Its been a long two weeks! But the last few days have been great!

Its been so long since my last post that I thought that this one I would just talk a little. At this momment in time I am curruntly talking to one of the web friends I mentioned in a earlyer blog so I might ramble on a bit!

I went home last week to spend some time with the parents and get some home cooking. As we have three weeks off before uni starts again it was my version of a one week holiday! Anyway Im now back at uni. Its been three days and I have already had a great time!! On the sunday I got back me and two friends went to the cinema to go see Robots! Plus as the fair was really close by we popped into there as well! Two rides and I was feeling really ill!!

Two good friends on the ride at the fair

Now monday was more fun! We thougt we might go to Brixworth nature park for a walk! It was sunny and we have to make the most of these sort of things! so off we go. It was great! walking around for three hours and then the return trip of 15 mins!

Here's Brixworth!

Park up the car at Uni and drink at the local for another 4 hours!! Really fun! Granted I dont drink beer and it was a weak one but after three I had had enough (tasted horrible!).

This is Frankie (Drinking partner)

Anyway I hope that in the next few days I will be back to my reports on articles.

A step closer to understanding and curing Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s had touched the heart of the world. Everyone has seen or heard of a case of this chronic condition. And for many it’s a soul destroying journey to watch someone they know go through it. The only way to treat this problem is by early diagnoses, it will not cure you off Alzheimer’s but it will help slow down its process. So you can see the earlier the diagnoses of someone the earlier they can start being treated.

In the autopsy Alzheimer patients they have always noticed a plaque substance [amyloid] found in the brain. Well scientists have now found a way to test for this substance. Its uses a new technique using MRI technology. By using in conjunction with this new MIR tenuous they use a tracer that attached to the plaque that is detectable by the MRI.

This process is still in the testing stage, but it will allow them to watch the progress of the disease in GM mice and allow them to test new drugs easier. But one question remains, is this build of plague on the brain he cause or a symptom. Only time will tell but I hope there research bears fruit soon.

Just a Short post today

My friend has thought to get her own blogger so for todays post I'm going to recomend two sites! Firstly eragwyn.blogspot in which she has said that she will tell us things ;) yes thats right! She will help us with any problems, is the women/man in your life causing problems then ASK ERAGWYN. By the way this is one of the web friends I was talking about about a week ago! After reading my Blog I think she thought she could do better! Anyway the 2nd recomendation is to visit http://ihatemyflatmate.blogspot.com/ this person vents their anger by writing it! It only took half an hour to read them all but what a laugh! So if your at uni or have a flatmate and you think you have got it bad then read this guys posts!! Not only will you laugh for half an hour and die of shock but you will also realise you might not have it so bad.

The last Dragon

I was watching a program on channel 4 at the weekend called ‘the last dragon’. Now my timing is not the best in the world and I missed the first 10 mins but once I started watching I was set to be surprised! It seemed that a dragons carcass had been discovered in the remote region of Romania. I watched in interest as they went through the discovery and discussed the properly uses of the characteristics they found. I was engrossed for nearly two hours and was medley surprised that I had not read anything in the news. The mystical beast of legion, that I had been fascinated this since I was a small lad was now a real live beast! The times I imagined the possibilities of having a dragon. Flying around on the most beautiful or creatures. I sat there wondering how long it would be until some scientist cloned a live replica, and then how long would it be until a genetic engineered variety was sold! My dreams of having a dragon like that found in the Anne McCaffrey books was about to come true! Jut to make sure I had not missed anything I emailed channel 4 too see if what I had watched was true. Sadly I found that I was more gullible than I first thought, the program was about giving mystical creatures like dragons and the lock ness monster plausible reasons for there existence! So in the end this gullible fool went to bed with only his books to keep that fantasy alive.

Web-Friends. Can they be trusted?

I like many people started using the web and was sceptical about the use of forums and the dangers of talking and making friends over the net! True I have heard about a lot of bad experiences in the media where people have imitated children to gain there trust or where people have pretended to be someone else to friend helpless victims. I mean, how much information can we believe from these people? As I have slowly been drawn into the world of computers and the web that unites us all I have come to believe certain things. There are people out there that will deceive you and harm people if given the chance, there are also still other people that will use this new medium to prey on children. But don’t forget to look at the good things as well. People all round the world share information and are making friends all round the world. We might be all far away from each other but the web has in ways brought people together.

My first use of the web was to research a series of books that I had read from a child. There were written by a very talented author called ‘Diane Duane’ and the series was called ‘So you want to be a wizard’. I found a forum that the author herself pays and runs. Of course I joined up but I was careful about what I said and the information I gave. Every day I would come onto the web to read what others have written and post my own comments. I have now been on that forum for well over a year and I feel more at home there sometimes than I would down the local pub!

Later I started reading another newer book called ‘Eragon’ and found the official website to that! Although the website was short run [think it only ran for 6-9 months] I made two good friends off that site that I email and talk to over msn weekly. At first I was careful about what I told them but as our friendship grew I came to realize that most of the people out there were like me! Honest about who they are and what they want. These people I have no doubts are real and I have no problems at all talking on the phone to them. Also in a way I feel closer to the world in general, one of these friends is an Australian and the other is from the USA. I don’t think I will ever regret the day I trusted these people and let them into my life. We are friends to each other and I suspect we always will be.

If you would like the link to the Young wizard site click the hyperlink below;

http://www.youngwizards.net/

And Diane Duane web blog [same site as this one!!] is;

http://outofambit.blogspot.com/

Michael Turners 'Fathom' is back!!!!!

Wondrous news for comic's fans! Michael Turner the well know comic artist who's drawn comics book heroes such as superman and Witch-Blade is releasing this own Comic series. Now this series is based upon previous work by Michael and is seen to be the 2nd part of this wonderful story called 'Fathom'. Michaels new comic company 'Aspen' has recently produced new delights such as Soulfire and Ekos.

I could tell you all about the story so far but it would take far too long and would spoil your fun! So if you go here you can find out about it and have a look around.

http://www.aspencomics.com/

To cut a long story short there was a short series published by Aspen called 'Fathom: Dawn of war' which links the two series together. So look out in May/June for this new part of the story to begin! Apart from a great story line you will see some great art work by Michael and the team at Aspen. Wish I could draw like that!

Milton Parochial Primary School

Imagine a traditional old stone built village in the English countryside. Now imagine near its centre is an old (but still in great shape!) stone built building with a plaque on it saying 'Milton Parochial Primary School'. Now imagine that I have to go there to do my work experience! I mean want an honour! The school has just over 100 students all within 4 classes. This is due to the fact that each class is duel year. I'm in class one which are years 5 and 6. Well as you can guessed I’m highly delighted to be going to this wonderful school. On arriving there at 7.50 this morning we were welcomed in by the head teacher Mrs Roberts. We was quickly introduced to the other members of staff and shown around the building. All I can say is WOW, it is that good. The building has a great feel with a mixture of the old and new parts of the building blending well. The community seems to be very tightly held together and you really get the feeling of the community involvement of the school. I’m looking forward to working in this school in the forcible future.