Wednesday Bible Study: Mister big stuff
Deuteronomy 3 retells the story of the defeat of Og told earlier in Numbers, but with more detailed and specific slaughter. Also, the obsession with giants continues, Og apparently having been the biggest of them all. I repeat myself, but I would ask you again to reflect on the concept of " Biblical morality " and what it means to be " pro-life. "3 Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei.2 TheLord said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his la...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 25, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Recapitulation, replication, duplication, redundancy, and repetitiveness
Deuteronomy means " second law, " or may be read as " repetition of the law. " It consists mostly of a review of events from the exodus to the encampment on the plains of Moab, and the law that was given along the way, some of it presented in the form of two long-winded speeches by Moses, framing the beginning and the end. There is also some new law thrown in, most of it morally depraved; and some new events, equally repulsive.The previous books were cobbled together from older sources, but Deuteronomy was evidently composed anew, and scholars have ascribed it to a unique author, imaginatively called the Deuteronomist, or ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 18, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Bad cartography
Mercifully, we ' re coming to the end of the Book of Numbers, only two more chapters after this, and it ends anti-climactically. Here, in chapter 34, God delineates the boundaries of Israel, but as is often the case, his promises and prophecies are worthless. The borders described here do include more or less what we think of as Israel, but also all of Lebanon and much of Syria, territory that Israelites never occupied. Possibly King Josiah had his eye on some conquests when this was written? Also, the enclave on the east side of the Jordan is acknowledged as part of the allotment to the tribes, but not included in the bou...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 8, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Addressing Lebanon's Ailments, Acute and Chronic
The recent explosion in Beirut has again led to calls for political and economic reforms in Lebanon. The country has an economy in crisis, corruption, few job opportunities, and an influx of 1.5 million Syrian refugees. Sustained global investment is needed if Lebanon is to recover over the long run. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 31, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Krishna B. Kumar; Louay Constant Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
August 13, 2020 Edition. ----- In the US Trump is going on in his usual divisive way while the Congress has failed to develop a fifth COVID rescue package. This has led Trump to try and bypass Congress with Executive Orders. Will be interesting to see how that goes. Meanwhile there are hints that the pandemic is peaking, just. We will be clear in a few weeks I believe. In the UK people are saying they are really over the whole thing, but sadly the virus does not seem to agree! In Australia we are seeing elements of the political consensus fray a little over Victoria ’s woes and we are all hoping what they are doing...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 12, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Dollarization for Lebanon
ConclusionThe US dollar is not a perfect currency. But it needn ' t be perfect to provide a vast improvement over Lebanon ' s chaotic status quo. Annual inflation of 2 percent is far better than 50 percent. A free currency market is far better than one with price controls and discriminatory rationing. Full dollarization offers the best hope for turning the lights back on in Lebanon._________________[1] This essay contains the gist of my remarks made via Zoom to an audience in Lebanon on Saturday, 18 June 2020. My thanks to Forrest Partovi and Jalal Hasbini respectively for arranging the event and for leading the discussion...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 30, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
Physicians in a failing state set an example
As of October 2019, the small country of Lebanon began its descent into its worst economic collapse in modern history. Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lebanese currency has lost nearly 85 percent of its value on the black market, and the inflation rate within the country has surpassed even that of Syria, with the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/najat-fadlallah-and-julian-maamari" rel="tag" > Najat Fadlallah and Julian Maamari < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Reflections on “The American Perception of Substate Threats”
Christopher A. PrebleEditor ’s note: In 2014, Cato releasedA Dangerous World? Threat Perception and U.S. National Security, an edited volume of papers originally presented ata Cato conference the previous year. In each chapter, experts on international security assessed, and put in context, the supposed dangers to American security, from nuclear proliferation and a rising China, to terrorism and climate change.As part of ourProject on Threat Inflation, Cato is republishing each chapter in an easily readable online format. Even six years after its publication, much of the book remains relevant. Policymakers...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
Even Preschoolers Associate Positions Of Power With Being A Man
By Emily Reynolds
An imbalance in power — personal and political — is at the heart of many of the conversations we have around gender. #MeToo sparked a global conversation on the topic, and issues around the gender pay gap and women in leadership roles also deal with matters of unequal power.
But our assumptions about how gender and power interact may start far before we even reach the workplace, new research suggests. In a paper published in Sex Roles, Rawan Charafeddine from the CNRS in Paris and colleagues conclude that associations between power and masculinity start when we’re barely out of nappies, with childr...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Gender Social Source Type: blogs
Iran Claws Back Its Regional Influence
Last year, Iran faced protests at home as well as in Iraq and Lebanon, where thousands rallied against Tehran ' s regional hegemony. But with its recent machinations and the fallout over the killing of Soleimani, Iran has succeeded in changing the regional conversation. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 16, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Jordan R. Reimer Source Type: blogs
The Top Digital Health Technologies Helping Refugees Around the World
“Refugees are persons who are outside their country of origin for reasons of feared persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or other circumstances which have seriously disturbed public order and, as a result, require international protection,” writes the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). However, refugees’ plea isn’t limited to people leaving their home country en masse following atrocious wars or political instability, but can be that of anyone else, like you and me, following unforeseen calamities, be it natural or man-made, leading to similar situations.
The November 2018 Camp wildfi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 17, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Telemedicine & Smartphones digital health technology digital technology digital innovation refugee Source Type: blogs
What a Sock Business Can Teach Health Care Companies
By KOUSIK KRISHNAN, MD
As recent events in northeastern Syria make clear, the number of displaced people in the world is rising — as are their health needs.
In 2018 I went with a team of other doctors to a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon. At one stop, a woman offered us homemade bread as we examined her husband, although the couple had very little money and not enough food for themselves. As we ate the bread, she asked if we could leave them extra medications since they didn’t know when the next humanitarian mission would come through their camp.Her request was reasonable in the situation – indeed, ma...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: The Business of Health Care Bombas health care access Kousik Krishnan Lebanon medical device industry Medical Devices Pharma Pharmaceutical industry refugees Syria Source Type: blogs
The Arab Spring in the Upside-Down
Where the original Arab Spring protests removed authoritarian leaders, the current demonstrators in Iraq and Lebanon are trying to topple popularly elected governments. This could have dramatic implications for the future of representative democracy in the Middle East. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 20, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Jordan R. Reimer Source Type: blogs
A coinkydink
Today is the anniversary of the second moon landing, by Apollo 12, in 1969. The mission ' s commander was Charles " Pete " Conrad. It so happens that Conrad attended Haverford prep school in Pennsylvania and was a classmate of my father. Haverford expelled him after the 11th grade, whereupon he attended and graduated from the Darrow School in New Lebanon New York which happens to be the same school from which I graduated after being expelled from Andover.According to his Wikipedia page, Haverford expelled him because he was dyslexic and flunked his exams. According to my father, however, they expelled him because he stole ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 19, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Us and Them
As I have said many times, the chapter divisions were added by medieval scribes and often don ' t seem to make a lot of sense. Exodus 23 is obviously three different segments which may well come from entirely different original sources. It starts out ascribing moral principles which, in contrast to much of what we have seen so far, are largely consistent with what we think of as virtuous today. Then it prescribes some religious practices which include some of God ' s odd obsessions but whatever. Then it turns really, really ugly. (I ' ve gone back to the New International Version for this one, it seems clearer in some plac...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 22, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
