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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
On 2006-02-05, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) penned:
wrote: "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote: I'm certainly NOT saying you shouldn't wear "pretty" clothes - just that large women should use a little common sense when buying them. Why "should" they, Evelyn? Why shouldn't they just wear what they please? What laws are being broken, legal or ethical? Aesthetic? ;-) Unless a woman really WANTS to look grotesque, common sense dictates that she not wear something she knows is unflattering! (Certainly not when there are available alternatives that are more becoming and minimize her flaws.) I think maybe the core of this disagreement comes down to the use of the word "flaws." Maybe some people are happy with their bodies and don't see themselves as flawed. God, I wish I were in that place. -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
In article , NMR
wrote: "Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote in message ... In article , Adrian wrote: Jo Firey wrote: "Yoj" wrote in message . com... "Wayne Mitchell" wrote in message news "Yoj" wrote: A cup of strong black coffee can be a real help in a situation like that. It contains drugs that are similar to theophylin that help open up the lungs. Proper treatment is better of course, but coffee can be a real help in the mean time. Jo Also good chocolate, it contains theobromine which is part of the same family. The family is the methylxanthines, of which the major members are caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine. Aminophylline is a modified form of theophylline that is injectable, but really has no current place in the treatment of asthma. Of the three main alkaloids, theophylline, as has been suggested, is the strongest bronchodilator, which helps in an acute asthma attack. Of common beverages, strong tea has the greatest amount of actual theophylline. Coffee has the most caffeine. I thought tea had the highest caffeine amount Depends on the brewing technique, with instant the lowest and drip/espresso the highest. A rule of thumb is that a 6 oz/180 ml cup of coffee contains between 50 and 150 mg of caffeine, with no significant quantities of other methylxanthine alkaloids. 1oz/30ml of single-shot espresso has about 100 mg. Tea is more typically 20-100, but with other alkaloids besides caffeine. I'm trying to hunt down concentrations. Getting into more detail than people probably want, caffeine gets transformed, in the liver, to paraxanthine (84%), theobromine (12%), and theophylline (4%). |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
"Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote in message ... In article , NMR wrote: "Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote in message ... In article , Adrian wrote: Jo Firey wrote: "Yoj" wrote in message . com... "Wayne Mitchell" wrote in message news "Yoj" wrote: A cup of strong black coffee can be a real help in a situation like that. It contains drugs that are similar to theophylin that help open up the lungs. Proper treatment is better of course, but coffee can be a real help in the mean time. Jo Also good chocolate, it contains theobromine which is part of the same family. The family is the methylxanthines, of which the major members are caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine. Aminophylline is a modified form of theophylline that is injectable, but really has no current place in the treatment of asthma. Of the three main alkaloids, theophylline, as has been suggested, is the strongest bronchodilator, which helps in an acute asthma attack. Of common beverages, strong tea has the greatest amount of actual theophylline. Coffee has the most caffeine. I thought tea had the highest caffeine amount Depends on the brewing technique, with instant the lowest and drip/espresso the highest. A rule of thumb is that a 6 oz/180 ml cup of coffee contains between 50 and 150 mg of caffeine, with no significant quantities of other methylxanthine alkaloids. 1oz/30ml of single-shot espresso has about 100 mg. Tea is more typically 20-100, but with other alkaloids besides caffeine. I'm trying to hunt down concentrations. Getting into more detail than people probably want, caffeine gets transformed, in the liver, to paraxanthine (84%), theobromine (12%), and theophylline (4%). Howard if you are trying to hunt down concentrations of caffeine there is a south American tree bark that is loaded with pure caffeine which we both know is well known to cause a euphoria state |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:39:01 -0700, "Monique Y. Mudama"
wrote: On 2006-02-05, penned: John F. Eldredge wrote: Well, for that matter, I have 20 years experience as a programmer (and college degrees in both electronics and programming, as well as a Bachelor's degree in History), and class myself as a "skilled worker". That makes sense. Other than the fact that programmers are extremely well-paid, which makes them middle-class, the work itself is certainly of the skilled-worker variety. I'm a little confused. What constitutes a skilled worker? The term looks like it should mean "someone who's good at what they do and has invested time and training into doing it well," but I don't think that's what you mean. I've always been a bit confused by the white collar / blue collar distinction. I don't get it, I guess. The white collar/blue collar labor division has always been a bit vague. One traditional definition would be that a blue collar worker works with his hands, making something, and a white collar worker works with his mind. However, most "making something" jobs involve judgement as well as physical effort, and "white-collar" jobs vary considerably in how much individual decision-making is involved. Management would generally be considered a white-collar job, but, particularly in smaller companies, a low-level manager may well be involved on the factory or restaurant floor, and not just supervising. My classification of myself as a "skilled worker" is because a programmer is basically a tool-maker, enabling other people's jobs to be done more efficiently. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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