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A New Eden, Both Cosmic and Cinematic

With “Avatar” James Cameron has turned one man’s dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life — our moviegoing life included — as we know it. Several decades in the dreaming and four years in the actual making, the movie is a song to the natural world that was largely produced with software, an Emersonian exploration of the invisible world of the spirit… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 17, 2009 at 4:22pm — No Comments

Sealing the Senate deal

If and when Senate Democratic leaders finish healthcare negotiations and nail down 60 votes, they will begin the process spelled out in Senate rules for ending the expected Republican filibusters and moving to a final vote on the legislation. The expected sequence of events is likely to stretch well into next week, possibly culminating in a Senate session on Christmas Day:

Step… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 17, 2009 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Susan Powell notebook seized by West Valley police, sources say

A notebook that Susan Powell kept in her desk at work, possibly containing information about her relationship with her husband, was among the items seized by investigators last week, several sources have told the Deseret News.

The notebook, according to one source, detailed threats allegedly made against the missing West Valley City woman about a year… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 17, 2009 at 1:58am — No Comments

Facts Are Stubborn Things

There is no more hotly contested issue now than "healthcare reform". Like apple pie, everybody rallies around the concept, but there is striking division over what constitutes "healthy" reform. Beyond the arguments over the merits of the current bill (whatever that happens to be today), is the green eye-shade claim of deficit neutrality, something most people (for good reason) simply are not buying; they smell what is under the rug. Many peer right through the CBO flim-flam… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on December 16, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Misconception – The remarkable medical scientific advances are rapidly made available to the care delivery system.

We should so hope but often that it is just not the case.

Laparoscopic surgery took medicine by storm 20 years ago but some new technologies of great value are slow to be adopted, such as simulation for teaching procedures rather than learning by practicing on the patient. Sometimes it is because the old way is “the way we have always done it” and sometimes it is because those holding the purse strings just do not appreciate the underlying value. Laparoscopic surgery got patients out… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on December 16, 2009 at 5:20pm — No Comments

Poorly Kept Secret

Despite many deals with Cell carriers, most recently Verizon and its successful Motorola Droid™, all indicators point to a Google branded cell phone, monicker 'Nexus One', running the most recent release of Android™ (v2.1). You can read the latest posting about the "hardware that isn't". Although there have been many pretenders to Apple's… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on December 16, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

No agreement yet on extending estate tax: Hoyer

Democratic leaders in Congress have not yet reached an agreement to extend the estate tax before it expires at the end of the year, House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.

Barack Obama

Lawmakers had hoped to ensure that the estate tax rate stay at 45 percent by attaching it to a must-pass defense spending bill, Hoyer… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 16, 2009 at 2:44am — No Comments

Best Products, Services & Technologies of the Decade ... PC Magazine

Colleagues,

Hard to believe it, but the first decade of this century is almost over... Here are the most important Information Technology (IT) products of the decade as presented by our friends at PC magazine, what do you think? ...

1. Google

... The remarkable achievement of Google is that it has become our brain. These days, when we want information about a movie time, metric conversion, a historical tidbit,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 14, 2009 at 8:46pm — No Comments

Good bye old phone, Hello new one! :D

There’s good and bad news for my post today and as the title gives it out, it’s about my cell phones. My old one, which I bought from my own money, a Motorola, fell on the tub this morning because I was cramming and late for school. I told my mom I need a new phone, and she willingly offered money for me to buy a new one. And so, hello to lovely Blackberry! I love it so much, yeah. It rocks! Anyway, aside from my phone, I also need to buy a new… Continue

Added by gary adams on December 14, 2009 at 8:10pm — No Comments

UNICEF in emergencies: ‘Bee’ system prototypes represent the future of connectivity in emergencies

‘Bee’ system prototypes represent the future of connectivity in emergencies

NEW YORK, USA, 20 August 2008 – UNICEF has successfully tested the first two prototypes of the ‘Bee’, a mobile communication system developed by the Division of…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on December 14, 2009 at 2:11pm — No Comments

HealthSaaS.net Signs Reseller and Integration Agreement with BioSign

HealthSaaS.net Signs Reseller and Integration Agreement with BioSign

HealthSaaS.net and BioSign Technologies Inc. (CNSX:BIO) today announced they have entered into

an alliance agreement that enables HealthSaaS.net to resell BioSign products and integrate patient

driven data into the HealthSaaS.net Personal Health Record (PHR) treatment management service.

Beaverton, OR, December 11, 2009 --(PR.com)-- BioSign and HealthSaaS.net will integrate their

platforms for… Continue

Added by frankille on December 14, 2009 at 12:24pm — No Comments

FCW Technology Review: "Droid Does it Better"

GCN LAB REVIEW

Droid does it better

By John Breeden II…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on December 14, 2009 at 12:14pm — No Comments

Video Conference with Becton Dickinson – The Future of Medicine

I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the Future of Medicine, based on my book of the same name, to the worldwide medical affairs group at Becton Dickinson, the giant medical device and diagnostics company headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Their senior vice president for medical affairs, Dr David Durack, requested that I review the basic megatrends developing as a result of the scientific advances from genomics, stem cells transplantation, vaccines, pharmaceuticals,… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on December 14, 2009 at 9:36am — 1 Comment

Facebook | The AllHumanity Group Discussions Posting #1

Facebook | The AllHumanity Group Discussions

THE ALLHUMANITY GROUP A Comprehensive Humanitarian Vision

The AllHumanity Group wrote on December 12, 2009 at 11:34am

Comprehensive Humanitarian Vision

AllHumanity is based on an compelling humanitarian vision, backed by a founder who has spent over nearly fifteen years in full-time humanitarian activities.

AllHumanity‘s goal is to have a humanitarian presence in every location on…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on December 12, 2009 at 6:25pm — No Comments

Misconception - “Health care reform” will improve the delivery of care and offer us better care opportunities.

In fact, healthcare reform is not about healthcare; it is mostly about paying for medical care for the uninsured and only somewhat about the rising costs of medical care. I use the term medical care here to emphasize that today American “healthcare” is all about treating disease and injury and very little about promoting wellness and preventing illness. The reforms being proposed are about addressing the financing of medical care but not the quality, the safety or the way that healthcare will… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on December 12, 2009 at 3:41pm — 2 Comments

Russia Claims Huge Spiral Over Norway Was Due to Failed Missile Launch

Observers in northern Norway Wednesday morning witnessed a bizarre spiral appear in the sky at around 7:49 a.m. They first saw a blue light soar up from over a mountain to a north. The light then paused in midair and began circling. Before long, like the closing scene from the Japanese horror film Uzumaki, a massive spiral had filled the air.

Then came a brilliant… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 11, 2009 at 5:25pm — No Comments

Russia Claims Huge Spiral Over Norway Was Due to Failed Missile Launch

Added by bloglist on December 11, 2009 at 1:09pm — No Comments

Misconception - Healthcare reform will have an impact on the advances in medical science.

This sounds logical but there are frankly amazing advances in medicine that are around the corner no matter what “reform” occurs. These advances are related to our national commitment to basic science and to engineering and computer science developments and their translation to clinical care. The National Institutes of Health, research organizations such as our medical schools, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and the medical device industry are constantly bringing forth new… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on December 11, 2009 at 9:53am — No Comments

How to Dress to Success for a Job Interview

Today can be your lucky day. Your cosmic stars are aligned right; you woke up in a good mood, even your fortune cookie says to expect to get lucky today. That’s good news, considering that after 3 months of job hunting, this job interview might just be the one for you. Your portfolio is ready and beaming with extraordinary skills; you hair cut to the right length; even your teeth gleaming to its whitest. But, there’s still one problem you need to deal with—what to wear.

In the past,… Continue

Added by gary adams on December 10, 2009 at 6:46pm — No Comments

FORMAL SUITS ARE STILL REACHABLE, SO DON’T SWEAT

So, I have a friend back in high school that I met yesterday and we sort of had coffee on a shop near my place. We talked about things in college (because he went to a different university and took up a different course) and other random things until he brought up the formal party he’s about to attend later that evening. He was having some problems finding suits that are not that so expensive because he’s currently cost-cutting because of the global recession (who’s not?). So I gave him some… Continue

Added by gary adams on December 10, 2009 at 6:45pm — No Comments