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Google medical hack

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

I discovered accidentially that if you use Google.com to search for a disease or ailment, a group of more specific searches appear first. These “result refinements” include

Treatment
Symptoms
Tests/diagnosis
Causes/Risk factors
For patients
For health professionals
From medical authorities
Medical alternatives

For example, if you look up bell’s palsy, you get this.
While there’s the risk of hypochondriacs making mischief with this service, I [...]

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Less deep UCC mystery

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

I got my first (and unsolicited) reference as a UCC blogger from Respect the Comma.
What makes this particularly nice is that the author is himself joining the UCC church he found in nearby Frederickburg, Va. on Sunday.
What makes this poignant is that the book that led him in his faith journey was the universalist-theology If [...]

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Deep UUA mystery #2

Monday, September 25th, 2006

As I mentioned, Hubby and I got back from the beach: Ocean City, Maryland, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware specifically. We used a bus (yeah, transit!) to tool up and down the skinny island.
But it was a bit like I was being followed.

Posted in Art and culture, Transit, Unitarian Universalist Association | 2 Comments »

Deep UUA mystery #1

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Hubby and I are back from the beach. It was just what we needed. By the way, the Crocs were godsend for the feet and made us the talk of the boardwalk.
There was a letter from the MFC — more about the contents later — waiting for me. How is it that Arthur Frommer’s Budget [...]

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PeaceBang will hate this

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Still little-to-no blogging, but I thought I should mention that I got Crocs today.
Yellow ones, for a long weekend by the shore.

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One for the Discordians

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Blogging will still be very slow for a while, but I couldn’t help mentioning the newly named dwarf planet Eris, formerly nicknamed Xena. Xena worked for me, seeing as it came closer to respecting a mythic figure I actually cared about than just about anything else. Gotta love a Warrior Princess.
But I’m happy for those [...]

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Council of Christian Churches meet for Convocation XV

Monday, September 11th, 2006

I saw this notice at Adam Tierney-Eliot’s perhaps-doomed blog, Unity. Just getting the word out. Blogging’s a little thin around here, too.
THE COUNCIL OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN THE UUA Convocation XV will be held on October 15th at King’s Chapel, 64 Beacon Street, Boston, MA. Registration and a light lunch offered between 1 pm to [...]

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Washington Universalist history, bought in installments

Friday, September 8th, 2006

I’m sorry to say I forget which blog entry I read that mentioned the new Google News Archive feature, but it has been fun to see century-old news stories available for instant download, though you only get so far in most cases before having to pay a fee to read the whole thing. You know [...]

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Relly’s Union available for download

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

I have been re-stocking UniversalistChurch.net with the hard-to-find documents that you were once able to find there — and then some. I had planned this big roll-out of James Relly’s 1759 masterwork Union or, a Treatise of the Consanguinity and Affinity between Christ and his Church as a PDF file, but it is long over [...]

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Finding health insurance: a resource

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

I think most Unitarian Universalist ministers and staffers were encouraged when the new UUA-affiliated health plan went public. But not all who might want the coverage are eligible — private practice, less than 1,000 hours a year, between parishes?
I found this reference tool, to help actors (who are themselves in a similiar situation) — hope [...]

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