Diagram of SMS to Midwife’s page reader

Mothers could SMS to a webpage reader on the midwife’s laptop/netbook. The midwife could respond by SMS which would go to the blog and also to the mother’s mobile phone. The midwife could also respond in greater length directly onto the blog and could post links to customed educational resources.

Short six-word stories

We’ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (”For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves. (Wired)

Short stories of Six Words

Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- William Shatner

Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn

Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love.
- David Brin

Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon

Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
- Stan Lee

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood

His penis snapped off; he’s pregnant!
- Rudy Rucker

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Gregory Maguire

Internet “wakes up?” Ridicu -
no carrier.
- Charles Stross

With bloody hands, I say good-bye.
- Frank Miller

Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
- Steven Meretzky

“Cellar?” “Gate to, uh … hell, actually.”
- Ronald D. Moore

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge

It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling

We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly

It’s behind you! Hurry before it
- Rockne S. O’Bannon

I’m your future, child. Don’t cry.
- Stephen Baxter

1940: Young Hitler! Such a cantor!
- Michael Moorcock

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
- Richard Powers

I’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss … ?
- Neil Gaiman

The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card

Kirby had never eaten toes before.
- Kevin Smith

Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped.
- Howard Waldrop

To save humankind he died again.
- Ben Bova

We went solar; sun went nova.
- Ken MacLeod

Husband, transgenic mistress; wife: “You cow!”
- Paul Di Filippo

“I couldn’t believe she’d shoot me.”
- Howard Chaykin

Don’t marry her. Buy a house.
- Stephen R. Donaldson

Broken heart, 45, WLTM disabled man.
- Mark Millar

TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …
- Harry Harrison

Tick tock tick tock tick tick.
- Neal Stephenson

Easy. Just touch the match to
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Special Web-only edition: We were unable to include these 59 stories in the print magazine.

New genes demand expression — third eye.
- Greg Bear

K.I.A. Baghdad, Aged 18 – Closed Casket
- Richard K. Morgan

WORLD’S END. Sic transit gloria Monday.
- Gregory Benford

Epitaph: He shouldn’t have fed it.
- Brian Herbert

Batman Sues Batsignal: Demands Trademark Royalties.
- Cory Doctorow

Heaven falls. Details at eleven.
- Robert Jordan

Bush told the truth. Hell froze.
- William Gibson

whorl. Help! I’m caught in a time
- Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel

Nevertheless, he tried a third time.
- James P. Blaylock

God to Earth: “Cry more, noobs!”
- Marc Laidlaw

Help! Trapped in a text adventure!
- Marc Laidlaw

Thought I was right. I wasn’t.
- Graeme Gibson

Lost, then found. Too bad.
- Graeme Gibson

Three to Iraq. One came back.
- Graeme Gibson

Rapture postponed. Ark demanded! Which one?
- David Brin

Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.
- David Brin

Bang postponed. Not Big enough. Reboot.
- David Brin

Temporal recursion. I’m dad and mom?
- David Brin

Time Avenger’s mistaken! It wasn’t me…
- David Brin

Democracy postponed. Whence franchise? Ask Diebold…
- David Brin

Cyborg seeks egg donor, object ___.
- David Brin

Deadline postponed. Five words enough…?
- David Brin

Metrosexuals notwithstanding, quiche still lacks something.
- David Brin

Brevity’s virtue? Wired saves adspace. Subscribe!
- David Brin

Death postponed. Metastasized cells got organized.
- David Brin

Microsoft gave us Word. Fiat lux?
- David Brin

Mind of its own. Damn lawnmower.
- David Brin

Singularity postponed. Datum missing. Query Godoogle?
- David Brin

Please, this is everything, I swear.
- Orson Scott Card

I saw, darling, but do lie.
- Orson Scott Card

Osama’s time machine: President Gore concerned.
- Charles Stross

Sum of all fears: AND patented.
- Charles Stross

Ships fire; princess weeps, between stars.
- Charles Stross

Mozilla devastates Redmond, Google’s nuke implicated.
- Charles Stross

Will this do (lazy writer asked)?
- Ken MacLeod

Cryonics: Disney thawed. Mickey gnawed. Omigawd.
- Eileen Gunn

WIRED stimulates the planet: Utopia blossoms!
- Paul Di Filippo

Clones demand rights: second Emancipation Proclamation.
- Paul Di Filippo

MUD avatars rebel: virtual Independence Day.
- Paul Di Filippo

We crossed the border; they killed us.
- Howard Waldrop

H-bombs dropped; we all died.
- Howard Waldrop

Your house is mine: soft revolution.
- Howard Waldrop

Warskiing; log; prop in face.
- Howard Waldrop

The Axis in WWII: haiku! Gesundheit.
- Howard Waldrop

Salinger story: three koans in fountain.
- Howard Waldrop

Finally, he had no more words.
- Gregory Maguire

There were only six words left.
- Gregory Maguire

In the beginning was the word.
- Gregory Maguire

Commas, see, add, like, nada, okay?
- Gregory Maguire

Weeping, Bush misheard Cheney’s deathbed advice.
- Gregory Maguire

Corpse parts missing. Doctor buys yacht.
- Margaret Atwood

Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.
- Margaret Atwood

He read his obituary with confusion.
- Steven Meretzky

Time traveler’s thought: “What’s the password?”
- Steven Meretzky

I win lottery. Sun goes nova.
- Steven Meretzky

Steve ignores editor’s word limit and
- Steven Meretzky

Leia: “Baby’s yours.” Luke: “Bad news…”
- Steven Meretzky

Parallel universe. Bush, destitute, joins army.
- Steven Meretzky

Dorothy: “Fuck it, I’ll stay here.”
- Steven Meretzky

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The earth moved

Yes.

Last night the earth moved. In fact it shook really hard and there was a rush to the door frame which is the safest place to be in an earthquake.

Chiropractic

Chiropractice medicine is based on the premis that adjusting “mislignments” will cure a wide range of medical conditions.

Check the Skeptics Dictionary out:

http://skepdic.com/chiro.html

eHealth

Executive summary
Of all the industries whose consumers stand to benefit from the wider application of
technology to enable connectivity and knowledge sharing, it is difficult to go past
health.
No less than 25% of all Australians suffer from a chronic illness and nearly every one of
them would be better off if the medical practitioners who care for, and treat them were
more in touch with each other. It is hard to understand how Australians can tolerate
the fact that they’re not.
This paper sets out the cost – both to the patients and to the nation – of a system in
which providers of health care to chronically ill people operate in disconnected silos
where one doctor often does not know what another has tested for and prescribed,
sometimes even when they are members of the same care team.
The figures for this lack of information-sharing and co-ordination are starkly worrying.
• More than 50% of doctors do not follow best practice guidelines;
• Between 30 and 50% of patients with chronic disease are hospitalised because
of inadequate care management
• Fewer than 14% of people with chronic disease are placed on care plans; and
• Less than one per cent of patients are tracked to see if they adhere to care plans.
Thus, all but a tiny portion of those plans created are all but useless.
The impact on the individual can be imagined; the cost to the nation is immense. In
Australia, it’s estimated that improved knowledge sharing and care plan management
for patients with chronic disease would generate direct savings to the health care system
of more than $1.5 billion per annum. Savings to the community from associated nonhealth
care costs are of the same order. And increased workforce participation and
productivity could add a further $4 billion per annum to the economy. .
For the patients, home monitoring could reduce emergency room visits by up to 40%,
hospital admissions by 30-60% and length of hospital stays by up to 60%.
The evidence for better outcomes through more proactive patient interaction is
persuasive – one study demonstrated that better disease management improved patient
satisfaction (71%); patient adherence to care plans (47%); and disease control (45%).
Clearly, the benefits are there to be had. This paper posits that the two key
characteristics of health care that should drive the type of Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) are:
1. an acknowledgement that the fundamental business of health care is knowledge;
2. the need to be fully cognisant of the inherent complexity of health care
composed as it is, of a large variety of highly autonomous, independent
practitioners, all with their own systems and practices.
This Paper submits that – given the business environment – three elements have
proven to be keys to success: 1) a business model based on the knowledge enterprise; 2)
a focus on connectivity; and 3) internet-like ICT solutions.

Referencehttp://www.achr.com.au/pdfs/ehealth%20and%20the%20transofrmation%20of%20healthcare.pdf

Aotearoa….Land of the long white cloud

Aotearoa is the name the early Polynesian settlers gave to the South Pacific Island which is also known as New Zealand. There is mystery  and a little magic behind the shroud clouds which often envelope the land and sometimes bounce above it.  The blue-green land and seascapes entice.

Hello world!

This is where you start dreaming on!