Interesting
This is the necessary authorization for the emergency issuance of drugs and supplies without all the patient information, typed labels, and foolishness required by law before prescribing or providing these items.
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/eua/
Someone is worried, or exceptionally cautious.
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/eua/
Someone is worried, or exceptionally cautious.
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Are the Anxious Less Sensitive?
By RICK NAUERT PHD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on December 21, 2011
Anxious individuals are commonly characterized as being easily threatened and more sensitive than their counterparts. But a new study measuring brain activity challenges this perception as researchers found anxious individuals may not be sensitive enough.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University used an electroencephalograph (EEG) to measure brain activity as study participants were shown images designed to induce fear and anxiety.
EEG recordings of the neuronal activity that represents deep processing of these stimuli showed that the anxious group was actually less stimulated by the images than the non-anxious group.
The results of the study were recently published in Biological Psychology.
The discovery that anxious study participants weren't shown to be as physiologically sensitive to subtle changes in their environment as less fearful individuals, surprised the investigators, says Tahl Frenkel, a doctoral candidate and study leader.
She suggested that anxious people could have a deficit in their threat evaluation capabilities - necessary for effective decision-making and fear regulation - leading to an under-reaction to subtle threatening stimuli.
Non-anxious individuals seem to have a subconscious "early warning system," allowing them to prepare for evolving threats. Essentially, anxious people are "surprised" by fearful stimuli that non-anxious individuals have already subconsciously noticed, analyzed, and evaluated.
For a more detailed analysis of both behavioral and neural reactions to fear-inducing stimuli, the researchers drew participants from a group of 240 undergraduate students at the university. Investigators then identified the 10 percent "most anxious" individuals and 10 percent "least anxious" individuals to participate in the final study.
In the first part of their study, the researchers measured behavioral responses to fear-inducing stimuli. A set of pictures, featuring a person looking progressively more fearful on a scale of 1-100, was shown to the participants.
When shown the sequence of pictures, anxious people were quicker to respond to the fear in the subject's face. They identified a face as being "fearful" at a rating of only 32, while non-anxious people did not describe the same face as fearful until it reached a rating of 39.
However, when the investigators measured the participants' brain waves by EEG while they were being shown the photographs, a different picture began to emerge.
From this assessment, researchers discovered that non-anxious individuals completed an in-depth processing of fear-inducing stimuli that informed their behavioral response, whereas anxious individuals did not.
In other words, non-anxious individuals were able to unconsciously notice subtle changes in the environment before they consciously recognize the threat.
"The EEG results tell us that what looks like hypersensitivity on a behavioral level is in fact the anxious person's attempt to compensate for a deficit in the sensitivity of their perception," she explains.0 -
So I was in physics lab just the other day and we were testing the stored energy of a recurve and a compound bow. One of the questions required a field test the instructor said in this day in age we are no longer alowed to go out into a football field and shoot bows because people might get the wrong perception. What a bunch of poop. 0 -
Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.!
Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
Here are the facts about the three candidates. Who would you vote for?
Candidate A.
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologist
He's had two mistresses.
He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.
Candidate B.
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in
college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.
Candidate C
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an
occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.
Which of these candidates would be your choice?
Decide first... no peeking, then scroll down for the response.
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Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question:
If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.
Pretty interesting isn't it?
Makes a person think before judging someone.
Wait till you see the end of this note! Keep reading..
Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember:
Amateurs...built the ark.
Professionals...built the Titanic
And Finally, can you imagine working for a company that has a little more
than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in th e last year...
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It's the 535 members of the United States Congress.
The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to
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Just talked the wife and she was telling me,she had spoken to friend, a person of authority who was at the scene of a vehicle accident earlier on Tuesday evening. That there were several drunk illegal Meixcans injured in the accident, but there were several hundred Social Security Cards found in the wreckage.
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Okay I thought most of these were funny.
http://youtu.be/WNSpNnmVpps0 -
I posted this on a couple of boards:http://www.bvs.cz/full_auto.html 0 -
So far the U.S.Gov.has spent $11.4 million searching for Flight 370.I wonder why they are investing so much interest in a missing flight from another country that supposedly crashed in the ocean. Are they having doubts?
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/malaysian-jet-search-has-cost-u-s-11-4-million-n887810 -
Followed a link given by He Dog on another thread and ended up here.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_3_54/ai_n24232207/
Guy puts forth a pretty good argument as to what was "the gun that won the west".
What he didn't say and something I've never found out... was the 50-70 Government the round that Zane Grey referred to as the "big 50"?
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big noise in sky..finally located and watched a B2 Spirit stealth bomber heading west ...lower altitude not leaving a vapor trail...can't remember when i have seen one of these..... 0 -
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2014 china made 30 times the amount of cement as the USA...2730 million tons...or 330 billion cu/ft..enough to cover Manhattan island entirely 520 feet thick..china has made more cement since 2012 than the USA has since 1900...cement production emits large amounts of CO2....china contributes to that total as much all the other countries combined ...and according to our govt i was supposed (pay mucho extra)to buy a tier 4 exhaust on my 35 hp utility tractor to save the world.........horse s--t 0 -
ordered a small item from ebay....now 8pm yesterday eve UPS slides thru the drive here in the country and it is delivered..the box is printed with advertisement for Amazon prime video and NFL football and the whole box is a brown pigskin look.......printed on all sides, not stickered...now how fast was this all done and put to use by the nfl since the kneel CRAP started 0 -
Got this in an email recently,dont know how true all of it is but interesting none the less.
The Garden of Eden was in Iraq.
2. Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, was the cradle of civilization!
3. Noah built the ark in Iraq.
4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq
5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq!
6. Isaac's wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq!
7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq.
8. Jonah preached in Nineveh - which is in Iraq.
9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribe s of Israel.
10. Amos cried out in Iraq!
11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem.
12. Daniel was! in the lion's den in Iraq!
13. The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq (Jesus had been in Iraq also as the fourth person in the
Fiery furnace!)
14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the "writing on the wall" in Iraq.
15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq.
16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq
17. The wise men were from Iraq
18. Peter preached in Iraq.
19. The "Empire of Man" described in Revelation is called Babylon, which was a city in Iraq!
And you have probably seen this one. Israel is the nation most often mentioned in the Bible. But do you know which nation is second? It is Iraq! However, that is not the name that is used in the Bible The names used in the Bible are Babylon, Land of Shinar, and Mesopotamia . The word Meso potamia means between the two rivers, more exactly between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The name_ Iraq, means country with deep roots.
Indeed Iraq is a country with deep roots and is a very significant country in the Bible.
No other nation, except Israel, has more history and prophecy associated it than Iraq.
And also, This is something to think about! Since America is typically represented by an eagle. Saddam should have read up on his Muslim passages..
The following verse is from the Koran, (the Islamic Bible)
Koran (9:11 ) - For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace.
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West Virginia bill allows truck weight enforcers to carry firearmsA West Virginia bill introduced earlier this year would give officers who enforce truck weight limits the authority to carry handguns as an increased safety measure. SB256, introduced by Sen. William Wooton (D-Beckley), is in the Senate judiciary committee. A similar bill (HB4311) introduced in the House by Rep. Virginia Mahan (D-Green Sulphur Springs) is in the House finance committee.Cameron Lewis, director of the state's weights enforcement division, says legislation to arm officers is long overdue. "Times have changed," Lewis said. "We are concerned for the officers safety. Our officers handle everything from stolen trucks to illegal immigrants and we are the only enforcement division not armed."
If you want my guns you will have to kill me first. I was born free and to take that from me you better be ready to fight.0 -
A favorite science fiction theme is a man who wakes up in a world that
seems to be the one he's familiar with, but isn't. Slowly he realizes he is in a
parallel universe, where everything is almost what he's used to, but not
quite. He's on Planet Bizarro. Sometimes I feel like that. Sometimes I feel that the world I knew has
been exchanged for another world.
World War II never happened. In the world I grew up in, World War II was the greatest catastrophe in
history. We learned the hard way that it is dangerous to ignore its lessons.
In my world, Hitler outlined his violent plans in speeches, but we didn't
listen. He scrapped the treaty that ended World War I, but we paid no
attention. And we did nothing when he built up his military, reoccupied
the Rhineland, seized part of Czechoslovakia, and then took the rest.
Finally he invaded Poland, and by then it was too late to stop him without
a war that cost over 40 million lives.
But on Planet Bizarro, all that never happened. We never learned that we
can't appease violent megalomaniacs. So we try to appease Saddam Hussein.
We try not to "overreact" when terrorists strike. Then we are shocked - shocked! - when it doesn't work.
Pieces of paper keep us safe.
In the world I grew up in, we knew that the police keep us safe from
violent criminals at home, and our military keep us safe from violent enemies
abroad. We didn't enjoy getting a traffic ticket, but we realized this was
the price of traffic safety. We surely didn't enjoy getting a draft
notice, but we realized this was the price of freedom. And we honored those who
paid it. We knew that police enforce laws, and our military defend the
Constitution. Yet we never confused pieces of paper with the brave men and women who
protect us. But on Planet Bizarro, the kids who yelled "Pigs off the campus!" are now
professors. Lawyers make up the large majority of politicians. They tell
us that police are dangerous Neanderthals, and it's laws and court orders
that keep us safe. They tell us that our military are ignorant boors, and it's
treaties and U.N. meetings that protect us.
We never watched the League of Nations descend into irrelevance as it
failed to stop Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. We never saw international agreements
trashed by sneering tyrants. We never saw politicians waving pieces of
paper they claimed would bring "peace in our time," but instead brought the bloodiest of wars.
So we don't complain when the U.N. descends into irrelevance as it fails
to act against Iraq or North Korea. We don't object when academics and
liberal pundits tell us to rely on pieces of paper to protect us. On Planet
Bizarro, the middle of the 20th century vanished into a black hole.
Moral decisions are made by majority vote.
In the world I grew up in, moral decisions were made by the individual,
with the guidance of religion. We used the vote to decide political questions,
not moral ones. We had the lesson of Germany, where the Nazi regime was
installed by democratic means and where genocidal tyranny was enshrined in
law and ratified by courts.
We studied the Dred Scott decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that a slave was not free even if his master took him to a state where
slavery was illegal, and that freed slaves could never be citizens. So we
knew that a court ruling by majority vote, and a nation using democratic processes,
could still be immoral.
And until a few centuries ago, a majority of people believed the earth is flat.
But on Planet Bizarro, those events never happened, so we na?vely put our
trust in majorities. We duck the decision on what to do about Iraq, and
fob it off onto the U.N. That's the same U.N. where Libya chairs the Human
Rights Commission and Iraq heads the Disarmament Conference. Yes, that
U.N., the Bizarro U.N.
High taxes help the economy.
In the world I grew up in, we knew that under President Kennedy, about
half the federal budget was spent on defense. And he proposed a tax cut to
stimulate the economy. When some complained that the tax cut would benefit
mainly the rich, Kennedy remarked, "A rising tide raises all boats."
But on Planet Bizarro, we spend only about 18 percent of the federal
budget on defense, and even after 9/11, many complain it's too much. When a tax
cut is proposed to help the economy, many object that we should raise taxes
instead. If high taxes were good for the economy, the pre-Civil War South would
have been an economic giant. After all, what is slavery if not a 100 percent tax rate?
Nobody ever heard of John Kennedy on Planet Bizarro. More defense spending
is seen as a strictly Republican idea, designed only to benefit big
corporations. And anyone who said "A rising tide raises all boats" would
be called a stooge for the rich and an enemy of the poor and minorities.
Everything depends on race.
In the world I grew up in, there was racism, but we knew it was evil and
fought it when we could. We saw Eleanor Roosevelt dance with a black
enlisted man. The first lady was showing us what World War II was all
about. After all, the importance of race was the core belief of the Nazis.
And we all heard Dr. King express the hope that children would grow up in
a world where they would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their characters.
But on Planet Bizarro, the Holocaust never happened, not to mention
apartheid. We never learned that classifying people by race could be
dangerous, or even lethal. So we insist that applicants for jobs or places
at the university be classified that way.
And recently we were treated to former first lady Hillary Clinton
declaring that race is an important component of character. Adolf would have agreed, but not Martin.
Evil resides in inanimate objects.
In the world I grew up in, we knew that evil resided in the human heart.
We saw monstrous tyrants abroad and violent criminals at home, so the lesson
was obvious. And religion reinforced the lesson, as did movies like "High Noon."
I grew up during World War II, when violent images were in every newspaper
and magazine, even comic books. Boys played war games or cops-and-robbers.
I had a cap pistol at an early age, and an air rifle by age 10. In high
school, we took ROTC and learned to shoot .22 rifles at the rifle range in
the school basement. Guns and violent images didn't make kids violent. We had good values.
Many boys were growing up without fathers. But having a father away in the
service, or even killed in action, was not the same as having one who just
"took off." In those days, if a boy said his father "took off," you would assume he was an aviator.
At the age of 8, I could walk to school alone through a park. Kids weren't
afraid. People didn't put bars on their windows. Only criminals lived
behind bars. And the 1950s, when the World War II generation matured, were marked
by a low homicide rate and the lowest suicide rate in our history.
But on Planet Bizarro, this never happened. We "know" that guns cause
crime, so we ban guns, even toy guns, and we suspend little boys from school if
they point their finger and say "bang." We forbid boys to play war games or cops-and-robbers.
We also "know" that there are no bad people, only sick people.
Then why is it that on Planet Bizarro we have to teach kids "stranger
danger"? Why is it that children live in fear, but molesters don't? Why is
it that law-abiding citizens feel the need to live behind bars, but criminals roam free?
Of course, no one asks these questions, because all this seems normal. And
why shouldn't it? On Planet Bizarro, people think that's the way it has always been.
Try this test: What would you do if a man broke down your front door at 2
a.m., screaming threats and brandishing a bloody ax? (Choose one.)
a) Call the police only if they promise not to use force, which "never solves anything."
b) Phone an attorney and discuss obtaining a restraining order from the court.
c) Press for stricter ax-control laws.
d) Do nothing, so as not to continue the "cycle of violence."
e) Inquire whether the man's childhood was unhappy.
f) Sit down and talk, while trying to "see things from his point of view."
g) Avoid a "pre-emptive strike" by waiting till he starts hacking up your family.
h) Shoot him.
If you chose any answer from (a) through (g), you're already on Planet
Bizarro. Life there won't be easy. Without history to guide you,
everything is confusing. But if you chose (h), you're still at home on Planet Earth.
Glad to have you with us.
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http://www.ksl.com/?sid=23519836&nid=148&title=gun-groups-offer-utah-teachers-free-concealed-weapon-class&s_cid=queue-10
WEST VALLEY CITY - Should teachers have guns? Would that have stopped the Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary?
The Utah Shooting Sports Council and the Utah-based website opsgear.com seem to have an answer: Yes. That's why they're offering a free class to Utah's teachers, as well as anyone who works on school grounds, according to Clark Aposhian, who will be conducting part of the training.
They're calling the class "Safe to learn. Safe to teach," and providing not only permit training, but also some basic training in handling firearms which emphasize safety, according to Aposhian.
Utah is one of two states that allow guns on public school campuses, the other being Kansas. Aposhian, who is also the chairman of the USSC, said that the lack of a school shooting in Utah shows that allowing guns on campuses does not necessarily lead to more gun problems at schools. He also said they weren't necessarily trying to put more firearms on campuses throughout the state either.
I don't understand the logic that having more guns will create less gun problems.
-Cassie Stoneman, former Utah public school teacher
"Make no mistake, we're not trying to arm teachers, it's completely up to them," Aposhian said. "The only reason to offer this kind of class is if we're serious and committed to protecting our kids."
Not everyone agrees. Former Utah special education teacher Cassie Stoneman said she would never support that idea and that guns should be an absolute last resort.
"I would be terrified that one of my students would find my weapon and bring it out," Stoneman said.
She also said that being armed while teaching could lead to difficult discussions about why a teacher had a gun that weren't relevant to learning.
"I don't understand the logic that having more guns will create less gun problems," she said.
Granite School District spokesperson Ben Horsley said that the district knows of several teachers and administrators who have concealed carry permits, but that the district doesn't track whether they bring their weapons on campus, and they wouldn't want to either.
"Teachers, according to law, are allowed to carry concealed permits and weapons, and if they choose to do so, they are allowed to do so," Horsley said.
However, there are specific policies that teachers have to abide by, including having the weapon on their person at all times.
Related:
Would more teachers with guns make schools safer?
More guns in the hands of teachers and administrators could effectively make schools safer and better prepared for active shooters, a Utah gun instructor said.
"District policy is very specific that weapons cannot be stored on campus," he said, meaning they can't be left in a cabinet, desk or any other location. Horsley said this was to make sure a student couldn't accidentally get hold of a weapon.
Davis School District spokesperson Chris told KSL his district also requires teachers to have their weapon on them at all times, and that they encourage teachers to inform their principal when they are carrying because they feel unsafe.
Aposhian didn't say that an armed teacher would definitely have stopped the killer in Newtown Conn., but he said the rampage shows what happens when teachers are unarmed and must wait for law enforcement to arrive.
"It's somewhat pollyannic to say we don't need more guns in schools," Aposhian said. "I mean, who do they call when there's a school shooting? People with guns. We expect them so show up and bring their guns."0 -
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quote:Originally posted by swearengine
Are you implying FDR was a good leader?
Enough people thought so to have re-elected him.
Twice.
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Bill Clinton was re-elected and I haven't seen much support for him on this venue. FDR came into power in the Depression in the U.S. just as Hitler came into power in Germany during their Depression. The citizenship in each country did not think it could get any worse than it already was. History has shown us it could. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by swearengine
Bill Clinton was re-elected and I haven't seen much support for him on this venue. FDR came into power in the Depression in the U.S. just as Hitler came into power in Germany during their Depression. The citizenship in each country did not think it could get any worse than it already was. History has shown us it could.
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It would have been a tragedy if Beethoven had never lived or developed the artistic genius he was blessed with. 0 -
Col Plink, FDR was reelected THREE times. He died during his fourth term in office. Historians rank him as our third best president. 0
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