| Altadeña students take morning announcements to the next level
Each morning the broadcast club at Altadea Middle School meets 45 minutes before school starts to prepare for their daily morning announcements, broadcasted live into each classroom during first period. And they couldn’t be more thrilled. "Sometimes I have to boot out some students because I don’t want them to burn out," multimedia teacher Glenn Nienabor said. "I’d rather have them here for all three years then quit when they’re in sixth grade." Nienabor worked as sports reporter for the Mesa Tribune for seven years before he began his teaching career at Kyrene de la Colina Elementary School. It was at Colina where the broadcast club originated, and when he was asked to transfer to Altadea four years ago he had no intent of giving it up. "One of my conditions, so to speak, was that I could continue doing the morning announcements and the broadcast club," he said.
Wal-Mart unleashes employees in blogs
Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart's biggest suppliers. But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft's newest operating system, Vista. "My life has not changed dramatically" because of the new system, he wrote on his blog. "Well, for that matter, it hasn't changed at all." His public burst of candor was not isolated. On the same blog, a video game buyer for Wal-Mart slammed a "Star Wars" film as a "debacle," even though Wal-Mart still sells the movie. Known for its strict, by-the-books culture - accepting a cup of coffee from a supplier can be a firing offense - Wal-Mart is now encouraging employees who do the buying to speak frankly, even critically, about the products the chain carries. An unusual new Web site by Wal-Mart, which was quietly created during the holiday shopping season, has become a forum for unvarnished rants about gadgets, raves about new video games and advice on selecting environmentally sustainable food.
Ask AP: Product Recalls, Obama's Faith
If you have your own news-related question that you'd like to see answered by an AP reporter or editor, send it to newsquestions@ap.org, with "Ask AP" in the subject line. --- What becomes of all the recalled poisonous pet food, lead-tainted toys and antifreeze-flavored toothpaste? Are they incinerated? Buried? William Gazdagh Belleville, Ill. --- Recalled products that are taken back to stores are returned to manufacturers, which generally destroy them, through incineration or other measures, or send them to a landfill. Depending on the nature of the recall, though, food products are sometimes reprocessed. In the past, if a recall involved a bacterial pathogen that could be destroyed by cooking at a high temperature, recalled meat was further processed until it was deemed safe, and then sometimes reused in pet food.
Some Patients May Be Spared An Unnecessary Procedure By New Test For ...
Only then can the surgeon implant the new prosthesis.
The problem with this approach is that confirming the presence of infection-causing bacteria is an inexact science. Currently, doctors check for infection by culturing a sample of the joint fluid. A positive culture confirms live bacteria, making spacer surgery a certainty. A negative culture, however, does not necessarily mean there is no infection. In fact, Tuan says that estimates of the false negative rate for joint cultures in revision surgeries range from 27 percent to 50 percent. But because failure to treat an infected joint could lead to severe infection and limb amputation, spacer surgery is sometimes performed for safety's sake even when infection test results are inconclusive.
To get around the false-negative problem, Tuan and his colleagues developed a way to test for joint infections using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which detects the presence of bacterial DNA.
Just a Thought - Macbook Air: The Wrong Envelope
The Macbook Air may well be the world thinnest notebook but that's not really got my juices flowing when I watched Keynote. The key word here is Wireless. While I do agree that the Air may not be exactly what consumers have been asking for, it probably will be what they're asking for 2 years from now. Let's not forget that Apple is at least a year ahead of the rest of the market on all of it's products. The same can be said for the Apple TV. While people have made comments like "That thing is just not going to sell" and "Well, why do I need one?" I tried to look to the future and predict what Apple wanted to do with this machine. Then I heard about iTunes movie rentals, YouTube and terabyte storage. Now, so much. The same idea can be applied to the Macbook Air. We can't see right now that in a few years just about everything (and I mean everything) will be wireless.
Gene Variant Predicts Medication Response In Patients With Alcohol ...
ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2008) Patients with a certain gene variant drank less and experienced better overall clinical outcomes than patients without the variant while taking the medication naltrexone, according to an analysis of participants in the National Institutes of Health's 2001-2004 COMBINE (Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Interventions for Alcohol Dependence) Study. About 87 percent of patients with the variant who received naltrexone experienced good outcomes, compared with about 49 percent of those who received a placebo. About 55 percent of patients without the variant experienced a good outcome regardless of whether they received naltrexone or placebo. Good outcome was defined as abstinence or moderate drinking without related problems, according to an article in the Feb.
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