Sunday Sermonette: David as egomaniac
Note: The reason Von Shitzinpantz didn ' t have a jury trial in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case is thathis lawyers asked for a bench trial. I don ' t publish comments that are objectively false. Psalms 108 and 109 are attributed to David, but Psalm 108 is actually a pastiche of psalms 57 and 60. In it, David purportedly wakes up in the morning and looks forward to conquering the surrounding nations. After all, God gave the land to the Israelites. Psalm 109 is another of those laments in which the singer begs God to torture his enemies and their children. The good Christians of the Republican party have put it...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 5, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Analyzing Aggression in Female Fruit Flies: Q & A With Caroline Palavicino-Maggio
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Caroline Palavicino-Maggio.
“Turning personal grief into a relentless drive for answers and action has been a big part of my life,” says Caroline Palavicino-Maggio, Ph.D., the director of the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Aggression Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Her sister’s death played a large role in her decision to study the biological mechanisms of behavior and do advocacy work in mental wellness. We spoke with Dr. Palavicino-Maggio about what her path was to becoming a researcher, what she’s learning about the cellular basis of aggression, and why she belie...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 1, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: How Apps and Services Can Help Control Weight
Is anyone not obsessed with weight? The health care field certainly is. Researchers have found ties between high body weight and an oversized list of unhealthy conditions. Payers have invested enormous amounts of money in decreasing individuals’ body weights. A Congressional bill would promote behavioral therapy for obesity and extend Medicare coverage for drugs treating obesity.
And yet weights continue to rise around the world, and the phenomenon starts at very young ages.
The rapidly expanding use of GLP-1 drugs has been life-altering for many, but brings its own disappointments: They’re extremely expensive, req...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Behavior Management Behavioral Change GLP-1 Healthcare Motivation Lean Digital Weight Loss S Source Type: blogs
Should you take medications for high blood pressure lifelong?
The answer depends on what caused your high blood pressure. If it is a reversible cause which can be removed, then of course medications can be stopped.
But if a reversible cause has not been found, you should be cautious about stopping medications.
What are the reversible causes of high blood pressure? A transient drop in kidney function due to some illness (acute kidney injury) can raise the blood pressure. But when the kidney problem settles, blood pressure normalizes, and it may never recur. In this situation blood pressure medication can certainly be stopped.
There are certain rare tumours which secrete hormones which...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 29, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
11 Ways Conscious Growth Club Will Expand Your Experiential Range
Conscious Growth Club is our primo online self-development club. It’s been running for 7 years now, so we’ve had plenty of time to evolve and improve it.
The new Year 8 version of CGC is especially rich, abundant, and divergent – so different and unique compared to anything I’ve seen elsewhere in the self-development world.
Instead of focusing primarily on content or coaching, in CGC we prioritize crafting and guiding you through unique growth experiences. You’ll learn more through direct experience than you will by just reading and watching videos. CGC includes a strong content library too,...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Creating Reality Emotions Lifestyle Productivity Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Rehashing
Psalm 105 is a lengthy song of praise that recounts God ' s faithfulness to the Israelites, mostly reciting purported events in Exodus. The introduction is adapted -- largely copied actually -- from 1 Chronicles 16, in which David sets up the Ark and commissions a song of praise by Asaph. Note verse 35 -- there are no caterpillars in the canonical version of Exodus. The caterpillars have come up before, which presumably means that they were working from an alternative version of the story. I don ' t need to harp on the moral depravity of the story -- the 7 year famine God causes, the murder of Egyptian children, the g...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 24, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
17 Things to Do When You ’ve Lost Your Motivation
“I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself.”
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Staying motivated until you reach your goals and dreams isn’t always easy.
There are often roadblocks, plateaus and valleys along the way where you can get into a slump. Or a rut.
And feel like you’ve simply lost your motivation somewhere along the way.
So today I would like to share 17 tips, strategies and habits that I have used to find that motivation again.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here....
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Natural History
Psalm 104 is historically important, because it is among the biblical passages the church used to convict Galileo of heresy. He wrote to the Grand Duchess Christina " Astronomers seem to declare what is contrary to Scripture, for they hold
the heavens to be spherical, while the Scripture calls it " stretched
out like a tent. " (v. 2) He argued that such passages should not be taken literally as scientific findings might discredit them. In fact, verse 5 was specifically cited at his trial. We know now that God is not the explanation for any of the natural phenomena described here, whether accurately or not. Rel...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 21, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The usual BS
We now have three fairly short pieces, all of which are in the same vein. The righteous will prosper, the wicked will have their downfall. Sad to say, it just ain ' t so, and repeating it every Saturday won ' t make it true. If we want the righteous to flourish, and the wicked to have their downfall, we need to make it happen ourselves. God is of no help.A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.92 It is good to give thanks to theLord, to sing praises to thy name, O Most High;2 to declare thy steadfast love in the morning, and thy faithfulness by night,3 to the music of th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 7, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How to control high blood pressure without medications
Just because you have been told that your blood pressure is above normal need not mean that you are tied up to medications lifelong. Changes in lifestyle can definitely bring down your blood pressure even without medications. In those already taking medications, the dose of medications can be brought down by important lifestyle changes. Some lucky ones may be able to stop medications as well. But you have to continue monitoring your blood pressure regularly so that any recurrence can be picked up.
One of the important ways in which to reduce elevated blood pressure is by reducing extra weight. Roughly the blood pressure mi...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 6, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management
The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. While this is great and has the potential to make a really big impact for good on the lives of patients and potentially costs, one thing that is often missed in this discussion is high quality patient identification. This is a problem that’s made worse by not having a national patient identifier, but let’s set that topic aside for a moment and recognize that even with a national patient identifier, patient identification and patient matching is still going to be a massive challenge.
The depth of ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops EMPI Health Data Sharing Health Information Exchange Healthcare Scene Featured Healthix HIE HIEs HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS24 National Patient Identifie Source Type: blogs
Investigating the Primary Cilium: Q & A With Xuecai Ge
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Xuecai Ge.
The brain is a large and complex organ, but some very small structures guide its development. Xuecai Ge, Ph.D., an associate professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Merced (UC Merced), has devoted her career to understanding one of these structures called the primary cilium. In an interview, Dr. Ge shared how her childhood experience inspired her to study science and what makes the primary cilium fascinating.
Q: How did you first become interested in science?
A: When I was a little kid, my mom was a primary care doctor, and I saw her treat patients...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 27, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Cellular Processes Profiles Source Type: blogs
What Is the Microbiome?
Have you ever noticed a skin care product advertised as “microbiome friendly” and wondered what that meant? The microbiome is the collection of all the microbes—including bacteria, viruses, and fungi—that live in a specific environment, such as on the skin or in the digestive tract.
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a bacterial species commonly found in the human intestine. While some strains of E. coli cause foodborne illness, others are helpful members of the gut microbiome.Credit: Mark Ellisman and Thomas Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego.
It’s ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 20, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Common questions Microbes Microbiome Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Moar Anachronism
Psalms 79 and 80 are attributed to Asaph. As you will recall, Asaph was purportedly one of David ' s chief musicians, but the setting of these psalms is evidently the fall of Judah to Babylon, so that makes no sense. These must have been written during the exile, after Nebuchadnezzar sacked Jerusalem and kidnapped the elites. It ' s also possible, though less likely, that the setting is the sack of Jerusalem by the Egyptian Pharaoh Shishak in the 10th Century BCE, in the reign of Rehoboam, but Asaph, if he ever existed, would certainly have been long dead by then. In general, most of the psalms seem to be responses to even...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 17, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
History Lesson
Psalm 78 is, I believe, the third longest psalm. It ' s also one of three so-called " long history " psalms. It basically recounts events from Exodus and Numbers, in chronologically confused order, and then skips ahead to touch on the establishment of the reign of David. The listing of the plagues of Egypt does not exactly correspond to the canonical version of Exodus we have today -- there are no caterpillars or frost in Exodus. This may just be a fanciful addition, or it may be that it draws on a lost version of the story. Once again, keep in mind that there were no printing presses and any document would have existed in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 13, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
