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April 23, 2008 News and Trends
My picks from ScienceDaily
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:45:18 PDT
My picks from ScienceDaily Category: Science News Life Expectancy Worsening Or Stagnating For Large Segment Of U.S. Population: One of the major aims of the U.S. health system is improving the health of all people, particularly those segments of the population at greater risk of health disparities. In fact, overall life expectancy in the U.S. increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000. Now, a new, long-term study of mortality trends in U.S.
GreenMaven.com - Search Green
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:46:00 PDT
What it does It’s Earth week. Go out and plant a tree, save a whale, turn off the lights and try out an eco-friendly search engine like Green Maven. Web 2.0 has officially gone green and it’s none too soon. So what exactly is a green search engine? Green Maven utilizes Google’s Coop Search technology to give you “green” results. Editors hand pick web pages and news articles and items that are related to the environment. Put in a search term, and you’ll be bombarded with eco-friendly sites, pro
Raising a T2 Voice Against Complacency
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:46:19 PDT
Recent headlines regarding home blood glucose monitoring for Type 2 diabetics (aggregated at the UK's National Health service site, ) are causing a lot of concerns among the OC. To some degree, the T2 OC is the "choir" of aggressive self-management -- we are more likely than the "Average Joe With Sugar" to test regularly, to pay attention to diet and exercise, and to keep up with our medical care. To that degree, I admit to "preaching to the choir". Or maybe just ranting... As with any controver
That Food Crisis Thingy
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:49:34 PDT
In case you had an impression that the violence from Haiti to Bangladesh was all about biofuels, or global warming, and utterly unrelated to the price of gold or oil or other investment opportunities hedge funds have been seeking since US real estate went south. William Pfaff also has an excellent column. Warren Buffett didn’t think there was a bubble in agricultural commodities last year, but even then he said, “It’s like most trends: At the beginning, it’s driven by fundamentals, then specula
Pressure Will Build From Wrong Way Trends- WSE Pro Fed Report
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:52:45 PDT
Interest rates were lower in today’s Open Market Operations as the Fed essentially stood pat. The flood of Treasury Cash Management Bill (CMB) paydowns this week has finally had an effect in the money market, suppressing both the overnight Fed Funds rate and the rates at today’s repo auction. Conversely, the yield at the Treasury’s 2 year note auction rose 48 basis points from the level of the last such auction in March. At the same time, signs are building of decreased indirect bidder interest
Experts Everywhere; Howcast Integrated
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:58:54 PDT
This morning’s New York Times has a great piece by technology writer Miguel Helft on the growth of the how-to video sector. A popular “smorgasbord” of instructional content, from the “satirical” to the “humorous” to the “esoteric,”as well as platforms to support it, is emerging, he points out, and online video seems like the perfect medium for it, given the enormous range of subjects people want to learn about. How else could you learn how to start a fire with a battery? It is with these pro
When Time and Money Are Fixed, Some Auto Service Locations Find Other Ways To Please You
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:00:14 PDT
If you get your car serviced, do you generally have a good time or bad? As it turns out, most people tend to consider the time and money they spend (and the quality of the work) at automotive service locations to be pretty consistent. That is to say: fixed and mostly forgettable. Sometimes this is more time/money/anguish than average, sometimes less, but overall somewhere in the fat part of the curve which averages out to be quite forgettable. It is therefore interesting, as a result, to find
The Shadow Grows
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:00:21 PDT
Like I said yesterday, things are getting worse. I didn't expect it to be so soon, tho. Wal-Mart Rationing Rice. Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said on Wednesday that it would ration the amount of rice each customer can purchase at its Sam's Club warehouse stores because of recent “supply and demand trends.” “We are limiting the sale of Jasmine, Basmati and Long Grain White Rices to four bags per member visit,” the company said in a statement. “This is effective immediately in all o
Buzz, Buzz: Neighborbee
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:03:41 PDT
Neighborbee Blog. It kind of has the ring of a suburban chain restaurant, but instead of crappy food, this community blog serves up scoops on going out, eating in, and drinking a lot in, and around, downtown Manhattan. They’ve got a sizable crew of experienced bloggers (alums from Gawker, VH1…Whatevs.net) working on giving their fellow city dwellers some good advice, with the ultimate goal of creating an, ahem, hive of social activities. They’re really better at the bee puns than we are, s
Web 2.0 Expo - Creating a Social Strategy
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:05:14 PDT
Charlene Li on Groundswell. In this session, both Li and Bernoff emphasize the importance of not jumping into social technologies and applications just because the competition does, but to have specific objectives and measurement. With defensible results, a social technology will be in a much better position to survive slimming budgets. The focus is on people, not technology with social technologies and applications. Josh Bernoff: Are you experiencing web 2.0 avoidance syndrome? Symptoms: O
My picks from ScienceDaily A Blog Around The Clock]
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:05:46 PDT
Life Expectancy Worsening Or Stagnating For Large Segment Of U.S. Population: One of the major aims of the U.S. health system is improving the health of all people, particularly those segments of the population at greater risk of health disparities. In fact, overall life expectancy in the U.S. increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000. Now, a new, long-term study of mortality trends in U.S. counties over the same four decades reports a troub
Spring Trends. Femme is Fierce.
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:08:50 PDT
Sometimes in the influx of all the new, designer-inspired trends at the beginning of a season, we forget that simple can be beautiful, too. This spring, a classically tailored and feminine dress will always rival a trendy piece! And while...
Sarno's Days
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:13:32 PDT
The first hundred. Mayor Dominic Sarno I've been meaning to post about the passing of the first 100 days of the Sarno mayoralty in Springfield. It is an arbitrary, though traditional ritual of American politics to judge a new office holder on the basis of what trends are indicated by the first one hundred days of their administration. By no means definitive nor always fair, it's still a worthwhile appraisal. Here is what I think are the most important things about Sarno's administration thu
Negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished….
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:16:05 PDT
Dandelion Salad By Jason Miller Thomas Paine’s Corner 4/22/08 (As inspired by a conversation with Derrick Jensen) “There’s got to be just more to it than this; Or tell me why do we exist?” –Iron Maiden Is the Western consumerist culture that we inflict upon the rest of the world truly the pinnacle of our evolution? If it is, I resign my membership in the human race. Though I don’t fear that I’ll be compelled to tender my resignation any time soon because our so-called “non-negotiable A
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Hot Trends | Trends | Current News
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:45:18 PDT
My picks from ScienceDaily Category: Science News Life Expectancy Worsening Or Stagnating For Large Segment Of U.S. Population: One of the major aims of the U.S. health system is improving the health of all people, particularly those segments of the population at greater risk of health disparities. In fact, overall life expectancy in the U.S. increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000. Now, a new, long-term study of mortality trends in U.S.
GreenMaven.com - Search Green
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:46:00 PDT
What it does It’s Earth week. Go out and plant a tree, save a whale, turn off the lights and try out an eco-friendly search engine like Green Maven. Web 2.0 has officially gone green and it’s none too soon. So what exactly is a green search engine? Green Maven utilizes Google’s Coop Search technology to give you “green” results. Editors hand pick web pages and news articles and items that are related to the environment. Put in a search term, and you’ll be bombarded with eco-friendly sites, pro
Raising a T2 Voice Against Complacency
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:46:19 PDT
Recent headlines regarding home blood glucose monitoring for Type 2 diabetics (aggregated at the UK's National Health service site, ) are causing a lot of concerns among the OC. To some degree, the T2 OC is the "choir" of aggressive self-management -- we are more likely than the "Average Joe With Sugar" to test regularly, to pay attention to diet and exercise, and to keep up with our medical care. To that degree, I admit to "preaching to the choir". Or maybe just ranting... As with any controver
That Food Crisis Thingy
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:49:34 PDT
In case you had an impression that the violence from Haiti to Bangladesh was all about biofuels, or global warming, and utterly unrelated to the price of gold or oil or other investment opportunities hedge funds have been seeking since US real estate went south. William Pfaff also has an excellent column. Warren Buffett didn’t think there was a bubble in agricultural commodities last year, but even then he said, “It’s like most trends: At the beginning, it’s driven by fundamentals, then specula
Pressure Will Build From Wrong Way Trends- WSE Pro Fed Report
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:52:45 PDT
Interest rates were lower in today’s Open Market Operations as the Fed essentially stood pat. The flood of Treasury Cash Management Bill (CMB) paydowns this week has finally had an effect in the money market, suppressing both the overnight Fed Funds rate and the rates at today’s repo auction. Conversely, the yield at the Treasury’s 2 year note auction rose 48 basis points from the level of the last such auction in March. At the same time, signs are building of decreased indirect bidder interest
Experts Everywhere; Howcast Integrated
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:58:54 PDT
This morning’s New York Times has a great piece by technology writer Miguel Helft on the growth of the how-to video sector. A popular “smorgasbord” of instructional content, from the “satirical” to the “humorous” to the “esoteric,”as well as platforms to support it, is emerging, he points out, and online video seems like the perfect medium for it, given the enormous range of subjects people want to learn about. How else could you learn how to start a fire with a battery? It is with these pro
When Time and Money Are Fixed, Some Auto Service Locations Find Other Ways To Please You
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:00:14 PDT
If you get your car serviced, do you generally have a good time or bad? As it turns out, most people tend to consider the time and money they spend (and the quality of the work) at automotive service locations to be pretty consistent. That is to say: fixed and mostly forgettable. Sometimes this is more time/money/anguish than average, sometimes less, but overall somewhere in the fat part of the curve which averages out to be quite forgettable. It is therefore interesting, as a result, to find
The Shadow Grows
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:00:21 PDT
Like I said yesterday, things are getting worse. I didn't expect it to be so soon, tho. Wal-Mart Rationing Rice. Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said on Wednesday that it would ration the amount of rice each customer can purchase at its Sam's Club warehouse stores because of recent “supply and demand trends.” “We are limiting the sale of Jasmine, Basmati and Long Grain White Rices to four bags per member visit,” the company said in a statement. “This is effective immediately in all o
Buzz, Buzz: Neighborbee
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:03:41 PDT
Neighborbee Blog. It kind of has the ring of a suburban chain restaurant, but instead of crappy food, this community blog serves up scoops on going out, eating in, and drinking a lot in, and around, downtown Manhattan. They’ve got a sizable crew of experienced bloggers (alums from Gawker, VH1…Whatevs.net) working on giving their fellow city dwellers some good advice, with the ultimate goal of creating an, ahem, hive of social activities. They’re really better at the bee puns than we are, s
Web 2.0 Expo - Creating a Social Strategy
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:05:14 PDT
Charlene Li on Groundswell. In this session, both Li and Bernoff emphasize the importance of not jumping into social technologies and applications just because the competition does, but to have specific objectives and measurement. With defensible results, a social technology will be in a much better position to survive slimming budgets. The focus is on people, not technology with social technologies and applications. Josh Bernoff: Are you experiencing web 2.0 avoidance syndrome? Symptoms: O
My picks from ScienceDaily A Blog Around The Clock]
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:05:46 PDT
Life Expectancy Worsening Or Stagnating For Large Segment Of U.S. Population: One of the major aims of the U.S. health system is improving the health of all people, particularly those segments of the population at greater risk of health disparities. In fact, overall life expectancy in the U.S. increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000. Now, a new, long-term study of mortality trends in U.S. counties over the same four decades reports a troub
Spring Trends. Femme is Fierce.
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:08:50 PDT
Sometimes in the influx of all the new, designer-inspired trends at the beginning of a season, we forget that simple can be beautiful, too. This spring, a classically tailored and feminine dress will always rival a trendy piece! And while...
Sarno's Days
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:13:32 PDT
The first hundred. Mayor Dominic Sarno I've been meaning to post about the passing of the first 100 days of the Sarno mayoralty in Springfield. It is an arbitrary, though traditional ritual of American politics to judge a new office holder on the basis of what trends are indicated by the first one hundred days of their administration. By no means definitive nor always fair, it's still a worthwhile appraisal. Here is what I think are the most important things about Sarno's administration thu
Negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished….
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:16:05 PDT
Dandelion Salad By Jason Miller Thomas Paine’s Corner 4/22/08 (As inspired by a conversation with Derrick Jensen) “There’s got to be just more to it than this; Or tell me why do we exist?” –Iron Maiden Is the Western consumerist culture that we inflict upon the rest of the world truly the pinnacle of our evolution? If it is, I resign my membership in the human race. Though I don’t fear that I’ll be compelled to tender my resignation any time soon because our so-called “non-negotiable A
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