Having already become a ubiquitous part of our mobile-centric daily lives, wireless technologies are now poised to slip inside our bodies. Researchers and companies around the world are designing the next generation of biosensors—implantable microchip-like devices that can monitor a patient’s health and ping doctors on their smartphones or computers is something is amiss
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This past week I received notice that I was again selected by my peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America ® 2011 in the field of “Health Care Law”.
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FSB: Best Lawyers in America 2011
I received an email a few days ago from Guillaume Chapron of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet) asking me to promote his ‘Biodiversity 100‘ campaign on ConservationBytes.com. I think it’s an interesting initiative, and so I’ll gladly spread the word. Teaming up with George Monbiot of The Guardian, the Biodiversity 100 campaign seeks to encourage scientists and others to compile a list of 100 tasks that G20 governments should undertake to prove thei…
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100 actions to slow biodiversity loss
I just got back and all caught up from the trip to New York, so now it’s time for the obligatory wrap-up post. For those of you that were not able to make it, you should definitely put it on your calendar for next year. For pure value, contacts gained, and networking, this was the best show of the year for me so far. Ad-Tech in November would have to be pretty spectacular to beat it. I flew in on Saturday night, and got to The London at about 10:00 pm. I scoped out the room for a minute, which was very nice, then headed out to dinner at Maison with some friends. Then we walked around Midtown looking for a convenience store that was open to get some essentials that we forgot to pack. I didn’t want to get too beat up the first night, so after that I just went to bed
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Affiliate Summit East 2010 Wrap-Up
Save the date! CSR’s Home Cook free Open House is right around the corner. Join us on Thursday, September 23 rd from 5:30 – 7:30 pm as we celebrate the beginning of a festive Fall season with chef demos, discounts on class registrations, and tastes of terrific seasonal fare. We’ll also be hosting a live band and staff and chefs will be available to answer questions on all things food
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Fall Flavors Free Home Cook Open House
The French have a lot of protests and manifestations . Some of the issues they march for are a bit of a reach and we roll our eyes. And it’s annoying when the trains and other forms of transport go on strike and you need to get somewhere
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oxidizing indigo on the grass indigo dipping squishing frozen chokecherries to release their colour pre-mordanted fabrics in chokecherry colours. This past week our youngest processed the chokecherries she picked at the cottage, and then did a bunch of indigo dyeing for a quilt she is making. She has so much energy, is so eager to learn and practice, it seems that she has caught the art bug and I am happy for her
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natural dyeing with april
Preserving Food Posted on July 15, 2010 at 1:42 pm · Filed under NWCAV , Serious Foodie Menu: Kimchi Sauerkraut Brined Pickles Cost: $89 + hst Date: September 21, 2010 Time: 6:15 – 9:45pm Bring: chef’s knife, paring knife, apron, tea towels, 3 wide-mouth 500ml jars.
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‘Serious Foodie’ fermentation class at Northwest Culinary Academy Vancouver
Human beings are the peak of evolution, right? Our advanced brains allow us to poke one another on Facebook, send rockets to the moon, and order complex drinks at Starbucks
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You Fall in Love Because Your Brain is a Jellyfish, Lizard, and Mouse Ice Cream Cone | Science Not Fiction
The Liberty Gastropub 704.332.8830 Made with passion, pride, enthusiasm, care and attention to detail, The Liberty’s Chef Tom Condron continues to share his passion for handcrafting great meals in a fun and entertaining atmosphere. After great success with their first few classes, The Liberty will continue their cooking classes throughout the fall
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The Liberty’s Artisinal Cooking Class Series Continues
There’s a very interesting program going on at the KITP discussing recent work of mathematical interest on 4d supersymmetric gauge theories (N=2 and N=4). These include various connections of 4d gauge theory to geometric Langlands uncovered by Witten and collaborators a few years ago, as well as last year’s conjecture by Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa of a relation between 4d gauge theory and 2d Liouville conformal field theory. In his introductory talk, Edward Frenkel discusses the possibility o…
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Geometric Langlands at the KITP
You have come across an application on Twitter that will find your level of smartness with a click. You connect it to your Twitter account (using OAuth) and then you suddenly realize that that app has published your score to Twitter as well using your own account
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Avoid Getting an Unwanted Surprise on Twitter
Facebook has unveiled a new location based service called Facebook Places to help you easily broadcast your current location to your friends on Facebook. For instance, if you are inside a shopping mall, you can tell your friends where you are through Facebook Places and the service will also show you other people who may be near that place around the same time. Watch the following video to learn more: What is Facebook Places Who’s gets to see your location on Facebook Privacy will obviously be a concern and, fortunately, this time Facebook has added extremely simple settings to let you control the visibility of places where you are checking-in
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Display your Location on Facebook to a Select Few
One of our concerns at Folding@home is the reliability of returned results – when you run on hundreds of thousands of machines around the world, in diverse environments, it's virtually guaranteed that some machines will be faulty.
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MemtestCL — a GPU memory tester for OpenCL (supports ATI and NVIDIA GPUs)
Mark Senak, a pharmaceutical social media advocate and the author of the EyeonFDA blog, today reported that the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche published on its website a document entitled Social Media Principles. The document outlines Roche’s rules and regulations guiding the company’s use and commitment to social media
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Roche Publicly Affirms Its Commitment to Social Media
In Pucino v. Verizon Communications, Inc. (“Verizon”), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont) reversed a decision by a New York federal court granting summary judgment in favor of Verizon on a former employee’s gender-based hostile work environment claims.
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Second Circuit Clarifies Proof Necessary to Establish a Hostile Work Enviroment Claim
Social marketing has made millions for those who adapted early, but it’s not too late to jump on board and benefit from the marketing potential social media have to offer. You may be wondering why social marketing is so powerful. Well, mostly because you’re able to reach prospects in new and creative ways on their terms, giving them a sort of home field advantage, if you will
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Would Social Marketing Benefit You?
I came across some questions this morning regarding how to sell physical products as an affiliate. They were the result of a conversation we had on Twitter if I remember correctly.
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Promoting Physical Products As An Affiliate
In my 6 years of teaching children to cook, I have encountered countless parents who wistfully express their desire that their children would eat more vegetables. After a few classes, those same parents enthusiastically report that their kids are eating better and are more open to tasting new foods. What’s the secret? Nothing surprising –
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Teaching Knife Skills to Kids and Suggestions for Cutting Tools
The LA Times has taken upon itself to rate school teachers in Los Angeles. To do this, the LA Times has adopted the ‘value-added’ approach (italics mine): Value-added analysis offers a rigorous approach. In essence, a student’s past performance on tests is used to project his or her future results
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Some Concerns About the LA Times’ Attempt at Teacher Evaluation