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"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."
-Stephen King

Most users ever online was 437 on 04-21-2003 at 05:14 AM.

drunken amish hampster



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okay thats real! i actual did just paste that!!

I don’t miss you, still I will take a car to be with you
I don’t know you, of course you think you know me
I don’t want you
So why should I compete with other guys?
I don’t love you, no
I think I’ll take a long way down from here

perripken

(just being lazy -- I copied his username so I didn't have to retype it in another thread)

56021437

Differentiation of Exudates from Transudates

A transudative pleural effusion occurs when pleural fluid accumulates because of an imbalance between the hydrostatic and oncotic pressures. The leading causes of transudative pleural effusions are congestive heart failure, cirrhosis, and pulmonary embolism. In contrast, an exudative pleural effusion occurs when the local factors influencing the accumulation of pleural fluid are altered. The leading causes of exudative effusions are pneumonia, cancer, and pulmonary embolism.

The first step in the evaluation is to determine whether an effusion is transudative or exudative.6 If it is exudative, more diagnostic tests are required in order to determine the cause of the local disease, whereas if it is transudative, the physician must establish or rule out a diagnosis of congestive heart failure, cirrhosis, or pulmonary embolism.

For the past several decades, transudates have been differentiated from exudates according to Light's criteria,7 by measurement of the levels of protein and lactate dehydrogenase in the pleural fluid and in the serum (Table 3). Since these criteria were originally published, several alternative measurements have been proposed for making this distinction8,9 (Table 3). Light's criteria are the most sensitive for identifying exudates but have lower specificity than other criteria — that is, on the basis of Light's criteria, some patients who actually have transudative pleural effusions will be thought to have exudative pleural effusions. If the clinical appearance suggests a transudative effusion but the pleural fluid is an exudate according to Light's criteria, the difference between the albumin levels in the serum and the pleural fluid should be measured. Almost all patients with a serum albumin level that is more than 1.2 g per deciliter higher than the pleural-fluid albumin level have a transudative effusion.9 However, this albumin gradient alone should not be used to distinguish transudates from exudates because it will misidentify approximately 13 percent of exudates as transudates.9

Preface



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This is not a normal diet book, and I am not a normal diet book author.


I'm not a doctor. Nor am I a nutritionist, psychologist, sports hero, gourmet chef, or any of the other vocations that seem to qualify people to tell you how to lose weight.


I'm an engineer by training, a computer programmer by avocation, and an businessman through lack of alternatives. From grade school in the 1950's until 1988 I was fat--anywhere from 30 to 80 pounds overweight. This is a diet book by somebody who spent most of his life fat.


The absurdity of my situation finally struck home in 1987. ``Look,'' I said to myself, ``you founded one of the five biggest software companies in the world, Autodesk. You wrote large pieces of AutoCAD, the world standard for computer aided design. You've made in excess of fifty million dollars without dropping dead, going crazy, or winding up in jail. You've succeeded at some pretty difficult things, and you can't control your flippin' weight?''


Through all the years of struggling with my weight, the fad diets, the tedious and depressing history most fat people share, I had never, even once, approached controlling my weight the way I'd work on any other problem: a malfunctioning circuit, a buggy program, an ineffective department in my company.


As an engineer, I was trained to solve problems. As a software developer, I designed tools to help others solve their problems. As a businessman I survived and succeeded by managing problems. And yet, all that time, I hadn't looked at my own health as something to be investigated, managed, and eventually solved in the same way. I decided to do just that.


This book is a compilation of what I learned. Six months after I decided being fat was a problem to be solved, not a burden to be endured, I was no longer overweight. Since then, my weight hasn't varied by more than a few pounds. I'm hungry less often at 145 pounds than I was at 215. I look better, feel great, and have more energy for the things I enjoy. I spend only a few minutes a day maintaining this happy situation. And I know I'll be able to control my weight from now on, because I have the tools I need, the will to use them, and the experience to know they work.


The tools are now in your hands.


Live long and prosper.


John Walker
Sausalito, California
January, 1991

"Underoos."

I'm not sure when I copied that.

Macaulay Culkin 99%
Chris Klein 98%
AJ Trauth 97%
Noah Bastian 96%
Chad Michael Murray 95%

David Gallagher
98%

Ashley Angel
98%

Eric Lively
96%

Lil Bow Wow
94%

Jake Gyllenhaal
94%

Your secret password is: salami.

Do not share this password with anyone as it may enable them to access your private information. Keep it where you can always find it yet out of open spaces where it may be seen.

AngryDrunkenHobo

Your best matches

Macaulay Culkin 98%
AJ Trauth 98%
Tarso Marques 97%
Dave Moffatt 96%
Noah Bastian 96%

Mineral Wells

Jagermeister

Kim'Kay 99%
Michelle Hunziker 98%
Belle Perez 98%
Katelyn Ford 97%
Jennifer Love Hewitt 97%

ive already pasted it somewhere else on the tf so its not to brilliant

Meanspleen says ~~~ Shark attacks are extremely rare. People are more likely to be injured by a hamster or killed by lightning than by a shark.~~~

diergray

Dealing with the "riff-raff" posted by Bruce Langham CEO 18 Mar 2003_01:18:00
I have taken the unusual step to banning a well-known poster from this board. He will continue to be banned as I feel his contribution is disruptive and as an example to the so-called "Sugar Hill Gang" who think they can basically have fun on here. Many of you do not understand the pressures running a multi-million pound industry, and as acting CEO, I cannot have my name besmirched, ridiculed, or made to look like a c#nt in public.

For example, I do NOT blow goats! That is a slanderous accusation of the highest order and I wouldn't even know how to if I tried. I am also NOT a smarmy git, a greasy, bloated tub-of-lard, a pompous, fat, company-man, slimy pork-features or any other such insult. And anyone calling me the "Brylcreem Boy from Barbados" will be prosecuted by the full weight of Mohamed Al Fayed’s legal team on my behalf and the club’s expenses.

Those who kiss-arse like Bill/Dave (it's the same person, actually, heh), shall be rewarded for their ingratiating, simpering snivelling-ness. But those who challenge my authority will be dealt with harshly.

I will give you "fans" information regarding the club’s activities, when I deem it necessary.
I will answer media speculation and rumour when I think it prudent.
I shall answer letters and emails from supporters, never. I am far too important for that.
I shall not promote the club’s image positively if I am too busy.
And I shall tell your manager Jean Tigana something different than what has been told to him by Mr.Fayed.

My position at Fulham PLC is omnipotent. Those who question my supremacy will find their right to criticise removed, and all privileges withheld forthwith. That's the way it is.

Bruce Langham CEO and Lord High Poobah
"Working On Your Behalf"

http://xnews.newsguy.com

hmmm.... Lazy Cutter

We need additional information and/or clarification of information provided on your loan request. If you have not already contacted us, please call Citibank at 1-800-967-2400.

***I'm glad you see things my way, friend..

*Detective Doc_34465 proceeds to the basement with two officers*

Put your gloves on boys, watch what you touch, and be careful where you breath.

*An hour later, the TFPPD dick emerges from the basement below with the officers, carrying 12 evidence bags*

Thanks for the cooperation wrkime, we have what we need. YzermanS19, I wouldn't leave town if I were you. I'll be back.***

Hey! It shows I'm dedicated right?

Don't worry.. The TFPPD died several posts later..

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