https://ballymenachamber.co.uk/?p=108zp1e7y1u Evidence-based practice (EBP) is applying or translating research findings in our daily patient care practices and clinical decision-making. https://accelerate.uofuhealth.utah.edu/explore/what-is-evidence-based-practice We are in the midst of a national argument over COVID-19. The two main sides are that we need to continue stay-at-home policies and the other is that it is time to begin loosening those policies. […]

With an apology, I am simply going to quote a long passage from Orthocath, date unknown. It has to do with the Pascha Liturgy celebrated by the survivors of Dachau in 1945 after they had been freed by American soldiers. It is wise for us to remember that Pascha (Easter) has not always been celebrated […]

This has been an incredibly unusual Holy Week. It has engendered any of various emotions within me. On the one hand, over the last few weeks, I have learned that I am neither a full extrovert nor a full introvert. I knew that I was not a full extrovert. However, the past several weeks of […]

https://www.wefairplay.org/2025/03/11/6bh1gw6ff3 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]

https://www.infoturismiamoci.com/2025/03/bmsg20925u4 The USA Congress, both the House of Representatives and the Senate just passed a coronavirus stimulus bill, which has already been signed by President Trump. Regardless of which political stance you take, the bill has various items that could easily be labeled as pork. Notice my careful wording. I say could easily be labeled as […]

https://ballymenachamber.co.uk/?p=cbx37ek085 Today is the beginning of our salvation, and the manifestation of the mystery from the ages; for the Son of God becometh the Son of the Virgin, and Gabriel proclaimeth grace. Wherefore, do we shout with him to the Theotokos: Hail, O full of grace! The Lord is with thee. Troparion of the Annunciation from […]

https://municion.org/moe9lkbejp The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. […] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will […]

By the middle of the 6th century, the Emperor Justinian had spread his Byzantine Empire around the rim of the Mediterranean and throughout Europe, laying the groundwork for what he hoped would be a long-lived dynasty. His dreams were shattered when disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in AD 540. […]