| Elsevier Announces Major Expansion to Books Program on ScienceDirect | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:49:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | Elsevier today announced the anticipated launch of 4,000 scientific and technical books online in 2007. The program represents a major expansion to the reference works, handbooks and book series already available on ScienceDirect. At launch, the expanded program will comprise high quality selected eBooks titles published from 1995 to the present day. Approximately 50 titles will be added to the eBooks list on ScienceDirect each month following the launch, offering researcher's unparalleled integration and linking between the latest online book and journal information. "The success of Elsevier's reference works, handbooks and book series on ScienceDirect proves that librarians and researchers see huge advantages in the availability of electronic book and journal content, fully linked and cross-searchable from one platform," said Joep Verheggen, Director ScienceDirect.... | |
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| | | Dublin Noticeboard | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:48:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | FAIR: A craft fair will be held at St Anthonys Hall, Clontarf, (300m north of Fairview Park), on Sunday, December 3, from 10.30am to 5.30pm. The stalls will include home baking, knitwear, local photographs, jewellery, handmade cards, woodcraft and pottery - an ideal opportunity to purchase gifts for Christmas.MASS: St Josephs Church East Wall (1956-2006) is hosting a Golden Jubilee Mass on Saturday, November 25, at 6.30pm. The principal celebrant will be Dr Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin. All are welcome to attend. FAIR: A winter fair will take place at Naomh Mearnog GAA Club, Portmarnock, on Saturday, November 18, from 12 noon to 5pm. Items for sale include bric-a-brac, books, toys, home baking and new clothes. Wheel of fortune and great prizes promised. Proceeds are in aid of Naomh Mearnog GAA Club and Sean Tracy CCE.SALE: The Parish of Drumcondra, North Strand and St Barnabas is holding an autumn sale on Saturday, November 11, from 10am to 2pm at North Strand School (beside Staffords Funeral Dicrectors).... | |
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| | | Cooking for Fido | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:48:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's one of those books that arrive full of promises to make your pet's life much better, happier and healthier. The Whole Pet Diet: Eight Weeks to Great Health for Dogs and Cats by Andi Brown, the founder of Halo, Purely for Pets, a company in Florida that specializes in all-natural, holistic pet care products, has a plan to make your pet whole again. .... | |
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| | | Zimbabwe: Lecturers' Shortage Hits Medical School | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:47:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | A CRITICAL shortage of health science lecturers has hit the Zimbabwe School of Medicine following the exodus of staff to neighbouring countries where they are seeking greener pastures. In an interview on the sidelines of a donation of 36 boxes of medical books by Black American Friends of Zimbabwe, University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura said the school had a shortfall of 197 lecturers. He said the school was functioning with only 127 lecturers. "At the moment we have about 127 lecturers and they cannot cope with the workload. We are being assisted by private practitioners but we would want the college to have lecturers that are readily available," Prof Nyagura said. He said the pre-clinical level that is undergone by the medical students in the first two years, was the worst affected yet it is the most critical stage where students study physiology and anatomy.... | |
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| | | Italian sociologist resumes cave living | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:47:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | ASCOLI PICENO, Italy, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- An Italian sociologist has moved underground with 85 books, a supply of honey, walnuts and chocolate and an array of medical monitors. Maurizio Montalbini already holds the world's record for longest time underground -- 366 days. On Thursday, he entered a 10-meter-square (33 feet on a side) chamber constructed in a cave near the eastern Italian town of Ascoli Piceno, The Guardian reported. Most of his food will come in capsule or pill form. But he has taken some long-lasting goodies with him. Montalbini's support team has been instructed to leave him be as long as the monitors show the test is going well. So far, Montalbini has spent a total of about three years living like a hermit. His experiments and similar ones have shown that people cut off from the regular day-night cycle tend to have longer "days." Montalbini told the newspaper La Repubblica that he thought only 219 days had passed during the year he spent underground.... | |
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| | | Hall Creates World's Biggest Ethical Investing Fund on Korea's Woongjin | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:47:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Peter Hall is beating managers of other ethical funds by putting his money in South Korea, where companies such as children's books publisher Woongjin Thinkbig Co. account for 30 percent of his portfolio. Cisco, U.S. Growth Stocks Outpace Value Shares After Lagging for Six Years U.S. growth stocks might finally grow faster than the value stocks that have beaten them every year since the Internet bubble burst in 2000. E.ON's Bid for Endesa Powers Shares of Vanishing European Utility Targets E.ON AG's bid for Endesa SA is driving shares of smaller utilities higher as energy companies vie for Europe's dwindling pool of merger targets. Bank Ruse Cheats U.S. Taxpayers With $7 Billion in Do-Nothing Bond Deals Pastor Willie Williams frowns as he approaches a 10-foot-high concrete wall that's topped by spirals of barbed wire.... | |
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| | | Uganda: Keep Baby Books | | Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:47:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | At International Hospital Kampala (IHK) they give new mothers little books in which to record the milestones in the baby's life. It includes space for important medical records like immunisation dates and probably that is why IHK gives them to help parents keep track. However, baby books are equally important for other reasons. An old tradition in the West, they give parents the opportunity to chart the progress of their children from the time they are born through the first smile, when they start sitting up, crawling, to first steps and first words. The baby book can also have space for the parents to imprint the baby's hand/footprint and space for photographs. The book can be a beautiful memento of each child through their growing years, until they become adults and fly out of the nest.... | |
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| | | MARY B. MOORHEAD: ON ELDER-CARE: Elder life is shared through novel | | Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 6:47:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | SOME OF YOU may know medical social worker extraordinaire Wendy Lustbader, MSW, who has visited the Bay Area numerous times to present all-day elder care workshops and training to both professionals and the community, as well as to promote her numerous books. The room is always packed, no matter where she speaks. With a degree in philosophy, Wendy, who lives and works in Seattle, maintains a creative and wise focus on the deep feelings and behaviors of caregivers, as well as the sick or well elderly. Her thinking process and fun presentations always teach and touch me in new ways. In early August, a package from Wendy arrived in my mail. It was a novel, "seven Loves," written by Valerie Trueblood, a well-respected writer, also from Seattle. Wendy's note says: "Greetings! I am sending you a magnificent book -- a novel -- written by a friend of mine.... | |
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| | | My grandmother's books | | Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 12:49:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine got married in Lawrence, Kan., so I blocked out a long weekend and told my parents I would swing through town for a couple days on either side of the reception. The last time I stayed at my parents' house, I was in town for a funeral. My grandmother, Jean, died in February. I had thought a lot about her since I moved to Greeley. Out of college and in a quiet town, I suddenly had more time for books, and Grandma Jean was a reader. She was a lot of things. She had her commercial pilot's license. She fixed up old homes (sometimes a little too quickly) and sold them. She could cook when she wanted but usually didn't feel like it unless it was for a party. And she was an oil painter who would tell me in early spring it was about time for the fishing season to begin.... | |
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| | | Finding a niche in children's books | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 12:47:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | Anger is not who we are -- it is merely an experience we all share, says author Debi Kennedy of Madison. She knows what she's talking, and writing, about. One month after 9/11 her daughter, Elisabeth "Ellie" Rose, then 20 months old, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The following day, on Oct. 12, 2001, Ellie had surgery on her dad's birthday. Not all of the tumor was able to be removed. "Ellie is now 6, and she has good days and bad days, but we've decided to make every single one of them count and be enjoyable," Kennedy says. "Our focus is on laughing and having fun." .... | |
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