News you can’t leave work without: Former Illini Shawn Roof finished his minor league baseball season with a flourish. In 25 games with Class AAA Toledo after being promoted by the parent Detroit Tigers, the second baseman hit .354 with a .441 on-base percentage.
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[News] 5 O’Clock Shadow
According to the NY Times the book will go on sale in ebook form weeks ahead of the print book’s publication date of September 21.
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Deepak Chopra’s “Muhammad” to be released early as ebook
News Corp.’s behavior in the UK hacking scandal has all the hallmarks of a coverup. We’ve got the scapegoat (Clive Goodman), the pro forma internal investigation saying the problem was contained to said scapegoat, the scramble to hide or destroy evidence, the stonewalling “I don’t recalls” from executives like Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, the large payments to key witnesses,…
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The News Corp. Coverup
Who needs to think when Google can do it for you? That seems to be the premise of Google Instant, a “search enhancement” rolled out by Google this morning. The feature, which will be available for all U.S.
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Google Gets Psychic With Google Instant
Sean Parker is already famous in today’s Web-connected tech world, mythical perhaps. He was around at the start of Napster , Facebook, and more recently Chatroulette .
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Why You Should Care About Sean Parker: The Man Behind Napster, Facebook, and Chatroulette
A former executive of the bankrupt health care company Canopy Financial Inc. has agreed to plead guilty in an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud.
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Ex-health care exec. to plead guilty to wire fraud
The National Journal Group has been generating a lot of buzz lately with big-name hires like Major Garrett, Matt Cooper, Marc Ambinder and Michael Hirsh. The latest addition to the team is Beth Reinhard, who’s leaving her job at The Miami Herald to become chief political correspondent. It’s nice to see National Journal look outside the Beltway, as…
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Boy, Look Who National Journal’s Been Hiring
A home health care executive from Old Saybrook faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to what prosecutors call “a multiyear scheme” to evade the payment of employee withholding and other federal payroll taxes.
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Home Health Care Executive Pleads Guilty
Wow! Thanks to Boing Boing for pointing this out. Here’s what they say about themselves: We are the #1 site for downloading FREE public domain Golden Age Comics. All files here have been researched by our staff and users to make sure they are copyright free and in the public domain.
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Digital Comic Museum – free downloads of public domain Golden Age comics
The MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation has begun accepting applications for fall grants and is holding a session on Wednesday, Sept. 15, to advise groups on how to apply.
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Health Care Foundation accepting grant applications from MetroWest groups
Tested only in Africa, the service will now be available in the Middle East and beyond.
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The Grid, Vodacom’s Mobile Social Network, Goes Global
By BOB WACHTER, MD With all due respect to the Pentagon, humankind has not invented a more complex organization than the modern academic medical center. The combination of high tech and high touch, the Byzantine regulations, the toxic medico-legal environment,…
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By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN 40% of U.S. consumers are willing to pay for remote health monitoring devices and services that would send their medical data to doctors, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Healthcare Unwired (PwC). 51% of consumers would not buy mobile health…
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Healthcare unwired: nearly half of US consumers are willing to pay
Here’s a measure of how far cell phones have permeated into our society: T-Mobile is launching a new promotion that means your kids can get free ones. It’s to keep us all connected. T-Mobile’s new “Kids are Free” means anyone who signs up for a new contract between now and November 2nd (and also, impressively enough, existing customers) on a family plan can get free lines for up to three of their kids
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Even Kids Have Cell Phones, So T-Mobile’s Using Them as a PR Tool
I’ve mentioned Wattpad before and said that for the developing world Java ereading on cellphones is the way to go. This has inspired a few skeptical comments by readers over the years. Now, Publishing Perspectives had interviewed Wattpad co-founder, Allen Lau, pictured above.
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Java ebook reading allows huge growth for Wattpad
China keeps inching further ahead of the U.S. in the clean energy development race, first with a multi-billion dollar investment in electric cars and hybrids, and now with news that the country has completed its first offshore wind farm. The U.S
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China Beats U.S. to First Offshore Wind Farm
The American Cancer Society was able to reposition itself by transitioning their iconic brand from a focus on disease management to a more inclusive and relevant culture of cancer prevention according to Scott Bennett, National VP, Marketing. Bennett will be speaking at the 2nd annual M2W®-HC™ — Marketing Pharma & Healthcare to Women Conference, Nov.
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According to Entrepreneur magazine , it all began back in 2005, when Pat Cuartero–a high school 2A yoyo champ turned Merrill Lynch analyst–discovered a higher purpose: getting more people in New York City to play with yo-yos.
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Analyst Spins Yo-Yo Passion Into Million-Dollar-Plus Biz
There’s no engine running when Jackson Poole loads up his ice-cycle to start on his organic ice cream route. Instead it’s all muscle power since his ice cream truck is made up of a bicycle/cooler reports the San Francisco Chronicle . Poole rides his custom-made bicycle cart (he originally wanted an ice cream truck but wasn’t old enough for a drivers license) through the streets of San Anselmo, selling organic ice cream treats made locally at Three Twins Ice Cream.
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The Organic Ice Cream Bike