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an Waterman was able to sense pain and temperature because his _______ pathway was intact, but could not feel touch and limb position because of damage to his ____ pathway.
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Neck pain and headache were obviously the result of cervical dysfunction and the means for prompt and effective relief was the efficient use of a chiropractic manual therapy. Chiropractors commonly see patients with neck pain and headaches that can, at least in part, be blamed on the countless hours people spend sitting at computer work stations.
As the work world has evolved (or devolved?) into primarily sitting tasks, so has the educational environment for many adolescents, who are now also spending far too much time on computers (not to mention video games etc.).
How is neck pain treated?
Chiropractic manual therapy is a most important component of a treatment approach for neck pain in patients of any age. Also included is education about proper posture, ergonomics, hydration, and the determination if corrective eyewear is current or required.
Next: stay as active as possible.
If experiencing neck pain for longer than a week, it is a good idea to consult a chiropractor doctor. Acute pain at the base of the skull may well disappear by one or two chiropractic manual treatment. With longer-term pain, there is the following choice of treatment: chiropractic manual treatment, muscle re-training, and an exercise plan to strengthen the neck.
Cervical mechanical traction, commonly used for cervical radiculopathy, in addition to above mentioned therapy, improves nerve impulse circulation within the neck muscles and blood supply into the disc space. Other commonly used modalities for pain relief include trigger-point therapy, electrical nerve stimulation, and low-power cold laser. Acupuncture is also performed in the office.
The prognosis is generally good. A future prospect depends on the underlying cause of the pain. Cervical muscle limitation appears to be a general sign in diverse chronic neck pain syndromes. The ability to contract neck muscles, even forcefully, is reduced by pain and will produce cervical spine muscular dysfunction. There must also be synchronized muscles interaction and proper stabilization of the head's orientation. Plus proper function of visual orientation is paramount for normal organization of muscle action in the neck.
For patients with neck pain or headaches, who are playing an active role in managing their pain, the following is recommended:
• Don't expect to find a single cause for neck pain.
• Stay as active as possible
• You may choose to self-manage pain. For example, stay active, exercise; reduce mental stress or pain relievers.
• If in need of treatment, talk to specialists in Dr. Baremboym's office about the range of effective treatment options that make sense for you.
• Patients should see improvement after six to eight visits if the treatment is correct one
A combination of chiropractic manipulative treatment, cervical mechanical traction and acupuncture were most effective methods for decreasing pain and disability with headache and neck pain.
Recommendation: when neck pain persists obtain the correct treatment immediately.
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A mass upgrade of email system services is set to take place over the next 2 years. Companies appear to be all too aware of the potential size of the task ahead - large amounts of data to transfer, potential downtime and data loss, not to mention upgrade costs.
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Two DLC characters have already been revealed for Injustice: Gods Among Us with more hopefully on the way. Rumours include Scorpion from the studio's more popular franchise, Mortal Kombat. The two new characters are Lobo the bounty hunter and Batgirl. While both characters seem exciting something has to be said about the high amount of credit being fed to Batman. It's fair to say that the game could have been titled "Batman vs Superman plus Everybody else". The game pays alot of homage to the Batman Universe more than any other character in the game, and with the main story revolving around The Joker turning SuperMan into a Bat-shit, crazy Hitler idol, hell-bent on world take over, it feels fairly empty in terms of the amount of Superman content within the game. Injustice has more Batman content than anything else.
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Characters include Batman, Nightwing (Dick Grayson), Nightwing (Damion Wayne), The Joker, Harley Quinn, Bane, Solomon Grundy, Two-Face, Deathstroke, and Catwoman. Among the amount of Batman themed playable characters other villians within the Batman universe are present in the game's stages. Penguin, Scarecrow, Deadshot, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, Deadshot, Hugo Strange, The Riddler, aswell as Catwomans Cat Isis all make some appearence throughout the game. Batman themed stage arenas include The Batcave, Wayne manor, Wayne manor (Night), Arkham asylum, Joker's asylum, and Gotham City. While the game makes a name for itself as more than just a DC-skinned Mortal Kombat game it lacks to introduce less popular aswell as well known characters within the Dc Universe.
It's know shocker that Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and Rocksteady's Arkham Asylum have had an influence on other Batman themed mediums but the use of it here in Injustice is clearly over emphasised and needs to come to a hault. The question's that's important here and that needs answering are, When are we going to receive more valuable and more wanted content for the game? and Wheres the Fan dedication?
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Vivisimo A Google killer? Check out this new search engine, with an amazing knack of clustering your search results on-the-fly in helpful categories.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/31/2004 11:08:00 PM
Box-Office Star [PDF] (A Baseline Magazine article.) Read this quick article on how Netflix intends to continue it's DVD renting business in the face of upcoming competition from Wal-Mart. It's all about process baby!
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/31/2004 10:26:00 PM
On the Edge of Peace [PDF] (A Baseline Magazine article.) Sierra Leone is a place of unending devastation. Warring factions erupt and kill indiscriminately over things of little value -- it's a country where the young never grow old, and are usually armed to the teeth by rival forces. Drop in this mix, a UN mission made up of disparate forces, cobbled together to assist in ensuring a 2000 peace plan is a success. The mission has faded from most Western eyes, now that the US has pulled out, they've made the movie, and feel good about themselves. Imagine running the IT operation to support the UN troops in such an environment -- where information must flow in order for peace to be maintain -- must flow so that the peace keepers don't die. Information must flow between the UN HQ and it's various remote outposts -- outposts that are staffed by soldiers from different countries, using different equipment. Add to the mix, lightning strikes, a lack of spare parts (this is the UN after all) and rebel armies fighting over diamond mines -- and well -- why would anyone want that job? If you're an IT Project Manager and you think life's tough, quit bitching about your job -- most likely, nobody's life depends on what you're doing.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/31/2004 10:10:00 PM
Trailer Ghosts Have you ever been accosted by ghosts in a mobile home? Well, you ain't alone partner. Check out this site to hear the sorry tales of victims just like yourself. When will this horror end?!
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/31/2004 01:23:00 AM
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Salmon Days From this past week's Saturday Toronto Star, comes a few emerging catch phrases that made me laugh out loud. Here's the best of the bunch:
Seagull Manager: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
Assmosis: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Salmon Day: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of whacking the stuffing out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Adminisphere: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a big mistake.
Crop Dusting: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a cube farm (office filled with cubicles) then secretly enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/30/2004 10:44:00 PM
Beyond Compare I missed this when it visited Toronto earlier this year, but it's still traveling, and is currently out west. It's Dove's BeyondCompare -- Women Photographers on Beauty. Check out the site, it has some photos in the gallery section -- which isn't the same as seeing the show in person, but what the heck. Neat thing about the photographs -- they portray women as more than fashion model types.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/30/2004 10:24:00 PM
A Prisoner's Dictionary In case you're heading down the path towards prison, you may wish to familiarize yourself with the lingo. This site documents the speech of the contemporary criminal culture. If nothing else, it may help you understand some rap music.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/30/2004 12:32:00 AM
Urinal.net This site bills itself as "the best place to piss away your time on the Internet." And it's true. Apparently, there are people out there, who go around, taking pictures of urinals and posting them on the internet. They're not just Americans either. This idea of this site is quite disturbing -- you haven't seen smut on the internet until you've seen this site.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/30/2004 12:27:00 AM
All Squirrels Must Die Another weird site -- this one is the homepage of the Squirrel Defamation League, who's sole purpose is to rid the world of "the filthy little beast known as the squirrel." Well, apparently, someone has found their calling.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/30/2004 12:24:00 AM
Airline Meals The internet is filled with some truly bizarre sites. Here's one -- a site dedicated to airline meals. Why?
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/30/2004 12:20:00 AM
Armageddon Online Feeling a little depressed? Want to know when you should drop that placard over your shoulders and profess the end of the world to people on the street? Better yet, want information you can use to convince people to join your end of the world cult? Or just want to keep up on the latest rounds of mega disasters that threaten to end all live on the Earth as we know it? Then check out this site. It's a great read!
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/30/2004 12:14:00 AM
Supply Chain Brain Here's a site that is a great hub for supply chain news and ideas. It's a great start when researching material related to the latest supply chain trends and thinking on the web.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/30/2004 12:06:00 AM
Monday, March 29, 2004
Hunt for the God Particle It's known as the Higgs boson, postulated by British physicist Peter Higgs in 1960, as the mechanism by which particles acquire mass. Why does a particle have the mass it has? Why does an electron have the mass it has? Why is a top quark 200,000 times more massive than an electron? Physics has no answer. But Peter Higgs' proposal is that there is a field that permeates space, known as the Higgs field, which gives particles their masses when they interact with the field. From quantum theory, we know that fields have particles associated with them, and hence the Higgs field must have a Higgs boson. Scientists at CERN are building the Large Hadron Collider -- a massive particle accelerator that will send protons in 17-mile laps at nearly the speed of light, then direct the protons to collide with each other. This will result in a disaster for the protons, but an incredible opportunity for scientists -- somewhere buried within the protons, must be the Higgs boson, and they way of getting to it is to break the proton apart. The explosion of the two protons will send out a shower of fundamental particles, whose trajectories, momentum and mass will reveal a lot of information. Information. Remember CERN? It was the lab that produced the Web, the www of every URL -- and now they've invented something completely new that may change the face of computing forever. They've invented grid computing -- the process by which massively parallel problems can be broken up and given to multiple processors within a network to solve. Think SETI on an incredible scale. Corporations are already busily building their own versions of grid computing -- the promises are ubiquitous computing power across the planet, where problems can be crunched without the requesting party knowing exactly where the processing is happening. There are lots of problems to be worked out -- for instance, the Large Hadron Collider will be generating over 2 million DVDs worth of data annually, and it must be send to computing centres across the globe for processing; it's a data mining problem at a mind-boggling scale. And here's the exciting part -- they're going to do it across the internet -- now think of the commercial applications for you and I -- and to think, the internet, and now grid computing, came out of a lab that straddles the Swiss-France border, where scientists aren't out to change the world, just out to understand it. Enough reasons for the public funding of education, ain't it?
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/29/2004 11:56:00 PM
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Mission to Mercury The cover story from Discover Magazine's April issue, documents NASA's plans to send the Messenger spacecraft to Mercury. If Mars was tricky, it's nothing compared to what's in store for scientists trying to visit Mercury.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/27/2004 11:13:00 PM
Shanghai Circus My youngest and I attended the Shanghai Circus today, at Massey Hall. It was an amazing event or acobatics. The act was called the Mongolian Dream, and featured acts that were Mongolian themed -- apparently. The contortionists were scary -- people were not meant to be that flexible! And muscles -- everyone were built! I didn't know, but apparently non-flash photography was allowed -- if I had known that I would have brought my camera. Damn!
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/27/2004 10:58:00 PM
Home Server [PDF] From MIT's Technology Review, comes a case for having a server at home. As more and more people adopt broadband connections, and attach multiple PCs to the internet, home networking is moving away from being the exclusive domain of geeks. Check out what you've been missing, if you're the non-geek type.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/27/2004 10:14:00 PM
Elder Boom [PDF] Some estimates predict that by 2050, the world population will reach its peak of around 9 billion -- then the decline will start, and as it progresses, the world's population will be increasingly dominated by elderly citizens -- with not enough young to care for them. The future's elderly are today's technology adopters and information hungry. They will most likely seek technology to allow them to continue living useful, productive and indendent lives. How will technology respond? For one thing, there will be more biotechnologies employed -- such as wireless, invasive body sensors. There will be a need for better ways to index, search and deliver content. As the workforce grows smaller, production will look for more ways to exploit technology -- the trend of the 90s isn't about to abate. As the elderly become less and less mobile, look for technologies to enable socializing over vast distances. Then bring in the robots -- they will be needed to supplement the dwindling workforce, as well as care for the elderly -- maybe even provide companionship.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/27/2004 10:00:00 PM
Friday, March 26, 2004
InterNetWorking [PDF] An article from MIT's Technology Report. A new breed of software and services is emerging to tap and exploit the social network. The concept is simple. You have friends -- and you know what their interests are -- but what about your friends, friends. And your friends, friends, friends? What if you could tap into this internetwork of friends to do everything from get work, increase sales, get advice, share knowledge -- or just get new friends? Or, from a business perspective, being able to mine your knowledge workers to exploit the knowledge scattered across your organization -- think of the consulting dollars you would save! Gives the age old saying of "it's not what you know, it's who you know" a hell of a lot more credence.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/26/2004 11:03:00 PM
Children's Peace Theatre The Children's Peace Theatre is a charity organization that is working towards a worldwide culture of peace for children of the world -- they use theatre programs to engage children in conflict with courage, compassion and creativity -- believing that there is peace to be found in every conflict. A noble goal. I hope they're making a little progress. This group is located in Toronto, and offers programs in performance and leadership for children.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/26/2004 10:14:00 PM
Art - via the Computer I was looking up Corel's Painter, Photopaint and Wacom's Intuos Tablet, and came across some amazing art. Just a bit of background -- I've used all three of the tools before to create my own digital art, or to take something I created on paper, and take it to another level with the computer. Corel Painter used to be owned by a now defunct company called Fractal -- I've been using Painter since version 2.0. It's an amazing piece of software -- gives you a complete set of artist tools in a single application. Photopaint is like Photoshop. It started out being a photo manipulation tool, and slowly evolved to become more than that. The artsy types still prefer Photoshop -- only because it runs on a Mac, but I know Photopaint, so my preference remains there. Now check out some art created with the tools listed above:
LiQUidWerX - amazing art! Some fantasy, some nudity!
Portrait Artist - a site offering advice on how to draw, including a section on digital art.
CGChallenge - a site that documents artists using computers and a whole lot of software!
Mental Image - an artist using computers to create 2D as well as 3D works.
Quick Tips - here's some quick tips to make the most out of your Wacom Tablet!
Quick Tips - another quick tips page!
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/26/2004 01:54:00 AM
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Supply Chain White Papers Sometimes, it's not what you know, it's who you -- sometimes it's not how smart you are, it's how smart you can appear to be -- and if you don't already know it all, then maybe you can start by just appearing to be smart, and hope the smarts will come in time. This site is a good place to start with general supply chain information. Lots of white papers, at the generalist level to bring right up to speed with the ideas, thoughts and lingo. What else do you need for career progression? (Well, maybe some sucking up won't hurt.) Interesting topics include:
Voice vs. Scan Technology
Creating a Trans-Pacific Supply Chain Strategy
ERP vs. SCE
Leadership: A Missing Ingredient in Strategic Master Planning
WMS Implementation Not for the Impatient or the Faint of Heart
Achieving Logistics Excellence Through Supply Chain Synthesis
Supplier Certification: A Continuous Improvement Strategy
Managing an Efficient Dock Operation
Understanding the Warehouse Contingency Plan
Hazardous Materials Management
The Ins and Outs of Cycle Counting
The Economics of Order Picking
Competency Based Development
Crossdocking in the Future
The articles are easy to ready, starting with a half-page executive summary, and following with less than 20-pages for the most part. As well, there is a wide selection of relevant business and supply chain books, which you can order directly from the site, and quite a few articles published directly on the site.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/25/2004 10:43:00 PM
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Collaborating with Harley Harley-Davidson moved from near bankruptcy in 80s to a growth spurt in the 90s. Next year it's expected to more than double its revenues from seven years ago. All that growth had resulted in a mismash of systems across Harley-Davidson's divisions. In 2000 they decided to do something about the problems their growth created -- they decided to consolidate systems and business processes across divisions, and along the way, brought suppliers into the loop. Today, Harley-Davidson collaborates with nearly 300 of their 695 parts suppliers online, via a web portal, and are looking to bring more online. Their portal allows suppliers and partners access to supply chain tools, such as Manugistics Collaborate and Delivery Management -- where information can be shared easily. Read more in InformationWeek magazine.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/23/2004 09:46:00 PM
Supply-Chain Economics Forward thinking companies have already replaced their legacy supply chain systems with modern, integrated and flexible systems. The focus in the last decade or so has been on implementing planning systems, now the focus is shifting to execution systems. The early adopters are already showing the benefits of lowering costs and increased efficiency -- now the stragglers are hurrying to catch up. Read more in the nice summary from InformationWeek magazine.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/23/2004 09:25:00 PM
Remington Arms [PDF] Here's a case study by Baseline Magazine on gun maker, Remington Arms, the largest gun maker in the US. Remington has always had to maintain a close relationship with its customers, but they lost touch with them during the 90s, as they shifted focus from end customers to its retail customers, such as Wal-Mart. That shift in focus was starting to hurt the bottom line, so Remington embarked on an effort to refocus on customers, but lowering the costs to do so. The verdict? Go online. Check out the case study for more.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/23/2004 09:13:00 PM
Kerala I just read an article in BusinessWeek magazine that sold me on this place. It's located on the southern coast of India, and appears to be a wonderful tourist destination. I've never heard of it before -- then again, I haven't heard of much before -- but this is definitely a place I'd like to go do the tourist thing at. Maybe a couple of years down the road I'll be able to convince my wife to take a couple of weeks for a trip there. Once the Americans have left the region.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/23/2004 01:43:00 AM
Offensive Ads Check out some ads that really push the public limits -- from sex, to the treatment of women and children. This is a collection from MediaWatch. Some really offensive ads:
Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)'s Ads against animal abuse -- featuring half-naked to naked women, porn starts, and even real women wearing only a bikini bottom in cages in Times Square. Or this video, that features a young woman wearing a fur coat, who is attacked as she's walking down a street, beaten to death, and her coat is taken away -- the tagline exclaims, "What is you were killed for you coat?" Who comes up with this shit?
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/23/2004 12:09:00 AM
Monday, March 22, 2004
Vuitton Machine Check out any fashion magazine, and you're likely to find Louis Vuitton products being hawked by half-naked models. You'll find the luxury, high priced brand, on the bodies of Hollywood stars -- it's the stuff of desire and ego. But what is really the business behind Vuitton? Vuitton is a marketing machine. It's a manufacturing machine. It's a business of efficiency and quality. A business with fierce competition from the likes o Prada and Gucci, as well as a long list of cheap knock offs. Read the quite revealing article in BusinessWeek magazine.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/22/2004 11:44:00 PM
Underworld I saw this movie last night. It's a movie of vampires and werewolves -- and it provides a new take on the monsters, combining the two into an almost acceptable story. The movie then takes a twist though, as it brings the creatures into the modern world -- it provides them with kung-fu style fighting skills and arms them to the teeth (oh, I had to!) with machine guns. It was different. And it worked as an action movie -- if you foget all those nagging questions, that is. It's good for a rental when you're bored, and crave a little violence.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/22/2004 11:25:00 PM
In Defense of Globalization Here's a book that I just might get. It's by Jagdish Bhagwati, currently a professor at Columbia University. Bhagwati is a leading expert on economics, and has the experience, credentials and credibility to back that up. In this book, he makes an unpopular, but compelling case for globalization. While opponents of globalization and free trade point to loss of jobs and the exploitation of third world labour, Bhagwati insists that globalization shouldn't come at that price -- in fact, if anything, he recognizes that the only way it will work is for governments to fix their domestic economies -- especially the social nets that will cushion the blow to those less fortunate. He points that the focus of open markets and a global economy should be on the poor around the world -- only by helping them, can a global economy really work. He's favours globalization, but globalization with social responsibility -- and there's no reason globalization shouldn't be tempered as such -- the reliance shouldn't be on businesses to exercise social responsibility -- governments should be shouldering such efforts. Read the complete review comes in BusinessWeek magazine.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/22/2004 11:08:00 PM
Spam Filters [PDF] From MIT's Technology Review, comes a nice graphic illustrating how spam filters work. A nice way of conveying information.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/22/2004 08:39:00 PM
Friday, March 19, 2004
Gathering of Planets On March 22nd, if you find some clear skies after sundown, you're in for a show that doesn't happen very often. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter will all be in the sky, and they will all be viewable by eye. This won't happen again until 2008, so if you miss it, you've got four years to wait. Check out the NASA site for the best viewing times, and where to look.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/19/2004 09:42:00 PM
Aurora Season Spring starts tomorrow, and the peak season for auroras are usually the beginning of the spring or fall, when the Sun sends an incredible amount of particles out.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/19/2004 09:38:00 PM
2004 FH Flyby Asteroid 2004 FH, roughly 30 metres in diameter, made the closest known approach to the Earth yesterday afternoon. We're still here, so nothing went ka-boom. 2004FH, which was discovered on Monday, flew 43,000 km away from Earth. Such close encounters of near-Earth asteroids occur about once every 2 years. Check out NASA's site for a movie of the flyby [2.0MB].
2004 FH Flyby Asteroid 2004 FH, roughly 30 metres in diameter, made the closest known approach to the Earth yesterday afternoon. We're still here, so nothing went ka-boom. 2004FH, which was discovered on Monday, flew 43,000 km away from Earth. Such close encounters of near-Earth asteroids occur about once every 2 years. Check out NASA's site for a movie of the flyby [2.0MB].
St. Jacobs My wife and I went out to St. Jacobs today -- my idea -- better than going to Midland. It was a nice and sunny day today, and spring was in the air -- not to mention the horses -- there is a Mennonite community in St. Jacobs, and horse drawn buggies use the streets -- if you get my drift. First stop was at the Stone Crock -- we wanted lunch, but were 15 minutes too early for the 11:30 lunch start, so we went shopping in their bakery. Bought an apple pie, a veggie cheese bread, some oatmeal cookies, some chelsea buns and a small jar of apple butter. I think everything is baked on site. Lunch consisted of soup, sandwich and salad for me, and salad and wrap for my wife. We finished it off with slices of pie. I was stuffed (smart ass). Then -- then -- my wife took me shopping. Yes, this was my idea. But I survived.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/19/2004 08:26:00 PM
Thursday, March 18, 2004
No Jobs -- Blame Asia Or not -- it's easy to find a scapegoat and blame North American economic recovery on them. Just look at American politicians to gauge whether outsourcing is bad or not. If they say it's bad during an election year, then it mustn't be so. Politicians are lairs by design, and they're playing on fears. Outsourcing is not bad. In the 90s, manufacturing of high tech commodities were outsourced to Asia, and it resulted in lower prices, increase demand and the IT boom. Why shouldn't that happen with services and software? That's not to say there isn't pain right now -- there's lots of pain. Jobs are not being created at the rate you would expect from the recovery -- but that doesn't mean they're going offshore. Jobs are not being created because business have achieved a level of efficiency unheard of in the past -- and they're not generating new jobs at the rate they used to during previous recoveries. Instead, profits are increasing, and the wealth is being shared with fewer. During the last offshore movement of jobs -- manufacturing jobs -- the recovery and jobs came from the high technology software and services industry -- now however, no one knows where the new jobs are going to come from. Taking that pain, and add the fear of uncertainty, and you have a recipe for a political feeding frenzy. (Although a thought did occur to me -- maybe the next jobs we should look at outsourcing are politicians jobs. I'm sure we could find some Asians that would be happy to run our governments for us.) Read the BusinessWeek article for a different take on outsourcing.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/18/2004 09:51:00 AM
Jerk Yourself Nothing better to do? Go amuse yourself here.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/18/2004 12:54:00 AM
Pat Sajak Remember Wheel of Fortune? Remember Vanna White? Come on, we all remember Vanna White, especially the guys -- why else would we watch the game show? Well, Pat Sajak was the little, well mannered man, that couldn't keep his mouth shut. Still can't. Goes to show you the power of the internet. Pat's got his own site, and on it -- well -- Pat wants to talk to us. Pat wants to tell us his opinions, and wants us to know what's going on with him. Is Wheel of Fotune still on? I should ask Pat. I wonder what happened to Vanna? Maybe she's got her own site.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/18/2004 12:50:00 AM
Finding Forrester I saw this movie with my wife tonight, after seeing it years ago with my youngest at the theatre. It's still a good movie -- a good date movie. It stars Sean Connery, and first time to the movies, Rob Brown -- Rob Brown puts on an amazing performance opposite Sean Connery, which is no mean feat. The movie is by Gus Van Sant, who previously did Good Will Hunting -- and if you saw Good Will Hunting, you'll know what to expect from Finding Forrester. For some reviews, check out Amazon.com.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/18/2004 12:05:00 AM
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Fading Ulysses Back in 1990, NASA/ESA launched the Ulysses spacecraft to study the Sun for 5 years. Three mission extensions later, the latest extending the mission to 2008, Ulysses is still going -- and it's primary mission is still to study the Sun. Only problem is, its heaters are failing -- and space is very, very cold -- and the fuel lines are threatening to freeze up. What's a NASA/ESA astronomer to do?
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/17/2004 11:46:00 PM
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Free Drugs helping Eradicate Disease This one kinda restores a little faith in big business and people in general. The World Health Organization is coordinating a massive world wide effort to eradicate elephantiasis. The effort is helped in a big way by GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co., who have pledged free drugs to fight the disease as long as they're needed.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/16/2004 11:25:00 PM
Space Based Early Warning NASA scientists are working on leveraging environmental satellites to create an early warning system for disease outbreaks across the planet. As the theory goes, disease outbreaks don't just happen -- there's usually an environmental precursor -- yet, when you're on the ground and in the middle of it, it's hard to notice until it's too late. Not from space however -- from space, trends can be noticed, such as weather patterns that may lead to extended periods of rainfall -- which in poor, tropical areas, could lead to outbreaks of diseases that are easily controlled.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/16/2004 11:17:00 PM
Periodic Table Extended A team of American and Russian physicists have added two new elements to the periodic table -- numbers 113 and 115. From a phyics perspective, the atoms were long lived, though decayed in less than a second. Physicists believe that there is a point at which massive atoms may become stable, and long lived -- the feeling is that as they continue to create larger atoms in the lab, they're going to eventually hit that point. None of this really have practical applications -- it's more for research and understanding nature.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/16/2004 11:01:00 PM
Monday, March 15, 2004
Quaoar and Sedna Back in 2002, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered Quaoar, named after a Native American God. Located 1 billion kilometres beyond Pluto, was about half the size of Pluto and orbiting the Sun every 288 years. It was the farthest known solar system object to be found. A year and a half later, astronomers using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory, have discovered Sedna, named after the Inuit Goddess of the ocean. Sedna lies at 13 billion kilometres from the Sun, and is speculated to be in the Oort Cloud -- if that's true, it will be the first object to be discovered in the Oort Cloud. Sedna is about 75% the size of Pluto, and orbits the Sun every 10,500 years, in an elliptical orbit that at its furthest, puts it at 130 billion kilometres away. Its distance however is about 10 times closer to where the Oort Cloud should be, and the researchers have speculated that it may have been nudged in by a passing star sometime in the past -- that star would have to have been so close, that it would have been brighter in sky than the full moon, visible even in the daytime -- it would have stayed in our sky for about 20,000 years. The star would have flung comets into our solar system as well -- comets that would have showered the Earth, killing off some life.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/15/2004 07:33:00 PM
Quantum Weirdness From BusinessWeek magazine, comes a nice generalist's summary of the current state of research into quantum mechanics (QM). Currently there are labs across the world working through different paths and problems to bring the promise of everyday applications that take advantage of the principles of QM. Good article, nice read.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/15/2004 07:10:00 PM
Corporate Governance? If there ever was a need for investigation into a company, it's this one -- meet Zapata (founded by George W. Bush) and Omega Protein -- two companies under the control of Malcolm Glazer's family. He also owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and is now after the Manchester United soccer club. His children are on the boards of each company, as well as friends of his. Both companies have had mysterious bids for control or outright buyouts, that have been dismissed, but resulted in a run on the companies stocks, inflating their value. The saga involves mystery men, more mystery men, and companies with mailing addresses at UPS mailboxes, and telephone/fax numbers to houses who've never heard of the companies. Makes you leary about investing in companies you've never heard of.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/15/2004 04:35:00 PM
Designed by Women Volvo is showing off a new concept car -- dubbed, Your Concept Car, or YCC. It's a different car -- designed from the ground up by a team comprised of all women, and using the input from women. The results -- a strikingly different car, that guys may actually find cool. It's got gadgets galore, and some nifty features that makes you wonder why they were never put into cars already. Some features: a key fob that opens the gull-wing doors, and personalize the car for the driver; when the door opens, the car provides expanded clearance to allow ease of entry, by retracting the door sill, lifting up the car by 3 inches, pushing in the steering wheel and sliding back the seat; no gas cap means no need to get your hands dirty when refueling; no stick paint, and seat covers that can be removed to wash, keeps the car clean; when braking hard, LEDs in the brake light, increase intensity to warn drivers behind you; and the headrests leave an open area for ponytails and improves whiplash protection. (See the specifications here.)
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/15/2004 04:22:00 PM
Hispanic Nation Latinos now outnumber Blacks in the US, making them the largest visible minority group. Their population is growing faster than any other group, and while they have mainly low income jobs, their group purchasing power is changing the landscape of America. America the melting pot may not be a model that applies for Latinos -- especially since most Latinos are from Mexico, a car ride away from their American homes. Their numbers are now reshaping America from a business, social and political perspective. Read the article in BusinessWeek magazine. (See also, the study, Power of Hispanic Consumers, [PDF] by Arbitron.]
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/15/2004 03:49:00 PM
Sunday, March 14, 2004
The Internet's Next Superpower (From BusinessWeek Magazine.) There are 80 million Chinese online today, a number expected to almost double by 2006, surpassing the number of Americans on the internet, and topping the world with the most internet users -- thanks in part to a strong economy, cheap electronics and the internet's ability to allow Chinese to a backroad around government censorship. The Chinese government is taking notice as well, and wants China to play a part shaping the structure of the internet. Read the article to find out what to expect in the coming years.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/14/2004 11:44:00 PM
Hubble's Ultra Deep Field Hubble has taken its furthest view into the universe yet, and has released the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. The image, taken in the course of 400 orbits around the Earth, is of a patch of the sky equivalent to a pin head being viewed from arm's length. The image contains about 10,000 galaxies -- basically, every point of light you see in the images is a galaxy. To complete a full sky survey at this depth, would require Hubble to constantly be observing for the next 1 million years. Check out this cool flash animation that helps you navigate the Hubble image, or here for a smaller HUDF image.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/14/2004 11:30:00 PM
Women's Equality I found out about this site from today's edition of the Toronto Star, that had an article about the loss of women's voices in the social, economic and policy arena of Canada. The National Action Committee (NAC) on the Status of Women had always been the voice of women in Canada, but a few years ago, the group met an untimely demise when they ran out of money. Not many women are aware of the loss of NAC. In fact, the knowledge of the demise of NAC probably doesn't leave many with concern, and this is especially alarming when women themselves respond that way -- the general concensus being that women have achieved everything that feminists have been fighting for. Those that think that way probably have their heads buried too far in the sand to realize that there is a constant need for women to lobby for equality, and their rights. Case in point is the Toronto Star article of a Quebec Court's ruling that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to use EI funds to pay for maternity and parental benefits.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/14/2004 11:14:00 PM
On my MP3 Player this morning ... So I'm a little stuck in the late 80s and 90s. Most people's music tastes are apparently set during their post-secondary days. And yes, I do have the CDs for these songs!
U2's Silver and Gold - from their Rattle and Hum live album. I brought the DVD recently for my wife. I'm a BIG U2 fan. I love all the songs from that album -- this one especially. The emotions are raw. (Listen to it.)
Björk's Violently Happy - this is from the 90s, and it's typical of Björk. Great dance beat. (Listen to it.)
Leonard Cohen's I Can't Forget - yes, I like Leonard Cohen. People seem surprise by this. This is one of those songs to listen on a rainy day, and since it was raining on my way back from Oakville, it worked well. (Listen to it.)
Neville Brothers singing Leonard Cohen's A Bird on a Wire - another song for a rainy day, and unlike Cohen, the Neville brothers, especially Aaron, are quite lyrical. (Listen to it.)
Survivor's Eye of the Tiger - this is a classic, and needs no comments, other than, "Adrian, I love you!" (Listen to it.)
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/14/2004 02:58:00 PM
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Jack Welch Interview From BusinessWeek magazine, here's an interview of man considered one of the greatest CEO's in history. I had the opportunity to listen to him speak one -- great speaker. BusinessWeek also has an online video to compliment the interview.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/13/2004 11:37:00 PM
What's Craig Barrett up to? Intel is an amazing organization -- and so is its CEO. Craig Barrett has taken some risks in the past, and some have paid off, and some haven't. His big coup of investing in Intel's fabrication plants during the downturn is now paying off, as it can produce more advance chips cheaper than its rivals, and make more money from them. So, what's next for Intel? Barrett is taking Intel into a future where its chips will be in everything, not just computers. And chances are he's going to suceed. Read the story in BusinessWeek.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/13/2004 05:53:00 PM
Friday, March 12, 2004
Motorcycle Mama My new favourite song -- it's an oldie that I could never find on CD anywhere, ever since university -- so here I am listening to it for about the 20th time. It was released as a b-side -- no wonder I couldn't find it! -- Before Björk, there was the Sugarcubes -- and they were cool.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/12/2004 01:33:00 AM
Thursday, March 11, 2004
New Site Well -- lookie here, I got a domain name finally. Did a little redesign of the site as well. Right now, the site is only this page. More to come soon!
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/11/2004 11:03:00 PM
Friday, March 05, 2004
Is Microsoft Funding SCO's Linux Fight? Reports have surfaced, confirming a rumor that has been circulating in the Linux community for sometime, that Microsoft may be funding SCO's battle against IBM over the rights to Linux -- and to some degree, put some cost for using Linux. A leaked memo suggests that Microsoft may have indirectly provided up to $50 million in cash infusion to SCO via an investment firm. Naturally, Microsoft denies all of this, and the Linux community doesn't believe them.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/05/2004 05:51:00 PM
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
SCO Launches First Salvo Linux clients are now being brought into the fight -- and SCO is about to make the world into a really messy place, where only the lawyers win. SCO is continuing the fight it started with IBM, that Novell later entered, by now going after DaimlerChrysler and AutoZone. SCO filed lawsuits, accusing DaimlerChrysler and AutoZone of breaking the Unix System V licensing contract and using SCO's property without license.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/03/2004 10:20:00 PM
Data Overload If RFID adoption goes like the software vendors, hardware manufacturers and not to mention, the consultants, wish, then in a few years, it is expected that there will be billions of RFID chips being read by hundreds of millions of readers. Network traffic will be dominated by RFID tags screaming, "I'm here!" Are we ready for this? Read the InformationWeek article for the answer.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/03/2004 10:02:00 PM
Unsustainable [PDF] Jeffrey Dukes of the University of Massachusetts did some math, some estimation, and came up with some numbers. He was looking into fossil fuel consumption, and the amount of plant matter that was needed to generate the fossil fuel. The numbers are staggering. It takes about 23 tons of prehistoric plants to create 1 litre of gasoline. Today, that corresponds to farming 4.3 hectares of wheat to get a litre of gas. Everyday, we consume about 1 year's worth of prehistoric plant matter. All the fossil fuels we've been consuming since the beginning of the industrial revolution took about 13,300 years of plant growth. Now if that doesn't set off alarm bells, I'm not sure what the hell will. His report is published in the journal Climate Change.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/03/2004 09:34:00 PM
Close Encounter with Jupiter Jupiter and Earth will be 400 million miles apart tomorrow -- the closest encounter they make -- and on Friday, Jupiter will appear right beside the full moon. With a small telescope, you will be able to make out features on Jupiter.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/03/2004 07:54:00 PM
Oops, they're at it again! From MIT's Technology Review, comes the latest warnings of the MPAA's implementation of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Flag -- a digital flag that will be encoded in digital broadcasts that will prevent your future television set from outputting high-quality output to recording devices. It's designed to protect television programs from you. Because you're a thief. Because every customer is a potential criminal -- but they still want your money. Guilty, even if proven otherwise.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/03/2004 07:50:00 PM
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
The Jobs Tunnel The Ambassador Bridge across the Detroit River is at 92% capacity according to the Booker T. Washington Business Association. In response, a private company has been formed to expand and convert two existing railway tunnels between Windsor and Detroit, into modern transportation facilities to handle the future traffic volume. The original tunnels we built 90-years ago, and enlarged in 1993 -- the new expansion will be able to handle, in addition to the 24 trains a day today, high-rack auto carriers, 9.5-foot-tall rail containers, and about 7,600 transport trucks daily. It's called the Jobs Tunnel because it will help save up to 12,000 automotive jobs, while creating about 1,450 full-time construction jobs during the 5-year construction window.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/02/2004 10:29:00 PM
TradeMap Developed by the International Trade Centre, a UN agency, TradeMap is an online database of trade statistics that provides import and export profiles of over 5.300 products in 200 countries. If you trade globally from Canada, this is a great reference site.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/02/2004 09:46:00 PM
Virus Outbreak For some reason, virus writers went on the warpath last week Friday, and released a slew of variants out in the wild. None of the viruses were that innovative, but regardless, they seemed to be pretty effective. Read the latest at eWeek.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/02/2004 06:02:00 PM
Coke's Red Lounge Coke is trying to reach the new generation -- a generation that's making them work harder to get their eyes and minds, because they've been so well trained, that they either tune out the commercials, or use technologies such as TiVo to skip past the commercials outright. So what's a poor soft drink maker to do? Why simple -- build a place for kids to hang out in, and then bombard their feeble little minds with propaganda!
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/02/2004 12:08:00 AM
Monday, March 01, 2004
Tea Tea is gaining new popularity due to the new recognition that it contains flavonoids, tannis and vitamins -- stuff that has antioxidant and antibacterial properties. Now, you can enjoy tea that's been through less processing -- the less processing it goes through, the more likely you are to get the good stuff. Check out this BusinessWeek article for a quick primer on tea.
Posted by Andy Dabydeen at 3/01/2004 08:00:00 AM
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Bandages with FlairNicole Balch
We go through a lot of band-aids in this house and quite frankly the plain ones just aren't cutting it (I know. Sorry.). And while Walgreens carries enough Tinkerbell and Hotwheels bandaids to cover the house, having a few around with a bit more personality might make the constant boo-boos a little more fun. These bandages from the Neato Shop would add some personality to the collection, yes? Mario Bros, daily affirmations (who doesn't need a band-aid telling them they're 100% awesome), pirates – even (gasp) underwear bandaids.
And for the less juvenile there are literary bandages, like these Jane Austin ones. A little silliness for your first aid kit. Why not?
Nicole Balch writes daily about living a stylish life and transforming the so-so on her blog, Making it Lovely. Catch up with all of Nicole's other Family Style posts right here on Babble.


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ERS's Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP) supports intramural and extramural research on a wide range of policy-relevant food assistance and nutrition topics. The three perennial program themes are (1) diet and nutritional outcomes, (2) food program targeting and delivery, and (3) program dynamics and administration. The core food and nutrition assistance programs include the Food Stamp Program, the child nutrition programs, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). This report summarizes FANRP's activities and accomplishments in fiscal 2002.
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Justin Guarini is known for his mane of wild, curly locks – but these days the singer's smile is even bigger than his hair. And for good reason: He announced Thursday that he's getting married over the weekend.
"He's doing really well, he's excited," says Guarini's pal and publicist Jeff Ballard. "This is the happiest I've ever seen him. He's smiling from ear to ear. I don't know what's bigger – his teeth or his hair."
On Saturday, Guarini, 30, will wed Reina Capodici, 27, of Doylestown, Penn., who went to high school with the runner-up on the first season of American Idol.
As for the weekend nuptials, "It's going to be a small, intimate wedding just for the families," Ballard tells PEOPLE. "It's really just his family, her family and a few close friends. But they're going to have a celebration, probably after the first of the year, for all their friends."
The wedding will take place in Guarini's hometown of Doylestown, Penn, where he has a home not far from where his parents live.
Guarini and Capodici will recite vows they've written themselves – and Capodici's daughter Lola, 4, will speak at the ceremony.
"She's going to have some vows to recite as well," says Ballard. "She's the cutest little girl. Justin just adores her."
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This will be the 10th year for the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association East West All-Star game at Mansion Park, but, at Monday afternoon's Blair County Convention Center to tout this June's contest, there was almost a feeling as if it was starting over.
Since the event's inception in 2001, new college rules and other all-star games have presented challenges for East West organizers. Now, many of those organizers that have been there pretty much from the start, like Cheryl Ebersole and long-time game manager Kellie Goodman have parted ways, a result of the turnover in the staff at the Allegheny Mountain Convention and Visitors Bureau over the last few months.
When you factor in that there are no local players in this year's game - State College lineman Mike Laskowsky and Clearfield receiver Trey Campman are the only players from PIAA districts 6, 5 or 9 on the current roster, although that is subject to change - it's understandable if people like game director John Hayes might be a little bit anxious.
"Definitely having local players is a plus from the standpoint of promoting the game and bringing local attention to the game,'' Hayes said.
It'd be sensationalizing to call this a make-or-break year for the game. The East West has brought all-staters, future professionals and even some players that have gotten into the Super Bowl to Mansion Park. This year, Pennsylvania's all-time leading passer, Lancaster Catholic's Kyle Smith, is slated to play. Last year, Steelton-Highspire's Jeremiah Young, the state's all-time leading rusher, participated.
The game's established itself, as can be attested by Altoona Area School District public relations director Tom Bradley that he's already secured host families for 54 of the 68 players that will be coming in from all corners of the state. Young and Smith could have easily passed on the game, disappointed in being snubbed for the Big 33 Classic, but they accepted invites here.
"To get those kids,'' Hayes said, "speaks well of the game.''
For all that, it would be nice to see larger crowds. It's certainly an uphill battle in a lot of respects. It's not easy to establish a rivalry from scratch. During the heat of the summer, right after school has ended, families are on vacation, the Curve may have a game, there are a lot of other places vying for area dollars and time.
All-star games typically are not huge draws, but they can be. The Mirror Classic basketball games have done well at St. Francis, and, although I wasn't there in person, I've been told the Lezzer Lumber football game brought in a very good crowd last summer. Of course, those games are regional in scope and draw in not only the families of the players but many of the teammates and opponents, something not likely to happen when someone is driving from Allentown or the west side of Pittsburgh.
The game has to be largely carried on its star power. Over the years, that's become a more difficult pitch, because all-star games have been popping up all over - most recently, it's been the New Jersey vs. Northeast Classic at Rutgers - and taking players from games like the Big 33. That results in a trickle-up effect, as players from the East West are then called up to the Big 33.
Then, there was the NCAA decision to allow incoming football recruits to begin attending college during the summer sessions of their freshman years. While it hasn't had as huge a negative impact on the all-star games as it could have, it's still something that is a consideration, as players lose more and more of their summers in bids to avoid falling behind other players and teams.
Reportedly, Penn State recruit Shyquawn Pullium of Cathedral Prep was selected for this year's East West game but declined the invitation. He would have been one of the five most eagerly-watched players, if only for the fact that he was going to be a Nittany Lion.
"Right now, we find more kids than in the past that won't play, but, the percentage of the kids that are chosen [and accept] do stay with the game,'' Hayes said. "In the early years, we were looking for five or six kids the day of check-ins. That's not happening now.''
Marketing of the game is another test, at least, beyond the boundaries of central PA. That's been magnified by the departure of the likes of Goodman.
As former sports director at WTAJ, Goodman was intimately familiar with a number of athletic aspects, large and small, that helped in promotion of the game.
It's easy to take that for granted, but it becomes evident just how large of shoes she left behind when new AMCVB marketing manager Jennifer Fleck needed assistance with the pronunciation of "WPIAL'' in running down the list of West coach Dave Vestal's accomplishments at Monday's press conference. Goodman also was hoping to organize a reunion for the 10th anniversary of the game, something now in limbo because she's moved on to the Bedford County Chamber of Commerce.
Leaving the presser, Hayes remained optimistic. "You always are concerned,'' Hayes said, "but, when the game rolls around, things tend to work out.''
Hopefully, Hayes' confidence is well-founded.
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From January 2000 to January 2002
Project Leader(s): Steve Higgins and Neil Mercer
Staff: Prof. Dr Rupert Wegerif (The Open University), Dr Lyn Dawes (De Montfort University) and Ms Claire Sams (The Open University).
Sponsors: The Nuffield Foundation
Start date: 2000 To: 2002 Research Aims and Objectives This research project was designed to achieve three practical aims: • to improve the ways that computers are used for teaching and learning in primary schools; • to develop children's use of language for reasoning and working together; • to improve children's understanding of mathematics and science. Building upon earlier research, the project generated specially-designed activities for improving children's use of language for thinking and working together while studying maths and science. These activities involved teachers and children in establishing 'ground-rules' for collaboration, such as listening with respect, providing and seeking reasons for opinions, encouraging partners to give their views and trying to reach joint decisions. Within this Thinking Together programme, computer-based activities were used to stimulate discussion and focus children's joint activity on concepts and investigative problems in science and mathematics. This experimental programme was put into practice in seven Year 5 primary classes in schools in Milton Keynes. Effects on the talk, joint activity and individual learning of children who followed this programme were assessed by comparing them, over the period of one school year, with children in similar schools who followed the normal curriculum. Although some practical problems were encountered, the implementation was achieved successfully and the project was completed to schedule. Evaluations of the intervention have shown that it: (a) helped children communicate together more effectively and increased their use of talk for reasoning; (b) significantly improved children's individual scores on a test of reasoning (the Raven's Progressive Matrices test) and on tests of learning and understanding in science and maths. This supports the claim of socio-cultural psychology that engagement in appropriate joint intellectual activity can promote individuals' intellectual development; (c) indicated ways that computer-based activities can be used successfully to stimulate reasoned discussion and focus joint activity on curriculum-related learning. These findings have implications for both the design and use of educational software. The value of the Thinking Together approach has now been recognised by the QCA, BECTa, the National Literacy Strategy and the National Strategy for Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Subjects. The researchers are now engaged in disseminating its findings and developing new projects which extend the approach to first schools and secondary schools. Contact: Steve Higgins: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Gold medal-winning Olympic ice skater Tara Lipinski recently took a break from her Target Stars on Ice tour to visit the set of Vanilla Sky, the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz film currently shooting on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. The budding actress—she's appeared on The Young and the Restless and other shows—wanted to watch the stars work and exit quietly, but director Cameron Crowe spotted her and promptly cast her in a party scene in which she made small talk with Diaz. (The 5'1" Lipinski stood on a box to match more closely Diaz's 5'9" frame.) Crowe must have a thing for skaters: Katarina Witt did a cameo in Jerry Maguire.
Rumors have been swirling that Michael Bolton and Pamela Anderson are dating. But I spoke to Bolton, who says they are "just new friends." They met at Michael Jordan's charity golf tournament in the Bahamas last month. When the singer was in L.A. recently working on his latest album, he invited the actress, along with her V.I.P. costar Natalie Raitano, to the studio. "I think people have misconstrued a few meetings as dates," says Bolton, adding that Anderson has invited him to guest star on her TV series. So who is he dating? Deborah Yates, the star of Broadway's Contact.
The 150th episode of ER, airing Feb. 22, promises to be a doozy. Centered on a train wreck, the NBC show used 100 extras—80 of whom are "injured." Six makeup artists (normally there are two) went through eight gallons of fake blood. There will be a lot of story payoffs as well, including a resolution to the relationship between Goran Visnjic's Dr. Kovac and the Catholic bishop played by Oscar nominee James Cromwell.
On Sunday, Feb. 4, Caroline Rhea of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch threw Camryn Manheim a baby shower, which was attended by 65 friends including Manheim's costar from The Practice Lara Flynn Boyle. Brooke Shields and Sharon Lawrence showed up, as did new moms Calista Flockhart and Marlee Matlin. The focal point of the tea party at Rhea's L.A. home was a lesson by Hollywood knitting guru Edith Eig. She taught the guests how to knit 6-in. multicolored squares for a baby blanket that Eig will put together. Manheim is due to give birth to a boy in April.
On Feb. 25 Annabeth Gish makes her debut on The X-Files, playing an FBI agent who specializes in ritualistic crimes. Casting the role wasn't easy. Series creator Chris Carter had a tough time choosing between Gish, former Melrose Place star Daphne Zuniga and Stacy Edwards (Primary Colors). I hear that three great auditions and a certain X-emplary quality ultimately won Gish the part. But don't be surprised if you see Zuniga and Edwards in future episodes of the FOX hit or its spinoff The Lone Gunmen, which begins airing March 4.
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Save Money through Couponing, Without Going to Extremes
In recent months, you've probably heard a lot about the new craze of "extreme couponing" and wondered what it's all about. There have been numerous articles and even a television show about the extreme couponing craze, in which consumers go to great lengths to reduce their grocery bills. Often, those who are best at it claim you can get thousands of dollars worth of groceries for as little as $10 or $20.
But you don't need to start spending dozens of hours every week, clipping hundreds of coupons so you're paying eight cents for a bottle of ketchup to realize significant savings from couponing, according to a report from Snellville Today. However, you can adapt some of their techniques to fit a more sensible method. For example, many extreme couponers keep a big folder for all their bargains so they can go about saving a large amount at once. But if you just keep yours in an envelope, you'll have a better time keeping track of them. If you find this method to be helpful, you might even want to start separating your coupons into different categories.
Many couponers often learn the deals that will come in their Sunday newspaper every week by joining online groups, and doing the same can help you to better plan your weekly shopping trips, the report said. Along the same lines, you might also benefit from keeping an eye on savings websites that can help you identify deals offered exclusively by manufacturers of products you and your family like best.
However, when combing through the coupons and other discounts you can find every week, you should be careful to find those for products on your shopping list, rather than tailor your shopping list to items you don't buy regularly, the report said. Why spend $2 on frozen peas because you have a coupon for 35 cents off if you weren't going to buy frozen peas in the first place?
Finally, make sure you use your coupons in a timely manner, the report said. Many carry expiration dates that can come and go without the offer being used, meaning you spent some time searching for, clipping and saving them unnecessarily.
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Police: 2 stabbed during fight in Palmyra
Other person hit with wooden board during brawl, police say
Published 7:30 PM EDT Oct 01, 2013
Three people are recovering Tuesday night after a fight in Lebanon County.
Police say two people were stabbed and another man was injured after being hit with a wooden board.
Officers say it started around 2 a.m. on the 100 block of East Maple Street in Palmyra.
Another man in the fight wasn't injured and the other three are expected to be OK.
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At work I feel like I prostitute myself, having to agree with my boss, lest he fire my ass.
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Playing off the successful half-acre garden plot that grew last summer on a vacant lot owned by Goodwill Industries, the Christian community development organization in Muskegon's McLaughlin Neighborhood has created the McLaughlin Grows Urban Farm at Iona and Sophia streets.
With the help of the Community Foundation for Muskegon County and its Richard and Marilyn Witham Fund, the urban farm is adding "hoop houses" to extend the growing season year-round. The idea is to create business opportunities during economonically tough times.
McLaughlin Grows is a for-profit, micro-enterprise venture designed to produce locally grown, healthy food; energize the neighborhood; and provide potential employment opportunities. The foundation funding — more than $50,000 — has given McLaughlin Grows coordianator Teri VanHall three years to make the urban farm a viable, self-sustaining operation.
"Urban agriculture initiatives are springing up across the United States," Community enCompass Director Sarah Rinsema-Sybenga said. "It is exciting to see Muskegon on the cutting edge of this trend."Community enCompass and Goodwill have an agreement for the use of the vacant lot. The McLaughlin Grows initial farm garden began in May with plantings of greens, tomatoes, peppers, okra, cabbage, squash and other crops.
The business used neighborhood youth workers through the Muskegon County Department of Employment and Training to keep the garden going throughout the summer along with providing volunteer opportunities for local residents.
The vegetable harvast off an initial 2,400-square-foot plot was sold on site, through a stand at the Muskegon Farmer's Market and to the nearby Mia & Grace restaurant, which practices "farm-to-table" food sourcing.
The estimated future revenues for the urban farm are annually about $12,500 per hoophouse and another $12,500 from the outdoor garden, VanHall said.
McLaughlin Grows is practicing organic farming, said VanHall, who was trained in the agriculture processes through Michigan State University. The urban lot was a good producer, she said.
"I was amazed at the amount of glass we were picking out of the soil all summer," VanHall said. "But even with the sandy soil, we had a real good harvast."
With the garden done for the year, the "hoop house" project is under way. Plans are for two 96- by 30-foot passive solar growing shelters. The first $16,000 unit from a manufacturer in New Hampshire already is in place. It will have electric fans for an efficient growing operation.
The hoop house is made of a metal frame covered with clear plastic sheeting. VanHall said that greens and root crops will be able to grow throughout the winter and seedlings for the next growing season can get an early start in shelter.
Dick Witham has a passion for helping create economic opportunities in Muskegon's urban neighborhoods. He is a retired industrialist who is the former owner and president of the Michigan Spring Co.
"I'm 71 years old and I want to use my skills to create an environment where people grow and prosper," Witham said about his community foundation fund's support of McLaughlin Grows.
"I was encouraged to leave Muskegon when I sold my company, but I was born and raised here and I care about seeing this county thrive and prosper," he said. "This is better than any business that I've every been involved in — it's exciting."
Turning the McLaughlin Grows into a sustainable business will be a challenge, VanHall said. The micro-business will need a successful marketing plan and might need subsidized labor to make it profitable, she said.
Outside of the employment and profits that could be generated off the urban farm, Tom Pastoor said the initial Community enCompass already is transforming the neighborhood. Pastoor is president of the McLaughlin Neighborhood Association and a Community enCompass board member."The neighborhood is abuzz with the fact that something is happening," Pastoor said of an urban area in Muskegon that has been hit hard by the economic downturn. "People are engaging. Maybe it's not cool any longer to sit back and watch.
"Even in these dire economic times, this absolutely brings a sense of hope," he said of a neighborhood in which he has lived for 30 years.
VanHall hopes to spread the farm activities of McLaughlin Grows to other urban areas of Muskegon where vacant land awaits. Urban argiculture is taking hold in cities such as Flint and Detroit as well as Muskegon, she said.
"It's about people reclaiming their neighborhoods and producing fresh, healthy food," VanHall said. "Hopefully, this will be a model for other lots."
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Internet dating… that's what.
So…. I just reactivated my Match.com account*. I have no idea what has possessed me to do so. I am not even exactly sure why I started one in the 1st place. I remember that months ago, I had a horrible nightmare and couldn't go back to sleep. So at 4 am I set it up and proceeded to only wink at people I knew already in real life. They never winked back!
Yesterday I reactivated it. Today I actually paid a membership fee. crazy? crazy. I know.
I have scanned through profile after profile trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with these people to make them resort to this kind of service. I mean, for the most part they seem nice looking and well-rounded. (except for the 60 year old man with the santa beard that winked at me… creepy). It concerns me these nice looking successful men can't get a date without using the interwebz. Then I realize that I am a nice looking, successful girl, with a Match.com account. Yes, I have started questioning myself.
I wasn't going to actually spend the money. I talked a little with my aunt about it and we both decided that even if it was a waste of money, I might have some good laughs come from it. A friend of mine mentioned last night that he met his wife on Match many years ago. He told me to be totally honest in my profile. I have done the best I can in hopes I don't totally freak people out and make them run sceaming into the night.
I decided to "wink" at a few people, and if any of them actually winked back, I would cough up the dough and see what happens. By the time I got back upstairs from talking to my aunt, I had a return wink. So I did it. I paid the fee for the next 90 days. I emailed the boy who winked at me. He emailed back. He seems nice and normal. I also got an email from a guy asking me if I flossed before brushing or brushed before flossing. He seems weird and not normal.
I think, if nothing else comes of this, I will have spent some good money for the laugh factor. Don't worry, I will share!
*if you are currently "dating" me, have dated me, or want to date me, please do not let this deter you or make you think I might not be interested. I am just being single and seeing what kind of trouble I can get myself into in this online stuff! If you know me, you know I am not looking to settle (ever)or settle down(right now), I am enjoying single and plan to continue to do so. And I have told you this already! So there…


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Betty Lee Massie, 87, died Saturday, April 5, 2014.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church Chapel with Dr. Howard K. Batson officiating. Arrangements are by Cox Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Betty was born Nov. 28, 1926, in Lees Summit, Mo., to Earl and Maude Davis. As a child, she moved to Kansas City, where she was raised and later married Clinton L. Massie on Aug. 10, 1946. Together, they moved to Hereford before moving to Amarillo in 1969. Betty worked as a secretary for Amarillo High School for more than 13 years, retiring in June of 1983. She and Clinton are longtime members of First Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Tommy Davis
Survivors include her husband, Clinton Massie of Amarillo; two sons, James Massie of Amarillo and Danny Massie and wife Janna of Canyon; a sister, Ella Mae Harlin of California; six grandchildren, Jessica, Dustin and Joshua Massie, Carlee Howard and Bradlee and Kellee Massie and four great-grandchildren, Kaydence, Harlie, Colt and Gatlyn.
The family suggests memorial be to Gideon's or to Jan Werner Adult Day Care.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Sign the online guest book at www.coxfuneralhomeamarillo.com.
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Analysis: Obama, GOP disagree, again, on spending
WASHINGTON -- After two tumultuous years of budget brinkmanship, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress finally agree on something -- namely, that a previous 10-year pact to cut $1 trillion across the board was such a bad idea it must be stopped before it starts.
If consensus counts as good news in an era of divided government, consider this: They also disagree vehemently on a suitable replacement.
As a result, they seem likely to spend the spring and perhaps a good part of the summer struggling to escape a bind of their own making. This time, Medicare and the rest of the government's benefit programs are likely to face changes.
Already, the two sides are laying down markers.
Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to join him in developing a replacement for the across-the-board reductions, "a balanced mix of spending cuts and more tax reform."
"We can't just cut our way to prosperity," he told reporters at the White House.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, had a different view.
"If Democrats have ideas for smarter cuts, they should bring them up for debate," he said, noting that the GOP-controlled House already has produced its own plan, which lacks specifics.
House Speaker John Boehner offered similar remarks.
The across-the-board reductions themselves were born almost of desperation, designed to be so unpalatable that they would force members of a 2011 congressional "supercommittee" to agree on a sweeping anti-deficit plan rather than let them take effect.
The panel deadlocked. The cuts have been delayed by two months but are set to kick in on March 1, with $483 billion cut from defense over a decade and roughly the same out of a variety of domestic programs. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are untouched.
The cuts are no more popular after the latest delay.


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by Ann Douglas
Men and women take very different approaches when it comes to seeking advice about raising a baby -- or so it seems according to these two recent studies about where new moms and dads go for baby-care advice and information.
A study reported in the medical journal Health Education Research noted that a mom-to-be is most likely to turn to three types of people for advice and in this order: 1) her healthcare provider; 2) her pregnancy confidante (mother or close female friend); or 3) her partner.
A new dad on the other hand, is overwhelmingly likely to turn to his partner for advice.
A study published in the Journal of Perinatal Education found:
- 91.8 percent of expectant fathers seek advice from their partners
- 37.1 percent from their mothers or mothers-in-law
- 34.6 percent from other fathers
- 24.4 percent from coworkers
- 23.9 percent from nurses
- 21.0 percent from doctors
- 15.6 percent from their fathers or fathers-in-law.
Who's your go-to person for parenting advice? Do you follow the patterns in the studies? Do you think that men and women differ that much in reality? Shout it out!
Ann Douglas is the author of numerous books about pregnancy and parenting including the bestselling "The Mother of All Pregnancy Books." She regularly contributes to a number of print and online publications, is frequently quoted in the media on a range of parenting-related topics, and has appeared as a guest on a number of television and radio shows. Ann and her husband Neil live in Peterborough, Ontario. with the youngest of their four children. Learn more at her site, having-a-baby.com.
Copyright © Ann Douglas. Permission to publish granted to Pregnancy.org.