New research continues to affirm the prognostic utility of the coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA)-derived perivascular fat attenuation index (FAI) score in assessing cardiovascular risks for patients without common risk factors such as smoking history, obesity, hypertension and diabetes. What CCTA-Based AI Detection of Coronary Inflammation May Reveal About Patients with No Traditional CV Risk […]
Source: It’s Mostly the Hospital Prices, Stupid https://rickriley.substack.com/p/its-mostly-the-hospital-prices-stupid Yikes.
BD overall is associated with excess mortality from both natural and unnatural causes. Meta-analytic evidence suggests that all-cause mortality is approximately doubled, with particularly high relative risks for suicide (12-fold) and other unnatural causes (7-fold) alongside a substantial increase in natural-cause deaths (2-fold).9 However, most mortality studies have not separated BD-II from BD-I, leaving BD-II’s […]
Another quiet Saturday and thoughts turn to retirement (again). Today I thought about retirement income streams and how life would look once I stopped working. We need to find someplace affordable. In California, Hawaii, and Massachusetts, retirees often need between $1.5 million and $2.2 million to maintain their lifestyles, according to a 2026 study by […]
Until your city loses 3,000,000 gallons of water. Massive El Reno water leak traced to Bitcoin mining data center facility – https://kfor.com/news/local/massive-el-reno-water-leak-traced-to-bitcoin-mining-data-center-facility/ The culprit – https://athlonbt.com/about-us/ The website went down while I was reading about the company. Scheduled maintenance? I call bullshit.
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So what is the best seller about?
A true rag to riches story of a New York Chinaman,blues guitar playing amateur chef insurance guy. From New York to Oklahoma, from working poor to well off, from almost college teacher to insurance executive, an ordinary story about an ordinary life. A story of losing 200 pounds and keeping it off.
Now this sounds like a book I really want to read!
Thanks! You’ll be able to read half the book for free as I post chapters on the blog. My sales and marketing strategy is to give half the book away for free and sell the full book online cheap. My alternative strategy is to discovered by Oprah and experience instant fame and fortune.
I’d stick with the first strategy. I’ll certainly buy it!