tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66447822011-11-27T18:48:29.712-05:00<strong></strong>DRBnoreply@blogger.comBlogger741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644782.post-86785073795545842512011-05-07T04:02:00.005-04:002011-05-07T04:44:44.025-04:00

Sipping an orange juice and chatting with students at a large wooden table strewn with breakfast food and a book or two, Dr. Holden's peace and five minute break from lecturing, was shattered by a middle-aged lady, poking her head through the doorway, asking questions, seeking the doctor's help.   It's May 2011 and like years past, most Saturday mornings this Spring, Dr. Holden

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If you don't know a horizontal asymptote from a partial-fraction decomposition, you may want to ask a teenager. On Wednesday at the University of Montana, more than 1,000 math whizzes from western Montana spent most of their school day racking their left brains at the Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics math contest, getting grilled on geometry, probability, algebra, trigonometry and

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No this post isn't introducing a new ARENA football team. It's an update on a scholastic program based in New Jersey for junior high school students. Dubbed "The Stars Challenge" the program was created and developed by a couple with two PhD's between them. Margaret Ann and Stephen G. Chappell of Rumson, started the challenge to encourage middle school students to develop their passion and

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Ahh, it's that time of year. I look at my two pairs of skiis, and every week-end until March, I contemplate whether or not to go to Camelback. Then it's summer. Maybe 2010 is the year. In any event I love watching skiing on NBC's Universal Sports channel, the skill and courage of ski jumpers in particular. Have you every wondered about the physics of that sport? I have and did a search to see

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There are science bloggers and then there's Ed Young, a Brit who enjoys breaking it down, from the life sciences to bytes of information technology. Here's a re-print nicely written on what it means when a liver cell - as opposed to human sex cells - have an extra chromosome. When the former has more than necessary it's a Down syndrome scenario. Thankfully not so with the liver. Young's opener?

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PR folks at the University of California, Berkeley sent out a press release on neuronal firing patterns and not too many of us in the blogosphere picked it up. Maybe it's too elementary but I found the work interesting. Researchers there say neurons have to fire in sych and in rhythm, specifically, cortical rhythms, or oscillations. The latter 'rallies' groups of neurons in widely dispersed

DRBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644782.post-35991955489796179332010-09-16T17:24:00.003-04:002010-09-16T17:44:55.992-04:00

I've run for years and successfully convinced myself that I need sugar (candy bar, donut, brownie) for fuel. Now too many years past 30, it's caught up with me. I've anecdotally linked my sugar fetish to a number of minor health issues and like many have drawn a line on what and how much sugar I will eat. For example I put down any item in a store if it has the dreaded "high fructose corn syrup"

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How many seconds does it take a word  to go from thought to audible speech? Last year researchers clocked it at an amazing 50 milliseconds or .5 of a second. Research teams in Utah and Massachusetts have been working on decoding the neural pattern of speech into sound and managing the lightening speed that naturally occurs in humans. I mentioned Dr. Hawking in the previous post. He is the

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If religion and science are strange bedfellows maybe philosophy and science can make a go of it.Well no not really, says Stephen Hawking (photo) Britain's renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist. His new book Grand Design is critiqued by a Guardian journalist in a terrific article. Skimming through that I thought about my own thoughts on the usefulness of philosophy and the utilitarianism

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Every day or so you can find an announcement or product launch - real or shaman-like - in the anti-aging field. For those who take this work seriously it appears to be a roller coaster ride reflecting on information grounded in real science versus commercial nonsense.Two articles caught my attention on how science and pseudo-science merge in this billion-dollar arena. The first is about a dietary

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Passionate about making US high school students number one in science again?Read about the Dream Tour presented by the ExxonMobil and Harris Foundations who have partnered on a creative national tour geared to engaging middle school students in science and technology. Read more about the tour and then go to the Notebook.org and check out the website's reporting on the new school year in

DRBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644782.post-15288769998314924232010-09-02T21:36:00.003-04:002010-09-09T19:38:22.497-04:00

{REPRINT}An experimental Novartis AG medicinethat killed drug-resistant malaria in laboratory studies maybecome the first new class of treatment against the disease in30 years, researchers said. The drug cured mice at lower doses than existing medicinesand killed drug-resistant strains taken from patients inThailand, researchers said in the journal Science yesterday.Human trials of the drug are

DRBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644782.post-59928665485699719312010-09-01T19:35:00.004-04:002010-09-09T19:51:32.385-04:00

It's long been noted that there is some sort of link between what a child eats and his or her risk of ADHD. Saying MM's or a Snicker's bar is the problem is too easy. What's the physiological link? These three Digg posts offer some answers ...Western diet link to ADHDphysorg.com— A new study from Perth's Telethon

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Matt Ford wrote on ArsTechnica.com that the editors of the British journal The Lancet reviewed the conclusions of a multiyear ethics investigation of UK doctor Andrew Wakefield performed by the General Medical Counsel (GMC) and then formally retracted a study which purported to find a link between the childhood MMR vaccine, gastrointestinal disease, and autism.The article on Dr. Wakefield was

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(REPRINTED)A special report explains how corporate staffing consultants of pharmaceutical employers must have Competence, Chemistry, and Charisma when fighting the war for MSL talent. In a press release from 1888.com, it was reported that companies are shifting their recruiting burdens for field-based medical science liaisons."More MSL employers and specialty recruiters are coming to us and

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ABOUT USAli's Wagon's Parenting Center which is intended to assist those of us young urbans who are in a family way. Ali's Wagonis the place to go when you are first expecting, to take birthing classes and to informally meet other parents, and Ali's Wagon fulfills the desire of many current Fairmount parents to have some local shopping for their baby needs. Our inventory and programming reflect

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Visiting Kansas any time soon?To protect workers and patients, the Mercy Regional Health Center in Topeka, KA temporarily changed its visitor policy. No one under the age of 12 can visit patients and only one visitor is allowed into the Birth and Women's Center."They're in a category that's high-risk for the H1N1 influenza," Couchman said.The hospital and doctor's offices in the county have seen

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Physiologists analyzing obesity, heart disease, and diabetes found that the act of sitting shuts down the circulation of a fat-absorbing enzyme called lipase. They found that standing up engages muscles and promotes the distribution of lipase, which prompts the body to process fat and cholesterol, independent of the amount of time spent exercising. They also found that standing up uses blood

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Physiologists analyzing obesity, heart disease, and diabetes found that the act of sitting shuts down the circulation of a fat-absorbing enzyme called lipase. They found that standing up engages muscles and promotes the distribution of lipase, which prompts the body to process fat and cholesterol, independent of the amount of time spent exercising. They also found that standing up uses blood

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The University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education offers a Pre-Doctoral Training Program designed to support and enhance the Ph.D. training of students in different disciplines who are committed to careers in applied, field-based education research. The initiative involves six University of Pennsylvania schools and multiple school districts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and it is

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At Rice University we are strongly committed to increasing the diversity of science and engineering faculty and students. As part of this goal we are sponsoring an exciting workshop for senior women graduate students and post-docs who are interested in pursuing an academic career. The workshop, Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position, (October 18-19, 2009), is designed to provide participants

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***$1000*** SIGNING BONUS ***$1000***Highly rated TeacherNex, a recruiting company based in Newark, NJ works with local charter schools and a select group of NPS district schools to fill open faculty positions with high quality candidates. One application to TeacherNex can connect you to over 20 Newark area school leaders.Learn more.New and aspiring teachers go into Twitter.com's chat room.

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POLLY WANT A CRACKER?It was a classic medical scare story: Parrots died. A few people got sick. Newspapers went wild. Then, well after the outbreak of "parrot fever" was declared dormant, researchers who dealt with the birds began to mysteriously die themselves. Historian Jill Lepore talks to host Jacki Lyden about the great parrot fever outbreak of 1929. Lepore chronicles the episode in the June

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Ovarian stimulation with letrozole does not raise breast cancer recurrence riskWill Boggs, MDReuters HealthLast Modified: June 16, 2008Last Updated: 2008-06-16 13:51:56 -0400 (Reuters Health)NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fertility preservation using ovarian stimulation with letrozole and gonadotropins does not seem to increase the risk of recurrence in women with breast cancer, according to a

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Linking the Limbic Brain to Krispy Kreme DonutsScienceDaily asks ... What makes you suddenly dart into the bakery when you spy chocolate- frosted donuts in the window, though you certainly hadn't planned on indulging? As you lick the frosting off your fingers, don't blame a lack of self-control,blame...

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Is There A “Brain Signature” for Cigarette Craving?Researchers at Penn think so.A brain imaging study conducted at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania shows that cigarette cravings in smokers who are deprived of nicotine are linked with increased activation in specific regions of the brain. Using a novel method of measuring brain blood flow developed by John Detre, MD,

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October 2nd, 2007Posted by Dan Farber @ 4:10 pmPeter Zencke, a member of SAP’s Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last four years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP’s ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it in the marketplace. (See earlier coverage of Zencke’s TechEd ‘07 keynote

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Second Life: A Virtual Universe for Real EngineeringMatthew J. Traum, Contributing Editor -- Design News, October 22, 2007 First there was the drafting table and the pencil. Then there was 2-D CAD; next came 3-D drafting utilities like SolidWorks and ProEngineer. Now, San Francisco-based Linden Lab has evolved computer-aided design to its next plateau, offering free access to a computer-generated

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SAP to Kanye West "There's Only One of Me"SAP is a Goliath of Epic Proportions. SAP is The Man. SAP is King. Basically, it's SAP's world, and the rest of are just living in it.So says an article in PC World. Writes author, Thomas Wailgum, if you're wondering just how big SAP is becoming, IDC's Albert Pang has this nugget for you: "The recent rise of SAP as the leading enterprise applications

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Business Analyst ToolI found an interesting post on a Business Analyst blog. The blogger attended a Certified ScrumMaster training class delivered by Lithespeed.  He noted that the class was very valuable, and went on to share a tool, trade-off matrix, to help set customer and team expectations.    Go to the Business-Analyst-Blogblog to view the matrix. By documenting items this way at the

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If KOH in alcohol is used, the first elimination is much faster than the second, so the bromoalkene may be isolated if desired. C6H5CH=CBrC6H5 + KOH ——> C6H5C≡CC6H5 + KBr + H2OThe reaction of 1-butene with bromine would give 1,2-dibromobutane, and on treatment with base this vicinal dibromide would be expected to yield 1-bromo-1-butene followed by a second elimination to 1-

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Announcing The Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program 2007 Research GrantsNumerous grants and graduate fellowships in various environmental science and engineering disciplines can be obtained via a competitive bid process and independent peer review. The program engages the nation’s best scientists and engineers in targeted research that complements EPA’s own outstanding intramural research

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Landing on the Moon is So ... Yesterday The National Academies website reported today that NASA has announced plans for a solar-powered lunar base in preparation for eventual missions to Mars and beyond. By 2020, four-person crews will begin to establish a lunar base by bringing power supplies and rovers and building living quarters in a series of seven-day missions. Next, the crews will stay at

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Fighting the Terminal Master's BluesNISHAD H. MAJMUDAR reported in the The Wall Street Journal about the rise of a new science degree: the professional science master's (PSM). Excerpted from the article:Twyla Tiongson Pohar expected her bachelor's degree in molecular biology to help launch her career.But employers told her she needed either a doctorate, requiring years of research, or business

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PENN CENTER FOR BIOETHICSTuesday, November 21, 2006“Pharmaceutical testing and evidence making:An ethnography of the globalized clinical trial”Adriana Petryna, Ph.D.Associate Professor of AnthropologyUniversity of PennsylvaniaTuesday, December 12, 2006“How the success and failure of prenatal carechanged the way we think about pregnancy”John Lantos, M.D.Director, Center for Clinical

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OECD Information Technology Outlook 2006The OECD Information Technology Outlook 2006 analyses the development and impact of the changing global distribution of services activities and the rise of China and India as significant suppliers of ICT-related goods and services. ICT skills across the economy are also examined to provide insights into the dynamics of job creation and international

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The Global Networking Symposium on BioEnergy November 9 - 10, 2006 Alberta, CanadaThis alternative energy conference takes a business-oriented look at the opportunities and challenges surrounding biofuels. Participants will discover:Who is investing in renewable energy and how do traditional investors view this investment opportunity? Where is the smart money going?What percentage of the total

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Sermo Partners with Penn Center for Bioethics to Develop Ethical Guidelines for Market-Based Clinical InformaticsSermo, the fastest growing online community created by physicians for physicians, has announced a partnership with Arthur Caplan, Ph. D., and the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics, to expand the development of ethical guidelines for Sermo and Sermo's users. Dr. Caplan

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Homeroom: How Major Museums and Science Centers Ignite Student Interest in ResearchAs budgets tighten and both informal science venues and academic researchers compete for limited dollars, the challenge is to develop collaborations that sustain and stimulate ideas at the nexus of research, education, and outreach. Such partnerships are already underway in major museums and science centers around

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How Invisibility Cloaks WorkUsing optical-camouflage technology developed by scientists at the University of Tokyo, an invisibility cloak - - the stuff of Harry Potter movies - - is actually a reality. Physicists there have revealed a super high-tech invisibility device. Learn more.

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Marie Curie, The Mother of PhysicsMany know Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes, one in 1903 for Physics and the other in 1911 for Chemistry, but how many people know she was the mother of two children? The quandry of how women balance a research profession and motherhood is being tackled by Emily Monosson according to a report on the The American Astronomical Society website. Ms. Monosson is

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Use of Marrow Stromal Cells for the Therapy of Heart DiseaseDarwin Prockop, PhD, Department of Medicine and Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University is one of several investigators working on animal models of cardiac diseases using marrow Stromal cells and other immortal cell lines.Dr. Prockop's work focuses on injecting stromal cells into damaged myocardium. The cells differentiate into

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Women, Heart to HeartFemale physicians at Penn Medicine dole out some thoughtful gems of advice on including themselves in their family's cardiac health equation. "Women need to stop caring for all the members of their families for a few minutes and start caring for themselves. They need to know their risk factors for heart disease and take steps to reduce future risk. Heart disease kills women

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WHAT TO BUYChina Medical Technologies, Inc. CMED 24.45 9.83% 383,567Sell @ 24.64Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc. MFLX 34.4 N/A 538,540Sell @ 34.64Geac Computer Corporation Ltd GEAC 10.74 22.46% 1,319,095Thoughts? Up too high at 2Pm for a profitInternet Initiative Japan, Inc. IIJI 10.87 9.31% 2,155,565Sell @ 10.95U.S. Concrete, Inc. RMIX 7.00 9.37% 83,078 Sell @ 7.05eSpeed,

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ECC Capital Corporation Completes $1.4 Billion OfferingECC (NYSE: ECR), a mortgage finance real estate investment trust that originates and invests in residential mortgage loans, announced on PRNEWSWIRE.COM the successful completion of a securitization and related offering by Encore Credit Receivables Trust 2005-2. The offering includes approximately $1.4 billion of notes backed by a pool of

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CHINA JOINS INChinaView.cn reported that The China Development Bank (CDB) will launch asset securitization this year after about three years of preparation. Securitization, which originated in the United States in the 1970s, and has grown a following in Europe, has become a major financial instrument around the world. Asset securitization can be defined as changing non-liquid assets (mortgages,

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Asset-Backed Alert, by Harrison Scott PublicationsThe writers at Asset-Backed Alert reported in March that market players were starting to worry that the values of asset-backed securities may have climbed too high. The article noted "... as investors continue to gorge themselves on securitized products, industry participants are beginning to wonder whether it would take much to send those

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Special risks of mortgage-backed and asset-backed securitiesMortgage-backed securities represent an interest in a pool of mortgages. When market interest rates decline, more mortgages are refinanced, and mortgage-backed securities are paid off earlier than expected. Prepayments may also occur on a scheduled basis or due to foreclosure. The effect on the fund’s return is similar to that discussed

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Rapid Reporting's President Addresses Fraud, Quality Subprime Loans and Regulatory Compliance Businesswire.com reported that on Thursday, May 19, 2005, industry observers will meet for a finance symposium.WHAT: SourceMedia's Subprime Lending Symposium Forum entitled, "Building a Quality Subprime Business."WHO: Jay Meadows, CEO and president of Rapid Reporting, will

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Math for the NetworksGen X + Gen Y = An Audience Harder to Delude Than We Baby Boomers.It's not pre-calculus, but it's close. The equation comes from a quick read of Merrill Brown's article Abandoning the News published in the Spring issue of the Carnegie Reporter, the online journal for the Carnegie Corporation of New York foundation. Mr. Brown's premise is that the future of American news is

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Trophy Site: Divorcing Google for TechnoratiIf you find information on Google.com because the web page has high rankings due to Google's page-rank system (as some mysterious calculation of the importance of its external/internal links and incoming vs. outgoing links as well as keywords being consistent with the overall purpose and design of the site, to weed out "link farms"), but that page has

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BUILD YOUR OWN --- FREE COURSEWAREUNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is the teaching/learning arm of the UN. Their website serves as a clearinghouse for the dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge. Here is a partial list of free courseware to support course/content managment.Dokeos Open Source Learning and Knowledge Management is

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GEM - The Gateway to Educational MaterialsThe Gateway to Educational Materials is the joint effort of several groups including The US Department of Education, The National Library of Education, and a team from Syracuse University. The site is geared to educators but anyone can access the materials which include thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university,

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High Tech High Philadelphia - - The past two years has witnessed an escalating debate on the state of high schools around the nation. Alicia Mundy wrote in the Seattle Times that Bill Gates blasted the state of U.S. high schools in a speech before the National Governors Association education summit on February 27th. Gates has not chosen Philadelphia as one of the cities receiving money from the

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Creating and Working With PDF Documents with Adobe AcrobatCreating PDF (Portable Document Format) documents can make life much easier for those desiring to put documents on the Internet. PDF documents allow the end user to view and interact with them without the need to have the application used to create them. For instance, a newsletter created with PageMaker and converted to PDF can be viewed

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Ask Your Doctor? Douglass B. Humphreys, CEO of Patient Interaction writes that patient education, or “issue marketing,” provides patients with valuable information crucial to their purchase decisions and health and safety. He writes that pharma-sponsored patient education campaigns can have an extremely positive impact on patient attitudes towards health care professionals and the treatment

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OLD HEAD PRE-MED Historically medical school applicants had to have had not only a college degree (preferred by not required) but three years of apprenticing to a practicing physician for possible admission to medical schools. Degree candidates often had established success in other careers, were well known in a specific field or city, and were normally in their late 20's to late 30's. Harvard

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College Lecture MaterialI am taking a class in microbiology - - the macroscopic study of microorganisms and viruses - - and I am particularly interested in a sub-area, immunology. Immunology specifically studies the way in which the body fights off microorganisms and how we maintain health even in the midst of billions of antigens. Somehow the body recognizes and teaches itself what is internal

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The Mega-Deals Are Back in Commercial Real Estate So you want to know how true players in the commercial real estate space get the big deals done? Many investors do. Analysts who monitor the real estate industry say investors who left traditional brick-and-mortar industries -- such as real estate -- during the dot-com and telecom booms have come back. This has resulted in large amounts of

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Should Your Next CEO Be a Philosopher? This in from one of the Wharton Business School's e-newsletter's called Knowledge@Wharton. According to the article, a Wharton professor and an Israeli venture capitalist believe that a firm's financial success comes more from a deep understanding of the customer's philosophical perspective than other areas such as effective marketing, research and

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Toxic Breast Milk? By FLORENCE WILLIAMS Apparently you are what you eat. Ms. Williams wrote this article for a January 9, 2005 issue of the New York Times. In it she asks readers to imagine human milk from mammary glands with an ingredients label. Read down and one will see 100% of the nourishing and life-enhancing minerals and vitamins needed by babies. Keep reading. Tests show that along with

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Philadelphia (Free)dom City government in Philadelphia appears to be using wi-fi technology to attract new business and also offer a free perk to those who currently reside within its limits. Marc Levy wrote an AP article that ran on December 1 on the Washingpost.com. website and reported that the City of Philadelphia had struck a deal with Verizon. This new development has helped the city move

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Update: Buzz Marketing and the Blog Two interesting articles on the rebirth of word-of-mouth marketing, now called buzzing. The angle of the story was seen through the career and business of Elisa Camahort, founder of a San Francisco marketing firm called Worker Bees. One piece was written by Jane Allen in Vault.com and the other by Sheila Ann Manuel Coggins in About.com. Both authors describe

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Health Care Marketing How then do healthcare marketers determine an e-marketing strategy? According to Daniel Fell in healthleaders.com the key is the organization's specific goals. He lists three defining criteria: Brand Building - mix of online branding strategies and consumer information services. Driving Traffic to Physicians - offer referral services and promote the services/practices/

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Looking Back: Bayer and Company ... The Way of Vioxx? A recent book authored by Diarmuid Jeffreys' "Aspirin: The Story of a Wonder Drug" takes a look at what may be a too-sensitive consumer marketplace that could have even aspirin in question. Jeffreys' writes: " ...imagine that this wonder drug had been introduced today. Would it have been approved? No doubt early testing would have shown the

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Marketing and PR Blog Examples By B.L. Ochman Loosetooth uses this blog to drive traffic to a Cafepress store, which handles order fulfillment.CEO Blogs List Actually, that's a misnomer. This is a list of weblogs authored by people who are in a leadership position in various organizations (corporations, non-profit, etc.)Hundreds of CEOs are blogging, and the vast majority of their blogs are

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The Online Journalism Review A web-based journal produced by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. The Online Journalism Review covers the full range of journalistic issues in all media, but with a particular emphasis on the Internet.

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Blogging, Citizen Journalism and the Website as Public Square Jay Rosen a journalism professor NYU, press critic and writer follows the media industry through his blog PRESSthink. Mr. Rosen has a post covering a consultant's report to the Greensboro News & Record editor. The report details how best to take the and "... re-create the print product online... understanding the culture of the

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Blogging: Product Spin and Mindware Marketing Journalist Ian Palmer wrote an article in IT Business Canada about businesses using blogs as an indicator of newfound respectability. IBM, HP, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are identified as sponsoring blogs, probably a good thing, but phony? Robin Hopper, CEO of iUpload, is quoted as saying his company's high Google ranking came not from its

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MacWorld 2005 - New Apple i-Pod Audio Systems Hit the Road w/Alfa Romeo Apple is trying to make using an i-Pod in the car a reality for today's drivers -- wedding gate crashers and all. News from San Francisco this morning (January 12, 2005) is that Apple and Italian car company Alfa Romeo have entered into a joint agreement. According to news reports, Apple is promising Alfa Romeo owners "..

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Google's Suggestive New Service. Check out Google's latest product, "Google Suggest." Dr. James F. Moore, a Senior Fellow at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society put a posting about it on his blog, noting the new service "...is useful and accurate..." Read reporter Alyce Lomax's December 13th article in the The Motley Fool.

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What Journalists Can Learn From Bloggers First of two articles on what bloggers and traditional journalists can teach one another. Part 2: What bloggers can learn from journalists

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Losing MTV's "Real World" It's been a little more than (17) years that I graduated from Penn and I thought to myself, please just don't let me end up here forever. I say that sort of tongue-in-cheek because I am fond of the city: the very friendly people, the sports teams, the old world architecture and the low, low cost of living. Unfortunately the low cost of living comes at a high price,

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Need to Tighten Career Goals? Start or Grow a Business? Log on to Mentoring Websites for Help Results-oriented, effective and personal problems solving help is often a mouse click or phone call away and yet most of us are unaware of what is available. My advice is to develop some background on mentoring and coaching by exploring a few broad based sites and blogs. My suggestions are an ecademy

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