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Good news! Alcohol and dementia
From my MD friend, PN. From JAMA Alcohol and dementia. Conclusions In conclusion, our analyses indicate that maintaining mild to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a decreased risk of dementia, whereas maintaining heavy drinking is associated with an increased risk of dementia. Notably, our analyses stratified by the initial amount of…
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“The Chosen” & a young girl with Asperger’s
Love this. It's a three year old video done after the first season of The Chosen. Beautiful.
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“Round up your mates” – classic Guinness spot in time for St. Pat’s Day
Yeah pretty good. Guinness is the best. The commercial was made ten years ago.
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“Pope Francis: Gender ideology is ‘one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations’”
He has spoken out many times on this over his ten years as Pope. And see the end of the excerpt. “Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations,” Francis said in the interview published on the evening of March 10. “Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value…
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From “The Chosen” – “The Woman at the Well” – 7 minutes long
The gospel reading on this Sunday in Catholic Churches is John 4:5-42, the famous meeting of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well (a well that still exists!) Here is an excerpt from the wonderful multi-season series "The Chosen" of that meeting. I think it's beautifully done. Here is a short commentary from…
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New t-shirt. Bound to be popular
Let’s see – the Wuhan Lab as source of Covid is a right wing conspiracy theory, the Hunter Biden’s laptop (Russian disinformation), the FBI can’t find the attackers of Crisis Pregnancy Centers because the attacks are in the dark, etc, etc. Biden v. Trump!?!? I will be doing a write-in. Will be voting for my…
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Woman on track to be oldest Appalachian Trail thru hiker ever
See the under three minute video below the article; article is off the The Trek website. Worth hitting the link. When Pamela Clark read Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, she was amused and curious. But she never imagined she would one day put her own feet on the storied trail, let alone have…
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Short vid – “How many STEPS should I walk per day to stay HEALTHY?”
This is from a physician and goes over the studies. Worth watching. Interesting that from a health point of view, how fast you walk seems to be irrelevant (but I don't believe it!).
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Battle of Antietam – very interesting – the long term community and lingering damage
Brigid and I were actually at the Antietam site for a day in November 2021, returning from our trip to Virginia. The bloodiest one day in US history. This video looks at a few things people don't normally think about when it comes to battles – the aftermath.
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BB: “13 Ways To Tell If Your Priest Is An Undercover FBI Agent”
With this going on FBI retracts document orchestrating investigation of "radical traditionalist Catholics" it's probably worth looking over (and memorizing?) this list. 1,2, 3, 10, 11, and 13 … could be especially important. So there you are, trying to worship peacefully, and then out of nowhere a priest tackles you to the ground and arrests…