Reconnections

Residents living in the Memory Support Neighborhood at Standish Village spent today celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Standish Village, like many other assisted living communities, offered a performance from an Irish Step Dancer. Unlike other assisted living communities, residents spent the morning engaged in an innovative adult learning course, studying Ireland,…
Letter from OMB to Chairs and Ranking Members of House/Senate Intelligence Committees
Here is the letter from OMB detailing the Obama Administration’s objections to the Intelligence Authorization Act passed by the House on February 26, 2010. (Thanks to Steven Aftergood at the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists for posting it, and for his insightful discussion .)
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Education Problems, Autism, and Vaccines

Monday I wrote about the problems that can result from national standards . We do need to raise our education standards. An excellent example can be seen in the faulty logic used by those claiming that vaccines cause autism. Hypothesis: Vaccines cause autism. Experiment: Compare the rate of autism in…
Video: Roadside Visibility

Video: Roadside Visibility is a post from: Everyday EMS Tips I am thinking of something orange! (Name that movie). Video I made for EMS1.com and ParamedicTV.com about roadside visibility. Remember a simple vest or coat is not enough. Always be watching upstream, move out of and away from traffic as…
Kevin Costner Expecting His Seventh Child!

More celebrity babies on the way! Kevin Costner is expecting his seventh child! The 55-year-old star and wife Christine Baumgartner are expecting their third child in June. They are already parents to two sons: Hayes Logan, 1, and Cayden, 2. Costner has four children from previous relationships; three with ex-wife…
"Wonder Years" Danica McKellar is Expecting!
The Wonder Years child star, Danica McKellar, and her husband of one year, Mike Verta, are expecting their first child this fall, People reports. “I’m nearing the end of my first trimester and I’m so excited - I’ve been bursting to tell people,” says McKellar, 35. “When you do take…



