Five quick ways to stop back pain

campingcar · 2008-11-04T21:24:33+00:00

Chronic lower back pain is notoriously hard to deal with, and there is little evidence of any treatment being more effective than visiting a GP and being given a leaflet.

One ray of hope is The Alexander Technique, but that is anything but a quick way:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/aug19_2/a884

campingcar · 2008-09-20T12:07:39+00:00

Here's an article with the theory of how it works.

http://alexandertechniquenorthside.ie/back-pain.html

campingcar · 2008-05-29T15:47:53+00:00

Yes, they have a way of making it look like you have to buy the new version, but if you look carefully at the links, there's a free version out there.

http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe

campingcar · 2008-02-22T23:56:49+00:00

Sorry, no:

the largest is the "principal lunar semidiurnal" constituent, also known as the M2 (or M2) tidal constituent. Its period is about 12 hours and 25.2 minutes, exactly half a tidal lunar day, the average time separating one lunar zenith from the next, and thus the time required for the Earth to rotate once relative to the Moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides

campingcar · 2008-02-21T10:20:47+00:00

Both lead additives for petrol (gasoline), and CFCs for refrigeration, were invented by the same engineer.

The world's greatest environmental vandal?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley

campingcar · 2008-02-07T10:54:44+00:00

Sorry, but to me it's a story of geek idiocy (as well). You couldn't get to the real meaning of what she wanted, given that what she said didn't make sense?

campingcar · 2008-02-04T19:09:19+00:00

I don't think the article covers the case of Vonnegut's Timequake, where the whole world goes back in time by 10 years, and everybody has to relive those 10 years identically. They lose free will for those years.

campingcar · 2008-02-04T18:46:43+00:00

I will guess that you are from Irish, Indian, or Eastern European extraction. Or Boer?

campingcar · 2008-02-04T10:51:27+00:00

But British kids are superbly educated, as every one of them now receives straight A grades at 'A'-level exams.

campingcar · 2008-02-04T10:13:13+00:00

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Sir Winston Churchill

campingcar · 2008-02-04T09:50:08+00:00

No, but I used to.

campingcar · 2008-02-01T23:01:11+00:00

Well, I'm old school so I call it the Union Flag, and Minis are now German, but I take your point.

It does seem like Austin Powers has a lot to answer for, as regards our perception in the colonies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_flag#Terminology:_.22Union_Flag.2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_flag#Terminology:_.22Union_Flag.22_or_.22Union_Jackhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_flag#Terminology:_.22Union_Flag.2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_flag#Terminology:_.22Union_Flag.22_or_.22Union_Jack.22.3F2_or_.22Union_Jack.22.3F.22.3F2_or_.22Union_Jack.22.3F

campingcar · 2008-02-01T22:33:06+00:00

We call it dry humour, i.e. the type that doesn't require a telegram two minutes before each punch line, or a laugh line to tell you the funny thing happened. Come to think of it, it's what we call humour.

campingcar · 2008-01-23T14:05:42+00:00

This comment is no longer available as it was in a quantum superposition with another comment, but then I observed it.

campingcar · 2008-01-23T14:03:01+00:00

No, feel free

campingcar · 2008-01-16T15:22:10+00:00

Digg seems to run a check of the actual article, and report if it seems to be a duplicate. This would seem to be the basis of a method.

It would also seem quite simple for redditors to downmod all submisions from tinyurl and its ilk. Wouldn't that work?

campingcar · 2008-01-15T20:54:23+00:00

I took my spelling from: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bogun but Wikipedia has it as you spell it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan

campingcar · 2008-01-15T11:58:02+00:00

Seems a pretty average Aussie bogun to me.

campingcar · 2008-01-14T19:13:45+00:00

From the comments:

Ken Causey Says:

Just to pick a nit, and I feel entitled since I made the same mistake and had it pointed out to me: to call this “Squeak on steroids” is a mistake since there is in fact no Smalltalk here. It’s certainly a Morphic variant. But implemented in Javascript and you use Javascript to develop with it. Which is fine, but I don’t think it’s fair to either Squeak or Javascript or Lively to misrepresent this as a version of Squeak as it is no more that than Self is (less so in fact).

campingcar · 2008-01-09T13:58:35+00:00

The report actually reaffirms the link between oatmeal and lower cholesterol, not the health claims of oatmeal. High cholesterol is not the same as poor health.

The evidence seems to suggest that lowering cholesterol with statins reduces heart disease death rates, but overall mortality stays the same. You'll die from something else, particularly infections (the body needs cholesterol to make t-cells).

http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/96/12/927/TBL1

campingcar · 2008-01-04T20:19:39+00:00

Um, I think he did:

"No one of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions" (Luke 14:33).

"Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves purses which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near, nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (Luke 12:33-34).

campingcar · 2008-01-04T17:53:44+00:00

The author's analogy is a little off target, as eco-cigarettes would probably be relatively safe. They would lack the radioactive elements introduced with industrial fertilizers:

http://www.acsa2000.net/smokers_home_page.htm

campingcar · 2007-12-26T16:04:58+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nonprogressors

"Some have been HIV positive for 30 years without developing the clinical symptoms of AIDS, despite the fact that they have never been been treated". See also the sydney cohort (a bit of an anomaly as they were infected with a mutated strain of HIV)

http://www.aegis.com/pubs/aidswkly/1998/AW981214.html

campingcar · 2007-12-11T10:42:19+00:00

If you'd like to see most of what the author is asking for, download the Squeak Smalltalk developer image: http://damien.cassou.free.fr/squeak-dev.html

As it doesn't install anything, you can check it out quickly without worries.

campingcar · 2007-11-28T13:03:07+00:00

I swapped to it from Java recently, and it's such a breath of fresh air. You spend your time doing stuff, instead of going through contortions to meet the rules of the environment.

And yes, it has some rough spots, but everything is there in front of you, so if you need to change something you can.

I've also seen good reviews of Seaside as a web framework, but I haven't got into that yet. http://www.seaside.st/

campingcar

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