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Skriven 2013-07-09 03:36:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 NB> My mom, who even as a teen, had a reputation for recognizing any piece
 NB> of classical music within the first few bars, enjoyed listening to the
 NB> Quodlibet, to name all the tunes within...  as might have been
 NB> guessed, she beat us out every time...  :)
 
She should have beat you all out once! The Quodlibet was the
one and only time I have heard even part of the Stephen Foster
song Beautiful Dreamer.

 NB> Not that unlikely a tale... I imagine that there are many instances of
 NB> people panicking at the sight of the bone marrow needle... especially
 NB> as I've had the fun of enduring it myself once... ;0  Sedation probably
 NB> is not a bad thing there... :)   Maybe someone holding his hand as
 NB> well...? I hope he does make it through the testing and all, and finds
 NB> out better what's up... and that the trial is helpful to him as well...

I hope so too, because if not, he will either go for the standard
therapy at great cost and go bankrupt, whereupon I will be sorely
tempted to abandon him, only the guilt will be substantial.

By the way, the Wikiarticle on the procedure seems to need
a bunch of cleaning up (I was about to write seems to have
been written by idiots), as the statement "an aspiration,
using a 20 mL syringe, yields approximately 300 (mu)L of
bone marrow" next to a picture of a draw of maybe 15 mL
in a 50 mL syringe. I checked a medical school protocol
sheet and found that it used almost the exact wording used
in the Wikiarticle but with 10 mL and 1 mL (1000 (mu)L) as
the numbers, slightly more sensible. 300 microliters might
barely fill the tip of a 20 mL syringe.

I looked at the article to see how frightening the needle
really is: didn't find the info there, but elsewhere the
claim is made that it's 16 gauge, so not all that big.

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 NB> Surveys/polls always do seem to have some sort of bias incorporated...

Pollster bias, selection bias, the fact that anyone is
bothering to do a survey on the subject at all bias.

 ML> clear routes for the military in times of strife.
 NB> I'd imagine that if the military felt the need, the roads would be
 NB> closed off from civilian traffic, and the tollbooths unmanned...

I was thinking more of the small number of military
vehicles that would fit in the lane of a tollbooth
that would be used in times of that degree of trouble.

POLEVKA S JATROVYMI KNEDLICKY
categories: soup, offal, dumplings, Polish)
servings: 6

1/2 lb beef liver, ground
2 eggs
1 c dry bread crumbs
2 Tb flour
2 Tb butter or beef marrow
1 sm clove garlic, mashed
1/2 ts grated lemon rind
1/4 ts pepper
1/2 ts salt
1 ds marjoram - ground
1 ds mace
2 qt consomme

Mix ground beef liver with butter, garlic, lemon rind,
marjoram and mace. Beat in eggs and then bread crumbs,
flour, salt and pepper. Let it stand in room temperature
for about 1 hour. Shape into small balls (size of ping-pong
balls), bring consomme to a boil, drop in liver dumplings.
Cover and simmer for 15 min. (Dumplings should be hard.) 

from http://www.columbia.edu/~js322/eleanor/eleanor.html
only minimally edited so as to preserve the original flavor

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