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(NAPSA)—The sense of adven-ture and excitement that is built intorailroad history is core to the storiesof a blue steam engine created by afather for his son 65 years ago.Now, that train, Thomas the Tank

Engine, is celebrating his milestonebirthday with a new generation ofkids and parents. As part of the fes-tivities, Thomas is teaming up withhistoric railroads across the coun-try for Day Out With Thomas: TheCelebration Tour 2010. It encour-ages families to spend time togetherand with the popular engine. Eventsat regional railroads across the coun-try show how each railroad stationstop has its own distinctive historyto explore.

Rolling out of the station for its15th consecutive year, the tour isexpected to welcome more than amillion passengers in 45 citiesthroughout North America. Eachevent offers fans the opportunity totake a ride on a 15-ton replica ofThomas the Tank Engine and meetSir Topham Hatt, Controller of theRailway on the Island of Sodor,among other exciting activities. The tour is presented by HIT

Entertainment and sponsored byMEGA Brands, a leading toy com-pany. Tickets are available at(866) 468-7630 and www.ticketweb.com/dowt. For more informa-tion, visit www.thomasandfriends.com/dowt.

Celebrate A Special Train

All aboard for fun: The No. 1 blue engine is celebrating his 65thbirthday by giving rides all over North America.

Did You Know: • Over 1.5 million people currently enjoy Day Out With Thomas events in the U.S., U.K., The Netherlands, Denmark, Canada, Australia and New Zealand each year.• The Thomas replica engine that travels to Day Out With Thomas events weighs as much as three male elephants. An average male elephant weighs six tons.

(NAPSA)—Used correctly, ablood thinner can be a lifesaver.However, used improperly, it canpose a threat to the health of theperson taking it, leading, in somecases, to uncontrolled bleeding.More than 4 million Americans

take blood thinner drugs to avoidhealth problems such as bloodclots, heart attack and stroke. Reg-ular blood tests can let you know ifyour blood is clotting properly, andsimple precautions, such as wear-ing gloves when gardening or usingsharp tools around the house, canhelp protect against injury andavoid trips to the emergency room.

Talk To Your DoctorIt’s important to make sure

that your doctor knows aboutevery medicine you take, includ-ing medicines you were takingbefore you started taking a bloodthinner. These medicines canchange the way your blood thin-ner works and your blood thinnercan also change the way yourother medicines work. This in -cludes other prescription medi-cines, over-the-counter medicines,vitamins and herbal products.For example, products that con-

tain aspirin may lessen the blood’sability to form clots and mayincrease your risk of bleeding whenyou are also taking a blood thinner.Pain relievers, cold medicines andstomach remedies may also inter-fere with how blood thinners work,so it’s important to alert your doc-tor if you are taking them.

Diet Is Important, TooThe foods you eat on a regular

basis can also affect how well yourblood thinner works for you. Forinstance, high amounts of vitaminK might work against some bloodthinners, such as warfarin. Askyour doctor if you need to payattention to the amount of vita-min K you eat.

Foods that contain medium tohigh levels of vitamin K and canaffect how your blood thinnerwork include asparagus, broccoli,brussels sprouts, cabbage, canolaoil and kale.

Free Video GuideTo help you better understand

how to take blood thinners safely,the federal Agency for HealthcareResearch and Quality is offering afree 10-minute video, “StayingActive and Healthy With BloodThinners,” and a 24-page booklet,“Blood Thinner Pills: Your Guideto Using Them Safely.” To order the free DVD and

accompanying booklet in Englishor Spanish, e-mail AHRQPubs@ahrq.hhs.gov or call (800) 358-9295. If you would like to previewthe video or booklet online, go towww.ahrq.gov/consumer/btpills.htm.

Video Has The Skinny On Blood Thinners

It’s important to make sure thatyour doctor knows about everymedicine you take. They maychange the way your blood thin-ner works.

(NAPSA)—One of the latestdevelopments in the computerfield is already benefiting manystudents and teachers. Tabletcomputers seem to be finding ahome in both the traditional andthe electronic classroom. Students say that by using

tablets they can collaborate easilywith their peers. Teachers findthey can use tablets to monitorstudents’ grasp of the materialthat has been covered. For example, with software

such as DyKnow Vision, teacherscan send a “status request” dur-ing a lesson to gauge each stu-dent’s level of understanding,without the embarrassing raiseof hands. “I’m not using cannedexamples from a textbook any-more. I’m using real examplesimmediately pulled from the stu-dent’s tablet,” says computer sci-ence professor Roy Pargas atClemson University. Like many smartphones, tab-

lets have touch capabilities builtinto the screen. Students cantouch the screen on tablets tomanipulate, interact and sharecontent with one another insideand outside the classroom,which can foster an interactiveenvironment. With pen-based tablets, such

as the HP EliteBook 2740p, stu-dents can take digital notes intheir own handwriting as well asdownload and annotate slide pre-sentations during lectures. Onceoutside the classroom, studentscan revisit their notes to studyalone or share their notes withclassmates.

Professor Dave Berque of DePauwUniversity and his students use HPtablets with Intel Core Duo proces-sors and DyKnow Vision softwareto take notes, solve problems andshare solutions in his computer sci-ence class. They can also replaynotes after class. As a result, he sawfailure rates drop from 14 percentto 1 percent. Said Berque, “TabletPCs make the classroom an inter-active environment, and that tendsto give a lot of feedback to everyoneinvolved.” Tablets are more than an

interactive tool; they can alsosave time. Instead of spendinghours after class grading papers,teachers can mark papers elec-tronically and then transfer thescores into an electronic grade-tracking system. Many believe that with tablet

PCs, the classroom can become amore interactive environment.Teachers and students alike canfind success in all the touch capa-bilities that tablets have to offer. To learn more, visit

www.hp.com/go/hied or call (800)888-0262.

Tablet Computers Find A Home In The Classroom

Both students and teachersreport that tablet computers mayhelp to make a classroom envi-ronment more interactive.

(NAPSA)—For loads of blue-berry recipes, nutrition informa-tion and more, go to www. blueberrycouncil.org.

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***In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds fordivorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, the grounds formarriage.

—Robert Anderson***

***Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heartcan hold.

—Zelda Fitzgerald***

***The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

—Lee Iacocca***

***Honest differences are often ahealthy sign of progress.

—Mahatma Gandhi***

***Timid men prefer the calm ofdespotism to the tempestuoussea of liberty.

—Thomas Jefferson ***

In the world of horses, a palomino is a light tan or golden horsewith an ivory or cream-colored mane and tail. A sabino is a roan orlight red horse with a white belly.

Human beings normally have 26 chromosomes; a goldfish, on theother hand, has 94.

The New York Times publishedits first movie review in 1909. Itwas a report on D. W. Griffith’s“Pippa Passes,” a film adaptationof the Robert Browning poem.

Vitus Jonassen Bering iscredited with discovering Alaskaand the strait between it andRussia. The Bering Strait and theBering Sea are both named forhim.

An average human scalp has100,000 hairs.