Movember Contraindications
M: I see you are doing Movember. Very nice.
A: Absolutely, but where is yours, M? Where is yours?!
M: I decided it was probably a bad idea.
A: Are you kidding me? It is always a good idea.
M: Not if you have OBGYN. "Do not mind the creepy moustache, I am just going to do a pelvic exam on you." *wink*
A: Right, or paediatrics I suppose.
M: "Do you trust this man with your child?" *wink*
A: Fine M. You are off the hook this time, but only because you have contraindications...and quit winking!
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This afternoon, I checked into Tumblr to find a spike of activity on my dashboard. I have learned through my own stumbling and by word of mouth that my recent feature of Steven McGaughey’s the Gastric Subway has been featured on the Tumblr Radar.
I just want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for taking interest in the blog, to the staff at Tumblr for the feature, and last but not least to Steven McGaughey, who kindly allowed me to post his art on here. Please do check out his other works on his blog and on his website.
To all of the new followers, welcome to the blog. I hope you enjoy what you see and what you read. Expect more updates as I continue this journey. Thanks again for your interest and take care.
Sincerely,
Tom of the Medical State of Mind
If it seemed like those grown children just won’t go away, it’s because they don’t. About two-thirds of adults age 19 to 22 spend at least part of the year in their parents home, and more than 60 percent get financial help from their parents, to the tune of $7,500 a year on average, a new study finds.
The funds went to tuition, rent, and transportation, among other expenditures.
» via Live Science
It reminds me a lot of what was going on 15 years ago with CRM (customer relationship management). Back then, the idea was “Wow, we can start collecting all these different transactions and data, and then, boy, think of all the predictions we will be able to make.” But ask anyone today what comes to mind when you say “CRM,” and you’ll hear “frustration,” “disaster,” “expensive,” and “out of control.” It turned out to be a great big IT wild-goose chase. And I’m afraid we’re heading down the same road with Big Data.
The dean of the Virginia Military Institute has put forward a controversial and unusual plan that could prevent students from choosing popular academic majors so that the institute can equalize faculty workloads and spread out its 1,500 students more evenly across disciplines. The plan has upset some professors, including one who called it “academic socialism.”
VMI is a four-year, public military college with a liberal-arts curriculum, including 14 academic majors. Its seven most-popular majors have attracted 83 percent of students, while the seven least-popular majors have attracted just 17 percent.
“This uneven enrollment distribution strains resources for the larger majors and underutilizes resources for the smaller ones and prevents effective resource planning,” says a memo that Brig. Gen. R. Wane Schneiter, deputy superintendent for academics and dean of the faculty at VMI, distributed on the Lexington, Va., campus this month. “In the smaller majors, faculty workloads are relatively light, class sizes are small. … The opposite may be true of the larger majors.”
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)
The dean of the Virginia Military Institute has put forward a controversial and unusual plan that could prevent students from choosing popular academic majors so that the institute can equalize faculty workloads and spread out its 1,500 students more evenly across disciplines. The plan has upset some professors, including one who called it “academic socialism.”
VMI is a four-year, public military college with a liberal-arts curriculum, including 14 academic majors. Its seven most-popular majors have attracted 83 percent of students, while the seven least-popular majors have attracted just 17 percent.
“This uneven enrollment distribution strains resources for the larger majors and underutilizes resources for the smaller ones and prevents effective resource planning,” says a memo that Brig. Gen. R. Wane Schneiter, deputy superintendent for academics and dean of the faculty at VMI, distributed on the Lexington, Va., campus this month. “In the smaller majors, faculty workloads are relatively light, class sizes are small. … The opposite may be true of the larger majors.”
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)
The dean of the Virginia Military Institute has put forward a controversial and unusual plan that could prevent students from choosing popular academic majors so that the institute can equalize faculty workloads and spread out its 1,500 students more evenly across disciplines. The plan has upset some professors, including one who called it “academic socialism.”
VMI is a four-year, public military college with a liberal-arts curriculum, including 14 academic majors. Its seven most-popular majors have attracted 83 percent of students, while the seven least-popular majors have attracted just 17 percent.
“This uneven enrollment distribution strains resources for the larger majors and underutilizes resources for the smaller ones and prevents effective resource planning,” says a memo that Brig. Gen. R. Wane Schneiter, deputy superintendent for academics and dean of the faculty at VMI, distributed on the Lexington, Va., campus this month. “In the smaller majors, faculty workloads are relatively light, class sizes are small. … The opposite may be true of the larger majors.”
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced a major reorganization on Thursday to ramp up its lobbying and anti-piracy efforts.
The group, which represents companies including Microsoft, Apple, Intel and Adobe, will split into two units: one focused on advocacy and one focused on combatting copyright infringement.
“We are fully integrating our public policy, government relations, and public engagement activities around emerging issues that are critical to our members’ new and existing lines of business,” BSA President Robert Holleyman said in a statement. “We also are expanding our focus as the industry’s premier anti-piracy organization, because new technology architectures in cloud and handheld computing are creating new challenges for protecting intellectual property.”
