My wife and I were in Bangladesh, adopting our first child. I was desperate to watch this game. So, I searched around as best I could to figure out if there was anywhere that might have the game, and there was one, only one chance: Armed Forces Television. The first problem: it was only shown in one place in the city, the American Club, a walled compound specifically for diplomats, their families, and their friends. So, my wife and I asked for a tour of the club, took it, and asked to join anyway. They said no, we had to be sponsored. No dice.
Luckily, they let us walk unaccompanied to the gate house out, and I eyed all the people in the compound until I spotted one guy in a Texas Longhorns shirt. Surely, this guy was a football fan. Surely, he would understand. I spent the next five minutes appealling to him, fan to fan, to sponsor me to join the club. I was not crazy. I was not a terrorist. I would do nothing to embarrass or get him in trouble. I just wanted to watch the oldest rivalry in football. He agreed, reluctantly.
Next problem: Bangladesh is 11 hours ahead of Ann Arbor. I would only be able to watch the first half before the bar closed. In the end, that was not a problem. The game was more than over by then. One of the most fun UM-ND games I've ever seen and well worth the effort.
When my wife and I went back to Bangladesh two years later to adopt our second and third child, I made sure I got the best internet connection money could buy, so I could listen to games over internet radio in the middle of the night. Sadly, 2008 was not such a good year for football...
Sports books in Mexico will show the game. I watched it in one a few years back in a smaller town than that. You'll just have to place a bet, and we found most patrons cheering for OSU.
Systolic. High systolic pressures mean higher work loads for the heart. Higher diastolic pressures can mean better or worse ventricular filling, depending on whether they're due to high blood volume or stiff ventricles, respectively. So, there is such thing as "diastolic dysfunction," but I would much rather have that than systolic dysfunction any day.
Stepping away from the heart, systolic pressures are always higher than diastolic pressures, so if you're going to blow an aneurysm, systolic pressure is going to do it.
Hey. I teach vascular physiology at UM. Excuse me if my answers have some "ifs." These are poorly written questions because they don't indicate what part of your body.
>Should your blood pressure be higher when standing or sitting, why?
In most parts of your body (arm, head), this shouldn't make much difference. The body will regulate blood pressure appropriately. Standing can caused increased blood pressure in the lower extremeties (feet), but I'm guessing that is not what your teacher is getting at.
>Also should your blood pressure go up or down when you stand-up after laying down, why?
If you stand rapidly, hydrostatic pressure will cause an increase in blood pressure in your lower extremeties and a slightly lower blood pressure in your head. High pressure in the legs can lead to blood pooling transiently in the veins, lowering blood flows and pressures to other areas. This causes the headrush.
Hope that helps.
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My wife and I were in Bangladesh, adopting our first child. I was desperate to watch this game. So, I searched around as best I could to figure out if there was anywhere that might have the game, and there was one, only one chance: Armed Forces Television. The first problem: it was only shown in one place in the city, the American Club, a walled compound specifically for diplomats, their families, and their friends. So, my wife and I asked for a tour of the club, took it, and asked to join anyway. They said no, we had to be sponsored. No dice.
Luckily, they let us walk unaccompanied to the gate house out, and I eyed all the people in the compound until I spotted one guy in a Texas Longhorns shirt. Surely, this guy was a football fan. Surely, he would understand. I spent the next five minutes appealling to him, fan to fan, to sponsor me to join the club. I was not crazy. I was not a terrorist. I would do nothing to embarrass or get him in trouble. I just wanted to watch the oldest rivalry in football. He agreed, reluctantly.
Next problem: Bangladesh is 11 hours ahead of Ann Arbor. I would only be able to watch the first half before the bar closed. In the end, that was not a problem. The game was more than over by then. One of the most fun UM-ND games I've ever seen and well worth the effort.
When my wife and I went back to Bangladesh two years later to adopt our second and third child, I made sure I got the best internet connection money could buy, so I could listen to games over internet radio in the middle of the night. Sadly, 2008 was not such a good year for football...