okay Albert, they're immunizing people all over the city now, but they're still focusing mainly on post secondary students. though I'll bet you could use your ONE card if you still have it...

In the meantime, how likely are you to share your beverages with potentially infected people? ;)


THE FOLLOWING IS A NOTICE PROVIDED BY THE CAPITAL HEALTH AUTHORITY WITH SUPPORT FROM YOUR UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE HEALTH LINK AT 408-LINK (5465).

Missed the on-campus immunization clinic?

Free mumps clinics have been added at the following Capital Health Public Health Sites.

If you were born in or after 1970 and were not one of the post-secondary students and staff to be immunized at the free mumps immunization clinics held on campus in late November – early December you can still be immunized before the Christmas holidays.

Capital Health will be providing free mumps-containing vaccine to post-secondary students and staff born in or after 1970 who have not had:
• mumps disease or
• 2 doses of mumps-containing vaccine.

Post-secondary students and staff who were born in or after 1970 with:
• no history of mumps disease or
• history of one or no doses of mumps-containing vaccine or
• unknown history of mumps disease or mumps vaccine should be immunized.

Clinics will be held on the following dates at the following locations:
Saturday, December 15, 2007 (9:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
• Leduc Public Health Centre, 4219 - 50 Street, Leduc
• Mill Woods Public Health Centre, 7525 - 38Avenue, Edmonton
• Northeast Community Health Centre, 14007 - 50 Street, Edmonton
• Providence Centre Auditorium 3005 - 119 Street, Edmonton
• St. Albert Public Health Centre, 23 Sir Winston Churchill Avenue, St. Albert
• Strathcona County Health Centre, 2 Brower Drive, Sherwood Park
• West Jasper Place Public Health Centre, 9720 - 182 Street, Edmonton
• Westview Health Centre, 4405 South Park Drive, Stony Plain

This immunization is for all post-secondary students and staff in the Capital Health region (Edmonton and surrounding area), including international students and non-Alberta residents in any post-secondary programs.

Capital Health asks that all eligible individuals bring their staff or student I.D., Personal Health Number (if available) and if available, immunization record.

Immunization is the only form of protection against mumps. Mumps-containing vaccine has been routinely used in Alberta since 1982. For more information about mumps disease and vaccine, visit the Capital health web-site at:

http://www.capitalhealth.ca/YourHealth/Campaigns/Mumps/default.htm

For more information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, call Capital Health Link at 408-LINK (5465) or, outside the local calling area, call toll free 1-866-408- LINK. Visit www.capitalhealth.ca for health information online.

Taxi To The Dark Side:

Yep typical coen brothers.

I'm heading down to the guerilla boutique at the Artery this afternoon. Its on 95th and Jasper I beleive. I'm thinking 4ish if anyone else is interested.218-5373

Oh yeah, No country for old men is quite the flick.

We should play this game some time.

Yeah, Alison, I do think the intention is to deal with things as they come up, but the document is overreaching. There are boundary issues that they're obscuring simply in an effort to protect themselves.

My concern is that the deanery has demonstrated in the past few of years that they have no tolerance for conduct that places (or even potentially places) the FOMD in a bad light (which I don't begrudge them), but that that tendency needs to be tempered by recognizing that they cannot (either in practice or on principle) expect to be able to vet everything that students in the faculty do, simply because it's recorded or published on the internet.

Granted, there is an expectation that students in this faculty conduct themselves as professionals (as they soon will become), but that expectation goes hand-in-hand with treating the students as professionals, even if that means giving them enough rope to hang themselves with. And I think the deanery is slanting their approach too far to the side of caution with respect to student conduct, at the expense of student freedom.

I agree that people in general, and professionals whose work depends on a certain level of respect from the public in particular, need to be somewhat careful about what they make available to the public (blogs, youtube, facebook, etc.), but I don't think it's the faculty's role, in general, to police that. (Although there are cases, such as media directly related to the faculty, where they have that prerogative.)

(Also, "deanery" is a great word, and is used far too infrequently.)

Ecogeek has a series of videos filmed by Hank Green of Bob Lutz (General Motors Vice Chairman of Global Product Development) speaking to "new media" people (ie. bloggers). This one is about the decision to make hybrid versions of SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe (or, what Hank calls "big-ass hybrids):

whoa...

Jesse, you'll like this

Yeah, I got to go to the preview screening of No Country For Old Men, and I must say it's my favourite movie so far this year. Sorry I won't be joining you Al, but it's an AWESOME movie. I think you'll like it.

Also, while it's certainly violent, it's not actually overly gore-y. My girlfriend even liked the movie and she hates scary/violent movies.

Oh yeah, if you don't like gore don't see this movie. Some hitman runs around killing guys with a "cattle gun".