have you ever tried to take a picture in a closet...that's what i felt like i was doing!!  our house was built in 1950 and so our bathrooms are tiny!!  i have no idea how photographers take pictures in bathrooms....it's impossible.  but you get the idea.  before my bathroom was just a painted box.  there wasn't anything wrong w/ it....it just wasn't me.  so over thanksgiving,...

The Work of Strength and Conditioning in Improving a Boxers Performance

Joe Hewitt, Strength and Conditioning Coach at the Sport Wales Institute, the elite performance function of Sport Wales, explains the vital role of strength and conditioning in developing the boxing stars of tomorrow.Incorporated into a wider programme of work with the Welsh Amateur Boxing Association, I’ve spent the last few days working to identify talent and assess the levels of physical ability...

Another Simple Food Weight Loss Experience

Whole Health Source reader Sarah Pugh recently went on a six-week simple food (low reward) diet to test its effectiveness as a weight loss strategy, and she was kind enough to describe her experience for me, and provide a link to her blog where she discussed it in more detail (1).  Consistent with the scientific literature and a number of previous reader anecdotes (2), Sarah experienced a reduction in appetite on the simple food diet, losing...

Boss Bagi Para Internet Marketing

Siapa bilang menjadi internet marketer itu tidak mempunyai boss? Padahal menjadi berkerja dibidang internet marketing justru jauh lebih susah karena kita menjadi pegawai dan boss bagi diri kita sendiri. Adapun susahnya kita harus melawan nafsu diri sendiri tuk terus bersemangat mengeruk dollar dengan penuh ketidakpastian padahal di dunia internet banyak sekali cobaan-cobaan hehehe...Mungkin kalo jenuh kok earning ga naik-naik... trus traffic koq...

Will the Citigroup Ruling Challenge Health Care Leaders' Impunity?

A federal judge's refusal to approve yet another cozy settlement that was supposed to resolve allegations of wrong-doing by a giant corporation has left the financial world atwitter.  It may be that this ruling will also affect the coziness between giant health care corporations and government regulators.  Summary of the Citigroup CaseWe first discussed this case twp weeks ago here.  Here is a summary of the government's (in this...

Sarah's Kenya blog - day 2

AFRICAN ADVENTURE DAY 2: MONDAY 28TH NOVEMBER   19.49 GMT (22.49 Kenya time)Jambo (as they say in Kenyan Swahili) or hi…..Day 2 started with Breakfast at 7.30am and just a plate of fruit for me!8am we met Mary from the British Council in Kenya who took us to meet her colleagues in the British Council offices just down the road from our Hotel. Lots of London 2012 posters and banners...

SPORT WALES SUPPORTS KENYA'S NEW GENERATION OF COMMUNITY LEADERS

Blog by Sport Wales' Sarah Roberts...Countdown = 1 day to go: When our Chief Executive Huw Jones initially sent round the email late in September asking if any staff would be interested in supporting the British Council on a project in Kenya, I immediately jumped at the chance and put my name forward. A week later I was asked by Huw if “I had a minute? And could I see him in his office?” after my initial fear of “oh my god, what have I done wrong!”...

my dad and i gave my bathroom a little makeover over thanksgiving.....here's a sneak pe...

Will the Freeze of the Global Fund Finally Put Health Care Corruption on the Agenda?

In February, 2011, we posted about problems with corruption affecting the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. At the time, the Fund promised to better detect fraud and corruption affecting its grants programs. We later posted about how after an internal debate, the Fund promised to make more information public about any losses to fraud and corruption. Now it has made more such information public, but it also appears that further...

Sport Wales pay tribute to Gary Speed

Professor Laura McAllister, Chair of Sport Wales, Welsh Football Trust Board Member and former Wales Women's international, has today paid tribute to Gary Speed: "Everyone at Sport Wales' thoughts are with Gary's family and friends at this hugely difficult time. Gary was a truly fantastic role model for everyone in the world of football. "The way he conducted himself as a player, coach and most recently as national manager was exemplary. His...

A Brief Response to Taubes's Food Reward Critique, and a Little Something Extra

It appears Gary Taubes has completed his series critiquing the food reward hypothesis of obesity (1).  I have to hand it to him, it takes some cojones to critique an entire field of research, particularly when you have no scientific background in it, and have evidently not read any of the scientific literature on it.  As of 2012, a Google Scholar search for the terms “food reward” and “obesity” turned up 2,790 papers. Normal...

Kinect Apps Challenge

Graphics & Media Lab and Microsoft Research Cambridge have announced a contest for applications that use Kinect sensor. The authors of the five brightest apps will be funded to attend the 2012 Microsoft Research PhD summer school. I blogged about the last year's event in my previous post. Details of the contest are here.I guess there's no need to explain what Kinect is. It is extremely successful combined colour and depth sensor by Microsoft....

Christmas is coming! How are you doing your shopping this year? Braving the high street, visiting your favourite department store or by making yourself a nice cup of hot chocolate and lounging in front of the computer browsing?If you find that you don't know where to head for to grab that special gift, and like us need to plan the route through town to the nearest coffee shop, here is where...