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To simplify,
US product for sale for £100, then VAT would be £20 ( assuming 20% rate)
UK product for sale for £100, then VAT would be £20 ( assuming 20% rate)
The difference between sales tax and tarrifs is it applies to all products within the same category irrespective of its origin.
TSE would be the Tokyo Stock Exchange
I.e. the typical Gerrit workflow
Home <-> Walk <-> train(euston) <-> walk <-> tube <-> walk <-> work
Time required if everything work correctly
~ 1h 10m to work
~ 1h 30m from work, (more since you dont want to miss the train)
Now, a single cancelled/missed train for me is +30m, happened at least once a week due to faulty train etc.
In addition, these things happen all the time:
Is the tube delayed today causing me to miss my train? +30m
Is it hot summer week? expect almost everyday to be cancellations of 1h+++
Someone trespassing/ hit by train, cancellations of 1h+++
Signalling problem, cancellation of 1h+++
Fire next to track cancellation of 3h+++
plus more Many days I have spent more than 4hrs just to get home.
Now this 2h 40m commute easily averages out to 4h
1) Agree, personally I am too lazy to clean it every time, just rinse it in water
2) Agree, though, everything in contact when brewing is metal or glass
3) Had my current french press for 6 years without issue.
Nonetheless, guess the difference boils down to personal practicality.
As for the fatigue, just the chemotherapy doing its stuff, never had fatigue from the cancer.
"Vitamin D synthesis is highly dependent on the concentration of melanin in the skin as melanin absorbs and scatters UVR-B, resulting in a less efficient conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol to previtamin D3[3]. Therefore, dark-skinned individuals will experience slower vitamin D synthesis than light-skinned ones. "
You have X chance of Z time, etc.
But that's statistics, you as an individual will often fall in the normal range in your stratified group. Except when you don't.
27 Years old, I was dying of cancer really bad, it is worse than chemo, I didnt know it, but I was dying very bad. It felt like the worst flu ever, with constant cold symptoms, fatigue and night sweats, it was so bad I had to change several times a night. It was terrible.
When I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer with secondary cancer in my liver, I thought that was it, I have screwed up bad and should have gone to the doctor earlier.
The first meeting with my oncologist he said the chemotherapy is to give you time, it is not a cure. I didnt ask how long, it is nothing I want to know. He said he will throw what ever he can at me, since I am fit and young. Even though there was no reassurance, I felt much better after this.
So chemo, it sucks, I was on a 2 week cycle routine, which meant usually, go to the clinic on Thursday, get 3 different drugs over 3-4 hours. Some are fine, like oxaliplatin (and quite interesting when its cold outside), others hit you right in the head like irinotecan (this one sucks bad, kicks you in the head hard and make you feel sick), and finally 5fu which is much milder than irinotecan. The 5fu I would get as a pump which administered it over 46 hours or so at home.
So Thursday, on the day I feel bad when administered, would say a 3 when irinotecan hits. Afterwards mby a 6 or 7. I would have energy to work this day if I wanted.
Friday, did go to work some days with my pump. Feeling probably a 5-6, energy a 7.
Saturday, pump disconnected and the fatigue starts to hit, Feeling probably a 5, energy a 5.
Sunday, Feeling probably a 4, energy a 3.
Monday, Feeling probably a 3-4, energy a 2-3.
Tuesday, Feeling probably a 4, energy a 4.
Wednesday, Feeling probably a 5, energy a 5.
Thursday, Feeling probably a 6, energy a 6.
... It would improve until the next Thursday where I would be feeling probably a 8, energy a 8-9.
So by the time you go back for more chemo you would feel quite good. So on average I worked one week every two weeks.
Now, as soon as I started chemo, much of my cancer symptoms started to melt away, no more gut wrenching pain in my bowels, no more regular night sweats because my liver is shutting down, not feeling like having a flu, this is after 2-3 cycles of chemo. Chemo can make your quality of life better, it did it for me. Chemo sucks and I was lucky that I found ways to eat, keep my weight and stay healthy and positive.
In the end, I managed to have liver surgery and bowel surgery and am now cancer free. My oncologist didnt think that I would survive until surgery, and was lucky my chemo was soooo effective. 1 year from diagnosis to cancer free, I am lucky.
But of course, this is an individual experience, but I would say, dying of cancer suck more than chemo, for me.