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I would like to thank one and all who expressed concern for our well-being this past week. The most recent earthquake was a 4.7 in magnitude and came in the midst of severe thunderstorm and flash flooding activity. I heard a loud bang that was immediately followed by walls shaking in the house. Fortunately I reside around 60 miles from the epicenter of the recent quakes. Still OK in OK.
It’s been a rough year weather-wise out here in OK. Not that I’m keeping count but in the past year we have experienced:
If you’ve never experienced an earthquake your brain starts firing off like crazy trying to figure out what’s happening. The noise is one of the strangest noises I have heard in my life. Did something hit the roof? But when the house started shaking I said “Earthquake”!!!!
Then I went back to sleep.
Our life, as individual persons and as members of a perplexed and struggling race, provokes us with the evidence that it must have meaning. Part of the meaning still escapes us. Yet our purpose in life is to discover this meaning, and live according to it. We have, therefore, something to live for. The process of living, of growing up, and becoming a person, is precisely the gradually increasing awareness of what that something is. This is a difficult task, for many reasons.
Thomas Merton No Man is an Island
How fitting a coincidence that this is my 1000th post.
If you believe in coincidences.
Medical News: Pradaxa Bleeding Deaths Raise Concern – in Cardiovascular, Strokes from MedPage Today
Dabigatran Etexilate: A Novel Oral Direct Thrombin Inhibitor: Abstract and Introduction
We are talking about a direct thrombin inhibitor, yes? Then this news should not be surprising.
What Successful People Do Differently – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
ADHD Drugs and Serious Cardiovascular Events in Children and Young Adults — NEJM
In conclusion, in our study involving children and young adults with 2.5 million person-years of follow-up, there were 3.1 serious cardiovascular events per 100,000 person-years. Although the point estimates of the relative risks for ADHD drugs did not indicate increased risk, the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval suggested that a doubling in the risk could not be ruled out. However, the absolute magnitude of any increased risk would be low.
The entire article is worth reading given the potential serious side effects of the drugs in question.
Not Working? Sorry, Not Interested – Businessweek
Rejecting unemployed job candidates out of hand is really stupid business, on top of being shockingly rude and unprofessional. When we say, “We don’t hire unemployed people, period,” we’re sending a loud signal to the talent population, our employees, our customers, and our vendors that we don’t have a clue how to manage people. It’s pretty easy to separate the wheat from the chaff in a selection pipeline. No one has yet won a Nobel Prize for innovation in recruiting, because it’s just not that complicated a topic.
Fascinating article and IMHO a MUST read. If companies don’t hire the unemployed just because they are unemployed then we will have millions of people spinning their wheels looking for work until they end up dead or on government assistance.
Hamsters one and all.
CDC Features – Prescription Painkiller Overdoses in the U.S.
Overdose deaths from prescription painkillers have skyrocketed in the past decade. Every year, nearly 15,000 people die from overdoses involving these drugs—more than those who die from heroin and cocaine combined.
Thinking About Heath..Just Another FME | Underwriting Solutions LLC
It’s been over three years since I posted about Heath Ledger and his unfortunate FME (Fatal Medication Error). Fresh research from the CDC indicates the problem is getting worse. The current state of the US economy virtually guarantees the staggering increase in prescription painkiller abuse and overdose will get worse before it gets better.Anabolic steroid abuse as a cause of infertility in men
Sorry for giving away the answer but we’re not doctors so it really doesn’t matter.
Recipe for the hands can be found at:
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