Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel cancer recurrence, study finds [Click] There are [several? I didn’t count them] statements like this: “People with the illness who consume that amount are also much less likely to die from any cause, the study shows . . .” I have long been under the impression that probability of death is 100%. Such pickiness aside, the article encourages me, since coffee is my only remaining vice of any significance. No word on the relative effects of regular and decaffeinated coffees. ——Alan
I am still struck by the increased risk of colorectal cancer among men who work the graveyard shift, even for a short time. I forget other reasons, but the greatest risk among women is (as memory serves me) accidents at home. The risk of auto accidents is greater for both men and women. ----Alan
I assume you mean that accidents at home is the greatest risk for women of working the graveyard shift...not that for women an increased risk of colorectal cancer is a product of accidents at home?
"I’m here now with mom at the Hyattsville nursing home and rehabilitation facility. We came here on Valentines Day with the hope of rehabilitation but that didn’t work out. Feb 28 was the last day she was like her usual self. Since then she has been mostly sleepy and quiet. She doesn’t ask for Tylenol (catch all for anything to stop the pain) though she will wince a lot and say ow. It comes like a stabbing pain then fades. She gets a regular Tylenol dose but the stronger medicines are more controlled so that she has to ask for it, ie, as needed. Since March she has been in palliative care so they are trying to make her comfortable, and the palliative care doesn’t preclude therapy like hospice. She’s got till May as far as Medicare short term care is concerned. "Most of her pain is from being too long in one position I think. She likes being on her right side, so I’ll roll her to her left side for a bit, then back to the right again before I leave."
We have been subscribing to cable TV and Internet. There is only one cable TV channel we watch (for Japanese TV & news), and that channel is being discontinued. Consequently we must change to an Internet streaming channel (similar to Netflix?), which at first seems rather daunting to us oldsters, but (with the assistance of our daughter) looks pretty good. Evidently we just have to substitute a streaming gizmo for the cable set-top box, subscribe to the streaming channel with the appropriate computer application, and we can watch a large variety of programs whenever we wish. We subscribed (30-day free trial can be discontinued at no charge, so no risk) and can evidently cancel the cable TV service to save that money, saving only the Internet access via the cable company. Interface gizmo [Amazon Fire Stick] on the way. Fingers crossed! ------Alan
P.P.S.: We first accessed Japanese TV with a big steerable C-band antenna, intercepting the analog signal being transmitted to the station in New York for broadcast in the US. After they digitized and encrypted the signal, we changed to a small fixed TV satellite dish from whichever service carried the signal we wanted, then to cable TV. Now to Internet streaming. Lots of changes in ONLY thirty years! ----Alan
Come to think of it, if we are ditching cable for streaming services, many other folks are probably ahead of us--- which could contribute to the reported decline in cable TV subscribers. ----Alan
We had a cold, raw, rainy day here. Though it could have been worse. It was only rainy here in the Valley. In the Berkshires, they had honest to goodness snow!
This may be my favourite of all the photos of puddle. 💖
ReplyDeleteIt is certainly a very nice one. Thanks, listener.
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News note: Trump doesn’t own Trump Tower; GMAC Commercial Mortgage does. It might be the same basic story at other flagship Trump properties.
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Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel cancer recurrence, study finds [Click] There are [several? I didn’t count them] statements like this: “People with the illness who consume that amount are also much less likely to die from any cause, the study shows . . .” I have long been under the impression that probability of death is 100%. Such pickiness aside, the article encourages me, since coffee is my only remaining vice of any significance. No word on the relative effects of regular and decaffeinated coffees.
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I am still struck by the increased risk of colorectal cancer among men who work the graveyard shift, even for a short time. I forget other reasons, but the greatest risk among women is (as memory serves me) accidents at home. The risk of auto accidents is greater for both men and women.
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I assume you mean that accidents at home is the greatest risk for women of working the graveyard shift...not that for women an increased risk of colorectal cancer is a product of accidents at home?
DeleteRepublicans Livid as Chaos Threatens Majority [Click] “Dysfunction doesn’t even begin to cover it . . .”
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The [Previous] Time a Trump Company Went Public [Click]
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What Happens If Trump Doesn’t Post Bond by Monday? [Click] Good reasons for NY Attorney General to wait for a day or two.
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Am I an absolutely terrible person for feeling gleeful?
DeleteUK genetics project looks for lost apple varieties to protect fruit in climate crisis [Click]
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Fridge magnets can be cool aid to holiday memory recall, study finds [Click]
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✨🌷puddle update! 💖✨
ReplyDelete"I’m here now with mom at the Hyattsville nursing home and rehabilitation facility. We came here on Valentines Day with the hope of rehabilitation but that didn’t work out. Feb 28 was the last day she was like her usual self. Since then she has been mostly sleepy and quiet. She doesn’t ask for Tylenol (catch all for anything to stop the pain) though she will wince a lot and say ow. It comes like a stabbing pain then fades. She gets a regular Tylenol dose but the stronger medicines are more controlled so that she has to ask for it, ie, as needed. Since March she has been in palliative care so they are trying to make her comfortable, and the palliative care doesn’t preclude therapy like hospice. She’s got till May as far as Medicare short term care is concerned.
"Most of her pain is from being too long in one position I think. She likes being on her right side, so I’ll roll her to her left side for a bit, then back to the right again before I leave."
Thank you, listener and Cooter. Far from here, but never out of mind.
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My thoughts as well.
DeleteThinking of Puddle and Cooter♥
DeleteWe have been subscribing to cable TV and Internet. There is only one cable TV channel we watch (for Japanese TV & news), and that channel is being discontinued. Consequently we must change to an Internet streaming channel (similar to Netflix?), which at first seems rather daunting to us oldsters, but (with the assistance of our daughter) looks pretty good. Evidently we just have to substitute a streaming gizmo for the cable set-top box, subscribe to the streaming channel with the appropriate computer application, and we can watch a large variety of programs whenever we wish. We subscribed (30-day free trial can be discontinued at no charge, so no risk) and can evidently cancel the cable TV service to save that money, saving only the Internet access via the cable company. Interface gizmo [Amazon Fire Stick] on the way. Fingers crossed!
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P.S.: We had a message from the cable company recently that our Internet access speed had been increased.
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P.P.S.: We first accessed Japanese TV with a big steerable C-band antenna, intercepting the analog signal being transmitted to the station in New York for broadcast in the US. After they digitized and encrypted the signal, we changed to a small fixed TV satellite dish from whichever service carried the signal we wanted, then to cable TV. Now to Internet streaming. Lots of changes in ONLY thirty years!
Delete----Alan
Come to think of it, if we are ditching cable for streaming services, many other folks are probably ahead of us--- which could contribute to the reported decline in cable TV subscribers.
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Funny how many things have changed in only thirty years. It’s hard to recognize the world.
Delete—“And after all of that delay — how different ultimately was the outcome?” [Click] Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), noting the final spending bill was no different than ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) could have negotiated.
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Nearly sundown here, with a brilliant and complete primary rainbow, plus fainter ends of the secondary rainbow.
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Wow, sounds gorgeous!
DeleteWe had a cold, raw, rainy day here. Though it could have been worse. It was only rainy here in the Valley. In the Berkshires, they had honest to goodness snow!
We had honest to goodness snow at our house too, Cat.
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