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I should also have pointed you to the K2/Bonefos research as Bonefos is often used in the UK. link
It is sometimes worth chatting about augmentation (This depends on the Consultant, some are resistant to patients displaying any knowledge!).
Mea Culpa the warfarin comment really applies to Natto as that also contains K1 (clotting agent)
I hope your wife’s issues get resolved pdq and give you time to think about your own health. You may like to look at recent research on Vitamin K2 MK7 and bone treatment.(Google on research MK7 bone treatment) and you will get this and other interesting research on bone treatments. link
MK7 is found in Japanese Natto and if you can stand the smell of cheesy socks can be prepared at home. (You can also purchase expensive MK7 extracts from health food stores). My cardiologist tells me that Vitamin K2 is now used for patients with very high cholesterol and an aversion to statins. It is pretty safe excepting those on warfarin or with thyroid issues.
I’d agree with Steve’s point about using IPA. It is a fairly benign solvent that is actually fairly skin friendly.(Another name for 50:50 IPA is rubbing alcohol). That said it would probably be a good idea to put a good splodge of E45 skin cream on your hands afterwards.
Steve pretty much bathes in acetone so I’m sure he would just treat IPA like water!
I think it worth quoting something from the Arabic language link I gave earlier as it gives some insight to the religious context of the Syrian conflict:
“One’s language strongly participates in forming one’s culture and communication patterns. Arabic language itself led the Arab-Islamic culture to be past-oriented, certainty-oriented, and collectivistic. Arabic language also led the Arab-Islamic communication patterns to be high-context and deductive.”
I take this to mean that anyone hoping for an Islamic ‘Reformation’ better not hold their breath, as it could take 1000 years. Early Christianity was just as ruthless as the Salafists in expunging anything that did not conform with their mind-set. Equally the US and Israel are being naive in assuming that they will be able to impose anything like a Western Democracy (whatever that means) on such peoples. Tradition (much of it tribal and or religious) and a dogmatic certainty in the correctness of their views will mean at best a short term acceptance of a situation before reverting back to their old ways and enmities. As the old saying goes ‘Anyone who sups with the Devil better had use a long spoon’.
Steve expressed his annoyance at religion. I would express equal annoyance at Western politicians who are completely clueless about the peoples they would make friends or enemies, and really do not know with what or who they are dealing. Libya should have been a nasty wake-up call, but unlike the Arabs, I fear the memories of our politicians are far too short.
Steve there are some scientific studies claiming religion is built in to the human psyche as we have enquiring minds that like to have a rationale for everything. Religion is a big explaining catch-all for a large section of humanity.
Even Astrophysicists have their version of religion — dark matter, dark energy and other imaginative ways of labelling things they do not understand. Just like religion they will invoke additional explanations to avoid ever recanting on Dark Matter.
You get annoyed at Religion but I similarly get annoyed at Dark Fairy Dust as it contradicts the scientific principle of Occam’s Razor – if you have to keep layering on even more fantastical explanations such as Dark Energy and negative energy then maybe the original premise is wrong!
On a PC I could not see any car photos from JayCeeDee. Is that a PC bug to report to Lee, or have the photos been taken down?
“I’d just pop the keys off and clean under them with alcohol or nail varnish remover with a few ear buds.”
One at a time, or start with a keyboard photo unless you want to spend time looking for a keyboard layout diagram.
Been there – got the scars!
If you Google it you will see that the Whipple operation (assuming that is what they gave Bob) takes at least nine hours so it could be Friday before they felt they could start, add on a day for the op and three to four days ICU and then radiotherapy. Most patients feel exceptionally nauseous for a protracted period, so even assuming all went extremely well it could be considerably longer than a week before Bob would want to regale us with his exploits. Lets hope that is the case.
Actually Steve the number of religions in Syria is more than three. Many more if you include the breakaway sects as well. Some are happy to live peaceably but Salafist Sunnis just want to eliminate with extreme prejudice any sect except their own. The problem is that at first blush it is extremely difficult to separate Salafists from the more moderate Sunnis. Therein lies the rub, and one reason why the Syrian Government can claim that the US are supporting extremist terrorists.
I still have a number of moderate Sunni friends, and they say the Salafist question is a mess, and often comes down to the attitudes and teaching of the local Mullah and his interpretation of the Koran. (You have to remember that the Koran is in Arabic and Arabic is a context driven language in which the same words can have very different meanings based on context. One role of the Mullah is to interpret the context.) My friends liken it in Christian terms to having a priest suddenly taking on an evangelistic (Billy Graham type) role.
“If we wasn’t destroying the middle east for the last 100 years (or more), we wouldn’t have extremist wanting to blow us up.”
I wish it were that simple then some 20+ countries would not have been attacked. Richard put it much better than me, the Middle East is a mess with causes that go back at least 100 years, some could argue the roots stretch back to the Jewish diaspora and there is some merit in that. But even that is an oversimplification of a patriarchal society overlaid by tribal and religious schisms. As Richard summarised – the whole place is a mess and we (and they) would be better off without our constant meddling and arms dealing.
Thankfully the US is close to being the biggest oil exporter in the World. That hopefully will enable them to start thinking about letting the Middle East stew in its own bloody juices.
“Ed why would a police officer with a weapon scare you. Granted if she pointed it at you, that would scare anyone, but I’d bet she hasn’t.”
She used to swagger up the Main Shopping street (not too many of those in the US), but the disproportionate size of her gun to herself made me fearful that if she ever drew and fired it, any second shot could well go anywhere within 45 degrees of where she was facing. She had a BFG but was just not built to handle it.
You may think that the US police would be slow to draw their weapons but you are under a misapprehension. The police in the US are not at all slow to draw their weapons in the event of any provocation. If you ever go on holiday in the US and you are pulled over by the police, stay in your seat with your hands in clear sight and move very slowly. If you need to delve into your pocket to get out ID – ask first before doing it because the Officer will almost certainly have his gun close at hand. The US is very different to the UK, even getting gas (petrol) at a rural Delaware gas station can involve someone pointing a shotgun at you as you walk up to pay.
I do not disagree with many of the statements made by others. You will note that in my OP I deliberately did not give a ‘solution’ as there is no single solution except a political settlement, and that will by no means be simple. Such things take time and cannot take place until there is some semblance of peace. I do know however that any intervention by the West will just stretch out the period of death and torture for the whole population and while not ideal, a qualified win by the recognised government may at this stage be the most humane long-term solution.
Re the use of chemicals: ISIS has the capability of deploying such weapons and shown the willingness to martyr innocents. The Syrian Government stood to gain nothing from such an attack so why would they do it? Imo the case against Syria being the perpetrator is not proven at this time, and all presented proof thus far has been complete hearsay and of the Blairite ‘Trust me, and trust our intelligence” i.e. trust the CIA/Mossad’ – sources of course known to be completely trustworthy.?
Btw Richard I would not include Israel in any list of ‘democratic’ countries as the electorate/representatives are from a very selective group link.
Simpler to say that democracy does not really exist east of the Bosphorus and west of Pakistan. Neither does it exist north or south of these zones, though there are areas with a semblance of democracy. Frankly I do not give a fig for imposed democracy. I have seen so-called democracy in Asia, Africa and South America and in nearly all those places it was closer to tribal/religious feudalism and rarely even gave the appearance of working. Mangling Bob’s quote a bit:
“If you think our democracy stinks, you should smell some of the others.”
It naffed up a bunch of short-cut desktop file ownerships for me that required a restart to fix.
Thanks Richard, but when I read the blurb on HFO1234yf it looks far more dangerous (ex flammability) than the relatively benign propane! That may be a personal issue as I worked in an industry that used HF, and that material certainly is not friendly – get a drop of liquid HF on your skin and it keeps going until it hits bone, HF gas fills your lungs with water, and both give you a painful death two days later. Nice stuff!
Bottom line if your car ever catches fire get out quick and keep up-wind.
Going back nearly 30 years, even the US Middle Schools had an armed guard at the gate/entrance to the school. In the recent incident such a guard was useless (Trump labelled him a coward). The school my elder son attended even had a metal detector loop that you walked through. I have no idea if this was atypical, it may have been as the area was known to have a number of Mafia Capo families in residence (a very low crime area in consequence). Without some assistance getting a semi-automatic rifle into my son’s school would have involved an armed shoot-out.
While I agree that guns and knives are just tools, restrictions on their ownership by unstable elements is essential. I dislike living in a society where only the criminals and terrorists are armed. (Our armed police contingent is non-existent they were all stripped out for airport duty years ago, and ditto the unarmed ones)
I’d state that guns are not appropriate for everyone. The local armed Policewoman in the small US town I lived in used to scare the bejassus out of me. She was about 4ft 6inches tall and built like a barrel, but her gun (a long barrel .444 revolver) was almost half her size, and I feared the consequences for all around if she had ever drawn it from her back holster in anger. I would also hate to think of the often weedy teachers waving similar or even smaller hand-guns around.
From Beeb reports this morning the InfoZucker ran rings around the technical illiterati of the US Senate. The reporter said that the Senate demonstrated to themselves that they did not have a clue about the things they were investigating and concluded that they could not legislate something they did not understand —- that has never stopped the UK Parliament and technical/scientific thickos like May.
Off for the rest of the day on grandparent duty, so I will not respond to anyone defending May!
The basic raison d’etre of Photos is to classify all your stuff and group subjects (it does facial recognition) in similar ways to Google et al. Because it does all this and keeps trying to refine its learning, if you have large folders of Photos it consumes massive amounts of resources for long periods of time.
I hate it!
Richard I hate to remind you that the UK was the only known source/developer/user (on unaware NS ‘volunteers’) of the VX nerve agent and I would never suggest that the UK holds any responsibility for the subsequent terrorist and State usage of it.
As a one time organic chemist I would say that there is enough published info on Novochok to make a fair stab at concocting one of its evil family, and a number of sources have reached similar conclusions. Once the cat is let out of the bag it is hard to constrain it. I would say however that both Sarin and VX are ‘easier’ to produce so I think it unlikely that Novochok will ever become a weapon of choice by terrorists.
According to the Daily Mirror the Police almost immediately called a major emergency and some short time after said it was a nerve agent. Other sources say that the talk of nerve agent only started after they had had first responder treatment (not the policeman) and the pair had been taken to hospital. No decent timeline such as the one you require has been published, but all agree on the times shown by the Mirror for ‘The Mill’ and ‘Zizzis’.
CNN raised the first lot of major question marks. CNN report
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