radio shack

• Question:-radio shack?
  has anyone worked,or is working at radio shack?if so
  do you like the job?
  do you like the pay?
  is it a friendly environment?
  anything else i need or should know?
  
  Answer:-I've been working at RadioShack for about two or three months now in Alabama. Part time starts out at 6.50/hr which I did and recently since they moved me to full time I get 7/hr. The pay should be better, the commission/spiff they give you can be better. Its a alright job. I'm using it to et a background and eventually move onto something better. This week, I worked 34 hrs my paycheck was $351 before taxes. That included my $50 cellular commision and my $50 performance commision.
• Question:-????$$Radio Shack$$?
  Just wondering, does anyone know how much money it cost per letter on a shirt at Radio Shack?Or about how much?Please&&Thanks for your answers.
  
  Answer:-no... your question is rather confusing...
• Question:-I bought a Headset from Radio shack and the microphone does not work.How do I fix it?
  Ok so I bought this headset from Radio shack and the Mic does not work. I can hear people talk to me, but I can't talk myself. I am using the headset for My Xbox 360 and all I hear is low sounding static. How do I fix this so I can use the mic and talk with my friends?
  
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• Question:-How much does radio shack charge to fix an i pod touch screen?
  I have a 4th gen. i pod touch and i dropped it and cracked it pretty badly. i heard that radio shack charges 50$ to replace it and put it on for you. Is that true? Everything else with the i pod is okay, it works perfectly but cracked screen is the only problem.
  
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• Question:-How to purchase a phone from radio shack?
  I am eligible for upgrade and I am planning to get the Droid Incredible 2 from Radio Shack. How do i prove to them that i am eligible and can I change my plan in the store or do I have to go to Verizon to change my plan?
  
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• Question:-How long does the Radio Shack employment process take?
  I did all the paper work on December 10th at my local radio shack. I'm waiting for some kind of email but i have not received it yet. How long does that usually take? I'm so broke, I hope they didn't make me fill out paper work and give them a copy of my identification and social for nothing.
  
  Answer:-You may have to wait for a month more I think.
• Question:-What is the maximum temperature a Radio Shack solar cell can withstand?
  I just bought 2 solar cells from Radio Shack (Item#276-0124) and was wanting to surface mount the backs to a protoboard I also got from there. I was wondering, what is the maximum temperature that the cells can withstand before the break? I am using a toaster oven as a soldering oven, so I need to know what is the danger zone for the heat setting. Thank you!
  I have a soldering iron, but I need the cells to be surface mounted to the board, aka why i'm baking them.
  
  Answer:-That is a fascinating idea. I did a little bit of research and it could actually come in quite handy to use a toaster oven as a soldering iron. It's very tedious to solder a lot of components. I found this url which you may have already seen:
  
  http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200006/oven_art.htm
  
  which discusses how to use the oven as a soldering iron. It has some recommendations on temperature. Your best bet would be to take the part numbers of the radio shack parts and google them and then look at the specs on them to see how much heat they can withstand. I did that and found this page however, it didn't provide all the details:
  
  http://rsk.imageg.net/graphics/uc/rsk/Support/ProductManuals/2760124_PM_EN.pdf
  
  You might need a solder that melts at a low temperature. That might be your best bet and then buy some spare solar cells and give it a try. What I would do first is heat the oven up and then try melting a small piece of solder first, or as that one link suggested, getting some of the liquid solder type stuff. If it doesn't damage the components, that might be a neat way to run through soldering multiple items fast.
  
  Can you calibrate your temperature? That might be a good thing to do as well.
• Question:-What are the benefits of shopping at Radio Shack?
  My husband doesn't like shopping there. What do you think?
  Why does Comp USA shut down and radio shack stays open?
  
  Answer:-Radio Shack started as a place for hobbyists, ham radio, electronics, and eventually computers.
  
  They moved their model to malls and more consumer goods, ie Cell Phones, TVs, BUT still cater (to some degree) to the home hobbyist. My opinion is that they are making money by the cell phone credits they get (remember they are national and sell a LOT of phones), plus a few bucks on batteries, answering machines, etc.
  
  I, like your husband, dont like to shop there unless it is something I think that only they will carry locally, like electronic components (resistors, boards, switches) because I think they are overpriced on everything else.
  
  CompUSA went under because they just couldnt compete with BestBuy. They had little to no technical support, a limited inventory and very expensive locations, usually in strip malls. They just didnt make any right moves in the last 10 years to keep them competitive, and neglected to make money in services like the Geek Squad does.
• Question:-when to be at radio shack on black friday and when do doors open?
  what time do you have to be at radio shack to be in line early enough for the deals, and what time do their doors open? do they hand out tickets like best buy and staples?
  
  Answer:-they will open at 6am, no tickets required so be atleast hour or so early before they runout
• Question:-What do I need in order to return my phone to Radio Shack under the warranty?
  I have a cell phone that I bought from Radio Shack that doesn't work anymore. When I bought it I purchased the one year warranty as well. Now I need to know what I need in order to exchange the phone under the warranty. I am certain that I no longer have the receipt, seeing as though I bought the phone around 8 months ago.
  
  Answer:-It is quite possible that RS has a record of the sale.
  Go to a RS store with the phone, tell them your store and they should be able to find your record through your name, phone #, or the SN of the phone.

ricin

• Question:-Ricin, How is it made from Castor beans?
  Hey, i was wondering. Does anyone know how Ricin is made from Castor beans? And i mean the real way, not the way you find in the top ten google listings.
  
  ((This is for educational purposes))
  
  If you dont want to post it on the net, give me a way to talk to yah, IE AIM or MSN
  
  Answer:-of course ..but those listings and several anarchist cookbooks can do that. I will not post it here ......educational purposes ? making ricin...I truly doubt that
• Question:-How long does a person have ricin?
  it's for my biology project
  how long does the person have ricin? Like certain hours or days
  Oh..And also is blood drawn or other test be conducted?
  please help it's due tommorrow
  Thanx ^_^
  yeah how long it takes the body to be detoxified.
  
  Answer:-Ricin is a poison - and I think the question is how long it takes for the body to detox
• Question:-Why is the Ricin incident in Vegas not being considered terrorism or a potential for a terrorist attack?
  They guys hotel room had a book on how to make Ricin and there was a quantity of it found. How in the world is this not been called a foiled plot to terrorize us?
  
  If it looks like terrorism, smells like terrorism... ITS TERRORISM RIGHT? Or is it like what happened to Rodney King?
  
  Answer:-I guess only people that look like they are from the middle east, are black OR from Asia qualify as terrorists.
  
  Timothy McVeigh is normally not included in the list of people to be considered a terrorist. The KKK are just called fanatics or racists NOT what they are TERRORISTS!
  
  This guy had RICIN and the or book like the Anarchist Cook Book. Only a terrorist would have in their possession items of that sort. A scientist would not need the book. A teacher (a normal teacher anyway) would not need Ricin. Only someone that had a plan to harm people or animal life would have items like that.
  
  The people in charge can't have another qualified terrorist plot on their hands. Especially since the only reason they found out about it is because the guy got SICK and left the stuff in his hotel room!
  
  That's the country we live in I guess.
• Question:-How would you decontaminate a 500 spectator event of Ricin poisoning when resources are limited?
  Terrorist have released Ricin into school ventilation and in the popcorn butter during the game. By the end of the first half, people begin to experience diarrhea and vomiting from the poisioning. The available resouces are hospital 12 miles away, emergency room that can handle 25 patient at a time, 12 full time officers, 20 explorers, and a volunteer hazmat team which has a mobile hazmat trailer and portable decontamination tent. The police has also recieved a call stating that they did it and there would be more to follow if demands were not met.
  
  Answer:-Ricn treatment at the present time consists in treating the symptoms, (& stabilising the patient). Sometimes the patient's immune system kicks in before the patient dies and the patient is saved. Enteric ingestion is treated with super activated charcoal. And perhaps gastric lavage. It is very difficult to deliver ricin by air dissemination. You need massive amounts of it to achieve a lethal dose, in an open, large area. (i.e. it is not practical.). Your stadium attack would require about 500 pounds of aerosolised ricin. If you are a terrorist, forget it jerks. Parenteral delivery is more effective but not that simple. (I am alluding to the Markov assaination by the K.G.B. or their Bulgarian buddies who frequently did the K.G.B.'s "wet work".
  Poisoning by such delivery is treated by prompt surgical debridement of entry traumatised tissue. (but discovery of such delivery is often overlooked, or not noticed). I am not giving details. (but Muslim groups have been playing with the poison, idiots).
  There are a number of companies that are actively researching antidote chemicals, and effective antigens that would be good vaccine candidates. Try one at http://www.crti.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/en/publications/annual_reports/ar03_04_pt2_e.pdf for a report of promising work by Cangene Inc. and Swiftstrand Inc. Such drugs and vaccines should be available soon but clinical trial testing of them for a D.I.N. (i.e. regulatory approval), will be a big hurdle.
  Dan.
• Question:-How does ricin disable 1500 ribosomes per minute?
  What causes the poison to spread so rapidly, and so little of it to make such a large effect?
  
  Answer:-Ricin functions by cleaving the 60S subunit of eukaryotic ribosomes. It has enzymatic activity that breaks up the ribosome so it cannot function. Ricin is actively taken up by cells due to binding to carbohydrates on the surface of cells, causing internalization of the enzyme by endocytosis as well as macropinocytosis. Basically ricin binds to receptor molecules triggering endocytosis, then the enzymatic subunit binds to and destroys the 60S subunits of the ribosomes. The LD50 for ricin is only 22 micrograms per kilogram. Only tetrodotoxin is more lethal than ricin (LD50 - 8 micrograms/kg)
• Question:-How long does it take for Ricin to kill you if ingested?
  I'm just curious. I haven't come into contact with it or anything. I'm just writing a story on it.
  
  Answer:-Ricin is very deadly....in concentrated form....within minutes...remember the case, where a subject was poked with the tip on an umbrella....he died soon thereafter....I think that was in UK...some kinda spy!
• Question:-Would a ricin attack be considered chemical or biological warfare?
  I need to know for a school report.
  
  Answer:-Chemical--ricin, like most chemicals, is biological in origin, but is in a purified form. Biological warfare implies some sort of pathogen (virus or bacteria) is involved.
• Question:-Why does the media cover up the identity of the man making Ricin in his Vegas motel?
  They tell us it's not terrorism, but they don't tell us anything about him or his ethnic background.
  
  Answer:-The mans identy has been released. See: the drudge report website.
• Question:-Can you explain simply how ricin works?
  I don't understand exactly how ricin works. I know that it inhibits an enzyme that has something to do with ribosomes, but that's it. Can anyone explain how it works for me?
  
  Answer:-Ricin inactivates the 60S subunit of the ribosome by removing an adenine (A4324) from the 28S rRNA chain.
• Question:-Ricin,How can a 1/4gram of it kill an adult person?
  Doesn`t that sound ridicolous?
  
  My teacher told me it and i still doubt it.
  
  Answer:-You could use less than that. Read up on it, your body is very sensitve. Ricin works by preventing you're body from forming essential proteins, think how many molecules are in 1/4 gram of ricin, and how it many cells it could shut down.

burzynski

• Question:-Does anyone have info or first hand experience with the Burzynski Clinic?
  My friend is researching treatment options for a non-cancerous astrocytoma.
  
  Answer:-Yes....they are wonderful and are best known for help in brain tumors. Currently in FDA trials for antineoplastons treatments. They helped my little brother, when everyone else said there was nothing that could be done for him!! Basically told us to just let him die. We could not accept that answer, so we explored alternative treatments. After LOTS of research found that Burzynski clinc was our best option. That was 5 years ago and he is doing great now!
• Question:-Have you researched the Burzynski documentary on antineoplastin cancer therapy?
  What does your research show regarding this issue? Readers please note the difference between unfounded opinion without reference and real information. If you don't know about this one starting point is to watch the doc on the website at the following address. Admins I am NOT posting just to promote the film, I have NO affiliation with them and will not profit from posting here, but sometimes there is money interests in such things:
  
  http://burzynskimovie.com/
  
  Answer:-Yes, I have researched it. It doesn't work.
• Question:-Is Dr Stanislaw Burzynski legitimate?
  I hear of people saying he's a fake and his treatment doesn't work, but on YouTube I've seen people commenting on his videos saying that they were treated at his clinic successfully.
  
  What do you think and have you had any personal experiences with the Burzynski Clinic?
  
  Answer:-Burzynski claims to cure cancer with extracts from human urine.
  
  There shouldn't really be any need to say more, but here goes.
  
  Burzynski is actually an MD (though his claim to a PhD is apparently dubious); however he had no specialty training in cancer and had no preclinical or clinical cancer research experience when he announced his 'cure for cancer' 35 years ago.
  
  His ''antineoplastons" -the substances he has isolated from human urine which he claims cure cancer - have never been shown to have any effect on cancer; attempts to replicate his claimed results by the National Cancer Institute, the Japanese National Cancer Institute and Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals failed.
  
  Be wary of unsubstantiated testimonials about miracle cancer cures. You have no way of knowing whether the person ever had cancer in the first place, much less has been cured.
  
  And you have no way of knowing whether, if genuine, they are still alive.This is from Orac's Respectful Insolence blog:
  
  ''...Dr. Burzynski first gained fame for his antineoplastons back in 1988, when Sally Jesse Raphael featured four "miracle" patients of Burzynski, who, according to her, had had incurable cancer and failed conventional therapies but were then cancer-free, thanks to Dr. Burzynski. Unfortunately, four years later in 1992, Inside Edition followed up these four patients:
  
  'In 1992, "Inside Edition" reported that two of the four patients had died and a third was having a recurrence of her cancer. (The fourth patient had bladder cancer, which has a good prognosis.) The widow of one of Raphael's guests stated that her husband and five others from the same city had sought treatment after learning about Burzynski from a television broadcast -- and that all had died of their disease. In 1995, a federal grand jury indicted Burzynski for mail fraud and marketing an unapproved drug. The indictment charged that he had billed insurance companies using procedure codes for chemotherapy, even though his treatment was not chemotherapy. He was tried in 1997 but not convicted.' ''
  
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  Oh looky! A total of 8 answers, all from people who joined YA on the same day specifically to answer this question!
  
  Suspicious? You decide!
• Question:-Dr Burzynski has a non-toxic gene therapy that repairs cells instead of destroying them, where can I get it?
  
  
  Answer:-Here you go:
  
  http://www.cancermed.com/
• Question:-Does the Burzynski Clinic in Houston, Tx have a 800 number?
  
  
  Answer:-go to yellowpages.com
• Question:-Seeking information from cancer patients of Dr. S.R. Burzynski in Houston: did he Help?
  My mother is considering treatment with Dr. Burzynski and as her support person I am trying to get her additional information to help her make decisions related to her colon cancer, which has traveled to her lungs, and now bones. As a widow on Medicare, she is trying to make sound health and financial decisions. Is this clinic worth it?
  
  Answer:-Hi Mischka
  
  Ive never been to his clinic, but I know he doesnt use standard methods (chemo, drugs, ect) and that is good. I know the FDA has fought battles in court with him and he won a 14 year case (another plus). They want to stop people like this because they actually help people get better with uncommon methods that dont generate sales like drugs and chemo.
  
  Ive been eduacating people many years myself and learned everything from my teacher at herbdoc.com. He has healed thousands of patients with herbs, hydrotherapy, education on diet and drinking water. He had a clinic for 20 years in Malibu before the FDA shut him down for healing to many patients.
  
  I would go with your gut feeling and if it feels right go to the clinic, if not keep searching for other answers. The answers are out there, but you must have an open mind and accept the answer that fits for you.
  
  Best of health to you both
• Question:-So apparently Burzynski's treatment does work?
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18224398
  
  That's from a study done in Japan, and the article WASN'T edited by Burzynski.
  
  There are more studies here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?myncbishare=mdacclib&holding=mdacclib_fft&dr=abstract&term=Antineoplaston%20therapy
  
  So they were right all along? The FDA really was trying to shut him down or what?
  thinkingtime: What do you mean? Burzynski is responsible for creating antineoplastons, the link I showed you is a study from Japan where they apparently independantly test his antineoplastons? If they work, how can that not have something to do with Burzynski?
  
  You see, I was at first skeptical of Burzynski, but after seeing this, I wonder if there really is some truth behind this whole antineoplaston thing...
  "We have also characterized a novel mechanism through which all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and antineoplaston, anticancer drug, caused cell growth inhibition in breast cancer cells through effects on intracellular pathways"
  
  "Antineoplaston caused the down-regulation of PKCalpha protein expression, resulting in inhibition of ERK MAPK phosphorylation, with resultant inhibition of Rb phosphorylation leading to G(1) arrest"
  
  That's quoted directly from the first link I sent you. Burzynski created antineoplastons, and they're saying that it works. How is that not proof that at least some aspects of antineoplastons work?
  
  I know that some of the stuff about him is suspcious, such as his credinitials, but he might have been on to something here. After all, that is a government website I showed you, and the study WASN'T by Burzynski, which means it's very unlikely he somehow altered the article.
  
  Answer:-Cancer is a collective term for approximately 200 different diseases. Every cell type in your body can (in principle) develop into its own type of cancer. On top of that individual cancer cells in every cancer are also different from one another. So a compound that may damage one cancer cell may do nothing another cancer cell. This is how resistance to chemotherapy develops. The sensitive cells are mopped up leaving the rest behind.
  
  As you can see in the abstract they examined a cancer cell line. In a cancer cell line, all the cancer cells are identical. This is one reason why you can't deduce from a cell line study that it will work in patients. And even in more realistic situations where you treat rats/mice that has been given cancer, you can't be sure that the effect you observe automatically translates into an effect on human cancers. A comparison of drug performance in animal models with subsequent clinical trials shows that drugs which reduce tumor bulk by less than 60% do not show efficacy in human trials: http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v84/n10/pdf/6691796a.pdf
  
  You can see that the cell line study was published back in 2008. Why haven't the group presented any data on patients since then? One realistic possibility is, that despite of promising effect on cell lines it didn't work on patients.
  
  To know if it works in humans, you need to do controlled studies. There simply is no way around it.
  
  In addition to avoid problems with resistance, you also need to tolerate a sufficient amount of the drug. If you take a look at the Mayo study (lo_mcg's link), you can see that they experienced serious toxic effects resulting in the need for dose reduction.
  
  So where are we today? Well - research has not been suppressed. Antineoplastons have not been shown to work on cancer outside Burzynski's clinic. My red flags are still up.
• Question:-Burzynski Clinic? Gene Therapy?
  So a friend of ours recently recommended that we try to to get some information about this institute for treatment.
  
  However, the website seems kind of vague and I don't even know if they treat small cell lung cancer outside of trials or not... Upon further research I noticed that they have been doing the antineoplastins trials for years now and nobody can really confirm or deny that it is working.
  
  The COST of treatment is INSANE. Of course, I know that any form of cancer treatment and medicine is a bit out there... but they ask for $500 just to look at your records, $1000 for the consult, then a DEPOSIT of $10,000 for 'treatment', and $5000 - $10,000 for medicine deposits.. as well as a monthly fee of a few thousand.
  
  I'm just not sure how I feel about it at all. I am not the patient here, it's my mom.. but before we get our hopes up on anything I am trying my hardest to research the options. I have heard of gene-therapy and that there are several trials out there that HAVE gotten good results. I think I am most un-nerved by the fact that this particular clinic isn't affiliated with any insurance companies and the FDA took YEARS to allow the trials to move to phase three.
  
  Does anyone have any alternative places to share? Or has anyone tried this clinic with good results?
  
  We aren't too well on funding at the moment (but we can find ways to cover it.. should we find some form of proof that the treatment DOES work) and I would much rather prefer to spend the money on actually keeping my mother healthy- instead of giving the money to people who are feeding on the hopes of the ill.
  
  We are trying our best to find a way to help my mother and hopefully beat this cancer. Any help on this subject or if someone can even find some kind of research reguarding these treatments.. I would much appreciate it
  
  Answer:-I am sorry to hear about your mom. Your assertion that Burzynski is to be avoided is absolutely correct.
  
  Burzynski treats patients at a private clinic using what he terms antineoplastons, mixtures of peptides, amino acids, and other simple organic substances that are said to promote the body’s natural defenses against cancer. Although he has published several studies of his own, these are of a rather unclear design.
  
  As you already know it isn’t cheap either. And it seems that the price has gone up. Previously Burzynski's patients payed a $6,000 deposit before beginning treatment. Technically, the drug itself is free because it's only used under Phase II trials, but patients pay for incidentals, including consultations, supplies and classes on how to administer the drug. This ran about $7,500-$9,000 a month — out of pocket.
  
  In 1998, Paul Goldberg, editor of The Cancer Letter, a D.C.-based newsletter covering cancer research and drug approval, investigated Burzynski's claims up to that point. He asked three renowned and independent researchers to examine Burzynski's scientific protocols — all three said they could not make sense of the data, saying it did not resemble any commonly accepted models. The article is shown unedited here: http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/burzynski2.html
  
  A Phase II trial in glioma conducted under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/74/2/137.abstract?keytype2=tf_ipsecsha&ijkey=eaf21226703b21cd709dbd7acd5a8e48c199f2aa was halted due to poor accrual, after Burzynski failed to agree with the investigators on possible expansion of the eligibility criteria. Nine patients were accrued, six of whom were able to be evaluated for response. There were no objective responses, and all six showed evidence of tumor progression after treatment durations of between 16 to 66 days. The mean time to treatment failure (progression or discontinuation due to toxicity) was 29 days. All nine patients died before the study closed, all but one death being due to tumor progression. Although the authors of the article claimed that the small sample size precluded "definitive conclusions," the results of the patients in the trial are clearly extremely disappointing.
  
  Sometimes studies such as this one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18224398 are presented as evidence that Burzynski-independent studies also show positive effects.
  As you can see in the abstract they examined a cancer cell line. In a cancer cell line, all the cancer cells are identical. This is one reason why you can't deduce from a cell line study that it will work in patients. And even in more realistic situations where you treat rats/mice that have been given cancer, you can't be sure that the effect you observe automatically translates into an effect on human cancers. A comparison of drug performance in animal models with subsequent clinical trials shows that drugs which reduce tumor bulk by less than 60% do not show efficacy in human trials: http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v84/n10/pdf/6691796a.pdf
  
  Another thing worth noticing is, that the cell line study was published back in 2008. Why haven't the group presented any data on patients since then? One realistic possibility is, that despite of promising effect on cell lines it didn't work on patients.
  
  So where are we today? Well - research has not been suppressed. Antineoplastons have not been shown to work on cancer outside Burzynski's clinic.
• Question:-Has anyone heard about a possible Cure for Cancer by S.R.Burzynski down in Houston, TX?
  
  
  Answer:-Stanislaw Burzynski M.D. Ph.D. has a clinic in Houston Texas where he treats various kinds of cancer. Although he has employed this therapy with patients since 1976, his treatment is still not FDA approved and is therefore only available to those patients who meet rigid FDA criteria.
  
  Do a search, there's multiple sites. Read and decide for yourself.
• Question:-Please tell me why a study in Japan revealed that Burzynski's antineoplaston activated tumor-suppressor genes?
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18224398
  How did a so-called quack discover something this big? Could he really be on to something? It's not everyday that a "quack" discovers something that affects cancer cells in a positive way.
  
  What do you think? Do you think that he just got lucky and found something that HAPPENED to influence cancer cells, or do you believe that he really is onto something?
  Samurai Japan: Do you really believe that? Has it ever happened with another "quack" before?
  
  Answer:-