A Photo Essay of Multiple Sclerosis – Well Blog – NYTimes.com
Follow this link to the NYT photo essay of multiple sclerosis. I personally know two people with MS. This photo essay puts a face to the disease and is worth five minutes of your time.
1.02 is the number of books I’ve read per week so far in 2009.
One more quarter to go.
I read this online Business Week article and I thought I was reading about myself. If I were to add my thoughts, I’d add:
Outsourcing Benefits U.S. Workers, Too – BusinessWeek
For the project workers who log in to oDesk every day to create their own job with decent pay, outsourcing is a wonderful thing—be it in Wyoming or New Delhi. Some have been forced from full-time jobs but many simply prefer to go it alone or to work with small groups. Scarred by a barrage of layoffs in recent years, these workers like the control over their lives and diversity in the source of paychecks.
Kind of puts a different perspective on retail sales figures, no?
EconomPic: Retail Sales in Perspective
We partner with others to barter tasks and resources as well as to synergistically enlarge our vision. We let them do what they enjoy and are good at so that we can do what we enjoy and are good at. The only trick is to find people who love to do things that we do not enjoy and partner with them to do it.
Dr. B. Curtis Hamm received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and is Professor Emeritus of the Spears School of Business and Consultant to the Oklahoma State University Foundation.
http://depts.washington.edu/hepstudy/index.html
To be honest, I still have some trouble keeping all of my hepatitis antibodies and surface antigens straight. Well, if you’re like me you will love the new link I added under Hepatitis (creative, no?).
Happy Hepatitis reading (lots of cool charts too).
You have to get people to make good decisions. Wherever you are in life, good or bad, it’s because of the choices you make. Choose to succeed rather than fail. Choose to work hard rather than to loaf your way through it. We had a plan, a vision and we wouldn’t compromise our core values.
Lou Holtz at his induction ceremony into the College Football Hall of Fame
CONCLUSIONS The presence of diabetes was associated with a threefold higher CVD mortality risk, and metabolic syndrome status did not modify this risk. Our findings support the fact that physicians should be aggressive in using CVD risk–reducing therapies in all diabetic patients regardless of metabolic syndrome status.
Please tell me you already knew this…
2008 was a tad bit disappointing as I managed to read just 0.9846 books a week.
Drum roll please…
The year is half gone and I’ve read 1.0384 books a week.
Reminder – I list a lot (not all) of the books I’ve read on bookins.com where they are available to other members for a nominal shipping charge. Membership is free and my list of books can be seen by clicking the link on the sidebar.
Moderate alcohol intake may be the single biggest contributor to the Mediterranean diet’s longevity benefit, accounting for 23.5% of the effect in a prospective cohort study.
“My advice to people is drink wine unless you like it too much,” Dr. Trichopoulos said.
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