produced a persistent and significant lymphocytosis (increased white blood cell count), the production fell off. They suggested "a need to re-evaluate the economic impact of bovine leukemia virus infection on the dairy industry". Does this mean that leukemia is good for profits only if we can keep it under control? You can get the details on this business concern from Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, U.S. Feb. 1989. I added emphasis and am insulted that a university department feels that this is an economic and not a human health issue. Do not expect help from the Department of Agriculture or the universities. The money stakes and the political pressures are too great. You're on you own. What does this all mean? We know that virus is capable of producing leukemia in other animals. Is it proven that it can contribute to human leukemia (or lymphoma, a related cancer)? Several articles tackle this one: 1.Epidemiologic Relationships of the Bovine Population and Human Leukemia in Iowa. Am Journal of Epidemiology 112 (1980):80 2.Milk of Dairy Cows Frequently Contains a Leukemogenic Virus. Science 213 (1981): 1014 3.Beware of the Cow. (Editorial) Lancet 2 (1974):30 4.Is Bovine Milk A Health Hazard?. Pediatrics; Suppl. Feeding the Normal Infant. 75:182-186; 1985 In Norway, 1422 individuals were followed for 11 and a half years. Those drinking 2 or more glasses of milk per day had 3.5 times the incidence of cancer of the lymphatic organs. British Med. Journal 61:456-9, March 1990. One of the more thoughtful articles on this subject is from Allan S. Cunningham of Cooperstown, New York. Writing in the Lancet, November 27, 1976 (page 1184), his article is entitled, "Lymphomas and Animal-Protein Consumption". Many people think of milk as “liquid meat” and Dr. Cunningham agrees with this. He tracked the beef and dairy consumption in terms of grams per day for a one year period, 1955-1956., in 15 countries . New Zealand, United States and Canada were highest in that order. The lowest was Japan followed by Yugoslavia and France. The difference between the highest and lowest was quite pronounced: 43.8 grams/day for New Zealanders versus 1.5 for Japan. Nearly a 30-fold difference! (Parenthetically, the last 36 years have seen a startling increase in the amount of beef and milk used in Japan and their disease patterns are reflecting this, confirming the lack of 'genetic protection' seen in migration studies. Formerly the increase in frequency of lymphomas in Japanese people was only in those who moved to the USA)! An interesting bit of trivia is to note the memorial built at the Gyokusenji Temple in Shimoda, Japan. This marked the spot where the first cow was killed in Japan for human consumption! The chains around this memorial were a gift from the US Navy. Where do you suppose the Japanese got the idea to eat beef? The year? 1930. Cunningham found a highly significant positive correlation between deaths from lymphomas and beef and dairy ingestion in the 15 countries analysed. A few quotations from his article follow: The average intake of protein in many countries is far in excess of the recommended requirements. Excessive consumption of animal protein may be one co-factor in the causation of lymphomas by acting in the following manner. Ingestion of certain proteins results in the adsorption of antigenic fragments through the gastrointestinal mucous membrane. This results in chronic stimulation of lymphoid tissue to which these fragments gain access "Chronic immunological stimulation causes lymphomas in laboratory animals and is believed to cause lymphoid cancers in men." The gastrointestinal mucous membrane is only a partial barrier to the absorption of food antigens, and circulating antibodies to food protein is commonplace especially potent lymphoid stimulants. Ingestion of cows' milk can produce generalized lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, and profound adenoid hypertrophy. It has been conservatively estimated that more than 100 distinct antigens are released by the normal digestion of cows' milk which evoke production of all antibody classes [This may explain why pasteurized, killed viruses are still antigenic and can still cause disease. Here's more. A large prospective study from Norway was reported in the British Journal of Cancer 61 (3):456-9, March 1990. (Almost 16,000 individuals were followed for 11 and a half years). For most cancers there was no association between the tumour and milk ingestion. However, in lymphoma, there was a strong positive association. If one drank two glasses or more daily (or the equivalent in dairy products), the odds were 3.4 times greater than in persons drinking less than one glass of developing a lymphoma. There are two other cow-related diseases that you should be aware of. At this time they are not known to be spread by the use of dairy products and are not known to involve man. The first is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and the second is the bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV). The first of these diseases, we hope, is confined to England and causes cavities in the animal's brain. Sheep have long been known to suffer from a disease called scrapie. It seems to have been started by the feeding of contaminated sheep parts, especially brains, to the British cows. Now, use your good sense. Do cows seem like carnivores? Should they eat meat? This profit-motivated practice backfired and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease, swept Britain. The disease literally causes dementia in the unfortunate animal and is 100 per cent incurable. To date, over 100,000 cows have been incinerated in England in keeping with British law. Four hundred to 500 cows are reported as infected each month. The British public is concerned and has dropped its beef consumption by 25 per cent, while some 2,000 schools have stopped serving beef to children. Several farmers have developed a fatal disease syndrome that resembles both BSE and CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob- Disease). But the British Veterinary Association says that transmission of BSE to humans is "remote." The USDA agrees that the British epidemic was due to the feeding of cattle with bonemeal or animal protein produced at rendering plants from the carcasses of scrapie-infected sheep. The have prohibited the importation of live cattle and zoo ruminants from Great Britain and claim that the disease does not exist in the United States. However, there may be a problem. "Downer cows" are animals who arrive at auction yards or slaughter houses dead, trampled, lacerated, dehydrated, or too ill from viral or bacterial diseases to walk. Thus they are "down." If they cannot respond to electrical shocks by walking, they are dragged by chains to dumpsters and transported to rendering plants where, if they are not already dead, they are killed. Even a "humane" death is usually denied them. They are then turned into protein food for animals as well as other preparations. Minks that have been fed this protein have developed a fatal encephalopathy that has some resemblance to BSE. Entire colonies of minks have been lost in this manner, particularly in Wisconsin. It is feared that the infective agent is a prion or slow virus possible obtained from the ill "downer cows." The British Medical Journal in an editorial whimsically entitled "How Now Mad Cow?" (BMJ vol. 304, 11 Apr. 1992:929- 30) describes cases of BSE in species not previously known to be affected, such as cats. They admit that produce contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy entered the human food chain in England between 1986 and 1989. They say. "The result of this experiment is awaited." As the incubation period can be up to three decades, wait we must. The immunodeficency virus is seen in cattle in the United States and is more worrisome. Its structure is closely related to that of the human AIDS virus. At this time we do not know if exposure to the raw BIV proteins can cause the sera of humans to become positive for HIV. The extent of the virus among American herds is said to be "widespread". (The USDA refuses to inspect the meat and milk to see if antibodies to this retrovirus is present). It also has no plans to quarantine the infected animals. As in the case of humans with AIDS, there is no cure for BIV in cows. Each day we consume beef and diary products from cows infected with these viruses and no scientific assurance exists that the products are safe. Eating raw beef (as in steak Tartare) strikes me as being very risky, especially after the Seattle E. coli deaths of 1993. A report in the Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research, October 1992, Vol. 56 pp.353-359 and another from the Russian literature, tell of a horrifying development. They report the first detection in human serum of the antibody to a bovine immunodeficiency virus protein. In addition to this disturbing report, is another from Russia telling us of the presence of virus proteins related to the bovine leukemia virus in 5 of 89 women with breast disease (Acta Virologica Feb. 1990 34(1): 19-26). The implications of these developments are unknown at present. However, it is safe to assume that these animal viruses are unlikely to "stay" in the animal kingdom. OTHER CANCERS--DOES IT GET WORSE? Unfortunately it does. Ovarian cancer--a particularly nasty tumour--was associated with milk consumption by workers at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, New York. Drinking more than one glass of whole milk or equivalent daily gave a woman a 3.1 times risk over non-milk users. They felt that the reduced fat milk products helped reduce the risk. This association has been made repeatedly by numerous investigators. Another important study, this from the Harvard Medical School, analyzed data from 27 countries mainly from the 1970s. Again a significant positive correlation is revealed between ovarian cancer and per capita milk consumption. These investigators feel that the lactose component of milk is the responsible fraction, and the digestion of this is facilitated by the persistence of the ability to digest the lactose (lactose persistence) - a little different emphasis, but the same conclusion. This study was reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology 130 (5): 904-10 Nov. 1989. These articles come from two of the country's leading institutions, not the Rodale Press or Prevention Magazine. Even lung cancer has been associated with milk ingestion? The beverage habits of 569 lung cancer patients and 569 controls again at Roswell Park were studied in the International Journal of Cancer, April 15, 1989. Persons drinking whole milk 3 or more times daily had a 2-fold increase in lung cancer risk when compared to those never drinking whole milk. For many years we have been watching the lung cancer rates for Japanese men who smoke far more than American or European men but who develop fewer lung cancers. Workers in this research area feel that the total fat intake is the difference. There are not many reports studying an association between milk ingestion and prostate cancer. One such report though was of great interest. This is from the Roswell Park Memorial Institute and is found in Cancer 64 (3): 605-12, 1989. They analyzed the diets of 371 prostate cancer patients and comparable control subjects: Men who reported drinking three or more glasses of whole milk daily had a relative risk of 2.49 compared with men who reported never drinking whole milk the weight of the evidence appears to favour the hypothesis that animal fat is related to increased risk of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is now the most common cancer diagnosed in US men and is the second leading cause of cancer mortality. WELL, WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS? Is there any health reason at all for an adult human to drink cows' milk? It's hard for me to come up with even one good reason other than simple preference. But if you try hard, in my opinion, these would be the best two: milk is a source of calcium and it's a source of amino acids (proteins). Let's look at the calcium first. Why are we concerned at all about calcium? Obviously, we intend it to build strong bones and protect us against osteoporosis. And no doubt about it, milk is loaded with calcium. But is it a good calcium source for humans? I think not. These are the reasons. Excessive amounts of dairy products actually interfere with calcium absorption. Secondly, the excess of protein that the milk provides is a major cause of the osteoporosis problem. Dr. H egsted in England has been writing for years about the geographical distribution of osteoporosis. It seems that the countries with the highest intake of dairy products are invariably the countries with the most osteoporosis. He feels that milk is a cause of osteoporosis. Reasons to be given below. Numerous studies have shown that the level of calcium ingestion and especially calcium supplementation has no effect whatever on the development of osteoporosis. The most important such article appeared recently in the British Journal of Medicine where the long arm of our dairy industry can't reach. Another study in the United States actually showed a worsening in calcium balance in post-menopausal women given three 8-ounce glasses of cows' milk per day. (Am. Journal of Clin. Nutrition, 1985). The effects of hormone, gender, weight bearing on the axial bones, and in particular protein intake, are critically important. Another observation that may be helpful to our analysis is to note the absence of any recorded dietary deficiencies of calcium among people living on a natural diet without milk. For the key to the osteoporosis riddle, don’t look at calcium, look at protein. Consider these two contrasting groups. Eskimos have an exceptionally high protein intake estimated at 25 percent of total calories. They also have a high calcium intake at 2,500 mg/day. Their osteoporosis is among the worst in the world. The other instructive group are the Bantus of South Africa. They have a 12 percent protein diet, mostly p lant protein, and only 200 to 350 mg/day of calcium, about half our women's intake. The women have virtually no osteoporosis despite bearing six or more children and nursing them for prolonged periods! When African women immigrate to the United States, do they develop osteoporosis? The answer is yes, but not quite are much as Caucasian or Asian women. Thus, there is a genetic difference that is modified by diet. To answer the obvious question, "Well, where do you get your calcium?" The answer is: "From exactly the same place the cow gets the calcium, from green things that grow in the ground," mainly from leafy vegetables. After all, elephants and rhinos develop their huge bones (after being weaned) by eating green leafy plants, so do horses. Carnivorous animals also do quite nicely without leafy plants. It seems that all of earth's mammals do well if they live in harmony with their genetic programming and natural food. Only humans living an affluent life style have rampant osteoporosis. If animal references do not convince you, think of the several billion humans on this earth who have never seen cows' milk. Wouldn't you think osteoporosis would be prevalent in this huge group? The dairy people would suggest this but the truth is exactly the opposite. They have far less than that seen in the countries where dairy products are commonly consumed. It is the subject of another paper, but the truly significant determinants of osteoporosis are grossly excessive protein intakes and lack of weight bearing on long bones, both taking place over decades. Hormones play a secondary, but not trivial role in women. Milk is a deterrent to good bone health. THE PROTEIN MYTH Remember when you were a kid and the adults all told you to "make sure you get plenty of good protein". Protein was the nutritional "good guy”" when I was young. And of course milk is fitted right in. As regards protein, milk is indeed a rich source of protein- -"liquid meat," remember? However that isn't necessarily what we need. In actual fact it is a source of difficulty. Nearly all Americans eat too much protein. For this information we rely on the most authoritative source that I am aware of. This is the latest edition (1oth, 1989: 4th printing, Jan. 1992) of the Recommended Dietary Allowances produced by the National Research Council. Of interest, the current editor of this important work is Dr. Richard Havel of the University of California in San Francisco. First to be noted is that the recommended protein has been steadily revised downward in successive editions. The current recommendation is 0.75 g/kilo/day for adults 19 through 51 years. This, of course, is only 45 grams per day for the mythical 60 kilogram adult. You should also know that the WHO estimated the need for protein in adults to by .6g/kilo per day. (All RDA's are calculated with large safety allowances in case you're the type that wants to add some more to "be sure.") You can "get by" on 28 to 30 grams a day if necessary! Now 45 grams a day is a tiny amount of protein. That's an ounce and a half! Consider too, that the protein does not have to be animal protein. Vegetable protein is identical for all practical purposes and has no cholesterol and vastly less saturated fat. (Do not be misled by the antiquated belief that plant proteins must be carefully balanced to avoid deficiencies. This is not a realistic concern.) Therefore virtually all Americans, Canadians, British and European people are in a protein overloaded state. This has serious consequences when maintained over decades. The problems are the already mentioned osteoporosis, atherosclerosis and kidney damage. There is good evidence that certain malignancies, chiefly colon and rectal, are related to excessive meat intake. Barry Brenner, an eminent renal physiologist was the first to fully point out the dangers of excess protein for the kidney tubule. The dangers of the fat and cholesterol are known to all. Finally, you should know that the protein content of human milk is amount the lowest (0.9%) in mammals. IS THAT ALL OF THE TROUBLE? Sorry, there's more. Remember lactose? This is the principal carbohydrate of milk. It seems that nature provides new- borns with the enzymatic equipment to metabolize lactose, but this ability often extinguishes by age 4 or 5 years. What is the problem with lactose or milk sugar? It seems that it is a disaccharide which is too large to be absorbed into the blood stream without first being broken down into monosaccharides, namely galactose and glucose. This requires the presence of an enzyme, lactase plus additional enzymes to break down the galactose into glucose. Let's think about his for a moment. Nature gives us the ability to metabolize lactose for a few years and then shuts off the mechanism. Is Mother Nature trying to tell us something? Clearly all infants must drink milk. The fact that so many adults cannot seems to be related to the tendency for nature to abandon mechanisms that are not needed. At least half of the adult humans on this earth are lactose intolerant. It was not until the relatively recent introduction of dairy herding and the ability to "borrow" milk from another group of mammals that the survival advantage of preserving lactase (the enzyme that allows us to digest lactose) became evident. But why would it be advantageous to drink cows' milk? After all, most of the human beings in the history of the world did. And further, why was it just the white or light skinned humans who retained this knack while the pigmented people tended to lose it? Some students of evolution feel that white skin is a fairly recent innovation, perhaps not more than 20,000 or 30,000 years old. It clearly has to do with the Northward migration of early man to cold and relatively sunless areas when skins and clothing became available. Fair skin allows the production of Vitamin D from sunlight more readily than does dark skin. However, when only the face was exposed to sunlight that area of fair skin was insufficient to provide the vitamin D from sunlight. If dietary and sunlight sources were poorly available, the ability to use the abundant calcium in cows' milk would give a survival advantage to humans who could digest that milk. This seems to be the only logical explanation for fair skinned humans having a high degree of lactose tolerance when compared to dark skinned people. How does this break down? Certain racial groups, namely blacks are up to 90% lactose intolerant as adults. Caucasians are 20 to 40% lactose intolerant. Orientals are midway between the above two groups. Diarrhea, gas and abdominal cramps are the results of substantial milk intake in such persons. Most American Indians cannot tolerate milk. The milk industry admits that lactose intolerance plays intestinal havoc with as many as 50 million Americans. A lactose-intolerance industry has sprung up and had sales of $117 million in 1992 (Time May 17, 1993.) What if you are lactose-intolerant and lust after dairy products? Is all lost? Not at all. It seems that lactose is largely digested by bacteria and you will be able to enjoy your cheese despite lactose intolerance. Yogurt is similar in this respect. Finally, and I could never have dreamed this up, geneticists want to splice genes to alter the composition of milk (Am J Clin Nutr 1993 Suppl 302s). One could quibble and say that milk is totally devoid of fiber content and that its habitual use will predispose to constipation and bowel disorders. The association with anemia and occult intestinal bleeding in infants is known to all physicians. This is chiefly from its lack of iron and its irritating qualities for the intestinal mucosa. The pediatric literature abounds with articles describing irritated intestinal lining, bleeding, increased permeability as well as colic, diarrhea and vomiting in cows'milk-sensitive babies. The anemia gets a double push by loss of blood and iron as well as deficiency of iron in the cows' milk. Milk is also the leading cause of childhood allergy. LOW FAT One additional topic: the matter of "low fat" milk. A common and sincere question is: "Well, low fat milk is OK, isn't it?" The answer to this question is that low fat milk isn't low fat. The term "low fat" is a marketing term used to gull the public. Low fat milk contains from 24 to 33% fat as calories! The 2% figure is also misleading. This refers to weight. They don't tell you that, by weight, the milk is 87% water! "Well, then, kill-joy surely you must approve of non-fat milk!" I hear this quite a bit. (Another constant concern is: "What do you put on your cereal?") True, there is little or no fat, but now you have a relative overburden of protein and lactose. It there is something that we do not need more of it is another simple sugar-lactose, composed of galactose and glucose. Millions of Americans are lactose intolerant to boot, as noted. As for protein, as stated earlier, we live in a society that routinely ingests far more protein than we need. It is a burden for our bodies, especially the kidneys, and a prominent cause of osteoporosis. Concerning the dry cereal issue, I would suggest soy milk, rice milk or almond milk as a healthy substitute. If you're still concerned about calcium, "Westsoy" is formulated to have the same calcium concentration as milk. SUMMARY To my thinking, there is only one valid reason to drink milk or use milk products. That is just because we simply want to. Because we like it and because it has become a part of our culture. Because we have become accustomed to its taste and texture. Because we like the way it slides down our throat. Because our parents did the very best they could for us and provided milk in our earliest training and conditioning. They taught us to like it. And then probably the very best reason is ice cream! I've heard it described "to die for". I had one patient who did exactly that. He had no obvious vices. He didn't smoke or drink, he didn’t eat meat, his diet and lifestyle was nearly a perfectly health promoting one; but he had a passion. You guessed it, he loved rich ice cream. A pint of the richest would be a lean day's ration for him. On many occasions he would eat an entire quart - and yes there were some cookies and other pastries. Good ice cream deserves this after all. He seemed to be in good health despite some expected "middle age spread" when he had a devastating stroke which left him paralyzed, miserable and helpless, and he had additional strokes and d ied several years later never having left a hospital or rehabilitation unit. Was he old? I don't think so. He was in his 50s. So don't drink milk for health. I am convinced on the weight of the scientific evidence that it does not "do a body good." Inclusion of milk will only reduce your diet's nutritional value and safety. Most of the people on this planet live very healthfully without cows' milk. You can too. 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Help please. Physical Science!? How does an atom become positively charged? A. The atom gains one or more protons. B. The atom loses one or more protons. C. The atom gains one or more electrons. D. The atom loses one or more electrons. A negative charge will attract A. another negative charge. B. a positive charge. C. a positive or negative charge. D. a neutral charge. The repulsion or attraction between electrically charged objects is a(n) A. electric charge. B. electric force. C. friction. D. discharge. What determines the strength of an electric force? A. The size of the object in the electric field. B. How many electrons are contained within the atom. C. The amount of charge that produces the field and the distance from the charge. D. How close the object is to the charge. When a pathway through which charges can move forms suddenly, __________ occurs. A. friction B. contact C. static discharge D. induction How can the electric force between two objects be reduced? A. Increase the distance B. Decrease the distance C. Increase the charge D. Reduce friction In which type of electric current does charge flow in only one direction? A. Alternating current B. Rotating current C. Direct current D. Straight current Electric current is the continuous flow of A. electric charge. B. electric resistance. C. protons and neutrons. D. electric voltage. Electric current flows easily through materials known as A. electrical insulators. B. electrical conductors. C. electrical resistors. D. electrical current boosters. In which type of current does electric charge regularly reverse its direction? A. Alternating current B. Switching current C. Reversing current D. Direct current Electric current does NOT flow easily through insulators. Which of the following is an example of a good electrical insulator? A. Battery acid B. Copper wire C. A silver spoon D. Air ____________is the opposition to the flow of electric charges A. resistance B. insulation C. induction D. voltage What is necessary for a charge to flow? A. The wire must have an energy source at one end. B. The wire must be connected in a loop that includes an energy source. C. Potential difference of 0. D. The wire must be connected in a loop. According to Ohm’s law, what happens if voltage is increased? A. The resistance is increased B. The resistance is decreased C. The current is increased D. The current is decreased According to Ohm’s law, if voltage is maintained and resistance is increased, what happens to the current? A. The current is not affected B. The current doubles C. The current is increased D. The current is decreased According to Ohm’s law, a circuit’s voltage is equal to A. current multiplied by charge. B. resistance multiplied by current. C. resistance multiplied by charge. D. induction multiplied by current. A battery is a voltage source that converts __________ energy to __________ energy. A. chemical; electrical B. electrical; chemical C. chemical; potential D. electrical; potential What affects a material’s resistance, therefore changing the current? A. Thickness, length, and composition B. Temperature and insulation C. Thickness, length, and temperature D. Composition, temperature, and current What type of circuit has two or more paths through which charges can flow? A. Parallel B. Series C. Multiple series D. Multiple parallel What happens if one element in a series circuit stops functioning? A. All of the elements have limited ability to operate. B. All of the elements in line before the non-functional one can operate. C. All of the elements can operate. D. None of the elements can operate. How does a fuse work? A. Transfers extra charge to the earth B. Prevents too much current from passing C. A wire in the center melts if too much current passes through it D. A switch opens when current is too high What is produced by continuously changing the voltage or current in a circuit? A. Direct current B. Analog signal C. Alternating current D. Digital signal Which device uses a crystalline solid to control current? A. Vacuum tube B. Super conductor C. Semiconductor D. Solid-state component Vacuum tubes such as cathode-ray tubes (CRT) used in some computer monitors and televisions A. can change alternating current into direct current. B. can decrease the strength of an electronic signal. C. never need to be replaced. D. produce a digital signal of 1’s and 0’s. DVD technology uses an electronic signal called a(n) A. analog signal. B. high-definition signal. C. vacuum signal. D. digital signal.

Tinfoil hat anyone? Why is our beloved govt, will all their problems, so concerned that we have HDTV? What's the deal? Congress pushes through the HDTV bill without a debate, mandates it for this month and then spend billions of taxpayer's money to cover the cost of converting 90% of the country's TVs...don't they have better things to do than to provide the People with an "improved" TV picture? (Look! You can count the hairs on his head!) This is an extremely timely and important essay. It overviews a secret Pentagon psychotronics technology known as /Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS)/ that has been fully operational since the early 1990s. I first found out about the use of this technology from Al Bielek in a 1992 video he made with Vladimir Terziski. This technology was used against battle-hardened Iraqi troops fortified in deep underground bunkers in Kuwait and Iraq in the first Gulf War in January of 1991. The physical, emotional, and psychological effects of this technology were so severe that *hundreds of thousands* of Iraqi troops surrended en masse /without firing even a single shot/ against US led coalition forces. The numbers reported in the news were staggering: 75,000 and then annother 125,000 (or more) Iraqi troops would come out of their deep desert bunkers waving white flags and falling to their knees before approaching US troops and literally kiss their captor's boots or hands if given the opportunity. Why would eight year veterans of Middle Eastern warfare (with Iran 1980-1988) behave this way? Simple. They were subjected to a technology that was so extreme and incomprehensible that they were suddenly reduced to the level of compliant children and felt grateful to still be alive in the wake of their mind-wrenching experience. *This technology is about to be used*, albeit in a more subtle fashion, *against American citizens* in a highly classified and covert operation to mind control and manipulate the entire population into 'compliance' with our New World order overlords. The technology will utilize a combination of *HAARP* transmitters, GWEN towers, microwave cell phone towers, and the soon-to-be-mandatory High Definition Digital TV http://www.wariscrime.com/2008/12/15/news/digital-tv-mind-control-by-the-sound-of-silence/#> that will enter your home via: a) cable, b) satellite http://www.wariscrime.com/2008/12/15/news/digital-tv-mind-control-by-the-sound-of-silence/#>, c) HD TVs, or d) those oh-so-easy-to-obtain "digital converter boxes" that the government is so anxious to help you obtain and underwrite most of the cost on your behalf. But why is the government so anxious to help American citizens experience a clearer and more highly defined television http://www.wariscrime.com/2008/12/15/news/digital-tv-mind-control-by-the-sound-of-silence/#> picture? Does that make sense to you? Since when is the government so concerned about the visual quality of our televised entertainment that congress would pass an /undebated/ statutory proclamation which */mandated/* that the HD conversion take place on Feb. 17, 2009 and then subsidize about 90% of the associated cost? I'm only guessing, but if there are 200 million "regular" televisions in America to be converted into HD, then that $40 in government subsidy per TV × 200,000,000 = /$8 billion/. Why is the government so anxious to spend *8 billion dollars* on her citizens to improve the clarity of a TV picture? Or is the recently touted "additional bandwidth" cover story that supposedly is to be gained with the HD technology /the only and genuine/ reason for spending so much taxpayer dollars on HD conversion? The second service that this author performs is to "out" two of our more deceptive CIA/Pentagon 'assets' masquerading under the rubric of natural health advocates. Their names are *Rima Laibow* and her husband, "former" Major General *Albert Stubblebine*. If your e-mail Inbox has been filling with warnings and articles in recent months about the coming Codex regulations and the "wonderful" job that Rima and her retired Army husband have been doing to try and stem the tide, then you know who I'm talking about. Folks, is it time to /wake up/ yet? Or should we just resume our slumber and wait for them to take us away in those spiffy Gunderson cattle cars that Phil Schneider warned us about in 1995 (you know, the ones with the built in shackles and manacles)? Or should Americans seriously start wearing tinfoil hats to ward off possible frequencies that HD would allow our beloved govt to tamper with the electrical system of our bodies and minds?

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What is one of the most likely causes of one missing color? 1. 3.58 MHz oscillator transistor 2. color video amplifier transistor 3. misadjusted convergence control 4. tuner oscillator ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION # 2 What is the most likely cause of a dark horizontal "hum bar" or a picture bend that rolls slowly up the screen? 1. bad filter capacitor in the low-voltage power supply 2. bad tuner oscillator transistor 3. open video output transistor 4. shorted video i-f amplifier transistor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUESTION # 3 What is normally used for making convergence adjustments? 1. oscilloscope 2. voltmeter 3. R-f probe 4. Dot or crosshatch pattern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUESTION # 4 1. You are working on a set with a good black and white picture but which has rolling color. What is the cause? 1. 3.58 MHz oscillator out of sync 2. shorted video output transistor 3. vertical oscillator not in sync 4. horizontal oscillator not in sync ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION # 5 how do you eliminate color tinting from black and white telecasts? 1. adjust the fine tuning 2. adjust the 3.58 MHz oscillator frequency 3. adjust the 4.5 MHz trap 4.adjust the color screens or drives ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUESTION # 6 you are working on a set with no sound. You find a good audio signal on one end of the coupling capacitor, but not on the other.Which of the following faults is the most likely cause? 1. open transistor 2. bad filter capacitor in the low-voltage power supply 3. open coupling capacitor 4. bad volume control ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUESTION # 7 What is the approximate center frequency of the color subcarrier? 1. 60 Hz 2. 15,743 Hz 3. 3.58 MHz 4. 45 MHz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUESTION # 8 What section of a television receiver generates the high voltage for the CRT? 1. Horizontal 2. Vertical 3. Audio 4. Video ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question # 9 Static convergence is concerned with? 1. color at the center of the screen 2. color at the edges of the screen 3. static electrical charges on the face of the CRT 4. static interference in the picture ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUESTION # 10 A set you are working on receives all VHF channels normally but on UHF there is only snow. What is the most likely cause of the malfunction? 1. bad VHF oscillator 3. bad i-f 3. bad UHF oscillator-mixer 4. bad UHF static convergence

scientist say life can be a dream?Is the some maniac crazy mad scientist method?Or fiction bs? DEEP THOUGHT, the supercomputer created by novelist Douglas Adams, got there first, but now the astronomer royal has caught up. Professor Sir Martin Rees is to suggest that "life, the universe and everything" may be no more than a giant computer simulation with humans reduced to bits of software. Rees, Royal Society professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, will say that it is now possible to conceive of computers so powerful that they could build an entire virtual universe. The possibility that what we see around us may not actually exist has been raised by philosophers many times dating back to the ancient Greeks and appears repeatedly in science fiction. However, many scientists have always been dismissive, saying the universe was far too complex and consistent to be a simulation. Despite this, the idea has persisted, popularised in films such as Tom Cruise's Vanilla Sky and The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves. It was also the basis for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, written by Adams, who died in 2001. In the book, Deep Thought creates the Earth and its human inhabitants as a giant calculating device to answer the "ultimate question". The BBC's rerun of the radio version of Hitchhiker finished recently, just as Rees was putting together his contribution to the debate in which he will concede that the depictions by Adams, Cruise and Reeves might have been right after all. In a television documentary, What We Still Don't Know, to be screened on Channel 4 next month, he will say: "Over a few decades, computers have evolved from being able to simulate only very simple patterns to being able to create virtual worlds with a lot of detail. "If that trend were to continue, then we can imagine computers which will be able to simulate worlds perhaps even as complicated as the one we think we're living in. "This raises the philosophical question: could we ourselves be in such a simulation and could what we think is the universe be some sort of vault of heaven rather than the real thing. In a sense we could be ourselves the creations within this simulation." Rees will emphasise that this is just a theory. But it is being increasingly discussed by other eminent physicists and cosmologists. Among them is John Barrow, professor of mathematical sciences at Cambridge University. He points out that the universe has a degree of fine tuning that makes it safe for living organisms. Even a tiny alteration in a fundamental force or a constant such as gravity would make stars burn out, atoms fly apart, and the world as we know it become impossible. Such fine tuning, he has said, could be taken as evidence for some kind of intelligent designer being at work. "Civilisations only a little more advanced than ourselves will have the capability to simulate universes in which self-conscious entities can emerge and communicate with one another," he said. The idea that life, the universe and everything in it could be an illusion dates back more than 2,000 years. Chuang Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, who died in 295BC, wondered whether his entire life might be no more than a dream. René Descartes, the 17th century French philosopher, raised similar questions. But he famously came down in favour of existence, saying: "I think, therefore I am." The idea was resurrected last century, notably by Bertrand Russell, who suggested that humans could simply be "brains in a jar" being stimulated by chemicals or electrical currents - an idea that was quickly taken up and developed by science fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov. However, some academics pour cold water on the notion of a machine-created universe. Seth Lloyd, professor of quantum mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said such a computer would have to be unimaginably large. "The Hitchhiker's Guide is a great book but it remains fiction," he said. from The Sunday Times, Britain http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1358588,00.html As regular readers may know, one of our favourite quotes is "All that we can see or seem is but a dream within a dream" - Omar Khayyam. We've only had the terminology to describe what the universe might actually be for a little over a decade. A fractal hologram, an infinitely recursive quasi-Mandelbrot (isn't the similarity between 'Mandelbrot' and "Mandala' slightly fascinating?), an 11-dimensional brane, all terms which skate the surface of deeper reality and the nature of multiple intersecting and interpenetrating dimensions. Until these words appeared it was extremely difficult to work with these apparently slippery concepts - or even to conceive of them. And popular culture has certainly made its contribution to the new noosphere... The future isn't what it used to be. As all the world is mindstuff, we all need to have better, happier dreams and pictures of our future if we are to deserve a great mil

I don't know what to be when I grow up? I want a good paying job that I enjoy and I can easily get it. Here is what I enjoy: Reading, Science, Writing, And thinking of different technology. For example: A regular book, but electrical. If people enjoys hearing stories, but can't read for themselves, the book would have a reading mode, where the book reads to you. If your at school, just plug headphones in so you'll be soundless. I love writing children books, scary ones though. The biggest book I ever wrote was 112 pages long, for a 12 year old, I'd say it's good. I love planets in science. And I love to read R.L. Stine books. Also I enjoy playing Super Mario Galaxy. I thought of being: A detective, writer, virtual world designer, or a international game designer, the game would be a television game. Real people that have wi-fi connection could get on it. They could trade, chat, buy homes, and more, right at their televsion! What do you think I should be when I grow up? I mean longest book I wrote, not biggest. People this isn't funny. I'm very curious of what I should be when I grow up. I'm only 12, so second answer, that was very disturbing!

Californians- How do I get my Social Security benefits sooner than whats been going on? It's been almost 2yrs.? I've been trying to get my disability from Social Security Administration now for almost 2yrs now. My Doctor has wrote a letter stating that I'm incapable of working now and does not see me getting any better in the foreseeable future. I've hired a law firm that's advertises on television ( B-nder & B-nder ). I feel like I'm getting the run-a-round from them. They harly ever contact me at all and I have to call them just about every time to see if their still working on my case. Also, when I do call, I have a new case worker just about every time I call. How can they manage my case when there is someone new taking over every time. I really need to resolve my case so that I can help my wife out. I've worked for 27yrs before I came down with cancer. I went through Chemo and 2 surgeries and I'm cancer free right now thank God!. My disability ran out a little over a yr ago and I've had no income since then. I didn't even get a Stimulas Check when just about everyone did. The Goverment was the first in line to get their money when I was working 7 days a week for over 1 1/2 yrs. Out of 7 days of overtime, they would get 3 of those days that I worked my butt off for. I feel really betrayed by my own Government right now. I've done nothing wrong here and I just don't understand what's taking so long. If your from another country, you have way more to gain in every aspect than if you were a hardworking,paying citizen who's money went to support these programs. I'm unable to work due to the side effects from the Chemo & surgeries. I have constant pain in my feet & legs. I take medication for the pain, electrical shocks that I get and also for not being able to sleep at night. The medications does very little for the pain and somewhat for the sleep. If anyone has any suggestions, ideas or help in my ordeal, I'd really appreciate any help I can get right now. It's been a strain on our marriage at times, but she's a wonderful and understanding woman who's been very supportive throughout all of this. I have nno where to turn right now and I'm hoping that the loyal readers of Yahoo Answers will have the right advice for my wife and I. I thank you for following through with my letter of desperation and also thank you for any advice you can offer. P.S.- I have wrote letter's to my Senators and so far they just want to pass the buck around. I even wrote a letter to the Governor of California, which his staff relpied it was not within his powers to make a decision or help on this matter.

Why Is Yogi Berra Considered a Genius? Perhaps these are a few reasons??? Thoughts? * "This is like deja vu all over again." * "You can observe a lot just by watching." * "He must have made that before he died." -- Referring to a Steve McQueen movie. * "I want to thank you for making this day necessary." -- On Yogi Berra Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1947. * "I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it." -- When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars. * "Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?" * "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." * "I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early." * "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." * "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him." * "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six." * "Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical." * "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." * "Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting." * "A nickel isn't worth a dime today." * "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." * "It gets late early out there." -- Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium. * "Glen Cove." -- Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show. * Once, Yogi's wife Carmen asked, "Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" Yogi replied, "Surprise me." * "Do you mean now?" -- When asked for the time. * "I take a two hour nap, from one o'clock to four." * "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." * "You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left." * "90% of the putts that are short don't go in." * "I made a wrong mistake." * "Texas has a lot of electrical votes." -- During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election. * "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself." -- After being told he looked cool. * "I always thought that record would stand until it was broken." * "Yeah, but we're making great time!" -- In reply to "Hey Yogi, I think we're lost." * "If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them." * "Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel." * "It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't." * "How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name." -- Upon receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to "bearer." * "I'd say he's done more than that." -- When asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations for the current season. * "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win." * "He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light." -- On the acquisition of fleet Ricky Henderson. * "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" * "It ain't the heat; it's the humility." * "The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase." * "You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." * "I didn't really say everything I said." He is a fellow WOP...so I love him. He made the game of baseball for me...along with The Mick, Roger, and a few others. Thanks for the wonderful answers to my little Shrine to Yogi.

Arghhhh I hate these questions? Ok so Ive never really been good at worded questions for maths, Ive done them but not sure if again ive got the right answers haha if you guys could tell me simply how you did it and give the answers itd be great! Shelley earns a flat rate of $12 per hour cleaning. She works 6 hours on Monday. 5 Hours on Tuesday 3 hours on Thurday and 9 Hours on friday. What is her gross wage for the week? A company has a fleet of cars. The manager knows that the tyres on a new car are safe for 50,000km. What is the least number of tyres that wil be required before it is sold at 140,000km? Dale works as a laboratory assistant ad earns a wage of $720 per week plus overtime. He gets paid a set rate of $25 an hour for overtime and for the week he works4 hours overtime. Calculate his gross weekly wage for that week. In a survery of 100 television viewers, it was found that 4 out of 5 watched a particular program. How many of the viewers interviewed watched that program> A man decided to save money in the following way: - he banked $2 on the second day $4 on the fourth day , $6 on the sixthday and so on a) on what day wll he put $100 in the bank? b) How much will he have saved altogether? An electrical repairer has a callout fee of $75 plus $30 per half hour a) find the cost to fix a dishwasher that took an hour to fix b) how long would the repairer stay for $275? thanks guys ! :)

Why Maharashtra is a best place to Live, work, Earn, die peacefully? Favourable economic policies in the 1970s led to Maharashtra becoming India's leading industrial state in the last quarter of 20th century. Over 41% of the S&P CNX 500 conglomerates have corporate offices in Maharashtra. However, regions within Maharashtra show wide disparity in development. Mumbai, Pune and western Maharashtra are the most advanced. These areas also dominate the politics and bureaucracy of the state. This has led to resentment among backward regions like Vidarbha, Marathwada, and Konkan. Maharashtra's gross state domestic product for 2008 is forecast to be at $150 billion at current market prices. The state's debt was estimated at 36 per cent of GDP in 2005.[14] In 2007 Maharashtra reported a revenue surplus of INR 810 crore.[15] Maharashtra is the second most urbanised state with urban population of 42% of whole population. Maharashtra's is India's leading industrial state contributing 15% of national industrial output. 64.14% of the people are employed in agriculture and allied activities. Almost 46% of the GSDP is contributed by industry. Major industries in Maharashtra include chemical and allied products, electrical and non-electrical machinery, textiles, petroleum and allied products. Other important industries include metal products, wine, jewellery, pharmaceuticals, engineering goods, machine tools, steel and iron castings and plastic wares. Food crops include mangoes, grapes, bananas, oranges, wheat, rice, jowar, bajra, and pulses. Cash crops include groundnut, cotton, sugarcane, turmeric, and tobacco. The net irrigated area totals 33,500 square kilometres. Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra and the business capital of India, houses the headquarters of almost all major banks, financial institutions, insurance companies and mutual funds in India. India's largest stock exchange Bombay Stock Exchange, the oldest in Asia, is also located in the city. After successes in the information technology in the neighboring states, Maharashtra has set up software parks in Pune, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Aurangabad, Nagpur and Nasik, Now Maharashtra is the second largest exporter of software with annual exports of Rs 18 000cr (20% of India's software exports). The coast of Maharashtra has been a ship-building center for many centuries. The expertise and the manpower available in the local area make this business more attractive.This is reflected by the number of companies operating shipyards in the state such as Bharati Shipyard at Ratnagiri and the upcoming Rajapur Shipyards at Rajapur, apart from the state owned Mazagon Dock Limited at Mumbai. Cuffe Parade houses important financial institutions such as the World Trade Centre. Mumbai is also the centre of India's Hindi film and television industry (Bollywood). Maharashtra ranks first nationwide in coal-based thermal electricity as well as nuclear electricity generation with national market shares of over 13% and 17% respectively. Maharashtra is also introducing Jatropha cultivation and has started a project for the identification of suitable sites for Jatropha plantations.[16] Ralegaon Siddhi is a village in Ahmednagar District that is considered a model of environmental conservation.[17] The Bombay Stock Exchange, Asia's oldest and India's largest stock exchange Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Navi Mumbai is the busiest port in India. Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai is the busiest airport in India as per passenger volume