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Friday, March 19, 2010
Fw: Take advantage of your extra hour of sunlight ==> Highlight added ;-)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Fw: Kick YouTube
I just found the following instructions for using YouTube videos in classes even when YouTube is blocked. Too bad I didn't have it last night.
You just select the video you want to save to your computer and add the word kick before the YouTube URL. Please try it. If you have a problem, explain it on this list.
Detailed instructions follow.
YouTube is a vast library of videos for all content areas. As a teacher, you can search YouTube to find multimedia clips that would be fabulous resources for your classroom. However, YouTube is most likely filtered or blocked in your school.
This week's tool offers an easy way to download (save) YouTube videos to your computer so that you can show them in your classroom - even if you aren't connected to the Internet!
(I can't remember for sure where I learned about this tool, but I think it was first shown to me by my colleague Glenn Wiebe.)
KickYouTube
Getting Ready:
1. 1.Go to: www.youtube.com
2. 2.Locate the desired video.
3. 3.Play a part of the video to make sure it is working.
Loading KickYouTube:
1. 1.Move your mouse into your browsers address (URL) window.
2. 2.Insert the word "kick" in front of "youtube" in the URL.
3. 3.Press the Enter key on your keyboard.
4. 4.When the page reloads you will see KickYouTube's menu bar at the top of the window.
Saving (Downloading) the Video:
1. 1.Click to select the desired format and then click the "Go" button at the right side of the bar.
Note - Experiment with a short video to see which format works best on your computer. I recommend starting with MP4 for Macintosh and FLV for Windows.
2. 2.KickYouTube will take a little time to process. When it is finished, the green "Go" button will change to a blue download button.
3. 3.Right-click (Win) or Control-click (Mac) the blue download button and choose "Save link as" or "Save Target as" or something similar.
4. 4.This will open a window that will allow you to save the video to the desired location on your computer.
5. 5.Once the video is saved, double-click to open it. It should open and play in QuickTime, FlashPlayer, Windows Media Player, or another media player application.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Science Finally Reveals How You Can Actually REVERSE Aging
Immediately after conception your cells begin to divide, and your telomeres begin to shorten each time the cell divides.
Once your telomeres have been reduced to about 5,000 bases, you essentially die of old age."
Interestingly, researchers have discovered that reproductive cells do not age. They do not undergo the same telomere shortening process as all other cells in your body do.
This is due to the presence and production of an enzyme called telomerase.
Somatic cells (all cells other than your reproductive cells) do not produce telomerase, however, they do contain the gene for telomerase production. The gene is simply turned off, which causes the telomere shortening process to proceed.
The strategy is to turn the telomerase gene back on in somatic cells. They’re doing this by DECIDING THAT YOU CAN DO THIS - - TELL YOUR CELLS TO turn back on telomerase production.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
9 Top Health Blogs
Please read, and note which are "MAINSTREAM" medical BS funded by Big Pharma, and which are NOT!!!
9 Top Health Blogs To Follow For Health Consciousness
There is plenty of information right online that you can use to stay health conscious. These blogs range from those that focus on new medications and treatments that are available to the public to those that concentrate on how you can stay healthy using home testing products. Those who are interested in trying to stay as healthy as possible can take a look at the following top 9 health blogs online today:
This website is ideal for those who are looking up symptoms and who also want to learn about the latest news in the medical profession. WebMD also offers medical advice for those who have questions regarding their health. The blogs tend to focus on conditions and diseases, symptoms, treatments and preventative measures to avoid these conditions.
2. Testcountry.com
This is a website devoted to self diagnosis of various conditions ranging from high blood pressure to drug abuse. Those who are concerned about their health and do not want to pay a visit to the doctor, can purchase home testing kits from the site and use the blog to follow the latest technology when it comes to diagnostic testing. This site discusses everything from testing to get pregnant to testing for illegal drugs in the system and everything in between.
This is a blog site that offers general health information as well as allows those who visit to look up disease symptoms, treatments and cures It covers most topics of medicine and even discusses alternative medicine options.
This is a blog devoted to all aspects of the health of women, including diseases that affect women as well as pregnancy issues, menstrual issues, puberty and menopause. Women who are concerned with women's health issues can use this blog to discover more about conditions that affect women only.
5. Blogs.consumer reports.org/health
This blog focuses on prescription medicine, new breakthroughs in treatments when it comes to these medications as well as recalls on medications that have been removed by the market. The blog discusses research that is being performed into the treatment of various diseases and conditions as well.
If you are concerned about wellness and nutrition, you can use this blog as a guide to help healthy living habits. This is an ideal blog for anyone who wants to lose weight or is looking for diet and exercise tips as well as proper nutritional habits.
Those who are concerned with mental health issues that range from serious issues to anxiety and phobias can consult the blogs on this website for information related to mental health. Anyone suffering from a mental health condition, or thinks they may be suffering from such a condition, can look up symptoms and find out more about the condition by making use of this blog site.
This is a website that features blogs relating to men's health. The subjects range from diseases that affect men, such as prostate cancer, nutrition, exercise and fitness. The blogs are primarily focused on exercise, nutrition and fitness for men.
If you are looking for alternate health remedies in place of traditional medicine, the blog site of Dr. Joseph Mercola is for you. This site focuses on natural health products as opposed to traditional medical cures and treatments.
No matter what your health concern, chances are that you can find a health blog online that can offer you help. Check out these top 9 health blogs to find out which one can best suit your needs.
Read more: http://www.testcountry.org/9-top-health-blogs-to-follow-for-health-consciousness.htm#ixzz0erjM1qWF
Friday, February 05, 2010
A New WORLD!!!
Our new connections will be the theme now for quite awhile. Not only will these connections serve to create the new world, but they will also serve in sustaining us, keeping the energies high and balanced through the connection of our own personal energies, as well as giving us the emotional support that we will need in times to come."
ahhhh doesn't this feel good!!!
You bet just look at the numbers...
nothign else is necessary!!!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/starsusaorg/message/1999
SourceWatch
This special SourceWatch page has links to the real story about the Supreme Court's revolutionary and unconstitutional decision asserting that federal laws cannot limit corporate "speech." This special feature helps document who is behind the argument that we the people should not be able to regulate corporations, such as Citizens United, which was founded by Floyd Brown of the infamous Willie Horton smear campaign against then-presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. It features information on growing national efforts to change the law, including moving to amend the Constitution. If you think the Court got it wrong, you can help us put people before corporations.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight - Yahoo! News
Reuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.
This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name.
But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works:
The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other.
So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year.
Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather.com.
As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object.
Full moon craziness
Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, and more. Connections have been inclusive or nonexistent.
The moon does have some odd effects on our planet, and there are oodles of other amazing moon facts and misconceptions:
- A full moon at perigee also brings higher ocean tides. This tug of the moon on Earth also creates tides in the planet's crust, not just in the oceans.
- Beaches are more polluted during full moon, owing to the higher tides.
- In reality, there's no such thing as a full moon. The full moon occurs when the sun, Earth and the moon are all lined up, almost. If they're perfectly aligned, Earth casts a shadow on the moon and there's a total lunar eclipse. So during what we call a full moon, the moon's face is actually slightly less than 100 percent illuminated.
- The moon is moving away as you read this, by about 1.6 inches (4 cm) a year.
The moon illusion
Finally, be sure to get out and see the full moon as it rises, right around sunset. Along the horizon, the moon tends to seem even bigger. This is just an illusion.
You can prove to yourself that this is an illusion. Taking a small object such as a pencil eraser, hold it at arm's length, and compare its size to that of the moon just as it rises. Then repeat the experiment later in the night and you'll see that the moon compares the same in both cases. Alternately, snap two photos of the moon, with a digital camera or your cell phone, when the moon is near the horizon and later when it's higher in the sky. Pull both photos up on your computer screen and make a side-by-side comparison.
Astronomers and psychologists agree the moon illusion is just that, but they don't agree on how to explain it.
- Original Story: Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight