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Definitely worth 10 minutes of your time.
Exploring Canada’s Worst Street |
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James Holzhauer had his closest game so far yesterday on Jeopardy!, if they can keep finding challengers like that, this will only get more exciting.
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Quote from this article is a scary thought. Hopefully science will find a way to combat the growing threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
“By the year 2050, it is estimated there are going to be more people who are going to die from antibiotic-resistant infections than cancers, all combined,†Kao said Tuesday afternoon." https://globalnews.ca/news/5250800/e...jLEvvd3tsrvjJI |
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12680664)
Quote from this article is a scary thought. Hopefully science will find a way to combat the growing threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
“By the year 2050, it is estimated there are going to be more people who are going to die from antibiotic-resistant infections than cancers, all combined,†Kao said Tuesday afternoon." https://globalnews.ca/news/5250800/e...jLEvvd3tsrvjJI For those who don't know, there is a uk website called Freebmd that allows users to search the birth, marriage and death registrations in the UK from 1837 until the early 1980s, good for family history searches, but also for research, It can be found at https://www.freebmd.org.uk/search I invite anyone to search for deaths of any name for a period from 1866 when ages at death are shown and examine the ages of those who died and the proportion of those who were children. It's a frightening view of the future should anti-biotics become non effective. You'll see that as time passes, especially after WW1 the proportion of children dying does fall but, the grim reaper still takes his cut compared with recent times. |
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Originally Posted by dave_j
(Post 12680735)
Absolutely. I'm not sure that people in general understand how much influence modern medicine has had on the life expectancy in recent times.
For those who don't know, there is a uk website called Freebmd that allows users to search the birth, marriage and death registrations in the UK from 1837 until the early 1980s, good for family history searches, but also for research, It can be found at https://www.freebmd.org.uk/search I invite anyone to search for deaths of any name for a period from 1866 when ages at death are shown and examine the ages of those who died and the proportion of those who were children. It's a frightening view of the future should anti-biotics become non effective. You'll see that as time passes, especially after WW1 the proportion of children dying does fall but, the grim reaper still takes his cut compared with recent times. |
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Originally Posted by dave_j
(Post 12680735)
Absolutely. I'm not sure that people in general understand how much influence modern medicine has had on the life expectancy in recent times.
For those who don't know, there is a uk website called Freebmd that allows users to search the birth, marriage and death registrations in the UK from 1837 until the early 1980s, good for family history searches, but also for research, It can be found at https://www.freebmd.org.uk/search I invite anyone to search for deaths of any name for a period from 1866 when ages at death are shown and examine the ages of those who died and the proportion of those who were children. It's a frightening view of the future should anti-biotics become non effective. You'll see that as time passes, especially after WW1 the proportion of children dying does fall but, the grim reaper still takes his cut compared with recent times. I do not take an anti-biotic unless I really must. |
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Originally Posted by BEVS
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I do not take an anti-biotic unless I really must.
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Originally Posted by Jingsamichty
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Unfortunately most of the meat you eat (if you do eat meat) is raised with far less concern about antibiotic abuse.
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Originally Posted by Danny B
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Definitely worth 10 minutes of your time.Exploring Canada’s Worst Street
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Anyone surprised how many fivers are still in circulation and used in change?
Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but if I was getting £7 or £8 change in the UK it was usually 3x£2 and £1 or £2 x4. Hardly ever a fiver. If I get $7 or $8 here, it's $5 plus the coins. Even if I'm getting $15-$19, the chances are there will be 3 x $5 involved and no $10. The introduction of the £2 coin in the UK greatly reduced the need for fivers but we also have a $2 coin here and yet fivers-a-plenty. |
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12681841)
Anyone surprised how many fivers are still in circulation and used in change?
Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but if I was getting £7 or £8 change in the UK it was usually 3x£2 and £1 or £2 x4. Hardly ever a fiver. If I get $7 or $8 here, it's $5 plus the coins. Even if I'm getting $15-$19, the chances are there will be 3 x $5 involved and no $10. The introduction of the £2 coin in the UK greatly reduced the need for fivers but we also have a $2 coin here and yet fivers-a-plenty. Guess it makes sense they are popular, easier to make change with a $5 vs all coins, not really too keen on getting all coins if I am getting $6 or $8 back. |
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I love these sorts of videos. I wish I could fly often.
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$5 notes are useful .............. if we stay in a hotel, I leave a $5 + thank you note every morning for the hotel maid.
$5 is the usual minimum tip I give the person who takes me in a golf cart or wheelchair from the Lounge in the Railway Station to the train. We usually go away on our Christmas trip across Canada with at least $50 in fivers between us ........... because, strangely, we rarely get $5 in change during those 3-4 weeks :nod: |
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I like old houses like that. Oh the TV in the photo, haven't seen one of those since I was very young.
Old houses like that have character. Using the calculator on the realtor site, a mortgage on that house would be $1,100 cheaper per month then our apartment. |
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