Thanks to everyone who has stopped by and visited my new blog and thank you for all your support and very kind words!  I read and appreciate every comment (on both blogs). We’re a few weeks into July and I still haven’t shared my stitching goals with you (shame on me!).  Even though I haven’t put them up here to share with you I did make a point of jotting it down on paper when the first of the

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July Goals And Stuff

As many of you know, I’ve dedicated that last 15 years of my career to Internet marketing and search engine optimization. I’ve recently partnered with Internet marketing legend Greg Cesar to create SEO The Easy Way , an online program that reveals my most closely held search engine optimization secrets. This coming Wednesday, July 21st, Greg and I are holding a live online event for the first 1,000 individuals who register click here

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The Biggest Event of My Career: July 21st, 8PM

Just added to my Etsy shop ! So fresh and so fun! These wired pom poms are the perfect little trim for embellishing a project. Ruby Red Bubble Gum Pink Sunny Yellow Crisp White Pumpkin Orange Raspberry Hot Pink Lime Green Royal Blue Black Noir

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Pom Pom Trims are now in stock!

I present another health IT problem case from the FDA’s voluntary MAUDE ( Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience ) database below. From FDA’s description of MAUDE: MAUDE data represents reports of adverse events involving medical devices.

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FDA MAUDE Database: Patient Outcome – Death

The Insurance Industry is catching on that EMR’s and other clinical IT are not exactly the cybernetic miracles they’re sometimes held out to be, for example as implied in this statement from HHS in the July 13, 2010 NEJM that- … EHRs will improve caregivers’ decisions and patients’ outcomes

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NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company: "Electronic Health Records: Recognizing and Managing the Risks"

I’d like to showcase some of the display stands that my husband, Ned, has made for me over the years. I’m using them this weekend in my studio (turned into a gallery) for the Manitoulin Art Tour. This is the oldest, made in 1991 for an exhibition I had in the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

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stands by my man

There have been some recent surveys of attitudes towards evolution and the state of science education in the US, and I’ve mainly used tables in presentations — so it’s nice to see some eye-catching graphical representations of the data. Use these! One thing surprised me — usually, this datum is presented in a positive light, but it’s always bugged me

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Flashy graphic illustration of the creationism problem

The upcoming HP Printers will have a unique “Send to Google Docs” app that will connect your printer directly to the Google cloud. You can scan paper documents and the app will upload them as PDFs to your Google Docs account without requiring a computer

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Scan your Paper Documents to Google Docs

I was doing some research on Google the other day when I noticed that NewsDaily7.com was using the BizyMoms.com site as its display URL in Google Adwords. I know this situation well, because I've had it happen to ME on more than one occasion and it can be a real pain to get Adwords to stop someone from doing it. In one case it took me nearly 2 months to get Adwords to stop the rogue advertiser – and I've heard even worse accounts from people I know who've had this happen to.

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NewsDaily7.com hijacks BizyMoms.com quality score on Adwords

A little over a week ago in Lindau, Germany Theordor Hanch hinted at new measurements of the size of the proton which may impact the fundamental theory of quantum electrodynamics. Hansch’s lecture was an overview of the history of lasers progressing from our realization of the wave/particle duality nature of light to new research published in Nature on the size of the proton. The new research relies on the fact that the energy levels allowed within an atom depend upon the quantum mechanical i…

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The Size of the Proton Measured with Lasers

Ever since I somehow stumbled into a niche in the blogosphere where I seem to be one of a handful of go-to bloggers for issues having to do with vaccines and the anti-vaccine movement, like Spider-Man I realize that with great power comes great responsibility. Wait a minute. That beginning was too pompous and pretentious even for me

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Too much vaccine/autism monkey business for me to be involved in, but not Laura Hewitson

tags: psychology, behavior, pedagogy, education, learning, teaching methods, model/rival technique, Avian Learning EXperiment, Avian Language EXperiment, ALEX, bpr3.org/?p=52,peer-reviewed research, journal club ALEX the African Grey Parrot and Dr Irene Pepperberg. Image: The ALEX Foundation. Like anyone who has taught science courses, and probably like anyone who has ever taught anything to a classroom in the history of mankind, I’ve wondered how to motivate my students to really …

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Parrots, People and Pedagogies: A Look at Teaching and Education

The Minnesota Women’s Consortium , the state lead of the Minnesota Elder Economic Security Initiative (MinnEESI), has been busy these past few months planning a forum on the economic security of older women in the state. This week all of their hard work came to fruition and the Minnesota Women’s Consortium co-hosted the forum with the Office on the Economic Status of Women (OESW). Advocates and experts in aging from across the St

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MinnEESI Update

Apple CEO Steve Jobs addresses the iPhone 4′s antenna issues and what the company is doing to remedy the situation in a surprise press conference at Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters.