By GLENN LAFFEL, MD, PhD The best electronic health record on the planet isn’t going to help anybody unless a physician uses it. The HITECH incentive scheme should enhance the woefully poor EHR uptake rates among US providers, as should…
al.com : While most Alabamians may view bamboo as a nuisance akin to kudzu, an entrepreneur with a vision for using it as major renewable resource for fabric, food and paper brought her message to the state today. Jackie Heinricher, a biologist and CEO of Booshoot Gardens LLC of Mount Vernon, Wash., made a whirlwind visit to the state that included several stops in Alabama’s impoverished Black Belt
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The New US Crop
Cars set modern planning on an unsustainable path: Cars begat wide, unwalkable roads, which begat highways, which begat suburban sprawl.
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How to Design Cities for People Instead of Cars
On June 6, Wired.com published a piece reporting that a U.S. soldier named Bradley Manning, who purportedly claimed to be passing confidential information—including a video showing U.S. helicopter pilots firing on two Reuters reporters—to WikiLeaks, online secret-sharing site, had been arrested
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WikiLeaks Alleges Collusion
The Obama health care law will boost Medicaid costs for Ohio taxpayers by $1.45 billion over five years, according to a state analysis released to a newspaper.
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State Analysis: Health Care Law To Boost Ohio Medicaid Costs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Fauber deserves kudos for his dogged reporting on some unsavory practices in the medical profession. It was especially nice to see his latest piece—so refreshing and so different from the doctor stories the press has been feeding us lately. You know, the ones about physicians whining and wailing that Congress hasn’t yet…
To run a successful home business , you need to think about how much time you can devote to it and what type of business you can run. For example, if you can provide a service like freelance writing or bookkeeping, this will take much …
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From the Diesel ebook blog. Mobipocket, one of our formats here at the Diesel eBook Store, was created by the lovely French couple, Thierry Brethes and Nathalie Ting. Their smart and lofty goal was to introduce an eBook format that could be rendered on a multitude of devices.
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Are we witnessing the slow, agonizing death of Mobipocket?
… the product of a unique partnership between JISC’s Digitisation Programme, the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and ProQuest to conserve, catalogue and digitise more than 65,000 items drawn from the collection. Alastair Dunning, JISC Digitisation Programme Manager said, ‘The ephemera that form the John Johnson collection are a valuable yet neglected source for historians. The conversion of this collection to digital form now permits scholars to access an astonishingly diverse range of material, allowing them to explore the newssheets, popular prints, adverts, and other items that made up people’s everyday life of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century.’ More information here.
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John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera – now online
Despite the fact that the US team is getting shelled by Slovenia to the tune of a seemingly insurmountable 2-0 score, we can take solace in the FREE homemade McMuffins paired with potently spicy bloody marys at neighborhood stalwart the …
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Homemade McMuffin World Cup at the Phonebooth « Mission Mission
I penned an article a couple months ago about cooking classes in Beijing. The impetus for the article was that I really couldn’t find enough information, especially comparative information, on culinary lessons. …
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Beijing Cooking Classes: Part One – Articles – City Weekend Guide
You were qualified for the Federal home buyer tax credit, you entered contract on a purchase before the April 30, 2010 deadline, and now it looks like you won’t close by the June 30, 2010 deadline. No tax credit for you. But wait! I have seen it reported on numerous blogs and tweeted repeatedly – the deadline
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The Federal Home Buyer Tax Credit May Get Extended (but it’s not a done deal)
The issues of journalism and a free press come to mind these days. With a significant number of journalists attacked in, among other countries, Russia, just in the past few months, we clearly see the dependence of the media system on the political environment in a country.
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Murder and Impunity
Anyone who wishes to experience success with their home business must be ready and willing to learn what needs to be learned. The truth is that online business is not complex in and of itself. What tends to murk the waters and make …
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From the press release: Tizra announced at the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses here today that Columbia University Press was the latest in a series of prestigious organizations that have selected Tizra’s web based software to distribute and sell electronic versions of their books and other content online.
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Tizra signs Columbia University Press
AffCon 2010 Denver marries education with dynamic networking for performance marketers June 21-23 in Denver
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Network With The Affiliate Marketing Community At WebmasterRadio.FM’s AffiliateBash
Dave Navarro wrote recently that worrying about what you’re doing (or not doing) is the surest way to keep you poor and unsuccessful. It’s a cracking article with a heap of good points, one of them being that the key difference in the way successful people operate is that they see failure as an integral part of the process of achieving success. That’s true
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5 Reasons Why Trying to be Successful Will Keep You Poor
Librarian in Black has a superb article about the difficulty of using ebooks in a library setting. Here is an excerpt. I heartily recommend that you read the full thing.
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I am a frustrated ebook (non) user, says Librarian in Black
An article about this in the Bookseller today. US publishers are evidently seeking rights to territories that are considered the domain of UK publishers in lieu of global deals, says the article. India, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa are the contested territories right now.
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US chips away at UK export markets – good for readers? bad for authors?
The business of generating massive income online is still a strong, profitable and prudent system to setting up a business at home. A great many internet marketers work fairly hard and have loads of responsibilities in their daily job.
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Converting Website Traffic – Must Have On-Site Elements To Get More Sales