News from THE DELANEY CO.

WEIGHT LOSS - When you lose weight without exercise, you lose both fat and muscle. When you gain weight without exercise, you gain only fat. It's much easier to gain fat weight than it is to gain muscle weight, which is one of the reasons that yo-yo dieting fails so miserably: When you continually gain and lose and gain and lose, you end up gaining proportionally even more fat, because of the muscle loss that takes place every time you lose.

LOW SCHOOL - Last week a Rhode Island school district voted to fire all the teachers at an underperforming school. The Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School, including teachers, guidance counselors and the principal. It's the only school in the tiny, impoverished city north of Providence. Only about half its students graduate and only 7 percent of 11th-graders were proficient in math in 2009. The plan was developed because of a federal effort to makeover failing schools. The Central Falls Teachers Union says it is reviewing legal options and hasn't decided what action to take. Education Secretary Arne Duncan applauds the decision and says "when schools continue to struggle we have a collective obligation to take action."

NUTRITIONAL ROBBERY - Feb. 24^th - Police in Georgia are searching for a pair of hungry bandits who stole an order of chicken wings from a pizza delivery driver. Columbus Police say the 19-year-old Domino's driver was approached outside a home Tuesday night by two men who asked for money. One of the men pointed a chrome pistol. Police say one of the men then said, "give me the wings." They fled the scene with the $36 order. No cash was taken and the driver was not injured. The impatient customer saved 1700

calories and 100 grams of fat.

MOSQUITO ATTACKS - At the annual TED conference in Long Beach, Calif., Nathan Myhrvold presented a laser that shoots down mosquitoes. Can consumer electronics be used to combat malaria?Myhrvold, Microsoft's former chief technology officer, thinks so. His company, Intellectual Ventures, makes rapid lasers that shoot down mosquitoes in mid-flight. He gave the first public demonstration of the laser at the TED conference three weeks ago. After hundreds of mosquitoes (which were kept in the hotel bathroom until show time) were released into a glass tank, a laser tracked their movements and slowly shot them down, leaving their carcasses scattered on the bottom of the tank. While the demonstration was slowed down for public viewing, Mr. Myhrvold said that normally the lasers could shoot down anywhere between 50 to 100 mosquitoes per second. Worried about butterflies, your pet parrot, or your child on Halloween?? Don't fear...the software detects the speed and size of the image before deciding whether to shoot by picking up the wing beat pattern. The laser detection is so precise that it can specify the species, and even the gender, of the mosquito being targeted. "The women are bigger. They beat at a lower frequency," Mr. Myhrvold said. Since it is only the female mosquitoes that bite humans, for the sake of efficiency, his system would leave the males alone.

BEER = BRAIN FOOD?? - Deftly explained by Cliff Clavin, "You see, it's like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."

Cheers!!!