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		<title>The modern classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Susan Schumaker Computer Based Training is increasing in popularity in the work place and in the classroom. The Information Age has made many changes to the way people are approaching education. As a college student, there are many classes I took that included taking labs in the computer lab at school. In the workplace, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guest post by Susan Schumaker</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cbtplanet.com/">Computer Based Training</a> is increasing in popularity in the work place and in the classroom. The Information Age has made many changes to the way people are approaching education. As a college student, there are many classes I took that included taking labs in the computer lab at school. In the workplace, several of the places that I have worked focused their training sessions in an office full of computers.</p>
<p>Many professions now require the passing of state certification exams, and the preparation courses for these exams are available over the Internet. The exams themselves are done on computers in modern, secure testing facilities. The Information Age has truly transformed the way that business and education are done in the United States.</p>
<p>In Maine, the public education system gives the students their own personal laptop computers to take home with them, and to continue using the same laptop through out their high school years. This kind of forward-thinking is something that I think every state should get involved in. The world is shrinking, and becoming more competitive every day. We need to give our students every competitive edge we can.</p>
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		<title>Milky Way Discoveries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a kid, we had a lot of U.S. and Russian space program events. There were launches of satellites, rockets, shuttles and the space station. There were kids in my classes who had a parent that worked for NASA. They would bring things into &#8220;Show and Tell&#8221; like space food, photographs of them at the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a kid, we had a lot of U.S. and Russian space program events. There were launches of satellites, rockets, shuttles and the space station. There were kids in my classes who had a parent that worked for NASA. They would bring things into &#8220;Show and Tell&#8221; like space food, photographs of them at the Kennedy Space Center or standing by an astronaut.  And I was fascinated by all of it. </p>
<p>My parents supported my interest in the space program by taking me to museums, a tour of the Kennedy Space Center one spring when we were in Florida for spring Break, and they sent me to Space Camp in Huntsville when I was 12 years old.  They bought a microscope for me when I was 15 and several of my friends had microscopes, too. We were a band of geeks, in a way. </p>
<p>So now that we are all adults, we still stay in touch and talk about the space program. We are devastated that the space program has been shut down. Not that we want to be astronauts, but because we believe in space exploration. Some of us still have our childhood microscopes and keep them repaired with <a title="microscope parts" href=" http://www.microscopeinternational.com/" target="_blank">microscope parts</a> that we order over the internet. In fact, I hope to pass along my microscope to my son some day.</p>
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		<title>Urban legend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have loved Disney World ever since it opened. I was young teenager when it first opened. If I recall correctly my parents took the entire family down to Florida for Christmas vacation first year that it did open. That was my first experience with a large theme amusement park and I thought it was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have loved Disney World ever since it opened. I was young teenager when it first opened. If I recall correctly my parents took the entire family down to Florida for Christmas vacation first year that it did open. That was my first experience with a large theme amusement park and I thought it was absolutely fantastic.</p>
<p>For that particular vacation I think my parents made a mistake by taking us to Disney World first because they also took us to other places such as Sea World, Cypress Gardens, and Busch Gardens during the same vacation.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how it ever became an urban legend that Walt Disney&#8217;s body had been frozen using <a href="http://www.princetoncryo.com/">cryogenic equipment</a> and was being stored on one of the Disney properties, but it was something I truly believed was correct! I was quite surprised and to be perfectly honest, but this appointment when I learned earlier today that story was simply an urban legend. Walt Disney was in fact cremated and the first known case of anyone being cryogenically preserved was a couple of months after Walt Disney&#8217;s remains were cremated.</p>
<p>To be perfectly honest I was rather disappointed when I learned that was an urban legend.  I rather thought it was a romantic notion that the night in some future decade been brought back to life somehow!</p>
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		<title>Medical advances</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2011/05/medical-advances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 16:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was always a big fan of the television show The Six Million Dollar Man. The progress that the medical field has made in respect to replacing damaged/missing body parts always amazes me. This video shows a demonstration of a young man who recently received a bionic hand. I can imagine that he is thrilled [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was always a big fan of the television show The Six Million Dollar Man.  The progress that the medical field has made in respect to replacing damaged/missing body parts always amazes me.  This video shows a demonstration of a young man who recently received a bionic hand.  I can imagine that he is thrilled to have it!</p>
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		<title>Newest Bad Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have always been a handful of words and phrases that become popular and get overused each year, especially by the younger people. Some of the words I hear way too much include, &#8220;Are you serious?&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, right?&#8221; which drive me crazy. So, with all of the tragedy in Japan and the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There have always been a handful of words and phrases that become popular and get overused each year, especially by the younger people. Some of the words I hear way too much include, &#8220;Are you serious?&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, right?&#8221; which drive me crazy.</p>
<p>So, with all of the tragedy in Japan and the still unresolved threat of a nuclear meltdown in Japan, the newest bad word that I&#8217;ve heard used a lot these past couple of days is &#8220;radioactive.&#8221; It is an adjective used to describe someone or something as extrememely bad.</p>
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		<title>Wide variety</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2011/01/wide-variety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One gets the impression nowadays that finding money to go to college is easy to do.  After all, there are plenty of pre med scholarships, engineering, art, dance, criminal justice and technology scholarships to go around, right?  And everywhere one looks there are african american scholarships available in every field of study.  Did you know that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One gets the impression nowadays that finding money to go to college is easy to do.  After all, there are plenty of pre med scholarships, engineering, art, dance, criminal justice and technology scholarships to go around, right?  And everywhere one looks there are african american scholarships available in every field of study. </p>
<p>Did you know that there are even scholarships for left handed people?  Can you even imagine that one of the requirements of a scholarship would be that the applicant has to be left handed?  Naturally that&#8217;s not the ONLY requirement, but if you aren&#8217;t left handed, then don&#8217;t even bother to apply!  I&#8217;m sure if one looked hard enough, one could even find scholarships available for under-achievers as well!</p>
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		<title>Freshening up my beauty look for 2011</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2011/01/freshening-up-my-beauty-look-for-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post written by Laura Adams I think that one of the most embarrassing things that I can admit is that I still use the same makeup for my everyday look that I wore in college. By now it&#8217;s really outdated and I need to do something about that but I perfected that look and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guest post written by Laura Adams</p>
<p>I think that one of the most embarrassing things that I can admit is that I still use the same makeup for my everyday look that I wore in college. By now it&#8217;s really outdated and I need to do something about that but I perfected that look and have no clue about what kind of makeup trends are in style and I could pull of now. So I&#8217;m making a New Year&#8217;s resolution to figure that out and change up my look.</p>
<p>I went online to look at some beauty blogs and pictures of celebrities to see details of how they wear their makeup. While I was doing that I randomly found some information about wireless internet providers and after I read more about them, I signed up with one of them for my home internet service.</p>
<p>I decided that I probably needed professional help with my beauty New Year&#8217;s resolutions, so I booked an appointment with a makeup artist, explained my dilemna and she helped me create a look that makes me look much more modern and feel gorgeous.</p>
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		<title>The Keepsake</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2010/12/the-keepsake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get much time to get any real serious reading in. I do however get the chance once in a while and the last book that I got to finish was surprisingly a good read. Tess Gerritsen wrote the novel &#8220;The Keepsake&#8221; after writing &#8220;The Bone Garden&#8221; which I read a while back and enjoyed. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t get much time to get any real serious reading in. I do however get the chance once in a while and the last book that I got to finish was surprisingly a good read. Tess Gerritsen wrote the novel &#8220;The Keepsake&#8221; after writing &#8220;The Bone Garden&#8221; which I read a while back and enjoyed. Looks like I&#8217;ll be looking for more of Tess Gerritsen&#8217;s books in the near future.</p>
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		<title>The road to success</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2010/11/the-road-to-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that most people don&#8217;t realize about our economy, is that the vast majority of the businesses that keep us employed are small businesses.  And that is one of the reasons why so many people get upset when they learn that large box-style chain stores are coming to town.  These large businesses [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the things that most people don&#8217;t realize about our economy, is that the vast majority of the businesses that keep us employed are small businesses.  And that is one of the reasons why so many people get upset when they learn that large box-style chain stores are coming to town.  These large businesses are known for putting small businesses out of business!  So it can be nerve-wracking to even think about starting a business of one&#8217;s own.  But in this economy, with high unemployment, that may be the best option for many people!  That&#8217;s why it is so exciting to find a website that features information about small business grants!  This website has a lot of resources available to help people find (for free) the kind of help that they may need to get their new small business up and running.</p>
<p>And the great thing about a grant is that a grant really is free money &#8211; it is not a loan.  You don&#8217;t ever have to pay it back!  Who in their right mind will turn away free money?  Seriously folks, if you are thinking about starting your own small business, give this website a look-see.  You just might find some help there that will put you on the road to success.</p>
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		<title>Back on the right track</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2010/10/back-on-the-right-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking heads on all the news channels keep telling us that the economy is getting better and that the recession will soon be over. I don&#8217;t know that I believe that, but I hope it is true. I have been fortunate to keep working and have the money to pay my bills. I know a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talking heads on all the news channels keep telling us that the economy is getting better and that the recession will soon be over. I don&#8217;t know that I believe that, but I hope it is true. I have been fortunate to keep working and have the money to pay my bills. I know a lot of people have not been this lucky.</p>
<p>Sometimes recovering from a big financial setback is more than what a person can deal with on their own.  The best credit repair service is important to use to make sure that those have been struggling with debt can get their finances back on the right track.</p>
<p>Someone who was out of work for 5 or 6 month is most likely facing a pile of past due bills and possibly the threat of foreclosure. This person can make good use of a credit repair service to get the bills caught up and their credit history restored.</p>
<p>If you need help with credit repair, take a while to check around. You can get help from the professionals. Your credit history is one of your most valuable financial assets and you need to protect it.</p>
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