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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Ut oh, I just canceled our subscribe and save delivery for this month. I think I better add it back on while it’s still available. Must keep Lily Rose happy.
Here’s my favorite supply chain shortage story. My brother in law down in TX can’t find his favorite peanut butter and cracker brand. My local grocery store has a slim but steady supply. So far, I’ve stocked up eight boxes for him. We are moving back to the barter economy.
That is so true! So what is he stockpiling for you?
Not stockpiling but serving as a source for Baker’s German Chocolate for the classic cake of the same name. The Boss wanted to make this cake but none of these baking bars were on the shelves. I stopped searching after the third store. In TX we found plenty in stock at a store close to our brother in law. I had refused to allow the purchase of a DOZEN from Amazon (because I personally don’t need 12 German Chocolate cakes over the next year. So in the future assuming the stores by us don’t have this chocolate, we have a source.
I re-ordered the cat food.
Tell Lily Rose the good news!