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What's funny is that no one brought up the notion of who are YOU to decide that people need contraception, can't deny people the right to have kids, its I guess, BIOLOGICAL BIRTH RIGHT!!! The biological definition of life includes reproduction. That is a personal desicion and a violation of personal rights. At least China, with its communist ways allowed people to have a couple kids, it didn't deny them the right to have ANY kids!. I think its ok to have gov't mandated contraception as a way for SLOWING population growth, providing that people ARE allowed to have a kids. I think ecoli said, you'd be burned at the stake.

If you are a specialist in chromatography, such as HPLC, or GC/LC there are alot of places that will hire you, including: 1. The Cosmetic Industry (to identify/purify new fragrances/antioxidants from natural speciemens) 2. Pharmaceutical Industry (to identify/purify novel pharmacologically active agents/ or mass scale marketed medication QC/QA,or production) 3. Biotechnology Regeant Companies (purity antibodies/reagents) 4. Law enforcement (however this is more a technique, you'll get board out of your mind, very kit oriented not much room for independant thought) 5. Food Industry (indentify/purify new sweetners, flavors etc) 6. Intelligence Agencies/Military Labs (identify potential chemical/biological weapons) Hope this list helps.

Hi Kirlian, Sorry to hear about your uncle. Take some relief that the doctors are proceeding with the chemo. That means THERE IS HOPE! My uncle passed on due to lung cancer, however when he was diagnosis it had metastasized to most parts of his body. The doctors told us that chemo was not an option, so you can imagine how my family felt. On the other hand my childhood friend's father was diagnosised with lung cancer 3 years ago. He was treated with chemo and survived it. Today the man can physically kick my Arse (and he has, multiple times). You and your uncle have hope. The docs would not be giving your uncle chemo if they thought it wouldn't work. So hang in there! I'm sure he'll be around to kick your arse quicker than you think.

Anybody ever see the Ali G episode when he ask C Everett Coop (former surgeon general).. "what is the brain?" The title of this posting reminded me of that.

Well, when if comes to fine motor control, there is the involvement of dopamine from S.Nigra neurons that project to striatal nuclie involved in fine motor coordination, in particular the shell of the NuAcc. You want evidence? Parkinsons. DA neurons of the SN die. Therapy: dopamine replacement.

Here's a bit of friendly advice. Next time you have an idea for an invention: 1. Keep it to yourself. 2. Check the USPTO website to see if there is an already existing patent 3. If not, hire a lawyer. 3a Incorporate yourself. 4. Descide if there is market 4a. Get VC funding. and Get a Lawyer. 5. Get a working proof of concept and get a Laywer. 6. File your patent again another Lawyer. 7. Hire another Lawyer 8. Get another Layyer to help that Lawyer 10. Hire a Lawyer for all the other Lawyers.

Moo, Ok just a quick point, to LISTEN all you need is a SCANNER. since you mentioned transmitter. You DO NOT need a transmitter (or transceiver). Although no one can stop you from acquiring one, you NEED A LICENSE issued by the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION. To transmit on Ham Radio frequencies without one is a violation of FEDERAL law. Use your scanner to listen. If you decide you like ham radio, and you want to get into space/satellite communications then get a license and be prepared to spend some money. Again, welcome to scanner listening. You may also want to check out "monitoring times" on the internet, or subscribed to "popular communications" magazine to learn more. Also, since you're in Brookyn, there are a number of Amateur Radio clubs that can help you. LIMARC http://www.limarc.org is the biggest in the area, and there is also nyc amateur radio emergency service group..http://www.nyc-ares.org Send an email to them, there are plenty of hams there who would be willing to be an "Elmer" (teacher) to you.

It would have been better if Americans knew proper sportsmanship. They played a nasty game because they were too scared. They were doing too many fouls that were capable of breaking the legs of the Italian players, why do you think the Italian elbowed the American? Perhaps one of the worse games I've seen. The american team needs to grow up and stop playing cowardly games.

Well make sure the experience you get includes cGMP compliance, HTS techniques and lots and lots of diverse automated operations and lots of team collaboration. Pure academic lab experience will keep you at the poverty level for a long time. At least until you decide to get your MBA and get real-world experience.

Dude, you need to talk to your physcian. Olanzapine has a high affinity for H1 which has been associated with weight gain..not a good thing for diabetes. You should be asked to switch another atypical with a pharmacological profile that would match your characteristics. As far as EU goes, they are even worse than the US with company influence over physicians. The EU rules are laxed compared to US and gift-giving is often practiced in EU, where as not allowed in US. For example, Global parts of Pharma can fly EU physicians to conferences all expenses paid. American based pharma can't. Only for like KOLs can they do that...and even so its through a third party and they have to be presenting. As far as the differences goes, Typical as are only D2 selective, and atypicals are D2/and 5HT (serotonin) selective, the side effects tend to be less with the atypicals than conventional, especially in maintanance setting. You may have access to those other meds, but depending on how your provider has their formulary tiered, you may have to either have not responded to or have an adverse event that necessitates switching. You have diabetes, olanzapine is not a good drug to use, you may be able to switch..talk to your physcian, because you're not gonna get the best advice here on this board..I only know of this stuff cause it was my therapeutic area when I worked for a Big Pharma in New Jersey (very short time), my PhD does not make me an MD!!!!

Ok Cap'n, indoors maybe a problem. Broadcast shortwave stations transmit alot of power (20Kw or more) and therefore even though there can be poor propagatin their signal can still make it through and they on AM, so that means the power output is constant. On the other hand, the NASA rebroadcasts, at least on the Amateur side usually on USB (above 10Mhz) or LSB (below 10 Mhz) run perhaps 100 watts, Peak Envelope Power (PEP), that is they're probably running "barefoot". If they're running an amp, they'll probably run no more that 500 watts PEP. So, it may be a little difficult getting those sigs on an indoor antenna. Ok moo, after talking to a repeater owning buddy of mine, we both agreed that the best repeater for your location would be the Larkfield one, which is located near Huntington, Long Island. As far as equipment, a scanner would work fine with an outdoor antenna (put a mag mount on your gutter or if you're in a building make sure you have the antenna towards to northeast as high as possible). The 147.000 MHz repeater on top of the Chrysler building use to retranmit broadcast a few years ago; although now the repeater is used for emergency communications for NYC, so you'll have to just plug it in and see they're still doing it. As far a radio is concerned, a scanner will be fine (Radio-Shack, a hundred bucks..when you're done listening to the shuttle you can listen to the cops in your neighborhood, or boats, or whatever...NYPD patrol operations are still analog and not trunked) I will keep you posted as their may be some radioclubs who will broadcast over the internet. Happy listening!! or as we say..Good DX! You may never make it up to space, but at least your voice can and you can still participate in space the space program!. Hams have a number of satelites in space as well and its kind of a cool hobby, if Satellite Comms becomes your thing.

I'll stick with the Paul Adams and Roldolfo Llinas points of view.

Well if you want to listen to re-broadcast on the Amateur Radio Repeaters, a scanner would be sufficient. Usually the repeaters are on the 2 meter band (144Mhz to 148Mhz) or on 70cm band (440Mhz to 450Mhz). Also the uplinks and downlinks for regular coms, you can pick up on a scanner. (encryption is another story). If you want to listen to rebroadcast below 50 Mhz, then you will need a shortwave radio. Usually the transmissions come from W5RRR group at Johnson Space Center. But again, this time of the sunspot cycle, reception will be difficult. You may be able to copy it on some of the "night-time" HF frequencies, like 7 Mhz (40 meters) or maybe 3.8Mhz (80 meters). 14Mhz (20 meters) can be iffy, but I have had nighly contacts with guys on Diego Garcia (army base in Indian Ocean) and Isreal at the bottom of the cycle. Good luck, you can get yourself a shortwave radio for a decent price at a Ham "swap and shop".

Glad its an opinion, but I would say NO to that opinion. You do not NEED to study the views from anti-psychiatry and pro-psychiatry. Whats important is the DATA. Even though a pharma sponsored KOL may present the data in a promotional /anti-promotional fashion, it is essential to be objective an READ THE DATA! I.e. controls, arms, population, outcomes metrix, definitions, limits etc. I actually get more out of META-ANALYSIS studies (and studies like CATIE providing they account for newer availble agents..STAR-D is one i'm paying attention too) Now, you don't have to tell me the problems associated by comparison across clinical trials, certainly one must be careful, but they are truly a way to statistically analyse to VERY BIG POPULATION and get more clinically meaningful results, that are not limited to the protocols set in just one Phase III clinical trial. DATA. Its where its at.

Hi Mooeypoo, I see you're located in New York. Please let me know around what area. I can reachout to my Ham Radio buddies and see if they know a repeater that re-broadcast the transmissions. I am a Ham Radio Operator and have had to pleasure of directly talking to astronauts while on the Space Shuttle (SAREX) and on board the ISS. I even spoke to the cosmonauts on the MIR space station! Basically anyone can do this,but you need to be a FCC licensed Amateur Radio Operator and you need to have some basic equipment (nothing too complicated). Some fun times and awesome QSL cards (these are cards that Ham Radio Operators exchange..kinda like post cards, but with our callsigns and neat graphics/pictures..the NASA ones are great). There are region specific uplink and downlink frequencies within the Amateur Radio allotted bands, and can be readily found on the ARISS website. Some of the radio clubs re-broadcast the Shuttle transmissions. On Long Island the Larkfield Amateur Radio Club does this on their 145.430 MHz repeater. A simple scanner you can get at Radio Shack will allow you to listen in. This is your best bet. During my contacts with the SS, ISS and MIR I only had a window of about 7 minutes. I was receiving on regular vertical and trasmitting on a vertically polarized, horizontally rotatable 4 element beam not capable of azimuth tracking. So a very short time to get in! Also use to exchange "emails" on a regular basis with the cosmonauts..as they had an "electronic mail box aka TNC) connected to their ham radio. (yeah..i'm old..and i've been a Ham a long long time..before nocode! ). You can listen directly to Shuttle, ISS communications however the problem is that its usually a narrow window of time that these birds are above the horizon, maybe about 10 minutes..if that. So you won't get to hear the whole gist. Also you probably won't hear the uplink, just the downlink, so the conversation could be just one-sided on the bird side. There are free satellite tracking programs on the internet where you can type in the Kelps, thus you know when the shuttle withing hearing range. I think you can find tracking info on the NASA website. Propagation conditions can hinder HF reception, especially now that the sunspot cycle its at lowest in the 11 year cycle. And you need a shortwave radio (.5khz to 30 Mhz) and a decent antenna to capature those signals (a dipole is good). Hope this helps..its some great listening and let me know what area you're around..I'll see what repeaters do the rebroad cast. Usually they're on 2 meters or 440 (the 70cm band).

nah, its the people. They just like the sounds of their own voice, and like to give the illusion that their important. Fluff as you call it.

wow, well, I'll half agree. All of those combined. Knowlegde gained from technical know how is always an advantage but it is not only essential to know HOW to apply but how to COMMUNICATE it. Basically companies want it ALL. WHO you know only helps if your good (smart) or your trying to get into a business owned by your wife's family. Networking only works if you're good. That's basically it. Corporate companies drain you (I went corporate for a while, left pretty freakinig quickly), you work Mad hours, and work with people who are just worried about Covering their own ARSES. They like to emphasize team work, but you can't have team work when everyone is CYA. There is no "I" in team..yeah right. Doesn't work. As far as technology, it has not been good for the Cogs/Sheeps who hold a coporate job. Everything operates in real-time now, what you thought was due today was due 5 days ago, and assigned 2 days ago. Not only that, everything is operating 24/7 because chances are you have your colleagues in India doing work while you're sleeping at night. You wake up the next morning and there's 50 emails on your blackberry. So even when you leave your job, you're still working. What's worse is that some of these companies are BRAINWASHING you to think that working long hours is a great thing to do, that if you don't work long hours you're worthless. I'm sure the spirit of Mao Zedong is smiling at "capital-roadest " americans right this moment. But I discovered the loop hole..its called G-JOB! Government baby. Normal work hours, decent people, not money focused, and lots of teamwork and best of all...retirement after 20 years with non-contributed pension! And people wonder why the NYPD is attracting people with top-notch business degrees and worked in coporate america. All comes down to quality of life . So while my colleagues at age 55 are still working to pay for their late model BMW or lexus, I'll be done, probably in some country where the america dollar is worth something...Costa Rica here I come.

Thats mighty noble of your PI. Not all labs are like that, I've personally seen instances where n of 1 was published. Not kidding. When grants are on the line and publications are needed, you'll be amazed at what scientist can get away with.

Bravo!

Another problem is that of funding. When a new relationship or finding comes out, those findings tend to dictate which projects are financed. So using the "Vitamin E and Heart Disease" relationship you suggested as an example, if something like that is put out there, then it becomes a hot topic. The NIH for example will put a call out for grants that focus on the dissecting out the relationship. Scientist who are always in need of funding, design projects so that they can have access to that money to study the Vit E and Heart Disease Relationship. A few years go by, and papers are published by the grants that were given out for the study of that topic. Scientist have built their careers studying that topic and perhaps some the fruits of their labor have seen some light in the early stages of clinical development. Now, BAM a new study is put out that contradicts the finding. Do you really think NIH is going to stop funding for ongoing studies? No. Do you think NIH will provide money to further investigate the contradictions? NO! Why? because yo uhave to look at WHO the NIH (or any health policy agency for that matter) is! Here's is who they are: Scientist and Clinicians who biased to the orignial findings. Why?: NIH grant (also NSF) funding is dictated by a peer-review process by scientist/clinicians that have already established themselves in the field. So, if grants are comming that challenges their original findings, they will not approve the grant! It could jeopardize their future funding/careers. They don't want to look as though they were barking up the wrong tree. Its a way of self promoting/survivial among scientists. Is it bad? yes. Ethical? NO. But its peer-review, and in this case unlike the legal system, they are not blind. So, wanna say that global warming is a problem? don't count on getting money from a gov't agency.

The advice above is excellent. Follow it. However, to increase your advantage (jobs are competitive these days), find a university/program that has an industrial relationship with one of those companies (i.e. Intel/AMD). A number of these companies actually give money to universities not only for philantrophic and for the fostering of research relationships, but to also to have access to students who are trained with their technology/platform. This is the case with a university on Long Island (SUNY Stony Brook) where Computer Associates (CA) had donated millions of dollars to thier computer sciences department. It increased the technology availalbe to the students and in a sense student education revolved around future employment at CA. So, good luck!

totally didn't get what you're saying. clarify.