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how do you get to upper canada village from ottawa using public transport? i am going to ottawa in august 2007 and would like to visit upper canada village.i need transport advice on getting their as i do not drive.

What percentage of total carbon emission in Canada is caused by cars and public transport? What percentage of Canada's total CO2 emissions come from cars, buses and other possible forms of public transportation?

Can a UK citizen buy a car in the USA and drive it in Canada (on a 1 year Canadian working holiday visa)? If it is possible where does the vehicle need to be registered/ insured. In general are cars cheaper in the US or Canada? We are visiting Canada for a year but arriving via NYC and are trying to decide if it is better to buy a car in NYC or to get to Canada via public transport and then purchase a car there...

what are the laws canada has about smoking in public places? are you allowed to smoke in resturant,bars, cafes, hotels, theatres, bingo halls, church halls, sports centres, shopping centres, public transport, schools, hospitals and all clubs.

is there any public transport for crossing the border in to usa from canada??

How to get from Toronto-Alliston,ON via public transport? I'm heading to Canada this summer. I'm back-packing across Canada then staying with relatives in Alliston at the end of my stay. Was just wondering if anyone had details of how to get their via public transport as i can't find anything on the internet. Thanks in advance.

What's the best way to get from Coquitlam/Anmore, BC to the Belis Fair Mall in Washington by public transport? I've just moved to Canada and want to take advantage of the closeness to the American border - but only have access to public transport. I was hoping someone might be able to help me out with some suggestions!

Given the positive impact of public transport spending on property values, is NOW a time to build it? http://stjamesbuckhead.com/Railimpact.pdf USA, Canada & Britain- Many studies, many methods- public transit clearly brings many times its weight in property value gains. Does that mean it's needed- or not?

Should I choose a rental car or public transport in Vancouver? Can I rent a car in Canada with a US driver's license, and are there any requirements that I should be aware of? Also, approximately how much is a 5 mile cab fare in Vancouver? Thanks for any helpful input.

Is it legal, in Canada, to transport a sword from the mall to your home via public transit? I'm getting my dad a Lord of the Rings sword for Christmas, and although I am old enough to buy it, I cannot drive. How am I going to get it home?

are auto accident reports public records in canada? i have reason to believe that my nanny was in a car accident while transporting my children. i don't want to press charges, i just want to know if there was such an accident. how can i find out?

What is the cheapest and and quickest way to get to Buffalo, NY ,USA from Toronto,ON ,Canada? I would not have a car since I am not resident in Canada. I wish to stay in Toronto and travel to US to sit for my CPA examination. I wish to travel to the US on examination days and return on the same day.I wish to know which would be the cheapest public transport mode.

Where would you reccomend I go in Canada? I'm going to do a bit of travelling this July/August, I've got a few weeks planned in America and thought it'd be nice to stay in Canada for a week or so. I am a 20 year old girl and will be travelling by myself. My main interests are history and exploring other cultures. I can't drive so I'll be relying on public transport. I'll be travelling from the UK. I don't know much about Canada so any advice or opinions would be appreciated.

why don't americans use much public transport....? i was always curious... everywhere they go, they depend on cars a lot .. why is that ?/ .. same with canada... is it because its just ''vast'' .. i living in england cannot imagine the sheer size of those places to be honest .. but anyway, why not a ride on the public bus to go shopping downtown??

How safe is travel by bus/train in Canada for single women? Hey! I'm thinking of going to Montreal for a language course this summer. I'd be going there alone and I'd like to see some of the surrounding cities while I'm there. I'm a female student and I was just wondering how safe it would be for me to travel alone on public transport for long journeys. Is it likely that I'll be mugged because I'm on my own..? Thanks.

How far is the naiagra falls from ontario in canada? and how far is the rockies? is there public transport to these places and how mch does it cost?

I want to travel in Canada from Vancouver to King Edward Island with stops. Is this a difficult thing? I dont want to rent a car or anything, mainly rely on buses and public transport. Is there enough that is regular for someone to use like this? haha! yes i mean Prince! I got confused with a cheese region!

What should I budget to travel for a year mostly in South America but also a little bit in USA and Canada.? I'm a light traveler, with only a backpack and I tend to stay in hostels and wherever is cheapest. I'm considering bringing a tent but I'm not sure (any suggestions?) and I'll probably use public transport for most of the way. The basis of the trip is Alaska to Argentina. I was thinking $2500US a month. But really I have no idea so any suggestions would help.

Hello to you beautiful people across the pond especially hardworking families who use public transport !? I am so happy on yahoo! answers I have learned that in the USA there are good, decent, honest, hardworking and caring people who respect marriage and the family and want the best for their kids ! GREAT ! To be honest, looking at TV we get a wrong impression, but thanks to yahoo! answers I know now this is not at all true ! GREAT ! So i want to come back for a family holiday. Please could you let me know how much i need, we want to travel on Amtrak and explore, sleeping mainly on the trains and sometimes in a Motel (near to a station of course). How is the public train and bus service these days ? Will all doctors and hospitals accept our european travel insurance? How much are decent restaurants and diners (eg. rice and fish, how much) and how about the homeland security (will we have to give fingerprints) How about if we fly to Canada and sleep on the train to US? Do some states have gun free zones ? Is it safe to walk around at night in small towns ? Is it family friendly ? Thanks !

would this be considered an average wage in canada? 1600 canadian dollars a month after tax. If you earned that wage and you had no rent/mortgage to pay for how well would you live(obviously you would need to cover all the other expenses like bills,food etc)? also you wouldn't be driving you use public transport.

Trip to Thousand Islands from Windsor, Canada - Need help!? I am planning a trip to the 1000 islands from windsor in Ontario. The problem is I don't have a car and can't avail a car pool because a few friends are also going with me. Can someone tell me what would be the easiest or cheapest way to travel by public transport? Also, how long can it take to go? Then, I can plan it accordingly to return on the same day or the day after. Thanks in advance and 10 points for best ans!!!!! :)

i wish i was in canada soooo frickin bad? im 18 and live in ireland and ireland is a shite country except for its public transport i love its public transport but i yearn to be in canada lol how do i make it happen

Canadian with disabilities. What is Canada like in each of the 4 areas? 1. Employment for people with disabilities 2. Education for people with disabilities 3. Disability Support Pension ( That what it called in Australia) 4. Accessibility like public transport and buildings

Niagara Falls Canada vacation nightlife transportation? Hi i am going to Niagara falls in june and will be staying in the Sheraton Close to brock university. My question is that if at night i want to go to the bars and clubs in the area without driving. Is there any public transport/hotel/taxi service available and is that stuff expensive? Also would it be safe to use the services at night? Thanks

How expensive is it to live in the UK? I have plans of doing an exchange program for uni in the UK for a semester. I was just wondering how expensive it is to live there? I live in Canada right now. Also how much is public transport approximatly? I would love to travel there to study but the expense of it all is a major factor in my ultimate decision. living = apartment or condo.

Flying with Dog from Canada to Germany and back.? 1. I need to know all of the shots she needs. Is there a website where I could find that? 2. We are Canadian travelling to Germany, apparently European animals need microchips or tattoos in their ears, does my dog need that if we're just travelling there? 3. I was reading and it said that on public transport dogs need muzzles, do they mean like the heavy duty basket muzzles or would a Nylon Fabric muzzle be sufficient? 4. Natural Calming Aids, do they actually work?

Any Good areas to rent in downtown Vancouver, Canada? I am a young English guy who is moving to Vancouver in August or September this year to live and work there for a year. Does anyone know any safe and good areas to live that are not too pricey to rent in Shared House/Flat with good public transport links to other areas of Vancouver nearby? If anyone already has any contact details with of places to rent in advance I would very much appreciate it. I am also looking for new contacts in the Vancouver area that could maybe show me around and socialise with when I arrive. Please leave your email address. Thanks

living in Canada with this budget? this is a monthly AFTER TAX FIGURE,1700 canadian dollars a month.You don't pay for rent but you pay for food and utilities for yourself.You also don't have a car, but you pay for public transport. Would this wage be ok to live on in every canadian city?

Cost of Living in Edmonton, Canada? I'm going to move to Edmonton, Canada on next month for work purpose for 2 years. May i know the standard cost of living there? For examples, foods & public transport cost? Thx May i know what is the price of the cigarette in general for a 20 pcs/pack in Edmonton, Canada?

i have a couple of questions they are in relation to Canada coz im goin there for a year in November.? ok 1. Is the internet cheap in canada. 2. In winter whats the absolut coldest it gets 3. what are the laws on drugs in canada e.g in marijuana decriminalised etc 4. whats public transport like and finally 5. whats the closest U.S City to the border...thanks heaps ok well im tossing up between Vancouver and the whistler ski resort...coz i got a job at either one of the 2 and im not sure where to go....and the transport question was just like locally not big trips etc and wow -65 thats fkncrazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy i dunmno if i would be able to cope >< thanks to everyone that helkped me out

Does anyone live in teh suburb of "Pincourt", Montreal Canada? What is the area like? Is public transport a readily accessible thing? How long does it take to Get to Montreal itself from Pincourt? What it in pincourt itself?

I'm going to Canada on holidays help!...? I'm going to Canada with my boyfriends family who I dont get on with for his brothers wedding. We're staying outside Montréal in a mountain area which is meant to be an hour outside the city. I am not happy about this at all! Does anybody know of things to do and how easy is public transport?Like is it frequent? Also, I would love to go to New York while we're there, does anybody know of a service from Montréal to New York or any big American city and how often it goes price etc!? Please help me?:(

Best areas to live in Ottawa, Canada? Which areas are close to shops/restaurants/bars/parks, that are busy but friendly and safe? Also, close to public transport, buses and/or trains? Thanks! :)

What kind of apartment can I get for under $900 in the GTA? My husband and I are relocating to Canada, but we're having a tough time settling on where to go. I was thinking of somewhere in the Greater Toronto area, but I'm not sure whether we can afford it. Is it at all reasonable to find a 2 bedroom aparment that accepts cats, which is in a safe area, near to public transport and isn't falling apart? For under $900 without utilities, or $1K with. I've seen some online in Etobicoke and Scarborough, but it's quite hard to decide from pictures alone.

Cigarette Price in Edmonton, Canada? May i know the general price of a pack of 20 pcs cigarette in Edmonton, Canada as i might move there soon for working purpose? Beside that, anyone knows about the cost of living in Edmonton for example. the accomodation costs, foods for each meal & cost of public transport? Thanks.

How to get from Central London to Essex? I am staying in a hostel in london, located in russell square, and from here i need to get to a family-friends house in essex. I do not have a car so soley on public transport. He is in a town called hadleigh, essex. Please help as i can not figure this out on my own being from canada and all!!! thanks!

Urgent- go there in 3 days--canada, vancouver-- need help and advice? My first time to canada, nervous, please help. (1) what is the daily expense including three meals, public transport, taxi and buying daily necessities? (is it expensive? how much is per mile? i do not drive) (2) if go to Seattle from Vancouver by train or cruise, what do i need to pass the US custom? (3) how much tips should i give to taxi driver and waitress? how much percentage? (4) how is the weather of Vancouver now from july 13 to 27 july? (5) my hotel would be in downtown of vancouver, is the area safe? (6) is the food expensive? (7) how much is bus fare? (8) can i bring dried food such as instant noodle, buscuit (no meat and dairy product) in checked luggage? (9) where to find local day tour to join if my hotel has no leaflet for day tour and do not order for customers? Avis, thanks I want to find a tour with tour guide, i am not the kind of person who can wander around to see and remember directions. i travel alone this time. where to find a tour with guided tour? my hotel might be in false creek , it is quality inn hotel, do you think that area is safe and good location? i am weak for recognising direction and i am a girl, i am quite worried sea bus-- bus time table- runs every ? minutes? (if i miss one, how long i have to wait for another one to come?) (2) what is the fee for one ride (sea bus)? (3) what is the running time each day? from what time until what time ? (what time is the last sea bus from outside back to North vancouver? (i will live in a hotel in north vancouver)

Is my knowledge of Canada right? I need to choose a city. Could you help me, please? I mean to move to Canada for good. I've spent a lot of time exploring by internet but I haven't decided which city to choose. So I've gotten some general knowledge about Canadian cities. Check it out and leave comments please. I'd prefer one of those below (From the west to the east) ===========Vancouver========= cons overpriced real estate, everything overpriced, so if you don't have a well-paid work you aren't have any delight some problems with public transport a lot of homeless people locals aren't friendly rather high crime rate, the most widespread crime is autotheft pros mild weather, nice view nearby skiing resorts cheap sushi (TRUE?) good health care neutral huge Chinese community, a lot of Indians good cannabis ==========Toronto=========== cons no skiing resorts nearby locals are just a bit friendlier than in Van. pros developed public transport system, no need for car moderate prices various ways to spend spare time, lots of clubs low crime-rate good health care neutral Europeans is minority, lots of immigrants bad cannabis ===========Montreal=========== cons unemployment (is it high?) French (nice but must be learned) health care is not so good as in Toronto or Van low crime-rate but residence burglary and bike-thefts are often pros people are friendlier than in both Vancouver and Toronto some cheap small skiing resort nearby cheap real estate, low prices, various ways to spend spare time, lots of clubs neutral mostly Europeans, Arabs, Haitians everyone drinks wine ==========Quebec-city=========== cons scanty choice of places to spend spare time, almost no malls for example small city (or town?) only French (nice but must be learned) high prices in the centre health care is not so good as in Toronto or Van almost no public transport pros low cost of real estate locals are very friendly no crime no unemployment some cheap small skiing resort nearby neutral lots of tourists no cannabis, just Burgundian wine =========== St.John's=========== cons high prices rather high unemployment (is it true?) very scanty choice of places to spend spare time, no malls almost no public transport pros the friendliest folks in the world no crime low cost of real estate neutral farawayness from everything locals mostly of Irish descent everybody drinks beer ===========Halifax=============== Bigger than st.John's but have rather high crime-rate locals mostly of English descent in other respects alike Please add your information and say where I am wrong. Charlie, that was first stage of course. And either of these cities fit me

Scarborough or Mississauga in Canada.? Please i need ur help in deciding which city to settle down in Ontario, canada. I have narrowed my search to these two cities. We have two kids under 4 yrs. I dont want to spend too much on housing. I would be working in toronto so is these places convenient i mean are there good public transport ? which is cheaper and best.

Need some help with planning a trip to Toronto, Canada? In April, a group of us will be driving from NYC to Toronto, Canada. We plan to visit downtown Toronto a lot and will probably utilize the public transport system. To save costs, we want to stay outside of Toronto but near a subway or bus terminal that will provide access to the downtown area. Any advice on hotels near transport terminals? What subway routes/lines will take us to downtown Toronto. Are there are any must sees in Toronto that the locals recommend? We definitely want to get a local vibe as well (the touristy stuff is only half the fun).

Drive or take a bus in Canada? Canadians and other insightful people, I need some suggestions. I'm going to be touring around Canada with some traveling friends from England and I don't know what to do for transportation. We met traveling New Zealand. It's alot easier traveling that country because there's these hop-on hop-off buses that span throughout the country. Canada and the U.S. are just too big I don't think they have such a thing. The U.S. is something like 39 times the size of NZ; and Canada's bigger yet. Plans aren't final, but we're thinking Western Canada. I could drive and it helps that I'm from Minnesota which is basically dead center of Canada; it'd be different if I lived in Georgia and was going to drive from there. But still, Minnesota to the west coast is a long ways! I'm guessing driving ourselves would cost about the same or less by the time we bought all these bus/train passes out to the coast and then for around the coast, plus we'd probably have to rely on taxis which add up fast. I originally didn't want to drive, but I don't want to have to rely on timetables and routes of public transport. We'll probably do more outdoor-based activities away from the cities so I don't know how available public transport would been in the remote areas. It'd be nice to be able to go where you want. Even though I'm not looking forward to the directions and driving through new cities. I don't want to get everyone lost!

top employment agencies in Toronto Canada for undergraduates? hi ya, could anyone pls list some good employment agencies for a fresh graduate...downtown toronto if possible or easily accessible by public transport and if there are any websites, do i register online and then visit them or should i walk in...?

LIfe in Vernon, BC and Canada?? Thank you.? Hello People! I will be coming to Canada in January to work as a Caregiver for 2 years. I am really looking forward to it, although I have tons of questions (naturally). I would love for someone to give me info on the following. I will be reliant on public transport for a while. What is the public transport system like in Vernon, BC specifically? Are they good cycle routes? Is it a cycle-friendly town? Can one walk in the winter (maybe not?) What are some of the things that young people can get involved in and do in Vernon, BC? Are they options to study French in Vernon or nearby? After all deductions/housing/and some meals I would be left with 1090CAD. is this enough to live on? do nice things maybe, like trips to other places in CA? hobbies and entertainment? (thanks) lastly, what are the people like in BC and Canada in general? :) Thank you very much!!!

Moving to Vancouver Canada? In the next couple months I may decide to move to Vancouver. I am 30yr old filmmaker from NYC living in Portland, Oregon. From what I hear Vancouver has a great film industry. My questions are 1) what neighborhoods are best to move to for a real funky/artsy vibe, mom and pop shops, good public transport but not too expensive type of thing and 2) is it hard to find work in canada being american? thanks, i didn't know that. was hoping maybe it could keep me from going to LA. I still want to take a trip up there and check it out, any info on the areas would be a big help, thanks!

I forgot to renew my driver license from last 13 months? I have been taking public transport but I always renew my driver license just in case I may need it but this year I completely forgot. I live in Saskatchewan Canada, anyone knows what can be penalty?

How did millions of Americans get convinced that capitalist nations (Canada, UK, France) are socialist? I mean, there's no law against looking up "socialism" in a dictionary and then looking up "private companies in Canada/UK/France" from a search engine. So how did so many Americans get convinced that nations such as Canada, the UK, France and Sweden are socialist when they are actually capitalist, but have higher taxation rates to support basic social programs, like education, health care, maternity leave and public transport? Sweden isn't socialist! I am sure that the CEOs of Scania, Ericcson, IKEA, Saab and Volvo would fall on the floor laughing if they heard that they lived in a socialist nation! Canada has private practice. Calling its medical system socialist is just plain ignorant. Cuba has socialized medicine, not Canada. Canadian doctors are not directly employed by the government. It is not a socialist system.

Log Cabin/Cottages within 2 hours of toronto, canada? We are 2 couples travelling to Canada for christmas, we would like to stay in a cabin/cottage preferably somewhere it is more likely to snow. Is there anywhere this distance that we can get to by public transport or will we need to hire a car? We would prefer not to drive but will if we have to. We arrive in Toronto on the 24th and Fly out on the 27th. Would like somewhere with a fireplace and a hottub would be nice too, but not essential. happy to spend up $250 per cabin per night for a nice place.

Is it a good idea to backpack from Canada to Argentina.? When i was 18 i got bored of my life in England and decided to up and leave to Australia for a year and do some work, while i was there, i got the bug for new places and new experiences and fell in love with traveling, i covered every city and worked 9 different jobs, i then used my return ticket to go to India for 2 months then south east Asia for a further month. I'm now back in England working a 9-5 job and as you can imagine, depressed about it. So i need a new plan, here is my idea, i hope you guys can let me know from your experience/knowledge whether or not it is a good idea and give me some tips or info on the places i want to go. So i want to start in Canada with a working holiday visa and save some cash, for maybe 6 months. I then plan to make my way down using public transport, lifts etc. down to Argentina. I'd like to do the whole thing without flying if possible and want the journey to last a long time. South east asia was cheap, India was really cheap - how do these areas compare? I'd appreciate it so much if i could your answers, Thanks P.s. i know Mexico is a no go right now, but i plan to leave in more than 4 months.

Is there any Halal Food establishment or supermarket in Ottawa and Calabogie, Canada? I'll be holidaying in Canada for two weeks from 2nd Jan 08 onwards.I was wondering if there are any Halal food establishments or supermarkets in Ottawa and Calabogie Lake?I found out there is one Halal food restaurant,Cahaya Malaysia in Ottawa. But are there any others especially in Calabogie?Also, what are the price range for food that can be considered reasonable in Canada?What are the places of interests and shopping centres in Ottawa and Calabogie that I can visit?What are the opening hours for shops and shopping centres there?Do they converse in English or French?Cos' I know French language is widely spoken in Quebec. Is public transport such as bus and taxi easily available there?

Does the Canadian dream is to remain numb? Facing the economical crisis, China, Brazil, Mexico, India and even Costa Rica had done bold and energetic moves, meanwhile in Canada their approach is "wait and see"...is like being in slow motion, almost frozen. Vancouver does not have any Contingency Management programme, to improve the local economy or against the snow storms, airport luggage logistics and enough public transport for the huge amount of tourist for the Olympic Games.

Live cost in Vancouver, Canada? Hi! I will move out to Vancouver, Canadá next month, and i was wondering about general costs of daily living... - monthly fare card for transport? -cost per trip if i don't have this card? -in case i don't take any means of public transport and i decide to go to work walking... is it recommendable? or should i take a cab? -average cost of a trip on a cab? -in a peak hour? -to a short distance? -to a long one? -how much should i tip the cab driver? -general price of grocery shopping in Costco per person? (per day, week, month) -general price of eating in restaurants or diners? (cheap but good ones ;) ) well, any information that'll help me survive there without spending too much money. and, if i go in september, - how will the weather be the next six months? - what kind of clothing do i need to stay warm?i mean, is it too cold? - price of thermal clothing? - price of an internet place per hour? or the average fare for the use of it? THANK U SO MUCH!!! :)

Does anyone remember the computer game 'Cross Country Canada'? I remember I used to play it when I was in public school. You would drive this transport truck accross Canada picking up supplies and driving them to another city. It was suppose to teach you Geography. Does anyone know where I could download a copy of that somewhere??

Subury Canada..a question to anyone who has lived there or been there? hey so im moving to sudbury and i have no idea what its like im 16 so what can i do what do teen girls wear what are the high schools like whats year11 like do u guys do some form of TEE (our score for uni entry) whats the weather like from august onwards what sports do they play whats it look like what do you do in yor spare times what public transport is therehow are your sporting teams organised? whens does the season start whats the land scape like.. u get the idea any info would be GREAT!! how do u guys keep trim during winter.. i put it on here during OUR winter and i play n hour of some form of sport everyday..?? any info even if its random... i come from a rural Australian town .. so yeah kinda self explanatory ive been all over the net and i jus wanted to get some info from a real person thanx!!

Where in the US or Canada would I like living? I have lived in Chicago for a long time and I love it. I like New York, San Francisco, and Madison, Wisconsin, but I like Chicago the best. My favorite place in the whole world is downtown Chicago. The great things about chicago are that you don't need a car, but you can have one if you want to, the streets are much cleaner than in other cities, and there is always something to do. I love the lakefront, magnificent mile, millenium park, lincoln park, and roger's park. I love to go jogging by the lake or just around the neighborhood. I love being able to walk everywhere or take public transport. I want to live somewhere with a lower cost of living and a lot of the same stuff I love about Chicago. Well I can live happily without some of them like clean streets. But being able to get around easily and quickly is a must have. I want to be able to walk to the grocery store. I do not really mind if it is not a big city, as long as it is not a hillbillyville. Thanks. I really would like some details. I do not want to live anywhere where you have to drive to get to a business district. I want some where more like manhattan, somewhere urban. An urban area. thanks

I'd like to emigrate to canada!? We would like to know basic price comparisons of everyday things, food, utilities, public transport etc against those of the UK. Also what the schools are like in general (level of education etc) and really anything else that would be helpful. many thanks OK...to solve any confusion..we completed the self assessment test and scored 82%...so I am presuming we would be eligible for entry into canada. We have done this through correct routes, so know this to be accurate. Any cost of living comparisions, from those that already live there would be really helpful, as well as any general info too, that you may feel relevant to new comers!

How are teenagers like in Canada? Hi!! =) I'm a girl from Singapore, i'm 17 and I'm moving to Toronto this coming May. I'll be starting 12th grade at a high school this fall. What I want to know is, what teenagers are really like in Canada? It would help if I knew a little about them, so I don't feel left out.. Like what do they do during their free time? The places they usually hang out at? What the party scene is like - a lot of alcohol,pot etc? Cuz we don't have all tht where I'm from.. Which high schools are good? So far I've heard of North Toronto Collegiate and Earl Haig... Oh, and for a student like me, should I get a car of my mine or depend on public transport? Wud be great if u cud help me out!! Thx =)

Istn't it a good thing that Canadians in general are good natured? In the capital of Canada, in Ottawa, the last days have been a big turmoil.. public transport in the whole of Canada's capital city, Ottawa, have gone on strike.. they want more paid sick leave, they want to choose their own routs they prefer, they want the bus drivers who have seniority to be able to choose their own shifts. also just work short shifts.. This means for students.. who write exams before Christmas, at least for some of them.. to hire a car... One female student hired a car for $ 500 for 9 days so she can get to Uni and write her exams.. Students don't have that much money.. There are single mothers who don't own a car.. and what if someone needs to go to hospital and is not quite in need of an ambulance but has a bad cut? How are they going to get there? No transport and the taxi service is booked to the hilt.. nobody can get a booking.. they have enough people waiting in queue and those who manage to get the promise a taxi will be available will have to wait for 2 hours.. as there are thousands of stranded people out there looking for alternative ways to get to work or to uni...and to get a taxi every day.. that is expensive.. about $60 if one lives like me approx 14 miles out of downtown but we are part of the capital...that I can't afford to pay.. The taxi drivers already make good money. A trained nurse who went to University and is an RN approximately earns $ 45.000 here in Ottawa.. A bus driver is an unskilled worker. he doesn't even need a high school dipoloma.. and they earn more than a nurse.. they get approx. $50.000 or $60.000 a year and benefits and a lot of sick leave.. I am usually a kind person who always says good morning and thank you to bus drivers, but as 98 % of all Ottawa bus drivers are on the side of the Union, i don't think I will ever be very polite to any ottawa bus driver again.. If I get somewhere I won't say thank you or please.. They don't deserve it.. People who leave anywhere in walking distance leave their home 2.5 hours early to walk to work in minus 16 degrees celsius. that's darn cold and with snow which was quite high yesterday.. The leader of the union already said..''This strike will take a long time'' I guess that means.. no bus services at all until the new Year'' . If they lived in the USA or elsewhere.. some people of the public who rely on public transport would get enraged enough to take a pot shot at the bloody union leader and at the bus drivers.. if they are not giving up their strike. this costs the city millions if they let the drivers with seniority choose their own schedule and only work the hours they want and drive the routes they want.. A nurse can't decide what shift she likes to work.. and she can't say.. Next week I want to work just for 4 hours all week long and I want to work at this or that long term care home or retirement home because that's were friends of mine work.. so I decide where I will work... People here are desperate.. the roads are clogged with traffic into downtown.. My family we don't have a car because we can't afford one.. and to car pool that works sometimes.. today and tomorow my husband gets a ride downtown .. because a lady who works at the supreme court in downtown Ottawa .. her husband doesn't need his van.. so my husband registered for carpooling.. and she lives nearby and phoned him.. but what happens if this strike really goes on until the new year.. Don't we, Ottawa citizens have a right to be mad at the union leader and at the bus drivers for their ridiculous demands and this all at a time when it's freezing outside and people have to get to work or lose their job? They get paid . the bus drivers get paid $14 per hour.. whilst on strike. when some desperate woman.. walks for 2.5 hours into downtown in freezing weather to get to a job that pays her $ 10 an hour.. Am I not entitled to feel angry at the drivers and the union and that in future I am not going to be polite to a driver anymore.. knowing what they put us through.. I won't be impolite.. but if i talk to them I will never use the words ''Please '' or ''thank you again'' to Ottawa bus drivers like I used to do. they really dont' deserve it. Or does anyone see it in a different way... nice for the Ottawa school kids who have to rely on buses.. they don't have to go to school. their Christmas vacation has already started..

Driving in Australia? Hey, I'm planning to come to Australia (Sydney) and work for 6-8 months. I'm Canadian, and i have a Canadian drivers license. Will I need to obtain an Australian license in order to drive there? Do you think it is even worth it to get a license and buy a cheap car for the amount of time I will be there, or do you think that public transportation will do. I have been to Australia before, and I know that public transport is much better than here in Canada. Opinions and any info on drivers license would be great, thanks! =] Haha, yes, I'm aware that things are not the same or, "backwards" down there. Like I said, I've spent a lot of time there, but not since I've been able to drive.

Why are Americans so neatly categorized into two categories: liberal or conservative? I don't get it, either you're an orthodox liberal with no deviations from the party line or 100% conservative with no space for nuances these days. Where do people like me fit in? Let's see, on the conservative side, I think abortion is an act of violence against an innocent; I believe that sane, law-abiding adults should be allowed to save their own lives with firearms; I hate political correctness and its accompanying academic culture of shrill, perpetually accusing "victims," I hate speech codes; I love Western culture, its literature, fashion, mores, etc. I love and respect our military, but here are some leftist slants: 1. I fully support gay rights. 2. I support health-insurance reform along the lines of what they have in capitalist Japan, Taiwan and Switzerland, not Canada and Britain. 3. I like good public transport and sane ecological laws. 4. I am against the death penalty (but support life in prison without parole). 5. I am against the wasteful war on drugs. I favor, at the very least, decriminalization of marijuana. 6. I think that American can actually learn from other prosperous democracies, i.e., Norway. 7. I think that the drinking age should be 18 as you're old enough to serve your country. 8. I like the idea of studying other cultures and languages and think that too many Americans are far too insular. Dear Frank the American Capitalist: High GDP does not equal high per-capita income. Mexico has a higher GDP than Norway, but the average Norwegian makes more money on average. Also, America does not have the highest per-capita income in the world. Have you heard of Norway or Luxembourg? So insular is the average American. But I forgot, America is the best and all other nations suck, right?

I am antisocial but I live a good life, is it still bad? I hope I do not have too many unrelated details but I want to explain to you my life and I learned that tiny details matter. I grew up in a rural outlying island when I was young. Except for my older sister, I never connected with other children, because I only connected with my family. All I did until I was 6 years old was stay at home, go to school (which was a tiny school on the island and my aunt was the only teacher and there are less than 10 students), study, have fun playing alone outside and at the farm owned by a neighbour. After I was 6 started learning about farming and helped as much as I could. My family thought I was doing too much for such a young age, but I really liked to help. After I was 8 I started doing some housework, and I also went to the city to see the market stall where my family sold the goods. Apparently they also worked some other low pay jobs. I helped out setting up and packing up. When I was 12 years old, I went to a secondary school in the city, there were many students and I felt out of place, so I stayed alone, but I studied very well and got good marks. I would also like to say, my English was much better than local students because my aunt who taught me, used to live overseas and speaks like a native. However, when I was 14, my parents both died in an accident, I had to help more in the market stall. My sister, who was 18 taught me a lot of skills. I heard, half of the local people, even at 20 don't have the skills so my family started very early. Also, my sister had a foreign boyfriend who was very rich and bought a flat in the city for my sister, my aunt, and me, and also paid our expenses. When I was 18, my sister got married and went to Canada with him. My aunt and I were asked to go too, but we stayed because I wanted to enroll in a local University, and my aunt was quite old and not feeling well, wanted to stay home. However, she got quite sick and died later in the year. I also felt we have been living off of my husband in law's money too much so I kindly asked them to stop sending me money and I would pay them back when I earn enough myself. They at first refused but I felt I was taking everything for granted. I kept enough of their money to put me through University until I can get my own professional job. However, this also distanced myself from my sister and we hardly talk now. I am 20 right now, and I am living alone on the island in our family's old home, going to University in the city, and when I am free, work on our neighbour's farm again. I also have to mention, I am not close to our neighbours and we hardly talk. I also don't talk to classmates either, but I am fine doing group work. I feel my life is good, and I am mostly happy. I do feel sad that I am distanced from my sister, but I would rather live a life that I make alone, than taking things from others. Of course, I hope that we can get close again someday. But right now, I am also happy being alone, I have the skills I need, and when I do need to communicate with others I am fine. However, some people said that I was too antisocial and it is bad. But I don't feel that I even want to be social anyway, it will probably get in the way of my life. Also, I want to mention, I have never really explored the city, it is too busy and too many people. This is everything I do. Study, go to University, work on the farm, do housework, and during my free time, walk around the island, play my flute, listen to music, or ride our boat around or even take public transport around and visiting other islands.

Where to live in Toronto, married 30 something, no kids!? Me and my husband currently live in England, we visited Canada for 3 months last year and have decided that we would now like to live and work there for 12 months, leaving in March! I fell in love with Toronto (and we stayed just off Queens Street so some people will obviously think I'm mad but there you go!) and would love some info on good places to live. We need to be within a reasonable traveling distance from the centre (no more than 30 mins on public transport) but somewhere reasonably pretty and safe (bearing in mind we currently live in the North East of England so it's all relative!) We will be renting but are happy to pay the equivilent of up to £500 per month or possibly a bit more for the right place (if you think Toronto is expensive try England!!:o) We are both young 31's and have no kids so would like to hit a happy medium, ie. not be in total suburbia with retired and families, but equally not right next door to an all night club! Any advice would be great, thanks.

Moving from Toronto to Glasgow? Hello, I am 21 and live near Toronto, ON...I am planning on moving to Glasgow, UK in late fall of this year or early 2009...I was born in Airdrie but moved to Canada with my family when I was 3, therefore I have dual citizenship. My main concerns are what areas are best to live in (but at the same time affordable and safe) how expensive is it (groceries, utilities, public transport, etc) and if there are a decent amount of jobs available. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Should bus drivers get away with a strike and leave thousands of people at sea how to get to work? Here in Ontario, Canada, the bus drivers have made a threat which looks as if they will carry it out if their demands are not being met.. I don't know what else they want but one of their demands is that they want more paid days of sick leave... Not everybody has a car.. I worked as a health care worker .. I am just temporarily not working but I had to leave the house at just after 5 a.m every morning because health care staff have to be at their workplace at 6.45 a.m.. and start work at 7 a.m.. if they do the early shift.. and on Sudays.. I live approx. 8 miles from the capital of Canada.. which is Ottawa.. there is no bus transport to anywhere from where I live until 8 am on a Sunday morning so every time when i had to work Sundays i had to get a taxi and pay for it from my own money as it's up to me how I get to work.. if no bus goes and I have no car I have to take a taxi.. to be reliable and to be always on time and to take a minimum of sick days is expecially important as a health care worker.. Now my husband faces this problem on the 10th...we got no car.. He will have to get a taxi. That will leave 1000s of commuters stranded ...if the strike goes through.. the bus drivers are very much aware what harvoc they can cause and that many many people depend on public transport...also if there are no buses going.. some weeks ago my husband phoned a taxi company the evening before because he had a doctors appointment where it's hard to get to by bus.. but the next day we had snow.. so a lot of people called the taxi company and although my husband had made arrangements the evening before.. they told him that he was 3rd in line and would have to wait.. he called back several times and they told him it would be another hour before anyone could pick him up, he waited but even then the taxi didn't show up so he missed his doctors appointment and just managed to get the last bus to work and had to work 4 hours overtime as he started 4 hours late.. I am afraid this will happen again when the buses strike.. lots of people will take a taxi to work.. and if I was working as a health care worker right now.. and I phoned for a taxi to pick me up at 5.45 am to allow plenty of time to get there before 7.15 am...if the taxi puts me in 3rd place due to snow.. that would be very bad in this profession as punctuallity is of the essence.. the patients have to be toiletted and washed at 7 am sharp and one has limited time and a lot of other tasks to perform.. if you have to look after 10 patients and toilet and wash them and dress them and you don't make it to work on time.. that really sets a bad example.. but also for everyone else who will be waiting in vain on December 10th.. if the buses go on strike.. should one let them get away with this.. or do they deserve a good punch in the nose...? This is just not fair...they can't go on strike.

What is the most economical mode of public transport from London, Ontario, Canada to Akron, Ohio, USA? These two locations are separated geographically by a lake.

Will there be public transport on Canada's labour day?

Public transport from Disney world to south beach miami? Does anyone know is there any public transport that i could take from Disney World to south beach?? Please provide detail, because i am a tourist from canada and i am not familiar with the transit system at Florida

What shuttle/public transport leaves Disneyland, Anaheim the lastest? My friend is coming to visit from Canada and we want to go out to Disney. I know the bus route to get there (from Santa Monica) but I can only seem to find public transport that leaves the park around 9am but we would LOVE to stay and see the fire works. Is there ANYTHING like an LAX airport shuttle/bus/public bus anything! that leaves after 9?!?

What is the cheapest and fastest way of transport from Qeubec City to Montreal? I'm planning to move to Quebec City, Canada however I need to go to Montreal at least twice a week Thursday and Sunday. I need to know if there is a website that could help me with this. Also I need to know if there is public transport from Quebec City to Montreal and vice versa.

Should I go to Canada for a Year to work? I am from New Zealand and am thinking of going on a working holiday to canada, Can someone tell me the best places to go, and if I need to know french ect. Also what sort of jobs would be avalible, I know about ski field jobs, has anyone done something different? Is accomodation easy to get, how much is it? What is public transport like?

What is the downtown area of edmonton canada like? Im gonna study there and Im looking for an apartment. I found one around 107 st and 97 st. WHat is that area like? I mean, is it dangerous, public transport, grocery etc.

How to get to Canada Wonderland from Downtown Toronto? By public transport and how long does it take I am moving to toronto this year and would like to visit it

how far is st catherine ont, from Niagara falls canada? Is there any public transport Between st catherine and Niagara falls

Is it a good idea to backpack from Canada to Argentina? When i was 18 i got bored of my life in England and decided to up and leave to Australia for a year and do some work, while i was there, i got the bug for new places and new experiences and fell in love with traveling, i covered every city and worked 9 different jobs, i then used my return ticket to go to India for 2 months then south east Asia for a further month. I'm now back in England working a 9-5 job and as you can imagine, depressed about it. So i need a new plan, here is my idea, i hope you guys can let me know from your experience/knowledge whether or not it is a good idea and give me some tips or info on the places i want to go. So i want to start in Canada with a working holiday visa and save some cash, for maybe 6 months. I then plan to make my way down using public transport, lifts etc. down to Argentina. I'd like to do the whole thing without flying if possible and want the journey to last a long time. South east asia was cheap, India was really cheap - how do these areas compare? I'd appreciate it so much if i could your answers, Thanks P.s. i know Mexico is a no go right now, but i plan to leave in more than 4 months.

Baby Car Seats Crash Test Information? Newborn and Baby Consumer Reports Magazine Crash test worries In its February 2007 issue, Consumer Reports magazine reported on crash tests it performed to test the safety of car seats. The results were not encouraging. Most of the infant car seats tested by Consumer Reports "failed disastrously" in crashes at speeds as low as 56 km/h. The seats came off their bases or twisted in place, the report said. In one case, a test dummy was hurled more than nine metres. Of the 12 car seats tested, Consumer Reports said it could recommend only two, and it urged a U.S. federal recall of the poorest performing seat, the Evenflo Discovery, which is not sold in Canada. All the car seats passed U.S. standards — but Consumer Reports argues those standards should be raised. To be sold in Canada and the United States, an infant seat must perform adequately in a 48 km/h frontal crash, and Consumer Reports found that all but the Discovery did so. But it noted that the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducts its crash tests for new cars at higher speeds — 56 km/h for frontal crashes and 61 km/h for side crashes — so the magazine tested the seats at those speeds. "It's unconscionable that infant seats, which are designed to protect the most vulnerable children, aren't routinely tested the same as new cars," said Consumer Reports' Don Mays, a product safety director. The only seats that passed all the tests were the Baby Trend Flex-Loc and the Graco SnugRide with EPS — expanded polystyrene foam — both selling for about $90 US. Consumer Reports urged parents shopping for seats to buy one of those two, but it also noted that "any child car seat is better than no seat at all." It also said some seats performed better when attached by vehicle safety belts than when attached with the LATCH system. The system, which stands for Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children, includes belts that hook the base of a car seat to metal anchors in the vehicle. Consumer Report Article On January 4, 2007, Consumer Reports published a safety alert in the U.S. claiming that most infant car seats failed their new front- and side-crash evaluation tests. The report also claims that of 12 seats tested, only two performed well: the Baby Trend Flex-Loc and the Graco SnugRide with EPS (i.e., expanded polystyrene). Only six of the twelve infant car seat models chosen by Consumer Reports for this testing are officially certified for and marketed in Canada. They are: the Graco SnugRide; the Peg-Perego Primo Viaggio SIP; the Evenflo Embrace V; the Graco SafeSeat; the Safety 1st Designer 22; and the Combi Centre ST. Transport Canada wants to reassure the Canadian travelling public that the Department’s collision investigations and data analyses do not support the results obtained by Consumer Reports. When car seats are used correctly, they perform effectively in motor vehicle collisions and child occupants are afforded optimum protection. The Department takes the safety of children travelling in vehicles very seriously and is continually working to improve crash protection for children through research, development and enforcement of safety regulations, participation in various national and international committees that work on policy development, and public awareness campaigns.

closest Quebec-US border to Montreal? i've asked this question before but i just found out that it has to be a Quebec-US border instead of any Canada-US border.. does anyone know the closest Quebec-US border that can be travelled to by public transport, from montreal? we don't have a car and we only need to stop at the border..! thanks in advance..!

Wld u vte BNP ova their policies,nd do u belive that the BNP are the only prty that cn save our British Cultr? IMMIGRATION - time to say ENOUGH! On current demographic trends, we, the native British people, will be an ethnic minority in our own country within sixty years. To ensure that this does not happen, and that the British people retain their homeland and identity, we call for an immediate halt to all further immigration, the immediate deportation of criminal and illegal immigrants, and the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by a generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question. We will abolish the 'positive discrimination' schemes that have made white Britons second-class citizens. We will also clamp down on the flood of 'asylum seekers', all of whom are either bogus or can find refuge much nearer their home countries. EUROPE - back to British independence! We are opposed to the Single European Currency, and support the overwhelming majority of the British people in their desire to keep the Pound and our traditional weights and measures. At the same time, we are for the best possible relationship with our European neighbours and believe that the nations of Europe should be free to trade and cooperate whenever it is mutually beneficial, though without being forced into a political and economic straitjacket - political unification. Accordingly, we stand for British withdrawal from the European Union. In place of the EU, we intend to aim towards greater national self-sufficiency, and to work to restore Britain's family and trading ties with Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and to trade with the rest of the world as it suits us. Following our withdrawal from the EU, the BNP will use the £43 million per day net contribution Britain at present makes to the European Union to fund many far more useful projects at home. LAW AND ORDER - crack down on crime! The BNP will crack down on crime and restore public safety and confidence. We will free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket that is stopping them from doing their job properly. The liberal fixation with the 'rights' of criminals must be replaced by concern for the rights of victims, and the right of innocent people not to become victims. We support the re-introduction of corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals, and the restoration of capital punishment for paedophiles, terrorists and murderers as an option for judges in cases where their guilt is proven beyond dispute, as by DNA evidence or being caught red-handed. ECONOMY - British workers first! Globalisation, with its export of jobs to the Third World, is bringing ruin and unemployment to British industries and the communities that depend on them. Accordingly, the BNP calls for the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports. We will ensure that our manufactured goods are, wherever possible, produced in British factories, employing British workers. When this is done, unemployment in this country will be brought to an end, and secure, well-paid employment will flourish, at last getting our people back to work and ending the waste and injustice of having more than 4 million people in a hidden army of the unemployed concealed by Labour's statistical fiddles. We further believe that British industry, commerce, land and other economic and natural assets belong in the final analysis to the British nation and people. To that end we will restore our economy and land to British ownership. We also call for preference in the job market to be given to native Britons. We will take active steps to break up the socially, economically and politically damaging monopolies now being established by the supermarket giants. Finally we will seek to give British workers a stake in the success and prosperity of the enterprises whose profits their labour creates by encouraging worker shareholder and co-operative schemes. EDUCATION - discipline, standards, achievement! We are against the 'trendy' teaching methods that have made Britain one of the most poorly educated nations in Europe. We will end the practice of politically correct indoctrination in all its guises and we will restore discipline in the classroom, give authority back to teachers and put far greater emphasis on training young people in the industrial and technological skills necessary in the modern world. We will also seek to instill in our young people knowledge of and pride in the history, cultures and heritage of the native peoples of Britain. AGRICULTURE - quality before quantity! We see a strong, healthy agriculture sector as vital to the country. Britain's farming industry will be encouraged to produce a much greater part of the nation's need in food products. Priority will be switched from quantity to quality, as we move from competing in a global economy to maximum self-sufficiency for Britain. We will ensure a major shift to healthier and more sustainable organic farming. We are pledged to ensure the restoration of Britain's once great fishing industry with the reimposition of the former exclusion zones around our coast. HEALTH - first-class healthcare for all! We are wholly committed to a free, fully funded National Health Service for all British citizens. We will revitalise the Health Service by boosting staff and bed numbers, slashing unnecessary bureaucracy and by addressing the root cause of low recruitment and retention - low pay. We will see to it that no money is given in foreign aid while our own hospitals are short of beds and the staff to run them. More emphasis must be placed on healthy living with greater understanding of sickness prevention through physical exercise, a healthier environment and improved diets. TRANSPORT - time to invest! Increased investment is needed in Britain's public transport system to bring it up to the highest standards in the world. The fiasco of rail privatisation with different companies running services and track leading to higher fares and lower safety also needs to be resolved. Congestion of our towns and cities must be eased by the provision of greater incentives to use rail and bus transport instead of private cars. The first step is to end the crime and squalor that puts so many people off public transport. Motorists must not be made the scapegoats for government failure. Fuel tax should be cut, motorway speed limits raised, and hidden speed cameras should be banned. Far more must be done to encourage the development and use of cleaner fuels. ENVIRONMENT - a cleaner, greener future! Our ideal for Britain is that of a clean, beautiful country, free of pollution in all its forms. We will enforce standards to curb those practices, whether by business or the individual, which cause environmental damage. "The polluter pays to clean up the mess" must become a fact of life, not an electioneering slogan. In towns we would work to replace the brutalist modernism of 1960s-style-architecture with a blend of traditional local styles and materials and ensure that developments take place on a more human scale. FOREIGN AID - time to spend our money on our own people! We reject the idea that Britain must forever be obliged to subsidise the incompetence and corruption of Third World states by supplying them with financial aid. We will link foreign aid with our voluntary resettlement policy, whereby those nations taking significant numbers of people back to their homelands will need cash to help absorb those returning. The billions of pounds saved every year by this policy will also be reallocated to vital services in Britain. PENSIONERS - pensioners before asylum seekers! The conditions in which many of Britain's old people are forced to live are a national disgrace. We are pledged to ensure that all our old folk are able to live in comfortable homes, and will restore the earnings link with pensions. Elderly people who have paid a lifetime of taxes and reared families should not have to sell their homes to pay for care. NORTHERN IRELAND - an end to sectarianism! Britain has shamefully allowed the terrorists in N.I. to come close to winning when the IRA could have been destroyed years ago. Government weakness has led to hundreds of deaths and given those same terrorists a share in government. We would end all attempts to force the people of Northern Ireland to accept foreign interference in their affairs and deal with terrorism - from whatever side - once and for all. No one with links to a terrorist organisation that refuses to lay down its arms should be allowed to enter government. We would abolish state-supported segregation in education. In the long run, we wish to end the conflict in Ireland by welcoming Eire as well as Ulster as equal partners in a federation of the nations of the British Isles. DEFENCE - no more cuts! Successive cuts in defence spending have left Britain's armed forces perilously weak. We will boost Britain's armed forces to ensure that they are able to deal with any emergency, and defend our homeland and our independence. We will bring our troops back from Germany and withdraw from NATO, since recent political developments make both commitments obsolete. We will close all foreign military bases on British soil, and refuse to risk British lives in meddling 'peace-keeping' missions in parts of the world where no British interests are at stake - a position of armed neutrality. We will also restore national service for our young with the option of civil or military service. FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Britain's interests first! Britain's foreign relations should be determined by the protection of our own national interest and not by our like or dislike of other nations' internal politics. We would have no quarrel with any nation that does not threaten British interests. We will maintain an independent foreign policy of our own, and not a spineless subservience to the USA, the 'international community', or any other country. DEMOCRACY - letting the people decide! The British people invented modern Parliamentary democracy. Yet in recent years the British people have been denied their democratic rights. On issue after issue, the views of the majority of British people have been ignored and overridden by a Politically Correct 'élite' which thinks it knows best. On immigration, on Capital Punishment, on the surrender of British sovereignty to the EU and in numerous other areas, democracy has been absent as Labour, Tories and Lib-Dems conspire in election after election to offer the British people no real choice on such vital issues. The BNP exists to give the British people, that choice, and thus to restore and defend the basic democratic rights we have all been denied. We favour more democracy, not less, not just at national but at regional and local level. Power should be devolved to the lowest level possible so that local communities can make decisions which affect them. We will remove legal curbs on freedom of speech imposed by successive Governments over the last 40 years. We will implement a Bill of Rights guaranteeing fundamental freedoms to the British people. We will ensure that ordinary British people have real democratic power over their own lives and that Government, local and national, is truly accountable to the people who sorry for the first paragraph but i had to write it in a bit of a text language because they only give me so many letters for the opening question also the rest is the BNP policies i cut it and paste it off theyr website agains sorry about the spelling in the question also one more thing this is a question of a matter of your opinions, and only your opinions

i have been charged with this offense in canada? i have been charged with this offence Using mails to defraud 381. Every one who makes use of the mails for the purpose of transmitting or delivering letters or circulars concerning schemes devised or intended to deceive or defraud the public, or for the purpose of obtaining money under false pretences, is ... liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. which in defintoin means the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service there was no mail used or adress used the way i did it is i walked into staples and asked to sign up for the telus deal an employe would then take me to the computer and ask for my name and phone number i gave them numbers which were not mine some that were mine and i would sign a contrat and get 400 dollars off of the purchess of a computer i did this 4 times will the charges stick or should i plead guilty and take the time just need to know it says in the contrat that they will call in 2 to 3 bussines days to confirm thats all its one page so it says that you can cancel for a fee of 460 dollars and thats it

Need advice in choosing between Toronto, Calgary & Vancouver.? Hi. We're migrating to Canada within the next 12 months and need to decide on where to settle. We have friends in Toronto, Calgary & Vancouver and they're all rooting strongly for their respective cities. I would just like to get get more inputs from others especially those who have experienced living in 2+ cities The points I would like to consider are the following: 1. The job market, particularly in the area of marketing communications & corporate communications REGARDLESS of industry. 2. Cost of living. Cost of basic items such as food, clothing & utilities. Cost of housing. 3. Public transport, since I presume it will take some time before we get a license and a vehicle. 4. The presence of good graphic design schools (for my eldest who'll be entering college) 5. Acceptance & tolerance towards immigrants, different cultures 6. Lastly, the overall mood and feel of the city itself. Peace & order. Where is the city going? I look forward to your answers. Thank you!!!

Holiday in the USA (November)? Hello! I'm italian and I'm planning to come in the US after the graduation, in the month of November. At the moment, the idea is to visit center/east part of the country.. here is what I'm thinking: Milan-Chicago (plane) 4/5 days in Chicago Chicago-Detroit (coach) 4 days in Detroit Detroit-Toronto (coach) 5 days in Toronto (with a visit to Niagara falls) Toronto-Miami (plane) 5 days in Miami Miami-New York (plane) 5 days in NY New York-Milano (plane) I don't think we'll rent a car.. so I need to know how long does it take to visit this city with just public transport.. More or less, what's the weather in November? In Canada will be very cold? In Miami is it possible to go to swim in the Ocean also in November? Other suggestions? Is there something that is not worhsee and it's better to visit other cities? Usually, how much does it cost to stay in hostels or in cheap accomodation?

How Many of these Moderators are on the Purdue Cytometry Mail List? Author Topic mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States WI 17 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM PLapierre Senior Member Canada 242 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:49:11 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For PC a i think WEASEL is the best free alternative. I haven't tried many but there any many alternatives Author Topic mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM PLapierre Senior Member Canada 242 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:49:11 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For PC a i think WEASEL is the best free alternative. I haven't tried many but there any many alternatives anyway.. Author Topic mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions.Author Topic mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM PLapierre Senior Member Canada 242 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:49:11 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For PC a i think WEASEL is the best free alternative. I haven't tried many but there any many alternatives anyway.. Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM PLapierre Senior Member Canada 242 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:49:11 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For PC a i think WEASEL is the best free alternative. I haven't tried many but there any many alternatives anyway.. Flow Cytometry Plus Microscopy "The visualpower of microscopy plus the statistical rigor of flow cytometry rolled into 1 package." That's the company's tag line. And they deliver. LOVETHELAB?************ I'm a BD flow lover, a confirmed Mac user (I tell everyone "I don't do Windows"). So why am I touting a machine made by Amnis that requires Windows? Because this instrument goes above and beyond mere flow cytometry- it shows you every event (that's cell to non-flow users) in detail. I used it and I am sold. It takes a single experiment now to do intracellular localization, in place of two. A simpler caspase activation assay. What's not to love? Even the computer quandary is solvable (the one feature I'd change: I'd have it run off a Mac) - with an Intel Mac; just get Parallels software, install Windows, and you are good to go, or rather, run. And the ImageStream can run off an Intel Mac this way too. I bought an Intel iMac just for analysis. Installation of Parallels was easy, IDEAS is about as intuitional as any flow software package. And Amnnis reps bend over to be helpful. Don't let the price tag scare you; rather, help write a shared- instrument grant (we did) for your institution to get one. It is simply amazing. Review by lovesthelab ************************************************** ************************************************** ***************************** lovesthelab Senior Member United States 807 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Science Advisory Board Home | Forums | My Profile | Active Topics | Members | Search | News | Resources | Studies | About Us | Site Map Screen Name: Password: Save Password Forgot your Password? All Forums Software Flow cytometer analysis on PC Printer Friendly Author Topic mlinde Member United States 11 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 807 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States 11 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 807 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM rgrant Moderator Australia 2364 Posts Posted - October 10 2007 : 02:34:47 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, it took me about 30 seconds to discover that Mitchell Haynes is VP Sales at Kanecki - see http://www.kanecki.com/about.html Admin, this is blatant advertising (MH started this thread yesterday). -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg rwintle Advanced Member Canada 4710 Posts Posted - October 10 2007 : 10:49:46 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AND SOMEBODY TELL HIM TO STOP SHOUTING. khenwood67 Administrator United States 248 Posts Posted - October 10 2007 : 11:03:53 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've deleted the topic that he started, and also deleted his post in this forum. He won't be posting on the forums again. Kathryn Henwood Membership Coordinator The Science Advisory Board k.henw...@scienceboard.net Printer Friendly Jump To: Select Forum Et Cetera Humor in Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM ********************************************** rgrant ************************************************** *********************** Moderator Australia 2364 Posts Posted - October 10 2007 : 02:34:47 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, it took me about 30 seconds to discover that Mitchell Haynes is ******************************************* VP Sales at Kanecki - see http://www.kanecki.com/about.html Admin, this is blatant advertising (MH started this thread yesterday). -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg ************************************************** *************** WELL I MUST BE SHOUTING SINCE THIS IS IN CAPITAL LETTERS. WHO IS ON THE PURDUE CYTMETRY MAIL LIST OR WAS THAT MAKES THESE COMMENTS? DOES PURDUE *********MANAGE THE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD? Admin, this is blatant advertising (MH started this thread yesterday). THE DISCLAIMER JUST POPPED UP FOR SCIENTIST SOLUTIONS PUCL PURDUE CYTOMETRY MAIL LIST **********MANAGES**** THE DISCUSSIONS..... ARE PEOPLE GETTING INFLUENCED ANSWERS WITH LEADING QUESTIONS TO PROMOTE SOFTWARE? SAME PEOPLE IN SAME CONVERSATIONS Mitchell Haynes is ******************************************* VP Sales at Kanecki - see http://www.kanecki.com/about.html Lovesthelab Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). So why is she giving referrals on software? ???????????? WHO CAN YOU GET HONEST ANSWERS FROM WITH *********NO INFLUENCE???? ****** General Flow Cytometry Resources Purdue University Cytometry Laboratory Website Start learning about flow cytometry on the web at this site. The most comprehensive flow cytometry and analytical cytology website I have found. You will find resources ranging from archived protocols to request forms for the latest protocols CD-ROMs - and they are free while supplies last. Job listings, meetings, journals, latest developments- it is all here. Lectures Website Dr. J. Paul Robinson, Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine, has put a compilation of lec-ture slides on a website. Some of the information is bullet statements, but the pictures are great. If you've never seen a flow cytometer, you'll see lots of them here. If you are new to flow, you'll find in-troductory slides here. Practical Flow Cytometry, Fourth Edition by Howard Shapiro, published by J. Wiley & Sons, 2003. Website Dr. Shapiro has kindly put his textbook online through Molecular Probes. It is free! Yes, you do need to register to see it, but that's all you need to do, and you have access forever. Flow Cytometry E-mail Discussion Group Website Have a question? Novices to experts, all levels of questions are welcome. This e-mail group has been invaluable to me. E-mails are archived and can be searched by topic. International Society for Analytical Cytology Website The premier society for flow cytometry, it publishes Cytometry Parts A and B (Clinical Cytometry), Case Studies in Clinical Flow Cytometry, and Current Protocols in Cytometry. These are available on-line, but you must be subscribed for access. Regular dues are US $126; fees are deeply dis-counted for students, post-doctoral fellows, and scientists from developing nations. Please consider joining. National Flow Cytometry Resource, Los Alamos National Laboratories Website Where the cutting edge happens. NFCR runs a course every June that alternates between Los Ala-mos and New England. I recommend it to the serious flow person; you will learn a tremendous amount, including how to build your own flow cytometer, if you are so inclined. FlowCyte Website This discussion group is dedicated to flow users interested in developing uniform bioinformatics standards. They are also developing analysis and statistics software for flow users. SUCH A LARGE LIST TOOOOOO ALL GOES BACK TO J PAUL ROBINSON JUST GOOGLE PURDUE CYTOMETRY MAIL LIST YOU WILL FIND ALL YOUR MODERATIORS PROBABLY WENT THROUGHT THE LIST Re: mr on Apple web site * This message: [ Message body ] [ More options ] * Related messages: [ Next message ] [ Previous message ] [ In reply to ] [ Next in thread ] From: J. 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Dec 14, 2006 ... Dr. Beverly Barton of the New Jersey Medical School, USA and Dr. Richard Wintle of The Centre for Applied Genomics, Toronto, Canada were the ... http://www.scienceboard.net/communit.../news.314.html - 23k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this Posted by Mitch Haynes On Mar 3, 11:20*pm, Mitch Haynes <mitchhay...@gmail.com> wrote: PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:42:43 PM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply to Topic What do you think is a better platform for bioinformatics, i think it use to be mac (Dnasis, etc) but i think its changing, i m happy that Intel mac can run windows now! What do you think? Kannan Senior Member India 188 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 12:26:48 AM Show Profile Visit Kannan's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Let it be MAC or PC. The software should be compatible.Go to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 01:08:26 AM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply Unix. Every time. -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page Nexins Advanced Member Germany 2631 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 03:34:26 AM Show Profile Visit Nexins's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Unix = Mac OSX. no need to comment more. -- 'Work should not interfere with the quality of life' -Dr. Alex SavovGo to Top of Page Ana Laura Senior Member Argentina 351 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 3:28:00 PM Show Profile Visit Ana Laura's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Why would anyone infect a Mac with Windows?Go to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 6:05:10 PM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply Sometimes, Ana, it is unfortunately unavoidable. Doesn't mean I have to like it. A bit like public transport, really. -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page jooly Senior Member United Kingdom 740 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 6:26:32 PM Show Profile Visit jooly's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Note: I am resolutely not having anything to do with this debate.Go to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 8:05:25 PM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply And we love you for that, Jooly -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 10:08:25 AM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: Why would anyone infect a Mac with Windows? **SIGH** Because certain imbecile flow cytometry software executives made the executive decision to release acquisiton/analysis software for Windows only. We hates it. Ruins the Precious, it does. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 11:27:33 AM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Did BD biosciences change their FACS platform from Mac to PC? That would be a shame, i can already see myself rebooting the FACS every 10 minutes Go to Top of Page rchen Member United States 8 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 1:02:33 PM Show Profile Visit rchen's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Most softwares are PC based , though few in Mac for special instrument vendors.Go to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 2:52:37 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: Did BD biosciences change their FACS platform from Mac to PC? That would be a shame, i can already see myself rebooting the FACS every 10 minutes **BIG SIGH** Yes. See FACSDiva on the web. Imbecile is being kind. Also see Winlist, Amnis IDEAS software for ImageStream. The Precious calls. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page Ana Laura Senior Member Argentina 351 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 4:30:54 PM Show Profile Visit Ana Laura's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Nice Macs Nice Fishes Nasty Windowses Edited by - Ana Laura on February 13 2008 6:38:48 PMGo to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 8:41:11 PM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply *HOWLS* of laughter. (My iMac's name on the network, coincidentally, is 'Gandalf') -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 14 2008 : 10:07:44 AM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Cool!!! They should use this in an mac ad!Go to Top of Page rwintle Advanced Member Canada 4965 Posts Posted - February 14 2008 : 11:53:44 AM Show Profile Visit rwintle's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply I'm with jooooly on this debate, but I am also howling with laughter at Ana Laura's post . -- "There is another way of putting this. But I forgot it." - Pier Giorgio DiCiccoGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 14 2008 : 1:43:50 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! Ana Laura, can you send me a jpg (signed by you, of course) so I can hang it up in my new office? been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 14 2008 : 1:45:23 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: Most softwares are PC based , though few in Mac for special instrument vendors. Most does not equal best. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 16 2008 : 09:05:25 AM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: quote: Most softwares are PC based , though few in Mac for special instrument vendors. Most does not equal best. been there, done that more times than I care to admit Aint that the truth! the amount of useless and crappy software available for windows is mind boggling!Go to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 16 2008 : 8:23:09 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: *HOWLS* of laughter. (My iMac's name on the network, coincidentally, is 'Gandalf') -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg My iMac at home is Galadriel, my daughter's iBook is Arwen, my iMac at work is Elrond, and my iPod is of course Frodo. Our network at home is Rivendell. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page Ana Laura Senior Member Argentina 351 Posts Posted - February 16 2008 : 8:58:13 PM Show Profile Visit Ana Laura's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply So you have an iFrod Go to Top of Page rwintle Advanced Member Canada 4965 Posts Posted - February 17 2008 : 09:55:31 AM Show Profile Visit rwintle's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: My iMac at home is Galadriel, my daughter's iBook is Arwen, my iMac at work is Elrond, and my iPod is of course Frodo. Our network at home is Rivendell. [sigh] My laptop's network ID is "XPWS-15" or something like that. Danger of having to have the institutional IT folks set it up, I guess. -- "There is another way of putting this. But I forgot it." - Pier Giorgio DiCiccoGo to Top of Page Nexins Advanced Member Germany 2631 Posts Posted - February 17 2008 : 11:31:06 AM Show Profile Visit Nexins's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: ... Our network at home is Rivendell. sweet. good to know for wardriving. -- 'Work should not interfere with the quality of life' -Dr. Alex SavovGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 17 2008 : 4:56:32 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: quote: ... Our network at home is Rivendell. sweet. good to know for wardriving. ? Online game? been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page Nexins Advanced Member Germany 2631 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 03:47:11 AM Show Profile Visit Nexins's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: ? Online game? no, dear. hacking your WiFI access point at home . it's called 'wardriving'. just kidding - i was planning for Baltimore, not for Newark -- 'Work should not interfere with the quality of life' -Dr. Alex SavovGo to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 09:32:27 AM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: quote: *HOWLS* of laughter. (My iMac's name on the network, coincidentally, is 'Gandalf') -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg My iMac at home is Galadriel, my daughter's iBook is Arwen, my iMac at work is Elrond, and my iPod is of course Frodo. Our network at home is Rivendell. been there, done that more times than I care to admit You re a lot more imaginative than me, my network is named NETGEAR and my computers are named PC-1, PC-2, etc.. Go to Top of Page Nexins Advanced Member Germany 2631 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 11:45:08 AM Show Profile Visit Nexins's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: ... my network is named NETGEAR and my computers are named PC-1, PC-2, etc.. s/he just cries to get hacked! wardrivers of the world, unite -- 'Work should not interfere with the quality of life' -Dr. Alex SavovGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 12:52:59 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: quote: ? Online game? no, dear. hacking your WiFI access point at home . it's called 'wardriving'. just kidding - i was planning for Baltimore, not for Newark Have to know the password and I know you'll never guess it. Nor will anyone outside of my family. 3 firewalls are up. paranoid, we are. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page jooly Senior Member United Kingdom 740 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 2:31:19 PM Show Profile Visit jooly's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply I'm guessing it's either JRRTolkein or silmarillion Go to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 3:50:14 PM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply Mmm, but if PLapierre's network is still called 'NETGEAR' then the password is easily guessable. -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page jooly Senior Member United Kingdom 740 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 4:14:52 PM Show Profile Visit jooly's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Well... ours is called Belkin something or other, and it's fully password protected. Unfortunately (being a cheap and nasty belkin) it gets horrifically unstable if we try to change too many settings on it, like assigning an SSID or using MAC address control. If I'd paid for it, I'd be demanding my money back, but it came with the house.Go to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 5:06:50 PM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Ok As of 16:54 PM Eastern Time, my Network is now called er7tr6re7e98r6987re6e9r8t. Somehow i feel more secure now Go to Top of Page jooly Senior Member United Kingdom 740 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 5:12:39 PM Show Profile Visit jooly's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply 'Tree' would be just as secure, methinks. Right, bed now. Getting up at 4am (GMT)Go to Top of Page Quicksilver Member United Kingdom 73 Posts Posted - February 19 2008 : 05:26:34 AM Show Profile Visit Quicksilver's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply resisting the urge to tell everyone you meet would be even more secureGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 19 2008 : 09:19:22 AM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: I'm guessing it's either JRRTolkein or silmarillion Nothing even remotely Tolkien. heh heh heh... been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 19 2008 : 3:14:31 PM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: resisting the urge to tell everyone you meet would be even more secure Oops... http://www.scienceboard.org/forum/to...Title=Software SO GLAD WE HAVE EDUCATION IN THE FORUM

Traveling to San Francisco...? My friend and i are two Aussie girls who will be traveling around Canada/US in September and October. Our holiday is finalised and now i've just found out our hotel in San Francisco is located next to a homeless shelter (apparantly). It's situated on the corner of Market and Mason Streets, i checked out the Trip Advisor website and some reviews state it is a dangerous area. We really want to visit the nightclubs in the city, but i'm a bit worried about catching public transport or even walking around that area late at night. Does anyone have any comments/suggestions???

Why hasn't the United States sent aid to the people suffering in Sweden and Denmark? Sweden, one of the happiest countries in the world: "This “welfare state” model is an excellent example of effective national taxes. Among other things the state provides universal tax-funded childcare, parental leave, health care, education (including university), retirement pensions and sick leave. Including value added tax (VAT - kind of like sales tax), it is possible to pay up to 80% of your income as taxes. Contrary to popular belief, Swedes are quite OK with their high taxes. After all it gives them tons of free and high quality services - what’s not to be happy about!" Sweden is also the home of IKEA - the worlds largest furniture store. IKEA’s founder Ingvar Kampard is famous for being the 7th richest person in the world (Net worth $31 billion) and driving a 15 year old Volvo station wagon. It has been claimed that more people read the Ikea catalogue than the Bible - and that one in ten Europeans have been conceived on an Ikea bed. Canada, one of the happiest countries in the world: "Many people have no idea that Canada’s head of state is actually Queen Elizabeth II - the head of the British Monarchy. This meant that when Britain declared war on Germany in World War I, Canada was automatically at war with the soon to be Nazi country. Unlike the neighboring US, Canada has never cancelled its relations with Cuba and has declined to take part from the Iraq War - instead, it has played a leading role in the United Nations peacekeeping missions and helped to launch a $1.5 billion initiative to help develop vaccines that could save millions of people in poor countries. It seems that happy people make a happy country!" Denmark, THE happiest country (#1) in the world: "Just like Sweden, Denmark is a Nordic welfare state with most of its services free to the citizens. Expect to pay 72% of your money to the government on the highest income tax bracket. According to Wikipedia Denmark has the worlds highest taxes! When buying a car in Denmark one has to pay 25% VAT to the import price of the vehicle and then a 180% registration tax on top. That means when a car sells for $20 000, you have to pay an additional $45 000 as taxes for the government (total of $65 000). That’s why people in Denmark ride bikes or use one of the best public transport systems in the world. Denmark also has 2 autonomous provinces - the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The latter is over 50 times larger than Denmark but has about 100 times less people." Universal Healthcare is the only difference (besides taxes which, under Obama's plan, would only be for people making 250,000$ a year) between them and the United States.

What are some good big cities for a single 26-year-old woman to move to? I'm 26 and will be finishing grad school in December. I'm a small town American girl who is currently studying abroad in a big city (Copenhagen). I've decided that I want to relocate to a big city after finishing school to start my career and my adult life! But I need some advice on which cities to consider. Here are my criteria: * Can be anywhere in the US, Europe or Canada * I must be able to get by with English/get a job as an English-speaker * Excellent, thorough public transportation that makes owning a car unecessary * Good international/diverse community and opportunities to meet people (e.g. things are "going on") * Generally clean and safe!!!! Not too much violence (relatively speaking) * Has JOBS (I'm going into web/graphic design) * Not too expensive or has cheaper suburbs accessible via public transport So yes, any suggestions are welcome!!!

Why do we allow 'socialist' countries like Sweden and Finland to continue abusing their unhappy people? "Just like Sweden, Denmark is a Nordic welfare state with most of its services free to the citizens. Expect to pay 72% of your money to the government on the highest income tax bracket. According to Wikipedia Denmark has the worlds highest taxes! When buying a car in Denmark one has to pay 25% VAT to the import price of the vehicle and then a 180% registration tax on top. That means when a car sells for $20 000, you have to pay an additional $45 000 as taxes for the government (total of $65 000). That’s why people in Denmark ride bikes or use one of the best public transport systems in the world. Denmark also has 2 autonomous provinces - the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The latter is over 50 times larger than Denmark but has about 100 times less people." -- "This “welfare state” model is an excellent example of effective national taxes. Among other things the state provides universal tax-funded childcare, parental leave, health care, education (including university), retirement pensions and sick leave. Including value added tax (VAT - kind of like sales tax), it is possible to pay up to 80% of your income as taxes. Contrary to popular belief, Swedes are quite OK with their high taxes. After all it gives them tons of free and high quality services - what’s not to be happy about! Sweden is also the home of IKEA - the worlds largest furniture store. IKEA’s founder Ingvar Kampard is famous for being the 7th richest person in the world (Net worth $31 billion) and driving a 15 year old Volvo station wagon. It has been claimed that more people read the Ikea catalogue than the Bible - and that one in ten Europeans have been conceived on an Ikea bed." -- "Many people have no idea that Canada’s head of state is actually Queen Elizabeth II - the head of the British Monarchy. This meant that when Britain declared war on Germany in World War I, Canada was automatically at war with the soon to be Nazi country. Unlike the neighboring US, Canada has never cancelled its relations with Cuba and has declined to take part from the Iraq War - instead, it has played a leading role in the United Nations peacekeeping missions and helped to launch a $1.5 billion initiative to help develop vaccines that could save millions of people in poor countries. It seems that happy people make a happy country!" Three democratic-socialist countries. All of which are listed under the Top 10 -happiest- countries in the world. Barack Obama's plans are going to destroy this country just like theirs!

Parking near canadian embassy in new york? I am 108 mile away from new york city and need to get Canada visitor Visa. The nearest canada embassy is in New York. Address 1251 Ave. Of The Americas, New York,NY 10020. Since embassy open on week days only, i plan to reach there before 8 PM by car, park, get Visa and attend my work at lunch. Lots of people at yahoo answer suggesting not to use car in NY. But i am seeing some options as i am not much familiar with NY public transport (metro, bus)...........Could i get some parking (cheaper) near embassy or some one could suggst more better way to reach there on time. I stay near Philadelphia.... Thanks i meant reach there before 8 AM in morning Thanks much for your suggestion. I was a bit afraid till the last moment but still i decided to take my car there. I left 5:00 AM in the morning and entered NY (Linchon Tunnle) around 7:00 AM. This is absolutely right that there is good traffic in NY but i still managed to reach Embassy at 7:15. parked the car at 8Th Ave Luckily i enjoyed early bird special at saved on parking fee. Now i am much familar with NY Traffic and cheap Parking places there. Thanks Much

Montreal, Vancouver or Toronto - where should I move? I'm planning to move to Canada sometime this year, but haven't decided 100% where I should move too. Here are some considerations for me: I don't like having to pay a fortune in rent, but still like to live in a nice neighborhood in a nice building (high stud, exposed brick etc) with good public transport available. Food is important - I like to have a variety of places to eat that make good quality food made with care. Ethnic food is yummy! Tolerance for same sex relationships because I'm gay :-) I only speak the most basic of French (but would be willing to try my best to learn). I'm a snowboarder - so closeness to a field is a nice to have. I'm an Interaction Designer/Information Architect - does Canada have an IT center in terms of finding me a job? Nothing beats sitting down and watching the world and people go past. I'm a bit concerned about how this works in Canada with the low low temp! Ok this has been pretty specific, but it would be great to hear your thoughts! :-)

To live in Seattle or Boston? I am considering moving and Seattle and Boston are both cities I have considered. I want to live in a large city, where the weather is warm in summer but where it snows in winter. Lots of restaurants, shops, and a decent nightlife and culture are important. I'm interested in things like fashion, art, design, sports and exploring new places... A good public transport system is a must as I do not plan on having a car while living there. I would want to travel around the US and Canada while based there (and Seattle seems a little more isolated to other major cities than Boston), so which city would you recommend and why?

Immigrating to Vancouver.? Hey guys, I currently live in Las Vegas but would am considering immigrating to Canada and from what I've learned I Vancouver sounds good. I have some family in Canada but in Montreal, too cold there for me. I have a few questions I could use some help with. 1)How high is the cost of living in comparison to the average entry-level wage? 2) Does being able to speak French and Spanish help in getting a decent job as I am tri-lingual. 3) Does it ever get very cold int he winter and snow over there? Is Vancouver easy to get around without a car, I mean how good is the public transport there and is there a subway or metro? Thats all I have to ask for now guys, I would sure appreciate informative suggestions and opinions..Thanks OF course guys, this is all provided that I qualify as an immigrant into Canada, as of now I do, I already took the assessment thats why I'm asking....Thanks

Some of you wanted to know how illegals affect us? personally???? Here is ONE example!!!!!!!!!!!!! Catastrophe in Care Hospitals are being crippled by the costs of treating migrants--and that could be just the start of an immigrant-related health crisis By LEO W. BANKS Leo W. Banks One of the many signs on the Naco Highway. Leo W. Banks "It's not unusual to have one UDA (undocumented alien) cost $5,000, and we know we're not going to get that back," says Josie Mincher, emergency room manager at Copper Queen Hospital. Leo W. Banks "Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, we need to bear the health-care costs for undocumented workers, whatever those costs are," says Rev. Tom Buechele. If you drive along Southern Arizona's border with Mexico long enough, you might see a lone illegal wandering the desert. Or maybe he's hunched at the roadside sipping water from his milk jug. What's he doing there, and where are his compatriots, the people he broke into the country with? The uninformed might ask those questions, but those who live with the daily invasion across our open borders can make a pretty good guess what's happening. The fellow got bounced from his group by the coyote-guide. Two transgressions will get an illegal cut loose with certainty: Either he can't pay, or he shows signs of tuberculosis. You think these coyotes are fools? They don't want some hollow-eyed lunger hacking and coughing blood on them. So it's adios, pal, and now you're America's problem. But they know that already. Every illegal realizes that if he makes it to an emergency room in Southern Arizona, or anywhere around the country for that matter, he can get treatment, free of charge. It's federal law, and has been for 20 years. In its evolution, the policy has become a kind of federal health insurance program for illegals, and its rising costs are eating up resources that could otherwise go to poor and uninsured American citizens. It has created a financial nightmare for border hospitals and contributed to cutbacks in services at Tucson hospitals. Is this an outrage? A scandal? Some think it's both. But going back to our active TB sufferer, here's something even worse: The guy can't get treatment anywhere, goes underground and takes a job at a restaurant in Tucson or L.A., and coughs his way to infecting scores of others. Talk about a Hobson's choice. But as with everything in the ongoing crisis of illegal immigration, the hard choices would largely evaporate if the federal government fulfilled its constitutional duty and took control of our border. The threat illegal immigration poses to American public health plays out every day at Arizona's hospitals. Until recently, the issue remained only marginally public, a problem medical people batted around among themselves, not with the media. Even today, several hospitals contacted for this story declined comment. The Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee, one of the hardest hit, helped break that barrier when CEO Jim Dickson began returning reporters' calls, even though the subject, as he puts it, has become "like the third rail. You don't want to touch it." But his problem had grown severe. Dickson's uncompensated costs for treating illegals rose from $35,000 in 1999 to $450,000 in 2004. His total shortfall now sits at about $1.4 million, a hefty deficit for a 14-bed hospital. To make ends meet, he had to close, in June 2000, the Copper Queen's long-term care facility, and cut back on staff and hours, forcing some employees to take second jobs to survive. The hospital has seen a ray of light, however. In the first months of 2005, the Copper Queen has gone back into surplus, in part because more illegals are in Border Patrol custody when brought in to the hospital. That means the Border Patrol must reimburse the Queen for the cost. In the past, agents would drop injured illegals not in their custody at the ER and take off, sticking the hospital with bills that never got paid. Another reason for the decrease, says Dickson: the Minuteman Project. "It's been terrific for us in April," he says, cutting down on the number of people coming across and therefore the number requiring ER treatment. Dickson says the hospital wrote off about $6,000 in losses in April this year, compared to about $35,000 in April 2004. The central issue, though, remains in place--the hospital has had to scale back health services to American citizens to treat illegals. Bisbee isn't alone. The most comprehensive study on the subject found that 24 counties in four states bordering Mexico wracked up $190 million in unpaid emergency medical bills caring for illegals in the year 2000. The study, commissioned by the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition, found that California spent $79 million of that; Texas, $74 million; Arizona, $31 million; and New Mexico, $6 million. Bear in mind that these numbers, the best available, are from 2000. We can assume, with increasing rates of crossings since then, the costs are considerably higher today. Nor do the above figures take into account non-border counties. Treating illegals in Maricopa County costs as much as $50 million a year, according to an estimate used by Republican Sen. Jon Kyl. Nationally, American hospitals lose $1.45 billion a year. The Medicare reform bill passed in 2003 allocated $1 billion to reimburse states for federally mandated ER care given to illegals--about $45 million a year of that to come to Arizona over four years. But even that, some hospital staffers say, is little more than a Band-Aid on a huge problem. Ruth Kish, director of patient care services at Copper Queen, expects that under the repayment formula, her hospital will receive only 10 cents of every dollar they spend on illegals. "But every bit helps," says Kish. Another factor: The counties in the above-mentioned study spent an additional $13 million in 2000 on emergency transportation, such as helicopters and ambulances, to pick up illegals injured after sneaking across the line. The Bisbee Fire Department's ambulance responds to about one of these calls a day during the summer, says Chief Jack Earnest. Asked how many of these patients pay up, Earnest wasn't sure, and recommended contacting the billing office in Sierra Vista. The billing office knew exactly how often illegals pay their ambulance bills--never. But there's another category--Mexicans injured in Mexico who call American ambulances for help. By federal law, they have to respond, which makes Bisbee's Copper Queen the trauma center of choice for Sonora's northern frontier. The calls come from Naco, Sonora, the town across the line just south of Bisbee, where, in spite of widespread poverty, cell phones are popular, and everybody knows the Americans are bound by law to treat them. "When we get a call we go, and we don't ask where the person's from," says Earnest. Naco residents needing care go to the port of entry and declare an emergency to American officials. When they're waved through, they're transported to the Copper Queen's ER in Bisbee's ambulance, or they drive themselves in private cars. The policy is called Compassionate Entry, and it applies to hospitals up and down the line. The Copper Queen averages about five such cases a month. Some abuse the privilege, says ER Manager Josie Mincher. She's seen Compassionate Entries with bad sore throats and others who aren't sick at all. One pregnant girl landed in the ER recently complaining of morning sickness. Most are seriously sick, though, and the staff rushes to help, "because that's what we do," says Mincher. But it doesn't take much to blow the budget. "Just walking in the door is $400," says Mincher. "It's not unusual to have one UDA (undocumented alien) cost $5,000, and we know we're not going to get that back. We're playing with monopoly money here." Here's an example of how one patient can wrack up a huge bill: A young Mexican man had a bad auto accident across the line and was taken to Douglas' Southeast Arizona Medical Center with severe neurological problems. After being stabilized there, he was transferred to Barrow's Neurological Center in Phoenix. He spent a costly month there, courtesy of the Center, and was transferred--with a tracheotomy tube in his throat and supplies to clean it, also provided gratis by Barrow's--to a hospital in Hermosillo. That facility kept him less than a day before releasing him to his home in Naco. But for reasons no one can explain, the Hermosillo hospital kept his trach kit and cleaning supplies. As a result, he became septic--a bad infection--and came through the Naco port under Compassionate Entry to the Copper Queen. He spent three days there, then the staff sent him off, with more free supplies, to a clinic in Agua Prieta for continued care. How much did this fellow cost the American health care system? A figure of a quarter-million dollars would surprise no one. Cost to the Copper Queen? Almost $6,000, and they got none of it back. Northern Cochise Community Hospital is in Willcox, far enough from the border that it doesn't get patients crossing the line for health care. But that doesn't mean it escapes the invasion. CEO Chris Cronberg loses about $100,000 a year caring for illegals, mostly those injured in traffic accidents when their loaded vehicle flips while speeding north. "It's not make or break for us," says Cronberg. "But as a small hospital, we depend on cash, and those are dollars that aren't coming in, so it has an impact." The same is true at Sierra Vista Regional Health Center, according to Vice President Marie Wurth. She expects the hospital to lose $250,000 this year treating those who jump the line, get hurt doing it and don't pay their bills. The big squeeze is on in Tucson, too. Tucson Medical Center loses an estimated $4 million every year treating illegals. The corresponding figure at UMC, which includes some foreign nationals, was $3.5 million for fiscal 2004, a $2 million increase from the previous year. Part of that is attributable to UMC, in July 2003, becoming Tucson's only Level One trauma center, meaning it saw the most serious cases. Chief Financial Officer Kevin Burns says the hospital's re-payment rate for treating illegals is about 5 cents on the dollar. "It's very expensive for us and continues to grow," says Burns, who says many illegals, as well as uninsured Americans, use his ER like a primary care physician. "We hear anecdotally that people come here from across the border because they know they can get cared for, and if they present at the ER, they can get that care at no cost." The federal law that put the hospitals on the hook for the medical bills of illegals goes by the acronym EMTALA--Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. It says that anybody who shows up in an ER must get screened, treated and stabilized, regardless of citizenship or ability to pay. But since its passage in 1985, the definition of emergency has evolved to include just about anything, and because Congress didn't fund the requirement, hospitals have had to eat the costs as word has spread that the federal goodie wagon is parked at the ER door. In cities with huge illegal populations, such as Los Angeles, the effects have been disastrous. In its spring 2005 issue, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons reported that between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because, for several reasons including EMTALA, half of their services became unpaid. Another 24 are near closing, says author Madeleine Pelner Cosman. She also writes that in 1983, before EMTALA, L.A. County put together a trauma network that was "one of America's finest emergency med response organizations." A mere 22 years later--again, in part because of EMTALA--Cosman says the system is coming apart, with most trauma hospitals having left the network, along with physicians, surgeons and others. The law has caused a similar situation in Tucson, on a smaller scale. "With EMTALA, the government created an unfunded national health insurance program, and it has caused real problems in this community," says Dr. Herb McReynolds, who works for a company that manages the ER department for St. Mary's Hospital, which treats a large number of illegals. Lawmakers wrote the legislation to prevent patient dumping--in which one hospital refuses to accept, say, an uninsured woman in labor, telling ambulance personnel to take her to the county hospital instead. It stopped that practice. But it has caused a big increase in the amount of un-reimbursed care that hospitals provide, and in McReynolds' words, "made physicians rethink their careers and lifestyles." "The price of it has come over time, because after so much uncompensated care, it forces physicians off our call list," says McReynolds. "Physicians have a practice to go to the next day and a family, and ask themselves, do I really want to be up at 2 a.m. providing care when I won't get comp, and I can still get sued?" Some docs have removed themselves from on-call lists by going to work at outpatient surgical centers not affiliated with a hospital. Others stay on call, but limit the amount of time they're available. A neurosurgeon might take call one day a week, and that satisfies the law. EMTALA says that you must provide a reasonable amount of coverage, without being strict or specific about how much that is. McReynolds says that EMTALA--in tandem with the malpractice crisis--has caused the loss of medical coverage at many hospitals around the country and in Tucson, including St. Mary's. "Several years ago we had five neurosurgeons on staff here, and now we have two," he says. "We had hand surgery coverage every day, and now we have it one week a month. We used to have full ob-gyn coverage, and now they've left and gone to TMC. We have no ob-gyn and one gynecologist on staff covering emergencies one day a week." With docs all over Tucson running for cover, trying to stay off call and away from ERs, the variety of emergency health care available to Tucsonans has seriously diminished. And here's the most maddening irony of all: The feds now reimburse American hospitals for treating non-paying illegals, but not for treating American citizens. Exception: Those eligible for care under Federal Emergency Services, a fairly restrictive program. For a year and a half now, UMC has approached non-paying illegals in a novel way--it actually reports them to immigration officials. "Some people find that cold, but we have a responsibility to protect this charitable asset (hospital)," says CFO Burns, adding that UMC's status as a public entity requires a different approach. "Our belief is that to the extent people have ability to pay, we expect them to." After triaging and stabilizing an ER patient, the hospital sets out to learn who that patient is, and how he or she plans to pay. To those who are uninsured and underinsured, the hospital offers the option of applying for its innovative Charity Care program. Under it, the hospital charges the patient the same rate it would receive for that service from Medicare, a possible reduction of up to 70 percent. Patients unable to pay at that discounted rate are eligible for further discounts that can tear up the bill entirely. To apply for Charity Care, the patient need only return to the hospital with a W-2 or other documents. Those who cooperate and return with the required documents don't get reported to the feds. But the hospital does report those who take the medical care and run. How many illegals cooperate with this generous offer? Ten percent. Burns says UMC began reporting the 90 percent who don't pay in November of 2003. So far, they've reported 565 persons. Why start reporting? "Maybe a bit of it was born of frustration because people use our resources and make no effort to work with us and pay," he says. "Even if part of the population doesn't pay, I still have to hire new people and buy and upgrade equipment, which costs $15-$20 million a year. When you have these strains on resources, from foreign citizens and as well as Medicaid patients, you have to manage cash flow very carefully." As with most issues related to the illegal invasion, those who live along the Mexican border, the scene of the crime, have the best view. Where health issues are concerned, it's not a pretty sight. Residents say they've come across ground dotted with discarded pills, syringes containing nobody knows what, and used needles. Some report riding horses along creek beds, popular pull-up areas for groups heading north, and finding 70 or 80 piles of human feces, some of it blackened and running with blood. It's as disgraceful as it is disgusting--and it raises a question: What happens when rain washes all this into the water supply? Is it a threat to spread diseases such as hepatitis? Some believe it might be. What happens when cows drink from these contaminated creeks? And what happens when this constant flow of Third World humanity goes north, fanning out all across Arizona and the country? What kind of diseases do they bring with them? ER workers like Mincher live with that question every day. "We protect ourselves best we can," she says, "but if somebody comes in with a contagious disease, I might as well buy the farm, because I don't know what it is. A lot of times, they don't know what they have either. If they came off a ranch in southern Mexico, they've had no immunizations, no health care, nothing." Most of what she sees at Copper Queen--around 75 percent--is orthopedic, falls suffered while jumping fences, for instance. Dehydration, too. Some of these are pregnant women nine months along, who, in Mincher's words, "are so desperate to have their babies born in the U.S., they'll do whatever it takes." She sees cardiac-related cases among illegals who've been given crack, methamphetamine or speed by their coyote so they can keep walking. But she's also treated illegals with active chicken pox, tuberculosis, all varieties of hepatitis and AIDS. The Web and print media are full of stories about the diseases illegals carry, and their effect on American health. But some writers make alarming claims with sketchy evidence at best. In the cases of two diseases, however--Chagas and tuberculosis--the evidence is clearer that they're indeed coming across our border. Chagas, a potentially fatal illness spread by contact with the feces of the reduviid bug, called the "kissing bug," is prevalent in South and Central America. Fifteen million people in that region are infected with the parasite, and 50,000 die of it every year, according to the World Health Organization. A person can be infected for 10 or 20 years or more before showing symptoms, making it particularly insidious. At its most severe, the disease can cause the heart to fail, and literally explode. In the United States? Louis Kirchhoff, of the University of Iowa Medical School, estimates that between 80,000 and 120,000 Latin Americans with Chagas live here. Matching prevalence studies and immigration numbers, Kirchhoff figures about 10 Chagas-infected persons entered every day from Mexico alone in the 1990s. The disease can be transmitted four ways, but for Americans, the most worrisome is the blood supply. In the United States overall, the chance of contracting Chagas from a blood transfusion is small, one in 25,000, according to David Leiby, a research scientist at the American Red Cross in Washington. But in cities with high populations from Latin America, the numbers fall to much riskier levels. In Miami, for example, the chance is one on 9,000. In L.A., 1 in 5,400. Researchers have confirmed seven cases of people contracting Chagas through blood transfusions--five in the U.S., two in Canada--and they say the number of unknown cases is probably much higher. "A rate of one in 5,400 is something we're concerned about," says Leiby, adding that the FDA is still a few years away from a useable blood-screening test. "Chagas is overlooked by the health care system in the United States. Our physicians aren't aware of it and wouldn't recognize it in most cases." Tuberculosis, which also shows up in high rates in Mexico, is migrating north as well. Many assume a place like Cochise County, right on the border and overrun by illegals, would have a high incidence of TB. But it doesn't, says Edith Sampson, of the Cochise County Health Department. "The immigrants only pass through here on the way to Atlanta, or whatever city they're going to," she says. Exactly the problem--which is a big reason why 53 percent of the TB in the United States in 2003 was among foreign-born persons, up from 29 percent in 1993, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In L.A., again because of its huge illegal population, the figure is closer to 80 percent. Only 15,000 Americans suffer from active TB, the only dangerous kind because it can be passed to someone else, usually by coughing and expelling the bacteria from the throat or lungs. That's a small number, but the New York Academy of Sciences estimates that each victim will "infect 10 or 20 or more people--in whom the disease will likely remain latent, creating the potential time-bomb effect." The State Health Department says that Arizona had 295 reported cases of active TB in 2003, a jump from the previous year. Why the increase? More of the disease was found among kids under 5 years old and prisoners. The latter were mostly Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees--in other words, illegals. Sixty-eight percent of Arizona's foreign-born TB cases are from Mexico, says state health. Will TB return to the United States in a big way? It hasn't yet, says Lee Reichman, executive director of the New Jersey Medical School's National Tuberculosis Center. But he adds that with globalization--the ability to get around the world in 20 hours--and because "we can't stop people from getting in to this country, no matter how hard we try," the potential exists for a new epidemic. His particular concern is with multi-drug-resistant TB, fatal in 60 percent of cases. This strain requires a long regimen of costly drugs that illegals are unlikely to take, or have access to. Arizona has a small number of MDR-TB cases, and all of them in the past five years have been among foreign-born persons. "The reason you haven't heard about TB here is that good public health is working," says Reichman. "People who are symptomatic go to physicians, and the physicians don't ask questions. As soon as you have to ID yourself, or say we're going to send you back to Mexico, these people go into hiding and spread more TB. Any physician who cares about being a physician isn't going to ask those questions, because he took an oath to treat sick people." The Copper Queen's Rush Kish says that under Medicare reimbursement guides, her hospital cannot ask patients if they are in the country illegally. But how do you bill the feds to get money back for treating illegals if you can't ask if someone is illegal? Well, you play a little Orwellian word game, probing around the issue with a list of government-approved questions, then make educated assumptions. But the illegal holds the trump card, because he can refuse to answer every question. "We don't know yet what evidence Medicare will accept when we apply for reimbursement," says Kish. "But at least we can begin documenting the enormity of this problem." The question isn't whether those with genuine emergencies should get treatment. Of course they should. In Naco, residents have no access to ER care and many would die if they didn't get to the Copper Queen. The real question is: Who pays? Rev. Tom Buechele, pastor at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bisbee, thinks it's appropriate for the federal government to keep ponying up, as long as American companies "maintain their illegal trafficking in human labor." "Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, we need to bear the health-care costs for undocumented workers, whatever those costs are," says Buechele, who, for almost a year now, has been running a free monthly clinic in Naco, Arizona, catering to the poor and uninsured on both sides of the line. Although they talk a different language, politicians, even Republicans, promote policies that further Buechele's liberal vision. They boast to constituents that they've saved border hospitals by pushing through the Medicare reimbursement plan, which provides a relatively small amount of money over four years. But that's another Hobson's choice, which is to say no choice at all. What do you do, let hospitals go under? Kyl, who pushed to get the reimbursement money, says an emphatic no. "If we want those ERs to be there for us, then we'd better keep them in business," says the Arizona senator. "If our hospitals are required by federal law to treat anybody who comes into the ER, and the federal government has failed to control the border, then it's appropriate for the government to reimburse these hospitals." But some argue that the system as it stands now, with EMTALA firmly in place, is rigged to produce two results: The federal treasury will remain wide open to illegals, and that all but guarantees that more and more of them will bust the line to get here. After all, this is the end of the rainbow for them, where jobs await, education is free, health care is free. Who wouldn't come? And the more they come, the more American health suffers--from such diseases as Chagas and TB, further cutbacks in hospital services to American citizens, and even possible closures. Where's the compassion in that? Copper Queen ER nurse Josie Mincher, herself Hispanic, puts her health, and possibly her life, on the line to treat illegals. Listen to the emotion in her voice as she describes what that's like: "I go to work every day feeling like I'm on a torture wrack. My heartstrings get pulled in one direction by these sick people I want to help. Because I'm Hispanic, I know how they live. And I'm pulled in the other direction, too, thinking that if our hospitals aren't around, where do I take my own kids? "But we have to treat them because of EMTALA. It says that anybody who comes within 250 yards of an ER gets treatment. What would happen to Safeway if the law said anyone who comes within 250 yards of the store gets free food? They'd go out of business. Well, we're a business, too." Mincher's solution? "Send the bills to Mexico. If it affected them financially, they might do something about all these people coming across. My grandparents came here legally, and it took a long time and a lot of money. They respected the law. These people just walk across now. They weren't brought up the same way." Burns at UMC says he wants the U.S. and Mexican governments to work together to find a solution. But, as Kyl cautions, don't expect any breakthrough soon. Mexico benefits far too much from our illegal immigration nightmare--in jobs for its citizens and cash sent home--to step up with money to care for its own people. Until the border brought under control and the invasion stopped, we'll continue to pay the bills of people who illegally tiptoed across the line in the dead of night. This is an article from the Arizona Repuiblic newspaper, NOT something i "made up"!!!! If you don't believe me, LOOK IT UP FOR YOURSELF!!! It's on-line, if you look under Copper Queen hospital!!! And for those of you that can not take the time to READ this article, i can SEE why you are so UNINFORMED on this issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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could this be true? Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:55 AM By: Phil Brennan Article Font Size Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming theory? Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels. Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming. The Daily express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to a melting iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need to fight climate change and has been used by former Vice President Al Gore during his "Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind’s alleged impact on the global climate. Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of August when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population has soared in recent years. As winter roars in across the Northern Hemisphere, Mother Nature seems to have joined the ranks of the skeptics. As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception — Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather. Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow. Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents. AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster relief office told AFP. Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and four remained missing as of Saturday. An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including 7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can province, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, according to the Pioneer newspaper. In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England, according to the Express, which reports that experts say that February could end up as one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with the freezing night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C until at least the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus company's efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold weather. Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The agency reported that public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed. Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were snowed in. More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C. If global warming gets any worse we'll all freeze to death. © 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved. Sophia B the source is at the end of the article