UNOWHY brings its haute cuisine QOOQ tablet to the US for $399, teaches you how to fondue

If the PR is to be believed, French outfit UNOWHY (oh yes, really) has already taken its native Gaul by storm with its latest cuisine-focused tablet, dubbed QOOQ. (Actually, the 10.1-incher's formal title is "la tablette QOOQ," merci beaucoup!) And now the company's ready to translate the kitchen-based tech for stateside tastes, shipping the splashproof tab with English menus and instructions for $399. Originally shown off at this past CES, the unique device packs a 1GHz dual-core processor, runs a custom OS atop the Linux kernel and comes with over 1,000 recipes from top chefs (no, not the Bravo kind) pre-installed. There's also an optional subscription package for power users that'll run about $9.90/mo or $99/year for access to additional interactive content and updates. You can learn more at the source below if you're the culinary kind. But we're willing to be the far more frugal option would be to download a cooking app, and call it a day. The choice is yours.

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Hurricane Sandy Relief Prime Goal of 2012 ?CUNY MONTH ...

November 12, 2012 | The University

The City University of New York is mobilizing students, faculty and staff to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy as the new focal point of the 2012 ?November is CUNY Month,? an annual showcase of what the University offers New Yorkers. This broad volunteer effort ? dubbed ?CUNY Works? ? is reaching out to both the approximately 9,000 University members who lived in the flood zone and to the general community.

?Each of the CUNY campuses was affected differently by the storm, and many have already begun extensive outreach efforts to their campus community and to the wider community,? Chancellor Matthew Goldstein said today at the first meeting of CUNY?s Hurricane Sandy Relief Council, which he had convened with representatives from all 24 colleges and professional schools.

?Individual colleges are best able to determine the most urgent post-storm needs and the most effective ways of meeting those needs.? Please engage your students, faculty, staff, and alumni in further developing and executing targeted CUNY Works activities and initiatives throughout the remainder of CUNY Month,? the Chancellor said.

Before the hurricane even arrived, CUNY was playing an integral role in relief efforts. It opened 10 campuses as emergency shelters during the storm and its aftermath; several remain in operation.

Campus representatives said their faculty and staff were already offering counseling, housing and financial support, while joining students in fundraising, direct aid to other hurricane victims and more. On Monday, the University e-mailed students a link to a citywide volunteer clearinghouse. CUNY has posted a webpage about where to go for emergency housing, food, financing and other necessities at http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/sa/GeneralinfoResources.html.? In addition, many colleges have put together similar websites with information about resources.

On Wednesday, the University intends to unveil a webpage at cuny.edu listing experts who can help decision-makers deal with future disasters. Among them are faculty members who are conducting research into issues that Hurricane Sandy brought vividly to public attention, including climate change, infrastructure, crisis management, transportation, utilities, housing, hydrology and ecology.

The City University of New York is the nation?s leading urban public university. Founded in New York City in 1847 as The Free Academy, the University has 24 institutions: 11 senior colleges, seven community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Law, the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the CUNY School of Public Health. The University serves over 269,000 degree credit students and 218,083 adult, continuing and professional education students. College Now, the University?s academic enrichment program, is offered at CUNY campuses and more than 300 high schools throughout the five boroughs of New York City. The University offers online baccalaureate degrees through the School of Professional Studies and an individualized baccalaureate through the CUNY Baccalaureate Degree. More than 1 million visitors and 2 million page views are served each month by www.cuny.edu, the University?s website.

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HTC might pay Apple $6-8 per device to Apple in patent settlement

Though the most HTC would say about their patent settlement with Apple was that they didn't expect the process to "have an adverse material impact on the financials of the company," analyst Shaw Wu says they may be paying upwards of $6 - $8 per device in licensing fees starting in 2013. This would span both Android and Windows Phone devices, and could amount to between $180 and $280 million in fees. That's not an awful lot to Apple, but sure is more substantial than HTC was letting on. 

Though Apple isn't doing quite as well in their patent battles against Samsung lately, it's understandable that they may be less willing to settle with a manufacturer in a much more powerful position than HTC. HTC has been hurting for some time now, and if these licensing fees turn out to be true, it won't do their balance sheet any favors. 

Of course, analysts are well-known for their imagination, so take the $6 - $8 figure with a grain of salt. Is there any chance that Apple and HTC actually resolved their patent complaints without money changing hands? Maybe they reached some sort of cross-licensing deal? 

Via: CNET

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Telomere length linked to risk of dying

Large study examines association between protective caps at end of chromosomes and health

Large study examines association between protective caps at end of chromosomes and health

By Tina Hesman Saey

Web edition: November 11, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO ? Nearly gnawed-off telomeres ? the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes ? may portend a higher risk of death, a new study suggests.

Telomeres prevent a chromosome?s DNA from being eaten away. Previous studies have shown that telomeres shorten with age and linked short telomeres with several diseases. What no one has yet been able to say is if truncated telomeres cause health problems or are a side effect of aging and poor health.

To find out, researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco measured telomere length in 110,266 people in northern California. The participants are part of an ongoing project that explores links between genetics and health. This study is the largest ever to examine telomeres? role in health.

The 10 percent of people with the shortest telomeres had a more than 20 percent higher risk of dying than people with longer telomeres, Catherine Schaefer, an epidemiologist who directs the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment and Health, reported November 8 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. ?It seems as though once your telomeres get critically short, your risk of dying goes up,? she said. The increased death risk is about the same as for people who drink 20 to 30 alcoholic beverages per week or smoke for 20 to 30 years. ?It?s a modest increase, but it?s not nothing.?

The researchers don?t yet know the health status of the people who died.

Telomeres do get shorter with age, the study confirms, but men older than 75 and women over age 80 tended to have longer telomeres than their slightly younger counterparts. That result does not mean that telomeres start to grow in length once people reach a certain age, Schaefer said. Rather, the finding probably means that people with shorter telomeres died before they reached those ripe old ages and the survivors are those that carry longer telomeres.

African-Americans tended to have longer telomeres than European-Americans, Latinos or Asians, the researchers found. The reason for that difference is not clear. As expected, people who smoked or drank heavily were more likely to have shorter telomeres, and higher levels of education were associated with longer telomeres. Other studies have linked exercise with longer telomeres, but Schaefer and her colleagues found no such association.

One of the study?s findings is rather puzzling, said Dan Eisenberg, an anthropologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who studies telomeres? link to health, but who was not involved in the Kaiser Permanente study. Higher body mass index, or BMI, was associated with longer telomeres. The discovery is counterintuitive, Eisenberg said, because higher BMIs ?those associated with being overweight or obese ? are linked to a variety of health problems including diabetes and heart disease. Eisenberg said he would have expected telomeres in people with higher BMIs to be shorter.

Schaefer agrees that the BMI link is a provocative finding. ?We know that high BMI is not healthy,? she said, but more work will be needed to understand the relationship between body size and telomere length.

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Outgoing Owners: Small Business Networking Can Lead to Hefty ...

Join master business coach Michelle Landis, as she strives to create success and abundance for every business owner with the ActionCOACH method of focus, accountability, and results. Visit our weekly Q & A session as Ms. Landis tackles real questions on a variety of issues - and provides you with answers that will BRING RESULTS for your company!

Question of the Week: ?I know that networking can be used as leverage in the small business world, but I have a fairly shy and laid back personality. What do you suggest??

Coach Michelle: In the world of small business, you just can?t afford to be shy. The point and click cyber-shopping age we have entered in, coupled with difficult economic times, demands that the ?alpha? in you emerge. But it need not be that awkward of an endeavor.

Most of us start out our lives with a good dose of shyness. Age and experience tend to reduce that tendency, and we reach a point where we allow ourselves to become more open and accept that others may not view us in the light we wish - and hey, that?s just life.

So here are some great tips to help you beat that shyness and network with an outgoing confidence!

Tip #1: Remember to smile
Smiling always makes you appear more approachable and encourages people to interact with you. Smiling also gives the impression that you are a happy, confident person which is important as most people want to do business with a confident owner.

Tip #2: Dress well
Take a little extra time with your appearance. It?s certainly not going to make or break a deal (we hope) but it will give you an extra measure of confidence if you know you look professional and together. Remember to wear comfortable shoes!

Tip #3: Practice Your Responses Ahead of Time
You don?t want to go into a networking session sounding like you are reading from a script, but going over in your head - or even better, out loud - before a meeting will help you remember your objectives in networking.? Try and think of what YOU would ask another owner about their business, then apply it to yourself. Also keep in your pocket a series of questions you would ask of others. This will help you with opening the lines of communication and keeping a conversation moving forward.

Tip #4: Utilize Positive Thinking
Much of the process to overcome shyness is replacing negative thoughts about yourself with positive thoughts. Before any meeting, think of all the things about yourself that you feel are an asset. Believe me, there are more than you think.

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Remember that many of life?s experiences require some risk of failure - never let that risk stop you. It happens to everyone at some point. Some of our greatest successes come through the process of an initial failure - by learning from our mistakes and then re-working an angle.

About the Author, Michelle Landis

Michelle is a certified Master Business Coach and owner of ActionCOACH of Greater Lehigh Valley/Berks. She is an educator and a business professional with over 25 years experience in the business world running both small and medium sized businesses. She has an extensive background in education, executive management, sales & marketing, operations and entrepreneurial pursuits that include international consulting in China, extensive teaching and educational endeavors as well as executive leadership roles with General Electric, Dun & Bradstreet and Armstrong World Industries. Her leadership skills have delivered over $58 million to the bottom line. Get a BUSINESS HEALTH CHECK with Michelle or connect with Michelle on FACEBOOK, join her on LinkedIn or follow her on Twitter.

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Sprint adding Spotify Premium to carrier billing for Android customers starting November 11th

A few months back Sprint's Android customers gained the option to charge Google Play purchases to their monthly wireless bill. In an effort to keep the carrier billing party going, the Now Network will soon be adding this option for Spotify Premium customers. An anonymous tipster has shared with us that starting on November 11th, Sprint's Android clientele will be able to add the music streaming service's $10 monthly charge to their bill. While we're sure that some customers will take advantage of this new option, we can't help but long for the good old days when people could bill a new phone to their account. Ah, Sprint giveth and taketh away.

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Civil society rising in China, says state-run daily

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How To Find The Best Open Course Materials - Edudemic

The future of course materials is here. It?s free, open, and easily accessible ? as long as you know where to look. To that end, this post should serve as a useful tool that will save you hours of Googling. It?s a robust list and analysis of open course materials, guides, and resources courtesy of our friends at Online College.? Hundreds of universities are now uploading free and shareable educational content online.

The effects of these free publications, podcasts and videos are rippling far wider than anyone could?ve guessed. What began as a supplemental online tool for U.S. students is transforming into a worldwide learning bank.

Netizens of all ages are now accessing these open materials for a multitude of reasons?from satisfying continuing education requirements to exploring abiding academic interests.

See Also: How MIT Approaches Innovation In Education Technology

The time is ripe for students and learners of all stripes to take advantage of these free educational materials. And so far, the most popular and noteworthy online courses, podcasts and open source content online are proving themselves worthy of everyone?s time.

The Rise of Open Content

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) are a relatively recent phenomenon. The term was first coined in 2008, and early courses were administered as discussion threads, blog posts, online meetings and Second Life. Today, a variety of top schools share free online classes and coursework on a network of cutting edge open source management platforms. Open content doesn?t need to be interactive to be valuable: most open source materials are hosted as free databases, documents and podcasts.

Top Universities and Programs

One learning platform, Udacity claims its on a ?mission to democratize education.? Co-founded by Google co-founder Sebastian Thrun, Udacity offers free courses in computer science, general science, math, entrepreneurship and programming. Taking advantage of the online, podcast format, Udacity provides traditional course content in unique ways, such as learning physics while touring Europe. Udacity also offers certificates. And while courses are free, certification is not.

At Coursera, social entrepreneurs partner with top universities offering free online courses. Coursera students learn with interactive activities and from top professors from around the world. Courses are offered in medicine, social sciences, business, mathematics, computer science and the humanities. Coursera partners include top universities like Michigan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CalTech, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, University of Illinois, and the ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been another leader of the open source content movement. In addition to making all of its course materials online for free through MIT OpenCourse Ware, the premier university also offers free online courses through MITx, one of the founding partners of edX. Online courses feature interactive instruction, online labs and the opportunity for individual assessment and certification.

EdX is a partnership between MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and, beginning in 2013, the University of Texas, that provides free and interactive online courses. The universities have committed to offer free subject certification through 2012, although in the future, a modest fee may be charged.

Sources for Open Content

Libraries and Archives

The Internet Archive offers free access to a wide array of audio, video, software and texts from digital collections. Vast in scope and offerings, the Internet Archive has 10 petabytes of data saved.

Over 1 million movies, 1 million audio recordings and 3 million texts are available to download for free at services like Open Library. Moving images range from videos from the Hubble Space Telescope to 9/11 archives. Audio recordings include everything from recordings to broadcasts to sermons.

Other libraries offer thousands of texts online such as the University of Pennsylvania?s Online Books Page and Stanford University?s High Wire.

The U.S. Library of Congress provides free access to a variety of digital collections including American History & Culture, Historic Newspapers, Prints and Photographs, Legislative Information and Early Sound Recordings.

Databases and Search Engines

FreeFullPDF offers over 80 million free publications in life, health and physical sciences as well as mathematics and the humanities.

Students can find abstracts, articles and discipline specific search engines for free at Academic Publications eJournal.

At Cornell University?s arXiv, students search and access thousands of science, mathematics, finance and statistics texts.

Students may also freely search directories of open access journals at Lund University and GenamicsJournalSeek. Genamics also offers free tools in biochemistry at SoftwareSeek and access to eukaryal and microbial genome projects at GenomeSeek.

Google Scholar is a bibliographic service that searches all scholarly literature and directs researchers to copies of the work on the web or in a local library.

At HAL, students may search a wide array of research papers, including otherwise unpublished documents in the humanities, life sciences, physics, non-linear sciences, mathematics and the social sciences.

Mendeley offers a database of crowd-sourced documents.

The National Institutes of Health produce PubMed and MedlinePlus that offer free access to a wide-array of health-related documents, including scholarly articles and abstracts.

At Science.gov, users can search and access 2100 websites and 50 databases from over a dozen federal agencies.

Podcasts and Lectures

A number of providers have free podcasts on a variety of topics, including iTunes.

At Backdoor Broadcasting Company, students can download academic research for free, and access specific articles by searching its archive.

The Do It Yourself Scholar provides a guide to academic broadcasts, and at LearnOutLoud, students are free to listen to and download podcasts that focus on the humanities.

At the Forum Network, access lectures on a variety of topics in the humanities, sciences, business, economics, media and the arts.

Subscription Services

Additional resources are available for a fee.

EBSCOhost offers a variety of databases, including legal, educational, applied science and technology, humanities and library information and science super databases, to name a few.

Elsevier offers a combination of free and paid access to science and health information, including books, journals and online tools.

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Stars excited ahead of MTV's European awards show

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ? American rapper Ludacris says he has "a huge crush" on supermodel Heidi Klum, the host of Sunday's MTV European music awards show.

Ludacris, alt-pop trio Fun and Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen took a rehearsal break to attend a press briefing Saturday ahead of the MTV EMA in Frankfurt. Joined by Klum, all talk turned to the upcoming festivities.

Ludacris said he felt "blessed" to be in Frankfurt and saw the awards as a chance to "give back to the global fans" ? and also get near Klum. The rapper will exclusively premiere his new music video "Rest of My Life," featuring Usher and David Guetta, during the show.

Also taking the stage will be Jepsen, who soared to the top of the charts with hit song "Call Me Maybe" and has three nominations. She said she is already "falling a little bit in love with Frankfurt."

Others performing will include Taylor Swift, Muse, No Doubt, Alicia Keys, Pitbull, Psy and The Killers. Also in the line-up is Fun, who said they would get "pretty giddy" if they bumped into The Killers backstage because they are huge fans.

Klum, meanwhile, was excited to cross paths with Psy, the South Korean phenomenon, and admitted she and her children are partial to his "Gangnam Style" dancing.

The 19th annual MTV EMA will broadcast live Sunday from Frankfurt's historic Festhalle.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stars-excited-ahead-mtvs-european-awards-show-162056205.html

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Where I Would Invest (Part 2 of 2) 11/9/12 | HIStalk Mobile

In my last post, I covered five healthcare areas that I?d be interested in if I was an investor, which I?m not. This post has another seven areas, which started as four but then I got a little carried away.

Care Transitions (Discharge and Readmissions as a Starting Point)

Readmission prevention seems so 2011, but the reality is that technology that helps with transitions in care is necessary to reduce cost and improve the overall quality of care. Coordinating discharge activities, or some subset of those activities, is a good starting point. I think transitions in care don?t have to be overly complicated technologically, at least as a starting point.

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There are lot of companies doing a lot of different things. Some of the ones I know of are:

• Axial Exchange. Mayo backing and good pilot data, this company is going to do well, though I wish it didn?t water down the message by offering mRemedy mobile apps as its own mRemedy came to Axial with the Mayo investment.
• Aidin. Coordinating home care, another one well placed with good market entry).?
• OpenPlacement. Extended care.
• WellFrame. Mobile interactive care plans. I really like this one the more I think about it.
• Careinsync. Investment from California HealthCare Foundation.
• Ginger.io. Acquired Pipette for discharge mobile tools and developers.
• Cara Health. Personal touch with live phone calls.
• Care Team Connect. More broad than just readmissions.

Tools to Get Docs Online

When I say online, I?m talking about using the Internet ? not a hosted EMR ? as an aspect of practice or for professional purposes. This is a space I?m passionate about. It?s a huge opportunity to modernize how doctors practice and interact, both with other doctors as well as with patients and the general public. I think most of the docs using the tools in the short to medium term are technology early adopters, direct primary care (concierge) docs, or docs that do a lot of elective stuff (cosmetics); but, I think usage is going to become more widespread as the physician community evolves and as incentives realign. With all of these services, a big perceived value is in the additional marketing and traffic docs can get from patients and referrals.

Some of the big examples, at least in terms of funding and press, are Healthtap (patient/doc Q&A), Sharecare (patient/doc Q&A with more enterprise and brand focus), and Doximity (network for doctors). While these are getting a lot of the attention, there are some others to watch that are more focused.

Clear.md is a another example. It enables providers (not just physicians) to create online videos of different topics for patients. The sell is to enable docs to connect with new patients, showcasing knowledge through videos, and also to prescribe buckets of videos to patients and caregivers. It?s a cool idea to me, though I?m not sure how much traction it?s gotten.

Marketplaces

There are several kinds of marketplaces, or at least approaches to marketplace, that are starting to get off the ground. I think many of these are likely to merge over time, but will grow initially based on the limited offerings below.

1. Home health and home care. Several companies are making easier to find, filter, and rate home care providers. Some are targeting users directly and others are targeting discharge planners and case managers.
2. Appointments. ZocDoc lead in this area, but others, like iTriage, are now offering different approaches to help users find and book the right provider.
3. Insurance. This is very busy from an investment standpoint with big rounds for companies like Castlight and Simplee, and lots of press for others like CakeHealth. These aren?t really marketplaces at the moment, but I think all will likely be positioned to offer intelligent insurance quotes to people down the road. Also, some, like Castlight, supposedly enable users to see out of pocket costs for certain providers before booking. For dental, I?d have to lump Brighter into here.?
4. Procedures (usually high deductible or out of pocket). These include imaging and maybe dental. Some startups, like HealthInReach and PriceDoc (which are now one) are trying to build this for users. The value proposition for users is that they can quickly find the best price for services that have wide variation in pricing. I think the challenge is getting users to actually land on and book these procedures. I?d like to see a product that does this through the referring doc.

Connector Apps and Services, Not Portals

Funny story about portals. I was at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) meeting earlier this week. A med student was displaying some technology and research his school uses. He asked me to describe it.? hesitated, then said, "I feel bad saying this because I think it?s become a bad word in technology, but what you have is basically a portal for your med school, though it is a nice portal," He laughed and said ?portal? was the one word he was trying to prevent people from using, but he but agreed it?s how everybody sees it. I actually went to Wikipedia to find a definition for "portal" and got this: "A Web site that brings information from diverse sources in a unified way." With that definition, I was right that it was a med school portal.

Anyway, I?m not really a fan of portals in healthcare because I think they are too broad. Using technology for healthcare access is and will continue to be huge, but it?s not so mainstream or integrated into people?s lives as to require "health portals" to aggregate content and services for consumers. Users go to AOL (or at least my parents used to go there), Yahoo, and even iGoogle (does that still exist?) to check mail, see relevant news, look at their calendar, IM, and maybe a few other things. I don?t think consumers are pining for a health portal to land on. Kaiser may be the exception and I think that?s a result of Kaiser being uniquely placed as the master of all health for its members (payment, scheduling, pharmacy, all med records, all providers).

It may just be a matter of messaging, but I think users want specific features more than a catch-all platform right now, especially if that catch-all platform isn?t really a catch-all because it?s the portal for a PCP or a physician group or a payer or a pharmacy (Kaiser is all of these things). I think consumers want a ZocDoc to schedule appointments, or maybe a Simplee/Cake Health for billing, or a Blue Button, or a weight tracking app/device, or a fitness monitor/tracker. I also think health systems and docs rolling out these services could do better to stagger them, starting with scheduling then adding messaging or med records, and understanding what services are really of value and generate usage and adoption.

Almost Anything Telehealth (sort of related to the previous)

Along very similar lines to apps to connect and get docs online, I like anything that helps docs add virtual services, in the form of telehealth, to their practices. Also similarly to the approaches above, I like simple and focused, both in terms of product and in terms of services offered. Instead of announcing, "We now offer telehealth services!" I think it?s better to launch something specific, like certain types of follow-ups.

The big one, American Well, seems more suited for sales to health systems than individual docs and independent practices, but I know it offers platforms for all. I think these solutions can be very simple and, just like the early adopters I listed above (tech-interested docs, direct primary care, elective-heavy), I think these make a lot more sense for certain segments of healthcare today.

EMR Extenders

EMR extenders, a term I seem to be hearing more and more, seem like apps that on top of EMRs. While I think lots of these functions are possible for the EMR to offer itself, it makes a lot more sense for EMRs to add value and innovation with third parties. Some EMRs aren?t going to enable this app store-like model. The ones that do allow it, seeing themselves as the platform instead of the entire ecosystem, are going to be increasingly popular choices. Apple ran out ahead of Android with the growth of its App Store (though Android has caught up) and it was a differentiator for a long time. EMRs can do the same thing.

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One example of an extender is HealthFinch, which offers RefillWizard. RefillWizard is a very specific solution to a very specific problem that saves docs time in the process. It uses EMR data to do its thing, effectively adding RefillWizard to an EMR like adding the Evernote app to your smartphone.

The Next Big EMR

I think there are some candidates on the ambulatory EMR side, but I?m talking about the next contender to Epic and some of the other big boys. This area goes against most of the principles I used to create the rest of the investment list (lots of early money, all enterprise sales, expensive integrations, lots of regulation), but it?s one I just can?t leave out. With the exorbitant cost to license outdated technology, there is a huge opportunity to build something far better, far cheaper, and far more flexible.

I actually think to make this work, a company will have to find a health system that is willing to work with them on it from the start, potently even funding portions of it. When I ask people at health systems why they don?t try this or launch an incubator to do it with a fraction of the money being set aside to consider existing EMRs, the reasons are related to risk and "nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM." That being said, I think it will happen and maybe is already happening.

Travis Good is an MD/MBA involved with health IT startups. More about me.

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home improvement | add resale value to your home

If you are planning on selling your home, you will want to take on some simple home improvements before listing it in order increase its value and sell more quickly. Here are six tips to follow when trying to increase your home?s appeal to buyers.

1. Avoid Accruing Debt ? You will want to make sure that your home improvements are cost effective and do not require financing. It is important that the money you put into repairs or improvements can be recouped in the sale. For example, instead of completely gutting and renovating a bathroom, a more cost effective improvement would be to invest in sink, counter or bathtub refinishing. Tub refinishing can update the space without all the disruption and major investment of a complete bathroom remodeling.

2. Curb Appeal ? Let?s be honest, in the competitive world of real estate, first impressions always count. An unkempt front entry or yard can turn buyers away from your home before they?ve even stepped foot inside. Cleaning and sprucing up your lawn, flowerbeds and walkways is an easy and inexpensive way to make your home more inviting.

3. Urgent Repairs ? If there are any urgent repairs such as leaky pipes or faulty electrical wiring, these should be prioritized. A home inspection will likely uncover these types of problems anyway and buyers would make an offer accordingly so you may as well get it taken care of before the house is listed.

4. Neutralize and Paint - Just because you love chartreuse in the powder room, doesn?t mean everyone will! Neutral colors and uncluttered spaces make the house seem larger and make it easier for people to envision their own furnishings in the home. Besides that, a new coat of paint on the walls and trim can freshen up the look of any room.

5. Cosmetic Upgrades ? If time and budget permit, you can consider additional remodeling projects to update your home. According to realtors and decorators, the most important areas to update are the kitchen, bath and flooring.

6. Stage It - It is time to clean, declutter, organize and stage your home. A clean and organized house gives the impression that the home has been well cared for and will be easy to maintain. If your closets or storage areas are bursting at the seams, you may want to move some of the clutter out of the house before the showings. Too much clutter and disorganization makes buyers think the home isn?t big enough to accommodate all of their things.

If you are considering making improvements to your house before selling it, talk to your realtor or local home improvement expert to see what areas of your home they recommend targeting.

Resources: Freshome Design and Architecture and Houselogic

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In Special Education Dispute, Audio Recording Takes Center Stage ...

When a Maine couple wanted to send their son to school with a recording device to ensure that his individualized education program, or IEP, was being followed, the school district said no. Now the family is fighting back.

Jane Quirion and Matthew Pollack say they became concerned about their son Ben, 13, who is nonverbal and has autism and intellectual disability, after he left school one day and cried for over 90 minutes and another incident when he was allegedly left unsupervised at school.

Earlier this year, they informed school officials that they intended to send Ben to class with a tape recorder. In response, a school district attorney said that Ben would not be allowed at school if he brought the device, arguing that an audio recording would violate the privacy of other students and would conflict with the district?s contract with its teachers.

Now, the family is fighting back, alleging that the school district is violating their son?s rights by barring the recorder, and say they may file a federal lawsuit over the matter, reports the Lewiston, Maine Sun Journal. To read more click here.

Source: http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2012/11/08/in-sped-dispute-recording/16821/

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Using Your Mobile Phone to Find Health Information: New Data ...

By Miguel Gomez, Director, AIDS.gov, and Senior Communications Advisor, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Pew Internet & American Life Project released new data ?today on using mobile phones to access health information.

• ?One in three cell phone owners (31%) have used their phone to look for health information. In a comparable, national survey conducted two years ago, 17% of cell phone owners had used their phones to look for health advice.?
• ?Smartphone owners lead this activity: 52% gather health information on their phones, compared with 6% of non-smartphone owners. Cell phone owners who are Latino, African American, between the ages of 18-49, or hold a college degree are also more likely to gather health information this way.?

Have you asked your clients and stakeholders if they want to access your HIV related information from their phones?

With the release of the Digital Government Strategy, ?we must ask ourselves ??how are we using technology to make a real difference in people?s lives.? ? President Barack Obama?

We encourage you to learn more about the Digital Strategy and explore the Pew data. They are both tools to help the HIV community provide important HIV-related ?information and improve people?s lives.

Source: http://blog.aids.gov/2012/11/using-your-mobile-phone-to-find-health-information-new-data.html

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Michael's Playful Room To Grow Nursery Tour | Apartment Therapy

Name: Michael
Location: Venice, CA
Room Size: 10 ft x 12 ft

Stylist Emily Henderson is no stranger to fun, eclectic and whimsical design. When I was asked to photograph this adorable nursery with her, I immediately felt how strong the aesthetic was and wanted to share it in a tour. Turning Michael's family's design wishes into fruition she has created a gorgeous space that he will continue to grow into.

Situated in a modern loft blocks from Venice Beach, Michael and his family get to rise and shine every morning to the view of the gorgeous water. This is an ideal setting or backdrop to any baby nursery. You can see the calming blues and greens of the view had a direct influence on the palette of the room, which is already mature enough for a toddler or a teenager. One aspect I love is the little bed nook near the window, which shows how the room can be re-shaped once Michael no longer needs to sleep in a crib.

Emily had an inspired vision for this nursery which I believe she brought to life effortlessly. I really also love the picture frame wallpaper and the changing table which is just a vintage dresser converted with some paint.

Enjoy!!

A few questions for Emily, the designer of Michael's nursery:

What was your inspiration for the room?
The loft is by the ocean so we wanted it to feel airy, open, happy, fresh, young, not-too baby but totally youthful. I'm a massive fan of nurseries feeling comfortable and young but also reflecting the parents' personal style because its the parents that spend so much time in it the first few years. And these parents are young and hip so I wanted it to reflect that.

What is your favorite element in the room?
The frame wallpaper from Graham and Brown is perfect in this space. I've seen it around forever, but sometimes it just doesn't work and sometimes it totally does. Here, it works. Pictures of family can be taped up and added to for years and years. Plus it's just begging to be colored and drawn on. So it becomes something very personal - like a living gallery of the family and the baby's childhood.

Before starting, what did you know you wanted to include, for sure?
The parents loved this color palette that they saw in a friend's house, so it was our jumping off point - this aqua, charcoal, grey and we added the pops of yellow.

What was your proudest DIY?
While spray-painting is hardly a genius move, that bike lamp was once boring black wire that I got at a thrift store, which would be great in more of a grownup space, but for this nursery we wanted it to pop and feel more whimsical. I want it for me and to hoard it for my future child.

What was your biggest indulgence?
The nursing chair. The homeowners wanted it to be crazy comfortable and totally baby-friendly. Something that you could sleep in if you needed to. So it was a bit of a splurge, but it's totally the right piece for them. They love it.

Any advice for other people starting this process?
The trick to a nursery not looking too 'baby' is to start with a consistent color palette of not too 'baby' colors. This aqua paint is definitely whimsical but the grey and charcoal keep it more grown up.

If money was no object, what would your dream source be?
ABC Carpet and Home. I mean, everything in that store is beautiful.

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Thanks, Emily. Also, a big thanks to baby Michael's parents!

(Images: Bethany Nauert)

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Anybody Who Says Buzzwords to Describe Startups and Technology Should Be Zapped in the Head

Synergy! Gamification! Likes! Viral! They're all awful bullshit buzzwords that marketing folks love to use to spin their product. The words sound really nice coming out of your mouth but they don't mean anything. If you can only describe your product with buzzwords, you already screwed up. [YouTube via The Awesomer] More »

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The 10th Annual John Drury High School Radio Awards Coming ...

North Central College and its radio station, WONC-FM will again be hosting the John Drury High School Radio Awards this month. The awards are to honor 2012's most outstanding high school radio talent, both locally and nationally.

This year's 10th Annual John Drury High School Radio Awards will take place North Central College's Meiley-Swallow Hall, located at 31 S. Ellsworth Street in Naperville, starting at Noon on this Saturday, November 10th. Admission is by invitation only.

North Central College's WONC-FM has sponsored this annual event since 2002. The awards recognize achievement in 12 categories, including Best Newscast, Best Sportscast, Best Promo, Best Public Affairs, and Best High School Radio Station. First, second and third-place winners in each category will receive awards. All nominees will also be offered a $1,000 scholarship to attend North Central College.

Awards are presented to high school radio stations which are licensed as an AM or FM facility and registered with the Federal Communications Commission. As of last year, online-only high school radio stations could also enter. Winners are selected by a board of judges made up of broadcast industry professionals.

The driving force behind this annual event is John Madormo, who is the General Manager of WONC-FM 89.1. Madormo, a former WGN-AM producer for over six years, is also the Assistant Professor of Broadcast Communications at North Central College and has been with the school since 1980.

John Madormo established and named the awards in honor of John Drury, the legendary Chicago broadcaster of WLS-TV, WGN-TV and WBBM-TV, who passed away due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) on November 25, 2007. "We named the awards for John because we wanted someone who was not just a professional journalist but whose name would invoke the highest standards of character and integrity," Madormo said.

John Drury personally presented the awards to the winning schools for the fist two years the awards were in existence. Unfortunately, as Drury's ALS worsened, he was no longer able to participate after that. Since then, other journalists from WLS-TV/ABC 7 have carried on Drury's tradition to help present the annual awards, including Alan Krashesky, Phil Schwarz, Stacy Baca, Chuck Goudie, Ben Bradley, and John Garcia.

This year, WLS-TV's Ben Bradley returns as Guest of Honor to emcee the event. Bradley is ABC 7 Chicago's Sunday morning news anchor and Emmy Award-winning general assignment reporter. The Chicago native worked in MO & SC, before returning home to work at CLTV from 1998-2002, followed by joining WLS-TV in 2002, where he has been ever since.

Also speaking at the awards ceremony will be former WGN-AM producer/host and former NextMedia personality Laura Dixon-Hirsch. She is now the Assistant Director of the John Drury High School Radio Awards and a 1999 graduate of North Central College. She can still be heard periodically on the popular podcast, "The Maggie & Laura Show" along with former WSSR-FM/Star 96.7 morning personality & APD, Maggie Peterson.

The nominees for the 2012 John Drury High School Radio Awards can be seen HERE.

The WONC-FM website will post up the complete listing all of this weekend's winners, including the 2nd and 3rd Place winners, later next week.

For more information about the annual John Drury High School Radio Awards, email John Madormo at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Source: http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/2919-the-10th-annual-john-drury-high-school-radio-awards-coming-november-10th

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Midweek Travel Bits: Priceline, Ryanair, Stoxx & More

Already this week, travel news seems a bit on the up-and-up with positive looks at WTM London, as well as great financial news from players like Priceline. I know we are thinking; ?Is tourism coming out of the woods here? Regardless, here?s some positive news bits.

Bloomberg carries the report than leading online travel business Priceline (PCLN) gained significant profits already this year. According to the?quarterly?release here (PDF) analyst fears the EU crisis would tumble tourism demand were unfounded. Q3 saw the company?s net income rocket some 27 percent y-o-y to $596 plus millions.

Still more good European travel industry news exists in the form of the?Stoxx Europe 600 Travel & Leisure Index leaping almost as high as Priceline?s profits. This report from BusinessWeek tells of excess cash on hand from a number of key sector players.

In all, travel and leisure companies on the index returned investments to their investors to the tune of more than ?16 billion euro, beating predictions and becoming the single highest return since 2003. As it stand now, the index shows value still up with lots of potential. The latest value being?141.45 and steady.

In less world shattering, but more travel cooler for Scandinavian travelers, Boingo will now to?will run the Wi-Fi service in Oslo Airport Bergen Airport, and Flesland (BGO) and Stavanger Airport, Sola (SVG). The wireless company now has 20 such WiFi offerings across Europe. While this may not seem like big news for some, anyone who has ever prayed for better WiFi in a waiting space should have their attention tweeked.

This aptly named company?s press release also reflects?Bjorn Thorngren?s, Boingo?s director of EMEA, take on the new additions:

?Norway?s three largest airports are seeing strong international passenger growth. This is driven by the booming shipping and oil industries as well as increased tourism to the mountains and fjords of Norway. This makes them ideal additions to our growing portfolio of international airports. The launch of our services at these key Nordic airports will ensure that more of our international customers can stay connected and save on international roaming fees as they travel for work or play.?

And, we already reported on budget airline phenom Ryanair?s unexpected revenue climb amid a bunch of carries low on fuel.?The Dublin-based carrier just having reported sales at an eye popping 15% jump to some??3.11 billion euro. Despite their really ugly logo, Ryanair continues to beat predictions and competitors. The company only yesterday released a further report of passenger traffic for October being up 4%. Their good news just never seems to stop.

Lastly, even despite some economic turbulence Europe?s biggest hotelier Accor seems unscathed to a degree. News from Reuters reflects that?conglomerate?s?refocus not just where organization goes, but on markets served. Europe will always be a tourism ?have to? see market, but emerging destination dictate every corporate hotelier move.

This is as it should be, as hotels serve guests ? and guests are headed to other places like the US and Asia-Pacific destinations. According to Accor boss?Denis Hennequin, he intends on opening up some?110,000 rooms outside Europe, half of which will be in the Asia-Pacific region.

Stay tuned for more good news in our weekend?wrap-up.

Source: http://www.argophilia.com/news/midweek-travel-bits/27436/

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Wii U's Miiverse, Chat, TVii, and eShop features will arrive in a day-one software update

Are you ready for Nintendo's Wii U console to arrive in a couple of weeks, packing not only a GamePad but also extensive online-enabled features like the Miiverse, Wii U Chat, TVii and eShop? Good, because as IGN mentions, the Wii U isn't. Not unlike many games shipping lately, the console will see a software update available at debut that downloads all of those features for the first time. That shouldn't be a problem for early adopting gamers as long as everything goes smoothly, but so far early-arriving review / preview units don't have the functionality, although it should be delivered in an update before the launch. It's been a few years since we had a new console launch (relive the PS3 fat, pre-RROD Xbox 360 and Wii here) and quickly-changing software is certainly the name of the game, we'll let you know as soon as we can how the Nintendo Network delivers.

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