Are you what some folk might call old, geriatric, or even decrepit? Does it hurt when you bend over your cooking fire? Is it pure and unadulterated agony that races through your joints when you finish clubbing that Legendary Mole Rat to smithereens? Would you trade your grandchildren's inheritance of bottlecaps, a box of shadeless table lamps, 4 capless skulls, and a Mr. Handy collectible model for a tube of Bengay cream? Would you rather play a quiet game of Wasteland Bridge or Deathclaw Bone Mah Jong than set out on a tiresome quest to find some random piece of ancient tech that might provide you +1 radiation resistance while making it even harder for you to stumble around post apocalyptic West Virginia?
If the answer to any of these patronizing questions is yes, then check out WARP - the Wasteland Association of Retired Persons. The dues are high and the benefits are minimal - but what other options do you have? We meet each start of the day (5am) at the Hillside Country Kitchen down where that Albino Mongrel ate all those poor nudists from the Society for a Much Barer Wasteland.
How did we circumvent the strict Vault 76 required euthanasia policy you might ask? Don't you worry about that sonny, don't you worry about that........
"If you don't think "I still got it" when you think AARP, then you don't know AARP". This advertisement in Time Magazine (Sept 7-14, 2015) by AARP presents a stereotypical Asian man - dressed in a questionable purple blazer, bowtie and thick-rimmed glasses - as being 'out of the know' when it comes to all of the 'surprising opportunities' that AARP has to offer. It appears that the Asian nerd stereotype has filtered far beyond the realm of popular media.
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The Association Between Coffee Consumption and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the South Korean general population
Li-Juan Tan, Hyein Jung, Seong-Ah Kim, Sangah ShinFirst published: 28 July 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/mnfr.202100356
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Abstract
Scope
To identify the cross-sectional and prospective association between coffee consumption and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) among South Korean adults.
Methods and results
Participants were selected from the Health Examinees study. NAFLD was defined using three non-invasive indexes: fatty liver index (FLI), hepatic steatosis index, and fibrosis-4 calculator (FIB-4).In the cross-sectional analysis, higher habitual coffee consumption was associated with a lower risk for NAFLD, defined using the FLI, (men, odds ratio [OR] 0.702; women, OR 0.810) compared with non-consumers. Participants who consumed coffee with sugar and creamer also had a lower risk for NAFLD, defined using the FIB-4, compared with non-coffee-consumers (men, OR 0.739; women, OR 0.807). A prospective analysis indicated that higher coffee consumption was associated with a lower incidence of NAFLD, defined using the FLI, in men (hazard ratio, 0.706). In both men and women, a lower FIB-4 index score was associated with higher coffee consumption regardless of coffee type (all p-value <0.05).
Conclusions
Coffee consumption of >ย 3 cups per day had a protective effect against the development of NAFLD to a certain extent, and a negative association was found be
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Every once in a while there is a post here asking about benefits/perks of being a public servant - there aren't many of them other than those that might be offered through the union (like ServicePlus). I recently learned that there's another type of association that any public servant can join that offers similar group discounts - the National Association of Federal Retirees. Oddly, you don't actually need to be retired to join.
While attending a recent pension information session the presenter sent out information about the association - I initially didn't pay it much attention (sadly Iโm not yet retired) until they mentioned that membership was open to anybody who is a member of the public service pension plan - those who are retired but also those who are still working.
They offer members benefits like group discounts, and advocacy for common issues like protecting the pension plan. A couple of the things they advocated for are the dental plan for pensioners and the indexing of the pension to inflation.
The one big benefit that the presenter talked about was something called MEDOC, which is a travel insurance plan designed to coordinate with the PSHCP - for anybody who travels outside of the country it's much cheaper to use this plan instead of buying private travel insurance (not that anybody's travelling much right now, but I plan on some post-pandemic trips away from my moon base). Typical private travel insurance overlaps with coverage we already have with PSHCP, so you end up paying for redundant coverage. The MEDOC plan only covers things that aren't covered by the PSHCP so it's usually a cheaper option. The PSHCP only covers up to $500k if you're out of the country. If you ever get injured or sick in USA (for example), that $500k can disappear pretty quickly, so the coverage under the MEDOC plan covers everything above that $500k up to ten million.
The downside to joining the association is that it's not free (though it's relatively cheap - $51.36/year for an individual and $66.60/year for couples).
Despite being with the public service for many years I had no idea that the organization existed, or th
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