Help With Americas Health Care Crisis...Teach Someone to Read!
pilkster
Are you sometimes confused by written medical instructions? Now, imagine what it would be like if you were sick, scared and had only third grade reading skills. Your doctor tells you, "You've got to follow these instructions exactly, or you could die."About 200...
Hot Stone Massages For Your Health
infocus
Stone massage is one of those arts of relaxation that has been around for quite some time now. From the word itself, the technique uses special stones (basalt stones) in massaging specific body parts for the purpose of relieving stress. The stones are either coo...
Saving Lives Through Breast Cancer Awareness
RHendersen
The insidiousness of breast cancer is without parallel - affecting over a million people a year worldwide and claiming the lives of women at a rate second only to lung cancer. As women battle for their lives on a daily basis, a grassroots movement to educate ...
Seattle Schools Participate In Washington Assessment Of Student Learning
Stacy Andell
Washington Assessment of Student Learning is Enacted for the 2006-2007 School YearThe class of 2008 in all Seattle Schools will be required to pass the 10th-grade Washington Assessment of Student Learning, this will be the way that most students will earn t...
Sara Hearts Costa Rica
Nick Viale
When she came back from her two week vacation in Costa Rica to icy Minnesota, Sara was haunted by memories of the way her toes had taken to the warm white sand and the way her heart had taken to the people. Echoes of the rolling surf chased her though her da...
E(merging) Books
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging.
Consider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but this technology is likely to conquer othe...
Foundation Supports Student Achievement In Denver Schools
Patricia Hawke
The Denver Public School Foundation is a “portal” for community and business philanthropy for the Denver schools. Originally started in 1984, it played a passive role in the Denver schools, until it was revitalized in 2002.The purpose of the Denver school...
Really Good News About Your Children’s Video Games
Marc Prensky
Research published by University of Rochester neuroscientists C. Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier has grabbed national attention for suggesting that playing “action” video and computer games has positive effects – enhancing student’s visual selective attenti...
Beyond the Words, a Child's Voice
Patricia Gatto
Voices have a way of falling into a pattern, not unlike the sound of constant rain. At first, the rain is obvious as it dramatically announces its arrival, and for a brief moment, you acknowledge the intrusion. But slowly, the rhythmic sounds fade into th...
Why Children Should Exercise
Yip See Kit
When a few parents gather to talk about their children, one of the most frequently discussed topic is to compare the best tuition center available. This is not surprising as with the raise in education standard and high competitiveness in today studies, ma...
What's Love Got To Do With It?
JoAnna Brandi
Customer Loyalty, we all want it. Don’t we?
Some people say it’s dead - they say that customers are fickle, that they don’t want loyalty, that they just want the lowest price and the fastest way to get it. Some say that customers have changed ...
Will Content Ever be Profitable?
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
THE CURRENT WORRIES
1. Content Suppliers
The Ethos of Free Content
Content Suppliers is the underprivileged sector of the Internet. They all lose money (even sites which offer basic, standardized goods - books, CDs), with the exception of sit...
A Brief History of the Book
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
"The free communication of thought and opinion is one of the most precious rights of man; every citizen may therefore speak, write and print freely."
(French National Assembly, 1789)
I. What is a Book?
UNESCO's arbitrary and ungrounded definition ...
The Cultural Narcissist - Lasch In An Age Of Diminishing Expectations
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
"The new narcissist is haunted not by guilt but by anxiety. He seeks not to inflict his own certainties on others but to find a meaning in life. Liberated from the superstitions of the past, he doubts even the reality of his own existence. Superficiall...
Internet : A Medium or a Message
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
The State of the Net
An Interim Report about the Future of the Internet
Who are the participants who constitute the Internet?
Users - connected to the net and interacting with it
The communications lines and the communications equipment
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