| Low Back Disorders Chapter Released
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has released an extensive update to its evidence-based practice guidelines. The chapter on low back disorders is the latest revision to ACOEM's Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines: Evaluation and Management of Common Health Problems and Functional Recovery in Workers, 2nd Ed., currently in wide-spread use across the country. Subscribers to UMK Professional (Utilization Management Knowledgebase), or the ACOEM Guidelines Electronic Version, have immediate access to the low back chapter free of charge. A crucial part of the updating process was ACOEM's adoption of a new more meticulous strength-of-evidence rating methodology which incorporates the highest scientific standards for reviewing evidence-based literature.
'Frozen River,' 'Trouble the Water' win at Sundance
Trouble the Water," about the survival of a New Orleans couple through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, earned the grand jury award in the U.S. documentary competition at the festival, the nation's top showcase for independent film. The movie by Michael Moore collaborators Tia Lessin and Carl Deal uses footage shot by one of its subjects, Kimberly Rivers Roberts. Roberts traveled to the festival with her husband, Scott, and gave birth to a daughter, Skyy, in Salt Lake City on Monday. "We had two world premieres this week," Lessin said. "The Wackness," starring a loose and lively Ben Kingsley as a psychiatrist who trades therapy for marijuana, won the audience award for favorite U.S. drama as chosen by balloting among Sundance moviegoers. Sony Pictures Classics purchased "Frozen River," trade papers reported, for under $1 million.
Australia Day dazzles a nation
The four colourfully adorned commuter carriers finished almost in a line under the Harbour Bridge, with the corporate sponsors charitably letting Variety, the charity ferry, win. As the fleet whooshed past the crowded foreshore, the harbour suddenly sounded like a New York street, with hundreds of horns honking. Giving new meaning to the term "pleasure" craft was the Great Aussie Barbie Boat, with snag-scented smoke rising from the top deck, Angels on the stereo and the bow - bedecked in Australian-flag bikinis - and a bunch of blokes up the back, dressed as fried eggs, tomatoes and barbecue-sauce bottles. The skies were busy with a fly-past by RAAF F/A-18 jets and Seahawk helicopters, but they also bore a reminder of the original Australians who greeted the First Fleet.
On Native Ground
There is plenty of evidence that interest rates might stay relatively low while the blue-chip equity market starts a new bull leg over the next year or two. As a consumer, a voter, an observer, and an investor, think of the types of industries which will be needed for this next economic cycle. If housing sucked up concrete, copper, lumber, and financing for the past decade, isn't it time for infrastructure to step up to the plate? How many roads have you seen with crumbling shoulders and deepening potholes recently? How many bridges and overpasses look like they are ready to crumble? Perhaps most telling are the projects which take five years to complete that present us with another four or six lanes on the Interstate. The hour the ribbon is cut and the politicians retire for a drink at the bar, the roads are jammed and drivers begin demanding another four lanes.
PLM wants to be top tourism school
Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim expressed hope that the city government can regain jurisdiction over Intramuros from the national government. Intramuros, if properly restored to its former beauty, can be one of the countrys best tourist attractions. Once the administration of Intramuros is brought back to the city government, we can start doing some development projects there, Lim said. Regaining Intramuros from the national government also figures in the expansion plans of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), the countrys premier locally-funded university, is better known for its accountancy, engineering, medicine, nursing, and physical therapy programs as its students have performed well in the said areas in government-administered licensure examinations.
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