No pictures no long storry I just wanted to share with you this happy event.Last Sunday I went to the Canberra zoo regrettably there was no Echidna so still didn't see one . Like in all zoos there were lots of children very enthusiastically running around but one little boy really made my day.When I arrived at the cheetah place it was already noon and thus very hot. I was leaning against the
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Salad for super
Yesterday went smoothly. I taught all morning and successfully avoided the babies until the afternoon. Thank you to everyone for your wonderful suggestions for activities and song ideas with the little ones. I have to admit I will need to google some of the lyrics to 'refresh'my out of shape brain. I also taught social studies reading extension and today was much the same. Tonight I am taking one
Grounds to train for level 3088 in Maplestory
When you are training in Maplesstory choose the right grounds will help you to save lots of time to level quickly and can make much more maplestory mesos in the gameLevel 3034 Train where you have trained before. Ant Tunnel is a good choice and so is Land of Wild Boars II Not Land of Wild Boars Jr. Boogies will give you too much trouble. Jr Sentinels and those green and horned mushroom tre
last bits of india
arrived in india with no trouble this time changed in mumbai and ended up meeting merav and laura outside the guest house they made bets which way i would i arrive from merav won therefore a gin for herspent some time in our teeny tiny room catching up managed to convince an indian man at the bar that all british women were gay hoping this would make him leave us alone but sadly not he th
Slalom Duo
We got up early to catch the bus to Whistler Creekside for the Men's slalom. Cab at 545 to make sure we got to the bus on time on this cold morning The men ski smoothly around the gates and go like the wind We were hoping that Bode Miller would do well but he missed a gate on the first run. There were 104 skiiers competing in this race and they had to ski down the hill twice. The skiie
I’m Going Camping
Our two weeks in Sydney have finally come to an end. Yesterday we spent our last day in Central Sydney it was long but it ended good. While Rochelle did the bridge climb I was forced to wait for 3 hours which sucked but she bought the beers after so it was worth it. We ate at this local pub for dinner and had 10 steaks surprisingly it was one of the most delicious steaks I have ever had it
Rajasthan Travel Important Cities to Explore
Tourists from all over the world visit Rajasthan the regal and imperial state of India. Rajasthan with the capital city Jaipur is one of the most traveled tourist destinations in the country. It attracts tourists with lots of fascinating attractions and many deserving places of tourist interest. The cities of the state are beautiful and fascinating attracting tourists and vacationers from the d
Tourist Attractions of India
Mesmerising India remains a visitorrsquos pride with its myriad inescapable charms. The historic city of Delhi alone overwhelms with its timeless monuments and pot pourri of cultures. With most of the India flights landing at Delhi the city is also the convenient point to start your golden triangle tour of Delhi Agra and Rajasthan. There are scores of hill attractions like Gangtok Darjeeli
Africa continues
Feb 18Day 34Today we packed up and headed further south to singa bay still a part of lake malawi in the town of livingstonia. When we got to camp we did our normal set up duties. Then the girls and I were debating on trying to do some kayaking or snorkling that avo. But as time was not on our side we just ended up sitting on the beach chatting until dinner time. I think I found my profession thou
The Pink City
The journey from Delhi to Jaipur was on fairly good roads lots of brightly coloured trucks pilgrims holding coloured flags walking to music two injured stray dogs wandering the highways which was difficult to stomach dodging drivers beeping continuously which indicates get out the way This evening we stayed in an ornate Haveli heritage hotel which has been constructed from the chief's mans
No we are not on our honeymoon Part one…..
Bali first few days Arrrival at airport WOOPS we forgot we needed a visa or money to enter the queues for the cash machine the one that works informs us that we are not the only ones to make this mistake. For the first 2 days we check in to the beautiful Puri Bambu hotel which makes the two of us feel like royalty compared to the previous 3 hostels. We try and find the beach from our hotel
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Birding Sri Lanka
So there's a specific bird I'm looking for this day and I take a little dugout canoe across a shallow river and start walking. First through the village a scattering of concrete mud and plywood and bamboo huts and houses lots of palms everywhere dirt paths going through people's gardens everyone very friendly we all say hello all day long. Then leaving the houses behind and into more serio
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How To Use Flange Effects In Adobe Audition 3.0
The word flange may have been invented by John Lennon as he asked producer George Martin repeatedly to add some flange to certain tracksand George Martin would oblige by simply pressing his finger to the rolling tape creating the iconic effect. Since those days flange effects have become far more technical and they're still just as cool and fun to use. Here's a quick guide to using flang
Mandatory Helmets for Skateboarders in Colorado
NANNY-STATE WATCH
Democrats now outlawing Cool
Skatboarders, Rollerbladers, Bikers, and even Scooterers, will all be required to wear helmets that pass state inspection if a bill under consideration in the Colorado legislature gets passed this month.
From ABC 7 News, Denver:
Colorado lawmakers are considering legislation to require helmet use for all kids younger than 18. Kids would be required to wear a helmet on bicycles, scooters, skateboards or any other non-motorized device with wheels... Violators would be given an educational card that explains the risk of not wearing a helmet and where to find a free or low-cost helmet.
The legislation is sponsored by two liberal Democrats, both from Fort Collins.
From BikeMonkey:
“I will pursue any legislation in order to protect children as best I can,” says Colorado state senator Bob Bacon of Fort Collins. To that end, Senator Bacon and Represenative John Kefalas (also of Ft Collins) are sponsoring legislation to mandate helmet use for children under age 18
Libertarians in the State are mounting an opposition. Colorado Libertarian Party Chairman Dave Williams was quoted:
"It's kind of humorous, in that you're going to have cops handing out little safety cards to kids... Whose responsibility is that? It's the parents’ responsibility, and the government is going to spend taxpayer money to do something here that isn't going to have any real benefit?" Williams said.
Governor-run health care may be the primary motivation. From the legislation:
Colorado has an interest in preventing and mitigating the severity of such injuries as the economic cost to an individual and to society of a single severe nonfatal brain injury can exceed $2 Million.
Attn. Active Duty Military: Free Punk Libertarian CD
Sending these free to our troops is our small way of saying THANK YOU!
ANGRY PEASANT RECORDS will send CDs FREE to active military at US/ APO/FPO address. Will send to the first 70 who write us. (NO FAKERS. REMEMBER, STOLEN VALOR IS A CRIME AND WE WILL CHECK
email your name, rank and address to us and we’ll mail it out promptly!
YOU GET: TWO (yes, 2!) copies of the CD of feisty libertarian gun-nut punk rock/industrial music, CLING TO OUR GUNS by Right Arm of Wyoming. Check out the music at http://www.rightarmofwyoming.
Extra copy of the CD is to “spread the love”, makes a perfect gift for that leftie relative who needs some modern “school house rock” to educate them on the error of their ways!
STYLE: PUNK ROCK, HARDCORE PUNK ROCK, INDUSTRIAL ROCK, ROCK ‘N” ROLL
SONG LISTING:
1. GET OFF MY PROPERTY!
2. MY GUN KEEPS YOU HONEST
3. REDISTRIBUTION OF THEFT
4. GOVERNMENT IS A COLLECTIVE HALLUCINATION
5. GUN CONTROL GETS WOMEN RAPED
6. LIBERTY IN SHARDS
7. FREAKY LIBERAL MAMMAL SEX
8. FAKIN’ THE RACE CARD
9. SINGLE CRACKLING BLUE FLASH
10. WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS!
11. US Bill of Rights (read by Mrs. Dean)
12. LETTER TO A YOUNG ME (SPOKEN)
13. MY GUN KEEPS YOU HONEST – CLEAN VERSION FOR RADIO
REVIEWS:
—”Fox News – the band” – Bridge Nine punk forums
—”As refreshing as a gunshot to the head…” – children’s book author Eric B. Anderson
—”You rule! I listened to your CD. It’s AWESOME!” –Pat Kim (head honcho at ConservativePunk.com)
—”WOW, you do not pull any punches. Great! The movement needs music which will strike a cord with all different kinds of people. Thanks for all you are doing to preserve our freedoms, liberty and culture.”
– Patriotic singer Lloyd Marcus
—”I threw up watching this crap. Talk about trying to indoctrinate! Pure propaganda set to music.”
–Some Michael Moore fan, commenting about Right Arm of Wyoming on YouTube
CD is factory glass mastered (not burned).
NCBI ROFL: Binge drinking in Jewish and non-Jewish white college students. | Discoblog
“BACKGROUND: In the United States, religious commitment, as measured by service attendance, has an inverse relationship with alcohol consumption, heavy use, and problem use. This association, however, has not been found consistently in Jewish Americans. The present study examined the relationship between religious variables and binge drinking in Jewish and non-Jewish white college students. In addition, the association among genetic, cultural, and religious variables and binge drinking was examined in the Jewish sample alone. …RESULTS: As hypothesized, more frequent religious service attendance related to lower rates of binge drinking in non-Jews but was not related to binge drinking in Jews. Within the Jewish sample, individuals who were religiously affiliated had approximately one third the risk of binge drinking as those who were secularly affiliated, but identification with Jewish culture was not related to binge drinking. In the total sample, individuals who possessed a variant alcohol dehydrogenase allele ADH2*2 were approximately half as likely to binge drink as those who did not possess this allele. CONCLUSIONS: These results are consistent with previous studies that find an inverse relationship between religious service attendance and heavy alcohol use in Christian but not Jewish college students. Findings within the Jewish sample support theories that suggest religious, not just cultural, Jewish affiliation relates to lower levels of alcohol behavior. More research is needed to identify additional factors, including other religious, cultural, genetic, and biological influences, that protect Jewish Americans from heavy drinking.”
Photo: flickr/infowidget
Related content:
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Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Science: getting babies drunk since 1997.
Setting the Record Straight: Belgian Coma Patient Cannot Communicate | 80beats
Late last year, a Belgian man in his mid-forties created a media stir when doctors announced that he had been misdiagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years. Rom Houben, the victim of a horrific car-crash in the eighties, was incorrectly diagnosed as being in a “persistently vegetative state.” But by using new diagnostic tests and brain scans that were unavailable in the eighties, scientists revealed that Houben was actually conscious.
Reports then breathlessly announced that Houben could also finally “communicate,” expressing his thoughts by having his hand supported by his therapist who reportedly helped him tap out his messages on a touch-screen computer. “I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me,” Houben apparently tapped. “It was my second birth. I want to read, talk with my friends via the computer and enjoy my life now that people know I am not dead” [The Guardian].
But now one of Houben’s doctors, neuroscientist Steven Laureys, has declared the Belgian hasn’t been communicating after all.
When the story first broke, DISCOVER and other discerning publications noted that this type of communication, called “facilitated communication,” is very controversial, and has repeatedly failed under conditions of rigorous testing. [Psychology Today]. Skeptics argued that the facilitated communication therapist brought in by Houben’s family was really guiding the man’s hand and choosing which letters to press herself. Skeptics who read Houben’s messages were also amazed that someone who was in a minimally-conscious state for more than two decades was so lucid, articulate, and forgiving of the medical staff. Laureys wanted to study the case further to determine if Houben could indeed communicate.
He set forth by studying a group of minimally conscious patients, including Houben, and three facilitators. The patients were presented with words and objects while their facilitators were out of the room. When the therapists returned, the patients were asked to type out what they saw. Two out of the three facilitators, included Houbens’, failed–leading Laureys to conclude that the Belgian man wasn’t communicating in the first place.
Presenting his findings at a neuropsychiatry meeting in London, Laureys said: “To me, it’s enough to say this method (facilitated communication) doesn’t work” [MSNBC]. He added that the new findings don’t change the fact that Houben was misdiagnosed, but noted that Houben’s previous words could not rightly be attributed to him. Said Laureys: “The story of Rom is about the diagnosis of consciousness, not communication” [BBC].
The findings have vindicated skeptics. “It’s like using an Ouija board,” Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said Friday. “It was too good to be true and we shouldn’t have believed it” [MSNBC]. Other experts have suggested that facilitated communication could be used on some paralyzed patients but not on patients like Houben, who have suffered severe brain injuries.
However, there may be other methods that Houben could use to communicate; several weeks ago, a fascinating study showed a way to communicate with some vegetative patients by reading their brain scans as they focused their thoughts on different activities or places.
Related Post:
80beats: MRI Brain Scans Show Signs of Consciousness in Some “Vegetative” Patients
80beats: A Silent Hell: For 23 Years, Man Was Misdiagnosed as a Coma Patient
80beats: Vegetative Coma Patients Can Still Learn–a Tiny Bit
Image: iStockphoto
