Some reading excerpts (2011/02/17)

“This feeling of peacefulness stayed with me and I began to feel better. I kept praying each day and talked to God as I would to a partner. They were not churchy prayers—just plain man-to-man talk. Then one day in my office, all of a sudden an idea popped up in my mind. It was like toast popping up in a toaster.

 

MySQL deviates from how most database administrators expect it to behave in the following ways.

 

InnoDB will drop and re-create the table unless there are foreign key constraints,in which case it will act exactly as DELETE FROM tbl_name.

 

Modern medical practice realizes and takes into consideration the close connection between how a man thinks and how he feels.

 

Directing his statements to me, he said, "It's about time you ministers began to realize that in the healing of many people you,too,have a function to perform.Of course you are not going to overlap on the work of the physician any more than we shall intrude on your function,but we doctors need the cooperation of ministers in helping people find health and well-being."

 

“We have discovered the psychosomatic cause of high blood pressure as some form of subtle, repressed fear—a fear of things that might happen, not of things that are,” says Dr. Rebecca Beard. “They are largely fears of things in the future. In that sense, therefore, they are imaginary, for they may never happen at all. In the case of diabetes, it is grief or disappointment which we found uses up more energy than any other emotion, thereby exhausting the insulin which is manufactured by the pancreas cells until they are worn out.”