Somewhere In A Boardroom “Gentlemen, gentlemen! Let’s calm down and start this meeting about the new fall season! Timothy, please get off the chandelier, we’ve spoken about that, remember. That’s just for the office parties.” “Okay, so. Over the last year as television executives, we’ve done pretty well.
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Philips HDMI Foldable Adapter – 2 Pack
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PhoneFlicks for iPhone adds Netflix ratings
Video – TEDxCLE – Dr. C. Martin Harris, CIO of Cleveland Clinic talks about EMR.
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TED video: CIO of Cleveland Clinic talks about electronic medical records (EMR)
Printer News: You Must Remove the HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf Laser Printer From the Box But it Takes Over From There HP makes it easy to start printing from the LaserJet Pro M1212nf shortly after it you remove it from the box.
Printer News: Canon imageRUNNER 2545 Multifunction Laser Continues Printing While You Change the Toner If a summer Olympics for printers existed, the Canon imageRUNNER 2545 would contend for the gold in the sprints. This workgroup laser multifunction prints (and copies) up to 45 black-and-white pages per minute with a fast, first-page out from a cold start.
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Canon imageRUNNER 2545 Delivers Fast Black-and-White Prints
“On a typical morning, Sandip Patel, MD, a hospitalist employed by a health plan in Southern California, rounds on patients at the hospital, then meets with case managers and a medical director to review care plans and decide which patients will stay or go. In the afternoon, Dr. Patel may see recently discharged patients—those coded “red” or “yellow,” based on medical complexity—at an integrated-care center, which is also owned and run by the health plan.
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Hospitalist evolution? "Extensivist" = hospitalist who prevents readmissions by seeing patients after discharge
From the NYtimes : “The harder the experts try to save Americans, the fatter we get. Officials responded by advising Americans to shun fat, which became the official villain of the national dietary guidelines during the 1980s and 1990s
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A NYTimes skeptic doubts that decreasing salt intake would have any benefits (it may even hurt)
From the NYTimes : Virtually unknown outside of the Amazon two decades ago, and not exported from Brazil — the major producer — until 2000, açaí berries have become famous around the world, riding the wave of the antioxidant craze and rain-forest chic. Just a few years ago, farmers had trouble getting rid of the açaí that grows
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Açaí, a Global "Super Fruit", Is Regular Dinner Meal in Brazil
I’ll be teaching a class I’m calling “Quick Bread” this Sunday at the home of the founder of the Institute for Urban Homesteading. It’s not about quickbreads but about making a good, regular loaf of bread as fast as possible. There are all manner of very affordable one-off classes at IUH.
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Baking Bread this Sunday at Institute for Urban Homesteading
NatureVideoChannel — January 27, 2010 — Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman has ditched his trainers and started running barefoot.
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The Barefoot Professor says barefoot running could minimize injuries
Childhood onset diabetes is associated with increasing birth weight, equivalent to a 7% increase in risk for every 1000 g in weight. Caesarean section increases the risk by around 20%
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Childhood diabetes associated with increasing birth weight – 7% increase in risk for every 1000 g in weight
Today, Skype released a beta of their new software which enables group video for up to 5 video participants. This was a key feature missing by Skype that for years Skype fans (including myself) have complained about. Of course, Sightspeed, now part of Logitech has had multi-party video for a long time
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Skype Group Video Arrives!
Thomas Moyer, Ph.D. , from Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, describes the four basic categories of patients as identified through this test, and how the doses of the blood-thinner warfarin would typically be adjusted to reflect differences in patients’ metabolism of warfarin and also their sensitivity, to prevent stroke or hospitalization due to excessive bleeding
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Warfarin Sensitivity Genotype Test – Mayo Clinic Video
A UK study analysing samples from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome has found no evidence of a link with a retrovirus (XMRV). The virus was first described in 2006. Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, often report that their condition—a mix of symptoms including extreme fatigue—began after an otherwise normal viral infection.
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Back and forth: Study fails to show link previously found between virus and chronic fatigue syndrome
From the NYTimes : Wrong: Sitting at your cubicle.
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Bloggers, too much sitting can offset the benefits of regular exercise
Walters announced that she will undergo surgery to replace a “faulty” heart valve later this week. “You know how I always say to you how healthy I am. …
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Barbara Walters, US TV Anchor, to Undergo Heart Surgery to Replace a "Faulty Valve" – Sounds Like Aortic Stenosis
Earlier this year, Hewlett-Packard Company entered the market of 3D-printers by making a cooperation agreement with the Stratasys, and in May the first product of joint work of engineers of the two companies — Printer Designjet 3D — will be available on the markets of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
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HP Introduced Own 3D Printer
PrinTip: Universal Print Drivers Aim to Simplify Printing to Multiple Printers But Fall Short A universal print driver is like the universal spoken language, Esperanto . Created with hopes of high adoption rates, neither has lived up to its expectations. Every printer requires a software program — or print driver — to serve as an intermediary between it and your computer
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What Is a Universal Print Driver? Is It Like Esperanto?
From Consumer Reports health blog : Small toys and foods that are choking hazards should carry warning labels – and some hot dog brands already do. About 17% of food-related asphyxiations were caused by hot dogs. In total, 41% were caused by food items including: – hot dogs – grapes – carrots – hard candy Food manufacturers should design new foods and redesign existing foods to avoid shapes, sizes, textures and other characteristics that increase choking risk to children, to the extent possible.
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17% of food-related asphyxiations were caused by hot dogs – "the perfect plug for a child’s airway"
DoubleSided: An Inkjet Printer on Steroids, the Facadeprinter Uses Paintballs to Print on Large Flat Surfaces If you are among the million strong who now own an iPad, you may think technology is art. That’s debatable, but it’s safe to say that technology can help make art , or copy it . More proof: the Facadeprinter , created by Sonic Development GmbH
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Need to Print on a Building? You Need the Facadeprinter