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**********************  ********************** An email-based sporadic publication of technology-related items for kinesiologists compiled by Ken Daley.

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its 
own reason for existing".
						-Albert Einstein
THE INTERNET REVIEW: Software for Coaches

The Coach's Computer Resource
By Candy K. Rice (nosweat=AT=yahoo.com)
http://www.members.tripod.com/nosweat/

"Designed to assist the sport professional in the creation of 
contracts, team rosters, mail merge documents, and databases. Learn 
to perform basic tasks such as saving, opening, & editing documents, 
printing, using Microsoft's SpellCheck and Print Preview functions, 
using cut & paste, and more. Also includes instructions for basic 
Internet and email tasks such as using search engines, attaching 
files to email messages, and bookmarking websites, as well as toolbar 
diagrams and a list of useful Internet sites for today's sport 
professional."

If you are new to computers and need a low cost ($10 + $2 S&H), no 
nonsense, step by step, paper resource to get you up and going in a 
hurry, this 44 page book can do it for you. Written for PC users 
using:
-Microsoft Windows 95/98
-Microsoft Word 97
-Microsoft Access 97
-Netscape Communicator 4.0/4.6

However, you dedicated Mac fans can still use most of the book 
(except the data base / mail merge sections). Most of these basic key 
strokes are similar in Microsoft products for the PC and MAC. The 
Internet section is essentially cross platform information.

I appreciate her lock step and clear instructions for each of the 
tasks the book takes on. If you are a novice computer user or need to 
educate a novice user, for the price of a movie and popcorn how can 
you go wrong?
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES: Strength Training
Ken's Note: If you like cutting edge Macromedia Flash presentations 
this is a site to check out. They do a nice job of using the medium, 
except for getting carried away with the length of the intoduction.

STRENGTHCOACH.COM
Meet your performance potential at http://www.strengthcoach.com
complete interactive training experience inside a virtual weight room.
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES:  Anthropometry/Health Calculators

Measure 4 Measure is a collection of calculators, estimators and 
translators that will allow you do do a host of things, such as:
-Activity Calorie Calculator
-Body Fat Estimator
-Body Surface Area Calculator 
-Breast Cancer Risk Calculator 
-Calorie Calculator
-Calorie Control Council's Enhanced Calorie Calculator
-Calories Burned Calculator
-Due Date Calculator
-Growth Percentile Calculator
-How Well Are You Eating Calculator
-The Iron of It All -- Find Your Daily Iron Requirement
-Ovulation Calculator
-The Post-Baby Weight-Loss Calculator
-Preconception Weight Loss or Gain Calculator
-Pregnancy Calendar
-Pregnancy Weight Gain Estimator
-Runner's Calorie Calculator
-Target Heart Rate Calculator

Check them out at:
http://www.wolinskyweb.com/measure.htm#health
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES: Website Tuneup
KEN'S NOTE: This is a nice set of free tools for all you readers who 
maintain web pages.

** IMMEDIATELY INCREASE YOUR SITE'S EXPOSURE **
FREE Web Site Analysis
FREE Meta Tag Generator
FREE Search Engine Checker
FREE Search Engine Submissions

Why do we provide these Free services? It's
our way of introducing ourselves to you and
to let you see our other web site promotion
products as well.

We are one of the largest web site submission
firms on the net today.  For over 4 years we
have helped thousands of internet businesses
with their search engine placement. Most have
become more profitable and productive as a result.

Click Here http://208.243.247.112
Call Toll Free USA 877-855-2003
Outside USA 916-771-4756
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES: Sports Images
KEN'S NOTE: This search tool will do pictures, sounds, movies and 
streams. If you are hunting for just the right addition to your next 
PowerPoint presentation this may be a good tool for the job.

You want to mention http://multimedia.lycos.com for searching for
images? It is BRILLIANT.  - Will Hopkins
I AGREE. -Ken Daley
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES: Sports Injuries

I wish to advise you of a website that should be of interest to you.

SportSmart is the name of the new national sports injury prevention 
programme produced by Prism (previously ACC's injury prevention 
division), on behalf of ACC. It was managed by Geled Potts, the 
Sports Programme Manager at Prism.

The SportSmart programme consists of a 10-point plan to help minimise 
the risk of injury in sport, and is specificially aimed at coaches 
and participants in sports.

The website address is http://www.sportsmart.org.nz, and the site 
contains the 10-point plan which can be downloaded free of charge.

We would appreciate it if you could please advise your 
members/network about this particular resource. And if you have any 
questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you

Diane Brooks
Injury Prevention Consultant
Wellington NZ
+64 4-918-7479 (phone)
+64 4-918-3979 (fax)
BrooksD=AT=acc.org.nz
INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES: Jobs in Education

Every profession begins with a teacher!
Free resume posting for:
Teachers and other education professionals
Free job postings for:
Teachers and other education professionals
E-PLOY.COM is the newest online job recruitment site for the education
market You set up and personalize your account and the e-ploy.com 
search engine will search for job openings...
Or
It will search for potential employees...
You can be the first to have your resume or job posting in the newest,
Most personalized educational job recruitment site...
Pass on the word to other education professionals and human resource 
departments!!

E-PLOY.COM
HTTP://WWW.E-PLOY.COM
INFO=AT=E-PLOY.COM
HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: Edupage, 5 January 2000

THE LEADING ISSUES OF '99? WIRED SCHOOLS AND ACCREDITATION
The New York Times education column went to some of the sources
it quoted in 1999 and asked them, "What were the most important
or interesting developments in the world of education and
technology in 1999?"  Consortium for School Networking Executive
Director Keith R. Krueger said the biggest event of the year was
50 percent of U.S. classrooms getting access to the Internet.
This raises questions about the best uses of technology in
education, how to make sure teachers are able to use the
technology, and how to pay for it all.  University of Texas in
Austin 21st Century Project director Gary Chapman pointed to the
emergence of such organizations as the Alliance for Childhood,
which balances the debate on schools' computer use by asking
questions about the necessity and content of computer use.
Concord University School of Law dean Jack R. Goetz pointed to
the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools' decision
to accredit the online Jones International University; Goetz' law
school is also solely online.  Meanwhile, American Association of
University Professors Committee on Accreditation Chairman James
E. Perley pointed to his association's request that the
accreditation lauded by Goetz be reconsidered.  Lehigh University
President Gregory C. Farrington mentioned the increased offering
of online higher education from traditional institutions and the
threat that it poses to for-profit education outfits.
(New York Times Online 29 Dec 1999)
HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: Edupage, 10 January 2000

WIRED CLASSROOMS JOT DOWN THE NOTES
Georgia Tech University professor Gregory Abowd and a team of
researchers are working on Classroom 2000, a project that aims to
eliminate the need for students to take notes during a lecture,
freeing them to participate in class discussions.  The project
uses such existing technology as whiteboards, the Web, and audio
and visual files.  Instead of writing on a blackboard, the
professor writes on a whiteboard, which projects the information
on a screen for the class to see and also records the information
to a computer.  All the information provided during the class is
stored on a computer and used to create a series of Web pages
indexed to the syllabus for students to access over the Web.  Two
Classroom 2000-ready rooms have been set up at Georgia Tech,
while Brown University, Kennesaw State, McGill University, and
Georgia State also now have similar classrooms.  Although it cost
Georgia Tech about $200,000 for its classroom, Kennesaw spent
about $15,000 since it already had some of the technology.
(Washington Times, 10 Jan 2000)
HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: Edupage, 25 February 2000

FUTURE OF HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS
The National Science Foundation's funding for the vBNS and
Abilene networks runs out at the end of March, and observers are
wondering whether the efforts by government and academia to build
a next-generation Internet will succeed.  Last year the
University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development's
Internet2 group started Abilene, with the intention of giving
Internet2 members a means of testing applications in an
environment more similar to the regular Internet, says
Internet2's Greg Wood.  The two networks have agreed to let
organizations that link to both networks transmit data across the
merged architecture and to give Abilene members access to vBNs
resources.  Institutions that participate in Abilene and vBNS
have noticed performance gains as a result of the networks, but
acknowledge that the networks are underutilized and lack advanced
applications.  The networks have been used for applications
including telemedicine, HDTV transmission, and remote control of
telescopes and electron microscopes.  Multicast technology also
appears to be benefiting from vBNS and Abilene.  Internet2
members are now working to develop middleware that links
different databases and allows them to exchange information.
(Network World, 14 Feb 2000)
HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: Edupage, 25 February 2000

NEW PROFITS FOR PROFESSORS
A combined $576 million from patent royalties was earned in 1998
by 132 universities, according to an Association of University
Technology Managers survey.  Columbia University has plans to
move beyond the typical nonprofit "dot-edu" models that offer
courses and professors' research interests to aggressively market
the expertise of its faculty on a new for-profit site.  For a
cost, researchers will have access to features such as a
simulation of the construction and architecture of a French
cathedral and interactive 3D models of organic chemicals.
Columbia is establishing its for-profit "knowledge site" so that
other sites do not begin marketing and profiting from the
expertise of its own faculty.  Profits from knowledge on the new
Web sites will be split between the school, professor, and the
professor's department, much like profits from patents are split
already.  Many observers worry that the school will support
profitable professors more than other professors.  Columbia would
never do something to compromise the integrity of the school,
says Ann Kirschner, head of the knowledge site project.
(Newsweek, 28 Feb 2000)
HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: Edupage, 25 February 2000

CHANGING LANDSCAPE
There are 3,700 institutions and 15 million students in the
United States today facing the challenge of integrating the past
with the present, questioning how to mold the traditional model
of higher education into a form that will not become obsolete in
a world awash in an information explosion driven by electronic
technology.  There now exist four different types of educational
institutions instead of the single, virtually unaltered model
followed for the past 250 years of formal education in America.
The first type comprises the traditional notion of a college.
The second includes "corporate universities," on-site training
programs developed by individual companies to improve the skills
and knowledge of employees.  The third category contains
mega-universities that recognize no national boundaries, combine
the high-tech with the historical, and bridge the gap between the
educational experience and the job market.  The fourth types are
virtual educators that operate nearly entirely online and offer
the opportunity for practically anybody to become a teacher or a
student.  The Internet is restructuring society, shifting our
educational market away from one in which producers define the
nature of the educational product and the nature of its delivery,
toward one in which the consumer is in charge and is no longer
simply being fed information but is instead responding to and
interacting with that information.  Educators cannot be afraid of
this new Internet era and instead must embrace it with creativity
and understand that education is not an entity separate from the
rest of life, but one that depends upon the successful
combination of digital innovation and intellectual resources.
(EDUCAUSE Review, Feb 2000)
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: NewsScan Daily,  7 February 2000 ("Above The Fold")

A NEW BEGINNING: THE AGE OF GIGAHERTZ CHIPS
In the second half of this year both IBM and Intel plan to begin 
producing complete microprocessors with processing cycles of a 
billion times a second (a gigahertz). At first, they will probably be 
used in Web servers, and then in voice recognition and video systems. 
Randall D. Isaac of IBM says, "The message here is a simple one. The 
gigahertz era has arrived, and it looks like we have room to move up 
to the 3 or 4 gigahertz range very rapidly. Everyone talked about 
these limits, the end of Moore's Law, everything was going to slow 
down. But everything seems to be speeding up. The pace is just 
breathtaking." And Albert Yu of Intel explains that the gigahertz 
chip is just the very beginning of a completely new era: "Silicon, 
from a technical point of view, basically has no limitations down to 
the atomic level, and we're still far away from the atomic level." 
(New York Times 7 Feb 2000)
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: NewsScan Daily,  17 March 2000 ("Above The Fold")
KEN'S NOTE: While Nanotechnology holds great promise for technology 
there is great concern that any self replicating entity must be 
viewed with great caution. We have to look no further than viruses in 
computers and genetic engineering to see self replicating entities 
that are filled with potential dangers.

IBM ADVANCE IN NANOTECHNOLOGY
IBM researchers say they have discovered chemical reactions that 
cause arrays of tiny particles (so tiny that they are 1/20,000th the 
width of a human hair) to assemble themselves in precise formations. 
It's an achievement that could lead to the development of terabyte 
disk drives with more than a hundred times the capacity of typical 
hard drives today. Calling the discovery a significant breakthrough 
in the effort to build microscopic circuitry, New York Times 
technology expert John Markoff notes: "Self-replication, the holy 
grail of nanotechnology, is widely viewed as the key to an entirely 
new industrial era that may one day replace modern microelectronic 
systems." IBM executives are cautioning that it will take some years 
before this scientific advance can be translated into commercial 
products. (New York Times 17 Mar 2000)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/biztech/articles/17blue.html
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: Edupage, 24 March 2000

NET SPEED AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET
Scientists at Lucent's Bell Labs have set a new record for
transmitting data over fiber-optic cable by moving 3.28 terabits
per second of data over 300 kilometers of Lucent's TrueWave
optical fiber.  At this rate, Lucent's fiber in one second could
transmit three times the volume of daily Internet traffic for the
whole world.  Within years, fiber-optic cable could move tens of
thousands of terabits per second of data.  This tremendous
bandwidth growth will be fueled by the speed of lasers used to
encode data and the number of wavelengths a single fiber can
carry at once, says AT&T Labs President David Nagel.  Researchers
are now developing terabit lasers, and the number of pulses a
single laser produces is doubling every 18 months.  In addition,
the number of wavelengths a single fiber can carry at one time is
doubling every year.  Eighty-wavelength systems are already
available, and scientists are working on 1,000-wavelength
systems.  The Bell Labs' record accounts for less than half a
percent of the potential capacity of current optical networks,
according to Kerry Vahala, professor of applied physics at the
California Institute of Technology. (Wired News, 21 March 2000)
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: Reuters

U.S. scientists closer to making new type of supercomputer

March 15, 2000, 1:55 p.m. PT
LONDON--U.S. scientists moved a step closer to developing a 
super-computer after looking at a branch of physics that researches 
the physics of particles invisible to the human eye. "In the language 
of quantum information science, we have realized a four-quantum-bit 
logic gate. This system is relevant for the future development of 
quantum information technology," the scientists said in the journal 
Nature.

Conventional computers are based on binary "switches," or bits, which 
can either be switched on or off. Computers carry out calculations 
utilizing these switches. Quantum theory holds that entities such as 
atoms do not decide whether they exist in an on or off state until 
they are measured or interact with something. When they are not 
interacting, the atoms exist in both states at once--a quantum 
superposition--said Christopher Monroe, a researcher at the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Computers based on 
quantum physics would therefore be able to have switches or "qbits" 
that exist in both on and off states simultaneously. A string of 
these quantum bits would consequently offer every possible on-off 
combination and could carry out every calculation a computer needed 
simultaneously, hugely increasing the computer's power and memory. 
But maintaining several superpositions--an entanglement--is 
difficult. So far it had only been maintained in systems of two or 
three qbits, until US researchers at NIST entangled four quantum 
particles, Rainer Blatt of the University of Innsbruck said in the 
Nature article. Although many more particles would have to be 
"entangled" for a quantum computer to become a reality, the 
researchers were confident the technique could be used to create 
larger entanglements. "Our technique is scalable to a lot more atoms. 
If we get to that level, we'll not only bring the strangest feature 
of quantum mechanics closer to the macroscopic world (the world 
visible to the naked eye), but we may also have a quantum computer," 
Monroe said in a statement. The new U.S. technique allows 
many-particle entanglement with "comparatively little effort" and 
will be invaluable to further quantum state engineering, Blatt said.
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Associate Professor
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences
Maharishi University of Management
Fairfield, Iowa USA 52557
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