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"In the sciences, hypothesis always precedes law, which is to say, there is always a lot of tall guessing before a new fact is established. The guessers are often quite as important as the fact-finders; in truth, it would not be difficult to argue that they are more important. New facts are seldom plucked from the clear sky; they have to be approached and smelled out by a process of trial and error, in which bold and shrewd guessing is an integral part. The Greeks were adept at such guessing, and the scientists of the world have been following the leads they opened for more than two thousand years."
H. L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy," 1982
SPONET: a sport-science and training database. The database is produced and maintained by the Department Information and Documentation Sport at the Institute of Applied Training Science, Leipzig, Germany: http://www.sponet.de/
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
mcsiff=AT=aol.com
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GENERAL ADVICE & INFORMATION
http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/
http://www.careermag.com/
http://www.fastcompany.com/career/
GENERAL JOB SITES
http://www.job-hunt.org/
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/careers.htm
http://www.jobsonline.com/SeekerRegistration.asp
http://www.excite.com/work/
http://coe.etsu.edu/departments/pexs/atep/job-grad.htm
http://international.monster.com/index.asp
http://www.monster.com/
http://www.joboptions.com/esp/plsql/espan_enter.espan_home
http://new.careerpath.com/
http://www.cweb.com/
http://www.careermosaic.com/
http://www.careerbuilder.com/
http://www.americasemployers.com/
http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/newsletter/easy1999.html?cp=leb03fstr
http://cbdnet.access.gpo.gov/
http://www.4work.com/
http://www.careerlab.com/
http://home.digitalcity.com/employment/
http://www.dbm.com/jobguide/
http://www.ajb.dni.us/
http://www.starthere.com/jobs/
http://www.careercity.com/
http://www.aboutwork.com/
http://www.1-Jobs.com/
http://www.bestjobsusa.com/
http://www.careerexchange.com/
http://www.careershop.com/
http://www.jobbroadcasting.com/insight/jobs/
http://www.jobbankusa.com/
http://www.CareersColorado.com/
http://www.denverjobs.com/
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & RELATED CAREERS
http://www.humankinetics.com/careers/
(Physical Activity)
http://espn.go.com/special/careers/index.html
(Sports Careers)
http://www.onlinesports.com/pages/CareerCenter.html
(Sports Jobs)
http://coe.etsu.edu/departments/pexs/atep/job-grad.htm
(Athletic Training)
http://www.academploy.com/
(Academic Jobs)
http://www.csufresno.edu/pehp/programs/opera/
(Physical Education)
I have just created a new website called Scholarly Sport Sites: a
Subject Directory which brings together websites for the academic
enquirer, sport/kinesiology librarian and information professional.
See website at:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/ssportsite
Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus
University of Calgary Library, MLT 116F
(Chair, North American Sport Library Network &
VP, North Amer., Intl. Association for Sports Information)
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, AB Canada T2N 1N4
Tel: 403-220-6097 FAX: 403-282-6837
Email: gghent=AT=ucalgary.ca
NASLIN Website: http://www.sportquest.com/naslin
Scholarly Sport Sites: http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/ssportsite
The department of sport management at Texas A&M University has recently started a student electronic journal called the Cyber-Journal of Sport Views and Issues. We are excited about this journal and believe that it will provide students with another research avenue. CJSVI will be published twice a year, with the inaugural issue coming in January of 2000.
We are currently seeking reviewers and submissions. Students interested in reviewing for the first issue should send a one-page vita to sptmgt=AT=hlkn.tamu.edu no later than September 15, 1999. Guidelines for reviewers and submissions can be found at the journal Web site: http://sptmgt.tamu.edu.
Professors are encouraged to inform their students of this new and timely opportunity. We are excited about the journal and look forward to hearing from you.
Any inquiries concerning CJSVI should be sent to:
George B. Cunningham, Editor
Dept. of Health and Kinesiology
Texas A&M University
Email: sptmgt=AT=hlkn.tamu.edu
Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
George B. Cunningham
articles are welcome in the following areas:
sports/athletics
health/fitness
medical/physical therapy
motion analysis (applied, not research oriented)
Best Regards,
Rheppe
WORTH THINKING ABOUT: SUPERFLUOUS COMMUNICATION
The renowned mathematician Norbert Wiener, who created the science of
cybernetics (and coined the word to describe it), had great disdain
for the fact that "people who have elected communication as a career
so often have nothing more to communicate." In his 1950 book, "The
Human Use of Human Beings," Wiener wrote:
"When there is communication without need for communication, merely so that someone may earn the social and intellectual prestige of becoming a priest of communication, the quality and communicative value of the message drop like a plummet... In the arts, the desire to find new things to say and new ways of saying them is the source of all life and interest. Yet every day we meet with examples of painting where, for instance, the artist has bound himself from the new canons of the abstract, and has displayed no intention to use these canons to display an interesting and novel form of beauty, to pursue the uphill fight against the prevailing tendency toward the commonplace and the banal...
"I speak here with feeling which is more intense as far as concerns the scientific artist than the conventional artist, because it is in science that I have first chosen to say something. What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen."
From Norbert Wiener's "The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306803208/newsscancom/
STRENGTH & FITNESS
http://deepsquatter.com/strength/subscribe.htm
http://www.WeightsNet.com/weights/index.html
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/fit-l.html
http://www.angelfire.com/pe/txpls/archives.html
PHYSIOTHERAPY & ATHLETIC TRAINING
http://otpt.ups.edu/listservs/PTHER/home.html
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/physio/archive.html
http://www.ksu.edu/kines/Lists/ATHTRN-L1.html
(Athletic Training)
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
mcsiff=AT=aol.com
ON THE WEB, 19 CLICKS WILL GET YOU ANYWHERE
In a study reported in the science journal Nature, the University of
Notre Dame physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and his colleagues found
that any two randomly selected Web pages are on average only 19
clicks away from one another. The researchers determined this by
constructing algorithms that collected all the links on a Web page
and then followed them to their destinations, and repeating the
process over and over again. Why is this important? Steve Lawrence, a
NEC Research Institute expert on search design, explains, "Knowing
something about the topology lets you know how far you need to go to
catch something that might be out there. The search engine companies
are going to benefit from this kind of knowledge." (AP/San Jose
Mercury News 9 Sep 99)
IBM TO ANNOUNCE NEW, FLEXIBLE TRANSISTORS
IBM has developed flexible transistors that combine organic and
inorganic materials for the first time. The technology can be
embedded in curved surfaces or flexible materials, creating the
potential for foldable electronic newspapers and computer screens
that could unfold from handheld devices. The technology may also be
useful in solar panels, making them easier to transport, said IBM
researchers. The chips allow for flexibility by "self-assembling,"
solidifying from a liquid at low temperatures to form layers of
organic and inorganic material with the necessary semiconducting
capabilities. The combination of organic and inorganic materials may
both lower production costs and increase performance, said IBM
researchers. (New York Times 10/29/99)
The United Nations University is introducing a Universal Networking Language (UNL), which it plans to unveil at a symposium on 18 November in Brussels, Belgium. The technology allows for translation on the fly of 16 commonly used Earth languages. Using the technology, a user's native language is converted to UNL when transmitting data over the internet. When the individual on the receiving end gets the data, it is converted into their native tongue. The UNL acts as the intermediary translator and acts as Meta-language, similar to Star Trek's Universal Translator. The developers promise easy integration with present networking technologies and platforms and they claim the technology will most likely exist as a plug-in for browsers and add-ons to servers.
Daily Exercise For The Non Athletic
Calories can be burned by the hundreds by engaging in strenuous activities that do not require physical exercise.
Exercise........................Calories burned per hour
Beating around the bush.................75
Jumping to conclusions.................100
Climbing the walls.....................150
Swallowing your pride...................50
Passing the buck........................25
Throwing your weight around
(depending on your weight)..........50-300
Dragging your heels....................100
Pushing your luck......................250
Making mountains out of molehills......500
Hitting the nail on the head............50
Wading through paperwork...............300
Bending over backwards..................75
Jumping on the bandwagon...............200
Balancing the books.....................25
Running around in circles..............350
Eating crow............................225
Tooting your own horn...................25
Climbing the ladder of success.........750
Pulling out the stops...................75
Adding fuel to the fire................160
Wrapping it up at the day's end.........12
To which you may want to add your own favorite activities, including:
Opening a can of worms .................50
Putting your foot in your mouth........300
Starting the ball rolling...............90
Going over the edge.....................25
Picking up the pieces after.............350
With each mailing of MovingTogether I always get a rash of emails that state one of the following: e-mail box is no longer used, out of space, person has moved, person has changed e-mail address etc. Accordingly, I have to delete the "member", since the messages are not getting through. If you get deleted by me, don't take it personally. Your postmaster has told me that you may not exist. Please send me an e-mail and I will add you back on.
Moving Together is not an official publication of Maharishi University of Management. It is nothing other than a personal try to share/create a collective wisdom in the area of technology as it impacts professional Kinesiologists.
Ken Daley
kdaley=AT=mum.edu
http://www.mum.edu/exss_dept/daley.html
Associate Professor
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences
Maharishi University of Management
Fairfield, Iowa USA 52557
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